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the city of hell. Storms are, many would say,

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an ill omen in our conquered worlds. Don't be

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so, following Tithos. But I'm here to assure

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you that the Shrine of Storm stands as a celebration

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not of destruction, but of beauty. It is an altar

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to the Great Turtle Sage, a powerful being in

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the history of Omizu that protected the island

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nation and facilitated the prosperity and growth

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of its people. As such, it is a deeply sacred

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place, and very few are allowed to tread within

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its walls. One can understand how dark rumors

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could be spread, though, when few know it really

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lies beyond the shrine's main gates. I wouldn't

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suggest trying to take a peek, though. The shrine's

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defenses are said to be nigh impregnable, and

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its guardians are fierce, especially one particular

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god who is known to be quite diligent and very

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ferocious. You know what I'm talking about. Who

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are you talking about? Yeah, who are you talking

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about, Dave? You don't know. You don't watch

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TV. You'll find out. Do these characters, Kristen,

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doesn't watch TV? Nah, they're too busy. Too

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busy being fucking action heroes. How do you

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think they unwind at night when they're done

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adventuring around? Cocaine. Wow. You're not

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wrong. These are action heroes. We're in the

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action. genre arc now, all right? Because I got

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bored of the other stuff. So we're doing something

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new. We're doing crazy shit. Everybody put on

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your sunglasses. Put on your sunglasses. Get

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ready. I know you're probably thinking, wait,

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didn't we leave off with some pretty dark things

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moving in? We did. We'll get to that later, soon.

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Let me recontextualize what did happen real fast

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because I think where we left off could be a

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little confusing. We left off. Basically, we

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saw ahead in time just a touch because I wanted

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to give you guys a premonition of what's to come.

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We saw from the Jules and Blanche perspective

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that very soon a crisis will strike the Concord

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worlds. The diamond will shine red. Orin will

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go out on the network, speaking to all worlds.

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And all worlds will enter this red alert, this

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crisis mode, as perhaps Umizu is about to fall.

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We... Cut from there, a little bit back in the

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past, before all that happens, to the Shrine

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of Storms just before it, where we see, perhaps

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unrelated to all of this, Crispin and Dresden

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are about to engage in a wild mission. The Shrine

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of Storms overtaken by pirates? You had intel

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this was going to happen, and we're going to

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touch on that. But you're about to engage in

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this, and as we see them about to engage, we

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peel back and back and back, and we see, far

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behind them, soon approaching, Ojin Yoshikatsu.

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the storm eye our characters know nothing of

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this but our players and i love this our players

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understand that very soon they'll be in a dire

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situation but they must proceed as if they do

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not know so we're fighting pirates and ozen oh

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and so much more gentlemen and so much more thanks

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david oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm excited um before

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we get to all that though get a little banter

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topic Now, it's a question that I know the answer

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to Steven, and we'll get to Steven. So I want

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to ask you first, Jeremy. Yeah. Have you ever

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played paintball? Yeah, of course. Oh, yeah.

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Okay. All right. What's your past with paintball?

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Wait, what? What's your history? How long you

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play it for? Like one game. You made it sound

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like you were a pro. It hurt. Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Well, yeah, I've played paintball. Okay. All

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right. You were asking me, was I a pro paintball

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player? You made it sound like you were. You

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sound so cool. I just thought it was something

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that everybody's played at least once in their

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lives. You know, I have an answer to that that

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might be weird and sad. Now, I know Steven here.

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You've played some paintball. Yeah, there was

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like two or three years where I would go maybe

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a couple times a summer with family. The first

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time we ever played, you know, it's like me and

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my uncles and my cousins who are, you know, not

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like super athletes. You know what I mean? We

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were out there to have fun. We're at this, you

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know, like paintball arena. So it's very organized

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and there's refs and stuff like that. And our

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very first match is against a group of guys who

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just got back from like Marine boot camp. And

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we got, I mean, obviously completely annihilated.

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We were in the woods. And I remember at one point

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I finally saw this guy, but I only saw him because

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he like popped up, did some hand signals and

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then popped down. And then like. off to his side

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another guy popped up did some hand signals pointed

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to me and popped it like we didn't make eye contact

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or anything but he knew exactly what point to

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me and then popped down and then like five seconds

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later i got shot a bunch they're just like you're

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surrounded they try they try to like you know

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pair teams up by like skill level and there just

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weren't a lot of teams there that day so we got

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shot a lot yeah I remember we played paintball

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once. He tried to get me into it, and I was like

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so hype all about it. Worked all summer, bought

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myself a paintball gun, got a helmet, got all

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the armor. I was ready to go. We had names. We

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had names for ourselves. We were going to call

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ourselves when we became paintball legends. You

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were going to be the sniper. I don't remember

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this. I don't remember your sniper name. I don't

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remember this. Do you remember your sniper name?

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No, I don't even remember us having names. I

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had a name. I had a nickname I really wanted

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to play for paintball. I just remember. What's

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the nickname? I wanted to be the crazy bastard,

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assault rifle, getting up in the business. I

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wanted to be that guy. And I had a name. I don't

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know why. I was so fixated on the name. Can you

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guess it? Can anyone guess this name? No. No.

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You can't. No. I wanted to be called David Monroe,

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a .k .a. Sweetheart. Oh, my. What? No, I don't

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remember that. How old were we? Too old. Far

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too old. So I was all geared up. Sweetheart was

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fucking ready to pounce. We went out in the backfield

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behind my house and we had one brief paper match.

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We're just shooting, shooting. You hit me in

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the leg, I think, once to end it off. And I was

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like, I'm never playing paintball again. Sweetheart

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is out. Big old bruise. It hurts so bad. Yeah,

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it hurts. I was done. Oh, my God. Gun went to

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storage. Helmet just sat on my shelf for the

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next five years. Yeah. I don't know. Probably

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still there. I was hoping one of you would have

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an embarrassing story. I mean, I think mine was

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pretty embarrassing. I got trounced. Yeah, by

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fucking Marines. All right. Sure. Damn. I don't

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want to be around you right now. I don't even

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know you. Well. That was humiliating for me alone.

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Good. Good. I remember shooting you in your backyard.

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You son of a bitch. I feel like... No, hold on.

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I feel like it got to the point where you were

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like, okay, I want to see what it feels like.

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Shoot me. And I feel like you just stood there,

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didn't you? I remember asking you, like, I don't

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think we should do this. And you were like, no,

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no, no. I just want to see what it feels like.

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Yeah. Well, you shouldn't have shot me. And tonight,

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This night. Is when you finally get your revenge.

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I'll have my revenge, yes. Because we're going

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to the Shrine of Storms. And things are about

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to get crazy. We have one matter to attend to

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before, though. I know. Let me get the music

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going. Yeah. It's not going. Well, I have the

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fader down right now. That explains it. Yeah.

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Yeah. Let me do a hand signal. Yeah, you didn't

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give me your little signal to go up. Oh, baby.

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Because before we actually get into this ride,

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once again, because I love all this time finagley,

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let's cut back in time one more time. Because

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we've got to catch up on Crispin and Dresden.

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What have these guys been up to? We haven't seen

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them since San Sitian. That's a whole arc and

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a half ago. So I'll put this here right now.

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Dresden and Crispin know everything that was

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just revealed to Jules and Blanche. following

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your conversation with Sholay, where she told

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you she wanted you to go speak to the Incarnates

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with her blessing to learn the truth of these

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worlds, and they could deepen your understanding

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of your own abilities. They could make you a

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better Mazir Drakon, and a better whoever the

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hell you are, Dresden. You learn more about yourself.

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You learn that the latent sort of falsehood of

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these creatures carry an enormous amount of magic

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within them. Their souls, again, are like sort

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of imbued within their bodies in some cases,

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like perhaps here at the Shrine of Storms. And

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certainly below the Citadel, the soul can sort

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of be pushed almost like stoking a flame to burn

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hotter and brighter. The soul can sort of be

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pushed out of the fossil, creating this grand

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storm. There is a lot of magic innate to these

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things, like divine, powerful magic. Zavar must

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have been doing something to awaken the magic,

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just in that one fragment he had, something to

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really just like bring it to life, create some

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kind of dangerous weapon. When that fragment

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embedded itself in Dresden, in that flashback,

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it responded to your wish and it gave you this

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power, a power purely fueled by the fossil, by

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the magic inside of it. Your echo grows stronger

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with you because that magic, the magic of these

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serpents, a tiny fraction of it, exists within

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Dresden. Crispin, you're a very different matter.

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You have no innate magic to you, but you have

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some ability, one that was carried by many long

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ago, but very, very few still retain it, to converse

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with the serpents, with the dead of the serpents.

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You have this innate connection to the world

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and to the beings that once controlled it. And

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so, that time on God's breath, you realize you

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were speaking to one of the covenant gods. It

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must have been buried in the swamp just beneath

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your feet, deep within the murk and mire. So

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cool. That day when it helped you tear apart

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those undead, monstrous crocodiles, the day that

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it spoke to you, those words, We will be sure

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to come again. It gave you a mission. Unite the

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pieces. It wanted to come back together. It wanted

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the world to come back together. Some dying and

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lingering last. wish, and will that it begged

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you to see through. So you've met with the Incarnates.

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You've learned their story. You've learned more

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about yourselves and your roles. And you've gotten

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stronger in the meantime. So let's start with

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level ups, shall we? Crispin and Dresden are

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both level 6 as well now. Oh yeah. Hell yeah.

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So I want to hear about your level ups. And I

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want to roll some HP, huh? Let's roll. Who wants

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to start? Who wants to be our first level guy?

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I don't think that a whole lot happened for Crispin

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at this level up. I got another spell. So we're

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level six, but I'm one level barbarian and level

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five druid. So while it was a good level up for

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me, it wasn't anything insane. Okay. Oh, HP.

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Oh, yeah. Something more. No, I really got another

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level three spell slot, and that's pretty much

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it. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yes,

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let's do HP. You are a D8 at this point, correct?

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D8, yes. Okay. Let me pull up my... I don't know

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why I'm giving you guys a double roll with Crispin.

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Crispin Tuffy Dua over there. Yeah, but no, we've

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looked at the potential values and I'm lower

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than the total average. You son of a... Ready

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for this? Ready for this? I am ready. First time

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rolling HP in the new dice, right? Yeah, the

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new tower. And for Crispin, at least for right

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now, I'm bringing back my Labradorite die, my

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Zebulon die. I just feel like it's time to use

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them again a little bit. So I don't know if they're

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just going to be Crispin's die or what exactly

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I'm going to do. I guess we'll see how they roll.

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It's so funny when Crispin dies and the curse

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continues. That is cracked. Three. Five. Okay,

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I'll take five. Not bad at all. Okay, that's

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Crispin out of the way. Brings me to 64. 64,

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damn. Yeah, you don't need my five. Okay, man.

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I'll take care of that. Dresden Kellegg, my friend.

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Yeah, Dresden didn't get a whole shit ton, but

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he did get another feat. That's a shit ton. Okay,

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that is a shit ton. And I chose Sentinel. That's

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pretty cool. So I get, you know, standard ability

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score increase, but then I also get Guardian,

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which is immediately after a creature within

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five feet of you takes the disengage action or

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hits a target other than you with an attack,

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I get an A -O -O. I believe that will not prop

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with your Echo, but I believe the other part

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of the feat will. The other part, which is Halt,

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when you hit a creature with an A -O -O, the

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creature's speed becomes zero for the rest of

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the current turn. That's amazing. So if the Echo

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takes an A -O -O on a fleeing creature, it's

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no longer fleeing. Yep. Uh, mean. Very mean.

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Okay. Uh, HP. What, uh, you say 1d10? You are

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a d10, sir. Please tell me you rolled higher

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than a fucking 2. You rolled a 10. I rolled an

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8. 8. Nice. Not bad. Still good. That's great.

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Yeah, that's great. Okay. I'll take that over

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a fucking two. These two have powered up. We

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actually did some payout and some prep for these

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characters kind of off screen here. We did some

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bartering here. I think you guys got some pretty

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cool stuff. You want to talk about what you got

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with your payout from both arcs? Because you

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got some payout during the meanwhile, right?

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I think you gave me 500 gold on top of what you

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made after San Satyan. It's kind of like a show

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lay bonus. You're working for her now. You've

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done stuff for her and you're about to go on

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a mission for her. In order to suit up, she gave

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you a little gold to cover some expenses, get

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you some new gear. What are you sporting now,

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Dresden? Dresden is now sporting plate armor.

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Oh, yeah, which brings my AC up to 20. 20 AC.

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20 AC. Yeah, that is nuts. It is wild. Plate

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armor is not cheap. I just read it. It's $1 ,500.

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No, it's $1 ,500. But we had some bartering,

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and I was like, you know what? I'll bring it

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down because you're working for Sholay. We make

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things happen. She found you a deal. Now Dresden's

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broke as fuck. Yeah, that's it. You have no money.

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Zero. No money. He's got to call Jules. Yeah,

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yeah. Get his allowance. Crispin, you want to

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talk about what you got? Yeah, Crispin is also

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broke. You want to keep it vague and mysterious?

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Kind of, sort of, but I want to keep it vague

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and mysterious and fun, too. I like that. So

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imagine this. Whoa. In our travels. You can't

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do that. That's my thing. In our travels, I imagine,

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you know, a conversation between Crispin and

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Sholay where he's asking her where he can find

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something rare, something coveted. And she gives

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him. a location in the Radiant Citadel. Maybe

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it's down a deep and dark alley, down some stairs

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and through a door. And Crispin gets there and

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he's speaking to the man over the counter who

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reaches down. He pulls out a small, you know,

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a vial with some flower in it. And it's, you

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know, dried and it looks all gnarled. It looks

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poisonous, you know what I mean? Like it's just

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a scary looking thing. So he pulls it out and

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puts it in a little bag for Crispin. Crispin

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hands him a small fortune. And you see later

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that night, Crispin begins to use it and attune

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to it. What he does is he prepares this flower

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into a tincture sort of thing and dips a needle

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into it. He pulls his bandana down and his ears

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flop. And you see late into the night, he's meticulously

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dipping the needle into this flower and tattooing

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the inside of his ear. It's so cool. Damn. It's

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so cool. So now when he puts his bandana back

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on, you can see his big ears flopping down his

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back. And depending on how he moves, you just

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might catch the glimpse of a tattoo on the inside

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of his ear. I never thought about this. It barely

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matters at all. You guys must be staying somewhere

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in the meantime. I imagine Shelly's got you set

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up at the Crystallion. I forgot about the Crystallion.

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Crystallion. So you've got this beautiful hotel

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in Aurora Town and probably like right there

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in the mirror of like the crystal mirror. Nah,

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but he was doing it somewhere dark and cool.

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The lights are all off. For some reason, it's

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like, you know, you wouldn't want to see what

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you're doing. He's on like this boiler room.

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Yeah, or on the back balcony in the moonlight

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or something moody. Wind blowing his fur everywhere.

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Yeah, exactly. It looks so off from what you

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want it to be like. And this music is playing

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in the background. And only because you brought

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it up earlier, but did Crispin snort the rest

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of that? It's so funny because I was over there

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and I just came from work at a restaurant and

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you said flour and all I could think was baking

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flour. I was like, where the hell is this flour?

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Where are you going with this? What are you talking

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about? Really? Bacon bread. I thought the same

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thing too. No, man. Kristen's a forager. He's

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always out looking for plants and herbs. You

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said flour. I thought white powder. Oh my gosh.

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Goddamn. She's got a full bread ear. No, I imagine

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like this crumpled, gnarled, big black flour.

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Sorry, two out of three of us thought something

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else. All right, well. Yeah, it's like fuck me,

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I guess. It's almost a cool scene. I thought

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it was cool. Hell yeah. Okay, so you guys powered

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up. And then from there, we'll cut to maybe a

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scene inside the sort of cavernous horde of Sholay.

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A horde of, again, it's information, files and

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cabinets and recording diamonds all around. It's

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pretty neatly stacked in some ways, kind of off

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to the sides of those sort of pathways moving

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through this room. Sholay does not deal in wealth.

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She deals in knowledge. And there is knowledge.

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everywhere around you. You can't touch any of

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it. Not allowed. Perhaps in the middle of her

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room, she has like a desk she sets up and you

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guys are kind of sitting on one side of it as

00:20:01.569 --> 00:20:04.869
she's telling you, giving you a quick rundown

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of what's going to happen. I have work for you

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to test your new abilities if you're willing.

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Where do we go now? Umizu, the Shrine of Storms.

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I've received intel. That kind of almost like

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winces. She says the next word. The Gluminaries.

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Stupid. Pirate captains Crimson and Azure are

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going to make a move upon the Shrine of Storms.

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From what I understand, they have a surefire

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way to get in. I don't know how it's possible.

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The Shrine is nigh impregnable. Very dangerous.

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What? Sorry, it's just the second time. Yeah,

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you wanted to use that twice. It's cool. It's

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cool to say. It's just a very specific... I've

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heard that. I've heard that. The Shrine is not

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written. I was watching all of it earlier. Oh,

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wait, we got an episode title now. That's actually

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pretty good. Hell yeah. We cannot warn the Shrine.

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Crimson and Agile have been extremely difficult.

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to get hold of, and they have caused an immense

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amount of damage. Stolen many goods amongst the

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ports of Umizu. We must catch them in the act

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when they are trapped within. Apart from that,

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my sources cannot be found out. It must happen

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after the fact. You must seem like you were wandering

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nearby. Perhaps you were visiting Umizu on some

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pilgrimage. You happened to hear a commotion

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in the shrine, and so you, being luminaries of

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the citadel, felt legally obligated to step inside

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these sacred grounds. And I do not believe anyone

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would have a problem with that. I have been meaning

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to ask to take some PTO. Wonderful. While you

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are inside, perhaps in trade for your services

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in ridding the shrine of criminals, you might

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take a look around. Perhaps... peek into the

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innermost sanctum, learn anything you can about

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Ozen, who he's been meeting with, any strange

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behaviors you may have had. You can speak to

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anyone there. It is very hard to learn anything

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about the inner workings of the shrine, but it

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could further our objectives to know more. While

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you're there... Should we bring a recording diamond?

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I dare say you should. She slides one across

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the table for you. Do not be seen using it. Why

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don't you hold on to this? I feel like it'd be

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safe in your hands. Also, my stealth is only

00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:05.799
a plus two, so... Oh, I thought I had negative

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:09.019
foot. I got a plus three, so... It's that dex,

00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.140
baby. Yeah, so Dresden takes the diamond. With

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plate, though, do you have disadvantage on stealth?

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I do. But sleight of hand won't be affected,

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right? Nope. There you go. It's just stealth.

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One more thing. These gloominaries. I mentioned

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catching them in a trap when they can't escape.

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You will do no catching. You will kill them.

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They need to die. Why is that? You don't need

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to question this order. Truly, do you? They are

00:23:47.069 --> 00:23:51.390
dangerous criminals. See them dead. I'm trying

00:23:51.390 --> 00:23:55.970
to think of... God damn it, David. Well, on such

00:23:55.970 --> 00:23:58.549
a mission as deadly and dangerous as this one,

00:23:58.690 --> 00:24:01.349
perhaps we could equip ourselves with a little

00:24:01.349 --> 00:24:05.509
more than an extra 500 gold pieces. Don't you

00:24:05.509 --> 00:24:08.990
think? Oh. I made your deals and your payouts.

00:24:09.009 --> 00:24:12.829
What do you want? What do you want? I don't know.

00:24:13.520 --> 00:24:16.119
Potion or something? She just asked us to kill

00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:19.640
people. Kill men. I mean, come on. You can't

00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:24.019
ask somebody to draw, like, to take life and

00:24:24.019 --> 00:24:26.279
not be like, oh, and you get a bonus. You've

00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:27.579
got to get a real catch -22 here, right? Because

00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:29.700
it's bullshit if it's like, roll persuasion to

00:24:29.700 --> 00:24:32.200
have your patron give you a potion who's rich.

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But, like, I can't give you all the things. All

00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:38.660
right. Then she says no, then. No. You know what?

00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:40.559
I'll give you each a potion of greater healing.

00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:43.900
Hey, look at that. Oh, hey. A little something

00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:47.160
extra. In all honesty and fairness, I do have

00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.839
one. You can have another one. Okay, cool. I'm

00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:51.400
not worried about it. Well, now I feel like I

00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:53.279
bullied you out of it. No, I'm not worried about

00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:57.619
it. Oh, jeez. Why did I even try? I also had

00:24:57.619 --> 00:24:58.980
potions. I was going to give you later on. I'm

00:24:58.980 --> 00:25:02.140
just going to not give you those now. Just give

00:25:02.140 --> 00:25:05.160
her a different source. As we get those potions,

00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:08.460
Dresden will look over to Sholay. It's just self

00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:13.789
-defense. Very good. I knew I could trust your

00:25:13.789 --> 00:25:18.069
discretion. Now then. Sorry, I didn't mean to,

00:25:18.210 --> 00:25:29.609
uh... What's it called? Blackmail you. I appreciate

00:25:29.609 --> 00:25:35.670
your tenacity. Very few will ask for more from

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me now. Maybe she slides like a document across.

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This will give you the time estimate and what

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knowledge I have of the adversary in the shrine.

00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:54.599
It's not much. Both the shrine and the gloominaries

00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:58.519
are extremely secretive. Information on them

00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:02.119
is very elusive, which is why I'm eager to see

00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:06.519
what you can bring me upon your return. This

00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:09.059
could be very dangerous. You should probably

00:26:09.059 --> 00:26:13.140
send us with some plus two weapons, Dan. Out!

00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:19.720
Out! Just eyebrow raise and we cut the scene.

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We cut the scene. Before we get back to where

00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.039
we are now, I will say two more things. One,

00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:33.269
I am now once again initiating flashbacks. You've

00:26:33.269 --> 00:26:34.809
got time to prepare for this. Is there anything

00:26:34.809 --> 00:26:36.309
else you might have done beforehand going to

00:26:36.309 --> 00:26:37.990
the shrine? Any information we might have gotten

00:26:37.990 --> 00:26:40.490
beforehand? We can flashback forward with a button.

00:26:41.029 --> 00:26:43.529
One more thing, too. As you're about to enter

00:26:43.529 --> 00:26:46.029
this dangerous mission, Crispin, do you think

00:26:46.029 --> 00:26:49.190
you'd use augury? Yeah, absolutely. Maybe, like,

00:26:49.190 --> 00:26:52.569
a ways down the dark gray sands of this beach,

00:26:52.869 --> 00:26:57.170
dropping the tea leaves near the water. How do

00:26:57.170 --> 00:27:00.390
you do this? No, this time he's going to collect

00:27:00.390 --> 00:27:03.799
a couple small things. the edge of the water.

00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:08.319
And in his hands, he's going to shake and roll

00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:12.059
some periwinkles onto the sand and read those.

00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:18.799
It's like you roll them. Wheel and woe. The woe

00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:24.140
is larger than the wheel. The wheel? Right? Wheel

00:27:24.140 --> 00:27:26.599
and woe? I'll tell you. Saying wheel alone sounds

00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.759
weird. yeah it's wheel and well wheel for wheel

00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:32.839
for good results whoa for bad results uh the

00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:34.559
woe sign is much larger than the wheel sign as

00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:39.319
if like there is much hardship ahead but a spark

00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:42.799
of something fortunate at the end of it and as

00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.299
you look down on this i think a rogue wave kind

00:27:45.299 --> 00:27:48.619
of almost like supernaturally far reaching its

00:27:48.619 --> 00:27:52.839
hands fingers up the coast splashing into it

00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.859
and so that they may sort of ships so cool before

00:27:55.859 --> 00:27:59.259
it washes away you see a symbol that Simply means

00:27:59.259 --> 00:28:05.119
death. Ah, shit. You almost don't know if you

00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:07.279
saw it. It was this flash of an instant of like

00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.900
a skull -like symbol. And maybe, just maybe,

00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:17.759
behind it, a jagged streak like a lightning bolt

00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:23.880
washes away. Dresden, say your prayers tonight.

00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:26.480
I don't know if we're coming back from this one.

00:28:27.369 --> 00:28:32.250
I'm getting better at that. Damn. Damn it. I

00:28:32.250 --> 00:28:33.430
had something I was going to say, but then I

00:28:33.430 --> 00:28:36.490
forgot it when you said that. Fuck. Come on.

00:28:36.549 --> 00:28:40.089
Say something cool on the spot. Now all I can

00:28:40.089 --> 00:28:43.349
think of is Justin turns over and says, ride

00:28:43.349 --> 00:28:46.309
or die. Fuck, that's cool. No, no, no. Here's

00:28:46.309 --> 00:28:48.509
a good one. Here's a good one. I don't pray.

00:28:50.029 --> 00:28:54.170
Ooh, that's a good one. That's a good one. Come

00:28:54.170 --> 00:29:00.099
on, David. You got one? We should give those

00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:06.859
potions back. I feel kind of bad about it. I

00:29:06.859 --> 00:29:09.099
feel like that was a little dishonest. Guys,

00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:12.359
give me my voice back. Sorry. Prayers have no

00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:16.839
place here. Yeah. And we see them moving up.

00:29:16.859 --> 00:29:19.000
The document tells you right around the time

00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.259
this is supposedly going to happen. It's weird.

00:29:21.380 --> 00:29:25.680
This intel is so good. Whoever surely has is

00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:28.309
like an actual like, like, like, Contact here

00:29:28.309 --> 00:29:32.569
must be very proficient. You stand upon the beach,

00:29:32.630 --> 00:29:34.349
perhaps like you're a little ways away and you

00:29:34.349 --> 00:29:35.849
think you hear something. You know, you're kind

00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:37.450
of watching the ocean. You never see something

00:29:37.450 --> 00:29:40.250
approach the gate of the shrine or the side.

00:29:40.369 --> 00:29:43.549
There's a sea gate coming on the side. You can

00:29:43.549 --> 00:29:44.910
see the shrine from a distance. It's basically

00:29:44.910 --> 00:29:48.730
just this huge, like sleek black walls, maybe

00:29:48.730 --> 00:29:52.170
40 feet high, that kind of crest out into a sort

00:29:52.170 --> 00:29:54.609
of sloping roof that surrounds the entire thing,

00:29:54.650 --> 00:29:57.359
roof of like pure metal. Looks like some kind

00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:01.880
of copper. The whole shrine is roofed in? No,

00:30:02.019 --> 00:30:04.099
just the wall that surrounds it. Oh, okay. Yes,

00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.059
it's an open -up shrine. There's a wall. There's

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:09.599
two main gates, each with two... For no reason.

00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.240
For no reason. There's two main gates, each with

00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:16.839
two doors into the shrine itself, gleaming red

00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:20.140
doors that push through into this grand open

00:30:20.140 --> 00:30:25.220
courtroom, courtyard. courtyard the second one

00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:26.960
you know like a shrine i think a shrine would

00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.819
have one edge of the shrine the the uh eastern

00:30:30.819 --> 00:30:34.640
edge just rests on the uh side of the ocean the

00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:37.759
waves splashing against it there's like a a seawall

00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:39.680
that kind of surrounds a large amount of the

00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:41.740
shrine so it's got its own kind of inner sort

00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:44.059
of tidal pool and you can actually see like around

00:30:44.059 --> 00:30:46.339
the shrine the around this tidal pool the water

00:30:46.339 --> 00:30:49.579
is choppy like It looks like waves are pushing

00:30:49.579 --> 00:30:53.119
away very fiercely, like a sort of constantly

00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:56.779
moving wave pool. You'd see it at any water park.

00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:00.319
Ships could not get near this thing. The waves

00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:05.420
are splashing out. The seawall itself looks like

00:31:05.420 --> 00:31:08.259
some steps lead into the shrine. But again, there's

00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:12.019
no place to dock. It doesn't seem like this is

00:31:12.019 --> 00:31:13.700
really meant to be an entrance at all, but there

00:31:13.700 --> 00:31:16.480
is an opening there. At the back of the shrine,

00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:19.960
where it basically touches into this grand sort

00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.519
of cliff that juts up from the beach. You see

00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.039
the shrine, like the wall just reaches there

00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.380
and kind of ends, but it looks like perhaps beyond

00:31:27.380 --> 00:31:30.799
what you can see, it pushes into a small cavern.

00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.980
It looks like it pushes into the mountainside.

00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:38.559
Okay. That, you would guess, is the innermost

00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:40.960
sanctum. You can make it out from where you stand.

00:31:41.059 --> 00:31:42.319
It's just like you can just see the shape of

00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:44.599
it as it touches. Maybe you scouted the exterior,

00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:49.220
saw that. And that's what you know. But you are,

00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:51.319
maybe after scouting this place, you're sitting

00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:53.319
out waiting. You never see anyone approach, never

00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:55.579
see anything happen. But you begin to hear strange

00:31:55.579 --> 00:32:00.000
sounds. Maybe like a few screams. Maybe like

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.579
a weird sound, like a release of breath or like

00:32:04.579 --> 00:32:10.660
wind. Just like very magical. And you begin to

00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:12.299
approach. And just as you're getting up close

00:32:12.299 --> 00:32:18.799
to the shrine, we hear. You stand before the

00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:26.440
gates and you bump fists. Hell yeah. And as you

00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:31.079
bump fists, as you prepare to step within, a

00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:37.660
voice rings out from behind you. So, you would

00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:39.799
dare to frivolously touch paws in celebration

00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:45.799
of your crimes. You spin around to see this big,

00:32:45.819 --> 00:32:51.599
beautiful, badass, floofy dog. You see this dog.

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:55.279
Looks like an Akita. I don't know if you know

00:32:55.279 --> 00:33:00.660
that. Yeah. Big, fluffy dog. It's got this snoot

00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:03.000
eyes and face. They're all kind of black. Or

00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:04.640
it's fur kind of takes on that model sort of

00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.019
gray fading to a lighter white. It's got little

00:33:08.019 --> 00:33:10.720
butts. It's just pure white fur. Tail. looking

00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.220
around. It's wearing actually half -plate armor.

00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:16.200
Looks like semi -plate. This dark blue armor,

00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:18.640
like, tinted armor. And you see, like, there

00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.240
are, like, straps going across with a few, like,

00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:23.579
weird objects that are strapped to the dog in

00:33:23.579 --> 00:33:26.099
a full, within reach of its mouth, kind of hanging

00:33:26.099 --> 00:33:28.400
off of its arm. There's a full katana sheath.

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:30.740
What? What? Oh, yeah. Dog, what you gonna do

00:33:30.740 --> 00:33:35.660
with a katana? What the fuck? You see this. You

00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:36.900
just turn around and see this dog just kind of

00:33:36.900 --> 00:33:39.920
like... Hackles are raised. It's sort of snarling

00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:42.119
ground a little bit. But this voice, it's speaking

00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.160
to you. It's talking. And it's sort of... And

00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:48.200
you hear, I fear you have little to celebrate.

00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:51.500
For you have been discovered by Akio, the Akita.

00:33:51.900 --> 00:33:55.220
Guardian dog of the Shrine of Storm. And final

00:33:55.220 --> 00:34:00.640
pupil of the Storm Eye. Prepare yourselves. Intruders.

00:34:03.259 --> 00:34:07.160
Mouth bites down on the katana and slides it

00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:09.960
out very, very fast. Like this blur of movement

00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:13.619
in this katana. As a fighter, Dresden especially,

00:34:13.739 --> 00:34:15.780
you recognize, like, there's a stance. This is

00:34:15.780 --> 00:34:18.719
an actual combat stance. There's power behind

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:24.380
this thing. It is trained. It is deadly. Akio,

00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:29.860
perhaps you may have been mistaken. You see,

00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:33.969
we, uh, well, I am, uh, Luminary of the Citadel.

00:34:34.909 --> 00:34:40.969
Here to rid the shrine of these pirates. And

00:34:40.969 --> 00:34:45.150
you happen to appear just as the attack commences.

00:34:45.150 --> 00:34:48.369
The chimes are ringing. You appeared even before

00:34:48.369 --> 00:34:51.809
I, who was scouting the outside looking for intruders,

00:34:51.829 --> 00:34:54.429
interlopers like you. We need either help or

00:34:54.429 --> 00:34:59.960
not. How do I know that you're not? kind of pause.

00:35:00.019 --> 00:35:04.900
His eyes sort of glow. He gets low to the ground.

00:35:05.099 --> 00:35:07.860
His growl gets really deep. He spits out a word,

00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:09.860
two words, that you can tell there's so much

00:35:09.860 --> 00:35:17.739
venom behind them. Bad dogs. You don't. We're

00:35:17.739 --> 00:35:23.699
all here. Crispin wants to cast Druidcraft and

00:35:23.699 --> 00:35:29.409
knowing how sensitive dogs sense of smell is

00:35:29.409 --> 00:35:33.489
he just wants to create like like the smell of

00:35:33.489 --> 00:35:38.250
like fresh cut flowers and you know as he does

00:35:38.250 --> 00:35:43.010
this he says something like while while nature

00:35:43.010 --> 00:35:48.269
is my true love I must admit that as a druid

00:35:48.269 --> 00:35:53.289
I would hate to see any harm come to such a sacred

00:35:53.289 --> 00:35:56.610
place as this the smell of flowers strikes and

00:35:56.610 --> 00:35:59.730
it kind of Nose. I think it shakes its head a

00:35:59.730 --> 00:36:02.489
little bit. What is this? What are you doing?

00:36:03.809 --> 00:36:08.630
You are one of those infernal creatures. Always

00:36:08.630 --> 00:36:11.730
lingering at the edge, wanting to stomp on my

00:36:11.730 --> 00:36:17.389
shrine. You. He's looking at you, Crispin. Creatures

00:36:17.389 --> 00:36:21.489
to stomp on his shrine? You see, Akio, my feet

00:36:21.489 --> 00:36:24.250
are too little to do much stomping. I prefer

00:36:24.250 --> 00:36:26.630
to tread lightly. I have chased your type for

00:36:26.630 --> 00:36:34.489
years now. Oh. I know of your ill will. Are you

00:36:34.489 --> 00:36:40.750
here for vengeance? I'll have at you. I do not

00:36:40.750 --> 00:36:46.670
come for your garden, friend. In fact, maybe

00:36:46.670 --> 00:36:51.409
on the way out I can give you some tips. Uh,

00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:54.610
by the sword. Very quickly slides back into the

00:36:54.610 --> 00:36:57.809
street together. Just a blur of movement. Eyes

00:36:57.809 --> 00:37:02.050
flicker between you. No. I do not trust you.

00:37:02.550 --> 00:37:07.829
I don't know that you are not mad dogs. But there

00:37:07.829 --> 00:37:12.389
are certainly bad dogs inside. I will watch you.

00:37:12.949 --> 00:37:17.409
If you mean to enter the shrine to turn away

00:37:17.409 --> 00:37:20.210
these intruders, I will join you and guide you.

00:37:20.590 --> 00:37:25.469
But I will also... Keep an eye on you. And should

00:37:25.469 --> 00:37:29.630
you decide to turn your coats or tails, I will

00:37:29.630 --> 00:37:33.610
strike you down. Sorry again. Are you done? You

00:37:33.610 --> 00:37:37.190
happen because we got shit to do. Very well.

00:37:37.750 --> 00:37:43.550
Let us go together. Who wants the sidekick sheet

00:37:43.550 --> 00:37:48.969
for Akio the Akita? Can Crispin ride Akito the

00:37:48.969 --> 00:37:54.059
Akita? Oh. Oh, oh. Probably not medium creature,

00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:58.880
not large. Crispin is size small. Can small ride

00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.440
a medium creature? Can't it? That might be allowed.

00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.579
What's Crispin's, what's your gear? Are you lightweight?

00:38:04.659 --> 00:38:06.300
Because I'm already wearing armor. It's very

00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:09.860
possible you could. Yeah, I mean, Crispin's unarmored

00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:13.539
because he's a barbarian. You know, we're an

00:38:13.539 --> 00:38:14.900
action movie now. Yeah, you can ride this thing.

00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.320
Excellent. Well, I mean, I should probably ask

00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:22.300
permission. You got to do that? Yeah. Akio, you

00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:28.039
are... You appear to be a very strong boy. I

00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.480
am the strongest boy. And you do know that...

00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.239
I have trained for my entire life. All nine years.

00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:37.460
I have trained. These small feet that I mentioned

00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:41.360
before, they carry me rather slowly. I can see

00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:45.340
that. Do you perhaps have an idea of a quicker

00:38:45.340 --> 00:38:52.440
way we could travel together? I love that you're

00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:54.480
making David suggest this. No, then you just

00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:58.699
cut to them walking towards the shrine with Crispin

00:38:58.699 --> 00:39:01.800
sitting on his back. And Akio's just like looking

00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:05.440
a little dejected. I can't believe I allowed

00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:10.420
this. Oh, my pride as a dog. You're just sitting

00:39:10.420 --> 00:39:13.260
on this thing. As you're sitting, I think he

00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:17.699
allows it, you sit on his back atop this armor.

00:39:17.780 --> 00:39:20.429
There's a cloth almost like... cape hanging over

00:39:20.429 --> 00:39:23.429
it um as you're kind of nestled into you do notice

00:39:23.429 --> 00:39:25.309
those like there is that sort of almost bandolier

00:39:25.309 --> 00:39:27.630
belt kind of running around him with uh these

00:39:27.630 --> 00:39:32.369
couple like orbs kind of statues holding these

00:39:32.369 --> 00:39:35.730
like little orbs on them um maybe your feet bumps

00:39:35.730 --> 00:39:36.849
against them or something i don't know if you're

00:39:36.849 --> 00:39:38.949
interested in those yeah are they like bottles

00:39:38.949 --> 00:39:44.550
or um they look almost like stones okay round

00:39:44.550 --> 00:39:49.349
like like water uh smooth stones What are these

00:39:49.349 --> 00:39:54.989
you carry here on your bandolier? I carry the

00:39:54.989 --> 00:39:59.010
arsenal of the shrine. I only have a few at the

00:39:59.010 --> 00:40:03.010
moment, but these are thunderballs. That sounds

00:40:03.010 --> 00:40:06.329
quite dangerous. Should I be worried about bumping

00:40:06.329 --> 00:40:11.090
into them? If danger approaches, throw and see.

00:40:12.429 --> 00:40:16.730
I'm going to give you... Hang on. Let me... You

00:40:16.730 --> 00:40:20.860
wrote... I wrote his. I have his inventory. Let

00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:23.219
me scribble out the two potions of greater healing.

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:26.719
He doesn't have those anymore. That's weird.

00:40:26.980 --> 00:40:28.940
He drank them earlier. He dropped them. Oh, my

00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:32.320
God. Fuck. Yeah, I gave you nothing. Take that.

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.280
Great, thanks. Way to play. You can play me.

00:40:36.980 --> 00:40:39.539
It's my game. Oh, man. You can play the player.

00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:44.219
What am I looking at? Oh, on impact. Thunderballs

00:40:44.219 --> 00:40:46.949
on impact. They're grenades. They cast Thunderwave

00:40:46.949 --> 00:40:49.949
at second level around themselves on impact.

00:40:50.369 --> 00:40:53.090
So it's 15 feet square. So basically the five

00:40:53.090 --> 00:40:55.869
-foot area around them, I believe. Is it radius?

00:40:56.710 --> 00:40:58.750
Spoiler, I probably didn't need to prep that

00:40:58.750 --> 00:41:03.710
then. No, mine is a 15 -foot square. 15 -foot

00:41:03.710 --> 00:41:06.650
cube, excuse me. So the five -feet area around

00:41:06.650 --> 00:41:09.389
these things when you throw them will cast Thunderwave

00:41:09.389 --> 00:41:11.650
at second level. Basically, they're thunder grenades.

00:41:12.190 --> 00:41:16.170
We're in the action movie now. He can use these.

00:41:16.630 --> 00:41:18.309
All right. He's trained to be able to reach and

00:41:18.309 --> 00:41:20.250
throw them. So that's also part of the stat block.

00:41:21.230 --> 00:41:24.349
You're riding Akio. Do you want Akio stat block?

00:41:25.110 --> 00:41:26.829
Yeah, definitely. All right. Let me ask your

00:41:26.829 --> 00:41:29.170
sheet. Is that cool with you, Dresden? Yeah.

00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:31.699
Hell yeah. I'm just really concerned now what

00:41:31.699 --> 00:41:33.699
we're up against if you're giving us this character.

00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.119
I was thinking, we talked a little bit about

00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:39.739
like wanting a, potentially having a sidekick.

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:41.420
I know we meet Steve on the walk and he mentioned

00:41:41.420 --> 00:41:43.480
like, like, you know, cause I told you, you know,

00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.260
you were doing the shrine and I was like, yeah,

00:41:45.260 --> 00:41:46.219
I gotta give you a sidekick. I don't know who.

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:47.659
And you mentioned a shrine guard. And I was like,

00:41:47.699 --> 00:41:48.980
that's so boring. I don't know who's the shrine

00:41:48.980 --> 00:41:49.840
guard. And I was thinking about it. I was like,

00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.239
what if it was Nikita though? And then Al came

00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:53.780
together. Instantly cooler. Instantly cooler.

00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:57.800
Um, yeah. Uh, good, good read. Good read through.

00:41:58.420 --> 00:42:05.760
What, uh, It's a new sidekick. Akio's got 17

00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.519
AC because of his half plate. 42 hit points.

00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.039
He's got a little bit of strength here. 14 strength.

00:42:13.340 --> 00:42:19.699
16 dex. Boofing blade. Akio can cast the cantrip

00:42:19.699 --> 00:42:21.659
booming blade at will. I was proud of that one.

00:42:21.739 --> 00:42:26.889
Quick sheath. Accio can draw and sheath his katana

00:42:26.889 --> 00:42:30.710
as a free action. You can move between your various

00:42:30.710 --> 00:42:32.829
things very quickly. Ooh, improved critical.

00:42:33.690 --> 00:42:39.170
Nice. Crits on a 19 and 20. That's awesome. Two

00:42:39.170 --> 00:42:41.849
attacks. Very cool. He can only hold one item

00:42:41.849 --> 00:42:44.570
at a time. His mouth is his only way of sort

00:42:44.570 --> 00:42:46.150
of grabbing things. That's why he has the quick

00:42:46.150 --> 00:42:48.389
sheath, kind of offsetting that weakness. Yeah.

00:42:49.030 --> 00:42:53.570
Okay. Defender. Sidekick can use its reaction

00:42:53.570 --> 00:42:56.110
to impose disadvantage on the attack roll of

00:42:56.110 --> 00:42:58.090
a creature within five feet of it whose target

00:42:58.090 --> 00:43:00.969
is not the sidekick, provided the sidekick can

00:43:00.969 --> 00:43:04.250
see the attacker. Okay, cool. Yeah, there's good

00:43:04.250 --> 00:43:08.190
stuff here. Okay, hell yeah. And you have, for

00:43:08.190 --> 00:43:12.130
this mission, a new ally. How would you like

00:43:12.130 --> 00:43:15.489
to proceed? The sea is beside you. There's that

00:43:15.489 --> 00:43:17.170
one sea gate as a potential option, but there's

00:43:17.170 --> 00:43:19.949
the main gate also just ahead of you. The red

00:43:19.949 --> 00:43:22.429
doors shut before you. Actually, let me open

00:43:22.429 --> 00:43:24.590
up a little bit of the map so you can see the

00:43:24.590 --> 00:43:27.929
doors here. Those are kind of hidden away. Well,

00:43:27.949 --> 00:43:32.489
Akio, do you know a secret way in that perhaps

00:43:32.489 --> 00:43:36.710
the pirates won't know to expect us from? I fear

00:43:36.710 --> 00:43:40.150
do not. Most ways are sealed with chimes of warning.

00:43:40.489 --> 00:43:43.110
Have begun. That means all defenses have been

00:43:43.110 --> 00:43:46.269
activated. We have a battle ahead of us. Quite

00:43:46.269 --> 00:43:49.739
fierce. I wish I knew more of the shrine's defenses

00:43:49.739 --> 00:43:56.760
myself, but I missed that meeting. Well, I feel

00:43:56.760 --> 00:43:58.460
like we could spend a bunch of time trying to

00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:02.059
figure out how to get through the seawall. I

00:44:02.059 --> 00:44:05.380
know of only one thing, though. The last words

00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:09.119
I heard as I moved upon the meeting myself. The

00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:14.940
word, Sword Nado. That sounds... Sword Nado.

00:44:15.260 --> 00:44:17.260
That sounds like an action movie to me. Yes.

00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:19.539
And you know what they always do into action

00:44:19.539 --> 00:44:22.920
movies? They kick down the front door. Kick down

00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.119
the front door? I mean, it's either that, or

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:28.599
we spend a bunch of time trying to figure out

00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:34.159
how to get through this water gate, and we're

00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:35.900
going to end up in the same place anyways. You

00:44:35.900 --> 00:44:37.500
don't know. If there's other defenses there,

00:44:37.699 --> 00:44:41.500
you can swim. But who knows what could be waiting

00:44:41.500 --> 00:44:43.079
for you. Once the nothings are activated, it

00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:44.820
could be very dangerous going anyway. Right.

00:44:44.900 --> 00:44:47.900
And, like, I could burn some resources. I could,

00:44:47.980 --> 00:44:49.800
you know, wild shape or something like that.

00:44:49.860 --> 00:44:53.719
But I just don't know if whatever resources we

00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:56.420
use to get in there. And I don't have a lot of

00:44:56.420 --> 00:44:59.199
gold to do any flashbacks with anyways. Sure.

00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:03.550
So. Wait. It's buttons. Oh, well, I mean, you

00:45:03.550 --> 00:45:05.210
still have to buy the item. You know what I mean?

00:45:05.230 --> 00:45:07.630
Like if I wanted to buy a potion of water breathing

00:45:07.630 --> 00:45:09.949
or something or a ring of water walking. Right,

00:45:10.030 --> 00:45:14.170
right. I wish that I had prepped the spell for

00:45:14.170 --> 00:45:15.670
water walking. Even then, that would only be

00:45:15.670 --> 00:45:19.230
one of the three of us. Yeah. All right. So with

00:45:19.230 --> 00:45:22.289
that, Dresden will turn over to Crispin. If you've

00:45:22.289 --> 00:45:24.889
got any more of those prayers, say them now.

00:45:25.909 --> 00:45:28.920
And he's going to start moving forward. As you're

00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:30.500
approaching, you're kind of moving, like, there's

00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:33.340
a slight kind of walkway where, you know, this

00:45:33.340 --> 00:45:36.039
thing kind of juts out into the beach from the

00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:38.059
gates, and you're kind of stepping now, ting

00:45:38.059 --> 00:45:41.340
-ting onto the tile, leading towards the shrine

00:45:41.340 --> 00:45:44.400
itself, leading towards the grand, sloping, elegant

00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:48.400
archway, the doors beneath it. Crispin, what

00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.739
is your passive perception? And I need you to

00:45:50.739 --> 00:45:53.579
add five to that because of the legal prime senses.

00:45:53.619 --> 00:45:56.449
You have advantage on hearing, I believe. Yeah,

00:45:56.449 --> 00:46:02.789
so passive is 18. Holy shit. Jesus Christ. So

00:46:02.789 --> 00:46:05.909
24 for hearing. That's actually going to be two

00:46:05.909 --> 00:46:10.409
things. As you're approaching, you kind of look

00:46:10.409 --> 00:46:12.570
up the sleek walls. You look up to that sort

00:46:12.570 --> 00:46:14.869
of branching out, kind of almost that little,

00:46:14.969 --> 00:46:18.750
you know, parapet. Yeah, maybe that. That seems

00:46:18.750 --> 00:46:20.789
to slide around. I don't know terms. I'm just

00:46:20.789 --> 00:46:23.909
guessing. Your ears twitch towards it, and you

00:46:23.909 --> 00:46:29.480
do hear. A very kind of dangerous sounding hum.

00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:37.519
As if perhaps the top of this wall is a conduit

00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:39.519
for some serious electricity going through it.

00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:42.900
Oh, jeez. Top of the wall. So climbing the wall

00:46:42.900 --> 00:46:44.400
could be deadly. Oh, so don't climb the wall.

00:46:44.780 --> 00:46:46.739
Your senses pick that up and you're like, okay,

00:46:46.820 --> 00:46:49.820
that's how they can defend an open roof place.

00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:51.400
Unless you're flying. Gotcha. If you're climbing

00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.630
that thing, it could be very dangerous. Because

00:46:54.630 --> 00:46:57.110
you have such a high passive, though, you do

00:46:57.110 --> 00:47:00.489
hear something ahead of you. Like a slight, very

00:47:00.489 --> 00:47:02.949
slight rattling sound. Like through the door?

00:47:03.670 --> 00:47:06.449
Yeah. Through the door or just near the door,

00:47:06.530 --> 00:47:08.730
somewhere around the door. Like something rattling.

00:47:09.750 --> 00:47:12.670
Can Crispin look around the edge of the door?

00:47:13.409 --> 00:47:17.969
Give me investigation. Gladly. Can Dresden get

00:47:17.969 --> 00:47:20.030
in on this, too? Yeah. Yeah, you see Crispin

00:47:20.030 --> 00:47:25.319
kind of looking out. Fifteen. It is. Something

00:47:25.319 --> 00:47:30.900
rattling around his door. 19. 19. With a 15,

00:47:31.099 --> 00:47:34.400
it's hard to make it out. It's like you hear

00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.380
it, but you can't quite catch anything. With

00:47:37.380 --> 00:47:40.340
a 19, you also kind of hone in on this. You hear

00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:41.420
him say something rattling on this door. You

00:47:41.420 --> 00:47:43.860
look towards one of the hinges, and you see the

00:47:43.860 --> 00:47:48.719
door move the tiniest bit, kind of rattling against

00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:53.119
the wall, rattling against its hinges. Oh, the...

00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:56.300
Doors to the shrine are animated. They open upon

00:47:56.300 --> 00:48:00.420
command. It's very convenient for those without

00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:08.000
hands. Like me. After you. Okay. Crispin is also

00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:12.059
going closer. We go under the door? We kick down

00:48:12.059 --> 00:48:14.300
that door? If Accia knows how to open it, if

00:48:14.300 --> 00:48:17.739
Dresden's not saying anything about the hinge...

00:48:17.739 --> 00:48:20.039
Well, that's what I was assuming that he was

00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:25.179
referencing when... Yeah, so he moves forward

00:48:25.179 --> 00:48:27.860
like he's going to activate it, kind of pause,

00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:31.940
step forward. He perhaps doesn't notice anything

00:48:31.940 --> 00:48:35.619
quite wrong as he moves forward to verbally kick

00:48:35.619 --> 00:48:38.619
down the door, shout the command, have his presence

00:48:38.619 --> 00:48:42.340
sort of open it. Too late. He steps close, and

00:48:42.340 --> 00:48:45.159
you watch these doors. You told him to move forward.

00:48:45.219 --> 00:48:46.739
He's already moving forward. He can't stop. He

00:48:46.739 --> 00:48:49.079
can't stop. This train's gone. Full off the track,

00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:50.920
you see these doors, and you go to kick them

00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.630
down. Decide they're going to kick you down because

00:48:53.630 --> 00:48:59.590
you watch the hinges all fly off and four doors

00:48:59.590 --> 00:49:03.570
come launching towards you. Roll for initiative.

00:49:03.889 --> 00:49:06.909
Oh, door battle. Door battle. It's going to have

00:49:06.909 --> 00:49:09.349
an asterisk on this, David. I don't see what

00:49:09.349 --> 00:49:12.849
the problem is. Because I would if I didn't think.

00:49:13.369 --> 00:49:15.670
That his continuation of saying, oh, yeah, the

00:49:15.670 --> 00:49:17.690
door is open on command. And what I thought in

00:49:17.690 --> 00:49:19.550
my head was that they're just waiting to be opened

00:49:19.550 --> 00:49:21.690
by command. In my head, I was like, these are

00:49:21.690 --> 00:49:23.050
going to attack. And I was going to stop all

00:49:23.050 --> 00:49:25.409
of us from going through the fucking doors. But

00:49:25.409 --> 00:49:28.630
the glory of this is, because it's my sidekick,

00:49:28.769 --> 00:49:31.050
I can walk towards the doors anyway. I was already

00:49:31.050 --> 00:49:33.110
walking over there. I can't tell you you walk

00:49:33.110 --> 00:49:34.289
towards the doors, but I can sure as well say

00:49:34.289 --> 00:49:36.050
I walk towards those doors. Jesus Christ. Natural

00:49:36.050 --> 00:49:41.880
one. Oh, my God. uh for uh chris what you got

00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:48.260
five plus five for a ten and let me get accios

00:49:48.260 --> 00:49:54.159
here who was a nine a lot of uh really lousy

00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:57.340
initiative that's i think everyone's everyone's

00:49:57.340 --> 00:49:59.300
really surprised especially dresden who's the

00:49:59.300 --> 00:50:01.079
last to go he had no idea this was coming shut

00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:05.880
up He was stunned. Asterisk. You just, like,

00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.780
Dresden, I think you're, like, last issue because

00:50:07.780 --> 00:50:09.079
you're just kind of sitting there, like, shaking

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:12.239
your head, like, no, I, like I just said. Akio

00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:14.480
just dives forward. He opens up to say the word,

00:50:14.500 --> 00:50:16.659
and as the doors fly out, he goes, like, he didn't

00:50:16.659 --> 00:50:18.539
know this was going to happen. He, like, they

00:50:18.539 --> 00:50:20.719
are supposed to be animated, but perhaps because

00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:22.659
the defenses are activated, they have a secondary

00:50:22.659 --> 00:50:24.420
feature, which is they fly out of the head and

00:50:24.420 --> 00:50:25.719
just kick the shit out of anyone who tries to

00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:28.239
approach when the chimes of warning are active.

00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.519
So these things fly out. Let me roll for my doors.

00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:39.519
Fuck your doors, David. Yeah, you better. Somehow

00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:42.500
with a 12, the doors go first. Oh, God. God damn

00:50:42.500 --> 00:50:47.059
it. You were all so surprised. Oh, God. What

00:50:47.059 --> 00:50:50.139
is Crispin going to do? Fight like hell? I guess

00:50:50.139 --> 00:50:53.179
so. I just don't want to use up a bunch of stuff

00:50:53.179 --> 00:50:56.179
to get through these doors. I forgot to get the

00:50:56.179 --> 00:50:58.679
token for... Look at this beautiful guy. Look

00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:01.320
at this beautiful boy. I'm too busy looking at...

00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:02.940
what I'm going to do. Yeah, David, you can't

00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:05.559
kill him. He's so beautiful. I'm going to put

00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:08.659
him a little bit ahead. Let me put him in the

00:51:08.659 --> 00:51:12.300
back layer so we can see he's beneath. To back.

00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:15.619
Crispin's currently riding on top of our favorite

00:51:15.619 --> 00:51:18.099
little boy here. I'm going to put him five feet

00:51:18.099 --> 00:51:19.539
ahead of Dresden where he just basically stepped

00:51:19.539 --> 00:51:21.320
forward five feet. Dresden, you're just like

00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:23.159
five feet behind. You were standing on the walkway.

00:51:23.219 --> 00:51:24.500
The doors are about ten feet ahead of you and

00:51:24.500 --> 00:51:30.489
the doors come flying out. Let's see here. Four

00:51:30.489 --> 00:51:36.989
doors. Seven years ago. Oh, come on now. Okay.

00:51:37.429 --> 00:51:40.369
I'm going to do... The first door flies out.

00:51:40.389 --> 00:51:46.090
It's going to strike right at Okiyo here. That's

00:51:46.090 --> 00:51:49.809
going to be a miss. 13. I'm going to attack Crispin

00:51:49.809 --> 00:51:51.730
now. I'm going to attack twice. I have two doors

00:51:51.730 --> 00:51:54.659
flying at you. they're gonna get flanking bonus

00:51:54.659 --> 00:51:56.400
because they're surrounding you. So two of them,

00:51:56.440 --> 00:51:58.619
one flies and tries to whap him. Akio kind of

00:51:58.619 --> 00:52:00.960
slides aside as he does two more red squares

00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:03.360
on either side of you, lining up. They go to

00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:05.340
slam down, both at the same time, this sort of

00:52:05.340 --> 00:52:08.219
crushing maneuver, right? You, Crispin, that's

00:52:08.219 --> 00:52:11.079
going to be... Hold on, I think Akio can give

00:52:11.079 --> 00:52:14.360
one of them disadvantage. Oh, shit, that's true.

00:52:14.539 --> 00:52:17.239
Yeah, with his reaction, the defender. I have

00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:19.880
to ask you now, right or left? Is that how it

00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:21.840
works? No, it has to be a creature within five

00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.489
feet of... Accio. Yeah, they are. Oh, I thought

00:52:25.489 --> 00:52:27.409
you said... Oh, you said Crispin. I'm sorry.

00:52:27.489 --> 00:52:28.829
I thought you said they were attacking Dresden.

00:52:29.230 --> 00:52:31.110
Oh, sorry, sorry. Right. They're attacking Crispin.

00:52:31.269 --> 00:52:34.269
I might have said that. I will give disadvantage

00:52:34.269 --> 00:52:38.909
to... Let the dice decide. Odds is left. Evens

00:52:38.909 --> 00:52:44.530
is right. Odds it is. Left. Left. Okay. Okay.

00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:50.159
15 on the left one. No, that misses. I think

00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.500
when he ducks down, he bumps his butt up, and

00:52:52.500 --> 00:52:54.880
you kind of fly upwards, and the door clears

00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:57.260
for you, grazing your ears. That's awesome. But

00:52:57.260 --> 00:52:58.820
as you're in the air, you turn over to the other

00:52:58.820 --> 00:53:02.320
door. It's moving just up. Will a 20 hit Crispin?

00:53:02.340 --> 00:53:06.239
Yep. This door's striking true. And that's going

00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:09.840
to be... All right, close the window. Ah, there

00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:13.050
we go. Only six points of damage. Okay. Pretty

00:53:13.050 --> 00:53:16.969
cool. Slap on the rabbit cheek. Not the face

00:53:16.969 --> 00:53:21.210
one. You kind of slide back down. Doors are still

00:53:21.210 --> 00:53:24.570
hanging. One more door coming for you now, Dresden.

00:53:25.230 --> 00:53:30.789
He looks mad. 15. Yeah, no. Not at all. Okay.

00:53:31.349 --> 00:53:35.769
You have a shield, right? No. Oh, no, I do. I

00:53:35.769 --> 00:53:37.929
do. We decided to keep him. You just bang, the

00:53:37.929 --> 00:53:40.969
door hits you, hits you. You bang, knock it back,

00:53:41.110 --> 00:53:43.570
flutters in the air a little bit, kind of off

00:53:43.570 --> 00:53:49.469
control. And we cut to Crispin. Okay. Sorry,

00:53:49.590 --> 00:53:51.070
give me two seconds to just make sure I want

00:53:51.070 --> 00:53:52.889
to do what I'm going to do here. We're skipping

00:53:52.889 --> 00:53:56.489
Crispin. Back to the doors. Okay, Crispin's going

00:53:56.489 --> 00:54:00.090
to keep it pretty basic for now. Bonus action,

00:54:00.250 --> 00:54:04.929
he's going to cast Shillelagh. So his... club

00:54:04.929 --> 00:54:08.989
now becomes a plus one club so he's going to

00:54:08.989 --> 00:54:15.550
take a swing at let's see uh well crispin can't

00:54:15.550 --> 00:54:19.929
move well he can move hmm do i want to risk the

00:54:19.929 --> 00:54:23.670
aoo though yes i do crispin's going to jump down

00:54:23.670 --> 00:54:30.550
off accio to the space um adjacent here so he'll

00:54:30.550 --> 00:54:35.780
be going out of One door space. Okay. That's

00:54:35.780 --> 00:54:37.320
the one that just hits you a little bit as you

00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.000
slide out. It goes in front of us, spin arcs

00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:42.619
around to hit you again. That's another 20. Oof.

00:54:42.619 --> 00:54:47.059
Yep. Okay. That's going to be only five points

00:54:47.059 --> 00:54:50.659
this time. All right. The other cheek. I hope

00:54:50.659 --> 00:54:55.820
the flanking is worth it. So now Crispin's going

00:54:55.820 --> 00:54:59.360
to attack. This door here in between himself

00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.179
and Dresden. Okay. The left one that you just

00:55:02.179 --> 00:55:05.039
barely dodged. You flip over it, land on the

00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:07.179
side of it, spin around. What are you doing to

00:55:07.179 --> 00:55:10.679
this thing? Just going in for a great club smash.

00:55:13.300 --> 00:55:16.900
That's a 19. 19 will hit. Okay. It's a wooden

00:55:16.900 --> 00:55:19.500
door. You crack in wood meets wood with your

00:55:19.500 --> 00:55:21.760
great club hits it, and your great club, you

00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.039
hear a crack as it snaps a bunch of wood off.

00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.059
11 points of damage. 11 points of damage. Okay.

00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:32.579
That one looks pretty bad. You hit this thing

00:55:32.579 --> 00:55:36.460
with a bunch of red charges to spray all around

00:55:36.460 --> 00:55:38.380
you. It's still kind of up, like halfway. It's

00:55:38.380 --> 00:55:40.039
almost like hanging. Part of it's like broken

00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:44.960
off. But it's still ready to go. Okay. Okay.

00:55:45.300 --> 00:55:47.900
And that's it for Crispin. That's a key go. So

00:55:47.900 --> 00:55:51.820
he gets two attacks. So he's going to do two

00:55:51.820 --> 00:55:56.320
katana strikes. The first will be... On the door

00:55:56.320 --> 00:56:01.000
to his right. Foul doors. I've always wanted

00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.239
to do this. Sword slides out. He's a plus one

00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:06.780
katana, by the way. He's a magic sword. Yeah.

00:56:07.579 --> 00:56:13.659
So that is 11. We're just above him as he slices

00:56:13.659 --> 00:56:15.659
out. He gets another attack, though. His head

00:56:15.659 --> 00:56:18.219
arcs down one way. He pushes up, tries to strike

00:56:18.219 --> 00:56:23.949
out again. Tent. And the door just flips away

00:56:23.949 --> 00:56:25.889
again, kind of lightly poops him on the nose.

00:56:25.929 --> 00:56:30.730
His snoot gets moved. Foul doors, woof! And that's...

00:56:30.730 --> 00:56:33.630
That's bad. He's not having a good strong showing.

00:56:34.090 --> 00:56:38.030
Oh, dude, this is not going great. Dresden. He

00:56:38.030 --> 00:56:40.150
is going to go after the door that just hit him.

00:56:40.730 --> 00:56:42.829
Okay. But he's going to manifest. Does that go

00:56:42.829 --> 00:56:45.510
behind the door? Hell yeah. It's like standing

00:56:45.510 --> 00:56:50.880
upon the railing of this walkway. kind of crouching

00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:53.500
low behind the door, almost shudders, like, what?

00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:56.159
As it spins around. Yep. I get flanking, right?

00:56:56.619 --> 00:56:58.420
You do get flanking with your echo, I believe,

00:56:58.460 --> 00:56:59.880
because it's targetable. I'm going to get two

00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:03.199
attacks. So, first attack is going to come from

00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:07.519
the echo. Okay. Turn around, you stupid door.

00:57:08.739 --> 00:57:10.539
It's flipping around. It doesn't know which way

00:57:10.539 --> 00:57:15.760
it's... Fuck, 14. 14 will actually hit. It hits?

00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:21.469
Okay. Attack number two. Woof. Woof. Natural

00:57:21.469 --> 00:57:25.769
one. Oh no. Yeah. So that's only a... Yeah. It's

00:57:25.769 --> 00:57:30.050
a natural one. Hang on. I can do this. Hang on.

00:57:30.150 --> 00:57:33.090
It's been a while. I can do this. Oh, I got one.

00:57:33.409 --> 00:57:36.409
What? You know how some people hang a horseshoe

00:57:36.409 --> 00:57:41.889
on a door? Yeah. It falls off. There's one on

00:57:41.889 --> 00:57:46.750
this door. It just falls off. Look at me. No,

00:57:46.750 --> 00:57:49.949
it hits him on the head or something. Ow! Wait,

00:57:50.489 --> 00:57:51.809
this is important. Does it actually hit the echo?

00:57:51.929 --> 00:57:54.349
Because the echo would disappear. No, he said

00:57:54.349 --> 00:57:55.989
the second attack was from Dresden. Oh, gotcha.

00:57:55.989 --> 00:57:58.789
Yeah, second attack was from Dresden. Ow, my

00:57:58.789 --> 00:58:02.829
fucking toe. Nat won dorses. No, no, no. You

00:58:02.829 --> 00:58:04.829
ruined it. That was a stretch. Damn it. That

00:58:04.829 --> 00:58:07.670
was a little too much. A little too much, David.

00:58:09.590 --> 00:58:12.409
You missed. I won't punish you. Well, yeah. Can't

00:58:12.409 --> 00:58:14.639
even come for that. I won't punish you now. I'll

00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:16.000
save my punishment for the next match. All right,

00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:22.199
so damage for the one hit. Shit. Nine. Nine damage.

00:58:22.219 --> 00:58:28.500
Okay. Okay. With that, top of the round. The

00:58:28.500 --> 00:58:32.019
doors go. Taking some glancing blows. When you

00:58:32.019 --> 00:58:34.639
hit, you strike true. Pick. drives into the wood

00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.579
right through it. Another spray of red wood.

00:58:38.099 --> 00:58:40.920
Pit comes out. The doors begin to fly around.

00:58:41.059 --> 00:58:42.440
I'm going to have one door sort of move around

00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:45.440
to the back of you. Dresden, one more door moves

00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:49.239
around you. Crispin, we have this shot, like

00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:51.219
the open gates into the Shrine of Storm stand

00:58:51.219 --> 00:58:54.420
before you. You can see this grand sort of plaza

00:58:54.420 --> 00:58:58.039
just inside. So Dresden gets his AOL, right,

00:58:58.099 --> 00:59:00.780
from the Echo? Oh, you do. That's right. Oh,

00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:03.949
shit. Shit, that's true. And Accio does not get

00:59:03.949 --> 00:59:06.190
his. I forgot. Well, no, Accio, now that's the

00:59:06.190 --> 00:59:07.909
top of a round, he's got a new reaction, right?

00:59:08.070 --> 00:59:10.989
Or is it on his turn? I always forget that. Was

00:59:10.989 --> 00:59:12.570
that what that was? It was what that was, wasn't

00:59:12.570 --> 00:59:14.550
it? Damn, why did I do that? Yeah, it's a couple

00:59:14.550 --> 00:59:18.590
of AOs. Damn. Go ahead and take your AO. Damn

00:59:18.590 --> 00:59:23.550
straight. Both of you. That's an 18. 18 will

00:59:23.550 --> 00:59:29.070
hit. Now, does Accio's AO have to be his bite

00:59:29.070 --> 00:59:31.760
or can it be his katana? Eight. Eight, okay.

00:59:33.480 --> 00:59:35.880
He's got his katana out, right? Yeah, his katana's

00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:37.940
out. It can be his katana for sure. Yeah, he

00:59:37.940 --> 00:59:40.239
already had it out. Ooh, 18 on the die, baby.

00:59:40.659 --> 00:59:45.739
That's going to do it. Nine damage. Okay, hell

00:59:45.739 --> 00:59:50.139
yeah. He finally, like, after that boop, he took

00:59:50.139 --> 00:59:52.079
that personally. This door slides away. He kind

00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:56.679
of slides up this sword. It carves deep into

00:59:56.679 --> 01:00:00.429
it. Little piece sort of. clunks off, and one

01:00:00.429 --> 01:00:03.650
of the knockers slides off as well. The door,

01:00:03.829 --> 01:00:08.849
beaten but not broken, slides before you. Crispin,

01:00:08.869 --> 01:00:12.969
you hit me. Do I move or not? Jules, Sentinel

01:00:12.969 --> 01:00:15.150
feet means you can stop me from moving. Or Dresden.

01:00:15.250 --> 01:00:17.789
Oh, yeah. That's the one. Yeah, of course you

01:00:17.789 --> 01:00:19.489
do. So I cannot flank you. I was going to try

01:00:19.489 --> 01:00:21.789
to get flanking on Dresden. This thing goes,

01:00:21.909 --> 01:00:23.809
and the Echo just, what does it look like when

01:00:23.809 --> 01:00:25.190
the Echo stops the door from moving? What does

01:00:25.190 --> 01:00:27.789
Sentinel look like? It's so cool this already

01:00:27.789 --> 01:00:30.679
happened. Yeah, that's really neat. Okay. Rather

01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:33.440
than something that just happens, maybe it's

01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:35.900
like a little power -up. Like when you hit, you

01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:39.840
just... And you get this power -up. Okay. And

01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:44.420
hands stretched out, like jazz hands, push forward

01:00:44.420 --> 01:00:48.659
like a wall of just like a sonic boom. Ooh. Like

01:00:48.659 --> 01:00:51.539
you see the air kind of... Warp around. Wave

01:00:51.539 --> 01:00:54.519
and warp around. Like another echo almost. Ooh.

01:00:54.659 --> 01:00:59.349
Like audio just kind of... I love this too. Imagine,

01:00:59.409 --> 01:01:01.610
if you will, like we talked about that your power

01:01:01.610 --> 01:01:05.030
emanates from these sort of beings that seem

01:01:05.030 --> 01:01:06.869
to be like intimately connected with the idea

01:01:06.869 --> 01:01:09.030
of storms. And perhaps, as you say, this rippling

01:01:09.030 --> 01:01:11.389
of air, perhaps it's the slightest crack of thunder

01:01:11.389 --> 01:01:14.110
around as you reach out. The echo reaches out

01:01:14.110 --> 01:01:16.090
and like in this sort of warping of air, the

01:01:16.090 --> 01:01:18.989
doors halted, kind of shakes and shudders like

01:01:18.989 --> 01:01:21.369
it wants to break free, but it can't move. It

01:01:21.369 --> 01:01:25.050
can't move. Holy shit. There's a high pressure

01:01:25.050 --> 01:01:30.760
system moving in. All right. Good. Okay. Nobody

01:01:30.760 --> 01:01:34.619
likes the weather jokes? No. Okay. Check that

01:01:34.619 --> 01:01:39.059
one off the list. Tough crowd. The door stays

01:01:39.059 --> 01:01:42.719
firm, buried between Dresden and his Echo. Crispin,

01:01:42.719 --> 01:01:44.860
you've got two of them surrounding you now, both

01:01:44.860 --> 01:01:47.840
looking pretty rough, but both kind of... shaking

01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:49.800
and shuddering with almost excitement as they

01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:51.380
raise up in the air. They're going to come down

01:01:51.380 --> 01:01:54.340
on you hard. Akio spins around to face the one,

01:01:54.340 --> 01:01:58.760
his adversary, Blade, still in his mouth, growling

01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:04.019
low. Three heroes standing together against this

01:02:04.019 --> 01:02:08.039
first threat. But if even the doors of the Shrine

01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:11.860
of Storms come at you like this, and even the

01:02:11.860 --> 01:02:16.699
entrance can be deadly, who the hell knows? what's

01:02:16.699 --> 01:02:19.639
waiting for you inside but for now we'll call

01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:20.019
it there