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The crew of the Hitokori has been incredibly

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successful at targeting valuable vessels at their

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most vulnerable moments in transit, giving way

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to incredible riches for the captains and incredible

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losses for the good folk of Yomizu. So what do

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we know about these figures? It is believed that

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the crew of the Hitokori is made up entirely

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of Kenku, while the pirates themselves have been

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described as being human, twin brothers in fact,

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each typically wearing cloaks and wielding brutal

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glaives. There's also rumor that the brothers

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hail from a remote village in the mountains along

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Mizu's northern coast. But no such village has

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been discovered by the authorities, and travel

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through these mountains is considered very, very

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dangerous. Another rather bizarre fact is that

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the pirates have reportedly not taken a single

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life in their entire criminal careers. So what

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secrets do the captains hold? How do they seem

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to know exactly where to strike? And how have

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they not been defeated by any shipguard despite

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holding back from taking lives? Until we answer

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these critical questions, I fear the people of

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Mesa will be seeing red and feeling blue. That

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was awful. Who wrote that? Did you write that,

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David? No, who wrote that? I mean, whoever wrote

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it is a genius, but was not. Agree to disagree.

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Was not me. You have your, the spotlight on these

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two gloominary pirates, the ones that you know

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have taken this place. This is all information

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Crispin Dresden have in that folder. This is

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almost everything you know about them in the

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folder you were given by Shully. You would research

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this local room or what I told you. These are

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two very mysterious figures, but it's all everything

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Oren says is corroborated by Shully's information.

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They've hit high profile targets when they're

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at the most vulnerable. They've got away scot

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-free every time and they've never taken a life,

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which is strange. And they have been immensely

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successful in their pirating career as new as

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it is. yeah shroud of the mystery apparently

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they're here though you would also know one more

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thing something that i think would be you know

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you probably had in your mind just a strange

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little question you never saw a ship you would

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have seen a ship yeah you said it was small it

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was yeah not it was not a large vessel but large

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enough to have a crew it would be Absolutely

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noticeable if there was a ship that pulled up

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to this place. And there shouldn't be able to

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be ships anyway. The wave pool sort of cascading

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away from the shrine at the edge of the sort

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of seawall would immediately send anything, any

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ships. They could not dock here. So how did they

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get in? Right. So it's weird because if they

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never take a life, then you assume that. Every

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one of their victims is a survivor and could

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share the story of how their ship snuck up on

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them. You know what I mean? And from what it

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is, it just, it basically sounds like it's just

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the ship came up. They, the guard were soundly

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defeated, but not killed. Uh, and they just made

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off with the riches and went away. The ship is

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fast. They couldn't be caught up and they've,

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they've, they've engaged in combat. They just

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seem are seemingly strong enough that they don't

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need to kill to survive. Well, I'm sure we'll

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find out more if we survive this fight. I'm sure

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you will. Now, let me go back. Let me look at

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that. Wow, that's weird. Sorry, I'm looking at

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the Roll20 map. I can't find Crispin's token.

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Where is Crispin's? Do you see Crispin's token?

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Yeah, I can see the edge of it. Where is it?

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From underneath. What the fuck are you doing,

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David? Underneath the what? Fucking tornado thing.

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Oh, that's right. Because my sword -nado just

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stepped right on you. Yeah, weird it decided

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to do that just now. I like forgot. Well, actually,

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there's a reason for this. There's actually a

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reason for this. I didn't have space inside the

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sword -nado until now because one sword was held

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back from going in. by the sentinel feet it did

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not go back which means there's a little spot

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open in the tornado and i could be like you know

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what i'm just gonna take a mosey on over and

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step onto a little crispin dubois here uh so

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let's see what happens let's see what happens

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when you're eaten by the winds uh let's get some

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music going that's intense oh it's gonna be intense

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now before we continue this thing there is a

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bit of a wedgie we need to address We'll address

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it now and clean the slate. And that wedgie is

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heat metal. I have to make a save, but first

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you have to make a save. Yeah, I didn't make

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at least one concentration check. Yes, we'll

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count down to one concentration check. There

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may have been more, but we don't have the dates

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yet to roll back. We're going to call it one

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con save. DC 10 to make sure the spell is even

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still active. Yeah. Natural one. I'm going to

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say it happens now. As the wind overcomes you,

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you see the blazing orange of the metal sword

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swirling around before you. It fills out as you

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are just like harried by this. Your every fur,

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them being ripped out of you. You're not taking

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damage yet as this thing has taken you in. But

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it is my turn. So that damage is coming. The

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sword peters out. I am no longer taking the fire

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damage on either my weapon or my baddie. Horrible.

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Wait. I didn't take that last instance of damage

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on the weapon. Well, I mean, do you want to now

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that we... We did establish that it did go out,

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and you waited until after it went to it. Yeah,

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okay. We'll say I don't take the damage. Cool.

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All right. Clean slate. We're good. This works

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out. You've been eaten by a tornado. A sword

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-nado. Sorry. Now it's time to pay the piper,

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whatever that means. Whatever that means. I can

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do some fun things here. I could just beat the

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hell out of you from inside this thing, which

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seems like a lot of fun. But I don't want to

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do that. Instead, wear one sword has been pulled

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away. I'm going to turn Crispin Dubois into my

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new sword. And this thing begins to serve again.

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What? You feel your feet like a powerful gust

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lifts you up. You are yanked from the ground.

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You are ripped and moving, moving, swirling blades

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flashing around you. It's not their turn, so

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they're not going to actually cut you or hurt

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you, but you're like feeling them everywhere.

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Maybe there's like small, shallow cuts being

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cut into you, not like doing damage, but just

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because it's cool and you have all these cool,

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bleeding wounds as you're being torn. by this

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thing. And now, as my swords are getting launched,

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I'm going to attempt to launch you too. All right.

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I need a strength saving throw. Oh, my goodness.

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You can feel the gust building. You can feel

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it's about to shove you outwards, launching you

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violently across the court, perhaps into an ally,

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perhaps into a wall. What a second one. A second

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natural one. Are you joking? This is so bad.

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Why? Stephen, joking, please. There's nothing

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funny about what's about to happen to you. Holy

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shit. Before we resolve my swords. This is awful.

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I have a thing for dex saves, but that's not

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what this is. And before we even resolve the

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damage, let's resolve something else. Stop. The

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direction. You're going to fly. Oh, please, God.

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The swords get to control the direction they

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go out in because they're working in tandem with

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this thing. You on our end, yours is going to

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be random. Okay. I'm going to roll a D8. I'm

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going to set, like, the, you know. Sure. You

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know, east. Never eat soggy wheat. Southeast.

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Whatever, south. Yeah, each one's going to be

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a thing. I'm going to start with north as one,

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and I'm going to forget what I'm doing halfway

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through this. Oh, God. Let's do this thing. David.

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That is. Wait, are we counting floor ones? Or

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is that cracked? Count the floor. Oh, yeah, because

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it was good. Yeah. I won't count it. If you want

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me to count it, I'll do something new. No, I

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don't care. It's fine. No, I'm not going to count

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it. You don't have to count it. I'm just shitting

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on you. No, it's actually good for you. I'm only

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asking because we've been in this situation before

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where we always re -rolled it. That's the only...

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So I've heard this before. I've heard about,

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you know, if... Some people prefer to play if

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they roll the die and if it falls on the floor

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and they plan on taking the roll, they announce

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it before they go see it. Okay. I didn't announce

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it. Let's roll it again. I would be okay with

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that roll going forward. Yeah. It's a six. Oh,

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no. It's going to be. It actually wasn't too

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big a deal. This is going to launch you out in

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the western direction. If it was north or south,

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that's the worst. North would have been right

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into the echo. South would have been right into

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one of your two buddies. Instead, you're getting

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launched across the tiles. You're also not going

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to be launched into any... Shit, your token's

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still hiding from me. Get out of here. Get out

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of that tornado. You're not going to get launched

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into any walls, which means no extra damage.

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This might be one of the best results for you.

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You are sent flying from this thing, ripped out

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of it. The wind's blasting you 20 feet. You go

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scattering, rolling, sliding. You are prone,

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and you're going to take some damage. Oh, boy.

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That is 15 points of bludgeoning damage. Oh,

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no. Oh, okay. Now we're in trouble. Yeah, now

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you're looking extra rough. You slide to a stop.

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And now my swords are going to go. Now, you went

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with them and Tannen with them. They cannot target

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you, Crispin, because that would be weird if

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I had a sword literally flying into you while

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you were moving. This is all happening at once.

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I have three swords that can launch. I have three

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targets. Dresden, Echo, Akio. So I need deck

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saves from all three. Dresden got a 12. 15 for

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Akio. Echo got an 18. Dresden's the only one

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that fails. Fuck. The other two go out. You manage

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to, like, the Echo manages to parry. Maybe you're,

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like, putting effort into the Echo's parry, trying

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to keep it out there, keep that pressure on,

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but that causes this sword to kind of get into

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you, just barely making it through your armor,

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just barely cutting you. It's going to do five

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points of damage. Another small cut, but they

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are building up fast. Akio, ping, parries the

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sword, and they again just lock into place before

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you. You actually have two before you now, Dresden,

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because you have one held by Sentinel. Looking

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around, they are trying to pen you in. But that

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is my turn. Now we're looking at Crispin to splat.

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All right. So Crispin, you know, lands on the

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ground and rolls. Ah, crap, I'm prone. That's

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right. So I got to spend half my movement to

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stand up. Oh, he's fast, though. Okay. So Crispin's

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going to stand up and say to Accio, Oh, you're

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right, friend. Yes, remember my scent, Accio.

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Remember that I'm a good boy. And Crispin starts

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to run towards these swords and... wild shapes

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into a brown bear. Oh, hell yeah. Okay, wild

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shapes coming out. I think that means you're

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large now. I think so. Yeah, large beasts. Okay.

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Okay, so Crispin Bear Boy is going to come. Man,

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that guy's in the way. I can't really flank with

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anybody, unfortunately. Yeah, the swords are

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surrounding this thing now. Yeah. So we'll go

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up here, back next to the sword Nado. You'll

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get thrown one way, and you just turn around,

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ripping through the tile, going right back at

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it, ready to fight again. And he's going to go

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for this first sword here, next to Dresden. Ooh,

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yeah, that's a 24. Okay, you're going for the

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sword, you said. Well, I thought you said that

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the... For some reason, I thought the sword nato

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wasn't targetable. It is. It's targetable. It's

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just if you're not using a magical weapon, you've

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noticed, you take less damage. Oh, right. Yeah.

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So I won't really be doing that. Gosh. See, this

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is why. Hey, when we split a fight up, because

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now I'm like, what was my strategy again? Yeah,

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because bite damage isn't going to do a lot to

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this thing. Let's see. Let's roll a die about

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it. Okay. That's odds. So odds was the fucking...

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The Swordnado. Okay, sure, fine. You pissed this

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thing. This thing just threw you. You're mad.

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Yeah, all right. Let's see if we can take it

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down. Okay. We do get multi -attack here, so

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this is just the first attack. Seven points with

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the bite, and then we'll do a claw attack on

00:14:30.750 --> 00:14:34.370
the Swordnado. Oh, my God. Two on the die. That's

00:14:34.370 --> 00:14:39.029
just an eight. Eight to hit? Yeah. Ah, no. Yeah,

00:14:39.110 --> 00:14:42.350
I didn't think so. Oh, my goodness. I am starting

00:14:42.350 --> 00:14:44.210
to regret picking these dice back up. I love

00:14:44.210 --> 00:14:46.149
the idea of you just get back, this bear comes

00:14:46.149 --> 00:14:48.450
tearing towards it, and just goes, and, like,

00:14:48.470 --> 00:14:50.730
bites the wind, the wind kind of blasting. But

00:14:50.730 --> 00:14:52.509
it actually seems it has some effect, you know?

00:14:52.590 --> 00:14:54.809
Seven points, it's weakened, but, like, it's

00:14:54.809 --> 00:14:58.190
still getting through. Okay, that's the end of

00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:01.850
Crispin's turn, then. Okay, we're moving on to

00:15:01.850 --> 00:15:06.149
Akio. Right, Akio. I play Akio, so... You do,

00:15:06.250 --> 00:15:08.169
healthy pup. Akio, Akio, however you want to

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say it. Akio is a spell. Just saying. I think...

00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.559
I will say it's actually A -K -I -O. I haven't

00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:23.200
clarified this in the Discord at all yet, which

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I mean, I believe means bright. Okay. It also

00:15:27.580 --> 00:15:33.320
means come here. Come hither, Brum. Come hither.

00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:39.480
I'm going to... Hmm. I'm going to take... I'm

00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:44.279
going to just do two katana attacks here. Hoping

00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.480
that one might take out this first sword in front

00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:54.200
of me. Okay. Oh, my God. Another. That's five

00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.460
on the die. So 12 to hit. 12 will not hit the

00:15:58.460 --> 00:16:05.399
sword. Let me try again. Two attacks. Okay. That's

00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.779
a 21. 21 will hit. Imagine if that missed. You'd

00:16:08.779 --> 00:16:11.200
be so sad. Dude, I would have changed die again.

00:16:11.299 --> 00:16:16.500
Oh, max damage. 12 damage. 12 damage. Hell yeah.

00:16:17.539 --> 00:16:22.419
With this mighty swing, he cuts right into the

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handle and right through it. The handle sort

00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.340
of falls off the sword and something about that

00:16:27.340 --> 00:16:30.659
causes the magic to depower. It sort of shakes

00:16:30.659 --> 00:16:33.759
in the air and then metal. clatters on a tile.

00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:38.100
One enemy is down. All right, one down. And that's

00:16:38.100 --> 00:16:42.399
the end of Pacquiao's turn. Hell yeah. Okay.

00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:48.879
With that, we're on to Dresden. Ooh. I should

00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.279
just go for the swords, shouldn't I? It's hard

00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.659
to say. I'm going to go for the swords. Okay.

00:16:54.019 --> 00:16:58.019
All right, so first, yeah, Dresden's going to

00:16:58.019 --> 00:17:02.730
attack the sword in front of him. He will not

00:17:02.730 --> 00:17:06.309
hit with a natural one. Oh, my God. Third one

00:17:06.309 --> 00:17:09.670
of the night. What in the fuck? That horseshoe

00:17:09.670 --> 00:17:11.910
is just blowing around. They bonked Crispin on

00:17:11.910 --> 00:17:13.869
the head in the tornado, bonked him again on

00:17:13.869 --> 00:17:15.970
his way out, flew over here, bonked Dresden.

00:17:17.210 --> 00:17:19.329
It's just a menace. Knocked his sword strike

00:17:19.329 --> 00:17:24.829
off balance. This is insane. I got to start punishing

00:17:24.829 --> 00:17:29.190
these. I want to slow this down, though. All

00:17:29.190 --> 00:17:32.549
right. Yeah, I'm just going to go in for my second

00:17:32.549 --> 00:17:38.750
attack then. Damn. Your mental stance, mockingly.

00:17:41.329 --> 00:17:44.769
That's a 23 to hit. That will hit. Thank you.

00:17:48.829 --> 00:17:51.490
Minimum damage on that. Yikes. One on the die

00:17:51.490 --> 00:17:56.930
plus six. Thankfully. That is a god. And that

00:17:56.930 --> 00:18:00.049
sword was actually down to six. So you... Wow.

00:18:01.190 --> 00:18:02.750
What's it look like when you break the sword?

00:18:03.150 --> 00:18:06.369
I think with his war pick, it's just metal on

00:18:06.369 --> 00:18:09.569
metal. Yes. But his is stronger. And I think

00:18:09.569 --> 00:18:12.930
it just shatters the entire blade. The katana

00:18:12.930 --> 00:18:15.470
blades, yeah. And almost like when you break

00:18:15.470 --> 00:18:17.789
glass slowly, it just kind of splinters around.

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And then just... Splinters go flying right into

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brown bear's eyes. No, it goes right into the

00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:28.240
Swordnado and now it's got a thousand different

00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.400
little shines you can shoot at. Shit. Well, now

00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:32.079
that you took the idea, I can't do that. Exactly.

00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:38.880
Okay. Sword's turn and I only have two. Let's

00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.579
see. I'll have one for the Echo, one for Akio.

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This is getting close to the end. Let's see if

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I can do some damage before I, in the horseshoe,

00:18:48.619 --> 00:18:51.319
comes flying out again, whacks into this one.

00:18:52.989 --> 00:18:55.970
So stupid. Wait, did you? I rolled a one again.

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Oh, my God. That's so dumb. That's the four.

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Dude, we've been recording for not long. 21 minutes.

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We introduced this horseshoe into the narrative.

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Four natural ones. This thing is going to follow

00:19:08.009 --> 00:19:10.289
us forever. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Just bouncing

00:19:10.289 --> 00:19:11.890
all around. It's caught in the wind. It's like

00:19:11.890 --> 00:19:13.970
everyone's fucking the horseshoe. We have another

00:19:13.970 --> 00:19:18.329
episode title. This is called Natural Ones. It's

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a nine on Akio. That's not going to do it. So

00:19:21.730 --> 00:19:24.509
swords miss, and they're going to do their usual

00:19:24.509 --> 00:19:26.750
thing. They're going to try to move back away,

00:19:26.910 --> 00:19:29.910
back into the swordnado, which means Echo and

00:19:29.910 --> 00:19:39.069
Akio both get AOs. Yeah, baby. Another 12. Five

00:19:39.069 --> 00:19:42.470
on the die. 26. 26 will hit. Do I get the halt

00:19:42.470 --> 00:19:46.150
on this? You can take that, yes. I can. Oh, yeah.

00:19:47.090 --> 00:19:50.309
So for this one, from my Echo, I don't get the

00:19:50.309 --> 00:19:52.250
damage modifier, right? It's just the straight

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D8? Or do I get the modifier? No, it's the full

00:19:53.930 --> 00:19:56.170
damage. You're essentially popping into your

00:19:56.170 --> 00:19:58.210
Echo's place to take this AOL. It's a weird sort

00:19:58.210 --> 00:20:00.950
of like, you guys are occupying two spots in

00:20:00.950 --> 00:20:04.789
reality, but shared. It's weird. 13. 13 damage?

00:20:04.970 --> 00:20:07.470
And it's halted. Holy shit. This sword looks

00:20:07.470 --> 00:20:09.710
really, really bad. You have two swords left,

00:20:09.750 --> 00:20:12.329
and they both look really bad. I will say that.

00:20:12.819 --> 00:20:15.099
Though Swordnado looks bad, this looks like it's

00:20:15.099 --> 00:20:17.880
winding down. Before that can happen, I do get

00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:21.359
a turn here. Oh, I only have one sword left.

00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:23.680
There's only one thing I can do here. I think

00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.160
at this point, whatever programs of Swordnado

00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:29.259
to keep doing, it's like sword launch, sword

00:20:29.259 --> 00:20:32.599
return. That is sort of sword's dance. It's sort

00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:35.819
of elementally conjured program to do. Maybe

00:20:35.819 --> 00:20:37.740
when there's less swords, you see it kind of

00:20:37.740 --> 00:20:41.529
takes a different approach. giant tendrils launch

00:20:41.529 --> 00:20:45.069
out from this thing almost like uh arms and in

00:20:45.069 --> 00:20:48.009
these sort of clubbed uh swirling wind fists

00:20:48.009 --> 00:20:50.410
and they spin around and they're going to punch

00:20:50.410 --> 00:20:52.670
i'm gonna punch the brown bear the only one that's

00:20:52.670 --> 00:20:55.170
on me bring it on all right brown bear let's

00:20:55.170 --> 00:20:57.410
do this thing ac is super low on the brown bear

00:20:57.410 --> 00:21:00.509
so don't even worry about it two attacks great

00:21:00.509 --> 00:21:02.210
no well it's definitely natural one they're definitely

00:21:02.210 --> 00:21:05.910
both gonna hit okay uh 23 and 24 to hit yeah

00:21:05.910 --> 00:21:16.700
yeah It's a lot of D8s. It's a lot of damage.

00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:22.539
It's 27 points. Holy shit. Just comes in, pounding

00:21:22.539 --> 00:21:27.079
on you. You feel this full force, this storm

00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.539
just bearing down, coming down on top of you.

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But that's going to be its entire turn. The other

00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:36.839
sword is still locked within it. It's not flying

00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:39.380
out. It's just one single blade swirling inside.

00:21:39.819 --> 00:21:42.940
Crispin, that's you. Okay. Going in for another.

00:21:43.520 --> 00:21:46.460
Hold on. Let me see. Yeah, it doesn't. There's

00:21:46.460 --> 00:21:48.859
no place for me to move. Nobody's flanking. So

00:21:48.859 --> 00:21:51.640
I'm going to go in for another multi attack.

00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:54.519
Hell yeah. And if I roll more single digits,

00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:59.359
then I'm getting rid of this dice set. Dude,

00:21:59.539 --> 00:22:00.920
I think there's something wrong with this die.

00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.799
Yeah. Another five. Dude, this is the third five

00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:05.779
I've rolled tonight, I think. It's been like

00:22:05.779 --> 00:22:09.220
ones and fives. It's all ones and fives. So that's

00:22:09.220 --> 00:22:13.200
just an 11. I'm putting this set away. It's the

00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.140
horse number. Horses have five legs, they say.

00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:17.660
What if they're about to get hot? They're not.

00:22:18.859 --> 00:22:22.720
The coldest dice. I will say there is. You know

00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.900
what? You didn't re -bless. No, look at, there

00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:30.200
is actually, because these are, they're gem die.

00:22:30.579 --> 00:22:33.500
You can see on this side with the one and the

00:22:33.500 --> 00:22:36.680
five, there's an imperfection there. Like a pretty

00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.279
significant one. Oh, wow. Oh. Like, I wonder

00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:43.599
if that is literally enough weight to throw it

00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:46.160
off. Because tonight, I think the only thing

00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:48.920
I've rolled is on this side of the die. Oh, shit.

00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:51.420
Well, that's also crazy. Check this out. Because,

00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:54.180
like, this is the Zebulon die, and you rolled

00:22:54.180 --> 00:22:58.839
a one. Yeah. Oh, my God. Because of this? I see

00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.119
it. You're right. It's pretty significant. That

00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:04.579
could be the case. Holy shit. Oh, my God. So.

00:23:05.630 --> 00:23:07.410
I think I'm maybe done with these die forever.

00:23:07.509 --> 00:23:09.109
So you hear that, everyone? Steven has been cheating

00:23:09.109 --> 00:23:11.910
his whole time. Yeah, right? Weighted dice. I

00:23:11.910 --> 00:23:12.910
wonder if there's somebody out there. I mean,

00:23:12.910 --> 00:23:16.470
someone's dead, so you get straight up. If anybody

00:23:16.470 --> 00:23:19.390
out there knows enough math and science to be

00:23:19.390 --> 00:23:23.730
like, oh, let me look at that. All right. How's

00:23:23.730 --> 00:23:29.289
that go? Oh, let me look at that. Okay, now I'm

00:23:29.289 --> 00:23:34.210
going for the claw attack. That's a 21. That

00:23:34.210 --> 00:23:44.190
will hit. Okay. Nine damage. Live wedgie. Live

00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:49.829
wedgie. What? I was vague about my tattoo because

00:23:49.829 --> 00:23:52.029
I thought it would be cool, but it turned out

00:23:52.029 --> 00:23:57.549
to be stupid because I forgot that while this

00:23:57.549 --> 00:24:01.589
tattoo is on my skin, my unarmed strikes are

00:24:01.589 --> 00:24:04.960
considered magical. Oh, shit. Whoa. So that would

00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:08.859
be full damage on this thing. Whoa. Yeah. I remember

00:24:08.859 --> 00:24:11.779
you got, I believe you got nine last time, and

00:24:11.779 --> 00:24:14.220
you got nine this time. Yeah. I can fix that.

00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:16.599
I'll give you the last time as well, but I need

00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:18.579
you to describe to me why. What's this look like?

00:24:18.619 --> 00:24:21.119
What's going on with your attacks here? Give

00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:25.559
me that shit. It's so good. Yum, yum, yum. Fucking

00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:32.700
grave. So I think there's like a... There's a

00:24:32.700 --> 00:24:35.940
smoke or a mist, a black, inky sort of mist that

00:24:35.940 --> 00:24:41.599
comes off of this tattoo. Oh, yeah. And it coalesces

00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:46.799
around Crispin's claws as, in bear form, he slashes

00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:50.819
out. Oh, yum, yum, yum, delicioso. Love it, love

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:53.759
it. You just hit this thing, and as you strike

00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.819
out, a little bit of this tender mist sort of

00:24:55.819 --> 00:24:59.119
enters in the wind, almost like it's poisoning

00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:05.220
the tornado. You just moan again. Strike is lessening.

00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:07.500
That brings it down to being very, very low.

00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:09.819
It's not done yet, but it's very low. And I was

00:25:09.819 --> 00:25:11.920
waiting for a time where I wasn't going to interrupt

00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.359
you, but I also gained a plus one bonus to attack

00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.720
and damage rolls with unarmed strikes. Two more

00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:21.440
damage. Still up, but looking even more messed

00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:24.480
up. That is amazing. That's amazing. Man, it'd

00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.339
be so cool if I read my stuff more. That is.

00:25:27.380 --> 00:25:31.900
And that was all the gold. This is worthwhile.

00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:34.119
This is worthwhile. I never read anything and

00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:39.039
I'm still alive. Oh, not a big wedgie because

00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:41.640
we see you didn't finish it off anyway. So good

00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:43.460
to know. This is the first time actually going

00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:45.680
in this thing and doing this. Although, yeah,

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:47.339
last time you used your clubs, it was not unarmed.

00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:49.539
So this is all right. Exactly. Final number.

00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:53.259
Hell yeah. That is super cool. Anything else,

00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:57.690
Christian Dubois? Oh boy. Crispin's going to

00:25:57.690 --> 00:26:02.190
start to move a little bit in case he finds the

00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:04.690
opportunity to get into flanking with. Cool.

00:26:04.750 --> 00:26:06.789
So you're kind of pacing around it, moving to

00:26:06.789 --> 00:26:08.650
the north, kind of stalking the side, not losing

00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:11.470
its range. Hell yeah. You move up right by side

00:26:11.470 --> 00:26:14.150
the Echo, where the Echo's locked in battle with

00:26:14.150 --> 00:26:17.430
this other sword, the one that could not return.

00:26:17.910 --> 00:26:22.569
Hell yeah. And with that, Akio. All right. He's

00:26:22.569 --> 00:26:26.339
going to, hmm. He's actually going to like crisscross

00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:30.359
and step in front of Dresden because if he's

00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:32.559
standing in that spot, then he'll get flanking

00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.099
with Crispin. That's true. That's true. Yeah.

00:26:36.339 --> 00:26:38.140
I don't have control of that token, but I'll

00:26:38.140 --> 00:26:40.980
have him stand. Okay. I think actually you want

00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:42.059
to go the other way. I kind of think of it because

00:26:42.059 --> 00:26:43.440
you're going the diagonal. I guess either way

00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.400
would give you it. Yeah, never mind. You're right.

00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:46.900
As long as you can draw a line to the target,

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:49.000
and you can. So, yeah. Cool. You step right in

00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:51.980
front of Dresden. You see this big old dog just

00:26:51.980 --> 00:26:55.500
stepping right in front of you. Dresden. All

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:59.740
right. And now with my not -broken die. I really

00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:02.759
wonder, man. I really wonder. Two katana attacks.

00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:10.279
Crit my pants the good kind. The good kind of

00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:13.279
crit. Oh, dude, and I just remembered, I think

00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:15.619
he got an 18 earlier. I wasn't paying attention

00:27:15.619 --> 00:27:18.700
to improve critical, but yeah, it was an 18 on

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:22.160
the die, so okay. Not 19. Alright, let's do that

00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:27.819
first katana attack. Or damage, I mean. Max damage

00:27:27.819 --> 00:27:30.420
again on the katana, so that's 12 on that first

00:27:30.420 --> 00:27:35.019
attack. Before we keep going. Ooh, baby. Akio

00:27:35.019 --> 00:27:39.880
steps forward, kind of He saw you get thrown,

00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:43.539
transform, yell out and come at this thing again.

00:27:43.700 --> 00:27:46.559
He saw you stand and fight. As he steps before

00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:50.059
you, Dresden, you can see his tail is wagging.

00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:52.279
Big, floofy... And you almost hear this guttural,

00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:57.819
like... Like, laugh. He's more like, yes, yes,

00:27:57.900 --> 00:28:02.700
intruder. You may not be a bad dog after all.

00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.480
And he slices in. And what's it look like when

00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.980
he kills? This tornado. This what? This swordnado.

00:28:11.019 --> 00:28:12.619
There's still swords. The sword's still alive.

00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:18.579
Half the name exists. Yeah, Accio's slash through

00:28:18.579 --> 00:28:23.299
the swordnado is so powerful. And the rest of

00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:25.039
the swordnado, the rest of the wind just like

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:28.099
follows his blow. And it splits in two directions

00:28:28.099 --> 00:28:30.460
and continues in the direction of the swing.

00:28:30.619 --> 00:28:34.720
I love that. It's so cool. Blasting gusts as

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:38.660
this thing is just gone. leaving only one blade

00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:40.700
now, which was sort of like now kind of stopping,

00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:43.720
almost looking around like, like what? And one

00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:46.019
blade halted before the echo. Oh, they're still

00:28:46.019 --> 00:28:48.019
around. Interesting. They are still around, but

00:28:48.019 --> 00:28:51.640
they are both looking really, really bad. Nikio

00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:53.279
has another attack. That's right. And he's already

00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:55.680
within five feet of one. So he's going to go

00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:00.680
ahead and take that other strike. 19 to hit.

00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:07.710
That'll hit. Jeez, 13 damage. Or, sorry, 11.

00:29:08.289 --> 00:29:11.109
I was like, one different from last time. Again,

00:29:11.190 --> 00:29:13.529
just one move, and he hits something. Maybe the

00:29:13.529 --> 00:29:15.589
wind, as this thing shoots out, the sword's kind

00:29:15.589 --> 00:29:17.250
of put off balance. It's sort of spinning in

00:29:17.250 --> 00:29:19.210
the air, not sure. And as it's trying to regain

00:29:19.210 --> 00:29:22.569
its kind of, like, floating sort of footing,

00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:26.470
Akio's blade just goes through it again. Blade

00:29:26.470 --> 00:29:29.069
falls apart. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. One

00:29:29.069 --> 00:29:31.730
left. Man, what would have happened if you didn't

00:29:31.730 --> 00:29:36.359
give us Akio? Uh, we'd be dead already. He's

00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.420
killed like we would be dead. Almost everybody

00:29:38.420 --> 00:29:41.259
He's he's turned off her off, but he's doing

00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:45.819
pretty good. Haha ruff ruff. Ah One sword left.

00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:49.559
Can you finish this thing? I hope so If I so

00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:51.319
which one is still left just the one in front

00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:52.960
of the echo, right? Yeah, the one in front of

00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:57.099
the echo. Yes I don't know how to move my damn

00:29:57.099 --> 00:29:59.859
token. I'm assuming you want to go here to flank

00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:03.210
with crispin. Yes So you slide around one side.

00:30:03.309 --> 00:30:06.589
You have, like, Crispin and the Echo both, like,

00:30:06.609 --> 00:30:08.890
cornering this one sword. It's like you could

00:30:08.890 --> 00:30:11.309
see this sword could sweat. This sword would

00:30:11.309 --> 00:30:13.470
be sweating like crazy. It's flip -flopping both

00:30:13.470 --> 00:30:16.230
ways, like, oh, oh, oh. It's like the guard is,

00:30:16.269 --> 00:30:18.289
like, shaking. The guard's shaking like, oh,

00:30:18.309 --> 00:30:22.930
shit. Ooh. That's a 22 to hit. That's going to

00:30:22.930 --> 00:30:25.349
hit. Mm -hmm. So let's take damage on that first.

00:30:27.430 --> 00:30:30.789
It's only two on the die, so that's eight. Eight

00:30:30.789 --> 00:30:33.630
damage. It's still enough. All right, well, he's

00:30:33.630 --> 00:30:36.069
going to go for a second attack. What? But it's

00:30:36.069 --> 00:30:39.170
dead. Wait, wait, wait. You said that's enough?

00:30:39.390 --> 00:30:40.970
It's enough, yeah. Oh, you said enough. Okay,

00:30:41.089 --> 00:30:43.130
I'm just hurting you. You're swinging it, slamming

00:30:43.130 --> 00:30:45.930
it. It's like, stop it, stop it. It's already

00:30:45.930 --> 00:30:49.230
dead. I'm just so used to you saying, that's

00:30:49.230 --> 00:30:51.569
not enough. Tress is hulking out going savage.

00:30:51.589 --> 00:30:55.390
That's just not enough, or he looks bad, but

00:30:55.390 --> 00:31:00.289
he's still up. You have conditioned me for bad

00:31:00.289 --> 00:31:04.309
news. As we fade away from this combat, the only

00:31:04.309 --> 00:31:07.049
sound is the echoing smashing of Dresden's blade

00:31:07.049 --> 00:31:11.230
against the corpse of the sword. That's pretty

00:31:11.230 --> 00:31:15.289
badass, though. It's really cool. Let's get some

00:31:15.289 --> 00:31:24.109
calmer music. Another battle finished. With the

00:31:24.109 --> 00:31:27.369
sound of the winds and the swinging blades gone,

00:31:27.549 --> 00:31:30.420
once again, all you can hear is that... The crashing

00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:33.099
waves against the wall just outside this shrine.

00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:36.319
The ringing chimes sort of overlaying everything

00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:39.400
from just ahead of you. There's a mechanical

00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:43.079
scraping sound, again, somewhere beyond, somewhere

00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:46.500
in the next court, which seems to lie on a lower

00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:49.779
platform below where you stand now. And maybe

00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:55.500
just this slight sound of thunder. Let me describe

00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:59.670
real fast as you stand here. What you see ahead.

00:32:00.430 --> 00:32:02.829
At the end of this court, you see one wide set

00:32:02.829 --> 00:32:04.589
of stairs just going up into a raised, covered

00:32:04.589 --> 00:32:08.410
platform, almost like a bell tower. And beneath

00:32:08.410 --> 00:32:10.869
its curving roof, you can see long, glittering

00:32:10.869 --> 00:32:13.650
chines of glass or some kind of clear mineral

00:32:13.650 --> 00:32:16.450
moving in a mesmerizing, pulsing wave and just

00:32:16.450 --> 00:32:20.609
ringing out across the shrine. This rests on

00:32:20.609 --> 00:32:22.769
top of a 10 -foot -high wall that blocks your

00:32:22.769 --> 00:32:25.079
view of the next court. You can see that at each

00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.380
end of this wall lies a narrow staircase that

00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:30.000
curves downwards, beyond the wall, and assumedly

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.380
into the lower court, just beyond, where you

00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:35.420
can hear that mechanical scraping. And as you're

00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:36.740
taking this all in, you notice that the light

00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:39.640
gray skies above seem to be darkening a bit.

00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:44.279
Perhaps a coming storm? The silence, or near

00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:47.819
silence, is broken. Zakiyo's tail's still kind

00:32:47.819 --> 00:32:52.759
of wagging, kind of... I should not be pleased

00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:56.279
to be dismantling our own defenses, but... That

00:32:56.279 --> 00:33:02.440
was a good battle. You are strong. Why? Kind

00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:04.880
of, like, looks at you both, almost, like, lowers

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:07.660
down a little bit. I'm beginning to suspect you

00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:12.200
are not bad dogs at all, no. But why are you

00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:17.480
here? Why do you fight? I'm sorry, but Crispin

00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:20.210
gets two uses of Wild Shape. And I'm pretty much

00:33:20.210 --> 00:33:23.190
a bear for two hours or until I drop below zero

00:33:23.190 --> 00:33:26.329
HP. He's just like, I need to talk. He can talk.

00:33:26.329 --> 00:33:28.470
So he's like, he fully thinks you can talk. Like

00:33:28.470 --> 00:33:29.930
you're, you're a talking animal. You already

00:33:29.930 --> 00:33:32.069
were a talking animal. Right. So it's like, he's

00:33:32.069 --> 00:33:34.269
looking at you like, yo, you're clearly just

00:33:34.269 --> 00:33:36.750
not even a rabbit. You just can do this. Yeah.

00:33:36.789 --> 00:33:41.190
So, so Crispin in bear form looks to Accio and

00:33:41.190 --> 00:33:44.250
without being able to respond, puts his nose

00:33:44.250 --> 00:33:46.329
to the ground and starts to snuffle along the

00:33:46.329 --> 00:33:49.859
ground. And as he's walking, He's got a limp,

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:52.200
and you can see he's bleeding from somewhere

00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.019
on his face. He's in pretty rough shape and bare

00:33:54.019 --> 00:33:57.680
form. Oof. But he kind of wants to sniff around

00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:03.619
to see if he can suss out. It looks like there's

00:34:03.619 --> 00:34:06.119
a couple of rooms here on the wings, either side

00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:08.920
of this big room we're in. Yes, there are two

00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.380
small chambers. Yeah, these two enclosed buildings.

00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.900
We can't see what's inside. Let me reveal those.

00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.599
Oh. They look to be just two small storage chambers.

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.780
They look to be, they may have, like, you know,

00:34:22.780 --> 00:34:24.960
they're both 10 foot by 10 foot, pretty small.

00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:30.480
One of them holds various, like, training utensils.

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.539
There's, like, training blades left in here as

00:34:32.539 --> 00:34:34.500
well. A couple, like, weapon wraps with, like,

00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:36.519
various kind of spears, different things to train

00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:40.699
with. The other one would hold maybe, like, medical

00:34:40.699 --> 00:34:46.659
supplies, some rations. Ooh. Give me an investigation

00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:49.820
check. Yeah. Or what's your passive anyway? Well,

00:34:49.980 --> 00:34:52.460
I am... You're a bear. A bear right now. Okay,

00:34:52.500 --> 00:34:55.099
hang on. Yeah, yeah. Give me a check. Investigation

00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:58.079
is intelligence? Yeah, I believe your mental

00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.219
stats actually carry over when you're... Oh,

00:35:00.219 --> 00:35:01.880
really? I think that's the case. I think it's

00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.599
your charisma, wisdom, and intelligence carry

00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.420
over. I don't... I just want to make sure. It

00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:11.340
says your game statistics are replaced by the

00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:13.480
statistics of the beast, but you remain... Oh.

00:35:14.210 --> 00:35:16.690
You retain your alignment, personality, and intelligence,

00:35:16.869 --> 00:35:20.670
wisdom, and charisma scores. Okay, cool. Take

00:35:20.670 --> 00:35:22.889
advantage for smelling. I think a bear would

00:35:22.889 --> 00:35:26.690
have that. I get advantage on wisdom for smelling

00:35:26.690 --> 00:35:29.610
as a bear. Oh, I'll give you that, too, for this.

00:35:29.750 --> 00:35:31.789
Because you're not really... As a bear, you'd

00:35:31.789 --> 00:35:33.010
be kind of sniffing this out. I think that makes

00:35:33.010 --> 00:35:34.869
more sense. So you can take wisdom. Okay, so

00:35:34.869 --> 00:35:39.869
I got 13 for investigation. You specified that

00:35:39.869 --> 00:35:41.230
you were sniffing this out, so I think that just

00:35:41.230 --> 00:35:44.230
makes sense to give you that. 18 for... wisdom

00:35:44.230 --> 00:35:47.489
for perception uh as you're digging through perhaps

00:35:47.489 --> 00:35:50.809
you see like there's a lower there's a number

00:35:50.809 --> 00:35:52.530
of medical supplies kind of on a lower shelf

00:35:52.530 --> 00:35:54.329
and you kind of push past them your nose kind

00:35:54.329 --> 00:35:55.889
of nudging them to the side and you see just

00:35:55.889 --> 00:35:59.050
beyond just small container like a little uh

00:35:59.050 --> 00:36:01.329
almost like wicker basket sort of thing and as

00:36:01.329 --> 00:36:03.769
you lift up your nose you see another single

00:36:03.769 --> 00:36:08.210
potion of greater healing oh dude great um yeah

00:36:08.210 --> 00:36:10.789
i think i think bear crisp is just gonna chomp

00:36:10.789 --> 00:36:17.000
it Full of Yogi Bear. Pick a big basket. Oh,

00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:18.400
wait. On that note, I was just kind of waiting,

00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:21.900
but Dresden's drinking one of his while we're

00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:25.340
talking, too. Hell yeah. So as you're doing that,

00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:27.199
you kind of walked away. Dresden's drinking a

00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:29.239
potion. Akira's kind of staring at you guys,

00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:33.860
kind of eyes blink a little bit. You know, no

00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:36.519
one answers. He's kind of like, ah, yes, you

00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:41.699
are. Strong and silent. It's just a good quality.

00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:45.539
Well, I mean, Justin was going to turn and say...

00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:49.000
He finished drinking his turn. Good dogs help

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:54.780
stop the bad dogs. Yes. You consider yourself

00:36:54.780 --> 00:36:59.380
a good dog so easily, though. You just called

00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:02.719
us that. I said you are not bad dogs. I did not

00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:06.920
say you are good dogs. Only your master can say

00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:11.599
if you are a good or regular dog. Well? What

00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.300
master do you serve? In either of the cases,

00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.219
we're trying to take out these bad dogs, so what

00:37:16.219 --> 00:37:22.079
does it matter? Hmm. Yes. I suppose that is a

00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:26.400
wisdom in itself. It is strange, except that

00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:30.420
I hear no sounds of combat. My fellow guards.

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:36.000
But I fear any hasteful acts on our part may

00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.539
be pointless. Master Ozen often explained to

00:37:39.539 --> 00:37:42.800
me the benefits of patience. Wait, he would say.

00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:44.820
Treats only after you wait, and then I would

00:37:44.820 --> 00:37:47.760
wait, and then I would have my treats. You hear

00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:53.699
some sounds of combat as Crispin angrily growls

00:37:53.699 --> 00:37:58.340
and slashes some of the other supplies. I think

00:37:58.340 --> 00:38:02.260
when he drank this potion, he probably cut himself

00:38:02.260 --> 00:38:06.119
on the glass a little bit. What? On 44, I rolled

00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:13.039
one, one, two, one. What the fuck? You're going

00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:14.619
to drink the potion. You kind of step outside

00:38:14.619 --> 00:38:16.980
of the little hut, the ceiling kind of coming

00:38:16.980 --> 00:38:19.199
down over you. And you're like, you have the

00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:20.639
potion in your mouth. You're going to drink it.

00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:23.940
And as you're like, like bottom upping it, just

00:38:23.940 --> 00:38:26.210
from the roof, just above you. Something slides

00:38:26.210 --> 00:38:29.550
down to the edge, drops down, smashes the vial

00:38:29.550 --> 00:38:31.510
before you finish it, and you see the horseshoe

00:38:31.510 --> 00:38:33.449
just ting -a -ting lands on the ground before

00:38:33.449 --> 00:38:38.130
you. One last fuck you from the horseshoe. Sorry,

00:38:38.289 --> 00:38:41.230
buddy. This one gave me 15 HP back. Oh, my God,

00:38:41.250 --> 00:38:46.050
you asshole. I think actually seeing you guys

00:38:46.050 --> 00:38:49.769
drinking and kind of like having this moment

00:38:49.769 --> 00:38:52.150
of rest and kind of realizing that that patience

00:38:52.150 --> 00:38:55.239
may be... what's needed here. Akio kind of looks

00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:58.519
to you, Dresden, and says, I am not a young pup

00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:03.159
anymore. If it is acceptable to you, I would

00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:06.079
like a few glarps of water. There is a collapsible

00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:08.719
bowl and a water skin attached to my belt. Would

00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:11.699
you be so kind? Kind of shakes his romp and you

00:39:11.699 --> 00:39:13.599
see there is like a clattering little bowl and

00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:17.699
a skin of water. Sure. You kind of just pour

00:39:17.699 --> 00:39:20.099
it in. Yeah, Dresden walks over when he grabs

00:39:20.099 --> 00:39:22.730
the stuff off the belt. Gives him a little pat.

00:39:23.030 --> 00:39:26.510
Oh. You put it down and... Garp, garp, garp,

00:39:26.510 --> 00:39:30.909
garp, garp. Going at it. Ah, garp, garp. This

00:39:30.909 --> 00:39:37.010
is garp, garp. Most excellent. Ah. Yes. You are

00:39:37.010 --> 00:39:41.650
certainly not bad dogs. And you are good fighters.

00:39:42.010 --> 00:39:44.750
When Master Ozen comes back, I shall tell him

00:39:44.750 --> 00:39:49.889
all about you. Tail just wagging again. And I

00:39:49.889 --> 00:39:52.420
think you realize... Right there, like, that's

00:39:52.420 --> 00:39:55.739
a little weird, right? Because everyone in the

00:39:55.739 --> 00:39:57.679
Conqueror world knows that Ozen is a villain.

00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.119
And yet this dog is just excited. Do you want

00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:04.059
to? Yeah. What about insight? Yeah, insight works.

00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:06.980
That's wisdom, though, so I have to use my bear

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:10.420
stat. No, wisdom you have. I think it says intelligence.

00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:14.500
Oh, my God. I'm bad at this. I'm so bad at this.

00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.480
Don't you have, like, a stupid? lehigh one anyway

00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:19.340
as your passive on crispin passive perception

00:40:19.340 --> 00:40:23.639
is 18 yeah what's your insight insights 15 that's

00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:26.760
high enough actually okay uh nice it's fine if

00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:29.019
you kind of you turn your your big bear eyes

00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:30.579
over you're kind of looking at his wagging tail

00:40:30.579 --> 00:40:33.980
and you're kind of reading all this and it hits

00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:37.519
you that nobody's told him right he's not watching

00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:39.820
the the news and the other guards here haven't

00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:41.739
said anything to him and maybe you're wondering

00:40:41.739 --> 00:40:44.500
you know why and then it strikes you again like

00:40:44.500 --> 00:40:48.150
this is Akio is nine years old. He's dead earlier.

00:40:48.750 --> 00:40:52.389
And Ozen came to the shrine ten years ago, as

00:40:52.389 --> 00:40:54.150
we established in the flashback in episode three.

00:40:54.690 --> 00:40:57.429
So for his entire life, Akio has been raised

00:40:57.429 --> 00:41:00.289
by Ozen. He's not just the last pupil of the

00:41:00.289 --> 00:41:05.849
Storm Eye. He's also his dog. Right. And a dog

00:41:05.849 --> 00:41:08.769
will not believe anything bad about their master.

00:41:09.489 --> 00:41:12.289
You can see now there is not a hint of disbelief.

00:41:12.869 --> 00:41:17.530
He's just excited. So with that in mind, Crispin

00:41:17.530 --> 00:41:20.809
will turn his back and Dresden and Akio will

00:41:20.809 --> 00:41:24.010
see this big brown bear rump wiggling forward

00:41:24.010 --> 00:41:27.130
as Crispin is snuffling along the floor, walking

00:41:27.130 --> 00:41:29.949
towards the shrine here to investigate further.

00:41:30.369 --> 00:41:35.510
As you go to move forward, you will come across

00:41:35.510 --> 00:41:38.690
something interesting. You can't just... It's

00:41:38.690 --> 00:41:40.949
kind of all around you, this whiff of something

00:41:40.949 --> 00:41:46.159
almost like chalky. with this spice to it, almost

00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:49.019
like some kind of component. Crispin would read

00:41:49.019 --> 00:41:51.099
that maybe some magical flower component of some

00:41:51.099 --> 00:41:53.820
sort has been used here. And you're smelling

00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:58.760
it all around. And you, as you move, your nose

00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:01.079
touches upon something that really is reeking

00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:03.000
of this. It's some kind of fragment of stone

00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:06.659
with, looks like a gold painted sort of pattern

00:42:06.659 --> 00:42:11.340
laid on it. Like some kind of inscription. A

00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:13.739
piece of a larger, complex web of these golden

00:42:13.739 --> 00:42:15.800
lines that probably span underneath this entire

00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:18.360
court. And you realize, you look back, that when

00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:22.340
this elemental was summoned, it shattered for

00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:25.719
some reason. The stone it was summoned on, like

00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:27.380
in the very center of the court. And the pieces

00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:29.119
got caught up and went flying everywhere. So

00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:31.719
this is a piece of it. Akio mentioned last time

00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:36.699
that the magic in this place, the conjurer, he

00:42:36.699 --> 00:42:40.440
called this figure, who... essentially laid these

00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:42.440
elemental traps in place and create these defenses

00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:46.320
had woven these sort of incantations beneath

00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:50.179
the stones themselves and you're seeing a piece

00:42:50.179 --> 00:42:52.340
of this now okay so let's start flipping over

00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:57.440
all the stones perfect perfect and the stone

00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.619
was it's farther in like it's not like we stepped

00:42:59.619 --> 00:43:01.619
on it and that's what activated it no it's just

00:43:01.619 --> 00:43:04.340
the all this entire thing must be a complex weave

00:43:04.340 --> 00:43:07.099
of this where if you get anywhere close if you're

00:43:07.099 --> 00:43:08.989
touching these stones Something happens. Something

00:43:08.989 --> 00:43:11.909
activates deeper in this room. So, like, it's

00:43:11.909 --> 00:43:13.530
like the room itself is reading you where you

00:43:13.530 --> 00:43:16.369
are. This is not merely, like, a single trap

00:43:16.369 --> 00:43:17.909
in the center of this room. This entire shrine

00:43:17.909 --> 00:43:21.710
is built to be some grand defense. It's built

00:43:21.710 --> 00:43:24.789
to be almost like a trial. So this is going to

00:43:24.789 --> 00:43:26.409
keep happening as we go further, is what you're

00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:32.389
saying? Yeah. Cool. Yeah, and I don't have a

00:43:32.389 --> 00:43:34.690
lot of, like... I don't even know if Pass Without

00:43:34.690 --> 00:43:38.480
Trace would have helped if we had it, or... They

00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:40.239
were not high enough level to just teleport across

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:42.260
the room, but I don't know if that would help

00:43:42.260 --> 00:43:45.340
anyways. You just hear an echoing as you're kind

00:43:45.340 --> 00:43:46.980
of considering these things. Just, clark, clark,

00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:50.280
clark. I am finished now. I mean, we can always

00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:54.159
send the echo ahead of us. You saw before that

00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:57.159
did not work. The traps did not register an object.

00:43:57.400 --> 00:43:59.360
And this is very important. They did not register

00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:03.039
an object as an activation method. Once they

00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:05.380
were activated, the object became a target. Maybe

00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:08.039
like... You have to be something alive to activate

00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:10.500
them. But when they activate, something moving

00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:14.679
is enough to trigger their actual striking. Well,

00:44:14.860 --> 00:44:20.440
how about this? Can Crispin use and recognize

00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:23.780
the smell that came off of this stone to maybe

00:44:23.780 --> 00:44:26.960
identify others? I mean, it's everywhere. Okay.

00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.219
I will say this. As you sniff forward... The

00:44:31.219 --> 00:44:33.840
steps leading out of this room and the wall at

00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:36.079
the end of it, basically the transition area,

00:44:36.380 --> 00:44:40.219
the smell seems to stop. So perhaps whatever

00:44:40.219 --> 00:44:43.179
lies next lies beyond the stairs, beyond the

00:44:43.179 --> 00:44:46.860
wall in the next court. But you don't think there's

00:44:46.860 --> 00:44:49.539
any magic interwoven into the actual steps. Maybe

00:44:49.539 --> 00:44:51.719
there is some moving towards that center sort

00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:54.519
of bell tower where the chimes are ringing, as

00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:57.519
they may have a part in some of this. But you

00:44:57.519 --> 00:44:59.460
can bypass that as well and just go around the

00:44:59.460 --> 00:45:01.519
edge of the wall down to the lower cord. All

00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:05.679
right. I guess I don't see much else other than

00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:07.780
to slowly move through until the next thing pops

00:45:07.780 --> 00:45:10.019
up. So if you've got anything to buff yourself,

00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.760
I can't really cast spells in this form. Can

00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:16.159
someone put away my water bowl? I already did.

00:45:16.420 --> 00:45:21.400
Oh, wow. You're fast. Thank you. Hey, I just

00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:24.260
realized. What is your name? I told you mine,

00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:25.940
and you were very rude and never told me your

00:45:25.940 --> 00:45:30.239
names. You were very rude and never asked. Damn.

00:45:30.460 --> 00:45:32.920
Damn. Looks down at his paws in shame. His tail

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:40.840
just drops. Crispin says, Ah, fine name. He starts

00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:43.619
to move forward. A fine name. Slowly, carefully,

00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:49.260
snuffling all the way. Is someone going to talk

00:45:49.260 --> 00:45:56.699
to my damn character? My name is nobody. I see.

00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.860
Very well, nobody. Literally, my parents named

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:03.659
me nobody. Is this true? Is this true Dresden

00:46:03.659 --> 00:46:13.300
lore? No. Akio will fully believe it. So he just

00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:18.219
kind of nods. And nobody. It is good to make

00:46:18.219 --> 00:46:22.199
your acquaintance. Wait, what was his name? Oh,

00:46:23.219 --> 00:46:25.280
okay. Yes. I forgot it for a second. Thanks.

00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:29.559
Fine name. Very strong. I think as you're going

00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:32.099
to move, he might just shout out like, Hold,

00:46:32.300 --> 00:46:35.340
friend. It may help you to know more about the

00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:37.079
shrine. I could tell you more than I know about

00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:42.460
it. Yeah, no shit. It may inform what sorts of

00:46:42.460 --> 00:46:45.699
defenses we may discover ahead. Seeing what happened

00:46:45.699 --> 00:46:48.179
here. And he kind of looks down at the court

00:46:48.179 --> 00:46:51.599
and looks over. The Shrine of Storms is built

00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.219
primarily of two courts, and its innermost sanctum,

00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:58.699
also known to us as the Soul Sanctum. This court,

00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:00.320
he kind of puts his paw down, tapping on the

00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.000
stone. Where we stand now is the Court of Discipline,

00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.699
where we guard, hone our bodies and minds into

00:47:06.699 --> 00:47:09.659
weapons. We do so in honor of the great sage

00:47:09.659 --> 00:47:12.780
who taught the people of Umizu the value of discipline.

00:47:13.179 --> 00:47:16.780
The following court, just below there, is known

00:47:16.780 --> 00:47:19.619
as the Court of Beauty. It is made to perfectly

00:47:19.619 --> 00:47:22.940
overlook the sea on its eastern side. The power

00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:24.840
of the soul storm is channeled to create a defense

00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.480
of waves beyond the sea wall. This, along with

00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:31.500
the water elementals that swim there, protect

00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:33.800
the shrine from sea vessels, but also lend a

00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:35.679
deeper beauty to the sights and sound of the

00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.219
court. It is a place of meditation and gratitude

00:47:39.219 --> 00:47:42.360
towards nature. It may be worth noting that none

00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:44.460
of the twelve shrine guardians live within this

00:47:44.460 --> 00:47:47.059
court, or the next, most taking residence in

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:50.469
the... City of Kameno, where they are off shift.

00:47:51.769 --> 00:47:53.730
And this actually stretches, maybe being interesting,

00:47:53.989 --> 00:47:57.269
12 guards mentioned, which means less than that

00:47:57.269 --> 00:48:00.389
would be here now. And some of them take refuge

00:48:00.389 --> 00:48:02.190
in the city, which is about a 20 minute, if you're

00:48:02.190 --> 00:48:04.670
a full sprint, about 20 minutes away. Which means,

00:48:04.789 --> 00:48:07.329
if the shrine, the warnings are heard, it's still

00:48:07.329 --> 00:48:09.949
a while before reinforcements might come. You

00:48:09.949 --> 00:48:11.130
also would know that, it might be interesting

00:48:11.130 --> 00:48:14.909
to note that the Conqueror Jewel here, the Pearl

00:48:14.909 --> 00:48:17.710
Conqueror Jewel, actually stands, just in between

00:48:17.710 --> 00:48:19.130
these two plays, about a 10 -minute run from

00:48:19.130 --> 00:48:21.929
here. Okay. So just to kind of get an idea of

00:48:21.929 --> 00:48:22.769
where we're going. So we could just, like, chill

00:48:22.769 --> 00:48:24.469
here for 10 minutes until more guards show up.

00:48:25.690 --> 00:48:27.949
Do you know if they've even heard the note? Yeah.

00:48:28.170 --> 00:48:30.530
If this thing has, like, a way of being heard

00:48:30.530 --> 00:48:33.190
in the city, it's 20, you know, 20 minutes away,

00:48:33.250 --> 00:48:35.269
potentially. It's not likely anyone's even aware

00:48:35.269 --> 00:48:38.030
yet that something has happened. Great. I myself

00:48:38.030 --> 00:48:41.010
have a fine home on the outskirts of the shrine.

00:48:41.590 --> 00:48:44.829
One bedroom, no bath. Almost five square feet.

00:48:48.819 --> 00:48:51.659
Tail wagging. Tail wagging, yes. Master Ozen

00:48:51.659 --> 00:48:54.340
built it for me. It is a wonderful home. Is it

00:48:54.340 --> 00:48:58.960
a nice A -frame? Yes, very honorable. Only the

00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:01.039
master lives within the shrine itself, and he

00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:03.039
resides typically within the innermost sanctum.

00:49:03.460 --> 00:49:06.300
I believe he does not need to sleep while he

00:49:06.300 --> 00:49:09.679
is here. Instead, he sort of channels the storm.

00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:13.099
I think it provides him with strength. He has

00:49:13.099 --> 00:49:14.579
told me very little about it, which is good.

00:49:14.699 --> 00:49:17.139
Very good. His role is sacred to commune with

00:49:17.139 --> 00:49:24.840
the bones of the sage. Bones. Like a dog thing.

00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:31.739
It's a dog thing. I can do this all day. He looks

00:49:31.739 --> 00:49:33.460
up, searching his mind for anything else he might

00:49:33.460 --> 00:49:37.039
need to tell you as you go on ahead. And dog

00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:41.940
shrugs. Yes. I believe that is all. If only Master

00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:44.599
Ozen were here now, this would not be an issue

00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:47.760
at all. I wish he had not left, but I will wait,

00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:51.199
I will wait. Master taught me to be patient and

00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:55.300
to wait. But we should move on. All right, once

00:49:55.300 --> 00:49:58.940
Akio's done talking, Crispin's going to move

00:49:58.940 --> 00:50:04.449
up towards this western side of the shrine. Looks

00:50:04.449 --> 00:50:06.730
like the shrine is splitting the room. You see,

00:50:06.750 --> 00:50:08.110
yeah, basically there's a, there's a, that's

00:50:08.110 --> 00:50:09.929
a long wall there. You can see it's like raised

00:50:09.929 --> 00:50:12.630
up, but there are stairs on each side there.

00:50:12.670 --> 00:50:14.530
Yeah. So you can kind of go down those stairs

00:50:14.530 --> 00:50:17.329
and the edges that, that go curving downwards

00:50:17.329 --> 00:50:19.250
into a lower player. So you can't like, it's

00:50:19.250 --> 00:50:20.409
about 10 feet high. You can't see beyond the

00:50:20.409 --> 00:50:21.730
wall. You don't know what's waiting for you beyond

00:50:21.730 --> 00:50:23.670
there, but it sounds like it's a court that's

00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:25.329
open to the sea. You guess that, that, that great

00:50:25.329 --> 00:50:27.530
sort of pool must be on the edge of this one.

00:50:28.250 --> 00:50:29.869
From what Akio mentioned to you, it's the court

00:50:29.869 --> 00:50:31.750
of beauty. Yeah. Crispin wants to go down the

00:50:31.750 --> 00:50:36.309
stairs opposite the ocean side. Okay. You begin

00:50:36.309 --> 00:50:39.869
to proceed down the steps, curving into this

00:50:39.869 --> 00:50:43.090
next court. And immediately your eyes are hit

00:50:43.090 --> 00:50:45.949
with another very large room, maybe 65 feet long

00:50:45.949 --> 00:50:49.250
and 85 feet wide, which ends in another set of

00:50:49.250 --> 00:50:51.429
stairs going up that lead to like basically this

00:50:51.429 --> 00:50:54.090
closed off area. There's like a wall and like

00:50:54.090 --> 00:50:55.690
almost like a partition and then a deeper one

00:50:55.690 --> 00:50:57.329
inside. So, you know, you could walk in here

00:50:57.329 --> 00:50:59.909
freely, but you can't see what lies beyond. But

00:50:59.909 --> 00:51:02.219
that sound of thunder seems to... roll out from

00:51:02.219 --> 00:51:04.800
somewhere beyond. And where this goes, this like

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:08.579
pushes into what looks like an open sort of cavern

00:51:08.579 --> 00:51:10.420
mouth that feeds into the cliff that's just behind

00:51:10.420 --> 00:51:12.920
the Shrine of Storms. That must lead to the innermost

00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:16.000
sanctum, you realize. You push into this shrine

00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.500
and you're hit first by how empty it looks. Just

00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:24.309
this grand... empty space a space of great beauty

00:51:24.309 --> 00:51:26.769
you can hear the the waves crashing down just

00:51:26.769 --> 00:51:29.510
outside here this view of the glittering sea

00:51:29.510 --> 00:51:33.869
uh beneath the the gray darkening skies and another

00:51:33.869 --> 00:51:35.969
thing that strikes you immediately as you turn

00:51:35.969 --> 00:51:38.530
this corner before i describe that thing though

00:51:38.530 --> 00:51:42.289
this map right this map this is not gorgeous

00:51:42.289 --> 00:51:45.510
is this not it is gorgeous but i can now see

00:51:45.510 --> 00:51:48.110
what you're talking about on the map so i'm a

00:51:48.110 --> 00:51:51.760
little wait what oh i lost connection shit Damn

00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.480
it. I still got the fog of war on. Don't tell

00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.119
you my words. Hang on. Let me refresh so I can

00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.219
see this beauty. And turning this corner, Crispin,

00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:03.159
you're the first thing, you're the first one

00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:04.699
ahead. So you turn the corner and you immediately

00:52:04.699 --> 00:52:07.659
strike this because as you turn in the western

00:52:07.659 --> 00:52:10.219
corner, the southwest corner of the court as

00:52:10.219 --> 00:52:12.000
you're stepping down from there, in the northwest

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.440
corner of the court, you see what looks like

00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:17.760
this gigantic, almost like steam billowing out

00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:21.630
of its back, this barrel -shaped, like, metal

00:52:21.630 --> 00:52:25.969
monstrosity. This mech -like crab being. It's

00:52:25.969 --> 00:52:28.550
literally this weird metal claw. It has these

00:52:28.550 --> 00:52:31.449
two tubes feeding in like a submarine might have

00:52:31.449 --> 00:52:34.130
to view out. Peeking up from almost like the

00:52:34.130 --> 00:52:37.070
extended eyes of the crab. These big metal legs

00:52:37.070 --> 00:52:39.670
scratching across the tile. What you were hearing

00:52:39.670 --> 00:52:42.869
this whole time. And again, steam just jutting

00:52:42.869 --> 00:52:45.150
out of this spout on its back. It's maybe like

00:52:45.150 --> 00:52:48.510
15 feet wide, measuring the feet and all. Just

00:52:48.510 --> 00:52:52.260
this huge, huge shape. Like a full tank in this

00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:55.639
place. And you're stepping around here and you

00:52:55.639 --> 00:52:58.840
realize maybe this is it. This is how they got

00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:02.500
in. Because if the defenses don't see this as

00:53:02.500 --> 00:53:06.559
a creature, this is an object. Then moving through

00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:08.300
these rooms, it might not trigger any of these

00:53:08.300 --> 00:53:10.039
traps because nothing in this room seems to have

00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:11.860
been triggered. There's no combat here except

00:53:11.860 --> 00:53:15.659
for, you see, loading this thing, this being

00:53:15.659 --> 00:53:18.780
and its claws is like slowly piling up this like

00:53:18.780 --> 00:53:22.699
pile of, looks like six figures, dead or unconscious,

00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:25.719
dressed in the black garb of like samurais. The

00:53:25.719 --> 00:53:29.119
guard were here. The guard have been dispatched.

00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:34.900
Did this monstrosity dispatch them? are the pirates

00:53:34.900 --> 00:53:38.320
inside as you maybe it doesn't quite notice you

00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:40.460
as you're sort of stepping in um it's i sort

00:53:40.460 --> 00:53:42.239
of assume that they're they're focused they kind

00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:44.800
of are whirring back and forth those two weird

00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:48.679
like tube lenses uh taking in these bodies like

00:53:48.679 --> 00:53:50.360
they're just trying to just stack these things

00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:52.760
on the side of the room uh focused on this task

00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.699
uh and that is the first thing that immediately

00:53:55.699 --> 00:53:58.579
that greets your eyes as you step into the next

00:53:58.579 --> 00:54:03.769
court the court of beauty what do you do Wow.

00:54:05.530 --> 00:54:08.349
You weren't expecting a mech crab? No, I was

00:54:08.349 --> 00:54:10.130
not expecting a mech crab. Does the mech crab

00:54:10.130 --> 00:54:13.530
see us right now? It doesn't quite yet, but you

00:54:13.530 --> 00:54:16.130
are rounding the corner of the steps. It might

00:54:16.130 --> 00:54:18.670
see you if you go any farther. Okay. It just

00:54:18.670 --> 00:54:19.949
doesn't see you in this exact moment as you're

00:54:19.949 --> 00:54:22.869
coming around the edge. Hold on. It's focused

00:54:22.869 --> 00:54:24.750
on what it's doing, but it might move and notice

00:54:24.750 --> 00:54:27.889
you at any moment. Right. Give me one second

00:54:27.889 --> 00:54:31.420
to... can we can we back out and go around the

00:54:31.420 --> 00:54:35.699
other way i mean i mean there's yeah there's

00:54:35.699 --> 00:54:36.800
no way we're gonna like i don't think we're gonna

00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.980
be able to walk around it um yeah because we're

00:54:39.980 --> 00:54:42.659
in like a square and we're just on the same side

00:54:42.659 --> 00:54:45.460
of the square yeah that's i mean like go the

00:54:45.460 --> 00:54:47.420
other way this way right but then we'd still

00:54:47.420 --> 00:54:49.300
be like 90 feet away from it like it's still

00:54:49.300 --> 00:54:50.719
gonna see us yeah but it's facing the other way

00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:53.840
Uh, yeah, but he said it's gonna, it's moving

00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:56.139
and looking around and it's done stacking the

00:54:56.139 --> 00:54:58.300
bodies. So I'm thinking that it's a way that's

00:54:58.300 --> 00:55:00.059
not going directly on it. So that's why I suggested

00:55:00.059 --> 00:55:04.239
it. Yeah. Well, if they're inside of it and that's

00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:06.239
how they're getting by the water elementals,

00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:11.900
then it's like intelligent, you know? Uh, you

00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:14.159
guys are stressed. Well, yeah, because what's

00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:17.500
going to happen is we're going to step in this

00:55:17.500 --> 00:55:19.820
room to go fight that thing. And the water elementals

00:55:19.820 --> 00:55:22.199
are going to pop up. You don't see any water

00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:25.239
elementals. Yeah, but we're in the room that

00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:27.280
the ocean is touching. It's just touching. It's

00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:29.719
way over there. And Akio said that there are

00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:31.780
water elementals that protect this place. Which

00:55:31.780 --> 00:55:35.460
also means that they... Would they not see the

00:55:35.460 --> 00:55:38.400
freaking crab thing as a threat too? No, because

00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:41.420
it's an object, not a creature. Yeah, but that's

00:55:41.420 --> 00:55:43.760
what triggers... The echo. Objects won't trigger

00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:46.239
the traps. The echo didn't trigger the trap,

00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:48.980
but the trap still attacked the echo. Yeah. That's

00:55:48.980 --> 00:55:50.900
what I'm saying. You actually tested this already.

00:55:51.099 --> 00:55:52.940
Everything might go for that, too. So what we

00:55:52.940 --> 00:55:56.199
need to do is trigger it and then get the fuck

00:55:56.199 --> 00:55:57.599
out of there. Maybe step out of the fucking way.

00:55:58.219 --> 00:56:01.039
I mean, I fucking love you. You just do science.

00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:03.380
You triggered one of these traps. You saw how

00:56:03.380 --> 00:56:06.539
it reacted to an object. That's really cool.

00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:08.380
That's really cool. I like that a lot. Button?

00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:13.760
You're maxed out. Dresden's not. You get your

00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:19.329
three shared. So how do we do this, then? I think

00:56:19.329 --> 00:56:22.050
Akio would probably be the fastest for that.

00:56:22.769 --> 00:56:26.650
Like if he were to run down, flip back around,

00:56:26.929 --> 00:56:31.570
run back up. Yeah. How fast is Akio? Let me check

00:56:31.570 --> 00:56:35.269
his sheet here. Yeah, he's got 40 feet of movement.

00:56:37.789 --> 00:56:43.769
Yes, that is your name. No, he said you should

00:56:43.769 --> 00:56:47.150
go down there to trigger the traps and then run

00:56:47.150 --> 00:56:50.539
back up here. You guys have this silent bro -like

00:56:50.539 --> 00:56:53.760
comedy. I know exactly what he said. You didn't

00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:57.019
hear him? I think he's just looking. I see. The

00:56:57.019 --> 00:56:59.960
monster would get taken by the traps. Yes. Ah,

00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:04.719
he's clever. Hosen would approve. Should I do

00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:10.300
this thing? That looks to you, brown bear. Okay.

00:57:11.019 --> 00:57:14.400
Okay. You control him. How do you want to do

00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:21.300
this? Oh, shit. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

00:57:21.420 --> 00:57:23.519
This thing is just working, working. The bodies

00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:26.019
kind of get, you know, sort of pushed in one

00:57:26.019 --> 00:57:28.519
sort of neat row. Begins to take a step back.

00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:36.059
Okay, so Akio wants to make the path. I'm going

00:57:36.059 --> 00:57:40.980
to draw my path as I try to explain it. So from

00:57:40.980 --> 00:57:44.159
that southwest corner of the room, he wants to

00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:48.489
hug the southern wall. until he gets further

00:57:48.489 --> 00:57:51.530
towards the middle. So he's sort of behind the,

00:57:51.630 --> 00:57:55.530
I'm going to call it a steam crab. Okay. And

00:57:55.530 --> 00:58:00.829
then start to walk towards it with the intention

00:58:00.829 --> 00:58:03.710
of like coming up behind it. But I'm guessing

00:58:03.710 --> 00:58:06.869
and hoping he's not going to get that far. Uh,

00:58:07.070 --> 00:58:10.429
hell yeah. Okay. He begins to prowl into the

00:58:10.429 --> 00:58:13.190
room. I'm going to say at this point that Crispin

00:58:13.190 --> 00:58:14.650
and Dresden, you're both watching from the...

00:58:15.380 --> 00:58:17.440
southwestern stairs, perhaps Dresden on a lower

00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:20.460
step, or Crispin on a lower step as a bear. Dresden,

00:58:20.500 --> 00:58:23.099
you're just kind of above him, sort of perched

00:58:23.099 --> 00:58:25.440
over, watching over his big brown bear shoulders.

00:58:25.980 --> 00:58:29.059
And Akio begins to walk cautiously into the room,

00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:34.039
steps to the bottom, begins to slowly move towards

00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:36.760
the center, and then start pushing straight across

00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:43.400
the room, step by step by step by step. And as

00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:46.739
Akio enters, Nearly the center of the space.

00:58:47.460 --> 00:58:50.280
You just hear the sound. Like this rattling.

00:58:51.980 --> 00:58:58.199
And the sound of grinding stone. You watch as

00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:01.579
the floor where Akio stands suddenly just sinks

00:59:01.579 --> 00:59:05.659
down about 10 feet. He kind of looks around like.

00:59:06.019 --> 00:59:09.300
He just vanishes from your view as the floor

00:59:09.300 --> 00:59:13.860
drops away. And you see. Beside where this open

00:59:13.860 --> 00:59:15.619
depression, which only leaves about 10 feet of

00:59:15.619 --> 00:59:18.400
space around the room, this whole beginning or

00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:20.579
middle of the room just drops down. You see another

00:59:20.579 --> 00:59:23.300
such depression forms on the edge of it, bridging

00:59:23.300 --> 00:59:27.000
the gap between it and the sea. Did we just send

00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:28.539
him to his death? No, I think I have something

00:59:28.539 --> 00:59:35.579
for this. Okay. Water begins to rush in. And

00:59:35.579 --> 00:59:40.349
as it does so... Tell me when Akio can act. Oh,

00:59:40.349 --> 00:59:42.730
whoa, what? The whole thing? Holy shit. Just

00:59:42.730 --> 00:59:45.610
like that? Yeah, the water beams. Akio immediately,

00:59:45.809 --> 00:59:47.409
I mean, he's immediately just sort of swept up

00:59:47.409 --> 00:59:52.530
by it. As the water comes crashing into him like

00:59:52.530 --> 00:59:54.230
a wave. I was going to say, he slides over the

00:59:54.230 --> 00:59:57.269
edge of this thing. He's pushed against the seawall,

00:59:57.329 --> 01:00:04.070
and he takes, let me draw 2d6. My whole plan

01:00:04.070 --> 01:00:05.630
just went out the window. Just six points of

01:00:05.630 --> 01:00:08.670
damage as he crashes into the seawall. As this

01:00:08.670 --> 01:00:11.269
happens, you see that crab thing just suddenly

01:00:11.269 --> 01:00:13.869
bolts up. Its eyes spin around towards the room.

01:00:13.949 --> 01:00:15.889
It steps back and it sees the two of you at the

01:00:15.889 --> 01:00:19.550
stairs. And you just hear voices begin to emanate

01:00:19.550 --> 01:00:21.630
from it, like many voices kind of talking in

01:00:21.630 --> 01:00:27.329
tandem like, No! What have you done? You have

01:00:27.329 --> 01:00:32.579
killed us all! All these voices echoing out of

01:00:32.579 --> 01:00:36.500
some tube in the front. And as Akio is drowning,

01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:40.619
you see shapes begin to form in the water. But

01:00:40.619 --> 01:00:42.460
immediately something else catches your attention.

01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:46.920
Something not within the water, but just beside

01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:50.699
you and all around the water. You see, again,

01:00:51.579 --> 01:00:56.239
tile explodes, shattering in a burst of light

01:00:56.239 --> 01:01:02.739
as four creatures. of pure energy. These sort

01:01:02.739 --> 01:01:08.480
of pulsing electric humanoid monsters begin to

01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:11.219
appear. Shattering tile again clatters before

01:01:11.219 --> 01:01:17.619
you. Dresden Kellig. You feel a chill in your

01:01:17.619 --> 01:01:19.739
spine the moment these things appear. Yes, I

01:01:19.739 --> 01:01:21.360
know. You weren't there that day. Jeremy recognized

01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:23.940
it. The second you said it, Jeremy recognized

01:01:23.940 --> 01:01:25.460
it. You weren't there that day yourself, but

01:01:25.460 --> 01:01:26.920
you've heard all the stories. Crispin, you've

01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:28.800
seen them on the network. You all saw them on

01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:31.719
the network. You saw them in footage when Zebulon

01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:35.000
cut them down on the steps of the sapphire gem.

01:01:35.139 --> 01:01:38.099
You saw them when jewels standing up in an alley

01:01:38.099 --> 01:01:41.400
burst one apart with inflict wounds. And here

01:01:41.400 --> 01:01:44.440
they are again. The creatures that came as the

01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:48.039
harbingers of Tythos' fall. The creatures we

01:01:48.039 --> 01:01:51.829
called the Zappies. And we'll call it there.