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Hey guys, zipz up, get on our socials, Facebook,

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Instagram, Discord, other ones, etc. Enjoy the

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episode. and there's an issue of wealth disparity

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throughout our worlds. It is a great shame that

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even in this age of conqueror connection and

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magical marvels, folks are still going hungry.

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This is why I am taking special care to discuss

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the deeds of Jack Black Trumpet. Though some

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in power might not be so keen to hear them. The

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civil wars on Taib stole many lives and left

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a plethora of scars across the world. When battle

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raged through the cabins of Delia, the local

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Myconid people were left broken and deseret.

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Growing up as an orphan among them, Jack Black

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Trumpet's sorrow was a drop amidst the sea. Yet

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as he looked to his hungry people, he decided

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to make a change and become the world's first

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luminary shift. Now he travels across all worlds,

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feeding those in need and raising awareness towards

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an evil far greater than any gloominary. the

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sorrows of starvation. When it comes to combat,

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Jack Black Trumpet favors his magical cooking

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utensils as weaponry. A chef's knife for a blade

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and a pan for a shield. Flour and spice bombs

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for a zesty distraction or escape. And let me

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tell you, his fights are delicious to behold.

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Some might view Jack Black Trumpet as a luminary,

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as he has been known to bend the laws of the

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corrupt in order to help those under their thumb.

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He's viewed by some as a thief, giving away food

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that is not his to give. And his band of fungal

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followers, the Merry Mushrooms, have been described

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as bandits. But I, for one, view Jack Blacktrump

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as a hero among heroes. Oh, if you're all inspired

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by this story and feeling a bit peckish, be sure

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to visit Sid Squid's trusted leak in the Didn't

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Sing Nightmare on Sosunko, the official sponsor

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for our intrepid toadstool. No more a gloominary

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than Jules LaRoche himself, who... It's actually

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noted that that's very similar to Jules. Maybe

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there's a... Arnold Jules probably is aware of

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Jack Black Trump, and this is a luminary who

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probably came to Tithos, came to Sarula time

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and time again. And speaking of this luminary,

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thank you, Horace, a .k .a. Mr. Scaly Iguana

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from the Discord. Hey! Get in the Discord, baby.

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Scaly came out of nowhere recently and just,

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like, beat the show so hard. It was crazy. Yeah,

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yeah. It was awesome. Fucking wild. Every once

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in a while, he just, like, drops a question in

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the Discord that's, like, such a deep cut. And

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I'm like, wow. I gotta jump in, you know, drop

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the whole, like, family line lore of the, you

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know, the Brass family or, like, actually come

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down and calculate how long it's been since the

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start of our adventure to now, which is, I believe,

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approximately 79 days, by the way. Woof. Yeah,

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kind of wild. But yeah, Scaly, thank you for

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making me work, making me think and being a great

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fan and just getting into it. It's so exciting.

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I'm so glad to have your luminary in our world.

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Yeah, yeah. We've said it before. It's always

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really fun to watch people's journey through

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listening. You know, someone comes to the show

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a little later and they're like, oh man, I got

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to catch up. And you know, whether it's a couple

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months or however long, I don't know. I don't

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remember how long it took Scaly to catch up.

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Uh, but I remember watching, uh, their journey

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and it's, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. It's, it's

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always, always incredible. Always like makes

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us feel amazing. Uh, makes us feel like luminaries.

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In a luminary spotlight, cherry on top. Thank

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you so much. Uh, now before we do any more chattering,

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Jeremy. Hang on. We're cheersing to that. Jeremy.

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Yes. Okay. We have, we have, we have completed

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cheersing. I've got a quick intro scene. Oh,

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okay. Let me get cheers to more. Oh shit. A Jules

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intro scene? Not actually, no. Oh, no. No. Don't

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worry about that. They're still coming. Oh, God.

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Still on their way. Don't scare me. Give me that

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fancy plus. Oh, it's already there. It's already

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there, David. Yeah. I can hear it. I'm deaf.

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I think one of the most terrifying facts of our

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reality, of any reality, is just how quickly

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it can be turned upon its head. Tragedy, horror,

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these things can slowly burn away your life.

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Or they can combust very suddenly, leaving behind

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only ash in an eye blink. Let's open upon the

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Shrine of Storms at peace beneath a sky of dull

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gray. In the Court of Beauty, two of the Shrine

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Guards sit in meditation, their Kabuto Helms

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removed, and let the wind of the sea pull at

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their long, dark hair. We see one Guard stands

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at attention upon the roof of the central tower,

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her eyes scanning the exterior perimeter of the

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Shrine. And in the court of discipline itself,

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we see there are four figures. One stands at

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the gate while another watches a ferocious duel

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taking place in the court's center. We see Akio

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pushes hard off the ground, spinning his body

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and his doled training blade in his mouth and

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sending his opponent's weapon clattering to the

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tile. And you hear a voice. Ha! He got you good

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there, Suzaku! The watching guard is calling

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out, uh... Akio just kind of follows it up. Yes,

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Ruff! I got you good, Ruff! Now you must pay

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up! He bows his head, sort of waiting, tail wagging

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excitedly, just watching, just barely containing

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himself. As the loser of the duel, this clean

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-shaven man in his early thirties cracks a wide

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smile and reaches out an open hand for a pat.

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Another voice rings out, the guard on the wall.

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Hey, Akio! It looks like you're, uh... Eternal

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adversary has returned to our garden. What? Akio

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spins away from the open hand. Damn the beast.

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Ruff. I must go at once. He will not flee my

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wrath so easily this time. Ruff. He grabs his

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sword. I mean, he starts running towards the

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door. We will need our gardens pristine for you

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to hold a feast for Ozen's return. As he rushes

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and the doors sort of swing open upon command,

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all the attending guard give each other this

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somber, long look. But their sorrow quickly melts

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away as they hear the mad barking of the dutiful

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dog moving farther and farther from the shrine.

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We pan away from this court, over the wall and

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back into the court of beauty, to the edge of

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the court where stone steps lead down into the

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pool along the sea. And we see suddenly the water

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just breaking. running off of the emerging hole

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of this 15 -foot -wide apparatus of the crab.

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This monster rushes forward out of the water,

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metal legs skittering, scratching over the steps

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against the tile. The guards of meditation react

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quickly, jumping up, immediately following protocol,

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calling out the emergency and rotating up the

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steps towards the shrine's center. And here we

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see a blur of activity. In moments, all six of

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the shrine guard meet within the central tower

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and activate the chimes of alarm. As the sounds

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ring out, a soft glow envelops the armor and

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weapons of the samurai. They draw arrows to bows

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and fire down into the court of beauty. These

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arrows ping -ping -ping strike at the apparatus

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of the crab, many of them pinging off, but some

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striking home in leg and claw joints and in spaces

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between the metal plates. The apparatus, however,

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has moved to the top of the steps. Into the innermost

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sanctum, its open hatch facing in. It shields

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the intruders from ranged threats, forcing their

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foes to move in close. Understanding this, knowing

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the trap, the shrine guards stow their bows and

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draw their blades. For they cannot allow the

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intruders to linger within the resting grounds

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of the Great Sage. They can not. And so they

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charge across the Court of Beauty. The elemental

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traps staying inactive as their glowing forms

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pass above. They rush up the steps and come to

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clash with the waiting, disguised oni who step

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out from behind the apparatus, their hands alight

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with magical power. We see the oni called Crimson

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roars in incantation, and a ball of flame explodes

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amidst the gathered guard. The oni called Aja

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grunts his own spell, and a cone of swirling

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frost rips through the weakened warriors. Battered,

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near death, the shrine guards slash at the oni

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with their blades and metal finds flesh, drawing

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out wells of blood. The oni, struck by these

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enchanted weapons, look to their lingering wounds

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with some surprise and annoyance. They release

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one final nasty trick. In unison, another incantation

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is uttered. A haze of dark smoke bursts from

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the mouths of both creatures and envelops the

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screaming guard. We hear one voice cry out amidst

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the smoke, P -Pirates! As it clears away, the

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samurai fall, rolling and clattering down upon

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the steps. Still bleeding, the oni turn their

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backs on the fallen warriors and move beyond

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the partition, out of the Court of Beauty, and

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into the Soul Sanctum. And there they remained

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for a short time, until hearing the panicked

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cries of their subordinate. The oni return to

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the Court of Beauty, facing down the zappies,

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and now... facing down our heroes. Now, was that

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a bit unnecessary? Probably. Probably. But I

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really wanted to explain why the changes to these

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Oni stat blocks and do a little stuff when we

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get into this fight. I'm kind of obsessive, I

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will say, about addressing and closing plot holes

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before they happen. We've got over 100 episodes

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in this beast now, right? So let me ask you guys.

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Let me ask you guys. Because I'm curious if you

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know of any. Do you think we have any major plot

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holes that you know of yet? Most long running

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table of podcasts I've listened to, I've caught

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some big ones, honestly. And usually I can ignore

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it. They're fine. But I don't want them in mind.

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I want them gone. Not that I can think of right

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off the bat, but I will bet you after this episode

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airs, people are going to let us know in the

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discord. You know what? You know what? Let us

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know in the discord. Yeah. Yeah. Steven, plug

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our discord. Hey, we've got a discord. Andrew,

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AKA Hooli Forge knows all about whatever plot

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holes exist, if any. You know what? This is a

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challenge. This is a challenge to you, pants

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people. Give me a plot hole that I can't describe

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away, and I will cry. Yeah. I'm specifically

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calling out Andrew or Mike. Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah,

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yeah, yeah. Yeah. See if either of those guys

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can come up with something. Oh, man. The fight

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is on. But real quick, real quick, because it's

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a super, super obvious one. I'm going to get

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ahead of this one before anyone else does. Dragon

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Bones. The book on serpent midges inlaid with

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magical bones of the Drakon. You remember? In

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episodes 98 and 99, getting a hold of a copy

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of it was kind of a big deal for Fibro. But,

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but, in I think episode 72, Fibro already had

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a copy of Dragon Bones in his book stack that

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he'd gotten from the book den. So, for those

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thousands of you that noticed that, I just want

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to say that first one was a knockoff. Bones is

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spelled with a Z. Okay? No, no, no, no. Actually,

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hang on. No. There was a second R in Dragon Bones.

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It was in Erotica. What? A second R? Think about

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it. That turns it into Erotica? Think about it.

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D -R -R? In the words Dragon Bones. What do you

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put an R in the other word? He wants to say boners.

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Dragon boners. I'll be honest, first in my head

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I went dragon bones? Yeah, that's what I was

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going to say. D -R -R -H -E -O -N. That's what

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it was. David, boner. Got him. Damn. Any other

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business to attend to or should we start filling

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these heroes with plot holes? By stabbing them.

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Jesus. Thanks for clarifying. By stabbing them

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repeatedly. Bring it on. All right. All right.

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With that, let's get some music on. Wait, actually,

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real quick, real quick. This is important. This

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is important. This is important. Good thing you

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checked your notes. By the way, Dragon Quest

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III HDTV remake just came out today. So I'm giving

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you five minutes to clear up this fight. All

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right? This shit is real. Okay? And this is spoilers

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for Dragon Quest XI. Okay? I'm playing the remake

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as a continuation of XI's alternative true ending

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timeline. So I'm very excited to change the personalities

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of the party, come into a more brutal world,

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and play in the draconian difficulty to really

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play that up. So it's going to be fucking awesome.

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So five minutes. Four minutes now. Because of

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that time you just wasted. All right, David.

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I spread my arms wide open. Kill me. That is

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the shit. That's what I want to see. The spirit.

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You also gave me a little bit more time to think

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about it. And like, yeah, I think there are probably

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some other people who could pick out plot holes

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if there are any. Okay. Rochelle, maybe Meg.

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True. Yep. Fair. Hunter, Kevin. Yep. Scaly now.

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Oh, fair. Fair. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

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These are people who, just based on conversation

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in the Discord, I can tell they're paying attention.

00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.379
And I'm sure there are other people too. You

00:14:03.379 --> 00:14:11.120
have two minutes now. Make it count. Rain begins

00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.019
to fall. I imagine that it was falling lightly

00:14:14.019 --> 00:14:17.580
already as you had your parley in the last episode.

00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:20.940
As Dresden stood across the pool from these Oni,

00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.360
we see drips of water breaking up the surface,

00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.860
ripples spreading across and out. And as the

00:14:28.860 --> 00:14:33.779
negotiations went bad, as battle breaks out,

00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.120
I imagine now the rain falls hard, the skies

00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:40.539
weeping over. His blades ting lock together.

00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.360
I'm making one little change to these Oni, by

00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.399
the way, in the interest of closing up plot holes.

00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:49.919
Because I didn't realize in their stab lock,

00:14:49.980 --> 00:14:51.820
I missed it, I'll be honest. Big DM mistake.

00:14:51.899 --> 00:14:54.500
I didn't see the flying. And I don't like the

00:14:54.500 --> 00:14:58.980
flying. I don't like my giant sort of magical

00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:01.460
ogres being able to just fly around, flitting

00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:03.879
without wings. It just feels weird to me. So

00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.490
I'm going to take flying away from my Oni. My

00:15:06.490 --> 00:15:09.490
Oni have Water Walk instead because that feels

00:15:09.490 --> 00:15:11.990
really cool and magical still. Kind of exciting.

00:15:12.169 --> 00:15:13.769
But also doesn't mean they can't just, you know,

00:15:13.830 --> 00:15:18.990
leave. They can't just leave. Oh, yeah, right.

00:15:19.110 --> 00:15:21.950
We don't need to parley. See you. If they try

00:15:21.950 --> 00:15:24.570
to leave now, even with Water Walk. Going beyond

00:15:24.570 --> 00:15:26.669
those elementals, they're not being, like, inside,

00:15:26.750 --> 00:15:28.690
they're not being sensed. There are more water

00:15:28.690 --> 00:15:31.049
weirds out there. You fought one came in, but

00:15:31.049 --> 00:15:33.350
there are more out in the sort of pool against

00:15:33.350 --> 00:15:35.409
the edge of the shrine. So trying to get out

00:15:35.409 --> 00:15:39.350
that way is still deadly. Yes. Oh, yes. And so

00:15:39.350 --> 00:15:43.730
they are forced to fight. The Kenku would go

00:15:43.730 --> 00:15:47.789
after Crispin. The Kenku is dying. I will not

00:15:47.789 --> 00:15:51.970
rule a die about that. And we are at the top

00:15:51.970 --> 00:15:56.070
of the round. Dresden Kelly. You are locking

00:15:56.070 --> 00:16:00.070
blade with the oni known as Azure. This blue

00:16:00.070 --> 00:16:04.909
skin, light blue skin. This thing is huge, bearing

00:16:04.909 --> 00:16:07.470
down on you, standing upon the surface of the

00:16:07.470 --> 00:16:10.870
water as you stand at the edge of the pool. How

00:16:10.870 --> 00:16:17.750
do you want to proceed? I'm going to take a shot

00:16:17.750 --> 00:16:22.330
at him. Okay. Okay. Actually, I will say this.

00:16:22.750 --> 00:16:26.470
You did not hide last turn, Steven. As this form,

00:16:26.590 --> 00:16:28.950
as the cracking happens, those last lines, the

00:16:28.950 --> 00:16:31.330
Oni spins its head, sees this blurring form of

00:16:31.330 --> 00:16:34.889
this octopus blasting down through the sort of

00:16:34.889 --> 00:16:40.039
rippling water because it's aware of you. What

00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:42.620
is this? Kind of stumbles back a little bit,

00:16:42.659 --> 00:16:44.460
sort of stopped between two things. You now have

00:16:44.460 --> 00:16:46.500
the flanking bonus because there you are. He's

00:16:46.500 --> 00:16:47.820
on the other side. So yeah, flanking bonus is

00:16:47.820 --> 00:16:49.940
there. Cody is scared. Suddenly there's a giant

00:16:49.940 --> 00:16:52.200
octopus he did not expect coming into attack.

00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:59.639
I'll take it. That's a 17 to hit. 17 will hit.

00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.840
Oh, baby. Oh, dog. This one already got hit once

00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.630
too with the thunderball. Uh, for nine damage.

00:17:06.829 --> 00:17:09.609
Nine damage, okay. And here comes my second attack.

00:17:09.829 --> 00:17:15.329
Break away from the weapon, you cleave -in! Thirteen.

00:17:15.809 --> 00:17:21.890
Will not hit. Okay. Um, and then, as a bonus

00:17:21.890 --> 00:17:24.369
action, I'm going to swap places with my echo.

00:17:25.430 --> 00:17:31.109
Nice. Oh, gnarly. Okay. Um... Yeah, so, like,

00:17:31.210 --> 00:17:34.670
you're just gone. Suddenly, like, the form that's

00:17:34.670 --> 00:17:38.329
more physical of you here now becomes this shadowy

00:17:38.329 --> 00:17:41.450
echo of yourself. You are standing to the south

00:17:41.450 --> 00:17:44.970
of this combat on the other side of the pool,

00:17:45.130 --> 00:17:49.750
actually now flanking with Akio. Oh, yeah. On

00:17:49.750 --> 00:17:52.829
Crimson. That's really cool, actually. We have

00:17:52.829 --> 00:17:56.759
Tuoni both flanked. Damn. That's really cool.

00:17:56.900 --> 00:18:02.700
Let's mess along. Oh, shit. Okay, okay. You vanish.

00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.940
I think as, like, you go, maybe, like, just noticing

00:18:05.940 --> 00:18:08.180
something strange is happening, me sensing, like,

00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:09.980
that presence over there, the Oni turns and sees

00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:15.539
you. Foul luminary! You should have taken the

00:18:15.539 --> 00:18:19.619
fucking deal! Who am I going to attack here?

00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.779
It's my Oni. It's Azure's turn. So let's do one

00:18:23.779 --> 00:18:28.319
on the Echo. And one downwards onto this giant

00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.299
octopus that suddenly appeared. Echo first. Here

00:18:32.299 --> 00:18:37.720
we go. Massive glaive swings down. Oh, my God.

00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.160
What? What is it? It might be a maybe. It's a

00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.359
13. Oh, hell no. Hell no. Thank goodness. That's

00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.970
way off. What does Echo say? 17. Is it really?

00:18:48.089 --> 00:18:51.069
Yeah. Holy moly. Yeah. Okay. All right. Echo,

00:18:51.210 --> 00:18:54.029
bang, parries a blade. The Oni does not let that

00:18:54.029 --> 00:18:56.470
slow him. He spins, blade whirling in the air,

00:18:56.549 --> 00:18:59.369
goes into like a stabbing stance and drives it

00:18:59.369 --> 00:19:01.569
down into the water, trying to reach down into

00:19:01.569 --> 00:19:08.309
that octopus. These rolls are brutal, but still,

00:19:08.390 --> 00:19:11.599
still, maybe. Nice. He's pretty low, this giant

00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.680
octopus. 14. 14 is a hit. Okay, that's great

00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:24.140
for me. Okay. That is, ooh, wow. Yeah, that's

00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:28.519
18 points of damage. Oh, no. You are a muscular

00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:31.140
octopus, though. And this is slashing damage.

00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.180
That goes down to nine. Ooh. Because you raged

00:19:34.180 --> 00:19:37.180
last time. Oh, rage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

00:19:37.180 --> 00:19:38.640
yes. So you're not actually playing the muscular

00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:40.079
Octopus stat lock. I was going to say, I was

00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.819
like, what are you talking about? Okay, yeah,

00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:43.619
thank you. You got all your tentacles are just

00:19:43.619 --> 00:19:46.119
like bulging biceps. Okay, great. All the way

00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:48.319
down. Dude, Steven, you're so strong. He strikes

00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.980
in and like somehow this weapon should have pierced

00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:53.180
right through this. The sort of soft flesh Octopus

00:19:53.180 --> 00:19:55.200
just kind of goes in a little bit and gets caught

00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:01.140
in Octoabs. Did you have that one all week? No,

00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:06.880
I just thought of that. Okay. That is my turn

00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.940
for now. It's going to be Akio. Okay. Your grind,

00:20:11.180 --> 00:20:14.859
rough, cannot be forgiven. Courageous. Yeah,

00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.180
Akio's going to go for two katana attacks here.

00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:24.960
Hell yeah. With the flanking that's only 12 for

00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:28.339
the first attack. 12 will not hit. Okay. Parry.

00:20:28.339 --> 00:20:33.799
Ting by the massive weapon. All right, that one

00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.980
will hit. Ooh! That's 21. 21 will hit. First

00:20:37.980 --> 00:20:42.220
one goes wide, second one slices in. So deep

00:20:42.220 --> 00:20:44.819
into the thigh of this creature. That's eight

00:20:44.819 --> 00:20:51.140
slashing. Okay. It grunts in pain. And now it's

00:20:51.140 --> 00:20:57.220
its turn. How fitting. Ooh. I guess. Do the same

00:20:57.220 --> 00:21:02.099
as before. One attack on Akio. One attack. on

00:21:02.099 --> 00:21:05.339
Dresden. I'm even trapped in flanking. I try

00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:08.500
to move away from flanking in any way. I'm taking

00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:14.079
AOOs. This is pretty gnarly, gentlemen. Pretty

00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:17.420
gnarly. Have we ever been in this good of a situation

00:21:17.420 --> 00:21:20.019
before? This is going really well. I'm going

00:21:20.019 --> 00:21:22.940
to go knock on wood now. If only I hadn't used

00:21:22.940 --> 00:21:25.299
my most powerful spells on the Shrine Guard.

00:21:28.859 --> 00:21:31.859
One cone of cold here. Oh my gosh. Oh well. Oh

00:21:31.859 --> 00:21:36.119
well. It's fine. Hey. It's all good. Dresden

00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:41.940
first. 18 to hit? No. Okay. Alright. It's fine.

00:21:42.140 --> 00:21:45.720
It's fine. It's all fine. That's going to be

00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.400
a 20 to hit a Kiyo. Yep. That hits a Kiyo. Uh

00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:57.410
oh. Fuck. 16 points of damage. Baby. Massive

00:21:57.410 --> 00:21:59.910
wave. Goes to hit you. You parry it with a blade,

00:21:59.930 --> 00:22:02.269
but again, it's like the train just sort of fight

00:22:02.269 --> 00:22:04.410
in a radio in the sweeping style around it. These

00:22:04.410 --> 00:22:06.329
glaives are so good for fighting multiple opponents.

00:22:06.490 --> 00:22:08.369
So as it kind of weaves away from you, the same

00:22:08.369 --> 00:22:10.430
weapon kind of like the parried thrust swings

00:22:10.430 --> 00:22:13.329
around perfectly and comes crashing down over

00:22:13.329 --> 00:22:15.690
Akio, who just like takes this massive blow,

00:22:15.869 --> 00:22:20.269
almost crumples beneath it. Yeah, for real. And

00:22:20.269 --> 00:22:26.880
that's going to be Crispin. Okay. Crimson laughs

00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.440
at you. Crispin is going to activate his Eldritch

00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:36.519
Claw tattoo. The dark purple sort of inky smoke

00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:41.480
wraps around his tentacles and empowers his unarmed

00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.079
strikes. Oh my God, that's crazy. So now you're

00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.700
just, you're ab filled, biceps everywhere, muscular

00:22:48.700 --> 00:22:51.420
tentacles that are also covered in swirling inky

00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:54.180
smoke. Swirling and glowing. Oh my God. That

00:22:54.180 --> 00:22:56.700
is so cool. And one reaches up out of the water.

00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:05.180
16 to hit. 16 hits. Excellent. Oh, you son of

00:23:05.180 --> 00:23:08.900
a gun. Okay, so... How dare you? The giant octopus

00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:12.220
tentacle is 2d6 plus 3. Now with the eldritch

00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:15.859
claw tattoo, that's an additional d6. What type

00:23:15.859 --> 00:23:20.640
of damage is that? One sec. Force damage. So

00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:29.799
we'll do 2d6 plus 3 bludgeoning. 11 bludgeoning

00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:35.660
and 4 force damage. Holy crap! Wow! Your guy

00:23:35.660 --> 00:23:39.400
is now grappled. Oh, no! Oh, baby. Yeah, the

00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:41.960
idea was wrapping around. Like, I imagine you're

00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:43.700
kind of partially out of the water now as you

00:23:43.700 --> 00:23:45.460
kind of, like, grab and sort of pull yourself

00:23:45.460 --> 00:23:48.200
up, like doing a pull -up onto the Oni who's

00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:49.960
staying on the surface. Yeah, so his, like, head

00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:52.279
and face is sort of out of the water. Oh, that's

00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:59.680
so cool. Roaring out. Damn, that's cool. And

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:02.400
that is Crispin's turn. Bonus action, by the

00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:05.559
way, to... No, I'm saying that it's a bonus action

00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:10.079
to use the tattoo. Hell yeah. That's Crispin's

00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:13.779
turn. And we'll call it there. All right, go

00:24:13.779 --> 00:24:18.119
play. No, what? Go play. Yeah, fine. Give you

00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:24.299
five more minutes. All right. Sorry, I'm goofy

00:24:24.299 --> 00:24:27.900
today. I'm only going to have to save for the

00:24:27.900 --> 00:24:33.200
Kenku. Top of the round. Dresden Kellig, now

00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.940
on the other side of the field, battling Crimson.

00:24:38.420 --> 00:24:42.740
Ooh, boy. This battle feels so, like, perfect

00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:45.140
for Dresden. These two twin monsters fighting

00:24:45.140 --> 00:24:47.420
these pro -two, like, twin warriors. Like, it's

00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:52.220
so cool. So, question. I just realized the entire

00:24:52.220 --> 00:24:54.180
time we were having a conversation, like, you

00:24:54.180 --> 00:24:56.380
were negotiating with them, there were two of

00:24:56.380 --> 00:24:58.700
you talking to two of them. Like, two, because

00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:01.009
the echo was still there. Oh, shit. Yeah, it's

00:25:01.009 --> 00:25:05.950
really cool. Sorry. So, I get two attacks, right?

00:25:06.670 --> 00:25:13.250
I'm not asking. I'm just... Yes. So I was looking

00:25:13.250 --> 00:25:15.269
up if I can add legendary actions to a combat.

00:25:15.329 --> 00:25:18.470
Can I do a bonus action in between those two

00:25:18.470 --> 00:25:21.950
attacks? Oh, that's interesting. I know you can

00:25:21.950 --> 00:25:24.390
move between attacks. After I said that, I thought...

00:25:24.810 --> 00:25:26.349
No, I'm not going to do what I was thinking I

00:25:26.349 --> 00:25:28.230
was doing because it doesn't make sense. I think

00:25:28.230 --> 00:25:30.450
you could because you can technically break your

00:25:30.450 --> 00:25:32.390
movement action up between your attacks. So I

00:25:32.390 --> 00:25:35.369
think that would make sense. I'm curious what

00:25:35.369 --> 00:25:36.930
the benefit would be. Well, I'm not going to

00:25:36.930 --> 00:25:39.609
do it now, but maybe someday we'll find out.

00:25:39.789 --> 00:25:43.430
Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going to go and hit this

00:25:43.430 --> 00:25:48.549
fire guy. Okay. And not going to hit with an

00:25:48.549 --> 00:25:54.450
11. Not going to hit. And then my echo. It's

00:25:54.450 --> 00:25:57.329
going to attack the other one. Okay, yeah. I

00:25:57.329 --> 00:25:59.569
love this. Yeah, it's so cool. Oh, wait, hold

00:25:59.569 --> 00:26:01.269
on. Sorry, I forgot we have flanking. It's 13.

00:26:01.950 --> 00:26:05.089
Still on it. Fuck. Hey, good on you, though.

00:26:05.089 --> 00:26:11.279
Good catch. Uh, no. No. No. Yeah, that's a nine.

00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:13.900
Two no misses. They're taking this defensive

00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:15.400
position. Their weapon's sort of flailing in

00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:17.079
the air. You know, just like perfect sort of

00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:19.960
stylized like kata. You can't get through. You're

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:21.519
trying and like there's just like fan blades

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:24.240
trying to, you know, parry your attacks. These

00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:27.599
guys are serious. Then that weapon sort of stops

00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.240
dead in the air as this thing is going to swing

00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:34.140
down again. Boy, this is tricky. Do I go for...

00:26:34.140 --> 00:26:39.279
Roll a die real fast. Okay, once again, breaking

00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:43.680
it up. One on the Echo, one on Crispin de Tentacles.

00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:46.319
Which one's first? The first will be the Echo.

00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:50.420
Okay. Ooh, I think that will do it. That's an

00:26:50.420 --> 00:26:53.180
18 to hit. Yeah, that'll hit. Okay. Echo's gone.

00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:55.839
Echo, yeah, Echo just... Hold on, hold on, wait.

00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:59.539
What? This was the blue one attacking the Echo?

00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:02.259
Yes. It's grappled. It has disadvantage. Is it

00:27:02.259 --> 00:27:04.539
grappled or restrained? Does it specify it's

00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:07.339
restrained? It says grappled. Grappled means

00:27:07.339 --> 00:27:09.480
I cannot move. It does not give me the advantage

00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:12.039
unless I am fully restrained. Oh, really? Damn.

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.299
Yeah, grappled is really strange. But some creatures,

00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:16.839
when they grapple, it automatically restrains.

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.609
Well, then what's the damn point? Basically,

00:27:19.849 --> 00:27:22.049
it means I cannot move. And if you were to do

00:27:22.049 --> 00:27:24.230
things like, say, making me prone, I have no

00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:26.289
movement speed, then I would stay prone. I would

00:27:26.289 --> 00:27:27.750
not be able to get up, which would give that

00:27:27.750 --> 00:27:29.349
disadvantage. So there's a few ways you can utilize

00:27:29.349 --> 00:27:31.970
grapple. It's almost like disadvantage. It's

00:27:31.970 --> 00:27:34.109
like restrain light, and you can build off of

00:27:34.109 --> 00:27:37.089
it into restrain if you kind of know how to move

00:27:37.089 --> 00:27:40.029
things around. Oh, yeah. Grapple mixed up with

00:27:40.029 --> 00:27:42.130
the restrain condition. And yeah, I guess I'm

00:27:42.130 --> 00:27:43.289
going to stay grappled because I just realized

00:27:43.289 --> 00:27:45.049
I could have tried. Man, I should have attacked

00:27:45.049 --> 00:27:46.670
you twice. I forgot I was grabbed by this thing.

00:27:47.250 --> 00:27:49.509
Hey, you know what? Too late. Too late. Whoops.

00:27:49.970 --> 00:27:52.170
No, wait. You said you're a giant octopus? Yeah,

00:27:52.190 --> 00:27:53.710
he's a giant octopus. Until the grapple ends,

00:27:53.809 --> 00:27:56.069
the target is restrained. Oh, yeah, it's right

00:27:56.069 --> 00:27:59.109
there. You just got to keep reading. Ooh. I thought

00:27:59.109 --> 00:28:01.789
so. I was thinking, okay. I was just looking.

00:28:01.849 --> 00:28:03.450
You were like, does it say grappled or restrained?

00:28:03.450 --> 00:28:04.710
So I'm reading through it, and the first word

00:28:04.710 --> 00:28:06.309
that had come across is grappled. And I'm like,

00:28:06.349 --> 00:28:08.430
yeah, it says grappled. Okay, so we try to swing

00:28:08.430 --> 00:28:12.940
down. It might not hit. It will still hit. Higher

00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:17.140
roll. Hey, good catch up. Comes down. Echo just,

00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:21.839
boom, explodes away. The tile cracks as the thing

00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:23.480
easily cleaves through what it thought was probably

00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:25.019
like this meaty form. But the second the echo

00:28:25.019 --> 00:28:27.619
takes damage, it kind of vanishes. Second attack,

00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:30.539
driving straight down into you. Still restrained

00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:36.740
though, so let's see what happens. That is a

00:28:36.740 --> 00:28:42.279
big maybe. to 12 to hit 12 misses oh yeah thank

00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.079
goodness that's huge yeah not a good roll not

00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.140
a good one oh yeah so echo explodes weapon comes

00:28:48.140 --> 00:28:49.880
down tries driving it to you i imagine like it

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.039
like it like turns the weapon down almost like

00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.740
like cutting down towards itself. You're, like,

00:28:54.740 --> 00:28:57.059
grappling with its chest, and tentacles reach

00:28:57.059 --> 00:28:59.619
out around its arms. You're, like, fighting,

00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:01.440
and this blade is coming closer and closer to

00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:03.720
you, but you're, like, pulling it back just barely,

00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.559
and that's sort of keeping the blade out of your

00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:12.599
octopus flesh. And that's Kyo. Okay, Kyo is going

00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:14.599
to rinse and repeat, man. I really need this

00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:17.299
guy to hit. He's got improved critical, like...

00:29:17.299 --> 00:29:19.990
Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm going to do two. It hasn't

00:29:19.990 --> 00:29:21.670
happened yet. No, it hasn't happened yet. I'm

00:29:21.670 --> 00:29:23.970
going to do two katana attacks. Let's race to

00:29:23.970 --> 00:29:29.549
see who crits first. I am fucking due. So due.

00:29:29.809 --> 00:29:32.670
You're fucking due. Nope. That first one is a

00:29:32.670 --> 00:29:35.029
two on the die, so that's not going to do it.

00:29:35.130 --> 00:29:38.410
Oh, boy. Add a zero onto the other side of that.

00:29:39.890 --> 00:29:46.480
Yeah, even still. There we go. Natural 20. Akio

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:51.420
just left a big old doggy crit in the pool. Doggy

00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:54.720
crit in the pool. Oh, my God. Okay, excellent.

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.400
Oh, gross. I don't want to swim anymore. All

00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:03.740
right, 2d4 plus 4 slashing damage now. Oh, that's

00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:08.210
pretty good. First roll was a 1. Second roll

00:30:08.210 --> 00:30:12.130
was a three! Only eight slashing damage on the

00:30:12.130 --> 00:30:16.029
crit. Oh, my God. D4? D8. Oh, this is a D4. All

00:30:16.029 --> 00:30:19.309
right, okay. Yeah, cool. I mean, I rolled like

00:30:19.309 --> 00:30:21.509
it was a D4. So what was the damage again? Eight.

00:30:21.849 --> 00:30:25.130
Eight total. Eight total on the crit. Still cuts

00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:27.289
through. Ching, ching. I mean, we're a lot worse

00:30:27.289 --> 00:30:30.829
without a crit. Yeah. Still managed to, like,

00:30:30.849 --> 00:30:32.769
break past the weapon, get, like, two slices

00:30:32.769 --> 00:30:38.150
right across the chest. Crimson's got to call

00:30:38.150 --> 00:30:41.890
him, like, full feral into the fight crazy. Starts

00:30:41.890 --> 00:30:44.509
swinging out crazy. Let me see here. I'm going

00:30:44.509 --> 00:30:49.289
to... I mean... Do I just... Yeah, you know what?

00:30:49.710 --> 00:30:51.829
Time for these guys to play a little smart. These

00:30:51.829 --> 00:30:53.950
guys got cut by this dog. Now I'm going to cut

00:30:53.950 --> 00:30:58.190
down this dog. Two attacks on the Kyo. God. At

00:30:58.190 --> 00:30:59.549
least... Well, if a Kyo goes down the first time,

00:30:59.589 --> 00:31:02.049
then I won't keep going. But... I need to drop.

00:31:02.109 --> 00:31:03.990
I need to drop. Flanking's a problem. Someone's

00:31:03.990 --> 00:31:09.400
got to drop. First attack's going to hit. Yeah,

00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:14.420
he's going down then. Oh yeah, he's going down.

00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:19.420
Just to reverse your shits and boobles. It's

00:31:19.420 --> 00:31:24.380
14 points of damage. Yeah, way down. Slashes

00:31:24.380 --> 00:31:27.480
down. Akio puts up this one mighty thrust and

00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:32.190
it's cut down brutally. All right. Discord. We're

00:31:32.190 --> 00:31:36.450
going to try to save him. Discord. Steven got

00:31:36.450 --> 00:31:40.150
it bad last time. It was funny. So, yeah. So,

00:31:40.210 --> 00:31:43.950
Sentinel. Guardian. Oh! Uh -huh. Immediately

00:31:43.950 --> 00:31:46.109
after a creature within five feet of you takes

00:31:46.109 --> 00:31:48.809
the disengage action or hits a target other than

00:31:48.809 --> 00:31:50.750
you with an attack, you can make an opportunity

00:31:50.750 --> 00:31:53.009
to attack. That's pretty cool. I love this. You

00:31:53.009 --> 00:31:56.230
see Akio slide, drops down right into his own

00:31:56.230 --> 00:32:01.039
crit. Fuck you. He tries to get angry. Reaches

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.180
out. Sees the opening. Strikes. I crit my head.

00:32:04.299 --> 00:32:09.099
What the hell? Wait. Wait. Hold on. I have something

00:32:09.099 --> 00:32:12.119
for this, too. Uh -huh. Hold on. Hang on. Hang

00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.240
on. Hold on. Hold on. Shirts are off. Wait, no.

00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:22.039
The shirts. It's been a few episodes. What were

00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:23.900
you doing? What was your thing? Take your shirt

00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:27.779
off. I have piercer. I have piercer. David, he's

00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:29.140
got piercer. You better put your shirt back on.

00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:31.759
Oh, baby. On a critical hit, you can roll one

00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:34.660
additional damage die. Oh, my God. So what is

00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:37.680
that? That's three die. So it's double the damage

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.259
die and then an additional damage die. Oh, man.

00:32:40.420 --> 00:32:45.480
3d8 plus six. Dude. He's got a 1d8 for his damage

00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:50.660
die? Plus six, yeah. Dresden. Pissed. Oh, it's

00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:52.700
because he has a shield. So he's not too heavy.

00:32:55.849 --> 00:32:57.849
I rolled the same number three fucking times.

00:32:58.109 --> 00:33:03.910
Was it a one? I hope. Seven. Whoa. So that is

00:33:03.910 --> 00:33:09.589
27 points of damage. You're fucking with me.

00:33:09.730 --> 00:33:12.630
Hell yeah. You just leap onto this thing's back

00:33:12.630 --> 00:33:17.769
and drive this so deep down, like right under

00:33:17.769 --> 00:33:19.769
its neck, sort of between its shoulder blade

00:33:19.769 --> 00:33:24.640
and its neck. It screams. Like echoing across

00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:29.279
the water, out into the pool outside. Blood bursts

00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:34.859
out around your Warpix blade. Dude, fucking amazing.

00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:38.799
Hell yeah. Holy shit. Crazy enough, it's still

00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:41.150
my turn though. Because that was actually...

00:33:41.150 --> 00:33:44.529
That was just an AOL. That's so bullshit. Wow.

00:33:44.769 --> 00:33:47.130
Yeah, it wasn't even your... 27 damage on your

00:33:47.130 --> 00:33:49.150
turn. This thing shakes you off, spins around.

00:33:49.349 --> 00:33:51.269
It's going to come at you so hard. Dude. Hey,

00:33:51.349 --> 00:33:54.210
crit? Crit? Dude. Come on, this is it. I just

00:33:54.210 --> 00:33:56.829
got to use two things that I've been dying to

00:33:56.829 --> 00:33:59.210
use. I've never used Piercer. I've never gotten

00:33:59.210 --> 00:34:01.130
a chance to use it yet. You haven't? Yeah. It

00:34:01.130 --> 00:34:02.589
was cool as hell. I finally do. In a dramatic

00:34:02.589 --> 00:34:04.369
moment, you saw your ally drop. You just went

00:34:04.369 --> 00:34:06.930
through hell to save this dog from drowning.

00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:09.940
And now this thing has cut it down so callously.

00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:13.880
And now it's going to do the same to you. Come

00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.400
on, give me that crit. Give me that crit. Come

00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:24.460
on. It's a little bit too! It's so cold. It's

00:34:24.460 --> 00:34:28.820
so cold. uh yeah it comes down at you uh uh it's

00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:32.039
still the wound pumping blood uh there's no strength

00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:33.619
behind this attack you got it right in the shoulder

00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:36.699
it's still kind of stumbling from that you easily

00:34:36.699 --> 00:34:40.460
bash this thing away with your shield uh it just

00:34:40.460 --> 00:34:45.440
looks terrified and that's crispin okay i'm getting

00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:51.280
my ass kicked how the turntables Let me just

00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:58.460
see here. Okay. Crispin. I can freely move this

00:34:58.460 --> 00:35:01.679
guy wherever I want to now, right? Yes, you can

00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:03.840
move him. You can only move half your speed,

00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.579
but you basically move with him. So basically,

00:35:06.860 --> 00:35:10.610
you're slowed. to half speed, but you can move

00:35:10.610 --> 00:35:12.710
him with you. Okay, that's great. I'm going to

00:35:12.710 --> 00:35:15.429
back up. Crispin's going to back up into like

00:35:15.429 --> 00:35:18.110
the center of the pool. Just pulling him. Is

00:35:18.110 --> 00:35:19.929
he like, so he has water walk. Are you pulling

00:35:19.929 --> 00:35:21.510
him down at all? I imagine you could if you would

00:35:21.510 --> 00:35:23.869
use force pull as like his, you know, sort of

00:35:23.869 --> 00:35:25.530
enchanted feet through the waves and into the

00:35:25.530 --> 00:35:27.690
water. Yeah, I either want to pull him down and

00:35:27.690 --> 00:35:29.010
then pull him to the center of the pool or pull

00:35:29.010 --> 00:35:30.130
him to the center of the pool and then pull him

00:35:30.130 --> 00:35:31.809
down. Hell yes. I don't even know if that's going

00:35:31.809 --> 00:35:33.489
to give me any mechanical advantage or anything.

00:35:33.750 --> 00:35:36.730
Release me. I'm getting yanked down and down.

00:35:39.869 --> 00:35:43.329
So now we're in the center of this pool, underwater,

00:35:43.510 --> 00:35:48.969
and Crispin has advantage on his attacks. Is

00:35:48.969 --> 00:35:51.630
this restrained? This sucks. Oh, my God. And

00:35:51.630 --> 00:35:54.550
you get your magical tattoo shit. And your strength

00:35:54.550 --> 00:35:56.610
bonus for rage. Remember, plus two on the damage.

00:35:56.670 --> 00:36:00.010
Yes. Or is it plus three now? Is it based on

00:36:00.010 --> 00:36:04.050
your... I think it's still plus two. I can double

00:36:04.050 --> 00:36:08.289
check super fast. Yeah, plus two. Melee damage,

00:36:08.530 --> 00:36:11.510
strength weapons. Hell yeah. Blah, blah, blah,

00:36:11.510 --> 00:36:14.730
blah, blah. It says with strength weapons, though.

00:36:14.829 --> 00:36:17.050
Does that count for arm strength? We've talked

00:36:17.050 --> 00:36:20.070
about how muscular these tentacles are. Yeah,

00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:21.610
okay. These aren't strength -based tentacles

00:36:21.610 --> 00:36:23.389
at this point. I don't know what is. Okay, sure.

00:36:23.489 --> 00:36:27.050
So that's... Let me see. And they do, by the

00:36:27.050 --> 00:36:29.329
stat block, use strength as the actual thing.

00:36:29.510 --> 00:36:35.389
So you're good. That's 15. 15? 15 to hit. To

00:36:35.389 --> 00:36:39.210
hit? We'll miss. actually will miss. He's fighting

00:36:39.210 --> 00:36:42.409
hard. He's trying to get himself in. He's jagging.

00:36:42.570 --> 00:36:46.909
Wait a second. Yeah. Didn't I roll a 14 on him

00:36:46.909 --> 00:36:52.550
and it hit? No. It was a 16. Was it? Oh. Okay.

00:36:55.980 --> 00:36:58.579
Well, that's a stinker. But now you're just thrashing,

00:36:58.619 --> 00:37:01.440
fighting the water, churning out waves, blasting

00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:02.900
out from the center of the pool, underneath the

00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:06.260
heavy falling rain as you are struggling in the

00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:11.579
water. A kaiju battle up in there. Hold on. Oh,

00:37:11.699 --> 00:37:16.159
well. Five minutes, Steven. I'm sorry. I'm just

00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:19.039
reading Eldritch's claw tattoo. David, it's been

00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:23.929
almost 45. Ha! We'll call it there. No, I think

00:37:23.929 --> 00:37:28.329
I get an extra plus one bonus to my attack and

00:37:28.329 --> 00:37:32.090
damage rolls with the Eldritch Claw tattoo. Wait,

00:37:32.090 --> 00:37:34.210
you get what? Yeah, a plus one bonus to attack

00:37:34.210 --> 00:37:37.050
and damage rolls. You didn't count that? I didn't

00:37:37.050 --> 00:37:39.849
yet. So now it's 16. And now it's 16. And you

00:37:39.849 --> 00:37:42.730
do hit. I was going to say, I was like, wait

00:37:42.730 --> 00:37:44.469
a minute. I thought it was more than that. And

00:37:44.469 --> 00:37:47.489
the magic of your grip starts pulling in just

00:37:47.489 --> 00:37:50.210
barely enough strength in this tattoo to overpower

00:37:50.210 --> 00:37:52.780
this thing. And you begin to what, like crush

00:37:52.780 --> 00:37:55.219
it? Yeah, it just starts to crush it underwater.

00:37:55.659 --> 00:37:57.360
Kind of like the water weird. You're just trying

00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:05.239
to bring it down. So cool. That's just 10. 10

00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.780
damage. 10 damage on 3D6. These things are already

00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:10.800
pretty beat up. That's not nothing. You hear

00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:17.500
like bones sort of creaking, cracking. Mouth

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:20.119
opens, water... A bubble sort of bursts out.

00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:24.300
This is going real poor for me. That's okay.

00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.820
That's okay. That is Singer the Kenku again.

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:33.079
Okay, death save rolled. Top of the round. Dresden,

00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:34.940
that's you. You landed this mighty blow. You

00:38:34.940 --> 00:38:37.440
parried the follow -up attack. This thing stands

00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:41.199
before you. It's terrified. It realized now.

00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.739
You don't fuck with Dresden. You don't fuck with

00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:46.880
Dresden. And you do not fuck with Dresden's friends.

00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:49.639
Nope. He's going to go in for another attack.

00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:55.039
Hell yeah. Okay. Come on. Come on, me. Will a

00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:04.119
25 hit? Yes. For only nine damage, though. Okay.

00:39:04.300 --> 00:39:08.219
All right. And then... Still up. Another good

00:39:08.219 --> 00:39:11.400
cleave. It looks pretty rough. Okay. I'm going

00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:14.900
to use... I'm going to use my bonus action to

00:39:14.900 --> 00:39:17.619
summon my Echo on the other side of him so I

00:39:17.619 --> 00:39:19.780
get flanking. Oh, right. You get right on top

00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:23.019
of Akio, basically. Yep. Hell yeah. Yep. The

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:26.019
Echo appears. And then attack number two with

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:29.360
flanking. Akio's talking real fast there. Appears

00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.920
staying right over the... Almost like protectively

00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:38.130
over Akio. Goes in. That's a 21. That will hit.

00:39:38.329 --> 00:39:41.269
That will hit. Damn. Dresden putting out damage.

00:39:44.130 --> 00:39:49.210
For an additional 11 damage. 11. Holy crap. 11.

00:39:50.570 --> 00:39:54.010
Yeah. Okay. He looks bad. Really, really bad.

00:39:54.230 --> 00:39:58.750
Hell yeah. Like, last stand bad. You cut one

00:39:58.750 --> 00:40:04.960
side. A gecko appears. Turns. Strikes down. you

00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.679
know, two sides getting wailed on, blood sort

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:09.760
of flying, splattered on the tile, into the pool,

00:40:09.860 --> 00:40:14.480
and he is wobbling, barely standing. Oh, this

00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:18.039
is rough. Okay. Okay. That's going to be Aja.

00:40:18.679 --> 00:40:26.289
How can I? That won't help me at all. Okay, I

00:40:26.289 --> 00:40:28.869
mean, this is, you got me good here, man. I have

00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:31.449
spells. They're not going to do anything. Yeah,

00:40:31.530 --> 00:40:32.969
you can't use verbal underwater, right? I have

00:40:32.969 --> 00:40:34.730
to kill this thing. Oh, right, good point. I

00:40:34.730 --> 00:40:37.070
couldn't really speak. I just got a strike. I

00:40:37.070 --> 00:40:38.429
got to kill you. Not going to try to break out

00:40:38.429 --> 00:40:41.570
or nothing? I mean, that's my full action, to

00:40:41.570 --> 00:40:44.809
break out. I know. You can just grab me again.

00:40:45.269 --> 00:40:47.329
Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to just swing it. I'm just

00:40:47.329 --> 00:40:48.349
going to try to stab you. Or I can take an AOL

00:40:48.349 --> 00:40:49.909
if you try to leave. I'm going to stab you. I'm

00:40:49.909 --> 00:40:51.349
going to stab, stab you twice. And I'm going

00:40:51.349 --> 00:40:54.159
to hope. I get crit with disadvantage. Disadvantage.

00:40:54.380 --> 00:41:00.179
Come on, please. Come on, dice. DC is low. Or

00:41:00.179 --> 00:41:04.119
AC is low. That might hit. 13. 13 is my AC. Okay.

00:41:04.219 --> 00:41:09.239
Okay. Oh, thank goodness. Come on. I got to get

00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:15.760
this squiddy. Really good roll on that. That

00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:21.460
is. 21 points of damage. Oh my god. Holy shit.

00:41:21.539 --> 00:41:25.199
Because you're raging. 4 to 10. Holy shit. So

00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:27.420
it was a really high roll, but again, cuts in.

00:41:27.860 --> 00:41:30.800
It's finally starting to overpower you. And again,

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.280
that same locked glaive is starting to sink,

00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:38.159
sink, sink slowly into you, just driving into

00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.940
your flesh, sort of towards your nervous system.

00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:44.199
And I'm going to keep pushing. Second attack.

00:41:44.300 --> 00:41:48.820
Come on. Come on, baby. Give daddy a 20. Daddy

00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:54.960
at 20. It's an 11. No way. So it gets that far.

00:41:54.980 --> 00:41:57.179
No farther is you. Again, just bolster. It's

00:41:57.179 --> 00:42:00.059
like a battle of pure, raw muscle and strength.

00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:04.039
Just this muscular octopus, this gigantic, magical

00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:08.099
ogre creature just struggling, straining against

00:42:08.099 --> 00:42:10.699
each other. And I'm making very little headway.

00:42:11.860 --> 00:42:14.500
Excellent. And that's going to be Akio. I need

00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:16.860
you to roll. You know what? Maybe I should roll.

00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:19.239
Well, hold on. What? I want to talk about something

00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:20.539
real fast. What do you want to talk about? Oh.

00:42:21.099 --> 00:42:23.820
What's the dying dog going to do? Dying dog?

00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:29.739
Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh, no way. No way. The dying dog

00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:31.780
is going to take three buttons and get back up.

00:42:31.900 --> 00:42:37.260
Are you? Oh. Holy shit. This is a fantasy pants

00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:41.070
first. This has never happened before. You're

00:42:41.070 --> 00:42:44.150
all welcome. Holy shit. You're all welcome. The

00:42:44.150 --> 00:42:49.610
pants are off. The pants are off. No. No. I'll

00:42:49.610 --> 00:42:51.769
keep them on. But damn it if that wasn't cool

00:42:51.769 --> 00:42:54.849
as shit. Let it be known that David has continued

00:42:54.849 --> 00:43:00.289
this session with his shirt off. Regardless of

00:43:00.289 --> 00:43:02.010
the piercer. What the hell happened to you? What

00:43:02.010 --> 00:43:03.989
is going on with you? You tell me this time.

00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:06.500
You send these buttons. What is going on with

00:43:06.500 --> 00:43:09.000
Akia? What is inspiring him to get back up? Oh,

00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:12.320
my God. What does any good dog get inspired by?

00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:17.320
Memories of his master. Holy shit. And good pets

00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:21.280
out in the breeze. You know, we're on the ocean,

00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:25.440
man. That's good pets. Pets on the water, like,

00:43:25.539 --> 00:43:28.179
come on. Maybe there's birds he's chasing, those

00:43:28.179 --> 00:43:30.340
little sandpipers or something. The breeze just

00:43:30.340 --> 00:43:33.400
blowing against his fur. He's unconscious and

00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:36.059
dying, lying there, and he can hear the ocean

00:43:36.059 --> 00:43:39.440
waves hitting the sand, and he can hear the little

00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:44.800
birds and the seagulls flying, and he remembers

00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:49.360
Ozen, and his eyes shoot open. He senses something

00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.940
as he's lying there. He feels someone above him.

00:43:53.449 --> 00:43:56.909
This armored form of Dresden, the Echo, is kind

00:43:56.909 --> 00:43:59.769
of like standing protectively over. And as Akio's

00:43:59.769 --> 00:44:03.130
eyes open, this blurred image looks like Ozan

00:44:03.130 --> 00:44:05.869
Yoshikata. It looks like the Storm Eye. I...

00:44:05.869 --> 00:44:13.940
Master... You... You... I cannot die until I

00:44:13.940 --> 00:44:18.460
see you again. And he stands or slides off to

00:44:18.460 --> 00:44:21.719
the side, gets back up besides the Echo across

00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:25.440
from you, Dresden, blade in mouth. And I'm going

00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:29.719
to give you your turn with a Kiyo. Okay. I don't

00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:30.920
know if that's the rules normally go with this,

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:32.400
but I don't care. On a 20, I think we did with

00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:34.679
Zebulon before, on a 20, you get your turn following

00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:36.780
the get up. I think that's cool. It's pretty

00:44:36.780 --> 00:44:37.980
awesome. You spend three buttons for this free

00:44:37.980 --> 00:44:40.889
turn. Take it. Yeah, that's fine by me. All right.

00:44:40.989 --> 00:44:45.690
And going to do the same thing. That katana attack

00:44:45.690 --> 00:44:50.170
with flanking still, right? I mean, is Akio and

00:44:50.170 --> 00:44:52.949
the echo occupying the same space? Do we have

00:44:52.949 --> 00:44:56.590
to pick one or the other for flanking? You can

00:44:56.590 --> 00:44:58.110
still, because he can technically move into the

00:44:58.110 --> 00:45:00.050
same space for half his movement, for like double

00:45:00.050 --> 00:45:01.630
movement. It's fine. You can take the space and

00:45:01.630 --> 00:45:04.690
move back. So you can take the flanking. So Akio's

00:45:04.690 --> 00:45:07.659
standing like a guard dog, like between. Between

00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:09.659
the Echo's legs, you know what I mean? Yes, yeah.

00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:13.000
All right. Like this combined sort of yes. I'll

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:18.360
take it. 21. Holy shit. Wow. The first attack

00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:22.980
finally hit the first attack. Six damage for

00:45:22.980 --> 00:45:26.920
the first attack. I think he's almost dead. Actually,

00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.699
yeah, you can stop after that first attack. Oh,

00:45:28.739 --> 00:45:31.980
that's great. I had six HP left. Dude, the second

00:45:31.980 --> 00:45:35.780
roll was a natural one. Oh, my God. The Oni spins,

00:45:36.019 --> 00:45:38.619
hearing this, like, Akio stand, spins around.

00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:45.460
I told you to stay down, Matt! No, you stay down,

00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.079
bad dog! And just, like, sword slashed out. What's

00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:55.179
it look like when this Oni Crimson drops? The

00:45:55.179 --> 00:45:58.380
Oni has his arm up, and he's turning to strike,

00:45:58.380 --> 00:46:03.059
and Akio, with his fucking adorable dog head,

00:46:03.239 --> 00:46:09.400
strikes from the ground up, right underneath

00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:14.679
his arm, up to his chest, and just opens him

00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:17.719
beneath that, like, over his ribs there. As the

00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:21.780
sort of magic. The blood and magic both sort

00:46:21.780 --> 00:46:24.659
of flow from this creature. It just sort of topples

00:46:24.659 --> 00:46:26.940
aside. It's standing still upon the surface of

00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:29.739
the water, and you see it just falls, crashing

00:46:29.739 --> 00:46:34.739
through. A cloud of red sort of appearing where

00:46:34.739 --> 00:46:39.000
it dropped. How fitting to fall into crimson.

00:46:39.579 --> 00:46:43.380
Holy shit. Holy shit. You didn't need to roll

00:46:43.380 --> 00:46:46.380
a second attack. I mean, I'll... I'll let you

00:46:46.380 --> 00:46:47.639
play it as you want to play it out because you

00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:49.820
rolled the second attack against him. It was

00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:52.059
technically a non -needed attack because I forgot

00:46:52.059 --> 00:46:53.820
to tell you at the moment that you didn't need

00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:56.539
to do it. Akio can still make a move here if

00:46:56.539 --> 00:46:58.780
he wants. He still has one attack action. I don't

00:46:58.780 --> 00:46:59.980
know if you can use it. I don't know if you can

00:46:59.980 --> 00:47:01.760
get close enough to the other Oni to use it.

00:47:01.820 --> 00:47:07.360
No, what he'll do is he'll use his full movement.

00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:11.059
Let me figure out how far he can get here. He'll

00:47:11.059 --> 00:47:15.739
start to move around the pool towards... The

00:47:15.739 --> 00:47:18.360
Kenku. Okay. Hell yeah. It's going to take him

00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:20.739
a long time to get there, but... Towards the

00:47:20.739 --> 00:47:22.780
Kenku, and also towards the guard. He looks over

00:47:22.780 --> 00:47:25.900
and sees them piled up. He starts skittering.

00:47:26.539 --> 00:47:29.119
He realizes what's going on in the center of

00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:31.599
this pool looks like it's pretty well handled.

00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:34.199
That would be Crimson's turn, but it is not.

00:47:34.619 --> 00:47:39.579
Would be. Would be. So we slide back into the

00:47:39.579 --> 00:47:42.139
depths where these two figures struggle, and

00:47:42.139 --> 00:47:45.039
that's going to be you, Crispin. Okay. Crispin

00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:48.019
only has half his movement, but he has a lot

00:47:48.019 --> 00:47:51.280
of movement as a giant octopus. I want to move

00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:57.360
Crispin to this spot here with the phony position

00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:02.949
between Crispin and Dresden for flanking. Dresden

00:48:02.949 --> 00:48:04.889
or the Echo. So you're just going to the south

00:48:04.889 --> 00:48:07.050
end of the pool. Who's here? Actually, that's

00:48:07.050 --> 00:48:09.849
Dresden. You're right. So you're sliding down.

00:48:10.190 --> 00:48:12.309
Literally, you pull him over, and he just turns

00:48:12.309 --> 00:48:15.349
to see the bloody corpse of his brother, and

00:48:15.349 --> 00:48:20.829
just like eyes bulge open, full rage, like under

00:48:20.829 --> 00:48:24.530
the water, screaming towards you. Advantage plus

00:48:24.530 --> 00:48:30.800
two. Advantage plus two. Oh, my God. Wow. Oh

00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:34.199
yeah, that's it. That's a hit. That's a dirty

00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:37.599
20. That is going to hit. Oh my gosh, this combat.

00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:43.960
Can you finish this thing before I get my turn?

00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:48.800
Really cleave India. Again, 10 damage. 10 damage.

00:48:49.059 --> 00:48:52.119
Still up. Bone still sort of breaking. Weapon

00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:53.679
sort of being pulled further and further out

00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:55.599
as you're just strangling this thing. Maybe you've

00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.219
got like a one round its neck now. It's kind

00:48:57.219 --> 00:49:00.139
of... His eyes are bulging for more than just

00:49:00.139 --> 00:49:03.199
rage as you kind of squeeze and squeeze. Each

00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:05.519
attack is a new tentacle that just comes and

00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:08.400
grabs around him. Oh, that's so cool. Holy shit.

00:49:08.900 --> 00:49:11.300
The inky darkness sort of spreading into him.

00:49:12.099 --> 00:49:17.019
Damn, that's crazy. Okay, okay. Oh, it's BCM.

00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:19.780
I can't cast it. I could try to get out of this.

00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:21.940
I have the way, but I can't do it because I'm

00:49:21.940 --> 00:49:23.500
underwater. I have gaseous form. I could just

00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:27.369
leave. I can't. I could try to leave, but I can't

00:49:27.369 --> 00:49:29.230
get out of your grip. I can't get enough to speak.

00:49:29.769 --> 00:49:32.929
So I just, I want to be sort of clear. Can he

00:49:32.929 --> 00:49:35.929
be both underwater and still get flanking with

00:49:35.929 --> 00:49:39.230
Dresden? I mean, I guess he can be just under

00:49:39.230 --> 00:49:41.570
the water surface, right? I mean, within five

00:49:41.570 --> 00:49:45.389
feet of Dresden. We did just do flanking when

00:49:45.389 --> 00:49:48.829
both Dresden and Akio and Dresden's Echo were

00:49:48.829 --> 00:49:51.389
outside of the water and the Oni was in the water.

00:49:51.510 --> 00:49:53.510
Well, he was on the water. The Oni was on the

00:49:53.510 --> 00:49:56.449
water. He is down low, but I think... Crispin

00:49:56.449 --> 00:49:59.389
also got flanking earlier when he was under the

00:49:59.389 --> 00:50:01.530
water. The Octopus is kind of lower than him

00:50:01.530 --> 00:50:03.650
and Dresden's above him, which means you'd still

00:50:03.650 --> 00:50:05.869
draw that line through. I think in the case of

00:50:05.869 --> 00:50:07.489
the Octopus being lower and Dresden being higher,

00:50:07.530 --> 00:50:09.130
it still counts because you're pushing him. His

00:50:09.130 --> 00:50:11.250
back is up towards the surface, towards Dresden.

00:50:11.269 --> 00:50:13.170
He's still trying to strike. He can still be...

00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:15.500
under the water surface and be within five feet

00:50:15.500 --> 00:50:17.420
of Dresden. Yes, the flanking counts here. It

00:50:17.420 --> 00:50:19.800
still counts. The shape of things makes that

00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:24.260
make sense. Speaking of Dresden, actually, real

00:50:24.260 --> 00:50:29.219
quick. Speaking of Dresden, that is Dresden's

00:50:29.219 --> 00:50:32.099
turn. Alright, he's going for it. Okay, come

00:50:32.099 --> 00:50:34.380
on. Give me a chance here. Give me a chance to

00:50:34.380 --> 00:50:36.099
do something mean. Ah, shit. That's a two on

00:50:36.099 --> 00:50:38.400
the die for a nine. That's not going to hit.

00:50:38.989 --> 00:50:40.989
Is that your flanking, too? Oh, no, even flanking.

00:50:41.030 --> 00:50:42.550
Yeah, flanking would bring it up to 11. That

00:50:42.550 --> 00:50:45.130
will not hit. Yep. Head on the second attack.

00:50:45.610 --> 00:50:48.269
Second attack. Can you do this thing? Can you

00:50:48.269 --> 00:50:56.070
take him out? With a 23, that will hit. That

00:50:56.070 --> 00:51:00.190
will hit. You roll pretty good damage here. Fuck.

00:51:00.750 --> 00:51:04.590
Damn. Nope. Okay. Minimum damage. Oh, God. One

00:51:04.590 --> 00:51:07.570
on the die plus six, so that's for seven. Seven.

00:51:07.570 --> 00:51:11.900
All right. I mean, it's almost over. That's me.

00:51:12.860 --> 00:51:17.360
That's me. That is so bad. That is not a bonus

00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:19.579
action, correct? It doesn't matter if I break

00:51:19.579 --> 00:51:22.599
the... Oh, all I can do is fight. All I can do

00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.840
is fight. Okay. I'm taking two attacks on you

00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:26.340
again, Crispin. You're the one that has me grabbed.

00:51:26.460 --> 00:51:28.179
You're the one I'm cutting down on. Come on.

00:51:28.179 --> 00:51:31.980
It's not going to happen, man. Come on. That

00:51:31.980 --> 00:51:34.900
will hit. 16. In fact, I'm just going to roll

00:51:34.900 --> 00:51:42.360
them both. 12. 12 misses. Brutal. Dude, I'm so

00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:45.260
cold. But hey, come on, this is 16. At least

00:51:45.260 --> 00:51:48.920
give me the high -ass damage I want. It's max

00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:50.960
in the first, minimum in the second dice, so

00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:54.500
perfectly even. There's going to be 15 points

00:51:54.500 --> 00:52:00.440
of damage halved to 7. Yes. So another small,

00:52:00.619 --> 00:52:03.079
lighter blow gets through, trying so desperate.

00:52:03.949 --> 00:52:06.969
The second attack tries to go in, and as it goes

00:52:06.969 --> 00:52:09.829
in this time, it's like something just lets out.

00:52:09.869 --> 00:52:12.909
The weapon kind of goes wide. This thing is wide

00:52:12.909 --> 00:52:17.150
open. It's giving in. Yeah, wide open for Guardian,

00:52:17.309 --> 00:52:21.989
too. What? I get to hit you again. Yeah. Oh,

00:52:22.110 --> 00:52:25.849
my gosh. Yeah. Amazing. Let's go. Give me that

00:52:25.849 --> 00:52:29.570
attack. Dude, Sentinel has been incredible. Yeah.

00:52:31.210 --> 00:52:34.190
Oh, wait. It's flanking. You said the AC is 16?

00:52:34.449 --> 00:52:38.230
I did say that. Are you kidding me? You gotta

00:52:38.230 --> 00:52:41.289
be kidding me. I rolled a 7 on the die. Plus

00:52:41.289 --> 00:52:46.050
7 is 14. Plus 2 for flanking is 16. Give me that

00:52:46.050 --> 00:52:49.929
damage. Will you finish this thing? With 6 on

00:52:49.929 --> 00:52:55.570
the die plus 6 for 12 damage? Describe your kill.

00:52:55.949 --> 00:52:59.440
Yes. Literally the brothers. Right beside you.

00:52:59.500 --> 00:53:01.780
This thing is, as it's being chased, it's choking

00:53:01.780 --> 00:53:04.980
on the blood of his own brother. Strangled by

00:53:04.980 --> 00:53:07.099
this octopus. Tries to get in. It finally starts

00:53:07.099 --> 00:53:09.760
to slip. And you see this opening. What do you

00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:15.480
do from behind? Dresden jumps into the pool.

00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:20.039
On top of the Oni. Digs his war pick into his

00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:24.139
back. Takes his other hand. Grabs the back of

00:53:24.139 --> 00:53:30.079
his head. And just holds him down. He could drown,

00:53:30.219 --> 00:53:33.159
right? I'll say it's more like... Well, yeah,

00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:35.860
but in this case, for flavor. Sure, sure. He

00:53:35.860 --> 00:53:39.139
holds his head down underwater. It's like this

00:53:39.139 --> 00:53:41.380
combined brutal, like you and Chris and Bull

00:53:41.380 --> 00:53:47.920
together's team sort of strangling... God. Last

00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:51.380
bubbles. You guys are fucking brutal. Pure Hitman

00:53:51.380 --> 00:53:57.320
characters. Dresden's pissed. Holy shit. As you're

00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:59.590
drowning in the Keogh, is like running around

00:53:59.590 --> 00:54:03.630
the other side and at the end of the combat let's

00:54:03.630 --> 00:54:11.409
incredible blood pooling uh you finally can't

00:54:11.409 --> 00:54:15.230
face this like uh as you sort of surface dresden

00:54:15.230 --> 00:54:18.329
start waving the water out of your long hair

00:54:18.329 --> 00:54:20.650
bloody watering off dude you can't climb out

00:54:20.650 --> 00:54:23.469
what what what it's better be important what

00:54:23.469 --> 00:54:28.610
um Trying to decide if I should say this or not.

00:54:28.769 --> 00:54:32.829
Oh, God. What? I'm scared. Dude, if this all

00:54:32.829 --> 00:54:35.769
goes down the right way, I wonder if we can get

00:54:35.769 --> 00:54:40.289
Akio to be Blanche's new sidekick. Hey, who knows?

00:54:40.510 --> 00:54:44.829
I spent three buttons on this bitch. Yeah. I

00:54:44.829 --> 00:54:50.210
mean, hey. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Let's see. Just keep

00:54:50.210 --> 00:54:55.460
him on your side. Akio moves over. to where,

00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:56.780
like, the zappies were all, you know, the sort

00:54:56.780 --> 00:54:59.159
of burnt remains on the tile where they had been,

00:54:59.179 --> 00:55:02.780
like, destroyed, to where the guard are. I'm

00:55:02.780 --> 00:55:05.860
going to say he doesn't go straight to the kekku.

00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.400
He moves straight to the shrine guard. He gets

00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:10.239
kind of sniffed, moving over them. What are you

00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:11.579
guys doing while he's sort of observing that?

00:55:11.699 --> 00:55:14.579
Like, this first, ah, Suzaku, ah, are you okay?

00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:19.039
Ah, just kind of checking over everybody. Dresden

00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:21.800
goes over and kind of scratches behind his ear.

00:55:22.139 --> 00:55:23.480
So you got to move up behind him as he's looking.

00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:28.940
Hell yeah. You did good. Good dog. And you see,

00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:30.800
like, not only his tail is wagging, and not just

00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:33.400
from the scratching, he kind of, like, looks

00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:36.119
at you, and there's, like, his eyes are just,

00:55:36.139 --> 00:55:38.980
like, do you actually see, like, tears forming

00:55:38.980 --> 00:55:40.460
in these eyes? Maybe, like, higher intelligence

00:55:40.460 --> 00:55:42.780
gives them this sort of ability to feel this,

00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:44.800
the way people feel, and to cry, like, they cry.

00:55:45.099 --> 00:55:49.900
And he says, they're alive. They're alive. Nearly

00:55:49.900 --> 00:55:52.820
dead and sleeping. Some magic, I believe. But

00:55:52.820 --> 00:55:56.980
they're alive. You notice it too now. The shrine

00:55:56.980 --> 00:56:00.159
guard, their chests are rising and falling slowly.

00:56:00.619 --> 00:56:04.139
They only didn't kill. They only changed their

00:56:04.139 --> 00:56:06.239
mind about killing when they realized this was

00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:08.179
some kind of setup. But until then, it seems

00:56:08.179 --> 00:56:11.500
like their secret patron didn't want them taking

00:56:11.500 --> 00:56:14.260
any lives. And so they did not. Even the shrine

00:56:14.260 --> 00:56:18.329
guard were preserved. They look... bad you can

00:56:18.329 --> 00:56:20.730
see now like they are resting they are they are

00:56:20.730 --> 00:56:23.090
in a magical sleep as you kind of look over them

00:56:23.090 --> 00:56:25.789
but like their bodies are beaten and like this

00:56:25.789 --> 00:56:28.690
just like you know again singed and frosted over

00:56:28.690 --> 00:56:33.329
and it looks like they are near death um as you're

00:56:33.329 --> 00:56:36.210
observing this what are you doing um we can go

00:56:36.210 --> 00:56:39.690
over this later but at least for now while crispin's

00:56:39.690 --> 00:56:42.960
here in the water he's gonna dig through the

00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:46.519
pockets of the Oni and just put whatever he finds

00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:50.099
up on the side of the pool here. Hell yeah. Tentacles

00:56:50.099 --> 00:56:52.659
just sliding into all of these robes. You grab

00:56:52.659 --> 00:56:53.900
something and you're like, oh, whoops, that's

00:56:53.900 --> 00:56:57.460
not an item. That's not a sword. Uh -oh. You

00:56:57.460 --> 00:57:03.699
looting the body? You're just sort of gathering

00:57:03.699 --> 00:57:07.210
those things to the side on the pool. And there's

00:57:07.210 --> 00:57:10.429
this moment of calm. Again, overhead now, you

00:57:10.429 --> 00:57:13.610
start to see it. These dark tendrils of clouds

00:57:13.610 --> 00:57:16.610
have come together, almost swirling. It looks

00:57:16.610 --> 00:57:18.710
bad up there. Maybe it's part of the shrine,

00:57:19.010 --> 00:57:21.530
but I think there's a part of you both that as

00:57:21.530 --> 00:57:23.269
you kind of come out of this, the calm begins

00:57:23.269 --> 00:57:25.989
to wane away. As the rain dumps down, you can

00:57:25.989 --> 00:57:29.389
hear the thunder, lightning sort of cracks above.

00:57:30.150 --> 00:57:33.389
Something is wrong here. Something feels very

00:57:33.389 --> 00:57:40.219
wrong. Crispin's going to swim over to this edge

00:57:40.219 --> 00:57:45.059
of the pool, climb his way out, and he can hold

00:57:45.059 --> 00:57:47.639
his breath for one hour while out of the water.

00:57:47.780 --> 00:57:52.699
Full octopus. Start to crawl up the stairs towards

00:57:52.699 --> 00:57:56.659
the door into the inner sanctum. Yeah, Dresden's

00:57:56.659 --> 00:58:00.269
going to follow her around the way. I think Akio

00:58:00.269 --> 00:58:02.030
stays behind, kind of looking over these bodies,

00:58:02.070 --> 00:58:04.489
and the two of you begin to move away, move past

00:58:04.489 --> 00:58:07.010
the sort of empty, vacant apparatus of the crab,

00:58:07.090 --> 00:58:10.690
this big, weird, metal, steam -powered thing.

00:58:11.070 --> 00:58:13.909
The sort of backslide is open as you kind of

00:58:13.909 --> 00:58:16.969
pass by it. As you move beyond, you start moving

00:58:16.969 --> 00:58:21.789
towards the steps. And, I mean, you did it. You

00:58:21.789 --> 00:58:25.099
did it all. Did he die? Huh? What's his name?

00:58:25.219 --> 00:58:28.219
He full died. Okay. Like two rounds in. I rolled

00:58:28.219 --> 00:58:31.260
the one and I got three. Oh, okay. So as you

00:58:31.260 --> 00:58:33.980
pass the body of the Kenku, Singer, full dead.

00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:37.460
Yeah. Sorry, Singer. Can we see inside the apparatus?

00:58:38.099 --> 00:58:40.519
You can see. You see like a bunch of levers kind

00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:42.059
of all on the inside. There's like some like

00:58:42.059 --> 00:58:44.420
scopes that look like here out the front and

00:58:44.420 --> 00:58:45.900
kind of a larger area. It looks like it might

00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:47.579
be able to fit three medium -sized creatures,

00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:51.880
three like seats in there. On that note. As Dresden

00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:54.619
walks by it to follow Crispin, can he look in

00:58:54.619 --> 00:58:57.579
it? Yeah, you can. See if he can find anything?

00:58:57.800 --> 00:58:59.739
So let's say you move into the apparatus, kind

00:58:59.739 --> 00:59:03.219
of looking around. Crispin, you move up the steps

00:59:03.219 --> 00:59:04.840
towards the Shrine, towards the Innermost Sanctum.

00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:06.559
And actually, as you're moving towards the Innermost

00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.460
Sanctum, I will say you are searching pockets.

00:59:10.090 --> 00:59:12.730
As you move by the Kenku, you do see one item

00:59:12.730 --> 00:59:15.510
is lying just outside of it. I was like, he's

00:59:15.510 --> 00:59:18.269
dead. There is something that looks like maybe

00:59:18.269 --> 00:59:20.329
it was reaching for it when it died. And now

00:59:20.329 --> 00:59:22.469
it's kind of just like sort of resting just outside

00:59:22.469 --> 00:59:24.349
the sort of the grasping fingers where maybe

00:59:24.349 --> 00:59:27.530
it fell upon death. You see a sending stone.

00:59:28.210 --> 00:59:31.489
And you have a pretty good idea who this stone

00:59:31.489 --> 00:59:34.989
connects to. And thinking of Sholei, thinking

00:59:34.989 --> 00:59:37.349
of this moment, you realize you've done it all.

00:59:37.809 --> 00:59:42.610
Perfect victory. You've killed the Kenku singer.

00:59:42.769 --> 00:59:44.670
You've killed the Oni. Everyone who could have

00:59:44.670 --> 00:59:46.989
said, you know, the guard or sleep. Everyone

00:59:46.989 --> 00:59:49.690
who could have pointed their way to Sholay and

00:59:49.690 --> 00:59:53.329
her crimes here has been taken care of. Right?

00:59:54.030 --> 01:00:01.130
And then you hear a voice ring out. Ruff. Speaker

01:00:01.130 --> 01:00:06.130
Sholay Brass, they said. Ruff. We must bring

01:00:06.130 --> 01:00:11.880
her to justice for this. We must! Akio looks

01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:15.039
to you. And you realize in that moment, perhaps

01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:19.340
your hearts sink. Because there is one witness

01:00:19.340 --> 01:00:44.500
left. Shit. And we'll call it there. wars on

01:00:44.500 --> 01:00:48.579
taib's left many lives what what no what my notes

01:00:48.579 --> 01:00:52.260
are wrong hang on let me fix that left stole

01:00:52.260 --> 01:00:54.460
no it's stole and left