WEBVTT 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:04.440 Something we don't talk about a lot of here is 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:07.900 mental health. It's important. Luckily, our buddy 00:00:07.900 --> 00:00:11.220 Mikey does talk about it on his podcast, Mikey 00:00:11.220 --> 00:00:15.599 on Mute. All right, listen up, guys. Let's talk 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.760 about the uncomfortable things. No, I'm not talking 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:20.420 about your bathroom troubles or relationship 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:23.839 advice. I'm talking about mental health. For 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:27.280 too long, society has taught us to man up and 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.329 be quiet about what's bothering us. 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Check me out 00:01:09.709 --> 00:01:13.189 on Instagram at Mikey underscore on underscore 00:01:13.189 --> 00:01:17.109 mute underscore podcast for show clips and much 00:01:17.109 --> 00:01:22.530 more. The time of mountain mania is approaching. 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:26.430 May 1st through May 4th at Burke Mountain Hotel 00:01:26.430 --> 00:01:29.230 and Conference Center in Eastburg, Vermont. Get 00:01:29.230 --> 00:01:32.909 there, play games with us, watch us play our 00:01:32.909 --> 00:01:37.310 game, and have fun with games. Find out details 00:01:37.310 --> 00:02:28.430 at fantasypants .co. Varen grew up in the ever 00:02:28.430 --> 00:02:30.569 wind -wet world of Arnakhek, his village protected 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:32.710 from the constant gale by a rare mountain in 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:34.810 the Tundra world. And this lone mountain served 00:02:34.810 --> 00:02:36.729 as more than just a buffer for the wind, for 00:02:36.729 --> 00:02:38.449 it was also the home of this village's protector, 00:02:38.669 --> 00:02:41.930 a silver dragon known as the Father of the Mountain, 00:02:42.150 --> 00:02:44.530 who would come to love those that lived beneath 00:02:44.530 --> 00:02:47.650 its wing. It was said that those chosen among 00:02:47.650 --> 00:02:49.129 Varen's people would hike to the summit of the 00:02:49.129 --> 00:02:51.509 mountain to the dragon's lair upon their eighteenth 00:02:51.509 --> 00:02:53.870 birthday, and would be granted a great boon. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.740 A legend now has proven true when Baron himself 00:02:56.740 --> 00:02:58.860 met with the Great Father, who was gifted the 00:02:58.860 --> 00:03:01.719 boon of its strange and special blood, a single 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.819 drop to drink. Accepting this gift, Baron fell 00:03:04.819 --> 00:03:07.280 into a deep slumber. And when he awoke, he found 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.900 that silver scales now adorned his body, and 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:12.939 magic ran through his veins. Baron returned to 00:03:12.939 --> 00:03:14.719 his village and began to practice with his newfound 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.199 power, gaining a solid mastery of the ice element. 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:19.960 He donned a robe of blue over his pale red skin, 00:03:20.259 --> 00:03:22.740 and formed for himself a staff of never -melting 00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:25.199 ice. But some years after his meeting with the 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:28.719 father, tragedy struck. A group of snake -eater 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.000 poachers, fascinated by tales of the dragon's 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.800 blood and hungry for its meat, made their own 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.259 journey up the mountain slopes. Led by the cunning 00:03:36.259 --> 00:03:39.439 and nefarious Guy Safari, the group came upon 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.280 the dragon with an assortment of trips and tracks. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.400 A battle raged, and with a final cry, the father 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.800 was slain. Hearing this cry, Baron rushed back 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.560 to the summit, but found only tragedy. Meatless, 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.520 bloodless bones were all that remained of his 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.120 village's protector. And so, Baron Zass left 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.780 his village and his world behind, and set out 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:01.139 on a quest for vengeance. Now, years have passed 00:04:01.139 --> 00:04:03.400 since that fateful day, and Guy Safari, from 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.439 what we've heard, has really recently met his 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.000 end in the hands of some, uh, less honorable 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.419 excuses for luminaries. Barbarians are still 00:04:11.419 --> 00:04:13.400 quests throughout our world, saving good lives 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.860 and hunting down others. They're a poach in pursuit 00:04:15.860 --> 00:04:23.100 of profit and power. What? Thank you, Oliver, 00:04:23.459 --> 00:04:26.980 a .k .a. Skippy, you Africanus! Oh, nice. Yeah! 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:30.980 Nice. Dude, that's tragic. It's tragic. It's 00:04:30.980 --> 00:04:33.160 brutal. That's brutal. Dude, but... That's as 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:35.720 far as a monster. A staff of never -melting ice, 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:38.579 though, is really cool. It's really cool. It's 00:04:38.579 --> 00:04:41.290 really cool. Yeah, that was an awesome touch 00:04:41.290 --> 00:04:43.689 that he put in there. Yes, this is actually this 00:04:43.689 --> 00:04:45.709 whole thing, this character is a real fun bit 00:04:45.709 --> 00:04:47.730 we have in the Discord right now. It's been going 00:04:47.730 --> 00:04:49.350 on for a little bit where we've been talking. 00:04:49.449 --> 00:04:51.470 We realized that both Rory King and Raid of the 00:04:51.470 --> 00:04:53.769 Devilfish slash Sandy Sorceress are tiefling 00:04:53.769 --> 00:04:56.170 or draconic sorcerers, both with emphasis on 00:04:56.170 --> 00:04:57.769 different primary elements. Raid is all about 00:04:57.769 --> 00:05:00.449 the lightning, being on a ship. Rory is all about 00:05:00.449 --> 00:05:02.829 the fire. And so Skippy came up with the idea 00:05:02.829 --> 00:05:04.870 of adding an ice -based draconic tiefling into 00:05:04.870 --> 00:05:06.949 the world. So we're, as we're calling, we're 00:05:06.949 --> 00:05:08.930 building up the team of tiefling power. Rangers. 00:05:09.490 --> 00:05:11.910 Which is pretty fun. Yeah, it's pretty fun. Yeah, 00:05:11.910 --> 00:05:13.410 it's awesome. We may actually have another one 00:05:13.410 --> 00:05:15.750 coming up soon. Oh, really? Yes, we may have 00:05:15.750 --> 00:05:17.310 another Teething Power Ranger coming up soon. 00:05:17.970 --> 00:05:20.129 Yeah, it's pretty fun. So, join the Discord. 00:05:20.290 --> 00:05:23.790 Change the world. Change the world. Become a 00:05:23.790 --> 00:05:25.490 Power Ranger. It's kind of like from your show. 00:05:25.949 --> 00:05:31.170 Heroes. Save the cheerleader, save the world, 00:05:31.350 --> 00:05:33.470 or something like that. Yeah, I get it. Just 00:05:33.470 --> 00:05:35.529 drop save the world and like, boom, it's a Heroes 00:05:35.529 --> 00:05:40.259 reference. We should all watch Heroes sometime. 00:05:40.579 --> 00:05:43.339 Nah. I watched the first season. First season's 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:44.800 great. First season was great. After that, it 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.639 gets crazy. Yeah. I watched up until about the 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.779 guy said, save the cheerleader, save the world. 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:53.399 Well, that was the good part. I mean, I remember 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:57.100 it all these years later. But yeah, now every 00:05:57.100 --> 00:05:59.439 time I think of that, I'm going to think, join 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.319 the Discord, change the world. Change the world. 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:08.639 So. If the next words out of your mouth aren't 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.600 the words that Blanche wrote in her spellbook, 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:14.000 then I'm going to throw this dice tower at you. 00:06:14.019 --> 00:06:15.720 It's big and heavy. It's going to be another 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.540 goddamn flashback. You know what? Hey, hey. You 00:06:18.540 --> 00:06:19.899 want to know what's written in that book? You 00:06:19.899 --> 00:06:21.879 want to know what's in that book? Yeah. I'll 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.500 tell you what's in that book. A familiar world 00:06:24.500 --> 00:06:29.079 greets our eyes. Danitou. A world of lush forests 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.740 built of towering trees. We see a civilization 00:06:31.740 --> 00:06:33.860 constructed in branches, bridges and steps forming 00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:35.500 paths between settlements and homes. Yeah, I 00:06:35.500 --> 00:06:38.000 tricked you. I tricked you! Yeah, throw it at 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.180 me! Come on! nestled into the forest canopy like 00:06:41.180 --> 00:06:45.540 nests of colossal birds. Before all of this, 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:48.120 at the forefront of our mind's camera shot, we 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:49.839 see a thick lower branch extended across the 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.699 screen and two figures resting upon it. A large 00:06:52.699 --> 00:06:55.259 built man and a deceptively small woman, both 00:06:55.259 --> 00:06:57.949 looking to be in their middle -aged years. Zebulon 00:06:57.949 --> 00:07:00.949 and Sholay taking in the sights. The myriad shades 00:07:00.949 --> 00:07:02.589 of green that fill this region of the forest, 00:07:02.610 --> 00:07:04.810 specked with blue, blooming flowers and pink 00:07:04.810 --> 00:07:07.490 plume birds. All of this surrounding a bustling, 00:07:07.509 --> 00:07:10.389 joyful civilization of elves and Aarakocra, mingling 00:07:10.389 --> 00:07:12.670 with a wide assortment of world -hopping travelers. 00:07:12.870 --> 00:07:15.949 A party of heroes on a quest. A party that has 00:07:15.949 --> 00:07:18.970 both gained and lost so many faces in the last 00:07:18.970 --> 00:07:22.949 few years. And over this shot, a title card appears. 00:07:24.449 --> 00:07:28.069 254 years ago. Upon their branches, Ebulon stretches 00:07:28.069 --> 00:07:33.129 out wide into a casual yawn. It's incredible, 00:07:33.269 --> 00:07:36.069 isn't it? An entire settlement built into the 00:07:36.069 --> 00:07:38.810 branches. Ten worlds in, and I still don't think 00:07:38.810 --> 00:07:41.870 I'll ever stop being amazed by it all. You know, 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:44.110 they only live this way because of the otherworldly 00:07:44.110 --> 00:07:46.910 predators that hunt the forest floor. The trees 00:07:46.910 --> 00:07:48.829 give them some ability to stop and to repel horrific 00:07:48.829 --> 00:07:50.949 monstrosities. Really, this entire settlement 00:07:50.949 --> 00:07:53.029 is an acknowledgement of tragedies suffered and 00:07:53.029 --> 00:07:55.839 lessons hard learned. It would only get worse 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.319 if we don't connect these worlds. Sybil kind 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.600 of just shrinks down a little bit, kind of is 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:08.439 party pooped on. He flees, that's better. He 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:13.439 party poops down. Oh, well, yeah, there's that. 00:08:14.180 --> 00:08:16.300 Still, I mean, it's kind of pretty right now, 00:08:16.379 --> 00:08:19.540 though, right? In this moment, Michelle just 00:08:19.540 --> 00:08:22.699 shakes her head. I don't know how you do that. 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:27.180 Stay so positive. We've lost so many. Raylan, 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.899 just yesterday. Well, death comes to us all eventually. 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:34.519 I've made my peace with that. We carry on and 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.460 honor the lost and appreciate beautiful things 00:08:36.460 --> 00:08:39.100 in their stead. He turns his eyes over to Sholay, 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:40.759 sitting his gaze in her and shooting her a playful 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:44.519 wink. There's a long pause. Sholay's eyes lingering 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:46.480 on Zebulon, and then she turns away. Her face 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.960 becomes like iron, features hard and cold. It 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:55.860 will be you soon enough. Nonsense! I'm as tough 00:08:55.860 --> 00:08:58.200 as they come. I'll be by your side through it 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:02.460 all. And, even if you are, you will in total 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:05.879 live a paltry eighty years or so, Zebulon. You're 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.980 well over halfway to the grave already. And Zebulon's 00:09:08.980 --> 00:09:11.340 mouth sort of widens into a mischievous grin, 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.740 actually. Why, Miss Shirley Brass, I'm starting 00:09:15.740 --> 00:09:18.620 to think you've become a little fond of me. So 00:09:18.620 --> 00:09:20.580 he just winces, her mouth sets firm, and we see 00:09:20.580 --> 00:09:22.919 Zebulon sort of... rubbed the back of his neck, 00:09:22.980 --> 00:09:29.440 deflating once again. I, uh, I'm sorry. I imagine 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:32.440 that to you, the lives of us humans are like, 00:09:32.580 --> 00:09:36.220 uh, uh, uh, kind of looks around, campfires, 00:09:36.379 --> 00:09:40.620 right? A fine comfort, sure, but long gone come 00:09:40.620 --> 00:09:44.080 sunrise. Now, I can't promise you that I won't 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.960 burn away, but I can promise to burn so hot and 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.200 so bright that even a brass dragon can feel my 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.919 heat. So maybe you could take a page out of a 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.899 silly human's book and appreciate this. Right 00:09:56.899 --> 00:10:00.860 here. Right now. Shirley's eyes do not leave. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:06.600 Just that forward view. You are so short -lived. 00:10:07.500 --> 00:10:11.620 You can't understand. It is difficult not to 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:15.220 think about the future. To know that once the 00:10:15.220 --> 00:10:17.220 fire at your side burns out, you'll only feel 00:10:17.220 --> 00:10:20.539 colder of having appreciated it at all. I... 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.879 I don't want to be cold again. And Zebulon just 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:26.580 looks out over the view, letting the words sink 00:10:26.580 --> 00:10:29.600 in, letting his own expression fall. And in the 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:33.879 silence, we see his features set. A nod. A deep 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.559 breath. He turns back to Shirley and presses 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:40.100 a hand over hers. You won't be cold. I won't 00:10:40.100 --> 00:10:46.340 let you. Even after I die. I won't let you. She 00:10:46.340 --> 00:10:48.200 looks to him, looks in the eyes, filled the room 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.159 with warmth and passion. She sits frozen as Zebulon 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:56.279 cups her face. And they kiss. And we're back. 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.860 That was really cute. Yeah. You know what's less 00:11:00.860 --> 00:11:04.940 cute? Hwang Jun -soon all over your shoes, all 00:11:04.940 --> 00:11:08.759 over your lower body. Just gore all around. David, 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.460 you're sick. The gashes taken out of you, Blanche, 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.960 out of Chester, out of Akio, Jules. Even you 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:18.340 got struck pretty well. All of you look rough, 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:20.960 blood dripping, leaking onto the ground, mingling 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.679 with the mud, covering these animal prints that 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.940 surround you. There are claw marks all over your 00:11:26.940 --> 00:11:31.080 bodies. Blanche, you are not concerned with that 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:34.100 right now because you have left yourself a note. 00:11:34.259 --> 00:11:38.179 A note that you do not remember leaving. And 00:11:38.179 --> 00:11:40.679 to know how much you managed to write down in 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.340 the moments before this ended. I would like a 00:11:43.340 --> 00:11:48.980 sleight of hand roll. Okay. I can do that. Just 00:11:48.980 --> 00:11:50.320 a heads up. We're still recording. I don't know 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:51.960 if this got into the first episode. You can cut 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.840 this if it's not. It hasn't. It didn't. It didn't. 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.539 Okay. Discord thing. Yeah. I can't open it. Half 00:11:57.539 --> 00:11:59.519 of that discussion was off mic. Okay. And also 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.500 it only came up that one time where we had to 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:03.379 have the discussion off mic. Hell yeah. Okay. 00:12:03.740 --> 00:12:05.620 I can't close it. I don't know what's going on. 00:12:05.659 --> 00:12:07.679 I cannot open Discord or close it. Make me insane. 00:12:07.779 --> 00:12:10.419 Man, it's so weird that we have such an active 00:12:10.419 --> 00:12:16.200 Discord that it's disrupting the show. Join the 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:21.600 Discord. Ruin the episode. We're almost going 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.220 to make it to the end, but now it's got to be. 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:26.820 Sorry, Jeremy. Make it happen. All right. I'm 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:29.179 giving you a button for this roll. Oh, this trash 00:12:29.179 --> 00:12:31.820 -ass computer. I really need this. Trash -ass 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:33.320 computer. I'll give you two buttons. You buy 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.620 me a new computer. Smash this one. Okay, that's 00:12:36.620 --> 00:12:42.019 good. 18 first. Wow, two 14s in a row, so 18. 00:12:42.220 --> 00:12:45.679 18's pretty good. That's like 36, right? What? 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.279 Your book, in ink written in blood, in a very 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:00.700 fast shorthand, you see eight tigers, comma, 00:13:00.740 --> 00:13:08.279 N -W. And then below that, Then below that, in 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:13.860 quotes, I was a hero, celebrated and loved. You 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:18.200 forgot me. I did. And this is where the words 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.659 cut off. Where your hand holds the quill caught, 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.600 mid -sentence. When whatever happened, happened. 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.539 Kunan Jun, stand up. Jules, look at this. What? 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.179 What? What is that? What's going on? Why? We're 00:13:32.179 --> 00:13:34.080 swinging down soon. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.820 no. Blanche holds out her... She's dead. I'm... 00:13:37.820 --> 00:13:43.480 I'm sorry. I... But I found this. How did it 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.100 happen again? How did this happen again? It shouldn't 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:47.399 have happened again. The voice. Read this. What 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.879 does this mean to you? What? He reads it over. 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:52.480 Nothing. It doesn't mean anything. Did you write 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.940 that? You wrote that? I must have. When I came 00:13:56.940 --> 00:14:00.919 to, the quill and the book were both in my hands. 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:04.159 This is my writing. I must have wrote us a note. 00:14:04.460 --> 00:14:08.600 During the blackout? She's dead. She's dead. 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:11.019 She's dead. Looking down at the body. What's 00:14:11.019 --> 00:14:13.019 left of the body. Who else is on this job site? 00:14:15.139 --> 00:14:17.340 You actually look around and you see that other 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:19.279 people there. A few of them are just kind of 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:20.620 like standing up looking around. A lot of them 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:24.700 have tools in hand. Some tools have blood on 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:28.759 them. And you see like a few bodies. Probably 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.980 from where you're seeing now, there's two. People 00:14:30.980 --> 00:14:33.610 start screaming. As they look down, see their 00:14:33.610 --> 00:14:36.509 comrades are just gone again, just torn to pieces. 00:14:36.850 --> 00:14:39.889 Blanche points at whichever worker is closest 00:14:39.889 --> 00:14:43.350 to her. You, men. What? Keep it together. Do 00:14:43.350 --> 00:14:47.429 you have first aid on this work site? Yes, yeah, 00:14:47.470 --> 00:14:50.669 we've got a few kits. Grab two men, go get everything 00:14:50.669 --> 00:14:52.450 you can carry. All right, come on. And they start 00:14:52.450 --> 00:14:55.049 running, just following your orders. And Blanche 00:14:55.049 --> 00:14:58.350 is running around, trying to triage whoever's 00:14:58.350 --> 00:15:01.269 alive. Hell yeah. Let's see how it goes. Give 00:15:01.269 --> 00:15:07.200 me a medicine check. 17. Pretty good. There's 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.159 a few people who, like, have large gashes. You're 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.340 able to kind of cover them up. You know, you 00:15:12.340 --> 00:15:14.539 have, like, some things you can find for antiseptic. 00:15:14.620 --> 00:15:16.399 I think someone goes running out into the woods 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.279 to grab some natural remedies that are close 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.299 by, bringing them back, and you're able to sort 00:15:20.299 --> 00:15:23.340 of rub them on the bodies, keep them alive. Trying 00:15:23.340 --> 00:15:26.379 to stop blood or bleeding, you know, tourniquets, 00:15:26.379 --> 00:15:28.980 whatever she can do. And you think, in this moment, 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:32.340 this didn't just happen here. You know, you think 00:15:32.340 --> 00:15:34.480 help would arrive soon, but... This probably 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.000 happened at the palace, too. Did it happen at 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.019 the gate? I mean, before it happened at multiple 00:15:39.019 --> 00:15:41.740 places, right? You know it happened here when 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:45.080 you were at the gate. We at least can assume 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.179 that there aren't tigers throughout the rest 00:15:47.179 --> 00:15:49.120 of the cities. It's true. We're guessing the 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:50.840 tigers were here. The wounds you've taken look 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:53.120 different than the first time. Yeah. These were 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:55.440 different things. Though the first time you did 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:59.120 not know to leave a note. Mm -hmm. As you're 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:00.919 kind of fixing bodies, I think you see Conan 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:06.559 June's beside you. Jules just... You... You were 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.080 protecting me. Thank you. You saved my life, 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.779 didn't you? I don't even remember you doing it, 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:14.919 but you saved my life. All of you saved... We've 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:18.120 got to trust each other. This is worse than I 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.620 ever thought it could have been. When we're done 00:16:22.620 --> 00:16:27.620 here, you need to see something. Just... Ow! 00:16:28.379 --> 00:16:30.919 Blanch! Too tight! Too tight! Are there any health 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:36.759 potions left in that first egg kit? Hmm. Hmm. 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.039 Hmm. Roll a die about it. Disadvantage, because 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:42.960 it's already a thing that happened earlier. I 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.840 said there were two people injured. It's not 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:46.179 like there's going to be more health potions. 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:53.000 I've got one basic! Runs over, hands you a basic 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:54.799 potion. Hey, it's something. Yeah, no, no, no. 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.879 It's definitely good. Chester grabs it. All right, 00:16:57.899 --> 00:17:00.539 nice, thanks. Bottoms up. I was just going to 00:17:00.539 --> 00:17:02.940 say, I've got heals. Oh, okay. Well, this will 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:05.400 help, too. I mean, yeah, it'll help, yeah. Yeah. 00:17:06.380 --> 00:17:08.119 I'll have to burn up a bunch of slots. For a 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.079 reasonable ask. Basic's 1d4 plus 1? I think it's 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:16.019 plus 2. Plus 2, yeah, d4 plus 2, I think. No, 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:21.380 potion healing has 2d4 plus 2. Oh, 2d4. I'll 00:17:21.380 --> 00:17:22.880 give it to you, since I stole all your agency 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:27.549 and combats. Just kind of a big ask for a DM. 00:17:28.109 --> 00:17:31.549 So that's just six back. Okay. Hey, no, it's 00:17:31.549 --> 00:17:32.950 nothing. Hold on. How much are you down? It's 00:17:32.950 --> 00:17:37.230 not nothing. I am just over halfway. I'm at 26 00:17:37.230 --> 00:17:42.369 out of 50. Shit. Yeah. Akio is just as bad. He's 00:17:42.369 --> 00:17:44.710 29 out of 53. That happened twice. What's the 00:17:44.710 --> 00:17:46.430 chance it could happen a third time? Come on. 00:17:46.609 --> 00:17:48.630 What are the chances? I'm going to burn two slots. 00:17:48.730 --> 00:17:51.569 One for you and one for Akio. Cool. I think Akio 00:17:51.569 --> 00:17:58.359 wins. So one. And two. So here's for you. Almost 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.220 max. Seven on the die plus four. Nice. So that's 00:18:01.220 --> 00:18:04.539 another 11. Ooh, hell yeah. And then for Akio. 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:06.579 Oh, you're going to pet me with your glowing 00:18:06.579 --> 00:18:09.900 hand. Akio is only eight total. Oh, it still 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:12.319 feels really good. Thank you very much. Oh, thank 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.759 you, Jules. Yo, Jules. Of course, buddy. Bunch 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:20.769 of buddy. Jesus Christ. Don't make me burn slots, 00:18:21.069 --> 00:18:23.049 man. You should burn all your slots. Don't make 00:18:23.049 --> 00:18:25.690 me burn slots. You're nearly scratched, Chester. 00:18:25.829 --> 00:18:29.269 Come here. Chill the fuck out. Blanche rubs some 00:18:29.269 --> 00:18:40.009 dirt. Ow! She slaps it. Complain to me again 00:18:40.009 --> 00:18:44.390 when you're at half. No, we're done. Once you 00:18:44.390 --> 00:18:50.329 hit half, then we'll do something about it. Ugh. 00:18:51.430 --> 00:18:53.950 What do you want to do? Ten tigers from the northwest 00:18:53.950 --> 00:18:56.529 did all this? Uh, eight. Eight? Oh, I thought 00:18:56.529 --> 00:18:58.309 you said ten. That's right. I'm almost positive 00:18:58.309 --> 00:19:00.549 you said ten. Is it ten? You know what? Maybe 00:19:00.549 --> 00:19:02.650 there's eight facing you, two more that wouldn't 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:06.029 do our stuff. Ten's fine. I don't care. I don't 00:19:06.029 --> 00:19:07.990 care. I should probably just tell you what I'm 00:19:07.990 --> 00:19:09.349 doing with these things. I think I'll let you 00:19:09.349 --> 00:19:11.670 in on the behind the screen a little bit. Sure, 00:19:11.849 --> 00:19:14.589 okay. So when we make these rolls, what I'm doing 00:19:14.589 --> 00:19:17.329 is based on your D100 roll, effectively I'm going 00:19:17.329 --> 00:19:20.970 to play out quick play out rounds of combat by 00:19:20.970 --> 00:19:23.049 round, right? So depending on your roll, that's 00:19:23.049 --> 00:19:25.109 how many rounds happen and how many rounds of 00:19:25.109 --> 00:19:28.440 damage or rounds of attacks. I roll four. I break 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:30.359 it down, more attacks going to the frontliners 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:32.700 and the backliners. I just roll them all in a 00:19:32.700 --> 00:19:35.220 dice roller to save time so I don't roll 60 million 00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:39.000 die. And we see how many hit, and then I resolve 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:41.980 damage after that with a flat damage check for 00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:47.099 each. Rude. Yeah. Yeah. Quite. Do better. Rude, 00:19:47.180 --> 00:19:52.920 and I hate it. Oh, my God. Okay, so... I told 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:58.619 you you would. I told you you would. Can we assume 00:19:58.619 --> 00:20:01.619 that we've kind of got things mostly under control 00:20:01.619 --> 00:20:03.660 here? I think so, yeah. Yeah, you're looking 00:20:03.660 --> 00:20:05.160 around. At this point, there are some people 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.539 funneling from the city, guards and physicians 00:20:07.539 --> 00:20:10.160 moving in. Not as many as you think there could 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:13.119 be, perhaps, although somewhere else, but people 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.640 are coming to help. Blanche would ask either 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.400 one of the physicians or one of the guards, you 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.079 know, somebody. Are resources spread thin? Did 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.140 anything happen anywhere else in the city? I, 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:29.319 um... Are there other guards and physicians responding 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:33.920 to other emergencies at the same time? There's 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:35.960 a kind of a moment like that makes it easier. 00:20:36.099 --> 00:20:38.220 And there's a blink, kind of an unsure. And then 00:20:38.220 --> 00:20:42.480 this figure looks to have come on June, who speak 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:47.559 openly. We have to know. There's some reports 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.680 of an attack in the Park of the Elders, as well 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:55.460 as in the palace. I mean, sorry. An incident. 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.980 An incident happened in both. It's okay. It's... 00:20:58.980 --> 00:21:03.579 It's okay. Is anyone injured in the palace? No, 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:06.680 no. It went well, though. We were on guard for 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:10.180 any incidents, you could say. Blanche looks to 00:21:10.180 --> 00:21:14.180 Kunan Jun. I know that, like, you can't really 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:16.579 communicate a whole lot in a look, but she's 00:21:16.579 --> 00:21:19.339 looking quizzically, which is kind of like... 00:21:19.339 --> 00:21:21.339 She's like, do you know what he's saying? Or 00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:24.380 what they're saying? Let me just pull you to 00:21:24.380 --> 00:21:27.839 the side. Look, from what I've gathered, the 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:29.740 first time there was an incident, it happened 00:21:29.740 --> 00:21:32.000 at the gates, it happened at the palace, it happened 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:37.359 here. This time, palace again, here again, in 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.059 the Park of the Elders. These spots must be significant. 00:21:41.859 --> 00:21:44.420 I just don't know why. And why was the gate not 00:21:44.420 --> 00:21:47.200 significant this time? The Park of the Elders 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.779 is in the Phoenix District? It was the Phoenix 00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:53.519 District. Now it's all that's left. What can 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:56.400 you tell me? She's saying this to the physician 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:57.900 that she was talking to earlier. What can you 00:21:57.900 --> 00:22:02.779 tell me of the damage at the park? Are things 00:22:02.779 --> 00:22:09.700 burnt to cinder? No, no. Two slain and some strange 00:22:09.700 --> 00:22:12.900 damage to the statue. Like pieces were ripped 00:22:12.900 --> 00:22:19.099 out. Ripped? Like claw marks? I can't say. Craters? 00:22:20.140 --> 00:22:23.220 gashes, huge gashes. You think back to the gate 00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:25.680 and there was something very similar there. Okay. 00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:29.059 The wall of the gate had pieces essentially ripped 00:22:29.059 --> 00:22:31.180 free almost. You remember looking down and seeing 00:22:31.180 --> 00:22:33.880 stone that seemed to crumble as you looked at 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:36.839 it. Right. Stone holding some strange shape that 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:39.559 you weren't quite able to catch before it crumbled 00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:43.160 the dust. Well, gentlemen, jewels, magistrate, 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.700 do you think we should return to the castle to 00:22:45.700 --> 00:22:49.299 investigate or should we push forward to the... 00:22:49.740 --> 00:22:54.220 Tiger Den. Tiger Den? We're going to a Tiger 00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:56.380 Den? Why are we going to a Tiger Den? Well, we 00:22:56.380 --> 00:22:59.460 established earlier that they were harassing 00:22:59.460 --> 00:23:03.319 the construction workers and this now. I think 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:05.460 Jules is going to look over to... What's his 00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:08.799 name? Kunajun? Yeah. Now that things are settled 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:13.380 here, may or may not want to follow you to something 00:23:13.380 --> 00:23:16.680 you may or may not want to show somebody. Do 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:18.849 have some pressing business to attend to. In 00:23:18.849 --> 00:23:22.230 the city. We may not follow you. You can follow 00:23:22.230 --> 00:23:24.210 me. Just don't pay attention to anything that 00:23:24.210 --> 00:23:25.789 happens. We're obligated to follow. We won't 00:23:25.789 --> 00:23:27.609 pay attention. You have to follow. That's the 00:23:27.609 --> 00:23:31.470 rule. I will say, though, on the note of the 00:23:31.470 --> 00:23:33.769 tiger den, because you're picking this up, Blanche. 00:23:33.829 --> 00:23:35.309 You hear this, and you're like, something went 00:23:35.309 --> 00:23:37.150 down between the two of them. There's something 00:23:37.150 --> 00:23:40.890 important here. But your mind also thinks back 00:23:40.890 --> 00:23:44.589 to your note. It did say eight tigers, NW. northwest 00:23:44.589 --> 00:23:47.190 you know that that den was to the north yeah 00:23:47.190 --> 00:23:48.589 so it's like there could be interesting things 00:23:48.589 --> 00:23:50.109 there too but it could be either way yeah i'm 00:23:50.109 --> 00:23:52.130 just basically putting out there like you all 00:23:52.130 --> 00:23:53.769 right let's split the party blanche is gonna 00:23:53.769 --> 00:24:00.809 go fight eight tigers along oh shit no yeah i 00:24:00.809 --> 00:24:03.390 i in the in the couple seconds that we talked 00:24:03.390 --> 00:24:05.809 about it i forgot that kunan june said he wanted 00:24:05.809 --> 00:24:07.750 to show us something yeah is that where you're 00:24:07.750 --> 00:24:10.029 going back to city yeah we're gonna follow kunan 00:24:10.029 --> 00:24:15.009 june i think okay hell yeah you Move away from 00:24:15.009 --> 00:24:19.329 here. Down the one -day street of this construction 00:24:19.329 --> 00:24:22.529 district. Leave behind pained whimpers and cries. 00:24:23.809 --> 00:24:28.269 Moving towards silence. This suffocating silence 00:24:28.269 --> 00:24:31.710 needs to fill these woods. You turn through the 00:24:31.710 --> 00:24:33.710 gate back into the city. The guards there look 00:24:33.710 --> 00:24:39.730 disturbed. And you push back into the city streets. 00:24:40.150 --> 00:24:43.519 Where once again the people seem to be... Moving 00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:47.420 on. Seem to be ignoring what has happened. Putting 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:52.579 it aside. The strangeness. The tragedy. These 00:24:52.579 --> 00:24:57.480 unfortunate incidents that just happened. So 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:00.940 this one happened at 12 o 'clock or shortly after? 00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:05.119 Yes. Okay, so I don't know if it's going to happen 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.480 every three hours, but I guess we'll at least 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:16.029 watch the sun dial. Be yourself, Hulk. The ascending 00:25:16.029 --> 00:25:19.130 stone has like a clock attachment. Just take 00:25:19.130 --> 00:25:22.349 note of the time for us. All right. Yeah. Ow. 00:25:22.990 --> 00:25:26.089 Still got to rub it in his arm. Rub dirt into 00:25:26.089 --> 00:25:28.509 it. Do you need more dirt? No. No, no. We're 00:25:28.509 --> 00:25:30.789 good. We're good. Sorry. Not complaining. Not 00:25:30.789 --> 00:25:36.069 complaining. You're moving. I was just abusing 00:25:36.069 --> 00:25:40.819 a child casually. Past the palace. As we do. 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:44.220 Down through the city, down through the lower 00:25:44.220 --> 00:25:47.779 districts, where they, on the sort of mid, upper 00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:50.299 mid -tier of the city, where the Turtle and Herring 00:25:50.299 --> 00:25:52.900 District kind of control, pushing down through 00:25:52.900 --> 00:25:57.119 them, down towards the Hay Tay District, which 00:25:57.119 --> 00:25:59.500 is sort of the lower shop district, closer to 00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:03.099 the gate. So, what is a Hay Tay? Is it an animal? 00:26:03.259 --> 00:26:05.460 I have no idea. Okay. Because we have, like, 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:07.160 the Phoenix District, the Tiger District. You 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.039 know what? Hang on, let's Google this shit. How 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:12.539 is it spelled? H -A -E -T -A -E. You have to 00:26:12.539 --> 00:26:16.420 understand that I am not good at words. That's 00:26:16.420 --> 00:26:18.220 cool as fuck. Hang on. It's a teenager name tag. 00:26:18.380 --> 00:26:21.819 Okay. Haytays are known as unicorn lions. Okay. 00:26:21.859 --> 00:26:24.880 So it is. Sure. Yeah. That is so rad. I hope 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.259 there's a stab lock for one of those. That's 00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:27.259 pretty cool. I'm going to pull one on my ass. 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:30.400 That's so cool. God. That's a weird place to 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:31.759 pull a stab lock from. I'm going to play a haytay 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:34.779 in the next game I'm in. You're going to play 00:26:34.779 --> 00:26:37.119 a heyday? The unicorn lion is the coolest thing. 00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:38.599 Yeah, that is pretty cool. I want to die and 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:44.880 come back as a heyday. You move down through 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.920 these streets where things are a lot more busy, 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:50.660 a lot more bustling. You're moving through crowds 00:26:50.660 --> 00:26:53.319 and crowds. Akio staying close to you. Blanche 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:56.319 kind of half limping as he moves by you. You 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:59.890 turn a corner. Moving away from more popular 00:26:59.890 --> 00:27:02.970 streets and towards like a southern end of this 00:27:02.970 --> 00:27:06.869 district. Almost like you move to a building 00:27:06.869 --> 00:27:09.549 at the very end of this street that makes you 00:27:09.549 --> 00:27:11.450 think almost like the ugly coyote of this world, 00:27:11.549 --> 00:27:14.390 right? Let's go. Yeah, street at the very end, 00:27:14.410 --> 00:27:17.269 or building at the very end of a street, which 00:27:17.269 --> 00:27:20.970 seems a lot less populous. You see this large 00:27:20.970 --> 00:27:24.390 and very nice looking... cafe or something. There's 00:27:24.390 --> 00:27:28.150 a couple tables just outside. Large glass windows. 00:27:28.970 --> 00:27:32.410 You see a sign above the door. It kind of bears 00:27:32.410 --> 00:27:37.130 maybe a steaming cup. And it just says The Tea 00:27:37.130 --> 00:27:40.690 Shop. The building looks old. Like old, old architecture. 00:27:41.569 --> 00:27:45.430 It also looks abandoned. No lights on inside. 00:27:45.750 --> 00:27:48.750 No people mingling around the front. No movement 00:27:48.750 --> 00:27:52.450 in the windows. This is a... Our destination. 00:27:53.309 --> 00:27:56.890 What do you expect to find in here? A Gwishin. 00:27:57.690 --> 00:28:02.450 Oh, shit. That's the thing we're looking for. 00:28:02.670 --> 00:28:04.750 Whoa. Hold on. That's the thing we're looking 00:28:04.750 --> 00:28:07.890 for. It is a thing you're looking for. Learn 00:28:07.890 --> 00:28:10.809 of the Gwishin. It doesn't look too important 00:28:10.809 --> 00:28:17.049 to me. Let's keep going. Okay. I told you before 00:28:17.049 --> 00:28:21.400 that I am a spirit arbiter in training. I'm going 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.359 to tell you what that means now. Spirit arbiters 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:28.420 are us magistrates that are uniquely trained 00:28:28.420 --> 00:28:34.160 to face and appease the Gwishin. They are the 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.059 secret of the city. And I will tell you because 00:28:37.059 --> 00:28:40.740 I think it is my duty to inform you. Because 00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:44.000 you saved my life. Yeah, we did. And I hope you 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.789 can save more lives if this happens again. Maybe 00:28:48.789 --> 00:28:51.069 this is inappropriate, wildly inappropriate, 00:28:51.269 --> 00:28:54.650 but I'm a magistrate of Yanito, and I get to 00:28:54.650 --> 00:28:57.309 decide what's best for the city. That is my job. 00:28:57.710 --> 00:29:01.269 That is the power you hold, Kunan Jun, and we 00:29:01.269 --> 00:29:06.069 will do everything in ours to see it done. Let's 00:29:06.069 --> 00:29:09.750 proceed. What is a guishin? He's like moving 00:29:09.750 --> 00:29:10.829 towards the tree as you're kind of talking to 00:29:10.829 --> 00:29:13.210 him, getting closer and closer. That's a good 00:29:13.210 --> 00:29:18.819 one. We call Yanito. The city of judgment. That 00:29:18.819 --> 00:29:20.839 is because those who have passed in this city, 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:24.440 those who lived here, that were profoundly wronged 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:28.380 in life by their family, they return to hold 00:29:28.380 --> 00:29:31.819 judgment over their perceived malefactors. Gwishin 00:29:31.819 --> 00:29:33.759 are a symbol of private shame. We do not acknowledge 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.039 them, unless they are of our own making. It is 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.359 a great embarrassment to have your Gwishin haunting 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:44.240 acknowledged. That kind of sounds like what's 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.470 going on here. You know, especially after what 00:29:47.470 --> 00:29:50.769 that voice said. Uh -huh. Yeah, so the Gwishin 00:29:50.769 --> 00:29:53.410 are, like you said, the secret. Now we have to 00:29:53.410 --> 00:29:55.529 find the secret behind the secret. Yeah. All 00:29:55.529 --> 00:29:59.230 right. And what's the lie? Yes, the Dragon Clan's 00:29:59.230 --> 00:30:04.730 lie. This mist we've seen. Mist itself is a sign 00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:08.950 commonly attributed to Gwishin. That's why people 00:30:08.950 --> 00:30:12.789 are ignoring it. They... Those who live here, 00:30:12.869 --> 00:30:15.410 those not of the outside, understand that this 00:30:15.410 --> 00:30:18.670 is in some ways normal, but this is also not 00:30:18.670 --> 00:30:22.069 normal at all. If this is the doing of a Gwishin, 00:30:22.069 --> 00:30:26.710 this mist, this city -spanning fog that steals 00:30:26.710 --> 00:30:29.990 memories, then this Gwishin is far stronger than 00:30:29.990 --> 00:30:33.410 any I've ever heard of. They say the power of 00:30:33.410 --> 00:30:35.509 a Gwishin is determined by three things. The 00:30:35.509 --> 00:30:38.089 time they have spent in death, dormant, and gathering 00:30:38.089 --> 00:30:40.650 power until they are triggered into action. the 00:30:40.650 --> 00:30:43.069 rage they feel, the crime held against them, 00:30:43.150 --> 00:30:47.269 and the sheer shame of the one or ones that have 00:30:47.269 --> 00:30:51.589 wronged them. And we in the city, I think we 00:30:51.589 --> 00:30:54.009 can all feel it, that the shame represented by 00:30:54.009 --> 00:30:58.109 this equation that steals memories, it is insurmountable, 00:30:58.130 --> 00:31:01.809 unknowable. We must ignore it. We must, he turns 00:31:01.809 --> 00:31:05.309 to you, eyes wide, because we fear it. We fear 00:31:05.309 --> 00:31:09.250 that someone we all respect, greatly, greatly 00:31:09.250 --> 00:31:13.470 respect, These words come out so hard. You can 00:31:13.470 --> 00:31:14.809 see like a throat that wants to close around 00:31:14.809 --> 00:31:17.589 them. That someone we respect could be the source 00:31:17.589 --> 00:31:21.250 of the shame. His eyes pan up. Towards the seat 00:31:21.250 --> 00:31:24.670 of dragons. Towards the palace. And so we must 00:31:24.670 --> 00:31:30.069 carry on for Yanito. We must not question. Except. 00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:34.630 People are dying. I will show you a Guishin now. 00:31:35.529 --> 00:31:37.569 So you can understand what it is I feel we are 00:31:37.569 --> 00:31:40.450 up against. This is not. A powerful equation. 00:31:40.589 --> 00:31:44.190 Normally they don't cause harm like this. They 00:31:44.190 --> 00:31:47.509 are simply spirits that need to be appeased. 00:31:48.069 --> 00:31:52.630 They will try to trick you. They will try to 00:31:52.630 --> 00:31:55.809 embarrass you. They will try to get in your way, 00:31:55.910 --> 00:32:00.250 but so rarely do they kill like this. This sounds 00:32:00.250 --> 00:32:04.009 like a perfect vehicle for David to be mean to 00:32:04.009 --> 00:32:08.430 us. Doesn't it though? Just like say mean, horrible 00:32:08.430 --> 00:32:13.369 things to our characters. How do you find the 00:32:13.369 --> 00:32:16.410 Gwishin? How did you find this one? I've known 00:32:16.410 --> 00:32:19.890 of this one for some time. Well, at least a week. 00:32:19.910 --> 00:32:24.630 It's been kind of... It's not causing harm as 00:32:24.630 --> 00:32:26.549 it stands because this is an abandoned place. 00:32:26.670 --> 00:32:28.950 But this tea shop, it used to be called just 00:32:28.950 --> 00:32:31.529 the tea shop. It was one of the oldest structures 00:32:31.529 --> 00:32:34.089 in the city. And they have proudly served for 00:32:34.089 --> 00:32:38.990 generations. The last owner, the last full owner, 00:32:39.049 --> 00:32:43.130 was Bi Su Min. And she so loved this shop, put 00:32:43.130 --> 00:32:46.289 everything in her life into it. She was so proud 00:32:46.289 --> 00:32:48.009 when she handed it off to her son, Bi Chin Hai. 00:32:48.970 --> 00:32:54.230 And he took to gambling. When she died, she died 00:32:54.230 --> 00:32:56.769 knowing that the shop she loved more than anything 00:32:56.769 --> 00:32:59.470 in this world had been torn from their family. 00:33:00.289 --> 00:33:03.869 Sold and soon to be demolished. This is a great 00:33:03.869 --> 00:33:08.140 shame. I shouldn't. Speak of it. But I do now. 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:12.380 You're doing the right thing. This is the lair 00:33:12.380 --> 00:33:15.059 of the Gwishin where it haunts. If I enter this 00:33:15.059 --> 00:33:19.619 place, invoke Bisu Min's name, and hold her memory 00:33:19.619 --> 00:33:22.400 and heart, it will call upon her and she will 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.460 appear before us. And then I can try to appease 00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:28.960 her. I have scrolls for this. You simply need 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:32.980 to sit back and watch. We'll watch closely and 00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:35.700 we'll learn how to... I don't want to say defeat, 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:41.619 but appease, I guess. These Gwishin. Good. All 00:33:41.619 --> 00:33:45.859 right. Then let us proceed. The shop door opens 00:33:45.859 --> 00:33:50.140 an old sort of rusted bell, rings out across 00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:52.819 this lonely space, and you walk in and see this 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:57.839 great open cafe. Tables lining the windows where 00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:02.259 a sad light seems to shine in, dust covers all 00:34:02.259 --> 00:34:06.420 these surfaces. You see this grand, like, the 00:34:06.420 --> 00:34:09.539 back wall, like, the whole, like, I guess, I'd 00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:11.599 say two most inner walls that aren't adorned 00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:15.860 by windows, you see, are covered in shelves, 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.340 and just, like, hundreds of different teacups 00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:23.440 are lining them. You see, like, little inscriptions 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:25.340 written on them, and as you kind of, you know, 00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:27.579 look in the dark, you have your glasses that 00:34:27.579 --> 00:34:29.199 kind of hone in a little bit on them, Blanche. 00:34:29.420 --> 00:34:32.039 You can see... There are names, just different 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:33.719 names written on every one of these cups, maybe 00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:36.719 different customers that came by and their cup 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.380 was saved. You see a, yeah, you see a place that 00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:43.079 had probably been very much loved. There are 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:46.179 probably like flowers sitting in vases on these 00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:48.599 tables that fully just wilted and they're just 00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:53.980 dead dry sticks now. Just a smell of must. Maybe 00:34:53.980 --> 00:34:58.809 like this slight. sweetness, bitterness mingled 00:34:58.809 --> 00:35:01.730 with it, tea that is spilled into the wood, the 00:35:01.730 --> 00:35:05.550 spirit of this home, this shop that will never 00:35:05.550 --> 00:35:08.969 ever quite leave it. It's a sad thing now, a 00:35:08.969 --> 00:35:11.610 shadow of what it was. And you stare into this 00:35:11.610 --> 00:35:15.090 empty, vacant space, stairs that move up to a 00:35:15.090 --> 00:35:18.789 second floor that from the outside, you saw a 00:35:18.789 --> 00:35:21.369 couple windows, maybe it's just like an apartment 00:35:21.369 --> 00:35:23.469 above it, something like that. Does Jules have 00:35:23.469 --> 00:35:28.159 to tech magic? Ooh, magic. No. He has dispel. 00:35:28.179 --> 00:35:31.619 Yeah, bummer. Actually, hold on. Let me check 00:35:31.619 --> 00:35:33.380 that. I was looking through. I was like, I don't 00:35:33.380 --> 00:35:36.079 know. This place just feels super magical. I 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.960 want to find a magical teacup. I have dispel 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:44.579 magic, and I have detect thoughts. But not detect 00:35:44.579 --> 00:35:48.019 magic. Maybe the teacup can think. Beauty and 00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:55.579 the Beast teacup. Never mind. You step in. The 00:35:55.579 --> 00:35:58.400 Magistrate begins to move deeper in. What do 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.659 you do? Do you take a seat? Do you stand back 00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:03.739 towards the door? What's your initial move as 00:36:03.739 --> 00:36:07.000 the Magistrate moves in? You see he drops down, 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.719 pulling scrolls off that one large bag he carries. 00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:12.119 He starts unraveling scrolls across the floor. 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.519 I think Blanche is just looking around, kind 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:18.179 of taking everything in, studying the room. Certainly 00:36:18.179 --> 00:36:20.059 not going to sit down. She's not going to let 00:36:20.059 --> 00:36:23.449 her guard down. Really going to follow the magistrate's 00:36:23.449 --> 00:36:26.369 lead. Hell yeah. Opening cupboards and stuff, 00:36:26.409 --> 00:36:29.389 maybe. Yeah. Just getting a little snoopy. Yeah. 00:36:29.469 --> 00:36:31.349 Peeking around, you see utensils. You see, like, 00:36:31.389 --> 00:36:34.110 maybe old bags of herbs and, you know, like, 00:36:34.150 --> 00:36:36.630 tea leaves that just, again, you know, they're, 00:36:36.690 --> 00:36:38.869 like, bitten into. Like, critters have, like, 00:36:38.869 --> 00:36:41.250 ripped into the fibers. And, you know, you see 00:36:41.250 --> 00:36:44.010 mouse droppings throughout the various cabinets. 00:36:44.090 --> 00:36:52.860 Just sad. Open the cash drawer. 600 gold. 600 00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:56.480 gold. No, never. Never in your life. You find 00:36:56.480 --> 00:37:00.579 a button. I would like that. Jim, what are you 00:37:00.579 --> 00:37:02.880 up to over there? He's just meandering around. 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:06.400 Just gazing at things as he walks by. He's not 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:09.219 too particularly interested in anything. Every 00:37:09.219 --> 00:37:12.780 once in a while, he looks back to see if he's 00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:15.599 kind of getting ready to get going. Chest is 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.690 by your side. Misdirection's out. No. What? Come 00:37:20.690 --> 00:37:24.409 on, Jules. It's a ghost. What? Jules grabs him 00:37:24.409 --> 00:37:26.849 by the scruff of the back of his neck. Jules, 00:37:27.130 --> 00:37:30.889 hey. Okay. It's gone. Look at that. Woo. It's 00:37:30.889 --> 00:37:33.050 like one of those things where he puts his hands 00:37:33.050 --> 00:37:35.469 up and it just vanishes. It's so big. How? How? 00:37:38.250 --> 00:37:39.690 Akio's kind of following you, Blanche, as you 00:37:39.690 --> 00:37:42.869 open a drawer and some dust falls. It's dusty 00:37:42.869 --> 00:37:46.090 again. I hate dust. We need to get you a mask 00:37:46.090 --> 00:37:49.340 or something. Yes. But I am ready for what is 00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:54.059 to come. I am a proud warrior, Akita. But I hate 00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:56.619 dust. Do you expect, Kunan Jun, that this will 00:37:56.619 --> 00:38:00.780 come to violence? No, not... This one's been 00:38:00.780 --> 00:38:04.880 somewhat benign. We closed the shop, but there 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:08.000 have been sounds from here. The occasional glass 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.739 break, crying, but... We've heard of no attacks, 00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:13.199 no assaults, nothing dangerous here. There are 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.159 dangerous Queetions. There are very dangerous 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:17.239 Queetions, but this is not one of them. And how 00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:21.639 do you fight the dangerous ones? Hey, Galax. 00:38:21.820 --> 00:38:26.260 What damage type are they weak to? I mean, for 00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:31.460 a ghost, magic, right? I would think. I have 00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:35.340 noticed your weapons are magical. They are? If 00:38:35.340 --> 00:38:39.659 it comes to a battle, you'll be okay. But, be 00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:43.710 swimming is sweet. She will not. He kind of like 00:38:43.710 --> 00:38:46.510 closes his eyes, kneels down before the scroll, 00:38:46.690 --> 00:38:49.230 kind of in a, almost like a bowing posture of 00:38:49.230 --> 00:38:52.730 prayer, puts his hands down upon it. You see 00:38:52.730 --> 00:38:54.130 all sorts of like a description, probably an 00:38:54.130 --> 00:38:57.250 older language. And then he opens his eyes and 00:38:57.250 --> 00:38:59.949 raises his head and begins to speak out into 00:38:59.949 --> 00:39:01.570 this empty shop, his voice sort of echoing through 00:39:01.570 --> 00:39:06.550 the walls of the stairs. Bi Su Min, I call upon 00:39:06.550 --> 00:39:10.250 your memory. I call upon the joy you have brought 00:39:10.250 --> 00:39:13.960 to so many lives. to this place you have loved, 00:39:14.019 --> 00:39:17.719 and the great things you have done here. I call 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:22.559 your name. I hold you true. Appear before me 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:26.780 now, so I may tell you of your greatness. And 00:39:26.780 --> 00:39:33.699 there's silence. And then, a wet step echoes 00:39:33.699 --> 00:39:38.119 from the top of the stairs. All eyes turn to 00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:40.900 the steps, which fade up into an upper story 00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:43.719 where the hallway, sort of where the stairs vanish 00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:45.579 into. There are no windows into that room, and 00:39:45.579 --> 00:39:52.159 so it's just pure dark shadow. Steps getting 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:56.840 louder and louder, and then you see a wet, bare 00:39:56.840 --> 00:40:01.880 foot slides at the top of them. And then... Another 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:05.920 foot of figure, limbs bent strangely, begins 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:11.480 to slide down, moving in this unreal speed. You 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:15.420 see a woman. You see her body seems to be drenched 00:40:15.420 --> 00:40:18.000 with an amber liquid. You see her black hair 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:22.119 falls over her eyes, one single eye peering out. 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:27.539 Pale skin, so, so frail, so skinny, yet the way 00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:31.159 she moves seems to emanate with power. and strength 00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:34.579 this is like from the like the ring movie yeah 00:40:34.579 --> 00:40:36.719 very much like yeah imagine the grudge the ring 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.300 that's it you're on the right track you're on 00:40:38.300 --> 00:40:41.119 the track uh let's figure down at the bottom 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:45.699 of the steps stops that one wide eye peeks out 00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:51.380 towards him towards both of you and back be soon 00:40:51.380 --> 00:40:57.260 is okay i only wish to and she opens her mouth 00:40:57.260 --> 00:41:02.119 and begins to scream This scream erupts out the 00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:04.980 walls, and you see Kunan Junji's life stands 00:41:04.980 --> 00:41:06.940 up suddenly, just bolts upwards. What are you, 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.139 what is this? This scream. The whole thing is 00:41:10.139 --> 00:41:12.260 a shake and shake, and you see the teacups in 00:41:12.260 --> 00:41:16.400 the walls, one by one, begin to shatter and break, 00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:19.199 shatter and break, and begin to coalesce together, 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:24.380 the glass moving into these swarms of swirling 00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:28.079 glass that begin to slide towards you. No, this 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.739 is... something's wrong this is not right this 00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:34.039 isn't how it goes and with another scream this 00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:39.739 woman begins to charge towards you all roll for 00:41:39.739 --> 00:41:47.599 initiative god damn all right all right not horrible 00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:50.320 all right jeremy how fast do you want flash to 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.179 end this fight really fast yeah really fast please 00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:59.610 oh I'm thinking about a big move here. Okay. 00:42:00.210 --> 00:42:03.530 Blanche. 14. I should probably roll for a Keo, 00:42:03.550 --> 00:42:07.690 too, huh? Jules. Jules is at 7. Chester is at 00:42:07.690 --> 00:42:14.989 12. A Keo. Ooh, that's just a 9. Okay. Conjune 00:42:14.989 --> 00:42:17.030 is sliding out of the way under a table. I'm 00:42:17.030 --> 00:42:18.530 not going to roll initiative for Conjune because 00:42:18.530 --> 00:42:23.030 I don't feel like it. Still in training. Not 00:42:23.030 --> 00:42:26.500 good at the fighting part yet. We've done this 00:42:26.500 --> 00:42:28.219 a few times before, but it's always a strange 00:42:28.219 --> 00:42:31.139 thing we do. We're going to be doing this combat 00:42:31.139 --> 00:42:35.400 theater of the mind, because I didn't think you'd 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:40.719 get this far. I underestimated you, and we're 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:44.139 here already. So we're kind of in this now. It's 00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:45.739 okay, because Jeremy doesn't have his computer, 00:42:45.860 --> 00:42:47.679 and my computer's garbage, and everything's bad. 00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:52.039 It's really bad, though. Back with the shards 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:56.769 of glass. Swarms of glass shards. Oh no. Are 00:42:56.769 --> 00:43:02.170 going first. Oh no. Oh yes. Fuck. These glass 00:43:02.170 --> 00:43:05.699 shards sort of... swarm together beside this 00:43:05.699 --> 00:43:07.719 woman. I'm going to say, paint this scene. The 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:09.539 stairs go into the second floor, about 30 feet 00:43:09.539 --> 00:43:12.099 away from where you all stand. I imagine Jules, 00:43:12.139 --> 00:43:14.840 you're by the door, kind of, you know, we'll 00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.079 just make it easy. You're 30 feet away, one Pythagorean, 00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:19.239 you know, kind of towards the door corner. Blanche, 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:20.579 you're in the other sort of corner where you're 00:43:20.579 --> 00:43:22.440 going through some cabinets, and sort of in the 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:25.920 middle of all this, I think we see the good magistrate 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:28.699 slashing the table. Akio's by your side, Blanche. 00:43:28.780 --> 00:43:30.340 Cheshire's by yours. Everyone's kind of in a 00:43:30.340 --> 00:43:34.650 believable spot here. This swarm, It's going 00:43:34.650 --> 00:43:36.050 to be the first one to move. And it's going to 00:43:36.050 --> 00:43:40.190 move. It's going to move towards Jules and Chester, 00:43:40.250 --> 00:43:44.210 towards the entrance. Glass sort of stops in 00:43:44.210 --> 00:43:46.409 the air. All like little projectiles kind of 00:43:46.409 --> 00:43:49.030 like look towards you. All pointing in your direction 00:43:49.030 --> 00:43:51.090 with their jagged edges. And begin to just fly 00:43:51.090 --> 00:43:54.869 towards you. Jules, look out! And they just come. 00:43:56.889 --> 00:44:01.369 They essentially fly into your space, Jules. 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:05.280 Yes, and they will, they're like, just enough 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:06.659 of them where they're basically covering you, 00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:08.519 but Chester's kind of just beside them, not really 00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:10.059 kind of on the edge of this, but they are just 00:44:10.059 --> 00:44:12.500 swirling around you, trying to cut, cut, cut 00:44:12.500 --> 00:44:16.159 Nick into you. And I'm going to make an attack. 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:19.699 Jules, do you have all of your hit points currently? 00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:25.500 No. Okay. That's actually pretty good, maybe. 00:44:25.659 --> 00:44:27.920 That's only going to be a 14 to hit. That just 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.719 fucking hits. Oh, baby. Then I get to do something. 00:44:33.230 --> 00:44:37.190 Glass begins to cut through your cloak, through 00:44:37.190 --> 00:44:42.329 your clothing. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. No. What? 00:44:42.869 --> 00:44:47.889 What? Oh, Stagmoon. These beautiful dice. What? 00:44:47.949 --> 00:44:52.269 Just rolled max on 2d4. Oh my gosh. That is going 00:44:52.269 --> 00:44:58.269 to be, not crazy, but 11 points damage. I hate 00:44:58.269 --> 00:45:01.530 this. Jules! Chester's trying to reach out. I 00:45:01.530 --> 00:45:03.789 think he reaches a hand in and slashes. Glass 00:45:03.789 --> 00:45:07.050 cuts him. He says, ah, shit! Joel slaps his hand 00:45:07.050 --> 00:45:08.829 away when he does that. You surround him all 00:45:08.829 --> 00:45:12.150 around. That's my turn. These things are all 00:45:12.150 --> 00:45:14.610 around you. We cut over to the back. It's on 00:45:14.610 --> 00:45:16.730 the other side of the room where Blanche is sticking 00:45:16.730 --> 00:45:21.150 her nose out of a cabinet. You're in. Blanche, 00:45:21.150 --> 00:45:22.349 what are you doing? How are you starting this 00:45:22.349 --> 00:45:25.789 thing off? The Gwish is 30 feet away at the bottom 00:45:25.789 --> 00:45:28.000 of the stairs. I'll say her eyes sort of turn 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.300 to you as she sort of screams, her mouth elongating 00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:36.239 way too low. That amber liquid drip, drip, dripping, 00:45:36.420 --> 00:45:41.860 and it smells of tea, strangely. Akio is by your 00:45:41.860 --> 00:45:44.059 side, and on the other side of the room, about 00:45:44.059 --> 00:45:45.880 30 feet away, towards the entrance, going all 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:48.000 against the wall, you see Jules is being assailed 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:53.099 by shards of glass. Crap. Crap, crap, crap. That 00:45:53.099 --> 00:45:57.480 kind of changes my plan. guess a little bit oh 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:01.000 i love it i wanted to go straight for the grecian 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:05.380 but i don't want to leave jewels hanging you 00:46:05.380 --> 00:46:07.159 should guess fireball and jewels and chest i 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:09.840 don't have fireball prepared damn otherwise you 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:14.980 would what i will do though is cast protection 00:46:14.980 --> 00:46:21.659 from evil and good on two jewels oh okay uh ah 00:46:21.659 --> 00:46:25.099 it's touch crap Got to give him the old touch. 00:46:25.539 --> 00:46:28.000 I guess I'm going to have to. So bonus action, 00:46:28.219 --> 00:46:33.260 blade song. So I get the extra movement. Rush 00:46:33.260 --> 00:46:37.260 to Jules. Cast protection from evil and good, 00:46:37.340 --> 00:46:43.579 which I'm hoping will give this swarm disadvantage 00:46:43.579 --> 00:46:48.800 on Jules. Okay. I like it. Then the last 10 feet 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:51.679 of her movement, she'll head towards the Gwishin. 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:54.619 Oh, shit. So you just run over. reach into the 00:46:54.619 --> 00:46:56.280 glass, charge again, not going to do damage, 00:46:56.340 --> 00:46:59.019 but kind of slashing across your arm as you slap, 00:46:59.139 --> 00:47:01.739 touch Jules. Jules, you feel magic imbuing you 00:47:01.739 --> 00:47:04.059 with slightly, usually a light in your being. 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.699 And the glass shards around you almost seem to, 00:47:07.699 --> 00:47:09.940 like, push back just a little bit, still swirling, 00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:12.699 but, like, a few inches farther back as they 00:47:12.699 --> 00:47:15.380 seem to retract from this light. Blanche, you 00:47:15.380 --> 00:47:17.239 pull away from this and begin to move through 00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:19.739 the darkened shop towards a screaming form at 00:47:19.739 --> 00:47:22.940 the bottom of the stairs. Akio. See to Jules' 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:26.019 protection. Start on the equation. Yes, Master 00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:28.980 Blanche. And that's going to be Chester. Okay, 00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:34.139 so. Yeah, what you got over there? So. Ew. Chester. 00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:37.940 Chester. Chester, what did you say? What? Who's 00:47:37.940 --> 00:47:43.639 Chester? He's going to. First, he's going to 00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:48.840 use a bonus action. What? To cast Hex. What did 00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:53.500 you say? On to the equation. Whoa. Oh, shit, 00:47:53.619 --> 00:47:55.800 that's pretty cool. This is the first time he's 00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:57.840 used this. Yeah, until the spell ends, you deal 00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.440 an extra 1d6 necrotic damage to the target whenever 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:03.119 you hit it with an attack. Nobody hurts Jules! 00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:07.619 I'm a psychic! Also, you Jules one ability when 00:48:07.619 --> 00:48:09.239 you cast the spell. The target has disadvantage 00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:13.239 on these checks made with that ability. Oh, I 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:16.280 think it's... Yeah, right, yeah, checks. Yeah. 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.400 If the target drops to zero hit points before 00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:21.300 the spell ends, you can use bonus action. to 00:48:21.300 --> 00:48:23.380 curse a new creature. Now, I should note, it 00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:24.960 says this checks that does not mean saving things. 00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:28.260 Correct. Okay. Checks, yeah. Hell yeah. So I 00:48:28.260 --> 00:48:30.619 guess not the greatest, but... That's a little 00:48:30.619 --> 00:48:33.860 bonus. Extra 1d6. That's the meat potato. That's 00:48:33.860 --> 00:48:35.239 great. So he's going to cast that with a bonus 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:37.519 action, and he's going to take his sling. Sling? 00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:41.800 Yep. Oh, it's not on your page yet. What? The 00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:44.619 crossbow. Oh, no, it's not. Yeah. Okay, I gave 00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:46.079 it to you, but I got to do a character sheet. 00:48:46.099 --> 00:48:48.239 No. Okay, so whatever the sling says, add a plus 00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:50.559 one to it, because it's a plus one weapon. I 00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.780 totally goofed this up hard. David, get out. 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:56.860 I should just... I'll see myself out. So what 00:48:56.860 --> 00:48:58.059 are you going to do with this, Jeremy? What is 00:48:58.059 --> 00:49:03.059 the bonus of... All right, so currently the sling 00:49:03.059 --> 00:49:05.440 is a plus eight to hit. What's the damage? Damage 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.400 is 1d4 plus three. Okay, this is going to be... 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:09.619 Instead, Chester, now that's 1d10 plus four. 00:49:10.219 --> 00:49:12.940 Or should we do the short bow? Is that 1d10? 00:49:13.780 --> 00:49:17.199 It's 1d6 plus three. So your weapon is a... I 00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:21.019 believe a heavy crossbow now. It's a 1d10. Plus 00:49:21.019 --> 00:49:24.340 four damage add plus one to whatever your two 00:49:24.340 --> 00:49:25.820 hit is the two has to be the same for all those. 00:49:25.860 --> 00:49:30.380 Yeah, plus nine All right. Yeah, he is he's very 00:49:30.380 --> 00:49:32.320 skilled archer. He has a plus two from just just 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.059 because son if I hate his extra one d6 Yeah, 00:49:35.179 --> 00:49:37.139 it's big damage. Chester is a beast now. Yeah, 00:49:37.219 --> 00:49:39.880 plus whatever it could be big damage depending 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.719 on how that that special power goes Something 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:47.019 tells me I'm not gonna Miss with the 27. Oh, 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:51.460 my God. Yes. That hits. 18 plus 9. Oh. Is Chester 00:49:51.460 --> 00:49:54.599 broken? Oh. Chester spins around. Dude, Chester 00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:56.420 is in it. I love this. He's been kind of like 00:49:56.420 --> 00:49:58.239 overshadowed the entire. He was doing some crazy 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:01.719 damage, but now. Yo. Misdirection. Pause. Out. 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:06.139 It's an automatic 6. Or 1d6. A 1d6. Holy shit. 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:13.989 Okay. So here's the 1d10 plus 4. That's 11. Now 00:50:13.989 --> 00:50:22.530 let's add the 1d6. Oh my god. 1. Free damage, 00:50:22.630 --> 00:50:26.210 I guess. 12 points. This thing just fires through. 00:50:26.650 --> 00:50:29.570 The Gwishn kind of leaps, tries to almost leap 00:50:29.570 --> 00:50:31.530 out of the way of it, and it still just catches 00:50:31.530 --> 00:50:35.340 right in the leg. Really, you get striked, and 00:50:35.340 --> 00:50:37.739 you see, like, again, amber liquids just pull 00:50:37.739 --> 00:50:40.159 out, like, around this wound. The body, like, 00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.659 begins to bloat. The, like, very white, pale 00:50:42.659 --> 00:50:44.980 flesh just bloat with sudden heat. It's almost 00:50:44.980 --> 00:50:48.099 being, like, conjured behind the wound and running 00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:51.260 down the leg, dripping down the steps, scattering 00:50:51.260 --> 00:50:55.400 across the floor. Chest just kind of begins to 00:50:55.400 --> 00:51:00.500 reload. Eyes dark. Hell, yeah, and that is going 00:51:00.500 --> 00:51:05.690 to be Akio. All right. Keo's going to run up 00:51:05.690 --> 00:51:10.130 to the swarm. Ooh, okay. And I'm not going to 00:51:10.130 --> 00:51:13.289 use Boofing Blade because I kind of want this 00:51:13.289 --> 00:51:16.610 thing to get out of Jules' face. So I'm just 00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:22.750 going to go for two Katana attacks. That is 18 00:51:22.750 --> 00:51:31.460 for the first. Oh, yeah. 24 on the second. Yeah, 00:51:31.539 --> 00:51:35.599 sorry. Okay. I'm like, I think those both hit, 00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:38.000 right? You got it. You got it. They both hit. 00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:44.340 And I'm going to do, let's see. Ooh. Ten damage 00:51:44.340 --> 00:51:48.820 for the first. Oh, my God. And nine damage for 00:51:48.820 --> 00:51:52.619 the second. You do notice not all the damage 00:51:52.619 --> 00:51:56.059 seems to go through. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. He does 00:51:56.059 --> 00:52:00.440 have a magical weapon. It does not matter in 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:03.079 this case. It says slashing damage on here. Yes, 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:04.840 yeah, yeah. A lot of times they'll say, like, 00:52:04.860 --> 00:52:08.039 resistance to non -magical. But if you're bludgeoning, 00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:09.519 piercing, slashing from non -magical, this does 00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:11.940 not say that. So it would be all. But still, 00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:13.840 I mean, it's hard to get in. You're hitting, 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:15.900 like, literally, he's striking shards of glass 00:52:15.900 --> 00:52:17.679 that are flying around. But as he hits them and 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:19.460 breaks them down smaller, like, everyone he hits 00:52:19.460 --> 00:52:21.900 sort of falls out of the swamp, becoming this, 00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:24.760 like, innate piece of glass and clear on the 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:29.010 floor. He takes out quite a few of them. No, 00:52:29.050 --> 00:52:30.829 I'm going to save second wind for now. I love 00:52:30.829 --> 00:52:32.690 the idea that Jules is over there and you just 00:52:32.690 --> 00:52:35.469 kind of like trust this dog as he flies up to 00:52:35.469 --> 00:52:38.789 you and he is winging the sword around you. Like 00:52:38.789 --> 00:52:40.849 the bits of your hair, your pompadour sliced 00:52:40.849 --> 00:52:46.030 in half. Not really. That's too far, David. There's 00:52:46.030 --> 00:52:48.510 a couple of loose hairs. Hey, not the hair. Not 00:52:48.510 --> 00:52:53.329 the hair. Not the hair. That's a kiosk turn. 00:52:53.889 --> 00:52:57.869 Solid turn. Slice, slice. This blade whips around 00:52:57.869 --> 00:52:59.949 you, Jules. These teacups begin to fall away. 00:53:00.110 --> 00:53:02.590 You're feeling a little more emboldened. And 00:53:02.590 --> 00:53:05.570 you're up. Your vision is cleared now. Kiyo's 00:53:05.570 --> 00:53:07.469 broken enough that you can see clearly what's 00:53:07.469 --> 00:53:09.889 around you and what's ahead of you. Cool, perfect. 00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:12.170 He's going to cast... First, he's going to cast 00:53:12.170 --> 00:53:15.969 Bardic Inspiration onto Blanche. Yeah, give me 00:53:15.969 --> 00:53:19.730 that D8. Always slick. And then he is going to 00:53:19.730 --> 00:53:25.730 cast... Level 2, Dissonant Whispers. Onto the 00:53:25.730 --> 00:53:30.750 Goetian. Onto the Goetian. Okay. That's pretty 00:53:30.750 --> 00:53:34.190 mean. Yeah, it is. Wisdom save. All right, then. 00:53:34.210 --> 00:53:38.349 Wisdom save for me. Luckily for me, I've got 00:53:38.349 --> 00:53:40.070 a pretty high wisdom save. I kind of figured 00:53:40.070 --> 00:53:42.829 that. And I've got these goblin mode dice that 00:53:42.829 --> 00:53:47.289 cannot possibly fail. Yes, they can. What? What? 00:53:48.329 --> 00:53:52.230 It's ten. No. Oh, no. No, my goblin mode dice. 00:53:53.739 --> 00:53:57.219 Betrayed. So that's 3d6 psychic damage. Oh, my 00:53:57.219 --> 00:54:00.500 God. And you must immediately use your reaction 00:54:00.500 --> 00:54:04.179 to move as far away as your speed allows. So 00:54:04.179 --> 00:54:05.739 let's get some damage out of the way. I have 00:54:05.739 --> 00:54:09.079 to check one little thing. Okay. Can I roll? 00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:12.099 It might be like a man. You roll damage, though. 00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:14.360 Okay, cool. Please do. Actually, please don't. 00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:19.579 Take it back. Don't do it. It's mean. Very minimal. 00:54:19.820 --> 00:54:25.039 Bummer. I roll a 3, a 2, and a 1. So, six. Fuck. 00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:29.000 Subprime Damage. That is pretty rough, but hey, 00:54:29.059 --> 00:54:30.900 it's not nothing. So we're making sure it's not 00:54:30.900 --> 00:54:31.940 a fear effect. We've probably done this before, 00:54:32.099 --> 00:54:34.320 honestly, in this show, but making sure this 00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:36.440 was not based on fear effect, but it is not, 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:39.280 and so the Revenant have taken this, like, hit, 00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:44.039 rubs its head, and its hair kind of parts for 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:46.079 a second. You can see, like, the guise of this 00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:51.059 old lady, this old human woman. Eyes that may 00:54:51.059 --> 00:54:53.420 have once been gentle, but now they are just 00:54:53.420 --> 00:54:58.820 wide and crazed. She begins to move up the steps, 00:54:58.940 --> 00:55:02.179 retreating back into the darkness above. She 00:55:02.179 --> 00:55:05.539 goes as far as she can move. That is her turn. 00:55:05.820 --> 00:55:10.059 How far is that? 30 feet. Okay, so she's 30 feet 00:55:10.059 --> 00:55:13.719 off the stairs. Wasn't that Julius' turn? Any 00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:17.420 else? No. Okay, then yes. You said then that's 00:55:17.420 --> 00:55:19.349 her turn. Sorry, that's yours. Oh, yeah. Sorry. 00:55:19.409 --> 00:55:21.409 Let's remove on your turn. I just don't want 00:55:21.409 --> 00:55:24.070 to get the order all fucky. No, you're right. 00:55:24.110 --> 00:55:30.050 In fact, now it's her turn. Say that again. Now 00:55:30.050 --> 00:55:35.190 it's her turn. Cooler. Let's do this thing. Yeah, 00:55:35.449 --> 00:55:37.949 does she move on Jules' turn or does she move 00:55:37.949 --> 00:55:40.510 on her turn? There's a reaction on Jules' turn, 00:55:40.550 --> 00:55:43.239 I believe. Yeah. Yeah. But it doesn't say you 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:45.980 got to keep making saves, so I'm assuming it's 00:55:45.980 --> 00:55:47.960 a one -time thing. Yeah, I think it's just... 00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:53.860 Another wet thump. That figure, so fast, like 00:55:53.860 --> 00:55:56.940 a spider's... Legs over arms, over legs over 00:55:56.940 --> 00:55:59.059 arms, because they're going down the stairs again, 00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:01.119 rolling down, hitting the bottom of the stairs 00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:03.920 where it just was. I snap open. I couldn't reach 00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:06.360 you because I moved too far away to get close. 00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:11.510 So I'm going to do something else. I was struck 00:56:11.510 --> 00:56:16.030 twice. Jules and Chester. Stag head is Jules 00:56:16.030 --> 00:56:22.710 and one is Chester. That's Jules. Hair flies 00:56:22.710 --> 00:56:26.590 up all around. A crown around this monster's 00:56:26.590 --> 00:56:30.869 head. And those eyes lock onto you. And you feel 00:56:30.869 --> 00:56:34.889 something. Something gripping your heart. You 00:56:34.889 --> 00:56:39.690 feel enmity. You feel vengeance. A thirst. A 00:56:39.690 --> 00:56:43.519 need. pulsing through your body. And as those 00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:46.659 eyes focusing on you, all you can see, Jules, 00:56:46.820 --> 00:56:51.860 they get wider and wider. Fuck. Your heart gripped, 00:56:51.940 --> 00:56:56.320 beating, beating, beating. And you get wisdom 00:56:56.320 --> 00:57:03.699 saving throw. Is this a charm, frighten, or possession? 00:57:04.579 --> 00:57:09.079 It might be. Is the Gwishin... an aberration, 00:57:09.099 --> 00:57:11.800 celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead. 00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:16.099 It might be. Then Jules cannot be frightened, 00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:18.920 possessed, or charmed thanks to protection from 00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:26.099 evil. No! My cliffhanger! My cliffhanger! And 00:57:26.099 --> 00:57:27.059 we'll call it a day!