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Session Zero Heroes. Hey, everyone. Skyler here

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from Session Zero Heroes, an actual play podcast

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Zero Heroes. Well, one would be absolutely correct.

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So allow me to tell you the strange, surreal

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tale of Steadfast. Originally, from Ankle and

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Sengar, the tiefling Steadfast was known for

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taking some, uh, illicit alchemical substances.

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Truly wild stuff. And during one such, uh, experiment...

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Steadfast lost control in a particularly marvelous

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way. Waking up deep in the Feywild -formed forest

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of Atagua. Marvelous. Suddenly, finding himself

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lost in a strange world far from civilization,

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Steadfast had to make good on his name and stand

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tall against the dangers of the wilderness. Alone.

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But, in this stardune, Steadfast found himself

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in an odd company. Now, maybe it wasn't after

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effect of the very substance that brought him

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into this mess. Or perhaps the fault of the copious

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fiend shrews that populate Otago's forests. But

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Step has found himself faced with the spirit

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of a copper dragon who will bear the tiefling's

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own draconic heritage and help unlock his talent,

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his latent power. And following this meeting,

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Step has decided to stay in the wilderness and

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hold this magical talent. He crafted two wands

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of Otagoan dream wood and learned to dual wield

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them in battle. And in time, another spirit came

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to guide him. The very spirit of Otago itself,

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the yellow quartz kapok tree incarnate. Tasked

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by the spirit to defend the defenseless, Steadfast

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followed its signs until he found himself protecting

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a large block of beautiful macari from a group

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of malevolent snake -eater poachers. Having fought

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them off with his newfound skills, Steadfast

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was rewarded when one of the birds inexplicably

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dropped a ring of spell -stalling into his hand.

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Coincidence? Guidance from an ancient spirit

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who can say. The earth also led Steadfast to

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the nearest town where he learned of the greater

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ailments affecting all of our worlds. And he

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set off to continue his quest to defend the defenseless

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no matter what. Now, many are saying that Steadfast

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has taken to the Justice Undying movement and

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pursuing his quest. But I would have to chalk

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that up to baseless rumor. I mean, surely, as

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a reasonable and honorable soul, Stenthouse would

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never pledge himself to such a dishonorable cause.

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Right? Right? Also, Jewel sucks. You suck. Thank

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you, Andrew. Hooley Forge, Andrew, come in again

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with our fourth tiefling Power Ranger. I didn't

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even actually have the idea for a spotlight this

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time. But Astropathic Art, Zila, have already

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made art of this character steadfast in the Discord.

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So it's like, you know what? Let's jump on this.

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And then next week, I'm coming at you all with

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the rare Gluminary spotlight. I saw the two wands

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that are popping up in the Discord today. And

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it's a Togwin Dreamwood. You guys remember. Love

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it. Love it, love it. Nice crack. So thank you.

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I've got a quick question for you guys. Oh, I,

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I realized today I was a little self -aware.

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I was actually, I was driving over here and I

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saw this, this guy, um, I don't know, looked

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like a retired guy, you know, big white beard

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and he had his hose out. It's springtime, early

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spring. And he was washing his truck and his

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camper. And I got so annoyed for a quick second.

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I was like, dude, for real. I was like, fuck

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that guy. Look at you washing your truck and

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your camper. Think you're so awesome. And I was

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like, and I took a second. I was like, why did

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I have that reaction? And I realized. You're

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a serial killer. No, I'm just like, I'm jealous

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that I don't have or I don't make the time to

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do things like go in the driveway and wash the

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car. I think I would be that guy if I was retired

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and had the time. Maybe someday I'll be that

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guy. Why don't you make the time? I've got so

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much other stuff to do. I don't know. It's not

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a priority right now. But apparently I, it seems

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like my subconscious wishes it was. Follow that

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dream, man. So my question to you guys is what

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is something you wish you had the extra time

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to do? Okay. And I have to follow up. I wish

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I had more time to wash a car. That's easy. This

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is an easy one to follow up. It's not a competition,

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man. It's easy to follow that up, man. All right.

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It's like, it's like the wish thing when you

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were like, I'm going to wish for heaven. I am

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going to wish for heaven. I'll tell you what

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heaven looks like. Heaven looks like my big old

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computer chair, right? Nintendo Switch Pro Controller

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in hand. Playing Monster Hunter. I want to just

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play Monster Hunter for a whole day straight.

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I just miss gaming so damn much. I used to be

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one of those, you know, gaming until 7 o 'clock

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in the morning, sleeping all day. Honestly, though,

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even saying that, there actually is something

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else I might miss more. And that is going on

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all rescues and searches with our buddy Stomp.

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I miss PEMI search and rescue. I really, really

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do. It was a special experience. It's like a

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hard experience. You get called at two o 'clock

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in the morning. You just went to bed at midnight

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and you're crawling under bed with two hours

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of sleep to go hike up a mountain. But I felt

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like I was cool. I'm not cool anymore, Stephen.

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I'm not cool anymore. You can decide to be cool

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again anytime you want. Time, though. Yeah. Time,

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the greatest foe we must all slay. Mr. Wolf,

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how goes your battle with time? I want to do

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a garden. Whoa. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. The wolf's

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got a little bit of rabbit blood in him. Sure.

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Sure. What do you want to garden? Cut that out.

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Just anything? No, I want to do a vegetable garden.

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Nice. Stuff that can sustain me. I've got lots

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of raspberry bushes and they pop up new little

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sprouts every year. And I ended up like digging

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them up out of the, cause I have them in pots,

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big pots. Yeah. And when they spread, I dig them

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up out of the yard and I just toss them. So if

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you decide you want some raspberry bushes. Yeah.

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I mean, it's definitely, it's definitely in the

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future. It's definitely a loose plan to have

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some type of garden. I just want to like have

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the time to be able to like love the garden.

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You know what I mean? Totally. You know what

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I mean? When you're, when you're ready. Don't

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buy raspberry bushes. All right. Cool. Cool.

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All you gotta do is watch Steven's car for him.

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Hey, look at this. I'll do it in your driveway.

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So you're super jealous. Yeah, that's perfect.

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Oh shit. Uh, hit us up in the discord. Tell us

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what you wish you could do more. Yeah. What do

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you, what do you wish you had time for? And if

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you're more fun than Steven, uh, yeah, you don't

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get a button cause let's get out of hand, but

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I'll spiritually wish you had a button. Uh, Speaking

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of buttons, I hope you guys have some handy because

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we're still in the shit. Yeah, for real. Let

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me get some music going. Fuck. If my crap ass

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computer can load. At least you have a computer.

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That's true. Mine today decided it doesn't want

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to turn on. I wish mine pulled that on me and

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that all the excuse to get a new one. I could

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afford a computer if we only had a few more people

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join the discord and leave five star ratings.

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Join the Discord. Save the computer. Yeah, exactly.

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Save the podcast. Oh, fuck. Hang on. They got

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it. We are now on the second floor, mostly, of

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a old tea shop. Somebody don't ask the tea shop.

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This very, very, very old generational sort of

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passed down tea shop. In the Heitei district,

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sort of shopping district, of Iyanido. In this

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tea shop, once well -loved, now is the lair of

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a Gwishin. Bisumin, who had been the proprietor,

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the owner of this shop, until just before her

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death. Her son, who took it in, lost it to a

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gambling addiction. The rage she feels. You see

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it now. You battled her on the first floor, chased

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her to the second as she fled and hid. Blanche

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going through, knocking open doors in this hallway,

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all of you moving over difficult terrain, avoiding

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another swarm of glass that is spiraling around

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the downstairs room coming after you. As you

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search that second floor, you don't see her,

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Blanche. You don't see her anywhere. Chester

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zoops up to the second floor, and as he does,

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Akio opens his senses, opens awareness up. And

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even though there is a mist clinging to the air

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around you, making it hard to see, that good

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boy doesn't need to see. He just needs to smell

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and to hear, to know. The Goetians in the very

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hall you stand in, on the ceiling, crawling down

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towards Chester. But it is not yet my turn. In

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fact, it is still Akio's turn. I think Akio...

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Still has, is it just movement? Yes, you stood

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in place, you used your action. I feel like you

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used your bonus action to do something, but I

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don't know what it was. Well, he doesn't have

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any bonus actions besides second wind. Okay.

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So it was probably just the action to perceive.

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Yes, you second wind last turn. So yeah, I think

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that's probably just the action. So you would

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have a bonus action if you wanted one, and you

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do have movement. Yeah, so Akio's going to move

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up next to Chester. Does it say anything? Yes,

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he calls out the location. All right, I'm a Keo.

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It's there! Chester, watch out! Howl, stampedes

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down towards Chester. Um, hell yes. And that's

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going to be Jules LaRoche. You hear that voice

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from the top of the stairs. Your buddy's in trouble.

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but you stand at the bottom of the steps with

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a glass swarm ahead of you, a jagged floor. You

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could barely move up. You are 30 feet away right

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now from the stairs, which are 15 feet up to

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the second floor where Chester stands. Okay.

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Um, quick question. What is the state of bless?

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You still have it. Okay. Yeah, there's not, there's

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no, there's no like guidance thing is where you

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have to have, you have a certain range in order

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to keep it. Plus you all have, uh, I think with

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the glass form just beside him, Kunan Jun is

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just like kind of trapped downstairs, hiding

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out from under the table, trying to make sure

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this thing does not notice him. And so far, it

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seems to be fixated on you, the combatants. Okay.

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Jules is going to follow Chester in that he will

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use Misty Step. Okay. To get to the bottom of

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the stairs. Avoid the glass wall. You mean the

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top of the stairs? No, the bottom. Bottom of

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the stairs. 30 feet away. Oh. And then... He's

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going to run up the stairs. It's awkward, jagged

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steps, almost like funhouse stairs right now

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as the plank's shifted. Difficult terrain, but

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with 30 feet, half movement, you reach the top,

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you're right behind Chester. When he gets to

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the top of the stairs, he's going to tackle Chester

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to the ground, cover him up, turn his body, twist

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it upward, and with his gloved hand, he's going

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to cast light. on his glove. Holy shit. And I'm

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going to choose it to be the bright white light.

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And it's bright light for 20 feet. Boom. Light

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shines above. Chester can, as he looks up, holy

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shit. And he sees the Gwishin is on the wall.

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You see this wet hairs hanging down, almost touching

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where Chester was just standing. It's like fully

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on the wall. Imagine a... Tree frog, just like

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fingers there, little amber droplets begin to

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drip out. This mouth opened way too wide. And

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again, that strange sound emanating from its

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throat and its wide eyes take you in. Jules,

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in doing this, Chester will be under some protection,

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right? He will be, what's the word for this,

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undercover. Right. But you and Chester will both

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be prone. That puts you in a dangerous spot.

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Okay, a bold move, and I like it a lot. Wait,

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did you say he was on the wall or above on the

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ceiling? It's basically on the wall kind of crawling

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down from the ceiling. Oh, I thought he was coming

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directly on top of Chester. Basically, yeah,

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yeah. Oh. Yeah, Chester's near the wall, right?

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Chester's near the wall? Yeah, it's a 10 -foot

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hallway, so no matter where you're standing,

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you're near a wall. So it's like on that wall,

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kind of like, imagine if you say like halfway,

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like feet touching the ceiling, hands on the

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wall, kind of like slowly crawling down. Yeah,

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I think it still stands. I hate it, but I'm playing

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to the character of Jules. I love it. He frantically

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runs up there, trying to give protection. Okay.

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I'm fucked. You drop down, you see this thing

00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:57.820
coming towards you. Jules, as you look at this

00:14:57.820 --> 00:15:01.679
creature, this poor woman turned into some kind

00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.500
of monster, acting in a way that, according to

00:15:05.500 --> 00:15:08.870
Kunan Jun, It doesn't make sense. It's not how

00:15:08.870 --> 00:15:12.149
she should be. Something is wrong. And that becomes

00:15:12.149 --> 00:15:15.190
very clear to you. When you looked into her eyes

00:15:15.190 --> 00:15:16.850
earlier, when she tried doing something to you,

00:15:16.870 --> 00:15:20.129
a Blanche's spell, her light forced it back.

00:15:20.210 --> 00:15:22.950
You felt a presence behind it. And looking into

00:15:22.950 --> 00:15:26.190
these eyes, this open mouth, you feel that presence

00:15:26.190 --> 00:15:31.029
again. Just this seething hatred that wants to

00:15:31.029 --> 00:15:35.399
drive into you, tear you apart. You look at this

00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.779
woman, you see that steaming amber tears fall

00:15:38.779 --> 00:15:41.179
from her eyes that seem to boil in their sockets.

00:15:41.659 --> 00:15:45.100
Tears of bitter sorrow and scalding rage. And

00:15:45.100 --> 00:15:48.039
that guttural, sort of gurgling voice rises.

00:15:48.779 --> 00:15:54.840
And she speaks, not in your mind as before. True

00:15:54.840 --> 00:16:06.889
words spoken from this throat. Why did you forget?

00:16:08.450 --> 00:16:11.250
I'm going to make some attacks. I'm going to

00:16:11.250 --> 00:16:14.649
attack you, Jules. Can Jules say something? Absolutely

00:16:14.649 --> 00:16:19.809
you can. Help us remember. Please. You just say

00:16:19.809 --> 00:16:23.730
that, and you feel a wave of rage stretching

00:16:23.730 --> 00:16:26.090
out, reaching into you, and this creature slides

00:16:26.090 --> 00:16:29.700
down the wall. and comes at you. Again, like,

00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.700
pores open on the edge of the fingers, boiling

00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:34.740
liquid. We don't want this. We want to remember.

00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:42.259
Show us. Hang on. That's interesting. What? Just

00:16:42.259 --> 00:16:44.620
you saying those words and me rolling a natural

00:16:44.620 --> 00:16:47.940
one on my first attack. Oh my god. That's really

00:16:47.940 --> 00:16:51.740
interesting. As a consequence for this one, here's

00:16:51.740 --> 00:16:55.539
what happens. I go to strike at you. You feel

00:16:55.539 --> 00:16:59.470
this. Danger this. no i don't it's just that

00:16:59.470 --> 00:17:02.429
i just realized we can keep this in we cannot

00:17:02.429 --> 00:17:04.930
keep this in uh you're prone advantage it's not

00:17:04.930 --> 00:17:09.589
a natural one god damn it so uh never mind none

00:17:09.589 --> 00:17:11.730
of that cool stuff happens it doesn't care it's

00:17:11.730 --> 00:17:15.309
like no you're you're actually gonna have to

00:17:15.309 --> 00:17:19.490
keep it in oh because Because Akio is next to

00:17:19.490 --> 00:17:21.730
Chester. It's also not just that. Nice. Your

00:17:21.730 --> 00:17:23.329
spell's still on jewels, isn't it? Which means

00:17:23.329 --> 00:17:25.829
I take disadvantage on my attacks. So you have

00:17:25.829 --> 00:17:28.450
double disadvantage. Double disadvantage! Well,

00:17:28.450 --> 00:17:33.069
yeah. What's Akio do? Akio's reaction is Defender,

00:17:33.069 --> 00:17:34.630
the sidekick, can use his reaction to impose

00:17:34.630 --> 00:17:36.529
disadvantage on the attack roll of a creature

00:17:36.529 --> 00:17:38.549
within five feet of it whose target is not the

00:17:38.549 --> 00:17:40.809
sidekick. Provided the sidekick can see the attack

00:17:40.809 --> 00:17:42.589
roll. Why'd I give him that? Oh my god. Holy

00:17:42.589 --> 00:17:44.829
shit. That's why I ran next to Chester. Fuck

00:17:44.829 --> 00:17:47.769
yeah. Fuck yeah. Then yeah, never mind. Never

00:17:47.769 --> 00:17:49.750
mind again. Scratch the scratching mat. Scratch

00:17:49.750 --> 00:17:51.869
it all. All scratch. This thing reaches down.

00:17:51.970 --> 00:17:53.329
You say these words. Scratch your butt, David.

00:17:53.650 --> 00:17:56.990
It tries to come at you. Akio steps in from the

00:17:56.990 --> 00:18:00.269
side. Maybe parries the blow. Holds the blade

00:18:00.269 --> 00:18:03.849
up. And you say these words. And those eyes widen.

00:18:04.250 --> 00:18:13.009
Why did you fuck him? Help me. Help me. As a

00:18:13.009 --> 00:18:15.750
consequence for that one. I'm not going to roll

00:18:15.750 --> 00:18:18.410
a second attack. Wow. This thing is going to

00:18:18.410 --> 00:18:23.049
effectively be stunned as something is fighting

00:18:23.049 --> 00:18:27.130
for control of this monster. There are two minds

00:18:27.130 --> 00:18:30.569
at work here, you see. The first time, perhaps,

00:18:30.670 --> 00:18:35.049
you see Bisumin as those tears begin to flow

00:18:35.049 --> 00:18:47.440
free. Push it down. Push it down. And that's

00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:51.720
the top of the round. Layer action. You see two

00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:56.640
pools of tea, steaming hot, begin to form on

00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:01.119
the ceiling again. And two scalding jets, like

00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:05.359
liquid lasers, blast out towards two of you.

00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.059
And I'm going to say it's going to be Mr. Akio

00:19:09.059 --> 00:19:13.460
the Defender and Blanche. Oh, actually, sorry.

00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.920
That's dexterity from both of you. Oh. So from

00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:21.839
the two of Steven. Okie dokie. Let me roll Blanche's

00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:25.420
first because I have her up. Bless is working

00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:28.720
with... Oh, it doesn't matter. That's a 22, I

00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:37.859
think. Yeah. And Akio... 15 for Akio. Okay. Those

00:19:37.859 --> 00:19:41.720
actually both save. Excellent. Oh, it's still

00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:47.009
half. Damn. Good thing, too. That would have

00:19:47.009 --> 00:19:50.269
been 15 points of damage. Oh, my. Holy shit.

00:19:51.710 --> 00:19:55.750
That's... Okay, not great, but... Could have

00:19:55.750 --> 00:19:57.470
been a lot, lot worse. Could have been way worse.

00:19:57.549 --> 00:19:59.490
You guys both are ready for this now. As it pops

00:19:59.490 --> 00:20:01.150
up, Akio, already in defensive stance, weaves

00:20:01.150 --> 00:20:04.130
aside. The Scalding Jet grazes him this time,

00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:06.509
burns half his body. Blanch, you spin, turn,

00:20:06.769 --> 00:20:08.950
spray it to the side with your sword. Neither

00:20:08.950 --> 00:20:11.210
of you are fully struck by this, and that is

00:20:11.210 --> 00:20:15.900
my lair action. And now... I have to resolve

00:20:15.900 --> 00:20:19.299
a wedgie because we skipped a turn. Oh, uh -oh.

00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:21.880
And I'll narrate how this turn happens because

00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:24.619
you hear down the stairs the sounds of this glass

00:20:24.619 --> 00:20:28.880
swarm begin to slide towards the staircase, slide

00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:33.190
up, and then you hear them. meet something. You

00:20:33.190 --> 00:20:35.990
hear glass meet glass because we forgot about

00:20:35.990 --> 00:20:38.769
your other stalwart ally in this fight. That

00:20:38.769 --> 00:20:43.390
is right. The horse -painted teacup shard, which

00:20:43.390 --> 00:20:46.869
is now a lone little piece of glass facing down

00:20:46.869 --> 00:20:50.329
an entire swarm of glass. I want to know his

00:20:50.329 --> 00:20:56.359
story. Go ahead and roll your attack. I love

00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:57.799
the idea of you just have this dancing thing,

00:20:57.859 --> 00:20:59.700
like, fighting. It's like you're using her own

00:20:59.700 --> 00:21:01.920
power against her. Sure. Like, my own animated

00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.420
thing, just all battling. So that's 15 to hit.

00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:11.259
15 hits. Ooh, baby. Nice. Holy shit. For 11.

00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.259
Oh, my gosh. Damn. That's enough to bring it

00:21:15.259 --> 00:21:18.420
below half, weakening my damage. So downstairs,

00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:20.579
our camera shoots down. We just see on the stairs,

00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:22.519
there's an absolute swarm of glass everywhere.

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And this little glass shard is like spinning

00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:26.559
through the air, like ping, ping, ping, ping,

00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:27.940
ping, ping, knocking a bunch of other ones out.

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They're going down, dropping. This thing stands

00:21:30.059 --> 00:21:34.519
tall and strong. I'm pretty sure. This little

00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.359
glass shard is the only thing out of all of us

00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.339
that has not taken any damage yet. It's got 45

00:21:40.339 --> 00:21:44.240
HP. Whoa, dude. It's like we've been missing

00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.759
out on a tank this whole time. Holy shit. It's

00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:48.660
so much stronger than the other glass one. It's

00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:50.700
like you fully empowered with your magic. I'm

00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:52.660
going to have to use this more often. That kicks

00:21:52.660 --> 00:21:57.440
ass. I'm going to beat it up now. Give me a 17

00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:02.500
to hit. Stand by. Because the only action it

00:22:02.500 --> 00:22:05.440
can take on its turn is dodge. Unless you tell

00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:06.960
it what to do. Right. Unless you bonus action,

00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:08.180
which you didn't use a bonus action. Unless you

00:22:08.180 --> 00:22:10.720
take, I did. You did. Oh, so it's bonus action

00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:13.920
was misty step. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. It's,

00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.559
it can use it. It can attack, but only if it

00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:18.819
takes place. So the item shares your initiative

00:22:18.819 --> 00:22:20.640
count, but it takes its turn immediately after

00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:23.319
yours. It can move and use its reaction on its

00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:27.200
own. Gotcha. Okay. But it can only take the,

00:22:27.220 --> 00:22:29.160
the only action it could take on its turn is

00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:31.720
the dodge action. Unless I use a bonus action

00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:36.060
to command it to take another action. Okay. So,

00:22:36.060 --> 00:22:40.460
wait. Is this on or off mic? Let's keep it on.

00:22:41.220 --> 00:22:42.980
Cool, cool, cool. Let's keep it on. And then

00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:46.539
it says, if I'm incapacitated, then it can take

00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:49.259
an action on its own. Whoa. Oh, cool. I'll say

00:22:49.259 --> 00:22:51.200
this. Basically, what's going on right here is

00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.980
that this thing, it needs to be empowered by

00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:56.960
you to fully hit. So we do see it. It's moving

00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:58.400
on quickly. It hits a few of these things. We

00:22:58.400 --> 00:22:59.619
do see it. They'll come out, but they kind of

00:22:59.619 --> 00:23:02.839
regain life and fly back in. Cool. I have to

00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:05.660
roll twice now. I would have hit with a 17. Dodge

00:23:05.660 --> 00:23:09.240
means, oh, that is going to be a 15. Nope. Okay.

00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:12.680
So it's dodging. Trying to hit. Does not. Actually,

00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:14.700
I have advantage and the target doesn't have

00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:16.299
all its hit points. This thing you just said

00:23:16.299 --> 00:23:19.079
did. So it's the only thing that I cannot have

00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:22.640
advantage against right now. Because in my haste

00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:25.380
to form a combat on the fly, I just grabbed the

00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:27.660
swarm of piranhas stat block and was like, glasses

00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:31.650
like piranhas, right? And I was like, I don't

00:23:31.650 --> 00:23:35.630
care. So mean. I don't care. This glass is blood

00:23:35.630 --> 00:23:39.250
frenzy. It doesn't matter. Holy shit. So the

00:23:39.250 --> 00:23:41.410
glass, this thing is staying tall. So it doesn't

00:23:41.410 --> 00:23:44.190
do damage. Walk that back. But it still holds

00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:46.829
the line. And the glass is like all forming together.

00:23:47.049 --> 00:23:49.329
You have a guardian watching your back. If you

00:23:49.329 --> 00:23:52.690
can finish this fight, well, maybe it'll be worth

00:23:52.690 --> 00:23:56.390
the glass shard's time. And that's going to be

00:23:56.390 --> 00:24:05.029
old Blanchy Bootle. Boom. Jeremy, do you think

00:24:05.029 --> 00:24:10.109
that we can find a way out of this without killing

00:24:10.109 --> 00:24:13.329
the Gwishin? Because at this point, because before

00:24:13.329 --> 00:24:15.930
Blanche hadn't heard any of the talking, but

00:24:15.930 --> 00:24:18.390
now she's close, she could hear the out loud

00:24:18.390 --> 00:24:20.829
conversation of it saying, you know, help me,

00:24:20.950 --> 00:24:24.549
blah, blah, blah. So she's realizing that it's

00:24:24.549 --> 00:24:30.619
being controlled, maybe? Yes. I think... Well,

00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:34.019
let's do it in character. So Blanche raises a

00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:36.500
hand. She's ready to cast maybe an offensive

00:24:36.500 --> 00:24:40.259
spell. Jules, what's going on over there? Do

00:24:40.259 --> 00:24:44.019
you think we can save it? She's still in there.

00:24:44.059 --> 00:24:48.940
We need to try. All right. And with that, Blanche

00:24:48.940 --> 00:24:53.400
is going to cast Hold Person. Oh. So from your

00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:57.690
Gwishin, David, I need a wisdom save. Hold person.

00:24:57.910 --> 00:25:01.369
It's concentration. It specifies person. It says

00:25:01.369 --> 00:25:05.049
humanoid. Choose a humanoid. You know what? You're

00:25:05.049 --> 00:25:08.349
right. It's hard. This would be considered undead

00:25:08.349 --> 00:25:11.049
technically, but it is a humanoid undead. Yeah.

00:25:11.210 --> 00:25:13.829
Humanoid refers to the shape, right? I think

00:25:13.829 --> 00:25:17.170
humanoid is actually a creature type. Yes. It's

00:25:17.170 --> 00:25:20.029
kind of like your typical orc, tiefling, human,

00:25:20.170 --> 00:25:22.930
elf. Those are all humanoids. Goliaths, I think,

00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:25.279
would still be humanoid. Where undead is its

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.240
own thing. So by rules as written, this would

00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:31.640
not work on an undead. They are a little different.

00:25:32.500 --> 00:25:34.480
Okay. You would know that. It's not going to

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.579
make a voice spell. Yeah, I'm just trying to...

00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:38.859
I want to let it work. I want to let it go because

00:25:38.859 --> 00:25:41.420
I like it. But I got to be careful. There might

00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:44.160
be reasons, connotations why this shouldn't work.

00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:47.440
So I should... play it safe and stick with the

00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:49.460
rules as written that's yeah that's exactly that's

00:25:49.460 --> 00:25:53.220
what i'd want to do okay so gosh then what do

00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:55.859
i do i can offer you something because there's

00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:57.839
a turn i also haven't taken yet i wasn't planning

00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:00.039
on taking it but hearing a conversation then

00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:02.519
kunan june from down the stairs would yell out

00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.039
it it's complicated but if you kill her you don't

00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:09.240
kill her not until she's appeased if you destroy

00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:12.279
her i can use the opportunity to to do something

00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:15.180
try to Try to break this. Try to appease the

00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:21.039
Gwishn and send it back. Oh, say no more. Blanche

00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:25.519
is going to get up close. She'll stand next to

00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:32.200
Jules and Akio. And I don't have a lot of mid

00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:35.720
-level offensive spells prepped, so maybe this

00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:38.559
is a little bit of an overreaction, but I'm going

00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.859
to cast Witch Bolt at third level. Whoa! Okay.

00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:47.180
Okay. Okay, let's see what we can do. Got my

00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:56.859
Bless. Gonna need the Bless, I think. 16. I don't

00:26:56.859 --> 00:27:00.740
remember what our AC was. 16 hits. Thank goodness.

00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:04.940
Okay. And I will say, on her turn, you saw, again,

00:27:05.099 --> 00:27:07.880
wounds closing and healing as that light falls

00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:10.299
upon her. You can really make out all the closing

00:27:10.299 --> 00:27:14.140
gashes. She's healing. You've got to outdo this

00:27:14.140 --> 00:27:16.119
healing. Yeah, I think we're going to be okay

00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:20.740
here. Oh, that's 30 points of damage. Holy shit.

00:27:20.740 --> 00:27:26.200
On 3d12. Holy shit. What's this look like? As

00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:28.420
soon as Blanche realizes she doesn't need to

00:27:28.420 --> 00:27:33.920
hold back, maybe her hand was just lightly crackling

00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.200
with blue energy. And then when Kunanjun said,

00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.670
kill it. The energy in her hand doubled or tripled

00:27:41.670 --> 00:27:47.589
and then shot out of her palm and just zapped

00:27:47.589 --> 00:27:52.910
this thing. I'm guessing maybe it freezes up

00:27:52.910 --> 00:27:57.910
and just falls off the wall. Oh, baby. It slides

00:27:57.910 --> 00:28:00.829
down for sure. It's sliding down the wall. Shocked.

00:28:00.829 --> 00:28:03.309
Shocked. Two bolts running through it. You're

00:28:03.309 --> 00:28:05.950
just holding strong like Emperor Palpatine in

00:28:05.950 --> 00:28:11.569
Star Wars Blast. And again, this screamer. Overlaid

00:28:11.569 --> 00:28:14.250
by this words in your mind. This shop was my

00:28:14.250 --> 00:28:16.589
pride. This shop was my legacy. This shop was

00:28:16.589 --> 00:28:20.210
my pride. This shop was my legacy. That doesn't

00:28:20.210 --> 00:28:23.289
quite finish the job. Oh, no. It just gets very,

00:28:23.349 --> 00:28:28.750
very close. Oh, fuck. She drops down beside Jules

00:28:28.750 --> 00:28:34.410
and beneath him, Chester. It's Trickshot's turn.

00:28:34.869 --> 00:28:39.450
Shit, he can't get up, can he? Jules, hey! You

00:28:39.450 --> 00:28:45.470
gotta go on a diet, man! What can he do? You

00:28:45.470 --> 00:28:47.670
know what? His crossbow could be out. He could

00:28:47.670 --> 00:28:50.710
be trying to aim it from under. If you'll allow

00:28:50.710 --> 00:28:55.829
that. Fine. Yeah, why not? Fuck it. Hell yeah!

00:28:56.470 --> 00:28:58.809
Come on! God, misdirection still isn't in there,

00:28:58.869 --> 00:29:04.289
David. I have literally no excuse this time.

00:29:06.009 --> 00:29:08.619
Remind me again what the... It's going to be

00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:10.019
a, what's his hit right now? It's 1d10 plus.

00:29:10.299 --> 00:29:12.779
Don't ask us. Yeah. Chester's to hit. What's

00:29:12.779 --> 00:29:15.480
his hit? Yeah, the sling is plus 8 to hit. Plus

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:17.940
9 to hit. Plus 9 to hit. And then it was 1d10

00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:20.839
plus his modifier, which is 3. Okay, cool. Plus

00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:25.220
4, actually. Plus 4. Okay. He got a dirty 20.

00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.380
Disadvantage. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that

00:29:30.380 --> 00:29:34.359
would be a 17. Okay, still hits. Oh, baby. Come

00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:43.720
on. Come on. For nine damage. Nine damage. Look,

00:29:43.819 --> 00:29:47.960
I'm sorry, but you're in our way. He raises the

00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.039
bolt up. Gwishin still electrocutes, screams

00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:56.299
out. Chester fires the bolt right through the

00:29:56.299 --> 00:30:03.599
head. And Bisumin falls to rest at last. Scream.

00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.000
dying, echoing down the hall, down the shop below.

00:30:09.299 --> 00:30:13.359
And everything goes calm in the tea shop. The

00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:17.380
swarm falls. Yes, you hear glass draining down.

00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.680
One lone glass shard remains hovering on the

00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:28.619
stairs. One brave fighter. You hear footsteps

00:30:28.619 --> 00:30:33.329
moving up the stairs. And then sliding, just

00:30:33.329 --> 00:30:35.049
kind of really tripping over you. And oh, oh,

00:30:35.130 --> 00:30:38.029
good on Julie trips over Chester and Jules stumbles

00:30:38.029 --> 00:30:41.170
down. Akio catches him barely. Oh, no, thank

00:30:41.170 --> 00:30:44.769
you. Oh, hold on just a moment. He slides out

00:30:44.769 --> 00:30:47.490
a scroll. He's kind of running his fingers over

00:30:47.490 --> 00:30:50.769
it, whispering some, some ancient prayer, probably

00:30:50.769 --> 00:30:54.410
in the, in the old tongue of Yanito, the language

00:30:54.410 --> 00:30:58.970
of hollery. And he's just, and after he sort

00:30:58.970 --> 00:31:02.410
of finishes his incantation, you see the, symbols

00:31:02.410 --> 00:31:04.250
you see appearing all over the scroll. Again,

00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:05.930
this probably ancient hollery, you don't really

00:31:05.930 --> 00:31:09.089
recognize it yourselves, begins to light this

00:31:09.089 --> 00:31:13.970
luminescent ink. And as he's sort of backlit

00:31:13.970 --> 00:31:17.730
by Jules' light spell and forelit by the scroll

00:31:17.730 --> 00:31:21.289
beneath him, Kunon Jun begins to speak out words

00:31:21.289 --> 00:31:24.970
that seem to like echo strangely throughout this

00:31:24.970 --> 00:31:28.230
whole place, almost like the wood of the tea

00:31:28.230 --> 00:31:33.349
shop is absorbing them. Like every board is an

00:31:33.349 --> 00:31:38.069
ear listening intently. Bisumin, your legacy

00:31:38.069 --> 00:31:42.410
is not gone. I remember you. I remember having

00:31:42.410 --> 00:31:47.730
tea here with my dad, with my grandfather. Good

00:31:47.730 --> 00:31:50.269
memories that I'll carry with me forever. My,

00:31:50.450 --> 00:31:56.769
my mug adorned the wall downstairs. My name.

00:31:56.950 --> 00:31:59.069
And though that may be gone, those memories,

00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:04.660
We'll always be here. You live on. You live on

00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:11.140
so you may pass on. Please. Please. And there's

00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:16.740
a long pause and then this shudder. Moving the

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:20.160
boards beneath your feet and there's a long groan

00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:26.079
as if every single board in this place is waking

00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:30.730
up from a horrible nightmare. And it passes by

00:32:30.730 --> 00:32:37.930
you and falls silent. The mist around you vanishes.

00:32:38.970 --> 00:32:43.309
The scroll, the light from it dies down. And

00:32:43.309 --> 00:32:47.569
you see it just rolls itself up with one last

00:32:47.569 --> 00:32:50.990
sort of sigh. Kunon June just looks to you all.

00:32:52.190 --> 00:32:59.220
She's gone. Thank you. Sometimes... When this

00:32:59.220 --> 00:33:05.940
happens, when they're enraged, you have to subdue

00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:10.220
them before you can speak to them, to the heart

00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:14.380
of them, and end their grudge. But this is wrong.

00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:18.819
This is so wrong. Bi Su Min was not supposed

00:33:18.819 --> 00:33:21.380
to be this powerful or this enraged. This is...

00:33:21.380 --> 00:33:25.240
something else is happening here. It sounded

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:28.200
like somebody else was involved. You think...

00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:32.079
Do you think this could be the work of the other

00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:35.140
Gwishin? The one that I believe steals memory?

00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:40.480
You heard it ask. About forgetting. It was speaking

00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.700
through her. You see, like, Shudder. He plays

00:33:45.700 --> 00:33:50.240
with a feather on his hat and just... No, no,

00:33:50.259 --> 00:33:52.720
this is so much worse than we realized. I have

00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.000
a hypothetical question. You don't understand,

00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:57.599
there's... So many Gwishin active in this city

00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:59.960
at a time. Most of which aren't even reported

00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:01.440
to the magistrates. If they're all like this,

00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:04.819
if they've been altered, empowered, what's your

00:34:04.819 --> 00:34:09.440
question? How would you appease a Gwishin that

00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:14.480
used to be a dragon? A dragon? Is that possible?

00:34:14.619 --> 00:34:18.199
I guess I don't know the limitations on what

00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:22.400
or who can become a Gwishin, but I mean, you'd

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:25.610
need to find someone that knew the dragon. but

00:34:25.610 --> 00:34:28.409
not the one that was wronged, or that wronged

00:34:28.409 --> 00:34:33.469
the dragon. It's how they work. Basically, it's

00:34:33.469 --> 00:34:34.909
sort of complicated, but the Gwishn's torment

00:34:34.909 --> 00:34:37.409
is to be witnessed by one outside the fold. It's

00:34:37.409 --> 00:34:39.690
usually a spirit arbiter. As magistrates, we

00:34:39.690 --> 00:34:41.570
try very hard to learn the faces of as many residents

00:34:41.570 --> 00:34:44.349
as we can, so we can perform the summon when

00:34:44.349 --> 00:34:47.449
we need to. But in order to call upon the Gwishn

00:34:47.449 --> 00:34:49.030
to summon them, you have to find their lair.

00:34:49.389 --> 00:34:51.570
You have to find where it is they haunt, their

00:34:51.570 --> 00:34:54.449
primary location. Then you must call upon their

00:34:54.449 --> 00:34:57.590
name and hold their memory true. If you do this,

00:34:57.590 --> 00:34:59.409
and if you are not the party that wronged them,

00:34:59.530 --> 00:35:03.550
they will appear to air their grievances. Usually

00:35:03.550 --> 00:35:05.110
if you just listen to them and appease them,

00:35:05.369 --> 00:35:09.170
give them some relief, they pass on. Sometimes

00:35:09.170 --> 00:35:13.110
it's like this, though. Well, I am starting to

00:35:13.110 --> 00:35:17.210
form a theory. It's loose, but who in the city

00:35:17.210 --> 00:35:22.960
knew the dragon Baraki? I don't know. Nobody

00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.300
would think. Baraki just came out of nowhere.

00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:29.260
I mean... Does that sound like a dragon to come

00:35:29.260 --> 00:35:32.199
out of nowhere and attack a city unprovoked?

00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:35.500
I guess it's strange that we hadn't heard of

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:38.780
Baraki before then. There was no news, no information,

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:42.539
nothing. Baraki just happened. Don't you think

00:35:42.539 --> 00:35:45.059
it's suspicious that the royal family has a connection?

00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:48.860
Some draconic bloodline? This is wildly inappropriate.

00:35:49.059 --> 00:35:52.880
Very, very inappropriate thing to discuss. I

00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.199
wouldn't know anything about the royal family

00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:58.460
and I wouldn't surely suspect any... No one else

00:35:58.460 --> 00:36:02.139
is here but us. What's happened in this tea shop

00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:05.219
just now is child's play compared to what's going

00:36:05.219 --> 00:36:07.679
on out there. You said it yourself. You don't...

00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:09.880
You didn't even tell us how many more Gwishin

00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:13.250
there are in the city. But why would... Why would

00:36:13.250 --> 00:36:15.530
a dragon become a Gwishian? They only appear

00:36:15.530 --> 00:36:18.670
when someone is terribly wrong. This dragon came

00:36:18.670 --> 00:36:21.670
upon our city, killed so many of us. It was the

00:36:21.670 --> 00:36:25.030
wrongdoer. Queen Jimmy was right. Do you think

00:36:25.030 --> 00:36:29.150
that could have been a reason? I wouldn't begin

00:36:29.150 --> 00:36:33.289
to know. I can... If we take some time, I can

00:36:33.289 --> 00:36:37.630
do some research. We probably should report what

00:36:37.630 --> 00:36:41.760
happened in the Tiger District. And... Learn

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.860
whatever happened. What else happened to the

00:36:43.860 --> 00:36:46.820
city? Report this. This needs to be reported.

00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:48.719
The Gwishin acting strange. There could be more.

00:36:49.420 --> 00:36:54.119
Nobody knows already. How can we help? I can

00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.320
research. We can dispatch more Gwishin. I just

00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:03.079
want to know how to help. I don't know. How long

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:08.739
has it been since the last smoke incident? Mist

00:37:08.739 --> 00:37:11.179
incident? Let's say about... An hour and a half.

00:37:11.739 --> 00:37:17.000
So it's now about 1 .30 p .m. Okay. So, I mean,

00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.920
we don't know. There hasn't been a pattern of

00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:20.960
every three hours. We just know that between

00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:23.320
the first and second one, it was three hours.

00:37:23.579 --> 00:37:27.800
Yeah. So if we want to try and squeeze in a short

00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.099
rest, we kind of need to do it now. Is that what

00:37:32.099 --> 00:37:34.940
you want to do? Yeah. Well, I mean, we need to

00:37:34.940 --> 00:37:38.059
figure out if it's feasible, if it's something

00:37:38.059 --> 00:37:42.489
that... Uh, the Magistrate thinks we can do.

00:37:43.170 --> 00:37:47.329
How much time do you think we have until we need

00:37:47.329 --> 00:37:52.070
to act on attacking more Gwishin, or... We're

00:37:52.070 --> 00:37:56.010
pretty badly injured, you see, and... I'll be

00:37:56.010 --> 00:37:58.750
honest, I don't think anyone knows really what's

00:37:58.750 --> 00:38:01.309
happening here. In the history of Unita, we've

00:38:01.309 --> 00:38:03.869
never faced a Gwishin this powerful. One that

00:38:03.869 --> 00:38:07.309
can spread its domain, its effects to the entire

00:38:07.309 --> 00:38:10.250
city. I have to assume there's still one central

00:38:10.250 --> 00:38:12.829
lair, though. If we want to stop it, we need

00:38:12.829 --> 00:38:15.969
to find out what that lair is, where it is. We

00:38:15.969 --> 00:38:18.929
need to find out who it is for sure. I think

00:38:18.929 --> 00:38:23.449
we should check the Phoenix District. Park of

00:38:23.449 --> 00:38:26.889
the Elders. Again, it's the only theory I've

00:38:26.889 --> 00:38:30.550
got right now. The place Baraki was slain. Exactly.

00:38:31.469 --> 00:38:33.769
Something crosses his features here, too. You

00:38:33.769 --> 00:38:36.469
just think about this and you see, like, extreme

00:38:36.469 --> 00:38:39.909
discomfort. Like he wants to say something, but

00:38:39.909 --> 00:38:41.650
he just can't quite bring himself to bring it

00:38:41.650 --> 00:38:47.110
out there. Like he just has to poop so bad. I

00:38:47.110 --> 00:38:54.010
can see that you're scared, Kunanjun. But what's

00:38:54.010 --> 00:38:57.469
happened today has led me to believe that you

00:38:57.469 --> 00:39:01.889
want what's best for this city. You want to right

00:39:01.889 --> 00:39:07.659
the wrongs and make your people safe again. think

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:12.159
we can help you please speak freely give me persuasion

00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:14.739
with advantage that's good that it's advantage

00:39:14.739 --> 00:39:18.159
you see he's almost there like he's it's not

00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.400
a crazy role because you've already got mostly

00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:21.760
on your side this is just something that's particularly

00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.780
hard for him to voice not because he doesn't

00:39:24.780 --> 00:39:28.920
trust you because maybe it's just wildly inappropriate

00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:35.699
oh okay 16 fingers crossed i don't know what's

00:39:35.699 --> 00:39:41.199
going on And it is so wildly inappropriate for

00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:45.300
me to ask this of you. But please, I can't look

00:39:45.300 --> 00:39:49.940
into this alone. But I love this city. I love

00:39:49.940 --> 00:39:52.940
Yanita with everything I have. Your perspective

00:39:52.940 --> 00:39:57.239
gives you power here. The power to look into

00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.539
things that staunch tradition keeps us from.

00:40:03.059 --> 00:40:06.940
Please help me save the city I love. It's just...

00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:10.280
Shaden kind of turns his head away. He's like,

00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:11.579
oh, yeah, tears are about to form, and he, like,

00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:15.400
looks away towards the wall. This is a burden

00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:18.219
we're willing to bear for you. I just, um, I

00:40:18.219 --> 00:40:22.679
find it very interesting that Queen Jimmy's powers

00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:25.559
of foresight are so incredible. She was able

00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:27.840
to predict the attack in the Tiger District before

00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:29.500
any reports had come in about it, after all.

00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.019
It must be your connection to Mero. Otherwise,

00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:35.130
how would she have known? The significance of

00:40:35.130 --> 00:40:38.730
that place in the first attack, right? It sure

00:40:38.730 --> 00:40:41.510
is unfortunate that the Sea of Dragons and the

00:40:41.510 --> 00:40:43.909
Park of the Elders are places of significance

00:40:43.909 --> 00:40:47.409
to Her Majesty. One with a wildly inappropriate

00:40:47.409 --> 00:40:52.909
mentality might think... We have much to look

00:40:52.909 --> 00:40:56.750
into. Um... I'm having trouble reading between

00:40:56.750 --> 00:40:58.789
the lines. Is he telling us to go investigate

00:40:58.789 --> 00:41:03.690
the palace and the park? Basically... before

00:41:03.690 --> 00:41:06.730
you gather he's noting how strange it is for

00:41:06.730 --> 00:41:08.809
one that the tiger district was the queen sent

00:41:08.809 --> 00:41:10.429
him there before she knew anything had happened

00:41:10.429 --> 00:41:12.630
only when she'd heard of and you remember when

00:41:12.630 --> 00:41:15.010
she heard there was an attack and that uh there's

00:41:15.010 --> 00:41:17.630
mentioned that dragons were involved she got

00:41:17.630 --> 00:41:19.429
really weird and said hey go to the tiger district

00:41:19.429 --> 00:41:21.170
check that out didn't really give any reason

00:41:21.170 --> 00:41:24.809
why so there's clearly something perhaps a connecting

00:41:24.809 --> 00:41:28.949
point to baraki there but also he seems to believe

00:41:28.949 --> 00:41:31.429
that you are on the right track something is

00:41:31.429 --> 00:41:34.489
wrong here And it has to do with a queen. And

00:41:34.489 --> 00:41:36.809
maybe it has to do with Baraki. What happened

00:41:36.809 --> 00:41:40.309
nine years ago? What is the lie? And what is

00:41:40.309 --> 00:41:44.690
the lie behind the lie? So I feel like going

00:41:44.690 --> 00:41:48.630
to the Phoenix District is going to be like skipping

00:41:48.630 --> 00:41:51.190
ahead. Ain't nothing skipping ahead. It's an

00:41:51.190 --> 00:41:53.590
open investigation. Lots of cool spots to hit.

00:41:54.329 --> 00:41:56.030
In fact, I will say, if it makes sense character

00:41:56.030 --> 00:41:57.869
-wise, the Phoenix District is on your way between

00:41:57.869 --> 00:42:00.550
here and the palace. which is on the way to the

00:42:00.550 --> 00:42:02.530
Tiger District. So if you're going from the bottom

00:42:02.530 --> 00:42:04.010
of the city where you are, you'd hit the Phoenix

00:42:04.010 --> 00:42:06.250
District naturally first, then the City of Dragons,

00:42:06.409 --> 00:42:08.769
then the Tiger District. Gotcha. So you can do

00:42:08.769 --> 00:42:10.130
whatever you want. Just put it out there that

00:42:10.130 --> 00:42:12.230
your characters might hit it on the way kind

00:42:12.230 --> 00:42:14.190
of thing. I'm also feeling a little nervous about

00:42:14.190 --> 00:42:17.789
doing anything without a short rest. Yeah. Do

00:42:17.789 --> 00:42:19.070
you think we should just continue on or should

00:42:19.070 --> 00:42:21.030
we try to squeeze in a rest here? What are you

00:42:21.030 --> 00:42:23.309
looking like in terms of the slots and all that?

00:42:24.449 --> 00:42:28.989
Slots I'm doing okay. I'm more than halfway down

00:42:28.989 --> 00:42:32.570
on HP, though. Yeah. And our slots are long rest,

00:42:32.650 --> 00:42:34.210
so you've got to be real careful with those.

00:42:34.429 --> 00:42:36.730
Yeah. Especially because I keep taking them from

00:42:36.730 --> 00:42:38.989
you for no reason. Oh, no, I'm mistaken. I'm

00:42:38.989 --> 00:42:41.230
mistaken for my Bardic. I get my Bardic back

00:42:41.230 --> 00:42:43.750
after a short rest. The other benefit to short

00:42:43.750 --> 00:42:47.230
rest is, I did say, he can look into things,

00:42:47.329 --> 00:42:49.750
you know, find out what else has been happening

00:42:49.750 --> 00:42:50.969
in the city, and you might be able to get more.

00:42:51.090 --> 00:42:53.170
And he wants to report as soon as possible what's

00:42:53.170 --> 00:42:55.849
happened here. and in the Tiger District, because

00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:57.750
he basically skipped doing that and just jumped

00:42:57.750 --> 00:43:01.530
right over here. Kunanjun, would you allow us

00:43:01.530 --> 00:43:04.309
to rest here, and you could have a head start

00:43:04.309 --> 00:43:06.949
on the investigation, or are you still not able

00:43:06.949 --> 00:43:10.789
to leave us unattended? I think you've proven

00:43:10.789 --> 00:43:13.190
that you're not going to cause too much trouble.

00:43:13.650 --> 00:43:17.469
With a smile. Yes, I will proceed to the Seat

00:43:17.469 --> 00:43:20.889
of Dragons, report, hear what there is to say,

00:43:20.949 --> 00:43:25.059
and I will come back for you. Okay, once we rest

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:29.159
here, about an hour or so, Blanche looks to Jules

00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:33.239
for confirmation. I believe our plan is to investigate

00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:36.920
in the Phoenix District. Jules nods. Then I'll

00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:39.880
find you there. Take care of yourselves, okay?

00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:43.380
Yes, same to you. I wish I had something to give

00:43:43.380 --> 00:43:45.659
him to protect himself, but... Just give me a

00:43:45.659 --> 00:43:53.559
ring of spellstorm. You see, he turns. Moves

00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:55.260
down the stairs, which I will say have all reset

00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:56.900
to normal, by the way. The floors have all gone

00:43:56.900 --> 00:43:59.159
back to normal. Whole place just looks like a

00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:01.820
normal closed tea shop with glass everywhere.

00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:04.500
He moves out the door and you find yourselves

00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:09.880
in this quiet, quiet place. You take your short

00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.539
rest. So, hey, I do have song of rest as well.

00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:15.900
I don't know what that means. If you or any friendly

00:44:15.900 --> 00:44:17.519
creatures who can hear your performance regain

00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:19.719
hit points at the end of the short rest by spending

00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:21.960
one or more hit dice, each of those creatures

00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:27.239
regains an extra 1d6. Wow. So I imagine then

00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:29.659
that Jules, toward the end of the rest, will

00:44:29.659 --> 00:44:33.000
just pick up his loot, start playing a bit of

00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:38.000
a somber tune, and thus activating Song of Rest.

00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:45.820
So if you want one more d6 for you, Akio. I will

00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:50.800
take it. Wow. That's so funny. That brings me

00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:57.260
exactly up to max with that D6. Oh, yeah. Oh,

00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:00.039
that's awesome. How are we going to deal with

00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:03.760
short rests for... Same as you guys. So it's

00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.179
basically the amount of... Hit die they have,

00:45:06.260 --> 00:45:08.239
it might say on their sheet. Does it tell next

00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:09.800
to their HP what their hit die is? I haven't

00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:12.119
seen anything about hit die. Okay. Assume that

00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:17.300
they're 7th level, so 7d10 for Akio, 7d8, I believe,

00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:30.320
for Chester. Okay. Ooh. Ooh. Okay, so with that

00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:33.000
rest, Jules is back up to almost full, and so

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.809
is Chester. During our short rest, Blanche is

00:45:36.809 --> 00:45:41.690
reading through her spell book in order to use

00:45:41.690 --> 00:45:45.869
the arcane recovery feature and regain some spell

00:45:45.869 --> 00:45:49.230
slots during a short rest. You can use that once

00:45:49.230 --> 00:45:53.429
per long rest and is also back up to full. Hell

00:45:53.429 --> 00:45:55.989
yeah, that's really good, actually. That's amazingly

00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:59.230
good in this arc, especially. Get them spell

00:45:59.230 --> 00:46:02.409
slots. How's everybody looking? Sidekick's doing

00:46:02.409 --> 00:46:05.739
okay? Uh, yeah. Keo's back up to full now. Good.

00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:10.139
All right. So everyone's resting, relaxing. Chester's

00:46:10.139 --> 00:46:12.920
still just kind of, like, firing off his crossbow,

00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:16.119
shooting, like, you know, things off the countertop.

00:46:17.219 --> 00:46:19.659
Smile, this big smile, like, trick shot, huh?

00:46:20.500 --> 00:46:24.380
Yeah. I like it. Could be a luminary name, huh,

00:46:24.420 --> 00:46:26.519
Jules? I'm just kidding. I ain't overstepping.

00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:31.039
Psychic. I mean, you gonna take it? Oh, you know

00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.800
I am. Yeah. Just a sidekick. Sorry. Trick shot.

00:46:35.940 --> 00:46:41.400
Trick shot. That's the one. The fuck, man. He's

00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:44.380
excited and nervous. He's got the pre -luminary

00:46:44.380 --> 00:46:48.260
jitters. Yeah, pre -luminary. He's also going

00:46:48.260 --> 00:46:50.400
through puberty, so you give him, you know, kind

00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.219
of slack. Don't get too big for your britches

00:46:52.219 --> 00:46:55.059
there, Chester. But I can see you becoming a

00:46:55.059 --> 00:46:58.960
luminary someday. He just peers up behind the

00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:03.690
table. What of my self? Am I to be a luminary,

00:47:03.829 --> 00:47:06.789
Master Blanchard? Do I have a cool name, too?

00:47:07.090 --> 00:47:10.650
A student of Master Osun Yoshikatsu could certainly

00:47:10.650 --> 00:47:16.130
become a luminary. Oh, Storm Eye, Master of Defense.

00:47:17.070 --> 00:47:22.530
Oh, what awaits me? The Disciple of Thunder.

00:47:24.030 --> 00:47:28.150
I am excited to see. I'm sure we'll find you

00:47:28.150 --> 00:47:31.000
a good name soon. I could be the great boofer.

00:47:32.820 --> 00:47:40.440
The best boofer. And so you begin to feel better.

00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:45.300
And at some point, as your rest ends, as you

00:47:45.300 --> 00:47:47.199
feel ready to face the day again to continue

00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:52.179
your investigation, it is now 2 .30 p .m. on

00:47:52.179 --> 00:47:54.539
this day. Do you head off into the city streets

00:47:54.539 --> 00:47:59.179
once more? Man. Is it a really good idea? So

00:47:59.179 --> 00:48:02.519
if, if it happens every three hours, is it either

00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:05.900
a really good idea to be in the Phoenix district

00:48:05.900 --> 00:48:08.099
when it happens at the park or a really bad idea?

00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.780
Probably a bad idea. We might learn something

00:48:10.780 --> 00:48:14.400
though. It's true. I say we go. I mean, Jules

00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:17.519
isn't going to stop. Okay. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

00:48:17.699 --> 00:48:20.139
It might be a bad idea, but he's going for it.

00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:22.320
It's probably an awful idea, but we're still

00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:25.519
going to do it. Yeah. Of course. I think we should.

00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:29.179
Move forward to the Park of the Elders. Park

00:48:29.179 --> 00:48:32.619
of the Elders, right? Yes. And see if we can

00:48:32.619 --> 00:48:36.019
learn anything. Hopefully the mist doesn't come

00:48:36.019 --> 00:48:37.820
every three hours or we'll hit it while we're

00:48:37.820 --> 00:48:42.780
there. But that could prove to be informational.

00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:47.320
That's certainly a word. No, it's not. Informative.

00:48:47.340 --> 00:48:56.050
Thank you. You move to the city streets. Perhaps

00:48:56.050 --> 00:48:59.010
this idea you have that this could happen again

00:48:59.010 --> 00:49:00.989
soon is something that's seeped into the general

00:49:00.989 --> 00:49:04.090
populace because the air in the city feels so

00:49:04.090 --> 00:49:07.090
much more nervous now. Just all sorts of fake

00:49:07.090 --> 00:49:12.530
smiles, fake greetings, voices shaking as they

00:49:12.530 --> 00:49:18.050
pretend that normalcy. You see the Park of the

00:49:18.050 --> 00:49:21.150
Elders long before you reach it. It's a place

00:49:21.150 --> 00:49:22.789
you've probably known about for a while now because

00:49:22.789 --> 00:49:25.670
it's very obvious where it stands in the city.

00:49:26.250 --> 00:49:29.090
Because at the center of this small walking park,

00:49:29.269 --> 00:49:34.730
there is a massive statue of Queen Jinmi. Rotten

00:49:34.730 --> 00:49:38.230
stone. You've seen it from afar many times. You

00:49:38.230 --> 00:49:39.610
know, the top of the hill looking down, you saw

00:49:39.610 --> 00:49:42.949
a great sort of expanse of green surrounded by

00:49:42.949 --> 00:49:47.409
sort of large sloped walls in the very center.

00:49:47.949 --> 00:49:49.750
This statue popping up between the walls. And

00:49:49.750 --> 00:49:51.929
as you move up, you see those walls. You see

00:49:51.929 --> 00:49:54.949
this statue. And it is just before three o 'clock

00:49:54.949 --> 00:49:57.969
when you reach this place. Standing in what was

00:49:57.969 --> 00:50:01.110
once the Phoenix District. You see the park seems

00:50:01.110 --> 00:50:05.769
to be completely closed down. There are a number

00:50:05.769 --> 00:50:08.949
of guard standing at the entrances of the park,

00:50:09.010 --> 00:50:11.809
keeping everyone away. All looking very nervous.

00:50:12.429 --> 00:50:15.550
As you begin to approach, they eye you warily.

00:50:16.150 --> 00:50:20.159
Weapons. Not drawn, but hands at the ready to

00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.019
draw them. What is the meaning of this? Why is

00:50:23.019 --> 00:50:25.940
the park closed off? One of the guards steps

00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:30.579
forward, a blue dragonborn, very bulky. There

00:50:30.579 --> 00:50:35.440
have been attacks. There was one earlier today

00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:40.599
around 9 a .m. Strange occurrences, perhaps tigers

00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:44.440
somehow getting in. We're not sure, but we're

00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:48.559
being very wary. checking through the park, making

00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.460
sure nobody gets hurt. It's happened twice now.

00:50:53.420 --> 00:50:55.300
You weren't aware at this point that you knew

00:50:55.300 --> 00:50:57.539
there was an attack at noon. Now you find out

00:50:57.539 --> 00:50:59.699
that this was another place attacked at 9, which

00:50:59.699 --> 00:51:02.760
means at 9 o 'clock a .m., the Sea of Dragons,

00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:05.880
the Tiger District Construction Zone, this park,

00:51:06.099 --> 00:51:12.400
and the gate. At 12, just this park, the Sea

00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.159
of Dragons, and the Tiger District. Not the gate,

00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:20.170
which is strange. Magistrate Kunan Jun sent us

00:51:20.170 --> 00:51:23.389
here to investigate the park ourselves. I'm aware.

00:51:24.170 --> 00:51:27.210
Thank goodness. Please stop by the way. I don't...

00:51:27.210 --> 00:51:31.389
I don't like it. But we do as the magistrate

00:51:31.389 --> 00:51:34.829
commands. Phew. Wasn't sure what that was going

00:51:34.829 --> 00:51:38.489
to be like. Wow, something was easy. Again, touch

00:51:38.489 --> 00:51:42.730
your fingers. Steps aside. Just not looking comfortable.

00:51:43.469 --> 00:51:46.940
You may enter, but be quick. We don't know what's

00:51:46.940 --> 00:51:50.880
happening in there. We cannot defend you. If

00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:52.579
something goes wrong, we are holding perimeter.

00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:56.519
I suggest for the next 30 minutes you should

00:51:56.519 --> 00:52:00.780
widen that perimeter considerably. I will take

00:52:00.780 --> 00:52:04.059
this suggestion into consideration. Now proceed.

00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:08.679
And Blanche does whatever she deems as the respectful

00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:13.139
salute for this region, this military force,

00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:17.380
and walks into the park. Hell yeah. You move

00:52:17.380 --> 00:52:21.320
through these gates. You see there are two main

00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:24.500
entrances to the park. One to the north, one

00:52:24.500 --> 00:52:26.860
to the south. You are moving to the south gate

00:52:26.860 --> 00:52:31.820
now. You push in and you see immediately this

00:52:31.820 --> 00:52:34.800
grand wall surrounds it. The park is not massive.

00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:40.239
It is about, it might be 150 or so feet. Like,

00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:44.800
it might be only 400 feet or so long. Maybe 300

00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:47.920
wide. So this large sort of perfect rectangle

00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:50.659
fully walled in. And as you step inside, you

00:52:50.659 --> 00:52:53.739
look to these walls and you see adorning the

00:52:53.739 --> 00:52:57.139
sort of red and black construction of these sloped

00:52:57.139 --> 00:53:02.099
sort of roofed buildings. You see like this gold

00:53:02.099 --> 00:53:09.199
plate is inlaid along it with names written down.

00:53:09.239 --> 00:53:12.400
Like every spot almost standing as a gravestone

00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:17.460
memorial site. You see in the middle of all this,

00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:20.059
towering above it all, is that statue surrounded

00:53:20.059 --> 00:53:24.300
by lush gardens and vegetation and trees. It's

00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:28.119
a beautiful, beautiful locale. You imagine there

00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:31.239
should be songbirds in the trees tweeting out

00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:34.980
their fine music, and yet it is strangely quiet

00:53:34.980 --> 00:53:38.679
here. Can we read any of the names or any of

00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:42.389
the writing? Yes. As you're kind of moving, you're

00:53:42.389 --> 00:53:44.550
scanning the writing. You get your glasses on

00:53:44.550 --> 00:53:48.409
to kind of zoom in from afar. And it's just names

00:53:48.409 --> 00:53:52.090
of citizens of the town. But based on various

00:53:52.090 --> 00:53:54.530
little scripture pieces you see underneath, you

00:53:54.530 --> 00:53:56.570
put together these. This is probably a memorial

00:53:56.570 --> 00:54:00.230
to all the lives lost. Oh, during the dragon

00:54:00.230 --> 00:54:02.389
attack. Hundreds of lives lost during the attack.

00:54:02.590 --> 00:54:04.789
Sure. This entire park is built as a memorial.

00:54:05.650 --> 00:54:09.550
And all of it lies in the shadow of the queen.

00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:13.260
You approach the statue at the center as you're

00:54:13.260 --> 00:54:16.679
moving further in. The center statue is huge,

00:54:16.900 --> 00:54:20.440
you see. The queen sitting upon her stone throne,

00:54:20.659 --> 00:54:25.920
about 30 feet high, 30 feet wide. Wow. Marvelous

00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:29.460
architecture. Beautiful, beautiful work. You

00:54:29.460 --> 00:54:31.519
can see almost every detail. You recognize the

00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.659
rings in her long tendril, her hair -like tendrils.

00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.559
Almost every scale in her body sculpted to perfection

00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:43.099
as she stares down wisely with a gentle smile

00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:49.159
and a firm strength. I'd like to sort of investigate

00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:52.940
around the statue. Hell yeah. See if there's

00:54:52.940 --> 00:54:56.159
any writing, any... I'm trying to decide exactly

00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:59.380
what I'm looking for. Just like if there's anything

00:54:59.380 --> 00:55:01.159
that stands out, if there are any discrepancies,

00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:06.469
like, oh, no, the queen's, you know... Jewelry

00:55:06.469 --> 00:55:08.750
isn't like that. She wears something else. That's

00:55:08.750 --> 00:55:11.409
weird. Why is that different? Interesting. Okay.

00:55:12.070 --> 00:55:19.989
Yeah, go ahead. Good thing for my goggles. 14

00:55:19.989 --> 00:55:25.750
is all I got for investigation. 14. Not bad.

00:55:26.750 --> 00:55:29.989
First, the obvious. You go to move towards a

00:55:29.989 --> 00:55:31.989
statue. Let me ask real quick, as you're investing

00:55:31.989 --> 00:55:33.929
in this, what's everyone else doing? What is

00:55:33.929 --> 00:55:36.159
our... Group of four doing right now. Oh, God.

00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.739
Just a simple, innocent question, Steven. Akio

00:55:40.739 --> 00:55:45.880
is standing close to Jules. Okay. Yeah, I think

00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.000
Jules has his hand on Chester's shoulder. And

00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.579
Chester's got misdirection, locked and loaded,

00:55:52.739 --> 00:55:57.980
staring out with a strange smile. Akio, I imagine.

00:55:58.349 --> 00:56:00.010
has a sword ready to go, or at least is like

00:56:00.010 --> 00:56:01.309
getting ready to like, you know, in a position

00:56:01.309 --> 00:56:03.090
where he could draw it fast. He's always ready

00:56:03.090 --> 00:56:05.409
to pull that sword out in a heartbeat, so. He's

00:56:05.409 --> 00:56:09.110
snoofing around, snoofing the ground. I love

00:56:09.110 --> 00:56:13.969
it. Trying to detect any threats. You do see,

00:56:14.030 --> 00:56:15.429
and he actually sniffs them out as he's kind

00:56:15.429 --> 00:56:17.289
of moving. There's a spot of reddish brown on

00:56:17.289 --> 00:56:19.409
the stone, another one, droplets here and there.

00:56:19.809 --> 00:56:22.809
There were attacks. Looks like there were potentially

00:56:22.809 --> 00:56:29.079
victims too. It is blood. What you see, Blanche,

00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.500
is you're moving up to the statue itself first.

00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:34.440
And you all see this because it's very obvious.

00:56:34.500 --> 00:56:37.500
There are large gashes removed from the base

00:56:37.500 --> 00:56:40.179
of the statue. There is this large base leading

00:56:40.179 --> 00:56:42.400
up to it, so probably 10 feet high. And then

00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:43.679
you actually have the Queen and her throne sitting

00:56:43.679 --> 00:56:50.900
upon that big base. But that squared dais she

00:56:50.900 --> 00:56:55.019
sits upon has been carved up. Huge gashes removed.

00:56:56.369 --> 00:57:02.050
Seemed to form some strange shape. Vaguely avian

00:57:02.050 --> 00:57:06.710
or humanoid or you don't know. You remember seeing

00:57:06.710 --> 00:57:10.489
similar shapes at the gates just after the attack.

00:57:10.949 --> 00:57:14.170
So I've got a question then. If you're out in

00:57:14.170 --> 00:57:15.769
the woods and you're looking at animal tracks

00:57:15.769 --> 00:57:18.889
in the snow, you can generally tell which direction

00:57:18.889 --> 00:57:23.289
they're, you know, walking. Is that possible

00:57:23.289 --> 00:57:28.559
with these? marks on the stone i'm kind of wondering

00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:31.579
if these marks were made like as something is

00:57:31.579 --> 00:57:35.179
coming up to the statue and is clawing grabbing

00:57:35.179 --> 00:57:39.579
and pulling down or pulling sideways or are the

00:57:39.579 --> 00:57:43.340
claw marks like this statue getting up and climbing

00:57:43.340 --> 00:57:46.300
down i'll say it's not claw marks it's these

00:57:46.300 --> 00:57:48.559
massive i guess almost wounds in the statue that

00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:52.159
look like they have this strange form but i like

00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:53.440
where you're going with this now we'll say you

00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:56.820
do see claw marks beneath them. With your 14,

00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:59.800
it looks as though something has pulled itself

00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:04.320
from the stone and clawed its way free, as if

00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:06.960
the stone itself has taken shape. You begin to

00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:09.239
think on what it was that attacked you at the

00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:13.139
gate, what attacked here. You remember looking

00:58:13.139 --> 00:58:15.659
down and seeing a stone form crumbling as the

00:58:15.659 --> 00:58:19.260
mist left. Perhaps you had defeated something

00:58:19.260 --> 00:58:22.159
that had been birthed from the stone of the wall.

00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:25.960
And there's a lot more stone here. But you see

00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:27.639
something else too as you're looking at this.

00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:33.800
It's very small. You're reaching around that

00:58:33.800 --> 00:58:36.380
base and you see like just under the lip where

00:58:36.380 --> 00:58:40.599
it kind of forms the... Like a plinth sort of

00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:42.760
thing? I don't know what that means. What that

00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:45.119
means! Just because you look up, you see like

00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:47.340
a small roof lip kind of moving into the actual

00:58:47.340 --> 00:58:49.739
top of the base where the queen sits in her throne.

00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:55.590
You notice words. chiseled very carefully, very

00:58:55.590 --> 00:59:00.829
small, into the base. And they just say, Remember

00:59:00.829 --> 00:59:10.090
Daewonha. D -A -E space W -O -N dash H -A. Remember

00:59:10.090 --> 00:59:14.869
Daewonha. Hmm. That's very useful, I'm gonna

00:59:14.869 --> 00:59:24.409
guess. Perhaps. Um, geez. Now that she's found

00:59:24.409 --> 00:59:29.650
some words, I mean, I guess my inclination is

00:59:29.650 --> 00:59:32.170
to double down and keep looking or look again,

00:59:32.269 --> 00:59:34.730
but I don't know if that's going to turn anything

00:59:34.730 --> 00:59:38.789
up. Jules, what do you make of this? See here.

00:59:39.329 --> 00:59:44.710
It says, remember day one ha. The voice earlier

00:59:44.710 --> 00:59:49.130
told us to remember or asked why we forgot. Perhaps

00:59:49.130 --> 00:59:52.300
this is what we're trying to... Would Jules,

00:59:52.420 --> 00:59:54.860
with what he knows, be able to make any connections

00:59:54.860 --> 00:59:58.239
or roll something? This is something that you

00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:00.840
would... Elsa, you wouldn't be able to know this

01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:04.579
name. Sure. I don't know that name. I don't know

01:00:04.579 --> 01:00:08.699
what this means. Can Blanche check for that name

01:00:08.699 --> 01:00:13.239
on the walls of the park? I mean, it would be...

01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.519
I don't know if they're in alphabetical order.

01:00:17.319 --> 01:00:19.440
It would take time. They're not necessarily in

01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:20.840
alphabetical order, so it would take some time.

01:00:20.900 --> 01:00:23.139
You could look through for it. Okay. Or at least

01:00:23.139 --> 01:00:26.559
like the last name. Is that your intention to

01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:29.880
go look? Yeah. And I'll have a Keo help if that

01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:33.099
makes it go faster. Sure. But don't do it yet.

01:00:34.219 --> 01:00:38.099
Because as you turn to face this, as you guys

01:00:38.099 --> 01:00:39.800
are having your conversation, speaking by the

01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:45.610
statue, you hear behind you, Jules? Jules? Blanche,

01:00:45.610 --> 01:00:48.230
Jules, Jules, Jules, look, look. You turn to

01:00:48.230 --> 01:00:53.409
see Chester just as the wave of mist falls over

01:00:53.409 --> 01:00:57.489
you all. And we hear in this mist the sounds

01:00:57.489 --> 01:01:02.409
of cracking stone. And we'll call it there.