WEBVTT 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:06.419 Welcome to Your Sidequest. Do you know what it 00:00:06.419 --> 00:00:09.060 does, Farto? No, I'm just guessing it's bad. 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.339 He's replaced his arm with a small dragon. Are 00:00:13.339 --> 00:00:17.920 you looking for a double date? Your Characters 00:00:18.670 --> 00:00:22.969 Grongo stench. I'm a goblin. I'm Margaret Thatcher. 00:00:23.070 --> 00:00:27.510 I have a goblin. I'm Tommy Fury. I'm Schnitzel 00:00:27.510 --> 00:00:31.550 Von Crumb with a very low tongue. Your locations. 00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:36.750 Welcome to the entrance to Butterland. In the 00:00:36.750 --> 00:00:40.130 depths of the Belly Button Factory. In the quiet 00:00:40.130 --> 00:00:45.570 little place of my mum's house. An interactive 00:00:45.570 --> 00:00:49.640 fantasy comedy show. I had no idea what to expect 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:51.600 and I thought it was absolutely magnificent. 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:55.000 Cracks me up every time. You like Dungeons and 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.880 Dragons? Perfect. I haven't actually laughed 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.340 this hard in a very long time. But how well do 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:04.099 they slice with their teeth? How well do they 00:01:04.099 --> 00:01:08.120 transform into a goat? Well, let's find out. 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.459 With a roll of the Dice of Fate, who would like 00:01:10.459 --> 00:01:12.819 to roll it and find out? Chompy, throw it high. 00:01:13.420 --> 00:01:32.799 Upsy -daisy. A six! Search SideQuest Show on 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.900 Instagram and TikTok. SideQuest Show. Choose 00:01:36.900 --> 00:01:41.379 the adventure. Hey there, Pants people. Stephen 00:01:41.379 --> 00:01:43.140 here. Just want to say real quick before the 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:45.659 episode, thank you for listening. Thank you for 00:01:45.659 --> 00:01:47.420 hanging out with us. Thank you for being here. 00:01:47.620 --> 00:02:37.360 We love you. Enjoy the episode. heroes, they 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.340 stand as symbols. Symbols that inspire the never 00:02:40.340 --> 00:02:43.280 -ending fight against evil and suffering. And 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:44.960 there are few heroes that stand in this lie's 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.740 way as they knight the platinum rose. Now during 00:02:48.740 --> 00:02:50.620 periods of great calamity or distress, this figure 00:02:50.620 --> 00:02:53.300 is said to appear to see peace restored and justice 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:55.800 meted out through all our worlds. They say he 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.099 rides forth in a spectral steed, donning a white 00:02:58.099 --> 00:03:00.319 cape and resplendent blade armor, including a 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.129 full helm that hides his identity. He wields 00:03:03.129 --> 00:03:05.629 a civilly long sword and a shield emblazoned 00:03:05.629 --> 00:03:09.169 with a figure of a noble dragon. He battles foes 00:03:09.169 --> 00:03:11.550 with radiant light, and many attribute his power 00:03:11.550 --> 00:03:14.349 to be a gift from a deific force such as Atash 00:03:14.349 --> 00:03:17.810 or even the Sunweaver of Angkor and Sangar. Now, 00:03:17.810 --> 00:03:19.849 what very few folks seem to know is the true 00:03:19.849 --> 00:03:21.909 identity of this hero has seemingly been discovered 00:03:21.909 --> 00:03:24.879 some time ago. While people all over are aware 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.259 of the Knight of the Platinum Rose, almost nobody's 00:03:27.259 --> 00:03:30.539 aware of the humble hop farmer and brewer, Diamante 00:03:30.539 --> 00:03:33.479 Cloudbreaker. He's a human man of middling years 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.759 who holds a solitary homestead in the world of 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.340 the mirror. He's no stranger to the city life 00:03:38.340 --> 00:03:40.659 of the city, although, as he has a small brewery 00:03:40.659 --> 00:03:43.280 right here in the lower trade discal. I've had 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:44.900 the pleasure of trying a few of his fine brews 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:48.060 in my friend Ada's establishment, namely Cloudbreaker 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:51.340 Judgment and the Volga Hopper. The latter of 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:53.120 which is said to be named for his hometown, though. 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.699 No such town name exists in our worlds as far 00:03:55.699 --> 00:03:58.120 as our investigators can find out. So what events 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.979 caused this man to become a luminaire in secret? 00:04:00.259 --> 00:04:02.960 So far, no motive has been uncovered. All we 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:04.819 know from interviews is that Diamante is a truly 00:04:04.819 --> 00:04:07.699 somber soul. A quiet man that seems to hold a 00:04:07.699 --> 00:04:11.319 lot behind his eyes. Y 'all now know that I have 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.979 faced true hardship and loss. And in my opinion, 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.459 the night of the platinum rose, this man named 00:04:16.459 --> 00:04:18.639 Diamante is no stranger to this kind of pain 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.370 himself. If you're watching this, Diamante, I 00:04:21.370 --> 00:04:23.170 don't mean to pry or make assumptions, but I 00:04:23.170 --> 00:04:26.610 hope you too can find peace and forgiveness in 00:04:26.610 --> 00:04:31.269 time. Thank you, Mike. Hell yeah. Let's go visit 00:04:31.269 --> 00:04:35.509 Diamante. Hammer on the Discord if you know him 00:04:35.509 --> 00:04:38.230 there, or as we know him. Mike, who works with 00:04:38.230 --> 00:04:42.410 us at Reckless. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. 00:04:42.529 --> 00:04:44.170 He's the one that keeps giving the server a nice 00:04:44.170 --> 00:04:48.009 boost. Oh, right, right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got 00:04:48.009 --> 00:04:50.370 boosted. Yeah, thanks, Mike. This is actually 00:04:50.370 --> 00:04:54.230 a lot of fun. This character, there's a lot unsaid 00:04:54.230 --> 00:04:56.290 here because there's a lot Oren doesn't know 00:04:56.290 --> 00:04:58.949 and a lot David does know. This actually is a 00:04:58.949 --> 00:05:02.009 role we used to have a campaign at work. The 00:05:02.009 --> 00:05:03.430 Repless campaign, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were doing 00:05:03.430 --> 00:05:05.589 Shadow of the Dragon Queen and Diamante was the 00:05:05.589 --> 00:05:07.829 paladin of the group. I knew I've heard that 00:05:07.829 --> 00:05:11.000 name before. Owed by Paladine to like help. you 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:15.120 know, battle Lord Soth and bring peace, and basically 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.639 stop a second calamity, stop Tiamat, I forgot 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.300 her name in that setting, but Tiamat still, from 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:23.420 essentially overtaking the entire world post 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:26.459 the first calamity. And the campaign fell apart. 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.339 And kind of like the lore. As they so often do. 00:05:29.579 --> 00:05:30.980 Yeah, kind of the lore we might kind of settle 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:34.459 on is, you know, that was the bad end. They failed. 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:37.879 Diamante failed. And so perhaps his story has 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.399 continued. Whist away by Paladine. Right here. 00:05:41.139 --> 00:05:43.160 We've kind of touched on this in the live show, 00:05:43.259 --> 00:05:46.180 but for particular reasons, only through the 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:48.500 acts of very powerful deities can the greater 00:05:48.500 --> 00:05:50.660 multiverse touch on this version of the Radiant 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:52.800 Citadel. It's kind of disconnected from the greater 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.680 multiverse. But yeah. Was Demonte the one that 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:01.899 killed me in one fucking shot? He was! Yes! I 00:06:01.899 --> 00:06:07.339 came in as a guest baddie for one night. I had 00:06:07.339 --> 00:06:10.220 all these plans. It was awesome. Dude, I was 00:06:10.220 --> 00:06:14.040 going to wipe so many people. And I almost did. 00:06:14.509 --> 00:06:17.129 Oh my gosh. And then he comes in and like fucking 00:06:17.129 --> 00:06:19.629 one shots me. It's even worse because it was 00:06:19.629 --> 00:06:23.490 an AOL paladin crit. That's right. What? Yeah. 00:06:23.850 --> 00:06:27.529 Oh God. Like an AOL paladin crit, like 50 slaying 00:06:27.529 --> 00:06:29.689 damage. It was the dumbest shit. It was stupid. 00:06:30.379 --> 00:06:34.120 It was stupid. Exploded. Oh, my God. I had Jeremy 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:35.660 come in as the main assassin. I remember, yeah. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:37.500 And I had one other guy from the kitchen come 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:40.079 in, a man named Isaiah, and he was playing a 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:41.560 spider, a giant spider. Oh, yeah. It was kind 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.439 of just a fodder in the fight. We called it Spider 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.279 -Zayah. It was so funny because the big assassin 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:48.620 who was controlling all the spiders got killed 00:06:48.620 --> 00:06:50.939 in one hit, like, super early in the fight. Jeremy 00:06:50.939 --> 00:06:53.000 just pulled his thumbs. And then Spider -Zayah 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.879 almost wiped the party. True. D &D. The one spider 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.839 almost wipes everyone out. They're just like 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.500 attacking him. He's just biting them. He's just 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:05.220 rolling die like this. Oh, I do eight points 00:07:05.220 --> 00:07:06.759 of damage and everyone's freaking out. Like, 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:13.620 no, no. Classic D &D. I miss that game. It's 00:07:13.620 --> 00:07:15.879 a shame, you know. you know, games edit. It's 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:17.740 something that as a dungeon master, I had a really, 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:19.100 I had a hard time with at first. Now, I know 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:20.600 there's a lot of people who listen to the show 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.199 that are dungeon masters. They probably feel 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.519 the exact same way, but it's really hard to let 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.779 go of a game when you, you want to keep going. 00:07:26.819 --> 00:07:28.959 You want to see it through its end. And that, 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.480 that first game that, that peers out, that dies, 00:07:31.500 --> 00:07:33.220 you know, our first Frostmaiden game, the first 00:07:33.220 --> 00:07:34.720 one we all played together, petered out. Our 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.620 candle game before we practiced with, before 00:07:36.620 --> 00:07:38.779 we did this, petered out. I've gotten used to 00:07:38.779 --> 00:07:41.019 it now. And honestly, it doesn't feel as bad 00:07:41.019 --> 00:07:44.060 because it doesn't mean. It didn't happen. It 00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:45.660 doesn't mean all those memories and good times 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:47.620 didn't happen. You know, it doesn't, it doesn't, 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.439 stories don't have to have endings to be meaningful. 00:07:49.819 --> 00:07:51.980 To be fair, Candle Keep petered out because we 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:54.319 started Radiant Citadel. Yeah. Yeah. Which is 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:59.399 less good, but you know. And honestly, this has 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.720 been so, so much fun. And this one. Oh yeah. 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.480 This one's not going anywhere. This one's not 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.060 petering us. Don't you worry, pants people. This 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:08.939 story will have an ending. All the way to level 00:08:08.939 --> 00:08:14.670 20. Please. Oh, goodness, no. Never. It's taken 00:08:14.670 --> 00:08:17.769 us how many years to get to level seven? I don't... 00:08:17.769 --> 00:08:20.370 In a few months, it will be three years. Yeah, 00:08:20.370 --> 00:08:22.529 wow. Three fucking years. I don't think I ever 00:08:22.529 --> 00:08:25.370 want to DM a level 20 party. Like two levels 00:08:25.370 --> 00:08:30.810 a year? Yeah, pretty much. You're sick, David. 00:08:31.009 --> 00:08:34.299 Speaking of levels... I hope you leveled up between 00:08:34.299 --> 00:08:36.740 these last two sessions because your situation's 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:39.960 gotten real bad, real fast. No, we absolutely 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.419 didn't. Oh, you didn't? Fuck, you suck at this. 00:08:42.980 --> 00:08:45.240 That's not good. Oh, wait. Yeah, no, I leveled 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.360 up a couple times, actually. You know who did 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.059 level up? We're level 10, right? Yeah. Give me 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:51.960 five minutes to update my sheet. You know who 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.279 did kind of level up is Chester because I finally 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:56.100 added misdirection to the sheet. It's done. Finally 00:08:56.100 --> 00:08:58.159 added misdirection. And I actually got ahead 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.559 of the game. Akio already has his armor. So, 00:09:01.580 --> 00:09:03.539 booyah. that's ahead of the game. I think that's 00:09:03.539 --> 00:09:06.340 caught up with the game. Yeah. Shut up. That's 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:09.700 just what you should have normally done in this 00:09:09.700 --> 00:09:16.120 real time. Ooh, scary scene. Ooh. You're not 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.019 plugged in, David. Damn it. It's in the same 00:09:20.019 --> 00:09:21.840 spot. It's down below you. Where is it? It's 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:26.179 down below you. Just dangling there. Oh. Found 00:09:26.179 --> 00:09:28.960 it. Hang on. No, we're good. Hang on. We're new 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.360 at this. Why is your wallet just on the table? 00:09:31.909 --> 00:09:33.950 What do you want me to put on the floor? In your 00:09:33.950 --> 00:09:36.730 pockets? Danny will eat it. What? I don't want 00:09:36.730 --> 00:09:38.009 my phone in my pocket because it's too close 00:09:38.009 --> 00:09:40.330 to the mic. If my phone's in one pocket, my wallet's... 00:09:40.330 --> 00:09:42.190 If my phone's not in a pocket, my wallet's in 00:09:42.190 --> 00:09:44.309 a pocket, then it's imbalanced. And that freaks 00:09:44.309 --> 00:09:46.870 me out. So we're not doing that. Okay. So that's 00:09:46.870 --> 00:09:48.549 why your phone's on... Or your wallet's on the 00:09:48.549 --> 00:09:50.110 table. I apologize if Stephen is a psychopath. 00:09:50.370 --> 00:09:56.889 I can't... Oh, yeah. There's music now. No, there's 00:09:56.889 --> 00:09:59.289 not. It just cut out. What? Put that back on. 00:10:00.029 --> 00:10:01.990 I didn't do anything. Shit, no, it wasn't you. 00:10:02.889 --> 00:10:07.889 We're new at this. Forgive us. I have this on 00:10:07.889 --> 00:10:11.049 a map. In case you wanted to see, but you stand 00:10:11.049 --> 00:10:15.909 in a hallway about 25 feet ahead of you are the 00:10:15.909 --> 00:10:20.250 forms of Ambassador Omid Pastar and Hyronix the 00:10:20.250 --> 00:10:25.029 Diva Angel, his bodyguard. This hallway seems 00:10:25.029 --> 00:10:29.279 surprisingly void of... sound or life apart from 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:31.379 that as if other guards have been ushered away 00:10:31.379 --> 00:10:36.500 you feel like this palace has become a solitary 00:10:36.500 --> 00:10:43.000 place a quiet place just for you as Ahmed makes 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.840 his declaration that he holds in his hand a writ 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.779 from the queen allowing him full judicial power 00:10:49.779 --> 00:10:55.159 to to arrest you to take you into custody under 00:10:55.159 --> 00:11:00.039 her authority and Atasha's in joint. I think 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.820 young Gi would be the first sort of step forward. 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:08.440 No, no, good ambassador. You are very much mistaken. 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:12.480 I disallow any action against my friends here. 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:16.379 They're only working to help our people. I can't 00:11:16.379 --> 00:11:19.419 turn to look at you, Blanche. I should have seen 00:11:19.419 --> 00:11:24.940 that sooner. I am afraid. Your words hold no 00:11:24.940 --> 00:11:27.700 power here, Advisor Young Gi. Once I informed 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:29.220 the Queen that you were meeting with Blanche 00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:34.080 in private, she was very clear. You are all to 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:37.200 be arrested. She gave Hieronyx and I full authority 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.340 to act alone in this endeavor. Young Gi, it may 00:11:40.340 --> 00:11:42.679 be hard to understand this now, but we are quite 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:44.940 sure you are under the control of these ones' 00:11:45.059 --> 00:11:48.299 dark magic. And until you are cured of this affliction, 00:11:48.419 --> 00:11:52.330 you must be held in comfortable. Captivity, far 00:11:52.330 --> 00:11:56.730 away from this vile scum. No, no, no, my niece 00:11:56.730 --> 00:12:00.129 lies. Yes, yes, she has you fooled, good ambassador. 00:12:00.750 --> 00:12:03.070 Jeanmy knows that these four are innocent of 00:12:03.070 --> 00:12:06.169 any crimes. She only fears that the Dragon Clan's 00:12:06.169 --> 00:12:09.389 crimes will be exposed. These four are heroes 00:12:09.389 --> 00:12:12.350 that deserve our respect. We must not. Enough! 00:12:13.450 --> 00:12:15.509 And you're right, he screams down a way like 00:12:15.509 --> 00:12:19.309 the whole hallway echoes with his voice. Is this 00:12:19.309 --> 00:12:21.909 something that's just broken? And Omid passed 00:12:21.909 --> 00:12:24.450 Dar. And you won't be surprised to see the actual 00:12:24.450 --> 00:12:30.730 tears begin to run down his cheeks. I weep for 00:12:30.730 --> 00:12:35.049 you, young guy. A good man broken by their corruption. 00:12:35.830 --> 00:12:39.289 I weep for those guards at the gate. Guards that 00:12:39.289 --> 00:12:41.870 I pushed towards troubling this lot. I thought 00:12:41.870 --> 00:12:44.809 these heathens would resist and be expelled from 00:12:44.809 --> 00:12:47.230 the city, but I never thought those good soldiers 00:12:47.230 --> 00:12:52.179 of Yanido would be killed. My fault. My oversight. 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.320 And through my following in action, the bodies 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.460 continue to pile. The good Magistrate Kunon June, 00:12:58.580 --> 00:13:01.500 a man I thoroughly respected for his earnest 00:13:01.500 --> 00:13:04.519 desire to hold to the law. Dead. Dead under your 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.500 supervision, he points to all of you. No more. 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:10.720 I will risk everything. My position as ambassador. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.419 My very life to ensure the safety of the people 00:13:13.419 --> 00:13:18.220 of Yanito. And see justice done. No more deaths. 00:13:18.419 --> 00:13:21.220 I have played around with you long enough, scum. 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:26.559 Now, willing or not, you come with me. I think, 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:32.179 even with your passive insight, this seems to 00:13:32.179 --> 00:13:34.679 be the real Ambassador Almond Pastar, his real 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.500 feelings, that sort of conniving, sly edge gone. 00:13:39.620 --> 00:13:44.860 Just rage. Rage at injustice, rage at what he 00:13:44.860 --> 00:13:50.240 perceives you to be. Monsters, what do you do? 00:13:51.379 --> 00:13:57.539 Blanche chuckles a little bit. That was all very 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:01.440 flowery. I am, however, quite embarrassed for 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.700 you, Omed. And she reaches down to her shell 00:14:05.700 --> 00:14:11.159 and she peels off some of the dried dirt and 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.379 mud on her shell to reveal a clean spot beneath. 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.440 What? Perhaps you didn't recognize without the 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.220 cucumbers over my eyes, but where I come from, 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:29.100 a common way of cleaning oneself is to cover 00:14:29.100 --> 00:14:37.779 your shell in clay -rich soil. It absorbs the 00:14:37.779 --> 00:14:44.559 oils and dirt and leaves one fresh and clean. 00:14:45.689 --> 00:14:48.590 Holy shit. I will go with you to the queen. I 00:14:48.590 --> 00:14:53.590 believe she would like to clear up this cultural 00:14:53.590 --> 00:14:57.730 faux pas, which you have so foolishly stepped 00:14:57.730 --> 00:15:02.610 in. I actually like that a lot. Not even a deception 00:15:02.610 --> 00:15:05.690 check, I think, because you're right. It is canonical 00:15:05.690 --> 00:15:08.149 that you guys take my best. The turtles take 00:15:08.149 --> 00:15:10.990 my best. He is an ambassador. He should be aware 00:15:10.990 --> 00:15:13.889 of other cultures and what they do. Even if he 00:15:13.889 --> 00:15:17.259 is not like one. That goes to Noiri. I mean, 00:15:17.259 --> 00:15:20.120 this... That's a cool move. Jules, what do you 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.340 think the new king of Zinda will have to say 00:15:22.340 --> 00:15:26.120 about this? I don't know, Blanche. But I think 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.720 this guy's playing a little too hard with precedence 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:34.440 and decency. Go ahead and roll. This sounds more 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:37.179 like persuasion than deception, but you can choose. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:42.740 What do you want to roll here? Well, for... Either 00:15:42.740 --> 00:15:46.299 of you roll it. Oh. Did you unplug me or something? 00:15:46.539 --> 00:15:51.460 No. Oh. Sorry, I sounded really quiet. You said 00:15:51.460 --> 00:15:53.759 you'll let either of us roll? I'll let either 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.960 of you make the roll with advantage. Yeah. Okay. 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.500 Because you're both. I got plus 10. Yeah, I have 00:15:58.500 --> 00:16:01.440 a plus zero for charisma. Except for Jeremy. 00:16:03.179 --> 00:16:06.120 Either one of us, except for me. Except for Jeremy. 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:18.690 Shall we? Go ahead. 29. I rolled a 19 and a 17. 00:16:18.730 --> 00:16:20.870 Oh, my gosh. And that's such a good move, too. 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:25.549 Gentlemen, I'm impressed. And you know what? 00:16:25.769 --> 00:16:29.009 First things first. Never mind. I don't know 00:16:29.009 --> 00:16:31.029 what the button jar is. New studio. No button 00:16:31.029 --> 00:16:32.909 jar. No buttons for anybody. Sorry. I guess. 00:16:33.110 --> 00:16:35.090 We have all the buttons there. Give me two buttons, 00:16:35.190 --> 00:16:38.250 please. Whoa. Thank you. And now here's a button 00:16:38.250 --> 00:16:41.570 for each of you. Yeah. All right. Yeah, buddy. 00:16:41.809 --> 00:16:47.519 That is so fully earned. She points to one after 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:52.059 the other. Are you as dumb as he looks? I don't 00:16:52.059 --> 00:16:54.200 know who's who. I don't know which one's funnier. 00:16:54.980 --> 00:17:00.940 I'll take the ugly one. There's this whole thing, 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.680 Hyronix, again, just full deadpan stare. Like 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.660 there's just not a thought or emotion going through 00:17:06.660 --> 00:17:11.119 that mind. But Ahmed looks deeply troubled as 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.640 you say this. He kind of bites his lower lip 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.519 and almost fits with his hand. As if he's, like, 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.660 like, like, like, his eyes that were before, 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:20.960 like, watering with tears, seem to, like, the 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.359 flow stops, the rage begins to leave his features. 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.880 Did he overreact? Is he overthinking this? He, 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:33.240 I, um, all right, yes, I suppose we should speak 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.799 to the queen. If I was hasty, I apologize. There 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:40.970 is a lot at stake, and... Luckily, while we're 00:17:40.970 --> 00:17:49.589 all at dinner together, you can keep an eye on 00:17:49.589 --> 00:17:56.369 us there. Yes. I suppose I can. Beans, like, 00:17:56.529 --> 00:17:59.250 walk towards you. Heronics, slowly and step behind. 00:18:00.630 --> 00:18:03.349 So then, I suppose we shall proceed together. 00:18:04.230 --> 00:18:09.029 Would you mind if we... In the mist. God damn. 00:18:09.029 --> 00:18:13.470 Now? Rolling in. Isn't it early? Or did we just 00:18:13.470 --> 00:18:16.509 lose track of time? When you left the room, it 00:18:16.509 --> 00:18:19.410 was very near six o 'clock. I think we were in 00:18:19.410 --> 00:18:21.069 the last round of the game, like five minutes 00:18:21.069 --> 00:18:24.390 close. It is just about on time. Criminy, criminy. 00:18:25.650 --> 00:18:27.930 Did you say criminy, criminy? Yeah, I don't know. 00:18:27.970 --> 00:18:35.569 I'm upset. No rolls this time. What? No damage. 00:18:36.289 --> 00:18:43.150 What? Just blood. Fuck. What? Blood all over 00:18:43.150 --> 00:18:46.849 you, Jules. Oh, goddammit. A spray of it all 00:18:46.849 --> 00:18:49.269 over Chester beside you, who you have a protective 00:18:49.269 --> 00:18:54.529 arm around. And the source of this blood is obvious. 00:18:56.029 --> 00:18:58.869 Ambassador Almond's crumpled form lies just before 00:18:58.869 --> 00:19:03.289 your feet. His throat has been brutally slashed 00:19:03.289 --> 00:19:05.890 open. You see that the blood is still running 00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:07.970 from the yawning wound, but the eyes above are 00:19:07.970 --> 00:19:11.549 clearly void of life. The already gaunt man looks 00:19:11.549 --> 00:19:15.230 practically mummified, dried out as all of his 00:19:15.230 --> 00:19:17.609 life's essence has suddenly drained from his 00:19:17.609 --> 00:19:20.369 body and onto your party and the palace floor. 00:19:21.990 --> 00:19:23.410 Blanche, your arm is reaching unprotectively 00:19:23.410 --> 00:19:26.549 toward Jules and Chester. Akio stands behind 00:19:26.549 --> 00:19:28.710 you all, blatant mouth guarding the hall to the 00:19:28.710 --> 00:19:32.069 rear. It seems, however, that there was no fight 00:19:32.069 --> 00:19:36.640 for him. Ahead of you, though, maybe 15 feet 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.920 down the hall, stands Hyronix, the diva. He has 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:43.140 turned away from you multiple forms of crumbling 00:19:43.140 --> 00:19:47.539 stone, turning to dust before him. And you realize 00:19:47.539 --> 00:19:50.460 that he fought all of the assailants alone, and 00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:53.640 yet looks practically unharmed. And so your own 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:59.440 states become explained. Blanche, your spellbook 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:04.730 is in hand. Do you read it? Yeah, she almost 00:20:04.730 --> 00:20:08.349 reflexively now looks down to see if she's left 00:20:08.349 --> 00:20:10.809 herself another note. So that's kind of a trick 00:20:10.809 --> 00:20:13.690 question because you actually don't. Because 00:20:13.690 --> 00:20:16.109 the page you've been writing on has been ripped 00:20:16.109 --> 00:20:19.970 out and is gone. She looks to find Young Gi. 00:20:20.910 --> 00:20:24.029 He stands behind you and behind Akio, between 00:20:24.029 --> 00:20:27.269 the two of you. He is sort of, looks shaken. 00:20:27.910 --> 00:20:33.559 And he just really sees, no, no. Ambassador, 00:20:33.859 --> 00:20:37.279 no! Is there paper in anybody's hands? Not that 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:45.079 you see. Fuck. What? What? A voice down the hall, 00:20:45.140 --> 00:20:49.660 trembling. UC Ironics has turned to see your 00:20:49.660 --> 00:20:56.680 party. To see his fallen charge. No! No, no, 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:03.039 no, no! He comes moving up towards you. His eyes 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:07.099 showing plentiful emotion now, shimmering radiant 00:21:07.099 --> 00:21:09.960 tears running down his cheeks. He reaches down 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:14.140 towards Omid, hands sort of shaking. And you 00:21:14.140 --> 00:21:17.480 see, like, his shaking hands come together. His 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:22.299 head bows. And he sort of bursts this almost 00:21:22.299 --> 00:21:27.000 dim light. There's this yellowing light filling 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:29.160 the space before you, and you can hear him speaking. 00:21:31.280 --> 00:21:36.240 Atash! Your servant has died! Please! Let me 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:40.700 save him, please! Remove the binds! Remove the 00:21:40.700 --> 00:21:45.079 oaths! Let me save him! A long breath, then. 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:53.099 I understand. Yes. I apologize. Then I will bring 00:21:53.099 --> 00:21:56.660 you the perpetrators that saw him killed. His 00:21:56.660 --> 00:22:00.400 eyes. Look to you. That light fades from him. 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.859 His hands move from this prayer, this communion. 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:11.420 If you are to face justice, then you may be killed 00:22:11.420 --> 00:22:16.319 and resurrected. Surrender to me now, or you 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:18.980 will be faced with the unpleasantness of temporary 00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:25.440 death. I'm going to rearrange the map now. brighter 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:27.480 note before we get to more bleak darkness and 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:30.640 all that uh if you look at our map you will find 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.819 that i have updated the chester and akio tokens 00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:37.839 uh zilla has done some more art for us lately 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:39.640 and has updated chester with a sort of floral 00:22:39.640 --> 00:22:44.059 shirt uh and akio going off of kevin's hero for 00:22:44.059 --> 00:22:46.819 design she did an update on that so they're so 00:22:46.819 --> 00:22:49.420 great i love seeing the growing sort of canonical 00:22:49.420 --> 00:22:53.700 images like akio fully canonically is based on 00:22:53.700 --> 00:22:56.440 this Hero Forge token that Kevin made and was, 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:58.839 like, sort of put into the same art style as 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.440 everybody else by Zealot. It's so cool. It's 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:03.660 so cool. Yeah, totally amazing. All right, now 00:23:03.660 --> 00:23:07.339 let's kill you. Now, currently on this map, you 00:23:07.339 --> 00:23:11.920 see, just before you all, we have Blanche, Jules, 00:23:12.059 --> 00:23:14.799 Chester in a line at the sort of corner of this 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:20.980 hallway, the sort of elbow of the L, just behind 00:23:20.980 --> 00:23:27.349 you. is Young Gi. Behind him is Akio. That's 00:23:27.349 --> 00:23:30.069 his name. Yep, that's the name. I'm very tired. 00:23:32.809 --> 00:23:35.710 Just before you all, before you, Blanche, you 00:23:35.710 --> 00:23:39.670 see Ahmed Pastar is on the ground. Well, actually, 00:23:39.730 --> 00:23:41.470 no, his bow is on Jules and Chester, so he'd 00:23:41.470 --> 00:23:44.490 be one slot over. Just before you, Jules, Ahmed 00:23:44.490 --> 00:23:47.650 Pastar is lying in a pool of spreading blood, 00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:50.880 standing. His feet, just like the bloods were 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:55.000 flowing around his feet, is Hyronix, who has 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.460 turned from his deep sorrow at being unable to 00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:03.619 save the already past Omed to just a pure rage 00:24:03.619 --> 00:24:06.660 at those who he believes killed him. Down the 00:24:06.660 --> 00:24:08.200 hallway away, as you can see, just like dust 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.380 where he had fought foes, but there is no dust 00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:14.680 near you, other you notice. Oh, yeah, okay, sure. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.099 Yeah, so what the hell did happen? Where's the 00:24:18.099 --> 00:24:23.019 page? Yeah. You were so close to writing this 00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:24.779 whole thing down, to figuring this out, and now 00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:26.480 the page is gone. Last time you were interrupted 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:31.019 by writing the letters K -U -N. A message to 00:24:31.019 --> 00:24:32.700 yourself. Did you leave yourself a message now? 00:24:33.059 --> 00:24:38.640 Yeah. Does the wound on Omid look like the scratches 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:42.559 that we saw in the stone walls and other places? 00:24:42.940 --> 00:24:47.409 At a bare glance, yeah. It looks like a... simple 00:24:47.409 --> 00:24:51.109 slashing wound, I mean, but you could take your 00:24:51.109 --> 00:24:53.269 time to investigate. It's going to require you 00:24:53.269 --> 00:24:54.750 to figure out what to do about the more immediate 00:24:54.750 --> 00:24:56.950 threat. Yeah, I'm not sure that there's really 00:24:56.950 --> 00:25:00.369 anything that we can do to appease this guy, 00:25:00.450 --> 00:25:03.589 but Blanche is going to try. She's got, she's 00:25:03.589 --> 00:25:07.210 putting her hands up. She's, Hyronix, this has 00:25:07.210 --> 00:25:11.349 happened before, you know, today. You know that 00:25:11.349 --> 00:25:13.410 there has been blood all over the city. You know 00:25:13.410 --> 00:25:16.400 we couldn't have possibly. This is not our doing. 00:25:16.940 --> 00:25:21.740 You know that. You know you could take me. So 00:25:21.740 --> 00:25:23.759 if it was me, then why am I not dead right now 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:30.619 too? Because I was fighting to protect you. When 00:25:30.619 --> 00:25:36.500 it ended, I was standing over stone forms. Forms 00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:41.259 I fought. I must have fought for you. And yes, 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.410 it has happened before. At the gate where you 00:25:45.410 --> 00:25:48.730 stood. In the Tiger District where you stood. 00:25:49.509 --> 00:25:52.710 In the Phoenix District where you stood. And 00:25:52.710 --> 00:25:56.289 here, where you stand now, bodies every time. 00:25:56.990 --> 00:25:59.309 And each time it happened other places in the 00:25:59.309 --> 00:26:05.430 city. You could talk Omid down with your lies. 00:26:05.569 --> 00:26:09.089 The good ambassador was a wise man, but a caring 00:26:09.089 --> 00:26:15.410 one. He did not wish to offend. But I don't care 00:26:15.410 --> 00:26:19.190 if I offend you. I don't care if I kill you. 00:26:19.730 --> 00:26:22.869 Look at our weapons. And Jules will unsheath. 00:26:22.890 --> 00:26:26.130 He'll nudge over to Chester. Oh, perfect. He'll 00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:27.910 nudge over to Chester. Take out all your shit. 00:26:28.690 --> 00:26:30.990 Yeah. All right, let's do it. Blanche pulls her 00:26:30.990 --> 00:26:33.410 swords out to show there's no blood on it. You 00:26:33.410 --> 00:26:36.599 see blood on anything. Akio's all like... And 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.720 drops his sword. Chester pulls out his bow, his 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:43.140 crossbow, all that. You guys pull out your weapons. 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.039 No blood. Use your martial mind. Chester pulls 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.759 out his dagger. This is happening to us just 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:51.720 as much as it's happening to you. And it is covered 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.019 in blood. Fuck! Roll a charisma saving throw, 00:26:55.059 --> 00:27:03.539 David. Okay. You're not going to like this. No, 00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:06.740 I bet I'm not because that's... It's a 21. Yeah, 00:27:06.779 --> 00:27:09.339 okay. So that doesn't do anything. Great. I just 00:27:09.339 --> 00:27:11.259 wasted my fourth level spell slot. Oh, no. What 00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:16.460 were you doing? Banishment. Oh. Fuck. Fucking 00:27:16.460 --> 00:27:18.339 hell. If only you thought to use those buttons 00:27:18.339 --> 00:27:22.099 I gave you a minute ago. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Yeah. 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:27.339 If only. You try casting a spell. Mm -hmm. You... 00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:29.259 What's banishment look like as you cast this 00:27:29.259 --> 00:27:32.339 thing? Hold on. I... Oh, no, you got to tell 00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:34.160 me what this looks like. There's no holding on 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.240 now. You have fired the first shot, sir. I'm 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:39.400 not saying, hold on, let me back up. I'm saying, 00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:43.259 hold on, let me collect my thoughts because this 00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:49.579 just went from bad to worse to way worse. I think 00:27:49.579 --> 00:27:52.480 she, okay. So Blanche tries to like Thanos snap 00:27:52.480 --> 00:28:00.960 him. It just doesn't work. You see. Like his 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.900 form, he has a fuzz for a second. His hands, 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:08.079 like, you see he just flexes. A light burst from 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:12.660 his form, your spell fades and fizzles. And he 00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:14.539 draws his mace. Yeah, we're just going to have 00:28:14.539 --> 00:28:17.279 to kill this guy. To strike. Okay, well, while 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:20.420 this is happening, after Jules realizes that. 00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:22.660 Jules, no, no, I didn't do it. I don't know what 00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:26.559 this is. That once he realizes that banishment 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:29.160 has failed. He's going to reach over, touch Chester, 00:28:29.220 --> 00:28:35.680 and make him invisible. Chester vanishes. You 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:38.640 want to roll for initiative? I mean, no, but... 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:47.619 Let's roll for initiative. God. Not great. Jules 00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:58.059 is a 17. 11 for Blanche. Ooh. 21 for Akio. Chester 00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:02.980 is a six. Is it 11 for Blanche? Yep. And Jules, 00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:05.259 what was yours again? 16. No, it was 17. Sorry. 00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:14.579 Oh, shit. Let's explain this scene. I'm so unhappy. 00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:17.940 Right now in this hallway, you are faced with 00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:21.259 a figure that is not only very powerful from 00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:24.019 what you've gathered, but is an arbiter of law. 00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:28.529 Hmm. This is serious. Covered in blood, sitting 00:29:28.529 --> 00:29:32.009 in a pool of it. A drop from Omid's hands is 00:29:32.009 --> 00:29:35.150 a scroll bearing the queen symbol. Oh, right. 00:29:35.309 --> 00:29:40.069 Calling your arrest. Yeah. Fuck. And you, if 00:29:40.069 --> 00:29:44.789 you kill this figure, will certainly have perpetrated 00:29:44.789 --> 00:29:47.930 the crime. What happened to Omid? You have an 00:29:47.930 --> 00:29:51.049 idea now. You can't say for sure what went down 00:29:51.049 --> 00:29:54.230 during that short time in the fog, but... You 00:29:54.230 --> 00:29:57.190 have an idea as you look at the bloody dagger 00:29:57.190 --> 00:30:01.569 in Chester's hand. Before he vanished, you just 00:30:01.569 --> 00:30:04.089 look down at it in some kind of, I guess, like 00:30:04.089 --> 00:30:10.269 mild surprise. And he was gone. I don't know 00:30:10.269 --> 00:30:12.670 what to do. Do we fight this? Do we fight this 00:30:12.670 --> 00:30:17.690 fight? So let's think about what happens if we 00:30:17.690 --> 00:30:22.289 win this fight. Nothing good. Right, exactly. 00:30:22.859 --> 00:30:26.160 Then we still have to prove that we didn't kill 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.039 Omid. Which I'm guessing... I don't know. I'm 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:31.019 guessing that Omid did some sort of bullshit. 00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:34.180 He tore the page out and he's got it in his pocket 00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:35.880 or something like that. That's why I wanted to 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:40.400 try to get time to just delete Hieronics for 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:43.160 a minute and be able to go through and solve 00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:50.000 this. I don't know if I have anything else to... 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.650 The only thing that... I don't want to say what 00:30:53.650 --> 00:30:55.150 I want to do. I don't know what initiative is. 00:30:55.670 --> 00:30:59.109 What initiative is first? First up will be Akio. 00:30:59.569 --> 00:31:01.549 I'll tell you right now. It's Akio, then Jules. 00:31:01.849 --> 00:31:04.809 Okay, cool. I might be able to buy us time if 00:31:04.809 --> 00:31:09.329 I can blind him. Okay. That way, at least while 00:31:09.329 --> 00:31:13.670 he's blind, he can reach down. Sure. And look 00:31:13.670 --> 00:31:17.569 for the page. Okay. Or look for something that 00:31:17.569 --> 00:31:24.250 would help. Yeah, let's roll with it. Let's roll 00:31:24.250 --> 00:31:27.809 with it. Let's try to stall. I'll tell you right 00:31:27.809 --> 00:31:30.930 now, too, I do also have a chase map planned 00:31:30.930 --> 00:31:34.410 in case you feel like running. He looks fast, 00:31:34.569 --> 00:31:36.930 though. You can see those wings unfurl, and they're 00:31:36.930 --> 00:31:39.089 big, badass wings. Either way, you're dealing 00:31:39.089 --> 00:31:42.710 with an uphill battle, a cliff of a battle. I've 00:31:42.710 --> 00:31:46.750 got the sending, Sturge. Sturge, man, help us. 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:50.900 All right, sure. Let's see how this battle plays 00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:52.900 out, I guess. I don't know. Let's see if we can 00:31:52.900 --> 00:31:57.759 slow him down enough to get to Omid and try to 00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:00.740 get... So Blanche will say out loud as she's 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:03.460 putting her spellbook down. She'll say, there's 00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:06.220 a page missing from my spellbook. I think I might 00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:07.619 have wrote something in it, but it's not here 00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:12.099 anymore. If we can find that page, Chester, wink, 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:17.150 wink. Oh, yeah, he's invisible. Oh, it's Akio, 00:32:17.230 --> 00:32:19.490 right? It's Akio, yeah. You hear Chester kind 00:32:19.490 --> 00:32:26.410 of like, yeah, all right. Shut up, Chester. Gosh, 00:32:26.750 --> 00:32:33.910 now I... Oh, how about this? Can Akio use his 00:32:33.910 --> 00:32:38.250 keen hearing and smell to try and locate where 00:32:38.250 --> 00:32:42.740 the missing spellbook page is? Ooh. That's interesting. 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.420 Isn't it just? I have to imagine the ink you 00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:48.279 use is somewhat inscripted or something. The 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:50.500 book, she carries it around. Imagine an old book 00:32:50.500 --> 00:32:53.619 that probably has a certain smell. You know what? 00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:55.480 It's definitely at least got Blanche's smell 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.000 on it. Right, exactly. I'll let you roll on that. 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.900 Okay, and I'm going to use a button for this. 00:33:03.220 --> 00:33:04.680 Wait a minute. No, I'm not, because I already 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.039 have advantage. But will this button give me 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:08.640 plus two on top of the advantage? Plus two on 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:12.039 top of it. Okay, that sounds like a good use 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.160 of a button. This might be a tricky one, so it 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:17.359 might be a good thing. Yeah, let's see. Yeah, 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:20.720 especially because our dog doesn't have a super 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:26.299 high wisdom score. First roll was a natural one. 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:32.259 Oh, no. Ooh, second roll is a dirty 21. Yeah, 00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:38.220 21. 21. Okay. Was it like a 19 before the plus 00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:41.910 two? It was an 18 before the plus three. He's 00:33:41.910 --> 00:33:45.410 actually got a plus one wisdom. Ooh, nice. You 00:33:45.410 --> 00:33:49.289 need to spend that button to get this. Oh, that's 00:33:49.289 --> 00:33:53.410 pretty cool. He sniffs and it's so hard. The 00:33:53.410 --> 00:33:55.430 scent of blood is everywhere. The book is so 00:33:55.430 --> 00:33:56.990 close to you and it's such a faint scent to get 00:33:56.990 --> 00:33:58.730 like that old other book in the midst of all 00:33:58.730 --> 00:34:02.569 this blood. It's so hard. There's so much blood 00:34:02.569 --> 00:34:05.009 everywhere. So many smells and that faint smell, 00:34:05.089 --> 00:34:09.929 that page, so hard to pick up. But as Akio realizes 00:34:09.929 --> 00:34:12.570 how bad the situation is, looks to Hyronix, who 00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:16.889 is very slowly stepping over the body of Ahmed 00:34:16.889 --> 00:34:21.750 very carefully, almost like reverently moving 00:34:21.750 --> 00:34:25.250 around his fallen charge and moving up towards 00:34:25.250 --> 00:34:27.869 you, Blanche, and you, Jules, weapon in hand, 00:34:28.010 --> 00:34:31.670 and a fierce strength to the way he holds it. 00:34:32.309 --> 00:34:36.030 Akio closes his eyes and sniffs with everything 00:34:36.030 --> 00:34:42.179 he has. it's like it's like matrix vision like 00:34:42.179 --> 00:34:45.860 you can see through akio's like scent mind and 00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:48.400 like the the whole room is black but there's 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:51.519 like scent waves that are like made up of ones 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.380 and zeros i i love this too because he's looking 00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:57.880 at the scent waves that make up four figures 00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.619 in front of him young geese beside who he moves 00:35:00.619 --> 00:35:04.440 past he moves up behind you blanche behind you 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:08.920 jewels and presses his nose to the invisible 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.619 form of Chester towards his pocket. Whoa, hey, 00:35:12.659 --> 00:35:17.400 what? Fuck. Shut up and drop it, Chester. Can 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.159 Akio grab it? Do you want me to grab it? Yeah. 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.539 You hear a pocket tear, and I think as it drops 00:35:25.539 --> 00:35:27.099 away from the invisible form, you see a crumpled 00:35:27.099 --> 00:35:31.099 piece of paper roll, just splash into the blood 00:35:31.099 --> 00:35:34.219 at Chester's feet. Is it a counterattack? No. 00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:39.079 All right, fine. I can't imagine that Chester 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:41.639 would become un -invisible. I just meant for 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:45.519 him to pull it out of his pocket. If he wasn't 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:46.739 going to pull it out, Chester was going to drop 00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:49.599 it anyway. Sure, yeah. Akio picks up the crumpled 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:54.820 ball. Yeah, boy. This is all happening very fast. 00:35:54.900 --> 00:35:56.840 He just rips it open, grabs the ball, slides 00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:59.340 it over into your hand, Blanche. That's his turn. 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.409 Yes. Okay. Unless he has any actions left. I 00:36:05.409 --> 00:36:07.590 don't know how we want to... Seek check is an 00:36:07.590 --> 00:36:11.849 action. Okay. So you'd have bonus action at this 00:36:11.849 --> 00:36:13.650 point. Okay, so I'm not going to take any. Okay. 00:36:14.250 --> 00:36:15.730 The cool thing with him now is because of his 00:36:15.730 --> 00:36:18.349 armor, he has a lot of reactions. So there's 00:36:18.349 --> 00:36:21.989 a lot of fun reactionary things he can do. Jules. 00:36:23.829 --> 00:36:26.030 Jules is going to reach into the invisible air, 00:36:26.130 --> 00:36:28.489 grab Chester, and throw him behind us. Okay. 00:36:30.110 --> 00:36:32.289 rolls behind you can hear him i don't have control 00:36:32.289 --> 00:36:33.690 of chester so you're gonna have to put him there 00:36:33.690 --> 00:36:39.090 okay and should jules just pick it up yeah you 00:36:39.090 --> 00:36:40.409 can just grab it out of her hand i guess right 00:36:40.409 --> 00:36:43.489 yeah jules is gonna pick up pick up the paper 00:36:43.489 --> 00:36:46.809 and open it up in the heat of combat i will say 00:36:46.809 --> 00:36:49.210 the whole of everything that you're reading you 00:36:49.210 --> 00:36:52.590 probably don't see all of it um you don't see 00:36:52.590 --> 00:36:57.679 jules Jules is a known practiced speed reader. 00:36:57.860 --> 00:36:59.960 We haven't gone over this part of the lore yet, 00:37:00.019 --> 00:37:02.679 but... Oh, I forgot about this. In Tithos, yeah, 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:06.659 as a child, he... I was required to learn all 00:37:06.659 --> 00:37:09.719 the ancient texts. Participated in speed reading 00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:13.219 competitions. In two hours. Yes. You don't see 00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:15.360 the continuation of the words spoken. You don't 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:19.639 have time to fully read this entire page. But 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:23.150 you see the obvious part. Down below where it 00:37:23.150 --> 00:37:25.969 says Cun, where your upper notes were sort of 00:37:25.969 --> 00:37:28.929 stopped, and you wrote this one letter to yourself, 00:37:28.969 --> 00:37:31.329 this note of emergency to yourself, you see another 00:37:31.329 --> 00:37:39.469 note that just says Chester. Huh. Huh. You realize 00:37:39.469 --> 00:37:41.630 also in this moment that when he was looking 00:37:41.630 --> 00:37:44.070 for his weapon, he would have reached into his 00:37:44.070 --> 00:37:46.809 pocket and felt that, and he didn't say a word. 00:37:47.670 --> 00:37:53.000 Maybe it's not Chester. Or is Chester a loose 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:59.800 cannon? I don't know. But. I love. Are you saying 00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:02.400 that Blanche ripped it and shoved it into Chester's 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.360 pocket? I think the insinuation is that Chester 00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:09.019 probably tore it out because it's incriminating 00:38:09.019 --> 00:38:11.840 against him. That seems like a solid assumption. 00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:14.980 You don't know because you can't remember. Fuck. 00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:18.559 Okay, well. Do I get to hit you now or? No. Okay. 00:38:21.389 --> 00:38:23.510 So, you know, he's still walking. He's slowly, 00:38:23.650 --> 00:38:27.070 doom, doom. Jules is going to cast blindness, 00:38:27.110 --> 00:38:30.170 deafness. Ooh, you just read that note, realize 00:38:30.170 --> 00:38:34.170 how bad the situation is. How bad it looks. How 00:38:34.170 --> 00:38:36.150 bad it looks. How bad it looks. And you just 00:38:36.150 --> 00:38:41.489 turn towards the figure. Resist and die. And 00:38:41.489 --> 00:38:44.750 he will come at you and you, what's it look like? 00:38:45.909 --> 00:38:49.639 Just like that. Damn, that's cool. Shit. It looks 00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:52.739 like. It looks like. I imagine like your hand 00:38:52.739 --> 00:38:54.280 goes up. You got to do a con save though. Black 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:55.920 sword smog around the eyes. I think we've done 00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:01.719 it before. Con save. Oh, well, that's. Yeah, 00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:03.719 that's not going to go well. Actually, not the 00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:06.480 biggest thing. Oh, I missed up earlier on. I 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:08.920 didn't roll a 21. I rolled a 26. I'm sorry. It's 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.579 your charisma save. Oh, damn. Stand by. I'm trying 00:39:12.579 --> 00:39:13.780 to decide whether I want to use two buttons for 00:39:13.780 --> 00:39:15.539 this or not. I don't know if it's important enough. 00:39:15.860 --> 00:39:20.019 I think it is. I feel like it is. I'm not going 00:39:20.019 --> 00:39:21.099 to tell you how to spend your buttons. Fuck. 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:23.360 Tell me how to spend my buttons, Steven. No. 00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:27.539 God damn it. Two buttons for disadvantage. Oh! 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.820 Personally, I think it's that important. Yeah. 00:39:32.179 --> 00:39:38.340 So, I think it's a good move. Okay. He's going 00:39:38.340 --> 00:39:41.519 to pass it anyway. I just know it. It's very 00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:44.340 tweener. Oh. The first one would have passed 00:39:44.340 --> 00:39:47.199 absolutely the second one. I'm going to roll 00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:49.519 them both at the same time. God damn it. It's 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:57.420 15. God damn it. Oh, so close. So close. Again, 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:02.699 this blackness and his eyes burst to light. Shimmering 00:40:02.699 --> 00:40:08.980 tears drive away your darkness. Okay. Son of 00:40:08.980 --> 00:40:14.639 a bitch. Son of a bitch. Nobody has bardic, right? 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:17.199 Right now? I don't think so. Bardic Inspiration 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:20.340 onto Blanche. Yay. This feels like the most evil 00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:24.460 thing that's happened in so long. It's an impossible 00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:27.000 situation. What do you do? I don't know. I'm 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:32.940 running low on spell slots. We both had the perfect 00:40:32.940 --> 00:40:35.800 move in hand for this, and both of the saves 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.699 failed. Okay, so after that, Jules is going to 00:40:39.699 --> 00:40:44.440 move behind Blanche. Honestly, though? Good move. 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.280 He's not close enough for an AOL, right? Not 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.599 yet, no. Perfect. Yeah, he's good. Jules is going 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.780 to move behind Akio. Oh, I big talk him walking 00:40:52.780 --> 00:40:54.239 towards this whole time. He's actually in the 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:56.320 same spot because that's how D &D battle works. 00:40:57.099 --> 00:41:00.940 He's real slowly walking. Protect Yungi. Oh, 00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:03.739 don't worry. I have no reason to attack Yungi. 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:08.519 You, however, Blanche. Oh, Jules has the paper 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:11.280 with him, too. He shoved it in his pocket. Oh, 00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:12.840 you know what I didn't do? Like a dummy dum -dum 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:16.239 -dum? Oh, wait. I didn't bonus action Bladesong. 00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:21.960 Fuck. Hold on. Standby. I think I just fucked 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:26.900 us. Okay, never mind. I was looking at invisibility. 00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:30.960 The spell ends when the target attacks or casts 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:32.750 a spell. Okay. I just had to make sure that it 00:41:32.750 --> 00:41:34.750 wasn't if the caster has another spell. I had 00:41:34.750 --> 00:41:36.429 the same thought earlier with the pocket. That's 00:41:36.429 --> 00:41:37.769 when I was like, wait, does that? It doesn't 00:41:37.769 --> 00:41:40.409 matter. And then, yeah, blindness, deafness is 00:41:40.409 --> 00:41:42.769 not concentration, so it didn't break it from 00:41:42.769 --> 00:41:45.630 the invisibility. Cool. All right, we're good. 00:41:45.909 --> 00:41:51.250 All right. No wedgie. No wedgie. Blanche, I'm 00:41:51.250 --> 00:41:53.289 about to give you a wedgie. Yeah, thanks. With 00:41:53.289 --> 00:41:58.210 my mace. He finally just slides up to you, sees 00:41:58.210 --> 00:42:01.420 that you have no intention to. Stop. You have 00:42:01.420 --> 00:42:04.860 cast two spells now that have failed. And so 00:42:04.860 --> 00:42:08.739 Hieronyx will use all extent of his power to 00:42:08.739 --> 00:42:12.239 see his righteous judgment meted out. Here we 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:19.980 go. That is an 18 to hit. Are you going to do 00:42:19.980 --> 00:42:22.400 damage one at a time or are you going to do the 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:26.900 hits first? I'll do damage one at a time. Okay. 00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:30.739 Then... I guess it doesn't matter. I'm just going 00:42:30.739 --> 00:42:34.000 to react and use shield. Okay. So it's a miss. 00:42:34.739 --> 00:42:36.980 And also shield lasts, so you want to do it the 00:42:36.980 --> 00:42:38.980 first time. Oh, right, right, right, right, right, 00:42:38.980 --> 00:42:40.719 right, right, right. Okay, with that, it's going 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:41.980 to be pretty hard for me to hit you. That gets 00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:45.119 me. He comes down at you hard and smashes your 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:47.300 shield. You can feel force, not just from the 00:42:47.300 --> 00:42:49.539 force of his strength, but like a radiant light 00:42:49.539 --> 00:42:53.159 bursts out sort of around the shield that you're 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:55.400 holding in front of him. The whole hallway just... 00:42:55.939 --> 00:42:58.380 bursts into radiance, and he comes down with 00:42:58.380 --> 00:43:02.320 another strike, which is a 19 to hit. It will 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:07.500 not break that shield. Holy shit. That would 00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:10.059 have been so bad. Yeah. If you hadn't used shield. 00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:13.579 Yeah, I forget every time that it lasts until 00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:17.099 the end of the round there. And that is all I'm 00:43:17.099 --> 00:43:21.900 going to do. And that's you, Blanche. Okay. Blanche 00:43:21.900 --> 00:43:27.949 is... Bibbidi -bobbidi -boo. How about a wisdom 00:43:27.949 --> 00:43:35.550 saving throw, David? Okay. Wisdom save. Just 00:43:35.550 --> 00:43:38.570 fail it, please. Just fail it. I'm sorry, that 00:43:38.570 --> 00:43:48.610 is a 28. 28. Okay, so slow fails. A 28? No, sorry, 00:43:48.670 --> 00:43:53.800 27. My bad. Okay. But that's way different. Okay, 00:43:53.940 --> 00:43:59.300 yeah, so that means his wisdom is at least a 00:43:59.300 --> 00:44:02.219 plus seven. This isn't the final boss yet. What 00:44:02.219 --> 00:44:07.519 the fuck? Of the arc. Again, you try this. You 00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:09.960 have another burst of light. You just can't get 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:12.599 through this rage. You can't get through this 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:19.199 rage. Okay, she will bonus action go into Bladesong. 00:44:21.500 --> 00:44:26.539 Whistle sound. Oh, it's so cool. There it is. 00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:34.400 Akio. Yes, Master Blanche. Roof. What do we do? 00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:40.860 I have literally no idea, but I guess stay close. 00:44:43.619 --> 00:44:47.179 Master Yungi, I suppose you should see a way 00:44:47.179 --> 00:44:50.690 out of this situation. No, no. I will not leave 00:44:50.690 --> 00:44:53.730 you to fight alone. I cannot leave you here. 00:44:53.829 --> 00:44:57.130 Not like this. Fetch the gods. Let them know 00:44:57.130 --> 00:45:03.090 of this misunderstanding. Gods, gods, gods. He 00:45:03.090 --> 00:45:06.210 does. He actually is going to move. He's going 00:45:06.210 --> 00:45:09.610 to move past the diva who he knows will not strike 00:45:09.610 --> 00:45:12.750 him. He has royalty after all. And Hyronix lets 00:45:12.750 --> 00:45:17.730 him run by. He's moving towards the queen. And 00:45:17.730 --> 00:45:21.110 you see this old form. is running with a speed 00:45:21.110 --> 00:45:26.130 that it's going to hurt him later a lot. You 00:45:26.130 --> 00:45:30.130 hear bones like creaking. Oh, God. You have to 00:45:30.130 --> 00:45:32.969 be an asshole even to Yungi. Yeah, I do. I do. 00:45:34.130 --> 00:45:36.269 He like trips and falls at one point, stumbles 00:45:36.269 --> 00:45:39.369 and gets back up. No, no. And he's running down 00:45:39.369 --> 00:45:43.329 the hall as fast as he possibly can. But will 00:45:43.329 --> 00:45:46.610 he be fast enough? It's not your turn, Blanche. 00:45:47.969 --> 00:45:54.909 Yeah, she's, um... Jules, I'll give you a head 00:45:54.909 --> 00:45:59.949 start. Get Chester out of here. What? Holy shit. 00:46:01.530 --> 00:46:05.489 Blanche is, like, untouchable, man. Yeah? I think 00:46:05.489 --> 00:46:07.989 if we're gonna run, she's at least gonna give 00:46:07.989 --> 00:46:11.710 Jules a head start. Damn. Damn. And then with 00:46:11.710 --> 00:46:16.210 Akio next to her, like, it's even more untouchable. 00:46:16.859 --> 00:46:21.800 Okay. So my plan, Blanche's plan, is to give 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.360 you like two or three rounds to get ahead of 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:28.519 us and then follow. Okay. All right. And that's 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:33.559 Chester. Jules, I didn't. It's not. It's a lie, 00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:37.400 all right? Come on. Run. All right, yeah. Let's 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:42.119 go. He's just going to run. Chester books it 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:46.400 down the hall. If this turns into a chase. For 00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:48.539 every round you are ahead, I will give you a 00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:51.559 round off the chase. You'll be that much closer 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:53.460 to, like, done with it. Okay. Essentially, you'll 00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:55.179 probably be out of the chase as you move. Sure. 00:46:55.219 --> 00:46:57.179 You will have a different objective to clear, 00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:59.860 though, as you get closer. First question, and 00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:02.139 we'll get to this in a minute. I'll have to ask 00:47:02.139 --> 00:47:04.639 you where you're running to. But again, we don't 00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:07.559 need to get to that right now. Chester runs down 00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:11.239 the hall. Vanishes. Already gone, actually. Visible. 00:47:11.300 --> 00:47:15.780 You hear the steps as he moves. And that's Akio. 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:21.519 Um, gosh. Sorry, I wasn't prepared. Give me like 00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:24.380 two seconds. You guys seem rattled for some reason. 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:27.579 Do you feel rattled? Yeah, a little bit. I'm 00:47:27.579 --> 00:47:30.239 sorry, are you talking, David? How can you attack 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:33.340 me with a cute chihuahua in my arms? She's so 00:47:33.340 --> 00:47:37.130 cute. Oh my god. Oh, yeah, for our listeners, 00:47:37.309 --> 00:47:41.389 we have new dogs on the podcast. Yes, yes. Pondogs. 00:47:41.389 --> 00:47:43.230 The other bark you've been hearing tonight is 00:47:43.230 --> 00:47:48.710 Opal, a little cute as hell chihuahua. Truly 00:47:48.710 --> 00:47:51.349 smaller than a cat. We have Danny in the studio 00:47:51.349 --> 00:47:53.190 as well, and we also have Jasper just taking 00:47:53.190 --> 00:47:55.610 a nap over there. Let me put that blanket over 00:47:55.610 --> 00:47:59.869 Jasper again. Hang on. Oh, yeah. So Blanche is 00:47:59.869 --> 00:48:03.989 going to instruct Akio to take the dodge action. 00:48:04.570 --> 00:48:07.389 Oh, all right. I imagine he stands up beside 00:48:07.389 --> 00:48:11.769 you. No, I think he's fine back there because 00:48:11.769 --> 00:48:14.510 he's still within five feet of Blanche to be 00:48:14.510 --> 00:48:18.809 able to do his reaction stuff. That's so cool. 00:48:19.090 --> 00:48:22.429 Okay, yeah. All right. He goes into a stance. 00:48:22.530 --> 00:48:25.090 What do you say to him? Give me a cool line here. 00:48:25.170 --> 00:48:28.010 He's going to go into a combat stance, one that 00:48:28.010 --> 00:48:30.889 Ozen would have taught him to sort of predict 00:48:30.889 --> 00:48:36.190 and outmaneuver enemy attacks. Akio. Raise a 00:48:36.190 --> 00:48:41.630 shell. Yes, master Blanche. Legs go wide. He 00:48:41.630 --> 00:48:44.269 kind of drops down and his head low, sword out. 00:48:44.869 --> 00:48:47.630 And almost like curved just in front of his left 00:48:47.630 --> 00:48:51.210 paw in a sort of counter position. You ever step 00:48:51.210 --> 00:48:54.170 on one of those at the beach? Those real long, 00:48:54.170 --> 00:48:57.289 almost like a banana. What? They hurt a lot. 00:48:58.369 --> 00:49:02.380 Never mind. All right, that's Akio's turn. Yes, 00:49:02.460 --> 00:49:06.019 that's it for Kyo. That's you, Jules. Yeah, Jules 00:49:06.019 --> 00:49:07.559 is going to run, but as he runs, he's going to 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:10.880 go for Blindness Deafness again. Oh, shit. That 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:13.619 would be nice. If this hits, seriously, it's 00:49:13.619 --> 00:49:17.840 going to change the game. All right. Yeah, but 00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:21.139 this guy is like, he's got stats to the max. 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:23.460 This is Khan, though, right? Yeah, it's Khan. 00:49:23.659 --> 00:49:26.559 This is actually the best move you've been using. 00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:29.280 No, this is the good one. I think Wisdom is the 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.949 highest. Well, you got 27 on a wisdom save. Well, 00:49:31.989 --> 00:49:36.070 right. Sure. Damn it. Fuck. 19. God damn it. 00:49:36.070 --> 00:49:40.250 I keep rolling so high. Atash, damn it. Atash, 00:49:40.289 --> 00:49:45.869 damn it. Ah, fuck. That's all right. Fuck. Try 00:49:45.869 --> 00:49:49.389 again. Eyes burst to light. Fog. The dark clouds 00:49:49.389 --> 00:49:51.469 to piers. All right. He's going to use his last 00:49:51.469 --> 00:49:57.300 bardic then to cast it onto Akio. Oh, nice. Oh, 00:49:57.500 --> 00:49:59.300 so it's both Blanche and Akio glowing with these 00:49:59.300 --> 00:50:02.860 golden modes of energy. Oh, that's so cool. Can 00:50:02.860 --> 00:50:07.860 you run? Yeah. Jules, following the vanishing 00:50:07.860 --> 00:50:10.239 steps of Chester ahead, begins to book it down 00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:14.599 the hall, cloak billowing behind red walls. You've 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:18.039 got that same pattern of a long serpentine body 00:50:18.039 --> 00:50:21.519 sort of moving beside you as you run, run, run, 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:26.230 feet pounding on wooden floors. Far behind you, 00:50:26.389 --> 00:50:31.869 Blanche and Akio make their stand. And that's 00:50:31.869 --> 00:50:39.889 me. That's going to be a miss. And a miss. I'll 00:50:39.889 --> 00:50:42.590 play though. I do a high attack. I've just been 00:50:42.590 --> 00:50:45.030 rolling really bad on my actual attacks. Right, 00:50:45.030 --> 00:50:46.690 on everything but saves. Everything, all my saves, 00:50:46.829 --> 00:50:48.889 I've been rolling crazy. My attacks have been 00:50:48.889 --> 00:50:52.389 really meh. So, Agi comes flying in. Wham! Wham! 00:50:52.389 --> 00:50:54.619 Tries a strike. in both ways. And remember, if 00:50:54.619 --> 00:50:55.840 you want to use Protector with Akia, you've got 00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:59.099 to do it before I roll. Not after. Right? No, 00:50:59.179 --> 00:51:01.579 he's got something listed under reactions. Yeah, 00:51:01.659 --> 00:51:03.260 it's a reaction. When I go to attack, you can 00:51:03.260 --> 00:51:05.800 impose disadvantage. The psychic will use its 00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:07.219 reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack 00:51:07.219 --> 00:51:08.800 roll. A creature within five feet is targeted. 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:11.739 So if I hit, it's too late to actually use that. 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:13.300 So you might want to consider just using it on 00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:15.920 one of my attacks. Oh, on the attack roll. Yeah. 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.280 Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Which, I mean, you're 00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:19.960 fine anyway. Just put it out there for future 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.380 rounds. He goes to slam at you, Blanche, and 00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:24.940 with blade sound active, you weave dexterously 00:51:24.940 --> 00:51:27.920 around. Like your katana scraping the edge of 00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:29.960 his mace. It kind of flies from side to side, 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.389 again, to make these, you know. Bursts of holy 00:51:32.389 --> 00:51:35.309 light. You can feel a heat coming off them. It's 00:51:35.309 --> 00:51:39.610 a wave of force. But that's all he's going to 00:51:39.610 --> 00:51:41.530 do, I think, right? No, you know what? He's going 00:51:41.530 --> 00:51:45.849 to move between you and Akio. Once again, very 00:51:45.849 --> 00:51:49.230 carefully stepping over Ahmed's body to stand 00:51:49.230 --> 00:51:52.829 between the two of you. And that is my turn. 00:51:54.050 --> 00:51:56.369 Again, I think that rage is starting to fade 00:51:56.369 --> 00:51:58.929 from the face. And you see that very cold, emotionless 00:51:58.929 --> 00:52:03.190 stare. looking right through you, deep into your 00:52:03.190 --> 00:52:08.650 soul, deep into your sins. That's Blanche. Okay, 00:52:08.710 --> 00:52:10.670 so Blanche is, you know, standing there with 00:52:10.670 --> 00:52:17.769 her guard up. Akio, follow Jules. What? What? 00:52:18.130 --> 00:52:22.849 No! I'll be right behind you. I... I... Master 00:52:22.849 --> 00:52:28.369 Blanche, are you sure? That's a command. He kind 00:52:28.369 --> 00:52:31.250 of looks like... He used to swallow that one. 00:52:31.269 --> 00:52:38.050 It almost hurts. And he nods. And Blanche is 00:52:38.050 --> 00:52:43.710 also going to take the dodge action. She's going 00:52:43.710 --> 00:52:47.389 to move around. She'll move around the long way 00:52:47.389 --> 00:52:54.610 to get on the other side of Hyronix. What makes 00:52:54.610 --> 00:52:57.989 you think this is our responsibility? It could 00:52:57.989 --> 00:53:02.210 have been anybody. There's something... There's 00:53:02.210 --> 00:53:07.010 something going on here, and I... Why us? Why 00:53:07.010 --> 00:53:12.110 are you so set on us causing this? You stand 00:53:12.110 --> 00:53:15.710 by the side of the one chosen by Zalmati Shab. 00:53:15.769 --> 00:53:21.489 You think we don't know? I know. I felt his darkness. 00:53:21.829 --> 00:53:27.239 His vile stink fills this palace. I wanted to 00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:31.719 strike at you sooner than Omid. He told me, no, 00:53:31.820 --> 00:53:37.000 we need evidence. I don't care about evidence 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:40.460 anymore. Okay, yeah, I can see how that's a little 00:53:40.460 --> 00:53:45.659 damning in his eyes. Mm -hmm. Yeah. Uh, that 00:53:45.659 --> 00:53:51.360 is Akio. Akio's gonna withdraw and disengage, 00:53:51.380 --> 00:53:53.099 sorry. I will take. No, he's gonna disengage. 00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:57.440 Oh, right, okay. Yeah. I don't care. Gonna do 00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:00.019 it anyways. He just, he moves like, just out 00:54:00.019 --> 00:54:02.199 of range, sort of, as he goes to swing at Akio, 00:54:02.219 --> 00:54:03.920 he dives out of range, still kind of in that 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:06.760 same stance, weaving the blade around, parrying 00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:09.239 his attack as he disengages. As he slides out 00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:10.880 of the way, Blanche, he looks at you one last 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:14.460 time. You see his eyes are shimmering. Blanche 00:54:14.460 --> 00:54:17.579 winks at him. And he takes off down the hall. 00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:22.440 And you are alone. against this figure figure 00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.719 what are you gonna do blanche dodge action but 00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:29.300 for how long can you hold out probably a while 00:54:29.300 --> 00:54:32.360 this might be the worst radio we've ever done 00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:37.739 yeah yeah well This is Steven's plan. If I make 00:54:37.739 --> 00:54:40.900 the fight unlistenable, David will skip it. David 00:54:40.900 --> 00:54:43.179 will have to do something different. You're probably 00:54:43.179 --> 00:54:45.920 right. My plan now is for one or two rounds. 00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:48.659 I was going to try to talk to Hyronix, but I 00:54:48.659 --> 00:54:50.159 can tell that that's not going to get anywhere. 00:54:51.219 --> 00:54:53.519 Yeah, you're getting that feeling. Yeah. Okay. 00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:56.179 So do you want to, like, I don't know, fast forward 00:54:56.179 --> 00:54:59.079 two rounds? No, I'm going to hit you. Okay, try 00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:01.739 it. Burn spell slots at least. Here I come. No, 00:55:01.739 --> 00:55:05.719 you're not going to burn spell slots. Hey, 27 00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:10.179 to hit. Wait, yeah, but dodge action, so I get 00:55:10.179 --> 00:55:13.300 advantage. Can I go? Well, you guys, I was going 00:55:13.300 --> 00:55:14.460 to bet you guys, because you're currently just 00:55:14.460 --> 00:55:17.400 full running, right? Yeah, but Jules' speed is 00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:19.920 only 30 feet. You just moved closer to Jules. 00:55:19.980 --> 00:55:23.639 I'm in range of a spell. No, when you moved, 00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:25.280 I assumed you went full running, which would 00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:27.719 be 60 feet. I had already used actions. Oh, you 00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:31.539 had? Okay. Yeah, Jules is going to cast Blindness 00:55:31.539 --> 00:55:33.909 Deafness again. Okay, all right. Oh, shit. Fucking 00:55:33.909 --> 00:55:36.530 hell. Okay, all right. Yeah. Let's do this thing. 00:55:36.570 --> 00:55:40.690 Yeah, let's do it. God damn it. I'm rolling so 00:55:40.690 --> 00:55:43.849 high on these saves. What the hell? It's a non 00:55:43.849 --> 00:55:47.309 -natural twine. Come on. I'm sorry. Come on. 00:55:47.329 --> 00:55:49.150 I'd love for one of these to land. All right, 00:55:49.170 --> 00:55:50.989 well, that's it then. That was my last shot for 00:55:50.989 --> 00:55:53.789 that. I mean, Jules tries one more blast. It's 00:55:53.789 --> 00:55:55.929 like... Thank you. Thank you, Jules. It's almost 00:55:55.929 --> 00:55:58.860 like this figure's... sort of innate holy energy 00:55:58.860 --> 00:56:02.199 is just completely countering your spells. It's 00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:03.880 not technically what's happening, but the dice 00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:06.460 are telling the story that you cannot touch this 00:56:06.460 --> 00:56:09.599 radiant figure. It is almost your antithesis, 00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:12.360 Jules. It is your counter in this universe. Also, 00:56:12.420 --> 00:56:13.880 I didn't mean to sound like an asshole there. 00:56:13.980 --> 00:56:16.500 I was just waiting for that turn. I was waiting 00:56:16.500 --> 00:56:18.440 for that, that whole time. I wrote you off. I 00:56:18.440 --> 00:56:21.380 was like, Jules is gone. No, hell yeah, you're 00:56:21.380 --> 00:56:23.739 right, you're right. Does anybody else want to 00:56:23.739 --> 00:56:25.650 go, or are you guys full running now? We're full 00:56:25.650 --> 00:56:27.369 running now. There's no point in trying anything 00:56:27.369 --> 00:56:29.989 with Jester. There will be something to do when 00:56:29.989 --> 00:56:32.650 you... I guess depending on where you're going. 00:56:33.469 --> 00:56:36.989 Cool. Okay. Let me attack. Take my second attack. 00:56:39.389 --> 00:56:41.010 What was the first one again? You still have 00:56:41.010 --> 00:56:42.809 to roll disadvantage on the first one. Oh, yeah. 00:56:42.809 --> 00:56:44.469 Because I took the dodge action. That I missed. 00:56:44.750 --> 00:56:52.940 Yeah. You jerk. I keep feeling so good and then 00:56:52.940 --> 00:56:55.920 real bad. That's another 18. It's not going to 00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:58.739 make it, right? Oh, 18 would, though. No, it 00:56:58.739 --> 00:57:01.940 wouldn't. 18? Who do you think you're talking 00:57:01.940 --> 00:57:05.539 to? All right. You know what? I'm the asshole. 00:57:05.619 --> 00:57:12.179 You got me. Screw me. You see he's getting flustered. 00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:17.800 He's swinging at you. Holy shit. I'm going to 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:21.699 do one more round of dodge action. Okay. Then 00:57:21.699 --> 00:57:25.199 it's going to be me. We come around again to 00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:30.219 me, to Hyronix. You, once again, take that same 00:57:30.219 --> 00:57:32.559 position. What does your dodge action pose look 00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:36.820 like? Her legs are spread wide, and she's in 00:57:36.820 --> 00:57:40.780 a deep crouch with her blade held in front of 00:57:40.780 --> 00:57:42.980 her. I just love it. Yeah, you're weaving side 00:57:42.980 --> 00:57:45.300 to side, winging her as it attacks, countering. 00:57:45.980 --> 00:57:49.960 He raises his weapon again to strike down. I 00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:52.659 want to know where you're going, Jules. Where's 00:57:52.659 --> 00:57:56.000 your group heading? You're not far. Even just 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:57.760 to find guards or something, you know what I 00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:02.460 mean? Just to stop the fight was my sort of guess. 00:58:03.719 --> 00:58:08.079 Unless Jules has other plans. You got a smirk 00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:10.639 on your face. What are you cooking over there? 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:13.719 I want to go to Cholet. Oh, we're going to Mama's 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:16.760 house. Yeah. We're going to Mama's house. Yeah. 00:58:17.460 --> 00:58:21.139 Oh, shit. We're going to Sholay. We're going 00:58:21.139 --> 00:58:23.440 to Sholay. You are heading towards a banquet 00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:27.460 hall. But you've done a full tour of this palace 00:58:27.460 --> 00:58:29.360 when you're leading Hyronix around. You know 00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:32.239 of a sort of side hallway from where you are 00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:35.699 going now that can lead you kind of around to 00:58:35.699 --> 00:58:40.159 that, what's it, the western wing ballroom where 00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:44.019 Sholay is essentially taken to herself. Okay. 00:58:44.650 --> 00:58:46.889 He'll take some time to get there. A few more 00:58:46.889 --> 00:58:49.710 rounds. You have a direction now and you are 00:58:49.710 --> 00:58:54.070 running. You're moving aside Chester, side of 00:58:54.070 --> 00:58:56.429 Keo. You sort of spin around a corner and you 00:58:56.429 --> 00:58:58.889 see a number of guards up ahead that look at 00:58:58.889 --> 00:59:03.630 you and lower their spears as you run back to 00:59:03.630 --> 00:59:06.349 the fight. I'm going to strike you now, Blanche. 00:59:06.530 --> 00:59:14.550 Okie dokie. This time, I got you. 23 to hit. 00:59:15.210 --> 00:59:19.730 Even with disadvantage? Yep. Okay, I'll cast 00:59:19.730 --> 00:59:26.329 shield. You son of a bitch. Okay, here I go again. 00:59:27.869 --> 00:59:32.909 Never mind, it's natural two. Okay. Smashes down 00:59:32.909 --> 00:59:37.030 at you again. He like steps back with a natural 00:59:37.030 --> 00:59:40.250 two just for flavor and like steps onto Ahmed's 00:59:40.250 --> 00:59:44.039 leg like a crack. And he just looks down and 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:49.880 begins to visibly shake. Oh, no, no! That's you, 00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:52.539 Blanche. Real quick, we skipped over it real 00:59:52.539 --> 00:59:54.780 fast when you said about the guards put down 00:59:54.780 --> 00:59:57.679 their weapons. As we're running by, Jules screams, 00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:00.679 Hyronix, back there! He's going fucking crazy! 01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:07.900 Hell yeah. You say this, your words sort of echoing 01:00:07.900 --> 01:00:12.469 out down the hall. The guards at first. Don't 01:00:12.469 --> 01:00:14.630 seem to break their stance as you run towards 01:00:14.630 --> 01:00:18.550 them. Run towards her lowered spears. Blanche. 01:00:19.590 --> 01:00:22.690 As a bonus action, Blanche is going to cast Expeditious 01:00:22.690 --> 01:00:27.949 Retreat. Oh, shit. What does that do? So it allows 01:00:27.949 --> 01:00:32.269 me to, as a bonus action, take the dash action. 01:00:32.610 --> 01:00:36.989 Okay. So then for her action, she will disengage 01:00:36.989 --> 01:00:40.989 and start running. Nice. That's amazing. Yeah. 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:45.940 Yeah, I know. That's why I did it. Somewhere 01:00:45.940 --> 01:00:48.599 way ahead down the hall, perhaps you hear Jules 01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:52.199 yelling his call, echoing back towards you down 01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:54.699 this hallway, and you hit the ground running. 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:58.099 You are, boom, blasting the world, zooming around 01:00:58.099 --> 01:01:01.280 you as you follow your allies. As you move, you 01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:03.480 hear the maze canal one last time crash on the 01:01:03.480 --> 01:01:08.679 floor behind you. You hear a scream. And we see 01:01:08.679 --> 01:01:13.139 Hyronix on his turn. His great wings unfurl. 01:01:13.420 --> 01:01:18.320 His feet rise from the floor. And he blasts down 01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:22.920 the hallway at incredible speed, hunting you 01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:27.119 down for good. And we'll call it there.