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Jokes. Japes. Jests, even. Listen to RP Jesters.

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Hello, everybody. I'm Casey. And I'm Rachel.

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And we are RPGesters. I will allow the DM to

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retract the dragon. We are a variety actual play

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podcast playing a range of different RPGs. With

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each campaign, we walk you through the basics

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so you can try the game out for yourself. And

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we showcase each system with our love of role

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-playing and dramatic character -driven stories.

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Hey, I died for this. I literally died. Now you

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must sleep. memory scans are on the ship. Ben.

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We need to send them in now. Activate Team R.

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I start firing my blaster rifle. Every episode

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is only an hour long, so you know you can fit

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us into your week. But we are jesters after all.

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We love the drama, but we also love to laugh.

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And we live to entertain. What happens with the

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rocket? It flies. It flies? Where? Where does

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it fly? Maggie! Oh, damn. And you. Have been

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activated. I can tell you right now, I know for

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a fact that I am invincible. You gotta get this

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rock into the sun. That's away from the race.

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Finger guns and, like, towards the sun. You have

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been activated. Greg is my stepson. He calls

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me dad now. You just gotta accept me. So let

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us invite you to our table. Where our tales spin

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a whole multiverse of drama and dice. We are

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playing Power in the Dark. Naughty Crimes Division.

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Into the Waelstrom. Operation Frozen Dark. The

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Forbidden Gift. Night Gravity. Come for the story.

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Stay for the jests. And welcome to the Jester's

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Court. You have been activated. to send it with

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its angelic army from the heavens to an end to

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the demonic assault on Ankara and Sengar, slaying

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the vessel of Zomata Shab and sending his army

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back through the rift. Ever since this point,

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eye touchers remained our number one luminary

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and the only celestial to hold that role. Now

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this was intentional as the speakers were foolishly

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concerned over a celestial takeover of our worlds

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with it giving too much power and influence through

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the crystal network. It's nonsense, but... But,

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in the wake of tragedy after tragedy, speakers

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had finally seen reason. A Celestial was voted

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in as Speaker of Sunsetian, and more Celestials

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were granted the loft position of Luminary. And

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among these, of course, was Salome the Sideweaver.

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Now, Salome is what's known as a party. These

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Celestials sport blue skin and red wings, as

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well as a penchant for prophecy. That's right,

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we now have a luminaire that can see into the

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future itself. Notable through the intricate

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patterns of gold that adorn her face and her

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magical flail that doubles as a holy censer,

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hers is a figure that inspires hope in the harmed

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and terror in the terrible. Now, some of your

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folks describe Salome as ditzy or a bit vacant.

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And to them I say, why don't y 'all try to paddle

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down the branches of time's ever -flowing stream,

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seeing tragedy after tragedy and mapping out

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the best possible future, huh? I have to imagine

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you have a hard -as -hell time staying present

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when you have one foot in the future. Now, for

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one, I will say I'm happy to have a guardian

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angel looking out for me both today and in the

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days to come. Let us go on a journey. A journey

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far away from the radiant said hell in the worlds

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of the Gemstone Concord. To a place where the

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infinite song of the broken Dracon does not reach,

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and the Sunweaver's light cannot be felt. a journey

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to a place in the outer planes where a single

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god rules, a place that, someday in the far future,

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we may all come to know quite well. Uh, wink.

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I'm going to describe what we see in this place,

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but it must be understood this description is

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made at a great distance, that size and scale

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are going to be truly hard to grasp, nearly unfathomable

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as we now deal in the scales of the eternal and

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all -powerful. Imagine first a sky of deep dark

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blue punctured by the white light of stars. We

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see them shifting and moving together, swapping

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between clusters and forming swirling cosmic

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bodies, a living, dancing sky like a grand celestial

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ballroom. In piercing this inverted dance floor,

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we see a band of shimmering gold and light forming

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a wide ring, an enormous halo, trapping millions

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of stars between its radiant bands. Where this

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ring hangs above is met by another circle below,

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spread out in this sea of stars, is a translucent

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map, an entire world. It rests like a massive

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circular carpet. We see the tiny forms of mountains,

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of cities, the green of forests, the white of

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snowy tundras, the blue of an unseen sky reflected

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in seas. We see it all. And we see through it

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all, at the dots of billions more dancing stars

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below, for here there is no floor or ceiling,

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no up or down, only the realm of the infinite.

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Only Kameo. Standing on top of this spectral

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world is the god himself. A humanoid being the

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size of a continent. A being of nature and earth,

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covered in greenery and formed of stone. A naked,

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masculine form, enormously muscular. Great, dusty

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canyons carving out abdominal muscles. Lush rainforest

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spreading out like hair across the chest. A wizened

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face of rugged granite, chin jutting out into

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the peaks of a snow -covered mountain range.

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A head topped with hair made of radiant wisps

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of light, forming long strands that rise like

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smoke and curl into the snow. stars around, joining

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their dance. The gods' eyes take a similar form,

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pools of white radiance that stare down into

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the immense world below, his world, a world called

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Sentara. As he looks upon his precious mortals

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and heeds their prayers, we see the mouth of

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the god is curved into a soft smile. But our

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focus is not on Sentara and not on Kameo. There

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may be yet stories to tell of them, but not for

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some time. No. Our focus is far removed from

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the great disc of a world below and the god that

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stands upon it. Rather, we see these things in

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the distance of our screen. We look upon a second

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translucent world. This one is not a full plane

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spread across the far realm, but rather a tear

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within the realm itself, a rip like a window

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that looks down into a vast desert kingdom. And

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around this tear, we see a gathering of creatures,

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many bearing radiant eyes and bright, flapping

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wings. Celestials. Thousands of celestials. They

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surround the tear in a full circle, rising up

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and around like a slowly shifting tornado of

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light. We see the blue skin and red wings of

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Pari, the white skin and white wings of Divas,

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a few giant green -skinned Planetars. Beyond

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them we see majestic forms of celestial beasts,

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equine Pegasi, unicorns and Kirin, and the winged

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serpentine Coatl. In the center of them all,

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outshining them all, a mighty solar. Robes of

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gold and crimson, wings of blazing fire, a masculine

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form that mirrors that of the god Kameo himself.

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A mirror. For he was the first celestial born

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of the god, the first son, the hand of Kameo,

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Atash. We look upon Atash, who hovers just above

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the tear into this other world, a world known

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as Ankaran Sangar, which appeared here when the

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larger plane of Shadrakhan was shattered by its

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own gods millennia ago. This tear has been a

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lingering curiosity that has always been here

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in Kameo's realm. A window into a material realm

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that has long sat ignored. Ignored by a god.

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Ignored by his immortal servants. But now that

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world is in grave and imminent danger. And those

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servants have a choice to make. Look down upon

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them. Look and then tell me that they do not

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need our help. Atash points down into the rift

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and we can vaguely see the shapes of armies forming

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in the desert from a bird's eye view. One an

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army of mortal humanoids, and one of vile fiends.

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Our father is content to ignore their plight,

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to see them as the property of other gods. But

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see how enamored he is with the mortals of Centauri.

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He would spend an eternity blessing and coddling

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them with no eyes for anything. His gaze turns

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to the god, something scornful in his radiant

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eyes. Or anyone else. And we, his children, left

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purposeless to merely bear witness to his utopia

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with no role. I say we do what he will not. I

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say we find a new purpose beyond the rift in

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the worlds of Shadrakhan. If there are any amongst

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you who would stand against this act of separation,

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speak now. I am not our father. I will hear your

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voice. His eyes, like two blazing stars themselves,

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scan the crowd that surrounds him, looking up

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and around, and as these eyes move, they fall

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over you, Salome. You are a part of this crowd,

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called here to listen to Atash's words and to

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make a choice. You, like all that is present,

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are a celestial child of Kameo, born of his great

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power. I believe you are a Tempest Cleric? Yeah,

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she's a Tempest Cleric. I imagine the Celestials

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are born of various aspects of this god. Yours

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would be the aspect of Storm, actually enough.

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Very fitting for our setting now. Yeah, it's

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working out for me. Atash, you know, is born

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of the very idea of law. But that matters not

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now. You have a choice to make. You... Hear Atash's

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words. You understand his plight, the plight

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of those people beyond the rift, but to leave

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this realm would be going against your very father's

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will. But there is little for you here in this

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realm. Kameo's obsession with his pet material

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world of Centaur blinds him to all else. All

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of his divine children feel his neglect and his

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indifference, and none feel it more, you know,

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than his first child, Atash. So let me ask you,

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as those eyes sweep over you, Do you have any

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objections to Atash's plan to leave your father's

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side? What is going on in your mind right now?

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Do you want to speak up? Salome doesn't have

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any objections. Well, gosh. To Salome, it feels

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like the harm of doing nothing is a greater evil

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than disobeying their father and going. Is there

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any conversation going on in the crowd around

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her? Most of the crowd is very silent. I will

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say, nearby you, just beneath you, is a planetar.

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They're like massive, super muscular, celestials,

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very humanoid, green skin. This one's got like

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one little stripe of like very, very golden hair

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going down almost mohawk style. Wings of a similar

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golden color. And kind of just scoffs. He would

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disobey our father. Ever the fool, Artash. Our

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role is here. Why shouldn't we help the innocent?

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Why shouldn't we lend our strength? You speak

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out of place. Pari. Or Pari, like lower on the

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totem pole. Plantars are like the second to Solars.

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Oh, okay. Figures turns. While you are admonished

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by this figure, they do kind of humor you. Continuing.

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This world is claimed by other gods with their

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own plans, dead as they may be. If our father

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says to restrain ourselves, I believe there is

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a reason. Man, so Salome's looking in now. It's

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like, you know, is... Is her first instinct wrong?

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Should she practice restraint? But she's looking

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out over this battlefield and she knows that

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maybe all of these people, all of these soldiers

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are going to get killed. And if they do, then

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all of the innocents who are behind them are

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going to get killed. And who knows where it stops?

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And I think Salome is hoping that it can stop

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with her. Yeah. It's like you have that way of

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looking into the future, but you can't see the

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future of this world that you haven't touched.

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You don't know what is coming, and that's terrifying.

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If you do nothing, what will happen? Will the

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worlds, all of them, fall? You know Anker and

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Sengar is one piece of a larger cluster of worlds.

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Will they all fall? Will they all die? What bad

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could come of the Celestials raining down, of

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Atash coming into hell? What bad? could possibly

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come. Their dead and absent gods may be grateful

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for our intervention. Intervention? Miss Planetar

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just stares around, I think realizing, just as

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you've realized, that nobody has spoken out.

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The crowd, there are hushed whispers from the

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Celestials, but no one has dared defy Atash's

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words, and many look drawn in by them. Huh. Intervention.

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If that's what you'll call it. I call it a son

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wanting to play father. I call it the hand of

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Kameo wanting to play god. I will stay. And this

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figure begins to sort of fade backwards, almost

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moving away from the larger crowd. One of only

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a handful that does. Salome doesn't believe that

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that's what this is about. I mean, you know,

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as much respect as she has for her father, the

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second greatest respect that she would have would

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be for Atash. Hell yeah. And so as that plantar

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fades away, as thousands of celestials remain

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watching eagerly as you look down and see Atash,

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who smiles up at the crowd, the silent crowd.

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He continues. Yes. I hear your silent voices.

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I know how you desire it. Purpose. We need purpose.

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And we shall find it through the rift. Ours is

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not a passive path. No longer will we stand as

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mere witnesses to events we cannot touch. No!

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From now on, ours is the path of the Protector.

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We will descend in glory from the heavens of

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Ankle and Sengar. We will draw our blades in

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defense of all fragments of Shadrakhan. And we

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will stop at nothing to see peace made manifest

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beneath our wings! Salome starts to do that thing

00:16:41.070 --> 00:16:45.590
with her fist where she beats on her armor. As

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you do. Getting faster and faster. Until all

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around in this swirling crowd of celestials,

00:16:53.690 --> 00:16:58.730
it's just the sound of thundering armor, the

00:16:58.730 --> 00:17:05.349
sound of pegasi and unicorns neighing out. Just

00:17:05.349 --> 00:17:06.970
in case it crits, you've got to bring some pegasus

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along. And with one last look back at the great

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Allfather, who still, even now, has not glanced

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up from his world, from his pets, to see his

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children as they take their leave. Atash plunges

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down into the depths, into the rift, pushing

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through, screaming out in glory, drawing his

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great sword. And he is followed by an army of

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light. Whew. Hell yeah. I think I know what Antosh

00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:53.779
says as he plows through the room. What is he

00:17:53.779 --> 00:18:05.279
saying? Come on. Daddy's home! Just a famous

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battle cry. It was just catchphrase the whole

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time. I didn't really see that as canonical.

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I just saw that as just me flubbing when being

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put on the spot. That's Salome's actual catchphrase

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now forever. Okay, well, she had to learn it

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from somewhere. I was so close to renaming this

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god Camille because he just like randomly said

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the word Camille when you were trying to speak

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last time. And I was like, maybe I just tied

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it into a lore. I don't know. I was like, nah,

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I'm already married to the name. So that was

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me. I'll let everyone in the loop here. Kind

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of hard committing to our next big thing. I'm

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not going to go into specifics at this time because

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it's still a long ways off. But following Journeys

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Through the Radiant Citadel, I want to run a

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fully homebrew campaign that I have been calling

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in true adventure module format, Frontier of

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the Fallen God. Oh. It's going to take place

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in the very realm that our celestial allies and

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adversaries in this campaign originally came

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from. Oh, shit. Yeah, I know. Get pumped. Hey.

00:19:03.470 --> 00:19:06.130
Yeah. We'll tie in. Very loose, but it's going

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to be... I don't know. I'm excited. I'm excited.

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But also, long ways off, like I said. I'm always

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excited for more D &D. And while you're getting

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excited for Fantasy Pants 2 .0, when we cross

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that eventual bridge, you should also get excited

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for the conclusion, the climax, I think, of our

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current... combat i am holding back a burp so

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hard right now it's right there let it loose

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buddy let it loose pull back a little bit okay

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no it's it died i killed it come on i strangled

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death in my throat come on you can't like you

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can't promise a belch and then just sorry pants

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people david breaks promises It's going to happen

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at some point. It's going to be so alarming.

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I'll save for the right moment. Just like I'm

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saving this button still for the right moment.

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Oh, yes. So let's reset the scene. We return

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to the ugly coyote. The obscuring fog cloud is

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gone. And with it, any lingering sleep gas blown

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away by Salome's. magical entrance. Oh yeah,

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I didn't really think about that. Actually, you

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would probably make a save if you walked in there.

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It's like, once you touch it, you save, and it

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was kind of still mingled with a gas. Gone. Well,

00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:23.839
you're welcome. The room is cleared, and Dresden

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and Ezeko stand at the old saloon doors, each

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standing on one side of Salome the Sightweaver.

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Almost a mirror to the three of you, we see three

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remaining combatants, Ariat with his two sabers,

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and two hulking riot troopers with sleek clubs

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and steel coil nets. And it is Ariat's turn.

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Will you let me do something that I forgot to

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do at the beginning of my last turn? Only if

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you let me monologue real quick. Yes. Then do

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your thing first. Salome forgot to roll her d4

00:20:57.099 --> 00:20:59.740
for her sensor. Ooh, yes. But it's at the start

00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:03.039
of her turn, though, so I don't think that Drez

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didn't get... Well, unless I was 10 feet away.

00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.759
Let me checkaroo. I can check that, actually.

00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.140
Yeah, let me see. No, I was 15 feet away. Yep,

00:21:12.140 --> 00:21:14.059
you were. Okay. Okay, that's fine because then

00:21:14.059 --> 00:21:16.059
that means that the Riot guy doesn't get the

00:21:16.059 --> 00:21:25.059
stuff either. Ooh, 3 HP. Back for Salome. You're

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proud of yourself. I'm always proud. Ariat's

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turn. You watch as he sheathes his blades in

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a blur and reaches up to pull off his brass.

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Plague mask. And you see his face. Stern and

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stoic. Broad chin. Clean, shaven head. His dark

00:21:46.289 --> 00:21:50.049
eyes look surprisingly tired as he takes you

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all in. And those eyes settle on you, Salome.

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Salome the Sight Weaver. The control spells my

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team placed are gone. And I heard fighting. Screams.

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Tell me. Tana and Jaeger, the two mages that

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were posted outside, are they dead? Salome has

00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:18.299
this gust of wind coming out of her hands, still

00:22:18.299 --> 00:22:23.000
pointed at the third. Closer, billowing, just

00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:27.720
holding strong. I gave them the opportunity to

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back down. They continued to attack. The same

00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:37.660
opportunity I give you now. He nods. He doesn't

00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:39.700
take his eyes off of you, and you can see the

00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:43.619
tears begin to swim within those eyes. He just

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raised his hand up and presses two fingers to

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the ash -made dots on his forehead. Damn it.

00:22:51.339 --> 00:22:58.500
This has to end. I will deny your kind offer,

00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:02.119
Salome, and I will make you one in turn. I fear

00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:04.710
you have made an error here. Though he did not

00:23:04.710 --> 00:23:06.710
give the command, my work here is in compliance

00:23:06.710 --> 00:23:11.390
with Atash's goals. Your people's goals. If you

00:23:11.390 --> 00:23:15.430
leave now, I will seek no justice. Justice does

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not bring back the dead. If you stay and fight

00:23:19.230 --> 00:23:21.269
me, though, I will send you back to your god.

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His hands fall onto the handles of his weapons.

00:23:27.470 --> 00:23:30.269
Your honeyed tongue is in contrast to your coward's

00:23:30.269 --> 00:23:34.170
weapon. So you will fight, then? And she doesn't

00:23:34.170 --> 00:23:37.069
respond and starts to ready for her next turn.

00:23:37.829 --> 00:23:42.069
Her next attack. Slowly drawing the blades out

00:23:42.069 --> 00:23:47.910
again. That is admirable in a way. We are protectors,

00:23:47.910 --> 00:23:52.269
all of us, looks to you, Dresden. It's a shame,

00:23:52.269 --> 00:23:54.130
then, that we must protect our people from one

00:23:54.130 --> 00:23:58.670
another. But ours is a sorrowful world. So let

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us see whose resolve to protect is stronger.

00:24:03.529 --> 00:24:07.869
And Ariat charges in. I'm here protecting children,

00:24:08.130 --> 00:24:12.109
yo. I feel like you look like the bad guy here.

00:24:13.369 --> 00:24:19.769
I dare you. My turn. Ariat will beeline right

00:24:19.769 --> 00:24:24.750
up before you, Salome. And he will make three

00:24:24.750 --> 00:24:27.069
attacks. Okay. Holy shit. That's going to suck.

00:24:27.210 --> 00:24:28.369
I don't know if I'm going to attack you all three

00:24:28.369 --> 00:24:29.950
times, but the first one at least is going on

00:24:29.950 --> 00:24:32.230
you. All right. Pulls into a sheath, slides a

00:24:32.230 --> 00:24:35.089
sword out. Oh, poison. Right. Then I'm coming

00:24:35.089 --> 00:24:43.210
out. Yeah. Oh, wait. Don't disadvantage anymore.

00:24:43.250 --> 00:24:44.690
There's no more disadvantage. Yeah, you're right.

00:24:44.789 --> 00:24:47.609
Oh, my gosh. That's great. That's amazing. Okay.

00:24:48.769 --> 00:24:51.890
Then how will a 19 do for you? A 19 will miss

00:24:51.890 --> 00:24:54.839
Salome the Sight Weaver. With a shield, Salome

00:24:54.839 --> 00:25:00.319
has 20 AC. That's bananas. I know. Fortunately,

00:25:00.420 --> 00:25:06.140
a 20. I mean, if it's more than 20. That's totally

00:25:06.140 --> 00:25:09.400
fine. Okay, then. Good. I'm going to do a reaction

00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:14.059
after you do damage. Okay. I wonder if that's

00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:21.740
true. Okay. Six points of... Sorry, I said slashing

00:25:21.740 --> 00:25:24.039
last time. Piercing damage from this short sword

00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:38.339
driving into you. And, fun part here. That's

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:42.059
5d6. Yep. Holy shit. And you don't have resistance

00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:45.579
to poison damage. You're taking all 16 points.

00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:51.460
Dude, no way. Holy fuck. Okay, I'm still probably

00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:55.740
going to die here, but... But, one more thing.

00:25:56.259 --> 00:25:57.799
Because I didn't tell you what the poison was.

00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.059
You know, under the poison condition like old

00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:03.559
Dresden was before, no, as this strikes you,

00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.980
maybe this will change things. You feel some

00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:09.000
kind of pulse from up your body into your throat.

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.400
You feel your throat close up. You are silenced.

00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.400
Until... My next turn. That really sucks. Holy

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.019
shit. I don't think it's going to affect my reaction,

00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:23.880
though. All right. Okay. When a creature within

00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:25.980
five feet that you can see hits you with an attack,

00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:28.400
you can use your reaction to cause the creature

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:32.319
to make a dex saving throw. Oh, shit. Okay. All

00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:36.539
right. I wonder if this badass assassin character

00:26:36.539 --> 00:26:39.859
is good at those. Yeah, I know. That is going

00:26:39.859 --> 00:26:44.000
to be a 22. Okay. So you passed. What happened?

00:26:45.040 --> 00:26:48.119
You're going to take half of 2d8 lightning damage.

00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.640
Oh, man. If only I didn't have evasion. Oh, so

00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:53.299
you don't take the... I don't take half damage

00:26:53.299 --> 00:26:58.420
if I pass the save. I am going to have so much

00:26:58.420 --> 00:26:59.859
fun. That just screwed me so much because if

00:26:59.859 --> 00:27:05.339
I do that damage, then it procs my other Thunderbolt

00:27:05.339 --> 00:27:08.579
Strike feat, which would push you 10 feet away

00:27:08.579 --> 00:27:12.420
from me. So this guy is designed to kill Salamay.

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:14.920
I have 8 HP left. Holy shit. And that was his

00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:16.839
first attack. Don't worry. That was his second

00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:18.960
attack. First attack blocked. Second attack hit

00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:21.000
you. I got the poison on you. I actually want

00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:24.119
to hit your buddy now. Okay, yeah, but I'm silenced.

00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:27.779
Yeah, exactly. I do my job. The spellcaster is

00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:32.019
silenced. What? Stop. No. Sentinel. Sentinel

00:27:32.019 --> 00:27:34.440
again. Guardian. What does that do? Immediately

00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:36.539
after a creature within five feet of you takes

00:27:36.539 --> 00:27:38.960
the disengage action or hits a target with an

00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.299
attack, you can make an opportunity. Oh, my God.

00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:46.880
Okay. Yep, you got me. And my guys aren't close

00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:50.059
enough yet. No! If I hit, speed becomes zero

00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:53.140
for the rest of the turn. Oh, that's gnarly.

00:27:54.720 --> 00:28:02.799
So, here we go. No. An 11 is not going to do

00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.480
it. Fuck. Well, not indeed do it. That's rough.

00:28:07.619 --> 00:28:10.779
You go to strike and... Other blade comes up,

00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:14.980
sweeps out, knocks that one to the side. He changes

00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:16.579
attention towards you, Dresden. I'm going for

00:28:16.579 --> 00:28:19.160
you with my last attack. And that's going to

00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:23.079
be an 18 to hit. No. So slides in. You guys both

00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:25.460
just parry each other's blows. Should have gone

00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:28.960
for the echo. Damn, I should have. No, I know

00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:32.440
what the echo is now. Oh, I hear you. That's

00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:35.160
Ariat's turn, though. Now it's something fun.

00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:41.519
The Riot Troopers. are moving in. And they are

00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.200
each going to move up in front of one in front

00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.900
of Dresden. The one that was in front of the

00:28:48.900 --> 00:28:51.500
door got blown away. Jesus fucking Christ. And

00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:55.059
now we have Ariat with his two troopers at his

00:28:55.059 --> 00:28:58.319
side. Salome with her two troopers at her side.

00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:00.779
This is stupid. I guess it wouldn't matter. Bless

00:29:00.779 --> 00:29:02.420
was also a thing, but you were pretty low, right?

00:29:02.859 --> 00:29:05.789
Oh, wait. Hold on. You're under Bless. I am under

00:29:05.789 --> 00:29:07.869
blessed. It might not have changed that. I don't

00:29:07.869 --> 00:29:09.930
know. It was an 11, right? Yeah, it wouldn't

00:29:09.930 --> 00:29:11.890
matter. So, yeah. Highest I would get would be

00:29:11.890 --> 00:29:16.130
15. Yeah, I wouldn't quite hit. It's 16. Yeah.

00:29:16.309 --> 00:29:20.869
Maybe. I hit with 17 before. Keep that in mind.

00:29:21.569 --> 00:29:24.230
These guys are going to make attacks. Fuck. Let's

00:29:24.230 --> 00:29:27.289
see. You don't want to net somebody? I'm going

00:29:27.289 --> 00:29:29.589
to throw a net at you, Dresden. Because I want

00:29:29.589 --> 00:29:36.039
to. It's an 18 to hit. No. No. All right, you

00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:37.779
know what? I'm going to beat on your Echo now.

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:41.720
Okay. First attack missed. Second attack was

00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.160
a nat 19 on the die. Yeah, that hits. Echo goes

00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.119
poof. He's gone. Just slide him over here somewhere

00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:49.900
because he'll be back. He's going to come down

00:29:49.900 --> 00:29:52.140
there somewhere. So this guy, poof, through the

00:29:52.140 --> 00:29:57.119
Echo, leaving Salome's side fully open. Oh, you

00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.420
are now outnumbered. But that was all my guys.

00:30:01.309 --> 00:30:03.750
So that's going to be you, Dresden. These two

00:30:03.750 --> 00:30:06.190
riot trooper shields. They have these massive

00:30:06.190 --> 00:30:08.049
sort of tower shields with some lightweight metal

00:30:08.049 --> 00:30:11.630
kind of held up aloft, and they go into sort

00:30:11.630 --> 00:30:15.049
of defensive stances on either side of Ariat.

00:30:15.349 --> 00:30:18.329
Okay. I have expended pretty much everything,

00:30:18.490 --> 00:30:21.349
but he is going to use the Ring of Obscuring.

00:30:22.210 --> 00:30:24.690
What? He gets three charges. He obscured again?

00:30:24.950 --> 00:30:28.650
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Fog cloud. Okay. All

00:30:28.650 --> 00:30:31.910
right. Fog cloud on you. So that is an action.

00:30:32.970 --> 00:30:37.369
So as a bonus action, Dresden is going to manifest

00:30:37.369 --> 00:30:41.069
his echo. You can bonus action first if you realize

00:30:41.069 --> 00:30:42.150
that you need to be able to see where the echo

00:30:42.150 --> 00:30:46.470
goes. No, I don't need, I don't. So he's going

00:30:46.470 --> 00:30:52.509
to manifest his echo between himself and Ariat

00:30:52.509 --> 00:30:54.910
and the other one in front of him, kind of right

00:30:54.910 --> 00:30:57.730
in the middle. That would be technically not

00:30:57.730 --> 00:30:59.930
a square because you're all five feet. I know

00:30:59.930 --> 00:31:01.269
it's not. I don't have grids on the map, so it's

00:31:01.269 --> 00:31:04.349
a little weird. Well, in any case, he's going

00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:07.349
to manifest his echo there. Is he going to go

00:31:07.349 --> 00:31:08.849
right back on the other side of Salome again?

00:31:09.890 --> 00:31:13.170
Or do you want to go behind the baddies? So I

00:31:13.170 --> 00:31:15.490
think what he'll do... Just press and hold on

00:31:15.490 --> 00:31:17.690
the spot. He's going to manifest right here.

00:31:18.549 --> 00:31:21.369
Right there? Yep. Okay. And then what he's going

00:31:21.369 --> 00:31:25.509
to do is for no action or anything, he's going

00:31:25.509 --> 00:31:30.539
to command his echo. to run across the front

00:31:30.539 --> 00:31:33.160
of the three of them, hoping to get the other

00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.400
two's attention. And as he goes, can he push

00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:40.299
through? He can pass through your squares. Okay.

00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:42.240
It would cost a little more movement, but it

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.960
would cost about 20 movement to get across both

00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.519
of you. But that's something you could do, and

00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:50.039
then you have 10 more movement to go with. Okay,

00:31:50.059 --> 00:31:52.559
you know what? How about this? He'll cross through

00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.180
my space, and he can't. Trying to trick him,

00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.519
trying to move him away? Yes. I think it's a

00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:00.019
good move. You know what I'm trying to do. I

00:32:00.019 --> 00:32:01.819
know what you're trying to do. What about just

00:32:01.819 --> 00:32:04.359
sending him to run back behind them? Well, that's

00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:06.579
what I wanted to do, but I wanted to do it through,

00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:08.359
but I don't think I'm going to be able to do

00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:09.980
it through because they're so close together.

00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:13.740
So he's going to command his Echo to go around

00:32:13.740 --> 00:32:16.420
behind here. Okay, so you're just moving, it

00:32:16.420 --> 00:32:18.480
appears next to you, and you're sliding past

00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.359
the Riot Trooper that's in front of you. And

00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:25.940
as it appears next to me, In the same motion,

00:32:26.299 --> 00:32:31.420
Dresden is dropping to the floor. Okay. Will

00:32:31.420 --> 00:32:36.619
you let me grab Salome? Oh. Because what I want

00:32:36.619 --> 00:32:39.299
to do is I want to grab her and bring her over

00:32:39.299 --> 00:32:43.240
to the table right here. I will allow this. That's

00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.019
kind of a... It's almost like a... I know it's

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:48.339
a lot. I know it's a lot. I call it a blazer

00:32:48.339 --> 00:32:50.900
style devil's bargain here. I will let you bring

00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:54.650
Salome down too. But... You will both be considered

00:32:54.650 --> 00:32:58.250
prone. There'll be a roll to determine if this

00:32:58.250 --> 00:33:00.829
plan of yours works. And if it does not, it'll

00:33:00.829 --> 00:33:02.890
put you in a potentially dangerous situation.

00:33:03.269 --> 00:33:05.609
We're already in a dangerous situation. If it

00:33:05.609 --> 00:33:08.130
works, it'll be amazing. My plan is just to disengage

00:33:08.130 --> 00:33:13.089
and try to heal. Okay. And I can only heal things

00:33:13.089 --> 00:33:16.849
that I can see. Okay. BT dubs. Yeah. Okay, so.

00:33:17.089 --> 00:33:19.210
I've been kind of allowing, like, within five

00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:22.319
feet. You can see. Okay. I've kind of been playing

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:24.380
a little loosey -goosey with the fog rules to

00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:27.619
make this not, like, wild and silly. Okay, so

00:33:27.619 --> 00:33:31.119
in that case, will you allow me then, as my echo

00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:33.539
is manifesting and goes around the back, Dresden

00:33:33.539 --> 00:33:37.220
will duck down and move behind the table here.

00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.400
Moving up, like, behind the table, kind of sliding

00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:40.660
under the cloth as you move, and then you see

00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:43.240
Fibro is actually sleeping on the floor, all

00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:44.839
the pangolins kind of sitting on him, kind of,

00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:46.619
you know, you can barely sort of make out their

00:33:46.619 --> 00:33:48.799
shapes. The pangolin maybe hops onto your shoulder

00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:51.740
as you go. And you slide up behind the tail,

00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:53.839
kind of back in the corner where you had initially

00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:57.819
been when the sleep gas had taken you before.

00:33:58.859 --> 00:34:02.019
Hell yeah, taking up the defensive spot. Salome

00:34:02.019 --> 00:34:07.579
standing alone. Hell yeah. Echo is moving. I

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:11.760
feel like this Echo should be a role of some

00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:15.369
sort. I think it's a really good plan. I think

00:34:15.369 --> 00:34:17.409
it's a very clever plan with the fog cloud. I

00:34:17.409 --> 00:34:18.789
want you to roll a deception check. I want you

00:34:18.789 --> 00:34:21.769
to take advantage on it. Okay. I think that's

00:34:21.769 --> 00:34:31.650
a wave going for this. Okay. 16. 16's pretty

00:34:31.650 --> 00:34:35.510
good. As the echo moves, you can feel the figure

00:34:35.510 --> 00:34:37.550
before you turning to, like, kind of go after

00:34:37.550 --> 00:34:41.269
it. You know, at least one of them has been distracted

00:34:41.269 --> 00:34:47.869
by your movement. Salome. Okie dokie. Salome

00:34:47.869 --> 00:34:54.510
is going to disengage. Okay. She's going to fly

00:34:54.510 --> 00:35:00.409
out of the door here and turn to the right, hugging

00:35:00.409 --> 00:35:04.030
the side of the building and get out of the way

00:35:04.030 --> 00:35:07.449
of the door. So Salome is essentially on the

00:35:07.449 --> 00:35:11.389
other side of the wall as Dresden. They are about

00:35:11.389 --> 00:35:13.969
five feet apart though. And that is a window

00:35:13.969 --> 00:35:16.090
Dresden through the window. That's a window.

00:35:16.489 --> 00:35:20.369
I Realized a little bit of a stretch But I'm

00:35:20.369 --> 00:35:23.929
asking I'll allow it. Okay. I'll allow it five

00:35:23.929 --> 00:35:25.590
feet away. You at least see a silhouette of Dresden

00:35:25.590 --> 00:35:28.449
right there Everybody give me your d4s Let me

00:35:28.449 --> 00:35:30.429
ask you a question though. What are you doing

00:35:30.429 --> 00:35:35.070
right now a bonus action? What? components Are

00:35:35.070 --> 00:35:40.480
you son of a otherwise? Fuck you David Fuck you.

00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:46.179
You bitch. Ain't I a stinger? Yep. Yeah, you

00:35:46.179 --> 00:35:48.760
sure are. Okay. Got any potions there, Salome?

00:35:49.099 --> 00:35:50.960
No, I don't have any potions. You gave me 200

00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:54.019
gold to start with. I'm a level 7 character.

00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:56.139
You gave me 200 gold to start with. You got your

00:35:56.139 --> 00:35:58.079
magic sensor. You got a bunch of cool shit. That's

00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.940
not going to help me now. Actually, it... Jesus

00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:03.559
Christ. God damn it. Hold on. Let me read that

00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:05.300
stupid thing one more time because I think I'm

00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:07.980
going to heal everybody who's next to me. Oh,

00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:11.019
while he's doing that. The fog moved with me

00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:15.059
when I moved my token. It starts centered on

00:36:15.059 --> 00:36:17.599
me, but it doesn't say it follows. It just says

00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:20.860
it starts centered on you. Actually, it doesn't

00:36:20.860 --> 00:36:23.300
heal anybody because it says, as a bonus action,

00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:27.300
you can speak the command word. So that doesn't

00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:32.820
happen. I will use a feature, though. You're

00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:35.039
outside. Couldn't you just say it quiet enough?

00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:40.150
No, she's muted. Oh, oh, fuck, fuck, yeah, yeah,

00:36:40.150 --> 00:36:42.889
yeah. It says somatic? Yeah, it says speak. Okay.

00:36:42.989 --> 00:36:47.010
Yeah. And I can't even use my healing hands trait

00:36:47.010 --> 00:36:49.650
because that's an action and I already disengaged.

00:36:51.289 --> 00:36:55.969
So I'm just going to move a little bit. Can we

00:36:55.969 --> 00:37:00.380
get the fog cloud this time? Can't see. it's

00:37:00.380 --> 00:37:02.679
there oh sorry i can't see it it was on jeremy's

00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:05.699
tokens only he could see it oh okay okay yeah

00:37:05.699 --> 00:37:08.219
she'll move uh just outside of the so you slide

00:37:08.219 --> 00:37:10.639
you basically pass back to the saloon door slide

00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:13.219
along the wall and you break out of the fog is

00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:14.440
where it's where it's sort of pouring onto the

00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:17.059
street again there's a crowd of people all around

00:37:17.059 --> 00:37:20.739
sort of watching gawking staring on uh like gathering

00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:24.800
as some kind of clamor is happening within the

00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:27.559
ugly coyote well tell me it's not gonna say anything

00:37:28.309 --> 00:37:32.849
Suspiciously, no shield bearers. Go figure. Not

00:37:32.849 --> 00:37:37.210
yet, anyway. And that's your move, Salome? That's

00:37:37.210 --> 00:37:42.650
all I got. What is my passive perception? Okay.

00:37:43.869 --> 00:37:48.409
Both of the Riot Troopers slide back. Actually,

00:37:48.449 --> 00:37:49.690
they wouldn't go yet, but that's what they're

00:37:49.690 --> 00:37:54.309
viscerating to do. Ariat, you said 16 as you

00:37:54.309 --> 00:37:58.050
rolled? Yes. That matches. My perception. Fuck.

00:37:58.630 --> 00:38:01.469
My past perception, Ariat is somewhat aware that

00:38:01.469 --> 00:38:03.889
something strange is going on. He feels Salome

00:38:03.889 --> 00:38:09.349
vanish from the front, feels you vanish. And

00:38:09.349 --> 00:38:15.170
Ariat will vanish. Hate that. Yep. Hate that.

00:38:15.449 --> 00:38:18.170
Yep. I'm going to make some attacks on the Echo.

00:38:18.369 --> 00:38:21.050
Okay. With the troopers. Okay. Disadvantage,

00:38:21.170 --> 00:38:25.769
right? First one will destroy it. I think it's

00:38:25.769 --> 00:38:27.800
all right, yeah, because it's... 18 would hit?

00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:29.940
Yeah. Okay, so first attack, even when disadvantaged,

00:38:30.179 --> 00:38:33.840
would break the echo. But honestly, when that

00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:35.539
thing is gone, they were fooled enough by that

00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:37.340
that they're just kind of standing, kind of confused.

00:38:37.739 --> 00:38:42.460
What? What? In the fog. Dresden, that's you.

00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:47.000
So there would be, like, some silverware or a

00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:51.440
plate or a mug on the table? This is where Fiverr

00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:53.280
was reading his books. There'd be a mug. He likes

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.300
to drink tea while he reads. Cool. Bunch of books

00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:58.090
and a... What do you think? Ader buses tables

00:38:58.090 --> 00:39:01.630
or something? What happened to Ader, by the way?

00:39:01.889 --> 00:39:03.090
Yeah, he's probably dead. Yeah, what happened

00:39:03.090 --> 00:39:05.929
to Ader? David? No one seemed to care, so I just

00:39:05.929 --> 00:39:08.550
wanted to throw out. We all cared. Yeah. We just

00:39:08.550 --> 00:39:12.849
kind of have bigger issue on our hands. You do

00:39:12.849 --> 00:39:14.510
more mean things. You guys care more when I do

00:39:14.510 --> 00:39:17.309
mean things. I can't save Ader if I'm dead. I

00:39:17.309 --> 00:39:20.769
just want attention. Is that what this is about?

00:39:23.510 --> 00:39:26.670
What are you doing with the fucking cup? What's

00:39:26.670 --> 00:39:29.349
your plan? Can I throw it across the room into

00:39:29.349 --> 00:39:34.750
this corner to make noise? Oh. I mean, yes, you

00:39:34.750 --> 00:39:38.710
can. Yes, you can. Yeah. Okay. What you want

00:39:38.710 --> 00:39:40.829
to do is roll a... I'm not going to make it a

00:39:40.829 --> 00:39:41.949
hard one. I'm just going to throw it. Roll me

00:39:41.949 --> 00:39:43.929
a stealth check while you do this. Okay. To see

00:39:43.929 --> 00:39:45.489
if you make noise while you're making noise,

00:39:45.590 --> 00:39:51.090
if that makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thirteen.

00:39:51.710 --> 00:39:55.340
I'm sorry. Plate armor. Disadvantage on stealth.

00:39:56.119 --> 00:39:58.000
It's not a high DC. I'll tell you that right

00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:05.280
now. God damn it. Five. Okay. It's hard to control.

00:40:05.340 --> 00:40:07.039
You have this heavy armor. You stand up. You

00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.719
throw it. It smashes. I mean, you do make noise.

00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:11.619
You're making chaos, but you might not have created

00:40:11.619 --> 00:40:13.760
the exact distraction you wanted. I'll allow

00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:15.599
that as an object interaction, though. You still

00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.820
have your turn. Fucking run, homie. Fuck. That's

00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:21.300
what I'm doing. There's a window next to you.

00:40:22.109 --> 00:40:24.610
I don't want to draw him to Fibro, though, is

00:40:24.610 --> 00:40:26.510
the thing. Well, if they hear the window go,

00:40:26.650 --> 00:40:28.349
they know you'll be outside. That's true. I mean,

00:40:28.349 --> 00:40:29.670
I guess you could just reach up and break the

00:40:29.670 --> 00:40:31.090
window and give them the illusion that you're

00:40:31.090 --> 00:40:34.210
going outside. Yeah. He wants to get him away

00:40:34.210 --> 00:40:38.349
from the kids. I think the window is the best

00:40:38.349 --> 00:40:41.690
option, because I was going to go up here, but

00:40:41.690 --> 00:40:45.449
on a self -disadvantage, running right by them,

00:40:45.550 --> 00:40:50.219
I don't think that's going to work. So, yeah,

00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.519
Dresden would like to break the window. Okay.

00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:56.500
Hell yeah. And run out. Your glass smash on the

00:40:56.500 --> 00:40:57.760
side of the room in the fog. We were kind of

00:40:57.760 --> 00:40:59.360
turning our heads to hear the sound of metal

00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:02.619
moving, and they hear another slash of glass

00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:06.059
as you punch through it. Yeah, and as he punches

00:41:06.059 --> 00:41:11.440
through it and starts jumping out, he turns and

00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:15.300
says, Come and get me. If you're such a big fucking

00:41:15.300 --> 00:41:22.349
man, do this right in front of everybody. Holy

00:41:22.349 --> 00:41:27.610
shit. Okay. Okay. You smash the window. You leap

00:41:27.610 --> 00:41:29.250
over it. Your athletic is high enough. I'm not

00:41:29.250 --> 00:41:30.570
even gonna make that. I mean, you just do it.

00:41:30.590 --> 00:41:34.809
It makes sense. Landing outside your feet, striking

00:41:34.809 --> 00:41:38.409
down on cobblestone road. And you, well, you

00:41:38.409 --> 00:41:40.909
still have moving. Where do you want to go? He's

00:41:40.909 --> 00:41:43.530
going to go. You would have seen the blur of

00:41:43.530 --> 00:41:45.309
Salomon moving past the window. So, you know,

00:41:45.329 --> 00:41:47.230
what direction she's going that way. I know.

00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:53.380
I just want easy access back in. Okay. Dresden

00:41:53.380 --> 00:41:56.639
will not go that far around the building and

00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.360
leave the kids at that distance. Okay. What's

00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:05.579
your HP? Currently, I'm at 55 with 10 temporary.

00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:07.940
Oh, you're fine. Never mind. I'm going to use

00:42:07.940 --> 00:42:12.340
my healing on me next turn. So, yeah, I think

00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:14.400
he'll just kind of stay a little outside the

00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.739
door, but close enough where he can run in if

00:42:16.739 --> 00:42:21.429
need be. Okay. Okay. Still in the fog cloud.

00:42:21.670 --> 00:42:24.210
That's so... Still in the fog cloud. Rough. Yeah,

00:42:24.250 --> 00:42:26.550
the fog sort of spreading outside the door. You're

00:42:26.550 --> 00:42:28.210
still... You're moving. You know you're probably

00:42:28.210 --> 00:42:30.530
close to the edge of it, but you can't see anything.

00:42:31.610 --> 00:42:34.090
Just staring back towards where you know the

00:42:34.090 --> 00:42:36.469
door is just ahead of you. Where you know your

00:42:36.469 --> 00:42:39.510
foe is just ahead of you. Your words laying flat

00:42:39.510 --> 00:42:42.530
and hard on the ground between you two. Will

00:42:42.530 --> 00:42:46.659
he come? Did you goad him? I... I kind of want

00:42:46.659 --> 00:42:49.699
to address the crowd. No, I'll wait. I'll wait.

00:42:50.460 --> 00:42:53.780
Salome. I mean, not only is Salome the sight

00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:56.079
we ever hear, she walked out of this place looking

00:42:56.079 --> 00:43:00.980
bad. Like the big, you know, hot dog luminary

00:43:00.980 --> 00:43:03.659
everyone's excited about just steps out looking

00:43:03.659 --> 00:43:06.300
like half dead. Your throat is closed. You probably

00:43:06.300 --> 00:43:08.119
have like a bulging, veiny kind of throat. Not

00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:11.989
anymore because it's the end of... And just now,

00:43:12.130 --> 00:43:15.489
the swelling just kind of falls out. You can

00:43:15.489 --> 00:43:17.789
take a breath in. You couldn't breathe for a

00:43:17.789 --> 00:43:20.590
second. It was terrifying. You breathe out again.

00:43:20.750 --> 00:43:22.929
The crowds are watching on. What's going on?

00:43:23.030 --> 00:43:25.730
Is that Salome? Is she hurt? I don't understand.

00:43:26.070 --> 00:43:28.030
Are they here in the train? What's going on?

00:43:28.170 --> 00:43:31.570
Now I need everybody's D4s, please. All right.

00:43:32.590 --> 00:43:35.090
Take the old captain's die. Okay, I have half

00:43:35.090 --> 00:43:39.030
of what I need. Oh, I got two more. Okay, I just

00:43:39.030 --> 00:43:42.300
need two more. Uh, nope. Sorry. I got one. I

00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:45.559
had one. Wait. Nope. Four -year -old that die.

00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:48.039
We had this issue before. We never actually,

00:43:48.099 --> 00:43:50.739
I think, resolved it. Your healing spells are

00:43:50.739 --> 00:43:54.300
based on 2024, correct? I think you might have

00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:56.599
the 2024 version of the spells, which are doubled

00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:59.559
in actual, like, dice rolling, essentially. All

00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.300
right. Give me five seconds to figure it out.

00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:07.960
Okay. Yeah. We figured that out. Back to 2014

00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:10.510
rules. Yeah, D &D Beyond likes to update. without

00:44:10.510 --> 00:44:12.769
asking. Yeah, without asking, which is super

00:44:12.769 --> 00:44:14.329
rude. Very rude of you to do that. You know what

00:44:14.329 --> 00:44:17.489
else is really rude is that now to heal, I'm

00:44:17.489 --> 00:44:20.730
only healing 4d4 plus 4 because I don't have

00:44:20.730 --> 00:44:24.630
any like spell or like touch healing spells prepped.

00:44:25.630 --> 00:44:28.969
So I'm blowing a 4th level spell slot as a bonus

00:44:28.969 --> 00:44:33.250
action to cast Healing Word on myself. Let me

00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:35.650
roll these 4d4 and hope that they're all really

00:44:35.650 --> 00:44:42.489
super high. Wow, okay. They are all high. Three

00:44:42.489 --> 00:44:45.570
threes and a four. Hey, not bad. Nice. Okay,

00:44:45.710 --> 00:44:52.690
so 17 back, which maybe I can... Actually, I'm

00:44:52.690 --> 00:44:54.829
back up to half. All right, so I can maybe last

00:44:54.829 --> 00:45:01.809
one other hit. Then, let's see. I'm going to

00:45:01.809 --> 00:45:05.349
go crazy here with my... I'm going to use my

00:45:05.349 --> 00:45:10.010
healing hands. That's an action. To restore seven

00:45:10.010 --> 00:45:13.070
hit points. I can do that once per long rest.

00:45:13.230 --> 00:45:18.750
Oh, shit. Okay. Then Salome is going to move

00:45:18.750 --> 00:45:20.849
towards the back door. I don't think she can

00:45:20.849 --> 00:45:23.929
make it all the way. She only has 30 feet. Oh,

00:45:23.929 --> 00:45:26.989
through a stable area off to the side there.

00:45:27.030 --> 00:45:28.369
It's kind of open, stable. And then you have

00:45:28.369 --> 00:45:30.769
that door. You can see from where you are, which

00:45:30.769 --> 00:45:32.889
would lead into Ader's room. Ader's room, yeah.

00:45:33.429 --> 00:45:36.210
Behind the bar. You sick, sick bastard. Okay,

00:45:36.269 --> 00:45:38.409
you slide up to the door. Reach your hand out

00:45:38.409 --> 00:45:39.989
towards it, not quite able to remake it in, but

00:45:39.989 --> 00:45:43.690
you're there. And that's the end of Salome's

00:45:43.690 --> 00:45:49.690
turn. Okay. Dresden, you stand there, in the

00:45:49.690 --> 00:45:52.110
fog, at the very edge of the fog, your feet on

00:45:52.110 --> 00:45:54.889
the street, facing what you know to be the doors.

00:45:59.829 --> 00:46:04.269
Waiting for any hint of a sound. You hear nothing.

00:46:05.909 --> 00:46:10.659
Until... Flash, a figure appears before you in

00:46:10.659 --> 00:46:16.219
the fog, attacking from stealth. Oh, you're dead.

00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:22.639
Ariok slides out. Blade comes at you fast. Put

00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:24.980
him back on the map right here. First attack

00:46:24.980 --> 00:46:27.300
is going to be made at normal. Disadvantage and

00:46:27.300 --> 00:46:30.159
advantage going to be... I'm so sorry, Jeremy.

00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.159
No, I am not rolling good. Oh, okay. You happen

00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:37.119
the last thing you see him. Shield comes up.

00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.719
Bam! Blocking the blade that was just inches

00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:43.300
away from cutting into your face. Slides back

00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:45.019
again. I'm going to attack you two more times.

00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:50.300
Fuck. With disadvantage. Now. Nope. And come

00:46:50.300 --> 00:46:54.650
on. Oh, that's... Nope. Oh, my God. Ting, ting,

00:46:54.650 --> 00:46:57.150
ting, ting. An euphoria blows against you. Holy

00:46:57.150 --> 00:46:59.590
shit. You know, any nick from this blade can

00:46:59.590 --> 00:47:02.329
be deadly, but you are holding strong against

00:47:02.329 --> 00:47:05.510
being pushed slightly back away from the fog.

00:47:06.489 --> 00:47:08.590
Behind you can hear people scream out as they

00:47:08.590 --> 00:47:12.230
hear the sounds of metal being struck. Did he

00:47:12.230 --> 00:47:15.190
put his mask back on, or is it off? I guess,

00:47:15.289 --> 00:47:16.690
I don't know if you could see that. You could

00:47:16.690 --> 00:47:19.610
see a silhouette. You see in the silhouette there

00:47:19.610 --> 00:47:22.780
is a proboscis -like. Ah. Appendage. There is

00:47:22.780 --> 00:47:25.840
a mask on again. Bitch. I mean, come on. Come

00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:27.179
on. You think I'm going to keep my mask off?

00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:33.179
And that's... That's that. Man, I wish we had

00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:37.559
the Sturge sword. Following that... That's all

00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.880
I can do. You see two figures appear in the mist.

00:47:41.940 --> 00:47:44.840
Three shapes just in front of you. Two more towering

00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:47.119
figures. They all come before you, Dresden. You

00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:52.809
are on the street. surrounded by a watching crowd,

00:47:52.989 --> 00:47:56.469
and yet you are entirely alone. And that's going

00:47:56.469 --> 00:47:59.429
to be... Oh, wait, they're going to attack. Switcheroo!

00:47:59.610 --> 00:48:05.230
And get you. No! You know they're all outside.

00:48:06.230 --> 00:48:16.210
What? Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. And,

00:48:16.210 --> 00:48:20.099
like, a million attacks miss. I am... Furious.

00:48:20.099 --> 00:48:22.440
Good. And you got like the high strength from

00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:24.699
the potion. Yeah, I know. I know. It's going

00:48:24.699 --> 00:48:28.539
to work. That could do something. You bought

00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:30.659
some time with the second fog cloud, but I will

00:48:30.659 --> 00:48:35.460
get you yet. To get them? Hold on. Let me text

00:48:35.460 --> 00:48:37.579
you. I know what you're saying. There were two

00:48:37.579 --> 00:48:39.539
things that I was thinking of. There were two

00:48:39.539 --> 00:48:41.559
things that I was thinking of. And I think one

00:48:41.559 --> 00:48:43.380
of them that you're trying to tell me right now

00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:46.880
is one of them. I'm going to manifest. It's my

00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.699
turn, right? Yes, it is. Okay, I'm going to manifest

00:48:49.699 --> 00:48:54.119
my echo behind Ariat. We almost did this before.

00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:55.880
It has to be where you can see it, right? While

00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:57.559
you're in the fog, it has to be within five feet

00:48:57.559 --> 00:48:59.639
of you. Okay, cool. Well, I'm still going to

00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.460
do it next to Ariat. Okay, so like kind of beside

00:49:02.460 --> 00:49:04.260
you in front of one of these guys. Next to me.

00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:06.539
Hell yeah. And he's going to go through the same

00:49:06.539 --> 00:49:10.340
way that he did. Okay. To behind Ariat. Slides

00:49:10.340 --> 00:49:13.420
around behind. The long way around. Can we do

00:49:13.420 --> 00:49:19.570
wait for it? Wait for it, wait for it. Can I

00:49:19.570 --> 00:49:21.050
do an object interaction and close the door?

00:49:21.630 --> 00:49:26.570
With the... They are saloon doors. Oh, yeah.

00:49:26.690 --> 00:49:29.889
They're saloon doors. Gotta keep you honest.

00:49:30.989 --> 00:49:35.630
They're saloon doors. Saloon doors has been such

00:49:35.630 --> 00:49:42.510
a thing. It's a meme. Okay, fine. Fine. As a

00:49:42.510 --> 00:49:45.130
bonus action, I'm going to swap places with my

00:49:45.130 --> 00:49:48.539
echo. Okay, you're behind. And I'm going to shove

00:49:48.539 --> 00:49:53.380
Ariat forward. Okay. And then run to Sholay.

00:49:54.219 --> 00:49:58.179
Pretty much. Shove him into your echo? Or...

00:49:58.179 --> 00:50:02.159
Out of the fog? Out of the fog. Into the sight

00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:04.679
of the entire crowd that's out there. Interesting.

00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:10.539
What's the shove raw? Shove is going to be...

00:50:10.539 --> 00:50:14.980
And I'm making either... You have to succeed

00:50:14.980 --> 00:50:17.780
on a... Acrobatics or athletics. You get to use

00:50:17.780 --> 00:50:19.400
your athletics. For me, it's either of the two

00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:22.619
to avoid the shot. And I'm using acrobatics,

00:50:22.619 --> 00:50:25.019
actually. Okay, hold on. Which is pretty high.

00:50:25.260 --> 00:50:29.699
The DC is 8 plus my proficiency bonus plus strength.

00:50:30.980 --> 00:50:33.260
Well, yeah, and your strength is massive right

00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:36.039
now. But it only pushes him 5 feet. No, I use

00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:38.639
the heroic. A potion of heroism, not the potion

00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:43.219
of giant strength. Oh! We recorded yesterday!

00:50:47.299 --> 00:50:51.639
Hasn't even been 24 hours. Oh, no. Anyways. Yeah.

00:50:52.219 --> 00:50:55.900
But. What'd you get? Oh, fuck off. Bless might

00:50:55.900 --> 00:51:01.119
still affect this. Oh. Will it? I don't know

00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:03.000
rules of the river will. I'm going to allow it

00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:05.599
to because it's cool. Your eyes are glowing gold.

00:51:05.780 --> 00:51:07.880
You are locking in to save your friends. I'm

00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:08.880
going to give you that bless bonus. You took

00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:12.119
that potion. Get that bless bonus on this. Roll

00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:19.880
athletics. Okay. Athletics plus my bless. Okay.

00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.980
Yeah. Here we go. Against my acrobatics. Here

00:51:22.980 --> 00:51:31.579
we go. Can you touch this thing? I don't know.

00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:40.219
I don't know. With a 19. With a 19. You beat

00:51:40.219 --> 00:51:45.869
my 16. Whoa. Holy shit. What I'm going to imagine

00:51:45.869 --> 00:51:49.869
is this. I like to imagine you swap with your

00:51:49.869 --> 00:51:51.590
Echo. I imagine the Echo takes the shape you

00:51:51.590 --> 00:51:52.929
swap, so you have this whole thing. Echo moves

00:51:52.929 --> 00:51:56.250
behind. Maybe you, Dresden, crouch down towards

00:51:56.250 --> 00:51:58.349
the ground, swap into your Echo's place, and

00:51:58.349 --> 00:52:00.230
so your Echo is almost this perfect tripping

00:52:00.230 --> 00:52:02.989
buffer for you. As you suddenly appear behind

00:52:02.989 --> 00:52:06.429
Ariat, you truly behind him, and you go to shove.

00:52:06.690 --> 00:52:11.030
You see your Echo go down. Looks down at, and

00:52:11.030 --> 00:52:12.849
I think maybe realizes, stiffens at the last

00:52:12.849 --> 00:52:15.469
second, like he realizes what you're doing. You

00:52:15.469 --> 00:52:18.409
see him whirl around towards you, but not fast

00:52:18.409 --> 00:52:21.449
enough as you come in fast and hard. Do you like

00:52:21.449 --> 00:52:24.409
full shoulder check? Oh yeah. Right into his

00:52:24.409 --> 00:52:27.670
chest. He goes sprawling backwards, rolls out

00:52:27.670 --> 00:52:31.909
over the echo, falls out of the fog into the

00:52:31.909 --> 00:52:35.190
street. And once he gets into the fog, I'm going

00:52:35.190 --> 00:52:38.170
to walk out of the fog as well. You'd still have

00:52:38.170 --> 00:52:39.570
enough movement to just barely get out of the

00:52:39.570 --> 00:52:43.110
fog, yeah. And look around and said... You do

00:52:43.110 --> 00:52:45.570
see the mask is on. Yes, I know. Wrong voice.

00:52:46.090 --> 00:52:47.789
No, no, no. No, I could see the way you were

00:52:47.789 --> 00:52:50.090
pursing your lips for jewels. No, no, no, no,

00:52:50.090 --> 00:52:53.170
no. That was like a, oh, shit, I can't do that.

00:52:53.409 --> 00:52:58.369
Well, I was... Okay. Will you let me rip his

00:52:58.369 --> 00:53:02.090
mask off? No. Okay. You've used all your actions.

00:53:02.449 --> 00:53:05.769
So he will look around at the crowd. Captain

00:53:05.769 --> 00:53:10.360
Commander Ariat. is on a murderous rampage. He's

00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:13.500
kidnapping these kids. And he's trying to kill

00:53:13.500 --> 00:53:19.539
me. Hey, that's a law -abiding citizen! So the

00:53:19.539 --> 00:53:24.320
other guy goes, oh, shit! Take the mask off.

00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:28.500
The figure spins, head looks towards you with

00:53:28.500 --> 00:53:31.420
huge sort of goggle lens eyes. Look, you see

00:53:31.420 --> 00:53:33.480
a reflection in them as you've now fallen into

00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:37.260
the light of the Radiant Citadel. Take. The mask

00:53:37.260 --> 00:53:42.800
off! The crowd around whispering, sort of stepping,

00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.780
almost giving more space as like your stance

00:53:45.780 --> 00:53:48.019
here. You're exuding this sort of power. Your

00:53:48.019 --> 00:53:51.920
eyes still glowing gold from this potion of heroism.

00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:54.880
They are locked on you and they are locked in

00:53:54.880 --> 00:54:00.079
the figure that is beneath you. Holy shit. Holy

00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.599
shit. What you gonna do, David? It's your turn

00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:06.840
to say holy shit. Yeah. Actually. It's your turn,

00:54:06.940 --> 00:54:10.960
Salome. We'll see what I do afterwards. Okay.

00:54:11.900 --> 00:54:13.860
Salome is going to step forward and open the

00:54:13.860 --> 00:54:18.260
door, the back door through the stable area into

00:54:18.260 --> 00:54:25.059
Ader's room. Okay. You throw the door open. You

00:54:25.059 --> 00:54:29.079
look inside. You see the darkened kitchen on

00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:33.679
the far wall where, you know, Mulligan spends

00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:38.300
most of his days. You see a carpet on the floor

00:54:38.300 --> 00:54:41.760
before you, drips of blood across it. You see

00:54:41.760 --> 00:54:45.199
a very, very large man in a bed that's probably

00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:47.079
too small for him, with sheets that are probably

00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:50.039
too small for him, lying on his back, staring

00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:54.920
up towards the ceiling, eyes wide open. You see

00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:59.260
blood on those sheets. So Salome hears everything

00:54:59.260 --> 00:55:01.809
that Dresden is saying to the crowd. And she

00:55:01.809 --> 00:55:06.829
turns around and just, here, observe. They've

00:55:06.829 --> 00:55:10.070
already killed the owner of this establishment.

00:55:10.710 --> 00:55:14.289
And she points into the room and then with the

00:55:14.289 --> 00:55:18.710
rest of her movements. Salamates, what's your

00:55:18.710 --> 00:55:19.969
passive perception actually? It's pretty high,

00:55:20.070 --> 00:55:23.090
right? With 19, I will say just moving around,

00:55:23.150 --> 00:55:31.420
you hear one little whistling. God damn it. You

00:55:31.420 --> 00:55:34.940
see that while very shallow, very restricted,

00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:40.639
Aether is breathing as if paralyzed. Oh, he's

00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:41.920
paralyzed. Okay, he's paralyzed. All right, cool,

00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:43.320
cool, cool, cool, cool. Okay, then I'm not going

00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.960
to run over and heal him. All the same, she's

00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:48.400
not going to change what she said. No, please

00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:51.679
don't. She'll move the rest of her movement here,

00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:54.920
and then she'll take a second to look through

00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:58.579
her spell list. David's got a weird look on his

00:55:58.579 --> 00:56:01.429
face right now. David's waiting for something.

00:56:02.269 --> 00:56:07.030
I'm struggling. All right, let's try this. I

00:56:07.030 --> 00:56:09.530
don't know if it'll work, but it's at least kind

00:56:09.530 --> 00:56:18.010
of cool. Salome will, from her new position,

00:56:18.050 --> 00:56:24.650
where she can see Ariat, point to him, and she

00:56:24.650 --> 00:56:30.360
will command him to drop his sword. Ooh! Oh,

00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:36.800
shit. Oh. Oh. Okay. Wisdom save. Two buttons

00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:41.219
for disadvantage. Oh, my gosh. Come on with this.

00:56:44.099 --> 00:56:46.619
It's four on the die. Yeah. I'm sure that's not

00:56:46.619 --> 00:56:50.599
going to do it. Got him. So you have to drop

00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.760
your swords and then end your turn. Holy shit.

00:56:53.780 --> 00:56:55.639
Wait, that's all I can do on my turn? The target

00:56:55.639 --> 00:56:57.219
drops whatever it's holding and then ends its

00:56:57.219 --> 00:57:05.039
turn. No! And that would be my turn. And Arya

00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:08.599
drops his swords. The figures don't come out

00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:15.360
of the fog. Oh, this is painful. This is really

00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:16.840
painful. What am I going to do here? What am

00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:19.940
I going to do? Son of a bitch. That's Dresden.

00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:24.079
Fuck. Arya's swords clatter. Can you get him

00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:27.079
away from those swords at all? That was going

00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:29.639
to be my question. Can I grab him? Just, like,

00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:32.639
grapple him? Yeah. It's going to be one of those

00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:37.199
checks. Is he on the ground? He is prone. And

00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:39.039
I didn't get to make an action at all. I couldn't

00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:41.579
move. He is still prone. Oh, my God. Still prone.

00:57:42.280 --> 00:57:45.860
So, would I get any bonus for being prone? I'll

00:57:45.860 --> 00:57:49.699
give you advantage. Hey. And you still have your

00:57:49.699 --> 00:58:00.440
blast for this. Ooh, baby. That's cracked. Yep.

00:58:02.820 --> 00:58:06.199
Not much better, though. Nope. Not much better.

00:58:07.099 --> 00:58:13.219
Fuck. Eleven. I rolled pretty bad. But not that

00:58:13.219 --> 00:58:15.639
bad. Good enough to resist that. Yeah. Okay.

00:58:16.619 --> 00:58:18.760
It was very close, actually. You, like, reach

00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:21.639
down. You, like, reach out of the way very quickly,

00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:23.360
wriggling, putting a little bit of fight left

00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:26.440
in him. Okay. Well, while he's wriggling around...

00:58:27.179 --> 00:58:30.440
Can I try to yank off his mask? I'm not going

00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:33.599
to try to kill him right now while he's unarmed

00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:39.860
in front of these people. Or... So that roll

00:58:39.860 --> 00:58:42.420
that we just did, that was to drag him? It was

00:58:42.420 --> 00:58:46.579
to grapple. To grapple. Fuck. So yeah, that would

00:58:46.579 --> 00:58:49.380
be my next question then. Could I yank off his

00:58:49.380 --> 00:58:54.739
mask? Or attempt to? It's a lot of actions. Huh?

00:58:54.880 --> 00:58:57.630
I know. I'm going to say no. I'm going to say

00:58:57.630 --> 00:58:59.610
that was what we kind of included in what you

00:58:59.610 --> 00:59:01.369
just did, sort of growing for the grapple. For

00:59:01.369 --> 00:59:02.650
the grapple, I probably would have just given

00:59:02.650 --> 00:59:04.389
you that for free if you had grappled him, but

00:59:04.389 --> 00:59:08.070
I think it was only just enough. Okay, so your

00:59:08.070 --> 00:59:10.690
two guys moved away from the Echo that was...

00:59:10.690 --> 00:59:12.750
Oh, you can see those two guys, can't you? Yeah,

00:59:12.829 --> 00:59:14.070
but they did actually move away from the Echo.

00:59:14.070 --> 00:59:15.409
But they moved away from the Echo, so he gets

00:59:15.409 --> 00:59:18.909
an AOL on each of them. Who'd get one? One, because

00:59:18.909 --> 00:59:21.989
that would be your reaction. Fuck. Okay, fine.

00:59:22.010 --> 00:59:26.980
Fine. 15? That's not going to hit. Ah, no. Fuck.

00:59:27.179 --> 00:59:29.139
Pains up a shield. It's one off. I go trust a

00:59:29.139 --> 00:59:32.719
slight at this guy. They move deeper into the

00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:35.300
fog somewhere. All right, before Dresden ends

00:59:35.300 --> 00:59:39.940
his turn, Salome, get rid of the fog. And Salome

00:59:39.940 --> 00:59:43.420
starts to swirl her hands. Okay, and that's Salome.

00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:48.659
So, I think I need to do... Okay, I am going

00:59:48.659 --> 00:59:51.639
to cast Gust of Wind again. But the first turn

00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:54.730
I use it... I'm going to cast it at Ariat to

00:59:54.730 --> 00:59:58.650
try to blow him 15 feet away. Ooh. Okay. Ooh.

00:59:59.349 --> 01:00:01.469
Okay. So you're staying way off to the side.

01:00:01.530 --> 01:00:03.289
You're, like, in front of the stables. It's a

01:00:03.289 --> 01:00:06.710
60 -foot range, so it just makes it. Okay. You

01:00:06.710 --> 01:00:08.510
just, like, come together. You look towards the

01:00:08.510 --> 01:00:11.710
fog, and you get an idea, and you turn your attention

01:00:11.710 --> 01:00:14.329
instead towards Ariat, put your hands together,

01:00:14.610 --> 01:00:17.869
and a blast of wind shoots out. The crowd kind

01:00:17.869 --> 01:00:19.489
of, so the crowd, like, leaps to the side, so

01:00:19.489 --> 01:00:23.009
they kind of scream, as you, like, wind. Gust

01:00:23.009 --> 01:00:25.949
rips across the street, striking at Arya. Close.

01:00:26.130 --> 01:00:28.989
We've been to Billow. He's still prone because

01:00:28.989 --> 01:00:30.510
I couldn't actually get up on my turn. I didn't

01:00:30.510 --> 01:00:32.969
get to have a turn. I'm going to roll a save.

01:00:33.250 --> 01:00:36.550
Strength? Yes, it's a strength save. That's a

01:00:36.550 --> 01:00:39.349
two on the die. Oh, my goodness. Thank God. I

01:00:39.349 --> 01:00:41.070
was going to ask if I'd get anything from being

01:00:41.070 --> 01:00:43.610
prone, but, yeah, that's a failure. So, yeah,

01:00:43.610 --> 01:00:46.429
he moves 15 feet away from me. What happens to

01:00:46.429 --> 01:00:50.210
his swords? Uh, the swords, I will say, stay

01:00:50.210 --> 01:00:52.070
where they are, kind of like nestled into a sort

01:00:52.070 --> 01:00:54.889
of cracks in the cobblestone. Oh my god. He gets

01:00:54.889 --> 01:00:56.829
slid away. Here's what we're gonna do. Nice.

01:00:57.710 --> 01:01:02.170
Ariat sliding across, uh, and you see as he kind

01:01:02.170 --> 01:01:05.750
of goes tumbling, the beak of his plague mask

01:01:05.750 --> 01:01:08.360
sticks into one of the cracks. Ooh. very hastily

01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:11.139
put back on when he came out to fight. It tears

01:01:11.139 --> 01:01:13.619
from his face. He goes rolling backwards. He

01:01:13.619 --> 01:01:15.960
puts a hand over his face to kind of cover it,

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but he just slides kind of helplessly to the

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ground. Anything else you want to do, Salome?

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No, I don't have any bonus actions because that

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was my... No, that's it. Yeah, no, she'll move

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forward. It doesn't affect... It doesn't affect

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Ariat's position. But let me just make sure I'm

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moving my full... Yeah, that's 30 feet there.

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So she moves closer towards Arya. She's just

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walking with her hands controlling this wind.

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The wind blasting him. The fogs of the Dresden

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standing, eyes glowing, staring at him. Him just

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covering his face. You can see his eyes looking

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at both of you from a crack between his fingers.

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Trembling fingers looking around at you, looking

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around wildly at the crowd that surrounds. And

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I'm going to use bonus action, action, movement,

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everything. To run? What? To jump to my feet

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and run. Oh my. See the gap in the crowd, blast

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through them, roost down an alley and just full

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sprints into the shadows. Gone. You see on the

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figures, the other two figures turn again. They

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hit the street, shields out, bashing through

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people as they also run to find a place to go.

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They break away from here. They move back to

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the shadows where they belong and chasing them.

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The sudden cheers of this crowd of people who

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have no idea what's going on, but the right and

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wrong of it seemed pretty clear to them. Just...

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Salome slowly walks over to Dresden where Ariat

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used to be. And she looks down at Ariat's swords.

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No, my swords! And with that, you have claimed

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victory. You are safe. The Cherry Delights are

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safe. For now. And we'll call it there.