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Hey, Pants people. I just wanted to stop real

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fast and say thank you so much for listening.

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We love getting to know you guys and interacting

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with you, whether it's on the Discord, social

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media, anywhere. So this one's for you. Sholay

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Brass, the supernova's own mother, and she used

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her knowledge of the auroral diamond to do the

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unthinkable. She pried into her very mind and

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ripped away all memories of the sun she murdered

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during her killing spree on Hallray. Do you remember

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that, I wonder? Sholay tearing through the Phoenix

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District in Yanito, setting fire to a festival,

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a gathering made in her honor. Her flames killed

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hundreds, and she turned around and stole that

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memory from all of us, leaving families to grieve

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without reason or justice the monster. Well,

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there will be justice, good people of the Concord.

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We've just received word that Atash has apprehended

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Xolay, that she has been taken under celestial

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guard into the custody of the Citadel. She will

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be tried. Bars. She's guilty of sin and we all

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know it, but yes, she will be tried by the Speakers

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for the Ancestors. Though it does pose a little

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problem, doesn't it? Surely, Shirley cannot stand

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as judge at her own trial, right? And so we leave

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the interim speaker to stand on her behalf. Well,

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I beg the people of Ankaran Sengar to cast their

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votes in the right direction. Vote for Adash.

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Some will argue he holds too much power already

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as the king of Ankaran Sengar and the number

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one luminary. Well, we didn't bat an eye until

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our Oshami royals appointed their niece to the

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position. Right? Right? Is it so different? And

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besides, we all need a powerful figure, a righteous

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figure to keep our world safe from monsters like

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Sholay fucking Bratt. Fuck you, Rune. See what

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you did there, Blanche? See what you did? You

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idiot. Fucking ruined everything. Jeremy, we

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gotta talk later because I have a brain tickle.

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What? Oh, okay. What are you tickling? Okay.

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Something's tickling me. Oh my gosh, later. I'm

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not the one doing the tickling. I'm not invited?

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This is horribly mean of you. No. Oh my gosh.

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Well, tickle monster. You had a bant topic you

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sent to our Discord last week and you probably

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forgot already. No, of course not. You didn't.

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Holy moly. All right. Wait, what's the bant topic?

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A rare, like, high -functioning day for old Mr.

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Rodriguez. It's good. You're going to need all

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the brain power you've got tonight. Both of you.

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What's that man topic? Hit us with it. Go crazy.

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Are you guys at all superstitious? Are there

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any superstitions that you abide, practice? I

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saw you waiting for me. I saw you waiting for

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it. I was like, I'm not going to do it. I'll

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leave it to the wolf. What's here, Jeremy Wolf?

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What? We were quoting The Office. Tell me about

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your superstitions. Oh, I mean, I don't really.

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I don't know. Cool. I got one that goes back

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to my theater days. Whoa, okay. Actually, we

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just talked about this last week. Want me to

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break your leg? No, there's a big superstition

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in theater that unless you are doing the show,

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you do not ever say the word Macbeth in the auditorium.

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Really? Yeah. I'd never heard that. That is weird.

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That is really, really bad juju for whatever

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show you're doing. Unless you're doing the actual

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play Macbeth. You do not say that name. Okay.

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Yikes. Yeah. Okay. Hmm. Huh. That's a weird one.

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That's a fun one. Yeah. I like that a lot. And

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everybody will have your head if you say it.

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Like get mad at you. Yeah. They'll be like, Beth

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all over you. Do you try to like trick people

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to say it? Nah. No, it's really bad juju if somebody

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says it. Yikes. What about you, Mr. Monroe? I'm

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not very superstitious in sort of this household,

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our household. My wife is a very superstitious

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one. Gabby's got – she's one of those knocks

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on wood if you say anything. She'd be on – she'd

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be standing trial for murder and be like, Your

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Honor, in my defense, I am a Virgo. And it's

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like, all right. I mean – I get it. I get it.

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You're a Virgo too. Yeah, I get it. You're such

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a Virgo. But there is one thing that's kind of

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fun from what Superstitions kind of relate to

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are kind of like, you know, out of podcast environments

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we find ourselves in, in kitchens, especially

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at our kitchen. There's a superstition that we

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all kind of believe in that if you pull the tickets,

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like all the done tickets are kind of sitting

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down after the day's done. We're all POS now,

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so it's not the case anymore. But back when we

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had paper tickets and they were all on the nail

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because everyone, when they finished a ticket,

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they put it on a nail. And you pull them at the

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end to count them up. If you pull them early,

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a lot of times people try to pull them early

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to count them before close. Never do it. You

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wait until that close. You wait until the door

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is locked and the last people are out. Because

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if you pull it before close. Shit goes down.

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Everything goes to hell. You will get a 50 top.

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Oh God. It's, it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's a

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whole thing. But I've seen that go bad quite

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a few times. So I a little bit believe that one.

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That's weird. I like how specific we're getting

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with our superstitions. Mine's also pretty specific.

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Okay. All right. I'm not a very superstitious

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person, but I think about this one a lot. And

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I was going to bed thinking about it the other

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night. And I was like, all right, I got to text

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the guys. We should do this. Okay. There is a

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superstition in the Japanese culture that if

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you gift somebody a knife, it will sever your

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friendship, your relationship with them. All

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right. And I don't know if you remember this,

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but when you started working at Reckless Again,

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David. Yeah. I gifted you a carbon steel knife.

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You did. That I restored. You did. And I think

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about it all the time. It's still on my porch.

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I've actually been saving it for the day I decide

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to kill you. I can't. Full circle. Yeah, exactly.

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I can't get it out of my head. I can't get it

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out of my head. I think about it all the time.

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It's been years. It's been a handful of years.

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Okay. I still think about that. That's interesting.

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That's interesting. Really not knocking down

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the serial killer theories, but the I think about

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knives while I sleep. Oh, my God. You know? So

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if we have any juju specialists, any white witches

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or something in the audience, I'm looking for

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a cure. Okay. Before it's too late, save him.

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Before I kill him, please. That's a... That's

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the end of my superstition talk. Okay. All right.

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Well... But before you jump into it, I do have

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one more thing that I want to get off my chest

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real fast. All right. What do you got to do?

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Because I was listening to... Getting off there.

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It's gross. I'm sorry. I was listening to the

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last week's episode yesterday, and I was cringing

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as I was trying to describe the concept of swagger

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with... Out remembering the word swagger. Wait,

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that's what you were trying to say with that?

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It was like, yeah, it's like a certain swagger.

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You know, like, you know, the superhero walking

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down the street. I liked your description. I

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liked it. I felt it. It worked. I wanted to jump

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out of the car. I hear swagger. I imagine Blanche

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just kind of like doing like, you know, dance

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step down. It's such a frivolous sounding word

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compared to just like, I walk heroically and

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nobly. Sure. I kind of like the way you described

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it because otherwise I imagine Blanche kind of

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like, like put your hands in the air. You just

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don't care. You know, everyone's kind of like,

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yeah, but it just sounds too fun. It sounds too

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fun. A word to be noble. I don't know. Am I wrong?

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Well, now it's out there both ways. Okay. Here

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we go. is out there both ways. That's it. I'm

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done talking. So let's hope you guys have some

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swagger in your step tonight. Yeah, throw some

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salt over your shoulder. Knock on some wood,

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gentlemen. Because you're going to need all the

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luck you can get for this one. Yeah, Stephen,

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don't look at my computer because the map is

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already up in Roll20. You can look at it. I pulled

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up Roll20. No, I know. He just didn't want a

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spoiler. Yeah, so it was posted in the Discord

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under the spoiler tag, and I didn't click the

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spoiler because I wanted to see it tonight. Oh,

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I totally looked at it. And I'm looking at it

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again right now. I'm going to do an opening scene

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here. I'm going to talk about this map because

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this map is amazing. I mentioned last time, Sound

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Pew Girl map. It's so... Cool. Exactly what I

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need. Even the edges kind of blur off into fog,

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which was more incidental, but it fits my image

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so, so well for this. And it's also got updates

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since it was put in Discord, because if you've

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noticed, there's a new token in the center. We'll

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get to that. But Zila had a little update of

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her own for our map, which is really, really

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cool. We'll get to that. If you're not following

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these people on Instagram, what are you doing?

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You know, we also can find these. You can find

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them on the Discord. Sound Peaky Girl maps, astropathic

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art. Look them up, people. It's our superstition.

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We don't plug the Discord. The show ends. Right,

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exactly. Once an episode. Yeah. Let's get into

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it. We're going to open on old young Guy. still

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smiling, still crying, lost in a sort of trance,

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as he wanders down the long hall to the seat

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of dragons. Two guards move just behind and beside

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him, both in a state of shock, one of them just

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kind of grumbling. We shouldn't have let her

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go, the monster. She needs to pay for what she

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did nine years ago. All of those people, we shouldn't

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have let her go. The other kind of cuts in just,

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but why did we forget Omeru? What did she do

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to us? But young Gi does not seem to hear these

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words. He simply moves, step by step, cane clicking

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against the floor, his free hand usually playing

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through the motions of a riveting buttock match,

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rests still at his side. And then we hear the

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shout that booms out from down the hall, from

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the direction of the throne room. MAST! The guards

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whirl around as white clouds surges towards them,

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blanketing the world beyond, blanketing these

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halls. No, no, it's early! They burnish their

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halberds, taking stance as the whiteness overtakes

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them all. Yungi scrambles back, fearful, his

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features of relief melting away silently. And

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there's a pause. A wait. Halberds facing out

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into the whiteness. And a large silhouette, maybe

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seven feet tall, suddenly rushes through the

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mist. A claw formed of jagged stone snaps out

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over the pole of one halberd, closing in on the

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arm of a soldier and gagging him into the obscuring

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mist. The other guard charges after with a NO!

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Screams. Metal clanging on stone. Young Gi stumbles

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away from it, pressing to the wall. His trembling

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hand finds something, a handle for a sliding

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door. He pushes against it, falls through into

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a different room. Now prone, he snaps the door

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back with his legs as another scream rings out

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behind. He looks stupidly towards a dark smear

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left by his kick. There's blood on his feet,

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not his own. Breathing hard, almost sobbing breaths,

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the old dragonborn turns to see that he stands

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within the long room that has been turned into

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a makeshift infirmary. Shaking so badly he can

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barely stand, Yungi steps carefully into the

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room, passing close by beds, noting a few physicians

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hiding beneath them, whispering their own prayers

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to Meru. He moves, desperately pushing farther

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and farther from the door for the final screams

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of the men dying just beyond it. And back in

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the Park of the Elders, the statue of Queen Jeannie.

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of arathlon brass looms above you. With its still

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shifting, cracking form removed from its throne,

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it stands about 25 feet tall on top of a sort

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of base that's about 10 feet tall. A cape of

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woven light like boiling magma covers its back.

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A massive stone greatsword set aflame is held

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before it. We see the jaws of the statue crack

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and split open into rows of jagged teeth backlit

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by a searing flame. We see breaks and fissures

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splitting all over the statue's form, steaming

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the air and radiating with red heat. We see Arathelon

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the supernova greater and more spectacular in

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death than he ever was in life. And we see our

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heroes standing tiny before the... I burped.

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Well, now it's staying in. Damn it. Before the

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monster. Heroes. What are you doing? Remembering

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that Sholay asked us to stay with the queen for

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the next mist. She basically said... And she

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also told us to try to get some of the castle

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guard to come with us. She did say that. Her

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intention with the queen was more to be like,

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if the mist comes again, if it hits noon, the

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mist comes again before I've done the thing,

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you should get with the guard because you're

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going to get attacked. How it happened before

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the mist came. I'll say right now, you're probably

00:14:43.570 --> 00:14:46.110
looking at about 1130, a half hour to noon when

00:14:46.110 --> 00:14:48.669
things were about to go down. Okay. So the mist

00:14:48.669 --> 00:14:51.330
did come early. You couldn't have predicted that

00:14:51.330 --> 00:14:53.230
would happen when you summoned Arathelon. Sure.

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And you don't know what is going on at the palace.

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So you asked what we were doing? Yeah, what are

00:14:58.750 --> 00:15:03.940
you doing? I am... Pulling up the map. Oh, let's

00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:04.899
talk about the map. Let's talk about the map.

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Let's talk about the map. Look at this map. We

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have Arathelon Brass in all its glory. The supernova

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right there standing upon the dais. Huge. Yeah,

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he's super cool. And in giant white text across

00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:19.960
the middle of the map, it says Arathelon. There

00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.899
is literally in the air, there is a light show

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of his name just hanging above you. What about

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the big blue G? That is your glyph of awarding.

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Oh, nice. All right, now I have it staying directly

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in front of the statue. Before all you guys,

00:15:34.690 --> 00:15:36.350
you guys are about 20 feet away from the statue

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where you stand. It's a 10 -foot square map.

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You can move your tokens wherever you would want

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them to be for this. I just kind of lined them

00:15:42.809 --> 00:15:45.090
up. Yeah, we definitely need some space here.

00:15:45.110 --> 00:15:47.190
Yeah, so line up. Take your second. Change your

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tokens around. Like, I asked what you're doing,

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but you also knew you were going to do a fight

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with the star, so you can move where you want

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to move before this goes. And you can move your

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glyph of awarding. I can't move Akio. but front

00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:59.340
line's moving back. Front line's moving back?

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Hint, hint, wink, wink. There you go. Jules and

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Chester go behind Blanche. Thank you. I can't

00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.860
move Chester. Damn it, son of a gun. Damn it.

00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.980
Ha ha, there we go. All right, you should bullshit

00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:14.100
have access now. So if you're asking what we're

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doing, does that mean that I can cast spells

00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.460
right now? Like, is this like a... before the

00:16:20.460 --> 00:16:22.139
battle, sort of? No, if you go and cast a spell,

00:16:22.139 --> 00:16:23.279
we're just going to roll initiative right now.

00:16:23.419 --> 00:16:25.639
Okay. I don't know what you want to say before

00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.139
we get into this thing. Do you want to do some

00:16:27.139 --> 00:16:30.279
hero -villain banter? Classic Megamind style,

00:16:30.700 --> 00:16:32.340
you know? Do you want to do this thing? I'm going

00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:34.360
to do something crazy. Blanche is going to do

00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.279
something crazy. You do that, then Jules is saying

00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.200
something. In these sort of situations, basically,

00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.539
the way it works is... If you go to, like, do

00:16:41.539 --> 00:16:43.059
a thing that's going to start a fight, he's ready

00:16:43.059 --> 00:16:44.659
for the fight, so we'll roll for initiative because

00:16:44.659 --> 00:16:46.100
as you're going to do that, he'll start making

00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:47.799
his move. So that's kind of how that goes. But

00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:49.679
right now we're before the fight. If you guys

00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.220
want anything, say anything, do anything cool,

00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.059
this is the time to do something cool. Yeah,

00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.559
Blanche can do something cool. I already said

00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:59.000
last episode that she drew Ichigenka, and now

00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:04.059
she's going to turn to Akio at her side and present

00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:08.349
it hilt first to Akio. This figure's just shaping,

00:17:08.450 --> 00:17:10.990
changing heat, wafting over you, and Blanche

00:17:10.990 --> 00:17:12.990
just turns away from the heat, lowers the sword.

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Akio, his own sword, Igaoni Saru, in his mouth,

00:17:16.410 --> 00:17:21.269
looks to you in shock. I'm entrusting Ichigenka

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with you for this battle. Make good use of it.

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He does not argue. He knows it is time to just

00:17:28.450 --> 00:17:33.369
follow orders. He drops Igaoni Saru and bites

00:17:33.369 --> 00:17:37.609
down on the handle of Ichigenka. You see in his

00:17:37.609 --> 00:17:42.089
resplendent new plate armor, it is a formidable

00:17:42.089 --> 00:17:46.490
-looking form. The sword, the armor. He looks

00:17:46.490 --> 00:17:50.549
like a disciple of Ozen. And Blanche's hand falls

00:17:50.549 --> 00:17:55.049
to her old scabbard, which hangs underneath and

00:17:55.049 --> 00:17:59.289
beneath Ichigenka's scabbard. Holy shit. Jules.

00:18:00.789 --> 00:18:04.029
Jules, standing right behind Blanche and Akio,

00:18:04.210 --> 00:18:09.099
will just look up. And he will say, Arathelon,

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we remember you. His eyes narrow. I remember

00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:22.779
you. You will be forgotten again. I will make

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sure of that. You see that stone form finally

00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.059
finish its transformation. The last bit of stone

00:18:29.059 --> 00:18:32.200
crumbling through a dust falls down upon the

00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.480
stage, upon the throne. And he looks to you as

00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.059
if seeing you for the first time, a hearty smirk

00:18:38.059 --> 00:18:43.500
just grinding into the monster's face. Jules,

00:18:43.500 --> 00:18:50.579
you say I will be forgotten. I think not. No,

00:18:50.859 --> 00:18:54.440
I will make sure every person in the conquered

00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:59.880
world remembers my name. Even if that means they

00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:03.660
must fear it. I'll kill every last person in

00:19:03.660 --> 00:19:08.759
this city, in this world. Starting with the members

00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:13.420
of the esteemed Dragon Clan. One more thing before

00:19:13.420 --> 00:19:16.240
we get this started. Your sons were better than

00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:31.099
you ever were. Jules! Jules! I can't wait to

00:19:31.099 --> 00:19:37.759
spill your blood. The Horde Lord beckons. He

00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.440
who called out from your own heart. Who woke

00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.599
me from my deathless slumber. In charge with

00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:49.160
the task of taking your life. I've always hated

00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:53.660
you. Granted such a prominent position. A gift

00:19:53.660 --> 00:19:56.500
beyond compare. And you tossed it aside like

00:19:56.500 --> 00:20:02.019
it was nothing. Fame, power, riches. These are

00:20:02.019 --> 00:20:05.619
all one can ask. For from this life, you don't

00:20:05.619 --> 00:20:08.019
deserve the opportunity you have been granted.

00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:12.859
It should have been me, or at least my own sons.

00:20:13.579 --> 00:20:19.339
But no. At the very least, I will have the pleasure

00:20:19.339 --> 00:20:23.019
of breaking you apart before watching your glorious

00:20:23.019 --> 00:20:31.880
ascension. And he begins one step up to move

00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:37.900
down from the base. Blanche goes to draw her

00:20:37.900 --> 00:20:43.099
katana. I won't allow it, Arathelon. Step forward

00:20:43.099 --> 00:20:48.640
once more into obscurity. Roar for initiative!

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Nice. Oh my god. So I forget this. Every time.

00:20:55.230 --> 00:20:59.170
I don't know if I've done it once, but Akio has

00:20:59.170 --> 00:21:02.369
advantage on initiative. Oh, Chester also gets

00:21:02.369 --> 00:21:05.230
a little bonus, right? It doesn't say on the

00:21:05.230 --> 00:21:08.829
sheet. Oh, no. Akio, you still didn't roll well.

00:21:09.390 --> 00:21:16.490
All right, that's 11 for Akio. Oh, no. And 7

00:21:16.490 --> 00:21:21.119
for Blanche. That's not great. 11 with advantage?

00:21:21.220 --> 00:21:25.240
It was like a 2 and a 5 or something like that.

00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.160
Didn't knock on enough wood, dude. You shouldn't

00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.119
have said that, Jeremy. 5 and an 8 or whatever.

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That's a fucking 3 for Jules. No. We're gonna

00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:40.920
die. And a 25 for Chester. Holy shit, Chester.

00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:46.690
Holy shit. Oh my god. At least we get to die

00:21:46.690 --> 00:21:49.289
on a beautiful map. Oh, wait. Okay, it's three

00:21:49.289 --> 00:21:53.849
and seven. Wait. A three for Jules, a seven for

00:21:53.849 --> 00:21:55.529
Blanche? Three for Jules, seven for Blanche.

00:21:55.670 --> 00:21:57.029
That's funny. It's the opposite of the roles

00:21:57.029 --> 00:22:00.670
you made. Exact opposite. Yeah. It's like fate.

00:22:00.950 --> 00:22:06.809
It's like fate. It's so serendipitous. Oh, naturally

00:22:06.809 --> 00:22:09.089
I got an at 20 on Arathelon. Get out of town.

00:22:09.130 --> 00:22:11.190
You can take a look right now. No, I believe

00:22:11.190 --> 00:22:12.210
you. I mean, that's what I rolled on Chester

00:22:12.210 --> 00:22:18.380
too. I hate it. Oh. Right then, as this opens

00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:23.960
up, as Arathelon boldly takes that step, the

00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:28.920
first move is not him. It is the one who's always

00:22:28.920 --> 00:22:33.680
got a finger on the trigger. The sidekick that

00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.500
will give all to defend his luminary Chester.

00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.019
Chester gets the first move here. And he gets

00:22:40.019 --> 00:22:42.240
advantage on attacks because of his ambush feature.

00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:45.279
Chester the murderer meets. Chester the murderer

00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:49.299
meets. Wait, what did you just say? He gets advantage

00:22:49.299 --> 00:22:51.960
on his attack. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think

00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.380
it's all his attacks against a target that hasn't

00:22:53.380 --> 00:22:54.859
moved yet. So actually, if he has two attacks,

00:22:55.099 --> 00:22:58.259
I think he only gets one attack with his heavy

00:22:58.259 --> 00:22:59.779
crossbow. He does not have a heavy crossbow master

00:22:59.779 --> 00:23:02.700
yet. But you could do a secondary attack with

00:23:02.700 --> 00:23:03.960
something else if you want to with advantage.

00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:09.789
Okay, cool. Holy shit. Could spit on him. I don't

00:23:09.789 --> 00:23:11.309
think he's got that kind of reach, though. Just

00:23:11.309 --> 00:23:14.910
to set this up again, you guys, Jules and Chesta,

00:23:15.009 --> 00:23:19.490
are about 45 feet away from the base of the statue.

00:23:20.349 --> 00:23:23.650
Just ahead of them, we see lined up are Blanche

00:23:23.650 --> 00:23:25.549
and Akio, about 30 feet away. So you have 10

00:23:25.549 --> 00:23:29.670
feet between the two groups here. It's not really

00:23:29.670 --> 00:23:31.769
Blanche's turn, but maybe before combat starts,

00:23:32.009 --> 00:23:35.349
she'll turn her head over her shoulder. Jules,

00:23:35.529 --> 00:23:38.180
we need to spread out. We don't know if he has

00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:43.359
area of effect fire attacks. Is that what she

00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:46.660
says? Yeah, that's exactly what she says. Tactical

00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:50.180
battle master she is. We are a little grouped.

00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:54.160
You're pretty grouped up. Okay, so this is within

00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:56.440
the public sphere, so I want to ask you this.

00:23:56.700 --> 00:24:00.759
Yeah. What was it? Was it necrotic damage, psychic

00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:04.400
damage that was halved? I think it might have

00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:06.279
been both. It might have been both necrotic and

00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:08.839
psychic. I don't think they took any necrotic

00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:12.240
damage because they were undead. Yeah. And maybe

00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:14.599
psychic was resistance. This might be a little

00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.180
different. Okay. But if you remember from the

00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:19.400
other fight, it was half necrotic damage. Oh,

00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:21.279
half necrotic. It was half. Okay. Chester was

00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.720
doing a little bit of damage with his hex at

00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:29.259
the time. Okay. So with that, Chester. All right.

00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:32.880
Fuck. You're big. But the bigger they are. Yeah.

00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:38.380
Weapon up. And he will move to the side to get

00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:42.420
a clearer shot. Oh, he dives over. Hell yeah.

00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:46.059
Slides to the south, parting about 30 feet away

00:24:46.059 --> 00:24:48.839
from Jules, moving all the way over, heeding

00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.500
Blanche's warning. Yep. And he's going for misdirection.

00:24:52.779 --> 00:24:59.960
Hell yeah! With advantage. With advantage. What

00:24:59.960 --> 00:25:04.180
about an 18? 18 hits. Oh, okay, nice. We're testing

00:25:04.180 --> 00:25:05.619
the boundaries. We're testing the boundaries.

00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:08.200
I'm really fucking glad that I had advantage

00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:10.359
because the first roll was a natural one. Whoa.

00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:14.559
Yeah. Informative roll, Chester. Informative

00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:21.339
roll. I damage 1d10 plus 4. Oh, man. Heavy crossbow

00:25:21.339 --> 00:25:24.700
out. D -tizzy. Fires out. Striking right into

00:25:24.700 --> 00:25:27.400
one of those open sort of cracks. You heat. Bursts,

00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:30.480
vents out. The crossbow bolt that hits in starts

00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.319
to glow molten and red hot. But sparks shooting

00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.900
as it strikes true. Yeah, minimum damage. Five.

00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.599
Yeah. It's something. And we know that 18 hits.

00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:43.980
So we got some information. All that happened

00:25:43.980 --> 00:25:48.960
on his finger. Not a very scary spot. He's like,

00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.359
ow. It's been so long since we've had combat

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.299
with Chester. The extra attack doesn't work with

00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:56.829
misdirection, correct? Yeah. I don't think...

00:25:56.829 --> 00:25:57.869
We talked about this before. He doesn't have

00:25:57.869 --> 00:25:59.750
Crossbow Expert, so you have to pull up out your

00:25:59.750 --> 00:26:01.329
bow, I think, because you have to reload it,

00:26:01.369 --> 00:26:02.569
which I think you just kind of do in between

00:26:02.569 --> 00:26:05.390
rounds. It's one of those weird things. I don't

00:26:05.390 --> 00:26:07.630
love it. I'm going to... I intend for him to

00:26:07.630 --> 00:26:10.910
soon have Crossbow Expert. Okay, cool. Yeah,

00:26:10.930 --> 00:26:13.049
I mean, that's fair. Cool. Hell yeah. It's a

00:26:13.049 --> 00:26:14.670
way of scaling it. It's a pretty strong weapon

00:26:14.670 --> 00:26:16.869
for him at this point. Yeah, for sure. Okay,

00:26:17.490 --> 00:26:21.920
that's it. Sweet. Okay. uh two fires sparks he's

00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.460
hits the ground uh sort of sliding against the

00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:30.960
dirt the center of this park oh oh i forgot something

00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.279
silly me i guess i'll do it now chester's so

00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:37.690
fast he actually out moved My lair action. Oh,

00:26:37.750 --> 00:26:40.809
no. Silly me. No, no, no. Come on. Silly me.

00:26:40.869 --> 00:26:42.369
I like to do this at the top of the round entirely

00:26:42.369 --> 00:26:43.589
just because it's easier to keep track of. He

00:26:43.589 --> 00:26:46.250
even gave us the opportunity to move. Yeah, yeah.

00:26:46.589 --> 00:26:51.910
Oh, no. It's so bad. God damn it. Oh, hell yeah.

00:26:52.890 --> 00:26:54.809
That's such a move as you guys prepare yourselves,

00:26:55.009 --> 00:26:56.910
brace yourselves. You see the letters spelled

00:26:56.910 --> 00:26:59.559
in light with a statue sort of... spark the mist

00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:02.099
-formed crowd push back 70 feet or so from where

00:27:02.099 --> 00:27:04.059
you stand at the edge of the obscuring whiteness

00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:08.420
continues its chanting supernova supernova supernova

00:27:08.420 --> 00:27:13.079
supernova now blanche i'm gonna say you have

00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:15.099
high enough intelligence and you the experiences

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:16.920
you've had all this time i'm gonna give you this

00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:18.500
for free i think this makes sense to give you

00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:21.220
this for free you know that wrath's powers here

00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:24.299
the powers of all guishin are likely sourced

00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:26.900
by a different plane one that is connected to

00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:29.700
or absorbing the world of Yonito, or world of

00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:32.339
Hallowry, said Yonito. Given the mist and these

00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:34.900
horrific powers wielded by these creatures, I

00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:36.680
think you'd be able to connect this all to the

00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:39.160
Shadowfell. Much like the spiders of Danatu and

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:40.819
the horrors you've heard about from the rattle

00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:42.900
on God's Breath, the plane of nightmares is a

00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:46.259
hold on Hallowry. And as you see these powers

00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:48.240
made manifest, hear these chanting voices, voices

00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:53.140
made of mist, you think you can hear something

00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:58.569
beyond them. Trees snapping, following. Something

00:27:58.569 --> 00:28:03.210
large, moving. But are you hearing the park of

00:28:03.210 --> 00:28:06.190
the elders around you? Or the Shadowfell itself?

00:28:07.130 --> 00:28:09.750
There's another noise much closer that pulls

00:28:09.750 --> 00:28:12.170
any such thoughts away. As Rathlon is stepping

00:28:12.170 --> 00:28:14.950
down, stone cracks on the statue's base beneath

00:28:14.950 --> 00:28:18.309
him. Forms rip themselves very quickly from the

00:28:18.309 --> 00:28:22.640
stone, humanoid, unfurling wings. You see draconic

00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.460
features similar to Arathelon's own, but oddly

00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:28.819
different as well. Two monsters at each one corner

00:28:28.819 --> 00:28:32.420
of the statue base. Two gargoyles tear themselves

00:28:32.420 --> 00:28:35.559
out from the stone. One staying a little over

00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:38.660
five feet, the other near seven. I'm going to

00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:42.460
add them to my map, and that is my action. I

00:28:42.460 --> 00:28:43.900
have a set place initiative where they will go,

00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:49.079
and it is not yet. And with that... These creatures

00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:55.480
appearing. Arathlon finishes his step down. Right

00:28:55.480 --> 00:29:02.660
onto your glyph of warning. Boom, baby. So that

00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:05.400
means that he steps into the glyph, activates

00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:09.779
it, and phantasmal killer goes off. Okay. All

00:29:09.779 --> 00:29:13.019
right. This is fun. So actually a lot of reason

00:29:13.019 --> 00:29:14.759
for this fight because this was tearing me apart

00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:17.509
since last week. Uh, it's really really quick

00:29:17.509 --> 00:29:19.349
dm talk. I know doing a lot of talking before

00:29:19.349 --> 00:29:21.009
we get to the fight But this is important. I

00:29:21.009 --> 00:29:22.630
want you to know what i'm going for with this,

00:29:22.690 --> 00:29:26.910
right? Legendary resistance is weird Uh, a lot

00:29:26.910 --> 00:29:28.430
of people don't like it, but I understand why

00:29:28.430 --> 00:29:30.190
it's necessary. I've done a lot of research into

00:29:30.190 --> 00:29:32.289
it I was considering trying other things Uh,

00:29:32.309 --> 00:29:34.029
basically for those who don't know legendary

00:29:34.029 --> 00:29:35.869
resistance is ability A lot of boss monsters

00:29:35.869 --> 00:29:37.910
have where when they fail a saving throw they

00:29:37.910 --> 00:29:40.009
can just choose instead to not fail it They can

00:29:40.009 --> 00:29:42.490
succeed on it automatically, but they only get

00:29:42.490 --> 00:29:44.930
so many of these per day They exist so that very

00:29:44.930 --> 00:29:47.829
powerful spells like Polymorph or Banish can't

00:29:47.829 --> 00:29:51.009
just end a fight instantly, you know? In this

00:29:51.009 --> 00:29:54.759
case... I didn't want to just like do that when

00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.839
you had this cool setup, a really cool idea.

00:29:56.859 --> 00:29:59.059
You put money into it. You put time into it.

00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:00.720
It was brilliant. And I was like, well, how can

00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:02.180
I make that half work? I was thinking of doing

00:30:02.180 --> 00:30:04.619
like a legendary action that was just resistance.

00:30:04.700 --> 00:30:06.319
You could burn it later on, something like that.

00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:08.059
But at the end of the day, I looked this up and

00:30:08.059 --> 00:30:09.279
it's kind of cool because I was seeing other

00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:11.619
DMs talk about this. And I've always thought

00:30:11.619 --> 00:30:13.700
of resistances as being part of a monster's kit,

00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:16.180
but they're not. They're part of the DM's kit.

00:30:16.539 --> 00:30:19.259
They exist so a DM can actually choose the most.

00:30:19.979 --> 00:30:22.579
dramatic places to burn one of these things.

00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:24.180
You don't always have to do it. You don't have

00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:25.940
to be tactical with it. They're not for the monster

00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:28.640
to survive longer and to always burn them to

00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:32.559
just keep going. They're so a DM can choose when

00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:35.579
a fight should or shouldn't be ended by a spell.

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.339
I'm saying this because I am not going to use

00:30:38.339 --> 00:30:40.440
my Legendary Resistance here. I don't want to.

00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:42.059
I think this is a really cool setup. I think

00:30:42.059 --> 00:30:45.380
it deserves a fair roll without any chance of

00:30:45.380 --> 00:30:47.460
me saying, nah, I succeed anyway. I think this

00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:50.279
is really cool. So, anyone who wonders if you

00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:54.619
want to come at me for going at this, choosing

00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:57.099
this way to review Legendary Resistance, I'm

00:30:57.099 --> 00:30:58.819
ready. I'm coming. Come on. Let's do it. Roll

00:30:58.819 --> 00:31:01.220
for initiative. It would have really sucked if,

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:03.460
like you said, all this effort went into it and

00:31:03.460 --> 00:31:07.420
you were like, nope. Yeah, yeah. But if I get

00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:09.420
a level one Tasha City's laughter coming at me,

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:11.440
you know I'm going to be like, no, no way. Yeah,

00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:14.779
yeah. I mean, you might. I might. You might.

00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:19.019
Before you roll, though, I need to, Jeremy. Yes.

00:31:19.099 --> 00:31:22.220
What? What's up? This is a bit of an opportunity.

00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.000
Okay. So Phantasmal Killer, if he fails this

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.299
wisdom save, he'll take 4d10 psychic damage.

00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:35.559
If he saves, then the spell is over. Yeah. I'm

00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:38.059
considering using two buttons for disadvantage.

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:44.250
Ooh. Because if I use two buttons and he fails

00:31:44.250 --> 00:31:47.269
the save, he takes the 4d10 psychic damage now,

00:31:47.529 --> 00:31:50.230
but then he has to make the save again on his

00:31:50.230 --> 00:31:53.750
next turn. It could continue to stack. This could

00:31:53.750 --> 00:31:58.769
be like a high ROI button situation. I'm talking

00:31:58.769 --> 00:32:01.670
myself into it. Yeah, do it. Also, I'm kicking

00:32:01.670 --> 00:32:04.549
myself in the ass right now. Two buttons, disadvantage.

00:32:05.130 --> 00:32:07.109
Earlier in the day, Stephen, we were like, oh,

00:32:07.150 --> 00:32:10.089
we don't have a fucking strategy. Yeah. It's

00:32:10.089 --> 00:32:12.849
coming back to bite me. Oh, no. Well, I should

00:32:12.849 --> 00:32:15.690
have cast Hex and given a disadvantage on Wisdom.

00:32:16.329 --> 00:32:18.970
No, it's actually only on Chex. Oh, it's Chex.

00:32:18.970 --> 00:32:21.890
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The best way to utilize it

00:32:21.890 --> 00:32:23.410
is Strength if you're going to go for a grapple

00:32:23.410 --> 00:32:26.890
on it. Right. It's kind of useless. I mean, it's

00:32:26.890 --> 00:32:29.390
just a cantrip. We've talked about this before.

00:32:29.450 --> 00:32:32.210
I forgot that we did. A million times. Hey, guess

00:32:32.210 --> 00:32:36.019
what? What? I rolled dice. I rolled two of them

00:32:36.019 --> 00:32:37.859
and take the lower because you don't want to

00:32:37.859 --> 00:32:44.799
just keep talking about it. Here we go. That's

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:48.240
funny. I rolled. Sorry to tell you this. I rolled

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:52.019
the same roll twice. Oh, no. Fuck. It's a 15.

00:32:52.500 --> 00:32:56.319
Meets it, beats it, baby. Oh, shit. Really? Damn.

00:32:56.579 --> 00:33:01.369
Wow. Wow, that's crazy. I blew more than half

00:33:01.369 --> 00:33:06.069
of my gold. Fuck. A third level spell slot and

00:33:06.069 --> 00:33:10.589
two buttons for nothing. For fun, I do want to

00:33:10.589 --> 00:33:13.150
say like Wrath steps down, he steps on it, and

00:33:13.150 --> 00:33:16.789
you see that glyph goes off. What does the spell

00:33:16.789 --> 00:33:23.450
look like? Hold on. I'm trying to recover. That's

00:33:23.450 --> 00:33:25.829
rough, dude. I can't believe I rolled twice and

00:33:25.829 --> 00:33:29.819
got the same roll. distraught. I'm so sorry.

00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:32.380
Oh my god. I don't care what the spell looks

00:33:32.380 --> 00:33:38.059
like. My imagining was that I was thinking and

00:33:38.059 --> 00:33:42.740
hoping that Arathelon's deepest, darkest fears

00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:46.900
were going to be being forgotten again. You know,

00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:49.480
like he finally got it back after all this time.

00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.680
And I was hoping it would be taken away from

00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.819
him for the duration of about a minute or so.

00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:59.019
Wow. I like to think that in this moment, what

00:33:59.019 --> 00:34:01.380
we kind of see is as he sort of hits this thing,

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:04.000
as he kind of like... His mind, for instance,

00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.859
floods with this illusion. He looks to your eyes,

00:34:07.940 --> 00:34:10.159
the eyes of all these four figures before him,

00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:12.460
and they are not determined eyes that are facing

00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:15.860
him down. They are eyes of unrecognition. He

00:34:15.860 --> 00:34:19.260
thinks you don't see him. The crowd's chanting

00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:22.880
vanishes, and you just hear, who's that? Is that

00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.099
Xolay's son? I think that's Xolay's son. And

00:34:25.099 --> 00:34:27.929
I think... For a moment, he sees a great shadow,

00:34:28.190 --> 00:34:31.969
an ancient brass dragon moving closer through

00:34:31.969 --> 00:34:36.170
the mists ahead, trees breaking, the ground trembling.

00:34:37.349 --> 00:34:39.889
And then he sees it all for what it really is.

00:34:39.949 --> 00:34:43.369
Fire illuminates around the stone. Orbs are his

00:34:43.369 --> 00:34:52.489
eyes, burning away all of this. No! Ha ha ha

00:34:52.489 --> 00:34:56.059
ha! Is this what counts for a luminary now? I

00:34:56.059 --> 00:35:01.820
will not be forgotten. Well, shit. And now I'm

00:35:01.820 --> 00:35:09.280
going to attack. What? Am I going? I mean, oh

00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:15.199
no, guys. I guess I have to, huh? I guess I have

00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:21.059
to go for a fire breath. Yeah. Yep. Bet. Uh -huh.

00:35:21.579 --> 00:35:24.719
I think, you know, I mean, I see, I see, uh,

00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:27.199
right now before you got a chance to really move

00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.519
and break Chester got out of the way, which means

00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.039
Blanche stands alone. And so he turns to two

00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.340
figures that are lined up. Akio and Jules. You

00:35:36.340 --> 00:35:40.199
see his throat backlit begins to burn hot and

00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:44.099
a full sort of like laser blast out this long

00:35:44.099 --> 00:35:47.519
flame unfurling, like a full flame throw rips

00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:50.860
across this space, ripping through Akio. Ripping

00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:53.079
through jewels. I have dexterity saves from both

00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:56.300
of you. God damn it. You guys are going to start

00:35:56.300 --> 00:36:05.599
rolling a lot of die. Oh, no. Six for Keo. It's

00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.400
bad. It's real bad. This isn't starting well,

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.820
guys. No, that's a lot of die. You should stop.

00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.019
Jesus Christ. What even is it? It's a D6 at least.

00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:22.550
Yeah. Jewel's got a 15. That's a fail from both.

00:36:23.150 --> 00:36:27.710
Yep. It's 16. It's a close fail. It's a fail

00:36:27.710 --> 00:36:33.239
from both. Goddamn. Oh, man, guys. 28 points

00:36:33.239 --> 00:36:37.599
of fire. Jesus fucking Christ. You feel this

00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:41.119
heat ripping through you. A Rathalon unfazed

00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:45.940
by your trap. Steps out enraged. Dude. That's

00:36:45.940 --> 00:36:48.340
half my HP. Jules, you feel that fire ripping

00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:50.860
through your body, burning you, and you feel

00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:54.199
a voice, a figure, a presence is pushing up towards

00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.320
you, eagerly awaiting the moment your soul leaves

00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.949
your physical form. It's so close now. Unfortunately,

00:37:01.989 --> 00:37:04.590
that is all I can do. Akio's going to react.

00:37:05.070 --> 00:37:07.690
What? What's he doing? He will point his snoot

00:37:07.690 --> 00:37:13.030
at Arathelon and use Hellish Reboot. That's so

00:37:13.030 --> 00:37:17.250
cool! So I need a dexterity saving throw from

00:37:17.250 --> 00:37:19.849
Arathelon. Oh, shit! The fire goes out. The fire

00:37:19.849 --> 00:37:21.570
burns out. Jules can't hold against it. Akio,

00:37:21.730 --> 00:37:23.989
we just see the fire. It goes into the smoke.

00:37:24.389 --> 00:37:29.550
Another flame blasts out towards Arathelon. That

00:37:29.550 --> 00:37:35.289
is... Not very good. That is an 11. 11 fails.

00:37:35.550 --> 00:37:41.610
Okay, great. So that's 2D tizzy fire damage.

00:37:41.730 --> 00:37:44.050
As it sort of comes down, you see that plate

00:37:44.050 --> 00:37:47.650
armor around him, engraved by all the dogs before,

00:37:47.929 --> 00:37:50.250
shining, burning sort of flame moving around

00:37:50.250 --> 00:37:52.969
it, blasting out, and apparently, according to

00:37:52.969 --> 00:37:57.829
that side, doing no damage. 2D tens. No. I rolled

00:37:57.829 --> 00:38:03.230
two twos. Oh, no. Four fire damage. Holy shit.

00:38:03.489 --> 00:38:07.510
Oh, no. And he's resistant. Is he really? He's

00:38:07.510 --> 00:38:10.250
fire. Oh, my God. I knew. I know. I knew it.

00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:12.769
Hey, that might be the two damage that saves

00:38:12.769 --> 00:38:15.309
your lives. Boom, hits him. And he kind of like

00:38:15.309 --> 00:38:21.329
almost smiles as this flame moves back. I will

00:38:21.329 --> 00:38:26.110
move my turn. And I'm going to move right up

00:38:26.110 --> 00:38:29.880
to Blanche and Akio, leaving that. Stage behind.

00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:34.539
That's all I've got. I use my action. I use my

00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:37.679
movement. I have nothing else. And that is going

00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:44.059
to be the Kiyo. Is Arathelon wielding anything?

00:38:44.539 --> 00:38:48.400
A huge stone greatsword that's lit on fire. Cool.

00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:50.119
Yeah, you don't want to get hit by that, but

00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:52.000
you're going to. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool,

00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.139
cool. Damn, I used my save base thing on the

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:57.730
not -tortal. That was stupid. Damn it. He doesn't

00:38:57.730 --> 00:39:01.809
know. He doesn't know. Oh, I will say I have

00:39:01.809 --> 00:39:04.349
to recharge that. So I don't. Damn it. That's

00:39:04.349 --> 00:39:07.510
right. So now the thing that sucks is I'm in

00:39:07.510 --> 00:39:10.690
melee with this guy. I don't want to take an

00:39:10.690 --> 00:39:15.670
AOL to get to the ads. Oh, yeah. There's ads,

00:39:15.869 --> 00:39:18.050
too. What are you going to do about that? So

00:39:18.050 --> 00:39:19.650
we got to try to figure out a way to get to the

00:39:19.650 --> 00:39:25.449
ads. But I don't. Shit. I don't know. Okay. For

00:39:25.449 --> 00:39:32.500
now, Akio. is going to move to the side of Arathelon

00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:36.480
here. Okay, weaves around one way. Parks Ichigenka

00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:40.619
in his mouth. Hoping to set up for flanking later

00:39:40.619 --> 00:39:44.639
on. Hell yeah. Maybe, I don't know. I don't know

00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:49.719
what the right move is, but okay. Yeah, for now

00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:53.699
Akio is going to take his two swings with Ichigenka.

00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:58.480
Hell yeah. I knew a luminary, a real hero, and

00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:04.559
you're nothing like him. Two 11s. Two 11s? With

00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:09.659
a plus nine. Ooh. That's two dirty 20s. Two dirty

00:40:09.659 --> 00:40:13.119
20s are two hits. Okay. Oh, shit. See? Hey, you're

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:14.380
getting through. You're getting through. We're

00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:17.519
getting something. Let's see if he takes slashing

00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:20.980
damage being made of stone. His body is singed,

00:40:20.980 --> 00:40:24.739
but his spirit is ablaze. Sakio slides in to

00:40:24.739 --> 00:40:27.300
strike twice, cutting right into two of those

00:40:27.300 --> 00:40:29.940
open sort of cracked sparks, blasting out from

00:40:29.940 --> 00:40:32.119
like the leg that he's Krayo sort of slicing

00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:37.059
into. That's, oh, it would be 18 if he was wielding

00:40:37.059 --> 00:40:41.400
his regular katana. It's a plus two. Yeah. Oh,

00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:46.360
damn. So it's 22. 22 damage? 22 Dimaggio. Dude,

00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:49.969
nice. Just carve, carve. A huge chunk of stone

00:40:49.969 --> 00:40:52.929
falls off the leg. He sort of vents out around

00:40:52.929 --> 00:40:56.969
him, singeing his fur. Then bonus action. He's

00:40:56.969 --> 00:41:00.030
going to use second wind and heal 1d10 plus 6.

00:41:00.630 --> 00:41:04.349
Nice. Good move. It's got to happen. Good move.

00:41:04.610 --> 00:41:06.530
And it's got to be now. Where's my deets? Where's

00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:13.469
my deets? Okay. 12 back. 12 back. Not bad. No.

00:41:13.530 --> 00:41:19.530
Not bad. All right. And that is... My only bonus

00:41:19.530 --> 00:41:22.309
action for Akio during this fight and the end

00:41:22.309 --> 00:41:25.170
of his turn. As Akio's turn ends, he slides,

00:41:25.210 --> 00:41:28.250
he gets those two good strikes. Like a Rathalong

00:41:28.250 --> 00:41:30.489
just kind of like leans down at him and you just

00:41:30.489 --> 00:41:36.730
kind of hear, security! And you see one of those

00:41:36.730 --> 00:41:40.550
two gargoyles, the smaller one, flies out behind

00:41:40.550 --> 00:41:43.550
Akio. Gonna get that sweet, sweet flanking bonus

00:41:43.550 --> 00:41:46.050
myself. The other one. Let me see if I can make

00:41:46.050 --> 00:41:49.469
it to you, Blanche. I can just barely make it

00:41:49.469 --> 00:41:51.010
to you, Blanche. I don't believe I can get around

00:41:51.010 --> 00:41:52.909
you, though, so I have to go next to you. So

00:41:52.909 --> 00:41:54.809
you're about 30 feet away. It slides up beside

00:41:54.809 --> 00:41:56.590
you. Do not get that flaking on you, but that

00:41:56.590 --> 00:42:01.269
gargoyle is coming at you. Let's start with attacks

00:42:01.269 --> 00:42:07.630
on Akio. You have your reaction back now. Okay.

00:42:08.329 --> 00:42:11.389
So hold on, then. I'm trying to decide if I want

00:42:11.389 --> 00:42:16.440
to do... No. Hold it. I'm going to hold it. I

00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:21.860
don't want to use one of my spells on an add.

00:42:22.059 --> 00:42:24.480
I'll wait for the big guy. I've made two attacks.

00:42:24.860 --> 00:42:27.679
One will hit, one will miss. Okay. One was an

00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:29.340
18 on the die. The other was, don't worry about

00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:33.139
it. Not bad. That's only going to be six points

00:42:33.139 --> 00:42:36.119
of damage. Snap of my healing. One claw comes

00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.760
out. He sort of snaps around, rakes off the armor.

00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:40.239
One comes out and catches him right in the sort

00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.659
of hind, rips some flesh. Blanche, let's make

00:42:45.659 --> 00:42:48.360
some attacks on you. This will go well. Actually,

00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:49.980
you're on blade song. I don't have blade song

00:42:49.980 --> 00:42:52.719
up here. Then I believe it might be the same.

00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:55.059
There's going to be a 22 to hit with one and

00:42:55.059 --> 00:42:59.519
a miss on the other. Hold on. I'm trying to...

00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:03.260
Yeah. Am I allowed to use shield after I know

00:43:03.260 --> 00:43:08.940
what the hit is? I think you are. Okay. Because

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:10.460
otherwise it wouldn't really, that's how you

00:43:10.460 --> 00:43:13.139
should. Then I'm going to react, cast shield,

00:43:13.300 --> 00:43:17.480
and it's a miss. Okay. All right. Go strike.

00:43:17.739 --> 00:43:19.739
One goes wide. One's about to come at you. And

00:43:19.739 --> 00:43:23.400
then boom, wall of force blasts out. Stone claw

00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:25.780
goes snapping back. A little bit of stone like

00:43:25.780 --> 00:43:27.960
crumbles off it. Pebbles fall into the ground.

00:43:28.219 --> 00:43:32.510
You stand unfazed. As of yet. And that's your

00:43:32.510 --> 00:43:35.530
turn, Blanche. How do you follow that up? Blanche

00:43:35.530 --> 00:43:41.090
is going to... Blanche is going to go Super Saiyan.

00:43:41.429 --> 00:43:45.690
What? What does that mean? Flames start to...

00:43:45.690 --> 00:43:49.210
What the fuck? Flames start to wreathe Blanche

00:43:49.210 --> 00:43:54.150
from her toes, up her legs, around her shell,

00:43:54.389 --> 00:43:57.980
her arms, her head. as she casts fire shield.

00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:05.440
Whoa! Oh. Yeah. Oh. Oh, cool. Okay. So I'm going

00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:09.599
to use the, you get a choice between a warm shield,

00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:14.059
which protects you from fire damage, but also

00:44:14.059 --> 00:44:16.699
deals fire damage, or a chill shield, which protects

00:44:16.699 --> 00:44:20.539
you from cold damage, but also deals cold damage.

00:44:20.860 --> 00:44:24.639
Ooh, that's a tough call. I know, but it's like,

00:44:25.779 --> 00:44:28.579
there's a chance that he could be resistant to

00:44:28.579 --> 00:44:31.820
cold damage. Or weak to cold damage, I mean.

00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:34.980
We know he's resistant to fire damage. You know

00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:36.619
he does a lot of fire damage. He also does a

00:44:36.619 --> 00:44:38.659
lot of fire damage. And his sword is on fire,

00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:40.880
so I'm going to pick the Warm Shield. You know

00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:42.780
what the coolest thing about this is? What? This

00:44:42.780 --> 00:44:45.460
spell was on Ozen's stat block. I didn't get

00:44:45.460 --> 00:44:46.980
to use it. There's a point in the fight where

00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:48.619
I was lamenting that I didn't use a certain ability.

00:44:48.780 --> 00:44:52.320
This was the ability. Okay. This is the ability.

00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.139
I was like, damn, I was going to use that. But

00:44:54.139 --> 00:44:56.639
I was calling it Storm Shield, and it was a lightning

00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:58.519
variant. But I think it's so cool that, like,

00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:01.500
of course, Blanche has another spell Ozen had.

00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:05.860
Well, maybe Ozen taught her Storm Shield. You

00:45:05.860 --> 00:45:07.599
know what? I'll allow it. It's a storm variation

00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:09.679
for you. You can do the same thing, but also

00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:12.090
interchange thunder and lightning damage. Oh,

00:45:12.110 --> 00:45:14.070
damn. I'll allow it. It's cool. Well, for now,

00:45:14.070 --> 00:45:16.769
I'm going to stick with fire shield. I love it.

00:45:16.789 --> 00:45:19.150
I just meant like the form, you know, like Blanche's.

00:45:19.210 --> 00:45:23.829
Yeah. So she mutters storm shield to herself.

00:45:24.010 --> 00:45:28.610
Storm shield. And it goes up. Then as a bonus

00:45:28.610 --> 00:45:32.969
action, she will go into blade song. Let me mark

00:45:32.969 --> 00:45:39.199
that off. Then she's going to. Full move. I understand

00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:42.460
this means taking AOOs, but I have both Bladesong

00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:44.559
and Shield up this round. That's pretty cool.

00:45:44.739 --> 00:45:49.260
So I'm going to jump into flanking with the add

00:45:49.260 --> 00:45:52.559
who is attacking Akio. All right, here comes

00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:56.179
an Arathelon AOO. Just miss so I don't even have

00:45:56.179 --> 00:45:58.719
to figure out what it is right now. It's pretty

00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:01.980
high. Okay. It's probably going to hit. That

00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:06.309
is going to be a 26. Hold on. I think it's 27.

00:46:06.489 --> 00:46:13.690
Give me a second. Oh, it is 26. No, isn't it?

00:46:13.710 --> 00:46:16.670
I think it's 27. My base AC is 17. Because it's

00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:19.230
28 with haste. Yes. Okay. So I actually just

00:46:19.230 --> 00:46:22.610
hit you. Okay. Well, so go ahead. But you're

00:46:22.610 --> 00:46:25.849
also going to take the... I mean, it's fire damage.

00:46:26.070 --> 00:46:29.130
Oh, no. Don't do fire damage to me. All right.

00:46:29.170 --> 00:46:30.869
So this is important. This is going to be nine

00:46:30.869 --> 00:46:32.949
points of bludgeoning. Bludgeoning, not fire

00:46:32.949 --> 00:46:35.690
damage? The first. Let's roll the fire now. So

00:46:35.690 --> 00:46:37.730
it goes both. It's bludgeoning. It could do slashing.

00:46:37.809 --> 00:46:39.489
It's a big stone sword. I think it's more bludgeoning.

00:46:39.489 --> 00:46:41.010
It's more crushing. So you hit by that. That

00:46:41.010 --> 00:46:42.469
goes through. Now I'm going to roll the actual

00:46:42.469 --> 00:46:46.949
fire part of it, which is six, which is halved

00:46:46.949 --> 00:46:49.530
to three. To three. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Three.

00:46:50.070 --> 00:46:56.360
That. And then you will take... 2d8 fire damage,

00:46:56.420 --> 00:46:59.280
which is really half. Ooh, eight on the first

00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:05.719
one, though, so 11, so five. I love that Akio

00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:08.199
and Blanche are the exact same thing. You both

00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:09.940
just, like, he hits you both with fire. You both

00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:12.739
blast fire back. Boom, boom. It's so cool. As

00:47:12.739 --> 00:47:14.179
you slide up and use, and both of you sort of

00:47:14.179 --> 00:47:16.760
smoking with the fire you just dealt, Gargoyle

00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:19.440
obviously misses, bounces off of you. You slide

00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:26.300
up behind Akio. Hell yeah. Okay. Oh, that's pretty

00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:29.260
cool. And that's your turn? That's the end of

00:47:29.260 --> 00:47:32.440
Blanche's turn. I'm going to use a legendary

00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.739
action here. Oh, no. It's a weird one. It's one

00:47:35.739 --> 00:47:37.280
I designed for this fight that I kind of like.

00:47:37.500 --> 00:47:39.380
I'm going to use a legendary action called Ignite

00:47:39.380 --> 00:47:42.110
Breath. I'm going to roll. re -roll to see if

00:47:42.110 --> 00:47:44.010
I can recharge my breath weapon. The way this

00:47:44.010 --> 00:47:46.070
weapon works, if you don't know, a lot of times

00:47:46.070 --> 00:47:47.869
you have to roll your die every turn to see if

00:47:47.869 --> 00:47:50.110
it recharges after you first use it. You don't

00:47:50.110 --> 00:47:51.809
have it again until you get the die roll you

00:47:51.809 --> 00:47:54.230
need. I have a legendary action where I can essentially

00:47:54.230 --> 00:47:56.449
just, rather than doing attack or whatever, try

00:47:56.449 --> 00:47:58.670
to re -roll to regain that breath. I hate it.

00:47:58.750 --> 00:48:00.349
I mean, I guess at least it takes away an attack.

00:48:00.510 --> 00:48:03.190
It's like taking away pressure now to add pressure

00:48:03.190 --> 00:48:04.969
later. I think it's a lot of fun. So I was like,

00:48:05.030 --> 00:48:06.610
you know what, I'm making this up. I don't like

00:48:06.610 --> 00:48:09.900
it. Okay, so you just kind of see he stops and

00:48:09.900 --> 00:48:12.800
kind of arches back up, and you feel something

00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:16.059
sort of moving in his throat, but it doesn't

00:48:16.059 --> 00:48:20.519
look like anything has happened yet. Jules, that's

00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:23.719
you. Okay. I'm really struggling with whether

00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:26.460
to attack or to heal. Tough choice. Because that

00:48:26.460 --> 00:48:28.679
was tough. It was literally half of my HP that

00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.559
he took. Right. And I'll do it again, too. God

00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.760
damn it. Okay, so animating performance. Oh.

00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.219
Oh, yeah. Oh. All right. So I imagine that there

00:48:42.219 --> 00:48:46.199
are a bunch of gigantic boulders and rocks laying

00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:48.800
around from everything cracking. Still steaming

00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:51.559
as they kind of fall off that body. Smoldering,

00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:56.900
steaming stones. Okay. So he's going to animate

00:48:56.900 --> 00:49:01.800
one of those. Thank goodness. Okay. I got to

00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:03.519
put a rock in this map. We just draw a little.

00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:06.670
All right. There's now a rock. Okay. It's not

00:49:06.670 --> 00:49:08.769
working for a token. Darn it. Hang on. Damn it.

00:49:09.610 --> 00:49:11.110
Aren't there, like, default tokens that you can

00:49:11.110 --> 00:49:15.090
just stick in? Let me type in rock. I got a few

00:49:15.090 --> 00:49:17.849
on Roll20. Okay, sweet. I want to find the funniest

00:49:17.849 --> 00:49:20.429
one. Hang on. Give me a minute here. Dwayne the

00:49:20.429 --> 00:49:25.650
Rock Johnson. We'll take off from you, Crag Cat.

00:49:25.710 --> 00:49:28.659
That'll do. Cool. Boom. That's a rock. There

00:49:28.659 --> 00:49:30.280
we go. Don't worry about it. There we go. Maybe

00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:32.420
it was a detail on the statue. Dude, you know

00:49:32.420 --> 00:49:33.619
what? Yeah, there's a little part of the statue

00:49:33.619 --> 00:49:35.619
that looks like a little cat face. It's kind

00:49:35.619 --> 00:49:38.039
of a part of the ornate sort of throne behind

00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:39.559
that kind of cracked and fell off and rolled

00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:41.679
over there. And you have this weirdly cat -faced

00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:43.820
rock that you keep touching and it picks up and

00:49:43.820 --> 00:49:47.340
somebody's like, meow. Okay. So, Stephen, open

00:49:47.340 --> 00:49:49.860
conversation here. Yeah. I was going to use my

00:49:49.860 --> 00:49:52.619
bonus action to give Bardic Inspiration to Blanche.

00:49:53.389 --> 00:49:55.429
But I also just remembered I have to use my bonus

00:49:55.429 --> 00:49:58.269
action if I want that item to do anything on

00:49:58.269 --> 00:50:00.849
its turn other than dodge. That'd be totally

00:50:00.849 --> 00:50:04.630
up to you, man. That's up to you. I mean, getting

00:50:04.630 --> 00:50:08.489
this thing in the fight is worth a lot. Bardic

00:50:08.489 --> 00:50:11.829
for Blanche is also worth a lot. I don't want

00:50:11.829 --> 00:50:13.630
to make that choice for you. I'm not going to

00:50:13.630 --> 00:50:15.190
be mad either way. You know what I mean? All

00:50:15.190 --> 00:50:19.409
right. Elevates to flies right in front of you.

00:50:19.469 --> 00:50:21.269
You see a cat face sort of whirl around to look

00:50:21.269 --> 00:50:23.110
you in the eyes. Jules, do you give the command?

00:50:23.409 --> 00:50:26.130
God damn it. Yeah. I got to do that. I'm going

00:50:26.130 --> 00:50:29.110
toward this little gargoyle bitch right here

00:50:29.110 --> 00:50:31.429
in front of me. Do you want to go like between

00:50:31.429 --> 00:50:33.030
him and Rathalon or do you want to be away from

00:50:33.030 --> 00:50:35.409
Rathalon? He's right next to him. Do you want

00:50:35.409 --> 00:50:37.969
him to like be sort of besides him and Rathalon?

00:50:38.010 --> 00:50:41.869
That will keep him from moving. That'll keep

00:50:41.869 --> 00:50:44.239
Rathalon from moving. closer to you. That's hilarious

00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.119
to think that he's like, I'm coming over there

00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:47.659
and there's little rocks like, oh no, you know.

00:50:48.260 --> 00:50:53.420
He's got a target in front of him. Well, like,

00:50:53.420 --> 00:50:56.920
if he goes... Wrestling him back? No! No! If

00:50:56.920 --> 00:51:00.480
for whatever reason, if for whatever reason the

00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:03.219
animated object becomes a target, I would rather

00:51:03.219 --> 00:51:06.159
not make Arathelon take a step towards Jules

00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:10.199
to get to that target. By the way, also, it does

00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:12.320
have its own reaction. I'm trying to play smart

00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:15.760
here. The rock has its own reaction. That's cool.

00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:23.500
Okay. Yeah, okay, so... So he's going to go in

00:51:23.500 --> 00:51:25.179
for an attack on this little gargoyle bitch.

00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.320
Okay, rock flies up. A smoldering cat -shaped

00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.960
rock flies in. What's it doing? That's going

00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:33.219
to be a dirty 20. Dirty 20's going to hit the

00:51:33.219 --> 00:51:38.000
gargoyle. Oh my gosh, this is so cool. I forgot

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.820
all about this ability. For nine damage. That's

00:51:40.820 --> 00:51:43.460
solid, too. And then Jules is going to move over

00:51:43.460 --> 00:51:46.039
near Chester. Okay, so you move over. Everyone's

00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:49.139
sort of split up. Hey, this makes sense. Sorry,

00:51:49.219 --> 00:51:52.420
you moved Jules. I can't move. Oh, you were doing

00:51:52.420 --> 00:51:57.760
it the same time. Hell yeah. Okay. In your turn

00:51:57.760 --> 00:51:59.440
there, I'm going to take a legendary action again.

00:51:59.739 --> 00:52:03.440
Fuck. I'm going to take it on Akio, who did a

00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.500
lot of damage to me. His sword comes up. It's

00:52:06.500 --> 00:52:09.940
going to come down on Akio. I'm going to react.

00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:14.579
What? Other move that Akio has. Hold on. You

00:52:14.579 --> 00:52:16.480
gotta say it out loud in 10 seconds or he dies.

00:52:16.739 --> 00:52:18.960
Disadvantage. Warding bark, I think. You got

00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:21.460
it. Warding bark disadvantage. The dog lives.

00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:25.139
Maybe. We'll see. Oh my god. He kind of sort

00:52:25.139 --> 00:52:27.599
of comes up and Akio looks up to him and this

00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:29.840
loud bark comes out and as he does this armor

00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:34.880
flashes gleaming super bright. A light sort of

00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:41.110
catches Arathelon blinding him. for a brief moment

00:52:41.110 --> 00:52:43.650
and give me disadvantage on this attack. He has

00:52:43.650 --> 00:52:46.389
two of each of those abilities. One's burn, but

00:52:46.389 --> 00:52:50.090
this is, I mean, this armor is coming in clutch.

00:52:50.130 --> 00:52:56.409
Maybe. Let's find out. Let's find out. It's a

00:52:56.409 --> 00:53:01.030
natural one. Oh, thank God. Thank God. Yeah.

00:53:02.730 --> 00:53:06.070
Yeah, okay. It was sliding down. Sword goes as

00:53:06.070 --> 00:53:07.690
it comes. I think he just took a whole, like,

00:53:07.690 --> 00:53:09.710
I'm not going to do a penalty because it's not

00:53:09.710 --> 00:53:11.110
a good situation for it, but I'm going to say.

00:53:11.210 --> 00:53:13.050
It's a great situation for a penalty. Nah, it'd

00:53:13.050 --> 00:53:18.030
be bad for me. I'll be nice to you later when

00:53:18.030 --> 00:53:20.230
you roll one. Okay, sure. The sword goes wide

00:53:20.230 --> 00:53:22.210
to the mark and kind of full, like, over swing

00:53:22.210 --> 00:53:25.210
baseball bat. He just kind of just spin. Looks

00:53:25.210 --> 00:53:27.010
a little goofy. Chomps the Gargoyle's head off.

00:53:27.010 --> 00:53:30.230
Wafs out. No, no, actually makes it stronger.

00:53:30.389 --> 00:53:35.380
It's weird. Akio kind of standing tall, unfazed

00:53:35.380 --> 00:53:40.340
as a second attack flies out. Not bad, guys.

00:53:40.739 --> 00:53:46.179
Phew. Not bad. Rather than kind of, no, you're

00:53:46.179 --> 00:53:52.980
nobody. You're nobody compared to me. As he screams

00:53:52.980 --> 00:53:55.920
this out, as our first round comes to an end,

00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:00.639
everyone repositioned, the fight hot. Let's move.

00:54:01.130 --> 00:54:05.769
Away from this again. What? Yeah, I'm crazy.

00:54:06.650 --> 00:54:08.750
He's crazy. You know what I'm gonna do. Dude.

00:54:09.829 --> 00:54:13.130
Young Gi hides in the mist as the sound of the

00:54:13.130 --> 00:54:16.469
door snapping off its hinges echoes throughout

00:54:16.469 --> 00:54:19.289
the whiteness. He presents himself against the

00:54:19.289 --> 00:54:21.389
far wall of the infirmary beside a large bed,

00:54:21.590 --> 00:54:25.190
one of two that stand at the room's end. He holds

00:54:25.190 --> 00:54:26.809
back his tears, tries to hold down the sound

00:54:26.809 --> 00:54:31.280
of labored breathing, and he listens. Heavy stone

00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:37.559
steps. Creaking of a bed spring. The sound of

00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:42.619
flesh tearing. Bones snapping. And Yungi's eyes

00:54:42.619 --> 00:54:44.659
go wise. He remembers the unconscious and injured.

00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.940
All helpless before the slaughter. We see the

00:54:47.940 --> 00:54:50.719
hunched form of the dragonborn stand tall. No.

00:54:50.940 --> 00:54:55.920
No, not them. Here. My territory is open. Come.

00:54:57.420 --> 00:55:01.150
And capture it. His voice echoes out, and there

00:55:01.150 --> 00:55:05.489
is silence. Creaking of a bread spring. Bed spring,

00:55:05.610 --> 00:55:09.050
I don't care. The flapping of wings. A long silence,

00:55:09.250 --> 00:55:11.309
and then a shape diving through the mist, resolving

00:55:11.309 --> 00:55:13.769
quickly before young Gi. He tries to stand brave

00:55:13.769 --> 00:55:15.750
as he faces his death, and he can't help but

00:55:15.750 --> 00:55:17.789
close his eyes. The stone claws move in to rip

00:55:17.789 --> 00:55:20.369
into faded scales, and a heart that beats beneath.

00:55:21.210 --> 00:55:24.659
And we see a claw of brass. Snaps her in the

00:55:24.659 --> 00:55:26.619
gargoyle's wrist. You knew it was coming. We

00:55:26.619 --> 00:55:28.639
see the creature being pushed back, arms snapping

00:55:28.639 --> 00:55:31.940
backwards, the sound of cracking stone as Arhalon

00:55:31.940 --> 00:55:35.780
rises from his bed. His eyes, watery, bloodshot,

00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:39.300
are focused wholly on the monster. He lets go

00:55:39.300 --> 00:55:41.139
and the creature darts backwards from those eyes,

00:55:41.219 --> 00:55:43.300
stone wings flapping as it takes the air, hovering

00:55:43.300 --> 00:55:46.900
near the ceiling, wary, waiting for something.

00:55:48.300 --> 00:55:55.900
Your grip slipped. Your... Arlon speaks, but

00:55:55.900 --> 00:55:57.639
his eyes do not focus on the creature before

00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:01.760
him, rather on something, someone else beyond

00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:06.079
its stone forms. Do you really think so little

00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:11.699
of me, monster? Young Guy from below. Arlon Brass,

00:56:11.860 --> 00:56:16.119
you are awake. You must know the creature before

00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:18.739
you was carved in the image of your father. He

00:56:18.739 --> 00:56:21.880
is the undead that commands it. Another gargoyle,

00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.019
this one of the shorter variety, appears from

00:56:24.019 --> 00:56:26.019
the mist above, joining the other on the ceiling,

00:56:26.179 --> 00:56:30.900
the two standing defensively. Hmm. You are wrong

00:56:30.900 --> 00:56:33.800
in one regard, Advisor Yungi. These creatures

00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:37.380
are not because of him. They are me. Me and my

00:56:37.380 --> 00:56:41.159
brother, formerly his biggest fans. Arlan's feet

00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:43.300
are locked in stone, his eyes a damning as the

00:56:43.300 --> 00:56:46.440
flood of coming pain. He just nods as he casually

00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:48.960
snaps the leg of a nearby table, whirling it.

00:56:49.309 --> 00:56:51.989
and brandishing it as a spear towards the gargoyles.

00:56:52.250 --> 00:56:55.550
We see them growl in unison, a sound like rubbing

00:56:55.550 --> 00:56:59.349
stone, and raise their bloody claws. I really

00:56:59.349 --> 00:57:02.289
don't know what is going on here, but I do know

00:57:02.289 --> 00:57:04.630
two things. I know there are people that need

00:57:04.630 --> 00:57:08.250
my help, and I know that thing is no father of

00:57:08.250 --> 00:57:11.750
mine. So we hold the line here, protect the injured,

00:57:11.969 --> 00:57:15.530
and show him what real heroes can do. With a

00:57:15.530 --> 00:57:19.179
flap. of mighty wings and a burst of wind arlan

00:57:19.179 --> 00:57:27.199
brass flies into battle back in the park we start

00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:32.059
a new round and we start with a lair action i

00:57:32.059 --> 00:57:36.739
know what's gonna happen roars out come my adoring

00:57:36.739 --> 00:57:41.110
fans You see mist swirling at the arena's edge

00:57:41.110 --> 00:57:43.269
as a few members of the chanting crowd begin

00:57:43.269 --> 00:57:46.670
to shift in shape, growing, screaming their adoration.

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Arathelon, we love you! And as they are transformed,

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the three tigers, trailing mist from their bodies,

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prowl slowly out from the crowd, low growls,

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mingling with the chanting as they move in on

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you. Oh, yes! And you hear something else. Unmistakable

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now from the whiteness beyond. From the very

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direction you came in from. A loud snap and a

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crash. A tree falls. Pounding steps that seem

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to shake the earth beneath your feet. A predatory

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roar so loud that it drowns out every other sound

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in the park. And Arathlon looks up in shock as

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the mist part. And a Tyrannosaurus Rex comes

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charging into battle. We see a figure perched

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awkwardly upon its head. Long golden spear proffered

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forward as it bracing for a joust. A young turtle

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screaming out a familiar battle cry. For golden

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times! For golden times! And we call it the end!