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Hey, fans, people. It's Jeremy. You all kick

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ass. That's all I wanted to say. Enjoy the show.

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Yes, I know, I know. Alarms are blaring, the

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citadels' fences are activated, and yes, there

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is an emergency happening in Diorama. I know.

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From what we've gathered, a small clan of storm

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giants have wandered into the capital city of

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Calabay and are causing a bit of ruckus. We don't

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know what they're after, and I'm sure there's

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a perfectly reasonable reason that the local

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party did not see this coming. More on that later.

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And yes, I know. Storm giants, walking disasters,

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unimaginable power, the stuff of pure nightmares.

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I know. But listen, don't panic. Don't even sweat.

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The shield -bearers are rallying as we speak,

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and there are a number of celestials posted right

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bang in Calipay. Everything is going to be fine.

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On top of that, our sources tell me that everyone's

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favorite heartthrob hero, Handsome Jai, just

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departed on the Serpent and Jewel before news

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broke of the attack. Surely, with Jai on the

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scene as well, the matter will be settled shortly.

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As we all know, when push comes to shove, he's

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steady as stone. You just said a phrase really

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interesting. What's that? I forgot what it was.

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Bing bang. It was like the bang. Right bang on

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Calipay. Yeah, right bang on Calipay. I like

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highlighting Rune being different from Orin.

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Like every past traumatic event that's happening,

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Orin's been like empathetic and like right out

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there and like feeling it. And Rune's just like,

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nah, it's cool. Sweep it under the rug. Everything's

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fine. Chill. It's all good. Yeah. Fuck you, Rune.

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Keep on carrying on. So any fans of the Zelda

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series out there might be aware of the Oracle

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games. I'm wrapping up this thing. Hang on. Chill.

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Give me that side -ass, Steven. We'll give you

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some room. Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.

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They were Zelda titles that released kind of

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like Pokemon games, and they both came out simultaneously.

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It was almost like a red version and a blue version.

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But the difference between them and Pokemon games

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is they are totally different games from each

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other. And they combine story, and they both

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sort of focus on different aspects of the classic

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Zelda game formula. Ages was all about the puzzles,

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and Seasons was all about the sort of combat

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and the adventuring. So one of my first forays

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into fantasy at all, gaming, fantasy, any of

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that, was picking up Oracle of Ages for my Game

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Boy Color when I was a wee lad. And to this day,

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I will always, always love those titles. The

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idea of splitting the focus and mastering the

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two opposed sides of this, you know, this wonderful

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franchise was always so damn enchanting to me.

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And that has inspired this little idea of mine.

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Up to this point in the show, I've leaned hard

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on my preferred style of running this game. What

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I and other podcast fans might refer to as the

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Dimension 20 style, as among other things. Basically,

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it's a system of pacing where every few episodes

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of role play, we have a combat. And usually it's

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kind of a big grand affair. It's a grid map.

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We try to get all chunky with it. We push the

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players. And we don't have a lot of combats.

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But the ones that do happen, they're big story

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ones. They matter. And this way, we have a pretty

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free gameplay that transitions to pure chunk

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when we hit the combat. You and chunky. Chunk.

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It's been a week. That's my D &D comfort zone.

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Right there. And we are throwing that comfort

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out the window for a while because I want to

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be a little crazy. You're nuts, David. These

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next two arcs are going to be our fancy pants

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Oracle games. Two entirely different arcs focused

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on two entirely different aspects of what makes

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D &D great. Things that I never really go whole

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hog into and I'm a little nervous doing it like

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this. The world of Senza will mostly be a pure

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grid map dungeon crawl. In the world of Dialogon,

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we played fully. in theater of the mind. And

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I really hope this isn't going to be bad. I want

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to get weird. I want to get weird. I like to

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experiment sometimes, you know? Fingers crossed.

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Fingers crossed. We want to see, at the end of

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this, when we get to our next Unzipped, I really

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want to hear you guys' takes on what you're going

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to enjoy. Because I think, personally, I think

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Steven Rodriguez here is going to hate Theater

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of the Mind, and he's going to absolutely dig

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the really chunky grid -based map. And I think

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Jeremy Wolf is going to be the opposite. I think

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you're going to take the Theater of the Mind

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like a moth to a flame, and you're going to be

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like, this big old grid map affair. You know,

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where's my cool theater of the mind? Well put.

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Well put. Thank you. I think you're right. I'm

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trying to go into it with an open mind. Yeah,

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you have to. That's in the name. But yeah, I'm

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really excited for this because it's going to

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be weird and uncomfortable in some ways. But

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I don't know. This is going to be... Crazy. When

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we get to the grid map, oh my gosh, just you

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wait to see what Rochelle cooked up for us. It's

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going to be a minute before we get to other party

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because right now we have a situation to deal

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with and it's insane. And I'm hoping tonight

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we can hit the ground running and really show

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off the strengths of Theater of the Mind where

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we can have, you know, you're not limited to

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a map. You're not looking down at one surface

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and saying, this is why I have to use this area.

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My players, you know, my characters can't really

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leave this map even though realistically I can

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do anything because it's a game about anything.

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You know, you can't just walk off that map because

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then me as a DM will be like, ah! But hey, whatever

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you want. You're going in a situation where obviously

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this town is under some kind of attack. You see

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one storm giant reaching into the gemstone right

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before you. You don't know what else is going

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on out there. You can stand and fight with one

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dude. You can run around. You can hide somewhere.

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You can just book it. You can save lives, preserve

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lives, kill lives. This is all you. There is

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no map now. You make it. I think if you embrace

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it, you're going to have a lot of fun. And I

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know I'm going to have a lot of fun because I'm

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not pulling any punches. Theater of the mind,

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grid map, I don't care. I'm going to kill your

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characters. This is the first time I really believe

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it. Yeah. I'm going to look at the CR for Storm

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Giant real quick. Oh, okay. What are my abilities

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again? All right. Anyway, probably should start

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the episode, huh? I'm scared. You guys want to

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do this? No. Hell yeah. Let's do this. Why do

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I have to do this? We open up on the inside of

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Handsome Jai's lamp, witnessing a scene that

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occurred just a few hours ago. Yeah, you thought

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I was going to get into it, guys? Ha! Ha! Trick

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to you again. I'm waving the red flag. I'm a

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bull tamer. You see how shocked I am? He's shocked.

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We look inside handsome Jai's lap. This is some

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time back, some hours ago, just after Jules left.

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He left Jai with a choice, a quest before him.

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As we look upon the scene, we see the long bar

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sits empty beneath its wide variety of bottles

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and kegs, the walls of... of this place are are

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those of stone not sort of translucent like we've

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seen it sometimes before but just pure isolated

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stone walls around this uh uh this lounge is

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a place of near silence apart from the sounds

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of sickness from handsome jai who sits upon a

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long couch his head hanging over an ornate jar

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mesmerized sits beside him or pale fingers rubbing

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slow circles into his back She wears her white

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fur robe, decorated as ever with the yellow and

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purple eye insignias of her people. Her own true

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eyes are softer than we've ever seen them before,

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staring into the shaking form of the fifth -ranked

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luminary. And she speaks softly, too. You must

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sober quickly. Kargar gave you this sample to

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try out for such an occasion. I know it is not

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pleasant, but the Toctins will be gone soon enough,

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Jai. You will be clean. I don't want them to

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be... Don't talk, fool man. Just listen to me,

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okay? Jules, he is right. Something terrible

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is coming for all of us, and I think at this

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time we all do our part to stop it. Remember

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what Trace told us? That Runer Song's blackmail

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has been destroyed, all of it. We are free now.

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Free to fight back. Free to step into the light.

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Maybe this can be the first step of many more.

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Maybe it is time to make a change. Jai. I can't.

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You will not be alone. I can be with you every

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step of the way. We hear a long moment of silence.

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And then... Why? Why are you so nice to me? I

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tortured you when we first met. I thought you

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were an enemy. So why are you still here? Mesmer

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just shrugs. I suppose I have a thing for big

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hero types. I'm no hero. Look at me. You are

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a hero, Jai. You've just forgotten for a while.

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You... You don't know me. You don't know the

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things I've done. The hell I've seen on Taib.

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I can still hear. And he sort of moves to stand

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up, to push towards the bar, fingers splayed

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out, reaching for something, anything, and Yara

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stands with him. She chases him and wraps her

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arms around him, and we see him freeze. She presses

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her face into his back, and I stand frozen as

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she speaks. You're right. I will not lie. I don't

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know you. I don't know what you've done or how

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hard it has been for you. She turns him slowly

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around to face her. But I do see you, and I can

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see the man you really are behind the pain. And

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Jai, shaking unsteady, his eyes look down to

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his feet. How? Because, fool boy. And pale fingers

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lightly push his chin up until his eyes meet

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Yara's, and he can see the tears running to the

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lips of her smile. I have my eyes on you. And

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we return to the moment, to sudden hell. You

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stare at the translucent walls of handsome Jai's

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lair of love, to the serpentine carpenter jewel

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in absolute... chaos. People stampeding over

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each other, frantically trying to move away from

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the sole exit to the world outside. In the storm

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giant, a 25 foot tall monstrosity grinning at

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the display of mass fear. You can see specks

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of fresh blood splattering his white beard and

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indigo skin. The door to the jewel slams fully

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open as the creature grunts with slight effort

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and reaches his hand in. The smoke surrounds

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him, and more chaos, crackling thunder, breaking

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masonry, and so much desperate screaming echoes

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in from the world outside. Faced with all of

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this, I imagine you don't notice, as Mesmerize

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appears from invisibility and steps up beside

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you all inside the lamp, watching in horror.

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This... this is... And the chaos surrounding

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you all blurs as a lamp rises up above the crowd.

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and surges towards the reaching giant. Handsome

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Jai is moving. Above you, you see Jai slamming

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down a potion. You see like crackles of lightning

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inside a blue -tinted bottle. And you watch his

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muscles bulge immensely, veins of pulsing blue

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energy appearing, spreading an indigo tint to

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his own skin as well. You see he flies with full

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ferocity into the unprotected face of the giant,

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his leg kicking out with force and knocking the

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creature back from the exit. The giant, Jai,

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and all of you inside the vessel tumble out from

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the Conqueror Jewel and into the battlefield,

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Kalapang, the capital of Dyalangan. Jai still

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flies there, delivers a follow -up attack on

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the giant, each pushing the surprised creature

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a few enormous steps back. With each move, the

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chaos around you becomes ever clearer. Now give

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me a moment, I'm gonna... I got a lot of chaos

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to describe. You ready for this? You ready for

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this? Open up those minds for that theater. Raise

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those curtains. Here is the scene. Smoke rises

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from shattered buildings. Fragments of pale masonry

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scattered all around the dirt streets. Flames

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look up from the cracks and gaps and broken red

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rooftops. One such roof of a long, single -story

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tavern caves in as a storm giant crashes through

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it, falling with a groan. More such creatures

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dot your vision, rising above the squat cityscape.

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You see a cluster of three of them to the southwest,

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great swords flashing as they lock blades with

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a group of celestials. One raises a hand, and

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a bolt of lightning cracks to humming existence

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in its grip. It throws it through one of the

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celestials, a pari, its blue skin cracked in

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bleeding light, and the bolt rips through the

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angel, and you watch it vanish with a violent

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burst of light and a short, Another group of

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two, male and female, seem to move unobstructed

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through the city to the east. They laugh together

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as their blades sweep the streets and structures

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below and rise, dripping with gore. More crashing,

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more screaming sounds in the south, the sight

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of the source of these blocked by the conquered

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jewel behind you. And high above everything,

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a very different struggle. Dark storm clouds

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obscure the sky, pouring rain over the small

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city. And flying amidst them, backlit by flashes

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of lightning, we see a long serpentine form.

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It's hard to make it out, well, from so far below,

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but you see distinct piscean features. fins shining

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with an array of color all along the body and

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standing up upon the head. You see the silhouette

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of a wide open mouth lined with razor teeth.

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You can see this mouth working as a voice resounds

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through the sky, booming as if magnified by the

00:15:39.309 --> 00:15:48.730
storm. Save him! This creature is the spitting

00:15:48.730 --> 00:15:51.879
image of the frozen god. Of the plains of Arnikek

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that you saw in the ice of the, uh, uh, the,

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the, the, what are the calm? Crap. The windless,

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the windless sea, the calm lake. There's a name

00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:05.539
for it. It was cool. Oh. Uh, the ancient Drakon

00:16:05.539 --> 00:16:08.200
you saw then. That, that beast, however, the

00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:10.500
one you saw frozen in the ice was impossibly

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huge. An unimaginable existence. A true deific

00:16:14.580 --> 00:16:17.620
presence. This creature above you, surely the

00:16:17.620 --> 00:16:21.019
last Bakunawa, a descendant of the old serpents,

00:16:21.019 --> 00:16:24.000
is still maybe a hundred feet long. Larger even

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than Sholei in her draconic form, though far

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more slender. As it moves, so too do the storm

00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.679
clouds. It seems to command them just as the

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bones of its great ancestors have been known

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to do. Other lights, like shooting stars, move

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to engage with the monster, and you count four

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of them, flying from different angles to intercept.

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More celestials. As you look up, one of them

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seems to break away from the pursuit, launching

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down in your direction. Jai drops to the middle

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of the dirt street, facing the rising storm giant.

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He looks much like the creature now. Glowing

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blue eyes, white hair, muscles bulging and massive,

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energy seems to crackle through his veins. You

00:17:04.890 --> 00:17:07.089
see his voice has changed too, as he boons out

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a command to have... Release! Immediately, a

00:17:12.210 --> 00:17:14.890
mist of color wraps around the lot of you, and

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you are transported forcibly out of the lamp

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and into the fray. Appearing in the street before

00:17:22.829 --> 00:17:27.210
Jai, the giant just beyond him. Just behind you,

00:17:27.250 --> 00:17:29.490
the serpentine jewel yet looms. In a city of

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structures that only rarely rise to a second

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story, the conquered jewel dwarves everything

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around. You stand now at the base of the ramp

00:17:36.549 --> 00:17:38.490
to its closing door, 30 feet away from the edge

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of the gem. And 30 feet ahead of you, the crumbled

00:17:41.289 --> 00:17:44.269
tavern stretching out to either side. The giant

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rises from the rumble, eyes locked, glaring at

00:17:47.970 --> 00:17:50.710
Jai. West of that structure looks through the

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ruins of some kind of store. The rain dampening

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the smoke pouring from it, yet the light of fire

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can be seen from deep within the broken walls

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that telltale glow. Then Jai turns to you to

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speak, ignoring the chaos behind, the wind whipping

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at you all. Storm Giants! The Celestials and

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local defenses are overwhelmed. The Shieldbearers

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will be mobilizing, but too many will die before

00:18:13.690 --> 00:18:16.369
the situation is under control. We need to spread

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out! I'll take those two to the east. Salome,

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Jules, Arhalon, Gabriela, and Yara Ivanka, Mesmerize,

00:18:26.150 --> 00:18:29.430
all stand in the street. Is there anything you

00:18:29.430 --> 00:18:32.230
want to say? As you see Jai is about to, like,

00:18:32.230 --> 00:18:34.910
mobilize. I have two immediate thoughts. Yeah.

00:18:34.990 --> 00:18:36.730
Hell yeah. There's probably a lot of thoughts.

00:18:37.789 --> 00:18:41.829
One, this is probably stupid. It's probably nothing.

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It's just a thought. Can handsome Jai... put

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somebody in the lamp against their will? No.

00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.240
Like a storm giant? He can't do that, unfortunately.

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Okay. I think that's cool. Figured I'd ask. Figured

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I'd ask. Secondly, I really want to get to this

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serpent and get... We can probably get Paul's

00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:04.259
location out of this thing. Where is he? We can

00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:06.900
save him if you tell us where it is. Only one

00:19:06.900 --> 00:19:08.440
person needs to go up and do that and get the

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answer. My immediate thought was Salome to fly

00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.400
up there because she's a celestial and she could

00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:17.480
ask him that. Damn. Just a thought. I mean, imagine,

00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:20.200
it could be anybody else if only Emonrath didn't

00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:24.200
have the Rod of Flying. Shut up, you. But, I

00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.000
mean, I imagine it's got to know where he is.

00:19:27.420 --> 00:19:29.759
If he's saying save him, he's very connected

00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.519
to this. That's wild. I didn't even, you said

00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.700
that there are, you said there are four Celestials

00:19:36.700 --> 00:19:38.819
up there fighting it and one was coming down

00:19:38.819 --> 00:19:40.319
towards us, though? Yeah, you see four lights

00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:42.579
moving to intercept one, some turn to move down

00:19:42.579 --> 00:19:45.220
and probably saw this. one giant on just sort

00:19:45.220 --> 00:19:47.880
of moving uh without resistance against the conquer

00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:50.359
jewel and realized there was a more pressing

00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.680
matter to to push towards or even her just asking

00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.700
another celestial where's the boy sure you know

00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:59.339
um i think we can get answers from that okay

00:19:59.339 --> 00:20:02.839
so there's there's the um Fly guy in the sky.

00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:06.099
Jai is heading towards. Two giants to the east.

00:20:06.380 --> 00:20:08.019
Yeah, these two are not locked in any combat.

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They're just freely murdering down the street.

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And there are three in front of us now? There

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are three to the northwest. I read southwest.

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That direction. Basically, those three are locked

00:20:21.339 --> 00:20:23.079
in a heavy combat with a number of celestials.

00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:24.859
It looks like they're kind of distracted. Right

00:20:24.859 --> 00:20:28.289
now, you see only one in front of you. Okay.

00:20:28.309 --> 00:20:30.950
Okay. Gotcha. It's standing up from the crumbled

00:20:30.950 --> 00:20:32.529
remains of this tavern where it was just, like,

00:20:32.529 --> 00:20:35.190
knocked into. It looks somewhat hurt. You see

00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:38.529
a bit of, like, a purplish blood running down

00:20:38.529 --> 00:20:41.009
from its mouth where Jaya struck it. Gotcha.

00:20:41.170 --> 00:20:42.950
It's wounded. But it more looks mad than anything.

00:20:43.730 --> 00:20:47.930
So Salome will hear Jaya's cry to split up, and

00:20:47.930 --> 00:20:52.970
she'll look to Jules and tell him, Jules, I will

00:20:52.970 --> 00:20:56.779
not split from you unless... Unless it is what

00:20:56.779 --> 00:21:01.200
you think is best, I will follow your lead. I

00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:06.819
will say, there is a gravity, a crackling static

00:21:06.819 --> 00:21:10.420
presence emanating from the creature before you.

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Okay. You might recognize a feeling of sheer

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dread. This is something unlike anything you've

00:21:19.339 --> 00:21:21.640
faced before. Now, you don't need to fight it

00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.400
straight. You could just leave. The world is

00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:28.460
your oyster. Can I ask, what does Salome know

00:21:28.460 --> 00:21:32.119
about storm giants? I'm particularly very interested

00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:38.160
in if storm giants are immune or whatever to

00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:42.980
either thunder or lightning damage. That's super

00:21:42.980 --> 00:21:44.839
important for Salome to try to figure out. For

00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:46.720
storm giants, you can give me history or arcana.

00:21:47.740 --> 00:21:50.140
Yeah, make a check. This is like you recalling

00:21:50.140 --> 00:21:51.519
any knowledge you have. Anyone can make this

00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:53.980
check. Okay. Intelligence, of course, being mine.

00:21:54.019 --> 00:21:57.059
What are we rolling? History? History or Arcana?

00:21:57.140 --> 00:22:01.779
Arcana, okay. Can I affect them with my Thunder

00:22:01.779 --> 00:22:08.019
or Lightning damage? With a two minus two, Salome

00:22:08.019 --> 00:22:10.539
has never heard of a Storm Giant. Yeah, same

00:22:10.539 --> 00:22:12.779
with a five plus one. Two is a dozen of shit.

00:22:15.970 --> 00:22:17.650
Yeah, you know, if you just overcharge them,

00:22:17.690 --> 00:22:20.470
right? It's kind of like, they're so lightning

00:22:20.470 --> 00:22:21.609
-y, if you put more lightning in them, they'll

00:22:21.609 --> 00:22:23.829
probably just explode. Great, cool. It's like

00:22:23.829 --> 00:22:25.190
a battery, right? Makes sense, yeah, it's like

00:22:25.190 --> 00:22:32.390
a battery. What is our plan, Jules? Jules is

00:22:32.390 --> 00:22:35.009
not going to leave this thing. He's not going

00:22:35.009 --> 00:22:38.009
to leave all these people to die. Jules is planning

00:22:38.009 --> 00:22:42.329
on fighting. But he turns to Salome. Salome,

00:22:42.430 --> 00:22:46.819
can you fly up there? See if anybody knows where

00:22:46.819 --> 00:22:51.660
Paul is. She looks straight up and she studies

00:22:51.660 --> 00:22:56.519
the battle happening in the sky, noting the celestials.

00:22:56.619 --> 00:22:58.720
We just need a location, then come back down

00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:02.900
here and we fight. I will do that. But I won't

00:23:02.900 --> 00:23:07.279
leave you alone. I think, like, hearing this,

00:23:07.299 --> 00:23:09.819
Jai is, he's like... Already sort of half flying

00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:12.640
away, he's like up in the air moving, and he

00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.779
kind of turns back to you. Again, his veins are

00:23:14.779 --> 00:23:17.519
crackling with whatever that potion was. Just,

00:23:17.619 --> 00:23:22.279
do not lose sight of our objective. We are luminaries,

00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.299
all. He kind of looks to you, Jules, for a moment,

00:23:25.339 --> 00:23:28.700
nods. More than that, we're soldiers. Save everyone

00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:33.920
you can. Don't you worry. We're fighting. He

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:36.660
nods, smiles, and just goes to turn away, and

00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:39.700
you hear... Mesmer, Yara just shout out, Jai!

00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:42.079
He stops for one second, doesn't really look

00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:44.900
back, but just halts for a moment as she calls

00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:50.799
after him. I see you. And you see him rocket

00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:56.160
off over the cityscape. As he moves away, as

00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.519
Salome begins to make a move, imagine upwards,

00:23:58.619 --> 00:24:02.240
as you turn to face this giant sees him go and

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:09.339
just, you will run from me. He turns away from

00:24:09.339 --> 00:24:12.619
Jai, seeing him moving towards his own certain

00:24:12.619 --> 00:24:15.119
doom, towards those other two giants, and looks

00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:21.180
to the rest of you. I will break you all. You.

00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:24.799
His eyes lock on you, Salome, as you begin to

00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:29.799
move. You! Winged Cretan! Your kind do not belong

00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:33.579
on our world! You appear here with your laws

00:24:33.579 --> 00:24:37.960
and your demands! We will suffer no more! The

00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:40.819
sacred serpent has come to see your reckoning.

00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:44.539
We will not miss the fun. We have risen from

00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:47.319
the tides to smash all of the small folk and

00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:51.759
to tear the wings off of you little birds. For

00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:57.660
Starbreaker! You hear another giant face weathered

00:24:57.660 --> 00:25:01.099
with age, rising up short ways beyond the crushed

00:25:01.099 --> 00:25:03.880
tavern to the north. its eyes, lock on to its

00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:06.759
screaming kin, fly, you know, pluck away to you,

00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:10.480
Salome. He begins to char, scramming out a war

00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:17.000
cry of his own. For Pond Hill! Roll for initiative.

00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:22.500
All right. Let's fuck these giants up. Damn,

00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:24.140
you said roll for initiative before I said, hey,

00:25:24.180 --> 00:25:26.680
can Jules cast a spell? I know, I was like, yeah.

00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:28.480
Once you cast a spell, it's like, oh, you're

00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.900
basically already going to initiative. Yeah,

00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:35.650
yeah. Also, oh, shoot. Sidekicks? Sidekicks.

00:25:35.670 --> 00:25:37.349
I haven't had my sheets yet. Oh, yeah. So who

00:25:37.349 --> 00:25:40.349
gets which sidekick? Yeah, I just looked. I don't

00:25:40.349 --> 00:25:44.049
have Arhalon. You're Arhalon? Do you want Arhalon

00:25:44.049 --> 00:25:46.710
or Gabriella? I don't know if I want the responsibility

00:25:46.710 --> 00:25:49.609
of playing your girlfriend. Yeah. All right.

00:25:49.849 --> 00:25:53.369
You take Arhalon. Okay. Because you'll probably

00:25:53.369 --> 00:25:55.369
be better playing him than I am. I have at least

00:25:55.369 --> 00:25:59.230
one way that I could maybe, like, play. off of

00:25:59.230 --> 00:26:01.369
Arhalon, so I'm kind of excited to try that.

00:26:01.430 --> 00:26:03.390
We'll see if I get a chance. Roll your initiatives,

00:26:03.569 --> 00:26:06.509
write them down, and I'm going to do some Phenamelin.

00:26:06.529 --> 00:26:08.950
All right. Let me Phenamel some high kicks on

00:26:08.950 --> 00:26:11.549
these sheets. What's Gabrielle's modifier? That's

00:26:11.549 --> 00:26:16.289
a good question. Add a high kick. Spent so much

00:26:16.289 --> 00:26:18.289
time on prep and didn't do the one most important

00:26:18.289 --> 00:26:20.710
thing. All right. Got sheets back up. I'm going

00:26:20.710 --> 00:26:24.670
to roll Arhalons. Yes. Arhalon roll. Who knew?

00:26:25.210 --> 00:26:27.490
Varhalon resplendentness. I believe it's black.

00:26:27.789 --> 00:26:30.869
We've heard from Zila in canon, like adamantine

00:26:30.869 --> 00:26:33.210
armor. There's some art being made of Varhalon.

00:26:33.250 --> 00:26:34.829
Actually, right now, tonight, probably getting

00:26:34.829 --> 00:26:40.049
colored in. As we speak. As we speak. Astropathic

00:26:40.049 --> 00:26:42.069
Art on Instagram. Check it out. Check her out.

00:26:42.069 --> 00:26:44.890
Some insane new stuff dropped. A crazy John Franklin

00:26:44.890 --> 00:26:46.309
picture that's currently on my iPhone background.

00:26:46.690 --> 00:26:48.789
All over the Discord, too. Yes, all over the

00:26:48.789 --> 00:26:50.450
Discord. Get them all saved in there. You want

00:26:50.450 --> 00:26:53.410
some cool pictures of our characters to put on

00:26:53.410 --> 00:26:56.450
your phones and tape up to your wall and whatever

00:26:56.450 --> 00:26:58.210
weird stuff. And I'll be better about posting

00:26:58.210 --> 00:27:01.869
them, too. Yes, hell yeah. Sorry. Anyway, we

00:27:01.869 --> 00:27:03.869
were rolling sidekick sheets. Yeah. What was

00:27:03.869 --> 00:27:07.500
Gabrielle's modifier for? Four. It's dex. Oh,

00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:10.099
it's four. Okay. It is her dex. Cool. So I got

00:27:10.099 --> 00:27:14.579
a 13 for Salome and a nine for Arhalon. I got

00:27:14.579 --> 00:27:20.220
a six for Gabriela. Oof. And a three for Jules.

00:27:20.339 --> 00:27:24.299
Oh, double oof. Jules rolled a natural one. Holy

00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:27.109
crap. And he's got a plus two. For his initiative.

00:27:27.349 --> 00:27:31.130
Ouchy mama. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, Jules

00:27:31.130 --> 00:27:32.410
is about to make a move, and he's just like,

00:27:32.549 --> 00:27:36.089
horse of Gauss, what's that? All the trauma flashes

00:27:36.089 --> 00:27:38.869
back, slows you down. No, fuck that. Gabriela

00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:42.589
says, wait. Actually, stay close to me. And she

00:27:42.589 --> 00:27:44.529
kind of puts a hand down. Watch out for that

00:27:44.529 --> 00:27:48.069
horse. She's gone full, like a secret service

00:27:48.069 --> 00:27:50.329
mode around you right now. Just crouched down

00:27:50.329 --> 00:27:56.009
low, getting ready to fight. And with that. Oh,

00:27:56.769 --> 00:28:27.380
boy. Vanishes. Hell yeah. And that's her turn.

00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:32.079
And now it's going to be that storm giant, the

00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:33.960
one incoming. There's one farther away. It's

00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:35.039
going to take him a minute. You just see him.

00:28:35.059 --> 00:28:37.240
You're going to hear the concert. He's charging

00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.400
down the street. Boom, boom. Smashing through

00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:42.839
structures, buildings like they're nothing. Just

00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:46.119
full juggernauting over to you. There's one closer

00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.039
to you that you've got to deal with. Tell me.

00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:49.339
You're already taken to the sky. I'm going to

00:28:49.339 --> 00:28:51.380
say you started flying. I'm not going to say

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:52.900
you're on the ground. I was going to say she's

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:55.819
in that cool. Like, superhero pose. Do you want

00:28:55.819 --> 00:28:58.480
to be in that pose? I mean, just for the theatrics

00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.140
of it, but not for the mechanics of it. You want

00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:02.039
the cobblestone to explode when you jump up?

00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:04.720
Yeah, exactly. Right. You told me, are you in

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.720
the air or are you on the ground? It's going

00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:11.430
to decide what I do. Ooh. God damn it. I want

00:29:11.430 --> 00:29:14.089
to be in the air. All right. You did the cool

00:29:14.089 --> 00:29:16.109
thing. The ground's already exploded. Okay, cool.

00:29:16.269 --> 00:29:17.809
There's rubble flying up on you. Crater beneath

00:29:17.809 --> 00:29:22.470
her. And you're, boom. Full crater. So I... All

00:29:22.470 --> 00:29:24.990
right, yeah. And you're, boom, zooming up. See,

00:29:25.089 --> 00:29:27.269
you get into the theater of the mind. You can't

00:29:27.269 --> 00:29:32.619
do craters on a grid map. Makes no sense. You're

00:29:32.619 --> 00:29:34.880
locked in the air, and this creature you see

00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.359
sees you there, grabs a piece of rubble from

00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.220
the ground behind it, and full hooks it towards

00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:41.900
you. Oh, awesome. Other hand grabs the second

00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:44.700
one and hooks it as well. Oh, twice. Yeah, baby.

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:47.440
We caught you twice. What? You're in trouble.

00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:49.740
Holy shit. You ready for this? No. You ready

00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:55.680
for this? Still no. Hang on. I made a goof. I

00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:58.000
only have one. I realized I pulled up, for some

00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.839
reason, the 2025, 2024 Stormdry and Snap logs,

00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.960
and I'm like, no, no, those are... I'm not balanced

00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:07.180
in this game. I'm getting nerfed. I'm actively

00:30:07.180 --> 00:30:10.180
getting nerfed right now. So we're going to zoop

00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:12.940
back over to the right stone giant stat block

00:30:12.940 --> 00:30:15.900
and now I'm going to beat you up. So here we

00:30:15.900 --> 00:30:20.599
go. Here comes a rock. A single one. Not the

00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:24.500
highest roll. Crap. Well, a 22 hit? I knew it

00:30:24.500 --> 00:30:28.960
was going to be like... Yeah, 22 hits. Wonderful.

00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:32.180
Alright, hang on, let me do a bunch of math.

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:37.220
So much math. There's a limit to how big my numbers

00:30:37.220 --> 00:30:42.619
can get in my head. This is rolling. Is that

00:30:42.619 --> 00:30:46.160
a D12? Turquoise die here. I haven't whipped

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:47.960
these guys out in a while, so this is pretty

00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:50.619
fun. It fucking is a D12. I should have done

00:30:50.619 --> 00:30:51.980
some Bardics while we were still in the game.

00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:55.720
You just ran a fourth D12, I think. I'll just

00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.299
add to that real fast. Stop. I can't survive

00:30:58.299 --> 00:31:01.299
4D12. What the fuck? Okay. Hey, not too bad.

00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:06.809
Okay. That is 37 points of bludgeoning damage.

00:31:06.869 --> 00:31:10.609
You just go to move and this full boulder crashes

00:31:10.609 --> 00:31:13.349
into you. You just feel this unimaginable pain,

00:31:13.430 --> 00:31:15.190
this force ripping through. I imagine as you

00:31:15.190 --> 00:31:18.250
get hit, Salome, almost like cracks form into

00:31:18.250 --> 00:31:21.450
your body and light, like prismatic light begins

00:31:21.450 --> 00:31:24.670
to flow out as you are sent that much closer

00:31:24.670 --> 00:31:28.230
to your home plane, to being brought back to

00:31:28.230 --> 00:31:30.869
the plane of Kameo, that outer world of light.

00:31:31.569 --> 00:31:37.240
You feel this thing crash. against you. You were

00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.460
sent sort of sprawling in the air, probably holding

00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:41.839
your spot. In fact, you know what? You're in

00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:43.420
the air. You just get by a rock. I need you to

00:31:43.420 --> 00:31:44.880
roll for me something. I need you to roll for

00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.799
me acrobatics or athletics. Your choice. You're

00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:51.400
such a dick. To see if you're going to go with

00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:57.940
the rock. A three. Fucking hell. You go to make

00:31:57.940 --> 00:32:01.380
that move. You see that monster up ahead, Pong,

00:32:01.380 --> 00:32:05.750
ill, moving. information you might need out of

00:32:05.750 --> 00:32:09.309
your reach your hand outstretched and this pain

00:32:09.309 --> 00:32:13.869
rips through you you feel bones cracking breaking

00:32:13.869 --> 00:32:17.789
if that's how celestials work discord me if it's

00:32:17.789 --> 00:32:22.509
not and you go tumbling back down to the ground

00:32:22.509 --> 00:32:28.009
to the ground yeah fuck so We're fighting one

00:32:28.009 --> 00:32:30.230
of these right now. There's a second one coming

00:32:30.230 --> 00:32:33.349
towards us. There's two to the east. There's

00:32:33.349 --> 00:32:36.069
three to the southwest. Jai's got those two.

00:32:36.369 --> 00:32:38.690
And then there's still a boss monster in the

00:32:38.690 --> 00:32:43.670
sky. Welcome to Chaos Land. Hey, you're using

00:32:43.670 --> 00:32:45.269
that imagination really well. Are you scared?

00:32:45.690 --> 00:32:50.049
Yeah. Boom, that's imagination, baby. That is

00:32:50.049 --> 00:32:51.750
my turn, though, and that's going to be you,

00:32:51.849 --> 00:32:54.869
Salome. The other one is going to take the turn.

00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:02.680
gets closer and closer. Salome hits the ground

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:06.500
and rolls and rolls and rolls and finally catches

00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:11.900
herself and looks towards the storm giant with

00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:16.240
a hand up and casts a spell. And she calls out

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:23.160
to Arhalon. Arhalon, be the next hit. And she's

00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:27.769
going to cast Guiding Bolt. On the frost, not

00:33:27.769 --> 00:33:30.950
the frost giant, storm giant. Hell yeah. Oh,

00:33:31.069 --> 00:33:35.289
that's a 18 with a plus nine. So like a million

00:33:35.289 --> 00:33:37.710
and a half. That's going to hit. Okay, great.

00:33:37.809 --> 00:33:44.630
So that's, let me see here. 4d6 radiant. Give

00:33:44.630 --> 00:33:48.710
me that radiant. You see Arhalon is locked in.

00:33:48.789 --> 00:33:51.009
He just hears these words, nods, positions himself

00:33:51.009 --> 00:33:53.710
to move. And he's, those old shield bear instincts

00:33:53.710 --> 00:33:58.420
fully kicking in. His orange eyes sort of locked

00:33:58.420 --> 00:34:02.059
on this creature. Just 12. Just 12? Radiant.

00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:05.380
Hey, 12 is not nothing. As this bolt slams into

00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:07.740
it, you see it begins to light up around the

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:12.519
wound, almost drawing in Arhalon's attention.

00:34:12.579 --> 00:34:16.599
His eyes sort of focus on that now. He looks

00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:19.099
emboldened. Anything else you want to do? You

00:34:19.099 --> 00:34:21.780
want to try flying again? Yeah, sorry. Yeah,

00:34:21.820 --> 00:34:26.019
yeah. Movement. Yes. Chill. Less cool this time,

00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:30.980
a little unsteady on her feet. Try to, maybe

00:34:30.980 --> 00:34:32.920
it takes her two attempts to get off the ground

00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:36.639
and try to move. Fly speed is somewhere around

00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.059
here. It's the same as her walking speed, right?

00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.840
Yes. Yes, so she'll try to fly 30 feet into the

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.300
sky. It'll take a number of, basically, moves

00:34:45.300 --> 00:34:47.800
to reach that creature above. You see it's sort

00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:50.900
of spinning around in the sky now. Before, it

00:34:50.900 --> 00:34:53.320
was going one direction. Now it's turning. As

00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.260
you see, those lights in the sky are locked against

00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:58.559
it. Flashes of lights. Other guiding bolts being

00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.880
thrown far above. You blast off again. Masonry

00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.260
breaks. No, it's less cool this time. It's less

00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:12.170
cool. A single rock moves a little bit. And Jeremy,

00:35:12.269 --> 00:35:15.489
I just want to say that earlier when Salome said,

00:35:15.750 --> 00:35:17.489
you know, I'll do this, but I'm not going to

00:35:17.489 --> 00:35:20.110
leave you alone, I was going to cast a spell

00:35:20.110 --> 00:35:24.389
that was going to leave a thing down there with

00:35:24.389 --> 00:35:28.429
you, but plans changed. Yeah. So I'm leaving

00:35:28.429 --> 00:35:32.809
Arhalon with you instead. Arhalon. It's pretty

00:35:32.809 --> 00:35:35.119
cool, though, and it's actually... His turn.

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.079
Okay, that's great. Oh, boy. That's excellent.

00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:43.760
Arhalon is going to run towards this giant and

00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:49.139
take a swing with his flametongue sword. Are

00:35:49.139 --> 00:35:53.150
you activating it? Yes. Oh, so it's a bonus action

00:35:53.150 --> 00:35:54.969
before. Bonus action before you attack to just

00:35:54.969 --> 00:35:56.710
get the thing going. And you see the blade will

00:35:56.710 --> 00:36:00.269
ignite with full fire. The type of weapon used

00:36:00.269 --> 00:36:03.949
by his father. A great sword wreathed in flame.

00:36:04.210 --> 00:36:06.909
And I'm actually going to be rolling two d20s

00:36:06.909 --> 00:36:11.730
because guiding bolt gives the next hit on that

00:36:11.730 --> 00:36:15.989
target advantage. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, my gosh.

00:36:16.030 --> 00:36:20.309
Oh, great. That's 24. 24 will hit. Okay, sweet.

00:36:20.809 --> 00:36:26.369
He's also going to use his Searing Smite. Oh

00:36:26.369 --> 00:36:30.969
my gosh! So the... You would hurt these poor

00:36:30.969 --> 00:36:34.489
innocents! You would hurt my friends! Creature,

00:36:34.489 --> 00:36:38.269
you will fall! And he flies in, sword coming.

00:36:38.409 --> 00:36:41.610
So the base damage for the sword is 2d6 plus

00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:44.239
4. This is going to get crazy. It's two more

00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:47.719
d6 because of the flame tongue being active.

00:36:48.019 --> 00:36:50.699
It is. And then it's two more d6 for the searing

00:36:50.699 --> 00:36:53.920
smite. Oh, my gosh. So 6d6 plus 4. Got your bone

00:36:53.920 --> 00:37:01.000
d6 around here somewhere? I... We paused to look

00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:04.159
for the bone d6. And the consensus is I'm pretty

00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:08.360
sure I have them at home. But... I did grab a

00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:11.260
boatload of D6s from a boatload of our friends,

00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:16.860
and I'm going to roll them. Oh, hell yeah. This

00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:22.380
is going to be so ridiculous. 24. 24 damage.

00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:28.440
24 fire damage. Holy crap. Okay. That's 66 plus

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.559
that modifier. Holy moly. He just slides in,

00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:35.400
blazing sword ripping right into this creature's

00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:37.840
chest, slicing through. It's like chain armor,

00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:40.980
you know, hot, you know, smoldering gap in the

00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:46.079
metal, and it roars out. Is that his turn? That's

00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.820
it. Okay. And that is going to be Gabriela. Cool.

00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:53.840
She's going to do what she does best. How tall

00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:56.039
is this thing? This thing's 25 feet tall. 25

00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:59.659
feet. Okay. Big boy. Gabriela, with her knowledge

00:37:59.659 --> 00:38:03.800
of... Things. Would she know of a weak spot potentially

00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:09.119
around his ankles or something? That's a tricky

00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:12.320
one. Or is she quick enough to get behind him

00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.079
and climb up? If you burn a step of the wind,

00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:16.420
she could get behind. Because that would take

00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:18.699
one movement to get behind him and one movement

00:38:18.699 --> 00:38:20.539
basically to climb to the top. He's standing

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:22.960
next to the rubble of this building. I'll tell

00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.920
you this. If you spend the extra movement and

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:28.690
beat an acrobatics roll to get up quickly. Athletics

00:38:28.690 --> 00:38:31.269
or acrobatics, I'll allow. I will give her advantage

00:38:31.269 --> 00:38:33.309
on her next attack because she'll be climbing

00:38:33.309 --> 00:38:34.590
up to this behind this thing on his head and

00:38:34.590 --> 00:38:36.190
you'll get flanking bonus because she'll be behind

00:38:36.190 --> 00:38:38.690
it. Okay. I think that's cool. I kind of want

00:38:38.690 --> 00:38:41.389
to do that. But if you feel that... Flank? Yeah.

00:38:41.570 --> 00:38:42.849
If you feel the acrobatics check, though, she

00:38:42.849 --> 00:38:45.250
can fall. Yeah. But she'll still be in flanking.

00:38:45.530 --> 00:38:47.670
Yeah. It's true. All right. Very true. Let's

00:38:47.670 --> 00:38:51.070
do it. Let's go for that. Hell yeah. Cool. Social

00:38:51.070 --> 00:38:52.510
media move. You burn one key point, set for the

00:38:52.510 --> 00:38:56.030
win. You see just, Jules, stay safe. And just...

00:38:56.230 --> 00:38:58.369
Boom, she's already gone. Beeline across the

00:38:58.369 --> 00:39:00.610
street moving so fast. I think she's still wearing

00:39:00.610 --> 00:39:02.550
your, like, she bought new clothes, new dresses,

00:39:02.550 --> 00:39:04.449
but she likes your outfit. She has that sort

00:39:04.449 --> 00:39:06.929
of same sort of loose black clothing that seems

00:39:06.929 --> 00:39:09.329
to blend into the sort of shadowy storm cloud.

00:39:09.550 --> 00:39:18.070
She moves behind it. 11. I was only looking for

00:39:18.070 --> 00:39:22.050
a 10. Oh, baby. It's not like climbing a fear

00:39:22.050 --> 00:39:24.449
structure. It's rubble. So I imagine it's kind

00:39:24.449 --> 00:39:26.389
of falling down. Anything lower, it's like a

00:39:26.389 --> 00:39:27.949
thing would twist. She'd fall, but she just...

00:39:28.379 --> 00:39:29.900
rebounding up this stuff. You're already costing

00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:34.380
a ki point. So she stands upon one sort of flattened

00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:37.780
piece of rubble, getting up to almost the back

00:39:37.780 --> 00:39:40.099
of its neck. Actually, it probably wouldn't be

00:39:40.099 --> 00:39:41.940
that high up. It's a single -story tavern, so

00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:44.980
probably more like his spine. But as she moves

00:39:44.980 --> 00:39:46.820
up there, take advantage of your attack. Cool.

00:39:47.019 --> 00:39:50.420
Where's the armor covering? The armor would be

00:39:50.420 --> 00:39:51.880
basically covering. It's shame -milled down.

00:39:52.380 --> 00:39:56.000
So she could go for the neck. Yeah, she can jump

00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:57.679
up. It looks like she can just barely reach the

00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.599
neck with a pretty firm kick. Get some damage

00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:03.320
in for this first one. Okay. That'll be the advantage.

00:40:04.300 --> 00:40:06.900
Does she have any weapons? Because she does have

00:40:06.900 --> 00:40:09.300
a melee weapon attack. That's just her punch.

00:40:09.380 --> 00:40:11.980
That's just her punch. Okay, cool. Gabrielle

00:40:11.980 --> 00:40:13.820
doesn't need weapons. She's got a key. Fair,

00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:21.099
fair. That is going to be a 23 to hit. 23 will

00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:23.659
hit. Holy shit. How is it that you don't have

00:40:23.659 --> 00:40:27.920
Sensation? I have seen bigger foes. She hasn't.

00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:33.420
That's going to be 10. 10 damage. Okay. You have

00:40:33.420 --> 00:40:35.820
one more attack. You burned your bonus action.

00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:38.360
That's what I was going to ask. Did that not

00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:40.460
count as a bonus action? That movement with the

00:40:40.460 --> 00:40:42.460
key point? The key point will. So you get one

00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:43.920
more attack because you get two attacks normal.

00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:45.340
But you won't be able to get your bonus action.

00:40:45.340 --> 00:40:47.929
Get the third. Yeah. Okay. Cool. You guys are

00:40:47.929 --> 00:40:49.989
turning on some new Ferraris. Characters we have

00:40:49.989 --> 00:40:52.369
not seen since Saint -Étienne are running wild.

00:40:52.650 --> 00:40:57.590
This one's going to be a 13. 13. Is that with

00:40:57.590 --> 00:41:00.949
flanking? Oh, no, 15. 15 still misses. Fuck!

00:41:01.969 --> 00:41:05.769
I'm sorry. It's always so funny. Goddamn. He

00:41:05.769 --> 00:41:08.070
first cracks, and the thing, she turns to try

00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:09.789
to hit it again. It's just like the shoulder

00:41:09.789 --> 00:41:11.869
sort of flexes out of the way. Elbow comes and

00:41:11.869 --> 00:41:14.230
almost takes her, and she kind of... bounce off

00:41:14.230 --> 00:41:17.469
of it, lands firmly on top of this sort of like

00:41:17.469 --> 00:41:20.989
flat piece of rubble, flattened out by his own

00:41:20.989 --> 00:41:23.250
sort of body as he pressed onto it. Now she is

00:41:23.250 --> 00:41:28.489
in position. Hell yeah. That is going to be Jules.

00:41:29.190 --> 00:41:34.130
Sweet. Jules is going to look at over to the...

00:41:34.130 --> 00:41:38.090
How far was Salome? Salome would be now 30 feet

00:41:38.090 --> 00:41:39.730
up. And would you get knocked back? She would

00:41:39.730 --> 00:41:42.050
be 10 feet behind you. 10 feet behind, 30 feet

00:41:42.050 --> 00:41:44.210
down. So Jules is going to turn around, reach

00:41:44.210 --> 00:41:47.090
out his hand, and he's going to use as an action,

00:41:47.110 --> 00:41:51.309
animating performance, and grab the rock that

00:41:51.309 --> 00:41:55.230
was used for Salome. Holy shit, yes! As a bonus

00:41:55.230 --> 00:41:59.610
action. Oh my gosh. As a bonus action, first

00:41:59.610 --> 00:42:01.730
he's going to cast Bardic Inspiration onto Salome.

00:42:01.929 --> 00:42:05.130
Oh, baby! Okay. And if I'm reading this right,

00:42:05.190 --> 00:42:08.760
double check it. I can still... With Bardic Inspiration,

00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:10.639
if I'm using a bonus action for Bardic Inspiration,

00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:14.260
I can still use a bonus action to command the

00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:17.039
item as well. What? Just double check. I'm pretty

00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:19.519
sure I read that right. Let me look at this.

00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:22.219
Let me look at this shit. Yeah. Yeah. Except

00:42:22.219 --> 00:42:24.199
in Jules on Google. What is wrong with me? Get

00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.460
out of town. It didn't pull him up. It didn't

00:42:26.460 --> 00:42:27.780
pull the character shape. What's wrong with Google?

00:42:27.780 --> 00:42:30.800
It's under my bonus actions and actions. Actually,

00:42:30.900 --> 00:42:32.460
hold on. Hold on. No, no. Where did I find it?

00:42:32.500 --> 00:42:35.460
Hold on. Stand by. Okay. I found it. So this

00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:37.380
bottom paragraph says, when you use your bardic

00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:39.199
inspiration feature, you can command the item

00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:41.440
as part of the same bonus action you use for

00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:43.880
bardic inspiration. Once you animate an item

00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:45.960
with this feature, you can't do it again until

00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:48.559
you finish a long rest. Yeah. Damn. Okay, so

00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:51.980
like the first turn when you aim an object. Yeah.

00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.079
You can use the same bonus action to do bardic.

00:42:55.539 --> 00:42:58.539
That's so cool. Yeah. So like I just imagine,

00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:01.079
yeah, you just like. You go to animate this,

00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:03.780
and that golden mode that shines towards Salome

00:43:03.780 --> 00:43:06.300
splits and hits the rock that she leaves behind.

00:43:06.539 --> 00:43:08.280
Salome, boom, gets a little ball around you,

00:43:08.300 --> 00:43:11.719
and the rock behind gets it as well. Okay, cool.

00:43:11.860 --> 00:43:13.579
Yeah, so actually that saves my action then.

00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:16.960
It does? Yeah. Okay, I had it mixed around. I

00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:18.599
was thinking I could still attack with the bonus

00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:20.760
action by commanding it, but that still gives

00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:24.360
me my action. It's using the bonus action to

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:27.960
animate it. So I still have an action. Cool.

00:43:28.579 --> 00:43:35.239
Fuck yeah. Let's go with a tried and true. I'm

00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:39.780
going to cast... Blindness, Deafness. Ooh, that's

00:43:39.780 --> 00:43:42.179
a good one. Let's go for that one. I mean, it's

00:43:42.179 --> 00:43:46.099
probably got a high con. Storm Giant? No. Yeah,

00:43:46.219 --> 00:43:49.159
I'm going to use... Oh, that con is crazy. Sorry.

00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.460
Crazy low. Crazy low con. That's a shitty con.

00:43:56.420 --> 00:43:59.650
Okay. Cool. Yeah, it's gonna be third level.

00:44:00.030 --> 00:44:02.630
Third level. Okay. It's gonna have to be high.

00:44:02.650 --> 00:44:05.010
Okay. You ready for this? You ready for this?

00:44:06.670 --> 00:44:10.929
Pass. What is it? 25. God damn it. I rolled really

00:44:10.929 --> 00:44:14.489
good. God damn it. You just go to cast and I

00:44:14.489 --> 00:44:16.010
think you see a dark shadow pass through the

00:44:16.010 --> 00:44:19.349
eyes for a second and then almost like burst

00:44:19.349 --> 00:44:23.130
away. That same sort of light blue shine in the

00:44:23.130 --> 00:44:27.110
eyes just destroys your shadow. Eyes, pupil -less,

00:44:27.130 --> 00:44:29.550
seem to turn and focus on you. Of course they

00:44:29.550 --> 00:44:33.929
do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is that your turn? Do you

00:44:33.929 --> 00:44:36.730
want to move? Right now, you are standing about

00:44:36.730 --> 00:44:38.429
30 feet back from the giant. Arhalon is up in

00:44:38.429 --> 00:44:40.809
its biz, and Gabrielle is right behind it. So

00:44:40.809 --> 00:44:43.630
you are in a safe -ish location. Yeah. What's...

00:44:44.509 --> 00:44:47.590
around me in terms of structure. Behind you is

00:44:47.590 --> 00:44:49.050
the ramp up to the auroral diamond. You're kind

00:44:49.050 --> 00:44:50.889
of staying in the middle of this dirt road. The

00:44:50.889 --> 00:44:53.050
tavern kind of stands at a corner, so sort of

00:44:53.050 --> 00:44:56.349
beyond that, on the west side is more dirt road.

00:44:56.449 --> 00:44:59.210
On the east side, though, there is a building

00:44:59.210 --> 00:45:01.769
that's sort of crackling, burning fire on it.

00:45:02.190 --> 00:45:03.789
I may have got those mixed up. Let me double

00:45:03.789 --> 00:45:07.230
check. Sorry, yeah. It looks like a store sort

00:45:07.230 --> 00:45:09.369
of on the west side. On the east side, it looks

00:45:09.369 --> 00:45:11.590
like there's a corner beyond that, like a long

00:45:11.590 --> 00:45:14.340
sort of string of market stalls. Okay. So if

00:45:14.340 --> 00:45:15.880
I were to go around to that building, I would

00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:18.059
kind of start going around the side of the giant?

00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:20.800
Yeah, yeah. If you want to go around to the building

00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.019
up to the side. Yeah, he's going to make his

00:45:22.019 --> 00:45:24.340
way to that building. Okay, so you bolt around

00:45:24.340 --> 00:45:27.280
the side of the giant, around towards this building,

00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.260
this store broken in, fire lighting it. As you

00:45:31.260 --> 00:45:32.739
move closer, I want you to roll for me a perception

00:45:32.739 --> 00:45:35.920
check. Oh, goddammit. In fact, what's your passive?

00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:41.349
My passive is 16. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Holy shit.

00:45:41.369 --> 00:45:42.590
I thought you had a negative. Oh, that's fine.

00:45:42.690 --> 00:45:45.869
Okay, cool. As you go to move around it, Jules,

00:45:46.090 --> 00:45:51.969
two things happen. The first, you move to the

00:45:51.969 --> 00:45:55.130
side of the building and you hear screaming.

00:45:56.230 --> 00:45:58.329
This screaming stands out from the rest because

00:45:58.329 --> 00:46:01.409
it is muffled. Because it is sounds of people

00:46:01.409 --> 00:46:03.710
screaming from inside the crush building from

00:46:03.710 --> 00:46:11.760
where the fire seems to lick. As you take that

00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:15.199
in, your eyes fall into the street beside you,

00:46:15.260 --> 00:46:19.599
now sort of opened up, and you can see another

00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:23.320
scream go up as this young, sort of teenage boy,

00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:26.219
long bangs with dark hair, his eyes just like

00:46:26.219 --> 00:46:31.920
is leaning over a body. Mom! Mom! And you see

00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:35.139
a woman in a teal dress is lying beneath him,

00:46:35.179 --> 00:46:38.510
or half her body is like... just completely cooked,

00:46:38.690 --> 00:46:40.769
blackened wounds, smoking where a bolt of lightning

00:46:40.769 --> 00:46:43.610
has seemed to rip through her flesh. Her left

00:46:43.610 --> 00:46:45.889
arm, still wrapped in pale skin, still alive,

00:46:46.090 --> 00:46:48.769
is pressed against her son's cheek, and you see

00:46:48.769 --> 00:46:51.010
a trail of tears trickling down between the splayed

00:46:51.010 --> 00:46:53.630
-out fingers, her mouth moving. You don't catch

00:46:53.630 --> 00:46:56.829
words, but you do catch the moment when that

00:46:56.829 --> 00:47:01.670
hand falls limp, the very instant when this woman

00:47:01.670 --> 00:47:06.760
dies, and you feel that paddle. pressed into

00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:10.280
your back, perhaps in your bag of holding. People

00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:13.619
screaming, about to burn inside a building. A

00:47:13.619 --> 00:47:16.340
woman who's just died in the arms of her son.

00:47:16.900 --> 00:47:21.260
And you, Jules, with a choice to make. Is that

00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:26.099
your turn? Yeah. Cool. One hell of a turn, Jules.

00:47:26.219 --> 00:47:39.219
Yeah. Way up high, Bakunawa. moves down. Salome,

00:47:39.219 --> 00:47:43.019
you're flying up, moving. This is the diva's

00:47:43.019 --> 00:47:45.480
turn that is flying down to meet you. Much like

00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:49.619
Hyronix, a very ivory white skin. You see this

00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:53.559
one has long flowing hair, chiseled features,

00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:57.179
huge massive chin. It's ridiculous. Sort of moving

00:47:57.179 --> 00:48:01.099
down in the eyes, gleaming white light. Spools

00:48:01.099 --> 00:48:04.840
of radiance seem to regard you and look surprised.

00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:07.139
Give me a luck check, see if you recognize this

00:48:07.139 --> 00:48:10.670
guy. D20, D100, I don't care. It's 50 -50. Yeah,

00:48:10.730 --> 00:48:14.309
I just had to find my D20. Eleven and higher,

00:48:14.409 --> 00:48:17.510
you got him. It's a two. You don't know him.

00:48:17.650 --> 00:48:21.130
You know him, he seems to know you. Sister Salome,

00:48:21.130 --> 00:48:28.489
what are you doing here? Quickly, what news?

00:48:28.650 --> 00:48:32.670
There's no time. I don't... Everything's gone

00:48:32.670 --> 00:48:37.090
mad. The creature, the dragon, it's gone. It's

00:48:37.090 --> 00:48:38.809
insane. It's been attacking outer villages. It

00:48:38.809 --> 00:48:40.670
came here. I don't know why it came here, but

00:48:40.670 --> 00:48:42.869
the giants have followed. The city has fallen.

00:48:43.590 --> 00:48:47.550
I don't know what to do. And you realize you're

00:48:47.550 --> 00:48:52.590
a pari. You outrank this diva. You are a luminary.

00:48:52.750 --> 00:48:56.809
You are a trusted of Atash. And you see this

00:48:56.809 --> 00:49:01.289
figure is looking to you for guidance. What do

00:49:01.289 --> 00:49:04.679
you know of the creature? Can it be? Stopped

00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:08.940
here. Shit, that's bad. Yeah, it's pretty loud.

00:49:09.539 --> 00:49:12.340
Yeah. All right, so I feel like because it's

00:49:12.340 --> 00:49:13.539
an audio standpoint, I need to let the pants

00:49:13.539 --> 00:49:15.900
people know that if you're hearing any buzzing

00:49:15.900 --> 00:49:18.960
that comes up, our mic cables are starting to

00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:22.079
go. They've been serving us well for over three

00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:26.840
years now. Their life is about over. Mine went

00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:30.079
last week, and now apparently Stephen's is. So

00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:31.800
if you hear a buzz, I'm sorry. I can't do shit

00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:33.900
about it right now. We'll get new cables. Buy

00:49:33.900 --> 00:49:37.360
a sweatshirt. Yeah. That'll help. Yeah. Where

00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.280
can I buy a sweatshirt at, Stephen? At fantasypants

00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:43.199
.co, because .com was way too expensive. Buy

00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:48.900
a sweatshirt. Save the podcast. All right. Let's

00:49:48.900 --> 00:49:54.179
kill your... Monsters, dude. All right. I shouldn't

00:49:54.179 --> 00:49:56.199
have said that. Get that music back. Yeah, where's

00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:58.820
the music? You took it away. No, I didn't. It's

00:49:58.820 --> 00:50:01.079
up. What? The fader's up, dude. Wait, what? Hang

00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:03.760
on. It's at the bottom. It's right here. Wait,

00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:06.340
but it's... The fader's up. Then why'd it go

00:50:06.340 --> 00:50:08.340
away? I didn't turn it off. I don't know. I watched

00:50:08.340 --> 00:50:10.260
you move it down. No, you're right. It turned

00:50:10.260 --> 00:50:11.679
off, though, for some reason. What the hell?

00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:15.820
I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, this creature

00:50:15.820 --> 00:50:17.139
looks to you for guidance, but it's not your

00:50:17.139 --> 00:50:20.619
turn, so don't say anything. Let's go back to

00:50:20.619 --> 00:50:22.239
that. I already said a thing, though. What'd

00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:23.980
you say? I can't remember. Oh, you told it. Oh,

00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:26.260
what'd you ask? I was basically trying to get

00:50:26.260 --> 00:50:31.780
its, like, perspective on if we can stop this

00:50:31.780 --> 00:50:34.000
creature here with enough help. Oh, that's what

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:35.820
you said. Or, like, if it's, like, a god -like

00:50:35.820 --> 00:50:37.639
thing. You know what I mean? Let me zim -zam

00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:41.300
-zom right back into that. Oh, brothers are trying,

00:50:41.420 --> 00:50:45.019
but I fear the creature is fast, and when it

00:50:45.019 --> 00:50:47.579
moves into the sea, we cannot follow. I don't

00:50:47.579 --> 00:50:51.579
know. We've tried before. It's... Is it immune

00:50:51.579 --> 00:51:02.460
to lightning damage? I try to set a rule for

00:51:02.460 --> 00:51:06.179
this. Give me a rule. You're rare in that you're

00:51:06.179 --> 00:51:09.000
an actual storm aspect. There aren't a lot of

00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:11.900
aspects like you, Salome. Most of them fall under

00:51:11.900 --> 00:51:16.019
things like law or goodness or just general life.

00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:20.619
Um, what's my roll here? Uh, I need you to roll

00:51:20.619 --> 00:51:24.679
just luck. 50 -50. Oh, um, shit. I rolled a 10.

00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.760
Okay, no. I don't know. What do we do? The people

00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:33.260
are dying all around. We have failed our father.

00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.619
We have failed Atash. Go down there and save

00:51:36.619 --> 00:51:41.280
as many as you can. I'll do what I can up here.

00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:47.400
Yes, sister. Yes. You see this creature? Wings

00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:52.719
flap and it slides down. I think as you watch

00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:55.400
him move down, Salma, as you turn and look back

00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:58.320
and regard that creature, something begins to

00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.460
click in your mind. In all the chaos you're only

00:52:01.460 --> 00:52:03.239
now starting to realize in this moment of slight

00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:05.559
calm as everything's just going mad around you,

00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:10.800
you haven't felt the pull of the future. You

00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:13.829
haven't had a vision. And usually it's like they're

00:52:13.829 --> 00:52:16.809
almost always like, I imagine in your case it's

00:52:16.809 --> 00:52:19.550
almost like when you stare too long at something

00:52:19.550 --> 00:52:21.650
and see like an overlay of that object, right?

00:52:22.130 --> 00:52:25.170
I imagine for you, you just halfway see this.

00:52:25.250 --> 00:52:28.349
It's why we kind of described your intelligence

00:52:28.349 --> 00:52:31.690
being so low. You're distracted and sort of vacant

00:52:31.690 --> 00:52:33.989
because you're always seeing something. But your

00:52:33.989 --> 00:52:37.409
eyes are clear right now. And they are focused

00:52:37.409 --> 00:52:40.289
on the skies above. At first she thought it was

00:52:40.289 --> 00:52:42.829
maybe just her. what I call initiative eyes,

00:52:43.030 --> 00:52:45.849
where it's like serious business, but now that

00:52:45.849 --> 00:52:48.630
she's been flying and time has passed and there

00:52:48.630 --> 00:52:52.269
hasn't been any of that interference, she's realizing

00:52:52.269 --> 00:52:56.010
it's something else. Hell yeah. Top of the round.

00:52:56.610 --> 00:53:00.989
Yara makes a move you do not see. She is gone.

00:53:01.789 --> 00:53:05.030
And the storm giant turns to strike back. Looking

00:53:05.030 --> 00:53:07.469
quite hurt now after those attacks from Jai and

00:53:07.469 --> 00:53:09.530
these follow -up attacks from Gabriela and Arhalon.

00:53:10.909 --> 00:53:13.590
It's going to strike out. I think it's going

00:53:13.590 --> 00:53:16.610
to go for Arhalon with a couple of sword swings.

00:53:16.809 --> 00:53:22.789
So here we go. My first attack is a natural 20.

00:53:23.010 --> 00:53:26.150
Don't. Fuck. Let me just do this to see how this

00:53:26.150 --> 00:53:29.610
goes. This is going to be insane. Give me a second.

00:53:30.010 --> 00:53:42.849
to roll some crazy damage here. Wait a minute.

00:53:42.949 --> 00:53:46.090
Hold on. No, I've got adamantine armor. Oh, my

00:53:46.090 --> 00:53:49.250
God! Oh, my God! He's immune to crits! He's immune

00:53:49.250 --> 00:53:54.329
to crits! Whoa! Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, get nerfed,

00:53:54.369 --> 00:53:57.389
nerd! Get fucking nerfed, dude! Oh, yeah. You

00:53:57.389 --> 00:53:59.230
see this blow comes out of Arhalon. Why'd you

00:53:59.230 --> 00:54:00.309
roll another one, dude? Because I'm rolling a

00:54:00.309 --> 00:54:02.710
normal attack now. I made it rain for Arhalon,

00:54:02.730 --> 00:54:11.469
man. Dude. Dude. For real. Holy shit. So, rather

00:54:11.469 --> 00:54:15.170
than taking 12d6... plus a bunch of damage. He's

00:54:15.170 --> 00:54:18.010
only going to take 66 plus a bunch of damage.

00:54:18.190 --> 00:54:20.789
He takes, you see this weapon comes down and

00:54:20.789 --> 00:54:22.570
you see there's a moment of like pause. Arlon

00:54:22.570 --> 00:54:24.829
realizes he kind of, he went in with too much

00:54:24.829 --> 00:54:26.809
righteous fury, stepped out of bound just a little

00:54:26.809 --> 00:54:29.949
bit, was left kind of like with his leg out when

00:54:29.949 --> 00:54:31.469
he should have been ready to like block this.

00:54:31.630 --> 00:54:33.570
The sword with the parry doesn't quite make it

00:54:33.570 --> 00:54:37.469
and the weapon comes down hard on him and catches

00:54:37.469 --> 00:54:40.369
in the shoulder of his black gleaming plate.

00:54:41.250 --> 00:54:45.030
Driving him down just a little, bit he takes

00:54:45.030 --> 00:54:51.030
25 points of damage but he still stands beneath

00:54:51.030 --> 00:54:53.869
the weight of this weapon it rises again comes

00:54:53.869 --> 00:54:58.250
at him again this time with only a oof maybe

00:54:58.250 --> 00:55:04.400
maybe 18 to hit um meets it beats it but He's

00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:06.480
going to use a reaction and parry. Oh, shit!

00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:10.019
Plus two to his AC. This time he's not going

00:55:10.019 --> 00:55:12.440
to be taken off guard. The sword comes down again.

00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:15.659
Arhalon, still recovering from that blow, brings

00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:18.780
his greatsword up. Flaming tiny sword meets this

00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:23.840
massive, gigantic, bent, heavy metal blade and

00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:26.000
somehow turns it just enough for it to slide

00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:28.760
to the side and smash into the dirt, sinking

00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:33.400
deep. And Arhalon stands beside it, the dust

00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:38.039
washing over him as the blade hits. Holy shit,

00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:40.619
dude. See, you're driving that stab to the block.

00:55:40.619 --> 00:55:43.980
Cool -ass move. That's crazy. Okay, that's that

00:55:43.980 --> 00:55:47.099
giant. That's all he's got. There is another

00:55:47.099 --> 00:55:51.579
giant, though. It's on the way. I'm really, really

00:55:51.579 --> 00:55:55.679
nasty now. God damn it. Fuck. Yep. This other

00:55:55.679 --> 00:56:00.380
creature, you see, begins to, like, move. He

00:56:00.380 --> 00:56:02.940
hears the scream of rage from his kin. He says,

00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:07.280
I'm coming! Take this! Reaches up towards the

00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.300
sky, and you see a bolt of lightning flashes

00:56:09.300 --> 00:56:12.659
down from just above, almost a small cloud forms

00:56:12.659 --> 00:56:15.760
above you guys, crashing down on the storm giant,

00:56:16.099 --> 00:56:21.059
his ally. But they are immune. But the creature

00:56:21.059 --> 00:56:23.480
is... The creatures within range of the storm

00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:27.139
giant are not immune, and so I want Arhalon and

00:56:27.139 --> 00:56:29.239
Gabriella both to make dexterity saving throws.

00:56:29.539 --> 00:56:32.500
And it's going to hurt a lot. Well, Gabriella

00:56:32.500 --> 00:56:36.079
gets half damage. That's true. And she probably

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:38.519
will also pass the dex save. If she passes the

00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:41.039
dex save, that's going to be incredible. Arhalon's

00:56:41.039 --> 00:56:43.780
going to die now. Fucking hell. Yeah, he's got

00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:45.519
a plus zero to dex. He needs to roll super high.

00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:47.300
Let me start mapping incredibly hard for a second

00:56:47.300 --> 00:56:58.860
here. Damn it. Just a 14. Oh. Shit. Nope. Never

00:56:58.860 --> 00:57:09.280
mind. Okay. I have done the roll. Okay. I think

00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:11.679
I might need to start transitioning to, like,

00:57:11.780 --> 00:57:14.119
dice on a computer. I know you hate it, but my

00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:16.340
god, these numbers are huge. Look at these damage.

00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:17.739
You want to know how much damage you're taking?

00:57:17.860 --> 00:57:19.139
Oh, yeah, give me your rolls. Never mind. Then

00:57:19.139 --> 00:57:21.079
I'll tell you. Then I'll tell you. Yeah, Gabriela

00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:24.539
got a 23. Holy shit! Gabriela takes literally

00:57:24.539 --> 00:57:26.119
no damage. She sees the lightning coming, she

00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:27.840
feels the air crackling, her hair stands up a

00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:29.900
little bit, and you see she leaps back just in

00:57:29.900 --> 00:57:32.119
time to get out of range, and this thing, boom,

00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:33.940
blasts down. How's Arhalon doing over there?

00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:36.440
You haven't told me what he took for damage,

00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:37.900
so... Oh, what did you roll? Sorry, I wasn't

00:57:37.900 --> 00:57:40.699
paying attention. Oh, oh, oh. It was a fail.

00:57:40.820 --> 00:57:42.480
It was a fail. I think it was like 9 or 12 or

00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:44.599
something. Arhalon takes 54 points of damage.

00:57:44.739 --> 00:57:49.969
Get the fuck out! David. What? You can't. I just

00:57:49.969 --> 00:57:53.829
did. I just did. How the fuck do we get out of

00:57:53.829 --> 00:57:57.590
this? I mean, he's not after the next round.

00:57:57.869 --> 00:58:00.050
There's a diva flying down on the way right now.

00:58:00.110 --> 00:58:04.650
Arlon gets rocked. He's like staying tall. The

00:58:04.650 --> 00:58:06.349
blade, the lightning strikes through. The blade

00:58:06.349 --> 00:58:09.010
beside him where it lands sort of catches the

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lightning bolt and it sort of crackles off. He's

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like touching the side of it and it courses through

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his body. And he has one hit point. What is this?

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He took two hits. Still standing. Hey, still

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standing. David literally created just a slaughter.

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There's like six of these guys. Yeah. What the

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fuck? The storm howls above. Arhalon barely stands.

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Gabriela moves out of the way of the attack,

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moves back in to engage Jules. You find yourself

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caught between two difficult choices, many lives

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on the line, and you can hear the screaming of

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Arhalon. What will you do? Salome, your goal

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lies in the sky, and yet your friend's screams

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follow you as you move up. You've sent help towards

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them, but will this diva be enough? Well... Guess

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we'll have to wait a week to find out, won't

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we? Because we'll call it there!