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Hey, Pants People. I want to play you a snippet

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of our conversation with Nicholas Casparo. He

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is the author of Vidalirium, Descent into the

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Void. You can find him on social media or on

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his website, vidaliriumseries .com. And I know

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that you guys asked about pronunciations and

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things like that in the email. I did. want to

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respond to that. I just did not have to be able

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to do so today. So it's, um, so the, the, the

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series itself, the overarching series is called,

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uh, vidal area. Yes. I, I, I picked up the, um,

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audio book yesterday, last night. And I was listening

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last night and today, and I was like, man, I'm

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really glad that I did that. Um, cause yeah,

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vidal area. I would have been tempted to say

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vital area or something, but no, I I'm glad that

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I glad that I got that. You know, most people

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go for that the first time around. And for a

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while, I was actually thinking about changing

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it because of that. But then I was like, you

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know what, we'll get it across. We just got to

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inject a whole brand new piece of nomenclature

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into the vernacular. Sure, exactly. Yeah, that

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can't be hard, right? No, no, I don't think so.

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And I think when you're going into a series like

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this. You know, you have to expect that you're

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going to be learning new words. Right. You know,

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especially something space faring. There's new

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planets. There's new. And you've done a really

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good job at that. David and I were talking about

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I gave David a ride over. We were talking about

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the scenes where the father was was quizzing

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Roman and he was pulling out all this. Oh, yeah.

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For this and that creature, you have to behave

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in this way and whatnot. I love the intro. The

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lower intro was fantastic. Yeah. Really cool

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way to kind of set up the blue gold rush. Super,

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super cool. As a big fan of like that, that sort

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of Western gold rush, I love the idea of bringing

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that into space, having the new big thing and

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then, yeah, just seeing what kind of calamity

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results from it. I'm excited to keep going. Yeah,

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yeah. Thanks, man. Well, I appreciate that. And

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I'm glad it came across. you know that that way

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because that's that's kind of what i was what

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i was hoping for in terms of like just really

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giving people like the full story so you can

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dive head first into the content like give everyone

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like a real introduction to what they're about

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to be diving into and i feel like given the history

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at the beginning really um it brings people into

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the world Right. Yeah, it's it's not just the

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introduction. It's the it's the it's it's the

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doorway into the universe I've created. So, yeah.

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Speaking of diving in, I feel like we kind of

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already did. So I don't know if this is a nightmare,

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Jeremy, for editing. But Nick, if you want to

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introduce yourself, we can we can get an intro

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out to the pants people and we can talk some

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more about about your book. All right. Awesome.

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So. so yeah my name is nicholas keating casbaro

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i'm the author of the vitellarium series and

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the first book vitellarium descent into the void

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um is out now it's on amazon audible uh basically

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anywhere where you can get your books online

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and uh it is a far future space faring odyssey

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uh where you're basically following the emergence

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of a future mythological hero in a space faring

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universe where humanity has become multi -planetary

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basically the person who becomes the most important

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person in future history but you're not just

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you're not seeing it i guess you're not seeing

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it from you know the history book version you're

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not hearing the songs that are sung after the

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fact you're getting to kind of follow him on

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that journey the gritty truth of that journey

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through every step of the way as he basically

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uh you know, becomes that person. I love that

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viewpoint. That's fantastic. Yeah, just the idea

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of the next, like, Odysseus or King Arthur, but

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in the far future. I guess what I thought about

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sci -fi, mixing that kind of idea of, like, the

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mythological hero, that figure, it's really cool.

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I'm excited to see where Roman goes in this adventure.

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Right, because you're not, you know, when you

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start the book, you're not learning about, like

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you said, somebody who's already a hero. you

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meet him on the sports field. Yeah. You know

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what I mean? As a teenager. Yeah. And that was

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my, you, you meet him as a, as a kind of a teenager.

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I did that on purpose because I wanted to make

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sure that people understood what his backstory

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was, because for the majority of the book, you're

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basically following him as, as an adult. And

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he is not the, the cleanest. type of uh adult

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character let's just say that he's definitely

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a morally gray protagonist extremely rough around

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the edges he basically becomes a uh a mercenary

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he's a gun for hire they call him a freelancer

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uh and he's doing odd jobs for local gangs when

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you meet him when you first get introduced to

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him as an adult He's kind of floating through

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life. He's a little bit of a drunk. He's basically

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doing these odd jobs to just make ends meet.

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And, you know, and then he goes out and he blows

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it on booze and horse. And he's not he's not

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he's not your he's not your knight in shining

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armor for sure. But he's definitely skilled.

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There are certainly remnants of discipline in

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the way that he does things, certainly in the

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way that he runs. missions he takes them very

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seriously but you know in the rest of his life

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he's he's kind of uh he's kind like i said a

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lost soul um and so a lot of the book you're

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also kind of watching his rediscovery of purpose

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through the circumstances that he's thrust into

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hell yeah yeah uh man i'm a i gotta keep going

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i gotta keep going I got to find out if Roman

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ever learns to pass the ball. He does. He does

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at some point. I feel like that's not too much

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of a spoiler. Yeah, exactly. Nick, and really,

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I'm talking now to the pants people, the audience.

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We wanted to give away a copy of Vidalirium Descent

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Into the Void. So if you're hearing this, pants

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people, hit us up on the Discord. We're going

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to have a poll up for whichever way you want

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the book, whether you want the hardcover, if

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you want just an e -book, if you want the audio

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book. We'll take all that info. We'll pick someone

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randomly and we'll send you a copy. Nick, do

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you have maybe another book in the series to

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tease that we can talk about next week or something

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about what's next for you, the Videlirium series,

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and for our main character, Roman? Oh, absolutely.

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So I'll be the first to admit I have some pretty,

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we'll call them unrealistic expectations for

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what I plan to turn this series into. I have

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a 10 year plan where I basically I'm anticipating

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bringing this into all mediums of entertainment

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within the next 10 years. I would love to see

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this as a video game. I would love to see this

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as an animated series, a live action series,

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all of it. And so I'm taking steps to basically

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make that happen. But for right now, I have seven

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books planned with my publisher. Book two should

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be coming out sometime Q1 next year. Oh, wow.

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And I also have a comic book series that I've

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adapted the book to. And three episodes of the

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comic book are currently out. And so that literally

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I just I just released episode zero, which is,

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you know, actually comes before episodes one

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and two. And that's going to start something

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interesting where I actually have two timelines.

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So one going forward with the narrative of the

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book. And a timeline moving backward in chronological

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order that documents some of his basically times

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as an adult doing missions for all sorts of different

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people throughout the city of Kairos. And that's

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going to move backwards in chronological order.

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Talk about the universe. Talk about world building.

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Like, wow, that's that's expansive. Yeah. Yeah,

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I've got a I've got a whole canon planned that

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includes, you know, character offshoots. We're

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going to dive into some of the main, you know,

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the other important supporting characters, backstories

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a little deeper. We're going to get we're going

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to dive deep into some of the some of the antagonists

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and see what really forms them. You know, what

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what kind of creates the the the the antiheroes

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or the the enemies in in this book? And, um,

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yeah, we're, we're, I, I, I have all of this

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stuff kind of already plotted out and now it's

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just a matter of, uh, transitioning it into,

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you know, different mediums, whether that's comic

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book, book, you know, what have you. Wow. Yeah.

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I mean, here, here pants people, if you want

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to jump onto a train, that's going places, launching

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off, get in the first car, get on italyrium,

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tend to the void, pick it up, listen to it. Uh,

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You're starting off on an epic, epic journey,

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it sounds like. I know I'm checking it out. Thanks,

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guys. Storyteller Rune here with an update on

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Calipang. Now, I need to start by saying that

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we still have very little official information

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from the scene. Shieldbearers are rallying in

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a way to return of the Serpentine Jewel. When

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it comes back, we'll have people on the scene

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to interview the people on board. Just stay tuned,

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and you'll get a full story soon enough, I promise.

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But, in the meantime, if you want my opinion,

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yes. As many have undoubtedly surmised, I do

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believe that this attack is connected to the

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Storm Eye, planned by it, in fact. Now, we all

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know he's still out there, having escaped from

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Omizu before its fall. Now that the party have

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put a stop to his usual villainy, he must have

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allied with the undersea storm giant factions

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of Dayalan. Fuck. Dayalan. To help drive the

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angels away, disregard that. And I have another,

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further theory. I believe that the Dawn Incarnates

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have been working with Ozen from the start. Now,

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who else could have taught him how to channel

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the power of the Keen and Gloom? Nobody! They

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know the secrets of the Oral Diamond, of our

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conquered world, of everything. And gods help

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us all, now they've turned towards evil. I'm

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gonna fuck that word up. Throwing all those in

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under the bus. Dyalungan. And it's all staying

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in. Dyalungan. It's a hard word, man. The best

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one's Dyalungan. It's like a button. I crack

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it up. Oh, yeah. It worked. It worked. Episode

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title. I'm going to kill someone just for that.

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No. I'm going to kill Arhalon just for that episode

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title. Speaking of Arhalon, holy shit, dude.

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Like, coming in clutch. I can't believe the first

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attack. The foam just fell off the wall. The

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same one that fell off earlier. I almost just

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spit -taped all over my laptop. But dude, the

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first attack after Arlon gets this adamantine

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armor to make himself immune to crits, he gets

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crit! Like, what are the fucking chances? It

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was so cool. And I almost, I was rolling the

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damage. I was rolling, what was it, 12d6 or something?

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And you're like, wait! For the few seconds in

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between when I knew it was a crit and when I

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remembered that he couldn't be crit, like, I

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saw you with all the die and I was like, nah,

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man. man, there's something I got to be able

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to do about this. And I was like, there's got

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to be a reaction or, oh, wait. Oh, so good. And

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the parry, remembering that parry to block the

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second hit. I mean, by some miracle, he's still

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up at one HP. One HP. you know, playing that

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tank role. But these guys are strong. Storm Giants

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are insane. I'll tell you now, these are CR 13

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creatures. I don't know how... It's not fair.

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CR isn't, like, the be -all, end -all of, like,

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encounter balancing. There's a lot of problems

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with it, but still, CR 13 means big, scary blokes

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with a lot of damage. Yeah, but doesn't... So

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doesn't the system... Doesn't the CR quote -unquote

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system mean that if it's a CR 13 creature, it's

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supposed to be a normal -sized level 13 party

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to be a fair match or something like that? It's

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like a decent but relatively safe fight for four

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level 13s against one Storm Giant. Cool. You're

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level 13, right? No, no. We're... Quite far from

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that. Oh, wow. You're an asshole. You don't have

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to go super asshole. According to you, we're

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probably not even going to hit 13 in this campaign.

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Yeah, you shouldn't have skipped those other

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worlds. Yeah, I guess. It was like 24 of them

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or something. We didn't have to come here, right?

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Yeah, I mean, just trying to rescue the child

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that David stole from us. Don't rescue children.

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Moral of the story. Don't ever love anything

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and you won't get hurt. It's actually fairly

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true. Speaking of things you're going to love.

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Real quick though. That was such a good segue.

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I know it is. You've ruined me. Yes, exactly.

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I want to think of a better one after you say

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your thing. I'm going to keep going. I'm not

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going to let you finish that. Give me a butt,

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yeah. Can you remind me who has the potion of

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heroism? It's gone. Dresden drank it. Dresden

00:14:53.250 --> 00:14:55.710
drank it? Fuck. Yeah, it's gone now. Bye, take

00:14:55.710 --> 00:14:56.970
that. Give me that card. Yeah, that's right.

00:14:57.129 --> 00:14:59.250
You do have a... Giant Strength. Oh, wait, you

00:14:59.250 --> 00:15:03.970
were... No, Fire and... Okay, never mind. No,

00:15:04.129 --> 00:15:06.909
Fire and Stone. Yeah, never mind. I was going

00:15:06.909 --> 00:15:09.529
to be all cool if Jules had it and roll it over

00:15:09.529 --> 00:15:14.590
to Arhalon, but fuck. Keep going. Good work.

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Speaking of... What? Fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck.

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This mail is here. Thank you. Mail time. Yeah.

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It's mail time, baby. We got mail. We got mail.

00:15:30.970 --> 00:15:34.809
We got mail. Yeah. David, do tell. Do tell. This

00:15:34.809 --> 00:15:37.409
mail is pretty cool. I'll see who it's from after

00:15:37.409 --> 00:15:38.610
you open it because I think Steven forgot about

00:15:38.610 --> 00:15:41.289
this. Okay. I almost certainly forgot about it.

00:15:41.330 --> 00:15:43.029
You're handing it to me. It looks like the box

00:15:43.029 --> 00:15:45.809
is upside down. I wanted to make sure that was

00:15:45.809 --> 00:15:48.610
what was in it. Okay, but so I can safely open

00:15:48.610 --> 00:15:50.210
it this way? Just open it. All right, it's definitely

00:15:50.210 --> 00:15:51.789
upside down. I just want to make sure that I

00:15:51.789 --> 00:15:56.370
don't... Your whole head is upside down. Yeah,

00:15:56.629 --> 00:15:58.529
open that box. And I'm very self -conscious about

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it. Open that box. But don't break anything.

00:16:01.110 --> 00:16:02.210
It's all glass. What the fuck is that? I'm just

00:16:02.210 --> 00:16:04.090
kidding. What the hell is that? It's actually...

00:16:04.090 --> 00:16:06.169
It's bubble wrap. It's a bunch of bubble wrap.

00:16:06.250 --> 00:16:10.409
It's bubble wrap. Okay. Can I safely put that

00:16:10.409 --> 00:16:13.789
somewhere else? Is it throwable? Okay. Just empty.

00:16:13.909 --> 00:16:17.370
Right. You really pop every one into the mic.

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I really kind of want, like, some help here.

00:16:19.549 --> 00:16:21.649
No. I don't want to be the only one opening this.

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Pull out your murder knife. Whoa, what the hell?

00:16:23.970 --> 00:16:26.470
What is that? Give me one of those. Wait, wait,

00:16:26.490 --> 00:16:28.590
wait, wait. Don't open them yet. Don't open them

00:16:28.590 --> 00:16:30.610
yet. Wait, why? Don't open them yet. What the

00:16:30.610 --> 00:16:32.029
fuck is this? Let me look at it first. There's

00:16:32.029 --> 00:16:33.590
names on them. There's names on them. There's

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names. There's names. Oh, this one has my name.

00:16:35.610 --> 00:16:37.950
This is Jeremy. What the fuck is this? Logo.

00:16:38.590 --> 00:16:40.269
This feels like Christmas. That's everybody.

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Okay, Jeremy, open yours. They already opened

00:16:42.009 --> 00:16:43.409
it for you. What the fuck is this? Open it up.

00:16:43.450 --> 00:16:49.269
Take a look. What? Oh, dude. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah,

00:16:49.409 --> 00:16:53.230
baby. Oh! Oh, my God. Let me explain. We are

00:16:53.230 --> 00:16:57.139
holding... Let's glitch on one! We're holding

00:16:57.139 --> 00:17:00.860
wood burnings of Jules, Blanche, and Akio, all

00:17:00.860 --> 00:17:03.940
made in the art style of Zila, Astropathic Art,

00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:06.720
who's done so much of our art in this show, and

00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.759
burned for us these beautiful pieces of wood

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by our buddy on Instagram, Gaming Creations.

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Dude. That's underscore Gaming Creations, one

00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:17.599
word. underscore on Instagram. Check them out.

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Dude, this is, this is not, look at the quality

00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.019
of this work. This is fantastic. Look at Akio.

00:17:22.380 --> 00:17:26.900
Oh, everybody, show your, show your wares. Oh,

00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.680
Jules is sick. Look at the detail. Oh my gosh.

00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.619
That's a bunch. That's a bunch. Super, super,

00:17:34.700 --> 00:17:37.339
duper cool. Dude, that means I know what this

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is. Let's see what that is. Yeah, I'm pretty

00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:41.720
sure I got an idea. This one says logo on it.

00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:50.380
Oh, I bet it's... I bet it's... Oh, it's a logo!

00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:55.740
Nice. That looks slick. Oh, it's an old -style

00:17:55.740 --> 00:18:00.059
logo. It's like our second logo. I like that.

00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.480
A bit of history. Hell yeah. Dude, I can't wait

00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.960
to show these off. Yeah, super cool. Yeah, mail

00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:08.920
them. Thank you again, Gaming Creations. Oh,

00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.200
yeah, thank you. Oh, my gosh. Super, super amazing.

00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.460
This is great. Thank you so, so much. Oh, we

00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:16.400
got to, yeah. We got to get these out there.

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Show everybody these things. They're insane.

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Oh, yeah. It'll definitely be on socials. Oh,

00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.720
yeah. Let me take that from you. Yeah, if you

00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.119
don't mind plopping that down. I'm going to keep

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mine right next to me for good luck on this one.

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All righty then. What do you guys think? Can

00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:35.400
we get back into Calipang? No. I'm so nervous

00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:38.400
and so unsure about everything that's going to

00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:39.900
happen in this episode. Yeah, Stephen and I have

00:18:39.900 --> 00:18:42.299
said multiple times today before recording that

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we don't have a fucking plan. I just feel very

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unprepared. Holy shit. I feel like my kit is

00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.460
not designed for this. Dirge your loins. Stiffen

00:18:51.460 --> 00:18:53.819
your balls. Here we go. You ready for this? That's

00:18:53.819 --> 00:18:56.880
my secret. Because we're going right back into

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the streets of Tythos. They're always girded.

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Yeah, that's right. Tythos. That's where we're

00:19:04.130 --> 00:19:06.509
going today. We're going to pick up on a little

00:19:06.509 --> 00:19:10.470
flashback as we look down upon the dusty streets

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of the Low City. And here as our camera glides

00:19:15.049 --> 00:19:19.029
through the populace of laborers and urchins

00:19:19.029 --> 00:19:24.380
moving about under a, say, a cold... cloudy day

00:19:24.380 --> 00:19:29.119
a gray sky and a light snow drifting as as wintry

00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.720
as it really ever gets on tithos uh we see a

00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.660
title card appear against that gray backdrop

00:19:35.660 --> 00:19:42.599
three years ago and we see jewels Age 21, sliding

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down a side alley. Jules, your arm is currently

00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.579
in a sling. You had a pretty gnarly incident

00:19:49.579 --> 00:19:52.980
recently. You know, a botched job. One of the

00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:54.660
Cherry Delights got themselves in a bit of trouble,

00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:56.480
and you had to kind of put yourself at risk to

00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.019
get them out of it. And everything's fine. Everyone

00:19:59.019 --> 00:20:02.119
got out good. You avoided the guard, thanks to

00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.039
Dresden's warnings, once again, pulling in a

00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:09.559
clutch for you. But your arm is currently fractured,

00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:11.819
you think? Not really a lot of doctors around

00:20:11.819 --> 00:20:14.980
to help you with it. But you are moving back

00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:18.940
to your hideout, guarding yourself from the biting

00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:21.700
wind. You have your old, what was it, like the

00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:23.819
sack cloak you used to have? Oh, yeah, yeah,

00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:25.980
yeah. It was like a burlap sack. A burlap sack

00:20:25.980 --> 00:20:29.339
up against the biting winds. How far we've come.

00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:35.400
I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And you're

00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:38.519
moving. towards perhaps an old sort of cellar

00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:40.940
door that moves in behind me, some like whole,

00:20:41.099 --> 00:20:45.140
like butchery or something. A little smelly a

00:20:45.140 --> 00:20:48.500
spot, but it's a great spot to hide your burgeoning

00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:52.579
little crew, the Cherry Delights. As you approach

00:20:52.579 --> 00:20:54.960
the door, though, you do hear some kind of commotion.

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Sounds like people might be yelling. You hear

00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.019
like a lot of thudding and moving, like a lot

00:21:03.019 --> 00:21:05.920
of just rapid movement inside. What do you do?

00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.420
I'll open the door. But he'll slowly crack it

00:21:11.420 --> 00:21:14.960
open and peek his head in first. You peek your

00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:16.819
head in and just catch the chariot of lights

00:21:16.819 --> 00:21:20.279
in a bit of a panic. Just kind of hushed discussions

00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.640
and members are hurriedly gathering coats and

00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:25.000
boots. You're like, well, I don't really know

00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.099
where we lost it. I'll head out and hit the road

00:21:27.099 --> 00:21:30.339
and... Yeah, Mulligan and I will take one direction.

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We'll just start heading north down the street.

00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:34.750
We can ask people around and... Jules will open

00:21:34.750 --> 00:21:37.569
the door all the way at this point. Whoa. Hey,

00:21:37.650 --> 00:21:41.890
Jules. Guys, what's up? What's up? Well, we lost

00:21:41.890 --> 00:21:44.990
a little imbecile again. And she jeans rounds

00:21:44.990 --> 00:21:48.529
on Chester. That's enough. He's not an imbecile,

00:21:48.569 --> 00:21:50.230
Chester. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, I

00:21:50.230 --> 00:21:52.630
didn't mean anything. He's not. People have always

00:21:52.630 --> 00:21:54.410
underestimated Paul because he's quiet, but he's

00:21:54.410 --> 00:21:56.970
very smart. Guys, guys. He's distracted. All

00:21:56.970 --> 00:22:03.500
right. Sheesh, Jules. Guys. What happened? I

00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:05.460
don't know. He's just gone. He left. You know

00:22:05.460 --> 00:22:08.519
what he does? Just wanders away sometimes. What,

00:22:08.539 --> 00:22:10.500
he got babysitting? I told you these two are

00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:11.480
going to be more work for us than they were.

00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.740
And you see, like, Jean's just glaring at him,

00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.140
and Chester kind of finally calms down, sort

00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:22.279
of shrinks under her, like, scalding, scalding

00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:24.880
glare and kind of, whatever, all right, I'll

00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:27.000
take the western streets and kind of moves past

00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:29.299
you, Jules. All right, Jules will look over at

00:22:29.299 --> 00:22:33.859
Jean's. She's flustered. Face red, looks like

00:22:33.859 --> 00:22:37.299
she's, like, almost about to cry, but more just

00:22:37.299 --> 00:22:40.640
out of sheer rage. And, okay, Jules is saying

00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:44.160
this not in an angry way, but legitimately, like,

00:22:44.259 --> 00:22:50.279
he's confused. How did this happen? I let my

00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:53.559
guard down. I thought he was fine here, inside.

00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:57.380
I thought he was going to rest. He knows what

00:22:57.380 --> 00:23:00.299
he's doing, Jules. He's not... People think of

00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:04.569
him as... It's simple, but he's not. He's smart.

00:23:04.710 --> 00:23:08.329
He does things with intention. He wants to be

00:23:08.329 --> 00:23:13.349
somewhere he wanted to go. And Jules, a memory

00:23:13.349 --> 00:23:18.009
hits you there. This botched job. You remember

00:23:18.009 --> 00:23:21.369
you were hosting a sort of like a temporary scout

00:23:21.369 --> 00:23:25.450
tower. There is a quarry stone sort of storage

00:23:25.450 --> 00:23:28.049
and cutting facility right at the edge of the

00:23:28.049 --> 00:23:29.960
high city. You were kind of keeping an eye on

00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.759
a caravan moving through from that point. And

00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:34.980
you remember you had Paul with you then. You

00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:37.700
were kind of teaching him the ropes. And when

00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:40.940
you left that roof just some days ago, he really

00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:44.920
didn't want to go. He seemed happy in that spot.

00:23:45.539 --> 00:23:50.380
His eyes locked on the great towers of Tythos.

00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:54.599
So he's done this before. Where has he ended

00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:57.210
up before? Most of the time he's caught very

00:23:57.210 --> 00:23:59.549
quickly. He like wanders out in the street and

00:23:59.549 --> 00:24:02.049
he usually will go after musicians. He likes

00:24:02.049 --> 00:24:04.630
when he hears music, he'll wander towards music.

00:24:04.930 --> 00:24:06.750
It's actually how you first met him. He wandered

00:24:06.750 --> 00:24:09.170
across the street, almost, you know, got roughed

00:24:09.170 --> 00:24:11.210
up by some thugs and he was trying to go towards

00:24:11.210 --> 00:24:16.690
a guitarist. Okay. Jules is going to, so he knows

00:24:16.690 --> 00:24:19.630
Paul enough to where it's so like. This is still

00:24:19.630 --> 00:24:21.630
early on. They've joined you for probably about,

00:24:21.690 --> 00:24:23.329
this is probably their fourth or fifth week.

00:24:23.390 --> 00:24:26.230
But he knows that Paul loves. the music. Yeah.

00:24:26.289 --> 00:24:30.990
Okay. Jules is going to hang on jeans and Jules

00:24:30.990 --> 00:24:35.329
will scale the building and go up to the roof.

00:24:36.289 --> 00:24:38.269
Okay. So you, you leave the head towards that,

00:24:38.289 --> 00:24:41.509
that Corey stone cutting facility. Um, well,

00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:45.289
no, I mean just, Oh, your roof. Yeah. Okay. And

00:24:45.289 --> 00:24:47.289
he's going to go up and he's just going to play

00:24:47.289 --> 00:24:50.769
a little tune. Uh, what are you playing on? You

00:24:50.769 --> 00:24:53.400
don't have your loot yet. Yeah. Um, What did

00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.220
Jules use before he got his sort of royal loot

00:24:56.220 --> 00:25:02.079
back? Yeah. I love, like, the cigar box guitar

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:06.759
thing. Well, I almost wonder if he still has,

00:25:06.859 --> 00:25:10.880
like, if he has almost a toy one. Okay. Like,

00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.900
what he got for Paul in the future. Yeah. In

00:25:13.900 --> 00:25:18.279
the future, he got for Paul. Yeah. So maybe he

00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.660
still got that from, you know, maybe he. He smuggled

00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:24.279
it in as a kid and he always had it. I don't

00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:27.440
know. Or maybe when he left, that was the first

00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:29.480
one he could afford. How about that? We'll say

00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.359
that. That's what he could afford. He knew he

00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:34.099
wanted to do something. He knew he needed to

00:25:34.099 --> 00:25:37.240
express himself. So he just got that. And he's

00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:38.859
going to go up and just start playing a little

00:25:38.859 --> 00:25:41.880
tune. Maybe the melody of it is reminiscent of

00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.420
the future song that he will play. You know,

00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:47.559
it's not that song yet. It's just a tune that

00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:49.119
he likes that he has in his head at all times.

00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:52.839
playing this tune, strumming these notes out.

00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:57.640
And then he's looking around. Nothing, no one

00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:01.619
seems to come, but Jules, you know now that you

00:26:01.619 --> 00:26:05.200
have this ability to connect to things. When

00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:07.200
you hold a deep connection with someone, when

00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:10.220
you care about someone, that can shine through

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:14.000
in strange ways. And as you stand upon that roof,

00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:16.400
as you play these notes, you feel a tug on your

00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:21.859
heart pulling you. towards the high city, perhaps

00:26:21.859 --> 00:26:25.900
towards that scouting tower of yours. I think

00:26:25.900 --> 00:26:29.940
the camera will pan behind Jules, looking toward

00:26:29.940 --> 00:26:33.619
the high city, and he's just staring off into

00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:37.819
the distance of it. I think we see you staring,

00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:41.140
and our camera zooms in towards the towers, closer

00:26:41.140 --> 00:26:48.299
and closer. We pan down to that. wide warehouse

00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:51.420
i think we see the a different character being

00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:54.059
sort of backshot by the camera now we see paul

00:26:54.059 --> 00:26:57.640
young scrawny child is just sitting on the edge

00:26:57.640 --> 00:26:59.880
of the roof where like he's a little bit raised

00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:03.680
feet sort of kicking over the side his gaze is

00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:07.579
looking up slowly moving between the various

00:27:07.579 --> 00:27:10.599
great sort of pillars that dwarf everything all

00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:12.839
around and we hear maybe this awkward kind of

00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:16.119
tink tink there's a ladder to climb to the top

00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:18.519
and A little painful, a little awkward for you

00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:20.359
to get up it in your current state, Jules, your

00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:23.240
arm still caught in that sling, but perhaps you

00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:25.799
round over the top and you see him sitting there,

00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:28.579
just staring, completely distracted, completely

00:27:28.579 --> 00:27:32.680
lost in something, and you don't hear music here.

00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:35.480
Uh, Jules, we're going to just sit next to him.

00:27:36.660 --> 00:27:40.799
You sit. He does not look to you, but you do

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:46.210
see he smiles at the company. Slowly, he just

00:27:46.210 --> 00:27:50.349
raises a finger up. He points to the Tower of

00:27:50.349 --> 00:27:54.849
Authority, your old home. Listen. And do you

00:27:54.849 --> 00:28:00.589
listen? Yeah. The sound of the streets. Urchins

00:28:00.589 --> 00:28:05.490
playing. A woman weeping some blocks back. Nothing

00:28:05.490 --> 00:28:08.450
that should captivate this boy. At this point,

00:28:08.490 --> 00:28:12.650
would you say that Jules' nose detects thoughts?

00:28:13.650 --> 00:28:20.210
No. What are you hearing, Paul? And that smile

00:28:20.210 --> 00:28:24.670
breaks out to a white grin, and he... Music.

00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:30.430
What kind of music? He looks to you, Jules. His

00:28:30.430 --> 00:28:34.509
eyes are so big, so wide, and so full of wonder

00:28:34.509 --> 00:28:39.029
and emotion, as if he's so deeply moved by something

00:28:39.029 --> 00:28:43.089
right now, and he reaches a hand out towards

00:28:43.089 --> 00:28:49.829
you, as if... Asking to be held. Listen. Yeah,

00:28:49.829 --> 00:28:52.589
Jules will take his hand. He has no reason to

00:28:52.589 --> 00:28:56.910
believe one way or another. You take Paul's hand

00:28:56.910 --> 00:29:02.650
and for the briefest moment you think, you think,

00:29:02.730 --> 00:29:07.710
you hear something, a tone, a hum, and it's gone.

00:29:08.410 --> 00:29:12.250
It was something so brief, so fleeting, so ephemeral.

00:29:12.269 --> 00:29:15.730
It must have been your imaginings. It was strange.

00:29:16.369 --> 00:29:20.809
As if satisfied, Paul climbs up to his feet.

00:29:21.569 --> 00:29:25.769
Home. And almost as if he's trying to pull you

00:29:25.769 --> 00:29:28.390
back as if you were the one that wandered away.

00:29:28.490 --> 00:29:31.029
Almost forcefully trying to take your hand and

00:29:31.029 --> 00:29:34.769
pull you away from this place to bring you somewhere

00:29:34.769 --> 00:29:43.490
safe. Home? Why? He doesn't answer you. His ears

00:29:43.490 --> 00:29:46.539
cock up. Towards the towers, if he's still hearing

00:29:46.539 --> 00:29:52.700
something else. Who's with you? Huh. His eyes

00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:57.640
go wide. And I think what you gather, he doesn't

00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:59.819
say anything, but you gather that he does not

00:29:59.819 --> 00:30:05.640
know. He does not know who he hears. Are they

00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:11.680
scary? No. Can you tell what they want? To be

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:22.150
one. To be one. One. And he begins to walk towards

00:30:22.150 --> 00:30:26.150
that ladder. Like he slides his fingers out of

00:30:26.150 --> 00:30:29.029
your grip and begins to move away. And you watch

00:30:29.029 --> 00:30:34.130
this curious little boy. And it's so funny. You

00:30:34.130 --> 00:30:38.069
remember how it smarted your arm as you climbed

00:30:38.069 --> 00:30:41.509
those ladders. And yet you realize in this moment

00:30:41.509 --> 00:30:44.309
you don't feel any pain at all. And you just

00:30:44.309 --> 00:30:47.529
slide your arm out of the sling and you don't

00:30:47.529 --> 00:30:50.190
feel any pain at all. Must have been a pretty

00:30:50.190 --> 00:30:52.910
minimal fracture of that. At the edge of the

00:30:52.910 --> 00:30:55.109
roof, I think Paul slides over the edge of the

00:30:55.109 --> 00:30:56.869
rail. He begins to climb and you see his head

00:30:56.869 --> 00:31:03.009
peek up at you. Jules, come home. Perhaps we

00:31:03.009 --> 00:31:07.890
do one last quick camera zoom cut. As Jules and

00:31:07.890 --> 00:31:11.990
Paul move down the streets of the low city. And

00:31:11.990 --> 00:31:16.089
Paul just... continues on, eyes staring forth

00:31:16.089 --> 00:31:19.509
and head cocked slightly, sort of swaying, listening

00:31:19.509 --> 00:31:25.789
to that song, that wonderful song, that lonely

00:31:25.789 --> 00:31:29.349
song, for it is a song that belongs solely to

00:31:29.349 --> 00:31:32.569
him, not heard by another mortal for centuries,

00:31:32.809 --> 00:31:37.190
at least not up until the moment Crispin Dubois

00:31:37.190 --> 00:31:42.210
died and felt the song of the Drakon. of Shadrakhan,

00:31:42.430 --> 00:31:45.809
of everything and everyone ringing through his

00:31:45.809 --> 00:31:55.089
own departing soul, and we fade back to the present,

00:31:55.309 --> 00:32:01.329
to hell. Before anything else, I need you to

00:32:01.329 --> 00:32:07.170
roll me a d6, Steven. A d6? A d6. Weird. Okay.

00:32:07.980 --> 00:32:10.319
Not too exciting. For who am I rolling? Because

00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:11.819
I have two different sets. You were rolling damage.

00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:14.900
I forgot to have you roll on the storm giant

00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:17.140
that was hit by Orcalon. He used Searing Smite.

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:20.819
There's where his armor is scalded. You see glowing

00:32:20.819 --> 00:32:24.140
metal embers where the chain has become molten.

00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:27.559
There is still fire burning at him. What did

00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:33.559
you roll? Max damage on the DC. Nice. It should

00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:39.180
be my giant voice. Oh, brother. Okay, I get to

00:32:39.180 --> 00:32:40.700
roll now. I believe it's a constitution saving

00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:44.259
throw to undo that. Yeah, I can open Arhalon,

00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.059
but I'm pretty sure you're right. Wait, it's

00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:49.400
not undo it. It's to... Not undo it, but to stop

00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:51.920
the fire. To stop the next round. No, the next

00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:54.119
round does not happen. He does. So you see the

00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:56.640
last, the rain falling, the wound kind of...

00:32:57.819 --> 00:33:00.819
steams out. You get that last six points of damage

00:33:00.819 --> 00:33:05.799
in as Arhalon is like shaking. Oh, last. Arhalon's

00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:10.000
shaking. Barely have one HP. Just parried a weapon

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.099
and then got... absolutely annihilated by bolts

00:33:13.099 --> 00:33:15.940
of lightning from the sky. Gabriela is holding

00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:18.740
strong behind, still in position to kind of like

00:33:18.740 --> 00:33:22.099
flank and fight. Jules has moved off to like

00:33:22.099 --> 00:33:25.240
the side of the sort of burning shop beside it,

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:27.099
hearing voices screaming out from inside the

00:33:27.099 --> 00:33:29.599
shop and seeing a woman die in the street outside

00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:33.200
just before him. Salome launching up into the

00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:37.539
sky, trying to reach the Bakunawa, the great

00:33:37.539 --> 00:33:41.839
sort of descendant. of the drakan of old that

00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:44.000
is locked in combat with celestials. You see,

00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.619
as it is flying up there, Salome, it seems to

00:33:46.619 --> 00:33:50.359
kind of like turn, maybe fleeing after the celestial

00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.900
that dropped down, the light that shot towards

00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:57.680
you and begins to move its way towards the ground,

00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:01.420
sliding in your direction. Those great razor

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:05.380
teeth moving at you, crackling lightning behind

00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:10.530
the storm, roiling. Somewhere far off to the...

00:34:10.530 --> 00:34:15.389
Oh, no. Is it west? I think it's west. This is

00:34:15.389 --> 00:34:17.889
my greatest weakness. East, I think. Handsome

00:34:17.889 --> 00:34:19.969
Jai. Theater of the mind, huh? I know, it's so

00:34:19.969 --> 00:34:22.670
bad. Jai was east. This would be so much easier

00:34:22.670 --> 00:34:25.369
if we had a map. You could hear, like, pounding.

00:34:26.510 --> 00:34:28.889
Handsome Jai is locked in combat. You hear a

00:34:28.889 --> 00:34:37.699
shriek from him. elsewhere in the city in a place,

00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:40.619
direction I'm sure I described last time. I don't

00:34:40.619 --> 00:34:44.800
care to anymore. Three other giants are locked

00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.639
into battle with a number of celestials trying

00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:48.780
to cut down on probably the largest sort of grouping

00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:51.219
of them, the greatest source of damage. But here,

00:34:51.380 --> 00:34:55.320
only one giant stands before the Concord Jewel,

00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:59.340
faced only by your party and the diva sent by

00:34:59.340 --> 00:35:02.780
Salome above. You also see the Concord Jewel

00:35:02.780 --> 00:35:07.070
has started to... rise into the air, taking off,

00:35:07.110 --> 00:35:11.190
swiftly shooting up to its 500 feet so it may

00:35:11.190 --> 00:35:15.409
transfer back. Your way home is gone. But hopefully,

00:35:15.610 --> 00:35:19.090
reinforcements are coming. They'll be too late.

00:35:19.530 --> 00:35:24.150
They'll be far too late. And it'll be the shield

00:35:24.150 --> 00:35:26.929
bearers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, you want

00:35:26.929 --> 00:35:28.050
to give a scene with those guys, don't you, Jules?

00:35:28.050 --> 00:35:30.090
Not exactly people who are thrilled to see. Jules

00:35:30.090 --> 00:35:33.119
is right there. Where they're going to be coming

00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:37.320
out. Very notable figure, by the way. No burlap

00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.860
cloak to hide you now, Jules. And we're going

00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:45.760
to start this combat off with Salome. No! I don't

00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:49.440
know what to do. This diva, I believe, I think

00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:51.760
you just told this diva to... To go down and

00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:53.500
help. Go down and help. Gave her information

00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:55.840
it had. This creature has gone mad. It's been

00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:57.360
attacking outer settlements. It just showed up

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.659
here. The storm giants seem to be following it.

00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.679
They seem to not know what's going on. Before

00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:05.179
this thing is said, it seems like they viewed

00:36:05.179 --> 00:36:08.820
this Bakunawa as some kind of herald of war.

00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:12.480
They voice frustrations towards these Celestials

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.760
being on their world. You don't know the situation.

00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:20.019
Bakunawa is coming ever closer to you. You may

00:36:20.019 --> 00:36:23.340
be able to glean information from it, but what

00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:27.559
will it take from you? So Salome is going to

00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:32.369
continue to... fly straight up towards this Bakunawa.

00:36:32.989 --> 00:36:40.030
And as she does, she'll pull out a vial of holy

00:36:40.030 --> 00:36:45.070
water and a pinch of powdered silver. What? And

00:36:45.070 --> 00:36:47.929
she'll throw them together in front of herself.

00:36:48.010 --> 00:36:51.409
So she flies through them and she's coated in

00:36:51.409 --> 00:36:55.869
this sparkling liquid as she casts a fifth level

00:36:55.869 --> 00:37:00.530
spell on herself. What? How long will it take

00:37:00.530 --> 00:37:04.670
me... How long will it take Salome to touch the

00:37:04.670 --> 00:37:07.389
Bakunawa? You're using your full movement this

00:37:07.389 --> 00:37:09.269
turn, or is this going to take an action to cast

00:37:09.269 --> 00:37:11.949
the spell? Casting is an action. This turn slows

00:37:11.949 --> 00:37:14.389
you. You will need to use your full movement

00:37:14.389 --> 00:37:16.909
next turn. If you're guessing right by its trajectory,

00:37:16.989 --> 00:37:19.889
if it stays on course towards you, you think

00:37:19.889 --> 00:37:22.989
you'll be able to touch it. You will not have

00:37:22.989 --> 00:37:26.590
an action at that point, though. Okay. I'll see

00:37:26.590 --> 00:37:29.409
you in three turns, I guess. You need to use

00:37:29.409 --> 00:37:31.829
your action, then? Yeah, I need to use an action

00:37:31.829 --> 00:37:35.929
to interact. Gotcha. It's pretty high up. I'm

00:37:35.929 --> 00:37:38.429
trying to just logically deduce how long it would

00:37:38.429 --> 00:37:39.750
take. If this thing's flying down, you're flying

00:37:39.750 --> 00:37:43.289
up. It was, like, way in the sky before. It's

00:37:43.289 --> 00:37:46.190
coming up. It's coming up. That's the end of

00:37:46.190 --> 00:37:49.250
Salome's turn. Okay. You don't have to spell

00:37:49.250 --> 00:37:52.409
you cast, are you? Not until I use it. Yeah.

00:37:52.550 --> 00:37:54.650
All right. I'll see you next week. I'll see you.

00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:59.280
We'll move his lung fast once Arhalon dies. Speaking

00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:03.340
of Arhalon, he's up. A giant looming over him.

00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:05.920
Another one is pounding ever closer. It's getting

00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:07.980
close now. You think by the end of this next

00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:12.440
round, it's going to be on you. Two storm giants.

00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:17.800
How's that for fun? Fuck off. So can you very

00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:19.860
quickly set the scene for me again? There's the

00:38:19.860 --> 00:38:23.280
storm giant in front of Arhalon. How does that

00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:26.320
storm giant look? Uh, it looks blah, blah, blah,

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:29.599
blah, blah, blah. Pretty bad. I took a few heavy

00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:32.239
blows from Handsome Jai. I would say, uh, D &D

00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.019
turns, you might call it, bloodied. I thought

00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:35.739
Handsome Jai was to the east fighting those.

00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:37.599
When he first came in, he attacked this thing.

00:38:37.659 --> 00:38:40.380
Oh, right, right, right. It was already bloodied

00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:43.840
when we got to it. Yeah. Okay. And the other

00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:45.679
one is running towards us. It'll be on us next

00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:49.820
turn. Yeah. Our Halan's going to look back over

00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:54.800
his shoulder and smile at Jules. Grip his flame

00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:58.300
tongue sword extra tight and go in for a couple

00:38:58.300 --> 00:39:03.940
of swings on this frost giant. Hell yeah. Storm

00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:07.800
giant. You're a storm giant. First swing is only

00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:12.420
an 11. 11 does not hit. Even the plus two. Oh,

00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:17.349
right. I'm flanking. Gabriella's flanking. 19

00:39:17.349 --> 00:39:19.789
then with flanking for the second. That'll hit.

00:39:19.949 --> 00:39:22.570
Okay, great. Oh, this might be his last attack

00:39:22.570 --> 00:39:26.309
in the game. The last brass. Flametongue is already

00:39:26.309 --> 00:39:30.710
active, and I can do smite three times a day,

00:39:30.789 --> 00:39:36.449
so I'm going to go all out again. So that's 66,

00:39:36.710 --> 00:39:42.789
right? Yes, it is, 66. Holy shit, Arhalon. Plus

00:39:42.789 --> 00:39:45.869
another d6 on my turn, so potentially 7d6. Right,

00:39:45.869 --> 00:39:49.010
because now the giant's on fire, and he'll have

00:39:49.010 --> 00:39:52.250
to take it at the end of his turn, right? Yeah.

00:39:54.590 --> 00:40:01.289
24. Holy shit. Another hefty blow from Arlon,

00:40:01.389 --> 00:40:03.510
ripping through this thing's armor, creating

00:40:03.510 --> 00:40:06.489
almost like a cross, a black sort of molten cross

00:40:06.489 --> 00:40:14.489
in the front of its chain mail. This is where

00:40:14.489 --> 00:40:18.889
I fall. So be it! And he's positioned at the

00:40:18.889 --> 00:40:23.730
end of his turn to react and parry the next blow

00:40:23.730 --> 00:40:28.230
if he can. Hell yeah. That's Gabriella on the

00:40:28.230 --> 00:40:31.130
other side of this thing. Having dodged lightning

00:40:31.130 --> 00:40:33.429
itself. Yeah, she's just going to go in for it.

00:40:33.510 --> 00:40:36.789
Hell yeah. She's going to do her thing. The last

00:40:36.789 --> 00:40:38.849
turn you used your bonus act. In this turn, if

00:40:38.849 --> 00:40:40.170
you want to spend a ki point, you can do four

00:40:40.170 --> 00:40:44.989
attacks. Oh my goodness. Monks, baby. Definitely,

00:40:45.090 --> 00:40:50.469
I'm going to do it. 100%. Plus nine to hit. I

00:40:50.469 --> 00:40:53.949
kind of want to do all four at once. Like right

00:40:53.949 --> 00:40:59.849
in a row. Then I'll do the damage. So there's

00:40:59.849 --> 00:41:07.750
a 16. A 12. A 19. And a 21. Three of those hit.

00:41:07.869 --> 00:41:11.730
Oh, yeah. Nice. Oh, yeah. Three hits. All right,

00:41:11.750 --> 00:41:15.809
cool, cool, cool. Holy shit. 1d6 plus 5 for each

00:41:15.809 --> 00:41:19.869
of those. She has her magical wraps over her

00:41:19.869 --> 00:41:21.829
face, kind of giving her a little extra oomph,

00:41:21.829 --> 00:41:24.550
oomph, oomph on each attack. I got two 6s and

00:41:24.550 --> 00:41:30.730
a 4. So, wait, hold on. That is 12, 16, that's

00:41:30.730 --> 00:41:37.389
5, 21. Oh, my God. Boom. This thing is massive.

00:41:37.610 --> 00:41:39.929
This thing is healthy. You got it down pretty

00:41:39.929 --> 00:41:42.269
darn good. And she just comes in blow after blow.

00:41:42.449 --> 00:41:45.829
Focus on its back. You hear, like, cracking lightly

00:41:45.829 --> 00:41:51.309
of bone as she strikes with fury. Holy shit.

00:41:51.929 --> 00:41:57.869
It was 6, 6, 4, plus 15. Plus 5. Plus 5. Oh,

00:41:57.969 --> 00:42:00.210
I thought it was plus 5 for each roll. Yeah.

00:42:00.269 --> 00:42:03.250
Oh, fuck. Oh. Oh my god, wait. No, yeah, math.

00:42:03.849 --> 00:42:06.650
Math? Holy shit, yeah. Math? Yeah, so, oh, fuck,

00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:09.130
yeah. That's 10 more? That's 10 more, so that's

00:42:09.130 --> 00:42:12.469
31. That's 31. Fuck, thank you, Steven. Holy

00:42:12.469 --> 00:42:16.110
fuck. This thing looks really bad. We're going

00:42:16.110 --> 00:42:18.070
to have all the pants people screaming for like

00:42:18.070 --> 00:42:21.469
30 seconds until you say that. There's one last

00:42:21.469 --> 00:42:26.650
really loud crack. It's a delayed crack. It's

00:42:26.650 --> 00:42:31.329
exactly, yeah, yeah. Wait, one more. Gabriela

00:42:31.329 --> 00:42:33.610
spent a semester learning to be a chiropractor.

00:42:34.769 --> 00:42:38.010
She's pulling out Fish of the North Star moves

00:42:38.010 --> 00:42:42.510
here. Cool. Sweet. 31 damage. Yeah. That's bonkers.

00:42:42.510 --> 00:42:43.909
I was going to say, what, in two turns we did,

00:42:43.969 --> 00:42:47.190
what, 52? Dude, Gabriela just out -damaged Arhan.

00:42:47.329 --> 00:42:50.809
And she's unscathed right now, too. Right now.

00:42:50.909 --> 00:42:54.750
Incredible. Right now. Right now. But maybe she

00:42:54.750 --> 00:42:58.079
has put a target on her back. Uh -huh. We'll

00:42:58.079 --> 00:42:59.960
slide away from that down the street. Damn, I

00:42:59.960 --> 00:43:02.900
messed up. What'd you do? What? I could, what?

00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:07.699
It's a damn problem. Would you, I want to talk

00:43:07.699 --> 00:43:11.780
this out real fast. Would you let me use a reaction

00:43:11.780 --> 00:43:16.039
after the fact? Hmm, I'll allow it. Jeremy, what

00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:18.199
was your lowest, do you remember your lowest

00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:20.380
attack roll? You know what, I should ask for

00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:23.480
a button for this. Right? This is a button situation.

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:25.900
Then I'm going to leave it. I want my buttons.

00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:27.800
All right. I feel like, yeah, I think the lowest

00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:30.039
was 12. Can't be too nice to you. It's only two

00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:33.380
storm giants. Give me a third storm giant and

00:43:33.380 --> 00:43:34.719
I'll be nicer to you. Oh, dude, there's like

00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:37.000
six storm giants. Well, they're not on yet. I

00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.260
probably should have used my leadership reaction,

00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:43.260
which he can do four times a day, to add a D4

00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:47.260
to your attack roll. I was paying attention to

00:43:47.260 --> 00:43:49.079
you rather than my sheet. But yeah, that would

00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:50.780
have made a fourth. That definitely would have

00:43:50.780 --> 00:43:53.079
made a fourth hit. A fourth hit is what I'm thinking.

00:43:53.300 --> 00:43:56.739
It would have. It would have. I had a 15 in there,

00:43:56.820 --> 00:43:59.460
and that hit. My lowest was a 12. Well, right.

00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.820
So then it would have added a D4. So it's close.

00:44:03.500 --> 00:44:07.900
It's a tweener. But David's being stingy. I'm

00:44:07.900 --> 00:44:10.980
being stingy. I'm being stingy. What's stinky

00:44:10.980 --> 00:44:14.809
old Jules LaRoche up to? Swing and a miss. Oh,

00:44:14.809 --> 00:44:19.429
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think he's going to

00:44:19.429 --> 00:44:21.949
do what you think he's going to do. Oh. I know.

00:44:22.010 --> 00:44:24.329
Two different choices and your allies potentially

00:44:24.329 --> 00:44:27.730
dying back there. Jules is up against the wall,

00:44:27.909 --> 00:44:30.190
kind of like kneeled down a little bit, his hand

00:44:30.190 --> 00:44:35.150
braced against the wall, breathing heavily. He

00:44:35.150 --> 00:44:38.429
looks over. He looks back over his shoulder.

00:44:38.429 --> 00:44:41.610
He hears the screaming. Mom! Mom! And he looks

00:44:41.610 --> 00:44:47.269
over to the dead woman over there. And then he

00:44:47.269 --> 00:44:51.650
looks over to Arhalon and the group. And we've

00:44:51.650 --> 00:44:53.769
talked a lot about how Jules has gone through

00:44:53.769 --> 00:44:58.769
these massive changes and these huge just growth,

00:44:58.949 --> 00:45:01.690
maybe? I don't know. He's changed so much. You

00:45:01.690 --> 00:45:05.150
get me excited over here. Yeah. And I think in

00:45:05.150 --> 00:45:09.829
this moment, finally, in the big... The beginning

00:45:09.829 --> 00:45:12.690
of the climax of everything. I'm about to climax.

00:45:13.409 --> 00:45:16.769
I shouldn't have said that. I opened that door.

00:45:18.530 --> 00:45:25.050
He's starting to really understand that sometimes

00:45:25.050 --> 00:45:30.090
saving everybody might be impossible. At the

00:45:30.090 --> 00:45:33.030
very least, he understands that in this moment,

00:45:33.230 --> 00:45:38.389
if they're not able to stop this, everyone's

00:45:38.389 --> 00:45:45.539
dead. Yeah. So with that, Jules is going to try

00:45:45.539 --> 00:45:48.519
to help these people. But in this immediate moment,

00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:52.559
he is going to reach out his hand and cast level

00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:59.260
4 Healing Word onto Arhalon. Whoa! Okay. So that

00:45:59.260 --> 00:46:05.219
is 4d4 plus 5. Oh, baby. You going to roll it

00:46:05.219 --> 00:46:16.699
for me? Yep. That's 19. Nice. That's great. Yeah.

00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:21.940
Hell yeah. That's great. Good little boost. Three

00:46:21.940 --> 00:46:27.420
of them were max. Hell yeah. I feel your light,

00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:32.480
Jules. I can still fight. He stands tall again.

00:46:32.739 --> 00:46:35.260
And then Jules will yell, got a little more help

00:46:35.260 --> 00:46:37.940
for you. And then with his bonus action, he's

00:46:37.940 --> 00:46:41.730
going, oh! With his bonus action, he's going

00:46:41.730 --> 00:46:44.489
to command the big ol' rock to go at the face

00:46:44.489 --> 00:46:47.710
of this giant. Oh, my God. Yes, the animated

00:46:47.710 --> 00:46:52.329
object. Holy shit. Yeah, so he shares the initiative,

00:46:52.409 --> 00:46:56.269
so it goes immediately. Okay, yeah. So... Well,

00:46:56.289 --> 00:46:58.750
maybe it hits him. Let's not get ahead of ourselves

00:46:58.750 --> 00:47:07.050
here. Well, okay, the to hit is my spell attack

00:47:07.050 --> 00:47:09.960
modifier, which is 10. Oh, that's pretty good.

00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:11.880
It's pretty good to hit. It's pretty good to

00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:13.679
hit. So you can roll a die about it. It's going

00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:17.320
to hit me. It's rocking going to touch me. Natural

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:20.639
fucking 20. The rock cramp me! The rock cramp

00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.659
me! What the hell? The rock fucking crit. Dwayne

00:47:23.659 --> 00:47:26.699
Johnson walks in like, oh my god. All right,

00:47:26.780 --> 00:47:31.699
so the damage on this is 1d10 plus my proficiency

00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:35.119
bonus, which is 4. So 1d10 plus 4. 2d10. 2d10

00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.489
plus 4. Yep. Holy shit, dude. You're going to

00:47:38.489 --> 00:47:42.130
raid my giant? This is crazy. Yeah. I can't wait

00:47:42.130 --> 00:47:45.050
to kill every one of you on my turn. I have so

00:47:45.050 --> 00:47:47.489
many dice now. Wait, do I get a turn? I don't

00:47:47.489 --> 00:47:49.869
remember what the turn order is. You get a turn

00:47:49.869 --> 00:47:52.769
eventually. Okay. Next week, right? Yeah, next

00:47:52.769 --> 00:47:59.139
week. 16. 16. You say this thing is the giant,

00:47:59.260 --> 00:48:01.599
like, like hit by our heart. It's like bad by

00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:03.699
Gabrielle behind and kind of turns its head to

00:48:03.699 --> 00:48:05.880
look at her as its head turns. That temple sort

00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:08.239
of opens up and this rock comes flying, cracks

00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:12.199
hard into this thing. You can see blood spurting

00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:16.400
out where it strikes. It looks bad. As this happens,

00:48:16.500 --> 00:48:19.500
Jules will look over to the, to the child over

00:48:19.500 --> 00:48:24.340
his mom and he will just scream. Don't worry.

00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:29.000
I am coming for you! And then that's it. That's

00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.119
his turn. Holy shit. Eyes dripping with tears

00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:36.980
look up and see you. He also, in a very just

00:48:36.980 --> 00:48:39.820
sad turn of events, inside he understands that

00:48:39.820 --> 00:48:42.400
might have been an empty promise. He knows that

00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:46.579
he can't promise that. But he's got to give everybody

00:48:46.579 --> 00:48:51.599
hope. Hell yeah. That's all he can do. The Bakunawa.

00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:54.940
And he's surging down. You see Celestials moving

00:48:54.940 --> 00:48:57.139
into chase, kind of, I guess, almost like shooting

00:48:57.139 --> 00:48:59.300
stars, swirling around in blasts of light hitting

00:48:59.300 --> 00:49:02.519
them. But one lightning strike fires out from

00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:04.300
the clouds above, ripping through one of these

00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:06.219
Celestials, another D .Va. Then he's just going

00:49:06.219 --> 00:49:10.920
to vanish in a burst of light. Only two left

00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:15.320
on it as it comes down towards you, Salome. Towards

00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:21.300
you. And that D .Va is up now. And it's going

00:49:21.300 --> 00:49:24.659
to... Try to help people. Try to help in the

00:49:24.659 --> 00:49:26.559
situation. I think the most immediate thing it

00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:28.820
sees is there's a big giant causing trouble.

00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:32.679
You sent this thing down there. It flies down.

00:49:33.739 --> 00:49:37.659
Have no fear. I've come to aid. It's going to

00:49:37.659 --> 00:49:39.219
start striking this thing. I'm going to hit this

00:49:39.219 --> 00:49:42.500
guy with two mace attacks. First attack hits.

00:49:43.059 --> 00:49:46.260
Second attack hits. Thankfully, I now have actual

00:49:46.260 --> 00:49:49.659
dice out and about so I can roll my attacks.

00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:55.539
First attack does 19 damage. Oh, nice. Holy shit.

00:49:55.780 --> 00:49:59.599
This attack does 21 damage. That's big for free

00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:04.260
health. Holy shit. 19 and 21. He slides down

00:50:04.260 --> 00:50:10.360
and just begins to pummel this thing. Two massive

00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:17.500
hits. Now like doing one figure hanging by its

00:50:17.500 --> 00:50:21.659
head, light shining off over Gabriela, over Arhalon.

00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:25.920
This giant's looking real, real bad. And that's

00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:29.940
the top of the round. The other storm giant.

00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:33.639
Nearly on, you can hear the ground shake with

00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:36.880
every boom, booming step where you stand, Jules.

00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:39.579
You're almost losing your footing. Every leaping

00:50:39.579 --> 00:50:44.050
charge, shaking the city. It slides up. It's

00:50:44.050 --> 00:50:47.469
about to careen right through that tavern, right

00:50:47.469 --> 00:50:52.590
into the fray. When another figure appears in

00:50:52.590 --> 00:50:57.449
light. You see Atash suddenly hanging above a

00:50:57.449 --> 00:51:00.349
structure nearby. Finger pointed towards the

00:51:00.349 --> 00:51:02.409
giant. The giant star stops. Its eyes catching

00:51:02.409 --> 00:51:07.190
the radiance. And Atash says, Hello, giant. I

00:51:07.190 --> 00:51:12.980
am Atash. And I challenge you to battle. Fucking

00:51:12.980 --> 00:51:17.519
Christ. I hate you so much. Fucking hell. I hate

00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.920
you so much. And the giant just starts charging

00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:26.300
in towards this, I think you would realize, illusory

00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:31.460
figure. Wait, what? It's not Atash? What? Mesmerize

00:51:31.460 --> 00:51:36.219
has made her move. Wow. He's distracted for now.

00:51:36.819 --> 00:51:38.480
God. So we'll be skipping his turn as he was

00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:41.519
charging and trying to go after that. We're going

00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:43.239
to the other storm giant who's going to make

00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:44.920
a... Oh, what am I going to do? What am I going

00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:48.800
to do here? This guy's so cool. Do I blow up

00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:50.440
everyone with a lightning strike? He hasn't done

00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:54.519
one yet. Oh, that'd be so gnarly. Or do I go

00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:57.360
for a great sword attack? Take out old Arhalon?

00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:02.340
Oh, the options. The options. You can try. We're

00:52:02.340 --> 00:52:04.880
going to do that. One on Arhalon, probably one

00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:06.139
on the D .Va. We're going to start with Arhalon

00:52:06.139 --> 00:52:08.059
because he looks kind of sad and injured and

00:52:08.059 --> 00:52:12.780
I want to kill him. I don't know, man. Hey, God.

00:52:13.619 --> 00:52:18.480
Give me a second. Is a 33 going to hit? Oh, my

00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:22.820
God. Hold on. Let me check. Let me do some typing.

00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:25.880
Do some typing. Do some math about it. Plus two,

00:52:26.099 --> 00:52:29.380
carry the one. Yeah, it fucking hits. Let me

00:52:29.380 --> 00:52:32.480
roll it so I can dice it once. That was the shittiest

00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.320
roll. I've ever... Four of those are ones. Look

00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:38.500
at my stupid roll. Dude, thank goodness because

00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:41.679
Arhalon's got 20 HP. That is so satisfying. I

00:52:41.679 --> 00:52:44.400
still might take him out. Hang on. Four ones,

00:52:44.500 --> 00:52:48.039
two threes. That's six. That's ten. That's ten.

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:51.800
That's five. That's amazing. I'm going to tell

00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:53.659
you right now. They need a plus nine to hit.

00:52:53.820 --> 00:52:56.340
So it's 19 damage on Arhalon. Get the fuck out.

00:52:56.340 --> 00:52:59.039
That's fucking amazing. Get out. That's so stupid.

00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:04.400
Are you serious? That's so stupid. How the hell

00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.579
does he? He just comes out again. He catches

00:53:07.579 --> 00:53:10.500
the blade. He's like a crater forms under his

00:53:10.500 --> 00:53:13.480
legs. He's just holding on. God, dude. Dude.

00:53:13.500 --> 00:53:19.500
Dude. I'm going to swing at the D .Va. Fuck.

00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.159
Damn it. That's great. I'm taking out Arhalon.

00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:24.159
Damn it. I'm taking him down. Second attack's

00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:25.920
going for Arhalon. Wait, what? Yeah, I don't

00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:31.059
care. Wait. Why? Asshole. Yeah. Yeah. That's

00:53:31.059 --> 00:53:35.090
going to be a... 22 to hit. God, I can't even

00:53:35.090 --> 00:53:37.690
with my reaction. I can't parry it. Yeah. What?

00:53:38.449 --> 00:53:43.429
Yeah. Why did he change? Because I realized strategically

00:53:43.429 --> 00:53:46.010
it makes more sense for Arhalon to go down. Why

00:53:46.010 --> 00:53:47.530
would this guy turn away from the guy who's about

00:53:47.530 --> 00:53:49.690
to go down? Because you said so. He did big fire

00:53:49.690 --> 00:53:53.929
damage. He rolled a fuck ton of dice. It's enough

00:53:53.929 --> 00:53:56.449
damage to take him under one HP. Yeah, yeah,

00:53:56.489 --> 00:53:59.599
I bet it is. Yeah. So, there you go. It's not

00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:01.219
going to overkill him. He has a lot of HP, but

00:54:01.219 --> 00:54:04.719
Arhalon is now... He takes that one attack, looks

00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:08.260
up, eyes gleaming towards this creature, defiant

00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:12.400
as the blade raises again. The blade does not

00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:15.480
crush him, for it is a weapon, while as a sword,

00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:19.460
it's somewhat blunt. I imagine a razor edge for

00:54:19.460 --> 00:54:22.800
a giant is not so razor for a small folk, but

00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:25.619
Arhalon is essentially crushed beneath this blade.

00:54:26.590 --> 00:54:30.550
He does not scream. He is silent as he is beaten

00:54:30.550 --> 00:54:33.809
into the earth. Well, that's my turn. Salome,

00:54:33.809 --> 00:54:37.710
that's you. Okay. At the top of Salome's turn,

00:54:37.849 --> 00:54:43.550
she's going to use a bonus action to... Ah, hold

00:54:43.550 --> 00:54:47.030
on. So here's what I want to do. I want to cast

00:54:47.030 --> 00:54:50.210
a spell that's a bonus action and then ready

00:54:50.210 --> 00:54:53.590
an action. But if that readied action is a spell,

00:54:53.769 --> 00:54:56.139
that's... I can't do that, right? It's a spell

00:54:56.139 --> 00:54:57.800
you already cast last turn, though, correct?

00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.260
Yeah. Yeah. So you already cast the spell, right?

00:55:01.340 --> 00:55:03.400
It's on you. Right. The spell has cast. I can

00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:04.960
use an action to activate the... You're shimmering

00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.800
in glitter. You're a glittery angel. So I'm still

00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.980
not using two spell slots, so it's legal. I'm

00:55:10.980 --> 00:55:14.159
allowed. Yeah. Okay. So Salome will look down

00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:18.780
at the fight, and she'll say, I'm sorry I can't

00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:23.659
help more. And her words will take physical shape.

00:55:24.349 --> 00:55:27.750
This, like, gold -flowing essence. And they'll

00:55:27.750 --> 00:55:32.489
shoot down at Arhalon as she casts Healing Word

00:55:32.489 --> 00:55:37.150
at fourth level. Nice. What's the range of Healing

00:55:37.150 --> 00:55:39.949
Word? It's theater of the mind. It's 60 feet.

00:55:41.369 --> 00:55:44.210
I'll have 60. I'll have 60. If it was 30, I was

00:55:44.210 --> 00:55:47.110
going to be like, no way. I'll give you 60. Because

00:55:47.110 --> 00:55:48.710
that's actually how far you are up right now.

00:55:48.769 --> 00:55:51.150
Exactly 60. You did 30 feet the first turn. 30

00:55:51.150 --> 00:55:53.460
feet is like, yeah. Fear the mind still has rules,

00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:58.940
Steven. It's called a map. First rule, I rule.

00:55:59.179 --> 00:56:03.440
Come on. Oh, my goodness. What? Three max. What?

00:56:03.579 --> 00:56:08.280
Nice. Holy shit. So that's 18 back to Arhalon.

00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:11.920
Okay. Arhalon's up again. He just does this.

00:56:11.940 --> 00:56:16.639
His eyes open. Up and down. The haze of your

00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:20.440
magic kind of flowing from his body. That light

00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:27.320
shining. Narhalon begins to rise again. And you're

00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:31.159
moving. Salome is moving as far up as she can.

00:56:31.539 --> 00:56:39.599
The silvery glittering ness has coalesced onto

00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:43.340
her hand that she's reaching up towards the Bakunawa

00:56:43.340 --> 00:56:45.219
as she flies up. And you're ready to actually

00:56:45.219 --> 00:56:47.559
touch this thing when it gets close? Yes. I love

00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:50.980
this. And she's calling out to the Bakunawa.

00:56:52.279 --> 00:56:57.780
Mazidra Khan! Where is Mazidra Khan? Holy shit.

00:56:59.260 --> 00:57:01.039
Okay, I don't know what this is. I have no idea

00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:02.280
what's going on here, but this is incredible.

00:57:03.300 --> 00:57:07.239
We slide down from that. Arhalon is up. Is he

00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:08.619
standing up? Is he doing anything? Is he going

00:57:08.619 --> 00:57:10.280
to play it dead so he doesn't get squashed again?

00:57:11.639 --> 00:57:13.820
No, he's going to look at his sheet real fast.

00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:20.210
Let me see what I can do here. He doesn't have

00:57:20.210 --> 00:57:22.230
Lay on Hands, does he? I don't have Lay on Hands.

00:57:22.230 --> 00:57:25.010
This is bullshit. I'm a paladin. Who made my

00:57:25.010 --> 00:57:30.489
sheet, Steven? I mean, I... He has no healing.

00:57:30.670 --> 00:57:34.489
He is a pure damaging paladin. Man, like part

00:57:34.489 --> 00:57:36.429
of me wants to like full withdraw or something,

00:57:36.510 --> 00:57:40.190
but it's fucking Arholon. There's enough help

00:57:40.190 --> 00:57:43.409
around here. I think he can stay out of trouble.

00:57:43.670 --> 00:57:47.510
He's got flanking. Like this is kind of his best

00:57:47.510 --> 00:57:50.139
shot. I mean, we know that this thing is taking

00:57:50.139 --> 00:57:52.840
a boatload of damage. So he's going to get up.

00:57:53.500 --> 00:57:57.719
His Searing Smite, sorry, his Flame Tongue is

00:57:57.719 --> 00:58:00.800
still active. He only gets three Searing Smites

00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:03.699
a day, though. But if I don't use it, he could

00:58:03.699 --> 00:58:08.000
die. Okay. So Searing Smite works for the whole

00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:10.420
turn. If I activate it, do I get it with both

00:58:10.420 --> 00:58:12.659
attacks? I think it's just one attack. Okay.

00:58:13.300 --> 00:58:15.889
All right. Well, I'm going to roll twice. Do

00:58:15.889 --> 00:58:18.389
I have to call it before I... When the attack

00:58:18.389 --> 00:58:20.070
lands, then you can... Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

00:58:20.170 --> 00:58:21.650
Yes. Yeah, when you hit a creature with an attack.

00:58:21.789 --> 00:58:28.510
Okay. First one's a... Just a 12. Will not hit.

00:58:29.969 --> 00:58:33.760
Oh, 17 on the die. That will hit. That's a hit.

00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:36.960
Arlog climbs to his feet. Sword sinks down. The

00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:38.900
heat sort of from the start, like the flaming

00:58:38.900 --> 00:58:42.679
blade kind of cutting into the dirt as he stands

00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:46.880
up, kneeling on it, whips it around, launches

00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:48.679
into an attack. First one the giant sees and

00:58:48.679 --> 00:58:50.420
parries. The second one he sees an opening and

00:58:50.420 --> 00:58:56.860
strikes through. Will it be enough? 18. What's

00:58:56.860 --> 00:59:00.360
it look like when Arlog kills this storm giant?

00:59:01.579 --> 00:59:05.019
He, again, tightens his grip on the flame tongue.

00:59:05.500 --> 00:59:10.420
And with both hands, like a baseball player hitting

00:59:10.420 --> 00:59:14.360
a fucking home run. Full, you know, his lower

00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:16.780
body turns first, his upper body turns second.

00:59:16.980 --> 00:59:20.599
And he's swinging at, like, waist height for

00:59:20.599 --> 00:59:25.119
him and just cuts the giant off at the knees.

00:59:25.820 --> 00:59:29.699
Through both legs. And he falls to the ground.

00:59:29.940 --> 00:59:33.599
The bigger they are. And this thing comes crashing

00:59:33.599 --> 00:59:36.300
down into the end. You see, like... The dialogue

00:59:36.300 --> 00:59:42.019
on my fall. Can I get another bite? Wow. Screw

00:59:42.019 --> 00:59:48.860
you. Wow. Okay. He crashes down into the ruins

00:59:48.860 --> 00:59:50.980
of the tavern. Gabrielle sort of weaving out

00:59:50.980 --> 00:59:58.460
of the way. And dies. Harlan takes a deep breath.

01:00:00.099 --> 01:00:04.380
Gabriella. Her foe is down. She's free to move

01:00:04.380 --> 01:00:08.460
about. Perfect. What should she do? Okay. Stand

01:00:08.460 --> 01:00:11.219
by. Tasha's appeared. She's doing something.

01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:14.800
She doesn't know about the people in the building,

01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:17.539
anything like that. Right, right. I don't know

01:00:17.539 --> 01:00:18.840
if she'd want to redouble to go to Jules. It's

01:00:18.840 --> 01:00:21.099
really your call. Well, that was going to be

01:00:21.099 --> 01:00:23.820
my next question, is could Jules yell out to

01:00:23.820 --> 01:00:26.599
her? I'll allow it. You had a turn since then,

01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:29.760
so it makes sense. Cool. I think he's just so

01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:32.579
panicked at this point. He's like, hey, hey,

01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:35.599
hey, hey, hey. And he's waving his arms. Hell

01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:37.960
yeah. She's 30 feet away from Jules because you

01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:39.440
had moved 30 feet towards the edge of the building.

01:00:39.599 --> 01:00:41.460
She's on the top of that one. So you kind of

01:00:41.460 --> 01:00:43.079
are doing a Pythagoras here. So she can just

01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:45.300
jump right to you. Okay. There's people trapped

01:00:45.300 --> 01:00:48.739
inside. We need to get them out. She moved her

01:00:48.739 --> 01:00:51.719
30 feet movement. You can action move in. You

01:00:51.719 --> 01:00:53.800
can burn a key point bonus action move in and

01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:56.119
have an action still despair. It'll be a third

01:00:56.119 --> 01:00:58.030
key point on her. How many did she have total?

01:00:58.650 --> 01:01:01.210
She has nine, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'll spend

01:01:01.210 --> 01:01:03.550
one. Okay. And just have an action if we need

01:01:03.550 --> 01:01:05.309
it. She, there's not even, you say there's people

01:01:05.309 --> 01:01:08.750
in trouble, your eyes move towards, and I think

01:01:08.750 --> 01:01:11.150
the second Jules' eyes turn back to her, you

01:01:11.150 --> 01:01:12.969
know, what was meant to be a signal, you don't

01:01:12.969 --> 01:01:15.769
see her anymore. She's already in the building,

01:01:15.909 --> 01:01:18.289
leaping through like one of the sort of crushed

01:01:18.289 --> 01:01:22.150
windows, sort of sliding through, moving closer

01:01:22.150 --> 01:01:25.360
to the sound. I need you to roll a... perception

01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:27.360
check. This will be her action this turn. Okay.

01:01:27.699 --> 01:01:29.820
See if she can find where she needs to go. Okay.

01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:34.280
Smoke. Passive perception's 12. It's just like...

01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:35.659
Just throwing it out there. It's pretty low,

01:01:35.739 --> 01:01:38.619
but... On some sunko, the burning tent. She flew

01:01:38.619 --> 01:01:41.940
in there. Now, once again, she's finding some

01:01:41.940 --> 01:01:45.519
lost in the black smoke, kind of hiding her face,

01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:50.480
pushing towards a sound of muffled screams. That's

01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.849
going to be 16. 16 is good enough. She's... trying

01:01:54.849 --> 01:01:57.849
to find it. She can't see. She closes her eyes,

01:01:58.170 --> 01:02:02.250
opens herself up, hears a screaming, hears vibrations

01:02:02.250 --> 01:02:05.329
through the floor. It's coming from down low.

01:02:05.469 --> 01:02:08.429
A cellar. A cellar. It must be trapped beneath

01:02:08.429 --> 01:02:11.329
the fire. And she opens her eyes and begins to

01:02:11.329 --> 01:02:13.929
look, sliding through, getting closer and closer

01:02:13.929 --> 01:02:15.969
to the sound, and she sees it now. There is a

01:02:15.969 --> 01:02:18.750
trap door under the smoke she can barely make

01:02:18.750 --> 01:02:23.519
visible. There's a large beam burning. fling

01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:26.139
over it. And she's going to have to get to work

01:02:26.139 --> 01:02:30.119
to save them. And that's her turn. Okay. And

01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:34.940
that's Jules. Jules will reach out his hand toward

01:02:34.940 --> 01:02:39.900
the child and his mom and cast level four healing

01:02:39.900 --> 01:02:43.719
word. You cast the spell and you see it does

01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:47.500
not take hold. She is dead. Fuck you, David.

01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:53.840
You have the power. to heal this malady, but

01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:57.719
it comes the sacrifice of healing it on someone

01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:02.460
you love. Are you willing to burn the power of

01:03:02.460 --> 01:03:04.840
life? Well, now he's going to scream over to

01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:06.860
the kids, stay there! And he's going to run into

01:03:06.860 --> 01:03:11.360
the building. Okay. Okay. Into the smoke. That's

01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:13.880
your turn? Mm -hmm. I believe you still have

01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:16.179
an action. Healing words bonus action. Is it?

01:03:17.230 --> 01:03:20.489
I think so. Healing word is. Healing touch. Whatever

01:03:20.489 --> 01:03:22.389
is not. Whoops. Then I would have done something

01:03:22.389 --> 01:03:25.250
else the last turn, too. Oh, whoops. Yeah. Whoops.

01:03:25.989 --> 01:03:29.389
Whoops. Actually, hold on. No, no. That's it.

01:03:29.469 --> 01:03:32.190
He's going to run in. Okay. Running into the

01:03:32.190 --> 01:03:35.230
smoke, following the sound of that muffled screaming.

01:03:35.429 --> 01:03:37.429
I think because Gabriella is standing in the

01:03:37.429 --> 01:03:39.510
way, you can kind of see her silhouette as you

01:03:39.510 --> 01:03:42.309
get closer. You manage to move up to where she

01:03:42.309 --> 01:03:47.880
stands. Jules, what do we do? And then. before

01:03:47.880 --> 01:03:51.000
the Bacchanawa goes. Because I think that's going

01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.860
to be a very dramatic beat. I want to do an undramatic

01:03:52.860 --> 01:03:55.840
beat and have the D .Va go. As the giant falls,

01:03:56.219 --> 01:03:58.500
this thing's flying, seeing its, like, smoldering

01:03:58.500 --> 01:04:04.920
corpse. It looks up in awe at Atash. The commander

01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:09.900
-in -chief has come. Atash! Atash! I'm ready

01:04:09.900 --> 01:04:14.340
to you! And the D .Va blasts towards his greatest

01:04:14.340 --> 01:04:17.960
hero. Honestly, thank goodness. Actually, you

01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:19.780
know what? Yeah, I love that. That's the perfect

01:04:19.780 --> 01:04:21.599
move. It's not helping you anymore, but maybe

01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:24.380
Mesmer's going to need it. Yeah, if you let me

01:04:24.380 --> 01:04:27.360
make a move, it would have been that. But now

01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:31.760
I'm going to make a move. The Bacchanawa surges

01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:38.139
down, and you are in its way. Mouth opens up.

01:04:38.900 --> 01:04:43.199
You see its whole body begins to crackle electricity.

01:04:44.349 --> 01:04:47.289
As if it's become the storm surge itself. It

01:04:47.289 --> 01:04:50.789
flies down towards you. Mouth open wide. You

01:04:50.789 --> 01:04:54.449
see it coming, coming. It's all around you now.

01:04:54.530 --> 01:04:56.610
Salome, your hand is out. You have arrayed action.

01:04:56.730 --> 01:05:02.869
What do you do? Salome is going to use the special

01:05:02.869 --> 01:05:06.809
function Break Enchantment of the Dispel Evil

01:05:06.809 --> 01:05:11.630
and Good spell. What? The reading is, as your

01:05:11.630 --> 01:05:14.449
action, You touch a creature you can reach that

01:05:14.449 --> 01:05:18.269
is charmed, frightened, or possessed by a celestial,

01:05:18.550 --> 01:05:23.150
elemental, a fae, a fiend, or an undead. The

01:05:23.150 --> 01:05:25.489
creature you touch is no longer charmed, frightened,

01:05:25.690 --> 01:05:28.750
or possessed by such creatures. That is fascinating.

01:05:29.289 --> 01:05:36.269
That is fascinating. You reach out, silvered

01:05:36.269 --> 01:05:39.909
hand, and it just comes down like... Almost like

01:05:39.909 --> 01:05:42.710
something happened to this moment as your hand

01:05:42.710 --> 01:05:45.590
is out, as that gnashing mouth is going to take

01:05:45.590 --> 01:05:50.750
you. It just snaps shut before you just enough

01:05:50.750 --> 01:05:53.170
that you can place your hand upon the creature's

01:05:53.170 --> 01:05:57.829
sort of nose just above its lips. This massive

01:05:57.829 --> 01:06:01.309
towering beast and you so small before it, you

01:06:01.309 --> 01:06:05.469
feel your magic boom, boom out through the creature

01:06:05.469 --> 01:06:11.340
and you feel. No effect from the spell. Goddamn.

01:06:11.900 --> 01:06:15.159
But then you feel something else. There's a golden

01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:19.500
mote around you, Salome, connecting you to jewels.

01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:23.380
And I think as you cast this silvered spell,

01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:29.900
a wisp of gold floats into your hand. This is

01:06:29.900 --> 01:06:32.920
complicated. This doesn't make sense. If it's

01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:34.920
possessed, it should have stopped. Why didn't

01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:39.420
it work? Why? And as you touch this thing, it

01:06:39.420 --> 01:06:44.719
seems to stiffen and react. Another feeling very

01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:48.699
familiar to you, Salome. The feeling of a vision.

01:06:51.519 --> 01:06:56.780
You peer into a wide, expansive cavern, trailing

01:06:56.780 --> 01:07:00.400
off into blackness. A single tall torch holds

01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:03.159
this blackness at bay, a solitary sentinel against

01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:06.429
the sheer madness of imagination. You see the

01:07:06.429 --> 01:07:09.369
ceiling above is broken by these massive, twisted

01:07:09.369 --> 01:07:13.030
roots, blighted by spots of thick black, with

01:07:13.030 --> 01:07:15.630
specks of glistening, sickening orange, a light,

01:07:15.710 --> 01:07:22.530
a little glow at the top. In your mind, in the

01:07:22.530 --> 01:07:24.989
streets outside, you can hear the creature now,

01:07:25.130 --> 01:07:29.070
just before you open its mouth and wail its mantra,

01:07:29.349 --> 01:07:41.070
SRIVE! There's a cage in the cavern, Salome.

01:07:41.610 --> 01:07:44.869
Steel bars shining in the torchlight. An ornate

01:07:44.869 --> 01:07:49.289
thing like a giant birdcage. And inside, a figure

01:07:49.289 --> 01:07:53.050
laying in a pained, tormented pose. As if every

01:07:53.050 --> 01:07:56.530
part of his body rings with agony. Eyes hollow

01:07:56.530 --> 01:08:00.409
and broken. Mouth laying still in an open O.

01:08:01.289 --> 01:08:04.010
Shallow breathing accompanied by a whistling

01:08:04.010 --> 01:08:07.710
wheeze is the only activity the body seems capable

01:08:07.710 --> 01:08:13.260
of. And you feel a tremor run through each and

01:08:13.260 --> 01:08:16.800
every feather on your wings. Salome, your blood

01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:22.579
becomes ice. Because the figure you see is not

01:08:22.579 --> 01:08:37.640
Paul. Save Jules! It's Jules, Salome. Jules,

01:08:37.800 --> 01:08:40.359
as you just saw him down below. Jules, but wrong,

01:08:40.539 --> 01:08:42.779
haunted and defeated, lying in the darkness.

01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:45.779
And you notice now there are bars before you,

01:08:45.819 --> 01:08:49.039
a cage around you. As you are seeing this place

01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:52.000
through, eyes that are not yours. Eyes set low

01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:54.579
to the ground, peering between the bars. A hand,

01:08:54.619 --> 01:08:57.479
small and smooth, and dark skin reaches out towards

01:08:57.479 --> 01:09:01.520
Jules. And behind and above him, something enormous

01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:05.579
moves the darkness. Eyes snap open between black

01:09:05.579 --> 01:09:08.739
scales. The full extent of their cruel focus

01:09:08.739 --> 01:09:13.479
is on you. Beneath them, backlit by a luminous

01:09:13.479 --> 01:09:17.220
green haze, you see razor teeth curving into

01:09:17.220 --> 01:09:24.100
a smile. You stand before this creature again,

01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:30.479
floating in the air, not understanding. I think

01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:35.930
for just a moment, frozen. Confused. The chaos,

01:09:35.989 --> 01:09:40.069
the screaming, the storm drowned out. Your mind

01:09:40.069 --> 01:09:44.689
lost in that cavernous blackness. As the mob

01:09:44.689 --> 01:09:49.270
before you opens wide. And tries to consume you

01:09:49.270 --> 01:09:55.270
whole. As the jaw comes down. Your eyes remain

01:09:55.270 --> 01:09:57.989
locked in the blackness, frozen in this moment.

01:09:58.109 --> 01:10:00.409
That spell, that spell, it should have worked.

01:10:01.149 --> 01:10:03.760
Your... Mightiest magic to break this connection

01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:06.619
should have worked. I'd like you to roll me an

01:10:06.619 --> 01:10:09.460
insight check to find out why it didn't work.

01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:12.979
Since she's currently connected to Jules right

01:10:12.979 --> 01:10:15.479
now, can Jules use a button for advantage? I

01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:18.380
mean... Oh, I like that. Salome can use a button.

01:10:18.479 --> 01:10:20.920
Do you want to use a button? Let me math it out

01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:25.279
real fast. Got a plus eight to insight, and I

01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:27.739
have my bardic, which is another d8. It's not

01:10:27.739 --> 01:10:30.340
a gimme. This is something big. Now I'm going

01:10:30.340 --> 01:10:32.670
to use it. Now I'm going to use it. This is something.

01:10:38.130 --> 01:10:41.569
Same roll. Twice in a row. I'm going to use my

01:10:41.569 --> 01:10:50.369
bardic. 23. 23 will do. I wanted the 20 for this.

01:10:50.550 --> 01:10:54.109
Oh my god. That's pretty good. Only through this

01:10:54.109 --> 01:10:56.890
spell and this check will you gather this information.

01:10:57.069 --> 01:11:00.270
Something that I... Wanted to hold close to my

01:11:00.270 --> 01:11:04.890
chest. The jaw comes down. And you are frozen

01:11:04.890 --> 01:11:07.970
because you realize if there was a connection,

01:11:08.109 --> 01:11:09.590
a possession, you should have stopped it, but

01:11:09.590 --> 01:11:16.869
it wasn't a possession. You saw a vision. A boy

01:11:16.869 --> 01:11:21.409
in a cave. Jewels. Tortured. You saw this and

01:11:21.409 --> 01:11:24.510
you realized that it was not a vision. It was

01:11:24.510 --> 01:11:30.369
not a connection, Salome. It was a memory. And

01:11:30.369 --> 01:11:31.250
we'll call it there.