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Hey there, pants peoples and lovers of literature.

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If you're looking for something new in the science

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fiction department, then here we are with Nicholas

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Keating -Casbarro, our second clip of our interview

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with him. So check him out online, vidalirium

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.com, vidaliriumseries .com, right? There we

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go. Stephen gave me the nod. And yeah, enjoy.

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How are you liking it so far? Because my goal

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there was to kind of create like a graphic audio

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experience, like an immersive experience, music,

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sound effects, you know. voice modulation where

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it's appropriate yeah it tones when it gets suspenseful

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it totally is i've been chewing it up um you

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know like uh david is also pretty good at this

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you know as we're playing our our dnd game you

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know he'll change the music and and it felt very

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much like that and that helped capture me and

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get me into the moment because like you know

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i could feel the these scenes changing you know

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like in the in the jewelry shop sort of thing

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when the music would start to change i i could

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feel i was like okay now something's about to

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happen yeah yeah there's there's definitely this

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is definitely uh edge of your seat type content.

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It's not your cozy fireside romance. So I felt

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like that was important to make sure that we

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were, you know, really kind of painting the scene

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for everyone who was listening to the audio book.

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Um, so I'm glad you're enjoying that. By the

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way, the, the voices you guys do on the podcast

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are, it had me laughing the whole ride up. Thank

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you earlier today. That's a, you guys are awesome.

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Yeah. We're having a lot of fun. We're having

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a lot of fun. Well, before we go, I had one maybe

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like two part question that it's been it's been

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curious on my mind all day long. I wanted to

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ask you, do you do you have any experience playing

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D &D or do you have other media influences that

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inspired some of the Videlirium backstory? You

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know, it's funny, I I would let now in like now

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that I've kind of dived into this world head

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first. Cause I never even imagined I would have

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written a book if you had talked to me, you know,

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maybe three and a half years ago. But now that

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I have, I'm really starting to kind of reconnect

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with all of these different things that I liked

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when I was a kid. I never played D and D, but

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that's just because I just never had anyone around

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me who was playing it. So I just didn't have

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anyone to play with, but I would definitely play

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it nowadays. Like I actually, I find it fascinating.

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I think it would be a lot of fun. And it sounds

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like you guys certainly have a lot of fun with

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it. But if you're talking about influences, you

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know, some some of the things that kind of, I

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guess, help formulate what I ended up turning

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Videlarium into. I mean, there's it's never one

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thing, right? There's dozens of things. But I've

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been a sci fi fan my whole life. And it's, you

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know, my influences stem from, you know, everything

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from like the dystopian classics, your, you know,

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your Orwell's and your Aldous Huxley's to. You

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know, Dune, Frank Herbert's work. I actually

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write in the omniscient perspective, kind of

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like he writes, except I do it for a very specific

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reason. And I actually don't even find out what

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that reason is until the end of the book. And

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or the end of book one, I should say. But yeah,

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no, I mean, I enjoy sci fi video games, sci fi

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cinema. You know, I. Even some of the niche cult

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classic stuff. Did you guys ever see Firefly?

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Oh, sure. Yeah. Hell yeah. That's right. You'll

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definitely catch a little bit of Mal Reynolds

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in the protagonist. You'll catch a little bit

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of... He's kind of your... When he's an adult,

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he's a gruff kind of loner. Basically doing odd

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jobs for... local gangs, like I mentioned. So

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you're going to get almost like a little bit

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of a Geralt of Rivia feel from him, but in space.

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Yeah, exactly. Especially when it comes to what

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his skill set is. And it's funny you mentioned

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that, you know, that scene where his father is

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quizzing him on the Fauna Diorum books. Well,

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one of the things that he is exceptionally good

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at is surviving outside of the protective walls

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of Kairos, where 99 point... nine, nine, nine

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percent of the population on the planet lives.

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Oh, wow. And so he basically he knows how to

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survive and not get killed by the countless,

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you know, species of just vicious alien life

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that that live on the planet. And so you get

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you get a little bit of you definitely get a

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little bit of that Witcher kind of vibe from

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him. Hell yeah. Sci -fi Witcher. I love the sound

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of that. I love what I've heard so far. And Pants

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People, if you want to check out Videlirium,

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Descent into the Void, look it up wherever you

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get books, Amazon, Audible, VideliriumSeries

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.com. Nick is all over social media as well.

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We'll have his page up on the episode post for

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this episode as well. And please go check Nick

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out. I think you're going to really enjoy the

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story. Appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you, Nick,

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so much for joining us, man. Hey, thanks for

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having me. Looking forward to seeing what's next

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in the Vidalirium series. Storyteller Rune is

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not here. He took a lunch break. I don't know.

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Shit's too hot for Rune right now. I just want

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to get into it. But before we get into it. Oh,

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my God. Fellas, what's your relationship with

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anime? Casual viewer. Non -existent. Non -existent.

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All right. All right. Yeah. I would say I'm also

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a casual viewer. A big lover of the art form.

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I just don't do a lot of self, you know. at home,

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just me watching things. It's always with the

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wife. So I've recently gotten back into the sort

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of inspiration for this show. That's what got

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me on this. I've been hyper fixating on MHA,

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My Hero Academia, lately, which is kind of the

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initial seed that kind of this entire story setting

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came from. I don't know. I'm curious. You have

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a non -existent relationship. You've never watched

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anything? I mean, I started. I started that.

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You started that and you didn't keep going? Yeah.

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But there's so much crying and impassioned speeches

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and punching. I didn't feel that. I don't know.

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Anime is just not my jam. I'm sorry. But it's

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all like you can be a hero. It's not like I don't

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hate anime. It's just not my jam. Just not my

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thing. Get him! Pitchforks now! I think it was

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Steven. I feel like Zebulon was a real Deku.

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Sure. Yeah, I could see that. I would watch more

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anime if I had more time to watch anime. Yeah,

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that's it right there. Yeah. And like you said,

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you know, usually if I'm sitting down watching

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TV, it's with the wife and we'll watch some anime

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together sometimes, but it's not really her jam.

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So I'm just not usually, you know, home alone

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enough or with enough time or with not enough

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things to do that that I'm watching much like

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I loved MHA. Yeah. Several seasons in anyway.

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I don't know how far behind I am. I'm certainly

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behind. Would love to watch more. Just don't

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always have the time to. Yeah, I'm like way,

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way behind on what's like One Piece, MHA, Jujutsu

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Kaisen, Demon Slayer. Oh my gosh, there's so

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many that I really want to get back onto. I just

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don't. Tell us your favorites in the comments.

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Tell us your favorites. Do we have comments?

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Yeah. Like Spotify. Oh, yeah. Get those Spotify

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comments. Is there anywhere else we could tell?

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Don't. Yeah, dude. There's all sorts of places.

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The Discord. No, no, no. You can tell us on the

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Instagram. That too. That too. I don't know a

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lot. How do you tell us on the Instagram? So

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when we post. Just write a comment or slide into

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those DMs. We're going to post just an episode

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out there and someone's just going to be like,

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one punch man. No, still get this. Still get

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this. I don't know a lot about like the algorithms

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and stuff on Instagram and social media. But

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I was reading actually today that some of the

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algorithm priorities have like changed for how

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you get more exposure on the platform. And things

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like liking a post now, that doesn't mean as

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much as sharing a post. Or now the big thing

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is saving a post. What? So if you really want

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to help Fancy Pants get visibility on Instagram,

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save the stuff. You can create a folder you don't

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have to ever look at. Just save the stuff. Share

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it with your friends. Wait, wait, wait. Make

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two Instagram accounts and share it with each

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other. No, I got it. I got it. Save the post.

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Save the podcast. That's it. Right there. Tagline.

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All right. Episode title. That was pretty good.

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No, come on. That was good. I was proud of that.

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We can just call it out. We can just go home.

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Man, before we go home, before we go home, and

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before we get into it again, last week, I want

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to talk about last week because that was phenomenal.

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Hey, come on. No, I just love how you skipped

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Rune. You're like, no, that's too much cool stuff.

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Go for it. No, I want to hear it. I didn't have

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any ideas for Rude. You want the excuse? No.

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You want me bare -chested? No. Oh, God. He's

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taking his shirt off. It's been too long. Not

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really. You want this? No. What are you? Pure

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naked truth? Okay. What the fuck? Here it is.

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What's the pure naked truth? I didn't have any

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ideas for Rude. I was lazy. Oh, my God. I feel

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like writing. So you had to be theatrical about

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it. Yeah. Okay. Look what you've done. It's cold

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outside. I'm going to just look at my computer

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screen. And I'm going to keep my eyes down here.

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See, this is what we get Patreon for. And looking

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at no map. Here's the map right here. Look at

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these hips. Nope. Yeah. Stare at this belly.

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Get some, like, stickies to, like, place around

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his chest. Where are you at? Point. Poke on me.

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Poke my flesh. Where's Papalotian Hill? But last

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week, no. How long do you think he's going to

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do this topless? The whole show. The whole show.

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He's going to do the whole fucking show. It is

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kind of long in here. I have the fortitude. Yeah.

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You should all take your shirts off. Let's go

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shirtless, all of us. Shirtless, pantless. Nope.

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Nope. Nope. Get out. Last week, though. It was

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so crazy. Dude, I had nothing. From the second

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this fight started, you're like, I'm flying up

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there. I'm going after the thing that was, in

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my mind, a background detail you weren't going

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to go. It was way up in the sky. It's super,

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it has a high movement speed. So when it turned

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down, it's like close in distance. That thing

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was, I described it as being like. Barely visible

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in the sky. It's way, way up there. You see stars

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fighting it. And you're like, fuck it, I'm going

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to fly over there and just go after it. Which

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was awesome. Which was cool. Because some of

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the twists of the arc, one of the big twists

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at least, I had to reveal to you now. Holy shit,

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dude. Well, when I came to the realization that,

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well, actually, I didn't come to the realization

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until after recording already. But, well. I should

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have come to the realization that when you were

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like, yeah, it's going to take you like three

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or four moves to get there. I should have just

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been like, okay, David clearly doesn't want me

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to interact with this thing. It wasn't even that.

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It's just that in my mind, I was like, okay,

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you know, you only have so much movement speed.

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I know it's theater of the mind, but I don't

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want to go too free flow. Like, and you're 120

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feet in the air suddenly or whatever this is.

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This thing should be, I mean, I imagine it was

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somewhere like 200 feet up, right? And you had

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to move three turns and to move down one turn

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to like bridge that gap. I couldn't justify it.

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I love that you made this move. I didn't want

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you to not make this move. I think this is a

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cool fucking move. I'm going to punish you so

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hard immediately for this move. Yeah. Not because

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I want to. I thought this was cool. I just have

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to as a DM and a person who enjoys punishing

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people. I've been looking through my spell list

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all week trying to figure out exactly how I can

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get out of this. I think Salome's kind of fucked.

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Maybe. Take your shirt off and let me whip you.

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What the fuck is wrong with you? I just want

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to get those reactions out of you. So we talked

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about the realization after we got off mic. I

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don't know if any of the Pants people have put

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two and two together about what actually just

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happened at the end of that episode. We talked

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about it and we figured it out. But we haven't

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talked about it on air yet. What did that mean?

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Yeah. A memory. You touch not a sort of connection,

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not like a vision through this creature, but

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a memory of this creature's. What does that mean?

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It's not going to get passed along unless Salome

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at least gets out. Fuck, yeah, that's true. This

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mouth is closing upon you. I'm going to make

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an attack on you. And it seems to me like it's

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time for you guys to stop dawdling. Time for

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us to get into this. You want to get into this?

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Wait, can we talk about the crunchy? So if you

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bite me, you then get an opportunity to swallow

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me? I will tell you. What? As I continue my turn,

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what's going to happen to you? It's going to

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be very, very bad. Very, very bad. Let's get

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some cool music playing. Oh, my God. Do I give

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him fantasy plus? I was going to say, this sounds

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very heroic. We're going to win. Yeah. Yeah.

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Let me change the song real fast. Do I give him

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two buttons for disadvantage on the bite? Ooh.

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Salome, let me reset the scene. Let me set up

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the scene. Give me a second to paint my picture

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before you get all chunky. I'm so nervous. Put

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that chunk away. Thank you. Salome, you have

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just reached out to break any control or possession

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on this draconic serpent terrorizing the skies

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of Dialan. Dialan, I don't know. And your magic

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failed entirely. However, your bardic inspiration

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from jewels allowed you to connect to this creature

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and to witness a memory. The memory of a captive

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child. You can ascertain that much from the details.

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Your small form, your tiny hand reaching out

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towards a cage and tortured jewels. And the memory

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of this Bakunawa, said to be the last of its

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kind. A creature that, up until now, you knew

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by the name of Pangil. And as your mind reels,

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you connect these dots. And you find yourself

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in great peril, as the creature that was once

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named Paul is going to make a bite attack on

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you. And by the way, I added a lot of oomph to

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this CR12 stat block. So now it's CR. I don't

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know. It's higher. Hold on. Hold on. It was CR

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12. Yeah. And you added more to it. It was a

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soft CR 12. We are a party of two level nine

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PCs. Hey, you got some R. Hold on a minute. And

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two level nine sidekicks. It was a weak ass level.

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You should see those stats. They are laughably

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low. I fixed it. Don't worry. Now it's scary.

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You ready for this? No. Ready for this? Hold

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on. Hold on. Here we go. Wait. I should warn

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you though. If I hit you, it's going to be bad.

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All right? One more shit. Two buttons for disadvantage.

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Two buttons for disadvantage. Flying off on your

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own solo. It's going to be bad. It's going to

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be really, really bad. You're going to be bad.

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It's going to be so bad. I am stalling and rolling

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the dice because I'm nervous bad? Maybe. I'm

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that bad. Yeah, that bad. Let's do this thing.

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Disadvantage, you said? You're holding the buttons.

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I forgot. I lost them. You got two more. 19 on

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the die for the first attack. But you gave me

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two buttons. The mouth is closing down. You know

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what? Actually, you don't have to hit him. I

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was going to show it to everybody. You don't

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get to see. Sorry. You want to come see? Come

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see my dice. Come look at the two on the die.

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Mouth slams. Our camera pans this side. We see

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Salome bursting out, just barely grazed by the

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teeth. You are not swallowed whole by this creature,

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which would have been death. It would have almost

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certainly been death. I was terrified. I am still

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going to make a storm tackle on you now. I have

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two attacks. But the bite failed. Storm slam.

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So as you throw to the side, you like move over

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and you see this creature's body almost like

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as a head slows to attack you, the body continues

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on and this tail almost whips around. You dodge

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one attack, but find yourself right in the path

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of another. This one will hit with a 17 on the

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die. Let me roll some damage on you real fast

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here. That is 14. Blood genetic damage plus 11

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thunder damage. This thing hits you in a wave

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of thunder, wraps around the body, smashes into

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you. You're also knocked. This doesn't really

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matter where you are now, but you're knocked

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10 feet sort of downwards. Boom! It's coming

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down at you. So it says horizontal direction.

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We're off horizontal right now because we're

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fully in the air. It's coming at you from above.

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You are knocked 10 feet lower, which puts you,

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I think, 80 feet now above the sort of surface

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where your allies are just finishing up their

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combat. But that... is my full turn. Holy shit.

00:18:36.890 --> 00:18:39.230
Tell me, are you still alive? Still up? Five

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HP. Oh my gosh. Okay. I rolled pretty bad on

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that attack too. Wow. Wow. I should note that

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two Celestials, more D .Va, sort of move in to

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surround the Bakunawa as this round ends. They

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were chasing it. They glanced at you and raised

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their sort of gleaming golden maces above them.

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lightning cracks. You're an aspect of the storm,

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Salome. But this thing, too, commands the storm,

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and I have to wonder who the storm will favor

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in the end. Now, top of the round. The serpentine

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conquered jewel, high above everything around,

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higher even than where you linger in the sky,

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Salome, takes off to a different plane with some

00:19:24.859 --> 00:19:28.920
cool sound effect. No. Right there. Nope. Damn

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it. Nope. You're being an asshole. I'm not going

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to give you what you want. You see sort of beyond

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where it was before. Signs of battle to the south.

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A battle that seems to be winding down now. One

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blue -skinned angelic figure battling against

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a single remaining giant as arrows rain on his

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back from the tops of nearby buildings. To the

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west of that, only one of the formerly three

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giants there still stands, trading blows with

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only a single remaining celestial. See, each

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attack from the two sends waves of pressure to

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the nearby, just crumbling structures, and the

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area is almost reduced entirely to just this

00:20:05.289 --> 00:20:08.029
larger, flattened layer of rubble and this circle

00:20:08.029 --> 00:20:11.930
around them. To the north, a giant charges at

00:20:11.930 --> 00:20:14.890
a projection of Atash as a diva rushes in to

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join his king in glorious battle. And to the

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east, the two giants charge an airborne handsome

00:20:22.210 --> 00:20:24.470
Jai. Spikes of stone tear themselves up from

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the streets, piercing the massive creature as

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bolts of lightning arc towards Jai. And you hear

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a broken scream as he falls to somewhere in the

00:20:33.269 --> 00:20:37.190
streets below. And with that, let's get right

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back into initiative, huh? Top of the round is

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actually going to be Mesmerize. And once again,

00:20:43.849 --> 00:20:46.029
I don't believe you see what she does as she's

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sort of focusing on keeping this Atash figure

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moving. Now then, you stupid giant, face me in

00:20:56.690 --> 00:20:59.849
mortal combat. And Atash sort of almost just

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weaving a little ways backwards, his own great

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sort of outstretched, that same voice booming

00:21:07.390 --> 00:21:11.059
out. And you see that giant on its turn is going

00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:14.920
to full charge up to Atash. I want to make an

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attack on Atash. And as its attack fully moves

00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.039
through, it realizes it has faced an illusion.

00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.319
Now, I don't believe I am able to run an investigation

00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:31.720
check. Yeah, that'd be a full action. So it kind

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of... Even the illusion doesn't have like a to

00:21:36.500 --> 00:21:40.059
hit? It does not. If you attack a major image,

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which is kind of her, she kind of pulled this

00:21:41.940 --> 00:21:44.599
out seeing you guys in danger at the last second.

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Didn't really have like a full plan in mind.

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Just kind of a way to distract this thing. It

00:21:49.700 --> 00:21:52.059
knows it's facing an illusion. You see it stops

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and begins to scan the area around looking for

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the caster. These things are not stupid. And

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Yara may be in very great danger. You see a D

00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.500
.Va has come. I think it sees the attack coming

00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:06.240
right through Atash. And the D .Va source stops

00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:09.549
and they're like, what? That's all we see over

00:22:09.549 --> 00:22:13.769
there as we pan back in the sky to Salome. Salome,

00:22:13.769 --> 00:22:16.809
what you doing? You have information. This thing

00:22:16.809 --> 00:22:21.470
is bearing down on you now. The first thing Salome

00:22:21.470 --> 00:22:24.789
does is she conveys the information to Jules.

00:22:25.329 --> 00:22:28.329
What? I don't think she even needs to scream.

00:22:28.450 --> 00:22:31.630
I think she speaks in her normal voice, but it

00:22:31.630 --> 00:22:35.049
projects throughout, and Jules can hear it as

00:22:35.049 --> 00:22:37.130
if she's speaking right next to him. And I will

00:22:37.130 --> 00:22:39.750
say, Jules, you are in this burning building

00:22:39.750 --> 00:22:41.730
down below and you did hear, just before this,

00:22:41.809 --> 00:22:43.170
you probably, I imagine you were going in to

00:22:43.170 --> 00:22:45.990
help Gabriella and you probably froze in your

00:22:45.990 --> 00:22:48.529
step as you heard the words this creature screamed

00:22:48.529 --> 00:22:53.829
in the last episode. Save Jules. Right after

00:22:53.829 --> 00:22:58.410
that, you hear this. It's the boy. The Bakunawa

00:22:58.410 --> 00:23:03.109
is who you seek. And David, can you remind me

00:23:03.109 --> 00:23:06.640
when we drink potions? If you drink it yourself,

00:23:06.779 --> 00:23:09.380
bonus action. Bonus action for yourself. Okay,

00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:21.779
that's great. Let me do that real fast. Okay,

00:23:21.980 --> 00:23:26.680
that's 14 back to Salome. Maybe just enough to

00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:32.460
stay up. And for her action, you said this thing

00:23:32.460 --> 00:23:35.660
was still bearing down on Salome? At this point,

00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:39.119
you move out of the way. It's on a dour trajectory,

00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:45.539
but roll me an insight check. This is free. 24.

00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:50.519
It has taken some serious wounds. You see as

00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:53.839
it storm slams you. It turns to look at you.

00:23:53.980 --> 00:23:56.099
Its eyes glance back for a second. The other

00:23:56.099 --> 00:23:58.660
two diva have come in. It has been fighting.

00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:01.720
since before you arrived here. It was chasing

00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:04.119
the D .Va that you had met on your way down.

00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:07.180
It sort of caught you in that. But with the 24,

00:24:07.619 --> 00:24:10.259
you get the impression it is going to leave now.

00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:14.059
It is taking damage. You don't know what it seeks

00:24:14.059 --> 00:24:17.980
here. All you hear is this mad cry, save him,

00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.819
save him, please. You don't understand what's

00:24:21.819 --> 00:24:25.359
going on. You've glimpsed some fragment of the

00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.779
truth you don't understand. All you know is it's

00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:31.099
going to leave. flee now. Fuck. And you know

00:24:31.099 --> 00:24:33.720
this thing is fucking fast. I don't want it to

00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:37.339
flee. Sorry, give me two seconds to look through

00:24:37.339 --> 00:24:39.740
my spell list, because this is a totally different

00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:41.740
scenario than I was expecting. Yeah, take your

00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:43.799
time. We all have shirts on. We're all warm.

00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:52.259
Take your time. So... Oh, shit. What? Stop it.

00:24:52.660 --> 00:24:55.359
What? What are you doing? Well... Shut up. Well,

00:24:55.380 --> 00:24:56.579
because we're an initiative, and I don't know

00:24:56.579 --> 00:24:59.910
if, like... Because the instant Jules hears that

00:24:59.910 --> 00:25:02.509
come through, he's doing something. It will be

00:25:02.509 --> 00:25:05.569
your turn, but your turn is very safe. Okay.

00:25:06.670 --> 00:25:11.769
Okay. Huh. Okay. You're processing this data.

00:25:11.849 --> 00:25:18.130
It's like, whoa. Yeah. What? What? Just patience.

00:25:18.410 --> 00:25:22.369
Shit. Okay, this might be really cool. Salome

00:25:22.369 --> 00:25:27.940
tentatively speaks to the Bacchanawa. And she

00:25:27.940 --> 00:25:29.839
says. I'm scared. I'm so scared. What are you

00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:35.299
going to do? And she says, halt. And I need a

00:25:35.299 --> 00:25:38.220
wisdom saving throw. This is command, I'm guessing.

00:25:38.420 --> 00:25:42.480
This is command. That's pretty cool. You speak.

00:25:42.539 --> 00:25:44.039
And again, it's just like you said before, your

00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:47.900
voice is unchanging. It just projects so loud.

00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.759
I'm going to say on this, without a save, the

00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:56.289
two diva. fully freeze in place as if you're

00:25:56.289 --> 00:25:58.849
speaking to them. You issue a command out. They

00:25:58.849 --> 00:26:02.609
come to straight attention like full soldiers.

00:26:04.049 --> 00:26:08.170
Angelic salute your way. You outrank them. Fuck.

00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:12.890
But this creature, your word, project cross it.

00:26:12.890 --> 00:26:16.769
Wait. Two buttons for disadvantage. Oh my god.

00:26:17.349 --> 00:26:22.759
This is wild. I have plans. Okay. I know. I will.

00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:25.359
I'm going to give you a deal here. Okay. I'm

00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.359
going to give you a deal. Okay. These two buttons.

00:26:27.579 --> 00:26:30.380
Uh -huh. I will take them. Uh -huh. But not for

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:33.720
disadvantage. I will accept these two buttons

00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.619
and I will not burn a legendary resistance. If

00:26:37.619 --> 00:26:41.009
I fail this roll, but I won't roll a flat. Well,

00:26:41.109 --> 00:26:43.109
yeah, that's the only deal. That's the only deal.

00:26:43.309 --> 00:26:46.230
It's still... That's the only way. But I'm going

00:26:46.230 --> 00:26:47.390
to give you this. I'm going to give you this.

00:26:47.390 --> 00:26:49.130
I think this is cool. I like the idea of, you

00:26:49.130 --> 00:26:50.849
know what? New rule. New house rule. Give me

00:26:50.849 --> 00:26:52.829
two buttons. I will ignore legendary resistance.

00:26:53.069 --> 00:26:54.509
I think that's badass. That is pretty badass.

00:26:54.690 --> 00:26:56.509
It's an alt way of using buttons. That's a fair

00:26:56.509 --> 00:26:59.130
way of not wasting two buttons. I don't want

00:26:59.130 --> 00:26:59.990
to waste two buttons. To add a little flavor,

00:27:00.109 --> 00:27:02.309
if Salome is speaking to Jules coming through

00:27:02.309 --> 00:27:05.589
as Martin, can Jules reply back? Hell yeah. I'll

00:27:05.589 --> 00:27:07.779
allow it. Cool. You're in this building. Every

00:27:07.779 --> 00:27:10.519
time seems to slow down. The fire before you

00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:13.920
flickering in a slow motion pattern. Jules will

00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:19.220
reply back. Hold him there. I'm coming. I want

00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:24.420
to roll this in the open. You said to wisdom

00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:26.619
save. I do have a pretty high wisdom save. Yeah,

00:27:26.619 --> 00:27:30.140
I thought so. I thought so. But it's not a gimme.

00:27:30.299 --> 00:27:34.140
I'm not burning the legendary. Is a plus eight.

00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:38.299
Ooh, okay. I'm guessing you have, what, a 16,

00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:41.160
17? 17. 17. So you have to roll. Nine or higher.

00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:43.700
Yeah, twice. Let's turn that port -a -pain around.

00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.039
I want you guys to see this. Okay. Ready for

00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.900
this? Uh -huh. This is huge. And he rolled over

00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:51.319
nine, and he wins. You ready for this? There

00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:59.059
we go. 11. 11. So close. With that, I mean, it's

00:27:59.059 --> 00:28:00.940
so on the edge. I think you just see it. I'm

00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:04.470
too waste of buttons. The words. arc out. The

00:28:04.470 --> 00:28:08.109
creature's eyes go wide for a moment. It stalls

00:28:08.109 --> 00:28:12.289
for a moment. Eyes that look to you. I think

00:28:12.289 --> 00:28:15.690
as you speak that word, something interesting

00:28:15.690 --> 00:28:18.910
happens. Jules, speaking in your mind, you scream,

00:28:19.109 --> 00:28:22.950
halt! And overlaid behind your voice, we hear

00:28:22.950 --> 00:28:26.809
the voice of Jules LaRoche as well. And those

00:28:26.809 --> 00:28:31.730
eyes fall on you. for a moment to go wide with

00:28:31.730 --> 00:28:43.109
something, something. And then... The creature

00:28:43.109 --> 00:28:48.210
begins to move away. I'm not moving yet because

00:28:48.210 --> 00:28:50.329
it's not my turn, but you see it is turning to

00:28:50.329 --> 00:28:53.690
move in this moment. Cool as shit, though. Damn.

00:28:54.289 --> 00:28:58.890
Damn. Four buttons in two turns. Hey, you're

00:28:58.890 --> 00:29:00.759
not dead. So this is going better than I thought

00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:04.299
it was going to be going for it. It was so close.

00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:07.160
It was so close. Dude, for real. And that's Arhalon.

00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:12.480
Oh, Christ. Yeah. Holy shit. You guys are on

00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:14.279
the track to earn some buttons back. It's not

00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:16.539
today because I don't feel like it. I'm too cold

00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:18.900
without a shirt. Can't give you buttons. That's

00:29:18.900 --> 00:29:24.240
your own damn fault. Man, I have no idea which

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:28.619
way to send Arhalon. Jules is in the building

00:29:28.619 --> 00:29:31.759
still? He's in a storefront right next door to

00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.640
the sort of shattered tavern Arhalon is in front

00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.619
of. And inside of it, beneath the sort of cover

00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:39.539
of the roof, there's still flames flickering.

00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:42.200
Arhalon would have looked over and seen Jules

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.619
and Gabriela both moving into there. That's all

00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:48.680
he really knows. Okay. You know, Salome's in

00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.559
danger up top too, possibly, but, you know, yeah.

00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:56.220
Yeah. I feel like playing Arhalon means... moving

00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:59.660
towards Jules. Okay. Can he see anything else

00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:03.599
if he moves 30 feet closer? He moves 30 feet.

00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:08.119
He wings flap and he blasts himself very quickly,

00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.220
gathering speed right in front of the storefront

00:30:11.220 --> 00:30:12.940
where you see the sort of broken, I think the

00:30:12.940 --> 00:30:15.480
front of it is still mostly upright. He looks

00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:17.579
through a window and you see down in the back

00:30:17.579 --> 00:30:20.859
is where it's more shattered and he can see the

00:30:20.859 --> 00:30:23.819
silhouettes of Jules and Gabriella moving into

00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:27.970
thick smoke. I will say at this point, knowing

00:30:27.970 --> 00:30:30.190
there's trouble, ears sort of honed, he can hear

00:30:30.190 --> 00:30:33.170
the screaming muffled of people somewhere inside,

00:30:33.509 --> 00:30:37.950
low. All right, he makes a double move and heads

00:30:37.950 --> 00:30:42.329
in to back up Jules and Gabriella. Okay. It's

00:30:42.329 --> 00:30:44.130
his double move. She slides in right behind you

00:30:44.130 --> 00:30:48.730
guys as he's going in. What's going on? What's

00:30:48.730 --> 00:30:52.150
the problem? And that's his turn, which brings

00:30:52.150 --> 00:30:55.359
us to Gabriella. People, down low, they're trapped.

00:30:56.299 --> 00:31:02.279
She turns to guard the situation. Smoke billowing

00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:04.259
all around. I guess the fire is not spreading

00:31:04.259 --> 00:31:06.480
out into the rain, but here, beneath the cover

00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:09.619
of a ruined ceiling, it eats away at the wooden

00:31:09.619 --> 00:31:11.700
floor in front of you. You're staying at sort

00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:14.019
of the edge of it, the heat washing over you.

00:31:14.829 --> 00:31:18.309
The fire also eats these supports beneath. You

00:31:18.309 --> 00:31:21.710
feel the scream of creaking wood. You feel the

00:31:21.710 --> 00:31:23.470
floor beneath you sort of shift, and you know

00:31:23.470 --> 00:31:26.349
it's going to collapse in moments. And there

00:31:26.349 --> 00:31:29.170
are people trapped in the cellar below. A beam

00:31:29.170 --> 00:31:31.670
laying over sort of store shelves. There's a

00:31:31.670 --> 00:31:36.069
whole pile of just refuse in your way, all laden

00:31:36.069 --> 00:31:38.069
with goods, all sort of collapsed halfway over

00:31:38.069 --> 00:31:41.299
the floor set. door that leads below, like an

00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:44.200
old sort of trap door, ring pole on it, but there's

00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.099
so much weight holding it down. What does Gabriela

00:31:48.099 --> 00:31:54.200
do? So it's not Jules' turn yet, but in order

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:57.519
for this to proceed, he has to say something.

00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.759
She can ready an action and then go after you.

00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:02.339
I can also put her in an initiative after you.

00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:04.640
So as Arhalon comes in, Jules will look over.

00:32:05.019 --> 00:32:08.299
Go with Gabriela. Get them out of here. Okay.

00:32:10.089 --> 00:32:12.089
Okay. Do you want to take your full turn now,

00:32:12.170 --> 00:32:13.809
Jules, as the two of them move in to help them?

00:32:14.089 --> 00:32:16.430
Yes. What are you doing? Jules is running out

00:32:16.430 --> 00:32:20.630
the door. Hell yeah. Can he reach a nearby rooftop?

00:32:21.750 --> 00:32:25.630
Oh, Rubble's pretty strewn about. Let's see.

00:32:26.130 --> 00:32:28.490
What's the highest point he can see? If you want

00:32:28.490 --> 00:32:31.630
to double move, you can reach the sort of unshattered

00:32:31.630 --> 00:32:34.210
rooftop in front of the storefront. Yeah, I don't

00:32:34.210 --> 00:32:36.759
want to double move. Is there a near, is there

00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:38.640
a rooftop near that's not on fire? You don't

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.000
have, here's a question. Here's the big million

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:44.460
dollar question. Yeah. All jokes aside. Uh -huh.

00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:48.980
Who has the Rod of Flying? Who has it? I don't

00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:51.839
remember. Emon Rath might have it. No, Emon Rath

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.619
doesn't actually have it. He was the last person

00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:56.599
with it. Yeah, I don't remember. Would Blanche

00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:59.140
have kept it? Or does Jules have it? I don't

00:32:59.140 --> 00:33:00.779
remember. I will let you. Pants people know.

00:33:01.309 --> 00:33:02.930
I don't think we've really ever determined because

00:33:02.930 --> 00:33:04.670
the last person that had it was literally Emon

00:33:04.670 --> 00:33:06.430
Rath. Oh, was it? So it could have gone to anybody.

00:33:06.809 --> 00:33:09.069
Okay. How about a luck roll? You want to do a

00:33:09.069 --> 00:33:10.809
luck roll to who has it? You can do luck. I mean,

00:33:10.809 --> 00:33:12.690
honestly, we never really determined this. It

00:33:12.690 --> 00:33:15.150
would be Blanche or Jules. Yeah, I think it's

00:33:15.150 --> 00:33:17.430
okay. I think you can tell me now who has it.

00:33:17.490 --> 00:33:21.880
I'm allowing it because... There's still a cost.

00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:24.460
I still want to do a luck roll. If you say you

00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:27.599
have it, it doesn't feel right to say yes, I

00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:29.400
have it. I'd rather do a luck roll. See, here's

00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:31.640
my perspective. You can do whatever you want.

00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:34.240
There is a cost to this. The cost is if you say

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.000
right now I have the rod, Blanche does not get

00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.059
access to it for her entire arc. There's a cost

00:33:40.059 --> 00:33:42.420
there, which is interesting to me. I think that's

00:33:42.420 --> 00:33:44.960
interesting. You can say you have it, but inherently

00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.420
you might fuck over Blanche later, and I think

00:33:47.420 --> 00:33:50.480
that's awesome. Okay, so where's the nearest

00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:53.440
rooftop? The one right above you. The one right

00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.279
above me. Half of the building, the back half

00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:57.140
is shattered, but you can land on the front.

00:33:57.339 --> 00:34:01.019
Okay. We're going to do this. Blanche has the

00:34:01.019 --> 00:34:02.660
rod of flying jewels. Misty steps up to the roof.

00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:05.920
Oh, fucking Misty step. Bonus action, right?

00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:10.420
Yep. Bonus action. Fucking bones only. Yep. Yep.

00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:14.880
And you stand upon the roof. You've used a spell

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.760
slot on this. Yep. Okay. So he stands up onto

00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:20.650
the roof. Looks up to the Bacchanawa. You see

00:34:20.650 --> 00:34:22.670
it is, again, just to sound like 90 feet up.

00:34:22.909 --> 00:34:24.949
At this point, you're up probably 30 feet, so

00:34:24.949 --> 00:34:27.949
it's probably 60 feet above where you stand.

00:34:28.210 --> 00:34:34.369
Okay. So as Jules is up there, smoke swirling

00:34:34.369 --> 00:34:37.989
around him, he takes his loot off of his back,

00:34:38.190 --> 00:34:41.610
sticks his arm straight up into the air with

00:34:41.610 --> 00:34:44.949
the loot, and will cast, I guess this is just

00:34:44.949 --> 00:34:47.130
more for flavor than anything else, he will cast

00:34:47.130 --> 00:34:53.119
Light. Yeah. Hell yeah. And he will shine the

00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.659
brightest light he has ever shown from. Oh my

00:34:55.659 --> 00:35:00.159
God. Oh my God. It's so cool. And he'll look

00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:05.760
up. I'm here. And he'll wait. Look at this. Look

00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:09.599
at this shit. Look at those goosebumps. Oh my

00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:15.670
God. This is really cool. Light blasting upwards,

00:35:15.829 --> 00:35:20.269
shining through the falling Salome, shining into

00:35:20.269 --> 00:35:25.070
the face of this Bakunawa who's turning to move.

00:35:25.730 --> 00:35:31.570
Stops for a second. Eyes regard you. Again, there's

00:35:31.570 --> 00:35:35.070
something. Give me an insight check. I thought

00:35:35.070 --> 00:35:37.110
he was going to say charisma check. I was like,

00:35:37.190 --> 00:35:40.380
sweet, we got it. Yeah, yeah. I think it'll be

00:35:40.380 --> 00:35:41.880
that easy. I told you it'd be impossible, these

00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:44.639
arts. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. What?

00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:50.320
What? Can Arhalon see jewels? No, never mind.

00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:52.260
It's a save, not a check. Never mind. I was going

00:35:52.260 --> 00:35:55.300
to use an Arhalon reaction, but sorry. Gotcha.

00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:59.659
Fuck. Sorry, reading is hard. Reading is hard.

00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.360
He's a 10. 10. Yeah. There is something, a flicker

00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.360
of something in the eyes that regards you, but

00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:13.469
there's also... So much emotion swirling there.

00:36:14.010 --> 00:36:20.429
They look almost mad. I need your help. Focus.

00:36:21.030 --> 00:36:28.210
Then we can go home. An intake of breath. Oh,

00:36:28.230 --> 00:36:32.670
no. Salome, you shaking as this breath behind

00:36:32.670 --> 00:36:36.760
you. We feel clouds of the storm swirling into

00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.260
this creature's mouth. Deep, deep embers. Storm

00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:45.579
cracks. Lightning breaks. All of it shown in

00:36:45.579 --> 00:36:48.500
this flash of light, this beam shining into the

00:36:48.500 --> 00:37:08.539
sky and a creature. and it turns to fly away.

00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:16.099
We threw everything we had at this opportunity.

00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:20.840
The spell would have stopped it, but I can't

00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:24.099
have it stop here. It's also, you notice, being

00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:28.260
attacked actively by celestials, and it's hurt.

00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.099
It's wounded. It needs to leave because it's

00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:34.349
going to die. There's a lot happening here. But

00:37:34.349 --> 00:37:39.510
as you see this light shining up, we pan down

00:37:39.510 --> 00:37:41.929
because Arhalon and Gabriella have to make their

00:37:41.929 --> 00:37:44.949
move. Arhalon's move was to get in here. He can't

00:37:44.949 --> 00:37:47.909
act yet, but Gabriella can do something, anything.

00:37:48.010 --> 00:37:52.530
Again, the floor begins to creak and groan. It's

00:37:52.530 --> 00:37:54.210
all going to give out, and it's all going to

00:37:54.210 --> 00:37:57.570
collapse onto this family down below. What can

00:37:57.570 --> 00:38:03.590
she do? Okay, can I make a check to see? Do you

00:38:03.590 --> 00:38:05.630
need me to make a check for Gabriella to see

00:38:05.630 --> 00:38:07.989
if there's a way to get to the family? That's

00:38:07.989 --> 00:38:10.210
clear and safe. No check needed. You need to

00:38:10.210 --> 00:38:13.690
get all the stuff cleared. She had to, like,

00:38:13.690 --> 00:38:16.190
push all this off the top of the trapdoor. It's

00:38:16.190 --> 00:38:17.449
really, unless you can think of a way to break

00:38:17.449 --> 00:38:18.929
through the floor and create another entrance,

00:38:19.130 --> 00:38:22.250
maybe that's possible. But the easiest way seems

00:38:22.250 --> 00:38:25.769
to be to clear all this, like, the debris, a

00:38:25.769 --> 00:38:28.230
store shelf falling over, covered in goods, bags

00:38:28.230 --> 00:38:30.610
of flour and stuff kind of mixed in. One of them's

00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:33.539
broken open, white mist everywhere. No, never

00:38:33.539 --> 00:38:36.239
mind. First things first. Give me a con save

00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:39.619
real fast for Gabriella. What? Yeah. Dick. What?

00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.280
Yeah, smoke inhalation. What? Dirty 20. She's

00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:47.599
fine. I was going to give her a short -term exhaustion

00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:50.239
level if she failed as the smokes go with her,

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.280
but she just kind of goes low, takes a breath

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.500
beneath it. She's holding her air in now, and

00:38:56.500 --> 00:39:01.059
she's focused on the task at hand. Okay. Yeah,

00:39:01.139 --> 00:39:02.820
I think she's going to just try and clear away.

00:39:03.579 --> 00:39:07.420
Yeah. I want to use, like, Flurry of Blows to

00:39:07.420 --> 00:39:10.199
try and, like, pound through the floor. But I

00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.159
feel like Arhalon might be better suited to try

00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:14.440
something like that. The two of them together,

00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.679
maybe they can clear things in time. So she's

00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:18.380
going to look back to Arhalon and say, help me.

00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:23.099
Help me. Yeah. And then she's going to go and

00:39:23.099 --> 00:39:25.719
start. And then Arhalon is going to say, okay,

00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.940
yes, I will help you. Okay, yes, I will help

00:39:28.940 --> 00:39:32.480
you. Oh, no, you cracked the code. I like this

00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:39.659
game. This is bad. They become self -aware. Yeah,

00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:43.599
and then they start clearing shit away. Give

00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.150
me an athletics check. If you're going to just

00:39:47.150 --> 00:39:49.190
be moving things, athletics. She's basically

00:39:49.190 --> 00:39:51.610
pushing, carrying. She goes for the shell first.

00:39:51.789 --> 00:39:52.969
No, the beam's on top of this. She goes for the

00:39:52.969 --> 00:39:56.349
beam to try to clear that off. That's a 13. 13.

00:39:57.750 --> 00:40:00.769
She makes some small progress. It's just like

00:40:00.769 --> 00:40:03.309
pushing it, and it's not fully off, but kind

00:40:03.309 --> 00:40:07.349
of... Is the athletics strength? It's strength.

00:40:07.630 --> 00:40:10.369
She does have... I have a plus two. Oh, gotcha.

00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:11.750
You also have... I believe she has proficiency,

00:40:11.849 --> 00:40:15.610
though, right? Under skills, it should say. She's

00:40:15.610 --> 00:40:18.630
a below nine? Yeah. She actually has a plus six.

00:40:18.809 --> 00:40:22.309
Plus six? David, this says plus two. Plus two.

00:40:22.349 --> 00:40:25.070
This says plus two. What number did I say? What

00:40:25.070 --> 00:40:27.690
number did I say? You said 13. 13, so we're on

00:40:27.690 --> 00:40:31.130
11, so that's a 17. With a 17, she's starting

00:40:31.130 --> 00:40:33.369
off. Fucking hell, David. He's going to get people

00:40:33.369 --> 00:40:36.150
killed. Yeah, he's going to get people killed.

00:40:36.389 --> 00:40:38.909
Look, I remember I caught it. I remember I caught

00:40:38.909 --> 00:40:43.699
it. God. You see, like, she's holding it, and

00:40:43.699 --> 00:40:45.340
she's trying to push with her arms, and she realizes,

00:40:45.340 --> 00:40:48.579
like, her arms are not her main asset. She kind

00:40:48.579 --> 00:40:52.039
of bulks down. She is a dancer. And with all

00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.300
the strength in her legs, her muscles tensing,

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.760
she pushes with everything she has. And you see

00:40:56.760 --> 00:41:00.260
that beam slides off, leaving only one obstacle,

00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:04.940
the sort of full sort of store shelf, lying over

00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:07.260
it. I'm sure she's got some muscular calves.

00:41:07.460 --> 00:41:11.710
She's halfway there. Yeah, she bulks up. What?

00:41:11.750 --> 00:41:15.409
What? What? What? What? Stephen, give me a look.

00:41:15.690 --> 00:41:19.110
No, I didn't. I was just smiling at Jeremy. Shut

00:41:19.110 --> 00:41:22.710
up. Thinking about his calves. I don't know.

00:41:22.750 --> 00:41:25.889
What do you want from me? Speaking of calves,

00:41:26.130 --> 00:41:29.929
that's going to be the D .Va that's now attacking.

00:41:31.730 --> 00:41:34.949
I'm just going to roll dice on this thing to

00:41:34.949 --> 00:41:38.429
save myself a little bit of time. On this giant.

00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.159
So you see the giant swings, swings, looks around.

00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.139
D .Va comes flying in, starts pounding on it,

00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:51.920
and does some damage. I know not why a projection

00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.119
of my king is here, but I know you will fall

00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:57.840
today! Draken says to this giant, wicked creatures!

00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.539
That's this, okay. And that is the Bakunawa,

00:42:03.699 --> 00:42:11.610
who, as promised, jets off into the clouds above.

00:42:11.869 --> 00:42:14.510
The two diva -rata go to make attacks, and you

00:42:14.510 --> 00:42:17.809
see they strike. Let's roll and see if they hit.

00:42:22.070 --> 00:42:25.750
One hit, one miss. You see another spray of blood.

00:42:25.789 --> 00:42:31.329
You see pain. Is this Paul's pain, Jules? You

00:42:31.329 --> 00:42:34.130
don't know what's going on. You don't understand,

00:42:34.210 --> 00:42:36.820
but maybe... It's best that this thing leaves

00:42:36.820 --> 00:42:39.800
now, for if it is Paul, it will surely die here.

00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:42.059
The wild all around you is beginning to sort

00:42:42.059 --> 00:42:44.300
of simmer down. The gemstone will return who

00:42:44.300 --> 00:42:47.360
knows when, very soon possibly, with more reinforcements.

00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:54.000
And so, with a speed that is shocking, this creature

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:59.280
flies into the clouds. A jet of air blasts Salome

00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:02.760
down just a little further, and it is gone. Just

00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:10.309
a silhouette. In the sky. The storm giant is

00:43:10.309 --> 00:43:15.309
going to make a check to find Mesmerize. Scanning.

00:43:16.150 --> 00:43:21.590
Scanning. Where are you? Where? Where? It does

00:43:21.590 --> 00:43:24.829
not see her. And it turns its focus back to the

00:43:24.829 --> 00:43:30.110
D .Va. And that is that turn. Salome, that's

00:43:30.110 --> 00:43:32.480
you. You see, again, everything around you seems

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:35.980
to be closing out very soon. Just commotion all

00:43:35.980 --> 00:43:39.059
around, explosions, more earthen spikes ripping

00:43:39.059 --> 00:43:44.460
from the ground far to the west, east, one of

00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:49.599
those directions. So there's two giants still

00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:51.039
standing, the one that's fighting Mesmer and

00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.320
the one that's fighting Jai? There's a number

00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:55.480
of them still standing. There's one fighting,

00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.880
essentially one D .Va, and a number of, like,

00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:01.340
it looks like a local militia have been, like,

00:44:01.340 --> 00:44:03.760
joining in on that fight to the south, to the,

00:44:03.860 --> 00:44:05.679
I believe, east of that. I'll have to double

00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.800
-check my notes today. It'd be so much easier

00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:11.460
if we had a map. I'm trying something. I'm experimenting.

00:44:11.460 --> 00:44:13.860
I'm fucking with you. It's great. Oh, no, I'm

00:44:13.860 --> 00:44:17.880
having fun. I'm just bad at the east -west. Basically,

00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:20.440
you see a few pockets of fights. They look like

00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:22.380
they're very close to ending. There's one, I

00:44:22.380 --> 00:44:25.980
think it's a four. what are you, party, battling

00:44:25.980 --> 00:44:28.780
a giant. They're kind of locking blows. One diva

00:44:28.780 --> 00:44:31.320
along with a militia fighting another. Mesmer

00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:33.400
and one diva are fighting this one. This only

00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:34.699
one's really close to you. The rest are kind

00:44:34.699 --> 00:44:36.739
of farther apart from where you are now. It's

00:44:36.739 --> 00:44:38.440
more like different spots in the city where things

00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:41.659
are happening. The world is shaking around. How's

00:44:41.659 --> 00:44:45.480
Jai looking? You see spikes ripping up into two

00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.300
figures that are slamming down something in the

00:44:47.300 --> 00:44:52.800
streets below. Probably not good. Okay. For the

00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:56.880
purpose of spellcasting range, maybe 120 feet

00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.840
away. Here's the thing. You're really high in

00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:04.139
the air. I just got pushed down. A little bit.

00:45:04.219 --> 00:45:06.500
A little bit. Let's not get crazy over here.

00:45:06.659 --> 00:45:11.699
Yeah. I was 90 feet in the air. Now maybe 80

00:45:11.699 --> 00:45:13.340
feet in the air. I want you to give me a luck

00:45:13.340 --> 00:45:18.780
check on this. You had 25 % chance. I hate doing

00:45:18.780 --> 00:45:23.300
this. 76 or higher. Yeah. 75 or lower, he'll

00:45:23.300 --> 00:45:29.179
be out of your range. He's too far out. 46. 46.

00:45:29.820 --> 00:45:32.079
You could start heading that way. He's just too

00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:34.340
far away. You can't close the distance in time.

00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:37.719
Okay. The only one within that range is the one

00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:41.820
that's looking for Yara. All right. I know David's

00:45:41.820 --> 00:45:44.760
trying to kill Jai. I was going to give you a

00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:49.280
chance. If someone was there sooner, but he's

00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:52.260
in a bad spot. They're what kind of giants? Storm.

00:45:52.780 --> 00:45:57.880
Oh, all right. What about 300 feet? More than

00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:02.099
twice the distance. I'll allow it. I think that's

00:46:02.099 --> 00:46:05.559
fine. It's close enough that he was able to get

00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:09.760
over there. So 300 feet, yeah. In a 20 -foot

00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.059
radius on the ground beneath these two storm

00:46:13.059 --> 00:46:17.659
giants, snow starts to pebble the ground slowly.

00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.360
And then the pace increases and the size of the

00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:27.320
snow starts to grow. And then it becomes hail.

00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:31.940
And then it becomes something more than hail

00:46:31.940 --> 00:46:39.579
as Salome casts Ice Storm on the spot where they

00:46:39.579 --> 00:46:43.099
stand. Hell yeah. You're above the city. You're

00:46:43.099 --> 00:46:45.079
looking down from way above. You can see the

00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.039
spot they're kind of trying to smash opens down

00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:49.719
on. So you can see from trajectory where Jai

00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:54.219
must be. You can omit him from this. You have

00:46:54.219 --> 00:46:56.860
enough information to do that. You cast this.

00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.219
What's happening to me? I need a dexterity saving

00:47:00.219 --> 00:47:07.480
throw from both giants. Okay. One has a 19 and

00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:11.989
one has a 7. Okay, so the 19 passes will only

00:47:11.989 --> 00:47:16.849
take half damage. The second will take 2d8 bludgeoning.

00:47:20.590 --> 00:47:25.230
A 2 and a 1 on 2d8 bludgeoning. But luckily,

00:47:25.369 --> 00:47:31.409
there's also 4d6 cold damage. Okay. Before you

00:47:31.409 --> 00:47:40.880
finish rolling that, let me roll a die. I just

00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:43.039
rolled a set of dice to determine how much HP

00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.719
this creature has left after battling with Jai.

00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:50.940
Because I was not tracking that. Obviously. Let's

00:47:50.940 --> 00:47:53.980
see if you kill it. So the full damage is 17.

00:47:54.780 --> 00:47:57.980
Halved to 8 for the success of trying. Really

00:47:57.980 --> 00:48:00.900
bad math. I think it's exactly 17. Can someone

00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:02.820
check this map for me? Look at these dice. Is

00:48:02.820 --> 00:48:07.260
that 17? It is 11 plus 6. That's so funny. Get

00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:11.559
the fuck out. Oh, my God. Holy shit. That's crazy.

00:48:11.980 --> 00:48:21.099
Wow. That's crazy. Okay. One down. Let's zoom

00:48:21.099 --> 00:48:25.260
over to that moment, to Jai just laying. You

00:48:25.260 --> 00:48:27.500
see him beaten and bloody near death in the streets.

00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:30.760
Chest is, like, caved in. Breaths are shallow.

00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.539
And you see he's still just got the blue skin,

00:48:33.699 --> 00:48:36.320
the bulging muscles of his potion of storm giant

00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:39.719
strength. When maybe his last gift from Karnar.

00:48:40.340 --> 00:48:42.980
He's kind of just reaching out for his vessel.

00:48:43.340 --> 00:48:48.000
Trembling hand. The creatures step up. I think

00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.139
there's one male, one female giant. Both of them

00:48:50.139 --> 00:48:51.539
raise their weapons in unison. They come down

00:48:51.539 --> 00:48:56.559
to strike. Now, Salem. I never thank you for

00:48:56.559 --> 00:49:01.920
my second chance. But I think this dream is over.

00:49:02.900 --> 00:49:08.119
And we just see. A blizzard, swirling snow, his

00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:10.679
eyes open wide. He just watches one of these

00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:15.380
giants gets pelted and just ice sheet of ice

00:49:15.380 --> 00:49:17.659
covering their bleeding bodies where they've

00:49:17.659 --> 00:49:20.099
been struck by spike after spike. One of them

00:49:20.099 --> 00:49:24.920
falls to the ground. You see like the body just

00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:27.619
totally frozen. It's like in mid swing step and

00:49:27.619 --> 00:49:29.739
just kind of unbalanced falls and perhaps like

00:49:29.739 --> 00:49:33.059
the arm just shatters where it lands. The other

00:49:33.059 --> 00:49:38.179
one is, So cold, so hurt, looks over and with

00:49:38.179 --> 00:49:40.559
this opening, Jai raises a hand up and one last

00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:43.880
spike of earth rips through this thing's gut.

00:49:43.980 --> 00:49:45.699
At the end of this round, I was going to kill

00:49:45.699 --> 00:49:49.159
him. Oh my God, I knew it. I knew it. I knew

00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:52.800
I had to do something or Jai would die. Jai.

00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:03.199
Yes! Cheers. as he is saved by a fellow soldier.

00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:10.639
Oh, my God. Wow. Oh, my God. Wow. We slide back.

00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:13.000
Let's see who else can be saved. Inside the burning

00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:16.280
building, it's Arlan's turn. Gabriela has cleared

00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.110
the way a bit. But can he finish the job? There's

00:50:20.110 --> 00:50:22.789
still this store case landing over this thing.

00:50:22.849 --> 00:50:26.429
People scream, fires licking. And he gets close.

00:50:26.510 --> 00:50:28.510
I think she almost backs away. The flame has

00:50:28.510 --> 00:50:31.469
moved. It started to overtake the sort of bookcase

00:50:31.469 --> 00:50:34.489
or the shelf, whatever it is. I don't care. I

00:50:34.489 --> 00:50:38.869
don't care what it is. Sort of crackle with flame.

00:50:40.030 --> 00:50:43.510
But Arhalon does not mind the flame. He is the

00:50:43.510 --> 00:50:46.840
flame. He steps into it. What's he doing? Arhalon

00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.880
steps up and takes his place next to Dance and

00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:54.739
bends down and grabs the bookcase or the shelf

00:50:54.739 --> 00:50:59.280
and goes to heave it off. Hell yeah. It's just

00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:01.579
a shelf covered in various goods. You see bags

00:51:01.579 --> 00:51:04.219
of flour, like I said, all starting to burn and

00:51:04.219 --> 00:51:07.179
blacken. The flame keeps closer and closer. He's...

00:51:07.179 --> 00:51:14.719
15 athletics. DC 15. Oh, my God. Get out of here.

00:51:15.579 --> 00:51:20.559
Holy shit. Jesus. He kind of, with all of his

00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.079
might, pushes this thing, hurls it backwards

00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:29.119
into the flames. The way is clear. Gabriella,

00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:31.679
what's she doing? The second the way is clear,

00:51:31.739 --> 00:51:34.440
she is getting in there and grabbing whatever.

00:51:35.210 --> 00:51:38.690
child is small enough whatever people are small

00:51:38.690 --> 00:51:40.929
enough where she can carry one or two or however

00:51:40.929 --> 00:51:43.829
many and still walk and get out door snaps open

00:51:43.829 --> 00:51:47.269
she looks down uh there is like one eight -year

00:51:47.269 --> 00:51:50.269
-old one three -year -old both in the arms of

00:51:50.269 --> 00:51:52.530
this like older woman probably their grandmother

00:51:52.530 --> 00:51:54.949
with like spiraling sort of hair out of control

00:51:54.949 --> 00:51:58.010
she's weeping tears in her air like wrinkled

00:51:58.010 --> 00:51:59.889
she can get all three in one move yeah yeah if

00:51:59.889 --> 00:52:02.730
she can if she can grab all three and still move

00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:05.340
Then yes. All you gotta do is grab the grandma,

00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.519
right? Yeah. You know what? If she's able to

00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:08.739
do that, then yes. I'll give it to her. Yeah,

00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:10.639
she's strong enough. Just like lift her up by

00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:12.739
the hips and push her through the trap door.

00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:15.380
I'll give Arhalon an opportunity. Help action.

00:52:15.539 --> 00:52:18.139
Wait, hold on. Yeah, give me this. Give me this.

00:52:18.280 --> 00:52:20.760
She grabs the grandma with the two kids who are

00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.059
holding the two kids and then Arhalon grabs Gabriella.

00:52:23.300 --> 00:52:25.920
Dude, hell yeah. And then they all, Arhalon gets

00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.170
them all out. He didn't use his move action.

00:52:29.309 --> 00:52:32.489
I fucking love it. Screaming the leadership reaction

00:52:32.489 --> 00:52:37.250
the whole way. Whatever that means. He parries

00:52:37.250 --> 00:52:41.429
a horse. Narhalon, charge up into the street.

00:52:42.090 --> 00:52:46.309
You hear the weeping of a child. Yeah, I know.

00:52:46.570 --> 00:52:48.750
Teenager, the street beside you as you stand

00:52:48.750 --> 00:52:51.730
and look at the place where Paul once was. Jules.

00:52:52.549 --> 00:52:55.469
It's your turn. You see Gabriela and Arhalon

00:52:55.469 --> 00:52:59.050
burst from the smoke, carrying this family. You

00:52:59.050 --> 00:53:00.670
lay them down. I think there's a few other people

00:53:00.670 --> 00:53:03.170
that are down there too. A young man climbing

00:53:03.170 --> 00:53:05.849
out in his own, charging out with them as they're

00:53:05.849 --> 00:53:08.050
just moving away. As they go and turn, you hear

00:53:08.050 --> 00:53:13.769
as the floor falls and sparks rising up. Sparks

00:53:13.769 --> 00:53:16.489
that as they go to the roof sort of backlight

00:53:16.489 --> 00:53:18.670
the scene of Jules turning and looking down.

00:53:19.409 --> 00:53:23.119
What do you do? Can he get down freely? Yeah.

00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:26.320
So he's going to get down. You slide down the

00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:29.599
side. It's like a beam. You do a legless slide.

00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:33.039
And as everything is collapsing around him, he's

00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:35.000
looking around and noticing that this fight is

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:38.159
pretty well under control now. Yeah. He's walking

00:53:38.159 --> 00:53:42.380
just slowly toward. The child. You see this boy,

00:53:42.500 --> 00:53:46.659
maybe 12 or 13, like a very young, young teenager.

00:53:47.340 --> 00:53:51.420
The long hair kind of in the eyes. You see this

00:53:51.420 --> 00:53:56.059
figure has turned facing you now. Mother's still

00:53:56.059 --> 00:54:00.480
down on the floor, ground beneath. And as you

00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:06.119
move in, he stands and brandishes a knife. I

00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:11.219
know who you are. I know who you are. Jules LaRoche,

00:54:11.340 --> 00:54:14.960
the Prince of Midnight and Darkness. This is

00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:16.780
your fault, isn't it? I won't let you have her.

00:54:16.940 --> 00:54:21.380
I won't let you have her. I'm here to help. That's

00:54:21.380 --> 00:54:23.980
how we're going to get rewarded for this. I bring

00:54:23.980 --> 00:54:28.099
light to the darkness. And Jules will sit crisscross

00:54:28.099 --> 00:54:31.920
next to the body. Give me a free persuasion check

00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:35.900
here. Okay. As you go to sit. Okay. You want

00:54:35.900 --> 00:54:37.519
to take a wild guess at what my modifier is for

00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:39.619
persuasion? Is it like plus 11 or something?

00:54:39.659 --> 00:54:49.360
13. DC 60. DC 60. It's very angry. It's a natural

00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:53.000
one. Hey, it's a 14, I mean. Yeah, it's a natural

00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.139
1. Oh, but yeah, 1's a 1's a 1's a 1. I will

00:54:56.139 --> 00:54:59.039
say, just as you go in, you glance down at the

00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:01.760
blade. You see the pommel of the blade is in

00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:06.059
the shape of a horse's head. Anil Omen. As you

00:55:06.059 --> 00:55:11.440
move in, he does drive the dagger into you. Now,

00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:13.679
you have seen many fights. It's glancing below.

00:55:13.940 --> 00:55:16.659
You take... I'm not concerned one bit. Yeah,

00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:19.760
it's just like... You will take five points of

00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:24.440
damage as this stabs. That's a good get. Dude.

00:55:25.980 --> 00:55:28.960
That's max damage right there. But you just do

00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:33.139
what you do. Dude, relax. Relax. Blade sticks

00:55:33.139 --> 00:55:35.019
out, and he kind of stumbles backwards, almost

00:55:35.019 --> 00:55:38.619
in fear. My magic didn't work. You killed her.

00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:41.480
But I got something that will. I fucking hate

00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:43.900
giving you what you wanted, David. Dude, we're

00:55:43.900 --> 00:55:46.760
going to get rewarded in public trust, I think.

00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:50.000
You take it out. I think it's like shock paddles,

00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.039
is that what you said? Yes. Jules will take them

00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:54.860
out. You hold these in your hands. You think

00:55:54.860 --> 00:56:00.059
of your friends. He'll look over. Salome, Gabriela,

00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:02.960
Arhalon, Chester, who's out there somewhere.

00:56:03.179 --> 00:56:08.179
Paul, Blanche, Dresden, Akio, Jean, these things,

00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:11.820
this miracle, this life -saving item. You think

00:56:11.820 --> 00:56:16.300
of Zebulon. If only you had these then. Fuck

00:56:16.300 --> 00:56:19.280
you. God damn it. And you're going to use them

00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:24.880
now? Yes. Describe the scene. Child stumbles

00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:28.360
back, blade flickers down, covered in your blood.

00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:31.019
He looks over to, Jules will look over to Gabriella

00:56:31.019 --> 00:56:35.519
and nod her over. And I want her to go over to

00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:38.659
comfort the child as this is happening. Shh,

00:56:38.699 --> 00:56:43.909
shh, shh. It's okay. It's okay. Eyes wide and

00:56:43.909 --> 00:56:45.570
watching. You're running out of time. You're

00:56:45.570 --> 00:56:48.230
almost out of time. Jules will scooch up the

00:56:48.230 --> 00:56:53.570
body. And with the paddles on her chest, you

00:56:53.570 --> 00:56:58.309
will see him recoil a bit. Come back up. And

00:56:58.309 --> 00:57:02.170
then press down hard with his arms. And you'll

00:57:02.170 --> 00:57:07.409
see light and lightning and sparks and shocks

00:57:07.409 --> 00:57:11.940
coming out of Jules' arms into the paddles. And

00:57:11.940 --> 00:57:15.480
it raises her chest up. And they raise a couple

00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:19.980
feet off the ground, both Jules and her. Holy

00:57:19.980 --> 00:57:25.360
shit. And then the shocks start to fade and they

00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:28.880
slowly lower back to the ground. And he removes

00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:35.480
his hands. And eyes flutter open to regard you.

00:57:36.460 --> 00:57:42.760
Mom! Mom! Dance. lets him move the boy runs and

00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:47.840
dives onto her covering over her and they embrace

00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:53.119
where you stand the fighting dies down the two

00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:58.099
diva that were chasing after the bakanawa shooting

00:57:58.099 --> 00:58:00.179
down to the city to help their allies the one

00:58:00.179 --> 00:58:02.920
that's seeking for yara locked against one diva

00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:07.829
now gets doubled up on jai Flying back into the

00:58:07.829 --> 00:58:10.070
fight to see there's very little fight left.

00:58:10.590 --> 00:58:15.030
The creature is gone. Lost to the skies of Diolamon.

00:58:15.630 --> 00:58:21.510
The jewel is returning. The rain yet falls upon

00:58:21.510 --> 00:58:25.230
the destroyed remnants of this town. Calipay.

00:58:25.829 --> 00:58:28.550
And there are still many who need help. Many

00:58:28.550 --> 00:58:33.730
screaming into the night. Day is day. I will

00:58:33.730 --> 00:58:36.769
ask one more question before we end this. combat

00:58:36.769 --> 00:58:40.650
we are out of initiative soon the celestials

00:58:40.650 --> 00:58:45.690
will be free to i guess investigate what has

00:58:45.690 --> 00:58:47.969
happened here the damage and those who came to

00:58:47.969 --> 00:58:53.050
save the day soon the gem will return loaded

00:58:53.050 --> 00:58:55.750
with shield bears and who knows who else for

00:58:55.750 --> 00:58:57.989
all you know atash may be on his way right now

00:58:57.989 --> 00:59:00.750
and yet there are still people who need your

00:59:00.750 --> 00:59:04.250
help salome in the sky looking down upon where

00:59:04.670 --> 00:59:06.929
Jai was fighting. You know you have Satan as

00:59:06.929 --> 00:59:10.590
you see him flying up. Jules, you are on Gabriella

00:59:10.590 --> 00:59:13.210
all around with this weeping boy and his mother.

00:59:13.690 --> 00:59:18.150
Now return to life. The paddles now with no magic

00:59:18.150 --> 00:59:22.190
innate to them lying on the ground beside. What

00:59:22.190 --> 00:59:26.909
do you do? Salome is lowering down. She has her

00:59:26.909 --> 00:59:32.469
wings spread, both of her arms out. Her... Devotee's

00:59:32.469 --> 00:59:35.769
sensor has started to expel smoke. She's starting

00:59:35.769 --> 00:59:38.210
to spread the healing magic from her sensor.

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And as she lands on the ground next to Jules,

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she whispers to him, Run. Hide. I will find you.

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You've done enough for now. And Jules will look

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over to Arhalon and Gabriela, nod. And they nod.

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And the three of them run. Don't know where.

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But they are running. Run. And we'll call it

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there.