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Hi, I'm David's wife, Gabby. If you enjoy, tell

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at fantasypantspod at instagram .com. When we

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last left off in the tale of Zebulon and Jules,

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we found our heroes in quite the pretty pickle.

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Following the night of the games and the fire,

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our heroes began their investigations in the

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market. All Zebulon's absolute bumbling caused

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some problems. In the end, they managed to learn

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a few vital details. Thanks to Jules' great thinking

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and little help from their rivals. Having found

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evidence connecting Kasim Arun to the fire at

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the Zungun family tent, as well as a potential

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motive for his crime, our two heroes had his

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brother Vi lead them out of the market and into

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the jungle. At a small, happy plantation in the

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midst of this jungle, they found their suspect.

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However, the cornered Kasim called for the aid

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of his three fake companions of crime and ordered

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them to kill his pursuers. And the three strange

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creatures, spurred to action by Chasm's plea,

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turn towards our heroes and disappear. Where'd

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they go, David? What's that? Where'd they go,

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David? Oh, wouldn't you like to know? I really

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do want to know. I'm still not 100 % certain

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how we're going to deal with this. This is bad.

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This is real bad. Hey, you know what? While we're

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facing such a... bad and dire situation. I want

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to ask you guys a question. Sure. What is a song

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that inspires you? Do you have like a song that's

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kind of like, oh yeah, this is it. This pumps

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me up. Feeling amped and ready to go. Do you

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have one of those? I don't think so. Actually,

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I've never really thought about it. No? Yeah.

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Just like off the top of my head, I don't have

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a pump it up song. Nope. Damn, that was a dead

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end. Shit. Well, what's your pump it up song?

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It's a weird one, actually. And it's been in

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my head all day for no reason. And you might,

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Jeremy, catch a reference. Steven, you'll have

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no idea. In the musical version of Matilda, there's

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a song called Sometimes You Have to Be a Little

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Bit Naughty. Yes. Dude, it's such a good amp

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you up song. I get it. Like the lyrics cut to

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the heart. Like that, what's it, what's it? Even

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if you're little. Fuck. Help me out here. It's

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been a long time. Damn it. I love it. It's very

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telling, but it's a pretty nerdy pump it up song.

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Even if you're little, you could do a lot. Don't

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let a little thing like little stop you or something

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like that. It's just like, yeah, man, fucking

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get in there. It doesn't matter. You can be a

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little girl. All right, Matilda. Get in there

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and prank people and do some shit. Steven, it's

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a good show. I'm sure. I'm sure it's great. It's

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excellent. Yeah. I at least have a pump -it -up

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genre. That's fine. Ooh, what's your pump -it

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-up genre? Like progressive metal. Yeah. All

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right. I dig it. Mm -hmm. Yep. Well, Jeremy,

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you're odd one out now. That's about the same

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for me, too. Mm -hmm. Okay, yeah. When I want

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to get pumped up, it's like going and reaching

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back into my olden days of my, you know, post

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-hardcore screamo days. Hell yeah. Some headbanging.

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I like to hear people scream. Mm -hmm. Hop in

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the pit. I don't have that. It's got to be like

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Broadway. Never? Never in a million years. You've

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never been in the pit. No way. Oh, my God. It's

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such a good time. It's such a good time. Not

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for me. Sometimes a painful good time, but it's

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such a good time. See, I could just sit with

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my back against the wall like one of those weird

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people who doesn't dance or really get into a

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concert. I'm really not a great person to go

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to a concert. I'd be just as happy sitting in

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the car with the speakers loud. There was – back

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when I used to – to play in bands and play a

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lot of music. One of our local venues was called

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Skeletones. And it was a really old building

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and the floor was really weak and had a dip in

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it. So once the pit starts going and you start

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going wild, literally you feel the entire floor.

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That's terrifying. That sounds really dangerous.

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It probably was. They closed down a while ago,

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and they reopened back up, actually. Whoa. Sometime

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in the last few years. Hopefully after some structural

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errors. Probably. Probably. It was good times.

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Put new linoleum down. It'll be fine. Oh, my

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gosh. I also want to say for our listeners out

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there that Stephen did bring the promised soda

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red this evening. It was delicious. It is delightful.

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I think it could have used a couple more minutes

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in the oven. Or even if I had just turned off

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the heat and let it finish in the oven for a

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couple of minutes. I think it was a little wet.

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Yeah, I was going to say, it's basically uneatable.

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It's garbage. But I want to be nice. But if you

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open the door, then here I am. Save it for the

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combat, David. Oh, I've got plenty of enmity

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to go around. I think we need to start building

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like an ugly coyote food menu. Oh, man. Yes.

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And I think maybe this is the first dessert edition.

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Definitely black garlic because like old garlic

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that's been sitting out for 10 years, that's

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exactly the kind of thing that Ader would serve.

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Love it. Oh, black garlic. Black garlic on bread.

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On that soda bread. Whoa. I mean, I think we

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could make a nice loaf of some other type of

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bread. It might be overkill on it. Yeah, maybe

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because it's sweet. And I mean, don't get me

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wrong. I think the black garlic would work with

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sweet, but let us know if anybody has any good

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bread recipes. Hell yeah. And with that, I guess

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time to get that sirenscape going. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, no. Oh, yes. Oh, no. Oh, gentlemen, get ready.

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Now I want you both to roll for initiative and

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roll for Chester as well. But you know who we're

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not rolling for tonight? Steven. We're not rolling

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for Jean Franklin, who I balanced this counter

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around being here, but he is still sleeping,

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snoring away in a tent in the market. So you

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are. Jean! Jean! Uh, Jules got a three. Chester

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got a six. Oh, no. Yeah, this is bad. Let's...

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Real bad. Zeb got 17. Wow, okay. Zeb only did

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something right for once. Yeah, it feels good,

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man. It feels good. Okay, let me get those numbers

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in here and activate. Alright then. So, we actually

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have an actual grid here tonight. And we can

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see about 60 feet away from you, you're standing

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in this pepper orchard. Right at the edge of

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this dense jungle forest, we see our We see Viaroon,

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Jules LaRoche, and Zebulon Black are all standing

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just into the clearing. And just behind them,

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sort of skewered by the foliage and dense jungle,

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we see Chester tucking his diamond away, pulling

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out his sling, getting ready to fight. We see,

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just down the way, about 60 feet into the orchard

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itself, in between rows of growing peppers and

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just past a number of stick -like small trees

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carrying these big skull peppers that you have

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had some personal experience with, Jules, we

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see Casamaroon. He just made a demand to the

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creatures around him to kill you all. And you

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watch these three creatures, 60 feet away from

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you, turn towards you and vanish. Bring it on,

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little creatures. I'm just kidding. I don't want

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to... I don't want to piss them off. Now then.

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What are we going to do, Jeremy? I imagine...

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What's your passive perception? Nine for Zebulon.

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Okay. My passive is ten. Okay. The briefest moment

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you see an obscuring of light around these three

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creatures. There's almost like heat waves moving

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around, but they very quickly disappear. You

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do see that two of these blargs of light seem

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to move swiftly before you can even react, and

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you don't know what happens to them after that.

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Now it's you, Zebulon. Jules? Jules, what are

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we going to do here? I can't see anything. Should

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we run? I think we're going to have to stand

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our ground here. Okay. Okay, well, let's... Yeah,

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that's what's tricky is right now, you have two

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options. Like you just said, you could stand

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your ground here in this field where you have

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some open terrain to see, to fight, to do what

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you can do. Or you can try to run back to the

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market to find help. You have other allies nearby.

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You told Dance and Ramin to stay on watch by

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the tent. Maybe they saw you come in. Maybe they

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didn't. They're close. But if you run, you're

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running through dense jungle. These things, I

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mean, they are jungle creatures. They can fly.

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They're small. You're going to be dealing with

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a lot of issues that they will not be. You don't

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know how fast they are. So it's either way very,

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very dangerous. All right. I mean, we've got

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four of us. Vi, stay close. And if you can, try

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to talk some sense into them. Into your brother,

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maybe. So I see on the map here that there appears

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to be a pepper plant in front of Zebulon. Yes,

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there is. One of those black spindly pepper plants

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with the skull peppers on it. Get out. Yeah.

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No shit. These ones in front of you, there's

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eight in front of you in two rows. Cool. So Zebulon's

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going to pick one of those peppers. Really? Yeah.

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And he's going to, I mean, I'm sure this would,

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this might, I don't know. You tell me how I can

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do this. Okay. Because I'm imagining there's

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going to be a knife involved. I want to take

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this pepper, or at least a piece of it, and insert

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it into the persimmon that I have. You do have

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one, don't you? I kept the persimmon with me.

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You kept the persimmon! Let me just lay a hand

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check. Holy shit. Slight of hand, I think, is

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going to do this. How fast you can do this without

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it really being noticed by these... creatures

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coming at you fast. Oh yeah, alright. There we

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go. That's a 16 plus 7. Fucking wild. Oh yeah,

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yeah. Stealthily, slices open, shove a good with

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that, like a nice chunk of pepper into this thing.

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And it almost looks like such a narrow slit you

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put in the persimmon. It looks untouched. Okay.

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To the naked eye. Perfect. That is diabolical.

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I love it. Alright, okay. And the only reason

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I thought of it was when you were explaining,

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you know, the scene you mentioned the The black

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skull peppers. That's for the moment then. Okay.

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All right. I love it. We really didn't have a

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plan going into this session. Not really. We

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did a little bit of like a two or three minute

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like, should we do this? Should we do that? Should

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we do this? Should we do that? I think every

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combat we've had, we've had just an extremely

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rough, loose outline. Right. This one I think

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is the most seat of our pants so far. Yep. I

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didn't expect this. The seat of our fantasy pants.

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The seat of our fantasy pants. Yeah. Are you

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going to move or anything else that turn? There's

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dense jungle behind us. I can't really hide,

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though, because that would leave you guys all

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to tank. No, I guess I'll ready an action to

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strike out if one of these guys comes in range,

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I guess. If it attacks me or if it attacks somebody

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next to me. Okay. And that brings us actually

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to the next person, which is Vi. Vi sort of stumbles

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back at all this. And you see like this dawning

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sort of horror and realization kind of striking

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his eyes and features. And he just says, could

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they be windlings? No, no, no, no. That can't

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be. They're from children's stories. I didn't

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think they were real. But why would cast them?

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Why would they attack us? They're supposed to

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be harmless tricksters. What's a wingling? What

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are these things? They're fey spirits that live

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in the mountains. They're supposed to be. They're

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told of in traveler's tales. Tricksters that

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prey on people, but not like this. Not killing.

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He's just searching his eyes, darting around

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everywhere. He's like, cast them. Cast them.

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Why? Do the stories tell of any weaknesses? He

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just kind of is still staring around. Because

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I think it's about time for these things to move

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in. So I'm going to cut his. Talking there. Damn

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it. Cast him on the other side of the field.

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It's just kind of like, he's watching you all,

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and I think he's got his face carved by one hand,

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almost like leaning over, breathing heavily,

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eyes wild. He does not look like he's in his

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right mind right now. He just ordered the death

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of his brother. But he is desperate. Mad with

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desperation. But he's standing his ground and

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watching. Shit. I make another move. It's going

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to be Chester. I think Chester is just going

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to ready his sling. Okay. He's currently, I'm

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going to say Chester's under stealth currently,

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so he could attack from advantage from where

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he is. Okay. Yeah, because he's ready his sling,

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he's waiting, and when someone pops, he can shoot.

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That's right, he's in the bush, isn't he? He's

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in the brush, yes. Yes, okay. Safe and nestled

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behind you in the low brush where he's just kind

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of watching. Yep. I think he just righted it,

00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:33.440
and he's going to stay there. And that's you.

00:14:33.539 --> 00:14:35.659
And if one of them pops up in front, he'll pull

00:14:35.659 --> 00:14:38.039
the trigger. Okay. That's going to be you, Jules.

00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:40.679
I think we're going to stick with the very loose

00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:43.940
plan, and I'm going to give myself a poke and

00:14:43.940 --> 00:14:49.480
go invisible. Okay. All right. Interesting. Fighting

00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:54.700
fire with fire. I love it. How does this work

00:14:54.700 --> 00:14:59.659
in terms of my movement? So when you move, basically

00:14:59.659 --> 00:15:01.299
when you're visible, anything that's looking

00:15:01.299 --> 00:15:02.899
towards you is going to treat you as if you're

00:15:02.899 --> 00:15:06.659
heavily obscured. Right. I just mean more because

00:15:06.659 --> 00:15:10.700
you're going to know my moves. Yes. I can play

00:15:10.700 --> 00:15:13.120
without knowing that. The big thing is, if you

00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:14.240
want, you can move yourself on the board. You

00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:17.389
can tell me where you go. Okay. Keep in mind

00:15:17.389 --> 00:15:19.269
that because you're walking especially you're

00:15:19.269 --> 00:15:21.809
still they can still hear you potentially. So

00:15:21.809 --> 00:15:25.549
you're gonna roll stealth check. Okay, okay But

00:15:25.549 --> 00:15:27.690
like if you attack from visible you tackle the

00:15:27.690 --> 00:15:30.470
data than nothing. Yeah Okay, there's a lot of

00:15:30.470 --> 00:15:32.590
perks to it. I'm gonna move this himself then

00:15:32.590 --> 00:15:34.669
Okay, so you don't take your friend from the

00:15:34.669 --> 00:15:37.450
board and I will not know where you are. I might

00:15:37.450 --> 00:15:41.889
take action to check but you vanish and suddenly

00:15:42.539 --> 00:15:46.080
Our little board has four figures on it in a

00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.220
fight with eight. Very exciting. Very, very exciting.

00:15:50.259 --> 00:15:52.100
Do you want me to roll stealth when I just moved?

00:15:52.820 --> 00:15:56.440
Yes, go ahead and roll stealth. In case I try

00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.299
to contest it. Oh, advantage. You can roll advantage

00:15:58.299 --> 00:16:02.340
because you're invisible. That'd be a 14. Okay,

00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.059
all right. Sweet. It's better than my passive,

00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:12.299
so good, good. Jules vanishes. And with that,

00:16:12.340 --> 00:16:19.100
two targets in the open, three windlings. Suddenly...

00:16:19.100 --> 00:16:22.019
Whoa, you move again? Yeah. Top of the round.

00:16:22.139 --> 00:16:25.379
Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah. And I went first with

00:16:25.379 --> 00:16:27.100
two of them. Oh, it is the top of the round,

00:16:27.139 --> 00:16:31.299
yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I had the three initiative,

00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.059
so I'm last. I thought they moved after we did.

00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.740
No, they moved before. I'll give you a little

00:16:36.740 --> 00:16:37.799
hint that they were at the top, because I said

00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:39.759
they saw two of these things blur. Oh, actually,

00:16:39.860 --> 00:16:41.519
only two of them. That's right. Yeah, because

00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.320
I remember you saying, I'm going to make another

00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:49.139
move here, and then we're good. Yes. So, I think

00:16:49.139 --> 00:16:51.860
you're standing there. Jules vanishes. Zebulon,

00:16:51.940 --> 00:16:53.659
you turn to Vi. You ask what the weakness is,

00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.279
and Vi just kind of looks at you. He's just like,

00:16:56.460 --> 00:16:59.080
I don't know. If anything, I just don't know

00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:00.440
why they're working with Kasim. They must think

00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.519
we're hurting him, or if I could just talk to

00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:05.490
them. And all of a sudden, he cuts off as one

00:17:05.490 --> 00:17:08.890
of these creatures appears in front of him and

00:17:08.890 --> 00:17:12.430
just smashes into him with like a force that

00:17:12.430 --> 00:17:15.109
surprises you. Or at least he's going to try

00:17:15.109 --> 00:17:19.869
to. Oh yeah, that's going to hit. That's going

00:17:19.869 --> 00:17:25.589
to hit. Get some damage on this. Okay. You watch

00:17:25.589 --> 00:17:28.970
as Vi cuts off. This creature appears out of

00:17:28.970 --> 00:17:31.990
nowhere, smashes into him, and his voice cuts

00:17:31.990 --> 00:17:36.289
off with a crack of bone as he is smashed against

00:17:36.289 --> 00:17:40.210
a tree just behind him. Just crack! And just

00:17:40.210 --> 00:17:42.289
kind of like, eyes go wide for a second, and

00:17:42.289 --> 00:17:45.450
he starts slumping, slowly sliding down the trunk,

00:17:45.509 --> 00:17:50.289
and falls to his knees, onto his butt. He's just

00:17:50.289 --> 00:17:54.630
like, staring out. He is unconscious. Oh my god,

00:17:54.690 --> 00:17:56.690
are you kidding me? And maybe dead. You don't

00:17:56.690 --> 00:18:00.759
know. So now for my reaction, I don't even get

00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.900
sneak attack, right? Oh, you would not. Yeah,

00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.400
I guess you wouldn't, unless Jules was in 5 feet,

00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.339
which I don't know if that... No, I mean Vi was

00:18:10.339 --> 00:18:13.819
in 5 feet, but now he's... He went down immediately.

00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.579
Well, that really sucks. I was counting on that

00:18:16.579 --> 00:18:20.759
sneak attack damage there. But I will take my

00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.460
reaction. Okay. Give me that reaction. What are

00:18:24.460 --> 00:18:27.119
you going to do? I'm going to strike out with

00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.480
my rapier. Okay. Well, actually, I guess that

00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:35.299
depends. Yeah, no, that's really all I got. All

00:18:35.299 --> 00:18:38.000
right, so that's a 17 plus 5. That's going to

00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.319
hit for sure. Nice. I'm going to get my D8 out

00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:47.279
for damage. Ooh, that's 8 damage. Nice. 8 damage,

00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:50.599
okay. And I got to be honest, I have the persimmon

00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:53.700
in one hand, so I don't have my other sword.

00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:58.559
my other, uh, saber out yet. Mark that down.

00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:00.700
Okay. Yeah. Uh, so yeah, you, uh, you have the

00:19:00.700 --> 00:19:02.099
persimmon in one hand, but Hey, you had that

00:19:02.099 --> 00:19:04.980
persimmon. It's actually very interesting. You

00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:06.740
know what? You know what? I'm glad you noted

00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:10.240
that because these are tricksters and one of

00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.059
them also appears just in front of you. Um, I

00:19:13.059 --> 00:19:14.400
think it's like, you see, it comes almost out

00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.859
of a slam motion and it like eyes, but spend

00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:18.799
your hand and it kind of puts us, it's, it's,

00:19:18.819 --> 00:19:21.039
it's like little, I mentioned them as like, kind

00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.519
of like, monkey -esque before. And they kind

00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.079
of have some features, like the hands and such,

00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:27.579
but they actually look almost like bat -like

00:19:27.579 --> 00:19:28.940
in the face, too. They have these little bat

00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:31.019
wings, these sort of, like, cat -ish, bat -ish

00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:35.220
faces with big green eyes, purplish blue sort

00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:37.440
of fur all over their bodies. They're kind of

00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.099
silly looking, and this one kind of, like, puts

00:19:39.099 --> 00:19:40.380
his hands up to the sides of his head and does

00:19:40.380 --> 00:19:42.380
a little, like, neener -neener expression. He

00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:44.799
just kind of does a... Like, Titsa just hung

00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.359
out, makes a farsight, and snatches out to grab

00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:48.880
the persimmon from you. I'm going to make an

00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.599
honorable attack to grab it. Seriously. Do you

00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:54.259
need to, like, is there a mechanical way that,

00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:57.279
like, I just don't resist? Tell you what, you

00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.460
can just give me advantage. Sure. All right.

00:20:00.980 --> 00:20:02.900
It's like if he fucks up, it's because he's an

00:20:02.900 --> 00:20:05.599
idiot and he doofs. But he did not doof with

00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.640
a 15 on the die. So he snatches the persimmon,

00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.759
trying to decide if biting it is a bonus action.

00:20:14.019 --> 00:20:16.400
Or would that be an object interaction? That

00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:20.019
would be an object interaction. Sure, sure. He

00:20:20.019 --> 00:20:24.079
just grabs it, kind of like a... Takes a bite.

00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.980
Oh, my God. Does he bite into the part with the

00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:31.220
pepper? Oh, come on. Come on. I'm doing a wild

00:20:31.220 --> 00:20:32.400
thing here. How many bites is he going to take

00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:33.920
out of this thing? He doesn't eat it in one bite?

00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:35.920
I mean, how big of a piece of paper could you

00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:39.819
put in this large persimmon? You tell me. I'm

00:20:39.819 --> 00:20:41.740
going to say it's a 50 -50 chance that he gets

00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:44.170
the pepper on this bite. Okay. I think that's

00:20:44.170 --> 00:20:46.089
a good way of handling this. All right. Don't

00:20:46.089 --> 00:20:49.150
be too nice to you. Now since you fucked up and

00:20:49.150 --> 00:20:52.650
didn't bring John Franklin. All right. One, two,

00:20:52.710 --> 00:20:57.589
three. No pepper. Four, five, six. Pepper. Three.

00:20:58.410 --> 00:21:01.690
He bites it. And he's still holding it. But he's...

00:21:01.690 --> 00:21:05.599
Makes another fart noise at you. And that's his

00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:07.920
turn. All right. But you see where he bites.

00:21:07.940 --> 00:21:10.500
You can see almost like the edge of the pepper

00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:12.960
is just beyond the bite mark. He's holding it

00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.079
up while making gestures at you. And you're like,

00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.819
okay, maybe, maybe you can egg him on a little

00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:21.940
more. That's going to be you, Zebulon. How do

00:21:21.940 --> 00:21:25.640
I egg him on a little more? This is fun. I want

00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.980
you to think about this. Like, he's having fun

00:21:28.980 --> 00:21:32.299
messing with you right now. Yeah. All right.

00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:34.380
I love how everyone in this world, even people

00:21:34.380 --> 00:21:36.240
he's fighting against, wants to pick on Zebulon.

00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.319
I don't know how, but they got to be able to

00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:45.079
be outsmarted. Yeah. Being that cocky about it.

00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:46.759
I think it just needs to be just a simple sort

00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:49.460
of like taunt. I don't even know if maybe it

00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:52.119
could just be like a free action sort of thing.

00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:54.859
So I want to draw, now that my hand's free, I

00:21:54.859 --> 00:21:59.500
want to draw my other saber and look at the one

00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:03.710
with the persimmon who's to my... Right. Yes,

00:22:03.849 --> 00:22:05.910
right to your right. And I kind of want to, like,

00:22:05.910 --> 00:22:09.789
mime that I'm trying to take a bite out of the

00:22:09.789 --> 00:22:12.869
persimmon. Like trying to bite it out of his

00:22:12.869 --> 00:22:15.430
hand while he's doing it? Right, exactly. All

00:22:15.430 --> 00:22:19.849
right, roll me a... I like this a lot, so I want

00:22:19.849 --> 00:22:22.369
you to roll me a performance or deception, your

00:22:22.369 --> 00:22:24.730
choice, with advantage. They're both minus one,

00:22:24.869 --> 00:22:29.150
so it doesn't matter. All right, that's an 11.

00:22:31.790 --> 00:22:34.109
12. Okay. I actually was looking for a DC 12.

00:22:34.390 --> 00:22:37.690
Sweet. Nice. Um, so yeah, so, so you're doing

00:22:37.690 --> 00:22:40.109
this thing. Uh, and I think it's just enough

00:22:40.109 --> 00:22:42.430
because he's, he's like expecting this and wanting

00:22:42.430 --> 00:22:43.869
this. So he's going to see what he wants to see.

00:22:43.890 --> 00:22:46.049
And he's just kind of like getting all excited.

00:22:46.529 --> 00:22:49.730
Um, all right. I love it. Uh, sweet. I can't

00:22:49.730 --> 00:22:52.130
make a move on that yet. No. Yeah. I wasn't really,

00:22:52.170 --> 00:22:54.910
I just, I'm thinking and hoping that he'll do

00:22:54.910 --> 00:22:57.789
it on his next turn. Yeah. All right. Um, but

00:22:57.789 --> 00:23:02.400
now I'd like to, to, Aim my two attacks at the

00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:07.140
previously injured guy who's to my left. Oh,

00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:10.599
yes. Okay. Go ahead. The one that just smashed

00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:13.880
into Vi. Just KO'd by one shot. And he's just

00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:17.119
kind of like laughing at the body. You don't

00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:21.319
know if it's conscious or alive or dead. Would

00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:24.680
you roll? That's a 12 for the first attack. 12

00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:29.119
will miss. Shit. Oh, don't worry about that second

00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:31.720
attack. Because as a reaction, I'm going to use

00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:33.920
Trickster's Flight. You gotta be kidding me.

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:35.940
When someone misses a windling with an attack

00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:39.000
roll, they can immediately fly 30 feet without

00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.740
taking an AOO. Are you serious? So it just, like,

00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:46.779
dives around your weapon and slides 5, 30 feet

00:23:46.779 --> 00:23:49.180
back. And is, again, just, like, just, like,

00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.019
just spanking its butt in your direction. Like,

00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:56.160
looping around all silly as you go to miss your

00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:57.940
second attack. Was that a waste of that attack,

00:23:58.059 --> 00:24:00.319
then? Or do I get to use it again? You still

00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.200
have your second attack. Okay. You know what,

00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:07.240
though? I think if this guy bites the persimmon,

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:09.319
that's going to take him out of the fight. Can

00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:11.500
I kind of do sort of the same thing where I kind

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:13.859
of like feign an attack on this guy with the

00:24:13.859 --> 00:24:17.160
persimmon? All right, I'm into it. Yeah. Like,

00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:21.000
maybe I roll unarmed or something? I don't know.

00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.160
I don't know how you want to do this. I don't

00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:25.700
want to hit him. You can just tell me you're

00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:28.150
feigning an attack. Okay. Yeah. Could you try

00:24:28.150 --> 00:24:31.549
to take the persimmon from him? Yeah. Show him

00:24:31.549 --> 00:24:34.289
that you want it? Or even, well, because I think

00:24:34.289 --> 00:24:36.730
I did that first with the bite. Oh, right, right,

00:24:36.730 --> 00:24:38.609
yeah. So now if he knows that, I mean, he knows

00:24:38.609 --> 00:24:40.569
I have two weapons and I'm going to use them,

00:24:40.670 --> 00:24:42.849
so I just don't want him to think, I don't know

00:24:42.849 --> 00:24:44.329
how freaking smart this thing is, but I kind

00:24:44.329 --> 00:24:47.470
of just want to, yeah, just do like a, so I just

00:24:47.470 --> 00:24:50.970
want to feign an attack on him. And you just

00:24:50.970 --> 00:24:53.069
kind of want to attack him? You son of a, and

00:24:53.069 --> 00:24:55.549
Zebulon's going to get all, like, visibly flustered.

00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.759
and just try to, like, really whiff. You know,

00:24:58.779 --> 00:25:01.200
like, he's swinging for the fences, but not really.

00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:03.019
He's swinging, like, right to the side or something.

00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:04.640
I'm actually going to count as a miss, too, and

00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:06.599
he's going to activate his trickster's flight

00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:10.799
and also fly backwards right beside his buddy,

00:25:10.859 --> 00:25:12.460
about 30 feet in front of you. That's great.

00:25:12.539 --> 00:25:14.920
Right between, 30 feet between you and Kesem.

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:16.680
So he just kind of, like, swings back by his

00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:18.400
buddy and joins him in, like, the butt spanking.

00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:21.460
He spins around, persimmon in hand, waving it

00:25:21.460 --> 00:25:25.099
in your direction, like, ha -ha, gotcha. That's

00:25:25.099 --> 00:25:29.660
Vi, but it's not. And then that's Kasim. You

00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:31.859
see Kasim is over there, just watching. And he

00:25:31.859 --> 00:25:33.819
actually looks visibly annoyed as he sees these

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:35.599
tricksters are playing with you and not just

00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:40.920
doing the job. He's just kind of like... And

00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.519
they just kind of turn like... And just almost

00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.039
like arguing with him, but in a playful manner.

00:25:48.220 --> 00:25:53.460
And he's furious. And that's that. Then... One

00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:56.859
more of these creatures appears. Right beside

00:25:56.859 --> 00:26:00.299
you, Zebulon. Excellent. I'm going to attack

00:26:00.299 --> 00:26:06.599
you. Oh, that's going to hit for sure. Zebulon,

00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:08.599
you're... Don't forget, I now, with my two swords,

00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:11.240
I have 17 AC. I rolled an 18 on the die. Okay,

00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:13.740
that's fine. Definitely, super hit. So this guy

00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:16.180
basically suddenly appears from invisible in

00:26:16.180 --> 00:26:17.119
front of you. You're watching the other two,

00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:22.329
and you are hit with this force. It tackles into

00:26:22.329 --> 00:26:25.329
you, but there's more to its force than its form

00:26:25.329 --> 00:26:29.029
would belie, if that makes sense. It's staggering,

00:26:29.170 --> 00:26:35.049
and you take max damage. Nine points of bludgeoning

00:26:35.049 --> 00:26:38.289
damage. You are crashed. This thing smashes into

00:26:38.289 --> 00:26:41.769
you with all of its might. That's not good. It's

00:26:41.769 --> 00:26:44.230
not good at all. Zeb is still up, but not by

00:26:44.230 --> 00:26:48.309
much. playful little bat creature is just smiling

00:26:48.309 --> 00:26:51.630
at you. Yes. What are these things? Holden is

00:26:51.630 --> 00:26:55.769
wherever he got hit. That's Chester. So now that

00:26:55.769 --> 00:26:58.730
Vaya is down and Jules is no longer in front,

00:26:58.789 --> 00:27:02.250
I think he's going to use his sling to go for

00:27:02.250 --> 00:27:04.430
that one. Give me advantage on that. Hell yeah.

00:27:04.549 --> 00:27:07.950
And I believe Chester also gets a 1d6 if he attacks

00:27:07.950 --> 00:27:10.789
from stealth with his sling. Yep. There you go.

00:27:10.910 --> 00:27:12.849
He gets a little bit of a sneak attack as well.

00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.339
Well, that's first. That'll be for damage. Is

00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:19.099
it for damage? Hold on. I think so. I thought

00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:21.099
it was attack. Maybe it's attack. I actually

00:27:21.099 --> 00:27:23.160
don't know. That would be wild. Self -attack.

00:27:23.900 --> 00:27:25.319
Oh, damage. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:27.920
Okay, well, in any case, he's got a 19 to hit.

00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:29.740
Okay, roll again. Do you have advantage? See

00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:33.039
if you get that crit. I did not. Okay, roll damage.

00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.920
Yeah, that D6 to it. We got one here with some

00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:42.619
DM sweat. I bathed it in Steven's tears. So that's

00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:46.500
four damage. Four damage, okay. Four damage ain't

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:50.579
nothing. All right, so... I said the odd of the

00:27:50.579 --> 00:27:55.519
underbrush. A precious thing launches this small

00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.079
stone, would it be? And just clocks this thing.

00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:02.380
And just kind of like sort of shaking, wobbling

00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:05.259
in the air a little bit. This exaggerated movement.

00:28:05.980 --> 00:28:08.819
Thanks, Zeb. Get ready. There's more coming.

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:13.119
Jules, what are you doing? Now, did that give

00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:15.660
him away, or is he still... He would be noticed

00:28:15.660 --> 00:28:17.839
now. Okay. But he can move and stealth... Well,

00:28:17.940 --> 00:28:19.779
he can't have a bonus action stealth, but you

00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:22.299
could try to, like, move somewhere else. Okay,

00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:24.299
I do kind of want to move him a little bit. Okay,

00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:27.740
yeah. I'm going to move him just a couple more

00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:29.759
spaces to the left, just so he's not in the same

00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:31.400
exact position that he was. All right, so he

00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:33.799
just gets down and starts moving through the

00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.160
brush. He can't quite hide with his turn, but

00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.779
he's still... You know, a place where he can

00:28:38.779 --> 00:28:42.079
be obscured. Okay. Hell yeah. And that's going

00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:44.259
to be you, Invisible Jewels. All right, I'm going

00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:47.359
to move. Okay. I got to roll stealth, right?

00:28:48.460 --> 00:28:53.160
Yes. That's a 14. Okay, all right. Which I think

00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:54.539
was the same roll as the last one. Yeah, yeah.

00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:57.720
Yeah, I just got real nervous, and I'm going

00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:00.079
to make a roll on my turn. But we're going to

00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.079
wait for that. Okay. You should be able to double

00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:04.720
move this turn, right? I don't need to double

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:08.589
move anymore. Gotcha. So I'm done moving. I'm

00:29:08.589 --> 00:29:12.069
still invisible. You son of a... No! He just

00:29:12.069 --> 00:29:14.710
appeared behind Kasim! I did not appear. I did

00:29:14.710 --> 00:29:17.289
not appear. I am still invisible. You're still

00:29:17.289 --> 00:29:20.329
invisible. So Kasim is watching and you are behind

00:29:20.329 --> 00:29:22.509
him. I was just like, oh no, I need to roll perception.

00:29:22.730 --> 00:29:24.650
I need to roll perception on Jules. I didn't

00:29:24.650 --> 00:29:27.950
think of that. I come up behind Kasim and put

00:29:27.950 --> 00:29:32.349
my arm around his neck and I say, call them off

00:29:32.349 --> 00:29:34.509
or I'll drop you like a sack of moldy potatoes.

00:29:35.989 --> 00:29:40.250
Holy shit. Yeah, Jules, you get him! All right,

00:29:40.329 --> 00:29:42.069
I'll wait until Casper's turn to resolve that.

00:29:43.309 --> 00:29:46.910
Holy shit, I didn't see that coming. That's intense.

00:29:48.210 --> 00:29:51.269
Oh, wait. I hate it. I mean, I do still have

00:29:51.269 --> 00:29:54.849
an action. You have an action. What can you do

00:29:54.849 --> 00:29:57.789
with it? I don't want to drop him yet. That's

00:29:57.789 --> 00:30:02.750
not noble. I guess you could ready it, I suppose.

00:30:03.560 --> 00:30:05.279
Hey, you can ready an action. If he doesn't do

00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.440
this, you do this. Okay, I'm going to ready Inflict

00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:12.359
Wounds. Holy shit. Hell yeah. So if he doesn't

00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.200
call them off, you Inflict Wounds. Got him. I

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:22.440
am floor. Holy shit. Me too. Okay, okay. That's

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:24.880
the two winlings. They don't know this is happening

00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:26.240
yet, I want to say, because they were focusing

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:28.660
their efforts on Zebulon. And you kind of just

00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:29.700
like appear behind him and start whispering.

00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:31.839
He hasn't had a chance to cry out yet, so I am

00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:34.019
going to have... One of these guys do something

00:30:34.019 --> 00:30:37.660
here. Let me do a quick roll. See something.

00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:42.500
Okay, perfect. The white one vanishes. Again.

00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:47.480
Okay. And that's all you see. Not what I was

00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:49.980
hoping the white one would do. Now the green

00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:52.720
one. Holding the persimmon. Oh, I thought it

00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:54.539
was the other way around. Was it? I'm pretty

00:30:54.539 --> 00:30:56.039
sure the... Yeah, because it was the one that

00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:58.819
was on my right. The one that I attacked. Yeah.

00:30:59.130 --> 00:31:00.710
No, I'm sorry. The one that was on my right was

00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:01.769
the one that had the persimmon. The one that

00:31:01.769 --> 00:31:04.170
was here on my left was the one that... Yeah,

00:31:04.170 --> 00:31:06.130
the white one is the one that tackled Cass. Oh,

00:31:06.130 --> 00:31:08.210
okay. I was just confused because this one was

00:31:08.210 --> 00:31:10.069
on the left. The green one was on the left and

00:31:10.069 --> 00:31:11.529
the white one was on the right. No, the green

00:31:11.529 --> 00:31:14.089
one was the one that was taunting you. So, yeah,

00:31:14.150 --> 00:31:16.809
basically, the one that was taunting you, holding

00:31:16.809 --> 00:31:21.410
the persimmon, looks over at it and winks at

00:31:21.410 --> 00:31:24.910
you and takes another bite. Hell yeah. And Zebulon's...

00:31:25.130 --> 00:31:27.349
Just trying his best not to, like, give it away,

00:31:27.450 --> 00:31:30.009
not to smirk, not to, like, not to give a tell.

00:31:30.230 --> 00:31:32.289
I love this because I'm going to roll a constitution

00:31:32.289 --> 00:31:35.630
saving throw, and from experience, you know I

00:31:35.630 --> 00:31:39.410
need to roll. Yeah, like a 20. A 20, yeah. A

00:31:39.410 --> 00:31:41.869
DC 20 con save for this win lane. And, like,

00:31:41.869 --> 00:31:43.650
you know that face that you make when you're

00:31:43.650 --> 00:31:46.690
trying so hard not to laugh? Yes, yes. He's,

00:31:46.690 --> 00:31:48.809
like, trying to, like, make his face frown, like.

00:31:49.029 --> 00:31:51.630
You tricked the trickster. Oh, my gosh. Okay.

00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:58.839
Huh. I actually rolled a 20. Legitimately. I

00:31:58.839 --> 00:32:01.539
rolled a 19 with a plus one. Are you shitting

00:32:01.539 --> 00:32:07.039
me? Get the fuck out. I really want this to work,

00:32:07.059 --> 00:32:08.779
but I actually didn't roll a 20. That was like

00:32:08.779 --> 00:32:13.039
money in the bag. The hell? I cannot believe

00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:16.619
it. No, I love this. I love this. I love this.

00:32:16.619 --> 00:32:19.799
Oh my god. This guy bites into it, bites through

00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:24.680
the pepper, and you see him go... Just kind of

00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:26.619
like coughing, coughing. He starts his eyes wide.

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:28.119
He starts staring around. Jules, you know from

00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:30.079
experience, he sees like skulls in the face of

00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:35.880
everybody. And then his green eyes narrow in

00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:41.299
rage towards you. He throws the pepper down the

00:32:41.299 --> 00:32:44.019
ground or the pepper ampersand and splatting

00:32:44.019 --> 00:32:47.180
it onto the ground below. And rather than running

00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:52.039
away in terror, he is pissed. Oh boy. Oh, yes.

00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:56.440
I can't. Oh, my God. That was the move right

00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:59.339
there. Hey, Zebulon, didn't you say that biting

00:32:59.339 --> 00:33:01.019
this pepper would be an object interaction last

00:33:01.019 --> 00:33:03.759
round? We clarified that, right? I did. Great,

00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:05.140
because I'm going to fly right up to you and

00:33:05.140 --> 00:33:08.039
kick your ass. Great. Excellent. Good. You monster.

00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:12.240
Here we go. He goes in to tackle you. Jeremy,

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:16.420
I have 5 HP, by the way. Jesus Christ. Zebulon,

00:33:16.420 --> 00:33:21.190
that is A. 18 to hit. Oh my god, that fucking

00:33:21.190 --> 00:33:25.250
hits. Are you shitting me? I can't believe how

00:33:25.250 --> 00:33:29.230
bad this is going. It's alright. Minimum damage.

00:33:30.670 --> 00:33:34.069
Six. That's it. He steps down. You're trying

00:33:34.069 --> 00:33:36.289
not to laugh, and this thing just like turns

00:33:36.289 --> 00:33:38.309
against you in a big way. This thing just spins

00:33:38.309 --> 00:33:41.349
on you and launches at you with ferocity and

00:33:41.349 --> 00:33:46.450
crashes into you. And you also just go, boom,

00:33:46.509 --> 00:33:50.730
limp. Besides Vi. It's wild. No, it's so intense.

00:33:50.789 --> 00:33:53.349
But what they don't know is what's happening

00:33:53.349 --> 00:33:54.730
behind them. But first of all, I want you to

00:33:54.730 --> 00:33:59.589
roll your death. All right, here we go. Guys,

00:33:59.589 --> 00:34:07.289
I'm sorry. That's a 10. That's a pass. Okay.

00:34:08.289 --> 00:34:12.309
Oh, my God. This is really hard for me. This

00:34:12.309 --> 00:34:14.030
is Kasim's turn. I don't know what I'm going

00:34:14.030 --> 00:34:21.530
to have him do here. Oh, my God. All right. Kasim

00:34:21.530 --> 00:34:24.449
is standing. I imagine you have your arm around

00:34:24.449 --> 00:34:25.769
him. What do you have, like a hand to his back,

00:34:25.869 --> 00:34:28.909
like ready to cast the magic sort of thing? Give

00:34:28.909 --> 00:34:31.130
me a visual idea of what this looks like. I think

00:34:31.130 --> 00:34:34.710
I have my arm around his neck, and then my right

00:34:34.710 --> 00:34:38.210
arm is around his waist. Okay, so he sees it.

00:34:38.329 --> 00:34:40.449
Probably sees a malevolent glow beginning to

00:34:40.449 --> 00:34:45.260
form. I'm not. I'm still invisible. Oh, that's

00:34:45.260 --> 00:34:47.880
right. Yeah, you can't see. That spell doesn't

00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:49.519
end unless I attack. Yes, that's true. Okay,

00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:51.500
so yeah. I'm still invisible. So yeah, you're

00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:53.139
still technically invisible. He knows you're

00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:54.760
there. He's kind of just holding his hands up.

00:34:54.780 --> 00:34:56.480
That's why the windlings also wouldn't know that

00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.280
there's something wrong here. No, his arms are

00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:00.519
down. I have his arms with me. Okay, all right.

00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:06.460
So he's just kind of... If you kill me, no one's

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:09.539
going to stop them. You die too. You get that,

00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:12.980
right? We can still work something out. Okay?

00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:16.139
We could still make a deal. Well, then it sounds

00:35:16.139 --> 00:35:18.079
like the best option for everybody involved is

00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:20.199
for you to call off these little fuckers. And

00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:24.159
then what? Then we'll talk about it. Talk about

00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:26.820
it? I got Zeb here. I got my whole crew. He'll

00:35:26.820 --> 00:35:32.380
rat me out. We talk. Zeb. He like glances over.

00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:36.400
It's like, oh, we're talking, Jules. Your friend

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:42.690
is dying. And your money is going bye -bye. He's

00:35:42.690 --> 00:35:47.090
gritting his teeth. I want you to roll. Wait,

00:35:47.210 --> 00:35:48.809
the scheming. Scheming at the table. What is

00:35:48.809 --> 00:35:52.909
this? Get me in there. At least scheme into your

00:35:52.909 --> 00:35:59.989
mics. Okay. See, the longer you're here with

00:35:59.989 --> 00:36:04.489
us, the more money you're losing. And the more

00:36:04.489 --> 00:36:08.289
people are on their way. You remember our little

00:36:08.289 --> 00:36:12.829
cohorts in the game there. They know we're here.

00:36:13.869 --> 00:36:23.190
Roll me Deception. Yes, there's a chance. 26.

00:36:23.329 --> 00:36:36.010
Baby! 26. 26. 26. All right. Okay. Okay. He's

00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:40.639
just stiff, holding himself up. for a long moment

00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:43.780
just waiting and then just kind of cold kind

00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:45.940
of cold kind of cold kind of go gonna go gonna

00:36:45.940 --> 00:36:48.500
go gonna go gonna go and He's yelling this over

00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:50.980
and over and you see like one windling the one

00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:55.019
that was it went visible appears Moving right

00:36:55.019 --> 00:36:57.420
up on Chester like just kind of like whoa as

00:36:57.420 --> 00:36:59.500
things appears in front of him Like it was getting

00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:02.519
ready to strike and it's kind of like okay We're

00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.920
stopping. Oh, no shit. God. Are you joking but?

00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:09.929
I'm gonna roll for the windling that's currently

00:37:09.929 --> 00:37:12.510
in a pepper madness. Oh my god. To see if that

00:37:12.510 --> 00:37:14.610
motherfucker's gonna stop. Because I think that

00:37:14.610 --> 00:37:18.289
is funny. You're gonna try to kill Zebulon outright?

00:37:19.570 --> 00:37:23.750
Maybe. Oh my god. Holy shit. Maybe I will. So,

00:37:23.869 --> 00:37:27.289
he kills it. The two withlings stop. This is

00:37:27.289 --> 00:37:29.929
the fucking game, though. Um, but then there's

00:37:29.929 --> 00:37:32.210
still that green, the green mini on the front,

00:37:32.690 --> 00:37:34.750
that's like Sambo Zebulon, and just kind of like,

00:37:34.829 --> 00:37:37.389
he's getting ready to charge down. Let me roll.

00:37:37.570 --> 00:37:41.989
I'm gonna roll. Basically luck. Once again, one

00:37:41.989 --> 00:37:46.530
to three, he's going to stop as well. He's going

00:37:46.530 --> 00:37:53.289
to hear it. Okay. Four to six, he does not. Four.

00:37:54.610 --> 00:37:58.829
He... Shit, what was it? You said one to three,

00:37:58.849 --> 00:38:01.030
he stops. Four to six, he does not. Oh my god,

00:38:01.030 --> 00:38:04.750
yes! Oh, I'm so excited. Okay, four. Dude, is

00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:07.289
Zebulon going to die tonight? Dude, this win

00:38:07.289 --> 00:38:10.289
-ling. He rises up, and Jules, you can see, this

00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:12.730
one's not stopping. And Kasim's, hey, hey, I

00:38:12.730 --> 00:38:14.050
don't know what's happening. He should stop.

00:38:14.170 --> 00:38:15.210
He should stop. I don't know what's happening.

00:38:15.289 --> 00:38:19.349
Please, please, please. He's terrified. This

00:38:19.349 --> 00:38:22.929
is bad. This is really bad. First windling that

00:38:22.929 --> 00:38:24.630
actually was going to appear in Tech Chester

00:38:24.630 --> 00:38:27.190
doesn't do anything. He actually moves away from

00:38:27.190 --> 00:38:28.789
Chester. Chester can take an AO if he wants,

00:38:28.889 --> 00:38:31.030
but this guy is not fighting. I've got goosebumps.

00:38:31.550 --> 00:38:34.849
Yeah, I think as he's doing that, Jules is going

00:38:34.849 --> 00:38:36.349
to say, I told you what's going to happen if

00:38:36.349 --> 00:38:41.440
you didn't call him off. I told you. That happens.

00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:44.639
It's on you. I can't. He's not listening. It's

00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:47.179
on you. I just met them. I give them persimmons.

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:48.639
I do things I ask them to, but I don't have control

00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:51.420
over them. I can't control them. Please. Whose

00:38:51.420 --> 00:38:54.360
fault is that? I didn't mean to start the fire.

00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:57.139
I didn't mean any of it. I didn't mean it. Please.

00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:00.179
Then you go out there and you stop him. Okay.

00:39:00.260 --> 00:39:02.719
Oh, my God. This one thing is moving away from

00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:04.320
Chester. Do you want to do anything with that?

00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:09.380
He's going back. Okay. He's flying back. That's

00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:11.619
all that's going to happen there. Okay. That

00:39:11.619 --> 00:39:15.480
is Chester's turn. Wait. Did the green windling

00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.320
go yet? It's not his turn yet? No, he's ready

00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:19.639
yet. It's not his turn yet, though. Oh, shit.

00:39:19.739 --> 00:39:21.599
You have until his turn before he's going to

00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.800
strike you while you're down. All right. Chester's

00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:27.940
going to go for a shot. Okay. I guess. Chester's

00:39:27.940 --> 00:39:31.849
going to wail him. Do it. Save me, Chester. Because

00:39:31.849 --> 00:39:34.010
I moved him through the brush. He didn't hide,

00:39:34.190 --> 00:39:36.650
so he wouldn't be stealthed. You'd use the hide

00:39:36.650 --> 00:39:43.469
action to stealth. That's a 22. That's going

00:39:43.469 --> 00:39:46.869
to hit. Oh, I fucked up his damage before, too.

00:39:47.070 --> 00:39:50.809
Whoops. It was a 1d4 plus 2. I didn't have the

00:39:50.809 --> 00:39:52.369
plus 2 the first time. Okay, let me add that

00:39:52.369 --> 00:39:55.010
now. And he only gets the extra d6 if he's in

00:39:55.010 --> 00:39:56.530
stealth. That doesn't seem fair, because I forgot

00:39:56.530 --> 00:39:59.900
it. You know, you're being honest now. You might

00:39:59.900 --> 00:40:02.480
be saving Zebulon's life. Please take the plus

00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:08.360
two. Critical shit right now. And that's a three.

00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.119
Three damage total? Okay. Yep. So no plus two

00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:14.860
on that? That was with plus two. Okay. Boom.

00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:21.119
Okay, this thing's still up. Oh boy. Oh boy.

00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:25.409
Still up. That's you, Jules. Kasim's blubbering.

00:40:25.409 --> 00:40:27.690
He doesn't know what to do. You've got him held.

00:40:28.469 --> 00:40:30.869
But while you're here, on the other side of the

00:40:30.869 --> 00:40:32.369
field, something very, very bad is happening.

00:40:32.550 --> 00:40:34.449
Chester's just like, Jules! Jules, I can't stop

00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:36.789
it! He's shooting out. Wham! Wham! Another waxes

00:40:36.789 --> 00:40:40.889
thing. Windling kind of shakes his head. It just

00:40:40.889 --> 00:40:42.829
kind of goes right back into attack. This is

00:40:42.829 --> 00:40:47.530
fucking wild. I'm going to my arm that's around

00:40:47.530 --> 00:40:50.349
Kasim's waist. I'm not taking my arm off. I'm

00:40:50.349 --> 00:40:53.170
going to briefly lift my hand up. And cast Dissonant

00:40:53.170 --> 00:40:55.329
Whispers onto the creature in front of Zebulon.

00:40:55.369 --> 00:40:57.329
What's the range? 60 feet. 60 feet exactly! Oh

00:40:57.329 --> 00:40:59.690
my god. He's 60 feet exactly from you! Oh my

00:40:59.690 --> 00:41:02.630
god! Literally, yeah, yeah. Counting that out,

00:41:02.650 --> 00:41:06.369
that is 60 feet exactly. Yep. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

00:41:06.489 --> 00:41:09.170
you need to make a wisdom save. Oh boy, please,

00:41:09.349 --> 00:41:14.090
please, please. What's the DC? What'd you roll?

00:41:15.630 --> 00:41:20.949
14. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, what made it? It's

00:41:20.949 --> 00:41:23.389
got to be like a 12. It's a 13. Oh, my gosh.

00:41:23.650 --> 00:41:28.250
Okay. Oh, no. Oh, man. Oh, no. Oh, my God. So,

00:41:28.309 --> 00:41:30.409
yeah, you cast this out, and it's like this thing

00:41:30.409 --> 00:41:32.610
has gone into a rage. I think it's green eyes

00:41:32.610 --> 00:41:34.190
are almost looking like they're taking this red

00:41:34.190 --> 00:41:37.690
tint. I was not expecting this. No. And just

00:41:37.690 --> 00:41:39.710
like these whispers are just like you see its

00:41:39.710 --> 00:41:43.849
ears moving a little bit. Is there like a half

00:41:43.849 --> 00:41:45.929
damage effect, anything like that on a save?

00:41:46.510 --> 00:41:50.849
This is crazy. I'm going to take a picture of

00:41:50.849 --> 00:41:54.829
the man who's about to kill my character. It's

00:41:54.829 --> 00:41:59.409
me. I'm that guy. Yes, on a successful save,

00:41:59.630 --> 00:42:02.409
you take half as much damage. But you don't move

00:42:02.409 --> 00:42:06.130
away, which is 3d6 psychic damage. Give me that

00:42:06.130 --> 00:42:08.630
damage. You got one windling to deal with now.

00:42:08.670 --> 00:42:12.610
The other ones are getting out of there. 11.

00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:16.530
Not bad. Half. So 11, half. Five more damage?

00:42:17.070 --> 00:42:20.050
That's... That's very good. Not enough. This

00:42:20.050 --> 00:42:22.230
thing looks... So I will say, as it's still making

00:42:22.230 --> 00:42:25.010
this rage, all of a sudden, like, its eyes kind

00:42:25.010 --> 00:42:28.389
of start to almost, like, looking like in cross

00:42:28.389 --> 00:42:31.429
-eyed. And, like, veins are popping on its head

00:42:31.429 --> 00:42:33.329
a little bit. And it looks like it's twitching.

00:42:33.349 --> 00:42:35.250
It looks like it's taking this, like, weird damage.

00:42:35.329 --> 00:42:37.030
It doesn't even realize it's happening. It's

00:42:37.030 --> 00:42:39.989
just so angry. Yeah. I mean, come on. This guy

00:42:39.989 --> 00:42:41.989
is the trickster. How could you? How could you?

00:42:43.269 --> 00:42:46.280
How? Shit. Could you? What happens next, David?

00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:50.300
What happens next? Oh, man. Well, this went Ling.

00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:54.340
I mean, there's no reason for it to actually

00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:57.920
attack its buddy. No, there's not. Good. Make

00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.500
sure he doesn't think so. I'm sorry, man. He's

00:42:59.500 --> 00:43:02.300
also getting out of here. I'm obviously the last

00:43:02.300 --> 00:43:05.539
person who wants this character to die, but we're

00:43:05.539 --> 00:43:08.019
not here to pull punches. Yeah, no, this is...

00:43:08.570 --> 00:43:10.710
I mean, I'm being super mean, but, like, you

00:43:10.710 --> 00:43:12.630
know what? I think this is fun. This is a very

00:43:12.630 --> 00:43:16.469
surreal moment right now. I can't fucking believe

00:43:16.469 --> 00:43:19.289
this is about to happen. Like, I don't really

00:43:19.289 --> 00:43:21.769
see a way that he doesn't, that Zebulon doesn't

00:43:21.769 --> 00:43:24.889
just die right here. Wait. Hang on a fucking

00:43:24.889 --> 00:43:27.909
second. We know that the damage potential is

00:43:27.909 --> 00:43:30.889
huge. Yeah. And where are you at right now? No,

00:43:30.929 --> 00:43:34.329
this is actually stupid. What? I swear to God,

00:43:34.369 --> 00:43:37.429
I literally just rolled a two and a three. No

00:43:37.429 --> 00:43:39.550
shit. Because I have advantage to attack a downed

00:43:39.550 --> 00:43:41.650
person. Oh my god. I literally just rolled a

00:43:41.650 --> 00:43:45.530
two and a three. No shit. I swear. Two and a

00:43:45.530 --> 00:43:46.389
three. I should have just rolled it in the open.

00:43:46.389 --> 00:43:47.849
You should have rolled it in the open. It was

00:43:47.849 --> 00:43:50.829
two and a three. I was almost like I was rolling

00:43:50.829 --> 00:43:53.530
just like, yeah, whatever, I got him. I saw him

00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:55.170
rolling twice and I was like, what the fuck is

00:43:55.170 --> 00:43:56.690
he doing? I have a plus seven to hit. I have

00:43:56.690 --> 00:43:59.809
advantage to hit a target that's down. But it

00:43:59.809 --> 00:44:02.949
doesn't automatically work. I'm trying to figure

00:44:02.949 --> 00:44:05.610
out what this means. Wow. Because that's a ten.

00:44:06.779 --> 00:44:08.579
Huh. Let me go check this. I'm making sure this

00:44:08.579 --> 00:44:10.099
is the rule for hitting an unconscious person.

00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:11.800
Hang on. I'll make a good solution. Yeah, I don't

00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:13.800
really know what to say about that. Like, I'm

00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.639
obviously pleased, but doesn't it feel a little

00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:20.340
anticlimactic? Like, for the past five minutes,

00:44:20.380 --> 00:44:22.280
I've just been preparing for the death of my

00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:24.760
character on, like, episode 20. But Zebulon wasn't

00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:27.199
dead yet. He was unconscious. He still wasn't

00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:29.960
dead. Well, it wasn't dead. But if I attacked

00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:32.800
him, I might have done enough to... Actually,

00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.809
I don't know if I can overkill you. 14 HP? Don't

00:44:35.809 --> 00:44:37.630
you have to send me down to negative 14 or something

00:44:37.630 --> 00:44:41.030
like that? Yes, and if I do hit you, it's a critical

00:44:41.030 --> 00:44:43.530
hit automatically. If I'm within five feet of

00:44:43.530 --> 00:44:46.469
you, and I am. Attack rules against creature

00:44:46.469 --> 00:44:48.409
have advantage. Yeah, like, I really didn't see

00:44:48.409 --> 00:44:52.829
a way out. I mean, low roll. Well, okay. He rolled

00:44:52.829 --> 00:44:55.530
low. Because your sword wouldn't matter, but

00:44:55.530 --> 00:44:58.869
hey, that's still a... I mean, I... I'm confused

00:44:58.869 --> 00:45:00.429
at what everybody's so confused about, because

00:45:00.429 --> 00:45:03.309
to me, you just rolled low. Yeah, it just seems

00:45:03.309 --> 00:45:06.230
wild to me that I managed to roll that low with

00:45:06.230 --> 00:45:08.030
advantage. I mean, it's just... I mean, you did.

00:45:08.230 --> 00:45:10.630
I did. I think that's fucking momentous. I literally

00:45:10.630 --> 00:45:14.610
did. I was just about to say the damage. I did

00:45:14.610 --> 00:45:16.309
a double take, because I was like, wait, what

00:45:16.309 --> 00:45:18.329
the fuck? When I looked back down and saw a three

00:45:18.329 --> 00:45:19.690
on the second, I was like, oh, that was a bad

00:45:19.690 --> 00:45:21.369
one. Whatever. And I rolled again, and I was

00:45:21.369 --> 00:45:24.920
like, okay, so I... I don't think you should

00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:27.340
cut this. Sure, it's shocking. What the heck?

00:45:27.579 --> 00:45:30.320
I'm not anymore. I mean, sure, it's shocking

00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.199
and odd because we're just so sure about it,

00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:34.920
but like I said, Zebulon was not dead yet. It's

00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:36.820
not over until it's over. It hasn't happened

00:45:36.820 --> 00:45:38.519
until it happened. What was going to happen was

00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:39.619
it was going to crit you, and if that didn't

00:45:39.619 --> 00:45:41.559
finish you off on its own, it would have been

00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:44.139
two points towards a fail, and you would have

00:45:44.139 --> 00:45:46.260
gone next, and you would have rolled. Potentially,

00:45:46.260 --> 00:45:47.679
that would have given you a chance of dying there.

00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:50.900
It was so clear -cut, but like... What am I going

00:45:50.900 --> 00:45:53.760
to do? I fucking rolled dirt. So what happens?

00:45:54.099 --> 00:45:54.920
This is the game. Here's what happens. This is

00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.920
the fucking game. Here's what happens. He's got,

00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.139
like, jewels, that weird thing. His brain's all,

00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.500
like, filled with these whispers. His mind's,

00:46:02.500 --> 00:46:04.039
like, pulsing with these veins. And his eyes

00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:06.400
are, literally, he was cross -eyed. He goes to

00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.000
attack you. And he smashes into the dirt next

00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:12.179
to you. A cloud of dirt around him. And he's,

00:46:12.260 --> 00:46:15.260
like, yelling out. He's, like, covering in fucking

00:46:15.260 --> 00:46:17.019
dirt. Oh, my God. Holy shit. He's just lying

00:46:17.019 --> 00:46:20.269
on the ground next to this thing. What the fuck?

00:46:20.369 --> 00:46:23.650
What the fuck? This is insane. I saw it in your

00:46:23.650 --> 00:46:26.170
face. You were ready to grieve. Oh, dude, I had

00:46:26.170 --> 00:46:28.150
accepted it. I had accepted it earlier. Like,

00:46:28.150 --> 00:46:30.510
once Zebulon went down, and I was thinking about

00:46:30.510 --> 00:46:32.769
it, I was like, there's just not enough moves.

00:46:33.269 --> 00:46:35.309
I didn't know that you had an attack that could

00:46:35.309 --> 00:46:37.289
reach him from there. I didn't know either until...

00:46:37.289 --> 00:46:39.630
And so it's been like a roller coaster. I was

00:46:39.630 --> 00:46:41.269
like, okay, Zebulon's dead. And then I was like,

00:46:41.309 --> 00:46:43.170
oh, wait a minute, maybe he's alive. Okay, no,

00:46:43.170 --> 00:46:46.670
he's definitely dead. So brutal, so mean. So

00:46:46.670 --> 00:46:50.400
now we have one round. Roll a save. Okay, here

00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:53.559
we go. If you roll a one, though, you're in bad

00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:55.019
place, no matter what. If you roll a fail at

00:46:55.019 --> 00:46:57.199
all, this is bad, because I might go before anyone

00:46:57.199 --> 00:46:58.480
else gets to go again. I might get that next

00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:02.400
chance to strike. That's a fail. Okay, that's

00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:04.320
a fail. That's a fail. We have one fail for Zeb.

00:47:05.260 --> 00:47:08.900
So it looks a lot better, but not out of the

00:47:08.900 --> 00:47:11.699
woods yet. So did this thing just, like, is he

00:47:11.699 --> 00:47:13.900
still... They're still going at him. He didn't

00:47:13.900 --> 00:47:17.599
actually hear him this time. It is Kasim's turn

00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:19.760
again. I'm going to have Kasim yell again. I

00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:21.599
think that's only fair. I'm going to do another

00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:25.300
one of those checks. So Kasim's going to... I

00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:26.219
don't even remember what I was saying before.

00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:31.440
He's just yelling wherever he can to this creature.

00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.880
And once again, 1, 2, 3, he stops. 4, 5, 6, he's

00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:39.780
still enraged. Do you want to roll in the open?

00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:42.710
Let's roll right on the map. So right on Zebulon's

00:47:42.710 --> 00:47:44.150
dead body. See if he can hit Zebulon. Ready?

00:47:44.210 --> 00:47:48.710
Great. I missed. That's a three. It's a three.

00:47:49.070 --> 00:47:51.590
That's a three. So when he's smashed into the

00:47:51.590 --> 00:47:54.289
ground, it's kind of like he comes back up. Kind

00:47:54.289 --> 00:47:56.809
of doing like a Disney or Looney Tunes kind of

00:47:56.809 --> 00:48:00.110
like Disney sort of thing. And then like shakes

00:48:00.110 --> 00:48:02.750
his head. And he hears the voice this time. And

00:48:02.750 --> 00:48:09.210
he perks up. Oh, my God. And he calms down. He

00:48:09.210 --> 00:48:12.099
almost looks down at you and like. Kind of sad.

00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:15.980
Oh, my God. But, I mean, with that, these guys

00:48:15.980 --> 00:48:19.639
were called off, at least right now. Situation's

00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:21.179
a little bit controlled. We're going to still

00:48:21.179 --> 00:48:22.940
be rolling, though, or staying in turn order

00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:25.679
because we've got to deal with the fact that

00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:31.019
Zebulon is hurt. Yep. So the windlings all zoom

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:33.119
back. They don't even see you. No, you did use

00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:35.699
a spell. So they see you now, and now they all

00:48:35.699 --> 00:48:38.420
come rushing over. They're told to stop. They're

00:48:38.420 --> 00:48:39.659
not doing anything, but they're kind of watching

00:48:39.659 --> 00:48:43.440
you curiously, like these two eyes, or two pairs

00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:45.219
of eyes. One of them is still over by Zebulon.

00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:48.559
Two of them rush to you. Okay. Jewels. And that's

00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:50.199
going to be Chester first. Chester, what does

00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:53.420
he want to do? I think he's going to stay where

00:48:53.420 --> 00:48:57.000
he's at. Okay. No, you know what? He's going

00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:58.519
to step out from the brush just a little bit.

00:48:59.389 --> 00:49:03.650
Okay. So he steps out into the open. He still

00:49:03.650 --> 00:49:07.030
has his sling ready. Yeah, sling's ready. Zeb?

00:49:07.210 --> 00:49:11.170
Hey! Zeb, you hear me? Zeb, come on, you're scaring

00:49:11.170 --> 00:49:15.650
me, man! Zeb! He's calling out towards you. That's

00:49:15.650 --> 00:49:19.809
you, Jules. You send them off this world, then

00:49:19.809 --> 00:49:23.909
we go and talk back at the market. You were just

00:49:23.909 --> 00:49:26.900
about to do it before we caught you. Do it. They're

00:49:26.900 --> 00:49:28.780
just leaving the valley. They're leaving the

00:49:28.780 --> 00:49:29.579
valley. They're going back to the mountains.

00:49:29.699 --> 00:49:42.940
Send them now. And the creatures. And you see

00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:44.900
them all just kind of start darting around. They

00:49:44.900 --> 00:49:46.019
grab a bunch of persimmons as many as they can

00:49:46.019 --> 00:49:47.619
hold, and they just kind of start flying out.

00:49:48.179 --> 00:49:50.139
They're moving out. We're not out of this yet,

00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:51.320
because everyone's still making those rolls.

00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.139
But they're getting out of here. And he even

00:49:55.139 --> 00:49:59.840
says, like, they said, um, thanks for playing.

00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:06.260
Jesus Christ. And... So, are they gone? They're

00:50:06.260 --> 00:50:08.920
leaving. They don't have a movement to be fully

00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:10.539
gone yet, because we're still in turn order.

00:50:10.659 --> 00:50:12.239
But they are grabbing persimmons, and they're

00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:14.699
starting to move out. And I'm going to say, move

00:50:14.699 --> 00:50:20.199
forward. Okay. Right now, I'm in control. Once

00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:22.579
we get back to the market, we talk. All right.

00:50:22.699 --> 00:50:25.900
And then... I am also going to use a bonus action

00:50:25.900 --> 00:50:29.639
and cast Bardic Inspiration onto Zebulon. Oh,

00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:33.539
interesting. That works on AD 20 roll, right?

00:50:34.139 --> 00:50:39.059
Yep. Let me double check that. 60 feet on any

00:50:39.059 --> 00:50:42.139
ability check, attack, or save. Death saves are

00:50:42.139 --> 00:50:44.219
a save. I need to know how you're doing this

00:50:44.219 --> 00:50:46.219
because this sounds really cool. Zebulon is currently

00:50:46.219 --> 00:50:49.420
like, you just got like crushed Zebulon. You

00:50:49.420 --> 00:50:52.039
felt bones break and you're lying there. You're

00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.860
like... I mean, what does this feel like? You

00:50:54.860 --> 00:50:56.679
almost died once before, and here you are again,

00:50:56.780 --> 00:50:59.199
lying in the dirt in the jungles of Samsonco.

00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:03.800
Yeah, it's helpless. It's the feel of defeat.

00:51:04.019 --> 00:51:06.840
I mean, Zebulon thought that he was going to

00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:10.619
die here. And Jules, what do you do? How do you

00:51:10.619 --> 00:51:13.239
cast this inspiration? How do you reach out to

00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:16.960
your friend? I think as we're moving forward

00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:19.840
with Kasim, I just kind of stick my hip out.

00:51:20.619 --> 00:51:23.619
And my loot's kind of on my back there, and it

00:51:23.619 --> 00:51:26.000
just kind of glows and shoots a beam across the

00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:31.920
field and covers Zebulon in the light. I like

00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:37.400
to think, Zebulon, that you're lying there in

00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:41.019
this darkness, in this void, and maybe just very,

00:51:41.099 --> 00:51:47.400
very faintly you hear the tunes of that song.

00:51:48.099 --> 00:51:50.599
Jewel sang just the night before. You hear it.

00:51:51.420 --> 00:51:57.079
It's phantom notes. And you move towards it.

00:51:57.099 --> 00:51:59.880
You push towards it. Go ahead and roll a death

00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:04.260
save. But out of D6. Oh, D6. Right, right, right.

00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:07.199
Means you can't roll a one, which is you would

00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:11.440
have died. Oh, that's a pass, so. Okay. Nice,

00:52:11.500 --> 00:52:13.119
nice. Yeah, you don't need to use it. It lasts

00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:14.179
for 10 minutes. Don't need to use it this time.

00:52:14.179 --> 00:52:16.460
It lasts for 10 minutes. Shit. Hold on to it.

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:20.980
Yeah. You guys are moving across. So it's going

00:52:20.980 --> 00:52:22.659
to take you two rounds to get there, but you

00:52:22.659 --> 00:52:25.219
can reach him before he does another save. Everyone's

00:52:25.219 --> 00:52:27.500
kind of holding still. I think Chester's watching

00:52:27.500 --> 00:52:29.440
with his sling ready. Basically, just kind of

00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:31.360
like if he makes a move, he's going to shoot

00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:33.480
Kassim. You keep him in your cross, he has Chester.

00:52:33.739 --> 00:52:35.800
Oh, yeah, Jules. Just get to Zeb. Quick, quick.

00:52:36.460 --> 00:52:38.460
And the windlings are gone. They're out of here.

00:52:39.059 --> 00:52:42.800
Okay. Are we in free form? At this point, you

00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.599
reached Zebulon. Okay. I'm going to turn before

00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:49.519
he has to roll again. Okay. So I'm going to keep

00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:53.639
my hand around Kasim's waist. Actually, you know

00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:56.619
what? No. I'm going to keep my left arm around

00:52:56.619 --> 00:52:59.119
his neck, and I'm going to bend down to Zeb,

00:52:59.179 --> 00:53:03.800
bending with Kasim in my grip so that he has

00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:07.380
to uncomfortably come down with me. Goes down

00:53:07.380 --> 00:53:11.079
with you. And I'm going to... Cast Cure Wounds

00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:13.340
onto Zebulon. Yeah, there we go. Zebulon, in

00:53:13.340 --> 00:53:16.800
the darkness, the music reaches a crescendo.

00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:23.119
You were there, and you were in the light. Freed

00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:26.300
from the dark around you, eh? I see what you

00:53:26.300 --> 00:53:29.619
did there. I see, I see. So it's 1d8 plus 6.

00:53:30.059 --> 00:53:33.119
Okay, roll that heal, and Zebulon, you snap awake.

00:53:33.659 --> 00:53:36.000
This was the most unorthodox fight I've ever

00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:39.889
experienced. I'm sorry, 1d8 plus 3. What a wild

00:53:39.889 --> 00:53:44.250
scenario. You got nine. All right. Yeah, and

00:53:44.250 --> 00:53:49.110
Zebulon opens his eyes and slowly starts to,

00:53:49.230 --> 00:53:55.550
oh, what's going on? Did we get him, Jules? So

00:53:55.550 --> 00:53:59.489
far, we did. You scared me again, man. Stop fucking

00:53:59.489 --> 00:54:01.590
doing that. What did I do? What did I do? What

00:54:01.590 --> 00:54:04.329
did I do? No! No! No! I'm actually going to roll

00:54:04.329 --> 00:54:06.489
to try to escape. Actually, I'm not exactly grappled,

00:54:06.530 --> 00:54:08.289
but like, you can try to force him back, but

00:54:08.289 --> 00:54:10.090
he actually starts trying to push away from you

00:54:10.090 --> 00:54:12.269
to get to his brother who's lying in front of

00:54:12.269 --> 00:54:14.550
him. Remember, he's uncomfortably bent over backwards

00:54:14.550 --> 00:54:18.250
because I have him held. I'm going to roll with

00:54:18.250 --> 00:54:20.329
this advantage to try to fight out of your grip,

00:54:20.409 --> 00:54:23.590
we'll say. So, go ahead and roll me Athletics.

00:54:28.460 --> 00:54:29.840
Don't worry about it. I rolled a natural one.

00:54:30.739 --> 00:54:34.760
Okay. He falls backwards. He's more like on the

00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:36.840
ground. He's trying to fight. No, no, no, no.

00:54:36.900 --> 00:54:39.280
Vi, Vi, Vi, what did I do? I'm sorry. Relax,

00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:42.059
relax, relax. And I'm going to go over and do

00:54:42.059 --> 00:54:43.900
the same thing to Vi and cast Cure Wounds on

00:54:43.900 --> 00:54:47.480
Vi. Okay. Go ahead and give me the healing on

00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:51.559
that. And he's got eight points. Nice. Yeah,

00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:56.159
you cast this. Save the day, man. You cast this.

00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:02.219
And the light doesn't stick. Are you shitting

00:55:02.219 --> 00:55:08.420
me? It fades. And you realize that Vi didn't

00:55:08.420 --> 00:55:16.119
make it. You can see blood is running down from

00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:19.059
a gash on his head, down his chin, his neck,

00:55:19.219 --> 00:55:24.460
down his sleeve, to his wrist, his right hand,

00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:27.820
where he's clutching. A photograph of a handsome

00:55:27.820 --> 00:55:36.119
young man that he was going to marry. Was there

00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:39.800
any time, like, could Chester have gone over,

00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:42.380
or was he already dead at that point? I over

00:55:42.380 --> 00:55:45.280
-damaged him on the first hit. I also max -damaged

00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:48.320
him when I hit him, and it was, he died instantly.

00:55:49.900 --> 00:55:55.539
The crack you heard was his neck. Wow. Yeah.

00:55:56.329 --> 00:55:59.349
Vi is slumped down by the tree, and Kassim is...

00:55:59.349 --> 00:56:01.650
Why isn't it working? Why didn't it work? It

00:56:01.650 --> 00:56:02.909
worked on your friend! Why didn't it work on

00:56:02.909 --> 00:56:05.630
my brother? Why didn't it work? Why didn't it

00:56:05.630 --> 00:56:10.550
work? Why didn't it work, Jules? You play stupid

00:56:10.550 --> 00:56:12.889
games, you're gonna win stupid fucking prizes.

00:56:14.010 --> 00:56:20.590
No. No. No. Wait, what? Jules, are you sure?

00:56:20.650 --> 00:56:26.690
I can't... And Zebulon goes over and... closes

00:56:26.690 --> 00:56:30.530
Vi's eyes or something like that. This doesn't

00:56:30.530 --> 00:56:34.570
feel real. Chasm just goes quiet, just sobbing

00:56:34.570 --> 00:56:38.130
to himself on the ground. And I think you could

00:56:38.130 --> 00:56:42.409
tell, with even your passive insight, he is harmless

00:56:42.409 --> 00:56:46.349
now. Let's get out of here, Jules. Let's bring

00:56:46.349 --> 00:56:52.130
this guy back to the market. You can at least

00:56:52.130 --> 00:56:55.760
help us, Chasm. Take your brother out of here.

00:56:57.579 --> 00:57:01.780
He doesn't say anything. He just, if you let

00:57:01.780 --> 00:57:05.539
him, he tries slowly to get to his feet. And

00:57:05.539 --> 00:57:08.800
he just slumping, like slouching, just walks

00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:12.440
over to his brother. Reaches down and tries to

00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:17.260
pick him up. I think Jules comes over and grabs

00:57:17.260 --> 00:57:22.179
one end. Whatever is... Still have to pick up.

00:57:22.219 --> 00:57:23.940
I see you both grab an arm and slung it over

00:57:23.940 --> 00:57:26.300
your shoulders, and Chasm's just not even looking

00:57:26.300 --> 00:57:29.440
at you, staring forward, eyes watery and wide,

00:57:29.780 --> 00:57:38.179
crazed still. It's like, I was scared. I was

00:57:38.179 --> 00:57:42.260
going to lose him, and I didn't mean for all

00:57:42.260 --> 00:57:44.320
this to happen. I didn't mean for all this to

00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:47.300
happen. Well, you ended up losing them anyway.

00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:51.469
It should have been me. Should have been better

00:57:51.469 --> 00:57:59.090
than me. He was always the one that... Should

00:57:59.090 --> 00:58:04.250
have been me. I'll face justice. Come what may.

00:58:05.510 --> 00:58:09.949
I won't fight anymore. I won't run. I'll admit

00:58:09.949 --> 00:58:13.309
it all. Let's get your brother back to the market.

00:58:13.710 --> 00:58:18.329
We'll figure things out there. And he... And

00:58:18.329 --> 00:58:20.599
the rest of the two of you begin to... move.

00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:23.599
Zebulon, you're probably still in somewhat of

00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:26.340
shock. You almost died yourself and you're barely

00:58:26.340 --> 00:58:29.000
standing. You're walking your way. I think Chester

00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:30.900
actually makes a move over towards you. He's

00:58:30.900 --> 00:58:34.199
like, Hey, Zeb. He tries to get under your arm

00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:38.500
if you need help. It's okay. Thank you, Chester.

00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:44.219
I think I'll clear a path. He's going to cope

00:58:44.219 --> 00:58:50.909
by keeping his hands busy with his sabers. helps

00:58:50.909 --> 00:58:55.570
slice a path through the thick jungle. You guys

00:58:55.570 --> 00:58:57.869
begin to move. I think Chester hangs back for

00:58:57.869 --> 00:59:00.869
just a moment, watching you, watching all of

00:59:00.869 --> 00:59:05.050
you, with this sort of stupefied, sort of innocent

00:59:05.050 --> 00:59:08.309
expression on his face. He looks down at the

00:59:08.309 --> 00:59:12.309
dirt, where a bit of blood still remains, under

00:59:12.309 --> 00:59:15.889
the tree that Vi had been smashed against, and

00:59:15.889 --> 00:59:19.869
just sort of shakes his head. It begins to follow.

00:59:22.369 --> 00:59:26.389
Short time passes. You break through the dense

00:59:26.389 --> 00:59:30.789
jungle forest. Back out onto the top of the hill,

00:59:30.869 --> 00:59:34.250
looking down at the Dinsing Night Market. You've

00:59:34.250 --> 00:59:35.610
cast them in hand. What do you want to do? Just

00:59:35.610 --> 00:59:37.909
move straight down? Yeah, I think we need to

00:59:37.909 --> 00:59:42.670
bring Vi to somewhere. Yeah, I think we just

00:59:42.670 --> 00:59:45.949
move in solemn silence through. through the brush

00:59:45.949 --> 00:59:48.530
back to the market. Maybe we head back to their

00:59:48.530 --> 00:59:52.489
tent. I mean, I feel like once we break out of

00:59:52.489 --> 00:59:54.130
the brush into the market, people are going to

00:59:54.130 --> 00:59:55.489
see it. People are going to catch on. Yeah. I

00:59:55.489 --> 00:59:57.530
think that's going to be like the cinematic moment

00:59:57.530 --> 01:00:00.730
we emerge from the trees with a body. But I think

01:00:00.730 --> 01:00:04.769
bringing Vi back to the tent is, that's good

01:00:04.769 --> 01:00:06.250
decorum. You know what I mean? Like we can get

01:00:06.250 --> 01:00:09.309
him out of view of everybody and that can be

01:00:09.309 --> 01:00:12.699
like quote unquote home base. Right. So let's

01:00:12.699 --> 01:00:14.420
just say you guys break through the trees, you

01:00:14.420 --> 01:00:16.800
step out on top of the hill, and you begin to

01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:20.079
move down towards the market proper. And as you

01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:22.099
do, you do see a few people here and there, like

01:00:22.099 --> 01:00:25.219
far down there, just stop and look, stop and

01:00:25.219 --> 01:00:28.119
look. You see two figures begin running up towards

01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:32.739
you. You see Dance and Ramin. And they charge

01:00:32.739 --> 01:00:36.019
up about halfway up the hill. They stop short,

01:00:36.179 --> 01:00:39.619
looking at Kassim, looking at Vi. Ramin just

01:00:39.619 --> 01:00:47.320
says, what? What happened? What is this? Rami,

01:00:47.340 --> 01:00:51.340
can you help us get Vi back to the tent? Of course,

01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:56.280
yes. Let me try to get in there, too. He's almost,

01:00:56.300 --> 01:00:57.619
like, struggling, then dances, because, like,

01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:00.500
let me do it. And she steps in, like, I think

01:01:00.500 --> 01:01:03.039
it was much more, I think she comes on your side,

01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:05.059
Jules, actually, and she just kind of, like,

01:01:05.099 --> 01:01:07.599
steps aside and kind of, like, almost nudges

01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:08.719
you a little bit and tries to help you get under

01:01:08.719 --> 01:01:12.780
the arm. Well, they were ready for fresh hands.

01:01:12.980 --> 01:01:14.880
I don't know how far it was from the pepper field.

01:01:15.619 --> 01:01:17.260
It's been a while. You want to step off? It's

01:01:17.260 --> 01:01:19.340
been a while. Yeah, I'm going to step off. Okay.

01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:22.619
After I break off, I'm going to turn to Kasim

01:01:22.619 --> 01:01:26.300
and say, you still going to be honorable? He

01:01:26.300 --> 01:01:28.579
looks you in the eyes, and then Ramin comes over,

01:01:28.659 --> 01:01:30.699
just trying to take an arm, and Kasim waves him

01:01:30.699 --> 01:01:36.260
off. No. It's my burden. And he just looks you

01:01:36.260 --> 01:01:38.860
in the eye, Jules, and nods. And I think dance

01:01:38.860 --> 01:01:40.619
also, where she just took your spot, looks over

01:01:40.619 --> 01:01:42.300
at you, and while she was being sort of terse

01:01:42.300 --> 01:01:44.840
before, there's kind of a softness in her eyes

01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:47.679
now. And she gives you her own kind of nod, like,

01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:52.699
you know, clearly this did not go well. And there's

01:01:52.699 --> 01:01:55.380
some, I guess, solidarity there. There's some

01:01:55.380 --> 01:01:57.860
understanding. Yeah, just give her a little nod

01:01:57.860 --> 01:02:01.400
back. And they begin to move, the part of you

01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:05.050
all move as a group. And as you move... This

01:02:05.050 --> 01:02:08.150
exchange of carrying the body was seen in more

01:02:08.150 --> 01:02:10.389
when people began to gather. By the time you

01:02:10.389 --> 01:02:16.329
hit the market, there's a crowd. You see Sid

01:02:16.329 --> 01:02:18.630
Squid is there with some of his earlier chefs.

01:02:19.769 --> 01:02:21.550
start running out to, like, help and see what

01:02:21.550 --> 01:02:24.010
they can do. You see Madam Culp is sort of watching.

01:02:24.090 --> 01:02:25.769
It's kind of this, like, leader figurehead of

01:02:25.769 --> 01:02:28.190
this large group of people behind her. You see

01:02:28.190 --> 01:02:29.809
just, like, general people you've seen all this

01:02:29.809 --> 01:02:32.630
time. Fi from Fi's Flora is there, and she's

01:02:32.630 --> 01:02:34.090
taking this in. I think she knew this was going

01:02:34.090 --> 01:02:35.869
on. She's got a hand over her mouth and eyes,

01:02:35.969 --> 01:02:40.610
like, already running with tears. And you join

01:02:40.610 --> 01:02:44.309
them. And I think, unless there's anything specific

01:02:44.309 --> 01:02:47.010
you want to do, I imagine what follows is just

01:02:47.010 --> 01:02:51.710
a blur of activity. Well, I think partly for

01:02:51.710 --> 01:02:56.289
flavor, partly for maybe kind of cementing our

01:02:56.289 --> 01:03:01.650
image with the public. I think when Kasim puts

01:03:01.650 --> 01:03:04.989
his brother's body down, wherever it is, I'm

01:03:04.989 --> 01:03:07.489
going to come up behind him, say, all right,

01:03:07.590 --> 01:03:10.090
hands behind your back, and then I'm going to

01:03:10.090 --> 01:03:11.750
reach over to Chester, and he's going to hand

01:03:11.750 --> 01:03:13.989
me a rope, and I'm going to tie up his hands.

01:03:14.769 --> 01:03:19.039
And the people just watch with, like... and I

01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:20.880
imagine you explained it all, but I think Madame

01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:22.860
Culp comes forward like, what are you doing?

01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:26.519
What happened out there? Yeah, I think as all

01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:30.179
this is happening, as this quote -unquote procession

01:03:30.179 --> 01:03:32.679
is making its way to the tent, Zebulon's filling

01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:36.780
everybody in, the big members of the market,

01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:42.099
Madame Culp and Squidface, whatever. He's kind

01:03:42.099 --> 01:03:44.219
of giving them the rundown, telling them that

01:03:44.219 --> 01:03:47.860
Kasim was behind the... The feud all along and

01:03:47.860 --> 01:03:51.599
about the fey and what happened in the pepper

01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:55.559
field. And Kasim, hands bound, head down low,

01:03:55.739 --> 01:03:59.460
just moves along. And I think, like, they bring

01:03:59.460 --> 01:04:02.780
Vi to a tent. They keep him away from everybody

01:04:02.780 --> 01:04:05.280
else. You know, the door's closed. Guards stay

01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.440
at, you know, just to make sure he's honored

01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:10.000
properly. Guards kind of stay at the tent entrance.

01:04:11.059 --> 01:04:15.159
And amidst the wailing and the crying and just

01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:19.440
the general... Completely down atmosphere. There's

01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:22.159
at least some sparks of joy as the Tianmos are

01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:25.940
no longer considered suspects in this crime.

01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:30.099
They're released. Lumai runs past you just, oh,

01:04:30.139 --> 01:04:33.280
it's so terrible what happened, but oh, thank

01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:36.199
you so much. I didn't know what to do. They thought

01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:38.820
I was a criminal. She's a little gnome woman,

01:04:38.940 --> 01:04:42.559
like a chef apron. Just relax. It's all over

01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:48.949
now. It's all over now. She hugs your leg. Why

01:04:48.949 --> 01:04:50.889
don't you go see your friends in the medical

01:04:50.889 --> 01:04:53.750
tent? I think they'd be happy to see you. And

01:04:53.750 --> 01:04:56.809
I think she kind of, like, looks up at you, and

01:04:56.809 --> 01:04:58.170
then you're like, imagine this tent that they're

01:04:58.170 --> 01:05:00.489
keeping, Vine, is very close, and she looks over.

01:05:00.489 --> 01:05:02.030
Yeah, they're just over there. And she kind of,

01:05:02.030 --> 01:05:05.949
like, she's watching the tent, and, like, eyes

01:05:05.949 --> 01:05:07.570
wide, and she begins to just move slowly towards

01:05:07.570 --> 01:05:10.530
it, like, almost wondering if this is okay. And

01:05:10.530 --> 01:05:12.150
I think as she goes, you see people are fumbling

01:05:12.150 --> 01:05:13.809
out of the tent that have just filled the Zunguns

01:05:13.809 --> 01:05:16.150
in what happened. And as they do, as the tent

01:05:16.150 --> 01:05:18.869
opens, you see, like, Lamai Tien Mo and Kusa

01:05:18.869 --> 01:05:23.289
Sangun's eyes meet. And the gaze that they share

01:05:23.289 --> 01:05:27.969
is not one of enemies or rivals. It is one of

01:05:27.969 --> 01:05:32.909
friends who have been hurt together. And as Lamai

01:05:32.909 --> 01:05:37.010
Tien Mo rushes into the tent and the flap closes

01:05:37.010 --> 01:05:40.530
behind her, you just barely get an image of her

01:05:40.530 --> 01:05:43.090
rushing into Kusa Sangun's arms at the side of

01:05:43.090 --> 01:05:48.920
her bed. Before that image is obscured. And then,

01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:55.679
from behind you, a voice calls out. Well, well,

01:05:55.679 --> 01:06:01.239
well. Did I miss anything? What have you been

01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:06.820
doing today? Um, yeah, John. Shall we start investigating?

01:06:06.980 --> 01:06:12.320
I've had some ideas. Well, John, we kind of figured

01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:17.980
it out. What? When? How? Why? Well, it's... Well,

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:21.219
me. It's, um... Zebulon checks his watch that's

01:06:21.219 --> 01:06:24.099
not there. What time is it? Uh, this point, probably

01:06:24.099 --> 01:06:26.280
about 1 o 'clock. Well, Jean, it's, um... Hey,

01:06:26.300 --> 01:06:30.280
1 .30. It's the afternoon. Yeah, well, I... I...

01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:33.059
It's only proper to sleep in after being heroes.

01:06:33.300 --> 01:06:35.380
You, I... Is it not? You get some good sleep

01:06:35.380 --> 01:06:38.800
there? I did. What? Who did it? What happened?

01:06:38.980 --> 01:06:42.099
Why does one look so sad and somber? We solved

01:06:42.099 --> 01:06:45.340
the mystery. Take a look around. Why don't you

01:06:45.340 --> 01:06:53.480
go get filled in by Chester? Oh, no. You know

01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:56.980
the rule. I ain't ever, ever talking to that

01:06:56.980 --> 01:06:59.940
guy. It's okay. You can do it off screen so that

01:06:59.940 --> 01:07:03.500
I can talk to Madam Culp and some of the other

01:07:03.500 --> 01:07:09.860
market heads. Come on, pipsqueak, then. Tell

01:07:09.860 --> 01:07:13.380
me what's going on. Oh, shit, Zebulon. Oh, fine.

01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:16.059
All right, well, you see, the thing is... They

01:07:16.059 --> 01:07:18.280
kind of go off into the... Stepping away from

01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:21.039
you guys. Smooth. So Zebulon's going to kind

01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:24.320
of look to Madam Culp as almost like the matriarch

01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:28.559
of the... And she seems... Yeah. So, Madam Culp,

01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:35.219
what happens now with the stall? I imagine it'll

01:07:35.219 --> 01:07:38.829
be... Taken over by somebody else. Kasim has

01:07:38.829 --> 01:07:41.849
committed a crime. I imagine he'll have to be

01:07:41.849 --> 01:07:44.829
sent to the Citadel for punishment. I think we

01:07:44.829 --> 01:07:48.389
can bring him back with us to the Citadel. There's

01:07:48.389 --> 01:07:53.610
somebody here that we owe a debt to. What would

01:07:53.610 --> 01:07:58.210
we have to do to help him take over the stall?

01:07:58.909 --> 01:08:01.909
Who exactly are you talking about, says the DM

01:08:01.909 --> 01:08:04.400
who doesn't. actually know. I see what's happening.

01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:06.800
You see where I'm going with this? I see what's

01:08:06.800 --> 01:08:11.860
happening. What's happening? He was one of the

01:08:11.860 --> 01:08:20.279
competitors in the games. We own one. You're

01:08:20.279 --> 01:08:22.479
just going to get rid of Pepper? I don't know

01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:25.560
about get rid of Pepper. I think we can continue

01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:30.039
with this. I will say, here's the thing. Pepper's

01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:33.199
already, when I said he left, He had full -on

01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:36.760
left because he caught the noon ruby. I should

01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:38.180
have mentioned that before. But, yeah, he actually,

01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:41.239
him and Trace had both gone off. I was going

01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.100
to say, what about maybe Trace? I don't know

01:08:44.100 --> 01:08:46.760
about Trace. I do love the thought. I don't know.

01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:50.600
We promised him. He didn't cooperate. He didn't.

01:08:50.659 --> 01:08:53.039
I will say one thing because you mentioned taking

01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:56.359
Kasim. She will say this. Oh, you don't need

01:08:56.359 --> 01:08:59.560
to worry about that, actually. We have somebody

01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:03.329
coming. I sent a notice to the Citadel before

01:09:03.329 --> 01:09:05.670
when we thought there was some sort of fire early

01:09:05.670 --> 01:09:08.050
this morning. We thought someone had been behind

01:09:08.050 --> 01:09:10.609
it. And they have promised to send one of their

01:09:10.609 --> 01:09:13.670
best to investigate a luminary. He should be

01:09:13.670 --> 01:09:16.750
able to take him back. Actually, I was hoping

01:09:16.750 --> 01:09:19.449
you would spend another night here, Zebulon.

01:09:19.510 --> 01:09:23.090
And Jules, you as well. It seems we've heard

01:09:23.090 --> 01:09:26.029
that you were going to be in some kind of partnership

01:09:26.029 --> 01:09:30.470
with the Arun brothers. But I think she kind

01:09:30.470 --> 01:09:32.989
of looks around to Sid Squid behind her who nods.

01:09:33.210 --> 01:09:36.390
Fi behind her who nods. The bookish half -orc

01:09:36.390 --> 01:09:38.010
with glasses that sold you that book the night

01:09:38.010 --> 01:09:39.869
before. He nods. And just like all these people

01:09:39.869 --> 01:09:41.789
you met the day before. Fucking, what's his name?

01:09:42.970 --> 01:09:45.930
Crazy Dunedown? Was that it? That crazy guy who

01:09:45.930 --> 01:09:48.949
sold all this shit? He's like nodding vigorously,

01:09:49.029 --> 01:09:50.789
dancing. He's doing the same Dunedown dance.

01:09:50.869 --> 01:09:54.989
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that guy. Yeah, that guy.

01:09:55.050 --> 01:09:56.810
That guy. That guy. And she looks back at him

01:09:56.810 --> 01:09:59.939
and says, I believe if you were willing to stay

01:09:59.939 --> 01:10:03.699
and we could have some time to discuss, you will

01:10:03.699 --> 01:10:08.260
have your pick of sponsor from the market. Oh,

01:10:08.260 --> 01:10:12.739
nice. No shit. Nice. So my, like, 100 -foot view

01:10:12.739 --> 01:10:17.560
of the Pepper thing was, first of all, his fucking

01:10:17.560 --> 01:10:20.000
name is Pepper. Oh, my God. I didn't even think

01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.680
of that. Peppers, Peppers, Peppers. Oh, God.

01:10:22.760 --> 01:10:24.899
And I was thinking that he could have been our

01:10:24.899 --> 01:10:28.829
sponsor. Yep. So, like, we would have had Pepper

01:10:28.829 --> 01:10:30.289
around. It wouldn't have been getting rid of

01:10:30.289 --> 01:10:35.970
Pepper. Oh, man. Oh, I do love that. I just had

01:10:35.970 --> 01:10:41.390
him off world, and there's certain reasons why

01:10:41.390 --> 01:10:44.090
I had him off world, too. Son of a bitch. And,

01:10:44.109 --> 01:10:45.590
like, it's just hard because, like, I already

01:10:45.590 --> 01:10:47.909
kind of... Maybe we can send a message or something.

01:10:48.170 --> 01:10:49.710
The world can, hey, you could talk about having

01:10:49.710 --> 01:10:51.529
him come back. That's definitely something you

01:10:51.529 --> 01:10:53.270
could do. If you talk to him, like, and I think

01:10:53.270 --> 01:10:55.010
she'll even say, like, we'll leave the spot open

01:10:55.010 --> 01:10:57.409
if you find this individual and send him back

01:10:57.409 --> 01:10:59.510
our way. We'll be looking for someone to take

01:10:59.510 --> 01:11:03.069
over the star. Sure, yes. And if he has your

01:11:03.069 --> 01:11:07.029
backing, gentlemen, you are heroes to us now.

01:11:07.069 --> 01:11:09.850
Not only are you Rhea, not only are you coals

01:11:09.850 --> 01:11:13.550
of our fire, you're the very spark. that makes

01:11:13.550 --> 01:11:17.630
our fire burn. Wow, that's great. That's really

01:11:17.630 --> 01:11:20.609
very generous. I don't know what you think, Jules,

01:11:20.670 --> 01:11:23.229
but, I mean, it couldn't hurt to stay one more

01:11:23.229 --> 01:11:26.149
night. Yeah, I could be on board with that. Who

01:11:26.149 --> 01:11:29.130
knows what other assassins are lurking through

01:11:29.130 --> 01:11:32.109
these woods to jump out and kill us unexpectedly?

01:11:33.130 --> 01:11:35.829
I'm like, what other bullshit could possibly

01:11:35.829 --> 01:11:39.149
go wrong if we stay one more night? I'll add

01:11:39.149 --> 01:11:42.649
assassin to my notes. My only request is I want

01:11:42.649 --> 01:11:45.470
to keep an eye on that one until he leaves. Yes,

01:11:45.470 --> 01:11:48.489
it shouldn't be long now. I believe we should

01:11:48.489 --> 01:11:52.029
see within the hour our assistants arrive. Who

01:11:52.029 --> 01:11:55.789
are they sending? I believe in... She kind of

01:11:55.789 --> 01:11:58.470
raises her eyebrows, and I'm not sure if... I

01:11:58.470 --> 01:12:00.449
think Zebulon for sure would know this name.

01:12:01.050 --> 01:12:03.810
They're sending the world's greatest detective,

01:12:04.369 --> 01:12:12.039
Sturgeman himself. Sturgeman? He's coming. We

01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:17.800
have to say, if Sturgeman is coming to Shipshanka

01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:22.079
where we are, oh, yes, this is going to be wow.

01:12:22.659 --> 01:12:29.020
I mean, he's top five, top six. Easy. All right,

01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:31.159
if you say so, Zeb, I'm a little excited too.

01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:34.960
Wow, Sturgeman. This should be fun. This should

01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:39.079
be fun. Hell yeah. So, yeah, I guess you got

01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:42.460
to weigh around for a bit for that. And, yeah,

01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:44.119
like she said, you all have your pick of a sponsor.

01:12:44.220 --> 01:12:45.720
You could wait. If Pepper gets involved, you

01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:47.640
could always have him as a sponsor. But there

01:12:47.640 --> 01:12:49.399
may be more to gain from your sponsor than just

01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:51.380
simple money and such and such. You might be

01:12:51.380 --> 01:12:53.699
able to get, like, you know, you'd have free

01:12:53.699 --> 01:12:56.560
access to whatever they sell, basically. Right.

01:12:57.319 --> 01:13:00.239
At the very least, we need to sleep on it. Yeah,

01:13:00.300 --> 01:13:01.979
take your time. I don't think we can make a decision

01:13:01.979 --> 01:13:04.199
right this moment. They'll come at you with offers

01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:06.899
is kind of what you expect to happen, which I'll

01:13:06.899 --> 01:13:09.439
set up for next time we get together. But before

01:13:09.439 --> 01:13:13.600
we call it on this session, one more little thing

01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:18.340
needs to happen. You're waiting for this figure

01:13:18.340 --> 01:13:20.119
to appear to take Kasim away. And I imagine,

01:13:20.140 --> 01:13:22.039
like, you know, Chester and John Franklin are

01:13:22.039 --> 01:13:23.920
still off, like, discussing what's happening.

01:13:24.079 --> 01:13:26.020
There's a lot of, what do you mean? Why would

01:13:26.020 --> 01:13:28.460
they not? Yeah, like, hey, calm down, calm down.

01:13:28.539 --> 01:13:30.319
I can't believe I'm fucking doing this. I said

01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:31.699
I wouldn't do this. I can't believe I'm doing

01:13:31.699 --> 01:13:34.279
this. I gave it to you. I told you to do it off

01:13:34.279 --> 01:13:36.840
screen. Well, like, the people want to know what

01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:38.720
Chester's doing. You do what you just did to

01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:40.520
us. We're going to throw shit right back at you.

01:13:40.619 --> 01:13:42.600
Yeah, it's a good point. I almost died. It's

01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:44.420
a good point. That's how this relationship works.

01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:48.279
You said you're staying close, keeping an eye

01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:50.760
on Kasim, who's just kind of like hands -bound.

01:13:50.819 --> 01:13:53.720
He's staying outside the tent, face down towards

01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:57.939
the ground, just solemn, doesn't want to move,

01:13:58.180 --> 01:14:01.479
doesn't want to do anything, just staring at

01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:06.779
the dirt. And as you stand there, a figure approaches

01:14:06.779 --> 01:14:09.180
you from the side, almost just like appearing

01:14:09.180 --> 01:14:13.020
there very swiftly. taps you on the shoulder,

01:14:13.140 --> 01:14:21.920
Jules. Hmm? Come with me, now. Okay. Ramin, you

01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:25.260
watch this part. Yes, of course. And he just

01:14:25.260 --> 01:14:28.779
steps in your place here and looks over at you,

01:14:28.779 --> 01:14:32.899
Zebulon, like, Hi, Zebulon. Hey, Ramin, hey.

01:14:33.319 --> 01:14:35.300
Haven't seen you in a little while. Yes, been

01:14:35.300 --> 01:14:39.159
a... Man, I really missed you out there. And

01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:41.399
so you guys kind of start a small talk as Dan

01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:44.020
sort of drags you away, very forcefully, just

01:14:44.020 --> 01:14:46.399
grabs you and starts pulling you by the arm away

01:14:46.399 --> 01:14:48.000
and kind of whirls around to the side of a tent

01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:50.779
and pushes you sort of backwards and just says,

01:14:51.140 --> 01:14:55.640
I am leaving. Now. I have lived here long enough.

01:14:56.600 --> 01:14:58.680
Before I go, I have a question for you, Josaroch.

01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:02.720
If you'll enter it. Shoot. And her eyes narrow,

01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:05.939
hands on hips. Are you a serious man, Josaroch?

01:15:06.880 --> 01:15:10.260
Or are you just a funny man? Hmm? I think it's

01:15:10.260 --> 01:15:14.199
a little bit of both. Because you challenge me

01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:18.039
in these games. You laugh at me, humiliate me,

01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:22.159
and turn around with these remarks, these winks,

01:15:22.279 --> 01:15:25.699
this song, and she gets really close to you.

01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:29.279
So tell me, Joseph Roach, before I go, do you

01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:34.060
want to win me? Do you think you could? I mean,

01:15:34.060 --> 01:15:39.239
you never learned the rules of flirting? No.

01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:44.359
I didn't, actually. Well, let me enlighten you.

01:15:44.399 --> 01:15:49.520
The answer is yes. And she kind of smiles a little

01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:53.279
bit. And you think you could handle me? No, and

01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:55.300
that's what's great about it. Most men don't

01:15:55.300 --> 01:15:57.619
like a woman who could kick their ass. I love

01:15:57.619 --> 01:16:02.060
it. I almost hooked you way up. I almost had

01:16:02.060 --> 01:16:06.180
to step back, like, surprised. Put me in my place,

01:16:06.260 --> 01:16:10.390
please. You be you. There's like a moment of

01:16:10.390 --> 01:16:14.289
pause, and she just, prove it. Become a luminary.

01:16:15.210 --> 01:16:18.909
Find me again. See if you are strong enough.

01:16:19.710 --> 01:16:22.930
I'll see you again soon. I'm warning you, though.

01:16:23.770 --> 01:16:27.890
And she gets like right up by her ear. I am a

01:16:27.890 --> 01:16:31.489
luchador of Sunset Yard. You have a very difficult

01:16:31.489 --> 01:16:39.810
time holding me down. And she just... in a flash

01:16:39.810 --> 01:16:43.289
is like 10 feet away from you whirling around

01:16:43.289 --> 01:16:47.810
and she's got this coy smile on her face and

01:16:47.810 --> 01:16:51.449
just says like careful juice the rush your passion

01:16:51.449 --> 01:16:54.989
is showing and what color is your loot glowing

01:16:54.989 --> 01:17:03.069
right now oh I think it's glowing a little red

01:17:03.069 --> 01:17:07.819
yeah it is She's just taking that, and the red

01:17:07.819 --> 01:17:09.619
glow is lighting up her face as she's, like,

01:17:09.619 --> 01:17:12.399
looking at the loot, looks you in the eye, and

01:17:12.399 --> 01:17:15.399
then winks. A little flirting of her own. And

01:17:15.399 --> 01:17:18.500
she just whirls around. And a moment later, it's

01:17:18.500 --> 01:17:23.079
just gone into the crowd. Holy shit. Man, my

01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:26.920
friends just flirted so hard. And where you stand,

01:17:27.140 --> 01:17:29.380
Zebulon, you don't even see her. All you hear

01:17:29.380 --> 01:17:32.699
is, I mean, now! And he's like, oh, I'll see

01:17:32.699 --> 01:17:34.859
you later. Zebulon, see you. See you, Ramin.

01:17:34.979 --> 01:17:38.779
Bye. And he just turns and begins to leave as

01:17:38.779 --> 01:17:41.079
well. God, I wonder where those guys are going.

01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:44.800
David, you got my palms sweating. Like, they're

01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:53.600
soaked. So they, as they kind of vanish into

01:17:53.600 --> 01:17:55.600
the crowd, and imagine, like, Jules, you kind

01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:58.699
of step out, back out towards where Zebulon is.

01:17:59.340 --> 01:18:01.319
Another figure almost kind of like moves out

01:18:01.319 --> 01:18:02.939
from the crowd. That kind of stands out to you.

01:18:03.159 --> 01:18:06.640
Almost like watching him. And you see it's that

01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:09.699
old blind man from the night before. The one

01:18:09.699 --> 01:18:13.960
that had called him that word, Mazird Khan. He's

01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:16.119
just watching him go. Even though his eyes are

01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:17.619
like milky, he's kind of like his eyes are like

01:18:17.619 --> 01:18:20.920
following him. Hand reached out. He's reaching

01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:26.100
for his warmth. Anything you want to do? Is this

01:18:26.100 --> 01:18:31.460
like a... infirm, old, like, homeless man sort

01:18:31.460 --> 01:18:33.319
of thing? He doesn't seem like he's terribly

01:18:33.319 --> 01:18:35.399
homeless. I think he's wearing decent -looking

01:18:35.399 --> 01:18:37.760
clothes. You'd probably imagine he's part of

01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:40.460
one of these merchant families, but, like, maybe,

01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:43.020
like, a retired grandfather. He once owned a

01:18:43.020 --> 01:18:44.640
business. Now he's kind of just living off of

01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:48.000
what his folks are doing. You don't know who

01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:50.319
he is, but he doesn't look like he's just, like,

01:18:50.319 --> 01:18:53.680
some ragamuffin. Okay, and how close is he to

01:18:53.680 --> 01:18:57.909
Zebulon? About 20 feet away. Okay, I'd like to

01:18:57.909 --> 01:19:01.090
step closer, kind of like up behind him a little

01:19:01.090 --> 01:19:04.210
bit, and just observe. I want to be close enough

01:19:04.210 --> 01:19:07.130
to hear if he says anything. I think all you

01:19:07.130 --> 01:19:10.329
hear might be under his breath, just say, Farewell,

01:19:10.350 --> 01:19:16.550
Monsieur Dracon. Farewell. Return when I need

01:19:16.550 --> 01:19:20.869
his most dire return. Like he who came before,

01:19:21.189 --> 01:19:25.920
and he who came before, and before. And before.

01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:36.100
Huh. What? So, um, maybe quietly behind him,

01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:41.119
Zebulon will ask, um, what did he, what did that

01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:47.319
mean? He spins around. You look way down, way

01:19:47.319 --> 01:19:48.539
down towards his feet where you're standing.

01:19:50.479 --> 01:19:53.359
Oh, your shoe's untied. Let me get that for you.

01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:56.840
I think for a moment he's, like, looking at you,

01:19:56.859 --> 01:19:59.300
and then his eyes sort of, like, widen with recognition,

01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:01.760
even though he can't see you, and he's... Ah,

01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:05.920
yes, yes. You're the one who challenged him.

01:20:06.420 --> 01:20:11.600
The night before, you are the rare new. Yeah,

01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:14.140
so I was... I mean, you want to fill me in on

01:20:14.140 --> 01:20:18.779
the local lingo, this, uh, the Ducron stuff?

01:20:19.340 --> 01:20:24.890
Yeah, local lingo. Not so, not so much. It is

01:20:24.890 --> 01:20:29.229
an ancient word. Very few yet carry it in their

01:20:29.229 --> 01:20:32.590
minds and hearts. It's passed down from history,

01:20:32.949 --> 01:20:38.409
long forgotten. It means one who is chosen by

01:20:38.409 --> 01:20:42.510
the spirits of the land. You know of Fai -Me

01:20:42.510 --> 01:20:45.189
-Moon, the great sorcerer who called upon the

01:20:45.189 --> 01:20:48.090
spirits of our world and summoned forth the guardian

01:20:48.090 --> 01:20:50.750
mountains that ring our valley. Protecting us

01:20:50.750 --> 01:20:54.350
from the orcish hordes outside. He was one such.

01:20:54.590 --> 01:20:57.810
He was Amazigh Dracon. They exist in the history

01:20:57.810 --> 01:21:02.050
of all worlds. Great people born with the worlds

01:21:02.050 --> 01:21:05.149
of the spirits in their ears. Who rise up in

01:21:05.149 --> 01:21:08.789
times of great danger and hardship. And change

01:21:08.789 --> 01:21:13.489
the worlds in impossible ways. He must be one.

01:21:13.729 --> 01:21:17.090
He must be. He came back from the dead. He carries

01:21:17.090 --> 01:21:22.789
powers inexplicable. And now, when one of our

01:21:22.789 --> 01:21:27.170
25 worlds has fallen now in this darkness, we

01:21:27.170 --> 01:21:32.770
need a hero, a Mazirdrakhan, to bring us the

01:21:32.770 --> 01:21:37.189
light again. What does it mean to be Shadrakhan?

01:21:39.750 --> 01:21:49.399
Shadrakhan. That was smooth. Shadrakhan. Shadrakhan.

01:21:50.300 --> 01:21:57.960
An old word. Familiar. It is a place. I believe.

01:21:59.659 --> 01:22:04.359
Where is it? It is the place where spirits come

01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:12.300
from. The world of spirits. Shadrakhan. I believe

01:22:12.300 --> 01:22:17.649
that is the word you seek. How can I... How can

01:22:17.649 --> 01:22:24.270
I learn more? What language is this? I... I don't

01:22:24.270 --> 01:22:28.729
know. They're old words. How do you know the

01:22:28.729 --> 01:22:34.130
words? My father. He told me. His father told

01:22:34.130 --> 01:22:38.989
him. But no one knows the origin. They come from

01:22:38.989 --> 01:22:41.170
long before, before the worlds were connected.

01:22:42.430 --> 01:22:47.180
Long and long before. I think at that point you

01:22:47.180 --> 01:22:50.720
hear just like a voice say, Grandfather! Grandfather!

01:22:50.840 --> 01:22:56.000
Come! And he's, Oh, I'm sorry. I must be away.

01:22:56.539 --> 01:23:02.279
Yeah, right. Thanks. It was nice speaking to

01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:11.020
you, Rhea. You too, Rhea. Yes. I think I can

01:23:11.020 --> 01:23:17.260
say that, right? Ha! He just walks away. And

01:23:17.260 --> 01:23:20.659
with that, you spend a little more time waiting

01:23:20.659 --> 01:23:25.220
for this figure to show. And in that time, I'll

01:23:25.220 --> 01:23:29.079
say one more thing happens. You become level

01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:35.619
three. Oh, yeah, baby. Level up. It's about damn

01:23:35.619 --> 01:24:01.289
time. And we'll call it there. Nice. So, I do

01:24:01.289 --> 01:24:04.149
believe, David, that we have one more matter

01:24:04.149 --> 01:24:07.310
of discussion here. I do think it is about time

01:24:07.310 --> 01:24:09.689
that Steven and Zebulon get a goddamn button.

01:24:12.750 --> 01:24:15.689
I mean, was it not reward enough to almost kill

01:24:15.689 --> 01:24:19.770
him? No. If a pepper and a persimmon doesn't

01:24:19.770 --> 01:24:21.149
earn me a button... Fine, take your button! I

01:24:21.149 --> 01:24:26.270
don't know what does. Let me find my... Button

01:24:26.270 --> 01:24:28.489
high five, Steven. We're going to make you a

01:24:28.489 --> 01:24:31.869
giant poster board. Did you give out a button

01:24:31.869 --> 01:24:35.369
today? I suppose you deserve it. That was some

01:24:35.369 --> 01:24:35.850
good shit.