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Hello, friends. I just want to reiterate that

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we are in the horror arc now, and there are going

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to be some scary moments, and there might be

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some adult themes that aren't appropriate for

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everybody. So be warned, and enjoy. Guys, we

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are running our first Fantasy Pants giveaway.

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We're giving you the chance to win a full -body

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it's really simple to enter. All you have to

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do is tag Fantasy Pants anywhere on social media.

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I don't care if it's an Instagram story, an Instagram

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reel, a Facebook post, Facebook, do they have

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stories? I don't know. We're also new to TikTok,

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so all you have to do on TikTok is follow us

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Tag us on Instagram or Facebook. Follow us on

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a chance to win. Hello, friends. Just wanted

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to add on to what Stephen was saying about the

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contest. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday,

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April 26th. So you have until then to tag us

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on Instagram, Facebook, share us all there, and

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follow us on TikTok. Thank you so, so much. And

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without further ado, here is episode 29. I promise.

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For reals. No more intros. An attack by a dead

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hand. Brought back to life by the rattles' cursed

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land. On cradle -laced shore, their pursuit did

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reach end. As they soon came upon an unfamiliar

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friend. Lady Dre's mask broken, and Oren's as

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well. Coliseum revealed, and his tale he did

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tell. Investigations have shown. And then crawl

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from the lake into a monster they follow with

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their lives all at stake. And they march. Oh,

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they march. I got to give you props for that,

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man. I saw you writing that at the bar like 30

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minutes ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was crazy.

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That was a rush. Those are awesome. I really

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like how they come out. Yeah. Cool. I'm glad.

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I'm glad. Fucking solid. Because I don't spend

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that much time on them, honestly. I'm so conscious,

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I just kind of rush through them. Man, oh man,

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here we are. Really getting the horror in this

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horror arc. Really hitting that feel. It's getting

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scary. Every time we start to play, I get genuinely

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uneasy feelings. That's good. That's good, because

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tonight, we're going to crank the scary up just

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a little bit of a notch. Before we get to that,

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gentlemen. Yes. You guys have something you want

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to talk to me about. What was that? What was

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that all about? Oh, I'll let Stephen take this

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one. Oh, all right. Well, it's going to take

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me... He's got the goods. It's going to take

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me a second to pull up the Instagram poll. Quick,

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Jeremy, sing. Fill the time. Deck the hall. Explain

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for our listeners what you're showing David here.

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Okay, so they are showing me a poll taken of

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you, the pants people, on Instagram, and you

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have... over when we decided that Letterkenny

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is better than Friends, to which I say, nay,

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pants people, nay. Now, one of these is a cultural

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landmark, and one of these will be forgotten

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in two years, left to the dust of time, and that

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one is Letterkenny. That went different than

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I expected it to go. I'll admit that culturally,

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Friends is more significant than Letterkenny.

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All right, cool. That's all I have to say. So,

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moving on. Let's get started. But so is movies

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like The Room. I haven't seen that yet. Don't

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diss The Room. It doesn't make it good. You can

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be culturally significant and less good. Okay,

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but while The Room is not good, it is fantastic.

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Right. So can't Friends be fantastic? Now, I

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have a lot of fun when I watch The Room, and

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I have some fun when I'm watching Friends. Friend

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of the show, Hungry Familiar. from Instagram

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who made a map of the ugly coyote for us. She

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reached out to me when she saw the poll mentioning

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Letterkenny. Turns out her, I don't know if it's

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her sister or her cousin, but somebody in her

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family worked on the first two seasons of Letterkenny

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in like the art department or something like

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that. in the the background you know because

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all the like flyers and poster boards and stuff

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like that that all has to get made by the art

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department so there was a lost cat poster up

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a couple times in the show and the cat that was

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featured on the last cat poster was her cat the

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very hungry familiar that's so cool that is wild

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so did they find the cat did they find the cat

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uh You'll have to watch to find out. Damn it!

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Damn it! So we have like, what is it, like three

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degrees or four degrees from Letter County. David.

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That cat is famous. David, you have no legitimate

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excuse anymore. This case is closed. Well, now

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I know the plot of the show. I have to watch

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it. This case is closed. Our community demands

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it. The plot of the show is that a cat is missing.

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I will... I will see that through. If they don't

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explain the missing cat in the runtime of this

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show, I will find you, Stephen. I'll find you.

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Cool. All right. Great. I'll find you and I'll

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kill your character. I'll see you at work tomorrow

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morning. Speaking of reaching out, so actually

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I've mentioned before Paul Metzger. now friend

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of the show, Paul Metzger, who has a shop on

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DMs Guild, and he makes a lot of pretty cool

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stuff. He's the father of the Chester, John Franklin,

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and Pepper stat blocks in his Sidekicks Essentials

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PDF that I bought. And I reached out and was

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like, hey man, thanked him for the PDF, told

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him that we've been using it, and that it's really

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helping to showcase how awesome sidekicks can

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be when utilized well in a game like this. He's

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the coolest guy. He actually sent me a bunch

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of other work of his for free. Credit it. And

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just give me a check to let me look at it. Nice.

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It's awesome stuff. Sweet. We have some really

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expanded lists for sidekick stat blocks. And

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I think it's kind of become a staple of our little

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show here. And I'm really excited to see more

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of these stat blocks, more of these characters

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being built. Because we've seen how far they've

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come. These little sheets with numbers with these

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characters like Chester, John Franklin, and the

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like. It's amazing. Wow. Yeah. Thank you, Paul.

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Thank you, Paul. That's awesome. Super cool.

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D &D community is the greatest community out

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there. It's so cool. Just really, really cool

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folks all around. Well, now I can't wait until

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one of our sidekicks dies so we can use all this

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new stuff. I can make that happen. I have it

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on good authority that everyone hates Chester,

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so we'll start with him. Okay. Whoa. Whoa. Sean

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Franklin, everyone loves that guy. Massively

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popular. Hell yes. So, anything else, gentlemen?

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I think we covered everything. I'm ready to play.

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Yeah. I'm very, very excited for this night.

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I'm going to try out something a little bit new,

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a little exciting, a little interesting, and

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maybe even a little dangerous. Bring it on. Well,

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before we can get to that, let's cut back to

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your journey to the rattle. There it is. Some

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time has passed. since you've left the shores

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of Cradolace Lake behind, heading north. Now

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you are moving off -road here, so you've cut

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through this farmland, what was once Cradolace

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Farm, reached the heavy wood on the side, and

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as you were preparing to move into that wood,

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unfortunately, the wagon would not be able to

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carry you any farther. So that was unfortunately

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left behind. Proclaiming reward, bid farewell

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to it, vowed to return, but there is something

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here to see through, and so Ward was willing

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to make that sacrifice for now. Now we stand

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where morning is finally coming upon this dark

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night. Slowly, you see, the sky begins to burn,

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the sun rising. You can't quite make it out.

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Amongst the trees, you can see it slowly creeping

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into the mist -filled skies above you. The dark

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and scary night has ended. You see, at this point,

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Orin, Kully, the man you're here for, is riding

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upon the only remaining horse. Exhausted. Well,

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you guys took your long rest and had a nice,

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pleasant wagon journey through the ribbon to

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reach the rattle this prior day. Koli did not.

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He bolted here. And did a short reprieve at Cradolace

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Lake as he waited for you. When you came upon

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him. But he is exhausted. And so Ward swiftly,

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after a lot of convincing, finally got Koli to

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take them out. And he is leading you up a man

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on a mission. Eyes blazing. And you guys move.

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Trees part. and you see an open field ahead of

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you, much like the one you've left behind. But

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there is no massive pool resting quietly in the

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middle of this one. Instead, you see somewhere

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at the top of a hill, in the middle of this land,

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a small stone home. Thick black smoke rising

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from a chimney, a line against that burning sky.

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You see, off to the sides in this field, there

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are some dilapidated barns. Torn down with age.

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Broken wood. The remains of pens. Fences just

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destroyed by age. This was once a farm, but seems

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to no longer carry that... Shit, what's a word?

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Give me a word. Moniker? Is that the word? I

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don't know. Fine. Carry that moniker. Well, no,

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I don't know if that's the... No, that sounds

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cool. We're doing that. That's what we're doing.

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As you move on to here, Reclaimer Ward speaks

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up. All right, we made it. That's Uncle Polder's

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farm. Well, once a farm. Long ago, it got torn

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down a while back. Family moved to the ribbon,

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to promise. It was hard making a work out here

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in the rattle. For some time, no one did it.

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Only just now, these farm packs have started

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moving back out here, setting up. But... Uncle

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Porter here, he doesn't run a farm anymore. He

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just lives out here in this old home. Good fella.

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Really knows a rattle. We make it to him, might

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get some information. Well, uh, yeah. We can,

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uh... Let's go visit your uncle. Heh. Not really

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my uncle. Might call him everyone's uncle. He

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just likes the name. Now, as you've traveled,

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you've seen some... signs of that sort of activity

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you saw before, the sort of burrowed holes into

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the ground. One, or many, many small ones that

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occasionally pop up again, like little gopher

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holes, and then a short while later, after you

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see some tracks, fingers in the muck disappearing

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once again. And every once in a while, in the

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middle of all these, you see another one of these

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huge holes. Part of the reason the wagon could

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not carry you is the ground has become rough

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and uneven where this trail has been dug. Cutting

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straight north. You see those tracks again. Something

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moving. Something with many fingers digging into

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the mud. Something not moving naturally. Writhing.

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Shambling. And it's big. I told you human size

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before, but... No. As time goes on, as you see

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more of these holes, you're thinking... Bigger

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than a human. Size of a cow, perhaps. A bull.

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How many of these holes are we seeing? Only one

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that size, and it seems to be basically just

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every once in a while it seems to have crawled

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up, scrambled across the surface for a short

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while, and then dug again. And there are smaller

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ones that tunnel up and down along with it? Yes,

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along the side. There's many, many smaller holes

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as well. How many's many? How about you give

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me a survival check? Oh. Um, well, I didn't,

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I can't count holes, apparently. Are we doing

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survival checks all around? Sure, anyone can.

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Actually, I'll roll for Orin as well. Nope. I

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got a 16. 16, okay, yeah. Orin's too driven.

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He can't even look with his two on the die. But

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what you're looking around as you're seeing this,

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you're clocking maybe somewhere between 20, 25

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holes, other paths. Oh, wow. Okay. Oh. Gotcha.

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Yeah. Some of them branch off, though, actually.

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As you're going in, you see a few of these things

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almost start to skirt away from the main. Actually,

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give me one more thing, too. With that 16, you

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get the impression that whatever this is, it's

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not digging very fast. It's been a slow journey

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across this land. Are any of these branching

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off in the direction of... Uncle's, what's his

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name? Uncle what? Uncle Polder. Uncle Polder.

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The entire set is moving in that direction. Oh,

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okay. Uncle Polder's place is due straight north,

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basically, of Cradle Lace Lake. And somewhere

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shortly north of that is the farm pact on which

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Kiana apparently works. So, I don't know if we're

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necessarily visiting. Uncle Polder, or maybe,

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hopefully, saving him. That's a good point. Let's

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go see, maybe he saw something. He doesn't even

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look at you. His eyes constantly facing forward.

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Not looking at the house. Not looking at the

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road. Looking at something he can't see far beyond

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it. Staring into the dark. You guys step onto

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the great open farm. Or once a farm. Now dead.

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Inactive for many years, it seems. And you begin

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to cross. As we're walking towards this cabin.

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I'm sure the party is somewhat stretched out.

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Zebulon wants to find a quiet moment with Jaune

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and just ask him, Jaune, I want you to keep Cully

00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:51.919
close. Don't let him out of your sight. I don't

00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:57.580
know if he's going to run off again. Just keep

00:16:57.580 --> 00:17:01.110
an eye on him for me. Could you do that? I mean,

00:17:01.129 --> 00:17:04.130
I shouldn't inform you. He is on a horse. I can't

00:17:04.130 --> 00:17:08.269
chase a horse. Yeah, well, I mean, sort of like

00:17:08.269 --> 00:17:11.789
if he runs off with the horse, somebody will

00:17:11.789 --> 00:17:15.289
be there to see him run off with the horse, and

00:17:15.289 --> 00:17:17.650
you can sound the alarm. You could put me on

00:17:17.650 --> 00:17:20.329
a horse. It really doesn't feel like it's my

00:17:20.329 --> 00:17:24.549
say who gets to ride the horse. I'm just saying

00:17:24.549 --> 00:17:27.559
I'm, well... How you born? No, no, it's fine.

00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:32.160
It's fine. I can walk. In the mud. My fine new

00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.299
boots. Fine. Very well. Do you want me to tie

00:17:36.299 --> 00:17:39.359
the laces tighter, or? No! Don't touch them.

00:17:41.299 --> 00:17:48.319
You'll mar them. Yeah, he nods, and you see he

00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.940
shambles a little closer to the horse. It's kind

00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:53.059
of at its side. But he's also just like, he's

00:17:53.059 --> 00:17:56.130
been very quiet, very angry. It's a long... Kind

00:17:56.130 --> 00:17:58.990
of gross journey through rough ground. He's not

00:17:58.990 --> 00:18:02.210
in his most highest total spirits this evening.

00:18:02.390 --> 00:18:06.730
Or morning, I should say. You guys begin to move.

00:18:07.390 --> 00:18:10.589
You're crossing this farmland, that stone building

00:18:10.589 --> 00:18:13.650
ahead getting a little closer. A little closer.

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I want everyone to roll a perception check. Oh.

00:18:22.130 --> 00:18:29.359
I got a seven for Jules. 13 for Zeb, just a 7

00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.099
for Jean. Let me do a quick roll for the NPCs.

00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:36.920
And that's a 21 for Chester. Oh, hell yeah. Chester,

00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.680
my man. Hell yeah. He's coming in clutch on those

00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:43.160
the last two episodes. Perceptive little bugger.

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Mm -hmm. You guys are moving. And then you see

00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:51.539
both Chester and Proclaimer Ward stop in the

00:18:51.539 --> 00:18:55.099
tracks. They start looking around. They glance

00:18:55.099 --> 00:18:57.960
at each other, glance towards the ground. Hey,

00:18:57.980 --> 00:19:00.920
guys, you feel that? The ground's shaking. The

00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.680
ground's shaking. What? Oh, no. And Ward's eyes

00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:09.579
go wide. Coley's horse stops as he pulls in the

00:19:09.579 --> 00:19:12.680
reins, white knuckles, and looks at Ward, who

00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:15.960
looks at him. And in unison, they just say, or

00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:22.019
whisper a word, just sheer terror. Boulay. It's

00:19:22.019 --> 00:19:25.359
Boulay. Boulay. We gotta run. Run. Now. Run.

00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.440
What's Boulay? What's a Boulay? And as you say

00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:34.420
that, 60 feet behind you, something massive erupts

00:19:34.420 --> 00:19:39.579
from the ground. You see this large, shelled

00:19:39.579 --> 00:19:45.660
reptile, this massive, massive maw opening. These

00:19:45.660 --> 00:19:50.119
eyes, tiny and yellow, and this huge head glaring

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at you. It's got these gigantic claws made for

00:19:52.660 --> 00:19:54.099
burrowing, and you see these claws for it as

00:19:54.099 --> 00:19:58.329
it rips out of the ground and... As its feet

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touch down, you begin to shake. The ground shakes.

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And without a moment's notice, this thing begins

00:20:04.630 --> 00:20:07.630
to charge. All right. And here's how this is

00:20:07.630 --> 00:20:12.569
going to go. We are running, essentially, a chase

00:20:12.569 --> 00:20:15.809
sequence. I've got some new mechanics for this.

00:20:16.029 --> 00:20:21.569
Oh, my God. Now, given the way Cully and Oren

00:20:21.569 --> 00:20:25.990
reacted to this, Cully and Ward and Oren and

00:20:25.990 --> 00:20:29.779
Lady Dre, reacted to this, you know this is not

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something you want to turn and face right now.

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Alright, looks like we're running. Yep. So let

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me give you some quick information on how this

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is going to go. There will be no initiative roll

00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:42.319
for this. All this action is going down at the

00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:46.960
same time. Each round, you're going to roll an

00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.940
athletics check. Now, this check is basically

00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:52.559
going to assume you are using the dash action.

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Which means, unless you want to take a Penalty,

00:20:56.210 --> 00:20:59.009
probably disadvantage on this check. Jules, you're

00:20:59.009 --> 00:21:00.769
going to only have bonus actions available each

00:21:00.769 --> 00:21:03.490
round to potentially utilize. Zebulon, however,

00:21:03.589 --> 00:21:07.109
has cunning action as a rogue, which means you

00:21:07.109 --> 00:21:10.190
can use your action, essentially, to give someone

00:21:10.190 --> 00:21:11.730
the help action, give them advantage on their

00:21:11.730 --> 00:21:14.509
roll each round, or dash to give yourself advantage

00:21:14.509 --> 00:21:17.589
on this roll. You also could take any other actions

00:21:17.589 --> 00:21:19.130
you can think of, because your bonus action is

00:21:19.130 --> 00:21:22.990
being used to maintain fast running speed. The

00:21:22.990 --> 00:21:25.980
boulet has higher speed than you. So it's going

00:21:25.980 --> 00:21:27.599
to go, it's going to get a nice little bonus

00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:30.539
to its rolls. The riding horse that Orin's on

00:21:30.539 --> 00:21:33.920
is going to blow everyone else away. So that's

00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:35.359
one thing that I can say is you don't need to

00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:36.700
worry about that. As this is happening, you see

00:21:36.700 --> 00:21:39.740
that horse takes off, is running. The amount,

00:21:39.940 --> 00:21:43.079
the bonus it has on this roll, or every roll,

00:21:43.180 --> 00:21:45.220
it's egregious. I'm not even going to bother

00:21:45.220 --> 00:21:46.900
rolling for him. He's gone. He's out of there.

00:21:47.099 --> 00:21:49.359
Okay, good. Excellent. Don't have to worry about

00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:51.980
him. So it's going to be Jules, Jean Franklin,

00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.970
Chester, Zebulon. And proclaim reward. Feet on

00:21:55.970 --> 00:21:58.990
the ground. Moving. So here's how it's going

00:21:58.990 --> 00:22:01.069
to go. This thing starts off 60 feet behind you.

00:22:02.029 --> 00:22:03.609
Basically, depending on your rolls, you're either

00:22:03.609 --> 00:22:06.309
going to drop or gain distance against this creature.

00:22:06.990 --> 00:22:10.609
If you fail by 5 or more, you're going to lose

00:22:10.609 --> 00:22:14.230
20 feet. If you fail by less than 5, you're going

00:22:14.230 --> 00:22:17.349
to lose 10 feet. If you succeed by 5 or more,

00:22:17.470 --> 00:22:20.569
you're going to gain 20. If you succeed but not

00:22:20.569 --> 00:22:23.660
by 5, you're going to gain 10. Understand? Yes.

00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:26.400
Okay. Yes. So keep in mind, anything else you

00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:27.980
could do creatively with your bonus action or

00:22:27.980 --> 00:22:31.099
your action to help your people out here, because

00:22:31.099 --> 00:22:34.180
this is going to get a little scary. You see,

00:22:34.220 --> 00:22:37.460
I have a counter on the top for rounds. And with

00:22:37.460 --> 00:22:41.880
that, let the chase begin. Everyone roll an athletics

00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:51.259
check. Jules got a nine. Okay. Uh, Zebulon got

00:22:51.259 --> 00:23:00.200
a 13, and Jaune got a 5. Um, jeez, yeah, like,

00:23:00.259 --> 00:23:03.539
even if I use the help action, that's only going

00:23:03.539 --> 00:23:07.180
to give him what? An extra 2? Is that how that

00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:09.859
works? No, help is an advantage. Oh, okay. Yeah,

00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:12.259
then I'll use my bonus action to give Jaune advantage.

00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:18.200
Okay. And that's just a 10. Okay. 10 for Jaune.

00:23:18.730 --> 00:23:22.029
Chester got a nat 20. Holy shit. Excellent, Chester.

00:23:22.630 --> 00:23:24.430
Yeah, Chester faster than the horse. I'm going

00:23:24.430 --> 00:23:25.950
to move to the very end here. It's going to stay

00:23:25.950 --> 00:23:28.170
at the very end of the range, which is about

00:23:28.170 --> 00:23:31.809
100 feet out. As this thing begins to move on

00:23:31.809 --> 00:23:33.809
you, as we go through the first round of this

00:23:33.809 --> 00:23:39.190
chase, Chester gets ahead 20 feet. Jaune still

00:23:39.190 --> 00:23:41.529
falls behind 20. He's now 40 feet away from this

00:23:41.529 --> 00:23:44.190
thing. Zebulon, you stay exactly where you are

00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:46.829
because you matched the boulet with a 13. Okay.

00:23:47.470 --> 00:23:51.950
And Jules, you're ten feet back. Ward also falls

00:23:51.950 --> 00:23:54.069
ten feet back. So now Jean Franklin's in the

00:23:54.069 --> 00:23:57.589
rear as this thing is moving. Digging through

00:23:57.589 --> 00:24:00.349
the ground, just destroying the land as it goes.

00:24:01.049 --> 00:24:03.589
We're going into round two. Give me those rolls.

00:24:05.190 --> 00:24:13.190
Jean! Jean, catch up! Jean! Why did I stop exercising?

00:24:13.829 --> 00:24:17.509
All right. I'm going to roll for these guys and

00:24:17.509 --> 00:24:21.309
then see what I want to do about it. All right.

00:24:21.349 --> 00:24:29.930
That's an 18 for Zeb. 11 for Jaune. All right.

00:24:30.130 --> 00:24:33.410
So I'll goad him again and give him that advantage.

00:24:33.930 --> 00:24:35.410
Yes, that's it. You're doing it. You're just

00:24:35.410 --> 00:24:37.769
ahead of him, goading him on. Jaune, that thing's

00:24:37.769 --> 00:24:41.829
going to kill you. Come on, Jaune. All right.

00:24:41.849 --> 00:24:46.339
Well, the first roll was a... 14. Okay, that's

00:24:46.339 --> 00:24:51.619
Jaune? Yeah. Okay. I'll ask next round, maybe.

00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:53.420
Gave him advantage. Are you going to do another

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:56.180
roll? The other roll was lower. Oh, gotcha. Okay,

00:24:56.299 --> 00:25:02.440
great, great. So, unfortunate. Not too, too bad,

00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:05.119
though. With a 14. Jaune's going to fall another

00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.799
10 behind. He's only 30 feet away. Zebulon, you're

00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.339
so fast, you full -on turn around, and you're

00:25:11.339 --> 00:25:13.680
skipping backwards as you're goading him with

00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:15.680
your hands, trying to get him on. Jaune's trying

00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:17.960
so hard. He's got this big, bulky turtle shell.

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:21.119
He's literally a turtle. He's just trying so

00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:29.500
hard. Jules got a 13. 13. And Chester got a 16.

00:25:29.859 --> 00:25:33.440
Okay. And Zebulon. I didn't catch yours. 18.

00:25:33.619 --> 00:25:37.319
18. Great. Okay. Chester falls 10 behind. He's

00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:39.619
slowly kind of losing a little bit. Zebulon,

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:43.700
you stay where you are again. Jeez. Oh, no. That

00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:45.500
means it's really bad for John. You've actually

00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:48.180
matched this thing twice. John does fall behind

00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:53.519
by 14, right? Yeah. He's fine then. He's only

00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:57.079
staying at 30. Oh, okay. And Jules, that puts

00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:00.160
you behind by another 10. Jules, you're 40 feet

00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:04.450
away from this thing. Jaune is 30. You have three

00:26:04.450 --> 00:26:08.410
rounds to go. What can you... So you said this

00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:10.970
thing is ripping up the ground as it runs. Yes.

00:26:10.970 --> 00:26:14.230
So, like, is it underground? It's actually, like,

00:26:14.250 --> 00:26:16.609
it's halfway. Like, it's kind of, like, plunging

00:26:16.609 --> 00:26:18.210
in and out. You see it's making these massive

00:26:18.210 --> 00:26:20.589
leaps in the air and crashing down, up again,

00:26:20.730 --> 00:26:22.569
crashing. And, like, I'll tell you right now,

00:26:22.609 --> 00:26:25.130
if it gets within 10 feet of you the following

00:26:25.130 --> 00:26:28.390
round, it's going to make a leaping strike at

00:26:28.390 --> 00:26:31.769
you. And you do not. want to get hit by that.

00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:35.829
Okay. Um, so I'll, I'll say what I want to do.

00:26:35.910 --> 00:26:39.750
Then David, tell me, tell me if this works. Um,

00:26:39.910 --> 00:26:43.490
so like you said, turned around sort of backwards

00:26:43.490 --> 00:26:47.170
facing, uh, the group running behind us in the

00:26:47.170 --> 00:26:50.450
bow lay, uh, Zeb's going to shout to his friends,

00:26:50.589 --> 00:26:54.529
uh, guys, uh, watch out. Don't, don't step on

00:26:54.529 --> 00:26:57.849
these. And he's going to use his bonus action

00:26:57.849 --> 00:27:02.049
this time to lay down. Okay, or use your full

00:27:02.049 --> 00:27:03.890
action, because your bonus action is your run.

00:27:04.150 --> 00:27:05.930
Oh, okay, sure. Then, yeah, I'd rather do that.

00:27:06.009 --> 00:27:08.390
Okay, so you drop your caltrops. That is interesting.

00:27:09.269 --> 00:27:11.549
I'll give myself a negative on this. Okay, excellent.

00:27:11.789 --> 00:27:13.289
I was hoping you'd give us something. That's

00:27:13.289 --> 00:27:14.609
cool. That's cool as hell. You're sacrificing

00:27:14.609 --> 00:27:16.509
an item for it. Yeah, hell yeah. I love that.

00:27:17.529 --> 00:27:20.369
You're closing into halfway towards the actual

00:27:20.369 --> 00:27:23.170
farmhouse on round three here. Ward has also

00:27:23.170 --> 00:27:25.809
fallen back as well. Is this farmhouse going

00:27:25.809 --> 00:27:27.970
to save us from this thing? As you get closer,

00:27:28.049 --> 00:27:31.150
it looks like heavily reinforced stone. Oh. So

00:27:31.150 --> 00:27:33.950
it might be what you need. Here go the rolls.

00:27:36.509 --> 00:27:44.589
Natural one for Zebulon. Okay. 17 for Jean. Okay.

00:27:46.750 --> 00:27:52.789
Seven for Jules. 14 for Chester. I quickly do

00:27:52.789 --> 00:27:59.599
my ward. Okay. On this round. Ward stays exactly

00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:03.440
in place with an 18. That's another 18 for me.

00:28:04.579 --> 00:28:07.480
Jules has pulled back a little farther, now by

00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:10.839
John Franklin's side, 20 feet away from this

00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:15.119
thing. As it's jumping, destroying the land,

00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:18.039
jumping, and just now, as you use your action,

00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:19.599
it's going to touch us caltrops on this next

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:23.619
turn. As a bonus action, Jules is going to cast

00:28:23.619 --> 00:28:27.079
Bardic Inspiration on John Franklin. Holy shit!

00:28:27.770 --> 00:28:31.269
Damn. In this situation, he would not do it on

00:28:31.269 --> 00:28:37.809
himself. Wow. Wow. Pretty selfless. Okay, okay.

00:28:38.609 --> 00:28:43.470
You cast this on Jean Franklin. Your lute lights

00:28:43.470 --> 00:28:47.170
up. You blast him, and you see he kind of starts

00:28:47.170 --> 00:28:49.289
running a little faster. He looks at you, and

00:28:49.289 --> 00:28:50.970
he's got this look in his eyes of just, like,

00:28:51.029 --> 00:28:55.829
gratitude? Mixed with concern because he sees

00:28:55.829 --> 00:28:57.230
that you're struggling just as much as he is

00:28:57.230 --> 00:29:01.390
now. He just gives you a sweaty turtle nod. Do

00:29:01.390 --> 00:29:05.910
turtles sweat? Maybe turtles. There we go. Turtles

00:29:05.910 --> 00:29:08.990
sweat. He's your turtle, so he sweats. It's a

00:29:08.990 --> 00:29:12.089
humanoid turtle, so we're going to pretend that

00:29:12.089 --> 00:29:15.930
he sweats. Zebulon, with your natural one, I'm

00:29:15.930 --> 00:29:19.009
going to move you back 30 feet as you stumble.

00:29:20.190 --> 00:29:22.230
You're looking at Jaune, you're trying to egg

00:29:22.230 --> 00:29:25.000
him on, and you hit a root. You go tumbling down.

00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:26.759
You manage to catch yourself, but you've lost

00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:28.579
30 feet. You're now 30 feet away from this thing,

00:29:28.619 --> 00:29:33.539
just ahead of Jaune and Jules. Next round, what

00:29:33.539 --> 00:29:35.579
I'm willing to do, because I think the caltrop

00:29:35.579 --> 00:29:38.140
thing was really cool, he hits it and kind of

00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:40.539
flinches back for a second. I'm going to give

00:29:40.539 --> 00:29:42.079
him disadvantage on this athletics check. Oh,

00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:44.599
excellent. That's great. Still is a good bonus,

00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.119
but this might be enough because if he clears

00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:50.680
any closer to you in the next round, we're going

00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:53.779
to have a problem. Yeah. I just think it's right

00:29:53.779 --> 00:29:56.279
on you, and you are close to the farmhouse now.

00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:58.160
You're close, but you've still got a ways to

00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:04.980
go. Let's make that chase roll. All right. Before

00:30:04.980 --> 00:30:08.920
I even roll, I'm going to give Jaune a button.

00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:11.880
I'm going to give Jaune advantage. Okay. I'll

00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:14.920
take it. All right. Shit. All right. I'm going

00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:22.940
to roll for Jaune first. All right. John got

00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:27.079
a dirty 20, so I'm going to keep that. Not going

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.440
to use his bardic inspiration. Let's see how

00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:36.160
Zeb does. Yeah, I'm going to keep it. That's

00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:40.500
a 14 for Zeb, and I'm going to use my cunning

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:44.440
action to give Jules advantage. Oh. Jules, come

00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.380
on, man. We can't get any closer to this thing.

00:30:47.539 --> 00:30:49.819
I'm trying. I'm trying. Come on. Just follow

00:30:49.819 --> 00:31:00.039
me. Let's go. It's a 20 for Jules. And a 16 for

00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.519
Chester. Fantastic. Jules and Chester are both

00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.059
going to move 20 feet farther. Chester's now

00:31:07.059 --> 00:31:10.359
80 feet. Fully in a safe zone, pretty much. Jules,

00:31:10.420 --> 00:31:14.440
you're now 40 feet away. You're moving. Steven,

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:17.099
if you don't mind giving me those numbers again.

00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:21.160
I just rolled something, and it kind of rattled

00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.250
me a little bit. But hey. Go ahead and give me

00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:28.170
those numbers real quick. Zeb got a 14, and John

00:31:28.170 --> 00:31:33.569
was a dirty 20. Okay. Let me show my hand. You

00:31:33.569 --> 00:31:36.029
both get 20 feet ahead of this thing. This last

00:31:36.029 --> 00:31:38.930
-minute spurt pushing you as you move, move,

00:31:39.029 --> 00:31:43.329
move, feet pounding. This thing rolled a 1. Oh,

00:31:44.210 --> 00:31:47.369
my God. I haven't rolled that good. I had a plus

00:31:47.369 --> 00:31:50.400
8. I've rolled pretty bad this whole time. Was

00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:52.339
that with the disadvantage? That was because

00:31:52.339 --> 00:31:53.740
of disadvantage. Oh, man. Excellent. The initial

00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:55.579
one was going to be an 18 plus 8, which would

00:31:55.579 --> 00:31:58.380
have been awful. Yeah. So this thing basically

00:31:58.380 --> 00:32:00.299
hits the calotropes and straight up just kind

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:02.819
of, like, screams out, almost peels away. As

00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:04.140
you see, like, the calotropes all just, like,

00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:07.180
it jumps down into the ground, and they all get

00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:09.339
taken into its mouth. And they literally cover

00:32:09.339 --> 00:32:12.579
its tongue. It's a big, wet, reptilian tongue.

00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:14.319
It's, like, just, like... hungering. It's just

00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.779
like hanging out there and it rips into its tongue.

00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:19.440
It screams and stops for a half second and just

00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.359
kind of turns and pounds again. Take that, you

00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:26.160
big bug. Yeah, you tell them, Zab. Proclaimer

00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:31.859
Tungsten Ward also rolled a one. Oh, no. Okay.

00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.759
Oh, shit. I think there's still time. You begin

00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:39.240
to make moves. You are pounding next to them

00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.869
away from this thing, but you see You see Ward

00:32:43.869 --> 00:32:48.230
falls and drops 30 feet behind you with a natural

00:32:48.230 --> 00:32:51.789
one. Oh my god. On the top of this last round,

00:32:51.970 --> 00:32:55.670
Ward is 10 feet away from the boulet. What the

00:32:55.670 --> 00:32:59.009
fuck are we going to do? I think as Ward falls,

00:32:59.089 --> 00:33:02.309
as you move on, you just hear a voice right beside

00:33:02.309 --> 00:33:04.029
you for a brief second as you're moving past

00:33:04.029 --> 00:33:08.569
it just say, Ah, shit. I wish I could have heard

00:33:08.569 --> 00:33:12.180
it. The part of the song they'll write about

00:33:12.180 --> 00:33:17.700
me. And you guys are moving. As you move into

00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:20.700
this last round, you are fully in the clear.

00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:23.700
You are all far enough away this thing cannot

00:33:23.700 --> 00:33:28.140
reach you. And as you reach the door, and you

00:33:28.140 --> 00:33:30.299
see Oren already down, pounding onto the door,

00:33:30.380 --> 00:33:32.519
opens up ahead of you, and you see you have a

00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:36.460
way in, the face of an old bearded man, peeking

00:33:36.460 --> 00:33:41.119
out. And you look back. As Tungsten Ward stands

00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:46.220
and turns towards the boulet. And you watch as

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:50.779
one mighty leap. I'm going to roll a dex save.

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.559
I'm not going to roll damage. Because there is

00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:02.799
virtually no world. Ward looks back over their

00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:07.359
shoulder with one last little smile. Rainbow

00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:13.090
scarf. blowing in the wind. As this monstrosity

00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:23.630
leaps down, its maw consumes them. Gone under

00:34:23.630 --> 00:34:30.809
the ground. And you all make it inside. Door

00:34:30.809 --> 00:34:39.079
slams shut. All right, we're back. We had to

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:44.800
take a minute. Zebulon pounds on the inside of

00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:49.460
the door. Shit, no, shit. And he opens the door.

00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:51.760
Hey, what are you doing? Zap, don't be stupid.

00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:54.699
And he goes out to the hole where the thing went

00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:58.380
down. Are you fully sure? No, you said it. Well,

00:34:58.420 --> 00:35:04.340
it's down and gone. Right? I mean, if he sees

00:35:04.340 --> 00:35:06.179
it there, he's not going to go there. I'll say

00:35:06.179 --> 00:35:10.679
this. approach the hole, even before you reach

00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:12.199
the edge of it, you feel the ground begin to

00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:14.980
shake as something is moving up. He's giving

00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:17.000
you a chance here. Okay. He's giving you a chance

00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:18.940
here. I understand. It somehow knows you're up

00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:21.920
there. Okay, sure. All right. So I'm assuming

00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.460
he got not far from the door. As you step over

00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:28.000
to the hole, though, something does sort of blow

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:29.780
out. You move over to the hole. You hear, you

00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:33.519
feel this shaking, and something seems to...

00:35:34.670 --> 00:35:36.849
Blown by the wind out of the hole, right into

00:35:36.849 --> 00:35:41.989
your hand, you catch a rainbow scarf. As the

00:35:41.989 --> 00:35:44.389
door slams, you can hear the something blasting

00:35:44.389 --> 00:35:48.769
out of the earth again. A pot -bellied old man,

00:35:48.869 --> 00:35:51.449
broad -shouldered, and just generally very rough

00:35:51.449 --> 00:35:55.570
and tumble with age. Big, white beard. Just,

00:35:55.630 --> 00:35:59.789
what in the hell? What in the hell are y 'all

00:35:59.789 --> 00:36:03.610
doing? You damn near scared the shit out of me.

00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:09.579
Oh, man. Oh. I don't have that much food. I can't

00:36:09.579 --> 00:36:13.000
take you. I can't take you off alone. What's

00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.860
this horse doing in here? The horse is just up

00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:17.199
in the corner of the room. Like knocking over

00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.239
some shit. What the fuck was that out there?

00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:25.019
A belay. You ain't know what a belay is and you're

00:36:25.019 --> 00:36:28.780
hearing the rattle? Oh, my. They don't come this

00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:32.199
way. They don't come this far to the east. Not

00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:34.909
often, but... This one's been hanging out around

00:36:34.909 --> 00:36:37.389
here for days now. I can't leave. I've been trapped.

00:36:38.289 --> 00:36:40.349
Eating what I got for store, and now you're trapped

00:36:40.349 --> 00:36:43.170
too. We're in the middle of the field, and it's

00:36:43.170 --> 00:36:47.869
hunting here. That kind of pushes Ebulon over

00:36:47.869 --> 00:36:49.449
the edge. I think he puts his back up against

00:36:49.449 --> 00:36:54.449
the wall and slumps down, and a couple of frustrated

00:36:54.449 --> 00:36:57.969
tears come out, and he pushes his face into the

00:36:57.969 --> 00:37:02.869
scarf. What the fuck are we going to do now?

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:08.760
Cully, what are we going to do? And Cully just

00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:13.380
staring out the window. Very small window set

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:17.019
in the masonry. Doesn't look at you, doesn't

00:37:17.019 --> 00:37:21.860
blink. Land sharks, they call them. Land sharks.

00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.320
Nasty. I didn't think. He's right, they never

00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.440
come this far. Not to the east, they're farther

00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:33.559
out, but... Shit, shit. They're drawn to seismic

00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:34.860
activity. They think they're hunting something.

00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:37.500
They felt it. They felt it move through here.

00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:40.559
That's why they came. They're looking for whatever

00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.119
left that hole. Those holes. Shit. I should have

00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:48.539
figured. I think Jules is going to come up right

00:37:48.539 --> 00:37:55.239
behind Kali. So how do we kill this thing? We

00:37:55.239 --> 00:38:00.199
ain't going to kill it. They're monsters. Apex

00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:03.679
proud of those here in the rattle. Nothing kills

00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:10.340
a boule. Wiping his eyes. It's not possible at

00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:13.820
all. They're strong. They got armored shells,

00:38:14.059 --> 00:38:17.559
and they're vital. And they're deadly. You saw

00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:19.780
what it did out there, that leap. That's how

00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:22.800
they kill the prey. Come down from above, crashing.

00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:26.219
They bludgeon them to death while they tear them

00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:30.500
to shreds. We can't go out there again. It's

00:38:30.500 --> 00:38:34.920
been here for days. It ain't moved. I don't know

00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:38.460
why it's held up here on this land. Well, we

00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:43.099
can't stay in here either. No, we can't. Kiana's

00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:47.159
waiting for us, and that thing moved by. I think

00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:49.519
actually at mention of a thing, you see this

00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.019
old white -bearded man kind of looks over at

00:38:53.019 --> 00:38:56.920
all of you. Wait. What are y 'all doing here?

00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.920
Anyway, what are y 'all chasing? Through my land.

00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:04.739
I don't know, it's got a bunch of hands and it's

00:39:04.739 --> 00:39:08.579
crawling and digging and we're just following

00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:15.599
him. Points to Cully. Hands. And the farmer walks

00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:19.440
over to his fireplace still lit. The room is

00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.780
honestly with this masonry and the weather, it's

00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:25.599
not even really wintertime here. It's uncomfortably

00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.420
hot in this house. He goes to his fire poker

00:39:28.420 --> 00:39:30.920
and lifts it up and you see... Sitting on the

00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:35.340
edge of it, pierced through the palm, is a severed

00:39:35.340 --> 00:39:39.860
hand. So you know of these things? This one came

00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:41.820
the other day. I've had my fireplace lit since.

00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.619
Middle of the night, I was woken up. Something

00:39:45.619 --> 00:39:50.900
big came to my door. I heard pounding, pounding

00:39:50.900 --> 00:39:54.900
against every bit of wall. Like many hands knocking

00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:58.860
and scratching. And then something on the roof.

00:40:00.139 --> 00:40:02.420
This thing fell through and I stabbed it through,

00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:05.179
but I lit the fire. A couple more fell into it.

00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:10.340
Hands moving on their own. And something big

00:40:10.340 --> 00:40:15.880
with them. And it spoke. It spoke in my mind.

00:40:17.260 --> 00:40:22.019
With a child's voice. A little boy looking for

00:40:22.019 --> 00:40:26.760
his friend. I held out. I think it moved on.

00:40:26.820 --> 00:40:29.440
It couldn't get through this house. It's reinforced

00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:32.139
stone. Even these bullies have trouble getting

00:40:32.139 --> 00:40:36.019
in here. But damn it, I ain't never seen anything

00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:41.820
like that. Zebulon's really, like, too shocked

00:40:41.820 --> 00:40:46.659
at this point to do anything but just take in

00:40:46.659 --> 00:40:50.699
this information. Like, he just watched Ward

00:40:50.699 --> 00:40:56.139
die. He's trapped in this house. And as if that

00:40:56.139 --> 00:41:02.460
isn't bad enough... Now there's a frickin' mind

00:41:02.460 --> 00:41:08.000
-speakin', hand -crawlin' little boy. Rootin'

00:41:08.019 --> 00:41:12.019
tootin'. Rootin' tootin' little boy. Scootin'

00:41:12.019 --> 00:41:16.679
along. Rootin' tootin' scootin'. I don't even

00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:19.460
know what to say. I don't even know what to say.

00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:27.179
Well, yeah, that sounds like what we're chasing.

00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.159
I don't know how we're going to continue chasing

00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:35.139
it, though. Why didn't... You said the boule

00:41:35.139 --> 00:41:40.280
was hunting that thing? Macaulay speaks up. Whatever

00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:45.400
this thing is, I doubt it's good for food. Whatever,

00:41:45.500 --> 00:41:48.860
my... He's like, especially after hearing a little

00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:53.340
boy's voice, he's... His eyes are just wide and

00:41:53.340 --> 00:41:55.460
broken. He's still just staring out that window.

00:41:56.659 --> 00:41:59.179
But these things, they... I'd like to hunt things

00:41:59.179 --> 00:42:01.739
underground, too. If it felt something move by,

00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:04.739
if it came upon tunnels. It might think something

00:42:04.739 --> 00:42:07.380
big is coming back to eat. Maybe it's looking

00:42:07.380 --> 00:42:11.539
for a mate. I don't know. I have to believe it's

00:42:11.539 --> 00:42:16.860
connected. So how... I mean, can we fool this

00:42:16.860 --> 00:42:18.840
thing? We obviously can't wait it out. Like,

00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:22.119
what do you guys know about these boule? There's

00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:25.239
gotta be something we can do. This is your land,

00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.449
like... You guys are the locals. Normally we

00:42:29.449 --> 00:42:32.610
wait for them to pass. It's always been that

00:42:32.610 --> 00:42:35.150
way, but this one stuck around longer than any

00:42:35.150 --> 00:42:38.769
I've seen before. We can't wait here. A couple

00:42:38.769 --> 00:42:42.489
days. That's all I got for food now. And with

00:42:42.489 --> 00:42:46.090
all of us here and the horse, well, we're going

00:42:46.090 --> 00:42:51.170
to be eating that horse. Horse. He suddenly backs

00:42:51.170 --> 00:42:52.989
away into the corner and knocks over some dishes.

00:42:54.030 --> 00:42:56.679
So, uh. When this thing's on the ground, does

00:42:56.679 --> 00:43:02.559
it hear us? Or does it feel us? No, no, it doesn't

00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:05.380
have much going for hearing, but it can feel

00:43:05.380 --> 00:43:09.599
the ground. I believe, from what I understand,

00:43:09.820 --> 00:43:11.719
from what people have told me, they can sense

00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:16.179
tremors about 60 feet out. I'll take the horse.

00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:21.980
I'll take the horse, and I'll draw it out. Why

00:43:21.980 --> 00:43:25.460
don't we just, like, throw something? We don't

00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:27.739
need to take unnecessary risks here. We'd have

00:43:27.739 --> 00:43:32.539
to throw the horse. I don't think we're going

00:43:32.539 --> 00:43:35.860
to fool this thing with a sack of potatoes. I'll

00:43:35.860 --> 00:43:41.800
take the horse. You guys run. North. I'll come

00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:44.579
back and meet you. We've seen it. The horse can

00:43:44.579 --> 00:43:49.019
outrun this thing. Easy. We just saw it. Everyone

00:43:49.019 --> 00:43:53.760
looks at you. Chester, Jean -Franklin, Oren.

00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:56.880
And pulled her. I want to get closer to that

00:43:56.880 --> 00:44:03.840
hole anyways. I... Ward had that diamond. Holy

00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:09.860
shit. I want to see if... Maybe they... Dropped

00:44:09.860 --> 00:44:14.000
it. Is that why he got me so fucking stupid sometimes?

00:44:15.219 --> 00:44:18.199
Because I don't want to die in this house. No.

00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:22.880
Hold on, hold on. Look, I... I ain't gonna stand

00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:24.659
against that, because I need to go, too, and

00:44:24.659 --> 00:44:27.480
get help. If I want to get this home back. I've

00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:29.460
been trapped here for days, and I need to go,

00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:32.679
but... Listen, if you're gonna do this, you're

00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:35.559
really gonna risk your life. At least stay the

00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:37.579
night. I can make whatever I can make for food.

00:44:38.340 --> 00:44:41.219
You can rest up before you move on. This thing's

00:44:41.219 --> 00:44:44.400
just gonna get further and further away. Yeah.

00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:51.360
It is. And Orin's just gripping the wall, hands

00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.829
like... Right. That's going to be your choice.

00:44:54.949 --> 00:44:57.650
You guys can take a rest here. I've got to say,

00:44:57.690 --> 00:44:59.389
from the first moment you said we were trapped,

00:44:59.590 --> 00:45:04.710
my brain went, oh, you need a rest, don't you?

00:45:04.789 --> 00:45:07.389
You know that just beyond. I mean, I'm full HP

00:45:07.389 --> 00:45:10.309
and I've only used two spell slots, but I don't

00:45:10.309 --> 00:45:13.050
have any bardic inspiration. You hear Oren just

00:45:13.050 --> 00:45:14.929
like still look out the window and you realize

00:45:14.929 --> 00:45:17.489
the window he's looking out is facing north.

00:45:18.289 --> 00:45:21.809
It's just down those trees. Just be on those

00:45:21.809 --> 00:45:24.630
trees. And they can't chase us through the trees.

00:45:24.710 --> 00:45:27.329
Once we hit them, we'll be fine. We'll get tangled

00:45:27.329 --> 00:45:32.250
in the roots. It won't bother. She's there. Kiana's

00:45:32.250 --> 00:45:35.429
there, and I... I'll defer to you guys, whatever

00:45:35.429 --> 00:45:38.849
you think is best. My judgment ain't good here.

00:45:39.869 --> 00:45:42.550
And I ain't looking to get you killed. Well,

00:45:42.630 --> 00:45:44.789
it's up to you, Jeremy, because Zeb's ready to

00:45:44.789 --> 00:45:47.429
go. Zeb will go now, or... I mean, he's not gonna,

00:45:47.489 --> 00:45:49.610
like... He's not going to, like, fight you to

00:45:49.610 --> 00:45:51.329
go now, you know what I mean, if you need to

00:45:51.329 --> 00:45:54.730
rest. It's up to you. There will be consequences

00:45:54.730 --> 00:45:58.889
for waiting, but we'll also gain some utility

00:45:58.889 --> 00:46:02.510
back. Remember, Jean Franklin's also down a lot

00:46:02.510 --> 00:46:04.969
of his healing, too. He'd get that back as well.

00:46:05.150 --> 00:46:11.070
Yep. And right now, Orin is, or Koli. Let's sit

00:46:11.070 --> 00:46:12.969
with Koli for this arc, because he's currently

00:46:12.969 --> 00:46:16.510
in Koli features. dropped all of his disguises,

00:46:16.510 --> 00:46:20.150
the hat's still on his head, but he is egg -sausted.

00:46:20.929 --> 00:46:23.010
He's definitely taken at least one level of exhaustion.

00:46:23.170 --> 00:46:24.690
If you keep going, there'll be a second one.

00:46:25.110 --> 00:46:29.829
All right, well, it sounds like... Okay. Old

00:46:29.829 --> 00:46:32.710
man, we'll help you get out of here. Call me

00:46:32.710 --> 00:46:35.230
Uncle. Everyone calls me Uncle. Uncle, we'll

00:46:35.230 --> 00:46:40.110
help you get out of here if you let us rest.

00:46:40.710 --> 00:46:46.000
I think it's too dangerous. To go on looking

00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:50.940
like we do. As you come to this decision, see

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:53.260
Coley just slumps against the wall, completely

00:46:53.260 --> 00:46:57.019
defeated. He wants so, so badly to go on, but

00:46:57.019 --> 00:47:02.760
he knows more than anyone that it's folly. As

00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:05.800
he sort of falls down, legs stretching out across

00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:08.360
the floor, back against the masonry, his head

00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:11.380
just hunches down into his hands. You hear him

00:47:11.380 --> 00:47:15.519
just crying softly. Zebulon, you still have the

00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:23.579
rainbow scarf. Polder sees that. Oh, no. A friend

00:47:23.579 --> 00:47:27.199
lost was a proclaimer. I don't know if we were

00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:30.539
quite ready to call Tungsten a friend, but, um...

00:47:30.539 --> 00:47:39.960
Yeah. No, not Ward. Oh, hell. That's a damn shame.

00:47:41.260 --> 00:47:43.059
Hey, hopefully they're with the Covenant Guards

00:47:43.059 --> 00:47:48.639
now. Persistent one. I am. Hey, I'll fix you

00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:50.219
guys something to eat. Just take it easy here,

00:47:50.260 --> 00:47:52.480
all right? I know it's hot in here, I know, but

00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.000
after that hand fell down my chimney, I ain't

00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:58.400
risking turning that fire off. Haven't burned

00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:00.860
my furniture. Ran out of wood earlier today.

00:48:01.420 --> 00:48:06.239
That's okay. I kind of like the heat. And he

00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:09.539
muscles away into a small sort of kitchen in

00:48:09.539 --> 00:48:12.480
the back. I think Jean Franklin actually approaches

00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:19.280
you, Jules. You, uh... You could have died. You

00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:23.760
used your magic on me. I could feel it. It's

00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:28.260
what you do for people you care about. Did you

00:48:28.260 --> 00:48:32.980
have to make it weird? No, I... Look, I... I

00:48:32.980 --> 00:48:38.940
don't do this often. Zebulon, you help too. Come

00:48:38.940 --> 00:48:40.380
here, come here. Both of you come here. Stand

00:48:40.380 --> 00:48:43.119
there. Nope, too close. Back up. There, fine.

00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:51.400
No, no, hang on. One, two, come on, three. Thank

00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:57.639
you. Thank you. There. You're welcome. He just

00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.400
turns away. He walks up, storms to the other

00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.519
side of the room. John. What? What? Not asking

00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:07.159
you to say anything you're uncomfortable with.

00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:09.800
Just want you to know we're in this together.

00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:14.880
quickly turns his head away again, but you manage

00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.940
to catch that slight, total smile on his face

00:49:17.940 --> 00:49:21.619
before he does. As he kind of moves over, almost

00:49:21.619 --> 00:49:23.340
like he's inspecting the masonry on the wall,

00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:25.659
but very clearly just not wanting to show his

00:49:25.659 --> 00:49:32.320
face for a moment. I'll take it. Chester's been

00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:36.920
quiet. He's found a small seat, one of the bits

00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.829
of furniture that have not been burned yet. He

00:49:39.829 --> 00:49:43.269
just dropped down in it and, like, holy shit.

00:49:44.190 --> 00:49:48.429
I think Jules goes over, sits down next to him,

00:49:48.469 --> 00:49:52.730
and he doesn't say anything, but I think he kind

00:49:52.730 --> 00:49:56.949
of puts his arm over Chester's shoulder and kind

00:49:56.949 --> 00:50:00.309
of grabs his head and just pulls his head into

00:50:00.309 --> 00:50:03.590
his chest. Chester doesn't say a word. He just

00:50:03.590 --> 00:50:08.400
sits there quietly. His eyes that were opened

00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:10.519
a little too wide before now close, and he just

00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:13.820
sort of rests. You think about it. I mean, he's

00:50:13.820 --> 00:50:15.599
been through a lot on the streets of Tythos,

00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:19.820
but... This is different. This is nothing like

00:50:19.820 --> 00:50:22.400
Tythos. I think that's where Jules falls asleep,

00:50:22.500 --> 00:50:25.599
too. Maybe some hours later, you're woken up.

00:50:25.659 --> 00:50:29.079
I'm not sure. Zebulon, do you sleep now? Yeah,

00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:32.800
I think Zebulon's definitely getting ready to

00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:37.079
find a little spot to cozy up, but... He wants

00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:41.360
to talk to Cully for a minute first. So he walks

00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:44.579
over to Cully. Cully's hands, her face still

00:50:44.579 --> 00:50:48.500
buried in his hands. And sits down next to him,

00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:55.800
quietly. Cully, what are you going to do when

00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:02.059
you find him? I don't know. First time I came

00:51:02.059 --> 00:51:07.440
out here, I vowed. I'd never get anyone else

00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.980
killed like this again. And now Ward... What

00:51:10.980 --> 00:51:14.780
do you think he is, Zebulon? Is he still my boy?

00:51:15.699 --> 00:51:21.260
He has a voice. He spoke. It's him, isn't it?

00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:26.019
It's Cully. He's not the Cully you knew. How

00:51:26.019 --> 00:51:30.000
do you know? Look around you. Look around us.

00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:35.909
There's hands. What does that mean? I don't know.

00:51:37.190 --> 00:51:42.650
And what of Kiana? What's he going to do to her?

00:51:43.610 --> 00:51:47.550
I don't know, but maybe it's not too late for

00:51:47.550 --> 00:51:50.929
Kiana. Do you understand what I'm saying, Cully?

00:51:52.690 --> 00:51:56.250
What do you want me to do? I don't want you to

00:51:56.250 --> 00:51:59.230
die. You're going to kill him again, ain't you?

00:52:00.309 --> 00:52:04.909
I don't know. He was a sweet boy. You never knew

00:52:04.909 --> 00:52:07.110
him, and I wish you could have known him. He

00:52:07.110 --> 00:52:11.889
was a sweet, sweet boy. Could barely kill a bug.

00:52:13.170 --> 00:52:17.269
What is this? Is our land so forsaken by the

00:52:17.269 --> 00:52:22.329
gods that sweet boys become monsters? I don't

00:52:22.329 --> 00:52:25.389
know what's happening here on God's Breath, but

00:52:25.389 --> 00:52:29.730
let's just focus on what we can control. And

00:52:29.730 --> 00:52:31.710
actually, as you say that, you do hear him say,

00:52:31.869 --> 00:52:35.710
it's not to you. It's quiet. Almost under his

00:52:35.710 --> 00:52:41.329
breath, just... It ain't just God's breath. What

00:52:41.329 --> 00:52:45.070
do you mean it ain't just God's breath? We got

00:52:45.070 --> 00:52:50.989
a bad here. We got the worst, but... Soon all

00:52:50.989 --> 00:52:54.369
the world's gonna be like this. What is it? What

00:52:54.369 --> 00:52:57.349
is this? The network doesn't like me talking

00:52:57.349 --> 00:53:00.349
about it, so I never mentioned it. But they know

00:53:00.349 --> 00:53:05.230
when I know. Planar absorption. The theory of

00:53:05.230 --> 00:53:09.250
planar absorption. And Debulon, your mind flashes

00:53:09.250 --> 00:53:12.969
back to the fall of the sapphire as you were

00:53:12.969 --> 00:53:17.949
in the control room. Asking about what happens

00:53:17.949 --> 00:53:23.849
when you're gone. What's causing this. In Ariat.

00:53:25.570 --> 00:53:29.010
Imagine that. It could be. Anything could be

00:53:29.010 --> 00:53:32.550
there. The theory of planar absorption. You remember

00:53:32.550 --> 00:53:35.949
hearing this line before, but having no context,

00:53:35.989 --> 00:53:38.449
no knowledge of what it could mean. Well, it's,

00:53:38.449 --> 00:53:41.750
um... I'll tell you, it's been a minute since

00:53:41.750 --> 00:53:47.670
I studied any planar inclusion, or... But, um...

00:53:47.670 --> 00:53:55.050
What does this mean? Our world's broken. We're

00:53:55.050 --> 00:53:57.730
not supposed to talk about it. Apparently it'd

00:53:57.730 --> 00:54:00.510
be too much panic if we did. Well, we might be

00:54:00.510 --> 00:54:03.150
too dead to panic pretty soon, so I'd kind of

00:54:03.150 --> 00:54:04.909
like to know what's going on, if you don't mind

00:54:04.909 --> 00:54:08.690
here. No, I'll tell you, I'll tell you. It's

00:54:08.690 --> 00:54:10.769
just why I can't speak on the network to it.

00:54:11.349 --> 00:54:14.369
The speakers won't have it. It'll be shut down

00:54:14.369 --> 00:54:17.409
faster than you can believe. They're afraid of

00:54:17.409 --> 00:54:22.130
it. Hell, I'm scared as hell. It might be what

00:54:22.130 --> 00:54:26.250
happened to Tithos. They won't say. But our worlds,

00:54:26.409 --> 00:54:30.619
they are broken. They're slowly being absorbed

00:54:30.619 --> 00:54:33.300
into the planes that are supposed to feed into

00:54:33.300 --> 00:54:37.539
them. The elemental planes. The outer planes.

00:54:38.980 --> 00:54:43.079
The mirror realms like the Feywild. Shadowfell.

00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:46.460
Says that with a bit of a snarl. It's the very

00:54:46.460 --> 00:54:50.820
doomsday Sholay tried to stop. All those years

00:54:50.820 --> 00:54:54.480
ago when she founded the Citadel. It was happening

00:54:54.480 --> 00:54:58.710
then. And it slowed. Way slowed when this idea

00:54:58.710 --> 00:55:02.809
was awakened. The world's connected. But it didn't

00:55:02.809 --> 00:55:07.389
stop. So, doesn't Xolay know how to stop this,

00:55:07.409 --> 00:55:10.969
then? I don't think anyone knows. I don't think

00:55:10.969 --> 00:55:14.409
it can be stopped. Why are there these monsters

00:55:14.409 --> 00:55:19.690
here on God's Breath, but Tithos just fell out

00:55:19.690 --> 00:55:24.210
of the sky? Tithos are strange. Now, most of

00:55:24.210 --> 00:55:26.429
the worlds have just one plane that they're...

00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:29.679
More connected to, right? For Tithos, it was

00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:33.000
the plane of Earth. That's why their gem trade

00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:37.880
was so bountiful. They made out well. Apart from

00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:40.239
the occasional zon that came a -knockin' in those

00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:45.239
mines. But, hell, Tithos did good. Most worlds

00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:50.139
got it worse than that. But, what happened? I

00:55:50.139 --> 00:55:55.119
mean, I can't understand. How? All I know is

00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:58.630
Tithos is gone. Taken in by the King of Gloom,

00:55:58.690 --> 00:56:02.730
perhaps. I don't know. They said that the folk

00:56:02.730 --> 00:56:05.590
there are dead. I don't know if they know it,

00:56:05.630 --> 00:56:08.809
but they sure as hell couldn't reach it. No matter

00:56:08.809 --> 00:56:11.210
how plain of magic they used, the speakers and

00:56:11.210 --> 00:56:13.570
those they hired could get through to Tithos

00:56:13.570 --> 00:56:17.050
like it's just gone. So what's going to happen

00:56:17.050 --> 00:56:19.070
to the rest of the world if this keeps going?

00:56:19.250 --> 00:56:21.469
What's going to happen to God's breath? What's

00:56:21.469 --> 00:56:24.369
going to happen to all the other worlds? I can't

00:56:24.369 --> 00:56:26.510
speak to much. I just know what I've heard, but...

00:56:27.369 --> 00:56:30.710
In God's breath's case, sooner or later we're

00:56:30.710 --> 00:56:33.630
all going to be in the rattle. Every bit of land

00:56:33.630 --> 00:56:38.070
and sea on this world. Covered in mist. Smelling

00:56:38.070 --> 00:56:43.030
like blood. And filled with monsters. Nightmares.

00:56:44.309 --> 00:56:52.050
This is just too much. Yeah. And Cully just kind

00:56:52.050 --> 00:56:56.769
of turns away from you. and buries his head in

00:56:56.769 --> 00:57:03.289
his hands again. Zebulon just lies down on the

00:57:03.289 --> 00:57:09.110
floor and tries to get some sort of sleep. Before

00:57:09.110 --> 00:57:13.969
long, you hear snores from Cully's side, from

00:57:13.969 --> 00:57:17.309
Chester, who's still, I imagine, leading up against

00:57:17.309 --> 00:57:22.090
Jules. Jules sleeps as well, and slumber takes

00:57:22.090 --> 00:57:29.360
you too, Zeb. And you are awoken. Some time later.

00:57:30.179 --> 00:57:33.920
Outside, it's full day. Looks like mid -afternoon.

00:57:34.059 --> 00:57:37.920
And you wake up to the smell of fresh eggs. Sweet

00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:40.940
cornbread. Plates are handed out to each of you,

00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:44.800
and you eat quietly with Polder. And that's done.

00:57:45.940 --> 00:57:50.739
The rest is done. And Coley's eyes are blazing

00:57:50.739 --> 00:57:53.820
again. The horse is given some feed, a couple

00:57:53.820 --> 00:57:59.440
carrots. From the dwindling store. And... The

00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:02.260
door is once again opened onto an empty field.

00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:05.519
You rest on a hilltop looking down over this

00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:08.920
land and somewhere far to the north. You see

00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:12.880
thick wood. Just abruptly standing. There's a

00:58:12.880 --> 00:58:17.679
line of trees. The finish line. Zebulon, you...

00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:20.239
The horse steps out. Imagine, like, right onto

00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:22.219
the stone patio very carefully. You're leading

00:58:22.219 --> 00:58:26.840
it. From the front of the house, Zebion looks

00:58:26.840 --> 00:58:30.780
over to the hole where the boulet dove down.

00:58:31.739 --> 00:58:35.420
Is there any sort of, like, shimmering glint

00:58:35.420 --> 00:58:39.500
in the grass? Roll me a perception check. All

00:58:39.500 --> 00:58:42.360
right. I feel like it would be stupid to use

00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:45.960
a button on this perception check. That's exactly

00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:54.380
why I'm going to do it. Well, the button helped,

00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:58.219
but it's still just a 10. Now, what might help

00:58:58.219 --> 00:59:00.139
with that is I'm actually going to give you guys

00:59:00.139 --> 00:59:04.300
each a button for some fantastic RP just there.

00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:06.460
All right. That feels better. That was some good

00:59:06.460 --> 00:59:08.559
stuff. I'll take it. That was good stuff. Thank

00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.980
you. I'll let you use it before I reveal to getting

00:59:10.980 --> 00:59:15.159
it back. Jingle your jar with me. That sounds

00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:18.360
nice. That sounds nice. Not bad. You're going

00:59:18.360 --> 00:59:22.320
to want those because you're almost there. With

00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:24.639
a 10, I will say a 10 is the minimum you had

00:59:24.639 --> 00:59:29.239
to get, so that's fantastic. Not far down into

00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:32.260
the hole, as the sun is beaming just above you,

00:59:32.340 --> 00:59:36.000
you see a glint of something. It's probably about

00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:39.760
10 feet down. Lodge into the dirt on the side.

00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:42.940
Looks like it got pushed that way. Okay. What

00:59:42.940 --> 00:59:46.679
do you want to do? Okay, so here's how it's going

00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:50.679
to go. I'm going to get on, and I'm going to

00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:55.280
ride. That way. And Zeb points towards the hole.

00:59:56.099 --> 00:59:59.599
Wait till I get, wait till I get like, I don't

00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:04.840
know, 100 feet out. Wait until this thing starts

01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:08.340
to follow me. And then you all run that way.

01:00:09.019 --> 01:00:11.760
And he points north towards the trees. So imagine

01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:13.739
you stepped out very carefully, moved to the

01:00:13.739 --> 01:00:16.639
hole, looked down, saw that. And I mean, you

01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:17.760
would have been at the hole, so you're going

01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:19.420
to go back and ride. Oh, I thought you said the

01:00:19.420 --> 01:00:22.480
hole was like 60 feet away. I assume you walked

01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:24.019
to it because you looked at it. Because you wouldn't

01:00:24.019 --> 01:00:27.619
be able to see 10 feet down the hole. Yeah. Then,

01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:34.679
oh, he grabs it. All right. Let's quickly recontextualize

01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:40.119
here. Okay. Are you leading the horse to the

01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:44.940
hole? Is the horse nearby? What is everyone's

01:00:44.940 --> 01:00:46.420
position if you're going to go for this thing?

01:00:46.699 --> 01:00:50.300
Yeah. Zebulon walked the horse with him. To the

01:00:50.300 --> 01:00:54.940
hole. Very carefully. Very carefully. He wants

01:00:54.940 --> 01:00:59.300
to reach down and try to grab this glinting object.

01:00:59.739 --> 01:01:02.099
You have to climb in. It's ten feet down. And

01:01:02.099 --> 01:01:06.360
you are a one foot tall lizard. He's five feet

01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:13.059
tall. I don't care. Still one tenth of a Jeremy.

01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:18.380
Okay, yeah. He's going to climb down. Climb down

01:01:18.380 --> 01:01:20.710
the shifting hole. You walked your horse across.

01:01:20.849 --> 01:01:24.289
Everyone else is lined up at the house. I want

01:01:24.289 --> 01:01:26.610
a stealth check. And now that you're in the hole,

01:01:26.829 --> 01:01:30.389
I want it with disadvantage. With disadvantage?

01:01:30.449 --> 01:01:33.269
Oh, damn it. Well, since we changed up how things

01:01:33.269 --> 01:01:35.070
were going, I missed my opportunity to cast Bardic

01:01:35.070 --> 01:01:37.929
Inspiration on you. You can still cast it. If

01:01:37.929 --> 01:01:40.250
you want to cast it, I'm not going to say you

01:01:40.250 --> 01:01:45.590
didn't. Yes. Okay. Golden mode around you as

01:01:45.590 --> 01:01:48.230
you're climbing in. Basically, it's almost like

01:01:48.230 --> 01:01:50.349
I want two checks, one for walking and one for

01:01:50.349 --> 01:01:52.570
going down. That's why I say disadvantage. Oh.

01:01:52.750 --> 01:01:54.590
Yeah, so it's really just two separate stealth

01:01:54.590 --> 01:01:56.610
checks, but you're making, you're rolling 2d20.

01:01:56.670 --> 01:02:00.150
All right, well, I just used one pretty silly.

01:02:00.969 --> 01:02:03.489
This one has real serious consequence, though.

01:02:04.389 --> 01:02:07.190
Yes. So if you use your body conspiration die

01:02:07.190 --> 01:02:10.789
on this roll, for an ability check, it can be

01:02:10.789 --> 01:02:13.369
rolled again. It can be rolled twice. Oh, so

01:02:13.369 --> 01:02:16.980
I just gain advantage. Yes. On the Bardic Inspiration

01:02:16.980 --> 01:02:20.760
die, not on your D20 roll. Oh, that's cool. So

01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:22.780
you get advantage on the D6 as well. Oh, gotcha.

01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:26.900
That's awesome. Okay. Wow, I love that. All right.

01:02:26.960 --> 01:02:30.699
Then I think Zebulon's stealth is high enough

01:02:30.699 --> 01:02:35.099
between the plus seven for stealth and the Bardic

01:02:35.099 --> 01:02:39.659
Inspiration with advantage on that. I think I

01:02:39.659 --> 01:02:42.909
still need to use a button. I can't. Roll this

01:02:42.909 --> 01:02:47.090
with disadvantage. Well, here's the thing. It

01:02:47.090 --> 01:02:48.570
was technically supposed to be like two different

01:02:48.570 --> 01:02:49.829
checks. I just wanted to lump them together.

01:02:50.349 --> 01:02:53.409
So the button would be... Yeah, well, fine. I'll

01:02:53.409 --> 01:02:55.349
go with it. I'll go with it. Because I did say

01:02:55.349 --> 01:02:57.469
disadvantage. That's what I said. Okay, well,

01:02:57.510 --> 01:02:59.110
let's stick with it. I mean, we can do whatever

01:02:59.110 --> 01:03:01.530
you want to do. No, that's fine. This is diplomacy.

01:03:02.469 --> 01:03:05.489
Diplomacy. You're sacrificing a button. That's

01:03:05.489 --> 01:03:08.090
a big sacrifice. No, I'm saying, let's talk about

01:03:08.090 --> 01:03:10.929
this. Dude, I'm going to be so pissed if it's

01:03:10.929 --> 01:03:13.949
just like a piece of pottery or some shit. Oh

01:03:13.949 --> 01:03:17.730
my god. It's a pair of glasses. I'm actually

01:03:17.730 --> 01:03:20.590
just going to stick with this die. Alright, so

01:03:20.590 --> 01:03:25.289
one roll. Plus seven. Plus the d6. Here we go.

01:03:25.510 --> 01:03:31.650
Alright. Nine plus seven is sixteen. That's a

01:03:31.650 --> 01:03:37.230
one. Let's re -roll the d6. Okay. That's a six.

01:03:37.929 --> 01:03:43.590
So that's 22. 22. I'll make my perception roll.

01:03:44.090 --> 01:03:47.449
That was worth it. Yeah. Because this thing is

01:03:47.449 --> 01:03:53.750
waiting. Percepting all around. You climb down,

01:03:53.889 --> 01:03:57.929
reach out, pull the diamond from the dirt and

01:03:57.929 --> 01:04:02.630
the soil. And it is the diamond. Worth it. There's

01:04:02.630 --> 01:04:05.250
no other sign of clothing. Maybe just a couple

01:04:05.250 --> 01:04:09.849
shreds down a little lower. but Ward looks like

01:04:09.849 --> 01:04:13.269
they were dragged deeper in or just consumed

01:04:13.269 --> 01:04:17.090
whole, almost fully, and you climb out. Hops

01:04:17.090 --> 01:04:23.170
on the horse and starts to ride away. And this

01:04:23.170 --> 01:04:25.289
time you are intentionally grabbing attention.

01:04:25.869 --> 01:04:30.170
So you pound past the hole, everyone watching

01:04:30.170 --> 01:04:31.750
from the doorsteps getting ready to make their

01:04:31.750 --> 01:04:36.550
own run. Bardic inspiration gone, button spent.

01:04:37.239 --> 01:04:40.840
Diamond in hand, Zebulon pockets it and gallops.

01:04:41.539 --> 01:04:44.280
And just as you're passing by the hole, just

01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.719
as you're really letting these shockwaves enter

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the dirt below you, this thing bursts up just

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beyond where you ride. And the chase begins anew,

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and we'll call it there!