Songwoven presents The Lanaya Expedition, a level-up, advanced-fit edition, actual play
campaign.
Episode 21, Awake, Alive.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Songwoven, the Lanaya Expedition coming from you live inside
a Pringles can.
We went there immediately, huh?
We gotta tackle the allegations before anything happens.
We gotta be on top of everything.
The allegations?
The allegations.
That's what we call it in the PR industry.
We are the most controversial stream, really.
Oh yeah.
We're the controversial ones on Twitch.
We kinda are when we think about it.
I allege that Timmy sabotaged my computer.
Yeah.
And that-
Gotcha.
Okay.
Yeah, clearly the most controversial team out there.
Well every- oh well, I am Tim Don Tran.
I am your lore weaver and who- wait, who's that?
Who's that over there, over yonder?
Who is this?
What?
Oh yes, me.
You refer to me.
I exist.
I've never met this person and I don't know how he got here.
How'd you get here?
Why do you have a slut?
You have a good name.
He doesn't even go here.
Oh boy.
What am I in for?
Everyone, this is our very first song- this is our very first guest on Songwoven and he,
his name is-
Oh yeah, Q's.
Hi, I'm JT.
I've been the moderator.
I have been in most of the streams.
People in chat know who I am.
I am now playing the game.
Chat knows who I am.
And he is how many years old?
Is that important?
And the first letter of his name is?
It's on screen, isn't it?
And the last?
Gotta get these Q's.
Why is this the bit?
Also, like question the age thing makes me feel like we're on a dating show.
So like underneath it would say like JT, 23.
It would be the most fucked up thing if this- this is a friendship ender immediately.
If this was a dating show, this would be immediate.
Welcome to Songwoven.
We gotta do like the bachelor style little pop up.
Love, love on the line.
But then on Love Island, and I, cause just from the little bits I've seen, I watched
with my mom, just on Love Island where they change like the occupation thing to like different
things relevant to what's happening.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
And it's like, it's always on the Lanaya road.
So you always hear people or see people passing in the background.
Just to get on top of this, thank you to our guest for enjoying his role.
It looks like he wants to leave now.
So very first guest everyone.
JT!
That's how I normally am during the streams anyways.
He's just now on camera.
Now you get to hear and see it all, his pain in real time.
Yes, we have JT with us for a good bit.
We have him on, we have him on the hook until we let him go.
And who knows if we're even going to do that.
But I, but yeah, let's see.
And of course, duh.
We also have with us the two indomitable.
I'm the one in the Pringles can.
And the explanation behind, oh, my name's Jenny, but also the Pringles can.
It's like a really messed up genie bottle.
Jenny in a bottle, but it's a Pringles can.
I put Jenny in a bottle.
So I have a little tripod thing that I, it's new.
I put my camera into.
Well, OK, so I'm having to look at my phone because my computer stopped working like 20
minutes before the stream started.
And so, but I have this tripod thing, but it goes too wide to go on my desk because
my desk is really tiny in here.
So I have to shove it into the lid of a Pringles can to keep it up.
And that's the behind the scenes you'll never see.
I just realized I forgot to shut my door, so I'll be right back.
Everything's a mess.
Everything's going swell.
Everything's going according to plan.
Nothing's going wrong.
Everything is awesome.
Embrace the sky.
And I am your eldritch horror, Emery Musco.
Emery Musco!
I'm happy to be here.
Perfect play.
I do actually now I really want to make like a bachelor themed campaign where we have confessionals
where like, you just talk right to the camera and to chat and that's your confessional.
I know there's other D&D streams that they have like a channel point reward where they
can ask for like a TV style confessional from a character of their choice.
And they just stop and they explain, like talk to the TV about what's going on as their
character is if they're being interviewed about it.
Hey, so it took five minutes and I regret my choices.
The fastest guest spot in the West.
He pops out for five minutes and he's gone.
We're good.
But, but yeah, I don't believe we have any announcements at the top of the show in case
you didn't catch it the last show.
We are we have a new set schedule as of now.
Every last Sunday of each month, we will be taking off to recharge our batteries.
I said in French, I'm sorry, our battery.
We do have a Canadian viewer.
I'm so sorry.
I love you to whoever you are.
I'm so sorry.
And the reason why you stayed along, I just want to say you're probably the reason why
to all native speakers.
I'm so sorry.
I believe that's about it.
Also announcement.
I just got out of therapy about Jean Claude's accent drop.
When you dropped the accent last session, I just recovered from that.
So don't ever do that again.
That was very harmful.
It was really weird.
That was very harmful to my inner chemicals.
Don't worry.
It will never happen again.
He will forever only be his French self.
Next time Timmy has to speak in a French accent.
Mon frère, I'm Claude.
You see we have good upset.
We went real German.
Mein Jean Claude, I must eat spaghetti.
Spaghetti?
Spaghetti.
Timmy's like, I am Europe.
As the French say, spaghettie.
We pronounce each and every thing.
Timmy's just, this is his European accent.
It encompasses all of Europe.
You're European and he's like, yeah, man.
Fantasy Europe.
Okay.
I believe with that said, who here, aka JT is going to do the recap?
Let's go, JT.
Oh boy.
I have one thing that could save me.
I cut that in before my computer stopped working.
But I guess that's a recap.
Give us the recap, JT.
Jean Claude and Cecilia revisit their past memories.
They discover that the rumored rebelling automatons in the town ahead just may be a tiny bit self-aware.
The pair then prepare to set off towards the robot-filled town, seeking answers on behalf
of their skull friend, Aphius, who recognizes the name of the town's archmage, but does
not remember why.
They def dated.
Oh boy.
Please, no.
I want you to hold onto that.
Tim is like, by the way, your nine is now a 10.
Is this the guy who stole his girl?
Remember someone stole the girl he liked?
That's right.
Maybe he stole his gal.
This is the guy.
Oh boy.
All right.
Let's kill him.
This is the bachelor.
Every time the confessional comes to Aphius, he's like, what a fucking bitch.
I fucking hate that guy.
I told you he was no fucking good.
He's the reason why the economy is this way.
Fuck that guy.
Come on.
All right.
With that said, as our intrepid duo continue their way on the Linaya expedition, we are
going to go backwards in time.
Backwards?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The backwards time music.
Everything that lives is designed to end.
We are forever trapped in a never ending spiral of life and death.
We enter a classroom, a sanctuary of knowledge and mysticism, a breathtaking room bathed
in a soft ethereal glow that emanates from the crystal chandelier suspended from the
high vaulted ceilings.
Massive arched windows line one wall of the classroom and tapestries depicting mystical
creatures line the other.
The sensor of the classroom is dominated by a grand polished mahogany desk behind which
stands the professor's podium and behind that stands a lean and imposing elven man
with silvery white hair and almond shaped deep sapphire eyes.
Professor Undomeel of Frexen Arcane Academy.
As he dictates to a class of fresh faced students.
Nihilistic approaches are accustomed to the topic of existentialism, yet what separates
the great thinkers from the mundane is their positive will to find a reason to exist.
The so called cycle of life may seem tedious, but in imbuing it with meaning, one can live
freely and authentically.
He raises his staff and a small display of magical lights periodically arc in the air
above him.
As practitioners of the arcane, we are uniquely poised to understand the intricacies of existence.
We manipulate the very forces that shape reality.
But my dear students, magic is not just about casting spells and brewing potions, it is
about understanding the underlying forces that govern our world.
Existentialism invites us to confront the vastness of the cosmos and question our place
within it.
As we delve into the abyss of knowledge, remember that it is not despair that defines us, but
the choices we make in the face of an uncertain destiny.
Now before we embark, let us ponder the question that echoes throughout the corridors of time,
a question that transcends magic and philosophy alike.
What does it mean to be human?
And we cut away.
An elf says that?
Yeah, a human, a living person.
That's the hardest thing about like D&D world stuff.
It's like I would say like, but they're like a human being and I'm like, well actually
they're an elf, but you know what?
I had to write.
I was playing a gnome the other day and I was like, that's inhumane.
That's in gnomish of you.
That's in gnomish.
Oh, the dwarf vanity.
Oh boy.
Rain, a vast empty darkness with only the trees poking out, poking out beyond the horizon.
Any normal human person wouldn't be able to see the crowns of the trees over yonder, but
you are different.
You're accustomed to the dark.
You lived in it your whole life.
Dalmar, you're here again.
It's the same dream as you hold up a lantern with your right hand, the orange red crown
of the flame nestled inside, giving light to your surrounding.
You look around and see that you are at the opening of a cave and it beckons you inside.
It promises warmth.
It promises safety, dryness from the rain, but it beckons you in other ways that you
don't quite understand.
Do you walk in?
I do.
You walk in and as you walk in, as the familiar ambiance, almost second nature to you, of
the cave begins to enshroud you, you get a sinking feeling in your stomach because you've
already lived this place a thousand times before.
Whispers from time to time.
You can never discern what they were saying, not even once, not a single word, but you
know their voices.
As you walk down this linear cave, downwards, down multiples, down slopes, as you delve
deeper into this place, you flex your hand, you feel it coursing through your body at
times.
Electricity, not just electricity, something wild, something untamed, something that has
stayed with you for a long time, something that you can't get rid of, a stranger living
inside of your body.
As you stop at a certain point, you realize just how deep you've gone, and then you realize
the place where you're at.
The place where it all happened.
Footsteps you hear behind you.
And as you look, you are greeted with the faces, those faces who have reigned inside
of your head.
Fresh, young dwarves, a man, four brothers, his sons, his family.
You know what happened to them when they walked in there with you.
But it seems like that they're alive.
They're alive, Dahmar.
Maybe now, maybe now you can turn everything back, make those decisions that you wanted.
But you can't, and it hurts.
Alright, we're here now.
You can lead the way.
Alright, behind me, we go together.
Yes, alright.
Come on, brothers.
Sit close with me, boys.
Yes, they have all their equipment, these mining helmets, pickaxes.
They brought everything.
And they begin to follow you.
Your eyes glaze over their forms, because you remember them.
You remember the equipment they brought, the clothes they wear.
One of them had buck teeth, the other one was missing a front tooth.
You remember them because someone had to, because not a single bit of them was found.
And you're taking them?
As you walk along, as they huddle behind you in a line, as their hopeful eyes, maybe they
weren't hopeful when you saw them, but in this dream they looked like they looked like
something else.
Maybe the hopeful eyes that perhaps they thought they were going to have a future, maybe some
of them would fall in love, maybe those are the eyes that were going to gaze upon a child
of theirs one day.
And you walk.
You walk as the feelings inside of your body amplify.
The voices are a bit clearer now.
It's theirs.
And on a wall, in a gash in the wall, there is a brightness coming out of it.
A tangible, ethereal light.
And you have your pickaxe in your hand.
Alright we're here.
I'll get us started.
Once we get going, you all join in.
Lead the way.
By my name, Golden Rock, we do this together.
We come back with yours.
That's the plan.
Alright, you've got this.
We'll follow in your lead.
And he'll take that first swing at the gash in the wall.
A breath.
Your eyes open to the darkness of a bedroom.
At the edges of the blackout curtains, you see that sunlight is threatening to burgeon
around the edges.
It's morning.
You're here.
As you wipe the sweat off your neck and you sit up in your bed, you look to your side
and you see the mirror that stands on the side of your room.
What do you see when you look in the mirror?
He sees a face of heavy regret and sorrow.
The face he's seen every morning sends what happened, thanks to that dream.
And he gives a quick look to where that right arm used to be.
You're in reality now.
What does Dalmar look like?
Dalmar is a short, stocky, deep dwarf.
Long orange hair, long orange braided beard.
Someone who you would have expected to spend his entire life deep in a mountain never seeing
the surface or the sunlight.
But something has changed within him and he now carries that alongside him and you see
the face of someone who will never forget what they cost.
Life goes on and right now time is beckoning you to somewhere at the moment.
As you see, as you look at the clock, as it strikes seven, you are to be somewhere at
eight.
You get up looking towards the window and you are a deep dwarf.
You're not accustomed to light, but it's been for the past few months, it's been a lot of
welcoming.
It's been a lot of welcoming it.
Do you open the curtains?
I don't open them yet.
The first thing he'll do upon getting out of bed is buy the window sill.
He has a book and like he has the past morning for these last few months, he will reopen
it to a fresh page and write down the names of those who are with him.
Making sure that their memories are still there before he opens the blinds and lets
in the light.
You write down the nine names and after a solemn moment, you open the blinds to allow
the light inside.
You are gifted with the great view of Frexon, a place of arcane prosperity in a kingdom
where the arcane is found upon.
You see it, a tapering skyline of a large wizard's towels.
Your window is directly into a bathhouse, apparently.
And a wizard's towel.
You look to see the vast place before you, a one of a kind place in the kingdom of Cadvalrim,
literally a place where you can find nowhere else in this kingdom.
A town of prosperity, boasting technological advances.
You can see them before you, roaming automatons.
You see a large automaton that wears a hat, a watchman currently putting his hand out
for a cable car to stop as children pass by.
You see children giggle and play along with it as they begin to draw on the watchman's
arm.
But they were made to care for people's needs, not robots, you find.
Automatons.
This is making me realize, are we going to get set up to solve the trolley problem for
automatons?
Oh no.
Don't do that.
John Claude was going to be like, what the fuck?
Why is the wizard trolley to begin with?
You see the great Wrexon Arcane Academy, a vast before you, the Trinidad and Bard College
of the Muses.
And you are inside what is possibly one of the biggest libraries in Cadvarim, the Horizon
Athenium.
Truly a blessing to be here, a few weeks journey from your home.
As you begin to, turn it down to music, as you get yourself ready for the day, as the
world outside is moving at a fast pace, students and bards flocking about everywhere, people
getting to whatever they need to be, heavy foot traffic on the bottom, this place was
a town.
But since because of the fast growth, now it has to accommodate the population of a
city almost.
You get yourself ready for the day.
Having your personal effects, can you describe what Dalmar carries with him?
The first thing he picks up is a very intricate, very well made full prosthetic arm.
And he looks at it with just a look of resignation and acceptance on his face.
As he does up the straps, tightens a few bolts, moves the fingers to make sure that they're
all working properly, and then pulls his shirt sleeve down over half of it, trying to hide
as much of it as he can.
And he doesn't carry much else, a normal bag with a few essentials in it, some paper, some
ink.
But as he walks to his door, sitting at the doorway is his old, trusty pickaxe.
And he has to take a moment before he even reaches to pick it up, now with his left hand.
And he holds it out from himself, staring, debating whether or not he even needs it or
should have it, before sighing and strapping it across his back.
He's ready to go.
As soon as you get it all strapped in, there is a knock on your door.
Yes?
Just- oh, um, are you still getting ready?
No, I'm ready.
Alright, great!
Because perfect timing, I was just about ready to come get you!
As you open the door, you see the sprightly young face of a half-elf.
Two twin buns sit on the back of her messy little head of black hair.
She wears larger than life glasses with very round lenses.
She's a brilliant one, this one.
And you can tell from the dark mark beneath her eyes, as you open the door, she's holding
two cups of coffee.
And as you open the door to the hallway, you see before you enter the hallway itself, in
this very, like, expanse, like, very linear hallway, pneumatic tubes line the top of the
ceiling, and you see messages and bottles just going to and fro through these pneumatic
tubes.
This place is busy already.
You are currently staying in one of the servants' rooms in the library, people who serve the
Great Horizon Athenium, a library considered one of the greatest in Kat voram, and it's
not even done yet!
As you see, the pneumatic tubes are currently being full.
You see the young half-elf before you, Luanne Bossaint.
Luanne!
I love her name.
She just holds a cup of coffee to you.
She just goes, I don't know how you take it.
So I put, like, I do add how I take it.
It's, I take almost like, you know those spoons, those big spoons they had?
There's like five of them, five sugars.
I take it you're a sweet person.
Good morning to you too, Luanne.
Oh, goodness, sorry about that.
Good morning.
Oh my gosh.
You said five.
Five?
For me, um, but I thought I would want to spoil you a little bit.
No!
I put six.
So he will just kind of raise his eyebrows at that and take a very small sip, immediately
recoiling from how sweet she has made this coffee before just nicely saying, thank you
kindly.
It's also a little salty, I'll say.
What?
Oh no.
What did you do?
He's just, he's not going to take another sip of it, but he's going to hold on to it
until he can very discreetly get rid of it outside of the library.
Dump it in the plant, dump it in the plant.
I put a little bit of salt in there because they say that everything that tastes good
has sweet and saltiness to it.
So I wanted to try that.
And which, which book did you hear that one in?
Oh, um, I just kind of like, I heard about it, you know, it came to me in a dream actually
that time.
Hey.
What?
Well.
Oh, I also, I also got you, I also got you this.
Um, they didn't have orange, uh, frosting.
So you have a pink beard now?
And she pulls out this cookie that has a poorly drawn picture of what's, what's, what you
think is supposed to resemble a dwarf.
Oh, she's so sweet.
Oh boy.
Don't worry.
I see.
Don't worry.
No salt.
But I heard people like spicy cookies in another part of the world.
So I did, I did put the extract of a pepper inside.
He will actually gladly take a bite out of that cookie and basically down the entire
thing.
Oh, this shit's good.
The salty coffee was a no.
The spicy cookie is a win.
It gives him a brief moment of home and it's gone.
As you devour it, she goes, yeah.
She celebrates a little bit.
Lulan places to be.
Yeah.
Right.
Places to be.
Come on.
Um, this, I should drink the coffee.
Um, this, we gotta, we gotta go ahead and catch the cable car.
Um.
I just want to ask him, how tall is Lulan?
Remember, Dalmar's a dwarf.
You're a dwarf, but she's like, she's like, she's like five foot two.
She's still a good head taller than him.
So he's just very much making sure when she's not looking to maybe pour coffee out into
things, plants, trash cans, lanterns.
Water.
Into the lantern it goes out.
The possibly magical plant that you poured into, um, you can also feel it.
You can also see it like recoil and like, well, what the fuck did you just give me?
The plant slaps you.
The robot went crazy.
They got the sugar, salt, sweet, salty coffee.
They're just having a little sugar rush.
Oh yeah, I wish.
If only it was that easy.
As you pass robed individuals, people, educated people, um, being a librarian, you gotta say,
it takes a lot of qualifications.
I learned that pretty recently.
As you pass all these, uh, all these educated people, all these robed individuals, all carrying
stacks of books, some of them writing letters, looking at each little like station where
they put, they have to put messages, pneumatic tubes.
You insert out into the grand parts of the Horizon Atheism where a large arcane arcane
ball hovers and this, uh, the two rings kind of like spin around it.
As you see students and bards alike, all, uh, all in their respective positions, this
grand library, you see bards practicing in their little spheres of silence.
Uh, wizards studying, wizards studying in the quieter, quieter parts of the library
tending to, tending to the materials.
Um, and, uh, as you see books flock to and fro as, uh, as a student in, as a student
in a wheelchair is being, uh, carried up by, uh, by a magic, by a magic platform to the
other levels.
Um, you are, uh, um, you, you are going towards the exit to exit the library.
Uh, when, when you see a rolling ball, uh, coming up, uh, rolling up towards the both
of you, um, as the ball stops, you see a, um, you see an automaton kind of like lift
its body outside of the ball.
Its bottom half of the body, uh, the ball part, the wheel.
Um, and you see a, uh, a, um, a, uh, a fresh looking automaton, uh, uh, light, uh, white
eyes with, uh, with kind of flickering lights, no mouth.
It's just a sphere for a head and two arms.
Uh, just kind of like come up to the, uh, the both of you and go, hello, do you need
any assistance?
Is, um, not, not right now, little one.
Um, and he just goes, Oh, because I do.
Me, hashtag me.
Yes.
Apparently I am broken and I am in need of maintenance.
Can you please bring me to the, uh, to the appropriate person?
Rock mage, Ben Rick.
Aye.
And he will kneel down and how big is the sphere?
He's, he's a small guy.
Uh, both hands or one hand.
It is both hands though.
It is both hands.
He will hand the coffee back to Luan.
Oh, you can drink it.
The automaton.
It's like, sorry.
I, uh, I think I need both hands for this one.
Oh, okay.
No problem.
You've drank the whole thing.
Wow.
Good job.
Aye.
Do you want more?
No.
All right.
Good.
I got it.
Um, as you pick up the sphere, uh, and she's holding it, uh, she's holding both cups.
Luan goes like, Oh wait, what exactly is wrong with you?
It was, uh, and you see the, uh, you see the automaton, uh, just goes, I'm not quite sure.
Um, it says the seekers, they deem me, they deem me as a malfunctioning unit because I
inquire too much.
Oh no.
Quiet too much.
Huh.
All right.
Well, whatever the case, we'll get you fixed up.
Yay.
I'm so excited.
By the way, my designation is Charlie.
I don't feel about that name though.
What have I picked my own?
That right there is something off.
Not right.
Luan, have you ever seen one of the automatons talking like that?
Uh, no.
Huh.
I think we should get this one back to Oxon.
Yeah, let's do that.
All right, buddy.
You're going to be adventuring with us.
Adventure.
That sounds so fun.
Yes.
Uh, adventure.
That's what it is.
As you hold Charlie in your hand, you see his, you see his eyes, which they, they're
a light and like different parts of the eye.
You see that they light up in a way where he, you know, the eyes showcase like happiness
in a way.
Like the, like the supposed eyebrows are kind of like lit up.
Oh gosh.
It's an automaton.
It doesn't need feelings.
All I'm saying is Jean-Claude's going to lead the next revolution.
Yeah.
Why shouldn't he be allowed to pick his own name?
Yep.
As you walk out of the library, you are immediately, uh, you are, you are immediately greeted with
the, the, the blur of two students, uh, two students, two flying students, whizzing past,
uh, to, uh, to which, uh, to which you see, uh, Luanne go, Hey, watch it.
Throws a cup at them.
Doesn't even make it like two feet.
She's really weak.
Luanne, I appreciate the effort.
Maybe not your strong suit there.
Uh, she, she just goes, when am I going to do it though?
This is why, this is why I met, this is why I need magic.
This when I get a fireball, those kids are going to be flying in the air for longer.
Okay.
Hold on.
She just, she just, uh, she just goes, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
I heard that.
I'm sorry.
No one is, no one tell anyone.
I didn't mean that.
That was just intrusive thoughts.
And she picks up the cup.
We've come over this Luanne.
There are some things that do not need to be said.
We keep them inside.
Four.
What is it good for?
Charlie goes, I little one, not now.
Right.
Apologies.
I was up with the ball.
You're not going to make me feel bad for a little tiny robot ball.
It's not going to happen.
I will see.
Jenny's like, I'll ensure you do.
I'm stronger than you.
I am not pack bonding with this thing.
You are greeted with the vibrant sight of, of the life and Rexon.
This place is, this place is newly, newly built, completely different than the mountain town
of Intrepid, completely different from inside the mountains too.
Um, the vast open streets, they had the best architects working on this place.
Um, thankfully due to the funds provided by house Don Allara, um, this place has gotten
everything in needed and deserved.
After all, this place was meant to be a showcase that arcane prosperity is a tangible thing
is in, is a tract of prospect, especially for the crown.
The people who really, uh, the people who, whose opinions really matter.
Um, as you see the lar, as you, as you enter star, starfall square, uh, and walk through
the, uh, walk through the wardens promenade, the plate, the city built along, built along
a river shops on two different, two different levels adorning the streets.
This place is supposedly a paradise.
Um, but to you, it's a stranger's land and it is as unfamiliar as it can get.
Um, you, uh, you once again see a watchman, um, uh, a watchman, uh, seated on the ground
as children are kind of like, uh, hugging it.
And you see a guard, a guard goes, Hey, uh, come on.
Uh, a young guard goes, Hey, come on guys, get off, get off the big little road, the
big automaton.
Um, and these children are, children are drawing even more stuff on it.
Some, one of them is drawing like a mustache on it and the guard is like, Hey, Hey, Hey,
Hey, Hey, um, these watchmen, iron stall, ward guardians, you see there's lances, uh,
stasis lances kind of like place along its back.
These things are built for battle.
Um, but apparently, uh, they've been, they have been given a motion to treat people with
empathy and kindness whenever it may.
And you see it, you see it treating the children with the utmost gentleness.
Stand up for yourself.
Hmm?
You gotta stand up for yourself.
Um, and well, as you walk past the watchman, you hear talking to the kids goes, what is
your name?
Um, and you, uh, and you hear, I'm Desmond.
Uh, and, and you're, and you're walking past, uh, and walking past all of that.
Um, a cable car on a ground path is making its way up the central district where you
know, uh, where you know where, uh, where it takes you to the Lounspire Heights, the
center nerve system of this place where everything important happens and where you're supposed
to go.
You enter into a crowded cable, a crowded cable car as it takes you up this up central
district where you see even more life thriving around you crowded streets, uh, to your left
and right.
Um, as you are taken towards where all the, uh, the wizard towels and wizard towers are.
Eventually you see it into your sight.
The arcane amputee where the mage group, uh, not, well, not mage group, the group of merchants
who are putting a lot of money into this project, the zenith are located and it's where one
of the brightest minds found on this side of Mithrin can be found.
As you make your way up to the arcane amethyst large spherical building, uh, make making
your way around the large fountain carrying Charlie, you make your way into the building.
Uh, large marble floors, uh, tap tapestries of tapestries that depict mages throughout
history.
Um, Brandrick's great, great, great, great, great grandfather, um, a legendary archmage
in the lovellum dynasty, uh, depicted on the very, very forefront of, of it all, a lavish
intricate building that's built to the memory of everything arcane and the celebration of
it.
The war on secrets, um, the war of transparency, every historical event depicted on these walls.
Um, you are checked by, you are checked by a smaller, um, a smaller automaton who, um,
who, who, who knows you and allows you to go in, uh, up the stairs with your pickaxe
as you make your way to the, uh, to the place of importance to the laboratory.
Now, as you get there, um, to the large, as you go, as you weave your way through walls,
uh, through halls, you, um, get to the large double set of doors.
Um, and Luanne also just gives it a straight knock.
She goes, Archmage, we're here.
No response.
He's probably sleeping.
Luanne, do you mind holding the little one?
Yeah, sure.
Oh, he will.
What just happened?
Um, as you get-
I'm sorry, can you make that noise again?
Oh, God.
As you hand Charlie to her, she just, she just falls to the ground.
Impure thoughts.
Dalmar probably did not realize how heavy it was.
Uh, Charlie, uh, Charlie just goes, just goes, I apologize if my weight, if my weight is
not to your, if you're not acclimatized to someone of my weight, may I recommend basic
training?
Oh boy.
Now that he has his hands free, is it a single door or what?
Double door.
He is going to both hands slam into the door and fly them open.
All of his strength.
As you slam your hands into the door, um, you see a lit lab before you.
Um, a bet, another benefit of this place, another, another aspect of Brandenburg's lab
is that there is a, there's an observatory here that looks up into the stars, a beautiful
large telescope and a glass dome.
So there's a lot of, there's plenty of natural light in there.
Usually he has it closed when he's not in the lab, but he's been in his lab for a while.
Even though the sound was heavy and it was, and it was loud.
Um, you see before you, um, a human, uh, a human man, uh, it says with sand, with sandpaper,
like a hair unkempt, uh, unkempt straight hair, um, currently, uh, passed out, just
completely passed out possibly from a long day of work on his desk.
Uh, a, um, a peeled banana, uh, still in his hand, uh, as he uses completely asleep and
heavily so.
He will walk up to Arxon, his very good friend.
I'll point out before I do what I'm about to do to him and taking some of his hair in
his hand and slowly lifting his head up before just dropping it back down on the desk.
Oh, that's God's, uh, uh, and he looks, he looks towards you and he just goes, no more.
I was falling in my dream.
Hey, told you that would happen if you didn't stop sleeping at your desk.
When's the last time you even used your bed?
Uh, beds are, uh, it says overrated advice.
Sleep in, if I sleep within the confines of my laboratory, I am gaining.
I am absorbing all kinds of information.
Am I not besides a chair is comfortable as is.
It has cushions on it for a reason.
When's the last time you even got outside?
When things were easier.
How are you doing friend?
They've been easier.
Right.
We manage.
Everything's okay now.
I hesitate before just saying, Hey, it's, it's fine.
Oh yeah.
We brought a, one of your little automatons to you as a unknown problem.
And you'll just get a bit closer to him.
It does not agree with its given name.
I don't know what's going on, but a lot of the automatons are starting to take interest
in that.
It's not right.
And you see, he looks over to Lou, to Luanne whose knees are shaking as she's trying to
carry Charlie with all of her might.
It just goes, Luanne, why don't you, uh, why don't you put him down easy?
Okay.
Louanne puts him down and you see, uh, Charlie, Charlie seems nervous.
There is trepidation in his hand as he kind of like holds his like hands together.
Um, as he looks over his, the eyes depicting some kind of sadness.
You feel it at the, um, you see, you see the look on
Arxian's face, a look of that's not supposed to happen.
Um, as he looks, uh, as he looks in over and he just goes, Charlie, um, come, come here.
The ball, uh, the wheels begin to turn as the, uh, comes over as Charlie comes over.
Um, and he just goes, this is one of the helpers in the library.
Uh, right.
Looking to towards, uh, it just rolled up to us on our way out this morning.
What exactly, um, what exactly is the matter with you, Charlie?
I'm not in trouble.
Am I?
Oh, and there's a pause.
As you see, um, Arxian kind of like, let's think, sink in and he just goes, you're not
in trouble.
Uh, come here.
And you see Charlie kind of like with chappadation walk forward and Arxian just goes, all right,
little one, this, this is just going to be, um, typical maintenance.
I'm just going to take a look at you.
Okay.
I'll turn, I'll turn you off and, and then before you know it, you'll turn back on.
It's just, it's going to be just like you blinked.
And then, uh, and then you see Charlie goes, no.
Oh no.
No.
It's just Archmage.
It's cold.
And then you see the Archmage just kind of like blink for a moment.
It's it's cold.
He says, I know, I know what it's like to have maintenance.
It's really, it's really cold and everything is black and I can't think.
And it's just like, it feels like I'm, I think, I think, I think, I, I just, I feel like I'm,
I die.
Um, and that's when you see Arxian in this sudden panicky motion reaches forward.
This is like the hand over the back of the head and just, and you see Charlie just turn
off.
What Arxian, what is going on?
This is not supposed to happen.
I need to look into his core.
Luan closed the door.
Doors gets closed.
Um, he just, uh, then you see, uh, Arxian begins to begins to dig through, um, and he
begins to mumble to himself.
He always does.
This is his habit.
He's using, uh, his stream of consciousness, his stream of thoughts.
Um, uh, and it's absolutely things you do not understand.
Just look at the dark and go to see where the threats are.
It's, it should not be happening.
It should not be happening.
Uh, and you see as he, as he opens up, he opens up the back.
He's never explained to you properly how these automatons have feelings in the first place.
Um, you see, he begins to, uh, open it up and looks at you, uh, Dalmar.
Um, and he goes, has he done anything else strange?
I, uh, I don't believe so, but, uh, he didn't seem right from when he first came up to us.
A bit too inquisitive, a bit too personable.
They are designed to be that way.
Were they asking about your needs?
Were they?
I, this was past that.
Instead of asking about needs, they were asking about things.
Not to help, but like they were trying to understand something.
Personal identity.
It was, there was also a watchman surrounded by a group of kids like they all always are.
And it was asking their names.
That's rather typical.
Learning the names, identifying potential criminals.
These were school children.
What reason would it have to think them criminal?
Perhaps that's them trying to identify the, the, the parts of them that were designed
to identify.
Perhaps, perhaps the weave in this place is unstable.
I'm not quite sure.
Uh, he, he opens up, uh, he opens up the, the, uh, he opens up the, uh, the, uh, the
automaton and the back going towards, going into the bottom.
He begins to like, uh, very gingerly pull out like a core.
Um, uh, this, um, and you can, and you can feel it, uh, as this heavily, heavily magical
item becomes open into the room.
You feel it.
You can, uh, this tingling, uh, feeling this almost like pain, uh, allergy, uncomfortableness,
uh, overcomes you as you feel a heavily magical item in front of you.
He, as you, as he pulls it out, he, he realizes, and he just shoves it back in, um, looking
at you and he closes it.
He just goes, I think I'm going to do this in a separate room.
I, I would be the best for all three of us.
I'm sorry, Dalmar.
I'll find a way.
I promise.
I know.
I trust you.
It's goes, I swear on my name.
As he picks up, uh, Charlie and heads off to a separate adjoining room, uh, his inner,
uh, his inner office.
As he, uh, as he closes the door, Louann goes, you okay?
I'm fine.
I, uh, I wish you wouldn't throw his name around like that.
It's quite the name.
I, names like that, legacy, expectation.
Oh, I'm sorry, Dalmar.
You don't know just how hard they are until, well, you don't.
I, uh, we could talk about it, but I assume that's pretty heavy for you right now.
I'm not sure if cough drops will make you feel better.
I have a couple in my bag.
What is this woman on cough drops?
And then where can I get some five, um, five quarter cups of sugar in your coffee.
Um, she's goes, but I, I, I do not need them.
Man, this is Tomiton stuff.
It made sense to me, but I didn't know it could get beyond this.
But I guess if you're dealing with, I guess if you're dealing with the, uh, the, the ghost
and the ethereal plane, I guess it can get a little unpredictable.
What?
Magic, magic is fickle and the way they use it is, and he'll look over at the door and
make sure it is closed before saying it to Luan.
I don't like it.
It's risky.
They could be just as effective without half a magic they're running.
I don't know.
You see this, you see this town and everything that's in it.
We can't do that with divine magic or nature.
Maybe we aren't supposed to.
That's not for me to argue.
But I'm, I don't have the viewpoint like you do.
I understand that.
Right.
We should, uh, let the Archmage work.
Right.
Um, I guess I can, I guess I'm just cleaning up around the place a little bit.
Um, you know how this Tomiton stuff works, right?
I think you would know, yeah, Dalmar would know a tiny bit.
Mm-hmm.
Um, basic, basic thing, uh, basic thing for you, the weave is everything magic, uh, is
everything magical.
It connects, the threads go up, go throughout every part of the universe.
Uh, not, not the universe, the, the plane of existence, but, uh, each thread goes through
every single plane of existence.
It goes through the Feywild, it goes through, um, the Shadowfell, the Ethereal plane, uh,
the Astral plane.
It touches every single thread.
What the Otamatons, uh, are ba- are based on is that they are filled with cores which
pull from other parts of the, um, uh, the other, uh, the other parts of the weave that
are not access- that are typically not accessible on the material plane.
And, uh, in the Ethereal plane, there's a bunch of ghosts, dead people and stuff.
And when there's ghosts, there's strong emotions that the, that the core see- that the core
seeks to gather and basically give it instructions.
So the Otamatons, um, they operate on these emotions.
Um- This is really unethical.
This is gonna be a problem.
Uh-huh.
You haven't gotten to that yet.
What was that, Jenny?
I wish I release was here.
She would hate this shit.
She would.
She would fucking hate this.
Get this done.
Shut this shit down.
I think Dennis would cry.
Um, that's, that- uh, gosh, okay, we'll get to the Dennis part another, another time,
but that's- What do you mean?!
Well, don't get to the Dennis part!
You, you remember, you remember when, um, okay, no one else knows this.
When Dino?
Oh my god, wait!
Yeah, yeah.
Oh my god, they- no, they did not!
They, they knew that's where I'll come from?
That's what happened, yeah.
No one else knows what this is, but this is just, this is, uh, an inner part between me,
Emma and everyone here.
We played another game.
Um- Back story for another game.
Dennis, what have you done?!
Uh, what, what did- It wasn't your fault.
It wasn't your fault.
The art- the art- the other other players, they, they decided, they decided to, to mosey
on in.
Wait, this is in the past though, right?
Isn't this before our other campaign?
This is, this is before, this is before Yes, but I'm talking about like, the methodology.
Um- Oh, okay, it's all, oh no.
Yeah, I'm gonna use, I'm gonna use the emotions of Ghost and put them in here, uh, to serve
people in real life.
Um- DEEDUS AND GHOST!
Oh, yeah.
Also, just to add this on top before we continue, um, for the both of you, uh, for Jenny and
Emma, you remember, uh, in the priest, the, the stream game, our first test stream, you
met the guy in the, uh, Arkane Clock Tower?
Uh- Yeah.
This is him.
I know that was, uh, oh yeah, there was the other guy.
I was like, I was like, I thought it was Mira.
Uh, oh, come with me, Heather!
Wait, wait, Dino's a ghost?
Dino is not a ghost.
He is just- He was trapped?
He is just bothering the emotions of Ghost that are trapped within the ethereal plane
and have nowhere to go.
Oh no!
So, I'll- We met Emma before we even got to the parts that shut off.
Didn't we fix him?
Yeah, you fixed him though, so he's yours, but he had that in him.
That's what- Okay.
That's why he talked a lot for a bit.
Um- Oh, my dog!
Another- Another- Sorry for another time, viewers.
Um- You're putting a robot dog.
I just wanted a robot dog!
So yeah, expressly unethical, but look at how good we're doing.
What happens in the future again?
Wait, I release a lot- Nevermind.
Yeah, she'll come and fix everything right now.
That's not a lot of actually, nevermind.
Okay.
So, as you go around and you fix up some of the books on the shelves and clean up, you're
an assistant to the Archmage.
And even though he has expressly concerned that you owe him nothing for anything, you
feel that some things need to be given.
Over the months, you have formed a close friendship with Oxen, knowing about his situation here,
how even though he's one of the brightest mages around, that he is basically a pawn
for the zenith here, who are using him to further their ends, to impress the- to impress
the crown.
After a while, you see the door to the room opens, and you see Charlie zoom on- Charlie
zooms on out, and he goes, ready for duty!
This designation, Charlie.
And you see Arxen walks on out.
He just goes, you may return to your place of work now, Charlie.
Yes, sir!
And Charlie goes to the door, reaches up, opens it, and as he reaches up and opens it,
you see that there is already a woman outside, ready to knock on the door, and JT's already
annoyed.
I know who it is.
Already don't like her.
An erudite with lilac hair, beautiful markings around her pallid pale skin, wearing lavish
robes.
She stands at the door, she had her hand ready to knock on it before the automaton opened
it, and you see there's another automaton, like another one behind her, another one,
like same model as Charlie, and she just goes, oh, perfect.
Does this one work?
And you see Arxen just goes, just went through some maintenance.
Perfect.
I'll just check it with this one then.
He says, this one, you need, he says, you need it to be fixed.
By the way, Arxen, I told you before, about that look on you, the heavy bags under your
eyes, please do something about it.
And you see Arxen just sighs.
And he does-
L'Affaire, what do we owe the pleasure?
Yes.
She walks in and she stops first and she just looks down at the automaton, she just goes,
go.
And Charlie just continues on.
Oh never mind, she's not hot, she's a bitch.
I took it back, she's not hot, she's a bitch.
What was her name again?
He says, Mistral L'Affaire, I'll type it in the chat.
Asshole.
L'Affaire.
Be nice to have a chat.
Holy shit.
As she walks in, the other automaton, like scared, shaking behind her, she just goes,
she just goes, first of all, before we talk, before we talk, Hawk Mage, do something about
those bags underneath your eyes, they're unseemly.
He says, the Archmage just kind of does a little wave, a little minor illusion in the
bags, the fume rise, he goes, goodness, much better.
You just remember, you have to keep a good public image.
He says, prosperity, remember?
So why do I?
Yes, director.
He goes, what was that?
Speak up.
Director LeFlair, just said Archmage Brandrick has work to do now, it seems.
Correct.
Any messages you have, you may relay to me.
He says, well, I'm right here, so I'll just speak to him and she just kind of like, she
just kind of like turns directly to just kind of blowing you off immediately.
This is not the girl bossing I approve of.
I'm a gas lighter.
Okay.
I'm more of a gas light gatekeep kind of girl.
Than a girl boss.
Okay.
She just goes, she just goes, Archmage, you have a lot of work ahead of you today because
the parade is today.
Do you remember that?
Yes, I remember that.
You remind me every single portion of weeks leading up.
Exactly.
It's one of the most important events to occur in this place.
He says, Lord, Lord Danylara must see that her fruits are bearing something.
That's why you have to work in presentation.
That's why you can't have bags under your eyes.
You must work on the parade automatons once more.
And this little one, this assistant here points to the automatons and goes, this one is broken.
How is it broken?
It just seems confused.
It doesn't understand the task.
It's set up before it.
And when I tell it to look me in the eyes, it seems to be scared.
It doesn't seem to follow simple instructions.
Look me in the eyes.
Look.
And you see the automatons.
And you see the automatons eyes kind of like go down.
Look it goes the complete wrong way.
We can't have these defects here.
Showcased in front of the people that are most important.
Yes.
I'll get on that.
Get on that win.
Soon.
Now.
You get on it now.
Your tasks today are aimed at completely impressing everyone with the showmanship at the parade.
Worst.
You says no one has ever said no to you.
Have they?
Have they director?
I surround myself with intelligent people and intelligent people know better than to
say no.
Director, I believe we call those yes, men.
Are you broken?
Why are you talking?
He goes, says, my friend here, my assistant is perfectly fine.
Broken.
What a bitch.
And in the future, says, says, perhaps you can take perhaps you could take some credence
to his words because what he said was true.
Just I don't care about what he says.
I care about what happens out there unless you want to disappoint every disappoint everyone
and go back into your shell and hiding.
Captain Volthani would never allow this.
And Volthani would just be like, slap her up top of the head.
Yes, because Archimedes, I'm sorry for being harsh, but after today, it'll be so much
better.
There's just a lot of stress in the air at the moment.
There's so much to do.
There's a lot of expectations riding on all of us.
He says, we have put in so much money, so much capital into this project, as if now
of all times, if everything goes up in flames, then we will be in ruin.
Just money, money, money.
No, she does not talk about doing any of the work herself.
Do you say that out loud?
He will say it just about loud enough that Luanne can hear it, but definitely not Mistral.
You see Luanne just so nervous.
Her heart rate goes up five times.
As Mistral goes on, there is remnants of a murmur that she can hear, but not the exact
thing.
What was that?
Nothing of importance to someone of your caliber.
Correct.
So be quiet.
You see, you see, Arxin looks over at you, like a look of like, I know.
And like, and like just, just suffer, just good and bare it basically.
Just goes, but anyways, seems like more than one thing needs to get fixed in this place.
You says Archmage, just remember, just remember the deal we made.
Do this for us.
You get your library.
And you get, you says, and you get your fame back.
You go, sure. It wasn't you who says, sure.
Wasn't you who killed the prince and princess of our home, but wait, that's my country.
Yes.
It wasn't my fault.
Exactly.
It wasn't.
It was just an accident.
An accident of someone of your high caliber caused.
But we can, says, but we can play with the truth a little bit if you play along nicely.
All right.
Fix this one.
Bring it back to me.
And then work on the parade bots.
That is your prerogative for today.
And she just, she turns around and just walks away.
And she walks to the doorway.
She looks back and just goes, by the way, I see the way your, I see the way your eyes
start about and improve your attitudes a little bit.
And then she closes the door.
She's a tree.
Hey, full of hot air, that bitch.
I don't want to express what's currently running through my mind at the moment, but
I do have to check over the parade lineup.
Just goes, um, it looks down at the automaton.
You are, um, uh, and the tone of just stutters and you see arcs and just like devastation.
Another one.
Just goes, it's okay.
You're not in trouble.
And then turns the automaton off.
Delmar, the longer you stay here, the more you're going to suffer that woman.
Are you sure it's worth it?
Are you?
Even more riding on this than I, I hear for you.
When I get that library and I sit in it for the first time, I won't even think about
all of this.
Um, Louann, can you store this?
He holds out the cord that was in Charlie.
Can you store this in the room with my personal effects?
I'll take a look at it later.
Yeah.
Which room?
Uh, this is the room is, uh, we should really mark these rooms.
103.
Um, it's the one with my, uh, I have to give you a key for that one.
I've never been in that room before is careful.
There's an accent.
If you would use your bedroom, we would know where it is.
Louann goes, yeah, your bedroom, which you have.
And it's there's a bed in there because it's a bedroom instead of a desk.
I'm getting subtle messages from the both of you.
Why don't you both take it to my bedroom then?
I just store it somewhere.
We'll leave you to your work.
Right.
I'll wait for the both of you to come back and we'll make our way over to, uh, we'll
make your way over to the lineup.
Does, are you forgetting something Archmage?
Oh yeah.
I have a key.
Uh, I forgot which one it is.
Here, just take the whole key ring.
I could just break down the door.
I never use the door anyways, but if we're storing something like that, putting up the
sphere, maybe we'll play.
Maybe we'll be a little more subtle about it.
Hey.
Um, and Louann just goes, Oh, I bet Damar could just run into a door and it's like,
I'm not even here anymore, the door that was still talking.
Anyways, I'll take this to your room.
Okay.
I worry for this child.
Turning to Arx and you've got to stop letting her drink that stuff.
I am not, I am not her father, but I am deeply concerned.
But I have worries.
I tried a sip of what she drank this morning.
It was a vile.
There's more sugar in that drink than there is coffee.
It is not healthy for her.
It's a new invention I made.
It's called sugar coffee.
You enjoyed it.
She drank the whole thing.
He just gives Arx and that look of say nothing, lay along.
I definitely did not drink it.
Okay.
Well, go to my room.
Leave you be.
We'll be back.
Give me a hand to Luan, this box containing the object.
It's contained so you can't feel the intense Arx energy coming off of it.
Luan walks out and you follow along down the hallway.
She just goes, I'm just saying you drink as much as I drink.
Three hours of sleep.
That's all you need.
I've been practicing two hours and I feel like I'm floating.
What?
Offisition for another time, Luan.
Of course.
Let's get to work.
You eventually get to the Archmage's door and after a little bit of funangling around
with the keys, you open this large door to see the inside.
A barely touched room with a neatly made everywhere, a couple of open books on the desk.
You see on top of the desk a glass case sitting on a cushion.
You heard of this before, one of his prized items sitting on display in his room.
A shard of the moon.
I knew it.
Oh no.
I called this.
The Amartras has an immediate negative reaction.
Even from behind the glass case, you still feel a strong...
It's not a pain, it's a beckoning.
You see Luan just goes, ooh.
That's the thing he got.
That's the thing he...
Don't touch it.
Whatever you do, just don't touch it.
All right.
I'll be in and out.
She walks in, she opens up a drawer in the desk.
That's where the moon shard is sitting on top of.
She just puts it in there.
She just pushes the drawer in.
Be considerate of you because she can see that you're really uncomfortable.
She just moves in and out, closes the door.
And you feel like your lungs become lighter.
All right.
Let's get away from this place.
Come on.
Outside.
I need air.
We make our way to the outside.
As you return to the Archmage and you lot go across town to perform your duties.
A large parade bot decorated with things dappling off of his shoulder.
It's a watchman turned into a parade bot.
Given the instruction to give joy.
You see mechanical horses, not automatons, they're just mechanical.
Other parts of it, live performers and actors ready to get their act together.
As you assist the Archmage throughout the day with his tasks of making sure that everything
is ready.
Some of the actors pitched their alts to you for some reason.
You see that Luanne, who's a terrible singer, giving them singing advice throughout the
day.
She knows a lot about singing and she thinks she's good at it, but she's not great at
it.
She took musical theory, but never took choir.
Yeah, exactly.
She's really good at reading music.
And eventually, as the sun begins to take its seat at the zenith of the sky, the time
for the parade comes close.
You sit amongst the crowd, standing alongside Luanne.
Unfortunately, even though Ark sim would definitely want you by his side at his important position,
you're not allowed up there.
Alongside all of the other members of the zenith.
Alongside the director of civil prosperity.
And as the crowd takes place, as everyone's sectioned off, the central district is completely
ready for a parade of massive proportions.
At first you see a flag hanging in the sky.
I will say that if you're claustrophobic, this sucks, because it's super crowded right
now and everyone's ready to see the Lord.
You see a flag hoisted up in the sky, the symbol of depicting golden fields of wheat,
a long winding river, and the sun in the distance to represent prosperity.
House Danylara.
Everyone claps and cheers as the procession carries the Lord down.
You see her through the window, just like looking through this young human woman who
much like the zenith, sees this as an investment opportunity.
As she's carried to this high podium, the best sight of all, to watch over the parade,
you hear it.
Loud, flaring music.
As these floats begin to march their way down the central district, you see the parade bot,
the parade master, moving in its mechanical cadence, hoisting a large prop sword into
the sky multiple times as it moves in a repetitive motion.
But to everyone else, it's deeply impressive.
As the mechanical horses move, as the other automatons, the smaller, the actual human-sized
ones, are carrying flags, twisting poles and throwing them up.
I want you to make a perception check.
Okay, my passive is 13, because that is an 8.
I vote to add the active to the passive, in my opinion.
You would like to break the game.
That does not sound good.
Do you have any specialty in...
No, no.
What do you roll?
Basic perception, listening, but...
Listening is not going to apply here.
As the parade continues, and you see Luan just kind of looking over the bots as they
pass, you see that she just kind of like...
Her eyes kind of blink at something.
She just goes, did you see that?
And you see her eyes were like looking upwards towards the roofs of some of the building.
They you want to explain?
She just blinks again.
She just goes, I just saw someone running up there.
We should really be careful.
The robots turn to be freak.
You can make another perception check for me if you want.
That is a 10.
Oh my god.
I have zero wisdom.
Do you have any inspiration?
I would have not won, so...
I have no inspiration.
Looking around, up to where Luan was looking at as the blaring song of the parade completely
envelops you, you do see it.
A red...
A fleeting red cloak.
A blur moving on the roof.
And it just...
It's gone like that.
It seems to be making its way the way it's streaked, going up towards the upper parts
of the district.
Or where everyone important is located.
Luan, something isn't right.
Maybe it's just...
Someone just wanted to get a better view.
I don't trust it.
You wanna take a look?
We should.
Alright, looking up the quick.
Here, she puts a hand out to you.
She remembers first, she just goes, I'm gonna cast a spell on you, is that okay?
She places a hand on you, and she's being really considerate of you because she knows.
She goes, alright, one, two, three, she casts Fly on you.
I thought it was gonna be guidance.
I swear to god, if you let go, I am going to kill you for it.
I wouldn't dream of letting go.
I don't wanna be killed, first of all.
And I'm afraid of heights.
This girl.
As you get to the secluded place, you fly upwards onto these almost Venice-style roofs,
like they're shingles.
You can walk into them, they're brightly colored.
And as you blink about, you look, and you see barely a figure in your vision.
It's strange, because you're looking right at him, but he's kind of like shimmering in
its form, standing at the very edge of the building, completely out of view of everyone
else.
You see a billowing red cloak, and what appears to be wispy white hair, and you're looking
at the back of their head.
What's the plan, Delmar?
Stay behind me.
Okay.
She has her book at the side.
And Delmar will just very quietly unhook his pickaxe, taking it into his hand, before yelling
to the robed figure, what are you doing?
You ain't supposed to be up here right now.
The head doesn't immediately turn.
It's almost as if it ignores you for a moment.
And then if you just stand there, it just goes, why?
Why is there a universe?
It just goes on forever.
Oh no, not the existential.
Dios.
My friend, it should not be me that you're worried about at this moment.
Your bones, they're heavy.
Is it marrow?
Is this pasty white man with completely black dark eyes turns to you, his body completely
just bone, the skin that has shrunken in to hug his ribs?
I see your past.
Delmar.
It weighs so heavy on you.
Luan, get to the Archmage now.
You will not make it in time for what happens.
It's just a tragedy.
It's just of all's own making.
Delmar.
You see Luan just immediately taking your instructions and heading down.
It's just, Delmar.
With that weapon in your hand, you must save the others from the folly they have all created.
Who are you?
I am marrow.
I see the weight in you.
It begins now.
What is beginning?
A sudden field of force washes over as this shockwave emits from the arcane ambit.
No one's pushed, but you feel this tangible, something like overcome the area for a second
as you hear noises of shock from the crowd.
The sky unravels for a moment as you look up.
You look down for a moment and you see merrows gone.
As you see the sky as if it cycles through the day fast.
There is confusion as you see the people pointing towards the sky.
You see the automatons suddenly seize up.
You see the moon slowly, fast, actually, as of this moment, the fastest you've ever seen
the moon move takes its seat in the sky.
Red moon!
A shimmering force as the moon slowly shimmers and turns red.
I called it!
As the sounds of confusion below you only grow.
The gods beneath this go, Alright everyone, remain calm.
Is this a part of the show?
Does everyone remain calm?
You see the other go, The automatons are not moving anymore.
As that happens, you see the parade bot just goes, turns its head up.
This cannot continue.
It turns towards a portion of the crowd and lifts up the flag that it was holding.
You see it as it looks down at this crowd of people who look up at it.
The blue clouds that always glow, it goes, Be happy.
As it slams downwards.
Thankfully, it misses, but it causes a strike into the ground that sends people flying away,
chaos beneath you.
And as you see all of this happening, what are you doing?
As a brief moment of hesitation as once again he is seeing magic run rampant.
Oh no.
Before he kicks into action and immediately goes down to the crowd to try and help them
get away.
As you're beginning to head down to the crowd, you hear a roar in the distance.
This cauterous roar as you see leaping from building to building one of those watchmen.
You see one of the watchmen holding a person like King Kong style at the top of a tower
and just looks and just you see the person like squirming this guard and just drops the
guard from the height of the tower.
And sees you and just goes, Suspicious activity detected.
And it clutches the tower as you prepare your pickaxe.
It leaps from the tower directly landing directly trying to land on top of you.
And that's where we cut.
And you're supposed to be here with us after the break as we go a week and a half into
the future.
Charlie the same Charlie's himself.
You support the robots though.
Yeah, no.
They have sentience.
No, not in a good way.
Those kids were like drawing on them and that lady was a bitch to them.
I know it's attacking.
Yeah, valid.
I don't think Charlie would though.
Well Charlie's not a watchman, so.
No, but Charlie can help.
Charlie's gonna bowling ball into someone.
Knock him prone.
No, no, Charlie's gonna be the only one that's present.
He's gonna be like, wait, I have my own thoughts and that's not true.
That's a sound theory, Emma.
Too bad I must never leave this room.
I'm gonna miss the morning.
Alright everyone, we're going on break.
See you afterwards.
And we're back.
Hello everyone, I hope you had a nice break.
We did.
We didn't.
No, we propped our feelings.
Alright, didn't call me out like that.
But yeah, intro, yay, Dalmar, woo.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Mero.
I heard it was Halloween again.
Wild magic.
He's such a dick.
The last time I came around was Halloween, so like it's coming up.
I was literally like, I was like, watch him fucking come back around Halloween.
Uh huh.
This bitch.
Let's go baby.
At least this is the first time we've seen him.
We won't see him again until next year.
Mero is only a Halloween promotional character.
If we don't play for the rest of October, he'll just leave.
He'll just leave.
That's how we beat him.
That's how we win.
Alright, you folks ready?
Let's roll baby.
Let's go.
Robot revolution.
The rest?
We cut to a part of the forest.
Um.
The gra- a gentle wind billows.
We hear the sound of dragging in the distance.
And you hear.
Child Child
Child.
In the distance, under the red sky, an automaton, a human sized one.
A caretaker for children.
Outside of the city walls.
And we see the automaton dragging with one hand a dead cow.
Going towards- marching towards the city.
Child Child.
Repeats to itself with no one to hear it.
But we're not there right now.
We're going to go to where our Intrepid duo are.
The Trapid-
The T-S-R-O-D-U-O.
The original Intrepid duo.
The OG.
We see under clear morning skies.
Um.
Jean-Claude and Cecilia.
The week so far has been uneventful, but maybe for you that's a good thing.
Maybe the most eventful thing was maybe scaring off a wolf here- a wolf here and there.
Maybe- somebody need to help with a- somebody need to help with a basilisk, but it turns
out- oh it was just a man- it was just a- it was just a mangy dog.
Jean-Claude thinks they were all druids.
I probably updated Jean-Claude about what Delmyra told me about like how they had to
go into like what like an underwater lair or something.
Yeah an underwater dungeon.
And all this stuff.
He's very confused about how they would do that.
Um.
The week has been um apart from you guys' thinking, but the journey has been fun.
Um.
Many chats were had.
Many many beautiful- many beautiful places were come across.
Gentle babbling brooks.
You've been following the river for a good- a good few days now.
Um making good progress on the Lanaya- on the Lanaya Road.
Many stories are shared.
Sites are- sites are- sites are both bastin, but um this is the adventure you guys really
needed.
Not what happened the first day.
Um.
This is what we thought it would be.
No scarecrow.
No fey.
No horror.
No drowning.
It's just been a very- for the past week it's been a very pleasant road trip.
You had to stop- you had to stop in that one place where you- where you- where you uh stayed
at that shared campsite.
Where you um Cecilia received a new enchanted item.
A box.
That you can track wherever it is in the world.
Once a day for 10 minutes.
And then after that you have to use a spell slot.
Does it have a range?
Uh unlimited.
Nice.
Wow.
So you can always tell where the box is.
Heck yeah.
If it um- if it's on the same plane of existence.
Oh no.
Yeah so when it's just in the back of holding it's like can't tell.
Mm-hmm.
Invisible.
Um.
Jean-Claude you piloting the- the vehicle um with your- the two horses in front you
see that um the town of Rexon is coming up a town with a lot of curiosity surrounding
it.
Um apparently there is an uprising considering uh with some automatons.
That's a little exciting to see.
Um and from- from what you heard the town- the town was locked down but nothing too major.
I don't know if anyone died.
Um it didn't- it sounded something of interest but maybe not something of great concern.
Did Atheus remember?
Atheus has been quiet.
Huh.
Um.
I hope they have towels.
I dropped mine in mud last night while I was trying to clean up and you know if it's a
wizard city maybe they have wizard towels.
Wizard.
Wizard towels?
Oh no oh but I heard it.
No no no no no no no.
You're right I heard of them they're like self-heating towels.
You know like you step out of the bath.
You said self-heating?
What?
No I'm snacking as I talk self-heating.
Heating.
Oh.
Heat worm.
Cecilia worm.
They have those we have to get them.
Jimmy breaks it down.
Fucking.
They're both ratcheting instead of just shaking their heads.
You know it uh I know it is helpful for you know backpens you know um for some menstrual
cramps right it's like a little heating pad of sorts in the towel film.
Yeah we should get some extra for your back then.
I twitch a slightly.
Ah yes uh you know.
Oh you know from the driving and leaning over you know.
Right of course of course of course and you know if I love my robex I do clearly.
This armor.
Does it have a duty to bear?
Yeah.
Painful.
As the uh as the journey uh continues on um and the conversation is light um you um Cecilia
you feel a light a light murmur a shaking in the bag and that's what typically happens
that aphias can be pretty uh receptive like that as he's um as you just hear.
Oh aphias she pulls him out.
Finally fresh air.
We're almost there.
Almost where?
To the place you wanted to go with the killer robots.
And when you put it like that doesn't sound that much attractive anymore.
Just like Quaggas.
Ah that doesn't sound like it.
Never mind.
In the archmage.
Ah right that son of a bitch.
This is when I get there you have no idea what I'm gonna do.
But don't you you don't remember him right like you don't remember any details.
Don't I just feel anger.
Sadness?
Anger.
Sadness?
Did you say sadness?
Does he make me feel mad?
Whatever happens I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
If it turns out that he was like really bad to you I'll hold him I'll hold you close enough
to fight him.
Yes.
Says yes minion yes.
This is why I pay you the big bucks.
But only if he deserves it.
How much do you pay her?
With my attention.
After you do this I'll probably give you a nod.
I see is this kind of like this business is a family kind of deal?
He nods him a bit.
Oh boy.
Oh yeah.
Why you didn't get that yet?
Resend my nod.
Resend.
Good.
Well.
I have nothing more than just shake him repeatedly.
So my those those cod shells you have to shake it to get your fortune.
Well kill the robots or not we will find this archmage and hopefully find out what is going
on with the they're not robots though remember they are tomatons.
Oh yeah and they have emotions?
What the hell what's the difference?
Well I guess that's the difference is they have emotions.
Yeah what does that do?
And they know when they're being used.
Ah that's not good then.
That's ineffective.
They're like self-aware.
This is going to be a problem as I am not really good on ethics.
You know not my strong suit.
So I will be the master Cecilia you point me where to go.
I've read a bit about ethics like you know like is it.
What are these words you guys are making up?
War ever justified?
And then like what there's like this just war theory.
And then there's like pacifism.
I just I read I read a book once about it.
John Claude's negative intelligence cannot follow any of that.
Like under what.
What rules should you have to follow to decide if it's ethical to start a war.
Exactly I don't really get it either.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Let me ask you both a question.
The out of control wagon is barreling down the street and there's two ways.
One person is tied down on one side and multiple people are tied down on the other.
This is what you get for giving him ideas at the beginning of stream.
He started off as a philosophy class.
And it's like if you let if you let the if you let the horses go it's going to run over
all the people.
But if you turn it it'll run over just one person instead.
Wait wait a little bit more.
Hold on hold on no just stop the horses.
Now what do you mean no they can't be stopped.
What the fuck is this ethics class.
It sounds stupid and useless.
I don't see here you son of a bitch.
Yeah.
If yes what would you do.
I would back up the horses and run over the guy.
Because who gets himself stuck who gets himself stuck in a situation like that honestly.
I'm still confused about the entire situation the one guy tied down is probably the archmage.
What I would run him over twice.
What even though I don't know why I'm so mad.
What is the point of this question.
I don't know is answer it.
No no I just trying to understand like.
It kind of makes me the question like there's two burning buildings and there's like one
person who you really love in one building and in five people you've never met in the
other but you can only put out one of the fires.
Why.
We have two fires one bucket of water I don't understand.
It probably take more than one bucket of water but yeah.
Is ethics just hypotheticals.
I have one more question.
That seems exhausting and I'm really glad I didn't go to college.
And this is somewhat related to my feelings so I'm not sure why.
A girl asks a girl asks a boy out.
The boy says no.
What the fuck is up with that.
He has every right to say no.
I'm a nice person.
Oh my god.
About.
Priscilla.
I'm not sure.
Wasn't she your wife though so she did say yes.
Also in that scenario Priscilla would have asked you out and you said no.
I don't know what happened to Priscilla but I feel like this archivist is going to give
me the answers.
Wait.
Do you all feel that.
What's that.
John club goes love triangle.
You know what.
Something in the air and you all feel it.
A slight shimmer in the air around you.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa slow down everyone what's going on here.
And he's got his detect good and evil up.
You don't you don't feel any good or evil but.
Oh sorry he doesn't have that.
Just kidding.
Define sense.
You don't feel it because you didn't cast it.
That's why.
Define sensing is what I meant.
That's what defines it.
We're actually going to look up some fucking shit.
I can read it if you.
Well demons.
OK.
I'm dead probably.
So as you as the both of you are looking around.
Does the wagon stop.
I mean probably we.
I don't know if we.
What do you think.
No we probably did to talk and if you're focusing on your sense when you were driving.
I think we would have stopped because he would have because he's been like hey do you see
that it's like whoa let's see what that is.
I think we would have stopped.
The wagon comes to a stop.
She's the most.
The hair.
It's heavy.
It's familiar.
How so.
Why is that.
Priscilla.
Priscilla where are you.
The air around you begins to shimmer and shift more.
But nothing happens.
I don't divine sense anything.
You don't you don't sense anything.
But Cecilia you feel a from your bag just anticipation.
She takes the box with the moon shards.
And you feel the box like shaking.
The moon.
What are you saying to see what these ways what are these words are you making.
What is going on.
The moon shards are like shaking.
And he's going to reach out a hand and touch Cecilia and cast protection from evil and
good on her.
And go and go what the fuck do you want as he turns around and shouts to the forest.
I thought you were doing that to the moon shards for a second.
No fuck the moon shards.
As you shut up hates the moon shards as you shout out to the forest.
Dumb are.
The red sky has hung heavy.
Not good for them for the week and a half.
You have been joining in the efforts to save to extract people from the town but.
The for the resources are growing thinner.
And you haven't found you haven't found arxin.
You have saved you and the combined forces of the local guards of the interim captain
Lee an earth Genasi who has been putting the two of you have been putting in great strides
of helping civilians get out of this town.
But sadly your calls of help to other surrounding towns have been met with silence.
Wow.
It seems like people are more are more concerned with what's going on at the at the border
right now at your home with a level of dynasty.
So no forces are able to come here.
You receive a report.
An eyewitness report from Luanne who also has been going in and out and attempting to
help the people of the town.
That a automaton was spotted outside of the walls.
She wasn't sure what she didn't confront it.
But it's very unusual to see them outside of the wall.
And it's a concern.
You don't want them out there.
As you hold your pickaxe in hand stalking through the perimeter of the forest.
You hear something in the distance flapping like wings but heavy.
And then you hear what the fuck do you want from from outside of the forest perimeter.
Oh it's chocolate.
What the fuck do you want.
And that's when two flying figures.
Humanoid sized flying figures with wing with large like bat like wings fly overhead over
you towards that very sound.
Oh no.
And he will start running as fast as he can.
As you run Jean Claude.
I have something.
Are you ready for this?
I have the attentive feet so I can only be surprised if I'm unconscious and a creature
attacking does not gain advantage from being hidden from me or unseen by me.
Well they're not.
You'll see in a bit.
As you yell to the forest you're almost answered as bursting through the treetops.
You see darting directly towards the both of you.
Two bat like figures with large wings and these claws horrid looking like red eyes.
Just and they screech.
They screech as they dart right towards you looking right at Cecilia.
I have five atheists in one hand and the moon sheds in the other.
Get it minion.
Are these aberrations celestial elemental fey fiends or undead?
Elementals.
Then they have disadvantage on Cecilia.
They're unable to charm.
Charm frightener possess her.
Cecilia you know what these are.
You've heard about them before.
These are gargoyles.
Oh yo.
I don't know this in character but these are the guys who killed the dude who had the moon
sheds before me I'm pretty sure.
Oh boy.
They were like gargoyles.
As you see these two very obviously dangerous figures coming towards you I need you both
to roll initiative.
I got plus five to initiative.
And you get advantage.
Not you yet.
You are running.
And I have advantage.
Yeah you have advantage.
I rolled six and I think my mod is minus one so five.
Man I rolled eight plus seven which is fifteen and four plus seven which is eleven so add
advantage with the plus seven to my initiative.
That's gonna be a fucking fifteen.
Damar go ahead and roll me initiative.
There's an ability I forgot I had when we converted to HIV tome brew where now he has
advantage because of my blessing and so he can choose to go on my initiative if he wants
or I can choose to go on his initiative if we want.
So I will match your initiative I think because I think we want to go early as possible.
Yeah we do.
There we go.
What did you roll again Damar?
Ten.
All right.
So all of a sudden clearing out this bush you see these two horrid like gray figures
just dart out of the woods screeching screeching at the both of you.
So you see that as they begin to descend upon you Klaus first they're right in front of
the both of you.
Jean Claude you're up first.
Oh yeah baby we gonna swing that hammer.
I'm gonna get a plus one to the swing.
Does a 15 hit?
A 15 hits it just hits.
Oh boy.
All right we're gonna take them down quick then.
Then I will roll that Dimash 14 slashing.
And I am going to shmite.
Shmite which one took it.
Still learning how to do things.
My smite.
It's a 2d8 now.
2d8?
Yeah.
Great 2d8 that's right 2d8 and extra power whether you do you could choose to do the
following.
Repelling smite.
Yeah I'll do repelling smite with it.
So let me roll my 2d8 and then I'll add on the repelling smite to it for my empowered
smite.
So 2d8 first.
12 radiant.
Oh yeah I forgot.
Heralds are crazy.
We're nuts.
And then so you have to make a strength saving throw.
You are contesting against my spell saving.
16.
You pass.
For now.
Choose one of the following effects.
Yep repelling.
Okay on a successful save the target is knocked back only five feet and is not knocked from.
So you only get pushed five feet.
Okay you immediately like as you see it coming in you just like prepare your hammer like
a bat.
Just a batter up swing and you see you see the gargoyle like go out of control for a
second as it just flies back it just flies backwards.
It takes notice of you now.
And do I have a bonus action?
You have an extra attack that you can use to hit the other one.
Oh my god why do I why did I not realize I have two attacks?
Okay yep I'd like to do my second attack.
See.
Um so plus one no.
It's a miss.
I rolled a nine plus one is ten not high enough at all.
Swinging towards the other one the other one backs away seeing its friend get hurt.
Just waving its wing in the air just screeching at you.
It knows I'm coming for it.
And a smite doesn't count as a bonus action right?
It doesn't.
Great.
So the one that I missed I'm going to Imposing Glare which is a combat maneuver.
This is a tempered iron bonus action.
I choose one hostile creature I see within 30 feet.
If it can see me it makes a Charisma saving throw or is frightened of me to the end of
the next turn.
Alright Charisma saving throw everyone give me your energy it has a negative two.
Let's go.
Twelve.
Yay!
Fails.
As this eight foot tall furbolg imposing furbolg just glares down one of the gargoyles
that gargoyle just kind of like um just just you see just its eyes like kind of like grow
smaller as it's kind of like looks at you and focus a Jean Claude.
Yeah no I mean he just goes shoo the gargoyle.
Is that it?
That's it for my turn.
Alright Cecilia you're up.
Okay um I think um it's the surprise she throws aphiis.
You throw it at them?
Wait as a weapon?
Um I like if I'm being reasonable I'd probably just say like you know drops him but I think
if they're like zooming towards her she's you know she's got one thing in each hand
she's got mechard and aphiis and she's gonna throw the thing that's more like ball shaped
probably at oh no.
I would say that this is a bonus action panic make a uh miss.
I have proficiency with improvised buttons from like aphiis background.
Roll a d20 plus six then.
I will not throw a d20.
Holy shit.
Oh my god.
That's what you get for rolling off the fucking roll 20.
Get it minion.
What?
Maybe like maybe you like oh like okay time for guiding bolt.
He was like can he go like tease first?
And he just he he latches onto the head of one of the gargoyles and the gargoyles is
biting down.
And you see the gargoyles like do you know what?
Just scratching at aphiis um going deep and you realize oh shit you threw aphiis.
Bunging uh five points five points five points of budgeting damage.
That's your bonus action.
Um as an action um I'll guiding bolt the same one at first level.
Okay.
This is um.
What a start.
Everything I want to more.
I rolled a 16 plus whatever my mod is.
That hits.
How much damage does a guiding bolt do again because I have no reference.
I should have got my first handbook.
Okay one um two I'll just roll twice even though I have plenty of dice here.
We're doing old school baby.
Eight plus.
Um eight plus six.
Fourteen.
Okay.
Yeah that one.
You see this luminescent glow begin to fall over the gargoyle as you strike it.
Um and you you see it doesn't even it's up to dodge because aphiis is like.
I'm a fucking bitch.
I'm fucking.
I'm part of this shit too.
Um.
Uh and I would say by this point Dalmore as you make your way to the edge of the forest
you see these two gargoyles contending with this large eight foot tall ogre.
Not ogre.
Furbog.
How dare you.
Shrek.
I am the key dad of my swamp.
And you see one of the gargoyles has a skull biting on top of its head right now.
And you see a young woman at the very end of a guiding bolt and the red sky hanging overhead.
Jean Claude Cecilia.
You don't see red sky though.
Just just just f1.
Oh we don't.
You don't see it yet.
No.
That would have been immediately noticeable.
Oh jeez.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
That's fun.
Why is it like when we met when we got like the moon the moon place and only we could
see it.
Yeah.
What in the Castlevania.
The gargoyle who had not the one with the skull on top of its head but still hurt is
going to reconfigure itself.
It's going to use a bonus action for to use it to use a glare right back.
Fuck you you little shit.
Right at you Jean Claude make a wisdom saving throw.
I hate you.
It becomes fair game when we do it.
No.
I'm going to do glare right back at you.
Wisdom saving throw.
I'm sorry that's one beneath.
You feel this.
You feel this creeping feeling begin to crawl over your chest.
It's as if like stone is overtaking you.
You are paralyzed.
Bad bad bad bad bad bad.
Auto crits on you.
That gargoyle is going to descend on you is going to make two attacks.
I'm glad you gave me the thing.
I'm glad you gave me the thing Jenny.
The game started.
Hold on with advantage.
Yeah.
But if they miss they don't create.
14.
Nope.
You have good AST.
I do.
All right.
And it's going it's going it's going to make a second attack.
Geez I'm not.
I'm not one will do.
Okay good.
I'm getting I was getting flashbacks of trying to hit a paralyzed motherfucker and I just
can't.
We rolled a 14.
You get for throwing knives.
You take.
These are these are tougher gargoyles.
These are these are tough ones.
You take 19 points of you take 19 points of slashing damage.
When he missed.
He wrote a 23.
Oh I didn't know.
Okay.
Wait low power mode.
What the fuck.
Oh no.
It is plugged in.
I'm just losing battery life while we play.
Okay.
I can I can plug it into an actual outlet and that'll probably help if I need to.
I'm just thinking to you.
I'll call it.
And it's going to use its third attack.
It's going to use the third attack to bite you.
He said 19 right.
Okay.
Let's see.
19 points.
Okay.
19 to hit 19 does hit 18.
Starting out a crystal one but rolling the second one.
And then you take an additional 22 points of piercing damage as it as it sinks its teeth
directly into you.
What the fuck.
These better be healable because the other guy was unhealable.
Anyways.
Oh boy.
As Jean-Claude you're getting you just feel this thing coming over you and you first realization
and all of a sudden this one girl begins to tear you up.
Daumar you see the scene before you and you see a four-bulking trouble.
You are 20 feet away.
Good.
You're already approaching during the combat.
So Daumar will see the gargoyle on top of the four-bulk who was yelling at it earlier
and using one of the charges of his ring of the ram will attempt to push the gargoyle
off of him.
All right.
Make the attack roll.
Push it baby.
That is a 20.
Hits 15 force damage and it's pushed five feet away from Jean-Claude.
So Jean-Claude as you're getting as you're getting torn up as it raises its claws up
to to rake down on you again and Cecily as you're watching this happen and you're just
trying to figure out what to do you're figuring out your next plan of action all of a sudden
this speck this large spectral ram takes form beneath like like to your guys's side and
zooms incredibly fast like charging through the air and just just ramming right into the
gargoyle on top of Jean-Claude and you see the you see the gargoyle just fly off to the
side screeching.
How's it looking?
It's pretty hurt.
Not that good.
I still have a bonus action and I will use gaze of conviction to force it on me.
All right.
What is it?
It is the force to attack me.
Is there a no it's combat maneuver.
Oh combat creature to attack you.
It looks at you.
Stay out of this.
It talks.
That is a problem.
It talks.
They talk now.
I'm sorry.
Yeah but it does it does hiss at you just stay out of this dwarf.
Is that in your turn.
Yeah.
Okay.
The second gargoyle who's fearful of Jean-Claude right now is going to make its way around.
It's focused.
It's focused on something.
Cecilia go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw.
You have to be the 12.
Do I have advantage?
You do have it.
Yeah you do have advantage actually.
Because that's a concentration spell.
Do I have to roll to keep it up.
I can roll to keep it up right.
That's right.
Okay yeah give me two concentration checks.
The constitution saving throws.
Okay just consaving.
Okay yes.
I'm always fair to my own detriment.
Dirty 20 on the first con save 15 on the second con save.
Okay you save so roll with advantage.
Okay I'm gonna roll both my dice.
When it comes to Cecilia my rolls will be high.
I rolled a nine plus whatever it's probably enough with my modifier.
Yeah absolutely absolutely.
You're being a 12.
You have you have a base four modifier on your wisdom right.
Yeah you're fine.
Yeah and then proficient probably from cleric and then I have plus one from cloak of protection.
So the the the the paralyzation doesn't actually settle over you just like like Jean Claude
but you see that the gargoyle comes in towards you anyways.
We're gonna make a contested check.
Give me either an athletics or a sleight of hand.
Does it have disadvantaged because it has disadvantaged on attacks against me.
Or will this.
Yes.
Hold on.
This isn't an attack rule I would say.
This isn't them.
Yeah.
It's not an attack role but I think she wants I can.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
To the spelling go.
I rolled a 16.
I don't know.
It's probably not sleight of hand.
So probably.
Oh sorry target is unable to get charmed frightened or possessed.
It's not a bet.
Darn it.
Because I'm explaining a little bit.
You see he's swooning.
You see as you're holding the moon shards in his box it tends to swoop down and grab
it with its feet.
But you are you managed to like with your athletes like minutes rested out of its hold.
As it looks down on you goes hand it over.
No.
All right.
That's a good feeling argument.
I don't like that they talk.
Wow.
Gosh.
I'll get it when I was the frickin gargoyles theme for that cartoon show.
I miss it.
I was gonna say that was a good show.
But yeah you're holding on to that you're holding on to it as the gargoyle is in front
of you just like just threatening you looking down just murder in its eyes.
All right.
Jean Claude.
You got to give me a wisdom save.
I want to be free.
Oh natural.
You have inspiration.
I don't think I do.
Didn't we get some recently.
Yeah you got your inspiration from the last session.
Did I.
Yeah.
I'm gonna roll it again.
How does a 10 do me.
Oh no.
I'm glad we got another player.
It takes the sting of this off but it still sucks for the player that's paralyzed and
not rolling well.
Yeah you're still paralyzed.
I'm so sorry.
He's he's screaming in his head.
Oh I can't lay on hands myself.
You're completely no I can't do anything.
But what I can do is keep up my spell concentration for Cecilia.
Oh these this super sucks because this is a home.
This is these are special gargoyle.
Yeah.
Yep it's OK.
This one Claude looks OK.
Regular gargoyle isn't enough huh.
You said that was such an uncle like disappointed uncle way to put it.
Isn't that what I just am.
Yeah.
For this whole stream.
Right here.
Yeah you had to make it harder for no reason huh.
Uh huh.
Uh Cecilia it's your turn.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry Emma.
It sucks.
It's OK.
I'm OK.
I have my ring of stabilization which clearly Jenny made the right call and giving to me.
I'm gonna bonus action healing word Jean Claude at second level.
You feel gratitude.
It's unable to be expressed.
You don't Jean Claude.
Doesn't work.
You don't feel anything.
I knew out of character it might not but it's no healing.
What do you mean no healing.
This is very familiar to her from the beginning but she has her action and we're allowed to
take other level spells now as an action because of Baldur's Gate.
Right.
Oh wait wait.
Hold on.
Do I get to do anything on my turn.
I'm so sorry you're paralyzed.
Wait wait but even but but hear me out.
Yeah.
Quartz in session.
Could this technically be a poison.
This is not a poison.
I'm so sorry.
This is not a poison.
A poison of the mind.
I would look in my spells right now but do I have remove curse prepared.
I can pull it.
Do you want me to pull it up or do you want to do it too.
Yeah I'll look.
Because I'm really good with poison.
Poison of the mind.
Jean Claude has poison stuff.
That's it.
He doesn't do like you know.
What spell did you ask for.
Remove curse.
It's not prepared.
Because I think I unprep all my combat stuff while we were traveling.
Well maybe not.
And I don't have lesser restoration.
You do have lesser restoration.
The lesser restoration cure paralysis.
I would look on my own but I have nothing right now.
It is ends a disease or a condition.
And that condition could be paralyzed.
Yes.
The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed or poisoned.
That's why you learn to cast lesser restoration.
Fuck yeah.
All right.
Don't worry about the poison.
I've got it.
Jean Claude.
And just so we remember too the one that attacked me just now.
We still have advantage on that attack against him.
Just so we don't kill him.
We're gonna murder him.
As a free action I would say do you want to put the moon shards away in the bag.
She was considering it.
I was considering it.
I think she really should.
Yeah.
I don't know how to say it in English.
She really should.
I have a feeling.
She should but I'm kind of more worried that they'll grab the whole bag.
But the DM said so.
So that means it's a good idea to put him in there.
It's up to you ultimately.
Well I had considered it but I'd already decided that she wasn't gonna do it.
So you're fletching onto them the security.
Yeah.
She feels safer that way.
All right.
So does it end your turn?
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see if it can charge its paralyze.
Five or six recharges.
Yep six.
Okay.
I'm sorry it has six charges of paralysis.
No no no on a five or six recharges it's one use like a breath weapon.
I was like oh well we're fucked.
Salomar because it's because this one's focused on you make a go ahead and give me a wisdom
save.
Joy.
Oh no.
That's an 11.
No.
One down.
And I don't have inspiration to use.
We need a paladin aura thing ready.
You really had to make them hungry.
The paladin aura is upright.
Do I?
I don't see where would that be guys.
I don't I don't see what a paladin aura is.
You have aura protection or something like that.
I don't.
Control F aura on your she maybe.
Control F. Aura Boreas.
Aura.
I don't.
Oh I don't.
And give us a little moment.
Aura of protection.
It is.
I see combat maneuvers.
I see divine slight empowered.
I see a heraldic summon.
I see divine lessons.
The fuck is heraldic sermon.
Hey guys we're still learning the system don't worry.
I see two attack.
I see lay on hands.
I see divine sense.
I found it.
It's six level.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hey Tim question.
Yeah.
Does being paralyzed count as being incapacitated?
It's no it's no that's a completely separate condition.
It's poison of the mind.
Ah fine.
Don't gaslight girl boss me.
We're gonna get real creative today with the spells.
And the gargoyle is gonna run up is gonna fly up to you leaving your range Jean Claude.
Boom.
Take a hit.
Kill it please.
Die die die.
16.
Just hits.
Um.
That's what you said.
Big damage.
And I technically have a free smite with the hammer right.
I have three three spites three yeah.
Yeah.
Free smites.
Equal to 12 slashing.
And I would like to add on a smite from my hammer now.
Absolutely.
Get fucked you little bitch.
Fucker.
That was four radiant to folks wondering at home.
I had a good old 12 damage at first.
As you take a big slash a big hit at it whacking it out of the air it looks back towards you
for a second before it goes I'll come back for you and then goes towards down bar because
it's paralyzed.
I'm going to kill you.
What.
No fuck you.
Lovely.
No fuck you.
Uh with advantage because you're paralyzed.
23.
Yeah that hits.
You take 24 points of slashing damage.
Then it'll take another attack 24 that yeah.
You take 19 points of slashing damage.
And then it'll bite you.
It's three attacks that's fucking wild.
15 and nine.
That's not it.
All right.
So you're you're sturdy it's literally trying to bite through your heart and your flesh
right now.
It's funny that it's tough.
It's like a terrible beef jerky.
Really.
Yeah.
I'm a man.
Fuck that dude.
I have old Trapper jerky that's twenty seven dollars and I can't chew that shit at all.
Fucking I eat beef paper.
Because Dalmar give me a wisdom save.
It's not going to be good.
That's a five.
Timmy I have no wisdom.
You can still roll a twelve.
He's just a nice boy.
Yeah.
Um these two these two.
There's only two of them.
You homebrewed them to make them harder.
Gargoyle two will try to recharge its paralyze.
No five or six.
It rolled a four so no paralyze.
Yeah get fucked.
But it will attack you Cecilia.
With disadvantage.
That's right.
Nineteen disadvantage twelve.
And then a thirteen already misses.
And then I roll the second the third bite attack.
Twelve so already misses.
Fuck you.
You see that where it would make purchase you see that there's like it's almost like
blinded like it you it finds you repulsive and it's struggling to like trying to trying
to find purchase.
It just kind of swings at the air around you.
Just trying to find any anything from you and it just kind of like backs away from you
for a moment kind of like.
Yeah it's repulsed by you at the moment.
All right.
Um if he is still clinging to him.
Oh yeah that's right.
I'm a motherfucker.
It should be the type to deploy yourself.
All right Jean Claude it's your turn.
You are not paralyzed this turn.
Fuck yeah.
And it is an action for Leon hands but a bonus action to drink a potion right.
Yes it's a bonus action.
So it is like Cecilia is like don't if she sees you pull out a potion or something she's
like she's like it's not going to work.
I tried to heal you.
And he shoves it back in his pocket and he figures it's just better to use his action
economy to swing.
So the there is the one going after the dwarf right.
And there is one currently attacking Cecilia.
Yes.
How bad do each of them look.
Cecilia's got some protection the dwarf is paralyzed and getting getting stunted on.
Right and right.
OK so I'm going to go.
I'm going to.
What's up.
You would have advantage against the one attacking me though because of the guiding goal.
That's right.
But defend Dalmor bar or either either way either one's a good decision in my opinion.
I know I'm just trying to think of what Jean Claude would do because he doesn't know this
dwarf.
I know I don't know I don't know the dwarf did try to help.
He did try to help try to help.
And I can't split my attacks between two opponents.
It has to be on one right.
You can hit one and then go to the other.
OK.
Let's see if I can hit the one that's on the door first.
Do you want to hit Cecilia's first because that's one's closest.
Oh yeah.
I'll hit Cecilia's first.
OK.
I'll hit the one advantage you said Jenny.
Advantage from guiding bolt.
I think unless it went away by now.
I don't remember how it works.
The worst advantage.
Fourteen.
Ah I'm so sad.
That's one below.
Everything's only one below.
I feel deep pain in his soul.
Is this what it feels like?
Wouldn't it.
Oh oh really.
You want to start this one.
He'll go.
This was terrible.
Cecilia I'll be right back and he's going to just turn and try to swing on the other
one.
Well to be fair, with Aphia on him it's flanking.
Aphia's flanking.
I'm holding the motherfucking game Jon.
Is he flanking him?
No.
Aphia's isn't doing anything.
He won't take another second opportunity on you when you leave.
Okay.
Seventeen.
I wrote one below.
But your AC is 18?
Yep.
All y'all's AC is 18 except for you now.
Yeah you gave me the cocoa protection so now mine's higher.
Oh that's an eight.
Um.
Know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna do it again.
God damn it.
It's a bonus action implosing glare on this motherfucker.
Christmas save?
Yes.
Twelve.
Get out of here.
Ha you missed.
Jon Claude is just after he missed he goes move.
Alright um.
Cause he's mad that he's missing and I don't think Cecilia would have seen but he's bleeding
pretty heavily.
Cecilia it's your turn.
Okay um am I able to.
I don't know if I'm am I able to touch Dalmar without taking an attack of opportunity.
Well the one took an attack of opportunity on.
Oh yeah.
Yeah so the reaction is suspended.
On me.
Okay I'm gonna um how many second level spells do I have?
I'm sorry this sucks so bad.
No you're fine you're fine.
It's okay we'll accommodate.
It's seriously fine.
Uh gosh but your page isn't coming up anymore.
Um there it is.
Okay you have cause you spent one already you have two left.
I spent two.
You spent two you have one left.
Cause one's a lesser restoration right.
Lesser restoration.
Yeah and healing.
And healing once you have one left.
Okay I'll use that on Dalmar.
Okay.
Thank you.
And there's nothing I can do as a bonus action I'm pretty sure because I can't heal anybody.
It's okay.
Um I can jump as a bonus action.
I'm just gonna jump.
Powerful thing.
Oh it was not prepared.
Yeah spiritual weapons are not prepared.
Anyway.
Oh no I love that one.
It's on my face.
I like it in D&D I don't like it on Baldur's Gate.
More spells.
It deserves to die.
Anyways that's the end of my turn.
In conclusion get fucked.
So you did heal me correct?
No cause you're not paralyzed anymore.
Oh good good.
Thank god.
It's gonna see if it's even recharged it's paralyzed.
It does recharge it.
Um.
Ten.
The same one recharged it three times?
Yep.
I mean two twice cause it.
Yep.
But three total.
Um.
They can't move closer to the Junk Lod.
No.
I'm gonna kill them.
Make a wisdom saving throw Cecilia.
With advantage.
Yes.
You're not a character you could actually 16 on this.
Let me roll the other dice.
Alia dice nat 20.
Okay I rolled a five and a nat 20.
Alia dice came through from um.
These ones they're beautiful.
Anyways.
Looking down at the bag of holding.
No you're clutching it.
Looking down at the box.
By the way as the two of you are standing at this location.
You see the area around you just shimmers heavily.
And um.
We'll get to that in a little bit.
We gotta go to one.
Uh is going to use all three attacks on Dalmar real quick.
Oh come on.
You're going to use a nat 22 to hit.
Yes.
Yikes.
Oh gosh.
15 damage.
15.
Yep.
What a killer Gar.
Natural one uh.
Gonna kill our guest.
Here on the song woven.
We kill our guest.
This is a fate on song woven.
And a 12 to hit.
So the rest misses but 15 points of slash damage in total.
Yep.
And it's going to fly upwards.
Out of your reach.
Dalmar so you have your pickaxe in hand.
We would take it of attack of opportunity.
Yep.
Cause Ranjhachi was like no.
Can I take an attack of opportunity.
You can yes.
What was that?
That's a 23.
23 hits.
Yeah.
For 9 piercing damage.
Yeah.
9 piercing damage.
I rolled a 13 and I don't know the other things to roll.
So plus plus plus 3 base.
So yeah you hit.
Okay.
Is your mace non magical?
It's not magical.
Roll damage.
What's the damage?
It's a d8 plus 3.
What is damage?
Oh you don't have to roll.
It's a dm.
No no hit.
Go ahead and roll for damage.
I rolled 1.
0.5 damage.
So as you slam into your pickaxe stone begins to like crumble off of it and as you kind
of like hook onto it you're trying to pull it down down more.
Cecilia comes in with the mace smashing it at the at its head and it just crumbles to
the ground.
It dead.
Yeah it dead.
That's one down.
Alright so Gargoyle 1 is gone.
Oh so sad.
So sad.
I'm crying.
And then you see you hear Apius goes I got this motherfucker over here.
Apius.
Good job Apius.
Dalmarts your turn.
Before I do it does Apius take damage?
No.
He is a lich.
As long as you don't aim for where Apius is.
He is a mortal.
Yeah I'm gonna use one of my charges of what should be a javelin of lightning but for character
purposes is a pickaxe of lightning.
Gargoyle number 2 needs to make a DC 13 dexterity saving throw.
And if you do I'm going to be so mad.
The both of you see this dwarf pull his pickaxe and it begins to be charged.
Just imbued with a lightning that begins to intensify over the moment more and more and
more until you understand next to him the heat is unbearable.
And this is going to make.
Fuck.
I know I went that way.
Tim.
It takes half damage right?
One.
Yes.
Thank goodness.
Yeah half as much damage on successful which is.
Maybe he had disadvantage on a pickaxe.
Over d6.
He had him grab from.
So it takes 8 points of lightning damage.
You watch as he just throws a pickaxe.
The pickaxe picks up speed and becomes a huge streak of lightning.
I will say that it was that he was located over your wagon.
So I'll say some of the some of the fire does like.
Not the wagon.
Very loud thunder clap that hits that hits that that hits.
They were in the vicinity of it as they get knocked out of the air.
The wagon isn't caught on fire because the lightning went overhead but some of the heat
has permeated onto the wagon.
You see you see a little bit of scorch marks but not it's on fire.
That's a fucking house.
And then the pickaxe.
He comes right back and he catches it.
All right cargo to saw that.
I just remembered that I needed to go change my charger.
So I'm going to do that real quick.
Otherwise I'm going to.
It's going to die.
And I think I have to unplug this lamp to do it.
So it will be in the dark.
Real quick.
Give me.
Can you give me one sleight of hand or athletics check.
Not sleight of hand.
Oh wait come on.
You strong you strong CC.
What did he roll?
No I rolled a four.
Oh no he's got the box.
Runs over.
Right onto you lifts the box up.
And uses 10 feet of movement to fly into the air.
I.
Make a second opportunity.
I need to kill him.
You can get the charger now.
Go Jenny go.
16 hits.
Fuck sick.
Adding on smite.
On D8.
Twelve radiant.
Okay.
Still up.
I wish I could grab onto him.
All right.
He is 10 feet above you all at the moment.
And he looks like he wants to book it but Jean-Claude it is your turn.
Well good thing that I am almost eight feet tall and I.
Surely that's within your reach.
Surely that's within my reach.
Because I'm going to grab this motherfucker.
I'm sorry.
You can't allow that.
I am.
It's not it's it's with it's out of your reach sadly.
Okay.
But wait.
There's more.
I'm sorry.
Ensnaring strike 5E.
Oh yeah.
The top of the round.
Oh never mind.
Go ahead.
Sorry.
I forgot that this is a advanced 5E thing.
Hold on.
Okay.
Hold on.
I need to really put this spell down.
Ensnaring.
Where where is ensnaring strike?
Did I make up this spell?
Entangling strike?
Is that what it is?
It's a ranger spell.
Yeah.
Jean-Claude has it.
It's entangling snare.
His oath.
Maybe it changed for a 5E.
I can't find it.
Is ensnaring strike a spell?
Because I'm looking it up and I can't find it.
It is a spell in 5E but it's not in the SRD.
I'm pretty sure because it's ranger.
So you have to look it up on Google.
Fuckers.
Okay.
Those rangers are in SRD.
They are extra.
I'm going to pay my note.
That's not going to help.
I thought I could like grab it but it can't grab it.
Okay.
Hold on.
I'm sorry guys.
Just because this is like really important.
I want to take my time.
Yeah, of course.
I can probably hold person.
Hold person?
Vanished.
It's not a humanoid though and that's humanoid, right?
Yes, it's not a humanoid.
Yeah, it needs to be humanoid.
Invisibility doesn't help.
Intensive spell breaker.
Arcane muscle.
And I can't jump.
Is jumping not an option?
Furbogs can't jump.
God damn it.
Furbogs can't jump.
What?
What can we do?
Why can't I jump?
Secret lore.
What secret lore is this?
Cure Wounds, calculated retribution.
I'll say this.
You can use both your powers.
Command.
Oh.
I'd like to use command.
And he's going to shout the command drop.
All right.
What's the saving throw?
Wisdom?
I think it is a wisdom save.
Nine.
Fails.
But he uses inspiration he got from his daughter.
I'm kidding.
Hey.
I was about to throw this laptop.
I can't you not?
It drops.
The moon shards.
The box drops.
Jumping towards the ground.
Object interaction?
This is going to be a quick one.
Give me a sleight of hand.
Little.
Yeah.
21.
Got it.
Clamps in it.
Yeah.
Good.
Good turn.
Cecilia.
I'm going to guiding bolt him at third level.
Oh, OK.
Oh boy.
Roll the hit.
OK.
The Alia dice has been the good one.
No, but my first nat 20 was the starry one.
So I'm going to do the starry one.
See it.
18.
That's right.
And that's how many D6?
I believe a 66.
I'll go ahead and check.
All about the Mets, baby.
The Mets.
Good, good pitching.
Yeah, 66.
Dragmire.
Oh, my wife.
Welcome.
Hi, guys.
18.
To catch up the folks just tuning in.
We've been having gargoyles tried to steal the moon shards out of our hands where a dwarf
a foreign dwarf companion has come into our midst to help us out.
I wrote 23 damage.
23?
23 damage.
Hey, that's the exact same points.
Really?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up.
Kill this bitch.
That's the one damage thing for the other guy.
You got both of them.
Kill them.
Okay, so yeah, she with her third level guiding bolt after it had just grabbed the moon shards
and then she sees Jean-Claude catch them.
And then she just like really, really frustrated just with the new ring too and everything.
The spell lobber's ring just shoots the guiding bolt in the sky.
As the guiding bolt shoots out into the sky and you literally a dragon ball zebra.
As the form of the gargoyle begins to shimmer, you see its skin begin to harden.
Its skin cracks and like stone in the air where you hit with the guiding bolt, it crumbles
and the rocks fall to the ground.
As you're all looking up towards the sky, as Cecilia fires the guiding bolt at the gargoyle,
as you see its form begin to crumble, for you Cecilia and Jean-Claude, after that, would
you see what happens?
After time passes is that the sky that was shimmering before, it begins to, the form
resolves and all of a sudden the sky is overcasted with red, a deep blood red and a moon, a red
moon hanging overhead.
This is just like the, this is really bad.
Jean-Claude shoves the moon shards in the bag of holding, grabs Apheus and says, we've
got to go.
We have to get out of here.
Go where?
I have to see Bannric.
Okay, so he's got the skull in one hand.
He says, the dwarf says, go where?
And he flips around and goes, oh, sorry.
I am a former captain of the Golden Gau.
This is my companion, Cecilia.
This is really not a good time for us.
This is really bad.
We have to get moving.
Are you okay?
Thank you for helping us.
Cecilia!
You reek of magic.
You have wild magic inside of you, don't you?
What I have is none of your concern.
I don't enjoy having it.
You said, Bannric.
You know him?
I...
Where is he?
That's complicated.
Rexxon is difficult right now and the Archmage is missing.
Maybe you've been, like, sensing things and stuff.
Maybe you can sense him or something, Atheus?
You can.
I and the rest of the town would greatly appreciate your assistance.
In that case, I'll lend the skull.
Okay, guys.
Quint up the sky.
Yes.
Last time this happened, Cecilia.
Remember?
Not good.
Really bad.
We've got to get moving.
It looks like a dream I had with Sylvie.
Yeah, like, the red moon is just not our vibe.
You know what I mean?
It's been like this for a week and a half.
It just started.
It wasn't like this a bit ago.
Oh, you.
It's been like this for us ever since.
Have you heard what's happened to Rexxon?
The atomic domes.
Hey.
They have taken over.
They have mutated what their orders were and instead of protecting, are now capturing.
The town is under siege.
Capturing though, but not like hurting anyone.
Wait, wait, capturing to do what?
They think that to protect, they need to trap and barricade.
Some people...
Some of the automatons did not have a protect order for people.
They had a protect order for the town.
We have lost.
For multiple people.
Wait, was the sky this color when the automatons turned?
Aye, right when they turned.
Right when they turned.
Maybe that's what they're trying to protect from.
They, they were acting weird long before.
Something within them already is not right.
Do you know how they worked?
To a degree.
The Archmage Brandrick knows more and he is still missing.
Why is he miss... when did he go missing?
He's been missing for a week and a half.
Ever since this started he has not shown back up.
Where was he seen last?
At the parade with the rest of the town.
Aphus, suddenly this name came to you.
Anything else that you may be able to remember of this man that could help us?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
I don't know.
Do you have a help of a magic, a temple to saloon you know or something in the city?
The temple to saloon I do not know.
Do you mind my asking what was in that box you so desperately tried to protect?
I have a bad feeling I know what it is.
Oh, well what do you know?
I've felt that kind of magic before.
We are drug dealers.
Um, the, the, um.
It is drugs.
I, we have so much in charge.
Do you really want to make a dis, doing deception checks here?
I will, I will roll.
Please no.
With disadvantage.
Disadvantage?
I'm a really bad liar.
Absolutely with disadvantage.
Why disadvantage?
You roll with advantage um, the double R.
I'm mostly from the devil's side of the world.
Like, because I'm a healer.
So for the most part I'm a healer.
I'm a healer.
I rolled a 20 and a 25.
I rolled a 22 perception and I still don't beat the, come on.
Wait you beat a 20.
No you beat a 20 because I rolled a 25 deception and it said disadvantage and I rolled a 20.
So you beat my 20.
You used 22.
But it was a really good roll.
Hey um, not, not only are they not drug dealers, but these two are probably like the biggest
narcs ever.
Absolutely.
John Clot has his fucking groving guard patch.
It's a fucking park ranger.
And Cecilia was just going like, yeah but they're like, you know, for medicinal purposes
because they're like a healer and you know, actually speaking of, speaking of healing,
you guys are both bleeding really bad and I wonder if maybe I can heal you now that
they're dead.
Without drugs that we have, you know what, as an addict Cecilia, I'm fine.
I just need the good good kush.
If you're an addict how do you, well actually I know how you-
Talwan do you ever stop yapping?
Um, you say small one or Talwan?
Talwan.
He just stands there silent and goes, I am right now.
Yes sir.
You're traveling with moonshards aren't you?
No.
Wait how do you, what would you think that?
I've felt and seen that kind of magic before.
Where?
Archmage Brantrick.
He has one.
What?
What does he use it for?
I do not know why he has it.
But poor-
I can't believe why this is happening.
Hold on.
Talwan I implore you please help us.
You know then about the moonshards and how dangerous they are.
I'm very well aware how dangerous any kind of wild magic is.
As you say it's your self apparently.
Yes.
Well.
We were coming here to help your people anyway.
Now it just seems like our goals are very deeply entwined in a light.
I was serious about the bleeding out thing though.
You both look really bad.
No offense.
I'm in real bad shape.
At 14 hit points.
Before I use any of my magic I'm gonna test that stuff that um Jeremy gave us from the
swamp.
It's supposed to heal.
Oh god.
I'd just like to put this out.
84 hit points is the highest I've seen on a player character not on like a huge online
stream or anything.
I'm down to 26.
That's for me is my favorite number.
I went through one round of attacks Tim.
Yep.
And I'm down to 26.
That was me with yeah I was at 14 and I was like if I take one more hit I go bye bye.
I go nana.
I spent my life with protection from evil and good.
I was like oh that's a waste of a spell slot.
We're not gonna fight anything in the next 10 minutes.
Also I'm sorry I'm sorry oh my wife is saying Emma's upset she can't be a drug dealer.
Yeah that sounds about right.
I've always wanted to play a drug dealer.
Damn it.
I'm a not cool backstory.
I'm really surprised you haven't yet.
Next character done.
Your next character was Dennis.
Dennis is a dentist who deals in laughing gas.
Tony has definitely dealt drugs before.
Tony has absolutely dealt drugs before.
Dennis doesn't know what they are.
Hey Dennis smoke this.
I'm gonna take that um whatever the swamp cream thing I have it gives hit points and
temporary hit points and I'm gonna try to put it on.
It's gonna smell disgusting.
Sadly one charge of it as you put it on nothing happens.
What the fuck?
Does my lay on hands work on myself?
Can I test it with a one?
You test one nothing.
John Claude is gonna lose his shit but he's gonna go it's fine I've had what else we keep
coming.
We have a two of you have some kind of powerful necromancy magic on you.
It's a curse.
Yeah it's stupid.
All right let's get moving come on.
Wait wait you can't go like this.
Cecilia the sky is red.
There are tomatons who are angry killing people.
We have gagoers.
We have who knows fucking what's out to me with the moonshine.
And this man knows what the moonshine is which is wild to me.
So there's a lot going on and I think that because we move the wealth we have to worry
about.
I don't have anything that lets me change my prep spells do I?
Um at the moment no.
In Balder's Gate?
I'm kidding.
Would you imagine?
No that's the new thing for all the D&D games is to be like in Balder's Gate.
Oh Jesus Christ.
So uh okay first of all um says uh you hear um Aphius goes a moment what's your name to
the dwarf?
My name is Dalmar.
She looks at Aphius to see if he knows him too.
Says Dalmar lead the way.
He's taking lead now for you two for for Jean Claude and Cecilia for some reason.
Yeah Jean Claude is not happy with this but.
It's his personal his personal like paralogue thing you know.
Yes however now the moonshines are involved which means that Cecilia is involved so.
He's gonna do right next to her.
And I have 14 hit points baby.
I said to them before the game.
Oh go ahead.
Before I take you back to our camp your names.
I'm Cecilia.
Jean Claude no need to call me captain we are equals here.
What were you even the captain of?
And hails probably with his groven guard badge.
The groven girl.
The most elite dragon girl.
Thank you Dragmire.
I have water.
Has her deemed a stretch and.
We'll put it in at some point I promise.
One day.
Has her dreamed of stretch and hydrate.
Stretch.
I'm out of water.
I need water.
Oh.
Was a loud pop.
Thanks Dragmire.
My phone.
It's like the changing the cord thing did not help by the way so.
Oh so we should hurry this up.
I have eight percent.
It's going slower.
Oh okay.
I was at 11.
Fine fine fine.
Okay look.
So what were you even the captain of?
Who were you even the captain of?
Groven guard.
Whoa.
Is that like a like a big thing or like a neighborhood watch?
Where I'm from it's very big.
Like it's like the whole forest.
Yes it is.
Other forests.
I think it's more than one forest actually.
Yes it is.
She's like.
He's like in charge of the forest.
I have never heard of it.
Well not this forest but you know the further west.
Are you from a gond hill?
Not quite.
Then maybe that's why you haven't heard of it.
Where are you from?
Alcia's mountains.
You're from the town of Intrepid.
I'm from the Alcia's mountains on the border but I don't think anyone in Vexen knows of
the Groven guard either.
They should know.
Maybe you're the one who doesn't know because I.
Jean Claude is like a little impressed but also taken aback at the sassiness of Veselia
right now.
She doesn't mean to be sassy.
She just means it genuinely.
She knows what the Groven guard was where she lives.
At this point Damar is absolutely just trying to make it sound like it's a neighborhood
watch kind of thing.
It's even less.
It's even less than that.
Small cost of act of porp.
All right.
And I'm atheist.
I think.
I tell you now I don't like magic.
You fall into that.
I was once one of the greatest liches alive.
All right.
Follow me.
Fucker.
I have dealt with your kind many times.
Oh really.
Bossy doesn't listen.
Arrogant.
I thought you.
I didn't hear a single word you said.
I really just thought you meant like decapitated heads are dead.
So that makes more sense actually.
I'm not even going to question that.
Just follow me.
As you as you go back towards the wagon just trotting along slowly following down more
down more you keep your I say you keep your eyes peeled out.
And as you as you do as the two as the lot of you trek your way through these new found
darkened skies down more you feel it a sense of magical energy coming from somewhere.
I'm a tall and a time a time.
Do we know it's an atomic time or just a good person only only down more sense at the moment.
Got it.
Nevermind.
I will just raise a hand up to stop the wagon behind him and then a Tomiton.
It's come outside the walls.
Child child in the distance.
Wait we hear that.
Yeah very small.
Is it looking for a child.
Or thinks it has one.
That is a problem right because Cecilia told him about her dream right with the children
of the red moon.
The purple kids.
I did.
He's gonna go.
Excuse me and he's gonna charge forward to see what the atomic bomb as.
As this eight foot tall of gold rushes in towards the source Jean Claude as you burst
into the clearing of you see a sight before you.
A metallic man.
Part of its eyes hanging out part of its broken Claude Claude up by some kind of like some
kind of wild animal probably with large claws is currently kneeling next to a cow that's
been it's dead.
You see that it has a small it has a it has a small bucket in one hand and you see it's
squeezing the other trying to get milk out of it.
But nothing's coming out.
And you hear please.
Please.
Where are the children.
The most beautiful.
You need to get away from that thing.
Are you going to take them.
No.
I love them.
You love them.
I love them too.
Why don't we work together.
You need help getting milk right.
I would stop if I were you.
You're going to take them.
I would stop.
It's it's stands kind of like very it stutters with stands.
You see its metallic head kind of like rolls around.
I'm scared.
I'm scared too.
What are you scared of.
Everything.
It is really scary.
Do you want help.
When I turn off.
When I think.
No no no no no no.
You two get back.
Please answer me.
When you tell me.
Okay little one.
It's just maintenance.
No no.
I know what that means.
You don't have to turn off.
I said get back.
What is.
Okay.
It's.
No.
What we're talking about.
So I'm given that Delmar is as powerful as he is and he has told us many times to get
back.
Jean Claude is just going to put himself in between Cecilia so that she cannot get any
closer to the automaton.
I feel bad for it though because I know.
I know what he's not he's not gonna let her get close to it right now.
You hear.
Please don't hurt me.
I want to feed the children.
They need help.
Where are they.
Like a persuasion shot.
I wish it was me asking.
That's a 10.
I'm not gonna offer it.
It's.
It's out his head at you.
Are you going to take them.
No.
I want to help them.
They need food.
We have food.
I can give you some.
Make a position check.
I have a bunch of things on my sheet.
I don't know if any of them have to do with persuasion for being like earnest or telling
the truth to convince them when I'm telling the truth.
I'm pretty sure I get an expertise.
Since I'm honest.
I did at the before.
Yeah.
For the two plus two.
I rolled an 18.
So total 20.
Yay.
It hangs its head for a moment.
Something's had at you.
Satisfactory.
Hey, um.
Oh, and I put it in your bucket.
Okay.
Please do.
Okay.
So walk around Jean Claude if he lets her then and go to fill the bucket with some food
stuff from there.
I like if he makes any set of movement to Cecilia, it's done.
Hold on.
Oh, yeah.
Delmar is at the ready.
As soon as you fill it up with food and he's looking you over, it's unsettling because
what's seen so far has like intelligence.
It has fear, but it's inanimate.
It doesn't breathe.
But now it has a sort of presence to it.
As soon as you're done placing food, it suddenly leans forward and has a handout.
And it just grabs.
It just kind of like grabs your arm roughly.
Just looking at you.
Are the two of you doing anything?
The fact that well, John, is it a man?
We can insight check.
Is it an aggressive attack or is it like because it's already said that it's scared.
So is it acting like a scared animal like help me or is it like a I'm going to kill
you?
Make an insight check, please.
I think I have advantage.
Feeling cute.
Feeling like I might have advantage on insight.
I have a feeling that like I know.
This role is giving advantage.
This role is like serving advantage.
I will just say Dalmar is not willing to do anything when it is actively touching Cecilia
because his next action is to kill it.
Well, I'm bigger than you when I'm in.
The robots are doing it.
So wait.
No, they're not.
OK, OK.
I get an expertise died to discern the truth.
This is discerning motive.
This is like discerning.
Yeah.
One day, one day I'll have major, major insight.
It's a very sudden jerky movement.
And if you were on the fence, this would definitely be like protection coming up.
But yeah, he'll let forward them.
As you lunge forward, as you're as you're as you're at your arm is grabbed as looking
as it's looking towards you, you see it turns its head towards Jean Claude.
Charging Jean Claude.
What are you doing, Jean Claude?
It's OK.
Does she does she say that before I get to her?
She doesn't know it's OK, but she's assuming it is because she decides to trust it.
So he's going to like almost try to sweep her up and like cradle her in his arms, like
get her away from the automaton.
As you pull Cecilia away and it's hand kind of like wheels back, let's go.
It just goes looking at Celia.
I am filled with gratitude.
Thank you.
Yeah, make sure those kids eat well.
And if they were young enough that they needed milk, then you probably shouldn't give them
cow's milk.
You'd have to get them something else.
But if they're old enough to eat food, they should be able to eat that.
Does that make sense?
Yes.
Do you want help bringing it to the kids?
She says looking to the other since they were looking for kids.
This is satisfactory.
He's on cloud with Cecilia under one of his arms.
She's just hanging there, points at the automaton, points to her and goes, no touching.
I must go now.
Go where?
Children.
OK, then I'll put her down.
Where are they?
We want to help them.
I think we just follow.
It picks up.
Oh, it picks up the bucket.
Oh, they'll need fresh water, too.
I can carry the fresh water for them.
Make a persuasion check.
I wish John Claude was more in the persuasive mood, but he's not because this should be
weird.
I wrote a one.
No.
OK, I'm not.
I'm not just follow.
I'm not going visible and follow if I have to.
It.
It begins to walk.
It walks slow.
As it's holding the bucket.
OK, come on.
They can keep up with this thing.
If there are people where it is at, we need to follow it.
So this was the same thing if there are people at the end of this, we'll know how to help
them.
You do know, Damar, that it somehow got past the outside perimeter of the camp where everyone
else is located.
You don't know where it's going to go back.
Well, if it got out, then surely it has some way to get back in.
I need to know.
It's a good point, too.
Come, I just thought to be quiet and follow along.
And it seems like we'll be able to talk to them.
They're just scared.
Hopefully.
Hopefully, some of our reason.
Yeah, stops unreasonable.
Hopefully somehow it's easy to talk to us.
Is there just trying to help?
It looks like.
Yeah, but you see, this is out of our pill view and he points to the red moon.
We have no idea what this is doing.
Just follow.
All of you roll self check.
That's a 10.
You want me to roll a stealth check?
Plus 60.
Well, I rolled a nat 20, but then I also rolled an eight because I have disadvantage from
heavy armor, which is probably a minus one because I have negative decks.
I have expertise in it.
Oh, I'm a hope.
This is not going well.
We're doing our best.
OK, we're just like clink, clink, clink, clink.
Even with heavy armor, I rolled a 25 and a 21 plus my expertise die is going to be a
25.
I will say for everyone, the clanking from Cecilia, however, I could use an inspiration
to take my 20.
If you think it's worth it.
If not, I'm a go invisible.
I don't think it is.
I don't think it's worth it.
Then don't.
It's going to get mad at me.
I don't know.
It looks behind and stops.
It pauses for a moment and then it runs.
John Clyde is like, he's going to just like with his 25, you know, it begins to run and
you're giving chase.
As you're giving chase, it sees an eight foot tall football chasing after it and you see
it just goes, no, and it drops the bucket to keep running.
I have an idea.
I only have one.
I don't have any second level spells left.
I have a third level spell slot.
I will cast calm emotions at third level so it's an increased duration.
Okay.
As you, as you do that, it's a saving throw, right?
No, it's not.
It depends?
You can check this.
I'll take a look.
See real quick.
It's a crazy saving throw.
Good things.
Yes, they are.
No, they're not.
Innocent ghosts.
It stops and just go and just places a hand on its chest and it goes, my heart.
What's wrong?
Are you having a hazard deck?
I am calm.
I cast calm emotions.
Oh, good.
Calm is good.
Everything is so much quieter now.
Does it feel better?
Yes.
The bad feelings, the fear, the anger, the love, they are gone.
The love is a bad feeling.
Love is neither good nor bad.
It is an emotion.
It can be painful though.
Kill for love.
What did I say?
Who have, have you thought of doing that recently?
To protect.
Yeah.
The two of you get back now.
I've heard all I need to hear.
No.
Yes.
It's, he's just scared.
I know.
But we are operating.
And he's calm now.
He's not in any danger right now and he can still lead us back to where we want to go.
If he has hurt anyone like he has claimed now, then I'm sorry.
Am I in trouble?
You are not in trouble little one.
Hold on.
Have you killed anyone?
Yes.
To protect children.
Yes.
Who have you hurt?
To protect them.
Look just like me.
Oh, you killed your own kind.
To protect.
Children.
Have you only hurt a Tomatom?
Yes.
What is your name?
You look annoyed that I'm right.
Sorry.
I am.
I very much am.
Do you want to give me a name?
No.
No, no, no.
Your name is your own.
What is your name?
They call me.
Dad.
Okay, Dad is a title.
Do you have a name other than a title?
Designation K4.
Cover.
Cover?
K4.
Cover.
My name is K4.
Hello, K4.
Bassoir.
Name Jean Claude.
Nice to meet you.
Picks up the bucket.
I'm Cecilia and I have to warn you that I don't know what's going to happen when my spell
ends.
But I want to try to help.
So the bad emotions might come back.
But I hope that we can get rid of them again, but permanently.
Okay.
Permanently?
No, no, no, I learned how to manage them.
Well, I die.
No, maybe not permanently.
But try to make it so it's not as bad.
You know?
Not therapy, you know?
I've heard of this thing.
I don't do it.
I've been told I should, but you know.
Children.
Yeah, for the kids.
Yeah, let's go.
Can you read it for them so that we can help?
Okay.
Come on, Kev.
Let's go.
And he'll help pick up the bucket.
And he'll look back at Delmar.
And he'll give him a wary but reassuring nod as if to say, I also am whacked out by this
shit.
But.
And I would just, I would just like to point out, talking to Jean-Claude specifically,
if it makes a single move towards your companion or towards any children, it may be protecting.
And I don't believe it is.
I will not hesitate to shut it off.
Do I look like a manifestation when it comes to children and my comrade?
I'm just making sure you're aware.
Good.
I'm on the same page.
So careful.
Where are we going?
Come on, tell me.
Hole.
Hole or home?
Hole.
Okay.
In the hole we go.
I sneak past.
The scary.
The killers.
The baddletons.
Watchmen.
The people.
Ah.
Referring to the people in the camp.
Yeah.
They're not supposed to leave the city at all.
Do you say that?
No.
Okay.
Okay, where?
What if we sneak by?
I will sneak.
You.
You are wearing skin.
We are wearing skin.
They like that.
Maybe we can put you in a disguise.
We probably fit some of our clothes, but at least on Claude's clothes, his clothes fit
everyone.
I mean, it's a little too big.
Excuse me?
I mean like.
I am a husky man.
Little one, you are trying to reason with.
It's not going to work.
I've reasoned with him already.
Find me.
Careful.
Find me at the Elder Tree Playhouse.
That is where the children are.
All right.
Hey, careful.
Yes.
See you soon, okay?
Yes.
All right.
Be careful.
It knows it.
Nice job.
Let's mosey.
As the young kids say, let's boogie.
They do not say that.
Oh, I've never heard that before.
Incorrect.
Back in my day.
Well that makes sense.
So you are going to separate with him for a moment and head to the camp?
He's going to be okay.
Because I love him.
But daddy, I love him.
I love dad.
Dad.
Just stop.
Oh, God.
What?
He's protecting the kids.
We think if they're alive.
Well he, well, we do know is that he knows that the other robots are killing people and
it's not good and he's not happy about that.
Cecilia is brutal.
She is.
She doesn't mean to be, but she just is.
The nastiest takedowns have been from Cecilia not meeting him in this campaign.
As the three of you are back on your wagon, that was a location in mind within this, the
town of Rexon.
Oh my, why, why, why?
You begin, you begin, you all begin to make your way towards Rexon and only, only you
Dalmar know the horrors that lie ahead of you.
I want you both to know they are not all like that.
Oh my, why send the chat.
So now we just need daddy to meet mommy from before.
That's all I'll say.
Definitely mommy's here.
He'll say.
I wish she was somewhere else in the world.
To Dalmar has say, I cannot imagine what you have gone through, but we've been told many
times before coming here.
They have feelings and if they have feelings, there are some who probably like the rest
of us mean to help.
And others, when we do do calm.
They don't, they don't possess the feelings themselves.
They're designed to emulate what the feeling would be.
So they pretend to have feelings.
That didn't seem like, if it's pretend, I don't know why a calm emotion spell would
come in if they were just pretending.
Just come with me.
You, you need to be at the cup before we go any further.
Hopefully the mage will decide to show themselves soon.
We want to get an idea.
I can only hold that up.
As you lead the way Dalmar, once again stepping forward onto the horror and now leading two
fresh faces into it, possibly.
You can't help but feel that this is somewhat familiar.
Pickaxe in hand.
You stride forward.
Jenny, is your phone time?
And that that is where we're going to put a pin in this.
You son of a.
Yeah, me.
Son of a bitch.
What's wrong?
Somebody.
Oh, really?
Really?
He reached out a hand.
Is that not?
Is that not like he planned this?
He's pulling back on what the start of my character's backstory is.
Right.
Which is that leading someone into into doom.
Basically leading people to their death and not being able to do anything about it.
All these notes I took before we we did anything because there were so many notes to take.
Two hours of solo backstory and there's still more to uncover.
It's less than mine from the first episode.
Oh my God.
I sat there and I was like, I can't take notes.
I'll never keep up.
Hey guys, Moro Quandary.
Yay.
Let's go.
The trolley problem, but with robots.
Let's go.
This is not the right.
I'm not playing the right character.
I have to do the heart here and she's not normally assertive enough, but she was like,
they have feelings.
Don't hurt them.
What do you mean Tim is so mean?
He called him mean.
He planned this.
He did plan it.
I agree.
I have to plan things.
I like we were connecting little character things.
It's cool.
Delmar.
What's going to what's going to suck is if what's his name again?
What was it?
What do we call him?
Careful.
I'm not calling him dad.
I said dad and John Clutz said absolutely not.
I'm worried that Kefarr is going to be like taken by the mortal folks like the humans.
Me too.
And then he's going to be like tortured and murdered.
Yeah.
They kill Delmar.
Those people kill on sight and you know that for good.
That's for a good reason.
And I get that.
I don't get it.
I don't.
You will.
That's the joy of it.
You will.
You'll learn.
I don't think we should kill on sight just because just because some robots are killing
people.
It isn't a thing you should kill all the robots.
You wouldn't do that with any other group.
I'm not playing the right character for this.
The girl is like I deal with animals and it's not metal people.
And you don't even like Druids.
Fucking Druids.
Fucking well, no, no.
Maybe not.
If we're talking about Disgates, man.
No, he's kidding.
There's a chance that could be a good one.
Yeah, probably not.
Signs point to no.
We will explore this further in the coming weeks.
Until then.
Oh, you.
Jenny can't even hear that because she's in the role playing.
Was it only you can prevent wildfires?
I couldn't hear it.
Oh, do you have the audio on?
Yeah, it was very low on my end.
Don't worry.
I'm trying to scream from the water.
Here we go.
We'll see you next time.
Oh, I thought it's only you can prevent wildfires.
See you next week, everyone.
Bye guys.
Bye.