Songwovem presents The Lanaya Expedition, a level-up, advanced fifth edition, actual
play campaign, episode 22, Reason for Red.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Songwovem.
I have a can of pepper spray on my desk.
I have a can-do attitude.
I have a taser that's technically not legal in New York.
Don't tell anyone.
We went in different directions.
I went with the can and you went with the weapon.
I mean, I have a knife, I guess.
Okay, so I'm the one who's off theme, I guess.
Don't bring a knife to a spray to a spray.
JT keep it simple, keeping it medieval.
How vintage of you, JT.
How vintage.
Hello everyone.
Welcome to Songwovem.
I have a question for you.
Now, I have to ask you, is there a meaning and value in the world that is beyond our
human perspective or must we commit ourselves to a transvaluation of values and believe
that there is a huge expanse in which meaning and value must be created?
Will we as humans be utterly lost without the hugely important task of creating?
Hello everyone.
I am your Lorweaver, your LW.
I am Tim Don Tran and here I am.
I am joined with my very special, very lovely, they create a lot of value and meaning for
me.
This is my crew.
Can we please introduce ourselves?
Who has the most claim on my heart?
Um, hi.
Yes.
Yes, your girlfriend.
Yeah, probably.
Just so you know, I guess.
Hi, I'm Jenny and I play Cecilia and I support the robots.
Oh no.
Let's fucking go, the robots.
I'm Emma Mosco and I play Jean Claude Boucheron, who is a character that is not made for this
moral and psychological, sociological episode.
I'm JT, I play Dalmar and I propose we take away Timmy's bit abilities, please.
No.
No more.
No more bits.
My abilities.
I can't do it.
Oh gosh.
You know, this is Twitch actually has bits.
They should do a bits for bits thing.
That just like, I don't know how that didn't secure to me so well.
Oh, you're right.
There are bits.
Every one bit I will perform a bit in, in, in sequence.
That's like a penny per bit, Timmy.
Yes.
Exactly.
Penny in, penny out.
I'm your fucking jester.
Let's do this.
Let's go.
Wait, wait.
If Timmy's the jester, I have something that makes it better.
Can I be?
Is he looking at the knife?
No, his knife is at his desk.
Remember?
Yeah!
JT, JT, are you king?
What is in session?
Oh my king!
The
king of the night.
Of this sweet.
Cause like Jenny, I think you should be queen obvious.
JT, are you going to knight Emma Romasko?
Yes.
Sir, I'm graduating.
And now, Emma Romasko, do you swear to add this to your resume?
I do.
Hey, hey, hey, in my special skills, I do have Twitch streamer.
I didn't think of putting that there.
That makes sense.
Use it, Jenny.
I will not be putting Twitch moderator on mine.
You should!
You should put Twitch mod!
Yes, please.
No.
I will get you Twitch mod.
I wrangle a group of-
I do not want to explain that to a bunch of boomers.
I wrangle a group of horny, teen-esque, queer folk every Sunday.
I think a lot of our chat is older than teens.
It feels like we are.
I don't know why.
I get that, yeah.
Holy shit, half the time I'm wrangling you three.
That's what I'm saying.
It's funny that the mod constantly fights with the people running the show.
It's like, I'm one of it.
I'd do it again.
Yeah, I would.
Do it again.
All right, so-
I was going to say hi to people in chat.
Hello, everyone.
Hello.
Oh my goodness.
So good to have you all.
So announcements at the top of the session.
Everything that is designed to live has to end.
And I think that's pretty much it.
I think-
No, there's a more important announcement.
Jesus Christ.
Oh, yeah.
Is there?
The value of life is that it ends.
No.
Oh, what?
Not that one.
These are pretty important.
The most important announcement is that tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the Lanaya
Expedition.
One year, one year, one year.
This is session 22.
Yeah, oh gosh.
It's the one year anniversary.
Yeah, oh gosh.
It's been a year and we're at session 22?
Yep.
Yeah, we had to do it.
We did a whole other show.
We did Blackguards, though, which is 11.
No, I know.
It's just wild.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So we've done 33 episodes and not including the extra things we've done that aren't counted
in the numbers.
We've done 33 episodes of Things.
And we're a quarter of the way across the continent?
Yeah.
A quarter?
A quarter, I'm not sure.
An eighth?
We're touching all four corners of...
We're in the prologue.
Oh, the real, the fantasy continent.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Hey, guess what, guys?
We're almost going to touch the little border.
And when we pass the border, you know whose home is going to be just over the horizon?
Who?
That's right.
You, Jean-Claude.
No!
You're cool little girl.
No.
Let's stay with the moon shards.
Yes.
What?
What happened?
So we don't need to know what happened.
We're going to talk about robots today.
Robot.
What if we just skip and go to the Feywild?
We're just like, nope, nope, can't approach my backstory.
We ditch in.
That seems like a very smart...
Delmar's coming to the Feywild.
Those pixies, those pixies, Delmar will kill every single pixie.
He will step on them.
He will squish.
All right.
I believe that gets all of the very important announcements out of the way.
Okay.
Let's see.
Next session will be our last one for October.
Because we're taking the last week, every last week of every month off.
So when you come over to the next session, feel free to feel sad.
Feel really down and in the dumps that, oh no, we're not going to get another song in
this freaking month.
Oh, whoa, it's me, Charlie and the box card children.
But just know that we are going to come back in November.
I started doing yoga again, so I feel pretty energized.
Oh, good.
That's good.
Yoga is feeling the parts of your body and like, wow, that hurts.
It's like, I'm going to keep doing this until it doesn't hurt anymore.
Yeah.
And you're like, I never realized I actually had these things in my body until I did this.
Oh, my back, my spine was like at 10% integrity before I...
Yep.
All right.
Did you know your spine goes up to the middle of your head because your skull rests on it
in the middle?
It's weird when you start thinking about it and you start moving your head around like
a bobble head.
It's like, oh yeah, my spine's all the way up behind my nose.
I don't want to think about that.
I kind of want Cecilia, if she ever has to stall someone, to just give random anatomical
medical facts.
That's a really good idea.
Do you know that we have just a random floating bone in the neck here that's just unattached
from our skeletal system?
They're like, man, we're going to use your papers.
You want the moon shards, but do you know how many bones there are in the body?
Wait, no!
Have you ever thought about that?
She said a tomaro!
I bet he knows every bone.
He knows all the bones.
All right.
Well, my nose is bleeding, but that's not going to stop us from recapping the beginning
of this session.
Falling apart over here?
I don't remember what happened.
There's too much.
According to the recap, Del Mar, a young dwarven man haunted by something in his past?
Question mark.
Jenny and I were like, we think he accidentally killed some folks, not intentionally, going
down to mines.
TBD, we don't know yet.
A magic surge.
A magic surge, right, right, right.
That's right.
Awakens in Vrexen, which is a town in a period of arcane prosperity.
As he goes on to help the town's archmage, Arxen?
Arxen?
Arxen Vandrich.
With the presentations for the parade, the moon snaps to a blood red color and the automatons
go berserk.
To also preface, the automatons before the moon went red were starting to gain some sentience.
There was a little robot named Charlie who wanted to be a real boy.
He was probably dead.
No, he's not.
I'm going to save him.
No, he's not.
He's just a little lad.
And Del Mar was reporting to the archmage because he's like, what's going on with the
robots?
They kind of got feelings now and he's like, that's not supposed to happen.
And then there's this really douchey, who is she?
Like you're-
It's Ed Genazi.
Director of civil prosperity.
She's a nightmare.
She is not the girl boss we seek.
Her name is Mistral Lafair?
Mistral Lafair.
Her first name I could not remember for the life of me.
They just say that the title itself of the director of civil prosperity is just so like,
it just already raises red flags.
It's rector because Jean-Claude will call her the rectum of-
Mistral will be murdered and slaughtered.
Anyway, so those are just like some of the colorful characters that we met in Brexen
before the moon went red.
A week and a half later, we go on over to our moonshard kiddos and Jean-Claude and Cecilia
are descended upon by gargoyles while traveling who seek to steal the moonshards.
They almost got them, but luckily we grabbed it out of their hands and put it back in the
bag.
Luckily we also have a box around the moonshards that Cecilia got spelled on it to make sure
we could locate it frequently.
Delmar helps us out, they assist them and we make their way to Brexen.
Also we run into a automaton pulling a dead cow, repeating that they're looking for children.
Cecilia is very pro-automatons.
She is ready for the robot revolution.
Delmar is very not that.
He has seen what some of them can do and finds them to be incredibly dangerous.
Jean-Claude is stuck in the middle, baby, because he doesn't have high wisdom.
That being said, the robot deemed to acquiesce to the group when they asked to take them
to the children.
Basically they wanted to know where, maybe they are guarding children, maybe they are
hostages, maybe we weren't really sure.
But as we spoke more with the automaton, we found out that the automaton is actually not
one with the...
They're turned, but they're not trying to actively harm mortal folks like some of the
other ones are.
It's not malicious, it's done out of protection, but it's still bad from what they've been
told.
The automaton...
What was the numbers it gave them?
We named them...
K4.
K4?
Oh, it's Keffer, right?
Yeah, Keffer.
Keffer.
Like the yogurt.
Like the yogurt, exactly.
So Jean-Claude named him Keffer as a buddy.
Cecilia is very ready to storm the barricade and sing Les Mis this time.
Before it was the frog revolution, now it's the automaton.
Delmar is very not ready for that because he thinks it's very dangerous.
Jean-Claude is like, but this red moon is a big problem.
This be a problem.
So it's kind of a hot goddamn mess and right now they are still following Keffer and sneaking
back into the city because they were outside the city walls.
We know they have a moonshark in the city.
Yes, and the Arch Range has one moonshark that Delmar told them, which Jean-Claude and Cecilia
are like, that's a problem.
That might be why this is happening.
This is a problem.
We gotta get, no offense dude, but we gotta bring this back.
We'll see you.
Like the shards of the Shikanjou and Iruyasha, we're just gonna go.
Oh my god, but who is Kikyo?
Who is Kikyo?
Good question.
I've no idea.
Jean-Claude is both Iruyasha, Shippou, and Moroku combined to one.
I don't know, I've never watched Iruyasha.
I don't know who Cecilia would be.
She's Kagome.
She's a softer Kagome for sure.
Yeah, yeah, I could see that.
You have to do what's right.
Inuyasha!
Kagome!
We are not on topic today.
No, we're not.
No, no we aren't.
I'm specifically trying to not get on topic because I'm nervous.
I'm nervous about them for a while.
I can distract Bongo.
I'm nervous.
No, I'm nervous.
It's philosophy and mortality, two things I have a hard time articulating my thoughts
on.
Let's go!
Here we go!
We're off!
I'm reading philosophy!
Okay, um.
Okay, let's see.
If I may do a sick backflip real quick.
One I do have pepper spray right there and two, the three of you have split it off with
Kefora and you guys are going to go to the camp.
To meet with all the folks, Kefora told you to meet at the Elder Tree Playhouse.
Yeah.
Which is a super cool place for all kinds of things.
We've had a good run in with theaters during all of our games so far.
I was going to say this sounds like a very well known regional playhouse.
Yeah.
You're going to love it.
Oh yeah!
You're going to love it.
You're like, we're just waiting.
No, no, more theater shenanigans for us.
More theater shenanigans.
Let's go!
Love the theater.
And with that said, I don't believe there's anything else.
So why don't we go ahead and dive right on in to get another session of the Lanaya Expedition.
Music please.
We start with a view on Vrexen.
This place once teeming with life, now a place of teeming with life and showcasing prosperity
from head to toe.
Now bare with the wounds and scars of battles.
Shop buildings barricaded, destroyed, cable cars upturned, placed on their side, spears,
swords discarded throughout the cobblestone streets of the city.
In this shot as we are viewing the Starfall Square, the main thoroughfare that connects
all of the districts of the city together, we see the blood red moon hanging in the sky,
and the squeak of an abandoned baby carriage slowly makes its way across the street.
You trek your way through this familiar place.
You've been through these woods for about a week and a half, having to keep a close
eye on the outside and gather materials requested of you by a certain someone in the camp.
A motley bunch this one, so far the taxing times of constantly going in on expeditions
to save people in the town in search for survivors, it has weeded out those who are not particularly
fond of the saving people aspect of their job, leaving behind a passionate crew of a
few from the local guards and a few other adventurers.
A week and a half, the supplies are thinning, people were sent out to get supplies, and
they don't seem to come back.
You have been surviving based on what you find in the town, but it looks like the morale,
the energy, it has been running thin.
But perhaps, with this new intrepid duo, and their skull that they carry around that talks,
maybe there will be some renewed energy.
As you make your way towards camp, as the two of them follow along with their carts
pulled by two horses, you feel a sort of tingling sensation throughout your body.
Now, this has happened multiple times already, but it has been especially worse with the
red moon above.
A tingling sensation, denoting that some kind of magic is pulsing through the area.
It happens every, you want to say two, three hours.
It's intense for a moment, everything begins to ring in your ear, then it stops.
It's as if pins and needles go throughout the entirety of your body, and numbs the brain
for a moment.
But you are a resilient one, so you learn to hold it, you learn to not show it.
Eventually, you all see a smokestack in the distance, and the welcoming sight of an orange-red
flickering in the distance.
A campfire.
As you approach, you see that there are two men currently perched against trees, seemingly
battered in a bruise.
One of them has a bandage wrapped around their head, covering one of their eyes.
The other, a tiefling individual, with horns curling like a ram's, seemingly in better
condition, are both stationed against respective trees.
As they see you draw close, Dalmar, they go, Halt!
The human man steps closer for a moment, but the tiefling, who can see you through the
dark, just puts a hand on the shoulder and goes, It's alright everyone, it's Dalmar!
He goes, Are those supplies?
Pointing towards the Wacken, I'll thank the gods!
Ha, supplies, no, outsiders.
We will share what we have, though.
Yes, we are just here to help.
You will take anything.
Please go and find Captain Lee.
And they gesture you in towards his camp.
It's this sort of disparate encampment filled with tents scattered about, multiple fires.
It seems like there's a good amount of people here, people sharpening weapons and such,
but you see that there's a tent that doesn't have many flaps around it, it only has a cover
overhead.
And you see that there is an array of these makeshift beds where you see people are injured,
people are nursing wounds.
There is one halfling woman who is attempting to just get this person's arm in a bind,
just goes, Take it slow, take it slow.
There's about seven or so people there.
As you venture deeper into the encampment and eventually find a safe place for your
wagon, you are motioned to a man standing in the center of the camp next to a fire.
He has a table out with a map spread out that he's currently overlooking.
One man and one orc man, half orc man, and one T-flank woman stand at his side.
He himself has a sort of earthy complexion.
His skin seems to be dry in some patches, but he seems on the younger side, actually,
youthful despite his patchy exterior.
He's an earth genasi, with sort of short gray hair.
And as he's peering over the map, he kind of peers up at the three of you out down there,
and he just goes, Are these people, are these his suppliers?
Um, somewhat.
Outsiders.
Stumbled in.
Needed assistance.
Brought them here.
I apologize.
I don't envy you, friends.
You've encountered something bad here, but we have, we can spare supplies and help you
if you, if you wanted to help yourself to anything.
No, you, apologies, you misunderstand.
I am Jean-Claude, the former captain of the Golden Guard.
This is my compatriot, indicates Cecilia.
I'm Cecilia.
We actually came here to help.
We were informed that there was a, a shift in the local automaton population, and Delmar
informed us that it had been a little difficult, of which I can assume, and his eyes look up
to the sky that's like red.
We are unaware of where that might come from.
Jean-Claude, Cecilia, thank you so much for coming along.
We can take any, we're taking any help we can get.
We still have, we still have an expedition inside.
They haven't, they're due to come back in a few hours, but if any of you have any medical
knowledge or can do any little bits of healing, we would be very much appreciated.
It will take, it would take a lot of weight out of our current healer.
I can't help with that.
I have a perfect chance.
Jean-Claude goes, I have a little bit of healing, but Cecilia is a true ace when it comes to
that.
I thank the skies.
We, we were in desperate need of some healers, divine or otherwise, so truly the two of your
presence is a blessing.
Looks at you, Delmar, and just goes, it just gives you like a, like a good, like a deep
nod, like almost like a good job kind of thing.
And you are welcome to pull through our supplies for anything you need.
We can stock up again whenever we're out of here.
We've been trying to make our way through the town to get supplies that way, but it
seems like the automatons have been, have been stockpiling supplies on their own as
well.
Our situation, I should, I should back up a little bit.
Our situation is quite the unique one.
And I must inform you that this is, this is possibly something that you have never seen
before.
I don't expect you to go into the town, but if you can just, if we can tap into your supplies
a little bit and you provide healing, then that is more than whatever I can ask for.
He he just just towards the city wall and he goes to give you a rundown.
Already basically there was a automata population that was crafted to, to help alleviate some
of the everyday worries of the people of Rexxon.
However, and it's something that I can't, it's something that no one can quite explain.
He gestures towards the moon.
This has shown up and it's been around for a week and a half.
No sign of the sun, no sign of movement on its own.
We form an acampment out here and a motley group of people, volunteers have voted themselves
to place themselves on expeditions into the city where dangers of fraud and automatons
that have gone berserk, that have lost their minds, have attacked people frequently.
It's been a week and a half.
We're finding less and less people to save, but I still believe that if there are people
to be saved then any journey must be worth it.
Uh, yes, and if there is no way to end the blood moon, the red moon, whatever it is,
the better, I would assume.
That being said, we've confirmed that there is a very full Archmage present who we really
believe would be, we'd be able to collaborate about the arcane nature of such.
Do you know where he was last seen?
I know he's been kind of MIA as they say.
A concerned look goes over to Dalmar and then back at you.
He goes, I'm sorry, that's someone that we have a particular interest in locating, but
it seems like after he disappeared within the initial melee, he seems to be gone.
There are many places that we haven't yet gone to explore within the town.
We've pushed up a little bit, but other than that, we can't say for certain.
Well, perhaps, he looks to Cecilia on our way to do a simple run.
We could take a peek.
I also, I probably can't do it again today, but if he has any items that he would always
have on him, I can locate objects with a spell.
I have to be close enough to sense it, but that's another possibility to hone in on locations.
Something that he always had on him.
I apologize, nothing on my end, but perhaps looks at you Dalmar.
Do you have something?
I might.
I'd need to make sure that Luan agrees.
She would know more.
She was his direct assistant.
I assume she's back, Captain.
She's tending to her duties, as always, in her tent.
Now I've explained the situation to you.
I understand that it's scary and alien-like in its familiarity, but we do not expect you
to go inside the walls of the town whatsoever.
It's there where the danger is, but out here, we haven't run across any of the automatons.
They did.
But it was peaceful.
Peaceful?
She was... well, I mean, it was scared.
And it said that it had fought other automatons that were trying to hurt children.
It was protecting children.
It looks towards the two at its side, before looking back at you, just goes, did you subdue
the automatons by any chance?
I calmed it down.
At the time, there was no need for arrest, no active aggression.
It just wanted food for the kids it says it's watching.
It's watching kids?
Humans?
Kids or machines?
Seemingly?
No.
Just children.
It did.
He looks over the map, he moves a couple of pieces on it, he goes, what did it say?
The Elder Tree Playhouse.
All right, that's a bit of a deep dive into our familiar territory.
And it said that it had killed other automatons trying to protect the kids.
So it was not like the other ones.
We were able to have a somewhat friendly communication.
And we're going to meet up with it later to see what it meant by children, if it's new,
maybe there are people out there in hiding, you know, that he's providing for.
We are unaware, but we do know that it was nonviolent towards us.
With the slight, a little bit of, a little bit there, but we were, it was not something
we felt the need to take down.
And you just, you see the, the, the female tiefling goes, that's all the way in the
Imperium, the Elder Tree Playhouse, that's all the way in the Imperium Boulevard.
She points at the map and you see the entrance of the town where you can see that everything
is like, where everything is marked and you see where territories, where every place that's
been checked by, by expedition parties have gone in.
The Imperium Boulevard is, is what you know down there, it's the rich people district,
fancy boutiques and shops.
And it goes all the way like towards like the middle, the middle right of the place,
which is far away from familiar territory, from the parties.
And she just goes, and she just looks at Lee and just goes, Lee, just be realistic, we
can't do this.
We have to.
Just we can't save everyone, Lee.
He goes, then I'll save who I can to make it for the ones I can't.
He says, if you're not going to go, then don't.
This automaton, did it have any name, anything of the sort?
It labeled itself as Kefer, but we've called him Kefer.
It also went by dad.
Not calling him dad.
Yeah, that's what I said, I'm not calling it automaton dad.
So his name is Kefer.
Yeah.
Because it takes care of kids, probably.
And I respect that, but I will not call him dad.
He is Kefer.
That's fine.
He's not your dad.
No, he's not my dad.
I'm not going to call it that.
We just.
All right.
Kefler.
I'll have to think about a way to get to the playhouse.
But for now, you have a rundown of you have a rundown of basically everything that's happening
here.
But now we can tend to the Oundeads where you come up with other strategies or ways
of entrance, perhaps?
If you would please.
Thank you.
Again, the next expedition, the next group going in probably won't go in until the earlier
hours of the morning.
So you have time to rest until then.
That is very needed.
She says, looking at the other two.
Yeah, blood dripping from it.
I think I feel great.
Oh, goodness.
What happened to the both of you?
I'm just kidding.
If I can speak with you for a moment while they tend to the wounded.
That's the both of you.
I can't promise compensation, but if you can ever find me and if I ever have the means,
I will I will I will I will give you a mansion.
We have to to help.
Please do not worry about that.
Now on to the healing.
Cops up a little blood.
Are you okay?
He's already moving away.
He can't be healed right now.
It's a curse, I guess.
Same for Dalmar.
It will be fine, though.
I think I'm hoping it'll be fine.
Walks away.
They both just leave.
They're the weirdest fucking adventurers you'd ever run into.
All right, question.
OK.
Yeah, Lee, just don't even ask.
I'm just thankful.
The tiefling, the tiefling goes, the cop says the kids are calling the automatons dad.
Does that really surprise you?
I guess not.
But there's an eight foot tall hunk of man just walked into the camp.
So they're calling the wrong person, dad.
Wow.
And water in my mouth.
Jesus Christ.
Lee just goes.
Jesus Christ.
Floris.
Someone's going to put Rajon Claude for a change and not the drunk lady who was tied
to a tree.
You see the captain just looks to the tiefling, just goes.
All right.
Dalmar, first of all.
I'm so trying to get past that.
Dalmar, are you Matranda?
You don't seem well.
Same things that were attacking them.
Gargoyles and cursed Dalwan got me as well.
Wait, gargoyles?
Gargoyles.
We haven't seen anything of that sort around.
Think they were after them.
Nothing related to what we've been dealing with.
Is everything going to be fine?
Is the situation handled?
Could it get any worse?
Don't say that, my friend.
It's handled.
Skies.
All right, well, just.
I do have to sincerely ask, but you I have seen you caught up every day and earn a new
scar on your body every day.
Are you all right?
I'm not important.
Whoa, that's awful.
I'll be fine.
I have a job to do.
I would be very hard pressed to have a debate with you on certain topics at the moment,
but there are sadly more pertinent issues at hand.
But Dalmar, you have been invaluable.
People owe their lives to you.
I hope you know that.
We'll just nod.
He he he just goes.
We've lost him.
He he he he he pulls out a he pulls out like a pencil.
He writes an X on the.
He writes an X on the Starfall Square, which is like the precipice, the moment like the
the section before you get to the Arcane Ambit where all the important people are located
in Brannwick's lab.
But recently, we found one of the council members around this part right here, ambling
about just one.
The doorman goes, we haven't found Lefair.
We still don't know what it's the number brand because but seems like some of the council
members are still around.
However, they haven't found the fair.
They have not found the fair.
That's what I was.
Yes.
Oh, this makes me what I would say next.
It really sad because it goes sadly in the last expedition, the last expedition, a watchman
became aware of presence.
We lost.
We lost someone and we lost a counselor to the watchman.
The he writes in a red pencil, you shade in the area.
He just goes, apparently, the watchmen have been have been overlooking a few places and
specifically all of them surround the Arcane Ambit.
But between this place and the Elder Tree Playhouse, there has been reports that a single
watchman has been prowling the area.
No one's seen it, but they hear it and they see what it leaves behind.
What's the watchman there?
The problem really?
Hey, if you're if we send an expedition to the playhouse or to the ambit, and especially
if those two come with us, I'm going.
The odds of Archmage Bandrake being in either of those places are higher than anywhere we've
checked.
I owe him my life.
I understand that friend.
And I'll go into the town as much as it takes.
Because those two, do you know they can handle themselves?
Once they rest up, they can hold their own.
In that case, I plan the next expedition.
We need to split it between two because there's still a part we need to explore in the west
part of town.
But perhaps you can take those two towards the Elder Tree Playhouse.
Aye.
All right.
But first, it seems like you need to get some rest.
So tend to that first.
I will.
And if you can, pull Luan away from her duties and have her come talk to me.
I know that she hasn't stopped working in days.
She needs to rest.
My friend, I think the most persuasive one here is going to be you when it comes to her.
And I will see her first.
Right.
I tend to.
Thank you.
I'll be right back, Tim.
Right.
JT and Namar will be right back.
Cecilia Jean-Claude, you make your way over to the place where people are just not doing
so well.
Who we healing?
There's an array of eight individuals, just a mass of like, of like, people from different
backgrounds.
And you look over the wounds and see that all of them contain some kind of like, there
are cuts, there are scrapes, large stab wounds.
The thing that's most consistent with seemingly all of them is that there is a severe budgeting
wound somewhere.
Like some bone has gone, some bone has gone like just just out of its place where it should
be.
You hear, you hear an orc goes to the halfling, a healer just goes, is there what happened?
What happened to the healing potions?
Just because I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid what you have right now, it's just those potions
need to be here in case of an emergency.
This is an emergency.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, he's gonna kind of, Jean-Claude's gonna come over to the
orcish man and go, I can help.
What seems to be the problem?
So let's pay no youk stealing thing.
I can't feel the upper parts of my right arm.
Okay, all right.
Don't know what that means, but I'll do this and he's going to reach out and use his lay
on hands.
He has 24 hit points.
I don't think he wants to use up all of them, but just enough to help this man's arm heal.
I'll say like, oh, you put in five.
Five?
Okay, cool.
Great.
As you put in five, as this soothing energy washes over him, as this as your bracelet
lights up, little twines of green wispy energy crawls around your hands like vines and crawls
onto him.
It slowly swirls itself from his body.
A smile overtakes him, he goes, thank you.
As he as all of a sudden he lets out a scream of pain and you see the half-leaf healer just
goes, oh, that's a good thing.
That means you can feel it now.
Yes, I can feel it now.
Oh, Jean-Claude was frozen in shock because he was like, I did it wrong.
It's like, oh, you can feel it, that means it's not broken.
That's a good thing.
Thank you.
Hey, Cecilia, how the fuck do you do this shit?
I hate it.
Fuck this shit.
Well, I just took the physician feet when I found out we were supposed to take a feet
at level four and not just an ability score improvement.
So what I want to do, Timmy, I don't know why I said the last part in Cecilia's voice.
I was wondering, I just saw Jean-Claude's like, what the fuck?
What the fuck?
So what Cecilia wants to do is she wants to save what she has left of spells for people
who need it to not die.
But she also does have spare the dying at least.
And she also does have she has several she has three first level spell slots left for
cure wounds if people really, really need it.
And then she also has the physician feet, which means as long as she has medicine kit
charges, she can heal people with hit points to that too.
But she just wants to she wants to do it in a way that like, you know, she's going to
save the spells for the people who really, really need it.
And if there's anyone who's like really desperate for something that's more than a level one
spell, she might sneak the moon shards.
But that's on a case by case basis.
Jean-Claude will tackle her ass.
Oh, God.
You know, like I might throw in there.
You looking them over, you see, most of them are mostly just like have some kind of they
do have they have injuries that warrant them being here in the first place.
I'll say those who are nursing smaller injuries, they're like found around camp and just tending
to themselves and drinking what they can.
Two of them are just fully like laid down, like unconscious.
The halfling woman has like has like wrapped them up like almost like a mummy to their
neck and their arms and such.
Right currently right now, she's replacing like one of their bandages that has gotten
and you see the you see the state of the bandage, the blood's going to it should have been changed
a long time ago, but she's changed it now.
And you can and you can only assume it's because that they don't have many bandages left.
OK, I think that I only have the one medicine kit, which has 10 charges.
But she'll use what she oh, we have the swamp concoction to we have three of those left.
Yeah, I want to slap that on someone.
Those also heal and give temporary hit points.
But yeah, maybe she'll heal people who she thinks it would actually like them being like
magically healed would greatly like lessen the burden on the supplies to if that makes
sense.
It would absolutely.
Those are should try to pick people who she thinks that'll help with and maybe direct
junk lot to.
Yeah, he's no fucking clue.
It's just like anyone who's like, I've been paid.
He's like, OK, he doesn't understand medicine whatsoever.
Let's see, John, like your work is is actually like absolutely doing wonders and your healing
has like a touch of warmth, a touch of like personal warmth to it.
Cecilia, so you're casting you're casting something on this person.
Well, it depends on any I'm gauging the best people to use it on.
Roll me a medicine check.
OK, I can't roll lower than a 10.
This is not herbalism specialty.
So I can't roll lower than a 10.
So it's a 17.
We know that one that I rolled.
Jesus.
All right.
Get it out of the way now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Low rolls now.
We're in the same real quick.
I'm sorry.
I don't know why the roll 20 roll is doing that.
It keeps hiding the check and hides the number if it's not a not one or not 20.
But I'll endeavor to highlight it.
We're going to change it to light mode.
I'm going to blast my eyes.
We're going to I know we're going to be blinded.
We're staring at the sun.
But looking over the purveying the your surroundings at the moment, you you you're deducing that
the that the persons that the halflings assistance is she's doing her best, but she is absolutely
strained and she's making do with what she has.
She's not she's not a cleric.
She is just a natural like she's a physician.
And it seems like out of everyone here, the there are a few of them that you could rule
out as people who need immediate help.
Their lives are not in critical danger.
But the people the people who you could help to lighten supplies, that's that's basically
the rest.
The person who probably needs divine help would alleviate so much is that one person
she's changing the bandages of their their you see that you see a look at the wounds
it is deep is he got stabbed.
She'll go.
I'm sorry.
I just looking around, I'd worry about this getting infected and I have some magical
healing and I do that.
Absolutely.
Yes, that would be great.
OK, I just know I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't interfering with anything
you're doing or anything.
It would only help.
Thank you.
That's just cure wounds.
You cast cure wounds as you touch them.
Give me a give me a con saving throw.
Oh, no.
I'm going to use Intrepid, which I can use once per short rest.
And that lets me add an expertise die to this.
So that'll add plus two.
Yes.
Nineteen.
You touch the form and as the divine magic leave you and into this person, you see as
you see the wounds begins to stitch up and close.
This person is fever, fever, hot.
Oh, no.
He is he is absolutely burning up.
And after you and after you touch him as the wounds close, you see that the you see that
his wounds are alleviated and he even kind of like blinks.
He blinks a little bit, but the fever, whatever is like whatever is on his in his body, that
is still there.
Sean caught.
Are you able to heal sickness?
With like five points of my own hands.
With what?
Did you say with with with a five, you level up?
You know, actually, I don't know what it is an A5B, so it could be totally different.
I have no idea what you're capable of.
Oh, hold on.
Yes, I can.
Alternative, I can expend five hit points from my pool of healing to cure the target
of one disease or neutralize one poison affecting it.
I think that would help here.
Of course, of course.
I am the former captain, Dr. Jean Claude here to help you today.
You're a doctor.
I am and I will hear you now.
You're a huge forehead.
Oh, wait, be careful.
The fever immediately dies down.
He sits up, he sits up and looks or he looks around this kind of like this wiry human older
man kind of like.
Is this is this real life?
Am I in reality?
That's a good probably not.
Maybe it is all an illusion.
No, this is no stuff.
It is all actually someone once said that maybe we're in like a simulation.
This is real.
But you're this body roll persuasion checks.
I get I get I actually have something for this.
So I'm in expertise style and persuasion when trying to tell someone the truth.
And I also get expertise when it's persuasion, my word against someone else's.
And I get expertise.
And then the third one is an apply.
Actually, I thought it would.
Can I use deception?
Yeah.
So I'd plus four to my.
Don't give him power.
Don't give this man power.
He's a nightmare.
I wrote a 13 total.
I wrote an 18.
I'm in a fucking.
Magical.
I never.
Then why am I still here?
Listen, listen, it's OK.
All of us are programmed much like the automatons to live a certain life and move a certain
way.
But now you have been broken free from the curse and you can decide how you want to live
your life free of of of, you know, responsibilities to accept what you are.
Careful, because it's still dangerous here.
Well, that's true.
You can die.
It's like it's a simulation where you can die.
Sean Claude, why are you saying all this?
Anxiety.
Good job.
I am a doctor.
You see that halfling, the halfling woman goes.
It looks like stop stopping.
He goes, he goes, I'm sorry.
So I think I think this is weird.
But the same time, have you ever been to the fair?
I haven't.
And when you come back, you even question yourself and spend nights wondering, actually
ever get there, where am I?
Now not fucking around.
He's genuinely like seriously talking about questioning your reality.
And he goes, no, no, no, no, you are home.
You are well.
You are good.
Yeah.
You bet.
Yeah.
Yes.
Cheer up, and he's going to give him a big hearty pat on the shoulder.
You see the halfling just kind of like, he takes uses her tiny hands to wrap around your
wrist.
Sean Claude gently pushes it away.
She goes, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Of course.
Always happy to help.
Also, although you are you all right?
I was.
Well, for one, I'm not sure if I'm in.
I'm actually not sure if I'm in a simulation or not.
I guess I can trust you.
Yes.
You can.
Sean Claude just shrugs his shoulders like, good to be here.
He's just like, thank you so much.
What happened to you?
There was this pallid, sickly man within town.
He kept talking about our sins.
He was slaying the automatons.
But he looked at us and I fired a crossbow bolt on him.
He frightened me.
But the moment he the moment my crossbow bolt struck, he took out one of his bones and turned
it into a shard and threw it at me.
OK, this is reality, unfortunately, because we know this is Mero.
Ever since then, I kept so much pain through my body and I kept hearing whispers.
Something about the moon was requesting my presence.
The moon was talking to you?
It was these maddening whispers.
It went on for hours.
I was going to be mad.
You're not.
Listen, one, everyone's a little bit mad, but two, you're not mad in that way.
You are here, you are present, you are breathing, you are with one with the world, and you know,
take a little walk through the woods, get some pine in your system.
Question for you, where was this bone man?
He was, we were making our way back from the arcane armpit with a counselor, a council
member.
We were attacked by a watchman and in our efforts to regroup, we attempted to go back.
That's when we found him on a roof.
He was viciously stabbing one of the cobblers, the little bots with the wheels.
Oh no, but he was also dead.
OK, that guy is incredibly dangerous.
I would recommend if you can tell your higher ups that you should not engage should you
see him.
If you do, please inform us and he indicates to himself in Syria and we will do our best
to handle it.
It is an incredibly dangerous creature you are dealing with.
It looks at, he looks at the both of your, like the both of you have like some kind of,
some kind of symbol that kind of like displayed your class, right?
Cleric and a herald.
I would say his armor, yeah, is pretty.
The loon.
Ironically, yeah, yeah, he very noticeably worships a goddess of the moon who he says
has been whispering to him mad and angley.
Looking over you two, he looks at you, just goes, he looks at you first, Jung-Gon goes,
my goodness, both of you showed up.
It felt like all sorts of divinity has abandoned us.
Then kind of like peers at your armor, Cecilia, at your symbol of a saloon, just goes, perhaps
this is fate.
But, sorry to say, but the moon has been a sore subject for everyone for a while.
Yeah, it seems like it.
But trying to fix that, so.
What are your names?
I am former captain from a doctor, Jean-Claude Bouchon.
You're former now?
Yep.
You were?
Retired.
Wait, so you healed me, then told me that I was in the simulation, then you retired,
your medical practice?
Yes.
I think that I am harming more than helping people as a doctor, and so I revoke my title.
I'm Cecilia.
Those names sound familiar.
Oh, really?
Oh, you've heard of me?
Have the two of you committed any crimes?
Nope.
No, it's probably something else.
That's absolutely not the case.
Absolutely not.
I am a great citizen of this world.
Go on with this advantage, Stephen.
No, no, no, no!
I have proficiency in boasting!
Can I?
Okay, boasting.
I'm gonna post for a moment.
Can I roll with my proficiency?
You gotta boast a bit more.
Okay, so keep going.
That only do I recycle.
I help the neighbors clean their yards.
I make sure that the leaves are blown properly.
That is so uncriminal-like and un-crime-committing-like.
It absolutely is.
And let me tell you something else that I do.
I recycle.
Do you know how much waste we use that impacts the trees and the forests that we live in?
We use recycle.
Roll.
Do you understand?
Roll.
I don't think I can count that as boasting.
Damn it!
I was boasting about recycling and being a good person.
Not being a criminal.
Yeah, criminals don't recycle.
They recycle all the time.
They don't prove.
I was a good citizen.
I actually got the good citizen of the world one year.
Uh huh.
Yes.
You please roll.
Wait, I have to roll?
Why me?
Yeah, you do.
I saved multiple tiny chipmunk children from drowning in a river.
And after I saved them.
So I saved the chipmunk children.
Oh wow.
I was rewarded.
He gets caught up in your onslaught of facts that.
The mother chipmunk praised me for my efforts and bravery.
I just thought that.
You can talk to animals.
I just thought that.
Goodness, I lost my train of thought.
I just thought that.
I saw your names and a letter somewhere.
Oh, probably not.
Well this is what my memory is.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, sometimes it's like that after you get injured.
Let's gaslight.
But yeah, we're not super remarkable.
Well, now you are.
My name is Fremont.
I am a guard at this place.
Captain.
Our guard captains abandoned us.
What?
What do you mean your captain abandoned you?
Most of the guards actually abandoned the town.
What the fuck?
And your squad is genuinely deeply offended.
What do you mean they abandon it?
The counts, they're paid personally by the council.
And without the council around to pay them, they didn't see it as a worthy endeavor and
they left.
Me and Lee over there, we were the ones who, and a few others were the ones who stayed
behind and tried to help.
We sent words of help to the other towns around us, but nothing has come.
No help whatsoever.
We were told to avoid this place when we were warned about it, so.
I'm not going to dwell if you made a good choice or not, but I'm heavily thankful.
I'm sure my fellow people here are thankful for you as well.
No, trust me, we are in the right place.
This is exactly where we need to and want to.
Excuse me.
Looks at you Cecilia.
Do you have something in your?
Do you have something in your back?
Does anyone else feel that?
No I don't feel that.
Everyone goes, Fremont are you okay?
The whispers are back.
Am I going to have to kill him?
No.
That is Sean Cluck's first thought is if this man is a threat to the moonshine institute,
I'm going to have to kill him.
I'm just thinking I have to not be near him is all I was thinking and you're like, kill
him.
No, Sean Cluck will kill you.
Can it step on it?
That was the smallest meekest no.
But you see that he's like kind of like blinking.
He's kind of like putting his hands in front of him trying to get his hands between Cecilia
and him.
Please step away.
Please.
Yeah, I'm going to help other people.
Probably looking for a potion of sorts.
I can definitely take a look.
That's what you wanted, right?
And he'll pull out the mud, the mud potion that we have.
Doesn't even register that it's mud.
It's like that's a potion we are so back.
He just goes, yeah, that'll be really helpful.
There you go, pal.
Take it easy.
I don't think you drink it.
I think you rub it.
That's much more preferred.
That's why medicine comes with use as directions on the back.
Not when they're made by Jeremy von Fuzzler.
It's administered by back alley Dr. Jean-Claude.
Former Dr. Jean-Claude.
That's where you get like the really cheap stuff that no other doctor sells.
Back alley Dr. Jean-Claude is my guy, my go to.
He flat out is selling drugs that should be illegal.
Jean-Claude, like, hey, I don't want to go to the doctor to get Xanax.
I got a guy.
Jean-Claude is literally the guy.
Absolutely.
That would be.
Did he just go on and say that Jean-Claude wasn't a criminal?
And now he's selling drugs.
All the time, all the time, baby.
Who is the criminal?
The system or me?
So now he can start fresh.
Let me tell you who the real criminal is.
This healthcare system.
Um, Dalmar will go to you.
This place of the camp has always had a, it's always had a different smell to it.
You always feel a little bit of arcane coming from the tent.
You hear a bit of poofs and little explosions here and there, little ones, tiny ones, and
a little, little shows of light coming, bleeding through the flap of the tent.
As you walk in, you see her back turns towards you as she's tending to an alchemy table.
On a burner, there are five different bottles brewing at the moment and like in five other
ones currently waiting at the side as she's currently grinding stuff in a mortar and pestle.
Louanne Beausante.
Despite everything the week and a half, she has been, she has been dutiful, has been doing
everything she can in her power, perhaps at the expense of her sleep, to help with the
cause.
And what she's been doing mostly is creating, creating magical healing potions for the expeditions
for people that need healing anything.
But as time goes on and more people need healing, it's, it's been getting harder for her and
she's been getting even less sleep.
But despite everything, she still has her two hair buns.
Aww.
Louanne, I'm back.
Oh cut, I have, I do not have time for ghosts right now.
You're not a ghost.
You're, you are, what's your name again?
You're like my best friend.
Uh.
What?
Dennis?
Delmark?
It's Delmark.
Delmark, yeah I knew that.
It's Delmark, Louanne.
J Monmark.
Delmark, I knew it.
I knew it.
Oh my gosh.
Um, hey, since you're here, you can help me a little bit.
Why don't you grab that little thing right there and just put it in that thingy and just
like grind it up with the little big thingy.
Louanne.
Yeah, what's up?
My man.
When is the last time you've been.
My man?
When is the last time you've been on a rest?
I'm resting right now.
Um, but I'm like.
I do not mean like how the Archmage does.
When is the last time you slept?
Goodness.
Okay, look at this.
I, I always had like a theory that like you become the animal you most like.
I love dolphins and they sleep with half their brains and the other half is it's whatever
it wants.
So I think that's what I'm currently operating on at the moment.
He's going to hold up two hands.
It's like, how many fingers am I holding up?
Whoa.
Am I, are you hitting me with philosophy right now?
I am not.
How many fingers, Louanne?
Are you hitting me with philosophy?
Technically, you're holding up like all 10 because they should always be up.
But if we're talking about, can you get those potions for me?
It's really hot.
Louanne.
You can take a break.
I brought healers.
You brought what?
I brought two outsiders on my way back.
They're healing.
They're healing people right now.
You can take a break.
Why would you bring dealers?
Dealers?
Hello, it's me, back alley doctor.
I'm good.
I mean, I'm straight edge, but I'm thinking about, oh, healers.
You said healers.
Oh my goodness.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
Oh my God.
I am out of it.
Louanne, go to bed.
At least let me get this queue finished up here.
People really need...
People really need to be...
I can finish it.
Yeah?
You need to go to bed.
Okay.
All right, after it's done and then I'll go right out.
And Dalmar will just go over and...
Is he strong enough to just pick her up and carry her?
Oh yeah.
Against her will?
Against her will.
Her will be like right now.
He's going to pick her up and put her in bed.
As you pick her up, she just goes, Dalmar, I don't need to sleep.
And like five seconds after you pick her up, she just goes, whoa, I am off the floor.
That is crazy.
And I'm flying.
I'm flying myself.
Oh, these vapors.
They're getting me.
Why is there like a Dalmar?
Oh my goodness.
That's you?
You're like the earth.
And then you put her in bed.
And she just goes, and you put her in her actual tent that she has outside.
She hot box herself with the fumes of those potions for a bit.
Oh no.
Oh yeah.
It was bad.
As you put her into bed, just like with a large plop, she goes, oh God, I finally hit
the ground.
I was falling for a while there.
Hey, Dalmar.
I'm here.
Did they find, did they find, did they find Darkmage yet?
Not yet, but we're getting close.
Oh, you think he'd be really disappointed in me?
No.
I'm supposed to be his assistant.
He wouldn't be disappointed in either of us.
That sounds like him.
Yeah.
Wow.
My body can't move all of a sudden.
I'm trying to move any of my fingers.
You need to sleep.
All right, just, just look, so can you do all the rest of the potions real quick?
I will finish them for you.
You need to sleep.
Brew me a cup of coffee.
And you, Dalmar, you know there's no beans left.
Oh no.
Would you wake up?
Thank you.
And she's instantly asleep.
He will try and finish the potions she had going, but he's not good with magic.
Roll an Arcana check.
This is gonna be bad.
This is gonna suck ass.
920 baby!
The power of friendship!
What?
The power of friendship!
You've seen, you've seen the, you've seen the arguments deal with some shit before?
You've seen, Luan does this.
They're both very smart people.
Oh, that cleared up my sinuses too.
As you go through it, and you're, and you're going, you're going through it with like prior
knowledge, you're like, you're thinking like, man, people go through this shit, this magic
shit's easy.
As you grind up, as you grind up, there's a lot of extrapolating and such, but eventually
you are set with a, with a array of 12, 12, 12 greater healing potions.
Okay.
And you bottle them and they all look uniform and throughout you take, take inspiration.
Fuck yeah!
Holy hell.
He's gonna just be like, I don't know how I did that.
But, nope.
We'll just say that Luan did them.
He's gonna go and go to bed.
He's done for the day after that.
You, you exit.
Oh, go ahead.
Nevermind.
Okay.
You exit the tent to see Jean Claude and Cecilia.
You don't catch them gaslighting a man to reality.
Nope, that's not what you see.
Crestline doesn't even exist to be honest.
And that's real.
Crestline isn't real, but are you crazy?
It's a fake Tim.
Oh my God, no, not this.
You can't spell victim without Tim.
Anyways, so.
No!
Why did I say that?
You see, you come out to see that Jean Claude and Cecilia are the array of people that were
there before that were wounded.
And it's been a dark site for a few days.
You see that most of them have intended to at least set it up.
Their eyes open.
They have.
They were efficient, it seems.
Cecilia and Jean Claude, you eventually get done with your, with your lot.
Cecilia, go ahead and say that you spent like one more first level slot for healing.
And then the rest with your physician.
Jean Claude, you can take like 10 more points of Leon hands.
I've got five left.
Did I use up my whole med kit then?
Probably.
Yes, but you are, you could be provided with another one from the halfling.
She has some.
Okay.
As you, as you get done and dusted up, you see Dalmar checking across, checking across
the camp, going towards a tent where his tent is where your wagons are, where your, where
your wagon is located around that point.
You guys want to talk to each other so I can shut up for a moment.
Well.
I see you two got busy.
I thank you for that.
Cecilia did most of the work.
Your being here allowed my friend to get much needed rest.
I'm glad.
Are they, if there's anything else that they need that we might have, let me know.
Because like, um, I can make fresh water a certain amount.
Um, we have some food and stuff.
So food and cloth for bandages are the most entire need.
We can get water from the river.
We also unfilmed.
Oh, go for it.
No, I wasn't saying anything.
We also unfilmed a mutual, how do I put this, nuisance.
One who throws bone knives.
The hooded figure?
Yes, Merrow.
If we're to talk about him, we do not talk about him out here.
So you know, you know him?
Oh, you've met him here.
Yeah, Junker goes, not here.
My dentist right this way.
Okay.
Got it.
We can talk in the tent, not at Shadbin.
What happens in the tent?
Days in the tent.
What damaged you?
That sounds like a long story.
So Junker goes over to John's head completely.
He goes, damage?
I take it.
And I go with the punches every day.
And yet I still stand.
Your tent?
Follow me.
His back makes this cracking sound every day, but he still stands too.
So that's really impressive.
Okay.
Yeah, you take him inside the tent.
Yeah.
I'll start by telling you what I know of him.
You said you had a name for him though.
Merrill is what they told us at E. Merrill.
We hit him with our wagon and he just snapped back together.
It was really scary.
I see.
Also can somehow know what our bones do or say.
I don't know.
I think it's a skill tactic personally, but you know.
I have experienced that part as well.
Oh, it's creepy, isn't it?
And he talks like his voice sounds like something is caught in his throat all the time because
it's just like barely any air can come out.
Like I want to give him a las and gel, but they also don't give him a las and gel.
Have you considered he may just be a skeleton?
Well, I know what skeletons look like.
I have one in my bag.
It's kind of just like all like skin.
Junkrat!
It's just a thousand yard stare.
Keep your name.
Keep my name at your mouth.
I'll tell you what happened.
A week and a half ago, he was there at the beginning.
Before the moon turned red?
I was there.
Day of the parade that we were hosting in celebration of our automatons and of the Xenis
work.
And I saw something strange darting amongst the rooftops.
Was the one you call Mero.
I confronted him and tried to figure out what he was doing because the area he was in was
off limits during the parade for safety reasons.
All he told, all he was able to say to me was, I am not the one you should be worried
about.
And again mention of my bones feeling something.
Before the sky turned red and all of the automatons attacked.
He was at the beginning and from the sound of it he is still inside our city.
Why did he say that he was not the one to worry about?
As opposed to who?
As opposed to, in my opinion, in my best guess, the ones behind the automatons change.
The one responsible for bringing on the red.
I am.
Do you think it is a person who did it that it isn't like a phenomena?
I do not like magic.
These automatons bordered on ancient magic.
I'm trying to talk, Jesus Christ.
It's alright, you're also sick.
I can understand disease, but quickly.
You must be so tired from all the work you've been doing the past week and a half.
Phenomenons like that tend to have a human influence.
I have a few people in mind who I would like to talk to if we ever found them again.
Well if you give us their names we could keep an ear out and be asked before.
One of them is the Archmage, Brandrick.
I don't believe it to be his fault, but he would know more about the operations than
anyone, but we have been unable to find him.
You don't.
And he looks at Cecilia.
Now I have been told that correlation is not causation.
Do I know what that means?
No.
But what I would say is that the day the sky turned red in our time, the moonshades were
also present.
No, didn't it turn red once the moonshades got put away?
I don't know, but it never turned red before and there were moonshades, is all I'm saying.
Like do you turn the sky red?
Can you turn them red with the moonshades?
I do not know.
I tried to stay away from the one he kept in his possession.
I have wild magic inside of me that does not react well to other sources of it.
Oh.
Like there are sorcerers like that, yes?
It wasn't intentional, but...
Oh.
You've been cursed with this magic.
And he will do this and very quickly try to move on from it.
The other person of personal interest is one of our former directors or councilmen.
Director of civil prosperity, and you can hear the venom in that.
Director Mistral La Flair.
So you want us to find this person or like find them?
Wink, wink.
Find her.
And then she may go missing again afterwards.
Understood.
But if we found her, why would we want her to go missing again?
Wouldn't that just kind of defeat the point?
He'll turn to Sean Clauss like, she's naive, isn't she?
You know what, she's a sweet girl, and she's very smart and bright.
Oh once she tells us what she knows, her services are no longer required.
Understood.
Uh, okay, so, the mage, the Mistral...
Anyone else?
No.
Charlie?
No.
Charlie!
Hi.
No, no Charlie.
Charlie!
So basically just all the named people in your backstory...
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
By the way, can you please not tell anyone about us having the moonshards, like at all, ever?
Even after we leave?
You have my word.
Thank you.
But to assume that they will not figure it out themselves is foolish.
Well, I just don't want people who wouldn't have known otherwise to know, because it's,
you know, people kind of target us for that, and I'm trying to get them somewhere safe.
Yeah, we've got a lot going on, and it would be nice to have less going on.
We didn't steal them.
No, we did not.
I mean, we didn't.
No, I didn't.
He didn't.
I did not.
Yes, our traveling companions, you two are.
Technically I stole them, but it was from my sister, so it doesn't count.
Regardless, we want peace.
There's been a lot of bloodshed over these objects.
We have been informed that in the wrong hands they can be very dangerous,
and we have been told if we get it to the other side of the continent,
it will be safe.
How we get, how we will make it safe, what we will do to make it safe, we don't know.
It is a form of faith that we must have.
I believe you on that. My personal opinions aside.
Yeah, how we just don't really want people to use them willy-nilly and stuff.
Yeah, we don't want people to use them willy-nilly.
I'll probably cut a little black there, eh?
It would be really not good.
Yeah, that's a steal, yeah.
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
Oh, but about Mero, that person, one of the people we healed said that.
He saw him too, and he kept talking about the sins of the people.
I don't think Mero is a great guy, I'm not gonna lie.
No, he is not. He has done good and bad for us.
He's attacking both sides, you could say.
We tried to avoid him.
But too, no.
Well, if you need anything, let us know, but I think you both really need rest.
I'm fine.
If you spill any more blood inside of my tent, I will put you to sleep myself.
Don't make up on this, you can't keep.
I was doing just this a little bit, but then I realized it's actually more like this.
Yeah, this Dalbor is just.
Straight up.
I will put you to rest.
I hope you can.
No, no, no.
Put me out of my misery.
No.
Are they flirting?
No.
Page out of endless book.
Drag Meier is me now. Drag Meier in all the games I've played.
I go, but are they flirting? And everyone's like, no.
And I'm like, but it seems like it.
I talk about messaging Stella and you're like, yeah, because they're girlfriends and I'm like, they're not dating.
I was right, was I not?
Maybe one day.
Question my intuition.
My shipping senses were tingling.
And that note, I will not bleed anymore in Dalmors tent and end.
You just turned that off.
I just shoved my hand in the bleeding open holes that stops.
Ow.
To set up our tent.
You know, how about I handle it tonight?
What are you talking about?
Because I think you're getting, you might get blood all over.
I am a young, brightly man who can put up a tent.
Yes, you can.
You hear a fierce.
If it's your skull.
Motherfuck.
Minion, get me out.
There's lots of people here and I think it'll be really scary for them.
God, let them view upon my glorious this.
As I find out, explain it if I have to.
And the tail is eight foot three looking mother fire.
It would fail, but go for it.
You want to go?
I do want to go.
Okay, never mind.
You can.
I'm sorry, if he is, I need to get the tent set up.
Apology accepted.
You're fine.
The main thing comes out, just slaps you a couple of times.
It does not hurt at all.
John Claude.
For a fact, those young couple go.
You just see it.
You just see a dwarf head poking out of a tent.
He's already wounded a fish.
He's kicking me while I'm down.
God, it makes it easier for it to kill him.
Pop.
The three students nose before it pokes your eyes before the.
Oh, you need to fuck that up.
He helps and he's going to kick the back.
Okay, that's a really expensive bag.
Just like.
Back to setting up the tent.
She tries to work fast and John Claude doesn't have to do it much.
He starts competing with her by the.
Covered in blood or slipping over the rails.
He's like, no, no, I've got this huge rest and haven't had a cup of tea.
I read your books.
Competing and competing initiatives.
John Claude, you have to roll this.
Young ladies.
Young ladies should be resting before bed and doing the Kumbaya yoga.
14.
I rolled really good with my negative one mod.
Hey, Tim, can I roll just to have.
A good night's sleep.
Roll in this.
Roll to 14.
And I.
Just glare at you too from inside his tent.
Okay, Cecilia, John Claude.
Jenny Emma.
We're going to do this thing.
We're competing.
Just roll a straight B 20.
17.
Nine.
I won a Dex check on Cecilia.
On the.
John Claude, it's.
Your blood.
Your blood's getting a little bit in the way.
He's definitely playing in office.
Oh, the spike is not.
Put properly in the ground.
I will use the proper technique and spend a good amount of time on it.
So Claude.
Please just rest.
I will rest.
If you don't, you might be.
She tries to make the saddest looking face that she uses on Delmyra.
I'm not looking at you.
I can't see it.
Really hurt.
And I.
Don't want to be.
Alone.
Oh, another 10.
You go into the tent as Cecilia completes.
Putting it up.
Yes.
Eventually.
That's all.
I'm going to go.
Eventually.
You get everything settled.
Let's see.
And as you get everything settled.
If we don't heal our hit points, JT, that's going to stop.
I'm going to prep room of curse for tomorrow.
Yes, Emma is listening.
Add an eight to the nine.
I'm sorry.
Real quick.
How did I get eight?
How did I get eight from bleeding over a tent?
Okay.
So what happens when this hits 20?
So the both of you get into.
Yes.
I would like to.
I tell Jean Claude.
That I'll be right back.
I'm just.
Going to go check around the camp real quick.
Why?
Well, I have another spell left and I would just like to.
If there's people hurt, I'd like to use it to help someone before I rest.
All right.
And he's going to reach out and gently pat her shoulder and give her his last five.
Lay on hands points.
Oh, thanks.
I was an injured, but it feels nice.
The sentiment is still there.
Remember to take care of yourself before making care.
She nods.
And to be clear to me, she was lying about that.
So I.
Oh, yeah.
The junk.
Just naturally.
With the way she phrased it of like, I'm just going to go like, help some folks.
And I don't know.
If he would be.
Suspicious of that.
Here's what we're going to do.
Yeah.
She's going to we're going to see if she's going to beat your passive insight.
Which.
Which is your insight.
Ten plus my insight.
You're in.
So if you want to make an active check because you believe something, but if you believe John Claus just believing her, then she's just going to get 10 with your with your passive insight.
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to think back on the conversation.
Why?
Well, I have one spell slot left.
I want to use it.
Um, I'll use passive because he's kind of bleeding out right now.
He's not doing too hot.
And also, he also he trusts Cecilia that she wouldn't lie to him.
She's really bad at lying.
Usually.
So there's that best lie yet.
Make it the same.
Unless I roll pad.
Eleven.
Does that mean I succeed on the DC?
You do succeed because it's considered like a DC check.
Okay.
So you made it just barely.
Barely.
Wow.
John Claus like something is off, but if she wanted to talk to me, she would use JJ.
Yeah, she is going to walk a little bit a ways for she feels like she can be alone.
And because she's noticed some weird things with the moon shards, she doesn't want to be very close to people.
But she'll cautiously take the moon shards from the bag when she's a bit away and just kind of watch to see if anything like there's any changes, anything weird seems to be happening.
You take them out of the bag.
Yeah.
You open the box.
She I think she'll just take the box first.
And if that seems to be going okay, then she'll open it.
As you open the box.
The moon shards are there, and they're currently.
They're currently going to eat us.
As you open it up, you do see that they.
Initially, you're holding the box, and you feel this.
You feel at this connection to you.
You feel excitement.
Anticipation, perhaps.
And as you're holding it.
Sorry, give me one second.
As you open it up, you see that the moon shards inside.
They are absolutely luminescent.
They are brighter than they are brighter than they've always been.
And you see that they are like, it's like they're quivering.
They're shaking.
She just.
Seeing it.
She thinks she's not going to get anything, but she tries to ask.
She tries to ask them.
She goes.
What's going on?
Roll a D100 for me.
Oh.
76.
Saloon eats the moon shards like Chuck-A-Chuck.
I don't know what that means.
You need.
One second.
Not that song.
Shit.
As you said, she drops the box and JC grabs it from the ground and slams it shut.
As she's holding it, looking at them, she feels the full weight of an eight foot tall for.
Body.
As you speak to them.
What was your question again?
She said, what's going on?
Forcing me to pull out an old sheet that I made almost half a year ago.
An old sheet.
Is it your mom?
No.
My mom, the moon.
Saloon.
Is it the moon shards pretending to be her mom?
You see the moon shards as they're shaking in the box.
And as you speak the question.
They all of a sudden, like become still.
Some of them standing up, some of them.
Look, some of them.
Some of them, like laying, like laying on their sides.
And then they roll towards each other, clumping to the pile.
And you hear.
Hello, dear.
In your mind.
Do I recognize the voice?
Don't.
What if it's Delphine?
Oh my gosh, not here, not here, not here.
Don't worry.
She's just, she's on two.
She's on two continents away.
Fucking bitch.
I hate her.
I hate her so much.
Hello, dear.
I'm.
Spread through your fingertips.
Hello.
You need, you really need to be careful.
It's dangerous.
Below the blood red moon.
I.
What does, what does the moon do?
Why is it here?
The moon.
Just madness has tinged the moon.
It drives any with blood mad.
The old.
And the new.
Whispers cascade from every plane.
Forming collapsing all into one.
You need to be careful too.
Within the, if you stay within the presence of the blood red moon.
If crow rag.
Gets his influence on you.
That not even our mother.
Can help you.
But this is crow rags doing.
Yes.
Bring us.
To the moon shot.
Bring.
Bring our sibling to us.
I'll try to.
The tears of saloon they fall.
Just.
They were supposed to feel our mother's embrace.
And yet.
The embrace.
Has been touched.
Yeah.
Cecilia.
You.
You are healthy with our mother's embrace.
Please continue.
I will.
Thank you.
I didn't think you'd actually reply.
She's really surprised that she's thinking about it.
And.
A moment passes.
Before.
You hear a voice go.
Baby girl.
See, do you hear me?
Is it coming from a direction or is it like in my head again?
Yes.
I can hear you. Yes.
Bring our sibling to us.
Careful not to fall to the madness of the blood red moon.
We realize it's whispers whispers it's fake. That's her first instinct.
That.
Dwarf.
He.
I can hear it.
Crow rag.
Careful.
What about.
Him.
Make a con saving throw for me.
One.
Sharp pain shoots through your body.
Something it's familiar to when you use the moon shards to expand.
You spend your energy to use the moon shards.
Okay.
Does she get the impression then that if she tries to get a spell back by using them right now, she's already pushed too far that she.
It won't work well.
You're you're you're definitely you're definitely you're pushing.
Yes, I'll say.
Okay.
Because she was also if it looked fine, she was going to try to get a spell back, but she won't do that if she feels that's going to be bad.
It feels like the moon shards are much more influential and powerful.
Let us take.
And you hear to go in that structure depending here.
Let me feel.
I want to feel.
He shuts it.
Five seconds.
You shut it.
And she puts it away.
You put it away.
Yeah.
And then she starts.
She wanted to try to get a sending to Delmira, but she that was just an extra thing.
So she decides it's it's fine.
She already told Delmira she might not message her again, except Delmira cut her off and the sending.
But she'll she starts walking backwards.
It's 10 to realize this. Oh, wait, my life was actually a good idea and goes to check for someone who needs who she can provide magical healing to and she'll use her last spell slot on them.
Okay.
Go back to bed.
We'll go to bed.
Go ahead and take a take a point of inspiration for me.
She is inspired.
Make a con saving throw for me.
And when you go to bed.
Six.
No immediate effects.
Okay.
I ignore the first point.
It's not exhaustion.
Okay.
Oh madness things.
Probably.
No.
Are you dancing?
Where are you dancing?
That's like.
As all of you get the peaceful, peaceful nights rest.
I curious I want to go around the table.
I'm going to start with the person who's fresh.
I'm going to start with Cecilia.
As you're as you're drifting away. What is Cecilia?
What's on her mind? What is she thinking about at the moment?
I think the main thing is.
Crow rag.
But then I think it goes to.
What was or like what they were.
What that was about because that kind of alarms her.
That's what she's thinking about.
Jean Claude.
What am I thinking about as I fall asleep?
I think he's actually reflecting back on the conversation he had with the man he was healing.
Was when he asked him, is this real?
I think he's thinking about.
When he was in the Feywild.
And.
Genuinely.
Like thinking.
Am I ever free from it? Am I always connected to it?
Like he's.
Are.
We can't escape gods. We can't escape Fay.
We're always bound to them with our magic. Like he's he's really like thinking.
About that.
Take a point of inspiration from it.
Whoo.
Why we all get inspiration today.
It means that everything's going to be bad tomorrow.
We're going to fucking die.
And Dalmar.
As you crush.
Sorry.
Habit that would kill me.
What's this?
I am not going to.
This water.
Is it.
Water.
Yeah.
Liquid death is water.
It's just water.
I thought it was.
It's just water.
I'll explain when we go on break.
It's water.
His.
His thoughts are.
And.
The efforts they've already put in to find him and.
Now the two new people he feels responsible for.
For bringing them into this mess.
And what happened last time he was made responsible for something like that.
Or something like that.
My back story is tragic.
We got to get through it somehow.
Dancing to the tragic backstory.
It makes it less tragic.
Time for the feelings part of the episode.
Oh, and he'll reprepare my spells.
I forgot.
Do we get our long rest now, Tim?
You absolutely.
You get the heal.
Thank Christ.
What do I unprep?
I can sending to the archmage.
Why didn't I think of that earlier?
I didn't use your last.
I'm kidding.
What if he doesn't want to be found?
Clot twist.
Possibility.
Or if he's completely unconscious.
Oh, gosh.
What do I even.
Likely so.
He could.
He just sends you to voicemail.
The number you're trying to reach is not in service.
Hello.
We've been trying to reach you about your cars extended.
This is your CVS pharmacy calling to it.
Ford.
Hello.
Archmage.
Hello.
Just kidding.
It's the voicemail.
Anyways.
The worst.
The worst one.
Remove curse.
That's a spell.
There it is.
Okay.
So we can do a long rest.
You folks ready?
Reset all my spells.
I have healed myself.
Now, here's the thing.
Jean Claude, Cecilia.
The both of you wake up.
And very normally you are greeted with.
You are greeted with the.
You're greeted with the hint of the sun.
The kiss of the sun against the bulwark of your tent.
Oh, yeah.
The moon's still out there.
It's been darkness the entire time.
As the two of you wake up, Dalmar.
You awake weary.
Tired.
But you're going to have to take another dive into it.
You told Cecilia and Jean Claude that you were going to take them in, right?
Yes.
You ready yourself.
I'm preparing for the day ahead.
As the three of you and your three separate tents are getting prepared.
You hear from the outside.
Halt.
And another voice just going, please.
She really needs help.
She's going to be in a lot of pain.
She's going to be in a lot of.
Comotion outside.
Just to look immediately.
He will run out of the tent.
I said, we're all up.
For any, for any who look and come out.
You see that the, the two, the two different people.
I've stood guard now.
And that a.
That there's a new crowd of people that has just come back.
People from the expedition, more people.
And I'm not sure if that's the case.
I'm not sure if that's the case.
But you see at the edge of the forest where the two of you.
Well, the two of you came in.
You see a.
Not a human.
Half Elvin.
Man.
Sharp, sharp black hair.
A little bit on the, a little bit on a, a little bit on the taller side.
And he's wearing some kind of like colorful, like.
Colorful, colorful getup.
That you, you can't really discern where it's from at the moment.
He's currently carrying.
What a woman.
With lavender hair.
Dressed in like.
Just unlike.
Dressed in like a robes.
She has, she has, she has a.
She has gloves on and.
She's currently completely unconscious in his.
In his arms.
You see Lee has already gotten up.
And as a, as approaching.
He's going.
What happened?
And the, the half elf just, just continues.
Goes, goes.
I don't know what happened.
We were traveling on the road and.
All of a sudden the sky fell.
Just.
My, my lady here.
She.
She's.
She's all of a sudden she has some kind of sickness.
She's grown faint and she fell.
And Lee.
Lee just goes.
Just, just nods.
Pushes the.
Just pushes the guard to move aside.
And it's just for him to go over to the tent where people are being healed.
Thank you.
And Lee just goes, I can't, I can't promise we can help.
As the.
As the man hurries on over.
To the.
To the tent.
You see as he turns his back.
You see he has a very.
He has a large long sword.
Two of them.
Like crossed on his back.
In the, in the sheets.
As he heads over.
That's the bulk of that commotion.
I can help if there is a disease.
You see the man.
Looks up towards you.
There's a moment.
There's a slight pause.
Before he goes.
I.
I don't know what it is.
She hasn't gotten wounded.
She just.
Fell.
The sky hits her.
No.
The sky fell.
It turned red.
The moon turned red.
Like it is right now.
It's dark.
We were traveling.
Ah.
Let me help.
He's going to go over and.
Five of his.
Lay on hands to cure the disease.
As you spend five points.
As you place your hand on her.
She just.
She just takes a, she just takes a breath.
She's sweating.
And as your energy suits through her.
There's no immediate signs of her getting better.
And I gauge if I can figure out what's wrong.
Yeah, he'll call Cecilia over.
Okay.
Cecilia as you come over.
You can either give me an arcana or a medicine check.
I'm going to use medicine.
Okay.
That is a 21.
Looking her over, she has no external wounds.
Nothing has injured her.
Nothing at all.
She's.
She's actually like.
We get an IV.
And it's like.
Awfully clean, except for like the.
The brush.
Nature's naturalism imprint.
She's she's she's younger that she's younger than the half elf.
For certain.
And.
The looking looking her over.
She's, she's slightly, she's slightly feverish.
on the inside. And if Jean-Claude's disease, trying to cure disease didn't work, then it's
absolutely something else. The only thing you can discern is that it's not natural,
but magical in a way.
Do I think that this is something, and it's okay if I can't tell this, but do I get the
impression remove curse would help?
Give me an arcana check with advantage.
Maybe it's like a magical, like remember we did what's it called? The titan's curse fever
or whatever.
I'm gonna be so mad if I drop dispel magic for remove curse and then don't, so the first
one was a nat one, but with advantage it's a 15.
Ooh, we dodging that once today.
You get the feeling that this is something nested deep inside, something magical. Remove
curse, if it's not Lyssa restoration, if it's not a disease, then it's definitely going
to have, it's definitely like a curse of some kind.
Hey, should cast remove curse.
So you place your hand, as you place your hand on her, give me a D100.
Oh no, wild magic surges, is this what this is?
Why do we have that?
84.
You do not expend a supposed lot.
Oh.
What?
Thank goodness.
Whenever, whenever we're in this phase, if you, if it can be cast a spell, I'll place
Cecilia.
If it can be cast a spell, you roll a D100.
If you roll, if you roll an 80 or over, you do not expend the spell.
Whoa.
So as you place, as you place this hand on her and you expend your magical energy, you
see that it actually kind of like replaces, you feel something topping up inside of you
as if it's just moving into replace the magical energy you expended.
As this powerful wave of this, of this, of the spelling occurs, expelling this curse
from her, her breath leaves and her, and her breathing becomes gentle.
My lady, are you okay?
And she doesn't speak.
You might need time to recover.
Does this seem like to me, to me, like, and it's okay if I can't tell this just from
this quick time, but one of my fears when I saw that it wasn't like normal was that
maybe this would be something that resembles my father.
Is there anything that might lead me to that conclusion yet or is it too early?
At the moment?
At the moment, no.
Okay.
But whatever is alleviate, whatever is ailing her, it's alleviated.
She should be better.
She just might need some time to rest.
He places his hat, he sits down putting his swords to his side.
He just goes, thank you.
I don't know how I could ever repay you.
It's all right.
I am, I am Dan Lamar, but you can just call me Dan.
My lady here, I'm currently her, I'm currently her steward.
Her name's Kari.
We were traveling on the road when all of this occurred.
I'm afraid I don't understand exactly what's going on here.
But whatever the case, I thank you.
I'm Cecilia.
If you can, you might consider trying to continue on away.
I would not stop here for now.
It's a shame.
My lady came here to study arcane magic.
Did you not hear the rumors?
Rumors.
Have the automatons?
No.
Where are you coming from?
We're approaching from the east.
We're from our home.
Uh, interesting.
Where?
Hmm?
Where?
From Fiskard.
Jean-Claude, you know Fiskard.
That's an old name.
Wow.
That's one of the larger central hubs of Aurholm.
He holds his twin swords, he holds them up in the air, and they just both vanish.
Not only do they vanish.
You see a spectral hand grabs them and pulls them, and the swords vanish.
Me and my friend, thanks you.
Who?
What?
Huh?
Natural to react like that.
Let's just say that it's a lot to explain, but she's here to give assistance if the time
is needed.
I have a special set of skills you see, but that shouldn't be important right now.
Right.
What I'm saying is basically, if the special skills are all in your invisible friend, this
place is a current world zone.
You know, civil world some may say.
It is not safe to go into Pratch's magic of any kind.
Well, I'll have to wait for my lady to awake before we decide what happens next.
If you're certain, there's kind of the automatons of the town have turned.
Are attacking people.
Some of them are attacking people.
Perhaps I can lend my assistance in that case.
I'm sure they would take you.
I'm not in charge that she's supposed to point.
Yeah, Lee, I'm sure could use our help.
Whatever case that must remain with Kari first before anything else happens.
Thank you.
Can I have your name?
I'm Cecilia.
I am a former captain, ex doctor Jean Claude Boucheron.
God damn it.
Cecilia, as you say your name, you see the hand twitch of Kari, of the woman, the young
woman.
Weird.
She's still asleep.
Dan Lamar looks towards her and just places his hand on her wrist and squeezes it.
Give her some time.
Cecilia, Captain Jean Claude.
Thank you.
Lee comes over the scene in front of him.
He turns to Dan Lamar and goes, we haven't caught as much strays as we have in these
last few days.
Either something changed or they're just finally deciding to show up.
I don't even know how to end this.
Hopefully someone who's still in their nose.
The Archmage might know.
Cecilia, you can hear this.
Yes.
I think I have an idea.
But it's kind of strange to explain.
She's not good at lying.
She's trying to choose words so carefully.
But she goes, she's really considering what she says.
And she goes, I think as a cleric of Saloon that this might be being caused by an anomaly
like, say, a shard of the moon.
And I think it might be in the town.
And I think if I take that, it could stop.
What makes you so confident that it's a shard of the moon causing all of this?
Because I receive divine intervention in a way, I guess.
Make a deception check.
It's not a complete lie.
It's not a good one, though.
It is a lie.
Oh, OK.
Natural 20!
That is a nat 20 for the non-liar.
Oh my gosh.
It's about time we have something, some intervention of any kind coming our way.
I wouldn't want you to get hurt, but if you believe you know what you're doing and I could
push up to any of this, then...
Dalmar, you're the city center of all of us.
Can you lead the young lady to wherever she needs to go?
I plan to.
You see people begin to sit up.
It's like, you can stop this.
People are murmuring, looking at you.
She's really worried that she can't, if she can't now.
Expectations are high.
I can't say with complete certainty that that's what it is, but...
And I know that a red moon can cause people to see things and hear things and things like
that.
But I feel pretty confident in what I was told, at least.
And that if it were true, then it should stop.
It's gonna be, it's gonna have to be a chance.
We're gonna have to take.
I have not met you all for long, or known a situation for long, but I'm positive that
if my lady were awake, she would want to help.
Just, please, if you ever plan to go inside, or if you ever plan to come back after my
lady is awake, then consider taking the both of us with you in there.
We'll consider it.
Legos.
In that case, we might never shot at this yet.
I don't know what exactly solving this all will entail, but it's better than nothing.
Everyone on list B, get ready to form up.
We're gonna do another dive.
Intervexing.
Dalmar, you'll be going with the both of them.
I know.
You've got this, friend.
As do you.
As people are beginning to form up.
Jean Claude, Cecilia, Dalmar, the three of you gather together as everyone's getting
ready.
Dalmar, that reminded me.
Can I ask you something?
You can ask.
Have you ever heard of the name Crow Red?
I have not.
Have I?
Yes.
I'm pretty sure we would have talked about that because that was the one who replaced
Malar.
Right.
It's the creepy one, right?
It's the new creepy demon who makes this guy red.
Jean Claude goes, okay.
Any reason why we freaking met?
I didn't explain in the moment, but have you ever heard of Malar?
Malar, definitely.
That is a mainstay, the god of savagery.
God of like wild creatures and helping wild creatures tap into their inner savagery.
It's just part of the pantheon of nature.
I have.
Why does it matter?
I'm taking by that reaction that my next answer to my next question is a no, but I was just
going to say have you ever had any connections to either of those names in your life that
you know of?
No, I can't say I have.
I just, I know that the red moon thing is related to Crowrack.
She says looking at both of them now to explain.
And Crowrack, to clarify, is supposedly someone who overtook Malar and is now the new god
of savagery.
Right.
Isn't this stuff that we knew?
You and me knew that, but not him.
And I just, I just was warned that she kind of glances at Jean-Claude a moment and then
back to Dalmar and goes, I was warned that there might be some aspect of Crowrack inside
of you.
I'm sorry, warned by who?
I thought you might ask that and I was hoping that you wouldn't.
Warned by who?
Like I said, I sense some divine intervention.
All right, everyone, we're ready to head out.
Come on.
We're not done talking about this, Isiria.
You and I have more to talk about.
She looks between both of them.
Exactly, high low, high low.
And then we have Avius in your bag here.
Hi Lord Avius.
Shaking the bag.
Hi Lord.
All right, come on, let's get a move on.
Once we all reach the House of Waffles, that's our splitting point.
I'm sorry, what?
House of Waffles, have you been to one?
Yes, and it sucked.
It was burnt down.
That seems more like a statement on the one you went to instead of a statement on the
House of Waffles brand.
No, the branch, the weird lure that's attached to it, it was weird, okay?
It's weird.
Do you follow along with the story, Dalmar?
Since I've come to know of it, it is one of the few enjoyments I get.
Oh wow.
Buddy.
I wouldn't have guessed that, actually.
Buddy.
I wouldn't have taken you as a-
That is a form of entertainment for you.
There's not much else for you to do in a library when you don't like reading.
Is it in the library?
What?
We had ways of getting things other places.
It does not matter.
It's like a cafe in the library?
I've heard of like a Noble and Bounds.
I know they tend to have like little cafes in there.
Barns spelled like a farm barn, probably.
Yeah, you know, it's like the royalty and the cows.
The bookstore.
Look, it does not matter.
You two, stick close to me.
We need to go.
And you, speaking back towards Cecilia, whoever you heard that from, knows something I don't
tell people.
You have explaining to do, and you'll do it as we walk.
Okay.
Like I-
No threats needed.
I trust them, okay?
And they're not going to hurt you.
Well-
Who is them?
I- it was divine intervention.
What does that mean?
My god, basically.
That's what I was trying to say.
So Luna God just like called you up?
No, it was the-
Oh, it just shuts up.
As you all see this sprightly half-elven girl with twin buns walk up to everyone and goes,
hi everyone.
I put a lot of great work into this.
I think I did it in my sleep.
I think.
It's some of my best work.
It's actually- I- it's crazy.
And I got sleep.
Crazy devar, you were actually there.
Who are you?
This is Luan, she is one of the Archmages assistants and my friend.
Got it.
Oh yeah.
Anyways, got some potions for people just to make sure you guys are all nice and tidy.
She starts handing out people the exposition so each of you get one greater healing potion.
Nice.
Anyways, I'm gonna keep brewing some more until you guys come back.
Don't get hurt too hard.
I'm gonna be working very hard.
I got sleep now so that's really good.
Luan, make sure you take a break.
I did take a break.
Oh wait, any points to the celiate?
For your spell to make a call to the Archmage.
Do you need something?
I can cast it.
I just can't do it that much but, well like that's- it's about the same difficulty as
that spell I cast on that woman but I don't feel tired at all.
Like it was like I still have all that energy.
Didn't you need like an object to help with the spell or is there something else?
It's like this little wire thing.
Okay got it never mind.
I was thinking of a different spell where you spy on people.
Spy on people?
Never mind, continue.
I can send a message to the Archmage and maybe if he knows where he is and if he's alive
and conscious he could reply and tell us.
With the shot though?
But if we're about to get into danger-
Maybe save it for later.
Keep your slots.
But at the same time it could help narrow down a search but if we don't know where exactly-
if we know where we want to go already then-
Well aren't we heading to the theater to see uh Kiffle?
Hey our group is going to the theater.
And do you know where that moon shard is?
If it is not- if it is no longer in his laboratory where we have not yet been then it should
likely be with the Archmage himself.
I have a feeling he wouldn't have left it.
Small imagine if was there enough time for him to go back and get it.
So it sounds like the laboratory is a high priority.
Aye and it's where I hope to find him.
Because I- I really do think that getting that will end this.
The sooner the better.
We're going.
As you approach um the air gets thicker.
Um it's thick with anticipation as the uh people you see are- as if you're marching
to the front of a battlefield.
Um with the dark red skies hanging overhead um you eventually see- you eventually approach
the walls of uh the walls of Vrexen.
Damage slash marks across the edges of the gate.
You see that there is a um there's currently a barricade set in front of the gate.
There are um benches, wagons, the bodies of automatons piled.
And Dalmar you're the one who knows this and they don't.
This barricade is not man-made.
The automatons made it to keep you all out.
As you walk into the city it- it very physically becomes murkier.
As you- as Jean-Claude's Isilie this is- this is like the most modern design of a place
you've ever seen.
Um fancy, smoothly built, buildings lying the side.
Just well- well- just well made throughout.
Arcane sigils built on certain parts of the ground that have now been deactivated.
You are uh passing the barricade, you are surrounded by what you would assume to be
one of the- what would be a great and very interesting place to view.
But with the- with the blood red moon hanging overhead and knowing that people have perished
here and that little huge pile of bodies out in the front, it's not as wonderful as you
think.
As you reach- as you reach a point, as people look out, you eventually see it.
A large- a sign with large capital letters on it.
House of Waffles.
You see the- you see the disc shaped building.
It's a very nice house of waffles.
It has all- it's all glass exterior.
It has- it has booths inside.
You can- you can tell this was awesome.
Probably one of the best ones in the entire continent.
But as you- as you reach there, he just goes- he just goes, one of the things- one of the
things I'm looking forward to is heading- is heading out of this place and seeing and
catching up on the House of Waffles lore.
Oh my god!
It is- the- the- the loondies one is- was destroyed by a Greece dragon.
A fire!
He lit the- he lit the fucking place on fire by accident.
Wow, they're really keeping to the story.
No!
Can't wait to see how they include that one in the next season.
The beacon is lit, Lindor calls for aid.
The books are not that good!
Well, I was actually told that the books are just written accounts of the stories that
they do there, but the books aren't fully accurate because you have to travel between
each one.
I just got to the part where John Doe just perished, so don't spoil what happens in
the next books.
It is traumatic pornography in those books.
I mean, nothing was more traumatic than the bread wedding.
No!
We met Jerry Prannister at the grease fire one.
Did you meet Jerry Prannister?
Yeah, I think he might be dead now, I don't know.
They always kill off their parents.
I don't know what they're gonna do with him.
They don't seem to last long.
Jack, this is a shitty series.
You seem to be personally affected, but that's not what's important right now.
I'm the one who's personally affected!
You seem to be at a crossroads here.
Um, literally, physically.
Delmore?
All goes well, we meet back here.
Hopefully with more survivors.
That's the plan.
Be safe.
He holds his hand out to give you a hearty shake.
Just be safe, friend.
Dragmire has redeemed his stretch and hydrate!
He always does it when I'm out of water.
I have no water, so I could really use some!
Get it!
I'm gonna get some water.
I'll get more when we go break.
Oh!
Are we gonna go break?
I think we're pretty late.
Break and or end.
Uh huh.
I had one more question for Delmore that I forgot.
That I'd forgotten, so I'll go ahead and go.
By the way, um, do the automatons have blood?
I've never seen one bleed.
I've seen inside of them before.
Nothing but wires and gears and spirit magic.
No... no flesh or blood or bones.
Okay that's what I would have thought too.
So...
She does not explain further.
Of course she don't.
Why would she?
Why would she explain further?
Seriously, because of things related to the moon shard, she doesn't want to get in trouble.
You are already in trouble.
Yeah, no I'm not!
Divine intervention?
Interesting.
Alright, so, as the two parties split, as you watch as the other expedition parties head
off the other direction, Delmore, you are left with these two.
Ha!
Yup.
That was just a statement of fact, not a...
It's so funny though.
But it's funny though.
You're left with these two.
Yup.
You're left with these two.
Oh these... this duo.
Delmore drew the short straw in which group he got to go with.
Yes he did.
I can't make a short joke.
So...
Hey!
Delmore, taking a breath, you remember the path leading to the...
You okay?
There's a cockroach!
There's a cockroach on my water bottle!
On your water bottle?
On my water bottle!
No!
Apple drop!
Where is it?
Oh no no!
The game's over.
I don't know where it is!
On my water bottle!
Introducing our new guest.
The cockroach!
No!
I've had a D- in a D&D stream, I have had a spider drop down right in front of my camera,
and I ran away.
Dragmars said it, I thought she was laughing.
No I hate cockroaches!
Yeah I would just die.
I would cry.
Personally.
Yeah I hate cockroaches.
I'm okay with spiders but cockroaches fuck me up.
Anyway, you genuinely need to go.
No!
Continue!
Alright.
Um.
Dragmars- oh Delmore!
Delmore!
Dragmars would be a killer cockroach.
Um.
A killer cockroach!
Emma if you need it, do you have a spray bottle?
No!
No I'm just gonna live in fear.
It's fine.
Yeah.
It comes to a point where like yeah you're just my friend, you're just my roommate now.
As long as you just-
You're methoding Jean-Claude.
When I see it next, it's on site.
As the three of you venture forward into town heading towards the Elvish Tree Playhouse.
As the three of you endeavor.
Walking into unknown territory.
Into unfamiliar dangers.
We cut to somewhere in the town.
A lone cobbler bot.
One of the- a bot just like Charlie.
On wheels.
Charlie!
Just like Charlie.
Damn it.
Is venturing through the empty streets in the- in the- what?
I can't find it.
In the Weaver's Boulevard.
You see the young- the small bot is currently curiously prodding through- is prodding through
debris remnants of fights from the very first days.
When he sees a small- when he maneuvers himself in front of a small bookstore.
Nobles and barns?
The noble barn.
As he maneuvers in front of the noble barn, you see he curiously tilts his head and he
wheels to the front and he gently picks up a book.
A book on some kind of arcane face- it's way beyond him.
He throws it away, he picks up another book, and he begins sifting through the book that
fell out of the front window shell- the display on the front window.
As he's doing that, a hole is suddenly formed in his head.
The light in his eyes dim and he just shuts off.
Heavy footsteps as a hooded figure walks down the street.
As we look up to see the billowing- the billowing figure, you see- we see its metallic body,
its metallic head, which it has drawn multiple strange symbols on.
It has written names all over its own body and it holds a bow and arrow.
It reaches for the arrow it shot the cobbler with and puts it back in its quiver.
And then it stops.
Its head tilts for a moment as its eyes blink.
They blink.
And it goes- and the eyes go red for a furious, singular moment as a large, as a loud, high-pitched
scream emits from it for a moment.
And then it calms.
It stands up.
And it goes...
Sylvie.
Before it walks into an alleyway.
And that is where we're gonna end.
What?
Excuse me?
Okay?
Uh, Sylvie is Sean Cloud's niece, correct?
Yes.
Okay.
That's what I thought.
The heck, Tim?
What?
Is it because it's connected to the- the Crowrag's moon thing and Sylvie's...
with Crowrag?
We'll get to explore that.
She's just a kid!
She's just a baby!
When has that stopped him in the past?
She's just a baby.
Being awful quiet, Tim.
I don't-
Yeah, Timmy, what-
Is this something we get to explore?
I'm starting to not trust the Archmage that much.
Oh, I never did.
Like, where- where this bro at?
Where he at?
Is he the one that's making them angry?
Is he the one that's working with Mero?
Jagmeyer has redeemed Extend the Stream for 15 minutes.
I'm afraid we're gonna have to refund you, but maybe we should make that a reward.
I'm just kidding.
No.
Absolutely not.
On site, Emma has entered the chat.
But I would say, remember where these- where these automatons draw their emotions from?
They draw- they draw it from- they draw it from other planes, and if an emotion is particularly
strong, they'll take it.
Her dad?
The in- the inhibitions of the- of all that has gone-
Or her mom.
And the programming is gone, so maybe they're allowed to take on whatever they want.
Take on whatever- whatever interests them the most at the moment.
She's just a little girl!
But if it's her dad's soul in the robot- You're in town.
You got a bracelet.
What?
Oh no.
Looking for you?
He's gonna go- Oh no.
Oh no.
Jean-Claude?
Huh?
You?
Yep.
Just might?
You might be- you might be- you might be currently hunted.
Ahhhhh!
Is that what the number is?
Nah.
What?
That's another thing.
The chat also says to the redeem for one minute experiment.
We promise we won't abuse that.
The chat?
Not gonna happen.
Maybe.
With great power they say!
I'm not gonna let you do that.
With- alright, it says it's like, alright everyone that's the end of the set- oh nevermind.
Jean-Claude, you- you- you-
I'm not gonna let you do that.
You won V1 your brother's spirit or- or- sister-in-law.
Cause the brother was a circle of dreams druid and the sister-in-law was a fey wanderer
ranger.
We will discover what all of this means.
On the next episode!
At Songweavin!
Songweavin?
Sponsored by Nobles and Barnes.
It's been a year and you can't get the name right?
No!
Dongwovin.
Dongwovin!
Alright everyone.
Dongs are woven into song.
A harmony of dongins.
That was from the Monster Road Trip stream, wasn't it?
Yes.
December.
And next- wait next weekend would be our Halloween stream technically right?
Yeah.
Or we could do the week after but yeah I think we're in pretty horror territory already so
Suki!
We are.
I'll just replace all their heads with pumpkins or something.
Let's pumpkin dolls!
Don't make us bring out Mom Woven Show!
Ha!
Not Mom!
Not Mom Woven!
Um anyways.
I'd love to make up our fear in me for a moment.
I need to calm down.
We need Willowback.
Chat?
We need Willow Willow Willowback.
Bonk.
No horny.
Bonk.
Let's see.
Alright guys.
That's fucking Ghost.
Yeah.
That's about it.
I will say- I'm sorry.
I will say that a game came out pretty recently that I'm deeply interested in and I'm really
excited about it and it looks like it's just like it is.
Oh no.
It was just a game?
It's called Lies of P.
You don't want to know.
Oh Lies of P.
Yeah and it looks like just like what's going on in the current thing and I'm so I'm so
interested in playing it.
I2P?
What's it called?
Lies of P. I believe you play- Lies of P.
You play Pinocchio in like a Victorian- You get bodied by robots.
In the city and all the puppets have gone insane.
Oh that sounds dope.
Just like Bloodborne.
It sounds so cool and it's- but it's just like I want to play it and just like- gosh
but yeah when that game came out I was like oh well perfect timing.
You're like what do you know?
The robot.
But yeah everything inspired.
Nier Automata.
Love that game.
Hasn't been for a while.
Kierkegaard.
Bavar.
Nietzsche.
That's what- that's what- that's what's piecing everything together.
It's awesome.
Nietzsche.
Nevermind.
Anyways I talked a lot.
I thought you were trying to say niche or niche and I was like oh but then Nietzsche-
The Philosopher?
Yeah all the philosophers.
Right that one.
Nietzsche is awesome.
I love him.
He's not a nihilist.
Don't listen to what people say.
I was about to say wait doesn't- nevermind.
Dragmire.
Oh sorry.
Go ahead.
Dragmire said in chat Farley's has to come back for Halloween.
He's dead.
I hate to break the news to you.
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert Dragmire he gone.
He is no longer thanks to the father of scarecrows.
But he father of scarecrows will definitely make a-
He's still here.
He's still around and he's spooky.
And I hate him.
I wouldn't be surprised if he could legitimately bring Farleys back though.
Farleys was like a fun villain though if that makes sense.
Like it was kind of like- father of scarecrows I'm like this is not fun.
Yeah and Farleys had his gimmick.
He was like yeah he had all these weapons and then he'd like reincarnate into them and
then-
Oh that's why Dragmire says I know that's why he has to come back.
He has a sexy name.
He has a sexy name father of scarecrows the daddy of scarecrows is not sexy.
Stop.
Oh that straw when you kiss him.
Alright we're not- I'm not letting this stream go on.
Alright everyone.
And that was our 15 minute extension.
There we go yeah.
Don't get your channel points back now.
No.
Alright everyone.
We'll see you next time.
Bye.
This is not sexy.
I agree.
He's super sexy.
No.