Songwoven presents The Lanaya Expedition, a level-up, advanced fifth edition actual play
campaign.
Episode 25, Broken Down.
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Really, Timmy?
So who wants to take over his job?
Hello everyone and welcome to Songwoven.
Duh.
Breathe, Timmy, breathe.
Which one?
Oh, which one is this?
Lanaya, Lanaya.
The Lanaya dating show.
Yeah.
Oh, a witch.
Shaking it up.
Lanaya dating show.
No.
Lanaya dating show.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
All right.
What are they calling on the show?
Contestants.
These three naked daters, these dating contestants are gonna-
Will they find love?
I hope so in this place.
Love among robots.
Love among bots.
What's that one thing called?
Warm hearts?
It was about a zombie.
This one's a cold modulator or something.
Cold cores.
All right.
Well, hello everyone.
Welcome to Songwoven.
I am Tim Don't Train.
I'm your dad.
I'm your lord weaver.
That's the best way to find my name.
It's right on the box.
Right there.
It says it.
You can see it right in front of me.
Everything's gonna be so good.
Everything's gonna be so great.
Everyone, I just, I've been thinking lately, like, I need someone to help me find the fun
in voiceover.
Someone who's watched a lot of anime.
Got Tim?
Timothy?
I swear to God.
What are you laughing about?
What are you doing?
Tim?
What's about to happen?
Tim!
There's someone who can help me do that.
Tim!
Please, Tim!
Is this why you were messing with the overlay?
Everyone introducing!
Tim, what the fuck?
Emma Ramon!
I'm from Moscow!
Ok.
If you pull up my resume one more goddamn time on this fucking stream, I swear to Christ!
It's not your resume, it's one version of your bio that I—
Stop!
See, this is why I just don't have a personal website.
Don't worry.
I'm Emma from Moscow.
I'm happy to be here when I'm not!
I'm not the anime expert.
When I'm not being professionally modded out.
I just need someone to help me find the fondant voiceover.
STOP IT!
He went to my works website!
Oh, that's where the wording comes from.
From my works website!
It states that you watch a lot of anime.
From my works website!
I will never be free from Tim.Trap.
We're gonna be streaming in like 40 plus years.
And Tim will be like, hey, remember back in 2026 Emma when you said that dumb fucking
thing in a YouTube interview?
You know, anytime you have to like apply for jobs down the line years later, they're gonna
be like, why is your resume like password and encrypted and stuff?
Tim Don Tran, that's why!
And then you'll be like, it doesn't work.
It doesn't stop him.
It doesn't stop this man!
His budget only increases.
Anyways, and then there's also...
JT!
And somehow Timmy found his resume.
I'm waiting for the twist on that because I know it's gonna be there.
JT, isn't it interesting that you were a part of...
Fuck me.
Nevermind.
Jay-JAY-TY!
Whoa!
Jirard!
That's my last name!
Jirard!
That one!
I just wanna have a little bit of a laugh.
I just want everyone to know I don't have anything on JT at the moment.
I do, but my mind can't access it right now.
But I promise none of this is blackmail, disclaimer.
I do not blackmail any of my fellow cast members on this show.
I don't do any of that.
I don't.
For context.
I don't do any of that.
My resume is private, so he can't pull that up on me.
He has found stuff from when I was in school.
Yeah, I don't have your resume.
I on the other hand have-
I know you don't because it would have told me if you had gone on my LinkedIn.
That's blackmail!
I on the other hand have like a wealth of stories I share about Timmy to embarrass him
instead.
Yeah.
That's how she combats-
I don't go after Jenny.
You don't have to go after his girlfriend because he knows.
Because I win.
Because I'm a winner, baby.
Alright everyone, now that we have sufficiently stated that there is no blackmail going on
in this loving circle of likely friends, friends who have grown closer over the bombs of time
and who have all-
Bombs?
The bombs of time and who have all gotten closer through adversity and just love and
I'm fucking emotional.
Well, look at me.
Look at me, I'm an emotional guy.
It's gonna be a night, huh?
Today's gonna be a shorter session, I feel.
Everyone, I'm gonna be completely honest.
What the fuck?
Alright, yeah, I'm like four feet tall and- wait, what?
I just saw that.
I just read the first thing.
Okay, I'm out of it, but some of my best games have been the there when I am the in.
I'm out.
Fuck!
So today's gonna be a shorter session, guys.
The moment we see Timmy losing it, we're done.
We're so grateful you tuned in.
A quick recap from what happened last time.
Last time was the bit of a nightmare for our players in the group.
Everything went wrong.
Everything was awful.
I laughed about it all night.
Tim enjoyed it as our lovely lore weaver, RLW.
But the players had a rough time.
I love going unconscious in turn one and then also someone else going unconscious in turn
one immediately afterwards.
And it was just me.
Yeah, so both Jean-Claude, our paladin, and Cecilia, our cleric, both the people with-
the only ones with healing capabilities went down, leaving Delmar, our barbarian, left
standing.
I was full health.
Yeah, we had many a hit point.
Let me make this clear.
We were not low.
We had many a hit point.
And we had tried to negotiate with the- is it Arbiter?
Venator.
The Venator, who is an automaton unlike the rest.
He's not like other girls who has connections to-
He's so fetch.
He's so fetch who has connections to Jean-Claude's want and desire to find his niece, Cecilia,
except unfortunately Venator interprets that as hunting.
So he is hunting those three.
And we were hunted.
We were hunted.
It was really rough.
It eventually led to the three of us sprinting and running and hiding in a series of shops
and I think we went down how many times, Jenny?
Twice?
I only went unconscious one time.
You went down twice.
I went down twice.
Yeah.
So we took some heavy hits.
At one point, poor Delmar was left the only one standing, alluding to a secret backstory
moment that we don't know about, but we can surmise had to do with something regarding
leadership and trauma and losing those he was supposed to take care of.
So after escaping through a series of shops, the Venator got into it with a guardsman,
right?
Yeah, the watchman.
Watchman.
See, this is why I'm so lucky I have great friends, guys, because words don't make sense
in my mind.
That's why Jenny's got the notes.
Notebook.
I didn't take many notes last time.
Like normally they're pretty long and this one's just that.
We went down.
That's the note.
We die.
We were able to, yes, but we did get to fly.
We were able to get to the wall before attacked by another horde of automatons who were out
for blood.
We cast the fly spell.
Jean-Claude took both of his compatriots under his arms and we shot up into the sky.
We almost got shot at again by someone else again.
I watchman with its spear that basically just makes you freeze in place, which is totally
not working.
Ah, OK.
But Delmar.
But Delmar threw his really cool lightning pickaxe.
That's like a boomerang.
It's totally isn't backstory related.
Not that we would know.
And he flung it and it boomeranged back and we were able to get over the wall to safety.
All of us pretty shaken.
And then there was a bit of a flash to a cut scene with these random people that we met,
these two random people we met for five seconds.
One a lady, one a bro, a bro guarding a lady.
Dan, Lauren and Kari.
Those names of people.
Maripin.
But she woke up and she went, oh, and she awoken.
And the players are hoping she can help us out because right now we're a little freaked
out about how we're supposed to.
Yes, one of them is a hot dad with a mini van, Dragmire.
Right now we're a bit confused about how to fix a situation because one, the watchmen
are incredibly powerful and we weren't even supposed to 1v1.
Tim did not expect us to survive that.
So we're not supposed to fight the watchmen because they're very powerful.
And we just learned how crazy OP the Venator is that we simply can't go up against even
up like if we had all our spell slots and whatnot.
You know, maybe maybe we can do it.
And for environmental context, the sky has been blood red the entire time.
Yeah, there has been no day.
There has been no night cycle, but it just started to rain for the first time.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that.
Did it?
Did you notice?
I don't remember that.
I'm going to write it down on last week.
Yeah, it started raining.
I didn't know that.
I must have.
I must have been so emotionally distraught that I did think we were stress.
The hot dad was named Ted.
His name's his name's his name's Dan, right?
Yes, Dan, Dan, the man, Dan, Loran, the man with a minivan.
That's how we remember him.
I'm going to forcibly take the two of you back to the House of Waffles if you keep this
up.
I didn't do anything wrong.
It's a punishment.
It is a punishment.
For them it is.
For me it is.
Not for me necessarily.
I'm kind of cool with it.
Sean Claude hates House of Waffles.
I have a slight update about the podcast.
It has been a week.
The last episode is not up because my old computer decided to go into smoke and I don't
have any of the settings or the music or anything to do it with and I could have manually just
remade everything but I'm supposed to be getting my data back any day now from the computer
shop and I've been waiting and waiting for the call and they're not getting back to me
yet.
But ideally I will have that soon and then I can actually post the podcast for people.
YouTube is still going though, right?
Yeah.
So going strong and you know what?
If you pay $10 a month for YouTube Red or premium what they call it, you can just cheat
it down like a podcast.
Duh.
Yeah.
Give money to corporations.
Use that ad blocker.
These corporations make the world go round.
Late stage capitalism is what we love at Songwomen.
I would tell you something.
I'm not going to lie.
Alternatively, if you want to, if you want a true podcast listing experience, put us
on video.
Close your eyes.
It's like we're right there with you.
I already give you guys monthly TriVirus.
Thank you for that.
Thank you so much.
I was like, I'm a bit surprised when we did, like, it just came in the email one day with
with the um, the Kofi which we had hooked up and we were like, totally forgot about that it existed.
And we're like, we need to put something on there probably, that would be a good idea.
Blackwire's like, I cook, I clean, I provide for this family, and you disrespect me like this?
I don't know if we want to put the picture on there or anything.
I think we have the picture. We do not have a description. It is the generic description.
So thank you.
We're not a scam, we promise.
Depends, depends on what you consider a scam.
What if it comes out, Songwobin was a money laundering team?
So much money coming in here.
We need to introduce our new cryptocurrency.
No!
It's called Clodcoin.
If anyone's wondering about why this video in particular has millions of billions of views,
it's because the lawyers have to scrounge through every single second of this video before the case.
We promise you, it's not for you.
Here at Songwobin, we have Clodcoin.
This time.
Alright everyone.
Are we uh, right, fuck, shut up.
SHUT UP!
Why?
I'm in Spider-Man. My character would cry.
Right now if that's how we open the session.
Oh gosh, what's the weird little doll? The weird little doll's name again?
JJ.
I hate that doll.
That's the song he's gonna make now.
JJ's gonna sing that song?
Yeah, it's gonna be like...
Hold on, if Jean-Claude voices JJ, go...
No more.
Cecilia's version.
Cecilia's version!
Alright.
I like the music.
Yeah, that was pretty for a second.
Sorry, it was too pretty.
You get no joy players.
No joy for you.
We don't have to get nice music.
I'll turn this back on.
Oh yeah, I'm poisoned. I was wondering why I had disadvantage on my sheet toggled.
I'm still poisoned.
I gotta sleep to heal you.
I can heal myself, but I might not.
You don't need no man.
I don't have to expose myself left.
Alright everyone, I've meditated, I've changed.
It's time for the return.
We're ready.
Uh, where's my weather? There it is.
Where's the weather?
We gotta do anything?
And now, the weather.
Today you have a slight overcast with rain that we have not seen in three weeks.
I have a green.
It's still red.
The moon is still red.
Waking up to Ash and Dali.
Let's stop that right now before anything gets copyrighted.
We're allowed to sing it for two seconds.
I'm about the same wavelength as a singer as the Magic Dragon singer, so I think we will get copyrighted.
I also love when he takes off his top during shows now, like, show it my man, let's fucking go.
Let's go.
That's a bard in action.
I don't have to imagine anything now.
I don't have to imagine anything, baby.
This is us dragons.
Let's go baby.
Alright everyone.
Guess who is the ace folk on this stream right now?
I get it, but why?
Keep your shirt on.
Three buys and an ace walking to a bar.
Keep an eye out for our next series, 3B1A.
JT is just the babysitter.
I am.
I am the group babysitter.
Alright.
Let me turn up the rain a little bit.
It needs to rain louder.
It needs to rain loud, god damn it.
That's loud rain.
Whoa, thunder.
Ah.
I imagine that Cecilia is going ah.
3B1A sounds like a good report card.
I'm sorry, it just killed me.
That was my report card for a while.
Rain.
As the rain pitter patters outside of your room, Delmar,
you lay flat on your bed, hands crossed over your chest as you look up towards the ceiling.
The dull to brighter tones of gray that encompass your room is something that you've been staring at for a while now.
Today's a big day.
And sleep has evaded you for a while now.
But nothing can really keep down the nerves at the moment.
All you can do is think, think, and think.
Before you know it, you hear a knock on your door.
And you're surprised for a moment.
As you look over towards the clock, how did three hours just pass by so fast?
Did they already come and get you?
Now you know exactly who's standing out at your door right now.
And you shouldn't keep them waiting.
Come in.
The door opens and in walks a stout, dwarven man, muscles up the neck.
He has a rather jolly look about him.
This is not the person you were expecting.
Braided a nice long orange beard with three braids at the tip.
Something that rivals even your luscious hair.
And unlike the person you were expecting, he has a big smile on his face.
And he's happy to see you.
Uncle.
Good morning, champ.
Ready for the big day?
Never been more ready in my life.
That's Dalmar, alright.
He's getting every single light on in this room.
He opens the window and goes, good day for two.
Torben Goldenrock.
Your uncle.
Your uncle sounds fine.
Your father's brother sounds weird.
As he gets up and he starts like, he gives you the look up and down.
You know, your father was supposed to come get you, but you got me.
It looked like he was going to throw a fit about coming here.
He looked like he was a little bit upset about it.
So I decided, I said, hey, why don't I go get him?
I'll go ahead and get him all spiffyed up, ready for presentation and all.
I appreciate it. My father is a very busy man.
He should not be concerned with matters like this.
Matters like this?
I wouldn't put yourself in a light like that.
A manhood test first running the entire set?
I understand why he would be upset if he had to come.
Nephew.
Why did he get you all polished up?
Just because we got to do something about this right here. He starts thumbing the bags under your eyes.
I think if I do this.
He licks his finger and he starts wiping it off.
I think you look better already.
Come on, take a bath. You just saw already.
Today's going to be a good day.
If you even show them how half the brilliance you got, then you're going to be completely alright.
Thank you, Uncle.
Of course, champ.
We're all rooting for you.
You get ready.
The moment all starts...
As you're approaching the moment, it all starts coming to you.
This is it.
The first start on this large part of your family's tradition.
This big showing that you are going to be a proper Golden Rock.
Bolder than the last.
As you grab your pickaxe, a nice, refined, silver pickaxe from its little hanging on the wall.
And strap it on your back.
Your father...
Not your father.
You come out towards the front of your house and you see your uncle.
Upon seeing you all freshened up and all prim and proper, he becomes full.
He does not hide his emotions very well.
It's always very obvious when he's angry, when he's sad, when he's happy.
You see it.
Filling him up to the brim like he's underwater.
Happiness. Pride.
And he just goes, alright.
Puts an arm around you.
Okay, we're going to huddle.
He looks around like somebody's watching and this is going to be like...
There's just two of you.
Yeah, there's just two of you.
And he ducks.
Just goes, don't want any of the mice to get any funny ideas.
He says, alright.
Who are you sponsoring on this trip again? Who are you bringing along?
And you know this.
You've been blasting it inside of your mind for a long time.
The Evencrest family.
I am leading the Evencrest family down into our mind.
Yes, you are.
But they're not just an Evencrest family. No, there's a whole bunch of them. What are all of their names?
Galdras, Malcolm, Brom, Grammis, and Mayfell.
A dad, a mother, and their sons.
Oh no!
That doesn't sound good!
That sounds like trauma.
Before you can answer, the front door opens.
And you see Rhaella, the gnome.
The gnome, she's a servant of the house. She's got freckles in the front.
She's been a servant for about two years now.
She bursts through the front doors, it's obvious that she's been fussing.
Really with how the shoveled her hair is.
She's standing outside, and she just goes, Master Dalmar.
And you see your uncle just goes, you're not part of the huss, you're not part of the huddle.
Uncle.
Respect the huddle, nephew. This is a family tradition.
She says, Master Dalmar, we need you right away. Please come along.
I'll be right there.
No.
They're waiting.
Hashtag me.
And you see your uncle just kind of slap you on the both sides of your cheeks real quick.
He just goes, hey little man, you got this.
I got this on me, I got this on three.
Ready? One, two, three.
I got this.
Yeah!
I can't with these two.
And he goes, alright, she looks like she's going to kill me. Go ahead.
Go! Let's go. This way.
She starts walking really fast, like looking behind her. She is high strung at the moment.
These days are huge.
And typically, in the expectations, especially set during your father's reign over the set, expectations have never been higher.
The expectation of performance is near perfect. And he has done a great job of letting everyone know. Everyone know this.
You begin to make your way out of Set Golden Rock, of your home.
Traversing your way through the town of Intrepid, being led closely by Rayla.
You view among the common people looks of knowing.
In this town especially, it's mostly made up of common people. Border guards, protecting this side of the mountain.
With the heightened alerts coming from border disputes with the Lavalum dynasty, it's been a little bit tense these last few days.
More people are within their houses. Guards have increased.
No more of the familiar faces of the local guards, but military guards.
The Cobalt banner. Guards flying on wyverns overhead. But it's raining today, so it looks like they're out.
You're eventually let down a mountain path, where you see guards flanking each and every side, one or two of them standing on high spires with crossbows at the ready.
They give you the nod, wordlessly allowing you to pass, because they know how important this is for one of the most affluent houses within the entirety of the kingdom.
Jesus.
As you head on over to traversing sort of like the semi treacherous landscape of the mountains, ready to reach that one cave where you're to meet the Evencrest family.
You keep your eyes out for any potential dangers. Monsters have been known to roam this place.
But luckily you have your pickaxe in hand, and the right know-how of these mountains.
And eventually you spot in the distance as you go through some rather narrow pathways on the mountain that eventually takes you off into relying on your inner compass.
You see it, a small settlement of a small accompaniment of tents that have taken shelter from the rain.
You see a mother and a father both enjoying a nice cup of coffee, laughing to themselves, their pickaxes mining equipment all laid out across the camp.
You see two brother dwarves all wrestling one another, getting the blood flowing this morning.
And you see another one closest to you, looking at the shine of a pickaxe, mirroring the look that you had that morning as when you looked in the mirror.
Nervous, not knowing what the day ahead was going to hold.
Rela eventually looks at you. She lets out this huge sigh of relief. She just goes, alright, Master Dalmar, be on your way.
Thank you Rela. Best of luck to you.
And your father.
You see that she's she searches for something for a moment.
He sends his best wishes.
That's the most I could ask of him.
Oh, do I smell daddy issues?
No.
Touch.
A bit. Just a hint. A snack.
Welcome to Songwulven. We have a little hint of daddy issues everywhere.
And there's the new tagline for the show.
A touch of daddy issues.
I imagine it's presented like, you know, you know, with the Disney Channel wand.
I hate that. I love it.
My name is Jenny and my character has daddy issues.
What about mommy issues?
Mine just has issues.
My name is Tim Don Tran. I have issues and you're watching the Disney Channel.
This gets dragged by Disney.
Alright.
They wish.
You see Rela goes, I'm sorry. He's just, he's busy.
But I know he is.
I promise. I promise you everyone is rooting for you.
You had that little chat earlier with your uncle.
Did that do anything for you?
Did we not bring that up in front of the Evercrest family?
Uncle is a wild card at the best of times.
He is.
He worked really hard to get back into the family.
After, after everything.
But I am absolutely glad that he's back in.
He's back here and back in your life.
And he has given me no endless amounts of stress.
I should leave now.
I'm sure that they have work waiting for you back at the house.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
Master Dalma.
I will see you again when I return.
I will.
And you will return.
Just you.
And just kidding.
She said that.
What?
Shush, shush, shush.
She walked away.
Wait, did she plan the murder of the family?
No, no, no.
She was just trying to get away.
I was like, oh, I was like, yo, that would suck balls.
If it actually wasn't Delmar's part, it was her fault.
And she framed him.
Emma, I don't know how to tell you this.
I would just be in the.
He was because he knows what's about to happen.
And I do too.
Isn't there a meme?
Interesting theory.
Emma.
Wrong.
Something like that.
That's a sound theory.
Emma.
So to clarify for chat, he is not a noble.
He is the son of the leader of a very, very, very high ranking mining family.
They're just rich.
Very rich.
Got it.
So like no titles, more so just new money kind of deal.
No titles, more so his last name is a title.
Got it.
And it has expectations.
Very, very high expectations.
Right, even Golden Rock for a reason.
Good work.
Now, as you as you watch, as you watch Rayla make her way through the brushes, she just
goes fuck as she just snags onto a branch.
You hear this is a set to go.
Golden Rock.
You hear from the camp site looking over.
You see you see gouges looking at you and Ed Mayfail, the mother and father of the group.
They immediately like pour their coffee out.
It just goes, right, boys, get ready, get ready.
Come on.
You need not be so formal.
I'm not my father.
I.
You're right.
But you're still the Golden Rock.
And the Evercrest have helped our family for the longest time.
You do not need to be so formal.
Right.
Historically, that's been so.
But if you look over to the side and he just goes, Malcolm, come on.
And you look over to everyone's like getting their equipment, equipment ready.
But you see the young dwarf that was that's off to the side, the nervous looking one seemingly
hasn't stirred.
And he just goes, I'm sorry.
This boy's nervous.
It's understandable.
And he just goes, we join you, we'll join you in a second.
Golden Rock.
Just hope you don't mind.
I still have to shake off the shake off the formality thing.
Not at all.
I'll be at the entrance.
Of course.
Meet me when you're ready.
Of course.
It's an honor.
It's my pleasure.
And he makes his way over to his son.
As you make your way over towards the entrance of the cave, you look back to see the father,
you see Galdriss.
Wrap an arm around his son.
And you see something, you see something that you would consider to be a rare sight.
Maybe something that's rare than the rarest oars and all of the caves in the mountains.
You see a father in direct support of his son.
What the fuck?
That's awful.
That's not a hint of daddy issues.
That is full on daddy issues.
A gentle, a gentle, a gentle shit.
That got me.
That's it.
That sucks.
A gentle, a gentle urging.
You can read the lips.
No pressure.
And the boy who is nervous, understandably so.
This is going to be a dangerous dive after all.
Slowly his eyes lift up from the urging from his father.
And you see that deep breath.
The pat on the back from his father.
And much like your uncle, you can read the lips.
You see the father says, you can do this.
Cecilia Jean Claude Dalmar.
You trudge through the woods.
Cecilia, you are in a horrid state at the moment.
There is a burning within your body.
A pain that leases throughout every single flow of blood.
Inside of you.
A hot burning.
You feel like you know what it is.
Having researched medicine.
You are poisoned.
But you don't feel the clot of blood.
There is no blood coming out of your nose.
You are poisoned with not a terrible venom but still a terrible state.
As you all trudge through the woods back towards camp.
Everyone hurts in multiple different ways.
You make your way back with Lee and the party they were in before.
And you notice that their numbers have died down a little bit.
By two.
Lee himself nursing and wielding many injuries on his body.
Eventually, you see as the rain comes down, Lee, one of the people in the group remarks, says,
Is it rain? Is that normal? It hasn't rained the entire time.
And the other one goes, don't think about it right now. We just need to get to safety.
Is the rain red?
The rain is just water.
Okay. Is it raining blood or something?
That would be really funny if it was. You know what? You're right. It's raining blood now.
No, it's not!
It's water. It's water.
Sean Claude would have a temper tantrum.
This is the last thing I need.
This is the last thing I fucking need!
Eventually, you all get back to camp.
Seeing the luminescence of the fire and such in the distance.
As you get closer, you see that there are folks up and about drinking armor, getting everything at the ready.
As you get closer, their expressions turn to immediate concern, shock.
They take notice of the numbers and they see it.
Immediately, you hear, what happened?
What happened in there? What happened to Rok'thar?
Just all these questions aimed towards Lee.
Lee just puts his hand up and goes, he turns around to the three of you and goes,
He says, all of you, go get some rest.
You're able to handle this, Lee?
He goes, yes. We should talk later.
You see one of the people you're traveling with?
He just goes, fuck this! Fuck all of this!
We all need to just pack up and go!
And the others who are most definitely injured are walking over towards the tent.
Cecilia, you do take notice that as all this is starting to devolve into chaos,
as Lee starts trying to be diplomatic, you see that amongst the injured in the tent,
you see Dan Laron, who has been standing there the whole time by the bed, by the young woman.
You see Kari sitting up now, looking directly at you.
You see Dan just talking to her, but Kari's just been looking at you the entire time, seemingly just looking.
As you lock eyes with her for a moment, catching her staring, she just goes, that look of recognition.
And her eyes just glaze away from you at that moment.
She looks away awkwardly too.
There's so much going on around, but I think after a moment of being that awkwardness,
and then she'll just be like, everyone freaking out and stuff, she'll go over to Kari.
You go over to Kari?
Yeah, and Dan.
Okay, before we get into that, Jean-Claude, Dalmar, is there anything the two of you are doing?
I think Dalmar's just going straight back to his tent.
He's hurt, he's tired, he's on the verge of a mental breakdown,
and he does not want to be around the others when it happens.
I think as Dalmar walks away, he goes to extend a hand to think, oh, I can help him,
and then realizes, maybe later.
So he'll just call out before Dalmar gets into his tent.
Thank you.
He nods and looks inside.
I think he'll just keep an eye on Cecilia because he knows that she's sick.
He can't heal her because he has no more lay on hands left,
but maybe he'll go searching through his bags or something.
So, Jean-Claude, as you keep watch, watching Cecilia makes her way over to the tent.
Dan, you see Dan Laurent just kind of like, a little smirk is on his face as you walk over to Cecilia.
He just kind of side-mouts to Kari.
I think she caught you looking.
Kari just suddenly turns towards you.
It's a fast turn to, her eyes are sharp.
I just noticed you were awake, Rosal.
Be careful.
You're carrying something around.
It's rather intense.
I can go then.
I just wanted to see how you were feeling.
Since you came in, I didn't know how well what I did worked.
Wait, Cecilia, right?
You're the one who helped me.
She just nods a little bit.
She offers her hand to Dan for a second.
Dan reaches into his coat, pulls out this small, it looks like a raw chunk of some kind of clear stone.
It has a brass ring that encircles it.
He hands it to her.
She places her fingers delicately upon it.
You see that for a quick charge second, it's like a split second.
Suddenly this huge charge is taken by the stone.
As fast as it came up, it was gone.
She brings her hand back.
She offers the hand towards you in a handshake motion.
I want to give you my proper thanks.
She takes it.
She shakes her hand, I mean.
As you take her hand, you see that there's a slight wince, but she firmly grips your hand anyways.
You don't have to, I can...
It's fine.
I've been dealing with this ever since I was born.
I owe you a great deal.
Not at all.
I'm glad it helped.
It's now that you see that her look is quite...
The whole time you've seen her before, her eyes were closed, she was unconscious.
She has an intense red look in her eyes.
Now that she's up and about, she has a really sharp look on her.
She looks like someone that you would want to impress.
The way her stature is and everything.
She just goes...
While you're here, can you explain everything that's been happening?
Um, yeah.
I'm kind of...
I just arrived yesterday, but...
From what I've gathered at Rexon, all the automatons seemingly have gone rogue, so to speak.
Several of them have turned on each other and people.
Some of them seem to not be.
But the situation is very dangerous and the moon turned red when all of this happened.
She nods.
And Dan just goes, it was exactly like I just said.
And she just goes quiet.
She goes quiet to Dan.
She says, she kind of goes, but she does, she's really curious so she looks at him.
Apparently my explanations are never enough.
I want to get to multiple viewpoints on the same situation, Dan, Loren.
She nods.
Guys, it's already back.
Where's that intense magic source coming from?
Um, I...
It...
Um...
Maybe I should...
I should go.
Um...
Is this going to be a constant?
What should...
God, she reps the temple.
She just goes, what's...
Where is that coming from?
Does she see Jean-Claude?
Yeah, can I hear any of this?
Yeah.
I think he was trying to give them space for most of it and then he sees Cecilia start to fidget and get uncomfortable.
And then he'll immediately come striding over and he goes,
Alright, young lady, time to rest for you.
You're sick.
Yes.
Jean-Claude is right.
You just had a spell of being befallen by some mysterious sickness.
Did I ever introduce myself to this man?
I think we did when I healed them.
Did you?
If not, then they didn't even hear your name.
Jean-Claude forgot for a moment and he goes,
I... yes.
Yes.
Indeed, comrade, indeed.
So, I fear we must be retiring for the evening, but glad to see you awake and well, he indicates to the woman.
Um...
Has this been going on even before I returned?
Since you've awoken here?
None of this.
What do you mean exactly?
My sudden fainting spell or...?
I mean, you said it's a reaction to something...
Powerful?
Is she like Delmar? Is she like a wild mage sorcerer or something?
Exactly.
Did I get it?
That's a sound theory, Emma.
Damn it!
You better never leave this room!
Fuck!
Just, cause I, um... if it is me, I mean, well, probably my bag, um... and the magic, there's magic stuff in the bag, is all.
But also, I think that...
And your bag.
Oh, I think Jean-Claude starts to catch on.
Yes. Atheus, one of our most potent forms of magic resides in that bag.
Atheus?
Yes.
In the bag?
In the bag.
And Dan LeRan just goes, the lady here will express her proper thanks whenever she is at a full capacity to.
And she just goes, do not speak for me, Dan.
Oh, Jesus!
Just very sharp.
And he just immediately quiets.
He goes, my apologies, I didn't mean to be so... toward.
But I have an endless thanks to offer to you, Cecilia.
And she looks towards the town, and she just goes, my destination was Frexan.
And seeing the state that it's in, it seems like it's not in a state that is willing to take tourists at the moment.
Do you know how we stop it? Anyone?
I've asked around.
And apparently it was you who had the idea.
I do have an idea.
I think I know how to stop it.
It's just getting to it is another problem in itself.
I think this is being caused by a shard of the moon.
And we know it's deep within the city.
Back where most of the watchmen who guard the city are, in the arcane ambit.
And I take it you don't have a way to get towards the ambit yet.
We couldn't even get to the city.
We killed one watchman.
Apparently nobody had done that before.
But we were no match for.
I can lend my aid.
Dan Loren, because of course I will accompany you.
Good.
I have to mention Dora if that helps in any way.
Does she know what that spell is by chance?
It's up to you. You could say that you've possibly looked it up. Maybe Damira would have talked about it.
That's what I was thinking.
That could actually be really helpful.
But it's still very dangerous in there. And if you do have an aversion to magic and the like.
Moon shards.
They're like the embodiment of wild magic.
Yes.
All I must do is discharge myself from time to time using a chunk of Residuum.
I will be fine.
As long as it brings all of this to an end, I am willing to suffer some amount of discomfort.
I am capable of holding myself to a high degree and
Dan Loren here is a very capable fighter.
That would be a great help.
It really would.
However, I do think some rest is needed.
Seeing the both of you are in quite a terrible state.
You, looking at Cecilia, your blood is screaming right now.
At the very moment. So I think rest is definitely in line for you.
And so is for my lady.
Sorry, that's just what my friend in the ethereal plane is saying.
What?
You see Kari just like rubs her temple.
And you see Dan's taking enjoyment of this. He has a little smirk on his face.
Do you think I have storm warning? So he'll be right back.
Oh. Oh no! Fun.
Kari goes,
Well, feel free to expound on it.
Just don't take enjoyment in the confuse in the confusion you laid down, Dan.
He just goes, right.
I have a friend who fights with me. Her name is Adeline and she is within the ethereal plane.
And I interact with her in many unique different ways.
And she told me that your blood is screaming. And he smiles.
He has a little smirk on his face. You see his five o'clock shadow. Like he's having fun.
The ethereal plane.
What?
He talks to voices.
Oh.
She is.
The ethereal plane's just basically layered over ours, right?
Yes. Very basically.
And that's where all the fun things, such as ghosts, are located.
Adeline is a very special ghost that's tethered to me.
Adeline? That's weird.
Yeah, I'll spell it out in the stream chat.
It's like a horror movie in the making.
Cross my old own out and re-spell it.
The ghost Adeline.
And Danelon just goes, she doesn't like that I'm talking about her right now, but she's a part of this introduction.
So she can see us. Should I say hi? Can she? Hi?
She says hi.
You're talking to the voice.
I don't hear her voice.
In his head.
His eyes turn for a second.
And then he goes, do you want to introduce yourself?
What the fuck?
And you see a spectral hand appears.
Shrunk lip screams.
Gives a wave. And as drunk lip screams, you see the flinch.
And it disappears.
Now that we've had our theatrics, I will endeavor to see the end of this night.
Whatever this is. I will put my talons towards that end.
Our main concern now, I think in the city, as far as defenses goes, are an automaton we encountered.
The Watchmen themselves are very strong.
But we encountered something called the Venator.
And it seems to be able to hunt people when they go down and go into the city.
And it hunts the other robots as well.
It's it was really strange. It was like trying to it knew things.
About us and was trying to take them on and understand them in some way, it seemed like.
The Red Moon, I believe.
Once it is.
I don't know what to say it, but I think most of our problems will end when this ends.
We and then he kind of looks at Cecilia and then back.
We have heard of.
Red Moon causing chaos before.
I'm aware of this as well.
This is something familiar that I have seen in books before.
But to witness the phenomenon for the first time.
Where I'm from, this is a.
Not a common occurrence, but it has been a historical one.
Where are you from?
The Lavalum dynasty.
Isn't aphiests from there?
Yes.
I.
I'm from Corda Pax specifically.
She goes.
And you know, Corda Pax is the capital city of the Laval dynasty.
Are we going to have to go there?
Probably.
Adventure time.
I think I technically think there's a way we can go to a different place instead of
Lavalum, but the Lavalum dynasty is more direct.
It is split.
You either go to the Lavalum dynasty or you go through our home, which is where John Cloud's
old home is.
To Lavalum it is.
What was the name of the city again to me?
Corda Pax.
I'll type it in the.
I'll type it in the real 20 check.
Corda Pax.
Unplugged.
What did you just unplugged?
Corda Pax unplugged.
Wait, wait, I'm sorry.
It's got to be.
There's got to be a convention there now.
That's where the tabletop gave me.
What the fuck is up with all these nerds?
Cecilia today.
This big city in the desert.
They have nothing else to do.
I can't stand them.
Stop splitting to me about dice rolling.
Oh gosh, John Claude just hates TTRP.
Geez.
He will be all Macbeard's nightmares.
You get along great.
He already smells like mushrooms.
No.
Yes, I did shower.
Thank you for asking.
It's just that the scent blingers in the first.
It's the most.
All right.
She goes, I'm from Corda Pax in the Lavalum dynasty.
This event is called the blood redder moon.
Because other than that, not much is known about it.
Other than the fact that it's happened thousands of years ago.
That's all I know for certain, but I've only heard about it.
Now, see, tell me the next time you venture into town.
I will mean that Lauren will accompany you.
Oh, even thinking of going back into the town, I think John Claude's a little.
We.
Yeah, that is something to.
Yep.
We need a better plan.
Yeah.
Should take our time.
You simply bring us the vicinity.
Of the.
You should not.
You shouldn't go alone.
We will go with you.
I think the second.
I think the second we enter back in that.
The time of town is going to continue hunting us.
Dan goes, as long as I'm with you.
Make sure no extraneous harm comes your way.
John Claude, who was just endured.
Right. The horrors of inside the walls.
Just goes.
Trust me.
My words is my words.
Rather good.
I am a knight after all.
In John Claude.
He stands up a little straighter.
He doesn't have armor on.
He's just a guy like in a suit, basically.
In like formal clothing.
Yes, yes.
Us men.
In these positions of responsibility.
I could see that in you, Dan.
I could see that greatness bubbling in within you.
And you know, perhaps.
You'll be able to tap into that potential.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Thanks, John.
And if it's worth anything, Adeline says that.
You're very tense right now and that your bone is about to pop.
Pop.
There you go.
Ah, the jokes.
Adeline.
We should go rest probably.
Thank you.
We will gladly take the help.
Dan Laron gives a hand over his chest and gives you like a gentle nod.
Like he's very formal, respectful.
Kari, however, just like gives you like a very sharp, like everything about her has been sharp so far.
She gives you a nod.
She just goes, rest well.
And thank you once more.
And because I haven't I don't think I have the descriptor yet and the chat told me to because I don't because they're we're interested in things now.
I would also like a spa day slash beach episode.
Yes, we go back into the I want all the PCs.
I want all of them.
Oh, you know, you know how people have like spa rocks they put in your back.
The moon shards can act like that.
Just drag a fucking moon shard down your back.
That sounded like some Caleb from Critical Role shit right there.
Oh, you would.
Like he put rose petals and moon shards in his fucking skin.
She she is she's a rather she's a young woman like you can maybe assume like around Cecilia's age actually.
She is she's a fair skin, lilac hair with a little streak of a little streak of black on the front.
She wears she wears she wears like she also wears formal formal clothing.
Nothing like uncommon from what you see from like students who go to like really high like magical academies like she you go to you know it's from her formality her mannerisms.
That she's used to like high like like for like formal society.
And from and from what Dan Loren has said about her how about her traveling here and wishing to see the school like there's some things to be to be assumed.
But he is a knight that is in her service.
So there's something there.
But yeah she was light like beige clothing and she has like a little forgot what the cash she has a cashmere sort of like checkered not checkered but like a red scarf around her cute fit.
She's like I'm in the wrong game I should be wrong I should be farming.
Dark academia farming same.
She was supposed to be for tangled blessings.
I do not like it. I don't like this thing was doesn't have robots in it. I want to go back to the weird ass academy.
And that's a coach I guess.
God coach coach coach.
And the two of you leave their presence for a moment.
Kari looks at you specific Cecilia as you as you walk away.
Her eyes are just natural have naturally been intense and looks like she looks a bit longer than she's supposed to.
Before leaving she lived a bit longer than she's supposed to look look.
She looks like she has a habit of looking a bit long looking at people a bit longer.
All right.
Real quick.
Let me roll something.
Oh, do you guys know whatever happened with my number thing I had.
That's that's really nice to ask.
Because I haven't written down.
Are you fucking kidding me. Is that exactly what you're doing.
When was the last time I wrote it down.
Okay. Oh, 17 it was at 17 was now to 36.
What does that mean.
It's a 36 now.
And nothing for John Clancy and that's over the player to know.
So you guys walk you guys walk away.
How did I go from 17 to 36.
Probably like some kind of trauma.
Is it a D 100.
I don't know. Okay.
I'm putting it on my sheet 36 whatever that means.
That's what that face Tim.
Jimmy's also doing it.
Can the two of you just stop stress level 17 to 36.
I wish it was that. I wish it was that.
Probably not.
All right.
The two of you walk away here in the commotion in the distance.
And then you see the two of you walking away.
You just goes, you keep marching us back in there.
For what.
Saving who.
There's no one else in there.
And Lee and Lee just goes.
There's children.
The people.
The people still within the confines of that city.
You can go ahead and leave,
but I'm going to keep making my way in there.
Okay.
That's the last one.
It reminds me though.
Did the dwarven woman and her baby get out?
You haven't seen that.
You have to ask.
That's ground.
Why you haven't seen.
Always worse for me.
She hasn't said she doesn't know.
Okay.
I feel like even though it's not my place,
I should approach the conversation.
Who is he talking to again?
He's talking to a door of a man who's very, very upset.
It's not a door of a man.
It's a rather like a rather wiry, like older human.
Human man.
Who also, who also is like wearing a wearing cuts and such right now.
And they're in it.
They're really, they're in an argument, like surrounded by a circle of people.
And, and he's taught his name is what's the leaders Ben.
Lee.
I think.
Jean Claude will gently.
Well, he's going to have to gently push through the crowd.
And just say,
We will be going back in.
Don't.
The two of them look at you.
You don't have to worry about sending in anyone here and he gestures to the group.
And you see Lee, Lee seems like assured by you for a second.
And, and, and before that you see the wire, the older man just goes, and who, who are you?
I'm a god.
This.
Listen, I'm going to go ahead and do you a favor.
This.
Don't put yourself back in there again.
This.
All this man is going to do pointing at Lee is that he's going to take and take from you.
And, and we just goes, Bennett's I didn't.
This.
You can just, you can leave. I'm not stopping you. I'm not stopping you from, I'm not stopping you from leaving. I'm not forcing anyone to stay here.
And, and, and Bennett.
You see Bennett just go just goes.
This two more people died in there.
Because of you.
This because of this strange like saver complex that you have.
Because fuck this fuck you.
This. Everyone here needs to leave.
This is hopeless.
We know how to stop it.
We killed a watchman.
And there are still people in there.
We saw some.
They were dying for.
We don't even know these people.
You don't have to.
You have done so much, my friend.
There is nothing wrong with resting.
Let's others take up the fight.
Make a persuasion check.
I feel like I'm going to roll low.
Knowing your luck.
25.
Yeah, a sigh.
Leaves him as you are talking him down.
His, his disjointed anger is.
Tantrum you see that your words to get to him his shoulders kind of like lower.
This goes.
Bennett.
I owe you a kingdom.
Thank you for everything you've done.
Because you have helped me save so many people.
I owe my life to you.
Plus, if you want to leave, so be it.
Because you have put in an incredible amount of fight that no one else has.
Bennett looks back towards you, Sean Claude.
Because you.
Groven guard, right.
Correct.
What's someone like you doing all the way out here.
I'm helping a friend.
And he looks to Cecilia.
You know, we are helping you.
I'm a good.
Give us another one last look at Lee.
The back towards you.
It just goes.
All right.
I'm going to go rest.
It just walks away.
Another person.
Another person's symptoms.
It just goes.
I also, I also can't go back in there.
I can't do it, Lee.
I can't.
Thank you for your service.
And he genuinely means it.
Walks and walks away.
When you, when you say that there's like.
He's so tired. He's so drained.
But you.
So maybe anything, any acknowledgement would be big at the moment.
He does, he does like give you a nod.
That's it. That's all.
That's all.
That's all these interactions have been in this camp.
People being so tired that the only thing they can do is nod.
But with that, with that genuine thank you.
He takes it.
And he walks away.
And he looks at you.
People wordlessly began to stand.
As Lee just kind of.
Unbuckles his armor.
And he looks at you, John cloud and he goes.
You didn't have to do that, but thank you.
Genuinely.
Of course I did.
People are tired.
Now is the more the time than ever.
To help each other up.
No.
And he looks at Cecilia and goes and send others to bed who are sick.
It was going.
You're totally sad.
She was going to wait for him, but.
He's dad glaring.
You need rest too.
I will be right there.
She'll go then.
You make your way away towards your tent.
And you see.
Lee just kind of chuckles at that.
Goodness.
I wish I had you.
Weeks before this.
It's nice to have someone who was a captain.
Well, you could have fooled me.
Thank you.
I just want to let you know.
We are going to do everything in our power to stop this.
But if push comes to shove.
And he gestures to the time where Cecilia is.
She is my responsibility.
And I have to put her first.
I hope you can understand.
Of course.
That is no problem.
I realize I'm asking.
It's a rather large ask.
And.
I understand you might be persuaded by some sense of duty.
And whatnot.
But.
This is.
Very.
This is a very tumultuous time and an extremely unusual circumstance.
As I said before, going in there.
With her.
There's this.
I'm not sure.
If we can be stopped.
We won't know unless we try.
And.
And he puts an arm on.
It's a hand on his shoulder.
Shakes him a little and goes.
Can you imagine the songs that will be sung about you by the power.
I'm not sure if you're going to be upset now, but just you wait.
They'll be singing your rocks for years to come.
I have a rather.
Easy name for songs.
Indeed you do.
There's something poetic about.
There's something lyrical about Jean Claude.
I think as well.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, please do not put that in.
There is no one that we can more lard than the great.
No, see, no, see, Lee is a lot easier.
No, I hate that.
No, no, hear me out.
Who will be the one to set us free?
Why none other than a revolutionary Lee.
I told you.
No, do not question my artistic mind.
Were you a bird once?
Physically, he was leading into that.
Sorry.
No, please.
Music and stories.
Me.
No, no, I have a I have a real job.
It's really real.
I believe you, but why do you say it like you're lying?
Good night.
Wait, one second.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I was going to save one bottle for my friend Del Mar and the other one for myself.
But I figured you can share the spoils as well.
Reaches into the bag is and he pulls out this bottle of this amber clear liquid.
You can tell what that is.
That's whiskey.
Oh, fuck.
Yeah.
He was going to say, let Del Mar have it.
But when he sees it, whiskey goes, fuck that kid.
Mine, too.
It tastes like I even brought my whiskey to the stream.
I drink that.
Just goes, yeah.
Call it a hunch, but you look like you can really pound out a drink.
I know.
I just have that Debonair constitution about me.
Taps his beer gut gently as he takes the bottle.
Wouldn't use the word Debonair, but
suave.
Very good.
Good.
Sexy.
My keys.
What?
What the fuck are these words as he's just sipping from the bottle?
You sip it.
Oh, this is good.
Fuck yeah.
It is smooth.
The vanilla is strong.
And he just goes, have a good rest.
We're going to have a long one before we venture back in.
I'm going to have to make up some draft up some plans again.
Let us be there.
If you don't mind.
We have a bit of an intimate details for some sections of the city.
Of course.
And we most certainly need to have more of a strategy this time.
And you didn't make it to the theater, correct?
No.
I'm sorry.
No.
That's good.
If the children are there, then that means that they're still there.
The bad news would be if you actually went there and they're not.
I trust Kefau.
All right.
Rest well.
Good night, Lee.
I'm going to take a point of inspiration for inspiring a fellow guard.
Oh, let's fucking go.
Parks and rec, baby.
Let's go.
Helps to be a park ranger.
Am I right guys?
Apparently a park ranger, more like part of a neighborhood watch.
Yeah.
Schrodinger's children.
Thank you, Dragmire.
Oh no.
As long as we can shut the moon down, we can go to any theater.
But moon gotta be shut down first.
Theater episode.
The theater.
No, not a theater episode.
Which goes so well for Timmy, historically speaking.
Some of Timmy's best sessions have been in theaters.
Like historically.
It's been some pretty good theater sessions.
I can't wait.
He doesn't under roll well.
He's going to kill you all.
He's going to kill me specifically for continually saying it.
I will ascend through my roof and then fly into your place.
And then I will explode.
I'd like to see you try, buddy.
Yeah.
I'd also like to see that.
I'd also like to see me try.
I would also like to gain the power of flight and also self-combustion to commit to this bit.
That'd be dope.
Not the self-combustion because we love you, Tim.
But I'll survive.
I'm like Gale but built different.
I eat shoes but for fun.
I don't have necessity.
Oh Jesus.
No.
Jesus has nothing to do with this.
Okay.
Anyways.
Jeebus ain't here now.
You make your way.
Oh, wait, because anyone have anything to do?
Yeah, I do.
Go ahead.
I had an idea when someone she gets back to the tent.
She had this idea when talking to Kari, but she said that historically they they knew about the blood moon.
I don't think I've asked about the blood moon in this with the saddle bag with the legend lore spell.
I've asked about the moon, but I haven't done the blood moon.
So I'm going to cast legend lore.
And the subject is the blood moon.
I love the legend lores that we get.
I know I haven't done it for a bit.
They're really good.
As you hold the saddle bag and the eyes begin to glow.
Suddenly the saddle bag leaps from your hand and floats in the air.
The bag opens the bag opens itself up.
And you hear a voice goes.
Now what plane of existence are we in at the moment?
This is a little new.
Oh, hi Thaddeus.
Hello.
Oh, goodness.
That's that's just very good to hear.
My name being said in a gentle greeting.
Oh, are people very angry at you?
No.
Well, one person.
Yes.
Is it me?
No.
Okay.
You would know if it was you.
I was like, I don't think Chuck Cotsman made this.
I well, you're welcome to talk to me anytime.
We're still on the material plane.
I think.
That's not true.
Of course, I don't want to be.
Oh, shit.
I don't wish to contradict you.
If you do believe that you're in the material plane, maybe my.
Where the fuck are we?
Wait.
We were just.
I thought we were.
I don't know how we would get somewhere else if we.
Just my word.
My apologies if I've offended you in any way.
I don't know.
Where are we?
I.
Do you know what plane it is?
Where are we?
I apologize.
I don't.
I'm not.
I am not certain.
Which is very rare of me.
Fucking.
I swear to Christ.
The saddlebag as well is not very.
Surprisingly not knowing where you are at the moment as well, but you asked about the blood red moon.
I will allow that to process in a moment, but I do have to just touch bases with you real quick, Cecilia.
You are.
Your journey has taken you to.
Strange places.
Normally, my checklist, I.
In my checklist of things to do, I am accounting for a young person's journey in the casual sense, but going by a historical.
Going by historical patterns.
You traveling to another plane of existence.
Very different.
Are you sure you within your league?
I.
We just came to the city and then the sky turned red.
And apparently it's been like that for a bit here.
Did the whole city get moved to another plane and anyone who just walks near.
Goes to another plane.
Is that even possible?
Hmm.
Just tears that says tears within a test within the fabric of the planes.
Anomalies.
Does it's not unheard of.
There is another does there's another specific area within the world where something like this is actually is actually rather commonplace.
Really?
Yes.
That's why it happened here.
That is an that is that is another question to ponder over most deeply.
Hmm.
Well, I'm going to ponder on that question and hopefully you will you will endeavor to find your way and prevent the situation.
And of course I have magical items at it says in tow in great stock for you if you ever wish to buy any.
And now I will allow the legend lore to do its thing.
By the way, it was great talking to you.
You have been absent.
You have been the most pleasant conversation partner in thousands and thousands of years.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Then maybe we should talk more sometime.
Truly.
That was a kind of brief conversation.
Oh, Tim, where are we?
I thought it was forever.
So I don't mean to take up much more of your time.
Oh, not not at all.
Sorry.
No, you don't have to.
I'm happy to talk.
Oh, my apologies.
Okay.
You don't have to apologize.
Please, sorry.
The legend or please back saddlebag.
This saddlebag shuts and the eyes.
The eyes continue to light up.
And as you look into the eyes, they will tell you.
Let me look at this again.
Legend lore.
Brief summary of the significant lore about the thing you named.
The lore might consist of current tales, forgotten stories, or even secret lore that has never been widely known.
Shit.
If the thing you named isn't of legendary importance, you get no information.
The more information you already have about the thing, the more precise and detailed the information you receive is.
But it might be couched in figurative language.
For example, if you have a mysterious magic axe on hand.
Right.
I'm going to read this so I can think about what to do.
Everyone's everyone's saying, where are we in chat?
Where are we?
Where did you send my city to him?
You can't just drop or not on the material plane.
Can't be like, oh, y'all aren't on the material plane anyway, that question you asked.
Fuck.
Let's see.
It's not the ethereal plane.
Because we know the lady, the guy's got his friend in the ethereal plane.
Is it the Feywild?
Is that why my counter keeps going up?
The Shadowfell.
Oh, I didn't even think of all those ones.
Hells.
If they exist.
I'm thinking of the ones that are like parallel to ours, though, you know?
Which would be what?
Like the Shadowfell, the Feywild.
Right.
Ethereal plane, but we know it's not the ethereal plane.
Maybe it's Shadowfell instead of Feywild.
Cecilia.
Your mind begins to flash with memory.
Where before you had like a summary that was like an informative summary given to you.
This one.
It might be because of the nature of this.
Give me a wisdom saving throw.
What?
Wisdom save.
Do I have disadvantage on saving throws for reading a book?
Give me one second.
I think it's just ability checks, but I'm going to check.
It's disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.
So, yeah.
Okay.
Not saving throws.
Normal saving throw.
I rolled a 10.
I rolled a nat 2.
Oh, God.
I have plus 8 to my wisdom save.
That's bad.
That's not good.
Oh, no.
It gets a little more tense when all the music's getting cleared.
I dropped my phone on the ground when I picked up my notes.
It's all falling apart.
I can't reach it because I'm really high.
Why are you doing this?
Come on, Tim.
This is a freaking story.
You're playing a game.
He's like, you sign up for this.
What the fuck?
The story goes on in the video game.
And he's like, another cut scene, more exposition.
I'm partaking it.
To be fair, I do do that sometimes.
Yeah, Tim, I skipped half the cut scenes and the act is a zero.
That's okay.
Yeah, they're long.
They are.
And I'm joking.
No, you will get that information later.
Don't worry.
They take five minutes to say the thing.
The thing that takes five seconds.
I barely played that game and the majority of the hours I have are cut scenes.
All right.
Cecilia, your mind flashes for a moment.
And you don't gain an understanding.
You don't gain an immediate understanding of some aspect of the thing you asked for.
Instead, you look...
Instead, the scene just flashes in front of you.
You stand under a blood red moon.
Looking around you, you're surrounded by desert.
As you're surrounded by desert, the legend lord lets you know where this is.
This is the Lavalum dynasty.
What?
As you see the blood red moon shines bright in the sky, it looks exactly the same as it was.
It looks exactly the same as it was now.
You see gargoyles flying about.
You hear screeches in the distance, gargoyles, much like the ones that you fought before.
Like they were aiming towards you specifically.
You see a distant town, sand...
Erected in the desert, sand bricks and such with a small oasis near it.
Fighting.
You see explosions in the distance, some sort of fighting, projectiles being thrown.
And you see a figure in the sky.
A skeletal...
A skeletal figure of a sort of like a slim make.
You can...
The legend lord tells you that it's female.
It tells you that it's a lich.
Is it Aethas's wife?
You see it looking up towards the moon.
And it holds its hand up towards it.
And as it does, she takes her hand full of lightning, full of electricity, and she drags a line across the ground, destroying gargoyles.
She's fighting the monsters.
The legend... the legend lore unscrambles in your mind.
It's moving fast as you look towards this skeletal figure.
It's trying to decode who it is.
And before it shifts, you get a strange resolve answer from that.
Aethas?
Aethas himself.
Wait, Aethas is a woman?
We shift.
A forest around you...
Can you fuck up his pronouns, their pronouns?
A familiar... another... even though these are unfamiliar places, there is some sense of familiarity here, like you're being anchored to these sightings in some way because you're familiar with some aspect of them.
You see, looking up towards this guy, you see people floating up towards the blood red moon.
People from your village.
A figure... this presence, this alien-like presence.
Tendrils... tendrils waving in the air.
It looks much like the... it looks much like... no, exactly like the thing that was within that little realm where you saw Sylvie was hiding from.
The hag was offering... making offerings to it.
That's when you see someone runs through you, behind you.
Sword... sword in hand, clutching an injured arm.
Intrepid, rushing right into it. It's Delmyra.
She rushes... she rushes... she rushes forward.
Sword in hand.
Just like right towards the scene, going right towards this strange figure that's floating within the frame of the blood red moon.
And you remember what Kari said about there being sightings in... about there being sightings in... about there being sightings in the Laval dynasty.
In other places. You remember what Thaddeus says that there were tears within the fabric of the... of the planes.
The legend lore finally in this moment of clarity goes...
just... simply just... simply just tells you the blood red moon is older than the moon itself.
Because it has been slowly awakening the past few years. Because...
Saloon is waning in her efforts to prevent this.
And that's it. You are shunted back.
She just kind of sits there...
stunned for a bit.
She peeks outside the tent to see if Jean Claude's still all... tied up... with things.
Wouldn't I have been coming back by now?
Um... yes. But you guys aren't saying in the same tent, right?
Are we? Or are we not?
Yeah, you have two separate tents.
Okay. Then she'll see him walking to his tent, which I assume is close to her.
Yeah.
She just shuts it again for now.
But like, it's just like kind of like... it's a lot.
She will tell him, but I think she's not going... she's thinking I'm not going to go approach him about it yet.
This is the stressful music.
They're... laying there, sitting there thinking for a moment.
Your eyes feel uncomfortable for a moment. You have to rub them.
It's like sand in your eyes. There's a bit of a fuzz in your brain.
You've looked at that moon for a bit now.
Oh.
But you're okay.
You think.
Ah!
She reaches into the bag thinking to pull out the moon shards and then thinks, and goes, no, she's not going to do it.
Yay!
Do you open the bag?
No!
Yeah, she put her hand in the bag.
You put your hand in the bag? Okay.
No!
You feel a warmth. Tempting.
You hear, let us out, let us out.
No!
She shuts it because of last time.
It just... the last time she held them, it was...
It was bad.
But she'll take her holy symbol and she uses her last third level spell.
Unless I get it back, I don't. I rolled a 32.
She casts Sending on Delmyra and says,
Please don't question why I only have one message today.
Can you please tell me everything you know about the red moon?
I love you.
Hello, Pedigree.
I don't know much about it.
It's what was happening when they took Dad.
There was this big aberration.
It almost took everyone.
It was surreal.
That's 25 words.
Okay.
That's all she can cast without Cat using the moonshards?
No.
Listen, I'm proud of her for not going to use them as her first instinct.
That's progress.
Purely because of last night, what happened last night for her.
Because they fucking talked to her.
But she'll just...
I think she'll just sit there and think about it.
For a while.
Okay.
Jean Claude, Dalmar, are we doing anything?
Okay.
Dalmar, you hear a slight pat against your tent flap.
Knock, knock.
Your flap's not wood, so you can't really knock against it.
Oh, you have your little pole here.
Knock, knock.
What?
That's not the best time.
Is it okay if I talk to you?
I understand you went through a lot, so you don't have to.
It's alright.
A little finger hooks around the tent flap and you see Luanne pop her head in.
She walks in.
You see her eyes.
They're always grasping for information.
But she's entirely focused on your face at the moment.
She comes in and sits behind you.
She's gentle, she's moving very slowly.
Acknowledging the heaviness of the situation.
Somebody ran by earlier.
This is Dwarf Woman with a baby.
One of the people who already wanted to leave just took her on a horse and went away from his place.
That's good that they made it out.
You knew about it then?
I lied to her and told her it was safe for her to try and leave.
Well, she believed in it and...
She didn't believe me.
She believed in...
something I'm no longer allowed to use.
I don't know about you, Dalmar, but...
she's alive now.
Believing in you.
That baby's gonna grow up to have...
just like a future.
Which is a pretty important thing to have.
There are people who won't because of what I've done in the past.
No.
There are.
You can't do that to yourself.
There are.
I don't know much about your past, Dalmar.
But I know about what you're doing now.
There are so many people, tiny, big, small,
that are still walking around breathing and enjoying the world because of you.
Because they believe in who you are at this moment that you exist.
I mean, I believe in you this entire time and I haven't been burned by it yet.
I'm sorry if I'm not making things better, but...
you just haven't gotten to hear thank you from anyone.
And I know the weeks have been really tough on you.
Tougher on more on you than anyone else here.
I've just been at camp, just sipping at bean juice and making potions.
So...
Thank you.
That's what I'm trying to say.
I...
I appreciate that.
And he rakes.
What does that mean?
Full crying, full slurping, rake.
No! Buddy!
Buddy...
You, as the tears begin to flow,
as everything shatters,
you, as your hands meet your face, as this undeniable wave of just grief falls over you,
you are completely focused.
You're completely focused on yourself.
Completely taken by what coulds and what have beens.
Your mind is so enraptured by what broke the dam in the first place that,
in this miserable moment, you have just become a pile.
It felt like an hour, but it could've been five minutes.
But you feel a gentle hand placed on your shoulder.
It's very apprehensive at first. It feels.
The first touch is like, is it alright if I can touch?
And if you don't jerk away, it will completely place itself onto your shoulder.
And then, eventually it turns into a hug.
And if you want, that will be your night.
Anything from you, Jean-Claude?
No.
Okay.
Unless there's something I should know!
Borrow my nightcap quick.
Before, long rest.
Cecilia?
One moment here.
She's wearing her nightcap this time.
Yeah, I know, I know. This is not even one second.
No more father scarecrow bullshit.
What if yes, father scarecrow bullshit?
I hate him!
I'm gonna pick up my phone off the ground. I'm gonna try.
I believe in you.
Cecilia, inform everyone in the audience what your passive perception is.
Really fricking high.
How high?
Twenty-two.
Twenty-two, baby.
Right now, because you are poisoned.
It's at disadvantage, so it's minus five.
It's a seventeen.
What does that mean?
Well, technically, this lasts for four hours.
So if it's been more than four hours by the time this happens.
What is that dice? Put that away.
It has been more than four hours, I'll give you that back.
Yes!
Fuck.
I remembered, I rolled the max, I rolled four hours.
I typically roll in front of everyone, but for this specific roll, I am going to have to roll in private.
So we don't look.
Cover the eyes.
Sit there in silence.
No, sit there in silence.
Sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark, dark.
What was it? To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark, dark.
Dark in the middle.
Oh, I don't know the rest of it.
Have a winter with the something, something, something.
Does John Claude has alert?
But she does not.
Don't look, only peek.
Nope.
What you roll to me?
What does this mean?
They're all really good or bad.
What? I don't like that tone.
You awake?
Your eyes suddenly flutter awake.
The pain and the soreness has kind of like, has like, kept in your body.
But the poison's gone.
A little bit of the heat is still there from before.
As you, as you, as you awake, you've definitely slept.
You could feel the haze in your brain.
You see a, you see it.
You see the tent flap of your tent.
Midway, like open, like the bottom of it has, is being lifted up and open.
By an unseen force.
What the fuck?
Invisible?
Yes.
I haven't long rested yet, right?
Not yet.
Shoot it.
I shouldn't do this.
I know I shouldn't do this.
Just don't, just don't, just don't.
Just throw something.
Shoot it.
I cast seen visibility.
God damn it.
Oh, but let me roll a D100.
And I get my spell slots so I'm not out of spell slots because I rolled an 87.
Who the fuck is being invisible and dumb as fuck right now?
As you, as you suddenly take, take, take a small sprinkling of powdered silver, just rub it on your, rub it on your face.
You, your eyes, your eyes glow with an arcane ambulance.
I don't know the word.
As an ambulance.
You are closed with an arcane.
And your heart skips a beat.
Is it?
In front of you.
Is it?
In front, in front of you.
Holding, holding, holding the tent flap up.
Like her face.
Her face like a kind of like, she's, she's, she's sort of like grimacing at herself right now.
Seeing that you're awake.
A face that you did not expect to see.
Of all places.
You see that a little bit of translucent in her face.
Delmyra.
Delmyra?
And that is where we're going to end today's session.
That's how we're going to get back in baby.
Delmyra's here.
Isn't she level 10?
I'll go ahead and just dispel the confusion now.
Astral projection.
Oh.
She's all coming together now.
She's like why'd she ask about the red moon?
Everyone go ahead and take a long rest here.
Oh thank god.
Thank you.
Do we know what plane we're on?
I want to know.
You're on the one that you're on.
I don't like it.
I don't like, I don't like the red moon transports us to another plane that doesn't bode well.
It would make sense for it to be the Feywild then though now that, cause we saw it in the Feywild under my vision that one time.
That's going to make Jon Claude so angry.
Delmyra's not going to be happy either.
He doesn't like magic and he got put in the Feywild.
Come on man.
Why was she invisible in my tent though?
Well okay that can easily be talked about.
You remember the beginning she was invisible cause she was trying to sneak up on you.
This is another thing of like oh yeah there's a bunch of strangers here and I just want to get to my sister.
Okay.
Just dispelling any confusion but, ayyyyy.
Ayyyy Delmyra help us.
Dragmire says end level up.
I wish.
Speaking of level up, advanced fifth edition level up edition.
Welcome to advanced 5e.
Amazing.
Playing level up 8.5e means you level up every session right?
Cause it's in the name.
Oh my god you're right.
Yay.
Just like how in Dungeons and Dragons there's a dungeon and a dragon every session.
Oh goodness you are incorrect.
I think we emotionally level up.
What are good things about the next to seen in Dungeons and Dragons?
Are we, can we emotionally level up?
I think we can.
I think there are a lot of big emotions this session.
Yeah we all need grief counseling.
Oh Delmyr when he broke it.
That sucked.
Broke me.
I'm not playing him to be a happy character.
I'm just not.
He's just a little guy.
Tim who's the archfey?
I don't know.
Well we only know the bad, we only know the not so, we know the unseelie court who Jean-Claude's not a fan of.
And a hag who are all fey.
Who took Sylvie.
So don't tell him we're in the Feywild if you find out.
Otherwise it's gonna be a problem.
Is that our closing music?
We look.
We're not done.
I'm just kidding.
We're done.
I mean Dragmire did say an extra 40 minutes.
No, no.
I'm sorry, no.
That is not gonna be a channel points thing.
Imagine.
Oh gosh.
Play fools.
Play.
Like Ludwig's stream where people just kept adding on time.
This is not a sub-a-thon.
Play.
I just like, I want to investigate the door.
We're exhausted, we're like I guess I'll, I swing my sword.
Yeah, you investigate the door and it has hinges.
It has hinges.
That was a guess play.
Okay well we have many new things afoot.
And next week we're off because it's the end of the month, right?
Next week is off?
Yes.
Hey December, we got three games coming right at you.
But it's gonna be the last two weeks that we're not going to have Song of them because one Sunday is gonna fall on Christmas Eve and another one's gonna fall on New Year's Eve.
Merry Christmas.
No, we are not doing a sub-a-thon chat.
We might one day.
What is a sub-a-thon?
Do we get sandwiches?
No.
Ah.
Every sub you get extends the stream longer.
Oh god.
Like maybe one day.
We have to eat a lot of sandwiches then.
One day when this pays enough to maybe not have an office job.
We should play Tangled Blessings.
We should extend the depression game.
Indeed the sub-a-thon?
What?
This is not enough already outside of the game.
Don't make it worse for me in game.
I can definitely see us doing something like that for charity sometime.
Absolutely.
Oh!
But yeah, we, Timmy and I, and JT have played for 24 hours before.
I fell asleep 16 hours in.
But Timmy did, okay, so Timmy and I did it and our friends would pop in.
We played different games depending on who showed up throughout the thing.
It was fun.
We'd always just did it like we always said, yeah, yeah, 24 hours, 24 hour game, 24 hour game.
And so we finally did it.
And then he did it with JT two days later.
Yeah.
So out.
He was out.
And so we don't really do the 24 hours.
Oh, oh my y.
And now everyone scolds me whenever I bring it up and I want to do it again.
Oh my y says, how about a Christmas PVP stream?
You guys want to lose?
I won't be near my computer around that time.
We could pre-record.
Yeah, we could pre-record or do something, you know, before or after the holidays.
I have been meaning to run a one shot, a horror one shot based off of Hallmark movies.
I hate Hallmark movies.
But it's dark.
So maybe not.
Yeah, that would be fun.
Yes.
Emma, you know why?
One of the reasons I really don't like Hallmark.
They're based out of Kansas City.
Really?
Yeah.
Is that why they're so I knew like about the Crown Center and stuff.
Hallmark owns Crown Center.
I didn't really.
I mean, I knew it was like like sponsored at least because of the name.
I didn't realize that it was like they owned it.
Yeah.
OK.
So if y'all want dark fucking holiday shit and jokes from the Hallmark movies subverted on its head.
I'm a little embarrassed here.
I have to go look up a Hallmark.
I'm just I'm just a businesswoman coming back home for the holidays.
Yes, yes, yes.
My stocks are down.
She meets the man who has nothing but flannels and cuts down Christmas trees for a living.
Yes, yes.
Chuckie's a holiday character, right?
That's exactly the theme.
I can never I can never make things.
They're all the same.
No matter which one you watch, it's always the same plot.
Big city girl moves back comes back home for the holidays, runs into man who either has a child and or is an uncle to a child.
Either way, child.
Themes of Christianity slipped in.
Then the film then then Girl from City has either lawyer boyfriend or or materialistic boyfriend that comes then over and then tries to convince her to come back to the city.
But then the girl realizes it's the power of Christmas and hometown magic that makes her want to give up all of her shit that she's worked for to stay there and settle down with flannel man.
We will have a romantic Christmas horse horseback riding and I've seen too many of these.
There's like too many different things are all getting blended together in my head.
There was one with a puppy.
I feel like I've seen I feel like I've seen some of these.
I don't know.
I don't know any of them.
I feel like I know they're like the tropes.
Why does the new twitch the new twitch chat things banned very gay.
That is not not very gay here.
Like I have to ask her.
Absolutely.
Dragmire.
Oh, like it's always like the friend.
But they don't ever say it.
But it's just there.
I can't.
It's Hallmark.
So I want to make a non romantic interest.
I have to look at the shows, but I think my character has run over grandma.
Just like not with rainbows, but with a car by accident.
I think that's the start of my as a start of my foundation.
Oh, yeah.
Life comes at you hard.
Timmy car accident with Santa Claus.
Like, yeah, it wasn't Santa Claus.
It was Krampus.
And now Krampus is mad.
Starts the tragedy.
Krampus put me in a light bulb and now I'm flummoxed.
This is this is going to make all my stocks go down.
Oh, you're just big business.
Hey, hey, Elon Musk, I want a short Christmas.
Elon Musk can't even launch his own rocket.
Santa's sleigh.
Sleigh as in sleigh people or sleigh as in.
Both.
It could be both.
I want all the queer characters to have a win.
When Emma busts out her Santa voice, it's going to be the biggest.
It's going to be the most dramatic reveal.
Who is the villain is the question.
Who is it?
You'll have to find out.
The corporation of Hallmark.
The villain is the Hallmark corporation.
All right.
Who is the corporations?
Who is the villain is the question.
A little bit shorter than usual game today, folks.
But we'll come back.
It's all trauma.
It was fun.
Trauma.
It was good. Trauma.
It is good. Trauma.
It was good. Trauma, though.
That should not be words that go together.
You guys love the trauma.
Thank you.
I'm going to be a trauma to me.
Oh, no.
What?
What was that?
No.
What was that?
What did you say?
No.
Trauma to me.
Oh, Titi.
Fuck me.
It's the return of trauma to me.
Trouble to me.
I'll say trouble to me.
Trouble.
To me with trouble.
All right.
To me with trouble.
Fucking trauma to me.
Titi, this stream needs to end.
And on that note, I think we're going to close off the night.
It needs to end.
Good night.
This is the end of the episode.
See you in two weeks.
Bye.
See you next time.
Bye.
End the stream.
End it already.
End it.
We'll see you next time.
Titi.
Bye.