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The Lanaya Expedition
A D&D 5th Edition Actual Play Campaign
Episode 2
A Cry for Help
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Songwoven The Lanaya Expedition Episode 2!
Wow, we're at Episode 2 now!
I am your humble DM, your diabolical monster Tim Don Tran.
Can we please introduce ourselves?
From who loves pineapple on pizza least to most?
I'm Jenny Sherard.
I'm playing Cecilia Idlewind, the cleric who is another hero's backstory character.
Oh my heart!
She's my hero!
And I am Emma Robosco!
I am playing Jean Claude, your booby bestie, the furbog paladin with a heart of gold but
a head of lead.
Yes.
Just for everyone in the chat, if you want a recap of what happened last episode, go
ahead and type Esclamation Mark Recap.
That will give you a little short excerpt just to tell you what's going on and why things
are happening the way they're happening right now.
That's fancy!
I believe for our podcast viewers, we're going to have something along the lines for them
just to help them catch up as well.
Alternatively, you can listen to the first episode four and a half hours at a time.
I thought you were going to recap it.
Oh I am?
At the beginning of the game, but that's okay, we don't have to.
No recaps, we're going in.
Oh, no wait, we're going to have to recap.
And what are the players are going to do it?
Right?
Oh wow, but if I just read the recap thing.
I was going to say, didn't he take it away because I was overwhelmed.
Okay if I'm going to recap, which I'm really bad at this, I always get things in the wrong
order.
What happened last time was Cecilia, that's me, my character.
She is 18, a human in a small village named Adelera.
Her sister returned home from a nine month long adventure and was like, that was the
last one probably.
Only for the next day, this mysterious guy came to town, he's like dying and he has this
weird box, falls out of his hands.
It turns out it holds a fragment of the moon and he's like, you Cecilia, he didn't know
her name, but he's like, you, you need to take this to, I wrote it in my notes, Ondoroth.
Which is on the other side of the continent by the way.
And then the guy dies and then the priestess from the temple of Saloon, the goddess of
the moon, she goes to Delmira and is like, you got to take it because you're the chosen
one of the moon.
And Delmira is like, I don't want to do it.
And she's like, you got to.
And Delmira is like, okay.
And so Cecilia is real upset about that because her sister is going to leave again to go across
the continent.
And then also she like goes and touches the moon fragment when her sister's not around
and the moon talks to her like, no, I want you to take me, not your sister.
I like you for some reason, that's not suspicious at all.
And so she decides to give her sister a sleeping drought to help her steal, borrow her stuff
and then, and go on the adventure for her instead so that she can stay home with her
boyfriend and everything.
And then we went to, yeah, and her dad, that's, that's the big one.
And then we went to Jean Claude, who is a guard who smells like mushrooms apparently
today.
And he's been placed in charge of the groven guard today who helped with the forest nearby,
helped travelers make their way through as it's very well traveled.
And so after poking some holes into a ledger with his buddy whose name I did not write
down, I apologize.
It is Gurgrash.
Kirkosh.
Kirkosh, Kirkosh, right?
Kirkosh.
Kirkosh?
Kirkosh.
I'm going to write it down before I forget.
At Kirkosh, they go and take the reports from the guard who one of them reports on, there's
this 18 year old girl going through.
Claude's like, that's a point of interest.
She's probably bad.
And then they're also like, there's like this shambling figure.
And so they decided, okay, let's investigate this shambling figure.
Turns out it was a scarecrow that Cecilia ran into on the road, but didn't realize anything
was wrong because she just thought it was a normal scarecrow that happened to fall.
And the scarecrow, something involving it sends them into a night that only Claude and
Cecilia can see.
It was midday and well, morning.
It was early morning.
And then it just suddenly turns dark and the moon and they can follow like the moonlight
and stuff.
And Cecilia follows this light.
She goes and she hears someone calling for help.
There's a man whose leg is stuck in a bear trap, but when she goes to help him, he like
just falls to the ground.
He's like straw.
And then the scarecrow is like Delmyra and Cecilia is like, I'm not Delmyra.
And he's like, well, you have what I want.
So I'm going to kill you now.
And then he paralyzes Cecilia and holds her head in the water.
Claude is led by a vision of a woman, a little girl, a little girl made of light, a little
girl made of light towards this as it's happening and manages to get the scarecrow off of Cecilia.
So she is not drowning anymore.
And so we're going to be buds now.
And now we're besties, baby besties.
And that's where we left off.
I think that's most of the things.
I might have missed some Claude stuff because obviously I remembered the Cecilia things
a little better.
The only thing you need to know about Claude as it pertains to this episode is the scarecrow
said to him, you don't know what you're doing.
And Claude's response was, I never do.
And went invisible.
That's all you need to know.
We last left off when Jean Claude facing down the creature Misty Steps.
That's the ability that four bulks have.
Misty Step I think is you can move, I believe.
One second.
Hold please.
It is a hidden step.
Hidden step.
Okay.
Misty Steps is a spell.
Alright.
It's the two times prolonged rest.
This lasts until the start of my next turn or until I attack.
Alright.
Absolutely brilliant.
With that said, shall we?
Yes we shall.
Not gonna die.
That would be sad.
Allow me a moment to get the map set up.
In the meanwhile, why don't the two of you hit me with an initiative roll?
Yeah!
Also for those of you who are listening and not watching, I am wearing a shirt that says
Guess I'll Die on it.
It is the meme of the older man in the red sweater shrugging his hands.
But there's instead of his head, it is a large dice with a one on it.
Because I am prepared for anything.
Initiative.
I rolled a five.
Okay.
Beautiful.
Beautiful number.
Is it?
I rolled a dirty 20.
That is a dirty 20 my friends.
Alright that wasn't expecting that.
Okay.
Let me see if I can.
Yeah beat him up Claude.
Because I do have, I think I have the alert.
Yeah I took the, so Tim allows us to take one feat with our character.
So I have the alert feat which automatically gives me a plus five bonus to initiative.
Oh.
Very nice.
So even though he's a hot mess, he is occasionally aware.
Sometimes.
You will always go before me.
Sometimes he's aware.
I have a negative one mod to initiative.
Ouch.
That's okay.
So I'll never go first.
It's okay.
I just could.
It's okay.
Alright.
I'll get the map.
But that said everyone, we're gonna dive right into another session.
We're gonna dive right into another session of the Lanaya Expedition.
Starting with combat.
Everyone, as the night speckles around you, Jean Claude, you face down this cloth, this
strange entity that's possessing this, possessing basically what is cloth and straw.
Where you last left off, as you see as the scarecrow begins to rise, even though it doesn't
have eyes, you can feel it staring directly at you.
It goes, alright.
The long way then.
Before you turn invisible.
You standing between Cecilia, you see that the cloth sack of a head actually shifts a
little bit towards Cecilia.
And he goes, and you as well.
Jean Claude, fittingly, you are first.
Ah!
Shoot, shoot, shoot.
And this is, sorry, out of character moment, this shade token that I see next, the scarecrow,
I obviously cannot see that, correct?
You can see that.
Oh, I can see it.
Yes, you and Cecilia can definitely see that it is sprawling.
You can see that the shadows are like, the tendrils that are coming out of it is coming
from this shade.
It's like it's possessing the scarecrow.
Oh, it's possessing the scarecrow.
Is Jean Claude smart enough?
Oh no.
I want to check in with you, DM, but because our dear sweet man, Cow Man, is a bit on the
slower side.
Would you prefer for me to roll to see if he would acknowledge that the shade is attached
to the scarecrow, or is it very clearly the shade that's manipulating this puppet?
It's definitely become much more prominent.
It seems like it's flared up.
Yeah, parts of the scarecrow is being encompassed by the shade, basically.
But if you want, you can give me an investigation check really quickly.
Yeah.
Just because I, the player, would know what to do, but Jean Claude, my sweet, sweet boy,
that is a 14.
I'd say you would, I'd say Jean Claude would definitely be able to make, at least he was
pretty low, would definitely be able to put one and one together and see that the shade
and the scarecrow are working in tandem.
In fact, your divine sense earlier, you detected two undead, and that rancorous odor is definitely
stemming from these two entities before you.
That's right.
Perfect.
Excellent.
While he's invisible, move past the square, square quo.
Do I get an attack of opportunity if I move here?
Or can he not see me?
Attack of opportunity against you?
Yeah.
Or does he, wait, that's only if I'm leaving, right?
You did technically leave the scarecrow's attack of opportunity, but he can't see you,
so I'm just going to go ahead and say he's not going to make an attack of opportunity
against you.
Okay, cool.
And I would like to swing my, I only have one spell slot left, so I would like to swing
my battleaxe at the shade.
Oh, brilliant.
Preferably.
Go ahead and give me an attack roll.
And since I'm holding a shield, it will be one-handed swing.
And that is a, wow, okay, so it was a 16 plus four is another dirty 20.
Nice.
Square.
Don't laugh.
Does that hit the shade?
Yeah, that hits the shade.
I hope.
It hits the shade.
For level two.
Most definitely hits the shade.
And then, so rolling damage, and I believe, Tim, you said that my plus two is factored
into it.
Yes.
Great, because that's my dueling style.
So that will be nine points of slashing damage, and technically, because I've made an attack,
my invisibility, I believe it ends.
Oh, you had advantage on that if you were invisible.
Yes you did.
Just to see if you get a nat 20.
Go ahead and roll it in.
Oh, yeah, let me try again.
Let me try again.
Just to see if you get a nat 20.
Thank you, Jenny.
I was like, why else am I invisible?
I don't know.
I think it's cool.
Hold please.
I can't see.
What did I get?
Nope.
We're going to go with the first roll.
We're going to use the first roll.
You can use the second one if you want.
You can use the 11 if you want.
No, no, no, no, no.
I like my good old numbers.
You see this, Cecilia, as a scarecrow starts encroaching upon you, it takes one shambles
step towards you.
This large bovine figure appears next to this large encompassing shade and with a battle
axe in one hand swings upwards, cutting into the darkness.
It's strange.
Normally when you've interacted with shadows basically your entire life, everyone does.
Shadows aren't meant to be tangible nor are they supposed to be given this crazy form,
but as strong clutch swings upwards towards it, you see a part of the darkness actually
sort of divide and you see it reacts.
It recoils backwards.
As it does, you see sort of at the top of the figure, a head figure sort of like emerges.
Two yellow eyes come to light and looks down at you Jean-Claude.
And looks at a screen.
That's horrific.
Sorry, Jenny.
Was that what you were practicing?
Not that one.
Anyways, is that the end of your turn?
That I want to save my one spell slot, so I'm going to leave it for now.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Brilliant.
Okay.
The next turn coming up is the shade itself.
The shade, for some reason the music decided to stop.
That didn't loop for some reason.
Music said, hold on, moment of silence, please.
Music said, this is not realistic.
Nobody's playing music in this area actually.
So historically, actually, you wouldn't hear this in a Twilight Zone water map area.
Does a natural one hit you?
No.
It doesn't.
This is a strength strain.
This is disastrous.
I think this shirt is good luck.
I guess I'll die.
No.
Knock on wood.
Knock on wood for me, folks.
Knock on wood for me, chat.
You see the shade attempts to encroach on you.
These shadowy tangles protrude from its body and attempt to strike you, but they actually
land a bit too in front of you.
These spikes reach out towards you and stop a feet in front of you.
You didn't even have to move, but you did throw up your shield reflexively.
He's just like, is it to miss you, Gutt?
What?
I didn't understand.
I didn't speak Specter.
We're going to go to the next turn.
You hear from behind a voice going, what the hell is that?
I didn't know, but the big backup could be good.
As Kirk us runs in, he does go, Jean Claude, you're confused.
What are you swinging at?
As he goes over to the scarecrow.
He doesn't see the shade.
Only we do.
He draws a great sword from his back.
Let's go to make an attack.
Nope.
He rolled a 10.
He leaps off of his feet and swings downwards, but the scarecrow just kind of like, definitely
just kind of like, just moves out of the way really fast.
It's hitting the ground.
Kirkosh, being serious now, looks towards you, Cecilia, and goes, you get out of here.
It says, follow the lanterns, head back.
And since at the end of his turn, the scarecrow, in his scarecrow's turn, he goes, no, stay.
You see one of the shadow tendrils coming, kind of like warping through his hand, reaches
over towards the bear trap that was on the ground.
The tendrils tear open the bear trap and wrap around the chain that attaches to it.
He-
Nope.
And it lifts it up, swings it in the air, and throws it at you, holding onto the chain,
Cecilia.
You know I have a bad track record with bear traps.
What?
It's this bear trap, morning star situation.
That does a 20, 20 hit.
Oh no.
Probably, yeah, yeah it does.
So I had to celebrate.
Okay.
You do take...
You take six points of piercing damage, and you are grappled.
No.
Get out of here.
Gets grappled by a bear trap.
She's not going nowhere.
So the bear trap snaps, I would say the bear trap, as it rushes towards you, actually snaps
over sort of like your shoulder area.
It actually just clamps over you.
Perhaps the first real instance of like pain, something that draws blood piercing through
you, you cannot move more than 15 feet away from a scarecrow right now.
You are grappled.
Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.
Alright.
Hey.
With that said, the music continues to not play for some reason.
Oh, it's playing on my-
I can hear it.
Oh, you can hear it?
Yes.
Weird.
It's not on your-
Now I can't.
If I can't hear it, then the folks at home can't hear it.
But I'll keep an eye on that.
Got it.
The next turn, we're going to have coming up, Cecilia.
Okay.
She was like trying to figure out what to do.
There's water on her glasses.
Oh no, she can't see.
And then that happened.
It took her off guard and it hurts a lot.
But then she just tries to like, just real quick, she tries to center herself being like,
okay, what would Delmyra do?
And she's going to cast- she's going to take her holy symbol and cast-
sacred flame on the shade that she sees Claude attacking.
Oh, we love a cantrip.
Because I'm out of spell slots already.
No, I don't even have cantrips.
I forget paladins.
It's not a thing.
DC 13, deck saving throw.
13 just meets the same.
Wait, just made it?
No.
Okay.
Good try.
Oh, you know what I should have done?
Oops.
Let me check if this is a bonus as an action.
Okay.
That's it.
I can't move further than 15 feet.
So no, but I will move probably a little bit more defensively behind Kirkosh here.
Okay.
The sacred flame, this holy flame just encroaches upon this figure.
And as it does, you hear the sound of a flame being patted out.
You hear the sizzle.
And you hear the shade go, I know it.
What?
What that said, at the very top of the round.
Go ahead.
What does it even mean?
I can't even understand.
It's my last name.
Oh, I'm sorry.
He said Eidolon.
I just heard, it took me a bit.
So I was like, ah.
He said Eidolon and earlier he said Jean-Claude to you.
Oh, I didn't even know that.
Sounds good.
At the top of the round, Cecilia, I will say that you do witness that orb of light that
you were following earlier starting to drift.
Before I didn't have that kind of, I didn't have like a real urgency to it, but now it
seems to be going barreling directly towards you.
Chat says we need subtitles with the screams.
We need translation for the screams.
Eidolon.
There we go.
So that's like those documentaries where they have the person translate directly over top
of them.
They dub it over, but you still hear them talking in the background.
Dub it.
I'm going to have a really bad actor translating the screams.
The internet and the dub actors are like, Eidolon.
Or like, you know, Google Maps.
Eidolon.
Okay.
Do it in post.
Jean-Claude.
Vi.
You're up.
Yet again, I only, I'm so not used to playing level two characters.
I want to use all the spells, but I have one spell slot left.
So I'm just going to, I'm going to swing again with my axe.
Hopefully I can, hopefully I can chip away at this guy and then I'll smash him.
All right.
So let me get to my, I'm going to be swinging with my battle axe.
One handed swing again does a Nat 20 hit, which brings us to 24.
The very first attack roll Nat 20 of the Lanai Expedition folks.
I feel like, so all that time, like in high school and you're like, man, I'm not a jock
and this is my jock moment.
This is my, I'm living my jock fantasy.
Real quick, real quick, Emma, before anything else is decided, can I whisper to you something
real quick?
Just, just huddle real quick.
Huddle?
What do I huddle?
Where do I go?
Don't, don't define smite.
Please.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, go.
Got it.
I will not.
Please.
I will not define smite yet.
Okay.
May I roll for damage?
I was joking by the way.
You can define smite if you wish.
Well, let me roll for damage first.
I was just joking.
So, go ahead and so our, quickly our humble ruling is that it's, when you roll a crit,
it's the maximum of the die and then you roll one die.
So you're always getting good damage out of a, of the crit.
So go ahead and just roll, roll your damage normally.
Okay.
And then, since the battle axe is a D8, we add an eight on top of the damage.
So I rolled seven plus eight.
Seven plus one.
So.
The one is disregarded.
Oh, nevermind.
It's seven.
Fifteen points of damage with just the battle axe.
Are you going to smite?
It'll get doubled also.
I feel like, yeah, with the nat 20, it's time to smite baby.
I've got one left.
Oh god.
Roll a 2d6 plus 12.
2d6.
Isn't it 2d8?
Oh, it's 2d8?
Oh right.
Yeah, it's 2d8.
2d8.
Or 16.
Plus 16.
I'm dead.
2d8 plus 16.
Okay.
2d8.
So eight and then add 16.
24.
So I'm going to tell you right now.
It's kind of terribly effective because shades are vulnerable to radiant damage.
It's also, this is technically undead.
Yes.
Oh, so you roll an extra.
I get another d8.
Plus another eight.
So go ahead and roll another d8.
Because it's undead with smite.
So yeah, there we go.
Okay, eight plus two.
And then, so 34 points of damage, which goes up to, which the divine smite itself is 68
points of damage.
I was one away from 69.
Damn it.
So this is, if I had one more damage point guys.
I think I should have known better.
But someone who's vulnerable to radiant damage against a paladin, a cleric.
I hate getting my shit absolutely rocked in my own house.
So I guess I'll just go ahead with this next part as your battle legs gleams with a brilliant
radiance with a determination by the vision, by the silhouette you saw earlier.
Jean Claude, describe your finishing blow.
Oh my God.
Wait, I got it.
You messed it up.
You think I'm going to throw something with more than like 60 hit points at you, you level
twos?
I don't know.
I just hit for the worst, I literally wore this shirt to prepare for the worst.
I guess, you know, I'm trying to think of the, I think Jean Claude is very frustrated.
He has this squealing noises being shouted at him and he's like, I don't understand
what you're saying.
It's hurting my ears.
I'm like, shut up.
And he's going to just take his axe and it's, it's scrapes along the ground, along the
gravel, you see sparks fly from the axe.
And as the sparks pick up a light shines from the beads on his bracelets, reflects off the
beads on his bracelet that imbues his axe as he cleaves through the creature.
It is like you have cut through, you have cut through many things before with this battle
axe.
In life you have sliced through bread, butter, trees.
You have, you have, you have enforced your will against the resistance of trees, cutting
them down.
As you cut through this, as you cut through the shade, as it felt like almost slimy before
as you shove your axe through, it glides through guided by the light from your, from your bead.
It shines through as you just cuts through this shade, your light travels, travels through
it.
And it just lets it out.
It just, just, just allowed no.
And Shunga does, I think that was no.
As it just explodes, as a darkness just unravels, leaving the scarecrow behind.
Wait, I love that this creepy motherfucker is left standing.
So as that shade disappears, you see whatever remaining left of the shade just starts going
into, going into the scarecrow.
And the scarecrow just gripping onto the chain.
You guys hear it as he flips on the chain.
He just goes, no longer will you deny the stars from me.
And at the top of the turn, Kirkosh, who saw you swing at the, at the air goes, hey, you
missed.
And it's going.
This perfect hit, John Claude definitely has an office moment where he just looks straight
to the camera.
In Kirkosh's eyes, you did this really cool swing and it's like, into nothingness.
You're like, that was really cool.
But the guy's over here.
That's right there.
He'll never know how cool it was.
It's okay.
You're cool in my heart.
Thanks buddy.
All right.
It's seeing that the, because the members of the groven guard and he is going to prioritize
the innocent.
He looks over to see Cecilia and runs, rushes over.
As he comes over to you, he's going to pry open the bear trap to release you from it.
That is going to be, I'm going to make that.
That's 24.
That most definitely fails.
That succeeds.
I was like, what?
The bear trap is pried open and you see Kirkosh standing between you and the scarecrow kind
of like gently, gently pushes you.
Go, go, get out of here.
Thank you.
But that said, it is the scarecrow's turn who is going to look at Kirkosh who is being
a nuisance and is going to do, use a terrifying glare on him.
Kirkosh is going to make a wisdom save.
I glare at you.
Fails.
He got an eight.
So scarecrow's going to go ahead and encroach on you.
Now bolstered seemingly by the shadowy spear, which seems to be just kind of like in a whip
into like a frenzy.
Now.
All right.
But that said, Cecilia, a lot's happening.
That's a pretty succinct thing to say.
You see, you see Kirkosh, he's just looking at you.
He's going, go, go.
And he all of a sudden, he's up.
And you see this ball of light seemingly barreling right towards you.
But that shape is gone, thankfully with the heroic 68 points of damage.
We'll say it's 69.
Thank you.
Yay.
She was like maybe about to actually like do what he said, but then seeing him just
like freeze up with her.
I'm going to have her spend her pointed channel divinity to get a spell slot back, which is
a bonus action.
And she's going to cast, if I miss, I swear I'm going to miss everything.
But I'm going to cast Guiding Bolt on the Scarecrow.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
My favorite.
Give me that attack roll.
Oh my God.
Yes.
That most certainly hits.
Here we go, baby.
Damage.
Isn't it also radiant?
12 radiant damage.
And it's super effective, baby.
All right.
This gleaming radiant light spirals through the air and drills right into the figure of
the Scarecrow.
It just, you see this, it just holds his hand against the, against the stream of light and
goes, no.
Yeah.
Jean Claude, I was just going to say, is that your turn?
You can move now.
I can move now.
I'm going to stay here.
Okay.
Jean Claude.
He's going to, after seeing her kosh freeze, he's going to go, she's no time for a nap.
And he's going to approach the Scarecrow and swing at him again with his battleaxe.
One handed attack.
Beat him up.
22?
We're rolling so high.
Oh my God.
This is chat's doing.
Chat's the blessing of chat.
Chat's blessing.
Does it 22 hit?
Oh, and it's with advantage because the guiding bolt, it gives you advantage.
That's right.
I can try again.
Let me try again.
See if I crit.
If it isn't on that 20, I'm going to, okay.
Nope.
A 13, but I'll take, I'll take the first, I'll take the 22.
The 22 most certainly hits.
Yep.
And then let me roll my Dimage, which will be 11 points of slashing damage.
Mother goose.
It can't be that hard to cut up a Scarecrow.
Right?
Listen.
Is it though?
The Scarecrow wasn't happy in the first place, but now it's even less.
The Scarecrow's still standing pretty strong.
It's hanging in there.
Just, you wait until the Tin Man and the lion comes.
They won't be laughing at you anytime soon.
And you have a pesky little dog too.
The Scarecrow taking this, taking this hit.
I will say actually, John Claude, you find your axe being guided by this light left behind
by, left behind by this strain, by this, by this young girl whom you see is actually now
standing her ground.
As you see, as you see like the little flickers of light, like coming off of her hand, you
find a familiarity within this light.
You're not sure.
But it's something that you feel has been long, something you feel has been long, long
forgotten like a long time ago.
You're not quite sure, but it helps you.
It bolsters you as you swing your, swing your axe.
So it's, but that said, I forgot this orb of light.
It's going to be like, eh, it's going to move 20, 20 feet towards you, Cecilia.
And assume the orb is good.
One doesn't know for sure.
Evil orb of light.
Here I come.
Um, on my way.
What's it's name?
Here comes that orb.
Uh, here comes Kirkosh.
She's going to make a wisdom save at the top of his turn.
Damn it.
That's better.
I succeeded.
I don't want to succeed.
Yes, we want Kirkosh to succeed.
He is best boy.
Don't you, you ever set up an encounter and you're like, man, I don't want to, I don't
want to put my players through this.
This is going to be a bit hard.
It was like, oh, but I have to.
It's for a good first encounter.
And then, and then one of them gets one shot.
One of the creatures, I mean, so Kirkosh is no longer, no longer paralyzed.
He's free.
Um, he turned, he turns around ready to, um, press his sword against the, uh, the scarecrow.
Let's turn.
You see, um, it's shadowy tendrils begin to, um, begin, begin to rise up in the air and
it just drills into the ground as this field of energy began to surround it.
I am going to need, um, within 10 feet, I am going to need, uh, both of you to please
give me a con save.
Everyone's in 10 feet.
Con I can do.
11.
I have a dirty 20 for con.
All right.
And a 15 for Kirkosh.
The 11 does sadly fail.
Poor Cecilia is getting her ass handed to her.
Day one.
It's not even been 24 hours.
However, that was a good guiding bolt.
She guided the bolt.
The bolt did guide.
Um, Cecilia, you take 10 points in the product damage.
Ah, Kirkosh.
10?
Are you down?
Uh, Kirkosh and, uh, Jean-Claude, you take five.
Five.
Okay.
Five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five.
Where do I mark that on my sheet?
Here we go.
Current hit points.
I'm going to roll an additional, uh, the eight real quick super duper lead.
Oh, for something else.
Okay.
Like if I get an additional, I'm going to die.
No you won't.
I have healing hands.
You feel this draining energy all of a sudden enveloped in both of you.
You feel your life force just innervate.
Um, okay.
One, doo doo doo.
Doo doo doo doo doo.
But that said, Cecilia, um, you're up Jean-Claude.
You're up next.
After.
Okay.
That really hurt.
Um, but she, goodness, she doesn't know what the light is either.
And she's like, kind of, can, would it be an action to try to like assess what that could
be or any glean anything from it?
Um, or rules is written.
It is.
Uh, but I'll go ahead and say your amulet, um, whatever your whole, uh, not your animal,
but your Holy simple is a light as a reacting to this orb of light that is careening towards
you.
Um, but if you, but if you do want to use your action to like investigate it, then you
can.
Okay.
I'm not going to take the action to do that.
That makes me feel a little bit better about it at least.
Um, that she's not going to worry about it as much.
Um, maybe she should because I, no, no, no.
I can do, I can still do stuff.
I forgot I have cantrips.
I was like, I can't walk up to her.
You have cantrips.
Use them.
Um, yeah.
She's going to back up away from the pond, not towards the pond anymore.
We don't go near there.
No, no more swimming.
And um, and she's going to cast sacred flame on the scarecrow.
There we go.
That's a DC 13 deck save.
It's a scarecrow.
So realistically don't say that.
Then he'll roll like a 40 or nine, nine fails.
So there we go.
Radiant damage.
Okay.
Absolutely brilliant.
Absolutely.
Great.
All right.
So, all right.
So is that, is that going to be the end of your term?
You still do have movement.
I'm not moving more.
Oh, right.
Awesome.
The orb of Confucian.
At the top of the round, the orb of light you see rushes towards you and it comes in,
it comes in really fast, but as it comes in towards you, your amulet becomes even, even
more light.
And as it actually like nears you, you see the amulet, um, the orb of light begins to
shrink and it begins to encompass itself within your, within your amulet.
You regain one spell slot.
Oh, whoa.
Hit me up with some of that orb.
I like the orb.
The orb, we, the orb is a friend.
Orbs are friends, not food.
All right.
With that said, um, let's go ahead and have Jean-Claude make your turn.
I shall swing my axe once more to see if it hits.
Does it 21 hit?
Oh, 21 does hit.
Yes.
You've been rolling very well.
I have never ever.
Let me make this very, very clear.
In all of the five years I have played Dungeons and Dragons, ever rolled this well in combat.
Ever.
All like above 20, like crazy.
I am always like the comedic relief, like, ah, ha, ha, ha, another four.
Um, so today, yet again, I'm living out my sports dream fantasy.
We needed you.
We needed you to be the one.
I will be, um, nine points of slashing damage with the one-handed battle.
Um, oh, did I?
Oh, sorry guys.
I clicked the wrong thing.
I'm kidding.
Five points of slashing damage.
That makes a lot more sense.
Alrighty.
Tidy.
Crunchy octopus.
It turns out the orbs is going to double cross you.
Listen, it would be like, it would.
It would.
In two months time, come talk to me.
Listen, the orb will be the beloved NPC that was, that knew, that would be with us the
whole journey and, you know, season finale.
The turn.
Krakosh's turn.
There we go.
Um, it's going to go ahead and, uh, make it, it's going to go ahead and make an attack.
Actually just hits.
Oh, nice.
We'll take that.
Take those.
We take those.
All right.
Ooh, 10 slashing.
Right.
A Jean Claude and Krakosh both, um, both create work, um, on this person as they're working
over the scarecrow at the moment, slashing in the scarecrow, kind of like, lissously
being thrashed around in the air.
Um, usually when you hit a, you know, when you hit a living being, it recoils it, it
yelps in pain or something of the matter.
This scarecrow is giving you no feedback.
It's just the outer tatters just becoming more and more, becoming more and more ruined.
Um, but as you're just, you're just slashing at it, it just kind of like, just kind of
like going back and forth.
Um, so you're not entirely, you're not entirely sure.
Um, the sacred flame, the great sword, the battle axe all hitting it.
Um, it would be really nice to tell if it was gonna die soon.
It would be nice to know if my, uh, Captain of the Guard today performance is substantial,
but I will never know.
The scarecrow is going to attack you, Jean Claude.
What does Claus?
It has claws?
Yes, shadowy claws.
Who puts claws on a scarecrow?
People who really want their scarecrow to be super effective against birds, okay?
I am a cow man.
One second here.
Let me pull this up.
Let me another dream.
There's a nine hit.
Um, no.
That's a 14 hit.
No, actually.
I'm pretty sure my armor class is 18.
Let me check.
We are tanky.
Hold please while Emma confirms.
Uh, my armor class is 18 does not hit for now on.
I'm sorry.
I'm no longer using attacks.
They used to attack roles.
I'm just making you guys make saving throws the entire time.
So it's in our hands.
Are you enjoying this chat?
Are you enjoying me sucking complete donkeys right now?
This is what's happening.
This they were prepared.
They were waiting for their moment.
I don't want to take care of this.
None of you.
Yes.
Jab her.
Nevermind.
I'm going to say that Cecilia you're up or whatever.
Whatever Jean Claude you're up next.
I guess after her.
I guess I'm doing some sting.
Okay.
I admit a lot of pain, but um, she doesn't want this thing to keep living.
So she's it worked last time.
She's going to guiding bolt again rather than heal herself, which would be the first instinct.
But that's that's guiding bolts.
She's a hero.
Seven.
No, the skill.
In this, in this sort of perceived lethargy, you, um, the skill actually just kind of like
in this set of moment as a spiral fight comes, comes through, it seems to have learned and
it just lurches quickly out of the way as it just spirals through into the air above
the pond past.
You're right.
The orb did betray me.
I back up cause that scares me.
All right.
Jean Claude.
Is the carcass is still paralyzed?
No, no longer.
No longer.
Okay.
I mean, the last turn.
I see.
Um, I will swing again with my battle X because that is all they have.
I have no spells.
I could cast a sky self, but I don't think that would be helpful for this moment.
Oh no.
My first bad swing at 10.
That does not hit.
I think he's gotten a little cocky, so he definitely over swings.
Seemingly in this, like the same maneuver, the same dodge, it's like the, uh, the guiding
bolt.
It just, it just moves, it just maneuvers like around your X. Um, you ever play with
action figures and you're like, you like swinging around and matching together.
It's like, it's like the scarecrow is being done that like a hand is grabbing it and just
moving it up and down around like a ragdoll.
This is not fair.
We used up all the good rules.
I know.
Now we're getting to the break into the barrel.
Um, Kirk, gosh, um, just, uh, just goes, Oh, what the hell is this thing?
Um, swinging at it, looking towards you, Jean-Claude, he goes, the girl's out of here.
I think we should just, I think we might start thinking about bailing pretty soon too.
He does.
He doesn't make a swing towards it.
Oh, no, the same as you attend.
Oh, you know what?
He's going to action search fighter fighter.
Yes.
20, 30, 20, 30, 20.
I don't want to leave this thing.
What Roman around?
Oh my God.
15, 15 slashing from my buddy.
The fighter, I am a fighter baby.
I take back everything that happened.
You can finally go to do something.
He did it.
I'm proud of him.
So as you swing and maneuvers underneath your, um, underneath your acts, he swings downwards,
calculating its movement and just slashes off part of its arm, kind of like whiffs off
into the wind straw flies everywhere, but it just gives more room for the shadowy insights
and like kind of sprawl out and try to reach out towards you.
Scarecrows turn.
Loser.
Kind of, kind of mad at Kirkosh right now.
He is going to go ahead and make an attack roll against Kirkosh.
How many more hit points does this thing have?
God, nipples on a horse.
I'm rolling so bad.
Okay.
I'm going to attack you now, Jean Claude, and this will be a beautiful hit.
This will be a beautiful.
Crunchy octopus in chat has given a very good recommendation to feed the scarecrow to a
horse.
I am all for.
21.
Yes, that does hit.
Sorry, I need to continue.
Unless we just decide that it doesn't.
That's how it works.
Definitely without a $20 prize.
I don't want to leave this thing standing.
Try to drown a girl.
All right.
Jean Claude.
Yes.
You take three points of slashing damage.
That's fine.
And your strength is reduced by three.
What?
The strength is reduced by three.
You see your strength being drained from you.
Your muscles feel lethargic.
Your strength is reduced by three points.
That's bad because that's what informs my attack rolls.
Just to go ahead and whiffle off any concern, it does wear off after a short or long rest.
So you don't have to worry about it being permanent because that's extremely mean.
Oh no, I'm not worried about it permanent.
I'm just more so.
Shoot.
And we don't have any idea when it will go down because it's hay.
I could have saved my spell slot for healing.
I got lay on hands.
Yeah, but if you go down.
I have spare the dying at least so you shouldn't die, but like you wouldn't come back up.
All right.
Well, we'll see if we can get more hits on them.
Okay.
Yep.
Got it.
Hit minus three.
Cecilia, you're up.
Jean Claude, you're next.
Okay.
She's a pretty big hit and she's like, okay, I just have to try again and cast sacred flame
again.
All right.
DC 13 deck safe.
Come on.
CC.
The little it down.
13.
So no damage.
It's okay.
Let you guys know I'm very skilled at this game.
This always happens with sacred flame specifically for me.
It's always sacred flame specifically.
They get the exact number.
Oh, right.
Is that the end of your turn?
Yeah.
She doesn't want to leave them if they're still fighting it.
I know.
I know Kirk.
I said to run, but should we believe this thing?
Okay.
It does look a lot more messed up than it was before.
Okay.
Well, then I'm going to I'm going to stay for it.
We'll kill it.
It's all in the fight.
And now baby, but I interrupted your turn, Cecilia.
I apologize.
Oh, no, you didn't.
You're up.
Oh, my turn.
It's me.
Okay.
I don't have many spells and it's being controlled.
I know it's being puppeted.
So the scarecrow scarecrow itself can't see, but this is more so for Emma sanity.
I'm going to cast Hidden Step again and vanish for a bonus faction.
Absolutely.
And then swing my battleaxe.
And as Jenny mentioned earlier, will I get advantage on the attacks since I'm invisible?
You will have advantage on the attack.
Yes.
Okay.
So I will be swimming with advantage then.
But it's minus four.
I have to remember that.
So remind you that.
Minus three to your strength.
So your strength is 15.
So it would have been reduced by three.
So it's a 12.
So you have a plus one modifier now.
So it's minus one to everything.
So okay.
So I will have 14.
So that would be 13.
Right.
Total that hits.
It does hit.
Okay.
Panicking.
And I have to remember it's minus three to strength again for the damage.
So I should technically have less.
So even though it's five slashing, it would be four.
Four.
Thanks guys.
Minus one.
Maffing.
Maffing is great.
Maffing.
And then, yeah.
And then he reappears again.
He vanishes and comes back four points of slashing damage.
That's the best I can do.
So you do hear the scarecrow as you swing at it again and you find your swings.
You find the strength behind your attacks.
I'm not treating you very well.
No.
I'm tired.
Your strength is waning.
You should give up on your search.
Kyrkosz's turn.
My search for love?
Never.
I am a romantique.
Before I can answer, Kyrkosz, who is genuinely worried about you.
Me?
Yeah.
He's okay.
He does see you being lethargic and he does go like, back up, I got this boss.
And he's going to attack.
Kyrkosz.
Be careful.
I roll really good.
Oh my god.
Greatsards do a lot of damage.
Let's go.
NPC coming clutch.
I didn't mean to take the spotlight.
Sorry.
18 to hit for a 14 slashing damage.
14 slashing.
Come on.
Let's got to take him down.
Sorry.
Wrote that silently.
Not yet.
Almost.
Chipping away.
I'll just say straight up.
It being cloth and sort of like kind of tangible, it seems resistant to non-magical attacks.
That's why it's taking forever.
All right.
The scarecrow is going to go ahead and give you the good old one, two, bip and bop with
its claws.
I shouldn't be so cheerful when this could potentially.
Nevermind.
Well, we should.
Well, six.
Does a six hit you?
No.
Um, currently, I was going to focus on you because you're kind of the prey it's working
on.
But also Kirkosh is being really mean to him right now.
So he's going to hit Kirkosh or not.
Nine.
Um, yeah, it's got to go.
Just keep on slinging them cantrips, Cecilia scarecrow goes.
Why?
Why do I even exist?
Why am I even here?
Cecilia, point of my being Europe.
John Cluck.
You are next.
Okay.
She's just like, it's got to work.
Please.
Cast it again, because this is all she can do.
Unless she wants to walk up to it and hit it.
DC 13 deck save.
Three points radian damage.
Cecilia, describe.
No.
Yes.
Describe.
Oh my gosh.
It was just three points away.
She just took the holy symbol was like, please, please work in like after like.
Casting the spell probably like shut her eyes, just like really trying to like really focus
on it.
And then when she opens them, she see the scarecrow fall apart.
The sacred flame.
Yay.
And then she just purposes the scarecrow, you see the you see actually the the shadowy
tendrils attempt to like pad it out and wipe it out.
But you see it's burning away the scarecrow even faster.
Cecilia, you witness as you hold up the secret with the sacred flame and you hold up your
holy symbol even higher, seeing the effectiveness of it.
The surrounding area becomes enlightened for a moment as if the moon has flared up.
And you see the and you see the scarecrow begin to burn and wither away even faster.
It's shadowy, shadowy form, which begins to slowly disintegrate in in the in the brilliance
of your sacred flame.
It just goes no.
Before it completely dissipates.
Get out of here.
As it happens, the two of you perfectly placed on the battle map to each other.
As the scarecrow disappears, much like the scarecrow, the night, the darkness around
you begins to unravel.
You see speck speckles of the night began to just float away the glow flies around you
that were once that were that were alighting the area around you began to almost become
invisible as all of it becomes cloaked in a newfound sort of sunlight.
As the as the darkness around around you unravels and because to go away giving giving way towards
the familiar morning sun that you were that you were acquainted to just mere moments ago
before all this happened.
The two of you see plainly each other injured hurt.
But having gone through this ordeal together.
Cecilia can you please describe what John Claude sees when he when the moon when the
moon breaks way and the sunlight shines on your form.
Um, yeah, Cecilia is on the shorter side.
You already placed her as the aforementioned 18 year old girl.
And she has this like hair.
Brown blonde hair.
Long hair she has in pigtails and wet for reasons.
Drowned.
Yeah.
But she also had on armor that was like she wears fine it seems but it does look especially
since you're a member of the guard you can probably easily place that it's a little too
big.
And she apparently is probably still bleeding out from where the bear trap got her because
that did a lot of damage to her.
But the rest of the damage was necrotic.
So that might not be as noticeable.
But she seems pretty stunned at what happened.
And you know with when the night was fading everything she was looking around at it.
So it would probably be obvious that she noticed that she saw that too.
And Jean Claude as Cecilia lays her eyes upon you the light giving your form it's full of
full sight full full clarity I should say.
What does Cecilia see?
A hulking figure of a cow man at least a head taller than his half-orc companion who was
already incredibly tall.
I'm not going to go through my entire description from episode one for poor Cecilia.
But a fur-bulg with bluish gray skin long bovine ears that looks like there used to
be maybe earrings in it that have been ripped out so his ears are a bit torn up.
His hair his curly dark blonde.
Blonde?
Nope.
Girly black dark hair is messy and hangs around you know a bit to his shoulders.
He has a thick beard that's not really well maintained.
He's got he's rocking a dad bod which we're big fans of looks to be in his mid to late
30s for a fur-bulg man.
And he just looks exhausted and his posture is definitely slumped.
His shoulders are definitely caved in a little bit.
But he does notice you're bleeding and goes one second and he will approach you.
Are you okay?
She still seems nervous.
He's going to very gently if she allows him lay on hands.
He's going to gently place his hand on her shoulder and give her let's see I'll give
nine points of healing.
That puts me at 11.
So you're starting to the fur-bulg's hand becomes enlightened.
You see the bracelet actually light up and as he places a hand on you you feel this wave
of soothing energy fall over you.
It feels like a cure wounds as as a positive energy washes over you.
You feel your wounds begin to alleviate in some of its pain.
Thank you.
It helps a lot.
Of course.
Good fighting back there.
And with his hands still on his her shoulder he's going to say I am Jean Claude Bouchon
the temporary captain of the guard of the groving girl today and you are under arrest.
What?
You're under arrest.
I need to try to handcuff her.
You do not have to speak if you don't want to.
I will allow you to speak.
Anything you say can then will occasionally be used in a court of.
That's not right.
We don't say occasionally.
It's like a certain thing.
Oh, it is a stunt occasion.
What are you talking about?
This is the girl who does not have any papers who has worked in the
way I mean I guess I technically did because apparently it wanted to kill me.
But I don't I don't think I did anything wrong.
His eyes narrow.
Can you sit right there for a moment?
I need to talk to my captain here.
He goes do not move and he'll go off to the side with him.
He goes over to the side and he places a hand on your shoulder and he just goes fucking
get it together.
What is the matter with you?
Claude looks at him and goes what is the matter?
She is a suspicious person.
You think it is ironic that she just this person this woman who we have identified as
girl this child arrives and all of a sudden there is there is shambling mounds and dark
entities coming with her.
Hey, what?
What?
Look at her.
She's shaking right now.
Let's just get her back to town.
Get her help.
And just get the scared.
Get the scaredness out of her.
When cough some people ain't gonna ain't gonna do this is ain't gonna help with anything
like that.
That's a good point.
I could see how that would disturb her.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did not see that.
Okay, hey, all right.
So then wait, he's what?
What brought you here?
What what made you start running over here?
So was it was it was dark.
I mean, I guess you did not see that the lights went out.
But it was dark and there was a tiny little light girl.
You just had this look on your face.
You started running, running to something and I was just following just following you.
And then I came in.
I saw that.
I saw that girl being drowned by the scarecrow.
You sort of swinging out the air.
It was a dark entity.
Did you not see it?
She did.
And he points to Cecilia.
He turns to Cecilia and goes, one moment, one more moment here.
And she hear everything they're saying.
They're kind of loud.
Sean Claude has wisdom is negative.
You can hear everything he says.
You didn't see it.
So what?
Well, the big shadow.
You kind of looks around.
He attacked it.
Like he said, it was controlling the scarecrow.
All right, obviously.
I'm left out of a club or two.
Was it nighttime for you?
Weird question.
I was traveling through and everything suddenly.
It was just suddenly night.
I thought for a second I was so tired that I had fallen asleep or something, but.
All right, well, you wouldn't come with us.
We're just going to get you to safety.
And you are not you are not under arrest looking to John Claude.
You are over arrest.
So we are over it.
You instead of being under arrested, you are over arrested, which means that I have over
with the process and you are free to go.
Should you please apologies for the inconvenience.
I am not used to being the captain and I don't want to be anymore, to be quite honest.
So I'm not in trouble for anything.
No, you're out trouble.
You're out of trouble.
You're not in trouble.
You're out of it.
OK.
And to celebrate your newfound freedom, we're going to take these cuffs off of you now.
Yes.
Welcome to the to the woods.
Welcome to our forests.
And and he's taken off the cuffs.
He goes, what was your name, young lady?
I'm Cecilia.
Miss Cecilia, she's my co-captain, Kierkosz.
As I mentioned, I am a temporary captain for the day.
I would like that day to end, actually, because I am very tired.
But I apologize for you almost being drowned.
It is not something that occasionally happens in our woods, to be quite honest.
I thought it was pretty safe.
Usually, a lot of people travel.
It is safe.
Normally it is safe.
We do a very good job.
This is just a circumstance of we have nighttime go-goos that Kierkosz does not, apparently.
Why?
Why did only?
I mean, why couldn't you see it?
I mean, I guess you don't know that, but like, it's really weird.
I don't know.
Yeah, I just thought it was.
Jean-Claude was drinking a lot last night, so that was something involving that.
But I never had a illusion pop up in my head.
I drink more than him.
No, but I will be drinking more tonight, that is for sure.
Right, I said back, we shall get you somewhere safe to lay down to rest your head.
Maybe some warm food.
I don't think I can stop here.
Not for that long.
I really have to keep going.
Oh, and I had to get to my horse, but I don't remember exactly where I ran from.
I heard someone screaming for help, but it was just a scarecrow.
And then everything happened.
Just a scarecrow?
Hey, I heard it scream something earlier, something about Eidolon.
Is that familiar to any of you here?
That's my last name.
And it knew your name, was it Jean-Claude?
It said your name too.
Oh, I could not interpret what he was saying.
How does it know our names?
I have never introduced myself to the scarecrow.
I'm not sure, maybe it just heard it somewhere or it's magic.
I guess magic maybe does that sometimes.
So yeah, that's magic.
Yeah.
Hmm.
This is not my specialty.
None of this is.
It's a reeks of another world that is not mine.
Where are you going, kid?
Ultimately, I'm trying to go to Omderoth.
Omderoth?
But Maynardeth, where are your components?
Do you have a party, an adventuring party with you?
I have Reginald, but he's a horse, so...
Like a druid horse?
Like a druid friend that is in horse form?
I'm not with any other people.
You are traveling alone?
Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
But it's...
It's fine, it's not like stuff like this, but just keep happening.
Well, apparently if our names are quite well known and well spread, it may.
Why don't you come in the west?
And we do need to take down at least some form of report for what happened, just for our records.
But you're also, any points to your shoulder, really bleeding pretty badly.
We could fix that for you.
I have a Ranger who is a bit more skilled than maybe, at least.
Can't you do much? She can't really do much.
She was kind of a bit of a disappointment last time.
Okay, um...
All right, but...
You didn't happen to...
Is she able to, she kind of looks around, like spins in a circle, trying to remember which direction she came from so she can find Reginald.
Um...
Is Cecilia decent with directions?
Well, she was already lost in the forest to begin with, and she kind of ran without regard, so...
I'd say you definitely have a good idea where you came from.
Even though you rushed, it's not too hard.
Okay, not too far, you mean, then, so...
Yeah.
Okay.
In any case, she, um...
My horse is that way. What way is the...
Is it a town, or...?
What is going to take you back to Royce in the meantime?
I'm probably past it on the way in here.
Okay, but I really don't want to stay that long.
No, but you need...
But...
Just rest for one night.
Save up your energy.
Yeah.
Probably. Lay low for a bit.
It looked like not to insinuate anything, but your magic was like, kind of dwindling towards the end.
So, maybe you want to, you know...
Juice up.
I can come do the report, and...
Okay.
She goes to get Reginald.
Would you like help putting your horse? I am good with animals.
Oh, um...
I think we're fine, but...
He does like, company.
And with speech of beasts and leaf, he's going to say,
Horsie! Horsie! Horsie! Horsie! Horsie! Horsie!
Your friend is looking for you. Maybe you're good. You may not be. Come here.
So Celia, as you approach Reginald, you see that the speech is actually making him kind of lift off his feet a little bit.
He's kind of excited.
She kind of says to Reginald, she's like, oh, he really is good with animals.
She takes the reins off of the branch that she kind of flung them onto hoping that he wouldn't run.
And well, if they're not mounted, then she'll just guide him.
She'll guide the horse.
See, Kirk gosh sort of like, tries to gently take the reins from me because you just move at your own pace. Okay, just try to relax. It's a bit of a walk back.
Everything's okay now we got you.
He was kind of torn about something, but she but she's going along with it for now.
Hey, want to hear a joke?
Sure.
What did one tree say to the other tree?
What?
Leave me alone.
Oh boy.
Was it you who sent the little light girl? Was it you?
She was meant to be like, oh, that was a night.
Oh, the light.
Was that your magic?
There's a girl of little light that came to get me. Was that you?
Was that a noocla?
What are you?
Yeah, there was some castles can do certain things.
Little girl.
So there was a girl of light reading a book who led me to you. Was that your magic?
No, I haven't seen a girl or made a girl made of light or anything like that.
I don't even think I could.
My head is spinning.
It led you here?
To you.
Well, or to the scarecrow.
Maybe the scarecrow sent little light girl.
I do not know.
Where should they see the shadow? That was strange.
All right. Sorry, I'm a bit slow on a draw here. I just don't completely understand what's going on.
I saw half the things you saw, but is there any reason why that scarecrow was a part of our
our community? It was part of our thing. I have no idea why just sprang up and started chasing you around.
Are you carrying anything? I don't think it's trying to rob you or anything, right? Do you know why?
Um, I don't think that's what it looked like.
I don't think I have anything that valuable. Well, to a scarecrow.
Make a deception check.
We already know she's bad at that. So three.
Wow. In character. He rolled a negative one and he rolled higher than me. He rolled, dear God, he rolled a six.
Jean-Claude, if you have a feeling to you can go ahead and make an insight check as well.
Three is the number to beat. Let's see. Let's let's let's give this boy. Oh, if you got three is the number to be. Yeah. Insight.
You be for I literally rolled a four. Oh, my God. The three stooges. Yeah, we're so bad. Oh, my God.
I'm not making that up for the far. For the fuck has been with the summarize at three deception with a six and a four insight just barely enough to beat.
Wow. Barely succeeded at three DC. Wow. Okay. Not a good lie. Apparently not.
Shielded by her meekness, there is something that she is definitely withdrawing from the conversation.
Hmm. Okay.
If you're going to be traveling on your own, you best start figuring out why scarecrow's are large enough for the post and following you around.
I'm trying to drown you. That's kind of a big deal. There's a lot of cones and water on the way to where you are headed, I assume.
I guess I will avoid the scarecrows.
And um, she just says, been a lot.
Why are you going? Why are you making this truck by yourself?
Where is that? Is it? I don't know that around here.
It's further east.
How much further?
She picks up her map.
She unfurls it and see all the way at the end of this very long continent that we are on the opposite side.
Looks at it because or is it? I don't see it.
Oh, oh, oh, what?
What?
You're a why?
It's.
I'm just.
I'm just supposed to deliver something there.
Okay, you could have said that to begin with you a choreo. You have a person or something to deliver.
Very. You look very strong. Do not doubt that I am doubting your skill and technique, but for anyone to go by themselves for that long a distance with scale curves trying to drown you.
Look, look how many bodies of water on the way there. You're going to avoid them all by yourself.
I just didn't think that something like this would happen so soon or like I know there's parts of the road that are dangerous. I just thought.
Here it really wouldn't be a problem.
Why don't you hire don't don't don't young people do this thing? He turns to Kirk. I should go with a higher. They they meet in a tavern and and they they always sit together and talk about the goals and then they go off together and they explore and and and and and have you know adventures together.
Don't don't you go meet with people your age and then awesome. I wish it happened to me. I know it didn't happen to me.
But you know you meet with like young people and then you go together and you travel.
Where where why did you go to this? Why are you going by yourself? This is I am a bit confused here.
Well, actually, I haven't even made it to.
She points at the map because she knows the spot because the mirror has been she that she was.
A lot of adventures like stop here.
Like that points to a town called Wolickheim.
But I.
I'm not even 24 hours into my.
Trip yet.
And like I said, I didn't think it'd be a big problem and I kind of left fast and.
I kind of have to keep going.
Well, hold on. Why don't they idea idea here?
Why don't we find someone to escort you to Wolickheim so that you can find a party of adventures to meet up with to continue on with you so that you're not going alone?
I don't it just seems like a lot.
I mean, I would recommend you just go back home. I don't think this this person is really that well.
But why don't you put it with like a courier or something? Yes, send it to someone else.
Why do you carry it?
It.
Well, to be completely honest.
Someone.
Asked me to do it, and that was.
His dying wish.
And he wanted me to do it.
Hello.
Okay.
Um, did he say it just had to be you alone?
No, he didn't.
He just.
Trusted me because of my faith, I guess.
What are you?
What are you delivering?
It's a box. I haven't looked inside it, though, so I no idea.
It's, you know, kind of small. You know, it's not.
I wouldn't look inside it.
Maybe look inside it.
Yes.
I don't.
I don't know if that's a good idea.
You.
You are carrying a box.
That you have.
The only you can bring across an entire continent.
Of which you've been trying to hide from us. We both noticed earlier.
We are quite dense, but not that dense.
Which you had someone, a creature, the Jesus Scarecrow, but yet again connected to a dark entity.
And you, you are carrying a box.
I can't hack you, I assume, for this box.
You miss. I am not trying to.
Bully you into something, but could we just see what it is you are carrying?
It could be not safe for the people.
Of these forests.
Now it's.
It's fine. I just.
I think we should.
And it's locked anyway, so I can't open it.
You really see the box then.
And also is that a deception check I need from you.
But it's blown out of the water by asking if they can see you because it's not locked.
Eighteen deception this time.
I feel really good.
All right.
It's locked.
I didn't think she did that good.
Lying at that.
Well just.
Because she kind of figured out halfway through.
It was better. It was a better sort of lie than the last one.
They might not open it, but they still see the box.
I was expecting like a nat 20 for no reason.
It won't be me.
I can assure you.
Nope, that's a nine.
Kirk.
Gosh, got a seven.
Okay, so we can't open it, but can we at least see it?
She seems reluctant.
She takes the box.
She does not hand it over, though.
But she holds it as you hold it.
And Jean Claude, you are within vicinity.
Give me a wisdom save.
Wow. Oh, wow.
Okay, not my strongest.
One of my saves.
Actually, it's not too bad.
A 13.
So Jean Claude.
Ew.
As you wait for her to pull it out of her bag.
This bag seems to be flat at the moment.
And yet she reaches a hand in there to produce something.
Kirkos just kind of like stands beside you for a moment just watching her.
Just kind of goes, so someone left her something.
For her to hand deliver across the entire continent.
But she can't open it.
No key, no nothing.
He goes, it's just a little suspicious, don't you think, boss?
And as you're thinking about the words to formulate, you see this ornate metal box.
Leave the bag and sit in her hand.
And as that happens, you feel this creeping warmth in your body.
It starts from the chest and branches out across your across your whole body.
It ends at your fingertips. It ends at the bottom of your toes.
You feel this comfort coming from it and you hear a young girl's voice.
In your head it goes, uncle.
And we're going to go on break.
Yeah.
Right there?
Break time.
Ow, ow, ow, Tim.
Come on.
What? I didn't do anything.
I'm going to do this.
Ow.
The moon called Claude uncle.
You got something to say, Jean Claude?
No, because we're on break.
Yeah, sorry to reveal that part of your backstory where you wanted the moon to be your brother-in-law.
Hey, listen, it's a messy family.
How long we got on break? 15?
15 minutes. Yeah.
15 minutes. All right.
Be right back.
Thanks for watching Warp Films.
Hi, friend.
We're going to team right in and then we're going on break.
Oh, sorry.
Don't worry. Sorry, we'll be back.
Thank you for coming. We'll be back.
We're back.
Oh, everyone.
This isn't the worst thing yet.
More emotional damage to come.
I didn't say any of that.
What? It's in the recording though, so I can't.
Oh, it isn't.
We have evidence.
We have the evidence.
My chair, which I bought.
I'm sitting in it.
Liminal space behind me.
Nothing's there.
I'm sitting in it.
For the podcast people, a silly chat person, one of the chatters, I should say,
spoke to me, bequeathed upon me.
They wasted, they just typed in me.
Timmy, what's that behind you?
Oh, emotional damage. Timmy, behind you. Turn around.
Come on.
I can't believe you did that to you.
I can't believe you just mocked your favorite chatter by accident in the middle of it.
I'm so sorry.
We love warped films.
Shout out to warped films.
I've manufactured a shrine with your name on it so far already in the small enclave behind my napkin dispenser.
Is that what's behind you?
That's what's behind him.
That's actually what's in the box too.
In the silver box.
Now inside the silver box is something that called...
I'm leaving now.
Warp fins says goodbye now.
Goodbye, friend.
Wait, please come back.
Who will I worship now?
No!
But yeah.
JT.
But yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely. Hope the break was good for everyone.
Hope everyone got hydrated.
Went to the restroom.
Got everything all ready for the next portion of the Laraya Expedition.
With that said...
Yes!
I got warped films back.
I knew my life was going right.
Oh.
That almost went wrong.
Anyways.
Timmy, did you drink water?
I did. I actually did it.
Oh!
Giselle.
Giselle's got you.
She knows.
Hydration station here.
I didn't need you, Giselle.
I can feel myself being dehydrated, okay?
My body will tell me.
Pass out.
Anyways.
Back to our scene at hand.
Jean-Claude.
In the midst of receiving this warmth,
a voice not long forgotten, of course not.
But a voice long unheard.
Was heard.
He is going to look at the young woman holding the box.
And say,
Open it.
Now.
Hey, she said she couldn't open it.
Open it.
Now.
What's wrong?
Now he arrows his eyes and he goes,
If you are playing tricks with my head,
it is not appreciated.
I'm not?
Do you recognize it?
Do I recognize it?
No, but I recognize the voice coming out of it.
Open the box.
The voice?
Did you not hear it?
No.
He opens the box because she's feeling guilty already for lying.
But she starts to close it again and she's like,
Just please don't tell anyone because it's really important.
And you saved my life so I guess it's okay.
She...
It has like a little cloth over it, right?
There's like a cap.
It's surrounded by a cloth and then the box itself does have a lid on it.
Oh, okay. The box is covered with a cloth.
So she just...
She still holds it but she lets you see what's inside.
Inside?
Jean-Claude.
Not something you would expect.
A luminescent...
few bunch of rocks sitting on a cushion.
It thrums, however.
You can see it, the lights that it...
It thrums like a heartbeat.
It just in and out, in and out.
The light, I mean.
But nothing that would constitute like...
of it having a voice.
He's gonna lean in closer to see if he can hear anything again.
You lean in closer?
Mm-hmm.
As you see Jean-Claude approach and begin leaning in closer,
the warmth overtakes you.
It's...
You feel this comfort again, but now it's more...
Definitely much more prevalent with the source of it.
The obvious source of it.
Being more now...
Being presented with more clarity.
You hear?
Uncle Zahiu?
I'm so lost.
Um...
You see this large, hulking man...
have tears in his eyes.
As he says softly...
I know.
I'm coming to find you.
It's okay.
You've been gone.
I've been all alone.
No, no, no, I've been looking for you.
I've been looking for you, don't I?
Please.
I need you.
You feel it always kind of like wither away in your head.
Shall we?
Hold on, come back.
I'm right here.
Hmm?
Come on.
Hey, Captain.
Don't, don't...
No, wait.
No.
Come on.
Captain, come on.
Sylvie.
All of a sudden, sort of almost snapping you out of a stupor.
A hand, a large, um, orcish hand is placed on your shoulder.
Take a step back.
Come on.
I think you need a good rest, too.
She was there.
She was, she was, she was alone.
She was, she was right there.
It's...
Promise that you won't tell anyone.
She says to both of them.
What is it?
Is it a trick?
I...
You're the only other person who's heard something, aside from me.
You heard her?
She nods.
She nods, as she assumes you're talking about the same person, since she didn't hear this.
But...
She looks at them both again, and she's like,
But you have to promise that you can't, you can't tell anyone.
I...
I don't...
Tiberly talk about things I don't understand much about, so...
You're doing a report, or something like you said it can't go in the report.
It's really important.
Well, that's up to the captain.
Uh, there will be no need for a report.
And, uh...
Wherever this goes, any points to the box,
I will be accompanying you.
What?
Wherever this box goes, I shall be accompanying you.
And he turns to his friend and goes,
I resign.
Jean-Claude, my good friend.
Let's, um...
Can we do the huddle thing again?
Just, uh...
No.
Any stances ground.
Wherever this box goes, so will I.
Chris...
You should come with us.
Because apparently, you're going to the ends of the world.
And you can't just stay here, I wish you could.
Why don't you just stay here?
Just give me the box.
You don't need to hold this belt in, I shall hold it for you.
Get over.
I can't...
I mean...
Do...
Do you know?
What it...
Why do you want to go so badly?
I don't want to go at all.
I want to stay here with my friend, in somewhere that I know.
But I heard a voice, and he points to that box.
I had a con...
Not even heard a voice.
I had a conversation...
With someone who has been lost to me for a very, very long time.
So you knew her.
You know her.
Of course I know her.
I'm her uncle.
How could I not know my own niece?
This...
Is...
A part of...
The moon.
I don't understand.
The moon?
He points out.
I don't really understand either.
But that's why it was brought to my temple.
Well, the temple I belong to.
And...
My sister also held it and didn't hear anything.
But I did.
And...
And I don't know what it is.
Or why...
I mean, I guess it needs to go over there so it can be kept safe and researched.
It's really important.
Wait, you do not...
The moon.
That's what it is.
You don't know why you're bringing it over?
Why?
Who are you giving it to?
I just know in general.
I know in general.
I just don't know...
Every little detail.
But I just know it's really, really important.
Something to do with keeping it safe and researching it because something from the moon is really valuable and apparently even more than I expected since apparently they scarecrowed all things wanted it to.
Something of the undead, not of our realm.
Oh boy.
Goodness gracious.
This is a hot fucking mess.
Right.
Well...
There's a lot of things to process here.
But there's one thing that's incredibly obvious right now and it's just...
We need to get back to a bit of civilization, catch our breath and figure out everything from there.
Okay?
I need a drink.
I need a lot of drinks.
I...
Many.
And I need to go soon.
I will go back and take a medicine kit or whatever but...
Why can't you just...
Unfortunately, whether you like it or not, I can't let you just go with just books.
I can't.
So can you at least give me a night to rest and pack up my stuff and say goodbye to my team?
A night's too long, I think.
I mean, I'm honestly kind of worried just...
You are bleeding from the arm!
You have...
I know, it's just we're so...
We're close to where we were and I can't stay here.
I need to go further.
Do you have a time limit?
Do you have to get there by a certain date?
No, it's just...
She probably starts making the same face about when she lied the couple other times but she like kind of paused and had to think about it.
But she just goes... and she decides to just say... she goes...
I'm worried my sister's going to follow me and I don't want her to... she can't come.
So...
Ugh.
You are in pursuit.
Goodness.
Is sister any danger to you?
Is sister also trying to kill you?
Oh boy, that is some family drama right there.
No, no, it's...
It's just she should stay home is all.
I know she won't like it.
But I think this is for the best for both of us.
I think this is the best decision that she just...
If she can't find me then she'll have to go home or if she can't...
I was hoping she won't leave at all but honestly I'm not sure.
I don't know what she'll do.
But it doesn't... it doesn't matter.
I just don't want to be close.
I want to get as far as I can before...
Before they figure out what to do.
I understand.
But given how precious one may say...
How complicated this is...
He points to the moon box.
You cannot risk traveling at half or even less so of yourself.
What if another scarecrow comes upon you?
Comes upon us I guess.
We are not equipped.
We are not worthy.
Can't we...
Why don't you hide?
You can hide.
And if people ask if your sister does come through...
We shall...
He points to the carcass and goes...
You will center in a different way.
Say you are taking a detour.
I... I ain't sure if I'm comfortable.
Looks like to me that you should just be going with your sister.
No I can't.
Alright well let's do something that'll make everyone happy for now.
We're not gonna go back to Royst.
Let me see that map you're in on this road here.
Alright so you're heading east right?
Yes.
Alright.
Let's turn around now.
We started heading this way.
We'll make it to Garadale.
There's a chapter of the Groven Guard there too.
So Jean-Claude you can do your whole due process and whatever you want to do.
Can I still be a member of the Guard?
It's just very very far away.
Technically I'm assisting an innocent.
You're asking the wrong person.
I know I'm thinking out loud.
You said maybe they would send someone with me.
Why couldn't that be you if you're really that set on coming?
You realize what you're asking right?
You're asking someone to uproot their life and start going with you on some crazy journey all the way across the continent.
You realize what's happening in between every kingdom and what happens on this road?
I'm not asking anyone to come with me.
No you're not asking but I am telling.
Kekos, why don't you come with us?
We've been adventure.
You just said.
We both said.
We never even got to adventure in our younger years.
It's a little more cut.
We never got to.
I'll talk to you about it later okay?
Okay.
For now let's make our way to Garadale.
Get all...if you are traveling a little bit of advice.
A wagon would do you some good.
I've been on the other end of the continent myself.
What?
You have been there and you're not coming with us?
I'm going to talk about it with you later.
The secrets!
I have...I do have supplies.
It's just...
But I need more.
I need my goods.
I need nice things for me.
This bag holds a lot of things.
She tries to just think in it for something.
She brought a shovel.
She thinks for a shovel in the bag.
She puts it in a seemingly empty flat bag and she just pulls out a shovel.
I need the...
Whoa whoa hey hold on.
Okay what I saw you packing in there little girl.
Can you fit a body in there?
What?
Did you have a body in there?
No I don't have a body in there.
Why would I have...
Can you?
What do you mean can you?
Wait wait wait let me hear her out.
I don't know if I'd want to put a body in there.
Also there's like no air in there so if anyone did go inside they would suffocate and die.
Oh my god you're carrying a weapon on you of mass destruction.
No I'm not it's just a bag.
A choking bag.
A bag of choking.
Alright we scared the birds away.
So...
Hey you can talk to trees and stuff right?
Would the trees be able to like...
If someone came in here and started talking to the trees Sean Claude would they be able to be like oh yeah that guy was talking about putting the body in the bag.
Ehh...
Really...
The only people we have to worry about are the Shemadrewids and they talk to trees right?
Why are you asking?
I'm not asking questions you don't want to answer soupa.
How old are you? Like 14?
I'm 18.
Why do I- why do I trust you? You've been- you lied to me like twice already.
And she's a little girl.
Look at her.
Look at you.
Very- very sweet.
You have the mus- you have the muscle mass of a- oh wow, you are strong.
She's a strong little girl who does not need no one.
You have a-
Except me.
You have the same strength score as me.
I have to move dad every day, so there's that.
But no, she just- she's- I-
Move dad?
Adult. She doesn't- she didn't say that. I'm saying it out of curiosity.
Oh god, I was gonna say- is dad in the back?
No, no, no.
She's- I'm an adult.
Though, so, um.
She just steps away from Kirkosh just one step away.
And she keeps walking.
You know, it always happens, you mutters.
Well, the next- let's just head to Gerardale and get you in an inn.
See if I can get prepared and, you know, just- we need to have some dialogue about a couple of things.
Is, I think a couple of things are moving a bit too fast.
There's a lot going on.
And so, to Gerardale- to Gerardale-
Gerardale.
No, Gerardale.
Gerardale.
Yeah, yeah, you said it better the last time.
My strength is reigning, let me tell you, I've never felt this weak in my entire life, so I am-
Why didn't you say that earlier?
Come on, let's go.
Do you want to be on Reginald?
He looks at the horse who he's probably taller than and goes-
No!
She's in Reginald's place, he goes, no.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Reginald should- no.
No.
Coward.
Horse- I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Anyway, I really wish that the furbog's speech of beast in life, he couldn't hear what the
horse was saying.
It would open up this game.
It would open up this game into a whole new world.
I want to listen to the squirrels gossiping.
Be like, go to Juicy!
No.
This girl's crazy.
She's moving around like the moon.
Scarecrow tried to moita her.
I told her-
You think you can break the moon like a nut?
I've tried to eat it before.
I'm just saying.
Next campaign, spin-off campaign.
The moon is so literally last night.
This moon is so last night.
Amy, come on, the colors are horrendous.
Try better.
Okay.
So, moving along with Kirk Lash's plan, the three of you pivot and move.
Moving towards a direction that makes progress towards your destination, Cecilia.
Because Cecilia and the groven guard made their way out of the woods, Cecilia, you do
have the front, but Kirk Lash looks towards Jean-Claude and goes, hey.
Want to fill me in?
Maybe over like a drink tonight.
But I'm just worried about you, okay, pal?
Me?
Why, I'm fine.
All right, well, I saw you chasing.
I saw you chasing some things that weren't there, swinging at things that weren't there.
Apparently something was there.
I couldn't see it though.
But she could.
So, snutter in my head if it's in our heads at least.
I'm not saying you're crazy.
Okay.
I'm just, a lot's been happening to you and I just think maybe talking about and getting
some things off your chest will help you out because it's making you want to get on out
of here.
You're willing to give up everything here just to go walk to the end of the continent
with a girl you barely know?
That sounds too heroic.
That is not me.
I am not a hero.
That is too heroic.
Of course not.
None of us are.
No, but it is more selfish.
It is a selfish reason.
For the girl's safety, I would have gradually dropped her off in the next village and found
some young adventurers better suited for a young life on the road with no expectations,
no roots down, no occupation just to explore this world together.
The thing is, Jean-Claude, I don't believe you.
I really don't.
You're...
I always had the feeling that you never really belonged here.
I take you to dives on drinks every night and...
I generally feel like I turned you into a worse version of yourself.
No.
No, listen.
I always had a feeling that you're a good person.
You're kind and hard and there's this bravery about you I wish I had, but I've really pulled
you down.
That's what I've done.
That's what I've done my whole life.
What?
No!
No?
Hey, you're making me mad.
You're no.
You're pissing me off.
Listen.
And he's...
Trying not to listen.
Just...
For the good.
You're saying that you would leave that girl on her own and this and that and this and
that, but I...
The person I knew you before all the drinks, before the two of us became guards at this
end of the world...
I feel like that's the kind of thing you would do, just because it was right.
And like you said, you're gonna justify it to the girl of the guard.
You're defending the innocent, right?
I think your heart's full of that.
I don't want to assume anything.
You and I barely know each other.
I don't know where you're from.
You don't know where I'm from.
We don't talk about that kind of thing.
No.
But you share a drink with someone, you get to know them a bit more.
I think you're doing this not because you're selfish, but because it's something...
Because you haven't...
Maybe because you feel like you haven't done something right in a while.
Maybe you've been waiting for this for a long time.
That's the feeling I got from you anyhow.
So I'm just pulling out there.
I don't meet too many noble people in my life.
I guess I wouldn't know.
But I trust my God about certain people.
So...
You can't...
Go ahead.
If you trust your God, then you must trust mine.
You never brought me down.
Ever.
I give up.
I don't think you got to gesture as broadly.
I think you're in a process right now.
I don't think you gave up.
Because I had a friend to talk to, to lance books with on roofs, to share a drink and
to escape the overwhelming feeling of failure and to not be alone.
How could any of that be bringing me down?
I don't know your past.
Clearly you are not from here as well.
So maybe something in you recognized something in me.
That we are two pieces that do not fit in this puzzle.
But I would really hope you'd like to come with us.
If you know so much of the areas we are heading to, don't you want to...
You know, if you're still dead set on going, why don't we talk over some drinks tonight?
Yeah.
And also keep the real like heart to heart to a minute.
I'm exhausted.
And then if you hit me with like, you know, a good person and then...
He gives you a one arm hug.
Stop it with the compliments.
It makes me uncomfortable.
You deserve it pal.
I'm going to kick you in the balls.
Oh yeah, if I do this...
You're softer than me, so I do it back and I have the advantage because I am taller.
Oh shit.
I should have known that.
I'm just so happy to hear all that going on behind you.
All of that.
I'm trying not to listen.
She doesn't want to pry, but she is listening.
And the girls are like, oh, I love this shamba.
Girls are like, I haven't seen something this like juicy since last fall when the shamba
like...
I just think it's cringe.
I just think it's like, honestly, like there's a time and place.
Come on.
I'm like, TMI for real.
A bromance.
We're like no man.
You know what I mean?
We're like no man.
I mean like whatever.
I hate these girls.
So alternate campaign.
Alternate campaign where they gossiping squirrels.
Let's fight these girls real quick.
Let's fight these girls.
They throw nuts at people, you know, like they make sure you trip on their nuts, you
know.
Oh, sorry.
Was that...
Did I leave that there?
Sorry, honey.
Looks like you fell a bit.
I mean, we wouldn't fall over if you weren't so, you know, clumsy, but you know.
It's on me.
My fault.
My bad.
Don't worry about it.
Get these fucking squirrels.
Yeah.
I'm going to write them a note.
All of a sudden, overfilled with an overwhelming hatred for squirrels.
Feeling of...
Anyways.
A few hours into your trek through the Lyramir forest, you come across, following signs and
following a beaten path.
Eventually, eventually, Cecilia and Jean-Claude, through this pain and through your...
Through this building sort of...
Physical, emotional...
What pain?
Through this building fatigue in your body, in your physical body and your emotional body,
I guess.
My emotional soul.
You come across the unsymmetrical farming town of Gerridael, one of the...
Much like Royce, a town that's located along the outer borders of the Lyramir forest.
And it has a similar structure to it as well.
A little bit bigger, a little bit bigger, however, housing more sort of smaller stores
selling sundries and there's a staple here that seemingly sells wagons and such.
You make your way towards the...
Sorry.
Kirkosh, goodness.
Kirkosh leads you...
After a little bit of asking around, Kirkosh leads you towards this inn that's called the
warm...
It says the warm cranny.
I almost said the warm nook.
But then I was like, oh, animal crossing.
I love that game.
Nook and cranny.
Is that what it's called?
Never mind.
Yeah, that's what it's called.
Calm nook.
That was the warm nook for some reason.
It's also familiar.
It is a one tier inn, obviously meant for...
It's meant to accompany just one night of travel, a comfortable one night.
You see this pale skinned, sort of like luminescent tiefling who is tending to the bar at the
moment with no business.
There's no one around at the moment.
Except maybe for like another guard who's wearing the groven guard outfits, just sunken
to his cups.
You see Kirkosh goes ahead and pulling out a bag of money.
And he goes, you know, that whole bucket thing, the stun I pulled back at the guards then
in Royce, I don't think that's going to go over well.
I was impressed by your excuse with coin.
How much is it?
That's five copper for each room, three separate rooms or...
I don't need a room.
You're going to sleep outside?
I just...
I...
Looking at the map real quick, like it would be smarter for her to stop probably, but like
how much longer is it until like further...
She's looking at like how far she thinks she can go because it's still like fairly early
in the day, right?
It is, yeah.
Stopping here in this part of the day would just hit you in terms of progress.
I'm okay with stopping and using a medicine kit or something in resting for a bit and
talking a bit and letting you sort out whatever you're doing if you're...
You seem really confident about coming, but...
Can you at least rest for a short while?
If one were to take a rest, it would be short.
Like I said, that's fine.
I'm fine with stopping here for a bit.
Okay.
I just don't want to stay all night.
Okay.
Well, we just need to...I need a little sleep.
That's all.
Just a little one.
Just a cat nap.
Just a lot of beer, a lot of wine, a lot of shots, and a nap to nap it off and to nap
off this entire day.
I don't think...
I don't think you should be drinking that much tonight or now.
I know.
I know, buddy.
It's okay.
Is he okay?
Oh, he does this.
She reaches into the bag of holding.
This is something she didn't check for, unless logically I would have.
You can tell me that, but does she have any medicine kits or anything?
Obviously, she knows how to use them.
You check now.
You have four greater potions of healing.
Oh, that's good to know.
Five lesser.
This is a...
No medicine kit?
No medicine kit.
Potions are better.
That high level adventure life is all about that magic.
But we don't have any left of...
Even if I short rest, I don't get back any of my spells, but that's okay.
Oh yeah, let me roll for short rest also.
Because I am...
Oh, and I get channel divinity back.
I get nothing!
16 hit points.
I'm going to just be swinging my axe, baby.
For short rest, is it two?
What is it?
So you can spend up to two, because it's up to your level.
But it's whatever your hit die is, I think for you, it's a D10 plus your constitution
modifier gets added.
So seven, and then my con.
Also my strength thing.
Do I get my strength back?
Oh, on a short rest?
Yes, actually, yes.
Okay, great, great, great.
Plus, you said it was strength, right Jenny?
Plus your con mod.
Con, okay.
Yeah, so nine, I get nine back.
I'll take it.
And you recover half of your hit dice on a long rest.
So if you spend one, you'll be back up to full tomorrow.
If you spend two, you'll get one back tomorrow, essentially.
Well, we're doing a short one though, so I'm back up to full.
And also, Cecilia, you didn't sleep for a whole day.
Yeah, she's gonna make a start.
Yeah, girl's gonna have to start rolling for exhaustion.
Give me a concept.
Okay.
Now, five levels of exaustion.
I'm kidding.
I'm not dead.
I'm dead.
See, the last time you slept was yesterday morning.
The events of the day and this wound that you're nursing at the moment, some of the
biggest pain and the most fear you've felt in your whole life, you are exhausted.
Your physical and mental toll is catching up to you.
You gain one level of exhaustion.
Oh, isn't that disadvantage on all ability checks?
Yeah.
Okay, girl, we want to be traveling the road.
We should get some snaps and a check.
We gotta get a little further.
She's still...
When they decide they're resting, she finds a place to sit, but she looks...
He said she's tending to her wounds slowly.
It seems like she knows what she's doing, at least in that regard, but...
Yeah.
Exhausted.
Don't go.
Okay, can I have at least one drink?
Just one.
You can have water.
Okay.
She's a fucking mess.
Someone's gotta drive the wagon...
His eyes gonna like trail over to her.
He just goes, hey, why don't you pose out some money?
Why don't you go...
You know how to use a medicine kit.
You know how to patch yourself up.
I don't know how to...
Maybe the guards around here can help you.
You have a medicine kit?
Oh, I can give you money to go buy one.
She knows that they're gonna go talk about her, obviously, but she just...
She's gonna let them...
Should she put a wagon on the way out, too?
She's gonna have to pack the bag, but I guess they'll need a horse or a wagon, but that
might be a lot for Reginald.
Just go buy the medicine kit.
We'll figure everything out after that.
We'll figure it out.
For now, just get yourself on a better... better state.
Maybe some coffee.
You look very, very tired.
And let's not pass as aggressive.
I am not trying to be a dick when people are like, you look tired.
No, you really look tired, so make a cup of coffee with him.
All right.
Thanks.
She just goes to get...
Go search in search of medicine kit or...
She's not gonna spy on them.
She's not gonna do that.
The money's given to you, so you do have...
You do have...
You could do...
You do buy one...
10 charges of a medicine kit.
Each medicine gives you 10 charges.
Kirkosz...
Do you see Kirkosz just lean out as she heads out the door to see that she's not going on
the horse?
She's not running, right?
Not gonna run for it.
He just goes...
Probably should, but...
He just goes, okay, good.
She ain't running.
You know, we should probably do a better...
We're supposed to be helping people and stuff.
We should probably do a better job of learning how to use a medicine kit because it's part
of basic training.
I don't need to know that.
I just tap people and they feel better.
That's so nice.
No, no, it's not nice.
It is just part of...
I don't know.
It happens.
All right.
Whatever.
So, let's... can we get one little shot of ale over here and water for my friend?
Oh, you bastard.
Just listen, you're gonna...
Listen, that girl's all tuckered out.
Someone's gotta drive the wagon.
Why don't you just come with us?
Since you know the other end of the continent so well.
All right, well, I'm gonna talk to you about that as soon as the bartender gives us a drink.
In my water.
You see these... the non-binary tiefling.
Shots whipping up the drinks.
Leaving one frothy meat on one side and a glass of water on your end.
And they just go, don't worry.
He says, whatever you two talk about, it's a good safe with me.
And just walks off to go talk.
And he just goes...
Kirkos just goes, I don't know.
Now I don't know about talking.
I just...
I don't feel...
Is there something in my water?
Has it been laced with something?
Can you put maybe just something, a vodka, just like slip it in there, just a little
pump and then...
Oh yes, the famous drink.
Watered down vodka.
Listen, we can't default much on a guard salary so we do what we can.
My friend here doesn't need any alcohol.
Oh, but I do.
Hey listen.
I don't want to scold you.
Listen, I don't get into any, you know, alcohol.
We don't get into any personal details, but I think you need to shape up a bit because
if you're traveling with that girl and she's going to be set upon by all kinds of whatever,
you need to be sharp.
You need to be a pillar of strength.
I don't feel like a pillar of strength right now, but yep.
Yes I know.
I'm very rarely helps that I am just naturally an alert person.
I know.
Wink wink.
Beat.
I don't know what that means.
You do see that the the the tiefling's eyebrows is kind of a raise.
Okay so so spill.
Spill my mysterious companion.
There's a reason why.
As I change the music.
There's a reason why I'm sitting here at the edge of the world drinking my woes away and
doing the hard work.
And I assume there's a reason for you to and now you're handing out.
So something's got you all nice and spurred.
I can't exactly make my way out of the borders of this kingdom.
I'm sort of a I'm sort of a wanted man.
And there are are places I can't really.
I don't think I'm brave enough to go and confront some of the things I've done.
I'm not a good person.
No really.
I hate someone like you.
You know with someone like me.
Listen I'm just a recipe for disaster okay.
Could you enlighten me on this dark dark and torturous life that you had once led.
Can I get a hint maybe.
It's very mysterious and you're so evil so dark so bad.
Maybe a hint.
I used to.
He puts what he puts a good coin out and just puts it on the bar tab.
He puts it on the bar.
I used to run with the gang back then.
And followed this orc who spoke magic words and made me believe in everything he said.
It was all the way and then I was another continent.
That even from this continent.
My real name is Korash Tarroski.
Wow okay.
Okay.
We did all kinds of nasty things and when you do that kind of thing in an empire with
a bunch of dedicated folks to hunt you down.
The Empire?
Yeah it's not the Salarian Empire another continent.
An Aryan.
Anyways I got pushed.
They're all different kinds of places.
I stole.
I robbed.
He places a hand on your shoulder and looks you in the eye.
I killed.
Alright.
Find myself here.
I swear I find myself a slayer of the Empire all the way on the side and I swear to myself
I'm gonna do right.
I have this chance to myself.
I'm gonna clean myself up.
I'm gonna find someone I'm gonna find someone to love and I'm gonna prove myself prove myself
that I'm worth loving.
Oh.
So meet a nice woman named.
Sinusha.
Why did I even have to be a skipper?
And I had a son.
I'm not sure maybe it's in my nature.
Maybe it's just what I grew up as and old habits coming back to me but.
Despite all the promises I made to myself I still robbed.
I didn't kill but I robbed I stole.
Yes I got quite a name for myself.
Law came on me and all kinds of different ne'er do wells I took from people worse than
me came and tried to take folks from me and they did.
No.
There's people looking for me everywhere.
I did I made I made every bad decision in the world and it's pushed me it's pushed me
to this place to the edge.
Captain Volotani knew who I was and yet she still gave me the time of day.
And yet here here I am protecting folk now.
I've done a lot of things.
I'm not sure if I even if I save five young girls drowning in the lake I can't really
catch up to the things I've done.
I'm a bad man.
After they took my they took my girl.
My son I don't even know how old he was.
He left him let him be.
I just dropped him off at someone's doorstep and I walked.
I ran all the way over here.
The things I can't.
My world small now.
All right.
It's in these borders.
It's by this forest.
So I can't go with you.
But I want you to go.
There's a whole world out there.
I can't see it.
I don't want I don't want to rob anyone else of that.
That was simple.
It is simple.
I owe you this much.
You were my friend.
I am your friend.
Not well.
It's past 10.
Same still here.
Yeah you shouldn't be.
Oh fuck you.
I think I'll be I think I'll just be a big headache.
Wherever I'm going with you.
No doubt bounty hunters and guards of every kingdom is going to want to go.
I want to taste the Tarroski.
Big man on campus.
I do not know you are so infamy.
Should I get a signature now or later?
The pen is a signature on a water poster.
See Sinuja.
Sinuja is that your name?
You're good.
Sinuja.
I want to type it out in the chat.
Just give me one moment there partner.
Oh thank you for writing it down.
Thank you for writing on that.
I just spilled it.
Where was she last seen?
Is it the other continent?
Or is this one?
It's a shallow grave.
Okay she's gone gone.
And your son?
Grown up.
Probably living a good life.
I'm hoping.
He's in a place called uh.
Called uh.
I think it was like Dorbaro or something.
Is that on our way?
It is.
It is past the destination.
Updated to the Salarian Empire.
It's like upper north apart.
What?
What is his name?
Oh his name is uh Gerenor.
I want to type that too.
Wait.
Since I am heading out to the middle of nowhere.
I will uh.
Inquire about your son.
And fill him in on uh.
How hard his dad has been working.
Can you tell him that I'm dead or something?
I.
Maybe he shouldn't talk about it at all actually.
Just that's all my stuff okay.
Don't worry about it.
You do what you gotta do.
Can you do me a favor?
Yeah.
Forgiveness we like to think is fair as a people.
But more often than not is for ourselves.
I need you to cut the shit.
And stop beating yourself up.
Because you are my friend and my friend is not a bad person.
And anyone who says otherwise will talk to me.
Because who befriends a hulking man who clearly does not fit in anywhere?
There is a reason for that.
I don't know how to explain it but I'm not from here.
I'm just not.
And it was nice to find a comrade with all our stupid foolish antics.
With someone who didn't make me feel alone in a place I do not belong.
Give me a persuasion check with advantage.
I'm gonna puke.
This is so intense.
I was not prepared for episode 2.
I didn't expect this either.
I thought we were gonna get out of the way.
I'm the funny character.
Fun NPC.
So guys I rolled a dirty 19 and a dirty 20 for both of my persuasion rolls.
You said advantage right?
Yes.
So that's a 20.
A nasty 20.
Get nasty.
So.
He's gonna go.
You see as you speak.
Sorry chat.
Sign the ledger.
Sign the gear book.
Karkashin you know is someone whose words are hard to get through to him.
Not because he's stubborn but because words just kind of deflect off of him.
But maybe for the first time in your life.
Words that you send out and you want to go deep.
You see it enter into him.
He smiles.
He smiles wistfully.
He just kind of grabs the mead.
And just kind of pushes it towards you away just a bit.
I wish.
I wish I could go with you.
But there's no air inside of that bag.
That's why I was asking about you smoking me across the border.
Oh I thought you were thinking of putting like someone's dead body in there.
Which I wasn't going to say anything.
I was like okay.
I didn't hear it.
I didn't see it.
The tea fleeing bartender just.
Well and he takes out the ledger with the hole in it.
Slides it across and goes.
Since this apparently is out.
Well I will see you again.
But until then send my yearbook you bastard.
Are you taking this with you?
Of course I am.
It has all of the nice things that our teammates wrote about me.
When I was their captain for one day.
Which I will never do again.
All the nice things they said about you.
Clark Green.
What?
Rathalian Valinor.
This is just their names.
Know what?
They signed it.
And that means a lot to me that they even tried.
So K'rash or K'kosh.
K'kash whatever your name you want it to be.
Whatever it shall be.
I don't give a shit what wanted poster you are on.
You are my friend.
Please sign my yearbook ledger.
You don't have magic or cast command on me do you?
No.
I have command spelled yes but I don't have any magic because I am tired and this girl
who I respect is very adamant about going anywhere I can.
I need to sleep to reserve my stars but nope I guess I'm on the road.
Cecilia returns at this time after making a turn.
She's starting to open the door and she hears something loud as normal.
And she's just going.
Wait as Cecilia enters he sees her bitch and then goes.
She sees him freeze up and she just shuts the door and pretends to go tend to Reginald.
She just waits a minute and she like you know makes sure he's all tied up properly and double
checks and then she comes back.
When she's out though he does go.
You're going to be traveling with that girl for a long time huh?
Yes.
Well I don't want to assume things again but I think she's as innocent as they come.
Yes yes yes yes I will be the babysitter.
She's got the same eyes as my kid.
I can tell it.
Big dreams.
So uh why don't you just give it everything you got okay?
No I'm going to half ass everything.
What are you talking about giving everything you got?
She she she's by herself.
I am an old fucker.
Let me make this very clear.
I should be sitting by a fireplace with a blanket on my lap.
Whiskey in my hand.
Maybe a pout now.
He picks up the ale and just tips it into your mouth.
Shuts up.
Silence.
She picks it and then comes in.
He's quiet now just sipping his drink.
Then he takes it back because it's his.
The wagon's going to cost you 35.
One of those riding horses is going to cost you 75 more so that's quick math.
That's like a hundred thousand.
Cut the wagon.
I will walk.
I do not need the horse.
I shall walk on my feet.
If you guys are traveling one of you needs to sleep in a wagon.
It's going to do you wonders.
Don't spend all these things.
The horses will need rest too though.
It'd be I think it would be worth it if we're able to get a horse.
Okay.
Starts checking the bag for money.
She has her 15 gold from backstory.
You.
Gold horses.
You check your bag for money and you didn't take you didn't take you didn't you did not
take Domiura's money out when you first when you when you salvaged for the first time.
So you start pulling out like gold after gold and you're thinking of some you're thinking
of something like a hundred gold and you just pull out a bag you think about like platinum
and you pull out a bag of you pull out a bag of 36 platinum.
What?
You see Karkosh's money back.
You see Karkosh is about to go listen I saved up everything like a hundred twenty gold piece
you know what I'll do it for you because you're my and then you give the money back.
She's realizing what she has.
You have 36 platinum pieces.
What?
And 486 gold.
Shut up.
What the hell?
486 is that what you said?
Yes.
I'm just not gonna regard my 15 I had from my background.
What the hell?
Throw it in there it's 501.
How much money does your sister have?
A level 9 adventurer.
My god.
That's decent money.
Was she level 10?
I thought she was level 10.
I forgot.
I guess she just kind of mutters to herself as she sets pulling money out like oops but
I think we'll have enough.
You sure you packed enough?
Who are you?
I think we'll be fine.
Well I'm keeping my fucking money then.
You're on your own.
No shit.
Okay well wow.
Maybe the scarecrow was trying to rob you are you sure?
I was gonna say now it makes sense why the scarecrow was trying to rob her because you
know if you're packing how much platinum?
I've never even had a platinum.
I didn't realize how much was in here I would have left some at home.
Not my goods.
Was it just useful?
How long is this to go?
Wow okay.
Well like you said.
Yeah I think we'd be good.
He's gonna there was a groven guard member who was drowning himself in his cup right?
Yeah he's in the sunken in his cups.
He's gonna go over and just tap on the shoulder.
Hello excuse me.
The human middle-aged human goes oh I love the he sets up sorry I was just I'm off duty.
It's not my patrol hour.
No no no no no.
I'm just wondering how far does our duties extend can can I extend my contract to go
beyond the forest hypothetically speaking?
You have to ask Captain Volothani she's in town.
Well she's at the she's at the den she was just coming around to check up.
Oh good okay yes that says what I knew that thank you.
All right okay so I need to go to the den and he says to Karkosh and Karkosh well now
like Karrash Karrosh somebody knows.
Just call him Kirk.
And Cecilia he goes okay so I'm going to see if I can extend my position so that at least
if I make it back alive I have a job to return to.
Okay so should we get the horse in the carriage and I will talk to my superior and yes yes
yes V if things to do.
Yeah I can.
Shaw.
Yeah can I tell you.
No no never mind I'll just I'll talk to you again when you come back.
What?
There's this you just just she's just she's to come closer.
What?
This is real son of a bitch and the empire.
His name is Ferdinand Hitchcock.
Stupid name.
But there's this really cool guy named Crunchy Octopus he just followed us on Twitch.
Oh Crunchy.
Ferdinand Hitchcock yes.
Oh I wrote Hitchcock.
Hitch.
Hitchcock.
His last name has the whip.
Goodness.
He goes he owes me money.
Okay so I cannot send a hurtful message to your son but I can go collect money from Ferdinand.
No no just go scare him with something just like go throw something through his throw
something through his window like a rock or a Molotov cocktail.
Whoa okay all right and he is in the empire.
So so like they really do they're really good at cracking down on crimes in the empire so
maybe don't do that actually.
No I will for you my friend I will do this and also speak to your son whether you know
what to do.
No no never mind.
Okay so up to the captain here up to the captain here I have a question for you to extend my
contact.
Okay as you leave Krugash looks towards you Sicilian and goes he's a he's a good guy.
Just uh he's good he's a good guy.
Just don't let him hit the drinks too much.
Thanks for helping me not drown and stuff.
It's kind of my job.
So yeah just uh you know take care of him you know.
He has a brother-in-law on his uncle's side got into a terrible horse accident he was
trying to stack horses up.
Oh my god.
How do you have a brother-in-law on your uncle's side.
As I was saying as I was saying the important thing is like I was saying things is that
his brother fell and he he broke he broke both of his legs and his knees his ankles
too.
Like like a bunch of his toes.
Do you have money for the surgery?
That sounds terrible.
He's just always running a go fund me.
50 gold but I'll take like I take whatever you can give.
I mean it's wouldn't he need it for his relation.
I'm still not sure how they're related.
You know the he's here so he's here and I'm the only one who I can only want to greet
him.
Five gold that's that's good enough you know I could do that.
Oh my god.
No he takes it he just stops.
I didn't mean to hit that button.
That's 20.
It's freaking 20 and a 19 and I accidentally clicked it when I was changing my money.
He stops it he stops it in his in his.
Kirk.
He goes alright nice.
He is going I'm gonna tell him all about you.
That's okay you don't have to but I hope everything's okay with his brother-in-law or his uncle
or um.
His uncle's a brother-in-law.
Uncle once removed his his legs were once removed it's just the bones.
The bones or his legs.
Oh yeah yeah they were yeah what are you gonna say?
Amputated yeah yeah you know put him back on it's gonna require like another platinum.
No no it's okay I was someone else.
No.
She turns to Claude she goes um.
And I know you seem like really really really sure because this it's kind of crazy but.
You're really sure.
Me not.
Actually no I'm not sure of anything in my life I am never sure of any of my decisions
or any of my choices.
But.
I held her voice.
All right.
Um I guess I'll.
Get to shopping.
Or maybe you should come with me maybe maybe you should come with me to the captain to
introduce the reason why I am extending my contract you know.
Explain I am a SQ automation right.
But we can't tell her about the moon.
No no no we will say that you are going you are escaping from your sister.
And seeking.
You are escaping from your sister are you not.
Technically um.
You're underground.
But not in like an illegal way.
Okay.
A family a personal yes personal not an illegal but a personal way so I am going to.
They won't try to like investigate it though or like.
No.
Arrest her if she comes here though.
No no no no no no no this is very personal and technically the law should not be involved
but from the goodness of my kind warm heart.
And my intellect that is insurmountable and that so many people have such a hard time
grasping because it is so so refined.
So extraordinary.
So big brained.
Someone stop him.
She got a captain to talk to.
So we're running from my sister from my sister who's not dangerous and not doing anything
illegal and who they should not arrest because if they arrest her that'd be really really
bad really bad.
I'm not going to arrest her.
But.
Why we still at Wink.
No like.
She.
You said it.
I'm hoping that she doesn't come at all because she has to stay home.
That she might come or at least come a bit before she goes back.
You know.
OK OK OK.
We figured out too much thinking too many wells.
It's making me uncomfortable.
Come on we go we go.
That is not a good sign.
You should come.
It's come from.
This is going to go terribly.
This is going to go so bad.
You.
He goes.
I'll just I'll go do the shopping while you guys are.
One thing.
Because Tom.
And you two head over to the guards.
She goes and gets him the coin first.
One of the coin purses then.
He goes sweet.
No.
I can have.
No.
Well.
If you're going to shop.
Come on.
I just wanted to make sure you didn't have to use your money.
I got you.
He's going to.
No you don't get it.
Don't take all of it.
Leave us.
I'm promising to be a better person now even though I stole a platinum piece from her earlier.
You stole it already.
Progress.
OK come on we go.
Come come come we go.
How much did you need again.
Like a hundred and fifty.
No no you.
There we go.
We go.
We figure it out.
OK fine.
You make your way to the guard stand.
Jean Claude.
As you enter into the guard stand.
This one in particular not a not a not a not a better build than the guard stand that you
have back in Royce.
It's still what.
Still one that's.
What's the word like comprehensive nonetheless it's still.
Gosh I cannot think of the word right now.
Capable.
Goodness.
You see a lineup of individuals much more much more disciplined than than what you than
what was present back at Royce.
Meaning you see the large tiring eight foot figure.
Captain Volotani a girl a female Goliath.
A female Goliath.
With long inky black hair tie tied up in a large ponytail that goes up.
She is she's a she's a bit intimidating.
But you've but she but she lets you she lets people do she lets people do the work as long
as they're doing it.
You see she currently has the she has a formation of guards up a ledger in hand similar to the
one that you have when she left you.
And she's currently speaking she's currently speaking to a member of the groven guard who
has her hands behind her back and has a seemingly like a shoulder cape.
This person is half this person's half elven in a half half elven nature.
As as the captain speaks and you walk in eyes naturally overt to you but they quickly snap
back but it was in that second where that captain saw everyone's eyes avert.
That she just turns.
And her eyes big leering eyes fall on you at the moment.
It's enough to sober anyone up when she when she is the captain in your town that guard
detail they work around the clock and they are efficient.
He's going to puking his mouth a little bit.
Seeing that you're terrified.
Like Captain Volodon gave you your job.
I know I terrified.
She looks towards the other.
She looks towards the sort of second command and kind of heads and ledger Tim.
It just goes.
All right.
Follow the instructions there.
It's work.
It looks over to you and goes you.
What's wrong.
Come here.
It's Captain.
As you step on over.
She just she just goes halt.
Yes.
Do you see what's the matter.
I am not that my post with my child of the people I should be beyond.
I have a hole in my leg.
Do you have any pressing matters.
Is there a reason why you are across the forest away from your post right now.
And I have appointed you as the captain in the meantime.
Is the village on fire.
No.
Then there better be a good reason for this push from.
I need to either a extend my contract to the the groving garden the army of forest and
the what it extends to be take a very long vacation.
She's nervous but she sees how nervous he is too and she's like.
He saved my life.
She steps over.
And immediately it's more soft.
It is much more it is a much softer look.
She goes she goes.
What happened to you.
Are you.
You OK.
Now now I'm fine.
But there was this.
Monster.
In the woods and it.
Attacked me and he.
Was able to kill it so.
A monster.
Hand me my letter points to you.
John Claude.
The ledger that I have a letter that you have given my letter now.
Oh God.
Oh no.
The air book.
And the hands over the hole in the middle.
And the letter with all the doodles and the names signed.
Oh God.
Tux it underneath her.
Can I have it.
Does not respond.
And.
Holder just for the half of the come over.
Open the ledger.
And you see that the half comes over with the full ledger opens it up and begins to
get rid of the doodly take notes.
She just looks easy goes.
First of all I'm glad you're safe.
Can you describe to me what the monster looked like.
It.
Was this shadowy creature that.
Controlled a scarecrow.
And.
It.
Could speak and it.
Had this bear trap.
And kind of shadowy claws and things.
She makes it kind of face at that.
You see you see her and the captain kind of look at the other captain kind of look at
each other for a moment.
The trade looks.
But he's writing it.
He's writing it down.
Is this what.
Is this what Groven guard member Jean Claude Boucheron also saw.
Yes.
All right.
It's written down and it's passed over to you for a second.
John Clauser you can sign that you can sign that you verified that you corroborate that
statement.
He'll sign J.C. John Cena.
You.
As you as you sign it.
She actually stops it for a moment.
She goes full name.
Pushes it back.
Yes ma'am.
He signs.
Sorry.
He's terrified.
He's so scared.
You had it.
You had it back as as as you do.
Her hand just reaches out and just doesn't even doesn't even look.
He continues to look at Cecilia but just her hand just reaches out with a pen and just
crosses out the heart.
He leaves the leaves the pen in the middle.
I've heard that one.
Don't worry you're safe now.
It's just it's a fortunate you came across a member of the groving guard.
It's our duty to help.
It's our duty to help people like you.
Just do you feel safe?
Is there anything that you need right now?
I just need to keep.
She looks at Claude for a second.
I need to.
He's slowly trying to hide it but like point to him.
She was.
I need to go home and that's what he wanted to help me with.
To on the road.
I was heading back on the road.
Where is on the road exactly?
It's a very long ways from here but to me it was in the Solarian Empire.
Solarian Empire yes.
It's in the Solarian Empire.
She needs an escort captain especially with them creatures roaming the woods which we
were investigating and a co-captain Gokosh and I.
It is not safe for a young adventurer to head back home by herself.
That's quite the journey.
I'm not questioning the matter of the attack right now but now I'm just but I'm questioning
the integrity of the company that you keep with you.
I'll find someone else.
Find someone else to escort her you mean?
Look at you.
What piled in me what what why not?
You made me captain.
Surely you believe in me in some sort of way why not to help this young woman who I've
already protected and proven that I can.
I don't feel safe with anyone but but but him because um well I almost died and um and
I just feel more comfortable with him.
I feel so comfortable.
Ouch my heart.
Zonkla can we speak briefly?
Yes captain.
And he as he's walking away he gives like a slow look of horror towards Cecilia.
He is if he had eaten anything he would be shitting his pants right now.
I feel so lucky that I did not have to make a deception check there.
Oh my god.
I disadvantaged.
Oh my god.
Anyway yes Zonkla goes off with the captain who's gonna kick his fucking ass.
Look at you.
Oh boy.
Look at the state that you're in right now.
I'm a bit enjoled from the fights of which I protected the young girl so yes.
There is a heavy scent of alcohol coming from you.
Okay I had a little bit just a little.
What is that smell?
Something else there.
Mushrooms.
When was the last time you bathed?
Cleaned your armor?
Oh.
Shot on that axe of yours.
I cannot recall captain.
I named you substitute captain because there was.
Because you're right I did believe in you but there was another version of you that
I saw when you first came here.
Another version of you when I named you a member of the grovend guard.
But today you've done everything to prove me wrong.
But you don't want to do one thing.
Only the important thing the grovend guard is all about.
I thought it would be a terrible, terrible allocation of protection to send a man who
drinks, who does not bathe, who barely takes care of himself as of late.
To rely onto her.
The protection to defend her from every horror on that road.
But that does not get in the way of you saving people.
That has been proven to me at the very least.
What is your relationship to that girl?
Why is she vouching for you so hard?
Because I guess she sees something in me that you do not.
Or once did.
What happened in that forest?
Undead too.
The scarecrow we were chosen to repel on seems to be puppeteered by a dark entity.
And that has breached both our noses and the Asperry Rangers as well.
A dark entity?
Malicious.
The girl left out in her repel to name Miss Cecilia by the way.
Miss Cecilia left out that I came upon her.
The creature was attempting to drown her.
Captain?
Did it seem like a random act of violence or was there a reason behind it?
From what I gathered, it was a malicious spirit.
With dark desires I do not know why.
I was nearly dead to protect.
Is that a deception check?
That is.
Give it to me.
That is.
Because how else am I going to play this?
It's a white lie but a lie nonetheless.
Like half a lie.
Oh you're a good liar.
23?
You tied.
With the same mod.
When it comes to a tie.
Oh my god wait you left a tie!
When it comes to it.
So Jean-Claude rolled a 23 deception.
Captain Volotani rolled a 23 insight.
Oh my god.
My ruling when it comes to this matter typically.
I give it to the player's favor.
But.
I'm kidding that was an asshole move.
I was going to be like but.
I don't know though.
In this case we could clash and roll again.
I would.
That's what we did with Iri and the Air Janassi guy.
Not Iri, Reva.
It was Iri.
Nevermind doesn't matter.
Technically this is.
Since we have the same modifier we're just rolling a d20.
So just flat d20s.
Yeah.
Oh okay.
I'm down.
Let's fucking do it baby.
If it's a nat 1 it's a nat 1.
Game ends.
If you mess up.
Alright.
Come on Jean.
So just a flat d20 yeah?
Yes.
I opened up the wrong tab out of panic.
Okay.
Alright let's see what we got here.
So my roll for Jean was a natural natural 1.
She might roll.
And 11.
11.
And that is where everyone my bad roll was waiting.
It was waiting.
It got me hyped in combat.
It made me think I was on the top of the world.
And the dice humbles you.
Humbles you.
What happened?
Why?
I cannot explain to you.
I do not even understand myself.
Try me.
Oh no.
Here's Ron.
You can tell me in confidence.
She has access to something.
That I feel.
If the wrong hands for which we have clearly been shown get a hold of it.
Could be very very dangerous.
She needs to go to this location.
She has been trying to go by herself.
But she and I can see things that others cannot.
We are somehow linked.
I do not know why.
I do not know how.
And the reason I am so adamant ongoing.
Is because.
She's connected somehow to someone who I have lost.
Who I have been searching for.
And who I had given up on.
Please let me take care.
I am not perfect.
I am a fuck up.
I know this.
Look at me.
But I will take care of her.
And maybe that's what I needed all along.
Someone to take care of so I would finally take care of myself.
The ledger with the hole in it.
She pulls it out.
Do I get my yearbook?
She holds it out but not to offer it.
Put your hand on it.
He goes, should I put my hands in the hole?
No.
No, you're okay.
Puts his hand flat on it.
As a member of the groven guard.
You swear to walk these lands.
Guided by the
gods.
Defend the innocent.
Is this my oath?
Who cannot defend themselves.
Oh my god is this my paladin oath?
I'm gonna cry.
I'm gonna fucking cry.
He.
Oh my god.
Damn that's fucking brilliant.
Because,
Onii-Sensei.
As a member of the Groven Guard,
you have an oath
to guide those who are lost.
To find,
to find those
who are lost upon others.
And to guide others to a clarity that only you
and many others know.
You swear.
I swear.
You swear to defend all that you love.
Past, present, and unknown to you.
His eyes narrow a bit on that last one.
Can I do a quick insight check?
Sure.
Captain.
Captain, what you...
Captain.
Captain, captain, captain.
Oh, cap.
Oh, cap my captain.
Oh, cap my cap.
Cap, cap, cap.
Cap, cap, cap, cap, cap, cap.
Another nat one?
What do we got?
Oh, it's a four.
Captain is not capping.
All right, he goes, I swear.
Fucking four.
And you render onto yourself,
you allocate every bit of protection
onto what you and to what your fellow people,
everything that you cherish, you,
you render your protection onto everything
that you hold dear.
I do my best, yes.
I'm not asking for your best.
I'm asking for your guarantee.
Yes, yes, yes.
She then gives the book to you.
You swore.
And you feel the brand, you feel your bracelet just...
Oh my God, what oath is it?
Like for a moment.
What is it, what is it, what is it?
Ah, you'll get to see.
Is this a home brew?
No, no.
What is it?
You'll see, you'll see.
What is it?
Tell it to me!
I'm putting it all down!
But that said,
she goes,
perfect.
As soon as you walk these lands, you are
still a member of the Groven Guard.
As long as you guide this,
as soon as you guide this young girl,
she does a double take.
As soon as you guide this young woman,
as long as you guide her,
you'll be performing your task.
Right.
Now,
before you leave,
can you relay to me
the reports from the other...
I need that for her
clerical purposes.
Is she looking at the doodles?
That was the...
You made them sign it around the hole,
the hole was there before they signed it.
Um, so,
um,
it ended up on my roof,
and I...
I do not care.
Right now.
I am making
the conscious decision to choose
not to care repeatedly.
Take that as my mercy.
You are very merciful,
Captain.
There, there's the hole.
Um, and
you see a lot of signatures
because, um,
I wanted, like, a keepsake.
But then I realized it's your book,
so now you get words of encouragement
and love from
all of our members.
And I wrote a little note
to myself, but it can be to you too.
Although it does say,
Love, Jean Claude.
And while I do find you very attractive,
I have a feeling it is not a good place for me to
admit my attraction to you.
Um, when you are...
After everything that we've talked about, I will split your skull.
Oh, I...
Okay.
Go do your duties.
Buy yourself
some new armor while you're at it.
Yes, Captain.
She just reaches into her...
She just grabs a bag and shoves it into your chest.
You're paying me?
Buy new armor.
Yes.
She... she just
turns.
Hypothetically,
do you have someone
you're seeing?
She... you see she makes the
movement when she reaches for the war hammer
on her back.
And he is sprinting!
He's looking...
He's sprinting out the door!
I'm not quite sure if he's impressed upon you yet.
Talking to Cecilia.
Because he's gone!
Yeah, I know.
He's gone. He's talking to Cecilia.
I don't know if he's impressed upon you yet.
But when it comes to the matters of lives...
There's no one I've...
There's no one more diligent.
Thank you.
He ran out, she kind of looks
in that direction.
That's...
That's what I'm saying sometimes.
I'm...
I don't know...
He's still a little nervous every time he's done it.
I don't know the matter of your quest.
Oh god.
But I wish you all the luck.
Thank you.
May the lights guide you,
friend.
It was nice...
meeting you.
I'm going to follow him.
I love this!
I'm sorry, I adore this NPC.
I have never seen
Tam you play someone like this
and I'm in love.
Immediately ask her out.
Oh, without hesitation!
I'm surprised.
I play this NPC a lot.
But not in
Gartalia.
The struggle with this game
is that it's super hard
to romance people because we're moving.
I know!
A lot of long distance relationships.
Not that Valethani will ever say yes.
Kill him first.
Anyway, focusing.
Alright, Cecilia, you head out to
follow Jean Claude
who has fled the scene.
Eventually you find him
out of breath
after having sprinted a bit.
And he stopped that fast.
Let me make this very clear.
She didn't follow if that's what you were worried about.
She followed me?
No, no, no, no.
No, she didn't.
Are you okay?
Okay.
Do I look like...
Okay, okay.
Help me pick out Alma.
Help, help.
Help.
Okay.
There's no blacksmith in this town specifically.
God damn it!
Okay.
Well, there you have it.
We are in this together.
Whether you like it or not.
We assume we will
be getting to know each other?
I assume so.
No offense, but
Oh, good.
I smell, don't I?
Well, yeah. Now that you mention it.
Oh, that wasn't what you were going to bring up though.
Oh, there was something else.
Oh, geez.
Okay, what does smell and...
Well, I just mean
no offense to you.
It's just that...
Like...
I just started thinking all of a sudden about
just how crazy it would
sound that I'm
suddenly just
going to go
with you who I just
met across
the continent.
You are my
brother-in-law's niece.
That one...
It's thinking about it in her head.
And that
makes more sense than what
your friend said.
Yeah, you're my brother-in-law's niece.
I am unattached.
I have no family of my own.
I have no partner. I am a single
little
man.
So I would be
available to escort my young
girl's
brother-in-law's niece
across the continent
to make sure she gets to her
destination safely.
Okay.
Um...
All right.
I guess
now we should
look for your
friend.
He might have
been prepared for a lot
less coin in
the bag that you gave him.
Just...
There might not be as
much as we left with is all
I'm saying.
I started to realize
that when...
after it was kind of
too late.
You know what? Nobody's perfect.
Like magic, you can
do good and bad. That is
with people.
And not
good. You cannot
even say magic is good or bad. It is just magic, right?
So you use it. So maybe
he will use the money for good.
He needs the money.
I'm sure it's fine.
He doesn't need the money. But if he
uses it, I'm sure it will
go to some use.
Okay.
So should I call you Miss
Edelwind? Edelwile?
Miss
Cecilia?
Edelwine was right, but Cecilia is fine.
Miss Cecilia.
If it's easier for you
to call me Jessie.
I
don't know. Whatever. I do not care
if we are under familial
relations.
I don't know.
It could be your older brother.
It could be
I don't know.
I think
that one might be
It's not impossible. A stretch.
A stretch. We'll stick
We are two members of
a family. Travelling, I am
escorting my younger
familial relation.
Across the
continent.
With scarecrows
that drown people.
And little girls made of light.
And boxes where
voices speak to you.
With people you know.
This would be
fine.
I guess I didn't know mine.
The voice.
Unless I
did, but didn't
realize it.
At first I thought it was my mom.
But
It really could have been anything.
I don't
remember what my mom's
voice sounds like
exactly. It's been a long time.
So.
But
That was just my first
assumption that apparently it's
your niece.
Well done. There is magic
beyond our means. And something
that we will figure out.
Together.
Okay.
Right boobie bet. Nope. I can't say that.
You are a young woman.
Nope. Right.
Comrade.
Alright.
You ready?
I think so.
And he extends his hand.
She takes it.
Then here we go.
And they'll shake.
As the two of you shake.
You see
peaking around the corner.
Kirkosh.
Who just kind of like
looks for a moment. He goes
Oh good you're not dead.
No but I almost died.
Many.
Well.
I got everything all set up.
Edge of town waiting for
back bed rolls and stuff too
because I really care.
I care about you.
I think one of you needs a good rest while the other
one starts you know driving around.
So.
I made it and everything.
Thank you.
Thank you for getting everything.
I have a confession to you.
The whole brother on his uncle's side thing.
That's like really weird and impossible.
That's because it was a lie.
You are admitting you.
Good.
It was a step brother.
No.
That's a bad lie because that works.
Come here buddy.
Bring it in.
Is confusing.
Do you have the rest of the money.
No yeah of course.
Give it back.
Yeah of course.
Coke.
Gives you back your bag of money.
Points to his chest
is sure.
Coke.
Yeah.
I know you've taken a bunch but you can have a little
but you can't have all it.
Come on.
We're going across an entire continent.
Oh this is my money.
He pulls out some gold.
Isn't that convenient.
Yeah.
I'm gonna protect myself.
With gold coins.
You're going to melt it into armor.
I'll give it as a generous donation.
Oh thank you for your donation to the cause.
As you know I am actually
her brother-in-law's uncle.
So after a tragedy.
That doesn't make any sense.
Okay.
No wait I thought I was your brother-in-law's niece.
Oh shit.
Is that what you said?
Just by all of the talking
family stuff.
You're her little sister.
You're his little sister's
little kind of
best friend.
But it needs to stay in the family.
A little sister that's also a best friend.
Yes. Yes.
Tight.
Best friends.
Maybe
I just
I just hired you to come with me.
Okay.
That's fine too.
Since you are a guard and everything.
The groving girl.
I took an oath.
It was like the
coolest thing ever.
I've ever done.
You promised something. I don't envy you.
I did.
I did what I was
doing. I did for real.
It happened.
I swear.
To protect the people.
No I did. I did.
You started to walk in.
By the way how much money am I
should I write off now to me?
You are out
of a total of 100
tenkel pieces so minus.
Jesus Christ.
So I'm at 390.
Into the 500.
Oh my god.
It's crazy how much
smaller it feels when you get into the
300 range when you started at 500.
So bizarre too.
No spell slots.
But all the cash.
With Jean Claude's protest ringing throughout the air,
Kirkosh leads you towards the edge of town.
Where you see Reginald attached to a wagon alongside another horse.
It is a horse with a sort of red coat.
It sports a red coat and sort of like jack-pock hair that kind of runs through the skin.
And it's tail is nice and braided.
That's Marquis.
Treat him nice.
Marquis.
I guess I'm going to have to spell their names or I'm going to go ahead and do that.
Like a sitar Marquis.
Or like Mark with an E.
Marquis.
Markui.
Oh it is like a stage.
Is he a show horse?
I don't know. I just bought him.
Okay.
I said that one. It gave to me.
And attached to the bag is this large hooded wooden wagon.
It's not like the wagon you have at Cartaglia.
This one is much more traditional.
A wagon of wooden make with four large wooden wheels.
And a coach in the front to pilot the vehicle.
The hooded part of the wagon is made out of this particularly like dual layered cloth.
It should protect you from rain and like cold wind.
It looks...travelable.
Oh boy.
We're doing the thing. We're doing it.
Okay.
Okay it's all real now.
Okay.
Deep breath.
Okay.
I kind of did the same thing when I...
a little bit after I left.
But Reginald just kept moving so it was okay.
That will be our motto.
Just keep moving.
Okay.
Hey John Cloud.
Yes friend.
You're gonna come back right?
Of course I have to bring back news of your son.
As well as disguise I'm going to kick in the balls for you.
Of course I'm coming back. Please.
I'll keep your shack all nice and warm for you in the meantime.
Yeah please do.
It took me forever to get it to look that nice.
Like I put a lot of effort into it.
Oh.
I ain't gonna...no I ain't gonna...you should go ahead.
Okay come here. I hug. I hug. Come come.
Okay okay.
Big bear hug.
Yeah okay.
And he does the big back slams.
Both of you compete. Both of you squeeze hard.
No no no.
Their back begins to pop a little bit.
It's just both a strength. Strength vs. strength.
Let's do it.
Athletics?
Yeah.
Oh yeah beat that in the eight.
You didn't know?
A six!
So I didn't beat that.
You rolled an eight. I rolled a six.
My bitch.
Her cautious was a nat three and yours was a nat two.
It's called skill.
It's called booby besties.
The bosom buccaneers.
The bosom buccaloo's.
Booby besties.
I will see you soon.
Okay.
Titty buddies.
You will see you soon okay.
Of course. I'll be here.
You betta.
I have all these stories to tell you.
I'm going to be an adventurer.
Out of here you dumb animal.
Go get out. Go.
Animal? How dare you.
Get out of here.
I was saying a bunch of goats for you.
We need goats.
That's right get the goats when I come back.
I'm just saying if Captain Valestani decides to hook up with anyone I don't care.
I'm just saying.
That's something very specific and came out of nowhere.
I think you do care.
No I do not. Okay.
Well come on Miss Cecilia.
We go. I will escort you to the ends of the world.
We're adventurers now.
You don't have to say the Miss part by the way.
It was nice meeting you she says to Kirkosh.
Hey.
Take it sleazy.
Are you sure he's not a rogue?
Bye.
They just stared at each other in silence.
I'm not going to sign my business.
Oh god.
Take care of each other.
You take care of your saves.
I'm gonna.
You better.
Yeah.
You um Jean-Claude I assume you're the one taking the reins?
Mm-hmm.
Miss Cecilia you're...
in the pilot seat in the passenger seat or in the back?
Um.
Probably the back for now because she's still just a little awkward about everything.
Understandably but it's been a crazy day.
As the wagon.
Oh yes.
As the wagon rocks.
Passing the Lear Mir Forest.
You begin to make tracks with proper accommodations now.
Onto the Lanaya Road.
To start what's going to be an eventful journey.
Oh no.
And that is where we're going to end this session.
Yay!
Great job Tim.
Watch my oath.
There is something else.
In the Salarian Empire.
A professor of the arcane.
A gestures towards charts of stars.
Towards students.
Towards diligent students.
Some taking notes but some unaffected by the presentation given to them.
And some unable to take notes because they are drawn in by the charts in front of them.
They are drawn in by Professor Erlemeyer's musings.
Professor Erlemeyer who has been teaching all day.
Continues to teach.
Continues to tell and render onto his students his knowledge.
And everything he knows.
He goes.
It is the ability of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.
He says some of us here we draw our power from celestial bodies above.
The moon.
The moon, Rana.
The sun.
The stars that speckle the skies above.
Millions and millions of miles away.
The only distance that our minds can comprehend.
We do not know the specifics of how we get our powers.
How exactly we draw our powers from celestial bodies above.
Is it faith?
Is it a shared faith?
Is it a shared together faith that we all draw our power from?
Is it truly our combined minds together in this upper idea that we believe in?
Strong enough to manipulate the weave.
To grant us powers to manipulate the world around us.
To create food and water out of the air.
To summon these arcane projectiles out of nowhere.
He rubs his face for a moment.
He rubs sweat off.
I wipe up the brow.
And he realizes he's short of breath.
All right.
There is a lot of wonder in this world.
It is from that wonder that we use to create our own miracles.
That is what the arcane is.
That is the power of the weave that we draw from.
And as he places his hand on his nose, his hand leaves his face for a moment.
To see that he has drawn a palm full of blood.
Oh, God.
Professor Erlemire.
Professor.
He falls.
He wakes up.
Soon after.
Groggy and leery-eyed, he looks around to see two students around him.
And the nurse of the academy.
A small, impressionable old gnome.
Professor, are you okay?
One of the students goes.
Oh.
My, uh...
Perhaps I've, um...
That's not to worry, students.
I simply put, I just put a bit of too much work into myself as of late.
He goes, Professor, you are bleeding.
I, uh...
Yes.
Thank you, Ursula.
Thank you.
Thank you, Jeremy.
Perhaps a break, perhaps a break is in order for me.
The nurse goes.
You can leave now, students. I have a familiar.
The two students leave.
The gnome goes.
Again.
It happened again.
Yes, it has.
Um...
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for everything again.
In the stone, it's just...
I cannot figure out why.
No divine magic can seem to alleviate you of whatever you have.
You need to seek out practical medication.
Someone who knows the body well.
Not just a wave of their hand.
Right.
I'm sorry.
You were muttering something in your sleep.
I was.
Names.
Oh.
Um, what, what, what names were they?
Serenity.
Serenity, that's the name of, um...
That's the name of Lord Moonglave's daughter.
He's going to, he's going to arrive here soon.
That's perhaps why I have her on the mind.
And Cecilia.
Who is this person?
Cecilia.
I'm afraid I don't...
Perhaps I was muttering something gibberish in my sleep.
To call it sleep would be generous.
You need to get real sleep.
Rest.
Yes.
Someone in the faculty will fill in for you.
But for now, you need to figure out what is wrong with you.
Of course.
Thank you again, Mr. Stone.
I'll seek a better treatment for myself right away.
He returns home.
As he does.
Lindis.
He opens the door.
Merrivel.
No response.
Oh no.
As he, um, he walks in, making a beeline towards his bedroom.
He looks himself in the mirror for about a moment.
He has a pale, backs beneath the eyes.
Long drawn brown hair that splits in the middle.
And careens down each side.
He had compared that image to the image he saw in the morning.
And it was already so different.
He edges himself towards the mirror and he goes,
You're back.
Why?
And he's, and he responds to himself.
Ah!
Stem trachea and hide shit.
The closet.
It's time.
What?
He opens the closet.
And with a deep breath.
Scours through.
Mountains of cloth, long toss there before.
Dust cobwebs torn apart.
He reaches for a small wooden box.
And he goes.
And this will be it.
No response.
He opens the box.
To find a horned mask carved from stone.
Oh my god.
And that is the end of that.
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.
Copying a good bit from Aabria Iyengar.
It's a good effect.
Oh my god.
So thank you all so much for watching, folks.
Thank you so much for chatting and everything.
Terrifying.
I was going to pipe in with a friendly note that like we're about just Twitch business things,
but then like Timmy was like, oh, psych, it's not the end of the game.
Here's a bunch of name drops of things.
Was it Ursula from the test game?
Where's Ursula from?
The test game?
I don't know.
I remembered Ursula too for some reason.
I'm like, how do I know that name?
I think it's from the test game.
With Vivian and Dennis.
Oh, is it really her?
I think it was.
But they're completely different continents.
Yo.
The guy would go to his portals to all the universities.
Oh, shut up.
Shut up.
Oh, is it Tim?
And he said some weird shit to them.
Remember Dennis and Vivian?
Like he knew stuff he wasn't supposed to.
Oh my god.
Oh no, I can't handle this.
Can't handle it.
Nope.
I'm playing a dumb character for a reason.
Can't handle it.
Emma shutting down.
All done.
All done now.
And this is the, hey guys, we actually, I mean, you might be able to assume we are hitting
some milestones for affiliate.
The main one we're shortened of is the followers.
So I appreciate everyone who has followed because we're excited for emotes specifically.
Yay.
Emotes.
It's actually the thing we're really excited about.
We want the emotes.
And so yeah, if, I appreciate everyone who is followed and if you're not followed and
you feel like doing it.
Thank you for following Warped Films.
Warped Films, my favorite.
Yay, friends.
We're getting there.
Thanks, friends.
We're getting there.
And thank you for coming, everybody, because this has been crazy for a second session.
You know, like, things are already kind of crazy in some ways.
It'll slow down.
It'll slow down now.
I don't know.
I was like, okay, this is great until that last little clip.
Oh my God.
That is where a fifth of the way through the prologue.
Oh my God.
I'm kidding.
Prologue's over.
We start the journey.
We start to begin chapter one.
Please, chapter one.
Give us chapter one.
It is chapter one.
Yay.
And quickly, if someone tells me I'm the best person ever in the chat, I will let them level
up.
You're the best person ever.
Level up.
Now can you tell me my oath?
I mean, we could be oath of the agents, but I was like, I'm going to make something up.
But for now, why don't we do something really cool in front of everyone?
Let's roll a hit die.
Okay.
I thought it was oath of agents.
I have a rule.
If you roll below the average of your hit die, you just take the average and the constitution
mod.
Crunchy octopus is looking out for us.
Average plus one.
The starting rules.
So you roll your d8.
I roll my d10.
I rolled my max.
I rolled an eight.
I'll let you roll again, Emma.
My second nat one of the night.
Oh gosh.
It's you, James.
It's okay.
I'll let you roll again.
Dice gods do have favorites.
Okay.
If this is another one, I think this is my fate.
Okay.
We both got eight.
Nice.
Perfect.
Oh my god.
That's okay.
Maybe all my nat ones come in the end.
You know?
I am up to 27 hit points.
Feeling good.
As far as everyone level up, every other part of the level up, we get that figured out between
sessions.
But for now, you can catch us next Sunday, 8pm at the official start of our journey as
these two no longer dormant.
But now spurred forward adventurous souls.
Begin their ruckus.
Here we are, baby.
So exciting.
All right.
With that said, is there anything else anyone wants to say?
Songwell bird!
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