Song Woven presents The Lanaya Expedition, a D&D 5th edition actual play campaign.
Episode 3.
Nighttime Visitors.
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Hello everyone.
And welcome to Song Woven.
This is, this is Halloween edition.
He's gonna play the whole game like that.
For those of you listening, we just opened in on Tim WAAAHAHAHAHA NOOOOO STOP WEARING
A HORSE MASK WITH A GAS MASK IN YOUR HEAD.
OVER A GAS MASK.
I am your humble, I am your ever present DM, your dangerous mama, Tim Don Tran.
That was my Halloween costume, the dangerous mama.
Anyways, welcome back to Song Woven ladies and gentlemen.
In case you couldn't tell, I think we dated this episode by dressing up.
For the podcast folk, I was post-apocalyptic Reginald, Cecilia's horse.
He has a gas mask under there.
He's prepared for the worst.
He knows.
After he ate the irradiated hay, life didn't really work out.
So with that said, why don't we go ahead and introduce ourselves from the most spookiest
to the least spookiest.
I think you were the spookiest.
I just introduced myself, I'm done.
Hello, I'm Tim Don Tran everyone.
I'm the DM of Song Woven.
Also known, DM stands for a dangerous mother.
Dangerous mama goose.
Mama, mama specifically.
DMG, DM's guy, does not stand for that.
Dangerous mama goose.
Mama goose.
Well, I am Jenny Sheward, I'm playing Cecilia.
I am dressed up in not a normal Halloween costume.
I haven't unpacked all my costumes because I do cosplay and I was looking for something.
This is the only one I had out for Renfair.
So I am on theme.
But yeah.
This beautiful lilac dress.
You're looking fab.
We love Holly clothing.
Shout out to Holly clothing, Renfair clothing.
Look at these sleeves.
Look at it.
It's sheer, it's elegant.
She's an elven maiden.
Gorgeous.
Stunnin.
Radiant.
And I am Emma Remosco, I am a player here on Song Woven.
And I am dressed as ass ketchup.
You're ass ketchup?
You gotta catch it wrong.
Sexy ass ketchup.
I'm sexy Ash Ketchum known as Ash Ketchum.
You gotta catch em all and by that I mean STGs.
No, I can't.
No!
Sorry, I'm just apologizing.
Song Wolven encourages protection.
Encourages protection.
I'm just telling everyone.
Stingy boundaries and consent but I have Pikachu with me and please make sure no children watch this stream.
Take some more.
I guess we can turn this into a teachable moment.
Or a real quick if a child is watching.
Get them out!
Let's get out of here.
Shoo!
Wow, okay.
What was I gonna say?
I had some announcements at the top of the show but I forgot.
Sorry.
Okay.
I guess you can tell from the talk about STGs it's almost Halloween.
Why does that have to do with it?
I'm glad we did introduce ourselves from most spookiest to least spookiest because Jenny is scary.
One time she talked to me while she was holding a knife.
But yeah.
What?
I keep losing my train of thought because...
You had announcements to make?
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Alright, merch announcements. I'm kidding, we don't have that yet.
Don't, I'll do it. You got Emma all excited.
I love it when we look great on a shirt. It will look amazing.
It does! Listen, if there's enough interest, I'll do it. Don't threaten me.
My little sister wants one. She said so when you sent the first ideas.
She's our biggest fan.
And just at the very top of the show before we begin, Songwulven will be going on a hiatus until the next Sunday coming up.
So November, let's see, November, November 6 is when, we're going to be going on a hiatus until November 6 and we'll come back.
At 8pm Eastern Time.
So the 6th, we don't have a game.
No, we do have a game.
Confusing wording.
What?
We will play next Sunday.
Okay. Great.
I am tricking rather than treating.
Why is that coming off?
I was confused here. I was like, was someone not available?
I was like, why don't I know? Why are we playing?
We're going on hiatus for a week and then we'll be back.
I will be back at Tim's like, I'm gone. I'm out.
Peace.
Alright.
With that said, let's go ahead and shimmy ourselves into yet another session of Songwulven.
Alright.
So can one of us here go ahead and give a little verbal recap of what happened last session?
Give me really quick.
I could read what Jenny just posted in the chat.
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
So according to the in the chat, upon successfully defeating the scarecrow and the shade controlling it, Claude confronts Cecilia with the suspicions of her, leading her to the reveal.
Whoops. Words leading her to reveal the fragment of the moon she is carrying. Claude's Claude's.
Guys, I can't speak tonight.
Already like ask.
I also had a typo. I rushed that recap right before we went live.
So listen, we're we're doing it live, baby.
That's how you know it's live.
Claude hears the voice of his missing niece when presented with the moon fragment and with resolve decides to join Cecilia on her journey.
After taking an oath before the captain of the groven guard to defend her, the pair sets off on their journey.
Cecilia also mentioned that she heard her mom to John Claude, right?
She said she heard a woman's voice.
She thought it was her mom, but she doesn't remember her mom's voice that well.
Okay.
So yeah, this suspicious fragment, they've decided to team up.
And John Claude's friendly NPC friend turns out he's got a dark, dark past that might pop up in the future.
We also had a bit of a preview at the end of last session.
We were introduced to this scholarly character who seemed to be struggling from some sort of illness.
He seemed to be teaching at a college far away from where Cecilia and John Claude are based.
And at the end, he opened up, you know, his closet to reveal a mask made of, you know, horns and leaves and various accoutrements.
So we have an interesting preview into who may this be.
All right.
Absolutely brilliant.
With that said, John Claude, Cecilia, spurred forward by promises, new and old, the two of you make flight on the on the on the Lanaya Road,
going all the way towards Andorath in the Salarian Empire.
Now, Cecilia, it's been a very tiresome day.
It's been a very tiresome day for you, to say the least.
Quite possibly the most that's ever happened to you ever in your in your entire life.
And with that, you you earn a well deserved you earn a well deserved break.
Possibly like mending bits of your clothes from where the bear trap teeth, the teeth kind of clamped down on you and kind of like quietly tending to the rest of the rest of your wounds.
That was mostly healed by John Claude's healing touch or lay on hands.
You spend your time in the back of your sort of barren wagon.
Wagons usually carrying barrels of supplies and among other things.
But you have your sister's bag of holding.
You don't need barrels.
But you do have you do have the typical accoutrements that would come with a wagon.
There are camp, there's camp equipment, supplies, such as such.
But as of this moment, you're just currently resting in the back.
Allowing your newfound companion, John Claude Bushran, who fought alongside you and then right afterwards attempted to arrest you.
Piloting the wagon on your journey towards on to Roth.
John Claude.
Currently, the Lanai Road is a very well traveled road.
It's like it's like the highway here in the United States.
You just kind of boom, you kind of go.
So thankfully, there's no need for there's no need to call for directions.
So you're just following a map.
You're following a whim. You're following a promise.
A great a great few moments pass by.
At times from your position and the front of the wagon.
You see you look back to see Cecilia, mostly quiet and tending to herself.
But it seems like she needs a good amount of rest.
Oh, so I shouldn't talk to her.
That's up to you.
Okay, this can I is she is she sleeping?
Is she like eyes closed, like look like she's a little closed off?
Or she more like look like a little worried, like uncomfortable kind of thing?
I was imagining when they first get going, she is she's sitting back there, not sleeping yet if she is tending to her things.
But she keeps kind of looking back at the front towards you when she thinks you're not looking.
Because this is all just still a weird situation.
OK, so she's uncomfortable.
He will call out and say, So, Miss Cecilia, what do you what do you do when you are not carrying around shards of the moon and, you know, getting into combat with Skullcrowze?
Do you have any passions, anything fun you're doing?
Perhaps do you go to school?
Um, I did go to school.
But I read a lot, usually.
All the books that we could find really mostly just tours and things.
What do you like to read?
I would think you would be interested in like a university or a college, right?
Don't they have those for Castells?
Sometimes you can go to higher education and try to learn more.
I guess I've never really thought about it.
Also, you don't have to say the Miss part, just Cecilia's fine.
Are you sure?
Like it is a like you are a young lady, like you deserve to have a Miss.
I mean, if you want to, I guess you can.
How about how about this? We meet halfway.
Cici, does anyone call you Cici? That is a cute nickname.
Um.
Miss Cici?
I guess that's fine.
Okay, so you are happy with this? You are unhappy with this, I bet.
I have been told I am not very street smart, so I have a hard judge of greeting people sometimes.
So happy yes, happy no.
I don't really care either way.
I just didn't want you to feel like you had to say something one specific way or something like that.
Oh, no, trust me. I do not feel like I have to do anything.
And it is why it gets me into so much trouble because I do whatever I desire sometimes and and and and do not put much thought into it.
But enough about me. So you like to read.
Has there been a story that you have been invested in recently?
I know a lot of young women your age like to read them, you know, stories of, you know, dark romance and, you know, vampires and, you know, the edgy bad boy.
But there is a love triangle with your with your your best friend from when you were but the child who knows you more than, you know, us, too.
But but there is a conflict where you have this duty, right? You are the only one that can see the way.
So you know that I don't know these books you like.
No, I do not know what these young women read.
Do you think that I have time to spend time on these novels?
No, no, no.
You must have been really.
Oh, it's a check.
I haven't rested yet, so it's still at disadvantage.
Twelve.
Am I rolling deception?
Are you obviously?
Are you fucking lying?
That is an 18.
He's talking like a liar, but.
It's hard to read. I don't understand him.
And you're tired.
Anyway, what are those books?
Is that what you like to read?
I do like books with stories and things sometimes, but I kind of just read whatever we have like.
My sister would travel a lot, so she would get me books and things and I'd read those.
But I think I've read like almost every book we have in our village, basically.
Wow. OK, so you've assumed this village is quite small.
It's not very big.
It's not super, super small, but it's.
Not big.
Oh, well.
Did you ever have any, you know, like dreams or goals?
I mean, you are a young 18 year old young woman and.
You know, did you want to start your own business there or, you know, you are a cleric.
So perhaps you wanted to go to, you know, a temple or studies there, create your own.
Did you did you, you know, have any anything that you want to do?
Well. I mean, that's part of doing this.
I thought I could do it at the same time, but.
I am really interested in healing and medicine and whatnot, and I've practiced a lot.
We do have a temple in our village.
I've practiced a lot there and I've read a lot, but I haven't learned everything that I want to learn.
And. I know that in the Salarian Empire.
Technology is supposed to be a lot more advanced and stuff, and I thought maybe maybe there'd be new things to learn there.
On the way there and so I guess I was kind of hoping that I could do that too.
You could you could be a doctor.
You know, you could go to school to study medicine and you want to know something if you want like we can we can practice right.
I am sure we will have many bumps and bruises along the way.
I know sometimes, you know, doctors have to practice, you know, with patients and I could pretend to be a patient to be like, oh, my leg is broken.
What would you do in this situation? And you can pretend that you have to fix my leg or something like that.
I think. I think we'll have opportunity for that.
I was wondering how long have you been in the guard to become a replacement captain?
Wait, damn, how long have I been in the guard?
You haven't been the guard for a good handful of years.
Up to this point.
Say definitely like two to three.
About, you know, two to three years.
Why I was promoted to a temporary captain.
I still do not know.
I am most considerably the last person actually to have been the captain of the guard.
As you see, I don't really do well with structure.
I prefer to, you know, just go with the flow.
The punches that are thrown, I will dodge them and or receive them.
And so I'm not really a good example.
If that was, you know, like a career fair, I do not go up to my stall is what I'm saying.
I see. I thought, well, I thought since you're the replacement that you would probably be like super qualified.
I mean, I don't mean it like that, but.
Well, you know, actually, you see, I am.
I'm very humble.
As you can see, I am such a humble person that I am, you know, putting myself down literally in front of you to make you feel more comfortable.
But really, I am a very skilled warrior trainer.
I do train. Yes, if it is, I am also a fitness trainer on the side.
In my spare time, I am a great communication skills.
I am well known in my circles.
I also tend to be a craftsman.
I can, you know, do a little wood whittling occasionally.
So I kind of like have it all.
So that is probably why I was chosen, because of my humility.
Right. I would not. I would take the position with respect and for what it was.
So, yes, I am qualified. So you are right. You are right.
I should do better not to put myself down.
Your guide, be kind to yourself.
That is what you're telling me right now.
Right.
I do want to say Jean Claude, because you are a beast.
Do you have a limited understanding of you?
So as you're saying all of that, you see Reginald in the front go.
Like, kind of snorts at what you just said.
Care to elaborate, Reginald?
I don't stop for a moment.
And then he continues to move.
He really listens to you.
Yes, apparently someone is jealous of my skill.
No!
See, he really is in fear to be face to face with such greatness as I.
Reginald, it's so strange.
He peeks over at Marquis, the second of the red mare that you've got.
And you see he just goes...
And then you see Marquis just kind of...
So my prediction first, PVP will not be actually a PVP.
It will be PVNPC and it will be Reginald V. Jean Claude.
Throw hands.
Anyway, how else can I? Any other questions or concerns?
As an upstanding member of the Groven Guard, I am here to protect and to educate and to help.
What other pieces of wisdom can I impart unto you, Miss SCC?
Um...I also wondered, I don't...I didn't recognize your accent.
Is it very common in the Lyra Mare forest?
People from there come through from time to time, but I've never heard anyone with a similar accent.
Well, you are quite insightful, aren't you, Miss SCC?
Haha, no, not very common.
No. Yeah.
It's just like...you know, just slowly nodding, quietly just staring at her.
You don't have to explain.
Just don't talk.
It's okay. Some would say, you know, I have a slight, very slight, giant dialect.
Others would argue, no.
Really, I'm surprised that you picked up on it, because to me, it is not very noticeable.
It's kind of subtle, yeah.
Right!
Poor girl.
Emma, please don't make the lore that all my giants speak with...
What if my name is Johnny Smith?
I can roll with deception if you need me to, because he was lying.
I'm going to assume that Cecilia's a bit too tired for an insane...
Yeah, she's not reading into anything you're saying right now.
So, yeah, no, that was John Claude lying, that he's a giant dialect.
But, CC might not have noticed that.
But don't worry, I'm not going to make fun of you.
They're kind of bad in my other games, they're a huge thing.
Oh!
That's right, and just so people know, I didn't realize until I did a game with Tim, is that all of his worlds are connected.
All of his games have impacts on the other characters.
Same world.
Same world, which is really fascinating and spooky for...
I worry about our other characters running into them.
All of my clerics in Timmy's world are on this continent, and that was not intentional.
All three of them now.
They're all very different.
Very different.
Drop a thousand dollars for some lore drops on our cocoa.
Drop, drop, drop five thousand to make a giant French dialect canon.
We're so obsessed with our own stories that we will probably just pay you to talk about it.
Oh, yes.
Correct, correct.
So he goes... anyway, he mentions, yeah, yeah, it is very light, very subtle.
A big, you know, big thing for the ladies.
I've been told because it is gentle, but foreign, so they're like, oh, where is that from?
You're sitting at drinks with your wine and your rocks glass, and they're going, oh, it is...
I haven't heard it before, but it is so gentle.
And I go, oh, I know.
Tell me more about you, though.
And then, you know, the date goes on and on and I slowly get more and more pretentious with it.
But anyway, was that your question?
Uh, yeah.
The day grows long.
Why does that say?
This is like the SpongeBob eight hours later.
Eight hours later.
Is it the same accent?
Same accent.
Anyways, anything else you want to say, Cecilia, before you try to get some further rest?
Not specifically, I think.
All right.
So, Jean-Claude, time moves fast.
Being well supplied, especially at the beginning of your...
At the near beginning of your journey, you don't see the need to stop by other big pockets of civilization on your way.
Mostly you travel on these long stretches of beaten dirt roads.
And eventually passing up villages and looking in the map, you find yourself approaching Wolligheim.
One of the first major towns that Kirkosh has told you about.
How it's a good refueling place to resupply and it's one of the...
And you would know and Cecilia would know because she's lived here.
Wolligheim is one of the...
Is a very large agricultural town and it's basically the agricultural center of this particular Lord's territory.
Not the region itself, but the territory.
So you know it's going to be a safe question mark place.
Civilized.
Wait, literally should I write safe question mark?
No, that's okay. I need you to forget.
Oh, jeez.
But with that said, the night does draw.
Eventually overhead.
Cecilia, you get a long rest in.
And Jean-Claude, at the rate of what you're traveling, you think it's going to take you a few more hours to get to Wolligheim.
And it does present you with a choice at the moment.
If you push further and try to get to Wolligheim, you'll get there at sort of like the very late hours of the night.
And you yourself need to get rest as well.
On the other hand, being in a nice shaded area, you're approaching like a wooded area that the path bisects.
So there's a place for you to camp if you so wish.
So you can travel in the light to Wolligheim.
Well, if this is a questionable location, I don't think arriving late at night would be in our best interest.
Is Cecilia awake or is she sleeping at this time?
By this point, Cecilia, we can say that you stay awake and notice it's nighttime.
Yeah, I'll go.
All right, Miss CC, we have two options.
One, we keep going, which I know that's what you prefer, but just to lay it out there.
We will get into town very late.
And while it is relatively safe, I'm not so sure about arriving in a town that we have not been in very frequently,
although you mentioned you've been there previously.
Perhaps we stop here?
Oh, you haven't.
All right.
You see this little grove over here, a little shaded area.
It seems fairly safe, close to the road, so we can hear anyone who approaches at night.
We could take watch, but I do need to take a little bit of a rest,
and it might be good just to camp out here before we head into town.
And also, it will be free.
We do not have to pay anything.
When we get there, we'll have to pay for an inn, and here we have our own guilds that we do not have to put some money down.
What is up to you? What do you think?
Yeah, Reginald is in the old house. It is hard for him to keep up, it seems.
Well, we have been going for almost 24 hours soon.
Well, you know, some horses can take it, others cannot, so I understand, you know.
Reginald's really good. He's faster than our other horse, too. Stanley.
That's why I took him.
Oh, mm-hmm. Faster.
Reginald, where are you?
It's funny because he can only understand one half of the conversation.
And Stanley.
Well, I see you saved the best horse, you know, for home.
Why didn't bring them along? Makes sense to me.
Keep them with your father. Oh, she hasn't mentioned her dad yet, has she?
No. Never mind.
Whoop! Skipping a pair with your sister, you know, to dance people.
You would not want to bring Stanley along if he is such a thoroughbred, upstanding horse.
Well, I like him. I like Stanley, too, but I've spent a lot of time with Reginald the past few months, so you should get some rest.
You're probably exhausted.
You know, I am actually, I am quite fine, but I think it would be best, you know, for you and for the horses to be at my tip-top, you know.
Although I can function on nothing. I mean, you saw my foot, you know, back there, and I was really coming off of a cold.
Back when we fought the Skelco, I was ill, and even still, I pushed through. I pushed through, my head pounding, pounding, my throat, my mouth dry, but I still persevered, because that is what you do in the-
See? You see his eyes slide over to Stanley, and he's like, yes, Reginald, whatever your fucking name is, be proud for me, but I pushed through, because I made a promise, I made an oath, and as a member of the Golden Guard, it is my duty, quite literally, to push forward when I have nothing, but in this situation, I am going to take a nap now.
I'm tired. Okay, we go back, we stop, we stop you off. Thank you. Okay, good.
Okay.
There's a sigh from Reginald that kind of translates to, finally.
You gotta put that, how much you're playing this, this horse, you gotta put the mask back on.
Or no, or at least Reginald deserves his own icon at this point.
Reginald fan art, here it comes.
Is Marquis just super chill the whole time, or is Marquis judgmental too?
Marquis is looking more straightforward, it's definitely Reginald, it's being more full of character.
Marquis is like, I just joined the party, y'all, I'm here for the ride.
Yeah, Cecilia will tend to the horses, let Claude rest.
Reginald says to Marquis, like, Sean Claude knows that our hooves do 2d6 plus 4 damage, right?
Wait, do they really do that much damage?
They do, they do.
Oh my god.
What kind of horse is Reginald to me?
Just, you know.
A paint, a paint maybe?
I was gonna say he has like sharpen, he's like sharpening his hooves, like whittling his hooves.
He has a horseshoe that's been cut into like a shank.
Yeah, he's just, shh, shh, shh, shh.
Oh my god.
You take a moment to set up the campsite.
Being a member of the Grosvenger Guard, Sean Claude, this all comes naturally to you.
You're not so sure the last time you put up a tent.
Oh no.
I'm not a ranger, that I am not.
I'll just go ahead and just eventually you do it.
Wait, can he do it in the way that like, you know when like, you know, sometimes dads are setting up like camp tents, they're like, I don't need the directions.
I don't need the directions.
I know I need to do it.
Give me a straight wisdom check.
So, for wisdom, that will be...
Oh, I tried to click it and nothing happened.
Um, there we go.
Oh my god, that will be a seven on a wisdom roll.
I don't need the directions.
No, no, the pole goes here.
No, no, no, no, listen to me.
I've done this so many times when I was a boy.
I know this.
So, no one asked, but you say...
He's yelling into the air.
She's just like getting the horses like unattached from the wagon and she's just looking over.
You're talking to the horses, but you cannot stop Reginald from constantly staring at Jean-Claude as Jean-Claude just attempts...
You went camping a few times, Cecilia, in the woods around your place and you're just silently like to yourself, that's not right.
As you see, Jean-Claude at times takes out the wrong cloth.
It's like applying a fitted sheet over a bed and you see it springs off of the corner.
That's Jean-Claude.
Learning from this, he's like, oh, this has to be the right one.
I just have to do it differently.
And you see Reginald just kind of like chuckling to himself, basically, watching Jean-Claude just fail.
You must really like him, boy.
She doesn't understand.
That look.
And eventually, Jean-Claude...
Taking a bit more time, but figuring out what was wrong.
Thankfully, no one was watching.
Wink, wink.
You get your few tents set up and a campfire.
And you're going to sleep.
All right.
So before he heads to bed, he goes, so do you need anything?
Do you need to be tucked in?
Like bedtime story?
Do you need some tea?
I'm fine.
Je t'aime.
I know a couple songs that we could...
Or do you want to sit around the fire and just like bond?
And like, you know, I could sing a song.
No?
You sure?
Okay.
Just want to make sure that you have, you know, everything that you need.
And you're sure you're okay after earlier?
That big shadow thing really seemed like it...
It seemed like it caught you, but it was hard to tell.
Oh, that was...
Listen, as a member of the Groven Girl, that is like bare minimum,
what I encounter every day.
It was actually quite standard, you know, like annoying chipmunks.
You know, that you get the little hose in the ground and you trip on the hose
because the chipmunks keep burying into the ground.
That was like a common chipmunk for me.
I thought that the forest was usually really peaceful.
Yes, because of me.
Because I am...
I guess that makes sense.
I am there to ensure its safety and, you know, you have been tasked with no one better.
You know, the captain even said so.
I am...
Do not worry.
All of this is under control.
You wasn't angry about what you said to her at the end, right?
No, that is...
Some people's passion can come out as aggression, right?
So Tim's face...
So Glee, what came off as like, you know, aggressive, angry, disappointed,
all of those things rolled into one, was actually like her form of like affection.
Like some people very, you know...
I have a hard time talking about softer feelings, you know, like love and this and so they have to use that fire,
but they do not know how to communicate with it so that they just, you know...
No, it was...
She's felt deep feelings for me for a long time.
And then when Valadonna comes out of the woods, draws him...
Jason Voorhees style...
300, boots him, kicks him.
I'm surprised you're letting me just ramble and not roll any deception checks.
That's the thing. I'm just having Cecilia just be like, okay...
I assume Cecilia does not...
She just knows.
She knows. She knows.
We can make that canon from here on out. Anytime Jean-Claude goes off, she knows. It's lies. It's all lies.
The deception is rolling itself.
To be fair, I do think you have a better passive deception score than I have passive insight.
Really?
Yeah, because I don't have proficiency in insight.
I don't think I do either.
Perfect.
No, I have no proficiency, so...
Do not rely on me, please.
But I mean like your deception.
Oh yeah, no, I am deceptive.
But... that it.
Anyway, good day. We shall save the campfire songs for another night.
But until then, awake me at any sign of cancer or danger.
And I wish you a good night, Missy C.
And he, you know, attempts to bow as he thinks he should, but he doesn't know how because he is no calm.
He doesn't... never... no.
Crack!
His back, his back cracks as he...
Okay, alright, I haven't done anything to it. Okay, good night everyone.
And he's, you know, been hobbled over as he goes to bed.
What did you want me to call you again? You said like JC or Jean-Claude or Jean or...
Listen, JC is quick and he's still bent over from cracking his back.
You can call me JC, you can call me...
Did she try to just like straighten him out?
No, no, no, it's just this build's character. I have it, I have it.
Okay.
Thank you. So you can call me JC. It is quick, it is to the point.
Jean-Claude is a bit longer, more efficient. Jean-Claude either or. All of them work for me.
Okay, good night, good night. Anything else? You good?
You good? No, you okay?
Are you sure you don't want help?
No, no, I am in. The Grub and Gout feels no pain. I'm going to bed now, okay?
Good night.
As Jean-Claude goes into the tent, allowing the pain to build character and also osteoporosis...
And he cries, he starts crying.
You lay down in your tent, kind of like just kind of trying to gritting and burying the pain.
Maybe you sneak a lay on hands or two.
It's like when you have like the pack of peas, the ice pack of peas, he's just like, temporary fix, temporary fix.
For the first time since this morning, you woke up in your ramshackled little hut in Royst.
You are finally getting rest. Promoted as the temporary captain of the guard to now, technically, and this is your first time really thinking about it,
you're kind of an adventurer, more of a courier than anything.
Adventurers, they slay monsters or whatever, they do quests, get gold. You're not an adventurer.
No, no.
This is just an adventurer.
Just an adventurer. This is an escort mission. He is a guard.
But he is, while he strays a little bit from the thoughts of an adventurer, he kind of fully starts to process, you know, what happened.
And he says very quietly to the air, you know, very like under his breath.
He doesn't want to be heard.
Sylvie?
Je t'aime.
Hey.
It's me.
I know you are there.
And just know,
I'm coming to get you.
Okay?
What are you opening?
It's a cult dice.
What does that mean? What? A cult dice?
He wants to be secretive.
Because the stream can see my role, so I need to...
What is this secret rule?
I'm kind of scared. I don't like this.
Sylvie is going to come down and beat you up.
Beat the shit out of her.
You found me already.
You found me already. Slap, slap.
You whispered to the air.
Realistically, no one can hear you.
But the way the world works and perhaps the places you grew up,
you realize just how many people can actually hear you.
And maybe you speak a little bit closer to your bracelet.
You, of course, were not expecting a response.
No.
But something just fortifies the faith that you have.
And something just makes your heart feel a bit more hopeful
as you speak these words and then look at your bracelet.
Is that it?
Yep. That'll be it.
Somehow, during this tender moment, your back doesn't feel like it's in pain.
Oh.
And it spurs you towards your slumber.
Cecilia.
So you are currently sitting by the fire at the very moment.
You are among the horses that have been tended to.
You, as they kind of sit on their small stakes, attached to the reins,
not going anywhere, you stand by for a moment.
For the first time truly since that scarecrow instance, you are alone now,
allowing you to process the thoughts.
There is always something you found with the night sky above you
and the nice bright moon above, not even the sound of crickets around you
that really fuel the fire of productive thinking.
But processing everything that's happened today, it's been a crazy day.
Give me a perception check.
He's like muttering very quietly to Reginald, like,
it's my first time taking watch.
That's the thing that adventure is supposed to do.
I'm going to cry. I'm going to cry.
Do I just sit here and watch or am I supposed to like walk around?
Obviously, Reginald doesn't respond to her.
I'll roll the perception.
24.
24?
So net 19.
I do have darkvision, so that's cool.
You do.
Even though I'm human.
Let me put it in the chat.
Eyes of night.
300 feet.
300?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's no, I don't think I have darkvision actually.
I can share it with you.
Yo.
For an hour.
The tables have turned.
It's so funny because like almost every party, almost everyone has darkvision.
And then our game this time, neither of us would,
but my class gives it to me and a companion.
A plus. Well done.
To followers of Saloon, the moon seems a bit brighter.
So, excited on your first watch.
I mean, technically you're an adventurer now, aren't you?
You're going to be doing all the adventure things.
I even have a party.
I mean, this wasn't what I expected for a party, but I have a party.
Oh no!
I'm sorry!
Now I feel bad.
Now player Emma's like, this poor character gets stuck with this guy?
She wasn't going to form a party, she thought, but she's like, well, that's it.
It's kind of, it's kind of good.
Excited with the prospect, sitting at the campfire, just thinking all this over,
you hear a slight rumble in the distance.
Not a rumble, but a shake of a bush.
The fire doesn't- oh, you have night vision. Super night vision. Never mind.
Super night vision!
The moment you just kind of sit there and observe for a moment,
as you see it again, a more visible shaking of the bush.
Do you wait a moment?
Um...
She starts to slowly stand, but she watches it.
Eventually, emerging from the bush, you see a pair of round, fluffy ears.
And then, rising out of the bush, you see a young bear.
No!
A bear cub.
No!
A bear!
No! Mama! Mama! Scary mama!
It sniffs the air, and kind of like walks out of the bush, seemingly going towards your wagon.
Shoo, shoo, shoo!
And eventually, as you're shooing it, the bush sort of splits,
as you see a bigger bear, an adult full-grown bear, following the cub.
If you punch the cub, it would enrage the parent.
Oh my god, why would you punch a cub to begin with?
I'm not gonna punch the cub!
I know you're not, I'm just saying it's a fact.
If you punch a cub, it would enrage the parent.
Game!
Intrusive thoughts.
They won, they won.
Does she know what you're supposed to do when you encounter a bear?
Give me a quick history check.
Okay.
13.
Very simple. If it's brown, get down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, good night. It's a brown bear.
I can't tell colors in the dark.
Wait, wait, wait, what? Is that actually, what? That's not a thing. Did you make that up?
It's not actually right.
Don't follow it though. Don't follow it though. That is a saying.
Don't follow it!
If that's what she remembers though, then...
Oh no!
Where are the horses in relation to?
The horses are around, like, where you're, um, like, a bit off where you campfire. It's not near the wagon.
Okay.
And do they seem to notice, slash, might be getting scared?
Um, certainly. They're kind of like, um, kind of like, they're kind of like doing little hops on their foot. You know how horses kind of get agitated.
But the bears aren't close enough for them to like, pull on around. They're just very uncomfortable.
Uh huh.
Um...
Starts kinda knocking on the tent, like, the canvas, like, Sean, Claude, Hey...
Oh...
Oh, darn it.
She...
Um...
She rustles it a bit more.
But she's not trying to, she's trying not to be super loud either, so it's kind of a mix.
As you look back and forth between, uh, Jean Claude and the bear, you see the cub is like, trying to, like, put it, trying to, like, put half of it on top of the wagon. It's curious. It's just sniffing the wagon, the back of the wagon.
It's like, I guess they can go on the wagon.
No!
She, um, she opens up the tent and then, like, just kind of shakes you a little bit.
I like to think that Jean Claude sleeps with his trousers on, but shirt off, typical bro style.
And he wakes up and goes, AHHHH! And screams and definitely pulls the blanket, like, shhh!
He goes, Miss Stacy!
This is indecent!
I am a girl!
Be quiet!
No, I said you be quiet!
There's two bears!
What? A bear?
Two bears?
The spooks the cub!
But you see that the adult looks towards the both of you.
He can't see shit! He doesn't have dark vision!
Sniffing your direction.
Okay, okay, stay calm, right?
Bails! They just want to snack!
You see on that, I have this, I have this hand, don't hold on, don't worry, you stay here.
And, you know, with his little tummy hanging out, he's gonna grab his axe.
He can't see shit, because he doesn't have dark vision.
He's going to, like, use his axe to, like, open up the flap of the tent and go, Bails!
When she sees him, like, kind of stumbling around looking, she will take her action to share the dark vision.
So it just comes out of nowhere, you can see.
Screams, screams again.
Um, scream?
You see the adult bear just kind of, like,
What magic do you have on you, Druid?
And he points his axe to the bear.
I have known you-
Is this a secret for them to deal with bears?
I have known, Druid, to take the shape of animes and sneak up on adventurers, but this you have tempered within my mind, Druid!
Remove it!
Um, I will say, Reginald, who is listening to this, is going...
Nervous.
The bear can understand too, huh?
Oh no!
You leveled up, so you have a spell slot.
You can, um, you have, you have, uh, speak with animals from your own-
I forgot I had it!
I'll cast it, I'll cast it.
No!
Oh no, I'll cast it, I'll cast it.
As you say, you cast it before or after?
Um, um, well, if he thinks it was a Druid,
He would have done a... after, after. He's not that fucking smart. He would have cast it after.
And you're like, as you cast Speak with Animals, you do see the bear, who you are yelling at,
stand onto its high legs, and it stands like a good eight to nine feet tall,
and it just goes, Whoa there, buster.
You best slow your roll right now, you know what's good for you. You don't want to mess with Koda.
Koda, no!
He goes, Listen Druid, I have no issue with the tiny bear, he can continue to-
What's a Druid?
Um, it's a seal that you just hear the bear go,
What have you done to my vision? You have enhanced it, you castell.
Oh, that was me.
Oh, wait, if he's doing Speak with Animals, what else is he doing here?
Can I understand what he's saying, or is he talking in bear?
She's speaking. He is speaking, he's speaking common, but the match is still in it.
Got it, got it, got it. And then he goes, You did that? Okay, oh shit.
Pardon me, um, good day.
You scared my boy here, Orson, we're just here to get ourselves a good meal.
Okay, alright, and take it easy.
I'm taking it easy.
Okay, alright ma'am, alright ma'am, ma'am, please, please, ma'am, ma'am, please, please, please.
He's like, he turns back and he goes, This is, this is, this is the way I said I thought that he's a gallon.
Listen, listen, listen.
Oh, I'm listening, I'm listening, go ahead.
Oh no, no no no, okay, okay.
I am the manager, there is no position higher than me, and I, I.
What the hell is a manager?
If you want food, we, we can provide this for you.
Please, please give me a moment to go to our whales and we will provide you with some sustenance so you may go on your way.
Hmm?
You weren't supposed to feed bears, I thought it made some depend-
Cecilia!
Okay.
What is the little snack saying?
I- whoa, whoa, whoa.
Are you here?
We're not done-
Oh, I thought you were a mama bear.
I'm smelling the meats, can I go get it now?
Don't worry son, I got this.
Okay, hold on, okay, first of all, she is a young woman, do not call her a snack, inappropriate.
Second of all, I shall go get the meat from the bag, I will get it for your son, if you give me one second to get it, okay?
Make a persuasion check, because of your furbog racial ability, you rolled with advantage.
I think you have advantage in all your roles to persuade animals.
Because he's a fucking idiot.
And the animals are smarter than him, that's why.
Let's see, persuasion.
Add advantage.
My gosh!
So I rolled, oh my fucking god, I rolled a nine and an eight, and my persuasion is plus what?
It's plus four.
Four.
Plus four, and that's not- nope.
Wow.
Nine.
Kenrofer.
You sit there, I take this food with my son, my oar son.
We eat, and then we go and stare at some nature, and I'll float this into some river somewhere.
You cannot- okay, counter offer, counter offer, counter, counter, counter offer.
I would count down, but I don't think I know numbers.
I don't think you do either, which is why I am in the position of power here.
So, we provide you with the food, right?
We take it out, because here's the thing.
There are things in that bag that if you eat, you will get very sick.
And you are an important member of the Grove.
Trust me, and he points to his own- hits his own tummy.
I have- sometimes when you eat too much cheese, you end up with the shits for days.
I would love cheese.
You would?
Alright, okay, well if you let me, I can get it from the bag for you, but there is magic associated with this bag that you will not be able to get the food.
I can, though.
I can get it for you.
So you cannot take the bag, but I can use my magic to get the food from the bag for you and put it out for you.
And you can eat it here.
I don't care.
She does not care.
You eat the food, and then you go stare at the trees as you do.
What is magic?
I wish I had a cantrip.
Um, he goes, Cecilia, do you have a quick magic- you can just do a quick-
Um, magic? Like, what?
Don't you- don't you castells can do not do things really quickly that doesn't expend your energy, and you just throw it and go, eh.
She casts light.
Magic!
Whoa! Whoa!
Um, the bear flinches, um, and just, let's out, Cecilia, for you it's a little roar.
Um, it- it eos.
It says, is that a challenge I'm seeing?
What is that?
No, I'm saying only we can open the bag to get the food.
If you want the food, you let me go to the bag.
If you do not want the food, you will get the bag by yourself and be facked, okay?
So, canta canta, you decide. Up to you.
Be fucked.
Okay, I'm going to give you another perception- uh, persuasion roll.
The DC's a bit high, but you're still rolling with advantage.
Do you want to do that for me? I don't know if I want to do that for myself.
Not with an eight and a nine.
Past roll.
Come on, John Claude.
Just do one thing right.
John Claude, come on everyone, let's-
Come on chat, come on chat.
John Claude.
Manifest, manifest, okay.
What did I roll? I rolled a-
Well, a 14 is better than a seven.
And with the entire DC, I don't think it made it.
It was 15, wasn't it?
The DC was 15.
Son of a bitch.
Son of a bear.
Oh!
I'm just going to back up and take what I want.
You can't do that.
There's going to be a long winner.
You cannot take that bag. Don't touch it.
I'm gonna.
If you do, I would have to- if you take it, does he have it?
No, but he is backing up.
That is empty.
Doesn't it have stuff in it? It's like a magic bag?
Yes, it does, but it looks empty if you look inside it.
Oh no!
They're taking the food in the bag!
You see the cub kind of like looks into there and you see the cub, as curious as cubs do,
they put their heads into everything. They just kind of stick its head into the bag of holding.
Maybe he's a baby.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, it's going to disappear if he goes in.
No.
It's just its head.
Oh, just its head. Could you fucking imagine?
The bag of holding eats the baby bear and then we're fucked.
So bears are one of the only animals in the whole entire world who kind of stop and appreciate beauty.
That's why you sometimes see bears sit in like a beautiful meadow sometimes.
Really?
It's literally like beautiful scenery has hypnotizing effects on bears.
So they just sit down and just have a good time.
So that's why the cub isn't panicking at the moment, though technically it is suffocating.
What they were sniffing though was your like small barrel of supplies that was placed onto your wagon by Kirkos.
That was the main thing.
That's what they were sniffing. That's what brought them here, you would think.
Okay. They can have that.
As the bear cub is messing with the bag of holding, and I would say bear cubs have claws.
So you see it's kind of like messing with the bag and kind of like trying to get it off.
Aseelia, it's a little nerve inducing because like, oh, those are the claws on that bag.
You see that the poppa bear brings down the entire barrel.
A bear in a barrel.
Attempting to like knock it around and get supplies.
As they make it, as they make away, you do hear from the side, you hear, this adult is going to get us killed.
Is that you, Reginette?
It's always been me.
Eyes lock.
You see Marquee just go, please can we not do this right now? This is unbecoming.
I don't want to start a feud with the...that.
That? I am most certainly a Z. Thank you very much.
Reginald is like more like an F.
You did not.
Aseelia, this is all...
Wait, you can understand him?
Yes, I can! Oh, he's messing with my authority is what he is doing.
What?
You don't want to mess with these big meaty hoofs, old man.
You don't want to mess with these big meaty...firm man hands.
Can he understand me?
I don't think so.
Can you tell him that I love him?
Oh, come on, Cecilia. No, Reginald and I are in a feud.
And he looks at her and like this is the first time she's probably asked something of him.
Like anything to do something.
I thought he really liked you. It always seemed like he was really paying attention to you.
It is a love hate. It's complicated. It's complicated.
Okay, hold on. Reginald, Cecilia, not me. Cecilia, not me. Cecilia, not me.
Wants you to know that she, not me, she, not me, she...
loves you.
I didn't say it like that, but thank you.
I love her too. I wish she could understand me.
He says he loves you too and wish that you could understand him.
But at last, you must go through me.
The whole time you were specifying the not me part. It's okay. You don't have to do that. I don't want it from you.
I'm saying this attitude from you. We've just started this adventure and I know an adventure party...
I believe I called your name Jean Claude. Marquis goes.
Oui. C'est vrai? Is Marquis a man?
Marquis is a man.
Okay, sorry.
Indeed. Let's not put ourselves in a bit of a row here. Let's keep things civil.
Thank you, Marquis, who is speaking sense for once.
The bears eventually get their fill.
But do they keep the bag?
The bear... the cub is curious about it, so he is carrying the bag.
Okay, buddy, who done? And then Jean Claude is going to go and be like, little buddy, no food in there. Oh no.
I know I want it.
Well, you cannot have it yet.
My dad's going to eat you.
I'm going to... Listen here, you little shit. Give me the bag.
Oh, he cussing around my children.
Give me the bag! And he's going to grab the bag and try to book it.
Make a contesting athletic check.
A 12! A 12!
The cub's thankfully have 11 strength.
So they just roll a straight D20. Natural 1!
Oh no! I don't want to hurt him!
He's going to cry now.
Oh no, we're fucked.
You snatch the bag and thankfully with his natural 1, you take it out without any incident. It does not rip the bag.
But a higher check would be pretty bad.
But as you snatch it, you see...
Oh gosh.
You see Koda, the Papa Bear, as you're just running, it just begins to charge towards you.
Ellie!
Don't worry, son, I got this!
She sees this happening and she's going to try to spook the bear.
She casts light on the bear. I think I have to touch it.
I'm not going to touch him.
Never mind, keep going. I'll think of something else.
So, you did say that you were going to run a little bit as you went away.
The brown bear does have 40 feet of movement.
Oh no! He overtakes me real fucking quick!
He'll try to cast Command.
Go stop!
Let me look at something real quick.
If he can't even handle a bear, how the hell is he going to help Cecilia?
There's a lot of drops.
A creature you can see within range, so wisdom save.
I was just thinking of a brown bear has...
Because some of these enchantment spells require the creature to have a certain intelligence.
A wisdom save, which appears plus one.
Four.
Oh thank god, it was 14. So he goes, stop!
Stops.
Cecilia, grab our shit, we're going!
Okay.
Leave the tents, we don't need them!
The horses aren't attached to the wagon anymore.
Get the horses! He goes, Regiment! Mucky, to the carriage!
She tries to do it fast!
Well he has hooked it with my bear!
So Cecilia, you run over to the horses.
You hear Regiment go, oh boy, my favorite!
It's the feeder!
As Cecilia gets situated, it does last for one round.
That's not enough time, is it?
Six seconds.
So the brown bear command eventually falters.
I will do it again, if you do not leave!
I don't believe you have the spell slots now, because you haven't taken a lot of rest yet.
But he can lie. He can lie. I will do it again.
Oh, okay.
Try it.
Make a deception check.
Holy shit! This bear is fucking hardcore, man!
As to as in the woods.
I was listening. As to as I!
To answer the question, a bear does shit in the woods.
As to I!
He said a deception?
Yes.
Okay, John Claude, you've been rolling like shit all night.
Can you please, please, please, please, please do me the biggest favor and roll a decent fucking roll?
Oh, thank Christ.
21!
21! 21. I'm gonna puke.
Why don't we get an insight check? I wanted to roll on that 20 so bad.
I rolled a 13.
The bear begins to back away.
And he goes, this is too much trouble.
And he turns around and as he walks, you see the little bear cub.
You know how little baby animals do a little hop when they walk?
Goes next to the papa bear.
He goes, dad, can I please have the thing that the little snack was holding now?
He goes, no.
Come on. Let's go find the cave to curl up in for a bit before we go hunting for fish tomorrow in the stream.
I don't know how to do that.
Then learn.
Oh, Jesus.
That's a tough relationship going on there.
They do leave eventually because that's how bears act. They just leave if it's too much trouble.
Okay. So light, Cecilia.
Fear not. As a member of the Grovengaard, it has been handed.
He's holding the reins on Markie.
So we're not leaving?
No, no, that was to, you know, spook the bear.
It was all part of my plan, right? To get the tensions high.
You know, it was all about to. It was all of it was part of my plan.
They're not going to come back?
Um, you know, remember I said, oh, that tended to a breakdown for certain.
Remember I said that we should, you know, not arrive in this town late?
Sorry, I'm choking.
Are you okay?
My non-quads lies are literally choking my esophagus.
I remember I said that we should not go to the town in the middle of the night.
I take it all back. I think we should. I think that is best.
So I will take down the tent. Tents play well.
You continue to situate the houses and we will help them do the job.
Okay. Yeah, I can do that.
See?
We have a tent again.
Reginald.
Reginald, I've done this.
Oh, can he? You can still talk to him.
There's one more thing I always wondered.
Oh no.
Ten minutes.
Oh shit, ten minutes. Okay.
Yes, yes, Miss Sissy. What pressing questions do you have?
Does he like his name because my sister thought it was a dumb idea?
But I named him and I like the name. Does he like it?
You don't have to ask him if you don't want to.
I just, I've never thought about actually asking him if he likes his name before.
I could use, this is to himself, I could use this as an opportunity to fuck with the horse, but I won't do that.
Okay. Reginald.
Miss Sissy wants to know, do you enjoy the name she has bestowed upon you? For her sister thinks it is a stupid one.
Of course. I love it.
Reginald.
He left.
It sounds so horsey.
Yeah, it sounds so horsey. Wow.
You look back towards the ceiling.
He loves it. He says it sounds really horsey.
Is that actually what he said? He sounded a little sarcastic.
Well, that is what he said, but I was being a bitch. As they tend to be.
Oh.
As a member of the Grieving God, it is good to have a sense of humor, is it not? With all of the dark, disturbing things we must see every day.
It is part of our training to play light, right? To play light and to seek out the light when there is but darkness around us.
That makes sense.
Sure.
Reginald's just head tilted like, bitch.
Alright, okay.
Alright, I'll get them all ready.
Yes, and I will go back to the tents that I am so expertly set up, I will take them down.
And very quietly, if a horse had fingers, if they had air quotes, Reginald goes, expertly.
Yes!
Go ahead, go ahead.
Nope, nope, done. Cutting myself off.
I will say eventually the Speak with Animals does go off.
Thank God. Thanks everyone.
You didn't get rest, so you are going to have to...
I have no spell slots, I have nothing.
It is very tiring. You're very tired right now, I have some back pain.
Cecilia is the one that's fully stocked right now.
So, you gather everything?
Yep.
Okay.
I'll drive.
Pushing everything into your cart once again.
The two of you prepare to go on the road again.
This is on the bright side, Cecilia. First night on Watch, success. You watched.
Yes, you did what you had to do.
It doesn't feel like a success.
Both of you please, as you're getting...
Level up from a bear encounter.
As you're getting things together, please the both of you give me a perception check.
Perception. More bears.
Oh Jesus.
20 total.
8. I'm tired, I'm very tired.
So Cecilia, as you are getting everything all rung up, you head back into the wagon for a moment.
Again, you hear another sound, but this time from the wagon, as if something shifts.
You quickly look. You're in the front of the wagon so you don't see what's in the back. It's a hooded wagon.
Peeks very slowly.
As you peek into the back, it's very obvious to you right away.
The barrel that was knocked over by the poppa bear is now upright with the lid on it.
What?
She gets off the front of the wagon. Is Claude in the back of the wagon yet or is he still taking down the tent?
He's still taking down the tent. Which is why he hasn't noticed it.
Yeah, yeah. She slowly gets on the wagon and arms distant tries to just get the lid off if there's a lid.
You take the lid off?
Yeah.
You slowly take the lid off.
And as you do, there is fruit and dried meats all put all together.
Of course, some of it is now...this barrel was once full of meats and some of it has tumbled out.
But you see it's halfway down. Of course, the stuff hasn't been put back in yet. It's just the barrel went up.
Do I see anything else around like that could have put it up?
Give me another perception check.
Is someone like hiding in our wagon?
Well...
This just happened the other night.
When you saw the Mira in her invisible state, you saw a shimmer of magical energy where she was. It was fast approaching you.
With your night vision, you see that there is another...it is something very similar and it is inside of the barrel.
She's going to act like she didn't notice and put the lid back on.
And after she does, she's going to cast See Invisibility.
You cast See Invisibility?
Because I have it from a domain spell. Why not?
Smart move. I didn't know you have that.
She casts See Invisibility and she's not a good liar. So she's like, actually, I could use a snack. And she opens up the thing again.
As you see that and you open it, you see a pale white skinned tiefling with sort of like blue-purplish hair currently hugging a bag curled up inside the barrel.
Is it the bartender?
Her eyes are very wide. She's nervous about getting caught. She's just really tucked inside the barrel.
Is it a big barrel or is this person small?
It's a sizeable barrel, but this person is making themselves real small.
As you open the barrel, you see that her facial expression kind of widens. She is trying to control her breathing.
She's trying, on one hand, to pretend like she doesn't notice her, but at the same time, she can see her.
You see...
We're looking right at her.
She thinks you're going to reach for a snack, so you see she actually leans a bit over to the side.
Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!
She remembers her lie for a second. For a second, she's like taken off guard, seeing it.
But she remembers her lie for a second and then reaches in and grabs something.
She really tries to stick herself to the side of the barrel.
Oh no!
Your hand instinctively doesn't... the game operation... it reaches in...
A claw machine!
...and grabs one of the apples and you pull it out.
Who are you?
You, yeah.
Hey kid, how you doing?
Oh no!
And that's where we're going to go and break.
I'm so excited to meet this character!
Me too.
Alright, folks.
Heya!
White T-flank.
With that said, we are all...
We are going on break. If you are waiting for the Halloween spooks...
It's not Halloween yet.
Stay tuned.
Wait for 12am.
JT missed your opening, I think, Timmy.
Oh, he's sad.
He came late.
JT can watch the vlog.
Or we'll just clip it because it was weird.
Alright, everyone. We're going on break.
Break time!
And we're back!
Hello, everyone.
Hope you haven't missed us too hard.
We just had a conversation with a couple of bears.
Very aggressive conversation.
And there's a stowaway.
And there's a stowaway in our wagon.
There is an invisible T-flank and I can't see invisibility and I can see them.
That's where we left off.
Pikachu! Go hit that bear with Thunderbolt!
Pikachu, I choose you!
Hey buddy, you okay?
One moment.
Alright.
With that said.
So, when we last left off, you spot this white T-flank currently curled up inside of your barrel in a sort of a fetal position.
As she just goes...
Hey there, kiddo.
As soon as that happens, she erupts from the barrel, standing up, and you see apples just fly about the place.
And she just goes...
Hey there, nice to meet you.
Sorry about the whole sneaking around shindig.
I just kinda...
You know, it's just something I like to do sometimes.
You can see me, wow! You're like...
You can see with eyes. That's really wonderful. I was invisible.
Unless I wasn't.
I noticed.
Mm-hmm.
Who are you?
Spectacular.
And by this point, Jean-Claude, you are hearing this, and the invisibility just wears off.
And as she says, you have been graced by the appearance of stellar. Of the stars.
As she snaps her fingers, you see invisible hands begin clapping in the air.
Is she an arcane trickster?
You made me smile. I was looking at the list of if it is one of Delmira's friends, it could only be the Chainsling.
Who happens to be a rogue. So that'd be really funny if you're right.
But I don't think it's one of Delmira's friends. It could be.
She just goes, hey, I know I should have asked for permission, but...
Can I stay in the back of your wagon, specifically in your barrel?
Why?
Alright, very fair question. That's incredibly fair.
I just... need to...
You guys are going down that road, right? Are you guys heading over to Wolachheim? That would be amazing if you were.
You guys could just drop me off in the middle of the road though, if you guys aren't going there. That's good to believe I do.
Yes, we're going to Wolachheim.
Perfect! Great.
Oh, well, you know, people who have wagons, sometimes they become like, you know, like drivers for other people.
Can you guys just like, take me on?
You didn't say why.
Yeah, I didn't. Can I pay you like five gold to not say why?
Are you like, dangerous?
To evildoers? To monsters?
Are you hiding from a monster?
I mean, I'm hiding from like, yeah, kind of a hypothetical monster. I mean, if you count like, you know, just the unfair justice system.
Great. Great. Criminal.
In case you're wondering, I'm not a criminal. I'm an adventurer.
This was committed crimes?
What adventurer hasn't?
Okay, that's kind of admitting that I did a crime.
He tried to arrest me today, so...
Oh, who? Wait, wait. Dux? Does someone have the power to arrest someone here?
Well, he was the captain of the groving guard for the day, so...
I don't know if that means he has to arrest you, if he knows, or...
I made a mistake.
I'll get back.
Hello there. She waves at you, Jean-Claude.
Oh, can I just say that while he heard these two voices as he was packing up the tent, he goes,
Miss Easy, are you practicing for a show? Show the voices you do. Very good. Very good. And...
Hello there.
Did you hear what we were talking about in there? By any chance?
Did I?
We can say you did, you were hearing. Because you heard the voice of a person you're curious enough to come over.
Okay, I believe it was Stellar of the Stars?
Pretty catchy name, am I right? And I caught it that you were a groving guard captain?
Indeed. And I have been given specific instructions to take care of these young women, and any harm that may come upon her.
Oh, cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I'm not gonna... No, I wasn't gonna do any of that.
I just kinda want to sneak back into Walekheim because, you know, it's just...
There's some monsters on the road.
For what crime have you been... you know, what are you running from? Give us some answers, huh?
Alright, so I'm an adventurer. Adventurers take quests.
I don't... Shut up. What is it?
I just stole a loaf of bread. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm just...
Okay, here's the thing, alright. I am a pretty good liar.
You are awful.
A captain of a guard is a liar? Wow.
What do you mean, how? Do you not know? That is the point of law enforcement, just lie all the time. What?
You understand your job very well.
So, what I'm saying is, cut the bullshit and tell me what is it specifically that you are running from so that I can be prepared to cover your ass so that it does not impact her.
And he points to Cecilia.
So that means you guys are gonna let me come? I'm not gonna murder or anything, that's gonna be obvious, but...
What? You're already here? You're already here? You have already traveled on our... If someone asks me for an alibi, I cannot say, oh no, the two was not in our...
No, as a Grooving Guard, I have to say yes, Stella, the stars, whatever the fuck she was, was here.
So, what is it that you have done so that I can prepare to cover for Cecilia? Not you, I'm not covering for you. I do not want to waste my life and time on you. For her, I will. So, tell me, what?
Okay. So, you're already the coolest guard I've ever met.
Shut up. What is it? I really like your funk, but anyways, um, so...
I may have, like, you know, robbed a grave or two?
Oh, are you a necromancer?
No, something a little bit better than that. I'm an adventurer. I'm a bard. I kinda play some magical notes.
No, you want to know something? No, you're done. No bouts. No bouts. Go out. Out. Out. Out. I...
Criminal, I can accept bouts. I cannot. Get out. Get out. Out.
I mean, robbing graves seems pretty... disrespectful.
No, bouts is worse. Trust me. Trust me. Bouts is worse.
I didn't like it that... towards Cecilia. I didn't really like it that much, but the job really paid well.
It really paid really well, and my client really needed it, and me and my little party of folks really needed the money.
Because the feds are a little hard.
So there's more of you? Oh, good. Yeah, one more.
He's a really good friend of mine, and he does not know about the grave robbing, so maybe don't tell him.
So the client was just yours?
Yeah, it's this fortune teller in town. Madam Withers is her name.
Just to give it to you, Emma, you do know that Madam Withers is a conglomerate. It's a thing in the world. There are multiple Madam Withers.
Okay, because there was a Madam Withers in our other campaign, and I was about to throw hands at metagames so hard.
The thing is, people who do divination, there's a figure in history of Madam Withers, who when she died, she wanted to split herself and give her eyes to others and aspiring...
It's a title. Yeah, it's a title.
Okay. And did you already turn in the items she wanted?
So dogs can smell me really well, I found out. And the guards use dogs in this town.
So yeah, I did it, but I got found out and I had to quickly bail and they're kinda on my track, I think.
But they took the items from you first? Or you have them?
It's really hard trying to find the most beneficial answer for myself.
I just want the true one.
I have them. It's in my little bag of holding here.
What is it?
Madam Withers asked for... First of all, can I get your names?
You can call me... I am Captain. That's it. That's all you get.
Okay. So, Cecilia, Captain, I still have them. It's a little necklace that the noble family wore.
I was buried with them.
That sounds very valuable.
Hey, I feel like my image is kinda dwindling here.
No, no, no. You said bowed and it just went...
It's already... The bow for you is the lowest. Don't worry.
We're already struggling. What's wrong with bards?
You relish in the struggle. You're like, I am a power artist. I have nothing.
Oh, I relish in the struggle. That's why I'm robbing graves.
Yeah, that is literally why you are doing that. Cause it's cool and a great story that you can tell your grandkids.
Because I need money. Goodness.
There are other ways to make money.
I don't want to tell people I'm robbing graves.
How much did she pay you?
She hasn't paid me yet, but I will split it with you.
What does a divination wizard want with an old amulet?
I wish I knew the answer to that, to be honest.
But can we see it?
Make a preservation check.
Say, like, there ain't no way it's just this plain ass amulet.
I really should have taken persuasion as a...
That was performance. So that was the wrong roll.
But your position is the same, right?
It is.
We're taking that.
He actually sprachs out the song and dance to convince the bard.
Oh no, you're losing points.
Okay, I just want to get this very clear before I start doing anything.
Is there any chance on the table that you guys can sneak back into Wollekheim so I can bail with my friend?
Depends on what this is.
We could definitely get you, we could sneak you through, and you could just go, but we need to see what this is.
What if...
You just returned it?
Bless your summer heart, child.
That's a great idea, actually.
After I get paid, I'll return it.
Show it to us, please.
He reaches into her bag of holding and just kind of like, with a tongue out, kind of reaches around for a little bit and then pulls out this...
It's a rather nice sort of like ruby encrusted necklace.
The necklace mostly displays on the front, I don't know what to call it.
All of itself is on the front with an array of jewels, and in the middle is this faded red ruby.
Suffice to say, it's very dirty looking, so the grave rubbing aspect is there to see.
Can we... Is there anything...
I know that Jean-Claude has a paladin, yes he is in tune with magic, but it's like...
It's not...
Like something that he's trained right in.
But is there something about it that exudes some kind of magical property or something...
Is there...
Go ahead and give me a quick arcana check.
Yeah, I mean I shouldn't be the one making it, but too late.
Sir Bolt.
No, no, no. So that was a 2? Minus 1 is a 1.
Yeah, 1. 1.
It's 3 minus 1 is 2.
Oh, that's right. See, even I don't know how to do math on real time.
Okay. So, one second here.
She goes...
Oh, you do not sense anything magic coming from this item.
Maybe it is like a component. Sometimes castles need like the dead necklace.
The necklace of a dead person from 2 hours ago or whatever.
I think it's some really weird divination fortune telling stuff. I have no idea what all it's about.
Why couldn't she get it herself? Why did she make you do it? What is her problem?
I don't know. I guess she just kind of, you know, wants to be safe.
And like, you know, they see an adventurer and they're like, oh, adventurers do stupid things.
And then they just make them do things.
You know?
And it's gonna pay off.
250 gold pieces.
How much do we have? A lot.
And that's a lot. That's a lot for us. We can like eat better than what we're doing right now.
What if I gave you half of that amount to return it and you don't do it?
You don't get it again. You don't try to double dip and get more money from her.
Because robbing someone's grave is pretty terrible.
And you're in a lot of danger. If it's a lord's grave, they'll probably keep looking for you.
Yeah, you know, I'm not proud of it. Of course I'm not.
What adventurer wants to be a grave robber? I mean, technically.
The best ventures rob the biggest graves and they don't get a lot of flak for it.
But what I'm saying is you're making a lot of sense. I just really needed the money.
You have 125 gold on you? No, we were speaking hypothetically.
Well, no, remember I... Oh, she stops.
She's gonna roll an insight check real quick. It's obvious.
22. Fucker. Okay. He goes, all right, listen, here's what we're gonna do. Okay. You give us that amulet. We give you the gold. You get the fuck out.
How about that? Yeah. You take the gold. I still need to go to Wallachheim.
Great. We'll drop you off there. You take the money. You go. You don't have to deal with it.
And we keep the amulet. How does that work? We're going there anyway.
And if someone comes to stop us on the way there, we just say...
We say we found it and realized it was stolen and we're going to turn it into the next town.
Exactly. I am a member of the guard. Why would they not believe us?
This is a fantastic deal. You're not going to take it.
I should.
Uh-huh. But... It's a lot of money. I also want healing potions, but they cost so much.
No, no, no, no, no. This is not about her system. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I get it. No, I want to be morally correct.
I'm not a bad person. I just, you know, desperate times call for grave digging.
You can buy healing potions with that money too, right? It's a lot of money.
Yes, she's digging for more. She's trying to get more as other artists do because there's always something more.
No! Thanks. Hey, we're not all this... Excuse me, you have a very early view. Nope. This is a good deal.
I'll take it. I'll take it.
Okay. Can I roll an insight check to see if I see any inclination that she might be considering backstabbing us?
Yeah, she's gonna fucking rob us. You may absolutely do that.
I'm gonna roll so bad on this. Just look. Five. Can I... Damn it. Can I... Fuck, I'm not insightful.
She rolled a 23. Gonna fucking rob us. You can make a shot. Get in that 20. Yeah. Yeah, give me a shot. Give me a shot.
Come on, Zhang Hua. It's not gonna happen, but... Zhang Hua. Zhang Hua.
No, absolutely fucking night. She's gonna take the deal. Of course she would. Why wouldn't she?
Fucked.
So, Ruk, so you see she just turns right to you, Cecilia. And she goes, and you know what? As a show of good faith, she hands you the necklace.
Okay.
You should really hide that somewhere though so the guards don't see you with...
Well, if we see guards, I'm going to turn it in. Anyways.
Should I hold it? Should I hold it? Yeah. Yeah, give it to me. There we go. I could put it in my bag, but if you want...
Nah, hold on to it. Don't worry about it.
You hold on to it. Yeah, because he knows the bag has our money and he doesn't want her going anywhere near the bag.
She looks at the bag, like looking up and down, but then sees you giving her the eye. And she just goes...
So, Cecilia and Captain, was it? Indeed.
So great to meet your... make your acquaintance.
Yeah, after I go... after I hook back up with my friend Jaime, we are out of here and probably going to have to explain to him where all the money came from, but I'll worry about that.
I thought the adventurers were supposed to travel and work together. It seems that you and Jaime have very different ideas when it comes to this.
I'm a bit curious how you tend to work as a party if you are separating your ideas.
I would love to get into it, but it looks like our relationship isn't going to last too long because I'm going to be in this barrel for most of it.
So why don't you just take that necklace and do the trade and we'll do a little split-a-rooney.
Suit yourself, Bout, and he will go start packing things up.
Everyone's a critic.
So people, I can trust them.
I think bards are nice. They have lots of nice poetry and songs and things depending on what they do.
Hey, you know, Cecilia, she reaches into her bag and pulls out a loot.
No.
And she just goes, is this for Cecilia?
Now, and you just roll your eyes and begin to finish packing up your tent.
Now, Cecilia and Captain, I met in the night, both incredible in appearance. They were really quite a sight.
No.
After they dealt with bears that were oh so feral, they found me sneaking around in a barrel.
Oh my god, Tam.
So I pleaded with them to let me come with them. And so they did, the three of us going across the realm.
When did you write that? On the break?
Yeah.
Well done.
How do you think of the rhyme so fast?
It just comes really natural to me. I'm a bard.
I used to play in Davora, like all the way on the West Coast.
And just, you know, Cadvarim is not a really nice place for like arcane, like spell caster.
It's a very like divine sort of place.
So I'm just trying to make my way somewhere else where I can kind of like, you know, continue the craft a little bit.
I think you're very good.
I do not have enough money to go to the Bard's College on the West Coast.
Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.
The elitist Bard's College.
Don't go anyway. It's not worth it.
Is Sean Claude like a dropout?
Is that what you're so good at?
No, that's Emma. That's Emma.
Curse our players and foreman.
What's the TikTok? No, little German boy. Don't go to acting school.
Daughter Shakespeare.
Oh, yeah, you do get a D6 inspiration by Cecilia.
But not Claude because he hates bards.
No, he will not. He will not accept it.
I like to think that Jean Claude was just like covering his ears.
The ears. He actually because he has long bovine ears, it just dink presses them down.
So, Jean Claude, you get everything packed into the you get everything packed into the back.
Steller does go, you know, getting a closer look at you.
I can tell. I can see why you're the captain.
Barrel. He's very qualified.
There's a lot of qualifications.
I can definitely see that. I mean, the countenance for one.
You wanted to travel and barrel. You can go in the barrel.
You sure you don't want me to sing you a song?
No. He's tired, too. He's got no spell slots.
Yeah, and you had your strength sapped, right?
Yeah.
All right. She just she just puts her feet in the barrel.
And she just goes as she's she dives down, she just goes, well, it's been an absolute it's been an absolute pleasure.
And you know what? Thank you all so much.
It'd be better if you guys dropped me off in a place called the First Draft.
It's an inn in the place. So just.
Yeah, we could go a little extra step for me.
We will drop you off where we can.
Good night.
And you just place the lid on top.
Like, no, it doesn't even pause.
She's getting ready to go. She looks at Claude like, are we sure we should be hiding her, though, and not just having her out in the open?
Because won't they just smell her out anyways? I know there's the food, but I feel like if we hide her and then they find out, then they won't believe anything we say.
True. But she annoys me. So I want her far away from me as possible.
So in the barrel.
So we're not hiding her.
We're just hiding her from you.
Yes, exactly. Exactly, Cecilia.
You are catching on so quickly.
We're not hiding her. And when we get stopped and they say you were hiding her, I'll say no from me.
Because I cannot stand her. So I need to put her in a barrel away from me.
So I don't have to lay my eyes on her.
You hear her muffle like, it's not because I'm a grave robber. It's because I'm a bard.
Exactly.
Okay.
Are you ready to leave? Did you get everything?
Yes, I am. I'm exhausted. Let us get into town and get this over with. My goodness.
Okay. Starts.
As the journey starts, Jean-Claude gave me a con saving throw.
Oh, no exhaustion.
Oh, no.
Unless you take a little nap.
Cat nap. Quick cat nap.
That certainly works.
Dirty 20.
My hatred for this bard fuels me.
You are situated next to the barrel that Stalwart is currently looking at.
Just watching it, his eyes are just...
You do hear crunches of the apples.
He's not gonna let her snack. She deserves to eat.
Cecilia, a little bit into your venture.
And you two, you see eventually a roving band of...
Not roving, but like an assortment of guards in this sort of like arrow formation.
About four of them holding lanterns with a bloodhound in the front, smelling.
Then she'll try to stop them because we're going to turn it in. We're just turning it in anyways.
She tries to wave him down.
You see the guard looks at you.
He was about to say something, but you wave him down.
He just kind of stops and holds up a lantern to illuminate your face.
Hi. I'm traveling with one of the groving guards. Jean-Claude, can you...
Yes. Sweeps open.
The flap of a tent.
Come, buds.
Good evening.
We found...
What's a member of the groving guard doing so far away from their jurisdiction?
He was assigned to transport to help me further than the forest.
But we found something and we wanted to turn it in.
Yes. We do not know where it was intended to go, but...
The dog kind of like puts his legs up on the wagon.
Medallion, medallion, medallion, medallion.
We do not know where this was intended to go, but you know...
The guard takes it.
And you see these guards are wearing patchwork like leather armor.
They're not going to turn it in.
They're holding the...
He kind of puts the lantern onto his hip.
He's kind of looking at it.
Where did you...
Never mind.
He just kind of like...
He puts it in...
He immediately puts it into his pocket.
And you see some of the others in this group, they kind of like have a smirk.
Smiles begin to swirl across their faces.
And he goes, that's the one.
Thank you so much for your committing to your civic duties.
We do have to ask real quick, however.
Did you see a pale tiefling...
Just make her way down this direction?
Make her way down this direction?
Hmm.
One would surmise that...
I have not seen any, you know, creature make its way down this direction.
Aside from a bear we encountered earlier.
We were going to camp but there were bears so we decided to keep going.
So there's a bear in the area and it has a cub so be careful.
And he is quite aggressive, I would say.
But you didn't cross anyone on your way...
over here?
Did we cross anyone?
No, we did not cross anyone.
I'm going to do a perception check for me.
I'm going to get advantage because...
We technically did not cross anyone.
He's playing with the words.
It's the playing with the words that is making him more suspicious.
Oh no!
I thought it would help us.
It's like Pinocchio in Shrek 3.
I didn't...
Oh my god.
A 15.
It's pretty good.
It's better than I would do.
Is it good enough?
Oh come on!
20?
20 insight?
But we gave them what they wanted.
It doesn't matter. They're fucking guards. They're going to fuck up their position anyway.
He blinks for a moment.
You see the bloodhound just kind of...
still sniffing.
And he pulls...
He just reaches into his bag.
And he pulls out this...
He pulls out this arrow that has a little bit of blood on the end of it.
That's directly on his side.
When she realized...
Does she realize that they know that we're lying?
Yeah.
She goes...
We did...
The person who found it...
She gave it to us to turn it in and...
And she's here.
Cecilia...
But she gave it to the guard to turn it in so...
Okay.
He's just saying that right?
And he points to the medallion and...
She's here.
He points to the medallion and his back pocket and goes,
You and I both fucking know you're not turning that in.
Come on, man. We're both in the guard's position.
We abuse our power all the time.
You're going to keep that in your back fucking pocket, okay?
I could technically report you to my superiors because I know you're not going to return it.
I saw their faces. Come on. You think I'm a fucking idiot?
Yes, I am, but not in this case.
They all begin to draw their swords and assorted crossbows.
Oh, come on!
We're going to make this real quick.
What you're going to do is you're going to get off your wagon.
We're going to take you to the woods over there.
You're going to hand us over everything that you have.
Nope.
I want to cast calm emotions.
You mean your favorite spell?
Because I have level two spells now.
I have no spell slots.
So that they don't feel very aggressive.
I have no fucking spell slots. I forgot. I don't have any spell slots.
So it's five people.
Give me one second.
Twenty foot radius spear.
One second here.
It only will last for a minute.
Then we fucking book it.
Oh, boy.
Failure, success.
Success.
Why are they rolling my DC?
Three of them rolled my DC. Exactly.
Thirteen.
I hope the first one was the leader guy.
It was.
Yes.
Christ.
You see as the leader, you said no Jean-Claude.
The forefront of the person.
He goes, I wasn't asking.
And he begins as he begins to move the crossbow towards you.
All of a sudden, you see his head is kind of like he blinks.
It kind of goes to the lowest and his crossbow sort of like has a small lope to it.
He cast his spell.
I don't have to fight about it.
We're just.
She turned it in. I don't see why that's such a problem.
Right. And we're just trying to get to town.
That's just going away.
Right. You have the medallion.
Have a good night.
And you hear another one is going like, whoa, like the sword, the sword going down.
And you use the lid, you see opens up a little bit and you are and you see the tiefling girl kind of points a finger at you, Cecilia.
And you hear you hear a message in your head.
These aren't cards.
They're definitely not.
Yep.
She's going to try to urge the horses forward if they're not walking their way.
They were they were they were all in they were all in the back because they have no reason to like surround you in the first place.
But you see actually one of them was talking begins like slowly shot the horse to the to the forward.
So you're going to have to beat them with an initiative check.
Yeah. Yep. Yep.
I want me to roll. Oh, no, I can't.
Well, I'm driving. You are driving.
I do have riding proficiency.
If that makes any difficult difference.
Land vehicles.
I want to say, yeah, go ahead and add your proficiency to this then.
Oh, OK. How do you have proficiency with land vehicles?
It's just I got to pick up proficiency in a tool from my background.
So I did land vehicles.
OK, so I have a negative one mod, but then I'll get to add five.
So it will be plus five to that 15.
And I have advantage because technically I have my blessing.
So it's it's a 15.
Well, 15 will take 15 is better than two.
You see this person reach out.
And they and they make a sudden movement towards the range that you're holding in your hand.
As you do, you just immediately and you just spur forward.
Your your your wagon begins to be to move be to move against the ground as you are.
As we're going to speed as speed into onto the forest path.
As you hear as you hear the person who's trying to grab your hands, goes, hey, the gun away.
Come on. And they began to chase you.
Purple dance and chat.
Hello, John Claus going to say, Cecilia, do you have any weapons in this bag of holding?
Yes, she has a I have a war hammer.
And anything else?
Well, give me the crossbow.
He's going to dive in, grab the crossbow.
It's a light crossbow.
OK, what that said, you you you dive in, you dive your hand into the into the bag and you pull it like crossbow.
And you see the you see the barrel becomes fully unleaded.
And you see Stella just getting herself out.
Wait, if they're not guards, why were they following you?
Just he says, I would love to answer questions right now.
But for right now, focus on the driving.
Why did you like to us?
Well, that's what you all do.
All our lives is the combat.
I didn't know that they were criminals.
First of all, because some of the partied for now, we're getting it.
Definitely like, you know, it's the crossbow ready.
Real quick.
All right.
Why don't we go ahead and roll initiative?
Again, but the normal initiative.
Oh, you know what?
Yeah, we're going to be 15.
Please.
That's the highest I will ever roll in this game.
I rolled a nine.
Stella rose at 11.
All right.
What second here?
The bandits are going to move on initiative 10 and 12 respectively.
That's my bandits.
The guards.
The guard.
And honestly, like, honest as a player, I really want to I don't know.
Never mind.
I won't get the thing.
Let's get through this.
Yeah.
Let's get the freaking thing on it.
I want to interrogate Madame withers.
I don't trust any of these Madame withers.
Yeah, me neither.
You know, one kind of tried to kill me in a circus.
You know, one, you know, one was enough to taint.
She had her tarot card with my name written in blood.
Oh, wait, you might not know that specifically because I think that was whispered to me.
Whatever.
It's been a bit now.
Our other campaign.
Our other game.
OK.
With that said, Cecilia, you're up first.
Wow.
I never thought I'd hear that before.
Um, okay.
So I imagine I'm going to have to be focusing on this road.
Is there anything I can do to, like, get us more distance?
Perhaps as I allow you to because wagons have to move at a certain speed.
If you're sprinting, if you're moving at double speed, this is a bit of a rough road.
It's a winding path.
It kind of gets smaller and bigger, uneven.
I have to give you to give me a land vehicle check.
OK.
Then.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
There's something else I can do that might help us instead.
I'll just continue as normal driving rather than do that.
And as my action, I would like to use my channel divinity to create a twilight sanctuary.
What is this?
So as an action, you present your holy symbol in a sphere of twilight emanates from you.
The sphere is centered on you, has a 30 foot radius and is filled with dim light.
The sphere moves with you and it lasts for one minute or until you are incapacitated or die.
Whenever a creature, including you, ends its turn in the sphere, you can grant that creature one of these
benefits.
You granted temporary hit points equal to one D six plus your cleric level.
You end one effect on it, causing it to be charmed or frightened.
So at the end of each of our turns, we will get temporary hit points.
Ooh.
That's what I'll do for my action.
And then with my turn, I'm just focusing on the driving, but not trying to do anything fancy.
You grab a bit, you know, you put your your your your forehead up to it.
And as you speak up to it, the the moonlight around you begins to flare.
And now you are effectively like what what the bandits are seeing is this large moving sphere of twilight
encompassing this wagon as they're chasing it.
Just you hear one of the bands go, what the hell is that?
And and you hear you hear.
Hey, just just Johnny A moving.
Just some some happy to Johnny indeed.
And and another and the third one, the only three of them are following goes, who cares?
Just show them.
Why do we all sound the same?
God damn it.
This is my temporary hit points for the end of my turn.
That's four.
What am I?
Seven.
We're rolling a D six at the end of your turn.
End of my turn. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it.
OK. The horses benefit from temporary hit points, too, just so you know.
They deserve it. They deserve it.
Wonderful because I don't want them to get hurt.
Why don't why don't you go ahead actually and roll me two different D sixes adding three to them?
Where the pony?
Six and seven.
That is that is wonderful.
They're innocent.
OK, warped film says in chat, everyone knows that bandits that hang out all sound the same from exposure to each other.
It's a defense thing if one gets caught.
It's kind of like the goons, the Joker's goons from Batman, where they all sound
the same. They all begin to like transmogrify, begin to like they all have the same idiolect.
Yep. They see the bad and all of them has to go.
It's still bad.
All right.
Absolutely brilliant.
One moment here, because it's going to be two of the bandits up next.
See, they're going to shoot.
They're going to aim at you, Jean Claude.
OK. And two attack roles are coming your way.
All right.
Team. That's my armor class.
She just goes, you hear stellar just goes, she goes, she goes, I robbed the grave.
You guys are worse criminals than me.
I'm going to use cutting words.
So I'm not going to roll because even if it's a one, it will miss you.
Right. Because you have 18 AC.
So because because of recording words, the you see the you see you see the the aiming actually becomes a bit like like becomes a bit like a bit limp.
Like he's just trying to understand it.
It's strange, even though it's pretty clear and the arrow motions and it just trepidates out of the crossbow towards you.
And it just like just like sticks into like the piece of wagon next to you.
Like almost hits you.
Yeah. All right.
We pay for fire with fire and another one to each other.
Does not hit natural 20.
I'm kidding.
What?
It's a six.
We can see it.
I was hoping I could rearrange the numbers in your head.
This one actually skillfully catches it on your shield.
All right.
Well, that's it.
It's going to be stellar's turn.
Who is going to look at you.
Look at you, Jean Claude.
It goes, hey, old man.
Oh, never mind.
You have to you gasp.
She is going to cast she she plays she she ramps up her she ramps up her loot and she just with one loud like power stroke of the power cord of the of the loot.
This wave of like darkness is emanates from from it and just encroaches upon one of the guards are going to make a con save natural one.
Wow.
Yeah.
Who's laughing at bards now?
And you see you see the darkness begins to encompass the eyes of this of this person and they're just kind of like just kind of like looking back and forth like I can't I can't see.
And their horse begins to go but like a wall.
Oh blindness.
So that said, that was the band that that was originally going to take its turn but he just got blinded.
At the end of his turn, the substitution saving throw so he's going to do that again.
Does not succeed with an 11 with just two 11 is just two ones put next to each other.
Okay.
With that said, Jean Claude.
It's your turn to was still following.
How.
What happened to the one who had the amulet.
He sort of load behind.
He's not chasing because he, he was uninterested in pursuing.
Yeah, because he has what he wants.
Okay, I thought we could get it back but maybe not.
Alright, so how close are the two on horse back to us.
They are currently maneuvering at about the same pace as the TV there about I would say like 20 to 25 feet away.
So he's not proficient with the crossbow but that's okay because he needs to range on it.
He will load up the crossbow and fire at the closest person.
You're not proficient as a paladin.
Am I maybe I am with all martial simple weapons.
Then why does my. Oh, because it says plus four with all my other weapons but plus three with my hand.
Oh, it is not automatically put it in.
Oh, because your deck is lower than your strength right because it's ranged versus yeah versus a melee weapon.
I see. Okay, that's it explains why.
All right, so I am proficient but I'm just an idiot.
Okay, so I will create strong crossbows one day.
Don't worry.
It's just beats.
If I could beat them on the head with the crossbow, then it's a melee attack.
Let me roll does a oh not great 10 hits a 10 does not hit didn't think so.
Only you had bardic inspiration.
I do that 20.
Give it away for me.
You and you have you have great sight away.
That's for an hour.
All right.
So it's still it's still effective.
I would say you see as far as what's promised with the air.
The person just kind of like ducks hugging the horse barely just barely as good.
It was like a last minute maneuver.
I was quick thinking on this part.
Wait, good question.
What films if you throw the arrows by hand, is that then a strength based like a mini javelin mini javelin.
I just don't want to lose my javelin.
I can't get rid of it.
I got to have it with me for when books end up on roofs.
Hello, Orchid Twilight.
That's a pretty name.
Twilight.
Thank you for following.
Welcome.
Thanks, Orchid.
Perfect name, by the way, for this game.
Oh, yeah, it's beautiful.
It is perfect for this game.
Thank you, Orchid Twilight.
You blessed us.
Bless us.
Okay.
Now I'm going to go back to killing my players.
So Cecilia.
Oh, I get to roll for your thing, though, right?
Oh, yes.
I roll.
You can roll it.
I rolled one for Stellar in the chat to me.
Right.
D6 plus three.
That's your temporary hit points.
I rolled two and I had three.
So five, five, ten, five temporary hit points.
This is an amazing ability.
And this is OP.
This ability alone justifies a hard two player experience.
Oh, yeah.
No, for real, though.
Oh, that's really cool that that's your name.
That's absolutely beautiful.
Beautiful.
No way.
So just so people know, Orchid Twilight, who's in chat, said,
it's my real name translated from Mandarin Chinese, which is very beautiful.
My Vietnamese name is Chi, which just means big brain, a very smart guy.
Really?
That's cool.
I haven't been encompassing that, but I'm doing my best.
You are.
You're doing great.
All right.
You're not going to be saying that when I'm throwing my net 20 against one of you people,
finally.
Bring it on!
Give me victory.
OK.
So at the very top of the round, Cecilia.
OK.
She's trying to keep her eyes on the road so she doesn't run into anything,
but she does glance over to see quickly how things look.
Now she might try to maneuver to get us further ahead if I can.
All right.
Give me a lane vehicle check.
OK.
What does one roll for that?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
It says wisdom.
Should I use something else?
I wanted your wisdom.
OK.
It is your knowledge of the vehicle.
Yeah.
I'll add the inspiration.
Go ahead.
Even though I don't know if it'll help.
So plus.
D6.
1D6.
6.
That's a 6.
The DC was 12.
Yay!
Yay.
Boastered by the cool little shindig earlier.
Going through in your head.
Your wagon does not crash as you just kind of like actually maneuver at high speeds.
Delmira once took you through fast horse speed training and now you're like,
now it's all coming to you.
Frighten this moment.
As you're moving double the distance and you're losing these two people.
So you are now they were 20.
They were 20 feet behind you.
Now they're 80.
Oh, whoa.
That's a big.
Yeah.
That's a big gain.
What that said.
As they're moving at their constant speed, they're going to be forced.
One of them is going to be one of them is going to force themselves to use their action to sprint with the horse.
So getting within 20 feet, but what another one's going to be 80 feet back and try to take another attack.
But this time on stellar, you do hear the you do hear this bandit.
You do hear this bandit go slippery, bitch and make it.
Oh, and stellar stellar just goes, I hate guards.
John Claude glares you glare as a arrow sinks through her.
But she has temporary hit points.
Seven of them.
He does.
I don't think I can.
I don't think these two hospitals can out damage the temporary hit points being provided every turn.
You guys are just you guys are like basically invincible.
We're vulnerable.
We're in vulnerable world of five damage, by the way.
AC bonus for a barrel.
It's true.
Does she have added coverage from the barrel?
For real speaking, she's out of the barrel.
I think it's like quarter to half cover.
I have to but it's not going to be enough.
None of those bonuses.
Barrel shield.
But if there are more, I would I would equal it to twice of a plate armor plate.
So yeah, barrel chested.
Thank you.
Sadly, sadly, that would not help.
The 23 is a big number.
She's got far.
She's great.
But she doesn't take damage.
She doesn't take damage.
The arrow sinks.
You see as it threatens, it touches the rim.
The tip of it just touches her shoulder for a moment.
And she just kind of takes a deep breath.
And you see the moonlight all of a sudden from around just snatches it in the air in the sphere and just discards it.
What the fuck?
The moonlight is moving.
She looks up at the sky.
This goes I'll make a song about you.
All right.
Go ahead and roll temporary hip point.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Oh, that's at the end of her turn.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
Let's keep that.
I wrote a nine total.
So stellar is going to go ahead and just goes looking at you.
John Clark goes, I don't know why I don't know why I wasn't hurt.
Says, but with you, I'm going to stay behind you so I don't get put in the dirt.
And she just suddenly turns it into a song into like a little bit.
No, not that.
Not that rap.
No.
You are.
You sadly feel inspired.
No, no, no.
My name is Teller of the Stars.
I was thinking, have you guys seen what's oh, my God, to the oh, my God.
It's not under the moon, but it was released on Netflix.
It was a 3D animated show about this young boy going to this young girl going to the moon to talk with the moon goddess.
I'm not familiar with it.
Oh, God, there's a song she sings ultra luminary that that's the song I'm thinking.
It's not the one with Phillipa Sue.
Yes.
OK.
I didn't see it, but I saw a clip of it.
I'm just back at that's the song I put in my head.
OK.
I wanted to watch that.
I love Phillipa Suzie.
I might just catch that then.
I am stellar of the stars.
There is a million things I have done like Rob a Grave.
Oh, no.
Anyway, that's the end of a stellar star.
I believe inspiration is a remind me to do inspiration.
Inspiration is a bonus action.
Yes.
Oh, brilliant.
So she is going to use her action to go ahead.
Yes. Also, Jenny, I'm serving serving looks serving looks all day long.
Thank you.
Well, it's a household person.
So you are fun to mess with the light.
Yeah, the light.
I got to get like a fan over there.
I could just like have them go.
I would freeze to death.
So she just got hold person, but the person succeeded their saving throw with a 19.
Loser.
Bastards.
OK.
That said, Jean Claude, you're up.
Who's who's the one that called her a slippery bitch?
I'm the one in the very back 80 feet away.
He's going to shoot him.
Go ahead.
Absolutely.
You will not say why.
You will never tell them why, but he's going to shoot him anyway.
So I'm firing with the crossbow does.
Wow.
He's tired.
I assume a nine does not hit.
And that does not hit, but you do have inspiration.
I'm waiting for this to be a one on the inspiration.
It's going to be a one.
It goes to Stanley.
That's pretty good, right?
Six.
Both of the inspiration dies have been sixes.
Very inspiring.
So as you shoot, as you shoot the arrow on this goes to the air.
Stellar goes.
Now he's going to be the one that's going to be hurt.
He's the one that's going to be put in the dirt.
Stop it with that framing.
Perhaps seven piercing damage.
The arrow finds purchase in the person's arm.
They just kind of like grab it like, oh, you're trying to grab the arrow, try to grab the bolt and pull it out.
But they're still giving chase.
So now the arrow is going to be slippery because it's coated with your blood, bitch.
You hear them.
I guess.
Who the fuck are you?
I am Jean Claude of the Grumming Goud.
At the top of the round, six seconds are preparing to go all over again.
You see the you see the man.
The man goes, yeah, I'm going to put you in the ground.
And as he aims his crossbow at you, Cecilia, you're not looking because you are looking in the road.
All of a sudden there is and you can see it very well, Jean Claude, because you have the vision granted to you.
Very quickly, you guys are moving at a very fast, very, very fast rate.
A large, large silhouette in the distance just just drops from like one of the big tree branches above.
What lands on that person's horse who's aiming the crossbow at you?
Is this her friend?
The person you you do you do not see this.
You don't see right now what this person is.
The details of this person.
But you see the guard, the the the thug goes, who the hell are?
Silenced very quick.
And you see the fuck you see the person drop, drop to the side, completely limp.
Oh, my God.
What are you?
I'm here. What's happening?
Just keep diving.
Hearing the guard hearing hearing his friend behind them, whatever happened, whatever happened to him, you see the other guard just kind of like turns around
and you see this lightly robed individual just quickly like sweep backwards with their hand and throw something.
No, no, no, no, no, no, just travels to the air at a fast rate.
And you see it wasn't an arrow and it doesn't look like a knife.
It doesn't look like a knife either.
It is something that's long, sharp and white, but it just kind of like you don't see it.
No, you don't see it go through like the head, but it hits right between like the eyes and falls back.
I hope it's not.
Stella, seeing this, you see the other person falls over.
These two people are dead in in seconds.
Oh, Jesus.
You see this person standing on top of the horse as it continues as it continues to move forward, looks up towards you.
Jean Claude.
You see these dark, cold blue eyes.
This person is all bones and barely and barely skin.
The skin is very much sunken in and attached to the bones.
Very ghoulish in his appearance.
It's going to be a no for me, bro.
He looks at Stella and goes, the spirit of your fucking friend.
I was going to ask him.
I was going to ask if it was yours.
Cecilia, spit it up.
I'm going really fast, but OK.
I can't take an action.
Can I?
Do you want to take an action?
Are we out of initiative because we're out of initiative?
Yes.
If we're out of initiative, then correct me if I'm wrong.
My channel divinity is not attached to my spell slots.
Right.
It's not.
You can't even use it on its own.
I would like to use flash of brilliance, which is I can use my channel divinity to invoke primeval forces to bolster your allies and flummox your enemies.
As a bonus, you can grant any amount of creatures of your choice within 20 feet of you, including yourself, a boon or a bane.
Are they within 20 feet of us?
They're 80 feet away.
OK, never mind.
Not going to do that.
They're 80 feet away and the horse is running on top of like the riders that gone.
So the horse is going out of control.
You see the horse like kind of dive off into the side.
As into the woods, but the person stands up, persons continues to stand on top of the horse looking at you.
And the last thing you see before the horse turn sideways is that this figure wearing like like you see mostly skin is like wearing kind of like basically like torn like undergarments and like a cloak, a tattered cloak just.
Raises a shaky finger.
Towards you.
Me.
Yes, you.
I don't fucking have anything on me.
Before the horse goes sideways.
Into the brush.
Cecilia, did you were OK, but did you make friends with the creepy Skelemen Skelemen.
What?
He doesn't look mad, right?
Oh, I don't know a skeleton man.
OK, man.
Wait, you did say people might be following though you though, right?
No, your sister does your sister look like a skeleton man?
Well, my sister fought a mad skeleton.
OK, they might be back.
Is he yelling angrily?
It just kind of put to death me.
Cecilia, are you slowing down?
You're not doing the fence of driving with the woods.
He I mean, it sounds like there's still danger, so she's not intending to slow down or stop right now.
OK.
So.
You don't slow down as you continue as you continue to maneuver through the forest.
Cutting cutting down the hours that you would spend to get to Wollekheim.
Well, if we eventually feel safe, then I will.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. When no one chasing you, someone relaying this to you, you slow down.
Stellar goes, all right. No idea what that was, but got one more history. We got we got one mystery figured out.
Um. Sorry for dragging you guys and all this.
Oh, my God.
Sorry.
Oh, I thought you're going to say the skeleton thing was with you.
Like they came because of you.
No, I have no idea what that's about.
OK, never mind. You're fine. OK, continue. Sorry.
There is a skeleton thing.
What did I do? I didn't really see it that well.
Before my vision went back to its normal state, it didn't really look like a skeleton, but like a person, a shell of a person, like in the groves with bright blue eyes.
And I don't think it meant to assist us. I think the bandits were in the way of potential.
And if it meant to assist us.
Um.
One moment.
The broadcast just ended.
Yeah, that's weird. I'm glad it seems fine.
Thanks for hanging around, guys. Thank you for thank you guys so much.
Things are going to get a little creepy.
Happy Halloween.
Yeah, I know we had. Yeah, it said us at the counter. Yeah, I said it's back at the counter and says no one's watching.
I don't know. But whatever.
Yeah, I see 11 folks.
Yeah, if we good, we good. All right.
A little scare.
That's our Halloween jump scare.
That was our Halloween. Yeah, no, that was our Halloween jump scare is the stream is gone.
Tech problems. That's scary.
Are the most scary thing that one can encounter.
Interesting.
Seller just goes, I have a little maybe maybe a little kind of, you know, just a idea of what might be going on.
But it's a really hard guess.
Maybe the grave robbing wasn't a good idea.
Maybe that was from the grave.
I didn't get the vibe that it wants the necklace because it pointed at me.
Right. We don't have the necklace.
I have no necklace. I have nothing.
Oops, indeed.
She goes, can we just.
That's just them.
Keep going forward.
Oh boy.
That was some really good driving, by the way.
Yes, Cecilia, you proved yourself quite wealthy at mastering the cult.
Thanks. When when we still have two small ones, my sister and I would race.
Oh, that is nice.
Oh, I'm involved.
It's.
What it looks around.
A quick look around and you see the person who was originally far in the back and you drove a good portion, like a good distance away already.
You hear this haunted voice come from your forward.
What she doesn't want to hit.
So she tries to stop.
You try to stop.
Go ahead and give me a land vehicle check.
Oh, shit. Is it the creepy fucker?
It is, isn't it? Oh, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You see the horses attempt.
You see the horses attempt to stop as you see this pale white man in the front who calls who calls who calls out your name.
As you as you as you maneuver to stop the horses try to stop as well, but you actually move forward a good amount and you actually the man.
Strangely enough, just does not just does not move.
He has the ability to move out of the way, but he just doesn't.
And you just see Reginald and Marquis just ram directly into this man.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sent back and you hear the.
No, no, no, it's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What are you doing? Are you all right?
This hand latches onto his chin and he just.
And you see, it's almost as if he's being reanimated as he stands up his bones.
Cracks into place. It's a disgusting show.
Oh my God, what the fuck?
Hello.
Standing up now looking at you.
I do not come here to cause you harm.
Cecilia.
He tells his head towards you.
That is your name.
He looks towards Jean Claude for a second.
Pitiable creature.
Jean Claude Bouchard.
Who are you?
Excuse me.
I am nothing but a voice of arbitration.
My name is Marrow.
None of your business coincides with mine.
But yours does, looking towards stellar.
Oh, no.
He.
He just with this hidden hand.
Holds up a small, a small satchel, the one that the captain, the leader of that group was holding.
He put the amulet, the amulet into.
And he just places it onto the ground.
Return it.
Okay, she will.
Complete your quest.
What?
Return it to who it rightfully belongs to.
He takes a step back.
And goes.
And just kind of like stellar just goes.
Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah.
Madam Withers, right?
Yes.
Wait, wait, wait.
It belongs to Madam Withers?
I thought it belonged to what?
You see he has a shaky hand.
He opens his mouth and you see one of the teeth, like all of a sudden, it's just kind of too long.
And kind of like crooked.
And like kind of like, you know how like ram horns like grow in a spiral?
It's like that.
It just grew fast.
No.
It rips it out.
It just drops it on the ground.
And immediately you see another tooth begin to grow as he talks.
He goes.
I can hear your names.
I can hear your quest.
The promises you've made.
I can hear it in your bones.
He goes.
Continue.
Guiding the moon.
He goes.
Now pass.
And forget this encounter.
Never happened.
He just turns for a second.
And looks to you, Cecilia.
You are on a dangerous path.
Much like your sister.
A belligerent person.
Whom the fates do not favor.
Pray that it favors you.
And this must-
Do you know my-
Do you know my sister? Have you encountered her before?
She's the one.
She's why.
And his lips go together for a moment.
He goes.
She is why I'm here.
And he walks away.
What do you mean, well she's why you're here?
Just continues to walk.
It's going to be hard for me to forget someone who just calls me a pitiful creature with no introduction other than that.
A mage hand plucks the bag up and just levitates over to Stellar.
I am not getting out of this wagon.
Cecilia.
Oh by the way, Jean Claude.
There are times where you felt warmth come from your bracelet.
There has never been a time where you have felt a chill.
Except for now.
I did something wrong?
As the person leaves it seemingly returns to its natural state.
But it was a chill the entire time.
Oh because of Mero, not because I did anything.
Okay got it.
Yeah that guy. So real quick, Cecilia, if you don't mind.
What did your sister do to get that thing on her trail?
I wouldn't know.
I mean, she travels a lot, she meets a lot of people, she fights a lot of villains and monsters.
That thing is disturbingly powerful.
Why does it care about you completing your mission and turns to Stellar?
So the amulet is not from the grave, it is from Madame Widow.
You need to speak more.
It's from the grave. I don't know though.
And you know what, I'm in the mood to ask questions right now.
Where do we get this wagon? Hitting the side of the wagon.
It's kind of moving.
Yeah we can move and you can talk because this is ridiculous.
Do you want to drive Cecilia and you can rest?
I am as clueless as the both of you.
I can keep driving, it's fine. I can see better.
Right, I cannot see in the dark.
Except for that one time that you blessed me.
I can do it again, it just takes more energy.
No, no, no, no, you've done enough. You did very well Cecilia. You should be proud of yourself.
Whatever the case.
The barrel is mine to be in for now.
He doesn't even argue. He does not argue. He's like, yep, yep.
What the fuck.
What a cool guy.
Mero Lovenia?
Oh there we go.
That's my nickname for him. So the mega Lovenia, he's Mero Lovenia.
Jesus Christ.
Oh wait, doesn't Paladins, the Fae and the Fiend thing, is that automatic or do I have to activate that?
You have to use it.
The Divine Sense?
Yeah.
Oh, Divine Sense. You have to use that.
Oh shit.
But the Fae and the Fiend thing, that's your other channel, Divinity. That takes up the Flash of Brilliance.
I should have done Define Sense to see if he was...
Fuck it, I don't need to know. He's fucked up. He's too powerful. Whatever. Next time.
I'm now introduced into the lexicon of characters in this game.
I know, we're going to see him again.
I'm not going to be a recurring character.
Definitely not.
No.
Also, I was thinking about because in our test stream, this is a character that Tim brought that met our test stream characters, who are characters from Tim's other campaign.
I was wondering, I wonder if the same thing about I can hear your tasks in your bones.
I was like, is that what he was spouting off at the end of our test stream? When he just started divulging all of our secret deeds.
We have met Mero, and we haven't met Ursula.
Ursula.
Alright.
So, moving on from that encounter.
Jesus.
There comes a point where the barrel lid does open up.
And Estella just kind of looks around for a moment while just kind of setting up for a moment as you guys piloting the vehicle.
Hey.
Um.
It wasn't...
I didn't know the risks. I knew it was risky and I still had you all involved anyways.
I'm really sorry about everything.
And I'm not sure how to make it up. I don't feel like sorry is enough.
It doesn't sound like it's really your fault.
It sounds like you didn't really know what you were getting into.
I mean, I shouldn't have taken this job in the first place to be honest. That much is pretty obvious.
I mean, yeah, but I think we're all kind of doing things that it's arguable that we shouldn't do.
Oh yeah? You?
I mean, I didn't... I mean...
It's arguable.
I mean, he's a guard so there's no arguing for him.
Okay, well, you know...
I am, I am, I am sorry.
But...
Listen...
Our guards are my bard, you know?
I get it. I understand. And I can understand as well, Stella, that...
You know, in an education system, especially one for artists that is quite elitist and only certain programs are available with those who have the gold and the cash.
It is inaccessible to other communities of which, you know, it's unavailable, these resources. I could see how you'd need to take other jobs occasionally to pay the bills.
I still don't like biles.
You know, with this whole adventuring life going on, maybe I don't need to go to college.
You don't have to, it's only if you want to, but we could try to find you a scholarship too, if you need a reference, I could be your reference.
Oh, that would be wonderful.
I just kinda...
I just need to get money first and continue to adventure life a little bit with my friend Jaime because we just kinda started and I don't want to end it too fast.
So what does Jaime steal? Like, he doesn't want to do, they don't want to do things. What do they do? What is their means of pervading?
Oh, he's a really nice monk guy. And he's a lot more like... what's the word? Like, law following than me. And just like, he's a really good guy.
You like him?
No.
But like, you know, we kind of just support each other and we're adventuring pretty good. We're a good team.
He takes all the beats to the face and I just play my lute and sing good ditties.
It sounds like an unequal relationship.
I mean, your songs are really good and I really like them. That's not what I'm trying to say.
Junk Lassics.
It's just different than getting beat up. You know, I didn't mean it in a mean way. I'm sorry.
Wow, that's how. Because you didn't even try to be mean. I tried to be mean to Hal, but you were just being honest.
That just hurt.
I didn't mean it like that.
That was cutting welds. That was about moving around.
Honestly, the only thing that kept me focused on the road when I was trying to just swerve and go even faster was I was doing it to the beat of the song Goose Dang Me Earlier. So it really helps and your skills are very valuable. So that wasn't what I was saying. I bet he thinks the same thing.
It's like when you're doing CPR.
I didn't say it in a live stream.
In our eventual video game, all the horse driving is going to be a rhythm.
And yes, chat. JC, John Claude is a romantic. He likes teen young adult romance novels the best.
Goodness.
John Claude knows all the young adult novel.
All of them. All of them.
All the tropes. Anyways.
Cecilia, I had you pegged for a...
I didn't know you had barbs on you.
But...
You didn't mean to.
Poor girl.
But no, you're kind of right.
Guess what? That's why I'm doing this whole thing. To try and catch up. I mean, you guys don't need to know that.
Oh.
Listen, I'm sure you provide entertainment. If this young man is so stoic, it sometimes helps to have a personality that is, you know...
Oh, the thing is, he's just a really happy guy. He's just really smiling all the time. So like, I don't know if he's like...
I don't know him that well, but I assume he's like, oh, my gosh, I'm in so much pain, but I'm still going to smile through it.
And I'm like, yeah, that's really healthy.
You know what? You know what? You both are... This is a good match, Cecilia. They're good for each other. This is good. This is good. Yeah. Yeah.
Kind of weird talking about like, you don't even know him really that well.
I know enough.
You mean like a good match as adventuring partners?
Yes, exactly. That's right.
Hey, Cap. Are you romantic by any chance?
Excuse me? No, there's no time.
I'm a little romantic myself.
Ew, no, I do not have time. Being a girl...
If you're not them, what happened with Captain Volothani?
He looks at Cecilia and goes...
Captain Volothani?
He's my superior.
I made her up. Oh, never mind.
I thought you wanted me to lie.
No, you guys are... This is perfect. You guys are very well made for each other. No, go ahead, continue.
You know what? Yes, Cecilia and I are good partners. Not romantically in any way because I am like twice her age, but we are a good example of...
No, okay, well, I'm just setting the standards there, but we are a good example of an adventuring partner. Cecilia is very skilled at her magic.
I am a god.
You want to put some other aspects of yourself out there?
I watched him kill a shade that was like four times his size in like one hit.
Oh.
He's genuinely surprised she said that, so he's just like...
See? See? From the mouths of babes.
I wasn't that impressed at the time because I was more scared, but looking back on it, it was really impressive.
You started off so strong!
But I said it right, looking back on it, it was really impressive and very relieving because it was really scary.
And that is what you focus on when you tell others, especially if we are at their bow, and I go,
Oh, this is my young companion, Cecilia, who I take care of and look after.
That is what you say. That is what you lead with. I wasn't really impressed at the time. No, no, no, you cut that out. You just slice and dice.
I guess that does make sense. It sounds more impressive that way. And it was very impressive, genuinely. It genuinely was.
Thank you. I try.
So how'd?
Cool.
It successfully got away from Captain Volothani, though, so...
Oh, you did? Well done.
So who says Captain Volothani?
Sena Bebch.
Anyway, we are almost, I assume, we are close to the town.
Who says Captain Volothani, though?
So we're going to drop you off at the Whispering Room. The Whisper Room.
The First Draft. It's an inn.
The First Draft. Oh, I get it. Like a first draft of a book and the first draft that you pour. That is funny.
I would call that because it's actually the first brewery in the place, but yeah.
Okay, well then, yeah, this is not cool. Let's go to the Whispery Inn, please.
You're a very cool person.
Because... and you are annoying.
Winks.
Okay, does anyone need anything else from me or can I pass out?
Um, we should get some rest.
I'm kind of hanging on by a hair to my sanity.
So the shade thing that I said he killed, he hasn't properly slept since then.
Oh, so that was recent.
Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah. This old man has some hip moves to keep down with the young folk.
I don't want you to hurt your back.
You are hanging by a thread.
Good night.
Go to sleep.
As you make your way, as you just finally kind of close your eyes and get some rest,
Steller kind of like leans on the wagon next to you, Cecilia.
Do you want to sit up here or...?
I should get ready to take a dive into the barrel just in case, but...
Back to the barrel!
I also ate like four of your apples, by the way.
That's fine.
That was for the horses? Never mind.
So...
Uh...
You know, you and I don't know each other very well,
but I guess that guy just dropped some things that you didn't want me to hear.
Uh...
Your name is, uh...
What's your full name?
It pulls out a small, like, a scrap of paper from her bag.
Why are you writing it down?
Because I want to figure out some good rhymes for it later when I make a complete song out of you.
Oh. I mean, that seems like a weird thing to make a song about.
Oh, about some young woman who just got chased by some murderous men in the night
and just all of a sudden just used, just brought the moon over us
and healed a bunch of people while bravely just driving through the woods.
On rough roads in the middle of the night and getting through it without a scratch?
When you put it that way, it sounds kind of cool. It just didn't feel very cool.
Oh, baby.
That was a very brave thing.
And you might not think, you might not think that was very brave.
I don't know if you think that.
You know, the thing is, though, like, I think the only time you can be brave is when you're scared.
I'll think about that next time.
When you're getting on the edge of your seat and you're running away from criminals and...
And then, oh, someone accidentally lit the barrel of gunpowder on fire
and everyone has to run out of the cave before the cave-in happens.
Oh, oops, a gnoll has bitten your leg and like, oh, you're just trying to get out of it.
That happen to you?
Yeah. Anyways.
NBD, NBD.
I'm alive.
My name's Cecilia Idlewind.
That is a fantastic name.
Thanks.
If I ever see you again after all this, I swear I'll have a song for you.
Oh.
Maybe I'll be a renowned bard.
And maybe if I'm walking in the woods alone at night, I'll see you just driving the cart around.
I think you're very good at what you do.
Hey. You too.
Thanks.
And she just goes, I want a few more questions real quick.
So you heard Venturing too?
Mm-hmm.
I heard that the... I heard that Captain over there was leading you somewhere.
Well, I ran into him on the way and he decided to help me.
We're going kind of really far away, so...
Oh yeah?
All right.
Well, we're going a bit far too, but just doing our own thing.
Where are you going?
We're just going where the wind leads us, but we want to head over to our home.
For the viewers, our home, not our home.
Our home.
That is a key thing.
Oh, shit.
I wish I heard that.
I wish I was in a sleep.
Should be straightforward.
I mean, we're on the road for it.
It sounds so familiar.
Wait, do I know where that is to me?
It's one of the kingdoms you have to pass on the Lanaya Road.
It's one of the neighboring kingdoms to Katvarim.
So we'll be going through it?
Yes.
She goes, well, we'll have to go through there too.
Is that an offer?
Oh, I mean...
We're going to have to get a bigger barrel.
You don't have to be in a barrel the whole trip, right?
I know. I was joking.
Well, loosen up a little bit.
She just gives a few punches to the back of your shoulders, both of them.
Yeah, it's been very crazy and busy the last 24 hours.
Apparently he can talk to bears and I think that's the least crazy thing.
Talking to bears, amateur hour.
Oh, you little shit.
I have to entertain dogs and taverns all the time.
Good thing I'm asleep.
Well, I definitely wouldn't mind meeting your friend and having you along,
but I'm not sure about...
Captain.
I think he's warming up to me.
I saw him rock in his head.
I'm not sure if that was the cart driving over really rough terrain
and the cart shaking a lot, but I'm going to take...
A lot of bard work is just interpretation.
Interpretation? I can't.
I think optimism is better than the opposite.
I think that's a good way to look at it.
Optimism is better than oppositeism. I agree.
Well, I guess the word pessimism, I just didn't think of it.
I'm just doing the Josh with you.
I'm feeding you some of the bamboo.
To me, I regret the things I say.
TikTok, it's tough guy o'clock.
Oh, it's going on our TikTok?
TikTok, it's tough guy o'clock is something I would say.
And when someone was lying to me, I'm like, I've had enough of your bamboos.
I'm not going to drink your bamboos anymore.
TikTok, it's tough guy o'clock.
It's going to be my new catchphrase for Jon Claude.
She just goes, hey, I don't know where you're going, but if you're heading to our home,
I'm just going to tell you straight up, between here and there, you're going to see a lot of things.
Like, we're on a line of road. It's supposed to be safe and all, but like,
you go anywhere on this road for long enough and you just start seeing things.
Like, I don't know, for example, a man who just kind of pulls out his teeth out of his mouth.
Apparently, who just knows everyone's names and has something to do with my sister.
Yeah.
Well, I'd love to travel together, honestly.
It does sound safer, but I am a little worried that it might actually be harder for you and your friend that way.
Because I think that there are...
She's like slowing down because she's so reluctant to like explain anything.
She's like, I think there are people or things who might try to come for us specifically, too.
So it might not be very safe for you.
And you need more people to protect you with stuff, right?
I mean, I guess, but you're not worried about that at all?
I mean, if it's not one thing, it's going to be another.
You know, when we adventure, this is kind of the life we ask for.
But you would want four people to help you out instead of just the two of you, right?
I mean, that would be great. I just don't want to ask that of anyone either.
All right. Well, you don't have to ask.
I know Jaime is going to be just all for going to UNF.
You know what? I don't know what the future is going to hold beyond our home.
This will be a little bit of fun.
I'll sing you a dinghy every day.
That's what the captain thinks.
That sounds really nice.
She pulls over her map.
She shows she is. That's where we're going.
Jumping. Well, that is a really far this.
What are you guiding the moon?
That's right. You heard that.
Not the actual moon, obviously.
I mean, that would be really cool.
I mean, I think some of the entire song would change.
Yeah, that would be so crazy and impossible.
And that's not what we're doing.
Like not even a little bit of it.
Because I worship a moon goddess, you see.
So that's why he said that probably.
Okay.
Oh, it's like we're being guided by them.
I don't know why he said it the other way.
Dear Jesus Christ, Cecilia.
She's going to blinks.
She's going to.
I'm not going to ask.
But if I did, I would say something like,
I would say something like, what exactly are you doing?
Going all the way over there.
But you're not asking, so I don't have to respond to that.
But theoretically, what would be your theoretical answer?
Theoretically, I'd reply with something that
it's a box that I'm supposed to deliver.
And there's nothing in particular in it.
So just a cool, interesting box.
You couldn't just deliver it or like,
you could just send it by a pigeon or I don't know, teleport it over there.
I mean, I know this kingdom, not a big fan of the arcane arts.
It's like I'm super not a big fan.
I mean, like other places, they have airships and like teleportation circles everywhere
and like magical things everywhere.
You guys are all about like that divine.
But like you have places.
Why don't you just teleport over there?
I don't know why, but we're not supposed to do it.
They want it delivered by hand and not by a courier.
I guess technically I kind of am a courier now, but.
Well, whatever the case, you I think you've made a much more well informed decision than I did in robbing that grave.
But from here on out, I think a good word of advice is that you don't do any
because you don't take on any anything that's going to make you dig your own.
Yeah. I try not to.
She turns back to make sure like this is like Jean Claude is really asleep.
He has sleep apnea for sure.
She is, if I'm being completely honest, like I've never really left home before at all.
And I'm trying to seem like I know what I'm doing and that I'm like experienced in things
so that like it doesn't seem like I'm not supposed to be doing this.
And you know, I don't have to worry about worry other people that like I can't handle it.
But there's a lot of things I just have already taken me by surprise.
And and I think there's going to be even more.
And I can handle it. I do believe in myself.
I just everything's a lot messier than I expected already.
Oh, kid.
Yeah, you know, pretty understandable.
I if I never saw anything in the world, everything in the last like hour happened. I go nuts.
You know, the world's so big, but it's really the world we're living in is just, you know,
what we know about everything around us.
Yeah. You know, the real trick, the real piece of advice here is that no one knows what they're doing.
We're all just kind of trying to do our best and make it, you know, I don't know what I'm doing.
I have proven that. And we just met like two hours ago.
Basically. But if you feel like it's right, you go with that gut feeling of yours.
Do you feel like what you're doing is most of all really good for you?
Then you can be brave when you're being scared.
You know, that's really nice.
Sure.
This once you once you put that up on your wall, remember, it's from someone who robbed a grave.
Apparently it belongs rightfully to the person who hired you.
I don't know. I know nothing.
Me neither.
And I don't want to know anything more. I just want to turn this in and just be done with it.
I don't want bony men throwing teeth at me.
Yeah, I think that's wise.
Goodness.
All right. Well, let's get into know you.
You see in the front, finally, as you kind of like go on a crossing, go look at a fork on the road, you see lanterns lit hanging on poles.
Just out of curiosity, this is like the agricultural capital. Are we going to see tons of scarecrows?
Oh, Jesus, you're right. No. Yeah. No, no, no, no.
Watches the most so carefully every time, like to the point where it might be noticeable.
Fascination with scarecrows.
You see them as well. And they're much more well made and they're much more uniform.
They all kind of look the same.
These ones were kind of like the tattered hat of the one you saw on Royce.
These ones are nicer, possibly like hung up a bit earlier than the ones you saw in Royce.
You see fields as you pass the forest and see the sign of a wool of time coming up, rolling fields of wheat.
Fence fenced in guards with lanterns making their passes, making their passes through, giving you a giving you a wave.
I will say that before you pass up the guards, cellar does go, it's barrel time and just goes into a barrel.
You pass. You are in civilized lands, but you are not within the confines of a town yet.
It takes you a while. Rows of scarecrow, tall wheat.
There are barns. You don't see the animals out right now, but large barn areas designed to hold cattle.
Produce every kind on these rolling hills.
No moving scarecrows though.
You see a scarecrow on a move, but you're like, oh, it's the wind.
Remember me. I'm kidding.
Eventually, I'd say like after 15, 20 minutes of passing through all of these different farm states,
large stone walls, a gate, and poking through in the sky, just ascending above the walls,
a large sort of pyramid structured like top of a tower poking into a good, poking a good portion into the sky.
Civilized lands. Wolleckheim.
Next time on Songwulven.
Also, happy Halloween. It's the night. Happy Halloween.
A little bit more.
The camera pans out. Oh, no, not one of these things.
Wide shot. A scarecrow looks at the camera.
Jump scares the audience. That's not canon.
I do want to jump scare the audience. There we go.
And that's that's how it's ending noncanonically.
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You guys are watching. So lucky to have you.
You guys are lightning in a bottle, starlight in an inkwell. I love you guys so much.
So fancy. So fancy, Tim. But we are playing next week, right? That whole like skipping the...
Yes. Yes. The same the same tube that I used to breathe. I also used to lie to people.
I was even really a lie. I was like, yes, we're going to hiatus until the day we play next week.
But next week, same Sunday, same time, baby. Let's do it. Do it.
Thank you so much for all coming. Do not punch the cubs of like of like bear parents because it will piss them off.
I'm just telling you guys, do not punch bear cubs. Do not approach bears.
Carry bear spray if you're going out into the woods and there's bears where you live.
Carry bear spray, especially if you want to approach a bear.
Don't approach a bear.
Disclaimer, Songover does not does not want you to approach bears.
Not advise bear approach. Well, happy Halloween, folks. Good game. Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween. Apple Halloween.
If you go into the woods today, you are in for a big surprise. Big surprise. Chattas Chattas ready.
Go into the woods. It's not a bear. It's Timmy. Tim. No, it's Maro. Maro is waiting for you.
Maro, Maro, I make up for all of Timmy's villains.
Usually we don't get their names right away when they're introduced. This one we did.
But like usually we don't get their names. So I make up nicknames for them.
And I've decided that Maro is Maro Lovania, like Megalovania Undertale. So yeah, I can't wait to play Undertale again.
And they introduced the third brother who Sansa Papyrus are just having a blast and just being fun.
And then you get Maro go, oh, you're so cute. Your bones, baby. Your bones. Your bones, baby.
Give me the bones. Anyways, thank you all so much again. Thanks, guys. Bye.
Bye. Have a good Halloween.