Songwovin presents The Lanaya Expedition, a D&D 5th edition actual play campaign.
Episode 6.
Clash of Honor.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Songwovin.
Hello Lee.
Now at the top of the stream here, we here at Songwovin do want to let loose a little
message.
So apologies if this is a little rambly.
I tried to write it down but I think it's just going to come from this really loud beating
heart of mine right now.
We here at Songwovin, we use safety tools.
Lines and veils.
We use Monte Cook's checklist.
But why do we use that?
The simple answer is that we want to keep each other safe.
But not only do we want to keep each other safe, but we want to keep you safe.
We want to keep, we want everyone who witnesses us, who watches us, who enjoys us, who allows
us to let ourselves into the hearts to feel safe and included.
So sorry.
No, it's okay.
We, we play in this fantasy world where many identities, many people of different creeds
and different exuberant personalities of different sexualities and we play in this fantasy world
that we've created.
This culmination of our hopes and dreams and everything we love and everything we experience.
We do that to show that everything is that we are.
Goodness, you see I should have prepared this speech.
But we play in this fantasy world to not only play in the kind of world that we would like
to envision, to have adventures that we would love to have in real life, but we play and
we are streaming now to tell stories.
Because why do we tell stories?
What are stories?
People write stories to highlight or color a point in history or to immortalize a piece
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People tell stories just so they can have their voices heard.
I want to tell everyone and I am sure that everyone, the song wolven team here agrees
with me that no matter what creed you are, no matter what identity, your sexuality, whom
you love, you are, we want to hear you.
We want to incorporate you into our lives, in the stories we weave, in the songs we create.
Because the forest would be very quiet if only a few birds sang.
We love you all.
And we... no matter who you are.
Gosh.
Oh my god, almighty, that was tough.
Oh Tim, that was beautiful.
I realize, we realize that the world might not be accepting of who you are.
And as someone who has witnessed that, it's very hard and it hurts to be rejected.
But I hope that like me, you find the people who accept you.
And that you can thrive into who you are and come into your own fully and completely of
that person who you know you are in your mind.
And it's such a gripping and great feeling that I wish everyone is able to witness.
But for now in these small pockets of goodness, of love and friendship.
This is where we'll celebrate.
So yeah, anybody else want to say anything?
That's our fucking DM everybody!
That's our DM!
That is the song woven DM is what I will say.
How can you fucking beat that?
You can't.
That's everything D&D is, that's everything Tabletop is and should be.
Thank you.
Fucking go Tim, here we go.
Now, I am Tim Donn.
I am incredibly bisexual.
And I am in serious love with Jenny Shubham.
No you.
This entire time I wish Jenny and Tim were sitting next to each other.
Now Emma, can you please hold up one finger?
Jenny can you please hold up two?
Someone in the chat, please hold up three.
Thank you Warped Films.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume.
I'm gonna hold up four.
No, it was JT, JT, JT.
Oh, JT did it first.
Thank you JT.
Now, let's all hold up ten fingers.
And two?
And one?
All ten fingers.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and bring them together.
And let's just pat them along like this.
Yes.
Do you know why this is happening?
It's because of my power as the DM.
Oh, ew, I quit.
The digits manipulator.
No, no, no, no.
Oh, never mind, never mind.
Can we please introduce ourselves from softest fingernails to hardest?
I'm definitely hard to Jenny, I'm sorry.
Oh, okay.
Hi, I'm Jenny.
Jenny Sherard.
I have soft fingernails.
Because I've got like talons right now.
And I play Cecilia Eidlewind, who is going to jail probably, or the session.
I am Emma Ramosco of the hard talons.
I play Jean Claude Boucheron, our lovely park ranger, who is also going to put up a hard
ass fight on his way to jail as we go on in the La Naya expedition.
I like how we're not even two days into the expedition and...
Oh, not your guys, it's fault, right?
No, no, no.
I almost died too, that was thrilling.
That was a thrilling session.
That was awesome.
So, the moon, Cecilia had her sailor moon moment.
This is all Augustus's fault.
I was gonna say Warfield says it's the cat!
Cecilia's been arrested twice already.
Yeah.
That's right!
Once per day, that's the goal of this game.
Once per day.
It should be a feat, not a feat, what do you call it?
Like a trait.
My sister can't catch me if I'm in jail.
Oh, you wanna see me pay my bail?
Pay my bail, baby!
I committed multiple felonies and you can't cover that, baby.
I have your bag of holding with all the money in it, so...
And Augustus, or Rip Augustus.
So Cecilia has been arrested like two days in a row.
And knowing Cecilia, this poor sweet soul.
The most arrestable person.
The most arrestable person!
A guy walks in and says, hey no offense, but you look so arrestable.
You look so...
Okay.
School yearbook, the most arrestable person.
The most arrestable?
Cecilia Eidelwind, most likely to be locked up.
Cecilia Eidelwind.
It's like, I guess they were right all that time ago, I thought it was a joke.
Alright, with that said, why don't we start a recap?
Recap!
The recap is that the Shade returned and he was angry and had this big axe and other weapons
too, but mostly the axe.
And he was screaming at everybody, especially Jean-Claude, went to Jean-Claude's door, threw
Jaime out a window, and he's screaming at Jean-Claude, they're like, yeah, you came
in the future, but you're too late, your niece's probably dead.
Everywhere, all over the floor.
He didn't outright say the niece was dead, I think, just that you were too late, implying
it, if I remember right.
Said my brother was dead too, and he killed him.
Yeah, he said he killed your brother.
Just shot all this backstory stuff at you.
I like to think he was throttling you in between his turns, he was like, wait a moment, he
pulls out his phone.
He pulls out a little, what are you, the flip pad?
Got it?
I take bad notes.
He knows who Cecilia is this time, he yelled at Cecilia too, but most of that was on Jean-Claude,
and he also threw people off a balcony, and there's shadows blocking the doors.
Ty-Mae got back, and we kept fighting the thing, but it nearly killed Jean-Claude, so
that's when Cecilia heard the moon, maybe her mom, but the moon talk, and was like,
hey, reach for the moon, and so she did, and then she became Sailor Moon.
Fighting evil by moonlight, wedding love by moonlight.
Getting arrested by daylight.
Apparently.
It's still night, still night, you know.
So she got like plus 4 AC, she started levitating, there was all this lightning damage and a
big fire explosion, and the thing still wasn't dead, but that helped a bit, and so then we
kept fighting it, killed it with a guiding bolt, and all the weapons, well no no no,
all the weapons stayed except for the axe, which disappeared with him, which led us to
our theory that, I don't think we talked about it on stream, but our theory is that-
Jenny has a great theory.
The theory is that he can revive as many times as he has weapons, and he takes and embodies
a class that's based on the weapon, which is why he was like a barbarian, very angry
this time with the axe.
Very personal attacks.
But that's all speculation that is probably right, I'm just saying.
That's all speculation that's actually correct.
And so then after that, Cecilia gained 2 points of exhaustion from calling upon the moon,
and is not doing so good.
Claude caught her as the shadows disappeared from the door, and the guards were able to
come in, and Sir-
Oh, I don't have my notebook.
Sir Aldemore of House Parvene came in, and he was like, he recognized the name Idlewind,
and was like, oh you're part of the Groven Guard, and he was like, you're under arrest.
And that's what happened.
That's where we left off.
Also like, you're welcome for saving your town.
I mean they wouldn't have come here if we weren't here to be fair.
They don't need to know that.
Thanks, Cecilia.
But also, another notable thing to me is that it's only been a day since we fought the shade,
so does he come back every day?
Is he back tomorrow?
Oh, also you had a talk with Shimmer.
No, that was the previous session.
That happened before.
Stiller!
I just didn't even acknowledge it.
I was like, I know who you're talking about.
My name is Glimmer!
This is where the character bleeds into and the actor bleed together is Emma fucking up
Stiller's name.
Okay.
Well, with that said, why don't we go ahead and embellish ourselves into the palms of
D&G.
All right.
Is that what you did?
You did this?
The digits manipulator strikes again.
All right, I'm gonna put on music now.
Let's do this.
Let's do this thing.
Come back!
This track.
Yeah, the Getting Arrested soundtrack.
Here we go.
We're getting our soundtrack.
Okay.
So.
Fools, errand, that's the name of the track.
I play this song every time you guys bring up the quest or the moon.
I see.
Foreshadowing.
Like, no, it's like a nice song, but also I don't mean to do that.
You don't mean this.
This is the song I use for the podcast.
All right.
So, we last left off.
You are in a battle scarred tavern.
Cecilia, you are drained, absolutely drained of energy.
Your heart beats beating at your fingertips, pain shooting up, creeping up your fingers
through your arms and eventually settling at, oh, your entire body.
You are currently being held up by Jean-Claude.
As you witness, Sir Aldemore began to make his approach towards Jean-Claude.
He goes, I am Sir Aldemore of House Parvin.
And you are under arrest.
No I am not.
You are under arrest.
This was a natural next move.
The moment comes where he pulls out from his back a pair of shackles.
I am a member of the Groving Guard and I would like to know the charges for which you are
imposing on me and my comp- look at her.
And he's like, Cecilia's like, how tall?
Like this big of a girl?
She's not that tall and you're really tall.
Really tall.
So he's got her leaning up against his hip almost and he's like, look at her.
She can barely stand on her feet.
What are the charges?
I demand to know as a member of an upstanding citizen of the Groving Guard.
He just goes, after your little tirade.
Because you have the right to remain silent.
No!
Anything you say can and will be used against- Occasionally!
Occasionally used against you!
It is occasionally!
What is wrong with you?
That is not how you say it!
Thank God I think it's fine.
You see the guards that are surrounding you, there's like two people crossbows, but they're
not supposed to point up or anything at you.
They can recognize all the more calm sort of like posture.
In the back you see that there are currently other guards being like ferried about and
beginning to cover the perimeter.
Some other guards are beginning to funnel into the first draft.
Now I do recommend that you come along quietly.
You are currently being detained for questioning purposes in the near future.
Depending on your answers, you may or may not be presented in front of a lawmaster.
Looking at you Jean-Claude, and looks at you Cecilia, but you do notice Jean-Claude that
there's that sort of like accusatory sort of like dagger like glare that seems to imply
that this person thinks you've done something and you know that look because you're part
of a guard yourself.
You've given that look and you've seen others give that look.
You've seen Captain Valathani give you that look.
That looks like when he looked at me.
So we are tech- Hold on.
You want us for questioning.
Wonderful.
We will comply to this, but- Perfect.
We're walking towards you with the shackles now.
Get those away from me.
I will not- I am a member, and he points to his badge, of the Groving Guard and we have
a right, if we have a right, to remain silent.
I have a right to make this very difficult for you and to scream at the top of my lungs
as you drag me to the court square.
You haven't done anything wrong, so you should just go.
This man's pride.
Stellar kind of like elbows you in the clod.
He goes, hey, take this guy out, thanks you.
Just give it a moment.
Just give it a chance.
That is all in- Listen, listen, let me tell you.
Rank is all in your head.
Disappoint in your heart.
Now, it's on your shoulder.
Aldemora goes, if you are indeed as innocent as you say you are, then you will have no
problem coming along and speaking with us.
Not at all.
Just keep the handcuffs away from me.
I could get my position revoked.
It's not funny.
Come on, man.
By the- Put-
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
No, Stellar, go.
Please, please, quick.
By the way, while this is happening, Cecilia's trying to put the moon pieces away.
Yes, yes, please.
I will stall.
I will keep stalling.
Go ahead and give me a sleight of hand check.
Does she get advantage because Jon Claude's being a loudmouth?
You give me a performance check.
Okay, I'll wait because I have disadvantage as it is right now.
I could give you a flat roll.
That's right.
Yeah.
A performance check is a 21?
22.
No.
The digits manipulator is at it again.
No.
The actual number digits.
No, no, no, no, no.
So what roll was I supposed to do again?
Sleight of hand, please.
Sleight of hand.
A disadvantage.
I'm sorry, Jenny.
I tried.
I don't even care if they get back into the box as long as they get in the bag.
Just saying.
Give it to Aphie.
If I'd had it normal, it would have been a 17, but it's at disadvantage because I'm exhausted,
so it's a 2.
30.
Oh, fuck.
She goes to put it away and then just so that she can show her hands.
She's trying to frame, but...
You go to put it away?
But you do, keeping an eye on Sir Aldemora as Jon Claude is just going off, you do see
as you're putting it away, you are being stared at.
You look up from looking away and you realize that, oh, Sir Aldemora saw you.
He was watching the entire time.
As he does and as he looks at your bag, he looks at you, Jon Claude, and goes, put her
down.
I'm going to order you a second time.
Put her down.
She...
This is my challenge.
She's weak.
Can I at least...
You can handcuff me, but can I put her on my shoulder?
She's tired.
You will handle her.
Sure, I will.
Offer me.
Offer me your hands now.
Yeah.
JT says tonight's going to be a chat versus DM night at this time.
Oh, so this is going to be an easy night for me.
He goes ahead and sticks the cuffs on you.
Sir Aldemora looking at you.
Cecilia, I just looked down and saw you say, fight the DM.
Reaches down and grabs your bag.
It is a purposeful movement.
It is not a snatch.
Did the moon get in the bag before he grabbed it?
Yes.
Okay, cool.
He has no one to ask for.
We're fine.
And he makes icons with you the entire time to tell you that he is doing this and that
he pulls your bag of holding away from you.
And then you see that he cautiously makes his way up to you and puts cuffs on you.
By this point, Cecilia goes, oh, come on.
Because can you see that we didn't do anything here?
You've got to be kidding me.
A guy came in here, busted up the whole place and you see Sir Aldemora just goes, silence.
And so he just goes, yeah, typical.
He says, yeah, you guys are typically the most useful people in the town.
It'll be okay, it's still her.
And Claude just looks over his shoulder and goes, I assume that was not directed towards
me.
You're a bit better.
I will take that.
And he shakes his handcuffs and he's like, can I now assist my child?
You see Sir Aldemora, it's sort of like right after he said that, he just looks at another
of the guards and just kind of like snaps one of his fingers.
And one of the guards comes over to you, Cecilia, and kind of gingerly kind of like helps you
up as you're being helped up.
And it is a bit of a struggle.
It's a bit hard.
It's painful to stand at the moment.
And John Claude, you watch as Cecilia is like really helped up.
Sir Aldemora looks at you just goes, are you going to be okay to Cecilia?
I think so.
I still have some injuries, but I'm not in danger.
We will have you looked at, at the gods then.
And you say, you do hear behind you, as another guard comes over to Shackle Heine and Seller.
Seller goes, don't touch me.
Just put it on.
You don't have to grab me.
Do not be inappropriate.
It might come back.
Thank you very much.
The guard goes, I'm not, never mind.
That's right.
Never mind.
You have the right to remain silent.
The guard is looking at each other.
Uno reverse!
Uno, that's Elvis right now.
Oh no, the chat's fighting each other now.
Chat, chat, chat, no!
Comrades, comrades in arms in chat.
Let's roll initiative, folks.
Let's do this.
Do not turn on one another.
We are all but weaving our songs together.
Warped Films, if you are a cleric and you use that one ability, I will answer the call
if you call for your deity.
Okay, so by this point, as you rise to your feet and a guard attempts to help you up,
Jean-Claude, he doesn't attempt for us.
He comes up to you.
You see he kind of leans in and it just kind of slips back and goes, can you get up?
See how big you are?
Yeah, to Jean-Claude.
Can I get up?
Is he on the floor?
Only his hands are shackled, right?
Yeah.
I just have to stand up, right?
Yeah, just stand up.
I was like, is there something I'm missing?
He goes, can I get up?
Of course I can.
But also remember, he's in his mid to late 30s and he hasn't been very physically active.
So he does the wrong thing.
Roll to see if he pops.
No, really though, can I?
Roll a constitution safety.
Because you know, what he's trying to do is he's trying to appear suave and you know
how it's actually kind of hard to rock, like to stand on your feet without using your hands,
you know, to like stand.
That's what he's trying to do.
Dumbass.
Okay, a 19.
So there's a quiet pop, but you manage to stay.
You manage to stay.
See, it was no trouble at all.
The cadence of someone who's tending to like an elderly person, the guard kind of like
gently places their hand onto your back.
It goes, please come this way.
As this happens, Sir Aldemar, you specifically Cecilia, and just kind of like also sort of
like tending to you kind of like just making sure you are walking.
Kind of like begins to kind of like guide you out with a hand on your the small of your
the small of your back.
First time you ever had shackles on.
Right, I never shackled you.
I didn't.
Second time.
Oops.
As you're as you're being as you're being let out, you do hear kind of like behind you
and Jean Claude, you're like the first to go out.
So this is you're the farthest from this, but you do hear says, I said, don't touch
me.
And you hear you hear a loud like like a thought and something and something hit and something
hits the ground.
As you look back, Cecilia and Jean Claude, you see you see that Jaime, who's being like
also cut, you see watching stellar, who is at sort of like the end of the end, like pose
of a headbutt and one of the guard who is rubbing his chin and kind of like has and
grounded the other guard.
Let's go Jaime and immediately just tackles stellar to the ground.
Hey, hey, children.
Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And he's getting between them.
Yeah, I'll say you easily you easily kind of like pass them the man who's trying to
hold on to you.
Do you rush over there?
Are you like just making your way?
Well, I don't want to come off as a threat.
I am already handcuffed giant fur ball man.
So he's definitely trying to defuse the situation.
You begin to make your way.
Make your way over.
You are not you're not trying to approach threateningly.
Certainly not.
No hands are like voice of voice of reason.
But just the kind of like lumbering approach does have a few of the guards like reaching
huge.
He's just a big boy.
And Sir Aldemar, Sir Aldemar just goes.
All right, halt.
No one move.
And she just looks over at stellar, just looks over at stellar and goes, you over here.
In stellar, just kind of makes her way over.
She seems rather upset glaring sideways at the at the at the guard on the ground, who's
still rubbing his chin is already developing like a small bruise on there.
So the one just goes, do you realize what you've just done?
You just get on with this already.
It's been a really stressful night.
I'm sorry that happened, she shouldn't have done that.
But it's we've just been through a very scary situation.
And I just think that maybe this didn't help.
I tell her to come in the piggyback.
What did you say?
I recommend he's looking at stellar at piggyback.
She would be on my back.
So she's technically detained.
And there shall be no awkward interactions.
And even harder for me to escape technically.
If I'm way down with my companion.
No stellar.
This is why.
Best thing I've heard all day to be honest.
Jaime goes, I'm really sorry for my friend, but what Cecilia said?
What Cecilia said?
He was correct.
It's just been a very tumultuous night.
I mean my friend over there, Poinsettia Jean-Claude, just got shot with a black powder weapon earlier
at point blank range.
Oh, is that what happened?
I couldn't remember the world went black.
Are you sure you're okay?
Of course.
I am a...
A groving girl.
I'm always okay.
I got punched out of a window.
I got pulled off of a balcony.
Okay.
Trammer, trammer time.
Trammer bonding.
Good, good, good.
When you said I got pulled off of a balcony, you see everyone's eyes look up towards the
broken railing.
You got pulled through on the second floor.
Celia goes, I almost got stabbed in the head.
But I know that's not an actionable cause for you guys.
And Jaime just goes, all right, let's calm down.
Althelmore just kind of like gathers the four of you in a group.
He's like, please can they shut up?
And just go and just begins to hurt you guys towards somewhere else.
I think this is how we'll survive most NPC interactions, bug the shit out of them.
Just gonna make them feel bad.
Like, hi, I'm cute teenage girl who just got traumatized by the way.
By the way!
Yesterday he tried to drown me, but you know, it's fine, arrest me.
Yeah, sure.
I heard that one before.
Celia could use that.
I heard that one before.
That won't work on me.
Yes, so, a noticeable sort of like darkness, a noticeable sort of like heaviness sort of
like hangs in the air as you make your way out of the first draft.
Making your way out of the inn for the first time, you are a witness to many guards forming
a perimeter, many onlookers sort of like trying to get a look at the action.
You see guards running in with pails of buckets of water trying to put out the fire from the
fireball that occurred inside.
Forgot that happened.
It really sucked that it occurred next to a sort of like a, what are they called?
Like a place where they make alcoholic drinks, a brewery.
A brewery, yeah, nothing flammable there at all.
Before eventually you see a young man, Elvish man in robes, running up with a spell book,
goes, I'm here, I'm here.
And begins to stream water at the establishment.
Guards begin to push people out of the way as they look at you, as if you guys are the
suspects here.
As the knight, as Sir Aldemore sort of leads you towards the central district where originally
you came in here seeking for the tavern and coming across many important looking buildings.
You are brought forward by an ever waning amount of guards as they sort of, some guards
are ordered by Sir Aldemore to split off and given orders by him until it just becomes
one guard and Sir Aldemore leading you for.
You eventually make it to the building that's the plaza area which has a fountain in the
middle that you saw before where Stellar told you that this was like a legislature part
of the town.
And you are being brought towards a sort of like a large, like two tiered building with
an open sort of double set of doors.
You see like colonnades like a line in the side and above the set of doors running horizontal.
You see emblazoned into the sort of like entablature of the, you see a depiction of wheat fields
and at the end of each end of the entablature you see two depictions of a person holding
a spear and a wolf fleeing away.
You are eventually led into there as Sir Aldemore immediately takes a right at this sort of
like large sort of like waiting entrance area.
Jean Claude, this is definitely like the grandest guard station.
Oh shit.
This is a, your guard station is like a little circular like room, like one room basically.
As you come in here you see like large colonnades holding up another like balcony.
You see many like guards making their way.
It's just a park ranger.
You realize just how like, you know, you are immediately brought, making your way through
this like carpeted, like this carpeted area, you are brought to this side, side hallway
that is like detached from the large like foyer area and you see the place where you're
probably going to be for the next few hours or days depending.
Oh god.
This is a blow to his confidence.
This is a blow.
This is a blow to his confidence.
So you pass by a few individuals who seem to be just sitting there and just abiding
time, men and women of many races, just sitting in their cells.
One of them is throwing a kind of ball at the wall and bouncing it back towards her.
The guard attaches for me and just goes, you, how did you get that?
Give it here.
You pass by and Sir Aldemar just guides you, Jean-Claude, into an empty cell.
Wait, you're not, by myself?
You'll see, you'll see, you'll see.
Okay.
Just do by yourself.
And then just, and then just like points at, points at Stellar and just points in and Stellar
just goes, oh yeah, what was the, what was the process of making that decision?
And Sir Aldemar just goes, go.
And you see, Stellar just goes, go.
Just like nothing and just walking into the cell alongside you, Jean-Claude.
And the door is shut behind him.
Whoa, excuse me.
Hold on.
Yeah, I am, I have literally been tasked as a Grueven guard to escort and he's escort,
is he still handcuffed or is his hands free?
He's still handcuffed.
He's pointing at Cecilia and go, I am, she is my charge.
It is part of my mission to be with her, but to escort her to safety.
So she needs to be in here with me or I need to be out there with her.
That is, that is it.
Sir Aldemar points at Jaime and just goes, you're on the next one.
Jaime just nods and you guys are neighboring cells and closes the cell door behind Jaime.
And you see Sir Aldemar just goes, looks at Cecilia and goes, you're up first for questioning.
Excuse me.
And he's going to start shaking the buzz.
Excuse me.
I would like to be there.
Please.
Sir Aldemar, Sir Aldemar just looks at you and goes, as I've said before, if you are
as innocent as you say you are, then you should have no qualms.
Well, no, it's just creepy that you're like, I would like, she's a young lady.
I'm supposed to be protecting her and looking out for her.
So what is the problem?
I will just stand there and then, I got one of the cards.
He is under orders to stay with me.
My manager is going to hear about this.
And I am under no obligation to follow those orders myself.
Yeah, and you're fucked.
When Captain Velafany finds out, she's going to crush you.
She's going to kick your ass.
Stellar goes, yeah, that's his wife.
That is not my wife.
What do you mean not yet?
I guess I misread that.
I am sure that I'm going to hear every last bit of who you are and what you represent
when I speak to you alone.
All I'm saying is you're fucked, mate.
Is that a threat?
No, I'm just, no, no.
Stellar just goes, hey, hey, big guy, just maybe just sit.
No.
You see Sir Aldemore brings out a small notebook and he just writes something down.
The Grimngald is so much cooler than these people, Stellar.
Let me just tell you, we're not like this uppity.
It's really annoying.
Hey, hey, hey.
What?
Let's talk all the crap about them when they're not here.
Oh.
That gives me a good sense.
I will wait.
Glairs.
Sir Aldemore goes, go ahead.
Cecilia, you will got this.
Don't worry.
You got this, girlfriend.
And Sir Aldemore starts leading you.
Gorsmas.
Queen.
She's fadish.
She's beautiful.
Yes, she's beautiful as she's walking down the hall.
She'll punch you in the face.
I'm sorry about that.
So Aldemore just goes, Apology accepted.
Just walking with you to another room.
Stellar, who was sitting next to you.
In this sort of cell, there is a
There is a... it has better accommodations than the one that you... the cells you have
at Royst, definitely.
There is sort of like an embedded sort of like wooden plank that you can sit on like
bench style.
So you and Stellar are making use of that now.
Stellar is sitting close to the cell door.
She just... you see she just kind of like closes her eyes and places her head back.
And she just lets out this really hefty sigh.
And she just goes,
Hey Jaime, you there?
Um... yes?
I'm uh... I'm really sorry.
What are you sorry for?
It's just...
I think out of everyone I met, it's...
I think you're the last person that should be behind bars.
Ahem!
Yeah, I'm sticking with that.
I don't see where your apology lies.
It's just that...
I don't know.
You're...
It's just I've... you've been...
And you see Jaime just goes,
Stellar of the stars?
At a loss for words?
I...
And Jaime goes,
I'm not here because...
I'm with you.
And to convince yourself that you are anything bad for me is...
Poppycock.
I am where I am right now is because I protected those that I saw fit.
Need protecting.
And if I ever get put behind bars for that,
um, again in the future, then I won't mind it.
If protecting people is going to land me in jail, then so be it.
I'll go in jail as many times as I need to.
Stellar's quiet.
And then you see she just kind of like leans into her cup hands.
And she lets out like this sigh, almost like a quiet scream into her hands.
I don't want you to feel guilty for anything.
I'll be here if you want to talk, like always.
Stellar looks at you, Jean-Claude, and just goes, isn't he the worst?
If you guys need like a private moment, like I can curl up in a ball in this corner and
just really knock me here.
You're a very noticeable ball.
No, I didn't...
I would notice you.
This is a really intimate moment and honestly, I'm very uncomfortable just observing it.
Yes.
I want you to have your heart to heart.
This guy doesn't know how to take an apology.
I always say sorry and he's just like, no, no, no, no.
He's also right there.
And um, this is right there.
He's pointing at me.
It's like literally right there.
And the next cell goes, he's right there.
Um, why did you two, um, clearly, uh, very connected and then you mean a lot to each
other.
What are you saying?
Stellar looks at you like...
I'm just saying young love is something that is beautiful and to be...
Love?
He's fully in the corner like trying to make himself...
Stellar is slowly approaching you.
Um...
God help!
Um, Cecilia, as you're being led to another room, you do hear God's help.
You are currently inside of a sort of, um, like a room with a singular table.
It's just a simple cubicle room with one dimly lit torch.
Um... why did I picture like an office building?
I thought of that too.
There's a PC.
He's logging.
He's got like posted notes all around it.
He's a lie detector for Cecilia.
He's a lie detector.
Is my dog too loud?
By the way, he had to get locked up outside my room.
Oh, I can't hear.
Okay.
No, Percy!
I noticed it comes in a couple times, but it hasn't mostly been picking up.
I don't hear the pup.
Okay.
It's very loud on my end.
So um, you're currently seated.
It's not the most comfortable situation either.
Um, Sir Aldemore, um, kind of like pulls out the seat for you to have a seat.
Um, pulls out a tinderbox to kind of like, like the torch and bring him more flame to
provide more light.
He sits in front of you like, I already had someone sent to tend to you afterwards, but
he pulls out his notebook.
What?
Usually, and he's usually in, um, in many, in many cases, the knight of a particular
region does not perform the clerical work, but I tend to involve myself in these proceedings,
especially with someone with a recognizable name such as yours.
So let's begin.
Let's begin at a fair pace here.
What is your name?
Cecilia Eidelwind.
Yes.
Do you have a sister named with Delmyra Eidelwind?
Yes.
Right.
Now, seeing as you're her sister, you are probably, it probably comes as no shock to
you that someone, someone in this region has heard of her.
To me, as a knight of House Parvin, I am privy to, I'm privy to hearing about your sister's
many heroic deeds and actions.
She's helped out this community a fair bit, a good time ago, and because of that, I have
a deep respect for her.
So can you tell me what happened?
We were headed up to our hotel rooms.
We'd actually just split off for the night.
Jean-Claude and Jaime were staying in one and then Stella and I were staying in the
one next to it.
And then I heard, I heard Jean-Claude, yeah, Jaime get down and heard a crash and there
was this shadow in the door.
I killed it so that we could get through and Jaime had been shoved out a window or something
and this man with a big axe and other weapons was fighting him, screaming at him and he
managed to knock him unconscious but I was able to heal him with a potion and Stella
was able to heal also and we defeated the man and he, it wasn't a man though I think
he was like a shadow like the other ones, just in a human looking form.
After we, after we hit him he disappeared and the axe disappeared and just left those
other weapons on the ground and the shadows from the doors disappeared and that's when
you came in.
We came in we saw that the place was on fire, black powder weaponry was used, knives were
in the walls, parts of the infrastructure was damaged and you were floating in the air.
Was the fire caused by the man who attacked you?
Um, no it, I think it was my fault.
No!
No it's not.
Explain.
Um, it was a spell.
I was too reckless after Jean-Claude fell to the ground.
Go ahead and make, go ahead and make the second track.
Not with disadvantage.
Oooh!
The normal?
Yes.
No exhaustion?
Oh!
Because, because he was a man.
Oh yeah, I think it's gonna have to be with exhaustion.
No!
I was gonna say Jean-Claude's been doing such a good job of, of skirting the details.
Not making a disadvantage.
So disadvantage.
Yes.
Okay.
Damn it.
You're doing great, Jean-Claude.
You have to beat him at 20.
I rolled a 2.
Oooh!
It's not a lie, but it wasn't a spell, so I guess it is a lie.
What kind of spell?
Oh Jesus.
Um.
I'm not sure.
Does it involve what you tried to hide away in the bag from out of my view?
No I was just putting it away.
He pulls out the bag.
He places it onto the table.
This is a bag of holding.
I'm not familiar with many arcane objects.
To be frank, I'm not fond of the idea of them.
How do I operate this?
Grab Afe.
Oh gosh.
You, um, to pull something out you reach your hand and you think of the item.
What item do I think about when I think about the item you returned?
Holy symbol.
She says kind of meekly.
Can you describe it?
It's of saloon.
You see he reaches his hand in there and as he closes his eyes for a moment and for, and
there's a moment where you see that there's a little jump in his shoulders.
His eyes open.
He pulls out your holy symbol.
He puts it down.
That's not what I saw though.
Fucker.
She's like internally like garnet.
Can we get Afe to eat the moon?
As he reaches into the bag, he goes, from what I remember, the description of the item
is, and he jumps again and he pulls his hand out and you see that there are bite marks
on his lungs.
Afe!
Oh, are you okay?
I didn't know that could happen.
Afe!
He looks in the bag.
What do you have in here?
He tries to dump it out but nothing happens.
That might be, um, I didn't know it could do that.
What's it?
Tell me what is it?
I just found out that it was in the bag today.
Um, but there's a talking skull inside of it.
Named Afeus.
He's a lich.
He seems harmless.
He just bit him.
He is so-
He's got his Nat 20.
He's got his Nat 20 insight and she's telling the truth.
Persuasion 14.
I had a Nat 20 that got lost but-
I do work with films.
So you see the-
He kind of looks at you incredulously.
What?
You have a what in here?
Then there's a knock on the door.
There's a knock on the door and you said, hey it's Viola's nursery called.
Um, it's sort of all-
Viola?
Viola, not Riola.
Oh, darn it.
Riola is a classic.
I was gonna say like Viola?
Viola?
Viola.
Yeah, I was thinking of Riola.
Different character.
Classic.
Um, Sir Aldemar just goes, we're a bit busy in here and you hear the voice just go, don't
care.
Opens the door.
My friend.
Automatic friend.
Friend.
We like her.
Or them.
So we see a very tired looking, sort of like gnome walk in.
She has this fiery red hair that completely betrays the darkness that hangs under her
eyes.
And she just walks in.
And she has this sort of like robe on and you can see that she has a symbol of Balder.
She makes her way in and she just kind of like closes the door behind her.
So Aldemar just goes, didn't- just- Viola didn't I say wait a second?
And Viola just kind of like starts walking around.
She just goes, you say a lot of things.
Bran.
Did you say Bran or Brian?
Bran.
His name is Bran?
I was gonna laugh at his name.
Oh hell yeah.
Give John Claw that info, he's fucked.
So Sir Aldemar just goes, we're in the middle of an integral part of the interrogation.
Viola goes, ain't no better than me that I don't care.
Because you told me to come help someone in need here and I'm going to do that.
So continue having your conversation.
I'm gonna be invisible.
Get it girl.
This blatant disregard for authority to you Cecilia should be met with some kind of retribution.
But this Sir Aldemar, there seems to be familiarity between the two and like almost a kind of
like- almost kind of like a gap.
Maybe some kind of baggage that these two have.
So Sir Aldemar just goes, very well you say you had a talking skull in your bag.
Viola just looks at you, kind of like puts a finger on your chin, guides you towards
to look at her.
She kind of like looks at you up and down.
She kind of like reaches into like her bag and she just goes, just keep talking and pulls
out her bag.
But he is kind of grumpy and he'll probably be angry if you take him out and he'll probably
talk a lot.
So um-
Why do you have a talking skull in your- you found out today.
It was in there already.
Say ah.
It's hard.
She takes a little wooden piece of your tongue.
Sir Aldemar-
Worst time to be interrogated.
Sir Aldemar like kind of like- you see his stare turns into a glare but it's directed
at you but it's not at you.
It's like- it keeps going back and forth.
Viola brings the wooden-
Say ah.
Alright keep talking.
Before she starts applying like practical like medical care on you, covering up some
of her cuts.
And it hurts because it's like you know just affecting the wounds and stuff.
So in the middle of you trying to talk it's like ow.
Um I- it's hard to know what's in the bag already because you only pull out things that
you know are in there generally so um yeah.
He re- he opened- he- you see perhaps open holding up the top of the bag.
And almost glaring at Viola reaches into the bag.
And you see he winces as he- as he pulls an-
AP!
You see- you see as he pulls him out you hear-
AP is currently like biting non- Pac-Man style onto the hands.
AP!
Stop!
No!
Um-
He knows he's a threat!
As he comes out you see Sir Aldemore just goes- just kind of like- kind of like- kind
of like tries to drop it.
He tries to like-
He's scared of arcane.
He just starts like throwing it off.
And you see- you see AP as just holding on.
Like-
Oh fucker I can't get rid of me!
I told you!
MVP.
Viola- Viola at this- it's- it has to be strange.
So you see she actually does look at the- at the ongoing site.
You see Sir Aldemore starts um- starts wrestling with the skull.
In order to- just starts like going to the room and like slamming it against walls.
No!
Off!
Uh- AP-ius!
Viola- Viola goes- I knew I should have came in here.
Um- just starts- just coming over and grabbing AP-ius and like pulling.
And um-
Try calling him High Lord or something.
You see as- as Viola's kind of like pulling him off.
He's not letting go.
You see- you hear AP-ius just go- I'm a troll guy swan!
I like these arms!
Um- and you see Viola just kind of like pulling and goes, High Lord AP-ius, can you please
let go of the- of the knight's hand?
Your subject?
Your subject!
Can you please let go of your subject?
Hmm.
Opens up on the man.
You see Sir Oldemort is like grasping his hand, he like backs away into a corner.
With Viola holding the skull.
And you see as she turns- she turns- she turns the skull towards you.
Um- and AP-ius just goes, huh, can't help but notice but I don't think we're at our
destination, now are we?
We're not.
This looks like the innards of an interrogation room and I know I've been in these before!
Sir Oldemort just goes- that's a real talking- that's a real talking skull!
Yes, that's why I warned you, I didn't think you'd take it out!
Uh- Viola just kind of like- you get the feeling that this is a rare event even though you've
seen her for like two minutes, but she kind of like has a half smile on her face.
She goes, cool.
Um- before AP-ius goes, I thought you were supposed to be the guardian of the moon and
yet here I am guarding any wayward hand coming in my way!
AP-ius.
Fucking AP-ius!
Can I see him please?
Can we- can we step aside for a- How is anyone supposed to do any dark magic
around here?
And Viola goes, you should really stop talking.
Kind of like walking over.
Sir- um- as Viola begins to walk over to you, Sir Oldemort goes, says, no!
Don't give it to her!
Well Kate, can you put him back in the bag then?
Oh, is that what I am?
Just something to be put in a bag.
I thought you didn't want to come out early.
I thought you'd want to be back in the bag.
Well you think many things, don't you?
That's what you told me.
It wasn't Cecilia who gave us away, it was fucking AP-ius!
She says, geez, you try to- says, it's hard trying to become a lich.
Viola puts- you see, just kind of like lowers him into the bag.
Before she gets to do that, Sir Oldemort just goes, halt!
Halt!
And he rushes over to the bag and just places his hand in there.
And you hear, as he does that, AP-ius just goes, Charles!
Charles if you can hear me!
Get him!
Do something for once!
And you see he pulls out the box.
The box.
And then you hear AP-ius just goes, Charles you useless sack of slime!
To be fair, he's in a bottle.
And I'm a skull.
One drop.
Viola places him just into the- I love our bag buddies!
Into the bag.
I want a plush of AP-ius and Charles.
Sir Oldemort places the box down onto the table, rubbing his hand.
He goes, now, hopefully, with no more interruptions, there's a knock on the door.
Sir Oldemort, we heard some noises there.
You are fine!
Leave!
And the guard, you hear the guard outside, he goes, okay, sorry!
He's fine, go go go go go!
And multiple footsteps scattering away.
Sir Oldemort just goes, now, Viola, if you would please, give us some privacy here.
And Viola goes, I'm not done.
And now I'm really interested in what's going on, so now I really can't leave.
Sir Oldemort rubs his face.
Just goes, looking at you.
And so, beyond that, Raoul.
What is in this box?
The moon?
Uh, no, um, another holy symbol.
Not like a traditional one, it's just representative of my domain, which is the moon, but it's
not the moon, obviously.
He begins to unslide the top of the box.
As that happens, you see as Viola's looking down at you and taking care of your wounds,
as he begins to unslide the box, a hand reaches out and she just places it on top to stop
it from opening it.
Sir Oldemort just goes, the final one is one more time.
What was that?
Um, Sir Oldemort goes to Viola, just as Viola places her hand on top of the box to stop
him from opening it.
Sir Oldemort goes, Define my owners one more time, and I'll have you thrown in a cell.
Viola goes, Don't.
Just don't do it.
This is pause.
For Sir Oldemort just kind of like, drags the box across the table, but ultimately doesn't
open at the moment.
His hands still at the top, on the top of it, he goes, You have one chance, it's really
in here.
Don't.
They're very important to me, they're related to my mother.
Do they allow you to unleash a maelstrom of magic?
Is it like a holy symbol, like a focus?
He just kind of holds it up and looks at it.
And Viola, who rubs a sort of like an alcohol swab on your, a cut on your chest goes, So
is the girl guilty or not?
What?
These questions aren't really pertaining to anything about what she's done, is it?
Are these questions really important?
Why are you holding her here?
You shouldn't have to be curious about these kinds of things, I don't think they're pertinent
to anything you're doing, to anything that you're inquiring about, so why don't you
just go ahead and make this quick?
And have this portal to leave.
With all this, can I make an insight check to, I want to gather if he's like looking
for the moon shards specifically, if he has any recollection of those.
Go ahead.
Also is Viola like undercover?
Like she's, I think she's just tired of people shitting.
I rolled double 17s.
Ooh, that's good.
That's the way we like it, baby.
That's less of him having a direct goal with these moon shards and more of a sort of morbid
curiosity that he's trying to pursue.
Just goes, do you have any idea why the man potentially attacked your body as he, as he
just kind of like slides the box back into the, slides the box back into the bag?
He attacked us yesterday too, in a different form, he was a scarecrow.
We defeated him and he disappeared, but I didn't think he could come back.
Asean Claude helped me.
That's the Furbolg, the member of the Groven Guard you were with.
And then after that his, his captain assigned him to, to make sure I was safe while I was
traveling.
Right.
It's not often that the peace in our community here is disturbed, knowing that it's a valuable
commodity of House Parvin.
Of course there's an unnatural high presence of guards here, but for what can I, from what
I can tell so far you are not seeking trouble.
Though I am afraid that if I do let you go as is that perhaps it would be letting you
go into another, into another repeated incident somewhere else.
Your sister is the warrior in the family, is she not?
Is she supposed to be with you?
No.
She's taking care of our father at home.
Does she know you're here?
Away from home being led by a member of the Groven Guard?
She knows I left.
I'll continue to parse information, but I don't think that you are an offender of the
peace here.
Once Viola is done tending with you, I will lead you back to your cell.
Sir Aldemar gets up, still holding onto your bag.
And who is Charles, by the way?
Charles is a slime, he's in a bottle.
Never mind.
When will I get to leave?
I have two horses I have to take care of.
When I'm finishing passing judgments onto your patriots.
You speak of Jean-Claude, and it seems like you're the most familiar with him.
What of the other two?
I met them today, but we decided we were heading the same direction, so we decided to travel
together.
They've been very kind, and we spent the day together.
Right.
Farewell.
My questioning of you ends.
Because of your detaining, I will have to write a note to your abode.
Can you please say, I know your home village.
Why would you need to write a letter there?
A courtesy.
Can I ask that you please not?
Why?
I don't want to worry my sister.
She perhaps then out of my respect for her that I will write that you simply passed.
That you died?
No, passed.
Passed through.
No, I was like, Jesus!
I'll fake your death to your sister.
I'll fake your death!
Out of respect for yourself.
That would be one way to get her off her tail.
I just, um, I, if you have to, then fine, but like, I don't want to worry her.
I told her I would be fine going out, and I know she's probably nervous about it.
Taking persuasion check.
Is it at disadvantage because she's exhausted?
Yes.
Yep.
Remember, getting that disadvantage.
You gotta take a nap.
Nap one.
Oh!
We should have gone with a tell in a mirror dead option.
I should worry about what your intentions are, I feel.
Certain details being kept hidden.
And paint you the good light.
I haven't kept anything hidden.
I've answered everything you've asked.
If you need to write, that's fine.
I just, I just didn't want her to think that me passing through here was anything notable
or to get worried about was all.
She's going to receive a letter.
He's a dick.
My earlier judgement still stands, but if I find out anything else about the fragments
you're containing within that box, then there's a possibility that my judgement might change.
He walks out with your bag and toe.
Nah.
Not a fan.
As he walks out and closes the door behind him, Viola places a hand on your forehead
and casts cure wounds, instantly patching you up.
Thanks.
This goes.
He's a hard ass.
It'll be okay.
You ready?
I guess.
Come on.
She, she begins to walk out and you get up and follow.
Now alleviated some of your wounds and I'll go ahead and say, let me check this spell
real quick.
It's foul.
Oh, if it relieves a level of exhaustion, it'll walk a little faster.
You are relieved a level of exhaustion.
Oh, sub disadvantage on everything though.
You do.
Oh, that's right.
I can walk my full speed though.
It is certain that cure wounds as she provided to you another like greater wave of like positive
energy through your body.
Good vibes.
And my heel also.
As the door opens, you see Sir Aldemore is currently holding your bag.
It's on his like on his hip and he is flipping through his notes.
Viola just goes one patched up innocent girl.
Come with me.
And anything else I should help with.
You've helped enough today.
Thank you.
I'm caught in high neighbor both very hurt too.
I should stick around.
I'll send for another healer.
You must be drained.
No.
He kind of bites his lower lip and just kind of like come with me to you, Cecilia.
As you come back, you witness a strange scene.
You saw Jean-Claude and Stellar in the same cell before and Jaime the other one.
And now you see and now you see Jaime, Stellar and Jean-Claude all in three separate.
You see Stellar steaming.
Her hands are really gripped tightly together.
Jaime is kind of like tucked away in the corner and Jean-Claude like sort of like a ball.
A ball in the just trying to make himself as small as possible.
Sir Aldemore just goes to the corner and goes, what happened here?
There was this personal altercation, one of them applied romance with the other one.
Another one got released.
Sir Aldemore just goes, I don't need to see it.
Viola goes up to the same guard as Sir Aldemore walks past.
Viola goes to the same guard and goes, tell me later.
Sir Aldemore opens the cell door to Jean-Claude and kind of like gently pushes Cecilia into
there.
He's alert now.
He goes, you, put the Jean-Claude, come with me.
Dusts himself off from his previous huddled small position in the corner cell, brushes
himself off, nods curtly and then looks at Cecilia real quick and goes, everything okay?
Yeah.
She doesn't sound okay though.
Okay, not good, not good.
Got it.
He goes, don't worry.
I will handle this.
Gently pats her head.
Eyes glaring.
Just as for you to come.
Like a dog, fine.
Just wait until my higher up's here, buddy.
Okay.
His higher up is a lord.
And yours.
As you make your way out, you see Jaime just goes, excuse me.
As he is leaving, can there perhaps be, I've heard of a thing called a prisoner swap situation.
Is there any chance that I can migrate over to Cecilia's cell?
Sort of all the more, just kind of like, just kind of like, his eyes scrunch up for a moment.
Like you can see the stress veins in his head.
He just goes, come with me.
Just keep ignoring Jaime.
Prisoner swap?
No, Jaime, if it didn't work for me, why would it work for you?
I'm sorry.
Okay, you go tend to your girlfriend, then it'll be fine.
She's not my- Runs.
Costello gets a rival.
As you, as you began running, so I'm just, slow down.
And you look, you look as you pass Steller's cell, you see that she, in the darkness, a
glowing, standing out from the darkness, there's two, two eyes that are glaring.
Keep up, Lord, hold the door!
And he starts walking.
Someone just kind of like holds onto you as you just, just kind of guides you into the
interrogation room.
Door closes.
Um.
I start interrogation.
All right.
Before that, Steller, you hear Steller's voice, Cecilia, kind of like, kind of like whispering
to you from the other cell, the neighboring cell.
And Jaime's cell is the one that is strictly across from you, so you can see him.
Steller goes, are you okay?
Yeah, they healed me and stuff.
Yeah.
That's good.
Um.
Are you okay with like, everything else?
Never mind.
Just, you've got a lot to process.
I'll just let you do that.
He said they have to write home.
Did he write the letter yet?
I don't think so.
Okay.
Don't worry about it.
We'll talk more later.
Because maybe you guys shouldn't come with us.
Hey, if we're not thrown like, a real jail, we'll talk about it, okay?
We'll talk about everything afterwards.
Jaime goes, is now a bad time?
Kind of whispering across the hall.
You see he waited for the guard that was patrolling to like, walk away?
Jaime just looks at you, Cecilia goes, hey.
Um.
A lot's happened today.
And I'm not sure if now is the best time to have this conversation, but can you tell me
what you did back at the tavern?
Stellar is like, you think this is the best time to have that conversation?
That's why I suggested the prisoner swap.
That's not a thing that happens in a prison.
That's like a war tactic thing.
This isn't war, Jaime.
I'm sorry.
Isn't it so confidently too?
About like, how many of those prisoner swap things that happen?
There's no guards around right now though.
Yeah, there's one guard patrolling, but he's like, all the way on the other end of the
hall right now.
I guess, well, Stellar kind of maybe knows.
Um.
But it's really important and it's really secret and...
She can't see Stellar, but she's kind of looking in Stellar's direction.
I told him that they were stones, he asked.
I told him they were stones and that they're connected to my mom, which is true.
They are connected to my mom.
And then I could use them like a holy symbol, which is also kind of true because I worship
a goddess of the moon, so yeah.
We'll talk about everything later, okay?
When you have a better opportunity.
Jaime goes, fragments of the moon.
I'm not quite sure, but when you pulled them out and everything started happening, it wasn't
the fire, I think, but I could have felt something inside of me.
I felt like my blood was boiling.
I'm not quite sure.
I don't know, I didn't even know that I could do that.
I just...
Everything froze and someone told me to reach for the moon, and so I did.
Jaime goes, I heard that too.
You did?
Yes.
It's strange, and then as that happens, you see the guard coming back, Jaime kind of looks
and he just kind of sits and shakes his head at you.
We'll talk later.
Jean-Claude, go ahead, sorry.
When the guard comes by, she's just kind of like, I hope the horses are alright.
Horses are probably the most alright in this situation.
The place was on fire then.
They put it out.
They got them out of there, I assume.
People don't leave horses tied up.
I'm just trying to guilt the guard.
Oh, got it.
That's it.
And she does really care.
She lectures her sister about horses dying on adventures.
Ponies come first.
You are within the same room as Cecilia and are just here to take a seat.
Very much trying to maintain control of the situation, sits down, leans back.
Sir Aldemore sits down and this fiery red-haired, tired-looking, gnomish woman is also here.
She sits next to you.
She just goes, Sir Aldemore just goes, alright, what is your name?
And immediately after he asks that question, you see this gnomish woman just goes, say
ah.
Sir Aldemore just bites the ponies.
He likes her.
For pulling out the stick.
Thanks.
I am Captain Jean-Claude Boucheron of the Govind Guard.
You're a captain.
Indeed.
The good deception child.
It's been rolling really good insight.
We'll see.
At least we don't have disadvantage.
Nope.
I've got a plus seven deception.
Again.
Motherfucker.
Okay, I rolled a 21 again and Tim rolled a 22.
What the fuck?
Do you still have advantage from stellar?
Do I still have that stupid advantage from stellar that I never got to use?
It's no longer than a minute.
Damn it.
It's my highest one.
He just simply just goes, no you're not.
Eye twitches.
Says nothing.
Just looks at your armor and looks at your rank and goes, I'm not entirely familiar with
the inner workings of the Govind Guard, but the patch you wear that displays your ranking
doesn't look like you're anything above a common guard.
With the Govind Guard, you're more flexible with the distributing power among our ranks.
I technically was the captain the day that I encountered Miss Celia, which was only a
day ago.
So I am the former captain of the Govind Guard specifically.
Oh, a ledger.
He looks at, he observes a ledger and goes, ah yes, that was me.
I had my very own ledger.
I documented so much in there.
My comrades were filled by my promotion.
I had lovely little notes they left me.
Please speak when I give you questions.
Says nothing.
What's your duty out here?
You said that the young girl was in your charge.
I'm here to protect her.
Blinks.
That's the only duty that was given to you by Captain Volothani.
Correct.
To defend what is precious.
Your romantic partner.
No.
I didn't realize so soon after her wife passed.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm very much a quick rebound.
It is nothing serious, you know.
Is nothing serious at all.
Her wife passed away?
That I- that I knew.
Um, which is why I was happy to be her rebound partner.
And then that is- now it is done.
And now, you know, she got her...
Grief is an awful thing.
Fuck.
Viola just goes,
Yikes.
Oh no.
Hmm.
How did you know that?
How do you- may I ask a question?
How do you know that about-
I'll be asking the questions here.
Hmm.
Of course you are. You're doing such a good job of it.
Though, you not-
You not knowing,
he just says that, you not knowing
cannot be held against you because Captain Volodonny is a terribly private person.
That's what I thought, which is so fascinating about how you know this.
Given she's so private.
Someone in another town, in another field entirely has this access to this information.
Fascinating.
Now, can you explain to me,
just in detail, tell me what occurred.
And you don't have to hash out the details.
You can just say you say the same thing as Cecilia basically,
because that's what happened.
Yeah, I mean, a bit, a lot less detailed,
because Jean-Claude is getting his ass kicked.
For most of it.
This man came in,
he shot each other,
he pushed behind me at the window,
and I was like, where goes my support?
And I was valiant.
I stood my ground.
I kept the pursuer at bay.
I fought into my final breath.
I was the one actually who did the killing blow.
It was me.
Obviously, due to my scheme.
He doesn't write that down, you notice.
You might want to,
that's important,
you might want to add that part.
I know it is difficult for you to write,
he's sometimes a doodle,
could be helpful to you.
It's overwhelming, I know.
He goes, stop.
He goes, stop talking.
You were...
Oh my goodness.
He goes, keep talking.
Sir Aldemore just goes,
eventually you were,
after your wounds are tended to,
practically without magic,
after the practical medication
and the application of actual evocation healing magic,
it actually heals up a lot better,
which is why she's using both.
You are patched up, Jean-Claude.
Do considerably less effort than Cecilia.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.
After that,
Sir Aldemore just goes,
Viola, if you'll please,
leave us be, now your service is no longer required here.
Alright, Bran.
I'll go ahead and tend
to the other one.
If the name was Jaime, do that.
And also it's Sir Aldemore.
Alright, walks away.
Sir Bran, hold the door.
Roll a niche. I'm kidding.
Bran, Bran like Bran-flex.
Flickey personality.
No one likes to eat it.
It would do you wonders to...
Oh, sorry, that was out-loaded.
Other respect to someone who vastly outranks you
In regards to the pecking order
of House Parvin's
judicial
judicial system.
The interesting thing about Ranc,
the word
the word dumpling
implies the existence
of a larger dumpel.
I have yet to meet said dumpel.
Ranc is
Does she need to come back
and heal you some more?
Because I'm not entirely sure.
Go on, go on.
What is that?
You see, he
makes a mistake of thinking about it.
Like what it pertains to in the moment before he just kind of like
gets angry at himself.
Nope, okay.
You see, he just kind of like reaches,
he pulls out the bag of holding that Cecilia has.
He reaches into it for a moment
before he just kind of stops.
And then you see he just kind of like
punches into it.
And then quickly
like reaches for something
and then pulls out the box.
That is personal property you are defacing, but okay.
There's a talking skull in there.
Ify!
Did you just punch him? Ify, did he punch you?
You see as he
puts the box down
in front of you.
And as
he does, he's about to speak.
He just goes, alright.
Now, the question about this.
And then you hear
a distant voice from inside the bag of holding.
Bitch!
Ify gets Charles into action.
Come on, rally the troops.
The troops is only me, baby.
Charles ain't gonna do it. And then he
you see Solomon just closes the bag.
Wonderful fellow, that leash.
Now, Kadvarma is typically
a divine based society.
So, excuse my
trepidation
when it comes to
presenting my suspicions
on these items.
Can you tell me what this is?
He pointed the box.
That is a box.
Inside the box.
Can you tell me
about the contents of what's
inside the box?
Inside the box
there is
something that needs to be contained.
Are you doing this on purpose?
I honestly don't really understand
what is in the box.
I have seen it briefly.
It doesn't look very impressive to me.
You actually make a deception check.
Oh!
Damn it!
I'm sorry.
Damn it!
I felt lucky. I got through the box
without deception check.
I thought I was going to make it.
Timmy was just like, I don't want
Jenny to fail here.
23.
How is his
insight so fucking
oh, he's got an IVA plus seven.
He's still beating me to plus five.
Timmy's just rolling really good.
16 does not beat a 23.
Son of a gun.
I think I earn an inspiration die too
because of my digits manipulator.
No!
I will poke your eye out
with my pen.
Technically on a digit,
you can't control it.
Those digits, bitch!
Poke your eyes out with this pen.
It doesn't have a D or an M in it.
So...
Alright.
So,
Jean-Claude is good at lying.
But it's just that luck's coming
out that
it's
so Audemars is just a bit
Who went insightful
for his own good.
He goes
He leans in.
He goes
If you do not tell me
the truth
and I think you realize
I think you of all people
in your station should realize
how severe
a punishment
can get
when you lie
to a member
of the justice system.
Justice.
The next thing
that comes
out of your mouth
is going to be the truth.
There's a knock on the door.
And he just goes
We're busy
and
you hear from behind the door
and he goes
You hear from behind the door
and he goes
Hey,
it's your partner.
My who?
And then
you see he realized
he sees that the door's unlocked.
He gets up and he's about to go over to the door to lock it.
And then the door opens
and you see a goblin
wearing a guard's armor
walks in
and he goes
Hey, it's me!
The guy from the
bedding table? No.
No, no, it's a completely new person.
So Aldemore
just goes, Squire, please
says
Sir
says
Aldemore, my main man,
I heard that you were doing a little
interrogation and I thought as your squire
Viola told me that you needed
some assistance.
God bless this woman.
Viola told me.
Viola is on the side of the moon, friends.
Viola
is wrong. And you see the
you see the
goblin looks at you
and he just goes
he just kind of walks around and goes
well, well, well
wait, are we playing? Says who's good guard
who's bad guard?
Says neither
I am on a objective path to justice right now
because, alright
bad guard. Okay, I'm good guard
then, okay, I have to restructure my approach.
You look like a
buckaroo. You're a pretty big guy.
Squire
I do not need you to attend me
right now.
Wait a second, wait a second
says we're going to get all the information
we can out of this guy. Oh wait, I'm the
good guard.
Do you want to be free?
Do I want to be free?
Free of, could you go into more specifics?
Free of building?
He leans on the table.
He just goes
free big guy.
He says they don't make birds
as big as you but I think you can imagine
what flying looks like.
You're flapping your wings, the winds are underneath
you're just going
places, you're chirp chirp chirping, you're
singing in the woods, it's
neat, you're shitting on everything. I shouldn't
say shit. You're
fucking crapping on everything. That's worse.
And Sir Aldemar
shitting his bit there, then clapping.
Sir Aldemar walks over
trying to place a hand on
the goblin's
shoulder.
The goblin just kind of
dodges and goes
and Sir Aldemar is
really tired. He just goes
we are not
doing this right now.
I am in the middle
of a breakthrough. He goes
oh okay we're not doing
good guard, bad guard, then how about
bad guard, bad guard. The goblin
grabs the torch
off of the wall
and holds it up in front of your face.
He just goes what are you
hiding? I knew you. Says
I know what you did, I know what you
hit those things.
He pops on it.
Shit I really didn't know how to respond
to that.
Sir Aldemar
you see grabs
the torch, picks him up by the scruff
and he goes oh hey sir
sir
Bran.
Bran Flake, please
there's no need. He is
in questioning me.
I'm trying to assist in this investigation.
He basically kind of throws
him out.
You see the goblin land on his feet.
And he just goes
sir, come on.
And sir
Aldemar just shuts the door.
That is a complaint to HR
in your making.
Now the truth.
He puts the torch back on the sconce.
What did you say
to make my companion so sad?
That didn't answer my question.
You want the truth, the truth why I'm giving you so much
trouble is because she looked heart broken.
I would have answered your questions a lot easier.
If she did not look so crushed.
Perhaps you don't
realize the situation
that you're in right now.
And who's asking who the questions.
This is
something that will do no harm to you.
Points to the box.
Oh you people.
Oh this town. If you do not answer my questions.
I'm answering it.
We're trying to save you people.
You stupid people.
This needs to be brought to the other end of the continent
of why I do not know that gods
piss me off as I'm sure you
look like a holy man to me.
The gods do weird
fucked up shit all the time.
We have been sent to protect this thing.
It is of no concern
or harm to you or your people.
But if you hurt us
we will only continue
to bring crazy fucking gunmen.
Oh and by the way you haven't even met Mero
yet. He's fun.
Mero will be fun. Let us on our way.
Let us continue so that your town
and your village will be safe.
You're pissing me off now.
I've been patient with you.
So what you're telling me is
that you invite
danger wherever you go.
Because of
If I keep you here
the danger will find you
and endanger everyone around here.
Unless we get this to the other
end of the continent.
It is a race against time
when they say.
The clock is ticking
tick tick tick tick tick tick
and you are fucking us over the more you keep us here.
I feel like it's my responsibility
if you
invite danger while you're in some other
town
on your way to the
other end of the continent.
I didn't know before that you were
delivering this somewhere.
Where to exactly?
I don't fucking know. The other end of the
continent. If you're so concerned come with us.
Come on. You will join us.
You will join our
escapade to the other side.
Because this is more important than your
stupid interrogation.
You see he
reaches into his
reaches into
the same place where he usually grabs
the notebook. But then there's
that look of realization.
And he just kind of pats his
pats his uniform
down. What is in there?
And he looks he immediately
you see the look of realization.
He just goes
that damn goblin.
Can you take the book?
He stands
he stands up and he just
goes wait here and he just
he rushes out of the car
of the room.
May I cast
Disguise Self?
Your hands are not
hmm.
It's one of my furball trixies.
Let me go ahead and look at the spell.
These are shackles.
So I'm going to go ahead and see if they
require somatic components.
I'm going to look real quick to it's
Disguise Self.
Verbal and
somatic.
Alright so it does
require somatic. Maybe you just have to do a tap dance.
You know? No hands. Yeah it could be.
Also it's not that my fingers aren't free. It's that
my wrists are bound. So
flick.
These are like shackles but they're
not like
they're not like like binding
together. You can just movement there.
Oh okay so it's not I was thinking
like they're like this. So you don't know why?
I'll allow it. Yeah.
Yay!
I would like to cast Disguise Self as
the guard who just left.
As the guard who just left?
Correct. Sir Aldemar?
Yes.
You said correct? Correct.
Okay. Strides
out the door.
You can get up and go.
I will say I think you can change
what you're wearing right? So can you
make it look like you don't have
No no!
He's gonna keep them. He's gonna keep them.
Because
he's going to
head in the
first of all did he see which
direction he ran? Sir Aldemar
ran when he left?
Like in the right away from like the jail cells.
Oh he's going
towards the jail cells and going
There's been a breach!
The fucking guard!
I need backup! I need assistance now!
Make
a deception check.
It just gets
messed up we're really screwed.
I know!
But I feel like we're
fucked either way!
15. The guard
patrolling
is going to make
an inspection.
Please roll low. Please roll low.
Please. Please. Please.
Yes!
You see he makes his way up to you.
He goes, Sir Aldemar
what happened? And he's off of
me! That fur bug has gone rogue!
We got to- We need backup! Get these off!
Now soldier!
Now!
With
the hurry and the natural
intimidation of you having Sir Aldemar's
guys, he pulls out and he
he goes, um
he says
which one
which one shackled you?
So which guard?
Which guard?
Oh the guard's asking
me who shackled me?
Oh wait
so the guard is asking who
shackled Sir Aldemar? He goes
what do you- what do you fucking think?
The fur ball! He grabbed me!
And he returned them! Get these off! I don't have
time for fucking questions!
I'm sorry sir!
Um Cecilia you're seeing this
Do I
hear a French accent?
He's trying to disguise it.
It's Sir Aldemar.
She's like, oh no what
did I do?
He pulls out the key ring
and he just goes, no not this one
this one and eventually
gets it as the shackles fall off
your- If we were on the war zone
battle you'd be dead! You'd be dead
on the ground! Quicker! Let's go!
One two! One two! One two!
Sir- Sir Aldemar
There is a direct threat
in this prison
security has been breached and you are
fumbling! I want these off!
I want those cells open!
The cells are open?
Now!
We can intimidate Sir Aldemar
I would say by this point
you do hear like some other guards
about to approach
25!
25 on intimidation
Yes! Yes sir!
I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!
I'm a rookie!
He starts
the cells at the very end of the hall
which are conveniently
Cecilia, Jaime's and
Stellar's. He begins
to open them and you see another
guard walking in
walking in and just going
just
just going
Hold on a moment! What are you doing? What are you opening?
There's been a breach! No questions!
We need to- The fur ball grand down there
get there! I will handle these prisoners!
Did I stutter?
I know I had one
as a child but I've worked on it since
then! Move!
And you see the
rookie is going
Me too sir!
And we've grown from those experiences!
A stutter does not define you!
Now go! Go! Go!
Make a deception check or
a performance check for me
Eleven
The guard who was approaching is going to
a seven
You see that the
You see the
the man is glaring at you and she goes
The guard who was
talking to you was like what were you doing?
He's going like
He says, sir
if there's a breach then why are we
releasing the people
we're holding? Hostages!
You fool! Do you know nothing about the war zone?
Go! Get that fur ball! I will
handle this! You all would be dead!
Dead! In the line of battle!
You hear Jaime just go, the war zone
What's going on dude?
Because of the war zone
thing because that's not particularly
the usually calm
and intimidating
sir all the more
I am going to have to ask you to make a persuasion check
with this advance
The thing is though
that just means that this situation is
very serious
Give me one moment here
I'm going to actually pre-roll
an insight check here
Do I get to see it?
Yes. To twelve.
But what's going to happen
is that
Stella is going to
use her reaction
for silvery barbs
And there is
there is a verbal
somatic component to it in case anyone
in the chat is wondering. Of course there is
but
there is no sound
So
into twelve you have to beat
not in that twenty
You have advantage
that cancels out your disadvantage
on your persuasion check
so roll a normal persuasion check
Okay. Alright
John Claude come on. We got a persuasion
of plus five. Come on.
Eighteen!
Welcome to
the jungle!
I just did a fucking call of duty
The man kind of looks at you incredulously
like he's never seen this sort of Aldemort before
who's so enraged
and so
enrapturing. But he just goes
just goes
There's that moment where he's trying to
question authority
before you see
the cells of
Stellar and Cecilia
and Jaime are open
I, Bran Aldemort
demand that
as your serving
officer, this is
not a drill and he's going to
grab Stellar, grab Jaime
grab Cecilia and go
Get that Thar Bog!
And they go
Yes sir!
As soon as
you're turning around and you're going
as soon as they turn around and go like yes sir
and you're gonna go
and they turn around, they see Sir Aldemort
walking
towards and goes
What's going on here?
And he goes, turns to the tree and goes
Everybody run! Get down! Now!
And he's going to go
Who is this imposter?
He twitches, he just goes
Everyone
Get that Thar Bog
Get that Thar Bog!
He's using his mind manipulation tricks
You're using the mind manipulation tricks
Anyone who stands with me
gets an automatic raise
as I, Bran Alderit
Anyone who stands with me
will be doing your duty
Anyone who stands with me is protecting
the realm against this threat
This terrorist
They're all turning towards you
Kind of like
Have the others be run? Please tell me Cecilia and the others
have booked it
I'm too confused
Also I need the moon
Just kind of naturally
Since Sir Aldemort
is more Sir Aldemort
You see the people kind of like looking towards
you
Kind of like having their blades in their hands
but not drawing it just yet
Sir Aldemort
Just kind of goes
Lay down your arms
And surrender
Sir Aldemort
You are clearly
not prepared for a coup
Your forces
have failed you
Men
The inspection
Cecilia thinks of the random
lie all of a sudden
What did Cecilia say?
She says very quietly
The inspection
No
Don't make any sense
It doesn't work
I mean if you want me to roll I'll probably fail anyways
I have no mod and I'm disadvantaged
Sir Aldemort
Just goes
Turn to yourselves at once
I've had enough
games today
Then free us
and we will continue on our way
You are handling justice
By the by
When he left
the terriation room and I
and this is going to be
I'm putting this in because it is an important detail
and you would do this
When he left the room in a hurry
for his notebook he did leave the bag of holding
and the box in there
That's what I was wondering too
I would have grabbed it right?
You absolutely would have so you would have it
Why the fuck aren't we running?
I'm
I'm going to
I'm going to hand the bag to Cecilia
fucking shove her and charge
You're
You're retreating?
I'm making them retreat
I'm creating a distraction and fucking charging
Oh
Making a determination check
And you see
Heim just goes, hey we shouldn't be
We should not
Heim shut the fuck up
17
He just goes we shouldn't just
and then you see
You see the sir all the more just goes
Like it just starts running towards them
You see the guards are like whoa
Just putting their swords and
not charging back
and then Stella just goes perfect
Let's go and just grabs
Thank you Stella
Just grabs both Cecilia and Heim by the arm
I'm not sure this is the best idea
We're already committing to it come on let's go
This man's taking way too fucking long with his
interrogation I'm telling you
Yeah I don't want him to have the moon either
Nope
So that's the whole reason she's actually leaving
Run my friend
You see
You see Stella runs
Heim who's confused and conflicted
But ultimately runs
Runs behind you Cecilia
As you run
Down the hallway
You see many of the prisoners
Who are currently with themselves are like go go go go go
Very happy
That a prison break is happening
It's not really a prison
It's like holding cells but it's still really fun
Yeah they've been bored
As
Sir Aldemore the second
Jean Claude you are
That charge you do
Sends them a reeling
But you see Sir Aldemore is like pushing
Push him forward and drawing his sword
While he does that I would like to use
Because I don't have my weapon
I don't have my axe I don't have my sword
I don't have my weapon I don't have my axe on me
I'd like to use my last spell slot
To cast heroism on myself
So he'll just give a good slap
To his chest
And he'll start shouting out his oath
As he goes
SICK ALWAYS
And he's just gonna start
I don't know how he's gonna be tackled
I don't know what's gonna happen but he's just shouting out his oaths
His paladotes as he's
Charging Sir Aldemore
If you get caught we're stuck anyways
No not really
And if you guys make it out right
You're fine
Yeah but if you get caught we have to wait
We have to get you
Sir
New character trust me
Sir Aldemore
Running towards you just goes
Everyone else get the
Find those three
Defend what is precious
YESSSS
He comes
Towards you with the sword and he
Is going to swing
But actually as he's
As the two of you are approaching each other
We're all initiative
Sean Claude
24
I wonder how
I'm gonna
Be
25
Can you imagine 25
I can only do it within that 20
Which I did not roll a 9
Good
Even if that 20 wouldn't have
As the two of you
Charge at each other and you're yelling your
Oaths as this angry
Very stressed out Sir
Aldemore
Needs to use
The disc
The coupons that he's been stacking up
For the local hot spring
Random detail we shouldn't have known about
But I told you
The two of you
Charge at each other you
Have first go I will
Say that you don't have
Your weapons
No I don't
Nope
So what do you
Do when you're a fucking paymaker
Throw it
And as he goes he goes
Preserve your word
As he throws his punch
So what would that be
That would be
Do I have it on my character sheet
It would be a d20 plus your strength mod
Plus your proficiency modifier
Okay
D20 so let's
I think I have to do it the old school way
D20
So what
A seven plus my strength mod
Which is two so nine
And then plus another two
Okay so 11
I assume that would not work
Fine
He um
As you turn to throw a punch
Twisting your fist
And shouting your
Oaths and your
Proclamations
Um
He
In this middle of his charge as he's holding
As he's holding it he actually
Dodges out of the way your fist curls
Above his shoulder as
Your fist barely misses his face
Yep yep yep yep
And then let me see
All of these are spells
I don't think I just let me check real quick
Oh
Nope
Channel divinity is in action
So uh I will
That's it that's all I got
Okay
He is going to
Make an attack roll
At the top of his turn so it's going to be
A 19 to hit
That hits?
You take
With my four temporary
Six points of slashing damage
Well I take
Only take two from heroism but I think heroism
Is broken now but that's fine
Um and I believe you have
To make a um
Concentration check for disguise still unless you drop it
Uh oh it's dropped
It's dropped?
Yeah it's good to see through a
Heroism
This is another concentration spell
Oh that's right okay yep
As he slashes
As he slashes down
At you and you feel
The wound that was just patched up
Um he looks at you
Um and there is scorn
In his eyes now
He's heaving he's
Stressed and angry
He just uh
Um he just
He just goes and you call yourself
A member of the groven guard
I am a member of the
Light and goodness
Evil duel
Mix up he said
Um
As that happens
At the top of the round I'm going to
I'm going to cut over to Cecilia
They're out of initiative but I'm going to cut over to Cecilia and Stellar and Jaime
Um
Jean Claude has the
Bag or gave it to Cecilia right?
Cecilia yep
Um Cecilia as you're running
Um you're making your way
Towards the exit and um
You walk past some you run past
Taking advantage of the like situation
You you run past some confused guards
Who aren't actively chasing they're
They aren't activated yet
But they just see you running
Um Stellar
Running past um
Just goes and you notice that like
She
Um you notice that
She um she does she does this
She just she's kind of like wait here
She makes her way up and she
Just kind of like claps
Her hands together normally
Bard like
Especially bards have a spell casting focus
She doesn't have her loot and was taken away
But actually claps her hands
Together a thunder wave
Reverberates um
Throughout the um the area
Catching no one in
Not doing any damage to anyone
But it's um giving
Enough of a distraction for everyone to like
Be bewildered enough
Um that she just kind of
Like as soon as she does that she just
Rushes out of the door
Do you have a dragon mark?
Oh
Good point
Good point I didn't even think that
I don't know enough about them
Well it's just a common thing in Timmy's world
Is why the my brain
Well it's not common it's just
Common in another game
Um she she's running out
Are you following?
Yeah
She's
She's like
Why are we doing this though what about Claude
We can't leave him either
And but I can't let them have this
Either
This is more important
I think
Are you reaching into the bag and
To check if the moon's there?
Yes
As you're running and you
Pull it out and you feel
That warmth in your fingertips again
Um hold on one moment
I'm going to roll
A D100
Oh my god
What? Oh no
I don't know what that means
Fireball? Is this
Fireball are we gonna get a fireball?
It's 78 fireball hold on did we roll it last time?
It's not a magical
Surge
So I rolled a 78
And I had it
That in this particular
Situation if a
75 or over
Was rolled
Oh my god
They would have care
Oh my god
So as you're running and you pull it out
And you feel the comfort of the
Of the moon
Of the moon fragment
You don't even have to pull out
Like
Oh yeah it is open like halfway
Because of
Because of the earlier situation
So as you kind of like rush to close it but you
But you inspect it for a moment as you're running
Um
Jaime
Collapses behind you
Leave him leave him leave him
Leave him
She stops
No leave him leave him
As you stop
You watch as he just kind of like
Of shaky breath
He kind of like holds his
Hands that are
And they're shaking and
He is um
Like shuddering
The guards begin to catch up
You see Stella turn around and goes
Jaime
What's going on? Cecilia come on
Are you okay? She puts the
Moon fragments back in the bag
Um
Can she try to help him up?
As you put it
As you put it back
He just
Um lets out another
Another breath and the shuddering
Um seems to stop
Um
The moon doesn't like him
But in that
In that moment
Um
You do see the
The sudden uh
The sudden
Like
Verosity that stops
As soon as you put the moon away you see
His eyes kind of
Like
Growl you see the something
Begins to like reach out of his back but as soon as
You put the moon away it stops
Maybe he is a werewolf
He's a werewolf he's a werewolf
He just
Um He's not evil he's just a puppy
The guards uh begin
To approach their pulling their weapons
Out
Um
Sheik has sleep
On the guards? Yeah
Roll uh 5d8 for me
Please
I don't have second level spell slot so it has to be
First level
33
I rolled 3h on that
Let's fucking go
Yeah how many hit points do these guys have
Well that's a great question
That's a great question that is always the question with sleep
I'll say that um since these are just like
Like
Like these are just like
Like the reserves are just coming out
Um two of them just immediately
Fall asleep uh immediately
And they're approaching
And they're approaching to uh
And they're approaching to Jaime
Um
Jaime immediately gets back to his
Gets back to his
Um still a bit out of it
But he places a hand on you
And begins to like turns you around
And goes let's go let's go
Are you
Okay she's moving but
She asked
I feel like I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm not going to ask right now
Dash dash dash
Yeah she's moving
Stella just goes
Stella just goes alright we're gonna go
We're gonna get to the horses
And then we're
Beeling
Back to what's going on on the guard station
Uh is it my turn
Yes
Oh I didn't hear that
Yes yes yes
I would like to use my channel divinity
Uh to do flash of brilliance
Uh bane
Against
Okay
Bran
Can you please remind me what that does
Uh creatures force
Uh creatures force to make a constitution saving throw
If they fail the creature is stunned
Until the end of my next turn
Uh my spell dc
I believe
Ulf
Is a 14
12
Fails
Um
So you're stunned
Uh so you see
You see Jean-Claude slap his bracelet
For his last
Oath
Which he goes and he gets up in his face and growls
Find her
I made prophecies
That are woven into this bracelet
To protect the people
Of this world and you
Motherfucker
Are not going to hinder it
I don't care
As a flash
As a big flash of light
Legitimately just fills the room
You see many of the guards are just covering their
Uh covering their face
And him the one being directly in front of it
Um is like that one guy with a sponge
And he's like oh my eyes
My eyes my leg
Um
He covers his face
At this big flash
Um
Yeah I'll say that everyone
Everyone including Ser Aldemore is stunned
And I've already used my action so I couldn't
Grab one of their weapons right
Um
That would be another action
I would say that would be another action yes
Yeah um
You could use this opportunity to also like when everyone's stunned
Like you can get a head start. Run. I could run
I'm gonna start running
I'm a book it
Um
I will say as you are
Running um
You see Ser Aldemore just goes
Whatever that is
Do not let that fervor get away
And one of the
One of the other blinded
The one you blinded who was just uh
Was like yes sir the one the rookie guard was like
I'm on it
Sir
Just created nightmares for this guard
Okay
Next to come
We are gonna stay on Jean Claude
At the moment Jean Claude you are
Running away um this like
Action movie style you see two guards
Around the corner
The swords aren't drawn they're just like
Confused but um
I would say that you are currently
In your own initiative right now
As you're running
Towards these two guards
They're like they just put their hands up for you
To stop
Well to think about furbolgs
Um you count
As one size larger when determining
Your carrying capacity
And the way you can push drag or lift
Give me an athletic
Check with advantage
I believe
Due to your um
Flash of brilliance you put a boon on yourself
You add
Your charisma modifier to your
Rolls
Wow okay so I'm
Oh jesus
So remind me if I'm rolling athletics at
Advantage
And then adding my charisma mod
Yes as on top of it
Okay
So at Advantage
Athletics is a 17
Plus my charisma mod my charisma mod
Is 4 which is 21
You fucking running towards them
They're the fools for seeing
A charging furbolg and be like please wait
Don't stop
You you immediately
Just like shoulder check both of them
And you explode with energy
Into the both of them and they both fly
Out of your way
So hey boys
Um
You run you run towards
The door where you see other guards are sort of fuddling out
One guard turns towards you this other
Like scrawny sort of like
Gnomish
Gnomish gnomish
Young woman and she's like
She like pulls out a dagger
Sweet out
Do what is good for you
I see sprint
Sprints pass not even stop it
Make athletics check
Again with it
This poor bitch is gonna go flying
At Advantage
Or just at Advantage
Yeah because I've got powerful build
I'm sorry sweetheart
So 14 plus
My mod is 18
The camera pans out
It shows us a nice
It shows us a nice establishing shot
Of the um of
Of Wolhigheim
The moon is out tonight the stars are out
It looks very pretty
But you hear a distant scream
The viewers hear a distant scream as they watch
A silhouette of a gnomish girl
Fly across
The picture of the moon
I'm just kidding it's not that bad
She just she just
You blast through her
You blast through her and she
She flies
Through the air legitimately and lands
Some other guards who are like
Turning back
And you hear
You hear he's crazy
No I'm
Saving you you stupid
Bastards
The gnomish girl
The gnomish girl goes it doesn't feel like it
And you
You are
The whole guard the whole town of
Guards is chasing you now Jean Claude
So he had
Respect for my sister but
Now
No
Not for me
Nope nope he was a dick
Jean Claude you are an essential area with the
Guards you just made your way out of the
Guards then
You see
You see some guards are like
Looking
Looking at you and trying to
Now they're pulling out their lethal
Like their swords and stuff
Oh Jesus oh Jesus
You have like 15 feet away from them
You have a head start but you gotta go somewhere
Okay where
Am I out of the
Prison am I out of the jail?
You are definitely
Out of the building
Horses any horses near me
That I can just grab and ride
There are some horses
There's some horses on a hitch yes
Oh grab it and go
Grab and go
You get on top of the horse
And you see
A guard
Just runs to you to like grab you off
But you are too fast
Thank you for your service
As you
As you rush up I would say there's two horses on the hitch
Another guard is going to get on top
Of the horse and begin to give chase
Of you on the
Begin to give chase onto you
So it's just
It's just one other guard
On a horse that is keeping up with
You okay I can take one I can take one I don't have
Oh no I left my axe behind
No
It's okay
You see
You see that
The other guards are going assemble the wagons
Go go go
Oh Jesus
I hope the others have gotten far
I hope they've gotten far
Um you see
The uh
As you're being chased
These nice
These nice couple rich couples are out
Strolling in the night
You
You separate them as you
Rush across the street
People moving out of your way
Um the
The guard behind is going stop
Stop right there
For justice
As he's switching through
As you
As you break
As you break the ranks of the many
Of citizens in front of you screaming for justice
Where what's your destination are you just
Going
Do I know the town
Well I know how to get
Out right cause we know
Or do we
Um I would say
From this location that you
Traveled this particular ward before
You need to turn
Around to
Get to the first draft
The inn
Oh what about Madam Withers
That's um that's on the other
Like the other side of town it's gonna be
Longer to get there
But you don't have to turn around
I'm going to Madam Withers
Going to Madam Withers
Okay
Bring the trouble to her she's gonna help my ass
Whether she likes it or not
Um
While that happens we're gonna cut over to Cecilia
Um
Stellar just goes
Looks back at you with the
All that grubbiness from earlier is now
Gone you see Stellar has a smile
On her face like a tear double smile
She just looks back at you and she goes
First time right
Um
As she just goes um as she just
Here cut this corner here
Oh my god
As you're getting a crash course on running from
The guards
You see um I have very
No decks
So um
No obstacles or I will
Fall or get to the horses
Sadly when you
Sadly you said no obstacles
When I was about to put an obstacle in your way
I knew it I knew it that's why I said it
Between
Um between the inn
And this place there is
There was as I mentioned before a marketplace
Where people had their livelihoods up
Um
Well
As you run past other confused guards
Who don't know the current situation
Again but are
Piling up as the guards are like get them
Get them and they begin
To go towards you um
Some of them own horses
Um
You see Stellar looking back seeing the horses
Just goes
Into the crowd um
Pointing at the marketplace and
She just she just dives
Into there
Into a crowd of people
Try to follow
Um
Can you go ahead
Um
Because of the uh because of the sort of the pushing
Around of this hectic crowd
Um and you're kind of rushing along give me an
Acrobatics check
Not acrobatic
With disadvantage
Yeah with disadvantage
And at negative one so
Oh I rolled a 12
My first one was a 17 but I rolled a 12
That's really good
Oh
Oh so you made it
Just barely
Oh hell yeah there we go Cecilia
Um a thousand
Excuse me's uh
I just
Just hold on to Stellar's arm to not lose her
You see the people the people the horses have to stop
As the crowd
Is like confused on why the
Why there's so many guards
And the guards are gonna yell
Disperse disperse
Um
You are
Stellar uh
Stellar begins to run and uh
She's you see she's panting but
There's a big kind of like a little smile on her face
That she's running
Um
High enemies
High enemies catch you with you like easily
As you kind of like make it through the
End of the crowd
And uh run they're gonna run some more
Um
Stellar seeing that
They made some distance from the guards
Go um goes
Alright slow down slow down slow down slow down
Oh my god
He's a werewolf monk like Bates
That's the thing
That's the connection Who's Bates?
Where's werewolf monk in another game?
I don't know any of these people
Ah
I just made the connection
Um
You see
Um
Stellar kind of looking back
Kind of like okay
Act natural
Yes
Cecilia's good at that
You see Jaime is like
Like heaving as well and also
Looking very concerned
Don't we still have shackles on?
No didn't I? Oh
That's right
Though I do I do think that
Um cause we
Cause I think it's something that we overlook I do think
That another one of the uh
Letting out of yourselves another thing is like
Letting loose your shackles
Okay
Um
Oh gosh
Cause I did think earlier that
That
Astellar was casting the thunderclap with shackles on too
Was the thing
So you guys are
Shackled is what you're saying
Okay you guys gotta take that
You guys gotta put them in your robes you gotta do the whole
Sweater sweatshirt thingy
You know It's so cold out
Tonight It's so cold out tonight
Duck into an alley break that shit off
Oh my warm
My warm shackles
My warming shackles
Duck into an alley snap that shit off
Um Keep calm and carry on
You see uh
She goes okay heck natural just follow me
And
Walks right into an alleyway
As
At half the time he just goes keep calm
Follow me and walking right into an alleyway
Is the
Most
Unadvisable
Inadvisable
Thing to follow
I'm gonna
She sticks her hands
Into the bag of holding
Those
Aphiis
Are your teeth strong enough to bite these off?
Smart move good job
Let me at him
Aphi
I love him
Um
And Jaime goes
Excuse me who are you talking to
And you pull out
The apis
Because
You really need to
Introduce me to your
Friends more often
And Jaime just goes whoa
Is that a
Shh
Hahahaha
I have the same reaction
Jaime
Um
Are your teeth strong enough to break these
Yes
Hmm
Opens up his mouth
Sticks them in
Um
This is not breaking through them
Uh
Well hold on
There's so much stuff in the
Bag does it mean there's not like
Fiefstills or pliers
Um
I've got a shovel
When in doubt
Uh
You do hear in the distance
And it makes you freeze up a bit
Guards running by
But they run by
Run past
Um
You see uh
Um you see
Steller just goes do you have anything else in the bag
That
I
I have weapons um maybe she tries
To think of something that could cut through
Maybe
Uh
You think of uh
Something and you pull out this sort of
Like um
There weren't many weapons
In there um when you
When you checked through the bag of holding in the first place like I said there was a dagger
Oh I thought you said
Specifically there were several weapons
Um
Getting to them now multiple multiple daggers
Um
You do see that there is um
You kind of like pulling them out like oh no you're thinking of something bigger
You feel
Something heavy and you pull out
Like a great axe
Whoa that could work
You cannot imagine the
Miro wielding
What if I do this to one of you first
Um
There has to be something better
Are you similar weapons?
Actually I just told you
Swing in a great axe in this little narrow
Alleyway at me of all people
Do the uh
Highway
You know the
Okay
Uh
Okay I'll just go ahead
And go first
Oh brain participate perfect
May your strike be true
Okay she tries to
Who are you
To careful not to get him
She will try to cut through
Make an attack roll please
Okay
I'm pretty sure I have proficiency
Um
Cause it's melee right?
Yeah I have like heavy armor proficiency
I think
Clerics have
I think
Clerics have
Martial weapons
I think so I have a mace
It is certain
Certain clerics
Have proficiency with
Armor with armor
But I'm not sure about martial weapons
I'm gonna give you a quick
I thought they all did All similar weapons
Um
And I'm gonna go look at uh
Twilight
You do have proficiency
With martial weapons yes
Yay
Thanks Twilight
So I can I get to add proficiency
To strength plus proficiency
Um it's an attack
Right not a
So it's 17
Nice
Here we go
Sorry 19 cause it's plus 2 proficiency
Jaime
Um Jaime closing his eyes
And he goes
Order the flowing vine
Continue the flowing vine
Please
And you just
Smash through the chains
Okay um
Aphius goes aw
I love him
Why aw
Okay
Aphius goes back in the bag
He's gonna be mad about that later but she puts him in
You put him back
As you uh
As you put him back and he just goes even bigger aw
In the bag
Poor buddy
Um
And you uh
And you see um
You see stellar
I almost said something else
Stellar kind of shimmer
No
So they're just go okay
Just
Like
I need these hands
I'm not going to cut your hands off
And even if I won't
So she just does it
Oh hesitation
There we go Cecilia that's right
Make one more
Yeah let's see
Um that's normal
Disadvantage um 11
13
Okay um
Heavy heave down
And it actually doesn't go through
Just yet force kind of like
Brings her down a bit
But you've snapped like a half of a
Half
A chain link
Um
As Aphius she's just
You're surprisingly
Really strong
It needs just a bit more okay
Just trying to finish it
In that moment as you raise it
You hear from down the alley like
Uh you hear like
I'm going to check down his alleyway
Nevermind
Can you do it
Quick
Okay she tries too quick
Um okay
I'm making a tech roll
So like Jaime like
Crack her things open what the hell
Take it forever um 9
You kind of like
You kind of like trying to
Like measure it um
But I will say that for this moment
Like this miss is actually
Like you don't get the fully swing as you
Hear the footsteps begin to approach
From behind it's beginning to get closer
Um
You see Jaime
Uh just thinking like
What do we do and stuff
Okay we're just gonna
Just go
Just come on let's go let's go
Um
Uh
Jaime uh as the guard
Rounds the corner um he goes
Halt!
You see um Seller begins to run
But Jaime goes uh Jaime turns
And goes oh
Hello there
Guard
What are you
Doing here today
He sees the shackles
That are broken and so that they're on Jaime's wrist
Oh god
I'm holding an axe
A really big axe
She's holding an axe holding a big axe
Seller still has shackles on and you have shackles on
The guard draws his sword
Um
He just goes
Prisoners came and they
And they forced these shackles onto us
Before they ran away she's trying to copy
Oh no
Celia no
Jaime just goes
Yes it was all part of a it was a prisoner
Swap it's a war tactic
I got this axe off of them
Swap again
The prisoner swaps
The prisoner swaps us with them
Okay Jaime
Seller goes you guys are hopeless
Um
As he as the guard kind of like
Makes his way forward
He goes lay down your arms
Lay down your arms
Um like
Aggressively like approaching
Um
Jaime kind of like backs away
And he doesn't really give you a moment to like
Surrender before he like takes a swing
At Jaime
Um as he swings sideways at Jaime
You see Jaime with depth agility
Bends backwards
This um sort of like
As he bends backwards
You see the sword swipes just
Above his nose just barely
Missing the tip of his nose
Um and Jaime
Just kind of like lurked after that
Like after that like swift movement
He looks forward and just
Gives a quick hit to the uh
A punch to the guard's face and the guard is
Knocked backwards
Oh cool cool cool
Jaime
You see Jaime just kind of like
Looks extremely dissatisfied for a moment
For Seller just goes
Let's go
Thank you Seller thank you Seller
As the guard rubs his face
For that moment and
The three of you
Seller at the ushering of Seller
You the three of you run
Okay
Um Jean Claude
The man uh
The one guard this one guard is sticking
On you
Um
He is uh
He um go ahead
Make an animal handling check
Ooh
Do I get
A advantage with speech of beast
And leaf
Oh I do
I have advantage on all charisma
Checks to influence them
Um it's oh that's charisma
Not wisdom
This is an animal handling check
Just your maneuvering of the horse
You might be able to
Persuade the other horse
To stop
That's true
Alright so animal handling
20
Metro 20 for animal handling
21 I speak for the trees
And the
Forest and bees
Seven
You maneuver through
Um multiple aspects of
Like civilian life
You jump over fruit tables
And maneuvering this animal expertly
Just like going through
Maze and not running into anyone
Um the person behind you
Is not having such
Uh good control of
Of their horse and is
Not making the strides that you
That you're making
Um I will say that
You are um losing him but he
Is going to pull out a crossbow
Okay I can take a hit
In this desperate bid
An eight
Does not hit
Um
He doesn't even fire
He's like trying to aim towards you
But he can't get a good shot on you and ultimately
Just does not pull the trigger
Um because there's also
People between the both of you
I was going to say if he shoots an innocent
Civilian like that's his problem not mine
Um it is
By this point that you
Hear in the distance
A horn being blown
Um probably bad
Probably pretty pretty bad
But their attention is on me
For the most part
Um Cecilia you
Make it to the first uh draft
To see that there is still a scene going on
Uh the guards are
Investigating but none of the guards have been
Giving you chase seem to be around
At the moment
Um let's
Try to get rid of these
Because we need to get the horses
Okay we can't really let those guards
See the shackles
As kind of a dead giveaway
Um
And Hyri
Just goes I can't believe I
I punched a guard
Is
Is okay
That's a really good thing you did a really good thing
Jaime
We're all going to talk about our feelings
Later because there's a lot to
Process and
There's a talk there was a talking skull
And it
There's a guy
Okay I'm going to take off your shackles now
Okay okay
Easy just as I go
Okay
Um who's
Better
There is
A long pause
Um
Um uh
I know
The knock spell
Jaime you can do it
But I'm out of juice
Jaime just goes
Alright just um
Hold them
Apart I'll try something
Okay
I've seen one of my teachers do this before but
I'm not entirely sure
He's just punching it like a thousand
Oh my god oh no
Um
You feel like at this moment you're just kind of
Being massaged like
As the
As he's attacking the shackles like everywhere
Along the chains
But it requires brute strength it seems
To uh break these apart
Okay I guess I can just
Stay like this
Like okay
No no no do you have like
Like a lockpick in your bag
She reaches
In for lockpicks
There's a detool set yeah
I'd say detools baby
Guess I do I didn't realize
Perfect
I
Don't remember the last time I
Used these
Jaime goes when I used to sneak around
The monastery I um
But I left that life behind
After I got scolded
I left that life behind Jaime what the hell
When I got scolded
So innocent
Um Stella just goes
Alright just let me let me try them
Okay
She's gonna take a honest
Attempt at it
On Stella
16
Um unlocks
You see that she just kind of like
Attempt at it like
Tongue hanging out the side of her mouth before
You hear a satisfying click
Stella kind of like
Gasp as one of your shackles
Come off
Only one of them
They're not one thing
It's two
It's two of them
Um and you see
You can have one free hand now at least
She's going to try the other one
18
The other one clicks faster she goes
I'm the best
She just
Yeah
You know
When your sister steals
Nevermind um
Oh
What? Backstory baby
Can I insight check that?
Um you have
She wasn't talking about your sister
I know
Yeah but can I insight check that?
Go ahead
Her sister stole something
Only because it's a suspicion I had
Out of character that I was like no that's not possible
But it kind of is
Um
Okay I have
Disadvantage though unfortunately
Eleven
Um
Don't know what you're
Looking for specifically
It's not Domira
In disguise
Oh no
It was just a
Hesitance
Like no um
Okay
The Hesitance of the story is just like we don't have time for this basically
Yes yeah yeah yeah
Okay
Um still
Um Jaime just goes
We still have shackles around our wrists
Uh it's just we don't have
The chains there
Just put it in your like pocket
Or something Jaime look cool
Be chill bro
Be chill
Okay so we put the in
Where the horses
Where we put the horses
As it looked like it's still pretty crowded over there
It looks like that's actually one of the most like untouched
Areas it seems
Cause that area hasn't been damaged
The damaged areas are the ones that have been
Um
That are ones that are being fleeced right now
So I can in theory get over there
Pretty easily
You are gonna have to cross
Some
People
To get there
So it is gonna have to probably gonna have to require
A stealth check
Do they have to be stealthy
With their shackles off
Just mine
Is why I'm wondering
It's just that the people here have seen them before
Oh god it gotta be what they look like
Well Stella your
Bartix coulda
She didn't sleep though
She didn't rest
Oh
I was gonna say like if I take off my armor
Is that enough to make me harder to recognize
But probably not
You know what I'm a bit
Inspired by a friend from earlier
She takes in a deep breath
And then she just kinda like
She just kinda like
Sings a little tune
Um you see the
You see um
As she sings
As she sings a little tune
There are these
Spectral sort of like musical
Notes that are coming
Out of her mouth
They descend and they ascend
They begin to like
Like um hit
Different parts of her body as she casts
This guy's self on herself
And you see that these song notes become
Different
Spectral visions
Of Sir Aldemore
Oh my god
Brilliant well done
Ahem
Hello there
Um
Sounds very close
Wow
Better than my, better than John
Claude's
Hello I'm a person in
A big position of privilege and I'm going to arrest
Whoever I want
Hey you there girl you are arrested
I don't think he would say that but it sounds
Makes it a lot like him
Alright young
Alright young girl
And young
Man
Hello youths
Are you prepared to travel
The travel
Lends with me
And to retrieve your wagon
And escape
Okay
This just feels really weird sorry
Just cause
Check this out
I'm a natural
She
Begins walking towards the crowd
And she just
Just for you to come with
Come with her
Jaime goes
Okay I'll just put this
Put this hand in his pocket that's walking
And he does something bad
He starts whistling too for no reason
Jaime shut the fuck up
That's the name of this session
Jaime shut the fuck up
Oh he's a good guy
He's a good boy
He's a sweet boy but he does
Need to be quiet
As you follow Sir
As you follow Sir Aldemore
You see that
The guards
Who are currently witnessing the scene
Just
Sir Aldemore we have
Some information to give
And he goes
And you see Sir Aldemore just goes
Just
Whatever information you have please
Just please report it to the den I have some other
Attitude at the moment
Going to make a deception check
At advantage
Does she have the actor feet
Oh yeah baby
She does
Yay good job Stellar
He goes
Yes sir
And just begin
No other additions just straight
Sir Aldemore
He goes
I want to see three Sir Aldemores at once then
You see
He goes
Sir a moment
Aren't those two
The ones you brought to the
Brought to the den
Yes sir going to help me
With figuring out the truth of what
Happened here
We also have some information
We will
We will attend
To our findings
And bring it together at a later time
Yes sir
As they walk
Fast Stellar says really quietly
That's how you lie
Good job Stellar
It was lucky they kept talking because Cecilia was
About to say something
You're
As you're walking
You see that there are currently some people
Inside of the tavern giving like witness
Testimony like the bar
Keep who is currently
Speaking to like some guards
You see that the weapons
The coat are all gone
Now
Probably been
They've been picked up
As Sir Aldemore leads you to the barn
The barn that sort of like
Flanks the
The brewery in the back
Where a lot of people's horses are currently located
You see a few
Guards out there but not
The breath it's not like the majority
Of them
Sir Aldemore kind of like
Looks at you as Cecilia
And just goes
Alright which one's yours
These ones are
And that's the wagon
Some guard
You see he kind of like
Just for you to get on them
The guards aren't even like questioning it right now
She keeps looking at them
Stunned
Jaime walking past and goes
Hey how are you
Jaime
Sweet summer child
Sir Aldemore gets on the front
And just goes
We're going to be taking this to the den
And they just
They just give a nod
As you get into the back
He begins to maneuver
The wagon out
Of the front
And as he does that
He stops
He doesn't know what he's doing
He doesn't know how to control the horses
She realizes she goes
Reginald can
Be a little fussy do you want me
To help
In her mind
It's a terrible idea but
Make a persuasion check
Normal
No disadvantage so I have advantage on it
It's just normal
So no disadvantage
I know you have
Exhaustion
But this is just like
Talking
You're not like doing anything physical
Twelve
He just goes
Here like a quick
And we're going to the den
Remember
You'll have to point me in that
Direction
But she
She'll steer
You get up to the front
And he just goes
That way, pointing away
From her
And
They're off
As you get off you hear in the distance
Gauri goes
Everyone be on high
Alert
A prisoner
Broke out
You go out
A prisoner broke out and they had the visage
Of sir aldemore
And sir aldemore just goes
Let's go ahead and make this quick shall we
Just keep going this way
Faster
And you're off
I hope someone gets that message and they go to the other
Sir aldemore and then think he's a fake
The real one
Everyone's going to be doubting it for weeks
Sir aldemore said we get a raise
I want them to be scarred from this
Happens when you mess with the groven guard bitch
Jean Claude
Yes
You make your way
With the head start you have
Towards the edge of the town
Towards the rows of
Towards the fertile lands
Of the outer limits of the town
Towards madam withers
The far side
A little shack
It's still currently
A light at the moment
Lights are
Yeah
It stands out in the darkness
You make your way
Over
Oh yeah the moment he gets close to her house
He jumps off the window
And he's like
Madam withers
I apologize
And he goes
Madam withers I apologize
And slams open the door
There's no door
It's just beads
So you slam open the beads
You slam open the beads
She
Madam withers
Puts down a pipe
And you're suddenly
Okay continue
Continue
Those beads are from a far away land
You know
Sits down right in front of her and goes
Tell my fortune now
I want another one
I feel like things have changed a bit
Good long puff
Okay
Forgive me if
I'm insinuating something here
But it seems like you are in
A rush
Not necessarily a rush
Now I am just taking my time
You let the horse outside
Am I correct?
She just goes
Pulls out
She holds up her hands
And the same deck of cards
You see
That she presented to you earlier
They individually
Come out they fly they swoop
And they land one on top of
On top of the other in between
The both of you
May I ask
Why the sudden resurgence
Of interest
In your fortune?
Hmm
Well I believe in
Destiny
As well as fate
And perhaps I have
Tipped scares when they say
A fair warning to you
Typically when one
Knows their destiny
They try their best
To disallow
Destiny from controlling their actions
Sometimes it is worse
Sometimes it is better
But sometimes
She looks at you in the eyes
She says
But sometimes you arrive
At the destination all the same
Perhaps
Perhaps at a
Worse state
Than you might
Prefer
Shall we?
Please
Mm-hmm
A full reading this time
If you would
She goes
The past
As she kind of holds up her hand
The tea cup that she was drinking out of
You see that the
The little
The tea inside the cup begins to like
Reverberate as the tea cup
Itself begins to shake
It stops as soon as a card
Sort of juts itself out of the deck
If you would present that card to me please
Picks it up
You see a picture of
Three
Swords
Where it was ten
Where you saw your future
Representing ten swords
That was stabbed into someone's back
This one you see three swords
That was stabbed into someone's back but seemingly
Piercing
Piercing into the ground
Of some fertile lands
Depictions of grass
And such depicts that like
No one's getting stabbed
Just the ground
She just goes
The three of swords
It represents
Rejection
Sadness
Loneliness
Heartbreak, betrayal
Separation
She looks at you at that one
Perhaps grief
You already know
Such events feel so painful
Because they are unexpected
However
The three of swords often serves
As a warning sign to show when
One or more of these are possible
By preparing for this difficult event
The emotional blow can be minimized
For example
The pain of losing someone you once valued
Is necessary in order to prepare
You for a more fulfilling experience
In the future
The three of swords
Therefore
Serves as a reminder that if you can start to see
Pain
As a learning opportunity
Life will suddenly become
Less painful
Perhaps you are already
You have already experienced
This betrayal
This separation
And now, perhaps in the present
You are experiencing
Some fulfilling journey
As a result of that
Indeed
By this point you do hear
The thundering of hooves beginning to
Approach the shop
Alright, next one please, pleasant
Next one
She pulls up the card
And you hear
Says, I see a horse there
Can you please pull that one out please
Pulls it out
You see a depiction of
It's familiar
The hermit?
The hermit, a man with
A bag tied at the end of a stick
Contemplation
Search for truth
Inner guidance
All of these are aspects of the hermit
He walks through the dark nights of his
Unconscious, guided only
By the low light of a
Celestial body
It could be a star
The sun
The moon
Could be
But all the same
The hermit's destination
Is his home
His self
You hear
You hear assembling forces
Outside
And you hear
Furbolg
Says
If you're within this establishment you will come out with
Your hands up, just shouting from the outside
Last one please, madam
The future
Like
Before
The future
Card came out in this sudden
Motion
It interrupted
The present
But you
As the card of the future
Is presented to you
You see
A depiction of a furbolg
Laying down
With ten swords
In their back
Only it's a furbolg this time
It's a furbolg now
But now it's me
Now it's me on the card
Okay
The ten of swords
Need I
Explain?
No
That shall be all
Thank you for your time
And he'll get up with his hands
Raised and go to leave
As you, as you get up
A sudden
Shock
To the table
Occurs and you see the tea
The tea cup sways a bit
And a tea
Some tea falls out of the cup
And splashes onto the
The card
Oh, the ten of swords card?
Yeah
As it
As it does
You see
Madam withers kind of like
Rubbing
Kind of like taking an active pause
And just staring at the
At the development before her
As you see
The shaking of the table
Is maneuvering the pile
Of wet tea
Into a shape on the card
Whoa
As this happens
You see
Begins to like form a darker
Shape
Certain tea kind of like coalesces in an
Area to make it like darker
It's painting you a shape directly on this card
What is it?
A hand
Gripping, you see two hands gripping
On the sword
And this
And this dark shape began to
Occur as
As
As color seems to mysteriously
Seems to mysteriously
Begin to take shape
You see a depiction
Of another fur bulk
My brother?
Yes
My brother's the one that
Stabs us in the back?
She picks up the card
And just hands it over
To you
I imagine it would be very
Confusing
If someone in the future
Was told this card and
Witnessed two fur bulks
On there
Oh
Something this strong to occur
It has either
Happened very recently
Or
Is going to happen
In your near future
Do you take the card?
Oh yeah
Gives her a little bow
Still the
Respectful
Groven guard captain
Goes, you hear outside
Everyone in the establishment come out with their hands up
You have to the count of ten
One
Madam say you were under
Uh, they forced you alright
I don't want you to get in trouble for this
And from inside he shouts
You stupid bitch
Give me what I want
Uh
I don't know
Uh
Oh Jesus come on
By this point
A guard
Peeking in sees you
And a lot of them are going to go ahead
And um, seeing the urgency
They're going to come in and
Get you
He'll let them
It's a lot of them
Understand with the fear
Of you blasting through a bunch of them
While you were inside of the uh
Inside
Um, it takes a lot of them to
Pin you down
And force shackles on you
Sir
Um, by this point as you're being
As you're being kind of like
Freed out of the place by like
A dozen guards
Um, they place you on a wagon
And begin to bring you back into
Uh, begin to bring you back to
Um
The den
As
You
Are brought back
To town
And have uh
Lay yourself in front
Of the um
As they
As they bring you out of the wagon
To the front of the den you see Sir Aldemar is there
Present
Frustrated
Um,
Sword in his, sword in his health
Looking
At you
Walks up to you
You realize
You have made
The situation
Far
Worse
Than yourself
I made a promise
And I intend
To keep it
We'll see
Where your promises
End you up
Because you are
Spending weeks in the Oubliat
Is that funny to you?
Yeah, he's laughing
And he goes, oh not even
The captain of the Grimengarde
And look how much chaos
I have caused you
This is my idea of justice
You are not
You have no
Aspect of honor
That the members of the Grimengarde have
You, you
And then you hear
Says, that's the
That's a false knight, that's the false Sir Aldemar
And then, and then Sir Aldemar gets
Tackled
Sir Aldemar
Who is glaring at you
In this tense scene all of a sudden
He becomes a blur as he is tackled
Out of your vision
Oh dear
There's a scene where
People are getting him off like
We were formed
The visage of the Sir Aldemar
This is the real one, this is the real one
And then Sir Aldemar was like, get off of me
Get off
Walks back in front of you
You have no honor
He just, he just nods and goes
I uh
I think we are very different
Definitions of our now
Bran
I'm a knight
I embody honor
You abuse it
You are playing
A child, you are playing
With toys
You know nothing of what it is
To hold honor
And to protect something
That she would do anything
For
It is merely a title to you
I've had enough of your ramblings
And I of your face
Twitch
Cecilia
You are on the outer parts of town
Making it out
On the other end of Wolagheim
You see
Stella kind of looks about
Eventually the visage drops
And
She goes, stop the wagon
Okay
We can't
We can't leave
We can't leave the big guy behind
Yes you can, Stella, what the fuck
No, stop the time to have a conscience
I don't want to either
But also now if we get captured
They're going to take this again
And I can't have that happen either
Maybe
Maybe he did make it out
He knows where we're going
So maybe
If we get to the next town he's
We'll be able to find him
There
I love playing with Jenny
She's a smarty, she's a goddamn smarty this player
But when you're not there we're going to come back
And then you hear a sudden
Voice snap
From around and it's
Maru
It's a voice you might have heard before
But it's, you don't know the source of it
You hear
Hello
My fellows
This is a sudden jolt
Somebody got a weapon
In the back
Oh god guys
No
You've come so far
No
Do not
Cause I have not
Come here to harm you
In fact
I've come here to return
Leaping onto the back of the
Wagon suddenly
A black cat
Oh my god Augustus
It's Augustus
Augustus
Why did you come back
I thought you wanted to escape
I did
But then I realized
I have
No earthly idea
On where to go
Okay
So I've came back to witness the trans
Question going on
And I have decided
To lend my assistance
I'm sorry about how I said
We should put you back in the bag
When we first met you
I was just really scared and I didn't know what was going on
I require a deeper apology
At a later time
That's fair
Now I am sure as the nagging
Skull has told you that I am a
Creature of great power
Yeah you're an Androsphinx
That means you can like just crush us
And things like that
You can just cast big magic
You're like a divine being
A protector of great
A protector of divine treasure
Was
Yeah like I imagine
Androsphinx to be a bit bigger
And scarier
And more holy
In a wagon in the middle of
The kingdom
Oh I'm doing a Cecilia
I'm doing a Cecilia
Cecilia
I'm glad you
Came back
I was really nervous when you ran away
Should we keep going?
You wish
To retrieve your friend yes
Is he gonna bust me out
Is he just gonna bust me out
Yes
Padoo does
Open your bag of holding
Uh
She does
He just jumps inside
What is going on
Jaime goes what is going on
That's Augustus
He escaped earlier
I also met him today when he escaped
That's why the window was broken
You see
You see Augustus
Flying out of the bag
Something flies out of the bag
You hear
As
As Atheus flies out of the bag
Goes
Just fucking
Says
Alert! Alert! The bag has an intruder!
Augustus is back!
It's not an intruder
I guess this was there to begin with
And you see
Walking out
Jumping out of the bag
Holy simple
Yeah, Augustus holding in his mouth
Holy simple
Hers? Yours?
A boulder
Balder
Just like
The freaking
Healer
Viola
Yeah, Viola, you're right
He goes
I was able to foresee the future
Not with divination, mind you
It's just the power of
deduction
He was able to see Clog being arrested?
Jaime goes
I'm sorry, who are you?
Silence
Getting good a lot today
Jaime goes
No, no
Goes
Oh no
He kind of like
Walks up to Atheus
Atheus goes
Ah, you again
The low
Fucking cat
Riddles me this
What gets bigger the more you take away
A whole
Damn, he's good
What gets smaller
Uh
I'm sure one of you was saying the answer
Is a candle
Says damn, Spinks is good at riddles
Isn't that like kind of like
Their thing
One of the big things
Is it ever right?
You see the
You see Augustus kind of like
Readjusts like
It's almost cute like the paws
Kind of like readjusting
Atheus
And you see
As he puts a hand on top of
Atheus' skull
The
The symbol begins to light up
And Atheus goes
Wow, wow, wow, where did that get there?
What the fuck
He goes
Let's spend there for a bit
He goes
When the
Says
When a certain cleric
Placed her hands upon you
And you
Recall
Viola did hold
Atheus
Oh
Atheus stole her holy symbol?
No, the
The holy symbol is like emblazoned into
Like his like skull form
At the moment, it's just becoming
Oh, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it
What
And now
If we have faith in your friend
We wait
And he just
Sits
That's a good idea
Wait, why
Is she like
Tracking us?
He kind of like puts his paws down
And just goes
The endless
Game
Of waiting
Is on cloud
Um, there comes a moment
When
You see, um, Sir
Aldemore roughly grab you by the front
And tries to pull you up
Yes
I'm gonna let him struggle
I'm gonna let him struggle for a bit, but yes
I'm not fighting it
But I'm, I'm one
Technically I'm large
The struggle
Um, as you kind of like
Limp of it as he just gets up
Um
The frustration comes
In the form
Of a punch to the gut
Get up
Spits, stands up
As he gets
Uh, as you get
As you get up
Everyone part ways
No one talk to me, I am finished
With consultants for today
Says
Betrayed by a squire
Fooled, says by a criminal
Betrayed
He goes
Um
He goes
Says you won't know
Says
You won't have a contact with another human being
For weeks, you'll be down in a deep
Dark hole by yourself
In the Oobliette
Um, why do all characters with Alde
The starter their names suck?
All the
Small things
Um, so
Uh, as he's
As he's walking to the
The guard
Um, you see the
Front door opens
And a huge sigh as you see
You see Viola walk out of the front
A huge sigh
Escapes her
As she just goes
Look at all the ruckus
He caused
Let's
Move out of the way
I'm talking to you
Bran
What is happening?
She
Um, she begins walking out of steps
Starts them with a glass
Do you remember what I said earlier about
Defying one of my orders again? I said move out of the way
But
Look at you
Just
A pathetic shell of what you once were
Valentine, if you don't move out of my way
Right now
Valentine
I'm gonna write it down
What?
You gonna swing a sword at me?
What are you gonna do?
He just kind of like pulls you
Just like move around her
This person
Who you can assume to not be a part of the
Not be a part of the guard
Even is
This obstacle that has to be
Walked around in front of the guard
Station by this
By the presiding knight
Of the town
She just goes
She just steps in front
Of him
What is happening?
What do you mean no?
He's gonna do something a bit more important right now
Places that hold on you
Oh my god
And a flash of light
Um
We go back to Cecilia
What the oh my god did she just transport me?
Did she teleport me? What the fuck is happening?
Who is this random woman?
Cecilia
You see Augustus
Kind of like his tail swaying
What the fuck is going on?
We gonna leave me on the ground here?
Is that what we're gonna do to the high lord?
We're gonna leave him on the ground?
Do you want me to
Hold you?
Of course I want to be held
She goes
Her tail kind of like moves in front of you
Trust me you don't want to
I'm a clean skull
I haven't showered
Since I became a skeleton but
You don't need to
All the parts that make a human stink
You know what I'm glad I'm a skeleton then
Instead of a sticky cat
A stupid cat
At least I'm not Charles
All of a sudden
He just goes
What god of a servant are you?
Cecilia please
I said please I meant
Cecilia get over here and pick me up
Now
Please no
Still weren't high maybe
Oh they're
Tripping they're tripping for sure
As that happens
He goes
And furthermore those two useless
Sacks of flesh over
As all of a sudden
A large furbog manifests
Above the air and lands on top
Of Apheous
Jean Claude
You are all of a sudden
In front of a wagon
Behind a wagon
Sorry
What did I just
Oh shit are you okay?
Brush them off
I never want to talk about this ever
I can't believe I'm saying this
But put me back in the bag
Okay and he's going to stand up
And go where
Are you okay?
Oh I'm great actually you know
Hello Jean Claude
Boucheron
Augustus
There's a stare down
Augustus is coming with us
Why?
I can provide valuable insight
On your journey
And what do you want in return?
Allow me to travel the world as I see fit
Did you just want a ride?
Is that why you came back?
If you would
Allow me
To join you on your journey
It says
I recognize who you are
That divine sense is unmistakable
The prestige
The pedigree
You are
Cecilia Idlewine
If I'm not mistaken
Your sister has spoken
To me about you
You too
Why did she put you in the bag?
As an Angel Sphinx I was once
A being of great power
I told the best riddles
If anyone got them wrong
I bat them
With my paws
And held them
And killed them
He looks off to the side into the distance
Jesus Christ
He looks off to the side into the distance
And doesn't answer
Come on Augustus
Before he just snaps back to you
No I'm kidding
I deterred them
From divine treasure
Augustus
That your sister
That your sisters
And her peculiar group
Plundered
Baldr's treasure
Is only to be taken by the most pure
The most pure
And the most heroic
Of all adventurers
The party was not that
But they vented my riddles
So
Oh so you're not mad
At her
I saw the pureness
In her heart
And I can see a glimpse of it
In yours
Unpolished like a diamond in the rough
And in the background
Stiller goes, hey Jean-Claude by the way
Augustus goes, silence I'm talking
Could we talk and drive
We could talk and drive at the same time
Not now, I'm giving a speech
Oh come on Augustus
You don't want to
Start moving so we don't get
Caught
I think it'd be more dramatic
If we're moving while you give a speech
Damn it you're right
Stiller goes, hey Jean-Claude can you drive this
I don't know how to operate horses
It's okay I got it I got it
I'm going to ten minutes I take it
Jaime goes, it's good to see you again
Hello hello hello again
As you get on the front you begin driving
Um
You put if he's back in the bag right
Oh I did oh yeah
He has to go back in the bag he goes right back in the bag
As he goes back in the bag he really quickly does
Fuck you Augustus
Where was I
Alright
My heart
Yes I'm getting there
Unpolished
Like a
Like an agate stone
That's the old way of pronouncing it
That's not agate
Oh you mean agate
I
Come from a form of
Divination that long
Predates time
So my pronunciation
Is technically correct
Okay
How do you pronounce it
Okay
Okay I guess
Is short
I was a scion of knowledge
But now
I stop knowing
And I must learn
Learn of this brave new world
Before me
Tell me
Because
Because I know
Delmeira has entrusted me into your
strength
Crushed by Delmeira
There has to be why I'm here with you
Maybe
It was because
Um
I really like to learn
So we have been traveling
All across the continent
And I read lots of books, still Mira never has time, because she's always traveling and stuff.
So...
I can see why she has sent me with you.
I know things.
Because you have much to learn, and I have much to learn from your learning.
Oh God.
The woman named Viola is an agent of Balder.
Balder...
Clerics have a... Clerics have a...
have a penchant for waiting for a higher calling.
And I, a direct agent of Balder,
have given that to her.
To rescue you.
What's your name? It's John Claude.
John Claude...
Boucheron?
No, not Boucheron, but that is close, that is close.
What's the whole initiation for it? Do you know a guestess?
It is old enough.
Bougeron.
Yeah, that is right, Bougeron.
So Balder likes me, that's nice, never met Balder.
I'm good, but I'm glad he's my buddy, apparently.
Thank you for helping us.
Yes, and thanks to the gnome lady. She was great. She cast a spell that would be here.
I just...
Personally, I wouldn't say the word whatever when you're given, being given a task by a higher being that you directly pray to, but...
She performed her tasks well.
Good.
But whatever happens, know that I will be alongside you on your quest.
Whenever you need knowledge of any kind, simply call for me.
In the meanwhile, I will procure a spot inside of your Bag of Holding.
Any kind.
Why does Balder like us? Why does Balder give a shit?
Is it your god is not Balder? Any points at the seal, as he's, you know, driving.
Your god is not Balder?
Because of the specific incidents that occurred with the Platinum Vexillium, and the pure goodness within Delmyra Idlewind's heart,
I feel the need to upkeep my god's vow of protecting purity at any cost.
At any cost sounds dramatic.
No, I was just thinking that I am not pure in any regard. So yes, you are here for Cecilia. That's good to know.
Yes, for her, not for you.
Yes, yes, yes. Good, good. I'm glad we've established that together.
Yeah, so, Pure, you said you know anything, though? You can find out anything?
Let me retrace that step a bit.
What circle back out?
In my earlier form, when I was an Androsphinx, I had knowledge.
No, he does not speak like this.
Nolege.
Nolege? Oh, god.
Start just talking Latin instead.
He's just the elves from Dimension 20, fantasy high.
It is. I love it. It makes me laugh so hard every single time.
What is your name?
Gion Claude.
As a scholar.
She-ro reference. I had Miss Esha.
Miss Esha. So, where were we going? Knowledge.
Nolege.
Knowledge is Nolege. I was once a generous receiver of knowledge, but now in my current form, where I am no longer serving my god Balder.
I was serving Balder as the direct guardian of his treasure since I was no longer needed. I was given this form.
And-
So you can't.
Well, I can- If you put me in a library, I can-
You can read?
I also have ancient knowledge that both proceeds and exceeds that Doofus want to be Lich inside of your bag.
I love our bag buddies so much.
He wasn't actually close to becoming a Lich, right?
He looks in the distance.
Looks back.
No.
Seller just goes, why do you do that pause for? It just looks like you don't want to answer.
He's a man of the theater.
Jaime just goes, it is a tad bit confusing, but also the whole situation is rather confusing if I'm being completely honest.
He goes, you see, he sniffs the air. Looking at Jaime.
You-
Hmm.
Awww.
Wait, who?
Jaime goes-
No, Garnet doesn't say that.
I'm- I'm Jaime Teakwood. I'm from Lucran on the western end of this kingdom. I've stayed there my whole life, really. I'm from the Order of the Flowing Vine.
Winery.
Seller just goes, I guess I'm just listening to myself to a cat now. I talked to a skull today too while I'm here, so why not?
I'm stellar of the stars, and you see the- I guess it goes, that was a lie.
That's not her real name.
I prefer people call me stellar of the stars.
I forgot that Sphinxes can automatically tell if people are telling the truth or not.
Oooh!
Shit.
Oh?
She thinks of her little lie from earlier about why Delmyra would have sent Augustus with her.
He knew. He knew the whole time.
Because obviously it wasn't sent.
I prefer to be called stellar of the stars.
I'm from Anacrod, and I'm creeped out by you. Did you pick up a lie there?
No.
But you really shouldn't talk that way to a divine being. A former divine being? Hurtful.
That just goes, alright, well-
You okay back there?
Speaking to who?
He's hearing the contention and just goes, we are good? Everyone good? Okay, back there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
You wouldn't, Augustus, you wouldn't happen to know of a creature that would float in the air and release psionic waves and could potentially render someone unconscious for the rest of their life.
Conscious for several years, but still alive if they're properly taken care of.
I am aware of your situation. Your father is in a coma.
Oh my god.
A coma, Augustus, a coma!
As a part of my agreement to Delmyra, I was going to show her the ways of how to restore your father.
You know how?
No.
But I can ask.
But I must explore.
Before I can be of any true immediate use to you.
Well, what do you need? You need places you can research or-
I must seek new lands, see all manner of creature, experience all manner of events.
See the many different shades of human nature.
Then and only then can I access the better parts of my knowledge.
Maybe learn something new.
That was a task given to me by Balder.
I see.
The cat's talking to us. Stella just goes like out of nowhere.
Is he standing on his hind legs again?
No, he's sitting like a cat.
Oh, okay. I like when he stands.
Maybe you shouldn't go back into the bag so yet you can see as much as possible.
Yeah, I can't see shit in the bag.
Except for Atheist and Charles.
I will remain out here in time, viewing at my leisure.
You do have- I will try not to burden you as much as possible,
but there is responsibility that your sister acknowledged
of bringing a creature of great renown such as myself along with you.
But I will- just- but no matter what, I will do my best to be a companion.
Alright.
And also, for our dear Stella of the stars there.
What? Why me?
In case you are wondering,
I cannot call out a lie in pursuit of the truth for others.
It is the pursuit of truth for myself.
Meaning, Jaime just goes,
I guess that means if we have him in the same room as us,
trying to get the truth out of someone else, he can't tell us that they're lying?
Oh, he's not a lie detector is what he's saying.
Okay, that's fine.
A divine limitation placed upon me.
But I can tell when people are lying.
Him and Jon Claude are gonna get along real well.
Now excuse me as I...
tech to the air, and what is that up there?
He sees a bird put on a perch as you're kinda like...
driving by it.
Driving by some trees.
Whoa.
I want that.
I love this trope of like, a holy figure in a tiny...
A moment please. He jumps off the wagon, gets climbing up the tree.
Okay, don't go too far.
I was a creature of great renown, of great power.
There are no heights that I cannot...
There are no heights that I cannot descend from.
I see why he and Aphi don't get along. They have very similar views of themselves.
He eventually gets to the top, and you see the bird flies away.
He's not stealthy. He's not a good cat yet.
You see he just kinda like...
As he's on top, he hugs the branch and looks down, and he goes...
Umm...
It's stuck!
It's okay, just jump down.
But it's very high.
Cats always land on their feet!
You're a cat, so you'll just... you'll just land on your feet like Jean-Claude said.
I wish I had wings.
Now you're right.
I am a... feline now.
A... cat.
Shut, as we would say.
A cat-eye.
He jumps off.
Face first.
Oh, good try, good try! It's okay! You did very good! Look at you do! You did so good!
That was instinctual for cats. I thought it would just work.
Shh, shh, no, no, no. Play it.
It's the thing with the kids. When kids fall, and if you make a big deal, they start to cry.
But if you let go, they go, oh, that was no big deal! They don't cry.
Good, that's it, there you go!
You're okay, that was good.
Come on, Augustus, brush it off, let's go.
He knows I'm lying.
I said, it's okay.
I have never felt shame on this scale before.
I need to learn something new!
I will go inside of the bag.
Okay.
Did we take Apheus out? No, okay, you guys can deal with it together.
Yes, please don't offer.
I simply must speak with Charles again.
Charles!
Did Charles talk?
Apheus said telepathically, did he?
I think he can. I think Charles is a mystery that is further down the line.
He goes, please, open the bag for me.
He has dirt on his head and leaves sticking out of his...
She has to brush some of the stuff off.
Please put me back in the bushey.
As you brush it off, he goes, what is this failing?
Are you in pain?
No.
I feel... please, Jor.
Oh, from sheepets.
What was that sound I made? Goodness.
It's purring. It's what cats do when they're happy.
I knew that.
We will explore this further at a later date.
But for now, me bag.
The bag of holding.
Here you go.
Thank you, Cecilia.
Jean-Claude.
You have much before you.
But know that you are needed.
Thank you.
Not as a cog, but as a guardian of something important.
Yes.
Hi, Amy.
Oh, boy.
I hope that whatever ails you is remedied soon enough.
Thank you.
What does that mean?
Stellar of the stars. Oh, not going to answer my question?
Stellar of the stars, he repeats.
I hope your adventure brings you to the answers that you want.
Okay. Thank you.
All right.
This is strangely exciting as he looks at the bag.
The tail wags.
If it fits, he jumps in.
I'm going to go back to the cat.
Stellar after a moment.
Quiet.
Stellar just goes, okay.
We need to talk about what happened.
Because like you're here.
You're here now out of nowhere.
That cat.
The school.
I'm not sure if that's your real name.
I didn't think it was.
You said a real name a bit ago.
I got confused.
The cat was like, oh, I don't reveal the truth.
He called me out like that.
We don't have to know anything.
You will still assume out to me.
Okay.
I'll take it.
I won't push on that either.
Something happened with you looking at Jaime.
Something happened with the both of you pointing at the both of you.
I usually want to get a night's rest before we really start talking about things.
But we're on the move and I feel like I need to be awake because I'm not sure what's going to happen next.
First it was the bone guy and then it was that weird guy with the axe.
I'm serious though.
You guys don't have to stay with us.
He attacked us yesterday too.
But he was a scarecrow then.
And I just feel bad that it put you in danger.
And I mean I told you it was dangerous but like you didn't really know.
Do you?
Cecilia if I may ask.
Do you think that he's going to attack you again?
Hey.
It's happened twice.
I can't see any reason why it wouldn't happen again.
He's not done with us Cecilia.
He made that very clear when he was vanishing.
Then it would be terribly irresponsible.
I'm not sure if I could have it on my conscience if I leave the two of you without another fighting companion who could fend off this man.
You don't have to feel that way.
You don't.
I mean you just met us a few hours ago and there's no reason for you to put yourself in danger.
For us.
You should tell us if you want to.
Amy and Shemeah.
Not because you have to.
Stella.
That one.
That is the beautiful thing about Joyce.
Stella just goes.
It's just.
There's so much to think about now.
I.
Definitely time to think.
I think you guys should sleep.
I think we should rest.
We've not slept in a while.
Yeah.
Um.
Why don't we.
Make a decision if we split if we want to split up.
We'll do so at the next town.
Sounds good.
The next.
It's up to you.
The next time should be velvet tied.
We'll be out of house Parvin's territory so.
That's something to look forward to I guess.
Right.
She pulls out her map.
And starts looking to try to gather how far away they would be.
There are many smaller like village establishments on the way.
But you would assume it's like another day of travel.
At a good relaxed pace that you are on right now.
She does go.
She was.
We've been attacked two days in a row.
We could be attacked again in that time.
Are you sure you want to wait that long.
Like Sean said I think we need to sleep on it.
I think we all need to sleep.
We'll take shifts.
Get some rest.
Cecilia you especially.
You were knackered earlier.
We need to gain our strength.
I am out.
I have nothing left.
Unfortunately I'm zapped.
I have everything that I normally can possess.
We need to rest.
I mean.
We have a build.
Here I'll set up the front with you just to keep watch while you drive.
Thank you.
Jaime.
Are you.
Are you going to be okay?
I don't feel.
Like what was happening earlier hasn't come back to me so.
I'm just going to ride on that feeling for now.
I.
I don't want to talk right now but.
You said you heard it too.
But it hurt you.
What did you hear.
I've heard I heard a voice.
Within the.
Tavern while we were fighting that man.
It didn't directly speak to me I feel but.
It said reach for the moon.
I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear it either.
We give her.
But do you feel a saloon too saloon.
Right.
I'm I'm aware but I don't.
I don't practice anything.
Underneath her.
But you felt like your blood was boiling and then.
Yes when I took it out again later you just.
It was worse.
That time.
What do you have in there exactly if I may ask.
You've come with this is for us Cecilia.
It's like I said it's.
The fragments of the moon.
Um.
He looks at the moon in the sky.
He just goes.
I'm not quite.
Certain what all of this means.
But I suppose it's going to be.
A question I'm going to have to get answered.
At one point or another.
Maybe.
Things are common if it may be some.
There's some sort of spell or something.
That could find out if there is something affecting you or something.
I wouldn't.
Understand.
Um.
Stellar just goes.
Maybe was that a hag.
We fought before.
You remember in the mountains.
Yes but I wasn't affected by anything she threw at me.
I don't think I was cursed I.
I can't I can't say for certain actually.
Oh you are cursed.
I don't think so.
I don't know.
Cecilia just kind of realizes because this is like you know the kind of stories that are actually like you know.
Were you made it like a werewolf or something.
Has there been a full moon since you were cursed.
I've never felt this feeling.
Before.
Um.
I'm not.
Certain.
A werewolf.
I mean I've heard of those before when I was in the monastery yes.
That's actually.
Something I thought was brought up pretty often I felt.
Pretty often I don't talk about werewolves.
No it's something I overheard during my.
Many ventures into the deeper parts of the monastery.
I was a rambunctious kid.
Or maybe you are from a monastery of secret werewolves.
I wouldn't call them that.
Werewolves in the cave.
Why were they talking about werewolves so often.
It was in it was in the context of.
Their origin.
How to prevent it.
He kind of like.
What is and I was just I thought it was interesting but.
But I'm not a werewolf.
I would know.
Monster hunter monks maybe.
They didn't have the monsters they drank a lot.
They were trying to.
Prevent I mean I.
The werewolf thing was a was a crazy thing that's probably not that I just that it was just the moon and.
Were you adopted.
I mean yes.
But there's no there's no.
There's no shame in that.
No no no I'm not saying there's any shame.
I am just asking maybe you are the werewolf that they adopted and they were trying to figure out how to help you.
Maybe they adopt a bunch of little werewolf babies.
So that they have a home.
What did you know if you were aware.
I would know.
Yes.
I feel.
Curses are like diseases some people know they have a disease as they also.
Do not.
Have you ever been outside in a full moon.
I mean we have courtyards yes I've I've been outside.
I'm not aware of.
I know I know he's not aware of that was the idea I had.
Little with the.
Wrong with it if you were I just don't I just think it's kind of crazy I don't think he's aware of them.
It's kind of a leap.
It was some pretty gnarly magic.
That we saw.
I mean everything just exploded and there was lightning everywhere.
It's just maybe it's just maybe something just happened to you and it's still affecting you but it'll pass.
It'll pass right.
If not we will figure out that.
I mean Cecilia you're still pretty tired from all of that.
I feel a little better after the healing but.
And.
I mean I'm still kind of racing to.
Well we have planning to sleep on tonight.
I do think that we some of us here need to start getting some rest.
I'm Jaime you're gonna.
Stay up with.
Jean Claude right.
Yeah.
All right.
Cecilia why don't you and I.
Get some rest and we'll take over the wagon.
Next time around.
Reach into the bag like since.
Last time I think everyone should have one of these just in case she hands each person a lesser healing potion.
That is good to note.
Write that down as I have three so I can hand one out to each person and I'm worried about people getting separate.
I did split the party whips.
There's a sudden jolt with Jaime once you present the potion he looks at it for a bit.
A jolt what the hell's going on with this guy.
Before he just goes thank you.
This will help a lot.
I figured I want to get to know you to a bit more because what's happened to us shouldn't happen to a bunch of borderline acquaintances that met this that met like a day ago.
I mean I mean I mean he barely knows the both of you and he's been busting his ass.
I'm sorry.
I mean no no apologies.
I do this for anyone.
Maybe.
I'm still sorry though.
Everyone looks at your cloth.
Maybe can speak for himself stellar and have me I appreciate all you're doing but like I said it is your choice you do not have to feel a sense of duty.
If you want to help us because you want to realize it's my choice.
And I want to.
This is my first time really making choices.
You kind of regret saying that you see kind of like bumps a hand into his bumps a fist into his hand.
I think what I'm doing is right.
And I have conviction in that.
So good.
And what I think is doing is right as Cecilia and Stella in your own way as well.
So I do don't think we need to apologize to each other.
You can leave at any time.
No one is forcing anyone to be here.
I know.
All right, we're going to have a much better livelier conversation for what quips jokes and songs.
When we wake up and we feel refreshed.
How about that.
Yes, please go to sleep.
Everyone and we're not going to bring the skull out or the talking cat.
Not necessarily.
I make the promises, but I have to be with my story of bravery and heroism.
Yes, I need to hear about how you gave the guards a run around.
I think the coolest thing you've ever done.
I think it's just another day in the life of the Grim and Gald.
Yeah, I need to be with him.
Are you feeling better from earlier?
You were sad.
I mean, I'm just.
Exhausted.
Go to sleep, please.
He just.
Pulls out the sleeping bag or something, trying to find something for stellar if she can, too.
I see my bed rolls in the in the.
Wagon wagon.
Yeah.
I'm just.
I'm sorry.
No, it's OK.
Maybe I'll pay for the next one.
That's what the venturing life's about. No shortcuts.
Does it have anything important in it?
Sure.
I'm not going to think.
No.
The fucking swindler.
You get new loot.
Do you want the drum?
No.
Oh, I have a drum.
Yeah, we got some here to put left up right on the
door.
Still trying to have eyes when we were reading those stairs.
What?
You asked her that question so clearly reminded her of
a question, but she decides not to ask it,
because she remembers we're doing that tomorrow.
Yeah.
Whoa, I won't look.
I will not look.
Okay.
What are you trying to do here?
She's just looking through the letters to see if there's anything that she doesn't know
that might be helpful.
She didn't want to do it before she went and made the privacy, but she's realizing that
there's a lot of stuff.
And maybe Claude was right.
Well listen, at least your sibling's not going to stab you in the back.
Always the bright side.
There's some sense.
You go through the letters and you kind of skim through and there are times when you're
like, oh, this is very personal.
There's some letters to Dom, from Dom.
Any useful information pertaining to anything.
You do find a letter addressed to...
Well, I have to pull out my notes and I look like the doofus, don't I?
No, you don't.
No, you don't considering I completely derailed this session.
And you did a great job handling it as always.
Disadvantage.
Don't compliment me.
What are you doing?
What's wrong with you?
You don't look like a doofus.
You look like a very handsome guy.
Oh, look at you cuties.
I'm going to have to start rolling for boulders, I guess.
You find a letter addressed to Roach McThalamu.
Roach McThalamu.
What a terrifying name.
Roach.
She never got to send?
Did not get to send yet.
It's a letter that addresses Aphius and Augustus by name.
Oh my god.
And it speaks about...
Your sister basically says, so guess what?
Crazy, right?
I found these two kind of ancient beings, but they kind of need a little bit of getting
used to.
But I think, you know, people will do anything to get the... to get knowledge.
So we can deal with these two, right?
I need to figure out how to...
Well, one of them needs... one of them wants their body back and another one wants to explore
the world.
And I think you can do both of that.
So if you could come over to Adolera and assist me with a few things while I spend time with
my family, that would be great.
I would adventure to you, but I made a promise.
Does it have the address on the letter where it would have been delivered?
The letters seems to be unfinished, so no.
Ah, shit.
Good thinking.
And I've never heard of this person.
Roach Mactholomew is one of the people in the Platinum Vexillium.
Oh, her party.
A dragonborn sorcerer.
He had the biggest brain.
He'll let you know.
Don't worry.
Do as she told you.
I see.
Okay.
Cool.
Um, anything else?
Nothing else of note in the letters?
Um, I don't do some like...
It's obvious when things get kind of personal.
Another letter to seemingly Roach Mactholomew, directly stating, I think I might have figured
out what Vex thing that a sin from the sky was, but I'm not entirely sure.
I tried to ask Saloon at a temple, but I got no response.
I'm not sure why.
In my time of need, when the time I need answers, she doesn't answer.
And then, um, you do find at the like going towards the bottom.
She kind of crosses some of the part out and like goes to the...
She goes towards the bottom.
She goes, I'm a bit scared of what the moon's been doing to people.
Elmira!
We need to talk about it.
You have a big brain.
You can help me.
Okay.
Oh.
Thelia's reading.
She was like, I'm just...
She was like thinking there's probably nothing in these letters.
Before she goes to bed and then she starts reading them and is like...
Just like internally like, oh my gosh, that's alarming, but she's not gonna say anything
right now.
She's just...
Um...
And this one also has not been sent.
No address on this one either?
No.
All right.
Um, I'll say nothing else of note.
Of course, any of the letters that she wrote haven't been sent because they're with her,
they're supposed to be in her bag.
If they were sent, they wouldn't be there.
So there's not much to parse except unfinished letters to you, addressed to you and father.
And of course, they have all of the like, I love you, here's what I've been doing, here's
some gossip on some of my friends.
It's really crazy, things like that.
No letters to her from Roach or anything like that?
No.
Okay.
I'll put them away once she feels like she's gotten everything she can.
She does.
Oh, she gets her nightcap out though.
Her nightcap.
Get your nightcap out and you put it on.
She's sleeping her hat.
She kind of looks to see like nobody else is paying attention that she's doing it though,
because she feels like it looks stupid.
You see that Stella is the only one looking directly at you and she has a little smirk
on her face?
She...
Goes to take it off.
No, no, no, no, it looks great.
No, no, no, I'm not laughing.
I'm not.
I'm not judging.
I think it's great.
That is magical.
That's why I wear it, otherwise it looks really dumb.
Does it help you sleep?
It keeps you from being able to have bad dreams.
Oh.
Can I?
I'd love one of those.
I have another one actually.
Here.
She'll give Stella the newer one and she goes and puts on her old one.
You don't have to give me the...
This one looks so much nicer.
God damn it, Stella.
But I've worn this one a lot and so I feel like it'd be kind of gross to have you wear
it.
I haven't washed it.
That one's brand new.
Wow.
Thanks.
She puts it on.
She just goes, how's it look?
It looks like the hat, she says.
Covers my horns.
I think it looks better on you than me though, so there's that.
Well, everything looks great on me.
Jesus.
It's... everything looks stellar.
You've probably heard that a lot.
No.
Good night.
Hey.
I know I said we're going to have this conversation tomorrow, but I'm just going to say one thing
to you and just leave it at that because I'm super tired.
I remember when you said that this has been...
You were just super new to this.
It's happened like, what was it, like a day ago?
You just started?
That's crazy.
Well, really early in the day, like basically night, so kind of like basically two days.
Me and Jaime have been traveling for like a few months and we haven't experienced the
crazy shenanigans you've been up to.
Sometimes it's too light a word for almost being murdered, all that kind of stuff.
But hey, you need time to process this.
You know?
I don't know if you can afford that time, but I just need you to think that.
I know this is a really strong suggestion coming from someone who you barely know, but
just general advice.
Just process everything and let it mellow and really just let it go through you.
I can make assumptions about why you're doing this and big things and things like that,
but I'm not going to pry or anything.
I've done a lot of that already.
But just remind yourself to slow down and take a breath.
And you know, each one of us are on our own individual path with only aspirations, expectations
and plans to guide us.
But we're also prisoners of circumstance.
I think you have it in you, Cecilia, to become so many different types of people.
I think you're going to realize that in the future, because I can make the safe assumption
that life's going to throw many tests at you, that with every decision you make, the options
are slowly going to narrow down and you're just going to become a very precise version
of yourself.
I'm just saying that because whatever you're doing and wherever you're going, it's just,
I think it's just going to change you.
That's just another safe assumption that I just don't know how it's going to go.
I'm just sleep rambling now.
I don't know if anything I made sense, but I just think you're a really good person the
way you are.
That's it.
Good night.
Whatever.
Good sleep.
Turns around.
Are they flirting?
No.
Thank you.
But I'm fine.
I'm doing this because I can handle it.
Just try to remember what I said.
Okay.
Jean Claude, as you venture off into the night with both Reginald
and Marquis, as Reginald and Marquis pave the way forward and you are sitting next to
Jaime, there's a part where you're focused on the road ahead.
You see Jaime with the gourd he has attached to his hip always, the one he drank from during
the fight.
He kind of like offers it to you.
No, thank you.
Not tonight.
Really?
He's driving.
He goes, I just thought I would like to share a drink with you.
It's not a competition.
Don't worry.
We will do it later.
I'm driving right now and purchase cargo.
Puts the gourd between the both of you and just leans forward.
He goes, we have quite the night ahead of us.
Yes, and we can have all our big talks tomorrow.
Gives him the eye.
Don't you fucking dare.
Jaime, I do not have the patience for this.
Perfect opportunity to find out how he feels about Stella though.
Are you in a place to have a healthy committed relationship or are you working on yourself?
It seems like you're deprecating a lot about your own.
As you drive off into the night, precious cargo lagging behind.
I'm going to end this game.
A plus to Tim for truly taking the reins and going.
I thought we were going to have to spend another session rescuing you.
I was ready to roll a new character.
I was like, he's going to be locked up and I have to bring in substitute.
Drum two.
No, not a member of the groving guard, I'd make one of the gnomes from the what do you
call it?
Gnome Rangers.
Oh gosh, wrong.
Asperu.
Asperu Rangers.
Kate's quick new art.
I was like how fat?
I'm like, I think Kate could do it, but I'd have to check in with her.
Well done friends.
Thank you for DMing and playing Timmy.
Thank you.
I'm going to go to bed.
Thank you.
You two are brilliant.
Thanks.
You two are also very extremely brilliant on an equal and unfathomable level and I can't
really fathom it.
It's like I'm really tired, but it's like, you know, every time I think about the levels,
the depths of how great they are, I actually get really scared because I can't really think
about it because it's something I really can't comprehend.
So it's really crazy.
It drives me insane.
It drives me up the wall.
I can't believe how good you are.
Yeah.
If you break down my wall, you'll see like etchings and drawings of a madman of like,
oh, how cool are they?
And then there's like all these weird alien drawings you got to look at.
And with that, for folks who've hung in with us, thank you for watching.
For folks who fell asleep, go to bed.
We will be back next Sunday.
Oh, we'll be back.
Yeah, next Sunday.
Not tomorrow.
Next Sunday.
And thank you all for watching Songwoven, the Lendayaks edition.
Until next time.
Bedtime.
Good night.
Good night, everyone.
Good night.