Songwulven presents The Lanaya Expedition, a D&D 5th edition actual play campaign.
Episode 10.
Walk in the Valley.
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Episode 10.
We've hit the double digits now.
Whoa!
1-0.
Wowee guys.
Wowee wow.
Kousen you're dead.
Thank you all so much for joining us on a little adventure.
I am Tim Don Tran and I am the DM.
Now can you please introduce yourselves.
I didn't say anything.
What does DM stand for?
Oh.
Well typically, typically it means dungeon master.
What today it means.
What?
You said typically, does that mean it means something else?
Well sometimes it can go from DM to GM.
It varies from system to system.
Wow.
Yes.
I went to the dungeon mistress the other day and I was like alright, alright.
Dungeon mister.
Which doesn't sound great.
I think it's kind of cute.
I thought it was like a fast food place.
Welcome to dungeon mister.
Oh that's cute.
Yeah.
But yeah I'm Tim Don Tran.
I am the DM.
There's nothing more to say.
There's nothing more.
The opposite initials of DM are the initials for McDonald's.
It's a fast food place.
I don't know why.
I am the DM which stands for Donald Mick.
But yeah weird second degree in the air.
I'm not sure why but we're all worth it.
We always roll with everything here at Songwulven.
Now can we please introduce ourselves from who is wearing the coolest headband.
Jenny.
Not me.
My sister made this and you're supposed to wear it the other way but I like it on top
so I do it this way.
I think it's cute.
Thank you.
Hi my name is Jenny Sherward and I'm playing Cecilia Idlewind who is not going to be sad
or tired today even though she has went to sleep with three points of exhaustion.
She's fine.
Don't question it.
Is she fine?
I said don't question it.
And I am her Moscow.
And I play Jean Claude Boucheron the park ranger who thinks he's a secret agent.
I cannot promise anything to the viewers today.
We ended the last session with him crying.
I'm going to put that in the recap.
Don't put it in the recap.
No Jean Claude never cries.
Strike that from history.
Whoever edits the Wikipedia page you stop that shit right now.
No witness.
But yeah I love that Jean Claude I cannot promise anything.
Like if you go on Jean Claude's Wikipedia page under personality cannot promise.
I don't promise anything.
Andy says if I didn't see it it didn't happen.
That's right Andy that's right.
Jaime is not a werewolf actually.
The power of suggestion everyone.
Always communicate.
I did not take any good notes last time.
It's way shorter than normal.
That's okay.
I can't remember what happened.
All right.
On that note I didn't remember what happened.
Why don't we do a recap of the last game.
And you're not forgetting anything to me?
Or?
Does the DM have to step up to do a silly little recap?
Are there any digit melodies or you know diabolical madness or dog mosaic?
Dungeon Master it's just DM.
Like what's going on?
I like dog mosaics personally but you know.
Oh yeah.
I like the mosaic of a dog.
I would put that in anywhere.
I'm your dog mosaic.
Chad says make your jokes so we can move on.
There's no joke.
We're just gonna get to the recap.
We're gonna move on without jokes.
Goodness.
People.
What's the matter?
We found out the shade is named Farleys.
He was talking very calmly to us as a sniper hunter dude.
He was like hey just uh.
He was like just give me the give me the things give me the moon shards.
And we were like no.
How do you say that?
And so then we had Stella bring Jaime inside because you know who had turned into a werewolf
but had calmed down a bit ever since getting shot with a silver bullet.
Stopped being all werewolf and more like dying.
And so they got him inside and we thought I didn't do anything.
You put yourself in great harm by using the moon shards.
I put myself in great harm in a lot of ways.
We had like these bullets with our names on them that would hit and then they just went
in and out and then they hurt really bad.
And I would have died if I hadn't rolled.
I rolled maximum on all my temporary hit point rolls for myself.
I would have gone down if I hadn't.
So that was that was fun.
Claude really messed him up though.
Was hitting and he was not able to like hit him.
Oh my gosh.
I thought this encounter is gonna be too hard.
Jean Claude beat his fucking ass in.
He was mad.
He really messed him up and also he had this wolf like a shadowy wolf who tried to attack
us and it sucked.
I hit that thing once.
So yeah then Farleys is like I'm gonna run away.
So he starts running away and Steller comes back outside puts the wolf to sleep.
Jaime tries to fight and we're like go inside.
But he doesn't.
He doesn't just go inside.
He's like I'm gonna fight.
So then I took out the moon shards to try to chase him and you know get rid of him because
I don't want this guy to get away.
That's scary.
I don't want him to shoot me in my sleep or something.
And so I used the moon shards but it doesn't help.
And he gets away.
Yeah it helped.
I also spent I have an ability I can use where I can take a point of exhaustion to get a
spell slot back.
And I did that and I rolled a nat 1 on my guiding bolt.
So three points of exhaustion.
So we the guy gets away then the guards show up and they're like there's the one there's
the monster to Jaime.
But the writer from inside the house comes out and is like like nope nope they're just
actors they're actors and they're like he goes to smooth it over with them lying but
we're still we're still mad at him anyways because it's his fault.
I'm telling you I don't get on site with that man.
Yeah.
So we go inside to talk and things and then patch up everyone's wounds and things and
Jaime's like I need to find out the truth.
I'm going to go back to my monastery and Seller's like I'll come with you.
You guys are really strong.
You'll be getting your own.
So we take all the stuff that the writer had like drawn and all this writing of us and
other people and we throw it in the fire and then we steal a bunch of medical books from
him to all the medical books he had up on the shelves.
Yes and we go to I go to sleep but but Claude's there with JJ the little doll.
JJ the doll.
JT's favorite JJ the doll.
Because no John Claude was asking everyone else if they're okay but nobody asked if he
was okay.
But JJ did.
And he was like he was like I can save her.
I couldn't save my niece but I can save her.
And it was very sad.
And John Claude looked JJ in the eyes and confessed poured his heart and his grief and
everything and JJ could only respond by doing nothing because it's a doll.
It's a doll.
JJ is very responsive.
My favorite thing I still can't I still laugh about it.
John Claude made JJ the doll pet Cecilia's face.
Please I don't know you.
She's like we just met JJ.
Please don't.
JJ can't.
What happened?
All right.
As our two burgeoning about to be about this point a burgeoned adventuring spirits place
themselves and asleep in brace.
We will continue our journey on the Lanaya Road.
Truth be told guys there's a long way to go.
Gonna head out of that territory soon enough.
So real quick.
So John Claude Cecilia can the both of you please roll me a perception check.
No weird dream things.
Oh not for you.
Oh no for me.
I don't have good percepts then anyway.
I rolled an 11 and a 24 but it's disadvantage because I have disadvantage.
All of your rolls are disadvantage girl we gotta get you to sleep more.
I have a passive perception of 20 which with disadvantage goes down to 15.
So keeping that in mind Cecilia John Claude.
You hear a very John Claude you are you awake sharply and Cecilia you awake from what was
a pleasant dream as you hear a loud unfamiliar sounding yelp coming from downstairs.
Is it a woman?
Is it the writer?
Both very good guesses.
She springs up.
So John Claude definitely smacks his head as he tries to get up.
And he's going to roll out of bed with his blanket around him and scramble out the door.
As you scramble out the door you do see and you make your way down the steps.
You hear within the proximity you've heard your hearing as soon as you're coming down
you hear.
Oh my work.
Everything.
He goes back upstairs.
Oh no what happened?
I think it's the books we took isn't it?
You go back upstairs John Claude.
John Claude goes is it coming from the room where all the books were?
It's coming from the living room.
The basement.
Oh the basement.
Yeah he goes right back upstairs.
The living room specifically.
Yup right back upstairs.
He's going to wake up Cecilia because maybe they should start leaving.
She's already going down and peeking.
You see Fernigan Cavalcose the writer from before grasping onto the ashes.
He's going.
Oh my brilliant work.
All those.
Was it all for nothing?
His eyes slowly rise to be yours Cecilia.
She's just watching from like the top of the staircase around the corner.
Did you do this?
No.
Deception check.
Wow.
It's fucking cold Jenny.
Damn no.
That was bone chilling.
I spelled eat you alive.
I rolled a six deception and an 18 but I can't use it.
I rolled a six deception.
Hot little mess right now.
Alright as he's holding on to the ashes looking at you incredulously you see a little tear.
He escapes his eyes and starts chilling down his face.
He just goes I told you I was going to pay you.
Do you realize what you've done?
It's just that all is really scary and I just feel like you shouldn't do that to people.
It was the next generation of fiction of.
I understand why you might have felt possessed.
To do such a thing.
In fact.
I was going to say the imagery of your friend bleeding profusely on the ground as a bullet
entered through into his werewolf sternum was.
It's starting to disarm me now.
I was overtaken when I saw the contents of work and the results of so much.
What's the nice word for it?
What's a nice word for scheming?
You have to look for a nice word then maybe it's just the bad one.
You can cover up anything as long as you use it with a flowery language.
That's why it's called flowery language.
But you're right.
Flowers are nice and actually nice and flowers and.
Some flowers can be poisonous young girl.
Cecilia correct?
Yeah.
I have to.
Pack up and move everything I was ordered to by the.
The ruling family here after the ruckus that was caused yesterday.
But I thought.
I would at least be able to come away with my months of work in tow.
It'd be fair.
Is that really?
I mean I know you're making illusions and things but you know that stuff to an average
person is like actively traumatizingly scary.
Really bad.
And for us it's like we were just trying to get away so we were trying to be safe.
We wanted to go to this house rather than the comfortable other house because we were
trying to keep away from people just in case something happened and then it all happened
and you know we haven't had like any rest for days.
Proper rest and the horses are exhausted and wet and cold and.
I just think it's something really mean to people.
Oh and to take advantage of them wanting to be.
Safe from the weather.
Roll a guilt check.
Yeah make him feel like shit.
Kill him with your guilt.
He just you see as you go as you go on his eyes kind of like soften up a little bit.
Any sighs.
Right well.
None of it was supposed to result in any actual harm.
But that's not.
That doesn't quite excuse everything that's happened.
It is a little it is a little mean yes.
Does it understand that when you get to a certain point in doing what you love you must
find new ways to.
Never mind you just think of ideas.
When you're a writer you must get a new job.
Oh holy fuck there's Cecilia Byrd of the episode.
Holy shit.
Is that your job.
He just goes well when you're a writer you and then he stops to think about what you
just said.
And he makes a face.
As I was saying.
I mean like at least call it nonfiction if you're just going to copy things that people
do.
So you can make a really good haunted house.
For people who wanted to do it and were willing and you know we weren't actively traumatizing.
Just simply I was I had I had a romantic thoughts with the with the idea that you would find
the book because a lot many people read my book and you would see from the situation
and think oh once upon a time I was there and oh the famous and popular writer Fernigan
Cavalcose wrote a story about me.
I mean I read lots of books but I.
I think it would have been really frustrating to feel like oh it's just like embarrassing
because I was so scared but it was all stupid because it wasn't real.
He just put it in a book and now everyone's going to know how scared and stupid I was.
But it's gone now so.
It's just human emotions.
Everyone is scared and stupid from time to time.
OK am I anywhere near this.
You could be coming back down like where is Cecilia and you're just here.
And he hears this.
Everyone is scared and stupid.
You see at the door his hand is like above the doorway but just a dark mass in the doorway
of Jean Claude just standing there.
He's going everyone's scared and stupid looks up.
Oh heavens.
Jean Claude has his bag and all of his armor and everything on.
She didn't realize he was behind her yet.
Oh are you are you making fun of how I.
Was that what it looked like.
Jean Claude tilts his head in to get under the door frame.
His eyes are looking up Cecilia looking up behind him.
Towers over Cecilia.
Oh good morning.
You carve in very menacing figure.
See he crack crack cracks the knuckles on the hand that punched him in the face.
He looks at you cracking your fingers and getting creatively inspired a little bit right
now but.
No.
One name was Jean Claude.
You're going to put it in your book.
Not anymore.
My decision.
Cecilia and since he's standing behind her he just looks down.
He's towering over her.
He's like are you ready to go.
Do we have to spend more time with this man.
Yeah I can get ready to go but I did have one more question.
Yes.
Have you ever met anyone from the platinum Vexillium or Delmyra.
Yes a wealth of characters.
I have met Delmyra.
Do you know her.
We're from the same village so.
But you know now that I look at you you have the cheekbones and you have I was just wondering
how that all happened you know.
Well as a accomplished writer I do tend to travel my way through you know most portions
of this great of the great continent of Mithran to achieve different fonts of inspiration
to write for my stories.
Jean Claude's going to sleep.
But she came here.
Well I invited her here with the notion that I was going to do all of this to her.
She did not know that I had invited her here because I had informed her that there was
something of there was something of possibly great interest here that something really
related to her quest.
It was close to her home so I thought it wouldn't be too offensive if I lured her away from
her safe and warm village of Adlera for a bit because I thought she would be.
Elmira is very worthy of stories I find.
I mean not like a horror story though.
Everyone's scared of something.
Well she's really brave so.
Thanks to Jean Claude for a bit you see he's kind of like being a little wary of Jean Claude
because Jean Claude can just pick him up and throw him out the window at any moment.
This much restraint left in him.
He takes one step away.
Well it's wonderful.
Perhaps is that how you find your way here?
I mean maybe it's too much of a coincidence.
Well she marked it on the map I'm using from her.
Oh she told you to come here.
It was just marked on the map with a question mark.
We weren't going to stop here.
We only stopped here because we couldn't get to the next town with the rain.
Ah I see.
Well that's very unfortunate timing.
On your, on our, both of our parts actually.
But if you're going to go visit her perhaps you can tell her that I am no longer going
to be stationed here in the meantime.
I can let her know.
Perhaps throughout all of this something greater has become of this.
For example a story of a large and imposing lumberjack who walked.
The story of a brave and young girl guided by the moon and-
Who are you about?
You are, you not about?
You're a reporter.
Um famous accomplished writer.
No pathetic really.
That's true have you ever tried journalism?
Is that like your background?
No um.
You seem like you do a lot better at that than making stuff up.
Yeah you're better at uh recording what is already there instead of creating something
new on your own.
I wasn't um expecting to receive career advice um from two people.
No offense I've barely met.
I wasn't expecting my friend to turn into a werewolf.
I have to apologize for all of that.
I did not mean to put you in any sort of real tangible danger though that that man that
man you had a skirmish with was was he already?
He looks he looks between the two of you like being quiet and he just goes never mind.
You hear um the one of the door opens from the second uh the floor and another pair of
footsteps coming down um and you see Jaime beginning to walk down um as Fernegan sees
him he just kind of like um his lips become a pursed um but he just stands there.
Jaime's coming down the steps and he sees Fernegan and pauses looking at him.
Jaime already looks so much more different than he did before.
His hair is tied a different his hair is tied a different way there's a bit of darkness
under his eyes and less of a lighter complexion about him but he looks long at the rider.
And um Jaime just goes are you going to keep are you going to keep doing what you're doing
in regards to this?
Are you going to keep doing this?
I'll search for other ways to make inspiration.
This was not making inspiration.
And um Jaime just goes as long as you don't do this again in the future as long as you
don't use people's fear for your art or for your benefit then I forgive you.
You haven't apologized to him yet you just apologized to us so.
I'm sorry.
You're not sorry because you just found out about what's happened to me right?
Because then you were just apologizing because you got caught.
I had the names of everyone who attended these thoughts experiments but they've all been
turned to ash.
Then you will just then you will do a service by actually remembering their names.
You're right.
Well Jaime Tegwood.
Yes thank you for your forgiveness and I'm deeply sorry for everything that's happened.
And uh Jaime just nods.
And Fern again you see just kind of like stands there like doing things with his hands because
he's uncomfortable just standing there he doesn't know what to do with his hands.
He just goes I'm going to go pack up everything that hasn't been burnt and then I'm going
to leave.
You should do this you should do that yes.
There's a fierce white tiefling still slumbering upstairs if she found you here she's going
to kill you so I would hurry up actually.
Yeah she's really mad.
Common theme.
A fern can go as before he rushes off to the basement.
How have you both slept last night?
It was fine until he started screaming.
Was not even a scream though I mean when I held it I was like a boy it sounded never
mind not appropriate.
I'm good I'm good.
How are you?
I'm already doing better.
Um I suppose this is going to be our final for now morning together.
Yeah like you said maybe we are in the future we are both on the road we are bound to cross
paths again given our entangled history getting rusted together.
That was a thing.
I felt like it's already been long even though it has been very extensively short but I have
I have much to thank you both for and I hope that one day when I'll get the chance to repay
you both in dividends.
I don't think you have anything to repay us for I think if anything it would be the opposite.
Oh god Nero's eyes.
I think we are equal yes.
There are three different levels of who owes who in this entity.
But for now I'm just going to have to ask I'm just going to have to ask for you to accept
my thanks.
Thank you for not rejecting me after you saw a very terrible side of me.
I've seen much worse to be.
Your two responses are never the same.
What is serious?
He said I don't think it has to be I don't think it has to be a terrible side.
And I've seen worse.
He's like looking between the both.
Thank you for your kind words I don't want.
Anyways some seller and I had already made plans to walk back down towards Gerrardale.
And even though I'm not quite a fan of the plan we do need to retrieve our belongings
from Sir Aldemore.
Oh yeah I would just buy some new ones.
Stella is quite fond of the instrument.
You could steal it back.
Perhaps it's when I left it was not in the best of circumstances for bargaining.
That's what you separated with him.
Well that's what Stella implied she wants to steal it.
Oh good okay all right you're fine you're good.
It's not really stealing because it's yours anyways so.
That's true and Sir Aldemore is a dick so he could use a little slap in the face.
How much money are you guys going to need to get supplies and things?
She's already reaching for her bag and stuff.
Oh no we wouldn't we wouldn't want to impose.
You guys are nothing.
You're literally nothing.
You need it.
Just whatever.
People that 15 platinum.
His eyes open as he sees it.
It's a lot.
I was about to say whatever you can spare whatever.
That doesn't make a huge dent in your your treasury.
Here you go.
He takes like five of them just like one after the other and then just like holds his hand.
Just kind of.
The rest and she tries to just kind of.
Before he pulls his hand back she tries to just like drop the rest of his hand.
He's fighting.
Make a slight hand shake.
It's gonna go on the ground.
It's not gonna be slight of hand it's gonna be forcing it.
Take it.
I rolled an eight.
Nineteen.
Nope.
I'll just fight.
He takes five as you just try to fight him.
Thanks.
Holds the rest but she's not putting it away.
She's gonna give it to Stoler when Stoler comes downstairs.
You hear.
Hello.
Sellers voice coming from the top.
Up down here.
Door opens up.
Stoler begins coming down.
As Stoler comes down she just stretches.
You know when you take away all of the other things that happen that was actually a really
nice spread.
Her eyes narrow as you see Fernigan with a bag walk out of the doorway.
He just freezes when he sees her.
Run run run.
He starts he starts like hurrying out and she just starts rushing down the steps.
She goes faster faster.
She says he's chasing him.
He basically has to like.
Good morning Stoler.
He says good morning Cecilia.
Get out of here.
The man just has a burst out of the door.
As they're doing that Jean Claude will reach into his bag pull out a little tinderbox and
place it in Jaime's hand and say.
Yeah.
It is sometimes good to be in the dark.
Take a D8 inspiration die.
And while he's distracted I go here Stoler.
Give her the pen.
Take my fucking money.
Here's a Centimel object.
Here's some fucking money.
Who do you give that to Cecilia?
To Stoler.
While Jaime's too distracted to be like no no no no she already gave us some.
Stoler so it looks at you Cecilia.
As you offer the money she looks past your money into you.
We're gonna get to that in a bit.
But Jaime just goes.
Those are very very strong words Jean Claude.
Don't overthink it please.
I don't do feelings.
He just knows.
No I have to.
I hope it's much the same.
For you I don't know much but you just seem you just you.
His eyebrows up.
I hope you also find the light.
I think you already have a very strong light to follow.
Is the little moon that you miss?
Here let me take you in return.
He pulls out a flask.
No I shouldn't.
Really I need to cut down and he pats his tummy which is just hanging over his pit like
for my health.
Oh um take it anyway.
So I'm kind of an alcoholic so I'm trying to cut down.
I appreciate you and this is very kind of you.
You good boy.
And he pats his shoulder and goes.
Don't worry.
This is what I mean when I say don't do the feeling thing okay.
My apologies.
No please don't.
It's already making it so awkward.
If it makes you feel better.
My monastery is full of alcoholics.
That's basically our way of life.
That's really awful.
That's so unhealthy.
No it's no we adapt our life to it.
We are very.
What?
Our martial arts involves drinking alcohol and using it to our advantage.
Okay wait if you need to get so bad.
It's just gone off on rails.
As that's happening and so tiny is distracted.
Stellar looks at the money that you're bringing but looks up at you.
And then she just kind of like she stares at your face as Cecilia goes.
Good morning Cecilia.
I would ask how you're doing.
But I think I can already see it.
It was nice to sleep in a bed.
In a creepy doll house thing.
Can you guys like put the bed into your bag?
I never thought about doing that actually.
But well I don't know how you'd fit it in.
Like if you look at how big the opening is.
Yeah that's right.
Like it'd be nice to have a bed in there for like aphiis and.
Like saw it in like if you cut it in half and then you put it both of them in there.
A head for eight and a pillow for the brain.
This little pillow.
Also the talking school.
He really needs a pillow.
Also I keep forgetting about the talking school somehow.
Yeah I haven't even really met Charles properly yet.
Too many.
There's too many.
There's too many Cecilia.
But no you guys should seriously take this because you guys don't have anything.
Well we're gonna build back up.
You need that don't you?
You need to get there first and I have more so it's not a big deal.
Well you know I'm scrappy and she picks up one piece.
One platinum piece.
You're worse than Jaime was.
How's that possible?
Not true.
Yes I mean.
What are you talking about?
That should tell you you're being modest.
He took five.
What?
Jaime?
Jaime took five?
Take the rest.
Just take the rest.
Seriously it's okay.
Delmyra makes all kinds of money on adventures and things.
What if you need potions or something?
You're like traveling across the entire continent.
It's fine.
It's really fine.
That's Hawkins Skulls not gonna make much money at a traveling circus.
There's plenty more.
Make it persuasion check.
Make it normally though.
With advantage.
Six.
Yikes.
Well if Jaime took five and I have one that means it's 60 basically 60 gold pieces.
I mean not basically it is.
But you can't just take one because that'll make my numbers uneven too so.
And Jenny really cares about that.
Oh dear.
Okay she puts the coin back there.
I'm kidding.
I want you to make it where you want to go.
They will.
I want you to be able to afford a bag of holding and a loot and things if.
Oh don't worry.
With my skill set I can afford all of that real quick.
He just pushes the rest of the money.
You push the rest of the money.
Cecilia.
It'll be fine.
Alright what's your interest rate?
I'll make up my own then I can already tell that you're gonna put your heart into it so.
Thank you.
How far do you have to go?
Are you going to go by Adelera?
Yeah we're gonna I think we're gonna pass that.
I'd have to look at a map again.
But where you live the Abricus fields we have to pass that so.
We have to follow the Lanaya Road back then.
I think we're gonna pass you pass your place up.
Yeah Adelera is where I'm from.
It's a nice little town so.
And I mean I was going to say you have my permission to stay in our house if you want
but I don't know if everyone there would just like take that from random strangers so.
But everyone's very nice there.
Maybe we'll stay around a little bit.
I'll sing a song about the brave little heroine that hailed from a nice warm little place.
She walked out into the cold world where all the stars are so far apart together walking
between the distances of them.
But she ventured out there because she had something very noble to do and very little
people get up and do noble things.
Well maybe it could help make people not worry so much there.
Maybe they got nothing to worry about.
I haven't really planned how to do this yet do we just ride for a little bit and then
we wave goodbye while walking away from each other.
But it's a long road so we're always constantly looking back until we become little little
bits of color in the distance or the two of you just head off and me and Jaime just stay
here until we're ready to go.
Goodbyes are terrible.
They're terrible little things.
Yeah I met you like three days ago as you revealed yourself as a grave robber to us.
Yeah that's right that was a very strong introduction.
If I was a character in a book actually touchy subject I don't want to bring that up.
You know I saw you and Jaime as one of the tricks one of the illusions was I went into
the basement looking for you and you were dolls.
I'm glad pushes JJ deeper into the bag.
We saw a lot of weird things.
Yeah.
But if I hadn't known any better I would think that was a compliment.
I'm glad you're not a doll.
You're quite the doll yourself.
That's also Sean Clodd.
Sean Clodd's like I'm leaving.
So going now good.
But yeah I had saw like this really scary looking version of you just twisting her head
around and screaming and all that kind of stuff.
Jaime tried to help your head to sit around and he tried to put your head back in to the
right angle.
That's scarier I think than the dolls.
I would have thought that was dolls.
But yeah I think we're just making it goodbye a little bit harder.
So maybe we should make it easy.
Stay safe.
And if you happen to come by the direction we're headed and we're really really really
slow then say hi.
I think I'm going to say hi to you even before all of that.
I'm going to send in nothing nothing nothing to fancy about that.
Oh actually that's a spell I've been wanting to practice too.
It's just kind of hard.
You wouldn't think it would be but I guess it kind of makes sense.
I've had a lot of people I want to talk to and you know distance is a makes the heart
go whatever.
So I'll say hi.
You are lightning in a bottle.
You are starlight in an inkwell.
Cecilia I want you to remember that.
And Jean-Claude you are a fire in a Molotov cocktail.
I don't want to hear it.
The wind beneath the wings of people.
Of people really?
The wind beneath the wings?
They don't have wings.
The words come more easier when it's talking to like birds.
Yeah sure.
I don't like birds.
See don't you need you you bouts don't you need you.
You guards.
Yeah what about you guards.
What about you guards for a moment.
Don't you need an instrument or something to cast make your spells better because that
sucked.
What do you mean spells I'm just talking.
He races into his bag.
He punches into his bag and pulls out a little tiny drum set little sticks and he goes you
don't have an instrument.
What?
You had that the whole time?
Shut up.
So.
So you had that do you play that?
He shoves it into her hands and goes bouts need instruments to cast that space and what
better for a bird that marches to the tune of her own drum.
Take it.
Did you put a bird's tongue?
No.
Jean-Claude turns to Cecilia and whispers Jean-Claude does strike me as someone who
like.
I had a band as a teenager once.
OK.
What was it called?
No.
Goodbye.
And he's out the door.
Jean-Claude Boogie.
I'll work on it.
Jean-Claude and the Boogie.
The Jean dad bods.
Jean-Claude says from outside.
Do you know?
Well, I'm very glad that you decided to rob a grave and sneak onto our wagon and that
I caught you.
I'm very glad that.
You know, we all broke the law and got arrested together and Jean-Claude impersonated the
night and did a lot of other things.
You're still saying goodbye?
Yeah.
OK.
I've never seen a man more arrested before than that.
Yeah, I guess maybe it's just like more intense when you do a lot of arresting.
That's how he met.
He tried to arrest me.
That's how every great friendship starts.
Being arrested by a park ranger?
I guess it's true.
All of my current friends.
I have been.
There's been something to do with getting arrested.
In our first 24 hours together.
You got arrested, but I was actually doing something illegal.
He didn't arrest me, but that's OK.
I hope you guys stay safe.
Hey.
I'm going to tell you this.
I haven't told Jaime yet.
Jaime's still right there.
She's whispering.
OK.
I haven't told Jaime this yet.
But next time I talk to you, and this is just to make sure that this really solidifies this
promise, you can go ahead and call me Clover.
Are they dating?
No.
I don't want a long distance relationship.
A relationship where you have to spend third level spell slots to maintain it?
Goodness.
That's a great plot point.
All right.
Talk to you later.
I'll see you later.
She turns.
Looks at Jaime.
Jaime nods.
Jaime nods at you.
And the two of them walk.
Out of the house.
And off.
I waited a few seconds and then I'm like, OK, go to Claude.
The same direction.
They do turn around and wave.
OK.
And yeah, I follow the method.
They walk out until they become faded dots in the distance.
Bye.
We met three days ago.
Crazy three days.
And they're gone.
They're gone.
So you go back to see Jon Claude.
Well he was just outside anyways, wasn't he?
Oh yeah.
He's getting the horses ready.
OK.
Yeah, I'll go find him.
You find Jon Claude tending to the horses, getting the wagon ready.
He's going like this to Reginald.
Reginald is screaming to you.
She pets him.
And he starts acting all like a victim.
Oh yeah.
I'm sorry.
Right.
Missy, she looks at her.
You should maybe nap a little bit.
I mean, I just woke up.
Yeah, I couldn't sleep yet.
I mean, I saw her and things, but I couldn't sleep yet.
Yeah, you look...
I know I'm not supposed to say this to women because it can be seen as passive aggressive,
but you look really tired.
I'm not trying to be passive aggressive.
I'm just saying like you need to sleep.
Yeah, it's not tired in like that way though.
It's just like my body.
Hang in there, kiddo.
And he just awkwardly taps her shoulder with lay on hands.
You don't have to actually heal me though.
Okay.
It'll be okay.
I'll get some rest when we're traveling and stuff.
Sorry, I just looked in chat.
JC is active aggressive, never passive.
Usually, yeah.
Active aggressive.
So, I will drive if you want to, you know, chill.
All right.
Is JJ going to help?
Jesus.
JJ decided to stay behind.
Is JJ sure?
He shifts careful, Tim.
John Claude shifts his bag with JJ in it further on to his back.
He smuggled JJ into his backpack.
Because we came to a mutual agreement as men and as men do.
Mutual agreement.
I see.
Okay.
Let me get this.
I have to roll the deception check.
Did you know he's lying?
Like he has to fucking know.
I have disadvantage.
Maybe it's just like, yeah, whatever you say.
Like, I'm not even going to question it.
I have acquired one JJ.
I've lost a drum, but gained a JJ.
You're creating your own bag, buddy.
My own bunny.
You know, it's funny.
I forgot how much talking the Abayas did.
Very quiet.
I can be kind of quiet.
No, no, no, no, no.
There's not a bad.
No, I just mentioned general.
I got used to them.
Yeah, them are gone.
I'm not going to be quiet.
But you wanted Jaime to leave?
No.
Oh.
I was really interested in getting to know him better, too.
I'm glad that they're going together.
He really needs someone right now.
I mean, you and Stella are bonded.
I can see why you'd be sad.
It's OK, though.
I'm used to.
You're used to what?
Letting go.
Yikes.
I don't mean bad or any.
Cecilia, you're 18 years old.
What do you mean you're used to letting go?
That's something a 50 year old woman says.
No, I just mean.
I just think it's kind of funny because she was talking about like, oh, you make me think
of like what my little sister could have been like and stuff.
I just think it's really kind of ironic in a way because, well, if she wanted to be like
a big sister, well, she's kind of a lot like mine specifically.
Giving you a lot?
Yeah, but it's only been a few days.
It's different.
I'm glad they.
I'm glad they're going to go figure out everything for him.
Well, I've never had a little sister.
I'm actually the youngest Brazil.
But you can't get good with me.
You put on like a big, like awkward smile.
So.
Yay.
Maybe I should get going.
Yeah, you know who decided to come along.
There's no way you need to trickster.
J.J.
Was it a bomb?
A little bit for you.
J.J.
Wouzhtrap and talk ever chances.
He has his moments.
It's not now.
It's not right now.
Just a few of my feelings.
Too many too many.
Too many feelings.
Oh, look, J.J.
Cecilia is going to take a nap.
Do you want to sit up front and drive with me?
Oh, yes, Uncle Ed.
I would love to learn how to drive the cat.
If we ever did like a holiday merch box, it would include Atheist, Charles, J.J. and
the cat.
Augustus those would be our four plushies we can have them all sticking
out of um out of the saddlebag oh oh it's so good
but yeah did you speak train in front of you to see it looks like JJ tricked you
surprise oh JJ my god you have to run it
silly silly dog you okay JJ he's gonna immediately just jump into the front
seat and just put JJ next to him and I will play this you're forcing my
JJ it'll probably get going all right the wagon moves as you venture out of
pine blossom the town was like you see legitimately like very friendly
halfling faces who greet you warmly as you kind of make everybody see you see
you like what happened you have things are like um you just kind of scorn
the ground is very wet full of puddles a little bit of the river has overflown
but it is a it is a very much much more welcome site than what it was yesterday
with the the river overflowing darkness all around you all you could see you was
rain but now it's much brighter wet wet grass fields a much more stable a much
more stable river filled with clear water it's pleasant when you're not in
the dark or not in a storm fighting for your life before you know it the two of
you the original duo make your way back onto the Naya Road and that's where we're
gonna go on break break time breakity break
all right everyone we're gonna see you in a little bit
you
and we're back hello everyone we had just said goodbye to our dearly departed
our departed departed friends departed friends oh gosh departed there we go as
they parted ways we join our two adventurers on resuming on the quest on
the on the line I a road to make their way towards the other end of the
continent not to be told it's been a good feat it's been a good few days and
they've only and they've only crossed the they've only just began to cross the
threshold out of their home out of their home territory into into another as he
checked as they checked their ways through quiet lush grass feet quite lush
grass fields they began to witness that the terrain has taken on less less very
foresty tall aspens and more more flatlands rolling hills fertile
fertile lands some of the some of the train starts to take on more more rock
dirt as you can as you all begin to see like much more in front of you you
venture your way out where we're Royce and Adelera are and for you Cecilia
it's your first time touching territory that is not in the same place as your
own home the air feels the same it feels fresh but a large lack of trees hmm as
you cross as you cross the the area passing by other people with larger
wagons and seemingly with more purposeful both for more purpose than
yours passed by you merchants travelers and such you count yourself as among
them you are a traveler and you cannot wait for the for what's ahead but as you
get to a point you do see that at some point on the road there is a there is a
small collection of seemingly guards some of them wearing some of them
wearing like leather leather armor and on the pauldron lays the lays the crest
of of an e of an eagle holding in one claw a sickle for you I'll see if I'll
definitely for both of you this is house Harrevel we're out of house Parvin
territory right house what's the name again Harrevel Harrevel house like a
bunny a hair Harrebo a hair a freaking hair I can do anything each a hair there
we go goodness a female whatever you you have been witnessing them at a few
points walking up and down the road doing patrols near some little pockets
of civilization some villages and such but you begin to see as you draw near
this small collection one of them staring you down as you as you approach
he none of them have their swords drawn they just he just kind of like casually
just walks up like waiting for you to approach and then this whole and then
it just holds up his hand he goes pay the toll to copper each
why is there it was it's been mandated by house Harrevel it's to copper each
shouldn't be much no that's no problem at all is it going to like road work or
something I just want to know what the purpose like he where does it go
holding up the money his eyes his eyes this this this elvin man can like looks
over to Cecilia and just kind of like walks over to her to accept the money
just completely not answering the question okay I mean I was just curious
where the taxpayer dollars are going with fine here you go
thanks thank you all right go ahead make it with looks at you for a second
Cecilia are you from where you from this part of the many thing this part of the
child hold on better answer I'm from Adelera
he puts them he puts the money away in a small back on the step he goes you wait
here a moment and he he walks towards the other guards
it isn't good why would he you see as you watch was the other guards he just
kind of like gets their attention and earn and they commit to a small huddle
for a bit he is like pointing his like finger towards your direction a few
times but they're just talking to each other the other the other two that's in
the huddle with him kind of like look towards you they squint at you Cecilia
specifically and I read their lips oh yeah right goes um so you're reading their lips
they're going just strongly first description I mean there's not many
furpugs either oh and he was to be sent to the side hmm as the two of them kind
of like they walk they begin to walk like around like like I said as a
collection of girls there's like two other ones but they're not they're like
they're not like doing it they like kicking back leaning against posts while
the one that just spoke to you just goes um excuse me walking towards you I
walk into the wagon just goes is it alright if I can ask you where you're
from look points a Jean-Claude I am a member of the Groven Guard that covers
many districts but you're from the Apricot fields right yep is a reason for
this questioning we received word of a runaway from Adelera and a large fur
bold man who was traveling with her on the way what does that mean I run away
yeah but what does that mean it was it was said that you stole something that
was close to the something that was treasured in your family and you rush
and you ran away you are also you were also under just forgive me just just
forgive me for assuming but you were also on under the jurisdiction and the
arrest of sir Aldemar of house Praveen correct no that name does not bring a
bad I don't really know what you're referring to maybe make a deception
check with with this man I have my deed inspiration I will say that you said
disadvantage yes
oh it's advantage it's a 17 I rolled a 19 and a 17 18 fucker but you have
inspiration you have inspiration I'm using my fucking d8 there okay I was
six at six I'm sorry that sucked I just like I was like you wrote great and then
I wrote you by one point oh gosh
what's your name me yes JJ and yours points to Cecilia the first thing she
thinks of because she's not good at lying the first thing she thinks of is
her conversation with Stella earlier cuz she's like she was really trying to
remember so she wouldn't forget she says clover
it's so close to our needs to see in Jay's still idiots all right
us well you to fit a very specific description that was given to us by
members of house Parvin oh wow that's really crazy you see you're profiling us
no it kind of sounds like you I mean we'll just here on holiday so I'm a bit
um she's my new recruit any points the put us on with her and I'm showing her
around you know the various territories so I'm a little insulted here not gonna
lie not our four bugs you know look the same
you just read the past thank you as you pass and you feel like a little tense
from that Cecilia like when while you're looking away he goes Cecilia Idlewine
it just calls out to you don't don't don't turn don't turn I mean but she
would wouldn't she like to make when he says Cecilia can juggle with
hellbound there are role I can make you you can make you can do your own doing
your own ruling beat well d20 and whatever fits I want to shout clover
maybe it's maybe it's a Christmas saving throw if you want if okay
team hell yeah just looks at Claude she was gonna be looking back at them
anyways to see if they said anything else but she hears Claude talk of the
turns yeah it's important to notice the geographical landscape as a guard it
really grows here that's so crazy different isn't that nuts I know
sometimes we have to deal with ungroven guards it's very disruptive only you can
stop wildfires stop right there god no no no no she doesn't turn okay
is there yes he's they're now all like behind you but you see the all five of
them now are like have their interest but the man walks up and he goes am I
allowed to just may I inspect your possessions what is your deal why you
literally just let us go this is me keeping the peace sir that's it really
rather you didn't yeah look at my bag and he opens up his bag and that pushes
JJ on the seat behind him you don't need to see that there I do need to see that
now actually no you don't this JJ jr. let me see that you're not doing good for
your innocence you're saying I want to hide just hold so JJ does not let go
yeah all right it just walks on the seat it opens his bag you clover miss your
bag and the bag has idle win like stitched onto it it does doesn't it yes
don't you have a saddlebag though the saddlebag too but they can see I have two
bags surely she's may I meaning I can say no if not you're gonna have to come
with us you're asking to inspect a young woman's bag with her personal hygiene
products that's pretty invasive yeah I'm sorry what is your name again and he's
gonna take out a piece of paper they got a pencil your name after we're done
don't know what I did wrong and everything if you're as innocent as you
say you are then I'm just gonna I'll see your bag and there's nothing on there
you'll go that's it
I just don't want anyone looking for my stuff
doesn't look like you have much in there
they hands him the saddlebag first
look he inspects it opens it up pulls it closes it gives it back to you is that
enough for him but he can see the other bag I'm sure yeah we're gonna get caught
if we do it oh god I'm trying to think of what I can do I don't think I have
anything I was just double checking my spells I don't have like illusion
anything young Claude goes okay all right hold on we do have something
dangerous in that bag and I need you all we're trying to transport it because it
is quite it is quite dark so if you guys would please step back make a
persuasion check I think Tim knows where I'm going with this gonna blow up the
moon that's not what it is a dirty 20
his hand moves to his sword but he steps back watching you cautiously
John Claude's gonna breach it and grab a fierce
you could be careful that might be a part of the description because they saw
him see slowly pulls out a few I have finally risen are we there yet goodness
how long do mortals take to get from one place to another I've never I loved
please and drunk you finally came around to me bigger minion JJ
present guards are frightened they immediately like like yeah all the
have hands on the swords and they are just stunned by the sight of this by
this talking skull that you have in your hand I'm gonna have them one of them
make it inside check real quick five yeah they seem to be just seeing the
skulls like what is that what are you doing with that this is a dick dark and
dangerous lich that we are trying to return to the depths from which it came
yes I am to be feared
you cut us we're just trying to do this people say the description let's talk
about that there was a talking skull to it did that's really weird coincidence
fan out don't let them don't let them move it's not it's not okay yeah we like
but it's not wrong though we are trying to just see I think we're gonna have to
ask people save what no what did you say this is gonna be a problem for you and
it's gonna be a problem for me and he's going to already start reaching for his
axe you have the way is it in my bag oh we have the way forward yeah like
there's nothing there's one standing in front of you they're trying to say you
as you just you begin to whip past and you and your horses your your waggards
go full force forward they don't have horses around them like they're probably
guards and then a nearby like town so you see as you just go by one of them
aims across well but the other one like pushes it down yeah you you see one of
them goes just get the captain because this right to feel the tide and they and
they all sort of scrambled towards the town because they know they can't catch
up to a wagon so this is not great that we're wanted and not one but two
territories is it to get past velvet tied right do you have any disguises
Cecilia I have a feeling we cannot look like I said it's for a long time
that's some of Delmira's clothes okay we're going to have to change like this
is not working as they're you know I don't think Delmira dresses that
different from me though you have like makeup or something like a disguise key
to something in there I don't think there is to me is there no there's not
damn it monster parts I okay are there horns maybe you could be like a tiefling
she thinks for horns you pull out a very light like something heavy like is like
in your hand like you you've went through everything in this bag before
and like autumn on the monster person were a pair of like big like spiral like
horns in there I can put these on my head somehow like well like a cloak or a veil
or something yeah maybe that you take off my glasses oh well yeah they'll
never know that one would really throw them for a loop Cecilia maybe we should
have just tried to bribe them or something I I I have a feeling this is
going to be a common theme I don't know how much money we will have left if we
have to bribe a lot of girls how much longer do we have to get through this
town um you haven't reached the other side yet you're gonna get there okay if
we just keep like are there many people on the road I guess I'm wondering like
yes there are people on the road there are guards that don't know about your
situation specifically so you're just making your way past them and they're
not chasing you or anything yeah many people know this is a very very civilized
territory so plenty of people about how long will it take to get to velvet hide
you're going to get there by like nighttime basically I am now that I'm
thinking about it I'm gonna get the moon shards out of the bag and I'm going to
keep them on my person smart idea not in the bag because I can't be separated
from them if they ever do get the bag confiscate the bag and can we rip the
idol one patch off of your bag yeah like a patchers and boy yeah it's embroidered
can I can I start can I find something thin and try to absolutely like easy
yeah like well a little dagger and start like working it with the blade erasing
your sister's identity I'm kidding who said you were a runaway oh yeah actually
no that's me said in character John Klee goes who's your fucking saying go run
away yeah I mean I'm an adult I can leave it makes me sound like I kidnapped
you well it did say something about stole a prized family artifact maybe
he's talked to Delmyra why would your sister rat you out like that though I
don't know no I look like a creepy guy with a cult like come on
little girl come into my couch like you were just awful I didn't hear that yeah
I was gonna say you were saying that yesterday but she didn't hear that that
was just high me oh we can just get through velvet tie and stay ahead of
everything was it use is this someone who is bad blood with you in your
hometown if it wasn't your sister no I mean not really okay she's really making
his fucking house if that is so I don't think she would have meant to it
probably would have just been like oh my sister's missing and he's like and that
he took that as information or something and like it's his interpretation of her
information that's not how she would have framed it you know because he's
angry after everything that happened well I just hope we can I think if we
get to our home maybe you would be a lot easier
yeah let's get as far as we can today and if we have to camp we have to camp
yeah and I think that whenever we go into a town or encounter another
guard stop or whatever we should probably be disguised as in some way if
they have such a specific description of us yeah maybe you could cut your hair
what maybe I could cut my hair I mean I have a spell I can use and also and he
points to his incredibly large beard and bovine ears I'm a little how to hide
with that magic but no it could do and he gives a gentle tug on her braid a
pixie cut yeah I guess if it comes down to it we can do it you will have really
cool like edgy girl adventure her hair I don't know if that's my thing but if I
have to then no no Cecilia it will be your thing trust me in the young adult
numbers did sign that an adventure has truly accepted to the hour especially a
young woman is when they cut their hair and I feel even less ready to know like
it makes like and maybe you get a tattoo too like they normally cut their hair
and they get tattooed and they go I am not who I was before I am them I am the
night and like what am I even going to get a tattoo of um where do we get a
tattoo you know what the moon we could do something creative I mean like I don't
think I'm ready for all that
panic attack just like okay we can well I'm saying is like do you have maybe
like a hat we can start with the hat you know just start with the hat I have the
night cap great just put all your hair under the net cap and you know maybe
change into no do we have it do you take any like step of Stella's clothes is
there something in there you can wear that's different I didn't take any of
Stella's clothes but um and I do I should be wearing armor still too you
think that'd be pretty nondescript but as you're passing people as young Claude
you would you see this from far away but there are another post immediately
she takes off her glasses the Superman
never know now she can't see but she's okay I'll definitely say though um it
is specifically that you are traveling like your your sister probably thinks
you're traveling in the Linaya Road so you are so that is like the search there
roll roll Jean Claude roll a deception check with advantage go let you go ahead
yes stressful natural 20 to 27 really high really be high they don't ask for
even though there's a post it's like a wooden like a small wooden like post
tower and a few guards they don't they don't seem to ask they don't seem to
ask for like a toll this kind of like because a lot of people are like passing
by here but as you do move past and see that you're looking like behind you have
your glasses down and it's just like run-of-the-mill like business as you
squint at them and want to looks like you want to fight them you do see that
very as you pass them a bird starts like flying like towards like the post
specifically and we're carrying a message fast yeah Jean Claude is disguised
as a young orcish man to keep with his large build you have already moved past
we're going and we saw the bird and continue on your way I will say like
there there are many points like before you're gonna hit the other side very
soon the Sun is just beginning to set just an orange little suggestion in the
in the skyline there are multiple like paths that you can take but they do
stray from the Lanaiya Road itself but they can they loop back around towards
the towards the road it's just you have to take a longer detour but you continue
to make your way forward are you going to head towards Vilfatide I forget
is Velatide safe or we said no it's not there are guards of Velatide probably
it's a very large agricultural it's the agricultural center of the entire
kingdom most of the food comes from Velatide so it's a very like regulated
area it's marked on the map because it would it's a supply stop for for Del
Mira we don't need supplies though right no you guys are fine and we're and we're
here early because we were supposed to make it here by last night but since we
just started the day I think we have enough time to skip it where would be
the next place to me on the map the next place is a very long stretch it goes all
the way to the border between our home and I mean this is this is just what's
on the map this is the mirrors plan to her adventure you can see there's
multiple points of civilization between the other side but it's a it's a border
town called de la serrante I was gonna type it because it's a mouthful
serrante I think we either keep going or if we need to camp we camp on the road
cuz I don't know if camping in a town is a good idea yeah we can't stay overnight
in this town anyways no it's not efficient for us to either no but what
what's a town we can reach by the end of the day if we skip if we go around um
I see anything in the math there are definitely you can skip I mean you can
probably like make your way around the other side it's a large city and there
are guards around it you can assume but if if you make it around the other side
then the next place would be would be a place called coriander it's not a not a
not a big town it's really small on the map but it is a point of civilization
that someone put on a map we can go to coriander instead right I'm I'm I'm not
a friend of any town right now but we'll see the vibes we'll do a vibe check as
the young kids say I said that so many times you did I know that's why I did it
to my vocabulary I know there's a song too that you guys sing with it as well
what's the song cut a vibe baby are you coming for their right as Jean-Claude
proves that he's really cool are you still on the Lanaya Road or do you do
you want to take any choice there are ways to get to coriander but the we want
to do I think we want to get off the road right or is that a bad idea
around yeah the road is definitely like the fastest to get to get to where you
want to be but you can get off the road yeah I know fast is the issue of being
spotted looking at the map the the path to the path to the right seems to lead
into it's like a sort of like a depression like a little like a smaller
like valley area it's a trough where a river once ran through and the path and
the path to the left seems to take you to into more steps Greenland's and you
can see that the the road wagons travel on it kind of like winds up a bit it's a
longer sort of like workaround but it's just grassland so I'll be with gonna be
really boring I'll take boring over captured so
there's a valley or the steppe STP either way with me I don't really care
Jenny you're driving I go Cecilia this is your this is your mission which one
valley seems to be more direct and maybe maybe it'll be pretty okay it's not the
middle road so I think it's better so yeah we can go that way I like pretty
things you curve your wagon onto the on your way towards the on your way
towards Griffin Valley which is really fun you make your way away from the
population of the main road off the path keeping keeping your eyes on keeping
your eyes on the map because you don't want to get lost out here but line on a
road is easy but Jesus but you're you're off the path now you travel for a good
for a good few until you make until you can see from a far distance away it's a
rather small like depression you have to like go down into it and then head back
up you have to go through this like Valley it is sort of it is insomni it is
insymmetrical and in its shape and in its ways but it is rather deep where it
goes another dry grass seems to like die off here it is dirt like it is it is a
lot of dirt and rocks as you go as you go through there and you get to the
entrance of the Valley way there is a man sitting there with a guard uniform
he has a torch lit there's a small like wooden post next to him and he's just
reading a book as he sees you as he sees you approach he's he's a he's an old
he's an older man with like white hair says I'm old for a gnome and gnomes are
old gnomes can get old 450 yes he's not 450 because he wouldn't be here as a
guard as he as you make your way up he just goes I'll their friends has it been
over an hour yes okay I'll cast disguise self again just to be safe okay
all right same thing as guys same as guys workish workish young man glasses
alias dinner nana a hail their friends up just stop and listen for a little bit
I was I am not sure if you've heard but there are dangers ahead there have been
sightings of a of a winged creature prevailing over does fly hovering over
these lands from people who travel by here if you want if you if you are
traveling to these I recommend going on the the more commercial road behind you
oh shoot bro that is not the vibe we are looking for traveled what do you mean a
winged creature like a monster not quite sure the reports are going back and
forth on what exactly it is all kinds of different sounds but it's a large winged
creature we got like a problem here well because we don't like mainstream
things like a main road we prefer to you know be a bit more hipster with yeah so
do you have any like other cool recommendations recommendations that
aren't popular well safety is a pretty popular thing but you really shouldn't
scoff at it I do personally think
I think we'll be fine we'll just be careful yeah we're young enough to be
able to handle things so young so young I can touch my toes in the morning I'm
that young I wish I wish I wish I was the same when you get to a certain age
or about you should really appreciate the fact that you can do that yeah and
your back doesn't hurt you didn't look like you're older than like 78 oh thanks
I'm 326 oh wow oh boy what are you doing you should be
rusted you want us to like take over your position or something you can't do
that but I'm flattered all the same I'm just here to give you warning you're
probably not gonna get attacked you're probably not gonna get attacked hmm you
know the sighting is better odds than we've had and if we are attacked you'd
be like the first to know yeah but last sighting was about a week ago but just
be careful when you're down there it's dark and the path can get a bit windy
okay I have dark vision I do too but my vision I was young once too strapping
vibrant you could probably eat whatever you want and it wouldn't affect your
weight gain yes yeah yeah my glucose intake was at least a hundred times
than what it was today the beer I could chug I do chug you know is just yeah
would chug if it was more unconventional that's right because we're
hipsters I recommend Brackleberry wine it's a delight you know what that's cool
I don't think a lot of people are drinking that which would make me it's
it's a very sour and very bitter drink only but we love it so if we rebranded
you know I think we could get it to sell for a lot well I'm not in the mind of
business I'm just saying we could also try to like sell our little pictures too
that's an idea oh Cecilia you realize oh we should be we could be good because I
realized that but you're young just you have all the time in the world to act on
your business ideas yeah we're gonna be big dreams mm-hmm I hope you have a nice
um day she looks like Claude like oh yeah catch a good vibe man these are all
the good vibes I need he kind of like holds up his little like bracelet what
is the bracelet it's like it's like beads you see little teeth kind of like on it
he I shake my bracelet back at him oh did someone make that for you dad
someone make that for you yes my son he's a huge disappointment where did he
get the teeth nope nope John Claude goes going John Claude immediately turns to Cecilia and says I do not have time for daddy issues please no please no
I still love him though my son he sells these bracelets on Etsy he's a huge
disappointment from really liking this old man too you're a dick that how so
many old people are they have all these really positive qualities and you're
like oh there's the racism yeah chat he says Womp there it is yep there was
speak do be careful still blown by that fucking comment about his son just
completely like oh she's just looking up at the sky by this point night has
fallen the stars are out the moon is full and give me a perception check do I have
to not that good I guess it's a little will you I'm still blown by the comment
about his son I'm like that was pretty fucking 13 because I have disadvantage
16 Cecilia you're the one looking at the sky John Claude you pilot the wagon
down these windy past it they're fairly wide it's in different traveled so
you're not you're confident this place seems to have been like the small valley
has seemed to have like multiple like upper like and and and upper levels and
doubt it feels like a quarry in a way but it's it's not this is like naturally
formed he says you see multiple like openings like in the in the walls you
see caves caves big and small like about the place we see like we were tracks
have gone in there and gone out it seems not another soul here at the moment you
see you already see your path where you're supposed to go and like all the
like little curves that you have to do to get to the end of this little valley
John Claude
a small bleat in the distance that's okay so as someone who lacks animals
whenever there's like an innocent cute is a fluffy sheep there is a big giant
flying thing trying to eat it so I think we should stay away from the fluffy
sheep or that's just a nice sheep because there's lots of farms around
here and it's not going to get eaten no I think we leave the sheep to fend for
itself
in that moment Sean classes here you're the one looking towards the sky but
you're the one looking front cutting a figure in the night sky you see a large
set of wings but you don't see like the figure it's the biggest flying thing
you've ever seen in your life you see it flies so a bit and it lands heavily on
like on top of like one of the cave entrances and it seems like it's like
just like lurking
able to make it out with my with my 300 feet dark vision it's a bit far good
wait that's good yeah it just seems to be like you know on top of the top of
like a kid like a I'm like an arc rock just like just like obviously just very
still and then it jumps to another one
you I can go invisible but I can't leave you behind do you have any spells like
that and hide in a barrel like stiller did that didn't work now did it no it
didn't but she was invisible that also didn't work okay but this is it fucking
dragon or something's here Jean-Claude you do look about like 90 120 feet away
from you Jean-Claude there's like an opening to like a cave okay okay I see a
cave this could either be a very good idea or into the mouth of a dragon's
lair the fact that it keeps landing on top of the caves kind of makes me
nervous it's like walking along you see it takes takes hold of like the Kate
like the rocky outer exterior of like the valley walls and it's like just
using that to like just like walk taking huge chunks of the rock using it as
using it as like it's a way to walk around it seems to be making its way
around you at the moment and but you feel it's staring so it sees us it's
actively stalking oh my fucking god okay Cecilia so here's the thing we can either
go hide in the cave we just run I feel like running is not going to work but we
need to pick an option very quickly unless the cave is a cave way smaller
than it it feels like you can you can like bring your whole like wagon and
horses into there yeah but the thing they follow us yes it could probably
follow you in there we just get cornered there maybe we could talk to it if it
came down to that let's just let's just run maybe run it you're it out okay okay
okay okay oh god I think a dragon is faster flying than we are running maybe
we just walk calmly and it won't scare it you know like like you you do you have a
spelling just that you could use to fucking to go make a light in a
different place fucking what am I I can I can I can make a light um she casts
light on away from us I has to be touch she casts light on like an apple one of
the ones that Stella ruined and um and she throws it away opposite direction
12 make not be very smart make a deception check oh no you're at
disadvantage though aren't you throw an apple out and casting light on it and
you know the sphere of light kind of like tumbles away from you you see one
of the club one of the claws walking towards you it is stalking but does not
seem to be charging yet by this point as it enters into range of your vision you
first see the head of this like it's very like very very furry like cat like to
like like a large like little large teeth a lion it has a lion is the head of a
like yeah definitely the head of a lion as it you see as its one claw kind of
like which is forward another claw strikes next to it walking forward very
different very scaly with long claws and nails and another head enters into the
fray out of the darkness there's fucking two of them wyverns not oh you would
think a wyverns head but then you see a little bit of fire passively this is
where the goat sound came from to this a dragon's head and you've never seen a
dragon because dragons are very rare in this world what wait wait whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa oh my god okay what is this eldritch nightmare that has a
lion's head a goat's head and a dragon's head Jesus okay so remember how you said
we could talk to it I can speak with animals I don't know if this is an
animal though me neither it's like kind of like more than an animal like a kitty
head go maybe like just go leave and then if I have to if I have to if I have to
do something I'll do something while you drive yeah yeah I could also cast
speak with animals now but okay let's go you go you see it like like it goes into
a pouncing stance the wings are okay okay you guys speak with the animals as
it just yeah you gave me ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with
beasts for the duration these the knowledge and awareness of many beasts
is limited by their intelligence but at minimum beasts can give you information
about nearby locations and monsters including whatever they can perceive or
have perceived what kind of guessing its monstrosity I had to guess but we could
see and gets to fly towards you and you are you running yeah she's screaming as
we're as they're trying to go you start like fuck just start like rushing your
horse it's flying you you are a victim of like the circumstances right now
because you have many winding paths you do not have a straight path to go as
your as your wheels as your wheels run against the ground Cecilia you're the
one sitting in the back you see this large chimera catching up very fast
Jean-Claude as you're going you see in front of one of the caves if you're
if you're passing by there is a scorched of like a scorched like blackened like
horse like corpse on the ground and Cecilia you see as the wyvern begins to
breathe fire creating like a small like carpet effect as it tries to catch up to
you there's large plume of fire crashing down it attempting to like
attempting to like wash it over you I'd like to cast guiding bolt try to scare
it away but I will try to hit him yeah okay so my animal spell did not work
with any of the heads what do you say what do you say I said shit boy get away
from me you do you do here come here let me get you the goat head
specifically the goat head yeah so I also have um what's my is it speech of
Easton leaf I get um I gave advantage on all charisma checks to influence them
mm-hmm um so John clothes gonna go listen buddy we are not a good snack we
have credit to be Sunni we go elsewhere good man and you hear the lion go
soon we exactly like I like it y'all look delicious
never no it's not no it's not what poison decks you're gonna die if you eat this the
wyvern does not speak okay fine fire in its mouth and you and you hear a
cacophony of like for Cecilia you hear and of roars from lions you hear this
junk log you hear says says come here come here come here come here come here
like they are hungry they are ready yeah yeah go ahead make the attack rule I
tried oh well at least it somewhat worked 23 hits nice takes 14 radiant damage
ouch get fucked you see as it is you strike it in between like the heads of
the other goats and the and the lion it recoil it recoils and you see the wyverns
has thrown up and the fire shoots out into the into the air um you have
realistically like Cecilia you're gonna have to keep this up for a bit for Jean
Claude to fuck get all the way through
it was hoping it wait scared away like that's too much effort for food but don't
cloud looks at the ceiling goes can I use the moon shouts
you know what I was like oh yeah yeah she attacks them again it begins to fly
tour fly towards you again drunk cloud you are you're passing like many like
different like caves and such the big and small but it's a it's a it's a rather
a large creature you passed the one that was very big. Is there a small cave that it couldn't
fit in and it would have to like it get stuck if it tried to come in? Give me a perception
check. The fire and we have horses. I know but what do we do Jenny? We just fight it
I think we're fine. 16. You do see that there's a reasonably sized cave with a destroyed wagon
next to it actually. You see it and you think like oh you can definitely drive you kind
of have to duck your head maybe to like get the wagon and everything like inside of it.
You're gonna attack again Cecilia? I'm gonna do channel divinity actually. Okay. Get the
moonlight temporary hit points all around us. I don't know I don't know I feel like
you're right if we go in a cave it could scorch us or would it leave us alone I don't know.
I don't think it would judging by all the dead things outside the caves to be honest.
Yep yep fair enough. So I get d6 plus three temporary hit points at the end of my turn.
Nice. Oh my gosh Jenny. She always rolls very well for our hit points. Good. We love it.
Um I guess would shield of faith help to have on us Jenny? It could if they try to attack
someone but. That would help against fire right? It's it's I don't think specifically.
Um so it has to be an attack roll dragon breath or uh saves. Damn it never mind all right
never mind I got nothing. But yeah that was my turn probably but yeah I will keep attacking
it. Okay I think this a nice attack rolls with advantage. With advantage oh from the
guiding bolt you're right. Yes. Guiding bolt. Okay I'll do a second level guiding bolt.
Whoa now she's really gonna kick ass. 21. It definitely hits. This camera has no clue what's
in store for it. It did so much less damage 10. Oh my goodness. That's okay. Um you you
strike it once more and it uh you know it's you're actually kind of making it a bit scarier.
Now it's now it's this terramostrosity that you can see in the light and it's glowing as it's like
trying it's like like just charging you just closing this distance. Um it it and it's
it's very bad because when it when you hurt it and it bleats in pain it is it is it is goat sounds
it is lion sounds it is the roar it is the roar of a dragon. Do I still have the hand crossbow?
Yes certainly. All right I'm gonna shoot that then. You would have advantage are you gonna make your
try to make your way in the uh in towards the cave as you're driving the wagon. I don't know
I thought we said that wasn't a good idea. I'm not leaning on it personally. All right then yeah no.
Oh I'll just try to yeah shoot. All right absolutely make the shot with advantage.
Advantage is a 14. 14? 14 just hits. Oh god wow okay that's it's got a low dc that's good a little
ac um five piercing. Um it strikes and this time if you feel like you've done enough damage you see
as it just kind of like um grass grass the ground as it as the crossbow boat sinks into it um it um
you uh Jean-Claude you hear it specifically the intentions between the three. The dragon wants to
obliterate you. The lion the lion wants to wants to keep going. The goat is intending to like scurry
away. Um you can tell like the thoughts of animals the three of them are very differently uh controlling
different parts of the body and but but you see eventually it kind of like spins away and flies
away at that moment for now. For now okay we just we're gonna we're gonna get the fuck out of here.
You get four temporary hit points because I rolled the opposite. I'll take whatever I can get.
That's it. All right Jean-Claude give me an give me a land vehicle check. What is that?
It's gonna be your if you don't have if you don't have proficiency in it it's a it's going to be a
wisdom. Oh god that's not what I'm really good at. If you're if you are maintaining speed if
you're just going normally then you don't have to. So wisdom okay. Okay.
Yikes. It's very bumpy. Cecilia like Cecilia even from like like back here you have to
hold on to the side of the of the wagon because this terrain if traveled at a good speed normally
it would be fine but you're doing so many twists and turns um the horses are having a little bit
of difficulties as well like all the directions you're giving us Jean-Claude. I'm sorry I'm just
freaking the fuck out. She tries to offer advice but it's kind of you know panicked.
So it's gonna be like steady like the horses and you know it. No I don't know.
The Chimera rises into the sky once more. Jesus. Maintaining a far distance uh maintaining a little
bit of a far distance as it just flies around. You don't already roll your temporary hit points
since that was like another turn. Seven. So now I have 11. You see it's flying around. You replace
the old one. Got it. You can you can probably see that in detention it's trying it's gonna go to
towards your front. Oh my god um ah Jean-Claude knows that Cecilia is tapped the fuck out.
Um he's like Cecilia are you the only one that can use moon power or can I try?
I don't know if you can. I haven't tried. I just I don't know if it's a good idea.
Get the mobile. She she guiding bolts them again.
Roll it. She knows how it feels so she doesn't want you to do it.
I this thing is scary and I don't have any like ranged magic spells. I know but that definitely
hits. Cecilia coming back. 13 radiant damage. Way more damage than the freaking second level one.
Uh-huh. Bless you. Thank you. Yes Jenny. Bless you.
It strikes it one more time. Cecilia your accuracy is dead on right now. Um
you you see it like it stumbles in the air. It's lowering too. Um this thing can very much very
much crash right in front of the both of you. Um but it's still it's still going. You see the
you see the dragon head taking in taking in another breath. Get me the boot chasers here.
Jean-Claude uh real quick like you're having a turn. You know she has them on her
but she's not reaching for them. I don't want to grab for your breast please just hand me the moon
shards. No just drive. Just drive. Cecilia I am your superior.
It's getting closer. It's getting closer. It's gonna.
It's getting closer. It's gonna. I'm so sorry. She's not doing it. Yeah.
I grab him. I grab him. You grab him. She doesn't want to let him.
I'm gonna go moon power. Okay um doesn't want to let you um yeah we're gonna have
contesting uh contesting checks. Uh Celia uh make an acrobatics or athletics check.
Um Jean-Claude. Athletics please but it's a disadvantage because I'm exhausted.
Yes you are which is why you should let me take them. Six. Eight. Oh gosh my first one was an eight.
It would have been a tie if I wasn't exhausted. Um one of the moon shards grabbed from you
Cecilia plucked hard. Um Jean-Claude you look forward towards the approaching uh the approaching
chimera and you hold up your uh you hold up your arm. Feed. I live.
The horses. May uh roll five d100.
Cecilia you take two points of exhaustion. Okay. No that's not fair.
Wait what does that do to Jenny? Is she almost dead? I have my hit point maximum halved.
Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws and I already had speed halved
and disadvantage on ability checks already. No it's supposed to affect me. You didn't you didn't know.
So you do it and she's just like like suddenly like passes the fuck out and he's like oh fuck.
So go ahead roll five d100. Um it's really unfortunate I had to be found out this way but
you learned. This is the learning. Um I'm sorry Jenny it's okay.
Oh it sucks. I thought it was gonna affect me. Like I see it like it's it's it was a really like
there's a there's a reason why and it's really it's nasty it's really nasty you found out this
this way. I also know out of character I already know out of character that um like you know how
like the fireball only impacted my enemies when I do it. Timmy told me that if you do it it'll
still impact everything. The negative effects will impact us too if we get them if that's still true.
Jean-Claude. Damn it. Yes. Make a wisdom saving throw.
I am a useless motherfucker. Okay. Wisdom saving.
Five. If you were to cast polymorph on yourself at this very moment what animal would you turn
yourself into? You have to pick uh let's see. Goat, lion, tiger, snake. A new form can be any beast
whose challenge rating is equal to or less than the targets or level. So you can pick a uh pick
a beast with a level three or lower. Challenge rating three or lower beast. I'm gonna pull out
the freaking list. What's the challenge? Yeah I'm like wait what are they what are they? Challenge.
So you're level three. I have a druid list. Let me see. Um. Beast, challenge level.
Uh great. I have a druid list for my other character and it you can sort by challenge rating.
Let me see if I can find it. You want to do that? I'm I'm quickly sprinting to level three. Um
basilisk bearded devil. Is that sound right? Green hat. It has to be a beast. A beast. Okay
this is beastiary. Yeah let me find. Where's the uh druid watch? Okay let me get give you this link
and I'm pretty sure you'll be able to see um copy link. Where are you sending it in? I'll send it in the um
discord. Okay okay okay. It's a this is a druid list. The only thing is you don't have to worry
about like you won't have to worry about um flying or swim speed. You could have that.
So all beasts if you look at all beasts expanded and you can you can sort by the challenge rating
side I think. And I need three right you said Tim? Yeah three or lower. Yeah three or lower.
Three or lower. Okay um uh oh no I'll be I'll be a black bear. You'll be a black bear? Yeah. All right
absolutely. Oh okay okay uh a black bear. So you just you see you watch Jean-Claude
come into the form of a black bear. The black bear is now driving the wagon.
Uh you uh Jean-Claude you feel your lowest spell slot from your disguise self. You feel your energy
begin to regenerate inside of you. So there's that. So your lowest spell slot you regain.
You regain it back. Okay it's positive. Um also as you're holding on to the wagon you begin to
levitate. You begin to float. You're floating there in a fucking wagon. Also uh out of your hand uh
emanating from the uh emanating from the the moon rock uh is the shards of the moon.
Go ahead and roll for me. Uh let me see real quick. 7d4 plus seven. What does that mean?
74 okay well here's 5d4 and then so 11 plus five so 16 plus seven. 23. That number. You do 23 points
of force damage as you cast a fifth level magic missile from your hand. All of them encroaching
and pelting into the chimera. Which. Level. Fifth level yes. And it begins to crash
and skid across the ground because that was a hefty amount of damage you just did.
And last one. Cecilia you watch you watch bear Claude disappear.
Jean Claude as you turn into a bear uh as you turn into a bear um and you want you see this creature
skidding towards you. All of a sudden the world around you feels transparent. The the wagon
everything that you were holding on just moves through you as you were all of a sudden moving
at speed. You stop. You are. So for mechanical purposes you have been transported to the astral
plane. Hold on. Oh no. You have been transported to the astral plane.
To the end of your next turn. Oh. So Cecilia you. Oh god. You see this you see this wagon
now going out of control and barreling right towards this this approaching chimera. I try
to reach up and grab and get control. Give me a land vehicle check. Okay. With disadvantage.
Nine. Make a dex save. With disadvantage now because of my exhaustion. Two.
Oh. Two.
The horses part ways as they naturally want to like get away get out of the way of this approaching
thing. They're not going to run into it but the wagon lags behind and the and you see that the
the the fallen form of the chimera smashes into you. You take.
Ten points of bludgeoning damage as you are down. No because I have nine temporary.
You fall a tumble out of the back of the wagon as the as the wagon spills over. You see the
horses like also a kind of as you are just before you as a large chimera who's just like
getting up just regaining its bearings. Speaking of bear and Ings. Sean Claude. Oh my god. You
out of this like plane of like where you can hear little this it has like little like
transparent like everything has taken on this like little like dullish hue. You all of a sudden hit
ground again. You were flying for a bit and you hit ground. You are a black bear but you I see you
retain your intelligence and such. You see Cecilia launched out the back of the wagon.
Can I catch her. She's already hit the ground. Oh no I'll go over to her.
Cecilia you see this black bear rushing towards you. It has a it has a large bracelet on its
I don't know if it's paws. It's still kind of scary. I'll try to get her on my back or something.
I'll try to get her on my back or something. So you see you see the bear like very very gingerly
caring get them they like get you up using it's not to pull you up. Okay she gets up
then we get the fuck out of here. As you get up you see the chimera starts to get up
and you see it looks towards Reginald and Marquis. Nope nope nope.
She's going to guiding bolt it. Okay you can ride me into battle.
I think I guiding bolted last turn so it would be at advantage which would make my attack normal
because now I have disadvantage. Oh my god this sucks I'm sorry. Okay I'll cast it at second level.
I get the feeling that's a bad idea but I'm gonna do it anyways. Hits. Okay yep yep.
Second level does 16 radiant damage. Heck yeah you you the both of you already done
with like a really heavy number on this creature. You're getting really good hits in Cecilia.
So as you're riding on the back of this black bear you shoot another guiding bolt towards it and
as it strikes the dragon directly in the head you see the goat with its like two eyes.
You know it looks towards you and bleats at you really hard. That's all initiative.
Oh as a bear okay. I'll go ahead and bring a black bear. Mine's a normal roll because I have a blessing that gives me advantage so I roll 12.
16. I think you have to assume the form of a bear so it's a plus zero.
Oh damn it. But you have a feet alert right? Yeah. I'll say that you keep that in your form so it's plus
five so fifth so uh 14. Okay also I have to pull a black bear as well let me do black bear.
D&D. Those moon swords are crazy. Oh Jesus. Oh my AC is 11. Ouch. Okay oh well.
Um can I give Claude? Oh no you already have temporary hit points. You have temporary hit points.
I have temporary bear hit points. And 10 for me still. No. And the horses have temporary hit points too.
They they can they get the max one I rolled the first turn is that what they have?
Not the pony. Give them two rolls.
Give our horses a shot. They each rolled eight.
Okay the Chimera looks towards you bear Claude.
Bear Claude is there's no clue what he's doing but he's gonna attack because and I get multi-attack.
Um the 16 is actually the Chimera's um initiative. Uh so I have to wait. Yeah it's gonna it's gonna
it's gonna rush up towards you. It's gonna smack my ass yeah.
Natural one. Oh thank Christ. This is a real animal like this is a nature documentary moment.
The bear standing gets ground you just
It'll attack again. 15 to hit. 15 does hit. All right as it misses as it misses with its bites you
see the the goat's horns are gonna try and ram into you. Ouch. You take
14 points of bludgeoning damage.
This bear is getting his shit rocked. But you're still in your bear form.
Very hateful goat just smash it right into your side. Um Cecilia you're Steve you you're like
moving with it. You're like you didn't get hurt but you knew that hurt. Are you okay Claude?
I can't understand you. 19. 19 to hit. Third attack. 19 that hits.
All right it does as as the wyvern as the uh not wyvern dragon claw comes in towards you
you take 10 points of slashing.
I think I'm down. You I think you revert towards uh to your uh your normal drop platform.
It's like a wild shape yes. Oh okay. So any over damage goes to your
your actual hit points. Right you go back to Claude form. Okay well now I'm Claude form.
Which is actually better. It's actually better because I can actually do stuff.
And you tanked that whole round of hits which is nice.
Nice. So now Cecilia you are piggybacking uh Jean Claude.
Which actually kind of works. Jean Claude you have your axe in your hand now and you're not a
bear anymore. I'm so fucking sorry Cecilia I thought that would work but I guess it didn't.
I just can't get rid of it.
She can drop off his back though. Okay. So I can stay away from the thing. Jean Claude
it's your turn. Yeah I'm going to um and this is not a oh wait.
I'm gonna use my channel divinity.
Yep yep I'm gonna use uh flash of brilliance. Can you post in the chat real quick?
Yep because since this is not um a fey or fiend I would assume.
I'm Claude would assume. So I put it in the um roll 20. So bonus action um the last time you
used this was against the fake Cecilia but as you kind of like throw up you throw up your bracelet
and this brilliant light shines the room um depic um visions of your of your niece
um flashing through the brilliance you believe she had possessed you um you spread uh in the area.
Um let's see so Boon so uh Cecilia you get a bonus to ac tacros and saving those equal to
equal to Jean Claude's charisma modifier to the end of your next turn. That's really good
which I believe is I think I have plus five to my charisma mod. Uh no plus four plus four.
Until the end of Jean Claude's next turn and the commander is gonna make a nifty con save.
Yep this is a pretty cool ability. I like it. He hungered it for me. Damn it that fess succeeds.
But uh you also have the you also have that benefit too Jean Claude so
you can attack with advantage because the guiding bolt's there um and when you attack with and when
you attack you add your charisma modifier to your attack roll as well. Boonbrew we love it.
Yee so I will attack with my hand axe my battle axe. All right absolutely.
18 to hit. You have advantage from guiding bolt. Oh I'll do it again. It's also plus four.
Nope I'll do the first one. So 22 to hit. 22 to hit and then I will click that for damage 12
plus four is 16 right. Uh let's see just just attack rolls not the damage rolls.
Oh got it so just 12 then 12 points um if you want to smite on top of that.
And I'm gonna smite as well. I'm a smush. All right. It's special I have to remember it's
smite is not bonus action. It's own thing. Nope there are smite spells that are a bonus action
but smite itself is not. Right I have to remember that. It has to remember this okay and I think
sorry I'm trying to my roll 20 is all over the place where is my smite. It's something something
it's something something something something. 2d8. 2d8. Yep is that right. Yes yep yep yep yep so let
me go to this and then roll 2d8. Nine nine points of radiant damage. Very good. Um some of the
brilliance that you have like let loose into the area it recuperates into your uh into your axe
and you slam it into the side of the uh um which which animal head are you hitting specifically.
Wyvern because it can blow fucking fire at us. Um you see as it's just to shake it off the dragon
opens up its mouth with its fire in there and you just smash right into it. Um you smash directly
down onto its like snout and you force it down closing its mouth. Um all three seem to not enjoy
what you just done to it uh considering the massive amount of damage you just did.
All right. It means we're alone now. Really good turn.
Oh yeah. Cecilia. Okay she's going to try guiding bolt again. It's a disadvantage though this time
because there's no more light on it.
It's a seven eight nine ten eleven. Eleven. Though this time no luck. Okay that's all I can do.
The chimera is going to take this opportunity now. Um you still have the bonus on you Jean-Claude from
the flash of brilliance. This is not the end of your next turn yet. Um it's gonna it's gonna try
to fuck you up. It doesn't like it doesn't like you. Oh I'm gonna reroll my hit point. You have a
you have a 22 ac uh Jean-Claude. Fuck yeah. Oh my gosh. And it rolled a nine. What? I don't know.
Yeah max. All right the drag the dragon is going to is going to exude its flame breath
but at you Jean-Claude because Cecilia has made some distance on purpose.
She has. So make give me a dex give me a dex save.
Eight. The plus four so twelve. Twelve. I have to roll the whole damage.
Um did you you you rolled for Jean-Claude's temporary uh he had some already. He had it okay.
Okay so it's gonna be 78 points of damage.
Take 37 points
of fire damage.
That would have instantly killed me by two hit points with the even with the nine temp.
That would have instantly killed me. I forgot did I have temporary hit points or no I didn't.
You do yeah. Do you want me to reroll them so you remember which ones they were because I could have
rerolled them at the end of your turn. I have a total of 36 hit points um so. Here you get you
have six temp. Okay cool so then I have five. You have five hit points uh as you are overcome by this
scorching fire. This you have fucked this creature up terribly like absolutely terribly.
Then you see you see that you can hear you can see the intent of the two of two other ones being
like we want to bail. This is the this sucks. As it should it should fucking bail. As it starts to
back away um it seems very tired now kind of like on the defensive after the fire breath and seeing
you still standing kind of doesn't do any confidence. Um what are you doing Jean-Claude it's your turn.
I'm still standing. Um well if it's backing off I'm gonna go after it again because fuck it you
know. Fuck this. Fuck it. I wanted to get the fuck away. Yeah it keeps hurting people. We should
kill it if we can. Let's just end this little shit um and I add four still right. No I don't.
Oh end of your next turn. At the end of your next turn. So yeah. So yeah. Yep 11. But it's still on hit.
No um. Is there anything I can do for a bonus action? I don't think so.
I can't. Oh no I already chugged my did it. We already chugged our health potions didn't we Jenny?
Uh I don't know if you did yours. I don't remember. I have more in the bag.
It's all right. I'll do nothing. I'll keep it. I'll just be menacing.
Oh let me check real quick. One second. Bonus action. Bonus action. Um sheering
still. Nope nope. Yeah if I had to guess there's just this might spell. Yeah no.
All right Cecilia. Oh new temp hit points. Thank you. Thanks help. You get seven.
I'll take that over five. What a fantastic ability. Uh huh. So good. It's very helpful.
Very fucking helpful when I have. Yeah yeah. Yep yep yep. Yeah this chimera wants to wants to bail.
Get it. I would like to cast healing word on Claude.
As my bonus action. You heal six. I'll take it. And um for my action I'll cast sacred flame.
All right. And that doesn't matter advantage disadvantage because it's just a dex save.
Do it. Do it. 12. That fails by one so it takes eight radiant damage.
This thing is like barely standing. Good good good. Um yeah it's yeah even even the dragon has
like okay you guys might have a point. Um is it an uh an answer. That's the end of my turn. Yeah
it's going to go ahead and just turn and try to fly upwards. You have an attack of opportunity
junk log. Let's swing at this little shit. I told you to run before bitch. Okay so. I'm doing it.
15. I knew it. Too late. That hits. 15. Great. 10 slashing and I'll add on a smite.
So two we said d8 right Jenny. Yeah. 12. 22 total. It's on Claude. Yes thank god. Oh my god this is
awful. So your your axe latches onto the back as it as it uh as it as it flies away you are lifted
into the air. Climbing climbing upward you pull your axe holding on to the scaly hide um and you
just cleaving downwards multiple times. Um Cecilia you you you watch this rising figure with blood
trailing behind it and a fur ball being carried on it as it just flies in front of the moon as you see
um you see uh uh junk log as it sort of falters and you see it kind of like flying low to the
ground it's genuinely dazed and you are like in another part of the another part of the valley
don't worry dude um you hold up your axe divine smite in your uh inside of it how do you want to
finish tell me how you'll finish this fight so hold on it's low towards the ground he's standing
above it right yes he's just gonna just try to um oh god he's standing right above it how do I want
to do this yeah he's just what's the head of the middle it's the lion head right lion head yes
yeah he'll just cleave through the middle of the lion head through its neck um it lops off easily
you cut through butter um as this as as the light from your oath traverses throughout the entire body
you've um the the body goes limp and you're like oh shit and you begin to fall
oh uh cecilia um zonk lot about like 50 feet away from you you see that you hear the loud
the divine smite uh explode in the distance and the wyvern's body crashes against the ground
um oh fuck my back
are you okay are you okay you look really bad
he's gonna he's hobble over to her
they're doing the same half movement
for a fucking mess zhonclad covered in blood and tired and a bit scorched you have to like
you know that show up with like oh there's a little like ember on your beard and just
yeah like i have my hair is like crinkled don't need a haircut anymore because it's ever
burned a little bit singed you make it you the two of you make your way towards each other
um uh zhonk you still have the moon shard i would say in your uh in your possession as you
but i might get me back to her and like they say you fix it i won't do it again it puts it in the box
i didn't know it would do that i thought it would affect me i never would have done it if i thought
it would hurt you i know it didn't hurt me i just um i'm really tired you can barely move what do
you mean it didn't hurt you you are wobbling like an old woman
didn't hurt hurt me it just silly you look like fucking shit
well so do you okay but i can only stand though go to oh god what the fuck is up with this moon
shard why is it so connected to your body
he
i don't know it's actually really a really valid question can we the bag and he points to the the
um our griffin saddle bag it doesn't the bag can it do spells to tell us more about the moon
shard or fucking something yeah okay give me the bag okay because she's exhausted and um there's
legend lore right yes i'd like to use legend lore on the moon shards i'm done with this
you hold the bag towards the moon shards the eyes light up um
um he described a place this opening to my brief summary
how many points that takes john claude it takes five points okay john claude
there is something you receive a wealth of information
but to summarize it to summarize it um it's the moon um that's it it's legit
that to summarize it it gives you all the information like you know the the like the name
of the name of the moon and and such like i have to go get it real quick okay that's okay oh it's
rana the name of the mood is the name of the mood is rana r-a-n-a but okay you would have known you
you would have known that um it gives you like a history like things you would find in a history
in a history in the history book um but like the information you're specifically looking for
you're not in you're not entirely sure uh if you can you get that you're just getting like a very
general sort of like uh in uh information um the lore might consist of like current tales
forgotten stories or even secret lore that has never been widely known never mind let me talk
to you a little bit more intimately uh i was gonna say isn't it like the more we know about it the
more detailed it can be is how the spell works oh gosh jenny can you take your headphones off for
a bit i'll now give you i'll give you a wave when i'll just cover my ears like this look your headphones
on oh shit i have to i have to write this down because jenny's not writing i'm gonna cover my
mouth so jenny can't see it but she can still hear you i'm gonna mute you hold on i need a pen
so you totally watch the bob later though i can watch the bob later i can watch the bob later
i can do i can watch the bob later okay i'm listening we can watch the bob read lips
Jean-Claude
these fragments of the moon
you find are living
they are living um creatures they have um manifested inside manifested inside of them you
feel um you are told that um there are um very tangible and like like personality souls voice
thoughts inside of each of these shards um the moon has always had a very specific
a very very specific um like pole when it came to the tides of the ocean but also a very chaotic and
an unexplainable pole when it came to the weave to magic um yes but as to your current like as to
you and cecilia's current quest um you these specific moon shards were carried by um by mages
who were descended upon by gargoyles and all manner of creature ripping ripping them apart
you see one of these mages going into a town a vision how it was passed it was supposed to be
passed to dilmira eidlewind but instead chosen picked up by cecilia instead and she ran off
with it um as for what purpose they are wanted for you don't have the specific purpose it's not
told to you but you can assume by its nature by its almost sentient like sentient like qualities
it carries and it's very very powerful magic um that it's that you can assume why people would
want it these shards specifically have fallen from are extracted from a meteor
a chunk of the moon which was um which you do not you do not get you do not get for now why
a chunk of the moon blew off from the moon land and landed on the earth
why a chunk of the moon blew off from the moon land and landed on the earth um and you get the
sense that many people do not actually know about the qualities of the moon this is not a widely
known thing okay um but forgotten stories some tales of people using these moons for very specific
purposes to change the tides of the ocean to um just to uh to for to forego um to forego um
like to to stand up a ancient tribe standing up against the ancient dragons and
and the old and the old gods that wished to deprive humanity of the arcane arts that long ago boy
and with that said
your eye lights up
this all just came to you yeah your eye just lights up
i'm gonna wave i'm gonna wave i'm gonna wave come on jenny come back
hello jean claude's eyes light up for that moment
and john claude as you come out of that state
say seconds later you have the information you have
are you all right the shouts
thoughts they are they are sentient things they are living creatures with souls and voices and thoughts
wait yeah wait does that mean
like a little very powerful little mini magic people
but we heard specific voices
does that mean the shouts
that's yeah she opens up the box
it does feel like they thrum with every you've had them for a bit and even in the beginning you
feel like it hummed with like something it would they weren't they were never just rocks they've
you felt a presence like magical energy coming from inside of them and now with this context
but does that mean
your niece
your mom
um
that doesn't make any sense though
your mom is dead right
i don't know if my niece is dead though
oh no why is jenny making that face
it wouldn't be if these are alive and they're not dead if they're sentient creatures maybe
they were using voices that uh that are comfortable to us
if you're sentient creatures you could tell us right
yeah could you guys just stop with the fucking mystery i guess the legend worlds last for 10
minutes wait can i put the legend lore on cecilia like can you tell me i think it's over one thing
it's just it can take that long i could be wrong though
um but yeah it's a spell i never thought i'd have this early so sentient um
oh gosh i guess i can't tell
i can't say what because you're asking the questions the legend lore is still active
um
some fragments of the moon and it has been historical attempt to draw out comforts
in nearby people oh so they're not actually your mom and my niece it's just what's comforting to us
and it has driven people mad before
well
that's just
a shame
i
don't know what this means
means the shouts um by the way the shouts want you really want you like this is supposed to go
to your sister but they went they went they went you girlfriend
they told me too
from the beginning
like the this magic is so powerful that you could face dragons and gods cecilia
yeah like the the there were tales i don't know if it's true but there were tales that said of
changing the tides of the ocean and and and these ancient tribes from from eons ago ages ago have
using this power to to chase to try to face dragons and gods gods
he does
pick up one of the shards and she just she just goes
if you're sentient and you've talked to us before why don't you do it more
it will drive us mad
please help us
um
I'm trying...
Please, please, please.
We need you.
What is it about Andorath that's going to keep you safe and the people I'm supposed to deliver you to?
A long beat of silence.
Can you just hear? Please, please.
And Claude, hear it too.
Just... Cecilia.
What is it away?
He thinks she's... he thinks that she was talking to him, so he goes, I don't know, I don't know.
But I do know that the shouts are from a meteor and that landed on the elf. I don't know why.
I guess we should keep going.
No, you have to sleep. You really need to rest.
I'm not here though, right?
No, in the wagon. I'll get us out of here. Just please sleep.
She looks at the dead monster.
It's like, maybe we should take that with us in case we come across guards again.
If this was a noted problem that we dealt with, maybe... maybe that could bargain for us.
Aphius is going to be so fucking pissed at us and I don't care.
And he'll start shoving the chimera into the bag of holding.
So ready are the monster parts in the bag?
It's rather big. You have to cut it down.
What the fuck?
It's a shock shock to me.
Sorry buddy, I'll just organize it.
What's wrong with you?
It's going to take a few hours.
Can you and Cecilia rest while I chop it up?
Yes.
We could even take it on the wagon in the meantime if we wanted.
I mean, also...
Or just sleeping back on the other side.
We've defeated the main threat out in the woods. I'm not that worried about it.
True.
Not too freaked out being out here now that we've encountered a chimera.
And keep in mind, chimeras are monstrosities. These are not naturally occurring.
Oh, so someone created this. It's not like a net.
You can assume, definitely. This is not a natural creature.
Oh!
It's been terrorizing the place for a bit though, it sounded like.
For weeks.
Cecilia, you go nap while I ruminate.
Or what the moon's doing to people slash things.
Would the moon have made a chimera?
I don't know.
You're threatening the moon charts. Did you do this?
No.
What's it mean?
What if I did?
What are you gonna do about it?
Bitch!
What the moon, bitch?
Alright.
Taking the time to take this chimera, which is large, into the wagon.
The horses are a bit scared and you have to repair the wagons a little.
Because a huge thing slammed into the side of it.
But you see as you're attending that, you see Reginald do kind of like look over to you or Cecilia.
Looking at you.
And it just kind of like nays towards you.
He just goes up and pets him.
He puts his head on your shoulder.
Oh.
It's okay, Reginald.
Is it?
You would have been doing this with Delmyr if not.
And then Marquee is like, I'm too cool for this shit.
It's like, god damn it, guys.
Would you get to level three of exhaustion after this, Rest?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, cool.
I would be down to disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws, speed halved, and disadvantage on ability checks, but I'll get back my hit points.
Okay.
In the right direction.
As you're getting everything all saddled up, you hear a voice in the distance, echoing in the valley.
Is it finally dead?
And you see a man, you see a human man walk out of one of the caves, looking at the chimera.
And then he throws his arm up.
Oh, thank goodness.
Oh my gosh.
I was, I thought it was going to be that creature or the hunger that takes me.
Do you need water, food?
Were you trapped in there?
Looking towards the both of you, his eyes look wide.
He has like big bags under his eyes.
He just goes, yes, I've been trapped here for oh, goodness, I don't know how long I've heard that terrible creature popping about.
It hasn't been too long, I think.
But I certainly thought I was never going to make it out of that cave.
Did you make this?
He points the chimera.
No, absolutely not.
I was traveling and I saw it flying in the sky and that's when it e-gestures towards like in the distance to the scorched horse on the ground.
Oh.
I'm going to get him some food and water out of the wagon.
I don't trust anyone yet.
I'm tired of trusting people right now.
I'm sure it's included.
As you get to the food, he goes, oh, you really don't have to.
You seem so, so very tired.
It doesn't make a difference.
You eating won't make me more tired.
No!
I wish there was a way I can pay you heroes.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
What were you doing out here?
My name is Belenco.
I've just been traveling.
I was traveling through the things of just ignoring any warning because the last sighting was a few weeks ago.
And also, I guess now.
Looking at the creature on the ground.
Oh, the last sighting was a few weeks ago.
Maybe it would line up with.
She points up at the moon.
He looks up.
Yeah.
The full moon.
I mean, it was last night.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm just thinking.
Go to Sipcilla.
Can you please go to sleep?
Please.
Again, thank the both of you so much here.
I have a few pieces of gold on me.
I can't give you everything because I need.
Some.
You know, actually, do you have like a change of clothes?
Yes.
Books that I see that I.
Instead of the money.
Hats and stuff.
I mean, I suppose I'll give you my dignity.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A small price.
No, no, no, no.
Are you from around here?
Do you do you live close by?
Oh, yes.
I'm from I'm from Runes Runestart.
It's a nearby.
I can make my way there by myself.
Just fine.
Where is it back back on the line?
I wrote or yeah, he points up towards the it's back out the way he came.
Oh, well, we'll head towards our home.
So unfortunately, we cannot accompany you.
Oh, that's completely fine.
The dangers are gone for the most part.
I mean, you you two are very capable people handling a big monstrosity like that.
Had the head of a goat and one of us has missing now.
No, no, we were just really lucky, really lucky.
You know, luck was on our side.
He's really good at fighting, though.
And I mean, he turned into a bear.
That was pretty cool.
You did.
Well, that was traumatic.
Yep. That was traumatic.
Are you one of are you one of those druidic people?
You look like one of them.
Yeah.
All about the nature life.
In that case, I I have something else.
Oh, God.
Here. Here's I pluck some moss from the from the cave walls to eat.
Oh, oh, I love moss as a druid.
Perfect.
I've harvested some.
He walks over to you.
Thank you so much.
Very strongly of mushrooms, too.
Oh, you.
Oh, you don't see much mushroom cave druids that I've heard about.
Not mushroom cave.
No, no, no. I'm just a forest druid.
You know, just the normal ones.
Eagle heirs.
There are druids.
There are druids on the way to our home.
They worship decay and it's the says from what I've heard, like, you know,
the case extant form of life and and shrooms and spores and whatnot.
But I don't know about that.
Yeah, no, I'm a tree guy.
A million to the trees.
Like pines.
Specifically.
All right.
Well, I've only been in there for a few days, but but I should really reconsider
a few things because I really resorted to eating moss really fast.
So you could be a druid yet.
Not for me.
Yes, you could spare some crossbow bolts.
That would be very nice.
I have I shot everything at it at the creature, but I'm not very good shot.
Yeah, sure.
Here you go.
I'll give him a few.
OK.
How much specifically?
How many do I have left?
That's a great question.
Maybe start with 30 usually or 20.
Oh, I have 20 in my bag.
Let's say I've used up 12.
So I'll give him four.
Takes four.
Yes.
Thank you.
This will get me through the night.
My village is going to really enjoy this story.
But here, let me give you let me give you this money to show my thanks, my eternal thanks.
Does anything seem off shady about him?
Make an insight check.
It's just weird, isn't it?
I just feel like it's weird for him to ask for the bolts.
And I'm thinking of the marksman guy.
Marksman guy.
I tend to the shade, a.k.a.
Oh, as far as you can tell, this guy is just he just wants to get out, but he wants to get home safe.
He has to walk through this valley.
It was just that you asked specifically how many that made me go like if he takes something from us, can he like turn them into those like special bullets?
But like it was no indication that this could be the guy that would be very sneaky of the shade if he were to do that.
I'm a lot harder than that guy, too.
I'm very sexy.
You give him four bolts.
He kind of like looks at it goes.
Thank you.
Oh, goodness.
Oh, get me get your names.
Hmm.
I'm Cecilia.
Oh, I'm.
What did I say before?
You know, she's very tired.
This is Clover.
All right, Clover.
And I'm JJ.
JJ and Clover, the slayer of the great beast of the valley.
Perfect.
Here.
He reaches into a small bag and he pulls out like a handful of a handful of coins.
It was results of many months of labor.
I'm mostly a farmer and hunter by trade.
And he holds out his hand towards you, Cecilia.
That's okay.
Please, please.
You can keep it.
Please.
I insist you you saved my life.
But it.
It's OK.
You can have it.
We were saving our lives, too.
So you know what?
We would be even better.
We'll be really rewarding for us if you didn't talk about us at all.
Really?
We're really private people.
You know, the limelight is a little awkward for us.
Well, who killed this creature then?
Points to him.
You did.
I'm awesome.
Wow.
You are awesome.
We are giving this to you because the building of fame has been too much on us recently and you deserve to have a little spotlight.
Good.
Sir.
All right, well.
Yes.
Trust me.
We really need a break from the spotlight.
Right.
Well, I'm going to have to start justifying my fighting skills to to life, all this creature.
But it's really hard.
You know, I'll I'll I'll listen to your request.
That is all the payment we need.
You sure I have eight gold here?
I really, really just want my friend to sleep and she will not take your gold and she will continue to argue with you.
So I want her to sleep.
So no, thank you.
OK.
Thank you.
Cecilia, please go to bed.
I thought her name was Clover.
That is my nickname for her.
It is Clover.
It's it's.
Oh, OK.
Is it serious?
The nickname was.
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah.
Never mind.
Good night.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
He's walking away.
Stop asking us questions.
He's walking away.
You're supposed to meet him in the cave, but now he's like, fuck yeah.
Oh, goodness.
I don't have to do shit anymore.
He's done it.
He's great.
And chocolate goes, Cecilia, go to sleep.
OK, I will.
I was going to like right now.
Maybe you need to sleep, too.
You seem a little grumpy.
OK.
You seem a little grumpy.
Like temper tantrum.
She gets in the wagon and gets out her sleeping bag.
The wagon noticeably a bit.
You're bringing the chimera with you.
In the bag.
We were.
I've been hacking it up in the back.
So it's a bit.
I don't care.
I'll take a point of exhaustion.
I'm so done with this night.
Jean Claude, you you pilot the wagon once more.
The two of you failed a terrible monster saving someone in the process.
Rejected payment for it.
That's some adventure shit right there.
So we're just we just made a nice day off.
So so as your first day of adventures, meeting the meeting a terrible monster,
felling it in an epic way, Jean Claude says in the books, they look they look really cool.
Feel like heroes.
You you just feel really tired.
But maybe after some ruminating, you realize just just exactly the breadth of your deeds here.
Cecilia, you find yourself falling asleep very easily with the moon shards.
They do. It's warm.
The warmth falls through your entire body.
It beats back the cold of the night.
It's very pleasant, Cecilia.
As you're sleeping, you feel a warm brush against your cheek.
You see a soft as you open your eyes, you're in a white sort of void.
And you see a soft and gentle hand brushing your cheek.
You know, Cecilia, my turn.
You separated far too early.
Look at the young and strong woman you've become.
Slumber takes you heavily.
But the words remain in your ears, in your head.
Jean Claude, you're grumpy.
It is it's late at night.
You're about to be fatigued if you keep pushing unless you find a place to camp.
Set up camp there while she's resting.
And as you're driving along and you finally hit like the other side of the valley and driving along a bit and you're feeling really tired.
You're far away from the valley now.
God, what's that smell of coffee?
Gosh, that's coffee in the air.
That smells heavenly.
On the flat on the on the flat plains, you see a small fire on the side of the road that's glowing and beating.
That's glowing.
You you you smell coffee from that far as you get closer, you see that the flickering light of orange and red is a campfire.
A tent set up near a tent set up nearby a wagon, another wagon as well.
You see with a you see with a with a horse in the front that's currently grazing the grass.
And you see a young man who's who's like he has large like chain mail armor placed off to the side and a sword in its hilt kind of like laying against like laying against the tent.
Just sitting next to the campfire, a pot of like what you can assume to be something boiling over the fire.
The young man has you know as you get closer, it's like you know brown brownish hair and very like very younger face.
You see very round in his face.
You see he gets to a point where he just kind of like sits back like relaxing.
He has his hands over just like this and he sticks in a breath a deep breath of content.
And as you drive by because he's he's camping pretty close to the road.
His eyes open for a bit and watches you pass.
And he's he's he has a really friendly smile.
He just waves as you drive by.
Yeah.
Do you have coffee?
I have coffee.
Yeah.
Chocolate rolls a wagon over stumbles down almost like crawling over.
Please please please.
And he holds out his little tin cup from his basket.
Please please coffee.
Or is it?
Careful it's really hot.
Do you need anything else like water and other basic needs maybe?
No.
Or maybe.
Is he Jean Claude prone on the ground shaking?
Are you okay Jean Claude?
I have coffee Cecilia.
Oh no.
If I can be brutally honest for a second the two of you look like.
You ain't doing so hot you want to.
I mean you got burn marks all over you and you.
You look like you're all your nine shades of tired.
You know road trips are hard.
There's another fun is people make them a TV.
Oh well that's really I feel the opposite.
That's nice.
I'm just about to hit the end of my trail for the Lanaya Road.
Oh you're done with your trip.
Oh just about I'm in Katvarim already I hail all the way from the Salarian Empire.
Really?
Where in the Empire?
Oh Nandala specifically.
Used to be a place but the Empire took that place over but I've had my journey it's been pretty good so far.
I mean you guys look like you're at the tail end of your journey.
No no no no no.
I got I got some some that'll make you maybe feel better.
If you just give me a moment.
No don't worry the coffee is so good.
You might I think you need a little bit I think you need a little bit more than more than that.
Please no alcohol I'm trying to be sober.
No I know.
He reached into his saddlebag on his horse and he pulls up a vial of was it a vial and just uncorks it.
It goes over to you here this should help you.
This is Celia?
Towards you Jean Claude.
Me?
What is it?
Oh it's just a good old fashioned health potion.
I'll drink it.
That's it.
Ten hit points.
Thank you.
Um and uh like you said you said you were like I uh well there's coffee and all but uh.
Alright.
Okay.
I'll be fine.
Everyone says I look tired lately and maybe it's just like how I look.
No Celia you just look like you look miserable.
What's your name?
My name is Dean.
Dean Mannington or DM for short.
You motherfucker.
You waited until the end of the goddamn session.
I waited baby.
I waited.
Now I've interacted with this.
No actually we can leave.
We can leave him thanks to the coffee and we're done.
Bye.
Done.
Yeah.
No offense but I feel like I don't like those initials for some reason.
You waited this god dang long he says with the highlight my message.
That's my one NPC I prepared at the beginning.
What's wrong with you?
Another highlight my message.
The lengths I will go to.
Um.
Dangerous.
But he just uh dangerous man.
Uh he just goes.
Uh.
The two of you look like you need an awful bit of rest.
I wouldn't mind sharing these rounds with you.
It would probably be a good idea to stop.
You seem like you need some sleep.
Too Claude.
They also have trust issues now so you're going to do anything weird or anything.
I mean I just kind of want to be on my way too but I'll help wherever I can.
Okay Dean fine fine.
This is.
You can go ahead and get some sleep.
This is.
You can go ahead and get set up over there.
Nah I'm gonna take my coffee and JJ.
There was this monster with a dragon's head and a goat's head and a lion's head.
And it almost pulled him into the air but he killed it so.
It's a place else.
It's a place that is not here nor there.
And he turned into a bear for a bit.
There's the bear.
He reaches for the tin to pull it slowly away from you.
Maybe coffee is the last thing you need right now actually.
Instead of hiding out here anymore.
They left us.
Do you want to take my tent?
I can.
But actually it's kind of a good thing they left us because you know they'll never be safer.
No but just when I was starting to like them they left.
Okay.
Pat's claw don't do that.
Dean is just like what if it's happened.
Alright.
He has a thought.
Sister here.
She gets JJ.
And she picks up JJ and goes tries to remember the voice Claude does for him.
He goes it's okay Sean Claude.
You were very brave and strong.
And you did such a good job protecting everyone.
And then she has JJ hug his arm.
Dean's just here.
Here she's on Claude Pat's little tall head and goes I need to be strong for Cecilia JJ.
Please not right now.
You are so strong.
Okay I think John Claude's going to go to bed.
I'm the player I'm putting him out of commission.
Is that the guy's tent?
Yes.
I am putting my character out of commission.
Very nice accommodations here.
Very warm feathered.
Off the board.
You are done.
Done.
That was the unmistakable dance of two very tired people.
I've never seen them that bad.
I've never seen someone throw themselves to the ground and beg for coffee like it was water.
Why don't you go ahead and get some rest too.
I got myself here, that's a little expensive, but I'm at the tail end of my journey here so you can go ahead and take it from me if you want.
Here just reach into a saddle bag and pulls out this another vial with like a yellow amber like liquid in it.
Here.
What is it?
It really gives you a boost in your vitality.
Just a bit.
Thanks Dean.
This seems very oddly specific.
It's like he knows what he needs.
I had this since the beginning of my journey but I've spaced myself out and I never had to need to use this.
Also I guess I never fought anything.
Wow.
Lucky man.
I mean the Lanaya Rose is pretty good.
I've been journeying for a few, for like half a year.
Yes of course.
Go ahead.
I mean I'm not going to use it.
Well, thank you.
Drink that after you sleep.
Okay.
The chat messed it up but I think that's a metal finger that's JT's trying to pull.
She um...
It was...
Um...
Oh gosh I don't remember what I was going to say.
That's really nice of you.
Do they have chocolate where you're from?
No.
I heard of something like that but not where I'm from.
Well here you should try this.
She pulls some from her bag.
Oh really?
There's no need.
What is that actually?
It's called chocolate.
It tastes really good.
He accepts it.
He smells it.
Um...
That's really kind of you.
Um...
And he takes a bite.
He makes that ummm face.
Oh.
Cute.
Um...
It goes to show that even if you travel across the entire continent you are far from experiencing
everything.
Alright you should go ahead and get some rest.
You want me to help you set up a tent?
Um...
It's okay.
I guess there's enough space for the both of you in there but the man you're traveling
with is a really big man.
I can do it or I was pretty comfortable on the wagon.
I'll just go there.
Alright.
Um...
Best to protect yourself from the elements.
He just goes on the wagon.
She's too tired.
Alright well.
That was the flirty feelings of adventure.
Eating the chocolate.
Have a good night.
Yo.
Thanks.
Jean-Claude we could have a deal.
He's sleeping.
He's just a...
He's got JJ under one arm.
Meanwhile, um...
Dean, Cecilia as you go back to sleep on the wagon holding the moon charts close.
Um...
You see Dean sort of like sits on a makeshift stool.
You guys don't see this.
He just kind of like holds up a bit of a coffee, a tin cup too, towards his own mouth.
And he goes...
Goodness.
Why were they talking to a doll?
As the two of you fatigued from your first day outside of the Apricot's Fields.
It's um...
All the hurt and all the hurt and strain on your bodies.
Um...
It was...
This is all a part of something that the both of you have agreed to.
An adventure across...
Across the continent.
This was only the first day.
And for the both of you.
As the both of you are heavily sleeping and wearing everything off and you know...
Being shedded of your inexperience of fighting monsters, running away from fire breathing apparitions, flying in the sky, running away from the law, saving people.
The moon shards are sentient!
And discovering truths.
As myriad as they are.
This one day is only a taste of what's to come.
And that is where we're gonna end.
Episode 10 and the first arc of Songwover.
Season 1! Finale!
Season 2 is going to start with our two, no longer burgeoning, but adventurers.
Finally taking flight out of their home into new and exciting lands.
Does this mean we level up?
This means you level up.
Level 4 baby!
The prologue ended.
You have no idea what that means Andy.
In Timmy's games, we've been playing another game for over a year that he says is still the prologue.
Andy's right.
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
While we're here, before we go out, a couple of announcements to make.
Yes.
Next week, we have a small really cool stream planned.
A holiday stream.
Which will tie us over for a good bit.
It will be on Christmas, but it will be really fun to have you there.
The nature of it is going to be pre-recorded.
A few of us will be in the chat to speak with people if they ever want to come along.
Monster Road Trip.
Let's go.
We played Monster Road Trip.
We did.
We are doing in the future.
Doing Woven.
We're do woven.
We have a special guest with us on that stream.
So before folks, someone who we really love and enjoy.
Who will insta-ban anyone who says Dong Woven.
And I believe the next Sunday after that will be January 1st.
We will not be streaming on that day, I believe.
We will not be here.
Nope.
So two weeks of us on No More D&D before we launch on January the something.
My calendar is going down.
Which is Elvis's birthday.
Elvis's birthday.
On Elvis's birthday, we are going to cha-cha real smooth into this new adventure.
With our two much closer, much more bonded of adventure.
We also have a special announcement too coming up towards for something coming in at the end of January.
That we are very excited to share and talk about.
Yeah.
I think you guys really like it.
I think you might like it.
With that said.
Thank you so much for watching.
We'll catch you next time when the adventure starts again.
For season two.
Goodnight everyone.
Goodnight.
Happy holidays.
Happy New Year.
Hello, this is Jenny to only the podcast listeners.
Wow, super secret message.
I didn't even know I'm doing this.
Maybe he'll discover this one day.
For now, it's just a secret with all you podcast people.
I just wanted to thank you guys again for listening to the first 10 episodes of Song Woven.
All of our 2022 episodes.
No matter what year you might be listening to this.
It's becoming increasingly more likely that you're also listening to this in another year than the one we started in.
I appreciate you sitting listening to these episodes.
Whether in the background or using them for catch up or anything at all.
Just being around with us on this little journey.
I hope that wherever you are or whatever year it is, whatever time that it is a good one.
Happy holidays.
Thank you.