Songwoven presents The Lanaya Expedition, a D&D 5th edition actual play campaign.
Episode 14.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Songwoven, the Lanaya Expedition!
I am your ever humble NA... narrator.
Tim Don Trey.
Yet again, not available!
Not applicable.
North America.
North America!
Oh, you guys think I'm gonna do bits with NA?
It just stands for narrator, that's it.
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.
And introducing the, introducing my fellow cast members here, on my left or on the bottom
left right there, the ever impressionable, the, I almost said incorrigible, but that's
not a good word.
That's your girlfriend!
The indomitable, the indomitable, there we go.
The non-impressionable brute.
Oh, no, the, oh gosh, this was a lot better.
The indomitable, the ever present, Kenzie in the bacon hair, you know her as...
Can you just look up the name again?
Cecilia in the black, the song-woven middle-life expedition, Daphne in the black telerary,
it's Jenny Gerard!
Okay.
I don't know if they caught that.
Okay, oh gosh, what are you, what are you, are you on Emma's resume?
It's coming, it's coming, it's coming from the Royal Academy of Germanic Arts in London!
She's Winona in How to Be a Winner!
And also Don, which is a supporting role in After You, and Luisa in Heart Island Requel.
Oh, that's Emma Romasko!
Nothing more disruptive and disturbing than having your resume, your old, your old-ass
fucking feet are resume, for that loud!
I will get you for that, Tim.
Oh shit!
The last thing that I do.
And then Timmy, hi!
Some announcements at the top of the...
Tim, you mean Jay from Morpho?
Don't even freak that out, I'll tear you!
Or Jahi?
Jahi!
No, we're gonna kill Emma with her sword.
Just let me fade into the dark room, let me die!
Let me die!
Supporting!
Okay.
Oh, oh, it's Timmy from the second place winners of the short film contest that he did in sophomore
year of high school.
In Hawaii.
No, you're first place winners, but you got the second place prize.
Yeah, first place.
What?
So, so first place, so I did a film festival when I was living in Hawaii, we were about
to get together and make films.
I won first place in a category of like the most like comedic film.
Okay, first place they got a hundred dollars, you know, for the whole group.
Second place they got a GoPro.
So I was so angry.
Yeah, when I got the hundred dollars, like right after we got the awards, I went to second
place and I was like, hey, I'll buy that GoPro off of you with a hundred bucks.
And they're like, nah, we're good.
So anyways, that was a really good start.
That was four minutes and 20 seconds.
I want you to do that for Black Guards and see, see people crumble.
Next time.
Oh gosh.
Especially since those people, a lot of those people there would not expect you to have
dug stuff up.
Oh goodness.
Because you don't know them as well as I did.
I dig stuff up on everyone I meet ever.
It's terrifying.
That's a really good out of context statement to put.
Anyways, speaking of Black Guards Gallery, Black Guards Gallery, our adventure, our pirate
themed adventure that's sponsored by Level Up Advanced 5e.
Streaming at every Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
This little mini series is going to continue on for a good bit.
Some time.
Alongside, alongside, continue to stream alongside the Lanaya Expedition.
Six episodes.
Yeah.
Give us, give us a watch there.
We have a wonderful crew of many, of many different guest folks, many friends of ours
who are an absolute wonder to play with and to listen to.
And they are here to break your hearts and to entertain you to your broken hearts delight.
All right.
Well and also in our previous episode we played a module for one session called Clean Spirits
by Cassie Mothwin who at the time of this recording has a crowd funder up for Tangled
Blessings, her dark academia magic school game for one to two people and it's completely
GM-less.
No dice, just tarot cards.
It is crowdfunding like month for independent TTRPG makers.
So there's actually a lot of really, yeah there's a bunch going on right now that started
on like the beginning of February.
So there's a lot of really cool stuff out there that needs to be funded.
I know Tangled Blessings already met its stretch goals which is super cool.
But there's also a lot of, definitely check out there's a bunch of, there's a bunch of
cool stuff on Kickstarter and crowd funder and all that stuff right now for different
independent TTRPGs.
Andy is so cool.
Definitely check it all out.
There are so many very passionate and wonderful creators out there who are, who you never
know what game can speak out to you.
So take a look around.
Clean Spirits definitely spoke to us.
Oh boy.
Our main vehicle to use for our storytelling as of the moment is fifth edition but for
Songwulven for certain sessions we're going to continue to explore using different sorts
of a variety of different like small maybe system agnostic modules that can enhance our
storytelling for a brief moment.
So if you have any of those feel free to shoot them at us on Twitter at Songwulven.
We would love to see any kind of, we see any kind of module or anything that we can play
for a bit on the show with our dear Jean Claude and Cecilia.
With that said, that is an eight minute intro.
Wow.
We're getting there.
We got it.
This game is pre-recorded by the way.
Sorry about everyone in the chat.
I'm not ignoring you even though typically I do.
Chats.
Chat sucks guys.
No, we love chat and we'll be playing around chat with you guys on Sunday.
I'm just kidding.
That was a bit.
I did a long time ago as the former DM but I'm now the narrator so it's different now.
Turning over a new leaf.
You're not a dungeon master.
You're just a narrator.
I feel like narrator is a little too passive for how you treat us.
I'm going to be completely honest.
No, people narrate torture all the time.
Like, oh I'm going to get you.
That's what a narrator is.
Wait, the narrator says, oh I'm going to get you.
That's what you think of when you think of a narrator.
That's me as a narrator.
Shut up of that sentence, I think it's too passive what you do to us.
Okay, fine.
I am the AN, I am the active narrator.
Anana, anana, anana.
You're the narrator from Into the Woods who we feed to the giant.
Some of us don't like how you've been telling the story.
Snacks.
Well, with that said, let's dive back into the kingdom of Cadvarum.
Back into the viewpoints of our two intrepid adventurers.
Would anyone like to recap what happened last session?
Fuck no.
Cecilia and Jean-Claude arrived in the clockless dusty streets of Old Lucia to seek shelter from the rain.
There they found an inn called the Sleepy Sheep which was headed by a young woman named Fran who was taking care of the place.
The place was in severe disrepair, having been neglected for a very long amount of time.
And seeing the mess that the inn was in, both of our intrepid heroes decided to clean.
Clean the place to make a small nook of their own amongst the chaos.
And that's it.
Nothing else happened.
They didn't talk about anything.
They just cleaned the place.
Major emotional plot points weren't brought up.
You know, never, you know, traumas that the characters had been hiding away.
Never addressed.
None of that happened last session.
Nobody cried.
Including the players.
Fuck me.
And nobody's crying right now.
No one's crying right now.
This is a happy place.
This is a happy game.
But for real though, if you haven't caught the last session, it's a special one.
Heavy. Heavy. Heavy.
Clean Spirits by Cassie Mothwin. Check it out.
But anyways.
Where we last left off.
Cecilia and Jean-Claude.
After cleaning the area and exhausting yourselves in two separate ways.
The both of you eventually find your sleep.
Now, Cecilia.
Hello.
We're gonna go ahead and begin with you first.
Oh no.
As I click my way to the jukebox.
To play.
She's not wearing her nightcap.
Music.
I'm sleeping with the moon shards so it's okay.
Is it?
They comfort me.
And I have.
Are they?
Haven't even had to think about it.
Cecilia, there is a warmth that encompasses you.
It blankets you.
It's been that way ever since you've first made contact with the moon shards.
There is a physical sort of like ambient touch that you can't quite explain.
Something that gives you a great amount of comfort.
Something comparable to something that you haven't had too much before but it's a concept that's talked so much in books.
A mother's touch.
A mother's embrace.
A gentle voice swaying you into sleep.
The assurances of a parent who has been with you.
Of a person who has dedicated their entire life to your protection and your growth.
Something that you haven't had basically since you were a child.
Something you haven't had from your father for two years.
As you are sleeping, the moon shards tucked firmly into your palm, your digits clutched around them.
A vagrant wind.
A breeze.
Passes through you.
It tussles the hair that rests above your ears for a bit.
And in your mind, it feels pleasant.
But a part of your brain starts to wake up.
And you realize that in this current state that you're in, you're not supposed to feel the wind.
You are nestled in a place with four walls.
A wind should not be a thing you feel in here.
Your eyes open to the sight of waving grass.
In the midst of a moon-touched field.
Purple-shaded green trees surround the area around you.
And you sit up in the stillest night that you've ever experienced.
Stars shine bright in the sky, but they don't twinkle.
The moon is full and bright.
And it looks down on you.
It's unmoving, except for the grass and the trees around you.
Confused, you get up, looking around you.
Nothing to signify where you've been or where you're going.
Your memories are about you. Your wits are still about.
You were asleep in a place called the Sleepy Sheep.
Was Jean-Claude who was gone?
You don't have any of your things with you.
Open your hand.
The moon shards are there.
She just is looking around, no signs of where she would have been supposed to be.
It's like someone had kidnapped her very stealthily in her sleep or something.
A sign of danger greets you subtly.
The breeze that are washing over you, they are warm at first.
There are counter breezes, there are ones that cross the other one, ones that hit you at the same time or just a bit after or a bit before.
These other breezes are chilly, cold.
They put ice in your blood, in your veins.
And you're not sure why.
You hear in the distance a slight chuckle.
And then you hear a sound that you're not quite familiar with.
The sound of children playing, laughing.
And then cutting through immediately.
Something that feels more real and primal.
There was something artificial about that sound of children playing.
But then the sound of a scream, of a girl.
A loud high pitched scream cuts through the air.
And then everything falls silent.
And the breeze stops.
Gosh.
She...
Is the grass tall enough to like hide in?
Um...
No. It's not.
Okay.
Well she'll still try to like carefully, quietly move towards the...
The sound where things happen, but she doesn't...
Know what's going on and doesn't want to get caught.
So she is trying to be quiet and careful rather than just rush into it.
Because the last time she rushed in to try to help someone in danger,
it was the scarecrow that tried to drown her.
That wasn't great.
A devastating flaw of good people.
You make your way towards the source of the sound.
As you begin to approach the shrubbery at the end of the field.
That leads into the trees.
As you take one step in,
a hand from one of the bush erupts out above, shooting towards you,
and gently grabs your wrist.
It doesn't... There's a gentle tug.
As you hear...
As you see a young firbolg poke her head out.
One of her...
You see one of her glasses is cracked and one of her eyes is closed.
A little bit of a... A little cut hangs on her cheek.
But she's still looking through to you with round glasses and through one lens.
She is...
You can see that she's fearful as she puts a finger over her quivering lip.
She just goes...
Hide.
She nods and she does what she says.
Not knowing any different.
As you hide...
I assume hiding with her.
She looks at you...
Puzzled.
She just goes...
Where did you come from?
I... I don't know what's happening.
What?
I don't know.
Has someone hurt?
Everyone... Everyone just...
There was this person going around and...
And before she gets a proper chance to explain...
There is a voice that creeps in the air.
It goes through your ear, through your head, and out the other.
You hear a voice that goes...
Hide and seek.
And her voice immediately hits you and she just covers her mouth.
Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.
You hear...
Children...
No.
Come out.
As you see...
Far off in the distance...
Gently parting multiple different bushes with these long, lengthy fingers.
The middle finger is just a bit longer than all the other ones.
A large cloaked figure with a sort of matted, crow feathered, gray feathered hood.
Overneath its forearm. It's about eight feet tall.
Very broad shoulders.
And you see following behind him in a single file line are multiple fur-boked children.
Standing in line, their eyes completely milky and glazed over.
Following just obediently, their heads held up, looking towards the back of this person.
Tim, this is so fucking creepy.
The figure turns around ever so slowly.
The only thing you can see of their face beyond the shadow that's been casted over the hood are two blue glowing orbs, basically.
As this person counts the children behind them, it goes, one more.
How many kids is it behind him again?
There is seven.
Seven?
Jenny, are you scared? I'm scared.
Yeah, I'm just trying to decide what she's gonna do.
This is a nightmare right now for me.
Okay, if he doesn't notice them yet, she's just going to stay quietly for now.
She doesn't want to do anything, because if she moves or does anything, then he'll know where she is.
But she, I will say she might prepare.
She wants to, if something happens, she wants to cast protection from evil and good on the girl.
Oh.
As you prepare the spell, this, you look over to see the girl who's shaking.
Tears are flying, flowing down freely from her face.
She is frightened.
And as you hold out your hand to her, she kind of like seizes up, seeing what you're doing, and she seems scared.
Something very similar to a doctor giving a shot to a kid.
She doesn't know what you're doing.
He just leaves the hand there gently because she's not casting it yet.
She doesn't want to make the noise associated unless it's time, unless she feels like she has to.
Oh, that's right.
It is verbal somatic.
I was going to say there is a verbal component, isn't there?
And at this time, can you please give me a wisdom saving throw?
Maybe I should be casting it at second level on myself.
I was going to say, Juni, up it up a bit, up it up a bit.
If I do it at second level, I can cast it on both of us.
Yeah, instead of you, because you might join the line of kids.
Seventeen wisdom save.
Seventeen?
There's a sudden seizure of the quiet in your head.
Something akin to static.
Your head becomes begins to feel numb for but a moment.
And as your eye as your eye as you wince at this at this noise filling your head, you notice that the moonlight, which was lighting this area, gradually turns red.
And looking up towards the air through the canopy of the trees.
You notice that a red glow has taken over the moon.
And descending from the sky.
Carving a figure into the moon.
You see a large, almost insect like in its expression.
For four eyes on each side, multiple tendrils coming out of it.
Coming off the side.
Some of the some of the some of the tendrils seem to have, like, like a squid like like suckers on there. The other the other.
Some of the some of the other tendrils have like blades at the at the very end.
But they don't.
Despite the despite the violent nature of these tendrils, it seems to be descending almost majestically.
Its body completely bare.
Ring wrinkly.
And it seems to carry a large.
You're not sure what it is.
But it's it seems posthumous in nature multiple holes in its skin.
It just carries it as it's coming down.
That's when you noticing, of course, the large figure from before.
The eight foot tall figure walks out into the opening beneath the beneath these descend this descending alien like creature.
And you do notice the more expressions when when this figure walks past you.
Large to the smile of uneven of uneven teeth and an assorted amount of like dead creatures in its mouth as as a smile stretches across its face.
It outstretched it as he outsuch as arms.
The children form a circle.
Underneath the descending figure.
I'm going to try to take the distraction.
I am going to cast it seeing after feeling the pull on my mind.
I'll cast protection from evil and good on the above us.
And just for people's knowledge, protection from evil and good does not upcast rules as written.
We just have done that in our games before to apply to multiple targets instead of just one.
Yeah, why the fuck not?
Guess what? Rule change.
It doesn't change.
I'm getting better.
Our whole strategy for our Monday game.
It's a pain.
Don't fucking matter.
It's terrifying.
As this divine protection presses over the both of you, you feel it draw from the area around you.
You feel the redness of the moon actually bend and curl around the both of you.
And it's this it's this visionary.
It's this visionary like tell because it's you could because if someone's looking this way, they could definitely tell something's going on that makes you panic for a bit.
But they distract well enough.
Your heart is beating in your chest, but you feel the moon's protection about you.
But as you cast that spell specifically drawing from the power of saloon, the four eyes shoot towards your direction first.
No.
And then the head follows suit.
If I notice, I want to try to move the opposite direction from the girl to try to keep her from getting noticed at least if I notice that they are going to look at me, I'm going to try to at least make sure it's only me.
As you're moving away.
She's unbelievably scared.
This girl is way younger than you.
She holds your hand.
Oh, no.
She doesn't want you to abandon her.
She's alone and scared in these mysterious woods.
In that case, I can't I can't get away from her to draw the attention away.
Anyways, I'll stay next to her.
That's when you hear the voice once more.
It creeps through your head again.
But this time now, it leaves a chill.
You can feel the voice scraping your brain, leaving it, leaving its icy coldness in your head as it passes by.
Hide and seek.
Eww, tip!
Shouldn't it be your turn to hide then?
She's just going to try to go.
The hack turns towards you.
Towards your direction.
And just goes, Idle land.
It's so good to see you again.
Again?
It's warm.
You see the sleeping form of a giant furball next to you.
Jean-Claude.
In the clean mess that the two of you, the organized mess that the two of you have created together.
You open up your hand to find the moon shards thrumming ever so quietly with the positive energy that has reinforced you for the past couple of days.
Your nightcap.
I was going to say, are they thrumming differently than normal?
Like strong?
They are.
It is thrumming with a pattern.
Instead of just one gentle hum, now it's something along the lines of...
Like a heartbeat.
She's just like, kind of like, no they're not okay.
She's trying to talk to the moon shards, like, do something about it.
Just trying to reason with moon shards.
As you talk for this moment, just trying to...
Just trying to like, bargain anything.
The safety of that girl was, you're not sure what's going to happen.
A sudden voice speaks out from the pitch black of the room.
Two yellow eyes are open.
You're like, what the fuck?
Did you have a bad dream, Cecilia Idlewind?
Is that Augustus?
It's Augustus.
Thank Christ.
It came out of nowhere.
Yeah, she thrums at that.
Augustus, thank God.
But...
I don't think it was just a dream.
There's kids and they're in danger and I don't know where they are or what's going to happen.
Augustus walks over to you and just kind of sits next to you, his tail slowly swishing in the air.
And just goes, have you never had bad dreams before?
No, I've had plenty, I just...
I don't think that was a dream.
What makes it different than the rest?
The moon shards.
It was...
Often I come across people who mistake premonitions and dreams and get the two mixed up.
However, how can you be so certain?
It's just, it seems like it had to do with the moon turned red and you could see the moonlight and now the shards are thrumming.
You were dreaming about the pale red moon.
Are you on the bed at the moment?
Yeah.
Augustus goes, have you heard of the pale red, jumps onto the bed, slips off?
I want a cat like Augustus!
She picks him up.
I got it, I got it.
Do you pick him up still?
She stops because he told her to.
He jumps up.
He clutches with his claws and then just scratches the plate as he gets up.
The pale red moon.
Legends say that the light of the moon, when exposed to it, can bevert one's senses and completely change a person.
The pale red moon, among certain celestial circles, has been fated to happen one day.
It has been told that when the moon turns red, all who bear witness to it and all who are touched by it, and if their nature allows it,
would turn into devastatingly brutal creatures who would wreak havoc on the plane of man.
Hmm. That... a legend, you said?
A legend among mortals, yes.
But...
That's what I saw.
I was not a mere mortal.
The pale red moon is truth.
And it's just going to happen, or it's happening, or...
Yes.
It is something that a... it is something that the god, Malar, the god of savagery, wishes to happen.
Who did you say, Timmy?
Malar.
Not Alar.
Which is Alar with an M at the beginning. So hey, another R, another Malar guy.
Because we have another god that we don't like in another campaign.
In the light of Malar, aka the light of the pale red moon.
Yeet.
Um. It goes... but Malar has been sealed away. In the same plane they sealed away Dara's dune.
She's just a lie for her own ones.
This is a lore dump.
That's what I'm here for, Mia.
It's not Custis. The lore dumping cat. Does Jean-Claude wake up with failed cat jumping and the talking and things?
He's a heavy sleeper.
Dara's dune.
And what does that have to do with the moon?
That is Malar's greatest vision.
That is what he wishes to do. To beset a new level of savagery.
Into mortal kind.
What does he look like?
Malar.
Yeah.
A large beast. Feral, red eyes.
Fur covered. Bloody teeth. Bloody claws.
He's, I believe, 12 to 13 feet tall, but he might have grown since I last saw him.
You've met him?
I've met many agents of deity. I've lived for a long time.
But I can't hunt a mouse for the life of me.
What about a creature that looks like kind of insect-like, but also squid-like, in with like bladed tendrils and can float from the air?
That can be anything. He says that genuinely.
Anything? That's not very helpful, Agustus.
There are many different kind of creatures with shitness features and tendrils and insect-like features.
Maybe I can draw a picture. I mean, I'm not a very good artist, but...
I was once a great artist.
And now I have paws.
Fracking mighty.
She tries to cover it up a bit, trying not to bother Claude too much, but she casts light on something small.
And maybe on one of the candles that they cast light on earlier.
Yeah.
And she starts trying to draw a rough sketch of the creature.
He watches, his tail swishing.
As you draw a rough draft, would you say Cecilia is a good artist?
No.
He just goes, do you want me to recognize it?
Just to give you a better idea, I can help describe things to her.
I'm not very good.
I mean, I can't draw realistically.
You're really in mind, Cecilia.
I recommend practicing.
Shade.
You can kind of get the idea if I explain it right.
See, this is kind of what I meant by insect-like.
It had the little things that squids have there.
And it floated down from the moonlight.
He does look thoughtful, getting past your heart.
And his eyes just kind of look up for a bit, and he just goes, I'm not quite sure.
But, the creature that you're describing, the kinds I have seen it from,
celestial emissaries.
But they come in many different forms like that.
And they don't reveal themselves to people on the material plane.
Would a sealed away god have its own celestial emissary still?
A sealed away god should have nothing.
No connections to the outside world.
The gods of every pantheon has agreed to make sure that there are no traces of any
banished gods found on the material plane.
Or otherwise.
Not the Feywild, nor the Shadowfell, nor the Lunar Plane.
Nor the world of dreams, for that matter.
Even if it was a dream, it shouldn't be that.
Is what you're saying.
Either it's of your imagination.
A twisted coincidence of some kind.
Or, the world of dreams, ones that are plagued with premonition by divination,
have granted you a scary insight into the outer mechanisms of what is going on.
He then stands up and stretches.
He goes, however, and this may seem strange to you, but for now, I will not worry about it.
You don't think I should worry about it?
If it is premonition, it will seek you out passively.
But for now, you are on a journey, are you not?
Yeah.
Perhaps it is a dream.
Perhaps it is something that your mind has made up, so...
As a brilliant mind, it should.
It's nice that you think I'm that creative.
Something like that passively seeking me out, too, doesn't exactly sound great, either.
Now.
I forgot how mortals feel.
You people have things like fear and hands to catch mice with.
Do you not have fear?
Of course not.
Fucking acoustics.
Even if somebody just quickly puts their hands in front of your face or something, you can...
He jumps up like three feet.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Much louder, too.
Does John Cotts still sleep?
Oh my god, no, he wakes up. He goes, what?
Definitely.
He jumps like five feet?
I thought you wouldn't be scared, since you said you wouldn't be scared.
That wasn't fear, that was survival instincts.
John Cotts is like bleary-eyed as fuck.
His hair is all a mess, and he's going, what is wrong?
What do I have to do?
John Cotts, good morning.
Sorry.
It is I, Augustus.
What are you two doing?
Is it even morning?
And he's looking out the window.
She also hasn't looked out the window yet.
She peeks.
I think it's almost morning, maybe.
Eww!
Sorry, I'm sorry.
What are you two doing?
We were discussing the concept of premonitions and their mixture with mortal dome.
At five in the morning? Why?
I don't see why time relates.
I get the most philosophical at night, I guess.
It's not night, though. It is early morning, Cecilia.
Yeah, I'm used to waking up that early. Maybe my body's just getting back into the habit.
Oh, really?
Sorry.
She looks at Augustus.
Is everyone okay, though? I am not night, morning, whatever.
Ted Talk, this is Person. I'm going to pass the fuck out. Are we good?
Everything okay?
Yeah, it's fine.
This is kind of random. Well, not completely random because of what we were talking about yesterday and things.
And maybe it's too early for this, but what does Sylvie look like?
You see, he's been one eye half open, gently leading over, falling over. His hair is a mess.
When you say that, his eyes flutter open a bit wider.
And he goes, um...
Yeah, and he's looking at Augustus just sitting there.
He's sitting there, cat style.
And he's like, she's a young girl with very big curly hair. She's a full-bog, you know, like me.
She's always... her glasses sometimes are a bit too big for her face, so she's always pushing them up to adjust them.
She has glasses, too?
She does, she does, but she does not like to wear them. She has to read, but we had to argue a lot when she first had to get them.
But yeah, big curly hair. She has two little dimples in her cheeks.
She's very inquisitive. She's always taking in the surroundings.
And she has a little... it is not like a birthmark, you would say, like right under her eye.
Like a very fancy, you know, I would joke. She's like a court lady.
Is the description matched to me?
Yep.
She's just sitting there like very alarmed.
Your heartbeat is racing.
Mine? I'm so tired.
I noticed, Augustus.
Did you?
Thanks. Yes.
Oh yeah, it's your heart.
Everything okay?
Um...
Augustus, do people normally dream about specific people they've never met who people close to them care about?
Or is that more of in the premonition category?
Sorry?
Well, if you want to get technical about it.
Someone care to fill me in?
I saw her.
I was with her. She talked to me.
In a dream.
But then I woke up and I'm here and I'm not there and...
You saw her? Was it any points to the moon shards? Was it them again? You know, like, you know how they do that thing? Maybe it was that kind of...
Maybe, but it didn't...
It didn't feel like that. Normally the moon shards are comforting and...
There's...
That was just...
It was not comforting, did she, Sylvie?
She was in danger.
I cast a spell on her to try...
She was hiding and...
She noticed me and she had me hide with her.
And...
There were these...
There was this tall...
Creepy...
Man with...
Like, still like...
Flesh in his teeth and things and...
Did that have a mask?
No.
But he was playing hide and seek, he said, with all these verbal kids behind him.
And Sylvie was the last one.
Slams a fist into the floorboards.
And he's just breathing very heavy, but still listening.
And maybe it was really stupid if that was something that was, like, real.
But I felt something trying to come over my mind and so I cast a spell on the both of us to try to protect us.
But the...
The moonlight was turned red.
And the moon clearly wrapped around us and it made...
It made them notice us.
And there was this creature...
It looked like this. She puts her drawing. Shows him her drawing.
And it, like, floated from the sky and...
And they had the kids line up in a circle under the moon underneath it.
But they were still looking for Sylvie and I think my spell gave her away. She was hiding.
And then I just woke up.
Okay, okay, okay.
You know, and he's still on the ground. He's still breathing very heavy but trying to keep his shit intact.
He's staring down at this picture and he's like, I...
Um, could you walk me through, please?
Um, pointing at the picture. I just need a little bit more context here.
It was like...
It wasn't like anything I've ever seen. It's kind of hard to describe but it was, like,
insects-like but also squid-like seed. It had the kind of...
I forget what they're called but the things that they have on the tentacles and stuff.
And then it was like...
Its tendrils were, like, gladed. You can tell which notes I wrote about the appearance because those are the only ones I can repeat to you guys.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. You see, John Claude looks very confused and he's like...
Was it like the one that came to your village?
With your dad?
It kind of sounds like it. I could be wrong but didn't you say it had tentacles too?
That's what Delmyra told me. She did see it.
And it did float in the air.
Oh, fuck.
And Delmyra fought it.
Do you remember what she did?
She didn't go into that much detail.
So, right. You said, and he looks at Augustus, premonitions is what I woke up to?
Is this the Magin witherlsting?
No, I don't get it. I don't get it.
Who's Madame Withers?
Oh, God.
You said it could be something that's happening? Or is it something that could happen?
Or it could be something that's already happened.
Already happened?
Premonitions are a fickle and confusing beast, built to be that way, on purpose.
Was this image of this person that you saw, was she young?
She was. She was just a kid.
Perhaps you should... Sorry, there are noises going on outside my door right now.
Okay, Augustus, you're better cooling than me.
There you go.
Perhaps the only way to know where this premonition lies is by the image of the folk.
Let me go do something real quick.
No worries.
We're right back.
No worries. No worries. We're pre-recording.
I actually have to go grab my charger for my laptop anyway.
BRB. One sec. So this is a good break.
Ow, my ears.
Yeah, my dog.
Oh, Lizzy.
My dad didn't know I was recording.
Oh.
Okay.
I'm just not here.
Oh, boy.
You just look like we're gonna start over.
She's not there to be. Look.
She's not in the chair.
She's getting her charger.
Sorry, need to chug in.
Chug in the charger.
Sorry for that distraction. That's not kind of high octane action you can find here at Songwulven.
Yeah, keeping you on your toes to the nth degree.
My dog begging to be allowed into my room.
Really?
She's got you there. She wants in.
She was like, please, father, father.
I'm like, Lizzy, I'm Lord Dumping. Come on.
I'm like, she's playing Augustus.
Lizzy's Augustus.
She had, oh gosh.
She had but to me.
She's gonna knock me out.
It goes.
We can't tell for certain what these Peminitions mean, and I would not dwell on them for too long.
But heed them, yes.
Heed them but don't dwell on them? How?
That doesn't make any sense.
It makes sense to me as fiends.
And if it happened already, then how can you heed that?
Or if it will happen, or if it is happening right now, how can you heed that?
I don't know how I can explain these concepts to you.
It's okay, Augustus. It's okay.
How I am going to interpret it is it is a reminder.
Because it certainly sounds like, you said how many children were there?
Eight.
Yeah.
And Sylvie?
Yeah, that was the number of how many kids we've been missing.
So, you know, maybe it is a message that we must continue our quest.
Maybe.
There's no doubt that you will find more answers on your journey.
Is that how it works?
I think so.
You said she was skilled?
I'm terrified.
I mean, they didn't find her until I did something.
Don't go down that road, you know.
It is a tricky, tricky world.
You know, for a while, our time is a few seconds or millennia.
Don't worry.
Nothing makes sense there.
beat yourself up about that, but um
Whether it is real or not, you know, I'm glad that she had someone to look out for her
So, thank you
I
Well, I am awake anyway, shall we get going should we say goodbye to our new friend
Yeah, we should probably go
and
What the fuck is going on with those and he points to the moon shards as they're doing their weird, you know pattern glow
They've calmed now
They're glowing but they're calmer but you've definitely seen them earlier when you when you will blow Sean Claude
I haven't seen them do that before right when they woke up. I
This they creeped me out I'm not going to lie
Once I learned that those things are sentient and he's like looking down at them like kind of cringing away
Yeah, they creeped me out a little bit. I
Wonder if I
Really concentrated if they'd show me more there sentient
He looks at Augustus yeah, I guess this is a sphinx I would assume you would know that
You know, but I understand you know, it is that we had to keep up with my intellect I
Move in a way that this regards time
Itself so that's not true. Okay
Yes, and
Even though yes, I am an all-powerful sphinx. He jumps off the bed headfirst into
Gets up to his feet
Even though I am an all-powerful sphinx was
There is no possible way that I can know that machinations of
everything around me, especially those of
the celestial bodies that hang from above
Of course, I
Yes, including sealed away forever gods what they were sealed away
My head hurts because you slid into the crowd I
Had heard that cats when they when they jump off they lead with their head first
What no, they'll always lend on their feet
No
Maybe you're thinking about I read a book one time that said that their eyes lock onto the position
So that they can center the rest of their body and figure out how to land. That's why they always land on their feet
I'm gonna have to figure out how to do that, but they don't land on their heads. I
Got that part I
Was I was once a bigger more divine cat
Yeah, but you can see another divine enough to know about the mean shops
Why are you mean I
Am looking he just wants he just wants to feel
Do I hear that
Whispers it but you probably
His eyes slide over I'm not pretending I simply am I've read a philosophy book once that said because I think therefore I am
That's not true
I
Don't know philosophy blows kind of scare me not going to lie. So I didn't delve too deep into it. I used to kind of think that I
Read a philosophy book one time and I just really felt like he was overthinking everything
To go in a circle a bit, you know, and then when people you know, you run into with out to a studying philosophy
They they expect you to just you know
Follow their line of thinking when you're like, this is what it's bizarre either way
What do the gods have to do with this
How are they getting dragged into this now?
Yeah creepy creepy
Apparently that according to Augustus is a prophesized event where the moon would turn red
like the pale red moon and
every creature that the light touches
Would turn into some sort of monster
Like hi me with this where if she looks at Augustus Oh
Oh, what was happening there was a guy's to see need to keep up what I heard a mouse
Okay
Oh
Because hi me the high me thing was not great, but he himself was not that bad, you know
But it would turn everyone into dangerous creatures. That could be a problem. That could be a problem and
a parent he
Augustus said there's a god named Malar who's a god of savagery
Who he has met
Who is now sealed away on the same plane as Thar's dune which he didn't explain what that was. Oh
Yes, Thar's dune the chained elemental the great evil
He would destroy the world if he is unchained
Wow, wow
Wow, that is not great. But that the pale red moon is
Malar's vision
What he wants to do his dream, but he's locked away
So
Tentacle buddy is friends with Malar we are assuming and also
douchebag who took my niece
Well
Augustus says that
that
Tentacle creature might be a celestial emissary
But a sealed away god shouldn't have any influence that they should not have any emissaries on any plane
And you said like the kids joined hands in a circle like a cult kind of thing
Kind of they have like this like
glazed over look on their eyes like they
Weren't themselves
Let me tell you I do not envy you know
Those who study the gods that's too much too much. I don't know. I don't get it. I
Mean I don't
I
Where what do we do with this information other than continue on you know, I'm
Can try to get back there she's just holding the moon shards I
And he puts the moon he puts his hand on the moon tries and lows in them
I think you've had enough time, you know, we so spent it in moonshot time. Yeah, I could do something though
Yeah, yeah, what what if yeah, what if though it knocks you down again?
You know and then you're exhausted for days on end in there and it makes us more, you know points to the outside like more
You know
It makes you more vulnerable to the things that we continue to run in on the road. Let's put a pin in this
Yeah, and he taps his own charts. Let's let's just wait. Okay, you've just seen this
You know, I had remember I had that weird thing yesterday two days ago or whatnot
and that other vision like, you know, I
I would not
You need to really slow down with this. Okay, he points to the moon shards. I I need you at
Full health, okay
All right
Oh, so Augustus yes, they are sentient. Why did that? Why did you comment on that? Did you not?
Explain
It is not often that I learn new information
That is most certainly new to me I
Do not have the divine widths of all the knowledge funneling it through my brain anymore
but even if this was
Something that has occurred
Something has occurred before or during my time as a sphinx. I
Still did not know
You are certain these
Shards are sentient
I mean that is a spell we cast a spell
Me just legend lore from the saddlebag and
That's what he learned
May I see it
May see the set that bag or the shouts the shards
He shows him
Walks up to it smells it
Mix it. Oh dear. I don't know if it's going to help you. I got this
It didn't okay. Yeah. Yeah, but good try. Good try
Question to me, by the way, is my spell still there?
Question to me, by the way, is my spell slot expended? No, it's not okay
Both of you have long rested in fact, thank gods. Oh my HP is shit right now
Hmm the acquiring of new information is a new concept to me that I'm still trying to gather
I'm not certain as to why there are factors that even I don't know about
I don't know about but I suppose that is why I'm I am on this journey with you both
Did you ever
You met um gods when you were sphinx did you ever meet a cat?
Because I've just it really feels like you've never met a cat
John clod's like
I
Why would you say that I'm just curious I
Most cat like cat I've ever met I know about cats
You know about them, but
Have you known one?
Yeah
I mean sphinx is a giant cat. Is it not you noticed a bigger kitty?
Right. I have met the god of cats
Okay
Did not know that existed but fair enough, you know why here's a
Here's a question. Why couldn't we not be terrorized by the god of cats?
Why does it have to be the unchained and the god of you know, the store like why why that?
I'd like I'd like I'd like a little gods to you know, go after us. That would be nice an aspect about
Prophecies is that 99% of them do not come true
Really?
There are prophecies that are made every day and
Then the reason why people receive premonitions
Is because they are there to be
To be made aware of or
They are given to people who are being asked to stop them
But in whichever case
The divine wheel of divinity rolls on its own
And I assure you
That no God would ever allow
Anyone to
To contain or to enact
A large act of violence among mortal them
Those in possession of absolute power cannot only prophecy
And make their prophecies come true
But they can also lie and make their lies come true
My head helps
So you can kind of make anything come true?
I think therefore I am
This is very philosophical now actually
That's what I'm saying
You all you keep using this word philosophical
Is it all just normal to me?
Yeah, it's just
It's just
It's just normal to me
Yeah, it's hurting my head
Do not worry so much about prophecy
You are very small
In the grand scheme of everything
And insignificant if I may put it so
Okay, fuck you Agastis
Time to get up and get going
And he's going to pick Augustus off by the scruff
Whoa, I did it
I meowed
You did good but now you need to shut up
Okay, Cecilia can we go now?
We've been up for an hour
The sun is risen
Time to move
Come on kitty
Now we should probably leave
And no more of this insignificant shit
Okay, we're doing big things here
We got big plans
Can you please put me down?
Have you learned your lesson?
I'm still in the process of learning how to learn things
Have you begun to learn your lesson?
No
That's all I can ask and he puts him down
You know maybe you should meet
If we
When this is all over you can come meet my cat
He's a really good cat
Orange?
Is your cat orange?
No
He's black and white
What?
His name is Orange
Was he orange before?
No, I was just really young when I named him
He's a really old cat
Like really old cat
As proven by Cecilia here
Humans have the wonderful ability to learn from their mistakes
So when you come back you are going to call him
Black and white
It's too late to change his name now
It's never too late
Every year we think it might be his last year because he's just that old
So you know
Cut the old fuck out of break, okay?
He's
He can't hear anymore but Orange is his name so
Hey, no
And he recognized it when he could hear so
Okay, I'm going to get sad about the cat I've never met so can we get moving please?
I don't really think it's sad personally
He's a very happy cat and he's lived a very happy long life
He's dying!
Perhaps he has much to teach me
You're dying too technically
No I'm not!
So am I!
No you're not!
Shut up!
George and Claude are starting to grab their things and stuff it in the back
Throw it in the wagon and he's slamming open the door
I'm not dying!
Neither are you!
Neither is Augustus and no one is dying!
As you come down the steps
You see Fran who's holding onto a blanket like she just dozed awake in the chair that she was sleeping on
You're not dying either!
And he's slammed open the door
We're just talking about the aging process
Meow
Augustus waves a paw
Fran rubs her face
The two of you come down to see that the place has been worked on a great amount
More of the paint has been worked on
We've got nothing done!
She has done so much work in this night that you have not seen
She was sleeping in the chair with a blanket over her
I have ink, croppants and tea on the table
And it seems like your yelling Jean Claude has awoken her
She just goes
Oh um thank you
You two are gonna leave
Thank you both for everything I was hoping I could thank you properly
I just fell asleep after working for a good bit
You did a lot it's looking really nice
That means a lot
Would you like some coffee or tea before you go?
Um I think unless Claude wants it
I think we should probably be heading out but thank you for letting us stay the night
From outside you hear
Here I am! Living it up baby! That's right I am alive! Life consists of me!
You hear slamming of you know
He is going to die one day
That cat just talked
What cat talked? Are you still sleeping?
You're crazy
Oh no don't gaslight her!
What's up with cats in our game and gaslighting people?
Sorry yeah he does talk sometimes
He's learning how to be a cat to be honest it's kind of confusing
Thanks for letting us stay it was really nice to sleep in a place that wasn't haunted and also had beds
You have one mouse in this building
And walks away
Following Jean Claude
Talking Augustus
Fran just goes like watches like her eyes follow Augustus the entire time but Augustus leaves
And she just settles in her chair
Well you can come back anytime
Thank you
Thank you again
I'll see you maybe when we come back this way eventually
I'd be so glad I'd be so glad to have you
And she goes to Jean Claude
Who is grumpily sitting in the wagon
Okay mortality is not a good topic got it
Augustus walks up to Jean Claude
What happens after you die?
Jean Claude's eyes narrow and goes I wouldn't know since I am so foul from it
I can sense the cartilage in your bones
I can hear the bone grinding
I will pick you up again
I'm kidding I'm kidding
But you're packing up the wagon and you're getting ready to head out
And he turns to um oh my god what's the horse's name?
Not Marquis Reginald
Reginald and goes and I don't want to hear a pick from you today
You're a nice buddy
You know without Reginald we're not getting very far
And he's been working really hard and walking for so many hours at a time
In the rain
Thank you Reginald
A little attitude next time
I don't think you have an attitude
Well you are biased
Get into the scene of the wagon
And she'll get on the wagon
On the wagon
You get on the wagon
And the two of you get ready to continue your journey along the Lanai Road
And with that let's get break
Break!
Break time!
What a chill game
Yeah chill fuck you
Oh my god Tim legit the dream was scary
Like that was some Halloween episode shit
Thank you
It was so gross the long day the long I can't I can't
It's giving Slenderman and I can't
Alright everyone
We'll see you in a few
And we're back
Hello everyone
We just had a very cool opening
To the scene
Cool
Cause we're cool here at Thugwoman
We talked before
We talked before the game
And I was like yeah you know there's a lot happening in my home game at the moment and also the Black Arts Gallery
This game is going to be in its show one and then Jenny said I don't believe you
She was right
You also asked me was Cecilia wearing her sleeping cap so I knew it wasn't
I knew that was for a reason cause this hasn't come up for a long time but she has this night cap
That makes it so she doesn't have bad dreams but she hasn't been wearing it because she has
She hasn't had pleasant dreams anyways
I've come to find that when Tim says this is going to be a chill session I just expect chaos
Sometimes it's in every session and it's never true
Sometimes it be
No it's not
There was once I said it was a chill session and then you guys turned it into a crazy session
Opening with that Elvish horror oh my god
It's so cool
You want to say hi
The children
The bubbles
Alright
Let's go ahead and bring ourselves back into it
Into the chill session
That's the title of this week's episode
The chill session
The chill session definitely
Put that up
I'm not going to lie to them
False advertising here at Songwoven
I will lie to them
I'll lie to all of you
It's so easy
You won't believe me
Like little fools
Giving me joker vibes
You're all puppets
I'm holding all the cards and they're all full houses
Muahaha
The best card in Bingo
What was that game? Go Fish
Bingo?
Go Fish 2
Bingo Fish
If I'm double wrong then I'm correct
What's his name?
Philosophy baby
We began to travel
Once again on Illiniah Road
In this travel I would say that it's absolutely relatively peaceful
You pass by an assortment of different villages and towns
Go up and down multiple slopes
You travel through forests and fields and such
All in this one day
But what you do see coming up ahead of you on the road is
Something called Lundi's Marsh
A swamp area
Which is going to be very cool
Some of you have never seen a swamp
So real quick
There's something
Nevermind, I'm picking up a different marsh, continue
I have a couple of things I've been wanting to do in free time
Yes
One of them is
I want to use the saddlebag to cast Legend Lore
And I want to do it on Titan's Fever
Yes please
Hashtag most abused spell in this campaign Legend Lore
Give us the answers
One second here
I'm going to go ahead and look up Legend Lore real quick so I know what to give you
Exactly
My favorite spell
What's the other...
It's Legend Lore
It's not Identify
The object doesn't tell you though
Brief summary
It can do Identify and Detect Magic as well
But
Yeah I think if I ever want to play a high intelligence character I'll just have Legend Lore on me constantly
Always
Know everything
Every legend
And that sim will tell me
Exactly I don't have to think of it myself Tim tells me
And there's nothing more that I want to do than dump Lore on everyone about everything in my world
And dump Lore all the time
I have a lot more fuel for it now too because we also have Malar
We have Tharizdun
We have a lot more fuel
I love how Jesus fuel
Yes let's fuel the fire
More things we can ask the bag
Could we look at the hag too?
Oh no we tried to and it didn't work right?
Because it was Faye
No we didn't try the hag yet
That was one that we were considering
Did we try Farlius?
And that's the one that didn't work?
Yeah
Because he's not legendary
Because he's a doofus
Current tales, forgotten stories or even secret lore
Significant lore about the thing you named
And the more vision you already have
The thing isn't a legendary item
The thing isn't of legendary importance
You gain no information
Alright
I can give you information about Titan's Fever
Because it's legendary
It is a disease of yore
It's been around for a long time
And has come through
It has a significance in certain parts of history
But Titan's Fever isn't necessarily in regards to Titans but rather Giants
Look at the blood too we learned
Right?
They had to drink Titan's blood
It's a disease that is gathered by drinking something that has
Something akin to
Something that has a Giants blood inside of it
Now the Giants of old
They were known to be artisans
People who
They weren't necessarily Giants
Not the Giants you know now
But Giants were a race of humanoid people
In the very early parts of time
That were very artistic
They were large storytellers
And prophesizers and thinkers and such
It is said that if you are to
If you are to drink something that has their blood
Not a Giants blood now like fire Giants and ice Giants
Those are different completely
But if you drink a Giants blood of an ancient
One of those ancient Giants
Particularly when you set out for something to do
That this would grant you the inspiration and you know
The free flow-ity
That's not a word
Free flow-ity
The ability basically to do what you want to do
It is basically like a very like sentimental
And a sentimental way to carry you towards what you're doing
And it binds people to one goal
Titan's fever is something akin to basically a severe fever
It can cause delusion and
Just like massive fever
It can really turn like those a bit weaker into like states of delirium
But it hasn't killed people
The thing is you don't know that
Oh, Legend Lord, I guess you do
Yeah, I was gonna say
I was like Legend Lord reveals all
It has
This is a thing that's been like throughout history
Drinking Giants blood
For everyone to come together to a single goal
And binding everyone together
And giving people visions
People who started kingdoms
People who have made severe changes have done this
Am I able to get the impression that it's symbolic
Or does it actually bind them?
It's definitely symbolic
But with your Legend Lord
Drinking the blood it also does like
There is some semblance of like
They do get some like actual like inspiration
Divine inspiration in some way
From it
There has to be a benefit for these crazy nobles to be doing it
It's definitely not like okay this is just purely symbolic
Yeah
Nah
Okay
Bizarre that
To drink Titans blood for a revolution
Just fascinating
We're gonna get inspired too
They're getting really inspired
It's giving Les Mis
It's really serving Les Mis
Les Mis but they all drink blood beforehand
Red the blood of Titans near
Just keep thinking that okay
But that's what you gather about Titans fever
It's a historic act
But also ancient giants blood is kind of extremely rare
So it's not done like nowadays
Especially since those ancient giants are basically extinct
Furbolgs are
I didn't say anything
As I say wait
Yeah I speak giant
Furbolgs are descendants of giants
Is that why they needed furbolg kids specifically for whatever they're doing with the moon?
Oh my god shut the fuck up
It means just sitting there like
I didn't expect to connect the Titans fever thing information to potentially the vision from the beginning of the game but I think it is
Are those fuckers drinking kids blood? Those sick fuckers?
Maybe
How am I supposed to know?
Maybe we should have kidnapped them
I was going to be like you know Goliaths aren't they part of giants? I was like wait no no Furbolgs are from giants
Yo whoa what the fuck there yeah the red blood moon they're harvesting kid furbolg kid blood the fuck
Probably
You know it's somehow connected cause he looked so angry when Jenny said that
I was getting more impressed vibes right?
He's like damn I love this woman but fuck you
I'm always impressed
Especially when I get details like this right cause it is right
This is the only couple I play with
I'm struggling with one shoulder now
I'm struggling with one shoulder now that's how indifferent I am
Purposely trying to keep his eyebrows from going up when I say something correct
I told you it was the hold me back motion in this chair
Yo Jenny that's fucking wild
Well she'll relay what she learned to you
John Cluck's not smart enough to draw that parallel either
Cecilia's not thinking about it yet either
They're too dumb for this
It's pretty far reach
Cecilia's not constantly thinking about oh Furbolgs are from giants
John Cluck can't even remember he speaks giant
Someone's gonna speak giant and you're like okay where does this come from I understand
Like slow down now hold on
Wait wait wait wait
The other thing I wanted to do is like at some point I'll be like
Do you know I feel bad cause we haven't really properly introduced ourselves to Charles since we just threw him back in the bag
I think maybe we should say hi
Yeah I mean the first time we met I was also a little disturbed by Charles and I think I let that you know
Yeah yeah I think we made a lot of judgments about the poor fellow
So I think you know we've already spoken with Aphes and Augustus
Charles has really gotten the short end of the vile so bring him out
She pulls Charles out of the bag
John Cluck is visibly like cringing trying to hide it
The one eye opens up blinks
Hi Charles
I was realizing I never got to properly introduce myself
So my name is Cecilia Idlewind
And this isn't...turns the eye towards Claude
He's visibly disturbed
I am Jean Claude Boucheron
Captain and member of the Grovengaard Charles
It is a pleasure to join you on this journey
You heard a voice in your head Jean Claude
Wow it's so nice to meet you
I wasn't expecting it to sound like that
You're so beautiful
He's looking at Cecilia cause he's like did you
The eye looks towards Cecilia and you hear a voice in your head
You're so beautiful please be careful with me I don't want to hurt you
I don't want to hurt anything that's beautiful
Life is so precious
That's why I'm kept in this here jar
I can see everything that's beautiful
And I don't have to hurt it or destroy it anymore
Okay Charles is serving during a BBE like last ditch effort we pull him out
That's the vibe I'm getting
Well that's really nice of you Charles
Cecilia right?
Yes that's my name
That's a really pretty name
I don't like him
Charles is a pretty name too
Thank you
That's the first time anyone's ever said that to me
That's sad poor Charles I feel bad
And you have pretty a pretty eye
You have really pretty eyes too
And pretty hair and pretty hands and nose and face and everything
That's really nice of you thank you Charles
Please be careful when handling me
I disintegrate everything I touch I don't want to hurt anything that's beautiful
This is very much Lenny and the Wabbits from Of Mice and Men
John Claude he says he disintegrates everything he touches and so he just wants us to be really careful with him
Okay okay okay
Is that why you and Augustus don't get along?
I love Atheus
I love him so much
He used to be beautiful but now he's still beautiful
What?
You mean like when he was alive?
You know him that long?
Why don't you disintegrate the bottle by the way?
How does it keep you from disintegrating it?
This bottle is magikakali enchanted
Oh boy oh boy
I think I just had to stoke
Magikakali enchanted?
Oh that's what it was
By a very nice person named Bucilla
She was very nice very beautiful
Bucilla?
The eye is floating
He is just very relaxed
He's so relaxed
I wonder why Atheus has such beefy chowels
He always calls him an asshole
I really don't understand
Yeah the first time we met he called him a fuckhead
These are some strong words for someone who's so chill
I'm a fuckhead
No no no no no no
You're not
I don't think you even have a head
Okay Cecilia
Well if you like seeing beautiful things
Do you just want to like sit here and watch?
That would be so wonderful
I'll just be careful with you
Here have a look
Yeah
How strong is the bottle you are in Charoest?
Oh I've been in this bottle for a very long time and I never want to come out
Okay
So you can't break easily the bottle can break right?
We have to open it for you to come out
Please don't open it
No no don't worry that is the last thing I want to do right now
Everything is so beautiful
That's one way to look at the world yes
What's that as you're holding it up he looks at grass
What's that looking at a flower?
What's that?
Maybe actually you and Augustus Cecilia you should have like homeschooling for him and Augustus
I think you'd be good at teaching them
I don't have the I don't have the I can't
I think that's a great idea actually
Though Augustus I think maybe he should homeschool us on some things
Well only certain things
Some gods eyebrows like way past his hairline
You know it's a tatakat he's quite knowledgeable but
Couple of species in his you know intellect that need a couple of feelings
It's okay it's okay
What is that looking at the sky?
That's the sky
Have you never seen the sky?
When I look up it's always gray
In the bag?
My whole life but now it's a really beautiful color
That's so nice
It is really nice
Were you always goo chuckles?
Were you always goo?
Was I always a slime?
Yeah that one
I was always a slime
I would eat intruders
Do you have like slime parents?
Looking at you?
Can you be my slime parent?
Well I'm not a slime but
Oh I'm sorry
Cecilia you are way too young to you're too young to adapt you're only 18
Teen pregnancy no no no no no
NO
I'll no
Oh no no no I uh I prefer to die alone
All by myself
No one should die alone
I will cause I'm dying every day I guess
If yous died alone
Even but you were there right?
I wish I was
I didn't realize if he has had some trauma there
Is that is that why if he has is such a dick to you because like you reveal all of his like
You know soft soft side
He's really soft. Oh no
He's a really good person
This is why if he hates him got it
Have you ever asked a fierce to be your dad?
Mm-hmm
He said no, he said fuck you
That sounds like him
Well, I mean I guess if you want me to be your mom I could be your mom
Thank you
Cecilia you're a teen parent. That's a lot. I mean nothing. It's a bad thing. I'm just saying that's it
He doesn't he just stays in the bottle all day. So I feel like it's kind of low commitment
a child is never low commitment, you know, I
Don't know if this is this is the time for this
Mother oh god
You know, it kind of even works, you know, my name's Cecilia that starts with the C his name's Charles that's okay
I can I can't show it doesn't know who else just as a C
What I
Don't know but nothing good, but
Does that mean clouds are my siblings
Not really
Chalk cheese
Cats
He knows more than Augustus to be fair Oh
Oh Augustus is so beautiful. He's a nice cat. How old are you Charles? I'm
Adult I
I
Think you're probably older than me if I had to guess but it's okay. We can be a non-traditional family
I guess I've got
Already met you met Delmira already didn't you
Mmm, so beautiful
So nice
She said to me one time. Oh she fed you what?
Something called chocolate
Did you like it
I'm not sure what it is. I'm not sure what it is. I'm not sure what it is. I'm not sure what it is
Clutching his pearls. He's like my guts Charles you are a monster. I am
Monster anymore
Maybe hold on hold on there. Maybe we could do no one
I did their space, you know, I I read one said to roots can do this really cool thing
Well, you know you you bring you back is something else
You could we could do that. Maybe Oh
said
Sella said she wanted to do the same thing
Who? Bustela? Bustela? The one who made the bottle? Who's Bustela? Oh
that
says
Apheus loved her
His flower is one true
Oh gods
If he is didn't want to be evil anymore, he wanted to be so good
What happened to her
She fell in love
With a phoenix no
And she left you
Yes
Hmm his eyeball like spins a bit. It seems like when he ever he's thinking the eyeball spins around
It's like the computer screen
And then and then when he stops to stops to speak he looks at he looks at the both of you and he just goes I
Don't know what happened to her. Can you bring me to her?
I'm not sure I wouldn't even know where to start looking. You know, yeah
But if I ever hear anything then we can look into it
Hmm
That would make me very happy I'm already very happy
You're all so beautiful
You have a very beautiful heart
Thank you
So I guess if I'm being your mom now, oh good you should know um Delmyra is your aunt
Because she's my older sister
Wow, I'm learning
Thanks mama
I
Was trying not to puke
And you have a grandfather too
But he's a long ways away. I can't wait to see him
Yeah, I
might have to
Prepare him to meet you though, because I don't think he's met anyone like you. I
Hope I get to meet everyone I
Hope so too
But who was my father
Some some families do not have you know
Some families are different
Yeah, some families just have one parent or two mothers or two fathers or
Or maybe it's just a grandparents, you know
Oh, yeah
Okay, I
Have one mother
One aunt
Mm-hmm
one grandfather that's a lot and one overlord what yeah oh he's like he's
like overlord of magazine I thought it was hi Lord what does he want what did
you want he's changing it Maxine max zine maxine what is that hmm
what is Maxine oh who's where we were before but I know where where the fuck
is this but I know you can look at the map let me find the map oh no I'm just
gonna tell you it's not on the map it's not a kingdom if you if you look at the
map like you have the world map not the world map but like the continent map
ahead of you Maxine is a seemingly a place in the
lava Lom dynasty I know nothing about this place but it sounds old and seeing
the where it's located it yeah it's it's old let me go ahead and spill it and
it's Maxine it seems like it's a magazine it seems like it's built into
like the side of a like a like a mountain in a desert
I'm on the map where it's like you know gives you the topographical information
is it on our way across the continent oh no oh no nowhere near it like it is part
of the lava like it like the line I wrote splits into two ways but you're
going to go on the path through our home right my hometown yeah so like the level
dynasty is the other path so you're gonna go there we don't want to go
through the dynasty because it's not a very cool place it's great it's kind of
crazy well our home has a lot of nice forests and trees so I think we'll let
get there portals to the Feywild portals to the Feywild portals to not fun areas
of the Feywild not fun ones listen there are some portals that are like the fun
areas of the Feywild these are not the fun ones it's all perspective the party
portal but no for real though every time you see like a portal of Feywild is like
the party portal these are not the party portals again it's all perspective
like if I have an affinity for getting choked by ash that I love to get
drowned in a sea of smoldering you know cinders and ash then I think that's a
party for me I love getting smoldered yeah I love it
I just had like a flash in my head like the first time some person who doesn't
know Charles asks what's that and Cecilia just instinctually says it's my son and
I'm like I can already see how bad it's gonna go it's gonna go really poorly
let me let me make this big oh god yeah you you see that and that's far off but that seems to be
where aphias is from hmm it's a big desert
hmm if he has his own lore yeah and it's not tragic it's okay it seems sad oh boy
but Charles is like yes yes he's not into the chads and the whatever they
know no no no he's one of my favorites now I'm gonna go ahead and damage control
here you know he he grew a lot
aphi is in that time no he didn't he beat his skull now he became a lot
smaller did he die because of her that he died of a broken heart that's that's
not that's that's that's kind of better right and alone and alone he did die
alone but anyways I guess you guys can figure that out the optional a few
side quests go all the way to the dynasty where listen I would do it I
would do it yeah hey the line I wrote thing this moonshine thing we'll figure
that out later we're gonna figure out our favorite NPCs I will say the lava
Lom dynasty I think is one of my craziest places even Jenny doesn't know
that much about it it's just a really crazy place I'm gonna have a character be
from there then hmm next character is gonna be from there then oh boy uh hey
real quick magazine we'll talk afterwards but I do remember an idea you
you idea you threw at me I was like that could be from the lava Lom dynasty like
no doubt so I'll tell you I'll tell you this is why we loved him he interweaves
all of his campaigns it's scary but it's also fascinating I'm the one who plays
in the most of them Jenny knows I know things and it's a good thing that's why she when she saw ERI a couple
sessions ago it was like freaked her out well he's really that's like the first
time a villain has come in another game and I know they're gonna be a big
problem there's normally when villain villains are very like centered in one
game mostly normally I don't know though we had marrow too and we have far we got
a lot we've got a lot on our plate right now but they're all they're you know
they're not there they're okay but anyways holding on to Charles you
anything else you're going to do just leave him on the side I'm holding him in
my lap so he can watch because I don't want him to fall or something if we hit
a bump like I said when you first chose before he was like really like the vile
was warm but as you're holding him and he's like looking around and he's being
like stimulated by like the sights around him the vile becomes a lot cooler
to touch as he says like legitimately like looking every looking at everything
that one eye floating around it sees a squirrel and his eyes follow it follow
it really fast we need to device Cecilia like you know the baby packs like for
the vile so he can just sit on it I want to get him like you know like oh gosh I
want to make like some sort of robotic magical thing so that he can move
around no no that's gonna know that's gonna be a toddler that's gonna be a
toddler that we are not prepared for we can't get something like that till we
get to the Salarian Empire anyway we gotta yeah besties we got to teach him
like how to like may Chan and then give him one of those things that you find
in dentist office so like the little things I'm like you know you just like
move the pieces on like I don't know what those are called I'm all for the
druid option reincarnation you can come back as a cold you have to kill him to
do it well these are sacrifices we have to be willing to make but as you're
holding on to him the group you Jean-Claude you taking piloting the the
wagon begin to make your way into Lundi's marsh
hmm it immediately becomes humid it was already humid a bit before but now it's
wet and heavy where it was really where it was really cool where it was really
cool before the sort of like the sort of cool this now hangs heavy in the air
it's like the air is absolute the air is there is so wet and it's cold and it's
terrible for you Jean-Claude as you feel yourself just becoming heavier and
heavier as you as you're making as you're making your way through this area
one second here I had a swamp ambient thing there it is like Florida Florida
weather as you are as you're bringing yourself through this area and I will
say like you're thinking in your mind like wow this is the Lanai road like we
have to go through like people everyone has to go through this swamp yeah what
the fuck you see tracks of like other wagons through here it's it's it's it's
money it's muddy the road at least seems to like go through like well traveled
parts so you actually like know where you're going but like you're just like
feats away from like like bogs and like all kinds of different like murky stuff
that doesn't give you any confidence whatsoever but yeah frogs on frogs on
lily pads and huge hanging like weeping willows definitely cuz he's so tall is
getting in his like he's like I hate it here just stop being so tall that's your
problem he's so tall plus the fur the condensation is hanging off his fur now
he's like even feels even heavier cuz he's like a wet dog now he's very mad
um you do know there's a town up ahead called Lundy's acre well and it is noted
to be us it is noted to be supply stop on circled on the map but you don't need
supplies so that's just another place you're gonna go through yeah we're all
good hmm going I will say going through you do hear a voice in the distance a
delightful a delightful like chuckle from a young man and you hear ha got one
and like looking and like kind of like going through close your eyes avert you
see a young a young teenage boy with a black hair and a plump face don't look
at me and a pump face his dimple dimple hanging about and he's also talking
right now in the in on the stream his dimple hangs out just here's my here's
myself insert guys I'm kidding of a witness persuasion 23 years old six
months younger than 20 23 yes his girlfriend is sitting next to him and
they're very good friend who played a lead role in okay talk to this man
contract it is a it is a young teenager a plump face black hair but he's he's
wearing like leather armor and it's like a kid's leather armor so it's kind of
cute I mean he's wearing like a he's wearing like a red sash with like
multiple like badges and stuff on it he's holding up a jar with a he's holding
up a jar with like seemingly like a golden skinned frog in it if he's just
holding it with the with the with the lid placed on top and he's looking at it
with he's looking at it with pride he's like that's gonna get that's gonna get
me my I'm just that's gonna give me my toad badge for sure
no um as he sees you uh as you see no he he looks at you with like wide eyes and
he waves he just as you're passing Charles and my lapstam strong cloud
gives a nod and he um he just goes just goes oh hi um by the way have you seen
an an or around here her name is Willa willa she's the scout leader I haven't
seen her in a while oh no but I've been getting all my stuff for all my badges
uh no no no young man we are merely travelers but uh good luck with your
searching okay goodbye now how long has it been since you saw her
damn it hmm well the sun was right there and then the moon came and then now the
sun's there oh boy it's been about like 15 hours were you camping
or oh yeah all of you were camping oh just me and her
oh so there's no other scouts with you I'm the only valor scout that's out
here people would say things like why says
you're the only one who tends to go out on Wednesdays
and why are you making me go out with you
uh every day's a great day for adventure
well um I don't know if it's I don't feel like a swamp's the safest
place to be by yourself all night and everything oh it's been great it's been
an absolute adventure and plus looney's rest is right over there where I live
and I use my defined sense
this kid doesn't trust his child this kid is not god
this is something else
hey this is a golden dart frog I really shouldn't keep it or touch it at all
can you can you can the two of you please write down that I testify that I
have captured a toad creature of certain rarity
anything from the defined sense nothing
of course yeah that's not a problem
um but maybe we should find your scout leader I don't know
it doesn't seem very responsible that she left you alone
and how did you put it that way hmm
strange how old are you oh I'm 12
oh I'm 12
but doesn't he look older though no he's
oh he's legit 12 year child okay okay um
wait so your scout leader said only you were able to come into it
did she say when she would be back maybe she got lost you don't know
oh I woke up and she was gone okay wow okay
um well uh where's your home where's where's home for you
oh it's right over there but I've been trying I've been out here trying to get
all all the things for my merits
I think it's I think you need to take a break though don't you
you time to go home and we'll find willa
you can get on our wagon if you want oh it's okay uh I'm okay
home is a little boring anyways okay well why don't we have an adventure
finding willa then okay
that sounds good
can it make perception checks yeah I don't try I don't
I'm scared of this thing it's this thing this chin boy
in my mind he's the boy from up oh okay wait I love him then
13 for my passive is 21 though I'll take your passive then
yeah don't expect much from me
so you're just like this boy's in a very unique situation
um you got abandoned um but uh for you uh Cecilia you um as you're just kind of
like uh in a situation as Jean-Claude you're
being more you're being more like now it's a little bit like concerning like
you were off about a child but now there's like
if the situation is everything that's is true then
now the situation is concerning because this child might have just gotten
straight up left in the swamp I was gonna say this is like it's
an abandonment thing so he's just like oh fuck like that's a lot of paperwork
that's a lot of paperwork I'm not doing that fucking paperwork
of yeah that was more Captain Volatani's thing
uh that's not her thing um but uh Cecilia as you are just kind of
like uh turning away you the the ribbits of
frogs that were once part of them part of the sort of an
like the ambience um sorry ambience
I always that word always gets me um the ambience of the uh
of the swamp now seems to be like near uh that seems to be nearer um
and like frogs are small creatures how are they so
how are they sound so profound um but like looking around um
you do see
kind of like nestled nestled away some of them below the surface of the
the the body of marsh water that you're next to
some of some of them among the shrubbery you see frog like eyes
peering out of the um um peering peering out of all sort of
different places big ones hey we'll mark that you got that
you got the toad get on the wagon please though I wouldn't want you to
get rug fever um that'd be oh that'd be terrible
yeah all right gonna get on a wagon with a bunch of strangers um
gets on yeah I mean oh my god what is that looking good
no sit stay um yeah why don't we keep moving um
what the fuck
frogs here allow this shit you see one of the you see one of the frogs
specifically one that's kind of like in in like the
like the canopy like in a tree seemingly is like disappears for a moment
one directly above uh the wagon
I think the frogs were watching us come on Cecilia now is this another
druid thing I can't handle it if it's another druid thing I really can't have
had enough making athletics check uh Sean Claude
he's about to lose his shit
athletics well good luckily I have plus five
21
what's that in here
I have to fight some fucking bully logs dear god damn it
we're traumatized already from
loh I got you buddy
um Annette falls on you uh Jean Claude what fuck you immediately
like like throw it off and like
oh like already like it was enough you're a big person and you just
uh wave off you hear multiple like
all around you now as a as a chorus of ribbits
begin to um begin to fall around you uh Reginald and Marquis both have nets
uh throwing them bolos of thrown at their feet
as you see multiple as you see multiple as you see multiple bully logs
with began to
I want to cast thaumaturgy
to make my voice really loud to try to scare them
yeah they're very organized so I doubt they'll be scared just by me
sounding really loud but we gotta try what we gotta try though
but I'm like but I just yell get away go ahead and give me like an uh give me
an intimidation check some of them might be
might be scared enough eight
okay uh roll for one more wow uh I wrote pretty good um
you see two of them are like
uh like like drop their spears these these are not like
bear like bully walks like they are wearing like
like seemingly like clothes like like and there's
there's some regalia to them two of them are wearing like
uh to to the wearing like helmets almost and it seems like it's strange
it's not like out of bone but it's like made out of like a like a colored cloth
um so it's it's it's a hat but in the shape of a helmet
um why don't we uh go ahead and roll in this shit
oh jesus
uh jesus
um I don't want to hurt them I have my vigilant blessing so
oh my god I rolled a nat one I rolled on 18 yo I have hers you have
plus seven and I know I know hold on though I
I have the alert feet which just I think something
uh you can't be surprised nothing it doesn't nothing you had a plus five to
your initiative nothing yeah no wow all right put me at the
bottom of the fuck down god damn it 18 because I have advantage
for my vigilant blessing oh 18 oh when did you get that
um I've had it it's just for my class I already rolled initiative beforehand so
uh Cecilia you actually get to go first with yim
uh the boy oh good his name is yim like yamir I'm gonna cast
um calm emotions
your favorite spell yep DC 14 um charisma saving throw
so hopefully that they won't want to fight us the bouldy wugs are naturally
very charismatic so uh oh that's a minus two right there
whoa zero successes oh sorry it didn't mean to do that um
oh that was a 13 when you rolled it I'm just saying
that's an 11 so that's an 11 I'll take that okay
there are six there are six bully what well four now
um two of them ran no no there's still six
uh because there's eight of them and then
damn it okay
strangely enough one two three four five six uh two of them like put their like
spears down on our kind of like uh lulled while the other
you see a couple of others are just still like ribbiting uh at you and
like they're just aiming the spears at you but they're just like very aggressive
ribbiting
interesting um but then that's happening I can't get the horses for you though
that's my action so yeah one two
three four of them are uh kind of like lulled with their weapons
um all right uh yim is going to use his action to
he goes I'm sorry opens up the jar the golden frog
jumps out and he goes
uh because he thinks that why he thinks that's
um that's why I thought originally too that's why I told him to let it go
uh let's see bull you I already wrote all the initiatives before they all
pretty bad uh but bully wug uh not as nice to me
you see that they're gonna they're just gonna continue to like they're they're
talking to you but it's obvious that it's not
the language um you see the other four bull who have their emotions calm
sees the golden dart frog and they're like whoa and they like
they're like scurry away from that because they don't want to touch that
either um but in front in in front of you
Jean-Claude you see there's a bully wug who rolled
both nap 20s um just begins to go
and he starts you see you see he's doing like spins with his spear
and he's he does like a little cartwheel and he's like
he's like doing like he's doing theatrics and he's like he's trying to
intimidate you he spins the spear like really well like uh
like the viper of dorn from game of thrones
and he aims at you
it's a show of intimidation um he pokes you a little bit with the
spear but not with like a full thrust come on buddy follow through if you're
going to do all that shit um and he just he slaps your chest
you know that as you know normally people invite me up for a drink first
and he's going to um cast speak with animals
because it works with beasts um they're not beasts i think yeah
they're not beasts or animals they're human so that's
they're human they're humanoids damn it and they don't speak common
i assume uh well there goes a spell slot of mine then um
yeah he he yeah probably be able to gather that they're not beasts though
because of the way they're talking and behaving you probably wouldn't have done
it okay then i won't cast it then um he's going to uh just stand up um put
his hands up and go we mean no harm just let us through come on now because he
sees this is an organized group of people
just let us through and he's pointing along the road you know
he pokes you with the spear like telling you like as a sit down kind of
maneuver mother fucker he
he tries to push you but you're too big
this jungle goes stop it stop that we are just trying to go that way and he
points to the road again he puts your hand down he books your hand
with the spear stop it um go ahead and make an attack uh go ahead
and make an attack roll uh unarmed strike just to hit the spear cut the shit
let me go where uh uh where's my unarmed strike
um uh how do i do this jenny just you could just click strength but add
proficiency okay i'll do a strength roll which would be
oh that's my second nat one um i stabbed myself on the fucking spear
trying to whack it away as you actually like take one point of
damage as you try to smack your spear your thing hits the your your hand
hits the top you see the bully what goes like gas
um it just pulls out this pulls out the sphere
ah he's in pain like clenching his bleeding hand he's like
fucking hell are you okay no you see the other you see the other
bully wugs are like
it's like i i didn't do it um what you do know from bully wugs um
cecilia's that they are very territorial and they have a severe like
superiority complex um they should be trying to like
kill you or like trying to sacrifice you right now
um but it just seems like when john claude hurts himself
it seems like an actual like accident
he grabs your hand
oh he screams as he sees him spit on his hand
um i can we're out of initiative yeah she just takes
gingerly reaches to take his hand and just go
you know get her medicine kit out and bandage it and things with you guys
about it you um yeah as you're just trying to do the bully wug did speed
is spit into his wound yeah i clean it first so i thought it's like
um it's you you begin to clean um
hmm yeah you that's your fault i was trying to be peaceful here
um and you see that the bully wugs uh a couple more come out of the woodworks
and they come out with like rope uh like rope and like a pole and stuff
and then they just put it down like gently and they just kind of point at it
suggesting like
oh i go to cut the horses free what the fuck are they trying to why do
we want a rope it's it's it's officers suggesting let's
tie you up no john claude is getting really angry
he's like what do you want we're just trying to go and he's pointing
out of the box we want to go we don't want to be here we want to be
there out out um the um the bully war kind of like
kind of like holds the spear and and it can like gently point to that
you at you again
pointing towards like the forest the forest that we want to go to or the
forest that's like where they came from where they came from
uh john claude goes no and he points back to the road
points to him and the road him and the road him and the road yes
yes no no he's pointing the other way no arguing with you
she just shakes her head to him like no
um and uh you see a bunch of pulling on nets
oh my god okay uh sicilia do you have a spell that can help with languages i
don't have anything like that no damn it i don't make an athletics check
uh shon clinton oh my god two of them are throwing nets at you
pack that shit i have my since i had to cut the horses free i have my um
my axe i guess that was in the bag i have the axe out or no wait i gave that
to you 17 i have a knife yeah i have the axe
um that breaks free of this uh of the 12 dc
so glad it's getting pissed you guys are level four you guys will wreck the shit
out of these guys immediately
um you just you just kind of like wave away to two nets that
hey they're trying to they're trying to capture you but
but it's they're not trying to kill you either but they are like
being very aggressive without trying to stab you with spears
okay cilia you stay here and at this point he's going to rip off the nets
jump down from the wagon and go stop it stop it and points the one with the
spear and goes i'll go with you but stop it not by yourself
well we kind of leave the horses here with this my boy
no no i think maybe we should just bring him home first
i mean what are they really going to do about it is miss
did you capture miss willa rivet rivet i did not get that i was wondering
that's what i was wondering too how can we send the boy home though we're also
entertaining these people who would let us leave
i think we just try to leave
because they don't seem that determined to really stop us
so we're going to force our way through oh we're gonna have to run them over
oh god okay you see like four of them are like
on the horses now like i like wrapped her wrapped her arms on our horses
no i fully yeah i will fully like shoo them away pull them off if i have to
yeah you're gonna have to pull them off do that yeah i'll say i'll say like
in the in the sake of time that you're just like doing it
easily like and they're like they did not want to be pulled off
honestly if they're not that big of a deal to see them maybe we should just go
with everyone i'll go with them no you shut up
i mean but whatever whoever they're trying to bring us to is
a big deal
okay so we run them over all right and he's going to um get back in his seat
on the wagon
you give me a seat on the way of you see the uh walk to try to guide the horses
she'll walk you see yeah you see the you see the bully
walk tries to stop you like with a spear out like
rivet i take out my war hammer and i cast light on it to make it more
intimidating but against him it's just like with
advantage
i don't have a great i could blind them too if that works 16
a good few of them actually like drop their spears and runs away with their
arms like in the air like a few like a few of them but you
see the one who did all the really cool tricks is still like the brave one here
um this is a yeah for cecilia like this is extremely strange
like like these guys are like problems everywhere they
they attack the crap out of people this is strangely like
very like culture but also not like they're still trying to
capture you
trying um yeah if he's still standing in front of her in her way she'll just
gently push him with the hammer um he doesn't make an attempt to like
to like move out of the way he just you just like
and he's like a statue just like standing like that entire time his feet
against the ground but you do move him
uh yeah it's it's freed up for john claude
yay are you ready to see ya yeah i'll walk alongside the horses
okay here we go all right you two have fun
oh wait where the fuck are you you look over
to see him uh he doesn't you don't know his name yet but the boy
like he's already with a bunch of the bully the bully ones like it and he's
he's waving um and he's happy when did you get off
oh a few moments ago why did you get off
we're trying to take you home oh okay uh but i have to go find i have to go
find willa first we'll find her it's okay
okay he's saying he's taken by the bully walks right
hey you guys are even he looks at the bully walks you guys are even bigger
strangers uh so i'm gonna go with the least
strangers i still didn't get that
he starts walking back and you see like one of the bully was like
like it's like you can tell what the hand motions are it just like
stop him
so make sure they don't um you see you see uh the boy gets on the
the wagon he goes by the way in case and in case the narrator didn't give it away
he goes by the way my name is yim i'm a valor scout
yim just sit in the fucking wagon that's a bad word
i will have so many more you're gonna get a demerit for that
demerit's be all you want and he's going to flick the reins
cecilia and that's shang claude get your pin away from me you can call him captain
though yes i'm a global god you still want to be called that
as i do with this child i do does he live when i said i wanted to be a
dad lies he points at the he points at the
rope on the ground
is it a trap or don't know the rope yeah it's basically like please let us tie
you up
this is the worst hostage negotiation situation i've ever been this is the most
gentle like the injury the one injury was himself
surprised himself was himself
okay so here's what i can do i can i can you know do something where i can
stomp them but i mean they haven't really done i don't know i feel i feel
bad you know like they i think we just keep going and if we
need to do something then we will but maybe he's right and he points to
um he goes maybe just maybe valor scout kid is right maybe they
accidentally took his his scout leader maybe but if they're gonna tie them up i
don't think it's a good idea and i i have a spell
where i can locate an object so if he knew anything she would have
like maybe the badges or something i'd be able to find her oh yeah she
carries around all the merit badges
something really similar to this and he holds out the uh
um he he does hold out like those um it's called like mushroom liquor uh merit
badge why the fuck are they teaching kids these days
if you need to locate her but also i think uh
i think the wugs or the frogs are getting a little bit uh
getting a little bit antsy because so am i the boulder was around
your light um intimidating they're increasing in
frequency now um okay so we got move oh we got to go with
them we have two options let's move yes yeah you're going so
we're moving um you're you're going and you see some of them are like getting
ready to fall uh getting ready to follow uh but the the but the one that's holding
the spear just kind of like like just waving his
hand um and just go and just go just kind of like starts directing like okay
pick up the net all right you go over there you go over
there oh fuckers not again are we gonna have to roll initiative again
like no no no they're like setting up for the next
person
all right okay
this one's too much effort on the next he seems defeated like okay
let's all right come on guys let's let's rig it back up top
oh my god i cannot stress how unusual that this is um i was gonna say i have
no clue what's going on truly i'm gonna say john claude you've
definitely fought bully wugs before um in in your time as uh because
because the force where you're from there's a part there's a part of uh it's
part marsh um yeah you do know that they
they frequently try to capture people and sacrifice them and eat them um
especially smaller people so this is just so
like out there for you um but it's like okay you're moving past it and
they're not they're not trying to stop you it looks like they're like okay
whatever we're gonna set up for the next one now
i don't get it i don't understand i don't understand i cannot
answer this it makes no sense cecilia
we can come back and
see if willa's with them but once we get
yeah him home what are your names
cecilia captain hi i'm yim cecilia harry
and you're go and you're making you're making your way to
lunda's acre drop him off at home
the situation has seemed uh to be curious once again um
but nonetheless you continue your curious adventure on
the lanaya road as you see as you see but basically akin to road bandits
so just at least they're like give up at least they're like kind of will like
organized um
um it's good practice for when i actually get to throw road bandits at
you guys
and there will be negotiating for sure didn't we already meet road bandits we
did yeah they're the guards that like to be
the guards with stellar oh no it was awesome and then maro
whooped their asses um with that said that's where we're going to
stop the game for now such as i'm so confused by these i i need we need to go
back i need to understand what's happening here
uh it'll all it'll all come through it all makes sense soon not to say fully
no to the plot hook or anything just we're going back we're going back
we just want to be responsible about it
just get the kid out of here
all right everyone well what is what a start yeah
wait what a start to that session jesus what a very curious uh
beginning uh bully wugs are like a quarter challenge
rating so um oh no could have swept him
yeah you yeah you could have beaten the shit out of all of them
we'd attack them oh no chances are if you beat one they would have been like
okay peace we're out of here yeah no it wouldn't
be no but perhaps we'll see where this tiny curious thread leads to
next time on a lanai expedition
this is somehow going to be like a really like devious like
just connected to politics yeah we're gonna like really adorable bully wugs to like the
revolution slash sacrificing children weird blood
shit uh-huh it's gonna be awesome anyways um i bet they're working for a
weird kobold oh my god specifically yeah and this is
something to go to oh it's cogan i was gonna say is it
cogan it's a character vivian
this is our other campaign folks that you do not see
for those who are curious all right everyone
have a good one we'll see you next week
you