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Hello again everyone and welcome back to Songwoven The Black Guards Gallery.
Welcome back to this very very very very fun edition of The Black Guards Gallery.
Everything's gonna be completely A-OK.
I am your super humble narrator, I guess, Tim Don Tran.
You are, you're still guessing.
I am factually your narrator, Tim Don Tran.
And of course with me is our ever wonderful ever present almighty Motley Crue!
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As you can tell, the atmosphere is super tense.
Everyone is super scared.
You can see it on everyone.
No one's happy.
There are no smiles anywhere.
Gosh.
So just giving everyone a heads up, a bit of a warning at the very top of this episode
and we are going to pin this in the stream chat, that there is, the beginning of this
session is going to be a little intense.
I have spoken with my players and consent is king at a table.
And so everything occurring here is at the express consent of my players.
I'm not going to surprise them.
But if you the viewer feel uncomfortable in any sort of way with the beginning of this
episode, I encourage you to turn the stream off, take a break, and come back later.
You have to take care of yourself above all.
That applies for our narrator too!
Yeah it does.
Yes it does.
Absolutely.
But with that said, do we have any announcements at the top of the shell?
I don't believe we do.
We're in this together!
With that said, we're going to go ahead and do a really quick recap.
In the very last session of the Black Arts Gallery, our motley crew here continued their
discussions with Captain John, whom they found out to be a beholder, and the quote unquote
pirate captain of the Eternal Smile.
Further discussions have been lended to them, knowing that John has a common enemy with
Brando Caligaris, the vice admiral of the Leviathan Legion's navy.
In this discussion, Captain John accidentally has seemed to reveal an aspect about Zachariah,
that he's quote unquote not alive and quote unquote a floating bundle of memories, to
which Zachariah is like, huh?
Which fools everyone, I guess.
I'm just kidding.
But in this, Captain John has agreed to assist the Black Guards.
I'm about to do a one beholder assault on Brando's compound, to seemingly give the Black
Arts an edge over the race to Honlussa.
In going back to the ship, the crew members tended to their uncertainties in the future,
and attempted to further solidify their plans.
In this, there was a lot of affirmation, a lot of finding comfort in each other.
Even though times are extremely stressful, social creatures find comfort in love and
warmth in one another, which capitalizes with our dear captain, Aura and Hilgen, sharing
a moment with one another, onto which they will spend the rest of their time as a tribute
to how they absolutely complete each other.
Later, I guess, because after speaking with Hilgen, after speaking with Jasper, Hilgen
had his attention brought to a certain event going on in the barge, where a mysterious
circle has seemed to appear.
This was later to be revealed as a ploy set by a group of four vanishing, very, very long
time veteran-like members, like deckhands of the Black Guards.
Nellie, who was one of them, who has been there for eight years out of the Black Guards'
ten-year tenure, seem to have finally committed themselves to a plan, and after paralyzing
Hilgen, wished him away to another place.
This area Hilgen would find is a dark, damp room, and then somewhere in an area, and revealing
himself to him after tying Hilgen down to a chair and restraining him, is Winfield Lordigan,
long time enemy of the Black Guards, the arch-nemesis of Hilgen and Captain Aura, and the reason
why Captain Aura currently has no tongue, and the Admiral of the Inarian Navy.
With that said, who's ready?
Yay!
Oh gosh, I keep thinking back to Kendra on episode two, and the last episode where she
was just completely like staring at the camera, it was terrible.
Oh goodness.
I am-
A drink after that session, so thanks.
Oh gosh.
So let me drink a little bit of water before we get into this.
How's everyone doing?
Do it.
Drink.
Ready.
The music is, yeah.
Amazing.
Hilgen, your body is tense.
You feel your muscles have seized up, hardened completely, yet on the very deepest depths
of your muscle, you feel it burning, almost screaming on the inside.
Instincts dictate that you have to do something.
When someone feels pain, they squeeze it, they scratch at it, they do anything to offer
relief.
But you can't move your body.
You can't even blink.
Your eyes are wide open as you watch this man, this elf, Wenfeld Lordegen, the same
as you saw him last, a large, faded scar across the bridge of his nose, faded sort of amber
hair tied in a ponytail behind him.
As he walks up to you, leaning down, placing both of his hands on the armrest of the chair
just next to your wrist, allow me to clear up a misconception you might have had from
our last encounter.
You didn't survive.
You marinated.
I needed you to live, Hilgen.
I needed you to frolic, to be merry, to love and to be loved, so that you can become the
important pillar that you are, so that when I finally take you down, that rancorous foundation
all falls with it.
Tell me, Hilgen.
He stands up, looking you dead in the eye, and by this point you can feel feeling return
to the outer parts of your arm, to the inner parts of your chest, burning, but feeling.
As he slowly unbuckles a knife from his hip and he holds it up to you, and he begins to
un-sheath it, the silvery glean of this very sharp knife acting as a mirror to you.
He holds the knife for a moment and he just goes, tell me when you feel this.
Then we can really continue.
As he cuts a narrow red line on the top of your hand, you don't feel it yet, but your
eye twitches.
You want to blink.
At this point, there's a knock on the door.
Opening the door, you see a woman, a white tiefling woman, someone who looks much strikingly
like Daphne, actually, open the door and you see that there's another man, another half
orc man behind.
Someone who looks a bit like Clarence.
Just goes, Emerl, the vanguards are asking for permission to unbox the wyvern poison.
You have my permission.
You have further Clarence to use the purple wyvern poison.
Yes, sir.
She gives a nod to the half orc who steps back, nods and starts walking away.
As the white tiefling woman enters into the room, she closes the door behind her.
She's currently holding onto what seems to be a crystal ball.
You see Wenfil just go, go ahead, start.
She just maneuvers to the side of the room, out of your view, and she begins to chant
something.
Something very familiar, familiar set of words.
Daphne's been chanting this for the past few days.
Detect magic.
By this point, you feel the ebbs and flow of your hot blood begin to ooze out of the
wound on top of your hand.
And you blink.
And you feel your voice building up inside of you, ready to come out once again.
Wenfil looks at you.
Is there anything you want to say?
Is there anything you want to say to Islewyn?
First thing that would have happened is as soon as Hilgen felt paralyzed and was transported,
he would have cast detect poison so he could identify the poison, also allowing him to
be able to sense the poison in the vicinity of 30 feet around him.
So he could feel the familiarity of it for future reference.
As soon as he feels, as soon as he was in the new room, he would take in whatever is
within his sight and trying to absorb all the information that he can about where he
is sitting, the room that he can see.
And especially the moment that he starts feeling like he can blink, he would also start trying
to look and scan as much as possible before his eyes land on my brainiest blanking was
his name.
Wenfeld.
Um, before his eyes fall on Wenfeld, but he says nothing.
He looks down at your wound and he slowly reaches down with his free hand and he begins
to pinch at it, drawing out more blood.
Tell me, Hilgen, do you feel this?
Hilgen is just focusing on his breath and his resolvus.
He's just...
Look at me.
He looks at Wenfeld.
You should be grateful, Hilgen.
For your entire life, you've done nothing but wander, looking to attach yourself to
any ideals.
You've always been a follower, but how has that treated you?
One failed foundation after another.
But take comfort now.
You have become the paragon, the very pillar of one of these ideals that you so saw fit
to treasure.
And now you will become a martyr.
Does that make you happy?
Wen looks at Wenfeld dead in the eye and then he slowly smiles a defiant smile.
There will be no proper burial for you.
No roots will embrace you.
No ocean shall engulf you.
In whatever flames burn your body, they will lead you to a torment where if I am also dead,
you will find me.
It's almost as if his jaun is casting a curse in the sun.
And what happens when I find you?
To say I would return the favor.
As you have historically done.
Correct.
He places a hand gently atop the wrist and he holds the knife.
Then he goes, I would rather die with the history that I have rather than perish away
in obscurity.
The traitor in the minds of my own people.
And he begins to push the tip of the knife against your cuticle, the space between your
fingernail and your finger.
And he just, it's a sudden jerk.
Digs in there.
But he doesn't push all the way in.
But you can feel it, the blood, your nails beginning to like, crest up a little bit.
And the hangnails are still hanging on.
It just goes.
Looks to the other white tiefling.
It just goes, tell me when your son said.
Yes, sir.
And that, he cut over.
Aura, Daphne, when I drain, Zachariah, Humphrey, Hilsin is gone.
Just magic, see if there's anything still magical here.
At this moment, no, the teleportation is broken.
It seems by design.
But despite all the obvious things, there's nothing else magical in this room at the moment.
Is there any blood on the floor near the circle?
Yes, there is.
Aura collects herself.
Signs to Daphne.
Could you please scry?
Pointing at the blood.
Do I feel confident that that's Hilsin's blood?
It's someone's, which is, would be helpful, but you're not sure about Hilsin.
You did see Hilsin's prone form.
He did have a knife in his back.
I'm going to assume, and if not, I have a second chance.
We can also send a message directly to Hilsin.
She nods.
I start scrying.
I'll go find Roland.
Another nod.
You scry, Daphne?
Yeah.
That's a 10 minute process, right?
Before you cast it.
Take 10 minutes.
Okay, got it.
Okay, if it takes 10 minutes, then Aura will sign to who's left in the room.
One-Eyed Jane and Humphrey.
She will sign someone get me Clarence and someone get me Jasper, please.
You already, as you're already speaking on Clarence, people have been gathering because
you shot a bullet into the air.
The crowd parts as you see Clarence just goes, what's going on?
Pushing through and finally getting to the scene.
What happened?
She can't look at him.
Who has the sending stone to speak with the Rusknaughts?
We can go ahead and say you.
We can go ahead and say anyone could speak up.
Kev, you were going to say something?
I got the bagger holding probably, so it's probably in there.
I got it here.
I take it from Humphrey and I saying thank you.
Turn to Clarence and say, and sign, let's get the Eternal Smile ship prepared for combat.
Pull together your team.
And where is Armand?
For you, Armand is among the crowd of people.
If you say that out loud, he'll meekly step forward.
She'll sign it out loud.
Yeah, she signs it for people to see.
And signs, how soon can you get that ship up and flying?
I can have it ready very soon, Captain.
In a few hours.
Good.
Start on it now.
I'm looking on that ship now.
I want it steering the court.
I want the Eternal Smile ship loaded and ready to go pick your crew who you'd like to stay
on it.
Looking around, where else did I send?
Would that give us 10 minutes?
It'd be about 10 minutes.
Is Roland in the crowd?
Yeah, Roland's there.
I'll just kind of grab him, drag him in.
All right, you could just ask.
Sorry.
What happened?
I turned.
Everyone wait here.
Co-captain says to.
And I just shut the door.
Okay.
You're the co-captain now.
I've been the co-captain.
We saw it the other day.
Anyway.
That was a bit.
It wasn't a bit for me.
So anyway, Roland, you can send messages, right?
We've been over this.
I think pause on the Darryl stuff and I just rotate him and push him towards.
Can someone fucking explain what's going on?
She's going to look at Humphrey.
Turn back to the crew and sign.
Hildrean has been taken.
Clarence immediately goes.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I believe I saw Nellie among the crewmates with whom Hildrean went.
So Nellie was a turncoat.
So she signs heavier, you know, more effort into it.
I would like us to organize.
I would like us to move.
They have made their attack and in rules of war, the most important thing is to counter,
which we shall do currently and now.
Roland, how many messages can you send per day?
Only three.
Three.
That will be more than enough.
I will need to and it's how many words are allowed in your messages?
Only twenty five.
Twenty five.
Right.
Let's see who's not doing anything right now.
And I'll say for you, you Jasper.
Is there is there?
Yes.
Jasper.
I want you to navigate this ship like you've never navigated before.
I want it to fly across this fucking ocean.
Also who is your informant?
My formant is Myros.
He's been my formant for a long time.
He's good.
Clearly.
He's legit.
And she's going to is this 10 minutes up now?
Oh, she's going to say to One Eye Jane and Zachariah.
I need two things from you both.
I need one tip for you points to One Eye Jane to construct a message to one of the members
of the Creston family to send that out.
And I need you and she indicates to Zachariah to construct a message to our helmsman asking
his whereabouts and location.
The third spell I would preferably Roland use for Lantos Boreas of whose location we're
trying to find currently.
I have to go send a message of my own to Captain Marsaur.
I will be in the game room should you all need me.
Daphne is focusing on her spell, but I'm still listening.
But she she will briefly add.
We need to know who's still on the ship.
Humphrey.
Would you do me a favor and go take roll call, please?
I can sure do that.
And to anyone that seems you see a little smile, she signed suspicious.
Do with them what you will.
And she will leave and go to the game room to write a letter or send a sending message.
And I add, well, she was signing all that and everything.
Can I have made like to scan the crowd to see if anybody looks a little antsy or like
suspicious?
Everyone's very nervous.
OK.
People are people are definitely antsy.
These checks are always hard to try and get someone on the card.
I'm really sorry.
No, it's OK.
Well, technically they weren't.
The door was shut when she said that Hildrean was taken.
So for that part, it was OK.
Then everyone.
So but that's I mean, so technically the crew out there doesn't know yet.
There's no a shot went off, right?
All right.
Well, then there's absolute confusion.
Everyone's just gathered like waiting for the news.
So when we tell them we can look for a reaction.
Who is like and who is like actually surprised.
Then I'll just say to Humphrey and I'll like kind of grab my long sword and be like, if
you need any assistance.
Let me know.
If you're finished writing that writing that message, I yeah, it would be helpful if you
could come out.
OK, I will start lining them up already.
And Humphrey goes out to the to the group and to the to the to the crew.
Everyone that's left and just lines them up one by one next to each other.
You're taking the crew out and lining them up.
Just lining up one after the other.
So and then he goes like up and down a few times and like looking into the eyes of the
people, like of every individual.
And sometimes that's just like blind luck.
He just stops at some people, looks them up and down and just waits for like reactions
and sees if there's anything suspicious, maybe or if they seem like too tense for the situation.
There's there's confusion.
And of course, there's naturally like you observing people like that, especially Humphrey
of all people.
It's like it's it's scary, especially when people don't know what you're looking for.
So I'll go ahead and I'll go ahead and say we'll get to this.
We're going to get to it.
We're going to get to this in a bit as I'll say one I Jane Zachariah Humphrey are tending
to the people outside.
And this is super unfortunate because some people are from the eternal smile, the some
of the people you've taken on so you can split them up.
But there's more people on the ship now than there's ever been.
It's terrible.
You see you see you see Jasper already like just just like in a hurry, just like like
like getting the navigation, everything at the ready.
But he needs people to move the ship.
So he's just he's just starting the course.
Clarence is following you, or I will mention to Jeff to Jasper on his way past.
I'll just point out because I I have probably charted like 50 possible routes to this lighthouse
already.
So I'll just tell him where those maps are.
Thank you, brother.
Or is going to turn to Clarence behind her and just sign one moment, please.
And she's just going to open the game room and just close it gently behind her.
And from inside, he will hear things being thrown, ripped, torn.
He's destroying every game, every piece of painting of arts and crafts of artwork in
the game room so that it is almost recognizable.
You'll hear the tinkling of tokens being tasked, the chessboard being thrown, even bottles
being slammed up against walls.
I'm going to say also that maybe or didn't notice, but when she opened the door, Kenway
went in and she would find that Kenway's actually just perched looking at her while she's doing
all of this.
Cool.
Staying with her.
Yeah, so we can cut away from that to get to other stuff.
Daphne.
Your scry goes through.
You are scrying on Hylian?
Yeah.
Your sight immediately picks up.
Hylian in a chair, wind filled with a knife pressed against his finger and a white teafoot
whom upon your scry you hear she perks up.
I'm detecting something.
Are they watching?
Yes, it's a scry.
Question.
Yeah.
How is this room lit?
Dimly.
What is the source of the light?
It is a very small lantern hanging on the side.
Hylian is going to use Druidcraft to turn off the lantern.
Does Druidcraft require somatic components?
That's a good question.
Because your hands are currently bound.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Is my hand bound to the point if it's the weight of my motion?
Because that's what it is, right?
He is restraining one of your hands as well.
Right.
Yes.
But if the casting would be sort of like a form of prestidigitation for the physical
gesture.
It's verbal somatic.
It's also verbal.
Okay.
It's verbal somatic.
Let me look real quick at the ruling of that.
Make a motion to cast a spell.
They are unable to make the motion.
You must be able to move one hand freely, but just holding either nothing or a valid
focus.
Your other hand cannot cast if hands are tied.
I'm sorry.
But, Hojin, you do hear that someone is watching.
Possibly your crew out of concern.
What do I know if scrying also they can hear?
You would know if she can hear.
Yes, you would.
Okay.
So you used detect poison earlier.
What type of poison did I detect?
You detected crawler mucus.
I'm going to say that as soon as he hears that they can, that someone is there, he is
going to shout out the name and he's just going to say, look for chloro, look for chloro
crawler mucus poison.
As you say crawler mu.
You see Wenfeld pushes deep and your fingernails rended, crusting up from your finger.
So he'll get his voice as mucus and then he just greets his teeth as he refuses to just
give away the full scream.
Just takes the breath, takes it in and just come on.
He places a hand on your forehead adjusting you and he goes, your loved ones are watching.
I need you to scream as loud as you can.
And he maneuvers to your other finger, your thumb this time, placing this time against
your, against the cuticle of your thumb.
As seemingly now he's moving with like verosity and now that he knows that your friends are
watching.
He's taking one of your skip tools away, your nails.
If I'm not getting information from this and I can tell that he's going more at it because
I'm watching, I'm going to just do the once over a room best I can, the other person in
the room and everything.
And if I don't get the sense that they're going to say anything, drop anything, then
I will stop the spell.
I'm going to say that if since he wants me to scream, but he's not covering my mouth,
I'm going to use my voice to just continue to say things.
So as I'm, as he's giving the pain and I'm screaming, I'm just using the screaming.
It's just crawling, you crescent, funnishers.
And I just continue to just add things that I have gathered so far.
Just quit defying me, you dog.
And he's going to, he's, as you're just defying him, denying, denying his screams, he, he's
always had a closed helm sort of like look to him.
But not, but, but your fortitude seems to drive into this as he just raises the knife
and just deep in the, in the midst of your hand.
Yeah, Hilden just takes it and just, and looks at the, the, the knife on the, on hand.
Eight points of piercing damage.
Sorry.
But you have, you got all the information out and Daphne, you're hearing it through
his, through his pain grunts and screams.
The room is, the room is dark and it seems to be like a featureless sort of like stone
room, probably like the underground of some compound or something.
How these, give me a culture check, actually.
Okay.
Not courtly manners, I'm afraid.
History, history, I believe.
History I do have empires and war history.
Give me a history check.
Yeah.
Okay.
How convenient, Daphne.
Yeah.
Include specialty, submit.
Is a 16.
Four plus four plus four plus four.
You would, these empire facilities, they've been built a very long time ago and all of
them famously have these like little underground rooms that look very similar like this.
The reason why you know this is because you've been, you've been trained, you've been trained
for this.
You've read this in textbooks in your school.
So that little bit of information that you got so long ago allows you to realize where
Hillogen is, but not where you can't pinpoint the location, there's no features or anything.
Probably some compound.
Okay.
When she has everything she can, she's not going to always time keep watching for 10
minutes.
She'll drop it.
You drop it and you hear the, you hear the T-Fling go, the magic's gone.
When folk just kind of like steps back looking at you, can you predict what's going to happen
next?
I certainly can only say for certain that you are the most coward creature I have ever
encountered.
And how is that going to fare for you in the afterlife when you have to exist with the
fact that the creature that you consider to be the biggest coward you have ever seen was
the one who maimed you and your captain strung you both up on a tree?
Hillogen starts laughing painfully, but he's just...
Gwensild, you may have been tracking me.
You may have think you know who I am, but you do not know.
You do not understand that group.
And if you think that this will end in any form that will make you feel as you have accomplished
something great, I'm going to tell you, no wound, no pain is going to be as grand as
the fact that you will be forgotten.
And that is my gift to you, the foretelling of your nothingness.
Take an inspiration point.
Underdog baby!
You're right.
I don't know that girl.
But I know enough.
I know just the right amount.
She values you, doesn't she?
To be honest, I don't want to put much effort into looking into the head of a girl with
such delusional visions for the future.
I don't find it worthy of my time.
But apparently you did.
You lowered yourself to do that.
And look what that's got you.
But soon it'll be over, because what I'm going to say, it's what's going to happen.
And you know it.
That crew is going to terror itself asunder, looking for other turncoats and traders.
They're going to rush here in this valiant attempt to save you, not knowing that my vanishes
are waiting for them.
They are going to die.
And you will watch.
But you can take comfort in the fact that whatever left, when I'm done with you, can
go free.
Is what am I being restrained with?
I guess it rope.
Oh, you're asking me.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Hello.
I'm the funny DM.
They are very tight fitting like leather straps.
Okay.
Is there a way for Hildren to, discreetly and subtly, sort of as he's been moving with
the pain and the torture, to get a sense of whether or not there's any of these straps
that is looser than the other, whether the chair that he's sitting is a sturdy chair
or maybe not so sturdy, whether it has a creek, anything that he could potentially gather
for usage.
This chair, these straps, it was made for this purpose.
And you've been in one of these chairs before.
I'll say like testing out the weaknesses and such, it'll take a little bit.
We'll get to that for you later.
As for now, you see Wenfeld stand up.
He just kind of flex the blood of his knife and just sheaths it.
And he goes ahead and he looks towards the door and he just whistles.
As he whistles, you see the door slowly opens and the shadow of a man, the living silhouette
of what was once a person standing in the doorway.
A person completely dressed in dark cloaks, a mask.
A person that you cannot read whatsoever appears soundlessly and without presence, you're just
looking at this person.
And that's the only way that you know this person exists.
The person walks in.
He just goes, you stay here.
Make sure he doesn't sleep.
And as Wenfeld walks out.
And I call him before he leaves.
You absolutely may.
Delgian is going to say, hey, Wenfeld.
He stops and he turns.
Do you like to play chess?
He just cocks his head at you.
But do you like to play chess?
Perhaps you don't realize the magnitude of the situation that you're in.
But get it out now.
I need to kill that spirit.
Is a yes or no question.
And he's just staring at you.
He's staring back.
It's easy when the right people are on the other side.
Hilton smiles defiantly.
By the time that this all comes to an end, you are going to hate the game.
If your friends are as impetuous as I believe they are, you're going to be hearing from
me again very soon.
What are you going to do?
Go up to the lighthouse to see when they are coming?
He stops.
The lighthouse.
What do you know about it?
I'm sorry.
I thought you were leaving.
He turns around and there's a bit of a thought thinking that he's doing before he walks.
As he walks past the Vanisher, he stops next to him.
Just reaches over to the bottom of the Vanisher's mask and pulls up, taking the mask off.
And the thing is about elves is that they live long lives.
So you tend to, especially with other elves, you build memories and forge long lasting
friendships.
And you especially, Hojin, you have a good memory for faces.
You see the face of Estelar Avarin, your friend whom you thought perished.
The soul seemingly has completely, not literally, but left his eyes as he's just staring at
you with no emotions on his face whatsoever.
The black hair, his long black hair that he would braid and be admonished for by the higher
ups for being vain, now cut short.
But it's unmistakable.
There is a smolder where the fire in his eyes were.
When Fjeld goes, give him a wick and walks out.
The white tiefling walks out as well behind him and closes the door, leaving you alone
in the room with your former friend.
You see Estelar reaches for the mask and just puts it back on again.
Hilden's face drops for the first time, recognizing that face.
Estelar?
Nothing.
He then speaks in elvish.
Do you remember me?
Nothing.
He's just looking right at you.
What did they do to you?
I'm going to say that Hilden is going to actually attempt to shake himself in the chair.
He's going to try to do a couple of attempts of Jolt to see if that both causes a reaction
on Estelar and also gives him also a better sense of the chair's sturdiness.
You give a Jolt, give me an athletic check.
26, my man.
Whoa, 26.
Look at you.
Whoa, okay.
That's crazy.
Give me one second.
Just so I'm making sure.
I'm not sure how that's possible.
Wait, did I roll this wrong?
D20 plus five plus four.
You roll the A. Okay.
One second here.
More for proficiency.
Okay.
Yeah, but your strength modifier is a zero, which is why I'm wondering.
I can reroll.
You rolled a 17.
So we're just going to-
Okay.
You rolled a 22.
Or 21.
Yeah, 21.
So you rolled a 21, which is so similar to what I'm going to give you.
You just immediately thrash in the chair and you hear a small clang sound.
You feel resistance against, of course it's really tight around your wrist, but you feel
your resistance movement in your wrist.
There's already a reaction very fast.
A knife, a dagger is pulled.
And he's just kind of like holding it there, making it visible for you to look at.
A subtle threat.
He responded to that.
You've actually loosened up the straps, just a tiny amount, but you did.
He sees the knife and he just, are you going to speak now?
I do not know if you can.
Nothing.
Hildian has a moment and he remembers the moment when Wen fell turned to the door before
the figure appeared.
And he looks stellar.
He just goes, Oh, you probably can't hear this.
Let me see if I can try something.
Can you hear that?
Probably not.
I heard the beginnings of it.
He basically whistles.
He remembers the two time whistle and he attempts it.
Obviously he's just mimicking the sound.
Make a persuasion check.
Nevermind.
I'm sorry, you can spend an inspiration point if you want.
No, I'll save it.
Okay.
Then there's nothing.
It's clear why Wen put this man in the room with you to just watch over you like a warden.
Hildian takes a moment looking at those eyes that seem definitely like the spark that he
knew is not there.
You bear the face of a friend.
I do not think that his spirit is there, but I am sorry for whatever may have happened
to you.
I am sorry that I was not there.
Make a persuasion check with advantage.
I have nothing.
No.
One more time.
16.
Much better.
Again no sound.
Let's shift in the step maybe.
There's a heavy knock on the door.
Then you see Estelar steps to the side and just gives a knock back.
Opening the door, you see a man, a very large man wearing a large apron.
A clean apron but with a set of like a leather roll up of like a mat with tools and such.
A wicked looking large man with a very missing some teeth.
Maybe like a crooked look on him and a shaved head.
But he comes in immediately looking at you with like this sadistic smile.
He says, you're my canvas for the next few days then.
Good.
He says, Admiral told me that you were someone really special.
Closes the door.
So I'm just going to take my time.
Elgin's the name right?
At this year's.
Oh, that's not be too quick with the names now.
He lays out the mat, tools, hammers, knives, scaffolds.
Just because we're going to take the time to really get to know each other.
Is Estelar still there?
Yeah.
And he's just watching.
Elgin's going to look at Estelar.
If you are there, you may feel that we lost that day.
But even now and every day that I have draw breath, I never surrendered.
And even though, oh, sorry.
Go ahead, finish.
I hope that whatever part of you remains somewhere deep down, is still fighting till, till the
end.
Make another persuasion check with advantage.
These are nerve wracking.
Hey, there we go.
There we go.
What?
We were talking earlier.
This is the game.
Make sure to see your rolls guys.
I rolled an 18 and then a 19.
Goodness.
He remains there.
As this as the large man, presumably a torturer, just kind of goes, ah, kind of grabs your
face, turns you towards him.
Yeah, I'll learn to keep your eyes on me.
And we're going to cut to Daphne fresh out of the sky.
As soon as she stops scrying, she turns out of the room and leaves.
She she is going to go to.
I had the name pulled up already.
She's going to go to Ravi.
She tells Ravi.
Crawler mucus.
What do you know about it?
It paralyzes people.
Terrible business.
Do you know how to make an antidote?
And would you have what you need?
I can take a look.
Also Timmy, am I familiar with banishers and what kind of poisons that they might generally
use?
They're rather clandestine.
Very secretive.
But I am very much a researcher, too.
Yeah, but they're not in the books.
It's not like an open thing.
Yeah.
OK.
She'll just say anything you can do, it's not it's not desperately urgent to send someone
we need to heal here.
But I think we will need anything we can to counteract that.
I know that specifically in play and I know that there will likely be other kinds of poison,
too.
I'll go ahead and try my best to whip something up.
Thank you.
The next on her list is she's going to hurry and try to see if that bag of holdings ready
from John.
OK.
So here's what I'm going to do, everyone.
In the interest of time, I am going to have to hand wave a few things.
Yeah.
Just in the absolute interest of time for when I Jane Zachariah Humphrey, the staring
down of people trying to figure things out, I would say like I believe Humphrey has a
really naturally like high insight, like I'm like a messy confusion, like as everything
clears up, like you don't believe that anybody else here is a turncoat.
But even though Nelly's been here for eight years and some of you like drink with her,
you share your dreams with her and things like that.
Just the level of like the seat that you're dealing with.
But as far as you all can tell, I'm going to go ahead and say that like there is there
is there is a sort of shaky but like there's a confidence in the people you have right
now.
As Zachariah, when I Jane, are you two doing anything?
Yeah, we got to figure out what messages we're sending.
Yeah.
Once we're by ourselves, I would turn to Zachariah and really pull out paper and pen and be like,
OK, I didn't want to ask the captain because like now is not the time.
But like, I don't know what she wants me to ask my parents.
Like am I is this a plea letter?
Is this a threatened letter?
Is this?
I don't know.
Your brother, your brother, your brother, your brother.
My brother.
OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
OK.
Never mind, it just occurred to me that she probably meant my brother.
So that helps.
Yeah.
Cool.
Just we need information and anything.
OK.
If if if he would be if you think he's trustworthy, maybe if he can get us a way in or something
like that.
Way in information.
You know, OK.
Something you can think of like that.
Yeah.
OK.
Cool.
Just a lot of work on that now.
I think mine is easier.
I think I have the easier job.
I'm just like who, why, where?
OK.
Well, do you have any advice?
You know, I've never really written an official doc like this is cool.
This is a really important letter.
So I don't just like remember it's only 25 words.
That's what.
OK.
Yeah, I know.
I was I was up.
I've been the last couple of hours I was writing stuff to Darryl.
But that's going to have to wait.
OK.
So that's fine.
OK.
Got it.
Do you know?
Yeah.
Just you know, I'll go.
Cut words.
OK, I'll go the guilt route.
Right.
That's good.
Not the black male threatening route.
I think guilt.
What if?
Oh, wait.
What if you can set up like a meeting with him?
Like you mean.
Oh, and then we can like talk talk.
You know.
So you like guilt either send me information or we can meet up.
Got it.
OK.
Or or or is an idea I had with OK.
What if you can we can get him to talk to us via scry and then then you can talk more.
So like, OK, like, here's my questions.
Just speak out loud in a few minutes kind of thing.
You know what I mean?
OK, so I have to fit in 25 words all of our questions.
OK, so you're really making this super easy for me.
And I'm not stressed of disappointing the captain.
No, you're you're fine.
We're going to be all good.
Yeah, OK.
It's all good.
I'm going to go find Daphne real quick because I think I have mine ready.
I'll be right behind you.
I'll be back.
You got you got this.
You got this.
Bathroom buddies.
OK.
Captain or you hear a knock on the door.
Everything good in there.
Opens the door.
Steps out, probably with Kenway on her shoulder.
And signs Roland, please.
Oh, Clarence.
No, no, she's asking for.
Oh, you're asking for Roland.
OK.
He looks past you into the room.
We have a moment to speak.
She from down below Clarence's head's taller than you.
You see the coldest, slow pan up to him.
And she says she signs to him.
You want to talk right now.
He's going to come back.
And then he walks past you and he begins to pick up everything very.
Oh, and he's cleaning up the room.
I just want to make the place nice.
For when we get him back.
And I want to make sure that we're all here.
In his head, he'll hear if I wasn't so weak, we'd still all be here.
You can't do that.
I'm off to find Roland.
You will be in charge of a secondary team that is in charge of destroying the lighthouse.
Here's a plan.
It's a good one.
I figured since that White House is a pretty important military installation with everything
going on.
Why don't you wait for me to cause the commotion first?
Everything diverts over there.
You get your man.
Our helmsman.
Our friend.
I have to get more information.
I will be back and she'll go find Roland.
You just continue to clean.
Daphne, I believe you were looking for Captain Aura.
I was going to get the bag from Captain John, but then I'm going for Aura.
So I'll say you see making your way up towards the upper deck where everyone is at the moment
with people getting organized and dressed down.
Roland is free, but you see Captain Aura that he is very visible on his face.
There's extreme nervousness.
For you Daphne, you retrieve the bag from a crewmate who uses a hook on a pole to hand
over the bag.
Everyone's in the upper deck except Hilton, of course.
Then I go to Aura.
I go to Aura.
I said, I have what John said he would give us.
That means we can leave.
It's an era that I've never seen him before, but the person matches how you've described
when felt Lorde again to me.
And what are they doing?
She goes, she thinks a moment.
They're luring you in.
They're underground in, I recognize the type of facility.
You probably would too, but I can't pinpoint where because it's underground.
Underground.
Would I know of any an area for something this high up in the Navy?
There's strongholds where this might be done in regards to where the lighthouse is, given
my past experience in the Navy.
Around that area in particular, there is one stronghold.
There is?
Yes.
And it's close to the lighthouse?
Yes.
What's it called?
The Rhino Lair.
Okay.
I let Daphne know this and she says I need to confirm one more thing before we move forward.
I know that they're luring you.
So is that the place where they would think you're most likely to go to retrieve him?
She says not only are they luring me, Daphne, but with the presence of the Crestons, they
are luring Jane and with the presence of House Castell, they are luring Humphrey.
And I'm just asking, is that the...
I think they would put him in the spot where they would see us as most likely to think
he is if they want us to go there.
So can we say with confidence that it's that location?
We're going to have to take a gamble and say yes.
Okay.
What is your plan?
I see it.
I see you thinking behind those eyes of yours.
She goes...
I am.
She says...
We know that there's crawler mucus.
There will likely be other poisons and vaniers.
That's what Tellshin said before the scry ended.
They knew I was watching.
And I think...
I know we're going in no matter what.
I know they're expecting us.
We need to think about how we can take them off guard still, even while we walk into the
plan that they want us to.
Some key strategies of war, Daphne, that I'm sure you have studied as well as I.
Identify your enemies, be ruthless, and do not repeat the same tired methods.
I plan to stage a full-on counterattack.
Don't worry.
There will be no sacrifices and or room for us staying behind should the crew need to
split today.
She nods.
She goes...
Unless there's something specifically you need me to do first, I'm going to convene
with Humphrey.
And I think we should check food supply if they had poison on the ship.
Good thinking.
Ideas and tactics mean nothing without an organized, responsive, and creative army.
I am going to count on you, as I always have, to make sure this is done.
We may lose battles, but we will end this war.
And she's going to walk off to Roland.
To which you see Roland, uncharacteristically fiddling with his thumbs, shaky hands that
are holding onto his lute.
And he sees you approaching, Captain, and he immediately stiffens up.
Might I use one of your sending spells, Roland?
She signs.
Of course.
Do you require any object from me to help get a better interaction with said person,
or will his name be enough?
Name is good, but an object really helps.
She takes the pawn from her pocket, hands it out to him.
This message will be going to Lelantos Boreas.
It will read as follows.
Give your location your reason for treason.
And two answers.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
And the favored chess piece.
Tim, I sent you the answer in a DM.
Got it.
All right.
I can only do this three times.
But if I go to sleep right now for a second, I can cram in a few more.
He begins to, you see he begins to send.
And as he does, he covers his mouth for a moment.
You hear him repeat the question entirely in the head voice that you have in people.
Because when you communicate telepathically.
Oh, it's mimicry.
So that's the first time I've heard my voice out loud in 10 years.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, that's a little, yeah, that's a little, but that kind of awakens her a little, but
shuts back down.
He goes, and now we have to play the waiting game.
It'll take a bit.
I'm not sure how.
Can you repeat to me one more time?
What's your question?
I can want me to put in the chat.
Would that help?
Oh, just you can, you can say it.
Oh, give your location, your reason for treason.
And two answers, what is so fragile that saying its name breaks it and a favored chess piece.
Security questions.
It's literally security questions.
A riddle with one answer as a security question.
And a favorite chess piece.
So two.
There you go.
That's the one.
Roland speaks.
He says, he says he's in a place, but you shouldn't be.
He said his crime was love.
He said, he said that the answer was silence.
He also said a promise and he said he loves you.
He didn't answer the chess part.
A place I shouldn't be isn't very, when she start, you see that she's starting to lose
it and then she bottles it down.
That wasn't very specific.
But nonetheless, we will go with what information we have.
Thank you, Roland.
Of course.
And she'll leave him.
All right, anyone else?
Do I find Daphne before she runs off to find Humphrey?
You do find Daphne.
Yeah.
Daphne, here.
I need second opinion.
Okay.
So I had, you know, this and I'll hold out the book with the boards in it.
But the other thought I had, and I just want to know if this is possible.
You can like stare at people from like a ways away, right?
That's your weird magic thing that you do.
I can see further in the dark than.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, like you're, you're, you're scry thing, right?
Oh, yes, I guess that's okay.
Yes.
Would it be possible to?
Basically, I mean, I motion to the thing.
That's what it is.
But I was wondering if he could, I don't know how he set up.
What did you find out, I suppose is the question when you looked at him?
When I looked at Hilsin?
Yeah.
So anything in particular that that if you change the question for because my thought
was we could you could look at him again and he could respond if he's tied up with like
sign maybe behind his back.
He can't sign behind his back.
He's bound.
I think he gave me the information he could give me.
Already, he knew I was crying on him.
And so he shouted to me.
I think this is a good idea, however.
As long as he knew when I was crying on him.
I think we could send him a message and then, you know, in a minute, just start talking
or something.
Yeah.
Well, it has to be at least 10.
Well, I guess unless we timed it right.
But.
Regardless, I think this is good.
I think, though, in I think currently I have all the information he's able to give me right
now and they know when I'm scrying on him.
Do you think they'd know if we were sending a message?
I think they were detecting magic like I have been doing, so they could most more than likely
sense it.
But I don't think they would be able to perceive the message itself, at least.
It works.
So then should we wait and not send him now or?
I think we should wait unless there's something specific we need to tell, Hiljen.
And maybe it would be good while we're traveling after more time has passed, because the situation
might have changed to check in like that.
OK.
We'll check in, I guess, maybe later today or tonight.
OK, cool.
Jane is really struggling.
I don't know if you have any tips that I can give her.
I come walking up to you with like a piece of paper.
It's just so we need to think of what information we need from him specifically.
I believe what we spoke about earlier was that did we need to know?
She thinks again, she's going.
We were trying to find information about Oris' father through them.
So if we're able to ask if you think he would answer about what she was about to say, your
you can kind of catch on her little bit.
She says what his father.
Because they're in public about where his father is and what his activities are.
If we can think of a way, if you're if you are able to think of a way to corner the information
without having him question much in the response, that would be ideal.
I brought up we could do the thing that I suggested to him too.
Yeah, yeah, I wrote a really threatening and also guilting letter, so I think he will respond.
And then, yeah, if we can scry on him, maybe we can get more than 25 words.
But like, I don't know how I'm not that good at this magic stuff.
So if we don't want to send Hildreyn something right now, we could always send him to, you
know, get if we get his reaction and then be like, OK, start talking.
OK, I can cast scribe one more time before I rest.
We would have to have this the message time up for when my scry takes hold, because it
takes me about 10 minutes to cast and then it lasts about 10 minutes.
So I think the idea is we can we can do that.
I need to.
I need to handle something else first.
But make sure the message is how you want it and any questions fit and maybe take into
consideration that perhaps we can do two instead of one now and think of that in the meantime
and I will come back to you.
She if nobody stops her, she.
We'll walk off to Humphrey like really focused.
Jane, let's we'll work on it.
We'll see.
OK, I'll tell you.
Hello, Kev.
Yeah, I'm there.
Oh, all right.
Good.
Yeah, you just everyone down.
Nothing.
And Daphne approaches you.
She's checking the bag as she goes for anything useful and.
And she finds Humphrey.
And she says.
Humphrey, I need your help with something.
Hey, Daphne, where do you need to?
First of all, can I help?
She is.
I want to get to focusing on Hill's in.
But first, I need your help with a plan.
I have not told or.
And time sensitive.
I found something in that the beholder gave us.
I think it might help you.
And she'll give him the cloak of Elven kind, since that's supposed to go to him anyways.
But she is.
And she pulls out her potion and she still has the bottle.
She still has a bottle that somebody took from the kitchen early.
She is OK.
Delfin.
I think can get us Darryl.
And I think.
And the opportunity is when John attacks Brando.
Which could be tonight or tomorrow, he said.
Which means I need to contact her immediately.
All she wants from from me for a deal is the spark.
So what I want to do, since she didn't detect you were there last time.
I want you to hide.
I want you to be behind her somewhere where I know.
To the right.
Of her shoulder, perhaps.
But far away, far enough away, but where I could know where you are.
And then when I offer her.
The spark when I make the deal.
I'm going to look to you instead of her.
OK, that should be easy enough.
I don't want her to find out about this, which is why I'm not telling anyone who doesn't
need to know.
Not now.
That's why I haven't told or.
Are you willing to help me with that?
Fair enough.
I was so sealed.
She nods and she.
Looked through the bag for her, the potion he said he was John was going to give her.
I was going to have. I was going to have.
Someone cast invisibility on you, Roland.
But I'm worried she might detect the magic of that.
And I think this cloak accomplishes the same purpose from what I've gathered.
But it would also if if you if you would do your thing where you can see magical things,
wouldn't the cloak also pop up?
It would, but at least it's not a spell.
Is what I think.
Oh, OK.
So should I?
Should we take the risk with the cloak?
I think I can maybe also do it without it just to be extra safe.
I think I would like to use.
The cloak and see how it goes, but I think it's a fair point.
But all right.
I'll trust your decision.
Is there anything anything else I can do right now?
It's a very hard time and you know, I'm not the talker person.
I'm not the magic person.
I can do.
What do you think?
I can just do a good meal and that's about it and sneak around.
So if you guys need any help, just let me know.
Well, we still need to eat.
But that is another point I brought up to or as well.
I want to do this first because I'm worried about the time sensitivity of it.
But all right, it has been confirmed that there were vanishing from an era on our ship.
I'm there were poisons as they poisoned.
I would be worried that they might have poisoned the food supply, too.
So that's something I would like to check.
It wouldn't happen to have any, you know, additional spices or something in that magic
bag of yours.
Just that we can use in case of ours, in case they were poisoned.
Strangely enough.
How convenient.
Weird.
It's really weird.
She just kind of stunned.
She puts it like that.
All right, then.
You want to do it.
Okay.
I think I need a little bit until I can use the cloak.
So we're doing it right after.
Yes.
Okay.
And I sit with the cloak and I guess I have to tune to it, right?
Yes.
Okay.
I'll tune to the cloak.
What does the cloak look like to me?
It is a it's it's it's sort of like a dark greenish cloak.
I'll say over over the time you're tuning to it, it begins to when it touches you, it
begins to blend in to your surroundings on its own.
And the more time you tune to it, the more stronger the effects you take over.
It's like those like invisibility like things like you just hold it and you just and then
all of a sudden you can see through everything.
You just see the ship and like everything through it.
Wow.
Okay.
As long as you're wearing it.
Yeah.
And I'm going to temporarily take the ring of mind shielding and the stone of good luck.
I'm going to give those to the people who wanted them later.
But for just this, I'm going to take those for now.
Got it.
And then get set up the way she told me to.
But I start working on that.
Okay.
As soon as I'm tuned, I'll go into the specified room and just try to erase my existence in
some corner.
Easy.
Goodness.
We're going to get to that in a bit because it takes you some time to tune.
Yeah.
We're going to come back to that real quick.
One eye Jane, as you're just kind of like writing and you think you're done, you have
your message, everything's good.
There's a tap on your shoulder.
And you see Brooke.
Hey Brooke.
Are you busy right now?
No, no, I'm okay.
What's up?
She goes, good.
And she just grabs, she just like bends up, grabs your wrist and starts, starts like dragging
you.
Like, she's okay.
I let her run you too.
I'm going to kill that boy.
I will help you hide the body.
She doesn't respond to that, but she seems kind of thankful.
She begins to drag you like, like downwards, like into like the bottom of the ship, into
like towards like, you know, the game room where all of like the private rooms are.
And she just opens Zachariah's door and she pulls you inside moving past Clarence.
It goes, it goes, hello you two, busy, and then drags you to Zachariah's room and then
closes the door.
All right.
Take your shirt off.
Okay.
I take my shirt off.
Like a moment's hesitation and I'm like, you know what?
Fine.
Easy, easy, girls.
Let's go.
And she, and she just goes, all right.
Now she pulls out from her back the small, like the small, the small thin box.
And she just goes, all right.
Now put it on your stomach.
Putting towards the bed.
When I change, I controls her hand, blushes, okay.
She realizes, you see her eyes widen all of a sudden and her face just becomes immediately
red.
I'm, that wasn't, I'm not going to do anything to you.
I wasn't going to.
I.
And then she looks around and just, and she realizes, and she just, you've never seen
her like this before, where she's just absolutely bewildered.
Lay on your stomach right now or I will cut you.
Yes, ma'am.
And I'll lay on my stomach.
She's.
But I'm definitely like kicking my feet.
Like, you know, when you're like texting someone, you have a crush on and you're just like,
she just slams your feet.
Stop it.
I'm.
I just thought I wanted to.
I don't know what the next few days are going to hold.
Everything's been really confusing and now it looks like we're running into something
crazy.
I just thought I.
Give you something.
Because I know you're going to do something stupid.
Maybe get yourself killed.
Probably.
I was chosen by Clarence to go.
With him.
And personally, I'd like to.
See you again.
So you hear the she opens up the box and she just pulls out a needle.
I think this is best for you.
And this for me, though, I haven't done this in a long time.
I'm going to give you a tattoo.
I look over my shoulder at it.
You are OK.
What like what is it?
A tattoo of like.
Not something lame, right?
Because we're pirates.
Cause it's.
Nothing.
What do you think is.
What the hell do you want it to be?
I don't know.
I think it's a dagger.
Yeah, I can do a dagger.
And I just get really comfortable to ever tell you about the time.
I'm just letting you know after I'm done.
If you look at it, and you laugh or you make fun of me in any way, there's no frills about
it.
I'm just going to kill you.
I'm not even going to be poetic about it.
In broad daylight, I would do it in front of everyone.
That's why I like you.
I don't need poetry, so...
Tap me up, baby.
Why do you say such weird things?
She begins...
Getting a tattoo hurts.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
You have incredible fortitude, but it's Brooke.
As you feel it, you feel the ink.
It's just one needle, by itself.
There's no like...
You don't see any ink or anything, but you do feel the wetness of it against your skin
as she's slowly, ever so slowly just drawing onto your back, piercing in and out of your
body.
But this is probably the most gentle she's ever been with anyone.
She's focused, but you feel it.
The small of her hand pressing against the back of your neck as she steadies you.
Sometimes you might have to remind her to breathe because she's so focused.
No.
The very subtle, like little exhale of air out of her nose.
And you tell her.
She, at some point, she leans back.
Puts it...
You see that the needle at the very end with it has sort of like...
You're not sure, but it's lost some sheen to it.
And she places it gingerly back in the box.
It was only the needle.
And closes it.
She kind of blows like softly onto your back, onto the ink to dry it.
And you feel something just spread across your skin for a very quick second before you
return to normal.
Alright.
I think that'll do it.
She pulls out a dagger.
And she goes, hey.
And do you turn towards her?
Yeah, I turn towards her.
She immediately moves the dagger to stab you directly in the chest.
I don't flinch.
You don't flinch because as she aims the dagger towards you, you see the ink roll from your
back to the front of your body hardens and stops the dagger.
Good.
I didn't know if that would work.
I grab her hand that's holding the dagger and brush a piece of hair behind her ear.
Brooke.
I don't know what love's supposed to look like.
I never saw it growing up.
Not between my parents.
Not in my mother's arms or in my father's words.
Not even in my brother's eyes.
All that I have ever known.
All that I am.
Strength.
And for so long I believed that.
I believed my father's words.
But they're cowards because this is the most afraid I've ever been.
And then she releases Brooke's hand and removes her eye patch.
Her expression, which was always hardened, all of a sudden now at this torrent of truth
coming from the heart.
It softens her.
And maybe for the first time now you can really see the brightness of her eyes.
Maybe a little glisten as she listens to you.
My name is Raelin Creston.
And I don't know how to love, but I would like to learn with you if you'll have me.
If we make it out of this alive, of course.
I don't know how to.
I don't know either.
I've never had it and I thought it would be best if I lived without it.
But now that I have something to lose now, but I was told that's a good thing.
Kind of scary, right?
I'm willing to work.
Please come back.
You too.
If anything happens to you, I may not.
I may have embellished some of my stories, but you know, I'm not afraid to like go actually
fight gods or sharks or whatever it is for you, so if anything happens to you, I'll be
right behind you.
She covers her mouth.
And yeah, I'd do the same for you.
I always had it in my mind that you were some kind of spoiled rich noble kid.
Okay, well, you know, you don't need to wound me so soon after I just poured.
But yeah, that's fair.
Do you see why I like had to put on the eyepatch and everything?
Like nobody cares about stories of like spoiled rich girls.
Like hello.
I was the same.
It's actually a little crazy because you were going to say the thing that I was going to
say.
I also come from a noble family.
Look at us made for each other.
I also didn't know the love of anyone in my family.
Wow.
Why are rich people such assholes?
I want to punch all of them.
Oh, same.
I have all this rage.
Like I'm constantly angry like fucking time.
Just want to kill and bloodshed and everything.
And when I became a pirate, I was shocked how little bloodshed we saw.
I was like, hello.
I was promised.
She stands on her tiptoes and she just got she grabs your chin and she just guides you
into a gentle kiss.
She pushes back.
Just kind of like shocked.
I'll get better.
It's pretty.
I mean, I don't know how it's going to get better than that, but okay.
Yeah.
Cool.
But for now, you're wearing some kind of elvish tradition on you.
I stole this from my family.
So appreciate it.
I thought if there is someone that I wanted to protect, I would give it to them.
I'll wear it with honor.
Thank you.
And I take her hand and I put the eye patch in her hand.
What are you, what are you going to do?
Who knows?
Let's add more stories to the One-Eyed Jane saga.
What kind of fun she sighs and it's it's it's exaggerated, but you see on her face like,
oh, what did I get myself into?
But all right, Raylan, you can.
Well, it's you told me your name.
I guess I can tell you mine.
I'm sorry.
Come on.
And she's going to do that in secret.
So I'm going to DM Kendra.
Is it because I'll recognize it?
Yeah.
Wait, Jenny, do you think she's from Inera or is she from Orhan Dor?
Not Orhan Dor.
I wouldn't think.
She whispers that to you.
I wish I would be there in canon.
Obviously, I just keep it as we get stuff.
Or Humphrey gets stuck in every intimate moment on this trip.
I just realized this is Zachariah's room.
You want to snoop, fuck shit up?
I would like that.
Yeah.
OK, I'll take this side.
Take this side.
And I just start like rummaging through things.
What was that?
A dagger starts cutting up the bed sheet.
Hell yeah.
And we'll cut from that.
Wow, they got rough.
You have the tattoo of the sentinel.
So that means you have a plus two to your AC.
And once per long rest, you can nullify one instance of damage.
Does Mariana have kids?
Thank you.
That's big.
All right.
Before we head over to Humphrey and Daphne, Captain Aura and Zachariah, do you have anything?
Do you want to?
I have to.
Well, she's going to send a message to the sending stone to Marzarr.
So if you want to do something first, Albert, I can move out.
Yeah.
Daphne hasn't given me stuff yet.
So she has to give me stuff before I can do any of my plan stuff.
OK.
So do you want me to go?
OK.
Quick question.
Would Aura think that it would be better?
Oh, is actually is Clarence out here?
Yes, he's coming out after cleaning up the cleaned up the game room.
She's going to walk over to him.
She doesn't want to sign it because she's being very careful with information right
now.
But she's going to telepathically ask, would you prefer back up at the lighthouse?
Or would you believe or do you think Rinalari would be better?
That's why I believe that Hildren and the Lampilts are being held.
Any kind of backup would be appreciated.
I'd definitely like to know the other people in this tango.
What are you thinking?
She holds out the stone.
So you need backup at Afros Harbor, yes?
We can make an even bigger distraction.
On it.
Using the sending stone, she will send the following message.
Honorable Captain, the world is in peril.
Speak later.
Bring all allies to lay siege to Afros Harbor.
To war we go, Marzarr.
Remember footsteps.
I can do only 25 words, correct?
Right.
Thank you, Whiskey Blues.
Hello, Captain.
No, no please don't.
I received your message.
Yes.
I will give out the word.
Let us lay siege to...
Well, you got the message.
Hey, did you hear?
What did you think about my riddle at the end of the message?
I told you.
I remember those footsteps, remember what I told you at the end of that message.
And that's all she...
It's Rin-a-lar-ay, right?
That's how you pronounce it?
It's Rin-a-lar-ay?
That's how you pronounce it?
Rhin-a-lar?
Yes.
Rhin-a-lar.
Okay.
And just so I know, how far is it from Afros Harbor?
If I looked on a map, how far would it be?
So Afros Harbor is at the... of course it's at the harbor, so towards the sea.
Rin-a-lar is located a few miles.
Great.
A good few miles away.
Okay.
Leaning more towards a swampy forest area that is still closer to the town proper.
Okay.
Okay, what we might end up doing and then we can cut over.
I'll be done for this.
That will be my end of the session.
But we could end up doing, if it is a couple miles inland, we can have the eternal smile.
We could maybe take, maybe the aid team could take the airship to Rin-a-lar-ay so that we
don't have to cover too much ground.
But these are things we can think about.
Because we do have to dock and go inland to get to Rin-a-lar-ay.
Okay, cool.
Yep, that's it.
Okay.
All right.
Just to settle the thing with Zachariah real quick.
Zachariah, you see Armin nervous walking up to you.
Hey, Zachariah.
Hey, Armin.
How are you doing, brother?
Good.
Why do you look guilty?
It's just after everything here, I still didn't get yelled at for the airship thing by the
Daphne.
I think you're fine.
You're fine.
You think she's going to be okay, right, Daphne?
Is she going to kill me?
No, I don't think she's going to kill you.
I did tell her that, I mean, she knows that I was the captain at that time, so I'll probably
get some of the brunt of it, whatever.
I did also blame a lot of it on Hilgen.
I did say that it was his idea.
But no, Hilgen's gone.
Yeah, they're not going to get angry at him.
So...
So everything's good.
I think you're fine.
You're fine.
You just blame it on me, and it'll be fine.
I can't do that.
No, it's all good.
You were so helpful.
I couldn't.
What can I say?
Also sorry for the battering ram thing.
That was Chai's idea.
When we picked up the ship, I didn't want to do it.
Oh, no, that was cool.
We should do that again.
Oh, please don't tell that to Chai.
He's going to get a big head.
Hey, it worked out.
We took out three ships.
Think about it.
And then you hear in the distance, Chai just sets it.
He goes, damn it.
I mean, dang it.
Pardon my language, but can I see your armor, if you have any?
Oh.
I just looked down at my chest.
Yeah.
I thought maybe you forgot to put it on.
Do you want me to take off my shirt?
Do you want my shirt?
Yeah, I'll take your shirt.
Yeah.
Okay.
There you go.
Roland's like, what the fuck is going on over there?
Jealous?
Yeah.
Just sigh.
Armin takes his shirt and goes, all right, I can work on this, actually.
Give you an edge in the future.
Yeah.
Well, anyone who wears this, really.
Only I'm working with armor, I might actually destroy your shirt.
You have more, right?
I can give you more.
Maybe, yeah.
I'm bigger than you, though.
I hope you don't mind the flowy shirts.
That's fine.
All right, cool.
They're cotton, they're very soft.
But I can make something where it can stabilize your fatality if you take too much damage.
It can only last for that day.
After it goes off once, the shirt's disenchanted, it's gone.
Can you...
That sounds cool.
Can you do that to something else?
Does it have to be a shirt?
Something you wear, like a ring.
Yeah, yeah.
Like Anna?
Actually, I have a meeting to talk to you.
I mean, I gotta find a ring, but I've been wanting to make something for Daryl for a
while, and I was hoping you could help.
I've never made a gift like that before, but I'm really happy you came to me about it.
Yeah, yeah, I can do something.
Actually, I pull out and rip a page out of my journal and fold it up.
I want this engraved on it.
I don't know if you can make a ring.
Maybe I'll find one.
Maybe I can swipe one off someone here on deck.
I have a jewelry box you can look at if you want.
Perfect, yeah, that sounds great.
Do you think you could put whatever that is on the ring?
Of course.
Easy.
Oh, I mean that, yes, but also whatever thing you were just talking about with the...
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You know what, I can.
Yeah.
Perfect.
I'll need it before we get to Honluse at the very latest.
I can give it to you tomorrow.
Okay, sounds good.
Thank you, brother.
You've been very kind and good.
It's been a very stressful few days, if I'm being completely honest.
All right, well, you're going to go on the mainland to help Hylsjön, right?
Yep.
That's the plan.
I'm confident you guys are going to get them back.
Are you staying on the ship or are you going...
Oh, I'm staying.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
That's good.
Good.
You're in charge of flying ship thing.
Got it.
All right.
I'm going to look into work.
But Fairwinds, brother, he awkwardly leaves.
And then I look at him and I'm like, oh, he took my shirt with him.
Yeah, he has your shirt.
He doesn't even think about it.
He's just walking away.
Well, I'll just go to my room and go get a new one, I guess.
Your chest follicles are present.
I'm just kidding.
Oh, you're going down to your room and getting them?
I'm just going to go to my room and go get a new one.
That's fine.
All right, cool.
All right, we'll get to that a bit, but we got to cut over to Daphne and to Humphrey.
They just appear next to Daphne, like I take the hood off.
All right.
It seems to be working.
Yeah.
She's being very thorough setting up.
She gave her that specific way to summon her.
Wherever she is in the room, stand directly to her right, but behind.
And she's obviously triple checking to make sure they're not being watched right now,
but she's always doing that.
Okay.
I'll go to the opposite of the room of Daphne and then I'll try to just erase my presence,
hunker down a bit.
Go ahead and do you have a D20 with you, Kev?
No, but Albert, do the thing.
Albert, do the thing.
Be a deer.
All right, stealth check.
With the hood up, so with advantage.
Hold on, let us add our 27 modifiers.
Does your anonymity specialty apply?
I don't think so.
I don't believe so.
No.
And do you have any other dice that get added to this from other features?
Nope, not that I think of.
28 is what you rolled.
Oh wait, that's not an advantage.
Let me roll advantage.
Let's add one more.
31.
Jesus.
Okay, that works.
I just hope I do okay.
Daphne, you see Humphrey is like, okay, I'm gone.
And just disappears from existence.
An almost empty room.
I don't know how.
This is why I asked you.
You check your Facebook and Humphrey is gone as well.
Nothing, no account, no online presence.
Okay.
She'll take the potion as long as it'll last long enough to get her through.
You take the potion.
10 minutes.
Okay.
She'll summon Delphine with the pouring the drink.
As you pour the drink, and you place it down onto a small table, provided down there, a
few minutes pass and you're not entirely sure.
You feel no change in the atmosphere.
You keep looking around.
But then you feel a sudden hue suddenly take form of the surroundings, the dull gray and
black of the ship replaced by a slight tinge of like strawberry red.
And you see a white gloved hand reach over your shoulder and plucks the wine glass up
from the table and carries it back.
As you see Delphine in her, not true form, but the form she showed you before.
Real pallid tiefling with white hair, dressed extremely nice.
She sits across from you, a ever increasing smile on her face.
As she sits, she holds the wine glass in one hand, kind of curls the top of her fingers
over her chin.
And then you call for me eventually.
I thought of one thing.
Must be a very important thing, dear.
She goes.
If you're getting the spark, I need a lot.
Well maybe price then.
But before we begin, I don't want you to go into this thinking that anything is unfair.
I mean chances are you've never made a deal with a demon before, correct?
No.
So if I'm going to give you some advice, you have to be very, very careful with your words.
One wrong slip of a phrase has multiple meanings.
Demons will take advantage of you.
Where are you going to?
I wouldn't like to.
I know you're a smart, I know you're a smart young woman, but I'm just telling you.
Be careful.
I'll get right to it then.
The deal.
What I want is for you to retrieve Zachariah's boyfriend, Daryl, unharmed, free of any contingencies,
tells that his captor, Brando Caligaris, not his true name, but free of any of those restraints
he might have placed on him.
I've tried to make an opening for you to do this because I don't think it's straightforward.
So the beholder, John, is attacking him tonight or tomorrow.
I think that would be a good opportunity.
A beholder.
She nods because he believes Brando Caligaris is a lich.
Surely quite the web you've been spun up in.
So remind me one more time, reiterate it for me, I'm to save someone's boyfriend?
I want you to bring Daryl to me, unharmed, free of any spells that Brando might have
cast on him.
Careful.
Specify.
Daryl, last name?
No last name.
Zachariah's boyfriend, Daryl.
Better.
Internally, she's like, that's why I said it the first time, but she doesn't say it
but she's like, I love that Daphne's being snarky as fuck in her head.
I need him brought to me before our other ship attacks Afros Harbor.
And when's that?
When we arrive in a couple of days.
But he can be brought earlier.
That would be fine.
That's it?
No, that's not it.
Because if you are getting what you want out of it, I know that I need to ask for more.
Oh, is this a two-parter?
Things get a little bit more complicated when there's two parts to it.
I'm sure we can figure it out.
Tell me then, Daphne.
What else do you want?
I want you to be unable to harm anyone that we declare as a Blackguard.
If we stop declaring them to be one, then they're fair game.
Things get a little loosey under Demon Court, but thankfully you have me to honor it.
This wouldn't go well with any other demon.
Specifically the Blackguard's gallery's pirate crew.
Who applies the labels?
Just you?
Whoever the current captain and first mate are can.
I see.
All right.
Perfect.
So allow me to reiterate everything.
I return Zachariah's boyfriend, Darrow, who is in the captivity of Brando Caligaris.
I must do it before this assault on a harbor in, say, about two days.
And I must not harm anyone that specific members of this pirate crew label as a part of the
crew.
Am I correct?
We'll reiterate the parts that she was specific about before a bit, but aside from that, it's
pretty close to accurate.
Let me, because I really want to help you, define return for me.
You said unharmed.
I know that for certain.
But what is return?
To me.
I want to be him to me.
All right.
Is he a member of the Blackguards?
She is.
I'll consider him to be a member of the Blackguards.
Understood.
Make a persuasion check with the added advantage.
Advantage?
I didn't know what it added.
Also, sorry to butt in, Tim, but Humphrey's stealth is actually 36.
Unchanged?
Okay.
Ah, dang it.
I rolled a 32.
This is plus an additional one also because I rolled with Charisma.
Yeah, roll Charisma.
Nat 20 plus, I would rather have this for the deception check that I know is coming,
but 22.
You got this.
You got this, Daphne.
Nat 20.
She nods.
She will, she is going to say two.
One more thing, but before setting it in stone, I want to know if there is anything you can
do.
Is there anything you can provide us that would protect against poison?
Poison?
Terrible thing, really.
Hmm.
I can grant a boon, easy snap of the finger, but that's going to require a little bit more.
More than a divine spark.
Yes.
We like one for ones here.
Sorry, that's just how it is.
I wouldn't call it a one for one when it's a divine spark, personally.
That's one divine spark.
Not sparks.
Spark.
I thought you valued it.
Yes.
That's why I'm going to get this Interfere Mortal Quandries and get this young man for
you.
Because there is, I am willing to do this out of some sort of convenience to us and
our safety, but I don't want to give it to you that badly.
I'm confident in my own ability to figure things out too, to figure out another solution.
If this is what you're getting, then I need a lot.
Make a persuasion check again.
Okay.
Does the Nat 20 carry over?
It wouldn't be fair.
That was not with the advantage.
Yeah, roll again.
I thought I still had advantage on.
I was like, how is that so low?
Submit, submit.
Holy shit.
Daphne has been divinely blessed today.
Please don't jinx it.
I haven't done the big one yet.
She's fucked.
She's fucked in so many ways.
She's so fucked.
I enjoy you, Daphne.
I enjoy you a great deal.
Normally I would accuse someone like you of not being astutely aware of the situation
that you're in, but you've always been aware.
You've been aware more than anyone.
How very brave.
Can I ask why are you so hesitant on giving me the divine spark?
Do you have plans for it?
Anyone else?
I don't have plans for it, but I...
You're not exactly the first person I would trust with it.
I'm choosing to trust you to an extent here.
Besides, I don't think my crewmates would like my decision.
But I've been sponsoring you your entire life.
They should learn.
I can help them talk to them.
Where do we want to keep this on the down low?
Alright so a slight boon to help a few of you.
Have any names?
Myself.
Or uh...
Hilgen, as I'll win.
Raelyn Creston.
One more.
And Humphrey.
You can tell whose names I know out of character.
Last name I know I don't.
Sorry Zach.
None for Zach.
I will give you a boon.
It might come in the form of some seemingly freakish sort of luck.
But a boon all the same.
To help you with poison.
And she goes.
When I have the divine spark, it'll be yours.
She looks to Humphrey.
Briefly but like trying to make it like it's just a little, just her way of speaking.
She leans in.
Whose name?
Oh fuck!
She goes.
I'm afraid I do not know your name.
She leans up.
Correct.
You're right.
It'll be yours.
Make a deception check with advantage.
Let's fucking go Jenny.
Let's fucking go!
Please please please please please please.
Delphine has to choose.
Does she want to give her true name?
Never.
I'm gonna use one of my inspirations to re-roll.
You have advantage so.
That was with advantage.
Because we're two fives.
Okay.
I'm gonna use one inspiration to re-roll it.
Can you check my inspiration really quick on the level up thingy?
Yes.
I think there's something with deception.
Your thing is the same as mine.
You can have someone re-roll a, I believe a stealth check.
14.
I can add five to that.
It's 14.
I can add five to that with my other inspiration point.
Slide of hand or stealth check.
Okay.
14 plus five.
I'm looking to see if there's anything else.
This is why I was sad I rolled two 20s earlier.
It's a 19 if I use both of my inspiration.
I used one inspiration to re-roll.
I used one inspiration to add plus five with my inspiration.
Practiced edge feature.
Okay.
You're wearing the ring of mind shielding so she can't tell magically.
14 plus five, 19.
I'm looking through.
Okay.
Here's what's gonna happen.
I'm gonna roll.
Is that close to my character sheet?
Insight.
Oh.
Humphrey actually rolled a 38.
I just found out.
Can I borrow some?
He doesn't register.
Okay.
I'm gonna go ahead and roll insight.
Come on.
Low roll.
11.
Let's fucking go.
Really?
Oh my gosh.
11.
Let's fucking go.
11.
Let's fucking go.
11.
Let's fucking go.
11.
Let's fucking go.
I knew she'd have a high mod.
So that's a eight mod.
She rolled a three on the dice and she's a plus eight fucking mod.
We should have done this sooner.
Can she crest her hand towards you?
She takes it.
You feel a reverberation and Humphrey, you do too.
Oh boy.
She takes your hand with the smile cresting her lips.
She takes it so gently in her white gloved hand.
Her smile turns flat.
She knows.
Does she know?
Oh no.
How would she know?
If all the terms of the deal register in her head clearly.
I didn't know if that would though.
But she's already made it though.
Yeah.
I returned Darryl to you.
She smiles again.
Unharmed.
Gets up.
Your two days are up.
I'll keep to my end of the bargain.
And I hope you keep to yours.
Bye darling.
She spills the wine on the ground.
She's like, she did not realize that she would know immediately what she'd done.
She was hoping she wouldn't know till it was all over.
So I'm glad I baked in the thing about not harming the Blackguards.
But hey, you want to know something?
Props to Jenny Sherard everyone for coming up with all of that off screen and executing
it like brilliant.
I threw her a curveball and she responded beautifully.
She said give me your name bitch.
Darryl is part of the Blackguards.
Yo just start running around.
See that's the thing I'm worried about.
No I think that might help him here in this case because she can't harm him after returning
him.
You need to start running around and just being like you're a Blackguard and you're
a Blackguard and you're a Blackguard.
But I think she's going to, she has to return him to me.
That's what I said.
So I think she's going to do it when we're in the middle of like attacking.
Or maybe she might make him take like a hit for me.
It has to be before we get there.
Oh but they're attacking, yeah they are attacking Aphros Harper before we attack.
So she can't make him take a Vanisher hit for me or something and that's my poison
boon.
She has to bring him back before we arrive.
We also have to be careful about who is labeled as first mate and captain too because they're
the ones that determine.
It's Coco and Squee.
Oh god.
So what I'm saying is no more joking, well this is out of character, no more joking about
who's captain, I'm captain, who's captain, they're captain, you're captain.
I was going to get onto you about that.
That's a good call.
No more joking.
She wasn't going to tell Aura but now that she can tell that she knows she's going to
tell me.
I don't want to give anything away.
Get us, Aura was ready to retire and now she can't.
Okay.
In the second she retires.
I'm so, it's like relief but also like because I've been waiting to do this for weeks.
You're so fucking good.
It's going to be like you're retiring but you will forever be a black guard or something
like that.
Yeah.
There we go.
Honorary black guard.
You need to tell Zack no more joking about co-captain.
Yep.
Zack, I'm not fucking around, okay?
Zack, we're not fucking around, don't say shit.
Don't banner with me, I don't have time for bits right now.
Nero's life is at stake.
Did Brando do something?
Oh jeez, I hate Brando.
What did he do this time?
Get Humphrey where I know he is.
Yeah you go get Humphrey.
It's just Humphrey's eyes are like wide after that feeling he got in his gut when they shook
hands.
Humphrey was so hidden you were looking at the wrong spot.
And so you like registered someone else on the ship on the other side of the wall.
It's Brando.
Shy's like I've been here the whole time you guys, what's going on?
You you felt that too right, Daphne?
When you guys shook hands?
I did.
And it must have made the terms of the deal clear to her.
Oh gosh, I hope this works.
The way she turned, I think she knows.
Which means we need to be careful.
I did want to ask this before we had the meeting, but I completely forgot because I was in awe
of this cloak.
We should have made like a safe word if shit goes awry that we just like jump her.
Or I something you know to you know.
I'm glad it didn't come to that.
I need to update Aura.
Okay, I'll I'm.
I'm going to get to cooking then.
And Timmy, I'm not sure if we ever specified this, but I feel like I mentioned it and you
said sure about the chef feat because it's not a thing in level up 5e.
Yes.
You know, okay, then I'll I'll prepare some properly chef meals.
And I make everyone like bento boxes, you know, like a couple wears.
They have a great mechanical purpose.
Yeah, these are going to save lives.
Yeah, okay.
If someone could look up the ruling of chef, how much temp HP exactly?
That would be lovely.
Albert's on it.
I think it's 1d4 in your proficiency bonus.
I don't know.
Thank you.
I think I'm not sure.
Okay, um, I'm going to go ahead and get to the point.
I'm going to go ahead and get to the point.
I'm going to get to the point.
I'm going to get started.
Okay.
Hi, captain.
Um...
Thank you.
I think I should come with.
Just because I know how to, I know how it works.
You will be stationed with Clarence's team.
Is what you're saying.
Or us, should we decide to use it.
I'll stay on the boat.
If that's okay. I don't really know how to swing a sword.
No, but you have created a wonderful thing.
Thank you.
And that's like the first like, glimpse of like aura you've gotten.
This, for this day.
In a bit.
And then she's...
Is there anything else you require of me, Armand?
That's it.
Everything's ready.
Um...
Jasper told me that it would take about...
Like...
If we're flying, it'll take like a day of straight travel to get to the Afros Harbor.
We would get there quicker than by ship.
Yes.
The new Sakaard will not be able to keep up, but they can get there, but it'll take some more time.
But we could...
Ooh, ooh, this I did not take into account.
Okay.
She's going to say it could be there in one day.
Optimistically.
We're just not dealing with water.
Which is much better for us.
Okay, out of character moment, would it be smarter to send...
Or as smarter than Emma.
Would it be smarter to send the B team in a day early, or would it be smarter to send the recon team in?
Probably... No, Humphrey, no.
No, no, no, Clarence needs to go first. Clarence said he should go first.
Um...
The idea was for the two of you to act in tandem.
Right.
He would do that, and it would have distraction for you to do this.
Right.
But this information that we can get there one day earlier...
Yeah, you could just fit everyone that you need onto the part and leave everyone...
I'm going to leave, yeah.
So we'll leave the Injusticar back, the Injusticar, because I want the Eternal Smile ship to get some cred and also to use it as a cover.
Um, okay.
Alright, I'm not going to think about that one day thing.
I'm not going to... We gotta hold up and she'll just nod and say thank you again. Or sign thank you again.
Tim, the stealth roll was actually at 39.
Sorry.
Can you still be running gag in this game from now on?
It's actually 50 if you look at it.
Humphrey's stealth keeps going up.
After my ending comments.
Let's see if we can crack that 40, baby.
I'm like, thank you all so much for watching this very special campaign.
Hey, Tim, update...
Update!
And Daphne, you go find Kappanora.
I don't want to tell her this right now.
Later then, okay.
She's going to check on Aura first, probably, but somebody else can...
Kev is saying something.
For the inspiration, because, I don't know, in Humphrey's mind, they fooled her.
Does that give me an inspiration point?
Yes, absolutely.
Yay!
You definitely betrayed her.
You definitely earned that. Yeah, that's definitely fulfilling your...
That happened!
I don't know if I'm tracking them, but I'll just write it down.
I had one before, so now I have two.
I can stack them, right?
Yeah, you can stack them.
Would getting a girlfriend count as a personal monster?
What?
It's coming of age!
I think so.
Absolutely!
Fine!
Yes!
Wait, yes!
Mine's so straightforward, I just have to roll on that one.
Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Definitely, you get one too!
Yeah!
Freaking...
Whatever.
I'm a mean DM.
I'm one too.
The meanest.
Can I have one too?
Yay!
No!
I'm so scared Darryl's going to die because of this.
I am kind of scared about Humphrey because Humphrey's going to get targeted because he's
the one I'm supposed to give the spark to if I get it.
There's a lot going to happen, but we'll get there when we get there.
So, she can't hurt him, right?
She can't hurt him, but somebody else could.
Okay, so just real quick, just hand waving a few more things.
Sekarai, you get to your room, you are accosted and then kidnapped and then tied up and then...
And threatened to get beaten up.
But then Clarice walks in, what's going on here?
Everything is resolved.
Just because I need to speed things up.
Just to get to a good ending point.
Were they already there?
Have they left already?
We have to leave, Jenny?
No, Victor doesn't have to leave until the same time as me now.
Okay, we can be a little bit more Heralusi-yousi.
But still fast.
Still fast.
As much as I'd love to play out the scene of One Eye Jay and Brooke just beating up...
We got shit to do.
No, I mean if I hear them in my room, I'm just...
Zach would just assume that they're doing something and be like, okay.
Yeah, you hear things ripping up and like...
No, no, no, I mean like they might be tearing up your things.
No, it's great because Zach would not go in.
No, Zach's not going in, he's just going to assume that they're doing something.
He's going to be like, huh.
They are vandalizing your property maybe.
I'm a sterile!
And then I'm going to just turn and let them have more fun.
I just realized what I said.
It works, Tim, it works.
Listen, Zach has all the stuff he cares about on him, so...
Whatever the fuck they're doing in there, have fun.
Have fun in the room.
Have fun, ladies.
Dark times are upon us.
Gosh, oh gosh, what am I doing?
I need to get back on track.
Real quick speed through as well, Aura would definitely pull the remaining...
Because I know the crew is freaked out, especially...
And we can't get moving until people got their shit together.
So she would give her own, you know, another round of speech.
Kind of mechanical, but basically what she's trying to do is she's trying to get everyone organized,
everyone back under a common goal.
You know, just get folks ready to move.
Alright.
And we normally don't play like this, but because of the constraints.
So Jasper's going to stay on the Neustachar to man it and bring it to the harbor.
But you guys and the B team are going to go on the flying ship to go ahead and do your thing, right?
Yeah, and also I'd like the Eternal Smile ship to be one that's sent in to help cause a distraction as well.
So it would be the Eternal Smile and Mars are technically would be both of us providing distraction.
Alright.
And you want to go as soon as possible?
Well, I...
I'm not sure this would be this is actually something she would talk with a group of people.
She wouldn't make this decision on her own because would it be better to get the element of surprise?
Or would be better as an all of like an all like onslaught of having everyone go at the same time?
So Emma had a character.
Which one?
I think everything at once.
If we can get like, I mean, because it sounds like Mars was calling in more help than just the rest not.
So, I mean, if we can get like an entire battle going on, you know.
Hit all at once.
Just hope. But actually, actually, you know what?
One of the lessons like one of I'm reading up on wartime strategy is to hold until hold until the last.
This is what Emma's doing in her spare time.
Hold until the last moment.
So, or would know to wait until they have all the pieces to move.
So she wouldn't unless the DM or the narrator has an insightful role that would inform me of something else.
I think it's going to be the first quiz. You could prepare to.
You don't you know exactly know the surroundings and the things at hand.
I feel like they're going to they're not going to expect us to show up with an entire army army or a flying ship.
Well, maybe the flying ship.
Nelly might have told them about that.
But fucking Nelly.
At least I don't think they're expecting an entire army.
But yeah, there's some things to do beforehand before you can commit to this house.
There's House Castile. There's House Creston. Right.
So if you describe describe message.
Yeah, we can still message my brother.
Asper is also I think wrote out a map, right?
Yeah. Everything.
OK, so just get this getting this getting things getting getting things all nice and ready.
So we can get so we can pick up at a good pick up at a good time when we start next session.
All right. Oh, yeah.
The treats that I cooked for everyone.
They're special for everyone gets their own treat.
For Aura, there is the finalized version of those little juice filled mochi balls that you can chew on that like splashed into like juice.
It's still isn't too sticky.
For Zachariah, it's a donut.
Because it has a hole in the middle.
For that hilarious.
Or Jane, it's like an eclair that looks like instead of like chocolate on top.
It's like a minty kind of thing.
So it looks like a small river because another word for small rivers look like a brook.
I think it's what I Google.
Oh, OK.
I don't ever want a Humphrey game to say I don't really bring much ever fucking.
I can have five inspiration points.
I don't care.
And for Daphne, it's like a tiny star shaped candy,
which is basically like a center shocker.
If you guys know that, like a really sour.
OK, you saw like a little star shaped thingy.
It was like.
I don't want to fucking kill you.
You're not gonna.
You're so cute.
Because we're going to bring our A game.
You can't see me.
You can't see Humphrey.
It's not there.
I'm going to keep checking to see if there's anything else I missed.
Is there anything else we have to get through?
Other than Daphne talking to Hora.
Worse than talking to Daphne.
And this is all still the same day, so we have it.
It's not the next day yet.
Oh, we're going to shoot a message to Hildrein.
We got what we got to send the message to to the James brother.
Yeah, just to see if we can get more intel.
Because we weren't sure if Hildrein needs a message right now, because.
That's right.
We were going to do that tomorrow.
Let's get that information.
Yeah.
Yeah, you need me for that.
So maybe she'll delay the talking to Hora temporary.
How convenient.
The snacks are also only last for eight hours, so I gave them to you on the day that shit goes down.
Okay, yeah, we'll keep it up.
Got it.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Oh, gosh, I love you guys so much.
Sorry for talking to you.
I find them again.
And I.
If I find one, I change.
Yeah.
But she goes.
She says, do you have your questions?
I think I can spell now.
She's like laser focused right now.
I stand up a little bit straighter.
Okay.
Yeah, we need do you scry and message or I don't know.
We need Roland.
Okay.
And Roland needs to cast his spell.
As soon as he sees that I'm watching your brother.
She if there's nobody around, then she can say, okay, Roland, are you ready for this message?
All right, let's do it.
Okay, you need to say with a lot of like, like a middle ground of like, I love you, but I'll also fucking kill you.
Okay.
You really need to convey that when you're doing this.
Okay.
I do.
I do, brother.
There is strength and hope.
Help me make things right.
I'm going to scry on you.
Tell me everything you know or else you want the or else in there.
Yes.
Got it.
Do you think you should specify everything you know about anything specifically?
Or do you think he'll be too confused to talk?
I think he he's smart enough to know that our family is probably getting into shit that they probably shouldn't be.
Okay.
And I'm pretty sure he probably has heard that I'm a buyer right now.
So maybe he hasn't.
Okay.
Scratch, scratch off the or else.
We're rexing that.
All right.
And say one eyed is hyphen.
So one eye chain.
Maybe then you'll connect the dots or.
Okay.
Whatever you think.
Why don't you say it in your voice?
I don't know him, you do.
You can do that?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
So scratch the.
So tell me everything you know.
Tell me everything you know.
About.
And it's in your voice exactly.
That's makes me uncomfortable, but well, that's not important right now.
Okay.
So I'm going to scrawl and you tell me everything you know about.
War.
Crestons.
Lighthouse.
Like is there a specific thing that we really should be narrowing on?
All of that.
I'll formulate that.
I can, I can.
Yeah.
I trust you.
Just yet.
That's the gist.
You guys can also send a second message while the scrying is already happening.
It'd be like, talk about this.
I'm not there, but I helped you figure stuff out with your writing.
So she starts casting scrying.
And then.
Give me one second.
All right.
So you begin, you begin to scry as Roland.
Formulates it.
So this is to.
Mikhail.
Correct.
Am I saying that correctly?
Yeah.
Mikhail.
You have the sword.
Yeah.
And I'm channeling with the sword.
Yes.
With my blood on it.
And your blood.
Give me one moment.
To grab something.
Yeah.
Okay.
There we go.
Your vision.
Your scry comes through.
And you see a young man.
A very kind face, but it does have a sort of relation.
It does have a similarity to it.
To One Eyed Jane.
But of course, it were One Eyed Jane's ruggedness is replaced with.
Formality and.
Gosh, I forgot the word.
But formality and, you know, just nice and.
Nicely dressed.
He's currently tying.
He's currently tying like a tie and.
Like looking at himself in the mirror.
You see that you are currently in what seems to be like.
A very nice room with stonework and a very large canvassed bed.
And such.
And this young man has a sword.
Has a sword on it.
Has a sword on his hip.
And he just lets in a deep breath.
And out.
As he looks at himself in the mirror.
He seems to be dressed for like ceremony.
Formal.
There is a knock on the door.
He holds up her finger.
To be like, wait.
He's speaking to someone.
Yes, come in.
Okay.
The door opens.
And you see a man dressed in lordly regalia.
Robes.
Of course, bearing the sigil of House Creston.
Which is very similar to the very similar to the shape that was in one eye.
Jane's eye.
Walks into the room.
This man is on the older side with faded.
With faded hair.
Kind of like pushed.
Kind of like pushed in skin.
He's he's old.
He walks in looking towards.
You see mckayle immediately turns towards him.
Standing straight up.
Stiff.
Almost at attention.
And you see.
You see mckayle goes.
Father.
You don't have to bring your heels together boy.
I'm your father not your general.
Sorry.
Of course.
He kind of like looks at him before he walks up to him.
And you see he starts like.
The father seems to be like.
Wiping dusting off like lint and parts on his suit.
And adjusting his tie.
Sorry father.
I thought I had that.
Just are you ready.
For your responsibility for what's ahead.
Of course I'm ready father.
Say that again.
But look me in the eye.
And say with conviction.
Look me in the eye boy.
As mckayle looks him in the eye.
He goes.
I'm before you finish.
Just know that I'm not doing this.
It's not a punishment.
It's a responsibility.
You're going to be doing this many more times in the future.
There is going to be a time where I am not able to swing a sword anymore and you are going to have to fight all of my enemies.
Understood.
Yes sir.
You have to be a man.
I need you.
The man I need you to be.
I don't want it tomorrow.
I didn't want it.
I don't want it two days from now.
I want it now.
Understood.
Yes father.
Yes.
Good.
Father it's.
The only thing that I am worried about.
You're worried.
This is not a.
The foundation on which Lord Borea stands on is a rather popular Lord.
In a rather affluent region I wouldn't want to anger any of them.
Or to be unpopular.
And you see.
The father leans in.
Goes.
You are a lion, Mikael.
A lion does not concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.
I'm ready father.
Good.
I'll give you the.
The family soldier to arrive here tomorrow.
You're going to be using that to take his head.
In three days.
Of course father.
And.
Rickard just places a hand on his shoulder.
Kind of like wipes off some more things on his shoulder.
And he goes.
I need you to be better.
Turns around and walks out of the room.
You see the servant.
Yikes.
You see servants are waiting by the door.
And as he leaves the room the servants.
And close the door.
Mikael sighs.
He's alone now.
While scrying I say out loud to them.
Mikael is executing Oras father in three days.
Dad.
He's alone now.
If you still have questions.
Does that change anything?
I don't have as much time now.
I don't know what to do.
Mikael.
I wish I could say I trust any of my brothers.
And the only thing I can trust.
Yeah as my father is.
We'll always get his way.
Just.
Instead of telling me every.
Message him.
Basically the same thing but.
Do we tell him we're coming.
Okay just.
Message him.
That.
It's still time to make things right.
And tell us what you can.
All right.
I do not want to meet on the battlefield.
But I do want to be with Mikael.
And he sends it.
You see Mikael.
Looking in the mirror again.
All of a sudden gets.
The pink and he jumps.
His chest leaps.
Ray.
Right what are you saying.
He's he's he's holding like a handle to his temple.
I'm not going to leave you.
What did you mean in that note.
I need to see you again.
We're here at.
The ceremony.
The Lantos Lord Boreas.
Was.
Found for treason.
And.
My father was the one who brought forth the accusations.
He's having me swing the sword.
Because I haven't been.
I haven't I haven't been.
Doing well enough.
We received a note father received a note from.
Someone he sent to capture you.
You wrote it didn't you.
I don't want anything to happen to you.
Hello.
Right.
Is Daphne telling me any of this while you're scaring her.
Communicates it.
Okay.
This is like.
The most feared you've seen.
In her eyes because she doesn't have her eye patch anymore by the way.
And.
She just kind of like grabs onto Roland and.
Just one more message please.
Just tell him.
I love him.
And I'm coming.
I'll save him.
Roland sends it.
And then.
Please don't.
So many people are here.
You don't have.
You don't have to save me.
I'm.
I'm your big brother.
Just keep doing what makes you happy.
I hope you can hear me.
Please.
I don't want to change.
Thank you.
Oh.
That was helpful.
It was.
I'm going to go to rest up to send more.
Thank you.
Thanks.
I'm going to do it right now.
We got a lot to say.
We're heading on the pardon right.
All right well I'm on Clarence's team so.
We have a few more of these.
Right.
All right.
Because I have one more scene in mind.
Can I go ahead and assume that everyone is getting onto the pardon.
Yes.
Jasper is staying back on.
The induced car to man it.
But he tell.
He does tell you to.
He does tell you when he he gives you a note.
Or.
About his contact location.
Say it has a safe house there.
OK.
I'll give you that.
I'll give that information later.
OK.
Just someone you can meet to be safe.
Great.
As you leave.
I began to.
Chart your course and sail your way towards.
So your way towards.
At Frost Harbor.
To finally come.
To finally come face to face with.
The center of your uncertainty.
As the ship takes flight.
All the way in high into the air.
A day passes.
We will figure out what happened in that day later.
But for now.
Hillogen.
You are at five hit points.
And you have two points of exhaustion.
You have been given.
Attacks.
You have been given.
Attention to the empty degree.
By this one cruel man.
Whom has never told you his name.
In these.
Gasps of breath in between you continue to reason with Estelar.
But seemingly your words go nowhere.
Your inner clock is amazing though.
It's been a day.
You don't know how long your friends are going to get here.
You don't know if you're going to get saved.
But it is but they don't want information from you.
They just want to be cruel.
They want you to be hurt.
But nonetheless you remain staunch.
And fortitude in this.
And hanging on to that thought.
A torture a technique to withstand torture is to focus on something.
That you want to go back to or focus on something that you love.
And that you wish to endure towards.
And of course.
Captain aura.
Has always been on your mind.
Because it would be a terrible thing.
It would be a terrible thing to do this to her if you died.
On the cusp of the second day.
Estelar.
Has been watching over you standing with you in the.
Standing with you within this room for the entire day.
Not a single word.
The man who has been.
Tending to you.
Placing cuts onto your.
Placing cuts into your body.
Attending to destroy your will inside and out.
The door opens.
He enters.
Crooked smile once more.
Good morning.
Illusion.
Do you have a good sleep.
As he walks in.
He closes the door behind him.
It was.
All right.
Well.
Putting down the mat again.
I didn't get to tend to your.
I've been favoring your left side for the past few hours.
I can see if I can.
Complete the trifecta and really complete my whole canvas here.
All right.
Now.
Open wide.
As he moves in to grab your mouth.
No.
A slash.
A sudden shine of silver.
Is that our contact blood splatter of blood spills onto the ground as he just grabs his neck.
And.
Falls to his knees.
Effectiveness.
As he doesn't allow him to suffer.
As he just kind of like holding onto his neck is trying to push back the the geyser of blood.
The vanisher Estelar in the room shoves the dagger directly into his throat completely silencing him.
And he just as he dies on the ground completely becoming a nice becoming a puddle on the ground.
You see the vanisher that was once silently.
Looking over looking over everything just.
Silently look down.
The dagger is dropped.
And his hand is shaking.
Elgin.
Is going to look up.
To receive the hand.
Look at me Estelar.
And.
Then.
Helgen.
In Elvish.
Sings to him a song.
A chant.
That they used to sing when they were.
Doing the guerrilla warfare.
Warfare.
Something that will go something along the lines of.
The crimson leaves.
That once they fall.
Upon the earth.
They will regrow.
A tree shall merge.
He reaches up.
And takes his mask off.
It just kind of falls onto off off his hand.
And he looks at you.
Blinking.
Just trying to make sense.
Of the world around them.
And he pulls off another as he bends down to pick up the dagger.
He walks over to you.
I'm back home.
He cuts the leather straps.
Freeing your arms.
He looks at you he goes.
They broke me.
Brother.
But they're not going to break you.
And that is where we're going to end today's session.
Oh my god.
Victor.
Well there's one one thing we don't have to do now.
I was like.
This episode at everything it had drama.
It had love.
It had.
Home foolery.
It had.
Dark dealings.
Good snacks.
Every good game has good.
Snacks are a must.
And there are.
Yeah but with one bill dead.
Just saying that because I can only do for.
That was the torture dude.
Oh damn it.
Yeah well when it was going to take a little bit more.
Than that.
I was like how did he die that easy.
It's a torture.
Okay.
Oh yeah I know that was a torture.
But.
Yeah.
I was like.
He'll do this for.
We joked about it.
Then we're going to show up and everything's already handled.
I said it.
I called.
I don't think exhaustion is in advanced level up.
Right.
It's fatigue.
What does that put the light?
Oh my gosh.
I'm going to be like.
All right guys that's the end of today's stream.
That's what Humphrey looks like if you look close enough.
You know what Humphrey looks like when you look close enough?
Go Blackguards Gallery.
The reason Cap didn't have a video on this entire time is because he was being in character.
He was invisible.
Method acting.
If we can't see him in game nobody gets to see him.
All right everyone thank you so much for watching.
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We'll see you next week.
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