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Episode 10, Everything Eternal.
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Hello again everyone and welcome back to Song Woven, The Black Guards Gallery.
I am, as ever, your ever-present narrator, Tim Don Tran,
and of course with me today, as ever-present as I am,
the blood, the sweat, and the tears, and the pain in your stomach,
the laughter in the back when you trip and fall down,
it's the Motley Crew, I guess.
Say ahoy, Motley Crew!
Ahoy, Motley Crew!
I guess.
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Black Guards Gallery.
Yes, we are closing in towards the end.
Two more episodes, two more.
We're getting there and regretfully so, we are still in an era
which has proven to be a very fruitful and wonderful time.
It's basically a big bouncy house.
Yeah. Oh, it's a super big and cool bouncy house.
Never mind the spikes underneath.
I don't believe we have any announcements at the top of the show.
With that, and with youth and vigor, we are going to march forward
because we are intrepid and awesome.
Speaking of being intrepid and awesome, who would like to recap the last session?
Do it to me.
I already have my finger on my nose.
Do it to me.
You pointed at yourself.
Yeah, baby.
Alright, fine, I guess.
You did it for all the first several sessions and then you just like switched.
That's just a lot happening, okay?
I mean, Albert did a couple and that's why he's going to survive the end of this.
That's why he's going to be the only one.
The hidden prerequisite.
Alright, on the previous session of the Black Guards Gather,
I always had to do it in the freaking TV show voice.
On the previous session.
On the previous session, I have to do it in character.
Throw it.
That's how you get me to do it.
Previous.
Okay.
On the last session of the Black Guards Gallery,
our motley crew has finally landed into the Inarian Empire's territory
to enact their plan onto Afros Harbor and to save our dear isolated Hilsin,
who him himself was going through a tumultuous, fast-changing time.
Hilsin, who was accompanied by his former companion who,
they were within a faction together that fought against the tyranny of the Empire.
What was the name of that faction, Victor?
I will tell you in just one moment.
That was the Eryn Tirith, which was the, in a vaguely, translates to the Forest Guard.
Yes.
But of course, bravely standing up against the Empire,
the Empire tends to show the results of what happened when you stand up against them.
Changing Estelar, breaking him down into seemingly an obedient Vanisher for what felt like ten years.
That is ten years.
Everyone's laughing at Estelar being broken down.
No, we're laughing at the fact that Kev wrote in the chat, Eryn Titties.
That expels really laughs.
That's what we're laughing at.
So, in line with the Eryn Titties, there's two of them now, only two left.
So, as Estelar seemingly broke out of his stupor and assisted Hylgian,
the two of them made a daring escape to leave the Rhinolar stronghold that they were currently in,
which was also holding a Lorelei Boreas.
There we go. Lots of names.
And that's not even the name.
It's okay, Lorelei works too.
Lorelei's dope.
Lil Boreas.
Lil Boreas. Say Grandpa Boreas.
Grandpa Boreas.
Upon this escape, the two were pursued by Vanishers, who attempted to hunt down Hylgian.
But seemingly, during their last-ditch escape, passing through the upper parts of the stronghold,
Estelar has taken a fatal blow for Hylgian, seemingly with this inhuman speed.
And of course, as they leave, Estelar succumbs to the purple worm poison.
But he is free more than most of the Empire at that time.
It was at this point where Kenway, Hylgian's eagle, sensed Hylgian with his mental connection,
and upon trying to reunite with Hylgian, was shot down.
This is where a temporary combat ensues with two Vanishers and our motley crew here,
where our crew comes out on top.
Very handily, completely destroying one of them, who was a turncoat of the Black Guards.
Now, as the crew has finally assembled, and with the sudden return of Daryl to the arms of Zachariah,
our motley crew returns to the safehouse to gather their bearings and to discuss what occurs next.
Now...
I cannot get past air and titties.
That's going to be on my mind the whole time when I'm role-play-clade.
Okay.
Now...
We are currently located in the underbelly of a barn.
A large, battered, wooden table crowns the middle of the room.
And the smell of the barnyard currently permeates through the door, and it stinks down here.
It stinks, and it's humid.
But this is the best place you've got, apparently.
According to Magellos, your quote-unquote informant, the informant that was working with Jasper,
Now, Captain Aura, you have just comforted Jane, and Daryl sits on the table, locking eyes with Zachariah,
a gentle smile on his face.
As he sits up, I'll say his shirt kind of falls apart a little bit, which he quickly grabs and pulls together,
because a large cut was made in the shirt.
Sorry, that sounded really accusatory.
That didn't mean that.
That didn't mean...
As he sits up, he looks towards all of you, his eyes sweeping the room.
And then he looks towards Zach, and he goes,
Friends of yours?
Yeah.
Ooh, there's a lot to tell you.
I suppose best start with introductions.
Well, before you, you see the infamous Blackguards Gallery.
I'm assuming you knew who they were.
You are a part of the Blackguards Gallery too now, and unfortunately that's not negotiable.
I just don't want anyone to slip up and say no.
That's what I'm terrified of.
And then she's like...
Love logistics.
In the books, the pirates would take...
Alright, you know, I'm not against that.
Congratulations.
You're a pirate now, looking at you, Zach.
Yeah, you know.
Something always screamed pirate about you.
I think it fits.
Yeah, I think it does.
Introductions, though.
Let's see, can I look around at the others?
Let's see, over there, there is Brooke.
Real sweet girl, absolutely friendly.
I'm her favorite, actually, on board.
Loves books, you should...
Just something to note.
I'll cut him.
No effects.
Brooke looks to Daryl.
Hey.
Don't cut him, please.
Alright.
Over there, we have Roland, my main man here on the ship.
I mean, we're not on the ship, but you know, when we're on the ship.
We're brothers now.
Yeah.
Also, great with music, songs, all that sort of stuff.
It does wonderful impressions, you know.
You're going to have to show me sometime.
Oh yeah, when we're in a better place.
I didn't bring my poetry when I came on here.
The one that spoke to you already, that's Daphne, life of the party.
She's our first mate.
Absolute, you know, just a joy to be around all the time.
It's an absolute pleasure.
I know.
Let's see.
Over there, we have...
There's Hilgen.
Lot to catch up on with him.
He's our helmsman.
Hilgen, I hope you're doing alright.
Hilgen has actually been in a corner, tending to Kenway, not even looking at the group.
And you probably can still see that there's a lot of scarring on the left side of his body.
So he's very, like, he seems very distant right now.
Good to have you back, Hil.
Over there is...
And he looks at one-eyed Jane.
I immediately avert your gaze, and I'm just looking, like, anywhere but your direction.
Um...
Daryl walks up to Jane.
Um... your ex-friend, right?
Yeah, that's me.
I'm a bit confused on how I got here, and why I looked like the way I looked like.
But... you were just protecting him, weren't you?
I should have known that.
There's no way you could know.
Daryl, that's one-eyed Jane.
I'm glad someone as strong as you was protecting him.
She's one of the strongest people I know.
Always has my back.
You know, she once actually sailed our ship through the middle of a storm once.
Did she?
Yeah, one of the deckhands actually fell overboard, and she actually jumped overboard into, like, a...
It was, like, 15 sharks, and she wrestled them all to save the deckhand.
It was insane.
15 of them?
You can see Jane kind of, like, perks up a little bit, and just kind of, like, trying to laugh away the pain.
Like, ha! Yeah, totally!
It was actually more like 27, but, you know, who's to say? Who's to count?
27 of them?
Yeah. Me and sharks have beef, man.
I would love to figure out later why that is.
Yeah, I'd love to tell you. I am sorry, though. But it looks cool, if that helps.
It does. Pretty cool.
Well, another story to add.
She's also... her and Brooke are like an item, you know? So, it's pretty cool.
I see.
Yeah.
I can see that.
Yeah, right? We all know it.
Big blushes.
We all know it.
Let's see. I kind of, like, look around the room. Did we leave Humphrey outside?
No.
Oh! There you are. That's Humphrey.
Take a photo.
He's our cook. Absolutely fantastic meals. Also, really great listener.
Pleasure to meet you.
It's an honor to meet you as well.
And then we have... Clarence.
Wanna try that one again?
We have Clarence. He's all right. I think the two of you would actually really enjoy going fishing together.
Oh, I would love that. How many tab-
You say that now.
How many tab-dusturgens can you name, kid? Oh, well, gosh, it's been a while since I picked up a book on fishes. You read?
I mean, as a credited lorekeeper, soon to be, I have to know my everything. I have to know my creatures.
Well, we're gonna have a lot of time to talk about that later down the line. I'm really excited about that.
Not the best fisherman, but I'm trying. Oh, I have all the tools to teach you. Don't worry. It's nice to meet you.
They're gonna get along great.
And I suppose last but not least, I mean, there's more people who aren't here right now, but last but not least, we have the feared Captain Boreas.
You see this small halfling remove her hat. Give a slight bow to you. Put the hat back on.
Just take in Zack for a moment. Nod, and then signs because she's been told that Daryl does sign. What has a neck but no head?
He signs back with fluency. It goes, I swear I knew this one before.
And from her jacket, she'll pull out a tiny little bottle of whiskey and flip it to him.
Of course, hits it a couple of times before he hugs. He has to hug it. Oh, one of these.
Gives you some courage on the seas.
Looks to Zach.
Welcome aboard, Daryl. I've been looking forward to meeting you.
I've heard a lot about the Black Guards.
I'll, um, you're not as, don't take this the wrong way. You're not as fierce as the books make you out to be.
I mean, we can be. We can be. Pirates are, well, in the books, at least, there are these feared and, you know, like killers and thieves, but
I'm looking at you all and I see gentility and hospitality.
You don't want to be your enemy.
Anyway, I also, if you're hungry, Zach said your favorite is like a vegetable stew.
So I got like a little Tupperware here if you want. Just. I'm very hungry.
Yeah, here you go. Are you sure? I wouldn't want to.
Yeah, probably. We should make something, probably. I'll get to that. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Let's get you fed.
He, um.
For you, Zagari, he typically doesn't lose his poise. He's pretty polite and put together, but for the first time you see he's a little feral.
Feralness in his emotions as he's kind of like eating one spoon after the other.
Feral Tarot.
He's hungry.
It just rhymes.
Feral Tarot for the sequel.
And he does go, this is absolutely divine.
This is amazing.
There's many more coming up after that.
Thank you.
Um.
It's a lot, yeah.
I'll tell you what, it's been a reversal of fortune than where I was a few moments ago.
Seeing you again, looking at you, Zach.
And then all of a sudden I'm a pirate. Now that's, I still need to get into the details about that later, but where exactly are we, if I may ask?
Safe house in Inera.
Not on the sea right now.
We're doing a little bit of a jailbreak.
Half of it's already done. We didn't even have to lift a finger really.
Kind of look over at Hill.
Oh.
A jailbreak.
But I wasn't in Inera.
It's a long story that I don't really understand. You're gonna have to ask Daphne about it.
But uh.
Thank you.
I owe you an unbelievable debt.
No.
She is...
I have a lot of questions.
But...
In the meantime...
Now that you're here, we need to know, well, what we're doing with you, because we're not through running into danger in our near future.
She kind of looks at Zach too, like...
Gotta get him to the bandy wallop.
That hasn't changed.
You lot are hunting down the bandy wallop as well?
On Lusa?
We are now.
Well, I can certainly help you there.
I've read a good amount. I've read a good amount on it.
And it's...
It seems like...
I have to be present...
For it to appear.
I had that impression as well. Well, it was a hunch.
I'm still not solid on the details yet, but...
And it's missing concerning, but voices have spoken to me.
Before, um, discordant voices.
I hope this doesn't seem like I'm insane, but...
Or just looks at Zach's compass, like, mm!
But there were spirits belonging to the...
Those who lived on the island itself.
And they've incorporated themselves inside of me in the meantime, but sadly I cannot speak to them anymore.
They've incorporated themselves inside of you as well?
That's what they've said. I'm not exactly sure what the...
What that means, exactly.
You don't know what the purpose is?
Yes.
Of that. I see.
How did you all come across Zach, if I may ask?
We needed a navigator.
Well...
He stumbled on us.
I bet it was very fortunate for you all.
No one is as daring, or as clever, or as... hearty.
Topless. Topless.
That's actually why we hired... sorry.
Oh! I mean...
Sorry. That is...
That is inappropriate. Nope. Nope. Taking it... She's rewinding her signing, quite literally.
It is a very admirable quality about him.
He flashes a brief smile at you, Zach, directly at you, before looking back.
I'm not sure if he's told you this, but the last time I've encountered him...
Before that incident at the other harbor, my last sight of him was him being thrown overboard.
In the middle of the ocean.
So... fortune smiles upon all of us, it seems, that you all have managed to find him. Someone so capable, and could.
I'm gonna telepathically message Jeffne and say, does Daryl know he's dead?
She just shakes her head a bit. She was staring at Zach, to be like, is he gonna say something?
But she just doesn't even look at you, just shakes her head a bit.
Alright. Shutting the fuck up then. Got it.
He continues with the thought. He goes...
Brando Caligaris, my captor for the past months, he cannot... he cannot be allowed.
We're not gonna let him.
He's going to try to retaliate now that you're here. He does that there more than likely, he knows where it is.
It's a matter of preventing him from being able to do anything significant.
She looks at Aura at this point, too, and goes...
What do we do now? Is there any worth in me scrying on my brother or Brando?
At this point.
She thinks back to the cloud that you cast to the eye, looking.
You've made a lot of choices, Daphne, and each of them I trust.
But I think it might be nice for Brando to not have our eye on him for a while.
The only reason I consider doing it now, even though he'll know if I do, is to get a better idea of what his reaction to this is going to be.
But we might not glean anything at all.
I'd love to see his face.
We're also still, and she gestures to the safe house.
We still haven't even moved.
Taking our first step across the board.
If you feel it's right, I trust you to do so.
And Daryl, you know what Brando Caligaris is after.
I'm not entirely certain.
He keeps saying knowledge, but he lies as naturally as he breathes.
What do you know about a divine spark, and can it be contained?
A divine spark?
I'm not...
I mean...
Yes.
I suppose.
I'm not entirely certain on the requisites of a divine spark lending itself to someone, but I assume it would lend itself to someone who is worthy.
It would put them on the path to godhood.
Is that what that's there?
Can we get... she doesn't even respond.
She goes, can we get rid of it?
I'm...
I'm not certain.
There are not many books out there on the matter, but there are theories.
Well, the spirit said, and she looks at Zach, that Zachariah will know what to do.
Oh boy.
She just slumps a little.
The spirits?
You know how you got... you said you got spoken to too, so did I.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
That's... that's great.
So they've been with you, they've been with you too then?
Yeah.
That's good.
They've been, um, guiding me, I guess you could say.
She... he... you see he's thinking for a moment.
Well, um, in that case, if they've told you the same thing they told me, then...
And it seems like Emma is frozen for everyone.
Oh no.
No, she's just happy.
She's just really happy.
He always thinks you're just holding a very, very still smile.
Oh boy.
Emma?
He didn't...
Nora?
Despite it being six months, you always know that Daryl is... Daryl... oh, oh!
Gotta go to the back, gotta go to the backup!
I was gonna say, you might have to get the backup ready.
Backup's on.
Despite the six months, you know Daryl is sharp.
Daryl is one of the sharpest people you've known.
And it seems like his memory is working just right.
Because his eyes trail down to your chest for a moment.
Where there is no hole, there is no scar, there is nothing.
Okay, everyone, Emma's Wi-Fi went out, so...
Daryl, um... Daryl continues.
If that's what's there, then Brandon must know about it as well.
I think he seeks to seize it for himself, if that's the case.
Daryl...
You told Zachariah that you noticed something strange about Brando's right eye.
But you didn't know what it was.
Well, can you elaborate?
What's your opinion on that change if you knew that Brando was a lich?
And that's not a bug, apparently.
A leech.
A lich.
If that's true, then from...
Gosh, I have to remember the Lord Keeper.
That must mean he must be an owner to a phylactery.
His right eye is false.
But it looks very much real when he has it inside.
But I've seen him under the corner of my eye, through the slits of a window,
while we were traveling in a Zand, that he was polishing that eye.
Do you think that's it, or do you think that's something else?
Typically, I would think that a lich would put something like that outside of view,
something so precious that holds their life.
Perhaps it's something... it could be something nearby.
If he would go to the bandy wall, then it would have to be somewhere.
Close.
But to make your phylactery your eye, however...
it's strange, but...
I wouldn't rule it out.
Hello, Emma.
It's not completely unreasonable. If the body were to be killed and died,
they think they're through, don't completely destroy it, and the eye remains, then...
That's something sneaky that he would try.
I'm sorry, I cannot say for certain.
Right, Emma.
It's alright, there was a... he went through a lot.
Do you know the specifics of phylacteries?
Do they have to be some kind of building? Can there be anything?
Objectively, I believe that it has to be an object of great sentiment.
It could be a living creature.
A living creature? I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure if...
We talked to John about that, Humphrey. He said something like it would be a lengthy process.
Did he do anything weird to you or anything?
Nothing. I've held onto a ring...
I looked down, or his hands are ringless?
Ringless, yes.
I've gone through a few...
Before our encounter, he performed a few rituals. Magic on me with the outer cover of it, to keep me safe.
But I knew.
Other than that.
Nothing else. Magical, at least.
I'm still doing detect magic. I did tell Delphine to free him of any spells Brando cast on him.
Do I sense any magic lingering on him or on any items on his person?
A lingering? At the moment, no. There's no active effect.
Okay.
Because I don't sense any magic on you right now.
The only magic he casted on me was after our encounter. He was infuriated that I had shot him.
Nice shot, by the way.
He, uh... In this fury, he...
He shot me through my leg.
But I was healed, directly afterwards.
As a punishment.
But I'm alright.
I'm sorry for what you went through those past six months.
I should have found you sooner.
It's not your fault. And I knew you were going to find me.
And I found you.
Um... But, um... Right.
I'm not sure if I can offer up any other information.
But connecting what I do know, the easy assumption can be made that Brando is hunting for the spark for his own purposes.
You're not a fighter. Not like Zachariah is. Correct?
Certainly not.
If you need anyone that's greatly knowledgeable on fauna and plants and the like, I'd love to share my brain, but...
Physicality is not really my strongest suit.
That's fine. Um...
Then...
The question comes as we're approaching everything as we're going into this.
And she's looking more to the others. She goes, what precautions do we want to take to keep him safe?
There's... We don't have any team that's going back to the ship, right?
Everyone's bound inland.
I can take him back.
Just for a moment. Put him with Armand.
If he's not being tracked, if there's no magic on him, then...
You should be good there.
What's stopping...
What's stopping Brando from...
...tooping in and grabbing him again?
Don't we... Didn't we... Didn't one of us have a ring? So we can't be watched?
We can give it to Darrow, and he's free of scrying and has free passage to the ship.
I think that's a good idea, and we should do that, but we do need to bear in mind that Brando has the entire layout of our ship as well, and can still scry on the ship itself.
This might be a silly suggestion, so just... Disregard it if it's not good, but Brando's probably going to scry on us again soon. What if we just pretend Darrow didn't make it?
Was he doing it for? Would he know?
I mean, he just saw him on the table...
...recovering. He probably doesn't know if he made it.
We can pretend like the poisoned... He was poisoned or something. Sorry, Darrow.
It's okay.
So we just have him play dead?
I mean, if he can't scry on him afterwards, if he can't follow him if he doesn't have any more magic on him, then once he's gone, then he has to come after us.
Do you know... She looks at Roland and she goes, do you know Fane Death?
Yep. One of my oldest spells.
Hildren is going to speak without looking at the group, as he just says. If we do this and we send him to the ship, he just stayed with his face covered. We cannot risk the scrying on the ship and him being found out.
It would ruin the whole attempt. And with that he goes back quiet.
Is staying here a possibility?
He doesn't... He wouldn't know where here is, right?
He... Randall should have only been able to see the inside of the room.
But he would have no idea where... where this is, right?
No. We have to assume that Randall could be communicating with him at any moment, or any of the Vanishers that we have been encountering.
Not with Brando, but still is a risk, another risk, absolutely.
What do you want, Daryl?
I'm no use in fighting. But... if it's alright, at the very least, if I could stay here.
I know I won't be much out with you and the field, but... if I could stay close to Zachariah, at the very least.
The Shield Guardian.
We can put the Shield Guardian to his protection.
Still on the ship?
Can that thing climb?
Find out.
I don't want to be a burden to anyone.
You're not.
We needed you here. That's why I got you.
So... don't worry about that much.
Alright. Thank you. Again. For everything.
Uh, Roland, how long does it take to cast False Life?
Well, just let me look up the fucking spell for a moment.
Faint Death is a ritual.
Yes, it's a ritual.
It's one action or a ritual. It lasts an hour.
Duration's an hour. Casting type's an action, but you can take ten minutes to cast it.
Fun fact about Faint Death is poison doesn't affect you while you're under its effect. It just resumes when the spell ends.
Good thing to know if we ever need an antidote. Need to go source an antidote.
Or we can just snow white people until we have an antidote.
It's a third level spell, though. Which is kind of high.
I don't think it would be a good idea to send Daryl off with you, Roland, at this moment. We're already splitting the group into two.
I think here's probably the safest.
Alright. I much prefer this to my previous situation.
Um, what exactly, if I may ask, if I'm privy to this, what is happening here?
Uh...
Jailbreak.
You know?
A jailbreak? Yes, that's right. There was half of a jailbreak.
There's also the execution of the head of House Boreas.
Potentially instituted by the head of Hardcrest.
Potentially instituted by the head of House Creston.
Potentially planned and financed by the head of House Castel.
Not that you need to know all that.
You hear a quiet Hildgen just say seemingly to himself,
I couldn't get him back.
Henwick?
I thought that would be okay.
You're here. That's what we need.
She messaged him.
He's still not looking up. His eyes are on Kenway. He's been tending to Kenway and he doesn't look up.
There's a reason to believe, Daryl, that Alantos Boreas contains information that would have been so severe to lead to an execution.
He has been able for the past ten years to avoid scrutiny and continue to serve under the Empire, even with a daughter,
who is an enemy to the Empire and its Navy.
It's too irrelevant for Al to come to this fruition at this very moment.
I see.
We also, and she looks at Jane, have a young member of House Creston who we also are looking to grab in the deal as well.
House Castell, she looks at Humphrey. We have no idea.
This all has to be done shortly as we have a couple of pirate, a couple of other pirate crews shortly joining us in the harbor for a bit of a game.
Time is of the essence.
So if we're going to rest, do it now.
If you were going to catch up or whatever, there's not going to be a lot of time later.
Understood. Captain.
Just Aura.
It seems the situation here is quite stark.
I grew up in one Empire and I find myself in another.
And yet it feels the same.
We won't be here long.
Trust me.
It's good to see, however.
I was always a believer that there was always a front line when it comes to fighting against tyranny.
I see that the black cards are the ones manning the fight.
Now you're on it too.
We have a reputation to upheld. Don't let it get out too much.
I'll try.
But I'm a little excited.
Clarence goes, if that's the case, if we need to start resting then we should get to that.
We have Hilgene back, which is a grand plus.
I do think we still need to tend to you a bit of your wounds there.
You're still wearing some.
We need to plan for what's ahead.
Based on what Hilgene said, it seems like the place where they held him is the same place where they're holding Alalanto's.
That's gonna be a few and a half, it seems.
But they have to bring him somewhere because House Castell is here, so there's ceremony.
Oh, they love public executions.
You should have seen when they cut out my tongue.
They think they're showcasing strength.
And they're not.
They're making it.
So, maybe heading into the stronghold's not our best bet.
I don't believe we have the manpower here to handle that.
I would love to believe in us, that amount.
We do not.
But perhaps we can plot something when the execution is happening.
Daphne, do you have any spells that can transport someone?
I do. It can transport the person casting and one other person.
And you don't even need to see where you're going.
Jane, how amenable is Mikael?
No sound.
My Wi-Fi's out, her sound's out.
It's a day.
The campaign doesn't want to end.
The campaign is like, you want it to end? That's funny.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah, you are. Hello.
Okay.
Nope, never mind.
Just to throw out all the options.
I am also, I can help someone be as stealthy as me.
So if we do like a two people mission, just to go to House Creston or to go to House Castel or to get Mikael or head of House Boreas,
I think we're able to do that.
I can help someone be very stealthy.
So for you are aware that you are our target currently.
Yes, I am.
Is the skill still worthwhile to note, regardless of the risk?
I was pondering your question.
Is my voice coming out now?
Yes.
Oh, it's coming back to me.
It was just such a tense question. I needed a moment to ponder.
Mikael, there's a reason he's the one performing the execution.
It's a punishment, I believe.
Because he's not really a Creston.
Well, we both enjoy a good gamble.
Is there a way that either you and or Humphrey, actually both you and Humphrey would be able to sneak to the front lines or perhaps Daphne,
to get that spell on them, how far would you need to be within their range?
I can't cast the spell on them. I could charge it for them to cast.
Or you could give them a power source.
Essentially, I can do it up to... we have two pieces of ether, so I could do this twice.
But it can teleport within about 500 feet or so.
So technically, you could load up two ethers. Jane and Humphrey could go in undercover, hand one ether off to Mikael and Lelantos,
and then Humphrey and Jane use the other to get out of there.
Is that a potential...
Yes, that is a potential usage.
If we want to...
Or it looks at Humphrey making a face and goes, Humphrey looks at Orte, you offered the information to Humphrey, I'm merely rolling with it.
Don't give me a player if you don't want it on the board.
You're right.
I will also put out there, sneaking might be good for us, but I'm wanted alive, so I could just turn myself in and then just
give him the old razzle-dazzle of Raelyn Creston and just, you know, I don't know.
I do not recommend it.
Right now we have to assume that with my escape in our presence here, the execution of Lelantos is going to be extra observed.
And the vanishers that they have in their weapons are all poisoned.
Be struck by some of them.
You may not make it.
Whatever we are going to do, engage in indirect combat for a long period of time is not going to be wise.
It's a fair assumption, too, that even if you are taken alive, since they that they wouldn't let you go so easily either.
And it would still take just the same to either is one for you to get out one for Boreas.
We still have one more message, right, Roland?
Yeah.
A range of meeting.
Or even just a drop off point.
Hey, I'm leaving you this here.
Pick it up.
We'll tell you how to use it tomorrow.
Yeah, to get.
But I'm afraid one we're going to have to take.
And no, Jane, we just got back our helmsman and Darryl.
No more.
Aye, Captain.
So how are we going to approach this from how easy it is to pull off or easy?
How difficult it would be to pull off?
Keep in mind, we have the distraction of the beating going into the lighthouse that should offer a bit of panic and chaos unless well, keep in mind, Clarence, you're expected.
Did wait to Hildre mentioned that to us? Did he tell us that they know that that one for those that were going to the lighthouse?
No, he didn't say that.
I don't think it's communicated that yet.
Then we don't know that then.
Never mind.
You go.
Keep in mind, we already have the distraction of the B team going to the lighthouse, let alone the harbor.
And that's when he'll just going to say, when they'll have made know about the lighthouse.
How?
Because of me.
Okay, that's fine.
It's okay.
I'll make it work.
You always do Clarence, you weren't first mate for nothing.
So the male is reinforced now, which means the only way to get the Lelantos out is between the jail and the execution place.
Right?
Not necessarily.
If Mikael can go out and style, he goes to swing the sword and goes, gotcha, and just takes Lelantos and poofs away with him and then uses the attack on the harbor from the Rusnots as cover to run away.
So the plan potentially is to send the message to Mikael to meet with us at certain place, time, to sneak there, hope he shows up, give him the ether, and then let him go through as normal with the execution day until he
transports him away during the attack.
Or we inform him that we'll be handing him off an ether and Jane and Humphrey move in on the day of the execution to hand it off to them.
That might be more reliable since I get the impression, just from what I saw when I scryed on him, that he may not be able to travel freely.
Meeting may be hard.
Awesome.
I was just going to suggest we give him as little information as possible, just in case someone wants to get information from him.
DM, you said that when I was captured, there was someone that showed up that seemed to be like Daphne.
Was that the person that I eliminated?
No.
And you said that there was another person also that I saw that looked like?
It looked like Clarence.
Oh Clarence.
When you say that they look like them, are we talking about like?
Build appearance.
Like is there a likeness? Is it like a complete?
Not a complete, but like it's to build the height that if you know a little adjustment could probably make them look like the spinning image of them.
So Hilden is going to rely that he's going to say, there is one more thing.
While I was being captured,
two people came into the room.
The one who was able to tell when you were scrying Daphne.
They
seemed to be dressed like you.
They seemed to be similar to you.
Just as I saw one that looked like Humphrey.
I do not know what the plan may be.
I do not know if infiltration is the intent.
Or if perhaps they are just seeking to create their own public demonstration on behalf of the Blackguard.
But if these people are able to do the things that we can do, we must be careful.
If you like that combined with how Delor was disguised before, we should have a code word in case there's people trying to impersonate us.
So we know that it's us immediately
from the get go.
What's a cool code word?
Papaya?
Fried rice. Shrimp fried rice.
A fun word.
Footsteps?
Ecumate.
Ooh.
For the first time, Aura actually looks over at Hildren with a raised eyebrow.
What if you have to say them all, but you have to say them in a specific order?
Well, now we're getting into ciphers.
Yeah, I'm not going to remember that.
I'm just going to be honest with you all.
If you give me too many words to remember in the heat of the moment, I'm going to forget and fuck it up and you're going to kill me probably.
So can we just...
I'm a big fan of ciphers, but yeah.
So tentatively, we have our plan.
Jane and Humphrey, are you prepared to do this?
Yes.
Should there be a distraction from either House Kastel and Aura's eyebrow raises very slightly
because over the past few years, Aura has tried to set up Humphrey on multiple dates that he's never gone on.
So her eyebrow raises ever so slightly that if someone from a particular house were to be there,
would your progress be hindered in any way or can you continue through with the mission?
I will continue under any circumstance, Captain.
There will be no distraction.
Oh wait, that makes her sad.
She takes it back.
She nods. Same for you, Jane.
I understand the mission and I will carry it out.
Clarence.
Her love is also right here, so you know.
You all are a terror. I hope you know that.
Clarence, you might have to make some minor adjustments to your plan given that Wendel's expecting you.
Yes. Good. It'll hurt more.
That's what I like to hear.
Now, we need to tend to wounds. We need to rest. Is there anything else that needs to be discussed?
Brooke goes, can I go with the both of them?
I can only tend to one person with the stealth. I can only look after one person with the footsteps.
That would be hard for us.
Adding one more person adds added risk, Brooke.
Do we have a way to make people invisible or stealthier or something? I don't know how magic works.
I'm sticking to myself.
Did you guys find anything useful on those vanquishers that we could use?
Someone gave me this and she flicks a disguised self scroll. I could now really be a little human boy.
What was the other poison other than the purple worm, the previous one that we're using before?
Crawler Mews.
We have anecdotes for that.
We have a bunch of stuff for you. Here, take all of these potions that we weren't able to figure out who wants.
The Hildren is going to say, on our way out, if necessary, I can try to locate some sources for the poisons that they are using.
Where are they holding the poison, if we were to face one of those vanquishers?
Hildren is going to lift his left wrist, where he has one of the bracers, arrows that he took from one of the bodies.
As he explains, they use the arrows in these, but they also have daggers.
Are those arrows supposed to be poisoned?
Yes.
Guess Nellie just forgot to apply it then.
Alright, nevermind, continue on.
Did she stab you with one, Zachariah?
I mean, she got one little cut in, but I feel fine.
Her eyes widened as she realizes, oh, because he's fucking dead. No, he can't poison.
Daphne uses the same thing.
Quickly, because she and Daphne confirm that clearly Darryl does not know. She looks to see if Darryl clocked it.
Anyways.
Darryl is sharp.
No, damn it! She's going to go, Darryl, let's talk, shall we?
I'm just saying, if Nellie is our baseline for Vanisher right now, I'm not particularly worried.
She points to Hildren at him banged the fuck up and says, I would rather us not underestimate them.
That's fair.
Thank you. You all look like shit.
Brooke does.
Go to bed.
Step up. I'm stealthy as they come. And I really want to see either of them get hurt.
To be clear though, do we need, did you want me to charge a dimension door, a second dimension door, for the two of them in case they needed to leave?
If that were the case, they wouldn't be able to take you. We only have two.
I feel like we might need one of those for Brando.
That's what I wanted to charge it with Counterspell.
Brooke, I don't want to impose, but I'll do my best to take care of Jane. With all my possibilities, everything that I can do.
And I will take care of Humphrey.
Yeah, Brooke, have faith in your girlfriend.
Okay, Sakuraiya, I know I just stabbed your boyfriend, but if you don't knock him off, you're next.
We can count on you to stealth your way out too, without having a second exit plan. If we want to take that risk. So I'd only give you one dimension door. The three of you could go, but you have to get out on your own. There's no plan B in that case.
I'm gonna step up to Brooke, and I don't really care who's watching, and just like put my hand on her shoulder.
And just get my face just becomes very serious.
I can't risk them getting to you.
I will come back to you. I promise.
And then I'm gonna like touch my forehead to her forehead.
Just wait for me.
I just started having you.
I know.
I don't want that risk either.
I know.
Back before you know it.
Okay.
Alright.
I look out at the front door if there's anyone has been following or is like approaching. Sakuraiya, can you come with me for a second?
Yeah.
Just like, like, are we at like a in like downstairs in a trap door in a barn or just in the barn?
We're down.
Yeah, you're in a, yeah, seller at the moment.
Okay, so I like to go up the ladder and like look at the front of like a little bit and peek through.
I'll be up there.
Is everyone approaching and stuff?
No one approaching.
Okay.
I'm upstairs now with Sakuraiya.
Yes.
Alright, listen.
Yeah.
This might be the last time you and Dale get to speak.
This might be the last time any of us will have this time right now.
Okay.
I'll, I want to offer you something that I have since a very, very long time.
I was never part of a tribe.
However, I'm still connected with the nature spirits.
That all the tribes people of the Orcish people are connected to.
And I have the ability to marry both of you, if you would like that.
Okay.
Alright.
I mean, okay, that works out because I pull out of my pocket.
I have a ring right here.
I'm just waiting for a good moment.
I didn't know if like in the bottom of a cellar of a barn was a good idea, but I mean, you know, you take what you can get.
Yeah.
Okay.
They're alive and dead.
Yeah, exactly.
Partly.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Well, then I guess I'll make the preparations up here and you get to proposing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
And you see like for the first time, probably you for the first time, you see like Humphrey taking off his bandana.
And there's just like this long chest black hair that like fall down kind of sweaty, but like, whoa, your hair is way longer.
He like arts making this Mufasa esque kind of like paint that is like almost like watery flower mix and he starts making like a circle on the ground and putting his like tribal like stuff on and just like starts his ceremony for his ritual to cast ceremony.
Yes.
Question.
Do you have any candles or anything like try and mask the smell a little bit.
That's difficult.
See what we can do.
Yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
All right. Yeah, I'm sure.
I'm free.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
No bro. All right. Gotta go.
Darryl approaches you quick or.
You wanted to speak with me.
And she's going to sign May I communicate with you telepathically.
Yes, of course.
She stopped signing and says,
have you told us everything that the spirits have told you.
I would have to take a moment to remember if I must admit my, my mind is a little hazy at the moment.
But I swear I'll tell you everything if I remember.
Do you know why you're connected to the bandy wallop and the spirits there.
Yes.
Apparently it occurred.
Within the.
The spirits within were held within the confines of the compass.
At some point in time.
I assume when I gained own when I gained ownership of it.
I don't know if Zacharias told you, but he took it from an archmage within the Salarian Empire.
It's a very brave thing to do.
My dad.
He.
It when it came to our ownership.
Specifically came to my hands and lit up.
Right.
Now,
perhaps that's when
that's what had happened.
But that was a very long time ago.
But I can't be I can't be for sure certain.
They've only spoken to me a few days ago.
If the divine spark
can give a lich the power of godhood
and a patron demon ass powers beyond her own.
A lot has happened.
I assume.
Can life be granted as well with the divine spark?
I'm not entirely certain.
Godhood is not guaranteed.
Godhood and all of its benefits.
It puts you on the path.
With all of its trials and tribulations.
Have you ever fought a dragon?
I read about them.
Me too.
I've never fought one.
I've jumped about it.
Yeah.
It's going to be kind of fucking cool.
Is there a dragon in the equation?
Oh, yeah.
You see,
Orla laughs out loud for the first time in a long time.
Welcome to the Blackguards, Darryl.
I'm glad.
I'm really glad I'm part of something.
I am...
I grew up with Zack in the Salarian Empire.
Which is an empire that is five times the size of Vanara.
But I have seen, I have witnessed, and I know of oppression on a grand scale.
What you are doing here, everything I read about the Blackguards, acts of insurrection,
you are doing what I believe is one of the most important things I've ever seen.
Allow me to tell you something from what I've observed, at the very least.
Your cause.
There are whole armies and battalions out there
that they don't even know that they are listed in your cause.
And even the smallest acts of insurrection pushes the lines forward.
Rebellion is everywhere.
It's just people don't see it.
The Empire's need for...
Back up recording.
Sorry.
The Empire's need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.
Tyranny requires constant effort.
It breaks.
It leaks.
Authority is brittle.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that.
And know this.
The day will come when all these skirmishes, all these battles,
these moments of defiance will one day flood the Empire's banks.
It will prove too much for their authority.
One single thing can break the siege.
Like I said, you're doing one of the most important things.
You're trying.
And thank you so much for that.
I don't think that's ever been said to the Black Guards.
I don't think anyone's ever thanked them.
And she does not know how to respond.
Um...
Just...
Thank you.
I hope I didn't relinquish my membership with that one.
You...
You will remember the moment I saw that glint in Zachariah's eye.
He loves you very, very much.
And I have a fondness for that little shit.
Is...
Is he okay?
I'll make sure of it.
Okay.
And by this point, Zachariah...
Comes out.
Hey!
Zach?
He walks over to you.
Hey.
Um...
Good to see you again.
It's good to see you too.
Um...
When I first saw you, I thought...
When I first got here, and I was safe...
I thought it was all a big illusion.
But you're here, and I can feel you now.
And I know it's all real.
Take his hand, and I kind of press it to my chest.
It's real.
I can never mistake that heart for someone else's.
I won't let Brando separate us, alright?
I believe you.
We have a lot more adventures ahead of us, don't we?
So many things that you still gotta see.
Because I got to for the last six months, so...
It's your turn now.
I do have to do a little bit of catching up.
You gotta see...
You won't believe the sunsets you'll be able to see...
When we're on the Injusticar.
Injust... isn't it?
Injusticar, she's nearby.
Sorry.
It's selfish. It's Injusticar.
No, she's...
I love you, but...
It could be Injusticar.
Yeah, yeah, that's how it's pronounced, right?
Alright, well you and Daphne can have a nice little chat with each other, alright?
You go talk about your name and conventions, I'll be right back. I'm gonna run over to Hilden.
Hey, Hild.
If Hilden looks up, he's been sitting on a corner of the room, nursing, and taking care of Kenway that's just resting on his arm.
And he looks up to you, his left side of his face, a bunch of scars and some blood on his eye.
How's Kenway doing?
He looks pissed.
They've gone through worse. They will be fine.
I mean, I have a favor to ask you, but...
But first, I feel like it's...
Oh.
Orra was scared.
Don't scare her again like that.
Hilden's face, his eyes briefly look in Orra's direction before he looks down.
We all were scared.
I am afraid.
Certainty is not something we can claim in times like this.
But I promise you that I will try my best.
What can I do for you?
Um...
Uh, Humphrey's setting something up upstairs. I was wondering if you could help.
I mean, you do nature magic stuff, so I figured you could help them with that.
If you're up to it, I know. Obviously, a lot has happened.
Hilden is already... He's just taking Kenway, perching them on a barrel nearby.
And he moves toward... Um, Zack places his hand on his shoulder, one of the nails still growing.
And just taps, and as he moves, shoots another quick glance to Orra, always avoiding her gaze for now.
And he makes his way upstairs.
Thanks, Hild.
Okay. As you come out of the little trapdoor, there's Humphrey, now upper body free and full of like, markings.
Like, tribal markings and stuff, like with his hair hanging down and inside a circle with a bunch of runes that don't look arcane, but more tribal as well.
Hilden doesn't seem surprised, as he's very familiar with tribal rituals and things.
And he just has a moment where he looks at Humphrey, looks at the ground.
Is there anybody?
Yes. Could you close the trapdoor, please?
He closes the trapdoor and steps to the side, looking around.
Without stopping, he still applies all the stuff on his skin, and he just tugs the illusion. How are you doing?
How's Kenway?
He will be fine.
Okay. I thought this was fitting, since this might be the last time we get to be peaceful like this.
And I don't know if Daryl and Zachariah will ever see each other again after.
And with all this, with all the mortality at play, I think this would be the best thing I could offer them.
You know, as a friend and as a part of the Blackguard.
So, it's just kind of a little stanky for a ceremony like that.
So, if you could help me clear this off a bit, I would be very grateful.
He has a moment where he considers and realizes the whole extent of it, and his tired expression just has a slight weak smile.
And he nods, of course.
And he also, in a very ceremonial, ritualistic way, he starts casting as he speaks in ancient Elvish.
And just casting things, algebra-shut, but it's, you know, Eneralai, Astarena, Aleastoi, Kaisten.
And as he keeps moving his hands, the smell around the room starts being replaced with the smell of cut grass and the feel of flowers and nature.
DM, would there be any areas that I would sense around this cabin or the crevices on the ground where I could sense roots of any kind?
Absolutely.
Hilgen has a moment where he thinks about his recently fallen friend, and he approaches a couple of areas.
He starts moving to a few points around the circle and the markings that Humphrey has done.
He kneels and puts his hand, and he continues to chant, and slowly the vines start coming through the small crevices of the wood as flowers begin to emerge
and start to adorn the surrounding areas of the circle with just a lot of that color of the flowers and the vines.
He then...
Would there be mud or anything like that in this place?
Certainly.
He reaches and grabs mud in his hands, and he starts to mold it.
He places it around in one of the areas of the circle, outside the circle, and then he uses it to...
grabbing some of the haystack left and some of the vine, he puts it all together, puts it with the mud, and he improvises small little candles.
And he sets them up.
And once all of that is there...
If the DM allows me, I don't know if this is too mighty, but I think it would be a nice touch.
He attempts to create the aurora borealis on the ceiling.
Yes, absolutely, you could do that.
I will fight you for it.
It's just a picture of Aura.
Aura Borealis on the ceiling.
Her face.
He just creates this gleaming effect on the ceiling, basically floating in the sky above them, that is just translucent lighting that is similar to the Northern Lights.
And after that he looks at Humphrey.
Do you think that would be good for them?
It's absolutely stunning. Just one last thing.
Zachariah often mentioned the beach and the sea, so maybe give it some smell of the sea, maybe, you know, salt water.
He nods and changing with his hand, he has a moment where he just creates, starts blowing with the air creating the sound of the shore, of the...
And as he does the sound, the small hint of salt, of the breeze of the ocean starts to fill the room.
Perfect.
I'm almost ready. When you go down again, you can give Zachariah a sign.
They're not going to be able to use this place as a safe house anymore after this.
Hilden nods and says, it will be my pleasure.
Thank you.
He looks at Humphrey.
It is a good thing to do this for them.
You're a good man, Humphrey.
Thank you.
And with that, he opens the lantern, goes back down.
He says pardon.
He does that, but he's just trying to get to you.
I know.
That's part of his charm.
He's really...
Yeah, once Hilden goes down, he will try to look over at Zach and he gives him a very subtle smile and nod as he returns to his corner.
Hey, Daryl.
I know you and Daphne have been having a blast talking about me.
But actually, can you just come with me for a second?
It is pronounced pardon.
It's not an elvish.
For example, pardon me, Daphne.
Use protection, boys.
They're here in their head.
There's not a second room. Are you expecting just in front of...
Just don't tell me.
Are you expecting a show?
I'm covering Kenway.
Brooke punches you in the shoulder, but the tattoo moves and catches the fit.
No, no, no. Listen, Daryl.
I actually have a couple of gifts that I wanted to give you.
I've been collecting some things for you.
There's a bunch more on the ship, but just here, have a seat.
Oh, for me?
Yeah.
I started digging through my bag.
First things first, I pull out the little snow globe that is like the little map of like Sandralor.
I stole this from an old woman.
Try not to think about that.
I won't. It looks really nice.
I figured you'd like it.
I was trying to steal from Brando. It was from the observatory back in the town.
Anyway.
Yeah. Okay.
And then I dig in and I pull out Clarence's little jewelry box that he gave me.
This actually was given to me by...
a dear friend.
Oh. Judging from the contempt that's... is it Clarence?
You know, I wouldn't call it contempt. Clarence and I have a fun relationship.
Right.
Anyway, it's actually something in it that I wanted to give you.
And I will open it up. And inside is a very simple silver ring that was the one that I had Armin working on.
He looks a little bit closer. Tell me his head at it.
Yeah.
Him looking at it, you would see that there's actually an engraving on it.
There are five names. Noe, Demetrius, Sinia, Jacintha, and Rhea. All engraved around the outside of the ring.
Who?
I don't know if you... Names of souls that I think should be remembered.
You know, you're a lore keeper, so I figured what better way to keep lore than, you know, remember...
I'll make sure. I wish I... I should do the same with the five others.
Five others? You have names too?
Oh.
He reaches down towards the ring. He plucks it.
And he observes it ever so gingerly. He's always so... everything he does, he handles everything with such ginger care.
It's beautiful.
Thank you. This is really thoughtful.
I hope it's the right size. I had to just kind of remember.
Well, let's see.
Wait, wait, wait. Before you put it on, actually, there's something else that I have to give you.
I know you've been waiting for one for a long time, and I didn't have one to give you.
I was trying to think one up for the longest time.
Now you're making me... now you're making me a bit jealous. I wish I could find something for you.
You've given me all I need.
But I think I have the perfect one, but I... I need to procure it real quick, if you don't mind waiting just a moment.
I'm always... I'll always wait for you.
I turn around and I look at the captain.
Oh, Jesus!
What is something that belongs to you, but other people will use far more?
For us having a heart attack, something that belongs to me, but others will use far more.
A name.
A name, correct.
Brilliant.
May I?
Oh my God, he signed so well!
My name?
I turn back to Daryl.
So?
Daryl Boreas? How does that sound? Nicholas and Daryl Boreas?
That sounds... that sounds great. That sounds amazing.
Zachariah Boreas? Am I getting that right?
Yeah.
I got a high profile name, it's cool.
I really like it.
What am I supposed to do now? Do I put it on the ring?
Yeah, you can put it on the ring.
Okay, okay.
I think that's how it's done. I don't know, I've never...
He puts it on.
Get on your fucking knees, Zach!
Oh yeah, I forgot. Yeah, okay.
She's like, God damn, if you're gonna be my star, do it right at least.
Oh, do you put the ring on me?
Yes!
Oh, okay, wait, I take it back off of him, and then I put a book on.
He takes...
What?
Kim, what is wrong with you two? Ask him!
Oh, geez. Sorry, I'm not used to people screaming in my head like this.
So, Daryl?
Yes?
You make me the happiest man alive?
I think you know the answer to that one already.
Perfect.
I just lift him up, and upstairs we're going.
The butter on the grub, Zach!
And Roland's like, okay, what's happening? What's happening? Whoa, whoa, whoa!
He's chasing.
Roland, look at me, look at me. I want the most beautiful fucking music you've ever played.
Oh, fucking shh! You're gonna get the most beautiful fucking music of all time!
Okay, but where are the watch? That's not gonna be it.
Alright, hold on! He's just running upstairs.
Jade, Jade, please carry me! Up he's, up he's, please!
Please, please!
Wait, no, actually, no, fuck, no, you go, Hilden, you fuck her, and she's gonna run over and just like, climb up him and just hang off his neck!
I just looked at Brooke confused, like, I don't get it.
I don't know what's happening.
Hilden is taking a back as he feels Aura around him, and all of his worries and weight washes away as he just secures her with his own arms, holding her tight.
Tighter than necessary, but tight enough to express his affection as he just goes with her, holding her with his right arm, because his left one is a little weak still, and he makes his way, taking in the closeness of the two of them on the way up.
As this is going on, Roland's coming back down, and he's like, alright, I've got a few song ideas, and then you see Clarence, Roland's like, is the ceremony happening upstairs? Move! Pushes Roland aside, runs off.
As Hilden is arriving to the top, having Aura close like that, he whispers in her ear, since he has it close by, and he says, this guy is for you.
And he sets her down, now in the new place.
She looks up and says, when they're done with the wedding, I have a very important question to ask you.
Where is Daphne? Where is Brooke? I want everyone up here now, with Captain supporters!
Humming up, you have behind people.
Daphne is like watching just, just, Clarence and Roland just...
As Brooke's coming up, she goes, did everyone just get sick all of a sudden?
He thinks they're getting married, Brooke.
When we reach the top of this stuff, I'll like, hold out my brook in a very like, proper manner that's really unlike Jane. Shall we?
Alright, damn it. She holds it.
Oh boy.
Alright.
Stop Humphrey!
I got this prepared.
There will come a soldier...
As everyone gathers into the room, for like, probably for the first time, you can see Humphrey in front of so many people, not being hidden, is kind of giddy.
He's kind of like, anxious, and you see him like, you know, when people do that with their fingers, where they're just like, tapping them, and he's like doing that and concentrating.
As soon as I get up to the top of the stairs, I look around...
Where'd Humphrey go?
I'm kidding!
As the last person comes into the room, I give a look over to Roland, that he can start, whatever he has planned, which is hopefully good.
Alright, alright, here I go. He starts playing a nice tune.
This is the best rest Roland has ever been!
Why ain't fucking an arrow of all places?
I'm on your side ways.
I know, I'm sorry!
He waits for the noise to die down a little bit, speaking, and then Humphrey goes...
Greetings, everyone.
We gather here today to witness and celebrate an act of deep love between Derewon and Zechariah.
In their devotion, respect, and love for each other.
I wish to unite them in the holy bond of marriage.
Where they dedicate themselves to each other's happiness and well-being as life mates and partners.
On behalf of them, I welcome you all.
Derewon and Zechariah, please face each other and take each other's hands, so that you may see this gift that they are to you.
These are the hands of your friend, young and strong and full of love for you.
That are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow, and for the rest of your life.
These are the hands that will work alongside yours, together as you build your future.
These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years.
These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief temporarily comes your way.
And these are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears of sorrow and of joy from your eyes.
Do you, Zechariah, take Derell as your husband?
To love him, cherish him, nurture him, and support him in times of joy and in times of difficulty.
Do you promise to remain by his side, regardless of what trouble befalls you, and in the presence of temptation, to forsake this love?
Do you promise to remain steadfast and true?
And do you promise with all your heart and soul to honor this vow till death do you part?
If so, answer now.
I do.
Do you, Derell, take Zechariah as your husband?
To love him, cherish him, nurture him, and support him in times of joy and in times of difficulty.
Do you promise to remain by his side, regardless of what trouble befalls you, and in the presence of temptation, to forsake this love?
Do you promise to remain steadfast and true?
Do you promise with all your heart and soul to honor this vow till death do you part?
If so, answer now.
I do. I do.
And with that, I see that you are already wearing the ring.
Please repeat after me.
Oh, was I supposed to? I'll take it off and then put it back on.
Okay.
Repeat after me. With this ring, I pledge my love and faithfulness to you, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live.
Wait, I have to repeat that? Or is that...
With this ring.
I pledge my love and faithfulness to you.
I take the ring back off.
I pledge my life.
Wait, is it you or me?
I think it's both of us.
I lean over to both of the fucking idiots, but it's kind of cute. I don't know.
Cute?
Oh.
Okay, say it again. With this ring.
I pledge my love and faithfulness to you.
For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live.
Fuck you, Albert. Fuck you, Albert. I saw that.
As a representative of the Black Arts and Denaria, in the name of the spirits of nature that guide our every step, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You may kiss now.
I just grab him and I dip him.
As your...as your...as the both of you kiss, as the both of you connect, and the warmth sparks through both your bodies like electricity, and the two of you breathe love into each other's bodies, the eternal promise is made.
Now it is my privilege to introduce to you and I show to the room, Mr. and Mr.
Boreas, or like, stands up, puts her fist in the air and signs very strongly.
Mr. and Mr. Boreas.
And Humphrey, like, raises his voice for like, probably the first time.
Just...
As everyone starts clapping, he will...Darrow holds your hand. Darrow Boreas holds your hands.
And he goes,
Zack, we grew up not having much. We didn't have anything. But you've given me so much. You've given me something that I wish the world would stand still for.
I am going to spend the rest of my time as a tribute to how much you complete me.
I love you, Zachariah. I love you without requisite or deadline.
I love you too.
Puts his forehead against yours.
As everyone's clapping.
There's a chant between the two kobolds. Wacky, Zacky! Wacky, Zacky!
I forgot they were here! Oh my gosh!
Miguel too.
They've been so quiet.
Miguel goes, yeah baby! Let's go! We're gonna have to clean this up later, but we'll worry about that later.
All right, well, now that everyone's out of the safe house, I picked Darryl up. We're gonna go have our honeymoon so you guys can wait out here. Bye!
Sorry.
Excuse us.
It's like the one time we actually know that Humphrey's not gonna be down. It's not gonna just be there. It's the one time we know.
Winfield shows up. Hey guys, it's over. I'm done.
I object, Winfield.
I object!
For mechanical sake, both Zack and Darryl get inspiration from this spell.
Good.
Would watching a wedding be part of a coming-of-age story? Like watching love and it succeed? Is that like...
Get your own wedding!
Fine.
Get your own wedding.
Listen, the stage is set, so if you wanna piggyback on that, just get that inspiration.
I'm getting through my bucket list, guys.
All right, cool. Yeah, great, amazing. How much time? Okay, cool.
We're at like 3.30!
Now!
I'm feeling like crazy. Oh my lord.
Call in, call in Victor.
Okay, anyways, after the adulation, the promises of eternity.
As, um, Zachariah, you tend to Darryl, um, in the meantime, now having a name and having another part of yourself completely dedicated to you.
Time does pass eventually, as it does.
As, um, it's all cleaned up. As everything, as the ceremony's cleaned.
Miguel, kind of just as everybody upstairs.
All right, well.
Seems like the atmosphere's a bit charged right now.
As far as I know, my job here's done.
I don't know what you guys are gonna get up to, but I've given you the setup.
That's all I was here to do.
Now, with that-
Thank you.
I wish you all the best of luck.
My friend.
Always.
Now.
I hate to dip the reception, but, um, I gotta mosey.
Y'all be good.
Daphne had been working on, in their relaxation time, doing the official writing down who's a Blackguard thing.
That's what she's been doing.
But she- she makes a separate paper, and specifically will write one for the updated Boreas's officially part of the Blackguards, you know, to help with the demon deal.
But it's nice and sentimental, too.
I'm okay.
Clarence goes,
Oh, goodness.
You okay, Roland?
I- I've-
Yeah, I'm doing all right.
I'm doing okay.
Well, I hate to bring us us back down, and remind us of where we are.
Jane?
Humphrey?
Yeah.
Yes.
The two of you ready?
Always.
You have to-
Fork's hand a squeeze, and then let go. I'm ready.
Please come back.
Always.
I've charged up the Aether.
So I needed to give them both of them correct out of character.
Right.
Also, Timmy, if they don't use the second one, can I put a different spell into it later?
Can I replace it if it doesn't get cast?
It is a one time.
Yeah, I know it can only be used once. I just didn't know if I could replace it.
Yeah, sorry.
Okay.
Can we say that one of you guys gave me a plus two dagger?
I don't know, just-
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you- do you think, um, Jenny, out of character, if they could sneak in, they could sneak out?
I was just having it as- I just thought it would be good as like a backup in case things go screwy.
Yeah, it's a good backup, but I really want someone else to be able to cast counterspell.
Okay, so then- so then, uh, um, I can give you guys a disguise self- disguise self scroll if you guys need it.
I'm not sure if you'll need it, but-
Okay, because I also can sneak with one of my feats if I'm sneaking with somebody else. I get like an advantage or something like that.
So for that part, we can be sneaky as well. I don't need Humphrey to waste it on me or something. We can work it out.
Oh, it's not a waste. I can do it as many times as I want to.
Just- yeah, you gain expertise on stealth, die. When you're part of a group, stealth check, you may play a result to yourself and one ally after seeing the results of all rolls.
I'm very confident in Humphrey's ability to sneak him in and out.
DM.
Two operations, which means failsafe.
I know that I took a plus two dagger in the beginning, but I also then had the plus two dagger that was the dagger that hit- or rather, I want to know if the dagger that hit Estelar was also a plus two.
It is.
Okay. So yeah, I will say that Hilden at some point, as you guys are getting ready for, everything would approach Humphrey.
And he would just call them, one last thing, and he would just like take and flourish and brandish one of the daggers that he took from the Vanishers.
I know that you will make good use of this.
I see you use it. You've been quite good yourself. Thank you.
That shines it.
It's very good.
I hope I don't need to.
Be safe.
Thank you.
We will.
Hey, Humphrey.
Oh, Clarence goes.
Yeah.
He takes you by the hand.
He goes, you're my brother.
Sure thing.
I'm not there, but we also maybe have more of those Vanisher cloaks if those help with sneaking.
They don't.
Don't they make you invisible?
No, Vanishers, their abilities come from themselves, not their clothes. It's trained.
The cloak specifically that Estelar gave.
Okay. Yeah.
But it was what I have for today.
We have one more message to send as well.
What was the... Tim, you said that because you can use the invisibility for like an hour, but you also said there's like an attack invisibility. How does that work in combination with that?
Okay. Invisibility lasts for an hour.
Great invisibility lasts for 10 minutes.
Okay. But can you cast the 10 minute one?
If you've used...
It has to be either or. You make the choice when you use it.
Gotcha. So right now, it's just spent until...
Yeah. It needs a long rest.
Gotcha.
I think greater invisibility is one minute anyways.
You can do a lot in one minute.
The cloak is 10 minutes.
Stay without magic in case they can detect it.
Is this where... folks are starting to split. Is this where people are moving? Okay.
She... Aura will go up to both... she'll go up to Jane, indicate her to come down to her.
Yes. And she'll bend over.
It has inspired me. Oh, and her camera goes away.
I'm still here.
If you want to be a Creston, you're more than welcome to.
However, I was hoping one of my children would one day inherit this, and she taps her hat.
Jane's eyes spark a bit as she tries to keep her face composed.
And then we glance at your hat, glances back down to you.
I mean...
I would...
The Crestons have never been my family.
And she'll kind of kneel down and take out her long sword and kind of, again, in formal fashion, and kind of hold it out towards you.
The Blackguards are my family. You are my family.
And I swear upon this sword and upon who I am, I'll protect you all with everything.
And then she's gonna do a little tap under her chin and go... actually, she'll grab her chin a little bit and go,
Then you better come back home.
I'll see you soon, Captain.
Pinches her cheek.
You're just so cute. Look at your little face.
Okay, that's enough, Captain. She just didn't take off.
Brooke quietly goes, haha.
You too, Brooke, and her eyes flash up. I don't want any fucking silly business from you.
I don't think I've ever joked once.
Back to recording.
Why?
Keep them... there we go. Back to the middle.
Good thing you have her, then. Winks.
Humphrey.
Yes, Captain?
Cut the shit.
I don't know what you mean.
And she, like she has done so many times, when she's begged for toffee that would absolutely choke her and kill her,
she clambers up and hangs from Humphrey's neck and just gives him a big tight squeeze.
He squeezes back.
Don't worry. There's a lot of grow-as-planned. It'll all be fine.
Always an artist.
Your speech was beautiful.
I'm so proud of you. And I'm so glad you're my friend.
Yeah, alright.
He like puts his head, like his hair back together into like the bandana and tightens it.
Alright. I'm glad you're my captain. Couldn't have wished for a better one.
Same with the crew. I cherish each and every one.
I accept the turncoats. And I look in the room.
Then your orders are to return home, you two. Three, I should say.
I'm not worried if anyone can get it done.
Well, get just about anything done. I think it's the group of you.
It's time to play my role.
You guys think I don't know what's going on here? Hmm? You guys don't think I don't know what's going on?
Well, I bet this was planned. We're gonna make so many moments of completion and affirmation and love for each other.
So we're gonna make Timmy, the mean, mean DM, the mean man, fall in love with us.
Cry about it.
Is Clarence going with them too?
Oh, no.
Okay, couldn't mind that.
I would say that Hilden has been watching all these things from a distance with more somber expression than the rest of the group.
He's lived longer than most. He's seen many promises made, many groups traveling and journeying.
And he's seen those who return and those who don't.
Oh, boy.
What that said.
Back up recording.
Honestly, I don't know what happened to my Wi-Fi. It's gone, man.
Oh, boy.
This campaign doesn't want to end?
So, Jane and Humphrey, the two of you quietly make your way out of the safe area.
If it makes a difference, we can travel at normal pace while being stealthy because of the scout leader.
Is Brooke going to, since there's no dimension door anymore?
Oh, is she going?
No, she's not allowed to go.
Or if you gave permission, I will point out.
Absolutely not.
If you want, we can roll it.
Brooke stands up and she goes, I'm going to keep a watch on the perimeter.
Smart move, Brooke.
She walks out.
For no reason.
So, Humphrey, if I knew you were leaving before we were done with our honeymoon, I would have taken off my gloves that are normally invisible.
Just to give to you for this.
But what do these do?
Just help you pick locks and sneak stuff.
Might be helpful. I don't know.
You can use them. I don't know. Jane can use them. One of you. I don't know. Could be helpful.
I'll take a brief moment to let Tim know I sent you a little DM just because for a clarification as to what things I lost when captured of my items that I started with.
Just so I get an idea of some of my stats for henceforth.
Yeah, Timmy, check your DMs.
Do it.
Don't call me a sticky poopy baby.
I was curious if Hilsen still had the spyglass because I'm looking out for Roland right now.
At the moment, no.
Okay.
You've lost things. You've lost things, but you've gained a plus two dagger, a wrist launcher that shoots plus one.
So everything that I had before is gone and then I have now the dagger, the wrist throw and the cloak.
And the cloak and a plus one longbow.
Any of your spare equipment that might have been on the ship I would have packed to bring with you, bring to you because I knew you'd probably be lacking.
So armor. You probably have your armor and stuff.
There were six plus one arrows, I believe, as well that we would have given to you.
There was also a couple of potions that weren't claimed. So some healing potions.
And I think we were also giving you the clockwork amulet as well.
Yes.
Kendra, are you good?
We're already sneaking.
Yeah, I'm here. Sorry. My camera keeps disconnecting. I don't know why. So just.
So I have.
I'm here. I've been here.
I'm already gone.
Okay.
Just.
Visible.
So I'll say that I have a quiver of like 30 from the spare equipment plus six arrows of their plus one.
Yes.
And then the bow, if it's a plus one bow, that would make it a one.
I need to see what this is.
Yeah. And using plus one arrows, it would be a plus two in total.
Yeah. I just don't know. I have a plus six on my roll thing and I don't know if that's already with a plus one from the previous one or not. I think it is.
All right. So.
Jane and Humphrey.
The two of you are making your way towards Afros Harbor.
Which place are we heading to first? Who are we tackling first?
Humphrey.
Yes.
You want to.
You want to take the lead on this one?
I kind of have to.
So now there's the option of going to house Creston first.
Yeah. To approach Mikael.
Or we could go to house Castel, which in my opinion doesn't seem very fruitful, because it's a coin flip whether or not I'll be able to convince Ali that maybe she can position the guards somewhere else.
Okay. So.
That's what we're doing.
Yeah, no, I'm still here. Just you can't see me. I'm already invisible.
So if you think you're... I trust Mikael, I just don't trust my family, so we can go to him first and get him the stone and then try Ali, is it next?
Eliza, Castel.
Eliza, okay.
Okay. Well.
Ahem, home sweet home, let's go.
On my steps.
Okay.
Out of sudden movements.
The both of you, give me self checks please.
Alright.
Oh boy.
20.
Make sure you guys say them because I can't see them.
Oh I got advantage. Oh, thank God.
Oh yeah you do.
13. With the specialty dice because I'm sneaking with somebody else.
13.
Yeah.
16. Okay let's go with a 20 for now.
You wrote a nat 1 and got a 16.
Wait, you wrote a nat 1?
Well no it's a 20.
I got a 20.
Dirty 20 with 5.
Don't forget that you also add, you have to add your stone of good luck.
Oh, 21.
And I don't know if that's adding...
You also add your wisdom modifier to your stealth, yeah.
Oh, so it's 24.
I keep forgetting that, thank you.
Duh. Oops.
And if Jane failed you have that feature as well.
Yes.
If Jane failed she also gets a 24.
I guess it's a 24 then Jane.
Anyways.
Allow me to make this little preliminary rule.
Alright.
Bonkers.
Cool Humphrey, cool. Okay.
The two of you begin to make your treks to town.
Being hidden away in the dark shades of the harbor,
traveling amongst the common folk,
it does feel strange that you are out here amongst the folk.
And it feels strange that, I'll say it feels strange in the atmosphere at the moment.
It seems like there's a tenseness in the air.
Just sorry to interrupt you.
If we're like among the common folk, would you think anonymity would apply?
Which is my specialty.
Add it.
How do I add a specialty? Is that just another one before?
It's an extra die, so it looks like it already rolled a d6 for you.
So you could just roll a d8.
Alright.
And then see what it gives you instead.
So that would be a 24, was it before? That would be 28.
Okay cool, it's bigger. The number two is getting bigger.
Humphrey.
Watching it grow like bread, gosh.
Who let this man cook? Anyways.
As you're even more hidden now, Jane, there's a tenseness inside.
It's been two years, has it? Since you last saw any of your family members.
Three years, yeah.
Three? It's been three years.
And becoming a pirate, you never thought that you would ever have to see them ever again.
But when confronting tyranny, it seems almost obvious now that you would see your face, the face of your father, amongst it.
Yeah.
You make your way towards the Grand Mastodon.
A befitting of its name, a, it's grand, but not big.
A seemingly exclusive, luxurious inn building.
Where you see currently on the outside there's like valets, there's like people in well-dressed, well-wood-dressed sitting outside of the, sitting outside.
Just standing guard in front of the door.
Chances are they have this whole place to themselves.
That's how it typically was when you were with them.
I would say finding an entrance, making your way inside.
Because the entrance is rather like, it's hooded, like it's enclaved.
So they're not sitting directly next to the door, they're standing like the pillars in front of it.
So you can like open up the door and go inside.
Marble floorings.
Lavish interior.
A place befitting of a noble family.
But no one inside.
It's empty.
Which is definitely not normal, right?
They could be out right now.
But there should be like servers here too.
But the place is clean.
Do you hear the idle sound of things being placed down behind like the bar area?
There's probably like a kitchen where someone's tending to things right now.
Is this, oh I was just like turning to Jin. Is this normal?
Not particularly. There should be more servants about. It's best to be on guard.
As we move forward I'll also try to check for traps. Any like spring wires or like...
Go ahead and give me an investigation check.
You do see...
This place has two floors to it. It has like an open like second floor that seems to just be for dining.
And large hallways that lead like towards what the rooms would be that flank the bar.
24.
You don't find traps. Certainly this place is pretty clean actually for the most part.
Seems like it was recently tended to.
Like you can see the water, a little bit of water like evaporating on the tables.
Okay.
The both of you see...
Kind of like walking into the hallway you hear footsteps pound against the marble floor.
As you see no one familiar to you, Jane.
But you see...
Like this person, they have sort of like blackish hair that's like swept off to the side.
And very light kind of like very light elvish features.
They have like a bow strapped across their back and a quiver.
Armor on and of course the...
They have the... On their pauldron is the crest of House Creston.
They just walk.
And like you see that their eyes as sharp as they are just kind of like looking back and forth.
They seem sharp almost...
Almost like they have the same like sharp look as Brooke.
But they walk.
And the two of you seem to be...
The two of you are sneaky enough kind of like being hidden behind like the very large staircases.
They...
They simply just kind of like take a look around the room and they keep walking like down the other hallway.
Seem to be on patrol.
28 stealth was good enough.
But it seems like if Mikhail was to be anywhere it would have to be in the rooms.
But it seems like no one else is here at the moment.
Just to confirm this property isn't one that Jane would be accustomed to.
I would say like you've actually been here before.
This is a stay. This is a stay of the Creston.
Okay, would it be reasonable for me to know about any of the servants quarters that aren't like from the main hall or we probably wouldn't have spent that much time here?
Um, wouldn't spend that much time here I'd say.
Okay.
Um, I kind of like when the elf person passes by I kind of like push Humphrey up the stairs kind of signaling that we need to go to the rooms then.
Okay.
Going up.
Can I get one more stuff check from the boss room?
Oh no.
No longer with anonymity I assume.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm stealthy with somebody so.
39, 30. 30 plus wisdom is?
17.
33.
Okay well.
Nice to Jane as well.
We're just ghosts in the hallway.
Okay, why even roll.
They succeed.
Persona 5.
And then you can go from like one height up to another.
Fighting against the waves.
As you make your way up the stairs.
Heading towards where the heading towards where the rooms will be located.
I will say that it seems like you hear footsteps kind of like checking down checking down the halls.
And it's that elf.
It's that half of again.
Seemingly just patrolling but doesn't notice you because you are deaf in your swiftness.
Hidden completely.
They may they walk past you.
I'll say.
I would say that you use the rooms to like to your advantage because they're unlocked and they're empty.
Most of them are empty.
Now heading towards heading heading down the hall.
You don't realize exactly where it may be.
But I'm a kill was room from I'm going to go ahead and say that Roland will describe the room to you are Daphne would have.
It seems like it's should be on the eastern side.
What's your checking down right now?
As we're going through the rooms.
Do they look empty as in all things taken to go somewhere or empty as in someone was there this morning but now isn't.
If you're going down you're checking each room is what you're doing.
Just when we're hiding in one maybe like quick glance over not a very thorough.
I'll definitely say that some of the rooms some of the rooms you've been in.
They have like stuff in there like like bags and such that have been left there.
Someone's left this stuff.
They're still currently staying here but they left at the moment.
Okay.
Then we continue.
As you head towards the certain the certain room based on your memory Jane over McHale might be.
And you start making and you start making your way there.
It's the same room he's been in like you're one of two stays here.
Not an important memory but something that gives you a little bit of certainty.
You open the door.
Yeah.
As you open the door.
As it creaks open.
You see inside that there is no person inside.
Humphrey.
I'm going to go ahead and use your investigation check from earlier.
Okay.
You see as you see as Jane opens the door.
That the window is open letting some letting sunlight in.
You see the light catches the little glint of a string that's on the door.
And it breaks when she opens it.
Okay.
It broke already.
I'll try to pull her back if I can.
Okay.
And I need to make a roll for this.
There's no roll.
It can't be a surprise.
Okay cool.
It's just they know we're here.
Fuck.
Okay.
So as the door is opened and Jane you're pulled back.
That thing happens immediately.
I'll drag her further down the hallway if possible if there's time.
Yeah.
And I will kind of be pushing Humphrey in front of me and like saying to him if anything happens go ahead of me.
You can sneak me out.
That means I can does that mean I can leave her behind?
That one stick me out mean?
Yes if it comes down to it Humphrey leave me behind.
I trust you.
There is a little a little rush of movement.
And then silence.
As you see down the hallway.
I assume you guys moved out of the doorway and moved moved on to like planting your backs into a corner.
You see the elf the half elf from earlier they have like the bow at the ready.
And they're tiptoeing slightly silently moving.
Moving looking with half-lidded like like squint squinted eyes towards the door.
You closed.
And it seems like they are making their way towards that door.
I'll whisper in Humphrey's ears.
Here should we try to take him out.
Yes.
No hesitation.
And I'll try to sneak.
Hard to imagine I'll just try to like go closer as much as possible while still being like stealthy as stealthy as possible.
And we're sharing a stealth score score so I'm going to try to grapple him so that you can.
You here.
They okay they they move up towards the door.
They're moving quietly.
They don't have like an arrow knocked or anything just holding their bow.
And it seems like they can.
It seems like it seems like they're just just moving cautiously.
But you can you can see them just fine.
Okay.
Nothing weird about them.
That could indicate it being an illusion or something.
Go ahead and give me either a perception or a cottage.
Um, I'll use perception would send be helpful here.
It would actually.
Okay.
24.
Damn.
Um, they are yet their person.
Absolutely.
They are real.
Nothing nothing gives you anything that's nothing gives you anything that's off.
They as they're walking closer to the door as they're walking closer to the door.
We're like you are getting you are closer to them now because their back is turned to you.
You see they open the door slowly.
And then kind of like and push it pushes it open gently.
And they lean their they lean their head and they don't have like an arrow not do anything.
Okay.
But they think that you can guys they probably think that you're in the room.
Okay.
Then before they can say anything I'll approach and just with a with a dagger just go for the throat.
I can immediately for the vocal cords just so there's no scream.
All right.
So
you're going to give me one more so check with advantage.
Sure.
We have the one from before wasn't with advantage, by the way.
Is this the third this is actually Darryl in disguise.
Yeah.
Where'd you go?
29.
Do I even roll.
You know that's I was pretty good though.
Almost 27.
Well 29 plus one plus plus four plus three again.
So it's like 33 again.
I started Minecraft.
No.
We're playing Minecraft during our D&D game.
Humphrey go ahead if you if you are going to attend to attack go ahead and make an attack roll with advantage.
Right.
Hope that works.
Three strikes with lethal intent.
I texted you to me.
I saw it.
Oh my god.
Oh no.
Wait.
Are they plus two plus 11.
Yes.
They're already plus two.
So what happened is
Humphrey as you sneak behind
and you raise your and you raise your dagger.
You're the the the blade of your dagger catches the glint of the of the sun once more.
And as there's a bloom of light.
You see that their eyes kind of like quickly like quickly avert.
And as you try to as you try to swing downwards they grab they grab your arm like they snatch it quickly with the really with the really deaf like reflex and just throws you over the arm.
This is for flavor throws you over the throws you over the shoulder.
But you with your natural acrobatic your quickness you land directly on your feet.
And they just go.
They just they seem like breathless like almost taken aback as you take a step back from you but glaring you down kind of like reaching for an arrow.
Who are you.
Um, quick out of character question.
Do I have the silent scroll.
Yes you do.
Okay.
Um, as the as that's happening real quick Jane what are you doing.
Seeing that fail Can I go for the grapple.
Specifically to silence him.
Absolutely.
Okay.
He can see grapple is just strength check right.
Yeah, just a straight athletics.
I don't need a feat to attack twice while wielding daggers right.
Um, or is that a new willing you can bonus action tech but we'll get to that in a little bit.
Hmm.
I'm just going to keep recording right now people.
Probably some other stuff that I can't find but around 25.
You, Jane you wrap your arms around this person like grappling their arms pinning pinning it to the side.
And as you see, you kind of lift them off their feet like they're completely completely restrained.
And the Humphrey if you as you kind of like prepare your dagger and lean in once more there's a voice echoes from down the hall.
Stop.
Can I, can I see down the hole, who it is.
It will be answered very shortly.
When, Jane that voice unmistakable as you kind of like the sudden like jump in your heart of realization.
You hear the half of go.
Do you know these people.
And you see, as you're ahead of as your head turns.
You see Mikhail goes.
I know her.
That's my sister.
And he walks up to you.
With a quickness.
And he completely embraces you.
I dropped the elf.
He hugs you with such envelopes units weren't completely rocking you back and forth just like with so much strength in his hug.
Jane is just completely frozen.
And he looks at you.
He, he puts his arm, he puts his hands on your shoulders.
And he looks you in the eyes.
It's been a while since you last saw him.
You've.
You've been on quite the adventure haven't you.
Yeah.
I have so much to tell you but we don't have time.
But we have a plan and I pull him in and try to close the door to the room.
Just two of you with like motion Humphrey and and I don't like it without whatever he's doing.
I'm free and try to get everybody inside.
You can trust them.
They're my retainer.
Right.
Where did you find them.
Like father brought them to my service.
And you say you can trust them.
He looks to them and he smiles.
And they just kind of cross their arms.
And then they go.
They almost stabbed me.
Sorry.
Force of habit.
You should change that.
Good reflexes.
I just left a show a hand on me because shoulder like you've done some growing too big brother.
I wish I could catch up to you with that.
You sure you don't have time to talk.
Father's out hunting.
Come on.
Brings you all to the into the room and he goes.
By the way this is Harper pointing to the half of.
Thank you for not killing me I guess.
You hurt Michael.
I will kill you.
I give him like a warm smile as I say that.
That's fair.
No I actually tried and yeah.
A little hard to kill.
There's a will there's a way.
Michael brings you into the room closing the door.
He looks at you again.
He goes.
I should have some of time.
You've been doing right.
I haven't heard that name in so long.
It's Jane now actually yesterday.
Jane.
Yeah it's Jane.
That's what I call you then.
Jane.
Yeah.
You.
I really missed you.
But.
You should not be here.
This is exactly where I need to be.
I.
I said sorry for another time but I've met some people and.
We need to make things right.
You don't have to do anything.
Michael.
And she kind of just points to her eye the one that's marked.
We carry this burden with us no matter who we are no matter how hard we change.
I don't know how to shake that or overcome that but I'm trying.
And I know you've been trying.
For a long time and.
I'm sorry that I abandoned you.
I should have.
I wanted you needed to go.
Are you happier now.
Yeah.
That was all worth it.
I miss you I miss you like crazy but that's that's love there's nothing I can do about that.
Your place is not within that your place wasn't within the house.
It never was yours.
Michael.
We're not Creston's and if we are then.
Dammit will.
Overcome the Creston legacy and will shame them and that will make father very displeased.
And I would very much appreciate that.
He puts his hands on your shoulders.
I'm sorry.
But.
We're in this terrible position.
I have to stay.
Why would he have on you what is.
He's got nothing.
He has nothing.
But what's important.
Is that I'm an heir to the family.
I can bring change.
I reach out and grab the cow by the shoulders like shaking him a little bit with like a very strong grip.
Well this is not a place for you to lead to life you.
We have a plan to get you out.
We have a plan to.
Save a very important man that you're going to execute.
We have a plan just trust me this time I promise I won't leave you again.
Rick is currently at war.
And on the on our western border.
You follow father's commands.
You keep you happily bring down every tradition that father brings on to him.
Robert is brash.
He's cruel.
Lion I can't trust him to do anything.
There'll be to be any sort of benefactor to anyone.
Sivy.
Only loving school only loving souls can inspire love.
If the if there's anything.
If there's any hope that the Christians will change.
It'll have to be with me.
I can't let this go any further and I'll wait as long as it takes.
I understand Ray and I'm sorry that I'm putting you in a terrible position where you can't stay and I can't go.
But things have to change.
It has to start with someone.
With you not with me leave it to somebody else's war or just fight it from across the country away from them.
I'm sorry.
There's a wound in this empire that won't heal.
Jane takes her hands off her his shoulders and takes a step back and takes a deep breath.
Now she looks at him.
It's kind of a little bit cold.
But that's your choice.
I can't force you to come with me.
Even if I think it's stupid and foolish of you to stay here.
I want there is nothing more I want.
To be away from all of this.
Maybe it's the ultimate freedom that I've been looking for.
I would like what you have and I'm sure you want the same for me.
But I want to do good.
Can do good outside of this house.
I am going to do good outside of this house.
Ray.
Jane.
I have no doubts about that.
And I love you more than anything you could do wrong.
But there's a people here.
That do have the tend to.
Perhaps one day I can be good enough for you to come back.
I glance to the half elven man and back to Mikael.
Tomorrow.
Wait. Out of character. It's tomorrow that we're the executions happening right.
When I say yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
You have until tomorrow to truly think this over.
I can promise to get both of you out.
During the execution.
I pulled out my hand to Humphrey for the stone.
And I.
Grab Mikael's hand and put it in stone in his hand and kind of close his fingers over it.
Keep this safe.
Are you helping warriors.
And let you kill him.
Then I won't.
What do you need me to do.
Just my lord.
Are you sure about this.
Tell me what to do.
It will be a distraction.
Me and my friend and I'll point to Humphrey.
Get to you.
We'll use that stone to get you.
And Borealis as far away as possible.
I think it's cilantro. Sorry cilantro.
Everybody has such strange names. What is it.
It's it's a lot. You mean the Lantos Borealis right.
Yeah that one. I know it was something to do with the stars or like.
You know.
I just went to a wedding earlier with like Aurora Borealis and there's you know my captain's name.
All right. It's really confusing.
There's just so much stars and you shouldn't like I don't know.
Not that doesn't matter.
You have a captain.
No.
Yeah.
I know.
And Jane looks really proud of herself as she kind of like squares her shoulders.
Kind of like a big deal.
Mikael.
So why if you join me.
As a company.
As you stand there proudly.
Mikael beams at the sight of you.
He just takes in the time to like really take you in.
See how much you've grown.
Something has to change.
It already has.
You don't need to be here in order to create change.
It's not going to be Robert.
It's not going to be Lyon.
It's not going to be Rick.
She puts.
She brings him into a hug.
And squeezes him really tight.
You have until tomorrow.
Really think this over Mikael.
I'm going to kill father.
At some point.
And you can be lying and wait.
For the time.
He.
He takes a step back.
Holding you at length.
What are you saying?
Don't do that.
You said it yourself.
Something has to change.
No Jane.
No no no no no no.
Please.
Don't mark you.
Father.
Father won't.
Father's not going to touch any of us.
You know that.
The worst he'll do to me is he'll give me.
He'll take me to a cane.
But he will never have us executed.
But that's going to change your life.
Like I said.
I'm a very big deal out on Sea Mikael.
So I would like to see them try.
That's not really who you.
Who you are.
And I think I'm going to turn back to Humphrey.
And kind of not at him as if.
Are you ready to.
Go.
Yes.
I.
I look back to Mikael.
Tomorrow.
Jane please stay.
We can talk.
We can talk more.
Tomorrow we can talk more once you're out of here safely.
Yes I agree.
The world is so much bigger out there.
And so much more.
Brighter than.
Here.
I'm really glad you found that.
Just like in the books.
Just like in the books we've read.
It's even better than the books we read.
I think it's really shy at this.
You don't have to answer.
Yeah no it's just.
Maybe it's been inspired.
But I don't know.
That's so silly.
Please think this over.
You too.
Memento.
Vivere.
Remember to live.
I look at Mikael.
As if as he has been looking at me just kind of.
With love and.
Sadness.
And I grab Humphrey's hand.
And I nod at Mikael.
I nod.
At his companion.
And I turn to leave.
You watch.
As you leave.
So I hold the stone.
Right.
Just abruptly.
I hold the stone and what am I to do?
Yeah you hold the.
I look at Humphrey.
Humphrey don't really understand our kind stuff.
What is he supposed to do?
He just holds it right and it will.
Definitely is it.
You hold the stone.
And you focus on it.
And you focus on the point that's within.
500 feet.
Was it?
Within 500 feet.
And also grab Boreas at the same time.
It is vital that you grab Boreas.
Yeah even though this is.
You feel like a door and you have to go through it.
And then try to appear as far away.
From the execution site as possible.
And there will be we'll be at the perimeters.
There will be other black guards at the perimeters.
And we'll get you to safety.
I'll give Boreas to you.
I know that you're trying to make change.
But you can be the best gear in the whole system.
You know if the whole clockwork goes against it it doesn't matter.
You know just think about it.
I don't often agree with Jane but she's right on this one.
Give me persuasion Jack.
Oh god.
Clockwork quote.
Persuasion.
Oh god.
You do have bonuses.
Jane.
You do have bonuses to that.
Do have bonuses.
Just one.
That's a six.
You have some bonuses.
I give you my inspiration.
I think I'm just going to have to do it.
You have an expertise die.
And persuasion.
You have some social expertise.
I didn't know that.
Albert everybody.
I read my sheet.
I read my sheet too.
Oh that's a 20 now.
16 plus 4.
That might do.
Yeah that's what you got.
And I'll also dramatically turn to leave.
As to the point.
You have to control in this shit.
He did not.
No.
He did not.
Could be that one.
God damn it.
It's a net 20.
The one right there.
No.
You got 20.
All right.
If he wants to change things from the inside.
You know.
When you walk out.
Who knows what it means.
When you walk out I want you to look at everyone around you.
All the people who live here.
Talking to both of you.
The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it.
It's easier to hide behind 30 or 40 atrocities in a single incident.
These people have become.
So numb.
To everything.
The horrifying has become the mundane.
He looks to harbor.
For a moment.
Because.
People die.
People disappear.
Or they're.
Grafted.
Into automatons.
Their souls imprisoned.
And there is nothing.
Here.
That's going to stop it.
The oppression is too much.
People are complacent.
Because there's nothing they can do about it.
One.
There has to be one.
At least one.
Right.
Well.
I.
I wish you all the best.
With your endeavor.
But to my knowledge.
Nails that stick out.
Get hammered down.
I'll think about it.
Thank you.
You're ready.
Look to Jane.
I stare at Mikael.
And.
My eyes are a little bit glassy.
As I try to blink away.
Tears.
Tomorrow.
And I.
Turn to leave.
But before.
Right before I.
Cross over the threshold.
I look back to him.
I love you.
I love you too.
Always.
No matter what.
And then I grab Humphrey.
Just like scurry away.
Wiping my eyes.
Oh fuck.
As you.
As your hand grabs the door.
You hear a voice.
In the long distance.
Occupying the foyer of the place.
Laughter.
Of one voice going.
If you're trying to hit the air.
Then I would say that you are completely accurate brother.
And you hear another voice.
I'm gonna hit you.
You don't stop talking.
You immediately pull Humphrey back from the door.
And I look to Mikael.
That those are your brothers.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I look to Mikael.
Do you have like an exit strategy?
Or are you just.
Is your window.
What floor are we on?
Oh, we're on the second.
Oh, that's fine.
Come on Humphrey.
Pull Humphrey towards the window.
I'll hold you if you need me to Humphrey.
You hear coming down the hall.
Mikael.
Your father's voice.
You see.
At this you see at this point Mikael walks over to the window.
Opens it up.
I'll jump down.
You don't have to face father.
You jump down.
I.
Oh shit.
I will fall down.
I would also like to like just.
You know, when you're like jumping over the railing, I put my like grappling hook there and just like.
Yeah.
Humphrey you're very deaf.
You can you make your way down swiftly when you.
I'm going to say no checks here just for.
Explaining.
But you hesitate.
I hesitate for the briefest moment.
Father is a fossil.
He's not going to survive long.
His ideas won't survive long.
You don't have to face him.
Any place in his hand on your back.
Fine.
I won't face him today Mikael, but I promise you I will.
I'm like jumping out.
I will be facing father at some point.
Just jump out the window.
You won't.
Just flip him off.
I turned to Humphrey.
I think we convinced him.
I think he's definitely going to come with us tomorrow.
Good thing.
I'm just saying good thing we have a plan B and I like whip around my grappling hook.
So like detaches off the window and comes back.
That works.
I think like just like like when it went like a hose gets looped like, you know, stuff.
English everybody.
Yeah, I'll just try to.
Can we?
Can we like hide underneath the window to hear what they're talking about?
Maybe.
All right.
The voices don't care that far.
The voices do carry if you do want to do that.
Humphrey you want to see if we can get some intel or.
I'll look around.
How busy is this area that we're in?
Is it like far off or behind this?
It's a rather guarded area too.
It's it's there's not a lot of people here.
And plus you're like in a space between buildings.
So there's not many like at all.
Legend of Zelda like the castle, you know, when you like infiltrated like somewhere there.
Good.
Yeah.
Sure.
A little bit.
Just for a little bit.
Yeah, we might be able to find like maybe I don't know some like really cool stuff.
Maybe there's they have a plan B that we don't know about.
Keep your temper.
You see her face are already like glitched and like knuckles white.
Yeah, yeah, OK.
I'm fine.
I'm afraid you worry about yourself.
Um, you hear above.
Mikael, didn't you hear me calling you?
Yes, father.
Apologies.
I was talking.
Yes.
Their voice is more important than your own father's.
Apologies.
Leave us.
Yes, my lord.
You hear the door close.
Never give that man a podcast mic.
Please.
Yes, father.
Mikael, I can't seem to have noticed that you have left hunting early.
Yes, father.
I'm afraid lions, taunts were getting to me.
His words are like words.
His words are nothing like belches to the deaf.
I wouldn't let such childish taunts get to you.
But was that really the reason why you left?
Look at me.
Why did you leave?
I know why.
You're consorting with that half-spawn, aren't you?
What did you say?
The half-elf.
What did you say before?
Am I wrong?
You ball up your fist like you're going to hit me.
Is that what you're going to do?
Jane goes to start to stand to see.
She's thinking about climbing back up.
Are you going to hit your own father?
And on her sword?
Was the boy I raised cowardly, weak-willed, just consort with half-spawns and hits their own parents?
Alright, Humphrey stands up too.
I look at Humphrey standing up, taking that as a okay, and I start climbing.
Humphrey climbs too, without the grappling hook.
I have my gloves on climbing.
I'm just literally scaling the wall.
Oh no, no, guys!
What are you, okay, really, I'd like you all to think.
I want to take a beat.
Take a moment.
Let's all take a fucking breath right now.
And think on the big picture.
Maybe at this point, Roland sends a message being like, hey, just checking in, you guys have been gone for a while.
Roland, everyone, hi.
There is a pause.
Before you hear, that's what I thought.
When are you going to grow, Mikael?
Would you rather rise to worthiness or be a child in the garden forever?
Their name is Harper, and you know that.
Go join your brothers outside.
Wait until you say their name.
And then you hear a slap.
No, wait, okay.
I look to Humphrey.
Humphrey, you worked with Royals in nobility before, right?
Yes.
What's something that angers them more than anything?
Getting shamed publicly.
And put my sword down, put it back in, tomorrow.
I'm going to do it publicly for everybody to see his daughter.
Humphrey puts back the scroll of silence.
All right, your choice.
We have tonight to come up with a plan.
Hopefully Captain won't kill us, but maybe she'll understand.
I think she will.
And we go down again.
Yep, we can scale it back down and then sneak away from the gardens.
Oh boy.
As the pair of you sneak away.
As we prepare to tackle House Castel.
We're going to go on break.
I got the gesture and everything. I was like, this is what you're going to do.
All right, guys, I'll be right back.
All right.
We'll see you in 10 minutes, everyone.
10 minutes.
And we're back. Hello, everyone.
Just a quick update, just a quick little thing for everyone.
I got this little pamphlet that says the civil alarm might be raised later.
Can I say it again?
I just Tom and Jerry did across the room. So if you guys hear the alarm, that's content.
Let's go.
That's content, baby.
We can click back.
Oh, gosh.
We will play through the apocalypse.
Yeah, I'll do it. I'll bring this computer down. We'll continue the recording.
You get blown up on stream.
And the rest.
So Randall cast meteor swarm Jane.
Oh, boy.
Just all right.
Just went through all of that with Mikhail.
What a nice guy. What a really sweet man.
But he needs to be manlier.
Just kidding.
Tuskegee Muscleini is dead.
Anyways, that's my statement on song woven.
Okay.
So to the Ebony Crater next.
I was cast.
On the way.
I'll just talk to Jane.
I'll be like, hey, I'm I'm really proud of you.
You've come a long way, especially back there.
Even I couldn't hold my cool.
Well, I would love to accept your compliment, Humphrey.
I mean, there's a part of me that just.
I'm just waiting to do it in the most humiliating way possible.
So I don't know if that's growth, but I'll take it.
I mean, if the captain taught us one thing, it's to strike when it inflicts the most damage.
That is true.
Get the most pieces on the board or something.
Yeah, or something. I'm not that good at chess, so I don't know.
I usually lose.
Yeah. All right.
Hey, are you going to be OK?
I don't know. It can go many ways.
Someone I haven't seen in a long time.
Someone that once had faith in me, but now maybe does no longer.
Someone that I am partially very angry at.
And.
Depends.
The plan is that I'll try to talk to her and see if we can.
If Plan A fails and Mikhail doesn't do his job.
Plan B is now we'll talk to Eliza and we'll try to get some guards away from the execution point.
By telling them that which they already know that there will be an attack on the on the light on the lighthouse to maybe place the guards.
Am I saying that wrong?
There it was attack on the lighthouse, right? The distraction.
Oh, about that, though.
I think they knew.
Well, the bankers.
I don't we don't have enough intel on them, right?
They we don't know for sure.
They have a hint that we're doing something, but they don't necessarily know what.
But then he said Afros Harbor, that could mean rescuing Boreas for all they know.
Because that would be a.
He said the lighthouse specifically, but it could still mean rescuing Boreas.
It could mean actually attacking the lighthouse.
It could mean a million things.
OK. I'll try to convince her to to station not as many guard at the execution place.
Um. Well, that's a gamble.
I don't know if it works.
I don't know if I can keep my cool.
We'll see once we get there.
Hey, I got your back.
So if you lose your cool, I'm right behind you.
Yeah. But despite whatever happens there, I don't think anybody's going to die.
Except if we get caught by guards or something.
But.
All right, let's make our way there.
As we're walking to Mikhail's words have kind of shocked me a little bit.
So I am kind of just like looking at the people were passing and kind of trying to see this world from a new perspective.
Hmm.
From what you know, the execution of an innocent or good man is happening.
There are posters.
There are posters about, of course, like putting this putting this event up.
And you look at the you look at the you look at the list.
Treasonous acts.
To treat treasonous acts against the crown.
Conspiracy against conspiracy against the crown and things like that listing their listing listing everything.
And of course, you see people like walking by. It's gloomy.
It's gloomy at this moment. You see guards like patrolling the streets, which you guys are hidden by.
But from what from what you know, this should be pushed stand up against this.
This is a you know, this is a bad thing.
But people are walking about keeping keeping to their keeping to their lives.
And when the guards come around, they keep their heads low.
Okay.
As the both of you make your way towards the Ebony Crater.
I'll say that this situation is more.
This situation is more complex. The Ebony Crater is another is another is another privately run in.
That's you can assume Humphrey is was rented out for the the noble family itself for the for the Castells.
As you can see through the front window that this place is this this place is full of people,
not full to the brim, but full of people in like in leather armor,
wearing the Castell sigil on their on their armor.
Couple of people enjoying drinks and such.
They have their swords leaning against the tables.
It was nice and conveniently empty like like the Grand Mastodon.
So maybe a front entry is maybe a front entry is a bit out of the out of the water.
And this is the house, the prop like the OG House Castell.
I know my instant out there. I have worked there.
Yes, you were there.
OK, then I'll try to guide Jane around the outside to if possible,
go to the window where the room of Eliza Castell lies.
Like maybe climate.
Climate.
Would I know that?
You wouldn't, let's say.
OK.
She might be in this building. You're not even entirely sure about that.
OK. If I would be inside, could I then find my way there?
Yes.
OK.
It's just getting past like the like the foyer, like the opening room. That's your biggest hurdle.
Yeah, I'll see if there's any on the outside if there's any open windows.
I'll say like towards the left, towards the left side, like there is one window open.
But notice, noticeably, like all the other windows are like the curtains are drawn.
OK, then I would like to with Jane and Tao, I'll climb that open window and get in there.
I need the both of you to roll me a cell check, please.
Don't mind if I do.
Damn.
You have advantage.
I guess.
I'm at 23 without Humphrey's help.
28, 432.
Well, OK.
OK, fine.
Jane, I don't think it added your expertise to the deck, by the way.
Oh, I did not.
I know that it matters.
It's really good stuff.
Very good.
All right. Well, guys can't fail one check, can you?
Not one.
You make your way into the room and Humphrey, as you kind of poke your head through, you hear snoring from within the room.
As you stick your head through, you see that there is a man with like you can tell because the armor is on the side and said it's just one of the soldiers.
Probably.
Do they?
Probably not. But do they carry the poison with them?
Definitely. No, definitely not.
OK, I thought so. Just checking.
Those vanishes are nuts.
But there's probably have it.
These are just grunts.
OK, I'm making my way to the door.
Over there checking for like traps, checking for like tripwires.
If there's anything.
Go ahead and give me an investigation.
Geez, I roll like crazy.
Can you roll like low one time, my man?
He keeps succeeding.
It'll come at the worst possible moment.
Yeah, probably.
We're going to keep that 23 for like another because it's so good.
We're going to keep it for like if you're asking for another thing down the line.
Because I'm looking around the room like nothing as you open the door slowly, like trying not to go for that little string trick that happened earlier.
There's nothing. OK, but you are so sharp right now.
Do I know where we are once I'm outside the door?
Do I know the perimeter? Is it?
Yes, you can open up the door. You're in the hallway where all of the like people's rooms are.
The lords and their lady would probably be, were probably more towards like the central like back area.
Towards a more important place.
OK.
I'd like to take Jane by the hand and just like scurry around the perimeters close to the wall.
Well, he's looking for traps with that was his check. I'm looking out for anyone sneaking up on us or trying to get the jump on us.
OK. Give me a perception check for you.
16.
At the moment, no, but we're going to keep that 16 rolling.
I'll tell you when.
Since we've been going, Albert just told me that I can add a D6 instead of a D4 for investigation.
Add the D6.
Won't change much. It'll be a 24 instead of a 23, but just in case.
Well, 20, 25. I don't know if it's adding your.
It had one before a one on the D4. So 24.
I mean, um, certainly good luck you have.
Oh, so no good luck.
25. That meets the DC. I'm kidding.
Oh, gosh, you're so good.
I'm afraid you're so fucking.
Gosh.
It took a natural 20.
To beat a persuasion check from him.
Oh, gosh.
So I'm making your way towards making your way towards the.
Making your way to damn it.
Making tracks towards the making tracks making tracks towards the central area.
I mean, you all the both of you notice already like towards like the towards where the bend is in the hallway.
There is a there is a large set of double doors.
That probably leads to like the to like another set of like door that leads to multiple chambers for the multiple like the Lords Ladies and if they have any children.
But you see sitting next to that door.
A man.
With with with jet jet black hair and he's wearing like dark tinted glasses.
He is completely like sat against the wall just like his legs played out just like his head back.
And he has like in in one hand a cane and he's just rather.
Like like he's he has like a bit of grunge to him like he's not dressed like he should be here like in the presence of royalty.
But he has it.
He has a cane in one hand and he's just wearing dark tinted glasses and it seems like he's just sitting there with this head back.
Elbow Humphrey you're kind of not at that like.
The thing is.
When people look like they don't belong to places.
Mostly pretty important.
I feel like.
Yeah.
Should we kill him.
He isn't.
Memorable at all.
There's nothing in my memory that like upon seeing that person like.
Probably something strange here.
Maybe there's other things to parse in killing.
Answer my question to.
No one you would know.
All right.
You do you do see that like on his like on like the sleeve of his like outer like jacket that's a bit torn.
He does have like like sewn into there the crest of Husker style.
Okay.
And he's sleeping or just like having his head back.
He just has his head back his mouth is open.
I have a thing called fashion sense if we have a minute I can read them and I can tell if they have a lower Christmas score than us.
Their national origin the creatures social standing and any of the major majority of the culture.
Social standing.
I don't know.
I don't know how I'm going to leave this.
Okay.
So what are you looking for specifically.
If you see social standing I'm going to freak out.
Yeah.
So staring at this person at the end their fashion sense.
You're not entirely sure.
First of all this person you might tell like the kid the kid and stuff like for like like poking around like this person's this person's like might be blind.
But looking at the looking at the crest and where it is and considering where he's sitting at the moment.
This person might be a night.
Knights wear armor. Knights have swords in Knights stand next to next to the place that are guarding.
But this person is completely different.
Okay. I also know their Christmas score is higher or lower than us or me.
My Christmas is I'm guessing yes.
Nine or no 10.
It's higher.
Okay cool.
Okay I turn to Humphrey.
I think that guy's a night.
Like I saw her before she says anything and start like signing.
Oh yeah.
Sign back.
I think that guy's a night.
You also tell him that he's blind.
Oh yeah.
And he I think it's a blind night is what I say.
This might be a problem.
I mean.
He's also really good with his words if that helps you in any sense.
Signing all this.
I mean we should.
We could probably just sneak past him right.
Is he clenching his staff.
He he's holding on to it.
Don't steal his cake.
We'll.
Yeah we'll try sneak past.
I mean.
Thirty two if that's not enough.
I don't know what is.
The thing is.
Oh no.
If you guys are going closer.
As soon as you step within 20 feet.
He sits up.
I stop immediately.
And he's holding the stick but not like in a pose.
And he just kind of like you see he taps the stick around until he finds a wall.
And then he just stands up.
I was not sleeping on the job.
And then he stops for a moment and notices the silence.
Are you supposed to be here.
At ease fellow night.
Definitely not.
Okay.
So.
Exactly do I have the pleasure of speaking to.
He stepped behind Humphrey.
Humphrey Castell.
Royal cook.
And I like kind of like take out one of the spice bags so it like smells because probably I just assume because he's blind his other senses are a bit heightened.
I like kind of like get some spices like going so it smells like I got food with me.
Throw some pepper in the man's face.
Not yet.
Humphrey.
This is a little bit unexpected.
And drop my sword and ready it.
Put that away.
I pretend like I'm putting it away.
Blind sense allows you to sense could just even if they're hidden.
He he he turns towards you and he's like padding to stick around to like feel the environment.
But he looks he he turns towards you.
Humphrey.
To which do I owe.
The visit.
Unless I'm not the one you're looking for.
It's a good chance.
Right on the dot.
You wouldn't be so kind as to let us speak to Eliza.
I'm not quite exactly sure if she's ready for that.
Meaning.
I've learned a lot about you Humphrey.
I actually went under the banner of House Castel because I wanted to learn more about you.
He's he's kind of like situates himself on the cane.
He's standing like completely right.
And you can tell.
I'll add it for your fashion sense.
He's pretty capable.
Really capable where he's a knight after all.
Now first I've got some introduction.
You could call me Sir Balasong.
And as you could probably tell I'm not really from this empire.
Just.
I was just curious.
Humphrey.
I've been waiting 10 years for this.
Why did you do it.
So you also think I'm guilty.
Do you.
I believe anything you say.
I was put up with a crime that I didn't commit.
I was thankful for everything that I had back then.
I would have never even allowed myself to do anything close to that for no amount of money.
I had no grudge against the royal family.
I had no grudge against Castel quite the opposite.
I was indebted by them.
I owed them my life.
Everything I had.
Every skill that I learned.
Everything.
And still I had to rot in that prison cell.
And get tortured for answers that I didn't possess.
I see.
I believe you.
I do.
What are you doing here.
If I may ask.
I want to talk to Ellie.
To Eliza.
So nothing like that can happen again.
There's another innocent man right now.
But unlike me he's on death row.
You've come pretty far haven't you Humphrey.
Depends how you quantify it.
Well.
I've kept her safe for you.
He taps the door.
Um.
He goes.
Go ahead.
That's all I needed to hear.
I can't express enough gratitude for that.
I'll remember that.
Thank you very much.
Of course.
I'll move past him.
But of course.
I don't know how to say this.
But I'm a knight.
And I haven't said this yet.
You hurt her.
The risk can be applied.
Yeah.
Don't worry.
I swear.
On my name.
I don't want to keep you any longer.
The Lord might be back pretty soon.
But I would love to have more questions for you.
You though.
Poinsettia.
She's trustworthy.
She's with me.
I wouldn't let her harm allies either.
Under no circumstances.
You see he's a certain thought for a moment.
Where he just kind of like puts his walking stick down.
And he slides down onto his, uh...
Into his sitting position again.
Crosses his legs.
Alright, well.
I'll be out here.
Oh, also my marshmallow.
Thank you.
What the fuck is that?
That was
surprisingly easy.
Yeah, must be the strange temperance of this mysterious man.
As you open, ready to throw hands and daggers and marshmallows apparently.
Yeah.
As you open the door, which leads you to like another set, it leads you to another
like rectangular room, where there's like two doors on each side and one, like
another large set of doors like directly in the middle.
Quick question.
Yeah.
While I was there, House Castel never had kids, right?
Never.
Over there and Eliza.
Okay.
Yo, is this an affair?
For real?
Was it free and fucking?
Yeah.
Fuck off.
Home wrecker.
Stop assuming.
Jesus.
Guys, you guys, you guys went really far with that.
Hold on.
I went for the past cabs.
I can wait outside if you need a minute.
I'm free.
This is like a private area where she can safely wait outside.
Yeah, maybe it's better just to not scare her.
No worries.
I just sit next to the night.
I'll just be here when you're ready.
So.
Don't tell him tall.
Before she goes, don't tell him tall tales.
He can tell you lying, you know, heartbeat and stuff.
Oh, I have a really good bullshit detector.
Yes.
Well, let me tell you about the time I fought this family of sharks.
And I'm just going on.
Oh, that's some big bullshit.
But go ahead.
I'd like to hear it.
OK, well, you see sharks, you would think in their natural
habitat would have the upper hand.
And I'm just like going on and on.
And Humphrey, you go in.
I go in.
You see her.
For the first time in 10 years.
As you open the door quietly, there is there she is sitting on the bed.
Currently on her lap, she's writing a letter in that beautiful handwriting.
She always has.
She's aged a bit.
But so have you. She's recognizable.
Her long flowing brown curls.
As you open the door, she kind of like stops and looks up not towards you yet.
And she just goes, Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
And she just goes, Oh, you've returned my.
And then as she as her head turns towards you.
It's like her heart stops.
As she looks at you, she there's a gasp.
It's me.
She puts the letter and everything to the side.
And she turns away from you for a moment.
And then she turns back towards you.
All of a sudden, like you see that she's endeavored to put on a much angrier expression.
So have you finally come back to admit it?
To admit what she's done.
Say that again.
I close the door behind me and with that knot in his stomach, Humphrey says, I never committed a crime.
And I know as hard as it is to believe, I would never have done anything to hurt House Castell.
Then why?
Why did you run?
Chris, I was I was tired of hoping I was stuck there, bound and almost broken day after day, waiting for for you or for any one of House Castell to come down and prove my innocence.
I was going to get you out.
But when?
How long was I supposed to wait?
I was fighting.
Because of course, because of course you wouldn't.
Of course you wouldn't do such a thing.
But you ran.
You ran, Humphrey.
I was freed.
Freed and those people gave me the same thing that you gave me so many years ago.
They believed in me.
I'm sorry that I couldn't stay.
It was unbearable to wait every day for one of House Castell to come for you to come to prove my innocence to.
I was going to get you.
I needed you.
I needed you. I'm not going to apologize that I couldn't be there.
After you left.
My name was dragged across the streets, through the mud.
I was the only one yelling for your innocence.
But I'm not even sure if that was enough.
You didn't. You didn't do anything.
That's what you're telling me, right?
And you swear it. You swear.
I swear it. By everything.
I swear it.
Can you really do that?
That's what I mean.
You heard what you heard.
IMy Tears really don't hurt anymore.
for second place.
What would you have me do?
Tomorrow, when the execution starts,
we'll, without harming anyone,
we'll try to get Lelanto Boreas
to our ship and rescue him.
And I don't know if you're even able to facilitate this.
Maybe, ease up the guards.
So, we have a chance to escape.
I have no sway over the soldiers.
Only Belphotea does.
But I do have a sway over the servants.
You won't be able to convince Belphotea, huh?
He never listens to you.
He's gotten crueler over the years.
But I tend away to my duties because that is what I am to do.
If there is any modicum of God in House Castell,
it is not Belphotea.
Yeah.
I guess that answers the question if you would like to come with me.
Come with you where?
To our ship, to the Black Arts.
To my new family.
Pirates? Pirates, Humphrey?
How would I even fit in?
By being you.
You've always been tenacious.
You've always known what to say to people.
You've always knew how to facilitate things.
You've been the only reason House Castell still runs like it does.
You're the only reason someone like me could make it where I am today.
And I would like to return that gift to you,
that you gave me so much to do.
And I would like to return that gift to you,
that you gave me so many years ago.
That belief in potential.
You think there's truly a place for me there?
I can't.
I can't continue living like this.
I can't.
I can't continue living like this, Humphrey.
His anger.
His indifference.
My constant duty of upholding the good.
And from time to time this.
To plan Merry.
To put up decorations.
To...
To manipulate the minds of the people.
That what they're watching is something worth celebrating.
You're worth more than that.
I always knew.
Is that what you have been doing these past ten years?
Well, I've been doing a lot of things.
Well, there's been a lot of political games here and there.
But yeah, we've been trying to get in the midst of it.
And prove that justice prevails.
Even if we're just pirates.
I think pirates means something more.
If you've applied yourself to it.
Because you were always more than what you were labeled.
You were never just a servant.
Gods.
Um.
My knight.
Um. He might be...
I'm not sure.
But...
You want him to cook with?
I'll have to ask.
He's a bit eccentric.
But he's one of the finest warriors I've ever seen.
I can tell. You've got a good nose for that.
Let us free you of this life of imprisonment.
I'll come.
You no longer have to ask for anything.
I'll come with you.
If you can make me one promise.
The one knight that we have in a place that we're together again.
You will make me my favorite tea.
We will have two cups.
And you and I will have a night alone.
Where we talk.
Like old times.
Anything you wish for.
What do you wish for, Humphrey?
Not the first time I've been asked this.
I don't think I still have an answer for that.
But I feel like my dreams align with the dreams of the people I love.
And if I can facilitate fulfilling them, then I'll be happy.
You haven't changed.
I always knew.
You were a good person.
Jane.
Outside.
I was always there for you.
Jane. Outside.
The Sir Vezel song is talking to you.
Well from what I know, sharks are very...
Like, in nature they wouldn't just attack you like that.
Especially 27 of them.
I'm just saying, there's a lot of holes in your story.
There's blood in the water, you know.
They come a-runnin' or swimmin'.
Some people say.
You know, you just...
You gotta try it sometime.
Why would you punch the shark though?
Why couldn't you just get back on the boat?
It was looking at me funny.
I mean, I got a certain dominance.
How does a shark look at you funny?
You just know they like...
Well, there was a couple hammerheads in there.
Also the cane is placed against your lips.
Go in.
What?
As you hear outside a cheer...
In the main bar area.
I jump up.
To the night.
You should tell your friend...
That you need to leave very soon.
That's what I'm guessin'.
Pleasure to meet you. Sorry I almost stabbed you.
As I go...
I just, um... I think about knocking.
Well, you know...
Who's to say?
I go to knock, but think better of it.
But then I knock and I'm like...
Okay, I knock.
I always knew...
You were a good person.
Hey, um...
We gotta go!
I say that through the door.
You're dead.
That's my friend.
Do you want to come with now?
Or tomorrow?
If you want me to help, then...
I'm gonna have to endure one more night.
Okay.
I promise you. I'll get you.
I promise.
She reaches...
I knock on the door again.
As you hear the knocking on the door and it becomes frantic, you see that she's like slowly reaching over towards your hands.
Do you need to go, Aubrey?
I'll...
I'll just go...
Take the hands.
Give them, like, you know, the...
Kind of thing.
I'll be back. I promise.
And...
I, like...
I walk backwards, still looking at her kind of like hesitantly, but I...
I walk. I run.
He's such a romantic!
As you kiss the hand and you begin to make the way out, as you go towards the door, you hear...
Lord Tistel!
It was...
It's about a song.
It was...
And how was your day of drinking?
Can I pull Jane in?
Yeah, where am I? Cause I was knocking on the door!
Trying to be nice!
There's the outdoor with the night, and then there's like the...
Okay, okay, okay.
When I hear that, I open the door. I'm like, I'm sorry, if I walk in on something, I will just pretend I never saw, so I open the door.
You open the door?
You see Eliza was about to, like, pick up the letters again, but as you open the door, she just...
Is there other windows? Anyone?
There is, there is a window.
Jane! The window!
Close the door. Let's go!
Nice to meet you, I say to Eliza.
I gotta go now, it's like, they're right up there.
Nice to meet you as well.
You'll meet them later. Tomorrow. Sorry.
Oh!
Uh, well...
The lady, and I go to just jump out the window and climb.
Wait, Raylan Creston? And you just...
You turn the window!
These...
These will make sense. And I also jump out of the window.
Looks over the window.
As you both land, the door opens, and you hear, what are you looking at?
Nothing, my lord. Nothing.
The curtains are drawn.
I look to Humphrey.
She's nice.
Yes. Yes, yes.
And...
Can we still hear that, or is it too high up?
Or is it like...
This one's a bit more high up.
But now the curtains are in the window, so it's definitely harder to hear.
Okay, wouldn't hear that.
Then, I would take Jane, and we make our way back to the safe house, I guess?
Right? Yeah.
Yeah. Whoa.
Really fun!
We've been in this game for a while, guys.
Really fun.
These men are real winners.
Damn! We've got Alphamale Podcast, we've got Abuser Galore!
I don't want to be controversial with men, sir.
Poor.
Alright.
So, the two of you are making your way back to the safe house.
And the two of you want to say to each other on the way back?
So...
Look, no secrets. Long story short, you weren't there to hear it.
You know the story about how Castel took Humphrey in as an orphan and taught him cooking and everything.
But like...
Eliza Castel.
Or Ellie.
She's the one who confided in me with everything.
All her doubts. All her stress in life.
She's married to Belvedere Castel.
Not out of love, out of convenience.
And...
Looks like it's been getting worse.
And I'll... I promised her to get her out of there. Tomorrow.
She couldn't help us with the guards, but with the servants.
Um... yeah. It wasn't much of a success for the mission, but...
I'll try to get her out of there. We can ask... we can ask Daphne if she can make another stone like that, maybe.
Yeah. And...
We'll get her out. Don't worry, Humphrey.
Thank you.
Just... so too, um...
I do request your silence on maybe one topic that was broached today. I've never really said out loud that I'm going to kill my father.
So maybe we just keep that between the two of us. I think the others would make a big deal out of it, and it's like...
You know...
I just thought it was obvious. I don't know about the others, and I'm like...
Yeah...
Yeah, so... um...
Let's just, you know... I just figured it would be like... in and out.
Yeah.
You and Mikael will get Oris Dad out, and...
Eliza will come with due to some arcane magic from Daphne, because she's really good at those, and then...
Yes.
We all sail happily in breath to the bandit.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. And don't worry, I won't say a thing.
I know a lot that's been going on on the ship, and trust me, I can keep my secrets.
Okay, good, because there's one more, Humphrey. And I... kind of... put my hand on your shoulder.
Yes.
I am not a fool.
I know that a lot of things can go wrong tomorrow...
And... I need you to promise me something. One more promise.
Okay, okay.
Depends. Go ahead.
If something happens to me... you'll keep an eye on Brooke for me.
I can do that.
She's... don't ever tell her I told you that she will kill me, and that would...
She has a soft heart, and I don't want to put her through. She'll need somebody.
In the forest that you're in... all of a sudden you hear stomping away.
Footsteps running away.
Oh, my lungs hurt, what the fuck.
Wait, did we just get Humphried?
What? What?
Oh, my lord.
Brooke was on pervader duty.
Oh, god. Fucking Humphred.
Completely forgot about that.
Damn it, Brooke. She's gonna kill me later. It's gonna be really nice.
Let's go. To the safe house. Come on.
To the safe house.
Wow.
Lord.
I'm not made for this.
So.
You make your way back to the safe house.
For...
To expedite things real quick.
You make your way back to the safe house where everyone is. Clarence is planning things out, and you see that it's at the final stages.
He's got something good.
But to go to the details would be a lot of time.
Hand wave. For the cool NPCs.
And as the two of you make your way back, everyone sees the safe house open.
The safe house chapter open.
And down comes Jane and Humphry.
If anyone would like to say something real quick.
Clarence does. Everything's good?
So.
Not sure. Plan A, we gave the stone to Mikhail.
It is not 100% sure if he'll pull through.
He will get your father out. Captain.
No matter what.
But he does not wish to join our crew.
You know, my brothers are stubborn, so he probably just needs a night to think about it, and I think he'll come around by tomorrow.
Also, this is really not related to this conversation. Do we have any poisons in our arsenal?
Just out of curiosity.
Nope. Okay.
I mean, I would have loved going scouting for some, but...
Plan B.
We contacted House Castell to perhaps shift the guards away from the execution place.
That didn't work. However, the servants will be informed.
Potentially on our side.
In exchange for what?
In exchange for us taking in Lady Castell in our crew.
What?
She's cool. I met her.
You'll all really...
I love her.
Yeah.
Are we kidnapping a lord?
Or as soon as she sees Humphrey say, I love her, she goes, the discussion is off the table, it will be done. Next.
So potentially, if Mikhail does come, I promise to get his boyfriend out as well. So that's...what?
There is so much love in the air right now.
The servants goes, jackpot, baby.
No!
And how do we plan to...since you all have crafted something, how are we planning to get her?
We need the second stone, Daphne, if that's possible, with another Dimension Door.
We have to save that.
Could we just send Daphne over to grab herself?
Hold on, you said the serpents would help, right? She picks up the Disguise Self Scroll, taps it on Daphne's leg and goes, if the serpents are supposed to help tomorrow, perhaps you could feign being one and grab her then.
That's a perfect idea. And I can help you get into the vicinity.
Roland still has a message too, if we want to tell her that.
Yeah.
I also think it's smart for at least some of us to be there as it planned, like, I don't know, plan we're on E now, near the execution site.
I don't think they know what I look like, so...
I can disguise one part of myself with this potion.
That like elf ears?
Yeah, yeah. I'll disguise my eyes and then, I don't know, shave my head. I'm open to suggestions.
Could you make it like grow a beard or something?
I could, but...
That might hide a little bit more, yeah.
Okay.
Daphne, is that doable?
Pretend to be a dwarf. I'm sure Ravi will like that.
Absolutely.
It is something that I must say.
Hildren speaks from the corner of the room where he's been with Kenway, and looks at the group.
It appears many, there are many that we wish to protect and rescue, and promises have been made.
But we must remember what we are facing, and as much as I would like to give you all hope,
I must also remind you of caution and decision.
The things that we are facing, some of the people that we may be trying to rescue may not be able to withhold or sustain the damage and the pain.
These Vanishers are dangerous, so whoever we are getting out that doesn't have our skill, we need to try to make sure that they exit quietly.
I have seen what the Vanishers' poison can do.
You do not want that on any of your people.
To add to that point, we, she points to each person who's still, we are still affected by a boon from Delphine for poison, and I think...
What does that mean?
You didn't know this, do you realize this? She goes...
I made a deal with my patron, it's how I got Darryl.
Part of the deal also included protecting us, including you, from poison. She said she could offer a boon that I wouldn't know what form it would take.
I know yours was used, she told me when it was. And apparently it worked.
Hildren has his eyes looked down as he has a moment of realization.
Yes, it did work.
Thank you.
She cannot harm anyone who aura or I declare blackguard.
And so...
We should start naming names?
Yes, anyone you want to absolve from the meddling of my patron.
Hildren just has a moment and everyone that I would want to protect, they are all here.
And he goes quiet.
There would be Eliza Castell.
She is a blackguard.
What's the name of the elvenguard of Mikhail?
Sir Ballas. Oh Mikhail, okay, Harper.
Yeah, Harper.
Harper in service to Mikhail Creston to specify.
If he does come with us, is he changing his name like Jane too?
Is that going to matter?
We'll get him on the ship and then talk about it.
I'll go over to Hildren and just kind of...
Notice, even without context, that he's quite distraught.
Putting my hand on his shoulder.
I'm sorry we couldn't be there earlier.
Hildren forces a slight smile.
It happened as it had to happen.
We are here now. Let us focus on that.
You're very brave.
He doesn't say anything.
Okay.
So are we as ready as we're going to get?
Alright. Yeah.
We need my spouse or Roland's before the night's over.
We should probably let...
Eliza, you said? We should probably let her know.
Yes, yes. Sorry. Alright.
Give her a code word or something so she'll know it's me.
Should I make the message?
I can do it in your voice if you want.
I would make it easier, I think. Yes.
Tell her tomorrow one of the servants will get you out of the masses.
The code word is checkmate.
Be ready. See you soon.
Now do your Humphrey impression to me.
Okay.
See you soon.
Wow Roland, you are so good at those.
Yeah, man, what's up?
Your Humphrey's kind of rough.
Compared to the others.
But my Daphne's pretty good.
She's terrible.
Can I hear the Daphne one?
He did it perfectly spot on.
Oh, that was perfect.
Never do that again.
Can you make her say like weird things in her voice?
He will never do it again or he will die.
Oh, look at the time. I think it's late.
Bedtime everyone?
Let's rest up everyone. Let's rest.
He's already sleeping.
Hey, Zach, I need to say something to you real quick.
Okay.
I'll go away.
Now that she's not listening, you can say whatever you want in her voice.
I want to act like I'm saying something really important to you.
In reality, I'm just going to let this conversation go on for a little bit.
Just keep nodding your head.
Because I'm going to say something really weird in Daphne's voice and it's going to be really funny.
Okay, okay, I'm excited.
Moist.
There you go. That's it.
That's pretty good, right?
That's it?
Yeah, sure. What do you want me to say? Do you have a request?
The Injusticar.
Oh, the correct way to pronounce says, Oh, I was wrong this whole time.
Wacky Zachy.
I was I was completely wrong and you're completely right.
It's pronounced the Injusticar.
This is the best wedding gift I could ever ask for.
I love you, brother.
I love you too, Anne.
He steps away and he gives you like a solemn nod before he walks off.
Is Brooke there, by the way?
Yeah, she is. She's just standing there in the corner, arms crossed like she always.
Okay.
Question, DM.
Yes.
If Hildren were to use,
find
animals or plants to, which allows them to track something within five miles,
would he be able to locate
either the little worms that are used for one of the poisons or they are gigantic worms?
Sorry, not the not the little worm.
I think the other one, but I might be wrong.
I'll just say,
Omucus.
That itself would also have to be like, that's a fight.
Okay.
Colors are a bit sizable.
We have a couple of anti-toxins though for that.
Did I ever during the running away, did I ever like learn more about the things needed for antidotes for
purple, warm poison or anything like that?
You have things to make an anti-toxin, I'll say, when you gathered that one nature check that one time.
Okay.
Like that's just like a in general anti-toxin.
Gotcha.
It doesn't neutralize it just prevents you have to take it before.
Don't we have some from Robbie?
That's the carrion crawler one.
Yeah, we have I think six, six vials of those.
Just, I just want to know that if you were to use like locate plants or anything like that to locate the
things needed for the anti-toxin, if there would be any within five miles that he could potentially either
before going to bed or after in the morning, try to gather since he would know the location.
So they could perhaps.
In the interest of time, just give me a nature check.
And Tim, I don't know if I'm crazy, but I could have swore when when they were in the like potion room,
and he got like that healing potion or whatever when he got healed a bunch.
Yeah, there were two other vials.
Do we figure what those are?
Two lessers, two lesser.
Got it.
Got it. OK.
Because I know.
Are we coming to the end of this spot, Tim?
Yeah, I'm I need to bring it into this like session.
Like, OK, I could save my thing then for the top of next if we need to.
All right.
So I rolled a 16 on the nature, but like I said, I also have the spell locate plants.
OK, you're looking for a bunch to neutralize.
I mean, any anti-toxin that would have that I would have gathered from from before something that would be able something that I would be able to get that wouldn't require me to leave too far from the safe house for obvious reasons.
I would have gone with.
OK, something something close by just because I need to make this quick.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something definitely close by that you can you can you can gather some natural like plants, poisonous plants that you can rework into restructure into making anti-toxins.
I'll say that it's enough to make you find enough to make two.
Definitely.
But anything else like anything of a certain talking is like that's going to be like a much farther like a much farther subject approach.
I would say that those two he would have handed to probably either Humphrey or or Jane just to let them know.
So he would have made them and would have offered them so they would be taken by the people that they're trying to rescue.
OK, which is perfect. It's two of them.
Good question. Did Eliza answer anything?
She did.
She did not answer.
OK.
I don't think you told her how it works though.
She may not know.
True.
And then can I OK.
OK, yeah, we're going.
We're going to.
We're going.
All right.
We're on the highway.
We're going.
I hope you're ready for this next really cool bit.
I'm going to roll up my sleeves.
We can't take our ship on a highway.
We'll find a way.
Is that why we're going?
We're so behind.
Go on the airway.
Here we go.
It's the next day, y'all.
It's going to be awesome.
Gosh.
Everything works.
Everyone's dead.
You guys get out.
Let's do this.
All right.
For realsies, I guess.
Speedrun.
So I don't want to.
OK, so.
The time of the execution comes now.
I want to ask everyone, like, where are you all placed individually during this time?
Are you within, like, the area?
Like in the crowd or?
Yeah.
I want to be in the crowd as close to the stage as possible where I know the Creston family will be.
I think I'm trying to.
Potion.
Yeah.
The sky's his own set.
I'll go ahead and give everyone a hand wave.
I need to be wherever's closer to get me where I need to be to get to the Castells.
I'm not sure where that is.
I'm sure she did the intel for it.
I helped Daphne with, like, getting to the perimeter, sneaking there and getting there safe.
And then I would also afterwards be like in the middle ground between the execution place and House Castell.
I'm not sure how far it is apart.
She had to be present at this anyways.
She's present.
Yes, she's she's in a specially seated area, whether it's perimeter.
You do see Sir Balosong is there.
OK, that would be cloak up.
I would also be mingling just like Jane in that area.
I'll say I'll be I'll be in the crowd.
People don't recognize me.
I'm just a handsome face in an otherwise normal crowd.
And the crowd probably keeping near the perimeter.
Keeping to know you.
They know. Oh, that's true.
We can say you put together the skies.
Yeah, I put together the skies.
We also have the lantern of revealing.
Who would it make the most sense to have that lantern on?
What does it do?
It makes invisible people.
I think Darrell's getting like he's up.
I think he's going to get sent to the ship.
If nobody's using it, can I use it?
Sure, you get a light at first, but yeah.
OK, so I have I'm not lighting lantern.
I just have it on me with the goal of using it like a flower.
And the case of invisible stuff.
I'd be an advantage point where I could see everyone as well as get a view of the lighthouse at the same time.
Yes.
Hildren will probably do something similar.
He would have gathered the time to build camouflage on him.
He also has the cloak, but he's just using camouflage first, saving the cloak for whatever needed.
But he will probably be an advantage point where he can use his bow and arrow to keep cover or attack if necessary.
Probably above ground, like elevated.
Everyone is present around the square and which is a second place.
And a large crowd of people has a master's chattering law.
A large jumble of human and human voices garbled with each other.
Whispering about what's going on.
You actively see, especially people on the top of it, you see people being being pushed like like one one one push.
A suggestion basically that from guards that like basically making people go there to watch.
The time has come. And as everyone's like, I see like people have pocket watches and there's a large like clock tower.
Not Belfry.
Clarence is a little as you figure that out, Clarence says that everything the clock tower will go down by his estimation.
Twelve. Directly at twelve. He'll have it for you.
It is four minutes before twelve.
And you just begin to see the wagon carrying the prisoner come up.
It's been ten years, Aura.
You don't even you're not sure what your father would look like. You must be much older by this point.
As you as you see the the Crestons take the stage, mostly Mikhail taking the front.
You see Harper off in the distance off the side off to the side of the stage.
They look wary. And so is Mikhail.
You can tell Jane he's gathering his courage right now, taking his breaths for what's to come.
Everyone else may seem as brave, but you see him as scared.
Then a rather a rather large a rather large man who was piloting the front of the wagon gets off of the gets off of the prisoners wagon and opens up the door.
Guards walk in flanking the other wagon before one of them carries out by the arm a halfling.
And the crowd falls silent.
And you hear booze booze raining down.
As Aura you see your father more gray hairs.
He's grown a beard in this time.
As he's carried out in clothing shackled with his rip by his wrist and his ankles.
Just so unlike him.
But you see as he comes out and he gets booze as he just kind of like he kind of he kind of like he's kind of like he kind of like falls into his knees for a moment before the guard picks him up.
As he gets picked up.
He looks towards the crowd.
His eyes sweep it.
And he smiles.
A daring smile.
That's my paw.
Let's hope so.
He gets.
He gets sent up to like this elevated wooden platform.
Where you see a man with an older man wearing like wearing robes signifying like the crest of the empire directly emplacement onto the set of robes.
Holding a large scroll.
Kind of goes.
Says.
May the accused.
Face the people.
And your father's brought up to the stage.
And you see the back of his leg is kicked.
He's brought to his knees.
Suddenly.
As he just kind of like gets up and he's still being dignified.
He has his chin up.
And he's looking around.
The booze died down.
As the judicator.
Raises his hand.
And everything falls silent.
This.
The Lantos.
Boreas.
Just.
You are here because you have committed.
Opened up the scroll.
The heinous and unforgivable crimes.
Of treason.
Against the empire.
Treason against the crown.
Conspiracy.
Against the crown.
Just.
And the act of conspiring.
And as he continues to talk, you see Lantos kind of laughs.
You basically just said the.
You basically said.
The same thing four times.
And he.
He's going to slap to the back of the head.
Sorry, go ahead.
Didn't mean to interrupt you.
Yeah, that's your dad.
Just.
How do you plea?
Oh, my opinion matters now.
Am I allowed to speak?
I'm not allowed to speak.
Looking.
Looks towards the Crestons.
It looks towards.
Looks towards.
Looks towards the Lord specifically.
What heinous crime.
Have I committed.
Hmm.
I wonder.
Against this.
I mean, the.
The most.
Invisible.
Shit states that we all live in.
And you see that the.
The minute Hannah's hit 59.
It's about to hit 12.
Keep it rolling.
My crime.
Hmm.
Sorry, my crime.
Sorry.
I would have used air quotes.
But my hands are tied behind my back because I am known as a fearsome
fighter.
Which is why my.
Feet and my feet and ankles are all tied up.
What was the crime I committed?
It was loving my daughter.
That's.
I don't want to rehash the discoveries my daughter made because I feel as if
that would give me an early.
That would bring me to the quick.
Quicker than I want, quicker than I want.
So instead, let me tell you about her.
Aurelia Boreas.
Because do you all know.
What freedom is.
Any sense.
Any hint at all.
No, no, you don't.
I can see it.
You've been living here.
Atrocity after atrocity.
But you've gotten used to it because you believe that's how life works.
My daughter is spontaneous.
She acts without instruction.
She is the very definition of freedom.
It hits 12.
And the minute hand continues to move.
I light my lantern.
I make my way towards the stage.
Hail Jen.
Probably would have cast detect poison the same way that he did before,
just to make sure that if he detects any poison that he recognizes from
vanishers, he can actually.
Know where they are, even if they cannot be seen.
I'm sizing people up in the crowd to see if I can spot anyone who looks
more competent.
Okay.
So Jane, as you begin to light, as you begin to unhook the lantern and
the lantern, you have everything at the ready.
Keeping an eye out.
You're sizing people up.
Sorry, I keep hand waving things.
There's like a little bit left.
We've got to get through.
But don't worry, you succeed.
Wink.
He goes, the empire is a disease that thrives in darkness.
It is never more alive than when we are asleep.
It's easy for the dead to tell you to fight.
But, and by this point, Jane, you open up the lantern.
And as you, as you open it up, as the light shines out to the stage,
two vanishers are unveiled as standing behind the adjudicator.
And as, and as the, and as they show up, there's a gasp in the crowd.
Everyone sees this happening.
It's moved past 12, no explosion.
But you do hear thunder in the distance.
Rolling clouds.
There is a, you see that there is a confusion.
There's murmuring in the vanishers.
They too look at themselves and it's like we shouldn't be here.
What the fuck?
And they see where the light is coming from.
A hooded figure, a cloaked figure within the crowd, whom people turn to.
Jane, your father turns to you.
I...
I light the lantern still.
As you light the lantern, cloak hidden over your face,
do you take off the cloak?
Yeah, I take off my hood.
I didn't disguise my eyes on purpose.
You have a beard?
I'm just a beard lady. No, I wouldn't have done that. Awful suggestion.
You.
And there's a gasp from the crowd.
The adjudicator goes like, what is the meaning of this?
So, my daughter finally returns.
And there is murmuring.
And you see Rickard holds up his hand.
He just goes...
Finally come back now, have you?
You can feel free to cease this at once.
Go wait on the web and I'll speak with you in a bit.
I close the lantern.
I blow out the flame.
And my eyes not leaving my father's face, I walk towards the stage.
Come to embarrass me, have you?
Just wanna welcome home, father.
My place is not down here, it's up there, is it not?
And by this point, you see, you see, Lelanto's kind of like, kind of like whistle.
Says, spy sub my execution.
And you see Mikael looking at you, like, with wide eyes, like he's looking at you like a what are you doing look.
I don't look at him at all.
I can feel his eyes, but I don't look there.
Your father turns towards you.
Yeah, completely.
When I make it to the stage, I draw my longsword and I point it towards him.
I, Raelyn Creston, challenge you, Ricard, to a duel.
And I jump onto the stage.
Unless the Crestons are afraid of a woman.
Murmurs.
I'm in the crowd, I'm gonna just try and start like a whisper campaign like, oh, Raelyn, Raelyn, yeah, yeah, yeah, she must be scared of a woman.
Yeah, I'm cheering for the daughter, yeah.
Yeah.
Great.
So, Murmurs, and you see Ricard goes, is this what you want to amount to?
Disobeying your father, running off and being merry?
We all don't have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something.
Draw your sword, unless you can no longer carry the sword.
And as I say that, I take a pause.
And if he doesn't move for his sword, I'm going to lunge at him.
He does move for the sword.
Okay, so I'll wait.
Just this, an iron sword.
Three years.
How about we make a wager like last time?
You know I can't resist.
Please?
Stand up straight.
I do as he says.
When you lose,
you cease this endless frolicking of yours,
these endless delusions that you have.
And since your brother can't do it, you swing the sword.
Fine.
I'll agree to those terms if you agree to mine.
When I win this duel, you will pass on to your title,
to the brother of my choosing.
I have a feeling I know which brother that is.
I mean little Flynn. Who knows what he's capable of.
Did you ever care about your family?
Did you?
This family is everything.
No, it's nothing.
We're just footsteps.
None of this matters, and your cruelty means nothing.
He throws the sheaf to the side.
You can take an inspiration point for that.
Yes!
I'm selling popcorn in the crowd.
You make five plans.
Good money.
It's 1206.
Gotta have faith in B Team.
This is good stalling.
I'm getting closer to the...
As close as I can get to the Castells.
I don't know when this will pop off.
I want to be as close to her as possible.
While everything is happening.
I want to move closer as well.
Just so I can be wherever I need to be.
I'm going to make a show of this.
I'm going to take the lantern.
Pretend I'm getting off this cloak.
I'm going to put the lantern at the edge of the stage.
Make eye contact with...
I did not write his name down.
I'm going to make eye contact with him.
I hope he understands what I mean.
I turn to my father.
Point my sword.
Do you agree to these terms?
He walks over to the lanterns.
Grabbing him by the scuff.
The mark that you have.
The mark that you have means you have a great amount of strength.
He just tosses him off to the side.
And then let those rolls.
With no effort whatsoever.
Haldin is probably going to be ready to action.
Keeping an eye on the Vanishers.
You see they have retreated.
But they are still next to the stage.
Now standing behind the stage.
Now standing behind it.
I'm keeping an eye on the whole thing from my vantage point.
Arrow is blow ready.
I agree to your terms.
Those words.
Jane looks to Mikael finally.
Just nods her head and looks at her father.
Normally when Jane rages, it's not like she's going to be able to do anything.
It's like she's going to be able to do anything.
And normally when Jane rages, it's kind of just...
She looks like she's having fun.
She's in her element.
She enjoys the battle, the physicality she has to exert herself in.
But she looks feral in this moment as she rages.
And she does not wait for him to strike.
She strikes first.
Alright.
You rolled initiative with advantage. For me?
Kill your dad.
Oh, five. That's great.
You can use your athletics for advantage.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you.
So, 23.
Bam.
23.
27.
What level is he?
Can I size him up?
He has the mark too.
Can I size him up? What's that maneuver DC?
That maneuver DC, my good man, that is a fat 19.
It's okay.
He has the mass damage thing that you have if he does a lot in one round.
It's okay.
Come on, Clarence.
You're a trash talker.
This foolish daughter of mine.
He steps, he just walks towards you.
As you move into slash first, he just holds the sword out.
And you just bing cling against the weapon.
And he's going to swing towards you.
Okay.
Let's see.
He has a normal long sword.
18.
Does not hit.
All right.
You hold the sword up too, and as he swings down, there's a reverberation of metal.
As this sort of wobbly metal, it's like that, but louder.
Just waves to the area.
Just an utter shockwave that everyone feels.
Even the two of you on the high vantage point.
And since he missed, I'm going to spend one of my combat maneuvers.
And use the momentum from their attack turned against them when a creature within misses.
And push him 15 feet.
I can push him 15 feet away.
I'm pushing him away from Aura's dad.
Okay.
So let's see.
Let's have him off the stage.
He has to make an intelligent saving throw, right?
No, no, no, no.
Nope. Because he failed his attack. It just happens.
Oh, no, sorry. You make a dexterity saving throw.
All right. One moment on that.
Oh, that's a 10. So 21.
Yeah, that feels so bad.
It's okay.
He'll go ahead and take two more attacks.
Taking it easy for now.
He is walking to you. He has no guard in his stance.
He's just walking towards you, like sword in hand.
Completely just walking with his arms swinging to his side.
27.
That hits.
He's going to go ahead and use Battleborn for that one.
So this damage doubled.
So 32 points of slashing.
So this damage doubled.
So 32 points of slashing.
How many hit points do you have? I can't see anything.
I have 90.
Oh, I have...
Yes, I think it is half because I'm raging. Thank you.
And a 12.
Okay.
This one he misses, but he's just slamming his sword down on top of you.
The last duel you had, he was holding back clearly.
This time there's a rage behind his movement.
He's giving it his all.
And he's also trying to teach you a lesson.
Yeah.
Got all those rage hit points, though.
Yeah, it only comes on every turn now.
You think you came back better?
You think you came back more well equipped to face me?
You did not train under me.
I offered the best we had.
You don't think I know you train in your bedroom?
You think that's enough to come up against me?
It's your turn.
Reaction. I'm going to yell.
Just now!
And then take my first attack.
Towards Mikael. I'm doing that towards Mikael. I look at Mikael now.
Okay.
So here we go. First attack with Mikael.
Does a 26 hit?
I enact Battleborn. Double that.
My man has no armor. Great!
Okay, and then...
Okay, second attack.
17 hit.
17 does hit, yes.
Okay.
And then...
Hold on, let me check that roll really quick if that was high enough.
17. You all also heard that now, right?
Yeah, I yell this. I'm looking towards Mikael, but you guys can probably infer.
Mikael does something, I also want to do something.
Okay. And then...
Okay, and then I'm also going to spend two points to enact Flowing Form.
So when he makes a melee weapon attack against me, he...
For your second attack, I need you to make an intelligent saving throw.
Oh no!
11.
So as you hit him with the second attack, he actually grabs your wrist.
Using two points, he's going to use Reflect Attack.
He bends the sword, and he just...
...jams it back towards you.
You take 12 points of slashing damage when you roll.
Okay.
That's a really good ability.
Still have.
Oh.
So he's 6 damage, not 12. Right?
6.
Okay.
Okay, that's fine. I wanted to spy time.
So...
Sorry, I won't turn in...
Okay, so...
Okay, I'm going to spend my two points Flowing Form, so if he attacks me and misses, then I can get an Attack of Opportunity for every attack he does.
And that will end my turn.
Okay.
You see, as you say now, as he deflects your attack, he looks towards Mikael.
Mikael kind of...
...is frozen for a moment...
...before he leaps towards Lelantos.
Sure.
As he does this, he grabs Lelantos.
And you see one of the Vanishers kind of like, look, and they begin to make their way. Yeah, you, Hylzhen?
Yeah. That gentleman is going to have Hunter's Mark on him.
And I'm going to use one of my six, I think it was a plus one or plus two arrows that I was given.
Plus one.
And I'm going to throw a shot at them.
Also plus one bow.
What's that?
Also plus one bow.
Also plus one bow, and also I have it moved, so I actually have that too, I forgot what that is.
Just make an attack with your long bow, add plus two to the attack roll.
Wow!
That is...
That's 14, that's 24 to hit, that's 14 damage plus one.
Yes, I think that is correct.
Two. So 16 points of damage.
Right, so 16 points of damage.
Yes. Okay, and it's a Hunter's Mark, so extra D6.
Hell yeah.
That's four points. So 20 total.
As the missile spirals down and strikes the Vanisher, the Vanisher just grabbing his chest and looking towards where the missile came from.
The sudden appearance of that arrow causes everyone to stir, as now they see, oh there's another attacker, more things are going on.
And you see Mikael just grab Lantos, holds the piece of ether, and shunts.
At that point, I would like to behind the crowd, I am going to throw one of the cards of the Deck of Illusion.
So as to make more, like get the crowd moving towards the stage and get more distraction going on, so people don't know what's going on.
Draw. One card. Let me see how that works, I hope it works.
Oh no, I can't draw, we don't have the cards, we only have the safety deck.
We have it all, the copy tools.
Yeah, we'll just have you roll a die.
Yeah, roll a D52.
Oh, D52, what's going on?
I have a deck of cards somewhere pretty close, but I don't know where it went.
It's 26.
My favorite number!
That's why I gashed.
Oh, that's a good one.
Do you know what it is?
Oh my gosh!
As you throw down the card, all of a sudden rising in the middle, past the crowd into the air, you see a large skeleton figure, a lich.
They're in escape!
Brando Caligarra!
Rising in the air, which are causing people to freak out and starting to disperse, and moving away, almost a stampede starting.
I'll say by this point, real quick, as this is happening, you see Rickard is looking towards it and looks towards you, Jane, and he goes, what is the meaning of this, Raelyn?
No, we're not coming through.
It was badass.
I'm sure it was really cool.
Yeah, we'll believe you.
Okay, while she's doing that, then, I'm immediately into Lady Castel.
And if I can get to her.
You do, as you do, and you're moving past the people, you see, as you make your way to Lady Castel, she looks towards you.
And she nods.
And as she sits up, you see Belvedere grabs her wrist, goes, what is going on here?
She goes...
Are they within my eyesight?
I have something I can do.
I say, my lord, things are getting a little hectic.
I suggest you run that way immediately, and I cast suggestion.
That's a wisdom save, correct?
I am pretty sure.
My lord, stop.
Wisdom negates.
DC 16 wisdom.
Oh my gosh, with a minus one.
I can't use my inspiration on him either.
Darn.
Am I anywhere near that?
You did it on the card. It was happening once, but yeah, they're on the moment.
I haven't used an action yet.
I haven't used an action yet. Just throwing it out there.
We're getting to everyone individually.
As he just goes...
Then why don't you go ahead and hand...
You.
Did you just try to bonk all of a sudden a cane comes out of nowhere and smashes him across the head?
Let's go.
As you see, all of a sudden, the soldiers around are gasping because they just saw Lord Castell get knocked unconscious by his own knight.
Balisong raises his head and goes, you're her escort out of here.
Dimension door. Not even answer. She's just going to cast the spell.
The shunt. And then you see, you don't see this, but anyone who watches, Balisong just goes, alright.
Wrong direction.
And begins fending off and fighting the soldiers.
More chaos.
And I'll go ahead and say by this point.
In the long distance, an explosion.
As you see, even though you're miles away from it, there is a loud rumble.
As you see thunder hanging overhead in the distance, lightning striking down furiously.
Or from your vantage point, you see that long, large tower.
That lighthouse.
Crumble.
This point, she'll definitely, with her cape of billowing, step to the edge of the building she's on top of and just clear down over.
So you just see this small, dark creature staring from up above in the shadow.
By this point, people are fleeing or scared of everything going on.
The people definitely will get to you in a bit.
But you see that Rickard looks bewildered as he looks towards you.
That's what you've lowered yourself to.
Frayed?
He kind of sneers.
And he goes, power does not panic.
As he raises his sword towards you, a dagger swings through the air and embeds right into his chest.
As you see Brooke on the side of the stage, just like fresh off the throw.
What a woman.
Introduce to the parents.
Brooke just goes, I've always wanted to punch a noble.
Well, get in line.
Can I also attack him?
I also want to attack him.
Yeah, sure. Go ahead. You give me the attack roll.
Can I go on melee range?
Yes.
Now, with no other D&D character ever would I ask this, but with Humphrey I do.
Can I go for his eye with a spoon?
Um...
Give me an attack roll.
Preferably the same one that Jane always had an eye patch over.
Just put some symbolism in that shit.
The dragon marked eye.
Yeah, just trying to... you know?
That would be a normal attack, I guess, plus nothing, because that's a spoon.
You wound up, so you got advantage, right?
I do have advantage, yeah. Also because he's engaged with two other people.
Yes.
So I just use the throwing dagger thing to hit.
So that's a 21 to hit.
21 hits.
Or I take the same damage die, which is 6, and because of sneak attack would be a 5d6.
Imagine getting sneak attacked with a spoon.
So embarrassing.
I'll point you, points of spoon damage.
You do have an eye slash ability or whatever.
I also have an ability that I don't need weapons to do sneak attack damage.
I don't need actual weapons to do sneak attacks.
That's why I apply sneak attack.
Yeah.
Okay, so I'll say as you come in going for the eye, he turns to you, he attempts to block.
Your spoon lands on his sword and it scrapes down causing sparks to fly.
And I would say for this case, you don't get to get to the eye, but you just jam it right into his neck.
He makes a gurgling sound.
He can't say anything.
He can't talk about how pissed he is about getting beaten up by a spoon right now.
The Vanishers, what do they look like they're doing?
Do they look like they're trying to give chase after Mikael or do they look like they're turning to go fight?
Dave, one of them is supposed to go after Mikael.
You see another one looking up towards Hylian.
Okay, I'm going to rush the one that was trying to chase after Mikael.
And I want to try and as he goes to run past, because I'm kind of blending with the crowd, I want to do my warning strike to basically trip him and reduce his speed to zero.
Okay, go ahead and make the attack.
Is it Dex save?
It's going to be, no, it's basically sentinel. As he is running past, I want to like, not so fast.
It's probably my job to get all the people, the Boreas, so that we're all fleeing the same direction, teleported the same way.
Does a 21 hit?
It does hit, absolutely.
Cool, cool, his speed is reduced to zero and he's going to take, seven, eight, nine, 13, 15 points of damage.
Okay.
As I'm just going to hop in front of him, aah, where you going?
As he slashes his leg, he almost falls forward, but he just retains his posture, looking towards you.
He tuts his head at you as you wag a finger at him and he just, the blade comes out of his wrist.
Just suddenly ready to fight.
Let's go.
Daphne, as you're running towards the cliffside to where everything is, you see a massive fleet of ships approaching.
The Rusknaughts, the Silent Whisper, the Broken Hearts, the Rusty Buccaneers, the Bandits of the Bloodied Flags.
You see 14 different flags, multiple fleets of the Sada's boot approaching the ships.
There is gunfire, there is cannons blowing up and you see where the source of the lightning is.
In the front of the Newsticars, standing in front of the bow, yeah, yeah, brother!
You see Narnia, lightning striking her multiple times as she is the Harbinger.
Oh my lord.
If we dimension-doored to a close spot to where Mikael dimension-doored, then I try to be the guide, gather them the direction we need.
You see Mikael makes his way out holding onto Lelantos.
You see Mikael has a few darts in his arm and Lelantos seems to be holding on, but he seems to be unconscious at the moment.
He makes his way over with a huff towards Lady Castellaneux.
It just goes, Mikael, Lady Castell, here, this is, looking towards you Daphne, this is for you, I assume.
And you're coming?
He, he undoes the swords.
It doesn't look like you have much of an option.
I'm just looking at the darts in him and stuff.
I'm going to point out, I'm going to point out I made antitoxins for, for them.
So they would have...
He pulls a sword around his waist, it has an ornate design, and he goes, he says, keep this safe, give this, give this to Jane.
She takes it.
It's the family sword.
It would be easier for you to do it yourself, but she's not going to argue much more than that. That's it.
He takes it.
And he begins to run.
Calm. Yeah.
Yeah, he reruns.
Yeah.
As you are tending to, as you're tending to the, as you're tending to the ships at the moment, you see, we're going, we're going back to the, what was going on the stage.
Brooke's going to go ahead and take a round of attacks.
We got to make this fast.
Get structured this guy, he's, I can't do any.
Just whoop his ass.
Speedrun.
I'll be happy to take the next turn for me.
Speedrun killing your dad.
Just go ahead and make the attacks.
We're going to go ahead and flurry of blows.
Can see the numbers.
Okay. 21, 27, 13, 18.
Okay. Three of those hit.
For all of those, he's going to, oh gosh, adepts are very powerful.
He's going to make a concede with this advantage for each one because they can make you do it with this advantage.
Hell yeah.
Get stunned.
So that Jane can just wail on him.
Succeed.
Oh wait, no, no, no, no, no.
Disadvantage.
That's a fail.
He's not, he's not, he's not stunned.
He's paralyzed.
Oh, so auto-created.
Cut his throat now.
Cut it now.
All right. So those next two attacks are crits.
Can I just steal something really cool really quick before he dies?
I just want to be like, we promise the people an execution today, father.
And just.
I can't get out anymore inspiration points.
You see, you see Brooks punches him once as he just kind of like looks at you.
His, the last thing you see is his look of scorn at you.
That's, and that's his last look as he's paralyzed.
As, as Brooke just punches, punches him downwards onto the stage.
He is on his hands and knees.
And I was, can I go over and whisper in his ear one last cool thing too?
Yeah.
Tear will not welcome you home.
And you deliver the fighter blow.
Yeah.
Cut his head right off clean.
For any other.
What has a neck, but no head.
Oh,
damn.
And if any of my brothers are there, when I cut off his head, I hold the head.
Feral looking at them, point my sword.
The Crestons fall here today.
Your two brothers are shocked.
But they don't say anything.
Um,
you see, there's a lich behind you.
As you see the, as you see the vanishers about to take an attack on you, you see it turns his head.
It turns his head towards, um, towards the decapitation of the Lord instead.
And it just kind of like holds onto its cloak and starts running just another, another direction.
Um, I am going to use.
Where am I?
River of Death.
I am actually going to use Missile Volley,
which allows me to make range attack against a number of creatures within,
within 10 feet of a point that I can see within my weapons range and I can have an equal to or less than my proficiency bonus.
So I'm going to use that as both attacking the, the banisher that I already have Hunter's Mark on.
And I'm also going to add to that an attack on the other gentleman that is trying to run away.
All right.
Give me those attack rolls.
All right. So I also have accuracy reverse. I haven't moved.
Still I roll a 22, um, plus, uh, D6, correct for the aim.
Uh, so that's 15, 16 total damage for the one that I had the Hunter's Mark on.
Okay.
Oh, then that's a 26 on the other guy, uh, would be more than that piercing damage.
Uh, that's a total of 13.
Okay.
points of damage. Got it.
Um, does Hunter's Mark apply again?
Was that?
Does Hunter's Mark apply for the second one?
No, I think Hunter's Mark is a target. I think that's why it's called Hunter's Mark.
You're talking multiple people, right?
Yeah. I mean, unless is, is the guys, is the banisher still up?
The one that I, the Hunter's Mark one?
He's definitely still up. They're hardy.
Okay.
They're very hardy.
Um, and, uh, by, um, by this point, as you shoot, as you shoot the two banishers, the one like,
that's his legs and cli... plants his back against the Gourner trying to get, trying to get cover from you.
You see, uh, uh, you, you see Brook, who's supposed to be with the B team, the Brook team. Um, as he just go,
uh, uh, she just goes, come on everyone, let's go.
Um, are there any other, are there any other opponents that I saw or perceived from my detect poison or from my vantage point during that attack?
There's, they're encroaching. Like, um, yeah, you detect poison. There's multiple people.
Banishers are bad business. You gotta get, you gotta get out.
Yeah, I know. I know. I'm just saying, cause I can shoot up to four people.
I just want to know if there's any other people that I'm seeing either approaching, like getting close to any of the people that are, that need to be covered.
Yeah. I would attack in that direction. Okay.
Is the lantern gone from the stage?
Um, it's still there.
Shit. Okay. Is Mikhail's boyfriend still around here?
Yeah. Harper's, Harper's there. Um, you see, they kind of like walk past the brothers and they just punch, uh, Lion in the back of the head.
I'm specifically Lion. Uh, and just walks past like picking up the lantern.
Okay. I dropped the head and hold out my hand to him and say, we gotta go. Let's go.
Come on.
Grab his hand, look to Brooke. Let's go.
The people, the people on top, it's a good, I think it's a good time right now to start running.
Yeah.
Skedaddle.
Probably look at Aura.
Tim, real quick, just as we're running, cause I know that Brooke was supposed to be with the B team. Can I size her up real quick? Is anything off?
Insight. What size, what size up do?
Well, that tells me like maneuver DC and stuff like that. So I'm wondering if it is that different.
You could check if it's the same.
Yeah. I mean, insight check too, if I could, but.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Boy.
Cause I'm assuming I probably sized up Brooke before. That insight is bad. Don't ignore it. You know what? Inspiration, just in case. Okay. That's better.
Uh, plus 18.
Okay. That's cookie, Brookey, you're right.
Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. And same, same maneuver DC.
Same maneuver DC.
And CR. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Okay. Good.
The Vanisher who was in, who was in combat with you, suddenly you see like they get a jolt in his head and he starts slinking away from you.
And the urge to fight is there, but also running away.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, can I, can I opportunity attack just try and rip off his mask real quick?
Sure. I can be the attack roll.
It's your mom.
Who?
You never knew her because.
Yeah. 22.
It's me. I'm your dad.
You just yank off the mask and you just see, you just see a half-orc underneath who just kind of like covers his face. He's like really scarred.
He looks like a loser.
Really scarred. Really, really scarred up.
He had a better profession. Gosh.
All right. And I take off.
You begin to run.
I'm just an orphan boy and I beat you.
Geez.
You didn't beat me, bitch.
I just chuck, I chuck a dagger over my shoulder, just at his shoulder.
I will see you in the sequel, fucker.
I'm going to say that Hilden is going to be moving along with the group from above, just keeping in case you need to do cover fire.
And you are moving alongside, you're moving alongside Aura.
Yeah.
Jane Humphrey and running, running alongside Brooke and Harper.
As the four of you are running through town in this chaos, you see Humphrey, for you, you kind of like, huh, there's a weird feeling.
And you look to your side and you see running alongside you, just looking straight, just like head straight ahead, you see Sir Balasong.
Yeah.
He goes, by the way, my first name is Kato.
Kato, I do know him.
I do know him.
Perfect.
What's his name?
He's not from the game I thought.
Kato.
Not Kato.
Kato.
We start handing antitoxins like candy to all the new people, by the way.
While running, I just throw back another illusion card, you know, why not?
Everyone drinks antitoxins as they're running.
As you're all running, and I'll say, like, you know, just like, we're just going to hand you this action sequence.
You're like making your way through, like, Castell soldiers and guards.
You see Balasong, like, tripping up people with his staff as he's running along.
And, um, Hildrean's providing, Hildrean and Aura are providing covering fire from above, and just people are being shot down, but the way is open for you all.
Uh, Sir Balasong is just talking the entire time, just like, I see why you did this before.
This is really exciting.
They're running away.
I should have done this sooner.
I can imagine definitely like Aura and Hildrean are like parkouring through the way that they would have done in the woods when they were doing like all the guerilla warfare back in the day.
I don't know what Arrhenius is, but there's one like behind us now.
Oh, that's a really high level demon.
Oh gosh.
As you throw that back, you see the guards, some of them fall on their ass as they're trying to run away from Arrhenius.
Alright.
Sir Balasong goes, nice trick, and just punches a guy in the face while he's down.
Um, Brooke and, Brooke and Jane, the two of you are moving in perfect synergy.
Brooke jumps over you to kick a guy who's about to swing at you from behind.
You make Brooke duck as you swing to the side, sending a guy flying, crashing through a wall.
She just goes, thanks.
I had him though.
No problem.
And I just kiss her.
Oh, we gotta go.
I just whistle.
Because I'm just right there.
She's blushing.
Sorry, you're just, you're so beautiful.
I just, I couldn't help.
Or you gotta go.
She picks up a dagger, she throws it towards you, but it goes past your shoulder into a guy, into a guard.
She just, she's holding her cheek, she's running.
You know, Humphrey can do it more than once if you guys are interested.
She throws a dagger towards you, it goes past your head, but there's like nobody behind you.
As you all fight your way to the shore, there comes a point as you're breaking through the trees and going through, Jane, you spot someone making his way.
You see Mikael.
Okay.
I run straight to Mikael.
He goes towards you, and he hands you, he offers the sword.
One more time.
Why, why are you giving me this?
Take it.
This is yours now.
I grab the sword, very confused.
And he hugs you.
And then he, he goes, I love you.
I love you too.
Let's go.
We can talk about this later.
I killed him.
We're free.
You're staying, aren't you?
I love you.
Come on, Harper.
Before he goes, I just, I know no one's like importance here, but I just yell, I name you Mikael Creston, head of the Creston household.
He stops at that.
Harper turned around.
I bear witness to that.
And Mikael turns around.
I see you again, baby sister.
No matter what name I wear, Mikael, I'll always be your sister, and I love you.
And before you can say anything, I turn.
And the siblings depart once more.
You make your way to the cliffside where you see, where you see just Daphne, Daphne, you've, you've already helped lady, you've helped lady Castel who made her way down onto the pardon.
And I want us.
Lelantos, Lelantos as well. Yes. Armand has been helping too.
As you as the two of you break the clearing to head towards the cliffside, you see also breaking the clearing like you thought people were giving chase, but you see, you see Roland and the two Kobolds.
And no Clarence.
And then there's Clarence.
What's wrong with you?
You are so mean. Are you kidding me right now?
Clarence is going to go into your eye.
I'll make a pact and turn into a warlock right now.
Don't do that. No more deals. No more pacts.
As you all make your way towards, towards the ship and then get making your way down onto the pardon.
You see Clarence.
He's already there. He was already there.
I know. I'm just making sure.
As everyone, as everyone gets, as everyone gets on.
Armand kind of like starts manning the ship.
And it goes, good to see you back, Hylsson.
Hello everyone else. And then you see Clarence goes, fucking go!
You're going to want to hold on. He holds on to you as the ship starts going.
It starts, it starts turning as you begin to sail away.
Sailing past the lighthouse, sailing past the, as you're sailing past the, the fleets of pirate ships.
I will say like you are greeted by all of them on the sea of spood.
Who's giving you a cheer and you hear down with the Empire.
Just a battle cry resonating through all of them.
As you break through the fleet, as they continue to fight.
That was, that's a massive fleet by the way.
You see the, the in use to car kind of like starts breaking off and following behind you.
Or you see on the Rusk knots, you see Captain Mara's are kind of give you a nod.
She tips her hat.
I make, um, um, as we're flying above, I just quickly cast minor illusion for the symbol of the black guards for them to see.
Yeah, um, cheers.
Um, and you see the black, the black guards flags fly high on the use the car.
Are Marshmallow and Narnia there on the internal smile ship down there.
Um, Narnia, you see, you see Narnia has, it has been jumping from ship to ship because she wants to get to the shore the fastest.
But Marshmallow is on the is on the use the car.
Just goes, he just goes, that's my best friend right there.
So it's Narnia.
Um, the last fleeting site we have as we're drifting off towards the bandy wallop.
Or a, you see standing on the shore.
Um, his the backdrop, the remaining, the crumbling, the crumble of the large light lighthouse.
And then you see the wind field looking towards you.
Looking towards not towards you, but no, but towards your ship towards the pardon towards the end use the car.
Do I see him.
You do.
I'm assuming this is very far.
Yes.
I'm assuming this is very far because it can shoot pretty fucking far.
She smiles.
How far, how far are we talking about?
Uh, those are making me tax right now.
No, no, that's that's just that's flavor flavor flavor.
We're moving.
Yes.
Is that it.
He'll just has a, he just just locks eyes with when felt and it's just old deadly stare.
He runs away, draws both of his twin swords and heads to the shore where the legendary battle of the Anarian Navy versus the sadist boot take place.
And that is where we end this session of black cards gallery.
Right on time to like on the dot on the fucking.
You're damn you're damn.
Fucked him.
I can't believe he got through all that.
We did it felt like five sessions in one.
Okay guys take five minute break and then we'll keep going.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you all so much for watching.
We'll see you again next week.
Bye.