Welcome to Terra Deusa, episode 8, A Day at the Circus.
So, with that, um, quick bit of recap just to get us started.
Last we left off, um, the date of prophecy was fast approaching.
You had all finally vanquished the third and final prophet, and, well, leveled up and went
home.
Um, is there anything any of you guys wanted to do upon immediately returning, uh, before
going to sleep?
Hey, please!
You little shithead!
She just attacked the dice!
Cut it.
Okay, well, at least I need to know what you rolled now.
Yeah.
It was an 11.
Congrats, Kat.
Above average.
You shithead.
Alright, so, what's next?
Go ahead.
What if anything are you guys doing immediately upon returning home?
I mean, Vaan is probably gonna be, like, trying to play with the stone in their arm.
I mean, yeah.
Hand, wrist.
Give me an arcana check, actually.
Fuck me.
Why do I, why do I do this to myself?
Because you love moving the plot forward.
Well, that was a 21.
Oh, awesome.
As you're sort of fiddling with it, um, unbeknownst to you, everybody else you see this, you
raise, like, two, like, two or three inches off of the ground, and in a quick puff of
air for a brief moment, all around you, you see desert sand and tornadoes before immediately
returning to either the living room or the kitchen, wherever you guys got back.
We'll say living room.
Beautiful.
Oh.
Palinettos, uh.
So they're just floating there?
Uh, yeah.
To your guys' perception, they're just floating there.
Vaan, for the briefest moment, you see that place you keep finding yourself in your dreams
and just as quickly as you got there.
But as quickly as you got there, you are gone and back in the living room.
And upon returning, you do stop floating and return to the ground.
So with that is, did anybody else want to do something just before our lovely little
sleep checks?
I'm good.
Beautiful.
Eros?
Oh.
Awesome.
Could everybody then give me a quick sleep check as you are all put to bed?
It's been a very long day, but you're, well, growing up, you guys have.
About 13, 14 at the moment.
So it's a three older three.
Beautiful.
Apparently Vanna is not allowed to sleep well.
Uh, natural or.
Yeah, right.
I don't know what would be the additive, but natural 20.
Beautiful.
And, uh, that was on a 20.
Would you roll?
I would roll a 10.
Beautiful.
So we will start with the lowest number as is tradition.
Typically Vanna.
You mean Vanna?
Yeah, I do.
Vanna, you wake up once more in your sort of dreamscape desert.
And this time it doesn't seem very hostile.
Normally, you're immediately thrown into battle and well, with whatever is in here.
But at this point in time.
This time, I'm going to instead want to traumatize a child.
You're just there.
What could go wrong?
Free to move around.
It's not like Vanna's going to start roaming.
Do as you please.
You are free to roam.
Vanna's going to try roaming because as far as they're aware, this is now a friendly space.
This is a misconception, but as far as they know.
Fair enough.
Well, um, beautiful.
So you walk about and as you're wandering, you just sort of feel this place.
It stops becoming an immediately hostile area.
It's a hostile area.
And is honestly, it feels almost more like it's warming up to you.
But with that, could you give me a wisdom check, please?
Yeah.
That's my wisdom.
Fuck.
That's a 14.
Awesome.
So you, you get the sense that you're not asleep anymore.
It's terrifying.
Thank you.
Normally while you're in this dreamscape, you, you feel asleep.
It feels sort of like a lucid dream with that wistfulness of it all.
But in this moment, you feel very conscious, very aware and almost very, very deliberate.
Almost deliberate.
That's very, thanks.
Well, in theory, this is fine.
And in theory, the mind is just going to wander like an idiot.
And in theory, we will get back to you.
So next is Tikal.
You wake up not on the small little island that you would normally find yourself on at
the beginning of these dreams before being thrown beneath the waves, finding yourself
deep under the ocean.
But you start out deep under the ocean.
You feel sort of things moving around you, but you can't see them.
If you would like to treat them as hostile, please roll for initiative.
If not, please make an insight check.
Four, four, beautiful.
You've no bonus system insight.
Damn, that sucks.
So as you're looking around, you see that this is just air, not air, sorry, water that
is sort of been packed together, almost like snow.
Like it's just thick water.
And in a moment, they all turn to you and begin rushing in your direction.
These things do not have like a defined shape.
Please make a dexterity saving throw.
Godspeed.
Thank you.
If it's a natural 20, it counts.
If not, roll again.
That's 10.
10?
Awesome.
They ran right into you, but it does not hurt.
You are flung backwards, taken by these creatures further and further and further.
And eventually you arrive at a sort of broken down stone monument to you.
You are stood there as a statue holding, holding something, whether it be a trident, a rapier,
a dagger.
All you can see is small bits of a handle poking both up and below.
But it has been broken along with several parts of the face of the statue.
You feel that same sort of awake, conscious, deliberate feeling.
You feel like in this moment, you have a bit more control over what happens here.
Is there anything else I can do?
Well you can do just about anything.
Can she touch the statue?
Yeah.
Give me an arcana check.
We really do live by the concept of fuck around and find out.
We really do.
Seven.
Beautiful.
Do you want to take that one instead?
No, kidding.
I would love to, yeah.
As you reach out and touch the statue, you get a quick flash of white, like a pale blue
white as is thematic, of course.
Wake up and you see that your hand was in fact in the stream in the backyard.
And with that, you close your eyes and are immediately back under the water.
And with that, we will move to our high roller.
Eros.
How are you doing today?
Are you asking me or the actual character?
It was a rhetorical question anyways.
Cool.
So you once again find yourself on top of this forest overlooking this incredible expanse
of trees, growth and a small green light, a dim but bright green, sorry, a dark but
bright green light starts pushing its way up out of the canopy of trees.
Like a Navi sized light or just?
No, like the entire ground is glowing a dark green and it is pushing itself up out past
the trees.
I don't know about you, but to me that's a fuck that level type phenomena.
I guess I'm going back down to the forest floor then.
Wonderful.
So as you head back down into the forest floor, can you give me a survival check just for
climbing down the trees?
16.
Beautiful.
You make it down the trees.
Everything's a OK.
But as you get in contact with this light, you wake up standing just beside your bed.
Once again, your arms have a bit of that sort of plant like growth to it.
But in a way that feels on purpose, sort of like a moment of self-defense.
And you realize in a second that all of this can be controlled and if you truly want to,
you can go into that space whenever you want.
Good to know.
Beautiful.
So with that, you all wake up a few minutes later.
Adi is currently in the bathroom.
You all wake up a few hours later.
That was sort of like three, four o'clock in the morning where all this was happening.
And I like sprawled about the house, waking up in random places.
Yep.
So, Tuchal, you wake up just sort of in the backyard, almost like fully submerged in the
clear little pond out back.
You're just sort of sitting in it like a bathtub.
Ivana, you wake up on the roof pretty much.
Not like perfectly on it, but there's a small bit of window that you sort of cracked open
and were hanging out of as you wake up.
Well, probably the most normal way that Ivana's woken up in a while.
Most likely.
And so what would you guys like to do?
I'm just going to hang out there for a minute.
Beautiful.
Do you call it a question how she got in the pond?
Awesome.
Give me a...
She's going to ponder the orb, if you will?
Are you pondering the orb or are you trying to figure out how you got to the pond?
Because those are two different roles.
How I got to the pond.
Awesome.
That is an insight check.
Five.
Awesome.
Logic dictates you walked.
You walked.
Yeah.
Doors are always unlocked.
I walked away.
Did they keep the doors unlocked specifically because these children have only known being
locked up until they moved here?
Is that a really shitty impression of my really shitty French accent?
Maybe.
That was incredible.
I love that.
Enjoy.
You only get it once.
Please.
I'm sorry.
But this thing sort of happens on and off about for the next like almost year at this
point and the date of prophecy at the time we're picking back up is tomorrow.
This is the last day you have before everything goes to hell.
Can I like more consistently sleep outside?
Yeah, of course.
Just real quick.
Can everybody give me a history check?
Oh, fuck.
18.
Awesome.
Six.
Beautiful.
20.
Gorgeous.
So throughout this year, slowly piece by piece, you've been trying to focus on how the hell
all this weird shit has happened.
And you've learned that in dire moments when you're about to take a bit of damage or get
hurt a little bit.
A little bit.
That's what we're calling it.
A little bit.
Yes.
So this is for to call and in this moment, you realize that you can accept that damage
and sort of disappear into whatever water world you find yourself in when you're sleeping.
I don't need water to be in it.
I just know you just fades out of existence.
However, every time you do, you tend to explode out of someone's like bag.
One time the bag was big enough.
It was Gustav's backpack and you just sort of popped in there and got like messed up
a little bit because of the gear he was carrying.
And it seems like you disappear.
Your jam is still there.
On the outside.
I'm always looking in.
Will I ever be more than I've always been?
Please stop this.
The pain is inevitable.
I mean, Tikal is a bard.
Don't encourage this.
Don't encourage.
Tap, tap, tapping on the glass.
I will cut this section short here.
No.
Tap, tap, go.
All right.
Well, after that beautiful comedic moment.
Vanna, what did you roll?
A seven.
Awesome.
You sort of.
There are spaces in the house and outside of the house, just sort of everywhere where
you have sort of placed anchors where if you push your hand past them, it sort of dissipates
into air.
I thought you meant like anchors to like hook hardest to so I thought it just starts floating
away in theory.
They're contained.
No, no, no, no.
More like invisible doorways.
But you can set them up.
Wait, invisible what?
Sort of like windows, but they're not actually there.
You just sort of push yourself past a point and you dissipate into the air.
Oh, God, that would be terrifying to witness.
You've gained some sort of control over when you wake up, how much of you, if any, will
turn into that sandy, airy mess that you found yourself that one morning.
Well, you know, sometimes sometimes sometimes sometimes Lano will absolutely do that just
to fuck with people.
Beautiful.
Because they're a shit disturber.
Well, I'm not surprised.
So while this is your sort of last day and you've been able to go out, explore the surrounding
region, Jacques and Clara have been very hesitant in letting you go outside of the country or
city you find yourself in.
But Gustav has a sort of not my circus, not my monkey's attitude.
Out of curiosity.
Yes.
Would Fana's markings, because I know I had to previously talked about that.
Yep.
Would those have?
Did they start out jagged or did they become jagged with time?
They were not jagged at the time where in which you spawned into existence.
However, when you were taken by the oracles throughout those sort of early days of training,
they would have become jagged.
Okay.
Have they gotten any worse or any better?
Worse.
Actually, give me a luck check.
Fuck.
I don't do this to myself.
Like I agree that's a five.
Significantly worse.
They act almost like scars now, wherein which if too much pressure is put on them, they
begin to sting a little bit.
That's lovely.
So it is your last day as people, as the heroes, as well what you were trained for.
And we don't even know like what we're going to be doing.
No, you do not.
Yeah.
And in the morning, you're all sort of sat down for one final like you think you guys
think this is like a pep talk.
In reality, it's more like a disclaimer.
It's breakfast.
You guys are 1415 and Jacques, Clara and Gustav all sit you down early in the morning around
breakfast time.
And they're sort of looking back and forth to one another to sort of see who's going
to speak first.
If any of you kids would like to take that up beforehand, this is the time to do so.
Bonas just kind of does not does not exactly have a morning bone in them.
That makes sense.
Wait, that's poorly worded.
I got it.
Yeah, you get what I meant.
Exactly.
Honestly, neither do I.
You don't have a night bone either.
You don't sleep.
I think I only have night bones, actually.
I think that's the issue.
So Clara speaks up first and is like, well, it's about that time.
And well, we understand that a lot of pressure has been put on you guys.
And this is a big deal.
She's sort of stumbling and falling over her words.
But very quickly, Gustav steps in and starts talking.
And he's going to keep talking because the accent kind of hurts my voice.
So he says, children, you have a tremendous amount of gifts.
We have seen you grow from children to heroes.
And today is the day where all of that comes to a head.
Well, tomorrow.
But in case something goes awry, we wanted you to know that from sunrise till sunset
tomorrow, we will be by your side because we don't know what you're going to face.
But we know you're strong enough to face it.
And in all of your lives, we've been there and there's a good chance that tomorrow might
be the end of that.
A lot of heroes.
Why would you leave?
That's not quite what I'm referring to.
They mean they think we're all going to die.
Not all of you.
We just think it's a very realistic possibility that one or more of you falls in battle.
We don't even know what we're fighting.
That's most of the reason that we think it's a good chance you'll not make it back.
But we will be with you from midnight tonight until quite possibly the end of your life.
But we have trained you.
You're not assuming we die tomorrow?
Yes.
At the end of prophecy, there was a lot of talk of failure and the people in town are
not too excited.
But with all that, what are they doing?
Preparing, moving, leaving, preparing.
With all that, go.
Have one last day where you are just children and you don't have to worry about prophecies
or monsters.
And you won't after today.
But we fear we have given you a skewed perspective on things after tonight or tomorrow.
Try your very best not to end anyone's life.
We've trained you to be heroes and a part of that is training you to be killers.
But that's not what we want for you.
So please, if you can, try not to.
The only reason you taught us to kill was because of the oracles, wasn't it?
Yes.
But we've all taught you as best we believe we are able.
But tonight is the night.
So today, today is for you.
Go out in the town, spend some time, maybe make some friends and explore before everything
happens.
All right.
You're going to be here at the house if you need anything.
Go.
That's that's all we have to teach you.
And we hope we'll get to continue teaching you.
And with that, Gustav gets up and leaves.
Immediately after being told there's a non zero percent chance that you die.
And like, Vano quickly ran over and gave Gustav a hug.
Yeah.
Give me a strength check.
Oh, fuck.
My day, isn't it?
Just hey, can I do this thing?
Give me a check.
And we're like, ah, fuck.
That is an eight.
Awesome.
It's a good hug.
He hugs you back.
They're all crying a little bit.
Jacques is uncharacteristically quiet.
But with all that being said, you have now been given free rein to go, go anywhere, explore,
have fun.
You've been given enough money and provisions to essentially go throughout the entirety
of the continent.
No one's going to stop you.
No more prophecy.
No more prophets.
I mean, if you would like to run away, start running.
I'm just kidding.
On is just going to chill there for a moment or looking over to all in our house and just,
oh, what do you say we see what happens when we enter the city?
See what the hell they're all up to.
We should probably bring like an adult with us because, you know, it's not like the citizens
exactly have ever liked us.
The adults all think we're going to die.
Why would we bring them with us anyways?
I mean, I can see that.
Technically, we were always going to die.
It's a matter of when.
A week session.
No one wants to die at 13.
15.
14.
I only wish that one of us would go and grab a bag.
Yep.
Just, well, I don't know about YouTube, but I, I'm going to go for a bit of a jaunt.
A jaunt.
A jauntistro.
Um, yeah.
Where are you jaunting to?
Vano will go towards.
Wait, is there like settlements?
Yeah.
There are like small towns dotted throughout.
There's a major kingdom in the middle, but that would take almost like half a day's travel
to get to on foot.
If you were to commandeer some sort of vessel, it would probably take about four hours.
What do you mean by vessel?
Like a horse?
Like?
A carriage?
Gustav?
No.
An automobile?
Yeah.
To declare to teleport us?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, teleportation would be instantaneous.
So does Clara have like teleportation scrolls?
She would need, she has the spell, the teleportation circle spell, wherein which she places a glyph
at one location and can go to another location and sort of make a portal between those two
points.
It would last for a day, but she's spent most of her energy for that spell moving you guys
to and from the compound.
In that case, is there like carriages passing through like farmers heading over there?
Yeah.
Vano's going to hop on with one of those.
Awesome.
So you approach one of the farmers, they're just passing by going to one of the small
towns.
They're a local farmer, probably where Jacques and Clara have been getting most of the fresh
produce from.
But he stops, he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down there.
Sort of petting his horse.
And he's like, well, you're one of them heroes.
You're one of them queers.
Wouldn't call myself that, but.
Sure, sure.
One of the prophecy kiddos.
One of those four weirdos.
Anyway, what do you need?
What can I do you for?
I know you're- I'm just looking to get over to Sala-Sala-Sala-Sala-Longa.
Ah, where to?
There's the major city in the middle, but there are like small towns that are around.
The city, yeah.
Oh, gorgeous, gorgeous.
Yeah, absolutely.
Great mining town, those parts.
Anyways.
Yeah, you've got the coin, hop on.
I've got space for, I'd say about five people your size.
We'll see if the others decide to join me, but I might be on my own.
Awesome.
If they decide to come along, they'll catch up.
Awesome.
Is this a carriage, right?
Yeah, this is, no, this is just like a guy and his personal transportation of goods.
He's a merchant.
So it's like a cart.
Yes.
To call.
Yes.
At the very last second.
Vana is hitchhiking.
Awesome.
I think about the word for a moment.
He's sort of looking around.
He's like, well, I mean, I've got like four minutes and thereabouts.
I can wait for your friends.
Are you passing out their fare as well or can I expect them to?
I'll do it.
Pitching there.
Awesome.
Well, that's about, you guys are nice.
So I'll say about like, if you've got 15 silver.
All right.
I'm just going to happily hand that over.
No reason to think twice about it.
Do you have 15 silver?
I mean, you said that they gave us funds.
Yes.
Everybody please.
Does money not matter for the day?
We just have money.
Yes.
All the money.
You have pretty much it's all expenses paid.
If you're getting personal things like magical items or food that will come out of your gold
reserves.
So it's not all expenses paid because they're not paying for food.
Yes.
However, you each have a satchel with I'd say about 25 gold coins made entirely in silver.
Okay.
How much would that be?
250 silver pieces.
Cool.
Don't add that to your inventory.
I will count that.
It's too late.
Yeah, it's too late.
So Eros, are you hopping on this carriage as well?
Beautiful.
So you hop on this carriage, this farmer starts talking to you guys.
He's like, oh, how's it?
How's it been?
And you see Takaal just tear out of the house at just the last possible moment with everything
she's got jumping onto that cart.
Can you give me an athletics check?
I'm just kind of sighing at this.
Would anybody like to give Takaal the help action?
15 is not enough.
Awesome.
Fine.
What about 18?
What is it?
Oh, 18 is good.
I mean, sorry.
17 for acrobatics.
Unless you're doing a front flip.
17?
It'd have to be a 19.
Ah, fuck you.
Both of you guys give me an athletics check as well.
We'll just take the highest one.
14.
That's a 23.
Beautiful.
Jesus.
So Takaal.
I'm just going to take a picture of that real quick.
Yeah, no, that's good.
Takaal jumps with the whole force of their body and like falls short.
Vana, you reach trying to heroically grab onto them, but you also fall off the cart.
You manage to grab both of their hands.
However, it was a 14.
You get Vana by the legs and end up in one just huff to ragging everybody from like bouncing
on the ground up into this cart.
Can you take six points of bludgeoning damage from sharp rocks?
And Vana, go ahead and take two.
No, I did this in the golf cart and I took no damage.
Vana's going to be glaring at Takaal.
You got run over by a golf cart and took no damage.
I highly doubt that fact.
Real people don't have hit points, so I'm going to go with no.
Anyways, enough of the fun little anecdotes that make this game incredible.
But you all make it to the major city.
There's a carnival in town.
The carnival stretches all the way from here to the main kingdom at the very middle.
There's not a lot going on here.
You see a few clowns, circus performers, but no one really of note.
Does anyone notice right off the bat?
Everybody immediately.
Damn it.
Actually give me a stealth check.
Or if you have, yes, or if you have like a disguise self or something like that.
I think stealth is my best one.
Really?
Nice.
That is a dirty 20.
Gorgeous.
So nobody notices Vana or Eris.
Not a lot of like pictures have been publicly sent out of the heroes, but those that were
have been warned of Vana.
Have been what?
Warned.
Sorry not Vana, warned of Tikal.
Okay.
I was like, what the hell?
Sorry.
I mix up those names a strangely large amount.
Don't worry.
I do it.
But I know five letters.
Five letters.
Yeah.
Yep.
Sorry.
I've been awake since 6 in the morning.
Yeah.
Anyways.
Tikal has been like publicized as this like a little gremlin monster who can and will
throw knives at your children.
I only has.
Most definitely has.
So I don't know why.
It's a thing.
Anyways.
Everybody like looks at Eros and Vana and they're like, oh my God, the heroes.
They catch one glimpse of Tikal and they're like, oh no, the heroes.
Can like Vana just separate from Tikal upon noticing that Tikal's being recognized?
And I was just like, nope, not today.
Yeah.
Um, Eros, are you heading with who are you headed with?
Yeah.
Sorry.
Can you repeat that?
Awesome.
Vana, that's you.
Oh, Vana is going to look over to like Tikal and just go, sorry, I'm not doing this today.
Bye.
And goes to wander away intentionally trying to not be known as a hero for today.
Tikal is just vibing.
Yeah.
So are you going to stick with Tikal and the vibes or are you going to go with Vana?
I mean, I feel like they're going to get into trouble.
Like both of them are going to get into trouble either.
Oh, definitely.
So I'm in fact just going to like grab Tikal and just like follow Vana at a distance.
We'll do our own things, but it's just like, Hey, there's a game over there.
Do you want to go play it?
Me?
The responsible child.
There's always one.
So as you guys are wandering around, slowly more and more people are noticing you.
Most of them like run up to you and are like, Oh my God, thank you for saving us.
You haven't done it yet, but thank you so much.
Here have these baked goods.
Every time someone runs up to give them a gift, Tikal is going to look them dead in
the eyes and say our teachers think we're going to die.
They're like, uh, uh, fruitcake?
This is one part I decided to go off on their own.
Vana, you're having a great time.
Honestly, they're following from like a respectable distance and as they are more and more people
are coming up to you and just out of like pure intrigue.
Air genesis are a very rare race, let alone genesis in general.
And a lot of the people are like, Whoa, some of the people, you're blue.
No, can I touch your hair?
Oh God.
No, no, no.
Most of it is just like children being like, Whoa, what are you?
What's wrong with your face?
Cool.
Do you want to know here?
And like two of them grab your hand and start like dragging your way to play some various
form of kickball.
Okay.
No, I doesn't know what's going on, but okay.
Can you give me a quick luck check to see how good you are at non-descript sport ball?
Three.
You're fucking awful.
The kids love it.
They're like, Whoa, we're playing insert sport here with the hero.
Sorry.
Start floating randomly and like, I don't know what I'm doing.
And then like comes back to the ground in the worst possible moment.
Yeah, you're like flying almost the kids are too like bewitched that the big kid they're
playing with can fly to like care about how absolutely dog shit you are at totally not
soccer patent pending.
You know what?
I'll take it.
I've been using the edit all of the terms that just mean I don't know sports completely
interchangeably.
But with all that, what are to call an arrows doing at a respectable distance?
I'm getting followed.
Can T call joins a non-descript game sport ball and try just for the fuck of it, try
and kick the ball into every single child's face.
You give me a check for being fucking evil.
So not one.
Awesome.
You're incredible at this game.
You like run in, go to take it at one of the chill kids face and it like spins in midair
getting closer and closer and they duck right into whatever net this game.
Net goal field thing.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, you can all use this as an opportunity to like get out of there.
They're like, they're like cheering the kids like try to do that thing where they like
the whole team lifts one person into the air.
But as they like try they're like five.
So they try and immediately it's just like a pile of kids.
I was just like fall in toddlers surrounding to call.
Awesome.
They're like, thank you.
Thank you.
And go.
It's about midday at this point and you spent like one and a half hours playing non-descript
sport ball.
Before they go, of course, you call.
You have to teach them something.
Of course.
The wonderful movie 14 year old.
She is, of course, it's going to be to the five year olds.
Listen guys.
Yeah.
Where I'm from.
Yeah.
This shows up at middle finger.
They're like, look, they sort of know that it's like.
Bad adult.
Like they shouldn't be doing that.
But they're like, whoa.
This means hello.
Got it.
So if you want to tell your parents that you learned something new today, just show them
this.
Okay.
You're bio.
You're so evil.
So they're like, bye.
All waving middle fingers way high in the air.
Every person they pass, it's like an entire mob of like 12 of five year olds throwing
up the bird and it's just like, hello.
Because to call this like this has made her.
Oh, everybody please take a point of inspiration by the way.
Fly.
All sports from both ball sports, teaching young children how to swear at their parents
and fate.
Oh God.
What does that mean?
See, no, I was going to teach them how to swear in a journal, but I suppose that's actually
a lot more funny.
So both would be good.
What does inspiration do?
Oh, let's see.
What is the one being responsible?
What is wrong with the world today?
I know, right?
And so as you sort of walk down the circus is like setting up, there's a few carnival
games, a few carnival rides.
Even like super out there.
You can tell that this is not the main circus and most of it is probably back at the.
Oh, hello.
Hello.
We were just.
Teacall touched.
Five.
Okay, nevermind.
I'm going to stop speaking.
How is you?
I messed up my words.
Awesome.
You guys are low five currently.
Hello.
Hello, Felix.
You have all been given a small bag with about 250 silver pieces, which is equal to about
25 gold pieces.
Please feel free to add that to your inventory.
I've given up at this point and 250 silver.
So if you want to do easy math, that's just 25 gold.
Okay.
Teacall taught five year olds that the middle finger means hello in her culture.
I listened to like the last session on the way to and from work and I can't believe the
charm person, the BBG is little, the little creature that we grew up with.
It's a wild.
Yeah.
So we did a time skip.
So tomorrow is the prophecy.
So we were told to go to town, which everyone is.
It's fun to live to call and Eros is making sure the group sort of stays together.
Yes.
How long was the time skip?
A year.
Okay.
You guys are 15 at the moment.
You had a sit down earlier today that was like, you could die tomorrow.
We want you guys to have no regrets.
Live.
Do what you want to.
We'll give you money, a ride, anything you need.
You open giving in your bag is the 250 silver pieces or Vana has 280 silver pieces.
Sorry.
180 silver pieces.
What the hell are you saying?
Right.
205 minus 15 is.
Where did they get 205 from?
You said 250.
Why are you minusing?
15 silver pieces for each kid?
Yeah.
Oh, 15 silver pieces for each kid.
Okay.
I thought it was 15 silver pieces total.
Is that 90 or 80?
What?
One, 205 minus what?
15.
Minus 15.
That is 90.
Yep.
I thought so.
Anyways, so Vana, you only have 190 silver pieces left or 19 gold pieces because she,
sorry, he.
Decided to be nice.
Paid all of your fare to go to this city.
In it is also a few sending stones.
You each have three so you can send a message to and from Jacques, Gustav and Clara sort
of whenever.
Ticala is in depresso mode because Gustav basically said they're all going to die.
Oh.
And she taught five year olds that the middle finger meant hello.
And now they're running around giving the middle finger to everybody at this festival.
Gustav is our pessimist king.
So what do we do during the year?
Sounds like train.
Yep.
You, you trained most definitely.
Most of the days were normal.
You had a lot of funky dreams and throughout this, most of you have learned how to push
a bit of control through this gem and sort of go into it while you're awake rather than
just when you're sleeping.
That's pretty cool.
I still haven't used my create and destroy fire yet.
Hopefully get a chance to do it this session.
We don't set anything on fire.
So with that, let's just jump right back into things.
Sorry YouTube.
And sorry, YouTube.
Sorry YouTube.
So what would you guys like to do now?
We've taught children how to swear, played nondescript sport ball.
Vangas running the hell away from me.
Are we in like a town right now?
Yes.
You're in Silla?
Yeah.
In the major city, sort of in the middle of it.
It was originally a mining town, but currently there's a small circus running through it.
That's sort of a subsidiary of the major circus in the middle of this.
There's a circus?
Yes.
Can Phil cook us some cotton candy?
Absolutely.
That will be five silver.
You walk up to one of the carnies in the...
Sounds like a slur.
It kind of is.
It's true.
But not really.
You walk up to one of the carnival workers serving the cotton candy and they crane over.
They're weirdly tall, have got long, thin fingers and are like, well, hello.
They have the crack head bend.
Hello.
Do you want some cotton candy?
Not anymore.
Yes, I do.
And he's going to hold up four fingers and he's like, I would like four cotton candies.
You are 15 years old.
Oh, yes, please.
Or five candies.
That's five silver each.
Or if you hate math, two gold.
And if you're rich, one of anything more.
He's going to slowly count his silver to make sure he's doing the right amount and then
slide it across the counter.
Beautiful.
So that's 230 now.
And he's going to give a cotton candy to Calvana and Neiros.
Awesome.
Can everybody please make constitution checks when you're just eating this cotton candy?
What?
It's fucking poison.
It's normal cotton candy, guys.
Oh, shit.
Constitution checks are also done for taste to see whether you like or don't like what
you're eating.
Check, right?
We already know that Vana has a sweet tooth.
Yes.
Wait.
It looks like cotton candy but a six.
Awesome.
Immediately the sugar goes straight to your brain.
You are bouncing off walls.
You are wired.
Yeah.
Is it right up and down the aisleways just talking to every shop vendor you can see?
Wait, so since we've established that like Vana's hair looks sort of like a cloud, does
that mean anyone's going to like remark on the similarities of cotton candy and Vana?
Like a few children who throw the middle finger at you.
But nothing more than that.
A few kids walk up and are like, hi, your hair looks like a cloud and you've got one
in your hand too.
That's so cool.
And they like kick dirt at you and run away.
Felix just looks at the colony and is like, why are these kids so mean?
Vana's so confused and is once again going to look over his collar and just.
Sorry, I have flaps.
This is why I wanted to be away from you.
It's a six.
Awesome.
We all know this truth.
You bound up to these kids and they scatter.
Immediately.
They're like, ah, ah, ah, and split in every direction.
They're parents who are like day drunk from the carnival.
There's a small like stand that sells like ale, spirits, wine, you know, ye olde alcohol.
And they're just.
Can they buy alcohol?
No.
None of you are of legal drinking age yet.
There is no legal drinking age in the medieval times.
There is in this world.
I don't know.
I feel like this guy's self that you can try and commit crime.
Our guardians here at the carnival.
No, but you do have sending stones if ever you need to get in contact with them.
OK.
Quick luck check.
That's a one.
Awesome.
Someone runs up to you.
Actually the group of 12 year olds you've been terrorizing all day.
Five.
Same difference.
OK.
Run straight up to you.
Most of them falling flat on their asses as they're running and they're like, here are
the heroes.
Help.
There's something wrong at the carnival in the main tent.
One of them went crazy.
Please help.
And then they just scatter away.
But you begin to hear screaming coming from the main big top.
Video game and PC.
Literal quest.
Is this going to run in the direction of the scream in?
Awesome.
I will sigh and reluctantly follow.
Arrows.
Take off.
Yep.
Beautiful.
Felix leading the charge.
You all head towards.
Can you all give me athletics check to see how fast it takes you?
17.
Did I do it with advantage since I left first?
Yeah, sure.
15.
Beautiful.
You all get there in a reasonable amount of time.
Except for to call.
So everybody please roll initiative.
As you enter this tent, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I'll take a picture.
Are you on initiative?
I took alert as my feet.
What is that?
Gives you a plus five to initiative.
I can't be surprised.
And also if someone's invisible, they don't get advantage on attacks against me.
I have a negative initiative.
Hello.
What?
Why is there?
Oh, so that's a natural 20.
Arrows.
Did you get a natural 20 on initiative?
Oh, I guess so.
Beautiful.
Felix, what did you get for initiative?
Six.
Beautiful.
Is it really beautiful though?
Is it really beautiful?
Exactly.
Arrows, you're the first one to push past into this tent and you see two lions in the
middle who have broken free and they look wrong in some way.
They have sort of glassy eyes and their fur looks more like a carpet than actual lions
fur.
Like matted?
Not like matted, like extremely thin.
And like there's nothing underneath.
Like no skin?
No skin, no lion.
They look sort of like carpet balloons.
There's a puffy at the limbs and their faces are too big and too cartoony.
Their snouts stick out too far.
They look wrong.
Arrows, man, you get a surprise round off on the lions.
They are in the middle, the room's a circle.
You guys are all at the entrance.
Do I know if they're particularly strong creatures or?
Well they are lions.
Give me an insight check.
I was thinking about this on my way home while sitting in the podcast and I suggested it,
okay?
Like if someone rolls a natural 20 on insight when they're trying to figure out the secret
behind a puzzle, can you just tell us the answer?
No.
Please?
Like I'll basically tell you the answer.
Your fifth grade puzzles are too challenging.
You guys trounced over the entire dungeon.
I still don't know the secret behind the black orc.
He just was invisible and could teleport to any space previously occupied.
Because of the guy on the wall.
But anyways, Arrows, you have a surprise round so you go first and then you go again.
Oh cool.
You are about 60 feet away from them.
But yeah, I did get a not nat 20 on the insight check.
Not nat 20?
Beautiful.
So these lions look like magical constructs, which generally means they're not going to
be very physically powerful, but they are going to be able to take a lot of punishment.
Which generally means they're not going to be very physically powerful, but they are
going to be able to take a lot of punishment.
And they also probably can't be put to sleep then?
You do not know.
Okay, well I'm going to use my cool new spell because I asked you for the Arabella's shadow
entangle.
Yep.
I'm just going to have to look it up real quick because I forget the specifics.
If I'm not mistaken, it only works on shadow creatures.
Yeah, but we don't actually have shadow creatures in the game.
So I'm just going to say it works on magical creatures such as constructs, conjurations,
elementals, fey, things like that.
Okay, cool.
So yeah, Cassus, it's an area spell, 60 feet squared.
Or no, sorry.
Its range is 60 feet.
I don't know the size of it.
And it's going to be a strength saving throw from the construct.
Awesome.
That is both of them?
Yep.
Strength save.
Ooh, that's a three from a natural one, automatic fail here.
And a 19 to a 22.
It's a 10 foot radius.
And one of them is now entangled.
So they can't move and attack rolls against them have advantage and their dexterity rolls
have, or dexterity rolls and saving throws have disadvantage.
I rolled a 19, a 20, 21, 22.
Yeah, but then you rolled a one and then you said two, three.
It would have been a four on a natural one.
It's a natural one.
It doesn't matter automatic failure.
I stopped counting.
Isn't that also like double damage on my weekend?
You are.
Okay.
It's just not automatic failure.
Critical hit does double damage.
But yeah, they're within 10 feet of each other.
One of them, I'll say line one is entangled.
Line two is not.
Okay.
And for anything in the vines, like in that 10 feet, the movement speed is halved.
Awesome.
And then I'm just going to get a good vantage point that's like, I guess, close to the party,
but not so that I'm like blocking the way.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Would you like to go left or right up the wall of the big top?
Right.
And then that's the end of my first turn.
Yes.
It is now your turn again.
And due to you getting very lucky on the surprise round, Tikal is now here.
Yay.
And I now bonus action insight to see if these things can actually be put to sleep.
Yeah.
That isn't at 20.
How the hell?
I will just take a picture.
They are conjurations.
They can absolutely be put to sleep.
It seems like whatever was empowering and controlling these things is gone.
So they are well free to roam and move, but also without control.
So they're just sort of attacking everything in sight.
Okay.
Um, I also have to look up the sleep spell.
This gives you guys lots of time to plan your moves.
Yes, please do.
Do you have sleep?
Yes, I do.
Awesome.
It's just a wisdom save, I think.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, let me, I'm trying to read through what it says.
Yep.
Tikal and Vana, you are next.
What about me?
What about everything we've been through?
Probably at the end of the charter.
It doesn't say anything about saving throws.
Oh.
Um, I'm looking through it.
Um, casting time to action.
Um, hit point, right.
Awesome.
Yeah.
So go ahead.
Roll the five D eight.
Well, you can choose one.
Oh, I was actually going to cast it to third level.
Um, so that's going to be, uh, nine.
No nine.
Yeah.
Nine D eight.
Okay.
Um, starting with the creature, those lowest hit points, each effect by the spell faults
unconscious.
How many creatures can you target?
20 feet.
So they're both within 20 feet.
You will be knocking these guys right out.
Okay.
Uh, so that is 35 hit points.
Oh, gorgeous.
So I'd like to try to target the ones that didn't get entangled.
You can target both of them.
They're within 20 feet of each other.
Okay.
I shall do that then.
Beautiful.
So that is your action of bonus action.
If you would like to use your movement, please do so.
If not, it is Vanna's turn.
Um, I'm going to end my, and you know what?
No, I'm not going to do anything else.
Okay.
Um, so how far away is Vanna from the lions?
What is there?
What is his exact view?
Um, he's got a clear shot.
Actually, you're sort of in the middle of everyone.
Everyone sort of piles around Vanna when you guys get into combat.
That's just how I've been doing it.
So you're all, you're in the middle, like five feet back from everybody else.
And you have a straight shot right to both of the lions who have to your knowledge in
one foul swoop been both trapped and put to sleep.
Okay.
That works.
Um, cause I want to do an arcana check to see if I can locate where the source of the
magic is from.
Awesome.
The source of magic is gone.
And that's why the lions are acting out like this.
Can I not feel like any traces or like residual?
Um, the only residual magic that's in these things are, is the magic keeping it moving.
Okay.
Did you need me to roll for any of that?
No, you would have already done that.
Okay.
And are they like still alive?
Yeah, they're unconscious, but they are alive.
Cause they're rested damage, right?
No, they are asleep until they take Jesus Christ 35 points of damage.
Are they both asleep?
Yes.
Okay.
And that case, I'm going to use my movement to come on over and we'll be inside our investigation
to figure out like what it would take to put them down without waking them.
Is there, wait, can I just use towers or counter spell or dispel magic?
Dispel magic would dispel the sleep, not the conjuration spell.
You'd have to cast dispel magic on the original caster who is gone.
Yeah.
Okay.
Are they like actual balloons?
Uh, no.
Well, they look like rugs that have been used to cast a sort, either a conjure elemental
or a some sort of conjuration spell to make them dance and sing and play for people's
entertainment.
Wait, since, since like the source of like their magic has been removed, resulting in
going feral, could someone like replace that source and like use their own magical aura
to take control of the lions again?
Yeah.
It would take a pretty high animal handling and arcana check.
But if you want to try that, absolutely go for it.
Would it be possible for like the party to circle the lions and do like a friendship
ditty to try and like them while they're sleeping?
So just like hold hands and sing?
I'm like, yeah.
Like approach them and try and like, oh no.
How do you beat a lion?
Pain them like you do a feral animal?
You would all have to take the dash action to get to them.
They're about 60 feet away, but yeah.
That might work.
Are they even technically in combat?
As long as we don't attack them, they won't wake up, right?
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
Is everyone on board with taming the lions and maybe adding them to our party?
I'm down.
We can certainly try.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that would be what arcana and animal handling you said?
Arcana to sort of patch that link they have to you, not the party, just you.
But then you'd all have to make animal handling checks.
That would be the friendship ditty disorder.
Okay.
Who has the highest arcana?
I have plus three.
I have plus five to animal handling, but only plus one to arcana.
I have a plus two to animal handling.
Awesome.
I have a plus two to both.
Addie, what was your arcana?
I have a plus two to both arcana and animal handling.
So this.
I couldn't hear Addie.
Yeah.
I have a plus two to both.
I have the highest arcana then.
Awesome.
So you will be doing this.
I think we should do.
I think we should do this against a little bit higher than they're just normal armor
class, but yeah, I guess go for it.
So we'll do friendship ditty for animal handling.
Yep.
But then we'll have to make those arcana.
I'm going to try arcana.
Go ahead.
21 for arcana.
That will work for one of them.
The one that is not entangled is now sort of tuned in to Vana.
Okay.
So for your action, you can make another arcana check for the other one.
I will.
Beautiful.
That is a 22.
Yep.
Good enough.
Oh my God.
Vana really clutched this to return.
Holy cow.
You all run.
So this is great.
Hold on.
It was a nat 20 and I have a plus two to it.
Oh my God.
And that 20 of animal handling.
So this is great.
Hold on.
It was a nat 20 and I have a plus two to it.
Oh my God.
And that 20 of animal handling.
That 20 of animal handling is crazy.
So you all rush into this big top.
Eros gets there first.
They slow them down and then knock them out.
And then you all just sort of stare at them for a moment.
Sort of getting your bearings, noticing that these aren't creatures.
They're constructs, conjurations.
Sorry.
And you see to call, you see Vana sort of grab this ethereal loose shtrig that connects
to the inside of these sort of creatures.
And as they grab onto it, they both wake up staring dead at Vana.
Everybody go ahead and give me their animal handling checks now.
I got a 20.
Not natural.
Thank you everyone.
I'm missing one.
Thank you for taking control of the magic.
I'm missing.
Everyone holding hands.
It's just like, uh, as long as like one hand each holding like the strings.
Uh, Vana.
They're all going like, the like low key panic.
Oh God, what have I done?
I missed your animal handling check.
Who says?
Vana's.
Oh, I didn't do one yet.
Oh, well you got to do that.
That is a 19.
Beautiful.
Yes.
So a 20, a 19 and a 22.
So far.
Four, five, 58.
Oh no, sorry.
60.
50.
No.
Be 70.
That would be 81.
So 19, two nines.
That's 18.
That's 68 plus two.
That's 70.
74 is not even, but what is it?
It's 17.5.
17.5.
Yep.
Yeah.
So with that, um, you see Vana sort of pass this string around and it goes between all
of you and these lines sort of deflate and in a puff, they turned into these sort of
stuffed animal lions.
They're about the size of like a very small couch.
Can Phil take one up and call it?
Couch.
Like a chair saw.
They're like one of those giant teddy bears you win at a carnival, but a lion.
Okay, that makes more sense.
Vana's going to like hesitantly approach and go to like poke one.
Awesome.
It runs up to you, jumps.
Um, if you're going to dodge out of the way, can you give me a dexterity check?
If you're going to like bat them away, give me a strength check.
If not, uh, fuck around and find out.
I mean, can Vana tell if they're running with hostility?
Give me an insight check.
That is a 12.
Awesome.
Could go either way.
I'll do a dex.
Awesome.
You.
That is 14.
Awesome.
Perfect.
You dodge out of the way.
Lion lands on the ground, skids runs between your legs and starts running circles around
you like a dog.
Okay, this is more familiar.
Okay.
Vana's going to let this happen.
Very confused.
They, but this is okay.
After a few minutes, both of them sort of like nuzzle up to you.
They seem very friendly once they're not murdering people.
Oh, and you can see both would be like, what did I do?
You can see kneel down and pet them too.
Awesome.
As you do, you hear the crowd roar.
Just standing ovation, cheering and screaming.
Everyone completely forgot they were there and it's going to like jump down near 10 feet
in the air and just error.
We were just made a part of the bit.
That's crazy.
And there are like three cheers for the heroes.
Vana got startled.
And the process of like trying to get out of here takes a good like hour or two.
So by the time you're all free, it is early evening, probably about like five, six o'clock.
Tikal, your sending stone has been buzzing on and off all day with like little heart
emojis from Jacques.
What are you doing?
I feel like she's relishing the attention.
But Vana, go ahead and like add two stuffed lions to your inventory.
Yes.
Okay.
You can use these in combat, however, they will be a substantially weaker version than
what you were going to fight.
Maybe they can be like familiars and act as like mage hands.
They are the equivalent of unlocking a villain character in a video game.
Oh, absolutely.
They are absolutely familiars.
If you would like to treat them as such, you will only have one of them as a familiar.
The other is just like as the item stuffed animal.
I'm imagining them as like cone from Bleach, the little stuffed lion.
Oh, yes.
Like exactly.
But less than a little less sentient, much more animalistic.
And with that, you guys have sort of done everything the circus is packing up now.
Is there anything you guys want to do before ending things off?
Well, so I'm just going to see about like trying seeing if the lions can possibly lead
them to lead him to where they're like, reator is.
Awesome.
Give me an animal handling check.
I feel like I should be able to get a vintage after this.
It's a 14.
He's a little land like a hound dog.
Yeah.
You're like, hey, where's your where's your guy?
Where's your crew?
Where's your mama?
They just they just keep like circling you.
They're like, what do you mean?
It's you.
You're our guy.
What do you mean?
Vana's going to return back and Kaya is going to be like, what the hell, Vana?
How did you adopt to it?
It's stuffed lions that are moving.
This is not something you win at a carnival.
Well, I mean, well, it is a stuffed animal.
But she looks just like trying to go on the roller coasters until the very last second.
Absolutely.
Give me a constitution saving throw.
He's going to join in roller coasters.
I was going to say, he's also dragging as many of his friends as he can onto the roller
coaster.
Yeah.
So whoever consents to that, Vana will consent.
Awesome.
Is it safe for everyone?
Everyone who's going on the roller coasters.
OK, that is a 24.
You do not throw up.
In fact, you have a great time.
You very thoroughly enjoy yourself.
Yes.
That is a net 20.
What the hell?
Yes.
You have a great time.
I have a 24.
You all have a great time.
You all have a incredible time.
Tikal does not.
It's a little too bumpy for them.
They didn't have a great time.
And on that note, I didn't sleep great.
They're going to lie down for a few minutes.
So it's going to be like one of those rollercoasters where they take your photo, like three quarters
through and it's just a call like growing up like to the side.
Yeah, ironically enough, I am drawing one of the hoos.
Completely unrelated.
He was going to put it in his pocket and like keep it there.
Awesome.
So with all that being said, it's now like late at night.
How long do you guys think you spend doing this rollercoaster stuff?
At least as late as possible.
Awesome.
So that's about like 10.
10 is when it closes?
Yeah.
Okay.
Carnival closes at 10.
Jacques, Gustave and Clara sort of catch on to where you are.
And at like 11, they show up with like all of your gear too.
Adding curiosity, do you want to like ride the lions?
In battle mode, yes.
In battle mode is crazy.
They have a second form.
They have a battle mode.
Yes, they do.
In fact, they have like their stuffed animal mode and then a battle mode.
So they have a standby mode, which gives you advantage on sleep checks because they're
a stuffed animal.
Are you improv-ing the stuffed animal stats or were you expecting people to tame the lions?
Oh no, I set up carnival games where you could win these.
Perfect.
Actually, if you'd like to do one of those carnival games now, this would be a great
time for the rest of you to get some stuff.
Let the others get their...
I'm not going to give you any more magical pillows, but you know, here we are.
Magical what now?
Pillows.
Where's the magical pillow?
The lions?
Oh, there's...
Okay.
They're like, think like a pillow pet the size of a guitar.
The size of a what?
Guitar.
And these lions bonded to Vana.
Yes.
True.
If they die, you will take five points of psychic damage per one that dies.
And if they die in a single attack, you'll take ten.
I just saw a sport that came across my lawn.
Whose feet were those?
I don't even know.
Anyways.
So now you're all there.
You're having a grand old time.
You go to one of the carnival games as it's closing.
There are three carnival games you can do.
Which one has the most strategy involved?
There's the basketball shooting one, which at this point is just a hoop sort of at neck
level and a giant stone ball that you have to put through the hoop as many times as possible
in a minute.
Okay, we're doing the basketball one because his strength is ridiculous.
There's also a sharpshooter one where there's a little crossbow and you have to pop the
cross and there's a sort of matching one where one of the little pegs on a wall lights up
and you have to throw a disc onto the peg.
I don't know how smart we are at 15, so I don't think anyone should attempt that.
So out of curiosity, how does Mono switch one of the lions to battle mode?
It's a bonus action.
So Mono can switch one of them to battle mode and then just like be lazy and ride?
Yeah.
Well, however, it will be that as the night goes on.
Awesome.
However, it will give you disadvantage on stealth checks.
Hopefully we won't need that.
Awesome.
True.
So Felix, I'm going to set up a two minute timer and I'm going to have you roll a D10
as many times as you can.
Just one D10.
Okay.
And if you get over a five, it's a success.
Under a five is a failure.
Each success is worth one point.
You need a certain amount of points to get certain prizes.
Okay.
After a one at a time, right?
Yes.
One at a time.
You have multiple sets of dice.
Five and above is a point.
Yes.
Just tell me whenever you get a point, I will tell you to start in 10.
Oh, this yellow point.
Yes.
Exactly.
Start in 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, go, go, go.
Point.
If you keep your hand closer to the table, you can pick it up and cause it to stop rolling
a lot faster.
Point.
This is so funny.
Point.
Hold on.
Pause.
Now.
Okay.
Do you have two D10?
Do I have what now?
Do you have two dice?
No, I was rolling on D and D beyond.
Oh, all right.
I can start adding two though.
Please do.
You now roll with disadvantage.
What do you mean?
It's a carnival game.
You knew this was a scam going in.
What?
You knew this was a scam going in.
Okay.
So, wait, I rolled a two.
And picked the lowest.
If they both aren't five and above, then there's no point?
Yes.
Okay.
Gotcha.
I would recommend using Google for this.
You can just re-roll immediately.
Yeah.
Google's much better for dice rolling.
Awesome.
So I will give you.
Wait.
Hold on.
Okay.
I'm ready.
One, two, three, four, five, four, three, two, go, go, go.
Eight.
Wait.
No.
No point.
Point.
Oh.
Point.
All right.
Help.
It's scam.
It's scamming me.
19, 18, 17, 16.
Oh my God.
Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two.
Point.
With the fucking buzzer beater.
That was so scary.
Incredible job.
So now let's count up those points.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20.
Yes.
That is just enough for the medium prize.
Yay.
So.
What did it take for the large?
Over 30.
I'm actually so impressed before I got disadvantaged because like I genuinely didn't roll below
a five until the very end.
Nice.
So give me a luck check, please.
Okay.
Actually, no, I'll let you pick your medium prize.
Yay.
There is a sheath that when you put daggers in it, it sharpens that.
What's a feek?
Sheath.
Huh?
It's a thing that goes over a sword.
Oh, a sheath.
Sheath?
Yes.
That's what I said.
You were saying feet.
Oh, I heard, I heard feet.
There.
I heard feet.
So sorry, guys.
There are a pair of boots that look very green.
And that's about all you can discern from that.
And there is a mask.
It's a carnival mask.
It seems to be like a piece of themed merchandise and a bunch of just normal stuffed animals.
Is the mask like any specific kind of design like an animal or like a clown or something?
It looks like a thespian mask.
What's a thespian?
Actor.
Seth, a thespian mask is specifically that smiling on one side, frowning on the other.
Oh, this one is red and white with sort of gold lining.
It's got horns on it.
It's a pretty cool mask, all things considered.
I don't think I need the sheath because I and let it for a great sword.
It's just for daggers.
Yeah.
So I won't need the sheath.
The boots are kind of cool.
I feel like since he looks as green or look like his toes, like low key.
I'm going to go and go with the the thespian mask, even though I don't even know how to
spell that.
It just sounds cool.
Thespian.
Not a lesbian.
Thespian.
Wait, what now?
There, I'll just spell it out.
No, I'm sorry.
You got it.
That's how you spell it.
Oh, that's the.
Thespian.
Beautiful.
Now, does anyone have any questions?
I don't know.
Does anybody else want to do a carnival game?
I do.
Beautiful.
Yes.
Which game would you like to do?
Does it work the same?
No, they all work differently.
OK, well, can you explain how they work?
Because I don't actually have dice with me.
Beautiful.
So one of them works.
You essentially it's pretty much the same thing.
You have to pick a color.
Red, green or blue.
And then roll to hit.
And if you hit them, you get one, two or three points.
Try and get as many points as you can in the allotted time, which is two minutes.
They all have different.
OK, can I just do the same game that Coda did?
Hold on.
When there's the matching rings one where in which essentially I shout out a number.
And within 10 seconds, you have to roll that number or higher on an intelligence check.
If you fail, you don't get a point.
It goes for three minutes.
They said two minutes.
Yeah.
No.
Can I just do the same one that Coda did?
Absolutely.
I will set up that timer now.
When it's five and above is a point.
Yes, five and above is a point.
Roll on a detail.
Yeah.
Awesome.
I will stop you when you're a minute.
Then you will start rolling with disadvantage.
Let me know when you're ready.
I'm ready.
OK, five, four, three, two, go, go, go.
Point.
Point, point, point.
Point, point.
Point, point, point, point.
Dang.
Point, point.
Point.
Point, point.
Fucking Hell.
Punk.
So where are we?
point point point point point point point point point point point
point point stop point okay I won't count that point now get ready start
rolling with this advantage three two one go go go point point fuck point
point and to D10 like I got two tens yep point point point point
point nineteen point 17 16 15 point point ten point nine eight seven six five
four three two one point that last one does not count so you got 44 watch
Felix just huff it tries very best get the medium prize honestly this game's a
scam he did incredible you walk up there and like that thing is on a track it
just spins that's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve
thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty one
twenty two three three four five six twenty seven twenty eight twenty nine
thirty three one thirty two thirty three four thirty five thirty six thirty seven
thirty eight thirty nine forty four one forty two forty three forty four forty
five Jesus you got an extra point or because of the 2d10 the carny is I
rolled 2d10 like three times well 47 I just only thought to call it once
because I went from rolling two ones to two tens nice so the carny is absolutely
fucking god-sign he's like wait what holy shit fuck that's not possible
um you didn't hear that great job little one I get well fuck it you get the major
prize and here you go and he pulls out this incredibly ornate it looks like a
pop-gun like the ones you get at the dollar stores a little cork in the
middle except it is huge and he's like this little buddy is a family friend of
mine real simple he aimed at what you what you want not there anymore pump
this little thing back and well with any due luck it won't be there anymore
should you be giving this to a kid you're a kid yes well anybody under 16
is not glad to be in this carnival you're over 16 right say yes yeah
wonderful well then I don't see no problem here take your witness and get
the fuck out of here
you're 16 right say yes I would definitely sell you beer oh yeah now
he's the person buying the drinks for the 14 year old yep and I just imagine
like well arrows and Felix are doing this one is like dosing off on the
back of one of the lions yeah awesome then give me a sick check oh damn it
this guy is also a devil named Steve that's a 15 awesome you have a great
sleep finally and with that it is about 11 o'clock at night the Sun is going
down and Gustav Jacques and Clara I'll give you guys a quick call okay you want
your phone take all no no like individually Gustav calls Felix Clara
calls Vanna and Jacques calls Ellis you mean do you see Vanna and Jacques?
no Clara calls Vanna okay you also to get a call from your instructor except
for Tikal who's totally here right now totally totally absolutely anyways
they're vomiting in the bathroom so who speaks first you speak first I speak
first who speaks first? Vanna is going to a very very very tired hello Clara immediately shoots back she's like hey
hey guys um sorry we slept in a bit but we will be right there fuck my head hurts
I fell over that don't worry about it we are headed right to you guys you guys
are great we love all of you we'll be right there we all just called you any
questions anything you guys need or want to know before uh well before shit goes
down what's going on? a day of prophecy strikes at midnight we wanted to be with
you kids the whole day around oh okay
Felix is gonna do a very very wired hey Gustav I just want a cool math I'm so
excited for the prophecy tomorrow ah great that's awesome kid well just uh
head back towards the house we'll meet you guys halfway I hope you all had an
incredible day will do how was your day great I slept a lot oh that sounds kind
of boring but that's okay it'll get much more exciting when you get older don't
worry about it I can drink coffee every day and be cool
you've got my you my sword you've got that right of course I do I never take
it off my person beautiful well head on back we'll see you soon
hope you all had a great time and with that they all hang up not a word from
Jacques which is again very strange
to me like mention that like hey is Jacques alive? Jacques is immediately
is like oh hello children I'm so sorry I've just been terribly busy everybody
else in the house has been sleeping so I've been taking care of the cleaning
cooking all of the lovely stuff we've got dinner prepared for you just head on
back we'll see you guys shortly he's talking way too fast you're catching
Jacques sounds like he had too much cotton candy
Jacques is getting like every third word across Flora and Gustav trying to shut
him up yes there you go do you want to hear about our adventure we will hear
about this when you get back okay in the meantime I don't care I hope you all have
a had a wonderful day we will see you in a brief moment and with that they all
hung up and the circus is closed the sky is getting a little dark
you'll just like light a torch and use it to light the way back awesome do you
guys know that?
yeah does Felix not have a torch?
how are you guys planning on getting back?
wait, Vama just got to ride on the lions
yeah I do darkvision
two of you can ride on the lions at a time they have a movement speed
awesome they get you there in a few hours they sort of run out of time and
they can only be in battle mode for so long and about 98% of the way there you
can see Jacques, Gustav and Flora they look like they're carrying something you
don't know what it is if you guys would like to see give me a perception check
if not you just head on they sort of puff in a thing of smoke back into Vada's
little bag what does the lion do for me? they're definitely holding something
they got a four or so
I got a 12
awesome they're all definitely holding something Gustav looks like he's holding
a basket but Eros was the only one who noticed that
oh
so
Alana's well rested for once so
it's true
you all approach they quickly throw the things they have in their hands behind their backs
and they're like hey guys it's uh great to see you
how was your day?
I rolled stealth to go behind them and see what they're holding
with disadvantage but yes
Alana's just gonna wave like a good child
I've already seen you so this would be a very difficult stealth check
okay what if I already had disadvantage since I am wearing chainmail
I have to roll it three times?
no that's an automatic failure
okay um
I could have beat the odds though
all right go for it give me one dice roll if it's 20 or higher sure
I have a negative one what do you mean 20 or higher?
you would have to roll a natural 20
I got an 18
that is not a natural 20
okay
so
uh you try and sneak behind Gustav like picks you up by your head turns you around and pushes you back into the group
um Clara
uh can everybody please make
a wisdom saving throw please
oh god damn it
six
failed
five
so you see Clara just wave her hands and all of you are immediately blinded
crazy behavior
um
Vana's just gonna screech like a man she
awesome
yeah that's fair
Gustav very quickly like puts a hand over your mouth and sits you down in a little chair
you feel something like very thin like a string or an elastic thunk against the bottom of your chin
um all of you feel this Gustav picks you up puts you down in a chair thunks something below your chin
feels like a small elastic bit of a thwip but afterwards the blindness and deafness spell is dispelled
and you are sat in little lawn chairs on a picnic bench with a massive cake in the middle
as Jacques Gustav and Clara are lighting the candles
yay
okay
happy birthday to you
um Jacques is like when you see the thing is we don't actually know when your birthday is
except for Errol's they're the only one of you who has a real birthday that we know of
but we never bothered to ask so
I wasn't gonna tell you
fair enough so happy birthday from all of us to all of you
um these years
has Vana heard like what a birthday is is this something they were taught
um about around every year Jacques and Clara do like something for each other's birthday
but like just enough for you to sort of tangentially know what a birthday is
you've never really had one before none of you have for that matter
Vana's just gonna look at them strangely like uh the what is going on
well this is your birthday not really we have no idea when your birthday is
but we thought that this would be the next best thing
it's the day you were born people celebrate it because not dying is actually harder than it looks
so happy birthday from all of us to all of you please enjoy
um everybody this cake has a bit of magic in it heal any damage you have taken
we're gonna need it
are there like candles for us to blow out
yeah of course give me a strength check each of you
oh jeez
Felix is like kind of tearing up the last time he had a birthday was with his mom
so this reminds him of her again
Vana doesn't know what this is by all means so
he isn't gonna try and blow out the candles
awesome
he got a 10
Felix blows out all of his candles
yay
that's perfect
I'm actually a little bit frustrated but I did get a net 20
beautiful you are a little flustered
I think I got like 5 20s today
damn that's incredible let's hope that keeps up
for no particular reason
so you taking a deep breath you blow and you take the rest of the candles just clean out
they're clapping have a great time barely even noticing that you're upset
Eros you stole the wishes for yourself
sorry why would you get wishes
it's a birthday thing you blow out the candles and you make a wish
I mean I already got two lions today so
seems like enough wishing for one day
Felix is gonna cut the cake and dish it out to everyone
I like how they don't question Vana going I got two lions today
real? it's an imaginary world
lions are about the most normal thing in it
it's true
it's better than a near-death experience
that's what I always say
so
after all the cake and festivities are passed out
they hand you each
well they don't hand you anything they inform you that
you know all of your little bags we gave you
we wrote your name on the inside you get to keep those
and everything within them
is that why you guys are so busy today
yes of course do you think baking a cake this big takes an afternoon
no
that's so sweet
yes thank you
Eros I know I know we have not done the best job with you but
we are
hoping
we're hoping things get better for all of us
and which we can give you the proper amount of attention
but
it is almost the dead of night
we are eating cake in the middle of the forest by torchlight
but
let's just stay here for a bit
let's wait for the world to fall apart
why would the world fall apart
well we don't exactly know what the
prophecy entails but
let's hope we all survive
too bad we killed the guys
pardon?
too bad we killed the guys you could tell us
yes but they needed to die they were assholes
it's a little bit somber
this might be the last happiest moment we have together
Gustav starts playing on a small little guitar
I thought you were going to say a tiny violin
I was also going to say a tiny violin
would it make more sense for not Gustav sorry Jacques
Jacques starts playing on like a tiny little guitar
a ukulele?
slightly bigger than a ukulele
those like weird halfway guitars with the bowls
a mandolin?
thank you a mandolin yes
Jacques pulls out a very tiny mandolin and starts
there's playing a little tune on the mandolin as
the stars start shining
thank you for joining us for another episode of Tear de Oso
see you next time