Last time on the Empire Initiative. Having finally
arrived in the Great Woad, our heroes quickly
learned just how dangerous it was when Shadow
Viper narrowly saved Dart from an encounter with
an enormous snake, proving his value almost immediately.
The following days were perilous and fraught
with adventure. Dart encountered a wounded displacer
beast and with Reign's help removed a spear tip
from its side. Reign was confronted by a mischievous
band of monkeys who did not appreciate Dart's
antics. And Zavari was overcome by spores, leading
the Crusaders on a chase that only ended when
Reign serenaded her with a song from her youth.
What dangers will our heroes encounter next as
they delve deeper into this dense jungle? This
is Episode 10, Woadcalling! Um, so, well, last
time on Hand Crusaders, you guys had entered
the Great Wode, the Viridian Wode, a source of
primal magic. Um, and you've had a time since
you've been here. It's been hot as shit. Um,
it's been hot, it's been humid, it's been like
raining on and off, and it'll rain for like...
five or six minutes and then be over and then
rain again like an hour later and like it's got
you know very like unpredictable weather. It
is like teeming with life. Even you know most
like druids and rangers would marvel at like
the sheer scale of the biodiversity here. Drift
is definitely like What the fuck, there's so
many bugs I've never seen before. I love it.
Dart's feeling probably especially at home lately.
This is some gourmet shit. Very humid, very...
It's like I'm the only customer at a buffet.
A true buffet decor. Just that rain -lipped up
a log and... It's like a Hakuna Matata. Yeah.
It's slurping on up. Alright, I got you Dart.
three two one it's just a smorgasbord like whip
my sticky tongue and just sweep the whole thing
like in one like if you like put your arm on
a table and just swiped everything off but then
you rolled it up into your mouth it's like when
you get all the flavors of soda from the machine
at once it's really something special and then
there's just a crunch There's a crunchy in the
soft. Autism. There's a crunchy in the soft,
just keep me in your memories. So yeah, you're
eating a thug kind of bugs. Some brand new ones
you've never had before. I don't know what that
means. What is it? That thing, it was the double
zeros. And on that thing, it was the seven. Does
that mean seven? Seven. Yes, so Dark you You
ate like a bunch of those bugs that make you
you know poisonous again So you have like that
trait as well in addition to you had eaten some
new bugs from under this log and You feel kind
of like tingly And then you start to like your
You start to look like a little bit pale. Oh.
And then you continue to get paler until you
just fade away. You're invisible. From some of
the - from some bug that you ate. Dart? Dart?
Did he, like, go to a different plane? Wait,
wasn't he - Fuck. Right here? He was. What -
He throws the - the log in front of her. I'm
gonna watch it! I'm trying, but you're here.
Invisible frogs. Could you always do that? No.
Roll a d4. Three. You're invisible for three
hours? Can we see your tracks in the crowd at
least? You could tie something around him or
something. Basically anything that wasn't on
him. Can we put a bell on him? Or I can paint
you. I have the ultimate camouflage. Bug power?
Sure. All right. If you'd like to try to roll
like a nature check, you can see if you can discern
from all the bugs you ate which bug it was that
gave you this effect. Which bug it was? What
bug was it? Who bose it? Who buggy is it? 14.
14? Don't you get a bonus because we're in the
jungle? I'm not proficient with nature. I will
say that with a 14, you're pretty sure it was
either the blue slugs or the yellow snails. What
could it have been a combination of two? You're
like, it was one of the slimy boys, for sure.
They're the tastiest. I'm just going to continue
to eat bugs at random. Okay. Only if you're not
navigating. Until something makes me vomit or
shit myself, I'm just going to keep eating bugs.
This is a great breakfast, everyone. Have a great
morning. Yeah, that's right. You guys had a...
You slept for the evening, right? After having
an encounter with a flower that made Zavari hallucinate
the voices of her loved ones telling her to run
away. It's so easy to mess with her mind. God.
That shit was rough. But yeah, so you guys had
settled down for the night after making no progress
for the day. And Zavari, you were like praying.
and whatnot. And everyone was like especially
hot that evening, like the camp itself, like
the aura around Zavari was very warm. It was
already, it's already hot, but like somehow it's
made worse. Let's see. From her channeling, dying
energy. Yeah. Water drips, like dew drips in
the morning and it just... Yeah. Yeah. And they
go back to Winnie and the Pooey. You can now.
You're invisible. Nobody will see. You can take
all your clothes off. She probably just needs
some comfort after a really bad day. Yeah. And,
you know, sometimes just plumping to your god.
From the only person that gets it. Yeah. But
yeah, so it's the morning. You're farming bugs
for a dart and he's invisible and poisonous.
Oh, that's scary. Invisible poison dart frog.
You just see like the lake prints. I hope. I'm
just kidding. And you know, you guys are doing
your best to make light of being, you know, in
this primeval jungle. And the camera zooms out.
over the Wode and begins to pan south, showing
the Wode. You guys are fairly deep into it. You've
been traveling for several days. The rolling
countryside, the town of Little Ivywood. It's
early enough in the morning that most of the
town is still slumbering. And then the camera
pans further south to the dense black forest.
The camera begins to zoom in to a small clear
pond still marred by the scars of battle. You
see the camera sees the audience. Yes, the audience
sees a fawn prancing into view. Her parents standing
watch behind her and she skips over to the pond
for a drink. As she, you know, skips over to
the pond, she kicks over part of a pile of ash
that lays at the edge of the pond, revealing
a tiny green sapling sprouting from the ash.
The morning sunlight on it for the first time.
Nature persists. Suspect. And that's us. We have
no idea. Yeah, the Ham Crusaders don't know,
but their actions are affecting the world. That's
just for you audience, aka players and the folks
at home I won't cry, it's fine So yes, you guys
are having any time Dart is invisible and How
are you guys like spending your morning? Are
you like packing up and getting ready to go?
You guys are like somewhat near the river, but
you have to like track back to it a little could
definitely, you know, catch up with some skillful
navigation. I feel like Rain is doing her stretches.
She learned from the book to get ready for the
day. Gotta stay limber. Gotta stay quick. Gotta
stay limber. Yep, yep, that's Rain. And then
getting bugs for Dart. I guess I'm looking for...
I guess while I'm looking for bugs, I'm looking
for animal tracks or anything like that. I know
that that's darts territory, but I know Zavari
doesn't want bugs. Wrong campaign. Or she's looking
for high -class snails that are escargot. Does
Zavari like... She probably eats them, Flux.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. She probably
do. Oh man. That's why I'm like... Your character
makes you cringe. She does it often. I was like,
welcome to my room. But the Zavari is girl failure,
so I cringe often. Speaking of the girl failure,
I feel like she's probably just cleaning up her
section of the camp. Putting away, you know,
her prayer incense and all that stuff. Wait,
did we camp near the river? Um, yeah, likely.
Yeah. You guys kind of like, you were sort of
following the river. Um, obviously you have to
like take a path through all the dense flora
and fauna. Um, so you guys were like a little
bit away from the river, but like it's still
close enough that you can probably like hear
it. If I'm invisible, I want to go fishing. Oh,
hell yeah. That makes sense. Okay. Yeah, you
run over to the river, dive in. It's a perfect,
like, Olympic dive, just with, like, the xeric
flash. They'll never see me coming. They'll see
you going, carrying the fish. You guys just see,
like, a bag full of fish approaching you, shaking,
and you're carried by nothing. And then my brain
is like, wait, I've experienced this before.
Bloop. Splash, splash, splash. Yeah, make a fishing
check, I guess. Survival. And then you have advantage,
right? Already? It was my natural... Are you
doubling your proficiency? Yeah, I was doubling
my proficiency bonus. Okay, but you're invisible
so you also have advantage. My god. Starts coming
back with more body weight of fish. Oh, advantage.
22. 22. How much fish do you think you can carry?
Uh... What's your strength back? Or was your...
I am reasonably strong. My strength is 13. I
would estimate that I could probably carry half
my body weight in fish. How much does Dart weigh?
Like 70 pounds. Oh! 35 pounds of fish. Is it
one fish or multiples? Mmm. I'm also gonna Google
Jumble. There's like a catfish for sure. Of course,
there's like a restaurant. So it's like this
game. What are you doing? You're fucking... Non
-sponsored. Never sponsored. I mean, my favorite
fish of all time, but Dart did not catch one
of those. No. The biggest? Yeah, I was like,
I know that they live in the jungle, but like...
But the dark can't catch one. Yeah, I do not
recommend trying to catch one. It will headbutt
the shit out of you. Oh, that one. Yeah. Yes.
The Aeropima. The Aeropima gigas? Yes. It's my
favorite fish of all time. The dinosaur fish.
It's so fucking cool. It has lungs! She showed
me that shit and I was like, oh my god. I think
it would be more likely that I'd catch red -tailed
catfish. Yeah, I would definitely say, yeah definitely
catfish for sure. I'll take some catfish. I don't
think it's the body of a bright catfish. And
maybe some, is it peacock bass? Yeah, why not?
Yeah. Catfish and bass, for sure. The piara vampire
fish is kind of like salmon, but with razor -sharp
huge fangs. Oh yeah, you can definitely use it
if you try to feed her a vampire fish. There's
also like plenty of porters, of course, which
are like little kinda like piranha. I mean, I
got a javelin. Oh yeah, now you're very successful.
You're invisible. They don't see you coming.
Yeah, like the world is your oyster. With a 22
dart, you also notice that some of the fish have
these small orange leeches on them. And the leeches,
you pluck one off and it immediately tries to
stick to you, right? And you can feel tugging
on your inner arcane energy. Um, and so I would
say, yeah, with, with that 22, um... I eat it.
Okay, you eat it? Yeah, I'm gonna eat it. I'm
gonna chew it first. That's not something you
just swallow whole, that's no good. Yeah, you're
allowed to chew it. It's like, it's very chewy.
It's very chewy. Um, make it constitution safe.
With advantage, because you're a frog. So...
I don't, I, it's not likely that this would upset
you, but. 11. 11. Um, you feel a little uneasy.
You do. Um, but you also feel like it, you can
tell that it had some arcane energy in it already.
And through eating it, you like, you get a little
bit of a feeling that you're like, almost like
you're I don't know how to explain it in the
universe, but like your spell slots are being
topped off. Make like a nature check. Natural
20. Wow, okay. Perfect. So yeah, that's brilliant.
So you deduced after kind of like eating it and
kind of messing with it for a second, that if
you collected some of these, you could maybe
create a potion that restores spell slots. it
would take probably a lot of them and you'd have
to like mash them up and it'd be really gross
because you could distill it and then like add
some like anti -nausea ginger and whatnot to
make it more palatable and like you could probably
come up with, you know, something especially
if you like, you know, had somebody who like
is an alchemist like Morag but obviously, you
know, goodbye huh? Sounds like you're spiraling.
Yeah, right? Wait a minute. I feel like the campaign's
already chaotic enough. We can't handle anything.
Zavari mentally cannot. True. I caught a large
number of fish. If I pluck all the leeches that
I find off of the fish that I've gotten so far,
do I have enough of them to fill like... A jar?
I would say so, yeah. Adds my inventory one jar
of magic leeches. Cool. So these leeches, they
leech magic. So of course they innately store
it in their bodies, obviously. So you could say
use it to make a potion that restores spell slots.
Additionally, if you put them on someone... It
would drain their spell slots. And then if you
ate it, it'd be worth more? Maybe. If you like,
fed it spells. If you could... Actually, we would
probably also cast spells into the jar to like,
feed them. I should have bought a mortar and
pestle. But once you make them into a potion,
that's it, they're dead. That's the only way
to like, fully utilize the arcane energy in them.
to actually restore a spell slot. Otherwise it
just feels like kind of magical and tingly and
like you feel like a little bit of energy like
taking a sip of espresso. Next time we run into
like a spellcaster I'm gonna chuck this jar at
him. Mm, seven. Not the sassing hand. True. The
sassing hand's purpose is too great. Mm -hmm.
I'm gonna head back to camp and, uh, dump out
my fish at Raymond's Beach. And just a bag. It's
so much fun. I mean, funny if it was in your,
um, bag of holding and it's, like, invisible
with you. It just comes out of the pocket. It
just all of a sudden starts dumping it. I hear,
like, a thump. Oh, darts near and then just opens
and fish. Ray has a plate of escargot. Maybe
I just keep all the fish, but I just slap one
huge catfish down on the log. No, it's yours.
No, it's a big fat catfish. Share it. A drip
is starting a fire. He has the prettiest flame
after all. I'm gonna do it Gollum style and just
start smacking it on the ground. Oh. Fuck kind
of fish. Drift is like, oh yes, we're eating
good tonight. That was my first nap 20 with this
dye too. Delicious. Zavari is a little horrified
by the sudden onset of so much fish. It was pretty
rapid. It was just out of nowhere. Drift's like,
I got some flour, we can fry this catfish up.
Oh, let's do it, let's do it. Little breakfast.
Catfish and waffles, let's go. Brilliant. There's
probably a tree over here we could tap. Is there
a magical syrup tree? I filled up on bugs. You
never know. I feel like we should probably get
going to like purifying things and not tapping
magical trees. One day I will be like Dart and
I'll tap that. So yeah, you guys have a really
nice breakfast of fried catfish and waffles.
Drift tears it up. One thing that you quickly
learned about Drift is that he eats like ferociously,
like he's like. He like sits down all polite
and stuff and he looks at it and his pupils just
get massive. Oh my gosh. And then. At the end,
just dabbing his face with a napkin like... Like
nothing ever happened. It was completely normal
to behave that way. You're one of us. Thank you,
my friend. Thank you, my friend. Some of the,
like, viscera of stuff while he's eating splashes
and, like, lands on my eyeball. Oh, and yours
is like invisible, so it's just like... Oh, so
that's fine then. We just hear it. We hear it.
Darn, it becomes partially visible occasionally
because it just gets splattered with so much
viscera. You can see them for just a second and
then... The barn is like, I wonder can I climb
to that tree and eat up there? Well, it's like
with you and the baby or dimension. We're not
dimensions. That's nice. We'll design it. Trademark.
You'll beat your ass about the dimensions. I
already got it. I already understand what it
does. I can put it in combat right now. Why do
I do this to us? First it was the bovine, now
it's this. Oh my god, you were the bovine. Oh
yeah, I did do that, didn't I? I wanted to be
creative. You have a good idea. That's actually
what's here. Shamelessly stealing from my players.
But give us more ideas. Yeah, I don't mind. I
can't stop. Well, can't stop won't stop. I don't
mind one bit. So, who's navigating for the day?
It's like, please not me. I think it's hard to
go in. Go ahead and roll your navigation check.
And what skill are you going to use to navigate
today, sir? You're a friend, right? Yeah, here's
a place to go. I forgot my options. So you can
use like any skill that you have if you can justify
it being used for navigating the jungle. But
the examples they gave were survival, investigation,
insight and perception. And then if anybody wants
to like do something to help Dart out, like aid
him, then it will lower the DC. I think I used
survival last time. I'm gonna, or maybe I used
perception. Whatever one I used last time, I'm
gonna use the opposite one this time of the two
of them. I want to say you used survival. I want,
yeah, you used, I think, because I used perception.
Yeah, because I said you can't use the same skill
two days in a row. Yeah, that's what I thought
you said. I'll just use perception this time.
Okay, and... Are you like climbing up on a tree
again or? Yeah, sure. Okay. I use my eagle -eyed
vision skills. Twenty -six? Twenty -six? Yeah,
so you sticky pad up a tree, one of the taller
ones in the area, as you guys are... uh or sorry
as you guys sorry as you are running up the tree
you see like uh a whole like family of like colorful
exotic birds they're like um they're like blue
and yellow and green and um they're just chattering
away and they like see you but you know just
seeing like a big frog doesn't like alarm them
too much am i not still invisible oh yeah that's
right You're available, that's true. Yeah, so
they don't even notice you. In which case you
can observe them completely. Yeah, completely
undisturbed. They're having like, it's almost
like it's a big gathering of them and several
different families and they're like... maybe
gossiping or like discussing something. And there
seems to be like, like there are ones that are
like playing games by like chasing each other
and hopping up and down on branches. There's
ones that are flying off and returning with like
berries and and everything and they're bringing
all the they're bringing all the like berries
and, and trinkets into like a hollow into the
in the tree. and they just seem to be like it's
like a big family reunion of these exotic birds
and they're like they're singing and it's almost
like it's like there's like little micro groups
within this big huge you know families that they're
all like they all have like different little
songs that they're singing and so you can hear
all of this music kind of in this like very like
very naturey melody, like it's not necessarily
like, it doesn't sound like written music, you
know what I mean? It's its own type of music.
And yeah, that's what you see. So Dart's normal
voice is inspired by Hootie from Owl House, but
Dart's inner monologue voice is 100 % David Attenborough.
I'm not going to disturb these birds because
I don't like the way feathers taste. Yeah, they're
like prickly probably too. I don't know. Yeah,
that's it. They're pretty and they seem smart.
Yeah, they're pretty. Yeah, they do seem smart.
They have their own society. It's kind of like
just a glimpse into another world. And, you know,
I mean, I'm not sure how it makes Dart feel,
but it may make someone else feel like, you know,
small. Hey, you're beautiful. Yeah, and become
the lexity of everything, right? Like, you know,
these, these birds, they live like a whole nother
life, unbothered by like more politics, not necessarily
war. Sometimes they are impacted by that, right?
Their environment right now is at risk. But like,
by the same time, you know, they They don't know
what taxes are. They don't know what taxes are.
A bird goes to like put some uh put some berries
into the hollow of a tree and the hollow just
closes and you see like a lizard eye open up
and he's just like damn Andrew you're scary.
Thank you, Solanas. I think this is still your
doing. But yeah, but other than that, yeah, you
get like a really good view. You can see the
river. You can kind of like gauge the sort of
like the progress you've made since, you know,
the last time you navigated. And you see like
what seems like a pretty good path that sticks
sort of nearer the river. like closer to it.
Um, which would aid in like you guys getting
lost, right? Cause you, if you're thinking near
the river, it's harder for you guys to get lost.
But it does look like that area has more of like
traffic. You see like a lot of like tracks in
that area. And then you see like another path
that goes a little bit further away from the
river, but looks to be less trodden. I'm going
to lead them down the less beaten path. Okay.
yeah so you leave the crew down the quieter path
and go ahead and roll for an encounter to be
12 5 5 you you see like a like a big heavy like
buzzing beehive that looks like perfectly ready
to be harvested, if that makes sense. Like it
is definitely as heavy with honey as you guys
are kind of like walking down this path. There's
just like, just a few trees in to the like, you're
kind of like following this sort of narrow, you
know, pathway. Damn, I just spilled my loose
jar with leeches. You're gonna make them honey
leeches? Honey cured leeches. Honey cured crimson
mist. Oh my god. Not recommended. Is it magical
honey? I don't know. So it might be good to feed
to vultures. This is one of those scenarios where
my like significant like knowledge of nature
be handy. But I don't need to collect like everything
I come across at the same time, you know. Oh
absolutely, yeah. It's just something that you
want to. Yeah, that you guys are rocking past.
Sometimes you can leave it be. After that experience
with the monkeys, I think I'm just gonna leave
this behind. Honestly, I'm really proud of you
for that, Dart. That shows growth. You already
said that you don't eat things with stingers,
so like, are we gonna bypass it on now? The burden
of self -control. It's like a gun. It's like
a bow. It just puts a bag underneath and a runoff.
We were talking about getting syrup, right? That's
what I was thinking. I know. Magical honey the
next round. We don't know. We can't tell from
here. It's kind of high up. Somebody would have
to get closer to investigate if they wanted to
know if it was magical. I thought you were up
here holding those goats. I was like, oh my god.
Does that mean someone's going? No. No pressure,
no pressure. No. Darv decided to leave it alone.
Yeah. Right? And yeah, and just like, yeah, let's...
I was just enamored with like the pristine beauty
of the birds. I'm not gonna immediately go and
disturb. The next thing I come across. I feel
like it probably looks like stained glassy and
like it's glistening in the sun and it's very
full. It's very fair. Yeah. It's very fair. So
it's beautiful. While we're walking, I want to
chat with my compatriots a little bit. Okay.
Yeah. Great. Zabari? Yeah. You think your dad
is, uh, like a wine guy or a cheese guy? Like
wine or cheese? I'm trying to think of a good
gift to bring to the Jubilee. He likes a good
bourbon. Bourbon? Oh. Damn, I could make meat
from that honey. My mom loves me. You're not
too far away from it. My mom loves me. All I
have is weed and wild magic cocaine. Please don't
get either of those to my parents. Can we actually
just leave that when we go? Also, since you guys
are invited to the ball, I figured maybe once
we're in a more stable location, I can give you
some helpful tips and tricks. Like showing you
how to dance properly, how to curtsy properly,
you know, all that boring stuff. How? Oh, never
mind. Okay. You just do, you just do that. I'm
already at the bottom pose. I just extend. You
just, yeah. I guess not. You just fluff if that
makes sense. Like, like marshmallow fluff. That's,
that's for the other podcast. You never had Marsha's
mouth open. All the hams. But I thought I could
help you guys with some etiquette, you know?
What do you mean etiquette? And she's like picking
her ear wax and like flicking it, right? You
look over at us as you're saying the word etiquette
and she's got her finger in her ear and I'm picking
toe crusties. You don't wear shoes. And I'm covered
in dirt and just like dirt on my face. I mean,
I'm in it even during just like Yeah in the background
like he's like I'm not going but He started making
his way until I looked in the leg. I'm scared.
I was gonna take a bath but Get the toe crushes
before we go. Can you wear shoes? Is that like
is that like a painful thing for you? I mean,
I don't enjoy it. I think it would be something
that is that is doable. I'm gonna feel like that's
that her like the toes. I have to have a pair
custom made. Oh that's that's easy. We'll get
a custom made. The ones with the oh yeah where
you said that he would uh get the style team
to yeah yeah so she's all that is like this and
this and give you a princess. That's gonna be
Rain's Mod Podge. Which is funny because my nickname
in junior year was Mouset. I was like, very attractive
moose. But I just want to run the idea past you
guys, see how you thought about that. She's like,
is very explicitly like looking at Dart, trying
to figure out Dart's like temperature, if he's
with her, if he's about to cuss her out. My first
thought was buttercream, buttercream. The mysterious
third option of nothing. Nothing really. Nothing
touches this body but pure silk. Hell yeah. I
also like to eat the silkworms. I'm sure that's
okay for the environment. That's fine. Circle
of life, no? No. Something, I don't know. I don't
give a shit about nature. That's not my thing.
I thought we were friends. I didn't mean like
that. I mean like my god is it's aloneness so
I care about nature the normal amount. That she
always doesn't want to be in it. Definitely don't
want to be in it. I was just I was asking about
the gift idea because it's gonna be my first
like royal event and I don't want to like make
a bad impression you know. You care about the
opinions of others? Oh, you know, it's like I
don't represent myself. I represent, like, a
lot of people. And then you see a big smile growing
on her face. She's like, don't worry, darn, I
hear you. Wink. Wink. It's like, don't worry,
I will help you. I will help teach you all the
etiquette, and you will be the fanciest frog
to have ever walked the halls of Unvermore. Also
the only frog. noise Oh No, actually, I think
I would like that not like not just like I want
to have the like a night's tale teaching them
to dance montage One and two. Yes. Don't worry.
I have the dance steps in Sneer in my mind. Wait,
am I gonna have to do like a royal dance with
Zaurus? I mean like have to? No. Am I supposed
to? I mean, do you want to dance with your partner?
I mean, yes, but I didn't - So you said yes.
Okay. How do you use silverware? That's a whole
other situation. Got a lot of work to do. Silverware
will be a day dedicated. Yeah, I just imagine
the, uh, Anastasia? I don't think you've used
it. Also, it depends on what the cuisine you're
eating. If it's dwarven cuisine, that's different.
You don't use the same cutlery a number more.
So do they have dwarven cutlery? I haven't used
dwarven cutlery in so long. Of course. Oh, mama.
My hands, like, they bend all cutlery. Of course,
there's dwarven cuisine. We're not, like, known
for it, but we have quite a bit of it. Reign
is ready to do it. She hasn't had, like, dwarven
cuisine in so long. Yeah, I feel like Reign,
probably by now, your character would know that
dwarves live in the, like, Iron Peak Mountains.
Is that what they're called? Yeah, the mountain
range that, like, Umbermoor calls home. A lot
of dwarves live in the... Yeah, so they're in
Ongremore essentially, in the county. That's
where most of the dwarves in Dazzloria live.
They're mountain dwarves though. They are. They're
different. Mountain dwarves. What kind of dwarves?
Mountain's hill. They're like, oh, how are you
in your molehills? Oh my god. Anybody can buy
a bottle of bourbon. I want to bring a gift that
only a king could bring. Something that says,
like... Not that we're equals per se, but just
that, like, I respect the level that he's at,
you know what I mean? Amano, just Amano. Um,
that's very - I never know why I asked about
swords. Don't, uh, don't, uh, noble guys give
each other swords? Do you have, like, a fancy
sword? Um, not one of that is not one that we
can give away. Well, I meant, like, Dark to give
to your - Wait a minute, I do actually have a
really fancy sword. Hold on a second. It's a
gift from Dart to your dad. What kind of weapon
do you have? Thorns! Well yeah, but it'd be like
for display. But yeah, then the traditional thing
would be like a sword of some kind. I have a
long sword plus two that is like a black blade
with ruby flakes and stuff in it. that's saxton's
blade right yeah i think it was give him saxton's
blade interesting that is interesting yeah that's
actually not a bad idea that's kind of cool i'm
not gonna lie like that's pretty badass actually
put a star next to that because the vettigars
are an ally of umbermoor edmund is an ally of
umbermoor and like so i feel like you know And
it's because your help, we were able to like,
remove the ties. So here's the sword of the usurper.
Yeah, that's fucking cool. Yeah. That's awesome.
I fear you ate. I really ate with that. I'm not
gonna lie, that's really fucking cool. I don't
want to influence you though, Dart. Like, as
God, I don't want to influence you. But I do
think you should provide a cheese and sausage
basket. Because why not both? You'd be like,
here, here to cut the sausage. That's hilarious.
Rima could appreciate a good joke. I brought
you this fine sausage. Had to cut it. This Polish
sword is a usurper! I think my dad would love
it. I think he would laugh. Write that down,
text it to yourself. I mean, I've got my, I got
my thing. That's awesome. I'm getting the, I
started - Also, you don't have to bring them
a present. You're bringing them me. I'm bringing
them you. So says your mom and Zaris. Well I
also like I want people to take me seriously
in my position and I feel like I can't do that
unless I display some like kingliness and so
like they're expecting like a country bumpkin
phony king to show up. They're not expecting
anybody with the title of king. Well yeah but
I just I want they're expecting a lord. I mean
I'm gonna be wearing it. I understand wearing
it. I don't want you to get yourself in trouble,
though, by calling yourself king around the wrong
people. I mean, technically I'm king of, like,
not shit. But - Yet. But still - But as far as,
like, these subset of people are concerned -
You're as fine of a king as I ever met. I just
- I'm not trying to be hater this time. Usually
I am, but not this time. I just want to be mindful
of the titles that we call ourselves around some
of the other nobility. I gotta think about it.
While you're thinking about it, Dark, you feel
it shifting your diplomats pouch. Oh boy. And
you guys are watching this. It's not, not very
trodden path. It's relatively quiet. The only
thing that you guys came across was the beehive.
Like, Andy and you guys were, you know, feeling
comfortable not to talk and discuss things. And
then Dart gets a letter. It's addressed to the
Hand Crusaders. Some taste. It's like, if you
like, I can read it out loud. Oh, I can read
it out loud. Oh, sure. Yeah, please. I'm not
gonna do it in my voice because I only have so
much. That's fair. Crusaders, here's everything
I was able to transcribe and translate before
the evidence was seized. I apologize for the
limited amount of information I was able to recover,
but I do think that you will find this useful
and if not, at least illuminating. I uncovered
a handful of what appears to be lab reports,
and the contents are concerning, to say the least.
It very much appears that the Empire has been
conducting large -scale experiments on various
creatures. I assume that the documents I transcribed
are only a small portion of their work. I'm not
going to lie to you guys, I am shaken by what
I found. I had my suspicions about the Emperor,
but, well, I will let you guys review what I
found and decide for yourselves what exactly
this information implies. I was also able to
translate a letter from the Emperor to Saxton
that talks about all their future plans. I have
no doubt that the Emperor has no intention of
ceasing these plans. even with Saxton gone. Anyway,
read what I got for you and let me know what
you think. Also, I wanted to let you know that
I am going to briefly return to Castle Wren in
order to study the Arcanopedia and discuss something
with Moray. Let Zavari know that I am working
diligently to try and discover a solution to
her latest conundrum. I would also like to request
permission to take Penna with me back to Betagar
for the time being. She finally expressed interest
in returning to her studies and I don't want
to make her wait for my return. Please let me
know if Lord Dart is agreeable. Stay safe, Teth.
So obviously that letter isn't the only thing
that was included in his package. There is more.
So I have a taste on the case to help us with
ours to try to figure out a spell or something.
What do you want first? Do you want the letter
to Lord Saxton first or do you want the lab reports
first? I feel like we would spread them out,
right? I see a lab report and maybe I'll get
contacts. Oh, I want to see the letter. You want
to see the letter? We'll go through the lab reports.
Rain is used to doing research and looking at
lab reports, so... making me do homework. As
I say, I apologize as the DM. I wrote some fiction.
There is some reading. It's not a shit ton of
reading, but it is some reading. Oh. Would you
like... Correspondence number 458 or correspondence
number 667. The first you should do the 667.
Yeah. 67. Okay. Let's see if C4 has boomed. Hell
yeah. I'm so dumb, guys. I don't know what my
brain is. And then James probably, like, you
put a little note on them. So this is what we
look for at night. Right, like at the, like around
the campfire. Yeah, probably, yeah. You guys
find a nice calm place to camp and you finally,
you have time to, you know, kind of pour over
this stuff. Drift's like reading the last one,
he's like, I don't know what that means. It's
actually pretty fitting that Rain got the report
that has their strengths and weaknesses. Please
note. Sorry. Please note that the following document
has been abridged in accordance with communications
protocol one. This document has substation. Substantiation.
Substantiation purposes only. These are their
stories. Gosh, it's like, it's an A in rural
lawyers and cops and stuff, and Rain's a cop.
Rain's a detective, I feel. She's the Benson
of our anchor. Am I allowed to take notes on
this? Yeah, because I'm writing on this thing.
I have the Google Doc as well. Pen or pencil,
up to you. There's plenty of erasers, so feel
free. Oh, that's okay. It is a 0 .5. I prefer
0 .7s because I write them a lot, but I have
a question. I think I also have a pencil pencil
too. That's okay. Yes. Do I still have the tag
from the wyvern? Yes, you do. Yeah. I want to
pull that out. What was the lettering numbering?
We will say that it matches the document. Uh
-huh. Because I gave some sort of lettering numbering
at some point, but I don't remember what it was.
So we will say that, yes, you recognize it. Oh
no. Your man was working. Oh my god, my baby.
And there is one final lab report. It is the
longest one. Oh my god. If you would like, I
can read it to the crew. If it's anything like
this, we need to write on it. Fair enough. You
would like, which yeah, you can read it. Yeah,
absolutely. Actually, that's great. Oh. Well,
do you want to read this or can we here? Do you
wanna like pass stuff around or you don't have
to? Talk about it. Yeah, I feel like let's talk
about what we have Yeah, or like maybe you can
send like documents or whatever The gist of it
is that Emperor Dane was authorizing all of Lord
Saxton's activities, including taking Betagar.
So fucking that up and killing Lord Saxton, at
least privately, is probably really pissed off
in Bordain. Because it really fucks up his plan.
Because after taking Betagar, he was going to
have Lord Saxton invade Dalrath and kill... Lord
Kenway, who, by the by, was looking for the shield
and sword of Andorim so that he could make himself
King of Andorim. So Emperor Dayne's probably
not happy with us and Kenway definitely is not
happy with me. But I feel like based on this
information could potentially be leveraged into
being a like... unhappy ally of ours under the
right circumstances? Tenway? Potentially. Because
he's a post -Emperor Dane, and Emperor Dane is
very likely behind all the bad shit we've been
dealing with so far. But at the same time, he
does want to be the King of Andoran. And he sees
that as like... You all betray you to get that.
Tenway is a cruel motherfucker. I wouldn't work
with him. Yeah, but the enemy of my enemy is...
Still my father -in -law. But he's like, you
know, he could be useful. It affects father -in
-law. Yeah, it's pretty rough. Could be a pawn
in our more complex later plans. I'll put it
that way. I wouldn't say friend, but he could
be played in a useful fashion. So what else to
say about the Kenway stuff? Like, once they've...
So basically, I think it was once they take Dalrath
and they had Betagar, they had it, their whole
thing was going to then be to... Where'd it go?
They were going to expand the territory beyond
the Viridian Wode and Vazloria would be no more.
That territory would be renamed Aldaris in honor
of the Emperor's dead mom. So I mean, they're
really, the Emperor's really going for the whole
expansionist strategy. So are the Empire of the
Pages. But like I said, restoring Edmund to Betagar
kind of fucked up that whole plan. I'm scared
for Edmund. It does put, because now I feel like
there are three, technically four if you count
us, factions at play. Because Kenway doesn't
like us. But he doesn't like the Emperor and
the Emperor doesn't like him. Then you've got
Edmund and the Umbermoors, who are still, you
know... Kenway doesn't like the Umbermoors? He
doesn't like the Umbermoors, and they are under
the Emperor, but that doesn't necessarily mean
they love being under the Emperor. I mean, him
and my dad are like this. Yeah, but like, you
and your brother are a different story. Yeah,
but right now, the people in power... are not
happy that Edmund's there and we're not there.
Yeah. But like... I mean, do you know for sure
that they're unhappy about Edmund? I mean, I
don't know that for sure. I think that it's more
just that it... That's not the plan they had
in mind. Yeah, they're gonna have to pivot for
sure. But like they can't just knock Edmund off
again because like the people of Benegar are
probably super happy to see the like rightful
person back in charge. Oh yeah, absolutely. And
like usurping him a second time would really
not go over well. Especially if we, oh I don't
know, had a document that proved that the emperor
was behind it. That would uh, prevent rebellion.
Or get us all killed. Or both. Jason says in
his letter book he is as sure as he possibly
can be that nobody knows he did this and he copied
them so these aren't the original copies if that
makes sense so no one should know that you guys
know this information but like as I said if we
and Betagar are at least secretly opposed to
the Emperor and Kenway is also opposed to the
Emperor We can always kindle the fire with them,
let them do their thing while we use their hatred
towards each other as a distraction. And then
we can do our own thing. We have to redirect.
I think it's good that they don't know that who
took Saxton. That being said, Um, I feel like
that does mean that talking about the fact that
I am the King of Androm probably isn't going
to be helpful for us because all that's going
to do is make Kenway and the Emperor turn their
sights on me specifically. And Knight of Androm.
Oh yeah. I do want to mention that Kenway doesn't
actually know that you have the shield anymore.
Like, sent his knight to go retrieve the shield
from you guys, and taste modified to her memory.
And basically, as far as she remembers, the shield's
not there. It's never been there, and Edmund's
dead. But, now they know Edmund's alive. So,
there's that. And, um, Tuferna asked me if I
was traveling with the person who had the shield.
Of course, I said no, but... They are definitely
still looking for it. I mean, if anyone questions
me about why I've been calling myself the King
of Androm, I don't have to tell people that I
have the shield and the sword. I could just say
that I read about it in a book and thought that
it - And you're a silly little frog guy. Yeah,
and I just thought it would be like a good moniker.
Or a good - do the Mike is inventing strategy
of like uh callow no i'm jeffrey gallo or whatever
like king of androm no i'm the king of banderam
you guys know what's up they were like where's
that oh that's down south you guys have a really
i will say one thing i am a little nervous maybe
this is just my mind getting the best of me I
am a little bit nervous that perhaps my dad had
some knowledge of the goings -ons, given his
closeness to Dane personally. I have no way to
confirm that, but the thought makes me very uneasy,
and I just wanted to share how I was feeling.
I mean, if that were the case... I'm just like,
good job! Giving your dad... Lord Saxton's shield
would be really fucking grungy. Their sword.
Their full sword. And especially with you right
there, and if you had a heart in your heart right
before, it's just like... Like, I brought you
this sword, and you're like, where'd you get
this? And you're like, oh, I killed this weak
ass prick and took it from him. I just think
he'd be very nervous, that. And whatever's going
on is ours. It's gonna be my trolls blood moment.
My mom does it. So... Is that my henchman's sword?
Just kidding though. Zaris knows. I don't know.
I have no reason to believe this. Zaris never
made any indication that he may have known anything
about the Edmonds. I don't think they knew about
Edmonds. Yeah. But maybe they do now. And that
they're being brought into the plans because
they've shifted so much they need another generation.
They need generational imperialism. I just know
I need to get home soon. Things are not going
right. Yeah. We're doing our best. We'll get
you there as fast as we can. But we do have to
avoid these fucks that they're making. Oh, yeah,
they're making shit. They were successful. They
were successful. Night drakes. Oh, no. I got
something else. Yeah, what'd you get? So I took
some notes. They crossbred a displacer beast
and a wyvern, if I'm reading this correctly.
You know for sure, but yeah, well it's in code,
but yeah it says it was successful so they got
their hybrids and they displayed wild arcane
traits and one broke out and teleported onto
the streets of Blackbottom and then was killed
by nearby civilians. That was in Blackbottom.
Wild Magic Wyvern came out of nowhere and me
and Tasek had to kill it. And I got this like,
she has like big tag with it. I took the tag
off of it. Identification in these papers. And
they killed the rest of them after that because
they decided that it was too dangerous to keep
them. So they killed 40 of these things. What
number do you have again? So this happened this
mine is before yours. I have C667 and I have
C458 With mine they were bred to hunt, track,
ambush, protect, and provide sentry incorporating
traits from the GD and the SM species GD GD species
is highly modifiable, which is consistent with
traits observed with multiple species in the
genus Draconis. Species integrated, achieved
via GD oocyte? I'm not sure exactly how to say
it. Basically an egg. Experiment was concluded
with highly successful. So like 90%, 80 % resulting
from capable reproduction. So they can reproduce
their night drakes. Nitrates. Um, and I have,
like, their spatula. Oh, spatula. Sort of, yeah.
Sort of. They're, like, can get up to 240 pounds.
Oh. Um, 30 to 40 inches tall, um, length five
to six feet from snout to tail, carnivorous,
like, can track, like, it's terrifying. This
thing sounds awful. Breath weapon. Breath weapon?
Consists of dragon, so like acid. Fire, frost,
all the things. Depending on the color. Resists
non -magical attacks. Like, I think these hands
are magical. It also says it's invisible. Oh
yeah, great. And in lighter darkness. Oh yeah,
great. Or shadows. So it's dark, apparently.
You're invisible, sometimes. But it talks about,
like, weaknesses too. Yeah. Sorry. Does it have
any weaknesses? Does it like a good burger? Superior
smell so we can like fart. Powerful jaws. Sharp
claws. Same tolerance to bright light and have
lower accuracy due to partly blinded. To like
that daylight. Yeah it also says that bright
light ends their invisibility. Oh you read it?
I got bad news. What battle do you think was
most impactful for your character? And Reign's
answer is going to be the battle where she chokeslammed
that guy off the roof. My first initial instincts
was that one. Because I use it when I present
about disability representation in games. It's
the fight where I reverse, like... to hang someone
based on using my chair and physics and gravity,
which is very rain. So yes, I see that. But it's
actually, after thinking about it, would be the
fight where in the Underdark, she broke the lens.
Because that's the fight where... Everyone was
down. Leslie was possessed. She broke her oath.
After that fight, Zaris asked her to the Sapphire
Jubilee, right? Yeah. After that fight, yeah.
Covered in their own blood. Yeah. like screamed
to Leslie to heal Zaris after she came to and
broke the lens and like was the last person up
basically and just like so much happened after
that because of that fight that like because
Rey got the high ground basically and then broke
the lens yeah it was there's a lot of shit going
down I think it was the moment where like Ray,
it's like Ray's spark of being a knight happened,
right? Like it was, she had to, if she didn't
TPK, like. That would be it. Yeah. Yes. If you
ever want to hear me talk about the spirit of
its representation, I'll talk to you about the
reverse hanging situation, but that is for a
different time. Yeah, we had discussed to add
again like what's the most memorable for your
character, most impactful for your character,
and then like you as a person. Me as a person
hearing you would be the master of raisins. Rape
raisins. Rape fucking loves raisins now. Fun
fact. It's a quiet fruit. I think that hearing
the Master of Ravens one knowing that she is
now the Master of Ravens and has this like power
that was used for terrible horrible things can
now be used for different like different like
in a different way but still be the same powers
yeah because the power itself is neutral it's
all about how you wield it yeah and my turn put
one face down For me and Zavari, it's the ablutes
fight, but for two different reasons. Zavari's
reasoning is that fight made her realize how
weak she was, and she felt like she was dragging
the party down because she was incapable. And
that made her recognize that and come to face
some certain things that, you know, just it's
changed everything in like the past months since
it's happened. So that's her reasoning. My reasoning
is, um, the Avalos fight. That thing was in her
head. It made her hurt her friends, people that
she cares about. And - It's all right. Drowning.
Yeah. And then shot her while she was drowning
anyway. So that's fucked up. But the aftermath
of feeling the mistrust of everyone around her
and just like kind of wallowing in her own, like,
you know, deep dark emotions. It made it made
her form a closer attachment to Asmodeus. It
made the bangs. It made the bangs. And I think
is That fight wouldn't have happened or if it
would have gone differently like that thing wasn't
in her head. I think we would have a very different
Zavari than what we have now. I never planned
on her being like this. That one fucked with
her and it fucked with like the relationships
around her and she is still like, you know, suffering
the consequences of that today. Fab love fight,
man. I'll go next. More rag. Well, okay, so for
context, Morag has had the most fights with the
crew, so we're gonna go with Morag. The most
impactful fight with us, for me, is... Excuse
me, I realize I've been told I can control my
body. The most memorable fight for me has been...
to be when we stormed the city of the glass pool
and murdered every single gobbler that we saw.
Props, Morag. Such a proud with a chest. Morag's
a real player. Until there is prisoner, those
things tortured me. Those mind flares got into
my head. They took my eye. Fuck those goblers.
Fuck those squints. Fucks. We killed them and
I'd do it again. I'd do it again any day. And
that fight was the fight that told me that you
guys are my newfound family. Every time Morag
says, God bless, we do a spiritual high five.
God bless. What's the most impactful fight for
the DM? I'm asking God directly. That's a tough
one. That's a really tough one. I'm like... I
remember a lot of the fights. I probably, yeah,
I probably remember like most of the fights,
especially like the big ones. What was the most
fun? What? Or even what was like the most fun?
Well, okay, so one of the most memorable fights
for me that I just want to like talk about is
the purple worm fight. That was a good one. When
it swallowed Zavari. No. It threw up on Zavari.
It threw up on Zavari. It threw up rain and dirt.
It swallowed rain and dirt. That's right. Sorry.
I remember treating it like Jackie Chan did that
inflatable in Ready to Rumble. Honey, oh honey,
honey, what are you doing? It's Rumble in the
Bronx, not Ready to Rumble, different movie,
different time, different vibe. Girl. With the
sword, I pinned myself against the wall and let
it rip my sword. Yeah, cutting down the length
of it and having to hold the sword in place.
And you used a colossal stance so that you couldn't
be knocked over. Yeah. I forgot about that. I
vaguely recall trying to cut my way out. Yeah.
But that was just really fun. I always wanted
to use a purple worm and it worked out perfectly.
I expected somebody to die, but they didn't.
And that's cool. That's fun. She's trying to
kill us. The monsters want to kill you. I don't
want to kill you. You just want the story. Yeah.
So yeah. And then like, I don't know, it was
impactful. I mean, I don't want to just be like,
oh yeah, it was the abalone fight. Cause that
did impact like narrative quite a bit. Um, well,
and I do feel like the focusing lens fight impacted
narrative quite a bit as well. Because like,
There's a lot of shit happened with like Zaris
and Leslie and other shit specifically that like,
you know, we're still seeing like the repercussions
of Lissette, right? To this day. I'm doing my
best over here. I find this question very difficult
to answer. Me too. My first instinct was to say
that fight in the very beginning with, not Peloton,
it was the dude I swallowed him. The coin flipper?
Yeah, the coin flipper guy. Bimbledon. Bimbledon.
Bimbledon. I don't know. I don't know. Well,
one, because it was like the first time I went
off on my own and impacted the story in a crazy
way. It's true. It did impact the story extremely
heavily. Yes. That led you to the shield. And
it was like episode or like session one, session
two. It was like within the first like three
to four sessions for sure. I think it directly
led to me becoming a king. I did. Yeah, you're
right. Swallow right guy. Yeah because then we
ended up, he double crossed us. We went to like
the solve the puzzle and that's when you accept
it and you're like yeah sure I'll swear to anything
if I get this cool shit. And then you became
king. Yeah. But that's how it happens folks.
And then obviously the Abilath fight was a big
deal for Darth because it was like I had said
100 sessions before we fought it that it was
my like One of the enemy like the great enemies
that I wanted to kill is like a hunter. I was
like hell Yeah, cuz I already got one Perfect
campaign. I want to say that's a big deal for
me. But if I had to like really Specifically
choose I don't think I would Because I think
the fight that impacted my character the most
was the bar fight at Bullywugs. Yeah, oh yeah.
That's so true though. Because I ended up adopting
all my kids as a result. I became a father that
day. You went from zero to 20 real quick. Like
a month and a half. Hey, true froggy fashion.
Yeah. Lots of kids. All your tadpoles be coming
home. Um, because that was very memorable for
me. Of course, getting the gun, that was a great
fight. I do feel - That was a great fight for
everyone. That was the same - Yeah, the fight
going to the bad guy hideout, where the displace
release came out and, like, I was on the - we
were on the rooftops and you were down there,
like, negotiating to - was it wall tour or was
it Hesperos? It was both of them, I think. Um,
but yeah, they had taken them. I was like - It
was a Hesperos. I'd disguise myself as like one
of the guys. Like the first time I used my mask
with many faces. I knew better than to kidnap
Waltor. Oh my gosh, we would have gone to war.
War tour. The rest of the campaign would have
just been killing people who abused children.
But you know what, that would have been okay.
That would have been fine. It's a punisher campaign.
But yeah, I think the fight where it went into
Bullywogs and I saw children being used in fighting
pits and just like the Kill Bill siren went off
in my head and I just was like, we can't, no,
I'm gonna murder everything in here. And we bet
on you when we won. Yup. It's so funny considering
only me and Shannon knew where that came from
at the time. I got met a couple months later.
It was like a few months later. I listened. You
were like, oh, it was a pit. Oh, the thing is
the worm. Take what you love and put it in your
game. It'll make somebody a father. That's what
I did. I love you, daddies. What's that? Just
a hover. Uh, remember that aboleth we taught?
They... grew it? And we're attempting to control
it, and it escaped and was killed by unknown
assailants, and its body was then recovered.
Not its heart. Not any of the stuff I took off
of it as well. This is why we have to walk off.
She's gonna walk this off. Dude, I'm pushed to
the other side of the room. They were attempting
to grow and control one so they could use its
psionic powers. how they wanted but were unable
to maintain control of it. It killed a lot of
their technicians, observers, and security teams.
That's why you asked for the handbag. So, what
I'm hearing is the fucking beast that ruined
my life was created by the emperor and his cronies.
A .K .A. your dad. Potentially. Or you. Nora's
gonna walk this one off. Apparently armies of
men aren't good enough for a birdie. He wants
armies of monsters at his control. Do you want
to read it? It worked really hard on it. Yeah,
let me see it. There's also addendums. It sounded
like something straight out of Half -Life. This
was my document. I wrote the major incident report
to you. Yeah, read the major incident report.
So, major incident report, DI -93, subject, specimen
A3, date, Mystic, 17th, 1489, 813 A .M. Mystic
is the second month of the year. You guys are
in the sixth month of the year. So this happened
about... That happened when I was at the Festival
of the Waking Tree. Yeah, yeah. While I was partying
it up and competing. I was living on the streets.
Dart, where were you four months ago? It was
before we met. Uh, likely I was just wandering
the forests. Actually, I was with the road that
wanted us out. Okay, I was just a hunter out
doing hunting stuff. I was competing in X and
Y. I'm a little slow. Hoping people brought things,
technically. Testimony from incident DI -93,
survivor technician Karen Purcell. So, he's a
survivor of this incident and he is giving us
testimony. It was approximately 8 -10 a .m. on
Thursday, May 6th, 17th, when specimen A3 began
its assault. I was told earlier that day by a
fellow examiner that the specimen was acting
very aggressive, but honestly that was the usual
with this one. I was manually operating a centrifuge
with my mage hand manifestation, so my back was
turned from the specimen at the start of the
incident. I heard a gasp immediately followed
by a sickening thud. I turned around to see the
splatter of my colleague's blood on the terrain.
His body was floating a few feet above the floor,
bashing against the glass repeatedly. The alarms
went off instantly, but before any of us could
react, he was dead. I ducked under a desk and
watched in horror as several other examiners
and technicians were lifted up into the air and
smashed into each other, then thrown about like
toys. It was the most dreadful thing I've ever
seen. The thing was just watching with its big,
cold eyes as it murdered nearly everyone in the
room. Eventually, I couldn't endure witnessing
any more carnage, so I shut my eyes and covered
my ears, but the screams of my colleagues still
pierced my psyche. I started to feel pressure
in my head, like my brain was going to fucking
explode. Then, all of a sudden my mind went quiet.
There was like a fuzzy noise in my head that
drowned out all the screams and the noise. I
felt cold, but calm. I heard my mother's voice
call out to me. And I knew it was that thing,
but I couldn't stop it, or I didn't want to.
It was talking to me while it rooted around in
my head for some kind of insulation. I don't
know what it wanted. I just know that it spared
me. I don't know if that's luck. Honestly, I
haven't felt right since. That wasn't the incident
which escaped. That was an incident prior. Yeah,
from what I was reading, the incident where it
escaped, it took over the mind of a guard captain
and forced him to put his hand on a hand scanner
thing to let it out of its terrarium. So, psychic
powers. So we're cleaning up the inverse messes.
Not intentional, I mean. We're also destroying
his research. But it does concern me because
one of those paladins that we had, like the Umbermoor
paladins, was guarding like the star chamber.
Which is probably - Where all this information
was collected from. Yeah. It's just since it's
been cleaned out. We should have destroyed the
star chamber. We had enough now. True. As long
as nothing - What is there? What does all this
mean? It says drift. Chaos. I wonder if what
we're about to go do was their doing. The Emperor's
messing with the natural order of things. I cannot
abide that. Wait, isn't this the same Emperor
that made Gemstone Dragon more illegal? Yes.
What do you know about that? It's drift right
there. I'm not saying shit. No. Obviously not
much. I've never met one, but I did think it
was unusual that a sentient creature could be
considered illegal. Did they design it? Did they?
I don't believe so. They are, they served as
like dragon knights, um, for a king a long time
ago, I think. Like the king of Andoran? Oh, I
think that's right. So if he finds out, they
will give it to him. What do you mean? Sylvanas
would be super disgusted at this abomination.
He no doubt is. Maybe that's why he's setting
us on this path. I'm in the other room because
I can't even handle... Can't even handle the
atmosphere. I need to pray. Oh yeah? Shall we
disperse very briefly? Do the players need a
break? I do. Okay, we can take a break. Rain
goes and disassociates for a little bit. We all
go our separate ways to comb. As far as I didn't
hear any of that conversation, she did. She was
the first to leave. When we come back, I would
like for Zavari to be praying, but not in the
classical sense of, you know, she's like praying
to Asmodeus and hitting trees and shit. Yeah.
Losing your fucking shit. I'm just gonna say
that he's clearly trying to cover up this stuff
and keep it secret. So the more we expose it,
the more we take his power away. Rain's already
writing the parody play that she's gonna start
casting. Making fun of the Emperor. Zavari has
some things that she needs to say to Asmodeus.
Like what? As she's like angrily blasting away,
she's like, has no ideas. I'm not sure if you
can really hear me. Right now I really don't
give a fuck. But there's somebody sick, disgusting
in power. They don't care about order. They don't
care about the right way of things. They have
sinned against me. And that needs to be corrected.
That's it. Bye! It becomes so long. Yeah. It's
nice. What do you think? It's so good. Zavari
is so incredibly upset. Is it like a good twist?
Yeah. I'm working on it. I know. I've known this
forever. I have no idea. I've been waiting for
this reveal for years. Years. And Zavari is big
upset. For a number of reasons, like, whoa, I'm
burning about this shit, and also, oh my God,
does my dad know about this shit? Because if
so, what does that mean? Right. That is the question.
If her dad knew, what does that mean, and what
does she have to do? What is her moral responsibility
then? What? Yeah, what? What? Yeah. What's going
on with this, like, this weird shit? Tangled
web. There's everything, right? Dart, what's
your passive perception? I'm pretty sure yours
is the highest. 24. Something like a million?
Yes, Dart, you hear footfalls. Footfalls? Coming
in your direction, multiple footfalls. They sound
non -humanoid. I have heard footsteps approaching
a camp. Non -human footsteps. So... We should
ambush? Sort of. In that... I'm gonna let you
two be the bait. What? You just hop off? Yeah,
I'm going to immediately leap into the trees
above. Okay, so you... I got your card. You leap
into the trees. Oh my god. Can I like be waiting
in the tree like full extension like way down
full full draw? Um Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So
you hop up into the trees I can tell this is
a Lord draw session What? A Lord draw session?
Oh, yeah um so Uh, what is Zavari and Reign doing?
I know you said that you were using them as bait,
but... I'm just sitting by the fire waiting as
bait, scruffling into myself. Acting as if, you
know, no one... Right? Acting clueless. Yeah.
I hear you. Okay. With a touch of sarcasm so
that dart can hear it, but maybe not get it.
Is Drift sleeping? Um, I would say... Pretending
he's sleeping. Probably was sleeping? Um, yeah.
I would say, yeah, he was probably sleeping.
Do you wake him up? No, because the people might
hear us trying to wake him up. Okay. And Zavari,
what are you doing? Kind of sitting by the fire
as well, since I know there's people coming.
She's like, um, oh, I go to midnight. so you
can't really ready a spell without it being obvious
and i don't want to use the meta magic for this
so she's just kind of waiting yeah so sabari
how's the weather fucking awful i know right
this is so crazy look at my hair it's almost
even like it's standing on on its end this is
reenacting oh my god it feels more like it's
like how much work she's spent such a little
time to make right act like she likes these fucking
noble people i can fake it i'm gonna do you want
to learn how to lie with me i think it will be
very helpful in a royal court i mean you are
not a good liar if you think you are you're not
but that means i'm a good person Right in that
moment you hear like a growl and then another
growl and another and another and you realize
that like You're surrounded by something that's
growling at you. You wanna see it? It sounds
close. But you can't see it. Oh no. I can't see
it? I have 300 feet of dark vision. Can I see
it? Reign is thinking about Reign just like flashes
of the documents of the night drakes of like,
oh no, they could be invisible but in dim or
dark light. I can cast very fire. That'll make
them very visible. How, how, what's the radius
on this? 60 feet. Is that diameter or radius?
Um, radius. I might hit him. What's that? 60
foot radius if she fairy fired. Um, which direction
are you going to fairy fire him? I wasn't doing
it, you were talking about. I mean, if you hit
them, it would, it would reveal them. Yeah. 60
foot radius. Can I discern where? Wait, the 60
foot radius? Let me double check. Like that'd
be... It's a huge... That's huge, yeah. Um...
Or that you can... That's a 20 foot cube? Okay.
That you can move 60. Yes. Okay. Like towards
the area with the most... Yes. If I could discern
where the most growls are coming from, I can
hit him up with a fairy fire. If you could daylight
us. Damn. Then we'd be able to see him. My god,
don't be fucking with that. I can cast daylight.
I know. I have a gemstone dragonborn heart. Oh
don't tell that to Laila. Yeah but she's already
seen it. Like when we I've already used it in
front of her when we first met. Lovely. I told
her we found it like this. That we didn't take
it. I mean we did take it from an altar. From
a chest. No. Oh mama. Okay. Let's think about
the consequences of those actions later. Can
you bless us, sir? Technically, yes I can. Bless
us in the name of Sylvanas, please and thank
you. Uh, you said you're casting fairy fire?
Um, I want to discern where the most growls are
coming from first. Okay, uh, make a perception
check. 18. Okay, so I would say that the most
growls are coming from... the shadowy part of
the trees over here. Very fire! And how big of
a space is that cover again? Let me pull up my
stuff. Oh, you said 25... 20 foot... 25 cubes.
Yeah. So, like, this is the size. You want it,
like, here? Yeah. Okay. I need to make duck saves.
What's the save? 17. Jesus. Yeah. Um, one succeeds.
Two fail. Okay. They are illuminated in a faint
red light. And then any attack roll against the
affected creature has advantage on the attacker.
And then the affected creature can't benefit
from being invisible. I feel like you're just
like blinking at me and you hear that and you're
just like, huh. And just like... does that and
that's cast in this light side you do it with
them not like seeing you or something yeah so
you see you see these creatures they immediately
you know become completely visible once they're
like once they're cloaked in this light the creatures
themselves they look sort of like um a mix between
like a big cat and a dragon um they have with
long bodies and are kind of low to the ground.
They don't have any wings, but they have, you
know, claws and teeth and scales that very much
resemble dragons. Rayne is just like, again,
more just like flags of the document she just
read. They look like Komodo dragons on steroids.
Capmoto dragons. The edges of the creature is
the creatures are like kind of they're just like
ever so slightly like wispy if that makes sense
like there's almost like a an effervescence or
a mist or something coming off of them it makes
them look like they're almost like incorporeal
they are growling menacingly And they look very
distinctly poised, like poised, like focused
to sort of attack. And I do want you to imagine
this. This is a guard drake. This is not what
it looked like exactly. Imagine this, for the
viewers at home, I just imagined a guard drake
with a slightly more canine snout. otherwise
retaining most of the dragon -like features,
but it's just like there's something about it
that looks a little bit more like a dog -like.
So Rain thinks it's cute. Oh no. Almost as if
it was a cross between a guard drake and a Shadow
Mastiff. Damn, Rain, what a weird ass experiments
we've gotten out. And again, they are poised
and very focused. One is focusing on Zavari,
the other is focusing on Ren. They become illuminated.
They don't even flinch at this. And you also
hear the rustle of another one that must have
avoided the spell. Roll for initiative. Daru
starts like trying to nibble on his ears to wake
him up. I got a 15. I got an 11. I also got an
11. Who's got the higher decks? Probably me.
I have an 18. I also have an 18. Oh my god, roll
again. You got a 15. I got a 15 base. Okay, you
go first. I got a half 20, but I definitely got
lower than 28. So. And then Shiv is going to
be. Night Drake. The blue and the blue and the
red one. That's one of the ones that is highlighted.
And then it is rain. Then it is the other night
drape on here, the green and white one. Then
dark. Then Zavari. Theoretically. The initiative
of everything in view. suggests this initiative.
You know there's more of these things around.
This growling blue dog dragon creature illuminated
by this sort of red ultraviolet fire almost makes
it look even more sinister honestly. It's going
to do like a full sprint and run straight at
rain. it is like snarling and growling and it
does it sounds like sort of like a dog and yeah
it is once it's like yeah once it's in range
it lunges and immediately tries like bite you
yeah I'm guessing a 16 and doesn't hit it does
not yeah so yeah it lunges and tries to bite
you and you redirect its head. Just like a shark,
right? Where you just like poop it on its nose
and I don't even move. I just like join my time
at the fire. It snarls angrily at you spinning
and is going to follow up by sort of like turning
its body and coming at you with a tail swipe.
Attempting to sort of knock you over. Twenty
-three. You take sixth, um, legendary damage
and roll like a dexterity save. As it tries to
like sweep you. Nineteen plus seven? Yeah, no
possible way. I hate it. So I feel like Rae just
like, ugh, like it's hit and just like swerves
around it. Yeah. But yeah, so you do take some
damage from it, but, um... Yeah, and it's high,
it feels like hard and leathery and scaly. I
mean, it definitely feels like a lizard when
it hits you. You're like, oh. It is now Reign's
time. Well, as Reign is leaning down, I feel
like she's going to assume that Drift has gotten
the drift that we're in combat. So I'm going
to not wake them up, but lean down. When I start
to fall over, I feel in my pocket a gift from
Morag, which is a food pill. And I grab that
and I bite into it. Would that be an action or
a bonus action? It's one action to cast it, so
I assume it would be an action. Do you know what
I'm talking about? Or should I say it's haste?
So yeah, consuming the food pill that Morag made
is a bonus action. So she gets hit but swerves
the tail, sits up and bites into the haste food
pill and she's just like, Morag, you're always
with me. And now she has haste. So now my AC
is 23 and I have advantage on dexterity saving
throws and gain additional attack each turn.
So then I'm going to, because I already used
my bonus action to eat the pill, I'm going to
just use my three attacks to hit it. Like boom,
boom, boom. Okay. Yeah. So the first one. Oh,
I got a 19. Oh, uh, plus 8. Yeah. Do you crit
on 18? Oh, a Colossal Stance I crit on 18. That's
what it was. 18, but I'm in Mooncline. Good thinking,
though. Yeah, thank you. I'm always watching
out. So then I do my, my plus 4, so 9 plus 2,
so 11 for the first hit. I got a 12 for the second.
Are we blessed? Did you bless us or no? No. And
then a 19 plus 7. No, 8 for the third hit. Okay,
what was the second hit again? Sorry. It was
a 12. A 12. Okay, so yes, two hits. So plus 9.
So she did 20 damage. And is hasted. She is then
going to basically just like... Turn a little
bit, but she's going to use some access vault
training and really focus on using her peripheral
vision because she thinks that there's more So
she wants to be able to or She was a turn this
way back to the fire and to her trusted comrade
and she is preparing for More to come and that
ends her turn 20 20 shit With my knuckles. Yeah,
I mean, it definitely, like, flinches at, like,
just your sheer, like, force of your blows. And
it's like... And you kind of hear it go... I
feel like what I end up doing is, like, I elbow
its back leg and, like, in a point where it pops
its hip out a little bit, and then I punch it
back into place to have my... Yeah, it definitely
helps in pain so Then it is the if you're done
with your it is the other night Drake's turn
and this this like this a Very fire that stays
up or the square or no? Um, I believe it stays
up, but let me don't check. I don't use this
spell that often Are you in the tent? I thought
you were buying, no, because we were chatting.
Yeah. It stays up for a minute. I have to like,
you know, make a concentration check on it, but.
Okay. Cool. So if something walks through it,
they'll have to like save. Yeah. Yes. So yes,
the other, the green night drake illuminated
in the red flames rushes right up to you, Zavari,
and tries to like... Tries to grab you and kind
of grapple you with its with its ma. Um, I Would
like to just use wave or strike on it. Okay,
and send it away It says you create a tear in
the fabric of reality that protects you or an
ally from an incoming attack by directing it
through a Second tear close to a creature. You
can see within range the attack plunges into
one dimensional tear and out the other um what
i'm seeing is what if there's a save associated
with this but i'm not seeing the same associated
with this all the other spells that you gave
me have saves with them no i don't think there's
a say okay so then yeah i want to teleport him
like to attack him yeah yeah so basically it's
like he like lunges forward and going by you
i do this there's like a rip in reality and it's
His face just goes straight into that rib and
it comes out the other side near his companion
and he goes to bite down on them. And then I
have to roll the attack. Hicks and the ear. Hicks
out its other leg. I for sure would have made
it bite its own ass. Yeah, you can do that. You're
hilarious. You can make them bite, like hurt
themselves. I thought it was in the mechanics,
like, yes, you can make them bite their own ass.
I mean, more or less. Yeah, if they're biting.
Yeah. I'm like, get him his buddy that's already
been hurt, you know? Yeah, so he yelps. And the
green night drake is like really fucking confused
and angry. About it like fucking what the fuck
was that? Does that make no sense? It saw me
do this. This creature's animal mind could not
comprehend. You're still just sitting there staring
at me like what the fuck you just saying? She's
right in the middle. Oh my god, you guys are
still fighting and that's why you're just like
ignoring the drakes. Wait, what? I feel like
Zavari doesn't want to fight with Reign right
now. She is having a motherfucking What is that
little emo boy on Naruto? I can't remember his
name right now. Nope. Eyeliner. Oh, Gaara? She's
having a Gaara moment in her head in the moment.
She's very upset with today's revelations. Oh,
so you don't want to fight if you're - She's
like, I got bigger fucking fish to fry. You're
grappling with things. I got bigger fish to fry
with the hand. They're in my stomach. Not that
sad. I'm sorry. Not that sad, but that's so fucking
funny. It's a bad shirt. It's a bad lip hold.
But yes, and then it is going to do its second
attack on you, so are you. It's going to come
back up for more? It's going to try to bite you
again. It's anger and frustration. Well, no,
because I'm not near him. I wasn't sure I'd place
him next to you. 18 doesn't hit you though, right?
Yeah. Yeah. So, you're able to... You just placed
his head there. And then he's still next to you.
Oh yeah. I need to figure out how to visualize
this spell. Oh yeah, it's kind of like, like
I said, it's just his head reached out, bit down,
and then it like pulls back out. So you don't
teleport the creature. You teleport just the
attack. So like if it's like a sword, it swings.
It's just the hand that goes in the portal, and
the portal opens up. Or a bullet. Or a bullet,
yeah. Okay, I'm getting it now. I'm getting it.
Yeah, it's like you're teleporting just the attack.
Okay. So yeah, so it's like, yeah, it goes for
its second attack at you, but it got an 18, so
it doesn't hit you. You probably block it with
your, like, staff. And when it comes forward,
she just kind of... You just sigh and, like,
sidestep it. Yeah. It's like, why is it always
fucking... Shit's fucking with us. Um, Dart.
It is your turn. You are in the trees somewhere.
Would you like to be 10, 15, or 20 feet up? My
high jump is 10. So I'm going to say that I am
15 feet in the air. Clamber it up onto a high
branch. This is actually a really big mushroom
here. but uh if you want to be on a high branch
you could probably be over here on the tree or
oh this is a tree right here that's a good one
that's a good tree to be able to count in yeah
yeah so you're up in the fucking tree you only
see the ones that have been eliminated by the
fairy fire there's definitely a rumble of a lot
of activity around you um cool I'm gonna cast
as a bonus action. Divine favor. Self -honest.
Supply. Maybe think of the Barbie movie. I know.
A beam of moonlight hits you just right. Then
I'm gonna use my splitter to shoot in both the
illuminated. Dog lizard things. Oh, I remember
night drakes, right? Yes, they're night drakes.
I forgot that you have advantage attacking them.
Because they're lit up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh,
shit. Shit. That one attack, I should have had.
Probably would have hit. OK. Noted for future.
I forgot about that. Since I have advantage,
I'm also going to sharp shooter minus five plus
10 these guys. Jesus. Ew. Goodbye, doggy wogs.
Mm -hmm. 22. That hits, you have to roll to hit
the other one with your split arrow. 23. Okay.
That also hits. Kill it. So this is 1d8 plus
15 plus 2d4. Their armor class is 14. That's
it. Damn. Damn. They're doggy wogs. Not for much
longer. That's it. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm just
kidding. I'm just kidding. We don't have DMs
get down. That's fine. Is this all I got? That's
28 damage to both of them. Are they dead? Oh.
Are they dead? Um, the blue one is. It looks
so pleased on you. That was the best number one.
Oh fuck. Oh no. This is why I hide in the trees.
I'm in the trees. I got you guys covered. Geez.
Not my guy. Come on. Attack number two. Just
kidding, their armor class was actually 18. You're
not in my family. That's okay, I got a 19. Yeah,
rats are regardless. That'll be for... I can
only do three dreadful strikes in the first time.
I can't do it to them twice in a row. I can only
do it to two targets. So that's... 22. 22? Yeah,
I mean it's fucked up. It took 22 and 28 damage
and it's still alive. Barely. It's like, it's
mouth is bleeding. It's like barely standing.
The blue one, you just like shot it in the eye
and it died. Brandon's feeling sad about this.
He does not feel good about doing this. um yeah
you're just you're you easily take these things
out um that's all i'm gonna do yeah that's all
i'm gonna do you want to try to perceive where
any others are uh i mean you don't have to you
can be done with it no i feel like i would have
been focused on like that specific attack i'm
not like looking around for other ones i can
only do so much I don't know if you had a bonus
action. I took it already. I cast Divine Favor.
I'm sorry. I'm understanding. Continue. It's
Zavari's turn. It is Zavari's turn. This thing's
right in front of me, which means I don't necessarily
want to blast it, but I will - Well, your disadvantage
cancels out because you have advantage. Or I
could cast Toll the Dead and just have advantage.
Toll the Dead isn't like an attack. They were
all safe. That's right. Okay, Eldritch Blast.
Sorry, you tried to change it up, but I was like,
it's not optimal. 22. Okay. The other attack
didn't hit, I rolled a nat 1. Even with, oh yeah,
wait, it's not advantageous. It's 15 damage.
Well, actually, you could argue, because the
first one, they get knocked back. Yeah. So then
you're no, they're no longer in melee range.
You're the DM, you told me. Nah, we'll see if
you can take the L, sorry. I mean I still hit
on the second attack, I did 15 damage. Yeah.
And I pushed it back. Um, it's dead. Good. It's
a lifeless body flies backwards. The growling
around you gets a lot more intense. If you guys
come here I can cast Glove of Invulnerability.
rain. You can like, you like hear creatures run
up to you and like approach you. And there are
several like bites and claws coming your way.
The one that might have hit is the 20? 23. You're
Hasten. I have 120 movement. It's so juicy. And
Zavari, several of them try to attack you. But
you can't see them, they stay invisible even
if they're attacking. 20 or up is what you gotta
get? One hit. Okay. One hit. I would like to
hellishly rebuke that one. Okay. Four. It has
to make eight deck, save with 17. It does 11
piercing damage. 17. It is a dex save of what?
17. It does not save Z. It takes 15 fire damage.
You said I take 11? Uh, yes. 17. You're able
to move fairy fire? Um, yeah. Like on my actual
turn. Um, so this one... It's briefly illuminated
in the flames while, like, the hellish rebuke
is going on. So you can see it for a moment before
it disappears, but I'll just leave it there.
So, you know, that's the last way she saw it.
Okay. Um... Drift. It shoots up. He's like...
He's like on his feet. Why didn't you wake me
up? We did. You were awake. I figured the commotion
would wake you up. You're a heavy sleeper. No
different next time. I was taking a cat nap.
Oh, that makes sense. Well then you're ready.
My ears were tucked. Rain can't handle the cuteness
that is around. So he is going to hop up and
drip. What is my boy George going to do? Something,
hopefully. No, he really doesn't have anything
that would like. that would like illuminate anything.
So he's going to throw out like an entangle right
where the one that Zavari lit up was. It is a
save. Oh, he also does a 20 foot square. That's
funny. So he like grows a bunch of like grasping
vines and whatnot, I guess. Fuck, I don't know.
Some shit, man. He fucking grows a bunch of stuff
and it attempts to grab the... Oh, god damn it.
Stop throwing. Oh wait, I need to switch to the
select. That's why. I was like, I just want to
move Drift. Because I imagine he was like, he
was like sleeping over there. So he wakes up
immediately, tries to entangle that thing. And
he's gonna make a deck save. which it fails so
now you can see you can't see it necessarily
because exactly where it is because you see the
vines are grabbing it and holding it down it
is restrained what the fuck are these things
their experiments gone wrong but right for them
wait are these those things you were talking
about yep nitrates what the fuck are they doing
here dying keep your ears peeled You guys hear
the, like, rapid approach of, like, even more
creatures. These, to Dart's ear, sound humanoid.
Oh, great. A very specific type of humanoid.
Is that part of the power of children? It's four
orcs. Four orc feet. It's a toss up. Orcs. Oh,
okay. You see three orc warriors rushing in to
back up their night drinks. They're kind of silent.
They're quickly kind of deploying, if that makes
sense. But as one of them steps into view, he
calls out and he... he says um he says slither
get back i don't want you to die in orcish so
like only dart hears this and you like hear the
sound of like one of these night drakes kind
of shuffling backwards like underneath the tree
that you're in just like immediately turn my
bow and pointed straight at the orc i heard talking
it's the guy who's moving The guy who's moving
is the one that you heard talking. You're surrounded
by invisible night drakes and now there are orcs
attacking. One of the orcs, this pale one here,
I don't have an accurate representation of what
I'm describing but this one here, his head is
shaved completely like bald and it is painted
like blood red. At least, hopefully it's paint.
With the whole top of his head, like a cap. And
you can even see the red sort of dripping a little.
It looks freshly painted. Very, yeah. Again,
hopefully it's paint. For his sake. Right? For
foreign pathogens. It's not safe. And they're
wearing, they're all wearing leather armor. with
lots of layered furs. This one here has a leopard
pelt on. Some fresh swag from the jungle. And
the one in the back seems to be a little bit
more stealthy and agile. So they are going to
join initiative. It is the top of the round,
which is currently rain. Rain looks up at them
sees the blood dripping and just feels the fire
already building in her stomach and the Bracer
on her arm starts burning a little bit and she
Casts wall of fire But she is starting to understand
her own magic a little bit better. And so I feel
like the tops of the flames are starting to become
light blue. And so it's Asmodeus's flames on
the face but Rain's magic is towards the top
so it's like a lighter blue. Rain's magic. I
have something I really need to tell you. Oh,
God. Because that's what the magic color was
for her javelin that she did. It's light blue.
So do me a favor and show me how you're drawing
this and then I will make them square on the
map. Okay, so it, I would say, it's a 60 foot
or 60 line foot line. I can do it for 120 feet.
It's like five feet across or 10 feet or? No,
it's like the line could be 60 feet long. Yeah,
but how wide is it? It's five foot wide, right?
Yeah, five foot wide. Okay. So, let me see. Okay,
can we do like a 60? see what 60 foot circle
is. um does the measuring tool do that? i think
it only does but i can i can make a circle well
basically what i just want to a 60 foot circle
would be like 30 feet across right oh man i think
we can say it would be like this wide if you
did a circle so you could encircle all of them
if that's what you wanted to do yeah with fire
on the inside okay um so when that so the outside
wall is fine uh yeah is that how does that seem
that seems fine it seems a little big but i'm
fine like just thinking like the inside portion
because like the white part could be like the
neutral zone yeah i tried to make it like light
blue and then black on the inside but it doesn't
it reads more as white on here um color theory
Oh. Yeah. The diameter of a circle with a 60
foot circumference would be 19 .10 feet. Okay,
so it's like half that size. Okay, well, that's
okay. Thank you, sir. I'm sorry. No, I support
your life decisions. I appreciate it fully. They're
surrounded by a circle of fire. Perfect. Um,
must make a dexterity saving throw on a failed
save. a creature takes 5d8 fire damage or half
as much on a successful save and we have been
doing it for my monk stuff but if you want to
do bard stuff it'd be 14 and then monk stuff
would have been 17 um it's like whatever you're
yeah whatever you use for spell gassing so it'd
be bard stuff yeah because i do have before you
had spell before you had spell gassing we're
just using monk stuff yeah um let's just say
it was 17 One of them saved. Okay. The leopard
pelt one is like, ah, not my new pelt! And is
able to like sort of roll to the middle. Okay,
my five, eight. Ooh, okay. Glad we have this
to mark spells. Look at this fucking battle,
baby. 19. 19. And then half if they succeed actually
kind of like it the closer it is to them the
more fucked they are yeah, I agree and Also,
like I don't think that a black fire would cause
like create a lot of light But I do feel like
the like a little bit more light would be casted
because of the blue Yeah, does it say that it
emits bright light I imagine it would it probably
specifies because it's one foot thick not five
foot Okay, that's why, yeah. No, it does not.
Huh. It's just that the wall is fire on a solid
surface. Okay, so it doesn't, it must not be
enough light to change the level of light in
the room. So it wouldn't be enough to like eliminate
the night breaks. They're basically, it basically
would have to be in bright light. Yeah. So, or
like daylight. Okay. So she does that sets that
if she gets into the entangle area, does she
is she entangled? No, you're not a target. Well,
then she is going to it is technically difficult
terrain, but that probably doesn't really matter
to you considering that makes sense. So I'm going
to because I'm like near the fire and this is
the tent and I'm hasted. I go 120 feet. So what
I'm going to do is just do like a And I'm in
Moonglide, so I'm going to do a backflash over
the tent and the fire, through the fire and the
flames. And I'm going to take my haste attack,
because I've used my action on the fire. So then
I'm going to use my haste attack to basically
just dive bomb and hit the one that's entangled
with my theists. 15 the hits um oh i yeah and
then um nine okay um so this is my hasted attack
and my theory of glows just says after an attack
action so is this this isn't like technically
an attack action or is it an extra attack during
my action um yeah it's after like you hit i think
it's after you hit with like a melee attack so
yeah like you can use it if you still have your
bonus action you can use flurry of blows okay
so i still have my bonus action so i'm going
to spend an energy point to do fury of blows
to give me two more attacks yes so you backflip
fucking land pop him miss this well i have advantage
right or no um because he's into Good. Because
I got a nat 1 on that one. If not, I can do the
second one. Let me look at the restrained condition.
Oh, I do have inspo. I was going to save it to
give it to you if you wanted it. Yeah, attack
rolls against the creatures have advantage when
it's restrained. 18 plus 8. Okay, yeah. You fucking
hit the shit out of it. 8 damage. Okay. Um. and
then my third attack or my it's my like second
fury of blows 13 plus eight that hits i got max
damage so that's 13 damage on that hit it's a
really solid turn that's like that's 30 damage
plus you put up the wall of fire so that's it
you did 1919 and 8 damage with a wall of fire.
Jesus, my fucking haste is insane. Insane. And
so then I'm gonna... kind of... Does it get an
attack of opportunity if I move away? Like, entangled?
Considering it's a rich drain... Oh, it still
can, but it has an advantage or disadvantage
on attack orders. So I can still try but... I'm
gonna stay up on it because if any other thing
comes in there it's gonna get me tangled. So
then I have a little bit of a... Like a safety
zone? Yeah, a little bit of... It's my trust
zone. Just like, got your back. Yes! Thanks Drift.
My little sensory room. And that is my mother
truckin' turn. Yeah. I'm gonna go for a drink
now. You earned it. Zavari, you feel the onslaught
of several invisible night drakes trying to attack
you. Oh, god. Does dark smoke smell me? No, this
is the night drake's turn. Oh. I got a crit.
I also got a 19 plus five. Yeah? And another
19 plus five. Keep me dirty. That would be some
damage. It would be quite some damage. 16, 11,
and then 11. How much is that? I don't know.
28. No. One of the night drakes crit her. And
then from behind you, a night drake breathes
a green poison fog at you from behind. Make a
dexterity save. 20, 30, 12. Okay. So you take
half damage from it. Okay, so you take more damage
from that, more poison damage from that. Okay.
Yow. Just see a cloud coming. Yeah. Just coming
from an invisible, it's poison. Just reminding
me of the fish from earlier. Oh my gosh. It all
comes back around. Then it is Dark's turn. You
can guess that there's at least a number of them
very close to Zavari, considering. And probably
even for a moment, because you're close enough
to the fire, you can see some of them for just
a moment before they step back into the dimmer
light. Yeah, Zavari's looking real fucked up.
How can you fight something you can't see? Exactly.
Have rum and paint? Or fog. They can't see us.
Well, they can smell us. They're really good
smelling. Griff is like, next time I can prepare
something for this. I don't have anything right
now. Assuming there is going to be a next time.
We got this. Like elbow down on the same thing.
If I use my sword to cast daylight, is that an
action? Is the spell a spell that takes an action?
I think so. Probably. Yeah, casting time one
action. It would get rid of all this invisibility.
It would? Well, I mean, depend anything in the
range of the 60 foot radius sphere of light.
Which is a hundred and twenty feet in diameter.
So it's like this whole fucking thing. You're
up in a tree and all of a sudden it's like, like
the sun. Yeah. The sun of Sylvanas right there.
Yeah, but it's like the source. It's like all
I could do. Yeah, but that's huge. If we could
see them, we know what we're fighting against.
Yeah, that's true. Well, that's up to you. I
mean, I don't need to shoot the orcs. They're
trapped in fire. Burn, baby, burn. Disco is burning.
I always make the arrows rain down into the fire.
Yeah, I mean, I thought about it. I could probably
kill all three of them. Or like, do your thorns.
Fire, cause of rain. Okay, I'm going to... Do
you feel like you would be focused on the orcs?
Despite all my rage, I'm still just a frog in
a tree. I'm going to sheath my bow into my magical
quiver that can stash all my stuff and then I'm
going to pull out my sword and I'm gonna jump
out of this tree and I'm gonna like bring the
sword down into the... No, I was gonna do it...
I was gonna do it into the campfire while casting
daylight and have it all just explode with light.
But that's the fire you would get hurt, but you're
resistant to fire? Yeah. Well, it's not gonna
like make the fire explode. It's just gonna...
It's all flavors. resistance i'll probably still
go down i'll go down i have a squishy baby hair
you um you would not like be uh hurting anybody
with this move with dart so like it like you
know what i mean like you can you can't just
do it for the flavor cool i'll do it for the
flavor all right so let me take a look again
here that's just one Damn near. It is the entire
map. Perfect. Basically. Rain is shielding her
eyes from the big bad light behind the tent.
Oh my god, it literally is like the big light.
I'm gonna turn mine off today. Yeah, it's been
a big day. Yeah, so Dark Hub brings the sword
down and... like the flowers start raising back
up like it's sunlight yeah the nighttime crickets
shut the fuck up there's some birds yeah good
but they're angry because they're confused okay
so this very interestingly enough and they all
are like squinting and like they're clearly extremely
bothered by the intensity of this light they're
all some of them are like closing their eyes
and turning their heads away um jesus fucking
christ um yeah so you see you know ladies and
gentlemen and they thems of all the whole hunting
pack probably about a dozen of them ish they're
going up the ham against the ham crew like it
seems like we're down but it's like You turn
around and you see the water. She has, she already
has black eyes. You just do it. George was like,
oh shit, they're fucking everywhere. This place
is infested. We should leave. Now we should beat
them all up. Maybe we should leave. Or run away.
No, we stand our ground. As much as I can stand.
So Mari braces herself like, okay. Because the
more that they're here, the more they're messing
with the ecosystem. And the more they're being
used to hurt Dart's people and others, like,
they need to be gone. So Dart, you have illuminated
the map. Revealing the extent to which you guys
are surrounded. Welcome to the ground. Now you
see why you got fucked up so much. Now I see
why I have 10 hit points left. Now I sort of
wish that you had surrounded us with the Ring
of Fire. I was - my initial plan was to do it,
but - You have a globe. Yeah, that's what I -
I - my original plan was thinking, okay, I need
to surround us with the fire, put the fire on
the outside, or like the paint on the outside,
and we'll just like - I wish as a cleric I had
to spell sanctuary right now so badly. We can
surround - I would end -stomp myself. Do we have
a hut that we can throw down? I mean, yeah, but
it's a ritual. So it takes like an hour. Affordable
housing takes a while, I understand. You have
the glove, though. Yeah. But I don't think we'll
be able to reach him. On your toes? That's in
there. I told people to come over here. We can
keep going. So whose turn is it? It's still my
turn. It's still Dark's turn. Then it is Zavari's
turn. Then it will be some drakes and then Drift
and then the orcs and then Reign and then some
drakes. If that makes sense, it's kind of like
that pattern. Can I use my bonus action to throw
a potion to Zavari? Yeah, absolutely. You have
some, right? I have some, yeah. I'm gonna throw
you a good one. I'm gonna throw you a potion
of superior healing. Is that 4d4 plus 4? I think
so. Or is it 8d4 plus 4? Oops. He said superior
healing? I don't even have one of those. 8d4
plus 8. Oh. Okay, so 8d4? 8d4 plus 8. That's
a good one. That is. That'll put you back in
this fight. Goddamn daylight. I'm gonna take
that shit. I have 10 hit points. I heal for 22.
Okay, now that I've done that on my bonus action,
I... I'm not in a great place still, even with
the healing. Oh, what can I do? That would hurt
people next to me. Rayne's using the, like, entangled
square as kind of like a... Maybe you can go
into your own management. It's hard because I
have limited spell slots. Blasting for once isn't
the best option, but then what is it? Um... Her
brain is like, plain dead. You're like... Honestly?
She's having a shot. How much did you heal for?
A 22. Because you could smell like death, you
know? And if you smell like death, maybe you've
been too high, like smelly smell, so... Don't
leave me alone. I need it. Actually, I might...
I have to drop my Crimson Mist. Oh god. Oh! There's
a thought. Play some Pokemon. Pokemon? I will...
Number 26, Crimson Mist. That's good, that's
good. I'm gonna cast invisibility on myself.
It'll smell you. Oh shit. Fuck, never mind that.
Fuck. I fucking hate this fucking monster. It'll
still smell me. God. I'm gonna turn around. If
I do a cone of, I think it's 60 feet, will that
hit rain still? Or would she still be like in
the narrow bit? Well, it's a cone, which means
it's directional. Yeah, so where it's wherever
you would like point it at so if you're pointing
it here then yes But if you're pointing it here
like I don't think it would be that wide No,
I wouldn't say so Or you can always point it
straight this way. I'm trying to hit. I want
to try and hit these three guys With a cone of
coke, um, which way? What does it say? They need
to make a con save. 17. One of them succeeded.
Okay, they take half damage. They take 31 damage.
Yeah, the two that have the white border, they
both are looking very rough. The other one that
you hit, the one that's close to the green here.
This one took half damage, so it's not as hurt.
But the other two did not tolerate that cold.
Well, they're shivering. Does it make the ground
frosty? Sure. Frosty and kind of slippery, maybe.
Yeah. Okay. I wouldn't say completely frozen
over, but I'd say because it's grassy and stuff,
so there's a thin layer of wet frost on it all
because it's very humid. So yeah, that makes
sense. Okay. It could be a little slippery. We'll
still be sliding. Why not? We're doing a lot
of terrain. Yeah. In this episode, so. So then,
um, that's my turn. Um, okay. So yeah, you cone
of cold. She's like screaming, get away from
me! And they're like flinch. Um. That was Zavari's
turn. There. going for you, Zavari. 19 doesn't
hit, 17 doesn't hit, does 22 hit? I rolled three
for damage though. Okay. 24 also hits though,
and that is four damage. Yeah, six attacks. or
damage um rain the one that's like restrained
next to you is going to try to attack you has
this advantage and it has two attacks oh my god
i got an f20 it has disadvantage so it's like
it never even happened yeah so yeah it doesn't
manage it you're just kind of biting trying to
bite at your like wheels and it's flux so like
flux has like That's so sassy, I love it. Do
you learn from some spider in the Underdark?
I forgot, they're all in bright lights, they
all have disadvantage on their attacks. They're
going after you, two of them, but the highest
I rolled out of four attacks was a 15. So yeah,
this light is really fucking them up. It is Drift's
turn, and Drift is like... Oh my. Um, Zivori,
do you still want me to converge on your location?
Fuck yeah, I guess. Okay. Um, he'll... And he
like, uh, he like, he like hops up on top of
like, the tent and kind of like... cat walks
over the like across the the tent line that's
holding it up and he's up top and he is going
to he's going to pass Zavari his BFF his little
ferret Oh healing spirit 1D, you instantly heal
1D6 and then when you start your turn with it
on you it heals you another 1D6. Okay. So yeah,
so he's gonna throw his ferret at you. Here,
take this. And the ferret kind of like runs around
your shoulders, kind of reminds you of Daru.
Runs around your shoulders and like you can feel
it's kind of healing essence. Don't despair.
You're stronger than this. I've never been so
tempted to misty step into the ring of fire and
start hacking down orcs. Oh my god, that's so
cool. It's like a fucking blender. It slices,
it dices, it broils, it's dark. That is Drift's
turn and he can't really do anything else. I
guess he can use his bonus action to start off
this show lately because he hasn't done that
yet. And then it is the orcs turn and they all
have to roll. What's the deck save? 17? They
all fail. All fucking three of them. 5d damage.
Got three eights. Oh my god a six and a four.
So Jesus they're charred 34, right? Yeah Jesus
Christ, they're almost dead. I think Wait, hold
on. It's let me read this. Okay, because I think
it might be a thing if they end their turn so
I just wanna make sure it's fair and that like
people wouldn't come at us, you know Oh, they
can come at us all they want. They're gonna come
at us, bro. We never said we play the game to
the tee. I broke the rule six times already.
You create a wall fire on a solid surface within
range. When the wall appears, a creature takes
in the area and do a dexterous throw. So like
on one side of the wall slugged by you. I'm trying
to find it. Sorry. A creature takes the same
damage when it enters the wall for the first
time on a turn. or ends its turn there, the other
side of the wall deals no damage. What does that
mean? So, yeah, it has to end its turn so the
wall can do the damage. Yeah. But... So... Sorry,
freeze. These two guys... What? I'm apologizing
to my dice. Um, run out, so they are going to
take damage and these are the two that failed.
So they are. Or wait, no, all three of them failed,
yeah. and they're all gonna run out they don't
have to like try to run out okay that makes sense
so when they run through that's when they take
the damage um this guy and this guy look really
fucked up like they're like covered in third
degree burns his fucking leopard skin is melted
to his back He this one is also pretty hurt,
but he's not hurt as bad because he succeeded
in his first deck save And they they fucking
look pissed so they use their regular movement
to get out and then They're going to dash To
get in a range to like engage with the Crusaders
And so at this point, you guys are fully surrounded.
Creatures everywhere. I'm dark. Whole perception.
21. 21. You see that there is another orc in
the trees, kind of wearing like more of like
a camouflage sort of outfit. um and they have
a boat on their back but the boat is not like
drawn and they actually like turn and and go
to like leave so like they're like they like
run away thank you for listening to roll forth
this has been the empire initiative featuring
samaria hawkins as lady zavari Ryan Musgrove
as King Dart of the Hopkins, Rachel Voss as Rainn
Vosgrove, and our wonderful MD, Shanna Cantu.
I know I can't believe it that we're at episode
10, but we're here. We have made it. this far
10 episodes we have done so much and we are so
excited to see what the next 10 episodes bring
but with the next episode spring in the next
episode number 11 yeah we we had some problems
with the tech technical issues with that and
so we just to make sure that you are aware that
we will be doing something different for episode
11 because we did lose the audio for that episode
and that from that session. So just so you know
you're coming into episode 11 in two weeks or
whenever you're listening to it next that it
is going to be a little bit different. We had
to adapt and I hope that you um are able to adapt
today as well because you know being like adapting
is great um and just stay safe friends. I'm glad
you liked it. I remember dancing and laughing.
I see why you were sweating fucking forever.
Six hours of crap. Oh yeah, I know. It hit.