Last time on the Empire Initiative. Sadly, we
lost the audio recording for this episode, but
we've adapted and created a vignette to help
tell the story from the enemy's perspective.
So I'm taking a break and turning over our story
to the master of dungeons. This is episode 12,
Auntie Inspiration. When we last left our heroes,
you guys were, you had finally started, you had
finally started to see ruins and that's what
you have been looking for. You've been looking
for, you've heard that the orcs have taken over
a series of ruins and sort of built like a city
there. So you've been looking for any signs of
like civilization in this dense jungle for days
now. Several days and you faced, you know many
hair situations And You guys had gotten attacked
by Like an or hunting party and Handedly took
care of it Dart gave me a warning to the surviving
orc um in the like in a silhouette like through
the flames of the wall of fire that the frog
king has returned um and that he would save his
liberate his people i don't remember exactly
what your speech was i apologize it was badass
um but yeah and then you were able to Rain was
able to eventually find the track and you guys
followed those tracks and you were able to find
a camp that is amongst the rubble where there
are several orcs operating outside of it. You
guys at this point are like far enough away that
they can't see you. This that I have here is
just for vibes. Because I didn't want to start
it with that. But yeah, so essentially you can
kind of see from... The land kind of slopes upwards
from where you guys are. Like, continually you
guys have been climbing an altitude a little
bit. There's been a couple of rocky breaks, but
it's, you know... continuing to like climb and
you can kind of see now that you're in this like
small clearing you can see like like up into
the sky you know and you see the like silhouette
of a tall dark tower in the distance and there
is a clearing sort like the tower appears to
be on sort of like a rocky cliff face of sorts.
And the city is like presumably beneath it, but
all you can see is just like a canopy of trees.
But the information that you had gotten from
the satyr that you had met about Ranvara was
that it was Nestled around the tower And I can
pull up what you guys see down from the distance
Here I will zoom out to the entire map You guys
would be like You guys are like so far in this
direction that None of the activity here is aware
of you but this is just kind of like what what
you have like the camp that you see ahead of
you and the canopy of trees over or no um surrounding
surrounding yeah there's like there's like a
bit of a clearing yeah um that's yeah that's
like um saying like you guys are kind of in a
clear where you can like kind of see the sky
yeah um because there was at some point there
was a lot of buildings here uh especially like
in and particularly in this uh place um you guys
like kind of immediately notice that the land
itself has like a lot of like big uneven sort
of like spots to it um and again you know it's
like it's cleared of of trees for the most part
and it has like a lot of like debris everywhere
um the land itself like looks like it is like
scarred or marred with what has happened at you
know at some point in the past um and even though
you know nature is persisting the like landscapes
itself tells of you know what has happened here
Do you recognize this place at all? Are you okay?
Yeah, are you? Yeah, and that had happened. Yeah.
I forgot to mention that, sorry. Yeah, I have
on here. I got two and two looking at this, but
yes. Go ahead. Dart hurt some weird shit and
it hurt his soul. That's what I have written
down. Yes. That was right. That's what happened
right before we ended the session. Yeah. Um,
I don't know if I'm okay or not. Like, does the
noise that I heard, like, persist? No, it's gone
now. Okay. I mean, I guess I would be, if I remember
the description of it correctly, I'm shaken by
it. Looking at my notes, it says I did an arcana
check on you. And the result was it seems like
part of your soul has been tainted by something.
Do you feel any different? I don't know, can
I insight check myself? Uh, yeah, I mean, you
sure could. You could like arcana or like, I
don't know, yeah, like... Medicine? Yeah, insight
medicine. Yeah, whatever. Maybe gergen. Maybe
even religion. My insight in my religion is less.
I rolled a nap one. So I think you know you still
feel kind of light -headed and a little dizzy.
Like you're having a hard time gathering your
thoughts. Rayna's concerned. She's going through
stroke protocols right now. Like, she's checking.
Dart, could you smile for me? That's a candy
smile. Yes, Dart can smile. Smell real good with
the wet fluffer. How many kids do you have, Dart?
Twenty. Plus, how many cats? Oh. Displaced Beast
cats. Your grandpa, like uncle. I think three.
Can I try a religion check? It was like five.
Oh. Damn, I don't even know. You want a religion?
This is like, you can tell something's up with
his soul. Are you like asking Asmodeus? Is that
what you're going to do? What the fuck is up
with this guy Asmodeus? Really? Yeah. Okay, go
ahead and roll. Guide me. Go ahead and roll Concordance.
Well that is a 19. And Concordance is like an
8 or something like that. So what are you asking?
What has happened to his soul? You don't hear
anything. Okay. And you get the sensation that
he is bothered. You got sent to a voicemail.
I got ignored. I'm gonna take a knee. Yeah, I'm
gonna take a knee. This place is difficult for
me. Do we need to take a moment? Perhaps like
the weight of knowing that my people are suffering
is having an impact on me personally that is
heavy. Because it's definitely what I'm thinking
about most on this journey is that like all the
news I've been hearing about the Frog Boat is
bad. Yeah. And I'm real worried about them. Should
we set up camp? This is the heavy thing. I mean,
we're real close to their camp. I don't know
if we can... I mean, they don't notice us. They
haven't noticed us yet. We can send Daru out
and do some recon. Um, yeah. Drift has his, uh,
like, sanctuary thing. His, uh... Horrible. Wow.
Hearth of the Moonlight and Shadow. During a
shorter, long rest can invoke shadow power to
create an invisible 30 -foot radius sphere that
provides total cover. and the sphere you analyze
gain plus five to stealth and perception and
light is invisible outside of it it ends when
the rest ends so you could have a private camp
pretty much anywhere you know something's not
gonna bump into it so Vox will protect us so
if we wanted to be king this sappy thing i want
to treat this with respect you know we need to
go out at full force and i i am concerned about
you john i And she like, repeat after me. Lion
pencil te - te - I'm not gonna hold on. Lion
pencil te -te -te -te. I started doing the same
as a bargain. I can't even remember what those
are. Yeah, perfect. That's exactly what I wanted.
From everyone. So she's trying to remember her
baseline concussion testing. You want to do a
medicine check on Dora? Yeah. I feel like Rain
does that a lot, because I feel like we'd be
getting concussions. Oh yeah. 16 plus 9. So 25.
Yeah, I know all your baselines. So... Dar is...
wait how much do you get total? 25. 25? Okay
so Dar is he's kind of like even though he's
a frog he's like even more clammy than usual
and he's like a little bit like like his skin
is a little cold if that makes sense um you can
feel that like his heart rate is elevated um
and this is a panic attack that his like some
of like some of his uh like tendons and canals
are like twitching like with you know sort of
a tension or like an in it a nervous energy of
sorts um i don't know if like frog like i guess
he's sort of like he's creating like a little
bit more like mucus than normal and it's like
that like he is excreting you touch him and you
like he's it sizzles just a little bit on your
finger and you realize he's excreting like some
some acid from like some of the like slugs he
ate earlier and like his like defense his natural
body's defense mechanisms are like kind of like
they're kind of going off just like not super
hard but like they're they're starting to like
and be agitated and sort of activate um and I
need to calm down I mean but but he doesn't seem
like hurt or like sick it's just like physiologically
it's like he went into like fight -or -flight
mode or something like that and I'm better you
know I'm calming bothy and he's definitely like
freaking out like he's definitely panicking a
bit I would imagine Let's, let's drink some tea.
You have tea. You have tea. Let's, let's take
a breather everyone. Yeah, we have a savanna
sphere. Yeah. Let's check in. Drift will be like,
yeah, I saw some like chill trees over there.
We should, you know, we'll, we'll post up right
by those chill trees. Wait a minute. It's in
my, it's in my ham fats. Hold on, I got chill
trees. Chill trees? Where'd that go? oh yeah
there ah it's in my hand facts right here uh
dart enjoys communing with trees to find peace
of mind so having right there in the hand facts
peaceful trees is perfect yes yeah so before
we have the sphere right is that what happens
oh yeah so it is a 30 foot sphere which um in
like six squares we set the bug t on outside
of the sphere Oh. It's like sun tea, right? Oh
my god. Yeah, sir. It's like, what the fuck is
sun tea? Oh my god. Sir, sir. There's a sign
at the Ramsay Park. Oh my god. Okay, I'm done.
Who's brewing the tea out of curiosity? Are you
guys all brewing separately? I feel like we all
have our own things, right? George is like, I
don't have a teapot. But can somebody bring me
a cup and add a little bit of this into it? And
it's like a ground up, like dried, like leaf,
green cassia leaf. My cat loves this stuff. Rayne
just grabbed some. He looked embarrassed when
you gave it catnip. And smells it. Because if
it is catnip, I don't know what it does to frogs,
but to humans, remember that tea tour we went
to that catnip is actually calming for humans?
Yeah, it is. And so, is it catnip? Can I roll
to see if I know what it is? Yeah, you can smell
it. A 15. It's catnip. Okay. Yeah. So my cat
loves that stuff. Yeah, that's good shit. That's
good shit. I was just, in my head, I was roleplaying
that Drift walks up to my tea and he's like,
ooh, this tea's got bugs in it. I start marching
up behind him like, ooh, it's done, all right.
That's so good. Yes, that happens directly afterwards.
It's like, ding! Disgusting. That's how you know
it's good! I think that's when you set the second.
It's just like cereal at this point. I eat my
tea with a spoon. Jesus Christ! It's worse because
the spoon is his sticky tongue. The FBI need
to come here now. We all deserve to go. I'm gonna
make it worse real quick. I'm gonna reach down
and pluck one of my toe crusties and then kind
of grind it up and like, ooh, that's for extra
flavor. Okay, so we're going to tag this episode
of Body War. Sense of bog. This is froggy whore.
That reminds me of home. No, that because your
name the name is bog. Bog leaf hollow bog leaf.
This is bog leaf tea with toe crusties. Oh, it's
like Sprinkle a little dry rye on top of the
extra little crunch. Hold on, let me check. Oh,
girl. Oh, wait. No, this is the right one. It
has the wrong date on it. Oh, frisbee snap. I
perused through the tea, so I got her. Can I,
is it okay if I, I don't want the lavender lovers
you can have, but like, what was there? There's
peach oolong and. Oh, peach oolong? Yeah. Let's
do some peach oolong. Let's go. yeah that's the
first one let's go yeah it's delicious um and
she does her song of rest so i guess well is
it is it a new day it's not new day right no
and i don't did you get hurt no okay did anybody
get hurt because i don't think i did no this
is like a storm this is a rest like for our souls
yeah yeah rain sings a song of rest just for
everybody gets inspiration From rain, song of
rest. Technically I do have weed. I feel like
right before we go into battle probably isn't
the best time. For rain it is. In your day this
is wild magic cocaine. I also have for some reason.
Okay don't give that to Zaris. Speaking of. I
have two pounds of it. What? I just got a letter
from Zarzar. Yeah. Don't say Zarzar. I did it
once before, didn't I? Yeah, you have said it
before. I like it. Yes, I did get a letter from
Zarzar. The last message that I sent him was
about whatever was going on with him. My dad
does know. about whatever is going on. And I
may have just sort of asked Zaurus if the Emperor
did it. They're watching! I said it a few days
later, but they told me yes. But did what? Did
yours? No. Yeah, whatever's going on, the Emperor
did it to them. So the Emperor is involved in
whatever? Whatever's going on. Why Zaurus is
upset? Yes. May I have a brownie? If you would
like to read. The secret code is of course what
matters to everyone and everything and of course
the emperor is behind something yet again. I
don't like the sound of this emperor fellow.
I mean... I never really knew anything about
him before right now. Everything I've heard is
horrible. I mean, I did know about him before,
but it was horrible. You guys are the closest
to him of people I've ever met. The clear gummy
bear flavor is pineapple. Yeah. Tough. Yeah.
There's always going to be a bad... The grape
one is very grape though. I like it. Grape. I'm
okay, it's fine. Some cheap weed. I mean, considering.
I mean, it's true, but how dare they? I mean,
we should, we dried that shit not that long ago.
It's fresh as hell. Doesn't mean it's not too
cheap. Raina's like, thinking like, that was
really good shit. She's feeling defensive. Did
they say it in a disparaging way? They said they
wanted the cheap weed. Like man, that's like
an expensive shit is like just too far away from
how weed's supposed to be. I just want cheap
weed, like please. That's kind of, you know.
I'm understanding. That's the subtext, I guess.
I don't understand. But I can understand why
Reen would like... Get defensive. Yeah. Because
she'd be insecure, I have. That's all. She needs
Mama Maisie and Mama Bee. She's mad. Of course,
again, the emperor is at the center of some shit
that she's dealing with. And it's upsetting.
I understand. Yeah, usually emperors are up to
shit. Not all of us were born and raised in a
Chinese empire. Someone's got to explain it to
them. What? What an emperor is. Emperors like
a, I don't know, like a super king, I guess.
I don't know. Super king? A guy that's in charge
of a bunch of stuff. Are you talking about like
the hierarchy of things? No, I mean, an emperor
is just like the leader of like an empire. An
empire is just like a big thing. A big territory,
I guess. Multiple big territories, usually. Trying
to play into the idea that Darth is like extremely
rural and he's like, so like a mayor, but bigger?
What are we talking about? Yeah, and that's kind
of how Drift is as well. He's like... you know
he's a druid he mostly is like unplugged from
politics so he's kind of like just some like
fucking asshole that like decides where to cut
the trees down and like you know Zavari at first
feels the need to like defend when she's like
I don't like the empire right now you know I
may have grown up a little anti -royal, but I
do know how cutthroat emperors can be. How quick
they are to cut their ties. I was not aware of
such behavior until very recently. It's very
odd. I'm sorry you're experiencing this. Don't
be sorry for me. Oh, yeah. I have enough emotions
to put that on that front. Don't worry. Sorry.
It will be dealt with. Like all things have been.
That means killing, right? I feel like the sound
of you eating a gummy bear is the sound of you
eating a bug. Yeah. A gusher. That one was juicy.
Thank you. We need to hire a foley artist. That
tea works. Oh, yeah, that catnip. Oh, give him
his tea. You bring catnip and lavender. Oh, his
tea, yeah. Yeah. Catnip and lavender. Yeah. Catnip
is just a mint. Ooh, so it's minty and lavender.
Have fun. You're gonna fucked up, buddy. Have
fun. Mm -hmm. He waits for it to cool down to
drinking temperature, and then he just, like,
shoots it. He's like, fuck. And it dribbles.
And when he comes down and his eyes open up,
it's like the full pupils. Yep. And he's like...
And he starts scratching his shoulder, like the
fur on his shoulder and his chest, kind of like,
hmm. Sylvanas. Like he just suddenly seems a
lot more relaxed. And he's kind of leaning slowly.
God, I need some of that so bad. I need to relax.
He starts feeling the need to stretch. Honestly,
could she have some of your catnip? It would
help her. I got it. Sure. I have plenty. It's
cheap. Give me some catnip. So catnip, lavender.
Uh, some ginger? There was some ginger that I
feel like wasn't listed very much. Something.
I don't know. Something or another. Yeah. Well,
can I put some catnip in the back of the peach
oolong? Sure. I feel like some minty peach oolong.
Have as much as you want. So generous. Enjoy
my friends. Enjoy. Enjoy. I love catnip. It's
kind of frowned upon. Oh. Oh, you're giving him
a head rub? Yeah. See if he likes it. His ear
sort of like twitches, and he kind of like goes...
It's like he likes it for just half a second,
and then he shakes his head. He kind of like,
you know, sort of kicks you off in a way. Okay,
she respects that. And then he sort of like wipes
away. The oils, you know, with his hand. Anybody
want some bug tea? You gotta drink it quick before
the juicy ones crawl away. I need something stronger
than the tea. I hate to spill that tea. I'm gonna
go for a walk. More bugs for me, I guess. He's
like, oh wait, I can't leave the sphere. I'm
just going to the other side of the sphere. He's
got like zoomies. Hey Drift, do you think you
can like go up and around the circle? It's not
a solid circle. I wish. How are you feeling?
He sits down. How do you feel? I feel okay. Yeah?
Okay. Okay is okay. Okay, enough to take back
control of your body? Well, I was saying family's
area, family's land. Is this the bog that we
are at? Are you from here? Uh, I don't think
I'm from here. Not exactly, no, but it's sort
of similar to where you're from, but I don't
know if you would know, like, proximity -wise
where it would be on the map, you know? But no,
definitely not like, not here. They're just like
distant cousins. But all folk are kind of fun.
Wait a minute. I have to think for this. Wrong
folk. Let's see. You got your tree, fro, froke.
You're broad folk. Jungle folk. Yeah. Oh? I got
cousins that live here. Oh, shit. Yeah. Nice.
Me too. Oh, dang. Big, big cousins. Hold on,
you think you can fight? I have no choice. Um,
how long do you think you guys are, like, resting?
Because when we ended the session, it was kind
of like our midday, sort of, you know? Do you
guys, like, want to rest for the rest of the
day and start up in the morning? Or, like, what
if... Maybe we should rest for the rest of the
day just in case something - I feel like we have
to be very cautious in case something else happens.
Yeah. I just want to see if it's gonna happen
again. I'm worried. Okay. Because they know we're
here and like in this direction. I kind of sent
like a messenger off to be like, fuck y 'all.
Did that guy go in this direction? I assume he
went back to like the main camp, which I assume
is where we're headed towards. At least I think
it's a reasonable assumption. And I think that
in the past, we've done very well attacking Selffully
by night. So resting until nightfall? Yeah. Then
again, they do have invisible cats. Yeah. But
we have daylight. That's true. But then you don't
have nightfall. Yeah. But we use daylight if
we need it. I can use it once per day. You did
kill a lot of the drakes. Yeah. How many of them
did you kill? Who knows if they have more. Isn't
that their only hunting party? you know um i
mean what do you guys think we definitely have
to come up with a plan because it seems like
you know this is just one outpost of likely many
you're right do we want to go into this outpost
and paint the town red i think the first step
we need to do is recon yeah as much as i love
killing orcs Um, yeah. The better we know what
we're dealing with before we have to deal with
it, the more effective we will be at dealing
with it. Okay. I can send Daru for that. They
may or may not know about us, but they definitely
don't know about Daru. You want to get some feelers
out, see what's happening? I could take the way
of the land. Do you want to wait until it's dark
for that, or? I think if we do that, maybe wait
until it's dark would be better. Because we also
have this thing up. Or if we want more protection,
I do have Liam's tiny hut too. Yeah, we can wait
until nightfall. Seems reasonable, I guess. I
can send Dario out once it's nightfall. Rain
is just monitoring. Garth's symptoms. Does Garth
have a pulse? Yeah. I hope so. Yeah, he does.
You can feel it anywhere on my body because of
my fluid -filled canals. That is so good. Yeah,
so she is just checking various pulses, the forehead
pulse. Yeah. Foot pulse, the wristy pulse, the
neck pulse, making sure they're all beating the
same. How is his skin feeling? Is he feeling?
Um, so, he, um... After like a few hours or so,
he seems like back to normal physiologically.
It's like once the adrenaline has fully worn
off, he's maybe a little tired, but he seems
okay. He's less clammy. His defense mechanisms
have chilled out. He is full from the meal he
just ate. Yeah, he's full from the meal he just
ate. Can I check his soul again? Arcana? Sure.
Just see if it has changed at all. okay 22 22
yeah um so with a 22 um you can see that no it
has not changed from what you saw last it appears
to have been ever so slightly painted in some
way it's kind of hard to really parse exactly
what that means it was kind of like you Being
like a priestess, you know your companion's,
like, you know, like, how you're, like, what
your companion's soul, like, kind of looks like
in your mind's eye. And that color is slightly
off. Ooh. What's the color of your soul, Dart?
I know Reigns is blue. That's a good question.
Be any color you want. Yeah. Probably green.
Yeah, so the green is just like a little bit
murky. There's something like off about it. It's
like barely, barely detectable. Like somebody
who doesn't know dark wouldn't notice it. It's
like this green versus this green. Yeah, exactly.
Doesn't seem to be any like substantial damage,
but there's definitely like something that changed,
something that happened. How does your soul feel?
Like a soul. It feels fine. I feel fine. Okay.
I feel fine. We just have to monitor and keep
moving forward. Figure out what that noise was.
Do you think that we could put headphones or
like earphones in? Uh, it seemed like it didn't
affect us. I don't know if headphones... Does
Dart have ears? Are ear holes ear canals? Yes,
frogs have ears. I'm pretty sure I googled it.
It was either that or nostrils. I don't remember.
Well, we could say that you have ear canals.
We can make some out of mud. Yes, frogs have
ears. And you know the like, if we looked at
a frog and they've got like a little circle thing
right here, that's their ear. Like behind their
eye or whatever, I guess like right here, kind
of? As I'm circling my ear. I could pack it with
gauze. There we go. No, I didn't capture them.
I think we should figure out what the hell made
that noise. We could as well destroy it if possible.
Maybe it hasn't happened again, has it? No. It's
been several hours now. It's not quite nightfall
yet. Do you have some sort of, I don't know,
helmet or something? I'm wearing a helm. A helm
of comprehend languages. Well, so that must not
have protected your ears at all. Seemingly not.
I tuck my ears back when, you know, they're allowed
to. And scary sounds. And his ear twitches. His
eyes are still flying. I was like, he's still
fucked up. Trust what you feel about your body
and what we can do. But we need to get recon
before we can do anything. I will keep doing
soul monitoring. I never imagined I would need
to do such a thing. Oh, whoa. Oh god. I'm scared.
It gets sent to like, I don't know, rain, because
I feel like I haven't sent you anything directly
in a minute. You feel a shift in your diplomat's
pouch and it's a letter from the police. And
it's addressed to the Ham Crusaders. Oh yeah,
those three that we sent there. Okay, I remember.
They've been there for a long time. Should we
read it? I'm reading it, right? Oh, I can read
it. Dear Crusaders, I wanted to let you guys
know that everything is on track for Saxon's
trial next week. We spoke with Roby, Talvir,
and Greta, the orcs that live at Castle Wren.
They provided us with a lot of useful insight
and pointed us to some more evidence we could
use to substantiate our claims. Due to their
involvement with the assassinations, however,
we decided it would be best not to utilize them
as witnesses. We don't want people to call for
them to be charged. Also, we were able to locate
that couple that you mentioned. Brax and Colton,
Brax being the bugbear. Bugbear Brax. Yes. They
were more than happy to help. They actually really
want to see Saxon be brought to justice, almost
as much as we do. They asked if they could work
for Lord Dart in or near Gravesford and return
for their help on the trial. They're eager to
get out of Bennegar City due to bad memories
and they're in need of work and housing. I let
them know that Lord Dart may be interested in
hiring them, especially since they've shown their
loyalty. Colton worked as a guard for the Bedegar
family before Saxton took over in his very experience.
Braxton, on the other hand, is new to this line
of work, but seems eager to learn. Let me know
if you have work for them. They also wanted me
to send their thanks to Zavari. I've been casually
picking the brains of the paladins here, and
it really seems like they've been kept in the
dark about everything we've uncovered. I could
be wrong, but they haven't done anything to further
arouse my suspicion. I'm doing my best to keep
an eye on them. Pen will help look after Edmond
in between lessons, and hopefully that will give
me the chance to tail one of these paladins and
figure out what they know. I still plan on working
on getting some scrolls from the Arcanopedia
to you guys, but I've had my hands quite full
until recently. What do you need? Destructive
power? Defensive magic? Illusions? Let me know.
Morag's also working on something for you all,
so look out for a letter from her soon! Morag
mail! Yeah, and then things have been going well
here for the most part. And then Sterling, I'm
very proud of how hard he's working. Just the
other day in a council meeting, he raised his
voice and spoke over all the adults, telling
them that we need to focus on infrastructure
and caring for the citizens of Betagar, instead
of prioritizing rebuilding Betagar's military
might. He says that we can't expect people to
fight for us when we aren't fighting for them.
He went on to talk about how they have lost the
people's trust and that he needs to take accountability
for that. I was really impressed. He isn't letting
the counselor and the other politician slam.
He said that he can tell that they underestimate
him and that he can't give an inch. I have no
doubt that he'll blossom into a truly great leader.
Best wishes. Ray is crying. Oh my god. Man, am
I glad I had him read Meditations on Great Leadership
by Marcus Aurelius. He's been reading. Finally
read those damn books. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm
going through a rollercoaster reading this. Oh,
we need the, um, the greatest word infomercial.
Yeah, I got a separate letter. Oh my goodness,
okay. Oh, we got another letter from Zaris? No,
from Taze. Oh god. I think I need to fucking
find an ooze. Find an ooze? Yeah, I'm having
Taze help me with the Zaris thing, and um...
This is Zavari in character showing Rainn. She's
like, okay, just don't worry about the top paragraph.
You're trying to hide it and Rainn's like, respect
your privacy, respect your privacy. And she definitely
is not reading it. I will say, if you end up
reading it, it is like PG. It's not anything
crazy. Zavari's just like, I won't read it, but
I can't hold my hand like this. You just fold
it over. Yeah. It is PG though. Yeah. I purposefully
made it PG in case you wanted to share. Thank
you. Make sure it's not sussy. Except for I used
the word interdiction later on. I don't even
know what it means. This is too much for me to
comprehend right now. I don't know if I'll be
able to actually read it. Basically, if it's
something stronger than a curse, then there's
no way to undo like an intradiction. Okay, I'm
understanding what it is now. Other than by the
caster who cast it or a wish spell. We can find
the caster in an attempt to intimidate them into
releasing the spell, where I suggested blackmail,
but I'm guessing we don't know who cast it plus
that could be extremely dangerous. I have a question
though, but did anybody cast it or is this Asmodeus?
I thought Asmodeus is responsible for you not
being able to - This is about Zaris. Oh, I'm
tracking. Yeah, this is about Xars's thing. I'm
tracking. Keep going. Yeah. May have been able
to find a workaround looking through the old,
stinky book, because I can't pronounce it. It
would be very unpleasant. We discovered a very
interesting section of spells that derive from
multiple schools of magic, blah, blah, blah.
Nerd stuff. Yeah, it's kind of like a nerd wizard
stuff. There's a spell that they think that they
have enough information to complete it, but they
need to work it out a little bit more. Basically,
the spell would allow us to capture a person's
memory and view it. It has Morag working on the
parts and components. Morag says that we will
need an ooblex ooze and an arcane accelerant.
Like the coke? Maybe, I don't know. I'm glad
we're on the same wavelength though. And Olex
is an ooze that eats memories. They live in ruins
and caves and impersonated creatures whose memories
they consume. It's integral to the spell and
hard to find. Its key ingredient may be able
to find it through a supplier. And as for the
accelerants, Morag only knows of one type of
accelerant that would likely work for this and
it's an extremely rare paste made from the hooves
of a nightmare. She called it nightmare fuel.
She said it's the unicorn horn of infernal ingredients.
Neither of us are sure if it's even possible
to obtain. So she's researching alternatives
at the moment. So maybe the coke. Can we put
some coke in an envelope and send it? I mean,
it's not illegal in this world. Uh, I am willing
to say yes, you could if you wanted to. Hey Dart,
can we send Morag a bump of your coke? I guess.
It's for research purposes. I will also see if
Asmodeus can hit me up maybe at this internal.
And sometimes he does like to answer me. I feel
like you've been going to him a lot lately. Well,
what else am I supposed to do? and not qualified
to say. Okay. Have a great - She turns away.
She's like, I'm a cleric, what else am I supposed
to do? That's my whole shtick. Drift just looks
down in his tear. Lousily. Oh, yep. Thank you.
Yeah, that was Flux. Drinking rain's tea. Flux
is like, here they fucking go again. She's gonna
have to drink the tea anyways. The rain goes
into her corner of the sphere. It's a little
30 -foot sphere, yeah. Everyone's like in this
place for it. How awkward. Especially if someone
farts. I should've been there. I should have
included one of the trees, so at least there
would be some kind of separation. I just put
it down on the clearing. We just all see each
other. You know that episode of Nard Dome where
we're all stuck in the dome? Oh my god, that
stupid scene. It's kind of like that. It's our
bottle episode. But you're not stuck. Technically,
you could leave the dome, but you'd be visible.
This is our get along dome. Oh my god. But then
Rain sends a letter to Zarvis with a doodle of
them together. But like a cutie or like cute...
What's it called? Just a little doodle and just
like thinking of you. Cute doodle of them together.
That's it. Keeping it chill. Keeping it chill.
They draw back a comic. We are artists. They
draw back a comic of you two going to a tea shop
and then it says just us this time. Reed snuggles
it. But then puts it with the rest of her drawings
and paintings of hers. It's a folder. It's a
special place in the diplomats. Yeah, you know
like the hidden folders in your phone? There's
one of those in the double bath pouch too. It's
a hidden feature that they don't tell you about
you just to discover it. It's like the first
thing Ray did. He accidentally put her hand through
his secondary pocket and was like, what the fuck?
This is the czar czar folder. Yep, czar czar
folder. So file that away. That's nice. I hear
Zavara muttering prayers on the corner. I was
filing away my smut. Yeah. The duality of woman.
Um, Drift passes out for a cat nap. Cause he
should have drove that. Oh yeah. Cat nap. Cat
nap nap. And he's like curled up real cozy. Like
is that, you know, obviously he's a person. He's
not a cat, but. He does some cat -like things
sometimes and he is currently like curled up
in his like sleeping bag like a little donut
sort of, you know? Shrimp in? Yeah. I bet it
feels good to stretch like that. And he's sleeping
real hard. Cute. I need the pace of the night.
I can't believe I'm praying for this now. You're
praying for the pace of the... This is a nightmare.
Dirt. Yeah. Can you roll a D100 for me since
you drank all that bug tea? I was waiting. That's
a lot of bugs. That's a lot of bugs. I had to.
I know. I'm sorry. I said it quiet. Oh my god.
I've referenced that like six times a week. I
need to watch film pat like now 17 17 so You've
been eating a lot of like ground bugs since you've
been in the forest so a lot of the like effects
that you've gotten have been from stuff that
lives under logs or on tree trunks and whatnot.
But this tea attracted these like little iridescent
flying beetles. They're very, very tiny and it
attracted like a ton of them. And when you slurp
down the slurry of bugs and beetles and whatnot.
um your tongue like feels kind of like tingly
and um you feel um you're you feel like you're
you you feel like oh i'm trying to think of what
like what's the word you feel like your brain
your brain feels like it's like opening up a
little Does that make sense? It calcified my
pineal gland. And that's what you think for a
moment. And then you realize that there is a
dragonfly sort of buzzing near you and it's next
to like another dragonfly and you can hear one
of them go. Oh shit, that's a big ass frog! Beer!
Beer! And they both go... And you can hear the
very soft chatter of like all of the insects
and animals around you. You have speak with animals.
Oh my god, you guys, I speak bug. Roll 1d4. You
should ask them about the area. Yeah. It's a
recon from the bugs. Four. Four? So you can speak
with the animals for six hours. I would get so
overstated. I know. Well, we clearly need to
rise the animal and bug army so we can go attack
the area. We'll say it's like just before sunset,
you know, and yeah. I think that the creatures
I eat are gonna be not so swayed by any arguments
I make to have them be on our side. This is valid.
Yeah, every once in a while you just hear something
go, oh shit! And every time something spots you
through, they can kind of... Because they go
through like the sphere, you know? They have
to like cut into the sphere. And when they do,
they're like, they immediately see this frog
come out out of nowhere. Like, God dang! Black
dogs with camouflages! Good job! Tell them you'll
give them food. Or we should get him a more,
more, but then not eat them. No, what I'm gonna
tell you guys is that it just sounds like tripping
to you, but all I hear is bugs doing it. Oh.
Yeah, that's all I hear. Mm -hmm. I'm glad I
can't speak for miles. Talk about food filling
in now. Oh my god. Can I take away inspiration
from a player? I'm sorry to say anti -inspiration.
Don't literally erase an inspiration point, but
let it get to it. Inspiration again, because
you have to. It was good, though. It was really
good. It was so good, it was horrible. Amazing.
I can't beat that. Amazing. Yeah, you're hearing
all kinds of shit. Whole crazy shit. Yeah, you
definitely hear like bugs panicking. You hear
like a dragonfly go, oh, oh, fuck, a frog. And
it's like, I don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do. It's kind of like zipping back and
forth, like right in front of you. And you can
hear it panicking for the first time. You've
seen this behavior in them before, but you've
never like heard it panicking. Do I speak bug
now or can I like communicate with them telepathically?
Perhaps you speak with animals. I speak with
them. I couldn't remember if it was like a link
thing. Kind of depending on the animal. I don't
know, the dirt just starts buzzing. It's like,
this is not the baseline concussion testing.
What does this mean? What does this mean? I don't
know. We just have to keep monitoring. Keep monitoring.
The dragonfly is panicking in front of you. Perfect
catch. It's usually your favorite thing. I'm
going to say to this dragonfly, relax. I'm not
going to eat you. I just want to know how to
get to Third Street. That's a good reference
no one is getting, so I'm just gonna move on
from it. I need to know where the orcs are staying.
Roll persuasion? He's like, oh shit, oh fuck,
fuck, oh boy. As a second New Yorker, wait a
minute. 25. How come I can understand you? This
is fucking bullshit. I know it's weird. You ate
my grandma. That was definitely another frog
who just looks like this. So you really ain't
gonna eat me? No. Why? You stupid or something?
You're a vegetarian. Don't tempt me. My tongue
is faster than your wings. But I just want to
know where the scary or bad things live. Hmm,
that seems kinda racist. Well, they did murder
my family. Ah, well fuck them. Precisely. Now,
you're basically right on top of them. Uh, main
city's in some kind of valley. I don't go over
there, there's bug traps. Okay, you can go. Alright,
see ya pal. There's lots of other bugs. I can
talk to any of them for six hours. Why? The tea?
The tea. Oh hell yeah, and just like high fives.
You gotta get some more of that fucking tea.
On the way back, we're gonna go back to that
tea, you would love it. Yeah, every time he drinks
the tea, he gets some more on the bug table.
Something fucking happens. Oh my god. Well, after
that display, um... You guys just see me standing
there going buzz buzz buzz and you're like, I
think he's hearing that noise again. Yeah, we're
like freaking out over here like um Repeat after
me Lion pencil toot toot toot toot toot buzz
buzz buzz buzz buzz sorry Lion pencil toot toot
toot forgot for a second that I wasn't talking
to a bug Can't agree, I was so - I said t -t
-t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t -t
- or what raised my character and a little bit
about what it was like. So, my mom's name was
Fern. How do you spell that? F -E -R -N. And
my dad's name is Boggart. Can you spell it more
deeply? B -O -G -E -R -T. Or no, A -R -T, I'm
sorry. It's like the frog folk equivalent of
Roberts. And they raised me in the traditional
sense of after I stopped being a tadpole in the
little pool of water with the other tadpoles.
and became, you know, bipedal. They were like
my primary parental situation, raising me to
be like a productive member of the community
and teaching me how to like work the cranberry
bogs. But I had another semi -parental figure.
A third player. My uncle, Grime. My uncle Grime,
who taught me the delicate art of spider writing.
He was like that cool uncle. He doesn't go to
church. He smokes. Oh, he doesn't believe in
spiders. He taught me how to write spiders. Did
he have a crossbow? Yeah, sure. Why not? I think
he kept that thing on him. I like how we both
went and were like, touchy -tish -tussy. Maybe
that's why I went into archery. I thought Uncle
Grime would approve. So yeah, that's, it was,
you know, traditional parents and then negative
influence Uncle Grime. I mean, you know, how
negative is it? I mean, it's cool, but my parents
were like, you need to work in the bog. And then,
you know, My village was destroyed by orcs. It
was a little thing in case you didn't know. What
was it called? My village? Mm -hmm. At Sarenheath?
My village's name was Bogleaf Hollow. If I can
just... I thought this was very funny. So, uh...
My village, if you can imagine, moss -covered
huts with lily -pan roofs and they're like elevated
on little stilts and then like all of them are
connected by fluid -filled waterways. Come on!
Come on! Come on! I'm painting! Canals, you might
say. I thought it was funny. That's really funny.
Zavari, what's it like growing up in Umbermore?
For Zavari, because she is, in case people at
home don't know, rich. The Umbermore estate was
very, very big and her parents... I mean ran
the county so they had a lot of shit to do. So
honestly she was raised by nannies a lot like
she had I would say probably like four or five
nannies and they like were always there for her
from the day she was born to like the day she
got married they were there. So they're like
you know like a little assortment of moms almost.
Surprise for your mafia nanny. But when she became
a teenager and you know, started to explore more,
at that point, Zaris and Graham started to raise
her and take her into social settings. Oh goodness.
So that's why she is like, no, they're fucking
idiots. That's dumb. They were bringing you to
raise them. Yes. Secretly, that's what it was.
They weren't raising you. You were raising them.
She was always the common sense between the three
of them. Yes. Yes. Especially when, like, grandmas
are shaggy little teenagers. Yeah. Rain wants
to see paintings. I'm just like, babies. Adorable.
Yeah. the umber babes. Yes, I want to see, oh
my god, a baby Zavari. That'd be very cute. That'd
be so cute. So yeah, um, for Zavari, the nannies,
and then Zara's and Graham. You know, the nation
of people that raised her in different regards.
As long as Tate could remember, it's just been
him and his mom. Um, his... His mother's name
is Maisie. And his father passed away before
Chase really could remember him. So his mother
pretty much raised him all by herself. She is
a... kind, caring woman, and she was like one
of those moms that would let all of Tays's friends
like hang out at the house if they were like
at odds with their parents, you know? Like, like
I got into a big fight with my mom, I'm gonna
go over to, I'm gonna go over to Mama Maisie's
and you know, have some fresh homemade bread
and not feel judged. and you know that sort of
thing like that was the kind of like house that
she had that was the kind of like that's the
kind of mom she is and he grew up like helping
his mother tend to her garden. She was big into
cooking and she had a vegetable garden because
he grew up very modestly. They were poor, so
she had to basically grow the vegetables that
they had for the most part. It was an important
way to supplement the cost of feeding a family.
His father was a carpenter and he built like
their house he built like all the furniture in
the house and and like most of most of the decorations
and his mother always said like she could never
bring like another another man into the house
that her like husband built so she You know never
remarried, but always kind of he always kind
of like felt like he knew his dad in a way because
he Like she always like honored his memory by
like you know setting his you know his place
at the table and like his work boots still stayed
by the front door and There is always like you
know room for him in the house But yeah, so that's
that's who raised taste and you know, he was
thanks to her he he was always supported and
Loved and that's why he did so well in school
and was able to pursue his like passion So shout
out to Joe mom's good good job Maisie. Oh, yeah,
I'm amazing So rain was raised So we're gonna
go pre -Kolia. She learned a lot in Kolia. And
it honed who she was, but it wasn't the foundation
of where she was from. So that's a hilly area.
It's a coal mined city. What's the name of it?
Kolenvrig. K -U -L -U -N -V -R -I -G. Kolenvrig.
Um, take a practice that. Her mom is, uh, Lavre.
Father is, uh, Rigoli. Sister is, uh, Scheheren.
And brother is, Nate. And so, her family were
musicians, so they're very go with the flow,
artsy. Um, Coaling Brig is very, like, it's a
coal mine. Dwarven city. It is. It's what you
think of. It's what you think of. Like it is
stereotypical white Dwarven male supremacy. But
my family strayed from that norm. And so they're
already had a little bit of a target. And so
once Rain woke up and couldn't walk anymore,
It became an issue for the town because they
supplied the Empire of the Pages with all of
the coal that they needed for their various things.
Because of that, Ray was told she had to have
extra rules and extra tests and extra things
she had to follow and be in hiding when they
came and all these other things. Yeah, so, um,
because they told me basically that they'd support
me, um, in secret, but if they ever found out
that they would basically let them take me, and
by taking me, I mean kill me. Oh. Wait, your
family said that? No, the, the, um, the town.
Oh. So... Zobori was about to pin some shit down.
No. Um, so... With the whole town you have to
target. It wouldn't be the first time. It'd be
the last, probably. So basically, Reign had like
a talking to that she either would die or her
family would get punished in some way if the
Empire ever found me. And you know, Reign, it's
for the greater good, you see, is what they would
tell her. You know, just like, get inside, it's
for the greater good. So that's how. Reign was
praised. Before going to Colia after running
away from home. Wonder why you ran away? You
hear, everybody hears like a howler monkey or
something going, wah, wah, howler, wah. And all
Daria hears is fuck off. What's your name? Tony.
Hey, fuck you, Tony. What's your name? Ezekiel?
Fuck you, Ezekiel. That whole conversation. Exactly.
Just back and forth. The Rams and Brother Bear.
No, you shut up. It's their echo. Back and forth.
Yeah. Just monkeys arguing in the night. Throwing
their clothes. Yeah. Yeah, a place with as much
ecological diversity is not a good place to speak
with Andrews. It's that overstimulation hell.
You're like in New York City right now. Yeah,
you can hear like, there are like slugs beneath
you guys, and you can hear them going, you know,
talking to each other. But it's kind of like,
everything kind of fades into the background,
you just like focus on it. You know, you focus
and you're like... Hey, Joe. Whatcha doin' after
the game? Oh, you're not the use. I don't know
that. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
It's a salt patch. Lookie. What were you going
to say? Sorry about that. We could just leave
this forever. Can I ask one of the flying beetle
things that was presumably around? If they've
seen other frog folk, like other big, big, big
frogs. Um, maybe like, where are our no -go zones?
Which beetles? Like the beetles that you ate?
I don't know. I'll look for a different type
of beetle. I'm just like, kinda curious to be
like. I figured if I attracted so many of them,
there must be a lot around them. I figured something
that can fly has probably seen more of the area
than something that crawls. Yeah. Does that make
sense? Um, go ahead and roll, um, like persuasion
or I mean, I guess you could even say animal
handling. Really? To see if you can find a beetle
that will talk to you. Chatty beetle. Well, if
it's persuasion, it's a dirty 20. If it's animal
handling, it's like a 14. So you have to like
venture a little bit out of like the dome of
protection and that doesn't and it doesn't take
long for you to find like a big you know patch
of beetles that are like eating some dung and
um you kind of go up to them and you try you
try seeing if any of them will converse with
you and you know a bunch of them kind of like
buzz off you know like whatever um and they have
like really hard shells so they're like something
that like most bug -eating creatures, like, don't
really love to eat them, so they kind of have,
like, a little bit more of an attitude than,
like, the bugs that are, like, absolutely terrified
of you. Um, and one of them finally is like,
Hey, man, you look lost. What's going on? Um,
before I continue, I was tempted to have my,
like, my presence to these bugs be kind of, like,
um, gandoffed. to like throw it over like, I'm
not trying to rob you. Oh my god, yeah. I'm not
trying to eat you. I just want to know if you've
seen any other big frogs. I'm talking. But yeah,
after a while, yeah, you eventually manage to
get a beetle. He's like a, he has like a blue
and green like, shell like over his wings and
he's got like these big like papering wings that
like fold out and he's kind of And it kind of
it just sounds like paper like crinkling. That's
like look, that's what it sounds like when like
it's wings beat and Yeah, he's like I can tell
that you don't want to do any harm What's up,
dude What the hell is going on, man? Why the
fuck are you here? I'm just passing through.
I'm looking for other frogs. Like... I mean,
there are frogs everywhere. I'm bored to think
about this. Big ones. Big ones like me. Big ones
like you. Yeah. I've seen it in the frogs. They're
kind of like I do. Really, really big ones. I'll
have to make a... history check. Yeah. But I
don't think you want to go there. Why not? Well,
let's just say they treat your kind like your
kind treat our kind if you catch my drift. No
offense, but it's not good. It really isn't.
But hey, at least I can tell my friends and my
kids that I talk to an apex predator. Bad start,
baby. There are things that treat my people bad.
What do you know about them? Well, uh, the...
The Cicada Archives say that they've only been
here for a few years. But I am only six months
old, so I'm nearing the end of my lifespan. What
a bummer, right? Life is short and sweet. Well,
enjoy your dungeon, sir. I always do. Okay, I
don't feel like I'm gonna get a lot of information
out of the bugs. They have a very limited worldview.
Yeah. It's poop, fucking, and dying. That's real
funny. I may as well go talk to one of the monkeys
and apologize for sticking one of their children
in my mouth and then spitting them back out again.
Nobody died. I think you need to find some crows.
It's a jungle. There are birds though. Birds?
Parrots? Remember you saw the parrots? That's
true. Something... I mean, monkeys are very intelligent.
Yeah, something really smart. But I feel like...
like a parrot or a bird or something like that,
would be able to comprehend some of the, oh monkeys
are very smart too, so what if your, your flavor,
your choice. And so, you know, while you're like,
you know, you spend some time talking to bugs
and whatnot and the sun is going down. Zivari,
did you say now that the sun's down you're going
to send out Dari? Yeah. Okay, so what are you...
what's the protocol for Daru here, I guess? Like,
what do you want Daru to do, specifically? Um,
fly over the camp. Um, not too low, though, and
just kind of see what you can observe, hang out
in some trees, you know? Okay. Um, if it seems
safe to do it on maybe perch on, uh... a building
but only if it seems like really safe to do so.
Okay um yeah so like this part of the um this
camp specifically is kind of built on like some
of the most ruined ruins um the highest points
of like any sort of structure would be like the
tops of like the tents Oh. That are set up? Daruna.
Perchapark. Other than that, like, kind of like
nearby trees. And so, and there's like, so if
when Daru flies over, there's like a shallow
sort of like, what is the word? Is it tributary
from the main river that you guys are traveling
along? So it's not like the river. It's sort
of like a stream that comes off of the river.
And that kind of cuts the... that's like the
line where like the orcs are like actually staying
if that makes sense like they're using that little
stream sort of as a like a wall almost and they're
in camp they're a little encampment um the uh
stream is like shallow enough that's that one
part where you can see like where Daru can see
that they created uh like some tracks some like
cart tracks that so like it's shallow enough
that a car could be pulled through it's like
only a couple of feet deep right um and so Daria
can see that there's like a place where the carts
have been going in and out of the shroom there
um and there is orc activity there are several
orcs um and there are uh drakes as well not as
many As you guys saw before, if you're looking
through Daru's eyes and you're trying to like
kind of parse how many you see sort of wandering
around, maybe like five or so, two of them are
injured. And you kind of like you sort of like,
you know, you would recognize them. Daru, you
can see through Daru's eyes that they have recovered
that cart, that hunting cart that you guys came
across. They recovered that and they brought
it back to camp. And there is like tanning racks
and sort of like a like a butchery kind of area
like by a near a tent, like a table. And you
can see that there's like blood and big like
butcher knives and whatnot. There is you can
see there's like some there's like some camping
supplies. It's not like a fortified like encampment.
It's not like necessarily even like a you know,
there's no there's no watchtower or anything
like that. It's like, you know, it's a relatively
contained area where they seem to be processing
like hunting goods. and kind of camping out.
Would I notice any sign of like, frog folk? Um,
there is no sign of frog folk here, no. Not even
at the butcher? No. Okay. Not even at the butcher.
Not even at the butcher. Um, you don't see anything.
No, obviously you can't see what's inside the
tents or anything like that. Yeah. Um, you do
see, I guess like, well, make a perception check
as Darv. Okay. And then we'll come back to you
and your animal investigations. 11. 11? Yeah.
Yeah, you don't say anything. Okay. But there
are quite a few orcs. There are... I have written
down seven orcs. No. Oh. No, just several, I
said, I think. Um, you didn't get like a head
count. Oh. Um, but you do see at least two that
have their heads painted red. Okay. Um, and a
couple that look like casters. That's weird.
And there's like one, you know, there's one,
um, who is, she's like standing over a big like
like cauldron of soup and she's like stirring
it and you can see that she has like a staff
that is like set up like it's like leaning against
like the tent you know next to her um and she's
wearing a robe so you know you can see there's
like you know there's a lot like this is like
a this is an active camp yeah um and even like
now that it's like starting to be nightfall they
are busy working and yet like they actually like
now that it's dark is the time where like you
see that they are sending out like hunters with
the drakes and they leave a few of the drakes
behind but then take like the rest with them
um sorry i didn't mean to cut you off and say
anything oh no you're in my imagination i guess
um And, you know, as you're, you know, sort of,
you're sort of observing the, like, camp activities,
the sun has fully settled, and the moon is in
the sky. No. make a wisdom save and a constitution
save. Dart. Dart is the only one that hears it
again. And it's the same thing. Like Dart, this
time the anger, the hatred, the emotion is even
more powerful somehow. My wisdom is a 19. My
constitution is a 12. Okay. Yeah, the anger is
even more intense than it was the last time the
pain is more intense than it was last time But
it feels as though Your maybe because you felt
it before But like your strength of will is holding
better this time you don't feel like before it
felt as if it was like reverberating through
like Your whole being it doesn't really feel
that way now it feels almost as if it is like
bouncing off of you or around you like you are
Protecting yourself from it in some way. However,
it's incredibly painful and it makes your head
spin And you pass out and collapse If you don't
take any damage, you're just unconscious. How
many hours has it been since between, like as
the interval between? Like eight hours? About
10, I think, something like that. Nine hours?
Yeah. It's like kind of like early -ish morning,
like not really early in the morning, not just
after sunrise, but like... when morning is fully
established and then again when like night is
fully established so it's probably like yeah
it's probably like 10 hours when dart passes
out i want to run over to him and just kind of
like what the fuck is wrong see dent passed out
last time and i didn't hear anything she's like
kind of panicking just shaking dart william to
wake up um okay um What are you doing to try
to wake him up just shaking him? I thought you
were gonna catch me. No, she's not that good.
Roald does like a stray d20. He's gonna be shooken.
That two crew, baby. Okay, yeah, that's valid.
He is fucking out. He is out. He's like a limp.
Bring it up! Rain. she's just like holding darts
like with body just get hers over rain my friend
no um dot and now we're almost okay um you guys
I've got more to do than this and I take his
harmonica and I blow it straight in his ear.
11 plus what would that be? Performance or like
musical bard stuff? We're trying to wake him
up. We'll say... You could do like a performance
or like medicine maybe? Medicine would be a 9,
so it would be a dirty 20. Okay, so with a dirty
20, um, his like sort of eyelids start to flutter,
um, dark. Make a constitution save. What's that
bitten? He doesn't wake up. Are you dreaming
of you and your uncle when you heal him, Monica?
He is not. oh there's no there's just darkness
oh my god he is dreaming it is not of his uncle
oh right this is gonna sound crazy stick with
me i think we should pray i look at drift i i
don't i don't know um uh he will cast uh cure
wounds on you um at like fourth level What level?
Cheese and crackers. Yeah, no, he's like really
like trying to throw it in, you know what I mean?
I think we should do something. Dart, you can
make a con save. So at a minimum, Rain is holding
Zavari's hand because she's freaking out. 13.
13. His heartbeat is steady. His eyelids flicker
again, but he does not awaken. And he's been
out for like 10 minutes. Oh, Jesus Christ. I'm
praying to somebody. And he's like, it's not
like he doesn't like if that makes sense. It's
not like his heartbeat isn't fading. He's not
like dying. He's just completely unconscious.
And you are dreaming a dark dream. of the hop
can wake up wake up dark fades into the dream
in your dream you hear the hum of whatever it
is that is that has been disturbing you um it
echoes through a vast void of smoky blackness,
and you feel like you are falling. And as you
are falling, you see the silhouettes of maybe
trees or bushes sort of in the distance. And
as you're sort of falling, they kind of get rapidly,
you know, closer and closer to you and further
in focus and you see a very distinct outlines
of bromeliad leaves and the the silhouette of
a giant spider standing next to the knees of
a cypress tree in a bog and you see that the
the silhouette it starts to kind of like be lit
by a light that feels like it's coming from you
But right as you begin to see your home, it starts
to disintegrate in front of your eyes, degrade.
Much like the ruins around you, it's rapid decay
into nothingness, back into this void. You then
see a You see a pond, like you like plunge into
it almost, but you can't feel it. You can just
see it around you. And it is near a small cave.
And in the small cave, you can see like the silhouettes
of like a very small frog person standing on,
you know, his hind legs. He has like a very like
round, body and um and again this light coming
from you lets you see him and you can see um
he has like yellow spotted skin um and like little
sharp teeth um he's like a grung and you as you
like you know as you like come to recognize what
you're looking at, it also begins to sort of
decay and rot and be consumed. You fall until
the foliage around you that you're falling through
starts to resemble the jungle that you were in
and that is when you sort of turn and you see
what you are falling toward and you see A massive,
menacing, spectral scowl. A signature pig nose,
heavy brow, seething anger in its hollow eyes.
Burning pin bricks of red hatred. And you are
falling towards this being. And that is the nightmare
that you are having while you are unconscious.
Your friends are trying to wake you up. What
do you guys do? Punch him. Punch him. Punch him.
I don't want to punch my friends. You're so tempted
while you're back by bed to be like, get out
of there. No, wait, that was wrong. Not get out
of there this time. I don't want to punch my
friends. I will punch my friend. No, you can
hold hands and pray to Sylvanas. I tried suggesting
that. Everybody looked at me praying. Well, well
what? Nothing, my friend. It was, you're right.
I wasn't trying to steal your idea. We'll do
what we need to do. And for the name of Darn.
Well, do we hold Dart's limp hand? Just take
a limp hand. Yes. It's like slimy. Now lead us
in prayer. Yes, to the almighty oak father, Sylvanus,
we call upon you. We smoke weed in your name
every day, smoke weed every day, and we... humbly
beg you to return life and constitution and will
to our dearest friend, Dart of the Hopkins, so
that he may finish his most noble quest. Thank
you, Golden Oak Father. Amen. Hallelujah. It
just arms flop from Dart. Green for 20. I was
holding hands, but then quickly was lighting
a joint while everyone was standing up and she's
like It just tries to like hit the weed everywhere.
Oh, yeah. Everyone starts vaping and just blowing
their smoke all over her. Oh god, another god.
Vaping the curse. Okay, everybody, we're going
to do a group prayer roll. Ooh, fancies. Knowing
that, like, someone who worships Asvodeus was
praying over me reminds me of that scene in Little
Vicky where the street preacher is like, you
make the Lord very nervous. Man, honestly, fuck
yeah. What's what? Everybody's got an advantage.
Me? Is this just, like, a straight roll? Yes,
everybody. Yeah, it's a straight roll with advantage.
I have a 17 where an at one. I got a nine. Asmodeus
is pissed. I got a 13 and a nine. I got an eight.
Drift got an 18 and a seven. So an 18, a nine,
a 17, an 18, a nine, and a 13. Asmodeus is really
mad at me for praying to another god right now.
Yeah. Oh, okay, I see, I ignore you once and
this is how you fucking act? No, oh shit. Gratty
behavior. Oh, that's really gritty. Oh my God,
I'm gonna, I'm in so much trouble, I'm gonna
have to make it up. I will say, so that's like,
it's not great, but it's not amazing, so I will
say that Dart can make another Constitution save
plus, One for each of his companions, so plus
three. Can Reign even bardo? Yes. Reign, like,
does just like, I believe in you, darn. You shouldn't
have. That is... Eleven. What's the plus three?
No, it's not plus the d6. Well, I have the d6,
because that could make the difference. Six.
You needed a 16 to wake up. So you got a 17.
Yeah, so you guys pray and you vape over Dart
and as the vape clears you see that his eyes
are opening and Dart you wake up to like a haze
above you and a circle of your friends holding
your limp hands. Can you frog loud when you wake
up? Do we feel so honest in this moment? Yeah,
I would say yes. A moonbeam shines down upon
you and there are little fireflies in the moonbeam
shimmering as the Sylvanus is giving you the
most holy of faith. His blessing and it feels
like both sort of like comforting and warming
but also cool like a nice nighttime breeze. Do
I feel that? No. Fuck. Okay. What's going on?
You just feel normal, though. Nothing is a riot.
It's just you don't feel like any sort of...
You do see the light, though, in the... You see
the... I see it from the other side of the club.
Exactly. You see what's going on. You just can't...
You don't feel it. It's not a... It's not connected
to you, if that makes sense. Everybody else feels...
Darn. Darn. Are you... I do now want art of,
like, dart. waking up with like the moonbeam
on him and the fireflies. That would be really
cool. Like a watercolor. Yeah. Like the opening
of Legend of Zelda game. And it might go like
dirt. Before I respond to everything that's happening,
one time when I was in my mid -20s, I got really
high before Thanksgiving dinner. And I sat down
at the table with my entire family. And as we
were all like making our plates, I burped and
smoke came out. Ooh. Oh my god. I've been there
one time, but I was in the middle of like Perkins.
Like I know somebody that that happened to, but
they were in class. But I don't know what happened
after that. Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving
dinner. That's, that's, that's insane. Now you
own a house. But yeah, I would say that It's
one of those weird like they immediately sit
up type of situations And then I throw up my
bug tea Yeah, I'm like I uh, I don't feel so
good guys You look terrible, Dart. I think that
whatever noise I'm hearing, there's some kind
of... Like, I'm the only one that hears it, right?
You guys don't hear the noise? Okay. So I think
only frogs can hear it. And so my theory is that
it's some kind of spell, maybe, that's used to
subjugate frogs. Because it, like, kicks my ass.
Yeah. Have you done a soul check? Oh yeah, soul
check. Sorry, I thought he was dead for a little
bit there. I got scared. I'm gonna check his
soul. Okay. I got Kana. I got a nat 20. I'm gonna
do a medicine check. Nice. With a nat 20, no
change to his soul. It is not more tainted than
it was. It is not less tainted than it was. This
time it seems like... You know, whatever like
it seems like it was the same sort of thing But
he was able to resist it this time or like protect
himself from it this time because it did not
get worse 23 medicine for the 23 medicine check
You can see that Physiologically, he seems worse.
But where um He is not like again, and he's not
like injured. It's like more like exhausted or
like not mechanical exhaustion, but like physical
exhaustion, you know, being hit with another
very intense adrenaline rush. And, you know,
in the span of like less than 24 hours was really
draining for him and really hard on him or really
hard on his body. But he's not going to die.
He's not sick. You don't think that at least
from at least until it happens again, it's not
going to get worse. Yeah. What do you guys think
about how quickly, but I don't know what it is.
Would Daru have spotted anything? What's it,
um... Around that time? Make, uh, have Daru make
a perception check. You're not gonna fucking
believe this. Another nat 20. Wow, that's crazy,
because I have something only if you have that.
Yeah, let's go. Give it to me. Give it to me.
So Daru is flying over the camp. Spots a few
different things, right? So definitely see kind
of sees the goings about sees that there's definitely
like a leader of the camp. and that there is
a trail that leads sort of deeper into the wooded
part of the woad that there's like a secondary
location basically like there's like a trail
that leads to an actual building and it looked
like the building itself so dark kind of swoops
over and the building itself looks like a chapel
or like a church or something, but it's very
old. It's like easily as old as the buildings
that the hunting camp is built on top of. It's
just that like whatever sort of like battle or
whatever that destroyed this area must not have
hit that chapel. You know what I mean? So it's
just aged. It hasn't been like battle torn. And
so Dario sees that there's like a clear like
trail and there are there's like activity back
and forth to this like outpost. The other thing
that Dario notices with the nat20 While the noise
is going off. So like Daru doesn't know that
the noise is going off Daru can't hear it. Yeah,
Zavari can't hear it You only know because you
see how Daru is reacting and as you see you see
how Daru is reacting you look through Daru's
eyes like really quick, right and you're like
scanning below at the camp and you see That one
of the orcs is doubled over His hands are on
his knees And his like face is wrenched in pain.
He kind of like staggers and takes a step backwards
and holds his ears and grits his teeth. And you
kind of like flash back to seeing Dart and you
see that Dart is passing out. You look back at
the orc and he passes out as well. This orc specifically
he has he has like a long um he has like a long
ponytail that has like the knots in it it's not
necessarily a braid if that makes sense i don't
know what it's called that's kind of how i imagine
him um and he looks to be of like a semi higher
ranking member like you can tell like there's
like people that don't have like unique gear
or like they have like kind of you know bottom
of the barrel type gear that are kind of running
around he seems to have like nicer stuff and
and um he just seems to have like a slightly
higher station um perhaps like a captain of some
sort or like um like a middleman you know um
and he has um uh he has a blue uh a blue uh what
is that what is that what is that turquoise sorry
blue turquoise like a necklace and that's kind
of like the things that like make him stand out
from the other works like just from a glance
but yeah you can see that he too was like holding
his ears and wrenching in pain and then he fell
over and passed out at the same time it was happening
to dirt mm -hmm fuck it's not just a frog it's
not just a frog thing it's something else what
the fuck is this I think we should find this
guy in question. Oh dang, I just remembered what
I wanted to write back to taste. Wake up thinking
about my man. Okay. Well, I was gonna ask him
to send me all the information he can possibly
gather on Androm. Because I don't know anything
about it. Don't we have a sage? Oh yeah, my sage.
Yeah, you should ask Sriwarden. Yeah. Yeah, but
you should tell taste what kind of scrolls you
want Yeah, you should tell the DM what kind of
what kind of scrolls from deep magic you want
so I can pull out some cool shit and you will
We will get together Yeah, if you would rather
me give you a list and then you pick from the
list that's fine But I was hoping that you'd
give me an archetype to start bro. So I didn't
have to just look at all the spells You're a
little of everything probably right? Yeah, yeah
Give me a buffet of options. I'll give you guys
a buffet. Thank you a little divination Lucky
for you. I have some free time tomorrow. So I
was like you do what's going on? I was like,
I won't be home Anyway, so yeah, I will give
you a menu but Role -playing wise you told taste
what you were interested in and then he sent
you that shit. Okay, if that makes sense like
players I'll give you a menu so you guys can
pick the best shit, but sort of wise that's not
what happened. Thank you and For those of you
that were listening at home Forget what you just
heard. You didn't hear it. In fact, you heard
nothing. This got cut out. Everything is like
totally fucking Perfectly improv. Yeah the first
time improv master here I'm not trying to say
a wig over here, it's fine. As my improv is staying
awake. Nice. Yep. I will communicate what I've
seen of the Barbie. I'll have the same page about
it. It's not just a frog thing. For some reason.
What do I have in common with that orc? We don't
know. Why is he hearing it and I'm hearing it?
That's really weird, and why don't you have it
in common with us? The dagger? Didn't you take
a dagger for someone? I killed someone with that
dagger, right? Yeah. Yeah, you took a dagger,
a dagger that doesn't miss. That's true, I did.
Do you want to trade off the dagger? Yeah, that's
possible. Could be. I will say, I think we...
We should spy on this orc. It wasn't like every
orc, yeah. Yeah, I think we should spy on this
orc and find out what you have in common with
him. Well, I mean, I like the theory that it's
a piece of equipment because the one thing that
orc didn't have in common with the rest of the
orcs is that he had unique equipment. So maybe,
like, maybe the head orc keeps the rest of the
orcs. Like that it's like the how they maintain
the hierarchy or something. That's a possibility.
You want to hold a dagger that never misses?
Sure, my saves are great. What saves has it been
making you do? Constitution and wisdom. I have
proficiency in both. Do you hold on to it for
a while? Yeah, I'll hold on to it. Okay, I'm
gonna give her the dagger. Okay. Just in case.
I can have Daru keep spying on this work guy.
Just in case. You said that they were like wandering
off to a chapel in the woods? Yeah, there was
a chapel in the woods that had some activity
going on for sure. I'm sure of the activity though.
I mean, we were already talking about making
things messy. What do we say to stealth and over
to the chapel and have a look -see there? Okay.
Because if some org is doing this it's not just
a run -of -the -mill warrior or it's got to be
somebody that's like Got some magical ability.
Did you say you saw some casters? I definitely
saw some caster types So they've got but they
were also like cooking the perpetual stew. They've
got some kind of ability Chapel is not the only
thing standing for no reason I'd say the chapel
wouldn't be a bad place to start Like you said,
definitely it has to be somebody of some importance.
Obviously, Wren isn't here himself, so... But
something's doing this. Yeah. Maybe it's not
the orcs at all, maybe it's something left over
from the civilization that used to be here. But
if that was the case, why would the orcs hang
around, you know? Right, unless they were done
with it or almost done with it. or they were
benefiting from it somehow. I don't even used
to be here in London. I think we should... Zavari,
I meant to remind you that your god did tell
you something the night that you prayed to him
about the tower. Do you remember? oh yeah um
separate note going forward um there is some
sort of um blind around here of the godly kind
so um if we need to pray to like Asmodeus or
Solanus again but around here um they won't hear
us or see us oh Um, yeah, he had specified the
like tower. Yeah is a God blind. Got the healed
God block on it. Huge fucking map. I apologize.
And it's raining. It's a rainy day. Yeah, it's
raining. It's the middle of the night. This is
the... I don't know if like... our clerical powers
would work there. You forgot. I'm sure. The chapel.
Right. I'm not sure if my warlock powers would
work there. Very unsure. Are you gonna have like
no powers? If I have no powers, then I might
as well go home. I mean, there was a god blind
type deal while we were in the Underdark and
we still did alright. There was? Yeah, remember
we couldn't break back shit. I thought that was
for Curse of Strahd. Was it? It was, yeah. I'm
misremembering. Curse of Strahd is like, uh,
the plate, like, Barovia. Oh yeah. Is, uh, is
a god line. Cause I can't pray to Kelevoor. Yeah.
But you can still access your powers. But you
can still access your powers, yeah. Zafari is
like, I don't know. I don't know what a god line
means. Yeah, that's probably what he told you.
No, he just told her some shit. If I remember
correctly, it was basically like, what are you
doing there? You know, I can't see you in that
tower, right? And she's like, oh, what? He said,
girl, get out of there. So yeah, also, Asmodeus
is concerned about safety being here, so. That's
lovely. This gets more and more concerning by
the second. Says, drift. Rain. Do you agree that
we should check out the chapel because it's the
thing of interest we've seen so far? I don't
know where else to start. So yeah, I mean there's
the hunting camp, the chapel, and then deeper
would be, you know, towns and the tower. There's
that work that you saw collapse. You said you're
gonna have Daru watching. Watching so you wouldn't
be able to have Daru like scout out like the
chapel area for you. At the same time, you know,
I'm curious about blue necklace Just coming out
the way for the job What's up after I just got
off the way to the chapel So if you are to if
you guys decide to travel to the chapel at night
it will take Probably two -ish, three -ish hours
on foot. Which is, at this point, almost long
enough for a dart to speak with animals to wear
off. I feel like you still have a couple of hours
left on it, probably. Oh dang. Do you realize
how far out darts can search? Oh yeah, as long
as they're on the same plane of existence, because
of the pack or the chain, it's like a specific
like warlock thing. She had to like give up other
stuff for this one ability. It does come in handy.
And that's why I have this map ready in case
you did this. Maybe you want to fly over. Tell
me what I see. I should have Darrow roll stealth
and see if anybody spotted him. Trying multiple
times to write characters who use familiars and
they never come out satisfactory. Dirty 20. Fine.
Fine. I know, I'd be pissing you off. Whatever.
Nobody fucking spots him and shoots him all dramatic
last second. Have a cool scene in a moment where
you're like... Fine. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Fine. That's whatever. Nothing but dopamine.
So, are you guys going to go ahead and approach
the chapel? Not before I cast Pass Without Trace
on us. Nice. You cast Pass Without Trace. I want
us all to be nice and stealthy on our approach.
Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. I was ready for
some higher stealth now. Oh yeah? Now you're
a lot stealthier now. Indeed, indeed. Where did
that art of stealth come from? From the frog
and the book. This is just power. Yeah, okay.
I'm good with that. Okay everybody, roll your
stealth checks. We're just kind of using broad.
Drift got 22. He actually rolled pretty low,
but 32. Jesus. 26. Okay. Yeah. So you guys are
very like stealthily in sync as you are slinking
through the dense jungle. Dart, you can hear
fucking animals talking all around you still.
You guys are sort of getting closer to the clearing.
So there's kind of like, doesn't have to look
super big still. There's like these, like there's
these like elevated portions, if that makes sense.
Like it's starting to get rockier as you get
closer to the main ruins. So there are these
like steps that kind of lead up into this like
old pathway that is much more overgrown than
this map may suggest. But just, you know, use
your imagination there. But you guys like are
getting sort of to the edge of the clearing,
you know, somewhere around this area. And that
is when Dart You see two orcs walking together
towards, like, the big tree. And they're kind
of casually talking. And, I mean, at this point,
you know, Dart, I'm assuming you're leading because,
you know, you're Ranger. So, yeah, you see two
orcs and they're talking and they're actually
very casual, like, if that makes sense. They're
not, like... They don't have like their garden.
They're not looking for something. They're walking
together to a spot. Can I hear them? Yeah, if
you got like a little bit closer, yeah, you could
hear them. I don't need to get closer. If I can
see their mouths, I can read their lips. Fair
enough. I have observant. Hell yeah. Observant
frog. I can read lips in languages I know and
I know Orkish. Yes, that is very true. This comes
in super handy for your ears. And look at how
niche things come up. Me too. I'm always looking
for opportunities to use the I can read lips
from a distance. So one of them goes, did you
hear what Oog said? That fucking idiot, yeah.
The frog king? Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah.
You know, Thick Gut was talking some shit about
something like that too a couple weeks back.
I think they're starting to get paranoid. There's
no way these frogs can hurt us. Yeah. They're
probably too afraid of getting eaten to even
try attacking us. Which is funny because we're
going to fucking eat them anyway. Yeah. And they
kind of like to laugh and they start taking a
piss together, you know, on like one of the trees.
Do they cross the streams? No. And they laugh
and they say, they say, like, we should be like
we could ever be afraid of some fucking Galgor.
Galgor. Which is a slur for a frogkin. You can
get it. You've never heard this slur before,
but you immediately feel it. It's new. It is
new. It means junk food. They leap out of the
bushes and murder the frog. With their dicks
in their hands. Oh my goodness. New, they have
a different race as well. Yeah. They're like,
yeah, we would be a race. I'm a fucking cow whore.
Yeah, it's bullshit. Heart G. Oh yeah, two hard
G's. And the arm. They got it all. Excuse me
while I look at four slurs. Besides, you know
Zogar has got our back. Yeah, that guy was a
fucking tank. What does that mean? Yeah, thanks
to him I can rest easy. Who was him? Zogar, the
Fierce. Uh, Zogar better have a fresh set time.
You better not let LaCara catch you though. Oh
yeah. Once she caught me slacking behind the,
uh, well, once she caught me slacking and, you
know, I ain't quite been the same since. You
heard what she did to, uh, you heard what she
did to Lobb, didn't you? Okay, I know. He's got
a red cap now. Definitely don't want that. Yeah,
they don't want that. They want to be turned
into some kind of weapon. Not fluffigans. Sorry,
I was reading work slurs. Fitness, that sounds
good. Yeah, so that's what I mean. They finish
taking their piss and they start walking back
and they go, So if it wasn't a frog, what do
you think killed him? Eh, some idiot adventurer
probably. There's always one or two wandering
around here. Okay. I'm taking your lead, sir.
We didn't win one good thing though. Because
they don't take us seriously, that can work to
our advantage. I don't want to blow our surprise
just yet. Let's get closer. Okay, you guys resolve
to get closer. Another self check. Dirty 20.
29. Because it passed without trace is still
up right? Plus 10. Yeah, so 29. 36. Damn. Drip
got a 17. With a plus 10? Son of a bitch. Damn.
Should I roll for that one? But no cat -like
stealth? Better, they don't notice them anyway.
Damn. Yeah, so you guys get closer. There are...
There are even more orcs here than there were
at the hunting camp. There are very clearly casters,
sort of like heavier melee -looking orcs. There
are scouts. There are guards. There are drakes.
And you've heard mention of, you know, some leaders.
Maybe this is where the sound is coming from.
Maybe. Thank you for listening to Roll Forth.
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please stay safe friends. So it is like night
ball, but it's not like super late. I want to
say it probably got dark around like eight or
like, you know, really truly dark around eight.
It's probably like eight. It was probably like
830 when you guys like scouted out like truly
scouted out the area and so you probably started
going. So I mean, yeah, it's probably about 11,
right? Because I said it was about three hours
to the chapel. So if you get to the chapel, yeah,
it's probably about 11. So it's 11 o 'clock at
night. You guys are creeping ever closer to this
outpost of sorts. And the camera zooms out and
pans south, very, very far south to Castle Rend.
Oh, no. Walking or I should say rolling down
the road towards the castle gates is a familiar
long -legged friend, previously had two long
legs, now has one and a half. The firbolg that
you saw in the forest and helped him out as a
bear trap. He's currently using a wheelchair
and is approaching the gates of Castle Rend.
One of the guards, I can't remember that one
girl that you guys actually like the one lady
who's not racist. Who knows what she's doing.
Yeah, she she calls out and she says, say your
business it's it's late. Oh, oh, oh, my apologies,
my apologies. I don't really like, you know,
time is an illusion. Because it is. I didn't
really consider that it might be late. I'm not
trying to be rude. As you can see, I'm actually
friends with King Dot. He's like, what's the
password Dart sent me? All right, come on, let's
go. And I was hoping to have an audience with
him. They kind of look at each other, and they're
like, well, what's your name? And he's like,
well, you know, my kind don't really have names.
So some people call me Slim, some people call
me Tall, some people call me Leaf, some people
call me Spruce, some people call me Bamboo, some
people call me Flavidar, and some people call
me Fluttermane, and some people call me... And
he's just going on and on, right? And she's like,
OK, OK, OK. You know, King Darkwood knows somebody
like this. And she's going to make an insight
check. All right. Well, come on in. And they
open the gates and let him in. He wheels in.
And they closed the gates behind him. And the
guard lady that was speaking to him runs down
the stairs and kind of goes to talk to him. And
she's like, well, you know, I'm sorry to tell
you that Kingdorf's actually not here right now.
And he's like, well, that's really strange because,
you know, I heard that he was in Dalrass. And
now he's not here either. And the... Fyrbolg
stands up on one leg and her facade drops. In
a mist appears a ghostly elven figure with white,
moonlight hair and a pale, sort of like cream
and lavender dress with like these long ethereal
chains that sort of blow around her. She has
a very gaunt, very thin face and a very high
proud posture and she must floats over the ground
and she says where is king dart