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show greetings creatures from the earthen plane i'm shraya flynn oma and i'm your dm ethan welcome to

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venture forth

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[Music]

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so [Music]

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previously after leaving xavier and zeta in addersfeld you made your way back to hayfried's void where a couple of

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healing potions were created and distributed and a plan was formed in order to get over to the dakir ruins a

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slight detour to the south towards westbury through to nestle valley and then up towards the dakir ruins with the

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goal of letting a graham bludron senior know that his son

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graham bludron jr had passed away um you guys had made your way from

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marstock taking most of the day and gotten to westbury and once you were at westbury once again

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sold your your horse made a little bit of a profit and had settled down in this

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nice inn you all had fallen asleep and as the morning

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once again wakes you what are you all doing [Music]

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i'm all alone in my room i don't think i've been alone

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in a very very long time um

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can i hear anything coming from the walls make a perception check

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[Music] eight eight

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you hear some birds outside but that's about it do i know which rooms like

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do i know if like someone's next to me like if calic is next to me or a flynn or do i yeah so when you when you walked

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up you would have known sort of who was in each room as you all distributed um so you are in if you're going down the

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hallway you are in the first room on the right shraya is on the second room on the right kellick is on the first room on

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the left and flynn is on the second room on the left

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so i could knock on the wall and reach tria

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possibly you're not sure how thick the walls are cool um i'm gonna go close to the window

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i guess okay and knock on the wall

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um do i get it i can hear this right you could hear the knock you couldn't quite hear her talking

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what's going on and sort of rouse would get off you can tell us i'm in the window though right like close to that the wall sort of near

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the window yeah okay press my ear to the window

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i know the wall and and knock back so the game is

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oh my here knocked back tria is that you

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didn't hear that can i hear that i'm gonna say no the walls are just too

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thick to be able to hear someone's voice i try to do a little rhythmic

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uh knocking to try to echo with the like

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little try to do a little pitter-patter call and response style okay i'm gonna call and respond right back

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um and then i'm gonna go to the window and push it open and yell out trial

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try very clearly from your open window you can hear oma yelling out hey

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all right open up the window look out uh good morning

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i'm gonna my like half my body is outside of the window good morning oh very chip of this one um

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i'm not used to having my own room yes it's been nice solitude

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oh nice well i just knew i suppose um

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take them over uh sure if you if you don't mind i've uh done a couple things with the place that

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i knew that it wouldn't disturb anyone and i look around at the room and take in all of the different

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vine growths and mosses and just ways that i've just decorated the room

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[Music] did you make a bunch of vines again

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i just did you helped me sleep more soundly it feels more like home

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yeah do you want help cleaning it up i might go a little bit faster i've i can

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easily do it myself but if you would like to yeah i'll come help and so i'm gonna

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you just hear a bunch of like foot if you're hit i don't close the window so if you're still looking out the window you

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just hear a bunch of like running feet um opening the door closing the door coming over to your room and

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i'm very very fast and then i go at the door oh right turn around i would

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also like to say that at some point before dawn as long as this is where we're starting um i will have like shaken the staff one more time and put

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out the beacon before dawn just in the dark yeah i'm sure just yeah definitely throwing that in there uh opening the

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door uh as the door opens you see these like ruby red and kind of sapphire green

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vines with the uh or sapphire green that's not a color anyway you get the point they're bright colors flowers

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that are descending in the vines down as the door opens come on in i'm on it

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whoa it looks like a forest

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it's much uh much nicer to meditate amongst the

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naturally growing things yeah would you probably make them go away

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though so that kelly doesn't get mad again about leaving the room messy yes that's true that's true

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this and this place is run by halflings it seems so probably can't reach it probably can't

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that's true i start uh putting the tip of the staff and i each one by one these little growths are

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sucked into the staff if you want to just uh start pulling down and putting them all in that one spot in the corner

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there it'll be much faster okay then i'm going to start i'm going to grab one of the vine and just like tug and tug and

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tongue and tug to try and get it down all right um do they hold my weight

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hmm let me see shraya i'm gonna have you make a

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nature check for arcana whichever one you want all right how strong you made these

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vines that was cocked i'm just gonna roll it again

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okay yeah that is a um nature come on i have something nope nothing uh 17 17. yeah they're pretty

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comfortably holding your weight um i like tuck one so that i can like around

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my body and i just like swing for a little bit um

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we can put that one away last but i use it to swing to get other ones

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it's a pool so i'm using it as like a a pulley system of sorts nice

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uh as uh as they're being put away some of the flower caps open and i and have little powders and i'm just gonna adorn

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some of my features with some of the powders uh some of them slightly glow a little bit we're heading into a very dark place

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oh yeah that's true yes flynn you wake up daddy's his head still

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perched on the oh my god i left that there i'll uh i'll go over and i'll um put

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them on okay oh you said you wanted to be turned on

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more good morning good morning um it's good to see the morning

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yeah did you see anything last night before you went to bed no just looking at the stars

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would you prefer that i leave you here and go eat breakfast or do you want to come down would you like to stay around

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the window more or yeah if you could just leave me here yeah i'll come back i'll come back up at

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10. okay thanks for talking talking you're welcome yeah i'll have to do more of that

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i'm feeling better good all right i'm gonna go eat sounds good and i'll uh i'll head

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towards the door to open it up and all right kellick you wake up what are you doing

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[Music] damn it

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boy why does everything feel so far away

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when i look out the window what time what time is it um it is early morning um and because this

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town is nestled up right against the mountain you're sort of getting a little bit of

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daylight here but the sun has not risen up over the the peaks of the mountain yet

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better not mess whatever window this is that we have here better go check downstairs about

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how to get to this rail system or whatever

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and i'll i'll quickly don my armor and

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head downstairs and as he opens his door my door opens at the same time and i would just like to

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quietly shut my door as i see no one else is in the hall but him opening his door i would like to

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just shut my door okay kellie what's your passive perception i would like to try and do it quietly 18. uh flynn make a stealth check

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all right let's see stealth

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okay maybe nope um uh the eight an eight um

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caleb you don't catch flynn but right next to you you hear a little click of the door closing

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i observe this [Music] can i surmise that this is flynn's room

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you know that this is flinsor okay i look at the door

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i look down the hallway back at the door i proceed downstairs okay actually daddy

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i might chill in here for a few more minutes yeah go for it it's your room yeah i'll i'll look at the window with you

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seems like a nice day and i'll uh i'll sit up on the nightstand and have my feet out the window just kind of like kicking back

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and forth as i'm just kind of sitting next to that all right um caleb as you get downstairs you are met by oma and shraya

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who have also made their way down good morning [Music] good morning [Music]

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we've got all the strawberries and the jam and the bread and we're just having like a great breakfast i love that

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some bread oh that sounds lovely thank you elena yeah i can would you like a raw berry or

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a jamberry a minute is this

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is that do you have any westberries yeah i think um oh did i get any wet

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i don't think the westbury is a thing i don't know if that's i don't know if it's not they should make it one he said they were local and there's actually a i

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don't know if you have time for this but then i point up toward the little ridge where he had motioned to where the berries were going before or if there's

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i don't know if i'm near a window but there's a patch there's this whole region there's a whole section of

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fields and fields of these things that way well uh we'll have to see if we have

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time i know um well we don't know what the nature of this caravan or whatever it is when it leaves

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i want to make sure that we don't miss that yes sir it's true try huh yes

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how's your room looking um like a room like a room like a regular

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and you would open the door and see this room it appears like any of the other rooms huh

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all right joel's jacket does it

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i mean it looks better than it did it looks better than it did over the night

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but there's definitely still some stuff in there some residue yeah it looks like some moss yeah there's some

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moss maybe you should do the thing you did before kellic where you dried things out

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because like that might help all right we did a lot of work on it

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already i i helped yes very helpful yes

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i you know i don't have control over much

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and i put my hand on triad's shoulder but it's the little things you know

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that's true so i appreciate the effort that's our last time

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thank you yes but first

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that's right have a berry on a piece of bread is um daisy is daisy around

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uh yeah you see you see daisy kind of just doing her morning tasks uh good morning missus

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hey good morning uh i uh my name is calico i didn't uh

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apologize i wasn't in much of a state to carry a conversation last night before we got him no worries at all um

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uh we are uh curious to the the there's some sort of braille system

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through the mines oh yeah you guys were all gonna uh go over there and be hopping on

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i get going if i were you um it's gonna be heading off probably in the next couple minutes or so can you can you

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direct me to where it would be yes you're gonna obviously leave here and then you're gonna walk down the street

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and then you're gonna take a right after that general store you're gonna go past the uh the the area um the stables and

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then if you keep going there uh a couple streets over you're gonna take a left and you're gonna see pretty much a huge entrance into the

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mountain you'll be set from there wonderful uh it'll be right at the front of the entrance there's no way you can

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miss it if you head in that direction and she points no way you can miss it well we better go

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then yeah uh did anybody here at the top you'll just hear my door

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shut and i'm like i come down the stairs morning morning morning mr fellow weave hey good

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morning david davis just told us here that we got to go pretty quickly oh um is there

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anything i could take on the go and she looks over to your table that's filled with bread and berries oh jam

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i think we might have to leave it's been here i will carry it as long as i can

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all right let's go and i'll grab a piece of bread with jam on it and uh fling my backpack with the thaddeus over it

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okay let's do it thanks so much welcome anytime thank you daisy anytime hopefully we'll be back through here

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that would be wonderful and as you guys head out um shraya

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trailing behind uh let's let's call it trailing behind with this huge crate fairies that has

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barely had a dent made in on it you guys round the corner round another corner and right there you see this

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massive entrance to the mountain you see these wooden support beams and right in

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front of the mountain you see these two carts on rails um

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it's actually each one of them are actually several carts but you see the two rails going into the mountain

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and you see on the front and on the back of them two other carts and it's got uh

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one of those like push levers where one person stands on one side and the other person stands on the other and one person pushes down and

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the other person pushes down in order to make this thing go um and as you guys uh

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approach you see that there is a dwarven man standing right at the front of one of these carts as he blows his

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whistle loud and they just begin moving do you guys begin picking up the pace a little bit way

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hold on and they slow down just a little they don't stop moving but they slow down just a little bit and just enough for

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you guys to to hop on to one of these carts gradients hi do you guys want some berries

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and as soon as you say that um you look into this cart that's about

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it's about five feet wide and about ten feet long and there's like five of them in a row on each of these rails

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and uh you see the faces of it's mostly like dwarven and

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uh halfling people there's a couple humans in there all turn around to you and look at you very curiously you can

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see they've all got these hard hats on they've all got these uh these leather almost aprons and they've all got their

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mining equipment in hand i'm just gonna be muttering under my breath yes feed the extractors

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all right i just figured we could share since they slowed down for us

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without even giving you a single word they'll just look forward towards the mountain as

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you don't want any bears no one even acknowledged you wow

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are we like if we is there's can we sit down or what's the how what's the

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geography of this it is like a big box there's no room to sit uh everyone is

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standing up and you are pretty much shoulder to shoulder with a lot of these people as all of these carts are just

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packed with people is there a roof there's not no it's an open cart are there any other like civilians or it's

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exclusively miners other than this make an insight check for me

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i'm gonna get rid of this dice it's a natural one oh no uh you

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you cannot spot any civilians but it's tough for you to even see where who is in most of the carts

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okay um well then i'll just sort of like shrug

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to the party and just take my just kind of like try to make myself as small as possible on this cart okay

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i suppose it's only gonna go the one direction i mean i think these people live in

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westbury so at night it'll come back right and are there lights on this thing are there

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lanterns or anything are there lanterns above us um you see as the the train begins to to move in um you see along

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the interior of this massive tunnel that goes through the the mountain um every once in a while there are

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torches and and sconces lit um lighting your way through the tunnel it is still very dim light but at least you know you

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can sort of see your hand in front of your face i'm inclined to give us more light but i

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don't want to draw too much attention to ourselves what do you think [Music]

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um is there a way to do it like inconspicuously

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uh i don't think so i'm gonna stomp the staff a couple times against the base of

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the thing and you just did druid craft but you just see this smallish little pale uh

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pale glow coming out from okay that's with druidcraft yes okay

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yeah um it it lights up a very tiny area around you um

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makes the the you're able to see just a little bit more within this cart but it doesn't

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even extend out beyond the cart that you're in and as i do that as that light emerges the little uh like and specs

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that i'd put across my face uh switch colors and go from like a little green into a little uh a little blue i'm going

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to uh pull from my pack uh a stick of uh a candle

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and uh uh i will take my cloak and cover it and just say

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us and i will light up the candle with the light cantrip and if i keep it covered

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by the cloak it will not be visible to others but i can i have it if we need it

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okay just so we have a little private lighting okay um all right but uh

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with that you guys um continue on this cart it's it's relatively uncomfortable

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and every once in a while there'll be like a shifter or a bump in the rail and the cart will sort of um jerk to one

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side or the other and a bunch of people will be like um like lose their balance and you all

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have to sort of keep your balance all together as people are like ramming into you um but over the course of the next hour

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you guys are able to travel completely through the mountain unobstructed i'm gonna be eating berries the whole way

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okay you are eating berries um but after about an hour you see off in

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the distance the light at the end of the tunnel and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and you guys are greeted by

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daylight on the other side of this mountain and fresh air uh and as the

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the light starts to almost burn your eyes as you spent this last hour in in

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almost complete darkness you have to adjust yourself and refocus your eyes but you immediately see as

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you're feeling these carts start to slow down you see all this industrial equipment around you all these metal

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tubes that are going into and out of the mountain these metal structures and almost

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structures reminiscent of what you saw in the previous mine that was housing the the fire giant babies um almost this

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this just massive industrial um architecture here

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and as you look around you can see a couple of um like spots of residential where maybe people live up on the up on

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the hill to your left but for the most part it seems that this is a completely

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mining centered town as your cart comes to a complete stop everyone unloads and begins to head

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towards the center of this industrial complex and as you look forward towards towards

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where all these people are heading you see a massive hole in the ground this thing is

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probably half a mile in diameter and goes straight down you see some

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safety railings and support columns that are lining the outside of it um and as a lot of these miners and workers

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approach this massive hole in the ground you can see them loading up onto elevators not dissimilar from the ones

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that you saw in the prison in oak inspire so looking around at all of this what are you guys doing uh any

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any sigh of relief that i might have taken as the light you know slowly got bigger and we exited the area any sigh

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of relief when i do start to visit physically untense and maybe eat berries a little bit at a more slow pace uh but

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any of that relief is immediately wiped out again as i see all of these pools of industry and as we approach the whole

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the this massive hole i immediately like brustle back up again and tense up again not quite to the

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panicky degree where i was in the tunnel but to a different frustrated degree and as you do um some people are still

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unloading from the cart and a dwarven man sort of pushes up against you and almost like just bumps and rams into you

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and he goes welcome to nestle valley as he continues on towards the

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towards the mine welcome do i hear this yeah you you're all sort of in the same group excuse me

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sir yeah this is nestle valley it's nestle valley this pit

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you're looking at it all right uh

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thank you for your kind welcome you're welcome and he gives you like this this exaggerated like royal bow of

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course he does he takes his he takes his uh hard hat off as he gives you this bow puts it back on and begins

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i just give him a withering unflinching glare all right so uh looking around you see

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the mine in front of you you see all of these industrial looking buildings um and then you see a small

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little residential area where are you guys off to um i'll turn to flynn

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uh you know what we're doing here then i'm not looking at kellik um yeah i mean

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i would just go to the residential area and i'll like point up to the houses and you all see um

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30 maybe 35 of these houses that are these a-frame houses that the roof goes

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all the way down to the ground in this a-frame and they're sort of just scattered along the hillside there

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you see a couple of like small maybe gardens personal gardens there

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but not very many houses i'll start uh i'll just start walking towards them okay i'll follow flynn if there's any

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opportunity for me to like sideways go toward her detour toward any of the entries to the pit i'm gonna do

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that is if that's possible along the way they're sort of in opposite directions

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you've got the mine right in front of you and then the houses are off to your left so there's yeah there wouldn't

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really be a good way to hit both so uh and in that case

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once a second flynn i dropped something i'm gonna uh sort of whisk over and just do a

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little leap and then dive toward the entrance to one of the holes uh and and as i do that i'm just gonna

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like tap the crystal to my head and you see this weird like wisp puff come out the bottom of the of the staff as i'm

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gonna druid craft the smell of a skunk at one of the entrances okay um

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that that that by the way is in the actual i know that's why i'm having a hard time with it the first time you've used it

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as described make a stealth check all right as you're casting this

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okay that's gonna be oh oh boy

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uh yeah uh oh okay uh ten ten late for that yeah i know right um

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as as you do that you look and you see some of the the dwarves and halflings and humans like

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starting to look around at each other and you can see the like repulsive uh nature in their face and you look down

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and you see the same dwarf that had pushed past you look up at you hey

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oh don't worry i got it and he flips you off [Music] [Laughter]

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right back at you and i race and i put my staff right in the middle of my hand and like

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hold it up as if as if the staff is is the same thing are you flying by the way uh no i will have landed to like

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disperse that cloud and then um and then as i as i do that yesterday

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see you on the other side so i go over and we try to rejoin flynn okay

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um yeah as you were approaching um and any flight time that you had you would see

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into this mine and looking uh once again very reminiscent of the

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prison in oak and spire where it's just a single massive tunnel that goes straight

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down um and you could see like series of um circling staircases

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that go all the way down and every once in a while there's a tunnel that goes into the earth outside of that that one main

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structure um but this looks it's just a massive hole in the ground half a mile

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wide oh my god but as you join the rest of the group wince you all head over to the houses what are

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you doing um is there anyone out on the streets that we see that we can talk to

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yeah there's not even actually really any streets you could see a couple of paths or like paths like moving up to a

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couple of the houses um but at this point uh you can just hear uh back where

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the the carts were you can hear that same um man who had the whistle before continuing to whistle uh now as everyone

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is moving off and as he's whistling you can see um a couple of figures leaving the houses putting their hard hats on

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putting their uh leather aprons on and walking out um you see

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you see a total of seven figures you see um three dwarves

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you see two halflings you see one human and you see one goliath

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um i will look at the goliath they look old

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um yeah you could see like some some salt and pepper in uh in the hair um and i

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mean the the very large like bone structure of goliath but relatively

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thin compared to the glass that you've come across i'll uh approach that

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um figure okay uh hi excuse me hey hi um my name's flynn fellow eve

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and i'm a part of the ironlight collective [Music] um

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very nice to meet you flynn um give a moment to talk

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i i've got to get to work i'm sorry what was your name my name is graham

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people around here call me senior i will uh pull out the letter

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okay been sent here by the iron light oh my son send you

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like i said i i think we should talk [Music] and you see

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the little color that is in his his ashy goliath complexion just like leave his

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face and he takes his hard hat off i uh

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i think i might be taking the day off um you want to come inside yeah

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i have some friends uh i have some patriots that uh accompany me do you

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okay if they come with yeah all your friends i'm just like looking over into the pit

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i'll uh catch one's eye and i'll just wave them over um

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as they see me follow the goliath and as you all enter his home um you can see

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it's it's very small and cramped whereas um

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uh the in that you guys were just in was small and cozy this is small and cramped and you

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feel claustrophobic you can only imagine how he is on this um and uh he walks in i uh

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i had some tea on earlier it might be a little cold but if y'all want a bit of

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tea got some on the counter over there i'm okay

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ah if there's no trouble yeah yes thank you right over there and you can see a teapot in a couple of cups

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would you like some i'll probably i've had my fill for the day right and i'll help myself with some tea

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um i will also have something please uh have a seat a couple chairs i'll sit next to the chair that he sits

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next to or across from the chair that he's a little feet dangling my trying to not

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let them tank okay yeah um and i'll lay the letter down on the

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table [Music] so i'm here to

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uh i didn't i know i know i figured

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um i looked up to him

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yeah so did a lot of people he was pretty tall

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and he just has a little bit of a smile going across his face

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i um i was in the uh i was in the requisite

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i came across this letter and i just had to come

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i i appreciate it um i haven't really had word back

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i didn't say anything no how how long ago did you send this letter it was

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probably the best part of six months ago [Music] i mean i came to my own conclusions when

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i didn't hear anything back did you reach out at all other than the letter i i well

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over over the time i probably sent out maybe three letters

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but i mean with the war going on you know how letters mean that place is piling with

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work so i just get lost um

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i i've started to come to peace with it um when no letters were returned and

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neither was my son so well

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i'm here to [Music] help i know there was

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more to the leather than just to see if your someone's okay i um

34:28

i don't want to put that on you i i appreciate you coming all the way out here um and i'd love to offer you all lodging

34:35

for as long as you need it but i there's nothing left to do but to get

34:41

back to work you said something about drow i yeah

34:47

i don't i don't yeah i don't know how much uh

34:52

i had hopes that perhaps my son would you know bring back perhaps an army that

35:00

would help us but that's not the case

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what's wrong [Music] well uh we got an issue where [Music]

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these drow keep coming up from under the surface and they uh

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they keep making their demands and demanding that they they take over our mining operation

35:25

are you which put me and all of my people here out of out of work [Music]

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i'll turn to mariah who sat down with me i'm very firmly standing by the door um

35:44

i'm drinking tea with the intensity of an owl like hunting for a mouse in the grass

35:51

like with that level of observance to me just for

35:56

just a question do i know what i would need to do just to punch the card

36:06

um i would have to take care of that you would have to come back with some sort of proof that the mission was completed

36:12

right take that in whatever direction you would like

36:19

maybe we can just talk to him [Music] hey we've tried talking plenty of conversations have happened

36:26

but i'm not leaving my people and they don't seem to be relenting

36:33

are you digging into their home or something i

36:39

i am not in charge we've been digging here for centuries and just not me personally but now they

36:45

just started showing up yeah how long ago did they start showing up

36:50

oh well i mean junior went over to the iron light

36:57

right after they came back for the second time that was probably

37:02

a year ago okay so they recently showed up so it's probably not their home

37:08

i'll look to to the group you say they want to take over your operation i put my tea down on them

37:16

they that's that's what they've been negotiating is uh taking over

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the uh the mine here that myself and my family has worked so hard to to

37:27

to work on i should give

37:32

a death glare i sort of hold a hand up the shire

37:38

so you gather that they want to continue the dig not halted

37:46

[Music] i mean i i don't know what their

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situation is i i'm not even necessarily the one speaking to these drow um it's

37:56

it's the uh the head of the company down there i you know information travels though

38:02

your letter was written in some urgency was there violence was there a fight

38:08

more and more of our people have gone missing and

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well the one conclusion that we can come to is that it's the drow taking them that's a folk come to that conclusion

38:21

what manner of minerals are you extracting here all types of minerals

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anything unusual anything we come across um

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every once in a while there will be uh something particularly valuable that we come across

38:40

that uh you know when it's discovered everyone is cleared out and uh a

38:46

an expert is brought in to investigate make sure it's it's what we think it is and then a specialized team comes in uh

38:53

sort of keeps some of us from our sticky fingers you could say what

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kind of special thing an artifact mostly gems in mineral no i

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even come across any artifacts mostly natural materials um

39:11

what about fireflies by any presence down here

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i mean i've seen a couple i know that there's a couple nests

39:23

down there we're supposed to be staying away from those and and once we find one we're again supposed to report it um

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i've only seen maybe a nest or two but i know they're pretty common once you get down into the mines

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[Music] um do i gather that he means

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insect fireflies and not the organization yeah he you you think he's talking about insects yeah

39:48

[Music] right yeah best to avoid those

39:55

taste drow are they associated with an organization uh two crowns uh a banner bearing two crowns yeah

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that's that's the ones i like to the

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group could try talking to them but they still sound like a dispute between

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your leaders and theirs it's possible you are

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digging into their land i mean as far as i'm concerned

40:26

this has been our land for generations we have a right to to be diving deep and and making our

40:33

fortune here why not exterminate the fireflies while you're at it

40:39

who gets to decide who owns land underneath the ground

40:45

you might own it up here but

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that doesn't it was my understanding that the iron light was coming to help our problem

40:55

not to question everything that i pose well i don't really know how the iron

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light works so i'm not part of them um so i'm clearly not talking to the right person um sir what are you

41:08

proposing that we do in order to to rid this situation before it escalates yes do you think we should go

41:14

uh cut the head off of one of these uh drow i mean maybe we should have checked the letters and seeing if the drow sent

41:20

a request for help and then maybe we should help them too uh for the first time i actually look at uh

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uh kellik and just like catch his gaze for a bit and like squint

41:32

and i look back at um graham [Music]

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i'll talk to him all right i

41:44

very much appreciate that um they they just came the other day um so

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they i mean with the frequency that they arrive it's probably going to be another week before

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they come back up so they won't come back in

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i'm willing to give you lodging i'm not sure about all your friends here but uh you if you're willing to help i can uh

42:08

keep you here for a week feed you and keep you warm

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if they're not coming back for a week i'll come back in a week

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i don't know the exact timeline of these drought or we go fine i'm just talking about the consistency with which they've

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been coming so far [Music] where do they normally come out from

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they normally come up through the uh through the mines [Music]

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and there's been more and more of them every time they've come up i'm thinking it's an intimidation

42:44

uh free information and we will look into it

42:50

i appreciate you being here and i i appreciate the news that you brought it's uh

42:56

gonna keep the mind from wandering yeah

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sorry that's okay

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[Music] well i'll let you

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get back to it if you don't mind and if i have permission from all of you i'd like to get back to work

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as he puts his hard hat back on and leaves through the front door passing by shraya

43:25

and as he passes i'm just gonna whisper if you've ever needed permission before

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damn i'm gonna walk out of the house okay

43:39

and i'm going to start moving in the direction towards the dick ruins i'm going to go wash our teacups

43:46

okay and and leave them [Music] okay

43:51

flynn i will who's still in the house

43:58

is anyone still in the house yeah i'm gonna keep my eyes on kellic until he finished as well i'm still i

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have not moved from my spot by the door

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i'll have noticed nobody's following me and i'll just like stop and turn around and just like look

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at the house not to anyone in particular but i just say to the to the room

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i have to do something well we can

44:30

go down the mines try to find these drow and that's there later it's just what the situation

44:37

actually is about you know almost not gonna do that

44:43

well does beg the question what's our role in a dispute like this

44:51

this is just territorial bickering i know there are two things

44:58

it was a letter sent to the iron light asking for aid and

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it was a letter sent to a son

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that gave his life for the online and if i

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were to die i would like a sentinel to go to my parents and help

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them with their problem

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at least try and if i have to do it alone i will

45:35

well you can saddle us with your martyrdom then because we don't leave you flynn

45:43

i kind of smirk a smile just first second

45:48

all right check it out we don't get answers

45:54

move on come back in a week let's go see if we can catch him

46:05

at least while we're here well

46:12

all right what i think i speak for everyone when i say

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we'll do anything for you but not for the iron light for you

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your damn fool so lead on and where would

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i lot as i've been twirling my staff and my in my fingers and like

46:38

clicking my beak slowly and brave any treachery

46:43

as long as it's in service of you does it seem like alma was close enough

46:49

to you do i see her outside or no she's walked quite a bit away oh i've walked quite a bit away i'm just

46:54

standing so when do i see them walk out of the house yes you do okay i think the runs

47:00

are this way guys who's going where what the ruins are this way

47:06

we're gonna go down alma down where down the mine down the mine

47:12

hi for flynn for flynn down the mine

47:17

we're gonna look into this matter and see if it can't be resolved peacefully i'm gonna look to flynn

47:22

we're gonna go down the mountain i'm gonna look to flynn and i'm gonna i'm gonna look look him up and down

47:29

and i'm gonna say flynn i'll go down in the mine with you but i swear if you try to throw another

47:37

bomb on a group of people that's it that's it i'm not doing it anymore i was aiming at the never mind

47:43

okay yes yeah okay thank you okay

47:50

thank you yeah and i i'm walking and i stop my way over to them and i say look

47:57

i get it flynn okay i get it you want to help everyone and and

48:02

i told kellig last night that we would help people on our way right

48:08

our next step is to help right i really do think that getting rid of these

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chaos agents is what's going to help everyone survive better right and so that's what

48:20

i want to do in order to but we can help people along the way but

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and this is the important part we have to decide together who's who to

48:31

help and who is the right people to help and who is the wrong people to help and some

48:36

first come first serve posting on a notice board isn't what's gonna decide for me who i can help and who i can't

48:44

help right yeah

48:51

i think this is important though because it's one of us

48:56

who's one of us grandmas

49:03

he's not one of us we're the agents of repair i mean

49:08

me he's one of you but you do understand that that doesn't mean that

49:14

the drow are wrong right no that's why i want to talk yeah i'm i'm all for that normally

49:20

we don't get missions to deal with disputes or deal with people it's mostly monsters and beasts

49:28

i think this was special because it was personal it was to a son it was from a father to a son

49:35

and that son is no longer here so i feel like i have

49:42

the duty to pick up this test i understand i get it i do and i appreciate you guys

49:49

all coming to help me with savior right but i'm not gonna

49:55

kill people just because someone asked for help and that person isn't around anymore you know

50:01

yeah yeah i want to try and solve this piece yes what do you mean by solve

50:07

figure out a solution so everyone's happy

50:12

okay we're not gonna just blow up ships again that was an accident i was aiming

50:18

for the ramp and as uh as i i passed by them during one of these moments like yes yes we

50:24

won't blow up anything as i uh i start dusting off my staff and like

50:30

checking it out and like uh looking into the crystal i blow on the crystal a little bit yes as i grip my beak and say this is

50:37

gonna be fun i just observed these three miscreants and just have a sober moment to myself of just like

50:43

what the what is gonna happen we're so doomed all right

50:49

let's go see if we can find some drought i found one

50:57

[Music] dm can i surmise

51:03

looking around what the like fastest elevator to the lowest point would be amongst these no there is

51:11

there is at least 50 elevators going to unknown depths into this mine

51:18

i could take people down one by one just saying do we see any uh more

51:23

workers in the area like walking around at this point they have all either

51:29

gone on to the elevators or are in the minds is the gentleman blowing the whistle still up front no he's not ever

51:35

so basically there's no one up here right now pretty much no one yeah if we just pick one

51:42

or i could fly in and just see which one looks good like it goes lower

51:48

yes brilliant like someone was just listening to me every once in a while we do

51:55

earlier uh uh kellik you cast light on that

52:00

uh candle do you just want to drop a thing down so he can see i mean he can hold on to it or try is there's

52:06

something you have on yet that i can light up for you i could just like this i uh

52:12

tap the staff again little pale light it isn't very strong but well i can and i will touch the crystal if it wet me guys

52:19

i will standing obese and cast light on the crystal and it um

52:25

projects aim 20 foot uh bright light and then 20 foot after

52:31

that of uh dim light the odd power of this i shudder a little bit

52:36

how it's being created that i slowly accept the oh oh yeah does it work dm yeah

52:43

from the cast um

52:48

uh zac real light on an aldoria staff uh oh it blows off

52:55

it kills everyone in their mind that's a good point it does not no it

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would not work why

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uh that's that's strange uh maybe um

53:12

uh that means um and i'll pull out i'll cut a little bit of rope

53:17

standing over he's gonna light up that rope and i'll tie it around try his wrist like a little just like a little

53:23

wristlet of 40 feet away again i win and cringe a little bit but slowly accept it hold it

53:29

about hold it as you know as far as i can my arm

53:35

out from me all right are you guys picking um i figured try i can just take a look

53:40

right just kind of fly over and see how far down these elevators go and just figure out which one goes the lowest

53:46

would someone like to come with me always oh yes been a while hasn't it yeah here i can hold the

53:52

rope oh that'd be wonderful yeah and i'll just hold it and like aim it and stuff

53:58

immediately relax a little bit more not to be holding this rope i'm ready and i hold my arms out in that t-pose like

54:04

i remember doing way back all right um

54:09

and with that try you take flynn down as soon as you sort of get over that cusp of of earth and can

54:17

actually see down into this mine blin your heart drops into your stomach

54:23

as you see the depth of this thing you can't even see the bottom of it it

54:29

just goes miles and miles and miles into pitch black nothingness um try are you feeling okay maybe we should

54:35

go back i i think i uh i'd like to make one of those advantaged vibes checks yeah yeah go for it go for it

54:42

spooky vibe yeah there we go grab that other 20.

54:50

oh yeah good uh that's a 19. that's a 19. you had anything to it or no no

54:55

wisdom wisdom modifier what's the modifier which i'll weighs them oh uh yeah then that's like a plus four uh

55:01

plus okay yeah 23. you look down and uh

55:07

even for you who has soared high in the sky your heart almost

55:13

sinks and your stomach drops just a little bit um at just the depths of this thing and how it goes into nothingness

55:20

and you get some just general spooky vibes but

55:25

the the feathers stand up on the back of your neck when you just barely think somewhere down there you don't know

55:32

exactly how how far down you hear a scream um

55:39

shouldn't we um spit it out i want to get out of here no yes do we he said they were coming back

55:45

in a week right i mean couldn't we just put this on hold on no okay

55:50

like to keep descending um yeah like i like grip a little i like raise my

55:56

hands up and actually grip onto his onto his uh his legs okay like one hand and the other hand i'm holding just to like

56:02

make sure in case he lets go i'm still holding on to his leg and i'm like oh okay i'm gonna hold the rope out and see what

56:08

i can see elevator wise um okay you can see that uh these elevators do go to like

56:15

various depths and a lot of the times they stop and then there's another hole that's drilled into the earth there um

56:22

but you do see two or three that specifically go further and further and further down

56:27

i see two or three that go further down yeah just looking around there's yeah there's no less than 50 of these

56:32

elevators so you spot a couple that go pretty far down um

56:38

and only one of them the elevator is actually at the top oh

56:44

rap um

56:51

i guess maybe we have to go up because there's only one up there why didn't we look at that first

56:58

there a way we could take a i is there's not one that just goes from

57:04

the surface all the way down i have no idea how this stupid mine works let's just go up and we'll get on the

57:10

one that's up there what well there's only one elevator that's at

57:16

the top no there's a bunch you said there's only one at the top there's 50 elevators yeah

57:22

only three of them go down to the depth beyond that you can see and only one of

57:27

them is at the top okay right so there is only one element one of the elevators that goes down to that impossible depth

57:35

all of the rest of them were occupied by the miners and have gone down into the mine already but we still need to know

57:41

which one that one is yeah they've worked that out yes okay and it's clear that that one actually the

57:48

shaft goes like we can see the shaft for that one from where we are yes you can ah well huh one seems to be uh one of

57:55

the mains i suppose you can call it yeah let's just go take that one let's get out of here yes i agree and i

58:01

immediately like uh pump my wings as like fervently as i can and get us

58:07

[Music]

58:14

it's terrifying um what do you mean it's just really really really really far down again now that

58:20

we're up here uh why couldn't we just wait till the drow they come back we try the emissary of them and they

58:28

probably just want to talk we can talk a week later look at your crystal

58:34

what yes okay um pretty strong

58:41

reach out to petty's feathers that helps i don't know that helps a little bit less than you

58:46

think it does should i keep doing it or no it's sort of nice okay let's get on the elevator

58:52

let's go so it's really out of here soon it's pretty dark but i have this and i'll hold up the

58:58

rope great i'm gonna light a torch and

59:04

run my hands over it um and double it in size nice i'm going to

59:10

cover my eyes a little bit dm to try and begin the process of uh acclimating to

59:18

the darker environment if it hasn't sort of started already i'm just going to try to like solidify my

59:23

dark vision for this moment so it's uh it's this one over here uh

59:29

let's just let's pile in we'd go pretty far down hopefully far enough

59:35

and i'll head over to the elevator that we have determined to be the right one okay

59:42

um so you hop on the elevator and it's a very similar switch system to the the

59:47

prison and oak and spire minus the key um so you're actually able to just go over and pull that lever pull that lever

59:53

and uh you begin pull that lever descending down um

59:59

okay does everyone know about the the shriek or was that joshua i think he made it he made a spooky vibe

1:00:07

i made it but i did not share it yeah uh i'm gonna have you make

1:00:13

a perception check for me to see if you can locate this uh where this screen came from of course

1:00:19

you are 15 uh 15. okay um so

1:00:26

as you guys are heading down you sort of try and hone in your hearing to where

1:00:33

you had heard it before and and you try and locate it and just very faintly you hear it again

1:00:40

and it's still even further down but you sort of get a pinpoint on it

1:00:45

as you guys keep moving down and down and down and down and try you eventually get to

1:00:51

this tunnel where it sounded like this scream was coming from um you see that the elevator

1:00:57

still has the capability to keep going down further and further and further but you're pretty sure this is where the

1:01:02

screen came um every time it goes to another tunnel does it stop for a second and then continue or are we like it's a

1:01:08

continuous thing until you pull the lever back into its position as we approach it i'm going to say um

1:01:14

seems like there's some sort of distress or conflict coming down there as he says this can we hear what he's

1:01:20

talking about now i'm going to have everyone make a perception check for mekidoki

1:01:26

[Music] 15 15 from ulma um

1:01:31

13 for men about 21. another one um yeah yeah i'll try make

1:01:39

another one [Music] nice 23 23 um kelli and schreyer are the only

1:01:46

ones who can hear this as now there's no longer screaming or yelling that you heard

1:01:53

before um but a very muffled echoing off of the walls

1:02:00

i take my hands off of my eyes and you can see that the tinge of the color of them the greenish

1:02:06

color has gotten to a more gray place let's head down this is somebody's in trouble i'll pull the lever and stop the

1:02:13

elevator okay um you stop it right at this tunnel that goes into the uh into

1:02:19

the rock there and it is just it's a like a huge hole it's about 15 feet wide

1:02:24

um and as you guys all run down i'm gonna get a marching order from you guys sure yes

1:02:32

okay you're in the back i'll go behind uh with the

1:02:38

um with the rope that i have glowing i'm gonna be next to shraya because i've got a light i've got the the torch okay

1:02:49

um okay so you guys run down and you don't hear anything for a little bit

1:02:54

but you keep moving and you keep moving you keep moving and each footstep that you take reverberates and echoes off of these

1:03:00

stone walls and you can see areas where the rock has been carved out even more and some

1:03:07

areas where the rock has been left just as the tunnel was created and

1:03:13

eventually you can hear nothing

1:03:18

there's no gasps for help there's no gurgling that you had heard before

1:03:24

there's only

1:03:32

[Music] can we i'm going to like try to be stealthy now

1:03:37

i want to be quiet yeah if we all hear something chewing i'm going to i'm going to like nudge kelly how do we turn this

1:03:43

off i'm gonna hold the rope up i just like wave my hand at him as if to dismiss him but it also dismisses the

1:03:49

spell okay um and as the spell dismisses you are submerged into completely no no

1:03:54

i didn't put my target oh you didn't put your torch out that's right okay gotcha um

1:04:01

i forgot about that torch cool um so as you do that

1:04:06

you guys are sneaking forward yeah i am being quiet can i get a group stealth check can we sneak with light

1:04:14

that's what i was worried about because like they'll see the light coming up that's actually a good point because you guys have the light

1:04:21

disadvantage or not even if if i feel like it would be a problem i might lean over to home

1:04:27

and be like i know we can't see but you guys are in a very dark time i'll let you make the ruling on your own torch you guys are in a very dark tunnel

1:04:34

you did say you wanted to speak it is easy enough to conclude that if you're walking down

1:04:40

this dark tunnel with uh some sort of light that would probably give away your position very quickly

1:04:47

i will leave it up to you ayah can you see with no light only calico oh

1:04:55

i trust him it's not about trusting kelly can't see

1:05:00

anything in front of our faces he can always light it up whenever the danger's there or we can just go in

1:05:06

not surprised but at that point we can't even sneak we might as well just walk in okay i'm gonna i'm going to um

1:05:15

um i'm gonna put it out and i'm gonna put

1:05:23

the torch back um put the um the colder end of the torch back to my

1:05:28

backpack so i can light it quickly but i'm i'm gonna put my hands in front of me and i'm preparing um a fire bolt like

1:05:35

basically if i hear any sound nearby me i'm going to throw a fireball in that direction that's not coming from these okay folks

1:05:42

and i'm going to stomp the staff and just do that small tiny little pale light when the other one goes out

1:05:49

the one that's barely any radiance just enough to see in front of my face i'll just grab on to calyx like cloak or or

1:05:56

something yeah i've grabbed on to try i've got that big heavy coat that i bought if you see anything i

1:06:03

like bite it up the room i mean yeah or or whatever it

1:06:09

is either one you gotta spin all right all right

1:06:14

um roll for stealth now now i'm gonna have you all roll a group stealth check oh boy the role i already had me too

1:06:21

[Music] all right kellock what you got five five

1:06:27

home sixteen sixteen try seven seven am i rolling at disadvantage because i can't see

1:06:34

no or we have enough i'm just gonna have that be a straight roll um i rolled a total of 20. a total

1:06:39

of 20. okay um as you guys are walking down you begin you continue to hear this

1:06:49

you feel like you're moving stealthy enough but okay like just ahead

1:06:56

you see a streak of blood on the ground going deeper and deeper into the tunnel

1:07:04

it is about 30 feet ahead of you where the streak of blood begins

1:07:12

um there's blood we shouldn't we should move quickly if there's any hope of

1:07:19

saving whoever's endangered just light it up and go i think so all right then i'll i'll hold um as i'm holding his

1:07:25

cloak i'll reach into my pocket grab the rope and just hold it and like hit him in the side with it be like hide it up i'm standing nervous and i'll

1:07:32

throw the rope in that direction okay as you throw the rope the entire cavern lights up

1:07:38

and you can see at this point um a dwarven body laying on the ground half

1:07:44

torn open you can see the rib cage beginning to come up and out and just above it

1:07:49

you see a massive green and yellow eye i

1:07:57

you see a massive green and yellow eyeball look up at you and then right next to it another green

1:08:03

and yellow eyeball look up at you right next to it and then right in the middle a third

1:08:10

okay okay and then three more all around it oh are you wait are you hitting me

1:08:16

off of there no way i don't think this is uh real i think uh you should go back a couple of

1:08:22

minutes and we can just re-examine our choices we decided to go to see these three massive eyes all begin

1:08:29

to focus in on you crap well i guess there was no i'm gonna have everyone roll initiative i know you've got your

1:08:35

spell prep so we'll get that in the the surprise round of combat i'm sorry guys if this is below oh no oh now he says it

1:08:43

now he says now that we're staring down oh that's good

1:08:51

remember your training fellow weave yeah flynn what'd you get uh i

1:08:58

rolled decently well i got where's my initiative i got a total of 20. 12 20. yes okay sure

1:09:05

i got a total of 11. okay oma 19.

1:09:17

and kellock uh natural 20. 22.

1:09:22

nice critical initiative great great luck good job

1:09:29

oh boy maybe we can still help whoever it is all right oma um

1:09:35

okay what's the what's the range on your spell 120 feet oh okay then you're you're easily within that range yeah um

1:09:42

okay first round of combat alma gets the surprise round [Music] oh that's a 12 to hit

1:09:48

let me see [Music] a 12 does not hit yeah

1:09:55

is there anything that could catch fire between that i could have hit like when i was aiming for there's that area okay

1:10:00

there is not anything that could have caught fire not on it in that area it's just it's a stone

1:10:06

hallway pretty much okay top of initiative kellic

1:10:13

uh what am i looking at yeah what is first things first

1:10:19

or things um make a uh make a nature check for me

1:10:26

uh 19 19. um you look down and you see these six eyes all looking at you and

1:10:32

you can see like a mass of flesh behind them but as they all look at you

1:10:38

the eyes begin to move independently as all of a sudden one eye moves away

1:10:43

from the rest of the collection another one moves away and you can see that this is actually six

1:10:49

different beings all with one massive green and yellow eye in the middle of their face they're like floating

1:10:56

they're all hunched over this dwarven body ah and they have they have arms and legs

1:11:02

you can see as this this mound of flesh that's been devouring the dwarf moves

1:11:07

you can see that they are they do have two arms and two legs you can see massive claws at the end you can see uh these like

1:11:14

these long withered arms and you can see a series of massive spikes on their back

1:11:20

as this like brown black and pinkish flesh begins to move and separate

1:11:26

amongst the six and there's okay so there's a center mass sorry and that is arms and legs or each

1:11:31

individual eye has arms and legs it is six creatures six individuals when you first walked up it looked like it

1:11:37

could have been one individual with six eyes got it but now that they're like spacing themselves out the mouth

1:11:43

underneath the single digits so it is six creatures bipedal um and yeah underneath this massive eye

1:11:50

they've each got like a mouth with these sharp teeth coming down and the the back of their head

1:11:56

comes to like this ridge down to their tailbone almost like the back of a shrimp about about how big are we

1:12:01

talking um they're large these are uh

1:12:06

medium creatures okay but like big and a little bit bulkier than let's

1:12:12

say kellic okay yeah really cool

1:12:19

love that yeah

1:12:25

are they saying okay uh what what's uh the dwarf is torn in half

1:12:30

uh yes so you can actually see that the the rib cage has been like pulled open and

1:12:38

they were devouring on like the inside guts of it [Music] i take this in

1:12:45

yeah uh i give a look to the to the group and shock um

1:12:53

i'm gonna do two things the first thing is interfecium cornmeal

1:12:59

and i swing my my my my hand down with that without with a mighty swing and i

1:13:05

tear a rift open ah in front of uh

1:13:10

the nearest one to me i'm gonna cast spiritual weapon whoa okay uh which uh yeah this giant rift

1:13:16

opens you can see there's blue uh like within the inside of the rift there's this like blue burning stuff but

1:13:23

as soon as it exits the rift it's turning more and more orange as it exits uh and i'm gonna uh take a swing at the

1:13:30

spiritual weapon okay it is did i use this now

1:13:36

45 feet away just you know okay can i do that then about 60 feet okay

1:13:42

um yeah that's a great fail on the spiritual weapon so there's that swings out of it and it misses

1:13:48

it's there though that's good it's there and then i'm gonna cast um uh uh the other one told the ex

1:13:56

uh and that's a wizard okay that is gonna be a three

1:14:02

three that fails uh so that is five points of necrotic

1:14:08

damage i'm sorry how much uh five five points okay as as the

1:14:15

the flesh around its eye just like starts to sing a little bit

1:14:21

uh and i'm going to stay

1:14:26

stay where i am all right next up in the initiative is

1:14:31

flynn uh right um i will run around kellik

1:14:37

uh and kind of get closer leaving him as the light is now in front i can see i wanna how close can i get to

1:14:43

i can't get within melee right no your your speed is 25 right uh yes you would be able to get to right here i

1:14:50

will get there i will be closer to them you will be about halfway to these bad mama jams and i will

1:14:58

i will uh pull out my short bow stuff okay so we're uh we're not talking

1:15:04

right okay and i'll aim at the one that he targeted uh with the the weapon i saw

1:15:09

the rift come out i see the burn go across the the one and i'm like okay i'm gonna hit that one and i'll

1:15:14

shoot to uh make an attack roll arrows all right

1:15:20

it is a [Music] 13. a 13 does not hit

1:15:26

and oh 12. 12 does not hit either

1:15:33

and uh i i dropped the bow and as a bonus

1:15:38

action um and as the same time i will reach onto my back and slide the

1:15:44

shield onto my forearm and at the same time i hold my hand out into the bonus section i will summon

1:15:50

back

1:16:05

i will if i could i'd like to be like right square in the middle of this um hallway okay so if i could stand

1:16:10

right in the middle and then i'll just be like looking at these things like come on okay you are standing in the middle um

1:16:16

oh right next up in the initiative flynn you're always in the way and i run

1:16:22

forward um and and i run forward to try to get like next to him i don't need

1:16:28

to be in front of him i just need to be next to him you can get there you can just get next to him and um i'm going to

1:16:34

um rub my hands on my legs to try and rub off the sweat of like being so nervous and while i'm doing that it's

1:16:40

going to going to use two metabolic points to cast um quick and spell okay um so the first

1:16:46

spell is at um a bonus action so i rubbed my hands on my legs

1:16:52

and i um put my hands in front of me to try and um to try and make a cone

1:16:59

a fire just like in front of me but my hands are like open too wide because i'm like just finished rubbing the sweat

1:17:05

from them so they don't quite meet and so now my hands are just right in front of me um and there are three rays of just like

1:17:16

you've seen my firebolts before and they're kind of look like they kind of look like that but they're they're like white on the ends so there's this red

1:17:24

flame going towards them with like white all around that flame oh that's

1:17:29

cool so the first i think i do it individual

1:17:36

is it one do you want me to do dm do you want me to make one attack or three attacks

1:17:41

make it make a range spell attack for each ray okay so it's three

1:17:48

national 20 on one nine um

1:17:55

24 on one that hits um and 12 on the other that misses okay

1:18:02

so the natural 20 is an automatic 12 points of damage

1:18:08

okay plus seven plus um

1:18:14

so 17 total okay and the next one that hits

1:18:21

is six points of damage fire damage

1:18:26

all right and then [Music] um i see that two of them

1:18:33

hit and one of them just kind of like fizzled out and so i look at my hands and i like shake them out a little bit

1:18:38

and i um come on and i throw what comes out as a

1:18:44

chaos oh wait wild magic oh no um that's a six

1:18:49

okay i think i was down to one anyway you were down to one yeah um so that um so then uh chaos bolts okay um at level

1:18:56

three [Music] uh [ __ ] that's a 12.

1:19:03

that doesn't hit no and then that's gonna be another wild magic another one that was a spell

1:19:10

natural 20. okay we are at three all right um with that uh a couple of

1:19:17

these nautics are gonna take their turn um on so

1:19:24

as their eyes focus on flynn and alma um four of them

1:19:31

are gonna dash up with blinding speed and make their way

1:19:37

directly up right up against you guys

1:19:44

and there's four of these things dash before you even know it they are face to face with you and just staring you down

1:19:51

um i am gonna have both of you make

1:19:58

two constitution saving throws as these eyes just pierce into your soul i don't like

1:20:04

that both mine failed no what'd you get on both of them um

1:20:12

ten on one and eleven on and on that is correct they both fail uh one is a nat 20 and the other one is a 15.

1:20:19

okay um so blinn you're able to sort of sturdy

1:20:25

yourself and as you're looking back and forth between these two creatures that are like hunched over you and just

1:20:31

staring at you you're able to to sturdy yourself what do i feel is happening um you feel

1:20:37

like like there's some sort of like intrusion on your body you feel like this cold

1:20:44

dark energy as they're not making any physical moves towards you they are just staring at you um oma however you

1:20:52

take the full effect of this i don't know as one of them deals you

1:21:02

[Music] 13 points of necrotic damage

1:21:07

and the other one deals you another 13 points of necrotic damage

1:21:13

and you now have these these terrifying creatures staring down at you next up in the initiative try

1:21:21

oh it's gonna be okay uh i i pace uh i

1:21:26

run up i pull some uh iron dust out of my uh one of my pouches and a little bit

1:21:32

of brimstone as i uh sprinkle that over the crystal in the middle of my staff uh

1:21:39

as i do uh as i tap before i do that i tap it to my forehead and as the

1:21:44

uh powder falls over the crystal almost in a time lapse you see it kind of crumble as if like embers were glowing

1:21:51

in in uh time lapse fast succession like sped up as the crystal sort of dissolves

1:21:57

and flakes off and suddenly in its place uh this burst this

1:22:02

might this tiny orb of flame just starts uh gurgling this white hot

1:22:08

energy in the middle of it i take my hand as i as i draw it uh out and out and out and it slowly

1:22:14

expands in the middle of the staff uh then over between one and two you see a similar mirror image of this giant

1:22:22

sphere of fire billowing out between the two of them uh as i cast uh

1:22:31

blaming sphere okay is that going to be a roll on my under yours yeah that's that's going to be a save uh that is

1:22:37

going to be a deck save for both of them dexterity saving through okay

1:22:44

for testing this at fourth level okay for that first one it's going to be a five fails that fails

1:22:52

next one's gonna be a 19 that one passes okay so so as you uh aim towards these two

1:22:58

creatures uh you can see one of them just dodges out of the way while the other takes the full effect all right so that is going to be a total of where's

1:23:04

my handy andy ass

1:23:16

one takes 11 fire damage and the other takes half of that

1:23:23

okay um and they are not having fun with that

1:23:28

so um in reaction these two things as soon as they they sturdy themselves once more they

1:23:34

dash at blinding speeds and at this point um the the first one

1:23:40

begins dashing on its its hind legs before it jumps and begins bounding on

1:23:46

all four legs and in this tunnel it begins running up the side of the wall as it

1:23:53

runs up the side of the wall and completely passes the combat that flynn and ulma are having and lands directly

1:24:00

in front of you the other one does a very similar thing runs up on the wall passes where flynn

1:24:06

and oma are and this time jumps and lands directly behind you shraya

1:24:11

um and they are both let's see the one that's right in front

1:24:16

of you and is staring at you it's able to catch your eye line so i'm gonna have you make a constitution saving throw

1:24:24

awesome uh before i do that uh i would because this spell says this bonus action i can move the sphere up to 30

1:24:30

feet uh i would like to move it toward the monsters that are

1:24:36

facing uh flynn and oma so that at the top of their next turns they'll have to make saves okay

1:24:42

all right what's the uh what's the area of effect on that uh that is it is a five foot sphere okay

1:24:49

so one of them would be affected um okay do you want to get one of the ones that's looking at oma or looking at flint

1:24:56

would it be possible to space it in between two of them it is not possible okay uh yeah one of

1:25:01

the ones that are facing i'm going to say the one that's facing ulma okay

1:25:07

and i'll make that say that is going to be a

1:25:13

there's a 17 pass i don't need a 17 passes yes um so you're able to stave off this effect

1:25:18

as the one from behind you uh is going to brandish its claws and make a couple of claw attacks

1:25:25

rate that is going to be on the first one a 16 to hit yeah that hits okay and then

1:25:30

on the second one there's also going to be a 16 to hit both of those in lots of double numbers on this one um okay

1:25:37

the first attack does [Music] nine points

1:25:43

of slashing damage the next one does 11 points of slashing

1:25:49

i'm sorry 12 points of slashing damage as kellock right next to you you see one

1:25:56

of these creatures has just dropped and landed off of the wall um

1:26:02

and as it lands right next to you you see it sinking its claws into schrei's back what are you gonna do

1:26:08

uh how is uh how's everybody looking because i know

1:26:14

alma just got hit a bunch and tried to hit a bunch can i tell between the two of them who's looking worse off

1:26:20

um i'm gonna have you make a medicine check okay what the failed save for alma did again

1:26:25

when she she failed necrotic damage i just forgot a game it wasn't like a condition or anything okay uh it's a 12 on the medicine check

1:26:32

um okay i'm gonna say yeah yeah you'd be able to to figure it

1:26:39

out i am not bloody i i i there is like visible uh fluid

1:26:45

coursing out of these two wounds where the claw attacks hit me and i'm clutching those areas and

1:26:51

evening a little bit i i look very scared like mike and i'm kind of withered like my cheeks are kind of

1:26:57

hollow oh okay

1:27:02

the one adjacent to between me and try the creature that dude that landed between the two of us yeah uh i'm going

1:27:08

to cast um blight on it okay hang in there shaya

1:27:15

this and so it's going to have to make a constitutional saving throw constitution

1:27:20

saving throw let me pull that up um

1:27:27

that's a natural 20. does it still do some damage it does yes yes

1:27:32

uh thank goodness at least you wasted that one yeah get that out of it so it's i roll all of them and i does have uh

1:27:39

let me see the target takes 88 on a failed save or half as much damage on successful ones so i roll all eight out

1:27:50

okay [Music]

1:27:56

so that is uh 38 and so half of 38 is

1:28:02

what is that 18 19 19 19. okay so it takes 19 points of necrotic damage and

1:28:08

unlike the usual casting by spells which are very externally visible this one it almost

1:28:14

looks like nothing has happened for a moment and then you can start to see just like coming out of its pores are

1:28:20

just like orange embers just kind of like weeding their way out uh like little

1:28:25

um i don't know worms that's gross i love it i love it okay uh

1:28:32

and then i'm gonna move my spiritual weapon over to uh uh uh the one in front of alma and take

1:28:39

a hack that guy okay um just for clarification uh shraya has

1:28:44

his magical effect on the one to the left of alma do you want to also attack that one

1:28:50

or the one to the right of alma where shrai doesn't have anything uh the one that just attacked her oh

1:28:56

they both did yeah they both did whichever one try has i'm going for that one okay yeah yeah that's uh i'm sorry i

1:29:02

miss focus the one to the far right okay that's okay all right yes so i'm going to take a

1:29:07

swing at that that is a uh 20 it's five to hit yeah you don't need to

1:29:12

finish that uh and that is going to be

1:29:18

13 points of force damage nice uh as once again this rift uh from this rift

1:29:23

this long silver diver comes slicing through into this creature okay

1:29:29

flynn yeah what are you up to you got these two things staring at you right in front of you decent amounts darren um so i

1:29:36

guess a few things um when i when they had attacked they didn't

1:29:41

wha what's it wasn't even an attack they rushed up to you immediately stopped about an inch from your face and just

1:29:47

stared into your eyes did i feel like it was

1:29:53

frightening did i feel like it was uh them trying to possess me or

1:30:00

uh charm me having dealt with possession um having first-hand experience it

1:30:06

didn't feel like that okay um you as you look to alma it just looked like they were like

1:30:12

extracting life force out of her almost it didn't look like there was any sort of intrusion and it didn't feel like

1:30:18

that um in your head at all i don't think that'll help um

1:30:24

and i um i'm just gonna i'm just gonna attack

1:30:30

them then i will i will make some attacks so i'm going to

1:30:35

target the one that everything's kind of being a targeted to see if i can kind of knock it out

1:30:41

um so i'm going to target one in front of omar and i will okay bring it down my bring down my sword okay make an attack

1:30:47

roll um i guess last question uh does it seem like when i look away from them does it feel like i'm less

1:30:53

affected and i'm not looking at that it feels like the effect that they tried to take over you is is done it doesn't feel

1:30:59

like there's a constant pressure on you got

1:31:08

[Music]

1:31:14

21 hits right your first one would have been a 14. 14 does not and then 20 whatever

1:31:20

okay uh that is some damage so this dice in this dice

1:31:26

oh max hedge uh

1:31:33

and i see that he um kind of goes to swing and is just off a

1:31:38

little bit so i'm gonna like touch his shoulder and um

1:31:46

you can feel like a little bit of like pizzazz going into you i don't know

1:31:55

i'm gonna bend luck okay and add four points to your fourteen so that's an eighteen to hit that hit okay yeah um

1:32:05

so we're rolling damage for the second attack because you've already rolled that so this one is for the second attack so that is uh 14 points of

1:32:11

piercing for the second attack okay and then the first attack i will roll i would say add 18 right so it just hits

1:32:18

uh yeah yeah you add four so it's an eight that's sick oh what was that oh

1:32:28

another 14 points of piercing damage that's 32 points to right 28

1:32:34

28. don't try and sneak that by me

1:32:48

you can see it's it's not looking too bad as i see this flaming ball of fire move towards it and

1:32:56

come into its space i realize like okay maybe that thing will take care of it and i will accident surge okay and turn to the one

1:33:03

in front of me all right i'm gonna take two attacks on that one okay

1:33:09

does this thing continue or no no it was just a reason one attack on a reaction 18 18 hits

1:33:17

one re-roll sixteen sixteen hits yeah yeah so i come

1:33:23

down with the one and then the other one i kind of like sheesh and i close my eyes i'm like and then

1:33:28

like a rock falls from the sky and knocks my blade into the monster okay um i'm gonna roll some damage it's funny

1:33:34

that i bend luck i'm not kidding

1:33:40

again for both are you kidding me every time so that's insane

1:33:47

okay so what's the total damage uh that's another 28 points

1:33:52

of damage to the one in front of me okay those two are are are not really hurting perfect

1:34:00

um yeah i am going to

1:34:06

um i don't really know what i did to to like just my presence was a i was a

1:34:12

like good luck charm for flynn i'm here for him and i'm

1:34:18

very close to these people now i am so scared i throw my hands up and i take um

1:34:25

a bonus action dodge okay using a key point

1:34:31

and um pay close attention to where i'm putting my hands and i put them in a perfect

1:34:37

triangle in front of me and i say duck to flynn

1:34:44

um not that he can do that but um i'm gonna angle my body so that my 15

1:34:49

foot cone can hit the one right in front of me on the side of it and the one like i'm aiming the center of it to be

1:34:56

between the one in front of lemon and the one in front of me okay so the one the one in front of

1:35:02

flynn and the one in front of you well no actually i'm gonna go for the one in front of flynn because i think then i can hit

1:35:08

those yes i can hit the one yeah yeah okay if it's a 50-foot cone i think i miss flynn because he's right next to

1:35:14

me but i get the one right in front of him and the one on the left side of him yeah hit those two yeah i mean if you

1:35:20

want to hit flynn you'd be able to get one more

1:35:32

[Music]

1:35:41

a 19 and an eight yeah it passes but i think i still get to

1:35:47

do some damage [Music] yeah you get some damage on that

1:35:54

one the failed one the one that i'm checking one second uh ethan

1:36:00

yes yeah that's the full damage on the one that i just clobbered oh it feels good man i don't like how many i think

1:36:05

this is against the rules how many dice you're picking up because 5d6

1:36:19

oh my god

1:36:30

total for one of them and 14 for the other

1:36:36

and is that a cantrip or is that a spell that's bound oh no what is it not right now three eight

1:36:43

now it's out of four no it's okay i have a i have a special okay you are still within that week um okay

1:36:50

next up is nothicks okay

1:36:55

let's see um one of them has to take an effect yeah yeah

1:37:00

okay that's a dexterity save for his effect yep it's another natural 20. oh boy that is

1:37:08

another dude okay well i mean i can still it still takes something yeah

1:37:13

nope hey hey

1:37:18

oh uh another five it's gonna take another five points of uh flaming damage okay it dies right not enough is that

1:37:26

enough to do it i'll tell you you are so close um every part of it is

1:37:32

except it's like burning is yeah it's it is desperate so it is going to

1:37:42

let me see what's it gonna do

1:37:50

yeah let's see it is blinn and

1:37:56

oma i took the dodge what is that against area of effect spells as

1:38:02

well i have no idea because i can't actually see it so it you roll it

1:38:07

someone read it i think you wrote it they roll a disadvantage of their attacking but does that help you with dex slaves you make a dexterity save

1:38:14

throws with advantage because it is it is a constitution safe as well with advantage

1:38:20

but not exactly but it's constitutional yes it's if you attack me you're at disadvantage and i

1:38:25

get to make deck throws at advantage okay so both of you just make straight up constitution

1:38:31

saving through yeah oh we both have the same idea i'm fine i think um that's a 21. yeah 21

1:38:38

saves uh 19. a 19 also saves um so you can feel it

1:38:44

reach out and like try and this time oma not just like

1:38:50

extract your life essence and and get this like necrotic energy into you but

1:38:55

you can both feel it trying to pull something out of you oh i don't like that but it fails and in its exhaustion

1:39:02

it itself because it missed it failed on both it takes

1:39:09

yes three points of damage and falls dead yeah

1:39:14

how does it die dm on its own hubris

1:39:21

falls into it disintegrates um no but as as it like begins extract trying to

1:39:26

extract this life force from you you can see it itself begin to wither and uh

1:39:32

it's it's already like um thin form you can see it begin to dry out

1:39:39

even more as it falls flat at the feet of ulma um okay that was that was the first one

1:39:48

the uh the next one that's also directly in front of you guys it's going to try and do the same thing

1:39:54

i'm going to have constitution saving throws from both of you as well oh just one view again yeah just one and these aren't attacks right so i can't like no

1:40:00

these are you sneaky sneaky oh that's low uh 10 14

1:40:07

so this time it takes a hold of both of you and from both of you

1:40:13

it extracts your life force to heal

1:40:20

you both take 15 points of necrotic damage and you can see some of its wounds begin

1:40:25

to heal yeah and that's one right in front of me that is the one directly in front of you

1:40:31

yes got it um okay got one though this one's dead

1:40:37

[Music] i know everyone's crying i know um

1:40:46

and uh yeah it heals it takes both of your life energy and heals itself almost

1:40:51

back to to appearing to be where it was when we started um

1:40:57

then next up uh flynn there's the one directly to your left it's going to take two claw attacks ooh okay on me on you

1:41:04

okay that is gonna be oh

1:41:11

apologies for this um that with the claws yeah that's gonna be a 23 and a 19 to hit

1:41:18

i will field okay do either of those hit you with

1:41:24

no no okay because i i'm 19 because i forgot

1:41:29

my decks that went up because [Music]

1:41:36

the shield comes but also the like the the spell and the shield both okay block all that stuff

1:41:41

okay um next up uh the one that's also right next to flynn he's gonna try and take two contacts

1:41:49

yeah he doesn't know what shield does either way though that's uh eleven and

1:41:54

eight yeah so it wouldn't hit anyways okay

1:42:01

uh well first of all uh i take the clutching my wounds

1:42:06

like clutch even harder onto my staff and i uh take i move my hand

1:42:12

back up toward the the glowing ball of fire the uh you know sort of voodoo doll kind of

1:42:19

one and i push it uh and the ball of fire

1:42:24

up ahead and a kind of controlling mechanism moves right into where the one in front directly in front of flynn is

1:42:31

uh that's a bonus action uh and then uh

1:42:36

i uh raise the staff up as high as i can

1:42:42

and i stamp it into the ground as i let out this blood-curdling shriek

1:42:48

[Laughter] [Music] and as that happens uh you see on my

1:42:54

skin uh bark starts to form as it shoots out from the staff and reaches into my

1:43:00

entire body my skin and feathers become wisps of wood and lichen and uh

1:43:06

tree effluents and just more bark just splintering out on the bars

1:43:15

as uh as uh in place of my eyes these green glowing uh lichen type moss things

1:43:22

uh protrude out as i cast uh guardian of nature yes

1:43:28

okay i gain uh i'm gaining ten temporary hit points yeah nice uh and this is really

1:43:35

just uh within 15 feet of me uh all from all sides uh that becomes difficult terrain only for my enemies as you see

1:43:42

some of the vines from earlier uh just completely webbing out in all of these

1:43:47

directions uh and that is going to be my turn

1:43:53

everybody okay all of them all of them um yeah all of them are caught uh let's see

1:44:00

does that cover the walls as well yes yes that is good enough okay oh

1:44:06

good call next up uh shraya yeah these guys right next to you

1:44:11

are gonna continue trying to to um just come at you uh the one directly in

1:44:18

front of you is going to try and gaze into your eyes once more and so

1:44:24

he doesn't have eyes but he can see so uh sure i'm gonna have you make a constitutional saving through which i now have advantage on but you have

1:44:30

advantage on nice yes

1:44:38

[Music] so that the first one definitely fails

1:44:44

um yeah okay that is gonna be

1:44:50

gonna be 11 points of necrotic damage okay

1:44:56

so uh one yeah yeah i'm gonna subtract one from wherever you go

1:45:02

and then the one behind you is once again going to try and come in with uh two claw attacks is that is it difficult to make that

1:45:08

disadvantage or no no because it's not moving it's just it's just swiping at you right um so that is

1:45:14

not great um that is going to be a 15 and a 12.

1:45:20

do either of those hit one of them okay the first one hits you all right

1:45:26

got to double check the damage on this um he's got a potion does he have a bonus

1:45:32

that's that's six points of slashing damage yes as as pieces of me just chip off all

1:45:40

these different directions all right uh kellick what are you doing i look over toward my toward the

1:45:46

the void where from which the spiritual weapon has continued to emerge pune we got this all right

1:45:54

this score i'm gonna cast blight again on this one right in front of me between me and trump yeah

1:46:00

uh and that is a constitution save comment a constitution save

1:46:08

oh boy does an 11 pass [Applause]

1:46:14

[Laughter] and then just roll four again to make

1:46:20

this easier on myself oh what did i just do to this is this three that was a three okay yeah yeah

1:46:26

cool cool all right so that is uh what's the easiest way to relay this

1:46:31

information this is 10 18.

1:46:36

this is uh 14. uh 20

1:46:41

plus what did i just say 18 so 30 30 30 38 points in the chronicles as

1:46:47

this once more of these something is emerging from this piece from inside of it as though i'm opening up this rift

1:46:54

that we see outside inside of its form and it from the inside out just explodes

1:47:01

um and it pops like a balloon and you almost you get like the the eye juices

1:47:06

splattered on you as it explodes in front of you and i look over the one that sucked the life out of my comrades earlier and i

1:47:12

was like let's say i recover from that and uh then i'll have my uh uh spiritual

1:47:18

weapon make an attack on the one uh in front of flynn there yeah

1:47:23

and that's probably gonna hit i rolled uh natural 19. yeah that hits

1:47:29

and that is six points of force damage as this knife comes right through him again okay

1:47:35

also the fireball is there too so it yeah it has an extra little nice silhouette okay

1:47:41

um oh right oma i'm sorry flynn oh um

1:47:46

yeah i will uh seeing all this fire and stuff i'm like oh that's so cool i should really read my book and i

1:47:51

like quickly rub my fingers uh across the blade uh lighting it up in flame and

1:47:56

i'm gonna strike down on the one in front of me okay fully hitting it

1:48:16

so that was green flame blade um it did it just doubles because like there's basically another portion of it

1:48:21

that goes to an enemy next to it would that be maxed as well everything's good would you roll a die

1:48:26

for that i do and yeah it would be nice okay so uh it is the damage and then

1:48:35

[Music] an extra this and a little one of these

1:48:44

it's fun when things are extra um this spell has so many words um

1:48:52

okay so the damage is on a hit it suffers normal weapon plus elite

1:49:00

the leap is so if we're just if we're just doing the damage for the first one first then we can then we can figure out the leap

1:49:06

later well this damage increases when you reach fifth which is the extra d8

1:49:11

that's this so it's six plus eight which is 14 because that's the

1:49:16

weapons damage plus a d8 which is [Music] 22 total right 14 plus 8 is 22. yes you

1:49:24

need fire separate no okay and then i'm gonna roll them so another six on top of that so 28 29

1:49:32

30 31. it's dead to the one in front of me

1:49:38

it drops dead yeah and as it drops you see some of the i i take my hand with the blade and i just

1:49:43

kind of like point it towards the other one and at the same time some of the fire from that one almost following my

1:49:49

blades point and then slams into the to the one to my left okay um

1:49:54

that way uh and it does [Music]

1:50:01

that one already took some fire damage too yeah yeah

1:50:11

do you have do you have to roll another d20 to hit on this one no it just goes so it's d it's it's eight points of damage plus my spellcaster on fire which

1:50:18

is intelligence intelligence so it takes ten points of fire damage on top of that

1:50:25

does it double it as a crit it would right yep 16 points of fire damage

1:50:34

and it's dead i believe

1:50:39

dabs into the one in front of me pulls it out points it at the other one and the fire just engulfs the other one as well this is just your first hit

1:50:46

was that your first attack for the oh um yeah then i can still hit again okay so you've got the one right next to

1:50:52

you you want to swing at it so as a bonus action i will stab that one okay oh man that would have been so cool uh

1:50:59

19 19 hits uh

1:51:06

i think the first time you haven't rolled max damage on that yeah i know right it's a bummer um what else did you guys feel like like

1:51:13

this sucks eleven points of piercing to the to the one to my direct left eleven points of piercing yes that one

1:51:19

also falls dead you beast

1:51:25

but i don't even know we did anything to that one oh yeah it had gotten hit a couple times oh my god i need to learn

1:51:31

more this fire stuff yeah all right pretty cool and then i will turn around and run

1:51:39

i will turn around and run uh just back towards the one that's a attacking um

1:51:46

okay uh oma um i look around

1:51:52

and just there's just nothing in front of me anymore so

1:52:00

um yeah i just like turn around i guess um

1:52:07

and i [Music]

1:52:16

kind of look shockingly yeah at flynn and um try to mimic when i put my hands in

1:52:22

front of them but not quite touching so i i try to mimic my like triangle but

1:52:28

what i did last time where i kept my fingers kind of wide and hope it does the same thing

1:52:33

and i let a little puff of air and cast scorching ray

1:52:40

all three of them at that one nice okay yeah

1:52:47

ooh i don't think it's going to hit that is a 14. 14 doesn't hit no you go for just

1:52:52

one or do all three oh i wrote for all three yeah yep also doesn't hit we're going to change

1:53:01

no one might 15 15 hits there we go one of them hits one of them hits there

1:53:08

we go for five points

1:53:14

[Music]

1:53:19

okay um all right all of them are dead so shreya what are

1:53:25

you doing uh so you see this um the the staff now from the force of nature that it's become the staff is now

1:53:32

this giant gnarled club of just pure tree and earth it's alive

1:53:38

and it's coursing and uh bonus action i'm going to grip it tightly as this tree being uh

1:53:45

shoots of uh moss run through it i'm going to charge it up with shilly as this burst of green light emerges from

1:53:51

the pores of the of the bark as i slam it down on the one right in front of me

1:53:56

okay [Music] and terrifying

1:54:03

that is going to be i 18 to hit that hits nice get him and

1:54:11

that where's that

1:54:18

11 points of blood well arcane damage okay um as you lift your staff up above

1:54:25

your head you swing it down and hit it directly on the forehead of this creature as you can

1:54:31

see its forehead like caving as it slumps down to the ground and falls over dead

1:54:38

we're out of initiative [Music] i feel like i'm totally empty inside

1:54:46

like everything was pulled out of me like i don't have any wounds i'm not bleeding but

1:54:51

yeah that's that's like everything from me what were those

1:54:56

never seen anything like that i might need a little moment to trick over myself

1:55:02

[Music] i'm gonna walk over to him and just like

1:55:08

touch his barky arm are you gonna be like this forever i think i can oh one

1:55:14

one moment uh and i tap my barky thumbs to the tip

1:55:19

of the crystal together and uh kind of in a similar fashion that you see me retracting vines in the rooms that i've

1:55:25

occupied you slowly see this effect re-fold itself back into the center of the crystal as it collapses in this viny

1:55:33

goodness as i regain my old form and at the peak of that pinnacle of that the purple

1:55:39

crystal emerges back once again where it normally rests

1:55:44

i like this form more yeah that was cool though

1:55:50

can you see what's wrong with me and i've already begun to kneel down and cast prayer of healing

1:55:57

i saw you rolling yeah i was just like might as well get this out of the way how long does it take uh it's an action oh okay um and that is

1:56:05

i rolled super low sorry fam uh 15 points of healing to all three of you

1:56:10

okay um i'm back to max just the lightest flavoring of ashes uh are like

1:56:16

like appear out of nowhere from your own skin to the niche oh yeah it's actually internal so you don't even there's no

1:56:21

visual component at all you just you just feel better [Music] and as you all get that healing uh you

1:56:29

all just feel a little bit better you feel a little bit stronger except oma is empty

1:56:34

um and as you are looking around in this pitch black tunnel you look back towards the main mine shaft you look down into

1:56:41

the darkness on the other side you see these monstrosities of bodies laying down in

1:56:48

front of you that is where we're going to call it we're going to end nothing like something this is horrors to bring the family back

1:56:54

together because we had to do this right that is where we're going to call it

1:57:02

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