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i'm kenneth oh my glenn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture forth
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[Music]
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so [Music]
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previously you all had begun traveling south from the dakir ruins on your way you were transporting
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several civilians that were caught by the order of the red wolf and are attempting to bring them home
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you're traveling south towards nestle valley and kellik upon reading a a book called the
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history of the loss that flynn had found in the library began to discover a bit of the history
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behind the waist and how a powerful being called the storm had begun to wreak havoc disintegrating
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everything into sands and only a band of triumphant heroes from each of the nations were able to defeat this person
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as you all continue to travel south towards nestle valley um you actually made it to the mining structures
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themselves and upon getting there saw that there was a single cart
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available to ride back towards um the the city where these civilians are from so as you are standing there in
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front of this uh mine that goes directly through the tunnel
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flynn you're looking down at your shield you see timmy's face there reflecting
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back at you he says hi um hayfree just taught me how to use
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this and he's asleep right now but i was just outside um there are some people here looking for
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you what [Music] yeah um they're they're going around asking for
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for each of you by name they have physical descriptions of the party um
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what do they look like there's three of them um one of them uh
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he's wearing purple cloaks um another one uh a woman she's she's uh
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pretty tall has has has dark hair um and another one there's an elven man who's with the phone
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um in my recollection do i have any i don't know does that strike anything
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uh seeker wore purple robes okay [Music] but no the other two people know
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um the other two people you don't recognize any any descriptions tall woman a tall woman uh yeah with
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dark hair as well as uh armor
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and an elven man who is wearing a uh black cloak with the hood up
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and black i mean i kind of maybe know who one of them is
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oh oh i'm just thinking i i know
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we got into some stuff um i don't really want to go back outside
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if they're here for me so i would say if you are planning to come back to marstock maybe stay away until they're
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until they're gone yeah we really don't have the time to do that um it'll be fine it'll be fine it'll be fine you know who they are um
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i think i know one of them um oh he's probably mad at me
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um but it should probably be fine um you could
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probably let him in i don't know okay um hey free to sleep and
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he hates it when i wake him up so i mean if you trust that these pers these people are trustworthy
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i can uh well i know one of them so i say go i say go for it he can't be that mad
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okay not too reassuring but okay i'll go by that and you can see timmy's reflection drift
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away in your shield oh cool did they hear that yeah yeah i was projected to
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to everyone um it was as if timmy was actually there was that timmy did you tell him i said hi
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no i only you were here you just no i didn't tell him well you should have told him that it
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has well he surprised me with apparently someone's looking for me the people are
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looking and i think it's it's secret unless it's another
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one of those purple robed spies we saw hanged and people wear purple robes
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okay but we don't know cigar didn't align himself with them why would they want me [Music]
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you gotta stop giving people your sword and taking it back that's so bad
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yes it is it's pretty bad for them it's pretty bad genius you you're a generally good willed
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person you do a lot of good kind things for people
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you tell people that that's the way that you're paying them and then you take it back yeah what if somebody did that to you that's
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what that's stealing come on it's not that bad
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if you're gonna steal say you're stealing what would the point of that be then
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because it's being honest i'm pretty sure no one does that when they steal something they don't tell the person they're stealing it
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with us that you're stealing things i'm not it's my sword that you're giving to other people and
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then calling it back to you it's not like i'm killing anyone flynn are you there who is this hi debbie
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[Music] all of you see uh where your reflection should be uh in this reflective surface
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you instead see uh timmy looking back how you doing timmy i'm sorry i couldn't find a broom
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that's okay i got one yeah okay it's right over there you can see him sort of like point off into a space that you
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cannot see is what we're seeing is it the is it like an imprint of his face or
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is it like a projection like a like a how are you like coloring or it's it's
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literally like it's being reflected like i mean it's literally like it's reflecting back looking at me it's it's
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timmy
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uh yeah this this i think this is pretty cool um and he sort of reached you can see him lean off
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of the reflection of the shield and you can hear him grab and pull in the
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reflection of seeker as you see seeker's face apparate into the shield
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oh by the way this is not
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it's a cloak it's not really you know ropes but hello how are you i'm i'm good good
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how are you can i can i see them all yes everyone is is you can probably see my
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like chest and uh seeker you yourself are looking through
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a uh a large circular mirror so you can see a perfect reflection of of the party
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on the other side all of them yes hello good to see you all how are you all doing i crouched down
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seeker yes i've been looking for you all good to see you why would you be doing that
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well it's development do you have uh do you still have daddies yeah
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you may have someone that can help him really that would be so good because we've not been helping him at all
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why did you not help him you know there was a prison break and then we've been chased by this order of red
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wolves and like there's just been a lot going on we died somebody in the iron light is
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since i've seen you have not had the chance to help daddy's i was just telling you we died
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it's been a pretty busy time it's been really busy you never you never think about how much of your time and energy
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it takes to die but considerable is the answer i've not done this yet so i don't know
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yeah it's um it's been it's been a lot okay it doesn't help that we're not really able
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to go to a lot of big cities because we did and we did conduct a very large
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prison break we can't go back to hogan's fire so that makes it kind of hard to to do things
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when you can't go to big cities because that's the only city we've had any leads on finding daddy
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yeah we were kind of busy there so you the theme of going to cities and making
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a mess continues like that yeah pretty pretty fair assessment
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also a prison break what do you need well i told you i think i have someone
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who can help oh well do you need to have the ideas now yeah but first
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you said you died yeah like super died yeah we died and then there was almost a
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portal to like another plane that was opened up and like almost a big like world ending monster that was unleashed
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so like did you always die or did you actually die no we actually died i don't know i just kind of
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woke up and they fed us like this goopy red stuff oh
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uh the order of the red moose was trying to sacrifice our lives to bring about that
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there should be some some creatures or like two people that like oh who just came back because of the
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coins and they're in prisons have you seen them and you can see as timmy is not himself in the reflection and the
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reflection is sort of a small space and it's all taken up by seeker um you can just hear off in the distance yeah
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they're here cool okay so we're good you know where i am because this was weird coming in here
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yeah it's kind of stuff sucks it messes with your lungs a bit yeah it gets in your hair it's all right but it's
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strange no time is passing you're gonna like be in there and there's no time passes normally i don't know i know but
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you don't feel like you're not hungry [Music] no
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definitely definitely really my knees will speak to that okay so you died
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did you say prison yeah were you in prison this would not surprise me
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no there should be a bird there i think that is coming soon oh no yeah
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right i just think his name right timmy how's are you there tito you can just barely hear off in the
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distance so yeah that one is one person that we
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we broke out and then there's also xavier which and i'll point to oma yeah my friend xavier
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was in prison and then like our acquaintance zeta who i guess is now a friend has uh
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timmy has try it and made it through yet we sent him off to to um marstock to then
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travel over yeah we have a message he needs to stand he might not have made it here um but uh you should be expecting
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him if he hasn't like any minute he actually yeah he he passed through uh a couple hours ago
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excellent okay excellent yeah he took a teleportation circle um we we had we
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pulled him through at um at saddle mountain okay good perfect he's doing all right good we should check up on him
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at some point at some point if i look around uh inside hey freeze like what would i
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see what would i be seeing oh what what what wouldn't you there's so much stuff there so you can see
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you are currently on this floating central platform okay um very disconcerting you see that uh
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that there is also another platform that it has been connected by by stone bridge that is also floating there alongside
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the main platform um and it appears as though and and you look down and you can see like some grooves in the stone it
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appears that this giant mirror that is currently sitting on table was dragged
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by timmy from this platform out to the main platform so he could make contact
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um you also see a number of different platforms floating
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around you can see that there are some with bookshelves on them some with massive
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wardrobes um and you see just off like beyond
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this this ring of platforms that's floating around the central platform um
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probably a couple hundred feet even beyond that there are
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four additional platforms that are also rotating you can see on each of them is
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a cage occupied by you can see one a massive red dragon and you can see a
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horrifying sheep demon on another one and on the the last two you can see humanoid creatures
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you all know this place well yes well enough did you make it
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no i wish we are responsible for a lot of the stuff in there not the dragon no
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nor the statues if they're floating around in there that's not us yeah that's hatred's place
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this is there's a lot so this that's putting it lightly
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yes i was meeting with a friend yeah and uh
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finding stuff and along the way found someone who's a lot like that is
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it might be able to help in fact what he said he does is help warforged so
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i thought of you all and i've been looking for you since that's the only reason right what led
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you to marstock why yes what what are the reasons why i need to find you no no no other reason i just like
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tapped my sword absolutely oh i i believe did you i think you said
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you were going uh the master when we left
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our trip that such a long time ago i can't remember when we were at the bar talk yeah we said we were going to make our
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way to marstock yep we've really been to a lot of places it's hard to keep track well we're on our way back now um do you
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want to see the audience right now or do you want to wait until we get there if you can i would like to ask him before i
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just introduce him to this person okay um and i'll go into the bag and i'll uh pull out um
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our little head and i will push the button and you can see that the purple eyes
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begin to glow awkwardly hold it in front of the shield and with my hand okay this is still on
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the ground this is what we're doing okay on the ground i'll prop it up on a building or something and hold the make
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it easier and i'll just kind of set the head down so it's in the in the purview hey seeker darius
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how are you are they taking care of you yeah how many days has it been since
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i was last awake well we had you there for the fight um that was
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two days ago not even like a day ago like a day and a half so that answers your question um
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i'm doing okay well i might have good news for you i've uh found a warforged who
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is setting up a refuge in westrich and i mentioned you briefly and
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he he paid me a lot actually to come find you so we are waiting here in uh
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creepy floaty island place with dragon and is that the sheep demon what
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is that yeah we are in a rock we're still uh getting around
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to that one no we got a place strange we've got some but he is with me he's out in the city still
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looking for you all right apparently associates of yours yes
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great goes by the name 86 86 yes got it
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um he's setting up a refuge in westeros she said yes i believe him well i and my
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associate we think he's telling the truth i have i do have someone checking in
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westridge just to see if it is legit but i do believe him and the thing is how apparently you still don't have a body
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he might be able to help i mean we're headed back to marstock anyways right
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yeah yeah okay um that would be amazing um it's been
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i can't even tell you how long it's been since i've seen someone like me um
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okay all right well i'll i'll tell him and he said that uh
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i can't remember how many he's found but it's been a good number and he says you can be safe there
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where's westridge
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it is a floating city it floats yes and it's floating markets
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excellent it's supposed to be quite the site i've heard things heard great things about it oh the floating plums amazing if it's as
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magical as it's supposed to be it wouldn't make sense that there'd be some kind of solution for
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sadius there speaking of i think so i think 86 has a some solutions
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but uh thinking of uh magic did i stay here while i are you coming here yeah that's our intent yeah those
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two uh well the half work with the hole in their chest and
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the scary tiefling beast oh is that the other two over there yeah those are we got we have some
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questions also oh yes that's uh that's our doing uh not
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what happened to them but uh the fact that they're in cages yeah the whole wasn't us
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yeah that was um it wasn't i swear okay
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just don't believe him there do you want me to talk to them no um
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[Music] they might try and get out why don't you i trust your judgment seeker if you
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can get anything from them what would they be trying to get well we're trying to track this um
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order of the red wolf you haven't heard of them not a clue well uh they may be responsible for
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the potential end of all things so um those those two in cages they're they're
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uh servants uh to this creature of the red wolf uh and sequentially the outcast and
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we're hoping to get answers as to how to stop them okay wait question
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who is responsible for this place uh hayfried has timmy not introduced you timmy
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no i just got pulled in hey fried's asleep um i'm just looking over everything while he's sleeping yeah i
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mean afraid he's been doing a lot so he probably needs to sleep i will say though timmy do you think he's gonna be more upset if you wake him up or will he
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be more upset if you let these people stay there while he slept i think let him sleep
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i mean timmy's been there for a while he's a man who likes to sleep okay i'm looking out for you you know
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i don't know if i believe him to me but i can wait outside it's okay you can get me when he wakes up and then i want to
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research this place and i don't mind talking to them i mean very nicely but
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sternly of course you're a good negotiator but uh maybe um
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you can wait for us and we can do it together i don't have a problem all right stay safe marstock's a bit of
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a rugged town i don't know the kind that go through there and you're already kind of in
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dangerous territory in cal door with your uh set of beliefs unlike you all i'm good at being quiet
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that's true that's uh yep we'll be okay we can handle ourselves okay just get back here
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we are on it and i sort of look at this apparatus of the the the railway system
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uh can i do is there anybody around in in uh nestle valley not that you see no
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can i make a spooky vibe [Music] wouldn't there not be anyone down here by the
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by the there wouldn't really be anyone down here they're all like he said there were lights on in their homes
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it's a seven all the spooky vibes um
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i mean you burned up all the gnothic bodies there's nothing else really to to provoke any spooky vibes but um
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yeah it seems as though in in nestle valley itself there were some of the homes on the outskirts there
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that you saw that there was a little bit of light coming from but nestle valley itself is
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very industrial based there's not any like living quarters here so you get the
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impression that um that most of the people live in westbury
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and then come here for work right during the day right they probably go back to west berry nobody's really staying the
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night in yesterday yeah well other than the other than the houses that we saw right which had lights on yeah
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um as long as we can figure out how to work this thing it will be on our way shortly
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how long should we stay yeah oh wait do we know how long it will be a day or two
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at most okay didn't take us long to get here from uh as long as we can get horses in uh
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westbury oh yeah maybe someone still
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and we'll figure it out don't worry about it why would you do nothing
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nothing so uh how does this thing work i don't know how much magic this thing is siphoning
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um but uh are we good yeah are we good to go is there a way we can reach you timmy
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through the shield is there a way we can do this my shield now i don't know how i'm doing this really
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um heyfree just showed me some some things that i would be able to do with this um it took me a couple tries to to get
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you guys the first time um i don't know how well it works in reverse timmy do you want to just check in on us every
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every little bit yeah i can i can do that yeah for longer than two days um check in check it out
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because maybe we're done again okay you never know i can do that please uh
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please don't do that again i don't have a lot of control over that we'll do our best
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it's not her intent the first time see you in a bit bye get back safe think
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timmy as the shield liquefies once more and solidifies and
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you all see your own reflections all the strange things we've seen somehow that's
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still as bizarre as i'm putting it back on no idea that timmy could just talk to us though that's a really cool thing
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yeah definitely helps to have um contact with patrice domain if not the man himself
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yeah it's also just nice to talk to timmy i bet huh daddy yes i mean
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yeah oh right yeah that was where we were headed anyway let's get going
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um they suppose they'll take issue with us just hopping on this cart and right in the
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toad well there's no one here to see it yeah we can also
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wait but we're in a bit of a rush i think everyone wants to get back home it goes
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back so at most we're just creating a little bit of inconvenience how long was the ride when we took it to
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nestle valley do you remember if it was like i can't remember if it was a few hours or half a day it was a few hours
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no it wasn't how was it no it was it was much much quicker than walking or being on a horse i think
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let's take it back and then we can take a rest in westbury and then head out
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yep um unless uh how close are we to the like station masters place
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um it's right there a couple hundred feet we can go check in if you want i'm sort of looking over yeah as i see i'm
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just looking at it yeah i i don't want to disrupt the work of this place any more than we
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already sure have people's jobs can rely on this car to be in here
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yeah that's fair let's go check it out and we'll go over and
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wrap on the door of this is it like is it a tent or is it a building it's a it's a building yeah i'll knock on the
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door all right so you go up and you knock on this door and the door itself is actually metal so as soon as you make
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contact with it you could hear the the echo sort of reverberating within the uh
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within the place and you wait for a couple seconds
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and the door opens up and you see standing there um a lumbering minotaur hello
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a little bit i forgot how tall he was yeah uh yeah hi uh sorry mr looking down most of the time
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i'm concerning my traveling companions um uh it's good to see you have you all returned to take me
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up on my offer uh i make a like a frown unfortunately no um we do have matters
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to attend to in marstock um but it it looks like your cold pikes were successful uh with your problem
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more than successful yes they took care of the problem very quick i'm glad um but i will say they would
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not have been able to handle the problem if it had not been for you all discovering the problem well you're very
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kind i love those we appreciate it uh we uh we may come back someone has to
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um um i did want to ask is there a way we could uh maybe go along for the ride
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with anyone um traveling via these cars we were hoping to head back through nestle valley or through um westbury i
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am the only one still here for the night unfortunately all of the other workers have have gone home i'm happy to pilot
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it ourselves but i didn't want to just take it without asking i i say
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you're free to take it um uh normally they keep one at either end just in case something happens or
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someone is left behind but i've already done my sweep for the night and everyone has gone home so uh i i'm sure they
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would be more than happy to have two carts on the other side in the morning so not everyone is as crammed together
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as usual it relieves me to hear you say this um thank you so much i'm sorry if i've
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disturbed any of your um goings on here not at all and you can see for the first time um
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there's a little bit of a glow of like a fireplace behind him and you can see he's got on like these um these dark
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navy blue like it looks like a bathrobe and you could just see like just in the
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back like a little little side table with a little cup of tea on it that a cup of tea way too small for someone of
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his size i love it um but as he like readjusts his robe he goes not at all um
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more than happy to help thank you thank you of course hopefully we will see you all here again
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sometime for sure hopefully not needed right your presence is welcome nonetheless
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thank you so much pleasure um take care have a good evening you as
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well as he very gingerly shuts the door once again what it feels like to be welcome huh
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i guess i guess we did some good after all i like that feeling
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yeah we're running out of a town like feverishly hoping we don't get caught
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and thrown in jail so that's kind of kind of a novel experience
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let's see if we can't recreate it more often yeah all right all right i'm barry
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to westbrook let's do it plenty of stuff that um you know that
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magic hand trinket yeah just thinking maybe um it could take the
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the weight to some of this workload and i i look over at the the lever system that moves the card forward oh um yeah
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that's a great idea just the top i'll uh rummage through my bag as we arrive at the
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ramp cart and i'll uh push the button on it and and speak into it
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uh move that lever up and down okay and the hand slowly floats up from
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your grip you can see it float over towards the left wait how are you going to get the hand
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back put it in it goes with it yeah it's it's like it's like a push cart that is attached to the back that
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uh as you all load up onto this thing the uh the all the dwarves load up as well
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as well as our call everyone loads up into this thing and um the hand presses
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down on the lever and you can just feel it start there's that initial push that's a little bit harder than the rest of them as it pushes it down and pulls
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it back up the hand releases and floats back over to flynn i will would you like me to repeat this
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action indefinitely as it floats back over towards the the
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the handle it pushes it down pulls it back up pulls it back down
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begin to move faster and faster down this uh rail good
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just make sure you tell it to stop when we get there yeah i wonder how to do that i'll figure it out
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if we just turn it off yeah that's good yeah i'll just hit the button all right well i guess we get cozy you'll be on
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here for a few hours if i look up and down this um part
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do i see like a box of berries at one end make a perception check for me
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22 very definitively you do not no but as the cart begins to pick up
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momentum you feel the the cold breeze of this this um
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cave that just goes straight through the mountain um and the lights from the stars and the moon
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outside begin to dim as you are suddenly submerged into complete darkness i'll
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stand in obese and i'll light up my uh my uh bandage arm and i'll just hold it
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up okay in front of us all right um is there anything that you all are doing while you are on this cart
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nope just hanging out just enjoying i've curled up this and i'm taking a little bit of a rest okay i'm snoozing
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um occasionally just uh just look over at the dwarven woman that i protected in
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battle this is see how she's doing make sure she looks comfortable um and you can see after a couple
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minutes being on this railway um you can see both her and her husband um sort of sit down and prop themselves up against
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one of the walls of this this cart and you can see that they like lean their shoulders and their heads against each
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other as they slowly fall asleep i smile and
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enjoy the ride all right you all are moving fairly quickly as as
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quickly as this single hand can take you um and about an hour into
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the two-hour ride um i'm gonna have everyone make
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a dexterity saving throw for me as you suddenly feel a massive jerk in
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this cart and uh the entire thing seems to tip as your sense of gravity sort of
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goes wonky i was sleeping should i roll a disadvantage you should roll at disadvantage yes ooh
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dexterity saving throw i shouldn't have asked about that it was good it was good it was honorable
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all right flynn what'd you get i got a an 18. 18. okay
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i got a 22 but then i roll a disadvantage and i got a seven okay kellick i got a nine a nine okay uh
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so flynn being the only one that succeeds i'm also gonna roll for the other people on the
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oh jeez kurt we're also rolling at disadvantage because they're asleep
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still wasn't too bad nice must be nice and for zorko
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okay um awesome so flynn you as soon as this thing
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the initial massive jerk happens you prop yourself up by your feet and you
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can feel it begin to tip over and completely hit the side um the the side
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of the rail and drag itself along the ground you're sort of able to push yourself off and do a barrel roll onto
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the ground not taking any damage okay kellik and alma
33:43
you both take nine points of bludgeoning damage as you are not as dexterous and uh you both
33:51
same thing land in the gravel the this tough gravel and sort of chews up your skin as you slide along ah
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the uh the dwarves that were all sleeping in the cart um they were sleeping in the cart in front
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of you and while not seemingly as dexterous
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their cart fared a little bit better as it tipped over and sort of slid along along the ground and didn't fling them
34:16
out completely um but they seemed to be for the most part undamaged zorkhall
34:24
in a sort of similar fashion to flynn uh props himself up jumps off rolls to
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safety but at the last minute he hits the side of this tunnel and hits his head against the rock he takes no
34:38
he takes five points of bludgeoning damage as the screeching carts now completely
34:44
flipped over and on the ground come to a halt you all are on the ground in pitch darkness what happened well it
34:51
wouldn't be pitch darkness actually no it wouldn't be because kalec has got his his 40 feet of light
34:56
um caleb as soon as you stand up with your your arm lit up um
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is everyone all right guys you okay you immediately see the track in front of you
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about 20 feet of it um has been completely removed and the
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part that you had been that you seemingly just hit um looks like it's bent backwards
35:21
you also look and you see five humanoids sort of dancing in the shadows you can't quite pinpoint where they all are
35:28
definitely humanoid and sort of walking back and forth but you see five of them
35:34
do they are they moving in our direction um you cannot tell with the chaos that
35:40
just happened in this split second you cannot tell um i'm going to
35:46
uh is anybody close to me they are on the other side but like
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yes you are all pretty much within 15 to 20 feet of each other okay um
35:57
i'm gonna snuff my uh my white cantrip my arm and i'm going to immediately like
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dart to the person nearest to me um who do you know who it would be from
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where we were i was also thrown so probably me alma yeah i'm gonna say omar okay oh no there's there's figures in the
36:16
distance um let's let's uh let's get everyone together come on come on i'm i'm like pushing all my toward the
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rest of the group you all hear echoing off of this cavern ando
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do any of you speak under common i do no way okay in undercommon you hear
36:37
stop or you'll be injured um at this i grab almost shoulder again i was pushing her and i
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stopped her
36:48
i was tending to obese and i light my wrist up again and i hold it up um
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one arm my my bandage arm and i put up my second one as soon as you do that
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um you see these figures now
37:05
in the light as they immediately cover their eyes and shout for you to stop
37:10
stop put it away no harm comes to us there will be harm that comes to you if you don't put that damn line you don't
37:16
want to pick a fight with us believe you me and you see them reach for their swords
37:21
and at this point you see for the very first time um five drow
37:27
standing there as they reach for their swords and begin to unsheath them i'll extinguish the white
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[Music] stay where you are we mean no harm to you we're just
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traveling you see one of them the one that shouted at you you see him sort of lean over and
37:45
whisper to another one of them as they're whispering back and forth can i hear what they're saying make a perception check
37:52
would i be how far away am i from them um you're about 15 feet away am i near
37:58
uh uh yes you and zorko are are pretty much right i'm kind of with our columns can can you see and you can see him him like
38:05
rubbing his head and he's like i uh i don't know i there are some people there all right well give me give me one
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moment you ready for a fight okay and even before he's like reoriented himself he's already
38:17
completely unsheathed his sword i would choose mine as well and i was like i can't see anything so just let me know when i need to go in
38:23
okay um i'll try and guide you as best as i can are you okay i'll be fine all right
38:30
um 17 on the perception check uh 17. um you see that he he leaned to
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um his companion there and you could just just barely hear
38:43
do you think they're telling the truth no but he's he's drow what who is he traveling with
38:52
and i'll say an undercommon and it's like to the rest of the party it would sound
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similar but just like [Music] really clunky just really just
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like beyond rusty like the most stiff kind of language
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[Music] we're not miners
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we have no quarrel with you we're just trying to get
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to the other side of the mountain my name is kellex zeist
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what corn would i have with you and you see them look to each other and
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uh the the one who you had spoken to initially sort of elbows the other one and he goes
39:42
which doesn't have a direct translation um but you
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know it to be um an insult meaning uh either different or other than
39:55
you can see at this point another one steps forward um seems to be a
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a little bit shorter and at this point you can see um dark black hair tied back tight into a
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ponytail and as he's walking up closer to you his movement is almost
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slithering like a snake as he moves towards you
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do you really not have any quarrel with us no no sir
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we're we uh we came to these mines
40:33
actually to uh maintain peace between you and your foes
40:41
we've uh he puts up a finger as though to say stop
40:46
he reaches into his back pocket and he pulls out a long thin piece of
40:53
metal and he takes it and he bends it and curves it around
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into a circle about six inches in diameter and he holds it up to you
41:07
and he puts his hand through [Music] i'm gonna have you make a
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wisdom saving throw what
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no it's 12.
41:25
you like any manage for it for being like a elf uh yeah is it charm or sleep
41:32
let me see is that what is that what you get um he's casting history he is casting zone
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of truth okay so no no it wouldn't it is not a charm um so
41:45
as he does this as he pulls his hand through um you can see these these blue
41:52
almost ribbons emanate off of his hands and surround you for a moment before disappearing
41:58
caleb it's all right thomas well it might not be all right it might be very bad
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do you know who we are i don't know for certain but
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i assume you're uh of kang shi
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drow of the underdark and he subtly nods his head in confirmation
42:27
and he looks down onto his leather armor and you can see that there's um these two
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breast pieces that go over his shoulders and come down into sort of a chest plate
42:40
and you can see in the corner a symbol of two crowns overlapping
42:45
and do you know who we are
42:51
i'm hoping you all are simply lost souls
42:58
i prefer not to get my men's swords dirty tonight
43:03
our blood is very hard to clean
43:08
and i'm sure just as easily spilled as the next as easily spilled as yours
43:23
if we let you go do you have intention
43:28
of telling anyone that we are here or what we have done here yes
43:34
as he removes his hand from the the circlet and most ends to these conflicts need
43:41
not be violent what you're doing here
43:47
the ruin that could become of this world it's not good for anyone not for the dwarves not for the elves
43:55
not for the drow [Music] i'll tell you this and it's the truth
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we want to help everyone make a persuasion check
44:08
oh oh my god change yo die it's 12 again dude 12
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again answer this question and if you
44:21
elect not to know that there will be violence
44:29
do you care for and he looks at everyone who's lying there on the ground
44:38
and he looks over he looks at the group of dwarves that are just getting up
44:44
and you can see one of the dwarves who you've had not much interaction with um
44:49
but uh you can see uh that she's got these three braids in her hair um that
44:55
pull her golden red hair back um and he points and he says
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do you care for that one's life yes
45:10
i'm just like staring him down like i'm i'm fully
45:16
as as as standing as tall as i've ever stood
45:22
you preach peace so i'll give you a chance to have it
45:28
and just know that there is a a path here
45:34
that ends with no blood so keep that in mind
45:42
bring that one to me what end
45:47
i promise not to harm her
45:53
she will be able to leave with the rest of you alive and fully intact
45:58
it's still pitch black right we can't i can't see anything you cannot see anything okay i'm just hearing this it's terrific yeah
46:04
we don't know what they're saying we don't know what's this [Music]
46:10
good to know but the voices are quiet like they're not yelling at each other they're not okay yeah
46:15
she stays behind me but i'll bring her here
46:21
deal as he slowly starts to smile
46:29
then yeah
46:34
uh help the dwarf up over there i can't i'll turn to zorko
46:41
help me i can't see yes i'll help i'll just hold on to your
46:46
i'll hold onto his cloak okay and he leads you okay okay uh and uh bring her over here
46:54
on it and um
47:01
steal yourself don't make any sudden movements all right
47:07
caleb are we supposed to trust you what do you want us to do what do you tell us what you need us to do
47:15
you're gonna have to trust me on okay well okay well i trust you
47:22
i trust you i hope you're right too
47:27
are they able to bring bring the door forward yeah um
47:32
she walks up and comes up behind you and she stands there
47:40
as this drow does kellog look like he's standing in front of uh we can't can we see anything
47:46
it's pitch black and he's black okay yeah this sucks um kellogg you see as the
47:53
dwarven woman approaches um the drow reaches into his satchel that
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he's got on his side and he pulls out a little mortar and pestle
48:07
and he reaches back in and he grabs what looks like a little red flower but it seems to be
48:15
slightly bioluminescent everyone in the cavern can see this tiny little flower it
48:21
doesn't actually emanate any light off of it but you can just barely see this red flower moving
48:26
as he puts the flower into the the mortar
48:31
and begins to grind it up can i tell what he's doing make an arcana check for me
48:40
would i be able to make an arcana check do i see you cannot see you've just seen the flower you don't know what the process is
48:47
seven seven nope um the an interesting thing to note though is
48:53
the magic that he used previously to cast zone of truth on you um was very foreign to you you've never seen it cast
48:59
like that anywhere um but he grinds it up and he spreads just a little bit onto
49:06
his fingers and he reaches forward towards the dwarven woman
49:12
um i'm gonna hold my hand up what do you plan to do you said no harm would come to her no harm is going to
49:17
come to her so what's this it is a an herb it's reassurance that
49:24
none of you will divulge our location or what we're doing here most kind of
49:30
reassurance well her life will be completely up to you
49:37
once i place this upon her throat
49:43
if anyone within this cavern speaks of what they have seen here
49:48
she will stop breathing [Music] it's in your hands no blood need be shed
50:00
all right can i tell if he's lying yeah make an inside check
50:06
about i want to know if he is being honest about no harm coming to anyone okay
50:14
um my math uh 21
50:19
21 uh he seems a little slimy but in what he's saying he seems truthful he seems to be honest
50:27
all right do it you know
50:32
and he reaches his hand forward and um sort of on the side of her neck smears
50:39
some of this luminescent red dye on her throat
50:44
and as soon as it makes contact with her skin and sits there for a moment
50:50
it begins to fade and completely dissolve into our skin
50:59
you are all free to go all right everyone
51:07
let's move we have to walk though because the rails have been destroyed i'd like to uh
51:15
like the way can you and yours um disperse or something
51:22
we will theoretically you might be able to push the cart back onto
51:29
the rail it is it's just on its side and some of the track has been taken away but if you
51:34
sort of prop it back up onto this now continuing rail might be a faster way than walking
51:44
what would you all like to do have you let it back up um if if he moves out of the way yeah
51:49
you can see all of them sort of turn around oh standing overs i light my arm up
51:57
can i see what can i see uh you can see a group of five drow off to the side who are averting their gaze
52:04
from the light um you can see the cart that has been um or this this string of carts that has been completely flipped
52:09
over on its side but um as some pieces of the the railway have
52:15
have been taken out the cart sort of went off on its side and continued to slide forward so it is
52:22
next to some of the rail that um continues on you see the five dwarves
52:27
who are recollecting themselves um gathering up and sort of retreating back by the cart
52:33
are the two are the drow leaving are they just standing there they are standing there you can see that there
52:38
are the two rails so the one that you guys were traveling on um has been
52:44
bent in different ways the the tracks have been taken out you can see that they're just starting that process on
52:49
the other rail they're doing it to that one too yes they're just starting the process you can see them they're taking out some of the uh the giant
52:56
nails in the in the railway kind of like what's going on
53:03
we've got to move these civilians through these people they don't have any stake in this
53:11
so what are what are the drought doing just making it so that the train can't get through i think they intend to slay
53:17
the miners that come through here slay them why would they slay them it kind of just
53:23
seems like they just the train wouldn't be able to go through why
53:28
are you assuming that they want to slay them oh look over do they seem like they're listening to us they drown
53:34
make an inside check where would you get that from where would you get that from well i don't know
53:41
i mean if i were if i were them i would just would if if the miners can't get through the
53:46
tunnel then they can't dig anymore well
53:52
we can't tell the miners that they've created this embargo here right but if they wanted to slay them why wouldn't they
53:58
just do it in the tunnels why would they do it here this doesn't make any sense sure they're vulnerable they're traveling
54:04
they have no defenses they have no defenses down in the tunnels either
54:10
this stops them from being able to send reinforcements help they're called spikes i rolled a nine
54:18
you can't tell does it seem like they could hear if they were are they close enough to be able to hear us um
54:23
potentially but then another thought crosses your mind that you're not even sure if they
54:29
speak common they might be listening
54:34
right why can't we tell anyone why can't we just stop them why can't we tell anyone kellik
54:43
he's put a curse on this woman that oh if we speak
54:48
she will die why did you let him do that because it gets us through without killing anyone
54:53
yeah but what if everybody dies tomorrow because of that then you've killed hundreds of people
55:00
all right well we'll cross that bridge when we come to it alma i don't know what you're trying
55:06
to tell me to get out of here i can fix this fine
55:14
i trust you let's go everyone come on all right um flynn i am going to have
55:21
you and zorco make um an athletics check to uh [Applause]
55:26
lift this part back onto the the railway actually do you want some help
55:32
anyone who wants to can can add there i think we should all try to including the doors yeah dwarves if they
55:38
seem sturdy enough strong enough nope nope
55:44
athletics athletics rolled amazing on that nice seven i am possessed
55:51
i am i have a real strong intent here uh yeah 17. okay
55:57
um zorkhall rolled really high as well and the dwarves rolled a 15. so um everyone
56:04
altogether sort of lifting all at once you're able to tip the cart and just prop it back up onto the railway um as
56:11
for the first time you notice even when it was flipped over onto the ground um the hand was still trying to like move
56:18
the lever even though it wasn't going anywhere and as it's flipped back on um you all
56:24
hop back on in the hand once again yeah to move the card um as we're about to leave i want to
56:31
turn and see if i can see the the like lead figure of this drow
56:39
it doesn't have to come to bloodshed those miners are just
56:45
people making a living this world has enough chaos in it
56:51
why add more seemingly to actively ignore you
56:56
turns his back as you all begin to pick up speed i just
57:01
like my expression just falls with disappointment like i'm just crestfall
57:07
on it um as you begin going once more um this dwarven woman
57:14
walks up to you kellic what did you do to me don't worry i'm gonna help you
57:20
and i would like to okay is this the dorman woman that i protected different one okay
57:26
i will um allow the ashes to form in the palm of my finger in the palm of my hand rather in
57:33
the three rings um scar and i will i will put my hand directly where he put the powder on her
57:40
and i will cast death ward no way
57:46
um you touch a creature and granted a measure of protection from death the first time the target would drop to zero
57:51
hit points as a result of taking damage the target instead drops to one hit point and the spell ends and then
57:58
i will reach out for the uh station masters tether if i can find it yeah and
58:04
i will cast sending and
58:16
[Music] waiting for you
58:21
in the center of the tunnels the railway is cut
58:27
expect outright aggression from here on
58:35
that's it all right kellie you complete get rid of it you're casting of sending okay um and
58:42
as you turn around you look at this dwarven woman who is still in the same cart as
58:47
the rest of you um and you begin to hear like a searing
58:54
and she grabs her neck and you're oh i'm just like holding her like i'm putting my arms around her it's kind of
59:01
weird it's gotta be right i don't know what she drops to her knees one moment at a time and for probably the next 10 seconds you
59:08
can you can feel like her muscles contracting as she's in this severe pain and then all of a sudden she loosens and
59:15
relaxes as she blinks a couple times and looks up at you
59:21
i'm so sorry but we made it through
59:27
and as you're saying this into her eyes
59:32
you hear just a faint whisper in your ear that was a mistake
59:38
as the rest of you look over and apparating like a ghost is this drow in
59:44
the middle of all of you on your cart i'm going to have everyone roll an issue really
59:49
no come on man we should have done it when we got out of the tunnel okay flynn what'd you get uh
59:56
24. 24.
1:00:02
[Music]
1:00:10
uh 10 okay it's just one drought though right it is just the one just the just the
1:00:16
main guy um oh she's him mm-hmm and let's see uh zorkhall was there as well zorkhall got
1:00:21
a 16. let's go [Music]
1:00:30
i had assumed that um or i i kind of assumed that if if we knew what kellic was doing we would have been prepared
1:00:36
for the fallout yes so we're not like totally not surprised
1:00:44
yes knowing what kellic was doing uh you all would have been prepared for for anything um okay
1:00:53
out of seemingly nowhere this drought apparates right behind kellik flynn what are you doing
1:00:59
[ __ ] them up do it um all right so i will
1:01:05
um is the cart still moving yes with the hand how fast is the car going um
1:01:10
the cart is going about [Music] it's been picking up speed i'd say
1:01:18
about 15 miles an hour okay um
1:01:26
is he like is where is he standing in relation to everyone else
1:01:32
um like is he on the front of the card or back of the cart he is so um yeah so you all are in one
1:01:38
cart oh cool with one of the dwarves um as well and then in the cart in front of
1:01:44
you the rest of the dwarves are there and there's a there's a little gap in between each of the carts that are that are connected um but uh yeah so right in
1:01:52
front of kellik is the dwarf and apparated right next to him is uh the
1:01:58
drow so from where you are flynn on one corner of the cart um he's sort of on the
1:02:03
opposite side of kellik okay um
1:02:11
i would like to try to move kellik is on the ground though holding
1:02:17
the drought yes in his lab basically so they're on
1:02:23
the so you can see over him is what i would it looks like yes yeah you would you would be able to
1:02:28
get a pretty clean view of this i want to try to cast a spell but i think there's some area of
1:02:34
effect stuff that i might have to ask you about um um i basically want to cast a spell that
1:02:41
has a 15 foot cube in front of me um and i'm curious where is kellic actually is are they sharing the same
1:02:48
space they are all close enough to each other the the drow is leaning over kelly to whisper in so i would be able to not
1:02:54
target kelly no okay no that's okay i will wait with that i will cast instead
1:03:10
right next to him and swing some some swords also and my sword is a bonus action and uh come down with an attack
1:03:19
that is really good that is 26. yeah that hits for sure
1:03:26
yeah it hits all right um this one uh
1:03:32
uh 12 points of piercing oh nice okay coming in for my second attack that is a
1:03:39
[Music] 16 16 hits sweet
1:03:44
that is 14 points of piercing okay
1:03:49
um and then i will i'm gonna action search and i'm going to
1:03:55
uh attack again okay let's unload
1:04:01
uh that's 23 23 hits yeah nice uh
1:04:08
13 points of piercing okay come on oh that i think this hits uh 17.
1:04:15
that hits yeah good uh
1:04:21
that is almost 50 points of damage flynn had a turn everybody leave him
1:04:27
as i stab into him four times alma um i see flynn just kind of go into town
1:04:35
um and i close my eyes and bring my hands in front of me and try to picture
1:04:41
the green smoke um or not the green smoke sorry i tried to picture the smoke
1:04:48
um getting heavier and heavier between my hands as it solidifies into a
1:04:54
large or into a short sword um and i cast bonus action shadow
1:05:01
blade okay yeah at third level um and i um
1:05:09
step to the back side of this drow that just um is hovering over
1:05:16
kellik and i just trying to plunge it into his back okay make an attack roll
1:05:22
oh i think it misses uh 11. and 11 does not hit yeah
1:05:27
um and that was my bonus action
1:05:33
yeah that's all i have okay oh um oh is that a spell slot
1:05:40
yes it was okay i'm gonna have you roll uh well magic surge you have to beat a two be fine
1:05:46
um i want to actually bend i want to okay um to see if i can hit him
1:05:54
because i rolled an 11 plus no that's a 12.
1:05:59
that does not happen yeah that's okay [Music] unfortunately them right
1:06:05
um they rolled an 18 for um for wild magic bump that up to a three
1:06:12
okay um zorko is up next um he is going to
1:06:22
yeah he's just going to launch forward and make a couple of of swings at this guy he's got messed up
1:06:30
um now we're making a little like tea around him it's like good luck moving past us yeah yeah you are now all
1:06:36
covering him on all sides yeah um as uh zorco's gonna do
1:06:42
pretty much what flynn does um okay the first attack
1:06:48
as he uh as he slashes at the drow that's gonna deal
1:06:56
nine points of slashing damage and he's going to attack one more time [Music]
1:07:03
and that attack is going to miss as he uh as he lunges forward and almost does like uh
1:07:09
um just like a um a lunging attack the drow looks just in the nick of time and backs
1:07:15
away avoiding the attack next up kellick uh i'm gonna uh uh
1:07:23
man i'm i'm struggling between two things i'm gonna i'm gonna take the dodge action okay
1:07:29
and i'm going to um actually scratch that i would like to use my
1:07:34
action to interpose myself between me and this door between the drow and the sport okay yeah i would
1:07:40
like to cradle her even further and just like turn my back to the or not turn my back but um
1:07:46
in fact put her behind me okay um [Music] and then i would also like to uh cast a
1:07:53
healing word yeah that makes sense okay she's down to one point yeah yeah yeah um
1:07:58
roll that uh roll that healing second level because i have no spells left
1:08:04
sending man yeah yeah it cost me all my lots yeah it is got some good uses definitely
1:08:11
yeah um so it's 2d four plus five those are not d4s oh there's d6s thank
1:08:17
you good call thank you my bad
1:08:23
actually rolled higher i think no it's the same it's exactly the same six six five so
1:08:28
eleven points of viewing okay i think those are not um as you can see
1:08:35
all of the life returns back to her as she is now back at full health um
1:08:41
is that your turn um yes okay next up the drow
1:08:47
no he can't go nope he's not allowed stay there
1:08:52
he is going to use his bonus action
1:08:58
to teleport yeah that makes sense which does not provoke any attacks of
1:09:03
opportunity um as soon as you see him disappear from within all of you and each of you sort of like makes eye
1:09:09
contact with the person across from you um surrounding surrounding him um you just as soon see him appear at the
1:09:17
very back uh at the very back cart as he turns
1:09:22
and reaches his hand out towards the very back little thing that the hand is
1:09:28
using to crank no and he casts web um completely engulfing this this um
1:09:36
this crank machine and slowing the hand to a complete halt as you can see it's like trying to move the lever um but
1:09:43
it's it's wrapped up in all this web and the levers and the mechanics are no longer moving
1:09:50
that is his turn next up flynn um
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[Music] what's the distance between carts
1:10:03
five feet [Music] then you can see that you can see between the carts there is like a metal
1:10:10
uh linking mechanism there uh that is going between them but they are about five feet
1:10:17
i will try to get on the other cart where he's at i'm gonna use my movement to just try and get over there okay
1:10:23
[Music] all right i'm gonna have flynn make an acrobatics check oh i can do that
1:10:30
hopefully [Music] uh 19 19 yeah yeah easy enough you jump
1:10:37
off the side and land in the back without losing any of your movement so that was um
1:10:43
use uh that was 25 feet to get there i will use my action to dash okay right up
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next to him uh in the middle of the cart [Music]
1:10:54
and uh uh pull out my weapon and just kind of give him uh give him a look and look
1:10:59
down at the web okay and like at the beginnings of rubbing my fingers together you see that the sigils
1:11:05
start to glow as the fire starts flicking on my fingers all right that's my turn next up alma
1:11:12
yeah i'm gonna run to the back and um up over [Music]
1:11:17
and you're gonna you're gonna hop into the last card yeah okay i'm gonna have you make an
1:11:22
acrobatic check no um eight an eight okay getting to the last cart
1:11:29
takes all of your movement um and and but you're able to get there but i'm able to get there okay great i'm going
1:11:34
to um i still have my um blade up my shadow blade and i'm going
1:11:40
to throw it okay make it attack roll [Music]
1:11:46
keep it if it's a 20. it has fallen off the table
1:11:53
it was a 16. this is a 16 a 16 x plus six yeah yeah that is nice nice we're
1:11:58
gonna use it [Music]
1:12:05
okay 16 plus six um and that's eight points of poison or um three eight of poison damage
1:12:11
[Music] so nine points of poison damage and then i bonus action call the blade back to me
1:12:18
okay and i just looked up at him okay um next up zorkhall
1:12:24
um he is going to um
1:12:29
yeah he's gonna use his entire turn to um run up
1:12:36
yeah okay so he's gonna see that kellick is right next to this dwarven woman here
1:12:42
she seems pretty well protected so he is going to use his movement to run to the back of this cart i'm sorry the front of
1:12:48
this cart and he's gonna extend his hand out and
1:12:53
in a very similar motion to the way that flynn casts shield
1:13:00
he's gonna he's gonna use it but he's gonna use much larger motions and take it a lot slower as you can see
1:13:08
a shimmering golden light encompass the entire front cart where the rest of the dwarves
1:13:13
are um casting shield over the entire cart what
1:13:18
sick homeboy needs to teach me and that that expense everything that he's got
1:13:24
um so that is his turn jaina's stress
1:13:32
next up and it almost looks like it looks like a shimmering golden like
1:13:39
bubble that has formed over like the top of the cart um and and sort of extending
1:13:44
down beyond next up kellock okay
1:13:51
he's over there [Music]
1:13:59
um i'm just gonna give this this tour of a woman a reassuring look despite everything
1:14:04
[Music] but get out of here i promise
1:14:10
interfecium in cornmeal and i cast a spiritual weapon at level five
1:14:17
no sorry level four excuse me okay that's gonna hurt uh yeah and i'm gonna bring him up right
1:14:23
next to our our old pal um and i'm gonna uh uh yeah uh have
1:14:31
it swing at him okay
1:14:37
uh it's an 18 to hit that hits yeah for sure nice as this rift opens up
1:14:43
uh uh 12 points of force damage okay as this rift opens up
1:14:49
adjacent to this drow and this uh thin silver dagger slices through to cut at him nice um and then i will cast more
1:14:58
yep because that's just the bonus action amigo uh
1:15:04
uh uh it's all the dead yeah okay and uh so wisdom save wisdom save
1:15:13
it's gonna be what's his wisdom um probably doesn't save
1:15:21
a 14 that is not safe okay and that'll be
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oh wait sorry that's 2d 12 because he's hurt
1:15:31
nice uh jeez
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17 points of uh necrotic damage if you wish to go
1:15:43
to the house then so be it off with you all right um and he
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yeah he all of these attacks are look like they're really wearing them now yeah he's not having too much fun um
1:15:55
okay with that he is going to uh reach his hand up into
1:16:00
the air and um as this cart is slowing down even further he's gonna it looks like he's reaching for rocks that are on
1:16:08
the ceiling and his as he grabs the air and twists and pulls down um
1:16:14
you can see that the the rocks in the ceiling begin to crumble and crack as
1:16:19
all of a sudden two massive boulders fall down but as they fall in the middle
1:16:24
of the air before they actually touch down they sprout they each sprout eight legs
1:16:32
as they hit the carts what and as they hit the carts the rock the
1:16:40
the rocky exterior sheds off as two giant spiders are now occupied they're
1:16:46
cool um the first one the the first giant
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spider lands on the cart that um is occupied by flynn
1:16:59
alma and the drow and the second one lands on the cart with zorkol
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uh kellik and the dwarven woman [Music]
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so yeah that's uh that's all he's gonna do
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i'm gonna roll for those spiders [Music]
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okay um that's his turn next up flynn um wow i see these things oh um and then
1:17:39
i turn back to him uh and i will
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want to hit i want to get this thing moving again but um you're the only one who can do it
1:17:51
would i be able to remove the hand or is it like in case it's webbed in there it's it's webbed in there pretty good
1:17:57
and it's you're still you're still moving but it's it is slowing down
1:18:08
would i would if it wasn't held down would i be able to remove it as like a free action just like pick it up
1:18:14
um yeah just like but you grab it like the issue is you are at the end of this cart the hand is on the other end of
1:18:22
this this push thing it's not right there close to you it's on the other end of the lever
1:18:28
so it is about 15 feet away from you would i be able to use my movement to get to where that is
1:18:34
or do i have to be going through the web yeah i'm worried it's gonna burn the hand up
1:18:39
but i mean i guess it's like i thought this wouldn't the way the hand is it wouldn't have yeah but it's it's
1:18:45
wooden it's so it look i think it'll burn away the web and then the handled you might take it with a magic i don't
1:18:50
know what are you doing flynn um uh i'm gonna try and just i don't know
1:18:56
i'm gonna burn it um if you're gonna burn it
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i will just try it i'm gonna light a torch and uh start to burn the web
1:19:08
and move and try and get to the hand and get the hand before it gets too burnt up okay so
1:19:13
i will i will you know use my action to pick up a torch light it and start moving my way through the web and just
1:19:20
like disregard okay all right um you make it through about half of the web um to get there all right um
1:19:27
do i get to the hand no you do not you burn away about half all right uh that's my turn
1:19:32
okay next up spiders oh no omar how far away is flynn
1:19:37
for me now flynn is now uh
1:19:42
10 more feet or something yeah 40 feet great cool perfect um i'm gonna
1:19:50
take a step forward towards the spider okay um and
1:19:56
i'm so i'm holding my shadowy sword and i'm going to
1:20:02
release my hands from holding it okay as it slowly gets like less and less solidified and kind of dissolves into
1:20:08
smoke in the air and i am going to
1:20:14
um take a deep breath as i
1:20:21
um kind of secure my magic well inside myself
1:20:28
and use um two sorcery points to cast
1:20:34
quickened spell i think it's two let me double check that [Music]
1:20:42
yes just two to change the casting time for one spell
1:20:47
to be a bonus action all right what are you casting i am casting a 15 foot cone of burning hands
1:20:54
at both the spider and our drought
1:21:04
um at third level jeez
1:21:10
you need a duck safe for both the spider and the guy right yeah it's not very high unfortunately i need to save them
1:21:16
for the spider for the spider that's 21. yeah and for the drow
1:21:25
it's pretty good um they both make it but they still take half
1:21:31
which is half of 56. jeez let's go
1:21:44
also the wood might catch on fire yeah okay oh keep that in mind
1:21:55
16 points of fire damage half okay so that's eight points to each of them
1:22:01
and i am going to [Music]
1:22:06
do it again okay do the roll first yeah i'm gonna roll
1:22:11
i mean like do you have to go first the wild magic oh boy we're good we're good we're good okay okay okay okay i'm
1:22:18
gonna move that up to a four okay do this fight or go away
1:22:24
yeah he has to do a concentration check first i guess yes he does good goodbye
1:22:29
good that's uh can we get this yeah you got it it's a 19 plus whatever
1:22:35
um okay so the spiders stay then they've got their deck saving
1:22:41
throws that's gonna be a 19 for the spider
1:22:50
that's like that's an eight for the drought yeah he's gonna take the full thing yeah okay are you doing it again yeah yeah he's gonna take the full thing
1:23:00
nice that's 18 points of fire damage for the drow nice dude oh my goodness okay and
1:23:10
um nine for the spider how are you doing
1:23:17
and i don't know if any of the card is on fire or anything that he's wearing um make
1:23:24
i don't have your role at d4 i also need to roll um for my wild magic which is an 11. okay moving up to five
1:23:32
okay quickening in the wild now roll a d4 four nice
1:23:40
not nice maximum something that is maximum damage to the cart
1:23:46
and everything else and how's the web doing then as a portion of the web is is uh torched
1:23:52
away um but unfortunately so is a piece of the cart that is connecting to
1:23:59
flynn's piece of the cart skyflin um as it breaks off you are slowly no
1:24:04
slowing down slowing down slightly more than everything else as
1:24:10
well it's all right as your piece of the cart moves five feet back
1:24:15
five feet further away um next up um are the spiders still there
1:24:22
oh you make another gun safe yes they are okay how's he looking he's looking just he's starting to
1:24:28
regret what he's doing he's really starting to regret it um your blood can easily be spilled just as
1:24:34
easily as ours yeah yeah okay next up the spiders um
1:24:40
the spider next to alma was not a fan of that fire that makes sense if you would like to
1:24:46
take an attack of opportunity you can as it jumps up into the air and uses this movement to land on the
1:24:53
web directly next to flynn yeah i'm going to take a an attack of opportunity right but i think i can just punch
1:24:58
because okay yeah yeah i can use the cam trip as an attacker no it's gonna be a weapon right now yeah so i will um
1:25:04
punchy punchy i think that's just work caster yeah yeah so i'm gonna um
1:25:12
i'm gonna punch an arm strike
1:25:26
18 to hit and yeah 18 hits and it's the d8
1:25:34
because of my feet plus that's um 10 points of damage
1:25:41
he's running away as it just leaps off of the ground you throw a punch and your punch connects
1:25:47
with one of its legs as the leg is like completely blown off and and falls to the side of the cart um it still lands
1:25:55
with an incredible thud right next to flynn great hi
1:26:00
okay next up is zorco he's got
1:26:06
a spider right in front of him so he's gonna take a couple of swings at the spider um slashing with his sword
1:26:12
he's gonna make contact on both of them his first swing slashes
1:26:18
dealing nine points of damage he also takes off one of the legs as the spider sort of stumbles to regain its stability
1:26:25
[Music] and the next one dealing five points of damage okay that's their turn um
1:26:33
oh next up fun is the other spider um let's see it is going to
1:26:40
yeah um it's going to attack zorkhall [Music]
1:26:48
that is the present danger it's going to reach out and with its pincers uh attempt to make
1:26:53
a bite attack
1:26:59
and that is not gonna hit as it uh reaches forward and sore called um just dodges out of the way of these two huge
1:27:07
pincers all right next up kellick what are you doing you've got a massive spider right in front of you
1:27:14
okay and that's it yeah nate what are you doing i love that um
1:27:20
i'm going to um i'm going to take an attack of opportunity i assume i'm going to move
1:27:25
i'm going to try and jump over to uh the car with alma okay yeah um you take an attacker opportunity
1:27:33
let's see as it uh reaches out once again with its pincers it is going to try and bite you that's going to be a
1:27:39
dirty 20 to hit a lit okay
1:27:44
um and i'm gonna have you make a constitution saving throw for me okay how much damage you take seven points of
1:27:51
piercing damage okay seven points piercing
1:27:57
um the con damage or the con save was um 15. okay um
1:28:02
you save as uh you are not poisoned yay tremendous yeah that'll help a lot yeah
1:28:08
that'll help a lot okay and i'm gonna have you make an acrobatics check as you're moving towards this next cart
1:28:14
nice okay um uh 14. uh 14. okay you leap over and you still have uh 10 feet of movement
1:28:21
um i'm good there okay uh i'm just going to lock eyes with this drow
1:28:27
pryduce and i'm gonna use my action to use uh to channel divinity and do path to the grave as not only is my the the
1:28:33
gateway that is my spiritual weapon next to him but additional gateways open up around him as though welcoming him to
1:28:40
his afterlife his impending afterlife uh and uh the next uh attack that hits
1:28:46
him uh will uh he'll be vulnerable too okay and then yeah i'm gonna swing it with my
1:28:51
spiritual weapon and yeah maybe miss uh
1:28:59
yeah i think it is miss um yeah it's 14. that does not hit yeah
1:29:05
but still he's vulnerable next thing that he's nice okay that's my turn um okay
1:29:11
next up um yeah he is going to use his bonus action
1:29:16
to teleport and as soon as he disappears you'll begin looking
1:29:22
around you don't see him reappear great what about the spiders spiders are
1:29:28
still there okay great that is gonna be his turn um next up
1:29:33
flynn um i will use i'm i'm wondering if i can use the torch as like a weapon and like attack the web
1:29:39
and like and then attack the spider like can i attack the rest of the web with the my actions can i like do weapon attacks i could do that and then yeah
1:29:46
all right for sure i'll use one one action or one attack to get the rest of the web okay and the rest of the web is
1:29:51
cleared and then i will grab the hand if i can just like pick it up it's okay yeah yeah
1:29:56
it's easy now pick it up and put it in my pocket um and then i will turn to the spider
1:30:02
and i will uh bonus action some of my sword okay and come in on the uh and attack the spider okay i'm gonna have
1:30:08
you make an attack roll okay um and because you know a thing or two about giant spiders and have them in your uh
1:30:13
in your little uh bestiary i'm gonna have you add five to uh any additional modifiers yeah so uh any additional
1:30:21
modifiers at the end of it you just add five oh yeah it's a hit two like in the damage and the damage wow correct
1:30:29
bye spider wow dude yeah it's very smart okay so that's 20
1:30:35
uh jesus um okay so that would be
1:30:41
28 plus 5 33 yeah that hits
1:30:49
um 11 16 points of piercing okay as you
1:30:54
like you take a second you take uh the briefest moment to see to to recall what you know about giant
1:31:01
spiders and the amount of times that you've fought them before and you immediately lunge forward driving it
1:31:07
into the area between its pincers as you feel a soft area that your sword completely goes through
1:31:12
and the spider falls limp and falls off the back of the cart and lands on the tracks lands on the
1:31:19
track behind you um i will in shock of that um i will use my
1:31:25
movement if i could to oh actually is it is it completely ripped off the lever
1:31:31
yes how else do we move this card is there a lever on the front
1:31:36
there was one on the front you have you don't know exactly how it's gonna okay but there is one potentially we could use i
1:31:42
will then knowing that this is a lost cause i will attempt to get back on to the card that oma and
1:31:48
looking at it potentially if the hand continued to push it would basically
1:31:54
just knock this last part into the front one it just wouldn't have that connection any longer
1:32:00
that's what you're so that's what you're saying like a ram almost like just push it if you wanted to that would be a possibility i will do that i will bring
1:32:06
the hand back out and kind of just guys i'm gonna try and get this thing going again and i can't do it yet
1:32:12
because i have an action but okay um one spider killed next up
1:32:18
you see uh there is the last spider on this other car that you are not
1:32:23
currently on would you like to do so we're just going to keep going right we're how do how close are we to the exit do i can i can i make into some
1:32:30
assumption um from the amount of time that you've been traveling you probably have another 30 minutes or so
1:32:36
damn yeah anything can happen you okay there flynn yeah i'm doing okay
1:32:43
okay um i guess i'm gonna climb over and back to
1:32:49
the main yep back to the main cart okay so we were on
1:32:55
do you want me to yeah i'm gonna have you roll acrobatics um being very clumsy today which is
1:33:02
weird um
1:33:07
that's a 10. uh a 10 okay you get to the other side and um
1:33:13
as soon as you land you used all of your movement to get to this car okay no problem um
1:33:18
everyone doing all right here um and i'm gonna
1:33:24
cast yeah we're gonna cast chaos bolt at the
1:33:30
okay um at second level is that a roll from you or me that's a
1:33:36
roll for me [Music]
1:33:41
13 13 hits cool um
1:33:49
that's 23 points of
1:33:55
fire damage okay oh wait no no i'm sorry i used the wrong i used the wrong dice to determine
1:34:00
that um psychic damage no okay um as this uh
1:34:06
whirling mass engulfs the spider um you can see it begin to like twitch and the
1:34:11
legs curl up from underneath as the head completely explodes and um this this
1:34:17
black goop um uh hits oma
1:34:23
zerkath and the dwarf as the rest of the body of the spider falls limp and dead
1:34:28
we are now out of interest bro i am just like actively seeking out to
1:34:35
see where this this child teleported to okay make a perception check is the cart in front of me on fire
1:34:42
um the the fire is like dissipating a little bit it seems like most of the damage has already been done 12 on the
1:34:47
perception check 12 uh you don't see them anywhere
1:34:53
don't come back just for um making sure that we're that
1:34:58
they're no longer there i'm going to um snap my fingers together
1:35:05
and um tilt my head down and disappear from existence
1:35:10
temporarily and i want to um i'm on the ethereal plane now and i
1:35:17
want to make sure that that guy isn't here still okay on the ethereal plane
1:35:23
he's looking around he seemed to be in the clear eyes probably good to check but
1:35:28
nothing here on the ethereal plane okay and i can stay here for
1:35:33
a minute so i'm gonna stay here for a minute okay it's gone you have to roll while magic on that yes oh yeah
1:35:40
six had to be to five jesus you're good
1:35:45
all right so as alma is on the ethereal plane now um flynn you are able to press the button
1:35:51
of the hand once more and i will assist it to maybe try and make it go a little faster and you just
1:35:57
get it a little bit faster and in the next 20 minutes or so you're able to just see the light the
1:36:04
dim moonlight at the end of the tunnel after a minute i pop back as oma pops back
1:36:09
that is where we're going to end this episode we're going to call it right oh god we're not free yet though we're
1:36:16
not out no you're not but that's where we're going to call it thank you so much for listening and we
1:36:21
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