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hi i'm oman and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture forth

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[Music]

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previously you all had traveled from nestle valley to westbury through the tunnel mines that connect the two

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towns you all had taken the civilians that you had in tow and boarded one of the

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remaining carts that shuttles back to westbury about halfway through the journey though

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you all were thrust from those carts and and piled on top of one another and were

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thrown from the carts like projectiles once the dust had settled

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kellik noticed a group of drow who seemed to be tearing up these tracks in

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a malicious attempt to stop the miners from going back and forth

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after a bit of a conversation and some tough decisions the group was let

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go but not without consequence the drow leader assuming the drow leader

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um had brought forth one of the dwarven civilians and marked her across the

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throat saying to kellik that if he or any in the party spoke of what the group was doing or

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that the group was even there that this woman would surely die you all agreed to these terms and

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continued on on the cart now propping it back up onto the rails in a

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moment of clever spell casting uh kellick uh imparted a new spell onto

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this woman that would protect her uh from any effects that this that this enchantment might have and the moment

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that he sent the message spell warning of these drow in the caves the woman dropped to her knees in agony

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but did not die it seems that kell expel was successful although

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noticed by the drow leader as he teleported back onto your cart and after a fight ensued as he conjured some giant

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spiders the foes were defeated and you made it to the end of the cave

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you all look ahead and just in this last couple hundred feet of of track you can

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just see the opening of the cave in front of you you can see uh drips of of moonlight coming through

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into the the entryway of this cave and as the uh the wooden hand

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at the end of the cart comes to a slow as it slowly stops pushing the cart

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you all come to a stop and see the town of westbury in front of you

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it is bathed in moonlight you look up and you can see um stars above you and you can just barely off in the distance

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start to see uh thunder clouds and and a bit of a storm brewing

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as you all depart the mine cart with zorkhall and these civilians in tow what

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would you all like to do um

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i uh i i'm gonna turn toward the the group of civilians um i i'd like to check i'd like to look

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at this this uh woman who was had this i don't know poison curse stop can i

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tell if it has uh if the actions we took uh

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like removed this effect or if it would persist um make an arcana check for me

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30 20. it seems that the effect of the spell has completely dissipated um its effects

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had taken hold but were not successful this woman does not seem to be enchanted in any way let's go um

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do any of you know uh that people who um organize

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travels through these mines uh are back to the mine from these tunnels uh one of the dwarven gentlemen uh who actually

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hasn't spoken up yet um sort of raises his hand and says

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yes i uh i know some of the people who transport back and forth i can i can let

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them know that that should be um that would be utterly necessary

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what exactly are we letting them know that this tunnels are not safe

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and that i think kang shi is coming for that entire mining camp man i i can't be

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sure of course but uh those were drow that we crossed in those tunnels

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and uh they were not the diplomatic sort

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well maybe they just didn't want them going back and forth right like maybe maybe they weren't trying to hurt anybody

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right uh it's inarguable

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and i cast a look over toward the uh the dwarf who was cursed what happened to her

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i look at who he's looking at i did something

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about something desperate

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don't know why i think it was a test of some sort [Music]

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i um i'll crouch uh to this to this dwarf and i'll i'll i'll put my

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hand on her shoulder and and and look her

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straight in the eye and [Music] hang my head

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i'm so sorry i

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put you in grave danger

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it should have been me who bore the pain of that [Music]

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but i made the [Music] quickest decision i could

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i hope you'll forgive me um she kind of she steps forward and she

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sort of puts her hand up on your hip and uh i i don't know exactly what happened

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back there but she looks around to everyone who's there and he says

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we all got out and i get to return home to my family so i thank you

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that's what we're here for and i i turn to regard the remainder of the team

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yeah i'm glad you guys are all okay should we stay

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at least to help get something set up like kill the guard or or something make

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sure the word gets out what if these folks are able to disseminate this information rapidly i can get the word

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out i will make sure that there are there no one goes through that tunnel in the morning and you told the captain it

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was the uh the station master on the other side hi okay i let him know and i don't

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know about you but we got some pretty big things and some pretty big places that that we do need to talk to i know

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you have urgent matters ahead of us it is really late though so we should probably stay here tonight

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i mean we could go to brightberry inn again yeah see uh your old friend yeah

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okay i don't know about you but i could go for another one of those pies

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i just want to go to sleep search yourself i could do both right now

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well you can't sleep and eat it's not really possible is that a challenge

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no how how would you do that and we'll head to the end

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okay and as you all do um you all walk as as one big group with the civilians

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but one by one they split off and go down one street another one goes down another um you see the married couple go

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down one street together as well um and um the dwarven lady that i protected yes uh

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whenever she's about to split off i'll uh just kind of walk up to her and just [Music]

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i don't know i'm just i'm glad you're okay

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i'm glad i'm okay too um well i'm glad i'm glad we're all okay and she reaches out to shake your hand

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i hug her just give her a big hug okay and she hugs you back as as i see

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flynn saying goodbye to this woman i'm gonna um like quickly run over to him and just like um

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lean over and whisper in his ear hey flynn um you have a little remember you have a

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note about these people disappearing is there any way to like get that signed off so we kind of like have another thing done just like i mean because

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because like you want to finish things and this is something that we have done actually and you can finish it oh um

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i'll uh i'll kneel down and go to my bag and just pull out that um it's that uh

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slip it was a little letter yeah it was a letter um

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who does it who's it by is it does it say who i need to report to or was it like a like a towns

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keep or um yeah so pulling out the letter

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um it was signed by mirada collovia

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um i'll turn to the dwarf uh woman do you know who this is i'll point to

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the name on the contract and she she looks and and she reads and

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she goes oh that was um i mean

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cerdrick no should know i mean serger is her cousin so

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he just left a couple streets back okay um do you think he'd mind if we stop in the

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morning to this place i don't think you would mind at all i mean you've done everyone a great

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service i don't i don't think uh an unannounced visit is out of the out of the picture at all omar

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kelly maybe we just do this tomorrow morning let them rest yeah that makes sense and i can we can

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just stop by cedric you said uh sir sir drug we can stop by sir drugs

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place and just see if he wants to accompany us to this lady's home and we can just get this turned in before we head out i

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think that's wise we could use the funds if we can yeah that's something i could use the

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[Music] the credit credit yeah i mean if we did it

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anyway so it's like might as well [Music]

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but once we've done something i don't know inarguably

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great and just so i think we deserve some something for it

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maybe we've done that a few times yeah i started

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just a single drop of sweat just down my temple that one's perfect

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just not even the gods

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i suppose you're right i'll give one that uh last little shoulder tap to the

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door for me [Music] okay and she walks off heads off to home

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and smile and uh yeah and head towards the internet okay um only takes a couple

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minutes uh it's it's sort of a small town um and you guys get to the outside of

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the brightberry inn once again seeing that that wooden sign out front with the the blue letters painted in and and the

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little berries um accenting the sign and as soon as you open the door

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you hear but do not see yeah hi welcome to the bradbury and what can i do for you hi

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i'm going to turn to kellie is she always awake in this jury like always it's a little bit unsettling

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isn't it it's so late and you all see uh just like a little pair of halfling eyes

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pop up from behind the counter um as she says oh you're back uh can i get you all

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another room for the night you know it also a pie a pie i can definitely do that all right

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uh four rooms um let's see we've got alcohol still with us yes yes

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um four rooms i assume still yeah okay uh then uh that'll be six uh six silver

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once again and i will get that pie ready for you right sure and i'll just pull out a gold and just set it on the counter thank you very much uh bullpire

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just a slice you guys want spy uh i would like a um a

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full pie yes uh can you go light on that spice please um

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i can't really do that potatoes would be brand for sure you have mushrooms thank you

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daisy uh we do have mushrooms throw a little bit on like half mushrooms mushrooms are fine

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they can do the whole thing but i don't [Music]

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started right now and she scurries back off to the kitchen um and uh you see out there on the counter

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four keys scoop them up yep let's do it go get go get set into our rooms okay um you all

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get set into your rooms um zorkhall takes the room that tria had previously

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um mind the uh foliage that might be hanging in there it's it's impossible to clean up i have slept in worse places

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i think this will do just nicely not i believe well you're gonna sleep right next to me

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so if you need anything just knock on the wall i will not be doing this good night

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it closes the door

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as you all uh get settled um and after about uh 15

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minutes uh you flynn you hear a knock on your door

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open it up little halfling woman there with two just oversized pies

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in her hands love it um so i got you one uh it's got potatoes and mushrooms uh

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and then this one is just uh it's it's strawberries and cherries and i thought that uh i don't know you seem pretty

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sweet so i thought you might like something sweet she hands over both of the pies you can uh you can uh give some of that to your

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your friend as well you're the best no i know i try yes she's sort of i give her a little like

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like a playful wing like that she gets a wink back she cheerfully like

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walks down the hall well i will go uh to my patriots rooms and offer them pie if

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they would like some so i will start with hell i can work to homa i will take uh copious amounts of the

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mushroom and potato pie and zero of the strawberry i'll go to oma hey you

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want um want some pie kelly took a lot of the mushroom one but i have a lot of the strawberry and cherry one

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i'm just gonna take some of the strawberry and cherry one and i will go to zorkhole's and knock on

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his door okay door call i'm going to sleep please leave me alone

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but i brought pie what kind of pie i can't you have to

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open the door to see the door just barely cracks open

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i will show him the mushroom pie first i will take some of that

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okay and then i'll give him some of that i also have this one and i'll show them the strawberry and cherry i think it will be good with the first one perfect

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and i'll give them the rest of the mushroom pie okay there are like slices as i hear the door next to me closed i'm

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going to open the door again into it and and my mouth is just covered in red

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all right go back to my room and uh enjoy my pie while i read over my books before i go to bed and as you're digging

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into this this strawberry and cherry pie um like you would expect it once you

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like cut into it and and take a piece you would sort of expect it to just sort of like slosh all over the place but it's like

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it's staying in its form just packed with with berries and like this this uh

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sugary jam like it's a really really good pie i play magic right there halfling magic yes

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um but you all with full stomachs head off to bed

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feeling relatively safe within this inn you all fall asleep for the night

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and awake the next morning having taken a full long rest yeah

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you all are uh greeted by that uh that first uh morning light coming through

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the window as you all wake one by one and gather once more in the lobby of the

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westberry inn what would you guys like to do um so uh after that um yeah fellas house

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yeah let's go you want to say goodbye to daisy

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sure daisy thank you kindly oh and thank you all as well i i

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appreciate your patronage um if you all find yourselves in westbury uh again you

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are all more than welcome to stay here at the brightberry inn thank you all for for joining me for a couple nights if uh

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anyone uh happens through here looking to travel to other tunnels uh

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let them know it's too dangerous for passage yeah i'll i'll be sure spread the word we encountered some

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there's no beating around the uh bush with this uh some drow uh assassins

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uh in there so um yeah highly advice avoiding that path

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i will not be going down there uh so i i will continue spreading the word on that thank you you head over are you heading

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over to um oh man it's not cedric it's searched

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for drug colombia we will go to serge

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so uh you all head over in that direction um and

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realizing the night previously you didn't get an exact address uh luckily enough you

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round the corner and see uh where the the dwarven woman had pointed and um

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sitting there on his front porch is what who you recognize as serger from

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the previous night yeah it seems that he is just sitting there um he's got a little rocking chair um and he's sitting

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next to a dwarven woman they're holding hands and they just seem to be enjoying the morning together oh

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that's cute hello hi good morning good morning um honey these are the the

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heroes that i i told you about last night

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i'm glad you're okay you feeling better i'm i'm feeling feeling much better good um

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i don't mean to be a burden but uh i have and i pull out the paper i have this uh

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lack of a better word contract um and i believe it's dealing with missing people of this town

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and i believe you fit the bill um would you be able to help me um get this signed

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um most definitely whatever whatever you require would you like me to sign it um

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i think maybe and i'll point to the name on the uh at the bottom i maybe if we could go to this person's house and maybe

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oh yeah she's right there and he literally points directly across the street that's convenient um do you mind taking

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a stroll with me for just a moment um i wouldn't even call it a stroll it's it's probably 10 steps perfect

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and i'll i'll walk with him to uh what was her name again uh her name was

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marata collovia [Music]

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and as you two are sort of like walking across the street he says our family all stays relatively close

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that's nice i miss that i guess we're kind of a family as i kind of motion back to the group

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um all right well uh and i knock on the door okay um after a couple of moments

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um you hear the door open and see a uh

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on the younger side dwarven woman but very similar um facial features to sir druck um very

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clearly related uh sort of the same uh the same like long mutton chop same hairstyle sort of um

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same like bright blue eyes as uh she opens up the door and

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greets both of you with a smile hello uh mirada yeah that's me is that right hi i'm

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flynn i'm flynn fellow weave and i'm part of the agent it's a bloody secret flynn a part of the

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uh ironlight collective don't tell anyone though

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oh so you all got my letter i did i did wonderful i hold it out well um last night uh serger was telling

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everyone the story about the heroes that uh that that saved him i didn't know that they were from the iron light i'm

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i'm glad my letter got hardly heroes hardly heroes just just trying to help um yes what can i do for you can i offer

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you a meal no no we're actually heading out uh pretty soon i just wanted to um just make sure that this was kind of

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documented that that that has been taken care of um we were returned with uh with our friend here

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and i just wanted to see if you can sign it just so i can take it back to the collective and and show them that

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you don't even finish your sentence by the time she turns around um goes and grabs an ink

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and a quill and comes back over and very quickly signs it um is there anything

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else no i'm just glad we could take care of this problem for you um give me give me one moment um some of us sort of came

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together when i wrote the letter and she goes away and comes back with a little pouch of gold

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and she hands it to you and says we all we all came together when uh when they started going missing and and put a

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little reward together i know i didn't specify in the letter but um what we thought an incentive might be

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might be good i will accept but kind of you don't have to

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i'm gonna come up as he's like looking kind of sheepish that's so kind of you you know it's

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being an adventurer can be tough work and you gotta stay at ends and you gotta be able to buy horses and travel and and

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this really helps us along our way to help more people and i grab the couch and i start to walk away yeah here we go

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kind of like oh yeah he's right we do have a lot of expenses um thank you again um of course and uh

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i'm glad we could thank help have a great day you too all right and i'll uh and she uh she

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turns to sir druck and she says uh we're still good for lunch at two o'clock okay

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perfect and sheep because i walk off and hear that they're just like getting ready to enjoy a meal that we helped

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secure because he's safe i smile and kind of walk back to the group i i exchanged

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i softly beam at flynn as he returns and a rare moment of

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calm and comfort with this group all right

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as you all rejoin what are you doing i'm gonna um giggle

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and having the gold and then i'm going to look at is still with us how how much is it yes don't know yet let's go look

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at zorkon and i'm going to put my hand out to zorkhal [Music] and he like gives you a little tentative

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high five and i think we saved your life too you'd be dead without us

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[Music] he like just very widely rolls his eyes

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reaches into his back pocket no way he sort of ruffles around and

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in in i'll put it in contrast to the gold that you are currently carrying like any time

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this pouch moves you can sort of hear gold he reaches into his back pocket and you

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can hear like maybe two gold pieces sort of like rattling together um it's not

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like the jingling that's in the bag um he he pulls out two gold pieces and just puts him in your hand

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thank you doesn't even say a word turns around and walks the other way

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i'm going to keep them not to encourage this

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burgeoning extortionism i uh it's money i'll serve us with

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can i feel can i can i look into seat in the pouch and see how much is in the pouch um yeah it might well take you a couple

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minutes to count it but over over the course yeah you would be able to um you count out in the bag um and you

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can see like as you're you're counting it out like the the look of the gold is slightly

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different going to coin you can sort of pick out that it came from different people from different families possibly

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this gold has taken some different journeys um but in total you get 204

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gold wow 30 silver and 145 copper

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30 silver and how much copper again 145. [Music]

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so maybe when we get back to um hey phrase we can add this to the to the to the 700 and and split it

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that sounds good but we have to make sure we split up a portion for dry up oh yes and you can

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just hold it for it we can wrap it up in a separate bag yeah like a leaf or something i'd appreciate that yeah yeah

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yeah sounds good we probably should have given it to him before he left because he might need it right now

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uh poor thoughts on our part i just grimace and nod i think he's

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pretty resourceful i think he'll figure it out i mean he likes sleeping outside so also

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among the three of us he's the most financially obsessed yeah he'll find he'll find money sometimes struggle in

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society though that's true yeah we should reach out to him eventually and see how he's doing

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all right well let's get uh a horse get back well i can just run in there and and take care of it um

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you guys uh all right you've handled the horses before yeah you still have the gold that

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you got from them right yes so it's not going to be part of the basically just use that to get them again yeah it's not going to be part of what we already have

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no just use that get them and then we can sell them again when we get back in the cart in the

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and i will head off to where i bought the horses okay um as we

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as i get close i will take my sword and just like hide it in an alley

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okay got it and then um hello howdy hi um do you remember me

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i do yeah i'm i'm back um we had a

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heck of a journey um but i i'm ready to head back so i was wondering if i could buy the horses in the card again um of

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course uh yeah you want the same horse same cart yeah yeah i think it served us well on

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the way down so it should be fine to get back up um fantastic how much would you want for it you're 90 back um

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well you can keep the sword but i do 80. and and you sort of see

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like some confusion go across his face um

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oh that's right that sword that you uh that you gave me yeah um how is it i've

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i've been enjoying the heck out of it um good good it's my wife says that i lose things way too easily and

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you know it i've been cherishing it and it's it's really nice

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it's a good one oh god yeah 80. i could do 80. that sounds

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great i mean the quality of that sword is is something else i've been enjoying it

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hey 80. yeah okay your horse is right over there thank you have a have a great day yeah you too

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i will um pay the man and i will got the horse and the car and head on

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over to my friends okay who don't know what's going on all right uh so that was

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80. get the horse and cart back flynn arrives back um are you guys doing

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anything before you leave westbury are you hopping on the horse and getting out of town all right um i think just hopping on the

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horse and getting out of here yeah all right so you guys um head out from westbury uh you take that well-traveled

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road uh back up to marstock um you can see the the mountains on your left the

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gray forest on your right um and just off in the horizon as you approach uh

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you can see getting larger and larger looming over you massive storm clouds

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and before long about halfway to marstock the entire sky is covered and

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after about another half an hour just a little bit of rain after about another half an hour it

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starts pouring whoa and you all you all hear uh you all hear thunder off

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in the distance every once while you see claps of lightning and the uh

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the uh travelers on this road where when you left westbury and it was still sunny

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and bright uh you saw quite a few travelers going back and forth but now as it's getting more and more stormy um

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you can see fewer and fewer travelers and the ones that are traveling are now traveling in heavy cloaks and have have

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put um cloaks on and ropes to keep themselves away from the the wind and the storm

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i um pull up my cloak hood and i also take out that bathrobe and like put it

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over me all right does the card have like a like a cover it's an open cart great lovely

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yeah i will also pull up my my green cloak hood and wrap myself in like my cloak and kind of like stay

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disproportionately allotting my my new newish gray cloak over my arm and just

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like covering it like it's a newborn baby all right

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guys i'm so cold yeah we can uh

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everybody just get close all right [Music] and as you all continue to travel

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another few hours pass and um is it raining the whole time it is raining pretty much the whole time

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um but after a couple hours you all look ahead and see

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the town of marstock just off in the distance you all roll into town you do not see

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anyone it seems that everyone is inside trying to get away from the wind and the cold and the rain

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and as you all approach you come down this long main street um and

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are you guys what are you guys doing with the horse at the cart um did we buy it here i believe we probably know

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one armed guy i will um [Music] um i can turn this in if you guys

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want to wait or i want to go into the house as soon as possible okay we can just can i just leave the

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horse and cart here you could probably tie it up near hayfords i'll tie it up near your feeds yeah i'll

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just leave it there for now okay as soon as we get to hayford's house i'm gonna jump out of the oh my god

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straight into the house okay i you see a child do you see what you put me through

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all right you heard that owl like as soon as i opened the front door i was in like the entryway of the house and that's when

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you heard it um so oma running inside uh flynn you

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are outside you're tying up the horse and as soon as you finish tying up the horse you hear in the back of your head

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flint look around i'm in your head what

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do you can you hear me come to the back of the temple bring everybody okay

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weird guys um secret just yelled at me in my head

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he yelled at you in your head like when you were possessed are you possessed by seeker oh no

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i tank when i do i have horns i think when i can't no you don't have horns i think when i when i contact people

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through them oh you know what it's like i i hear them on my head and they don't

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possess me it's not just the function of the spell i'm yelling from inside the house um

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he told us to go to the back the back of where the temple no the temple he's afraid to temple to talk

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about his tone no i'm not leaving until the rain stops okay um

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maybe i'll just go get him uh if he told us to come to the back of the

34:02

temple then there's probably something we should see but it's so cold out there it is pretty cold it is i know i don't

34:08

like it either but can i say something back or is that time past [Music] you should be able to feel it can can i

34:15

feel like i can still say something back uh you don't feel like you can say

34:21

at the moment i want to try something come to us

34:28

okay he should be coming to us now did he he didn't say anything well he's you only get the one oh back and forth so

34:35

can you do it um feels a bit of a waste it's not that big of a tone

34:40

i'll go out the door seeker come with

34:46

us okay maybe he heard that um i'm gonna

34:52

dry off as quickly as possible um how long would it take to dry off

34:57

five minutes is there a fireplace inside the yeah yeah if he's got a fireplace it's not

35:03

currently lit i'm gonna throw a fire bolt into it okay to let it and i'm just in front of the fire how quickly will i

35:10

dry off if i'm in front of a fire three minutes okay well i'm not leaving until i'm dry

35:16

that's fine i yelled him so he probably can hear us he's probably coming i'm gonna go to the back of the bloody temple and the two of you can join me

35:23

whenever you're ready to be the agent of repentance i can help you not get wet if you just let me dry off for two seconds

35:29

what do you mean well i forgot but i could just not get wet

35:34

what are you talking about i can just not get wet can you do that to us

35:40

um if we stay really really really really close together for how long for like an hour what

35:47

[Music] yeah we don't have that time no no it lasts foreign it's literally

35:53

just down the road there i'm not going out in the water how long does it take to make it so we don't get wet

36:00

i'm gonna drown myself from waiting i'll go am i dry now you're dry now let

36:07

me dry okay but you're just gonna get wet when you step outside no i'm not gonna get wet okay let's go i'm gonna um

36:14

can i have a boost uh onto the cart no onto your back

36:21

no but then we can both not get wet what about then

36:26

i'm fine although if you have room maybe you can like just stand really

36:32

really really close close okay and we can huddle yeah

36:37

like we do in the cart

36:44

why don't the two of you just be dry thank you can i go on your back yeah uh will that work i'll try to carry oma on

36:50

my back i mean i'm only like how tall is flynn i'm like three five i'm like five two or a four two

36:58

okay i'll try and make a strength jack kelly as they're figuring this out um

37:04

you sort of calculate in your head you probably could have walked over the temple and back

37:11

i just observed that distance ruefully two nope you immediately collapsed onto your

37:17

knees well now i want to get wet because i want to clean my clothes fine then i will just stay dry and you guys can get

37:23

wet and i'm going to immediately as soon as i step out into the water i'm

37:28

going to put my hands above my head um

37:35

and say and

37:41

and and i'm going to move the water in a

37:47

direction away from me like a little um semi-circle around me

37:52

that it's just going okay your way you are successful in this yes i'm just gonna give home a wide berth so

37:58

i don't get the spray i get sprayed and i step away actually i hold my knee

38:04

up and try and use it as a way to like clean my knee

38:09

your knee is wet now great all right that's the best it's gonna get all right let's go around

38:16

let's go okay so you leave hey freit's house

38:23

you walk maybe 50 feet over to the temple i am perfectly dry almost perfectly dry

38:30

that's what's important and you walk around to the back of the temple and standing there um underneath a little

38:36

back awning right uh right next to the the temp one of the doors to the temple

38:42

um you see seeker would you please describe exactly how you're looking yeah

38:47

i am standing there in a purple uh cape

38:54

and i have a hood that is not currently up my left ear has a copper wire

39:03

kind of clamped to it it looks like a fancy earring of sorts that runs the length of the ear and

39:10

other than that you know i got my green eyes chilling smile smirk maybe a little incredulous

39:17

wondering what took so long you just had to walk around and right next to seeker

39:23

uh you see two more figures devon would you please describe your character [Music]

39:29

yes uh so you see a person of about tallish height feminine figure

39:35

um i have a jet black hair that's drawn up into a very tight bun uh sort of plain

39:43

chain mail it's seen better days very faded uh blue cloak and scarf uh tucked around me

39:50

and uh what is striking about me is that there's sort of this luminescent silvery

39:56

glow to my skin which almost seems a little unnatural

40:01

and then i have silvery clay blue eyes and there's a scar the most noticeable

40:06

thing i have is a scar running down from the top of the left side of my forehead all the way through my eye to the bottom

40:13

of my jaw and in the center it sort of fractures and glazes over that eye altering its

40:20

appearance just slightly um and that's me

40:26

and additionally a third figure standing there um in a black full-length cloak um

40:35

hood up you can just see underneath the hood um what looks like elven features

40:42

these very skinny gaunt elven features

40:47

raised cheekbones and bright blue eyes that almost seemed to be glowing

40:53

really what took so long flynn did you not hear me i i did i did but see it's

40:58

it's raining and i point to the sky it's raining and we didn't want to get wet we were just wet on the car for a long long

41:04

time and so we went in and the fire felt really nice yes but but we're here now yes

41:09

yes you're here good to see you again good good to see you who's that oh this is pointing to the lady with dark

41:15

hair hi everyone i've heard a lot about you and i'm going to offer my hand to each

41:22

individual person to shake i will immediately just yeah hi i'm flynn fellow even i'm part of the iron

41:28

man i look together i will it's up to you then is it a secret or not i i just don't understand you're right you're

41:34

right i probably should be better at this and i am

41:39

an adventurer nice to meet you flynn nice to meet you too

41:44

i give her a high five oh okay high five okay which which hand do you

41:51

extend uh the right one i uh i'm still cradling my my right arm

41:56

and in my cloak and i sort of awkwardly twist my left hand to shake

42:09

do uh that does give me cause for concern i mean seeker usually doesn't have too many

42:16

friends so i took it as a compliment to all of you i'm assuming that you're oma

42:21

oh my gosh how did you know and that must make you kellick

42:27

i a little uh a a surprised wistful smile comes over my face as i hear my

42:33

name pronounced correctly by a stranger hi that should be me

42:39

well it's lovely to meet all of you because a friend of seekers is a friend of mine you're a friend of seeker how do you

42:44

know seeker well i maybe we should call each other

42:50

co-workers we we have a relationship hey where is that oh right and i'll uh go to my bag and

42:57

i'll um pull thaddeus out okay and as soon as you pull thaddeus out um the elven figure uh lets his his

43:05

hood down and his eyes sort of go wide i forgot you were there you're creepy hi i'm

43:10

flynn oh that's not very nice to say he was like back in the corner like scary this is 86. he's great 86 uh

43:18

what name's 86 yeah um a d6 or like the number like number 86

43:26

that's cool that's a weird name why is your name 86 like a number there's that's that's what they called me um

43:32

this is an an um like figure yeah

43:38

who who calls you that everyone um i mean that's sort of the name they gave

43:44

me at birth and i like it so uh stuck i mean it seems like handshaking is sort

43:50

of the thing around here so uh and he like tentatively once again reaches his hand out um and as you shake his hand um

43:56

you see it's like a normal elven hand but when you when you grasp it it feels it's got like a cold metal feel it feels

44:04

like you're grasping cold metal while i'm shaking his hand can i discern if

44:10

it's magic something magical is going on make an arcana check okay

44:15

all right uh that's not bad um 19 19. um as you're shaking his hand and

44:22

you feel this cold metal you also feel um wrapping around his middle finger

44:29

is a ring and [Music] you feel it and as you pull away the

44:36

ring sort of slides just just very slightly and rotates as all of a sudden

44:41

an illusion fades and before you you see a full war forged what you had previously

44:48

only seen as thaddeus head you now see a a

44:53

polished silver face plate you see two glowing blue eyes and you see a body

44:59

that is made up of a tangle of of metal and wood and underneath uh where these

45:05

these wooden gaps are you can sort of see in the neck area you can see the gaps in the wood and the metal

45:12

almost like these vines creating a musculature underneath

45:18

sorry i didn't mean to yeah it's uh that's why i usually don't shake hands um sorry and he twists the ring again as

45:24

an elven form operates around him once more are you more comfortable looking like

45:29

that because you can look however you feel comfortable looking around eyes and he he sort of looks around does sort

45:36

of like a 360 check and uh well from what i have heard from seeker i think you all are fine but some other people

45:43

in these parts aren't uh aren't so hot on someone who looks like me being being

45:48

around well maybe we could go in the goopy void and you'd be safe to do it there

45:53

yeah indeed why was it you called us back here seeker yeah why are we in the goofy void i'm sorry what's the goopy

45:59

void because i don't really want to go somewhere where there's a lot of goop i i think that's what you call the infants

46:06

yeah yeah it's a wish tool they'd advise not keep in company with us much longer the

46:12

worst part about seeing avery it's just a tangy encounter all the time it doesn't actually stick to you it's

46:18

just like a brief moment of course you kind of have to experience it's more of a thing you have to do yeah

46:25

i guess as far as why i brought you here remember i 86 here collects

46:31

more forge and i think he can help daddies i don't know if collect is is

46:37

really i i i rescues me rescue and that kind of sounds like transport um okay i don't

46:45

know if you all have noticed but uh people who are of my sort of make um

46:52

they aren't uh well they're sought after in in these parts of the world

46:57

i'm just looking to uh get everyone to a safe place where we can all uh come together and

47:03

and sort of be what we're meant to be blind you want to ask thaddeus if he's interested um um should we do that here

47:11

i i'd like to does this 86 fella seem like he's telling the

47:18

truth make an inside check i also wanted to know if i could just look at his maybe when his his vicious was down

47:24

could i have seen that infinity mark on his body anywhere when it went down for that moment before he turned it back on you would not have

47:31

seen it no i didn't see that mark okay that's natural one on the inside check

47:36

can i tell that they seem tentative i'll have you make an insight

47:42

kellog in the span of this conversation um illusions have been cast and uncast it's

47:48

hard to get a read on it

47:59

that's going to be a 17 17 uh you can see a little bit of apprehension from kellik

48:07

i've i've traveled with 86 for a while i trust him i believe i believe his story

48:13

i would not have brought him here if i did not got a little bit of a report going what is it that you do again seeker it's

48:20

been a minute he's a trafficker of magical items this is a bit of this

48:26

yes let's go with that okay that's the nice way of putting it that's not accurate what's the nomination

48:32

it's not not accurate and you all work together well wait i want to know what the not nice

48:38

version of that is it would be smuggling oh okay how old are you go to a place that

48:45

is less outside and more inside great wait how old is this one

48:51

i'm old enough to go on an adventure i think she told me she was 45.

48:58

yup i just just look away i just avoid that

49:03

as well realizing that i am looking at i'm trying to make contact with each one of them trying to be like wow

49:12

not acknowledging it we'll talk about it inside right wait why why are we outside again

49:19

i think i wanted to make introductions also i mean hey fred has that like not to

49:24

bring people in but that's like all we end up doing is bringing more and more people and so maybe we should ask him

49:29

politely if we can bring somebody in before we do that means we have to go through the goopy void well does your shield work

49:35

both ways can you talk to timmy from your shield i'll look at my shield do i see timmy in it

49:40

it's a shield i'll knock on it timmy timmy

49:47

okay timmy it's a shield i don't think it works that way oma ah it'd be cool if we could

49:53

go both ways maybe i'll maybe i'll ask them how they did it and then i can learn how to do it yeah maybe why don't

49:58

one of you go talk to this man and we wait

50:04

or i mean if it's just a matter of deciding if thaddeus goes with 86 or not then

50:09

just ask him it's not just what he feels comfortable that's true but but it's wet oh yes

50:16

just for the time yeah there's there's a little bit of like yeah i'll uh i'll turn them on i'll uh turn them on for 10 minutes

50:24

hi hi um got some good news yeah what's up

50:29

well and i'll turn him to see uh the the visions of the

50:34

elven person um 86 might be a good time to drop the illusion and he rotates the ring and uh

50:43

the the illusion of the elf drops and uh thaddeus looks over and he says

50:48

oh hey 86 and 86 looks back and says how you doing one through five

50:54

you guys know each other uh yeah we uh we spent some time together uh uh well i mean

51:00

all of us sort of grew up together uh no way well that solves that

51:05

i suppose it does thaddeus why is he calling you 135 uh well that was my first name um and

51:13

then i well i decided that i wanted a different name because 135 i didn't really feel was was me so

51:19

um i came across thaddeus and i like that he's a lot better yeah that is a way better name but like why 135 and why 86

51:28

i don't understand well uh we were we were created we we don't get born um

51:35

we were created and uh created in badges and you see when uh when we were created

51:42

we were created to be as uh well let's call it conversational as i'm being right now and uh as obviously you

51:48

know that used to be um and when we were created we weren't really given names it was just primarily numbers

51:56

oh most everyone else sort of gave themselves names over the years but

52:02

i thought you know 86 good reminder of where i came from and who i was meant to be versus who i who

52:08

i'd like to be oh wow fascinating [Music]

52:14

um i can't even imagine what that's like it is

52:20

kind of nuts i will be honest with you i mean yeah you can survive just by being ahead as i'm

52:26

holding that's actually news to me i was unaware of that i

52:31

believe it or not i'm not attempting to decapitate myself to find out it's not permanent i have to turn them on with

52:37

this button here but yeah i probably wanted drawbacks yeah

52:43

but hey thaddeus i mean we did it we we found someone that can help

52:49

and he sort of looks around at all of you [Music] um can i can i go

52:54

you want to go with 86 it sounds like i mean he said he's

53:00

taking us somewhere better i i'd love to yeah yeah i mean

53:06

we don't own you we want what's best for you daddy say we i know we've

53:13

but not the most efficient people and i observe almost still removing water from a bumper

53:18

but this is what we wanted for use man well like i'm gonna miss you yeah we're

53:24

gonna miss you i'm sure this isn't the last i'm gonna see of you all um yeah when you get your

53:29

body will you contact us and come back to us i i will yeah yes that'd be awesome um speaking of which is there

53:35

something that we would be able to do about this whole situation

53:40

uh yeah we can we can see about that we got some we got some people over in uh west reach that might be able to

53:46

fashion you something it might not be exactly perfect at first but i think we can we can work some well

53:52

maybe we have a way to get you to there faster who knows maybe maybe

53:58

maybe hateful can can can help you get there faster so you don't have to travel all that far i mean if there's any sort of uh

54:05

advantage that y'all can give me uh i would gladly take it because you know with things like this

54:12

but usually when i come across another war forged i sort of let them know where to go and i send them on

54:18

their way make sure that they can cross the borders uh relatively easily and then i just let them go but it seems

54:24

like this is going to be a bit of a different situation where i'm going to have to go myself well let's go talk to hay feet and see if he can help i think

54:30

that's sensitive yeah but still we should ask hay fried if we can bring people inside we are in agreement

54:37

you you you go back out and get them i only want to go through the gooby void once okay and i'm going to run ahead of

54:43

everyone still spraying water i will lead everyone to just outside of the

54:49

um well we'll go into the cabin because it's raining i suppose home remember take your time don't slip

54:55

yeah yeah i hold my breath as i go through the void this time i

55:00

close my nose because i know it feels so weird so this time before i go through the void i take a very deep breath and i hold my nose

55:08

and i um like hop through the void okay and as you pass through um a little bit more comfortable you don't feel like the

55:15

air is like rushing to escape your lungs as you pass through uh into the void

55:20

and you look out and you see floating platforms arranged slightly differently than what you saw last time

55:27

um you look out and you can see around the main platform

55:33

a majority of what you had seen before the only difference is now

55:38

looking out you can see probably 100 maybe 150 feet

55:44

outside of that that inner ring you can see cages you can see

55:50

you can see eight cages oh geez that are floating around far more outside and distant than than

55:57

the the inner ring oh he's built a prison in one of them

56:03

the by far the largest cage you can see the red dragon

56:08

in a slightly smaller but still pretty big cage you can see the sheep demon [Music]

56:14

and occupying two of the smaller cages you immediately pick out amara

56:21

and the body of zurgath and piros are they a lot are they awake they seem to be awake yeah

56:28

um before i yell out for hayfried and timmy

56:33

hey amara we gotta stop meeting like this wink and then

56:39

hey free timmy we're home hey is it just you

56:45

oh no um i'm here and flynn's here and catley's

56:50

here but also there are some other people but i wanted to ask you before we brought

56:55

them in because this is your home and and and i don't want to infringe on your space

57:02

oh how polite i think that there is someone else in

57:07

this void that could learn from that politeness

57:13

not bringing strangers into a place that has

57:19

very valuable and dangerous magical items well hayfree to be fair

57:25

we did bring him in before asking you so i'm very sorry but i'm just learning i'm

57:30

learning and growing and maybe timmy can also learn and grow okay okay okay

57:38

yes they can come in you're my second favorite big strong magical person just so you know

57:45

very very love you thank you okay okay very very love you

57:52

yeah bring him in thank you hi timmy

57:58

timmy sort of like looks up at you very hesitantly and like gives you a quick little wave um and i one more time hold

58:04

my nose take a deep breath and hop through the void okay

58:10

and you make your way back out to the rest of the group huh yeah um he says we can all come inside and he says thank

58:16

you very much for asking so we gotta make sure we try to do that in the future okay

58:21

and he's not really happy with demi for bringing in seeker earlier

58:27

he's okay now with it he's fine with it yeah because i asked okay cool okay

58:32

okay it's easier to go through the void just so you know if you hold your breath it felt way way way way better so take a

58:39

big deep breath before you go in because and i turned to seeker and desolate and and um

58:44

and 86 and i say so you don't really need oxygen on the

58:50

other side like there is no oxygen on the other side but you don't need it so it's not going to affect you but it does feel weird when you go through so i

58:56

recommend taking a big deep breath on this side and holding your nose

59:02

and then hopping through but like with both feet and a hop

59:07

i'm just staring at alma like eyes wide mouth and a grim line and i'm gonna turn

59:13

the seeker you've done this before not like that but

59:19

yes would you recommend doing that i don't know okay all right i'll try your way she is

59:26

wise beyonce i just shrug at them i just have languidly observed this master class

59:33

and uh all right i'm trusting all of you [Music]

59:38

okay [Music] and one by one

59:45

the the weird goopy membrane uh absorbs itself around your body and sort of

59:50

pulls at your skin for a brief moment uh before your thrust into hayford's void thusly for the first time

59:57

you're looking around you are seeing empty space for

1:00:02

what could be forever quite honestly um just off in the distance you see these tiny tiny little brief points of light

1:00:10

that almost remind you of stars but seem even further away than the stars in the sky

1:00:17

um you look forward and you see a long bridge in front of you that leads to a main platform and you see dozens of

1:00:24

other platforms rotating around it all containing a myriad of different things and

1:00:30

elements and wardrobes and weapons and plants and beyond that cages

1:00:37

if i may i will walk over to thessaly point to the sheep demon

1:00:44

and say what what would you call that what

1:00:49

oh um a monstrosity an aberration something not natural terrifying why why

1:00:56

are you asking i think they called it the sheep demon i just wanted to know what you would do that seems like an apt name for that i'd call it too much

1:01:02

trouble yeah welcome to the void um oh hello we did not meet we have not met no my

1:01:08

name's uh hey freed i go by seeker seeker very nice to meet you hey fred i'm destiny and i will reach my

1:01:16

handout esteli very nice to meet you this is your goopy void

1:01:21

uh first time i'm hearing it be called goopy but uh yep it's void

1:01:27

does it have to be that unpleasant for people to come through it well if you don't like it maybe you could just stay

1:01:32

outside around and walk back over to timmy and uh and you can just all of you can just

1:01:38

hear um as as timmy is like just starting to stand up to greet you um you see on a table in

1:01:44

that central platform uh seeker what you had seen before which is a giant circular mirror and uh it's still

1:01:53

sitting there on the table and hey freed walks back over to timmy and uh he says so i'm not telling you to use it again

1:01:59

but next time if you're going to use it that's how you do it and he sort of

1:02:05

raises his hands up and pulls one of the platforms out as it comes and attaches

1:02:10

itself to the main platform as timmy then scoots the table back onto that uh

1:02:15

that secondary platform i'm going to turn to thessalyn seeker and say hey okay so i know you guys like

1:02:21

magical items these ones are off limits i wasn't gonna off limits somebody's

1:02:27

sure did you take something last time you were here i don't what you said they were

1:02:35

he stares at you i'm not here to take your things in fact 86 say hello

1:02:41

uh hey my name is uh 86. um is a weird experience um but i i i

1:02:49

appreciate you taking us into your home 86 is gonna take thaddeus to west reach

1:02:56

and help him find a body yeah also 86 you can you're safe if you want to put the illusion down

1:03:03

oh um and he twists his ring once again and the visual visage of the elf comes down and as soon as it does um

1:03:11

hayfree like locks eyes with 86 in what you can tell is just pure fascination at

1:03:18

this thing cool um i uh well uh welcome 86 um what

1:03:26

what can i help you all with i see that we got two uh two of our little uh

1:03:31

it's called my little temporary homes uh occupied yeah and you made more i made

1:03:36

some more and i'm in the process of of making even more can we can we have the coins that match them yeah they're right

1:03:42

over there okay i'm gonna run over and grab them there's five coins there are five coins on the table okay i'm gonna

1:03:48

pick up five coins and i'm gonna put them in my pocket okay oma would it be possible to split those up

1:03:53

oh yeah for sure i just had like one yeah okay cool hey freed and i extend a

1:04:00

hand your sight for sore eyes hey shakes your hand uh yeah

1:04:05

it's been a couple days what have you guys been up to uh quite a bit you'd be surprised what we

1:04:11

get up to in a few days yeah i mean we filled two cells

1:04:16

also we died let's not put too much of a point on that um

1:04:22

it's been eventful i'm glad to see you all got better yes we recovered from

1:04:29

from death from death from death [ __ ] that's not that's not something people usually do i'm not sure it was death i

1:04:36

mean i just remember it getting dark and then getting like drinking goopy fluid kellex said you

1:04:43

said you saw something i know it was death yeah he says it's death but i don't know

1:04:49

for me actually stay so much worse for you as well as well but yeah can't be sure uh regardless um

1:04:56

those coins um they worked uh perfectly they seem to have yeah

1:05:02

yeah uh and uh any trouble so far from your new uh tenants

1:05:07

they've been mostly quiet um no floating off of the ground if that's

1:05:13

what you're asking that's good that's the idea uh not to break up this uh reunion wasn't

1:05:21

the plan to get uh maybe travel for 86 and thaddeus

1:05:27

hi um yeah hey afraid i don't suppose you're uh aware of whether or not they're

1:05:33

you're part of west reaches functional uh not uh not with any certainty

1:05:42

i know i've got one there but uh is xavier around i can't remember where he went to well he was just checking on the

1:05:48

one that trial was gonna use so i don't know if he can go to the other one in like a day i think it takes some time

1:05:53

okay it might be worth seeing if he can hi we could reach out to him yeah um

1:06:01

did he say anything to you hey freed about um starting the other portal [Music]

1:06:07

um and i saw him come through uh he was well i saw him come through

1:06:14

it was after he successfully got the other portal um

1:06:19

going he said uh he said that the the one up in uh in saddle mount i think it was that he

1:06:27

got he got working so he teleported himself to saddle mount and then he came through here he was just here for like a

1:06:33

couple minutes and he teleported here and then teleported from here back to attersfeld that's so cool oh did you see

1:06:38

tria yeah yeah the other day he seemed fine he's going to be in a rush oh yeah good just very sorry is

1:06:46

tito here tito tito you do not see tito

1:06:51

interesting did tito go with shraya no i think he left before straight even

1:06:57

got back oh where'd he go i don't know oh boy i mean i'm not in here all the

1:07:03

time yeah of course no you're not it's not your job to babysit themselves no control in that sort we've tried to try

1:07:09

it it's not possible yeah he was also knocking over a bunch of stuff some i don't know

1:07:15

kind of glad he left please okay timmy timmy from the other platform yeah me too as he's like

1:07:21

cleaning up some stuff on the platform

1:07:26

um kelly can you can you talk to hey i junkies i'm gonna

1:07:32

grab the tether that would connect me to uh xavier twist around my palm pull it to my heart

1:07:39

hey xavier uh do you think you could

1:07:44

go to hayfried's portal in west reach and check on it for us

1:07:52

yeah sure

1:08:00

and i turn to every does he know whereabouts it is

1:08:05

um i i don't think he knows i can point it out on a map for

1:08:11

you but uh that's hard to convey in a few sentences

1:08:17

we had the map and i i believe he looked at it with us yes

1:08:23

but pointing at a map of the world and saying it's right about here is

1:08:28

tough to pinpoint in a huge capital city [Music]

1:08:33

can you describe to me the location of it that i might relay it

1:08:38

to xavier uh he sort of laughs to himself well i don't know if you've ever been to

1:08:44

west reach but uh it's a bunch of floating rocks do we hear this um yeah it's an open

1:08:51

conversation rocks why don't we just tell xavier to come here and then he can figure it out in person

1:09:01

i john gees and i

1:09:06

with much irritation xavier could you come to the goopy void

1:09:12

to discuss the location of hatred portal

1:09:21

we're about half a day's travel outside of addersfeld and i don't want to leave her

1:09:26

here by herself it'll take us about a day

1:09:32

but sure i look at 86. how much of a hurry are you in

1:09:40

uh well i'd be more of a hurry to get back um

1:09:45

i don't know what kind of roll of the dice are we talking about here well how long does it take to get from here to there

1:09:51

by walking street would i mean let's see just thinking off

1:09:57

the top of my head we would have to travel through forests around mountains we would have to cross the border take

1:10:02

the horse and carriage i i don't think that will really help when you're crossing the border of a war

1:10:08

front favor said it could be here in a day and a half so how long would it take you to go from here to west reach if it's going

1:10:13

to take less time than that then oh no i'm talking weeks yeah it's probably better even to stay here it's also safer

1:10:20

um sorry hey freed um would it be okay if our friend there's a local in if and

1:10:26

he's already pulling down a platform that's got like a couple of beds and

1:10:31

cots on it you're amazing by the way [ __ ] i know

1:10:36

okay well 86 if you want to stay here thaddeus i don't know if he's still on a painting thing yeah no i'm still here um if you

1:10:44

want to stay here until xavier gets back it'd be a lot safer you won't have to travel

1:10:50

i mean an extra day day and a half doesn't really uh

1:10:55

doesn't really matter to me as long as i'm getting there you're gonna get a body well we'll keep our fingers crossed for that i will

1:11:02

all right well i guess that's kind of settled what else anything else we need to do

1:11:08

just a small matter of

1:11:15

did you need something from us well i just wanted to help daddies and

1:11:21

now i want to hear about you dying oh yeah not that much to discuss

1:11:28

you told me quite a bit you said there was something of a red wolf

1:11:33

and hold on i think it was more yes a red wolf dying

1:11:38

uh some sort of a ritual and whatever else you said it was very

1:11:44

concerning and i would love to hear the story hi well she killed us

1:11:51

who killed you and i point to amara the one you told me to talk to but you did not tell me this well we we

1:11:58

told you to be careful it's not like she can do anything from in there it's a secure location

1:12:07

how you feeling in there amara she's sitting down and facing the

1:12:12

opposite way she's like facing out towards open space your big bad plan didn't work

1:12:17

did it oh so sad

1:12:24

i'm can i approach can i approach hayford yeah sure do um do you have a chair or something i can

1:12:30

sit in this is this is this is a lot uh yes take your pick and he points and there's there's a couple of tables set up on

1:12:36

this main platform they each have a couple chairs okay i'm just gonna grab the nearest one and sit down and like

1:12:42

put my head in my hands and stare daggers at seeker and be like

1:12:49

why i don't feel as though i was well prepared for this i

1:12:55

nor i i did not look they are definitely noisy and they make a lot of messes but this is very

1:13:02

new they did not die the last time that i had seen them let's all have it see it shall we

1:13:08

yeah we owe you an explanation do you want to listen to hayfreed if you all dying and coming back um

1:13:15

hit me in the head if i ever say no to that okay is his sorry is circle with us oh yeah yeah

1:13:21

he's with you guys just gotta make sure you'll just have an entire round because he wants to go to atterspelt right correct okay oh zora call

1:13:29

um the outer spelled um portal is open you're welcome to go if you want to go

1:13:36

but you can stay i guess what and that will take me directly to edit yes yeah

1:13:41

it takes you to this little building in like the the like part of town that's kind of me um nobody

1:13:48

occupies i know the part of which you speak yes okay so it's gonna take you there and

1:13:53

then and then it's it's right there well that seems easy enough um

1:13:58

i don't see any reason to delay so well i might want to actually go there too i have some and i hold i could dig and

1:14:05

grab the contract and grab contract and i have some stuff i could turn in and

1:14:10

maybe i'll get my if you would like to come with me then you're more than welcome and then you can come back with xavier

1:14:17

when he comes back tomorrow yeah i just don't want to miss you guys asking questions well it seems like we got some stuff to

1:14:23

talk about before then i mean or we could ask questions that you want

1:14:30

to ask i don't know i can't think of any right now it's up to you flynn uh i do think

1:14:38

it is a pressing matter we've got a lot on our plate yeah and i don't want to go back to addersfeld right away so i think

1:14:43

if you need to take care of it with the with with with the with the with the

1:14:48

thing you should do that turning these things in will not take a day and a half it will at the most maybe take a few hours hour

1:14:57

or two and then you can come right back it will not be long you will be able to come right back um that's all it takes to get a to become a sentinel

1:15:05

i mean would you like a parade i mean we can set one therefore don't

1:15:10

even joke about such a thing so call let's just go and we'll figure it out

1:15:16

um i guess wait and if if i'm gone too long just ask them some questions

1:15:21

start the interrogations hi it's pretty late at night or it's pretty late in the day because we spent all day

1:15:27

traveling right it's not night yet but yeah it's it's late afternoon okay well

1:15:33

i'll be back the pairs are not going anywhere so all right

1:15:38

so as flynn's walking off i will say to you that is the one that gave me the sword

1:15:44

oh that sword okay do i hear that

1:15:49

you're you're walking towards the teleportation circle now i'm gonna say no okay

1:15:55

all right um good to know uh flynn hayford pulls down the teleportation circle platform yeah um

1:16:02

you and zorkhall board and with a flash of light oh wait um

1:16:07

how do i get back do i need to do something or does it do it on its own um you should it should just be the same

1:16:14

as all the other times you did it because i i remember yeah sure send us through and with a

1:16:21

a blinding light uh you open your eyes and look around and are greeted once again by a small

1:16:27

room uh stone all around you you can see some pipes coming down from the ceiling um

1:16:33

and you and zoro caller back in huddersfield awesome i will head towards

1:16:38

the castle okay what are the rest of you doing i'm going to take a seat

1:16:43

with seeker and thessaloni um well

1:16:49

where to begin uh we freed alma's mentor

1:16:55

savior from the prisons in oak inspire and uh and wait for timmy and uh this

1:17:03

young tiefling woman zeta malacas um we had heard she was a powerful

1:17:08

spellcaster that might help with a problem we no longer had at the time and we thought her unjustly

1:17:15

uh held captive so we brought her along with us but uh

1:17:20

she turned out to be connected to all of this and i just gestured to the creatures in the cages

1:17:26

she had been approached by uh a horrible entity called the outcast

1:17:34

and uh through her tried to appear here in this space

1:17:42

um so uh we left her with xavier for the time being

1:17:47

so that he can look after her while we search for a solution she directed us to the cure

1:17:54

ruins um a place just southeast of here um

1:18:00

across the mountains uh where she encountered the outcast herself

1:18:05

and the outcast is um um a big baddie he seems to be the source of a lot of chaos

1:18:11

would the mention of outcast would i have heard of the outcast ever or or anything like it

1:18:17

make a religion check for me may i do that as well yes yeah sure

1:18:29

number nine um you've heard of the word outcast

1:18:35

you know it's general definition oh yeah it's ringing a bell dirty 20. a dirty 20 yeah um seeker in your travels

1:18:43

you have come across no more than maybe three people in in

1:18:52

your entire life in your travels and everything who

1:18:57

have had a pact with a ancient

1:19:03

um patron who has granted and bestowed abilities upon them um

1:19:09

and they have claimed this to be an outcast you weren't sure until now if outcast was a name or a descriptor

1:19:18

now in this context it's sort of clicking that it sounds more like a name do i have any like those three people

1:19:25

were they do i have a sense as to whether they were trying to do good things or bad

1:19:31

things in the world or was this like in passing very much in past okay yeah no

1:19:38

yeah um nothing too deep when you say

1:19:44

betty and this this outcast that you speak of

1:19:53

i've heard mention but i don't know much it doesn't sound good from what you say

1:19:58

is this entity responsible for this this unfortunate

1:20:05

death you all have had kind of tangentially indirectly yeah

1:20:11

there's a lot of people there's like a whole group of people who like follow this guy i guess they're

1:20:17

like acolytes sacrifices um i would yeah they call themselves an

1:20:25

order i kind of roll my eyes but um seems kind of culty to me

1:20:32

they all wear red robes so i mean i expect in your uh dealings

1:20:39

seeker i don't know the nature of the circles you're running but um this cult is so pervasive that i'm sure

1:20:46

you've encountered people in your line of work that are in some ways uh involved

1:20:53

have i run across the red wolf not ringing any bells for you no

1:21:01

would i have heard of it not ringing any bells for you either all

1:21:07

right well i mean from what i understand they've kind of become

1:21:15

everywhere like there could be people part of every order who are actually part of of the red wolf call be thingy

1:21:22

the primary and uh i i sort of like looked down at

1:21:28

my hands on the table the primary source of our destruction was

1:21:35

a woman i once idolized frieda

1:21:41

she was an icon of temple vermeer

1:21:47

but now the the mask is off so to speak and she is vehemently

1:21:55

trying to change the world for this red wolf who seems to be um

1:22:03

descendant or uh an avatar of this outcast

1:22:08

are um amara and zorca sargas watching us while we talk about this um they

1:22:14

don't seem to be they you also get the sense that they are

1:22:20

their platforms are rotating so far out that they probably can't even hear you unless we're yelling at them unless

1:22:25

you're yelling yeah they heard my threats

1:22:32

just making sure um and then

1:22:38

well uh uh yeah i suppose that's supposed to the extent of it we we went to this place to

1:22:46

try and learn more about the outcast and we came upon a crazy ritual where they were trying to

1:22:51

sacrifice people to summon out a creature from another plane i believe playing a fire if my eyes were to be

1:22:56

believed totally and uh they were nearly successful but uh we were able to foil them in the end

1:23:03

yeah because they made this mistake of bringing us back to life

1:23:09

you did they killed you and then they brought you back to life they brought us back to sacrifice us to this does that

1:23:17

well when they brought us back we were like tied up so we couldn't fight them anymore but i can always fight you can't

1:23:24

tie me up um as i'm looking out uh like with this story and i'm turning

1:23:29

to to to sort of like nod to these individuals as i'm explaining this um

1:23:36

it i i'm can i make eye contact with the

1:23:41

sheep demon um yes in in contrast to amara and zergath

1:23:48

uh the sheep demon does seem to be looking at all of you so it's a little bit closer of a

1:23:54

platform or it's it's still pretty far out but you can see that it is looking at you

1:24:03

i you know we we made a lot of mistakes on the way here but somehow we've survived

1:24:09

and i i sort of um listlessly get up and and walk toward the

1:24:15

[Music] but it was crazy there was like a big ball of light and then i

1:24:22

just blackness and then who knows how long i was opening my eyes and i was

1:24:27

tied to a pillar and my hands were behind my back but i created a fire boat

1:24:33

and i got my arms free and then i pretty much like rescued everybody

1:24:38

oh yes you remember when i told you that she is not big but very very dangerous

1:24:46

yes yes i do and i'm really starting to see a lot of what you were originally describing to me at this point i'm kind

1:24:52

of i'm not pacing but i'm walking back and forth and you can kind of see like

1:24:57

i'm i reach for my chin to grab a goatee that's not there and i'm kind of just

1:25:03

stroking and looking and thinking and hearing all this and

1:25:11

i'm sorry to hear that this woman this artemisia that you

1:25:17

once honored was the one that did this i'm sort of like just still staring at

1:25:23

the sheepdemon i i'm sorry too

1:25:31

there's a lot i'd like to change about what's happened so far

1:25:37

there are a few things worse than being

1:25:42

legislated by those you trust i'm sorry to hear it

1:25:48

you asked a good question why am i here what do i want from you well ah

1:25:54

you lot have somewhat inspired me yeah

1:25:59

well you seem to be if not misguided on a path

1:26:08

on a path to do good whatever that means yeah i mean we're trying this whole chaos cult is

1:26:15

like really really trying to just like rip apart the world so we're really trying

1:26:22

well i would like to

1:26:28

assist or try to if uh if possible oh yeah

1:26:33

yes i i break my my focus on the sheep human how do you mean

1:26:39

more um magical items possibly but i mean

1:26:45

myself [Music] i've spent a lot of time in my life definitely knows just a little bit but

1:26:52

i spent a lot of time not choosing

1:26:58

maybe helping where i can but i would like to take a more active role

1:27:04

and this sounds uh pretty big from what you're saying

1:27:10

now what you're saying is you want to be an agent of repair i don't know what that means

1:27:17

we'll let you know when we figure it out definitely what is an agent it's

1:27:23

the way she said it makes me think it's like a group title is that right

1:27:28

i mean it's what we call ourselves yeah it's like we're trying to repair the world you're going to repair the whole

1:27:35

world the whole world one person at a time

1:27:40

i i actually remember didn't you say there was another prison break since last i saw you

1:27:47

did you so you're repairing things now i'm so confused

1:27:53

we are repairing and my eyes

1:27:59

once again turn uh back to this monstrosity that we created

1:28:07

he said you said you wanted to

1:28:12

to choose you said you wanted to choose and i'm

1:28:18

just like looking at this this creature a choice

1:28:24

hey freed yeah um

1:28:29

if i if i had a way to separate this creature from its

1:28:35

[Music] tormentor

1:28:41

could you get it into another cell could you could you

1:28:46

just if i er in the moment that it happened could you make sure that this

1:28:52

shape it be safe no guarantees but i could give it a try

1:28:58

all right can you bring it closer [Music]

1:29:03

all right everyone alec what are you gonna do what he raises his hands up and motions as all of the platforms that are

1:29:11

not this central platform like push away and separate from the central platform

1:29:17

and like rotate around and sort of collect off in one corner as he pulls

1:29:22

the the sheep demon closer and like pushes all of the platforms away as he's

1:29:28

pulling in the sheep demon i duck under the table and as the sheep demon gets close a

1:29:35

stone bridge operates between the two platforms and i i'll approach this this beast like

1:29:41

almost in a trance-like state where that i'm like muttering to myself

1:29:47

a choice in a world that tries to break itself

1:29:53

we must choose always to try to repair it

1:29:58

that's the choice and i i'll i'll kneel in front of in

1:30:04

front of the cage um can i get close enough that i could reach through the bars

1:30:10

yeah yeah the bars are right there yeah but um but is its form close enough that like if i were to reach through the bars

1:30:16

i could touch it um not at the moment are you reaching your hand up to try and touch it um i'm gonna

1:30:23

nod it um hey freed to lower the i know there's like a force field element to this

1:30:29

between the bars i'm gonna sort of like indicate with my eyes that that's what i'd like to be done

1:30:35

okay as hayfreed raises hands he sort of he

1:30:40

puts one up palm facing the sheep demon and he raises another one on the

1:30:46

opposite side and palms facing each other he brings his hands close to each other and finally his fingers touch as

1:30:53

you see in front of you the cage surrounding the sheep demon clothes

1:30:59

and the bars slowly drift in trapping the sheep demon even

1:31:04

into a more and more confined space until the bars are completely pressed up against its shoulders and it is in a

1:31:11

space probably one-fifth the size that it previously was as all of it is pressed up against these bars you could

1:31:18

easily reach through and touch it [Music] you didn't have a choice

1:31:23

[Music] and we forced into something because we didn't have one either

1:31:30

but once you have power you get to make choices and i i um

1:31:37

hold my palm i supinate my palm in front of me and i and i allow the

1:31:45

the scar to open up um and i

1:31:50

reach my hand impossibly into the center of my palm and the tips of my fingers

1:31:57

start to disappear into it and i

1:32:02

pause for a second as it like it looks like i'm pulling on something [Music]

1:32:11

and i uh pull from my hand uh a a a

1:32:16

orange glistening fragmenting silver dagger it's it has

1:32:22

the silver slender center uh and these embers are pouring off of

1:32:27

it and at like from the center of the silver dagger these blue uh flecks are

1:32:33

blossoming into these uh explosions these tiny tiny conflagrations of fire and uh and i

1:32:41

take this and in the same singular motion i i twirl it in my hand and i plunge it into my heart

1:32:51

die and then i pull from my heart this

1:32:58

it condensed vibrating swirling mass of silver blue and orange

1:33:06

these these it's almost like this thing that's trying to escape this shell um of these three layers and i and i plunge

1:33:13

that through the bars into the form of this creature and i cast greater restoration

1:33:18

okay and as soon as that happens the creature throws its head back and

1:33:24

this blood-curdling scream emanates from it as you can see all of its muscles twitch

1:33:31

and rise and you can see almost like a thousand

1:33:36

like worms underneath their skin begin moving around and you can see the skin

1:33:42

begin to warp as this creature spasms in every way possible

1:33:47

and you can see in front of you as it hits the cage on the side hits the cage on the other side the um

1:33:55

the runes that you can just barely see in a haze begin to

1:34:02

blink out of existence as hayford runs up and begins casting spells between his fingers to try and replace

1:34:09

them but they're they're fading faster than he can replace them and you can see the bars begin to bow

1:34:16

out thick metal bars begin to extend out

1:34:22

in and warp the entire cage um you can see the parts of the the little tufts of

1:34:28

fur from the sheep um begin to move around the body almost like like um like

1:34:34

insects beginning to crawl around the skin itself until they all meet in the middle and that that fur sort of joins

1:34:42

in together and grows like a tumor on this thing as you can see the areas where this fur has vacated is now raw

1:34:49

flesh you can see um the the muscle and the connective tissue and even the bones

1:34:55

underneath of this creature as this this uh this tumor that has sheep fur all on

1:35:02

the outside of it begins to grow and you can see you can see in that moment

1:35:08

a sheep's head begins to form on this tumorous thing

1:35:21

and pinches itself off from the rest of this this hulking mass and you can see hayfried

1:35:27

hastily trying to put these these spells back up and and these uh this this

1:35:33

ritual magic that he's casting and as soon as the sheep actually

1:35:38

breaks itself off from the rest of the body before it even falls and has time to hit the ground hey freed stops what

1:35:44

he's doing for a brief moment and almost like he has a ball in his hand

1:35:50

he grabs energy from the air and does like an underhand toss as this ball of energy hits the sheep and the sheep

1:35:57

into dust operates out of existence you can see now in the cage that is still warped and

1:36:05

this thing is bashing on either side um you can see this this myriad of

1:36:12

flesh and and these arms that are growing out as it seems that it's formed now that it has

1:36:19

lost its sheep host it's the form is still trying to settle within itself but it finally begins to

1:36:26

slow as you can see two massive front arms plow down into the ground and crack the

1:36:33

the stone around it you can see from its ribcage two more arms that begin to come

1:36:38

out and also hit the ground cracking the stone and in front of you you see this gargantuan four-armed beast with uh the

1:36:47

the same horns that have previously had now going up and around its head and doing circles you can see this massive

1:36:54

almost alligator-like tail coming out from the back um as this thing begins to pound

1:37:00

the cage around it i'm gonna roll for hayfried what have we done

1:37:06

these are going to be a couple of very crucial roles here for hay boy oh i'm not there cool oh my gosh

1:37:16

oh man well it won't be a full tbk because i won't be there okay

1:37:22

well we had we got a couple free episodes out of it before we died again so i'm going to see if pay feed can keep

1:37:28

his concentration on what he's doing come on okay that's a nineteen yeah

1:37:35

nice next one there's there's three checks so just so everyone's aware oh yeah

1:37:42

that is a okay that's a 17.

1:37:49

maybe

1:37:55

and a 23. yes you see it needs

1:38:03

on his forehead um as you can see all of a sudden his fingers start moving impossibly fast you can't even keep

1:38:09

track of where his hands are and he starts speaking impossibly fast faster than any normal creature could possibly

1:38:16

do as you can see runes emanating from his hands and flying up onto the cage replacing all of the lost ones as the

1:38:24

the metal and the bowing begins to come back in and settle in its place

1:38:29

as he drops down to one knee the cage begins to expand back out not

1:38:34

contra uh not contracting or constricting this beast any longer as the beast

1:38:40

stands there taking deep breaths as hayfreed motions his hand very slowly

1:38:48

and this platform glides back out and continues its rotation

1:38:53

the rest of you on the main platform yeah just just behind you oh uh you you

1:39:00

look around just for a moment and on the platform that's behind you you can see that there's trees and it

1:39:06

almost looks like an outdoor area you can see shrubbery you can see trees and just

1:39:11

from there you can barely hear me [Music]

1:39:18

is there is there still a cage in front of me or am i just on an empty platform now you have backed up onto the the bridge

1:39:25

itself and you are like right on the precipice of where the the platform

1:39:30

drifted away like if if you look directly down your toes are pretty much hanging over the side of this this

1:39:36

bridge is hayford next to me yes hey frieda is right there next to you i'm going to uh

1:39:42

like limpy grasp at his shoulder as i

1:39:47

faint and fall on the void okay i'm gonna have you roll a d4 for me

1:39:54

see which which direction you fall if you roll out if you roll a one

1:39:59

you fall forward okay anything else you're falling onto the bridge okay well four

1:40:04

you fall directly backwards and land uh laid out onto the floor as

1:40:11

you level up [Music] nice nice and uh my from my there's

1:40:18

still like an opening in my heart where i had plunged the dagger that's like flickering as it starts to close this

1:40:25

like tear i formed in my in my breast um that's so cool

1:40:31

[Music] while all that was going on i just want to say the whole thing uh just well the danger

1:40:38

became kind of apparent i would have noticed that oma was under the table stood up moved in front of her and kept

1:40:44

my hand on my sword the entire time okay and just disappoint i would have warmed

1:40:50

up next to thessaly and had a spell of sorts uh ready to go in my

1:40:55

right palm and i as as i see kalec faint i will

1:41:03

shake my my right hand to kind of put it out and look over destiny and say

1:41:10

oh that is not what i had in mind when i said choose

1:41:16

i think we should go help the one that fainted i'm gonna i'm gonna walk over while while they were standing in front

1:41:21

of me i've just been watching this whole thing like between their legs and robes just like

1:41:26

jaw wide open and just so so transfixed by this um

1:41:35

sheep protruding itself from this hulking creature um and when i hear the that

1:41:44

i just like immediately flip around and like look at the sheep um yes you look up and you can see at

1:41:50

this point um as hayfreed has has broken his concentration on those platforms you

1:41:56

can see almost like they're magnetized just sort of form back and continue their their

1:42:03

normal rotation around um around the central platform

1:42:10

okay that was quite a lot uh i'm gonna walk over kayla is is he unconscious

1:42:16

like lying on the ground uh i i'm i'm

1:42:22

vaguely awake but like my eyes are rolled up in the back of my head and i'm

1:42:28

like trembling hayfried also in a very similar in a very similar way is has like

1:42:35

dropped down to his knees it's like trying to regain his breath how close are they together right next to each

1:42:40

other i'll walk over with you and we can okay do you want to retrieve them i think we should oh you want to bring

1:42:45

them back from the okay give me i think i can have them retrieve themselves just give me one second um and i'm gonna place uh i'm gonna bend

1:42:54

down on my knees and place a hand on kellex forearm and place a hand on hayford's shoulder and i am going to

1:43:01

give ten points of my leg on hands to kelly and ten points of my lay on

1:43:06

hands pool to hayfreeze

1:43:18

you feel a swell of energy in your body um you still feel exhausted but you feel

1:43:24

like you could stand on your own two feet at this point [Music] hi

1:43:29

hi do you need help walking back or oh no i feel pretty good

1:43:35

that was very dramatic it was a lot yeah sorry

1:43:41

no don't apologize that's been glad you're okay it's kinda

1:43:48

i i kind of blush um

1:43:53

and i and i kind of like uh step in again and i sort of stand and

1:43:58

um you're coming you're coming here it's kind of a [Music]

1:44:05

dire time i suppose it's safe that's an understatement i'm having an existential crisis witnessing all of this but um

1:44:12

let's get back to that main platform seeker would you want to help hey freighter are you okay i i got it i'm good i'm

1:44:19

good don't i don't need help i'm good are you sure it stumbles back to the main platform uh as as i i'm gonna just

1:44:26

like stop him and just hey um [Music]

1:44:33

can i give you a hug [Music] yeah make it quick

1:44:39

i'm like the fastest

1:44:56

and he reaches his hand up uh he reaches both of his hands up actually and he pulls down two platforms uh you see the

1:45:02

one platform that he pulls down um much larger than even the central platform uh but you see one with all the trees and

1:45:09

the the wildlife on it um and this one all of the other platforms in here are

1:45:14

like squares and rectangular um this one has one flat side but then sort of comes

1:45:20

around into a semicircle on the other side um and just has a myriad of trees

1:45:25

and you can see the ground is not stone it's it's made up of dirt um if you're standing on it you'd think you were

1:45:32

outside um but the second one that he pulls down is um a platform that oma had been on

1:45:38

previously where you had created the uh the healing potions and he walks over and almost it looks

1:45:45

like almost drunkenly sort of like stumbles over there rifles through a bunch of the bottles you can hear like

1:45:51

uh glass clanking together and he grabs out two bottles and uh he swigs one back and

1:45:58

he tosses the other one over to kellig i'll take it i will not question it for a moment i'll just drink it okay um as

1:46:05

soon as you drink it uh you feel yourself come back to full energy um and you also regain that

1:46:12

spell slot that you just expended nice do i get all of them because i did cast sending a couple times as well

1:46:17

just the one that you just want yes just the just the spell slot you

1:46:22

have cast in the last 30 minutes okay gotcha

1:46:28

um hope flynn's doing well

1:46:35

and that's a good place

1:46:42

we are going to call it right there thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye nerds

1:46:49

hey nerds it's ethan thank you so much for listening if you enjoyed the episode please like share and subscribe on all platforms hey rodney um i guess a couple

1:46:56

of quick questions for you yeah does ventureforth have a discord yes is ventureforth on instagram uh yet check

1:47:03

how about twitter yep i mean they can't be on youtube are they on youtube absolutely on the youtube that's great

1:47:10

and now i hear that there's this new app that all the kids are using called tick tock oh let me tell you that there is that app

1:47:17

and also the venture fourth is on it oh my you're running you're blowing my mind right now this is incredible i will go

1:47:23

and i will subscribe to each of those different platforms uh and follow them just to make sure that i'm up to date on

1:47:30

all things venture forth thanks for letting me know that rodney you know thanks for the opportunity to let you know thanks for the opportunity to give

1:47:36

you the opportunity to let you know oh man there's so much opportunity [Laughter]

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