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thessaly sika flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture forth

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[Music]

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previously the party had made their way back to marstock and upon arriving to

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marstock you all had ran into an old friend that being seeker

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as soon as you guys got to town flynn in the back of your head you you heard a voice that called out to you um that you

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recognized as seekers and you met seeker thessaly and 86 behind hayfreed's temple

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you all got to know the uh the the new uh people here and as you discussed with 86 you

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found that 86 would be able to take thaddeus to west reach and hopefully help him out help him find a body and

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return him to people who are more like him you all return to heyfree's void and

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upon flynn leaving to go to the iron light castle with zorkhall kellick had a

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bit of a moment of realization as he reached out to something deep within

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himself and he attempted to cast greater restoration on the sheep demon that was

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in the void after a tumultuous couple of minutes of

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hayfried and kellik in a a mental battle with this with this

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creature trying to get the the sheep creature to

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be subdued and actually extract the sheep from it they were ultimately successful

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but now this new creature that stands in the place of where once was the sheep demon is possibly even

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more horrific than it was previous the sheep now hanging out in the void uh

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seems to be okay but at the moment flynn and zorkhall

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apparate into addersfeld flynn uh you and zorkal are exiting the

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small room where the teleportation circle is and uh you once again look around and see the mostly abandoned

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district of adersfeld so as you look around what would you like to do [Music]

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it's gonna be back do you miss it do you ever miss it when you're in your contracts

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not all the time um it's nice to have a place with a bed yeah it'll be cool to go back

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ah all right let's head there okay

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and you both uh begin walking and at this point you know these streets like the back of your hand um and before long

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you are at the iron light castle um zorkol a little bit more assertive um steps

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right in front of you places his hand on the stone um and you can see that his hand is is perfectly matched with the

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imprint of the hand almost almost like it was made for him okay um as the doors

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open up in front of you and um you uh you walk into the halls of the

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iron light castle where are you going um

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uh to mallory do i see chaff training anyone is there anyone do i hear anything make a perception check

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[Music] uh total of 20. total of 20. um yeah just echoing off of

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the the walls of this castle you can just hear um

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uh just brief echoes of

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ha ha i kind of relish in that just for a moment and just remember

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it's good to hear uh should we probably we probably should get to melloroo right so we're calling

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just turn all this stuff in i don't know what's going on that would probably be the best course of action yes yeah okay

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all right let's let's do that i guess all right does she like you she likes

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you right well it looks like she likes you me better than you and he starts walking

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off towards mallory's office should we pretend that we're still like enemies i know we're best friends now

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[Laughter]

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flynn you do whatever you are going to do and i will try to tolerate it

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just like always let's go okay um and you you both uh walk down

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a couple of different hallways making a left or right another right try and get in front of them at some point okay uh but by the time you get there

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you'd be able to get in front of me and get in front open the door okay you open the door and you see uh meluru who uh is

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just behind her desk she's got like a bookshelf behind her desk and you can see that she's just putting a book away

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i'm back and not even turning around you see her head like slumped down

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and you hear flynn

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she turns around i'm glad to see that you're back what what uh what news do you have glad

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to see you too um well a lot um actually um uh well we dealt with we kind of

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dealt with the whole crystal rebel situation but it's still there's still some stuff out there we need to find but um

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i brought stuff to turn in well that's good yeah it's about time i'll pull out the contract that i have

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and i'll hand it and i'll put it on the desk and then i'll pull out the not the can and then slowly put it back in the bag

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because it probably smells she sees it and acknowledges and then i believe i also have

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cyclops beads uh yes the the necklace with the uh

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the the necklace from the cyclops that has the saber-tooth uh this time so i'll pull the necklace out and i'll put that

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on the desk um do you want the not the can too

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if you're not going to use it um do you want me to put on your desk i know last time you got mad

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sure put it down okay and i'll just put on the floor okay and she like waves her hand and it

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disintegrates into the air i could have just okay um so yeah am i good do i did i pass

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i would say so yes um yes what do i do now

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ah well i had other plans for today but um not anymore

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i guess we're doing this now yes um flynn give give us one moment

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okay your just like wait outside yes yeah just down the hallway okay i'll go out in the hallway and i'll put my

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ear to the door okay um as zorkhall uh sits down in the chair the door closes

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make a perception check you got it 17

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17. um you can just barely hear the muffled conversations inside okay um and

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you hear you came back with him what what what happened

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well there were some complications um i stupidly did not scout out the area as

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well as i should have and unfortunately i was captured but

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and it pains me to say this was instrumental in my escape and uh he

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he proved himself in uh in combat it i will keep the story short but uh he

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the trophies that he has brought back or not indicative of the full scope of what he has done over the last few weeks

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yes yes i'm trying to contain myself outside the door that's interesting that you were not

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able to handle yourself alone that's rather disappointing i thought better of

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you i it was my mistake and i promise you i

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will not make it again i will be better moving forward i i promise you that well i i don't care

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about promises um i i only care about successes so

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next time something like this happens um no need to uh come back and inform me

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just stay out until you are successful in your mission [Music]

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flynn okay wait a moment so it doesn't seem like i'm right now the door and i

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open the door yeah um it seems that there are

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some things that we must get done and in iron-like tradition

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we must waste no time let's do it if you will come with me yes um and she gets up

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she uh goes over to her her bookshelf and in

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like a flurry of motion she like pulls out one book puts it back pulls out another puts it back pulls out another

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one puts it back and the entire shelf slides to the side and you can see a hidden doorway there interesting

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um she says uh flint if you wouldn't mind just just heading down um

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you give me but a few moments yeah should i like leave my bag here should i take my stuff with me um uh should i

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should i should i bring my weapons should i leave them um you may leave them wherever you would like wherever it would be convenient for

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you okay um zorko did you leave your stuff here when you went i took my things down i hope you took my

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face down i always have my weapons with me okay yeah that's probably smart i should do that um

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and i'll summon my sword from the alleyway probably need this and i'll cheat it

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all right and i'll enter a little bit of dirt just falling onto melrose

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um and as you head back down she says um give me a few moments i will collect

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the rest and we will join you awesome give us a few moments all right and as you walk down

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um zorkhall like tries to follow but melloroo puts her hand up and like

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blocks him from going down okay as the bookshelf closes behind you okay

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um and you are plunged into complete darkness um you look and you see

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before you were actually in the darkness you saw that there was a stone stairwell that went down

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into the ground okay and there's a moment of darkness in silence

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and then just in front of you you see a couple of torches like cool

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a couple more as you can see uh that this stairwell goes down and down and down way down underground um but you can

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see these torches lighting your way just straight down just straight down almost

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at a perfect 45 degree angle all right let's get it and i'll start walking down

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okay um you walk down and it takes a couple minutes but eventually you get down to um

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a one central area um

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and it sort of opens up and in in a very similar way to

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traditional iron light design this room is a huge cylinder it is round uh

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perfect uh round edges no corners anywhere and you

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can see in the middle almost what looks like a sacrificial stone slab

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there you can see on the opposite wall shelves that has different inks on it

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um you can see that on the walls there are um numerous pauldrons hanging there on

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what would you like to do um go look at the pauldrons

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how do i see one that looks my size um you do not you see that they're all

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pretty much exactly the same size um can i reach them

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yeah they're hanging on the wall i will try to take one down okay yeah um and as you sort of lift it

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up off of the hook and you bring it down to your hands it shrinks

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no way and so is perfectly your size um

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i'll look around do i see anyone or hear anything

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i'll go to place it on my shoulder [Music]

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i feel how it feels okay it feels like a pauldron

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it feels like some leather a little bit of of fur underneath

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does it feel like success make an inside chat

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i don't know like successful vibe check yeah uh 18. 18 um

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notably nothing feels different maybe i have to strap it in and i'll try like

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strapping it in on my all right you click it shut yeah you don't feel any effects or anything maybe it's

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on the wrong shoulder no this is the one i put it on and i tap my um

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my left shoulder move it around that's

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right no maybe it's the other one and i'll take it off and i'll put it on my right shoulder and i'll strap it in

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is that right crap i can't remember huh and i'll go look at the inks

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so you look up and on these shelves there are all of these inks but they're perfectly sequenced um you see one

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that's like a light blue you see a red one next to it gold then green then pink

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then purple then silver than orange then it repeats again blue red gold green pink purple silver orange

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and extends all the way around the room for a moment i'll just look at my

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um my right forearm and i'll can i make the connection of the two

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inks that are in me right now uh yes the blue and the red look identical to what was used to

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tattoo you before i give a squint at the other ones

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um what's in the center of the so there's a slab right yeah like a stone slab coming up to about your chest

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height um hop up on it

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okay am i supposed to stand here

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i'll look back towards the exit um

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and as you're looking back towards the exit you can start to hear footsteps oh i wonder if there's multiple people

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coming down the steps oh man um i will hurriedly go and put the shoulder pauldron back on its hook okay and as

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soon as you put it back and like you're no longer touching it it expands back out to its standard size and then i

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will uh go hardly stand next to the slab and just stand there okay at attention

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okay and as you are standing there

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you see coming down the steps you see one figure

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then another figure then another figure six figures in total first coming down the steps in full

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battle armor traditional to the iron light yes you can see polished and pristine um

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probably not something that would be taking taken out on missions but more ceremonial

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first you see melloroo come down the high elf figure next you see behind her a

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red dragonborn yeah and very similar and very similar garb you see chaff

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next you see a half elf man come down illinois

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you see another human man come down morris you see a human woman nessa

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you see a dwarf ori yeah as they all come in and melloroo instructs with a simple motion of her

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hand for you to lay down on the slap i'll uh

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not i'll look to chat and just give him a smile he sort of smiles back not not too much

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i know he probably has to stay in like a recall but i try and i'll try and like give him like

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um and i'll take my backpack off and i will uh lay it on the ground take all my stuff off and

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get bags and weapons put them to the side and i'll go and lay down on the slab

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oh do i know what's going on have i heard about what this ritual is like um you have no idea what's about to happen

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that tracks all right i'll lay down [Music] and

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everyone circles around you okay in a perfect circle and melloroo comes over

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and she sort of stands by where your head is and she says

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now's the last chance you get to back out back out of what what we're about to do

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what are you about to do well you are about to take a lifelong commitment to the iron light a commitment that

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cannot be broken else face the consequences [Music]

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no i'm ready very well [Music]

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and so she stands back and joins the circle once more

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and in complete dead silence

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everyone continues standing there you could hear a pin drop as

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chat turns and he walks over to the wall

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and he grabs the gold vial

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and he puts it down next to you [Music] and he says

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this is the one that i got what's it do

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it um lets you change one thing into another

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[Music] it is always up to you though

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what your next step will be and then okay

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melloroo and she goes and she grabs

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a uh the um pink bottle she places it down next to

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he you this was my choice [Music] but the next choice is up to you

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what's that one do this allows you to control and

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take over mines huh

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next you see illinois go and he grabs the green bottle

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and he puts it down and he said this was my choice well next the next choice is yours oh

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like this i'll nod as to ask almost the same question like waiting expectedly

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this grants you control over life and death

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next up morris

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morris goes and grabs the purple vial places it down says this was my choice

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the next choice is yours this allows you to cast illusions

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and trick the mind visually

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next nessa she goes and she takes a silver potion

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she puts it down this was my choice the next choice is yours

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this will expand your mind giving you greater knowledge of things beyond

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and finally ori goes and he grabs the orange one

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puts it down says this was my choice next choice is up to you

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this one allows me to conjure beings from other realms

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and all in unison echoing together they say the next choice is yours love it

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i'll turn to chaff and also melloroo

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it's tough what did caitlyn do choose

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[Music] um chat sort of

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puts his head down after he he looks to melloroo and milaroo doesn't seem to answer chad says

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she uh she didn't get this far i thought she became

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[Music]

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all right what about zorko

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flint these choices have to be yours yeah i know you're right they cannot be influenced

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by the popularity right of one of these choices right right

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this dress has to be yours um

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i'll take the one you chose gold okay and everyone except chat steps

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forward grabs the bottle puts it back on the shelf [Music]

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he instructs you to lay your head back down um chat walks over and in a very similar

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fashion to your tattoos before it goes and grabs a little wooden box it's got a little um a little stick with

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a needle at the end and a little hammer as he dips it in to this gold ink

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places it to your skin wait [Music]

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what if i want them all all right

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let's just go with this one and see how you do all right

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and he begins tapping the needle into your skin and it is it is

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painful i'm gonna have you roll a d6 for me yep

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rule i don't know i don't know if we're only high helps i don't see five you take one point of piercing damage

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okay all right [Music] as he continues to to hammer this needle

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in i'm gonna have you roll another decent are the others just standing there watching standing there watching and

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complaining i will uh attempt to be as silent as possible getting this done to show

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strength or what i think is strength one you take five points of piercing damage okay

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and as he continues you can see he's got just one third of it left i'm gonna have you roll another

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d6 okay all right you you gather your strength

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and constitution and you don't take any damage awesome but after

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a couple minutes maybe 30 45 minutes

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your tattoo is complete and you now have the symbol of transmutation

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on your skin nice congratulations thanks

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i'm still speechless to be here i love it this is awesome but what do i do now

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um grab a pauldron and get to work that's it

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yeah i'll look around to the others

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okay um i'll step off and head over to the pauldron that i picked

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up before and i'll pick it up okay and once again once it's in your hands it shrinks down the sides like i'm like oh wow

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that's cool never seen anything do like cool definitely cool and i'll

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okay and i'll go to put it on my my right shoulder okay and as soon as you put it on and click it in

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you feel a binding sensation to yourself

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um you feel that this this item is now connected to you in some way

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cool [Music] i'll look to meloru

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that's it free to go i did it

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sure

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i did it yeah sure you did flynn um i've got a busy day so why don't you

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just head out all right then i'll head up the stairs

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we're heading up the stairs okay and i'll uh do they all

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leave or they all still sitting there um they all seem to be like they're

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collecting themselves to start um i'll go like halfway up

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turn around and what is chat doing um chat is like he was the one who did

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the tattoo so it seems that he's cleaning off the equipment he's probably going to stay there a couple minutes longer than everyone else

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because he has to clean his stuff and put it back and it seemed like she doesn't think

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i deserved it it's like an inside chat what i got from her so what she's thinking

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we're all high this one's a huge mystery i know right

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uh 13. um the normal disdain

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i walk back down the stairs okay i walk up to chat give me all of them

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no flynn give me all of it get out of here go i get back up on this lap

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[Music] flynn this is this is just unnecessary

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i want this [Music] flynn i don't know what this would do to you

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let's find out [Music] i'll turn to melory what's her reaction

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um she like shakes her head in disbelief and begins walking out of the room i did it

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she walks up the stairs now you and chapter the only ones in this room roll up my sleeve

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do it all right um give me hers next

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i was like notion to mellow walking up the stairs hopefully i can have her hear that as she walks out okay um you get

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the sense that she might have yeah um as chat takes a deep breath and reaches for the

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the pink liquid puts it down [Music]

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it's flynn once i get this started do it okay

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okay and he goes and he holds down the pink he pulls down the green the purple the

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silver the orange puts them all in a row

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andy says god okay all right

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hope to see you on the other side as he um reaches down underneath sort of

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this indentation on the stone slabs that you hadn't seen previously and reaches in and grabs out leather straps and puts

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them up around your arms and your legs strapping you into place in this

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stone slab um he pulls out

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the pink vial and dips the the tip of the needle into it [Music]

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and with the first tap of the hammer you feel this surging

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almost electrical sensation take over your entire body as all of your muscles involuntarily flint clench what

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as you can feel like an overload of magic taking over your system um

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with the with the gold tattoo you could feel like the magic being sort of pumped into your

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system now you feel an overwhelming sensation of like almost confliction in this

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um and as that second tap comes down you continue to clench and as the third

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tap comes down your vision begins to darken the fourth one comes down vision darkens even more

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as you don't even recognize when the fifth tap is done is you are completely unconscious

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okay crap you open your eyes uh-huh

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you are in a large room

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and you can see a cyclops sitting there in the opposite

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corner um you see hanging around its neck a uh a

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saber-toothed necklace as it looks to you [Music]

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reaches down and grabs its massive club gets up and starts walking towards you

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as it swings its club overhead to swing at you i'm going to have you really initiative

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roll what role initiative okay let's go

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trap [Music] thirteen

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okay yeah you see this thing begin to start lumbering towards you so you reach and

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you grab your sword and you get the drop on this what would you like to what would you like to do um

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how close is it to me um it is about 15 feet in front of you closing the gap 15 feet um

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i will [Music]

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uh charge up to it okay and i'm gonna as i'm running up to it i'm gonna

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quickly uh rub my fingers together and uh the uh

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navigation symbol glows as i um tap my sword once and give it some booming energy and come down and try and attack

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this cyclops okay make an attack roll [Music]

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uh a total of 20. a total of 20. uh yeah that hits yeah um

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yeah roll your damage okay okay okay okay all right all right all right

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that is this dice and this dice

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okay that's uh six [Music]

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uh 14 hold on i think i add something else as well

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uh 18 total do you need um thunder damage separate um

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i am actually going to have you add five points of damage onto that okay um

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but no i do not need those separately all right um then there's that

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okay um and i will um bonus action attack again okay

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all right attack again adding five to the attack roll and the damage let's go

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um 22 27 yeah that for sure hits 27 okay

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[Music] oh man okay uh

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said crap um 16 points of piercing on top of that as poof into smoke nice the

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cyclops disappears as the smoke coalesces once more and comes back

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together an eyeball opens in the smoke green and yellow as the smoke forms

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around it into a grotesque gnothic as a nothic stands there in front of you and lunges it is going to try to attack

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you with its claw bring it on that's going to be an 11 to hit that'll miss okay so it swings wildly and just

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misses you you get an attack oh yeah i'm just coming down with a regular one okay

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uh 16 16 hits awesome [Music] uh

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12 points adding five oh it would have been a 21 though okay yeah that hits so that is uh

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seventeen points appears in the first one okay second attack oh

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let's do it uh like uh 24 30 33

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into smoke i'm gonna step back and be ready as the smoke coalesces once more

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you see two bony hooks begin to apply as the smoke coalesces into a hook

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horror yeah it's gonna lunge forward and try to attack you that is gonna be a 17

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to hit miss

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uh i'm adding five as well yes because i've fought these things because you fought

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all of these all right uh that is a

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27 the hit 27 hits oh that's a lot of damage uh

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18 points of piercing damage okay poof

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into smoke it fades i watch the smoke does it seem to be recollecting it does not

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as you feel yourself your consciousness drift almost like you're falling into a body of water

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as you reawaken i am going to have you roll for each of these tattoos oh gosh

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[Music]

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that is going to be for each tattoo that is 3d6 okay you are getting an additional five tattoos sure so that is

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going to be 15 d6 should i roll them per tattoo and see how the damage goes yes okay do me to

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roll three and then let you know um yes

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okay first three two ones

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and a four okay uh that's for the first first two was uh

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two two ones and a four okay next tattoo would i be able to know

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how it's going oh okay you're you're in this you're in this trance the entire time

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a five a three and a three okay

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okay that was two how many more three more okay

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two ones and a four okay give me one second oh two ones again

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fun fun fun okay two twos and a four

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[Music] three these three can i take this yes you may okay

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secret help me okay this is the last one this is the last one

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one two five [Music]

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that's a lot of damage it's gonna hurt a lot you wake up having taken 51 points of piercing damage

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so what does that feel like dm it feels like the blood in your veins is boiling it

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feels like there is needles running through your skin

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and it feels excruciating

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i'll look for chat he's sitting there in the corner is it over

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yeah how do you do it that was real stupid flynn

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did i do it you did it i did it i yell up towards the stairs

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it's just trapped in the room yeah and you can see he uh he sort of wipes some sweat away from

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his forehead he uh he throws his tools down onto the table puts the the orange ink back up on the

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shelf and silently walks up the stairs i look at my arm you look down on your arm and you

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can see um three circular tattoos on your forearm um you can see the one that is a light

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blue for your abduration you can see the red one for evocation and you can see the uh the golden circle there

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that you had gotten for transmutation cool but now beyond that

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the rest of the tattoos are no longer circles it seems like they are all interwoven as these lines and and

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designs and symbology wrap your entire forearm and your entire the entirety of

38:53

your upper arm and onto your shoulder these three distinctly stand out while

38:59

the rest of them are all interwoven into this beautiful design of of lines

39:04

weaving in and out and iron light symbology and and these runes

39:09

as you now have a full arm of tattoos so freaking cool oh look down at it and just smile

39:15

but [Music] i'm just like rest for a moment

39:21

i'll calm my breathing and second

39:26

wind yeah yeah all right so that is this and of course

39:32

i roll a one on it nine points in healing okay

39:37

um that one tattoo is worth yeah right

39:43

okay um and i will after resting for a moment i will

39:48

collect myself uh i will [Music]

39:54

do i feel like it's it hurts to touch is it sensitive

39:59

oh yeah the skin is completely raw i will i will leave the sleeve up and uh

40:06

i don't know if the pauldron is going to cover some of the tattoo so i might does it no it doesn't matter uh no the

40:11

pauldron would not cover then i'll just leave it on i'll put the back on i'll clamp it on feel that

40:16

connection and smile as i just kind of put my hand on it

40:22

i did it mom i did it dad can't wait to tell you the story

40:27

i looked at the stairs and hit up okay and as you walk up the stairs with this new tattoo you level up let's go

40:37

that's a hard level up [Music] yeah okay as you uh complete your your

40:42

ascension to the stairs uh you get back to melloroo's office and you see no one's in there

40:49

you look on miller's desk all you see is a book playing there

40:56

what's it look like it is very similar to the one that you currently have that has all of your

41:01

spells in it um except much much larger

41:07

i'll go go up to it open it up take a look okay um you start flipping through and

41:13

you see um you see the basics of these new schools of magic um no real

41:21

specifics but you do see a couple of spells in there that you might be able to use

41:28

new spells that you haven't seen before i'll uh go into my bag and

41:34

take out my current iron light spell book and kind of hold on to it just kind of

41:41

grip it tightly as i look at it and just done with this one

41:47

i'll put it on mother's desk i'll pick up the big one put it in my bag and head out of our office

41:52

okay the rest of the group sure flynn's doing fine you know

41:59

it's just going to a safe place you know iron light what's going to happen to him there yeah i mean

42:05

he goes here all the time right it's where you like grew up he likes the smell of it

42:10

so weird it just smells like dirt you can expose in certain circumstances that

42:15

would be there would be a fondness for dirt some folks are

42:21

rugged individuals seeker do you think fondly on dirt i

42:27

don't have a problem with dirt i don't know if i think fondly but does this smell remind you of that of anything

42:33

like does it make you happy n no you destiny

42:39

actually yes i really i actually really enjoyed the smell of dirt there you go so of dirt

42:44

yeah you like a specific kind of dirt though like you go to one place and you're like this dirt smells different

42:51

yes so like when the soil is really rich and and dark and you can plant like a garden in it it's really calming to just

42:57

sit and you know be amongst some herbs and at a farm

43:03

i'm gonna turn to kellich i think she'll get along with shriya

43:08

um i mean schreier gets along with everyone who's ryan suffered dwarves i suppose

43:14

oh remember theo typically the bird oh that's right he is missing i didn't i

43:19

didn't find him here where is he by the way ah he's alive no no

43:25

lives no he's alive he survived with us yes did he die too

43:30

you know i can't say um who died but he was there when i remember when he fell and

43:37

he fell and then and then you fell right but he was definitely down but he's not

43:42

anymore he just went to go take care of something for us you see flynn's friend is in trouble and

43:48

he went to go help her oh yes um

43:54

nary a dull moment um the iron light has some internal conflict we're learning what is

44:02

this iron light who knows some spooky things that's

44:08

not many people have heard of it least of all from flynn he's never he never mentions it

44:13

and you all hear teleporting into the space flynn gets back

44:20

hey raises his hand and pulls the teleportation circle portal down towards him thank you hey free

44:26

yeah sure you look okay are you looking you okay [Music] uh

44:32

yeah i'm i'm fine what happened

44:37

hey if then welcome back oh flynn you're back you're gonna be so happy with what kellick did

44:44

you're gonna be really really happy oh okay what what'd you do kelly yes what did you do

44:50

what was that i'll look over towards the noise and you look over and you see on a platform that is now connected to the

44:56

main platform um trees and shrubs and uh just standing there like chewing on some

45:03

grass you see a sheep why is there a sheep it's your sheep not just any sheep flynn

45:09

fellow weave what and i with a weary look toward hayfree just of like raw pride

45:16

the sheep flint your teeth i'll look towards the cage that had the sheep demon in it

45:22

a terrifying mass of muscles and arms and horns

45:29

yes when that thing was inside of you which yes

45:35

oh man it looks scarier so scary

45:40

the sheep wasn't what was inside well um did you recall that flynn had horns

45:47

right yes well he no longer has those i did not tell you this yes no you

45:53

did not those are my horns those are the horns those are my horns oh like it was literally

45:59

in my head yep i mean he didn't turn into a big sheep monster like the sheep did it was really

46:07

just like flying flynn yeah with horns so you were possessed yeah some people

46:13

yeah some people use that word yeah how why

46:18

but you know [Music] after that i will eventually just kind

46:24

of walk towards the new demon cage with

46:32

as i'm still talking to her but i'm just looking at the new demon now um yeah and it's like it's it's

46:38

trying to stand there but it's like wavering back and forth and like like banging its shoulder up against the edge

46:44

of the cage not like really in an attempt to get out but almost feeling like

46:49

getting a grasp on the new arms and the body and everything

46:58

should we kill it you think you can kill it maybe and i like like

47:04

move my hand my my right hand just like i cross my arms uh looking at this

47:11

monstrosity well we've got a little collection going here

47:17

um [Music] beats me as to what the appropriate fate

47:24

for such creatures is do you think all of them look like that inside like

47:31

do you think amara looks like something like that and do you think that

47:37

mr gas looks like something like that it means look at stargate's arm like that's pretty crazy

47:44

yes well um looking at this creature

47:50

can i assess like [Music] where it

47:56

would have ever come from is there any um

48:06

history religion arcana

48:11

come by any of those okay nature

48:16

okay all right i'm going with religion for the record okay uh and that is

48:23

a 23. a 23. [Music] so thinking back on everything

48:30

the this is sort of the thought that crosses your mind is this was

48:36

[Music] from what you understand a soul that was trapped in a crystal

48:43

that was then transferred to a corporeal body that was then forcefully extracted

48:50

and put into the body of a weaker being transforming that being

48:57

and making it into a grotesque thing that that then that that being was then

49:03

taken out of right [Music] this might not ever this series of

49:09

events might not ever have ever occurred before so we created this thing you created

49:16

this this from what kellic would understand this wildly unique combination of

49:23

a soul moving from non-corporeal to

49:28

corporeal to forcefully moving to another thing to having that thing then extracted it's

49:34

been through an insane series of events hard to place exactly if you there's

49:42

been something like this before it would seem there's a cast

49:48

to these things taking others as hosts for them

49:54

its soul is warped beyond recognition

50:00

how many possessed creatures are in this place right now

50:05

um three at least at least three yeah at least three that one

50:10

previously possessed the sheep and now it's just oh

50:15

i guess yeah doesn't make sense not to be a stickler i look apologetically everything

50:22

why and how well

50:29

is this what you are repairing well yeah this is this this was

50:34

something that i needed to fix i mean all of this these are the

50:40

remnants of your repair no right well you see it's a work in progress

50:45

yeah and we really have to go like way way further back if we want to get to the

50:52

get to the core of this issue but basically um the the quality thingy with the wolf

50:59

um they're trying to do it uh-huh they're trying to show chaos

51:05

right and so one of the ways that they're doing that is like trying to get these keys to these different planes and

51:11

they got caught trying to do that and so they were imprisoned into a crystal as just soul right and so then these souls

51:19

found ways to get out of the crystal because sometimes they broke and sometimes we broke them and sometimes you know there was a lot going on okay

51:25

it was a lot going on it was a lot and then they were just souls so they couldn't

51:31

just live as just souls so they had to possess things and one possessed a dead half orc one possessed an old

51:37

acquaintance of mine one possessed flynn you know it's just been a lot of things going around we don't really know how

51:45

many souls were in the prison crystals um so we also don't know the

51:52

real nature of the beings that uh the souls came from right

51:58

wait we might suppose they were servants of the red wolf at some point in history it

52:04

seems reasonable these chaos all they want yeah mostly i think they talk about it a

52:10

lot they talk about it like like any question you ask them they're like yes chaos i think that's kind of

52:16

annoying what is chaos even i mean it sounds like they killing and all kinds of things well they're causing

52:22

fighting right so like we think maybe they might be part of the reason why there's a big war going on like they cause the war no no

52:36

they instigated the war between the nations we don't really know the

52:42

details that's more conjecture on our part oh okay because they benefit from chaos right they want more blood more

52:48

violence and they want the gods to cease to exist conjecture but a reasonable conjecture i

52:55

guess you could say i'm still under the table

53:09

that some people have said the description i was just given and i just looked to seeker

53:14

[Music] dude wait welcome to the agents

53:20

this is what we do do you still want to do it that is a very good question

53:25

uh hi did you just mention keys yeah yeah like like keys that open portals to other planes

53:32

did we not see keys recently when we met 86 keys hold on

53:38

hold on go in my bag and look for the

53:44

i made some drawings some imprints not imprints drawings of keys

53:49

in that observatory so i'm gonna pull out these drawings of

53:59

yes i do thank you for reminding me yes and they there was a map there was a map and it

54:05

referenced locations no i remember northern caldor um some place called the

54:11

the dakir ruins where did you die we just we just came

54:17

from the care ruins yeah that's yeah that's right [Music]

54:28

i will show the keys okay um he holds up this piece of paper actually

54:33

i will show both okay well first first the keys holds up a piece of paper and it's got six keys on it okay

54:41

um flynn having handled it personally and having it in your possession

54:46

you see that one of the keys is exactly the one that you took from the dakir ruins i've seen that one before

54:53

you see a series of five others they look very similar in like the um

54:59

the initial you know almost like hilt part of the key um but the the unlocking mechanisms

55:06

very slightly oh my goodness where did you find those

55:12

we we were at an observatory um we were doing a different job what was

55:18

her name the professor uh professor markov yes what was the job

55:24

she could find some uh journals she had work stolen from her uh work uh revolving around

55:33

she's not sure they are related to this the keys well were they related have we read the journals

55:40

the journals you both had returned to the original owner who they were stolen from i don't think it's related but the keys

55:46

were in the observatory the professor's observatory it was sort of um like a rival situation like this

55:54

person had taken something from the professor so that they could obtain the knowledge and steal it and we were

56:00

stealing it back to give back to professor markov okay from which you stole

56:05

that re stole stole again that journal that's where you found this yes yes so maybe

56:12

so you guys have stolen something from there before well we stole things that were already stolen

56:17

that's not the point you have and i am slowly creeping up from under the table

56:26

i'm slowly creeping out and my eyes are just like wide so you have spin in there you've

56:32

infiltrated and you've stolen things from there before yes so you could do it again

56:37

well what else would be in there the keys we need to get the keys

56:44

where are there keys there secret thusly what you remember is you searched that place

56:49

top to bottom yeah um the etching of the keys was all you found related to the case

56:55

yeah so they i made a picture of a picture oh a big oh i thought that you might have

57:01

made a picture of the actual things no it was just an image and we searched the place top to bottom there wasn't any

57:07

kind of drawing or anything else other than the ones we have can i take a look at that

57:12

yes when you found the picture the origin the other picture my eyes have dimmed when you find the other when you found

57:19

that picture did did it say anything about them did it say anything next to the picture of the

57:25

keys [Music] i'll show the map and

57:31

and yeah you can see on the map it's got several points circled and you can see

57:36

what appear to be infernal words next to each of them flynn what does this say

57:43

can i put it up in front of his face oh um well let me see it and i'll take it from her and uh

57:48

look at it okay um you're looking at it and it is a very basic version of the map that you

57:55

have but one that spans the entirety of elbow um you see a circle

58:01

that is in the northern region of caldor it's sort of circling the venvil rise

58:08

and right below it in infernal it has the word air [Music]

58:14

you see one that is over um in the fray wood sort of uh the the

58:21

the islands to the east of the the main continent in elbor

58:26

you see a circle in the fray wood that underneath

58:31

it has the infernal word for water and finally you trace your finger over

58:38

to a circle that is right over the dakir ruins and underneath has the infernal word for

58:44

fire [Music] alright so this one says

58:52

air and i'll point to uh the northern one is that what it was yes and what was that around again that was around the

58:58

mountain range of uh the vanvil rise in northern cal door all right i'll point to that one this

59:04

this one says air uh and i'll go down to the one around the fray wood and i'll this says water

59:11

and then i'll point to the here ruins and this one says fire which kind of makes sense because the planes that

59:17

these keys open what we saw yeah um i'm looking at this rubbing that seeker took how many keys are

59:24

there are six total six okay and do they have what seems to be the purpose of this

59:30

document just um [Music] the the

59:36

do the keys have visual um idiosyncrasies or do they all appear kind of similar to the one that flynn

59:42

took from they all appear very similar in make but just at the end like the mechanism

59:48

that actually unlocks something varies a little bit so there are six different keys but look they're the same size they

59:54

look like they were made the same and this page for what you can tell looks like it's simply documentation in

1:00:01

the fact that this is the shape of six keys so if there are six keys why are there only three places circled

1:00:09

maybe that is all they found could be incomplete yeah what is the key do you have this key you found

1:00:16

i look to the team as if to like motion should we trust them

1:00:21

i i like i i shake my head as if to say of course

1:00:28

all right uh i will pull out the key in show seeker what is it made of

1:00:34

i don't know it's stone if i was it stone it was like a hot spot no it's a metal that uh it's it's a metal

1:00:43

but on it's got like these little red glowing flakes inlaid on it um very

1:00:50

similar to the one that hayfred gave you with the metal but it had white flakes

1:00:55

and laid in it and is it still warm to the touch i feel about it remembering that being a thing it is it's not hot

1:01:00

but it's it's just warm enough to where you recognize the warmth

1:01:06

you want to take a look at it yes hey free do you recognize any of these pictures

1:01:12

um and he looks them over uh not

1:01:18

ah not really well i mean

1:01:24

[Music] kind so in [Laughter]

1:01:30

in in the world there are there are different places that you can go

1:01:36

that uh sort of for lack of a better term overlap with

1:01:41

different material planes um i've heard that there are some places that you can go where those planes are a

1:01:48

little bit more overlapped um and what the the metal that i gave you all um sort of allows for

1:01:56

an a bigger opening but the metal that i gave you even though it allows it it's not really meant for a permanent opening

1:02:03

it's you know it's maybe a couple seconds to a couple minutes um what about this key

1:02:09

is this made for a permanent opening that key um and he looks it over and he inspects it

1:02:16

and his eyes roll back in his head and they like they start to glow this golden color

1:02:24

as he like for just like a brief second everything we all reach

1:02:34

almost cutting himself off in the middle of the sentence he stops like all of his muscles freeze as his eyes turn gold

1:02:43

and then his eyes rotate back and he continues his sentence and says um this just seems to be a more refined

1:02:49

version i would assume that you know if you take this um an actual refined

1:02:54

version of the metal that i gave you um if you took this to

1:03:00

one of these points it would allow not only

1:03:05

a much larger opening but one that's much more stable as well that could stay open for quite some time the metal

1:03:11

itself it'll open the planes but it won't you know won't stay open for that long and

1:03:17

there's variables for the the size and and the the stability of these things

1:03:22

whether or not you can actually even pass through them but even the one you gave us the practitioner used a deus uh a sort

1:03:30

of special room to open a portal they it probably needed assistance yeah

1:03:36

and it needed our life force it would probably require something like that maybe can't tell if the life force

1:03:42

was just a bait to get the creature to come out of the oh maybe that channel that they did oh maybe

1:03:49

dm do i remember accurately that there were stones referenced with each of the keys

1:03:55

in one of the drawings um no no no there were not specific

1:04:00

materials but theoretically take one of these uh

1:04:06

this metal that's been shaped into a conduit like this and take it to one of these points theoretically you can get a

1:04:11

portal open as big and as long as you want it to do you remember the name of the person

1:04:17

that you stole from did we learn the name

1:04:22

stole from or was it more target acquired sort of a situation

1:04:28

yes the second okay the second one um

1:04:33

agents of repair could you could you give me and seeker like one one quick second are you

1:04:39

trying to decide if you want to be an agent not really i just and i'm gonna like

1:04:46

turn like try to steer his shoulders so that we can just have like not fully away from the group like they could still hear us if they wanted to but i'd

1:04:52

like to just kind of take him aside if i can yeah for sure okay yeah this platform is

1:04:57

definitely bigger as we're walking i might say oh 86 do you know the name of the uh the

1:05:03

person that we stole from uh no but uh sorry to say i don't

1:05:13

hello hi to you [Laughter]

1:05:19

i'm looking very nervous like i'm looking after everything that's happened i look the most shaken right now

1:05:26

um are you okay [Music] we're gonna put a pin in that until later do you still have

1:05:32

yes that vial i was getting ready to ask you the same thing would i unfortunately have the inclination

1:05:39

that if we take it out we might part with it forever how do you feel about losing one of your trinkets

1:05:45

we still have the box right we do still have the box okay i think that we should ask if it was used and

1:05:51

what they witnessed also what is it called again i don't remember the name called benton glass benton yes okay yes okay okay okay so

1:05:59

let's go over and you you show them the file i'm just gonna be quiet um

1:06:04

as they were over there on the side and i'm standing with uh kellik and oma

1:06:10

oh right i'll point to my pauldron i give flynn a a an improving

1:06:17

smile i noticed that i did it congratulations great job and i'll hold up my arm

1:06:23

those aren't all your name are they then no oh hilarious only this one is

1:06:30

i can't read it i'm just asking a question i got a lot more stuff

1:06:35

and i'll go to my bag and i'll pull out the book i got this and it's got a bunch of spells in all right

1:06:40

i just got to figure out how to cast them they didn't really tell me that part they just kind of left the book and i

1:06:46

really didn't see anyone else so you need tattoos to cast spells yeah i'm not like you

1:06:52

oh that's weird it means one could say you're weird

1:06:59

i'm not covered in tattoos i know but you explode sometimes that third eye came out of your yeah and you go

1:07:05

invisible randomly well i mean that's just sometimes you accidentally banished beard hasta

1:07:11

yeah accidentally on purpose it helped us but it was yeah it was great yeah but i mean sometimes accidents happen

1:07:20

it seems to be the case huh yeah but yeah i need these to cast don't strike me as i said plan that the

1:07:27

iron light would be so strict so formal about combat training but not give you

1:07:32

the tools you need for casting your spells what do you mean well leaving it to your own devices to figure

1:07:39

out how to use the magic they've bestowed upon you well i figured it's about the same as the other two small

1:07:45

the first times i cast i learned from the book that i used to have and i'm assuming it's the same thing hmm

1:07:51

just seems i don't know kind of a double standard yeah they don't really hold hands yeah

1:07:56

well yeah unless they're got you in a headlock well that's that's kind of the point it's they want to make

1:08:02

sure you can do it on your own because i mean i'm supposed to be doing this on my own

1:08:08

does that mean we should all get pauldrons too you can try what is that supposed to mean you have

1:08:14

to sign it i did all the things though but i did all the things yeah

1:08:20

why can't i just have one i did all the things we can go ask a lot of people um

1:08:26

hold familiar's judgment and values and represent her purposes in the world but

1:08:32

they're not clergy of her grace you have to

1:08:38

go through some hoops yeah oh i understand hoops

1:08:44

there's a lot of training that happens yeah i get training too i understand it but also just

1:08:50

oh uh it's all right if you don't want to help us it's it's a terrible thing

1:08:56

really it's really annoying just go get yourself a bite to eat have

1:09:01

a grand rest your life just keep stealing things from professors it's totally fine

1:09:07

he wants to tell you show them show them the vile that is a whole different conversation

1:09:14

kind of look i look towards hayfree and hold up this vial with like a green dust

1:09:22

it's like a glass that seems like it's been pulverized there's not very much left just a very little bit and say

1:09:28

do you know what this is and i'll hand it over to him and he takes it and once again his eyes

1:09:34

roll back they start glowing should really tell us when that happens it freaks me out his eyes go back

1:09:40

uh yeah that's uh pretty good stuff i wouldn't mind having some of that uh

1:09:45

myself do you have any more what is it it's uh well it's called benton glass um it sort

1:09:53

of helps your mind to be in two places at once good with multitasking that sounds

1:09:59

unhealthy oh yeah it can be highly addictive can anyone use it

1:10:05

um yeah but it's highly addictive he just said

1:10:12

yeah highly addictive we'll lean over to destiny

1:10:18

he has helped us should we give him some we have a lot you can give him the vial

1:10:27

you can have the vile and yeah i don't mean to disrupt your active

1:10:33

generosity here but uh afraid on demand

1:10:39

from a lifetime of mistakes i i don't know no this stuff is

1:10:44

different no it's fine and he takes it and he he brings down another platform and he walks over to

1:10:49

the platform hey fred i i really don't know if that's a good idea it's fine jeez i haven't done enough for

1:10:56

you guys you have you have don't trust me okay i get it yeah you have a history of some

1:11:03

pretty grave missteps and i just think he holds it up and shakes it in front of you what do you think i'm gonna [ __ ] kill someone

1:11:09

with this i'm not okay so just calm down i think you might hurt yourself hey fred

1:11:14

[Music] i'm watching the two of them have this conversation how does hayford look like

1:11:20

i'm really trying to gauge hayford's character right now does he look like he might misuse it make an inside check for me

1:11:32

it's a 19. uh 19 uh he grabbed it with a certain speed a

1:11:40

certain urgency i'll let you do it that way you will noticing that i'm gonna look at seeker

1:11:46

and i'm just gonna shake my head one two three times as if to say do not give him any more

1:11:57

as this conversation debate is happening i'm going to attempt to use my invisible

1:12:04

mage hand to grab the vial he currently has it on his his workbench

1:12:10

and he's like he's actively using it yeah

1:12:16

hey hey freed yeah what do you like to multitask

1:12:21

doing using that oh my gosh there's so many things um

1:12:28

i mean the benefit of it is that part of your mind is sort of cast off

1:12:34

into sort of an upper level of existence

1:12:40

and the other part stays here tethered to the world and

1:12:46

so you can be doing things here within the world while your consciousness is also being

1:12:51

projected out and that grants you certain certain insights that might

1:12:58

help with uh spell casting invention uh all sorts of things

1:13:04

so when you're really excited to use it what do you want to do

1:13:10

i probably have to think about it um i mean there's maybe a half a use in here but uh

1:13:18

you know i'd want to put it to good use probably not going to use it right away but i'm going to try and think of

1:13:24

something good what about to get information

1:13:29

does it send your projected self to another plane in my understanding

1:13:35

correctly i don't even know where it goes um exactly but uh it's sort of like a

1:13:42

projection uh it feels like you're in two places at once well

1:13:47

maybe you can use it to solve your statue problem remember that's a good one actually

1:13:53

flynn was yeah he was talking to somebody else the guy who left here earlier

1:13:59

and and he fought something that does turn people into statues and

1:14:04

we were thinking that maybe some type of anti-venom venom or something could help to restore them

1:14:11

what was it called again flynn um and i'll pull up my uh bestiary and i'll flip through it

1:14:16

i think it's basilisk cause i'll try and find it is that what it was called yeah i'll flip to the page and i'll hand it

1:14:21

to hey free my book uh with my notes that i copied from zorkol maybe maybe you could

1:14:27

use this to to go to a other place and and think on that

1:14:34

[Music] um i that's certainly uh

1:14:40

better than you know any ideas that i had yeah that's that's a good that's a good

1:14:46

suggestion hey freed yeah

1:14:52

i know we just met but could i make a request since we just

1:14:57

gave you a nice little gift sure i mean i owe you one will you promise not to use that unless

1:15:04

someone you really really trust is here watching over you yeah yeah

1:15:10

i have one two three any of them and timmy and timmy who's timmy

1:15:16

timmy might not be able to let's say one of one of one of these three and you hear from you

1:15:23

hear from the platform that has the trees and the sheep on it um you hear

1:15:29

yelling over i don't want that kind of responsibility and you look over and you see timmy

1:15:34

who's like knelt down and he's got some like grain in his hand and he's feeding the sheep and like petting his head [Music]

1:15:41

oh he's not happy that's timmy there are um more children here than i

1:15:47

would have he's oh expected old is timmy young yet

1:15:54

looking at jimmy he's like 14. [Music] like

1:15:59

i personally was a child older to oma yeah

1:16:17

i'm gonna reach my hand out for for hayford to sort of clasp it and say i want you to promise me

1:16:27

and he looks around to mainly the agents of repair who are also

1:16:33

staring back at him and he like he rolls his eyes he goes over to

1:16:38

his platform he pulls out a piece of paper he pulls out a quill and some ink

1:16:46

he pulls out uh what looks like a large stamp

1:16:51

and he writes down the words i will not use the benton glass unless

1:16:56

an agent of repair is in my presence and he takes the uh the stamp

1:17:02

and he stamps it right into the middle and you can see the the edges of the page just very slightly begin to glow

1:17:09

he walks over and he hands it over to you and he says all right there you go wow that's that's so much more official

1:17:15

than what i was that's that's wonderful thank you hey free and i stole it away in my bag

1:17:21

thank you afraid yeah i would also like to know

1:17:27

if you saw any benton glass while you died or were sacrificed i'm still really

1:17:34

unclear this is the first time i've never seen it before okay well that's slightly reassuring

1:17:41

what does this have to do with um opening inter-dimensional gates that

1:17:47

could end the world don't know all right oh

1:17:52

we thought that was going somewhere [Laughter]

1:17:58

i am very quiet i'm just not saying it seemed important but who knows

1:18:06

we appreciate it sharing is is caring as they say well now that i'm back do we want to

1:18:14

talk to our friends let's figure out what our plan is here yeah what do we need to ask them

1:18:21

i have no idea um

1:18:27

well land has been gone for a few hours and has come back it's been a while we it already been a

1:18:32

long time it's probably getting towards evening time right like it's getting towards probably yeah you haven't been

1:18:38

outside but yeah best guess probably i don't know about you guys but i'm i'm kind of hungry i i think i think a dinner might

1:18:45

be nice yes kellie i don't know if you want to make your mushroom soup again but i would eat them really

1:18:50

yeah yeah sure

1:18:55

uh hey freed my user um yeah go for it are you hungry we can

1:19:02

make you some too no i'm good you don't eat i'm just not hungry

1:19:07

[Music] i mean technically you're not either true but i was hungry from before coming

1:19:13

in here okay and he grabs and he pulls the kitchen down you don't know how i'm feeling

1:19:27

um and i will set about making my mushrooms too okay i'm getting another beer

1:19:33

okay a big beer a human-sized beer i'm gonna um while they're doing that i want to go up to hayfreed

1:19:39

um at his little like alchemy adventure town

1:19:49

yeah okay he freed yeah that's so cool what you

1:19:56

did earlier where you made the south small and then you spent a lot of time focusing and making it bigger and doing

1:20:02

all the runes in the sky you're pretty cool thank you

1:20:09

so are you thanks you don't even know the half of it

1:20:14

though like you haven't seen like half of what i can do yeah i mean

1:20:21

sometimes things happen like they were saying sometimes things happen but most of the time it's fine

1:20:27

and xavier was teaching me about meditation and like sometimes it works but he's really got to be there with me

1:20:32

otherwise i don't i can't do it i just can't focus you know i can't ever figure out the meditation thing either man it's

1:20:38

so hard just to like sit silently for so long

1:20:46

my brain just starts like thinking i know so does mine what does your brain think about

1:20:51

well i mean [ __ ] is mostly you know thinking about if i'm doing the spell right um if you know if i do the spell

1:21:00

wrong what are the consequences um and you know maybe if i do the spell right uh like what are the other things that

1:21:07

could be consequences down the line of me doing actually the spell right there's just it's it's

1:21:12

it's the the way to the responsibility of it that's crazy i never thought to think

1:21:18

about what could go wrong i was always just thinking about like sometimes the sky is gray and the clouds

1:21:25

are so heavy feeling you know and sometimes they're so light and fluffy and that's really where my brain goes

1:21:30

most of the time i know and i mean you get people like uh

1:21:36

like your friend who you have to be calm all the time for everything to be okay yeah and i'm sorry

1:21:42

but that's just not how the world works right so how do you focus then to get

1:21:48

things done well what i

1:21:53

well come on come with me okay and he pulls down another platform um and it is a platform that has a bunch of books on

1:22:00

it uh flynn had been over there a couple times um but a bunch of bookshelves um tables with books piled high um

1:22:08

and he walks over to one of the the end tables and

1:22:14

table seems to be completely cleared and nothing on it and he reaches out

1:22:20

and flips open what appears to be an invisible book but

1:22:25

as he flips it open the pages make themselves visible and so you couldn't see it when it was

1:22:31

just sitting there normally but now that he's opened it you could sort of see these pages and you can see on

1:22:38

the pages he sort of looks around to make sure that you're the only one there and you can see on the page that he

1:22:44

flips to um there's there's a line at the top that says i will do good today

1:22:51

you see below that it says um i will do my best to not be evil today

1:22:56

and you see going down the line for life of a better term like these daily affirmations that's what daddy

1:23:03

goes through of things that he writes down to like remind himself of who he is and there's some like i am i am not that

1:23:10

person anymore um my past actions do not define me um and and goes through and he's like

1:23:17

he's flipping through and they're like pages pages and pages and like years worth of this stuff oh my god um

1:23:23

and he says this this always helps me when i can't really quiet my mind i just everything that's like rattling around

1:23:30

and like pushing on each other and and making a mess in my mind i just come and i just start writing and i

1:23:36

write down everything that i'm thinking of and then by the end of it i sort of read it back to myself and i don't know that brings me a sense of

1:23:42

calmness you want to try sure

1:23:48

and he flips to uh uh an empty page and he hands you over a ink and quill

1:23:58

i will not be mean to flynn today

1:24:04

it's a pretty good start [Laughter]

1:24:10

i will

1:24:16

make sure i don't banish anyone today that's a good one i will

1:24:27

not talk about kellex knees today weird but

1:24:34

i guess [Laughter]

1:24:40

i will um listen before i act

1:24:47

and he sort of pats you on the head and says i'm just going to leave you to it but what do you do when like you're in the middle of things and you don't have

1:24:53

time to write things down make a mental list

1:24:58

and that just helps you focus yeah helps me put uh

1:25:03

my fears and anxieties in perspective so like so like so like if i was in a

1:25:09

big bad fight like i was at the dickie ruins and i have to do something like

1:25:14

what you were doing earlier i should just make a list in my head [Music] at the beginning you can try saying him

1:25:20

out loud that makes him you know real in the world and that'll help me focus helps me

1:25:28

and that's better than just like telling myself not to think of anything and breathe and not think of clouds

1:25:37

yeah okay i'll try this okay whenever you're ready we're gonna be

1:25:42

over in the kitchen okay i'm gonna be here for a little bit longer i gotta think of some more things that i won't do

1:25:49

all right and as you continue writing these down um

1:25:54

you write down filling a page filling two pages and afterwards you sit there and you

1:26:01

read back everything that you wrote to yourself and you feel sort of a sense of release and you know there's

1:26:09

still a bunch of stuff going around in your head but now that you've put it down on paper there's sort of that feeling of like

1:26:14

you know it's manageable because it's in the world now and with that you level up

1:26:22

[Music] that's awesome um and after a little while oma gets to

1:26:30

the rest of you um kellic mushroom stew flynn um a big

1:26:36

thing at ale um thessaly as you were walking into the kitchen

1:26:41

what not what you asked for but what are you craving

1:26:47

um i would be craving sort of this like pot roast dish that i remember uh having growing up when uh

1:26:54

like my mother would cook and like sort of it would be like the full gamut like carrots and potatoes on the side that

1:27:00

kind of a thing all right and as you are um sitting there uh not exactly sure what to do as kellik

1:27:07

is making history i am presenting this it is the royal feast but i am just i am

1:27:12

so excited flynn's enjoying his beer and and you're just you're sitting there in a moment of

1:27:17

like sort of wondering what's going on as well as seeker not what are you asking

1:27:22

for or not what's what would seeker ask for what is secret craving in my head i'm thinking of a

1:27:28

bacon sandwich and beer all right and um

1:27:34

after a couple moments of both of you sitting there professionally you begin to

1:27:40

smell a pot roast seeker you begin to smell bacon

1:27:45

and another five minutes later um plates float over onto the table and present themselves in front of you

1:27:54

did you know it could do this i did no did you ask for that no i just

1:28:00

it's my favorite thing this is one of my favorite dishes

1:28:07

um i'm gonna take a bite and see what it tastes like going to eat oh boy is it

1:28:12

good you get chills along your skin just like mom used to make

1:28:18

as if she was there in the kitchen not going to life this is what the being an agent is then

1:28:23

maybe as i set the pot down on the table it has its upsides

1:28:33

i think this is the best meal i've had in years i i want i want to try the soup too i

1:28:39

don't i just floated in front of me i make like a like a no bother gesture but i

1:28:45

desperately you don't have to make an inside check want her to try this

1:28:50

i will uh hold my my beer out to seeker cheers juice

1:28:57

and as you both cheers um oma rejoins the group oh the soup is ready here you go

1:29:04

thank you caleb i just slide a ball over there so

1:29:11

there's six keys right well that we know five more keys we have one

1:29:17

of them yeah you know where three of them go i guess my

1:29:22

first question is how many yeah do the does the order have

1:29:28

right that's something to ask her our friends here let's get one get an answer to that

1:29:35

and well what's their big bad plan knows well

1:29:43

i guess we could ask that yes though i feel they might just be able to slip around

1:29:49

that by saying bring chaos to the world or something i think it does seem very vague if i were to

1:29:56

take a guess right you can tell me if this is completely off the mark but opening these gates

1:30:02

bringing the other planes here it would tear the world

1:30:08

if it was stable you could create even just

1:30:14

what i do with my own hands is is dangerous if i don't contain it if something like that goes on

1:30:22

tended to it could tear the world apart as we know it

1:30:27

tear elbow to pieces planes of fire and water and air exploding out across the country

1:30:35

um that sounds pretty chaotic to me yeah

1:30:43

so you want to take these keys go find these keys and then what put put them

1:30:48

here in this goopy void or destroy them yeah if we can

1:30:53

can can you destroy should we try to destroy this one right now oh should we not find out what it does

1:30:59

that seems weird

1:31:09

the weave apart to bring about the plane of fire what about this place can you not

1:31:17

hide it here yes but and i look at the various monsters that we've imprisoned here how

1:31:24

many dangerous things can you put in a place before it just becomes another it doesn't really

1:31:29

make a lot of sense to keep the keys with three of these people here

1:31:36

i think we keep them with us i think i don't think that's a good idea you're you're saying that these people and i'm

1:31:43

gonna point to where like the other two cages are they also have something similar inside them related to

1:31:50

this whole cult business uh-huh right yeah that one was dead

1:31:55

see the big hole in its chest it's really far away so it's a really small hole but yeah that one was a dead

1:32:01

with a dead person and then the other one never used to look like that he was like actually kind of skinny

1:32:08

and now he's got like big arm um but i used to work with him

1:32:14

he used to work with the big scary one well before he was big and scary when he was just like weasley and skinny and

1:32:21

kind of creepy [Music] oh i'm supposed to be nice

1:32:26

no i felt like that was an accurate description you're okay

1:32:31

so the plan is to get keys destroy keys

1:32:39

save the world [Music] well it's at least um at least we prevent

1:32:47

the plan that they have it's start it's a defensive strategy you know

1:32:54

power to me would like to give the outcast to stern talking to you

1:32:59

know i stand talking to it i take

1:33:06

a joyful spoonful of mushroom soup uh

1:33:12

i will raise my mug that's what i was thinking i was thinking of a mug of ale

1:33:19

look at destiny and insane destiny

1:33:26

speaking of chaos this group they are a bit chaotic yes

1:33:32

but i gather but i do from the little bit of time i've spent with them

1:33:37

i do think i trust them [Music] i definitely trust you

1:33:45

it sounds like something worth doing unlike most of my life

1:33:51

i've spent doing much of nothing some good but you know nothing

1:33:58

i think i want to try i'm certainly not going to let you run off and get yourself killed so i do not

1:34:05

want to die that is my one i don't think that's really i am not joining to die well we haven't stayed

1:34:12

dead yet so i don't want to try once um no promises it's kind of a dangerous

1:34:18

job it's about as dangerous the thing is i've ever done in my life this pursuit

1:34:24

i'm not afraid of danger um does everybody have a drink in front of him

1:34:29

i have a ball of mushroom soup could i think

1:34:37

could i think in my head to have a drink that they would like up here

1:34:42

and before the thought is even finished in your head additional cups come out uh and

1:34:50

kellick i assume room temperature tap water [Laughter]

1:34:58

wow just a touch cooler

1:35:05

um what are you feeling like yeah so it's like fizzy water with strawberries

1:35:10

okay and desolate be like um like a brandy sort of alcohol okay and they all slide

1:35:17

across the table oh i haven't had this in so long and it's not and i just put my finger

1:35:23

just on the tip of the water

1:35:39

what do you say i say i'll i'll follow you anywhere

1:35:44

and hit mugs to the rest of you agents

1:35:50

of repair shall we do what we can do not die and save the world repair the world i like that

1:35:58

taking each day in front of the other yes eyes forward

1:36:04

hi hi hi hi cheers

1:36:12

[Applause] uh thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see all again next

1:36:18

week bye nerds hey nerds it's ethan thank you so much

1:36:24

for listening if you enjoyed the episode please like share and subscribe on all platforms hey rodney um i got a couple

1:36:30

of quick questions for you yeah does ventureforth have a discord yes is ventureforth on instagram uh yeah check

1:36:37

how about twitter yep i mean they can't be on youtube are they on youtube absolutely on the youtube that's great

1:36:43

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

1:36:50

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

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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

1:37:03

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

1:37:09

you the opportunity to let you know oh man there's so much opportunity

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