Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya

and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

oh hey i'm march flynn omar

and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture

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forth

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previously you all had ventured across

borders

you guys had gone from the the nation of

ondale

where a massive river battle had ensued

and crossed the river

and entered into caldor some of uh

this being the first steps into caldor

ever

some um returning from this nation

you guys crossed the border and trekked

south

for quite a bit um trekking into this

marshy swamp land and eventually finding

path through the swamp you guys were

headed to blackpool where you guys are

trying to

discern where these crystals came from

their origins

and sort of what the story is behind

them you guys know a little bit of their

backstory but you guys are trying to get

a full picture

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you guys had traveled down this wooden

path these wooden slats rotting beneath

your feet

as you guys are traveling about six

inches above the waterline of this swamp

after traveling for a little bit the sun

set behind you

as the trees sort of uh took away the

light of the sun and this mysterious

fog began to roll in not seemingly

magical

but just very eerie and filling your

lungs with this

with this hot damp atmosphere

you guys finally arrived at the city of

blackpool but you wouldn't really even

call it a city it's more of a

ramshackle town with wooden buildings on

on your left and right everything

lifted on a platform about half a foot

off of the surface of the water to keep

everything

as dry as it possibly can but you can

still see that mildew and rot is making

its way into some of the wood

you guys got there and you guys

immediately saw

the ruins of this warehouse that

oma and and march seemed to know pretty

well you guys went over and

you guys searched through the rubble but

it seemed that everything was already

picked clean all of the

the things that you were looking for any

clues were already removed in this last

week since oma and march had been here

flynn had noticed a

old dwarf who was sort of posted up

in a doorway and as flynn went to go

investigate and sort of ask the locals

about what happened

he discovered that this old dwarf was a

sort of fortune teller

and that he knew things about the past

present and future

that normal people probably wouldn't

know

he went and he asked about uh some of

his

companions some of his family and some

of his his personal life

asking for reassurance of sort of the

things that were going on in his

personal world um but then once leaving

the

uh the confines of that room was scolded

by alma

for not asking about the task at hand of

the crystals

um but still when you guys all attempted

to go in

kalec was seemingly barred from entering

his vision going completely blurry and

being cast out

of this fortune teller's home you guys

then went

on um having your next clue being

at a tavern just down the way called the

hidden spade

tavern when you guys walked in you saw

two hooded figures

at the bar talking to a dwarven um

hostess

who was sitting behind the bar and

telling them that

she does not accept hollow guard there

so as you guys step in

the hooded figures are still facing her

away from you guys the bar directly

across the room from you

and she says i'll tell you again we do

not accept any hollow guard here

you have made enough damage to this city

and i do not appreciate you guys coming

through and picking through the

the bones and the rubble that is left

here so i would very much appreciate you

all leaving

and without saying a word they both look

at each other

silently nod their heads and turn

towards you guys

as you they turn you guys are right in

the doorway seeing this happen

what would you guys like to do they're

in the middle of turning

i would like to sneak behind trial okay

um make a stealth check

eleven eleven okay um

just sidestep just sidestep behind him

what are you doing back there

i don't see the problem they turn around

and their

hoods do not come up from the direction

that they're facing

uh i will step in front of uh oma

there's not much i can do for march but

i'm

at least going to like are we able to

see like their faces

or are we able to identify like what

they look like in any way

um kellik i'm gonna have you

make i'm gonna have you make a

performance check

um to sort of act nonchalant as you're

trying to hide this child

um and march i'm going to have you make

you're just trying to see if you can see

inside the hoods right

yeah like yeah make one reception remove

myself from

okay it's a 12. okay a 12.

oh and it's under the desk

oh hang on

a perception came out to 18. 18.

nice um so you look under these hoods

um and you see that

um you it's mostly covered in shadow but

you sort of get a good angle and you

look and you can see

a couple tufts of fur coming out from

one of the

um cloaks you can see this

white and black spotted fur

the the white is almost matted and

muddy and and almost turned brown but

you can tell that at one point it was

probably

white um and you can just begin to see

sort of a feline muzzle um underneath

sort of that

that iconic um cat-like nose coming down

into the bridge of a mouth you don't see

beyond the nose and the mouth though

on the other um hooded figure

you see something a little bit different

and

you see little like pieces of wood

coming down and forming the jaw and you

can see above that

a metallic upper lip sort of coming into

a metal face plate um

almost reminiscent a little bit of those

iron guards that you guys had uh faced

at the

um underneath the keep of or underneath

the tomb rather of

the red wolf um but it

this looks a little bit more polished

and

there it's more upright and it walks

humanoid than those other metallic iron

guards they were very

mechanical and moving in in very precise

patterns this looks a little bit more

fluid

as it walks um but

they they continue to walk and as they

walk

let me roll for these guys

okay as they walk um they probably would

have seen

alma if she was just hiding behind

shriya but with the addition of kalec

then stepping in at the last minute and

sort of making that extra cover

um they don't seem to notice you guys um

specifically as they

push their way past they don't even seem

take you guys into consideration as they

walk past

out the doorway and past your line of

sight

were we able to determine how tall they

were in any way oh yeah

sure were they as like tall as me

shorter than me anything um

one of them was uh if if we're taking

let's take kellik as sort of

uh uh height uh reference

one of them the the um feline creature

was slightly shorter

than kellogg and the one with the wooden

jaw and metallic face plate was slightly

taller

but only by maybe two inches at most

on either side you see marge

see how easy it was to just block

someone's view

huh just next time

i need that from you that's all you have

to do just stand there

say nothing don't make a fuss yeah

sharaya say

i'm nothing i'm going to actively roll

my eyes

at caleb and make sure that i emphasize

that i roll to an

umpteenth i can tell from your

expression that you're hearing what i'm

saying and i appreciate it

and i'm gonna uh make my way into the

tavern a little further

marge

yeah do you think they were looking for

i don't know but i think we should just

lay low keep quiet and

maybe get into this tower and just get a

room for a night

okay yeah how big

is this place dm um this is actually a

fairly

small tavern um it's only about

uh probably 20 feet by 20 feet

okay and it's it's made even smaller by

the numerous tables that are like

crammed into here there's like as much

seating as possible

trying to to be in here as well as the

bar coming off of the wall

it does feel a little bit claustrophobic

with the amount of stuff in here

um and who is the uh the barkeep that

was yelling at these

hologuard guys um yeah at this point you

see um

a dwarven woman um bright red hair

bright red beard as she is

um wiping the countertop at this point

sort of trying it looks like

she's like sort of in a huff about

these hollow guard coming in and it

looks like she's just trying to keep

herself busy with work at this point

uh i'll approach and uh um

say uh uh it's uh the afternoon

yeah is that accurate or is it like in

the middle of the

morning it's it's just cresting into

night actually

yeah okay yeah you guys that's my third

guess you guys

you guys had traveled for most of the

day to uh get to blackboard

good evening ma'am oh how are you

uh doing fine uh we've been on the road

a bit

uh we just arrived uh uh this evening uh

you're getting uh trouble from uh

hologuard

oh yeah uh excuse me about that um i

i've told them many times that uh

they can't come in here anymore they're

not welcome and they seem to persist and

persist

i uh that seems to be the i'll sort of

cast a glance over toward

my hollow guard compatriot they are uh

a persistent bunch uh to be sure

well i'm uh seems like you've uh taken

the right approach in reprimanding them

well i found that uh

beyond the intimidation that they bring

they can't really enforce too much over

here

um so i i try to uh just

sort of stand my ground some of the

other shopkeeps haven't really uh

uh gotten the uh the the wherewithal to

do it yet but i'm trying to

to keep him out of our uh keep them out

of our town

uh do they not uh

forgive me if this is uh too big an ask

we're we're just uh travelers so i'm

we're keeping everything at an arm's

length uh but

do they not have any stake in in the the

war going on is there not some benefit

for your

you know community here to have uh

ties with such an organization

well as far as i know hologuard isn't

really a part of

any sort of the military structure of

calder

they're sort of an independent

organization um and i know that they've

in recent months in recent years been uh

sort of

taken advantage of the distraction of

the war and

uh sort of doing their thing as they um

as they are pillaging and and stealing

from other people and

the war is is a good distraction for

that i would say

right uh that makes sense

uh uh we are uh my uh friends and i here

are looking for a uh

some lodging for the evening uh do you

have

uh rooms available oh we actually we

actually uh

every once while we get this question

and i'm afraid i'm always embarrassed to

say but uh

we don't really have much lodging here

as we don't get too many travelers but

i i always offer uh i've got a bit of a

personal quarters here as

some of my children have left blackpool

to pursue

whatever else they're uh pursuing out

there within the world their

adventurous hearts may be um and so i do

i do have some personal lodging that i

would be able to

afford you and uh perhaps a few of your

compatriots if if you would be

so willing uh

sure we uh we've uh we've

we've been roofing it uh i think uh

whatever accommodation you can provide

would be uh a value to us well i can't

say much about uh

my home but uh i do think it's better

than roughing it

very very little isn't um

while kellick is talking to this uh

barkeep

uh you said there's a lot of furniture

and

and setup in this house flynn will be

trying to use it

as like a distraction and try to look

for stuff he's not sure what he's

looking for

he just remembers hearing from the

fortune teller that this is where we

need to be to find like a clue

so he's like lifting cushions moving the

tables flipping through the books but

trying to like do it like

non-discreetly but trying to use it as

an opportunity to like see

there's maybe under this cushion and

just like looking around trying to

like moving moving stuff peeking being

nosy yeah yeah for sure

as you are moving around it's like it's

at the point where

you almost in order to pull a chair out

from a table you almost have to move two

other chairs out of the way in order to

get that chair out

um but as you're moving around make an

investigation check

all right i'll have

um alma will be making her way up to

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kellik and the tavern keeper okay i only

got a nine

i only got another one okay well

as you rolled a nine um actually

not that hard to find okay um as you are

looking around you're you're like

looking under there's

like these um these sort of uh

really rag tag pillows and

sort of cushions on each of these seats

and as you peel a couple of them up

um there's like crumbs and stuff and

the the pillows some of them seem to

have just gotten damp from

the atmosphere here in the swamp um

and you see a couple of them that are

you know a little bit newer and you're

like lifting these up and you're not

you're not finding anything

and as you look over to kalec for just a

moment you see past kalec

past the uh innkeeper or the sorry the

tavern keeper

and you see up on the back shelf um

she has sort of different bottles of

alcohols and different like dried food

items

cans and jars of dried fruit and dried

meats

and you can see one of these very

it looks like a very nice glass bottle

filled with

a dark alcohol perhaps a whiskey um you

see it's resting

on a vibrant purple

little pillow

um if i'm standing next to someone in

alma march shraya i'll give him a nudge

and just point at it

i think that's what we need

so um uh maybe alma because she's

probably my height if i can like

slide up to her to be like hey i think

that's

that pillow

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yeah i see it i don't know it's just

calling to me what

what you what do you want me oh do you

think that's the pillar

maybe it's better than these and i hold

up one of the ones

marge said it was purple but i don't

know how i'm supposed to get it it's

behind the bar

well let's get a room and we can talk

about it with the group

but she just said there's no room how

much are we uh talking for the

for the roma uh the the one rule i'm uh

assuming

uh that's available oh um

how much do they normally charge for a

room per night

hella

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how does uh

20 silver uh sound hey

sounds great to me uh then uh that'll be

what it is

all right um

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i saw that there's a bunch of um

like rubbish over in the corner what

used to be there

oh that used to be a warehouse for the

uh the banuk tribe

um they would bring uh shipments through

and this was sort of be a a waypoint a

stopping point from uh

mostly the uh the uh shipping through

kaldur

um before the war started i know that

they were shipping uh this was sort of a

waypoint for uh

shipping from country to country but

obviously that's come to a bit of a stop

after

um all of the fighting broke out so it

mostly takes things from uh

from outpost to outpost here in calder

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wow what happened oh there was a fire

um it was actually sort of an

interesting story because we don't get

too many fires here we

i know the whole town is made of wood

but uh because of the

the atmosphere here and sort of the uh

the wet nature of everything

um there's not too many fires that sort

of spontaneously happen so

um some of us have been talking and we

think it uh it was part of a shipment

um that came through and and there was

possibly some some

chemicals that were in there that mixed

the wrong way and uh

sort of started this fire but there's

there's really no way to tell now that

everything's

ash and everything else has been taken

away that sounds like a perfectly

reasonable reason that a fire might

happen sometimes

things just blow up

sometimes they do and and chemicals

you know alchemical ingredients are

absolutely

um combustible so sure

and between you and me i've heard some

rumors that uh

that caldur has been experimenting with

different

uh different chemicals and different

technologies

that could possibly do something like

this that's that's the word around town

though

oh caldera's experimenting yeah but

that's

all evidence of that has been for them

taken away yes definitely for the war

but all the evidence for that has been

taken away at this point

well did everything burn up in the fire

or or or did people get some stuff like

did you get anything nice

oh i was actually able to uh to get

something nice after everyone else had

uh taken everything away there were uh

some members of the uh the army of

kaldur who

came in and and i think they were

looking for something specific

but uh they they were sort of rummaging

looking for their chemicals they were

probably trying

they were looking for something specific

and uh they they took as much as they

could as sort of

i think partially evidence um to see

what had happened to it

um so they they they were sort of

shipping things away but

then uh after that the some uh some

of the shippers from the bannock tribes

started to come by and

you know they were they came by and they

were all in a huff because um the

the kaldur was taking away all of their

shipments and and everything

and uh they weren't taken too kindly to

that as uh their

their trade wasn't uh evidence for them

so uh they took everything that they

could uh back to they've got a uh

another warehouse just east of here

another warehouse just east of here is

this the the banok tribe

uh owns the warehouse is that what i'm

to understand

yes the banuk tribe has uh different

shipping outposts all over caldera doers

and uh actually they they actually have

some more a little bit in secret over

and on dale and ganbaldir

um and even even um a couple over

in uh the freywood uh i know that they

have one set up over in ilgaard

um but uh yeah they they transport all

over the world

what town is is is just east of here

where there's a warehouse

it's not a town i've never been to this

town it's sort of in the

middle of nowhere um you wouldn't know

about it if you didn't live here and

know that uh some of these members of

the banu tribe come by and

um request libations and and drinks and

and things of that sort

um so they uh they come by but uh you

wouldn't really know it if you didn't

live here

wow sounds super

super sneaky i'd say so they they use

this

uh this warehouse over here for uh more

uh general items um but i know that

they've got some uh

some some spooky stuff going over at the

the other one they've got uh it's a it's

definitely smaller and

so they they take their uh sort of

higher paying customers

uh and their higher security items over

to that one

wow and uh how do they get on with you

is it as hostile as the uh

hologuard or oh no not at all we've uh

we've actually come to

to have sort of a symbiotic relationship

um i'd say one of the only reasons that

this town is still afloat is because of

the trade that comes by

um and and the uh the money that flows

through from

the banuk tribe

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well i'm glad you guys are still here

all right so why i wouldn't know where

from the warehouse

i'm sorry what was that what did you get

from the warehouse

oh it wasn't much i just went over and i

was just sort of investigating around

and seeing what i could find see if i

could find any goodies

all i could find was this uh this little

uh sort of like a padded pillow

um i thought it looks kind of nice um

but uh

it's really not that much and she uh

what did it what what made you think it

looked nice

oh it just sort of looked like it was uh

made very well i i've got sort of a soft

spot for for a good craftsmanship

so uh i can tell my mother my mother was

uh an incredible seamstress um her and

my father would uh make these these

beautiful tapestries and textiles and uh

they uh they made all of our clothes as

children grown up so

um i i sort of thought of this and

thought of my parents as i

as i got it oh i love that i'd love to

see it

oh most definitely i have i have a

passion for

for a good seams as well let me go get

toria

and she uh walks over and behind the bar

she's got one of those um

sliding ladders that sometimes you see

in libraries

and she slides it over rolls it over to

where the pillow is on the bar and she

climbs up and she grabs it off of the

top shelf

grabs the glass bottle puts the whiskey

back down

and comes back down with the pillow puts

it on the counter

it says it's this one right here it's

got a little bit of a scorch um

but uh for the most part i think it's

it's pretty much intact

and you can see at this point it is a um

just uh probably about five

inches by four inches um this nice

little

pillow um you can see some scorch marks

in one of the corners where

it's sort of melted and been burned away

but it's got this nice

like golden filigree around the outside

of it

um are there any distinguishing marks on

um it looks like there's like the gold

on the outside sort of forms these

flower patterns

um but besides that it's it's a little

purple pillow

wow it's so pretty um and i want to run

my hands over it

over the pillow do i feel anything out

of place if i squish it just

a little bit do i feel anything inside

of it

um yeah make an investigation check

eight eight um as you are sort of

pressing into the pillow

um you sort of uh nick yourself a little

bit with a splinter that's been

sort of lodged deeper within the pillow

um just like this little

wooden splinter and and as you pull your

thumb away you you can kind of see some

of the wood residue on there

but besides that nothing unusual about

the pillow

ow i'll be careful i stick my thumb in

my mouth

um it's really pretty hey marge does

you know i think i've seen something

like this before does it look familiar

to you

wink wink wink

i'm gonna kind of just look over and go

as nonchalantly as as i can go

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um yeah yeah i feel like i may have seen

a few of those

and then try and go back to like just

blending into the background as much as

possible

you're large and green i don't think you

can blend or you're large with green

hair

i'm trying i'm trying we all watch as

march steps backwards

and bangs her shoulder on the door

i'm basically like trying what i'm

trying to do is i'm trying to like

observe like

pretend that i'm like into the

architecture of the place like oh i

really enjoy those crown moldings kind

of thing

like as making it so that i'm as

just not like as blended as like

as i possibly can try witnessing this uh

strange behavior

in front of him uh and has also been

sweeping little like droplets of

mist and building like moisture and

like flickering his feathers uh and

just trying to keep as dry as possible

uh has been waiting patiently but

his patience is starting to wean and

suddenly bellows forth after all the

niceties i don't know if i've been able

to hear any of the niceties but

is our business here almost commenced

i grew tired of this desolate decrepit

place

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very loudly by the way

i uh give the

give the bartender a coy look

and just say don't mind him he's been on

the road for

for a while with us he's just just tired

knackered bit hungry you know i

understand that

i've actually got some food prepared if

hey uh

mr bird would you like some food or

possibly some drink

hi mr bird what you think i

who i sort of walk forward

i do have a name what's your name uh my

name is

angela nightborn greetings i'm shriya

how do you do what's your name shraya

very nice to meet you shraya

you wouldn't happen to have uh you

mentioned food i

wouldn't happen to have uh uh

things that grow on uh in bushes or

anything raw

like berries i'm always on the hunt for

new berries

oh uh oh we do um i could get you some

some berries we've got uh a couple

um uh baskets of vegetables in the back

that uh

were actually just brought in the other

day um and

as as far as meats go we've got some

fish

that were caught locally if you would

like to take part in some of that

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sharia they have fish i mean i mean i'm

sorry mr bird

they have fish i grow tired of the

ah this one's going to stick isn't it

and i look forward and i look back and i

say

all right

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let's take a look at what you have to

offer and i you'll be compensated fairly

for

your wares and your anything that we

partake in

well yes right that's that's usually how

ordering food works

you pay for it right right

well i'm not hurting for much of that

after my recent exchange

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that's that's you also do that with with

your currencies and the

worlds of the earth walkers right you

it's fun to brag about it i've i've seen

oh yeah yeah yeah

i've seen people you're doing great okay

good good yeah

you're you're killing it great

alma take your tom out of your mouth let

me take a look at you and i'm going to

kneel down my mouth i'm going to kneel

down

and and uh take her take her hand and

look and

sort of casually look at her thumb

uh but i'll say sort of under my breath

what's this pillow all about what's

what's going on with this thing

well i think the pillow is what we were

looking for in the warehouse

we were looking for the purple fabric

from a pillow because that's what the

crystals we're lying

on in the box so the

pillow will help us find the origin of

christmas no the pillow is basically

nonsense because there wasn't any

symbols on it but

now we know that the box existed i was

just hoping there'd be like

a symbol on it something that would

guide us to the next place but

but really i think we should just go

east to the other warehouse and maybe

there's another

prison cube maybe another pillow right

yeah maybe another pillow but i i really

don't think you're understanding we

don't need the pillow

damn i'm just gonna look at the pillow

when she says i can find any symbols on

it do i recognize any

anything from it it's just it's just a

purple pillow with some nice embroidery

um you can make an investigation check

if you would like

i would like

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natural one

nothing on the business nothing on the

pillow it's a nice little pillow

i'm telling you kelly we don't need the

pillow it's just let her have it i don't

i don't want the pillow it's just at any

point after i've walked up do i hear

them say the word pillow even though

they're speaking under their breath

um how loud are you guys trying to keep

this conversation a secret

we're being pretty quiet yeah okay yeah

you he's he's leaning down to my thumb

you would not have heard that no okay

but it was very clear that that she went

up and there has been a pillow exchanged

uh but you don't hear their conversation

next necessarily

um i don't know if it's possible but at

calyx

mentioning of alma's name i would like

to have quickly like

used my foot to sort of like kick his

shin at mentioning

her name out loud um in an effort to try

and like

get him to understand in any way i don't

know if this

but to get him to understand and not say

her name are you dashing across the room

like trying to like observe things but

if that was in any way possible if not

then it's fine

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yeah i'll say you could you could have

eventually wandered over

and done that yeah

and kicked a [ __ ] and kicked a shin yeah

i just really wanted can i go

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she just kicked her shin and it kind of

hurt

what the [ __ ] march oh that was harsh

um well angela that's a very nice pillow

and i love that it's on display

behind the bottle because then it kind

of like gets bigger if you look at it

through the glass like it kind of blows

up and it's huge that's exactly what i

was thinking i'm glad you spotted it oh

my goodness

yeah it was it's really you've got an

eye for design and i look around and i

look at all her cramped furniture and

i'm like

man thank you i tried comfortable in

here i try

well um if you don't mind i'm going to

go back and uh get some of that food

prepared for you

oh that'd be wonderful um um yes

food all right and she

steps behind the bar and sort of walks

into a back room

and uh disappears out of sight for a

couple minutes um is there anything that

you guys want to do as she's

away is there anyone else

in this bar right now there wasn't um

yeah as you look around there are

um actually two pairs of people um

there were um there was a pair of drow

sitting right out front and then there

um another pair sitting off in the

corner

um there are there are two dwarves um

that are sitting in the corner

how far away are they from us now if

like if i've kind of done like a wander

around the room and it's sort of

migrated back

to a place where i can kick kayla you

would be how far are they gonna be

about in the middle of the room you

would be maybe 10 feet away

okay then i would like to turn the caleb

and as quietly as possible go

i'm kicking your shin to tell you to not

use your name you should consider

using your words to tell me that instead

of kicking me in the [ __ ]

yeah well according to you i'm just

supposed to know when you know shit's

happening and when

you're hiding from people and you're

supposed to understand what i'm telling

you to not use your names

i don't think that's a fair comparison

but i'll

be closer not to say the name anyways

why don't you just call oma olga and you

can call me like

i don't like that name is a headiest

name march i

i i think if you're gonna make up a name

for oma i feel like it should be

a nice name oma what name would you make

up for yourself

omar

i would like to just kind of have like

the most like

i love her kind of expression over my

face at her

responding to that of like

and she comes back out with a with a

tray um and she puts it down on the bar

and you could see

um on one side of it is

like some mushrooms that are very

obviously local um as sort of like these

um like soggy and and sort of

mushy mushrooms and um

vegetables and then um in right next to

them you can see some

brighter more fresh vegetables that you

guys are more familiar with like carrots

and uh some zucchini in there as well

and then right next to that on a plate

is uh two fish one of them is cooked

and one of them is raw and she puts it

down

and she says um and looking at

shraya and she says um i don't know how

you like your your fish cooked

so i gave you some options um is this

all right for you

i like it cooked not at all thank you

and i sort of grab the

the raw one and immediately just toss it

in the air and catch it very

intuitive of you angela

well um sometimes i like to go out and

feed the birds

um in in sort of the back so um

i figured out you are used to having pet

birds

i wouldn't call them my pets but uh i

i'm used to having them around

no they are my uh

there are things uh i share certain

traits i am aware

that i share with other beasts of this

world

and

[Laughter]

i would prefer from this point forth

if you would call me by my knee right

okay thank you

you're not a bird well yes that is true

i am uniquely me

well um i've got some bed set up in the

back and um i don't really know

about any hay and twigs

as she looks to shraya am i am i getting

that right oh i would be uh

save your troubles um

i refuse to sleep in a place like this

no offense

or anything uh it's just a little bit

too

what's the word ah tight i like uh

i will find something somewhere that is

not here but on the bright side that

leaves uh

more space for my companions

all right well that's your prerogative

so uh

um if if you all uh would like to sit

down and eat i can show you the rooms

afterwards

that'd be great thank you so much angela

it's fantastic i just have an expression

of like eyes

wide dumbfoundedness that's all scenario

and uh yeah she goes back to cleaning

the bar

um what all do we see in front of us

other than the vegetables and the fish

vegetables and fish any bread any no no

bread no bread

um i'll stick my finger into the squishy

mushroom

and push it all the way down yeah it's

just like sinking

i have some additional gunk on my finger

and i'm just gonna sniff it does it

smell okay

um make a constitution check

really good um

19. nothing worse than things you've

eaten before

okay i'm going to stick the finger in my

mouth and taste it it's food

cool i'm going to eat it okay

this is really not that bad he's not

that bad guys

during the uh during most of this uh

flynn is has probably sat down

on one of the couches and had pulled out

his his book that he got during the

trials

and was just kind of flipping through it

and just kind of reading and

in just as clarification in this tavern

area there

it's it's all just wooden um wooden

chairs and tables

some of them have like little um pillows

on top of them or like little

seating cushions um there aren't

necessarily any couches or anything it's

all just like wooden

tables and chairs just as rough okay no

worries so he was probably just

sitting he probably put one of the

pillows on top of his lap sat down in

the chair and had his little

book out and was kind of like flipping

through looking at different

uh scrawlings and drawings and sketches

and just looking at it and then

absolutely when she says there's food oh

oh man i am hungry and runs over and

grabs a mushroom is this

is this okay are you sure um

yeah okay i don't know

take a little nibble make a

constitutional

okay oh

that's pretty good um and a total

out

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that is a 19. we did you got a 192 right

oh right yeah um it smells kind of gross

but

you'd definitely be able to to eat it

it's not like you would have to

fight it going down but you would you

would be able to eat it not bad

and i'll start eating with all my and

just kind of sit down next time to start

chowing down on mushrooms the plate of

fresh

vegetables untouched i'll eat the

vegetables some of the fresh vegetables

i'm mixing

smorgasbording it okay cool is that

second cooked fish still there yes it is

i would like to look at kalec and

kind of like give like a

would you like half of a fish you hungry

i if you're don't take this the wrong

way marge but

you're a big lady you might need the the

fish for

for yourself you know every time you

tell me i'm a big lady it's the biggest

compliment you've ever given me

i really appreciate it would it be a

bigger compliment than the last time i

gave it

it just it just warms my heart and soul

every time i hear it

and then i'm genuinely gonna just start

like digging in and not

a very

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dignified manner all right you uh eating

this fish you're

scarfing it down you're getting a couple

bones here and there but you're hungry

you don't care

more calcium more calcium exactly

i'm i'm just pecking at the vegetables

like a bird

eating it very very slowly calmly

okay um now having eaten um

uh angela comes back out and she sort of

ushers you guys into um the

back room behind the bar you can tell

that this is like

very informal as she's leading you sort

of behind the bar

area and through into the back where she

has just like a little

tiny kitchen area um and you can see

like where she's got a different fish

and some vegetables a lot of which you

just saw on your plates

um and then through that room she takes

you guys up a flight of stairs

into sort of the upper home area um

of this tavern and um she says

so um you've got uh one room on your

left over here and then one room on your

right

the other room on the right is is my

room um probably not

uh suited for you guys all at this point

um i

apologize it's a bit of a mess but um if

you want to take uh

each of the kids rooms you all are more

than welcome to

thank you that's really kind of you you

sure got an

empty nest huh oh yeah the uh

the children sort of flew the coop um a

couple years ago

as they had more adventurous hearts than

i did um

and uh you know as as a mother what can

you do but

uh sort of encourage that that spirit

within them

absolutely what are your children doing

oh well one of them has uh traveled up

north um

and they uh they're mining to sort of as

they put it find their fortune

um in the mines up north um and then one

of them

actually um just went down south um and

i believe

he's sort of in a bit of a party

just as as you all are um sort of out

there and adventuring within the world

and

finding new corners um of elbor and uh

discovering new places that have never

been discovered and

and all that he is always growing up he

always uh

just went around town and was trying to

find new little insects and new little

animals

and so he was always drawing those down

in his notebook and and so

wow i believe that that's probably what

he's doing for most of his time is

is uh wandering the world with other

people and finding new

plants and animals and and documenting

what he can

well maybe we'll cross paths with him

what's his name

uh his um he's my oldest um his name is

oxian oxy and niceborn that's a

wonderful name and then my youngest is

his name is uh baalfam i sure do hope

we've meet them

i do too um you never know where we're

gonna travel if you could tell them that

i say hi

if you ever come across them tell them

that i say hi um

that would be that's right i will i'll

say your mom says hi and i slept in your

bed

might be leave out that second part but

most definitely okay

oh and since you all are uh the

adventuring type

um going about just from what i heard

from from

the drow over there um

would you be able to just carry

something on your person that if you

ever come across them to

give it to them oh

well sure here i mean it depends on how

heavy it is but

oh not heavy at all not heavy at all and

she sort of sprints away for a second

you can hear some rummaging down in the

kitchen

as like jars are being knocked over and

you hear like a glass plate

fall and hit the ground and shatter and

uh she runs back up

and she says so i've got um these

they're uh sort of like um candy

pastries um

but they they stay good for quite some

time and i i would always feed them to

them as kids and

they love them um so here i've got two

of them

um just on the chance that you meet both

of them um

going about your journeys i want you to

have enough for both of them and she

hands you these two

sort of long um leather

um like hide bags and

you can see within them um they've got

like these little

um i can best describe them as like

these bread sticks with sort of like a

chocolate

coating on the outside um and there's

like little pieces of dried fruit that

are also like

within the chocolate and she says yeah

i make these um all the time and and i

had them

uh for them as as they were kids and

they love them so i if you ever come

across any of them as small chances that

may be

elbow is a big world um i would

appreciate you giving this to them

i would love to oh wow um

what happens if i never meet them and i

just have these breadsticks i mean

is there a certain point when they might

go bad like is there a point where i'm

like oh no

we haven't met them and these are gonna

go bad in a week maybe i should eat them

you could bury these in the ground and

come back 100 years later and they would

still be exactly the same

wow okay so i'll just carry them forever

yeah it's a family recipe it'll be my

little piece of you

that i can carry with me forever that

was actually my mother's recipe as uh

as her and uh my father would travel the

world and uh

sort of sell their their textiles and

their clothing

um all over the place and and going from

town to town and city to city they

they needed uh some sort of snack in

between that wouldn't go bad

so this is what they came up with and

i'm proud to pass it on to to my

children and to

hear all of you

well i'll carry them forever unless i

meet them in which case i'll give them

to them

i would very much appreciate that in the

hearing of the souvenirs and such flynn

pipes up

um you said stuff that we can take from

blackpool that's

local to here is there anything that

one might procure to hold on to and not

have to give to someone else is there

any type of blackpool

shop um i don't

we don't really do much of that here

within town we sort of keep to our own

the only import and export that comes

through here is

through the banuk um but um

i i don't really know are you looking

for like a souvenir yeah

yeah we don't really we don't really

have a gift shop if that's what you're

asking about

man all right well thank you and he'll

kind of go back put his nose back in his

book

keeps looking keep slipping okay

um well you've been so very kind to us

angela thanks so much um what do we owe

you for dinner

oh well let's just call it uh oh let's

just say

10 silver pieces wonderful so

i will hand you ten times i gotta enjoy

quickly leans over like takes out some

some of the it's on me tonight and like

uh you're not even gonna sleep here

oh i guess it was for dinner never mind

go ahead you do you

and uh and i kind of like look back

and through my beak i kind of crack it a

little bit and try to like

seem cool in the most uh

angela if i might trouble you just a bit

further

anything i do have to say i i i need

to get back down to the bar in a few

moments um but yes

uh just uh we

we uh uh as we sort of you know looked

around

uh town when we came in uh we took no to

the burned down

warehouse and uh and there was a strange

sort of purveyor of uh of mysteries

if you will uh an old uh dwarven man

uh are you aware of this fella

near that uh the burned down warehouse

oh yes you're talking about uh uh dolman

oakfoot

um he's been here for quite some time um

he sort of moved in after

the war broke out um as this was sort of

the only real uh

respite um as this you know it's a swamp

you can't really

have a strategic position here in a

swamp um so he came in here

um and he started living here a little

bit uh

after the the war started does he does

he do

work for the people here does he

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help the uh sick or uh

you know get do a kindness uh for

uh injured folks

um yeah yes he uh that's funny that you

bring that up

um he every once in a while when someone

gets sick he uh

he helps heal them and bring them back

to sort of their better self

and then you know minor cuts and bruises

and scrapes and broken bones and things

like that he can

he can take those away as well

that's as i suspected uh

does he wear a symbol that you know of

no i i've never seen a symbol of any

sort

i uh and just one final question

does blackpool do other people here do

they have a

an opinion on the war as as a kind of

neutral territory

do you are you troubled by it is there a

general feeling towards us

well um the war has definitely stopped

more of the trade coming through and

more of the travelers

as you can see around you over the last

30 years this sort of place has sort of

gone to hell a little bit

um and uh we don't really have the money

anymore to

to keep up all of the things that we

used to over 30 years ago

um so you know the war is

is a sad truth for us now um nothing

much we can do about it

either way um but uh we we are

we fall within the borders of calder um

for the most part we all accept the new

gods

as sort of our lords

right that that makes sense

i i thank you for your time and uh and

for all of your

help you've offered us so kindly all

right you're welcome

if you don't mind i'm going to step away

uh not at all

and i'll uh under my breath as she as

she walks without

may the light

and i will make my way into one of the

rooms

all right um as you guys make your way

into these rooms uh

minus shraya um you guys uh open the

rooms

and they look like kids rooms that

haven't been touched

in quite a few years um all of them

like very dwarven sized obviously

um march you're a little bit

disappointed at the the size of the beds

as these are

not only dwarven beds but like dwarven

children beds

um and so they are definitely very small

but

each of these rooms is definitely big

enough for you guys to stay in

um you guys look around and in one of

the rooms

the room on the left you walk in and you

can see

a wooden toy chest that's open and it's

got all these little

wooden um figurines and little like

metallic

some of them are like made of iron

depicting you know different

um dwarves and like very various

positions you see a couple of dwarven

soldiers

um and they're just like these little um

wooden and iron figures um

and uh yeah you see a couple of toys

with like little wheels on the bottom

and uh yeah this chest is is open

and in the other room you see books

stacked on books stacked on books

um all of these looking like sketchbooks

and as you guys walk in you can see like

loose leaf papers on a desk

in the corner and like half done

drawings

um you see crumpled up papers in the

corner

where drawings have been cast aside as

they weren't good enough

and you also see in an open book on that

desk you can see different flowers

and different like small insects that

have been sort of pressed and inlaid

into the paper

itself as sort of like a um

living documentation of these creatures

mostly like flowers and stuff but every

once well there's like um

some like loose butterfly wings in there

as well

that may have come from a deceased

butterfly or

you know a feather here or there but

that's that's what you see in these

rooms

uh flynn did you stay downstairs or have

you come up

um i think i was up there

flipping through the book and just kind

of standing next to the group and i

probably walked into the

rooms um but is shraya not with us now

he walked away to the remind me there's

a back door that he walked out to like

stay in the back

is that right yeah i i we haven't gotten

them yet

okay but yeah i'll probably peek into

the rooms and be chilling in them yeah

i'll just point to the sketchbooks and

saying hey flynn

maybe uh some uh time to to study more

than magic

hey oh um yeah and i'll close the book

and kind of walk over and

look around at some of the sketches pick

up some of this stuff and

draw a very quick image of kellik

on the page give him a thumbs up

make a slight of handshake sure

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10. 10. um

kind of kind of resembles kalec um it's

definitely not anyone else in the party

that's for sure i still got it

hell yeah you got the bandaged arm right

so i'll give you that much

yeah yeah okay

so i'll take it go go sleep

but um tomorrow

we check out the other warehouse the ace

is that right

to the east in a hidden place

maybe we'll find it might be a long trek

is that all we know we just well we just

want to go east

do you think that angela might have a

better sense of where to go

would she seem to know i mean she said

that people in that town tend to know so

she might tomorrow she might be able to

help us find a guide

um i don't know how secretive we need to

be about the fact that we're going

though so that's up to you

i'm so tired you can't go asleep

goodnight

i'm gonna go over to the room on the

right

and jump on the bed and then jump into

and fall asleep it's probably the

perfect size perfect size for you

um after drawing a

beautiful picture of kellek i will look

around and notice

try is not here and remember that

possibly

he's not sleeping in this area and i'll

turn to kellie hey um

did they did did they say shraya is

going to be going out back or

out front or where is he going is he

staying outside he made a big fuss about

not wanting to be in here uh so

i'm gonna go look for him and i'll come

back later and come

crash in one of these beds and i'll

point to one of them i call that one it

might be cause for concern

uh i definitely would like to

be looked after yeah who knows i'll go

look for him

but i'll be back all right and i'll head

out look for tryout

i take the bed that flynn

[Laughter]

okay uh i'm gonna lay out a bed roll

next i'm gonna follow all my out of bed

roll

kind of if i'm able to just on the floor

sort of

a couple feet away from the bed and just

kind of

crawl into it okay um flynn you're going

to see where shraya is right

yeah i'm going to try and locate him

because i was i'm mainly also looking

for an area that's

secluded that i can mess around with

some stuff

okay um shery where would he find you as

he comes downstairs

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uh not in the structure uh i would have

after they went toward the rooms uh kind

of left with a snort

gone outside and started to look around

remind me

uh the kind of like bog swamp like area

we're in

are there are there any trees at all in

this area oh yeah the entire thing

there's like a ceiling

of like tree branches and everything

reaching out above you

um you can barely see the sky where you

are

okay so in that case i would have after

everyone left

uh started the process of like looking

toward the treetops looking for trees

with

uh branches that kind of shoot out and

trying to

uh scope out which one might have

which which trees might seem to be like

closer together whose branches like

inter-interlock at all

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okay make a nature check

this is like totally not your element

this fog

is is especially now that it's night

this fog is starting to roll in and you

can't really see too far

um you look up straight ahead and um

you it just seems very thin all around

and you can't really

see what you're looking for i'm gonna

like pace around grunt

and uh just frustratedly

keep like walking through the town uh

and look for someone to talk to that

might be able to help me

okay um as you are

looking around um i'm gonna say flynn at

this point you uh

you exit the tavern and see shraya just

kind of looking back and forth looking

for people to

to you know talk to maybe oh kind of

notice kind of wave

tria what are you what are you doing

we have rooms inside short one

ah i need to find yes um go walk up to

him

i'm trying to find a place to sleep i

cannot stand

can't be on the ground anymore it's so

wet down here

oh well maybe i can help

um and i'll look around and see if i can

notice like

i don't know um i would look for

this is gonna sound crass but a place

that they would maybe keep

animals um maybe because they would have

actually bedding and like areas to stay

um knowing looking around seeing that

there's a bunch of swamp lands and

stilts

it looks like maybe there's not going to

be anywhere to sleep unless there's like

that kind of situation could that would

be an outside area that you we could lie

down

um yeah make a perception check for me

okay

uh 16. you look over and you see

actually up sort of in the trees um

there are a couple of these massive

cages

hanging from the trees um that are like

almost like this wire mesh and you can

see sort of these little habitats of

birds

um flying in each of them as these are

like bird cages

um but beyond that you really you don't

see anything you see if you're looking

for like places to sleep outdoors

um you look at in center of town um you

see once again

that um statue of a

dwarven man um sitting sort of on a

throne with

a staff in one hand and you can see that

there are

um four benches sort of surrounding the

base of this statue

um well after looking at the cages and

being like no no nope

uh i'll notice the statue um we could

maybe

crash on those benches over there try

what about that

benches where what benches right there i

do not see them we can maybe put like

our bed rolls on them and i'll stay out

here with you i mean i don't want you to

sleep alone

no you sleep wherever you want i'll be

fine

okay let's sleep out here with you but i

do want to try something first

okay i will look around for an area that

is kind of

secluded and open uh that i can okay

mess around test some things if you just

walk to the edge of this

town um it drops off right into the

swamp you can

do whatever it's as secluded as you can

get are there any dry patches of land i

don't want to do this on one of the

bridges made of wood

i want to do this on solid land are

there any areas of land that i could

stand on and do this

looking out you see um a couple places

right off of where this town ends um

where sort of a little bit of land mass

comes

up and arcs out of the the swampy water

just sort of making a little bit of a

land you don't really know how dry it is

um but those are there a couple of them

every here and there yeah i'll head out

over that way

um try it come check this out i think

it'll be pretty cool ah

all right you know make my whale hop

hop off the the

stilted wooden ladder uh walkways and

kind of land on that little

s i'm assuming squishy land landmass

yeah and uh for sure yeah your your feet

sink right into it but it doesn't get

any higher than your ankles

but your feet definitely like squish

right into the mud cool i will

um pull out my my little book that i got

during my trials

okay flip to the certain page look at it

one more time

close it almost set it down on the

ground realize that it might get dirty

and

take the time to put in my bag put in my

bag and i'll

uh pull i'll take my hand and my fingers

and i'll rub them together

um similar to when i tap my sword with

the

waves of energy um but instead i will

attempt to

lift my my leg up my right leg up and

tap the side of my calf

and transfer that energy into my calf

and i'm gonna try and stomp down

in an outward motion and send that

energy outward

okay i'm gonna have you make an arcana

check

oh 15 plus 4 19.

hey okay as your foot makes contact with

the ground

you want to describe what happens um

yeah is it completely successful it is

successful oh geez

completely successful okay um well

i stomped down and you see that energy

in my

like resonating around my calf kind of

um expands outward um in a 15-foot

uh kind of square cube out away from me

and this this energy kind of just pushes

out that way i guess maybe if i'm aiming

at a tree it kind of

runs into the tree a little bit and uh

just like

like a shock wave kind of outwards

everyone who is up in your nose

up uh either sleeping in bed or just

getting ready for bed

the entire structure around you just

sort of vibrates like

the the smallest earthquake that you

could feel just sort of

vibrates around you for a second and

then calms back down

i'll turn this right whoa i didn't think

that was gonna work did you see that

what are you doing i mean it's in the

book but it's like i mean i was looking

at it all day but

i mean it's farther later on i didn't

think i'd be able to do it but oh my

gosh i did it

whoa um oh i'm tired man whoo

and i like kind of dropped one knee

after doing that and be like i'm

beat i was tired before your

display

flynn um as you sort of dropped to your

knee you realize how tired you are and

you have one point of existence oh no

okay that makes sense um yeah

so although you did give me an idea

oh uh are we how close to the statue are

um you guys the the statue is at the

center of town and flynn is like

beyond the borders of the town oh um so

you guys are like

probably a couple hundred feet away uh i

look back at the statue

and then i gesture to the statue and the

benches

say um seeing that that is one of the

few areas with

stone it's a stone statue right it is a

stone okay

i think i might be able to craft myself

sleeping accommodation

uh and uh

would you like to see um yeah definitely

can i sit down though i'm

gonna i'll carry you and i

started as usual i as soon as i hear

that i hold my hands out

in that t position ready for a pickup on

the shoulders and

i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna swiftly just

dart up and then swoop down toward the

toward the statue to make it quick

okay um you guys are both at the statue

at this point i will sit right down on

the bench

i'm gonna attempt to uh

druid craft uh some rock crest

vines that are gonna go from

the stone statue and then over

to one of the benches grow in and sort

of create like

a basket effect between them if this is

possible

uh between the statue and the bench

like yeah like for sure so you you sort

of take a couple

deep breaths in and um like sort of

center yourself and this place is

totally unfamiliar to you

but you reach out to that nature around

you just like that

core of nature and plant life and

you are able to um there's there's like

little growths of like moss and little

plant life

on the statue itself it looks like it

probably hasn't had a deep clean in a

while so there's like

little plant growths all around it and

you reach out to each of those

and they grow and expand and

as if hundreds of years of growth is

happening all within five seconds

um these vines then reach out and create

this this perfect little hammock for you

ah hoped that would work

hey that was that was pretty cool um and

at this point flynn's

lying on the i'm just lying on the bench

just

almost passed out yeah that's pretty

it's pretty great

yeah good job pass out

okay and with that i believe is everyone

all

set for the night ready to take a long

rest definitely

yes aye aye okay awesome

um you guys all begin

sleeping and you guys are all woken in

the morning

um with the sounds of

creaking wood as people are beginning to

get up

and move around and you know disturb

sort of the

the resting spots that this wood has

found itself in and and the the whole

town seems to be

creaking all at once as life is being

brought back into it from the night

um you guys start to to look around and

as you guys are rubbing your eyes

really no daylight is coming in um as

a lot of the the sunshine has been

either blocked by the trees above

or is being absorbed by the fog around

you guys

um but as you guys wake up you guys all

have successfully taken a long rest

ah is it nighttime still

where's the sun yes it is

excuse me now i'm not tired anymore

try it i'm awake now are you up yeah

yeah these people keep walking and i

can't fall back asleep

but uh i think we might be at a

that an area where there's a lot of uh

foot traffic yeah

okay well should we go find the rest of

the group do you want to go back in that

building or should we

wait outside uh let's

yeah let's see what uh let's see what

our threads are doing

as [ __ ] as for this i look back toward

the rocks and the vines do you think

they'd be

upset if i left this here i'll

look around at people walking by us just

like nonchalantly to turn my head and to

see if anyone's

looking at him with disgust um

yeah you look around and you see um

in front of one of these houses that's

sort of surrounding this

this uh center of town um you see a

uh sort of like a middle-aged dwarven

man standing there in his doorway

his arms crossed his brow completely

furrowed

just shaking his head back and forth um

sort of like tapping tapping his foot

too

is this the same dwarf that i talked to

or a different one no different one

i'll kind of turn my head back towards

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shraya as i'm imagining that's kind of

like sleepover style like i'm in one

little area on the bench and his little

vines are kind of hanging down next to

mine and we're just kind of like

sleeping next to the statue and i'll

turn my head back to him um and i'll

kind of do the point with my finger

i don't think that guy like really

appreciates it maybe take him down

whenever we're done

we should probably be done now too and

as i kind of clocked this dwarf with his

arms crossed

i look over uh is he within like

shouting distance oh yeah yeah

i'm gonna i'm gonna look over and i'm

gonna say oh uh

not sure what happened here uh i just

found it this way uh

no you know nature magic uh lots of new

magics out these days uh

uh uh

well uh see you later

not not sure how to do handle this

and then and then i'll say to the flynn

yeah i love it when i can deface a woven

statue

all right let's go come on let's go okay

we might have to

unpack that later but okay

[Laughter]

all right uh flynn and try as you guys

get clear of this defacing of a dwarven

statue um

you guys run and meet with uh the rest

of the party who is uh still back at the

tavern

i've woken up and moved down to the um

tavern bar and i'm talking to angela and

have asked for breakfast so

um what we've got is uh sort of an

assortment of vegetables right here and

as she's showing you sort of the plate

that she's got in front of you

these vegetables um i cooked in a

special seasoning so they're a little

bit different from what you had last

night

um and then i was also able to uh

to scrounge up a couple of eggs um from

the other day

um i was waiting for a special occasion

so i think this is definitely it

um so i've made a couple of eggs for you

here as well

and she pushes the plate out towards you

wow that's so nice of you

um i'm gonna share my breakfast with

whoever

is down here um okay who else has come

down well

flynn and shreya are just walking yeah

would we have noticed the tail end of

that like

her hospitality of giving us these eggs

that she's scrounged up but we have

noticed that yeah yeah you would have

just caught the

tail end of that um but uh kellick and

march are you guys upstairs or

downstairs where are you guys at

i'm uh still upstairs okay

i'm gonna have finished i'm gonna

once once alma has woken up it's gonna

you know when she's out of bed it'll be

like all right i'm up

so i'm gonna finish rolling up my uh my

bedding and

uh i'll follow alma down okay so

but before before i do that i'm gonna

kind of peek in and to

run downstairs just so you know and then

i'm gonna just go down cool so flynn and

try you guys

approach the tavern enter and see angela

oma and march at the bar

hey um what do you got there oh hire

some vegetables cooked in a special

seasoning

and some very very very very special

eggs oh wow you want some yeah

worse i'm really hungry i uh you missed

it i tried something really cool

yesterday and it worked

what did you do i can't do it here

i don't even know if i can do it again

but it was really cool

what was it i like

[Music]

pushed energy out of my leg and what

does that do

i don't know i haven't tried it on

anything but a tree it seemed to shake

the tree pretty good

so you figured out that you can shake

trees

well yeah well it's not

it looks tired from doing it i got

really tired

well maybe don't shake trees anymore

i mean it doesn't sound very useful

well and the book it says it's

well i'll have to show it to you when we

leave i can't do it in here it'll

damage everything it's i'm it's very

powerful

right you're a very powerful

halfling thanks oma and i'll sit down

and just start chowing down

not realizing i shake my head

have i heard any of this if i'm with

flynn

yeah you're with flynn so you would have

i'm gonna stay under my breath i guess

i'm not the only one who likes to fish

[Music]

almost confused i'm very confused

um well i have some eggs so you know

you can have some or whatever

i'm gonna just sort of shake my head and

kind of give it a little like

and then just shovel some eggs in my

mouth

where's kellick

he's dead what

well he's not here right so he must be

dead

omar are you lying to me i never lie

um you almost always certainly lie

i think there's a difference between

lying and

joking i don't know

flynn why don't you go check out him

yourself all right and i'll grab one

mushroom or whatever piece of breakfast

as i walk up to the

room and i'm chowing on it i'll go up

and check on kellogg

okay um as you approach kilik what does

he find as you

is is there a window in this room dm

um uh yeah there are there is one window

in each of the rooms um

and they sort of open and shut but

they've got they're pretty much bolted

into the wall what's the what's the

weather like is it

is it like how's the sky looking this

this morning

you from here you cannot see the sky um

trees gloomy fog

um but you do outside you hear like

frogs croaking and you hear insects

buzzing around

um very like damp

swamp outside and but so whatever light

i can collect from that coming through

the window

uh i will be once again i'll have my

robes laid out on one side

of myself with the with my necklace on

top of them

in the bag of ashes and then betwixt

them uh

in a kind of a triangle arrangement my

myself i'll be kneeling

um and uh flynn would just hear

maybe some some muttering

[Music]

uh but i i'd be speaking uh sort of

looking between these things and saying

just show me

or are we but children to be played with

to be told who to follow

let me understand and i

create the door open to this and

hey uh hey buddy breakfast is ready

hey fun uh yeah thanks uh march

mentioned they were

heading down you want me to bring

something up

ah seems like you're in the middle of

something

uh i'm just wrapping up here i'll uh

i'll be down

in a moment okay

thanks did you

did you sleep outside flynn well yeah um

try as uncomfortable indoors i've been

finding so

i figured i'd just you know keep him

company

[Music]

all right i'll

i appreciate it yeah oh

i also i'll show it to you but alma

thinks it's pretty great too

i did this super cool thing last night

with with magic and it worked and i'm

like super excited about it so hopefully

i can show it to you

hopefully i can do it again um but yeah

i'll have to try it and show you it

looks

super cool anyway i'll be downstairs

eating more breakfast and i'll just

i get excited talking about that shut

the door and run back downstairs

i look to my necklace end of the ashes

and to into the sky to look for some

sorts of light

help me

help me i'll collect myself and

downstairs okay

um you guys are all now collected

at the bottom uh the bottom floor of

this tavern

um and you guys are all together what

would you all like to do as

this new day greets you oh hey kellic um

there's a little bit left here

um but i'm about i'm basically done

if you want to keep eating if anyone

else is keeping i actually want to run

around town and to see if i can find

something to hold on to to remember this

place so uh it might behoove us to get

more of a local map or something

to know where we're heading i don't uh

um hey angela right um do you have a map

or anything

that maybe would and i'll look around

the bar to see if anyone's in here

um well uh about a year before

um oxian left uh home

he drew uh i guess you could call it a

map

of blackpool um that i can

i can have you guys take a look at well

yeah i think we're when i look around

the room to see if there's anyone

listening or i'll get up closer

uh no one's actually in the tavern right

um yeah we're gonna head out to that

i overheard you guys talking about

another warehouse where i think we're

gonna go check that out um

if you have a way to lead us there if

that map could be helpful or if you

could just point us in the right

direction

if you want to know where it is i can uh

yeah just give me one second okay

and so she runs into the back room and

you can hear her then

run up the stairs to the rooms where you

guys were you can hear

more rummaging around um you can hear

like a couple books fall off of a

bookshelf

and as she runs back down um she comes

down

with a like a little framed drawing

um and she puts it down on the the table

in front of you and she says

um well this is sort of it's not to

scale

at all but it sort of can give you an

idea and you can see

um pretty much like a very rough map of

blackpool

um there in front of you and in the in

the corner you can see

in dwarvish it is uh signed

um for any of you can any of you guys

read dwarvish yeah flink

okay flynn so you you see that it is

signed um oxy and nightborne

um on in the corner there and she says

so um basically what you got here is you

got the

the majority of blackpool and then

you've got a couple of these paths

um these wooden paths leading off from

the main town

um so we are right here this is the

center of town you can sort of see he

drew a little bit of the statue right

there

um but right over here is where we are

so if you take this path right over here

and you sort of lead it

on um the path sort of has collapsed

over the last couple of years so i don't

know the state of it right now but

you'll have to

to travel out on the path for a little

bit and she sort of traces her finger

off

of the drawing and off of the frame and

she says

and i think last i know of the path sort

of ended right here

but if you continue in that exact

direction that the pathway is leading

you

that should take you directly towards

the the new warehouse so you might have

get your feet dirty a little bit but um

it should be

right in that direction that the path

leads you okay um

i don't want to take this but do you

mind if i look at it for a bit and maybe

try and sketch something out so we have

like a rough idea

if you want to sketch a copy yes i would

like to

keep hold of course and thank you for

your hospitality i mean

i don't know if i introduce myself and

apologies but i'm flynn fellow eve and

i'm part of the ireland collective

and oh um yep and i'm part of the island

collective and

you know i'm just uh glad to meet you

that's fantastic i don't know what that

is but

it sounds very it's probably good i'm

not supposed to mention it anyway um

thanks i'll sketch this out really quick

is there oh you said there's no gift

shop is there like a general store

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um yes with surge i've got general wears

um right across

uh right past over if you go past the

big statue

um there's sort of a general wears uh

right beyond there

great okay thank you very much um and

i'll just start sketching

um while everyone finishes breakfast

just just observing this conversation

i'm just shaking my head

especially when he brings up the iron

man collective this is like

like just just physically shrugging my

shoulder like

like putting my hands in the air

um yeah so do i do me to roll anything

for uh

how good i can how well i can draw this

yeah make another slide of handshape

i get a natural 20 on this i'm going to

freak out

[Music]

slight of hand no

definitely not that is a six uh

six you sort of get it there you get the

idea

hold it up i'm proud of my work flynn

i think you lost your mode what are you

talking about this looks great see

look maybe james was your was your um

music what do they call them like

no no this is the statue this and then

that is the direction we need to go

flynn some artists uh paint the same

subject

uh for every one of their paintings

maybe that's the kind of artist you are

yeah maybe you can just draw jane just

james the fisherman and on the statue

i'll draw a little face

that looks like james's then i'll put

little dots maybe you're right

well i think this will still get us

there and i'll

roll it up and stick it in my back

that's definitely enough to go on i

think so

it's more than we're used to going on to

be honest yeah

well i don't know if you all are still

eating but i'm gonna just

run out to the general store and see if

i can find anything oh but be quick

cause we gotta go

we don't know how long it'll take us to

get there well it'll be worth it because

you know

memories are awesome what

and i'll head out we both just look at

him very skeptically

flynn you run out and um you run out and

you see

a sign in in dwarvish um but luckily you

read dormish

um a sign that says general store um

strangely enough right above the doorway

that you saw

the uh scolding uh dwarven gentleman

who was not looking at shraya two kind

of great great

cool cool cool i'm gonna go in

okay uh yeah the little bell rings as

you walk in

and uh you he's sort of facing away from

you he's he's sort of adjusting some of

the

knickknacks on his on his shelves and he

goes hey what can i do for you

oh what what can i do for you hi friend

my name is flynn fellow

and i am just curious if you have any i

don't know

knickknacks or for the lack of a better

term souvenirs so i can remember this

great

town yeah we've got

all the stuff on the shelves i'll look

at the shelves

what what kind of cool stuff does he got

[Laughter]

um if i sort of know where you're going

with this and i think i do

um it's mostly it's like it's a general

store

it's got like different bags and stuff

it's got um

like woodworking equipment it's got some

like metal working equipment that's a

little bit more run

down um just like sort of your general

needs but then

off in uh the corner you see what

looks like possibly like a little kids

section

um where he has got very similar to what

you saw um

at uh at angela's kids room

um very similar little like dwarven

statues only about three inches tall

some of them made of wood some of them

made of iron some of them made of copper

and you can see they're just like these

little toy soldiers um

yeah walk over and um are there diff are

they different are they all the same

toy soldier are they different they they

all look like handcrafted so even the

ones that are sort of in the same

pose and the same position um

have differences between them whether

they were intentional or not um

is there one that looks like more

feminine

oh yeah about half of them are have

some more feminine features half of them

have some more male females pick up one

of the feminine

looking ones and kind of smile

yeah show like this and i'll walk up to

the counter put it on the table

and endure which i'll say i'll take one

of these

and in dwarvish back he says oh

uh great you speak dwarvish okay

um how's my accent though is it okay i

don't use it too much anymore

well i mean i i get what you're saying

oh okay well i guess that's good i think

that's that's kind of the point i guess

um uh which uh which one did you take

there is

uh wood versions iron versions and uh

copper versions oh um

wood iron i'd ask the shopkeeper which

one do you think will hold up the best

in the roughest of situations

um in the roughest situation well it

depends what situations you're getting

yourself into

um the copper ones are you know they'll

bend and fold a little bit easier but

the iron ones like sort of

rust quicker so it just depends sort of

what you're what you're looking for but

the wooden ones are definitely like a

little bit more dainty

um how much for all three

how much uh let's just call it one gold

piece

let's just do that just to be safe

because you know if i jump in a pool of

water

save my friends from a hydra or if i you

know

run into a cliff and fall down you know

yeah i get it it's going to be one gold

piece oh

[Laughter]

you got it

i heard it in my bag and pull out two

gold pieces place them on the table

sorry about my friend with the statue

yeah um i'm gonna go and clean that up

later that's just disrespectful i know

well

are we cool

he looks at you he looks down at the two

gold pieces he looks bucket back at you

looks at the gold pieces back at you

yeah yeah we're square

and i'll say it kind of like broken

dwarvish have a great day

and as i head out yeah you too i guess

whatever scurry back to the group as i

put the three statues in my

little bag my separate bag okay um flynn

as you come back i assume everyone else

is sort of packing up and

getting ready to go yep yeah awesome

um so you guys head out you guys

um leave uh you say goodbye to angela

um you leave the hidden spade tavern and

you guys

uh follow flynn's map uh out to this

little

pathway that's leading away from

blackpool um

just as angela said you guys walk on the

path for a little bit and then after

about 20 minutes of walking or so um the

path

completely falls out um from beneath you

um you see that like this rot and mildew

has completely destabilized a lot of the

path but you do still see these

um vertical pillars to where the

path once was held aloft these um

stilts coming out of the water are still

pretty much intact where the rest of the

wood has fallen away

um so as you guys walk you guys are able

is there anything you want to do before

you sort of jump down into this bog

how deep are we able to tell right off

how deep

are we talking of a blog here we're

talking a couple inches or are we

talking like a foot or so

um it's about a foot to maybe a foot and

a half at some points

so it's like to flynn's waist

yeah i'm gonna try to not

put i'm gonna try to hover as much as i

can

like i don't wanna i don't wanna put

body parts through that

okay yeah sure you can keep yourself

aloft

for as long as you want to for sure i

i'm gonna

um hey marge yep

do you think i can go on your back yep i

was just about to say you were fine if

either one of you needs uh

to not be yep okay oma

i'm uh you just let me know and uh i'll

one hand grab you and you can yeah pick

it back up

i'm gonna go on your back um flynn will

look to shreya i'll look to try hey uh

can you do that

uh yeah

more than i bargained for the uh the

i don't know how long i can do that um

i suppose i could try and i

uh move down um

how long could i feasibly carry him if

we're like traveling

so from um when you had done this

previously for

an extended period of time um you know

that you could probably

carry him for um about

two minutes before you would have to

start making some sort of strength check

um just to see if you can keep both of

yourselves alone oh i mean just like

because i

try to be on your shoulders like omen

march

shraya is flying yeah at this point so

he would be it's it's not the strength

to necessarily hold on to you it's the

strength to keep both him

and yourself aloft in the air um shray

being an arachoka

just like a bird bones or hollow his

body itself is very light so it's not a

big deal to keep himself

aloft but with both equipment and

yourself um you would have to start

making strings okay so

are we not just walking through the bog

all together you're flying above it is

that what you're saying

okay i would prefer not to

make any bodily contact with this

yeah me either i think it's going to

come up to like my chest if i do

and i'll look to kellich assumingly

hey buddy

[Laughter]

i'm not putting you on my back my man

i'm only like 30 pounds

planet it's not gonna happen ah

i'm gonna look around for a way

realistically i'm on march's back and i

just look down at flynn i say it looks

like you're just gonna have to walk i'll

look up

at march realistically how much

does oma weigh and then how much does

flynn weigh

realistically a human at 12 years old

weighs

like 85 pounds so yeah

yeah yeah let's call it let's call it

an even 160 would be both of them

yeah yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna look down

at flooding uh i'm

not even i don't this is why i don't

have children um i've already started to

wait through this

as well after yeah i'm just gonna i'm

gonna start waiting moving

through uh but but i'm gonna let it fly

and go but if you want me to i can hold

your hand to make sure that

you don't i mean it's more about me

being completely covered in whatever's

in this

well that's why i hold your hand why

it's only a foot anything i mean

let me stick can i stick can i find like

a piece of stick or something that i can

stick down and see how how high it comes

up on this yeah there's sticks and stuff

everywhere um at the point that you guys

are standing at right now it

is about a foot so it'll go your foot so

it's

like your your thigh all right i guess

that's not too bad

the little mock flynn it builds

character can i throw some

muck at kellik yeah make an attack

what do i add uh add your dexterity

okay

oh that's pretty good um 21.

a ball of mud just nails you in the back

of the head

how's that for character

oh cool

oh [ __ ] i cast create water above flynn

and cover him in uh in rainwater

[Music]

but you're all wet

[Laughter]

i guess it doesn't matter if i go in the

swamp now i'm ready to go

i just jump in the swamp and make a

splash and start

walking i'm gonna go ahead and um

make my i'm i'm i'm on marsha's back but

i'm going to try and

shimmy up to her shoulder so that i'm

sitting on her shoulders because i

imagine that will be an easier way for

her to have her arms free

yeah for sure um okay so alma sitting on

top of marsha's shoulders

um flynn wading through caleb wading

through and shraya

um circling above as you guys are in

this swamp

um for the time that you guys are are in

the mud

itself and not in a raised platform um

everyone except for shreya because he's

flying everyone's movement speed is

halved

as this is difficult terrain as you guys

move along um

can i just get a quick marching order

for you guys are you guys going in any

particular

order as you guys are moving through um

i mean it's probably kellic in the front

and then march i'll tell you not

like behind you something like that yeah

would marge and i be able to be walking

next to each other

like side by side yeah yeah i'd be able

to say that

yeah we're probably just trailing behind

and what i'm gonna do is take like

passes so like i'm gonna circle and i'll

go toward the front and then i'll pass

over toward

the tail end of the line and then uh

just in a kind of way

that i'm able to you know see a nice

perimeter and while kind of

you know i'd be able to hopefully see if

we were heading towards something

i'd go a little bit beyond the furthest

reach of the party before i

pass and go back yeah cool

awesome um so as you guys are traveling

through

this swamp i'm gonna have everyone make

a perception check for me

as you guys are are wading through and

looking for this secondary warehouse

that's 20 for me nice dirty i got an

eight

six uh 18.

uh 13. okay um

shraya and march uh as you guys are

traveling along here

um you guys are sort of looking around

and as you guys just glance off to your

right

for a split second um you see

possibly an animal possibly

something living sort of sort of running

off in the distance and then

stopping behind a tree um it's probably

it's a couple hundred feet away

um but you guys see it's it's sort of

like um

you guys are looking around there's a

lot of animals and plant life going on

but most of them are

smaller um this one was definitely

of a bigger size maybe the size of

a humanoid maybe the size of a deer

something sort of within that range

um did you guys see sort of dart behind

a tree all of us saw this

just march and try okay

i would like to kind of put my head up

to try

is how far how like how far up is shraya

above

us it depends how high schreyer wants to

be flying

i would have yeah how high i would

imagine uh below

the tree line but like with enough

distance that i'm not gonna be like

bopping people in the head so i guess i

don't know 15 feet above them

the the tops of the trees that sort of

create this canopy above you are 50 feet

up in the air so you've got you've got

quite a bit of room to play with there

awesome

okay okay i i should have worded that

differently like

are you within earshot uh every now and

then i would be as i

you know pass around okay so as as like

on your next pass around

i'd like to try and like get your

attention and be like shia

try it what did you

did you see that or am i is this place

giving me hallucinations i did see

something

you see movement i'm not sure what it is

but uh there is

i can't tell i'm not familiar with this

part of the world

okay well let's just uh i don't think

you should go like

none of us should go check it out solo

but let's just

keep it on our radar that there's

something over there i don't really know

why wait what there's there's there's

something over where

don't don't worry i thought i saw

something we think we see something

moving to the right it could change

like i mean you're above the ground can

you just just fly in

and get a peek at it it's like some kind

of bog creature

or something that that sounds spooky

what

why don't why don't you go go get a good

look at your item and let us

know go over and i'm gonna like fly

closer toward it

um and maybe try to i don't know

if i saw it in one point i'm gonna

approach like i'll take a wide sweep and

try to look at it from the side or

something okay

um as you fly over now i'm gonna have

you make another perception check you

can make this at advantage because you

are

specifically looking for this

moving thing and you know sort of where

last was right yeah advantage

uh that is a 13.

thirteen okay um as you approach closer

um you notice the same movement again

um it's at this point

most definitely humanoid um you can see

sort of this flash of a dark

cloak um as you can see a medium-sized

humanoid sort of sprinting

in between these trees and you

catch this humanoid full sprint

full like using their full movement

sprinting

and as soon as they pass behind a tree

to where you can't see them

they vanish

with this uh knowledge i'm gonna swoop

back toward the party

uh and and

it's some kind of uh earth walking

creature uh they're moving very fast

perhaps we should

prepare ourselves

are they coming towards us i'm not sure

no they're

they're sort of running parallel to you

guys

oh okay not getting that from

from what you saw they weren't

approaching the party any further they

were running directly parallel

oh okay they seem to be keeping pace

with us in some way

at a distance are they also in the bog

yes uh seeming to favor trees

hmm well maybe we'll just keep an eye

out

yeah if it hasn't just if it hasn't come

at us

let it do a thing i guess

did they look like the any of the people

that were in the tavern they look like

hologuard

i didn't get a good look in the tavern

but i did see a green cloak

it was actually um in in the tavern

sorry real quick

um in the tavern the two who were

wearing hoods

um very clearly like brown cloaks

the one that you saw the one that you

saw sprinting was in a dark black

cloak ah i my memory was

escaping me there for a second it was

actually a black cloak

black and green if it's dark green man

sometimes they can look the same the

birds

see color or is that this bog is yes we

this bog is clouding my vision

the bog is clowning all of our vision

i don't know i can see great up here

yeah speaking of that

whatever we can do to get out of this as

soon as possible i would appreciate it

can we keep going forward now is the

ball

outing our vision no it's very

it's very clearly foggy um so like it

starts to cloud your vision

at distance um but you still have you

know your your normal

line of sight on most things um there's

just sort of a general haze around

you um but as you guys continue forward

um you continue on for another

five or ten minutes and as you guys are

walking

directly in front of you you guys see at

this point

um it was kind of hard to see because

there are trees in a lot of places so it

it sort of came out of nowhere um but at

this point you guys are about 40 feet

away

from a deep

black onyx staff raising

perfectly straight out of the bog

you guys see it and it's like this

this perfectly cylindrical staff just

vertically coming out of the

the swamp in the mud um about five feet

tall

but near the top you see five

golden rings like halos sort of

consec uh consecutively that's what i'm

looking for

consecutively sort of making their way

down

the staff sort of floating there

suspended

in midair um almost making five golden

halos

around this staff

can we see is it just sticking up out of

the mud just sticking up out of the mud

are we able to determine

from this distance like what it's made

of if it's stone

if it's like what it is or um probably

not from this distance it's very dark

black but you would have to get closer

to see any sort of

makeup the the rings are gold um very

clearly as you know

it looks gold

wow everybody see that

yeah that's super weird um are the rings

the rings are going up and down the

staff they're not moving

but there are like five the five rings

are sort of hovering

with the staff in the middle of all of

the rings so there's the staff and then

each ring is sort of

um floating one on top of the other two

different okay at slightly different

intervals

um going up the staff can i make a

spooky vibes check yeah

yeah roll a spooky vibe let's go

i mean when is it now i'm kidding

that's the question er that is

a 16. oh so stupid

another quick question ultra spooky is

lustrous or is it dull

um in regards to the golden rings yes

the golden rings are looked to be

untouched by the mud around it

um they're like these perfectly shiny

rings okay try's gonna get closer

oh no how much closer uh

quickly caught by the

pulsing rings uh he's gonna duck in

and just like glide down toward them

uh which is still pretty fast

considering i'm flying

try and know okay um

you fly up and how close are you getting

that you're you

start at about 50 feet away so how close

would you like to get i'm gonna get

within

15. within 15. okay

um you get within 15 and uh you can see

that this

staff seems to be planted directly into

the ground

and that these gold rings are just like

slowly

each of them like the top one is slowly

rotating clockwise the one below it is

slowly rotating counterclockwise

the one below that slowly clockwise and

like switching back and forth

have does this staff look familiar to me

uh make a history check do we notice

try getting critical fail critical fail

you don't really know do we notice ryan

getting super close

has he paused yeah shraya has has flown

within 50. he's stopped

for sure yeah i'm like kind of hovering

right above it just like

try uh yeah be careful stay your hand

try

i'm getting some spooky vibes from this

thing

i asked for help so here's your chance

and i'll cast detect magic nice

okay nice uh

and i would like to now i'm assuming

it's magical

uh if it's i can detect magic within the

presence of magic within 30 feet

uh but it also tells me what uh school

of magic

if any hmm

this is interesting oh no

it's not interesting it's just a normal

stuff

okay i'm gonna say i'm gonna say that

uh this stuff is uh conjuration

on duration yeah

one of the spookiest of magics

why is it so spooky

uh seems like conjuration magic uh

that means bringing something

from somewhere other than here to

here in the sentence do you think it's

just bringing the bog

maybe like like maybe it's just bringing

the mud

and muck alma mud and mark is

native to this area why would you need

to bring more of it

well well maybe it's been here forever

and that's why it's native to this area

and and there's nothing else

oh it's just sitting there

we could just move past it right

in the while i have this up dm

um can i detect our our uh

hooded uh uh watcher

observer what's the range on detect

magic it's 30 feet

no you are not able to

um so ash try is within 15 feet um are

you guys staying back or would you guys

like to move in

with i'm gonna try i'm gonna move i'm

gonna continue to walk

towards you yeah reluctantly and i am on

march's shoulders so i am

so almost no choice okay reluctantly

awesome so as you guys all approach how

close are you guys getting to it

i'd like to get within ten i'd like to

get basically where schrei is

okay yeah i'll do the same so

as you guys are approaching um i'm going

to have each of you guys

make a

yeah i'm going to have each of you guys

make a wisdom saver

for a total of 22.

great wisdom save oh nice

16. wisdom say

uh flynn has i just did a crit fail and

a natural 20 bacteria

okay um who got above a 15

um everyone here all of you guys

hear like this deep boom

in your heads you hear like this deep

bell sound

um flynn and shraya both of you guys

take one point of psychic damage

as the rest of you guys sort of um

feel this effect not really taking hold

too much but you guys feel like

some something has happened inside of

your head

um as like this deep ringing sort of

jostles your brain around it feels like

as that happens

each of the rings one by one drops

from the stack into the mud and

disappears into the mud

another one drops disappears into the

mud they all

drop into the mud and there's a couple

moments of silence before the staff

itself

disintegrates from the top just

completely

whisping away into nothing after another

couple seconds

you guys see off to your right

a little probably like a five foot area

the mud begins to bubble and boil you

see another one off to your right the

mud begins to boil

another two off to your back another one

right in front of you

five areas where the mud begins to boil

the

bubble here you guys see

that the one in front of you the mud

begins to rise up

begins to elongate and form and solidify

into this humanoid shape

and after a couple moments it just looks

like a humanoid shape but then it starts

to solidify

and sort of come together and you guys

start to see features within the face

and you guys see an elvin man you guys

see

the ears that come up the long hair that

drapes down

and you guys see what looks like farlane

in front of you but made out of out of

this this mud

and off to the left you guys see another

one

rise up and you guys see it's more the

size of a child

but like a

young young child and

the mud begins to form and solidify

around them and it almost

has the features of march like you can

sort of pick out

like it looks like a young march

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the next one off to your right you guys

can

see it rising up and this one's taller

and a lot more elegant and you guys can

see another elven feature

come up you guys can't quite tell

who this is or what this this looks like

um but this is like

very clearly that of of

an elven descent

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um they're about five foot eleven

um their hair is like very long

and and well kept and you can see like a

very slight

golden glow behind the eyes

the one one of the ones to your back um

you see uh another elvish

sort of figure this one's sort of

smaller and

not as young as as the one that sort of

has marches same vis

visage um but sort of like uh almost

like a teenager

of an elf looking like almost a younger

version of

melloroo cardinal and you're not

exactly sure what

what's happening here but but they they

sort of share some of the same features

of melloroo

the other one in the far back you guys

see another humanoid

begin to elongate out this one not with

pointed ears

but a very humanoid look

obviously very human um

you see like the long beard

start to come out and you can see this

this thin

hair sort of like salt and pepper hair

begin to

form around their head

and that is where we're going to end

today's session

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weird mud monster farlain

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that is where we're gonna end with these

sort of five mud creatures

taking different forms around you guys

um that is where we're gonna end i had a

lot of fun with that one i hope you guys

did too

uh but that is where we're gonna end

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