greetings earth walkers i'm shriya and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture

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forth [Music]

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so [Music]

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previously the party had traveled through the city of blackpool to discover the nature of these mysterious

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crystals that you guys possessed after a mysterious encounter with a

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half orc named drek you guys eventually came to a warehouse that was

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housing a myriad of possibly magical items being shipped across the nation

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and after being led in you guys discovered a disassembled war forge

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named thaddeus upon opening the box that contained thaddeus he seemed to recognize march

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but not as march rather as her long-lost twin sister amity

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realizing this march knew that she had to travel south to try and meet up with her twin and and see if she

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was still alive and sorry what the story was behind that so after you guys parted ways you guys

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the rest of the party had continued on to the city of solaris um you guys went to an inn that thaddeus

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had directed you guys to thaddeus had talked to the innkeeper to try and get in contact with the person who was gonna

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sort of wipe any magical uh markers that you guys have you guys went upstairs you guys each

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found your beds and you guys fell asleep so shraya

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waking up the next morning you open your eyes a little bit groggy

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and you could see now at this point the sun is just rising up over the horizon

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you can see it through the window and you can see that the golden light is now beginning to fill the room and about

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three quarters of the room are now filled with with this bright morning light as you

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rustle awake you hear a jingling beside you this is the first thing that you notice a little

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jingling beside you and you look and you see just a nice neat little pile beside you

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some gold silver and copper uh i reach over i

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look around to see if anyone's looking and uh the gold catches my eye and i

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like it and uh i'm gonna grab it so as you uh stuff the money into your bag you're sort of

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looking around and you take note that both kellik and oma are

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no longer in the room um it seems that you look over to where kalec was sleeping and um you see that uh the bed

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that he was was sleeping in is very nicely made um it's it's sort of put back into its place as well as where

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alma was sleeping um you didn't hear any ruckus during the night so you can safely assume that they just took a day

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to themselves um they went out and they they started doing their own thing on the other hand you do see in the room

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flynn cuddled up right on the edge of the bed all sort of nestled in his

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backpack still there leaning up against the bed post and you also see the head of thaddeus on the dresser sort of in a

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dormant almost sleeping state not quite awake yet

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um so as you're looking around is there anything you want to do in the room uh sorry i'm going to mutter under my

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breath uh let the little ones sleep and uh i'm going to look out is there is

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there a window in this in this room there

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okay um you look out the window and you can see at this point um

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people have uh already set up their shops uh for the day um people are

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wheeling out the produce carts from inside to sort of make these little outdoor displays right in front of the

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the shops everyone is um you know conversing at this point um and it seems

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like these are some pretty early risers you can see for the most part a mostly

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dwarven population especially the shop owners the people who seem to have permanent residents

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here almost exclusively dwarves and as you look out you also see walking

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down the street a pair of dwarven guards um looking to

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be the garrison of the city they are walking step in step right next

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to each other in full plate armor as they sort of walk down the street and

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get closer to where you are you can hear the armor clanking back and forth as these are like heavy heavy sets of armor

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um but as they walk down the street you take note that while people and

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shop owners are conversing with each other conversing with the customers that are coming in no attention is being paid to the

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guards and the guards in turn are not paying any attention to the people it seems um there doesn't really seem to be

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any fear necessarily it just seems like a mutual leave each other alone type of deal

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and that was actually my next question um in the limited experience i have with uh

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large population urban centers uh do i could i get a sense of just by looking out there whether this city is

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uh in a peaceful um not chaotic uh sentiment or does it

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you know does it look like there's a layer of fear hovering in the streets

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for sure um i'm gonna have you make an insight check

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great uh that is a 16.

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a 16. nice so you would have noticed just looking out over the street right now as well as when you entered the city

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the previous night um especially you you got a firsthand look um coming through

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the gate um that to enter the city it's a very orderly place um there was a very

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defined couple of lines to get into the city there were a couple of checkpoints in

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order to get in and there just seems to be a sense of lawfulness and order over the

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city not necessarily fear but just sort of like an understanding of of the law here

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[Music] behaviors

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act like a river that flows neatly from one bend to the next

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and hmm and i i sort of i keep muttering to myself as i rub my eyes and

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start you know kind of lilting out the door down the steps scratch

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scratch my head i must get to know this place more uh and i'm gonna go down into the

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uh into the lower level okay um just before you step out of the room um

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you there are two things um first thing is you notice right above the dresser

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um is a framed map of the city um sort of frame there

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and hung very nicely um you can see different sections of the city you can see recommendations for shops you can

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see recommendations for restaurants um sort of sightseeing places to go so before you actually head out is there

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anywhere that you want to look in particular to just sort of get a general direction oh sure uh so

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as i'm thinking about the different areas that i want to check out and how i can figure out this you know the sense

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of the city that i've just gotten i'm gonna look at the map and try to glean

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where like social gathering places might be for sure for sure um so you see

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probably three places that would pique your interest you see a little cluster of um like

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taverns and restaurants um that you know people need to eat there are

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probably people there um and you know that taverns are usually ripe with lively conversation um so you

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see that it's pretty close to where you are currently um and then you also see a

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like a temple district um and you can see there are a couple of points of interest on this map where there is uh

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the temple district and it looks like these are very much based in the new gods you don't see anything for the old gods um

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you just see temple symbology for the new gods um and so that's probably a place that

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would have a lot of people especially early morning probably the early morning worship services and then um you also

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uh see a sort of like a centralized park um just like a big open uh park area

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that would probably have some people in it [Music] uh so i take note of

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those three areas and uh i point my finger and i

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try to route it from where i am right now to that big large uh larger park that you mentioned

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and uh squint and then nod scratch my head again and

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then uh walk down the stairs okay um and then just one more thing

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before you head down the stairs the head of thaddeus is currently sitting there on the dresser um would you like to take

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it with you or would you like to leave it in the room [Music]

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i would like to leave it in the room okay all right so you're leaving in the room with flynn

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as you walk down the stairs and enter sort of the uh the common area of the

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inn at this point you can see there there are a couple people who have just sort of woken up um and sort of are

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starting their day down there i am

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my uh stomach starts rumbling a little bit and uh

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something's like i start craving something that i wouldn't normally just because i'm having a few um stomach jumping jacks so

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i'm gonna um go up to the bar uh and order something for a little bit breakfast

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okay um you walk up to uh it's this little um it looks like a

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uh bar during the night probably restaurant during the day um and uh you can see a

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young dwarven lady sitting there behind the counter just sort of taking people's early morning orders

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she says uh hey uh what can i get you i

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i've been eating too many berries and fish lately i need to change it up a little bit

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you have anything organic uh a fruit of some kind uh perhaps

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um yeah if uh if you're not looking for anything cooked um we've got a little

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table right over there it's got some uh breads and uh fruit over there i think it's got like some apples and pears and

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bananas and stuff like that if that's what you're feeling like oh that's great

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now i'm gonna wander over uh to the table i'm actually gonna pick up an apple and uh throw it up and catch

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it um and and say uh the parent be too sweet for me i'm afraid i'm gonna walk

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back to uh the bar this'll do all right and uh as you walk over you

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take uh there are two apples laying there you take one of the apples leaving one remaining and

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with that apple in hand you step out into the into the busy city streets

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and as you step out you look right and left and you are immediately

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once again hit with that feeling of you know being thrust into a city um so

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how is shraya feeling as you're not only surrounded by a bustling city but by one that is

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mostly occupied by dwarves uh it's a little intimidating at first um

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as soon as i step out uh i sort of and and walk a little bit into the

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street i immediately have the urge to step back or like duck into another part of the street um

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i really don't like uh i sort of my feet kind of ruffles a little bit uh and and i say under my breath

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the odor of dwarves [Music] and i'm gonna try to keep some distance

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between me and and uh the nearest humanoids mostly dwarves right mostly dwarves um

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you see actually uh right across the street you see a blue t-fling sort of setting up shop for the morning

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it looks like a lot of like dried and aged meats um and sort of like a just a

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general butcher shop you see mostly dwarves you see a couple of furbolgs and

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um yeah that's that's sort of a bulk of what you see uh based on my

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based on my comprehension of the map uh and based on how crowded the street is

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uh as i as i start to get even more uncomfortable with having to

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potentially walk through crowds and around uh big patches of people um i'm

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gonna try to look for a spot where i can kick off the ground without making too much of a ruckus and try to make my way

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to the park from the air yeah for sure so you uh i'm gonna have you make a perception

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check for me great okay uh 13.

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uh 13. um you are looking around and you can just barely see just sort of a break in the crowd just ahead um so you sort

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of make your way up there um through the crowd and as you look to

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your left all of a sudden a break in the shops

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um on the street turns into a um gallows you see three hanging nooses there um

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just sort of smack dab in the middle of this street you can see the people who are walking on the street are giving it

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a good amount of clearance they're definitely they're not walking directly in front of this thing two of the nooses

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the two on the outside are empty you see one occupied in the middle you can see a humanoid figure you can't

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tell if it's human or elf but that sort of stature you can't tell because there's a bag over their head

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they wear um these purple robes these layered purple robes and they have a sign that

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is hanging from their neck that says uh spy

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and then do you read dwarvish i

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i do actually yes okay so it says in common it says in big letters spy

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and then in dwarvish below it it says criminals beware wow okay uh can i as i

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lilt toward these uh this gallows area uh can i tell if this person with the bag over i don't know if you mentioned

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this uh can i tell if they're still alive or not very much dead they're at the point where like flies are starting to

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to start flying around their body wow okay well in that case um

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but i actually before before i kick off the ground from this opening uh looking around those gallows do i see any like

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remnants of what had happened there before any kind of like

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just what's around there uh anything that might provide logistics for anyone who would want to operate

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those gallops um yeah make an investigation check great

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[Music] that is a 15. uh 15. um

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so you uh look up and you can see on the

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um the cloak this purple cloak that the person is wearing um you can see

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scorch marks on sort of going up the robe um sort of these arcane scorch marks and you can

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see um from their belt there there looks to be like things that have been

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ripped off of the belt um and you can gather that

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this is probably some sort of mage or something and in their frantic final moments attempted to

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just start spouting off spells um but beyond that you look to your right and your left and you see

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um one dwarven guard on either side of you just sort of

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keeping watch over the gallows um not looking at you in particular not looking at anyone in the crowd in particular but

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just sort of standing there very vigilant i'm gonna walk up to that guard actually

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now that my my interest is even more peaked i'm gonna approach the guard slowly and uh

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i'm gonna walk up to him and say greetings stone carver uh what uh what befell this

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being as i point up to the man i i know i can read but

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it is intriguing i wish to avoid a fate like theirs [Music]

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hey you want to avoid a fate like his just don't break the law buddy

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hey we're watching you all right doesn't look like you're from around here

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so just keep your cool and you're not going to end up like this guy all right

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understood uh i have one question then uh as i do want to respect the laws of this

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city uh if i were to in my anatomy it allows me uh

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to operate in the plane of air uh is that permitted in

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this space you were talking about flying

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yes yes apologies uh sometimes i speak in in larger than life

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uh what are they called you call them uh metaphors or perhaps i'm just relatively long-winded sometimes

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yeah buddy i can tell flying permitted uh

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teleportation permit any way you want to get around thank you i i

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was nice talking to you and you too nod and uh find the space to kick off

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the ground okay um and as the breeze once more finds its purchase below your wings um

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you get up to uh a decent altitude to where you can sort of uh fly above these buildings and

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sort of get a good view of the layout of the city and as soon as you get up that high you're you can see those same

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landmarks that you saw on the map and you can really orient yourself um you can see uh in sort of one corner

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of the city um these large walls that protrude from the ground and these big

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stone buildings and you think back to the map and you remember seeing that that's um where a large part of the

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um the army of calder stations itself here in solaris

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and you can just tell by the size of the portion of this city that it is a strong military presence here

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but as you are flying you note the the temple district off to your

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right the restaurant and markets off to your left and just ahead the park with some

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beautifully sprouting trees um with these uh thick canopies and there seems

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to be full of life and and definitely an oasis within the middle of this city um

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so as you fly over are you gonna land or stay in the air uh i'm gonna land in the park uh i'm

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gonna specifically seek out like a a grove of trees uh or a larger

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concentration of them okay yeah for sure um and and there is a

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section with a couple of really tall trees and as you sort of land on the ground and take a couple steps towards

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those trees the grass feels really nice beneath your claws and um

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as this is a park a young boy and a young girl who are playing with a ball um just sort of uh don't quite see that

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you're there and the little boy who's running with the ball sort of uh

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uh brushes his shoulder against you and he turns around he says oh sorry sorry sir and he continues running alongside

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this little girl with a ball um and uh you look around and you could see people enjoying the park

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that's quite all right young one uh enjoy your day [Music]

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yes and walking toward one of the larger trees that i see um

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i'm going to take out my staff uh first uh first i'm gonna look around

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for is there any signage at all around these trees is there any uh being mindful of my last exchange with

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that guard um no you don't see any sort of signs or anything um actually looking around uh

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there are just a couple of like not like warning signs which i think is what you were getting at but like um

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little labels telling you like what kind of tree this is and what part of the world it came from and it looks like there are

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some trees you can see at least three or four trees that are from different portions of the world

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ooh uh in that case if this is uh if this is like uh

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um outdoor museum of different types of trees i'm going to look for

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trees or plants that are native to my ancestral rise even before i took up

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residence with the elves and see if i can get a sense of home or sure so not all of these trees are

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labeled but you can tell that they're most of them are different so i'm gonna have you make a nature check for me

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great nature nature nature [Music]

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it says seven uh seven um so you look around and you can see a

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couple that sort of remind you of the uh thick evergreen trees of the brosby

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wood which you would know very well um the being the the forest that was sort of

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just down um uh right next to the venville rise uh so

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there are a couple but they look familiar never thought trees like this could grow

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in this part of the world as i wander over toward one of them uh i take out my staff

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uh i press the the crystal uh at the top of my staff uh

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to my forehead and touch the the ground-facing uh end of the staff

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to that tree um as i do the wood in the staff starts to uh

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uh almost like grow and move as the roots at the top holding the crystal start to sway

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uh and i'm going to druid craft uh the symbol of my native tribe onto

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this tree okay very cool um so you druid craft the the

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symbol onto this tree and you can after you're done you can feel the tree

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or at least looking up at the the leaves there's almost like a slight breeze almost as if the tree is sort of

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shuttering or like uh um sort of in recognition of that

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and a couple leaves fall down from the tree as as that happens uh i'm gonna just

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press my forehead uh to the side and bark of that tree too and take

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a quick uh meditation okay um as you are doing that what do

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you what sort of thoughts are you meditating on uh i'm meditating on my home tribe i'm

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meditating on uh memories of when i was very very young

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uh and the roots of my knowledge and skill and

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facility in uh shaping nature's forces and bending them

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to my will and having moments of uh nostalgic

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remembrance of both uh incredible pleasure

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in the discovery of this knowledge

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and also the pain that the fruits of those knowledge uh

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caused me to receive and also that set me on this path to where i am now

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okay and just as you come out of that meditation and sort of get reacquainted

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with your surroundings you can hear just behind another tree sort of off off a

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couple feet away from you um you can hear two voices and one of them says

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no you go ask him i'm not gonna ask no you go you go ask him okay

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fine i'll go ask him and out from behind the tree uh you see two

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uh halflings they look like they are um probably like

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in halfling years like late teens early twenties um young halflings you see one male and one

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female and um the female comes up to you and she says

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hi um well i hate to be a bother but um i just saw you kind of doing something there

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and i was wondering um those your your wings are those like i don't know it's i

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don't know this might be this might be very rude but are those like more decorative or those functional

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they are very much functional a small one uh

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they believe it or not there are many many more beings like me

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uh they just perhaps are not from this place i have uh

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covered a great bit of ground to make my way here

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you think you'd be able to possibly cover a little bit more ground and help us out with something

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well i don't see why not i have had nothing but goodwill toward uh

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beings of your well let's say stature and nature

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um okay cool it's kind of uh just a weird request um we got uh

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there's a uh well we got a ball stuck up in a tree

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over there um and she sort of points up and she goes you see that see that ball right up there that's sort of in between the

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branches oh yes yes i see um

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could you get that for us i don't see why not uh okay thank you um

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there's just one there's like there's a raccoon that lives in there um

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and it sort of like has burrowed into the tree and it lives into the tree so like

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i think could you just like be as quiet as i don't want you to get hurt you're already helping us out i don't want you to get hurt could you like just do it as

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quietly as possible so so like you don't get hurt by the raccoon i don't think i'll get hurt by the

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raccoon uh i i may even try to glean what that raccoon's life is like

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we would just prefer like maybe if you just let it be um and just kind of let

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it stay there would you be able to do that well sure sure i'd really i'd really

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appreciate that i don't know uh the all of the inhabitants of this

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patch of grass and trees so yes i will endeavor to be as quiet as possible thank you uh and i'm gonna

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[Music] uh whoosh my way up off the ground and float my way delicately toward the part

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of the tree that the ball is in okay so i am going to have you make a roll

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here um you can either make a stealth check or a nature check

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um whichever one you want okay let's do

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stealth stealth okay and since you are like are you you said you're moving gingerly

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right yes okay so you can do that at advantage because you are moving at a slow pace well thank goodness

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because the first row was four oh but the second one was a two oh

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yowza [Music] okay so um and then what's what's your do you

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have a plus to stealth uh yeah but it would only bring me up to

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to six okay just one um okay so you uh as you're sort of flying

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up there one of your wings that's sort of flapping up and down just catches a branch and completely

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shakes the entire branch and a bunch of leaves fall off and you make a total ruckus as these leaves fall to the

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ground you are able to reach up and just grab the ball but as you grab the ball no raccoon

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[Music] you float back down to the ground with the ball in your hand

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i wasn't able to see the creature you mentioned but uh here's the ball all the

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same and you can see the the halflings are are once again kind of whispering to

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each other and um the girl says yeah but there's not gonna be any branches like it'll be fine but it'll totally be fine

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and the the mail goes i mean i guess but like

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is do we have any other choice no i don't think so and uh the girl comes up to you and

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reaches her hand out to shake your hand um and says i'm sorry i i didn't

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we even introduced ourselves um my name is uh belinda fairfoot and uh this is my brother hollandard

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[Music] hello belinda fairfoot you say and uh how did you pronounce your name

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hollandard and it sounds uh

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very similar to well never mind uh how uh what what types of are you do you

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play games with this ball um

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we no we don't um that was kind of just a little

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test um just to sort of see like how quiet you can be um

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would you be interested in uh earning a little bit of money well of course uh

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i uh i've only just begun to realize uh how satisfying it can be to

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engage in uh what earthly trade oh that's that's great to hear um yeah

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would you be willing to you know come with us and uh we could talk about

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something real quick well i don't see why not

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but uh let me look at this thing you okay first i i'm gonna examine the ball

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more closely okay um make an investigation check uh that's great uh 19

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19. it is just a ball it's just the ball okay yeah it's like a little bit of fabric on the outside

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and it's just a ball um and uh belinda looks at you and says um

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uh yeah this is just sort of something that we can't really talk about out here and you don't really look like

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you're from around here so i i mean i don't know if you've gotten a sense of the city yet but i think you might

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sort of know what i'm talking about we can't really discuss it out here oh yes uh from what i gather there are

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quite a bit of rules and regulations here so sure uh

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i will say uh my intention is to respect the local populace as much as i can but uh

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if it is for a little money i don't see bending the rules a little bit

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uh amazing amazing oh and then she nudges her uh her brother and

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i told you i told you this guy was gonna be great right come on and uh they walk with you over to uh um

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the other side of the park it's uh like a nice little five minute walk you can hear um you know birds chirping there's

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a little pond with some frogs croaking but eventually you guys come across uh these two little benches

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um that are in this kind of secluded grassy area and uh they sit you down

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and they say so um well i just want to say like just thank

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you for like listening to this and i would hope that you're you know you

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would have some discretion with what we're about to tell you um we saw what you did back there

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um with that rune in the tree and you know that sort of magic isn't really

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from around here um so like we figure we can trust you um

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our mother was sort of a uh you could call her a preacher um

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and uh she had a preference for the old gods and uh i don't know if you have gotten a

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chance to to be around the city too much but the old gods aren't really

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too hot around here anymore um anyone who's caught you know preaching the word of

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the old gods is is asked to stop and my mom was asked to stop a couple times and she didn't so

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um she's kind of in jail now and we were just hoping that you could help us out

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in uh liberating her let's call it

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is a freeing a prisoner from bondage

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uh it's a good thing it's a good thing i have a preference for the old gods too but what you're

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talking about is uh much more than a minor transgression i thought for a moment you might

35:30

ask me to put another rune somewhere else or do something with this ball and i look

35:37

at it again on a prisoner break i i know i know it's a huge ask and

35:45

you would get well paid at the end of it um and but you know it's it's up to you but

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if you say no i just please don't tell anyone that we had this conversation

35:57

ah i know what it's like to be separated from

36:02

from someone very near and dear to me tell you what

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i would imagine since you've been parted

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from this loved one might have had some ideas and how they might be freed so

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let me know what you would propose and i'll see if i can help you well that's the thing is like i think

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we've got sort of most of it worked out um we

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so there's the entrance and in order to get into the entrance there's this wall that you got to get

36:38

over and you know it takes us a little bit too long to climb but someone with your specific capabilities

36:45

might be able to just do a quick hop over that wall and open it from the other side

36:51

well yes and i would imagine there are cells so i would have to in

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addition to opening it from the other side have a plan for opening the cell that i would need to

37:04

open and then somehow escorting this prisoner out

37:10

yeah um so we've sort of been watching the the guard changes so we we figure we can

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slip in there easy enough um we're also pretty nimble and we can sort of go

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undetected um but uh yeah getting out is is

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gonna be the tough part we've been practicing lock picking uh just for once we're in there but if you've got

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anything in your little bag of tricks we would uh be open to suggestions

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[Music] the only thing uh i may not have means to

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pick locks or open doors by any crafty means i might be able to

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use my knowledge of herbs to try to create something that might knock

37:58

someone out but it's been a long time since i practiced that kind of herbalism oh that sounds that sounds amazing that

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was kind of our one thing is like if we do come across someone we don't really know how to

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deal with that so it's good to know that you've got you've got something like that well my i would my intention would

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never be to take life but temporary temporarily dull it uh that's

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quite another story well yeah that's another thing we're not interested in killing anyone um or

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anyone dying we really just want to get our mom back that's that's pretty much bottom line

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[Music] all right then let me see what i can do i'm gonna open up my uh herbalism kit

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i'm gonna see if i can put uh some components together to see if i can

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make a uh a dulling combination something that might

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uh temporarily not even completely knock out but perhaps sedate someone and all

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the senses yeah for sure um so i'm gonna have you

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make let's see um do you have any spells that might specifically

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aid in this or are you just looking to go with what components can i mix together

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uh yeah i think the only spell that i might cast

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would be one that would increase temporarily increase my intelligence to kind of help boost

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whatever role that would be i yeah i'm just thinking more along the lines of like do you have anything

39:45

that would mess with someone's senses so that like because you know that spell that might

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help you in creating something that would sedate someone um but if not

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totally cool um

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i would say not quite yet okay all right um all right so with that

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um i am gonna either have you make an arcana check or a nature check

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to see what you can mix together in order to sedate someone awesome

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[Music]

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you said arcana or or nature or nature uh most of these components are like very

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earthy so uh yeah uh that is a

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nature uh yeah that's gonna be a 12.

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a 12. okay um so you mix together a couple of these components and um

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you sort of know a recipe for something that would help you get into sort of like a trance-like state um that you've

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used in the past to help you commune with the nature around you and um just sort of put you into

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sort of a higher mental state but then that also dulls your earthly senses so

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you've got something here that you know might sedate someone a little bit but

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depending on their sort of willpower um they might be able to sort of shake off the effects but

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you've got it um and it might work all right um i'm also going to

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and this this can be for down the line though but i'm just saying it now in case things escalate and start moving more quickly uh going to prepare uh hold

41:45

person as a fail-safe okay gotcha so you've got that sort of right on your

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holster um and you've sort of got whole person replaying in your head the incantation

41:57

um okay perfect so um belinda sits down next to you

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and she looks back and forth sees that no one's around and she pulls a little piece of paper from her pocket

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and uh she looks to you and she says so um well first part

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um is the sort of the guard changes um because there are you know it's

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it's a jail so there's gonna be guards but surprisingly during the day is when there's the fewest number of guards um

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i don't think anyone really suspects someone like us to be coming in during the day so um we're gonna be

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going in hopefully i mean today if if you're up for it um and so we're gonna try and get

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in sneak past some of the guards there's a wall that we have to get up to with a

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sort of like a back entrance not too well looked after but it is completely locked from the outside so

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what we're gonna need you to do is as quickly and quietly as you can uh just sort of hop over that wall and get to

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the door on the other side to open it from the inside um once we're there there's a little manhole cover off to

43:10

the right that we should be able to slip into and and duck through uh some of the sewage ways in order to get to the main

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portion of the jail does that sound okay to you yes just uh if you've isolated the part

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of wall that i must get beyond uh near that entrance point me in that direction

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and uh i will endeavor to [Music] fly over that portion of the wall at the

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right time when the guards change fantastic okay um do you have any i this

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is i know this is a lot do you have any questions before we start heading over there [Music]

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once i'm on the other side uh i i've never really been around uh

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organized militias or fortifications of that nature what would

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i look for in terms of what could open the door once i'm inside [Music]

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i don't know um that's sort of out of our range at the moment we don't

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really know what kind of door it is it might be a key um but uh

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yeah i think you if you could just figure out how to get it open then we're golden from there

44:24

all right i will have to use my uh thinking on my wings as it were

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okay are you ready yes is it almost time for a guard shift

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um yeah they they have people pretty much there all the time um but like i said

44:44

during during the daylight hours there's a lot fewer of them so uh we'll maybe hang out for a couple minutes and and

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just see what the state is over there so uh yeah come on let's go and uh her and her brother begin

44:57

sort of walking off in uh in a northern direction and

45:03

after a couple minutes of of walking through the city you come across another portion of

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very secure walled off city um very similar to what you saw

45:14

when you were hovering above the city um but you see these these big walls um

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with these uh uh what do you call them uh ballistas

45:26

on uh every every once in a while and you can see a couple of guards

45:31

walking over the top every once in a while and uh after you wait a couple minutes sitting there sort of observing

45:38

the guards uh belinda turns to you and she says all right i think uh i think now might be the best

45:44

time you're gonna go right up and over it is

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[Music] okay um so with that i'm gonna have you make a stealth check

45:56

here we go stealth check don't let me down

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um well that's 12. that's a 12. okay let me uh let me see

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what these guards are up to [Music]

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you go unnoticed as you hover your way above the wall you can see um you can

46:19

see one guard walking the wall on your right but they are walking in the opposite direction away from you so

46:24

you're able to hover and drop back down over the wall once you're on the other side you see

46:29

um a in stark contrast to the mostly wooden buildings um that were on the other side of the wall now it's mostly

46:36

stone buildings and you can see a lot of these are very fortified here

46:41

but you turn around and you can see the doorway right behind you as well as the manhole

46:47

cover just off to your left so looking at this door how do you want to proceed

46:53

start muttering to myself very quietly and if i were a dwarf

47:00

opening component if i would never be a dwarf despicable creatures if

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i were okay and i'm looking around uh

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trying to put together any kind of logical um semblance of how a component could be

47:19

used to open this door for sure uh make an investigation check for me [Music]

47:27

13. uh 13. you can see on the door there is a like very heavy

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inset lock like a traditional key lock um as well as a lever right next to it

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[Music] i'm going to go up to

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stealthily go up to i'm gonna look around before i put my hand

47:54

on the lever uh and make sure if anybody is coming around the corner

48:00

or and coming into line of sight you don't see anyone at the moment okay uh in that case i am going to

48:08

pull the lever okay you pull the lever and you hear from like sort of within the wall that

48:15

leads into the the door uh [Music]

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and then nothing happens [Music]

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and so i'm now going to look around and i'm going to see

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[Music]

48:51

i'm going to uh wander down the corridor stealthily and see if i can find any

48:58

of the guards that might be wait you said in addition to the lever there was one other thing

49:03

yeah there's like a traditional lock um that that is inset in the door and

49:08

then a lever sort of on the wall next to the door ah okay

49:13

so in that case i'm to look around the door see if

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anything might be hanging from an inlet or my guess is that there's a guard who has

49:25

this key but i'm going to check around the edges of the door just in case it's

49:30

right in front of my face um yeah you're looking around you're checking the stone work you're looking around at everything you don't see a key

49:35

hang in there gotcha okay then i'm going to walk down uh on the

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um the you know the blind curved side of a corner i'm going to reach the corner and

49:48

then i'm going to peek my head around and see if i can see anyone down the next corridor or the next

49:54

way yes so you peek your head around and you do see one guard just standing there um

50:01

facing the opposite way from you huh uh i am now

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going to take out my verbal component

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and i'm going to try to uh i'm going to take out a few of my

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feathers i'm going to combine the mixture i created with those

50:25

feathers and i'm going to attempt to first catch the guard's eye with the feather by

50:31

reaching around and then quickly shoving that feather right under the guard's nose and mouth

50:38

see what happens okay so you're are you like how are you shoving it just

50:45

so i can get a clear picture how are you putting the feather onto him are you like trying to get a tickle situation out of him are you like

50:51

trying to tickle his nose a little bit uh yes i'm trying to take his nose so that he starts

50:58

like inhaling deeply gotcha that's the goal is to get the inhalation uh

51:03

very strong and that he does as soon as the the feather goes comes around he like

51:09

you can't quite tell if it's the feather itself or like the surprise of oh something's happening but he does

51:15

take a a deep breath in uh and i have whole person prepared in

51:21

case this does nothing um but what's what's going on with him is he is he does he feel like he still has all of

51:27

his uh faculties okay so he is gonna make a constitution saving throw here

51:36

and i'm going to set the dc at 12.

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because you did a decent job putting that together and that's going to be an 8. so

51:48

as soon as it's like it's like a quick one too the feather comes around he inhales and you stick your hand out and

51:54

all of this um all of this stuff goes into his nose and mouth and you can see immediately he

52:00

sort of relaxes and he doesn't quite drop down to the ground but he's he's still holding

52:06

himself there but he is definitely in a daze for for at least the time being

52:13

all right i'm gonna i'm gonna shake him down see if he's got any keys okay make an investigation check

52:18

at advantage because he is you know sedated good because that was a two

52:24

oh oh no this is a five so seven ah a seven advantage checks are not doing great

52:31

it it it did beat the dc it was a very low dc to get that uh to get that key

52:36

because it's it's hanging on his hip um it's like it's it's sort of up and around in the front hanging from a belt

52:42

loop um but there are a set of two keys there

52:47

cool uh i'm gonna grab both of them okay nice um so you take both of them

52:54

and he is still he's just sort of like waving back and forth just sort of

52:59

swaying there um i i i look down uh to

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and take in his eyes um and i'm gonna mutter on my under my breath

53:10

for any other creature it would pain me to do this not to being like you and i'm gonna

53:18

swing my staff around and clock him in the forehead with the intention of knocking him out okay um that's an automatic hit uh so if

53:26

you want to roll damage on that you can whatever the damage on your staff is uh great um without the

53:34

without any kind making the staff magical it's just uh a d6 minus one so that is four points

53:42

of bludgeoning damage or points of bludging damage um normally this probably wouldn't knock

53:47

him out but in the state that he's in you whack him across the forehead and he drops to his knees and face plants into

53:53

the dirt in front of him great i'm gonna also try to move his body into a position that might make it

53:59

seem like he just fell asleep and then leaned up against the wall and fell asleep okay um you successfully do so

54:07

although there is a little bit of a like a red line going down his forehead from where you cracked him over the head um

54:13

but besides that looks like he's taking a pleasant nap awesome and you head back to the door

54:19

i'm gonna try both of the keys and then pull it one by one and then i'm gonna pull the lever for each and see if it

54:25

opens the door okay um the first key doesn't turn in the doorway uh but then the second key

54:32

it goes right in it turns and as it turns you hear uh

54:38

and then you pull the lever and you hear [Music] and the door slightly swings open

54:45

[Music] there's my preferred way to communicate with

54:50

dwarfs and uh then i'm gonna look over past the opening look around see if there are any

54:57

other guards who are approaching from uh the opposite side i'm gonna call out

55:02

uh belinda holonard in a in a hushed tone but and from

55:10

just a couple feet away right like sort of leaning up against the wall um you hear hollandard uh

55:16

say to belinda see i told you he'd be able to do it i told you okay come on let's go

55:22

and they both walk in with you and uh belinda as she's walking right past you she gives you like two thumbs up and and

55:27

big wide eyes um and i notice as i notice as they've been whispering like these kind of doubtful

55:33

whispers right yeah oh yeah you for sure heard them uh and and i'm gonna mutter under my

55:38

breath i thought uh being encouraging was a standard trait of these

55:45

small ones but i suppose flynn just has the gift of encouraging people and picking them up

55:51

all his own [Music] oh

55:56

okay we're going down and as they're lifting up the manhole cover all right let's go oh all right oh

56:04

right right and i the odor of the sewers um starts to get to me and and then i and

56:10

then i think back to what i just did and then i with a little bit of hesitation and slight pinch of pain i pluck out

56:18

another feather and then i put it up to my nose okay um dulling your smell for

56:25

a little bit um you get down in the sewers it is still a very pungent smell

56:31

but your feather is doing a little bit to to help that out um and so you guys walk down this long

56:37

sewer tunnel uh for about 100 maybe 150 feet it's hard to gauge down here

56:44

you're used to looking at everything from above so uh you guys are walking for a little bit

56:49

and then you come across a ladder to your right that heads up as the two halflings start to climb the

56:55

ladder um they reach up and this isn't a manhole cover

57:01

it's more of like a traditional hatch that they open up they they grab the handle and open up the hatch as they

57:07

both hop up um you can now at this point see um torchlight begin to pour in into the

57:13

sewer and i and i sort of tap one of their uh shins as we're climbing the ladder

57:20

how do you know it's this one um taking a guess

57:27

could be this one um there's also there's also two more um down the way

57:33

could be this one could be those all right let's hope it's this one and i follow

57:38

them up the ladder okay um so as you get up to the top of the ladder you are

57:44

greeted by um cages on either side of you prison cells

57:49

um you can see them on either side of you and just in front of you is a long

57:54

hallway stretching to your right and down to your left with cells on either side of them

58:00

and belinda and hollander look to you as you get up and close this hatch and they say

58:07

all right from here your guess is as good as ours um what are you thinking

58:12

well uh is there any sort of word or

58:17

uh anything that only you and this person knows that we could

58:23

perhaps whisper or uh not yell but

58:29

uh at each one of these cells to see if that's they respond

58:36

um i mean uh not really i mean

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as you know when when she was sort of doing her thing um she always said uh

58:48

may her light shine upon you that was kind of her preachy thing that she always said uh

58:53

that might work but you know if someone hears us that could get us in a lot more trouble too

58:59

maybe they don't have to hear us uh and as i uh as i hear these words

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um i am going to uh druidcraft

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uh if i can of course yeah uh a a

59:19

uh a traveling ball of moonlight so something faint

59:26

um something that i've seen in my mind's eye my own knowledge of the moon and how i've channeled that moon's rays before

59:33

to damage but in this case not damage just uh shine upon

59:39

uh any who look at it okay um i mean yeah as druidcraft can create

59:47

sensory effects sight is a sense so i'm gonna say that uh you create this this tiny little

59:55

dull ball of moonlight in your hand uh you you're not gonna be able to extend it

1:00:00

anywhere past your hand so you're gonna have to be holding it that's okay that's quite all right

1:00:05

um so and you said there are there are cells in cages to our right and left or

1:00:11

there the hallway yeah so you pretty much um came up through this tunnel and

1:00:17

um if you take one or two steps forward you would be directly in the middle of the hall that goes both right and left

1:00:25

all right well we've no time to lose we we don't know when the next guard is going to make their rounds so let's start looking

1:00:32

uh and so uh yeah i'm gonna start looking around the

1:00:39

different cells holding the little pale uh moonlight above my hand and having

1:00:44

that lead my way and uh listening for if uh this there is any

1:00:50

kind of reaction to it as i move quickly okay um uh hey real quick

1:00:57

do you want to go that way and we can go this way are we splitting up is that what we're doing

1:01:03

i believe so go this way you could go that way sure yes that would save time and okay and you'll be able to recognize

1:01:09

this person sooner than i would yeah okay okay so they dash off down to the left as you head off to the right um

1:01:16

and i am gonna have you make a stealth [Music]

1:01:23

let's try check one ooh 16. 16. nice so as you are walking along this uh cold

1:01:30

stone floor um looking at each cell on your right and your left um only really

1:01:36

lit by the very faint torch light as well as the light that you're holding in your hand um

1:01:43

um you [Music] hear a couple of like moans and

1:01:49

like grumbles from within the cells um off from your right you hear uh

1:01:56

uh how are you doing what are you doing here man

1:02:02

uh i look in sort of direct my hand toward where the sound is coming from to see if

1:02:08

i can see where it's coming from okay um yeah you look into

1:02:13

uh the cell and you see a um a dwarven man sort of crouched there um in the

1:02:20

middle of the cell and he looks at you and oh sorry i thought you were someone else

1:02:27

what what are you doing i thought you might have been someone else too

1:02:33

i'm here seeking out someone uh what are you doing here

1:02:40

well you know i got in trouble you know stealing

1:02:46

apparently uh feeding my family is against the law in this town so uh now i'm here

1:02:54

well uh i'd like to get out of here

1:03:00

buddy nothing would make me happier well i should look to the keys

1:03:07

uh nature's bounty should be for everyone not just those who can

1:03:14

take enough time to find all of the food they can eat and store it away so

1:03:21

here and i turn uh i try the other key in the lock of that cell and uh open it

1:03:27

it opens right up i'm looking for a halfling a halfling

1:03:33

uh on the older side uh female i believe would you mind helping

1:03:40

me search i think i think i saw halfling come in here there there are a

1:03:47

couple in here but uh i think i saw one come by i could have sworn you here we're here for the other guy but uh the

1:03:53

uh the halfling is is over here on the left wait why would you have sworn i was here for the other guy

1:03:59

there there have been a couple of breakout attempts for this other guy i don't know some human down the hall

1:04:06

really yeah you have any idea why you get to know the people who are locked up with you

1:04:13

well the word coming down the cells is uh some like uber powerful mage they got them in like

1:04:20

these crazy chains and like bindings and stuff never seen anything like it

1:04:25

wow uh i just uh saw another mage who was recently put to

1:04:31

death down on the street i wonder if it was one of their colleagues yeah but we're

1:04:36

losing focus though direct meetings yeah no directly to this halfling okay come on

1:04:41

um and as you guys begin moving again um i'm gonna have you make another stealth check as you hear down the hall coming

1:04:48

in your direction a uh dwarven guard in this heavy plate armor that you can hear

1:04:53

sort of crunching down the hall oh boy all right don't let me down nice

1:05:00

well that's stealth uh 14. okay um so you uh

1:05:08

are hearing this this dwarf come down the hallway and

1:05:13

right as he's sort of about to turn the corner and and see you you both of you dodge

1:05:18

into a cell to your left and sort of quickly close and uh very softly shut the door as the dwarf

1:05:26

comes doesn't look into each of the cells and passes you

1:05:31

and you guys open up the cell door once again and can head back out into the hallway

1:05:38

is this very powerful mage uh near the target that i'm seeking i

1:05:44

man i've been stuck in that cell down there i don't know i just know that there's a halfling down this way because they brought him down and they brought

1:05:51

her down and uh well they passed my cell and then they also passed my cell with the mage so i know that they're down

1:05:57

here i don't know specifically where they're at all right i would like to get a good look at this

1:06:02

mage let's find the halfling okay and uh after sort of checking the cells

1:06:10

back and forth um you reach your hand up to one of the cells and you hear a very

1:06:15

faint voice um sort of emanating from the cell and you hear it say

1:06:22

ah our light shines upon you and i bring my hand out and toward the

1:06:28

direction of that voice [Music]

1:06:34

her light may have found you i whisper

1:06:40

i see it finds you as well who are you i've been enlisted by belinda and

1:06:45

hollandard we're here we're here to get you out of here

1:06:54

well i couldn't stop them from getting in trouble as kids so i guess you know what's the change now um

1:07:01

sure uh do you have anything to get this gate open i might

1:07:07

if in fact this is a universal key which i hope it is and i use the same key that i opened the

1:07:13

other cell with on this okay um and once again it opens up

1:07:20

fantastic all right uh we need to find them and then we need

1:07:25

to get out of here but first and then i'm just going to to scan the cells just around hers not actively like

1:07:33

seek out or go any great distance but um try to look around to see if i can get the

1:07:39

description of the powerful mage that was described yeah so um looking down this hallway

1:07:45

it's pretty dim in here but um you can see two cells down from her

1:07:50

since this is all like just vertical iron bars um you can sort of see into the the cages down and you see

1:07:59

two cells beyond um these chains that come from

1:08:05

five different points on the ceiling down to one point on someone's back and

1:08:12

you can see five chains from the ground coming up and also meeting uh sort of stretching their body in

1:08:18

their their arms out on either side and keeping them down on their knees um these chains that are coming from the

1:08:25

ceiling and the the ground and the walls are just like keeping this person

1:08:30

completely locked in one position um you can see that uh the woman who you just freed as well as the dwarf you just

1:08:37

freed um they were pretty much free to roam around the cell whereas this person is completely locked

1:08:44

in place just with these chains and uh and um sort of handcuffs and all of

1:08:50

these binding mechanisms you restrained one are you awake

1:08:57

yeah for the time being why are you here why are they

1:09:03

why are they binding you such [Music] well

1:09:09

i just uh think they're a little afraid of me but uh that's all gonna change when i get out of here and he sort of tries to

1:09:15

move back and forth but he can't really move and as he struggles to move back and forth um you can see these

1:09:22

deep purple runes all over the chains now begin to glow and pulse

1:09:27

and he's sort of then locked back into place uh magical in nature

1:09:34

um what's

1:09:39

what's your name my name is shraya i'm a being of the plane of air

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and i i saw someone similar to who practices your

1:09:55

your magics and if your fate be similar to that of theirs

1:10:01

may not have much time left but if you're cosby noble and you're

1:10:08

i've already taken the step to break this many laws to get here what what would you say if i could give

1:10:14

you your freedom sooner what is your purpose in this place why were you restrained in such a way

1:10:25

but i i was looking for answers that they weren't willing to give me but i would be

1:10:31

the most impressed person in elbor if you were able to get me out of these i can't get me out of these and trust me that's

1:10:38

saying something and as he looks up to you he sort of scans you up and down and you

1:10:43

can see this long beard at this point um looks like unshaven for a long time

1:10:52

sort of salt and pepper you can see the long hair on top begin to sort of fold back and drape

1:10:59

onto his shoulders you can see he is sort of wearing a similar

1:11:07

purple robe similar to what you had seen outside and you can see he's not wearing any

1:11:12

shoes as he's chained up here and he looks you up and down and he says

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oh far south don't you think ah for most of my kind

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they would never think of stepping foot in a place like this yeah i've i've seen a couple come this

1:11:31

far south but uh man brave one aren't you

1:11:36

ah the time i felt like i didn't have much of a choice

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but if we must be on the move i'm going to see if there's one thing i can do and if i

1:11:48

am able to free you and no harm will come to me from you will you tell me more about the

1:11:54

questions that you were seeking answers to yeah man if you get me out of here i'll tell you anything you want to know

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so as right even before he finishes this sentence um i

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uh think back to again every flame i've ever witnessed felt and sensed in any

1:12:12

capacity um as i press my hands to the staff

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and uh i'm going to cast uh heat metal

1:12:24

on the chains that are that are surrounding him and as an addendum again

1:12:29

if this works or even if this spell has any kind of effect because based on how those chains are glowing i would imagine

1:12:34

they may or may not uh i am then going to druid craft

1:12:40

uh very hot like very hard vines to sort of tear apart

1:12:47

the chains uh when they heat up to that point and also a heat metal does do 2d8

1:12:55

uh the any creature attached does have to take 2d8 of fire damage so i hope that this mage

1:13:05

isn't uh little spring chicken okay um so as these vines sort of wrap

1:13:11

around and heat metal is cast um you can see that

1:13:17

you can see there's like steam coming up so it's it's getting hot but absolutely

1:13:22

nothing is happening to the chains um and as this mage is looking up at you

1:13:29

he goes you're gonna have to do better than that trust me i've i've tried much better

1:13:35

than that and nothing's happened well if there's if there's anything you can do to those

1:13:42

chains while they're this hot uh in conjunction or perhaps you could

1:13:48

tell me what hey try it yeah yes great to meet you xavier willow arch

1:13:54

good to meet you try get these people out of here all right all right

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davier i hope you don't meet the same fate as the man i saw earlier today

1:14:09

and at this point from down the hall um you see or you don't see you hear again

1:14:16

um the sort of clanking of metal um as

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a couple of dwarven guards are coming down the hallway and um they

1:14:28

you can hear them say just before they see you all right prisoner transfer

1:14:33

everyone back against the walls we got uh all right let's see who we uh

1:14:38

xavier xavier willow arch all right come on we're moving you

1:14:45

and at this point they're just about to round the corner as you and the rest of

1:14:50

the people you're currently with are i assume dashing in the other direction yes

1:14:56

as at the moment we hear them okay um have we have i heard have i touched do i

1:15:03

know anything about the kids um as you are dashing in the other direction you can see the kids um sort

1:15:10

of coming back in the opposite direction sort of doubling back and checking each cell once again um but as soon as they

1:15:17

see you guys all together they run up give their mom a quick hug and then sort of

1:15:24

pull all of you guys along to get back to the sewer uh and as we round the corner um i say

1:15:30

wait wait wait uh and uh i want to wait until the moment that they take him out of the cell

1:15:38

and then i really mess things up here but um yeah

1:15:44

i want to ca i want to extend my staff and cast

1:15:49

um fog cloud all the way down the hall where okay so i'll sort of describe what goes on first

1:15:57

um so they unlock the the initial cell door

1:16:03

that they can sort of get into but then once they get into the room with the chains

1:16:09

um they start taking down the chains but he still stays locked in that exact

1:16:14

same position now the the runes on the sort of collar that's around his neck

1:16:20

the braces that are around his arms and the braces that are around his legs the purple glows even more and more and more

1:16:27

as they are continued to stay locked in place even as the chains are being taken down um they take all the chains down that

1:16:33

we're locking him in place there and um as the last chain is released

1:16:39

he's sort of still locked in the exact same position just sort of floats up about six inches off the ground

1:16:46

and then one of the dwarven guards comes around him and pushes on his back and he sort of

1:16:52

floats in air as he's pushing as he's being pushed forward so as you're seeing that as he's being

1:16:58

exited from the cell would you still like to cast fog cloud uh no way i don't know if that's gonna help

1:17:05

okay all right um so they push him out and

1:17:10

sort of push him still floating down the hall um you guys make your way back to the

1:17:17

um the opening into the sewers is there anything you want to do before you hop

1:17:22

back down there everyone else is hopping back down into the sewers uh

1:17:27

i want to extinguish the the pale moonlight that i've been

1:17:33

carrying okay you extinguish that awesome um so you guys all hop down into this um

1:17:41

narrow tunnel and you guys start heading back towards the entrance

1:17:46

um at the front is um the dwarven man who you had

1:17:51

sort of that you had helped escape and he's sort of running at a at a fast pace

1:17:57

he wants to get out of here when all of a sudden about halfway down the hallway he stops

1:18:02

and he turns around and he goes you know i really can't have anyone knowing that

1:18:08

i'm out of here this is really not going to be good for my family

1:18:14

i'm j i'm i'm sorry as he lunges at you guys um the two kids

1:18:21

and the mom sort of take a step back in the opposite direction and start running um away from him what would you like to

1:18:27

do as he's lunging towards you guys uh hold person okay

1:18:32

um so you cast hold person is that a save on his end yes okay what's that dc

1:18:39

is a uh 14 14.

1:18:47

that is a natural one so he lunges at you he his fist back and right as he's about to sort of turn his shoulder

1:18:54

and throw his fist at you he completely locks into place wow all right

1:19:00

uh you've sealed your own fate i'm afraid

1:19:07

and uh we're gonna keep escaping okay how long does hold person last uh the duration is uh up to a minute up

1:19:15

to a minute okay so you got him locked into place it takes you a lot less than a minute to get out of this

1:19:21

tunnel but as you do you find that ladder that you came down in you pop up to the surface

1:19:29

and you use the same door that you had just opened and you guys are now running

1:19:34

along the city streets um they have kind of fallen back behind you they're not quite as fast as you are

1:19:40

they're not quite keeping up but they do seem to be following you so where would you like to go

1:19:46

uh i would like to go to an area uh that

1:19:51

is tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the streets but i would like to talk to them a little

1:19:58

bit more so i would like to maybe usher them into like an alley or something okay so you you quickly find an alley

1:20:04

between two buildings and uh everyone stops and

1:20:10

takes a deep breath and at this moment they actually find a moment to embrace and

1:20:16

the the mother hugs uh bolina belinda and hollandard and sort of just takes

1:20:23

them in her embrace ah it's these types of moments i

1:20:29

i live for seeing uh thank you thank you so much and at this

1:20:36

point the the mother is now speaking up and she reaches her hand out to give you just a handshake

1:20:43

and would you like to accept absolutely okay as soon as you meet her hand she

1:20:48

like pulls you down to her level and throws her other arm around you and gives you this big hug

1:20:55

i'm happy too happy to with this kind of love that's shared between

1:21:01

between the three of you uh i do have one question

1:21:07

uh did you ever speak to the that fellow that was near you i think his name was

1:21:14

xavier willow something yeah like super powerful guy but ever

1:21:20

since they brought him in he's been completely locked up um he's

1:21:26

he's been trying to cast different spells he's been murmuring things under his breath he's been he's been trying to get out but uh

1:21:34

you saw the chains yes uh if he couldn't get out of them i

1:21:40

i uh i know i probably couldn't either but he is a very intriguing fellow

1:21:49

so what's next for the three of you well probably get out of the city um

1:21:56

i mean i don't think we'll be able to to stay here for very long i honestly we shouldn't have stayed here for as long

1:22:02

as we did in the first place um i think we we might actually head down to again boulder

1:22:08

and you know try and find some like-minded people who are still embracing the old gods i think

1:22:15

that's probably our next step well i will say this and uh

1:22:22

if you're on your way out i would i would try to avoid the the path that goes through cold crest

1:22:28

that seems to uh seems to have become a hot zone of late

1:22:34

thank you well yeah we'll we'll be sure to uh to travel a bit south and and see if we

1:22:40

can find a good border crossing there as for the reward uh

1:22:46

we didn't even discuss uh what that would actually be or any kind of amount but uh

1:22:52

is that uh still on the table oh um

1:22:57

i'm assuming so and she looks back to her kids and uh belinda um

1:23:02

walks back up to you and she says oh um yeah if you want to come back to the house oh we gotta grab

1:23:09

it i mean we're gonna grab the rest of our stuff anyways as we're leaving but um yeah we can we've got like

1:23:16

probably somewhere around 100 gold would that be okay that'd be fantastic i'll

1:23:22

help you pack okay thank you and so they uh they take you out of this alleyway um you go

1:23:28

through um some more sections of the city you actually walk through the temple district and walk past some of the

1:23:35

temples you could see these five different temples to different new gods and

1:23:41

different levels of activity going on in each of them and as you pass through there you pass

1:23:47

through more of a residential area and they take you to a little house sort of on a nice uh little

1:23:55

residential street bring you inside they start packing up their their things belinda tells you to wait a moment she

1:24:01

as she runs upstairs you can hear her upstairs uh

1:24:07

sifting through a bunch of stuff and she finally comes down with a sack of gold and she said i was uh i mean

1:24:14

saving up for a while um we've got about about 100 in here i think it was 108 gold

1:24:21

is that sufficient for you absolutely okay here you go you know what i will

1:24:28

graciously accept 75. uh keep the rest for your travels

1:24:34

trust me that's going to go a long way thank you and she takes out and she gives you 75 gold

1:24:40

pieces cool and how much uh had i grabbed from the

1:24:46

table earlier uh in the in the in um [Music]

1:24:52

let me check around 30 or something right yeah it was it was something like that it was um whatever your party had in

1:24:59

total divided by five um so i don't have that number with me right now but uh

1:25:04

that's what it was awesome okay uh from our from our previous combative

1:25:11

encounter uh great uh is there anything else i can help with

1:25:16

before uh before i before i take my leave if you all uh should i traverse

1:25:22

with you to the edge of the city perhaps if someone tries to impede your way i could

1:25:29

cause some sort of a distraction for you yeah um and we've also i think we've got

1:25:34

an extra bag um would you mind carrying [Music] i can give you another five gold to to

1:25:40

do this all right we just oh no no not necessary i'm happy to happy to do this

1:25:46

oh thank you and as they're carrying their bags and you carry one of their bags um you make

1:25:52

your way through the city and to the edge of the city and you see in front of you uh another massive gate

1:26:00

um fully open but there are guards there letting people in and out in a very orderly fashion

1:26:06

um and they sort of look to you and they go this part's gonna be tricky um

1:26:14

got any suggestions ah i think i might be able to handle this

1:26:21

i love causing chaos amongst this race of beings uh and i quickly

1:26:28

um i am going to

1:26:33

off the ground uh start flying

1:26:39

in their direction and

1:26:45

hmm what am i going to do i am going to

1:26:51

is this so in this part of the gateway um how large is the gateway is it large

1:26:58

enough to where if i were to direct the spell at like a side of it or

1:27:03

close like on either side of the gate that it would like

1:27:08

the source of it if someone were to go check it out would leave the area open like how large is this gate

1:27:14

um they are like currently they're letting in three lines of people and they're

1:27:20

letting out two lines of people so i'd say it's about

1:27:26

25 to 30 feet wide oh okay so i am going to

1:27:33

wander over to well fly over to one side of it uh and i am going to

1:27:40

uh are there any like are there any other architectural elements on either side of the on either

1:27:46

side of the gate um yeah so it's it looks to be like um

1:27:53

pretty much like a huge portcullis type gate um but there is some like stone carvings on either side

1:28:00

there is a pillar on either side that's pretty much it i'm gonna go around to the side of the

1:28:07

pillar to where i can't be seen by anyone in the gate okay i am going to direct a thunder wave with that pillar

1:28:15

okay um all right just roll your damage

1:28:21

all right so that's a 15 foot cube uh with the pillar in the center of it um as i tap

1:28:28

the crystal to my head and channel the uh lightning and thunder and

1:28:34

stormy uh maelstrom uh that sometimes visited my ancestral mountains i direct that energy

1:28:42

from that memory pull it down from the environment around me and channel it through the crystal as a wave of

1:28:49

thunderous force uh shock waves out from the center

1:28:55

of that pillar 15 foot cube um everyone around that area must take a

1:29:01

constitution saving throw failed save is 2d8 damage okay so if it's at the pillar

1:29:07

i'm gonna have you just roll your 2d8 okay great four and three

1:29:14

seven seven um okay so the uh pillar that you

1:29:20

casted at begins to crack and crumble and shake and as this massive boom

1:29:27

roars forth from you the pillar doesn't quite fall over as it's this massive stone pillar but

1:29:33

it definitely just shakes everything around you and you can see all of the dwarven guards that were right there

1:29:40

um look over in that direction here what was that all right go go go

1:29:46

take a look go take a look as a couple of the guards sort of walk up towards the pillar

1:29:52

um at this point you look over and you can see the halfling family as the mom looks

1:29:59

at the sun looks at the daughter goes okay run go go go as they sprint with

1:30:06

their bags out the gate and you can see just um just a little bit too late the guards

1:30:12

turn around to see them sprinting out and you can hear no wait no no no no come back

1:30:17

oh crap as the halflings then run off

1:30:23

into the distance over a hill off in the distance and they are gone out of sight

1:30:29

god speed little ones okay as

1:30:36

you watch them flee off into the distance you look out over the city

1:30:41

and you can sort of pinpoint where you're at you kind of remember back to the map and you remember where the inn

1:30:47

was and you slowly fly back sort of taking in the

1:30:52

surroundings around you and you can see the park up ahead uh up ahead of you you can

1:30:58

see the militarized zone of the city off to your right and you come to a

1:31:05

slow perch right at the front of the inn and with that you walk up the stairs as

1:31:12

the day is coming to a close you walk down the hallway you can see

1:31:18

the windows on your left the sun from the the sunlight from the setting sun is

1:31:23

just beginning to pour in and you open the door and you see kellex

1:31:28

standing there and with that that is where we're going to end today's session

1:31:33

oh man we're going to call it right there i want to tell him about everything though

1:31:38

you'll oh trust me you'll get it you'll get the chance but with a bit of a prison break from

1:31:44

shraya that is where we're going to call it thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see all again next week

1:31:51

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1:31:58

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