Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

greetings earth and beings my name is shraya flynn oma and i'm your dm ethan welcome to

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venture forth

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[Music]

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so [Music]

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previously you all had traveled to the city of solaris a dwarven stronghold within the nation of

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caldor you guys passed through the town of blackpool and met up with a

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strange war forged named thaddeus you guys grabbed his head and after

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revealing some information to march that her long-lost sister was actually alive down south she

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veered off from the path and parted ways from the rest of the party

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the rest of you moved on to solaris awaiting thaddeus's contact to come to

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you and help dispel any sort of magical or non-magical tracking that was alerting you to the hollow

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guard you guys had a day to yourselves each of you uh

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taking care of some business dispensing in some revelry and and some fun activities

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and at the end of the day you guys all come back together

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so as we start the sun sets on the horizon just over the wall of solaris

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the last beams of golden sunlight disappear in the air

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as a cold wind comes through the city

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calek you are the first to arrive back in your room

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you open the door and you see beds empty you see the gold

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and the silver and the copper that you had laid out all taken for the day

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you see thaddeus's head no longer there on the dresser what would you like to do

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i will i will watch the sunset as it goes down uh and reflect

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on the the day's events and on

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the new the new meaning that uh that the sun falling uh has to me and

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i'll i'll uh pull from my pocket my uh my tri-ring sigil

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and uh and unwrap it from the cloth and just um

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take the hold it up to the the falling sun and turn it as and like look through each ring

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into the sunlight just in a moment of sort of meditation and

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trying to trying to put all the pieces together [Music] okay

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and in the midst of your contemplation you hear the door behind you

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creak open shraya you enter the room and you see calex standing there by the window

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uh do i notice what he's engaged in is it clear to me right off the bat

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um i'm gonna have you make a religion check [Music]

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oh that is a that is not great that is a six six um no you see him holding up his

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necklace to the sun not sure exactly what the significance there is

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ah one of my favorite pastimes admiring the intricacies

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of light through something and i'm gonna sort of charge around to

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the side and try to get a better look at it myself over around the corner i may even um

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yeah i may even just put my hands on his shoulder and like pop over his shoulder and be like oh what is

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you that try uh got me my surprise uh this is uh

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you know this is uh my my necklace uh uh

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you've heard me speak of amir yes uh someone you admire greatly being a great being a

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deity yeah i suppose yes she uh uh you you follow the teachings of

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aldarya and uh amira was something of a companion of hers is

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something of a companion of hers uh and for mere uh

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well she is is

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exalted by the light right and i gesture to the to the the red

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uh edges of the sun as it's trailing in the distance

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and uh these circles these rings

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on my necklace they uh represent all the ways that we

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experience light right the sun the moon and each time i say one of these things

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i gesture to one of the rings and the stars but uh

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i don't know what what to make of it you know between all the light

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there's all this darkness and

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are we supposed to tank that the darkness is somehow worse

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than the light [Music] just because it doesn't have

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a glimmer and i and you might notice um as i'm handling this

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this piece of metal that it's quite tarnished and uh

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in fact in some places it's warped it's uh misshapen

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i just kind of lose my myself in thought regarding this [Music]

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what's your thing try dark and light these things have any

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meaning to you i try to keep myself from having a preference

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in my own way i recognize that one cannot exist without the other

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and yet i find myself drawn

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drawn to one as you might have noticed

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in our time together and yet

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the questions you put forth uh they have no easy answer

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i consider it a miracle every single day that ilduria both provides and

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transmutes the energy that comes from these distinct sources of light

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and yet the more the more i think i understand

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both the splendor and the mystery of the forces that shape this world the

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the more questions i have the more frustrated i become in my

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quieter moments as quiet as they may seem how did you come into eldoria stations

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where you taught them or did you find her did she find you [Music]

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i'm not sure whether she found me or whether i found her i will say that

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it's not knowledge that i was wisdom that i was brought up

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or directed toward rather she seemed

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more of a compliment to the ways in which i was taught to interact with the world around

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me and the essence and substance that pervades

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all things she to me seemed to be

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almost like a an offshoot of the universal energy that pervades

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everything that grows almost like a a messenger for it

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and when i found farlane and and

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the elven brothers and brother and sisterhood that that i found myself within

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it almost seemed like something i had been searching for yet and something that agreed with

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everything i had known up until that point and i couldn't help but

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dive into those teachings [Music]

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what about them julia the reverence or

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the ritual there was a certain comfort in the ritual and

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i will admit something about

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the records and how ancient and how long how long

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it had been passed down that beings of all stripes had looked to her

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for guidance my where the way i grew up i

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i was never taught that record keeping or any kind of

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way of looking up to and organizing around principles was any kind of

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way of being nature herself was simply a life force uh

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something that couldn't be understood or channeled in that kind of way and so

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i could only fall back on the teachings of my tribe and yet in the presence of ildoria

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in the presence of such a being that could be understood and learned from and principles that

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could guide one's life in a more practical way i will admit i i have not always been

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even this good at even communicating with other beings that are not like myself but

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the teachings of ildoria gave me a gave me a touchstone i remember meditations at that altar in

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the woods in that forest in that shadow timberland they helped me

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in my ability to even reach out to beings not like myself [Music]

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i gotta admit try it's hard to imagine you're being worse at communicating oh well what

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well you should have you should have seen the first beings i ever came into contact with that were

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not like myself they did they walked on four legs

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oh uh i am curious i i took a walk uh this morning

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uh down to uh the temple district to this this place i don't even know if that's what they

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call it here it's just what i've [Music] what i would refer to it as from

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experience but uh they have a temple here

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uh to the god uh i'm loved to even call him a god

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uh but uh emreal and uh they were

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i was watching them as they kept the plants here and tended to the plant life

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around their temple and the the diligence with which they

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cared for them uh struck me [Music] uh you know

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[Music] in the shadow timberland that temple was almost

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uh unidentifiable by how overgrown the [Music]

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foliage was but here it was

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i don't know cleaner but but still vibrant

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what what what do you make of of amarillo

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uh ethan in my travels would i have even heard of this uh deity or being until

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now [Music] hmm i'm gonna have you make another religion another one another one

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another even worse nope this is the first time you're

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hearing of embryo i will admit i've

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by choice and by happenstance been less inclined to

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to pursue the gods that would crop up in a city like this

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so i i can't say i have any sort of familiarity with with the god in which

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you speak [Music] well with our demons as of late and our interaction with this war

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it just it was important to me to see you know wow what it was all about why

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people would risk their lives just to fight over you know whose

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temple we're keeping and a sort of wistful look shines in my eye

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[Music] i was quite taken with the people here you know

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[Music] they're not monsters they're not bloodthirsty

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they truly believe that they're liberating the people of andel and genbalder

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and that kind of devotion that kind of belief

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and it's dangerous it's it's it's part of why i don't think

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this war will be put to bed

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comfortably perhaps the danger

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in any being or any tribe is the will to exert

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their own beliefs over the freedoms of all who roamed this

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world i did my own exploring through this city

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seems at least in this settlement that the ethos is very geared

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toward arranging and putting things in their

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place it's just not something i'm familiar with it's not a

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way of approaching the world that i uh that i know you both hear the door creak

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open behind you and a halfling walks through

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out of flynn it starts the creek open and then uh carrying thaddeus head under my one arm

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and a bag that i'm holding a second bag that i'm holding in my other arm i kind of off balance and i kind of push the

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door open a little bit further and thaddeus's head rolls out and hits the hits the ground oh and i go pick it up

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and i look up oh hey kellick try out and i run over

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what are you guys doing guys i had a crazy day check this out i brought thadios with me he kind of kind of

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helped a little bit kind of and i set him in in triad's lap and i got this

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what i was just saying hello to the oh well he's not on right now i found that out

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that you kind of have to turn him on to talk to him you can't just talk to him he doesn't actually always hear you um i can turn him on if you want to talk to

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him uh no that's that's all right carry on well i also got this and i hold up the

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the bag that i'm holding and uh i went on a a hunt with a with a sentinel of

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the highlight collective like an actual sentinel and he knew he knew victor my mentor

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how did you find out he was uh a member oh well there's some secret codes that

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you learn as a collective member and i have another try

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oh well yeah of course anyway check this out and i'll hold up the bag

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i actually actually brought something back because apparently i i i i forgot and haley

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reminded me i have to i have to take this to oh man i don't even know how we're gonna get back anyway here and i'll reach into

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the bag and i will think about a hook horror head

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okay and um as flynn holds up the bag he plunges his hand into the bag and his

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hand goes in past his wrist past his elbow and down to his shoulder far past where the bag should normally end

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um and flynn you you feel yourself grab on to the back tuft of of um like

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feathers and fur of the hook horror head pull that thing out show it to the group

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and he pulls out this this disgusting rank thing it is a

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like purplish head with feathers all um in like this this mess on the top of its

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head and its face comes down to this this stark white bone beak at the front

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of its face and you can see even though its eyes are completely white you can see they're like rolled back by the

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amount of veins that are coming up from under underneath the eyes something that

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normally should not fit in this bag but he just pulled it out of the back check it out isn't it crazy

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[Music] dm if i if i look at it is it does it appear to be real

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i hold it uncomfortably i make eye contact

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make a uh nature check for me okay

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nature 10 10. um it's definitely real the smell is

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definitely real um yeah it's for sure i'm gonna take a step

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back and it wins a little bit and just look over like turn my head sideways and then and say

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it's a formidable kill why on earth were you hunting it well

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when i found bail in the sentinel um he said that he actually was hunting these things apparently they're causing

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problems in the town so we went down into this deep dark cave and we fought these things i kicked one off a cliff

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into lava and we also fought spiders and uh yeah and then i i took that i have to

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basically take this as proof to the collective that i you know i i

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did it at least at this time are you saying these beings are actual residents of this city

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no they live underground i guess um the the tunnel went further down but we

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didn't um we didn't go down there was some uh drow that kind of ran down the tunnel

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uh we never really figured out what they were doing but basically we just were taking care of

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these hook [ __ ] and we did and now i have to show this to meluru and then now she'll be

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she'll be proud of me i think we'll see about that

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but uh good good job flynn is isn't there something you should do and i just kind of like start to look around it's

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various goopy orifices [Music] and i'll uh

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isn't there something you should do to i don't know preparatory um so it doesn't decompose i'm pretty sure there

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is i'm not gonna lie to you i wasn't really too good at the at the

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the class stuff like sitting down and memorizing and learning um so i kind of forget what i'm supposed to do

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um do you know what i should do keep this thing

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i i reach into my medical bag and i pull out um a little um

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[Music] glass vial of salt and i open it up and

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i put a pinch of it into my fingers and i and i just kind of uh uh move it between my fingers

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in front of the face of this creature and i just whisper

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and i cast a gentle repose and the uh the salt uh

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floats up from my fingers and uh and glows orange and flies like uh little uh

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dazzling spiraling lightning bolts to the to the various uh openings

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where this thing is dripping and and uh sort of sears them

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uh into a more uh refined state and what it does uh for the spells effect is uh

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the target is protected from decay and can't become undead for 10 days whoa all right

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whoa yeah they didn't teach me that in the collective that was really cool and i'll

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just shove it back in the bag also yeah this bag um apparently i can put a

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bunch of stuff in it um so if you guys need to carry things

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let me know i'm gonna whisper over to over to kellik i'm bringing what i hunt to you from now

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on what did you guys get up to and right as you say that

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you hear the door not a gentle creek but a burst open as the door the wood door

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almost comes off of its hinges slams into the wall uh you see oma standing there in the doorway

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the other shoulder guys you'll never guess who i found

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attack ouch oh my gosh shouldn't run all the way here ow ow you okay

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come on guys let's let's go i found carol come on kale uh the locksmiths son

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aha i had dinner with him it was really nice let's go you [ __ ] i i just look at the

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other two in amazement uh yes

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all right let's move i'll uh i'll toss the bag of holding i'm running back out the door

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holding holding my rib cage if i have things that were in the room i'm just gonna quickly gather the bolt out the

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door here

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all right um so you guys run out the door um down onto the the streets of

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solaris and uh oma guides you through some alleyways um ducking around

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shop city secrets city secrets and um

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[Laughter]

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but eventually uh through city secrets you get to that house okay so i met this really cool guy and

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this really cool kid and we were playing a little bit and just happened to be like running up a tree and and i got to

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fight some some of his bullies man they were so mean to him and we were playing and we um we broke into a magic shop and

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then he invited me home for dinner and guess who his dad was kale yeah

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all right wow that's quite the coincidence um yeah what can i say wait how did you meet

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this young man oh he was just playing [Music] you messed him on a playground no no he

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was playing outside his house and i was running and i just saw him and he seemed really nice and his sister was really

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nice and he told me he showed me around oh and he told me this big tree and if you

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climb to the very top of it you can see the whole town i could show you the tree

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uh take take us the cow uh we we can see the tree later yeah okay

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so um so you guys are uh going through the city um and eventually

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oma brings you to sort of the residential area of this city and brings you up to a

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house a um looks like a two-story wooden house a couple of torches

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lit outside and you could see a gentle glow um of some sort of uh

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fireplace or possibly some lamps from the inside the door is closed

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i knock be quiet [Music]

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make a perception check

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[Music] 13 uh 13. you just catch a glimpse on the

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second story up in a window in a

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dark room you just catch a glimpse of kale who was looking out down at you

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guys moving back into the shadows [Music] and after a minute

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another minute the door in front of you slowly creaks open

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and you hear okay you're all here yeah okay come inside

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and he opens the door fully to you guys uh whoever i'm in front of or behind as we walk in i'm just gonna say

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what has she enlisted us in [Music] i never really no i'm not really sure

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but oh yeah we'll figure it out i am gonna take a a beat to assess the situation and kind

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of i can i see inside when he opens the door

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um yeah you can it is lit by the fireplace that is currently a light

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um you can see it looks like a family's home um you can see a little

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living area right next to the fireplace you can see um a kitchen area and it looks like some of the dishes are still

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out but most of them have been cleared and you can see a staircase that goes up

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to the second floor and standing there is a

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middle-aged human man um dark hair sort of a mid-length dark hair and a

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thick brown mustache across his face

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did we bring thaddeus yeah i could have just said i i kept thaddeus under my arm yes

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yeah yeah um and as you see him standing there he

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looks to oma and he says why don't you bring your friends inside

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yeah yeah um so so you know me i'm oma and and this right here and i point to

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to the tall um drought this is kellik um and and and and this is shraya and i point to

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try and this is flynn and and this is thaddeus but it looks like he's sleeping

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i can wake him up if you want no i would prefer if you

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kept him in whatever state he's currently in um would you all care to come inside

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yes please sure okay thank you and he uh he leads you guys

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inside um and he sits you guys down on a little couch right across from the

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fireplace um as you guys look around the fireplace is the only thing the only

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source of light in this room and it's casting these weird um long shadows over

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in the kitchen area and up on the stairs and as you guys look around you sort of keep thinking that you see things out of

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the corner of your eye but you realize that they're just shadows from the fire and you sit down and couch is

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comfortable the fire is warm and you sort of settle into your seats

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kale walks over to a chair that's opposite you guys and sort of

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next to the fireplace and he sits down and he says

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now i will take precautions to protect myself i i hope you

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realize this but i need you all to to state your

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allegiances at this current moment are any of you

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associated or loyal to hollow guard certainly not

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nope i make no allegiance to any organized

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group of beings well that's a good start

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drought where do you find your allegiances

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i uh my only allegiance is to

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righteousness

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and the halfling uh the island collective well

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oma here was telling me that you all had um staved off a possible attack and

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you guys had known of my father is that correct i knew your father um i i don't know if

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anyone else in in of my friends has heard of him but we did we did um

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um fight somebody from the hollow guard

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okay well that's that's a good start and did anyone follow you into the city

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no not that we're aware of but we're also waiting here for like anti-tracking things potentially so that

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no one can find us ever again okay well that's

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that's helpful um where are you getting those because i might be in need of that service as

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well um we don't really know but like once i know i'll tell you

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the uh automaton uh the dismantled

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head is working on that for us again i can wake him up if you want to

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find out about it but it seems like you really need some help hiding because

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people really want to find you why do they want to find you so bad i don't know if it's exactly me that

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they're after but rather my father and they seem to believe that i know where my father is

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why do they want your father well

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my father was was a locksmith oma you you know this

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and he was a very good locksmith he created keys and he created

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locks that could not be opened he got into business with hollow guard and

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he would create locks for companies and and

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for businesses and then he would create an identical set of keys and sell them off to the hollow guard to

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then easily enter these places that would not normally be entered [Music]

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he also through his research found ways to create keys to other places

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places that aren't here and i don't know how far into his

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research he got he tried to keep me out of it probably for the reason that i'm being tracked

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right now but i do know he created keys that went to other places that

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normally you are not able to go like other planes like like where

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shreya's fought from i don't know where try i i assume if you're from another plane i

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assume that's where those keys are able to take you i would be very interested in

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perhaps revisiting the place that i've only been in vague memories dreams and legends of my

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ancestors i believe that's where

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some of his keys can take you i'm not exactly sure like i said to the

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extent but i would assume that that's what hollowguard is after

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okay okay okay but but you also said and and kellick this one's

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important you said that you knew about a cult that worships a wolf

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yes yeah i've heard of a red wolf do they have something to do

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with the planes as well i cannot tell you for certain i know that

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they are part of the group who was trying to come after me and my family to find out where my father was

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i have only seen the symbology a few times

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and i've heard only a few chants from what i assume are members of this cult

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when they were coming after me at risk of sounding like the

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people you mentioned who are interested in finding you why was it that you and your father were

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separated well he

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sort of disappeared a number of years ago

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and i have barely spoken with him since

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i know that pain all too well [Music] what was his name

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what is his name sorry bram so

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you're being pursued by both the hologuard and

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this cult of the red wolf it seems so yeah because it

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with our recent experience it would seem these these two groups are aligned

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and communicating to your father and do you have any sense of why

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the hologuard would want access to alternate planes

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i don't know their exact motives i can't predict i would assume there's some sort of power to be

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held onto there to be able to go to different planes at will to be able to

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unlock doors through dimensions i can think of a number of applications for that sort

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of power well um

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[Music] we dealt with a red wolf before

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and in the interest of honesty um one of his buddies wasn't in his

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crypt so like that's really bad and then i am carving amber stone mean

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anything never heard of it okay well so maybe the colton hall guard aren't necessarily

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tied but everybody wants your dad that's what drek seemed to imply when we spoke to

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him that that was at least a tangential correlation of the two

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i assume the this is the and he turns to alma this is the man you were telling me about

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mm-hmm okay yeah he was really scary um but also like

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um have you ever heard of a prison crystal

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[Music] um yeah well not are you talking about one specifically

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or just the concept of them you dumb both

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yeah yeah it's it's a pretty common practice for um

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people who are too powerful to be um sort of kept in normal bonds um

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to be locked away a normal practice for for those of us in the military of kaldur

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well drake relayed to us

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before trying to kill us that he was after you

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and and some of his people got held up in a crystal um

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well that crystal broke and there are lots of shards all over

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the place and some of them have infiltrated bodies

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and i don't know what their plan is

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okay um and you can see him sort of putting some puzzle pieces together in his head

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um so this this man who was after you was

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so he was part of the group who was then trapped in the crystals

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i think so that's at least what he said okay and if they're free now then

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i i'm gonna have to leave that um seems reasonable i i'm gonna

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have to i'm gonna have to go um [Music]

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i i think i'm gonna pack my things and grab my family and leave um oma

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it was very nice to meet you and i appreciate you bringing this information to me um and i apologize for

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my leaving so soon but i must protect my family and i will

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leave you at this time do should we know who they are to honestly at this point

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it doesn't matter much um can you would you be able to give me a physical description for people i should look out

39:15

for um can they jump bodies i have not known

39:23

any sort of magic that can do this okay yeah yeah so one is like a red tiefling um

39:30

with kind of a gnarly burned face and the other one is a half fork with a hole in

39:35

its chest okay oma once again i appreciate this um but

39:44

i will have to go um i'll stand up to add force to my interruption

39:53

freda art amnesia does the name mean anything to you

39:58

[Music] no she was a high ranking official

40:05

at the temple of amir i'm i'm sorry i don't recognize that name i have to go we have letters

40:11

of her correspondence with your father and it's damn evidence that is not a

40:20

path you want to tread now i'm sorry i assure you that it is

40:27

give me something to go on if frida spoiled the light

40:34

it just got to be stopped [Music]

40:40

uh [Music] she has

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she's found herself on a dark path and i'm afraid no one can stop that at this point

40:54

[Music] give me something [Music]

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you know something tell me where to start

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tell me what she asked [Music]

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i'll give you a name [Music] do not use this name lightly

41:19

this name will get you in trouble only use it with people you trust

41:27

and to find the answers that you need and he pulls you in real close

41:34

and i'm gonna have everyone accept calek stop listening here for a second

41:41

[Music] and he pulls you in real close and he

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whispers into your ear [Music]

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and he pushes you back as he as he does this i will um

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undo my bandage a little bit to show the the burn of my hand i'll say

42:09

i assume you know the significance of this mark [Music]

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so i hope you'll take my manning when i say i vow only to share this name with those

42:23

to home and his partner [Music] i sure not your convictions but i know

42:30

the meaning of this so i appreciate it and he reaches over by the fireplace and grabs a bag

42:36

sort of slings it over his shoulder the house is yours i don't know how safe

42:41

it is but there's food in the kitchen if you all require

42:47

but i must go can you tell adam i said bye i'll tell him oma

42:53

[Music] and thank you again i don't know if we helped as he walks out the door

42:59

and he closes it behind him

43:05

i sure don't feel any closer to anything i look uh like discouraged over it alma

43:12

it's something i have a crumb sorry maybe i shouldn't have told him

43:17

people were after him right away it's all right omaha

43:23

you know you'll learn to perform interrogations in time i just don't want him to get hurt you know

43:29

he's nice is he nice i don't know it's so hard to

43:35

know you know hard to say his father was up to some

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nefarious works [Music] and to to be candid you know making keys for the special

43:49

accident it's a miracle he's alive if he is at all i can imagine any of the organizations

43:55

that employed his skills as a blacksmith would have been pretty upset to find that their locks

44:00

were easily foiled by keys he made for thieves really

44:05

i just wish i knew what sidekill was on because it's really confusing

44:10

[Music] like i know he's a general on one side but like

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his letters seem pretty damning [Music]

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why is war so confusing [Music] why is any cause confusing i look over

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to kalec or kellik and i say appears followers of your

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vermeer or perhaps just as conflicted as you are especially the ones that

44:40

purport to follow most fervently [Music]

44:47

tria i wish they'd work as conflicted as i

44:53

at a time like this [Music]

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um well they're talking i'll just turn to thaddeus and turn them on for 10 minutes

45:05

[Music] all right [Music]

45:12

and you see his eyes glow purple once again oh hey flynn hi um we text we had a chat

45:19

with some people and i figured i don't know maybe maybe you could help i don't know if they have any questions for you but and

45:25

i'll turn his head towards the group towards alma and towards

45:30

towards calek oh hello again everyone hi thaddeus hello

45:36

what what can i help with how was your day my day was amazing

45:43

you should have seen some of the [ __ ] flynn and i got up to oh yeah yeah it was great

45:49

guys he could do cool stuff yeah it's not like what i hey man it was

45:55

great don't even it was you did great i tried my best but yeah we just talked to

46:02

kale and he had to leave um

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i don't know if you have any more information about the thing we're here waiting for but i

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figured if oma kellic if you have questions i figured i'd turn them on and you can ask them and i'll as after i say that

46:20

i'll stand up and i'm just going to walk around the house and look around for i want to look around for like any cool

46:26

locks like i'll open drawers and see if there's any cool like locks that maybe

46:32

kale left or his father left or any type of mementos or cool special locks

46:38

okay um cool so as you're looking through that uh the rest of you are left downstairs with thaddeus

46:45

[Music] um i don't flynn said you had questions

46:51

i don't really have any questions for you how long have you been around

46:56

i've been around so a couple years i think at this point probably

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14 15. yeah i don't know if you're old enough

47:10

enough for what to be of any help to know any of the secrets

47:18

i mean have you ever heard of a cult of the red wolf i have not yep yep

47:24

[Music] huh caleb

47:31

yes homer what was that name kale said to you

47:37

i uh made a promise i wouldn't just toss it around on

47:42

i know but i'm kind of involved now you know

47:49

hi but uh the promises i make alma

47:55

i have to keep them but i could help i know

48:02

so you'll tell me when i can help that how well

48:08

when will that be i don't know [Music]

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does it have anything to do with what we're doing right now what are we doing right now well right

48:21

now we're just waiting to be able to avoid kale's house

48:26

yeah well but i think right now we're just waiting to be able to get those whatever my

48:31

bobbers from thaddeus so that the hollow guard can't find us anymore right i mean

48:36

that's the key and then we have to keep finding prison crystals

48:42

right now it appears we are in a dissident's house and uh based on my experience of this city the city does

48:48

not look too kind on them so if you'll excuse me and i'm gonna make my way toward uh either the windows or the door

48:55

i'm just gonna like look out to just check and make sure no one's like approaching the structure

49:01

yeah make up perception check

49:06

11. 11 uh you look out you don't see anyone approaching should we not be here then

49:13

was kell a spy do we have we assessed that no i don't know i mean where was he on the

49:21

war itself he was a general for calder right but he was in communication with

49:27

artemisia which you're the only one who knows anything about artemisia so i don't know anything about her

49:33

right and so was she a spy or was he a spy right which one of them

49:40

was well we we know that at least the person who was

49:46

uh posing as artemisia was uh certainly not uh a devotee

49:53

of mayor do you think that someone was actually posing as her

49:59

hope so [Music] that's a nice hope

50:05

don't patronize me allah oh sorry i wasn't trying to be patronizing it's

50:11

fine it's fine the point is uh there wasn't anything in their letters

50:17

about the war was there yeah i mean they received the silver well they

50:24

received a potion we just kind of thought it might have been the silver tongue potion to get that person in but i guess it

50:29

could have all been a ruse and all false anyway it's really hard to know when you don't know who the spy was

50:37

i mean i will say that today at dinner um cal and his wife prayed to the new

50:44

gods i think so that would imply

50:49

that they were faithful to the causes yeah

50:55

sure but i mean maybe they're just like deep deep undercover

51:02

and they don't even want their kids to know that they pray to other gods

51:08

seems very very twisted

51:15

but i think you're probably right try maybe we shouldn't be here

51:20

yes even if the local authorities are not uh

51:26

after them as they're saying they were aligned with the people loyal to this country

51:34

he did mention that there were other elements after him as well

51:42

flynn yeah real quick i'm gonna have flynn make an investigation check sure

51:48

as you go upstairs and i have advantage on this

51:54

you have an advantage on all intelligence very very good natural 20.

52:01

nice um so you're specifically looking for locks yeah locks there any cool like gadgety kind of locking mechanisms that

52:08

maybe um i guess are locking a chest or maybe they're open that i can take

52:14

okay um you go upstairs and the first door on your right you open up

52:19

and it looks like a kid's room um you can see two beds there and you can see there is this

52:27

little ball off in the corner right next to what looks like a closed and locked

52:34

chest okay um well i'll go check that one out first i'll go up to it and kind of touch the lock and like expect it and

52:40

look at it see if it looks fancy or if it just looks like a normal lock okay um looks like just a normal lock

52:48

and with your natural 20 investigation um you see on a little end table right next to it is a little

52:55

key um it looks like a just a like a little simple very generic

53:01

key um and as you take it you open up this chest the simpleness of the key makes

53:07

sense as you open this chest and it looks like a toy chest um for a couple of kids um this lock and key

53:15

was probably just part of the the make of the chest but very simple

53:21

um as you walk into the next room you see what looks like probably the

53:27

master bedroom of this place you go through closets the drawers

53:35

you find that most of it has been cleared out just the same as in the children's room

53:40

most of the clothes have been taken away um and uh most of the the possessions have been

53:46

taken as well um you do find just in um one of the

53:52

sort of night stands right next to the bed you open up the top drawer and laying right there the only thing in

53:58

this drawer is a looks like an iron lock

54:04

just like a very simple iron lock you don't see a key that goes along with it but as you take it and you flip it

54:11

upside down um you see on the back of it sort of etched in in this this nice little embroidery

54:18

um you see the initials b d [Music]

54:31

how big is it it's like it fits in my hand yeah yeah i'll just put it in my pocket

54:36

i'll look in the other drawers see if i can find a key i'll look around the under the bed

54:42

i'll find it you do not find a key [Music] yeah i'll throw it in my pocket and

54:50

and is there any other are there any rooms or is that it that is it up here

54:55

as you head downstairs and meet up with the rest of the group [Music]

55:01

yeah when do you think your contact will be here

55:06

uh most likely tomorrow morning okay so we just have to make it through the night

55:12

yeah i would think so um well if we distance ourselves from this place

55:18

there's no reason to tank we're in any danger yeah maybe we quietly leave so they don't

55:24

nobody can see where we're going should we split up

55:29

[Music] what would be the benefit of that well

55:35

that way if someone's following us uh they'd have to choose

55:40

perhaps since we know where we're going we could all meet back up at the inn

55:49

but if they too choose to follow one of us and that person's in

55:54

substantial danger that's true i hadn't thought about that

56:00

i mean we could all go one way and then flynn could go by himself you know just split

56:05

it off that way i don't know i'm okay i'm doing i'm good with that

56:12

i just finn i'm being facetious we should all stay together and well i mean i am the

56:17

strongest of the group so well march isn't here any longer to argue with you on that then so

56:23

you're never gonna have to fight for that title i hope she's okay [Music]

56:30

all right so you guys all heading back as a group yes yes okay

56:37

so i would like to yeah i would like to be as stealthy as possible as we expect okay same space

56:43

okay awesome um so i'm gonna have everyone make a stealth check does city secrets give you anything on

56:48

that um no it just makes us move twice as fast if that helps a little bit yeah so you

56:55

guys will be moving at a normal pace if you guys are trying to be stealthy

57:01

rolling and just throw them at me when you get them 18 15 18.

57:07

nice okay um shreya you're a little bit uh less stealthy than the

57:13

rest of the group um you got a three right yes okay um

57:19

you uh everyone's like ducking ducking down alleys and everything and um

57:25

you are trying to follow them and you think you hear something behind you so you quickly

57:30

turn around but you don't think it was anything and then you turn back around and as soon as you

57:37

turn back around your entire party is gone no

57:43

and you look around and i'm gonna have you make a perception check for me it was my idea

57:52

where did they go uh perception that is a

57:58

dirty 21. okay um you sort of concentrate once again and

58:04

you can hear some footsteps um just down and off to the right um so you dip

58:09

around the corner and you find your party once more and you guys all safely make it back to the inn

58:16

um and as you guys are sort of ducking and weaving through these buildings um

58:23

thaddeus uh looks up to you guys and he says well um

58:28

i think that might be it for me for the day so i just wanted to say before you know we all go to sleep and all this um

58:35

i just had a lot of food buddy what was he gonna say i don't know

58:41

should i wake him up again oh we can't you can't wake him up again no that's it

58:48

done forever a lot of fear dead dead forever yeah

58:53

oh man i'm never gonna get to find out what he was gonna say i know it's gonna it's gonna rack my brain for the rest of

58:59

my life a lot of fraudulent tax returns probably

59:06

you guys make it back to the end great um you guys uh walk inside completely

59:14

unnoticed by uh anyone who might be or might not be following you um and you

59:20

guys make it up to the room is there anything you guys want to do before you guys uh actually get down for

59:26

a long rest what a weird day i really hoped finding cal would help us

59:34

more yeah it does feel a bit uh anticlimactic doesn't it well what do we what do we do

59:39

now who wants to get to other planes and why

59:44

that's really spooky huh like this whole thing

59:51

just seems a lot bigger than a war right [Music] dm do i know

59:59

like where like archway if they would exist on another plane or

1:00:06

if like can i put the pieces together of of the of what relationship planes may have to the

1:00:14

fallen storm all these things um yeah i'm gonna have you make

1:00:21

a religion check

1:00:28

17. okay um so let's see

1:00:34

you would have read that archfay

1:00:41

they uh would you know

1:00:46

i'm trying to relate specifically to what you would know the assertion that i want to make is like

1:00:53

that the cult of the red wolf may want to traverse the plains to reach

1:01:00

dalmak or his kin but i don't know that i would know that

1:01:06

that's a thing yeah yeah i mean you would you would know

1:01:11

that most um archfey come from the feywild um

1:01:17

and they um [Music]

1:01:23

yeah they mostly come from the feywild you you wouldn't be able to discern any like purpose or motive necessarily from

1:01:28

this but the feywild is an outer plane right

1:01:34

yes it is [Music] that's because confused with the frey wild which is on the map

1:01:40

um yes the fray wood um the frey wood which interesting

1:01:47

enough um is where like a lot of you would know this a lot of

1:01:52

and actually schreyer would know this too um a lot of um claims of like contact with

1:01:59

archway and like interactions with archway have claimed to have come from the freywood um and that that sort of

1:02:07

seems to be a hub for that sort of thing well

1:02:12

if i were a cultist right and i would never be a catholic certainly but if i

1:02:18

were i might want to access other planes to try and reach

1:02:25

uh the originators of

1:02:31

the thing that i worship this this this red wolf that we found the tomb of uh

1:02:37

perhaps his [Music] spirit is trapped somewhere elsewhere

1:02:43

or if not his than another uh that would carry on his torch

1:02:49

uh the the the feywild uh would be where archway dalmok uh

1:02:57

would have come from so it's possible so do you think all of the

1:03:03

souls in the prison crystal are cultists

1:03:10

well no because track drac was associated with this people

1:03:17

no or was he was he tangential well maybe the cultists just

1:03:22

joined up with hologuard out of convenience because everybody was after

1:03:27

bram right because halogard could use bram to

1:03:35

get money right and and maybe they were angry because he wasn't making keys for them anymore

1:03:41

could use bram to get to other dimensions

1:03:47

and they are too they are two separate things it's not that the hologuard just is the cult

1:03:52

yeah and you were sure it didn't know anything of

1:04:00

the souls of the crystals and uh i don't think

1:04:06

that um

1:04:14

in my time traveling with kerr and um the team

1:04:20

did and and zerg and everyone air did they ever did i ever hear them mention

1:04:26

a cult of the red wolf uh no you would have you would have never heard any men yeah

1:04:33

yeah i mean my my group never mentioned it even when we went to bram's house um we

1:04:40

there was never any mention of like hey find any wolf iconography um

1:04:47

so i don't think hologuard and the cultists are

1:04:53

the same necessarily maybe they just had the same goals

1:04:58

with power that great it does seem like different factions could be

1:05:04

after it for different reasons i've noticed that whether it be precious resources from the earth or

1:05:10

or just the ability to maintain a level of freedom or will over

1:05:15

others power in any form can be enticing right

1:05:20

that's true you know i don't know much about the planes but are there any planes that cause or have

1:05:28

lots of fire i've only heard legends of them

1:05:34

but we then again we are in my early days i was instructed uh

1:05:39

that there are many different planes some only pass on their knowledge to the

1:05:46

beings of this plane in very particular vessels

1:05:52

because when i was investigating graham's house um his workspace was like

1:05:57

full of ash and smoke and if he was working on keys and maybe he got a key

1:06:03

to somewhere that had a lot of fire i wonder if some of that fire caused a

1:06:08

big explosion his workplace is full of full of ash like soot

1:06:18

like the walls had stood on them but it didn't seem magical was there signs of an explosion

1:06:26

um i mean why else would there be tons of smoke

1:06:31

there wasn't like blasts or anything there was smoke or just sort

1:06:37

so i was probably a while ago like there wasn't any like blown up

1:06:43

furniture that sometimes happens when there's an explosion [Music]

1:06:49

well i uh

1:06:55

i spent some time in a in a temple today a few of them

1:07:03

to the new gods one of the new gods is a uh

1:07:08

[Music] he's a

1:07:14

he's an entity of ashes he uh

1:07:19

exists in a place called the argent plains and

1:07:24

the argent planes are

1:07:29

a beautiful uh bountiful land uh where there's

1:07:35

wildlife and [Music] vibrance

1:07:40

plant life worlds of [Music] grace

1:07:46

but at its core it's composed of ashes tm

1:07:52

do i remember the walls being just sit like from a fire and not ash

1:07:57

specifically or um yeah it looks specifically like

1:08:05

in your specific experience there was a fire that was lit there and

1:08:10

it engulfed the entire room um it wasn't but it didn't damage anything inside

1:08:16

it uh yeah [Music] i don't think this is the same thing

1:08:21

caleb it it wasn't like the ash that you used for your like little spells

1:08:27

and your hand thingy it wasn't that uh oh okay all right

1:08:34

i mean that that sounds really to cool like a whole world well it's

1:08:40

just made about you know it could be possible someone would want to go there oh yeah

1:08:45

totally if someone was working on keys to [Music]

1:08:51

i don't know um i mean that's a much prettier place to go than somewhere that's full of fire

1:08:57

but i think he made a key to somewhere full of fire maybe on accident

1:09:03

what if he just made a you say nothing was destroyed so it was no bomb

1:09:09

no so it wasn't a bomb [Music] that's what's so crazy right i'm sure none of this stuff was just fire

1:09:16

just just to clarify on this um nothing was like blasted and destroyed

1:09:23

everything it seemed like everything caught on fire like if you set a normal fire it wasn't

1:09:28

like a blast that you know destroyed everything in the room it just seemed like everything sort of caught on

1:09:35

okay okay just to clarify that sorry

1:09:41

i don't know i don't know but it could be it could be a thing

1:09:48

we don't know do you want to go to his house

1:09:53

well you could see for yourself where is his house

1:09:58

oh where is his house yum do i know where his house is

1:10:04

uh bram's house yeah yeah um yeah you would because you would have

1:10:10

traveled there yeah do i remember exactly where that was like i know we were in blackpool before

1:10:17

going so you went to his house before you went to blackberry yes

1:10:26

i will get back to you on that sorry it's not in this town though right

1:10:31

it is not in solaris no

1:10:39

okay um

1:10:45

so what now we just wait until the morning and we get those little magic doodads

1:10:52

so that the hollow guard can't find us i'm interested in finding out who the

1:10:59

bringer of these gadgets or devices is as well

1:11:04

how they come into who they are right dm

1:11:10

no i guess i i would probably rule against this very uh uh

1:11:16

with sending you can send a short message of 25 words or less to a creature with which you're familiar

1:11:22

you are not familiar i'm not familiar

1:11:28

[Music] wow we could go to the hollow guard

1:11:35

what how do you know where they are but we're getting a doodad so that they can't find

1:11:40

us why would we go to them so they can't track us and we go get the upper hand surprise

1:11:46

get to the bottom find find the line of delineation

1:11:53

between these two things save the world let's just go walk where there's a hug to the cult and let's just go ask them

1:11:58

what's going on too while we're at it or we can let them galavant across the country

1:12:04

break in crystals and possess in halflings and giving them horns until the end of the world oh right how are

1:12:11

your horns oh yeah i feel up to are they still there yeah they are still there

1:12:17

oh man that's probably not good we have to put a stop to the mama

1:12:23

it might mean we need to exhibit a little bit of bravery i'm brave

1:12:28

[Music] if we can't be tracked we can't be detected and you know

1:12:34

there's no reason to think that we couldn't make some kind of uh i'm not saying we're going

1:12:41

throwing fireballs i just think uh you know the answers are with the people behind the things okay

1:12:48

i can see reason there dm do i know where the headquarters is

1:12:58

um you would not specifically know no you actually wouldn't

1:13:03

would i know of any like chapter like like local chapter

1:13:09

yeah you would know well you would know where air went to contact

1:13:16

higher ups that's about as far up the chain as you got um so you would know um

1:13:22

let me see in indoria right

1:13:28

in andoria there was a let me see

1:13:33

so there was a real quick there was a uh a tavern called the broken oath

1:13:41

and right next to it there is an unmarked unnamed building

1:13:48

um no signage or any defining markings on the outside

1:13:54

but you do know that that's where air went in the city of indoria

1:14:01

thank you yep um you said you could potentially reach out to someone

1:14:09

talk to them that was far away i was thinking about uh maybe sending some

1:14:16

some word to uh james in fact yeah um

1:14:22

we see if he's doing all right you could also i mean

1:14:28

the iron light might know some information i know i'm kind of out here to

1:14:33

see more about this hollow guard thing and maybe malorou has [Music]

1:14:39

some maybe she knows where their chat their their headquarters is yeah maybe she has some answers that's a thought we could

1:14:46

tell her what we know and then maybe she'll that'll maybe fill in some holes that she has hey flynn

1:14:52

that was a really good idea i think i'm getting it figuring it out you know i

1:14:58

think being around a sentinel made me smarter oh um

1:15:04

sure i don't think it rubs off like that i don't know magic is iffy

1:15:11

okay i mean i look at you come on you should know that

1:15:16

unpredictable sure but i i mean like i'm not rubbing off on you and you're not rubbing off on me magic i think in a way

1:15:23

we we kind of are why would melloroo know the location of oligarch

1:15:29

i don't know but it's worth a shot we're kind of out of out of options right now

1:15:34

is there a way you could contact her without trudging all the way back to addersfield

1:15:40

well we don't have to go to addersfile so there used to be um a building in um

1:15:45

andoria where i met ayer that he used to meet up with people from the hologuard so um i could take you there and also

1:15:52

while we're in indoria i could go and um see if maybe xavier came back home and he could probably help us too

1:15:58

yeah and we don't have to go to addersfield because apparently kelly can reach out to people

1:16:04

like i uh

1:16:10

yes wow

1:16:15

alright it's hard to explain but uh when i look at people i can see the

1:16:22

tethers that tie them to this plane and if you follow those

1:16:28

tethers they kind of stretch can you see my tethers if i focus yeah what color are they

1:16:37

well they they're kind of awesome everyone's colors are the same old mom i'm sorry to disappoint no no mine are

1:16:43

different can you check you just have to check you haven't even checked you said you have to focus all right i'll take a

1:16:49

look i i hunch over i put my hands on my on my knees

1:16:56

like sort of look around turn turn around for me do a little okay okay all right

1:17:02

bless you [Music]

1:17:08

they are uh there's a little bit of uh sort of yellow on the ends right but

1:17:14

then as it gets closer to you uh it turns bluish in hue and then as it gets far the the closest to it becomes a

1:17:22

shade of lavender purple wow it's quite complex i've never seen

1:17:28

anything like it what color am i i'm complex there's orange flan oh ha ha just orange

1:17:36

you know you may like spin around or anything or nah you're fine i got it you're covered okay

1:17:43

alma yeah you mentioned the name xavier what familiarity do you have with

1:17:50

what's the significance of that xavier's my friend um and he helped me

1:17:56

before i um before i met air and march in indoria but um but but

1:18:03

i he was gone he just kind of disappeared and and i've been looking for him since then but

1:18:08

i kind of got distracted obviously and i haven't found him anywhere

1:18:14

so it would be nice to go back and see maybe he just like came back he's part i don't know how the hologuard

1:18:20

no i don't know how common of a name xavier is but i i recently met a xavier myself

1:18:26

a a young one uh in this a young one uh young he's old oh he's old

1:18:32

[Music] he's super old he's a wizard he's real real old oh no i'm confusing my

1:18:38

no the [Music] i did meet an older wizard with the name xavier

1:18:45

but he was bound where in this like today

1:18:53

you mentioned today i met i met three i'm at three we actually met five you

1:18:58

meant three saviors no no not saviors that's weird did you meet every age

1:19:03

group of us no no no i

1:19:09

it's hard to remember some of these particularities of the names of

1:19:15

people but you mentioned but you met an old guy named xavier and he had a white goatee

1:19:20

and white hair did he look like my mud monster did he look like my mud monster i couldn't tell he was wrapped in chains

1:19:27

i i found myself on a on a little bit of a wild goose chase earlier today uh trying to

1:19:34

help out some children who had their had their parental figure uh

1:19:40

locked up in the prisons here and while i was there i i came into contact with a

1:19:46

a being named xavier seemingly a very powerful being named xavier

1:19:52

i tried to frame this here one second

1:19:57

did you do a prison break without us i i

1:20:02

i wouldn't say i did one i i you totally did i stumbled into one

1:20:09

break without us that's so rude you have to wait for us well i i i meant to you were all gone

1:20:16

except for one of you you could have woke us up or woke me up

1:20:22

well you did you only you only you only got one person out of jail and and and xavier's still there well it's not for

1:20:27

lack of trouble look i i went to go to the park today that was all i wanted to do was to go to the park have a nice

1:20:33

time and then they seemed so sweet and they wanted

1:20:40

their parents back and i couldn't help but but helped them and it was

1:20:48

way outside my comfort zone but uh it uh i ended up

1:20:53

yes i guess i suppose i ended up doing a prison [Music]

1:20:59

the break system here seems pretty fond of capital punishment tria is there is is xavier on the

1:21:05

top and block is he in danger i don't know all i know is that when i try he seemed like a

1:21:12

nice enough fellow i tried to free him myself but did not have the ability or the

1:21:17

level of magic required to and then as i as i hid from the guards i noticed that

1:21:23

uh they were transferring him somewhere else if this is indeed the same xavier

1:21:29

which how do we know it is were they were they transferring him right now

1:21:35

we gotta get him before they transfer him somewhere else i have no way of knowing that oh my god

1:21:41

i think his last name was why didn't you tell us you were helping with the prison break when we first got here why have we

1:21:47

been wasting our time if there's people in prison literally the first thing i did when i got back was ask you how your day was

1:21:54

and then we went up then we ran you never asked after that we ran over to another house let's go to

1:22:01

the prison oh

1:22:08

let's go to the prison what time is it yeah what does that mean

1:22:13

it's pretty like like it's approaching oh wait we're good morning

1:22:19

we can't wait what if they transfer him at night well do you want to go check it out now how far away is the prison wait

1:22:26

how far away is the prison um the prison is like sort of on the other side of shee

1:22:31

well i think alma's right i i if if xavier is a trusted person and i

1:22:37

trust all this judgment then we we have to go see what the what's going on well

1:22:42

what if try and i go check it out quick because you can

1:22:47

we can fly over there right like yes yes that in fact that is partially you don't even know what

1:22:54

xavier looks like so how would you even know if it's the right one well he does i just wanted to ask you if i could get

1:23:00

a moment his last name was xavier willow something i i can't remember the last

1:23:05

part of that last name that's him well why don't we just go to the prison right now and see if he's

1:23:11

still there there is a just i don't know if you've all gathered this by now but this city operates on very

1:23:18

strict rules and procedures you can't just waltz into the prison and get well obviously not but how did you

1:23:25

do it i well uh there's a there's a gate and there's a and there are keys and there

1:23:31

are uh it was now as i look back on it very lucky that

1:23:37

nothing went wrong [Music] his name is arch willow

1:23:42

archwillows ah that's right save your archwillow right that was him

1:23:48

yes that's that's what he said his name was then we gotta go i ca i'm gonna go yeah i let's go check it out see if he's

1:23:54

still there and if it doesn't look like he's being moved right now we can come back

1:24:00

get some rest and then go back in the morning and you can come back and get some rest i'm gonna not gonna leave him

1:24:05

in prison any longer he's been gone for almost a year this was hours ago he could be anywhere now

1:24:11

well let's go let's see we can play it by ear improvise

1:24:18

okay so you guys are going over right now um yep okay yeah let's do it um

1:24:24

all right head out um flynn are you bringing

1:24:30

thaddeus um it seemed like he said that he couldn't turn on anymore for the rest of the day

1:24:35

yeah i'm gonna leave him because of that i'll just i'll put him on my bed i'll just set him on my bed and i'll pull the covers up just a little bit over him

1:24:43

so he kind of okay i'll tuck him in all right um so you guys head out of the

1:24:48

inn you guys head across town it takes you about 45 minutes to get over there um but shraya leading the way

1:24:56

leads you guys towards um the prison you guys are able to see that

1:25:01

this is a like militarized zone of the city um

1:25:07

there are smaller walls and guards um along the edges of it that you can see

1:25:12

um and like an entire let's say like a fourth of this city is consumed in this militarized zone um

1:25:20

sure you lead them up towards this wall sort of in the same area that you had

1:25:25

entered in through and immediately you guys see guards passing on the top of the wall above you

1:25:31

hug the wall i'll hug the wall yeah i'll be sneaky

1:25:37

okay i'm gonna have all you guys make a stealth check right now you got it

1:25:43

fourteen [Music] nine [Music]

1:25:50

uh thirteen 21.

1:25:56

okay um so far you guys don't feel like you've been seen by anyone how did you guys are

1:26:01

up hugging this wall schreyer how did you get in last time oh we we have to wait we have to wait until there's a

1:26:08

changing of the guard and uh and there's also a a way that i can do

1:26:14

would i still have the key from that guard by the way to open that in yeah never you never dropped it um what i

1:26:21

could do is i could open the door from the inside and then i did learn that there's a way

1:26:26

to go down into the under the un under the under the ground and

1:26:31

then there's a way to enter the prison from the sewer complex

1:26:37

wow but we have to worry a whole lot more about the city than i did

1:26:42

right you're kind of a badass i try to avoid cities as much as i can

1:26:48

i hope if this information can help us find your friend you know he's this

1:26:53

person is your friend then he did seem like a very nice fellow and i'm gonna get he's very nice um

1:27:00

we do have to wait we have to wait until the changing of the card that's the only way

1:27:07

okay so as you guys wait there sharya you're sort of looking up onto the top of the wall waiting for that that guard

1:27:13

change that you had seen earlier but just as those halflings had told you

1:27:19

the guard is seemingly doubled at night um and

1:27:25

you don't see any breaks in the guards wait were they halflings or kids that you helped

1:27:42

do you have any concept of what age means okay i in some respects uh and take no

1:27:49

offense to this but uh other beings not like myself seem to meld together

1:27:56

you saying we look the same i mean i wouldn't go that far but uh shia we're gonna have to do a course on

1:28:02

this whole on this one yeah the thing with dwarfs bothers me the dwarven thing is problematic

1:28:10

they're very domineering and it appears one thing at a time one thing at a time let's focus some

1:28:16

a dwarf you've encountered might have been dominant right i mean my mom's pretty domineering too

1:28:23

well your species seems to be very uh well uh i operate with uh something like

1:28:29

this and i just kind of wink and nudge there seems to be a current that runs through all of you but use

1:28:35

we're losing focus we we need to incapacitate one of those guards

1:28:40

hang on wait before we start i know we were waiting for the pass

1:28:47

it doesn't appear that the shifts are happening the same way they did earlier today why don't we try a distraction

1:28:53

first uh is there something we can do to just tell that uh that xavier is even here at all

1:29:01

that is a good point how what is the setup like are they remind me again where the guards are are they like up

1:29:06

they're up on a wall is that what you said they're up on top of the wall um so this is sort of a walled off

1:29:12

section of the city um and the wall right here is about i'd say 15 feet high

1:29:20

um and you can see um guards walking on the top of the wall

1:29:25

mostly dwarven um you do see a um

1:29:30

a human every once in a while you see a tiefling every once in a while but mostly dwarfs um

1:29:37

and there's we're we're trying we're looking at going in the main gate right now is that what we're looking at or is there a side gate that we're trying to

1:29:43

get in so as you guys are sort of sneaking along this wall um shrey brings you right up to

1:29:49

a sort of like a a side door um it's this big thick wooden door

1:29:57

um that you see and notably no handles or locks or anything on the

1:30:05

why outside don't we just go in this door it doesn't seem like they've noticed just yet i don't love the way on the on the wall

1:30:11

up there i could attempt to i've never been able to fly and not be noticed but i could attempt to fly over

1:30:19

the wall open the door from the inside and then we'd be on the inside but

1:30:24

i can't imagine that we could do that without being spotted so the issue here is that the

1:30:29

door only opens from the inside yes yes and i have the key from the inside does it like slide open or swing open

1:30:36

no there's a there's a lever that you pull and the door yes now you see the dilemma

1:30:44

yeah does it look i'll kind of like on our approach did it seem like

1:30:49

we could maybe get over the wall without them noticing is there like a gap in or is the guard like all the way across the wall there's like multiple guards all

1:30:55

over the place uh make a perception track for me not very good um

1:31:02

like oh perception uh 10 uh 10 you don't notice any sort of

1:31:10

break in the shifts i think we would have to do some kind of like

1:31:15

distraction or something i did do a distraction earlier to cover

1:31:21

my new newly formed friends escape from this city i created a

1:31:28

thunderblast on one side of the main gate of the city and when i did that they all seemed to rush over to it i

1:31:34

perhaps i could do that again interesting but that doesn't matter if we did the same thing

1:31:41

what do you think it'd be obvious if we did the same thing again oh that they would a different part of the city i don't

1:31:47

know if they would have connected those dots well we could do we have the we have others here now that

1:31:54

can do magic maybe kellek or oma can do something that's different from what you did

1:32:00

and it'll work better what kind of stuff can you you all do i can't really do anything that far away

1:32:07

how far away i'll look over how far away was it that you did this just

1:32:12

destructive descriptive wave or distraction i was a decent amount away from uh

1:32:19

from the actual gate itself uh well so when schreier are you talking about when you

1:32:25

actually did the the distraction to at the very end when uh they were escaping yes yes that one

1:32:31

okay that was at the main entrance gate for the entire city that you had all passed through when you first got to the

1:32:37

city um this is like a different sort of sectioned off portion of the city so it

1:32:42

was in order to get to that spot where sry had made the distraction you guys would have to go all the way back to the inn

1:32:48

and then pass the in and continue on towards the the front of the city

1:32:55

this is i would say probably a couple miles away from where that happened they were i don't

1:33:00

think they would have heard of this uh i can and i can stand up to 20 feet away from the from the like from

1:33:07

the source of the impact so perhaps if if i uh go

1:33:13

over here and i point over at that section of the wall i make the disruption happen there

1:33:19

and then we can rush back over here and i can open the gate i think it might be better if someone

1:33:24

else does the distraction so you're ready to fly over the wall immediately that's a good point um

1:33:31

okay sure can anyone do any type of explosions and they like look at them are there any buildings nearby

1:33:39

that appear to be um abandoned slash flammable masonry

1:33:47

goodness though city secrets that was a one good fan

1:33:56

um you have no idea great i'm just gonna pick one what at random

1:34:02

wait pick a building at random um that looks dirtiest

1:34:08

okay from me um and as far away from the wall as i can

1:34:14

while still being able to like run back to the wall so let's say

1:34:21

my spell that i'm gonna use is um

1:34:29

while she's looking at houses could i also look to see if he's like 20 feet hay barrels or something or something

1:34:36

not a home of a family and like are there anything else that maybe she could set fire to or destruct

1:34:43

that is like an inanimate object like a a wagon or something yeah sure um

1:34:50

i'm gonna have you make a perception check sure and i am also gonna have

1:34:57

both of you guys role initiative right now um so first the uh perception was

1:35:02

actually pretty good uh total of 19 and then initiative initiative 15

1:35:08

uh initiative 18. two good rules okay um

1:35:14

flynn just as she's about to cast the spell okay um you um you notice a couple of uh barrels

1:35:21

out next too and i point to the barrels just maybe those maybe not maybe those i like what

1:35:28

you're thinking but yeah that's a good idea yeah how far are the barrels away from the door

1:35:35

from the door they're about a hundred feet okay i just don't know if that's enough do you think that's enough distance

1:35:43

like um i guess it'll have to be right i mean if not then

1:35:50

how tall is the wall 15 feet 15 feet high okay yeah so yeah pretty far distance and i

1:35:57

have 120 feet okay i'm going to send three scorching rays at the three barrel

1:36:04

three barrels or multiple barrels how many barrels i can all together it is a spell oh boy okay you want a distraction

1:36:12

well here we go there's a big distraction okay okay um i think

1:36:19

i think i can hit those it's kind of far and i haven't tried to hit anything that far is it

1:36:25

worth considering and dm you're welcome to rule that i say this as she fires

1:36:32

that this present might have a visitor policy i'm going to say she already said that she's casting the spell so i'm

1:36:38

going to rule that she casts

1:36:44

as you said his spell goes off and i bring

1:36:49

my hands together and i try to make the triangle that i always make with my hands but but

1:36:55

i'm kind of distracted by how far it is away and so my hands don't quite reach together before i

1:37:01

start um saying i i've never tried this this far

1:37:07

wait what and um three darts of flame

1:37:13

exit my fingers okay um as they do they all of them hit the

1:37:19

barrels um in front of you and is that what uh what it's an it's an attack for

1:37:26

each one and but i mean it's i don't know if this has an armored class because it's a barrel uh it's a barrel and then it

1:37:34

d6 fire damage to d6 fire damage okay um so as each of these hit the

1:37:41

barrels um they immediately catch on fire and it's not a massive explosion but it like

1:37:48

definitely knocks the barrels back and they immediately catch on fire

1:37:54

um smoke starts going up as you can hear from the top of the wall does anyone

1:38:00

have a way over here does anyone have a way of making a big booming sound i probably should have asked that first um i'm gonna roll my um wild magic roll

1:38:07

your wild magic 19 19. nice okay i don't even know what i'm

1:38:13

supposed to roll over but you know um that is and he was a four maybe a

1:38:19

four at that point right now oh no um and

1:38:24

so you guys see a couple of guards making their way over towards that section on top of the wall um you hear

1:38:30

like conversation and commotion among them of like what they should do and then one of them says yeah i'll go down

1:38:37

and try and deal with it and another one goes okay yeah i'll go with you and then they all sort of split up yeah um

1:38:43

leaving a section of the wall unguarded let's go i will go with shraya if he i'll hold my hands out and get ready if

1:38:49

he wants to pick me up i think we should just go with one person you're wearing really loud stuff you can pull the lever and then we could

1:38:55

just call in yeah just let him go by himself be safe uh so i'm gonna okay i'm gonna fly and

1:39:00

hover myself like really close to the wall i'm just gonna stick to the as close to the wall as i can as i go up

1:39:06

and over and drop down to the other side all right um make a stealth check at advantage

1:39:15

uh that is 12 uh 12. okay um you glide and make your

1:39:21

way over towards the top of the building uh i'm sorry the the top of the wall and

1:39:26

you definitely would have been seen if not for the distraction um

1:39:32

but you uh you make it over to the other side and you land there and you see a very familiar uh door a lock and a lever

1:39:39

i am going to as quickly as i can uh put the key in the lock and pull the

1:39:44

lever okay and just as before you turn the lock you hear a click on the inside you

1:39:50

pull the lever and you hear and the door swings open towards the outside we'll run it

1:39:56

go go go go go go go go go go go yeah like the wind okay you guys are on the inside of this wall um as you look

1:40:02

around you see um in stark contrast to the the city outside where it's mostly wooden buildings these are mostly stone

1:40:09

buildings and you can see like different fort type um structures and like very secure looking

1:40:15

buildings um where are you guys going the sewer entries this way come on i'm following try okay yeah uh shreya

1:40:23

ducks you guys to the right and just down um you guys see this little um uh

1:40:29

uh sort of like a manhole cover and try pops that open and you guys dip down and

1:40:34

you guys are now in the sewer tunnel um immediately your guys's noses are filled

1:40:40

with those normal smells of of a sewer uh oh here this will help you guys i pop

1:40:46

out a feather for each of them and that they can hold to their noses okay um

1:40:52

just as before um the feather makes the smell go away a little bit um but for

1:40:58

those of you who are not shriya um the feather definitely smells like shraya

1:41:04

and you guys uh get the manhole cover back in its place and you guys are

1:41:10

secured within this tunnel you guys look down um it's just one one direction um down in front of you

1:41:17

guys as there's sort of uh you you're sort of at the end of this section of

1:41:22

the sewer tunnel um and as you listen all you can hear is the muffled commotion above how dark is it

1:41:29

down here that is a good point um it is pitch black down here so anyone without dark

1:41:35

vision cannot see um i'm gonna reach into my bag pull out um my fire starter and a torch and i'm

1:41:42

gonna light up my torch and then immediately run my hands over it doubling the s

1:41:48

doubling the brightness cool okay and immediately everyone who does not have dark vision

1:41:54

can see uh and you guys see this long tunnel stretching down in uh one direction

1:42:01

now if i'm if my memory is correct one of these channels upward leads directly into the

1:42:07

cells okay you guys are walking along this this sewer tunnel and um eventually you

1:42:13

guys come across the bladder that leads up that shraya you recognize um

1:42:19

there is it seems to be like another sort of latch up there um to a

1:42:25

um uh like a swinging sort of hatch uh is there

1:42:30

anything that you guys want to do before you go up um is there anything we see um

1:42:36

in the tunnel um that would guide us as to what maybe

1:42:41

what else is down here or what they use it for any like nefarious business do we see any scratchings on the wall

1:42:48

yeah um you can make an investigation check

1:42:57

uh 17. um looks like uh a sewer um you're pretty confident that this isn't

1:43:03

used for any secret entrances or anything no no this is not

1:43:11

okay so shreya this is this is it this is how we get to everyone yes but i must

1:43:16

caution you once we get on the other side of this latch we must move very quickly very silently

1:43:21

there may be prisoners that try to distract you because it could be a chance for their freedom

1:43:28

as well i will not make i made that mistake last time but we mustn't it'll only slow us down

1:43:34

you did you let someone out i might have freed more prisoners than i intended to

1:43:39

oh and you don't know if they're good or bad i i didn't ask

1:43:45

[Music] it's hard to know right like we don't know what side is good or bad in this whole thing who did you let out a

1:43:52

present try uh well the the the parent of the children uh there was

1:43:58

also a george stout dwarven man who uh seemed to have some uh reckoning with the city itself i had

1:44:06

broken some laws i can't even remember now you let a dwarf free i know i know but he seemed like he was

1:44:13

at odds with the dwarven establishment so he seemed all right in my book oh okay [Music]

1:44:19

and uh then i did run into your friend uh xavier something willow

1:44:24

so uh we but i have no way of knowing if he's still here so we must let's be quick about it let's quickly face guy's name

1:44:31

is our trello and not well orange i'll arch willow we are going to have a long discussion

1:44:39

his name is art willow not willow arch well he with any luck his name is archwillow

1:44:46

oh didn't he say willow something yeah but it's arch willow i just remember there was a tree involved and i like

1:44:52

trees guys we should probably get going yes okay um so you guys make your way up uh

1:45:01

into this little hatch um i'm gonna have who's going first who's going up this

1:45:07

ladder first place yeah i'll go first yeah i would suggest trying because he knows where we're going

1:45:12

okay um sure as you pop this hatch open i'm gonna have you make a perception check oh no

1:45:18

uh that is a 15. uh 15. okay um immediately as you pop it

1:45:25

open um you can see a single guard lined up at every single

1:45:32

cell um completely unlike what you saw earlier um there is now a a guard for

1:45:38

each prisoner because of the prison break boy i'm gonna slowly close the hatch and and

1:45:45

and look back down at my at my fellow uh party members and say we may

1:45:50

not want to do this same one again i think uh they've gotten wise to this particular entrance

1:45:57

how many look up ahead dm yes are there more hatches uh further down the tunnel

1:46:03

um looking ahead you do see a couple more ladders leading up to hatches yeah

1:46:09

maybe uh we go two farther do you know in relation to where we are shia where

1:46:15

xavier's cell would be he was a little bit of a dif a distance from this particular entry so there's a

1:46:22

chance that if we go up through one one of the other ones we'll actually be closer to his cell

1:46:28

[Music] worth a shot come on yeah i guess it's worth a try

1:46:33

let's try the others [Music] okay um so you guys head back down into

1:46:40

the main sewer tunnel um and you guys are you guys just going to the next one over

1:46:45

i'm too over two let's do two two over okay um all right so you guys walk down

1:46:52

another couple hundred feet um and you guys find another ladder you climb up the ladder and you open up the

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hatch and as you look out you it seems to be some sort of

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barracks um it seems to be the room that you open up into is unoccupied um but it seems to

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be like um there are beds lined up um there are dressers and there are like

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weaponry and armor hanging from the walls mean i have an idea

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as long as we're using distractions why don't we plant one here and then yeah go back there

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alternately we could put on their armor and

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pauses guards well i no matter what kind of armor i put on i

1:47:40

don't think i'll be uh there'll be any confusion as to who i am that's a valid point they're probably mostly dwarfs anyhow

1:47:47

uh right distraction it says uh

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and as uh as i remember the good feelings that i got from being successful the last time i'm going to uh

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send a a shock how big is the room by the way um the room that you're looking

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up into is about 15 feet by 15 feet um but just packed with

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beds and living stuff uh is there is is there a section of the room that's

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holding like all the metallic features and armor and like a section of it yeah you could you could see like

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everyone who or all of the soldiers who live and sleep in this room um they have

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sort of a corner set up where all of their armor and their weapons go alternatively

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um instead of putting everyone on alarm maybe we just use this since they're not

1:48:41

here to get out and into into the prison whereas we will be working with uh

1:48:48

not knowing where we're going but i suppose we can try well maybe there's a map when you get

1:48:53

inside it's with their living base right that's true let's check out the room first

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okay so are you all popping up into the room sure is there an orientation do you see do you see anyone um do you see

1:49:06

anyone in there shaya not that i can see okay

1:49:12

yeah okay um so you guys all pop up into the room and there just happens to be a good map

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with exit um with the evacuations

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here's the fire escape route uh so yeah you all you all pop up in

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into this room you guys see exactly what try saw the beds the armor in the corner the weapons in the corner and

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just as the last person gets themselves out of the hatch um and into this room

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you guys hear the door to this room slowly creak open and that is where we're gonna end

1:49:48

this session we're gonna call it right there um but yeah we're gonna call it right

1:49:54

there um thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye nerds

1:50:01

hey guys it's me ethan the dm um thank you all so much for listening once again we had a lot of fun making that episode

1:50:07

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