Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
hello there i'm calico flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to
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ventureforth [Music]
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so [Music]
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previously you all had entered the city of solaris with a new friend in hand uh by the name
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of thaddeus a warforged head that uh was writing at flynn's side um you guys
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entered the city looking for a contact that would be able to dispel
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any sort of magical or non-magical tracking that you guys had on you that was allowing the hollow guard to keep finding you
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um thaddeus told you guys that you had about a day or two until his contact arrived
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so you guys pretty much had had a couple days to yourself some
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foolishness occurred with some of you some mishaps some new friends some new
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faces but at the end of the day you all came back together and went over to the
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house of kale um oma had had found kale or rather
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found his children and uh you guys had a discussion with him before he fled with his family
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with a couple more questions than answers on that front um you guys went
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back to the inn and discovered that someone by the name of xavier
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was being held within the city um shraya earlier that day had discovered that
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xavier was being held captive um in the in the military district of calder's
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solaris um oma immediately recognizing that name uh said that you guys needed to go and help him out and through some
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uh through some sneakies uh you guys were able to finally get within sight of xavier at
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least alma was with seeing xavier bound in chains alma
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saw him for just a brief moment before he was zapped through a teleportation circle
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and a combat ensued with the five remaining guards in the room blows were exchanged and ultimately oma
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cracked in the skull of one of these guards leaving him lying dead on the ground
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with that you guys had looked around heard more guards coming and fleed the
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military district of the city to find your guys themselves back at the end so
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back at the end out of breath from running through the city streets what would you guys like to do
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is it safe to sleep here i i think it's best for us to stay here at this point
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well won't they come for us i trust daddies at this point that uh
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he's got the connections here for us to stay here safely until we get our uh
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whatever device or um papers or whatever he's providing for us tomorrow
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uh that'll keep us from being discovered i'll look to oma
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how does she look oma almost a little um
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shell shocked um i've got my arms wrapped around my
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shoulder shoulders on either side and i'm holding
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a raven pin in my hand i'll look up at everyone around me
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you guys should get some rest i'll i'll keep watch
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[Music] i would very much like to uh it's oh i'd
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very much like to rest anywhere we'll do maybe i'll just go by
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the fire and drift off frya you should stay inside you should
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stay in the room i died fall asleep right here probably
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good why don't you guys go to sleep and and i'll keep an eye out if um
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if you start getting tired wake one of us up so we can keep the watch going
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[Music] okay but we should all be in the same room
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i'll stay here hi good decision you guys all bed down for the night each
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of you um finding your respective spots in the room and you all doze off alma you are staying awake
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i'm gonna pull the um potion from my bag that i that i grabbed from the
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[Music] ritualistics
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um and i want to um i know i read what the potion effects were
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do i remember if i should take this before to to enact the the rest or after it's
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in the morning yeah so um you would know that you would have to take it before the rest
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and then basically over the course of eight hours or over the course of a long
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rest it will just keep you from needing that it will pretty much give your body
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the effects of sleep or that long rest over the course of eight hours but you can still
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remain conscious and active okay i will look around make sure everyone's asleep
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is everyone asleep is anyone trying to stay awake but act like they're asleep
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if not everyone is asleep i would be
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eyes locked on all mom until i fall asleep but i wouldn't be i would not pretend i would stay to be asleep
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[Music] i i would probably try to stay and then try to protect okay um i'm gonna have
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you make a constitution saving through because you are very tired at this point
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because i don't know she has this potion so i'm just like i'm gonna wait for her to fall asleep okay
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hold on um
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constitution's even through pretty good um i'm not kidding natural 20. natural
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25. okay um you stay awake for a couple minutes
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five minutes six minutes she is just sitting there okay
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can i can i tell he's pretending make an insight check do you want to make a deception or something um yeah
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flynn i'm going to have you make um sure a deception check which is just a zero just a straight
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should i do something um yeah you're making insight oh no oh no
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eight 21. um yeah oma you're like you're sort of
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scanning over you see okay
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is very clearly asleep you see every once while you know like when when someone like sort of um their body sort
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of spasms a little bit in their sleep um you see shraya's feathers sort of poof out every once in a while and then they
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calm back down um but you look over to flynn and you can see like his eyes aren't just closed but like he's
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tightening his eyes closed and then every once while you'll see one of them sort of pick open
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flynn go to sleep what what huh what
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i was sleeping go to sleep flynn seriously roll over you're creeping me
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out okay
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i'll roll over and
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go to sleep oma you are now alone in the room
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i'll knock back the potion okay um and what does it taste like
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um surprisingly it it tastes like very like crystal clear water like there's almost like a refreshing
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sense to it um but yeah that's what it tastes like okay so i um
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i'm gonna look around the room and look at each each individual separately
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take time to to you know appreciate that they're all here
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and i have in my hands the acorn that march gave me
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and the raven pin that i got from xavier
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and i'm just holding them both tightly staring at the door
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listening for any sound that might come and
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[Music] while i'm listening my eyes are
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kind of fuzzy like they're not entirely focused on on it but my ears are listening while my eyes are just
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kind of far away in the past thinking about
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the times that i spent with xavier and then after him the times that i spent with march
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[Music] feeling safe and secure for the first time
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and um after a while i want to come up um look
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at thad yes again and i know that thaddeus kind of like
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conked out before everything happened
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right i mean he he cocked out before we went to the jail how long do i
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like would i be able to tell when he's probably had a long rest and when that might be up
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yeah so in a 24-hour cycle um he can be he can have that activation
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um so it's basically once the new day starts he has his
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abilities up once again okay and the new day would be like sunrise it's it's a switch over um
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i'd say like somewhere between midnight and what excuse me 1am oh okay so somewhere between so he's probably ready
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to be turned back on again probably okay um
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okay i'll clock that and um keep my ears peeled and in like
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at the midpoint between the long rest and about four hours i would like to talk to him
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okay um in that meantime i'm gonna have you make a perception check okay
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[Music]
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17 17. nice um so you uh you're sort of keeping your
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eyes glazed over and these visions of the past keep filling your head but you're keeping your ears very sharp
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um and you hear sort of a little bit into your watch
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you hear a door open in the hallway and you hear footsteps
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cross the door and you hear them go down the hall and you hear another door close
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and then you hear the door open again you hear someone go back into their room
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[Music] um do i want to look around my room um do we have like a a
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[Music] restroom inside the room do we have a toilet inside the bedroom
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there is not okay there is a toilet down the hall where this person was going [Laughter]
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a little while after this happens um the air is is very still
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um and the night is very quiet but you hear just outside
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you hear a couple of hoots from an owl and
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sort of look over in that direction and you don't really see anything
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and then you just sort of spot an owl fly by the window sort of just above the buildings on the
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other side of the street and then that's it that's that's all you hear for the rest of your watch
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for the first four hours or the rest of it um for the first four hours yes until
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you wake that us up okay um it's been four hours everyone is still
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sleeping i want to quietly without waking anyone up um tap i don't know how to wake thaddius up
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so i'm just gonna like tap him on the nose does anything happen nothing happens
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can i look around him and try to find some sort of like activation
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uh yeah i am gonna have you make um
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just a straight up intelligence check we're probably really good
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21 21 nice um yes you you um flip the head upside down and you can
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see on the um the sort of the neck unit where it
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attaches to the torso you can see like where the connections to the body are supposed to be
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and you see okay so if you turn this gear this way a couple times and you move
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this lever this way everything sort of lines up and instead of going back into a body unit it sort of like
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goes back into itself and as soon as you flip that switch you hear
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and the purple eyes glow and you hear thaddeus say oh hi
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good morning morning that's really gross what what is do i have something on my
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face please tell me i don't have something on my face oh no the way i had to turn you on like i if it if you were human i would
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be like moving your spinal column like inside your neck
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it's real gross yeah if my anatomy was was organic that would i'm sure that
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would be real gross um
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well you know solaris really well right yeah pretty pretty well i've been
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here a couple times okay um
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i might have i might have done something bad
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but there's not really a worse place to do something bad than solaris
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right do you think it makes you a bad person
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when you do bad things he sort of looks you up and down and he goes i don't really know how to answer that
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question at the present moment um i i will say
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doing bad things doesn't exclusively make you a bad person bad people do bad things but good people
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also sometimes do bad things and i don't think those are mutually exclusive
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are you sure cause calyx says that if you hurt people
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or things or animals and you don't have to
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then that's not good i tend to
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agree with that sentiment yes well how do you know when you need to
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i think there's really only one way of knowing and that's in that present moment and
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trusting your instincts and if your instincts lead you to
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something that will benefit others be of service to other people then
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generally i would say you you're a good person
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alma looks down at her raven pin
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and then she looks back up into the purple eyes
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what if you think it's in service to someone else to help them
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but you just don't really know well i mean
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in my experience anytime anyone takes any action there's going to be two sides one that thinks ill of that
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action and and one side who thinks it justified and it's all about that
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perception which side do you choose to be on [Music]
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so i just have to decide if i think it was the right thing to do or not
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you have to decide for yourself and then you also have to let other people decide for themselves
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now obviously there's some exceptions to this rule like objectively there are terrible things
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and objectively there are good things but you know once you sort of hit that
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middle ground i'd say there's definitely room for you know
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wavering what would be an objectively terrible thing
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um well i mean murder just to start off um
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probably like stealing from people you don't need to steal from but i'd say murder is the big one for
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sure
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well what if you did it because you you you
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you got really really angry and you were really really hurt
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and really really scared oh i think i i see where this is going
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um maybe i shouldn't have i'm gonna backtrack a little bit um i'm sure whatever you did
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was fine and i'm sure you were scared
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and i'm sure it's all gonna work out it's all gonna be okay
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alex says you have to ask for forgiveness sometimes but that the light always forgives or something like that i
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can't really remember and i thought that was just like when you killed an animal though so like
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do you think you can always get forgiveness for anything you can always ask for forgiveness
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but what if you would do it again if you had to [Music]
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do you want to do it again right now no do you feel like you might want to do it
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again in the future i look at the raven pin
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[Music] maybe if it means getting back to my friends
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and then it's up to you to be the bigger person and look within
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yourself and find your resolve and discover a different way
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[Music] what do you know you're just ahead
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well [Music] thanks i guess
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i don't think you made me feel better sometimes the truth doesn't make us feel better
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okay i'm sorry i shouldn't have said that that was the wrong thing to say i can turn you off i was very insensitive
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okay now now we're crossing a line i feel like we're we're turning into you know hurtful feelings
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and i don't want to get into that space let's just plus you know i like being you know
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awake so i don't know it's kind of nice being awake when
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everyone's asleep do you think your friend's gonna come
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today because like we really gotta go probably yeah that's that's the hope is he shows
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up today what if he doesn't show up today well then
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we move on yeah probably good idea do you know how to get out of here in a quiet way
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um i mean anytime i've done it i've sort of just gone the basic route and thrown a hood
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up um and just sort of walked past the guards um that's usually worked for me but
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most of the time when i'm here i did it solo so
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well maybe that makes sense so maybe maybe there is value to not being a group of
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or shaped people walking
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i feel like you're getting at something with that that statement and i get okay i get that i'm ahead but i
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can i can still do things no no i i i wasn't getting at that i'm sorry i just meant like maybe having
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four people of a specific shape if they're looking for us
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wouldn't be very smart i get what you're saying now
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[Music] well i'll just have to find a different way
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[Music] you think we're safe here
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i do yeah this this inn is fairly safe the uh
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the in keep is you know friendly to people like us um
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they don't take any records of names or likenesses here um it's pretty much just
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a straight coin and uh then you're good to go so that's why i like staying at this place
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because someone who someone who looks like me is very easily identifiable so i like staying at a place like this where
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no one knows that i'm here don't ask don't get asked questions
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seems kind of lonely yeah when you traveled with march's sister
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did you feel like a family um
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i'd say for most of it more along the lines of co-workers but eventually we
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got around to loose and tentative friendships
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but no i wouldn't say family do you miss them um
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that's a complicated question at times yes at other times i
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know that they're on their own paths [Music]
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and i know i'll probably see them one day again as you know travelers of this world
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often come across each other every now and then [Music]
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i miss march and i'm a savior
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and i want them back
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well i were you i'd start getting a game plan together on
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how you can do that that doesn't hopefully include just straight-up murder
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but you know in a way that you can use these other you know three
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very helpful creatures in this room to uh hopefully accomplish that goal
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and you know in time i really think that what you [Music]
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and the purple eyes sink back within his head
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[Music] good night [Music]
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i really wish i knew what you were gonna say in time i'll
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find them in time i'll
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get bigger [Music]
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good night thaddeus and i um kind of tuck him in do i know if i can turn him on again
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later um make
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a another intelligence check 12.
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uh 12. um you know he can you know be activated later you're not exactly sure
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that was a third 11 sorry an 11. okay um yeah same same sort of deal um you know
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that he could be activated again later um he's got enough energy and sort of power um within his unit to do that um
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but you're not exactly sure how long or how many times okay anything like that okay
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so i'm gonna go back to listening and thinking and staring and
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clutching okay make another perception check for me for
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the second half of your watch i want to look out the window this time
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okay [Music]
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eleven eleven um this time you don't hear anything but sort of glancing about it
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takes you a while um as you're sort of looking at the buildings across the way
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you eventually look up to the rooftop of one of these buildings and you see perched there
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eyes locked dead on you these these uh these almost like glowing golden
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eyes of an owl uh oh
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are you looking at me
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shoes
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do i remember if um xavier had a
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familiar at all in the time that you knew him um he had
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like uh every once was like adopted like an animal or like he could conjure one but
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never really anything consistent right
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i'm gonna look at my raven pin and look up at the owl
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xavier is that you
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no it couldn't be you you're trapped in those chains
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[Music] i wish you were xavier [Music]
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and as you're staring at this owl after a couple minutes of its eyes locked on you it sort of
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poofs its feathers out sort of in a similar way that trial was doing um shutters a little bit
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opens its wings and and takes flight out of your view
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okay all right and then over the next couple hours you um sit there and you watch the
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sunrise by yourself as everyone else is continuing to get their long rest in so they have to sleep in a little bit more
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but you watch the sunrise by yourself and as the light begins to fill the room everyone else slowly begins to wake up
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do i get the effects of a long rest and yes oma you get the effects of a long rest yes
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oh that rules how could i make one note yeah uh uh so shraya if
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either uh or anyone who is uh in that room had glanced over
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uh you would have seen uh a series of like short
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uh repetitive pants uh coming out of shreya's mouth uh when the owl came by uh as well as
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um uh kind of kicking of the legs not loudly but just like almost like
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twitches as a few feathers popped out over the course of the night uh that behavior seemed to crescendo
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uh and right at about the time before the sun rose uh in a kind of
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uh crazy exhalation uh two little furry ears popped out of his head
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hmm what okay um and with that everyone else wakes up
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why is it that one can sleep an entire night and feel
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norrest at all [Music]
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yeah these horns make it kind of hard and i start wrapping again
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my head to hide the horns that are coming out of my head wrapping it up
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i gotta figure out what the heck to do with these we should at least get you a helm that
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fits around it so that you don't look so silly
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as i rouse and start hearing this conversation i i say yes flynn they do quite look out of place on you
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um do do do i if i look at the i can i see
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um yeah you guys all look and and shraya um probably not even realizing it
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at the moment uh you've got these two little ears popping out shia
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speaking of weird head things um yes the flynns are very weird aren't
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they they're not that weird um yours you
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you something happened to your head what a second pair of ears and uh rifling
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around like uh kind of freak out for a minute
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what the i i'm uh and i just turn around and just try to
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cover them with my hands what's happening
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uh i i don't and i think i
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have the strangest dreams last night i didn't think that was real
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no like i just i i leave and is there any part
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of the room that uh leads into an area that is a vacant room or
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if i'm trying to just avoid people there's like a small closet in the corner that's that's the only it's it's a studio besides that small closet
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i i i go in there if i can fit yeah you just barely sort of squeeze in there
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okay uh right try it
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do you know why you have furry ears
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[Music] i can't come out like this
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i'm hideous i sort of look at flynn and alma back and forth of like
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israel vain i'm sorry what i
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i feel a bit foolish to have not considered it but i [Music]
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do you think shraya fancies himself a stunner
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you know like a very attractive bird oh well
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i i never thought of it like that but if i were to think of a bird
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yeah try as handsome he's a he's a pretty bird he's a pretty yeah he's a very very pretty bird try it you're a
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pretty bird even with the ears it's fine you look fine i have a
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formula mutated mutilated mic ah it's right on top of me
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and i i i come out i'm just gonna look around i can't no i can't let this
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get the best of me i flynn how are you going to hide your
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extremities i do apologize for saying they were weird um as he came back out i have already
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started to unravel my covering and i'm like holding it up to him here if you can take mine i'll
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figure something out [Music] the short one is always so kind
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uh is there a way we could share it perhaps
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i think i can live without it for i gestured the blankets in the room it's a piece of fabric there's plenty to
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be had in the world even actually yeah that's a good idea do you
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think they're mine if we take them i could purchase you a nice hat even treya
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they make uh they make aerodynamic ones maybe not here probably not
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and i go immediately to look i look over the sheets and just try to find the one that matches my coloration and i just hastily
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just like cover cover the ears and tie tie something off
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i'll i'll do the same um because i think i was using my cape so i'll put my cape back on regularly and i'll go and grab
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some kind of blanket and kind of wrap it around in like a like hat style kind of
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hopefully they go away sometime soon [Music]
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i hope so too what my not yours yours are fine my mine are weird what did you dream about
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[Music] i had the strangest dream i
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was there couldn't tell what was real and what was imagined i
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i was charging through a landscape of a tundra
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four legs and i heard the knell of the owl
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several times in a row and hey it was with
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let's call them old friends i haven't had any contact with for
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quite some time and suddenly i was overcome
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i didn't know what to do i i started to feel something bubbling up
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inside me and when i woke up i thought
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most terrible dream [Music] now this and i clutched the
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fabric it's not supposed to be real
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try it it seems to me that you you have some inclination why something like this might have happened
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to you is there is there among your people
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is this a common right of growth or something
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among my people there is no explanation for this amongst this
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a family i found [Music] i suppose this is
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all the explanation in the world i
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i once befriended a well temporary brethren up in the north
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where i was born timber direwolves of the tundra
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i found myself able to communicate with them and i was very useful to them for a time
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[Music] you befriended wolves and your tank that's why you
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have lupine ears
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let's just say i got a little too close to their way of life and
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something about how something about the way i was able to listen
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as a very very small child caused me to become very very very close with them
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in ways that i could i don't still don't even understand myself well
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the ears are very cute i don't want to
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i grab them again they're not natural does that mean he'll turn into an elf at some point because
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you know after the well i think if i've got my timeline corrected that was when he you know spent time with
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the elves in in the forest and is that just maybe he's just a mutable
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creature like that i don't know anything about the kind of animal do you think maybe
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he'll also grow elf ears and he'll just have three sets of ears
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three pairs of yours try it can you hear any better i uh
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no i that i feel around they certainly have feeling
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but i i don't know if it actually changes how well i can does that mean he has additional halls
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in his head where the sound will travel [Music] where maybe i i'm just like un
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uncomfortably close to shia now like looking in like you see like on my tiptoes trying to look into
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his ear and my my beak suddenly perks up and and i remember did not one of you say
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that last night or the before i fell asleep that we still might be in imminent danger here
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yes yes right right yep uh should we wake tarius and see
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or maybe go down to the front maybe sent one of us to go speak to the innkeeper
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about [Music] our connection here [Music]
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i i don't know the name of the person so so maybe waking thaddeus up and having him talk to the front would would be
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wise yeah that's a good idea i did talk to him today so i i don't know how many times he can talk but um
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just so you know uh
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all right how do you start him
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um well i don't know how anyone else starts him but
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if you look here and i turn the head upside down and and you look inside his neck
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you know where the blood and guts and spine should be and and you twist this
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and you flick this um he just kind of starts
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the purple eyes begin to glow hello good morning
41:32
good morning to you welcome back to the awakening thaddeus do you remember conversations
41:38
you have when you wake up yeah wait okay what were you gonna say you
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were gonna say something and then you would loop down and i just don't know what you were gonna say
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oh i was just gonna say i'm sure you can find exactly what you're looking for [Music] oh
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[Music] okay what were you talking to thaddeus about in the middle of the night nothing
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all right uh thaddeus uh who should we check in with about this
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uh clandestine arrangement um i think if we just go down to the the
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front desk they might have some information it's it's sort of like
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a uh i password off to the front desk and then they password off to another person
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and then so it's sort of like all information filtered um so i think that's probably the best place to start
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just go downstairs okay how did you come to
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be connected with the keeper of this place as a robot
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um well i traveled here a couple years ago and
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you know not a lot of people that look like me around here and i'm uncomfortable with
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the stairs and the points and the the you know talking about me behind my back so uh i was sort of in the need of a
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place where i could go and no one would find me so this is where i stumbled upon and i've been using this place ever since it uh
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seems to be very discreet forgive me then for for asking what
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were you autonomous for lack of a better word or have you
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been able to travel on your own and all that or were you in service to some
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to your creator during that time um well it was it was a while ago that i
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you know sort of was in in service to another but um
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you know i kind of started doing my own thing started going places that i wanted to go to doing
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things that i wanted to do and that landed me here eventually
43:53
imagine all right just trying to get my bearings on lots of new information when i look at
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thadius's weird form and over to shy as
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now a covered head a lot to learn in a very short time
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are we going downstairs that's cool everyone ready yeah should we all go
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uh i can check of course i'll stay up here and i crawl into one of the beds and pull whatever blanket
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there is over me okay well when he leaves i'll look him just
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dry actually come down here i need to fix it's not going to stay that way you gotta tie and i'll help him tie it and
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like as kevin goes downstairs caleb uh you leave the room um do you have thaddeus i do
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okay um so you walk down the stairs and as you're walking down the stairs um the in keep is already there behind the
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front desk and she looks over to you as you come down the stairs and looks down at thaddeus and sort of gives a knowing
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glance to thaddeus and sort of nods her head over to the corner and over in the corner
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in uh sort of like this dark dark section of the room um
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you see sitting there uh like feet up on the table um you can you know barely even see the
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form you can see a little flash of purple under the cloak and you can see an owl perched there on
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their shoulder um you look and um
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you know what i think someone else might be uh better at describing who this is
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yeah if we could have that person please join us uh rodney can i please have you describe
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your character as you are sitting there in the corner what you see is
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a man you think a man a humanoid in
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tattered red bear almost peasant like clothes [Music]
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hints of purple through some of the threads cape and owl that he's
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feeding on his shoulder and he's bald
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[Music] greenish colored eyes you would notice the sleeves rolled up
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on both arms and on the left arm you would possibly see a
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hint of a tattoo yeah and and the uh the in keep has sort of gestured her head
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over into his direction uh i look down at patties tilt him toward me so i can try to read
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his expression that's him that's him right over there all right
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uh i will as quietly and uh
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not attention-grabbingly as possible with a robot head in my arms
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saunter over to this table and uh and take a seat uh adjacent to
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this this humanoid oh
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you're you've stirred we don't have much time can we go back upstairs uh
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uh sure yeah we should talk away right uh not sure how you do this kind
47:17
of thing i'm more of a light a day kind of fella
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so late on our i'll show you the way sorry
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good [Music] get them awkwardly and we can lead the way up
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upstairs all right um you guys both uh walk your way back up into the room um
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and the rest of the party sees this uh this figure in a
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cloak this is the guy oma you recognize the owl oma is like
47:52
under her blankets and when she hears people people come back in the door she peeks out of the blankets and she
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immediately sees the owl and she looks at the owl and she squints her eyes
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you're not savior oh yes this is eldra you met her last night or she met you
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and we'll look down at thaddeus and say it's been a long time how are you
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i'm doing well how are you as good as can be
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yeah well um i was hoping you could help these people it seems you all are not doing so well
48:28
not been here long but you've made a lot of noise we have a habit of noisemaking
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not the best here in solaris they're not comfortable with this type of law breaking
48:41
as i've come to understand so uh i didn't catch her name sir i did not give it
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well hi my name is flynn fellow weave dude say it don't you dare say it flynn
48:54
i'm uh part of this group hello flynn why did you summon me what do you need
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that is what do you need well i think they have a uh sort of a better explanation um
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i know what i need but uh but why don't you guys sort of say what you guys got going on
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um uh elja's owner um
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thaddeus was telling us that you provide um
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some type of way of of making it so that people can't find them through magical means
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um and i think i need that we're under the scrutiny of a lot of organizations uh chiefly the hologuard
49:41
but oh wait we have no way of knowing who else
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you can call me sika seeker zika yes zika okay
49:53
yes it is secret but i say right should we pronounce it the way you pronounce it or how do you
49:58
spell it you can pronounce it the way you pronounce it how about that i will reply that's very nice of you
50:07
as far as this request you need protection from magical means
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right pryonize
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and were i to provide some something like this
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what would you be using this for would you be harming anyone i look over it
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not [Music] it is not my intent well it depends on
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what you mean we're candidly in pursuit of
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a group of cultists that seem to be bent on for like until the end of the world
50:50
so some of them might get harmed in the way of trying to stop it um we'll look down daddies and see
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do you trust these these people
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should i trust well i've had no other choice these past couple days but to trust them and seems to have worked out well so far
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right um it's in a box [Laughter]
51:15
it was pretty damaged okay i mean we didn't like leave it behind so that he would be
51:20
reliant on us it was pretty broken there's not a lot of time you need to exit the
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city they will be looking for you i can help you get out of the city i can
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help you with protections if that is trust you i will trust you i
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take a step forward zika we have nothing to hide
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we only have the desire to not be followed anymore as a tracker myself i
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i respect and will greatly enjoy not being tracked
51:58
anymore for myself and for my friends here and he will pull
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a a necklace out and present
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just kind of hold it up and let it dangle and you will see a silver necklace
52:16
with stones and maybe a blue energy a light
52:23
partially around it not completely lit and a pendant hanging from the bottom
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[Music] say i have several of these
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but they are not complete they need
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an element and then they will do this thing that
52:48
you're looking for [Music] what element this is a very special water
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[Music] can be found not far from here
52:59
and as it happens it is outside of the city which is probably the best place for you to be now
53:06
not here i i look down at this
53:12
still swallowing the better pill of living in the city
53:17
do you have a safe way of passage for us to get get out without uh alerting anyone
53:23
or is it just gonna be a matter of speed
53:30
a little bit of both but i have a way i have ways in and out without eyes
53:36
and that will be oh yeah for this
53:42
we can work on that as we go there's not a lot of time i can tell you that i i am a fan of
53:48
magical items i search for them and move them but we can talk about it we should
53:53
leave and he will turn and you'll hear an almost imperceptible
53:59
whistle the owl will take off you know put his hood up
54:05
and start walking down out and down the stairs
54:12
okay um you guys all see this figure taking the lead and uh i look down at that
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[Music] just like we found you he's found us in a box
54:24
we have no choice but to follow tell me and seeing the owl take off i
54:31
look up and have a moment of recognition and just a quiet little
54:36
as i watch the owl go [Music] okay um so
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uh the seeker leads you down um the stairs leads you out of the in
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and opens the front door of the inn sort of looking left and right
54:56
and you guys walk out onto the street and across the way um you guys
55:01
very similar to how olma sort of takes you through the city um sort of going in
55:08
and out of these alleyways knowing exactly where to go and eventually you guys come across um
55:15
like a little um um it looks like almost like an outhouse in
55:20
the back of one of these stores um you guys approach it and upon seeker
55:27
opening the door you guys instead of seeing what a normal outhouse would have um instead you see
55:34
uh stairs going downwards into the ground um seeker
55:40
leads you guys down and um you guys go deeper and deeper down into the ground
55:46
um eventually the decline stops and a smooth path is laid
55:52
out in front of you guys um surrounding you is a tunnel with jagged rocks on
55:58
either side of you and up above you the ground is relatively smooth but you can see that the the walls of this cavern
56:04
look like they've been chipped away over years and years of of not only weathering but um
56:12
of like tools and and working and as you guys move down this hall you guys can
56:18
see scaffolding that indicates that this was probably an old mine underneath the city
56:24
um and yeah as seeker takes you guys through these mines you can actually see
56:32
on your left a little outcropping and you see
56:38
a campfire that looks like just the night before had been extinguished and you can see on the
56:45
walls you can see etchings of manuscripts
56:51
telling tales of the old gods of an altar
56:56
there too familiar and you can see
57:01
offerings there and you can see um the walls now are lined with extinguished torches to try and light this cavern as
57:08
much as possible is there anything you guys would like to do as you see this
57:14
what does the alter just mirror look like i take a closer look
57:20
um it looks like a like um a like a very small um
57:26
statue of glass and you can see right around the base
57:32
there is like a um an indentation just around the base where you can see the
57:37
remnants of oil there sort of pooled at the bottom this would have been used to you light
57:44
the oil the fire starts up and it would light up the glass and it would make the glass look like it was glowing
57:51
in a place as dark as this still trying to find the light
57:58
that's yours seeker it is not this
58:03
belongs to those who are trying to survive we don't have time to keep moving [Music]
58:09
these these are old mining tunnels we should find some shelter but we should still be careful i'll just sort of
58:15
reverently place my hand on the glass statue and trace the outline of it
58:23
right
58:29
interesting all right and as you guys continue on down this tunnel um
58:34
you guys start to sort of smell this this sort of rank
58:40
smell that begins to to fill the entire tunnel and you don't exactly know where it's coming from but it's like it's
58:47
almost like something is decaying in here um but you guys continue moving and
58:54
off to your right this time you see an outcropping and this one is filled with plants but plants that don't
59:02
need sunlight these are bioluminescent plants that are covering this cavern
59:09
and you can see they're in a very similar fashion and altered to ildoria
59:14
try immediately goes over to the bioluminescent plants and touches the lower end of the staff to it and
59:24
attempting to uh soak up the energy of these plants
59:29
and also give back to these plants and this culminates in a
59:36
uh like a gentle bowing and kneeling before the elder of
59:42
the altar to el dorado okay and as you do that almost like
59:50
like snakes these vines sort of coil and shift and move um not moving to
59:56
attack or anything but just sort of move in response to your your touch
1:00:02
and you can see the the bioluminescence of the blues and the greens coming through
1:00:09
as you guys move on down the hall even further you see two more altars to your right and your
1:00:16
left you see one to fenra you see one to lauris and as you guys continue moving on down
1:00:23
the hall you see one final one off to your left an altar to a tier
1:00:28
where there are several um chairs
1:00:33
set up each of them have a couple books stacked up on them and you can see one person
1:00:38
sitting there on one of the chairs reading through a book and you can see this dwarven man
1:00:46
sitting there and he looks up and he makes eye contact with all of you and he immediately stops
1:00:51
what he's doing and he reaches down towards his side and puts his hand on his dagger
1:00:57
and just sits there and looks at you guys [Music] magic and light witty
1:01:04
is okay they're with me we are friends he nods his head puts his
1:01:10
hand back on his book still sort of keeping a side eye on you guys but continues back onto his book
1:01:18
and as you guys continue on down the hall this this smell gets worse and worse
1:01:26
and you really have no idea where it's coming from um and
1:01:31
all of a sudden you feel the ground begin to shake a little bit beneath your
1:01:36
feet and up from the ground burrowing from underneath three worm-like
1:01:42
creatures burrow themselves up and into the cavern seeing you guys and beginning to move
1:01:49
towards you i am going to have everyone roll initiatives at this point
1:01:55
against these these worm-like creatures who seem to be hell-bent on attacking you guys these ones here yesterday
1:02:04
all right and um yeah just for a visual reference these are like um
1:02:10
these these pale almost centipede like creatures with these giant bug eyes in
1:02:16
the front of their head and almost like little little beaks at the front as well
1:02:22
they seem to be almost like transparent sort of in the way that
1:02:28
things who never actually reach sunlight don't develop colors
1:02:33
these are carrying crawlers okay can i get initiative from everyone
1:02:39
um oma what's your initiative eight [Music] eight
1:02:45
why do i feel like this is figure okay [Music] um flynn 10 10 yes
1:02:55
strong coming up seven god
1:03:01
try uh 22. there you go there you go oh there it is break the trend and seeker
1:03:08
five five all right one on the board hey
1:03:14
[Music] welcome to the team
1:03:20
[Music] okay so with that you guys see these things burrow up out of the ground
1:03:27
um first up in the initiative is [Music] shraya
1:03:33
try what do you want to do uh actually first off can i get just a marching order for you guys i think that would be
1:03:39
probably beneficial um i would say that the second that um those things popped up i would have probably like
1:03:46
gone behind whoever was closest to me so whoever that is that was closest to me
1:03:52
i'm i'm the only one with dark vision so i would have led the way unless oh just behind yeah that's a good point um if it
1:03:58
was pitch black i probably would have been behind someone that has dark vision or i would have lit a torch
1:04:04
[Music] okay yeah then uh then a torch is lit
1:04:09
okay so sorry who's up front uh secretly behind seeker
1:04:18
okay i'll be behind uh flynn flynn is behind
1:04:23
okay with you said you would have lit a torch yeah i'll have a torch yes flynn would
1:04:29
have a torch okay okay okay first up in the initiative shraya
1:04:36
uh so as these uh carrion worms emerge from the
1:04:41
the ground uh i take a step back uh there's this big
1:04:48
explosion of feathers as as shraya continues starts
1:04:53
to clutch parts of his body and the uh pieces of the
1:04:59
uh fabric which was being kind of hastily held together just kind of comes tumbling off and
1:05:05
uh try i i let out a yell a yell and a screech
1:05:12
that's continuous that slowly but surely uh as it continues
1:05:18
uh morphs into uh as uh the staff uh transforms into these
1:05:27
two pink uh crystalline purple orbs and his body uh transforms into
1:05:35
that of a direwolf and right at the peak of the transformation the two uh pink
1:05:40
purple eyes of that were crystals uh find their way into his uh into his eye sockets and you now see
1:05:47
a direwolf before you
1:05:54
[Music]
1:06:03
okay do you have a bonus action that you are able to use uh i'm going to go into a defensive posture
1:06:10
and actually okay and actually make ready to you know move toward the front
1:06:17
to try to defend i don't know if i have movement but i think that's my i don't think i do
1:06:22
okay um is i have a question is a direwolf a large creature or a medium-sized
1:06:28
creature i believe it is a large creature okay then i will adjust your
1:06:34
little guy here accordingly um you would have to sort of do a side step in order to do that but that's
1:06:41
okay you are now sort of like the same size as these these worm creatures now okay
1:06:49
that is handy [Music] um next up in the initiative um all
1:06:56
three of these
1:07:03
okay so the first one um is going to actually come up and try and take a bite
1:07:10
at seeker that first one it's gonna be a 13 to hit
1:07:17
ah that will not hit i will not hit okay and then that next one is a nine to hit so um it lunges
1:07:24
forward with these two bite attacks and um you just dodge out of the way of both of them
1:07:30
the next crawler is going to come up and try and take two
1:07:37
attacks at kellik but this time you notice along the ridges of its back
1:07:43
these um thin super thin tentacles begin to sort of wrap out and sort of
1:07:49
flare out around its neck and it is going to
1:07:55
try and uh whip those at you
1:08:00
okay that is gonna be a 17 to hit
1:08:05
it that hits okay that is going to be
1:08:13
four points of poison damage and i'm going to have you make a constitution saving throw
1:08:18
[Music] 14.
1:08:26
a 14 succeeds okay you are you are not poisoned
1:08:33
but that second tentacle is still going to come for you um and that is going to
1:08:38
be a 16 to hit distance just hits
1:08:44
that's gonna be another four points of poison damage that's another con save
1:08:56
that fails okay so you are poisoned um and you take the poison effect
1:09:05
okay and then this last crawler is gonna come up behind you guys seeing this
1:09:10
crazy transformation by shraya and it is going to um attempt to
1:09:16
swing its tentacles at shraya so that is going to be a nine to hit
1:09:21
on that first one that misses as i dodge out of the way and then that is going to be a 16 to hit
1:09:28
that on the other hand does it that hits okay that's gonna be six points of poison
1:09:34
damage and i'm gonna have you make a constitution saving throw for me
1:09:39
all righty that's a seven all right you uh now have the poison condition for the next
1:09:46
well you don't know how long okay um next up on the initiative that's them
1:09:52
flynn oh boy um let's see uh seeing this beast that i
1:09:58
assume is hopefully shraya i'm gonna see that he's dealing with that one i'm gonna take care of the one that's
1:10:04
closest to me uh and i'm gonna i'm gonna hit it
1:10:10
with i'm gonna i'm gonna take my hand uh you
1:10:16
see the the red symbol blow and i strike it across
1:10:21
the blade uh and you see the blade kind of light up and in flame and i'm gonna come down and go for an attack but you see the
1:10:28
blade flame looks more prevalent it looks stronger
1:10:34
i'm like whoa it like looks more like more of a flame and it's confusing but i'm gonna do that and here's the
1:10:41
attack of course it's a seven um so
1:10:47
that is 15
1:10:52
uh 15 x yeah so uh that does this and that does
1:10:58
extra damage so this is the of course lowest damage so i do uh eight
1:11:05
points of piercing but i do some of the flame actually stays normally it would
1:11:10
it would split off this actually stays and does some damage uh and it does seven points of fire damage
1:11:17
as the flame actually burns into him instead of just leaping off to a different target
1:11:23
whoa and uh that is
1:11:31
my turn okay um next up oma you see this crawler in combat with this
1:11:38
new wolf right next to you um what would you like to do um
1:11:44
freak out um so this um this uh i'm right next to shraya and and the the
1:11:51
big worm is attacking shraya um can i move away or would that um or would am i
1:11:58
close enough to the worm for it to get enough yes it would get an opportunity to attack you're within five
1:12:05
okay i'm gonna freak out and try anyway to
1:12:10
back up uh five ten uh 15 feet into that little like nook okay
1:12:16
there's a little uh there's a little mini outcropping in the rocks there
1:12:22
okay and he's going to take his attack of opportunity oh that's going to be a dirty 20 days
1:12:29
yeah okay let's see
1:12:34
and that is that's going to be with its bite attack oh that is hey
1:12:42
[Music] six points of piercing damage ow
1:12:52
okay do i have to do a poison thingy um no because uh
1:12:57
no because it's his bite attack poison only comes with the tentacles nice
1:13:03
i didn't know that now you do now you do okay um i
1:13:10
get bit in the like arm it hurts a lot
1:13:17
and i put my hands forward and i attempt to do um i attempt to um
1:13:24
release anything i can um
1:13:29
a bolt of some kind of this but what comes out of my hands is something i have never seen before and never
1:13:34
expected and it is um three individual rays of fire that are
1:13:41
going towards each of these um
1:13:46
creatures okay one for each okay is that an attack roll on your end
1:13:52
it is it is um so
1:13:58
each one is a different attack so three of them um
1:14:05
11 for one 11 misses okay
1:14:11
oh 12. 12 misses
1:14:19
natural 20. nice let's go okay so yeah coming out of your hands unexpectedly
1:14:26
the first to sort of swing wide and miss but then uh the last one finds purchase
1:14:31
on the one that is in combat with shraya so what is that damage gonna be
1:14:37
that is gonna be [Music]
1:14:46
nine points of fire damage okay
1:14:51
yeah um [Music] all right and with that uh is there a
1:14:57
turnover no because i have to do it oh that's right thingy and i have to be six oh god a six
1:15:07
i've been rolling real low today
1:15:12
[Music]
1:15:19
[Laughter] wow okay keep it under control
1:15:26
o k that is awesome um next up
1:15:33
we have got kellick i will uh swoon on the the
1:15:39
being struck and and i'll touch my head and feel the that's quite cold
1:15:44
oh that's no good all right yeah
1:15:50
poison me i'll poison you and i will reach up and i'll open the curtain and i'll put my hand through and
1:15:57
around the heads of each of these creatures uh the curtain will open
1:16:03
uh above them and my hand will come out and and peel in the the layers of this
1:16:09
orange veil and from it uh these little flakes these things that they
1:16:15
look beautiful like uh flower petals um like blue flower petals whisping out but
1:16:21
as they come through this this veil they burn and cinder and spread into these
1:16:27
plumes of ash that cover the uh uh these creatures or attempt to
1:16:34
[Music] okay that's a saving throw right
1:16:41
that's right for number one for the first one that is a
1:16:50
what uh what saving throw let's say it is a charisma charisma safe these things
1:16:56
don't strike me i'm really not um that is an eight for the first one
1:17:04
that is a nine for the second one and a seven for the third one let's go
1:17:10
all of them things are not charismatic at all okay um
1:17:15
all of them are now bained i would take a note of that yeah um
1:17:21
okay is that the end of your turn that is okay next up somebody's trying to try to catch my breath
1:17:27
from feeling not so good all right seeker uh seeker will look over at the
1:17:34
kellik and say you okay and start to slide around number two
1:17:41
to flank it from where caleb is okay
1:17:48
and uh pulling out two daggers he will attack
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and uh hopefully hit yeah attack with his dagger
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hmm is a 14 good enough oh 14 is good enough to hit hey
1:18:07
let's get him go all right that is oh four i wrote a four on a d4
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plus three seven plus a little sneak attack yeah snack attack
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little sneaky sneaky oh let's go five and two so that's another seven that's a total of fourteen
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points fourteen nine [Music]
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okay yeah it was not a fan of that um okay is that the end of your turn
1:18:41
uh yes secret will stay okay secret standpoint oh i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry
1:18:48
i didn't add my natural 20 to my attack on the on wormy3
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oh i'm so sorry so it was nine plus 12. oh it's a lot better oh man that hurts
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yeah sorry okay that is not what added um okay next
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up shraya what would you like to do uh so
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shraya is seeing these beings shy has never seen before
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attacking his friends he's gonna charge up to the nearest probably the one that just got singed by that fire
1:19:26
yeah right where that fire just was uh going to lunge forward and just sink teeth into
1:19:34
right where that uh fire had hit uh with the bite attack yeah okay nice uh make an attack roll
1:19:41
which is a 14 does that hit a 14 hits yeah nice nope
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uh so that grab these dice two
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ud six plus three uh so that's a that is 13 points
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of piercing damage and uh gonna need a saving throw from that wormy
1:20:08
oh yeah okay saving throw what kind of saving throw
1:20:13
uh strength savings better at that than charisma
1:20:29
okay is that the end of your turn that is the end of my turn okay next up these crawlers um okay the
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one in combat with shraya is going to take a tentacle attack
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that is going to be a oh what's the math on that 13 to hit
1:20:49
that i think just natural armor
1:20:55
yeah that just doesn't hit okay the next one gonna be a little bit
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better that's gonna be a 22 to hit oh yeah
1:21:05
okay gonna need some unnatural armor yeah yeah
1:21:10
okay that is gonna be five points of
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poison damage and i'm gonna have you make a constitution saving throw [Music]
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that is a ten that does not succeed so you are now poisoned
1:21:31
wait question would i have had to be a disadvantage with the attack with the poison that's right you were already put
1:21:38
so we're just gonna as is we're just gonna run it as is forgot about that um
1:21:43
but yeah i could roll another 20 and in that case
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let's let's not let's not confuse it um okay so i forgot that you were already poisoned
1:21:54
so i'll just have you take that damage and yes you are still poisoned um okay the next one
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is going to let's see
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who does it not like seeker just attacked it so it is going to turn and try and oh are you applying my pain to
1:22:13
these things yes by the way okay nice yeah that's right i forgot about being on okay
1:22:18
yeah yeah the other one it rolled very high um okay the this guy
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attacking seeker is going to use his first attack with a tentacle that is going to be
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a lots of math um
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15 to hit that hits okay
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[Music] that is gonna be four points of poison damage and i'm gonna have you make a
1:22:48
constitution saving throw [Music]
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and the second attack is going to make a bite attack so that is going to be
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a oh full points on bane that's still going to be an 18 to hit oh
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that'll hit okay that is gonna be
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six points of piercing damage so it's five and six yes
1:23:30
all right and then the last one um is going to run forward a little bit
1:23:35
and is going to try and attack kellik
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um okay caleb is already poisoned
1:23:46
correct correct so that is going to be hey that was really bad
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that is going to be a eight to hit which does not hit
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the second bite attack [Music]
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17 to hit even with bane 17 even with ben yeah
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that it's yeah okay [Music]
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that is five points piercing damage
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okay um that is their turn next up in the initiative is flynn yeah um seeing
1:24:31
everyone get poisoned and whipped around and bit um
1:24:38
realizing that that was pretty cool that what he did with his sword realizing he needs to do some more damage though um
1:24:43
i'm just gonna try and really mess this one up that's in front of me uh which is two regular attacks so um
1:24:50
attack and then attack twice with the sword okay make those attackers oh that's pretty good um
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it's 21 yeah 21. yeah that's for sure uh that is
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10 points of piercing okay nice second attack
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um how are these things looking can i get a gauge is any of are any of them weak
1:25:16
um yeah the one that you are currently attacking is definitely the most hurt at this point um and it is it is not
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looking good [Music] okay natural 20 baby nice
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oh let's go okay that's what we needed so that is my thing
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um six damage holy
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uh 12 uh 19 points of piercing damage in total uh yeah because i maxed the
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dice because one d6 pl i rolled a six and then plus seven so wow okay
1:25:54
um yeah so you swing your sword down and before you know it your sword has completely passed through
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the the torso of this thing completely bifurcating it in half um and it now lays dead on the ground and as it
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does this this like hot steam starts to come out from the inside from like where
1:26:14
it's insides are just like super heated and you get this whiff of like
1:26:19
death of this death and decay coming from this box you guys are doing great and i'll like run over to the other one
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that's next to kellic and i'm going to use my last attack on that one okay
1:26:30
one re-roll so i miss on my final attack but i got one of them
1:26:35
nice um okay is that your turn uh yeah that's my turn
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okay oma what would you like to do i see one worm go down and um i look at my hands because i don't know what just
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happened and i um [Music] pull my hands together and i and i rub
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them and i say oh gosh um um
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and i put one hand towards the worm on my right and one hand towards the warm on my left and um
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think really hard about my um undulating like ball
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of of lights that comes out and i and i think about if only i could make that happen twice
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and i reached my hands out to each of them and used twin spell at second level yeah
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and cast let's go chaos bolts at both of them i think it's still just one attack
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though because it's a twin spell second level let's go okay
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and [Music] 16. at 16 hits
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nice so that is um
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that is um 12 points of
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force damage 12 points nice
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so the one that is in melee with shraya looks absolutely
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destroyed it's not down yet but it is on its last legs um was that a spell slot
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from you uh yes it was okay you have a seven oh geez oh
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snap seventeen oh this is the highest yeah this is great
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i'm scared tension is right okay
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um with that next up is kalec you have um this crawler right in front of you that has been untouched
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except for that last attack so not not touched uh i will uh
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i've been carrying thaddeus this whole time and so as i sweat in my poison state
1:28:55
i'll produce him from my bag oh yeah you're still untouched hey and
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i'll do as almost showed me on his spinal column okay activate the
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[Music] oh my god what's going on
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lots happened since you went to sleep lad hey daddies i plan why don't you put that power of yours to some use and i'm
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just gonna like uh twist him and push him into the into the uh stomach of
1:29:27
this thing and try to use his his shock and grasp okay uh do something
1:29:32
good okay um as you push him in um like his face is being buried into the the thing
1:29:40
so you you hear him say um you hear him say i would suggest letting you go
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as he casts uh his power surge um okay let me
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uh do that real quick okay so um
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i'm gonna say what am i gonna to rule on this um i'm gonna have you
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make a attack roll okay because you're the one sort of
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doing this [Music]
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what am i adding to that i'm gonna have you add your uh dexterity modifier okay so should i still apply the poison
1:30:23
yes you should so that should be a disadvantage [Music] well that sucks
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uh so my my what what modifier sorry uh that doesn't matter i rolled a four
1:30:37
there's okay yeah um so yeah you try and push his head into it but then your vision becomes blurry and you can feel
1:30:43
the poison starting to course through your veins as you stumble back and release daddy's head as it falls to the
1:30:49
ground and it as soon as it loses contact is when he releases his power
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surge and so it just does not hit um the creature crap
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as i'm [Music] well let's just wear the try
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fine then i'll do it myself and i will cast uh
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uh to all the dead ex coco uh on uh this same uh or no i'll do it
1:31:19
on the number three this other one down the on the road for me oh which is a
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saving throw where's wisdom these things don't seem very wise um these things are not too wise oh wait hang on i can't do
1:31:31
that i thought that was a bonus action but i am returning yes is it an action to turn that ass on
1:31:38
is is that i'm assuming that turning thaddeus activating thaddeus is a bonus
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action oh oh oh yeah okay
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okay sure uh so yeah it has to save
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wisdom [Music] and bane right bane works for that yeah bane does saving throws and attack
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rolls that is gonna be oh gosh a 10. [Music]
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it does not okay and he is already hurt so he takes the
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dude [Music] okay which is very exciting
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[Music] uh 21 points oh my gosh there's already sustained
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ignite uh with the embers of the argent planes okay it reels back overkill
1:32:33
it reels back and you hear this this like head-pounding screech that comes
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from its mouth um if that's the end of your turn uh it is
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seeker um you just saw flynn uh kill the one that was right in front of you what would you like to do
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a question yeah uh do you is flanking does flanking give an advantage or no yes it is
1:32:57
it is okay um so sika would move uh and flank
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the number one in front of caleb and flynn
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and he will raise his left arm and make a fist
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and kind of pull his sleeve all the way back his tattoo completely visible
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and it will um as he starts to utter a phrase
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uh it will begin to glow like a purplish color and like it's a very black tattoo on his
1:33:37
his chestnut skin and the black just starts to outline with purple and then
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glow purple and he says [Music]
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and cast a guiding bolt in this thing um
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okay and we'll make an attack bro hey that first roll's
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good 19. plus uh
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uh actually should it be um the advantage should be cancelled out because i was gonna say is that isn't that
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arranged yeah that's a range um so it should just be a straight row
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so ninth so 24 uh 24 hits yeah yeah
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get him this is gonna take 46 of radiant
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is oh that's good wow 10 14
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16 points and uh we'll probably put some sneak attack on that too
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because yeah
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oh you went from advantage to nothing
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but he had an advantage on the flanking disadvantage on the range in melee [Music]
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no oh my goodness so it's cancelled and then one more plus one yeah so the flanking was needed so i didn't just so
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i sold the second roll then so that would be an 18 to hit that still
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hits okay so we're good all right so 16 points of
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radiant damage nice okay
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and then yes when he does his tattoo does it look similar to mine [Music]
1:35:40
or is it different because mine are like circular it is it's different from yours it is
1:35:45
different okay cool this one i i thought about it i was like can we see in this moment what the tattoo what the
1:35:52
uh script is on it with the i would say in this moment of combat he is on the other
1:35:58
side of an enemy from you i would say no okay
1:36:04
you can see that there is a tattoo you just you can't pick out what it is um okay and then what's that uh
1:36:11
that was okay that was your total damage that was 16. um can i add sneak attack
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to it you had a sneak attack to a spell attack does it have to be melee i think it does
1:36:23
it has to be with a certain weapon yeah kind of weapon too oh yeah finesse finesse yeah so what i'm going to do is
1:36:28
then use a bonus action and disengage and come back around where
1:36:34
i saw the i saw the little one get hit and i want to go see if he's alright so i'm going to slide back
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around towards alma okay um yeah you can slide just along the wall
1:36:46
to get to oma when i get there i'll just say uh
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that looked nasty are you okay [Music] uh yeah it hurts it hurts really bad
1:36:57
[Music] but i think i'm okay hold on
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and that'll be okay that'll be my turn um all right next up shraya um you're staring down this crawler
1:37:09
right in front of you that looks absolutely beat to hell uh
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i'm gonna take a howler [Applause] and then uh
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take another fight attack okay make that attack oh my god it's still up after 21 more points of damage
1:37:28
yeah these are some beef these are some hearty worms
1:37:36
disadvantage rolls work as you take the second lowest one right yeah whatever the lowest one is okay well i rolled a
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two on the first one i don't think i can get much yeah you might fail i might fail actually
1:37:48
let's see if i do let's see if i do no no i don't um so i howl and get a little bit too
1:37:55
into it and just kind of like fight wildly uh so get used to the form yeah
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okay um then seeing that it is also going to take a bite attack at you shraya
1:38:11
that is gonna be a 14 to hit with that you met it
1:38:18
uh yeah you met it okay that heads that is
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four points of piercing damage [Music]
1:38:29
okay and it's going to it's actually gonna take another bite attack
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ooh with that bane brings it down to ten that does not okay
1:38:41
there we go record i have been rolling my comments and then the other guy is going to go
1:38:47
um he is going to uh take an attack he sees that kalec is weakened so he's
1:38:53
going to be taking an attack at kellik that is gonna be
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oh gosh i hate bane i'm gonna be
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12 to hit oh he's not here okay yeah second by the time of your
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i'm already hunched over so i just kind of roll all right the second one is going to be
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um 21 to hit [Music] oh i'm i'm yeah that is just coming up from
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the roll seven points of piercing damage [Music]
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all right with that flynn you're up next i'm a threat and i'm gonna attack it
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twice battle cry of the ages yeah man
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um now that is uh 23. yeah for sure 23.
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okay uh damage uh 11 piercing okay so
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number two the first one is it uh no it is not you sink your sword deep into this thing and uh
1:40:05
completely demolish it and leave my sword in it bonus action
1:40:11
uh bonus action some of my bow turn around shoot an arrow out the other one okay is it still up it's still straight
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up yeah yeah don't do that yep
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uh 21 21 hits let's go oh man i roll low damage five piercing
1:40:31
as you release this arrow yeah it
1:40:36
finds its way directly into its eye through its eye and out through its uh
1:40:43
like brain stem um as it completely clenches up and then falls dead
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at the feet of shraya well we're now out of combat
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um are there are there any more of those coming everyone okay
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oh no i'm not okay everyone else get to be get get get hit by that the tentacle
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yeah yeah i think i think kellik did nami paul
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like tissue paper i'm gonna run i'm gonna run up to the wolf and look at look into its eyes like i'm gonna try
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and like pull its head down towards my eyes try out
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[Music] are you okay and i'm just like petting his face like right under his eyes where
1:41:34
his purple eyes are i just like petting his muzzle in his face and uh you're gonna get a couple like
1:41:42
excited like head bobs and a couple of like yips
1:41:47
as as uh i just am just very excited this is so weird
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you're a bird and now you're a wolf kind of cool you're pretty cute
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and i just i keep petting and at that my tongue kind of sticks out and kind of get into the
1:42:08
scratching do you think that's permanent do you know what what happened i don't i don't
1:42:14
understand one thing about schreyer not one not a single
1:42:19
aorta of his existence makes any sense to me i thought yesterday was crazy but it has started and this has been a wild
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ride at least these things can be put down without discretion
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how long uh dm do i have any sense of how long the poison will last for um uh
1:42:39
over the course of this conversation over the next i'd say a minute or so um you slowly feel the effects fade from
1:42:46
your body [Music]
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most of it yeah do you think it's safe enough here to
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maybe just like sit down for a little bit [Music] uh
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i mean you did see what just happened no all right but
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do you think there are more coming i think they were attracted to our movement
1:43:17
if we are quiet maybe or short beat
1:43:22
think we should press on that's what i would suggest i can say to our wounds uh
1:43:28
as we go here yeah when they mention that i'll i'll take a look down one of the tunnels and kind of just listen
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because they came up from the ground right so there's like tunnels and holes in the ground there's yeah there's like small burrowed holes throughout the
1:43:39
ground i'll kind of listen down through one and see if i can hear anything
1:43:44
make a perception check for me
1:43:50
[Music] uh 14.
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um yeah you feel like you're getting a pretty good sense of what might be down there and you don't hear anything
1:44:01
additional within the ground well i don't hear anything right now but kind
1:44:06
of like the idea of getting out of this tunnel or at least further down okay
1:44:11
hey shraya do you think i can ride on your back
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uh and i crouched down tria are you okay
1:44:25
he's fine and i like hop up on his back um
1:44:30
to try to like ride on him as you head over there just the
1:44:37
seeker will say you you took a little damage i think do you want do
1:44:44
you need any anything to help you feel better i've got it
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[Music] and i cast prayer healing
1:44:54
on her body wow
1:45:00
up to six creatures so
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what oh sick uh
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[Music] 17 points of healing to everybody i'm good oh yeah nice
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that brings me back up to max baby as a uh you kind of feel
1:45:25
uh the the whatever elements of um
1:45:31
damage you sustained of this these creatures whatever kind of like uh uh sundering of flesh or or left behind
1:45:38
spittle uh evaporates into this uh into this dust that sort of like dissipates into
1:45:45
the air and uh with it uh your your wounds are repaired stitched together i
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looked down at my shoulder whoa that's cool i'm fine yeah i'm good
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is daddy still awake yeah daddy is still awake
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he's on the ground yeah he's sort of like laying there on the ground he goes i'm
1:46:10
sorry i couldn't be more helpful ah you did fine daddy's
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daddy is this this new group you have found they seem more capable than your last
1:46:22
yeah they're i mean yeah i don't know if i'd say that but
1:46:27
i mean yeah no they're they're great they're awesome they're awesome
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you flynn fellow eve of some group come here for a moment please well sure
1:46:41
walk over and um he will
1:46:47
as you as you come over he will put his hands together in front of his face uh
1:46:54
how hot wait flynn's very short i'm like three feet something yeah so yeah it's so short zika is about six one
1:47:00
and uh he will put his hands together and pray and above it right in front of his face and he will say
1:47:06
uh
1:47:11
and put his hands on your shoulders and you will get a vigilant blessing so
1:47:18
on the next uh initiative role that you make you will get advantage
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and he would just say you're quite capable for a little one
1:47:30
for a little one your little didn't mean no yeah that's fair
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what'd you do should we should we come into combat again
1:47:45
you will see oh i pull my sword out i'm like
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look around for danger does not work like that but i like your energy
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okay sheath my sword back in my backpack right hey jumpy this one though and i'm behind flynn i glower at seeker kind of
1:48:04
like don't encourage him all right and i have i have words
1:48:10
i have like folded over shraya and i'm just like my hands are like digging into like like buried into his fur just like
1:48:16
petting and getting comfort from like the fur of the creature and i'm just like laying over him
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i'll uh i'll pick up my torch and kind of lead the group almost excitedly looking for danger
1:48:30
as as i see that he has his torch up i'll just like brush my fingers towards it um and it
1:48:37
gives double the light okay would nice would i know dm about how much more we
1:48:43
have to go in here from a distance yeah um yeah you would know that you have about
1:48:51
a mile and a half left until you can reach a point where exiting this this tunnel would lead you
1:48:57
outside of the city um and knowing that sort of keeping that in the back of your mind with flynn now charging ahead with
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uh torch in one hand um oma on the back of tria's new form and and everyone else
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following that is where we're gonna end today's session we're going to call it right there
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with a new friend um a new yeah try his new form um and uh
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yeah seeker joining the party for uh for a little bit of an adventure so with that we're going to call it right there
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thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see you all again next week bye nerds
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