Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
reat and say yeah i'm calixica omar flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to
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ventureforth
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[Music]
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so [Music]
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previously you all had fled from the city of solaris with a new companion in tow by the name of seeker
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this new companion who mysteriously came to you guys through the contact of
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thaddeus told you that he could supply you with the necessary ingredients
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to have these magical items that could erase all magical or non-magical tracking that was
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on you by the hollow guard he also knew a way out of the city which you guys were desperately in need of and
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threw some tunnels underneath the city and combat with some of these underground burrowing worms you guys
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eventually made it out of solaris and onto the open road you guys grabbed a couple horses with
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seeker being sure to pay or leave behind some gold for the farmer whose horses
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they were and you guys headed off towards the mountains
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when you guys got to the base of the mountains after a little bit of a brief detour
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you guys eventually made your way up into the mountain itself through the foresty evergreen area and after hiking
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for a little while on horseback you guys were able to spot or i should say shraya
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was able to spot a abnormal tree off in the distance a tree that wasn't like any of the other
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trees a lot bigger and didn't seem to to be sort of the pine
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and evergreen type that was surrounding you after a little bit more investigation and heading towards it you guys
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discovered a couple of dead bodies some of them on the inside of this tree and some of them on the outside
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it seemed that this tree was carved out hollow and made into a home or some sort of a
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temple to ildoria with the the main tree on the outside being hollowed out and
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then a new much younger tree growing within it caleb went around and began to cleanse
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some of the bodies and and burn them into ash and with that seemingly releasing some spirits
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from them you guys found a little uh green teapot
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and uh you guys were just sort of looking around and investigating this tree so um i believe seeker and flynn were
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looking at this uh little magical teapot and everyone else was going around investigating the bodies so
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as we start this session what would you guys like to do this is a interesting teapot
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do you mind if i put it in my bag you can figure out what it does later well yeah i want to take a look at it but there's
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a lot of stuff around here that we probably should be worried about
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i agree don't let me forget though because i
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sometimes forget things and that looks really cool but if you put it in your bag i might forget to look at it so
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remind me don't worry it's magic i will not okay cool i still want to talk about
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your sword um shraya and i were looking at this body right that hadn't been yet yet uh
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consumed by the earth yeah so just to give you guys a reminder
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there were um five bodies in this room um one of them was impaled to the wall
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by a spear and they had been consumed by these vines one of them was laying face down with a
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sword in their back also being consumed by vines and then one of them was sort of laying there in a hunched and
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kneeling position with arrows coming out of them also being consumed by vines um kalec you had um
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sort of like uh disintegrated for lack of a better term um the two bodies that were seem to have
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been blasted through with some sort of magical force
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and uh for just a reminder that uh oma and flynn have
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dark vision right now because they caught i just cries at night thanks for the reminder
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uh i'm gonna kneel down and look more deeply at these vines
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as i squint my eyes uh run my fingers over the vines
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cast my mind back to think if i've ever known this kind of vine or if it's magical or
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if i can tell that it had been like cast as a spell or something yeah make an arcana check for me
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[Music] bad 17 17. um this is like natural arcana like
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you can you can sort of see the um growth of the vines that is like the vines aren't growing
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everywhere they're just sort of encasing these bodies um this is probably like
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the work of of some natural force um trying to take these bodies back
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um do all the bodies seem to have the same symbols or or um if i look at all of the
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bodies do they seem to be from the same ilk um yeah looking at them they've all got
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like these um deep like earth brown tone robes um from what you can see
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and then you could tell before um caleb disposed of the other two bodies um that they were wearing the same thing
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[Music] martial making the australia
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they seem to be it's the earth taking her course albeit
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perhaps linked to a some kind of energy that pervades the
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land here she won't relinquish the soul
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holding out for some reason this makes me think that
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whatever force we are beginning to encounter on our way to our destination
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i hope the guardians of this place will give us safe passage as the ashes um
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start to uh flicker away from my eyes and my eyes the grave uh come to rest
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i turn to shreya and say if what i've seen above us
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is uh accurate there's on death
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all about this place and i don't think we'll get through here
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safely right kellick what should we be looking for
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from from undeath um which i just don't know what we're supposed to
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be keeping our eyes out for if you could help me uh i cast my eyes up above us
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uh is there uh what's the architecture like here dm is
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it stairs yeah or so um yeah it's it's a spiral staircase going along the inside
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of this hollowed-out tree i i don't know what what manner of one
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death alma but something are you familiar with [Music]
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things returning from the other side no um not really
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oh uh you remember when we toured the tomb of the red wolf right
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uh-huh well uh sometimes things that are killed by
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what one might call normal means oh like like corvin amberstone
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right marvin amberstone is uh likely
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uh uh uh an exact case of on death do you think he's here
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uh i certainly hope not but we can't roll it out
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um sometimes certain
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forces uh outside of our domain keep the spirits of the dead from
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reaching their appropriate state their natural conclusion their uh
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could be all manner of things so um is it safe to say that we don't have to
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worry about the ones if they have vines on them well it depends [Music]
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seeker is there cases out here in kaldor that you know
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of that you know this certainly can't be an isolated incident of
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worshipers of the new gods slaughtering worshipers of the old ones
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those are pretty extraordinary circumstances that might lend themselves well to curses uh one
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death perhaps the old gods keeping their servants alive to wreak havoc on those
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that did them wrong you know anything of this walking over to check it out um
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but that is what happened here they were
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first hiding and then exterminating uh would i know anything
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more like from a religious standpoint or historical standpoint
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um yeah you can either make religion or a history check
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yahtzee that's a natty 20. hey so let's get that 25 on it let's go nice
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um yeah so um you would know specifically
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that there have been like a lot of cases across kaldor of like aggressively
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pushing out worshipers of the old gods but it's never i
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it's almost never come to bloodshed on this scale you know that um there were five cases across caldor
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where things escalated to this sort of point where where
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caldor determined that extermination was necessary um and this is one of those five sites um
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that that was carried out like that do you mind if i try more aggressive means of being the spirit
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i i i want nothing more than for it to properly arrest it but i don't
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understand i i thought that kelter just just wanted freedom
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to pray to the new gods why why why are they killing people who pray to the old
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gods i i thought this whole fight was just that they could have freedom it doesn't really sound like
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like freedom if they're killing other people who who also just want to pray to their own gods
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they might not be a monolithium but some have spoken to say themselves
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as liberators so by some strange stretch of their minds they might think of these actions
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and i gesture to the corpses as necessary to fray the minds of
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the old ways necessary or even noble from what i've begun to know
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about them what do they get out of it change
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they were already hiding in a tree to worship [Music]
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change does not call me easy on me and seeker will he's kind of
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sighing as you're asking those questions and starts to hold his hands over the
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the course that's held in the vines and he's smuttering and he says
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and a purplish flame uh will come up around the um
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attempt to come up and consume it's a it's a sacred flame uh cancer
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see if we can have any effect okay um yes you cast a sacred flame and as
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this this this purple fire is beginning to work its way over the body um okay
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you noticed that his spell worked on this body um and uh it sort of just like glides
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itself over the body and as it's moving over it
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it doesn't actually burn the body as you would expect it to do um but as the fire moves across it it
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produces these tiny little purple sprouts that then burst into
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tiny purple flowers as the fire moves across it and finishes um going from the
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head to the feet and when the the fire finishes uh making its way over the body
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the the body is still there but now covered in purple flowers i i look up at
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staker uh my eyes uh
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red with like burgeoning tears
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[Music] they're wrestling over our souls
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while we take each other's lives in their names
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they don't care if we squabble down here and bleed for them they just want our
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our last breaths or remnants well
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maybe not maybe maybe maybe maybe eldoria was just trying to to keep
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the body safe so that no further well maybe
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maybe the people who killed him tried to keep him in ever long lasting life
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and and eldura was just trying to welcome him back home i know sanctuaries and shrines to
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ildoria this place has been cursed
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and hopefully not irrevocably corrupted and as you say that and you all look to shraya as he is
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speaking to you a ghostly white figure apparates from the ground behind him and over his
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shoulder and try you feel a chill go down your spine as you look behind
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you i'm gonna have everyone roll initiative
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all right my initiative roles are consistently dog [ __ ] hey lisa's consistent though you
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know can i count it you know yeah that's true on the floor or should i roll again i'll say yes yes
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i'll say yes all right that i feel like it's dealer's choice like oh yeah if you as long as you agree to that wow it's
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rolling okay i'll usually wait till the 20 comes up well it's funny you should mention that
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mine is 23. of course okay um oma what is your initiative
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seventeen kellick six flynn uh nine
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and seeker eighteen teen nice okay so as this ghostly white
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figure appears from the ground behind shraya um uh let's
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have shraya you get uh the first in combat what would you like to do
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uh is so this figure is like actually touching me like in proximity to my
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finger it is hovering over your shoulder just like almost right on top of you yeah
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all right uh i am going to whirl around
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uh i'm going to instinctively
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i can feel it uh press my fingers my staff
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and it then say spent all this time
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now the corruption is upon us i'm gonna whirl around and
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uh i'm going to i'm going to attempt to let's see how it responds to this
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uh instantaneously uh purple light explodes out the top of the crystal and i'm just gonna like
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immediately bring it like into the center of this mass like whirling it down clocking the crystal right into the
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middle of it okay um make an attack roll
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uh it's a 16 to hit a 16 hits
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[Music] okay uh minimal damage on the dice roll but
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that's uh six points of our six points of specifically what kind of
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return damage is that arcane because i basically charged up the staff so it would normally be bludgeoning but uh because i
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charged it up and it's magical oh it's imagine magical budget gotcha okay
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all right um is that the end of your turn i since i am directly engaged with it i am
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going to uh grip my beak look at it through like you
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know more squinted eyes and i'm gonna in one fluid motion like whoosh myself back
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with my wings from it uh as far as i can so i'll let you rule how much far that
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is yeah um you can go as far as you want it is going to take a attack of opportunity though okay that's fine
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as it swipes at you [Music]
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so as you try and walk away it's going to um just very slowly hover its hand up
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in the air and reach two fingers out and try and touch you
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that is going to be a 14 to hit uh
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i remember that that yeah you met it that's it that that's oh no
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you have the shield that's not what we wanted that's not oh no do not use i i gave it back i gave it to someone else i
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think okay i don't have the shield so as it's as its arm reaches up you uh
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you spread your wings and as you are um pushing them back together to get some distance from this thing its arm just
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barely reaches out and touches your wing [Music] that is going to be
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[Music] 10 points of necrotic damage that's a lot
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[Laughter] all right next up on the initiative
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is oma um does this creature look like it's you
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said it's white a white figure um does it appear male or female does it
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look like it's wearing robes that are similar to the robes that are on the ground um you cannot determine um male or
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female but you can see just sort of towards the end of where these um
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these like ethereal um wisps come out from it you can just barely see some robes um looking to be
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the similar very similar to what you had seen on the other bodies okay and how many bodies are left that
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aren't um decayed in this room um
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there are three that are covered in vines
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and then um yeah and helic when you walked into this area you had only determined
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two other undead presences okay
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um great i will look at tria and and see that the the the spectory
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creature is um hurting him in some way um but not visibly hurting him
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and i will rub my hands together and
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concentrate on my fingers and then pull my fingers away from each other
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[Music] and a sea of um shadows will start to converge
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between my in the space between my hands as i slowly open them and open them and open them until um i have reached about you know
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up two feet wide for my hands and um the swirling
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smoke will become a solidified object and a sword and i will
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throw it well how far away am i from the thing actually um you're about 10 feet away 10
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feet great i am going to move 10 more feet backwards from it okay further away and then
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launch the um spectral blade
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at this thing okay make an attack get it [Music]
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oh no no oh no um
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that is that's a 10 to hit a 10 does not hit nope
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um i will um move another 10 feet back
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okay so that i am 30 feet from this thing and crouch
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behind anything that i see i i think it's only a 20 foot um actually i think it's only a 20-foot
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tree that's what you said yeah it's a 20-foot circle so just as far back against the wall
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nope nope just gonna go against one of the walls um and that's my turn
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okay um next up seeker
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so i'm gonna tack it with this sacred flame and
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okay that is uh
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[Music]
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that is a 12 to hit a 12 hits oh
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[Music] nice okay good to know and we're gonna do this
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damage ooh that's a six plus two that's eight as you cast sacred flame and the flames
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um rush over this this ghost's body um it screeches and uh it seems to be in a lot
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of pain from that um it sort of recoils and you can see its form
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diminish very slightly before it um vanishes back into the ground what
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and you guys all wait a second in another second
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as it floats up from the ground right behind kellik
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and kellik it is going to [Music] try and reach out and touch you in a
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very similar way that it reached out and touched shraya that is gonna be
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an eleven to hit does not hit that does not hit it reaches out for you and you can feel
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the cold um coming right over your shoulder and you just duck out of the way in time
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[Music] next up flynn yeah uh so i'm gonna run
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up to this thing obviously and uh i'm going to run up and as i'm
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running i uh uh use my bonus action to just put the sword in my hand
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and uh i use my my my fingers to tap the sword one two three and you see that energy
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pulse on my sword as i cast booming blade um but it's pulsing with more fervor and energy uh and i'm
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gonna try and hit this thing [Music] make an attacker
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and that would be this uh seventeen
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a seventeen hits yeah okay um so as i strike down some of the
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energy actually ex um is expended and does a little more booming damage at the start so that's
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this um oh what does it do
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d8 okay so that is uh
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17 points or do you want it separate uh no it can okay 17 total 17 points of damage and you see
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that energy wherever i struck the uh creature it's like
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pulsing as it kind of it's like encased in that cut um and i'm gonna
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look up at it and grin and look at kellik don't worry i'm here
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all right and with that kellick you're up in the initiative uh having just
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escaped this thing's cool grasp i'm going to break from its attack range and try and
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uh move to the other side of the wall uh not the other side of the wall but
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the other side of the room um so i'll take an attack of opportunity i assume okay yes you will
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oh that is going to be a nine to hit nice nice nice i will just skirt away
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reaches out it's its arm seems to be like almost as if
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if if a person was moving through water sort of that speed and you're able to just duck out of the way before it makes
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contact nice and i'll uh yeah i'll back off
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ten feet uh okay and then i'll glower at this thing
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the arthur the ashes go where you wish but you'll defile this place no longer
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and i'll throw a gang ding bolt yeah okay and that is
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24 to hit oh wow yeah for sure
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okay that is uh 11 points of radiant damage
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okay and as you hit this thing dead center right in the chest um your guiding bolt almost goes through it and
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as if um you were shooting your guiding bolt just at fog it dissipates and
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doesn't form back into space and you're
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as this thing completely expands into the air around it and it is now dead and we are out of
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initiative uh where'd it go
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and i gave it a choice so i don't know where but
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may not want to stay here too long [Music] i'm gonna call the sword back to me
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and hold it for a minute okay oh hey that's cool that is cool
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um yeah i guess [Music]
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uh i'm gonna um and cast eyes of the grave again
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okay drawing ashes across my eyes uh is there still a shape above us there is one above you yes
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[Music] if we stay here longer we'll certainly meet another
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but i have to admit i feel inclined to cleanse this place i feel the same way notably the one
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above you is not moving um
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so so so um the waters that we need to find are that way right and i point
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outside of the door and up to the um up the mountain yes
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um from my looking through the land this place does not offer a path there
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[Music] okay so caleb you wanna
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you wanna keep going up yes if you'll indulge me
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on this um i mean i've made some really bad choices lately so
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yeah i guess i guess what's what's the worst that could happen
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who is not inclined to do this i feel like you and i and i kind of nodded
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at kellogg i feel like we could take these intruders ourselves
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oh um oh i'll be going too
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maybe i'll just maybe i'll just stay behind you and and and and help if i can but i wasn't much
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helped out here so i i don't know alma you've got a lot of power
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and this is a good application of it yeah but sometimes i miss that's okay honey
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it's about what you mean to do i forgot to roll chaos bolt magic
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yeah and i just didn't roll above an eight i got an a team oh man nice
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all right um i'll begin to climb the stairs uh if
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everybody seems like uh they're in agreement with this choice yeah seeker will follow how bm how long has
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it been since i cast the tech magic and got the teapot has it been over under 10
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minutes would that still be up it would still be up yeah okay yeah you would be coming to the last i'd say two minutes
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or so is that the same for the uh protection from good and evil yeah i was doing it while he ritual cast okay so
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it's probably on its last leg too probably on it okay um and yeah so secret you get a
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like a strong ping from up further in the tree just a single
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magical essence lego i'm getting something up here too we should go check it
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as i follow them up the stairs i look over at alma like back over my shoulder
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and i say and so i'm prepared this time what is it i do
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close my eyes breathe in and as i uh plant the staff on the ground where the crystal used to
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be uh i've now produced a glowing ball of flame yeah yeah yeah
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and uh seeker would real quick just send he would just say out loud and uh just
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kind of send a message to eldridge and say stay in the tree please watch the door
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let us know if anyone comes um eldridge has not seen anyone approaching or anything unusual yet
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just so you know okay so you guys head up these
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winding stairs that you can see um are like built into the inside of the outer wall of this
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tree um and as you guys are are moving up this staircase you can see that there
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is a platform up at the top and you guys are moving and you see
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windows carved into this tree trunk that lets you see out further into the forest as
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you're climbing up this this staircase and kellock you see it first as you're sort of rounding this bend
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and you see a body laying there lifeless on the ground
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you can see that um in sort of a similar fashion but not to the
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most extreme degree that you saw with the other bodies most of this body is burned um and it
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has like these chars all over it um and not at all being consumed by vines
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and about 10 feet up the stairs right next to one of the windows
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light is pouring in from outside and so you can barely see this
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ghostly specter standing there looking out the window and just standing still
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[Music] um what kind of
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form is it taking is it does it look like the bodies that have been around the the room in the same
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room yeah um i'm gonna have you make a perception check okay because it's kind of difficult to see the uh the form of this
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as the light is how far away is this again it's about 20 feet away from where you guys are at
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that is you've got a body right in between you guys 25 on the perception wow the 25. um you see uh very clearly
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elvin um both the ghost and the body on the floor
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and you would also see um hanging around the neck of the body
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is a like a blue um it's it's like a
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blue it looks like a blue painted piece of maybe wood or some sort of carving
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and as you look to the ghost you can see a ghostly outline of the same sort of necklace around their neck a
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wooden carving some sort of carving that has been painted blue
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you can't really determine what it is from there um seeker the
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necklace um the the painted carving around their neck is what is giving off
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the magical essence that you felt uh what i what seeker will do is um
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actually trying like very sneakily very stealthily um
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use his invisible mage hand to um
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see if he can move remove the necklace from the body okay
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um make a slight of hand check
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um yes can can you talk to ghosts
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uh maybe he could tell us what happened here uh 14.
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oma and kellik as you guys are having this discussion um you all um
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don't even notice but look back at the body after a couple seconds and the
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necklace is gone secret is now in your possession how is the spirit and the spirit unchanged
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spirit seems unchanged and he wouldn't necessarily try and hide the so he was just trying to do it like
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without disturbing the body and doing it without like giving away that it's him
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necessarily but he would just kind of hold it have it have his main channel hold it up in front of the group so we could inspect
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it okay um yeah so the rest of you guys notice it but the ghost in the window does not
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seem to notice what is the necklace yeah do we recognize that yeah oh um yeah uh i'm gonna have um i'm
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gonna have one person make or two people make a nature check [Music]
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let's figure this out together but let's do it hey let's go
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that's an 11 for kelly i got a strong 10.
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strong you guys would know that it's it's like
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this weird elongated v-shape and it's got like some um
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uh some divots in it and after looking at it inspecting the weight it's
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definitely bone that's been painted blue but you don't know of what creature you don't know
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what sort of body part this goes to but it is a piece of a bone painted blood um as
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kellick and i are looking at this um i'll kind of whisper to him to not disturb the being in front
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of us um what if we break it
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i don't think that would have much to do with what's going on with the
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curse it feels supplemental to what's going on here
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also last time we broke a magical item you grow horns out of your head
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there point yep okay so maybe let's and i'd say this to everybody and it's sort of like sort of just your broth
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remember let's identify things and get a good sense of what they are before we start smashing them against the ground
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what okay that's that's a fair fair idea but it is fun to do
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and you never really know what's going to happen anything could happen it can be exciting why why would you simply break a magical light
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yeah why would we do that flynn yeah we would never why yeah
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um caleb so so maybe we can ask him what happened i mean
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maybe um one way or the other alma we have to get to the bottom of it
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so i i i'm open to speaking with the thing yeah yeah if you're going to speak to it hold on
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one second and um
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seeker would put a hand on caleb's shoulder and just say
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[Music] hey um
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come down here i'm return the favor at least try to i haven't done this before i'll kneel
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and i'll uh reach to my side and there's a little small pouch that uh it kind of hangs on
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with my belt i'm going to reach in and grab some silver powder uh from from it and kind of rub
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it in my fingers and as i do uh the the blue tattoo glows white and uh
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i whistle out it's like a very faint and i hold that high note um
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and it starts to glow brighter and brighter and i uh i take my fingers and i motion to your forehead
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um is it okay if i make it quick fan come on it's part of
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this bell it's how i learned it i know i know all right hold still still and i'll rub my fingers and the powder across his
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forehead leaving two silver lines and those lines of silver powder glow with a
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like a like a bright white light and uh i cast protection from evil and good on
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you um it looks so pretty against your skin it's really iridescent
40:08
silver and gray huh i think it's good work good luck uh good look for you
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all right good luck i sort of give a cautious nod to the gang
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and i will step step into this room spirit
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my name is kellik i'm here to relieve you
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of whatever foulness has befallen you and this place
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you see the ghost recognize that you're speaking to it and it
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turns and in like this this abnormal glide just rotates and looks at you
40:54
and it looks right in your eyes and you can see now on its elven face you can see these ghostly tears
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coming down it just looks at you and i'll say in elvish
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these battles they're not for us to fight [Music]
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we can't be pawns to this nonsense
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let me help you let me put it to rest
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and the ghost once again rotates back to the position that it originally was looking out the window at the
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sunlight coming through and you can see right outside of the window
41:41
on this this massive tree that you guys are in there's a branch that comes out right next to the window and you can see
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two little blue jays fly and land on the branch and the ghost looks over and just watches the birds
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i will step over to it to look out the window alongside it
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all right there's two blue jays there are two blue jays there on the on the branch
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[Music] these creatures are unperturbed
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by this bloodshed so too should you be
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[Music] how can i wipe your tears away
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and with a long flowing motion it sort of gestures back over towards its body
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[Music] the body's unconsumed by vines or anything yeah it's just charred
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and i will sort of like look into it uh like keeping eye contact with it as i
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kneel next to the body and it sort of looks at you and it can see what you're
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about to do and it comes over and it sort of kneels right next to you
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and it looks in your eyes and it shakes its head no and it looks up
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and with a ghostly wave it raises its hand and points to shraya
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[Music] i
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go where you wish i'll not bind myself to
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these beasts any longer try
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send this spirit to the place it longs for
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uh i'm going to cautiously approach
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uh kneel down and
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this is beyond my facilitation transferring a being from
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a place in between to eternal rest i
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i'm i'm out of sorts have you not earthly magic try
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can you not devour it with the power nature
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give it to the earth i've never tried
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[Music] perhaps there perhaps there is some of nature that
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i can learn as the need has arisen
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and as i say that i focus all of my energy
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uh into my forehead which starts to glow
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and a sort of eclipse uh goes across my forehead in the
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pigments of my forehead like a moon like eclipsing
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uh and
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what can i cast on this body to help i'm meditating
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and i touch my hands to the body
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and i'm i'm struggling with
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words but i i i [Music] these wisps of wind start to pass
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through where my beak is as my beak opens up wide and just blue wind just emanates out of it and
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i reach my hand through it and then bring that wind and redirect it down into the body as i cast dispel magic
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that's what i'm gonna go for okay um as you cast this and and your spell
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overtakes the body um you can see the pieces of of flesh and clothing that had
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been singed by whatever spell had had killed it um
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begin to like soften out and smooth and it almost seems to in a weird way
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like mend the clothes and and heal the body and as the spell finishes um you can see
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just a little bit of of plant growth and vines begin to come out from
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where this body is laying on the stairs out of the wood of the the staircase
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and at first as the body's laying there it first takes over and consumes the right hand
46:55
as these vines interweave itself in between the body's fingers and you look to the ghost
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who at this point stands up and they look out looking to
47:08
a figure who is not there seemingly looking at someone who maybe is not there
47:14
reaching their hand out and sort of looking like they're reaching out and clutching someone else's hand
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and then they walk off and fade into nothing
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oh i put my head in my hands i uh
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rise and sort of take a step back i didn't know that
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the inner workings of my being were capable of such
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profound transformation [Music] we transcend the battle lines freya
47:54
this is a power unlike any other let's not forget it
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and uh some tears that perhaps mirrored the tears on the ghost
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start to come down my own face as i clutch my uh staff and and lean on it
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and just sort of coo a little bit in a slight meditation and almost like a recovery from casting that spell
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[Music]
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well um i'll walk up and just while he's meditating just give him a pat on the knee
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i don't i don't say anything but i'll just give him a pat on the knee and move forward to
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what if i look out the window what where does the sun look to be is does it look to be
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you know straight above us starting to fade where what can we tell what time it
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is um yeah so uh you would be able to
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tell that it's probably about three o'clock in the afternoon
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um does anyone get any other um
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bad feelings about this place because um [Music] maybe we should
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rest here for the night it seems like we've got a lot of um walking to do
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and and and this has shelter [Music]
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i'm i'm not against this i cannot detect anything but if i
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i'm given some time i can check out what remains
49:43
another few more um i can't remember had i disposed of the remaining bodies in the on the first
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floor or we should go yeah um yeah all of the the bodies who
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weren't consumed by vines on the first floor were dispensed okay yeah okay yeah um
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i think it's safe home safe enough safe as anywhere [Music]
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so maybe we should just i mean safe is relative the
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the wraith-like being did come from the floor but that i know what you're saying yes it came from a boss or a boat
50:21
let's travel around and throw the floor and up uh but it was originally above us so
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you know it is relative i i can see that
50:35
we can look out it will be okay we will be maybe we should
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[Music] get some you know some food and and just just
50:46
stay here plan try
50:52
yeah i mean i'm okay to take a break or are we looking to sleep here is it is
50:57
that safe to sleep helek just said that he doesn't get any more senses and and all
51:03
all the bodies have have been sent back to where they should be and
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[Music] it's it's here or in the woods in the dark okay
51:15
yeah i mean if he thinks it's safe i'm okay to rest
51:20
i will um bow my head and whisper i've chosen my truth
51:27
will you still grant me your power and i will
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pull ashes across my eyes and try to use eyes of the grave again
51:39
all right um this time your vision is completely clear you don't sense anything
51:46
i look i looked at alma with swirling ash and eyes yeah i think it's safe
51:54
best of my estimation [Music] anna i i think we should stay here
52:00
the sun is gonna go down soon and i think it's better to have
52:06
some shelter i mean all right as long as there's no more of those um
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ghosts i'll keep you safe flynn okay
52:18
and i'm looking around just like looking around not really paying attention to
52:23
making sure i don't see any of those ghosts i guess that's all right um
52:29
maybe next to that window and i'll point over to the window actually wait no um and i'm looking for
52:35
a spot that's like doesn't have a body he doesn't have a word he's carrying his bedroll around the place like
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um uh yeah eventually like the the ground floor probably has the most space
52:47
for you to find another one yeah right then if we're going to the ground floor
52:53
i'll go up next to the door and just kind of like make my bed up right next to the door i'm i'm gonna set up here just you know
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just in case something comes up you know we can i'll be able to open the door and we can run out
53:06
okay um well i mean we've got time maybe we can go outside and and find something
53:12
that we can cook to eat will that make you feel better being
53:18
outside sure okay you can ask eldar if you wouldn't mind hunting for some small prey yeah
53:25
some smoking i would very much like to join her if she's going to go on that kind of errand
53:32
i think she might enjoy it [Music] fantastic
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start right away [Music]
53:44
all right um who is going outside to hunt right now that's schreiner
53:49
yeah um
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okay so um for both of the birds i'm gonna have you guys make um survival
54:02
checks for me yeah we will
54:08
17. and a oh natty that's a natty twenty
54:14
that's two for oh nice
54:19
so um yeah shraya you are um diving in and out of these trees um are you
54:26
looking for anything specific any specific kind of animal uh rabbits
54:32
rabbits okay um so you are diving in and out of these trees you see a rabbit down
54:38
on the the ground um and it starts to dart and run away from you but you're matching its movements left and right in
54:44
and out of the trees and eventually you're able to just get up on it and sink your claws into it
54:51
killing it very quickly and as you do you see another rabbit off to your right
54:57
so you put that one in your pouch and you go and grab that one and you kill that one just the same and as you get
55:02
back to the tree um to share with the rest of the party the the two rabbits um you see
55:10
uh an owl there perched on a pile of five rabbits
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i wish i could say that i felt like
55:23
jealousy but i'm only impressed you know how birds they like puff up all
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their other uh
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she kind of puffs up spreads the wings
55:40
and says well you didn't do bad yourself i mean i got more but
55:45
it's not a it's not a competition right right
55:51
and uh while we're at it why don't we get right on to the business of uh
55:57
preparing these scores and uh and with that in one sweeping motion i just whip my
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staff around my head stomp it into the earth the purple sparks and then turn into a flame out
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the top as i toss the rabbits up and skewer them on a javelin and then just immediately start
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roasting them above my staff it shouldn't be too long
56:24
cool i can just catch them that's that's she'll like walk over and kind of like
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like nestle on like your leg a little bit like just kind of just like
56:36
rub her head her little owl head rubber little head on your leg see that's that's a that's a pretty neat trick
56:45
the flame kind of erupts out the top of the staff a little bit more intensely as
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it like for a brief second overtakes the rabbits as i sort of
56:56
gained my footing back again i am not prepared for this
57:03
what are we doing people this is so great we should have we should probably we should probably
57:09
tell them that we got some food huh yes sir yeah must be quite hungry we
57:16
perhaps should uh make our way back there first and take care of our do the noble thing and take
57:22
care of our compatriots before we go any further focus i mean like we
57:28
already already said you know they they couldn't survive without us oh no no they'd be lost without us
57:36
[Music] all right so the rest of you guys see uh coming back into the tree with a whole
57:43
bunch of at this point cooked rabbits um two birds [Music]
57:50
um i have not left the top floor i have just like parked myself in front of the
57:58
um the whatever remains of this this elves body
58:03
that was being digested by these flowers and vines and i've just like set up my my bed roll
58:10
there and i'm just sitting in front of it just observing it
58:16
is oma there [Music] i'm downstairs
58:25
[Music] um seeker would have probably gone downstairs in and gone through his bag
58:30
and got uh like some jerky like some squirrel jerky that sounds good and offered it um here
58:37
you you mentioned food you might want yeah it's very good thanks thank you
58:44
um i will munch on it um and when triat enters
58:50
i'll look at his score whoa you caught so many rabbits
58:57
well the uh credit actually goes more toward this lovely
59:02
one over here i sort of like shrug and point over to
59:08
my object of my recent affection
59:13
eldra you caught so many rabbits
59:18
he just puffs up and it's like proud of herself kind of struts [Music]
59:26
and while i'm feeling creative i i think i might just make these rabbits consumable to all in the most
59:34
pleasurable way possible and uh as i as i say that i um balance the javelin on on one hand as
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with and i sort of reach my talons up from uh as i sit down and sort
59:47
of arch back into a kind of like yogic boat pose i start um picking apart like the grisly and the
59:55
you know hard to digest elements from the rabbit and start picking it apart and cleaning the cleaned or the the
1:00:02
cooked rabbit uh and i close my eyes and uh i would like to druid craft
1:00:09
if you'll go with me on this one a very a berry glaze
1:00:16
so i already know good berry a berry glaze to just softly like
1:00:21
glide across the top of this rabbit i will allow it um with the combination
1:00:28
of good berry and then using druid craft to sort of bring out like the natural
1:00:35
sugars within the the berries um yeah they sort of start to melt into this glaze
1:00:42
how what's the expression and uh come and come and get it
1:00:48
sure and i will grab one of the rabbits and like start picking it apart
1:00:55
uh seeker will take one actually we'll take two and
1:01:00
head upstairs um i'm downstairs asking
1:01:07
sharya all about his hunt and just like listening to him talk about his flying around
1:01:12
yes they were there and i was up and then they were down but i went down and and then uh they tried to hide behind a
1:01:18
tree but uh i know how to hide behind trees and i knew exactly that they were going underneath the extra
1:01:25
point of the vine so seeker you see sitting there up by the body
1:01:32
i just walk over and sit opposite helix and and uh
1:01:42
uh offer up one of the rabbits with the glaze these lace looks
1:01:49
fantastic [Music] i'll regard it with a little bit of
1:01:54
suspicion but i'll take him you know the gods
1:02:00
what they want is not clear to any of us it's easy to assume we know their wishes
1:02:15
there's there's documents there's
1:02:21
speakers those that purport to carry their word
1:02:28
have you not ever considered that their own will may be mixed in with this
1:02:39
i'm ashamed to say not until recently
1:02:44
but seeker
1:02:53
it doesn't matter the gods
1:02:59
allow this to happen allow their will to be misappropriated
1:03:06
misused and why why
1:03:13
so they can reap our souls when our lives are done
1:03:19
what of everything we've done here what of the bonds we form in life what are the families we raise and the people we
1:03:25
love [Music] they don't care about that they just
1:03:30
want what remains [Music]
1:03:42
until you're troubled all that i know for certain is what is and what is here in front of me
1:03:51
i don't understand it [Music]
1:03:59
what the gods [Music] can and cannot do cannot say
1:04:05
what would you have them do [Music] destroy all
1:04:12
misuse would that not be its own form of abomination
1:04:18
[Music] just allowed that
1:04:24
what if they can't i don't know [Music]
1:04:31
i do know that i have gifts that have been given and i can use them
1:04:37
to do what i can do and i wipe my tears
1:04:43
i [Music] we are the agents of repair
1:04:49
[Music] but we're left to our own devices
1:04:56
[Music] and the strength it takes [Music]
1:05:02
the measure for us to yours our talents wisely
1:05:10
i only hope time's strong enough
1:05:16
if the gods can't be then how can i be expected
1:05:22
undo all that's been done keep them you can't but what you can do
1:05:31
that bunch downstairs they follow you they need you
1:05:38
they are your charge you can't save the world but you can
1:05:44
save who's in front
1:05:55
you take a great weight upon your shoulders
1:06:00
come let's eat with your friends
1:06:07
i my eyes just hover across the the body in front of us
1:06:13
i've seen the place where i send where i send these spirits
1:06:20
[Music] i hope [Music]
1:06:27
that they're all as lovely [Music]
1:06:36
i'll join you i cast a glance out the window and to
1:06:41
where the the spirits parted as i sort of awkwardly stand trying not
1:06:47
to use the rabbit to balance myself
1:06:55
[Music]
1:07:01
thank you seeker don't thank me did not do anything should like to hear of this place
1:07:08
if there's time i too would like to know [Music] how you gotten your scars
1:07:17
let's join the others it sounds like shraya is telling quite the quite that hell
1:07:24
be interesting to see who's the better hunter i think he tells you but we'll see luckily for us
1:07:30
shai is not the competitive type that is good cause eldrite is [Laughter]
1:07:36
alright and you guys head back downstairs rejoin the rest of the group um is there anything the rest of you
1:07:42
guys would like to do yeah um once once um kellick and seeker come back down i'll um be digging through my bag
1:07:50
oh oh oh um so a couple of days ago or or a day ago i guess actually
1:07:56
wow lots happened um i got this thing um does anyone know how
1:08:04
to identify what it is um and i hold up a um like transparent silver potion with some
1:08:11
sparkly bits in it and i i don't know what it is but it looked pretty
1:08:17
so i got it um anyone
1:08:22
tell what it is dm can i i don't want to tell what it is
1:08:28
i like magic stuff um you guys could make an arcana check
1:08:35
or like identify it [Music]
1:08:41
17 arcana uh seven arcana
1:08:47
um seeker you would know um sort of by
1:08:52
the look of it you don't know exactly what it does um but it
1:08:58
doesn't seem to have any negative effects like it's probably a mostly
1:09:03
positive affecting potion um that's really what you get from it i
1:09:09
would share that information huh
1:09:14
you know i was hoping for more of like uh oh it does this and this
1:09:20
but i guess that's good to know
1:09:26
[Music] i should put it away
1:09:31
secret shrugs as well um this whole time
1:09:37
uh but they were upstairs and that shraya was regaling us with the tale of
1:09:42
his hunt i've just been um sitting on my bed roll next to the door
1:09:48
that leaves this place and i'm just looking around for ghosts i'm feeling the ground and
1:09:55
tapping it to see if it's hollow um i just i'm keeping my ears and eyes open and i'm looking up every dark area
1:10:05
and that's what i'm doing i don't know i'm gonna make it i'm gonna have to make here uh yeah either perception or investigation okay
1:10:14
and i'm almost like not even listening to the story or paying attention to anyone else uh you said uh perception
1:10:21
or investigation yeah yeah oh that's really good um
1:10:26
24 24 um you go around and you're sort of looking at things you're you're tapping
1:10:33
the walls um it seems pretty straightforward there doesn't seem to be any anything that
1:10:38
you're missing here [Music] i'm not seeing any
1:10:45
ghosts [Music] guys i think i'm gonna sleep outs
1:10:51
outside why what this place is
1:10:57
creepy yes
1:11:02
maybe less safe out there we're leaving the horses out there
1:11:09
you're not a horse you're more important
1:11:14
oh but ah don't get a big head about it okay i'm just saying you're better than a horse
1:11:21
but there's no ghosts out there there's no ghosts in here either that's what we thought before and then
1:11:27
they just showed up and now the one that the angelic attack disappeared and it went into ghosts what if it just comes
1:11:32
from the ground again you're a monster hunter you are a brave monster hunter and are
1:11:40
you scared of a couple ghosts you're not scared of anything you're
1:11:48
brave right and strong yeah and i'm a threat yes
1:11:57
i look around again [Music] um
1:12:02
right brave right gonna go back up next to the door and
1:12:09
sit on my little bed roll right next to the right next to the door go back to my my rabbit
1:12:15
just looking around seeker would look for like over by the teapot with this was there any like debris or anything that he could pick up
1:12:22
with his mage hand move silently across the room to drop on flynn's head
1:12:27
um yeah yeah there's there's actually these um right next to the teapot that you found there's these little um
1:12:33
porcelain teacups yeah it that'll do i'll take a teacup and uh move it over and drop it on
1:12:40
flint's head do i see this do i see it happening you'll try and do it uh sneakily yeah
1:12:46
yeah make a make up i mean i am distracted because i'm looking in dark corridors it is a
1:12:52
it's a 10. flynn what's your passive perception oh i don't know it's actually pretty good i
1:12:58
think um a passive
1:13:04
wow yeah you you see the you see it floating a little floating
1:13:10
tea cup guys i point to it what is that [Music]
1:13:16
um put it down he'll put it once he sees it he'll put it down and he'll look at fly and say uh
1:13:24
it is me don't worry i i am i too am a fan of mischief and
1:13:29
playing however i do not think staying outside would be the wisest
1:13:36
i can have elder stay outside in the tree and keep an eye on the horses we can keep watching here while some
1:13:43
sleep do i overhear him saying this
1:13:48
i mean are you saying it yeah secretly for anybody yeah yeah you hear that
1:13:53
i i think there are some been some great points made about sleeping outside and
1:13:59
uh eldra uh your
1:14:05
your companion yes says it might be well well matt if you roost outside tonight and i i was just
1:14:11
thinking myself perhaps we could catch a ravishing sunset sunset sunset
1:14:17
uh from the top of the tree and perhaps make our roost there tonight
1:14:25
if if an owl could blush you would see it now uh she she will uh
1:14:33
just kind of she actually kind of like hops and kind of kind of trips a little and and like walks over and like
1:14:40
okay yeah well i will
1:14:46
[Music] sort of motion to the rest of the party and kind of nod and uh
1:14:52
say uh uh we'll see you all uh later i suppose
1:15:02
i look at trap just like he's from another
1:15:08
universe just like completely bewildered
1:15:14
yes sounds good try it you uh
1:15:21
you'll be safe out there [Music] i am i am actually more confused now i
1:15:28
thought we were going to stay and yeah apparently it's fine to sleep outside now i guess no no no no no no no
1:15:34
it's we're going to stay inside try is gonna take first watch
1:15:39
with ultra and okay and watch the sunset
1:15:45
right it'll be a different kind of watch do you need help watching out there like
1:15:51
to watch the horses or oh no no no we're very uh well uh
1:15:56
sure capable ourselves yes apparently apparently it's really dangerous out there i mean i could oh that's quite all right flynn uh i think we can handle it
1:16:05
all right well if you need anything you know yell or
1:16:10
whatever but if you do hear any commotion just i wouldn't come running if i were you
1:16:16
what if you're hurt yeah i don't think i will be
1:16:22
hurting tonight [Music] i i wipe the silver
1:16:28
dust off my head i'm going to bed [Music]
1:16:36
so with that i think we're gonna get uh get these watches started
1:16:41
fair enough um all right uh first watch um let's just get this out
1:16:48
of the way uh shraya and eldra i'm gonna have you
1:16:55
both make perception checks at disadvantage yeah yeah yeah we will yeah yeah
1:17:03
does it does it um cancel to regular advantage or just regular role should they just both roll one so
1:17:10
it would just be uh straight one for eldritch yeah oh that's a 19.
1:17:16
i mean that's a five for me you know that makes sense um is a little bit more distracted um
1:17:23
eldra uh over the course of the first watch um doesn't spot anything
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because you know eldridge is playing a little koi it's kind of like the mating dance thing she's kind of
1:17:35
doing her little thing but still you know looking out she's got people awesome
1:17:40
yeah good for her ladies next watch who's going up next
1:17:46
moving on um i think i would probably not be
1:17:52
sleeping or having trouble falling asleep so i'll probably just be up looking around um but yeah i'll i'll probably would
1:18:00
be leaned up against the wall next to the door and just not sleeping and like looking around
1:18:06
okay so would you want to be a part of the second watch sure okay
1:18:11
and what is that perception yeah is anyone else going up with him or uh
1:18:17
okay uh i'll join him for a second okay
1:18:23
i was mostly going to bed initially to avoid talking about try any longer
1:18:28
yeah no understanding i'll wake up yeah so caleb and flynn's perception checks i got a uh
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[Music] 13. okay uh i got a 19.
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[Music] okay um you guys are sitting there you hear
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quiet breeze roll through the trees you hear
1:18:53
some birds chirping every once in a while just very faintly off in the distance
1:18:59
that's it you guys don't hear anything or see anything that would be determined as a
1:19:05
threat so you're sure you're not gonna
1:19:10
come out from the ground again i mean nothing's out of the question then but
1:19:17
we've cleansed this place and the restless spirits within so it's it's not a real it's not a curse
1:19:24
like a lingering curse it's like uh individuals
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you know those that stayed behind because
1:19:36
their god couldn't take them okay so they were it's not the place it's it was
1:19:43
and i point to one of the charred bodies or areas where they are
1:19:48
so what what those they're they were linked to the bodies i've relinquished those that i could and
1:19:56
the remainder uh seemed to be on their way to to and various
1:20:03
i don't know where she takes them but i guess that helps a little bit speaking of curses then uh yeah
1:20:11
next time we're in a city that uh we haven't you know
1:20:17
done crimes uh we should take you somewhere that they can say to your horns you know i
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i don't really trust any other temples
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but um they contain those that have powers
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uh access to the gods and uh they might be able to
1:20:44
expel this creature that's taken residence in your small frame
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um thanks but no offense
1:20:56
from my experience these past few days it doesn't seem like the gods are such a
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good thing [Music]
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i have to agree with you then it's unclear to me
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i think that's the
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the gods are maybe as prone to
1:21:29
mistakes as alma when she's on a tear you know
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more power you have the greater trouble you can make when you
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mess up right but aren't they supposed to be like
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the good ones the ones that don't make mistakes or the ones that
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i don't know i mean i thought i thought at least the old gods were like that but
1:22:00
the new ones were the bad ones but i mean hearing what you said about
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was it a g you know what it was uh though you were
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i yeah and that whole thing about
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turning people away and making them answer impossible questions and
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did god's even help anyone [Music]
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well if we look at the raw facts in front of us right there were spirits here
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they were unholy things things that sought to harm others just by existing right
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if we'd allowed them they would have taken our lives and probably put us in a similar state of undeath
1:22:52
which is a as i understand it a painful thing to exist in in that cross between planes
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[Music] and
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sacred and i and try even we were all able to use the magic bestowed upon us through the gods
1:23:13
to relieve them of this pain to take them somewhere where they could be at peace
1:23:18
sleep that's a good thing [Music]
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these things are so rare these things that we know are good so
1:23:32
that being as it is but god's power can be willed wielded
1:23:38
for good and to that extent we must try
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that's all i can make of it we must be the agents of goodness with the power that exists
1:23:55
however limited it is
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and so to that end we know the creature that's
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uh those horns you've uh adopted is probably not a good creature it's
1:24:13
probably uh bent on some form of destruction
1:24:19
madness and uh so to expel it would be a good application of the god's power whether
1:24:26
or not uh the source of it is inherently
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good or bad yeah makes sense
1:24:37
does it much as i can i'm trying but whenever we get to a city we can
1:24:43
check it out see how it looks i don't know maybe they'll go away i feel like they might be a little bit
1:24:49
smaller maybe they're just going away on their own and they like reach up and touch my horns i'll say they were bigger than
1:24:55
this plants horns did they look any smaller they do not
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how is it flynn do you feel uh honest i feel fine like
1:25:06
it's just i mean i don't know
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yeah i mean we wouldn't even know we don't even need to get rid of them maybe i mean [Music]
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i don't know i'm like kind of like lean back my head and close
1:25:26
my eyes um anyway
1:25:32
you staying here i am all right
1:25:38
good make sure those ghosts don't come back you want me charged flynn
1:25:43
doing this a lot i know it off
1:25:48
to sleep and i'll uh just watch and then uh eventually close my eyes
1:25:56
okay um all right oma we're up for the final watch
1:26:02
what would you like to do you're up by yourself seeker be a i think secretly get up
1:26:09
oh that's right i'm sorry i counted you as eldra that's my bad
1:26:15
bro [Music] okay uh seeker and oma can i have you guys roll perception for me
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[Music] 17 roma 15.
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okay um very peaceful night you guys do not
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see or hear anything that would uh constitute a threat
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[Music] um can alma see the tattoos on your arms
1:26:46
yeah i think uh yeah his sleeves yep
1:26:51
what do those markings mean [Music]
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this holds his left arm up you again you see the
1:27:05
sigil of loris crescent um like a half a semi-circle and then a
1:27:14
straight line underneath it and uh he's just kind of tracing it
1:27:20
and he says this decisional of lores
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[Music] kind of a legacy of my family
1:27:32
an old god one that i looked up to i wanted to be in service
1:27:39
in fact it's why i can do some of what i can do but
1:27:49
but i he like actually seems a little like
1:27:55
very uncomfortable like um he just
1:28:01
did i saw things in the service to lars that
1:28:09
didn't match saw atrocities
1:28:16
things similar to this done in the name of a god
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but i don't know if it was because of the god or the people or both
1:28:31
it is very confusing yeah sometimes people can be pretty bad
1:28:37
when they're fighting for something they believe in
1:28:42
this is true what does loris do ah
1:28:49
and and it will um just sit and concentrate for a moment and the sigil will start to glow purple
1:28:55
and um just kind of conjure a little bit of um sacred flame
1:29:02
and then he will um [Music] cup his hands
1:29:08
over his mouth and say can you hear this and cast message so only she can hear it in her head
1:29:15
and then he will um
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just say laura says about magic and bestowing all of
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the lands with magic magical abilities
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that doesn't seem so bad right yeah no you're right it's not it's
1:29:40
when the right people have it for the right reasons oh
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yeah and i look down at my hands magic can be pretty bad
1:29:54
if bad people are using it i still trying to figure out exactly
1:30:00
what that means mean yes on the surface but
1:30:05
what is good what is bad um
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would he pick up that you were looking like observing your hand as you said that
1:30:20
yeah i wasn't hiding it so yes
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uh oh and you did the thing with the sword right i made magic yeah
1:30:31
you are also
1:30:39
somehow gifted but different you don't know the gods no i'm trying to
1:30:44
learn about them but we never studied the gods ever
1:30:53
who is we well i mean i grew up in the mountains
1:30:58
and and not this mountain obviously um but a different mountain um
1:31:03
and and they talked all about
1:31:09
being strong but not being strong with magic being strong with us with your spirit
1:31:16
and and gathering your your spirit inside of you
1:31:22
and using that um um to to to fight and and to to
1:31:29
to do good um but we didn't talk about that being from the gods
1:31:35
and and then mine mine was different from them too so so they kicked me out
1:31:42
because my my my my magic doesn't come from my spirit i don't think
1:31:49
it didn't manifest the way theirs did and and they were not happy
1:31:54
so i left um but i don't
1:32:00
i didn't have anyone to to teach me how to control it and i didn't have a god that i could go
1:32:06
to or talk to and and so i found xavier and and and xavier was helping he was he was trying
1:32:13
to help me learn how to
1:32:19
control it and and use my magic good
1:32:25
but then they took him so so i was on my own again and i and i don't have a lot of control it's been good though it's
1:32:31
been much better i don't know sometimes before i came here it was really bad and
1:32:36
i was just like losing control all over the place but but since i've been with kellik and flynn and tria
1:32:45
i've been able to to keep control of it it's been really good it used to be
1:32:51
every time i did a spell something bad would happen but now that is not good yeah but now
1:32:58
now it's better so maybe they're helping me control just by being around them
1:33:05
having friends
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[Music] maybe the problem is not accepting those different than us
1:33:20
they they exiled you when maybe what
1:33:26
they know could help you control this you're not the problem but those who
1:33:32
cannot accept what they do not understand and that is what we do very good
1:33:38
as humans we run from that which we don't understand
1:33:44
because it scares us [Music] yeah i definitely scared them
1:33:54
you're not scary you're the little one
1:33:59
yeah [Music] i'm a little scared
1:34:04
it is okay to be scared if you were in this tree after what we just saw you weren't scared i would be scared of you
1:34:11
no i mean i'm scared of
1:34:16
me um he will put his he will put his hands out like as you're
1:34:22
like looking in your hands you'll put his hands out and kind of gesture to have you put yours in his if you so
1:34:28
decide i will
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don't fear what you have [Music] it has taken me many years much steady
1:34:44
to control the little bit that i have maybe you just
1:34:50
haven't figured it out yet [Music]
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i'll keep trying though
1:35:12
and with that he'll just um whisper a little uh
1:35:18
incantation kind of muttering it so it's not really intelligible and
1:35:24
say we should finish this watch a rest get everybody up so we can continue
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okay all right and with that the morning sunrise begins to crest over the
1:35:38
horizon um the interior of this tree begins to um illuminate with the light of the new day
1:35:46
and with that you guys are free to leave and set out on your horses is there
1:35:52
anything you guys want to do or take before you guys actually leave this place
1:35:58
if not then you guys um yeah long risk long rest completed yes
1:36:05
[Applause] i wanted to set up i just wanted um in the as like styling up
1:36:11
uh seeker will go over to oma magic and light
1:36:16
and just put his hands on her head and there's there'll be a
1:36:22
faint purple glow and he will cast the blessing of the vigilant so that
1:36:28
next time you next time we're in battle you get advantage on uh initiative
1:36:34
yay this will help you get the jump in case something happens you don't have to be afraid
1:36:43
thank you taker you still have that necklace you pulled from the corpse upstairs
1:36:48
[Music] yes i pull it out and who has
1:36:55
who's holding on to the the head of our our old pal our old robot friend
1:37:00
[Music] uh usually i have so i probably either had him next to the
1:37:07
yeah uh actually seeker won't pull it out he
1:37:12
will use his invisible mage to let it float
1:37:17
i don't recognize this trinket but uh thaddeus spun around the block a bit so
1:37:24
they think it's worth it to ask him yes it was giving off a lot of magic yeah and it was on the body of that remaining
1:37:31
spirit so it tracks that that person might have been uh
1:37:37
a person a note at this temple i'd be keen to know what they were carrying around
1:37:44
it's maybe we should leave it here even do you mind waking him up then oh yeah sure
1:37:49
and i'll bend down and uh do the little thing and turn him on for 10 minutes
1:37:55
okay [Music] and his eyes glow purple
1:38:01
oh hello hi um i think um kellogg said you could do something
1:38:07
to to look at something um and i'll turn the head towards kellik
1:38:13
uh good morning tadius good morning uh it's a bit of a stretch but you happen
1:38:19
to to know of uh what this trinket is or or maybe uh i don't know what what you're capable of
1:38:26
and that uh don't know designed brandy or uh
1:38:33
yeah no i i i could find out for you um yeah just um show show me can you
1:38:41
pull it up i'll uh give a nod to seeker yeah
1:38:47
secret mage hand it over oh um i don't know off the top of my head but
1:38:53
if you give me a minute um just just give me one one moment and um
1:38:58
the purple fades from his eyes and in their place this golden light um comes
1:39:04
up and and he remains silent for about a minute and he he uh
1:39:11
pops back up and hit the gold recedes from his eyes the purple comes back and he says okay um so this appears to be uh
1:39:20
a piece of a uh like a very small dragon
1:39:25
jaw um it seems to be uh one of three it looks like um and you can see like right
1:39:32
there sort of you can see where it's been broken off um and so yeah it looks like a piece one of three and and
1:39:39
typically when you have all three in there together you can wear this and sort of have a small effect of you know
1:39:47
a dragon's breath um if you might choose and i would assume by the the coloration
1:39:52
of the blue um probably be some sort of lightning effect um that would be my best guess um
1:40:00
yeah if you're able to come into contact with the other two pieces then this might be a working item
1:40:06
for you where are you getting this information amazing
1:40:12
i really don't know it's like sort of stored way back like in in my mind somewhere um but i just
1:40:19
sort of i can reach back and sort of access you know a lot of information i
1:40:25
just stoop real low to where flynn's holding daddy's head and just like try and get my my head level with daddy's
1:40:32
head and just like look into his eyeballs to try and sea into his mind
1:40:39
fascinating yeah well uh thank you
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do you know as i said trinkets have to be worn by clergy or is it just
1:40:49
happenstance that it ended up here um looks just like a cool i don't know
1:40:54
any religious significance to it um i mean someone wearing this it could have
1:40:59
been like a local symbol of power possibly um a local symbol of status but
1:41:05
um i don't i don't know any specific religious connotation with it thank you teddius
1:41:11
welcome um when they seem done a light bulb goes off in in my head oh
1:41:17
and i'll take daddy's head that i'm holding and i'll try and flip it backwards so his face is facing me but
1:41:24
upside down hey um can you do that again hi um yeah yes i can could you sorry can
1:41:32
you flip me the right way oh uh sure and i'll flip him back around and i'll put him down on the ground and spin him at
1:41:38
me um seeker do you have that teapot yes
1:41:44
moment no he will uh have his mage hand fiddle around in the bag
1:41:49
and uh pull it out that is so cool floats over in front of you
1:41:55
um um yeah just give me give me one more moment yeah yeah yeah take it time the
1:42:01
seeds the gold comes back into his eyes i am like you obsessively trying to
1:42:06
watch this process just like trying to understand as like as you're watching and you you sort
1:42:12
of hear the gears clicking within his head um and then after a minute the gold
1:42:17
recedes back the purple comes back in um he says oh while he was doing that and
1:42:22
like doing that for a minute and kellex seems like like he's watching it yeah i know i
1:42:28
think i know what he's doing i think um
1:42:34
i think my i think my dad did this your dad had a brain
1:42:40
in the back of his brain that he could search for no he like has a way to like figure out
1:42:45
what something is and it's not it's probably i mean i don't think he's got like
1:42:52
a metal brain but it's something that he would do at the shop [Music]
1:43:00
i somehow feel that these are probably different practices
1:43:06
maybe unless it's your dad's brain inside of the
1:43:16
um this is a very interesting object um flynn could you back away from my face
1:43:22
thank you this object is uh pretty interesting if
1:43:27
you uh were to make tea in this this little teapot um and then drink that tea uh it would it would allow you
1:43:35
to sort of innately um like decompose things um you could uh you could
1:43:41
probably innately cast the spell gentle repose
1:43:47
if you drink tea from this teapot yeah it would allow you to for for one
1:43:53
time sort of decompose a body or or encourage some sort of growth onto it
1:44:02
[Music] fascinating wondrous items thanks thaddeus you're very welcome and
1:44:09
i was actually just thinking about it and if you guys ah he always does that
1:44:17
it's like he knows he's about to power down i think he does he just likes the the attention
1:44:23
well and i pick him up and put him under my arm all right let's get to it and with that uh with thaddeus
1:44:29
underneath flynn's arm uh you guys hop back on the horses and set your sights up the mountain and with that we're
1:44:36
going to end today's session yeah we're going to call it right there with a couple of identified new items
1:44:44
under your belt but yeah with that we're going to call it right there thank you all so much for
1:44:50
listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye nerds
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