Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
hi i'm flynn i think troy omar and i'm your dm ethan welcome to
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ventureforth [Music]
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previously you all had ventured deep into the bartok rise a series of mountains that held within it a temple
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to the old gods where you all and a companion named seeker filled these necklaces with holy water
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that would protect you guys from any sort of magical detection after you guys parted ways with seeker
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you guys decided to head back down the mountain and head over to the capitol where oma's friend is being held
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as you guys begin uh your journey to come down the mountain um you guys came across a
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cyclops and his pet mountain goats um that trampled you guys beat you over the
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head with clubs and eventually were defeated after a wild magic surge from oma uh
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made a a fog cloud appear you guys defeated your enemies and began
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walking down the mountain uh to continue your journey but you guys came across where this cyclops seem to be
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setting up camp uh a large stone chair with a massive fishing rod that had
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caught alma by the leg um a campfire ready to go and a post that was holding
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these two pet mountain goats so as you guys are in this little area of respite within the forest what would you all
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like to do what um what time is it um it is probably approaching the
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afternoon 2 33 oh
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well i'm down to take a break here but we still got a lot of day left to travel maybe we should take advantage of that
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uh there if we run into are we gonna find a
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stable enough place to be i don't know if we wanted to run into
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any trouble we could just try and avoid it i mean
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i'm kind of spent in in some ways but i could get i don't know if i feel like if i rest a little bit i'll be okay
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how long do you need like an hour or so just chill i could
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use them and it's right in my book too that thing was crazy i've never seen anything like this yeah
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20 feet tall one weird eye
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don't know i think i would need way more than an hour i'm so tired well if we
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rest for longer than that then we'll want to just stay the night and maybe leave first light a day tomorrow
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i am feeling similarly exhausted and after a beast like that uh and dm would i have ever seen a
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cyclops in any of my travels before or is would this have been my first encounter um this would have definitely been your closest encounter um but
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living up in mountains up north you would have definitely heard of them maybe seen from a distance
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i'd never wanted to get that close but i guess you do things
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you put yourself in harm's way for the people you care about that's really nice [Music]
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i've never heard of them the one i mean i've never heard of anything like this
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this contraption a gesture to the sort of like fishing rod scenario
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of inventive really are we there fishies i
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i guess so i think we might have been i've never been fished myself i never want to fish again
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don't worry alma they caught you they probably would have drawn you back waited for you to grow up
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i'm grown i think you might get a way a bit bigger no i'm as big as i'm
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ever gonna be so what's it gonna be uh should we just
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set up camp [Music] i guess if you guys want everyone in
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favor but only if we leave like right right right away in the morning right
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crack it on make the most out of our trip all right i think that's probably wisest at this
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rate and i will begin to set uh my bed roll
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out despite just the strange trappings of this camp
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okay does it look if you look around does it look like there are multiple chairs like maybe more will come back no you just
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see the one chair at the moment um
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while they're setting up i'll hop off the horse and just with my hands still tied behind my back i'll
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just start walking around the camp and just kind of look around like do i notice anything
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else other than oversized things and a trap you notice everything that was in your vision and as you walk out a little
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bit looking at the tree line um you do see um rope that stretches from tree to tree
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to tree to tree sort of making a fence around this area
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sort of keeping it roped off okay
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i'll walk back to the group [Music] i would like to uh drew it craft myself
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a hammock in between the two posts that uh were the like
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stability slash uh kept the goats tethered yeah if i can
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sure um and just like you had before you sort of reached down into the earth and um
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these posts were actually made from like smaller trees um so you actually tap
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into sort of the what's left of the living portion of these plants um and craft a hammock in
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between the two ah this will be great for later
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i i wanna go over to the fire and um look at what's cooking on it
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um nothing at the moment um it looks like it was set up to have something cooked over it but
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nothing is currently cooking [Music] oh i thought there was some like
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animal oh yes i'm sorry next to it um there is a little pouch with some cooked
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meat into it but nothing is currently over the fire oh i see can we tell what what's in the
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pouch is it humanoid um make a medicine check for me
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oh god uh
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um there's a bit of rabbit in there a bit of deer a bit of half elf
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and [Laughter] i'm gonna
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think since they fish for people like me maybe i don't want to eat what they eat
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well some of this is you know animal
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flesh rabbit no thank you i well
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i don't want it to go to waste so i'll sort of pick out the rabbit and the
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animal from the half elf as i started they were touching
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besides if nobody eats this then what was the point of its death what you said about
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the half elf too well i'm not gonna eat the half health obviously alma
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waste not one not all right
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should we bury them uh i have something else in mind
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what hi will we give him great news um do you need any help setting up camp uh
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is the meat cooked actually dm yeah all of the meat and the pouch is cooked
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i mean does anyone want this no i will give it a try i'll try just about
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anything not i'm not giving you the half after all no well i i don't even know what a half elf would taste like that
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that does seem repulsive to me though i mean
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there i i it probably wouldn't taste that much different but the point being i i don't know what what
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to eat but uh you're welcome to this rabbit if you want otherwise i'm gonna burn it all
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so take what you want and i'm going to help myself to grab it with my beak throw it up and then catch
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it i am um grossed out
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well uh try this gulping down a rabbit i'll walk up to kelly hey um
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i know that i have to have my wrists tied but i really want to write down some stuff about that cyclop so if we
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run into one again we'll be prepared do you think i could do that
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what why are you asking me because i can't untie my hands
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uh you can time right back when i'm done writing in my book
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[Music]
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right and then just i'll come back when i'm done and i'll kind of post up next to a tree and uh
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i'll just write down i'll grab my bestiary and write down stuff about a cyclop if i can and also ghosts um from
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the last encounter if i can as well and i'll just spend an hour to writing down about ghosts and cyclops uh and as he does that i will
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set about um uh toll of the deading
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uh these remains the of of the animals as well whatever wasn't taken uh
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given it given a nod alma as i do and just uh burning all these things uh and
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dismissing them to the argent plains thanks kellik now you're right homer
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why should uh [Music] anything be valued higher than another
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um can i forage a little bit like just close by yeah for sure um make a
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survival check for me oh terrible that's a five
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um you find a couple berries on a bush that are close by they look really tasty
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i gonna pick a few okay bring them back
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hey do you think we can eat these can i tell if they are poisonous
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um make a nature check okay [Music] natural wine
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um no they're not [Music] they look really good
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i'll only eat a berry they look kind of like blueberries okay you eat a berry
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not poisonous okay i'll eat one too okay you eat it berry as far as i can tell them
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[Music] uh and i'll make some peanut butter jelly sandwiches with my pretty stale bread at this point
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[Music] am i uh able to get some information written down in the books um yes you are
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able to uh get your ghost psychos and cyclops you were able to add them to your book
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yay okay cool [Music] all right um
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i'm eating a couple of berries with my cooked [Music] i'm all done so
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tie me up honestly flynn i think you're more used to us untight
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[Music] if the thing takes over you again it's gonna break those bonds like they're
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nothing well [Music]
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maybe maybe at least when we sleep [Music] well it's certainly i can't take a watch
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by yourself yeah but tommy i don't know tie me up against the tree
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or something i don't trust it i don't know if then we need you
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able-bodied if we do get into trouble
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then you can come cut the vines can we all hear this
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i'm not being quiet about it flynn
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what if caleb collapses again and then he can't help you [Music]
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because what if i can't help you either and then try it helps me what if schreyer can't help you either what if i
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heard up puts us all at risk what if i turn again
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and hurt you bumblebee all right what are pancakes i i've heard
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of bumblebees don't worry about it
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just if i say those two words that means it's me oh [Music]
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i would very much like to know what a a pancakes anything like those
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other foods you showed us and that is felt actually maybe when we get to marstock we can get
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some pancakes that does sound lovely doesn't it
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and i'll look over towards the cyclops is it can i see it from where we're at
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like it's kind of in the distance um yeah it is uh probably about
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uh it's it's actually pretty close to where you guys are try it got it uh pretty close and remembering
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from my past adventures i i know that i need to like have proof of
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monster slain um so i will kind of who would be more willing to do this
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a motion to kellik yeah can you help me out for a second with
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this thing [Music] uh
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what do you want to do for it well and i'll kind of like walk over that way uh and kind of hush
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tones like so for the collective to prove that i've
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bested you know substantial beasts and monsters
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i need proof and i reach into the bag and pull the hooker out
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proof and this definitely qualifies
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i look over at the the fishing rod set up
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i don't know flynn [Music] i mean does this thing count
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and i yeah i look at it i mean it's massive
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and it knocked me down no i mean
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this thing was [Music] living out here
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in the wild hunting for food nothing else
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right i don't need i i don't know
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but a finger toe [Music]
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and i know you're the one i'd like to lay it to rest then i'd like to send it to where it can be
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at peace i gotta do the whole body if i do that
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[Music] okay can you bring this weapon
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or i don't know if i can carry anything or something
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yeah i don't i don't think i can carry a weapon that big and clothing that pig either i don't think it'll fit in here
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hi i can't just take like the pinky toe
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i uh i mean it's not an exact science
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but uh i couldn't uh in good conscience let you do that no
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all right well i guess there was always the next one uh we'll have this conversation in route
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to this to this creature uh can i investigate it for some kind of like
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i don't know emblem or uh uh accoutrement that uh would suggest a cyclops
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yeah um looking at it uh it doesn't really have any pockets that you could rifle through um it's got its loin cloth
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but you do note um up it's got just like this very sort of primal necklace um
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just some like twine with um a couple of like uh teeth
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hanging from it looks like possibly teeth from a saber-toothed tiger or um a
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another a sort of wolf type um type beast and it's like an album i'll take massive necklace
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it's big yeah i'll i'll cut it loose uh with my uh sickle do like an underhanded cut
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and sort of like pull the thing off i mean it's probably like the length of my arm or something
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right yeah oh yeah and i'll sort of hold it up above my head
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maybe that's glenn um in my instruction do i know if that suffices
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or do i need like an actual piece of the animal to prove that i didn't just steal its necklace [Music]
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um yeah typically you would need some piece of
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organic material from the creature that just had a feeling
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no i i need a piece of it but
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it's okay oh i'll vouch for you what yeah that's the
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best i can offer then yeah it's fine like i said the next one we got a long way to go we're bound to
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run into something again without a doubt flynn we're on a path towards
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lots and lots of violence all right well and i'll set to work uh
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burning this thing into the end of the plane oh embers i'll begrudgingly walk back to
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camp [Music] okay um kellick it takes you a little bit longer obviously the size
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of the body um but eventually you both make your way back to the camp i will
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man can i do i have room in my bag for the necklace
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probably not um your bag would be filled to the brim you wouldn't be able to i'll take anything else in there i'll take one of
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the teeth okay yeah [Music]
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while they're gone i'm making um like owls and bird shapes dancing the flames
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and i'm going to be very entertained by that i'll come back and i'll sit down and
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watch the show with the rest of the day coming to a close the
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sun sets over the horizon and you guys all get ready for a
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night's sleep um so are you guys taking a watch oh uh before we sleep i will insist on
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someone tying me to a tree i will not tie it to a tree okay like
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i'll do it i'll do it i i'd still think this is false but
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[Music] fine um i can i take the last watch
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i'm just really tired and i just want to get a full night to rest before i have to watch
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of course uh a car's home thank you i i'll do first uh
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and uh uh dm while i'm tying flynn i would like to i'll tie the rope in the back and i want to make it really easy
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to pull out of hope i can do that yeah for sure um i'm gonna have you make a sleight of
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hand check six a six okay
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[Music] all right um so caleb you're taking the first
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watch is anyone else taking first of all stay with killing okay do you mind taking second watch
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of course i'll take second watch i i just needed to get a little bit of shut eye myself but i
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i could take more as well [Music]
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no second it's fine i'll take last as alma and shraya lay their heads to
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rest um caleb and flynn you guys stay up and are taking the first watch i'm gonna have both of you guys make a perception
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check okay 15.
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let's see one
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three plus something so like i don't know eight i think okay
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um you guys sit there flynn you are totally distracted by the events of of today um you just can't get your mind to
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focus and you aren't able to really attend to anything at all um kalec
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listening around [Music] you hear something
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you hear a slight rustling back where you guys just were where you guys
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just defeated those goats in the cyclops um i'll look over to flynn
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and just give them like a an up nod like i know gesture to where i heard the sound
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and i will uh step a little bit closer
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to try and inspect this bustling okay
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all right um as you step through this tree line you're you're sort of
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going back and forth i'm gonna make you have you make a stealth check [Music] uh yeah i'd also like to use
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[Music] uh oh man i'd also like to use eyes of the
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grave as i'm as i'm stepping forward here [Music] and that was a seven on stealth
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[Music] all right um andrew using eyes of the grave yes yes correct okay um you detect two
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undead spirits ahead of you [ __ ] and as you are approaching even
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closer you begin to hear the clashing of metal ching ching
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[Music]
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you walk up and you look through the tree line just out into this outcropping that you guys just were
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you see the two uh dead mountain goats on the opposite side and right in the middle locked in combat you see two
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skeletons fully armored with swords in their hands fighting each other going back and forth
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parrying each other until they finally meet in the middle they put their hands on each other's shoulders and drive
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their swords through each other's torsos and fall to their knees and go limp [Music]
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in the exact same position that you saw when you approach them initially
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fascinating uh are they do they remain once they go them
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yes they do do they seem undead
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still there is you definitely get an essence of undead off of them yes
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[Music] um [Music]
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i'm gonna just stand there for five minutes
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do they stay in there in their position yes they do
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i'm gonna i'm gonna approach where they're where they're locked in
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i'll kind of get within 10 feet all right they
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are completely still can i tell now that they're
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uh fully realized uh what their like armor is and what their
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do i recognize any of it you don't you don't recognize any of the armor
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are there any signs of a red wolf in any of their
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embroidery um no no symbology at all um it seems to be very generic armor
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and it looks very old not just in the weathering that it's taken but also in
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the craftsmanship like techniques to create armor that haven't been around
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for hundreds of years and their faces are they do they look like
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skulls or are they like humanoids they are complete skeletons yes no flesh at all
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[Music] a time before time
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what world existed before ours and i'll sort of be like looking into
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their eye sockets and um do they s do they they don't
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recognize me at all they're not moving no okay um i am going can i if i touch them do
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they exist in a physical way [Music] um you reach out to which one are you
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touching red red okay um you reach out and you touch
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the one with the the red scarf and immediately your finger makes contact and immediately on contact
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the skeleton collapses under its own weight and is now just a pile of of bones and
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um armor and the other oh man
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does it look like undead anymore does it look like just bones now
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um how long does that spell last it i don't know if it has a one second i
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always forget uh i think it's just an action
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um but i can recast it okay yeah if you'd like to recast it i will recast i'll be i'll be using it uh
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i've got three more uses of it i'll just say i burn all three uses to have it for the next
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like thirty i i what would be six seconds so all throughout that there is an essence
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of undead even on the collapsed bones can i tell anything about the other one about the non-red
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scarf one um looking at it the armor is
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similar in its age um and of the techniques used to make it um but it looks of a different design where on the
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one with the red scarf there's like one main chest plate and two main shoulder
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plates and like this um this helmet that sort of comes down straight on the sides with a vertical face plate um the other
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one has sort of a double chested armor where it sort of splits
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right down the middle the shoulders are much smaller and the face covering or
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the the helmet um has a much smaller little slit across the eyes for uh
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vision i would like to uh
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attempt told the dead does necrotic damage uh which i assume would not be
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that effective against this but i'm going to use it to try and do the same to these to try and lay these these bones to rest
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okay um you cast told the dead on both of these and it takes hold and you can feel told
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the dead taking grasp as it takes their life essence almost completely away until there's
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nothing but a speck of it left but that speck remains and it grows and
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it grows back into the full form of undeath um when my eyes the grave goes away
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are the bones back in their original position that we saw them in have they been reassembled
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once you touched the the skeleton and it collapsed no they have not yet reassembled collapsed
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can i make anything out on the sword that swords that these guys have used
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um yeah looking at the sword you can see that there is an inscription on the handle hot dog
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what is there it is can i read the inscription does it what language is it or can i tell um what languages do you
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know we'll start with that i know celestial elvish
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orc and undercommon you do not recognize this language does it look like the script from the
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tomb of the red wolf um
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in fact it does oh no not not the same
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not the same phrasing not the same sort of symbology but the lettering itself looks to be the same
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language which we ended up learning it was infernal or abyssal we thought it was
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abyssal and it turned out to be infernal i think that's right that is correct
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can i take the sword yes you can
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i do that okay um is there anything so there's a
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description on the one sword whose sword was it red red okay is there is there anything
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on the other guy's sword yes there is the same lettering same lettering same everything
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and they were fighting each other they were fighting each other locked in eternal conflict okay yeah
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ah all right i'm gonna leave the sword i'm gonna put it i'm gonna put it back down
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okay even though i really want it [Music] uh i will uh
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make an inscript or i will do a a great why why do i never know what this word
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is i'm just gonna copy the script into my into my book into my medical journal yeah for sure um is
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identical script on either sword identical yes
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but the armor is different okay uh uh is there anything on the scarf
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of what of of anything there's not language it's just a it looks like just like a red scarf
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uh perhaps like from from your experience perhaps denoting some sort of
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rank but nothing like specific on it
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all right
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keep at it boys eventually you'll find a victor i will turn
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and make my way back to camp okay um flynn still tied up on the tree
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um you see kalec approaching nothing how about how long he was gone
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probably 15 to 20 minutes what uh
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what was out there those skeletons they were
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the ones we found they were uh [Music]
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there's something strange going on there uh
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there were two spirits uh fighting that those skeletons were
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the same um they matched
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i think there's something some kind of old old uh conflict that's still being
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played out and i i show them my notebook
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you don't treat infernal different i'll take a look at it i
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don't read infertile normally is it infernal i know dwarvish
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yeah you can't read this okay no i i don't know what that says which i
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guess is kind of good because if i could read it that would worry me right normally i can't read whatever that
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language is i think it looks like the script from the tomb of the red wolf so
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i think you know uh right if that's
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it could be related uh it's hard to say just conjecture should we move
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no farther away they were intent on killing each other they didn't seem to come over
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they didn't even look at me then oh okay well i guess we'll just let
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ryan know when he wakes up that if he hears something out there
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that's what it is hi keep an eye out keep an eye out sure
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um how do my horns look like
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in terms of your stability or are we talking
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do they get longer killing since the last time i saw you yeah
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i'll turn my head so we can see [Music]
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they look the same [Music] that's good
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[Music] you think there'll be someone in marston
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i feel the world is not the same
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as i ever thought it was and that there's so much
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below the surface that i i'm just now becoming aware of
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so uh i hope so often but it's
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it's just a guess [Music] i half of the things that have come upon
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us at this point i would never have anticipated in my whole life
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are you uh you doing okay [Music]
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no and i
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sit down next to history you know i'm here if you need anything
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you're tied to a tree flood true that wouldn't stop me though
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these soldiers are they what's to become of calder
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nanda gamble there
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forever stabbing each other in the heart refusing to die refusing to go to rest
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i don't know i like to think not i like to think that there will be peace
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one day [Music] what would that even look like
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[Music] maybe one day we'll see it
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and i sit unresponsive and like gaze out into the darkness
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yeah i just kind of i don't know i could probably put my head on his shoulder even while i'm tied
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to a tree standing so i'll kind of just rest there and just kind of like chill and
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potentially fall asleep okay um and with that shreya you wake to take
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your watch [Music] it's not so bad
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it's kind of peaceful in here at night mmm as i do a quick
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walk around uh and then go outside and do a couple of perimeter walks around
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the immediate area okay uh make a perception check for me
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12. 12. um off in the distance you hear
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[Music]
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you know traipsing my way over toward the whistling so as you walk over you hear some
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rustling within the ground some some crunching of the leaves um and you hear something like skittering across the
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ground and as you approach closer and closer towards this whistling you look past a tree and you see a
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massive bug a massive bug that has this blue shell
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over the top of it and at the front it comes to this very prominent horn almost the size of
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maybe like uh like the the size of a pig um and on top of it on a saddle riding
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there is a young fresh-faced gnome with these
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massive mutton chops that come down to his cheeks and this blonde hair that's
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been slicked back on his back he carries a massive pack and a little staff that's
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sort of hanging off and he is riding along on this this large rhino beetle um just kind of
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climbing uh down the mountain i'm gonna yell out you there
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what brings you what brings you here oh hello um i i didn't expect to see any other
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travelers out here um what's your name my name is shriya
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and well i usually greet
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my fellows as earth walkers if they plod the earth but it looks like that bug does that for you
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[Music] um yes uh this this is uh just the way that
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i get around um can i help you with something well um
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what have you seen along your travels just a bit of your own experience
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coming through here uh might be might be helpful yes yes
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um well i'd say you're definitely the most interesting thing that i've seen so far um
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i i saw some uh saw some deer up
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back there i can't i i'm sorry can i help you or can i move along well if you
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don't mind uh letting me know where you're coming from and where you're going
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oh i i uh don't actually know that myself i'm a bit of an explorer um just sort of
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traveling these lands um i i just came over this mountain um hoping to get to
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most stock mars okay i'm and i
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think to myself for a moment if you don't mind uh
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trimming your daily travels short a bit
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these wilds can be quite dangerous i'm traveling with a band of explorers
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myself and uh perhaps if we traveled together
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we might ensure mutual safe passage are you in any kind of rush
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um just a little bit um it's not a huge rush though
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well i and my compatriots are currently taking up residence in the
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former home of a very nasty cyclops as i believe what it was
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called oh i didn't know that there were cyclops in these mountains well
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neither did we would you like to take a rest would you like to
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we we have a nice little oasis of stone carved up in the hillside
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over there i'm actually fine but i assume my companion would um like a bit of rest and he sort of
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reaches down and he pats on the the rhino beetle and the rhino beetle kind of shudders a little bit and he says uh
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yes i i think my companion here could use a little bit of rest
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fantastic this is this is all good news i
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wasn't expecting to have anything eventful happen in my watcher now
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i've made a friend usually flynn gets to make all the friends i'm talking to myself
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uh and as i'm talking to myself uh i turn around and motion with the staff
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for him to fall all right um and him still staying on
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the back of this uh this rhino beetle um sort of scampers along next to you and
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uh you make your way back into camp right as oma is waking up for her third for the third watch
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alma this is uh i realize i did i get your name
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i don't think so i'm uh my name is ernest ernest hollopot ernest holopot
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what a name and this right here is uh this is gary
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oh you named a bug yes
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and gary kind of shudders a little bit well gary i wonder
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i've never tried speaking to a bug of that size before but i am still very tired maybe i can meet
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we can meet tomorrow oh this is alma by the way hi
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uh pleasure to meet you and now as he sort of approaches and gets close to this this campfire um you
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can actually see this um little uh copper um a metal it's not quite a ring but
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it's like a band that goes down from the top of his head sort of down to his
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temples making like an upside-down u-shape over his head does do i recognize that you do not
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do i recognize that no okay what did you say he was he's a gnome
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got it um uh shraya i guess you can go to sleep
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yes don't after you leave me with a stranger don't don't worry about this fellow and i under my breath i can
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whisper seems very nice and cordial to me i i'd like to think i have an instinct
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about these types of things well you did meet flynn
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yes yes i did get over oh yes and i motion over to flynn
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well we did have to tie him to a tree
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uh there's a story there but brown perhaps you can tell it i'm
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getting quite sleepy again myself yeah that's okay i'll wake you up when it's time to go okay
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very good very good
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and then i'm going to wander back over to the hammock and fall asleep almost
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and at this point ernest is sort of sitting down next to the fire sort of
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tapping his leg hi hi
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um it's gonna be like another four hours before we go
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so um
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[Music]
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and i move my hand over the flame and make some more shapes in the flame
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to dance oh that's nice [Music] thanks
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just bored
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i don't i think i'm just gonna go um
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you're gonna where are you going i'm going to mosstock oh so are we in the morning as soon as
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dawn hits okay well i'm in a bit of a rush so
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yeah i hope you don't try any more cyclops they're really dangerous i uh i hope i don't come across any either
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um you tell your friend over there that i said goodbye and um i'm going to be on my way why are you
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traveling in the middle of the night um well i mean when there's things to
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explore and people to see i'm i'm excited to get where i'm going well what's in my stock that's so exciting
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for you i don't know yet that's part of the adventure i think you don't understand what adventure is
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well okay this is this is sort of my adventure and he pulls out from his pack
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um a couple pieces of paper and um he rolls them all out and you can see on
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there uh a couple of different maps um different sizes different scales of of
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elbor some like town maps some city maps some of
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the entire nation of kaldur and some of the entire world itself and you can see like little etched in markings on
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certain towns and uh and uh different explored areas
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so you're making a map i'm making as many maps as i can oh
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why well i like to look for people who are sort of exceptional
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and um have certain talents and it's sort of my my goal to to
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wander the world and and find these particular people have you found anyone cool so far i
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found quite a few people so far um i've i've gone to many different places uh
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both remote and in well-populated areas and i found many remarkable people but
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do you like collect them or do you just mark them on a map i just mock them on a map and then
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do you tell anybody who you've met oh yes i i tell these people i have conversations with them and i try and
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get to know them as best as possible but why it uh fascinates me
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there are mysteries about this world that are uh off limits to certain people
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and um i'm just trying to unlock those mysteries for the rest of us uh
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who's the most exciting person you've ever met oh um
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who is the most exciting i've met quite a few exciting people oh there was um this elven woman who i met um up north
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some years ago and she was so in tune with nature itself
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that she could see all across the planet she could communicate with trees on the
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other side of elbow wow that's pretty strong
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oh you know what we are looking for somebody really powerful maybe you could help us who are you looking for
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so we are looking for somebody who um is very in tune with
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um a deity maybe that can help to help our friend flynn over there from
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and rescue him from his affliction are you talking about someone who could
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uh remove those horns yeah but he's kind of possessed so like we
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want to help him but since you've met a lot of people maybe you've met somebody i think there's
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plenty of people who could do that yeah yes do you want to tell us who
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or where we can find them oh let me see and he pulls up a couple of his maps
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um let me see um there are well i'll start by saying
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there are quite a few clerics in um west reach that would be able to remove
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that curse um but i'm not sure how many of them are there now i met a couple of
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them before the war even started so i would assume most of them have been displaced and moved around um depending
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on where they were needed within their country um but uh um let me see
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um there were a few uh up in stillgate but that was more of like a uh
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um sort of medicine healing that wasn't necessarily uh any deities that you were
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talking about um and then over in solaris i know there are quite a few
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that might be able to uh do something like that um and remove a thing of that sort um
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but i let me see let me see bosstark is a little bit too small
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maybe if you if you can really like look around there might be someone exceptional there um
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but beyond that i i can't imagine that there wouldn't be any in oak inspire
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oh you think in oak inspire and west reach yes [Music] yeah we can't really go to solaris
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anymore bad memories oh i'm sorry to hear that
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um oh it's okay thank you sometimes you make mistakes and you
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learn from them sometimes
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um anyway um [Music]
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are there any names we should reach out for specifically um
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in wait well where do you want names for maybe an open fire
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in oak inspire there is a young and quite talented
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tiefling by the name of uh zeta malacas
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zeta zeta yes she has uh really blossomed into
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her spell casting abilities and uh would probably be able to to uh help your
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friend i would assume well that would be awesome maybe we can go and find data malakash
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melakas malacath m-a-l-a-k-a
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zeta malacca maybe we can find her in oak inspire then thank you you you've been very very helpful
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um um none of us are very impressive so if
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you would like to be on your way you can okay but i appreciate the
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discussion and i hope you find exactly what you're looking for thanks
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all right um gary it's it's time to go
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and gary sort of gets up and waddles over and um be safe
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there are um lots of things that live in here um and traveling alone might not be the
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safest thing so try to be quiet as much i will be thank you yeah well now that i know that there are
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cyclops up in this mountain um i will take further precautions and he winks at
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ulma snaps his fingers and both him and gary turn completely invisible neat trick what
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super neat whoa [Music]
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that's cool well uh bye [Music]
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are you still there [Music] hello [Music]
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gary [Music] ernest
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[Music] i guess they're gone but how creepy would that be if they weren't gone i mean they'd be like right
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here [Music]
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okay and i sit down back at the fire and as you sit down back at the fire you
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look deeply into it as daylight breaks and over the course of a couple minutes everyone else wakes up
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[Music]
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i was going to talk to gary and where's ernest
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sorry he didn't want to stay i thought i'd made a friend for once
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um he said that he considers you a very good friend
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but that he was very busy and he had to get to where he was going right away really
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yes can i can i tell she's lying make an
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inside check and oma i'm gonna have you make a deception check
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uh they'll look like a one for a second but it's a seven sixteen you're still in the truth
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oh well i'm glad that someone i met is
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considers me a a true friend yeah yeah i lean forward from the tree i fell
55:43
asleep against triath you want your friends to stick around you got to tie them up
55:52
oh speaking of time um flynn um um one thing that okay so you guys
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didn't see them but while you were sleeping try trial brought um a bug and a gnome
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to the camp um he was traveling in the same direction we were and so he was going to travel
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with us but then he was so busy he needed to keep going he couldn't stop and um it was kind of weird to wake up to a
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stranger so i didn't know what to talk to him about at first so i think he got kind of bored with my presence um
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you brought a stranger to the camp he seemed like a decent fellow
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all right so i just i like to think i have an instinct for these types of things what
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man he just left on yeah um that's okay though because what's really
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important is that what he does is he creates maps of cool people and really tell and he
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travels and he meets people who are really really talented and he writes down who he's met and what he said and i
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made sure to let him know that we were all very unimpressive so that he wouldn't tell anybody he met us um
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but he told me about a cleric in oak inspire and their name and someone who could
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help flynn he said that she is very very powerful
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and that he thinks that she'll be able to help him well that's good
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yeah her name is zeta so we gotta get to organ spire and where is that well like so far far away
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so we gotta go to the capitol anyway well yes that's where they're keeping table the quicker we get there
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the better then so yeah let's make our stop at marstock reef
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is west reach on the way then westrich is on the other side of the i mean they said that there was somewhere
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really great and solaris but um can't go back there so there were lots
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of great people in solaris water that's not gonna be uh oh
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okay here's what it is um i know should we
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head out yep someone help yes let's let's see if we can watch the sunrise as
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we go okay can someone untie me oh yes yes of course i'm gonna walk did you sleep
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well flynn kind of not being able to move being tied to the
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tree kind of i don't know did you talk to your creature inside you
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no so it's almost like you didn't have to be tied up no i dreamed about pancakes covered with honey
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see what don't dream of that maybe he can see it i can't help but i dream about can you
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choose to change the word now no it's fine no we're going to have to change the word because if this person if this
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creature inside of you is starting to develop your subconscious then they'll know all the words
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well they don't they know that i like eating pancakes with honey
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do you go my way i'm gonna pick my way back to where the uh this battlefield was
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okay yeah are they are the skellingtons basically where where i left them um no
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they are once again kneeling facing each other swords driven through their chests
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holy cow um
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i'm going to uh cat these eyes of the grave all right same exact thing that you saw last night
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they're both undead we've got a long rest right yes you have okay
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could i pack up my bags and head over to where kellik was yeah i saw the direction he went is that
59:35
all right anyone untied you yet i think shreya said he did did dry untie me
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yes yes either way i've been flinched against that tree the rope would have fallen really yeah okay
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um yeah i'll head over in the direction because i remember talking about it earlier um walk over to him
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so these things were fighting hi and they're still uh
1:00:01
they're still intent on it and that's and i point to the swords and then like an inscription on it and that's where you
1:00:08
got the writing from that you showed me last night it is
1:00:15
i'm going to uh kneel next to to soldier b
1:00:21
to non-red soldier and try to quote unquote make eye contact with uh
1:00:28
red red red skellington uh i'm gonna wave my hand
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say can you hear me [Music]
1:00:40
do you know where you are do you know where i am there's no response
1:00:52
i want to try something flynn uh yeah okay
1:00:57
i will do a sort of um
1:01:02
curling motion with my fingers through the air and and and the tips of them glow
1:01:08
uh with a silvery bluish uh hue as they tear just little red uh ribbons into the
1:01:14
air uh of of embers until a concentrated bit of uh uh
1:01:21
sort of muddy substances on my fingers and i'm going to uh rub that across the temple of the skull
1:01:29
and cast tongues explanation the spell grants the creature i touch the ability to understand any spoken
1:01:36
language it hears moreover when the target speaks any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target
1:01:42
understands what it says okay
1:01:48
how about now that can you hear me
1:01:56
i look over to flynn like i just won the lottery do i hear that
1:02:02
yeah yeah i think so just like moan out like that [Music]
1:02:08
i pull my sword out all right it's all right stay your hands then
1:02:16
what next i didn't think i'd get this far
1:02:22
what's your name damirio
1:02:30
marion what what were you fighting to miriam
1:02:39
just fight only fight
1:02:46
why i need to
1:02:55
because of your sword i have no choice
1:03:07
how can i release you
1:03:14
and the fight [Music] oh look where are the
1:03:22
swords placed in there uh in their crisscross here they're both in the abdomen or the other
1:03:28
yes almost exactly in the same spot sort of shoved right through the torso
1:03:35
and he can understand them or can i understand these
1:03:40
whispers uh any spoken language it hears it can understand and when it speaks any
1:03:47
creature that knows at least one language oh okay i can hear what it says
1:03:52
okay [Music] um how do we end the fight caleb
1:04:00
looks all over to me but i don't know maybe these swords are cursed
1:04:08
maybe [Music] when does the fight end
1:04:16
fight will never end this is our curse
1:04:26
what if we i'll say this to them what if we destroy the swords
1:04:33
possibly alec can you do that ah
1:04:41
i don't know how to destroy a sword then what if we just remove them
1:04:49
take them away bury them somewhere [Music]
1:04:55
they'd find them done yeah i think so can i wander my way over to you guys
1:05:03
where are the swords right now in their hands in the torso of the other skeleton
1:05:09
and i have heard them wanting to destroy them yes
1:05:15
um i'm gonna try to walk close and just has to fire bolt at one of them okay um
1:05:22
the fire bolt hits and it seems to hit the sword a little bit but
1:05:27
doesn't destroy [Music]
1:05:33
do i get the impression that if i kept it on there for a long time it would do something um you're not sure
1:05:40
it wasn't intense enough of an effect to be able to glean that [Music]
1:05:47
whoa oh hi um you want to destroy them right uh
1:05:53
yeah we think maybe that's how we can set these two free okay well
1:05:58
i can try one more thing do you want to back up
1:06:04
all right you're gonna be okay okay
1:06:09
i'm gonna take a step back and i'm gonna bring my four fingers my my four fingers together and my thumbs together in the
1:06:15
shape of a triangle in front of us in front of me and um cast
1:06:21
burning hands okay [Music] and that should touch both of them
1:06:26
because it's a 15-foot color of the swords right um
1:06:32
you cast burning hands and these swords begin to glow um from the heat
1:06:38
and you can see that they begin to sort of melt and
1:06:44
warp and then as soon as you let the burning hands go they sort of snap back into place
1:06:51
wow i don't know doesn't seem like these want to be
1:06:57
destroyed um should i do that's a math spell yeah yeah ten
1:07:02
okay that was above a five right that was above six six okay
1:07:10
[Music] it almost works i mean they just came back together
1:07:17
they have an elasticity are the body's okay
1:07:24
yeah the bodies aren't affected okay uh
1:07:32
i will um place my hands on both
1:07:38
swords uh if i can i could reach them uh on the hilt of the where the engraving is
1:07:45
um and i will close my eyes and and uh from my eyes silver tears come
1:07:52
uh of that float into the air of these things and they burn into embers around and i uh until the
1:08:00
they until they come out at such a rate such an immense rate that um they trail
1:08:05
down my arms and and into my fingers and i will cast a remove curse
1:08:11
on these two swords i'll use two spell slots okay [Music]
1:08:18
and yeah does that do anything right as you do that um actually i'm sorry i can only
1:08:25
use one spell slot i only have one left so this is the one um does that just affect one thing or
1:08:30
does that affect two what does it mean it probably only affects one thing you only have once did you did you use
1:08:35
tongues which is also a third level spell oh remove curses third level dude
1:08:41
so you cast that spell and you can see on one of them the hilt where that
1:08:48
that writing was inscribed you can see it start to flake and peel away
1:08:55
and turn into these ashes as they peel and fly away off into the wind
1:09:01
and after a couple seconds you look over to the other one and you can see it also in reaction in
1:09:07
reaction to the first one peels away and floats off into the wind
1:09:12
nice uh his eyes of the grave [Music]
1:09:23
how do you feel i'll say that to the yeah met with silence
1:09:31
[Music]
1:09:41
um why why did you need to do that kellick i have to
1:09:49
i have to i can't allow these things to to stay
1:09:56
what are they all i know is
1:10:04
things like this fights that go on forever [Music]
1:10:11
they have to stop if we have the power to stop them and we
1:10:16
have no choice but to do everything we can [Music]
1:10:23
that's why i'm here that's what i do okay
1:10:29
i'll help you thanks
1:10:34
good job kellie you did like sweating
1:10:42
i like i uh take one of the swords sure yeah look at it just to pick it up and i'll just really
1:10:49
look at it see how nice it is see if it's what kind of swords are these like short swords
1:10:55
these are short swords but they seem to be very well crafted and for the
1:11:00
um decrepit nature of the bodies and the armor and everything else here these
1:11:05
swords look pristine like they haven't been touched in in decades and um
1:11:10
they look really nice [Music] do you think these are
1:11:16
safe no they're not cursed at all
1:11:21
do you mind if i take them put them in the bag
1:11:27
uh no i suppose i don't [Music]
1:11:35
i don't care okay who knows how old they are
1:11:41
[Music] i mean that's why i'm so intrigued they're not rusted they're not damaged
1:11:47
at all they're nice i have to wonder what this was all about
1:11:56
well we have the inscription all right we can find out when we get to
1:12:02
town [Music] i bet there's someone in oak inspire who
1:12:08
speaks abyssal infernal [Music] how does that probably
1:12:14
thanks for indulging me yeah but we should get going now cause we're supposed to leave at first slide
1:12:20
and now i know i couldn't just let this go on right i needed that all right let's get
1:12:26
going i'll put the two swords in the bag of holding and um can i look at the bodies really quick is
1:12:31
there any other things worth taking that i can notice like what's the armored investigation check for me
1:12:37
sure see maybe the army is like really nice feeling fancy or something okay um
1:12:42
i still have advantage i don't know that that's probably worn off by now right yeah okay it's fine um okay so
1:12:49
investigation 12. uh 12 just the armor the swords
1:12:55
nothing else okay all right um
1:13:01
do we want to bury these two with the halfling or that sorry the half elf
1:13:06
yes that's that would be the ultimate closure i will uh
1:13:11
burn them send them to the planes okay [Music]
1:13:17
best of luck to you all right and with that you guys all
1:13:23
pack up your things and continue on heading down the mountain um
1:13:29
it is uh gonna take you the better part of a day to travel to the town of uh
1:13:35
marstock it's sort of nestled in between um it's got uh a river just to the north
1:13:43
it's got the gray forest just to the east and then it's got um a continuation of the elder peaks a
1:13:51
mountain range that extends down just off to the west of it um so you guys
1:13:56
continue on heading down the mountain and after a couple hours
1:14:02
a couple more hours it's about late afternoon before you guys actually make your way around the
1:14:09
edge of this river and see marstock on the horizon um is there anything that
1:14:14
you guys want to do before you actually walk into town yeah um i'm gonna wrap the cloth around
1:14:21
my head hide the horns all right um so with that you guys approach the the town of marstock with
1:14:28
uh the just the beginnings of this river off to your right and the gray forest just off
1:14:35
to your left and uh you guys approach and this is um definitely like a small
1:14:41
town here nestled at the base of this this mountain um it uh looks quaint lots of little farms
1:14:49
scattered around the edge but uh you do see a city center or a town center sort of in the middle where where you've got
1:14:54
all of your shops and inns and things of that sort a
1:15:00
pretty big contrast to that of solaris and addersfeld where they had
1:15:05
these massive walls protecting them marsh stock hasn't seen so much of the
1:15:10
war so they don't have these walls constructed but are rather protected by these natural barriers the forest and
1:15:16
the mountain um so as you guys approach you guys walk into town on this main
1:15:21
road and you can see that people are um trading with each other there's commerce
1:15:28
going on um you can see friendly faces um and smiles being thrown back and
1:15:33
forth and in the center of town on top of a little wooden crate um you see the
1:15:42
a little uh dwarven boy who is shouting to the rest of the town and he says
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general mal brock overtakes north shield kaldur one step closer to stillgate
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and then he sort of looks around and and sees that people are sort of responding to this and you
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see um one uh dwarven man goes over to another dwarven man and like shakes his
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hand at this news and sort of they give each other a little bit of a uh a uh handshake and and like a satisfied
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glance and then after a couple more moments the child once again cries out and he says creatures of the underdark seen
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nirendoria what this could mean for your daily lives [Music]
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and then he waits another couple moments and you can see a little bit of fear in the crowd around him
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and then as the crowd sort of moves along he goes back to general mel brock overtakes north shield and just repeats
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those two announcements over and over uh the crowd is it
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you said two dwarfs a dwarf is it mostly dwarves mostly dwarves but you do see a smattering of um other races around you
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see a couple of humans you see some t-flings gnomes uh halflings um and uh
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things of that sort and remind me this area of
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elbow that's mainly dwarfs it's just is that right or am i remembering um caldor
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is a nation of mostly dwarves um it was uh
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in aegis past it was a pretty much exclusively dwarven um place but now
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that the world is sort of at the point where people are coming together you do see a lot of other people but heavy
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dwarven influence here okay um with that i'll just shoot a glance to
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shreya just to see how he's taking this i don't know what he looks like
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seeing them respond like that it almost almost makes me want to pick sides in
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this disastrous conflict yeah i think that's the danger of it
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kind of makes you choose which you want to choose yes i
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i'm quite certain that nature will outlast both dinah
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i heard someone use this phrase once dynasty dynasties of peoples
1:18:09
i'm sure learning things you doing okay though here i i know we haven't really talked about
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this but i know you're not too fond of dwarfs it's not that i'm not fond of them it's
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just that wherever they expand into it seems they just come and
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make a big mess of things if they behaved differently maybe i wouldn't be
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so well at odds with them hopefully we can change your mind on that soon let's find somewhere to help you
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perhaps get rid of those i've gone quite tired of those things on your head i'm sure you have to
1:18:49
keep it down all right i got them hidden i don't want anyone knowing right here but yes i don't i don't know if this is the place to do
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it we can look around but i don't know maybe we first start with just try finding a place to
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bed up for that i don't know if we're staying here kelly what are we doing again uh i mean we're making it up with my girlfriend
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uh how how long a trap is it from here to oh conspire
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oh here i'll pull the map out while he's doing that dm can i look for a stable of some sort yeah for sure uh make a
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perception check for me i know i'm on i'm on kelly sports with him so
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yeah yeah we're two and two with one extra horse right oh yeah yeah
1:19:29
oh yeah
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um eight eight um you do actually uh find just like a
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standard stable right next to uh what looks like an in
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and i elbow kellic um there's a stable and an in over there
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maybe we can get the horses some rest yes yeah that makes sense
1:19:58
we may wish to sell one of them and just have it stay here
1:20:03
maybe it's a good idea i mean we've got a child and a halfling
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we don't have uh too heavy alone but i pat the horse on its neck as long
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as you're all right with that then you don't want to be on your own horse um
1:20:21
i mean if it saves us money and also it'll be easier to take care of two horses than three
1:20:27
okay also though it is sometimes novel to ride a horse i
1:20:33
i uh i do prefer flying myself yeah that too most of the time this guy's up in the air so
1:20:39
or he's a wolf yeah that was really fun that still blows my
1:20:44
mind i need to try that again at some point not right now
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yeah just be just be calm here come oh yes we are within
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within the uh town's um
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all right well yeah let's go to those tables see if we can get get one sold
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we will pull the pull the horses into the stable time yeah get them some feed and
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i guess yeah see what it's gonna cost to lodge them for the for the night um as you
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guys are uh bringing them over um you see a uh human man uh walk out and he's
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uh he walks out and um you can see he's got a lot of bandages uh wrapped around
1:21:33
his right shoulder and you can see that there's no arm under those bandages um
1:21:39
he seems to have lost an arm somehow um but he he walks out he's got a bucket in one hand
1:21:44
and uh he looks over you guys and what can i help you with
1:21:52
uh we uh we're hoping to get just just a layer of land but also uh our horses could
1:21:59
probably be seen too don't know if you do any kind of service yeah we take care of all of the horses here
1:22:05
how many uh we have uh three three amongst us all
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right that's gonna be five gold pieces for a single night um also
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we have three horses but we're thinking that one could use a long-term home so we're interested in
1:22:23
selling the horse do you know where we are i'll give you 60 gold for it
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sold okay give me one moment oh oh 60 gold
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and nice lodging for our horses deal
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and he walks back in um he walks back into his little uh stable house um
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you can hear some rustling i i look at i look at no i don't know just kind of like yeah do one of those things those little
1:22:52
sly like you hold your hand out just for like a little high five like behind me
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i have a i have five okay i suppose it is hard to argue with the size stature and
1:23:04
attitude of a younger one and he walks back out he's uh counting some gold pieces in his hand um
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looks like he got too many so he grabs three or four of them puts him back in his pocket and hands them to oma i'll
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take them does it feel like there's
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cool [Music] well what time do we need to pick them up tomorrow now you can pick them up whenever you
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want um as long as you uh come back and and get them if they're
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here for longer either you come back and pay more or i keep them
1:23:39
fair enough um excuse me sir do you know of any temples or
1:23:45
of the like here in this town um yeah well we've got a uh
1:23:51
i mean it's not much but it's on the other end of town [Music] okay
1:23:56
uh what kind of uh temple to whom or is it just one place for
1:24:03
for all of the uh yeah we we don't really have the the coin at the moment to have
1:24:09
specific temples for each god like i know some of you big city people probably do
1:24:15
but um it's just sort of one for everybody a place to practice right or whether a
1:24:22
whole what great ah thank you then that actually suits our purposes uh
1:24:29
well uh this one right here yeah i kick him in the leg
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he's on a religious pilgrimage actually and i feel his kick and i feel and i and i say he's actually a very uh
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religious man and uh looking to have found a small town to
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to practice so we're we're looking for that reason and that reason only
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good i guess um as as the three boys
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start to leave the stables and i trap behind them i'm gonna turn around um i'm olma
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hey how's it going what happened to your arm
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um you got your gold uh have a good day and he begins to walk away
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i'm sorry and i'll start to walk
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um as we walked out and she stayed behind i'll say that calicon trash
1:25:30
should we like should like name our horses why not sure try what should we name our horse
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about we name him still [Music] fast
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as then what he goes from when he's stationary to when he's moving i love it still fast
1:25:55
and then i'll turn back around uh to ask alma i don't know if she has arrived at this point now we're waiting
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outside i ran after you guys yeah what are you gonna name your horse
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um so you can think about it yeah i want to think about it ours is
1:26:13
name still fast why because he's still and then fast right
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try is that what is that yes i when it comes to naming things why not just
1:26:24
go with the obvious pretty good straightforward i like it why did they name your try ashrae
1:26:30
i don't know i think it might be something uh related to
1:26:36
how i speak or how i move uh we have naming traditions in my
1:26:42
home tribe but you're not allowed to know the origins of your name until you find it out for
1:26:48
yourself well let's go find a tavern how about
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penelope [Music] uh sure and then we can call
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it penny for short or lopey
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lopey i rather like lopey lopez penelope it's a bit derogatory it feels
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[Music] not loopy lopey lopey like a wolf
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huh nothing so a penelope it is another penny for short
1:27:24
penelope and still fast so fast
1:27:29
or stilly for sure i like it
1:27:36
that's how that works right basically put an e on the end basically yes yes
1:27:44
that's uh maybe not anyway go with them i'm hungry i would also uh i'd be
1:27:49
interested if there's any sort uh shop i could go to here wait keep an eye out for that
1:27:55
yeah i'm down well do you want to go to a tavern first and then get set up in a room and then go shopping
1:28:02
well uh dm was that where we left the horses was that effectively a tavern or is it a separate
1:28:08
establishment um it was from what you could tell it was the same place
1:28:14
like this little tavern inn had a place for travelers to put their horses
1:28:20
oh this is a small town right so it's
1:28:25
am i able to glean this would probably be the the this is this is the only one that you've seen so far yeah
1:28:31
okay do you want to look around a bit yeah
1:28:36
you can go shopping uh we can check out the temple for my religious practices
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and uh let's start there yes maybe we can find ernest yeah actually i want to meet this
1:28:49
person yes ernest did say he was on his way here i think tampa okay yeah
1:28:54
on the off chance someone there can help you to the temple okay um so you guys uh walk over to the
1:29:02
temple um pretty easy to spot it's like a giant wooden building um all painted
1:29:07
white um and it's the tallest building in town so you guys find it very easily um
1:29:13
and uh you guys walk up and the front doors are wide open and you see that it's pretty empty
1:29:20
there's there's a couple of um like pews in there where people are sitting and sort of praying independently of each
1:29:26
other and at the very front you see a dwarven man
1:29:32
sitting there in these long flowing robes and standing right next to him speaking
1:29:38
with him taking notes is a young fresh-faced gnome with a
1:29:44
copper uh band that stretches from the top of their head down to their temples ernest it's earnest hilarious and uh he
1:29:53
goes back to the dwarven man and uh just finishes jotting down some notes shakes his hand real quick and sort of gives
1:29:59
him gives him a quick nod and then ernest runs over towards the entrance of the temple where you guys are oh hello
1:30:05
hi ernest hi you made it yeah well i thought i'd uh get an early start to my
1:30:10
day um a little bit earlier than than you folks might have been able to
1:30:16
make sense um you already talked to the people no no i'm almost done give me one moment i'm almost done i know i know i'm
1:30:23
sorry what was that were you talking to oh that was nobody what were you saying
1:30:29
well oh you were just talking to somebody is it somebody invisible like you were well not really invisible but
1:30:36
um my assistant just every time look my i'm sorry my time is almost up but um it
1:30:42
was so pleasant to see you all again and um i hope to to see you all again in the
1:30:48
future and as he finishes his sentence the band over the top of his head
1:30:54
glows for just a brief moment you hear a little bell chime as his
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flesh and form in front of you completely melts down to the ground as if it was clay melting down to the
1:31:07
ground leaving nothing but a pile of this this brown liquid and a copper band
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and that is where we're going to end this session
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we're going to call it right there oh my gosh wow with a weird goopy note
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um oh my gosh there's a lot of gooping i have so many questions
1:31:33
there is i have so many questions and you will not get the answers to any of them until next week
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um that's what we're going to call it thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week
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