Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
hi i'm flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to ventureforth
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previously you all had exercised a demon from flynn you all had transferred this soul that
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was occupying flynn's body into that of a sheep and after a bit of an encounter you guys were able
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to finally trap this sheep demon creature in a cage in this endless void
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that was assisted by hayfreed after this flynn exited the void
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and went off and tried to cast some higher level spells and after talking to thaddeus about the nature of his magic
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and fear itself flynn took a couple points of exhaustion as he collapsed onto the ground
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soon after he was met by oma who was able to drag him back to the house
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and at the same time kalec and shreya were talking to hayfreed just about the red wolf the order
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and their mission after all of that conversation you guys headed over to the inn and stables where
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you guys found a room for yourself and getting a long rest in flynn was plagued
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by nightmares the entire night flynn you
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wake up in a cold sweat frantic your heart beating faster than you've
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ever felt it beating and you look out the window and the sun is just beginning to rise
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over the horizon everyone else is still asleep what would you like to do
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who's around me who which room am i in because there was two rooms right that's right you are in the room with
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oma
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i look at her face do i see a face or that's still uh uh blank you see am i still dreaming yes
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you see her face i feel my body for stab wounds
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[Music] man
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oh and i'm roll over realizing that i'm sore as heck
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um because i still three points of exhaustion yeah um
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kind of sit up at the window
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[Music] go over to my bag
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[Music] gotta keep at it
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[Music] dig through find my book of spells pick it out
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and uh i'm gonna head downstairs um try not to wake alma and i'm just gonna
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go to the living room the foyer or the wherever the fireplace would be
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um you go downstairs there is no fireplace this place is is very simple um there is a pair of
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benches that you would be able to sit on all right i'll uh
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head to these benches and kind of just sit down and
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soar just flip the pages um
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are these benches outside of the inn are they still inside no they're still inside okay yeah then i'll just sit down and show is there anyone at the counter
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there is not at the moment i'll just start flipping through the pages doing the simple motions but not trying
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to put anything through it and like struggling at that as i'm realizing i am
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tattered um and after
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a bit of that i'll blow that piece of paper because i'll probably flip to a certain point
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where i left it and i'll just stare at it [Music] for a moment
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put it back in the book just kind of rest as i wait for the rest
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to wake up and the rest of you do the rest of you wake up um oma you look over and flynn is not there
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is his bag still there did he take his whole bag or just the magic book i just pulled out the book so the bag and stuff
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um shake my head because flynn keeps
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disappearing um and then i remember that thaddeus was out
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when i came to find flynn so i'm gonna turn thaddeus on [Music]
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hi hey alma hi thaddeus hi good morning good morning to you
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um [Music] things have been kinda crazy have they
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yeah since we got since we left seeker and and got them necklaces we fought cyclops and some mountain goats
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and saw some more ghosts and um oh and we got rid of flynn's monster from
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inside of him he's not possessed anymore um and
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that's kind of the main thing that we did a lot seems to happen when i'm asleep
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man oh man we gotta figure that out is there any way to like you can turn on by yourself sometimes
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um i might be able to if i had arms and hands do you think we could find you arms and
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hands in oak inspire it's a possibility um we should make that a priority that
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would be nice yeah
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time just gets away from us huh [Music] did you talk to flynn yesterday
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we had a conversation he seems kind of
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off i got the same thing what did you talk to him about um we
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were just talking about you know some of the struggles that he's had and you know he seems to be sort of in a tough
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position so we were kind of walking him through that do you want to be more specific so i can
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help also i don't know that that's a conversation i can have
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with you i think that's a conversation that you should have with him i don't know if it's my place to be talking about that
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but i don't even know where to start so like could you point me in the right direction
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um yeah i would if i were you
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ask him how he feels that he's contributing to your group
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i'd start right there does he feel like he's a uh does he feel like he's a worthwhile member of your
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group okay [Music]
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that's silly i guess i can ask
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i think you should [Music]
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right i mean obviously he is well you know that and i know that
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but he doesn't is that what you're getting at that's not what i'm saying at all i think it would be a good question to
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lead into what the larger issue even if there is one may be
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he was like almost passed out when i went to see him though yeah okay
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[Music] are all boys this emotional
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[Music] that's an interesting question
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and hmm yeah yeah i'd say
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so guess i just have to get used to it since i'm traveling with so many of them huh
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march was never this emotional yeah well i know from her sister her sister's
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not to be mean she was stale i'll call her that um
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just sort of always middle of the road couldn't quite read
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i mean march wasn't middle of the road but she definitely never got super super upset
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about anything or like or like super super happy about anything um
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which made her a really good companion to travel with oh he's down for a good time and and
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helpful and nice to me i get the feeling that flynn isn't that
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way i mean flynn is helpful and he's nice most of the time but those qualities yes
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the previous qualities that we're talking about probably not yeah i mean he's really really uptight right now and
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i just don't know how to talk to him about it you know have you ever
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done something and like you feel really bad about it afterwards but it's like
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you don't feel bad about the thing happening you feel bad about your part in the thing happening
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[Music] is this about the last time we talked
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i'm just drawing parallels here that's all i'm doing i'm just saying
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you guys have both been in similar situations and as far as i can tell you're further along
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in that recovery process than he is and it might be nice to have a voice that for him to talk to that has has been
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through similar situations but it just doesn't feel like a similar situation to me but it feels like similar emotions
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it feels like uh similar uh putting
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blame on yourself for certain things i i definitely think that there's parallels here okay but
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i was to blame because i actually did something wrong he didn't do anything wrong he's a victim in all of this and but i
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don't understand why wouldn't he that's a question for him this is why
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i'm saying go talk to him but you're so much easier to talk to i
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know i have people tell me that all the time and i can't really go you could just talk to him
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i could yeah well maybe you can just tell him he's being dumb because he was just like a victim
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[Music] fine [Music]
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he's just so stubborn not unlike some other people i know
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yeah well whatever
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maybe we won't find you arms so that you can't wake up because this was not a helpful conversation
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good night
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[Music]
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is flynn with you
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i'm just coming out of the door of our room what
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all right does he leave i mean his stuff's here so he's not like
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gone gone he's just being so weird i'm just like tenderly pushing the door
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open to the other room spending a lot of time alone i don't know he kind of gone far right he loves that backpack
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but now he can call his weapons to him so it's not like he really needs it just uh let's just take a look downstairs
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i'll be right there and i'm sort of like like sucking the vines back up into my stuff
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you know it's so beautiful when it comes out but i'm going back in it's kind of kind of gross
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i'd have one without the other you want to join me downstairs homer are
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we going to find some breakfast somewhere yeah that sounds good um you should talk to flynn
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why because you're also a boy and you might understand him
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don't try to see myself as a boy you know okay well but he clearly needs someone
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to talk to because he's very upset and i don't think he wants to talk to me because he blames me for everything so
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maybe you should talk to him daddy's thinks you should talk to him too i talked to him this morning and he totally thinks that you should be the
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one to talk to him does he now all right
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well uh i trust you homer you know so i'll take your word for it
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i'll talk to them sure and i'll head downstairs
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all right um you see flynn i'm uh on a bench i have friends backpack
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[Music] so i'm on i'm on the bench just passed out sleeping book to my side on the
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bench hands right on it to sleep i elbow see i told you
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[Music] the pop why is he coming down here just to sleep
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somewhere because he doesn't like me he likes homer no he didn't even want to
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stay in the room with me hey don't know that that's necessarily true
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he might have just wanted some space to and i sort of like look at the book
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you know do his iron lights thing you know he had that book out yesterday
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when he was by the tree when i found him yeah yeah and he was so tired after looking at it
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and i'm [Music] i don't know what he's doing with that book
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is it it's not just that's the book he uses for his spells
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yeah i don't know i've never seen it i don't look inside of it do i know what this book is dm
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making our
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contract bad uh eight
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an eight um you don't know exactly what's in it um
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pretty much what you can understand
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maybe an instruction manual type thing maybe
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well it's like any of the books that i read growing up
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that's full of nonsense [Music] and he said he was
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written it when he found him it was open [Music]
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and what what kind of state was he and i found him because i found him because i saw the green flames that he uses
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this had something to do with him being exhausted i mean i don't know what to think i
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guess he could have been exhausted by us exercising him but
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yes when you do exercise it does wear you out all right all right i'm sorry you know
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what i mean yes i do i apologize um
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it is odd that after all that first thing he did was march out the door
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we're just like standing over him now you know thaddeus said that he thinks
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he needs to talk about his value to us do you think he feels like he's
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not valuable why would he say that i have no idea
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that's what i ask that he is but he obviously has value he's always
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you know showing up and like giving me winky smiles and being like hey i'm here didn't you see what i did with my sword
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yeah no that's a guy who knows his word [Music]
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i don't understand i don't uh [Music]
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i don't know i used to give counsel sometimes so i guess i'll give it a shot uh yeah do that
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then hey draya and i can go get breakfast and you
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can meet us there after you counsel him and then he will not be a sad and he
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won't be so like emotional anymore and then he can join us at breakfast yes i
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very much like to check out what they have here maybe something raw maybe something
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uh berry filled [Music]
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um all right sure okay come on try yes yes
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[Music] all right i'll sort of like scoot the book
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out of the way and try to sit next to him even there's not really enough space like awkwardly wedge myself in
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flynn you uh you feel that [Music]
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oh hey uh hey caleb hi
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hey fun good morning good morning um ah
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all right yeah man i feel like i could just fall back
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asleep i'm so tired right now yeah you look it
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yeah you beat from having that uh spell cast on you
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no i maybe i also i think i maybe just trained a
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little too hard yesterday yeah that's a
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curious thing to me you know what are you doing going off training after
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we all nearly died trying to get a creature out of you
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well to be fair i
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needed space sure but uh
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there's plenty of space to be had without wearing out your sword arm
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well [Music] it's kind of how i
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i've always you know dealt with stuff
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practicing you know like exercise
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once you're done exercising you feel good and i i guess it just
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you know i kept trying to feel good
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and it wasn't working so i just kept practicing
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far be it from me to judge but uh
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so i understand it the things we face in life no um
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they are uh they have a couple uh ways we can handle them you know handful at best
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we either can take hold of our struggles and uh
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pull them into our breast and and make them our our sustenance live off them let them
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wound us infect us or we can uh repel them
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you know uh cast a barrier around ourselves and try and just push them off as though
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they don't exist run away from them that's a bit like you're doing the
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ladder maybe a bit of the farmer and the third option i understand
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so you can look these struggles in the eye see them as they are
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and walk with them forward not to the muck
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so sure exercise sounds good but uh not sure that's what you were doing
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especially if you're hurting yourself then i'll be okay
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i just need to rest you know where my book is that's that's right
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i thought i lost it um yeah i
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mean mean i just want to get stronger but i mean who doesn't you know who doesn't indeed
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i was thinking about that myself you know dealing with all these things you know
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and it seems like uh the gods might be ill-equipped to handle them
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so if the gods can't do it then what does mere mortals have
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why don't think we can i don't know much about gods but i'll take your word for it
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[Music] and i'll uh look at his arm
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this kind of has some rest in [Music] i there know if you ever told me but
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why is your arm bandaged
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uh [Music] long story
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i don't think the others woke up yet seems like we have time uh they're getting us some food
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oh i could use some starving yeah i'm sure you are
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giving uh feeding two for a while now i'm not anymore i'll rub my hand on my
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forehead you have any marks
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dm does he have any marks where the horns once were his forehead is completely clear
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no it seems like hayfried did a bang-up job kind of kind of a miracle really
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yeah he seemed fine he survived it that's good yeah we got very lucky
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[Music] you know [Music]
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it's because we did that
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we put it in that animal
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why no we did uh made a hard choice and we are ripping
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the rewards for it yeah you all made a hard choice [Music]
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as i recall then we looked that sheep in the oe
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as we started don't do this i say under my breath
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[Music] um
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yeah yeah i know [Music]
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just didn't feel like i had a choice [Music] well then
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we didn't have one because given the options
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traveling with it and no one you might never be yourself
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and we might have our little friend our
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champion our beacon stabbing us in the throat
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as we try to sleep [Music] there's no way for us to do that then
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and so thank what you will of the decision but we had no choice
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this time what do you mean
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next time we'll be different how do you figure [Music]
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i look at my book
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oh yeah i know what she's thinking not the same you know
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uh [Music] the mayor
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couldn't stop the new gods from taking her place
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[Music] and she was a god
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and i've been thinking you know what she up right she she just she made some kind of
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mistakes she she was she was absent-minded or something but how does a car do that how is it god forgetful
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[Music] i think well i won't be
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you know what i'll do i'll go to the highmount
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i'll take her place and i'll be the god of light [Music]
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and you know i'll do everything right i will never be remiss i would never
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leave one of my most devout followers without his power
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in the face of absolute evil to be thrown through a window
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from my most hallowed place [Music]
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but then we went to a
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prison and a little girl killed the man right in front of me ice
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what amount of power flynn can make
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all the chaos of this place manageable how many tricks on that book
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i'll catch you there
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just nod yeah
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for what it's worth i still think about it
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about what i don't know finding femire
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lifting her up maybe we could roll together
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i want to rid the world of evil maybe i could
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but i like to think that even if i wanted to and i had the opportunity
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that i could count on the age and self-repair keep me in check
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remind me who i am and what my real job is
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when you mention the name my smile comes across my face
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you know when i overheard you talking
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and mentioned that agents have repaired
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i just thought it sounded cool
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and then after what happened
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[Music] i didn't think we deserved that title [Music]
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maybe it's maybe it's still within our grasp
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well the way i see it
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you break a sword and yeah put us back together
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i'm no forge master myself but i understand you feel the crack and you seal it and you
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hammer right so it's a full blade again
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but that piece that's lost has never returned right you just fused the two pieces
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[Music] feel like we've done that not enough
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you're one whole fling fellow weave [Music]
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and maybe some pieces have you been damaged along the way but you're whole
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you're yourself you're our friend
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[Music] i'll uh look at the bandaged arm
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are you whole [Music] i hold it up in front of me look at it
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probably not but we'll work on you next
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we'll see if i met you we'll get you to the top of that mountain
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yeah be careful careful about your promise well it seems like if i can take
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anything away from what just happened we'll keep each other in check [Music]
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and we'll learn that title [Music] agents are repair
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that's a vowel i'm happy to make has a nice ring to it
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it does sound pretty cool all right i am famished
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could you help me to wherever they went to get food because i don't think i can move too far
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sorry char fly i like stand up and kind of quiver as i shake on the bench [Music]
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man i'll just i'll put a hand on on the base of his spine sort of the small of his back and
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just just push i'll uh grab onto your belt similar to the way that
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you looped the friendship rope around it maybe this time you keep it there huh
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now hold on to it tight all right let's see what uh try and
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almost rustle up go get some food and i'll take his lead to lead me to
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food after we grab my bags and stuff all right um and as you guys step outside um
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immediately you see directly across the street probably 30 paces from where you guys are um
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oma and try sitting at a table um i had a little looks like a little
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small i might not even call it a restaurant more of a cafe um directly across the street from this inn
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does i'm almost going to look up when i hear the door open for from where the from the inn
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um and i squint my eyes does does flynn look calmer
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less emotional yes yes he does
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i breathe a deep sigh of relief and as soon as they come and sit at the table i push a plate of
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lemon pastries over to him my favorite
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i didn't know they had i didn't know they had these anywhere else well they're not quite the same i i did
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specifically say like just fill some pastry with like a syrupy lemon sauce so it might not
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taste the same um but we'll see i just put a hand on her shoulder and
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just kind of pat it's like just look around to the group smile
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almost like staring wide-eyed to like make sure that everything is okay again i i surreptitiously give alma like a
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firm nod over behind someone's back yeah just
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i'd look around everyone thanks thanks
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oh let's uh try to avoid catastrophic events for one day maybe
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starting with these and i'll dig in and eat some of these pastries all right um and with the end of
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breakfast you guys start to feel sort of the full effects of your rest from the previous night um as you're ready to
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take on this new day so uh with full bellies what would you all like to do uh before we leave though i'm gonna scoop a
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few pieces of jerky uh in my hand and try to scuttle it off
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uh just for later okay um and also that is going to be um three silver from whoever wants to
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bulma or shrei whoever wants to take i'll take care of it i'll just very generous
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so um oh man where where what are we doing now
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well uh hayfried mentioned he might have a quick way for us to get to the capitol so uh i know that would behoove us
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because we're trying to get back to addersfeld at some point in the near future so
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well i'm all done with these um maybe we should take some to go
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i must admit i did not find myself mentally prepared
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for the capital i would much rather go the traditional route but
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i will say i know i probably look great but i don't feel it um so if we're gonna go
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right there um i may not be at my best
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okay we can uh take uh penelope and still fast and
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go that way but can we make sure we leave soon then
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[Music] and and maybe we can talk to haverford about coming back faster
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we might need a quick exit it did mention that there would be another circle on the other side and he wasn't
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sure if it would be in good condition so we might maybe he could give us the design so we could finish it or something
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yeah and a way of communicating with him so that he knows when we're ready to come back um i might have something that i can do
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on that hand but uh he might have an easier means than i so
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definitely worth asking how far how far away are we again from it
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from the capitol you guys um by horseback
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let me see [Music]
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the better part uh yeah three days you are a three-day journey long enough
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oh that's not i thought it was weak still okay um no with the distance um
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depending on which route you guys want to take um you guys will be able to take a couple
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different routes um depending on the varying difficulty and also varying
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in length of the journey and i'll uh pack up the the map after
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rolling after taking a look at it roll it back up throw down my background i thought it was gonna be a lot longer i guess
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i guess we could just huh oh fit [Music]
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anyway um yeah i'm ready to go now um if we want to get moving i know we got
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let's uh touch base with hayfred he's also looking into some things uh regarding the red wolf um
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and uh i definitely wouldn't want to leave without been fond farewell yeah i might have some questions too
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should we check his house first or do you think the temple good question uh
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i think his house because he was gonna do some research and it's only been a night
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okay try does this all sound good to you die yes sure
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i wouldn't mind seeing that fellow again
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all right good um so you guys head over to his house um you knock on the front door and as you knock the front door
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sort of swings open um not been closed and as you guys walk in
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you walk over to where the door into the void was
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and you don't see the door you see a tiny little tile on the ground a little wooden
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piece laying there
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where'd the door go uh i'll bend down and pick up the piece of wood all right and as you bend down
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to pick it up as soon as you make contact with it the piece folds out into half and almost
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like snaps out of your fingers and lays back down on the ground snaps out in half again folds back out in half again
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and now vertically in half in half and a half and a half and creates a door
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oh there it why the is give me a heart attack
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should we knock let's just i don't even know how you would knock
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this i walk through
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all right um you open up the door and you are once again greeted by this like this weird gel that um forms its way
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around your body and as you push through it um you come out onto the other side
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is everyone else following yes i just feel like you should knock on doors before you enter them you know
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what um i will
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hesitate as being the last one and i'll kind of just
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for a moment just think [Music] i want to go back in here
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[Music] think about what that abomination looks like [Music]
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i did it i'll take a deep breath steal myself and go through you
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look on the opposite side um on this this doorway to another dimension and as you walk through you
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see fewer platforms rotating around the central platform
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those platforms that are no longer rotating are now attached to the center platform
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you see that the center platform has been built out to 10 15 times what it was before from all
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of these platforms being formed around it and you see these bridges going back and forth you see the potions bridge you
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see the um platform with a bunch of papers and books and you see the
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platform with the wardrobes all attached to this center platform where
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you see hayfreed has brought the cage of this beast and you look and you see hayfried
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standing there and you can see pieces of paper floating around him you
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see books floating in the air flipping to certain pages as he's scanning and reading these all at once you see
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hayfried himself um as he is looking through these books you see
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just an absolute mismatch of clothes and armor on him you see a um golden um
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uh like shoulder plate um that is strapped around him you see a silver
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chest plate that has these ancient blue runes all throughout you see a ruby encrusted belt around his waist you see
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bracers on both of his arms but they're different one is like leather and the other one is made of um like some sort
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of silver metal you see different rings on each of his fingers and a brown
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uh fur cloak over the top of him and you can see he's like channeling all
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of these different powers from all of these different magical artifacts that he's wearing as he's reading each of the
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the papers and books that are floating around him and you see just beyond the papers
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you see these orbs these weird almost like
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extra dimensional orbs that where if you look at them for too long your eyes almost can't even focus on
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what they are and he turns around and he sees you all and you can see his eyes are completely
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glazed over black and he looks to all of you as his eyes snap back into form and they snap back
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into the blue that they were before and he says oh have i been having a night
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oh come down here come down here i've i've got some for you are we playing dress up
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oh yeah um this is all just this is all like part of i
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i'm getting kind of old so i need some crutches so what i have been doing
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is this creature right here nasty i'll tell you he is mean
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and he well he didn't give it up easily but after a
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little bit of persuasion i was i was able to sort of get into his mind and
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see some of his past and i was able to find some of his friends
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and i didn't find too much about the red wolf in particular but
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um he was with a group of people and they were captured and then they
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were forced into these crystals i think i found some of these other people who were forced into the crystals
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um if you just give me a moment and his eyes once again glaze over black
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and you can see two of the rings on his right hand and one of the rings on his left hand begin to glow as he puts his
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hands up towards the head of this this creature one of the orbs just beyond the floating
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books floats down and almost like a transference of energy he moves his
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hand from the creature over to this ball as this ball begins to fill with color
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and shape and form and it turns into
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almost like a seeing glass and you guys can see through this orb
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and beyond into a space that isn't here you can see trees
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and you can see bushes and you can see two figures these figures are blurred and sort of
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dark and you can see hayfried says all right just give me one moment i had this earlier
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just give me one second as the ball switches from
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green colors and these brown and these earthy tones into darker grays
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and blacks and these figures come into focus
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and you can see there in a room a hallway maybe
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that is completely stone it looks like carved stone almost reminds you of like a mine
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and you see these two figures come into focus you see one a red tiefling
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in a black cloak you see standing right next to them a large
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oh half-orc as they're walking down this mine shaft hallway
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oh snap and you look to hey frieden he's like he's concentrating on on both of these
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things he says now if i got this right this i think this is now
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i think this is right now he's got a connection to these guys and i'm pulling on that connection so just give me one moment
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and the picture comes in even clearer as you can see down this long corridor
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another three figures approach on the outside
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two figures dressed exactly the same in these onyx black robes
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layers on layers on layers of robes and a single gold necklace
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hanging from their neck you can't quite pick out what the necklace has on it but but it's just a
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very simple golden necklace you can see both of these forms are drow
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you can see their ashy complexion their dark hair their long pointed ears
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and as the picture comes even clearer you can see that they're twins identical twins one male one female
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and they are both walking flanking another entity in the middle also wearing robes but in
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stark contrast to the dark robes brighter
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and you can see this half elven figure walking with sort of a regal elegance
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and as you look and see this figure she's wearing robes that are almost identical to calyx
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and you can see as she comes into focus even more this short white hair
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and a symbol tattooed onto her forehead of three rings
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exactly like calyx necklace you can see these five figures meet
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in this corridor and as the half orc opens their mouth to speak you hear
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[Music] and hey free says
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oh okay um it looks like we just have
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the the visual right now but i i might be able to to fix it just give me one time i can't
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tell what she's saying i'm trying to figure that out all right just give me one moment this is right
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now [Music]
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if it's not right now it's within the last 10 minutes do we know where this is
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what these what these mine shafts are right not at the moment i might be able to figure that out though right is there
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any way we can help um um i don't
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there's not much that you can do right now stop asking him questions all right
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and you can see the images that are coming through are like coming in and
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out of focus as hayfree's concentration sort of begins to waver and you can tell that
48:14
this is a very difficult thing for him to be doing right now and as the picture focuses once again
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you see one more figure approach you see a
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dwarven man run up he's wearing very simple clothes
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um and he's wearing what seems to be like these these workers clothes there's a leather top and these hide pants
48:41
and he walks up and as soon as he does you can
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hear what they're saying as hayfree's concentration sort of comes to a point you can finally hear what
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they're saying and as this dwarf runs up you hear the half work that
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though body male voice is female says what what do you have to report
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and the dwarf runs up and he says i'm so sorry um it's it's not it's not
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going as fast we need more men um it's not going as fast as and with that the red tie fling
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brandishes a knife turns and with a single stroke slits the throat of the
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dwarf as he falls down and lays down on the ground dead
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the half work once again opens her mouth and says oh um
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okay well looks like we're gonna need more men um can you handle
49:44
the manpower and she looks to the the two drow and silently they look at
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each other and look back to the half work and nod without exchanging a single word
49:56
as you're looking at these five figures
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the half elf pulls from her robe a small amulet a little totem
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places it on the ground in the center and says i think this might help
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and she taps on the top and all of a sudden the picture cuts out you can't see anything in this orb turns
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back into this formless colorless nothing
50:24
was her voice her own her voice was her own
50:30
and hayfried loses concentration collapses to his knees oh god ah i'm sorry they that was
50:38
they had something that that took me out of it i'm sorry i i don't know if i can get it back
50:44
no that was amazing yeah oh dear
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any any read on where that might have been um
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i don't know um there was any markers i didn't see them i didn't see
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any i was i was constant i couldn't see too much but i was concentrating on the spell um
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was there anything from our viewing of it that would have or from my viewing of it that would um i'm gonna
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have everyone make either a perception or an investigation check
51:21
i would have been [Music] kind of looking at it but more focused
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on the cage okay then you would not be making finding myself hard to pull my attention
51:32
away from it could i actually look at that and for my perception check to see what it's doing yeah yeah go for cage
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okay oma what did you get seven seven kellick critical fail
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twenty-four [Music] hey thank god all right um flynn
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on 11. an 11. um flynn on this
51:55
beast before you um you see that it is trying incredibly hard to keep its mind
52:02
closed you see immense concentration when you left last it was flailing around it was
52:08
bashing on the cage now it has resigned itself to sitting in the center of the cage solely concentrating on trying to
52:16
stop whatever mental intrusion is going on shraya
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you don't recognize the cave you don't recognize
52:26
the types of rock you saw a little bit of moss on there that you don't recognize you're trying to pinpoint where in the world this mosque could be
52:32
from you don't know you're trying to think about the people that you saw there
52:38
you don't know but you saw the dwarf
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you saw the dwarf and just as he was running up you saw his clothes
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and they were simple simple leather work not much to it
52:56
but you saw an insignia you saw an insignia just on the
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right of their chest slight brand
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on the leather work a firefly [Music]
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the only thing i saw in my vision in that vision that we all witnessed
53:19
there was something i was paying attention to the dwarf there was this
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what looked like a lightning bug firefly
53:30
does that mean anything to anyone is that civilization symbol
53:36
mean anything it's a communal way of community or communication does it
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[Music] it might let's have everyone make a history
53:47
check i was gonna slap i've traveled a little bit
53:52
maybe might ring some bells this is the best role i've had all session
53:58
what was it 15 15. 10 for kellic
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oh i do have to roll a disadvantage because exhaustion yes you do never mind it's not
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i got a 10. a 10. um okay
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i got 13. but i don't know all right
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so [Music] oma
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[Music] you know what this is you i do have
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never seen it in person before um but you do know that from
54:37
your studies say that the firefly
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is the brand of a clan of dwarves
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that live deep underground and they
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devote their entire lives to the exploration of and the mining of um
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precious stones and gems within the tear
55:04
the tear is a massive canyon a a tear in the land of this
55:10
world that extends down into the ground for miles and miles and miles um
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you don't know much about this civilization but you do know that the firefly is their symbol
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tria you're sure you saw a firefly distinctly being born by
55:33
that particular dwarf well
55:38
well well the firefly it
55:44
i mean it might it might be just a coincidence like maybe he just likes fireflies but
55:53
but there is a group of doors that that lives underground and they and they mine
55:58
they mine you know gems and and and and like precious metals and and things like
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that um and they all wear a firefly
56:09
it it's kind of like they're like their thing you know because it's their
56:15
specific region that these because they're like lighting the way you know and and and because they work in in the
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tear yeah would have ever heard of the tear
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um shraya maybe not um but
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caleb definitely would flynn probably would um it is a
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like i said a huge canyon um just south of the waste
56:45
which is the desert and the center of this world um it is well into
56:51
the nation of gamble deer um and it is it's pretty close to the uh
56:58
the war front actually it's it's caught between the war front and the summer still mountains which is the mountain
57:03
range that traverses the entire continent from north to south the terror's not too far
57:09
from the west which is where the they said the storm was gonna be i don't have much experience with
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or even heard of this tear but i tend to
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look away from and have distaste for the dwarves that give in to their natural instincts for extraction
57:32
oh no offense uh yeah i mean this one's not doing that anymore at least
57:38
yeah none taken now you're well beyond carving out stone huh
57:43
and as he walks over to one of the tables he uh taking off each of his rings and taking off these
57:49
massive pieces of armor and these ornate things yeah i'd said beyond that a little bit
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[Music] [Laughter] did we see what she would what the half of uh put down
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[Music] could i have seen any of what i've recognized this item that she put on the
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ground um i'm i you would not have recognized it um it looked like um it's probably about
58:14
six inches tall looked like a little just a little wooden carved totem
58:22
um but not of any symbol that i would recognize nothing you would have recognized no
58:27
or rather anyone in the party would have recognized [Music] what else did you find out
58:37
he his eyes go wide and he looks around at the entire setup that he currently has and with the
58:43
papers and the books floating and all the potions on the ground some of them half drank some of them fully drank um
58:50
and all of the armor pieces that he's taking off the armor that's on the ground the piece of jewelry that are on the ground and he says
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um this was kind of what i did all night oh right it's super impressive no no i i
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wasn't trying to imply that it is that that what you did was not super impressive because it totally was and we
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know um a lot of those people so like yeah very spooky um great job
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right yeah very impressive [Music]
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we now know some of the associates of these uh people were hunting
59:26
did anyone recognize those those twins no i i couldn't uh
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i couldn't say the half-hearted woman though
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that was calm indonesia [Music]
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and that was her voice
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i think that was her [Music] did it sound like her
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it did i'm sorry maybe it's kind of like flynn though
1:00:02
maybe she's still possessed so we can't rule it out
1:00:09
you have to understand after the usurpation the temple was in disarray
1:00:15
you know what was i didn't know much better but it was in a bad way
1:00:21
and when our artemisia showed up it was like the sun
1:00:26
burst into the clouds [Music]
1:00:33
i don't know what she's up to i don't know who she was before
1:00:38
but it was always the same person oh what
1:00:45
whatever's going on here [Music] it negates it
1:00:52
we only have the present to work with the only question is how much we don't
1:00:58
know we've got a head to save savior from whatever fate awaits him
1:01:05
well and maybe he knows something about it he's super strong and he's super super smart
1:01:12
have you ever heard of xavier um no i heard the name
1:01:17
well he's a wizard he can do stuff kind of like you
1:01:24
oh exactly like me um no i don't think so okay i hope not
1:01:31
not that i've seen i don't know this part of the world very well but
1:01:37
would going to the capitol make us closer or further away from this
1:01:43
this tear that you speak of parlor
1:01:48
um are we ready for any of this
1:01:55
to go to a tear because i don't feel very ready
1:02:03
well hey freed
1:02:10
we're hoping to free this wizard uh
1:02:16
from trappings uh i told conspire
1:02:22
uh to my understanding he was held by some pretty advanced shackles that
1:02:29
prevented magic from taking place familiar with devices like this
1:02:35
yeah i've used a couple do you know how to
1:02:40
break them well it depends on who cast them and who made them
1:02:46
the enchantments are slightly different require slightly different solutions for each
1:02:51
iteration i have an idea yeah you seem to have a lot of fun
1:02:58
um getting back into the swing of things right so like one thing we could do is we could go to oak inspire and we could
1:03:05
make sure that the teleportation circle over there is is working and then reach out to you and then you can come with us
1:03:12
and you can see the chains for yourself i'm staying here oh
1:03:19
if it was you that made the shackles yeah how would they be undone
1:03:25
they wouldn't be they were made by me they wouldn't be undone but
1:03:31
i'm assuming they were made by someone lesser than me so we can probably cook something up
1:03:38
you're a very curious man i don't know how you went into hiding here without anybody finding you i have been very
1:03:44
quiet not quite enough looks like somebody came and looking yes but that person
1:03:50
melted home let's not forget they did you have any kind of
1:03:55
counter magic or perhaps uh something you could a sharper thing you
1:04:01
could imbue with a some kind of magic um
1:04:08
what do i have or something that's restraining binding
1:04:14
yes i i might have something um give me one moment and he walks over
1:04:20
to one of the little platforms um he walks over to a platform with um a bunch of like shelves and um cases and you can
1:04:29
see some stuff has been like pulled from them and it's in a little bit of a disarray
1:04:35
but he walks up to one of the shelves and opens up the cabinets and he looks through
1:04:41
and he pulls out a little vial and he comes over to you guys and you see the vial and it's not
1:04:47
liquid that's in the vial it's like five strands of string but it's thin almost
1:04:55
like hair it says if you tie this around something it
1:05:00
should for the most part take any magical effect away from it
1:05:07
but the thing is as soon as you untie it the magical effect comes back so it's sort of temporary and these things break
1:05:13
easily so it's not a permanent solution so we we tie this around
1:05:20
the shack yeah just tie it around some portion of wherever the rune is or
1:05:25
wherever the the magical piece might be so let's say you were ensnared
1:05:32
and we put this on one of the pieces could you even cast your spells
1:05:40
yeah probably depending on how much i was binded might be able to not use my hands or
1:05:46
something but for the most part yeah well if this xavier fellow was as
1:05:52
powerful as i expect he is that might be all we need at a certain moment destroying this as
1:05:58
they've been talking and he went off to get the strands of hair um i would have
1:06:05
just walked up closer to the cage um and just sat down
1:06:10
because i'm still tired but i'll sit probably right next to it just looking
1:06:16
at this thing and trying to see if there's any
1:06:22
sounds stupid but any resemblance of like is this sheep trapped in there like
1:06:27
is it trapped is it dead like that's that's what i'm trying to figure out i'm gonna have you make a
1:06:35
insight check and that's gonna be your first roll and the second roll is gonna be a wisdom
1:06:41
saving throw yep um disadvantage of both disadvantage of
1:06:46
both oh two nines for the first one so uh insight is an 11. and then you said uh wisdom saving throw
1:06:53
yes um is this frightened or anything this might be
1:06:59
um i'm a half advantage oh so would it cancel out a straight roll okay do me just re-roll because i rolled two yeah
1:07:05
watch it re-roll why don't you re-roll better the first time um
1:07:10
it's still a 12 but 12. um you cannot tell if the sheep is anywhere in there um
1:07:18
and you sort of think back to when you were possessed right after you guys fought the cyclops um your friends
1:07:26
couldn't tell that you were still possessed um so it's really it's it would be
1:07:31
difficult to see if a sheep is still there um but you can't tell that and as you stare
1:07:38
into its eyes you become frightened you have the frightened condition that i kind of scoot back and
1:07:45
snap out of it and kind of turn around and kind of back up and kind of just turn facing away from this thing just
1:07:51
joining the conversation to whatever they're talking about wherever i join in um shook i kind of turned my back to it
1:07:57
to not look at it anymore so so um i got the
1:08:02
the teleportation circle already for you guys it's just on that platform over there i can just bring it down and um
1:08:08
hopefully take you guys straight to conspire well uh yeah we've done some taking on
1:08:14
that and and we were thinking maybe we would uh go by horse there
1:08:19
and maybe if you could uh put mark on our map where the other site is we could uh ascertain the
1:08:26
condition of your circle make sure it's safe for travel all right
1:08:31
might be difficult because i usually don't put teleportation circles where
1:08:37
people can find them so it might be difficult to get to um but if you're able to find it
1:08:44
and possibly clean it up a little bit if it needs it like i said i don't know the condition of it but
1:08:51
you're able to clean it up a little bit in theory you would be able to come back straight to here
1:08:57
and then once you're in here whether i'm in here or not i'll know if you're here so i can open the door and take you out
1:09:04
bad name spectacular all right just got a plan as any
1:09:11
yes sir i would much much prefer retaining all of my limbs before
1:09:18
traveling in this way um so i've got a little uh
1:09:25
little it's not even a house really it's it's uh just a little shed um
1:09:31
but it is enough it's big enough to have a circle in there um [Music]
1:09:37
so here he pulls out a map he uh
1:09:43
opens it and it is a map of pokenspire um and he points you guys directly to
1:09:48
where this teleportation circle is um he says it's i
1:09:54
i can't stress this enough um it might be dangerous depending on how
1:10:00
well this thing has aged um there are some wards that i've usually
1:10:05
put up they might go off so i apologize for that in advance
1:10:12
um but beyond that should be good to go are we gonna be turned to stone
1:10:18
or are these more no that's the teleportation not circle
1:10:23
up and still gate that's the no i'm joking there's no turning to
1:10:28
stone with this okay yes uh all right yeah that that seems solid
1:10:34
to me i think that's our first stop so that we can make sure we have a way out
1:10:40
as we've learned those come in handy and i cannot stress this enough
1:10:47
please keep it hidden don't tell anyone about it
1:10:52
don't lead anyone to it what's the word these things are very illegal
1:10:59
and i will not be happy if one of these is fanned out and someone can just
1:11:05
drop in here willy-nilly my head is bad oh turn to stone is that is that a joke on
1:11:12
the name still gate stones are still no that's not what that was ah no never
1:11:19
mind i'm still trying to comprehend your humors [Music]
1:11:25
so i mean with that i think [Music] hopefully i'll see you all in
1:11:30
a week's time or so if you were all successful [Music]
1:11:36
um the only question i have is what's to be done with uh
1:11:44
our friend over here my whole uh very very
1:11:51
a very minuscule gesture to the uh sheep
1:11:56
monster he'll be fine and he raises his hand up
1:12:01
as the cage lifts off of this main platform and floats over and drops down
1:12:06
onto another empty platform and as it moves out to rotate around this central
1:12:11
platform it rotates and rests in a perfect sink with
1:12:18
the cage holding the red dragon as they sort of float along together and as it goes up the red dragon sort of
1:12:26
brandishes its teeth and snarls a little bit and the demon sheep does the same and they're sort of like in this lock of
1:12:32
trying to intimidate each other as they continue rotating endlessly in this void
1:12:39
do you think there's a possibility i know this is
1:12:44
we're talking about a creature so powerful that it had to be put in a crystal to
1:12:50
stop it from persistent [Music] but could we kill it
1:12:58
i don't see why not made a flesh and bone and would the soul
1:13:04
die with it or would it be looking for another home
1:13:10
so would i mean unless look it's a powerful thing
1:13:16
there's always the possibility that it is a creature that can hop body to body
1:13:23
um but most of the time if you kill the body you kill the creature
1:13:30
which is why we couldn't do it when it was in your friend over here i'll pipe up
1:13:35
um will it be free then
1:13:40
depends what you mean by free
1:13:47
will it not be trapped in that cage well yeah it'll be dead
1:13:53
the sheep i mean i can do my damn just let's say that it goes someplace
1:13:59
peaceful
1:14:07
i defer to your judgment on this uh hey afraid i i don't know
1:14:14
maybe there's a surefire way to kill it and and that's what we should look into
1:14:20
um but i think that's [Music]
1:14:25
if everyone agrees i think that's what i'd like to do right now at some point
1:14:31
when when we're short can we work yeah and and and have you might be able
1:14:38
to get more information from it especially with its connection to its friends
1:14:45
that is his uh specialty i look up at it in the distance next to
1:14:51
the dragon [Music] maybe when uh when we come back here
1:14:57
after we get your friend and i get home maybe
1:15:03
maybe he can help maybe i think based on
1:15:09
based on what i know of this xavier no man
1:15:15
i think he could be a great ally for us
1:15:20
that's also we're traveling halfway across the world to get to him [Music]
1:15:26
in the opposite direction of our other objectives i appreciate it
1:15:32
i don't mean any harm
1:15:38
uh should i get the horses
1:15:45
yeah thanks for all your help hey freed really no no worries
1:15:54
it's good to get back into it yeah and i still think that the goopy man was
1:16:01
horribly mistaken you're very impressive
1:16:06
we couldn't have done any of this without you why thank you [Music] you're on the path
1:16:11
whatever you've done i appreciate that and i will lead the gang
1:16:17
out through the coop just as we're walking out i'll kind of
1:16:22
pause [Music] reach into my bag i think souvenir bag
1:16:28
and i'll pull out the um piece of paper
1:16:34
i'll turn around go back to paige
1:16:39
hey uh i found this i'll walk up and i'll show him the paper
1:16:45
yeah i uh couldn't really understand it um
1:16:52
but i'd like to how did you learn all this
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for the most part i found people who could teach me a lot of it i taught myself
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can you teach me i might be able to
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depends on if you're willing to learn well i'm willing
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all right well finish your thing here come back i might have something for you
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okay can i i'll hold the paper up can i hold on to this
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[Music] where'd you find that on the ground
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okay yeah give it get it give me wait can i see it yeah hold it up to him
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yeah yeah keep it [Music] i've got that i've i've got this one
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locked away any sort of taps the back of his head i don't need the paper anymore
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huh oh
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all right when i get back i'm teaching all right i look forward to it see you soon all
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right okay um you guys step out of the goop
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and back into the uh the world and as you guys do you are
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once again greeted by uh hey fred's house and by the uh
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the small town of marstock you guys uh head back out onto the street and are you guys heading straight
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towards getting the horses if we're gonna be on the road for a little bit of time maybe we should get
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some supplies that's a good thing yeah there's
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a general store for rations and a little general store um what are you guys looking for
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um probably like dried fruits and nuts and and meats and grains so little snacky foods um
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anything else i would like to find a
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an area where i could get some more natural components for some of my
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some of my spells and some of my the things that i can put into the world
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okay likewise i'd like to get some some basic medical supplies not necessarily helios
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kits just like bandage replacement and uh cleaning fluid and those kinds of things um and then maybe a healer's kit if
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there is one available there is one available um so any so caleb any components and
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healing things that you want to get um you can anything specific that you want to get you can just take that amount of
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gold out of your inventory uh same to you shraya any components that you get
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um you are able to find those and you can just take those out of the uh the gold out of your inventory and oma for
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food and snacks along the road um you're able to find in the general store um
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just some some good stuff that will keep good um for a couple days and in total
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for the group for a couple days journey that's gonna be one gold i will make sure that we get some lemon
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pastries too okay that is going to be two gold so okay two gold
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okay i'll make sure to head back down and go to the place where we eat something cool i hand over the gold all right um so
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with all of your supplies in tow you guys are able to go back and get your horses
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and set off along the road um it is still early morning so you guys have a full
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day's travel ahead of you um flynn you pull out the
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map which direction do you guys want to go you guys have a couple different ways to get to oak inspire
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um yeah what are our options what does it look like when i look at the map um let me see um as you look down at the
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map um you guys see where you guys are in in marstock um you guys see that there is
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um yeah a couple different paths and you see that there is a mine that goes through the mountains um just south of
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marstock as well um obviously the river to your north the mountains to your west
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and also another mountain range to the south um which side of oak and spire
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was the shack on the shack was on the north east end
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okay okay so it's pretty direct at least to that well if we want to do something like
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that we could go to angel view and then go around to hound mirror and then down to the northeast side of oakland's fire
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we could we could also go through the mine to dire hand and then cross those two rivers [Music]
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shore or um through the mountains
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does the backing of oak inspire back the the the water could we perhaps get on a
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boat and
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i mean we could even do it from the gulf yeah even just take is dire hand up against the ocean or water as
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well yes dire hand is right at the base of the elder peaks mountains and it is also
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a coastal town so it goes right up against the water so we can probably avoid the mountains or the andeam
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mine by just going through that little valley first and then go around through the valley
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um the the mines are they like tunnels like could we take this mine to dire hand
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or is that its own you can see that um the mine here connects marstock to dire
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hand and both of those also go up to angel view you see a little um you see
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three mine entrances there that sort of interconnect below there we
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probably wouldn't be able to take the horses though but i guess if we take a boat we'd have to leave the horses too yeah but we might not have to take a
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boat or them right we could just go by horseback up around to dire hand then straight through to white wind and then
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to the shack from white wind i like that idea i like i mean we can always change it once we get to dire
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hand we can see you know yeah so we're going to get our horses and we're going to go from marstock to
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dire hand to white wind yeah i like that idea and then we can change it if we need to when we get darker
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all right good hopefully we don't find any red wolf folks
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um so you guys have about a day and a half's travel until you get to dire hand
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what would you guys like to do to occupy your time on this travel i'm going to meditate on the
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the source of my previous transformations and see if i can extend that
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into more of my full consciousness and not just a consciousness that occurs
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haphazardly while taking in the nature around me we
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have penelope and and and still fast um so i'm on penelope with caleb and i'm
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on still fast with tria and while he's taking in the scenery and doing his
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thing i'll um if i can i'd like to maybe try and write in my book
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about demons draw my best my ability to draw that
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thing write some some notes about it and potentially maybe add it to my bestie for sure
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i'll spend i'm just going to uh hum softly while we ride
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okay i have my face pushed up against kelly's back so that my cheek is like flat against my
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nose um as i'm just resting all right
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so you guys make your way up along the base of the mountain the elder peaks
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and you guys crest the very north face of it you guys come back down and travel south
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down through the valley about three quarters of the way through your first day i'm gonna have everyone make a
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perception check for me [Music]
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destroyed it [Applause] zayn natural 20.
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we are all incredibly perceptive even though we're meditating and we're doing
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we're humming perception a disadvantage for me is uh
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15. still that tops me out of 26. i'm i'm 20 25.
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21. so about three quarters of the way through your first day um you're sort of
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you're coming into this valley um you can see both mountain ranges um extend
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well beyond you to the north and south on either side um you guys look ahead
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and you guys see just off in the distance maybe a house a shack
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[Music] some sort of wooden structure and as you get a little bit closer and a
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little bit closer you can see people you see people walking of different
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sizes how do you guys want to approach [Music]
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um do they look like militaristic like do they look like they're you know armored and and have
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weapons or do they just look like um you cannot tell from this distance you guys are still quite a bit
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quite a ways away um if you want to get closer you definitely can i would like to
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you know um be slow and quiet until we know more
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until we are closer and concerned i could also scout from the air i'm gonna do uh like a little recon at a high
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enough distance to where if no one was intentionally looking up they would not necessarily
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uh get a glimpse of me okay i'm gonna have you make a stealth check for [Music]
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let's me that's a seven
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that's a seven okay um as you're flying over uh you are a big bird man in the sky and in
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order to get closer um and see what's going on you might be getting a little
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bit too close um depending on how well they are looking out right now
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okay you don't know how well they're looking out right now um all you know is that you are flying up closer and with
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both of these mountain ranges on either side of you you can see at this point where
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the um where the people and where these little wooden structures are
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the mountain sort of almost comes together it creates this
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really narrow ravine and on either side there are pretty sheer cliffs going up
1:28:11
that lead off into the mountain and you can see perfectly positioned in this ravine right in the middle
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looks to be some sort of outpost some sort of waypoint
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and you can see right in the middle there's a little bit of activity going on as
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you can see you don't know can't distinguish any features but you can see a it looks like a family with a cart a
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horse and a cart trying to get through as some sort of inspection is going on
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uh can i can i get a gauge of how fortified this outpost is yeah make a perception check for me
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[Music] eight you can't really get a good gauge
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on it you might have to be up close and personal in order to see what kind of weapons these people have to see if they
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have any other um any other weapons anything like that uh
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as i tilt one wing up and swiftly turn back around and head toward the group uh the
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wind carrying me uh across the over the ground from whence i came
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i lightly uh lied down
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sit back onto the horse in a sweeping motion and
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there's no way we'll be able to get any further without interacting
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with this fortification up ahead it does look like some sort of checkpoint of some
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kind [Music] forgive me if this is a repeated
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information uh does it can we tell what
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manner of checkpoint like who's who's the faction that's checking
1:30:06
i'm gonna say if you're hanging back at a pretty good distance you can't tell okay
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um i don't know much about what you do kelly but do you
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like travel and provide healing to other areas can we just pretend that we're
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your escort and keeping you safe while you travel to help the town oh we do have a
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few of these left and i hold up like a silver the silver tongue potion yeah i have one now plot i think we can
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use these to maybe talk our way through uh uh that sounds good to me i i think that's um
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wait so how do they work again we drink them and then we people do what we say [Music]
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there's a few steps in between that but uh i think it's more like you drink them
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and people are more inclined to listen to you well you know when you
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see a glint in somebody's eye it gives you that clint that's the best sounds of it
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maybe we should save them for a different time then well one of us could take one i
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yeah i have one still and and and i think yeah yeah i have the other one i mean i i
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think try i think we gave you one unless you already took i haven't uh rifle around in my
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little hanging sacks and under my feathers oh yes right here [Music]
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yeah maybe we'll just use one yeah i don't yeah just whoever wants to do the talking maybe if we go with the whole
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leading the holy man to do healing maybe he's the one that takes the
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potion um why would i be leading a healer to take up to take him somewhere oh
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maybe your reward you uh yeah yeah keep yeah keep my belongings clean and
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uh you know uh look after my books right and i would be good at that and
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you're in training right to take up the mantle yes should i carve something in my hand
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no no certainly not um oh okay i don't actually you know um
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i i'll i'll take the uh the bag of ashes out there's not much left
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you guys may have noticed my spells no longer require the physical ashes uh and
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i i'll take just a little bit and i'll just like put them all on uh alma's right arm just
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like this uh this should uh that should actually do uh do it nicely
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uh just if they ask anything uh sort of talk ambiguously about uh truth and the
1:32:58
subjective nature of it they love that stuff truth is so subjective
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look at my ashy arm and i've been i've been very focused on
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on communing with one of my former families or perhaps i could perhaps i could assume that form
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oh that's a good idea and just be one of your pets well i mean that would be
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pretty cool [Music] let's see maybe a smaller one are you
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everyone as big as last time than you were i might i can try that'd be that'd be pretty cool
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also before we head in um i remember a while back didn't we find
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stuff along with these potions back in that oh we found out we have like we have a
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stamp from caldor we could make a little document and stamp it and say that
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kellet here can travel from point a to point b [Music]
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i could forger that's not something i'm i mean i drew a pretty good picture of a
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fisherman i could just give it to the talented one all right uh flynn i'm gonna have you
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make a sleight of hand check do you speak just a reminder their
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language maybe you should write it in in dwarvish
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i could but i mean i figured if it's something that you're using to travel the land maybe common oh that makes
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sense right right okay i'll give it a go and i take a few breaths and
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yeah i'm still at disadvantage though yeah your hand is shaking huh um and what what kind of check would you
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like dm slide a hand okay okay it's a plus four okay so the first
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one is a bad roll and the next one is a better roll so eight total okay
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all right well i'll stamp it with the stamper okay here you go you stamp it with the stamper
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makes it look a little bit more official um all right are you guys heading up are you guys ready shreya what are you
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turning into so uh i take a second and i breathe and i focus
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uh on the crystal i touch it to my forehead as like this half moon suddenly starts to emerge as i pull the crystal
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away uh then it becomes a full moon like shadow in the middle of my forehead as i
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yeah my neck kind of cranes out my beak opens up wide and
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my feathers slowly become fur and i go on to four legs and i
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uh wild shape into just a regular cute as i
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can possibly muster little wolfie so with a challenge rating of less than a direwolf
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do we watch this happen yeah whoa do you think that hurts him we can ask
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him next time i run up to his face and i pet his muzzle again just like i did there then
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and similarly to last time the staff uh morphs into the crystal which splits in
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half and my eyes glow in this like pink sapphire uh glow and all of my you know
1:36:13
armored clothing it all merges into this one and i'm on the top of the head
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so plan where me i am a bodyguard with my
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wolf companion and we are protecting the ward and the holy man
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on safe travel is that correct yeah sure i give an affirmative run i'm going
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around doing doing acting right and i'll give him a little scrunch behind the ears i'm ready all right then with that
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uh he's taking the potion maybe maybe killing yeah probably kelly yes uh that sounds
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good since you're the only one who actually knows what you're talking about uh yeah even that's better that's true
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what sure all right um caleb you take this potion and it looks like melted silver um and as you knock it back you
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can feel it completely coat your tongue it doesn't feel uncomfortable at all but it's just sort of like this this
1:37:10
lingering presence and with shraya being a cute wolf
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and kalec having taken this potion you guys approached the outpost and you guys
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are a little ways away as you hear hey stop there stop for inspection
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and that's where we're gonna end this section we're we're going to call it right there i'm
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so glad troy is not a birdman anymore in case they saw him flying yeah a little bit of a disguise there um nice
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awesome that was a lot of fun thank you guys oh yeah all right um that's where we're gonna call it thank
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you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye nerds
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