Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
is anyone else hot in here hi it's oma flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to
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ventureforth [Music]
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so [Music]
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previously you all had traveled south from the town of marstock hoping to make
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your way around these mountains to the town of dire hand on your way to oak and spire
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you guys traveled up and around a mountain range and came down through and came across this outpost sort of this
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way point in between the two mountain ranges on either side of you and in order to pass you guys brandished your
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um forged note that you guys had and after a little bit of wordsmithing from
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kilik allowed you guys to pass by with no issue however on the way you guys saw a
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family in distress a father and a mother who was pregnant
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with their little girl and they were not allowed passage um they were turned the
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other way and as caleb determined that the mother was very pregnant um they
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decided after a little bit of discussion to go back and actually help these people through the mountain um to get to
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dire hand you guys uh caught back up and began your journey into the mountain
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where you guys were able to stealthily make your way past a group of sleeping hook horrors and
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make your way into this massive cavern the remains of a ancient forge from
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dwarves that had buried deep beneath this mountain
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you guys began to travel through this cavern but noticed some strange things some giant metal
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constructions um on either side of you and within each of these forges
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a sleeping fire giant baby as you guys attempted to leave this cavern um the
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fire giant mother appeared and very angry that you guys were disturbing her children's slumber um seems to be
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very angry at you guys and trying to attack so with that
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the family that you guys are traveling with um hidden underneath one of these giant
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tables alongside alma um shraya having threaded this rope in between the banisters of the the stairs that the
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fire giant was coming down and kalec right at this fire giant's face as it
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slammed into the ground in front of you um spilling its drink of lava and flynn
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off in the distance waving his sword around right by one of these um little uh babies cradles that is where we're
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gonna pick up so with the fire giant just having tripped down these stairs and landed at the feet of kellik
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oma what would you like to do i'm gonna can i can i run past her um
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yes you can you would be able to uh yeah make your way around the fire giant and up the stairs okay i'm gonna run in the
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dash okay
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[Music] okay you are able to make it up onto the
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upper level do i see the exit you do see the exit it is right in front cool next up in the initiative kellic
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i'm just making eye contact with this thing i'm just feeling worded my arm that was hit by lava
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i'm gonna i'm gonna look over to um val and dora is that right yes uh dura dura
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d-u-r-a and uh and and just like like wave them to follow oma to
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uh to safety on the other side of this thing um
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the fire giant is prone it's prone yes
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uh and okay uh
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i'm going to i'm gonna bane it nice that's good okay uh and that is a
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uh uh a 16 charisma save 16 charisma safe okay
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her giant's [Music] oh charismatic
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that's a four yes so the the fire that makes up its hair begins to get uh more and more action
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and and soot just starts to spill out over it uh and it has it has now been nice okay and
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then i will chill i guess uh i'm just gonna i'm just
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gonna maintain eye contact with this creature and uh uh
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uh uh no
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okay wait actually i am gonna run because it's it's prone so that's is that a disadvantage on opportunity
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attacks is that otherwise yes it is yeah yeah i forgot about that thank you yeah i'm gonna run i'm gonna try and go
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circumvent it to get up the stairs okay um as you are attempting to run away
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it's gonna reach down to its leg and grab a flaming dagger
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swipe at you and that is going to be bane bane so that's minus the e4
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that's huge that might just save it oh that was a four on the bane so no way
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that's an 11 to hit wow i'm going to stumble as i as it just
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goes over my head and then just hoof it out of there all right um
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you are you want to move as far away as possible
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yes i'm going to go scheisse i'm actually going to go let me
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go around it on the other side uh uh that that alma did not the opposite side
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oh okay because i want to be in range of flynn still sort of and yeah and i'm gonna
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yeah that's that's great um 30 feet would take you right there um can i go
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one back in well can i break its attack range since i took the attack opportunity anyway oh
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yeah yeah yeah for sure you wanna that'd be great yeah break out there okay that's perfect thank you
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all right next up on the initiative flynn um uh while i'm while i'm at this
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uh cradle um what do i see around me are there more cradles with crying babies
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are there more giants waking up um you can see at this point um
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just the five forage cradles um and uh obviously but that's all you see right now
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um [Music] yeah i'm just gonna wave
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my sword around and like maybe just hit the side of the forge like i'm like kind of attacking it but not really it's like
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ah i'm gonna get you a baby you know something like that okay trying to persuade this thing to come over here
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you say what i'm not saying [Laughter]
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i mean it's a disadvantage and stuff but i'm just trying to get this attention to come over here yeah all right and is that an action to do that
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um i'll say that's a reaction okay cool um do i need to like roll for persuasion or anything either persuasion or performance
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next step is going to be shraya so if sorry i think it's uh well they're both crap because
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disadvantage three okay how's the three dude
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you will see how three does try and i will hold my i will hold my action to run on the horse i will hold my actual
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dash gotcha starts coming towards me okay try it what would you like to do uh
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what's my time check on you have i'd say you're probably coming
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up on an hour 45 rate 10 to 15 minutes uh i am going to
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have more movement uh i'm going to rally the
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well i suppose as a wolf i'm going to say i don't know if this falls under pac tactics or what but i'm
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going to try to like quote unquote shepherd the family and try
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so i'm gonna loop back around uh like like look at them and wince and like pat
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my paws on the ground uh as i like go a little bit forward and like
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motion my head to the side and uh attempt to get them to follow me toward the stairs on the opposite side of this
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fire giant where it's fallen nice okay um [Music]
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i get to decide what kind of role that is yay um i'm just gonna say that's a uh
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persuasion check awesome
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that's an 11. okay um it seems like they know what you're talking about cool so you uh you
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run over to the only people who do communication from doggo
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um yeah so you use 15 feet of your movement to walk over towards them um and then you want to start bringing them back
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over yes toward the corner of the stairs we're gonna try to do what alma did basically okay so you guys you're able
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to pretty much bring them along with you towards uh over towards the stairs
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perfect okay um what's the fire giant gonna do fire
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giant is going to
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get up it's gonna use half of its movement to get up
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and yeah it's just going to start uh dashing over towards flynn yes
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to use half of its movement to get up so then that is going to be
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so it makes its way about halfway oh god it's closing right there
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okay um that is what it takes its turn doing um could i use my reaction my held
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action oh yeah i'm gonna dash farther away okay in what direction um if i could start
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looping around like i'm like it's like a ring right so i'm just gonna keep riding the horse
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around okay as it gets close as it gets to there i'm like okay and i'm gonna start
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going gotcha okay um next up oma
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i'm going to run towards the exit to the hallway i'm going to be standing just inside the
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hallway and i'm going to hold um a chaos bolt at the giant if
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it looks like it's getting in too close to flynn all right
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to kind of distract it is my goal gotcha okay so i run my hands together and i like start to create the ball and i'm
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just like holding this like whirling mass i just hold it okay
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[Laughter] okay uh i am going to
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uh undo the the bandage on my hand uh on just the front of my hand and and
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like tense up the muscles in my arm and my hand until the the scar on the center
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of it uh becomes a an opening uh that ashes are just
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pouring out of and i will aim that at the fire giant
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which i believe it's in range let me check my range on this currently it's 45 people okay then yeah we're good yes we
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do in fact mean you harm not quite oh yes
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i'm going to cast ray of enfeeblement no okay jk uh so that's a
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17 day hit a 17 to hit um what it looks like just a bunch of ash
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at first it's like uh it's like a billowing cloud of ashes but they gradually like uh condense into a one beam
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of ashes that are just like flying at lightning speed okay and as they do um
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you hit your target spot on but a piece of armor a shoulder piece of armor on
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this fire giant just deflects your your uh blast right off of it and does not hit okay well i'm gonna uh
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where's flynn um flynn is down by the forges uh beyond the fire
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let me i'm good i'm just gonna turn and and join up [Music]
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i'm gonna go to the stairs uh scurry up to the stairs and like extend uh a hand
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to help people up uh the stairs as they approach okay that'd be my turn you got it
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next up on the initiative flynn um does it still seem like it's chasing
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me uh it seems like it's coming after you yeah how
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far around this ring that we're on would it take for me to get back to the group like is it going to take a lot it would
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take like minutes yeah okay yeah for sure i think and if i were to turn around now
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and run back to the group is there a way to run around this giant that it wouldn't be able to hit me i can stay out of his range is it big
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enough for the platform um it's like it's right at the the thing is in order to get from one platform to another you
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need the stairs and it's still really close to the stairs so you'd be running directly at it okay
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then i will continue running and just coaxing it i'll use my movement to move farther away and i'll use my action to
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just scream at it okay come on you idiot come this way and that's that's what i'll do i'll just scale at it all right
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um try it i am going to continue leading the family closer to the steps and
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it's kind of like [Laughter] as i'm just encouraging them to stay
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behind me as we make our way up the stairs toward the exit okay and um you guys all dash
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yes nice movement um as you guys dash you guys just meet alma at the uh the mouth of this this opening i'm like
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patting each of them on the back as i'm hoisting them up onto these stairs okay next up
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the fire giant um realizing that it's not really catching up to
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it is going to yeah it's going to
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look around and look at all of these giant shards of metal on the ground and it's going to
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look over and grab at one that's about it's it's like just this this
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chunk of of unrefined metal and as it picks it up it bursts into flames this
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is bad and it's going to rear back and chuck it at both of you and the horse do you think is that my bad is this my hell
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that can i use my this is your held action oh maybe this will mess up his ass so because my goal was to distract it if it tried to attack my goal was to
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distract if it tried to attack flynn okay [Music]
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[Laughter] flynn this
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huge flaming chunk of metal [Music]
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is hurled at you and you are still on the horse right yeah do i just use my ac yes so you would use your sure i don't
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know how mounted combat works but it does my it hits me first right it'll take hit points from me
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i'm not sure like the horse i think that's how it works it's like
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it'll damage my hit points before killing the horse do we know where my warbling mass went
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enter the baby cage that's a terrible question i'm going to roll a decent actually i'm going to roll
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the d6 and see where it went
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what's in that direction um it went off to the side and sort of hit some uh pots and pans as it explodes
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okay i'm going to say that it's your ac that it's going against my hp and then um and your hp okay
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actually since it's a giant thing it'll be your ac since your ac is probably higher than the horses um and then you
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guys are both going to be taking oh so okay that's not good
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the horse dies instantly but is it a credit you want to come see what it is
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the natural 20. how much was it originally right there it was 27 okay
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and then it's going to be plus oh the max [Music]
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yeah you're a fighter right you've got this second wind and stuff like that yeah
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it's like when it's like a reaction like just a bonus action plus 29
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he's fine what's the total 20 46 40 55.
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so this bludgeoning rock hits me and the horse and i fly off but
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[Music] land on the ground unconscious
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how's the horse looking oh the horse the horse is dead the horse is no more
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ah okay you got me and then it's going to use the rest of
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his movement to walk up to the cradle oma can i see flynn from where i am um
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yes um i turned to look at kelly
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and i shake my head and then i run and schwartz when okay you can say it now
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i don't say anything i just run past him i should like shove him out of the way as i run
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[Music] okay you make your way 60 feet
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[Music] all right kellick um i'm right on her tail i'm gonna follow
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her uh downstairs
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and i'm going to um
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all right i'm gonna i'm going to um say so i gotta get out of here
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all right and uh i'm gonna cast healing word at third level
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on flynn am i with ben are you dashing towards flynn uh it's a 60-foot range
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well i think i might can i get farther within that you'll be able to get there is that
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within 60 feet yeah yeah yeah okay yeah nice and so and crave cleric
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life so it's uh 12 plus five 17 hit points holy crap
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okay yeah and [Music]
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get out of there flynn no all right i'm coming
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[ __ ] penelope all right um flynn
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yeah project you oh it's my turn she um
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i mean i have i can't run very i can run i'm have speed because of exhaustion so yes i can
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move like 20 if i dash 20 feet i will move 20 feet
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closer to the group yeah and just like looking
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to the group like i'm coming it's like holding my side and like limping
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okay yeah and i'll i'll give him another rock but yeah i'll second win for sure um
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so i heal i heal um 10 more points so okay it's pretty decent i think i'm just like
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bloody now step up from being dead so
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uh in one fluid motion my concentration just like this like electric mass of uh
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like it's cloud starts to emerge out of my eyes and around my head as like the space around me slowly
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starts to expand as i kind of crazily just
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etch myself back into uh ericocra and uh i swiftly turn over to the family and
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be like there's nothing to fear stay here
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as i immediately like staff forward just take like kick off and like
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die like swan swan dive no i'm not a swan
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like flight dive toward flynn with like arms out
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and use my 50 feet of uh flying speed do you have um an action to dash too
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i i don't i don't think i can die is it a bonus action to drop your wild shape or is it what's wild shape is it that's
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a bonus bonus you'd be able to get to him if you wanted an action dash dash i will dash yes
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[Music] yeah i don't think i can scoop him up no that would be an action that'd be my
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whole action to get there it's okay okay it's huge um next up family's just gonna hide out in
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the cavern up here good that's what they're gonna do hopefully there's not like seven hookworms
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no no just four just four yeah um you know seems pretty strong he's got
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it he's got a dagger right the fire giant is going to
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go over to the cradle and it's gonna
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yeah it's going to see that the acid is no longer dripping on its baby it's going to reach down to this this
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pile of metal and throw two massive hunks of metal towards you guys
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um just indiscriminately it's fine
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[Laughter] okay so the first one
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a mass of of flaming metal i'm sorry just a reminder this is bained oh yeah
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it is still basically because it is still banned thank you yeah so that unless i don't know what that
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does for a critical hit i think it just i haven't used any other concentration so yeah still crits i think
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yeah there's another four on the bane yeah it's got a it's kind [Music]
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yeah um so that's still gonna be um
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oh my god that's still gonna be 22. battle is
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i keep my concentration on the pain that is huge for the next drop throw that's gonna be
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okay low 40.
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14 bludgeoning nice plus four fire
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the next massive metal [Music]
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it's going towards shraya who's airborne still right i haven't scooped down who is airborne oh i
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thought you're like on like next to me now did he get to me he's yeah yeah yeah well he has the collection to be able to hovering above you you're right about me
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okay that's going to be did it hit oh
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i didn't even roll we don't know yet that's a natural one so it doesn't
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matter i'm harder to hit [Music]
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um okay yeah that second one goes right past your head the table's now on fire though oh yeah oh yeah it
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just smashes right into the table puts a huge dent into it um okay that's gonna be its turn next up on
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the initiative oma now that it seems like everybody's up
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and moving and and we're all gonna be better i'm gonna run back okay
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you make your way up and uh back towards the family i actually only want to go
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i don't want to use my dash okay so i want to just use my 30 feet and
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um hold another
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[Music] something um um question yes the flames on its head
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are they natural flames or are they magical flames
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they're a magical flame you know where this is going never mind oh i can only control not magical things
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yeah i'm gonna say they're magical flames i mean that that makes sense it's like an innate thing of their being they're magical creatures that make
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sense fine
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[Laughter] um
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the forge is also a magical flame though so they're all it's all magical i'm guessing in here yeah
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yeah hold my hands together oh and hold another chaos bolt just in case it
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starts running or throwing anything and it starts attacking any of us to okay try to distract it in some way
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gotcha okay um kellick uh
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i'm going to try this once more flex the muscles in my arm
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and i'm going to try and uh uh raven fieldman again nice i think it's like the same roll dude
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slightly worse actually yeah it does not hit it's just not happening all right uh
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i'm going to uh ruefully look to flynn and try and just turn and use my movement to get
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to the stairs okay flynn um
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how far away is the giant from us from you guys it is
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about 35 feet um all i can think to do is just grab on and just wait but i'm trying to think of
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their same um
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[Music] yeah i mean
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i can't move fast so i'll just grab on
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yeah i'm just gonna grab on okay grab on for dear life try it let's get out of here
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all right try picking them up yeah i'm picking them up [Music]
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we're gonna immediately get as far away from the floor as we can as we head toward where the family is at
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uh i imagine my action is to pick him up so that's gonna be just 50 feet my
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understanding could i have used my turn to get on him or like grab his legs so he could just
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go that was what i was hoping for yeah i'll say i'll say that i just grab his legs and then you don't have to worry
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about anything picking him up okay now you have all your movement and stuff you make it that's still kind of a strain though to have to like to like it's it
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because having him yeah so how we have a thing how um it's a different kind of drag is all i'm
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saying it is all right if you only want to move 50 feet i'll let you know it's not that it's just
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i don't know i feel like it would be a strength check or something right it has been before just because it's only like the way when you pick up flynn
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um for the first five minutes you don't have to make any sort of strength check and then after that it's a
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it's a consecutively increasing strength check and just get there yeah i'll just get there let's do it let's do it we
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could also just knock it off i also moved up yeah that's right okay you guys are up in the corridor family
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is still just hanging out fire giant um how far away is it from this is
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pretty far right he's far away he's just way too so far barely can barely see it yeah
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i mean like in range of you guys are 65 feet away oma and kalec are 65 feet
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away [Music] which just barely imposes disadvantage okay
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okay okay so he's gonna throw two i'm gonna throw back if he throws it off i'm throwing at him oh the the or her
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she is throwing it at you so do you want to why don't you roll yours first no you can roll first okay
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okay so that is going to be at disadvantage essentially we're rolling it at the same time yeah we're here
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they're going to pass each other and maybe they'll [Laughter]
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[Music] 21 to hit i don't
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[Music]
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23 points of bludgeoning okay and and one point of fire
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i'm still up let's go my turn yeah i think that's gonna hit that's um 18
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plus six hits yeah i did just level one
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10 points of acid damage
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okay ouch um as the acid pours over this thing um
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10 points of asset damage yeah it melts some of its armor and uh melts a little
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bit of his armor away you have to beat a four eight okay oh it's getting there yeah i'm not trying
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to have an explosion of almost stuff right now okay um puma this next uh
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hunk of metal is coming towards you so that's gonna be at disadvantage with the bane
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no disadvantage because of the probable disadvantage because of the range um uh actually no bane i thought you were already trading you already rolled for
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it uh not this turn i didn't okay yeah um then that is going to be without the bane that is going to be uh 16 to hit
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that's my armor class oh man lita beats it so that hits oh no
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no no opposite reaction
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that is 20 points of blood pledging okay two points of
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fire i take a deep breath as i get that fire damage and use my reaction to absorb elements okay
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[Music] it's a reaction
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um yes it is does it count it does on this anytime you use a spell slot yeah okay
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oh no but i can still use it right yes yes you can still use it yeah so essentially
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what is seen because this has never happened before is um oma feels the fire hit her
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you see the sparks of red go all the way through her body um landing at her hands
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um and her hands are just kind of like burning um red hot um
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and you have to beat a five it was cocked on
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a five so i'm going to re-roll back eleven eleven okay my god
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everyone is pretty much just at the at the exit so you guys just possible going out moving out how big is
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this tunnel um the tunnel is you can see it's about 20 feet tall this thing had to sort of
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hunch over in order to get all the way through it um and it's about 15 feet wide does it look destructible
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and i like it looks like it's rock i would have shake the wall does it look like it's loose rock and it might
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crumble does it look like there's like support beams or anything that i can there are support beams yeah
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um yeah i mean i'll see if i can do it i will as we're running through i'll like limp
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over to one of the support beams and um you see my tattoo glow tap the side of
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my knee and i'm going to stop this is after we've moved past yeah yeah once everyone's in of course
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of course of course just under it actually um and i will tap
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my knee and send a thunder wave right at the support being to try to let you down trying to break it yeah yeah he would
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have we're in there yeah i think we're all in there yeah you guys are all in the tunnel yeah you are on the ground you do this i'm gonna have
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you roll damage sure you don't have to roll the attack just real damage okay oh that's good um 13 points of thunder
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damage 13 points under damage all right um as you just like
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rock this cavern um you can see the support beams at the top the wood
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against to splinter and break and actually shatters against itself as rocks come tumbling down and you cave in
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uh the cave behind you that should keep it at bay for a bit let's get out of here let's go let's go
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broccoli okay um as you guys continue running um
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you guys keep moving and moving and moving and um eventually you uh the the
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cavern opens up once more and this time it just opens up a little bit on your left and you can see a much
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larger um not even room just like a little outcropping in there with a pretty
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sizable pool of lava and you guys keep running past that as there's really nowhere to go in that one
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um but uh eventually you guys come across a wooden door on your left
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built directly into the side of the rock here is it like giant sized it is not it is
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your average sized door uh i like those odds uh i'm gonna uh
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cast a quick uh mass healing word on the family
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um not on the family on my party yeah okay uh and then i'm gonna suggest that we go
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through no need for me i didn't take any damage yeah it's um up to six so
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the three of us i guess okay yeah and that will be
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for each of us that's um seven points okay awesome
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all right um i'll go check it out i'll walk up to the door and try and
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open it okay um it is open and on the other side um you see just completely
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covered in dust um a couple of cupboards a couple of beds lined up in a row um
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and a couple of tables in a room that is probably no more than 20 by 20.
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are there does it seem to be any um anyone on the bed sorry there's no one in here all right guys i
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think it's safe come in we might be able to rest here i don't know we just left the tunnel with the fire giant here you
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think it's safe here i collapsed how collapse did it look there was a lot of rock there's a pretty decent matter
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maybe at least just sit here for a minute catch our breath sure uh could we see in the previous tunnel
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like where if there was anywhere to progress to get out of here or um it seemed like a pretty
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straight-on path okay and is does this room lead anywhere or is this this is just a room
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let's keep going you want to catch our breaths first
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i looked to the family how are they doing um you looked at the family and um the little girl val um she starts yawning
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she is very tired and the uh the mother also as you opened
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up into this room yeah um she went over and she sat down on one of the beds all right sure yeah she's so dressed
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it's you're right you're right we do have to go soon though um yeah
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let's just take a break short just just a moment short break and i'll kind of
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i look over at caleb and i go oh i yes i that's a good idea
37:47
i can talk again good to have you back try it yeah now we need to set some ground rules
37:53
about your animal form try it i don't know could you understand us i'm still not really sure if you could i can
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understand everything you say it's just that communicating back is a little bit more difficult to come up with the system
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that's good for pretty basic stuff for me there yeah yes you've got to really use your input
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let's come up with a system when we are completely out of danger sounds good
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all right uh make yourselves as comfortable as you can we're going to leave in uh in a
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little while right uh i'll uh
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i don't know i'm just gonna i'm just gonna clean my uh clean the
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fiery soot off of me from this encounter as i like sit down one of the beds
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okay i'm going to sit with my back against the door to feel any vibrations coming from the other side of the door
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and use a few um hit die
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all right um yeah i'll heal up too i'm gonna actually pull my beastiary out but before i do i will um
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um stumble over to kellick and kind of lean up against the bed or the chair that he's sitting on
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hey um thanks for your help out there
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of course fine sorry sorry about your horse
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yeah uh wait we didn't know her very long huh
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at least we got them out no motion over to the family it's close without saying that if they
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tried to control this place by themselves they would certainly have died even though we
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had to deal with all that i still consider this a win so far it's hard to say it that way
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after watching flamin boulder had penelope but uh i
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know yeah i i i i agree you know we we
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took what we were given and we did our best with it and that's all we can hope to do yeah
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you got a little bit over here too brush off his shoulder well i'm gonna go
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sit for a bit anything let me know right um be careful with playing the hair off
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then you're not you're not as your strengths and if you go out on your own
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we might lose more than a heart you know i know i know
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i'm so used to improvising i don't know when to and i'll use reason
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i'm learning you did good what you know
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we need you it seems pretty apparent that i need you too
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and tria and alma yeah we're short for allies in this yeah
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anyway let's see in a bit and i'll go sit down and i would like to try and write out
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stuff about fire giants um into my bestiary i can do that yeah and i'll spend that resting and doing that
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okay um yeah from the combat let me see
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yeah from the comment that you witnessed you got enough to write down oh cool enough about the uh
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okay i'll put that in there sweet okay cool as i'm resting briefly and meditating uh
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and saying a prayer you hear the word and say others uh banana pee
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uh as i say a little prayer okay um are you guys taking a long rest
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here just for me short rest sure i think short yeah this is short just to get a little bit of a breather and we can try
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and find something farther away okay um oma you are keeping watch i'm gonna have you make a
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perception check for me
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17 uh 17 okay um you uh after a couple minutes of
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sitting there the rumbling from back where you guys came from subsides um and
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you don't feel any sort of vibrations or anything coming from that direction um
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you do hear after about five minutes of sitting there you think you hear someone walking
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outside i'm gonna put my ear up against the door
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okay um very distinct footsteps just walking past the door
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about humanoid sized um seems to be one person
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no heavy football does it sound fairly like
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regularly timed yeah and it seems to be going at a somewhat quickened pace not running but
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sort of like a fast walk can i peek out the door yes you can um and as you peek
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out the door just as you look um you see a figure walking away from you
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um about six feet tall but right as you peek out you see the back of them
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flip up a hood and as soon as the hood comes up over their head completely disappear
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okay what fun
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cool yeah right no problem not a concern
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out of mine that's what i said uh this is a good question do we heal do you want me to roll my head dice or yes
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yeah if you want to take a that short rest take whatever effect the short rest has does the robe look familiar
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um it is a dark purple does the robe look familiar
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um not in like any particular markings it's a dark purple robe
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um if you've seen a dark purple robe before it might remind you of that but there's no like distinguishing but
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the back of this person's head doesn't remind me of anything that i saw in that um
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like other realm place where we were looking through what was happening
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um with hayford with hayfried yeah no
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just unrelated person walking possibly you don't you don't recognize that
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person directly from what you saw in the the orb okay then i will clock it okay
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and i will quietly shut the door and keep listening to see here if i hear it walk back this way okay just keep
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like track of how many times it passes if i hear it anymore gotcha um and over the course of sitting there you do not
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hear it many more times okay you guys finish your short rest
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um i'm going i want to go over to uh the uh is it is val the muller yes
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i'm sorry the val is the daughter bows the daughter all right i want to go over the door uh and just check on her uh see that
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she's holding up okay with all the excitement okay and if i can just check on the baby's health okay um she's breathing
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pretty deeply and then she begins to sign some things with her hands uh i
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i gotta save the spell slot do i do i notice
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she's communicating with kellic you wouldn't have particularly okay uh i i just hold up a hand uh
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empathetically and and with a distressed uh look and and and just
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um sort of uh tenderly um uh like reach to her stomach without
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making contact and just sort of indicate that i just want to like see how she's doing
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um okay make a medicine check for me okay
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uh it's gonna be 16 16. um a bit of excitement and elevated heart
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rate um doesn't seem to have made any complications with pregnancy or her overall health or the
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health of the baby i'm gonna um take out my my um flask of just water and just make sure
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she's she's getting hydrated and uh and is like
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comfortable where she's sitting okay and i as much as i can just try to
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convey like calmness to her with like a
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firm hand on her shoulder and a steely gaze okay um she seems to acknowledge it
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put a hand back on your shoulder
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okay is there anything anyone else wants to do [Music]
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okay you guys leave this little room i'm feeling a little bit more rested than
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before and you guys continue on down this corridor um
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and as you guys travel down um you notice another break in the
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in the pathway this time five different paths in front of you awesome
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two of them unmarked go directly down almost at a 45 degree angle down into
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the ground the one to the right of that has a banner hanging from it that just like before has an anvil a little painting of
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an anvil on it um the one to the right of that once again it seems to be this time it seems to be going up but once
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again unmarked and then the one beyond that has two crowns
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i don't know i thought the crowns were bad but that was pretty bad
47:51
i suppose there could be danger any one of these paths can we just ask
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thaddeus if he knows what any of these signs are we should have done that the first time oh okay
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um i'll go he's traveled these worlds a lot he might not unfortunately my judgment was not the best when i was just using
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my nose but we don't know what was down the other path right this might have been the better of two bad scenarios
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oh pull out uh sidious and turn them on for 10 minutes
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hello hey um
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we're uh in a predicament i love predictions not this one thaddeus
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not this one i'll hold this i'll hit his head up to the doors or the hallways all the
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hallways and so he sees the symbols we're trying to find our way
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out of this cave um any any thoughts um
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let me can i take a look at the just give me give me one moment and the light behind his eyes fades back
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and then it comes back and the purple glow reemerges from his eyes um
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i wouldn't take the one on the right um those crowns um i've seen those once before
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and uh but i i didn't enjoy the company that came with them um i would say the uh the
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one with the anvil is probably the best shot um and those obviously very closely
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um associated with dwarves so if you guys are looking for any sort
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of dwarven settlement i would assume that that's probably where that goes um and then
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dwarves i know at least in this region when mining um
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they they keep all the stuff in their head pretty well um so they don't need a lot of
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signage and things like that so in my mind the one that's labeled with the anvil is
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probably back towards the surface whereas anything else sort of goes down into the deeper mines and tunnels um
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that's that's what i would assume okay well thanks yeah of course you don't need
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anything else that's a huge help that is uh what do you mean about the two crowns
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not being the company you'd like to keep can you be any more specific um yeah so
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in i so yeah the group that i was traveling with um we had to
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sort of be emissaries for a group that was up on the surface trying to connect
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with some of the underground settlements um from down underneath caldor
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and you'd be surprised there are many just miles and miles of tunnels and underground networks and these
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civilizations here but they're not too keen on outsiders most
50:50
of the time they they like to keep to themselves they've had some bad experiences with uh with people from the surface coming down
50:57
and trying to mess with what they've got going um which is what they thought we were doing um even though we were trying to bring a message of peace we were
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greeted with um mostly swords and arrows so that's sort of my experience
51:10
all right and these were the the two crowns were what uh what we're following in order to get to these people right
51:16
yeah fair enough thanks of course it's nice to have a
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compass and all this uh at the mention of compass i'll look
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at thadius and um i'm kind of like more hushed as i'm like putting them back on my bag
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uh last time we talked
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i was dealing with stuff um
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your inputs always appreciate it
51:54
i appreciate your appreciation okay
51:59
well all right is that it that'll do all right well
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i'll hook you on there you can watch us walk if you say anything greatly appreciate it yeah i'll keep you out and
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then maybe we'll turn you back on whenever we get out of here perfect if all right
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all right
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we're gonna be fine everything's all right yeah um and i will then i guess i'll see you guys top side you will okay
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and we will hand head up the ample path um all right um so you guys travel up the
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path with the anvil um and after a little bit of travel um
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you guys can start getting a little bit more fresh air in your lungs um the
52:55
the ash from the previous couple rooms is starting to dissipate
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and eventually you guys come across um another
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opening um it seems to be two um two more tunnels on either side of you
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um though both of them caved in whether it be intentional or just over time both
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of them nearly caved in with rocks but one of them the cave in is a little bit further down the line
53:25
and in that hallway before the cave there is a gate
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a gate right at the beginning of this hallway and within that gate
53:37
you guys see three giant spiders [Music]
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on top of those giant spiders you guys see leather straps
53:49
wrapped around their torsos do they look similar to the people that
53:54
i saw they look exactly the same in the exact same fashion looking at them again do they look how how does how do their
54:01
features differ from are wait are there people on oh i'm sorry there are not people there they're
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just they're just dormant spiders oh okay they're some kind of satellite but the saddles and stuff look
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like that people before no people um and yeah once again it looks like
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there are these straps around them as if you could just strap a saddle right on top yeah great so um it's like a stable
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essentially cool exactly cool stable for giant spiders that seems
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legit and this is the only two paths so there's no other way there is the continuing path forward but
54:37
that's where it diverged um both of them caved in one of them being the spider
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stable cool spider stable rad
54:49
and lastly as you guys continue on down the hall on either side of you
54:55
last thing you see two drought sitting there on either side of the hallway
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throat slit and what and blood pour it down their body no
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um i will turn to the i will turn to the family and motion to the dad like to go back at this point the dad well
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has his so the kid doesn't see it yes just um just wait back in in the hall we'll figure this out
55:24
cowlick little motion is this what is this
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no idea these these are the these are the people i'm looking like these were the people that you saw these
55:34
are the people that i saw that were like related to this crown thing when i went down with bailing into that cave
55:40
they looked like this they were much more alive oh they were running from the hook
55:47
[ __ ] if i remember right but the spiders seem to be like mounts
55:52
like horses almost these these two bodies are on either side of the hall we're going down
55:57
are they just like slumped on yes so you guys were coming up the hallway there was the stable with the the
56:04
spiders sort of on your right and then continuing on in that hallway is where they were slumped down and they're just
56:10
up against the wall and i look at one of the ones on the right and just walk up to it and try and see
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what i can see if there's any markings or anything okay i'll make an investigation with
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that yeah both of you guys can make an investigation check
56:27
horrible i'm making up for all my good rolls last 21 21. um so you look at both of these um
56:35
they're both wearing lots of dark purple though neither of them have the the billowing cloak that
56:42
you saw before um these two are wearing this leather armor that's been stained
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dark purple and both of them on their chest um sort of right in the middle
56:54
the leather is branded with two overlapping crowns
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you can see actually you also find both of them have these black daggers
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on their hip they have a very similar black sword on the other side of their hip and both of
57:12
them have pouches of gold if you would like to take those or leave them
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i'll take a look at that i'm i'm gonna take them i mean they don't need
57:24
them anymore okay um the first one has 13 gold and five silver
57:31
and the other one has 16 gold and two silver can you tell me about the second one
57:37
again 16 gold and two silver
57:43
it doesn't seem like they need it anymore so i'm gonna take it okay you can add that to your inventory
57:52
yes uh can i tell anything about uh the stabbing wound
57:58
there or there's the slit throat yeah there's no check for me like how old is it um
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13 13. um immediately it's very fresh
58:13
within the last within the last half an hour easily as blood might is even a little bit is
58:19
still coming out a little bit um hasn't all um coagulated yet um you can see it's just poured down
58:26
their their clothes and another thing that you notice an interesting thing is um
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there's no sawing motion it's one clean swipe on both
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and one clean swipe and perfectly across the throat on both
58:46
so we saw somebody
58:51
when we were in the room resting what you saw someone
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well like the back of their head and then they disappeared but it wasn't one of these people
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so maybe they did this i yeah i was done recently
59:10
uh some kind of you know somebody quick and certainly they got the drop on these
59:16
folks they're not in any kind of you know active polls they're just they're just standing here probably
59:21
standing guard well then they probably already ahead of us so it's probably fine um but they did disappear like they had
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a cloak um and then when they put their hood up um i couldn't see them anymore
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[Music] the longer we're here the longer they may discover us what do you mean you
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couldn't see them anymore i mean they disappeared they were gone they vanished yeah i don't know they put
59:46
their hood up and then i couldn't see them anymore okay right um so an unseen assailant who can
59:54
caught a man's throat in a single stroke yeah but i mean it's not like you if they were invisible it's not like they
1:00:01
had to worry about them seeing them so it's not as hard to sneak up at that point still it takes a practiced hand to
1:00:07
make this kind of wound uh somebody like drek for example
1:00:13
drag is dead i know i said for example
1:00:18
uh i'm going to um close their eyes if their eyes are open
1:00:26
and and just but put my hand on their heart [Music]
1:00:32
ex and i'm gonna burn both bodies with told the dead
1:00:40
okay while he's doing that could i go up and take a look at the weapons yeah for
1:00:46
sure i just wanted to see what they look like i'd pick up one of the black i'll pick up the sword and just take a look
1:00:51
at it yeah like weigh its balance swing a little bit as you take it out of its sheath um
1:00:56
a couple of things that you note on the hilt um on on both of them
1:01:02
there is a like a golden spider okay
1:01:07
and then the the blade itself is almost like this um
1:01:15
is almost like a giant piece of glass that's been chipped away at um very
1:01:20
sharp blade um almost looks a little bit jagged uh but it almost feels like this
1:01:27
it's just super dense black glass um and same thing with the daggers
1:01:33
made of the same material i'll uh
1:01:38
oh i want them um
1:01:43
you think it's okay to take these there are not using them i'll put i'll take a dagger and a sword
1:01:50
and i'll throw them in my backpack just stuff them in there i'll grab one of the daggers on the other person
1:01:55
[Music] does it also have a gold yes all of them are sort of adorned with
1:02:01
the same sort of stuff i can't take them where they're going
1:02:07
[Music] we're all the same at the end
1:02:13
i just continued dissolving them into members and then whenever he's done a
1:02:19
motion to the family whenever their gruesomeness has been disguised and discarded i'll wave them
1:02:25
up okay and they walk through that father's hand still on his daughter's eyes
1:02:33
uh right
1:02:38
i really did not prepare for this uh [Music]
1:02:47
uh it's worth a shot uh so i'm gonna use eyes of the grave look ahead of us
1:02:53
is there any undead within 60 feet no one dead within 60 feet
1:02:58
[Music] are you gonna let us know what the daggers do are they just standard
1:03:03
oh 1d4 or um they are let me see
1:03:09
yeah i guess do they seem special as far as you can tell at the moment
1:03:14
these are plus one daggers a plus one dagger plus one swords [Music]
1:03:20
awesome that's really awesome yeah
1:03:28
all right you guys continuing on it's pretty much a straight straight shot yeah okay grimly just
1:03:35
grimly soldiering on through this through this tunnel all right well what i have quickly what i've been able to
1:03:40
see that the cut in the throat um of the drow would i have been able to know if that's something these hookers can do or
1:03:46
is this definitely something a person with from what you saw of the hook [ __ ] and especially since you wrote about them in your book you studied them
1:03:53
a little bit um the the hooks on their arms are not
1:03:58
like this sharp like if they swing at you they're going to pierce you but they they don't have the ability to have the slashing motion as precisely as this
1:04:05
cool and then yeah that's all keep moving on okay all right so as you guys head through
1:04:11
this long tunnel you all start to feel the
1:04:17
effects as you guys are traveling well into the night
1:04:23
and after a bit of travel along this long singular corridor
1:04:31
you look ahead and just are able to pick out a spot of moonlight
1:04:37
that is hitting the ground ahead of you oh maybe this will be or
1:04:43
[Music] and as you guys make your way to the exit sorry as we've been walking i've
1:04:49
i've just begun to hum a soft melody to keep the
1:04:54
spirits soothed of this of our of our little band
1:04:59
okay um all right and as you guys make your way to the exit
1:05:04
it completely opens up and you see around you the continuation of a
1:05:11
forest on this mountainside um you can see above you a couple of dark clouds
1:05:18
are just starting to loom overhead nothing to cover the sky completely but just the beginnings of a possible storm
1:05:24
you guys look around lots of trees lots of wildlife and you look down ahead of you
1:05:30
and you can see it's probably gonna be a while before you can actually get to the base of this mountain
1:05:39
at least we can breathe fresh air yes it's wonderful to be outside again
1:05:46
i look as far as i can after the base of the mountain is there anything past that in the landscape
1:05:53
um looking out beyond just on the horizon you can barely see
1:05:58
the beginnings of well you can see sort of some some light coming from the town
1:06:03
of dire that's our mark [Music]
1:06:09
but it looks like it's another couple hours travel probably [Music] all right you did pretty good in there
1:06:16
uh all things considered i suppose no uh rope was quick tanking good job
1:06:24
well [Music] being of the
1:06:29
originating species that is one with the air i uh
1:06:34
well i know how things can fall from it
1:06:42
right then we push on through the night um should we make camp here
1:06:49
i'm beat yeah so yes but i know
1:06:54
we want to get somewhere safer so it's up to you guys
1:07:00
oh oh now you want my opinion on what we should do
1:07:06
no i'm done with this all right you listen to me the only reason we're going to help your friend who we don't know
1:07:11
and who is probably a very dangerous person is because we're good people who do kind things for people right you want
1:07:18
us to help you then you have to help others that's the deal that's the life you're in that's the world we're looking
1:07:23
out upon and i'm just just throwing my arms out to the to the the town of dire hand ahead of us that's where we are
1:07:30
so you either commit to helping people or you don't get any more good will from me i did commit to helping people i
1:07:37
helped flynn [Music] and i helped try out with his stuff and
1:07:42
i've helped you that doesn't mean i have to help every single person who walks by
1:07:50
i'm scroll stroll up to the family and uh i might have met me under different
1:07:56
circumstances but uh my name is shraya and uh that's just one of the forms
1:08:02
i can take uh sometimes i can make that form a little bit larger as well uh but there's
1:08:08
nothing to be afraid of and it is quite a pleasure to meet uh wow what we own names again
1:08:15
um my name is oreck um this is my wife dora and my daughter val um
1:08:20
it's a pleasure to meet you face to face this time yes and the the mother walks up to him and
1:08:27
she signs a couple words and he looks back and he signs a couple words back and he turns to you and he says i i
1:08:34
appreciate your help no problem and in fact and i reach my hand up onto
1:08:41
the crystal as a few like little sprouts start to glowing sprouts start to come
1:08:46
off the crystal and onto the staff and i peel off these little like glowing buds
1:08:52
and uh hand them to the child for the child um thank you and she runs up
1:09:02
and uh it's akin to a kind of uh like little tiny viney like kaleidoscope of
1:09:07
patterns and like glowing uh like moss and sprouts nothing
1:09:13
too uh druid craft nothing too serious nice okay oh yeah she's infatuated with this very
1:09:21
good [Music] i'm just sitting down
1:09:27
i was tired tired physically just tired mentally with the arguing and
1:09:33
and the fighting i'm just sitting there waiting for these people to make a decision i'm tired
1:09:40
[Music] what are you guys doing [Music]
1:09:46
yeah how are you how are you ken here all right do you want to press on
1:09:53
we're we're pretty windy ourselves um i being honest um
1:10:00
i am probably faring a little bit better let me can i i'm gonna ask
1:10:05
my wife and daughter and he goes over and he signs a couple words um
1:10:11
and mother signs a couple words back and he he walks over and he says um
1:10:18
i think some rest would be appreciated all right um shia do you want to uh
1:10:26
i'll look on the ground you look in the sky see if we can find somewhere safe yes find the most suitable spot
1:10:34
the mouth of this and look back mine cave whatever it was
1:10:40
we were just in all right um so with that i'm gonna have
1:10:46
both of you either make a nature or perception check [Music]
1:10:53
ten [Music]
1:11:10
you look uh it's tough to see through the trees um the trees start to get a little bit thicker um the further out you go and you're
1:11:18
just not able to find anything um caleb you start walking around just a little bit um and you find a beautiful little
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outcropping um with no trees a little bit of grass in the middle and um you
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stand there and you think yeah this would be pretty good and then you see invisible footsteps walking through the
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grass and walking past the grass and into the tree line and down the mountain
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i just double take
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[Music] um and then i just hold my breath [Laughter]
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[Music]
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nope i'm just gonna let him go just
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do i does it do i see any further signs of movement as they've passed or is it
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as the movement stopped into the trees um you can see some leaves being affected by the footfall okay are they
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headed toward dire hand they look like they're headed towards dire hand okay i'm just gonna let them go
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i'm not i'm not messing with that i'm not touching that story so i'm pretty tired okay
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all right um but with that um it seems that you found your camp for the night are you staying here
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yeah uh over here it's probably as comfortable and safe as we can make
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it and we'll take watches uh and i'll start
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laying out a bed roll and okay clearing out any uh debris
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all right um and uh dura gets um val all situated and um she helps orik even
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though he tries to um keep her from from doing anything she insists on helping him set up his bed
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role and um they all seem to be down for the night so with that
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who is taking first watch uh i i will i think first of all okay
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second watch tria yes third watch flynn oma no i'm gonna take it by myself
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how could i do one with uh kellik yeah sure you could take the first watch okay perfect um so as shraya and oma
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then go to bed um kellik and flynn you guys are awake
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taking watch i just like plopped down next to flynn
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at the at the edge of this camp you know what
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[Music] no it's really nice then
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i am not afraid that you're gonna kill me right now
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yeah that's that's really nice [Music]
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also it's a nice night i'm glad to be out of that
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cave mind thing i think i called it yeah i wasn't a i wasn't a fan of the
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soot you would think that you would be with the way you sometimes cast
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spells in helena it's not that great otherwise you know it has its purpose
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i'll make a note in my book [Music]
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i'm tired not just today not just these past few days
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i know he talked a while back about i don't know
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keeping her safe and making sure that we could keep her from harming and
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[Music] lack a better word raise her the right way i
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i'm still kind of a kid too i don't know what to do [Music]
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and yes i i understand that the savior person is going to help her with her magic and help her
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control it but she didn't use magic that's the last one back there fun
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hey i'll say you know uh i'm a bit older than you and
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not feeling of not knowing anything i keep hoping it'll go away
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but it hasn't yet and as far as magic or no magic you know it's just
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about [Music] knowing yourself i guess i
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doesn't matter much to me how she
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finds her way as long as she finds it
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it's hard you know i yeah i'm doing the best i can
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certainly not how i hoped it would go but we made it out and
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kept all of them alive [Music] it's as good as i could have hoped probably yeah
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but i am responsible for all of you
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you don't have to take that burden [Music] it's the time i have the most control
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over which is to say i have no control at all
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i'll look to the town and that's not oak inspired but
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we're closer now [Music] maybe when we get there maybe we get this
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savior guy maybe i'll have answers
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i i hope he does hard to hard to believe right it's got to stay positive
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ah i mean he seems uh he must be something else
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to have warranted this kind of response from kaldor yeah [Music]
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and i you know i trust almost judgement i i think he's probably all right
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as far as a person but [Music]
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every new box we open in this mess seems to just let loose another sea of ours
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just do we've been doing take care one [ __ ] at a time
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we do have to uh we have to find
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the place where the rope connects us you know we uh
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we are struggling together and
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i suspect that will not always be the case but i do hope we can
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[Music] establish some kind of common ground some kind of
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mutual intent so i can't let this stuff go it's not in me too
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i [Music] i don't know why
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i need to help people because if i don't then there's no place for me in the world
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that's that's where i fit [Music] i think people will
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always need your help [Music] i'll always need your help don't tell me when i said that
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i think everyone knows when
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i appreciate it hopefully i can help you someday oh you help me plenty it's not it's not about
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that if we're not for parent tanks then [Music]
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we may as well be just running a boat spinning our wheels
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i think we're figuring it out i think today was not all of a loss
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[Music] we did help someone we helped three people a good thing yeah wow a good day
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feels feels horrible i feel awful and i like grown up
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but we did good and we're that much closer to our goal save xavier and then hopefully xavier can lead us somewhere
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with this red wolf business and i stop the fallen storm and
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maybe by doing so the war i don't think they're directly
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connected but from what uh hayfried said sounds like the red wolf cult is
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down in the flames yeah
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and i just thought i was going to go out and have adventures i didn't
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expect all of this
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there's no adventure without a challenge finding that out
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i but leads to a great story hopefully
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we make it out of here to tell it speaking of uh i did notice our
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invisible friend normal i was speaking off wait
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yeah they uh they walked past us for me but probably us by
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uh extension are they still around i guess you don't really know i saw them move on throw the
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trees over there oreo and i think they're headed to dire hand so um should keep our eyes peeled for a
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purple cloak impressions on the ground yeah
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there's one more thing to keep an eye out for don't imagine
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it makes me wish one but still had her third one anyways maybe it'll grow back
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it's possible all right well i always appreciate talking to you
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guys we'll figure it out now i'm gonna go sleep
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for a long time because i'm tired i wouldn't mind just ah i'm gonna
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patrol this way and you just take a look over there sure before you no i'll get up and i'll kind of
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mosey on around give a little bit of a watch before i head to bed and um as you start i'm
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looking around you hear off in the distance just a low
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rumbling of thunder as the clouds overhead get a little bit um
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more um all that detail oh yeah i'm gonna have
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both of you guys the clouds get more um i'm not both of you guys make a
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perception sure sure i'm a disadvantager yes you are 21
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got a 16 yeah 16 both of you um campground seems very secure um even
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from your your look earlier you thought that this was a great place to camp out from your current patrol you guys are
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solid of that assumption um and you guys go to bed comfortable um before i
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pass out as i'm lying on the ground i just drop three rings in the dirt and i just smack
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you with my hand roll over try you're taking second watch
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correct yes indeed okay um you wake up and uh you see
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who also has gotten up and is sitting up in his cot
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um is uh oreck who's sitting there and seems to just be looking around
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i approach auric uh none of his other family members are away correct they're fast asleep
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orecco fancy walk with me around the perimeter of camp
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yeah it couldn't hurt right you laid the way
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take him around the uh first point of the perimeter
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what's it like having a family for one that you can depend on count on
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[Music] is it always a burden or are there moments of
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joy and belonging no i'd say most of it is
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most of it's joy even even the
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anger and frustration is joy ah sounds like a life i might have led at
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one point but i've largely been away from
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i could tell in my altar even in my altered state that your family is very
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close and that and i uh take a second and sort of
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laying into my staff you all are very uh have a great care for each other
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how old is your youngest she's almost three
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and where do you hail from originally [Music] well um we had a farm
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up north just outside of angel view before they came and took it um
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i assume now we're gonna be planting roots in dire hand
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and i lean my neck toward back toward the cave [Music]
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who's they they soldiers came through and
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they you know they need more food for the soldiers on the warfront
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um we had a particularly um fruitful season
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and uh our farm was needed to help the war effort
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and we were pushed out is that in this
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part of the world would you call it the law of the land that any resources that need be kept by
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the war effort be taken yeah it's uh
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it's i mean it's for country it's [Music] our duty
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my personal feelings about it really have no sway and yet someone is dutiful to your
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country still not permitted to travel through it freely not when you don't have
1:26:24
proper documentation we were pushed out rather quick we couldn't take everything with us and some things
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fell through the cracks i look out across the land
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these feeble boundaries that the great civilizations of the world put along the
1:26:43
land be careful how you speak these laws keep people in order i usually only ask
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this to what you might consider the lesser beings of the land like
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well the horse that we lost back there in the cave
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but have you ever thought of a life beyond the bounds [Music]
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of this structured and organized world that well i suppose it's the only world
1:27:12
you've ever known are you talking about a life beyond the laws that
1:27:18
keep things from happening like what happened back there or just beyond the laws of
1:27:25
this country cal calder caldur uh pronunciation sometimes get away from
1:27:32
me when it comes to names of things without the order of kaldur
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our world descends into chaos and i am happy to pay any price
1:27:44
to keep my daughter safe from things like that and what have you known of the chaos
1:27:51
that it could fall into have you known of beyond our recent experience back there
1:27:58
what is your familiarity with such chaos i know more than most i know
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when the war first started and every soldier and town guard was taken
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up to the war front many places were left unguarded and without law
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and bandits roamed free and my brothers were killed
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yes that's the kind of chaos i know a very terrifying place to be
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my condolences for your fallen brethren
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i do know what it's like to have my homeland encroached upon oh unfortunately
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based on my own knowledge of the land around
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it may have been your countrymen who encroached upon my homeland
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all this to say i think all the beings in this world are just trying to make their way the best
1:29:08
they can live the places that are familiar to them
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how to make a life for themselves do you agree with the way that the
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calgarians have been pushing outside the bounds of their native land
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yeah i think it's necessary you believe in the mission of the
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i think you call them the new gods when the old gods died
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it became our duty to do whatever we could to help the new gods [Music]
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have whatever control they needed over this world
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in order to make it a better place when you have people who push back against that and hold on to
1:30:00
ideas of the past that are no longer relevant you end up hurting everyone just take
1:30:06
care that in the hand you extend to protect
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does not at the same time bludgeon the very innocent that you wish to preserve
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and i lean back on my staff uh as we round the last corner of the of
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the perimeter i think i'm going to dip back into my meditation right
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so you and oreck fall back asleep
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as alma you wake up and just at the beginning of your watch
1:30:43
you realize how late you guys actually went to bed
1:30:49
as just at the start of your watch you can see with the storm clouds overhead just reaching out towards the
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horizon you can just see in that tiny sliver between the horizon line and the clouds
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a sun beginning to rise and that is where we're going to end
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this session right there i got my long rest in right you did yes
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you did you did the point is we got a long round the point is you guys all got a long rest um
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technically not yet technically i'm the only one who's finished it that is correct actually yes i'm sorry
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i'm sorry point good point we will rest in the next [Music]
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thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye nerds
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