Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
greetings wandering humanoids i'm schrei 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 been traveling from the town of marstock to dire hand on your way to the capital of oak
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inspire you guys have been traveling this way to rescue the ill-fated xavier someone who
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alma had known in her past and on your way you guys had come across a couple of
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uh let's call them roadblocks in your way on the way down from marstock through
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these two mountain ranges that scaled you on either side you guys came across a
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family of half-orcs and this family seemed to be in trouble as they weren't able to get past this waypoint to get to
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dire hand you guys decided to stop and turn around and help this
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family get through the mountain a little bit more of a direct route but admittedly more dangerous
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you guys could tell immediately upon approach that this half-orc woman was very pregnant and
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after a little bit of discussion um kalec had decided that you guys needed to help and went back
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you guys begun your travel through the mountain and went deep and discovered a
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ancient dwarven forge deep underground with these massive forges only to
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discover that now although they lay dormant for the dwarves they were housing fire giant babies
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and after waking a couple of these babies a fire giant mother burst into the room and began attacking wall for
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waking her children unfortunately we lost a horse
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and as you guys were able to to run minus one horse member of your party um you
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guys were able to escape the mountain and escape this fire giant closing the tunnel behind you
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and finally escape to the open air as you guys did you noticed it is very
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late at night and you guys decided to take a rest and after scouting a little bit of an area and an opening kalec had
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seen some invisible footprints trudging through the leaves
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not deciding to go after whoever this person was you guys decided to bed down for the night you guys had taken some of
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you had taken your rest so far um but as shraya goes back to sleep and and continues his
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rest along with orac the father of um the young half-orc girl
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oma you wake up see that the sun is
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almost just beginning to rise you don't see the sun directly but you sort of see that light that preludes the sun in the
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morning and you just barely see it through this this strip of open sky along the horizon as these thunderous
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clouds begin to stretch all the way to the horizon as you wake up
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you see shrai is just going to to sleep what would you like to do
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can i try tried [Music]
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um i want to watch the sunrise slowly like the the peaks and i'm going to pull
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um into my region into my pocket and pull out the little raven pendant i have and and the little acorn that i have and
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just kind of like hold on to them and and think about um
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where march might be and [Music]
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i'm so glad that we're close to xavier now
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do i see the horse still fast yes you do the horse is tied to a tree is it sleeping
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yes it is um i want to [Music] forage for some berries
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and then go up to the horse okay i'm gonna have you make a survival check
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six you find some berries um you don't know if they're good
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you don't know if they're poisonous okay
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cool cool cool i don't know anything about them do they look like the berries that i ate earlier
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[Music] yesterday yes they do the other day
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a long time ago time is weird that other time that i ate
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they look very similar to that yeah so i'm gonna test one okay you eat it it tastes pretty much
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the same great cool i hope i'm fine um i'm gonna go over to
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um still fast with some of the berries that i have um and just kind of
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make sure that um still fast hears me walk up so i don't surprise the horse or
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kind of shuffle my feet a little bit as i get closer to it okay it does kind of jolt awake at first and then sees you
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and calms down great um i am gonna kind of like put my hands out
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in front of me as i get closer to him because i don't spend a lot of time with still
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fast and i just wanna put my head up closer to its eyes
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and kind of pat its neck and give it some of the berries does it eat the berries yes it does okay
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so they're probably fine um and as i'm patting its neck i just wanna
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does it seem sad
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um make an insight check at disadvantage
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because this is a horse
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[Laughter] you know 11. a little bit worse um it's
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a horse that just woke up really can't tell okay um
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i'm sorry still fast i don't know if penelope was your friend
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i don't know if horses have friends
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but i'm sorry that she's not with us anymore
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i'm just like petting so fast his neck
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i'm just gonna breathe with the horse that's how i'm gonna spend my watch is just kind of like getting some
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nice horse therapy in okay um and as you do
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um over the course of your watch the you just barely catch
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the sun beginning to rise over the horizon before the clouds completely overtake it and the sky turns completely
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gray i'm gonna have you make a perception check for me to finish out here with your watch
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and um a dirty 20. a dirty 20. okay um you hear
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the rumblings of thunder um and they are seem to be coming from behind you sort
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of towards the mountain maybe up and over the mountain where you guys originally went into the cave and you're sort of looking up and around
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and you sort of look up and back towards the mountain and
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you see all these these rolling thunder clouds and booming thunder every couple of minutes
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and after one of the booms of thunder you think you see a shadow move across one of the clouds
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almost like this this huge figure just walking through the clouds
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like humanoid human but massive but over it's over by the
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just over the peak of the mountain as you're looking back towards where you came from okay and you see this figure
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it's it's like something is either deep within the clouds or even beyond that
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you're just barely able to see the shadow and you can see this thing walking and after a moment it
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stops and you're able to see it clench its fist and rear back
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and as it rears its hand back you see sparks of lightning around its
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hand and it throws these sparks of lightning and you can hear and see lightning shatter across
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the sky all around you before silence once more the shadow fades
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after another minute you hear another burst of thunder but this time you're not able to see anything accompanying with it it sounds like it's further
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beyond the mountain is it raining it is at this point just starting where we are just starting to
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come down yes oh my goodness you can you can feel the first drops um most of the trees around you guys are able to sort
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of keep it from falling directly on you but you catch a couple of drops on your face yeah i'm gonna pull my hood up a little bit and like tighten my cloak a
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little bit and have i've never have i seen anything like that ever before you have not yeah
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i'm just gonna i'm at the at the sea at the root
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[Laughter] wide-eyed at the sky just um
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completely silent
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what i see okay and with that the rest of you wake up to
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the sound of booming thunder and at this point more and more rain beginning to hit your face as
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this downpour begins to start what was that
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oh man my head hurts could we go back inside that mine again
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a cave under the under north circumstances i've gone back into that mine i don't
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like getting wet um i'm still if you if you look at all my time still
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i'm still staring at this at the sky um
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um guys oh there's a toner and i'll turn to the uh the
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rings i've drawn in the in the dirt that are now becoming mud and just swipe it to destroy it
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what's what's wrong mama [Music] there's something in the sky
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i believe they call that a thunderstorm i was gonna say clouds what do you mean
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and i'll look to where she's looking can i say anything um you see the moving clouds you see
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um like this this rolling mass of of clouds and every once in a while
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lightning and thunder but nothing unusual yeah
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i think um i thought i saw
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someone walking but like a big someone and
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i think they're causing the lightning [Music] but that doesn't make sense right
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right we're pursuing someone who's the father of the fallen storm right
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you suppose that's the fallen storm just grace in our path here no
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no i i thought that was a metaphor i thought it was figurative as well yes
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but maybe it's a being ah hard to look at it
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but i shield my eyes from the rain as i'm looking up
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uh i don't know i hopefully no conspire there's more knowledge on this or perhaps xavier can enlighten us
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maybe after we make it a dire hand first yeah
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sleep okay homie site yeah it was nice
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it was peaceful i gave still fast some berries
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that's good um i'll uh kind of sit up and pull my hood up
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as the rain is still coming down and i'll as they're conversing and talking about
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this storm i'll turn to shraya um hey do you
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have anything in that pouch that helps with headaches aches and pains
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i'm really feeling it this morning uh with the affliction is it more uh
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located toward this is the skin or right here under my eyebrows and like
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kind of in the back of my head i'll see what i can do
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see if any of these survived the cave journey and i'm just gonna look into my herbalism kit to see if i can put
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anything together to give flynn some relief okay um i'm gonna have you make a medicine check
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oh not awesome uh not terrible 11. oh 11. um you
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concoct something that is seems to be just sort of like a general pain relief thing um you're not exactly
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sure what flynn is talking about um like in in specific sort of diagnosis but his
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general pain relief should do it this will penetrate the top layer of skin you should feel
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both a cooling sensation and also some temporary relief to if you're experiencing a
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throbbing of any kind thanks um and as i pull my cloak in
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i'm assuming it's a little bit cold is it is it warm like a worm is it what is this and i reach out
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for it is it like a beverage is it a no it's uh it's basically i've rubbed
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some herbs together and then uh wrapped it in a uh like uh thinly woven piece of bark and
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it's actually a topical it's not something yeah it's a topical grab it and start like rub it around my forehead
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does it feel better um yeah at first it's a nice like cooling sensation and then once it
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starts to heat up the uh the pain starts to dissipate a little bit well
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that's good that's good thank you any time and i'll turn it
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um should we get going well what do we do now
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well we're uh bound for dire hand right we still have these people together their family first
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and then from there we'll uh make our way to oakenspire establish the connection back to
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africa right but what about penelope
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i look i just like look back to where we came from toward the mine
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yeah i was thinking about that too
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um uh dm if i look to to the family are they how are they doing right now
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what's their state um right now the uh father oreck and the mother dura are
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trying to um like um take some of their cloaks off and sort of shield their daughter valve from
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the rain as she's sort of sitting there shivering um and they just seem to be like trying to protect her from the
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weather right now uh um i was thinking about that old man
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i don't know maybe i don't have you know proximity to
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another piece remains but we we might be able to do a little something for her
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i'd like to try to usher her on to the best of my ability
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yeah i don't want her to be all alone in there [Music] i um
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do you have anything that we could use uh just as a
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a totem you know something that represents enemy
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i'm thinking i'm thinking well now look over a try and when
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maybe just a bit of rope
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and uh seeing their their nods of approval i'll produce just a just a
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like a foot of rope [Music] and um i will i'll take the rope and i'll lay
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it in a little horseshoe uh under the under the nearest tree
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if there's the biggest tree i can find i'll create a little like cushion of soil and i'll lay this
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in a horseshoe uh and i will um
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begin to ritual cast ceremony and it will not have any magical effect
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um uh on penelope in actuality but
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uh for the intent and purpose of uh doing a funeral right i will cast the spell
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um and i will invite everybody to gather around i go i go yeah
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um i've never done this for a horse so uh
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[Music] penelope the horse
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um we barely knew you
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[Music] um but you you're a nice horse
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you know we we put you through a lot and yeah you saw it all through without complaining
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and i'm grateful for all you gave us and i'm glad your death
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however violent and ugly i'm glad it was a quick one
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and i i'd like to thank that
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and your final moments you saw your options
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you know you looked upon this family and
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these people who would um come upon you and and you knew
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what the risks were and still you you rode heroically
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into that fiery tunnel [Music]
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but i know that's not true
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you did not choose to be a hero it was thrust upon you
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as i look around the group we made you do it
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i saw it to it personally that you were put in harm's way
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the world demanded a hero of you at a moment's notice
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and gave you no choice at all but to face your doom head-on
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and still you rose to the occasion unwavering
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fearless this bargaining family this young girl then her unborn sibling
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whatever joy they have in their lives they lead from here will be born of your steady stride
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into the blazing dark and as i'm casting this the
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the rope has begun to burn uh and it's creating this like uh
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this horseshoe pattern of just uh embers and soot um and at the center point of it
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the uh the ember it seems like it's like blazing at a consistent pace but once it
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reaches the center this last embroidery continues to flicker [Music]
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it is my hope that the embers that burn in
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that struck you down we'll send you to the argent plains on my behalf [Music]
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may we all know such bravery on our way out
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i'm plectare no complete my casting of ceremony
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and as you do you look up to the rest of the group and for the first time take your eyes off of
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this burning rope and you look and you see alma standing
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there see shraya you see flynn [Music] next to flynn you see
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a hooded figure gray cloak off of the shoulders ash
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floating off into the air oh my head bowed hands clasped in front of him
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and for a moment you see him before he disappears you wonder if he was even
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there [Music] and i just bow my head in in respect
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how long i'll walk up uh i see about his head and i'll just kneel down
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towards where the rope was [Music]
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kind of kind of said at all but i feel like it was kind of my fault
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i'm supposed to improvise and it's supposed to work out but sometimes it doesn't
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he's right that kind of asked this of you and you didn't
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get a say he's also right that
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in turn saved people [Music] of course if i could
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bring you out of that cave i would would have
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and i'm not really thinking what to do in this kind of situation i'll just um kneel
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down to the to the dirt to the mud i'm assuming it's still raining and i'll just reach my hand out of my cloak and
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draw like a little c um and put a line through it
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and i'll uh stand up walk back to the group it's kind of not my head silence
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[Music] i'll just walk up to kayla as he's
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about his head if tears just kind of like silently streaming down my face and i'll just
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reach out and grab his hand and squeeze it
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[Music] close my eyes and under my breath i i say
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just into the ether that'll be wherever you are
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[Music] i hope you're able to find some of those purple carrots that you'd been so
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desperately seeking i hope there are more of them where you're going
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[Music] alma
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[Music] um [Music]
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i
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i wish i knew how to put all this in perspective
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but i don't know that i can resist the call
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of action when it comes to these things
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i sort of like just a shallow glance for the family i don't want to indicate to them that they i don't want them to know
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what i'm talking about
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i see now how much how little i can control what
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happens it's such a strange position to be in to
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be as powerful as we are and still they have no control over the
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world so i'll try to consider more
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when i put everyone at risk i don't understand
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[Music] i've never wanted to go out of my way to
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help people so i i can't say that i i understand
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the call
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but i do want us all to stay safe
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so i i appreciate that
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the path we're honest it's not safe you know
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so when it comes to risks necessary or not i i don't know that
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there's really a line to be drawn i understand but it's the path we're on
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sometimes we just have to think about the path we're on and
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and and what's the best way to accomplish that for us you know i i never feel like i'm in control of
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anything
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i know but
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this is the this is the razor's edge what is
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you can use your power for all manner of things
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yeah but when you only use it to serve yourself then
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i just think the end of that line is far more dangerous
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i i'm not only using it to save myself
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fine i don't know if i'll ever agree that this was the right thing to do
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but it's already done
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and i don't want to be mad about it anymore [Music]
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so let's just keep going right we'll go to dire hand and then we'll go check on the portal
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and then we'll save xavier
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i kneel down [Music] i'm asking you to meet me halfway here
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i am meeting you halfway i'm not mad anymore that's not halfway that's just brushing it over
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but i'm hoping you'll help me find it i don't know where halfway is
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maybe we can find it i guess we'll try
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um i'll stand and i'll um head over to uh the family to see that they're prepared
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to move eric uh are you on yours doing all right
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yeah we're good to go you guys ready yes thank you for for waiting all right and
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he uh looks over to his wife and his daughter and he motions a few things with his hands um flynn you see that he just
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motions it's time to go and they look ready
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all right ah stay close right uh there's
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some manner of invisible creature out here yeah i imagined this i think
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there's there was a person that's crossed our path was it like when we were resting in the
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yeah yeah you mentioned it to all of us or was i already asleep you said you saw some
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being caleb uh the the footsteps of someone coming from the cave i think they might be our
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unknown assassin assassin the person that slit the throats with those men we
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passed oh we did talk about this but i slept okay you're right i don't remember anything
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it's been a been a rough night so i understand well i shall be walking
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with you all very close then if not for also the fact that it's raining and i do not like to fly in the
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rain and at the mention of that i tap the staff against the ground and if
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you go with me on the druid craft uh little uh little vines are gonna grow out from the top of it and out from the
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top we're just gonna sprout some like palm leafs in a sort of circular pattern i'm attempting to
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shield myself from the rain that is amazing yes
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you now have a drug crafted umbrella all right um can i
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also can you go with me yeah while i'm feeling generous
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um i'm gonna put my hand above my head to kind of block the rain
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and as i do that i would like to create a five foot cube over my head that
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directs the flow of water away from me yeah sure
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yeah sure um what spell are you using um shape water shape water is that a
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cantrip it is okay you choose yeah you instantly move or otherwise change the flow of water as you direct for up to
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five feet in any direction it's a can trip i'll allow you to continuously do it for as long as you need
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all right and wait if you would allow me i would like to pull my hood a little bit further down and have the into my
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cloak no you are not you are not allowed to do that if you would allow me
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i will have no means of protecting myself from the rain and just solemnly trudge through
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that's what i thought okay i think that's your preferred method as you guys uh start walking down the
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mountain um it is your your pace is just a little bit slowed just because all of the dirt has been um well obviously
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besides flynn being slower um the dirt has turned into mud and as you guys are going downhill
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you guys have to be a little bit more careful where you put your feet but um generally you guys are are doing good
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making your way down this mountain um you guys uh crest the uh foothills of this
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mountain and continue on off to dire hand as the rain just continues to pour down
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um for those who are not protected and even for flynn just with your your cloak up
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um the individual drops of rain are getting heavier and heavier and almost get to the point where they start
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to sting a little bit especially for uk like you're you're just out braving the elements um and as that happens um
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oreck shields his daughter a little bit more and puts his cloak over he's taking the the the force of it but he's
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protecting her and eventually you guys are able to get to the outskirts of dire hand
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um you guys see a uh city here in front of you a port town
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um you can see a lot of the town is is based right up along the coast
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um and you can see several ships in the harbor you can see people loading and
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unloading boats um you can see in the actual town itself um
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pretty flat pretty even um you you only see one or two buildings of the probably a
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couple hundred that are here one or two that exceed more than one story um most of it would and
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as you guys begin to walk up you can see a lot of the wood is
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um you can tell it's very weathered just from being this close to the gulf here
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and being right on the coast um but as you guys do um oreck leads his family off sort of
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off to the side and you see him um walk and head toward a grouping of houses
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there um and as he does are you guys choosing to follow them or make your own bath
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i want to see to it i'll look to everybody for agreement uh but it would be my intent to to see to it that they
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make it to their destination safely yeah i would i would agree with that okay yeah um you guys all
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follow them and as they walk they turn down a street turned down another
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street um it seems that they know where to go it doesn't seem like val has much of an idea she every once while she'll
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like turn in the wrong direction but her parents will correct her and um they continue on and as they turn down one
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street um most of these streets at this point are pretty empty everyone's inside sheltering themselves from the rain but
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um dura drops to one knee and begins clutching her her stomach and you can see that
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she's sort of tensing up a little bit and then she she relaxes a little bit
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and um as she does she gets back to her feet and orec puts sort of an arm under
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her shoulder and begins rushing her a little bit more as you can start to hear
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her struggling um just to put one foot in front of the other and
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when she hits one more what okay like you would know for a fact to be contractions um
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she drops to one knee just outside of one of these houses and she relaxes once more
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and in one final push to get his wife into the door orak puts his arm under her shoulder lifts
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her up opens the door and carries her inside doesn't even mind to close the door behind them as you look inside and
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see the warm glow of a fireplace um and you can smell some some food it
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smells like something's been prepared um in in this home and you can hear the
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sounds of recognition and you look inside and you see a couple of other half works of varying age um
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and as they do they whisk dura off into one of the bedrooms and
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you guys are just able to see inside before the door is closed and they take not
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just stalking available they have not given any indication they don't even seem to have noticed that
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you're following or just don't care as something more important is going on
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hold on just like as the door shuts and as they get inside i'll turn that this caligan
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for some time [Music]
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god's wonder what might have happened if we weren't here to get them out there [Music]
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they were going through the darkness either way
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i believe ah there was no stopping them
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it can we hear commotion yes at this point the front door is still open they closed the bedroom door
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um once they went inside but um yeah you can at this point hear um
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the sounds of a woman going into labor was there
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did we see the rest of the family before they closed the door behind them yes um
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when they opened the door um it seemed like from what you could see from the smells it seemed like there
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was some sort of festivities awaiting them but upon immediately seeing what was going on all
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of that was dropped rush her into the bedroom and close the door okay i think she's in good hands yeah i don't uh
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maybe this is the line you know i don't need to overstep here it seems like
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i have the support they need does this building feel if i look around does it seem well
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enough solid in its construction all that doesn't seem like it'll be a warm safe
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place for this baby yeah for sure for sure yeah definitely not like
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riches but for sure enough to house a family healthily
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do i see the kid inside at all i'm assuming they didn't go in the bedroom because they do not know um the the kid
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actually went right over to the table and there's a couple of um like baked goods on the table and she's like trying
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to reach up um if i could just catch a glimpse of the kid and try and
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catch an eye just move my fingers and hands in a certain few motions and um to sign
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um stay safe goodbye
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okay and you see her look at you i'll do it really slow and like yeah she looks at you and you can she closes her eyes
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and you can tell like she's processing this and with her eyes closed she
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slowly puts her hands into one motion and you see her sign thank us
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and then she kind of shakes her head and then she signs thank you i'll just give it a chuckle and a nod
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[Music] i think they're fine let's
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don't be for now we can check in the morning if you want to come back i i'm all right you know there's only so far
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that are that we can extend ourselves and we've made it the dire hand uh quite
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a bit faster than we might have otherwise so yeah you know well well done everyone
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we may handle that crisis we could what homer i see you looking at me
39:46
nothing nothing nothing seeing this family reunited doesn't
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give you a little warm feeling seeing the hope of this future for this
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child i mean sure there could have been hope for them
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elsewhere too though well i'm sure we hope anywhere you look
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but it can only be created by courage they didn't even say anything to us they
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didn't say thank you they didn't even care they're having a baby i don't know what do you want a parade for you
40:22
well they didn't even pay you the seventh goal that they said they were going to pay you we told them totally useless
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all right oh boy let's see if we can find ourselves a place to lie down and be warm yeah
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um and i will uh as like sort of quietly tenderly uh
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start to uh make my way out the at the front door where we came in and and lead the group back out into the
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pouring rain all right um and i will be actually shielding my my arm from it um this this
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this time that we've been walking you that would be something folks would have noticed is that i'm i'm as much as
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possible covering my my uh bandaged arm all right um where in particular do you guys want to
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go i just had a couple questions about as you're entering the city uh for one did we did we pass through a wall uh how
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heavily fortified is the city is it more like is there like a military presence i
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just as we entered i wanted to be on the lookout for um just how fortified it seems and how you
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know because we're i'm keeping in mind that we're close to the capital and i've i don't think i've
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ever been in this level of civilization or this close to a capital city before so what would i notice
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um you would notice um this is definitely
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less of a city than outers felt um which had seen adersfeld very well protected
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that was right on the war front dire hand is less so um you guys can all tell
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immediately that dire hand was definitely not given a whole lot of attention when the war started as far as
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fortification goes no wall when you guys first entered and as you guys walked through the city
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you noticed a couple of town guards um mostly dwarven but where in solaris you
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guys had seen very heavy armor walking perfectly in step with each
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other these guards are in a little bit more simple leather armor um you see a couple
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of them as you rounded one of the corners you saw a couple of them sort of sitting on a front porch chatting with
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each other a little bit more casual but definitely a a presence to them
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would have seen any banners to any particular like deities or or uh would
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we have passed any kind of temples or anything not from the side of the town that you came into um you can see i'm
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sort of off in the distance because everything is generally one-story buildings here you can see the
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very few of them that are um higher than that are across the town and they seem
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to come up into like spires almost like your traditional temple [Music]
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but again one or two you spot a third that maybe rises up a little bit more um
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[Music] what do we think should we just try to move on from here we've got the rest of
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the day ahead of us um yeah does anyone need anything i mean we're in it we're not i look around it's
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like a town like i mean maybe there's some stuff here we could pick up maybe better
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clothes maybe something for the rain hi that sounds simple yeah and uh i'll
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look around for like a shop as we kind of stroll down the street um
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yeah all right um yeah you see a couple of different shops um as you are walking
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what or is anything in particular gonna be standing out for you um
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like a stables um yeah you see a couple of stables um as as you're walking most of them you
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saw sort of more near the outskirts of town as you get to more the center not
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really as much um you saw a couple of horses occupying the stables and a couple of
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them open um
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it might also be a good idea to get maybe a cart is that something we can afford
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uh what why do we need a cart flynn for the weather
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like a hooded wagon yeah we'll make it easier especially we have to travel all the way back this way
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well we we don't have to travel all the way back this way though because because we can we're gonna get the portal right yeah i mean we can try
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i just think we should have less i think less is more i'm in agreement with that
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i i think we can take care of ourselves well enough but the more appendages we have the
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harder it is to protect them and i sort of gesture i like cradle my arm even more
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uh i'd be keen to maybe a leather worker or something some somewhere i could get a
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cloak okay i do agree that less is more but uh i do
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require a few more uh elements of the elements i suppose uh and uh
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what if they have an apothecary here somewhere looking around um
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okay uh i'm gonna have you make an investigation check as well as
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okay [Music] investigation
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yes twelve well twenty three twenty three um kellick at the second you mention a
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cloak um you sort of look off to your left and there seems to be a clothing store right there nice exactly um asking you shall
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receive sorry that's right um yeah and looks like probably but lots of different things
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that you probably don't need um but most likely they carry cloaks in there all right i will i will go
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in to that store all right um you do and as you walk in
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um it the the air in here is like thick and
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you see just lining every single wall just packed with clothes different
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materials different sizes and you would have a hard time going down
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and looking at each individual piece of clothing as they are packed together so tight um
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lining the walls you can see there's a second row up above that um you can see that there are like these um
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these uh dressers these long dressers with sort of half open drawers where you can see different um other clothes in
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there you can see uh off the corner there's a bunch of boots but this place is just musty and packed
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uh is there a shopkeep you don't see one at the moment now hello
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um are you open i've just come in uh from outside
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anyone here [Music] all right i'll help myself
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and uh i will try to look around for like the tall guy section
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um and i i'm looking for uh something
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like enveloping something that would be just like one big piece that would cover
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all of it like like a cloak with a hood um that could could basically be in
47:36
front covering most of covering my arms and pretty much just being open at my
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chest and below okay um awesome so uh you sort of look through and
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you see sort of a larger section and you walk over and there's a lot of different
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options um there are different colors different materials are you just looking for something sort of cloth
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yeah something um like dense and dark
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would be my preference yeah okay so you can find um something that that would
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work perfectly um it is a well it feels like cloth but it's a little bit thicker it's got a little bit
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more heft to it would definitely like subdue the rain outside um and it is this this dark
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charcoal gray if the name fits i'll i'll lift that off of the shelf
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i'll look around the room some more is anybody here okay no one is here um but as you lift it off of the shelf um you
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see there's a little tag on it that says three gold pieces okay
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is there a like a counter somewhere at like a desk where this person might conduct their business a a
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like a circular circular podium directly in the middle with a little cup
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in [Music] what it how does this
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stay in business uh i i take out three gold i'll put it in the cup okay and as soon as it drops into
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the cup you hear the front door unlock
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[Music] oh boy all right let's get the hell out of here
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i'll don the cloak pull the hood up be shrouded in my misery and uh and leave
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the uh the store okay and as you leave the store um you see uh shraya running down the street as you
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have found an apothecary make this quick
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all right um and you walk in and you are also hit with just all of your senses all at once
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different smells you can almost taste like a bitterness in the air as you walk
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in and you can see different plants um almost like growing and enveloping the inside of this place um and you see
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a um counter on the other side of the store from where you walked in and on top of it sits a
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elven man um sitting legs crossed hands down open-faced on his lap and eyes closed
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and sort of coming deep a deep breath in
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uh what am i saying i could spend a day here
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uh excuse me uh i i went in with oh you wanted i went in with um shraya to the apothecary all right i'm just like
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standing there too [Music] well what do you do what do you need do you need anything
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why'd you look around um not particularly
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okay uh excuse me what's your name my name is
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[Music] welcome to the fallen pedal
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[Music] uh greetings uh la or do i hope i
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have a good first first-time pronunciations um uh
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i only interrupt your meditation i would not interrupt it if it weren't
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of the utmost importance i'm looking for several things uh perhaps you might have
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some of them i'm sure you would be able to find all that you need here
51:27
all right then take too much of your time i'm looking for a long strand of sumac
51:35
a piece of obsidian uh a glass orb you have those three things
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[Music] let me find out for you oh and before i forget uh any of the
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varietals of moonseed if you have those as well and without even opening his eyes to
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look at you yet he purchases his lips and
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and you can see from behind the counter these four like ethereal
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birds almost like hummingbirds these weird like translucent almost blue green
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birds fly out and flutter around the room and you can see one of them perches off
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in the corner and picks up one of your ingredients comes back and places it down on the table so cool one of them from the other
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corner picks up one of your ingredients places it down on the table the other one finds this glass orb
52:34
and it seems to be a little bit big and heavy and it can't quite lift it and then one of the other birds comes over and helps it brings it back over and
52:41
eventually all of your ingredients that you need are laid out onto the table ah
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got to get me some of those hmm just watching them dances
52:52
a sight to behold uh what shall uh
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how should i compensate you for these components good good elven friend
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but those four ingredients would come out to 12 gold pieces
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[Music] and those 12 gold pieces will now come your way and then and
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to try to match the level of uh prowess that this guy's demonstrated and
53:22
bringing them out i'm going to see if i can try to levitate uh a couple silver wisps under
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the gold pieces to bring back to them i'll let you decide if i'm
53:34
swabbing on all right um a performance check all right
53:42
that's me druid fight uh
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he graciously takes them oma you see uh shraya trying way too hard to be fancy
53:57
it's just very apparent thank you your patronage is much
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appreciated thank you very much
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i'm gonna walk up to the counter okay and he's sitting at the counter right excuse me
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um i'll for you i'll afford you yes um
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could i um ask for your help sure
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do you know what this is and i hold out the silvery potion that um that's that's um got like sparkly bits in it
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[Music]
54:42
i can identify that for a price yeah
54:47
how much 15 gold pieces what
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[Music] that seems a bit steep to just tell me what the potion does
54:59
well then you can go somewhere else to find out what the potion does then i will
55:04
have a good day water under my breath there's a lot to learn
55:10
um you got like an orb and a black thing and so much stuff for 12 gold and all i
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wanted is bringing bad energy into my store and i would appreciate it if you left
55:24
the longer we wait the longer xavier rots and chains yeah let's go
55:31
was well met and uh and i with the little tap of my my staff bring like a
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uh [Music] electric purple glow to the room to try to return his good energy
55:46
um i as i'm walking out will turn around and all of the water
55:51
that is still on my cloak i'm gonna send his way and splash him in the face with it and
55:57
then go walk away geez okay
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um you see him uh rolling in his emotion his hand as all of the water on its way
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to him dissipates into nothing cool i don't see that because i was already
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walking away and in your mind he was so insulted
56:22
um you guys all get back to the street flynn is there something you wanted yeah um
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i would have just said hey i'm going to stay outside as they kind of went into their respective places
56:33
um and i will it's still raining right yes it is cool um
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i would uh just kind of walk around the streets and maybe try and find some alleyways and just
56:45
kind of duck in them and look around the back of the buildings and um little crevices and
56:51
just looking for you know symbols okay i'm just seeing if i see anything if not no worries but i'm
56:57
just gonna like kind of stroll and do my best to be like um like cool and brooding like
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with my hood up and everything i'm kind of getting into it but i'm trying to like look the part you know make an investigation check at
57:10
disadvantage of course because i'm tired do i still have a headache
57:15
uh yeah you do the headache at this point is coming back try his medicine has worn off i need to find him again he needs to get some more maybe i should
57:21
run in there no cool cool uh so the same role but it's still low
57:31
and that is investigation um an eight an eight you don't see anything interesting
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it's okay um i'll kind of make my way back to where i can see both of the
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at a distance i can see both of the apothecary and the um clothing shop and i'll just
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lean up against the wall under an overhang kind of in the shade just
57:54
really try to look cool okay um everyone walks back out to the street
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i have a quick question for alma actually let me consult you first before i even go into this because this may not
58:07
work otherwise um when oma described what she saw as the sun was rising would any of that have made sense to shraya
58:13
whatsoever of the what she was describing with the storm make a history check okay
58:22
16 16 um you had
58:27
grown up with stories and tales of um
58:33
uh giants fighting across the sky and especially where you came up um
58:40
these were like folklore to explain certain natural
58:45
phenomenon um you never really took them as as seriously but
58:50
this sounds like exactly one of the the tales that you were told as a child oh i've given it some thought and
58:59
i think what you might have caught this morning as the
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rain began to descend upon us i think you might have caught a rare glimpse of
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one of the natural wonders that makes this world tick i'm now reflecting on it
59:17
quite sad i wasn't there to see it too i've only heard legends
59:23
what was it well the certain keepers of the different
59:30
phenomena that we see across this world uh as a child i was
59:36
very mystified by the intelligent ways in which the
59:42
different gyrations of nature operate but they
59:48
according to legend are far more intelligent than we even realize
59:53
so if you did see a being up there i would hope
59:58
well in my sincerest heart of hearts that it was a benevolent
1:00:04
neutral just concerned with keeping the natural order in balance
1:00:12
so you believe me you think i actually saw something i'm not crazy oh i more than believe you
1:00:18
i hope that one day i can bear witness to and maybe sit down and speak to this entity
1:00:24
that you saw man but it looks so big
1:00:32
it's big for a reason you can't shape nature on a small scale
1:00:38
badass all right um so as you all meet back up
1:00:44
on the street still pouring rain without any signs of letting up uh what would
1:00:50
you guys like to do um do we know uh flynn can i
1:00:56
can i see your map can we if we if we huddle over here under this awning yeah can we just make heads or tell us where
1:01:02
we're going i mean yeah cause i call my cloak what are you doing with your voice why
1:01:09
why are you throwing that bro never mind never mind um yeah here there's a little awning here we can and i'll pull out the map
1:01:17
um uh what is our relative distance to um the shack the uh hayfreed
1:01:25
uh circle b um yeah so um you know
1:01:32
that um the shack that hayfried had told you guys about um was on sort of the eastern side
1:01:39
of the city um and uh yeah i believe he also
1:01:46
expressed to you guys that a possible route would be either going there directly on foot or um as dire hand is a
1:01:53
port city going there um by way of the gulf and it's just outside of oak and spire
1:01:59
this this circle the shack it's actually just within the bounds of oak inspire it's it's in city
1:02:06
which is the fastest way um looking at it and just the pace that you
1:02:13
guys have been traveling so far um fastest way would probably be to catch a
1:02:20
boat looks like if we go down
1:02:26
we might be able to get aboard by the river there and go through the gulf of kanban deer
1:02:32
get around to oak inspire either that or we try to make it hopefully there's a bridge across to white wind
1:02:38
and then we'd go through there but uh i don't know the cities are dangerous here
1:02:44
almost as dangerous as the wilderness maybe it's better if we just catch up a
1:02:50
boat and then maybe it's easier to get into into into oak inspire if you're on a boat
1:02:56
um if i appear closely does there look like there's any ports marked where we might get a boat from
1:03:03
dire hand um yeah so not
1:03:08
well dire hand on the map is like super close to the coast um but especially just even walking up to dire you saw um
1:03:16
the entire city was like a semi-circle around the coast itself so it seemed to
1:03:22
be like very port based you saw uh okay several several ships um
1:03:28
upon coming up and also um you would see on the map that oak inspire has a fair
1:03:34
share of ports as well as it is also up on the coast right uh
1:03:39
pros and cons right we if we get a boat we will have to explain ourselves to someone
1:03:45
however the captain's the ship uh or we could buy one which might be expensive i i don't have much money myself
1:03:52
um and will also be stuck so there's no escape in a boat once you're on it right
1:03:59
if we went by foot we'd have a little more control but it'll take longer and i know time is
1:04:04
of the essence um what if we think about partial
1:04:10
part of the way and then go from foot to the entrance is that a best of both worlds kind of
1:04:15
situation how do you mean where would you want to dock if we go from dire hand we we can maybe get to white wind and
1:04:20
that might cut off a lot of time and it seems like we can just go right from white wind to oak inspire from there and that might save time but also allow us
1:04:27
to have the freedom of land and not have to worry about getting a captain all the way to oak inspire
1:04:35
um alternatively we could use the same excuse we used
1:04:41
before that that seemed to work um just pass through it yeah
1:04:47
no to get on the boat from dire hana go all the way to oak conspire and just use the same excuse that we used to to get here the first time um
1:04:54
we've got the sigil um let's try i don't think you can stay out a dog that whole time but
1:05:00
that's okay uh you can be yourself and that's fine um
1:05:05
and then and and then when we get to oak inspire we can just say we're looking for zeta right
1:05:11
because zeta she does the same thing that you do right she could be my contact that will uh uh
1:05:19
that i mean you want
1:05:24
sure i mean whatever path we take i think that's a logical uh line of reasoning so we should just take the fastest way
1:05:31
there the fastest way is by boat yes um dm uh in my experience in from growing up i
1:05:38
think if i remember back does it seem that um the security around a dock or secured
1:05:45
around a front entrance on land which would have more security which would be harder to enter
1:05:51
which would need more papers and all that stuff but i don't even know anything about that um actually yes you would know that
1:05:58
um yeah you would know that for the most part getting into a city
1:06:03
from a ship is going to be a lot less obstructed
1:06:08
than getting in from land um generally a lot more people are able to traverse
1:06:14
over land than our afford a ticket on a ship so a lot less people are coming in through the ports
1:06:20
which makes that whole process a lot easier and a lot less [Music] i mean
1:06:26
yeah if we're trying to use that trick we did last time docs might be the way to go and it'd be
1:06:33
faster um this yeah i think that might be the thing to
1:06:38
do i think the pros outweigh the cons you know for for taking it logically yeah
1:06:44
there's like a lot of people trying to get through the front gates but not a lot of people getting in through a
1:06:49
boat so i guess if we have the paperwork which dude we have that sigil yeah
1:06:55
yeah we kept our our forage letter when we passed there they didn't take it from you okay
1:07:01
um should we see how much a captain costs they know the water is better than we do it might be worth seeing the price or or
1:07:08
just finding a boat that's already going to oak inspire and then just just paying for
1:07:13
yeah right i like that idea too i i i can't say i'm crazy about the idea
1:07:19
of being on the water but uh if it's necessary then that's fine
1:07:24
well this seems much more sensible than my idea which was to stow away on a german mineral mineral
1:07:34
the rain gem and mineral boat [Laughter]
1:07:41
your idea was to stow away yes you'd give us well give us something to do while we're
1:07:46
waiting if it's a variety of different gems and minerals it could be a nice uh distraction before we get to
1:07:53
the city are you just looking for shiny objects right no of course not okay
1:08:00
how do you stow away four bodies that seems like a lot to stow away
1:08:06
yeah it works let's see if we're priced out and then we'll consider
1:08:12
how that could be accomplished so we're heading out now are we
1:08:18
okay thanks so do you need anything i just thought then maybe i should i just want to go
1:08:24
so i want to look around for one more store do you want to try the the iron light collective i
1:08:32
i kind of walked around and kind of looked around for it i couldn't see anything so maybe they're not here
1:08:38
no this is a little different um and dm i'll look for it's like a general store or
1:08:44
this might sound stupid but like a kids store for like toys
1:08:49
okay uh make an investigation check at disadvantage [Music]
1:08:55
five five yeah i mean you're looking around you're seeing signs you're reading the names of
1:09:03
these places but you can't pick out i mean you see like
1:09:08
they're just sort of some weird names you can't figure out exactly what each of the stores are is there anyone on the street and i can just stop
1:09:15
right now you guys are the only ones on the street as the rain is coming down hard i just wanted to get something to
1:09:21
remember this place by just
1:09:26
think about it and paint a picture in your head sometimes memories are
1:09:33
enough yeah but sometimes they fade
1:09:38
and objects help you remember it's okay let's go [Music]
1:09:45
all right um so are you guys heading off to the port at this point [Music]
1:09:50
uh yeah yeah okay so you guys uh begin walking over
1:09:58
towards the coast and um the actual the port itself is
1:10:03
a lot more occupied um it seems that most of these ships
1:10:09
um while docked and called dormant um it seems that two of
1:10:14
them are still very active at the moment um crews being loaded on and off um boxes
1:10:21
crates um things of that sort um sort of coming on and off the boats um
1:10:28
and as you guys walk up you see a little bit of a crowd has formed um maybe six
1:10:34
or seven people um have crowded around and are yelling are in a little bit of a an
1:10:41
argument um you can hear several voices i'm not going back out there what do you think
1:10:48
no i'm not going back out there either why are you insane no we're not doing this
1:10:54
and you hear one booming voice from the crowd sort of yelling back at them
1:11:00
you will get back on this boat this instant or i will see that you are all hunted
1:11:06
down i swear and you guys look into the crowd and you see several of the voices that we're
1:11:12
shouting are human dwarf you see a couple of half elbows
1:11:17
and you see the booming voice that had yelled back is much taller
1:11:23
six and a half maybe seven feet you see broad shoulders this golden fur going
1:11:30
down their arms and their legs you see a brown cloak over you see a giant golden mane and the head of a lion
1:11:40
as these voices clamor back no i swear no we saw the island out there we are
1:11:46
not going back out there as they all disperse and walk away and you see this giant
1:11:52
lion figure sort of shake his head begin to walk back towards the boat
1:11:58
and the group you said what like they are all gone now and he's on his own beginning to disperse yeah
1:12:03
[Music] okay this might be our this might be our shot
1:12:09
sounds a little bit suspicious to me then i i don't know what this island is they're talking about but it's not on our
1:12:16
itinerary when do we do something that's not suspicious
1:12:21
i'm not trying to carve a new path just lean into it come on and i'll start
1:12:26
walking towards the start walking towards the line man at least worth investigating no
1:12:33
all right um as you guys walk up um you can see he's sort of pacing back and forth
1:12:40
hello i'm flynn fellow weave hi flynn i don't care at the moment i'm sorry
1:12:46
that's fair um what seems to trouble you today well my entire crew just left
1:12:52
so if you're for hire i would love to bring you on a smile creeps across my little
1:12:58
little face [Laughter] well where are you going we're going to oak inspire
1:13:05
as they turn back to the party we may be heading that way as well um
1:13:10
why did they leave superstitious of what
1:13:16
they claim to have seen an island and some say that the island does things i
1:13:23
don't know i don't believe in it i've never seen it but these people run off at the sign of an
1:13:29
island but we are not going on the island right no of course not right we're sailing around it it'll be fine
1:13:34
i'll turn to the group i'll make a face i raise my eyebrows crossley flynn
1:13:41
what's the superstition about this island sir gods no i have no idea but
1:13:47
all i know is as soon as someone claims to have seen an island out there the rest of my crew just up in leaves
1:13:54
[Music] i try to look at the group um
1:14:00
i hate to say it but five people does not make a crew how big of a boat
1:14:08
is it can we tell it's not huge um it uh it looks like
1:14:14
probably 10 people could probably man it well enough what about four people in a
1:14:20
horse you do it you do actually still see um it doesn't look like the entire crew
1:14:27
left it looks like there are um three maybe four people still
1:14:32
lugging stuff onto the boat and what is the purpose of your voyage
1:14:38
my transporting um we have a couple of passengers uh we pride ourselves on
1:14:43
being uh one of the most luxurious uh ships out on the sea and we take people back and forth from where they need to
1:14:49
go are you carrying any goods aboard lots of goods we we take uh plenty of things
1:14:56
in the cargo hold as we uh transport the people back and forth as well what are you paying
1:15:02
well um it doesn't look like you're all very experienced i have tons of experience
1:15:08
what are you talking about make a decision [Laughter]
1:15:20
he sort of looks at you and how old are you
1:15:25
31. she's older than she looks just part halflings whole thing yeah i don't believe that um
1:15:33
i will uh i'll be willing to pay you all five gold for the the trip five gold each
1:15:39
um for the trip to oak inspire but it's going to be rigorous work um how long would the trip take
1:15:46
well um the wind looks to be on our backs especially with this storm uh it shouldn't take any more than uh i'd say
1:15:52
24 hours and i can assure you that if it gives out at any moment i can provide
1:15:58
[Music] okay and i sort of look over at flynn and
1:16:04
give like a little wink trying to like pick up with his like suave routine
1:16:09
and as you guys are having this this discussion sort of um off and you can see loading one of the other boats is a
1:16:15
a dwarf carrying this crate he looks over to the lion man and uh he goes
1:16:21
really scraping the bottom of the barrel aren't ya and he sort of chuckles to himself and
1:16:27
tries to brush it off um have i ever seen a man like this um that has a lion's head is that what you
1:16:33
described him as yeah um humanoid body lion head just super jam i mean i've been around a
1:16:39
little bit but i don't know have i ever seen like this like throwing me or do i understand that there are i mean obviously we're traveling with um
1:16:45
a bird a bird man does it shake me at all no you would have heard but not seen um
1:16:52
something i will be staring at the mane okay wishing i had a handful of that at this point it is it is um you can tell
1:16:59
it's like it's this thick mane but it's um totally being matted down by all of course of course what's the cost for a
1:17:05
ticket aboard a passenger to get a board yeah as a passenger oh you're being
1:17:12
serious yeah you said you take passengers do you each have 300 gold on you cost
1:17:19
300 gold to go 24 hours yes and you're only paying people five gold
1:17:25
to help you yes i'm just so confused by the like
1:17:33
just the numbers in my head are just kind of like see swimming and i just am like
1:17:41
do i know if if bonkers caldor is expensive i mean i wasn't there but
1:17:47
three dollars for a cloak uh like like 300 for a trip across is is it expensive in cal door
1:17:53
um not in general but the closer you get to the capital uh prices tend to go up i
1:17:59
will say this then as a cost-conscious traveler and the fact that it does take
1:18:04
considerable energy for me to conjure wind if my services are needed
1:18:10
on this vessel uh i will uh charge an additional two gold pieces if i need to
1:18:16
provide the vessel with uh extra oomph if you will no
1:18:21
no i need to work on my haggling skills sanded my breath
1:18:27
fine i look at our group a child a half asleep halfling yeah
1:18:33
and a birdman and then me and i just look at the eyes there
1:18:39
we'll be able to use we can and uh we'll do a good job we're we're hardy
1:18:44
people you can count on us all right and
1:18:50
just off in the distance coming off of the ship having just loaded that crate on you see the same dwarf with a long
1:18:56
scraggly uh salt and pepper beard um pops off of
1:19:02
the ship and goes hail paige six gold how about that
1:19:07
oh and he sort of laughs towards the line come and join me crew and i'll give you
1:19:14
six gold you have any goods aboard your ship
1:19:20
we travel with uh lots of things where are you going oak inspire
1:19:28
just to verify this guy is like on a different ship yelling across yes
1:19:34
how big is his ship bishop is a little bit smaller but um looking uh
1:19:40
over sort of at it um it looks a little bit more sleek and you can see um cannon
1:19:47
ports coming out of the sides whereas this ship that you guys are on seems to be more of a
1:19:53
like a luxury vessel no cannons okay and the one how much um
1:19:59
do we see any other crew members aboard the other ship yes you do um you see um
1:20:05
about five or five members of the crew um
1:20:10
you don't see you see each of them loading them up not as superstitious at this cruising but each
1:20:16
boat has a crew right like there are still some has a crew uh can i make a
1:20:22
a an assessment at a glance here of like luxury line versus like battleship of
1:20:29
like what the crew is generally like if they seem
1:20:34
disgruntled or especially the captain yeah yeah these two guys yeah
1:20:39
i don't know how i could compare their one of them definitely seems a bit like a scallywag
1:20:46
um yeah if you want to make an insight check okay i can do that
1:20:51
brutal i'm not a i'm not a seaman [Music]
1:20:58
that would be 13 13. um
1:21:03
you get that the crew on the dwarfs boat
1:21:08
seems to be a little bit i don't want to say happier but a little bit more content with with the work that
1:21:14
they're doing whereas um the crew on the
1:21:19
leonin which is the race of the line leonard ship um seems to be a little bit more disgruntled but that could just be
1:21:26
to the fact that half of the crew just left so they're probably gonna have to do um does does the does the captain look
1:21:33
like he's like dressed way better than everyone else um he
1:21:39
doesn't look like he's dressed too much better than everyone else um especially on this ship um it doesn't it looks like
1:21:46
all the crew are pretty well dressed whether that's uniform or personal wear
1:21:52
i'm just trying to assess whether he pockets like all the extra gold as a mean boss man make an inside check for him
1:22:01
[Music] 16. 16. um you actually look at him and
1:22:08
he's wearing pretty much the exact same uniform as everyone else um and
1:22:15
you sort of get he's not the captain he's high up but he's not the captain himself which is why he's so
1:22:22
rude which is why he's even ruder um i turned to caleg and i turned to our
1:22:31
half asleep friend flynn and then i turned to shraya and i shrug and i say i don't know six
1:22:37
goal pieces is better than five
1:22:42
i also don't like this man he's rude
1:22:47
one ship seems more prepared for uh
1:22:53
what's the word troubled waters yeah but if you prepare for them in my experience it's because you usually run into them
1:23:00
right like you shouldn't learn to swim because you'll get [ __ ] shipwrecked yes and if uh
1:23:05
there's a extra presence in oak inspire there might be more keen to inspect ships that
1:23:11
bear arms than those that do not were we trying to keep a low profile
1:23:17
well but don't they always go to oak inspire they said they were already going to oak inspire though
1:23:23
so if they were already going then they have passage there well yeah that's an assumption though we don't know hey were you already going to
1:23:30
oak inspire were you yelling that the dwarf um uh yes yes we were
1:23:37
[Music] cool
1:23:43
i'm distrustful of dwarves and we still need to talk about that because
1:23:49
it's not okay this guy and i turned to the the lionhead headed man
1:23:57
he is so mean to us and he treats you like you're worth nothing even though you're super powerful and you could
1:24:03
create win for them and he didn't even care and the food is terrible too
1:24:09
he's me he's intriguing no
1:24:14
i will say i uh i i i think tries point to the
1:24:20
relative suspiciousness of the vessel is is worth noting i was thinking that too like being on a
1:24:26
luxury cruise and showing up they might wave us on a lot easier than showing up with i'll look over and what's he doing right
1:24:32
now oh at this point he's just he's leaning up against the crate hanging out just looking and seeing what you guys are
1:24:38
going to do what they're doing do they what are their do they look who's got
1:24:43
more scars like who looks more hardened you know among these two guys i would say they
1:24:50
they look hardened in different ways the dwarf looks
1:24:56
a little bit more like cocky and willing to jump into a fight but then the leonen
1:25:01
looks like he's a little bit more reserved in his power he's savvy um um
1:25:07
i will um just kind of look down at my arms and the uh maybe the bruises and the cuts
1:25:14
from our adventures in the cave and just remember what happened and just
1:25:19
kind of look to oh my look to the group look back to alma um which one do you want to go on
1:25:26
me um
1:25:32
i guess the one that can protect itself and i'll look to the group
1:25:39
i'm going with all this choice oh one moment uh i lean over to stillfest
1:25:46
what do you think are you casting yes
1:26:04
[Music] i would prefer not to go on a boat in general well you're going to get on a boat either way
1:26:11
so if you had to pick i i would choose um
1:26:16
this is difficult um well on one hand you have the one with the cannons that could protect us um and then on the
1:26:24
other hand this one looks fancier and um probably has better accommodations um but then on the other
1:26:30
hand the other one looks maybe a little bit faster and this crew kind of looks stuck up um but then also the other one
1:26:37
is maybe unpredictable would you like nicer brushes or peace of
1:26:42
mind i would love that so i'm gonna tug on try feather on his arm
1:26:50
try out yes um considering our past
1:26:58
do you think maybe we should allow stillfest to stay here in the stables
1:27:04
it could be it'd be our final goodbye to still first if we take the portal back
1:27:11
that's you only for the best are you talking about leaving me here well if it means you could stay on land
1:27:16
instead of going all right still fast this way
1:27:22
we won't make you venture onto the uncertain waters
1:27:28
this will only take a minute i'm gonna guide still fast uh some staples i'll go i'll go with
1:27:34
and as he's walking away i'm sort of recognizing that olma instigated still fast staying he sort of just bows his
1:27:41
head a little bit as he walks away from you and uh shy you take him over to a stable
1:27:47
i mean i can do the talking if you want yes uh yes do the talking see what uh a
1:27:52
new owner for stillfest will be and maybe we can hey maybe we can farm some more gold out of it yeah that's the
1:27:58
plan maybe oh yeah all right uh i'll grab the reins and i'll kind of like lead the way into
1:28:04
uh the stables okay um as you approach uh you see a
1:28:09
dwarven woman who is who's sort of like stacked up a couple of bundles of hay and is has made like a little um
1:28:17
almost like a little couch for herself and is laying there with with her feet up
1:28:22
in dwarvish i will walk up uh and i will put the rope around a hole or whatever the
1:28:29
stable area um oh hi uh and and uh endorsell descent my
1:28:34
name is flynn fellow weave and uh i'm here to i'll point towards still
1:28:41
and drop him off and maybe sell him the right price uh i flynn i'm always in the market to
1:28:47
buy horses um what are you looking to sell them for um
1:28:52
and in common i'll turn to try and i'll turn back
1:29:00
20 gold it's all [ __ ] the thing about this horse is that uh
1:29:07
be very still but also very fast so why are we well in some parts he's known as still
1:29:13
first but you're free oh you're free to
1:29:19
utilize him as you will for the for the um the saddle i meant um for the whole
1:29:24
horse together oh i got confused um i was sell him for again after that 100
1:29:31
gold pieces 100 gold he's broken line speed records
1:29:39
um either both of you make a persuasion check or one at advantage can i give him advantage if i'm disappeared actually no
1:29:45
you cannot so i'm gonna have just both of you do a do a straight oh okay i'll roll yeah that's come on just do like
1:29:50
220s how hard is that um
1:29:59
i should have gone with you guys this is our horse that's right it's your response
1:30:04
uh the disadvantage right uh yours is just a straight okay uh yeah i got a five
1:30:12
um i mean i'll give you 30.
1:30:17
[Music] 20 for the horse like you just said and then i'll give you 10 for the saddle
1:30:23
i will look outside other the other state
1:30:29
um not in the immediate immediate vicinity i think time matters right now more than
1:30:34
money flynn yeah we can just also just lie and say we sold it for more it'll be our little secret okay that
1:30:39
sounds good reach out by hand
1:30:45
perfect um and she goes into her pouch uh dishes out 30 gold still fast you
1:30:51
will forever be worth much more than this don't let him treat you back yeah that wasn't very much money it's
1:30:58
we're get we're getting there in our i have no experience in the economies of this world
1:31:06
i'm just hearing but i know that your pure heart will lead you
1:31:11
down a path of righteousness i'll turn to the nature away i'll turn the lady he can talk to him i think
1:31:17
i think yeah sure as she like goes and sort of grabs the
1:31:22
reins and pulls him away from shraya but i still if i could uh i just wanna
1:31:29
i'm gonna do it um i don't know if i could cut a piece of the hair
1:31:34
off of still fast yeah sure i'll just cut a little handful of it and tie it in a rope
1:31:40
let's look at it this will do throw to my souvenir pack let's throw it in there okay
1:31:45
all right and you guys make your way back to the rest of the group while they're gone um i've turned to kellex
1:31:52
okay caleb we're supposed to meet halfway what do you think we should do
1:31:57
i don't think this is really an apt example um both of these things have uh pretty much
1:32:03
an equal benefit to us but i at an equal risk i mean if that ship saw an island who knows
1:32:10
what like an island that eats people who knows i think if there's a cursed island out there we're bound to encounter it
1:32:15
either way we go yeah so i would rather encounter it with people who maybe have seen a little bit
1:32:21
sure yeah i'm uh i'm on board it was an appropriate phrase but i
1:32:28
yes i i don't really see why not um i think
1:32:33
the way people are it's likely that uh either crew has their own quirks so
1:32:40
why not i just don't like being treated like a child
1:32:47
[Music] got a couple years yet before that's gonna stop him [Music]
1:32:53
sure but they don't have to be so mean about it i that they don't
1:32:59
but um i'll turn to the the dwarf uh when our uh
1:33:06
follows return uh we'll be happy to join you uh sex gold you said
1:33:12
yours gabriel i like it gabriel i'll help yours gabriel
1:33:17
yeah up yours gabriel what does that mean uh uh i'll explain it to you as ryan and i are walking back
1:33:25
okay so 30 gold is what we bought it for i'd say uh he he really beat us down in
1:33:32
70. 70 sounds reasonable especially just like they probably know that we're having greater stuff so like
1:33:39
like 70. and um if they ask because we're probably going to split it between the four of us so i
1:33:45
have some gold i do do you have do you have 20 i do okay i have 20 and that'll make it 70. and then when we split it
1:33:51
they'll know that it's even and they won't they won't know yes okay nicely
1:33:57
only careful inspection of the gold will reveal if it actually came from more
1:34:02
organized uh please be deceptive and stern and confident okay that's what i
1:34:08
was taught i will think of nothing else okay good all right here they are let's go all right
1:34:13
hey uh yep so we sold it good does stillfest have a nice home yeah she seemed she seemed nice she had
1:34:20
like this really cool like little chair she was sitting in she seemed really um like she cared good yeah yes great we're gonna go with
1:34:27
the door cool whatever you choose i think it's your turn to choose
1:34:32
uh yeah why why are you saying it like that anyway um so we got it uh 70 gold um and
1:34:39
we can split it up why do we need to split it okay i'll keep it oh yeah
1:34:48
[Music]
1:34:54
[Music]
1:34:59
yeah that's actually getting on this boat and i noticed a little twinge of
1:35:04
conflict they just start humming and the rain that falls on the rain act cool
1:35:09
oh yes all right your employment begins now grab some crates and help us load and
1:35:14
then we'll be on our way i'm gonna find any crate that i can pick up same okay same same
1:35:23
you all are not strong people um
1:35:29
um you guys all are able to uh finish up loading this uh this ship what seems to
1:35:35
be left is generally the smaller stuff it seems like um they loaded up all the big stuff um before you guys as when
1:35:42
you're loading up you're sort of directed down um underneath into sort of the hull of the ship and um there are
1:35:49
three layers there's the top deck um there's the uh middle
1:35:55
platform of the ship which seems to be mostly um sleeping quarters um that's
1:36:00
where the um the galley is and then there's the bottom deck where all of the
1:36:07
cargo and everything is being held as you guys are moving things down to the bottom deck you guys see a bunch of much
1:36:13
larger crates that must have been moved here before you guys actually got here um crates
1:36:18
spanning in size from something that you guys could easily hold in your hands to something that is
1:36:25
easily five feet by three feet by six feet
1:36:31
um and you guys see all this most of them are boxed up
1:36:36
pretty well can't really see what's inside of anything but um as you guys are walking around the ship um
1:36:43
you are already introduced to paston broadhammer um yes
1:36:54
who upon introducing himself uh formally for the first time is the first mate of this ship um he is second in command
1:37:02
just under the captain um and you can see he's got lots of like these
1:37:07
leather straps all across him and you can see like these these hooks sort of
1:37:13
coming out of these straps um and you can see light leather armor and on
1:37:19
either side of him he's got two daggers um so on each side he has two daggers um
1:37:25
one sort of hanging off his hip and then one sort of up on his thighs what was the name of this ship before we walked did we see it on the side of the ship
1:37:33
just a side note uh shreya is going to be looking at the markings on each of the cargo that he's
1:37:38
carrying see if he can discern what's inside them if they're labeled okay i'm going to have you make a
1:37:45
you're looking at the markings right yes yes i'm gonna have you make
1:37:50
a history check for me 16. uh 16
1:37:57
you are looking over these crates um you see
1:38:02
on one of the crates a little symbol of firefly
1:38:08
um if the crate is about three feet by three feet by three feet and um
1:38:15
on another one just on the opposite side this is the big the biggest crate in here um it
1:38:20
looks uh like i said before about five feet by three feet by six feet um you see the uh
1:38:27
like a little little like it almost looks like an infinity symbol
1:38:32
but then it's got another um sort of circle inlaid into that
1:38:38
um and you recognize this symbol because you've seen it just a tiny
1:38:43
little inscription on the base of thaddeus [Music]
1:38:50
wilden do we all see that yeah
1:38:55
i am going to communicate what i have learned to the rest of the party suavely and secretively
1:39:02
because i don't think the crew would want me would want to hear me talking about how much i'm admiring the cargo
1:39:10
does everything have the firefly uh no just one of them and then um a
1:39:15
separate one a separate one has the sort of infinity with the inlaid circle into it right um and then the rest of them
1:39:21
have different symbols um some of them are like branded on some of them are carved into it some of them seem to be
1:39:27
painted on but you don't recognize any of the other ones these these ones are the ones that you specifically notice um
1:39:33
and as you guys are loading on um the uh the first mate reaches out his hand to each of you and as each of you
1:39:39
passes by and he he shakes each of your hands welcome to the howard dugan welcome welcome to the howard do again welcome
1:39:46
to the how it do again and welcome to the howard dogen all right so you got me i'm the first
1:39:51
mate of the ship and then are just the only person above me is captain mccready uh he's the one
1:39:58
over there sort of inspecting the back of the boat and you look over and uh you see also just drenched in rain still um
1:40:07
a purple tiefling um and as he sort of turns around um you can see this this
1:40:12
short stark white hair on top and a uh it's like a pure white goatee
1:40:20
around his face he is um standing sort of very regally and you
1:40:25
could see these uh this blue um sort of coat jacket that comes up
1:40:30
over his shoulders and extends down to the ground with just a little bit of like gold inlay over the shoulders
1:40:36
um and uh he turns and he points to um one
1:40:42
of the men who is loading up the galley and he says and that's our cook damien
1:40:48
keele and you see loading is a rather rotund human man um
1:40:55
probably in his late 60s um very old
1:41:00
and just really struggling to get all of his stuff in order um and then he also introduces you guys
1:41:06
to um one of the the deck hands um his name is timmy fleur
1:41:13
um he is also a human uh but rather young um probably just cresting
1:41:19
18 or 19. um you can see the the little peach fuzz and stubble just beginning to come in on his face um
1:41:26
and the last member of the crew um
1:41:32
prala holiday [Music] who is a dwarven woman um
1:41:39
probably about um what in in dwarven years what would
1:41:44
probably be about 30. um still looks rather useful even though you can see the the weathering on her face
1:41:50
uh a pleasure to make your acquaintance uh uh my name is kellic uh this is oma
1:41:55
tria and flynn respectively i will certainly be forgetting those names that's fine uh we forget ourselves
1:42:02
sometimes so uh how's it duganda is that the greeting off board this vessel the
1:42:07
prompt nicely worded greeting it's the name of the boat i don't know
1:42:13
what else to say ah right i take a step back [Laughter]
1:42:20
all right well um i'll be showing you to your quarters but for the remainder of the trip you will most
1:42:27
likely be working um making your six gold for the course of 24 hours
1:42:34
yes okay what do you want us to do well there's a couple of different
1:42:39
things that you can do on the boat are any of you well versed in cooking
1:42:45
i'll take that as a no well if any of you want to help um we've
1:42:50
uh we've got sort of a an elderly gentleman in the uh in the
1:42:55
galley he needs a bit of help i'm happy to help i used to help rosie
1:43:01
i don't know who that is but we don't have damien and uh damien fine fine young man um but he sometimes
1:43:10
needs some help and you might want to get used to uh speaking loudly and sort of yelling
1:43:16
a little hard of hearing i can yell yes you can all right um uh for the rest
1:43:22
of you um we would uh are generally in need of just a general
1:43:27
assistant over the course of the boat um anything that the captain or myself needs any of the deckhands if they need
1:43:34
uh a piece of equipment someone to just run around the ship and get things for people uh does that sound good to any of
1:43:41
you i'd be keen to do that i'm i'm uh good and i'm quite flexible for my age so uh yeah
1:43:50
i i can take that role all right uh hey jimmy come over here and uh this this
1:43:56
young human boy runs over yes uh how can i help
1:44:02
uh you can take these remaining two and just show them what you do around the boat and uh just uh generally have them
1:44:10
do the same [Laughter] and uh he looks at both of you guys and he goes oh
1:44:16
amazing wow i get more help okay um and i get to
1:44:22
he he turns in i get to tell them what to do right oh yeah just uh yeah no
1:44:27
they're they're under your contract in supervision and his eyes just light up
1:44:32
um and uh okay um if you guys want uh come with me i'll show you how to get started
1:44:40
sounds good timmy all right yeah okay
1:44:48
all right and with that um you guys see uh
1:44:53
timmy with the help of now try and flynn um as well as prala um i'll untie the
1:45:00
ropes that were connecting you guys to the dock and the um sails come unfurled
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as you guys make your way out of the porch you can uh see just off still
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docked there um this much uh fancier and a little bit more sizeable boat um
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you can see just off on the dock this lean and man rushing from person to person trying to hire someone to to fill
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the boat and uh as you guys make your way off from the dock all you hear is
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up yours and as you guys make your way off and
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into the sea with this storm at your back and rain just beating the hell out
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of this ship that is where we're gonna end this session we're gonna call it right there as you guys head out to see
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oh yeah let's do the pirate right there so thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all
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again next week bye nerds bye nerds
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hey this is shane i play kellich on the podcast and i write all the music you hear in the background uh if you like
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what we're doing please like us rate us review us subscribe to us on whatever podcast platform you're listening on if
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you're on youtube you can subscribe to that uh that would mean the world to us and also help us continue to create the
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show at the high level that we want to create it at and even improve it if you can imagine that
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thank you so much i really appreciate it have a great day nerds
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Venture Forth is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We play 5th edition (5e) Dungeons and Dragons in a home-brew D&D actual play setting. Our campaign takes place in the high fantasy realm of Elbor. A world of monsters, heroes and epic tales to be told. D&D is a TTRPG, a tabletop roleplaying game, also known as an RPG. Our gameplay is perfect for beginners to Dungeons and Dragons from episode 1.Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya
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