Timothy (DM)
Welcome to Shadows of Prophecy, a D&D real play podcast following the ill omen web of lives, whispered by the void their names repeated in the darkness. Shadows of Prophecy is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast with violent themes and adult language. Listener discretion is advised. With us today to traverse through Adventures of worry and discomfort. We have myself Timothy as our ambivalent DM.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I'm Kendrick and I play the fighter of family the searcher of Fern Yonce Bey.
Unknown Speaker
I'm sorry, we're in discomfort. I didn't know how real it was getting today. I'm Russell I'm playing blades, Heart of Gold, but a scowl that will make any hand of cards fold.
Unknown Speaker
I'm Nicole playing Tsereteli chambers, professional spirit hunter with mostly accurate visions.
Timothy (DM)
Join us as we enter the Shadows of Prophecy act one in the shadows, chapter 12 overgrowth previously on Shadows of Prophecy this really siblings traversed through the thick of the Enchanted Forest guided by a looming entity. They located the treehouse home of the strays where they were welcomed with open arms by Meredith waters. After hearing their story, and confirming Sally's gift, she introduced them to a now reclusive Yonsei. And after some convincing and dreadfully deep emotions, they agreed to yet again set off into the Enchanted Forest in search of Upri. quickly getting lost and encountering some Knowles blades nearly died to some quicksand, and really now finds herself trapped in a temporal anomaly. How will we rescue her? Find out on Shadows of Prophecy,
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
and that's what you miss last time on Glee.
Timothy (DM)
Don't get us canceled. So sorrelli You have been heading off towards this weird circle of mushrooms with warbling stuff towards it. And you are reaching out. As you start to reach towards the mushroom. You notice that everything around you starts to blur and flicker like motion blurs or everything is just like flitting around quickly and quickly and quickly. And you start to see the sun setting and then rising again. Which brings us back to Yonsei and blades. You are currently watching Cirelli frozen in place. What do you do?
Unknown Speaker
Does she do this often?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, ah. Kind of actually. I don't think she's having a vision though. Australia darling, can you hear us?
Timothy (DM)
Can I hear them? You hear blurts of sounds throughout this whole time. It's really nothing that you can make out.
Unknown Speaker
Am I able to move at all?
Timothy (DM)
So we'll get to you in a moment. Okay. Yancey and blades have to make some decisions.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonce is going to walk up to Serravalle and put his hand in front of her. Hello, hello.
Timothy (DM)
See Yonce starts to move towards the rally. And as Yonce does this blades, you see Yonce starts approaching sorrelli And as he gets closer, he begins to move slower and slower and slower until you see the two of them frozen in space. You're never quite reaching Serral you're
Unknown Speaker
down Are
Kendrick (Yonce)
you better not run? Better not run
Unknown Speaker
now, how do we get out of this?
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
This is another quicksand situation. What are you doing?
Unknown Speaker
I'm gonna tie one end of my rope to an arrow. All right. No, I'm gonna tie a loop Oh god, that's so okay today Harrow. Uh huh. Can try to shoot it where I can like, get around one of them. Alright strangulate
Timothy (DM)
make an attack call. Hey,
Unknown Speaker
that's sexy.
Unknown Speaker
You she's my sister.
Kendrick (Yonce)
My mom me.
Timothy (DM)
Oh no, you're really gonna get us canceled. So worried.
Unknown Speaker
Dirty 20
Timothy (DM)
Dirty 20 Okay, so you take your last out and you throw it towards a rally. And you see that it starts flying to the air and begins to slow and it now hovers above Yonsei and Cirelli not quite reaching them.
Unknown Speaker
That's not good. So can I tell if it's coming like from the mushroom the circle?
Timothy (DM)
Give me an icon of roll.
Unknown Speaker
Plus one. Okay, that's awful. For that is,
Timothy (DM)
um, I mean, so visually, there's this like ring of mushrooms, and it's all warbly there. So you can tell that there is some weird, Arcane strangeness going on. But you can't quite understand how it's functioning. But like it's coming from there like this is weird magic
Unknown Speaker
gate and I run into the mushroom circle alright.
Timothy (DM)
So blade blade and this is starting to running towards Yonsei and sorrelli following suit, since there is no external observer. Now, I will explain what Tsereteli sees throughout all of this.
Kendrick (Yonce)
While I like how you saw two of us go for it was a mean you decided to use in this Naruto into it. I want to be included.
Timothy (DM)
Throughout this whole experience, you've been walking towards the mushrooms the whole time the whole time? Well, from your perspective, it's only been a matter of seconds. So you have walked towards the mushrooms. As the world around you starts to blur, you start hearing blurts of noise everything becomes incomprehensible. Outside the vicinity of this mushroom, you see blurs of motion and color. And the sun starts rising and setting in rising and setting and rising and setting days on days. And you start to notice behind you Yonsei is slowly approaching you. And then blades and arms now more or less on the same timeline. What do you do? Do you continue towards the mushrooms or do you turn around and talk to them?
Unknown Speaker
I turn around to talk to them.
Timothy (DM)
All right. What do you say?
Unknown Speaker
Yonce blades? Do you notice how strange the environment appears? You were frozen
Unknown Speaker
for a little bit there sister I think I think we might have just walked into a little teeny bit of a trap. How do you mean you froze? Completely not moving blinking breathing. I've I've been then Yonsei followed suit and I felt lonely so then you do have the brains of this operation. I wasn't gonna get you out of it. So I felt like I should just join you know,
Kendrick (Yonce)
I think we are in some weird time distortion.
Unknown Speaker
Is that why the sun keeps rising and setting?
Kendrick (Yonce)
I would Gander a guess that that is accurate.
Unknown Speaker
This was a circle of mushrooms is the circle of mushrooms. I'd like to go towards one of the mushrooms and inspect it. All right, can
Unknown Speaker
we? Or is it just equidistant
Timothy (DM)
all of you approaching it.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I don't think that's a good idea. Just because I feel as though if you go in, then you're gonna go slower. So Yonce looks at both blades and Tsereteli and say if you're going to do that I will stay back just in case we end up in another time distortion within the time distortion rock and roll if we
Unknown Speaker
keep going though, do you think eventually it becomes a portal? Could it be like a black hole into a new universe?
Kendrick (Yonce)
I don't think I want to go into a black hole though.
Unknown Speaker
Right I was supposed to find into the woman in your vision. Oh, that's not traveling to another
Unknown Speaker
chair like these other worldly situation,
Kendrick (Yonce)
we need to figure out a way to get out of this because we go closer to the time distortion. That means more times gonna pass by, which means there's less chances of finding Upri
Unknown Speaker
Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Okay. I mean, well, let's, let's turn back,
Unknown Speaker
maybe it's cyclical. So we just go in there. And then all of a sudden, we're back in time at the beginning. It's a circular timeline. And then I'm just kidding.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I'm not going to take advice from someone who EDID themselves into, Hey, you
Unknown Speaker
didn't see that you were frozen in time, bitch.
Unknown Speaker
All right. All right, you too. All right. So long as we don't think Upri would be in here, I will come back and do an inspection on my own perhaps a different time yet. Let's hope we can leave. I've always wanted to time travel
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
can Yonsei dislike attack one of the mushrooms to see what happens?
Timothy (DM)
You will have to move closer to the mushrooms to do so how far away from arranged attack towards them.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
So Yonsei is going to I feel like if I do this is something something's bad's gonna happen. But I'm going to cast eldritch blast. Blast. Okay,
Unknown Speaker
so
Timothy (DM)
make an attack roll.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Yonsei is pragmatic. Kendrick loves chaos. That is a 2525.
Timothy (DM)
Alright, so you shoot off your elders blast. And very similar to the last attempt. It begins just slow as it gets closer to the mushroom never quite reaching it.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Water didn't work. Any other ideas?
Unknown Speaker
I mean, if it's some sort of time dilation, we try walking away. But clearly lots of time is passing just as we talk.
Kendrick (Yonce)
What do you think Tsereteli
Unknown Speaker
we he'll bring it back and then blades is just going to dash away in the opposite direction.
Timothy (DM)
All right. So the two of you young fans really, you see blade starts to walk away and rush as they dash further and further away they believe out and now have blended into the blur of motion.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So maybe we should go that way.
Unknown Speaker
It appears that way.
Timothy (DM)
And blade turns around and sees yawn fans really are frozen. The blur of motion is gone blades
Unknown Speaker
back on the path
Timothy (DM)
you're kind of back on the path
Unknown Speaker
to the trees look taller in the overgrowth overgrowth year.
Timothy (DM)
Give me a Nature check
Unknown Speaker
1717
Timothy (DM)
It does seem like some time has passed Should I run back in eventually
Unknown Speaker
well I gotta tell you your words
Timothy (DM)
we're nearing autumn Oh,
Unknown Speaker
when did we start at summary?
Timothy (DM)
Yeah,
Unknown Speaker
wow, I remember I can
Timothy (DM)
see you run back in and as you start getting closer to them
Unknown Speaker
yeah, um, so we may have lost a few months being in here mind yeah, it's gonna be winter soon so I think we should just kind of vibe until it's spring again because I don't have shit for winter prepared and we're gonna die in this fucking forest the middle of winter so yeah,
Unknown Speaker
this this isn't this isn't good.
Unknown Speaker
No, no, it's not alright. We already had Varian accounts on sunrises and sunsets. So one, two ocean one.
Kendrick (Yonce)
No. Yonce looks at blades and intrigued in yet. utter disappointment.
Unknown Speaker
What comes after 1317
Kendrick (Yonce)
How long have you been with this one?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, since we were about four in the orphanage?
Kendrick (Yonce)
Did he think he was 17 after he turned 13?
Unknown Speaker
Come to think of it. I think he did. And aging is not the same as counting days. Oh shit. 123
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonce is going to walk in the direction opposite of the mushrooms. Just to see how much time has passed since blades has come back as kind of like our time check. In a sense, yeah.
Timothy (DM)
So you start to walk away from mushrooms and the GVO see Yonsei starts at a regular pace at first but quickly just speeds up. You into the blur. Yonsei you start walking with the mushrooms. And as you do all of the motion around you starts to slow until you notice it's winter snow is on the ground. It falls from the leaves of the trees in the forest.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I'm gonna stay there just for a moment just because I can deal with blades. And so Yonce is gonna do some WUSA deep breathing, four to six, four to six. And then they're going to head back into the bullet. All right, you
Timothy (DM)
make your way back towards the mushrooms. And you approach
Kendrick (Yonce)
so bad news. It's only winter. worse news. You lost count multiple times. Good news. After winter, come spring. I hate to say this, but blades This was actually a good idea. I also did not prepare any winter gear as well. I thought we would be still in summer when we found out Bree. But you know what, as the people say, c'est la vie. It's French language in this world. Let's just say it's under common French. She's speaking
Unknown Speaker
in tongues.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So Yonce is just gonna sit down and just meditate. So now until it's time to go
Timothy (DM)
on. How are you determining when it is time to go?
Unknown Speaker
Maybe we should just keep running in and out until it's right. Together. All at once. Yeah. All right, link arms now.
Unknown Speaker
All right. Worth a try.
Kendrick (Yonce)
All right. Let's try it. How long are we waiting though?
Unknown Speaker
I think this is good. We go
Kendrick (Yonce)
I'm gonna I'm gonna go apparently.
Timothy (DM)
You link arm. You make your way away for the mushrooms. And you notice there's still snow on the ground.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, back we go.
Unknown Speaker
Boy Stop. Stop
Timothy (DM)
kind of melted a little bit. It might be a nice warm winter day where things have kind of receded. Hard to tell.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, back we go. Let's try like 10 paces in 10 paces out, you know? Maybe there'll be like a week. It's not an exact time. Travel, right? No, definitely. not an exact science at all.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So really, what do you think? Oh,
Unknown Speaker
I think we should we should retreat back in at least for a moment.
Unknown Speaker
Fine. Just 10 paces.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Fine. 10 paces
Unknown Speaker
v 10. And then I turn around.
Timothy (DM)
Okay, you take nine pieces and then you turn around. The other party members take an extra step. Oh, feel the tension is locked. They pull you in the other direction. And you start heading back out. At this time. You notice new growth on the ground? The snow is gone. But no flowers
Unknown Speaker
back. Can we go? No. I
Kendrick (Yonce)
think this is good.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, yeah, it's a it's okay to be really cool.
Timothy (DM)
Probably around 50s.
Unknown Speaker
What time of day? Do
Timothy (DM)
you check for the sun? You're in the middle of a forest. So it's a little tricky to find. It looks like it might be either early morning or late afternoon. Well, thanks.
Unknown Speaker
To the start or an end of the day
Timothy (DM)
have kinda lost track of what direction the sun would be at certain times in your confusion. So you can't tell if the sun is on its way up or down.
Unknown Speaker
I mean, 10 more pieces can't hurt.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Let's go a lesson. And I look at some really. Okay. All right,
Unknown Speaker
so you walk on five 611
Timothy (DM)
Okay, see what like what was that five phases ID of
Unknown Speaker
125678
Timothy (DM)
phases in again, you confuse the hell out of your party as you reach 11 Way too soon.
Unknown Speaker
Cool. That bleeds can't get
Timothy (DM)
as they keep going. When they realize what you've done and they fall asleep, when you arrive back in what is hopefully current time, present day, the forest is lush with greenery. There are flowers blooming everywhere,
Unknown Speaker
just in time for allergy.
Timothy (DM)
Colin
Kendrick (Yonce)
young canonically does not have allergies. So, but also does this mean a year has passed? In a matter of minutes?
Timothy (DM)
Tenma months potentially. Yes. So,
Unknown Speaker
hopefully it wasn't just one year. Good. And it wasn't like, you know, we're actually in their year every time devices and then some, like a year and two months. Because if it was like a year and two months, we wouldn't be able to tell. That is true. So it could be a little bit less than a year. It could be several in a few months. Who knows.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei looks at sorrelli and blades and says, Alright, enough, enough. I think we've got it. No more walking. No more paces. No more miscounting. Let's keep going to their way of Ilrune pulleys. Let's go.
Unknown Speaker
Right. Yeah, that's fine.
Unknown Speaker
That's an interesting detour. I do hope that your siblings aren't worried. Oh, I'm Shelly. I've been gone this
Unknown Speaker
long. Oh, thank you, dad. Really?
Unknown Speaker
I look at blades.
Kendrick (Yonce)
And Yonsei just walks in the direction opposite of the mushrooms just to get going.
Unknown Speaker
Wait, but is that the right what? Okay, I follow.
Timothy (DM)
All right, you start making your way away from the mushrooms, you get maybe 50 feet out and you realize that you're kind of warbling motion has stopped. So that kind of like wishy washy Ness that you were experiencing prior to coming to the mushrooms fades away. And you feel more or less normal. It's been an experience so normal is hard to pinpoint.
Unknown Speaker
But are we hungry? Do we have we aged?
Kendrick (Yonce)
Have we gotten a full rest for
Timothy (DM)
it? Really? It's been less than a minute. Okay. For blades and Yonsei? Maybe like a couple minutes? Time session? Yeah. No, not really like hungry or anything. Okay. Who would like to make a Nature check to try to figure out where the heck you
Unknown Speaker
are? Nature not survival.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I can make it Nature check.
Timothy (DM)
Oh, yeah, sorry. survival check.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I can also make a survival check. It's plus four plus.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, wow.
Unknown Speaker
We're really showing. Yeah. 1717.
Timothy (DM)
So you pause for a moment to regain your bearings. Trippy is that was you do find kind of a break in the trees where you can locate the sun. And based on the coloration of the sky, you do realize that it is morning. Okay, so that allows you to pinpoint East which is great. Awesome. You now know where East is. And it's been a while.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Does Yonce stop to notice that blade has discovered the way because I just I went in a huff. You tell us
Timothy (DM)
yeah, do a perception check. 1414 So you hop off that cave out
Kendrick (Yonce)
weird falls
Timothy (DM)
off in the direction
Kendrick (Yonce)
away from your turn turning Australian
Timothy (DM)
away from the mushrooms. And after a while you'll start to notice that is weirdly quiet behind you. So you do turn around and you see that blades and it's really have stopped. You don't get too far. Maybe 20 yards
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei turns around looks at me like oh, we're going that way and follow suit.
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, blades you are able to pinpoint east and you know that you are trying to go north. South. south.
Unknown Speaker
South. North is back. Yeah, yeah, one's house.
Timothy (DM)
We're going south. But we want to avoid the mushrooms. So South is kind of towards the mushroom se beer way. Yeah, you can go set out east and try to keep your distance from these machines don't want any more mishaps.
Unknown Speaker
Once we travel for a few hours, I'm going to do the whole leaf in a puddle trick to tell direction. Leaf in a puddle check. If you put a leaf and in a still puddle of water or pool, it'll always point noise.
Timothy (DM)
Oh, because of the magnetic rotation stuff like that. Yeah. Cool.
Kendrick (Yonce)
This episode sponsored by Bill Nye the Science Guy. Yeah,
Timothy (DM)
it's either magnetism or the rotation of Earth. I don't know magic, or magic or it's just folklore that doesn't actually work. onshore, we have not tested this. But we're going to assume that bleeds No.
Unknown Speaker
I saw in that movie Aliens Vs Predator because they weren't on earth they just run and that's our
Timothy (DM)
thing. In movies are always true.
Unknown Speaker
Absolutely.
Unknown Speaker
So yeah, there you go. Based on the Sun
Timothy (DM)
Dart making your way south east. I'm rolling dice it's fine escapes me every time but
Unknown Speaker
quick Sam
Timothy (DM)
you start to make your way south east when you approach a small clearing covered in wildflowers we go
Unknown Speaker
around in nature
Timothy (DM)
stand they're not poppies.
Unknown Speaker
They're just wobbling distortion.
Timothy (DM)
wildflowers. various shades Do
Kendrick (Yonce)
you want us to get?
Timothy (DM)
And you hear a flute in the distance?
Unknown Speaker
That's quite lovely.
Kendrick (Yonce)
They're actually the sharp? The what? Sharp? The sharp. The shot.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, wow. It's a little bit sharp.
Unknown Speaker
Let me take that back. It's sharp.
Timothy (DM)
Cool. Yeah, you reach a cleric.
Unknown Speaker
And did we see the source of the flute?
Timothy (DM)
You do not perfect.
Unknown Speaker
Is it coming from the east or west side of the clear?
Kendrick (Yonce)
Did you put a leaf in the puddle
Timothy (DM)
coming from the west side of the clear,
Unknown Speaker
perfect. We stick to the east side. Right. All right. Yeah, keeping within the tree line, but so long clearing to admire the beauty of the wildflowers, you know, don't want to miss out
Kendrick (Yonce)
its blades just like be lining it. So we're just we have no choice but to follow.
Unknown Speaker
I mean, I can do whatever you want. I'm just gonna stick to the tree line and circumnavigate the the cliff.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I'm going as we're doing this, or just
Unknown Speaker
quicksand beneath the flowers
Kendrick (Yonce)
it's only been a few hours. True. I'm gonna look at Tsereteli and ask her. So as blades always been like this. And I point my hand out and just make that little swooping motion that like, highlights all of them. Like all of them. All of them have. Have they always been like this.
Unknown Speaker
It got worse when I left the orphanage, and they began running our business. It's all business these days.
Timothy (DM)
Are you sure it wasn't just running period, maybe a
Unknown Speaker
little bit of actual shady. Keep in mind, the person that manages the money can't.
Unknown Speaker
We're doing well put together. And so really, at this point is kind of like half listening, but also enjoying the flute, still falling blades but steps into the flowers and reaches down to pick a few and it's kind of just swaying with the flute. So here here and not.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yeah, I'm gonna assume that she's stopped listening to me so you don't sound like well, I guess I'm talking to myself now. La La, la, la, la, la, la, la la.
Timothy (DM)
Just keep on your own little completely on a different like rhythm of the flute in the distance, which is perfectly fine. And really pick some flowers. They're quite lovely. We got some corn flour in here we got some daisies lots of little cute little wildflowers. I'm not sure why any of those are in a forest. They're more prairie flowers, but that's fine. I don't know what flower
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, it can be whatever the fuck we want. Suspension of disbelief
Unknown Speaker
corn flowers or prairie flowers because they were in the forest on an island in the South Pacific shootin you.
Timothy (DM)
I don't know your
Unknown Speaker
musical reference.
Unknown Speaker
I have no idea what's going on right now.
Unknown Speaker
Coffee is kicking in just go
Timothy (DM)
Ah, all right, you pick the flowers, you continue on along the side of this clearing, and you start to pass the sound of the flute Can you give me another survival check blades,
Kendrick (Yonce)
we're gonna have to fight this damn flew
Unknown Speaker
1616
Timothy (DM)
Okay, you hear the sound of the flute fading behind you. When you approach a small grove of trees and in the center of the Grove, there is one tree in particular that none of the other trees are growing near. And the trunk of the tree is black. The branches are gnarled and it appears almost as if there is a face on the top and the branches twist in a way to resemble horns.
Unknown Speaker
Let's walk around a wire on this one.
Timothy (DM)
Middle of the tree in the middle of the trunk of the tree. There is a katana poking out of it.
Unknown Speaker
Let's take a closer look for research purposes.
Kendrick (Yonce)
You do that I'm gonna stay my ass right here.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, yeah, actually, once you have a good point, and I'm gonna knock three arrows and let them all fly at the tree.
Timothy (DM)
All right, make an attack roll.
Unknown Speaker
We start with an @shadows_of_prophecy 2019 and then a nat 1.
Timothy (DM)
Beautiful do you hit so roll for damage?
Unknown Speaker
So oh, let's fix the first one is a math problem. Oh no Rasul Allah can count seven damage then 10 damage 17 damage total
Timothy (DM)
17 All right, you shoot your three arrows. Two of them smack into the wood of the tree you hear the thud they large themselves deep into the trunk. And nothing happens
Unknown Speaker
seems safe. strapped on over to go get their Katana
Kendrick (Yonce)
wait dope. He's going over there.
Unknown Speaker
Keeping an eye out for other traps. ABS
Timothy (DM)
alright, you purchase tree you read the katana?
Unknown Speaker
I smell it first
Timothy (DM)
you smell the katana smell off. Give me a Nature check six you smell the Katana and you smell the like metallicky scent of metal suppose No. And you grab the hilt and you start to pull give me a strength check for you start tugging on this Katana and it is barely budging. You can kind of slowly jiggle it back and forth. But it seems quite wedged in there.
Unknown Speaker
Perhaps I should utilize some of the science that I know so well about. I'm going to tie my rope around the hills and I'm going to throw the rope around a nearby tree to create a pulley Okay, increase the leverage and then I pulled the rope.
Timothy (DM)
I thought you were literally just gonna tie a rope pull Okay, so you create a pulley system Yeah, wonderful. Now give me a strength check with advantage are big brains far too clearing What should we do? Oh, yeah.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I'm honestly just looking at Sahrawi at this point. 1717
Timothy (DM)
So you start tugging on this rope. And at first there's quite a bit of tension. It doesn't look like it's going to budge and then it whips out you make it a series saving throw
Unknown Speaker
oh no okay ah that's not one so far.
Timothy (DM)
All right on your ass Oh ton of flings to the ground
Unknown Speaker
that was flinging the katana.
Unknown Speaker
It wasn't trapped but you said it.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So how fast can you make a new character?
Timothy (DM)
You fall on your ass the katana flicks into the ground and you start to see out of the trunk of this tree a black ooze starts to seep out
Unknown Speaker
while stalker but at least not no no. I scooped the Katana and then Alright, let's be on our way
Timothy (DM)
as you run over to the katana this ooze is pouring out
Unknown Speaker
I move quicker and
Timothy (DM)
begin begins to a math into a form.
Unknown Speaker
Oh shit it was a plug.
Timothy (DM)
I'm gonna need you all the roll initiative.
Unknown Speaker
Oh do I have the katana though for this you
Timothy (DM)
have the katana stabs? It's a katana
Unknown Speaker
a balance
Timothy (DM)
you would have to attune to if it has magical properties, you would need to figure that out with some sort of means core
Unknown Speaker
servers in my path forget
Unknown Speaker
I got to 12
Timothy (DM)
So you're welcome to use the katana not knowing what it does.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, yeah, well, okay. Can I double hand it?
Timothy (DM)
Can you double hand?
Unknown Speaker
Oh no, I don't want to double hand it nevermind one handed. I have a dual bleeding feet. I'll lose AC if I did.
Timothy (DM)
Oh, yes.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Blades.
Timothy (DM)
So typical. Katana does one d8 flashing? It does have the versatile property. One D 10. katanas are Yeah, string face.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Wait until the Felicia Katana is exists in this world but French does not.
Timothy (DM)
Do you know languages are weird in this world.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I just want everyone to notice katanas exist in this world. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker
but maybe Contamines aren't inherently Japanese in this world. There are some other
Timothy (DM)
just a sort of that shape.
Kendrick (Yonce)
But c'est la vie you can you know what
Unknown Speaker
it's like saying you know
Timothy (DM)
more languages to D&D that already exists. There are a million languages.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I just want the viewers to understand
Unknown Speaker
those the ones
Timothy (DM)
viewing us
Kendrick (Yonce)
My number is blah blah blah.
Unknown Speaker
I got a 25 for initiative.
Timothy (DM)
Okay. Wow. Holy cow
Unknown Speaker
one
Timothy (DM)
holy beat
Kendrick (Yonce)
you're really into that flute?
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, really? Into that flute?
Kendrick (Yonce)
I must be Lizzo 25 For blade.
Unknown Speaker
regret not going to see
Timothy (DM)
rarely Yonsei What did you get? I got a 1212 All right. I don't think whistle exists in D&D Beyond leads doing let's stop talking about lizard but that is not what we're doing here today.
Unknown Speaker
I'm going to use a bonus to cast right next to the group right?
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, you're right next to the guard.
Unknown Speaker
I'm just gonna attack it three times. Twice with my dominant weapon once when they are found. 24 just 24 hit
Timothy (DM)
a 24 does
Unknown Speaker
head What about an 11? I would hope so.
Timothy (DM)
And 11 does also hit
Unknown Speaker
Oh perfect. What about an eight?
Timothy (DM)
And eight does also. Oh, they're
Unknown Speaker
gonna ask about that too. All right.
Unknown Speaker
goop is everywhere.
Timothy (DM)
That goop is everywhere.
Unknown Speaker
Because math math, math, math, math, math, five plus four is nine plus 716 piercing damage as I just
Timothy (DM)
touched all right. 16 piercing damage. You slash into it. Like you feel this like super viscous see sticky liquid as you are slashing into it and it's like dragging your sword through honey. It kind of splatters out as you hit it. Which means it is going to amass an appendage and try to whack down at you. As you notice that its form begins to split.
Unknown Speaker
Who.
Timothy (DM)
So it is going to make some attacks
Kendrick (Yonce)
if you don't die by quicksand,
Timothy (DM)
so your aim Well to dodge one of the attacks, but the other one hits you square in the chest. You are going to take for bludgeoning damage as the ooze leaves a bit of itself on you and you hear it start to sizzle.
Unknown Speaker
Ah
Timothy (DM)
you take 12 acid damage do you what is your armor? scale? So
Unknown Speaker
I think at least 10 minutes jail.
Timothy (DM)
Your AC is reduced by one. How do how fucking dare i
Unknown Speaker
I built this character to have broken AC How?
Timothy (DM)
How can dare i gang say What are you doing?
Kendrick (Yonce)
You always want to look at blades and say blades are you okay? No. Please I hope and with that Polish again see
Timothy (DM)
that there is a hole in the armor where the ooze has hit.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Oh my god. With that I'm going to keep my distance but use eldritch blasts
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
does a 13 hit?
Timothy (DM)
It does.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
All right. So that's one D 10 plus 313 damage. Eight.
Timothy (DM)
All right, and which one are you hitting left or right?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, you have this too now.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I'm gonna hit left.
Timothy (DM)
You're hit left. Okay, you splatter it it's gone.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, okay, cool. Great. There's no splash effect.
Timothy (DM)
No splash effects.
Kendrick (Yonce)
As Yonce is doing that. They're gonna look at blades plug the hole now is still losing.
Timothy (DM)
It's still losing now should Sorelli are you doing
Unknown Speaker
please put it back. I'm sorry.
Unknown Speaker
Once we have enough money, put it back
Unknown Speaker
but it just looks so cool. Okay, I'll put it by now. So normal
Timothy (DM)
smell you smell it
Unknown Speaker
and it sounds strange.
Unknown Speaker
The smell check
Unknown Speaker
the whip test well, after yelling at my brother, I'm going to roll my eyes and cast lightning bolt on the one on the right
Timothy (DM)
all right deck save coming up. I rolled a 10 that's fail
Unknown Speaker
that's a fail Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Do you need extra D six?
Timothy (DM)
Oh my gosh. I'm ready six is it a Polish shit dorky?
Unknown Speaker
That's a lot of one's
Timothy (DM)
1515 All right. It splatters
Unknown Speaker
good. We have places to be
Timothy (DM)
as you look up at the tree there is more pouring out.
Unknown Speaker
I plugged the hole. Are you sure?
Unknown Speaker
Am I sure I shove it back in
Timothy (DM)
alright, that's the blades runs up to the tree and are you taking the katana or another
Unknown Speaker
look at that I'm
Timothy (DM)
not gonna use you take the Katana and you plunge it into the tree give me an attack roll
Unknown Speaker
ships with strength as modifier because it's a katana? Yep 1414
Timothy (DM)
You go to plunge it into the tree and it deflects off the bark. you chip away at the bark and
Unknown Speaker
I'm trying to put it in a new hole or I missed he missed
Timothy (DM)
the hole so you chip away more of the bark and the ooze begins to pour faster.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, oh no.
Timothy (DM)
As to tax Can you try again
Unknown Speaker
natural one.
Timothy (DM)
Again, you pull back and you try to jam it back in the hall and you
Unknown Speaker
can say I panic and just start
Timothy (DM)
and slash down and you rip away chunks of the trunk. It is pouring out just like oozing out as appendages are starting to form. Time for planning
Unknown Speaker
see so much ooze in this place.
Unknown Speaker
I mean it's a fairly large tree.
Kendrick (Yonce)
It was black and you decided to walk towards it.
Unknown Speaker
why? I don't
Timothy (DM)
know I don't know how
Unknown Speaker
to tell you tempts me with Chinese and empty fields full of seemingly harmless and we've played too much D&D together you know how to manipulate
Timothy (DM)
all right. So another appendage is going to reach out at you. And again it is going to smack you leaving this goopy black substance that is searing your armor you're going to take six bludgeoning damage plus Florentine acid damage
Unknown Speaker
three hit points so I'm just like a burned bloody set my armless is it destroying my armor? Is that a thing?
Timothy (DM)
Oh yeah, yeah, your AC drops again.
Unknown Speaker
Just punch the holes in my clothing.
Unknown Speaker
Why do we recognize you? AC 15 Great.
Timothy (DM)
Oh when this is permanent?
Unknown Speaker
I need to get new armor. Yeah, I hate you.
Timothy (DM)
What is Yonce doing?
Kendrick (Yonce)
Can Yonce throw one of their daggers into the tree to kind of like plug at one of the holes.
Timothy (DM)
You can make an attacker role to attempt to do so.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
It was a yes or no I'm going to toss my dagger.
Kendrick (Yonce)
This is my lucky die
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I got a seven
Timothy (DM)
I think you might need to redefine luck Ah,
Unknown Speaker
you actually made me laugh. That's funny.
Timothy (DM)
So you whip a dagger it lodges itself in the tree not in the hole
Kendrick (Yonce)
but does it plug up anything?
Unknown Speaker
No
Unknown Speaker
I think we should run
Kendrick (Yonce)
it we're running grabbed my dagger
Timothy (DM)
Cirelli What are you doing?
Unknown Speaker
Can we actually run
Timothy (DM)
you can one of you is in melee distance with it which means they would take an attack of opportunity if they just drink have it
Unknown Speaker
covered Don't worry.
Unknown Speaker
Oh yeah, let's get let's get out of here. I don't think anything is going to plug that hole this is a bigger leakage than the cemetery
Kendrick (Yonce)
kinky you
Timothy (DM)
know what a call back call back. Oh my goodness. Oh, right through rally are you you're just drying the app? Yeah. All right.
Unknown Speaker
I mean, it's a treat. He could always like thing it it's like it can jump
Timothy (DM)
which also means it can't chase us. Let's go. Where are you rolling? And practicing practicing roles. That's what I do in my sleep. Practice my roles you start running you Yeah, you're like dashing away you're like Blade lanes. What are you doing? I'm
Unknown Speaker
gonna go I'm going to cast Zephyr strike all right, which negates all Opportunity Tax until the end of oh my movement doesn't provoke our opportunity tax for one minute as I moved like the wind grab my dad to get extra 30 feet of movement
Timothy (DM)
Oh yeah, see you can suffer strike I don't what does it do like flavor really? Flip flavor flavor Ashley flavor
Unknown Speaker
flavor deliciously. You basically like see me start to vibrate. Kind of like like a mare but not like a blur. Yeah, kind of like shadow stuff run.
Timothy (DM)
See you are out of there so fucking fast. As Yonce starts seeing the losers making their way
Unknown Speaker
to run directly.
Timothy (DM)
See you sandbag Yonsei and they
Unknown Speaker
have three health.
Timothy (DM)
Okay, yeah, they have a movement of 20 so they're going to make it to young thing. And they are going I
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
wasn't 20 feet away. Yeah. Hey what's like 35
Timothy (DM)
I am 20 gonna take you all travel in a party with 35 feet apart
Unknown Speaker
suspension of disbelief
Timothy (DM)
I don't know
Kendrick (Yonce)
gang attack on Yonsei so yeah
Timothy (DM)
they are going to lash out at you miss we love a amorphous blobs of Black is in this campaign
Kendrick (Yonce)
I call it on my side
Timothy (DM)
oh no oh no oh shit they both are gonna hit you know so that's gonna be fun. So you're going to take 12 bludgeoning damage
we got 19 So far
Unknown Speaker
so why don't we let a charge
Timothy (DM)
Oh no, I'm 34 acid damage I and your AC is reduced by two.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So 12 plus 34
Timothy (DM)
is 46
Kendrick (Yonce)
So write down success. I am on the ground. I need to start making did you have
Timothy (DM)
your temp? Yeah points up. Gosh All right.
Kendrick (Yonce)
She's She's Beyonce just falls onto the ground.
Timothy (DM)
Yep Mike. So Yonce falls under the ground overwhelmed by the oozes that were brought over by blades rally What are you doing?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, well, I guess I may be here this happening behind me. So I hear running Yonsei go down and look over my shoulder. Blades blades. We have to go back. We have to go back for Yonsei Alright, so we
Unknown Speaker
are conscious. You can't hear it. You it.
Unknown Speaker
We turn around. Oh my gosh. Is there any way to get Yonsei out of how many
Unknown Speaker
are on her just to
Timothy (DM)
just you. Still using No.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. You think you could just pick Yonce
Unknown Speaker
up? I've plan. Okay.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, well, I guess I'll at a minimum attack one of them while you figure out your plan.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, it's figured out system
Timothy (DM)
should happening
kind of true noun sorry. So sorry.
Unknown Speaker
I'm going to set the lightning bolt at the one on the right. All right.
Timothy (DM)
17
Unknown Speaker
this sort of damage is just half on a roll the six.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. So half is going to be 1414.
Timothy (DM)
Wow. Okay. It is a significant hit to them. You see the lightning blast them that ooze splatters out in the area. And it splits into two.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, after one shot.
Unknown Speaker
All right blades now would be a good time for that plan. If you still think it'll work,
Unknown Speaker
not as well because you were supposed to kill it but sure.
Timothy (DM)
So there are three there is one that is twice the size of the other to
Kendrick (Yonce)
perfect their slimes from Final Fantasy. All right. It was impulse to die like this whole age with their partner and seven kids. If I were kidding, what is going on over here?
Unknown Speaker
Right, right, right. I call upon the Fae for aid. And I summon you just see a incorporeal whisper of a fairy kind of rise out of the ground on top of Yonsei but it's like dark and black and like super goth looking and has like a loot because it's going to be like a metal. It's fine. Yeah, it's gonna start playing heavy metal music. But it's a lute playing. Wow.
Timothy (DM)
Oh my gosh, I freaking love that so
Unknown Speaker
Wow. And you do for one D six.
Unknown Speaker
That was bad that was done. I now have to
Unknown Speaker
do something to help as a face you regain consciousness
Unknown Speaker
with this incorporeal fairy go and then I knock two arrows and shoot both the smaller ones. All right, so we'll do one of the smaller ones on the right.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Is this thing gonna attack?
Unknown Speaker
Probably. That's a 23 to 23 hits. And that is eight piercing damage.
Timothy (DM)
It splatters it's gone. One down. Small one
Unknown Speaker
is a 22 to hit. Yep, that hits. That's for a patient damage as well. Also gone. Oh, well done.
Timothy (DM)
Just the moderate sized one. That's all I got. See? It is that one's turn is going to attempt to hits young fail. No. Deception check.
Unknown Speaker
Yes, I pretend that I'm still I got a 2222
Timothy (DM)
Oh, that's fun. I got a minus five. So you pop up, pop up
Kendrick (Yonce)
in your face deception pops up and then like oh shit, and then goes back down. Dad, yes.
Timothy (DM)
How far away are two of you?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, at least 60 feet aids and
Timothy (DM)
it's really Yeah,
Unknown Speaker
not my close. Right?
Timothy (DM)
Because we we ran you don't? Yeah. Okay. So it is going to leave Yonce is going to start sloughing itself over to you. Cool. It only makes it 20 feet. So it still has quite some distance before it gets to you. Yonce What are you doing now?
Unknown Speaker
Another day one, day six of healing. Oh, every time you start your turn in its square.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So now I have seven because that was a plus five. So I am going to stay pretending dead for right now. And now this is good. I'm gonna Cass false life, which is one D four plus four
Timothy (DM)
does failsafe have some Matic or verbal components.
Kendrick (Yonce)
It says V S M
Timothy (DM)
Yes. So does. So that means that you have to say something out loud and do something with your hands.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Can I just whisper into this? Near my chest? No. All right, so I'm not gonna cast false life. Can I dash?
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, you can. Yeah. So you are currently prone. So you use half of your speed to get up. But then you meet ash. So that means you can move your speed times one and a half.
Kendrick (Yonce)
So 30 times one and a half is 435. Yeah. So I'm just going to dash 45 feet
Timothy (DM)
away. Yeah.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Okay, cool. Coco Coco, your stash. 30 feet away. I'll dash 30 feet away. I'm not mad at gaming.
Timothy (DM)
It's fun. Okay, so really, what are you doing? Oh, I just saw Yonce get up the ashover you see the ooze is slowly making its way over. But you also notice that the tree is still using and there are more forms come in from it.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, my. I mean, I think we still need to get out of here but
Unknown Speaker
you want to swell enough away? We can start running.
Unknown Speaker
Let's at least let's at least try to take care of this medium sized one. Okay. I guess it could split again. But you know, I'd say is incredible acting skills.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, they're quite good on they might save them. Weird that will cry and then the fallback term
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
they may have trained at the School of Tufts scrolling. I don't know. Okay, fine, okay.
Unknown Speaker
of Tufts with witchcraft and wizardry. To say oh, it was very tough. Okay continue all right sorry.
Unknown Speaker
Go My goodness Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna cast ray of sickness Wait, do you have spells? Oh wait question
Timothy (DM)
please tell me because I'm not
Unknown Speaker
yeah
Unknown Speaker
yeah you can do it it's just gonna be a little baby race sickness
Unknown Speaker
baby baby just a little thickness array of cold but it's only it's only an eight I believe
Timothy (DM)
your old an eight an eight will hit 1111 walls so hit this plus six you will okay yeah oh so 1111 Yeah
Unknown Speaker
it was an eight earlier yeah
Unknown Speaker
so you know just made it a little sick
Timothy (DM)
all right. You made it a little sick how much damage do you do with your little thick
Unknown Speaker
it's gonna be a 16
Timothy (DM)
Is this poison damage?
Unknown Speaker
It is cool.
Timothy (DM)
So it actually works so that it shrivels it starts to shrivel is much smaller than it was before but still moving
Unknown Speaker
well but it doesn't split into did not slip it in good to know. A river it also OOP in the future.
Unknown Speaker
It has to take a constant make a constitution saving throw. Okay, and if it fails it's poisoned until your next turn
Timothy (DM)
our right so I have a feeling it's going to fail I got a 13 that that feels alright, so it is poisoned you see it let's add a little cough plates What are you doing?
Unknown Speaker
I'm going to use my bonus action to move the heavy metal loot playing fairy Torrance so you heal for another one to six
Timothy (DM)
to this heavy metal running out
Kendrick (Yonce)
for yay
Unknown Speaker
that's it starts gracefully floating gracefully every but then also screaming like
Kendrick (Yonce)
it's melodic.
Unknown Speaker
Well and keep in mind this isn't a lute so it's not an electric guitar it's did he did it but like in hardcore
Timothy (DM)
any of our listeners want to mock up what that sounds like feel free to do so I'm sure I would be eternally grateful. Yeah, so it's following you and I'm
Unknown Speaker
gonna knock two more arrows. The not so great looking one. Ooh, those are both 24 and 2224 and
Timothy (DM)
22 they both hid
Unknown Speaker
and that is scant booty 15 piercing damage
Timothy (DM)
fifth. Teen piercing damage. It's a letter it is so splattery more still powering
Unknown Speaker
the battery is the bladder.
Timothy (DM)
More pouring out of the tree though. What are you going to do? What do you what are you doing?
Unknown Speaker
We're gonna run southwest southeast if you will.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Come on Diane Weast
Timothy (DM)
Okay, so you start running south waist
Unknown Speaker
because they can only travel 20 feet
Timothy (DM)
can you make me a dexterity saving throw blades?
Unknown Speaker
Why? Because I'm still burning.
Timothy (DM)
Just just make a directory saving throw no reason that
Unknown Speaker
night you ha dirty 20
Timothy (DM)
I so you see a blur motion of your eye towards you. It goes to reach for the katana
Unknown Speaker
or you to the katana towards the tree
Timothy (DM)
you see the motion coming towards you? It goes to grab for the katana you lift it up and eat it towards the tree the blur of motion continues past you towards the katana picks it up flies towards the tree slashes into the oozes pouring out and wedges the katana into the tree.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Are you serious?
Timothy (DM)
That's all we had to do in billers off into the distance. What you think you saw was not a small form, maybe four foot five with a flowy gray silvery cape and wings and maybe a crown of thorns hard to tell in all of the speed that it just moved past you. But it has gone
Unknown Speaker
well that takes care of that.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I walk Why limp towards
Unknown Speaker
Tor Acid towards
Kendrick (Yonce)
blades Am I slap them
Unknown Speaker
three health leftist it's a slap not a punch.
Kendrick (Yonce)
It's a bitch slap
Timothy (DM)
we're not gonna make you do death saving throw is because Yonsei slapped. Okay,
Unknown Speaker
cool.
Unknown Speaker
So we got so
Kendrick (Yonce)
this is fucking serious. Why would you go to a black tree pull out a katana? I just almost died. We are nowhere near Ilrune Because of your freaking antics Get it together right?
Unknown Speaker
I look could have seen that coming.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, did you sister? Well,
Unknown Speaker
it was a bit predictable without the visions.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I look at both of them. Do you either you understand how important Upri is in my life? And how much I miss her. Pull it together. You said you can help me find her. Help me find her. Please. And I just start to cry a little. I'm so exhausted. And then Yonce falls to her knees. His knees
Kendrick (Yonce)
in starts kind of crying. Oh, not kind of is crying. Yeah.
Timothy (DM)
Oh,
Unknown Speaker
it's really comes over and gives you a pat on the on the shoulder. We really do want to find her. We really do. I know she means a lot to you. And I do believe that finding her is the key to everything else that is going wrong in this world. Oh, you stand out. Today not mentioned that. Maybe it was in my head. But yeah, no, this is for Yonsei and everyone.
Unknown Speaker
Oh yeah, we've
Unknown Speaker
we've got to find her.
Unknown Speaker
Alright, I will resist the future. shinies I'm so sorry. Thank you. Maybe lay down somewhere I feel a bit woozy. And then I throat blood.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Beyonce just keeps crying. And I'm kind of you just see them not off to sleep. So they're not moving.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, perfect. This is a beautiful space in the goopy ground and to take a long,
Timothy (DM)
long rat in the middle of the
Unknown Speaker
day so that we travel at night.
Timothy (DM)
Time has been quite interesting. Oh, we
Unknown Speaker
missed the opportunity. We should know if we took a nap. If we took an eight hour rest and the time dilation it would have been like 100 years
Timothy (DM)
no would be I would have had a lot of figures.
Unknown Speaker
I choose to lay down in the fetal position.
Timothy (DM)
I can wake up and the entire planet is gone. Sorry, that would never happen. No, yeah. What is going on?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, and I tried to do I want to cast prestidigitation
Unknown Speaker
to just a didja permutation.
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, there's a lot of consonants and vowels in the middle there. Yeah, everyone just
Unknown Speaker
Digitation to try and just clean up.
Timothy (DM)
Come to a common consensus that the word is not pronounced how it's spelt. Okay.
Unknown Speaker
Digitation
Timothy (DM)
it's awful. All right, you clean up the mess. Everybody looks all lovely. Kind of I
Unknown Speaker
hope there's a bunch of holes in my
Unknown Speaker
feminine. I can't fix that. Yeah, that's
Timothy (DM)
unfortunately, amending could potentially fix it. If anybody had been doing. We could try that.
Unknown Speaker
Alright, that's it, says the Ranger.
Timothy (DM)
So you're at an AC 15 blades. And Yonsei is an AC 13
Unknown Speaker
tool. You remember that? Because I don't know how to update.
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, I'll remember that. So yeah, that's you. Y'all want to try to set up camp here or take a short rise like what what will the owl feel in?
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I felt like we should take a long dress. I think it's just time to sleep.
Unknown Speaker
While I do second that sentiment, we will then wake up in the middle of the night to travel.
Timothy (DM)
I mean, you could take a long breath but then also just like take a break. Just vibe. Just wait out the rest of the afternoon and go to bed.
Unknown Speaker
Alright, we'll just go home for the day. How far away is that mellow with the flute?
Timothy (DM)
It wasn't too far that you pass the meadow and with that you start to hear a flute on the distance but this time to the self
Unknown Speaker
as an IT got ahead of us Yeah, se I mean all right, who wants to take first of all lunch?
Unknown Speaker
I can I'm the only one that didn't get covered in acid perfect perfect
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
as you do that I'm gonna just cast false light on myself so I can get eight temporary hit points until we finished a long rest
Timothy (DM)
all right all right.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
No,
Timothy (DM)
no, I just roll the dice calm Wow
Kendrick (Yonce)
That sounded my sleep pump Danny roll kindred cast throw hands
Timothy (DM)
um, I mean what are you all doing during this time? So you go to try to take a long rest first or are you going to do
Unknown Speaker
blades is going to knock the fuck out for the next eight hours?
Timothy (DM)
Are you setting up a camp are you just like laying down in a bush?
Unknown Speaker
I'm at least getting a sleeping rollout and just collapsing on it it's the middle of the day we don't need a fire I'm not going to cook food yet.
Timothy (DM)
Cool Cool. Blades collapses on their sleeping mat. Bed roll
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei is just knocked out I think the emotions and everything have just knocked her out so no bed roll this on the grass injured. She only had enough oh my god why am I not getting my pronouns? Right? I don't know. Because everyone else already done in real life I call everyone like she unless like they know otherwise to parse queer queerness blah blah blah. You can read a book about that. Anyways, he does cast forth life men's knocks out as one single tear floats from their eye as they fall asleep.
Timothy (DM)
It's gonna be cool thing.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I didn't say thug tear. I just said regular tear this time. Tear. Oh, I
Timothy (DM)
didn't know there was a specification last time last season
Kendrick (Yonce)
I kept saying cloud tear. You didn't know what that meant. So I had to be like it's a black thing. Once again I am black everyone
Unknown Speaker
don't have me
Timothy (DM)
Alright, so you knock the fuck out. And smelly has first watch. It's true. You watch over your two other party members. Do either of you snore
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
in real life? No. Okay. Oh no,
Timothy (DM)
no. Me sinners. Okay, fine. Peaceful watch the peaceful watch. You listen to the birds chirp you listen to the flute in the district blitz
Unknown Speaker
notice Nord an earlier episode. You did something I'm burning seven bonds. Obviously talk you sleep slipped on another's.
Timothy (DM)
You listen to the birds chirp. You hear the flute in the distance. And you occasionally hear blades mud or something under his breath. And as the afternoon draws on, the flute continues to play and it's slowly blends into like a chorus
Unknown Speaker
Yes, this is quite nice. Yeah.
Timothy (DM)
Just kinda lolling the afternoon about and several hours go by uneventfully programming we get our full health back. Who has second watch.
Unknown Speaker
I suppose I will. That interrupts mostly probably
Timothy (DM)
is for all we all are doing watches and takes 12 hours for everybody to get their eight hours asleep
Unknown Speaker
perfect. So I will wake up and do an on second watch. I would like to see if I can try to repair my scale mail. I I have an herbalism kit. So I'd like to try to find herbs that I could possibly mash up with a more in a pestle and use as an adhesive. And then I want to use the clippers and the herbalism kit to take apart my water skin which is leather and try to like do a patch job. Night maybe unweave my rope Kukuku use it as thread.
Timothy (DM)
So on second watch. Now, rolling on go take a little nap. Second watch you You are gonna go try to find some herbs. Not too far. Not too far. You gotta you gotta keep track of what the heck's going on here. Give me a Nature check as I roll another dice 1313 I think with a 13 We're going to struggle to find what we need as an adhesive.
Unknown Speaker
Thread it is.
Timothy (DM)
So give me a sleight of hands to thread. And so patch job
Unknown Speaker
3020
Timothy (DM)
Alright, so we'll say that is going to repair your armor enough to increase your AC up one. I'll take every point of AC makes a difference.
Unknown Speaker
Can you do that when mine
Unknown Speaker
you got to water skin.
Timothy (DM)
The rest of your watch is rather uneventful. You hear the chorus of flutes in the distance as the sun begins to set it is now time for third watch with Yonce anything that you're doing while you're awake
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonce doesn't have a selling kit you better not You better not roll that die. Don't do down there and what's really going
Timothy (DM)
on. I rolled the die.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I'm gonna look at my armor. Yeah,
Kendrick (Yonce)
and I can't really do anything cuz I don't have any mending stuff. So I'm just going to take it off since I'm on watch, I have time. Throw it onto the ground and just take out a parchment in my little ink pen and just start kind of doodling to bide my time. Just kind of getting my frustrations out trying to calm myself down. Maybe do some zentangles which is when you do with rep repetitious. Is that a word? I don't care design and it helps you calm me down. That's what I do.
Timothy (DM)
therapy with Yonsei Yes, yeah. Lovely. So yeah, all three of your watches go uneventful, which is cool. It is cool. It's so cool. And you wake up very early in the morning, given the time that she went to bed
Unknown Speaker
around lunchtime. long rest official a long
Timothy (DM)
rest is official help you get your spell slots back you got your help. Yes, let the fuckery continue EC still fucked.
Unknown Speaker
It is less far less. It's only half fuck tank
Kendrick (Yonce)
minds is still 100% Fucked.
Timothy (DM)
And by this time, the chorus of flutes has stopped just they did not play out throughout the night.
Unknown Speaker
It's very kind of maybe it was just a wandering theater ahead. They'd like the pattern flutes.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Israelian played up. So Yonce is going to go to them and say, Listen, guys. I want to apologize for my outburst yesterday. I
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
am a little stressed. And I feel like we keep getting distracted and we keep almost dying. And it feels like we're never going to get to Ilrune We're never going to find her and that's all I want us we're all even if it means sacrificing myself. I just want her back. So I'm sorry for my outbursts but can we please please try not to do anything stupid. My look at blades
Unknown Speaker
sorry, we're talking to me love
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei sighs and just Lozi was it important looks at Tsereteli and be like you heard what I said right?
Unknown Speaker
I did. I did. I know this has been hard. And who knew we would lose over a year or more. I'll speak to my brother in our own way and be sure that he gets the message of Don't be stupid a couple of real life to
Kendrick (Yonce)
get involved. Yonsei Yonsei goes up, grabs them both in this hugs them. Oh,
Unknown Speaker
I leaned into the hug and give you a little pat on the back
Unknown Speaker
and give him Are you like bedpans? Very little I don't like being touched but I'll allow it for now.
Kendrick (Yonce)
And then I immediately let go I'm like alright, let's keep going
Timothy (DM)
let's Yeah, what do you do this morning any
Unknown Speaker
should try to remind me to keep forgetting I roll with advantage for all survival tricks in a forest because that's my chosen Ranger yeah thing I keep forgetting definitely
Timothy (DM)
fact that up like the first 20
Unknown Speaker
roll is fine it's
Timothy (DM)
fine it's fine numerous died as a result but
Unknown Speaker
shit it's economical it's oh no no
Timothy (DM)
all right it's a funny forest
Unknown Speaker
so funny
Kendrick (Yonce)
blades do you want to lead the way?
Unknown Speaker
Oh yes southwest
Timothy (DM)
it was Yeah, give me a survival check with advantage
Unknown Speaker
double check the lever because I wonder if nature rolls and stuff also her advantage
Timothy (DM)
onshore
Unknown Speaker
1717
Timothy (DM)
All right. So we did roll we did roll it design rolls are fine there's nothing wrong with the roll
Kendrick (Yonce)
my hate I know.
Timothy (DM)
So you start your head
Unknown Speaker
Oh, I lied so it's not advantage my proficiency bonus is doubled
Timothy (DM)
proficiency bonuses
Unknown Speaker
but yeah my bed
Timothy (DM)
Alright cool. So you begin to set out
Unknown Speaker
and it can't become lost unless by magical mean
Timothy (DM)
and you are heading self
Unknown Speaker
Oh by my mother should have been very very different
Kendrick (Yonce)
mine does blade say this allow
Timothy (DM)
blades is like I just learned by mechanic function now.
Unknown Speaker
An hour or more difficult terrain doesn't slow us I'm alert to danger even if engaged in another activity. I can try creatures I can find twice the amount of food
Unknown Speaker
furious
Timothy (DM)
This is almost as bad as the chainmail mom
Unknown Speaker
this is my first time playing Ranger
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
wow my husband's going to have a strong word with no they're not no I don't think they are
Timothy (DM)
me you you are now moving south east I guess you're now allowed to get lost
Unknown Speaker
so we're going to break all of the mechanics and I mean it's also a magical for us
Timothy (DM)
it isn't magical horse funny for
Kendrick (Yonce)
spicy forks
Unknown Speaker
at this point I only know Norrell stereo as far as
Timothy (DM)
Okay, so we are moving south west
Unknown Speaker
you said se yes SE
Timothy (DM)
and you are making your way in that direction. You pass a boulder field as the ground begins to go down, you start to descend and you see off in the distance that the ground is beginning to descend into a swamp
Unknown Speaker
blades How about a Nature check? Want to check out
Timothy (DM)
this? Check. We're going to ask you about your mechanics.
Unknown Speaker
The air is humid. It smells funny.
Timothy (DM)
Did you really get an outline I did just one unit that there is a swamp ahead and it is in the direction that you are heading.
Unknown Speaker
Oh you won't say Do you remember a swamp on your way to Ilrune
Kendrick (Yonce)
I don't remember any of this. But it
Unknown Speaker
was different left at different paths
Timothy (DM)
through it could be global warming.
Unknown Speaker
Totally different climate out here.
Timothy (DM)
The pre industrial global warming
Unknown Speaker
might could be magically co host you know maybe there's an evil wizard out there who just wants to warm the planet.
Timothy (DM)
Air I don't like the climate in my current location and instead of moving I really going to heat up everything.
Unknown Speaker
I really want a beach beachfront property At the cost of half the globe Okay, so Alright, we see a swamp
Timothy (DM)
is the swamp, you're just sending it as well. And you see lots of things in the swamp, can we go around the swamp? So it sprawls out quite a bit or going through just potentially go around it. If you would like to go around it. Sorry herbalism to to tour.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Today's episode sponsor, knowing your mechanics
Timothy (DM)
to your own character sheet because the DM can only do so much I forgot
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I forgot to retool. So. I do have a water skin.
Unknown Speaker
It's D&D beyonds voltage automates so much that we don't need to see what we're actually
Kendrick (Yonce)
Triple H I didn't do D&D In the ad, so I didn't have to learn all this. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker
it's just like, we can't do math in our heads because we've always had calculators That's your problem. It's true.
Timothy (DM)
Would you like to try to go around the swamp or through the swamp? That is entirely up to you all to decide going around will take longer?
Unknown Speaker
I mean, part of me is like well potentially could
Timothy (DM)
be longer through the swamp giving
Kendrick (Yonce)
it a swamp.
Timothy (DM)
It's a swamp.
Unknown Speaker
I want some change of scenery. Let's go on through the swamp.
Unknown Speaker
I've just flashback to every time it goes through it you weren't even here for all the other time. This has been a breeze
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonce Bey is going to scream? Blades are you sure you want to do this? Yes member quicksand.
Unknown Speaker
Swamp is shman member the random trees
Kendrick (Yonce)
that almost killed both of us
Unknown Speaker
Kip I went pulling the swans out of swamp trees I don't
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Can I walk around the party
Unknown Speaker
it's gonna take days if not weeks. Who are on the swamp
Unknown Speaker
it's a swamp
Unknown Speaker
Yes correct.
Timothy (DM)
Blades Nature check. Good verb
Kendrick (Yonce)
so rally What do you think?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, I'm getting quite quite tired of all of the nature I love nature.
Unknown Speaker
Too much of a good thing system.
Unknown Speaker
Can I take a closer look at this swamp to see if I can assess yeah how gnarly of a traverse this might be
Timothy (DM)
assessed swamps with Are you a nature proficient person? Check on this.
Unknown Speaker
I'm gonna do a vibe check. Yeah, I
Timothy (DM)
do vibe check. Okay, so give me our economy
Unknown Speaker
roll. 1313 is just a magic as well.
Timothy (DM)
The residual magic of the swamp is no more or less than the rest of the forest. So forest is kind of coded in this like flow of arcane. And the swamp is no different. Nothing particularly strong in any direction. No inklings of a particular type of magic that has shifted just swamp in the Enchanted Forest.
Unknown Speaker
Right which could mean anything. But the vibe is generally swampy.
Timothy (DM)
The vibe is genuinely swampy it is a swamp vibe.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I think at this point Yonsei is always just going to refer to Sahrawi blade system thing not smart
Unknown Speaker
Wow. That was but the so sister we're going through all around you're the tiebreaker Don't worry I won't hold it against you. I say we go around I take back what I said all right around it
Timothy (DM)
is around and around and around it is so give me another Nature check as you begin to traverse survive round survival check
Unknown Speaker
and no dice were thrown
Timothy (DM)
yet New Day have been thrown yet. There will always be died to throw the plus
Unknown Speaker
nine for survival. So we still in the forest because we didn't go into this well. Yes. My workout Well,
Timothy (DM)
mechanically, you're still in the forest.
Unknown Speaker
1818.
Timothy (DM)
So you go around the forest, the swamp, you go around the swamp. It is WAMP has established a previous
Unknown Speaker
episode called title. It's a swamp
Timothy (DM)
Seagull around the swamp. And it is a rather large swamp. So you are going quite some time around it.
Unknown Speaker
Days.
Unknown Speaker
Plenty still have this snack. Oh, Meredith. Well, I was given snacks. Oh, why don't you? I suppose that was a long time ago.
Unknown Speaker
Oh yeah. There was a couple of loaves of bread. I remember specifically asking for lifts.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
It has been a year. Okay, no snacks. Okay, carry. I
Unknown Speaker
mean, the snacks one. Yeah, we have snacks. I had to use a loaf of bread. And some. I started munching dried berries and nuts. Yeah, perhaps a piece of jerky or two. Thank you.
Timothy (DM)
Wonderful. So you make your way around the swamp. And you get to a point that is on the other side of the swamp, south of the woods from where you started at the other edge of the swamp, and you break away from the swamp and continue on South.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Hopefully we're getting closer to Ilrune.
Timothy (DM)
And that's when you find yourself walking along a particularly wide path. heading directly south where you need to go. So why not walk down the particularly wide path? Yeah, it seems safe. And Sorelli. You notice in the bow the tree is a little cat. As you look up at it, it knows
Unknown Speaker
male or female back.
Timothy (DM)
As you look down another cat is rubbing up against your leg.
Unknown Speaker
No, no, I double Mia
Timothy (DM)
is purring up against your leg.
Unknown Speaker
Can I pull it back? I'm overwhelmed with the cuteness of the cat. So
Timothy (DM)
the rest of you start to notice that there are cats all along this path poking out of the shrubs hanging from the bowels of the trees.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, so cute.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei is not a fan of cats. So Yonsei is a little freaked out. Guys. I think we need to keep moving. This feels a little weird.
Unknown Speaker
I mean, it is quite a large number for this colony. But they must have some sort of food source to sustain themselves.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I don't know. I think we need to keep going.
Unknown Speaker
Do they look well? Like do they look well fed? Are they mostly like are they really skinny? Or in Insight check. Gross.
Unknown Speaker
Are they evil?
Timothy (DM)
Give me a vibe. Give me 2121 They actually look well fed and groomed and taken care of.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, I think someone might own these cats. Does any of them have collars or no?
Timothy (DM)
No collars.
Unknown Speaker
Maybe it's just a healthy colony then. I think we're fine. Just keep going.
Unknown Speaker
Let's keep going. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker
they probably think we have food.
Timothy (DM)
All right. You continue on down path, eventually leaving the row of cats behind. Oh, they stopped. Yeah, eventually. And you continue on south through the forest. Give me another survival check. 21 All right. Chance dice rolls. Yeah,
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
man. Well, I took 42 damage.
Timothy (DM)
So as you continue on, through the forest, you pass over a small creek with flowers on its bank. You feel the warm breeze against your skin, as the sound of a flute, again begins in the distance.
Unknown Speaker
So really perks up
Timothy (DM)
south of you. Well,
Unknown Speaker
I mean, I guess if we bump into them, see who's been playing that flute, or do we want to try to go around?
Timothy (DM)
And the one thing that you have successfully avoided the flute
Unknown Speaker
I mean, we might as well. Aren't you curious? If it's a you know, a perky, pesky little Sator I mean,
Unknown Speaker
when you say it like that, that's
Unknown Speaker
fine. Right,
Kendrick (Yonce)
Sarah, you're the tiebreaker.
Unknown Speaker
We go. Mostly around. Yeah, buddy. Stay close enough to hear the music.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, good plan so you
Unknown Speaker
know which direction we're just from us, basically, we circumnavigate the flute equidistantly.
Timothy (DM)
Yeah. All right. And when you like to east or west around,
Unknown Speaker
let's go back East.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, wait, which
Unknown Speaker
way do we go around the swamp east or west? That's your choice. Whichever way we went, Well, I want to go back the other way to try to like okay level
Timothy (DM)
like level it out. Yeah. Cool. You can do that. See begin to circumnavigate the sound of the flute. Similar to last night. It begins as a single flute and grows into a small quartet.
Unknown Speaker
This multiple sites, please can we go check it out? We can be quiet.
Unknown Speaker
No.
Timothy (DM)
And you begin to walk around it then the sound moves to your left. And then eventually you put it behind you. And you continue on to the forest.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Whew. That was a close one.
Unknown Speaker
I mean, I've never met a musician. I didn't like just putting out I've met many. We have lived two very different lives.
Unknown Speaker
That indeed,
Timothy (DM)
and you continue on until the trees begin to clear out out in the canopy. And what you're left with are rows of twists, twisted trunks, branches, bear of leaves. And as you get closer, they have an oddly humanoid shape to them.
Unknown Speaker
Well, here they look like persons that have returned into trees.
Timothy (DM)
Grandmother Willow, you begin to inspect them a little bit.
Unknown Speaker
Can I tell if they're sick? They're sick, like wood blight and that's why they can be a menace and Jack? Really? It's medicine to see if they have blight? Yes. Do I get my extra proficiency bonus? Because the trees and I love them know how that works. It's a net one but net one. Seven because I feel a six and Madison.
Timothy (DM)
dB a new inspect the trees. The more you look at them, the more human they appear. You see the faces pressed into the wood? The cheekbones, the sunken sockets of an eye, a nose protruding from the face. And they're long, spindly branches bent at what seemed to be elbows. A pet but you should know what ailments affect them. If any.
Unknown Speaker
Dare I might say it I suggest we make like a tree and leave
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonce rolls his eyes.
Timothy (DM)
Everybody rolls their eyes
the trees have eyes.
Unknown Speaker
And you have your fun one shot title. The trees have eyes.
Timothy (DM)
Yeah, binary now. Sorry. ADHD. So yeah.
Unknown Speaker
Do we recognize the faces on the trees? Are they just kind of generic human looking faces? Specifically human
Unknown Speaker
or you
Timothy (DM)
don't really recognize them? There's several humans and one that looks like they may have been an elf.
Unknown Speaker
I still think we shouldn't I think we should turn around and that's me saying I don't want to be turned into a tree especially in sickly looking one What a miserable existence.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I agree. Oh, but real quick.
Unknown Speaker
I'm gonna pull out a deck and stab one of the trees to see if they live this escalate to
Kendrick (Yonce)
I don't want to become a tree let me stab it.
Timothy (DM)
These dabba tree eight stabs into the wood
Unknown Speaker
steps perfect yep no life left near alright Out we go no one needs to be rescued sort of stricken by stabbing them
Unknown Speaker
video I'll do it.
Unknown Speaker
We're leaving
Timothy (DM)
the tree. Okay, you're you're leaving. Yeah, I'm going what direction no goob menuing on pass them Are you turning around
Unknown Speaker
turning around and circumnavigating the death? Trap? The no we should go through not everything
Timothy (DM)
is a trap.
Unknown Speaker
No, I'm I'm not convinced that these people don't need our help.
Unknown Speaker
I mean, it looks like they've been trees for a while. Perhaps whatever caused this as long past
Unknown Speaker
sorrelli gets closer to the elf tree. Okay, and puts a hand on the elfs cheek. Oh, Oh can you hear me? You speak to me out
Timothy (DM)
you place your hand on his cheek you've been begin to speak to it you pause a moment waiting for a response and you don't get any just the rustling of the wind through the leaves of the surrounding trees
Unknown Speaker
maybe it can't speak so I'm going to use detect thoughts and see if I can hear any thoughts from the elf
Timothy (DM)
you cast attack thoughts and that is again like it's an AoE everything in the area you start to hear the surface thoughts may have to do a roll
Unknown Speaker
or Wisdom save what do you see 14
Timothy (DM)
So you cast desktop and I will need Yonsei and blades to also make their Wisdom save.
Unknown Speaker
Oh right.
Unknown Speaker
Oh right.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, I just I don't even
Timothy (DM)
allow you can allow
Kendrick (Yonce)
you gotta 16
Unknown Speaker
that's successful
Unknown Speaker
when I started
Timothy (DM)
so you at first only hear blades thoughts? Or dreams super familiar with a ton of smelt
Unknown Speaker
normal
Timothy (DM)
quickly brush those aside as you start to hear thing screeching almost like a person who has been screaming for so long that they've lost their voice Hmm. Crying out can you start to make out words
Unknown Speaker
you knew he was incredible. We we have to. We have to save the earth. And these people. They're in there. They're still alive. Blades. Well, we have to redeem ourselves.
Unknown Speaker
It didn't move.
Unknown Speaker
To redeem ourselves for all the things in the past. This is our chance we have to save these two people.
Unknown Speaker
Okay sister darling and the proposals on how we do so.
Unknown Speaker
Ah good question.
Unknown Speaker
They weren't affected by illness perhaps it is magical in nature. Are you getting anything Yonce Do you know of any spells that could cause such a thing?
Kendrick (Yonce)
To be honest No, I don't really have that knowledge of something that can do something like this I guess eletric class
Unknown Speaker
last year Hold on I'm going to I want to whisper a message to the elf
Timothy (DM)
all right what do you say
Unknown Speaker
we're here we're here how do we how do we get you out? Tell us what happened to you yes we want to we want to help me
Kendrick (Yonce)
out a bathhouse family origin podcast God fucking
Timothy (DM)
Okay, collect myself for just a moment it's just as I feared the darkness it's still here
Unknown Speaker
you getting anything what do they say?
Unknown Speaker
in its grasp
Unknown Speaker
as the darkness yes as in the darkness that your darkness
Unknown Speaker
Oh can I let them go? No, no so quite what I mean I mean like you know the darkness that folds.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, yes, I do I think it's connected
Unknown Speaker
I have no reason to doubt you opening well shouldn't be running then not staying
Unknown Speaker
oh that no no it's not that darkness it's the darkness the one that plagues and leaks the leaky
Unknown Speaker
darkness yeah
Unknown Speaker
not the following darkness that tickles your ankles.
Unknown Speaker
Oh I didn't think you saw that.
Unknown Speaker
Oh I mean I didn't shit so economical.
Unknown Speaker
So I guess I've still got this connection this communication Yep, yeah.
Timothy (DM)
And they I'm not going to do that voice anymore if they won't be able to talk the rest of the today but you start to hear this like swelling of scre G scratching voices calling out to you for help. And they are incessant asking for your aid. They keep referencing something coming something getting them something taking them something holding them trapped, unable to see unable to feel unable to hear all of them completely isolated. from anyone in anything. Even each other, you start to notice they cannot sense each other. They're all in their own prison.
Kendrick (Yonce)
It's terrible. It's like COVID Oh wow. So we should make you burn an orange and throw it out the trees. That's, that's okay.
Unknown Speaker
That's after they. Right. Well, sister, any suggestions? I feel like you're the expert here.
Unknown Speaker
That's right.
Unknown Speaker
Are the other trees telling you anything useful?
Unknown Speaker
They seem to be quite trapped. Clearly, and they have a warning for us. What? The darkness is coming. Oh, right.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Does this have anything to do it up? Very
Unknown Speaker
possibly.
Timothy (DM)
You have not heard anybody say the name operating?
Unknown Speaker
Well, how about we take a stroll on through and if we see come upon a means to help. We do so and if not, we can just hit it on the way back. See what we can do. Then.
Unknown Speaker
I send one more message to the elf to say. We'll be back. We'll be back for you. We must fight the darkness.
Timothy (DM)
They continue to call out for your aid.
Unknown Speaker
This is heavy with sorrelli. Suddenly she wants to get away from the screaming and away from the voices. And there's a bit more haste in her step.
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei tries to keep up.
Unknown Speaker
I hear nothing. So I just tried to diligently look for something besides the tree figures amongst them. Anything I called are of that nature.
Timothy (DM)
Give me an investigation
Unknown Speaker
by hell. So good investigating things. 1111
Timothy (DM)
Okay, you begin to examine the forest floor around these trees. uninhibited by the screeching voices because they're not happening in your head you don't find anything perfect. Just fallen twigs, leaves dirt. Just your regular old detritus.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, best I can guess it seems like this happened a long time ago. This has been here so what's a few more weeks if not months? You know?
Unknown Speaker
Mister whatever.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, right time is relative. So let's keep going south. All right.
Unknown Speaker
We press on.
Timothy (DM)
You press on. You leave this behind you just a nag you in the back of your head for eternity. Definitely not heavy. What a burden. What a burden. We have no means of loving mother survival check from age 13. All right, so you press on to the south, and blades is the first to notice that the ground has begun to too gray, as if it's being desaturated, sapped of color, you look at the shrubs, and trees around you. And their leaves are browning, falling to the ground. Everything seems as if it's sapped of life. On the further you press on in this direction, more so this becomes
Unknown Speaker
We must be getting close.
Unknown Speaker
Can I tell if this is a disease of blight? Does it seem supernatural?
Timothy (DM)
Give me a Nature check. Six it seems like something has killed the trees.
Unknown Speaker
No, I haven't done it through themselves.
Timothy (DM)
But the rest of you begin to notice. So we'd really like to make an AR Connor roll. Yes, I would. Or Yonce and Yonce Yonce. Do your icon URL for for
Kendrick (Yonce)
that is a 20 to 20
Timothy (DM)
here. So as you you begin to press deeper into the dead part of the forest Yonsei. You start to feel it this energy building. And at first you don't recognize it. But slowly, it seeps into your mind. And you remember where you felt this power before?
Unknown Speaker
Oh my god,
Timothy (DM)
you sense the portal
Kendrick (Yonce)
Yonsei takes a knee like it's very heavy. So I'm like, Oh, who
Unknown Speaker
are you writing? Do you need to break some water
Unknown Speaker
I think we're close
Unknown Speaker
to Ilrune already.
Kendrick (Yonce)
I've only felt this energy one other time. And it was when Upri was walking through that portal
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
we must be getting close.
Unknown Speaker
Alright, let's proceed with caution then, together quietly,
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
I slowly lift myself up.
Timothy (DM)
You lift yourself back up to your feet and stabilize yourself. And you the three of you begin to press on further quietly making stealth roles
Kendrick (Yonce)
got a four
Timothy (DM)
by 415 1513 13 All right. So you start pressing on further yourself and the world around you continues to shift as everything is dead. The color sapped from it. What was Browning leaves are now barren trees and gray trunks and you continue on. This goes on for some time as the environment continues to shift, grayer and grayer and darker and darker. Everything starts to kind of muddle together as the contrast of color is all but lost. And that's when the ground begins. to squish.
Unknown Speaker
Great. We ended up walking through the site after all.
Timothy (DM)
As you notice that this GUI, black ooze is pressing out of the soil as you step into it margu And you begin to trudge through this goopy soil with every press of your foot into the ground, more of it oozes out around your foot.
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Does it injure us in any way? No. It was not acidic. Luckily,
Timothy (DM)
it's not burning your shoes now.
Unknown Speaker
Are we the only living creatures in this part of the forest? Like, do we hear any birds? Do we see any animals?
Timothy (DM)
The forest has fallen silent. You do not hear or see anything.
Unknown Speaker
That's not good. That's great. Do you press on?
Unknown Speaker
I mean, we're in the thick of it now. So
Unknown Speaker
I feel we must,
Unknown Speaker
to the heart of the darkness.
Unknown Speaker
But I'm the one who makes bad decisions.
Timothy (DM)
You continue to trudge on through this gushy soil and kinda
Unknown Speaker
like it playing in mind as a kid thinking yeah, as you might know, I jump I jump a few times as if jumping in a puddle. kind of taken back to my child so rarely
Timothy (DM)
pull it together. Oh, sorry, sorry. So you continue trudging on through this goopy soil. And you see a math ahead of you. Kind of shrouded by the twisted trees. But as you continue getting closer, you start to notice. It's like a big ball of twisted, gnarled vines reaching up over a massive tree. And you notice something particular about this tree. It doesn't appear to be alive in the sense that you would expect with lush green leaves. But something about it is animated. There's color. For one. It's kind of a Blackie purple trunk. With veins of bright green, running up towards it, and you see a faint screen glow coming out from behind all of the brambles, but the brambles have grown up on to the tree, and it's hard to see much else.
Unknown Speaker
Was this in your vision Sr?
Unknown Speaker
I believe it was. I think we've arrived Yonsei Have you been here before?
Timothy (DM)
Yonsei as you look towards the tree, you survey the surrounding area. And you notice beneath the brambles ruins of buildings
Kendrick (Midnight Dunreath)
Wait a minute. Now this this, this couldn't be way that explains everything I think we're in your room.
Unknown Speaker
What I thought you said it was a village. It was Oh gods and say how can this be? What happened? I don't know.
Timothy (DM)
And that is where we will put a pause on today's story! Thank you all for joining us in this vile vignette as we plunge into the abyss. I hope you enjoyed this episode of Shadows of Prophecy. Join us next time to find out what becomes of Sorelli and Blades as they travel deep into the enchanted forest, and who they will come across.
I want to give a special thanks to JayCeeAitch (JCH) and Chris B, our fabulous patrons keeping the candles lit here at Goblin Forge. Your support has meant the world to us, and we are so greateful for your absolute generosity.
I would like to thank Scrubcast for some incredible sound mastering, music and effects. They have been so easy to work with and I highly recommend checking them out if you’re ever in need of audio editing, especially for their epic music and effects design.
I would like to thank Syrinscape for some outstanding atmosphere and music. Make sure you check them out at syrinscape.com. I use Syrinscape all the time at my game table and for our Twitch streams, and it adds that little something special to bring your players and audience into the story.
I would like to thank our players this evening. Kendrick, Russell, and Nicole. I'm so happy to have you in our cast and can't wait to hear what perverse adventures we'll find ourselves in next time.
Our Theme song was written by my brother, the chill electronic vapour soul artist Lusq. You should check out their most recent single, Gus.
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