Broken Glass- Part 4

So, you wanted a séance, did you???

Transcript

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 a cult, an aberration. We have myself Timothy as our ambivalent DM.

Speaker 2  
I'm Dan playing the mostly human scholar and Rogue and memory melder Ren.

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm Chris playing the tiefling cleric who got into the city second tier by bribing the feckless gondolier. Salvador Saltrose

Speaker 5  
was good. I'm rustling I'm playing Upri Uprielyn Half work Berzerker who is apparently all about her fingers.

Unknown Speaker  
And I'm Kendrick and I'm playing the half monk half are you monk who puts the Yonsei insei on say Yonce Bey.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah.

Speaker 1  
Last time on Shadows of Prophecy. Our party a woke after a night of euphoric imbibing. Set on paying a visit to the house of spirits the party makes their way towards the upper tiers of Harrow, a difficult feat for the two now aware apostates of the group. But not before checking out some catacombs running into a murdered mage and encountering an arcane bomb. The perfect distraction to pass through the orders checkpoint, and ride the gondola to the middle city. Ren pulled the attention of some guards losing them in the twisting alleys of the city, thus allowing everyone to meet up at the house of spirits just in time for a seance so let's get on with him.

Chris (Sal S)  
Didn't you do some parkour that was a very cool I'm hardcore it a little bit

Unknown Speaker  
I forgot

Speaker 1  
Did you miss me? Oh, don't worry. I've been watching or just between you and me. Me be I was giving some of the players just the little bit of a nudge is not explicitly against the rules. Well, I'm gonna go make myself a drink and join you for the show. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
I was getting chills when

Chris (Sal S)  
she where she from? Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
who is she?

Speaker 1  
All right, so we have just sat down on the table around the table with Madame Vera and begun

Chris (Sal S)  
our seance viruses with us as well as an iris

Speaker 1  
is with you as well. She's sitting at the table as you look at the two ladies. You realize they must be related sisters event

Unknown Speaker  
Oh iris and the madam. Yes. Oh,

Unknown Speaker  
there's blood between them. Now that was an insight

Speaker 1  
so, at this point, Madam Vera is holding blades sword. You are all holding hands went up and down with candles lit in front of you.

Unknown Speaker  
lorem ipsum

Chris (Sal S)  
Homina Homina Homina

Speaker 1  
volume is silence. As Madame Vera looks at each one of you around the circle

Speaker 1  
she spins her eyes to the back of her head. Her head shoots upwards towards the ceiling she whips her head to Yonsei

Unknown Speaker  
you don't say is that? Is that you? What? Where are we? What am I doing here?

Unknown Speaker  
Blades.

Unknown Speaker  
Well, who else would it be? Yonce. Where's the rally? Well, we

Speaker 4  
Yonsei eyes are very be wide open in huge shock. Wait. You?

Unknown Speaker  
You don't know. Know what?

Unknown Speaker  
You died

Unknown Speaker  
That's preposterous. I would never die.

Speaker 1  
Madam Vera body twitches her neck cracks

Unknown Speaker  
yeah

Speaker 5  
that was a weird kink. It where are we? It's so dark here in cold. Do you have a torch? Did we ever find your sister?

Unknown Speaker  
We did but not before you died?

Unknown Speaker  
I don't remember. We were in that tunnel Are we still there? Are we still in the tunnel?

Unknown Speaker  
No, we're not. What do you see around you?

Unknown Speaker  
It's just dark. You show you don't have a torch?

Speaker 4  
I don't think a torch is going to help you. Wilcock there was so much that I wanted to tell you before you died and who am I? didn't really expect to be talking to you again.

Unknown Speaker  
Right? Being dead No.

Speaker 4  
But I will tell you that your sister could be alive. Good I don't know how to say she got rotten skin and then entered the entered the void.

Unknown Speaker  
You don't say didn't they tell you supposed to have the dead wrist? Oops Oh Yonsei steal yourself I see.

Speaker 4  
Yeah, I'm still pretty much an asshole that most occasions

Unknown Speaker  
most attractive people are.

Unknown Speaker  
Saying does the weirdest giggle even in the dead, you still get my heart racing.

Chris (Sal S)  
This is a very interesting insight into Yonsei is life. shifted.

Speaker 1  
And with that Madam Vera just lets out a sigh and her whole body slumped forward in her chair. Her head Haines and she sits motionless for just a tip before she slowly picks herself back up again. I must go rest now. I bid you all farewell.

Unknown Speaker  
Wait, wait, wait, wait,

Unknown Speaker  
just get one.

Speaker 4  
What about blades? I didn't get to say the things I want to say to them.

Speaker 1  
Ah, Meteor. My skills. Well. True. I limited. Unfortunately. That is all the time that I have

Unknown Speaker  
today. But That's not fair.

Unknown Speaker  
The world is often cruel and unjust. You should know that by now.

Speaker 4  
Bullshit. Yonce gets up in this walks out. Yawn

Chris (Sal S)  
can we make an appointment for another day? Maybe tomorrow? Absolutely. Randy, have you want to get an appointment to

Speaker 2  
know I'm good luck. Speaking with the dead it's just I did that. I just don't want to do I'm good. Yeah.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, gotcha. Fabri

Speaker 5  
Yeah, I'm trying to think I feel like every day person I know. Probably wouldn't want to hear from me being the one that did them. Yeah, I think everybody I care about still alive. Knock on wood. She hits the table. Well,

Unknown Speaker  
I must be off now. Please, tell your friend that leads will always be with him. Hopefully they find some comfort in that.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm sure they will. Thank you, madam.

Chris (Sal S)  
I'll pick up the dagger that Yonce gave as the token of channeling

Speaker 1  
these things can often be quite jarring. So please take care.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, I guess we should leave you to Thank you. Let's go. Get

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So you get up and you walk out you go back into the tea room. You see the table that you were sitting at just moments before still has all your cups of tea there. And it looks like a fresh pot has been placed down for you. Is Yonce

Speaker 4  
sitting at the table Yonce is not sitting at the table.

Speaker 2  
So you don't say Okay, should we go find yon Yeah, should go find Yonce

Chris (Sal S)  
I think we paid for the drinks already. So we'll check out Yeah, is look outside sounds like an out.

Speaker 5  
I mean, don't we still a business here? Yeah, well, we

Unknown Speaker  
should go find Yonsei we can come back. I know. Okay.

Speaker 1  
So you pass by your table to leave. Ren you notice underneath your tea cup. There is a slip of paper. As you're passing by.

Unknown Speaker  
I will slowly grab it and keep walking.

Speaker 1  
Alright. you exit the house of spirits back onto the streets. You forgot that it was daytime with how dark it was inside?

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah. Yeah, I'm Where do you go? Yonsei turns around, I'm right here.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh. Are you sure? A lot sneakier about them. They are chainmail.

Unknown Speaker  
think there was a dig? Felt like a dig?

Speaker 4  
Yonsei rolls their eyes and you see that they have been crying?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, yawn. Yeah, was that

Speaker 4  
that was blade you didn't really get a chance to meet them. But he and his sister, the Israeli siblings, they helped me find you. And

Kendrick (Yonce)  
they're both technically gone. I don't know what happened to the sister and then just hearing his voice and just seeing how stupidly cute he still is even in death. Really. Just never got a chance to say goodbye that.

Unknown Speaker  
He seemed like a charmer. Yeah.

Speaker 4  
The good thing was he isn't he? And I appreciated that. And now look where I am here. Whatever. I'm just

Chris (Sal S)  
I mean, we can always try tomorrow. She can do them in time.

Speaker 4  
What is the point? Just we have a mission. Let's just fucking do it. Where are we going next?

Chris (Sal S)  
We might have to go back and do think

Speaker 2  
we have to go back inside. Oh, wait, hold on. Well, I'll take somebody that slipped us under my teacup. So unfold the note.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So you unfold this note and written quite hastily. You read the words. Oh, divine evocation. umber musk. Hale are Roos use supple pain again surely Solon words or Dean Rouge dames?

Unknown Speaker  
It's persons no Maya Angelou.

Unknown Speaker  
Is that in common

Timothy (DM)  
for rocks? Ill and never does show secrets tell and never die? Oh, I understood that all heed every ailing death

Speaker 2  
here any I need to I need to see that in person. I think it's an initialism I think so to wait

Chris (Sal S)  
to see what's on that note.

Speaker 2  
It's like a string of very feels like random words. The whole thing is Oh, divine evocation number musk. Hale are Roos use supple pain. Again surly sullen words or day in Rouge dame's for rocks ill and never does show secrets tell and never die. All heed every ailing death. Which feels like a random assortment of words.

Chris (Sal S)  
A very odd poem at least. But if you bring a good one,

Speaker 2  
and if you break up the first letters into different words, Odium, Horace, password, friends stand ahead. You yeah, those are

Chris (Sal S)  
all words. Do we know anybody named Horace Horace? Because the Odium was in that newspaper? Oh, was it? Yeah, there was an opera going on there.

Speaker 2  
Oh, Oh, Don Giovanni, right? I remember talking about that. Okay.

Chris (Sal S)  
Horus,

Unknown Speaker  
Horus. Well,

Chris (Sal S)  
God is course a god in the pantheon of this world now.

Unknown Speaker  
No, they are not.

Speaker 5  
Well, I mean, we can go to the Odium and see if anyone named Horace works.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, That's true. That's a solid lead.

Chris (Sal S)  
And the Odium is in this ring at the city.

Speaker 1  
Based on the map that you have gotten the Odium is actually in the it's an attack district. Yeah. In the upper tier.

Unknown Speaker  
So we gotta go through that again. Yeah.

Speaker 4  
Another canal. I mean, gondola. Yeah.

Speaker 2  
This one will probably have heavy, heavier, heavier Lee. Yeah, That's a word. I can't figure out. Aren't you a scholar? You listen, it was a long night.

Chris (Sal S)  
He's a scholar. But in terms of law, yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Metal courts asked me about

Unknown Speaker  
sternocleidomastoid. The shirt is the only one I know.

Unknown Speaker  
I know. You said it to me when we were kids.

Speaker 2  
But this gate is probably going to be heavier guarded than the one from before. If it's to the higher district, so we can't rely on you know, an unplanned bomb restricts the stick.

Unknown Speaker  
And I'm assuming we can't do any parkour. Probably not

Speaker 2  
up. What is the inner wall is at the same height?

Speaker 1  
About? Yeah, it's like tears of a cake.

Speaker 5  
Will. What about Iris? I mean, she seemed like she might be willing. She seemed cool. You know what I mean? Like, maybe not loud or stiff, like all the other clerics. No fans, so not here to call one to Oh, thank

Chris (Sal S)  
you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 5  
You know, anti establishment clerics or whatever.

Chris (Sal S)  
I guess we could ask her opinion on apostates. Although I feel like we did. Did we? She was saying that the state of the city was at tam Vanum was having a decline and was like called denomination

Speaker 5  
here. And she's one of those dominant done. She's one of those things declined. And so I mean, I don't know maybe she's helped religious refugees in and out of the city.

Chris (Sal S)  
We could ask open the door. I'll leave

Speaker 5  
the target up to you. Great. Oh, she

Speaker 1  
as you're having this conversation, your something catches your eyes. Salvador. Ok. plastered on one of the sandstone buildings down the street. You noticed that there are unwanted posters.

Chris (Sal S)  
I wander down the street to see if somehow our faces are on them yet.

Speaker 1  
It's luckily not like this. But there is somebody whose name is quite familiar to you.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yes. It looks like my sketches from the hall. It's flatland Purdue. He looks for like he's a very attractive man. He's attractive and like an old guy. Like a daddy says really? What do you think? Yonce if you had to rate this man pass left or right. burn burn Oh, I'm not familiar with that option.

Unknown Speaker  
I don't know what left to right means either. So

Speaker 2  
it's the speed dating tradition in certain cities where if you want to you like meet somebody and if you want to date them you say you know please go to my right. And if you don't then you say please go to my left Do you like swipe them?

Speaker 4  
Say looks at both of them in weird confusion. What about this meeting someone and going with the flow?

Unknown Speaker  
Or just that telling them you're not

Speaker 2  
interested? Well in like bigger cities, like we don't really much have the time to like, just be chill and meet somebody. So like having a little line of people available to you. It's

Unknown Speaker  
a weird Matan day,

Speaker 2  
kinda. Yeah, we host we host speed dating at my establishment sometimes. Request really likes it for whatever reason.

Unknown Speaker  
It's saying, I don't care. Fair enough.

Chris (Sal S)  
But this is somebody that we're interested not. We're interested but not in a romantic way.

Unknown Speaker  
We're just looking for this person.

Speaker 4  
Are you sure you will ask me to rate them in attractiveness?

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, you did. So

Chris (Sal S)  
how old is this poster?

Unknown Speaker  
It looks recently glued.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay. Well

Unknown Speaker  
it's recently glued.

Unknown Speaker  
So who is the violin?

Chris (Sal S)  
Well, maybe we shouldn't say this out in the street.

Speaker 2  
Yeah, well, it's we'll just take this pocket.

Chris (Sal S)  
Sure. I Look around.

Speaker 1  
As you're having this conversation you hear some footsteps on this cobblestone, a shovel. A woman turns the corner as you shove the poster into your bag.

Unknown Speaker  
Hello. I waved politely.

Speaker 1  
If she wears a white calf tan with a blue headwrap says the same woman. She's walking alone quietly.

Unknown Speaker  
Does she respond to my polite wave and greeting?

Speaker 1  
Her chin lifts up a little bit? And she gives you a very kind of shy wave back and smirk slightly as she passes by. nods and continues on her way.

Chris (Sal S)  
Do you know them?

Speaker 2  
No, I just want her to pretend to be casual. Just being casual casual. Yes,

Unknown Speaker  
very nonchalant. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
She reaches the end of the street and turns.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay, bye.

Speaker 5  
Bye. What what do we do with this unremarkable information?

Speaker 2  
Well, we should go talk to that one. cleric whose name? Iris,

Unknown Speaker  
the cute one. Yeah,

Speaker 2  
we should go talk to Iris. Because maybe she can help us get into the upper crust. Ethnicity.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
So I'm confused a little as Yonce like turns. Oh, good. So there's this person this vlog this Purdue dude. And then we are shall not be named. Who will not be named sure whatever who gives us flying? Per Diem.

Speaker 4  
So we have to get into the upper crust to meet this person. I'm just know there's so many things happen.

Speaker 2  
I mean, maybe so we are following the lead to go to the podium, which means we need to get into the upper crust. But flatland Purdue is someone that we know of from our time in valerian, which is a city an older city. Yeah. But he is connected with a group that we have information about. Yeah, so we're trying to the end goal is him and we think that going to the Odium might lead us to his organization or to him

Speaker 4  
so it's another adventure on top of the adventure we're already doing right now on top of another adventure that we're already doing

Speaker 2  
no this this is like the end goal of the adventure just confirms that he's here. Probably hopefully

Chris (Sal S)  
we're trying to figure out we're trying to get some background around his group that he's a part of

Speaker 4  
Yonsei looks very this over it. For lack of better term. Fine, whatever. Just let's go. Let's do

Chris (Sal S)  
it. This is connected to your your reason why you came to the city.

Unknown Speaker  
I came for free.

Unknown Speaker  
Upri came to the city.

Chris (Sal S)  
Well, yeah. Upri and Yonce. Both got that reading from the magic person. Right?

Speaker 4  
No. Yonce is this supporting Upri in her fantastical travels. Yes,

Chris (Sal S)  
I'll keep up. No, but I feel like that was that was whenever we talked you had gotten some missive from a lady to take over the city and meet these people

Speaker 5  
either. That was me. I was in the the in place. Yeah. Anyway. Yawn. We're supposed to be here. It's important.

Speaker 4  
Yonce rolls his eyes. Okay, cool. Let's just go. I don't know.

Chris (Sal S)  
Let's go into this. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
let's go back into the house of spirits. Um,

Unknown Speaker  
we'll go to the door.

Speaker 1  
All right. You push open the door and enter into the now familiar space. The flickering of candle lights behind the red and purple glass of the lanterns. washes over you in a wave of McCobb ambiance

Unknown Speaker  
Pictionary. Cool,

Unknown Speaker  
I guess look for Iris.

Speaker 1  
All right. You make your way into the house of spirits. You still see that your table is still set. Iris does not seem to be present for the moment.

Speaker 2  
I guess I'll peek behind the curtain just to see if she's back there. So ever so casually.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So you go over to the purple curtains. You pull them back and you look into the sands parlor itself. You see Iris going around the table taking away cups that had been placed there putting the candles away, just kind of tidying up after the previous session.

Speaker 2  
I'd like to try and I guess wafer down from the entrance to the garden.

Speaker 1  
Oh, Meteor. Did you forget something?

Speaker 2  
Uh, no, we had a couple questions for you, actually. And I assure everybody in behind the curtain, I wave everybody over. Hello again. Is it okay if we just congregate here really quickly?

Speaker 1  
Oh, absolutely. I'm just tidying up.

Speaker 2  
We are. Needless to say, we are not from around here if you couldn't tell. And we were hoping to get to see the performance of Don Giovanni. Up at the ODM. Oh, lovely, but we weren't sure about the best way of getting to the upper city. And we were concerned about because the guards seem very on edge all the time. And so we were wondering what your best advice would be

Speaker 1  
there. I has similar issues. There is an alternative way up. Oh, I think I can trust you. She kind of looks at all four of you.

Speaker 5  
Yeah, absolutely. No, punch her in the arm. Sure. But when I do, punch her and give her a little magic.

Speaker 1  
If you make your way to the middle residential district, the Eastern one just below the theater actually. along the wall. You'll notice a couple of stones that are loose. Pull the bottom one out and say the password.

Speaker 2  
Okay. Should this be done? Like under the cover of night fall?

Speaker 1  
I mean, make sure nobody sees or hears you isn't

Speaker 2  
in a secluded place. Somewhere like fail. Okay,

Unknown Speaker  
give an ally.

Speaker 2  
All right. Well, we appreciate that. Thank you.

Speaker 1  
Absolutely. Anything else I can help you with? Would you like any more tea? Would you have some lovely biscuits?

Unknown Speaker  
Do they have crickets in them?

Speaker 1  
And no, would you like some with crickets? I do believe they sell some in the shop down the street.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay. Thanks.

Chris (Sal S)  
Cricket biscuits. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
I've never had a cricket biscuit before.

Speaker 5  
There's a name for it. It's like the flour made out of crickets. Oh, it's called Cricket Flour is that which is misleading? You can accidentally buy it and eat it and not realize oh, I forget though.

Unknown Speaker  
Is that what you have in the forest? Do you do a lot of cricket baking?

Speaker 5  
Not me personally. But there was a time when we enjoyed many cricket biscuit and candied bacon. You know, for the MyStyle to me, yeah.

Speaker 2  
Anyways, Iris, thank you so much. We will be on our way. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker  
It's been a pleasure.

Speaker 4  
As everyone is leaving, or I'm assuming that we're all leaving at this point. Yonsei is going to look down like oh, wait, I forgot something. Let me just go grab it and I'll come I'll be right back. Is Iris still where she was when we left?

Chris (Sal S)  
were we just talking to her? You're just talking to her?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, yeah. She's standing in front of us. Oh,

Speaker 2  
she's leaving and so yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
She's still there.

Speaker 4  
Yonce is going to get closer Iris give her this and I open up my pouch and I give her a cloth that used to belong to blades like it was part of blades outfit. If she gets any more visions or gets the chance to speak to blades, can you tell her that I told blades that it would have been nice to get to know them more after this adventure and I'm sorry that I couldn't do anything to save them.

Speaker 1  
She smiles as she takes your hands with the cloth and just kind of like holds you there for a moment looks you in the eyes made here. Know You should hold on to this.

Chris (Sal S)  
No freebies.

Speaker 1  
Talk with them. When you're ready. Find a quiet place and tap into that. They'll be listening.

Speaker 4  
A single tear drops from Yan says eyes. Thank you. Thank you

Unknown Speaker  
She smiles and nods

Speaker 4  
Yonsei turns around and walks out.

Speaker 1  
You step out into the street. It's still the time. The rest of your party is standing there waiting for you. Okay, let's go

Chris (Sal S)  
off to the theater.

Unknown Speaker  
I just left this cloth in there and I just want to grab it before.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, good. Glad, Greg.

Speaker 2  
Glad you got it. All right off to the alleyway. On the eastern side. The middle residential district.

Chris (Sal S)  
Is the password horse.

Unknown Speaker  
Friends.

Speaker 2  
That piece of paper again, yeah, friends. Stand ahead. Friends. Thank you. Wow, memory. Good job is selective.

Unknown Speaker  
Yonce Bey looks at Upri Very impressed.

Speaker 1  
Dang. All right, begin to walk down the street towards the Eastern residential district. It's on the other side of the city. So it might take some time.

Speaker 2  
On our walk, I'd like to hang back and also like, you know, give Yonce just like you know, where you like, Pat somebody's arm to be like, hang back with me for a little bit as they walk. They walk forward, you know what I'm saying? I'm going to hold you back a little bit so that they walk forward.

Unknown Speaker  
That's called talking to me. Yeah, but I went

Unknown Speaker  
to like, away from tap on

Unknown Speaker  
the shoulder that kind of has like a little bit of a grip to it. Yeah,

Speaker 4  
you know, I'm saying the youngster is gonna be like, Oh, just just gonna just shrug. Shrug the shoulder like the just like just like hang back

Unknown Speaker  
a little bit, hang back a little bit.

Chris (Sal S)  
reading good books.

Unknown Speaker  
The selection library in the void wasn't great.

Unknown Speaker  
Yonce takes a bath.

Speaker 2  
Wren is going to take out their journal that they keep and wrestle through it and find the portrait of Wesley or lark, and depending on who you are, and I'm going to just pass it over to you. So this is That's Wesley we knew each other during the war. I don't know how to say this, because I'm not good with like, feelings and words. But I kind of know what you're going through. He died towards the end of the war. We're very close. If you go, wink wink if you get what I'm saying. They were best not to say that I never know what you're going through. But I can have somewhat of an understanding of how you feel. I wouldn't wish what I went through on anybody else. But if you ever need anything, just let me know.

Speaker 4  
Yonsei looks at the picture. then hands it back.

Unknown Speaker  
I take back my put everything away.

Speaker 4  
Thank you wasn't really expecting someone that I could have had a relationship with to come back from the dead to speak in the voice of an old woman. So there's kind of going through a lot, but

Speaker 2  
the voice change was jarring. Yeah. And we didn't even know this person. And that voice change was jarring.

Speaker 4  
But thank you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2  
Yeah, if you ever want to just like share memories about that person? Obviously, I didn't know them. But sometimes it's good to talk about them. Which I should do more of. I'm bad at that. Anyways, That's it. I feel awkward now.

Speaker 4  
We should catch up. Yeah. Upri about those books.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah. What books was it again? I mean, they just had one. Yeah, we did, though. Was it smart? No. It was more like throw my hands. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2  
I like to think that they're smart and the void. Only smart in the void,

Speaker 5  
even though all right and then and then a proposal. Hey, Yan, hang back for a bit.

Speaker 2  
So have you read any good books? Like I mean, we've been I mean, I know what books you're reading. Oh, yeah. Take a note. I

Chris (Sal S)  
think we've talked about that. Yeah.

Speaker 4  
So Yonce is going to look at Upri Why is everyone asking me to hang back?

Speaker 5  
Because you're being your normal moody diva sales you know, heartburn sleeve? You know, all that stuff. I'm bad at it.

Unknown Speaker  
I get it.

Speaker 5  
But I just want to tell you something that nobody ever told me when we were younger. Remember? Remember pug pug my pet tote?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh yeah. I remember Yeah, remember

Speaker 5  
how devastated I was when Pokeball got squished you know that one of the many times I took the chore wheel off the wall and tried to

Speaker 4  
throw it Yeah, that you it felt like you were aiming it directly at pug. But

Speaker 5  
yeah, that that was a dark time for me. Anyway, named him pardon some great words. They helped me ease the person of pug pug. And that was Don't cry because it's over smile because it happened. So when you look back at your friend, try to think Think of it as you had the time to, you know, get to know them. It was brief, but it sounds like it was great the time that you did spend with them and focus on that and not all the not all the things that could have been. But all the things that were and how wonderful they were. Shit. I am good at this

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Yonce kind of just looks to the left and to the right. That is a lot of emotional depth right there. I am. Impressing 2% scared of you right now. Um, but thank you. I appreciate it. I didn't I didn't know why everyone's making this about me.

Speaker 4  
I Blackeye but I don't know. I this I needed to say something. All right. Well, all right. I'm also

Chris (Sal S)  
doing a walk. Yeah. Keep going.

Unknown Speaker  
me down. Okay. Okay, let me put me

Unknown Speaker  
on that. Him them.

Speaker 1  
So you could have sworn you saw it a couple of times. Now. Just out of the corner of your eye all of us are like, I don't know. Maybe there. Maybe there was just something stuck in the corner. You had you rub your eyes a little bit? Nope. Sure enough. There's an eyeball on a pre shoulder right now. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Has that always been there?

Unknown Speaker  
Here's what what what's been wearing?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh my god. Ah.

Speaker 1  
So that that eyeball with the black pustules that you remember from the previous day? Night? Yep. Sitting on hub just sitting. Yep, everybody sees it.

Chris (Sal S)  
Now. That's how you got rid of that. Operator hub. You also sit on your

Unknown Speaker  
shoulder. Just scoop it.

Speaker 1  
You grab it. You squish into the pustules that surround it. And as you clamp your hand down on it. Your fingers past your air. It's gone.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, shade.

Speaker 2  
We all saw that. Right? Yeah. Okay.

Unknown Speaker  
Is there any residue on my shoulder? Oh, yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
There's like, goop on your shoulder.

Unknown Speaker  
scooping it off.

Unknown Speaker  
I pass up RIA cloth

Speaker 5  
Well, I mean, they've been multiple satins around the city rare. So.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, but it's on you. It seems like it took a liking to.

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, look at me and she flakes.

Speaker 2  
Well, maybe we just keep an eye out for them. I wink. Sorry, I just had to. Let's keep going. But keep an eye out for more of them. Well, once a hunch takes out. Wait,

Unknown Speaker  
is there anyone nearby?

Speaker 1  
There are people on the street? Oh, Nimrat. thing like as you're walking you past the occasional person. It's not particularly busy right now. But there are people walking about. Most of them are probably at work. Does anyone look at you in a residential area?

Unknown Speaker  
Do we get a lot of looks? Or about orange? I mean, I have a tree strapped to my back.

Unknown Speaker  
See, it's like seven feet tall.

Speaker 1  
You do get some lugs but they're like the standard like okay, you're definitely outsiders kind of blending in. But like not really.

Unknown Speaker  
It's not legal carrier tree. Yeah, we

Unknown Speaker  
got the carrier trailer. Or the fantasy realm people carry weapons on my tree. It's like an open carry state.

Speaker 5  
Oh, right. Oh, no. I no longer lock it. I like it evenly.

Speaker 2  
Could you imagine a DND universe that where you couldn't carry weapons with you?

Chris (Sal S)  
You just have to carry staffs around. Oh, it's

Unknown Speaker  
just a walking every once a month I mean, there is so sorry. I derailed

Speaker 1  
second floor window on your left.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh. What was you know? And then it's gone. Oh, another one. Oh, gosh. We better get out of this. We should keep moving. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Is it us or is it this area?

Speaker 2  
I don't know. I don't want it to be either. But I guess we keep moving. We'll find

Speaker 4  
out unless anyone else wants to pull me aside and talk about their feelings. So

Chris (Sal S)  
I put my hand on hang back for a little bit. I'll catch you later.

Unknown Speaker  
We'll have an emotional connection.

Chris (Sal S)  
I was gonna talk about books. But yeah, are we nearing the our goal of finding these stones.

Speaker 1  
So you have to pass through the financial district before you get into the residential district. You have to get to the wall. So you have quite a bit of time. And you may be 10 minutes in to your walk across the city. When you hear shouting down a nearby alley. People scream in response to it. And then more shouting, terrified scream, kind of anguish.

Speaker 5  
I guess now no one was saying the US Oh, peek down the alley.

Speaker 1  
We picked in the alley and you see a crowd of people kind of blocking almost as if they had come out of the homes on the street, and are all standing kind of crowded watching what's happening. You hear more shouting, and screaming and now shouting back and forth. But beyond this crowd of people,

Speaker 2  
is there anything that I could parkour up onto to see over the crowd of people like a dumpster or a box?

Speaker 1  
There's an awning. There's some crates,

Unknown Speaker  
I'd like to assist.

Chris (Sal S)  
On your shoulders. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2  
Yeah. Can I just sit on your shoulders really quick climbing? Yeah. I climb up off.

Speaker 1  
So you climb up on the shoulders. And now you have a better vantage point. You see that? There are several order members that have rounded ups and people in the streets. The people and the order members are the ones that are yelling back and forth.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, what's going on?

Speaker 2  
It's the it looks like some people on the order are rounding some locals up and pedestrians are pedestrians that are not the word. I'm looking for. Civilians, commoners not to arrest them. I don't care. It doesn't look like

Speaker 1  
they're getting arrested. Kind of Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Is there a scuffle or people fighting?

Speaker 1  
Yeah, there's a bit of a scuffle. It's getting quite rough. There are people being pulled into this like round up. And they're kind of fighting back. And at this moment, you see one of the people that was originally kneeling in the group, they get up and they start running down the other direction, an alley and you see a bolt of light flash through the alley, hitting them square in the back. Oh, they collapse to the ground.

Speaker 2  
Oh, they're tacking commoners? civilians. That sort. Isn't that good? That's not good. I look down at everybody.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, I feel this is a tricky situation to be in since you just ran away from the police.

Speaker 2  
It's true. We did just run away from the police. How many how many order members are there for

Chris (Sal S)  
nobody's being held there by force other than just

Speaker 1  
a small group of people? And everybody else is watching?

Unknown Speaker  
How far away are we 50 feet

Unknown Speaker  
stink cloud stink as well.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, That's probably if yours is a sure thing.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, is your yours is just you roll to see. You might get like a fireball. Mustard cloud.

Unknown Speaker  
If it's a fireball, then we're gonna be real trip.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. But yeah, I'll make it fog cloud.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. All right. Everybody roll initiative. All right. Would you get ring

Chris (Sal S)  
1511?

Unknown Speaker  
Not team.

Unknown Speaker  
I got a third team.

Speaker 1  
Nice. All right. So Salvador, you cast fog cloud? Where are you? centering it?

Chris (Sal S)  
I guess it probably be best on where the order is. So that they can't see.

Speaker 1  
All right. So you cast fog cloud and how big

Chris (Sal S)  
is it? It's a 20 foot radius. Okay.

Speaker 1  
And the alley begins to fill with fog. And you just starting to hear tons and tons of commotion. The order members start screaming to tell everybody to stay put. You hear people start running around you hear that the clumping of feet on stone operating? What do you do

Unknown Speaker  
random going in.

Speaker 2  
I mean, I feel like we don't need to fight them. We could just make sure that the people get away.

Chris (Sal S)  
That was my goal. At least to give them a smokescreen to slip away.

Speaker 2  
Can you get me close to the guy who went down got hit with the though somebody got hit by down that corner?

Unknown Speaker  
You got it to your knees?

Speaker 1  
The other end of the alley? Yeah. So through through the through the run through the fog cloud with

Unknown Speaker  
All right action a dash.

Unknown Speaker  
So you dash down the

Speaker 5  
clarify my normal walking speed is 46 seconds I need

Unknown Speaker  
you to do a deck save

Unknown Speaker  
d8

Unknown Speaker  
You just start pummeling down this

Chris (Sal S)  
lady really good clients do Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
I can see run like this

Unknown Speaker  
we addict save a deck save is it again something I can see?

Unknown Speaker  
No, here in the fog cloud

Unknown Speaker  
That's a three.

Speaker 1  
Okay, so you start dashing down this hallway alleyway and you hit the fog cloud your vision is fully blurred ran you can't see anything you feel the like moisture collecting on your face. And That's when there's a buildup there. Just a impact. Operate pommels through someone they don't know even who it was. What it was. They trip over them. Your full lung off upper shoulders ran you tumbled to the ground. Both of you are prone ran. What do you do you take? Oh, right, because I'm falling point of bludgeoning damage.

Speaker 2  
I don't think I don't think we were healed from our last fight. I'm still not a full HP.

Chris (Sal S)  
One was our last fight.

Unknown Speaker  
Was the previous day. Yeah.

Speaker 2  
We must not have just updated my character sheet My bad. I know right? Can I get at least a sense of where I am in the alleyway compared to where that person was? Like? Guiding bolted? I'm assuming

Speaker 1  
this uh, you're in the middle of the fog cloud at this point somewhere? Yeah, the person was probably just beyond the fog cloud.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm gonna go in the direction that I think they're in.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So you can continue to you get up, you run off. So with that dash, I think you probably got to the point of the commotion. A lot of stuff is going on around you at this point. Now even more people are running around, it's kind of erupted into chaos.

Speaker 2  
Do I find the person who was hit by you

Speaker 1  
stumble out of the cloud, you look around and you see their body? 10 feet away? You go on over to them? A check a pulse? You check for a pulse? Nothing? No happy

Speaker 2  
dead? Can I medicine my way to see if they are revival or not?

Unknown Speaker  
Give me a Medicine check.

Unknown Speaker  
This is what I'm good.

Speaker 1  
2525 All right. They seem to be on the brink of life. They've stopped breathing, their heart has stopped but they're still warm. And you think potentially it's been short enough bit of time that you could bring them back?

Speaker 2  
What I have used my action to dash Western, like get between getting up and running over?

Unknown Speaker  
No. Okay.

Speaker 2  
I will use my action to use administer aid, which is a maneuver that I have and give them 11 hit points. So probably backup to fall because they're a commoner.

Speaker 1  
All right, 11. Yep. As you begin giving them mouth to mouth resuscitation out there and you're doing the chest compressions. You're expanding their lungs trying to restart their heart. And they come to

Speaker 2  
I'm going to call over someone who's like run. I'm gonna grab somebody who's like running away. I'm assuming people are running. Yeah, people are running past you. I'm just gonna grab somebody who looks like a nice person. Right? And we just like we like help this person. Like, come on. Come on.

Speaker 1  
I'm gonna roll for that. Yeah, fair enough. They look at you and they just keep on running. Of course, you can see fear in their eyes.

Speaker 2  
Can you run Can you get up and go somewhere? Just gotta go. Get out of here. Get out of here. Follow those people.

Unknown Speaker  
Yonsei What are you doing?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I am going to dash so That's 60 feet. Just because I'm assuming I heard a Bri fall. Because how could you not

Unknown Speaker  
be Earth show?

Speaker 4  
Still, That's a compliment. So I'm gonna dash

Speaker 1  
alright, and you're dashing to Upri or you're dashing beyond the fog glad to Upri Okay, so give me one a deck save to a perception check.

Speaker 4  
So, doo doo doo I got one a dirty 24 deck Save and then what was the other one?

Unknown Speaker  
perception check.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay? I got a 19.

Speaker 1  
Okay, so you dash into the fog cloud. As you're running, there are people running the opposite direction. You bash into one person with your left shoulder, but just just a little clip. You kind of pivot around and you squeeze on through a crowd of people running away from the focal point. As you are running in your eyes are darting everywhere, you're you're looking for upgrades. And you see her green leg. The cloud, and you're able to rush on over to her. All

Speaker 4  
right. I'm gonna run over to Upri Are you okay?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, yeah, take worse tumbles. Alright, where's Wren? I feel like he went pretty far when we feel pretty good.

Unknown Speaker  
I have just appeared. I have no idea. I just want to see that you Okay, can you get up?

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, I think so. All right.

Speaker 4  
And then I guess That's my turn. I'm going to know how much I can really do.

Unknown Speaker  
That's all she helped me up. Yeah, as a nation.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, help up with an action.

Speaker 4  
I guess I have a bonus action where I can teleport somewhere else. But that felt like a dick move.

Unknown Speaker  
Where you can see.

Unknown Speaker  
Hi, are you okay? Misty step.

Unknown Speaker  
That's exactly it. So I'm done with my turn.

Speaker 1  
Alright, so as you are helping this person they've come to you notice that it is a woman with almost green like pale skin, like pale green skin. And she has this like Twinkle to her eyes. As you look down at her. She seems rather discombobulated like a little startled. She's breathing heavily. I think so. I I was going on.

Unknown Speaker  
That's not a discussion for right now you need to get move in.

Speaker 1  
So she uses you to kind of help herself up. She kind of presses up onto your shoulder. She kind of stumbles for her feet, her legs are quite unsteady. And she begins to saunter down towards another alley, she reaches that alley and leans into the wall and kind of just like, props herself up. And she just is like staring at you. Go go for the love of perdition out. So then she just turns around and she just starts walking down the alley. Kind of discombobulated very like disoriented, but she slowly gains her bearings and then takes off running by Salvatore, what are you doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
So everybody's still obscured by the fog cloud? Yes. And has anybody run out of it towards our direction?

Speaker 1  
Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. There's people running past you at this point.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, so I'm gonna turn around so nobody can see my mouth as I tried to cast thaumaturgy to make thunder rolling, originate within the fog cloud.

Speaker 1  
All right, so you start hearing the sound of thunder, people scream in response to it,

Chris (Sal S)  
and then it turns into a gentle rain.

Unknown Speaker  
The definition of bark is worse than

Speaker 1  
the dramaturgy. So then you start to hear the pitter patter of rain. Alright. So it is now the orders turn because they all rolled very similarly. So you are hearing shouting, there's this commotion. And at this point, you see, there are two knights that come out of the cloud. They are knights of prayer. So they have that symbol of the eye with the blindfold over it hanging down over their chest. Do you see the black patch cloth patch hanging down? They get out of the cloud and they turn around and they start barring people from exiting the alley. So people are running out of the cloud towards you. They are there and they just start like they stand in the middle alley. They put their arms out and they start corralling people back in the other side of the cloud, you see Wren, an acolyte of Pudicium emerge from the cloud. She runs out and pins herself against the side of the alley along with another one. So you see two of these priests, they pin themselves against either side of the alley. And they are going to use see a flash of bright light that just expands the entire alley. Everything is lit up. You're all blinded with this light. And for like a brief moment, there's just like silence as everybody pauses, taken aback by this blinding light. up right, what are you doing?

Unknown Speaker  
So I just see this light coming from outside the fog cloud.

Speaker 1  
Yeah, it pierces the fog cloud. Entire cloud lights up. There's been thunder. And it now sounds like it's raining. You don't feel the rain? You just hear it?

Speaker 5  
Well, she That's probably not good. Come on, y'all. We gotta get chicken Rin I think I think he just got hit by lightning or so start moving in that direction. Run right towards where rent up.

Speaker 1  
So you start making your way out towards the other side of the alley. As you exit the cloud of fog. You see Ren still kind of like in a crouched position, looking down another alley.

Unknown Speaker  
And there's two people on either side.

Speaker 1  
There's lots of people going but there's the two clerics that are standing along the side of the alley. And you see that they are the ones who cast the light

Unknown Speaker  
a panic button. And I go to array Oh no.

Speaker 1  
All right. So you go into a rage roll on that table is it

Speaker 5  
and then I teleport 30 feet and show up next to read book That's never had before?

Chris (Sal S)  
No.

Speaker 1  
See that like these clerics are casting. This is Dawn they've kept on Oh, so there is a column of light is bright in glimmery. And as you teleport to run, they drop it and both eyes track to you.

Unknown Speaker  
Look up shit. She ran. What are you doing? That was all my bonus action.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, okay. What's your what do you do with the rest of your action?

Speaker 5  
I grabbed my magic acts of shenanigans and focus on the one on the left. All right all right. We got it. We got a 1669 Hey, hey. Nice. handshakes wonder why All right, so teleport next to you. In the grip pull out handaxe I have focused real hard on it. And then I shrink redeem some myself now I'm just like,

Speaker 1  
little little tiny tiny little or Dan the next day run?

Speaker 5  
Like some Billina sighs I believe right? Like real like real time it could be stamped.

Speaker 1  
I think reduced Yeah, it takes Oh down as guys so three and a half feet. You go from a medium to a small

Chris (Sal S)  
you're now child.

Unknown Speaker  
Ram What do you do grow?

Unknown Speaker  
No. You You got small.

Unknown Speaker  
Damn look is not with me today.

Chris (Sal S)  
Is that your turn now? You tell. But are you okay? Okay.

Unknown Speaker  
Do the clerics look threatening?

Unknown Speaker  
They look like they're about to start yelling. So yes. On weakness. Authority. When I get to their turn, I'll let them talk.

Speaker 2  
I would like to grab a breeze tiny hand.

Speaker 5  
Oh my god. You can scoop. I can. Ain't never been scoop before.

Speaker 2  
Sure. I'll scoop you. I'll try and scoop you. I mean, you're pretty small. I mean, your weight also reduces right you're not like just dense now. Small and yes.

Speaker 5  
Yeah. Well, my weapons and stuff shrink with me everything. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
So I'm gonna throw you over my shoulder who? Run back into the

Chris (Sal S)  
fog cloud.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay, back into the fog cloud. Give me a deck save. Oh shit.

Unknown Speaker  
Now your turn to 17

Speaker 1  
Oh, all right. So things are starting to calm down. A lot of the crowd has dissipated at this point. I think we're like 12 seconds in. So crowds dissipated, there are some people that have like, opted to just huddle along the sides of the alley, in the fog cloud and just wait it out. So you pass by like one or two other people who have like, decided to get up later on. After they watched everybody else run off, and they battled that internal monologue and you run to the cloud, where are you going?

Speaker 2  
I just want to go back to where Sal was where we started. And I want to look out for either Sal or Yonsei.

Speaker 1  
So you are going to dash through to the other side of the cloud. And you are going to run into the crowd, the to the crowd, or that are currently being stopped by the two guards.

Chris (Sal S)  
They're holding back. All those are why does this alleyway?

Speaker 1  
It's maybe 10 feet wide. So some people have broken through, but it's definitely a bottleneck situation.

Unknown Speaker  
I also think I'm still in the fog.

Unknown Speaker  
Do not see Yonsei as I was passing you

Speaker 1  
didn't pass on say, all right, Yonce. What are you doing?

Speaker 4  
Do I see the people who have been held back or is the fog still,

Speaker 1  
until you exit that fog? You can't see them. You can hear them. You can hear like there is a commotion just outside of the fog behind you. And on the other side, it sounds like one the light dropped. You saw that beam of light That's dropped, but it seems a lot quieter on the other end of the fog cloud.

Unknown Speaker  
Because yawns appears on their back.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, you're carrying up are you okay?

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So you and you just saw I'm still there. Upri run off in the quieter direction. Oh, we're flipping out of your sight just as they ran that direction. So they definitely like Misty stopped or something like you don't know exactly what caused them to blip out. But you saw them blip out just before they were about to exit your line of sight.

Speaker 4  
That was new. I'm going to run towards the like commotion.

Speaker 1  
All right. So you turn around and you head back towards where Sal was where you hear the commotion and you run into a pray and read tiny Opry on Rennes shoulder and shoulder blocked by a crowd of people trying to get past these two guards

Speaker 4  
Yonce is going to look at Upri and Wren. This is new.

Unknown Speaker  
Well, we'll talk about it later.

Speaker 4  
I'll okay. And I'm I still can't see anyone you said.

Speaker 1  
You see them and but you see Sal is kind of on the other side of this crowd. So Sal hasn't been blockaded in by these guards.

Chris (Sal S)  
No other than watching. All right.

Speaker 4  
I am going to miss the step towards how

Chris (Sal S)  
well they're they can't see.

Speaker 1  
So you missed the step. Blip next to Sal. The guards don't seem to notice you but some people in the crowd do. They started pointing like people start pointing and yelling and pointing and yelling, but there's so much commotion on the guards do not seem to pick up on what's going

Unknown Speaker  
on yawns as is happening also he's gonna be like shut up.

Speaker 1  
So you put your fingers to your lips, and some people in the crowd seem to comply. But there are a couple of people there that are like trying to get the guards attention and redirect them towards you

Speaker 4  
but just fucking snitches. I'm going because ditches Exactly. I'm gonna look at sound be like, What the fuck is going on?

Chris (Sal S)  
I think the people are panicking.

Speaker 4  
I can see that. But like, there was thunder and then it sounded like it was raining and now there's lights

Chris (Sal S)  
well, not the lights but the thunder. We're gonna

Unknown Speaker  
have to have a talk about your decisions later.

Chris (Sal S)  
Well, I was trying to get we can talk yeah, we'll talk later. And I guess I am I put my hand on Shawn Yonce shoulder so you got so you want to hang back Yonce

Unknown Speaker  
Salvador.

Chris (Sal S)  
So since the guards are not looking in our direction, they're looking at the crowd right now looking at the current move and I'm gonna cast command on one of them. Oh, wisdom saving throw.

Unknown Speaker  
Hey, buddy. Get out of my way

Speaker 1  
out of rockered way. All right. They rolled a 13

Chris (Sal S)  
That doesn't meet my 15. So one of them has to move out of the way.

Speaker 1  
All right, so one of them, their arms are out there trying to hold back the crowd, people are pushing into them. And then you see that their arms go rigid down to their side, and they start backing up towards like one of the buildings, and they go back into the alley, just pin themselves up against the wall. And you can see, their whole body is like rigid, they're kind of shaking a little bit. Their eyes are like darting around. Other guard sees this happening next to them. And they're like looking at this person. And they are.

Chris (Sal S)  
Jeremy, what are you doing?

Speaker 1  
Then is that your turn? That's my turn. All right. So the guard that you don't cast command on, they have a flail at their head, and they pull it out. And then you see it start to glow with this, like, Vine radiant light, and they raise it above the crowd. And then people, there's like a moment of silence as everybody starts to back away from them. You can see that they're like threateningly, holding it above them. Everybody backs up as they kind of turn and start walking strafing towards their other guard friend.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, to go through the open hole. But it's been created in their screen.

Speaker 1  
Know, they're trying to like threaten everybody to stand back. While they like I've smited my mace I also know why I will smite you.

Timothy (DM)  
And I'm gonna figure out what the fuck is happening with this person. And they're trying to they're basically trying to command entire crowd is the sense that you get and That's when you hear from the other side of the cloud. A woman shouting apostates apostates are people now running towards you shouting about a pasty

Chris (Sal S)  
oh point behind me.

Unknown Speaker  
And you're also does the same I have a license and I just

Unknown Speaker  
pretty What are you doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
Over My Shoulder to shoulder

Unknown Speaker  
your overrun shoulder?

Unknown Speaker  
Well, because I didn't hit anything or take or get

Unknown Speaker  
your age and do it again. No. Reduce doesn't end. Oh, great. When does it end? To attack so how long does reduce last

Unknown Speaker  
part of the rate?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh wait no reducers from the cell.

Speaker 5  
However long it lasts, I don't know. It's probably like the X range concentrate. But yeah, I'm gonna read again on the shoulder

Unknown Speaker  
Okay, so you rage again.

Chris (Sal S)  
I realize our initials do spell out su we su W Y

Speaker 1  
Yeah, so the way that rape spells that are a result of rage do not need concentration. They last their entire duration.

Unknown Speaker  
It was the handaxe though

Speaker 1  
yes so the index doesn't see it but it's also like a rage not raid It's a wild surge channel.

Chris (Sal S)  
So you could drop the shrink enlarge reduce because it's a concentrate.

Speaker 1  
It's a result of a wild surge. Yeah, wild surges will continue for their full duration.

Chris (Sal S)  
That's Oh, so

Speaker 1  
one minute so so you got those rounds of

Speaker 5  
tasm wriggling on your shoulder and shout I start glowing real Brett.

Speaker 1  
And another chaos bowl of energy surges through you. Not figuratively

Speaker 5  
oh I have not been tagged or not have plus one two or AC but I'm not glowing like multicolored disco ball. Oh, I boom down. All right. That was all my bonus action.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah. Yes,

Unknown Speaker  
put me down

Speaker 5  
grab me as I fall I slam Fern into the ground many ferns and everyone within 10 feet of me has to make a strength saving throw DC 14 Every knocked prone as all friends routes shoot into the ground spread out in all directions and like trip everyone explores the range within a 10 foot radius surrounding me so 10 feet and all sides away from

Speaker 1  
so I'm gonna say that the guards and some of the civilians in the front are within that radius. This is all happening pretty tight together.

Speaker 5  
Okay. My goal is to knock everyone down and then we really Yeah, so falls

Unknown Speaker  
down.

Unknown Speaker  
Ren is thrown off the ground.

Unknown Speaker  
What Oh, just save 14

Speaker 1  
The commanded guard is going to stay upright. So you are up against the wall. There's no command commanded. The other one is going to now get thrown off along with like everybody in the front row of the crowd

Speaker 5  
a part of the crowd what? Let's go. Just like scramble. jumping all over the nether prone bodies.

Speaker 1  
Yeah, so you are able to like push your way through with that force of the the reverb from your hammer. Everybody's like stumbling around. So they're really easy, just kind of part out of the way. All right, That's rent

Unknown Speaker  
have to save to.

Unknown Speaker  
I know if our

Speaker 1  
rent failed. Oh. So you are knocked prone. It is now your turn.

Unknown Speaker  
I will get up and

Unknown Speaker  
half of your movement speed.

Speaker 2  
And I got dash. So I'll get another I'll give 45 feet

Speaker 1  
to another 45 feet, which I believe puts you on the other side of the fog cloud. So

Speaker 5  
we're all clear the cloud in the crowd. And we're all together. Yeah.

Speaker 1  
And then Yonce can follow suit, ie shore, and Salvador's turnings before the guards go.

Unknown Speaker  
Scram.

Chris (Sal S)  
So yeah, we all scramble, and I leave the fog cloud up until we're out of sight.

Speaker 1  
So you hear at this point now that you for just attracted enough attention for the guards and the clerics to be chasing you through the fog cloud. So you are not yet in the clear. But um, because you can hear that the one guard is significantly behind you. But the clerics are just within that cloud.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, so the Knights were on our side and the clerks were on the opposite side. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Can I just my boomerang

Speaker 1  
clerics are towards you, is the clerics turn

Unknown Speaker  
here, but they didn't see us leave the cloud and go around the corner.

Speaker 5  
Just friendly reminder, uppers glowing like a magical multicolored disco. Plus one I see.

Chris (Sal S)  
Put a cloak over top of you.

Speaker 1  
You you see another flash of light within the cloud. You don't know what it did. And you hear them running towards you. But then you also see just flicking outside the boundary of the cloud. You see these blue spiritual, wisps start lashing out towards you getting closer and closer. What are you doing brain? It's your turn.

Speaker 5  
She the colors and because Marines drops again. Just Berserk or things. Shit. Well, I guess we should just keep running. Yeah. Cool. I'm gonna use my last charge of this magical X and cast it on a space. What's the range of fireball? 20 feet

Unknown Speaker  
25 feet 30 feet

Unknown Speaker  
behind us.

Unknown Speaker  
You're just hoping that your surges fireball

Unknown Speaker  
can make yourself smaller again.

Speaker 1  
See you channel the chaos magic through your body yet again. And what happens?

Chris (Sal S)  
You cast mending and a nearby window.

Speaker 5  
So 30 feet behind us within 60 feet of that a bunch of grass just shoots up out of the ground with wildflowers

Speaker 1  
that none of you can see because it is in the flat fog cloud.

Unknown Speaker  
Cool. The ground just gets real soft. When

Speaker 1  
do you run running? Ran when you do run, run anything else? All right. Yonsei.

Speaker 4  
I'm going to run as well. All right. And That's it. I guess I can use Misty step again. Just to give Dan clear all these hopes to you. I'll do that as well.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay, so you missed the step in extra 30 feet up? Yes. And Salvador.

Chris (Sal S)  
Upri. Are you still shining? No, that ended when the rage ended. Okay. Yeah. I'm just gonna follow their lead and dash and can we find any side alleys to run down to line of sight? Okay,

Speaker 1  
there's plenty. So Yonce just looked up 30 feet ahead. You're running after them and you try to pull them into a side alley?

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, I put my hand on their shoulder and why now?

Speaker 1  
Fall back and have a conversation. Alright, so you pull Yonce aside. Everybody else sees this happening. So you can all kind of keep going that direction. Can I have everybody make athletics or acrobatics? Your choice please?

Chris (Sal S)  
plays

Unknown Speaker  
athletics or acrobatics? Yes. 1313 Nine 910

Chris (Sal S)  
seven, three.

Speaker 1  
Um, so let's see how well these clerics do. Zero

Unknown Speaker  
no Whammy, no whammy.

Speaker 1  
Alright. So as you're running down this alley, you hear one of them trips falls to the ground, but the other one is now like she has hiked up her roads. And she has like, almost like full speed sprinting towards you all. This is the one that has the spirit guardians up and they are lashing out towards you. She is gaining on you fast she sees you turn down the alley, and she is turning right on point with you. And following you. She's maybe 15 feet away at this point.

Unknown Speaker  
I guess we're after a fight. That's how

Speaker 2  
I would like to win I noticed that she's like still on our tail. I'm going to call out to Upri and like a small call so that she hopefully she doesn't hear us behind us. And I'm going to say find a crossroads then clothesline what her thigh? Just just like catch her by surprise. knock her down.

Speaker 5  
I say from below you How am I supposed to do?

Speaker 2  
It? Just kidding South find a crossroads and then close like

Chris (Sal S)  
a rope. Yeah, I'll find a crossroads. Right. I do have a rope would be cool.

Unknown Speaker  
An axe will be faster.

Unknown Speaker  
All right. Upri. What are you doing?

Speaker 5  
I found a crossroads. I pull a fern and I get ready to slam it and turn it at let's say

Speaker 1  
you Yeah, so you get to the next ally cross point. Oh, you pull off in rage. Pull out fern. Get ready to bash her in I guess. And your rage goes off.

Speaker 5  
Oh, chest beam goes into the fog cloud behind us and maybe hit someone who

Speaker 1  
turned at this point. So you don't see the fog clouds. You're down another alley. You're turning yet again. Like you've turned twice now she

Unknown Speaker  
was down to the JSON LD across from you, hopefully.

Speaker 1  
Oh, does it do damage? Yay. Okay, so you see a beam of light just crash into the sandstone of a building nearby. You blast a hole through it and that crumbles a bit. Wren

Speaker 2  
I would also like to turn down the other crossroads. So like if it went right, I'm gonna go left. All right, that makes sense. Yeah. Can I park or uptown to a box or something?

Unknown Speaker  
Give me an Acrobatics.

Chris (Sal S)  
check. Red is really leaning into the park.

Unknown Speaker  
I know 1212

Speaker 1  
Okay, so not the best parkour but you you do. There is like a signpost that you're able to like grab onto the terrain real quick. And there's like a stoop. Like four steps up right next to it. So you can stand up. You can get up on the stoop and you're maybe four feet taller.

Speaker 2  
I pull up my bow. Alright, ready? An action. Okay,

Speaker 1  
and you ready in action? You press yourself up against that wall reading for the cleric to turn the corner. Yonsei What do you do?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I am going to run past the crossroads and then turn around. And this shoot in Ultras blasts her direction. I mean, she's chasing us on my as well. Actually, since I can do two or how many can I do? Fifth Level? Two beams. I'm just gonna do two beams. Just in case this whole thing doesn't work.

Speaker 4  
Okay, this one is a night wait. A 19 And then the other one was a 15.

Unknown Speaker  
Both are going to hit

Kendrick (Yonce)  
yay. Is my work. Okay. Zeroes 10 on these days, right? Yeah. Okay, great. So 19 plus 625 damage. Oh, sure.

Chris (Sal S)  
Crazy.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, I was gonna say

Speaker 1  
okay, cool. So much damage. I mean, you did she melt. Nope, not quite. You see that there's this like radiant light around her. That Deflects some of the black

Unknown Speaker  
hole Come on. But she

Speaker 1  
does get kind of she she was like sprinting towards you. You see that she gets blasted twice in each shoulder slowing her run. And she's still coming towards Yeah, what is Salvador doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, where is she? We I think I'm in the same alley as Upri

Speaker 1  
Yeah, so she was 15 feet behind you before you all went? Yeah, so now you're all like three feet. So she's just like 45 feet. Okay,

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna try to dang that range of the spells not as long as I wished. So she's four feet, four or five feet behind us.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. The mechanics Chase fights or I'm gonna wait

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna wait until she gets within range and then I'd like to cast blind this on her.

Speaker 1  
Okay, so you're holding an action and you're holding an action.

Unknown Speaker  
So holding an action

Speaker 1  
can happen I just did the damn thing just blasted you're though you're standing where? Are you turning around? Are you going around? No,

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm peeking outside of the corner. Okay, so whenever.

Speaker 1  
Are you turning the corner with a pre OPERS Okay, cool. So you go right along with Upri. Wren went left got up on the stoop pulled out their bow. I'm looking straight after looking straight at her urine vapes. And she had just gotten blasted. So

Chris (Sal S)  
she pulls out her walk.

Timothy (DM)  
She has her spirit guardians out and she is going to wave her hand producing a flame and then she's going to try to shoot it back at you Yonsei acolyte

Speaker 1  
it is going to miss wildly. I do a back holding a building beside you.

Speaker 4  
I do a jump backflip off be like, This is not my first rodeo bitch.

Unknown Speaker  
Yes, That's exactly what you do.

Speaker 5  
She didn't so she didn't come forward. No. She,

Speaker 1  
she's probably 30 feet away from the intersection now or Upri.

Chris (Sal S)  
So then I cast my spell. All right. She has to do

Unknown Speaker  
that goes off. Phase. She gets the three

Chris (Sal S)  
she fails. So she's blind now for her turn.

Unknown Speaker  
So she is blinded. As it

Unknown Speaker  
obviously she responded.

Chris (Sal S)  
I don't know.

Speaker 1  
So when it's blinking a lot yeah, she's she had just cast the spell Mrs. You see a flash of light in front of her. And then she puts out her hands in front of her. Oh, what do you do? I pray.

Speaker 5  
I looked around for advice. tackler I wrote in ragin for the final time because it went away again. I think That's about it as I run into the Ellie hammer wide, or hit up high, Bob, you know four feet, a bunch of shadowy tendril just shoot out of the ground around me all in the alleyway. And one slaps into her she has to make a constitution saving throw she gets slapped botanical, this poor woman.

Unknown Speaker  
Really poor woman

Unknown Speaker  
just do new jobs

Unknown Speaker  
for

Speaker 5  
because she feels it was 15 she takes seven necrotic damage as it starts sucking the life out. She says do you see Upri just starts to glow this really gross blue energy and then I run into my WAMP or reckless attack with Fern that is high number 25 And then that is going to be four. That will absolutely hit those 15 damage in the niqab. Okay, and then I get a second attack which is also reckless now it's only the first one I think does a little

Chris (Sal S)  
advantage because she's blind. Perfect.

Unknown Speaker  
Does 14 Hit unfortunately is not mad. I hit her pauldron

Speaker 1  
she's not wearing a cauldron, but she does have a magical shield that deflecting your blow. All right, Wren,

Speaker 2  
I peek out into the alley. Are the tendrils still there? Or is it only a burst of tendrils,

Speaker 5  
they're there their vibe and so they exist. They're gonna vibe.

Speaker 2  
I'm not gonna venture into the tentacles. So I'm going to try and put an arrow like through her shoulder. Okay, so now I'm going to try and do non lethal damage. Do I get advanced Enero with an arrow through the shoulder or it? Do I get advantage on ranged attack if she's blind?

Chris (Sal S)  
I think it's all attacks against creature of advantage.

Speaker 1  
Sure, yeah. Then she can't dodge.

Speaker 2  
That's true. Um, that is a me. Oh, I first used my critical analysis on her so I never hurt her. Yeah, important, but it's hard. I know I nerd out on her. So That's a 20 Dirty 20

Unknown Speaker  
A dirty 21. Okay,

Speaker 2  
so that is day six plus another D six. So that is four on the dice, but That's plus. Oh, wait, hold on. There's one more D six in there for sneak attack. So sorry, I rolled a lot of dice. I forgot about that. Seven plus 815. piercing damage.

Speaker 1  
All right. So you shoot an arrow. It hits hers right in the shoulder goes through. You hear it hitting the stone behind her.

Unknown Speaker  
You

Unknown Speaker  
yawn. Okay, so it did nothing.

Unknown Speaker  
Or I heard through her shoulder. Oh, damn that. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4  
non lethal, but damn, That's traumatic. I am.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm going to keep repeating it.

Speaker 4  
I am going to use toll of the dead okay.

Unknown Speaker  
Just not legally, right?

Speaker 4  
No, legally. She's chasing us with spirit tendrils. I'm trying to kill the bitch.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh shit. Yeah, um,

Chris (Sal S)  
I would not I would try to run away.

Speaker 1  
I pray you tackled her. Right? Yeah. Hit her in the kneecap. So you go in melee range melee range. So you are going to take some damage from her spear.

Unknown Speaker  
Reminding them oops.

Speaker 1  
So the spirit guardians are as you're like, you're hitting her with tendrils. You're whacking her with your hammer. I need you to do a wisdom saving throw.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, good. I think I'm good at eight. All right. fail. As in she didn't. She didn't. She thought

Unknown Speaker  
you're gonna take 16 Radiant damage. Gee,

Speaker 5  
are you awful? That Tim Hills now what are you doing?

Unknown Speaker  
Yonsei I was doing toll of the dead.

Unknown Speaker  
Yep. So that is a is that a Wisdom? save for her?

Unknown Speaker  
Yes. Working for you.

Speaker 1  
roll de nat 1. So That's a five.

Speaker 4  
They do not succeed in That's to D eights. So That's nine necrotic damage. Right. And That's all I want to do. Wait, wait, wait, hold up. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm going to use maddening hex. I'm going to add that and That's a plus three psychic damage to my attack. So six plus six is 12. All right. Look at me knowing the rules now. Mostly.

Unknown Speaker  
You read your character sheet. Yes. It's like self adore

Chris (Sal S)  
I can't get I can never know that she's disabled. We should probably just get out of dodge and. and flee.

Speaker 1  
Yeah, she is. She's looking quite battered. I feel like he's starting to bleed out

Chris (Sal S)  
is this ever gets traced back to us? We're gonna end up in the slammer for real so I'm gonna shout to the group runaway

shout find the corner,

Speaker 1  
as you see the like, blood in the eyes of your compatriots. Oh wait, their thirst for dueling damage.

Chris (Sal S)  
All your crossbow. Yeah.

Speaker 1  
And That's when you see the other acolyte turned down the alley. You see the other accolade when you did your talk to me screams when she sees what's going on. Just like screams out this blood curdling scream and starts running towards you.

Unknown Speaker  
We can explain everything.

Speaker 1  
So as she turns down the alley, I mean, she screams she pulls out a sword glowing with a green flame. And she just starts charging down the alley towards you Naruto style. That's what I was trying to think of earlier. Ren. What do you do?

Chris (Sal S)  
At the end of Claire and a blind girls turn she has to do a constitution saving throw.

Unknown Speaker  
Can we just name them Carol and

Speaker 1  
so she gets a seven

Chris (Sal S)  
so she's still blind. Oh, great. Well, what can

Unknown Speaker  
what should we name the ground Aaron

Unknown Speaker  
Shannon.

Chris (Sal S)  
So who's Shannon

Speaker 4  
Shannon zone we've been kicking the acid. Yeah, we've been getting Cheryl's the ones who just came in.

Speaker 1  
Yeah, definitely Shannon and Carol. Wren, what do you do and

Speaker 2  
mom isn't isn't Aubrey Stern? Isn't it is upper Eastern.

Unknown Speaker  
So the blonde one is pinned to the ground?

Unknown Speaker  
She fell over yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Cool Cool.

Unknown Speaker  
collapsed.

Unknown Speaker  
Like unconscious or like I should still bomber alright

Speaker 1  
she's bleeding out old cars really battered like oh wait, does she have to make a constant tration save?

Chris (Sal S)  
Probably is yeah anytime she gets here

Speaker 1  
guardians concentration is Ok 15 Damon so I'm going to have her roll concentration.

Unknown Speaker  
I did night 25

Unknown Speaker  
I did 25

Speaker 1  
She fails so so her spirit guardians drop. She's looking pretty pretty battered. What are you doing the non lethal damage by bashing her head in

Speaker 5  
Wow, my readers are just gonna be the Amazon ourselves but they've seen our faces and I'm gonna run over to her face up pretty hard. And just try to bash it in. Yeah. Does it 25 Here

Speaker 4  
this is so brutal portion and just two days away from retire.

Speaker 5  
That's 30 damage for the first blow. And if she's still alive, I'm gonna bring it up. Fern up again and swing again.

Speaker 1  
You've murdered your first person of the podcast.

Unknown Speaker  
I feel like I've killed before No,

Unknown Speaker  
not people not people is their first people who

Speaker 5  
counter even when all those people were run after us.

Unknown Speaker  
He never killed any of

Speaker 4  
them. We never killed them we just ran off after for bushes and

Unknown Speaker  
I'm sure it's not the first person

Unknown Speaker  
but That's okay we we have therapists

Unknown Speaker  
is the first people death.

Speaker 5  
Cool. So what happens when ferns roots slam into her skull and it cracks. her friend's roots kind of wriggle unravel and like just like slam into her body and start slurp and syringe

Speaker 1  
feeds everyone. This is horrific. So everyone sees a three four foot tall upgrade arrays. For Grace Fern like hi over her head and just down on this woman's head. It splatters across the alley and then and then you see this like blood pulling out and the vines on Fern

Timothy (DM)  
start to pulsates as they start to slurp up the blood. And you see they become they start becoming kind of this like purplish black. Almost less vine like and more tenderly as the the hammer begins to glow, like a deep purple color.

Speaker 5  
So I have a few questions. I technically can attack twice. Can I move and then go hit the other one.

Unknown Speaker  
You can run down the alley towards her.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, she's more than 40 feet away.

Speaker 1  
She's at the other end of the alley. She had just turned down good. So yeah, maybe 40 feet away. All right. Cool. 4050 ish.

Speaker 5  
And then thematically. This feels correct. So I'm gonna give in and rage All right. corruption. Yep. Oh, so as soon as furnace starts feeding you just see black veins spider away from a precise as like they like glaze over black out and she gets like a menacing grin. And then darts off towards the other one cackling like a little gremlin cuz she's live and I'm gonna slam into her again or the

Unknown Speaker  
so I can reach her. Yeah, you can reach her

Speaker 5  
Oh shit, That's not gonna hit doesn't live in it. No. All right.

Speaker 1  
So she kind of pivots out of the way and now the two of you are like in combat circling each other You're gonna die

Speaker 1  
Okay, and I believe you make a save at the end of this effect. But can you remind me what it does? Yeah,

Speaker 5  
so when the effect ends one minute later, to make a DC 14 con save or take one Six necrotic damage.

Unknown Speaker  
Nice and it's like a blood thirst.

Speaker 5  
So I have to always attack even if there's no one they are great love stacks with my normal Ray.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. Okay, so yeah urine melee with this second cleric, something that you notice about her is that I

Speaker 5  
that I notice? Yeah. Oh, I don't notice nothing.

Speaker 1  
Oh you don't notice nothing? Okay. The rest of you notice that she seems a little less decorated than the one that operate just murdered more swooshy so that brings us to Wren.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, okay, um

Unknown Speaker  
I committed an atrocity to he

Speaker 2  
ran seems for those around seems unfazed by set atrocity. Oh, they rent is going to turn to sell who was like runaway don't do it. And I'm just gonna very coldly be like, they've seen our faces. And then I'm going to run towards Carol Carol. Carol right. That's why we named her Yeah, the other ones Carol Shannon's dead. And as Wren is running past Shannon, for those who are within eyesight, we're all just we're just going to do the corrupt things today. Oh, she he feels inspired by Upri, and he's just going to turn towards Shannon's dead body looked down at her and just look down and for unlike uncut seems like uncontrolled by me just goes walk. And black smoke pours out of his mouth as he says it and like fills her and she starts to stand or chill shoes. I've just cast undying word on her to make her into a zombie. under my control,

Unknown Speaker  
we're gonna make this an evil campaign.

Speaker 2  
And then I'll run up and let's see how far how far I probably a little bit farther. I probably can't make it. Kara.

Unknown Speaker  
She was pretty free. Carol, Carol is

Speaker 2  
all of the CA names and didn't find. So I'm gonna get as close as I can and then do narrow through her. All right, because I think undying word isn't an action of any sort. It's because it's a ritual, right. Ritual rituals, invocation.

Unknown Speaker  
And invocation, you

Unknown Speaker  
know, does that mean it doesn't take any sort of action? Nope.

Unknown Speaker  
It is a passive ability.

Speaker 5  
Oh my god. So you're free action. You just talk to someone and it come back from the dead.

Speaker 2  
I can't use it too often. But yeah, I did that. And so Shannon starts to get up and I shoot an arrow. I'm also going to use my bonus action to switch my critical analysis to Carol. So sorry, Carol. That is Oh, that wasn't a great roll. Does a nine hit?

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, okay. All right. Say you're up.

Speaker 4  
I'm going to look at walk past south, south south. I'm gonna look at salby Like they saw our faces.

Unknown Speaker  
No,

Speaker 4  
no, I'm not going to. I don't Okay. I'm gonna take that back. I look at sound say they did see our faces. And you know, I'm going to casts a toll of the dead

Speaker 1  
right. Wisdom save? Yes. nat 1, so that is a four All right,

Unknown Speaker  
and That's going to damage the zombie first seven damage.

Speaker 1  
All right. So Opry and ran. You see she grabs her head with her left hand and you can see that she's like wincing in pain

Unknown Speaker  
for cackles

Unknown Speaker  
El Salvador,

Chris (Sal S)  
okay, I look with a very morose grimace as I see that we are now bending towards getting rid of this person. So I'm going to cast guiding bolt. Okay, oh, That's gonna be a 14 to hit.

Unknown Speaker  
A 14 does not hit Baka

Unknown Speaker  
I cast Mindy

Chris (Sal S)  
and I shout out. A shout out. This is what you get for perverting the ways of prayer. You tell him

Speaker 1  
all right. So she is going to do a concentration save. Which succeeds. She is going to take her green flame short sword and she's going to try to hit you with it

Speaker 5  
before you roll up here. He's gonna crack her neck and raise her arm and pull it back like she's pulling invisible strings and now it's a disadvantage.

Unknown Speaker  
Right?

Chris (Sal S)  
What is your puppet thing? Why action

Speaker 1  
with disadvantage. You see her sword start to swing down at you. And then you see your puppet string attach itself to her elbow and as it's about to pull, she slashes through and snaps it slack slashing you across the chest. Okay, so she is coming up for

Unknown Speaker  
you. Media

Unknown Speaker  
is gonna do five slashing damage.

Unknown Speaker  
So two

Unknown Speaker  
plus six fire damage.

Unknown Speaker  
So three,

Speaker 1  
as you see this, like light shine down on her and a gust of wind envelops all of you. And you like feel this like divine energy just like envelop this whole area. I pray it's your turn

Speaker 5  
that tickled? And then I'm just gonna go on crazy swinging my hammer swinging Fern, who imagined still Raglin at the roots thirsty for more blood. That is an 18 Two here in 18 wellhead for a living. bludgeoned damage, the first hit. Alright, and then swinging for the second hit.

Unknown Speaker  
She fails her concentration save

Speaker 5  
another 18 is a hit. That will hit Ooh. And that one's for 16 budget and damage finisher.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, all right. So

Speaker 5  
a little so I think I slam into her kneecap and it snaps backwards the bone shoots out. And then she collapses and then then I think she falls forward facedown. Screams muffled as she slams to the dirt and ladders. Final Blow back of head smashed in her skull again. And then Fern just like shoves a root cylinder. And then I think opera just keeps swinging again and again at the body.

Speaker 1  
Yeah, so you start swinging on the body. Ron, what do you do?

Speaker 2  
I have an inkling that the Knights are not too far behind. Do I hear them coming down though? No. Shannon stands up. And Sharon Shannon stands up and like starts to like hobble. Or like What do zombies do shamble they che she's just starts to shambling towards Carol is dead body, Carol's dead body,

Unknown Speaker  
bring her back just to watch. Pretty much.

Speaker 2  
I mean, she can't pretty much see anything because she's probably doesn't have much of a face anymore. Oh, and I see for her. I'm going to try and slip past the swing upgrade to check in the street or down the like alleyway that we came from.

Speaker 1  
Alright, you pass a breeze swinging wildly mashing this body into a pulp. And you get down to the alley and you look both directions. You see some civilians starting to exit the buildings just kind of popping their heads out, seemingly wondering what the commotion is about.

Speaker 2  
So I don't see any guards. No. Knights. Okay, I'm gonna hold my action in case I do see a knight come down the way.

Unknown Speaker  
All right Yonce

Speaker 4  
I am going to run up to a pre.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh no. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, temporary.

Speaker 4  
I'm gonna like That's enough. Stop. Cuz I still see you swinging. That's enough.

Speaker 5  
pays no attention and keeps going in about three. Stop.

Unknown Speaker  
She is dead.

Unknown Speaker  
Keep swinging Salvador. What

Unknown Speaker  
are you doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
I really have no idea what I should be doing.

Unknown Speaker  
They're dumbfounded.

Chris (Sal S)  
I really want to catch them other fog clouds so that they can't see what has happened here. And I think That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna cast the fog cloud around Upri Yonce. Carroll and Shannon.

Speaker 1  
All right. Wren is outside that fog cloud because they've gone down the alley.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, I cast that Upri

Unknown Speaker  
Do you have a target?

Unknown Speaker  
The body?

Unknown Speaker  
Do you have another target?

Chris (Sal S)  
You can't he can't see anything.

Speaker 5  
I mean, so the text says object doesn't say it has to be a creature but if it's supposed to a creature I will swing at Yonsei or do you want me to say even

Speaker 1  
living creatures will supersede the object Kara will pencil that in

Unknown Speaker  
while we're just making up as we go along

Chris (Sal S)  
as you can't see your objects and you have disadvantage if you're trying to hit him,

Speaker 5  
but you don't say he's nice to me. So is that disadvantage because fog? Yes. Alright, so it's that normal because I have advantage. Oh. You know, I'm gonna be awful. And Fern has this wonderful passive ability where she can store one charge of wild surge. I'm going to unleash it

Speaker 5  
so, ferns and bow starts to grow dark or leaves like black and then like a black twisted looking pixie thing flies out and lands on your shoulder yawn. And then I'm gonna go in and swing at you with firm. Oh, okay. doesn't eat hit

Speaker 4  
me does not hit cool. Now become the DM.

Unknown Speaker  
Does a does a 20 hit.

Unknown Speaker  
No, no,

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm super strong.

Unknown Speaker  
Was that a dirty 20 Or a net? 20

Unknown Speaker  
or 3020.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay, then it does hit.

Unknown Speaker  
Cool. That's for 17 bludgeoning damage.

Chris (Sal S)  
Wow.

Speaker 5  
And then you have to make a deck saving throw is the pixie on your shoulder explodes.

Speaker 4  
I watch saving throw dexterity. Luckily, That's the one I'm the best at. Dammit, why keep going in between my thighs. My husband I guess that plus three is 15

Unknown Speaker  
that just passes. So no damage.

Speaker 1  
All right. So Upri had been wailing on this body Yonsei you go over to stop them and they whip their head towards you. You see the black tendrils shooting from their eyes as they swing wildly towards you. You're able to back up as the first one smacks into the ground. But the second one hits you square in the chest pounding the air out of you as an explosion on your shoulder. You able to roll out of the way it is wrens turn

Unknown Speaker  
well as That's happening I'm gonna cast hellish rebuke man all right and That's it really automatically

Unknown Speaker  
you point at Opry

Speaker 4  
do to hold on as I beat the shirt on my siblings

Unknown Speaker  
they make a dexterity saving throw

Unknown Speaker  
do you have to make a Dexter

Speaker 5  
so That's advantage because I can see or no because it's foggy? Because technically I have a passive that all deck saving throw is advantage I guess it okay not good. That is a seven

Speaker 1  
Alright, so you fail so you're gonna take the 2d 10 fire damage

Speaker 4  
all right. And as and this is happening out of instinct This isn't like me wanting to hurt yeah, instead

Unknown Speaker  
you freak out.

Speaker 4  
Yeah, so That's gonna be luckily for you three damage

Unknown Speaker  
so get this I have it to one well,

Chris (Sal S)  
it's like a slap.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh yeah, because you can have fire now virus Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
every basically everything said radiant.

Chris (Sal S)  
Well product has have good to know.

Speaker 4  
As I'm flying back guys. Assume I'm gonna look at Upri What the fuck are you doing? You're gonna die.

Speaker 1  
Oh my goodness. Wren, what are you doing? You see the fog cloud? behind you and you are still hearing smashes of apres hammer and you hear Yonsei call out what the fuck are you doing?

Speaker 2  
Yeah, that tracks that doesn't like every character. Yeah, like I because I can't see anything. I'm not gonna like venture into the fog. I'm gonna keep an eye out for the night you

Unknown Speaker  
keep watch? Yunfei What do you do?

Speaker 4  
Sorry. As I land, I'm going to stand up and cast true desires. So I cast true desire. And that means that the person I'm casting on, aka, upbringing needs to succeed at a DC 14 wisdom saving throw. But since I might level two corruption should now need to be a dc 16

Unknown Speaker  
dc 16

Unknown Speaker  
Am I at tier two? Yes. Oh, okay. Don't only please and what ends 14 So

Speaker 4  
it fails. It fails. So you see, whatever you love most,

Speaker 1  
what does this version of Upri desire?

Speaker 5  
Oh, so this version? Oh, yeah. It's not know what is this? Oh God, all right. So it's not going to have an effect. I'm just going to Upri grins and the veins get even worse. And she lunges towards you hammer ready to swing.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. Has to be calmly. Yeah, so yeah, it's a way that you're charmed. Oh, so

Kendrick (Yonce)  
you can attack me and then five feet. You just don't move. You can't move. But you only can look at me greedily. So, essentially, even though you see bloodless, it's, I'm assuming that you can't do anything about it. Nope. You're just walking up waiting.

Unknown Speaker  
So I think I'll go and savor

Speaker 1  
it. You savor the opportunity for the bloodlust that you are presented. Who is that bloodlust? Towards? Yeah, who appears in front of you that you want to murder right now.

Unknown Speaker  
But it doesn't have to be someone I see can be an illusion.

Unknown Speaker  
It's an illusion. So

Unknown Speaker  
myself.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, does he?

Speaker 1  
See you see yourself up here? In front of you? Do what

Speaker 5  
I guess That's not corrupt theory. I'm really confused with the duality and mindfuck. So I think it would just be a copy of Yonce then a copy of Yonce Bey because That's who corruptly wants to kill right.

Speaker 1  
Now the truest desire, who if given an opportunity of anybody that corruptly would want to murder?

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, I guess, the director, but I don't know what they look like.

Speaker 1  
All right. Your interpretation of what the director appears before you.

Speaker 5  
It's probably like a shadowy figure. Yeah, in a cloak face masked wisps of darkness around them.

Speaker 1  
And Yonsei can see this Yonsei can see your truest desire.

Speaker 5  
I feel like they were kind of raise their arms in a robe and you'd see a bunch of puppet strings attached to a brewery start getting pulled and she like, cracks her neck and stuff and starts moving weird.

Speaker 4  
I'm still not done with my turret. I see this and I take a step back. And I just, I fall I fall on the ground. All right, I'm surprised by this. Yeah, it's terrifying. It's terrifying. But

Speaker 1  
I can't see any of it. I see. No cell sees the effects that has on the two of you. But only the two of you have this vision. It's a shared vision between the two. smoke cloud or Yeah. Doesn't see shit.

Unknown Speaker  
Yep. AD.

Speaker 1  
So you fall backwards, you're taken aback?

Speaker 4  
Yes. Now I'm done with my turn out. You're done

Unknown Speaker  
with your turn. Salvador. What are you doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna walk into the fog cloud. I'm gonna try to pull one of the people one of the three people are standing. I'm not sure if it's Shannon up. Hopefully, I will be able to feel that the bloodiness of Shannon, but I'm gonna try to pull Yonsei out to away. And I'm going to use my action to cast dramaturgy to make my voice booming. I'm gonna say prayer condemns the order of the city. They have perverted my teachings. And I will deal with them swiftly as it emerges from this cloud,

Speaker 1  
yeah. Boys boons through the alley. And give me a perception check to find

Chris (Sal S)  
one of the zombie. Shame on you. Oh, shame. Oh, That's cocked, but it's on a 19. Let's say all right,

Speaker 1  
a 19. You find Beyonce who is currently on there, but kind of like shifting backwards. You bump into them, you feel their shoulder, you look down, you see their face it startled. And as you look up, you can kind of make out the outline of Upri their forefoot form? Oh, no, it's been more than a minute at this point. Oh, yeah, they're back. Okay. Yeah. So they're back to seven feet. You see their form is kind of twisted and kind of like their arms are all cocked in a weird position.

Chris (Sal S)  
Depart because I can't lower my voice for a minute.

Unknown Speaker  
You can't drop it.

Chris (Sal S)  
It's three times louder than normal for one minute, and you have to use an action to dismiss it. So I'm going to whisk For which would be the normal is just regular talking. I'm gonna say we gotta get out of here.

Speaker 4  
All right. I'm unresponsive. I'm freaking out at this point moment at Bri.

Unknown Speaker  
I can't move right?

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah. What's going through your mind?

Speaker 5  
Probably pure existential rage and hatred towards this robed puppeteer figure. So she's probably just like really frustrated

Unknown Speaker  
and ran keeps watch

Speaker 2  
Oh, Shannon, Shannon just Oh, Shannon Shambles over to

Speaker 1  
all hear in the fog cloud. Chewing,

Speaker 2  
slamming, slamming. That's the best zombie attack.

Speaker 1  
Okay, you hear slamming a flush on flash?

Unknown Speaker  
Is it good or bad? And

Unknown Speaker  
Yonsei What are you doing?

Speaker 4  
Who there is a look of panic on my face. And I do notice how. But I just keep going back and forth looking at Upri and I'm going to say like, I can't do this any like, oh, gosh, just this is too much. And then I missed the step backwards. I'm just trying to get away at this point. All right.

Speaker 1  
Salvador Yonce has just missed he stepped away. You see apres figure in the cloud? looming.

Unknown Speaker  
Do you do Hey, friend.

Chris (Sal S)  
I see that operate does not appear herself. And I want to cast line this honor.

Speaker 4  
I will say that if you are do anything harmful to Upri my term ends.

Chris (Sal S)  
That's not hard. Oh, so do you want me to attack her?

Unknown Speaker  
No, don't do your child. Oh,

Chris (Sal S)  
wait, what is your term doing right now?

Speaker 1  
It's just holding operates. It operates not moving. Okay, so there there was just kind of standing there in this like, puppet teared?

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. Yonce What the heck was going on?

Speaker 4  
I just I just, I just wanted it to stop. So I just reached into the darkness That's inside of me. And I just got her to stop. And I don't know what that is. Mind you. I'm also 30 feet away at this. Look, I'm shouting. I don't know what that is. I did not ask to be a part of this. I am. I'm scared. I don't I just want her to stop.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, can I go up and try to where are your hands right now?

Speaker 5  
They're like strung up by like, like they're just positioned at my sides once the holding

Unknown Speaker  
looks like they are a marionette

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, can I take their weapon off of them? Your axe? Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
I'm gonna GDX you take the axe with a hammer.

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna take the hammer. I'm gonna run for Johnson

Speaker 5  
wood, wood Fern react. Is Fern. Fern sentient now? Because it differentiates the blood

Unknown Speaker  
from a sentient

Speaker 4  
I will also say true desire means that he can't hurt or can't hurt

Unknown Speaker  
me but Fern might be able to.

Speaker 1  
So no as you can hurt South Salvador tries to pull Fern from upper his hand. You see that the tendrils wrap around her wrist? Give me a strength check

Chris (Sal S)  
and do those wrist straps like Well, we've got to go flying like a remote

strength trackers to 17

Speaker 1  
Okay, so as the tendrils begin to wrap around her wrist, you yank it from her, they snap off. And you see that they're trying to regrow quickly to like reattach themselves. But you pull it from her. And you run on towards Yonsei was

Chris (Sal S)  
shove it in my bag. All right.

Unknown Speaker  
It's very big. It's very, almost like it's like a gray hammer. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
what's a Warhammer? sapling. Gotcha. Yeah, it's

Chris (Sal S)  
a tall tree.

Unknown Speaker  
All right,

Speaker 4  
away from me Get that thing away from so I'm just backing up. I even you're backing up.

Chris (Sal S)  
We're getting to the edge of the fog cloud, then.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So you are approaching the edges of fog cloud. You're distancing yourself from the sound of the slamming. And as you continue to kind of have this tense moment. We're approaching the end of the minute. And so what first drops is that bloodlust,

Unknown Speaker  
oh, but then they lose.

Speaker 1  
But the illusion is still there and now you are Staring at the director and you feel a knot in your chest, and you're still unable to move. And that fear is like, overwhelming you. But you cannot move. And then the slamming stops. The body falls limp.

Chris (Sal S)  
What?

Unknown Speaker  
Right? How long does it last for?

Speaker 2  
Always? It's a permanent visa be permanent. I only, I only have control over for 24 hours.

Unknown Speaker  
So you created a zombie? Just on

Chris (Sal S)  
the loose? With no fit. Okay,

Speaker 1  
so never ride on the running around. But then eventually, the how long this fog cloud last?

Chris (Sal S)  
lasts for a minute, I think okay. Or?

Unknown Speaker  
No? When how long does the illusion last?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, up to a minute.

Chris (Sal S)  
Foxrun lasts for an hour unless I lose concentration.

Speaker 1  
So then eventually the illusion dissipates. And you're Let go Upri? I need Upri Yonce and Wren to do their corruption saving throws?

Unknown Speaker  
Is that a? What? Is there a modifier? Yeah, what's that?

Speaker 1  
It's a Wisdom save of one. It depends on your level of corruption. So make the Wisdom save and tell me what you get are.

Unknown Speaker  
15

Unknown Speaker  
Alright. Ren saves.

Unknown Speaker  
It was in between. So I'm going to do it again. Signed up free.

Unknown Speaker  
Once you get your affairs, seven,

Speaker 1  
all right. So you fail. Well, so as your illusion drops, you feel this, like rubber banding pull to the darkness that you know what you did was necessary. And you do it again. You gain one point of corruption.

Speaker 2  
I mean, That's bad. Sorry. Sorry. I'm clapping over here. But I'm just excited for it to happen.

Speaker 1  
So you still are in tier one. Mild corruption. Okay. But a total of four points of corruption. And Upri

Speaker 5  
I rolled in that 20. So there will be no lessons learned today. Decision making today.

Speaker 1  
Great Love it loved as the end of it. They these are still wonderful, powerful ability. with absolutely no repercussions. So

Unknown Speaker  
none.

Unknown Speaker  
You attacked your sibling.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, you're gonna experience how I feel about that in a moment.

Speaker 1  
Yeah. So as this all dissipates, the cloud is still up. What are the two of you doing we're now out of combat,

Speaker 2  
at least for ran once after some time passes, and it's clear that nobody's following anymore. I guess I'll go into the fog cloud to find Shannon.

Speaker 1  
All right. So you're gonna start walking into the fog cloud with the rest of you doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
So? I am John with Yonsei and say that seemed pretty wild back there. Upri was frozen and you were cowering and there's something you need to tell me.

Speaker 4  
I'm still carrying at this point. I look at South and say Shut the fuck up right now.

Chris (Sal S)  
Shut up. It's hard because I have found the torture cast on me

Unknown Speaker  
close your mouth

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm so sorry. I went directly to here which is just a shout.

Speaker 4  
And I'm just staring at up I'm staring you can use your action

Chris (Sal S)  
to use action to shout ism the voice of prayer. But yeah, I'll dismiss it.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm just going to keep looking at Upri in just stunned what what would you what would you do that? Why would you attack me?

Speaker 1  
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