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Twenty Sides: A DnD Podcast
C1 - Ep 22: Yarlic Cove
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The party reaches Yarlic Cove and find someone who may have some answers.
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On the last episode of 20 Sides, expecting Panner and Dalman, the party ran into two half orcs guarding the dock. Yarost failed to deceive them and they attacked. But after the scuttle, both half orcs were thrown into the river. Vrez then guided the party down the river, and Seven shared with Yarost the dreams he's had of the events Panner described. And that's where we begin.
SPEAKER_06Welcome to 20 Sides, a fast-paced, story-driven, actual play Dungeons and Dragons podcast. I'm your DM, Matt.
SPEAKER_02I'm Bobby, playing Yaros the Dwarven Barbarian.
SPEAKER_09Hey, I'm Jess, and I play Leona, the Moon Elf Wizard.
SPEAKER_01I'm Philip, and I play Seven, the Warforge Cleric.
SPEAKER_10Hi, I'm Tyler, and I play the Half Elven Rogue Ordella.
SPEAKER_06Join our campaign as we unravel the mysteries of an ancient necrotic evil right now on 20 Sides.
SPEAKER_02So where where this other portal is, is it in the middle of I don't know what we call that place we just came from? A dungeon? Is it in the middle of It's in like a tower?
SPEAKER_07Does there anyone live in this tower or is there to be honest with you all, I'm not quite sure it's even in there.
SPEAKER_02What the what are you saying now?
SPEAKER_07I mean, we've been told from multiple different people that there's there's a portal at the top of this tower.
SPEAKER_02Well, you've never been.
SPEAKER_07No, no, no, no. That's dangerous. You don't know what's in a tower in the deep hallows. But you all just you killed that. Well, you didn't kill it, but you ran away from that one thing.
SPEAKER_01So you Seven just picks up his ore and sits it in his lap. Just sits there.
SPEAKER_07What's wrong with him?
SPEAKER_02Uh I don't know if you're giving him much confidence in our mission.
SPEAKER_07But you all were so strong. You you ran away from one thing and you pushed two other things in the water. You're dumb. You are de-arless, you're like a king of warriors. Oh my gosh. It's a king?
SPEAKER_01Well, it's it's probably best that you stop talking. Okay. We we probably let's just keep let's just keep going. And I start rowing again.
SPEAKER_07Do you want to sing?
SPEAKER_01I I don't I really don't want to sing. I I really don't. No, let's just let's how how how much further do you think we got?
SPEAKER_07We uh maybe like three hours.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, let's get a good rest of three hours in while we just so did I ever hear back from Willinor?
SPEAKER_02You did not. Lee Leo, do you know if this thing, you know, we went through magic portal. Do you know if portal caused disturbance? You could not use uh little bat. Could not go through portal, and you talked a bat. So maybe your magic stone does not work through portal either.
SPEAKER_09I think it just doesn't have good reception under here. I have not seen any towers, so Oh my gosh, everyone is going to cry. Yeah, I mean, I haven't heard anything from from Willinor in like I don't know how long.
SPEAKER_01I start rowing harder. Maybe this will get over faster.
SPEAKER_07Is he upset? Hey Saturn, calm down, you're making the boat go in the wrong direction. Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_01Well, if everybody else would pick up the pace. Maybe we cut that three hours into an hour and a half.
SPEAKER_09While I'm like rowing, casually rowing, um, I'm kind of looking at these scrolls and spells and stuff.
SPEAKER_06Kind of studying them a little bit.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, just figuring out what I feel like I've learned more about myself and my magical abilities.
SPEAKER_06So y'all row on, Seven's furiously rowing a little bit harder than everybody else, causing the boat to Vrez has to constantly say, Seven, stop rowing so hard. Y'all row for another 30, 45 minutes, and Vrez says, Uh, do y'all do y'all do y'all see that up ahead?
SPEAKER_08Yeah. You do? What are you seeing, Leo? I don't know. Let me roll for perception. It's the there. Oh, a 20.
SPEAKER_06She does see. She does see. 22. So you see these slimy looking, almost like crocodile-ish creatures.
SPEAKER_09Oh no.
SPEAKER_06That are moving a lot more fluidly than crocodiles would move. Almost like fish would move, like where they're coming in and out of the water, and and Vrez goes, uh yeah, you you s you see that?
SPEAKER_07You see that, Leo?
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Van Roos. Um.
SPEAKER_09Is that your friend?
SPEAKER_07No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Everybody get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. What the what are you talking about? It's is do you see a Miaros? There.
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_07They're gonna try to get in the boat and kill us. Just be calm. Just be very calm. Kill us. Seven.
SPEAKER_10Seven, do you see that?
SPEAKER_02Nope.
SPEAKER_10Seven.
SPEAKER_02Okay, Seven, you if you get ready. How about you turn on some kind of light in case something happens? I I can't.
SPEAKER_06They already see us, maybe cast light on my for the first time in ten hours, you can finally see something. Y'all get closer and closer and closer, and these creatures are moving in and out of the water, in and out of the water.
SPEAKER_07And he goes, Okay, just just get ready, get ready.
SPEAKER_06And he gets in the middle of the boat and just hunkers down. He goes, Y'all are ready, right?
SPEAKER_02Are these things we can talk to, or is this no?
SPEAKER_07No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01And so I just start. I'm going. I'm gonna hit I'm gonna uh try to go right over the top of them. Okay as fast as I can.
SPEAKER_09How many are there?
SPEAKER_06Roll a perception check.
SPEAKER_09I mean, I just rolled a 22.
SPEAKER_06Okay, you rolled a 22.
SPEAKER_09Let's go.
SPEAKER_06I'll say this. It's like asking how many fish are in the water. It's really tough to see. You don't know if it's one. That's just going in back and forth, back and forth. It could be a whole school of them. It could be a Well, he just named two though, right?
SPEAKER_09Yeah. He's a er He just says some kind of name or something.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yeah, yeah. So he he's calling them Ban Ruths.
SPEAKER_10Can I try to hit one with my bow?
SPEAKER_06Sure.
SPEAKER_10Thirteen.
SPEAKER_06Thirteen. So and just water splashes. And he goes, And I'm still just Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_07Um, just get ready. Yaros, you got your mole out.
SPEAKER_06Yes, yes, of course.
SPEAKER_07Okay, okay, okay. Leo, do you have your oh, what do you do? What is your do you have that thing out?
SPEAKER_02What do you have a bat?
SPEAKER_07Oh, get your bat out! Okay, get ready. Okay, get ready. I'm ready.
SPEAKER_06And I'm just rowing as hard as I can. So y'all get within 10 feet of them, five feet of them. Roll for an issue.
SPEAKER_09Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_0613. 11? 16.
SPEAKER_1020.
SPEAKER_06I rolled a four total. Okay, good. So y'all are rowing. These things are you can hear them now a little bit as they're coming out of the water. Just Cordella, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_10I'm gonna try to hit it.
SPEAKER_06Sea serpents.
SPEAKER_10Seven.
SPEAKER_06Seven. That is also gonna miss as it splashes in the water.
SPEAKER_10I just hold on tighter.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_11So what are these things? Are they something that's going to get in the boat?
SPEAKER_10They're going to try.
SPEAKER_07They're definitely going to try.
SPEAKER_11We're still rowing, right? We're going as fast as we we can row. So I'm gonna stop rowing. I'm gonna stand up and ready and attack for the first thing I see. Okay. Okay, we can't just try to like fly by them. These things.
SPEAKER_07I know I don't think you can. What are they after? Uh ugly food.
SPEAKER_02Do you have any of your dried fruit?
SPEAKER_11Seven? I mean, I'm ready. Yeah, if we're gonna do it, we're doing it. Ready and attack?
SPEAKER_06And we'll we'll use the bonus to go ahead and uh to rage. Okay. So Yaros goes into a rage. Leo.
SPEAKER_09I guess I'm gonna cast Flaming Spear.
SPEAKER_06Flaming Sphere pops up right on it. Fails. So eight. Eight damage. Your Flaming Sphere appears underwater and you just hear it go. This time it shoots out of the water and you can see its face for the first time. And it does almost look like a crocodile's face, but its arms are really long as it flail about.
SPEAKER_09Okay, so I'm gonna cast hex with um my flaming sphere.
SPEAKER_06Go ahead and roll a D6 of extra damage. A four. So you have hexed one of them that you can see. So you get to pick a saving throw you want to target as well, or an ability score you want to target to give them disadvantage on every truck.
SPEAKER_01So it will have disadvantage on dex saving throws. We've seen one come out of the water. Did we notice another one? Yes. Okay. So I would like to hex the other one. Okay. And same Dex. And then I'm going to Sacred Flame that.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So it will make a Dex saving throw and rolls a three plus four, seven. Hmm. So it fails. Dude, I'm rolling terribly tonight. Four damage. So y'all get ready, Ordella and Yarost. Now you see three of these things, and all three of them start lunging toward the boat. One of them is lunging toward you, Yarost. So go ahead and make your attack.
SPEAKER_02Attack recklessly and great weapon master.
SPEAKER_06A 12. That's gonna miss. So you swing down, it's able to move its arms and grab part of the top of the boat and pull itself up into the boat. It goes to bite at you, Yarost. Did you attack recklessly?
unknownYeah. Alright.
SPEAKER_06Ooh, natural 20. Ooh. Somebody's rolling good tonight, boys.
SPEAKER_10Not over here.
SPEAKER_06Not this side. You're gonna take 12 damage, and then you're going to take three acid damage as well. And then another one jumps up to attack seven and is going to roll a 14 to hit. That's gonna miss. Mm-hmm. As you easily deflect it with your shield, but he does eventually crawl into the boat. And you notice these things, they're not huge. They're probably four feet long, but they have these real long legs and arms. Uh they just look slimy as all get out. And you see their mouths as they bite, they have this dripping acid coming out of them. The next one tries to jump in the boat, attack Leo. 13 to hit. It's gonna hit unless you want to cast shield.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I probably need to.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So you cast shield, this ethereal orb almost surrounds you as it goes to bite you and can't.
SPEAKER_10I'm gonna try to get the one that came in the boat. 20?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's gonna hit.
SPEAKER_10Eight.
SPEAKER_06Eight total for the first. Okay.
SPEAKER_1016?
SPEAKER_06Misses.
SPEAKER_10Are we sure?
SPEAKER_00Use her really quick. Are we sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not using a great weapon master anymore. Yarost? Attack recklessly, but not great weapon master.
SPEAKER_06Alrighty, alrighty.
SPEAKER_0019.
SPEAKER_0619 is gonna hit. 21.
SPEAKER_03So you smack this one and it and jumps back over the edge.
SPEAKER_06Falls into the water. Seven. How many are in the boat? So there's one in front of you that you hexed, one in front of Leo that she hexed, and the one that was in front of Yaros jumped out and left. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Don't really want a sacred flame in the boat. I was just like it might not be the greatest. So I'm gonna pull out my mace here. 13.
SPEAKER_06That is gonna miss as it dodges out of the way quickly. Leo, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_09Okay, so I have flaming sphere on one, correct?
SPEAKER_06Not yet, because it came out of the water. So you can move it from the water to the boat if you want to.
SPEAKER_09Let's see. I'm just gonna do chill touch then. Okay. On the one that is hexed in front of me.
SPEAKER_06Perfect.
SPEAKER_0914 plus six. Okay. A seven. It's hexed. A one. And then for my bonus action, I'm moving flaming sphere. You can. Okay, so that's what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_06Moving flaming sphere into the boat.
SPEAKER_09On top of it, yes.
SPEAKER_06On top of it.
SPEAKER_09On top of the guy.
SPEAKER_06So it's gonna make it make a deck save at disadvantage.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_0613.
SPEAKER_09Okay, six. And six. Yes. Wow.
SPEAKER_06You cast chill touch on it. The spectral hand shoots forward as you're pulling this flaming sphere out of the water. And as it comes out of the water, water shoots up and and mist all around it evaporates. As you pull this flaming sphere, hit on top of it, grabbing it with a spectral hand, it goes, turns around and starts to get off the boat, get in the water, swims off. And you hear Vrez in the background go, Yeah, yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_07Okay, okay, one more, one more, one more, one more.
SPEAKER_06Or Della trick.
SPEAKER_10Okay, I'm gonna try to get that for Vrez. Do it for Vrez. Eight.
SPEAKER_06That misses. Shoot him again? Yeah. Crossbow expert. Yes.
SPEAKER_10Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 18.
SPEAKER_06That hits. Cool. Just barely.
SPEAKER_10Five. Eight. Nice.
SPEAKER_06Five plus eight. Thirteen.
SPEAKER_10Let's do it.
SPEAKER_06That one took the exact same amount that Leo's had. So again, you fire, it dodges out of the way and then pierces into its abdomen.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_07Goes across the boat, swims off, and Vrez goes, okay, okay, I think we're in the clear, but let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
SPEAKER_06Pick up our orbs again.
SPEAKER_02Start rowing.
SPEAKER_10Vrez, is that like the small thing that you were talking about? Or is that like one of the bigger things? No, no, no.
SPEAKER_07Those were the small ones. Okay, so let's just go. Let's go. I don't want to get with the big ones, so let's go, let's go.
SPEAKER_09Oh, that's exhausting.
SPEAKER_06He's in the front going, row harder!
SPEAKER_07We're not going fast enough. Keep going.
SPEAKER_06So y'all row hard for another 15, 20 minutes until you make sure there are no more of these slimy Van Ruth creatures around you. And after another 30 to 40 minutes of easy rowing, Vrez points straight ahead and he says, Look, look, look, look, there it is.
SPEAKER_07There's there it is. Do you do you well, not seven, seven, you can't see it, but everybody else, do you see all that cold? No, I can't see it. Do you see it?
SPEAKER_06And about that time you see the twinkling of what looks like lantern lights off in the distance. And as you move forward, as you move closer, these small huts begin to come into view on the shore of this huge, enormous lake. And then behind the huts, there is this enormous cavern wall that stretches up, again, too far for your vision to even see. But there are all these tiny cave entrances that look like dots from where you are currently on your boat. There are some at ground level, there are some much higher up, with what looks like these long ladders that are leaned against the cavern wall that would lead to these tiny higher entrances. And you glance at Vrez, and for the first time his face looks excited, and he says, Okay, so so um keep keep rowing.
SPEAKER_07Obviously, keep rowing, but but these are the the front huts are are the people that that that have a little bit of extra uh we don't really have coin, but whatever they want to trade more with. And then you see those black dots back there? Those are those are little cave entrances where where people the the the people at Yarlett Cove live. So we'll get there and we'll I'll say I'm I'm home and everyone will be so happy that I'm home.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Uh well, yeah, uh little well let's just do it. Let's just go. Okay.
SPEAKER_07And then we'll just all stay at the castle or Well, um, no, we live in the bigger hut.
SPEAKER_01Sounds like a castle. Okay. Well yeah, and uh can can you just go ahead and point me to the tower? I I just I don't I don't really care about the hut. I I mean you're nice. I uh sure, but and I did save your life, but you did. Yeah. Let's just and and I did lift you to, you know, to to get that off your off your dead mother's neck. But we you know the the hut the huts are great. I would like to see the tower, but I do not think is here.
SPEAKER_11This is another day's travel or so.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Oh uh What is this on the way?
SPEAKER_01I haven't really been paying that much attention to you, and I I uh I now feel a little defeated, actually.
SPEAKER_07It's okay. Uh I feel like that too.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02Well I I don't what are we doing, guys? What are we doing here? We we're resting here for another for a night. Let him get his go back to his kingdom for a night, and then he's going to take us to tower.
SPEAKER_01Uh okay, okay. As long as if Yaros is okay with it, I guess that's fine.
SPEAKER_09So after we rest, how do we get to this tower?
SPEAKER_07We we can either go by foot or we can get back on the boat. Do you have any horses? What's a horse?
SPEAKER_01Oh gosh. Well, how how long is it by foot?
SPEAKER_07Um, probably a day and a half's travel.
SPEAKER_02What about what about boat?
SPEAKER_07Probably about a day.
SPEAKER_02Uh what about the danger? What about risk?
SPEAKER_07Do you like fighting on land or in the boat?
SPEAKER_02Uh definitely on land, yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_07Probably on land then.
SPEAKER_02Then we will go by land. But okay, let's uh let's go talk to your father. Let's uh let's go see your kingdom. This is a kingdom.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, this is this is it.
SPEAKER_02This looks this looks great.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I'll take you to your lake.
SPEAKER_07So do you like get visitors often or not particularly. We have I mean, all of us are goblins. Well, except except Zalcom. But other than him, everybody is is a goblin. Who's uh oh Zalcom, he's he's actually a little bit smaller than me. He's a gnome.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's good.
SPEAKER_07But we you want to go see Yarlak?
SPEAKER_02That's his that's his king, your father.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so uh um we change the name every time a king dies. So every, you know, three or four years, we end up having a new a new name.
SPEAKER_02King King dies every three or four years?
SPEAKER_07Well, I mean, some people are reckless. Right, so this goblins are reckless.
SPEAKER_02So next this will be Vrez's cove.
SPEAKER_07Yes.
SPEAKER_09Uh, do you want to go uh talk to your dad first by yourself about, you know, like your mom and stuff?
SPEAKER_07No, no, I think if y'all came with me and y'all could maybe y'all could walk behind me and I could say, I could say, I rescued these four, and dad, look at what I've done. And and y'all can say, Yes, he he he's so great.
SPEAKER_09I don't think that. So so you're telling me you have some daddy issues?
SPEAKER_07No, my dad, my dad likes me, I think. Do you think your dad likes other people? Um, yeah. As long as they help out. Well, maybe, or maybe y'all say, y'all say, Vrez was attacked by these evil people that that casted lightning on him, and and y'all saved me, and and um you but we weren't able to save anybody else. But with Vrez's amazing navigational skills, we were able to get back home.
SPEAKER_01I I'm I I I'm not saying that.
SPEAKER_09Oh. I mean, I feel like that's the more accurate than the first one. Yeah, probably. Oh, okay, come on, come on.
SPEAKER_01He starts walking off. Hop out of the boat and follow. I wait for everybody else. I'm just kind of like looking at them, like what I don't I don't know what to do.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, Ordell's Lake. Can we can I do a perception check?
SPEAKER_06Sure.
SPEAKER_10Um, two plus four is six.
SPEAKER_06A six.
SPEAKER_10Feeling a little seasick, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06A little seasick. Getting your getting your uh land legs back. You look around. Don't seem to be a ton of goblins. You see a few silhouettes of goblins way up ahead walking around, but other than that, it it doesn't seem to be just this bustling town.
SPEAKER_01Is it still pretty dark or is it?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you can see a little bit simply because there's a few lanterns, there's a few torches, but it's very, very dim light for you. Okay, for sure. So y'all follow Vrez?
SPEAKER_09So yeah, I'm going to message um Yarost and just say, uh, not sure how I feel about this situation.
SPEAKER_02It is just a bunch of goblins. What's the what's the worst that could happen? What what? What did you what did you say? Did you were you talking to me? Oh, you know, you know who I'm talking to. It's always Leo hopping into people's heads.
SPEAKER_09She never said. Famous last words. That's what I'm gonna message back. I'm just looking at all of you like, I do not know what's going on ever with that. Somebody please turn.
SPEAKER_06So you all follow Vrez. He clearly has a pep to his step now that he didn't have when he was on the boat. You pass one of these huts, and these small children goblin run around the corner as they're playing. It's so cute.
SPEAKER_07And Vrez turns around and looks at you and says, Oh, come on, yeah, there it is, there it is.
SPEAKER_06And you see ahead a bigger hut compared to the ones around it. There's a piece of driftwood shoved into the ground in front of it, where this lantern is just tinkering on top of it almost. Like you could brush past it enough and it would fall on the ground. All these knick-knacks and trinkets and pots and beads are just dangling from all over this hut. Frez walks ahead and he pulls this animal fur to the side, which is acting as a door. Sitting at a table directly across from you is a goblin not much bigger than Frez, but extremely stout and strong. He wears this makeshift crown of sticks and twigs, and there are a few berries that you can see buried in it, and it's got a few gems in it. But it really looks like if you shook it hard enough, just the gems and berries would fall. Out of it. And so sweet. As soon as Vrez walks through, and as you guys walk in behind him, who you are assuming is Yarlik, stands up and says, Oh, my son has returned.
SPEAKER_05Welcome home.
SPEAKER_06And he runs forward, and and Vrez goes, Dad! And Frez runs forward and they embrace in this tight hug. And he says, Now, where is your mother?
SPEAKER_07Oh Dad, she she didn't make it. We were ambushed and then we got we got stuck in this in this abandoned or this ruined. I don't know what it was, Dad, but they were these mean people that came and they killed us. They killed everybody but me. But these people behind me, and well, three, three people in one thing, they saved me. And um so I want to introduce you, Dad, to my my friends. This is this is uh Yarros, he's he's a dwarf, and um Leo, she's she's an elf, and she can cast spells, dad. And and this one's Ordella, she's really fast and she can poke things, and the the other thing is tall, but his name is seven, but he's he's really nice, I think. Hi, hi dad.
SPEAKER_05You all is this is this dad? Hi dad! You you all saved my son.
SPEAKER_02It was mostly me, yes. I um I slayed giant gorilla creature, brought your son here. He helped navigate um back to to your cove. But yes, I am Yarost. I am uh I am a pretty important person back on uh the surface.
SPEAKER_05Yarost, thank you so much. We must have a feast tonight. One to welcome home the Prince of Yarlet Cove, and one to say farewell to my lovely wife, Sashia.
SPEAKER_02Of course, of course. We will we'll stay for feast, but um then we we are only staying for one one night. We do have uh other matters to attend to that you that your son is willing to help us with.
SPEAKER_09Or maybe or maybe we can just eat and then go. Like eating a few. I don't even need to eat, we can go now.
SPEAKER_10And then later I don't I don't need to eat. Hi, Princess Ordella here. Um can can you point me to the direction of the other princesses and I can get ready with them for the feast? Or um how does that work?
SPEAKER_05You you are a a princess.
SPEAKER_10Yes, Princess Ordella.
SPEAKER_05Well, he he straightens up a little bit. I'm I'm not sure if you know this, but my son, and he puts his arm around Fres, is a he's a prince. And our kingdom has to have an heir.
SPEAKER_10I think I'll just pass on that then. I'll just eat with my friends, then I guess.
SPEAKER_02It would be the joining of two great kings.
SPEAKER_10This is your this is your chance. He's very sweet though, and I just pat him on the head. Very cute.
SPEAKER_05Aw, alright. Well, make your make yourselves at home. Is there anything you you need from us? Or um I'm sure Vrez can Vrez, I'm sure he wants to tell me all about his adventure. If if you need him to show you around, he can do that.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that that would work if uh Vrez would give us a quick uh tour of your kingdom. This could take at least five minutes.
SPEAKER_05Well, it it could it could possibly take longer than that, depending on, you know, how much history he delves into. Um there's a lot of history here to Yarlit Cove, but yes, feel free. Feel free.
SPEAKER_07Okay, um, yeah, I'll I'll I'll I'll show you all around. What what do you all want to see first? Is there any is there anything you want to see? Uh uh this is it? Um, what what well I mean we have a lot of huts. Do you have a library? I I I don't, but Zalcom has a lot of books.
SPEAKER_06We whenever we go on our raids And he puts his arm like around your waist as y'all start to walk out.
SPEAKER_07Um whenever whenever we go on raids, Leo, there uh, you know, Zalcom says, if you find any ancient tombs or or any books, bring them back here. Cause I mean, I don't know what words are, or I don't I don't know how to read. I don't think any of us goblins really read, but Zalcom, um, he he has uh so many books. Any any evil books we find, we bring them back to him. We we keep all the gold for us, but he doesn't really care about them. But he wants he wants all the books. So I uh we don't have a library, so to speak, but Zalcom has so many books.
SPEAKER_09Okay, so two things. Don't touch me. Oh that's the first thing.
SPEAKER_06Sorry! And he he kind of pokes your sob and he goes, whoops, okay.
SPEAKER_09Second, um, you said this Salcom he has like evil books. Where is he at?
SPEAKER_07Um he's he's in uh he's in in the hut. One of the huts in the back. We can go we can go talk to him if you're in interested.
SPEAKER_09Yes, I'm very interested.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Do all of you want to go with us? Yes.
SPEAKER_10We're not gonna like leave her, are we? I thought we'd stick together.
SPEAKER_02Well, uh I'd like to talk to her first before she goes.
SPEAKER_09Oh, sometimes I like to not.
SPEAKER_02We'll we'll follow behind you, um, Verez.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And he puts his arm around you. He goes, okay. Oh well, you just lead the way. I need to talk to my um my friends here for a minute.
SPEAKER_01For sure, for sure. Do do I do I have to go?
SPEAKER_06I don't I don't and he picks up this like long sticks and starts using it as like a walking stick. He's like hitting rocks as he's walking, and he's just a little bit in front of you. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02Leo, perhaps this this uh this person, we don't steal from them.
SPEAKER_09Oh. I've never, I don't know what you're talking about. I've never stolen anything from anyone. Right.
SPEAKER_02I'm just saying if you were to start stealing now, this might not be the Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_09I I promise I'll ask permission.
unknownWell, okay.
SPEAKER_09My fingers are crossed behind my back.
SPEAKER_06So you walk on a few minutes, you get to the back, and it looks like this hut is almost built into this cavern wall.
SPEAKER_07Frez turns around and he says, Um, do one of you want to knock or do you want me to knock?
SPEAKER_06I just knock.
SPEAKER_07Seven, you knock. Let's practice.
SPEAKER_06Seven just walks in front, knocks. A few seconds later, the door creaks open. And I just push it and walk in. Okay. This this small, small gnome has this puffy white hair. He's got spectacles on that are at the bottom of his nose. He's got a little bit of a a beard going, and he says, Oh, um, oh, oh, what oh goodness, what are you?
SPEAKER_04Oh, in mm, excuse me, what are you?
SPEAKER_01Interesting. And I'm like squinting because it's really dark in there. And I can't see anything, so I'm just walking. I'm just not paying attention to it.
SPEAKER_04Oh, oh, Vrez, what who did you bring? Who are you all?
SPEAKER_10Hi. Princess Lordella. Can we come?
SPEAKER_04Okay, hold on, everyone. Hold on. What Vrez, what did you Who are these people?
SPEAKER_09Uh, I'm Leo. I just wanted to come look at your books.
SPEAKER_04Are you are you interested in books?
SPEAKER_09I am.
SPEAKER_04Me too.
SPEAKER_10Hi. I am Princess Lordella. You're a princess. Yes. And um, we are here to um Yes, look at your books.
SPEAKER_04So you all surface dwellers came to the deep hallows to look at Zalcom's books.
SPEAKER_10Yep. Yep, that's it, probably, I would guess.
SPEAKER_01I I I uh Valcom, I I didn't come to look at I don't care about your books. No, no, no, it's Zalcom. Like, oh, oh, like, isn't there a powder? Is that is it Zalcom powder? Is that okay. Uh uh, whatever. I I I I'm gonna look over here. What's what's this? And I cast light on my mace. Oh! Because I can't see anything.
SPEAKER_04That's imp that's impressive. Um, so you all are here to look at.
SPEAKER_09I just immediately start going through stuff.
SPEAKER_04Excuse me, um, if you everything is is very organized. Is there is is there something specific you all are looking for that I may I may help you with? Um, just wait a second.
SPEAKER_06As you walk in, you can see in front of you there's an there's an arch that leads kind of back into the cave, and within it, there are so many books. It's a hut that that is at the back of the cave, and so it it goes back, and there are so many books lined, and it's just one long it's not a hallway, but it's a really long room that on both sides of it are these terribly made bookshelves that line it, and there are torches lit, there's a few sconces that are lit that are just flickering light, and the books all look extremely old.
SPEAKER_09So I see that and I go, whoa.
SPEAKER_04Yes, um oh over centuries I have gathered all of these books.
SPEAKER_01Hey, do you do you have anything on on the uh on the orc wars by chance? Of course I do. Can I see can I see it? Yes. Who reads? I I mean I can read. I I totally can read. I just didn't know. What what are you? Uh let's let's just focus on the books. Okay. Sure. Little thing.
SPEAKER_04Sure. Yeah. Okay. Um any any other just so just the orc wars. That's what we're interested in.
SPEAKER_09Do you have any um spell books by chance? Uh like specifically those um that pertain to maybe like some portals or pad stuff. Yes, what do you know about portals?
SPEAKER_04Yes, I know all about portal. I I we have portal books there in the peas. And which orc war are you most interested in there?
SPEAKER_01Uh I I um does does anybody know what which orc wars he was talking about when before he poofed? I don't know. Who is he? Who's he? Panera?
SPEAKER_04Panera. Sounds like they would have delicious bread, but I don't know of them.
SPEAKER_01Paner, Paner, Paner Blim Blimbud.
SPEAKER_10Oh, is that that guy's name?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the guy that poofed.
SPEAKER_10Does anybody remember the guy that poofed? I do. Yeah, that was a weird seven. Wasn't that weird?
SPEAKER_01So crazy. Oh. And I just look at him like he should know what I still don't know exactly what you're talking about. You don't know Paner? Sorry.
SPEAKER_04I don't he may be in the peas as well, but I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_10Hey, little buddy. I turned a uh friend. What friends? Fern's That little guy. Our little goblin. Yes. Hey, um, who was chasing this again? Who are we chasing down there in that cave? What are they called?
SPEAKER_07Um, it was something about some type of silence silence?
SPEAKER_09Scarlet.
SPEAKER_10Yes. Yes, my.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_10Crimson silence. Yes. What about them? Do we have books on them?
SPEAKER_04Crimson silence. Maybe they may be in the seas. But hold on, let me think for a second, because if I remember correctly. Okay, so wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, God.
SPEAKER_09Wait, there's another burger. No, no, no.
SPEAKER_04If if I remember correctly, the um the Crimson Silence have something to do with a Thormir.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, does uh uh I mean, yeah, the basically in the Greywall Mountains, there was like uh Does that sound familiar? Bat Bazook B Bazook? Bazook, yeah. Does that name sound familiar?
SPEAKER_04The Orc Lord.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yes, but he's not really connected, I don't believe, with Thormir. Here, let's go to the tease. Come, my lady. Come, come, my lady.
SPEAKER_03Oh no.
SPEAKER_06That was good. That was good. That's off the top of the head, too.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. So so it was there an orc war within like the 40, 50 years, maybe? Yes. Yes, there was. Can I get came?
SPEAKER_02While you all look at this, are there any of these books that have pictures? These books have good pictures for me.
SPEAKER_04Um, hopefully the orc wars does because there are some when the um the goblin children come in, there's a small section. It's just a at the bottom of one of the bookshelves over there there.
SPEAKER_02So I'll be over there. Oh, you'll all look at look at your orc horse.
SPEAKER_04Excellent. Um, my my what was your name again, Elf? Leo. Leo, come. Let's look, let's look in the T's. Okay.
SPEAKER_06So he walks you over.
SPEAKER_04Do you have any fruit?
SPEAKER_09Uh that's okay.
SPEAKER_06So y'all start looking through the T's and he grabs one book, leather bound, dark black leather, on the the binding of it. It's a language you don't understand. So he pulls this book out and he goes, Oh, um, let's let's let's come over here. Okay, alright.
SPEAKER_04And he opens opens the book and he says, Thormir, let's see here. Um, yes, yes, yes. If if I'm remembering correctly, Thormir was connected to the the Crimson Silence. Yes, yes. Would you like this book? Can you read this?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, can I ha well can I have it? Um for her. More than like yeah.
SPEAKER_04Actually from over a day. Yes, you can. Because every time a an ancient tomb comes into this room, I make sure to make sure to make two copies of each of them.
SPEAKER_09So I I I handwrite it out. So can I have all of these books? I'm I'm asking permission.
SPEAKER_02I yell for my second.
SPEAKER_04Good job. Technically, yes, you could have one of each. I don't know how you would carry them, but Oh, I have a way.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I can I have the Orc Wars book? Sure. Yes. Can I have two of them? I don't know really what you do with books, but I think that I would like to have two of them. What are you all doing down here?
SPEAKER_09Okay, so basically, we're from the Seekers of Light. I don't know where she's from. We just found her along the way. Oh but um I am a princess. So she's just a princess.
SPEAKER_01Well, as this is happening, I I sit crisscross applesauce and open my orc book.
SPEAKER_04He turns back and points back at Vrez and says, Did did you all did you all know he's a prince?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, we do.
SPEAKER_10Um I just roll my eyes. So basically.
SPEAKER_09We are looking for uh just information on the crimson silence. There's an artifact that we are trying to track down. I think it's called the Eternal Rest. Does that sound familiar? Does that ring a ding ding?
SPEAKER_04Stop I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. Because you came to the right man. Salcom knows it all.
SPEAKER_09Oh, great. So can you tell us about all this? Yes, yes, come, come, huddle near me. Um, we'll first get the book. Whoa. We'll first um you just asked a question and then you told me to hold. Yeah, yeah, hold on a second. Okay. So it's a two-parter.
SPEAKER_04But I wrote down a lot of information I want to read to you.
SPEAKER_09So I look at I look over at Verez and I ask him, so why were you guys in that portal? What what mission were you guys on?
SPEAKER_07Um, um, so so we weren't on, we were we were going out to get food. So we we take raiding parties and sometimes we go and um try to get a lot of food and then we bring it back to Yarlak Cove because there's not a ton of food near Yarlak Cove. And so we were out and we got ambushed by Van Rooths. Uh the the things we fought, we got ambushed and we lost all of our boats. But but three. And the three got washed up on uh with the ruins where y'all found us, and we stayed there for a little bit to to kind of regroup. But while we were regrouping, all of those other people came in, whatever you're calling them, the the quiet people, they came in and they were sacrificing us. And I was the last one. I was gonna get sacrificed, and I was on that that that big lumber post, and I was tied, and y'all came in and y'all were like, we could shoot him with an arrow, and I was like, Don't do that, don't do that. And then I'm gonna do it. No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01You remember when I jumped on the pole? You you do you remember that?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I that was goodness. Yeah, you're cool at that part. Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01Wait, did y'all y'all heard that, right?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, he's the coolest out of y'all four. What? Okay, so skip, skip, skip, let's fast forward. Okay, so we saved you. Um what so you found a portal though, right? No. I like I I just hold up my hand, I'm like, uh, hold please. And I turn around to the party, I'm like, wait a second. I thought he told did he not tell us that he had a portal somewhere?
SPEAKER_07Oh, you're talking about the portal we're going to.
SPEAKER_09Oh, yeah. How do you know where that is? How did you find that?
SPEAKER_07Wait, everybody in Yarlake Cove knows about that portal. I look at um Nobody's ever gone into it. I mean, we're not sure it's but yeah, if we all know about it.
SPEAKER_10Didn't you say it went to Dyer's rest?
SPEAKER_07Yeah. No, well, yes.
SPEAKER_10Mm-hmm. But what did you just say though? You Um Zalcom!
SPEAKER_09Do you have any other folks that I could be interested in? What portal? Ew uh. Is any police tell this little goblin to help us?
SPEAKER_07I'm going to take you to the portal tomorrow. We've already talked about this.
SPEAKER_09Okay. Yeah, but uh you said you nobody knew where the portal goes, and then you just told her that um I mean we're pretty sure it goes to Dyer's wrist. Pretty sure. How sure.
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