Ep. 45: Defending Eldoria

War horns sounding in the distance, it seems that the enemy has forced the battle to our friends. Will they be able to defend the incoming enemies, or will their forces be too much for our heroes to handle?

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:19

In any universe, does it make sense for butt cheeks to be horizontal instead of vertical? And with any universe, it will pop a pub shot.

SPEAKER_05 0:29

A live-action role-playing game with all baristas.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

My name's not Renee. I'm not the DM.

SPEAKER_05 0:41

I'm also not Renee, not the DM.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

I too am not Renee and not the DM. And with it is Baila.

SPEAKER_05 0:52

Who plays Val, who's still not Renee, not the DM.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

P-E. Buka. We're just talking about we're just talking about Pig Butt, so I gotta refocus. And Jordan.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Not Renee, but I was a DM once.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Last week left off, our friends have been traveling deep into the woods while they have been in the heartlands, eventually making their way to a town called Eldoria with the help of Tamison, uh, who they found along with the leader of a kind of Ranger Scout warrior group uh from Eldoria, who was by the name of Lake, uh through a little conversation and helping and assisting slightly in a combat, uh, they helped guide you guys to Eldoria where they you guys were able to discuss and kind of share information that you guys had. Uh, while this was happening, Tamson let you guys know that part of the group that they were currently fighting, uh, the broken spear uh was fighting uh a group or another tribe known by uh the Twin Hounds that was gain or getting assistance, and they were kind of motivated to attack Eldoria uh because of the blue dragonborn who you guys have faced uh just a few days before back in the Sky Fang range. Uh you finally got to enter the city, a city made up of giant tree houses, uh, literally, where all of these massive, massive trees were fused together to create homes and buildings uh at the very center, an even larger tree that fully overshadowed this town. Uh, at the very center, you were led towards the center by Lake uh and Tamson, where you got to meet uh uh Lova, who is the matriarch uh of this of this town, and let you all know that she also you discovered that she also at some point used to travel with Cavino back when Kavino had a different name. Uh, and she lets you know a little bit about his past uh and her past back when you guys would travel together. But uh she lets you know that you are more than welcome to stay the night here. Uh, and you guys could probably share a little more information. Uh, but before you could go and get any rest, the sound of horns in the distance indicating approaching danger resounded, and that is where we are now. Oh, the horns continue on in various parts in the distance, if they don't sound nearby, and Lake looks to all of you. Uh Lova is still holding on to uh to Lake's arm, but you guys ended up kind of in this small room. Uh Lake looks to you guys and says, the scouts are notifying us that there's danger approaching. I must looks to Lova. I must speak with my men. Yes, yes, of course, of course. Um, I will hear get start preparations for any approaching danger. Please fill us in. Uh and looks to uh all of you and just says, You of course are always welcome to leave, but I have a feeling that whatever danger is approaching, you are all seeking the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Yeah, I think you're right. Uh can I can I come with you? Uh yes, of course.

SPEAKER_05 4:49

Do we hear this?

SPEAKER_01 4:51

This is a yeah, it's all on the roof.

SPEAKER_05 4:53

Why do you say I? Let's all come and help.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

I mean, I wasn't implying that you guys can't. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Whenever I just accepted that whenever Pierce talks, he's always speaking in the royal. So whenever he says I, it's all of us. So I.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Yeah, exactly. Exits out. Yeah, I'm I'm running after him or I'm jogging or whatever kind of pace he's picked up.

SPEAKER_05 5:19

Um we start yelling this conversation so they hear us while we're like behind them.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

As soon as you guys exit out, uh, because you guys had been there for not an incredibly long time, but as stories were progressing, it was already a little bit later in the day. Uh, the sun is starting to set. You immediately are uh outside back in the cold, and everything has a blue glow. Uh as you guys look up, some of the trees of like from you know the buildings and stuff, some of the like in the grand scheme of things, pretty large trees, but compared to this massive tree that you guys uh uh there's like a building and the tree right behind it. Uh, but as soon as you guys exit out, uh, a lot of the trees have leaves that are this bioluminescent blue. Uh, you guys look directly above where the tree, this main principal tree is, and the foliage is absolutely illuminated. Uh, any leaf uh that you guys can see is just this bright blue glow, kind of creates this ephemeral glow that you guys are suddenly basked in uh as you guys are following Lake. Uh one of the scouts that you guys had seen traveling, uh one of the uh three survivors, Lake included, uh you guys recognize him. He makes his way to your group, uh, sees Lake, and as you he could is walking alongside with you guys, he says, Lake, they there's been uh reports of multiple groups approaching. Um we're suspecting they're coming from about three different directions. Um they're all about a few hours away, but they're they're starting to approach Eldoria. Understood. Uh, we must be in preparations. Uh we will begin uh gathering families to the trees. Uh and then he's like, okay. Um, and then that person kind of darts out, uh, looks to you, uh, all three of you guys. Uh, and Tamson is uh running alongside as well. Uh he looks to you guys and just says, uh, the first thing is the people must be taken to safety. Uh we will take them to to the tree. Right. What what what part of the tree are we taking them in inside of the tree or just to the base? There is in uh close to the building where we were, uh where Lova resides, uh, there is a small sanctuary, uh, a grove uh at the base of the tree. Uh we will take them there for safety.

SPEAKER_04 8:02

Um we can start gathering people. I'm gonna be silent. Got it.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Uh do you need our do you need all of our help to do that?

SPEAKER_05 8:19

I mean what can we do? Direct us in any way that we can help.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Start gathering people to the grove. Got it.

SPEAKER_05 8:25

Hi, Captain.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

I think we best that we split up.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

We should we should split up?

SPEAKER_01 8:33

Yeah, I think so. To cover as much area and get people to the grove as quickly as possible. I mean, we'll we can all end up back at the grove to to kind of reconvene.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Okay. Uh I go uh this way and I just pick a direction and start running.

SPEAKER_05 8:50

I go the other way.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Go the opposite way. And and then the tree where you guys were at, the I mean, the hard part about it is since it is purely central to the town as a whole, um uh any direction you head is into town, um, which is kind of nice. Uh go ahead as you guys are going, go ahead and give me uh you guys are in your own individual directions. Go ahead and give me perception checks, and go ahead and give me persuasion checks.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

So, perception check.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Uh natural one plus five. Okay, six.

SPEAKER_04 9:33

Persuasion 24. Oh persuasion.

SPEAKER_05 9:37

Uh let's start with a bad one. Um, perception. No, no, no, persuasion check six. Uh perception check, not 20 plus nine, 29.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Very cool. Wow. Um, I got a 11 for perception and then a dirty 20 for persuasion.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

Uh for everybody that um as the horns are sounding, there's kind of a terrified look. Uh, for the some of you guys that got the uh because for Val and for Pierce, what was your guys' persuasion?

SPEAKER_04 10:13

Six six and for Pierce Persuasion was dirty twenty.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

And then what was uh Buka's 24, I think. 24 cool. Um uh Val, you are noticing that people are terrified. Uh I'll say I know this is all happening simultaneously. Pierce and Buka, as you guys are finding families, uh, and again, it seems like multiple families kind of all reside uh in kind of like a you know, like a multiplex. Um, there seems to be that multiple families will kind of live in one giant tree. And uh you do notice that you know, as some people are outside as well, one of the families that uh that you see Buka looks to you terrified as they're like, what's happening? Don't worry, everything's fine. Uh, I'm just gonna have you uh head back towards the the tree uh and uh find sanctuary in the groves. The grove, okay, yes. Um mother protect us. This is never this has never happened before. Uh, and then I'll say that Buka and Pierce, you guys are hearing kind of this common thing of of like this has never happened before like, oh my god, like what could be happening? Um, like it seems that they've lived in relative peace this whole time. Well, you are finding that as you are knocking on doors, people are like refusing to to answer. With an at 20, you start to see families peeking through some of the windows. Um, and as you're looking around, like answer the damn door, you start to see uh, and this is as the sun is setting and you lose sight of it, uh, you start to see large plumes of smoke billowing from the woods in three different directions, opposite of each other, and they seem to be closing in from the distance. It's still some distance away. Well, you are an elf and you are a ranger, so you got good physical vision, but it seems like they're still a few hours out. Um, so it doesn't seem like they're gonna be getting there in the next couple of minutes. Uh, so you do feel like you have some time to do stuff, so preparations can take place. So you don't feel necessarily that things will end the next five minutes, but you are starting to feel the pressure as you see these these clouds of smoke approaching and families refusing to answer the door.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

I think in this moment I get really frustrated, and when at one family store, I'm like, look out the damn window! I see you, please.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

I'm not selling anything, I'm trying to bring you to safety.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

You hear you hear a lock turn.

SPEAKER_05 13:04

Whatever. Try the next house.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

Cool, you leave them. Uh you see, kind of peeking through the windows, you see a family uh of of half elves uh as they're peeking through, and you can just see uh adding on with that nat 20, just fear in their eyes. Um, as uh obviously not aware of some of the conversations that Pierce and Buka are having. Uh, but it just seems like some think these families have never experienced this. Uh uh go ahead and give me one final round of persuasion checks as you guys are continuing to to gather people.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

Um no.

SPEAKER_05 13:51

The people don't want to spine.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

I got a nineteen. Uh fifteen for me. Fifteen. Uh cool. Uh for Pierce and for Buka, go ahead and roll me uh uh two D ten.

SPEAKER_04 14:12

Two D for Val ahead and roll me two D four. I almost dropped the drink.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Uh yeah, I got a ten.

SPEAKER_04 14:33

Fifteen. Between my two rolls. Uh sorry, how much was it for Pierce? Fifteen. Fifteen? And I'm sorry, Val you're saying five. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Uh uh Buka, you're able to convince ten families to start heading to the grove. Uh Pierce, you are able to convince uh 15 families. Uh Val, you're able to convince five.

SPEAKER_05 15:02

Yay.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

Um you guys began to head back uh to the tree. Uh on the opposite side of where you guys were. Uh you see that Tamson is coordinating with some of the other uh it seems like scouts or warriors dressed similarly to the way that Lake is dressed. Um they're guiding people into this grove. Uh, go ahead and give me Arcana or religion checks. Both trash.

SPEAKER_05 15:31

Both trash.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

Oh okay. Arcana 16.

SPEAKER_05 15:35

Religion 8.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

I'll do religion 14. With a 16. As you guys are getting drawn uh bringing people in, I think Val and Pierce, I think you guys start to go very logical of kind of like cool, people need to go. Like, this is just the meeting safe space. Um, and I think you're just kind of uh helping Tamson direct, uh, as uh hundreds of people are are being guided in. Um uh you are at the base of the tree. You guys are on the opposite side of where the building where Lova was at. Uh the the grove itself is in a shallow bowl of earth. Bucko, you notice this that it is almost hidden away as the outskirts of it. Part of it are aspects of the tree that have continued to grow out. Parts root system, parts is is just flowering of the this massive tree itself. But it's almost like this small little like bowl of earth, ancient trees, smaller than the ones that people have been housed in. Um, kind of creating this near perfect circle. They're all the trunks are like thick and they're pale in color compared to the trees all around you. Uh, and as you're looking with a 16 arcana, you don't necessarily know exactly what it is, but you can tell that they're etched with like these almost like softened runes. They almost seem to be naturally made, almost like part of the growth itself. Uh, and I'll say with pierced and vales, you guys don't really like you guys see the physical parts of what you're seeing. You guys don't notice the runes. Um, but Buka, as you're kind of guiding people in, the runes don't glow in the same blue uh or in the same way that the leaves are of this massive tree, but they seem to have kind of this innate energy kind of coming from them. Just kind of like it just filters in. Uh, and all of you, as you are approaching this grove as they described it, uh, you guys just feel immediate peace. And as you guys start to step in, the air is warm, uh, and it's still uh sounds from the outside are muffled, and then so even at the wind, the movement of people, uh, it all seems to just kind of like it. You can still hear it, but it seems to go down a little bit. From the outside, did did it feel obscured by this? Like visually obscured, so like I could we couldn't tell necessarily what was inside, or is it does it just feel like um like sound as has been as you're asking that? You guys have been, you know, you guys are around, you guys have been going around town just trying to gather people. Now that you are physically headed there, there's this weird thing of oh, I didn't notice that before. And uh, and so you're unsure of was it the distraction of what was happening, or is there another glamour or another magical effect at work? You guys start to see wildlife here. This is the first time you guys have noticed wildlife around the area. Uh, you start to see uh birds hanging low as they are kind of chirping softly. There is deer uh and elk that are kind of standing at the edge. The the grove area itself is pretty large. Um uh the fact that it can fit, you know, at this point, there's probably close to 200 people here. Um, and the fact that it can fit people comfortably, just kind of to let you guys know the scale of it. Uh, but it just seems that the deer are at rest. You notice a small pond that has this uh like thick moss, white flowers kind of growing at the edge. Um, and there just seems to be a level of peace. It seems like predators do not exist in this space. Um and you notice at the very center a small fire uh has been lit as some families are starting to gather around that. Uh, you see Tamson look at you guys and just says, Okay, uh protection must be had. Uh you all uh uh will you will you all be okay? Can I assist you in any in any way?

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Um I think I mean we we did what we could, but I don't know if I necessarily got every single family from uh the area that I covered. I mean, we're we're outsiders, so I did what I could. I just don't know if you maybe want to try to we have the time if you want to make kind of a lap around. They might trust you a little bit more.

SPEAKER_05 20:00

You should focus on the area I was in. They really did not want to listen to me, and I am really upset about it.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

Um I I can I can do my best, uh, but I think right now the biggest thing is gonna be making sure the preparations are set in place and that you all uh are are prepared for what's gonna come. And kind of lowers his voice a little bit and says, and for whatever battles may approach, uh I want to make sure that the people here are safe.

unknown 20:27

Um yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Uh you can tell from his like metallic skin that uh like sweat is starting to like bead uh on his forehead.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Is there is there anything else we can do for you in this moment? Uh I I mean we want to try to help the crowds and the people as much as we can before we we go meet back up at like.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Um no, I I I will I will join you all. Um there's warriors here that will be protecting the grove, and I think that they are well equipped, they know the grove. Um luckily there's a calm emotion spell. I know I seem a little tense. I'm sure the calm emotion spell is working, but uh at least here people will be calm. Um, and here's warding here that will keep people um protected a little bit at least.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Um, I know this feels like a very uh inopportune time. Uh is there a way for us to get a message out to a friend? In the meantime? Uh who's who's your friend? Uh well you might uh you have you do you she's like the queen uh her Queen Weaver of Alcor? The Numerian Queen.

SPEAKER_05 21:46

Yes, we have our sending stone. Yeah, we c we can use it.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

Oh, okay. I thought maybe they, you know, just being in a big city, they had bigger communications, you know. But we can just use our sending stone.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

I'll toss the descending stone your way. Hold on. Let me grab it.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 22:06

Unless you want me to send something?

SPEAKER_04 22:09

Or you want to um No, I think you can send it. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

First 25 words, go.

SPEAKER_05 22:21

Hi, Weaver. We are in a big tree trying to save the people from evil people. Please send help. Thanks, bye. Love you.

SPEAKER_04 22:38

24? That's nice. The big tree.

SPEAKER_05 22:45

She has tabs on us. It's fine. She'll get context.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

I'm sorry. Big tree.

SPEAKER_05 22:54

Anyway, the moon mother tree was too many words to add into the anyway. Sorry, I had to simplify.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Sorry. Big tree. I don't really know what you're saying, but please be safe. Let me know how I can help.

SPEAKER_05 23:18

We can only send one a day or I think we can keep it.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

I'm on the sending stone. No, I think the sending stone doesn't have a limit.

SPEAKER_04 23:29

Oh, your turn, Pierce. Night's I'll see your face.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Weaver, Pierce here. I don't think there's a whole lot you can do. Just wanted to give you an update.

SPEAKER_04 23:44

We'll be in contact. Okay, sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Did we ever tell her about The Rock? No. No. We haven't told her about anything, huh? No. Not really. We can update her later. When's the last time we spoke to her? It's been a minute. It's before we went to Whisper. Or yes. That was only two weeks ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:14

That's that's when I said she was mad at us because I didn't want to talk to her.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Yeah. We should make it a habit to check in with her every night, even if it's something simple.

SPEAKER_05 24:23

Yeah. Hi, we're alive. Love you.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

Uh as uh as you guys are having this conversation, uh, Tamson is just kind of like the queen? Well, that's so impressive. Uh, and it seems his mind kind of uh doesn't get distracted, but it's just not as focused on this approaching danger. Uh, you guys see right outside of the grove, uh, maybe about 50 feet away, you see uh Lake and standing next to him is another warrior dressed in similar garb uh as him, uh, but just a little bit shorter. Uh uh Lake is probably around six two. Um, and then this person's like at six foot, uh, so just slightly above. Uh, but they seem to be having this heated uh conversation happening.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

Heated conversation. Can I try to eavesdrop?

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Yeah. Uh I'll say like while you are within the grove, you probably will not be able to effectively uh hear anything. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna casually make my way out of the grove to yeah, and I mean people are people are moving, so it's not yeah, so it's not like you're a lone figure. Uh go ahead and give me stealth, and then go ahead and give me perception. Perfect.

SPEAKER_04 25:47

Come on, big stealth. That's a 10.

unknown 25:54

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Uh, I do have a plus nine in stealth. And then perception? So it's a one. Perception 23. Uh, the moment like you start to approach, Lake looks at you, and he is just pissed off uh that you're approaching him in this moment. Do I know I mean with my 23, I see him see me. Yes, immediately. I know uh do I know that he knows that I know that I'm headed towards him? He there's a lot of eye contact that has been made in this moment. Yeah, um he's like shakes his head. Uh, but you can tell he's still talking to the person in front of you. Uh it's like one of these where he's just like and he goes back. Uh I was like, but I think I'm just gonna give like hand motions, be like, Do you need do you need help? Or are you are you okay? I just don't have a couple okay. He's kind of looked away. Uh and again, there's like multiple people, so you're so you're it's not like you're just again a lone figure, you're not like a little kid that just threw up, you're not just standing there, yeah. Um and they're arguing pretty they're not arguing secretively, they're just arguing. Correct, yeah. Uh but you hear Yeah, no, no, yeah. Uh as this is happening, you hear Lake uh kind of mid yelling, just being, and you will die out there if you head out there now without the assistance of us, Talon will not be making it home. Is this what you want? And then uh the the slightly shorter uh uh individual just responds with, and what of it? We know that we are warriors and we must defend the tree no matter what, and then he kind of cuts him off a little bit as Lei continues and just says, and we will do so together. We have assistance, uh, and at this point looks over at Buka, who are not very discreet, but we have them, we have Lova, and we have the protection of the Moon Mother. I think I do I take the hint and I and I walk away. Uh as you walk away, yeah, uh, you hear the younger one uh who lake called Talon uh and says uh uh then do what you must. Uh and he uh as you head start heading the other direction, he starts to head in the other direction. Okay and starts to walk away. I run back to the group. Uh okay, so it sounds like their forces aren't they aren't divided into whether or not they should um fight. It's just whether or not they should go out and meet them or uh have them meet us in town. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

Um what do you what do you guys think?

SPEAKER_05 28:49

I don't think they should meet us in town, because then the people are here. The citizens are.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

It's not it's not just like an open space. Like it's a diff defensible. And I think that's what Lake is pushing for is to use the position as defense to help, because we might be outnumbered. I mean, I uh regardless, we don't know the area, uh, we don't know anybody else other than Tamson and Lake, so I think we stick with Lake, whatever he is going to do, and whatever he needs us to do.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

Okay. I look over to try to catch Lake's eye again, and I just give him a thumbs up, and I smile at him. Be like, whatever you do, brother, we're gonna do it with you. Uh this is as he's walking towards you guys, uh, because you guys are close to the entrance. Uh he returns a thumbs up, but he looks incredibly upset at you. An angry thumbs up. Yes. Wow. So what did you do to him? As this happens, there's a deer that's close to you guys that looks at you, Puka, and just shakes its head as well. Yeah. I I go to try to scratch its little chin. Thank you. That's very wonderful.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

The deer speak.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

Booker looks at himself and is like, I speak.

SPEAKER_05 30:18

We all speak together. Bring all the deer.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

We all speak together. I mean, I cover the I cover the deer's I cover the deer's ears. Hey! Magical tree. Anybody can do anything. Thank you. It's hard with with just hoofs. Yeah, I have a I mean I have a name. I can speak, yes.

unknown 30:37

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 30:37

What's your name? What's your name, my dear?

SPEAKER_00 30:40

We've very sweet. Uh we've we've met. I'm I'm Lova.

SPEAKER_04 30:46

What?

SPEAKER_00 30:49

I knew that. And you can tell because of the grayish uh hair that's on the ridge on the on the deer. You could tell that this you could tell that this is an older deer. Yeah. Uh but there are other deer that are out. So out and about just a lone deer. Just throw another. It's not alone deer. Do I do what often?

SPEAKER_04 31:19

Be a deer.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Sometimes whatever the need may arise, sometimes it's something else. Uh, but this is a little bit more uh mobile.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

So I see that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Uh and at this point has not lowered his thumb, uh, still looks mad. Uh Lake dear, uh, have preparations been made? Yes. Uh Talon is still ornery, but he will be doing whatever Talon is going to do. Uh understood. Well, gather gather your men. Uh best we can do is maybe start getting scouts out. We will uh figure out when they are gonna get here, and uh we uh will prepare a counterattack. The one good thing about uh us being here and myself being here is that they uh one have never entered uh El Doria, and so they don't know necessarily what the town itself looks like or what the setup of it is, uh, and so that would be to our advantage, as well as the trees in this place will assist, um, and so they will provide protection as well.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Um, can I like look around? Obviously, like I mean the town's not necessarily small, and then the tree is gonna block some view of the town, but like, is there like a wall that surrounds the town? And if there is, there's not.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

No, you guys literally went from heavy tree forest to uh like more open, but there's still like a lot of trees. Like, that's the hard part too, of just the way that because the buildings are all these massive trees, uh actual uh there's a couple parts uh like when you guys were running around, like visuals out were a little bit more accessible, but a lot of it was uh uh like the trees were just covering a lot of the view. Uh, but there are no walls uh that you saw.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Uh like, I mean, what can we do, or where are we best uh like positioned, I guess, to serve the situation that we've got going on?

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Once they begin to approach uh Lake and the other warriors and the other scouts uh will be in positions where uh we just have a little bit more of an advantage. The again trees will be assisting, uh especially the trees that are forming the outer ring of the city, and they will make sure that uh the anybody that makes it through will have a little bit more difficult time. Um and so uh if actually if you would like we can begin preparations, they're still a little bit away, so we can uh start to do a round of the city. Um and the deer gets up and starts to uh head out of the grove. Uh you guys uh start to make your way out of the city uh and she starts taking you towards the edge uh of this. You know, the town itself isn't that massive, but it's a pretty decent size. She starts to take you uh towards the edge. And as you guys are going, go ahead and give me nature checks.

SPEAKER_04 35:00

So trash.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

3020. That's big old three. Hell yeah. Uh it's a beautiful day out. It's wonderful out here. It's a beautiful day, and not getting stuff from Val and Pierce. As you guys are are headed, you guys are close to where you guys enter town. Uh, the trees look a little different. The branches are really low to the ground, a lot lower than they were before.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

Trees inside the town, or are these the trees that are like on the outside of the town that lead into the town? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

All over uh the trees themselves are very tall. Uh less noticeable with the ones that are like in the woods themselves, because uh these ones aren't, you know, these these super tall trees. Um but you notice that again, the ones that are the buildings are you know easily 60 feet to 80 feet tall. Uh so a lot of the branches were high above. Um, those branches are still there. Down below, long branches have started to have grown from the trees.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

And we didn't none of like the inner trees to the city had that.

SPEAKER_04 36:18

No. Like even when you first entered it, like none of these trees had that.

SPEAKER_05 36:21

So these trees are smart. I dig it.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

Yes, they are gonna be assisting. Uh, we all aim to save the city. The wildlife, the trees, and the people that inhabit this city. Uh, we all have the same goal. Uh as uh Lova. It's still in her deer form, continues on. Uh, also with those 19 and 20 nature checks, uh usually not all, but most wildlife will start to kind of calm down uh as the sun sets, and you obviously have like your night wildlife. Uh the woods are active. Like you could hear animals uh like skittering and chirping uh everywhere. Like the entire uh you guys noticed it less when you guys were in the grove, but as you started heading towards the edge uh of Valdoria, you started to just hear the wildlife. It's it's like loud. Um, but she kind of points with her head. Uh as these branches climbing up will be a little bit more accessible. Um, and so I don't know how looks at Val. I I see that you have your bow. Uh, I don't know how you are all with uh any kind of ranged weaponry uh or any spell casting, perhaps. Um, but uh we will be in better positions uh to uh attack, counter-attack. Uh the wildlife will also be assisting and helping uh create a little bit more trouble and possibly diminish some of the uh approaching forces. Right, right, okay. Um yeah, I mean I'm good at climbing, so we can definitely get up into the trees. Uh Val, do you have another bow? Or do you just have yours?

SPEAKER_05 38:24

I'm pretty sure I just have mine.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Um great. We can get you both. Oh, okay. Okay. Um sweet. Yeah, let's uh let's try that. Wonderful. Uh you start to head uh a little bit into town. They take you to this uh this tree where uh you see the individual that you had seen Lake yelling at uh or yelling, I guess, with before uh Talon. Uh and as soon as he uh uh sees Lake, you could just tell immediately, just shakes his head and goes back to uh grabbing uh weapons. There seems to be a storeroom of just basic ranger weaponry, um just simple spears, simple bows, uh, and uh like quivers full of like arrows. Um you wouldn't happen to have any uh crossbows, would you? Uh I just realized that the uh Val, you're great at shooting bows. Uh I've I don't think I've pulled a bow uh since we were young. Well you will learn Okay.

SPEAKER_05 39:40

I'll teach you.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

Okay. Is he a good shooting?

SPEAKER_05 39:46

Um I think so. He tries really hard.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

May it serve him well. Uh Pierce where he's gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Yeah, uh are bows of any sort or crossbow a martial or simple weapon, or am I not efficient in bows?

SPEAKER_00 40:04

Uh short? Uh they have sh specifically right now they have short bows. Um I have a short bow.

SPEAKER_04 40:28

Uh uh, it's a simple weapon.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

Sharp bows are simple weapons? Okay. Uh I mean bows not my normal form of I mean use in combat, but I can definitely take advantage of our position and use one until I need to be more hand-to-hand.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

Uh wonderful. Uh uh as he is kind of leading this charge, Talon, move aside. Uh no, brother. I will not. I'm going to, I'm not saying abandon this mission. Just we are gathering our own weapons.

SPEAKER_04 41:09

Talon response.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Oh. Uh, and looks kind of embarrassed as Lake has kind of shut down like this. Like, do what you whatever you're gonna do. Uh, and as you guys are gathering your weapons, uh, go ahead and mark short bows for uh for you two. Uh uh go ahead and give me insight checks as you guys are right next to Talon.

SPEAKER_04 41:34

Nice. 225.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

Uh with a 22. Uh you are looking at a uh younger brother. I go back and forth. I'm like, oh you I like kind of square off their faces a little bit. Uh same face, just one a little bit older. One a little bit older. It's like, are you? No. Are you guys related? No. You're not? But they say at the same time. In the same in the same uh tempo. Uh okay. Yeah. Not related. And I turn to face Pierce and Val and I nod. They're related. We're not again in the exact same tone. Same same tone, same way. I look at Luca and who? Who's related? I turn away from Pierce and look at Val. They're related.

SPEAKER_05 42:33

We said brother.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

So Lake, I don't know what outsiders you bring, but they clearly are stupid. Do not call a guest stupid. This this is not the time talent. Uh, as they uh are are gathering some other uh and at this point, other uh scouts and warriors and guards uh have gathered uh as uh spears and uh and bows are being handed out. Uh you guys see that the one differentiating uh Lake still has his um the spear that you guys had seen, uh, and he has like a larger javelin that he has added on, uh kind of like to a like a strap to his back. Uh but the other thing that you guys uh noticed that specifically Lake and Talon have uh is that at their waist, uh they have uh it's kind of been clipped on. Uh and this is like the first uh non just woodsy weapon that you guys have seen. It just seems that only these two have it. Um, but kind of clipped onto a uh part of like their belt loop on both sides is a long chain that has three metal balls, uh, as they each have bolas.

unknown 43:58

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 43:59

Um For throwing uh they seem to be kind of like throwing weapons.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Um as as we're like collecting weapons and everybody's like equipping themselves, can I take also equip myself with a javelin or a spear? Yes.

unknown 44:16

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 44:17

Uh and this goes for for you two as well. Like if you guys want to grab uh uh something just like have, um, they're light enough that they wouldn't uh be you know heavy. Like you guys can just grab like one or two to ones? Yeah, I would say probably two would be like the extent, but it just kind of gives you something either for range or you can literally throw it as well. So you have a little bit of versatility with that. Uh, but but go ahead and add either one or two, whatever you think your character uh would take in this moment. Javelin. Uh with that earlier insight check too, Buka, uh, because Lova still in her her lovely deer form, uh you could tell it has become very like still very calm. Um, but is you know, like cool, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this, and then we're gonna do this. Uh as it's happening though, because you gotta what was your insight at 20? 22. 22. Uh there is a slight excitement in her eyes. Uh it's a little weird because they're deer eyes, but I kind of saunter on over to Lova and whisper.

SPEAKER_04 45:30

Uh is this the most exciting thing to happen uh in recent memory?

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Looks to the right, looks to the left. Being a matriarch is so boring. I cannot get a lot of things. Yeah, no, I I can't imagine. I can't imagine. Um, but I can pretend, and then when I pretend, yeah, it doesn't sound super fun. But hey, you can turn into a deer. That's cool. Can you turn to anything else? Uh yes. Oh. Will you be well, should we look out for any animals that you can turn into so as to not uh injure you on the battlefield? I think in general, try avoiding injuring uh any animal, but right. Right. But so you wouldn't turn into a a horse, maybe, so that way just in case it's like I I mean I would never try to hit a horse, but if it's the other if it was the enemy's horse, then I would try to stop it. Maybe try to stop the person on the horse. Yeah, okay, yeah. No, you're right. I walk away. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Uh she also begins to walk away. She's like, but you guys are able to gather your stuff. Uh uh at this point, they haven't been saying anything, but you there's just been a lot of eye contact between Lake and Talon. Uh, and as Talon starts to walk away, Talon kinda uh grabs him by the shoulder and just says, Brother, fight with us. These are warriors. I've seen them attempt to fight. They're a little soft and squishy, but they are turns in. But they are good. And we can use a strong warrior. Um, and I will have you guys, I'll have one of you guys roll a persuasion check uh for uh Fort Lake. Uh I'll let you guys know right now if you think uh you're using his. Okay. Uh but all of you guys are there, so I'll say the collective you guys can give him advantage. Uh go ahead and it'll be a uh plus uh a plus three. Plus three. Hmm. My roll is two of these. Yeah. Um should I give him a bardic?

SPEAKER_03 48:08

Yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_00 48:09

I only have I have like I only have four of them.

SPEAKER_04 48:13

Right.

SPEAKER_00 48:14

We'll save the bardic. Talon's a strong boy. He's gonna join us with a 13 on the dice. 16.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

Yeah.

unknown 48:27

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Looks at you guys uh as you are are standing there and equipping your uh these these things that you've gathered as well as the weapons that you already have. Um and again, you guys are also the outliers. One, you guys are outsiders, but you are also having weapons that uh are a little bit stronger and a little bit more uh capable. Like our personal weapons, yes. Um, and sees that and then looks back towards his brother as talent response. Very well. And then looks at the three of y'all for Eldoria. We will protect the moon mother. I love it when brothers agree. For Eldoria.

SPEAKER_05 49:11

I thought they were both.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

We never said we were brothers, we weren't brothers. Uh what the heck? Who said that? Wait, who told me they were? I turn away. I'm like, God, stupid, stupid, stupid. You hear kind of in the in the just very soft spoken, uh, as Lake says. They're a little odd, but they mean well. Um uh is there anything you guys would like to do for preparation? Uh I'll say in the midst of this as is happening, uh Talon says something to you guys and just says they won't be here until sunrise. We have a few hours. They won't be here till sunrise. At least they're main for us, but they they might have scouts in the area. Um, and so that will probably one of the things that we'll be looking out for.

SPEAKER_01 50:09

Uh would it I mean be potentially beneficial for a handful of us to push out a little bit secretly to try to catch these scouts so they can't report back?

SPEAKER_04 50:19

It might be a good idea. Okay, we can do that. Are you all volunteering?

SPEAKER_01 50:27

Yeah, I'm uh I'd like to help. Um it's like, I mean, it's everything's snow covered, right? Um okay.

SPEAKER_04 50:38

Is Tamson there? Uh Tamson is not there. Ah.

SPEAKER_01 50:45

Well, just to like both of them, I guess. Um, do you guys have anything I can put on that would help kind of cover me a little bit, help stay a little bit more hidden? I'm looking down, I'm like wearing dark clothing.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

Yeah. Uh I'll say that in this storeroom as well, there are cloaks because they they would need cloaks way more than you guys do. You guys are only because of the rings in a better position. Um, but like I'll say that in the storeroom, uh, as you ask that, uh uh Lake goes in there uh and is able to toss you guys some uh cloaks if you guys would so they're like white, white on the outside.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

They are gray, but uh like a light. Yeah, yeah. Dark, nighttime snow still work for sure. Cool.

SPEAKER_05 51:28

Night snow.

SPEAKER_01 51:31

Finally, I'll ask you guys is there uh specific areas, positions, spots that we should maybe set ourselves up at.

SPEAKER_00 51:40

We have some guards that are uh or we have some warriors that are uh headed south uh to go and do scouting. We can head north. Okay, let's do it. Lake uh looks at you all and says, uh, I will travel east to make sure with another group. Uh Talon would lead you guys.

SPEAKER_02 52:00

Sounds good. Let's let's go.

SPEAKER_00 52:02

Uh you see Talon kind of perks up a little bit, just puffs his chest a little bit. I will lead you. Uh you guys start to head north. Uh as you guys are going through the city. At this point, the city has quieted down a lot. You guys start to make your way north and you guys start to go into the woods. You're starting to smell smoke in the distance. As you guys are going, go ahead and give me stealth checks. Val can do it with advantage because you guys are back in the woods.

SPEAKER_05 52:31

We love the woods. I haven't lost in the room. Uh, so for since I got with advantage, I got a 19, but my other role was not one, and that's really funny.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

I got a seven. I got a 25. 25. Uh, I will roll for my boy. Uh uh oh, awesome. Uh uh 25. Yeah, he's fine. Um uh which is good because he is leading you. Uh so this is a small group. Uh it's just the four of you um as you guys are headed north. You starting to smell smoke kind of in the distance, and you only really hear the sound of your boots on the snow with a slight crunch, but only slight because you guys wrote so well on your stuff. There's a moment where you hear a small snap. The tree, like again, the animals are still helping also with kind of covering your sound a little bit, but your ears are perked up, a deer, uh, an elk kind of crashes through uh as they not frantically, but they're starting to they're gathering around. While you guys are there, go ahead and give me perception checks. 16.

SPEAKER_05 53:59

Do I still get advantage since I'm in the the woods?

SPEAKER_00 54:02

Uh I'm gonna say no for this one.

SPEAKER_05 54:06

Okay, fine. I love rolling so low anyway. I got a 12.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

What do we get? One for a total of one. Cool natural one.

SPEAKER_00 54:22

Natural one, and then what did Buka get? 16. With a 16, you are kind of like aware. There's like this moment of as much as this weird you guys are are traveling and almost tracking quietly around you, there's the sound of movement of just animals in the trees, on like on the ground. Uh, and there is a point where you catch it just as it happens. Uh there is uh a glint in the dark for a second, uh, and you hear a quick uh as an arrow thuds into Talon for seven points of damage. Uh, I need everybody to roll initiative. Oh my goodness. But I saw where it came from. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 55:25

20. Woo! On my pretty dice, the moon. Uh so 27.

SPEAKER_00 55:33

You hear this grunt of pain as uh talent takes the hit uh and immediately uh looks to you guys and just says, Everybody get down. Uh, and more arrows start to shoot out. A couple of them thunking right where you guys were. Uh Pierce and Val in this moment in the dark, it's kind of hard to gauge uh exactly where the shot came from. Uh, as you guys were heading north, uh Buka, the arrow came from the uh northwest direction. That and then is it are the can I see these other arrows? Does it feel like it's one person or multiple? Feels like it's multiple. Uh there are some that do come directly north. Uh so it's almost like two directions. Two directions. Okay. Are we pinned down in this location? Uh, you have the room behind you. There hasn't been any shots behind you. Um, but that is gonna be Val with Buka on deck.

SPEAKER_05 56:33

Am I so there's trees around us, right? Yes. Uh could I use my uh movement to climb the tree and get to a higher vantage point?

SPEAKER_00 56:44

Go ahead and give me uh an athletics or acrobatics.

SPEAKER_04 56:50

Sure. Acrobatics.

SPEAKER_05 57:00

Dirty 20. No, 18, 18, 18. I bet. 18.

SPEAKER_00 57:04

Yeah, 18. You you're able to to climb up. Um uh and uh as you're doing it, go ahead and give me a perception check.

SPEAKER_05 57:12

We love to perceive. That is a 21.

SPEAKER_00 57:20

Uh 21. Uh it's hard to gauge exactly where people are. There are definitely using the trees for cover as well. Uh, but you're starting to hear movement about 25 feet ahead of you uh towards the north and northwest area.

SPEAKER_05 57:37

I take this opportunity to yell, hey, I think they're coming from the north and northwest, but I can't see anyone specifically to shoot at right now.

SPEAKER_04 57:46

Oh how high into the tree did you climb? Uh the most you could probably do is ten feet. Ten feet. Cool.

SPEAKER_05 58:06

Um you're uh about the end of my turn. I have nothing to shoot at.

SPEAKER_00 58:17

Uh go ahead and book up. Yeah, I'm going to shout to because is it just Talon and Pierce now next to me? Now yes. Okay. I'm gonna shout to them. Okay, it looks like they have a bunch of uh archers. Uh this is gonna sound really weird, but please just stay really close to me, okay? And I'm gonna uh hold my action for when they get really close. And I'm hoping to move together as a team. Okay. Uh because I want to cast warding wind. Very cool. Yes. It's a fun one. Uh warding wind is centered on myself in a 10-foot radius. A strong wind blows around you and moves with you, remaining centered on me. The wind lasts for the spell's duration. Uh, it deafens us and other creatures in our area. It extinguishes unprotected flames, it hedges out vapor, gas, and fog. It's difficult terrain for creatures other than me, but I'm hoping that we move together. Uh, so we'll move in half movement, I guess. Attack rolls of ranged weapons have disadvantage if if they pass in or out of the wind. Very cool. That's cool. Yeah. Uh, with a Nat 1, another arrow shoots over a head. Um from you guys. This is another one coming from the northwest. Awesome. Uh, that is gonna be Talon with Pierce uh on deck. Um uh Talon looks at you as you have this. Uh is it casted already or are you holding off on uh I'm holding, I'm holding for them to get close so that way I we can move together. Um I don't know if they're going to get any closer. They've been shooting us with arrows. Right. So we should probably forward. Yeah, we should move we should run forward towards them. Understood. Uh or and then or oh no, I will I'll run forward uh 30 feet and cast boarding wind, and that'll be my turn. Cool. Uh these means the next couple ones will be uh okay, cool. I was gonna say then that works out because then there was that one person that shot after you because I rolled that with disadvantage, so but okay, so the disadvantage phase. Talon is going to uh he is going uh to oh beautiful. He uh you see that he goes uh into this pouch that he has in uh like on his uh side, and then as he pulls out, it's these small, it's kind of hard to see kind of like in the dark, but uh they almost look like these green and yellow peppercorn almost. Uh, and he goes and throws it. Uh he'll go alongside you, Buka, and he throws it in the direction, uh, the general direction of where that first arrow shot the one that he got hit with. Uh, and then as they go, they start to like pop, uh, almost like small, not certainly fireworks, uh, but just like these small little explosions, as they illuminate this green and yellow, and you see a figure that is behind a bush that you could see is illuminated slightly. You see his edges almost like seeing them in with like dark vision goggles, uh, as you could tell that they have another arrow pulled back already. It is a item that he has, but uh basically it is uh fairy fire uh for all intent and purposes. So any attacks to that individual in particular are done with advantage. Nice, sweet. Um, and that is going to be his turn. Uh Pierce, that's gonna be you.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:07

Uh, how far away is the individual that's got illuminated? This is about 30 feet away. Okay. Um, I will move slightly forward. Well, honestly, I'll probably move at least 15 feet or so forward. Um, and then I'm gonna pull a javelin off my back. Um, and as I like plant to throw it at him, I am going to enter rage. Go ahead and do that, and then go ahead and throw.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:33

You say you're throwing it, right? Yes. 23 to hit. Uh 23 does hit.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:40

Let's see if I get not 20. Nope. Javelin. Oh, nice. Uh, gonna be max damage of nine plus the two from my rage, so 11.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:51

11. Uh, you hear this grunt of pain as uh the the it finds purchase. Uh, and you could see again, this is all this weird almost night vision goggles look. Uh, and you see this uh because of the fairy fire, uh, this like green blood just uh and then it disappears as it gets out of the range of the fairy fire. Uh he uh you could tell it hurt him. Uh he is looking hurt.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:22

Uh I think I'm just gonna now that I hit him, I'm gonna finish using my movement to be in combat with him.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:30

Yeah, you could see that he is hurting, uh, but not down for the count. Uh I'm gonna be so honest. Everybody else is going after you guys because you all rolled so high. Uh so uh I'm gonna let Val go ahead and roll a stealth check as you climbed up the tree. Uh because this is gonna determine who and how many people get hit.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:54

Come on. Don't worry, don't worry about this guy, guys. I'll I'll take him. Find the ones from the northwest. Uh this is the one in the northwest. Oh, okay. Find the ones from the north.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:07

The other northwest. Seven. With my stealth check.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:13

Four of these are going to Pierce because he is right up in there. Four of these are going towards Talon because he's up front, and four of these are going towards Val because uh she uh is in a dangerous spot and they know it because she has elevated. She's not hidden. Uh, but they also know that she's in a spot where uh she has like a good vantage point moving forward. So would Talons, the one towards Talon, be uh disadvantaged because he's in my warning wind, or no? Yes. Uh oh, good call. Uh then I will pair these two up. Uh that is a miss. Uh that is a hit. That is a miss. And oh, that saved him. That is a miss. Uh he is going to take. So Talon only got hit once. Yes. Uh shout out, shout out warding wind. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh as I'm rolling, uh, what does it look like as uh these arrows start to come in his direction? Yeah, it looks like when Frosty the Snowman is about to come to life in every Christmas movie ever, little speckles of snow lifted up off the ground and spinning in a circle. It feels magical for sure. Uh, and really loud. I can't hear anything. We're both deafened. So Pierce yelling for us to go after different people. Uh, we didn't catch that. Only takes five points of damage. Three of them are going to Pierce. Does a 16 hit. Nope. Does a 18 hit. Yes. You take uh seven points of piercing damage, have to three. Cool. Uh, and then

SPEAKER_05 1:06:00

I'm gonna fall out this tree watch. Fine.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:06

That is gonna be two hits, uh, two misses. Um and then you take uh 12 points of piercing damage as you're able to move out of the way of two of them, and then the other two uh end up hitting you. Uh I'm not gonna make you fall down. Uh unless we unless we unless we hit a nat 20, then maybe maybe we'll talk. But uh as this happens, Val, just because of where you are, some of the shots that uh so the shots on the north uh were aiming towards uh Talon and where Buka is, Pierce made his way towards the northwest, uh, and that's where the other three shots came from. Uh the fourth one was already um for whatever reason he rolled really high uh in initiative. Uh and then so that's the one that originally shot uh talon. But where you are and the ones that were coming in your direction are coming from the northeast. Uh, so it seems that they're coming from three different directions. Uh yeah. Uh uh, but that is gonna be Val uh with Buka on deck.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:15

Which one shot me? I want to kill them.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:19

Yeah, uh, as that happens, because they had to they had to come out of hiding to shoot, uh, you start to see individuals. They're using the trees as cover, but you're starting to see uh some of these uh individuals come out of the come out of the tree work.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:32

So I'm mad because I think getting shot by your own like weapon type is like a slap in the face. So we're we're gonna do some something. Something. Uh could I use uh hunter's mark on the closest one to me? The one that looks the most out of place, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:54

Sure.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:54

Most vulnerable. Uh perfect, and then we'll take two shots. Does an 18 hit?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:04

18 does hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:05

Perfect, and then another one does a 26 hit? Yeah, anyway. Uh so nine for the first shot for damage, and then uh nine again, so eighteen shots of piercing damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:21

Uh looking very ert.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:25

Shoot me with my own weapon. Ugh! Disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:28

Uh you could tell, like, at this point, like blood, even from the distance, blood is already starting to come uh like from his mouth as good. Two arrows like right next to each other, just center mass, just don't uh thunk in, and he drops to one knee uh as uh it's just this he's bloodied. He's very bloodied already. As he should be. That is going to be Buka. Awesome. I'm gonna run towards the nearest group of archers that I can see that hopped out, and I'm gonna swing at him with my rapier. Cool. Uh are you gonna go after the ones that are they kind of shot at in the direction of you and and talon? Yes. Please hit. 17? Uh 17 does hit. Perfect. And some damage that's gonna be seven points of damage on the first hit. Okay. Does he look like he's that like did he die? Did I kill him? Uh looks at you and just says, barely a flesh wound. Barely. And then I swipe at him again with my second attack. 22 to hit. Um I'm gonna use my uh my trip attack. He says, okay. Stop. Yeah, stop. Don't worry. I try I trip him. So I add a D10 to the to the roll, so that's seven plus six, thirteen points of damage. Uh 13 points of damage. As you are uh uh tripping him, uh you're expecting kind of a little bit more resistance, uh, and just in killing him, that is what knocks him uh to the ground. Ah, just a flesh wound. Hello? Well, I can't really hear him, I guess, because morning wind is still going. So he kills and he gets covered in the snow as it's blowing into it. The slurries, oh no. He's disappeared. You feel me? Uh and that's my turn. There are three archers that are close to you. Uh one of them looks at you just says, You are a devil indeed. What?

unknown 1:10:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:54

You're a devil, you're devil indeed. Uh uh, I know she's in the tree. That's I saw her climb. Anyway. Uh cool. As that happens, uh, that is going to be the one that uh Pierce got. Uh he is gonna pull out a short sword, which uh as you guys are looking at them. Uh when you guys originally saw some of the fighting happening with the uh broken spear and the twin hounds, everybody was just using bows and arrows, spears. You see that they pull out uh short swords. Um uh and as you guys are looking, go ahead and give me quick perception checks. 16.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:40

14. Oh, 17.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:43

Uh, all three of you guys notice uh that there are three different kinds of uh like leathering and clothing that these uh scouts have. Uh you guys notice green leathers that you guys had seen uh in that original combat earlier this same day. Uh, you guys see a group that has uh red furs and another one that has black furs. Um so it seems like that there are three different uh like groups that have joined forces at this point. Oh no. It's the lizards, the foxes, and the bears. They all they all teamed up.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:24

Oh my.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:26

Yeah. Uh the one that's closest to Pierce is going to roll. Uh that it's gonna be a 25 to hit. You take seven halved to three damage. Uh of uh this and slashing damage. Uh, as he gets a short sword and goes across the chest. Uh, you will die alongside everybody from El Doria.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:52

You will not make it. I pressed it off. I don't even know like respond. He pauses and just says, Okay, here looks towards the rest of the group. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:11

Uh that is going to be uh Talon. Uh Talon is going to uh throw a spear. Um what is his thing? Oh hell yeah. Cool. Uh he rolls a 19 to hit. Uh and he does. Uh so he sees that uh there are you took one down, Buka, uh, and is gonna start helping narrow down that group. Uh he does uh oh 10 points of damage to one of them. Uh um and uh but he's keeping his distance uh at this point. Um that is going to be uh Pierce.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:13

Uh I will pull out Yeah, I'll pull out my long sword. Um but as it's like on my left and I reach across, um, instead of like bringing it out to swing, I just like slash upward at him as I pull it out.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:28

Hell yeah. Uh dirty twenty to hit. Perfect.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:50

Twelve points of damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:52

You will not see and then just falls uh to the ground as he is dead.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:57

Ooh. Um after the swing, can I uh because I just got hit by an arrow. Um do it, did I see where it came from? Can I see anybody else?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:10

It it was it was the illuminated guy. Uh, but you you do see that there are other uh ones as well. Uh this individual's body is still illuminated as he is dead on the ground. Uh, but you do see that there are three other uh scouts.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:26

Okay. Uh I want to I'm gonna action surge. Um and I'm assuming after I hit him with the javelin, he like pulled it out and like threw it on the ground or something. Um so I'm gonna pick it back up and throw it at another scout. Go for it.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:41

Uh this one's only about 10 feet away. They're all kind of in proximity. 16 to hit? Uh 16 does hit.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:58

Four, seven, nine points of damage. Uh nine points of damage. Uh, is looking hurt. I did not like that. Did not like that one bit. Uh, but that one is up. Uh, and as he looks at you and just says, You will not see and you will not return to El Doria. Uh, and then the one next to him just responds with the Thomas had said that already. Um, that is going to be the rest of the buddies. Um, cool. Uh, we're just gonna go in order. Uh in that area where you are pierced. Uh three of them are gonna at this point you've uh they're gonna close in on you. Uh, and then they all are also pulling out short swords. Uh, anyone that's in proximity, they're just pulling out their melee weapons. Uh, that's gonna be uh does a 17 hit.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:09

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:10

Yeah, okay. Uh, that's gonna be three hits. Um you are gonna take 19 points of damage, have it to nine.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:20

I do want to use one of my maneuvers. Uh for I want to use parry, but it it reduces the damage of one attack. Okay. Um it will reduce it by six, nine. So I'm assuming it'll just negate one of the attacks, probably. Uh, that'll negate one of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:38

So question one, two, or three.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:41

Mm-hmm. Three.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:44

Three. That's that was the middle option. That was good. Uh that is going to be 11 halves to five. Nothing crazy, but it helped a little bit. Uh, very cool. The other ones are taking their swings over at Buka. Two hits, one's a miss.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:07

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:08

Uh, 12 points of uh piercing damage, uh, as they uh get you with with their with their short swords. Awesome. I would also like to use uh brace. Uh when a creature I see moves into reach with my melee weapon, I can use my reaction to make an attack and add the die to the damage if I hit. Cool. Come on. I miss. I got a 10. 10. Yes. Yeah. I think you I think Buka tries to attempt to do something with Ripier, and then just three short swords just start hacking at you. Uh there's a lot of like, get him, get him. Um as they're just perfect, they're coming at you. Yeah. Uh, right on, and then uh Val, so sorry for the coming towards you.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:13

More arrows. Uh there's no freaking way. Uh does a 15 hit?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:23

Okay. Exactly. Uh only two uh out of four, only two again. Uh that is uh they're what they add is pretty decent. So the fact that I'm not hitting more often with these bows is crazy. Uh 10 points of piercing damage. Uh as more arrows are headed in your direction. Uh, we're gonna go back to Val. Uh Val, before you start, go ahead and give me another perception check.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:57

I want to perceive.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:00

I perceive a 14. Uh cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:08

Uh you see that uh I get in that batch, one of them just looks really hurt. Uh the one that you already shot at twice.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:17

Perfect. Uh let's shoot at him again.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:25

Let's go. Is a 15 hit?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:34

A 15 does hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:41

Also.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:42

Uh we'll go ahead and roll damage for the first one.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:45

Seven.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:47

Uh takes him down. Uh immediately. Well uh there's a point where he like peeks his head out uh to try and get a vantage point from you, and then arrow just right through the neck. Uh, but that one is checking.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:01

Uh and then I will you move my hunter's mark to I can see the other ones, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:07

Yes, yeah, at this point they're all uh out.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:11

Well, so does the 15 hit that one?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:15

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:16

Perfect, and then five, and then I still have my hunter's mark damage, which I forgot to add last time, but we're not gonna talk about it. Uh nine points of damage total.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:32

Uh hurts another one pretty bad. Uh, not out for the count, but they are hurting. Uh, as this one went to try and uh they were checking in on uh the one that you just downed. Uh, and as they were just checking on them, they fully not forgot about the combat, but they just exposed themselves.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:54

Can I have shot him in the ass since he was checking in on his friend? Like no, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:02

Thank you so much. Uh but yes, you may.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:10

Um, right on.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:12

Uh that is uh any bonus actions. Oh, I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:26

Will you roll a concentration check for me? Or sorry, two con checks for me.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:34

Two con?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:35

So yeah, so these are gonna be two two con saves.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:38

Perfect. So four and ten.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:42

Uh you drop hunters mark.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:46

Before or after this happens.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:49

Uh this is uh before this happens. This is from the damage.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:54

So five instead of nine.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:59

For the first one.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:01

The second one.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:03

Uh I'll I'll just add four HP. Okay. Okay. No, add five. Wait, no, just kidding. Just kidding. No, no, no, add four. That's it. Four. It's just four. It's just four.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:23

Four. It's four. Add four. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:27

Let's do it. Uh da da da da. Uh, that is gonna be uh Buka. Yes. Um, can I reasonably cast a 10-foot radius spell so that way it doesn't hit me but hits the people in front of me? Yeah. Yes. Perfect. I'd like to drop Warding Wind and cast uh a third level shatter. Very cool. Yeah. Uh con save 15. Uh, there are three ahead of you. Uh for con, their con is not that great.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:12

Come on. Come on.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:14

Um. Uh what do they add to con? Uh oh, not great. Uh nine. Uh not 20 and a 10. Heck yeah. So they're gonna take uh 4d8 damage for failing and yes, and half uh for succeeding. And that was a terrible roll. Uh 13 damage uh have to six. Six. Cool. Uh I'll I'll do these in the order that I rolled. Uh another one of these goes down.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:57

Yes. Um perfect. Uh uh you said 13, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:09

13, yes. Uh one of them is down, one of them is less hurt, and one of them is more hurt. Perfect. Uh as they uh cover their ears as a sound. Do you guys all hear uh just the sound like echo through the forest uh as it seems to extend into the dark? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, uh earmuffs. What? Mm-hmm. I punch him. No, no, oh man. Uh and that is my turn. Very cool. Uh that is going to be uh Talon uh with Pierce on deck. Uh Talon is going to uh he's really close to where you are. Uh like uh Val, he's probably obviously he's below. Uh he's maybe only about 10 feet ahead of you. Uh so he's kind of been staying in that general proximity as Pierce and Buka have left. Uh, you see that he goes into his pouch and gathers uh these same green and yellow peppercorn looking things uh and throws it in the direction uh of where you've been uh hitting people as well. Um and what is the range on this one? Fairy fire, 20-foot cube, all three of them have to roll.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:45

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:46

Uh their deck save is decent, but we will see uh failure, failure, uh, and one success. Uh so two of them are illuminated, uh Val in the same green uh and yellow kind of uh like light. Uh and those two you will be able to roll with advantage. Uh he looks up at you, Val, and just says, strike them down.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:19

I'll try.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:21

Um, and that is going to be Pierce.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:28

Um, I mean I'm still in combat.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:31

Does it one of them look more hurt than the other? Others?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:35

Where you are, yes. Uh well, there's one that you took a swipe at already. That one's looked the most hurt.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:40

The one I threw the javelin at. Yes. Okay. He's the he's looking the most hurt. Yes. Okay. Um I will swing at him. I am going to swing two handed. Uh do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:58

Twenty five to hit. Uh 25 hits.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:03

I hope so. And then we're gonna go do 10 plus 4, 11, 13 points of damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:13

13 points of damage. He is uh he's out.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:23

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:23

Uh as you strike another one down.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:27

Uh I strike him down and then because there's still two more. Yes. Right. Um I kind of like don't like necessarily I don't like step away. I just like plant um with my sword in like kind of a defensive position so I can see both of them. Um and I mean it essentially ends my turn. I'm just like prepared to continue fighting the two of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:50

Yeah. Uh the other two are starting to look a little bit like hesitant as uh you they are also seeing you take down these two uh and seeing Val and Buka also start to take down uh some of these individuals as well. Um that is going to be it's gonna be the rest of these guards. Uh their numbers are a lot less though. Um two of them are gonna take two hits at you, Pierce. One of them hits, one of them is a crit, so sorry. Sawy!

SPEAKER_04 1:29:26

Sawy! Uh uh twenty half to ten piercing damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:42

Uh as uh and Mealing Rolls, and then one of them was the crit. But uh that is going to be the ones by Puka. Uh which there is the two that are left for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:04

Um I'm a slippery snake. Incredible. Uh not one and an 18 to hit. 18. Uh you're able to you're able to uh block one with the rapier, opens you up, uh, and you take an astounding three piercing damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:29

Pierce, come get your damage away from me. Um and then this is going to be for Vielle. Uh Vielle. Uh that is uh two hits. No, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:50

Uh 14 doesn't hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:52

Uh 14 does not hit.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:54

Only one hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:56

Hmm. The dice love me when someone else rolls them.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:02

Three, uh five piercing damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:05

Sick uh cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:10

Uh at this point, only uh only two individuals from uh all three of groups are left. Heck yeah. Uh very cool. Quick question uh for the area. Now that the warding wind has gone away, do we hear fighting in other parts of the woods at all? Or is are the sounds that we are hearing too loud to hear anything else? Uh I think that's part of it. Uh, but as you are looking around, the big part of it is you guys headed in completely opposite directions of the woods. Um where whatever other group left and whatever group that Lake was a part of, they're on opposite ends of the woods. Uh so they are presumably a half mile away from you guys. Right. Um, so if there is, you don't hear it. It they just would be uh so you're just unsure at this point. Perfect. Um cool. That is going to be Val.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:15

Um could I Let's use Hunter's Mark on Wait, it's with advantage now, right? Cool, great. Uh Hunter's mark on one of the glowy guys. Yeah. Um with advantage.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:40

21 hits. 21 does it.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:46

Perfect. Uh and then nine points of damage for one of the glooy guys.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:53

Um nine points.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:56

Yeah, and then does a 27 hit?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:58

Uh 27 does hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:01

Perfect. So then we have another ten points of damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:07

Uh goes down.

unknown 1:33:09

Perfect.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:10

You see this green blood just scattered, but why is it green?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:15

Um so for the damage from my hunter's mark, right? Since he already go went down, would I be able to use it on another glowy guy or not?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:24

You can use a bonus action to so you don't have to recast it. It's not using the spell slot. Uh it's just gonna use up a bonus action to transfer it over.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:34

I so I transfer it, but would the damage still take place since I'm technically not hitting I already hit the person the first person twice, you know? Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:47

Uh say that one more time.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:50

So the damage that, like the additional damage that would be with Hunter's mark, right? Would that be with the first hit so it would count towards the first guy? And then so my second attack could be used someone like with someone else, so I can still do more than that.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:05

Because both of these were the yeah, because or sorry, when you shot that, were were you shooting at two different individuals?

SPEAKER_05 1:34:11

No, same guy first.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:13

So uh if only if you used a bonus action to transfer it over. So since for this round you used the bonus action to cast it, you couldn't do it until the next round.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:23

But okay, that's fine. Then I'm done.

unknown 1:34:26

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:28

Uh, that is gonna be Buka. Um, should I just swing or should I make them save again? I'll make them save again. I'm gonna cast a second level shatter on the two remaining buddies. Do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:48

Conse 15. Uh cheese and rice, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:54

Uh 11 and a five. Yes! So they take 3d8 damage. Nice. 19 damage. Uh they both go down. Yeah, they're not. They don't think. I think my ears are ringing from the warding wind and the two shatters I casted. I'm like, oh man. Are you I talk a little too loud. Are you guys okay? Uh what's where and I see, is there just one person left or two people left? There are uh uh two people left. Two people left. Sorry, two people three people left. Three, okay. Uh there are two where Pierce is, and then there's one uh that Val's been having the shooting match uh with this other group. Perfect. Like uh okay, uhy meeny mini uh Val got it. I'll run over to where Pierce is fighting. Uh hell yeah. Um uh Val's taking down three already, so yeah. Uh cool. That is gonna be Talon. Uh Talon's got your back, Pierce. Don't worry. Uh and so he's like, he looks at you, kind of gives you like a like a bro, like you and Buka got this. Uh, and is gonna go after the ones that uh Val's been shooting at since uh he is this individual is illuminated. Uh so he's gonna close the distance uh and is going to uh throw a spear.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:31

Uh thank god for advantage. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:36

Uh uh he does eight points of damage uh to this individual. Uh and you hear like another groan and grunt of pain uh as bodies are starting to drop. Uh Pierce, that is gonna be your turn.

unknown 1:36:57

Perfect.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:02

I'm just gonna I'm gonna pull out so I'll have my long sword in one hand and I'm gonna um pull out the dagger that I have from the forge in my other hand. I'm going to swing one-handed first with the long sword. Hell yeah. Or 16 to hit.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:26

Yeah, 16 to hit. Uh 16 does hit. 10, 12 points of damage. Can hurt. Um and then cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:45

Uh using my two weapon fighting, I'm gonna s stab him with the uh dagger.

unknown 1:37:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:52

Uh go ahead and roll. Uh 20. Uh uh twenty to hit.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:05

Uh not twenty. So twenty-six. Twenty-six. Uh, what's the damage die on a dagger? Uh D4. D four.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:15

You are going to roll two D4. Uh no modifier on this one. Yeah. Nice. Uh five points of damage. Yeah. Uh is on Death Door. Damn.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:36

You can never kill us.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:38

What were you thinking?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:40

It just starts to spit up more blood. As he says that, I literally look at all the dead bodies. They were weak. They were weak.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:49

Uh it's just nap time.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:54

Uh they are going to uh uh take swipes at here. Uh 10 have to sorry, nine have to four. They both hit. Uh yes, they both hit. Okay. Um, and then uh it just makes sense. I mean they're they know they're getting shot at, but I mean they can't ignore Talon. He's literally right there. Uh that is going to hit four three points of damage. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:31

Come on.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:33

Irrelevant, bro. Uh Talon uh starts to laugh as just the small just nick of what he got. Uh that is gonna be Val with Buka on deck. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:51

Let's shoot the last glowy guy. Uh con saving throw.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:01

Uh no, did you take any damage? You didn't take any damage, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:40:07

No, I did.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:09

Oh. Oh, then yeah. Uh uh, it was only one the one hit though. Uh DC 10 con save.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:18

12.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:18

Nice. Uh 12. You still have uh hunter's markup.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:22

Perfect. Let's move it to the new guy.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:25

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:30

Does a 17 hit?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:32

Uh 17 does hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:36

Uh five points of damage. Does a 30 hit?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:46

30 does hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:49

11 points of damage. Is he dead yet? No.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:55

Wait, how much damage?

SPEAKER_05 1:40:57

11.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:58

11. Oh, eleven. Uh yeah, goes down. Just the arrow locks him into the tree as he's just and he's glowing.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:07

How cute.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:10

I know what you are. Dead. Undead.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:19

Hell yeah. Uh yeah. Uh as that happens, Talon turns around and then through like the foliage sees you and gives you like a stern just thumbs up.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:31

Oh, that's what it looks like when he's not mad with a thumbs up.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:36

Still looks pissed. He doesn't even look pissed, he just looks serious. He's like locked in. Uh, very cool. That is going to be Buka. Uh perfect. One is incredibly hurt, and the other one is not hurt at all. Oh, perfect. Um, well, I do have another third-level spell slot for shatter. If we just want to try to shatter him again. Let's go. I say Pierce, who buffs. Uh, and I gas shatter, con 15. Go for it. Uh uh one save and a failure. Perfect. Um, 15 damage after seven. If they save. Uh, the one that was already weekend. Uh uh to this point, he's already been hit twice by Pierce, just once with a sword, once with a dagger. Uh, is looking at you, doesn't see Buka approaching uh through the woods and looks at you, Pierce, and just says, You can never pull and just kind of gets uh just tumbled uh to the side as the concussive wave hits him. Uh and the other one is looking uh pretty hurt. Great. Um then that is since I see one go down, I'm gonna stop like 10 feet away, so that way uh if they wanted to attack me, they have to come to me and they have to decide to leave Pierce. Very cool. Yeah. So one guy's like looking at the page. And I taunt him, I taunt I taunt him with my rapier. Who you gonna get? No, no. Uh hell yeah. Uh that is going to be uh talon. Uh what's he gonna do? Uh I'm gonna say what's he gonna do when they come for you, bad boys. Just because he has a couple more uses of this, uh, I'm gonna say that he does another round of these like peppercorns just to like ensure that there's not anybody else out there. Uh yeah. Um and uh does use the ban action, but uh it is a 20 uh foot cube. Uh so at least this area close to where he is more towards the northeast, uh, does seem to be secure. Uh and then he starts to head in the direction uh closer to where he was, so more towards Val. Uh just to kind of have a united front. Uh, and that is going to be Pierce.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:24

Oh, well, I guess the guy in front of me is not gonna have a sh maybe not have a chance to decide whether or not he wants to fight Buka. You might uh I will I will swipe at him. 14? 14 just misses Oh no. Uh I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm um using money. I'll try to I'll try to stab him with my attacker.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:49

So before you tell me, before you tell me on a three and a four, you kill him.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:59

Oh, I uh I hit him, I think. I got a 15. 15 does hit, yeah, and it's just a d4, so it's a d4.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:07

Oh no, with a three or four pierce, you could do this. I believe in you. Got three. He uh uses his chord sword and then first turns over the the first weapon attack and it leaves him exposed and just says, Up Juni dagger. Oh, no, no, grabs your arm, no, and starts to sink into the ground. No, but you guys are out of combat.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:38

I am I am gonna real quick use second wind to heal a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:43

Hell yeah. Okay, I've got a bunch of I got a bunch of uh healing words that I can use, but we're out of combat right now, yeah? Yes. Indeed. You all fall to Valiant Valiantly. You are all strong warriors. I'm uh Boogabows.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:01

That's me.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:03

Your name is Valiant Lee. Yes, wonderful. Good name.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:07

Yes, great name.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:09

Middle name Lee. Probably should then formally say hello. I am Talon.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:14

Nice to meet you, Talon. You can call me Val for short, please.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:18

Valiant Lee is fine. Okay. Uh so Talon, do you think that this was just an advanced scouting group that we ran into, or are they pushing it tonight? I think they're gonna continue pushing tonight, but without the scouts returning, they will be a little bit more hesitant. Uh approach more cautiously, uh, which is more worrisome because they will be careful, but they will come in with knowledge of the best way to enter. We know these woods, so they don't know them as well. And so we have the event. Should we bury the rest of these bodies in the snow so they can't be found? No. Uh, and you see that he starts going towards the bodies. Uh and you guys have seen kind of this difference in Lake when he was fighting, was still very aggressive. Uh, but he had them uh blindfold the bodies. Uh, as he starts going to the bodies, he uses like a small uh like an elk horn dagger of some kind, uh, and starts to just slice eyes uh as he's going to body the body and just uh so similar sentiment as what uh Lake had done, uh, but just a little bit more violent, a little bit more aggressive. Yeah. Uh then says, let it be food for the trees. Let's return back. Okay. Let's report what happened. Um, uh, you guys start to head back. While all this is happening, you are uh cool. Uh you are hearing the sounds kind of calm down a little bit. Whatever uh wildlife you guys have been hearing uh like in the woods seems to be making their way out. So uh you guys are hearing like animals overhead, but they seem to be heading uh away from uh Eldoria. So it seems that they are starting to kind of be their own little scout group as you hear rodents and birds and larger animals start creating like a uh protective barrier of some kind, uh, but a little bit further out uh in the woods. Right. Okay, well, it looks like the fences are being built almost by themselves. Do we have much to worry about tonight? No, uh, we should stay vigilant. I worry that they might send other scouting groups. Lake will know what's best. Uh and you see, as it almost pains him to say uh this part, but uh when he's like Lake would know what's best. But uh let us reconvene and attempt to set a plan for what to do for tonight. Right. Okay. Uh and you guys make your way back into uh the city. At this point, uh Lake is already back. Uh and you see that he is speaking uh with Lova uh and Tamson. Uh and as you guys get closer to the grove, Lake hurries over to you guys. Uh and I mean you guys are alive. Uh I'll say that you guys can also use the time to short rest uh and use up your short rest uh hit die to get uh some HP back. Uh so you guys are looking a little hurt, but you guys aren't you know down for the count like all the other people. Um and as he approaches, uh goes to his brother, just says, Are you hurt? Brother, no, no. They they fought valiantly, and then looks at Val. That's also her name.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:51

It's her name is a manifestation of her true potential, valiantly.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:58

A tear down. Because she misses Manifest.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:05

This lake looks to Val and just does like a small polite nod. Wonderful. Uh, did you found some scouts? Uh looks to you guys while you were out. We we did. There were the green lizards, the red foxes, and then the black bears. They all came and attacked us at the same time. Because you say this, he looks incredibly confused. Right. But you hear that. I'm confident that those were the that's the name of the groups that we were fighting. Uh Talon speaks up and says, uh, yes, they are what he's said. Um uh and at this point, again, Lova uh still in dear form, uh just living her best life. Uh Tamson and Lake are there. Uh and uh Talon speaks up and just says, brother, the uh twin hounds, the blind bow and the iron fox were all present. Uh and then uh there's kind of just like grave just nods as we face similar enemies down south. So it appears that they have united. Uh not incredibly dangerous on their own, but they have large numbers. Right. Broken broken shield or broken uh broken spear is uh is we are a strong group. One of us can fight five or six of them, but uh they contain many warriors. So the plan for tonight is to stay awake and guard our guard the borders? We will get ready if uh uh and at this point Lova speaks up and says uh we me and Tamson we're uh looking at as they're approaching. I'm assuming that they are waiting for the sunrise to attack. They will probably be within striking distance a little bit sooner, but uh uh they I think will attempt to they know that we will be staying awake, uh keeping uh watch. Uh and then that's when Tamson speaks up and says, um, yes, so then when I think they're waiting, so that we're when we're the most tired, that then they're gonna strike. Uh and then I know that there's a large force amassing towards the north and the east. Uh, and so with the sun rising, uh, they'll probably try to use the sun behind them as uh advantageous uh to try and blind us a little bit. And so we should probably prepare for that, as well as making sure that the defenses uh in other parts of the city can hold out. Um and so we will have to probably split up our forces um when they arrive. Uh, but it does appear that the largest force is coming in from the east. I think if uh it's okay with you, we should probably join in with uh whatever force is defending the east. Yes, like looks, Talon, you can keep eyes on the norths. Uh, you already arrived there, you've already fought some of the men, you can head over there, uh, lead the men over there. Uh Talon nods, and uh him and his brother do like a just predator handshake, and uh they share a glance and just says, Well, uh, can't do anything on an empty stomach if we're gonna be awake all night. Uh, there is soup uh that is heated up for everybody, and you guys are able to not rest uh but wait uh for the battle will be arriving in the morning. And that is where we're gonna end tonight's session. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:45

Definitely gonna be outnumbered.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:53

Oh man.