Strange Fruit, Part I | Shadows of Stravia: Episode 54

Back in the waking world of the Shadows of Stravia, the party follows the thread of the soul plague to the place where the nightmare first took root.

The old temple site.

In this plane, the Gulthias tree is gone—banished from the world after its destruction—but its shadow has not faded.

As the party travels to the site, they discover that the ruins are not as abandoned as they once believed. Strange guardians linger within the temple, standing watch over secrets that should have remained buried. But the party’s arrival was not unexpected.

A druid diviner named Bumbo has seen this moment coming.

Somehow, long before they arrived, Bumbo anticipated their path and prepared a way forward—a passage into the Grey Plane, a place between worlds where the Gulthias tree now exists in exile.

Neither fully dead nor fully alive.

Neither fully in Stravia nor beyond it.

From this strange in-between realm, the tree has begun lashing out across realities, harvesting souls through the plague spreading in Light of Doruusk.

But why?

Why does it need so many souls?

What is it feeding?

What is it building?

And what horror waits if the tree is allowed to finish what it has begun?

As the party crosses into the Grey Plane, the world around them twists into something unfamiliar and wrong. There, in that haunted space between life, death, dream, and memory, they finally find what they have been searching for.

The Gulthias tree.

Massive.

Impossible.

Still alive in ways it should not be.

And from its enormous boughs hang strange fruit—terrible signs of what the harvested souls may be becoming.

The party has found the source.

But they may be too late to understand what it has already grown.

Some evils do not return as they were.

Some take root somewhere worse.

And some bear fruit before the world realizes it is starving.

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Highlights

🌑 The party returns to the world of Shadows of Stravia
🌳 The journey leads them back to the old Gulthias tree temple site
🏛️ The party enters the temple in this plane
🛡️ Strange guardians are discovered within the ruins
🔮 A druid diviner named Bumbo anticipated the party’s arrival
🚪 Bumbo prepared a way for them to enter the Grey Plane
🌫️ The Grey Plane is revealed as the place between worlds where the Gulthias tree was banished
🩸 The tree is harvesting souls from Light of Doruusk through the soul plague
❓ The party begins to question why the tree needs so many souls
⚠️ A greater plan begins to emerge from the horror
🍎 The episode ends as the party finds the tree and sees strange fruit growing from its massive boughs
🌌 The boundary between Stravia, Doruusk, and the Grey Plane grows dangerously thin

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Transcript

SPEAKER_16 0:00

Hello and welcome back to Fake Castle!

SPEAKER_12 0:04

I'm good news!

SPEAKER_16 0:05

And another thrilling adventure of the light of the room. Last time, I'm just gonna bring us in quickly for stuff. Um, we had a mishmash of different things beginning um with uh some what's going on with this Odin's eye back in Stravia. Um it ended up being with Plop, as uh other people were unconscious. We went into the the light of Dorusk. We met up with uh what Borislav was doing in the city of the burrows, a village of the humble folk, where a similar fate was met of uh folks that had had uh seen other snake-like ghost creatures take their souls. Same thing happened. Forty-four souls um corrupted, including Bruna Honeyhide, a potential love interest for uh Borislav before retreating. Mirabel, um, knowing that her Volpin children, of course, will be safe there in their ship fort uh away, um, instructed uh her husband Cedric and Borislav to find a key, a mechanism to be able to anchor themselves to another plane in order to find out what this is. And they did just that as they regrouped with the rest of the group in a kind of time topsy-turvy thing, just as Reginald's face was being melted off. Requiem stayed behind just a little bit and was able to have a conversation with herself and the rest of the party. And the scar that she left when she transported back to the shadows of Stravia acted as that key, activating an amulet that gave you temporary um ability to go to another plane. Um, you left your corporeal form back in your uh light of Darusk, and you are now temporarily in the shadows of Stravia.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Stravia.

SPEAKER_16 2:10

There in the shadows of Stravia. You guys uh regrouped. Smiley Tinkersmith showing his skills, um, giving tokens of tattoos and paintings um to boost the group in different ways. Um traveled to the forest temple where you interacted with a possum. Uh an imp got blasted with some scentillating blast and uh immediately fell to the ground and died. Um flail snails and collection of those. And finally, an arcane door, a similar arcane door that you had come across previously, except this one was not the gaunt uh arcane door sentient that you had before. This one was in complete memory, had full memories, knew exactly what was gone with his surrounding, was handsome, he was eloquent and intelligent. And when you guys uh were able to interact to answer his riddle in order to pass through, he encapsulated you guys in a forced field of energy that extended from him and gave you a riddle. What would you guys like to do? Do you know the answer to this riddle?

SPEAKER_09 4:25

No, I literally don't know. No, I think you're correct. I think you're correct. Isn't that what you just said? That's the answer for sure. I'm pretty sure it's right. How many tries do I get it?

SPEAKER_17 4:32

No, that's the right answer.

SPEAKER_09 4:33

Do I get the right?

SPEAKER_17 4:36

You got this. Am I right about lightning? Yes, girl, don't just say just say the answer. You are so smart. So you could say just say like the kid coolie songs. Day and night.

SPEAKER_10 4:51

Day breaks, night falls.

SPEAKER_16 4:55

You are most intelligent, my dear.

SPEAKER_10 4:58

I got it right, Ron. You got it right. Are you serious? I'm weird.

SPEAKER_16 5:04

Absolutely. It's like 50 times. You must have used your time to think about it between the sessions.

SPEAKER_08 5:11

I had a taco to think about it.

SPEAKER_16 5:14

And indeed, dear, this door shall open once at daybreak and once at dusk. Perfect. We got time. Well, as you guys look through, daybreak is about to come up through the trees behind you.

SPEAKER_05 5:27

It's almost daybreak.

SPEAKER_16 5:28

And all of you feel that familiar pull as you uh that had passed through the door uh previously, an invitation, an arcane invitation that you could pass through if you give the door one more thing. And you feel in your mind, he says, and just one more thing before you pass through. You must tell me something that I don't already know. And then of course, feel free and leave your knowledge with me so that I might continue to become as intelligent as I can be. So, my dear, what is something that I don't know?

SPEAKER_09 6:06

A secret. It's just something you don't know. You don't know this door. The door doesn't know you. It's not you, Dor. It's not a big thing. Oh my purse! I don't know you like that.

SPEAKER_10 6:15

I don't know you know me. Respectfully.

SPEAKER_11 6:21

Okay. Um I float above myself sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Interesting.

SPEAKER_11 6:29

It is very interesting.

SPEAKER_16 6:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 6:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 6:32

You are able to pass through the the door, and it feels just like it had when you had uh done it um in your human form. Maybe as a wraith it feels slightly different, but you know, you pass through easily. Who's next?

SPEAKER_14 6:46

Borislaw would step up and I truly think that Bruna is a beautiful bear.

SPEAKER_16 6:53

I do not know who Bruna is, but anything that you guys register is too that he does not know works as a fact. He has registered Bruna's name in his catalog, and that she is beautiful, and you are able to pass through. Facts. She's a fact. She's hot.

SPEAKER_17 7:12

As an artist, I requestfully ask you all to remain at least forty feet back while I reveal my knowledge to this dog.

SPEAKER_16 7:20

Guys, back up to the force field.

SPEAKER_19 7:22

It's about five feet away. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 7:27

Is this as far as we can go?

SPEAKER_19 7:28

So then please please plug your ears. Respect an artist's vulnerability. Yeah, you're through and you can't hear anything else. She can't hear.

SPEAKER_17 7:39

I'm plugging my ears. Do I believe that they're all plugging their ears? Requiem. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_08 7:44

She's through the door anymore.

SPEAKER_17 7:46

Okay. Do I believe that they're plugging their ears? Make an insight check.

SPEAKER_16 7:51

Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_09 7:52

Can I hear through me plugging my ears since I've got like super huge.

SPEAKER_16 7:56

Are you actually trying to listen in?

SPEAKER_09 7:58

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_16 7:59

She's trying to listen in, and you can tell. Hey, do it better.

SPEAKER_17 8:03

How can you tell? 1220 insight. Plug them better. No, 1220. Plug them better. I'm gonna give it a countess.

SPEAKER_16 8:17

Yeah. DM whispers for me. Interesting. And you may pass. I wanna know it's so bad right now. You can't see it in the camera show. Can you not? Nope. Except for the light part. Um and you pass it through. We have two left. What's something that I don't know?

SPEAKER_15 8:57

I am starting to care for Helen and she is true. Like guidance and intelligence.

SPEAKER_16 9:09

Interesting. More names and more feelings. I am adding that to my register. And you.

SPEAKER_09 9:23

This is almost a test. Because the door will know if it's false or not, and I actually it will confirm whether or not it's false or true. I have divine blood inside of me.

SPEAKER_13 9:42

What's your AC?

SPEAKER_09 9:44

My AC?

SPEAKER_13 9:52

So loud. That was the loudest. I've never heard of your tone.

SPEAKER_16 9:58

Seventeen. You feel um a psychic blast come over you. Um and sorry, I I can obviously tell that you have celestial blood. You think I was born yesterday?

SPEAKER_09 10:14

You knew this.

SPEAKER_16 10:15

And you told me something I already know.

SPEAKER_07 10:22

But I told you something I did not know. You confirmed. Does that help?

SPEAKER_16 10:29

Out smart in the door. Well, try again. This time perhaps I'll make it hurt a little worse. Tell me something I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 10:47

I'm scared. I don't know if it knows things about me that I don't. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 10:52

It doesn't have to be you, it's just something that he doesn't know.

SPEAKER_06 11:04

Okay. Wait, so the last time I did.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

You didn't hear it! No, I didn't hear it.

SPEAKER_16 11:16

You pass through, and now all of you guys have passed through this door. And it feels like we need something here.

SPEAKER_13 11:29

Maybe some music. She did apparently like it.

SPEAKER_09 11:35

She kissed a different girl.

SPEAKER_13 11:38

As you pass through like it was not like dimly lit.

SPEAKER_16 11:44

Fire crackles. A figure sitting in a chair on the far side, large. Maybe as tall as um you could tell if when this creature stands up, he'll be as tall as one of those flail snails, fifteen feet massive, huge robe going out. A bit of an elephantine trunk hangs out the front of a robe. What do you do?

SPEAKER_15 12:20

I would recognize them, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:23

Yeah, and trunk about that front of that robe.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

That's the that is what he said.

SPEAKER_09 12:31

I would insight-check this check if it seems harmful. I'm not inside checking the she or she's inside checking something else. I'm just insight-checking the entire uh 21. The entire overall being. Does it seem like it's aggressive?

SPEAKER_13 12:48

Vibe check.

SPEAKER_09 12:49

Familiar. Vibe check.

SPEAKER_16 12:51

Does not seem aggressive from from that. There's some rocking. Um the familiar? It's it's hard because there's so much shadow. Um you said 21 was what you had with it. That's all that you get with the 21.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

How far away?

SPEAKER_16 13:07

Deep in the shadows, and you know, you don't have a good look at it at this point to be able to tell deeper emotions with that.

SPEAKER_09 13:13

How far away are we from it?

SPEAKER_16 13:15

About 40 feet away.

SPEAKER_09 13:18

Does this have weird feelings that are similar to the first time we went through Santier and we went into a corridor?

SPEAKER_16 13:23

First time you went in, you guys immediately got attacked with stuff. Um, this corridor feels very similar. Um, but at the end of the corridor, there's uh a fireplace where one wasn't before. Um, it is cozier. There, you know, is moss along the floor in different areas as if it's a rug. There's a tapestry, there's a small table and a writing desk.

SPEAKER_11 13:45

Definitely. Does it look like it's meditating? Like you said, it's sitting there rocky.

SPEAKER_16 13:51

Does it look like it's like meditating or um It sounds like you want to do something to her? Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 13:57

I'll just I'll let you finish answering our question.

SPEAKER_16 14:01

You're trying to figure out what it's doing. You guys are all looking. How about you guys roll perception checks for me?

SPEAKER_15 14:05

Is is this my my uh my gosh, my memory's so bad. I would remember it from his projection, correct?

SPEAKER_16 14:13

You guys all saw an elephantine mentor in druidic robes? You recognize this to be the same robe from that vision. I'd say all of you guys would have.

SPEAKER_09 14:22

27.

SPEAKER_13 14:24

25, 27.

SPEAKER_14 14:28

Can I in druidic on the wall he's facing cast the message that we need your assistance? Even within you cast a message on it like it's plants and stuff that kind of form symbols and emblems and little.

SPEAKER_16 14:47

What did you guys roll? 13 Smiley, where you proceed.

SPEAKER_13 14:51

Well, I wasn't present. I I didn't see the vision. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 14:55

Yeah, but you're looking at this creature across the way. Are you trying to see this guy better? You just kind of stand in the shadow. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_17 15:06

Yes, you can if you want it to do eight.

SPEAKER_16 15:07

I'd say you guys kind of all all see this. You throw up uh words, you know, from that. The head does not go to inspect the words at all.

SPEAKER_15 15:18

Oh, I'm adding my bardic of inspiration to it, and I rolled a plus eight. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 15:24

Okay. So all of you guys are over twenty. I think somebody was even over twenty-five. Twenty-eight. Twenty-eight.

SPEAKER_05 15:29

Right, answer twenty-eight or twenty-five. One of them.

SPEAKER_16 15:31

Yeah. Um when you get over a twenty, you're seeing some things with this figure that don't quite add up. The kneecap isn't exactly where it kind of should be. The uh the chest cavity seems somewhat caved in. The the arms, you know, you remember seeing this guy, and and they look almost like a little bit I don't know. They don't they don't form fit the way that you'd think that they would.

SPEAKER_14 15:58

Do I smell decay?

SPEAKER_16 15:59

I was gonna say, um Fira With a 28, you said?

SPEAKER_09 16:08

It's 18 plus nine, so whatever that is. 27, 28, 27.

SPEAKER_16 16:11

With yeah.

SPEAKER_09 16:14

27.

SPEAKER_16 16:15

With a 27, you see this creature, and this is just straight up 13 goblins and a trench coat.

SPEAKER_18 16:28

It's a pretty obvious like this trope thing is just like a piece of like o'es that it found somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

Stop it. I cannot.

SPEAKER_16 16:36

Everyone else, this is the mystical creature, elephant time instructor. Yeah, I think you think there's something off, but yeah, I was trying to beat a 25 to get to this.

SPEAKER_09 16:53

I'm going to I don't do goblins speak? I'm sure they understand normal. I'm gonna stop and be like, you've got five seconds to come out of that trench coat you are wearing.

SPEAKER_16 17:06

Like an intimidation check.

SPEAKER_09 17:10

Get it.

SPEAKER_15 17:10

Can I help to uh intimidate with her?

SPEAKER_16 17:13

I mean, you don't you think this is still your mentor or whatever, right?

SPEAKER_15 17:16

16. But I rolled over 21, right?

SPEAKER_16 17:18

So you know something was wrong, but only she knows that this is the one.

SPEAKER_09 17:20

I'm the only one that had over 25 to see that it was not indeed an elephant.

SPEAKER_16 17:25

What was your what was your intimidation?

SPEAKER_09 17:27

Uh 16.

SPEAKER_16 17:28

You guys all see this like robed like figure in in, you know, the chair just kind of like all tumble and crash out. There's like a couple of you know, like goblins just like roll out, and what you see are goblins, but they also have like little facial beards on them. They have little caps of blues and yellows and smart, like little um and uh and they said, Well, I am real sorry about that, miss. I'm uh Carl here, he thought it would be a good idea to like in case somebody comes in here and they don't really know. So I suppose Carl, he he really doofed this one, I'd betcha. Sorry about the subterfuge. I hope you don't kill us all and stuff. I look past the doll uh the the door, and I uh uh we're blaming Carl, yes? Well, yes, Carl was it was definitely his idea. Carl, that's Carl over there. He thought, you know, maybe not so good, you know, and then Carl over there, he was like he was like, I think we should come up with a completely different like sabotage. Like, should we be setting traps or something like that?

SPEAKER_10 18:30

So what is your name?

SPEAKER_16 18:31

I'm Carl. Is it Carl? Is there like a hyphen in there? Well, you know how to spell, it's in common, of course.

SPEAKER_09 18:41

Listen, I believe Carl was quite clever. It you know, it fooled quite a few. It did well.

SPEAKER_16 18:47

Well, Carl absolutely was not clever. You know, it well, the subtropy of what, five seconds or something? I was much more in line with Carl. Carl. Right.

SPEAKER_06 18:59

All right. Um, so all of you Carls. What exactly are you doing here?

SPEAKER_16 19:08

Well, there was this big, like uh, I don't know what you'd call it, like a druidic fella. He was uh, you know, he's like an elephant time, but he's also like, I'm a big war hero. He had tattoos all over himself, and he didn't have time for, you know, looking over a temple or something. So we were coming around, and we thought to ourselves, you know, this could be a pretty sweet gig, and sure enough, the very few people ever come through here. And you know. So we take care of the place, help the travelers, keep the mission going. Place is pretty clean, and you look around and it is quite clean.

SPEAKER_04 19:38

Right. You guys are doing great. Doing great. Do you know where the elephant guy went?

SPEAKER_16 19:44

No, I sure don't know that, ma'am. He he just went off, and you know, I suppose I, you know, I hope he never comes back, because this is a pretty sweet gig, even though I don't know what we'd be doing out there in the the rough world, you know. Us goblin folk with some gnomish heritage. There's not many of us, and everyone hates us, of course. So it doesn't matter how nice you are.

SPEAKER_09 20:06

But we don't hate you. You are welcome back home anytime. Yeah. Thank you for not trying to actually take care of sabotage.

SPEAKER_16 20:14

We can go stay with her anytime we want.

SPEAKER_12 20:22

What city is that, ma'am?

SPEAKER_09 20:25

I'm going to do an insight check before I say in case something uh twenty-five.

SPEAKER_16 20:33

Twenty-five. Um these guys are just nice as can be. They are just little sweethearts. They just happen. They they just yeah, they're their their gnomish heritage absolutely dominates their their character. Um yeah, they just happen to have a bit of a gnomes?

SPEAKER_09 20:47

Not goblins? They are gnomish goblins. Okay. That could come in handy. Uh-huh. Um well, it is um Slavoka, of course.

SPEAKER_16 20:59

Oh, sure, I've heard of that place down there in the south, yeah?

SPEAKER_05 21:02

Right.

SPEAKER_16 21:03

Well, kidok.

unknown 21:05

Right.

SPEAKER_05 21:05

Slavoka and the city. You said it's continuing the mission.

SPEAKER_14 21:08

Is this your only mission to take care of this place? So what else is it?

SPEAKER_16 21:12

Yeah, I mean, we take care of this place, and of course, it's one of them planar keys that allows you to get to other places. Specifically, the uh the and one could like Carl, you can't just be telling them everything. Well, they're nice people, Carly. And so uh, I suppose what I'm getting back to is if you really needed to get to the Grey Plain, we can help you get there. We know how.

SPEAKER_09 21:33

Actually, yes, extremely helpful. We don't need the elephant if we have you. Right. Is this why you need?

SPEAKER_14 21:41

I think so. I think this is where we go to figure this out.

SPEAKER_10 21:46

We're trying to save the world.

SPEAKER_16 21:47

Oh, you betcha, saving the world. That's what heroes do. Why don't you come right here with me? And he kind of like uh ticks ticks, you guys. You get little no Mr. Goblins kind of grabbing you by the hands, a couple other kind of like scamper. Off, and you see them just start stuffing random things into a large bag and lots of stuff where you're going, I'll bet you'll need some of these and some of that. Okay. And they kind of take you down, and it's the same kind of layout as you were in the other temple. It goes out and it goes down, it goes and winds around. And eventually there's one big area that kind of opens up. And um, before it was cracked and filled with blood and, you know, dead things hanging from the walls. But here it is like a meeting hall. It is um tapestries on the sides. Um, there is a library that lines a piece of it. Um, there is little, you know, like tinkering projects that they have in a corner. Um, there is a great meeting hall table. And beyond all of that is a tree, an ironwood tree, going up into the full majesty of this. And you specifically would notice the little pinholes of light going down and hitting mirrors. Uh the same old, old and almost lost technology that lights a chamber, enabling subterranean growth of living things. Um, I want you guys to roll a history check on this ironwood tree.

SPEAKER_09 23:16

While rolling, we'll just be like, you guys have really made this something incredible in here.

SPEAKER_16 23:21

Although we tried to keep it tidy.

SPEAKER_09 23:24

Fourteen. Twenty-three.

unknown 23:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 23:28

I rolled the two.

SPEAKER_09 23:30

Actually, sorry, twenty-four. That was eight.

SPEAKER_16 23:31

Plus one, thirty. Solid roll. Um smiley and requiem.

SPEAKER_08 23:35

I don't have much skill, but I have mastermind.

SPEAKER_16 23:38

Yeah, smiley and requiem. Um, you know these ironwood trees are extremely valuable, very rare. They're usually not even on this continent. Um, they're on a separate continent and far to the north, but um an extremely tough hide that had been over harvested for things of like armor uh usage. Um, and they contain a lot of magical properties um with them as well. This is a sacred tree in a place that it doesn't belong. Um, you look out and uh you see little red ribbons tied to some of the ends of the branches and white ribbons tied to some of the others, and about six feet up off the ground, one great golden bow is tied around the middle of it. And they kind of usher you towards the tree. Now you see here this ironwood tree, it's actually part of the connection to the Grey Plain. You see, when the tree ants left, of course it makes sense for another tree to actually be the way that you get there, you know? So, you ready to travel?

SPEAKER_10 24:38

How do we get back once we get there and finish?

SPEAKER_16 24:42

Oh, you'll figure that out when you're on the other side.

SPEAKER_10 24:45

Will we?

SPEAKER_16 24:46

I mean, we've never been to the other side, so we don't really know. Should we But I imagine, you know, it'd probably wherever you uh get dropped off, just go there or something like that. That makes sense. I'm sorry. Sorry, Carl. Oh, I'm Carl. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_17 25:01

Carl. With an ah!

SPEAKER_19 25:06

There you got it.

SPEAKER_11 25:07

What can I do for you?

SPEAKER_10 25:08

Smiley try harder.

SPEAKER_19 25:10

Uh are you all siblings? How did this happen?

SPEAKER_16 25:13

Oh we are indeed all siblings. Okay. We are all twins, in fact. Congratulations. Thank you. You see, our mother, she was a goblin, and my dad, he was uh he was a nomish fella. Um, you know, well in doubt, of course. And he uh what was his name, you think? Steven.

SPEAKER_17 25:31

Stephen, does he have a last name?

SPEAKER_16 25:33

Stephen Stephen Carlson.

SPEAKER_17 25:35

Carlson. So he was a son of a Carl.

SPEAKER_16 25:37

So you guys are.

SPEAKER_17 25:38

And then he passed it on to all of his siblings.

SPEAKER_12 25:40

Carl Carlson.

SPEAKER_16 25:42

I'm so glad you guys uncovered this. Carl Carlson. Yeah, that's of course that's right. We're Carl and Carl, Carl Carlson. Right. Carlson's our last name.

SPEAKER_17 25:50

Does does uh does that name mean anything to me? I'm really just smiley is is having a hard time. I could tell the goblin.

SPEAKER_09 26:01

That's why we wouldn't say nice to you, but your entire demeanor has shifted. You're the nicest goblins we've ever met. I will say that.

SPEAKER_13 26:09

He drew out a really scathing caricature and is really considering about giving it to him, but it will probably cast vicious mockery, so I don't think he's gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 26:17

Um I've been a twenty four.

SPEAKER_16 26:23

I think you might have heard of a Steven Carlson um from afar. He was a traveler, a map maker. Um and he would uh he would travel the lands and he would uh he would map them as he'd go. Um I don't know if he ever made it as far as like Cavalia where you had grown up or anything like that.

SPEAKER_09 26:38

Man.

SPEAKER_16 26:39

But you might have seen his name on a map. There's just registers for you on a channel.

SPEAKER_09 26:42

We've met a few goblins before.

SPEAKER_16 26:44

Steven Carlson was a deviant. Who knew?

SPEAKER_09 26:47

Must be your gnomish blood in there that makes you so hospitable and kind, you know?

SPEAKER_16 26:53

Well, I like to think that my ma, she was pretty nice too, I suppose, getting after a fashion. She raised us the goblin way where they put us all into cages. They don't let us interact. But we got fed three meals a day, and that was pretty swell. Seems like a great way to raise children.

SPEAKER_09 27:09

Nice. I mean, we've all got our childhood trauma. That's great. Yeah. Makes us who we are today. Absolutely. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 27:18

Okay. Who's going to another realm? What do you think? I will. Excellent. Excellent.

SPEAKER_10 27:24

That was the question of suit.

SPEAKER_16 27:26

You want to go to that grey plane, yeah?

SPEAKER_10 27:28

Oh yeah, we're saving the world.

SPEAKER_16 27:29

I'm getting paid for this, right?

SPEAKER_13 27:31

I don't have any money. I think, yeah. We weren't we didn't really establish that.

SPEAKER_10 27:37

No, you didn't establish that.

SPEAKER_19 27:39

Right, right. This is seems very risky.

SPEAKER_09 27:43

Right. Right. We all risk our lives for saving the world. Because if you know we don't save it, nobody's coming back to a world where you can make money, right? And or paint, and or draw, and do all the amazing things you do now.

SPEAKER_14 27:55

I'm in another plane right now, and I'm okay.

SPEAKER_19 27:58

I would if we just had like ten minutes, I would love to get your story, but time is short, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_10 28:06

Do you need a snack?

SPEAKER_19 28:08

I would I could use like an hour of rest, really.

SPEAKER_11 28:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 28:13

Can you rest while we probably not this is kind of a one-way trip per day, so you probably need you guys to all leave at the same time if that's okay.

SPEAKER_10 28:24

Are you coming with us? Or do you need to wait?

SPEAKER_16 28:26

Yeah, no, I'm coming.

SPEAKER_09 28:29

Does an hour staying here with our hospitable gnomes make an end-all be-all difference in this will it be life or death or something?

SPEAKER_14 28:40

I don't know how long I have in this through this plane. Are you feeling corporeal? I feel solid. Oh, you're glowing a little bit, fella. Boy, howdy, that's pretty neat. That might be a sign. Boy, Carl, get a look at him.

SPEAKER_10 28:56

Wait, haven't you been glowing this whole time, or did you just start up again?

SPEAKER_16 29:00

I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 29:01

Has he been glowing this whole time? Very faintly.

SPEAKER_16 29:04

Um you'd have to really be looking kind of closely to be able to see. Um it doesn't like affect his stealth text or anything like it. I have ringed. Uh is gonna confuse it though just a little bit.

SPEAKER_14 29:19

It's like glitter.

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Okay. One foot.

SPEAKER_14 29:22

Yes, one foot. I am unsure.

SPEAKER_10 29:26

But because of that, the We should play it safe and just go. Yes.

SPEAKER_14 29:29

Not the way it's I.

SPEAKER_19 29:34

Oh, yeah, lesai, sure.

SPEAKER_16 29:35

Eat the croissant.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

Big bite.

SPEAKER_16 29:38

I do like a croissant, boy, yeah. Right? You betcha.

SPEAKER_10 29:41

I make them.

SPEAKER_16 29:43

You make biscuits. I think we should talk about baking a little bit more. What do you say? Maybe the next 10, 12 hours we can we can just hang out together. Oh, why? Why? Well, for fun. You guys seem like you like to have fun. We love to do that. Do you really need to go like go heroin and stuff? We could just do the whole adventure here. That's what I'm saying. We just want to make sure there's stew and we just want to make sure there's a world to come back.

SPEAKER_10 30:07

So once we save it, I'll come give you all of my No, I do I make muffins here. I do muffins.

SPEAKER_16 30:16

Okay. That sounds pretty great.

SPEAKER_11 30:19

That sounds like a plan.

SPEAKER_16 30:20

Well, I hate to keep you, but you know, I I know you gotta be hitting that old dusty trail. Yeah. Well, here's how you do it. Um, and they instruct you to um all put your back to the uh the the ironwood tree as you kind of line around it. And they're like, now it sounds like it's kind of a bit of a weird thing, but just walk backwards up it. Go ahead, give it a try.

SPEAKER_10 30:44

Rec does it, no problem. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_16 30:46

And you do, you take a step back and it's um you're now vertical, but it's like the planes shift upwards.

SPEAKER_09 30:52

It's like I'd be following suit and like this cautiously. Like east.

SPEAKER_16 30:56

Yeah, okay, yep, doing real good. Everybody walking there, Reggie! I'm finally ready. Reggie! Okay, too. So you're just your feet are just kind of stuck in. It's almost like, yeah, you're so you're now, you know, this way, looking down straight at the floor. Okay, keep walking all the way until you hit where that golden ribbon there is. That's how you know it's high enough.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

Golden ribbon.

SPEAKER_16 31:16

Yep, so keep scooting back just a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04 31:19

Scooting doing it.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

Carl, how are they doing on the back there?

SPEAKER_16 31:21

Ribbon. Oh, they're doing real well there, Carl. All right. Okay, you guys are all there at the top, feeling good, feeling frisky. All right, now all you gotta do is drop down. Um, what? Just let go. Release. I let go on my feet?

SPEAKER_10 31:42

I release. Where do I go?

SPEAKER_16 31:43

You gotta do all do it at the same time. Bye, Ray.

SPEAKER_18 31:50

Um, as we said, yeah, I'll do it at the same time.

SPEAKER_16 31:52

Do you guys release as as to fall? Do I know how to do that? Yeah, what is release?

SPEAKER_03 31:57

If Rex started to fall again, you just yeah, it's like concentration.

SPEAKER_16 32:01

You you feel the magical energy, you can choose to just drop if you if you wanted to.

SPEAKER_09 32:05

If I saw Rex start to drop, yes, I would say.

SPEAKER_13 32:08

It feels very encountering counterintuitive to smiley, but if you can understand the magic, then I will let go.

SPEAKER_05 32:13

All right, trust the magic.

SPEAKER_16 32:15

Drop you guys all drop, and I'll say this from from two different perspectives. First, from Carl's perspective. Carl's um, you guys go up and you all fall flat straight first and just smack into the ground super hard on this side of the plane. You're all going to take four points of damage. You do not need to uh to to put it into your thing. Okay, we just do it. Um they're like, oh boy, Carl, they really hit themselves hard. Um, Borislav, as they're falling, Carl has this great big bag. And Carl, next to him, helps him to heave it to you. And as you're falling, you grab onto it and then go into the the ground itself as well. Well, we better probably take care of these bodies or something. I don't know. Yeah, we'll teach them real good. They're like family. Plus, we got somebody gonna make us muffins later. Okay, sure enough. On the other side. I'm gonna be drawing the worst cartoons.

SPEAKER_09 33:21

This is actually Z. It's not other Z. Oh my god, what a cute Z.

SPEAKER_16 33:27

Now your guys' perspective. You are hovering, oh sure, just let go. Requiem falls, and you guys all do. You get a bag thrown to you, you grab it and you hit the floor, and you feel your spirit push through the floor and down the other side, and you open your eyes and you're looking out in front of you, and you are falling. You're still falling. You're still falling. And then you feel a giant push on your back like wind pushing at your back. I want to make uh have you guys make a perception check real quick.

SPEAKER_07 34:02

What is happening?

SPEAKER_16 34:04

It is misty around you.

SPEAKER_09 34:06

Winty.

SPEAKER_16 34:07

Let me know if anybody beats a 25.

SPEAKER_09 34:09

19. Wait, is that a 10? Yeah, 19.

SPEAKER_16 34:11

Brother. Which one did you roll? Oh, I have to. You've got a 26?

SPEAKER_15 34:16

I know. That's why you said I'm gonna use this die. Have you guys rolled yet?

SPEAKER_16 34:21

Yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true. You guys rolled yet? I got a two. Real bad. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 34:27

That's why they're not telling you.

SPEAKER_16 34:28

You guys just feel a push down. You you're able to kind of turn and look back above you. And what you're able to see now is this mist is actually clouds. Oh. And the thing above you were massive wings. Through the clouds, you would you would have needed like a perfect 30 to be able to see it, but wings that extend almost like a half a mile long. Oh. Push down in one big push. And you guys are all pushed down. You push through the clouds. You are falling, falling, looking down. You're maybe 4,500 feet in the air.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Okay. Oh.

SPEAKER_16 35:12

I'm gonna need you guys to do a falling challenge. This will be a skill check.

SPEAKER_17 35:18

I should have packed fine fall uh feather fall. I wasn't expecting falling.

SPEAKER_13 35:24

Alright. Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

But it doesn't fall. I don't have fly yet.

SPEAKER_13 35:31

Here's how this is going to work, guys. I think after this experience, Miley's gonna ground.

SPEAKER_06 35:37

I need to always be prepared for the floor. Always have featherfalls. Oh, we're gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_16 35:42

People always sleep on featherfall. Yeah. People always sleep on featherfalls. There was a bag thrown.

SPEAKER_09 35:51

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_16 35:52

Nice.

SPEAKER_09 35:53

Oh, no mission goblin goodies. Oh. Oh, a sky. What? Okay.

SPEAKER_16 36:00

I'd like to have you guys place yourselves on the sky. You're in a circle. The uh the tree was roughly 10 feet wide. So place yourselves as you were standing around the circle and now following you all circular. Um, Reggie.

SPEAKER_03 36:17

Reggie, you're did I open the bag? Thanks to Reggie.

SPEAKER_16 36:22

Okay. So um there will be four rounds. Um, round one. Some of these rounds will be timed. We'll put that out there right now. Round one will not be timed. You get a bag. Round one is you opening up and seeing what they packed for you to be able to use in the skill challenge in order to hopefully get yourselves to safety. Uh-huh. So go ahead and open that bag and show it to the uh the group here. Um there are also an inventory list along with the artifacts, so I can help to point them out.

SPEAKER_02 36:59

I don't know how that works. I mean, it's not a big one. Another bag. Better scissors. Yep.

SPEAKER_16 37:04

The scissors and the timer. The timer is for me. The scissors. Um, we'll you'll be able to figure that out later. Now the golden bag. The golden bag is the one that you guys are.

SPEAKER_10 37:15

I get kind of a bag. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_16 37:17

This is this is me as the DM doing the time stuff.

SPEAKER_10 37:19

Nice.

SPEAKER_14 37:26

Okay. In the bag, small scroll.

SPEAKER_16 37:32

Alright. So go ahead and uh open up the scroll. That is gonna be your inventory list that describes what these things are. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 37:40

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_16 37:43

20.

SPEAKER_04 37:45

20. We're going to make a parachute. A parachute. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 37:50

So you guys are gonna need to uh group, group, figure out what you're wanting to do.

SPEAKER_16 37:57

So um narratively, you are falling. It is like 4,500 feet in the air, right?

SPEAKER_15 38:02

Yep.

SPEAKER_16 38:03

Um you know that after four what would be considered rounds, um, you are going to hit the earth and you're gonna go splash. All right. We've gone. So you are now looking at each other and you see this thing. Um, and Borislav is kind of like grabbing stuff and he's like handing them to people as he's now reading an inventory list.

SPEAKER_14 38:22

One length of wire rope, wire cable, two lengths of regular rope. One square fabric, some random metal, maybe a tool. Uh we got elastic board of rotation devices, uh, air bladder pump. We have an arcane fan.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

Can we make it air blane?

SPEAKER_14 38:47

And uh 12 legs of wood.

unknown 38:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 38:50

You can fabricate real fast in the air.

SPEAKER_16 38:54

Alright.

SPEAKER_09 38:54

I bet Reginald can.

SPEAKER_16 38:57

So, what I'd like for you to do now is take those pieces and put them out. No chance with you guys. The next one will be timed.

SPEAKER_17 39:04

He's a dwarf. Oh my gosh. Dwarf's a historically great at fabricating.

SPEAKER_16 39:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_09 39:08

Dwarves are. But can he do it in there? So yeah, think about like yeah, kind of giving you guys each some stuff to work on.

SPEAKER_10 39:18

Okay. Are we are we actually real life grabbing it and it's a little bit more?

SPEAKER_16 39:21

Yep, so narratively, he's like, he's like handing stuff to you guys as he's reading off this like inventory list as you guys are falling, free-falling through the.

SPEAKER_09 39:29

We need to make some sort of parachute or kind device with all right.

SPEAKER_14 39:35

So again, can you read through the list so you guys understand once more? So we have one length of wire cable. Okay, two lengths, two lengths of rope, okay, one square fabric, one random metal, perhaps a tool. Perhaps a tool. Elastic uh board flotation device.

unknown 39:55

Yep.

SPEAKER_13 39:55

That's the green pump.

SPEAKER_14 39:56

Hair bladder pump. Yep. One arcane fan, and twelve lengths of wood. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Okay, fine.

SPEAKER_16 40:03

All right.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 40:04

So this might get a little bit chaotic. Yeah. But you guys are now gonna need to work together to come up with a design of something that will enable you to not die. Not fall your dead. Can we make it? Like, what can I do?

SPEAKER_04 40:18

Can I just quit this balloon or something that can stop us from dying?

SPEAKER_16 40:24

It is a tool. And I will allow a tool check to kind of happen. Okay, can I? So this will also be there's gonna be some skill check stuff that happens afterwards. But this is the design phase.

SPEAKER_09 40:34

Which might slow down this process and/or help.

SPEAKER_16 40:37

Okay, lay the model out. We'll make a floor. This timer lasts about 50 seconds.

unknown 40:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 40:43

Are we making hot air balloon? Are we making plane? Are we making what?

SPEAKER_16 40:47

Hot air balloon.

SPEAKER_09 40:48

Hot air balloon. All right. So we got a little bit more. Timer started. 50 seconds.

SPEAKER_16 40:52

I think we need some of that. Make a design. Lay it out on the map how you think this thing should look and how it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_17 40:58

We're using a lot of space here, so we can like we can do one of these deals. As long as we don't slip through, we'll be okay.

SPEAKER_09 41:07

Now, does the fan go between the actual balloon itself and us?

SPEAKER_15 41:14

I think we're gonna have the balloon. Yeah, the fan will go above us from the floor. Or on the floor, and we can fan fill up the balloon. Uh the fan will fill up the balloon.

SPEAKER_09 41:25

It's an arcane fan. Can I insite what this is? There for what this does.

SPEAKER_16 41:30

It is a tool.

SPEAKER_09 41:32

You don't have time to really do more than a loading device like underneath this in case. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 41:37

Yeah, but you know that it can do it can work on stuff.

SPEAKER_09 41:40

Underneath the basket. Yeah. String.

SPEAKER_14 41:44

Reggie, squeeze this all up. We need to use the thing. And Reggie's in possession of everything.

SPEAKER_17 41:50

I just don't know what to do with this. Everything else, I think we're okay. We can all stand on this.

SPEAKER_09 41:55

Right. Why are you putting that the blue?

SPEAKER_16 41:58

This is the top. Alright, time has run out. This is right here. So okay, you guys have a concept of a design. We're moving on to the next one.

SPEAKER_09 42:05

Air balloon concept design.

SPEAKER_16 42:07

Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_09 42:08

With an arcane fan.

SPEAKER_16 42:10

Yeah. Alright.

SPEAKER_09 42:13

Hey, Mike.

SPEAKER_16 42:14

Moving on to round three. Each person is now going to make a skill check. Um to be able to kind of put this design like into action. Okay. Okay. The DC on it will be 20.

SPEAKER_10 42:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 42:30

Alright.

SPEAKER_09 42:31

That's music. Okay. Yep.

SPEAKER_16 42:34

Anything below that. Or sorry, DC is 21.

unknown 42:39

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 42:39

Anything below that from 16 to 20 will be neutral and you won't have anything against you. It'll be kind of like a yak. I hope this holds, kind of a thing. Um, and then you know, below a, so 15 and below, you start getting uh points taken away from your final rule. If you roll very, very good, you get multiple, you know, points in your favor. So you guys are going to be using skill checks in order to create a modifier. Don't worry about it. I will come up with that on my side. So, who is first as far as putting some things together using skills that you have to construct the hot air balloon design that you guys have have identified you want to go with?

SPEAKER_10 43:20

I don't want to go first.

SPEAKER_16 43:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 43:23

Oh no.

SPEAKER_16 43:24

Do you say you do or you don't?

SPEAKER_02 43:25

I said I don't want to go first.

SPEAKER_16 43:29

Um let's roll for initiative.

SPEAKER_08 43:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 43:31

The initiative uh roll will be what uh would you want to get a little bit? You'll probably go first because you have a high initiative. Sixteen.

unknown 43:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 43:37

12. Seven. Oh. Did you roll a one? You have a 11. Oh, yeah, but 10 to your 10.

SPEAKER_16 43:45

Okay, so seven total for you?

SPEAKER_10 43:47

No, twelve for me. Did you get seven?

SPEAKER_09 43:49

Seven. Seven.

unknown 43:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 43:50

You and Gabe both got twelve, so you're gonna have to. Seven. What did you get?

SPEAKER_16 43:54

Twelve. You also got twelve. Chun you took a decks off.

SPEAKER_14 43:57

You got thirteen?

SPEAKER_09 43:59

And you win.

SPEAKER_14 44:00

Okay. Got a way bigger decks than me. Your decks is huge. Maybe huge. Smiley.

SPEAKER_16 44:09

I'm up first. You're up first. What did Requiem roll? Low. Requiem ended up getting one. A twelve.

SPEAKER_19 44:15

Wow. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_17 44:19

Okay, um, um. What? Smiley's done screaming. I don't feel like painting's gonna be useful right now. Don't forget that. I will start tying ropes. The floor design needs to be tied together with rope.

SPEAKER_19 44:31

Okay. So I'm gonna start doing that.

SPEAKER_16 44:33

Excellent. Do you happen to have any tinkering tools or anything like that that helps you to improve your chances? Um I'm just a dexterous little fella. Okay. Roll me a dexterity uh I'd say call this slide of hand. Ooh. Twelve. Twelve. That is gonna be a failure.

SPEAKER_19 44:53

Sorry.

SPEAKER_16 44:54

And a minus one.

SPEAKER_19 44:55

Nobas! Oh.

SPEAKER_16 44:57

Okay. Up next is going to be uh who rolled a 13? I think it was you. Yeah, Reggie, you're up.

SPEAKER_15 45:06

Alright. I'll can I like assist and help him seeing that he failed it?

SPEAKER_16 45:11

Um, so I'm gonna need everybody to do a unique thing. You're all getting things handed to you. Alright, I'm gonna. You know, so if you want to guide in, like, I think he handed you like an air bladder or something like that, you know, in the narration you guys are giving me for. But you can choose to do any of these different pieces.

SPEAKER_15 45:24

I'll start stepping the air bladder like fixed to downward so that I can be pumping to make it go.

SPEAKER_16 45:31

Okay. And then um, what kind of a skill are you trying to do with this? Tell me, you know, it's usually a try to persuade it in. I don't think that's gonna work there, big cat.

unknown 45:41

You know.

SPEAKER_10 45:44

Oh I have a quick question. I know that I've used like medical kit stuff before. If I but I don't see it in my inventory, but I've like obviously used it. I want a so I want sewing.

SPEAKER_16 45:56

You can have a sewing needle.

SPEAKER_10 45:58

Thanks.

SPEAKER_16 46:00

Uh can I do it stealthily? I don't think that works. Yeah, so you're you're gonna need to do something that has to do with putting these things together. But you know, I I encourage you guys to look at you know inventory or things that can give you advantage, you know. Um, you know, there's there's ways you can you can buff yourself if you're proficient in something that is adjacent. If you are, you know, athletic, say how you were doing athletically, just gotta make a case for yourself, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_15 46:27

Uh I um don't have any of those.

SPEAKER_10 46:30

So athletic or what about acrobatic?

SPEAKER_15 46:34

What about Athletic on mine is three?

SPEAKER_16 46:37

I'll also allow in lieu of a skill check, you can do an attack roll. Um, and the attack roll could be to do things like cut the rope to a certain length or something like that.

unknown 46:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 46:48

Yeah. I will I will be a nice DM and allow that.

SPEAKER_15 46:51

Then that's what I will do. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 46:55

Um seventeen. Seventeen. Okay, that is gonna be a neutral. So um is you know the rope is getting cut. And you think it's probably the length that you need. You hope. Okay. Okay. I have a Mason's tool.

SPEAKER_13 47:11

Can I grease it?

SPEAKER_15 47:13

Can I pull it out and I think that's what the fan is. Have it floating in the air for people to take. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 47:21

So you're you're trying to give somebody up the help action, is essentially the job.

SPEAKER_12 47:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 47:26

Okay. Um Requiem, you are up.

SPEAKER_10 47:28

Yes, yes, my liege. I would like to create wind. Oh wait, we haven't sewn it together yet, right? Not yet. I need to get my medical kit out and I need to start sewing the the parachute.

SPEAKER_12 47:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 47:43

And creating this frame for the parachute. So I need to have rope that's connecting to the grip, to the floor, right?

SPEAKER_16 47:49

So I'm gonna start connecting and so essentially you're you're connecting the the rope with the yeah, the overall balloon stuff to create some form in it. Yep. And you're making some stitches, you're using your flying to get around real quickly with it.

SPEAKER_11 48:02

To survive.

SPEAKER_16 48:02

Um go ahead and make that check with advantage. Um, that also feels like slide of hand to me.

SPEAKER_10 48:11

Okay, so 23 and 21.

SPEAKER_16 48:16

Nice. So 23 is the highest there. That will be a success. Um, so now that it'll be a plus one. You guys are back to zero neutral. Um, Borislav, you are up.

SPEAKER_14 48:29

Uh, I think I would want to. I'm assuming the arcane fan's semi-heavy. How big is this thing? It's as big as, you know, EC. Okay, so so being being the size of it is, I I would use my strength, uh, my athletics to pick it up and use some of the wire to affix it to the uh uh kind of like up, so it's it's giving air up to create some sort of lift into the parachute, perhaps helping just assisting with that that lift.

SPEAKER_16 49:01

Awesome. I will say that within the Mason's tools, there is some kind of a sling for carrying heavy stones and stuff, and you are able to to leverage that uh toolkit as the help action, you have advantage. Ooh, that's a 19 plus four, twenty three. All right. Excellent. That'll be a plus one to the overall. Good job, good job. Um, this thing's coming together. You have a balloon, you have a fan, you have, you know, some some structure kind of in place. Um, Z. Bring it all home. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_09 49:45

Okay. Tell me if this works or not.

SPEAKER_14 49:48

Crazy. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_09 49:51

So whether or not I'm able to actively be watching what they're doing and or guiding it by talking it through. Like percepting or insight. I want to be seeing what they're doing to make sure it works. Like it's the idea overall. Okay. Whatever it's gonna be. And then as I'm doing it, since we did roll for that, I would be, you know, whoever's next up basically be talking to them, which would be the help action to give them guidance for or the advantage of the thing. You are the last one on this round.

SPEAKER_16 50:23

Oh, after this, the thing is either built or not, you guys. So what I'm gonna say is that the way that you're describing that to me is like you're seeing for little things that were problems.

SPEAKER_08 50:32

Yeah, I'm trying to remember.

SPEAKER_16 50:33

And you're gonna try to go back in and kind of be like, oh, she missed a stitch right here, and you're gonna help out, or hey, this this rope didn't get tied quite enough. I'm gonna do that. Just poke a picture of the room. Go ahead and uh give me a roll. Is there something that you have that enables you to do this with advantage?

SPEAKER_09 50:48

Um I have thieves tools. That's about it when it comes to care. Which is perception. Yeah, that works for me.

SPEAKER_16 50:54

Yeah, especially with the kinds of things you were just talking about. So which one am I rolling?

SPEAKER_09 50:57

Is it insight or perception, or do you care?

SPEAKER_16 51:01

Um I'd say it's perception. You're seeing what you know they they might have missed.

SPEAKER_09 51:06

So that's 19 plus nine. It's gonna work, but or 14. So either way, 19 plus nine, 28.

SPEAKER_16 51:13

28. Excellent. That is gonna be a plus two, and you just gave your final team advantage on the last roll.

SPEAKER_09 51:20

Woo!

SPEAKER_16 51:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 51:21

Go team.

SPEAKER_16 51:22

So one of the things that you did with it is you saw that the the cable for the thing is was brought there and is connected, but it wasn't quite in yet. And you just get it just right, and again, the feel the fans start to kick on in this thing. Everybody's kind of in. Um, we are on to the last round, which is a group check. Oh my god. DC20 is going to be what you guys need. Oh my god. And you're gonna take damage for anything that's underneath that. So you did yet get advantage. And uh, so everyone's gonna roll flat, and then I get to add plus three at the end of all of this to whatever the total is. You guys need a 20. So, um go ahead and roll first here for me. I didn't do that. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_09 52:13

Like we each need to be.

SPEAKER_16 52:17

You roll with advantage? You brought it into exist. Yes, she got you the advantage. Zit 13. 13, okay.

SPEAKER_09 52:26

We're not adding anything, right? Yeah, that's flat.

SPEAKER_16 52:28

Now yeah, at the end I'll add three.

SPEAKER_09 52:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 52:32

Eleven.

SPEAKER_09 52:32

I want to kiss craft.

SPEAKER_13 52:36

That's with advantage? Yes. Okay. What'd you get? I got a 13.

SPEAKER_02 52:42

Can I stop during that? Hey, we rolled from this.

SPEAKER_14 52:44

Can we take can we take one one question? Can we take any additional action? No, sorry.

SPEAKER_16 52:50

You're falling through the air. There's it would literally take four rounds before you went splat, like I did the math on it. So this, you really just get the time that you had with the one check. Okay. All right. Um, I need you guys to give me rolls as well.

SPEAKER_11 53:03

For advanced.

SPEAKER_16 53:04

Rolling with advantage.

SPEAKER_08 53:09

I is a six.

SPEAKER_13 53:11

Okay. And yours is a six. It's like a jellyfish. All right.

SPEAKER_16 53:17

Let me do some math here, guys. Math rocks.

SPEAKER_09 53:21

Math rocks.

SPEAKER_17 53:21

Alright, here's a pretty good hot air balloon for.

SPEAKER_03 53:26

We all had our toes like connected so we wouldn't separate like the people that fall out and do like the smiley survives.

SPEAKER_19 53:32

He's back in featherfall every day. No matter what's happening.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

I know what I'm doing. Except today.

SPEAKER_16 53:39

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_02 53:41

Never. I should have done that.

SPEAKER_16 53:42

I'm gonna round up the partial for you guys. Total of 16. Did I do that right? That doesn't sound right. I'm gonna do that one more time.

SPEAKER_03 53:49

Wait.

SPEAKER_16 53:51

Six plus thirteen plus eleven plus thirteen.

SPEAKER_11 53:57

Sounds awful.

SPEAKER_16 54:00

Math. Um, while I'm doing math, why don't you guys roleplay what this looks like a little bit? You're falling through the air, you're handing things off. Is there dialogue that's happening?

SPEAKER_02 54:13

Together.

SPEAKER_15 54:14

My form of doing the health action would be trying to tell Smiley to calm down and like together in the most calming manner possible.

SPEAKER_09 54:24

What do you weigh? You can do it, you can look at it. Everybody does their parts and it shall come together. I think I weigh like 30 pounds, right?

SPEAKER_14 54:34

Isn't that worried about you? How much do you weigh?

SPEAKER_09 54:39

Oh. How much do I weigh? That's a good question. I don't know. Alright. Where does it say my weight?

SPEAKER_06 54:47

I mean, I'm quite strong, but I don't think I weigh a lot. I'm pretty small, I guess. I don't know. I know you could turn into a big bad.

SPEAKER_14 54:54

Because if we were talking, then I would have I would have tried to find out who the two lightest were and like bamped into my owl form and grabbed two.

SPEAKER_16 55:03

The fan goes up. You guys are nearing the ground though. A gust of wind goes up and you're caught for just a moment. But it's little too little too late. You're still gonna make impact with the ground. If we jump off of these at the last moment, I was gonna cast a misty step. Like everyone takes 27 points of bludgeoning damage.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

27?

SPEAKER_16 55:29

27 points of bludgeoning damage. Um in your basket still, though, a little bit, and it cushions the fall for you, and you were able to deploy things through it.

SPEAKER_17 55:46

Why is he calling for me? Raginals!

SPEAKER_09 55:50

Everything's about Did you not see the painting he painted of you? Did you post naked for him or not? No. You definitely imagined you broke.

SPEAKER_04 56:01

Did he not? Why were your nipples so long in that beating? Like we don't understand. Sophia, are you okay? Are you fine?

SPEAKER_16 56:13

In your basket on the ground, hurt. Are you okay? You get up to look out at your surroundings.

unknown 56:23

Out.

SPEAKER_16 56:24

But everything that everyone sees is a little different from everyone else. I want you to all roll a nature check for me.

SPEAKER_05 56:31

Belle, I'm surprised you didn't bird instead of take damage. Why would you do that?

SPEAKER_14 56:38

I can't answer that one.

SPEAKER_05 56:40

Who was gonna do that? Not 20.

SPEAKER_14 56:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 56:43

11.

SPEAKER_05 56:45

Why is this the not 20? Not my six from before. I needed to say this from 16.

unknown 56:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 56:55

So 23. Um, remembering the numbers that you just did, the higher the roll is the higher of the vibrancy of this landscape. If you rolled low, this absolutely is a gray plane.

SPEAKER_19 57:08

This place is lifeless. The hell is gorgeous.

SPEAKER_16 57:14

And if you rolled a natural 20, this place is more colorful than the Fey Realm ever could dream for. It's 16, vibrant, green, there's blooms. It's incredible. Um, a lush forest um kind of surrounds you guys, and out of the pockets of forest in these different areas um are, you know, rolling green hills, and then it fades, and those rolling green hills become forest again. Things are kind of coming in and out of reality. Um it doesn't quite fit. You real you realize, especially I'll I'll give you more with a natural 20, um, that things aren't truly substantial here. You are smashed between planes. And this pocket plane is carrying over what it's seen in multiple different planes as it's almost merging and backing out. It's a light touch that would almost enable you to reach across a plane, perform an action as you in your vision saw treants doing to help people that were kind to trees and creatures.

SPEAKER_09 58:19

We are definitely in a little odd dimension right now. It's beautiful, but it's like multiple.

SPEAKER_18 58:29

And you guys just see it's just just rainbowing falling from the sky.

SPEAKER_09 58:34

Right. Yeah. You know, but we didn't die. We're here almost does this look right to you?

SPEAKER_17 58:43

My legs like snapped in the case.

SPEAKER_09 58:45

I can hit the wounds.

SPEAKER_10 58:46

No, um, can somebody help? Yeah. Smiley. I'll medicine check him and see if I can just recruit everybody. There you go. And then I'll cure wounds him. So you get maybe we should take a break now? You get 16 the first one with 16, I accidentally hit hit it. 16 healing points.

SPEAKER_17 59:06

Well, thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_10 59:09

Does anyone else need cure wounds?

SPEAKER_09 59:12

I mean, I'm pretty sure we all took damage, but it's okay. Why shall survive?

SPEAKER_16 59:17

Um, with your natural 20 perception, you hear um crying nearby.

SPEAKER_10 59:24

No! The baby crying?

SPEAKER_09 59:26

Hold on. Or is it just what does it do I can I hear? I'm going to listen in for the crying specifically to see if I can tell type, age, anything like distinct about it. Um direction would help too.

SPEAKER_16 59:45

Yeah. Female. Over there.

SPEAKER_07 59:49

I was crying.

SPEAKER_16 59:51

It's nearby.

SPEAKER_07 59:54

Crying close.

SPEAKER_16 59:55

As she points it out, you guys can hear it now with your passive perception.

SPEAKER_07 59:59

I don't know.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:00

Radiant. You recover seven and point.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:03

Hold on.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:07

Um, you hear the uh the winds passing through the trees and you hear this crying. It's peacefully, it's beautiful here.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:17

My goal is going to be to go stealth mode. Not get too close, but I'm gonna get close enough to see if I can see eyes to what's crying and where.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:28

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:28

I will stealth with her also.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:30

Go ahead and give me stealth checks.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:32

Because it's giving courage vibes, faking us out with a fake baby.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:40

27. 11, but I rolled a one.

unknown 1:00:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:45

Actually, um wait.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:47

Technically though.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:48

No, you recover 70. Oh, god. Natural one is always a natural one.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:54

I was like, because with my ability stuffs, because stealth is literally one of my perceptive, I can't roll under a 10. Isn't it weird? If that's zero to does a nat one always nat one.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:04

If you want me to honor nat twenties, I will always honor nat ones.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:07

Okay. That's that's like if it's not a one, I feel like under 10, I technically take a 10 with anything that's my like actual abilities, but this was a one. So to my nature. It's an 11, but it's a nat one.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:20

Okay. Um weird.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:21

It's probably because I did half the damage.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:24

Shh, kind of creeping forward.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:26

I'm hurting.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:28

Requiem farts loudly in the background. I kind of stuff you're being shiny and it's back. Sorry.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:37

Stealthy until she farts on me.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:40

Actually, now I kind of want it that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

Oh, my God. I yell out loud.

unknown 1:01:46

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:47

That's what breaks my stealth.

SPEAKER_18 1:01:48

Yeah, it's it's it's silent but deadly. Silent but deadly, but now I'm gonna start back. That's what happens. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

I mean shit. Did it just propel me forward more?

SPEAKER_18 1:02:04

Yes, you get propelled forward silently still.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:02:08

Yeah. Silent but deadly. This is this is perfect for.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:12

I mean, share that.

SPEAKER_18 1:02:15

Uh what you see before you.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:18

I think that's the first poof of the game. First poof. First poot of the game.

SPEAKER_16 1:02:25

Is um a woman, perhaps? I don't believe it. She has one arm out delicately like a dancer's, and the other grows up into the main trunk of the tree, and the fingers become weeping willow vines going down. Same with her legs. One leg goes down and becomes trunk-like, the other is grateful and lithe out like a dancer's. And she is crying beside a body.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:57

So she is a tree woman, kind of. Like she is like dancing, but is she listening to me? Is she in pain?

SPEAKER_16 1:03:04

Um and you guys.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:05

Do you say nature check?

SPEAKER_16 1:03:06

Yeah, nature check.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:07

It just doesn't roll over to my 20.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:10

I give you a lot on the channel. Is she in pain? That's what I'm trying to figure out. Is she like is this net a natural thing for her? But she's laying next to her body. Wait, or is she crying because of the body?

SPEAKER_09 1:03:19

There's a body next to her.

SPEAKER_16 1:03:21

I rolled a nice thing, but I have three negative minus three.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:24

Um, negative training.

SPEAKER_16 1:03:27

Are you guys rolling rolling those high rolls? She is a triant. Um you would know that treants can have a variety of different forms that they can have. Um oftentimes they do will have faces of variety based on the tree that they came from. Um a willow being a graceful item. Uh she is a bit like that. And what was your perception? I don't think I rolled. Oh, did I?

SPEAKER_09 1:03:51

Perception. Did you? Perception or nature? I don't think.

SPEAKER_16 1:03:55

You're trying to perceive if she was crying about this or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Um you see that she is crying over the the form. She's not in pain in any way or anything like that. Um and with the 17, she reminds you very much of the willow tree that Karina and a different version of Requiem sat uh underneath. Similar blooms were were on it. What would you guys like to do?

SPEAKER_09 1:04:24

I I know I'm with her, and I don't I don't know what her perception check is. I guess I would want to know whether or not I think she seems harmless.

SPEAKER_16 1:04:36

Yeah. Um I would say with your passive. She does not seem to be intervening in any way. And because you know they're the history check that she's a triant, and these are the creatures that were so peaceably that they wouldn't fight back against Lario's army that they fled as pacifists to this place that you feel relatively secure that that they wouldn't. I haven't heard from this side of the table for a little while. So I am going to put the screws to you guys a little bit and ask you guys what you're doing, though. I want to spread the love around.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:03

What are you guys doing? What are you doing?

SPEAKER_19 1:05:06

I was trying to figure out what the it's Doug's exhaustion have works.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:10

Oh yeah, he has negative one, doesn't mean minus two to everything else.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:14

That's how you got a minus three to uh his nature.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:19

What do we need to do? Two things.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:21

Uh I wanted to see if when we were there, I knew that there was the treants fleeing and um to see if any druids had left any sort of messages within the area immediately. Uh secondly, I wanted to smell uh air and see if I recognized any sort of um unusual smells or found something that was um gonna be kind of drawing towards anything I saw in those visions.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:50

Uh I know that at some point there was a fart and something else. So that would come up and it'd be like, oh god. But you know. What role does this feel like?

SPEAKER_15 1:06:02

It's got to be volatile all the time. Old and stanky.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:06

Smells like perception.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:11

That's easy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:12

There's like nine. You can roll with advanced effects of your smell sense.

SPEAKER_16 1:06:17

You've been dead for 300 years.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:19

I still snack on babes, even though I don't digest it. You farted baby powder.

SPEAKER_16 1:06:24

So the nine is what you're going with. Nine would be what there's some iridescent. With a nine, it is not actually the DC was very low on this one, my man. You still get a little bit of something. The smell that you pick up uh from the ironwood tree, you smell that and in the same direction that this willow tree is. This thing that she's crying over, the smell is coming from there. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:53

Um I would say with knowing that she is a triant and non-aggressive, my goal would be to very cautiously, but like non-threatening come out of hiding and see whether or not she would communicate with us. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:11

And you guys, are you all following suit with this? I would I would be heading towards that direction. I'm hiding behind Reginald. Um she looks kind of up to you. Um her face is beautiful in this kind of tree body. It's like carved, it's wooden, um, but um very delicate features. Um, I see that you've arrived. She uh you know, kind of dabs her eyes like she didn't want you to see her crying. He said that she would come, of course. And I didn't expect it to be from the sky. Oh, Bumbo, of course.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:53

Bumbo, okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:55

You look down at the ground before you, um, elephantine mentor. Oh, yeah, is there but changed.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:04

Bumbo.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:05

He has morphed into a tree in some ways, taking on features of as she has become like a triant, and it's almost like a human locked into that position, his body has undergone some transformation where he is starting to become a tree. And specifically an ironwood tree. But his transformation is not quite there yet. Um, make a perception check as well for me, guys, as well. Thirteen.

unknown 1:08:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:41

15. Oh man. 23. 25.

unknown 1:08:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:45

Um, everybody but Reggie.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:46

Reggie, you typical boat. You're knowing that this is your uh the mentor from a previous live, and you're having that you almost you purposefully turn away as though it's difficult for you to emotionally register to look upon this thing. I look away from my master. He's turned into a tree and he's died, and uh you may have failed him. He's obviously laying there. Um, for whatever reason, you are unable to connect and look in this moment. The rest of the group, what you see is um an elephantine person that is transforming into a tree, but also his lower jaw has melted off of his face.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:29

What does it happen recently?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:34

Yes. Very recently.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:37

But it have maybe been within how long has it been since this happened to Reggie, basically based off dreams and them coming to Hintaru?

SPEAKER_16 1:09:45

I'd say it was about uh half a day ago.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:48

Does that seem accurate?

SPEAKER_16 1:09:50

It does seem accurate. Um it it seems directly in line with when Reggie's melted off. The timeline matches. That's when it was allowed my brain to connect things.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:04

All right. Don't be judging my brain style.

SPEAKER_15 1:10:07

Don't be sorry, I'm not as fast as you.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:10

Because he looked away.

SPEAKER_16 1:10:12

You see, he had um he was a diviner of sorts. Um he told me to come to this spot because heroes would be arriving. He knew that his time was short. And the time to help you from here on out. He has messages to pass on to help. But um he was tied to this spell, and the preconceived notions have all happened, unfortunately. And he's passed.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:41

I'm sorry for your loss.

SPEAKER_16 1:10:43

I imagine Reggie is also dead, and she kind of notices Reginald for the first time.

SPEAKER_17 1:10:50

She's right here.

SPEAKER_16 1:10:51

Shh is curious.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:54

Well, this is Reginald.

SPEAKER_15 1:10:56

I yeah, I call him Reggie. I'm Reginald. I got this, and I show my scars.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:01

You're another planar version of Reggie.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:03

Right. We have most of us are of the same plan or version except for this one. Jeez is of the actual other plane.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:15

Um that's my good. 22 um perception check. Yes, you are an interesting one. She just studies you and is quiet for a moment. What would you guys like to do?

SPEAKER_07 1:11:30

I'm sorry, what was your name?

SPEAKER_16 1:11:33

My name My name is uh Claudna.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:37

Claudna. Claudna And you were sent here to be a guide for us.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:49

Well Bumbo, he um had come here given the the vision, I am one member of the grove of the triants, at the circle. And yes, I suppose um he and I were closer than some of the others. They are all uh hiding from the atrocities that are happening here, but he said that there would be heroes to come and fight where we are unable to I was gonna ask, um I prepared a spell, I don't know if you've heard of it, called Speak with Plants.

SPEAKER_19 1:12:25

I have heard of this. Um I was uh since uh this one relayed all the information you have to give us to you, I suppose I don't need it anymore unless you think it would be beneficial to try to talk to this bumbo folk.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:38

Well I mean he's quite dead. But he's a tree right now, right? He is dead. A dead tree? He is dead.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:47

But is the tree alive? The tree is also dead. Oh, that's too bad.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:53

We are so sorry.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:54

And tree or person, they're all living things. Sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:58

So why is he dead?

SPEAKER_16 1:13:00

Or why is the This was part of the spell. He was tied to Reggie as part of it, uh connectedness. And when the thing happened, it was also a horrible but a way to alert him that the danger was real.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:17

And does the tree that he is uh becoming continue to grow?

SPEAKER_13 1:13:22

No, it has passed with him. Because why did he need the tree at all then? Like is that just a symbolic that he knows it would die and Oh. Are you uh saying that aloud?

SPEAKER_16 1:13:34

Yeah. Um well when he came here, he fully embraced the life of us, and we have been helping him to transform himself. Oh, so he was in the middle of becoming a tree.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_16 1:13:45

And then died.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:47

So it's not like I thought it was that he turned into a tree after he died in the right.

SPEAKER_19 1:13:51

That's what I was yeah, I thought that too.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:53

That makes sense. How can we help? We we are here, we're trying to figure out where to start, where do we need to there are messages that he asked me to pass on to you.

SPEAKER_16 1:14:04

First, I suppose I should relay what's happening here on the other side. Um and she begins to kind of launch into a tale. Um, and I will tell you this in my DM voice so that you guys can take notes or whatever seeing me and ask me questions throughout to make it easier. Um What has happened on this side that she relays to you guys is that a vampiric tree teleported here one day. And in that spot, it found root. It crawled over a certain area and um planted itself there. And um triants had multiple conversations with this Golthias tree, as you guys know it, um, where it um asked for the help of the triants to be able to leave this gray plain to get to another place where it wants to go back to where it came from, right? Um, the triants declined because it saw the its evil nature and believed that it would be better suited if it was just trapped here. This was the decision of the uh Treant Grove Circle. To retaliate, after the Golfias tree became strong enough, it began sending out its feeder puppets to um set themselves in an area for one large-scale attack. And it did just that with what you guys experienced. Going through um, you know, a short period burst where the Gothia's tree gave them power to cross over this, you know, malleable plane and collect souls for it. Specifically, 100 souls were asked for. And as they brought them back in secession, a train of grief and agony, it um lorded this horrific bounty in front of the triant leaders, saying, If you won't help me, I will do great evil, pretty much. The triants, being a peaceful creatures and unable to fight, had fled from that. And Bumbo's uh vision and um now Claudna's uh assistance brought them to this location to tell you specifically that was where it was. Going back into my do you guys have any questions on that before I go back into my RP voice? I can ask her in character. And that is exactly what happened. So I can show you where, and I can even give you a little bit of help to get there.

SPEAKER_17 1:16:54

Were you able to discern the Gophiash tree's goal?

SPEAKER_16 1:16:58

Was it to remain here in the Great Plain or to move to another to escape this plane? Back to where it came.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:05

Stupid hat.

SPEAKER_16 1:17:06

Did you know where back to where it came or back to my plane? To the plane which it originally derived.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:14

And would that be? Now is this the same I can only imagine the same tree.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:23

Was the tree wait, you would have re because you said you told me what you know, which is the tree was no longer there.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:31

Yeah, you guys know.

SPEAKER_17 1:17:32

Oh yeah, that's right. You weren't there, that's right. I was there the first time. She told you. So how did it get- how did it get uprooted?

SPEAKER_07 1:17:38

It is why didn't he your plane is what its wish is. But why did it be a little bit more than a little bit?

SPEAKER_13 1:17:44

I thought it was its own goal to to to move.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:47

I thought we had killed it. Did he live?

SPEAKER_16 1:17:52

I have no idea what's up. I did not get any names. No. Do you know how it got uprooted from its plants?

SPEAKER_13 1:18:05

How it transferred plants? It just appeared here. So it did not seem like it was its own volition because it wanted to go back.

SPEAKER_16 1:18:13

It did not it was not able. It begged us to to leave. It was not able to. Um someone banished it and it wants to return.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:22

But who from the light from my mother.

SPEAKER_16 1:18:27

I would say that at this point they've shared enough about, you know, what happened that it teleported, you know, or what perceived to be. And you've now visited these temple places where you saw that this power was um, in a way, able to enable like teleportation, plane transfer. Um anybody that wants to can make an arcana check. Putting together the pieces. Dirty. Nice. Eight. Not good.

SPEAKER_15 1:18:55

What do I roll? 13. Oh, hey. Yeah, I'm just I'm useless.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:02

Eight or not.

SPEAKER_15 1:19:03

No, I am. Um negative three to almost all.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:07

So are you the only one that got over 20? I think so. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:11

Um hang in there.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:15

You have a good knowledge of arcana over a great like distance as well. You are familiar with ley lines.

SPEAKER_17 1:19:24

They are like maps. That's true.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:27

I've got to buy the efficiency. Yeah. Uh a map with lay lines across them. So um great arcane kind of strands that uh circumvent the the map itself. Um is our world a disc? Is it round?

SPEAKER_19 1:19:48

Uh people believe it is flat of some kind.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:51

And all maps, the ley lines go across it and intersect at different areas. Um, thinking back to a map that you might have seen, there are intersecting lines roughly in the place that you had um been for this temple. Um, thinking back to that. And your arcane knowledge understands that there could be sensitive places that are able to access great powers that make things like plane shifting more malleable. And that is, integrate it into the the physical location itself. It is possible there, if intent could push it in a direction.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:35

I think you did it.

SPEAKER_15 1:20:38

Why are you attacking me?

SPEAKER_13 1:20:40

I think you did it. I think that's amazing.

SPEAKER_11 1:20:50

Right, and I think it's amazing.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:52

I'm more confused on if this is the tree you weren't with us, Bordershov, but if this is the same tree we believe it to be, it seemed as if it was powered through.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:08

Now this is gonna sound really weird. I don't know how familiar you are in that world with Lariel andor Pharelia. Either of those names. They tie into my Victoria.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:26

Right? Correct. There was a fatal form of Lariel as he had passed I'm sorry, what? You know, being relieved he had passed in the army, the war, before, and they were lovers.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:43

Seems funny, doesn't it? Seems kind of crazy, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_19 1:21:46

It's as an eye.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:47

Right. Anywho. You can think that all you want, but but somehow she found a way to keep him alive after the war and after he was struck down and thought to be dead. And in doing so, brought a lot of harm to the humble folk and all around by somehow creating this form of fetus that needed to be fed. I don't truly understand it. I just thought they ended it, is all I know. Because it seemed wrong.

SPEAKER_19 1:22:29

What happened to baby baby fetus Lario?

SPEAKER_09 1:22:32

Well, she stabbed him and herself, if I performed an infantine suicide? Because she did not expect that I would I guess confront her and ask her why this was worth the life of others and everybody she had put on the line for love? I guess. I don't know, and when she stabbed herself and him, I assumed both to be dead in that world. I don't know. But how are we here and how is it still alive? And are they still alive?

SPEAKER_16 1:23:19

It sounds like you have many questions to find out.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:22

I do, indeed.

SPEAKER_16 1:23:23

I can help you get there a little bit faster, I think. Ah, yes. Come in here right now. Um and what you see is a um it's like buffalo-sized bumblebee.

unknown 1:23:36

Oh.

SPEAKER_16 1:23:39

And then behind it another, and you see little bits of like rope going from one bumblebee neck to the next one. It's kind of like a train car behind them. And on the uh front and beside it is a a little gnomish guy in kind of like a uh oh gosh, like a worker's vest. He's like in a little uniform with a little yellow hat that has a stripe on it that almost matches the bumblebees. Um he has fairy wings on the back that's working real hard. And it's almost like the thing is like moving faster than he is. Giuseppe, he arrives and he shall be your courier to to get there.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:16

Oh, perfect. All right.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:19

Shall we jump on a Young Little Gnomish guy? Woo! Giuseppe, my dear. I know you rolled into bees.

SPEAKER_18 1:24:41

Giuseppe is right.

SPEAKER_16 1:24:43

I like your uh mustache, yes. Uh, this is very nice. Of course, it has been a very long time since I have seen you.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:53

Smiley, take your smiley, of course, of course, I remember.

SPEAKER_16 1:24:58

Strokes his chin. He's got his hat kind of pulled down over his eyes. You only really see like a nose and beard on Geoceppe. Um Well, hurry on, good man. We have many places to be.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:10

So how do we board these? Do we just jump on?

SPEAKER_16 1:25:13

Probably just plant. Um you see that there's little like saddles on these uh buffalo-sized bumblebees.

SPEAKER_11 1:25:19

I want to hug the tree lady before we go.

SPEAKER_16 1:25:22

What's that?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:23

I want to give the tree lady a hug before we go. I'm saying I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_16 1:25:26

She wraps her one arm kind of around, and she continues to weep as a weeping willow might.

SPEAKER_11 1:25:32

And then just wipe her tears. A weeping willow.

SPEAKER_16 1:25:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:39

Shoot lean it on.

SPEAKER_15 1:25:42

There's no way you're already on a bee.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:46

And way taller than you and way more athletic.

SPEAKER_12 1:25:53

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:56

I'm just like, so the first thing we're gonna do is jump on a bee. And then when I turn around and look at your arm, like, are there enough for kind of each of us? Yes.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:04

Bumbo, he, you know, he's a diviner. He said specifically how many people would arrive. They prepared these bees for the number of heroes that were. So there's one for everybody. There's one for everyone. Including Giuseppe.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:17

You could go give her your knee and help her up on hers. Why would we have an extra one?

SPEAKER_15 1:26:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:21

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_15 1:26:22

Pick her up and I hoist.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:25

Um animal handling checks for me. Um, you have advantage since these are already combed by Giuseppe. You need to beat a twelve.

SPEAKER_17 1:26:38

Not twenty! Oh man.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:42

Um Matthew. Having twenty-four.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:46

Twenty-one, as well.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:47

Wonderful. Did anybody get below a uh twelve?

unknown 1:26:50

No.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:51

I rolled a one. You do have advantage.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:54

This sounds about right. Please roll another one.

SPEAKER_18 1:26:59

What was it though?

SPEAKER_16 1:27:00

12 is the DC. Animal handling.

SPEAKER_13 1:27:03

Animal handling. Probably minus animal handling.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:05

Well, you just added two to your uh system now.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:08

10 is still in a 12. All right. One and a ten.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:12

Um you still have a point of exhaustion on you, do you not?

SPEAKER_19 1:27:14

Sure. I am riding his B, though, if not how it is.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:19

I bet you are. I bet you are. His one three B now without anybody because he's with him. This poor B's already exhausted.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:27

Yeah. The the Treant Willow Tree will reach out a hand and place it on your head for just a moment, and then plucks a flower and as you smell it. Do you smell this flower?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:42

Smell her flower. Smell the freaking flower.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:44

I smell her flower. Your point of exhaustion phase.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:48

Make sure Sophia is watching. Um, and she tucks it behind your ear and she goes back. Very graceful. Thank you. Um, but you did not pass your check, correct? You're gonna have a rough time riding this bee the entire way, just as a heads up.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:04

But I'm riding his bee.

SPEAKER_16 1:28:05

No, everybody gets their own bee.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:06

Oh, no.

SPEAKER_15 1:28:09

I don't like this sentence.

SPEAKER_16 1:28:10

Get over here.

SPEAKER_15 1:28:11

But I'm riding his bee.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:13

He's riding your buffalo bee, baby.

SPEAKER_16 1:28:19

What are you doing? You're a big guy. You're mounted on a bee now. Yeah. Tell me what's going on.

SPEAKER_14 1:28:26

Uh I don't I ruled a 19. I feel like uh buffalo size would would be just right if you'd like to be riding a pony. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yep. Excellent. Can you recite the same thing? Change forms and uh try and carry it myself. Yeah. Can you give it a little bit more?

SPEAKER_15 1:28:46

What was the triant's name again? Uh Claudna. Claudina. Can I Claudna? Can you tell me if there's any connection between me and Reggie and Bumbo?

SPEAKER_16 1:28:58

I am sure that there is, but I was only I'm a courier of information. I'm sorry, I don't know more than that.

SPEAKER_15 1:29:04

Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Yahoo!

SPEAKER_17 1:29:09

You guys ready to go off? Let's go. What are we?

SPEAKER_10 1:29:13

Do we just sit? Let's go. Do we do anything to give me pet?

SPEAKER_16 1:29:17

Do they like to be with uh your guys' over 20s on your animal handling checks? You it just feels really comfy in the saddle. It's very responsive. Yeah, exactly. It's just cheap. Uh-huh. You got it. It's just kind of like riding a horse.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:34

A fuzzy wall.

SPEAKER_17 1:29:38

Do you know bumblebees do not have a corkscrew-shaped uh stinger and they can sting you as many times as they want. Right. Stay away from its butt. Yeah. Your ears are just going like this.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:51

You guys go forward and it is quite fast. Um, these guys are able to do 40 normal and 80 at cruising.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:59

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_16 1:30:00

So these these bumblebees, you're zipping up. Why don't we have these back? Giuseppe kind of in the lead, kind of beelining you. Thank you very much for the button. Uh towards where the uh the the area is. Um I want just you to roll a survival check for me.

SPEAKER_14 1:30:29

Fifteen.

SPEAKER_16 1:30:30

Sorry. Um with advantage. Um, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Your ambassador stuff is coming into effect here.

SPEAKER_14 1:30:37

14.

SPEAKER_16 1:30:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:30:39

Fifteen is it?

SPEAKER_16 1:30:40

Yeah. Yeah. 15 was your highest? Yeah. That's still pretty good. You're gonna get some of it with 15, just not all. You start to see um things on the way as you're traveling. Um, a tree that has an interesting like crook that was on it. There is a stream that kind of fades in and out of reality that looks familiar. Um, generally, the area that you're pointing to from where you are in kind of the you know, the dotted landmarks seems to be headed towards where the burrows would be. You're headed as if you're to the towards the burrows.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:16

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:31:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:31:20

You guys are riding bumblebees? Riding the bubble bee, bubble bee, bubble bees.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:27

I didn't gonna bubble bee. This is great.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:31

Does it sound like a prop lane with a bumblebee that's in this one?

unknown 1:31:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:31:37

Yours specifically is. That's a little wild. That's all I'm like. You're like slipping off half the time. Like, yeah, it's it's a very gentle creature, but for some reason you just can't get a handle on it.

SPEAKER_15 1:31:46

Okay, back there, Reggie. I think there's something wrong with my beak.

SPEAKER_16 1:31:50

Um as you guys get further in, you see on the horizon the vibrancy, especially you, Zelfira, start to change. Uh those that are seeing grays also see things change and that it becomes darker in palette.

SPEAKER_19 1:32:11

Even worse.

SPEAKER_16 1:32:12

But with you, the it's like the color starts to bleed and drain out. The vibrant greens become more swamp-like greens. Decay starts to form here. Um, Requiem, you were reminded of the dilapidation, the blight that you had seen when you walked in the forest towards the Golfis tree the first time. Remnants of that, but now moist. It is wet here. You're entering what looks like to be a bog approaching. And there is a line of trees um kind of all coming together with vines coming through, too dense for bumblebees to fly through. And Giuseppe.

SPEAKER_18 1:33:00

Come to a skin. Power slides is power slides is is is B.

SPEAKER_17 1:33:07

Well, this is it. Oh. Thank you. Thank you, Giuseppe. I'll stay here. You don't die, I'll give you the right back. Perfect. See you when we get back. Thank you so much. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:19

Um, uh animal analyst, so I'm feeling really comfortable with this beauty.

SPEAKER_16 1:33:30

Um, you guys have reached um what you guys know to be a very dangerous place. The prey that you are seeking lies beyond. Are there any things that you're wanting to do in preparation before going into this dangerous place? Aaron Powell, Jr.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:49

Um The fact that we've already gone through sentient like we're not expecting to go through another sentient, right? Because it's weird because that was like how we got to the tree's roots before, but this tree is not in the same spot. It's different.

SPEAKER_16 1:34:05

I mean, you're on a different plane, so it's a little bit hard to tell. I don't know if you would have relayed anything to them about, you know, the direction or what's on the other side. The uh the the people have entrusted you with the secrecy of the location of uh, you know, the burrows. But if she was to say that, you would know that uh they're absolutely headed in a different direction. I wouldn't have told them.

unknown 1:34:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_17 1:34:28

I would like to cast armor of Agathas on myself.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_19 1:34:33

I kind of draw blue, icy looking halo around myself. It's just become kind of icy. Well, it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:46

I made a I did a graphic or a visual of the scene, the bumblebee scene. Oh and it just flat out to her thing. So make Requiem really happy to be on a bumblebee. It just made me a skeleton.

SPEAKER_18 1:35:00

That's just you know, we're just making your character artists.

SPEAKER_16 1:35:03

That's what you look like now.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:04

Skeleton, please.

SPEAKER_16 1:35:05

I see it. It's it's amazing.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:07

And it made me bolted out of it. My eye blonde.

SPEAKER_16 1:35:10

Okay. Is anybody else doing anything else before you you go in to uh to face a foe? Mighty.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:17

Or do we find an entry to face the foe? Like are we?

SPEAKER_16 1:35:21

You believe you're gonna have to cut through some like swampy area in order to forge away.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:27

Oh, I don't know if I'd necessarily Well Yeah, I would um take out some I don't know how much blood I have on me for I have extra vials for you.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:39

So if you look like a blood vial, I would have to take a vial of some sort, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:44

To at least try to get it.

SPEAKER_19 1:35:45

What does the light look like here?

SPEAKER_16 1:35:47

I guess the question is Does it look like we'll have to be fighting in sunlight? Um no. I mean it is kind of permanently a bit kind of grayish. Everything is gray from what you see, but it is darker here, and the canopy cover looks like it's even darker inside where you're about to fight. But there is light that's coming in. I would call it dim light.

SPEAKER_13 1:36:11

I'm just gonna do it. Um Countess.

SPEAKER_17 1:36:16

May I lay a dingy little finger on you who cast a spell? Called Sunlight Ward. Sunlight Ward?

SPEAKER_07 1:36:24

Yes. Um, of course, as long as it's not going to hunk.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:33

Anything happened to me.

SPEAKER_17 1:36:36

Uh you're immune to any penalties for damage associated with sunlight sensitivity and consider shaded in areas of direct sunlight. Also grants resistance to radiant damage for the duration, which is an hour. It's concentration for me, by the way.

SPEAKER_19 1:36:51

Um and if you move into an area of magical daylight, this is from the daylight spell, the effects immediately end.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:58

Thank you. I like and have the the mage hand basically almost always has the parasol. You can take it away and test out this shadow. Okay. Right. Thank you.

SPEAKER_16 1:37:15

You guys enter the swamp. Who is taking lead?

SPEAKER_14 1:37:23

I think uh Borislav would probably lead. Maybe Reginald.

SPEAKER_15 1:37:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:37:32

That'd be about thing here.

SPEAKER_13 1:37:34

Could help me clear the way.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:42

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_19 1:37:44

The perfect map for this scenario.

SPEAKER_16 1:37:51

Go ahead and just place yourselves um anywhere on the map. I'm probably ordering bull up when it is time. Which way are we going to do?

SPEAKER_09 1:38:00

I really am curious if I'm going to find people here, but I think it still exists.

SPEAKER_16 1:38:05

Yeah, like that. God damn.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:06

I'll be right behind Borislov.

SPEAKER_14 1:38:10

Well, Debbie is it.

SPEAKER_12 1:38:12

Damn, golly.

SPEAKER_14 1:38:17

That's my honey hide.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:18

This is nice. He's nice.

SPEAKER_15 1:38:21

I would take either a bead or right behind Borislov. Even though the white man wants to be leading to the big thing.

unknown 1:38:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:38:34

Um I can't even remember. So Borislav out in the middle of the back. The middle is just the back, also. Cutting away um vines and other things that are kind of burying the the way. I want you to make um say an athletics check for me.

SPEAKER_15 1:38:54

How far have we gotten into this?

SPEAKER_16 1:38:56

Um that's what we're gonna find out right now with the the check. Uh 16. 16. You got you're you're making good pace um with with this. Um and now you are maybe a hundred feet in. It becomes more and more boggy. Um a smell of sulfur starts to sting your nostrils a little bit. You see um, you know, things coming from the swamp that just kind of like, yeah, bubbles up and um Zelfira thinks that Requiem might have farted again, but no, this is the bog. He's sitting with an hearse.

SPEAKER_17 1:39:32

And that's me putting climb on the road. Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:39:44

So must be continuing forward. Um things get more black. Um the uh the all greens have now really kind of like start to melt, starting to turn to mush. What would have been like a vibrant fern, and your side now looks almost like seaweed as it's almost dilapidated and is slicked across the surface.

SPEAKER_15 1:40:06

At this point, can I uh cast Divine Sense?

SPEAKER_16 1:40:09

Yes, you can. What is the range on Divine Sense? 60. 60. Um Roll me an Arcana check. It's not that's a good roll, Doug. Oh, but I'm negative one. 16? That's so good.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:28

That's good. I did it.

SPEAKER_16 1:40:29

16. Uh that will be a success. I am going to give you a boost to that. Um within 60 feet, you do not, but you feel something deeper 150, 120, maybe just outside of 120, somewhere in there um in front of you, you're walking right towards the thing, the very dark evil thing that your divine sense is picking up. But um, yeah. And you are you're able to communicate that to the group.

SPEAKER_15 1:41:02

Okay. There's definitely something ahead of us that's evil. When I do divine sense, what does it look like? Am I like you get to tell me? That's my choice.

SPEAKER_11 1:41:12

Do we need to look like house without trees on this group? Like, would that teach you the fart while you did it?

SPEAKER_13 1:41:19

You're so capable and dwarfish.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:21

We're also tootie today.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:24

Are we trying to be really stealthy right now? Because I can.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:28

I'd say I'm just trying to be as I guess I mean as aware as possible for anything that seems similar to the past. Anything that seems like basically relates to Larial or um Varelia still being here and them being at the root of this again.

unknown 1:41:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:51

Ha. Plenty.

SPEAKER_15 1:41:53

Could I tell what it was? That root can with my uh divine sense. Do I Undead. Undead? Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:42:03

Do I smell anything?

SPEAKER_16 1:42:05

Um deeply sulfuric. Okay. Is is the main thing, and the and the decay is unusual.

SPEAKER_17 1:42:13

My giant friend. Can I touch you and cast protection from evil and good?

SPEAKER_14 1:42:20

That sounds good to me.

SPEAKER_17 1:42:22

Okay. This is a little boop.

SPEAKER_14 1:42:27

Who's my calf muscle?

SPEAKER_17 1:42:29

I'm three feet tall and you're like nine, so that's what I can reach.

SPEAKER_16 1:42:33

Uming that this thing is, you know, you know between 120 and 150 feet um out with uh the the assist of Reginald in his divine sense. Um how are you approaching this tree? Yeah, we can't. Are you still in this exact marching order? Are you fanning out? Are you being stealthy?

SPEAKER_09 1:42:58

I'm still fanning being like fanning, watching, but like trying to be stealthy and also in defense mode just in case.

SPEAKER_14 1:43:07

Like, I'd be pretty central to it. And uh trying to be a big thing.

SPEAKER_16 1:43:12

Put yourself on the map as if you were fanning out. You know? I just kind of want to see who's around who's guys are up his butt.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:25

All of everybody ended up up his blank.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:29

No, I said I said originally I was gonna be in the center, and everybody was so close to his butt that I was like, I guess I'm in the back, not the center anymore. Because you guys are up. What did you call it?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:37

Sneaky, white, kiki, cheeky sneaky, wai kiki, girk.

SPEAKER_14 1:43:41

Sneaky, uh white kiki, sneaky between the cheekies.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:48

It's Jeff. It's Jeff.

SPEAKER_15 1:43:52

Um, you eat my novels.

SPEAKER_16 1:43:57

Closer and closer you guys get. Starting to spread out and kind of um get a look at this thing before it gets a look at you. Um go ahead and make a perception check as you get around 120 feet. You're able to see some pocket look throughs.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:12

About 20. 18.

SPEAKER_17 1:44:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:44:17

16.

SPEAKER_17 1:44:18

17.

SPEAKER_16 1:44:20

Perception.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:20

17, 18?

SPEAKER_16 1:44:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:22

Come on, 19. 18. She's got a little bit of a little bit.

SPEAKER_16 1:44:26

So you guys are all gonna see some good stuff. You're gonna get some extra stuff. What uh the rest of the four of you's a weird Marshall um see.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:37

Get her out of there. Tell her, go get out of there.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:40

Bay. Kitty go.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:42

Ah, no, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_18 1:44:47

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_15 1:44:52

Let me tell you something. No, no, no. As Kita just like puts her head against him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_16 1:45:05

Death and destruction lay out before you like a canvas, a well-crafted painting of gore. A black tree spiraling upward, larger than you remember it being. You only saw the bottom half of this tree and the top half of this tree at different times. But in its full space, taking up the entire canopy of this area, and you look up, all four of you see soles in the treetops. And what it looks like is a pod, maybe a fruit. Within each one of these very large pods is kind of translucent and filled with a red liquid and a vaguely humanoid form inside of it in a fetal position. There's a lot of them though, right? A top each one of these fruits is a um a kind of like opening, I think like a like a cranberry or blueberry, has like a little stem kind of a thing. And then from that there is a feeder puppet attached to it. And it's almost like it is tending to its harvest. With a natural twenty. How to put this the right way. You see in the twisted bark itself a an opening that has been unopened. Like if you were to crack a walnut and you see where the seam is that this thing will open up, but it is closed currently. There is the fruit it is feeding. You with a natural twenty can see almost the energy force, the thunk, coming from each one of these as veins might go to the main tree, this vampiric tree feeding on things. And you realize that the um the main trunk of the tree that looks more like a cocoon than it does a tree itself. And it is pulsating.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:35

Oh yummy.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:38

What do you do? And that's it for this episode. Join us next week for the exciting conclusion. See you then.