Cold Open And Table Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:15

No. That's pretty good. You don't usually get a no out of Brandon.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

No. That's true. Improv is all about yes and, but that one's just a solid no. Welcome to Oathbreaker, a DD story. I am Brandon the Irish Wookiee, and with me today is Justin.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Hello, Brandon. Hello. Hi, everybody. I'm Justin, and today I'm playing uh Nelvax, the male human monk.

SPEAKER_07 0:45

Wave Shadows. And Maddie. Justin, you're gonna make people think that you're doing two characters in this campaign. And you see today I'm playing. Yeah, not yet. Hey everybody, uh, my name is Maddie. I play Voss Dane. He is a cleric. He has prepared spells, and he knows how to use them.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

And I also think you're currently out of all your spells.

SPEAKER_07 1:09

Uh I mean I can unclick these boxes and keep casting.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

I think she actually has the most spell slots of anybody right now.

SPEAKER_07 1:16

I've got four slots left. Okay, nice. And I know how to use them. Plenty of cantrips. Perfect. I'm gonna guidance the crap out of everybody. Wonderful.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

And Andrew. Hey everyone, I'm Andrew. I'm playing today. Uh Eldvar Olfredson, the Goliath Fighter. And I am saying today. Brandon hasn't killed me yet.

SPEAKER_07 1:42

It's not false either.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Yeah. Ray.

SPEAKER_03 1:46

Hey, I'm Ray, and as per usual, I'm playing Harlek, the Kenku eloquence bard, uh slash warlock. And finally, Bill.

SPEAKER_06 1:56

Hello, I am Bill. I am playing today Zane Umberlite, the male half orc warlock packed with a blade person. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Realized out of that ended that sentence. Who put a question mark at the end of the prompter? I told you, whatever you type, Bill will say. Alright, I want to say thank you to everybody for following us like that's giving us ideas. It means a lot to us. Make sure you check us out on all of our social media platforms, such as Facebook.com slash ad and d story. Retweet us on Twitter or EX at ad story2. Follow us on Instagram, Instagram.com slash ad and d story. And finally check us out on Blue Sky, BSKY.app slash ADND Story. If you like all the sound effects you've been hearing and uh just generally like the music that you're you're listening to, make it make sure you check out sirenscape at sirenscape.com. I use it for my in-person sessions as well. It it really does help set the mood. And it's got a fun bunch of fun little sounds in there that you can kind of uh just play and customize for yourself. And let's roll for some rescap.

SPEAKER_07 3:07

Some what?

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Rescap.

SPEAKER_07 3:09

Rescap or recap? Which one are we rolling for? I got two buttons here.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Get it up, baby.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

I got a six.

SPEAKER_07 3:15

Oh my god. I got sixteen too. Booners.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

I got a five.

SPEAKER_07 3:23

Andrew, this is where you yell really loud. I volunteer as tribute.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

Yeah, I think it's you, bud. Well, Brandon's looking through and he's like, did Andrew do the recap last session?

SPEAKER_01 3:33

No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

I was trying to remember. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

I did do it, but I rolled it. I normally do care if everybody's here, but if somebody's missing, I just make everybody roll.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Yeah, well, the the big thing being this is the only way my character can ever get inspiration. So I figure I'm just gonna roll every time. Perfect.

unknown 3:51

Alright.

Tunnel Recap And The Builder’s Eye

SPEAKER_02 3:53

Okay, uh, I'm pretty sure I already did the recap before we started, but uh we figured out the session uh amongst the tunnels underneath the um where were you, the greenhouse. Uh and we were trying to figure out what attacked Voss Dane. And as it turns out, it was just like this little tiny guy that looks kind of like Harleck with a plus uh shaped face and some eyes on the end of the stalks, and a really sharp tail and some wings. Uh but in reality it was much bigger than Voss had led us to believe, and it was actually about the size of an ox. Uh after some uh skill checks, we determined that it's an ambush predator, and Nelvax had seen one back when he was a child, um, and it was just referred to as the monster, so we don't really know what it was. Uh we decided that we were going to get away from the pools of acid that were near us uh after unsuccessfully trying to trap one of the monsters, which we thought was the only monster, uh, in one of those pools of acid by using minor illusion and silent image to kind of give the image of a deer trapped in one of those acid pits. And so we moved on and uh continued to explore the caverns in front of us. We encountered a human male, uh bald head, Jat to all belief, wearing uh kind of tattered leather vest and um had these silver glisten, the silver glisten in his eyes, named uh Derek, Derek, something like that, uh, who was just spouting nonsense and eventually lost the Battle of Wits with Eldmar and decided to lead the group off into the uh caverns where he claimed he was hunting whatever the monster was. We get to a uh an expanse, a I'm blanking on the word. Um chasm, that's the right one. Uh that had like this balance beam across it of stone. And he decided that he was gonna go first. He gets attacked by a monster, pulled down into the depths, and that was the last we saw of Derek. Uh the group then decided that we were gonna go across. Uh the first one across was Nelvax, who just kind of ran across the wall all monk-like, uh nimbly bimbly, and secured a rope at the other end using his expanding pole. You know what that is. Uh and he tied a rope to it and tossed the other end to Elvar, who tied it off to his greatsword and stuck that in the rope.

SPEAKER_06 6:23

Yeah, what that is.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

You know what that is. It expands three times larger than what it is.

SPEAKER_06 6:27

I was talking about the greatsword.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

Oh, okay. I was talking about him being a grower, not a shower. Uh so after that, um Harleck, uh, the real Harleck, decided to be the first one across. Uh, he was he narrowly dodged another one of the monsters who knocked his lantern down, and we were able to see that at the bottom of this chasm there was just like an army of these things uh waiting to eat us. Uh then we quickly got the rest of the party across. Uh Vostane used his um channel divinity to invoke his duplicity and teleport across. Elvar just kind of ran across and on the way decided to drop um a lit torch and two pints of oil uh to create his own fireball because we did not have a flying PC that could cast fireball. Uh after that detonated and alerted all of them to our presence. We then proceeded to run through the um the tunnels. Uh Harleck had cast silence in a bag of holding to try and help muffle our pass our path. Uh jury's out on how well that that did for us. Um we eventually got to a room, had to fight a couple of these creatures. I think Brandon was normalizing us killing Harleck, and for two campaigns in a row, he's now repeatedly killed the smallest character in the group. Uh so anyone re-rolling a character, don't pick small, and maybe you'll live. Uh after a little bit of fighting and uh some uh mischief by Harleck, um, we managed to escape to a staircase that led to a very sturdy door that locked out all the monsters and encountered the builder. After a little RP with the builder, he gave us his eye uh and then later explained to us that it contained all the information that we were looking for because the builder was in fact the architect we were looking for, Nader Type. And uh he downloaded all the schematics to get into the castle into his eye, but did not actually tell us how to access them. So we'll see if that actually does us any good. Uh and then there is a little bit of back and forth about trying to get one of the monsters as a pet. Uh he refused to give us any, he refused to lend them to us when we attack the castle. He just all around refused to be a team player. And so uh Nelvax eventually negotiated a model of one of the uh one of the builder's children uh to give to Eldvar, which Eldvar now loves and will kill anything that gets in his way to protect. And so then we ended the session entering the elevator that's gonna lead us to the churistan that Eldvar was originally looking for, and we went up a level.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

Didn't go up a level.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

So we're still down in the basement with the the builder?

SPEAKER_01 9:24

No, you are well, yes, you're currently transitioning to the surface, but it's you did not rise a level. So we went up we went up a level. No. In the progress of rising a level. Yeah. Yes, you are in the progress of rising a level. I agree with you.

SPEAKER_03 9:40

We also got that other crystal from the from the builder, the crystal of recalling. After Harlech gave like another like desperate plea. And do you remember what that does, Harleck? No, he just said to I don't remember that part, honestly. I remember him saying that you like it, you know, use it when we need it or something.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

Yeah, it was like when you when you need me, I'll help you as I can. Yeah. It was very, very vague in his promise. Very skeptic. And then also Voss is very suspicious of this guy and thinking about murdering him.

SPEAKER_07 10:13

Yeah, I don't I don't think Voss had a problem if he ended up uh upside down in a crick someplace.

SPEAKER_06 10:20

In a what?

SPEAKER_07 10:21

In a crick.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

That's creek. A creek for people on the east coast.

SPEAKER_06 10:27

Yes, is this people that speak English. Um what is the eye crystal map?

SPEAKER_00 10:34

That's the castle map. It's literally his eye.

SPEAKER_07 10:37

And it's a map.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

It's made out of his eye. It's like a like a projector. He pulled it out of his dome. It's an eyeball that is also a map that we may or may not know how to use.

SPEAKER_07 10:48

We have a side quest, we gotta go find R2 D2. R2 D2 can make this map appear for us.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

A lot of valuable agents lost their lives to collect this valuable intel. Yeah. Okay. Actually, just one. His name was Derek.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

And he wasn't too valuable.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

He was a lot, though.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

He was a lot. Alright. Um, I so I I saw something before we move on. First off, Andrew, great. Uh, Elvar gets some heroic inspiration. Okay, I was about to ask where my inspiration was. So thank you. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_07 11:19

Uh, it's it's behind you. Just head out the door to the left.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Yeah, yeah. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_07 11:25

Go find inspiration.

The “I Know A Guy” Rule

SPEAKER_01 11:26

So I heard this uh I heard something. Brennan Lee Mulligan does it, and I thought it was a pretty cool idea to help our your characters kind of develop a backstory and and use that. It's it's the I Know a Guy rule. Have you guys ever heard of this? So basically, at any point, uh you can use this uh once during the campaign, you can say, I know a guy. Basically, if I'm describing something and uh you think you could find that information because you know a guy. Like maybe it's uh you need to get into a certain room. I know a guy. And you can describe that person from your backstory how you've met them, and I can play that backstory, right? For or I can play that NPC for you. That doesn't necessarily mean you that guy's that person is gonna help you, but you'd roll for it, and the higher the role in a straight D20 is how willing that person is going to be that they help you. So I thought it'd be a cool opportunity for you guys to help develop your backstories during this, uh, and to kind of help get it deeper into the RP side, but I didn't want to implement it without a yay or nay from all of you.

SPEAKER_07 12:32

I mean, boss's mom is kind of that, but more than just once a campaign. He's got it going on. With his mom. Probably.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

I mean, it sounds cool to me. I mean, no, I mean the rule, not the whole situation.

SPEAKER_07 12:50

You guys heard it first here.

SPEAKER_05 12:53

You guys heard it first here. No. The rule mom and Ray's corruption and the corruption deepens.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

Ray's gonna be escorted off of school grounds and involved us. Sorry, Ray.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

This is like the party inventory all over again. Things just come to just happen.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

So uh I say keep it in your back pocket. If there's ever a cool opportunity for you all to use it, uh go ahead and feel free to use it. We'll we'll roll it and see how it works.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

That was once a campaign or once a level?

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Uh same thing. Same thing. Or session eleven, and you guys are level six. Go fuck yourself. But we started out at five. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:54

Eleven sessions to get a level.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Yep. I didn't realize real level. That's why it's milestone-based and not experience-based.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Well, yeah, because we would have leveled up if it were experience-based after we firebombed all those children.

SPEAKER_07 14:08

Hey, you guys better stop Bran's gonna kill another character.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

Well, that was actually gonna be my second question. Is it once a character or once a player?

SPEAKER_01 14:18

Every time your character dies, you gotta restart from level five. That's fine. I'll just firebomb the children again.

SPEAKER_07 14:28

Alright. Yeah, so it's a good idea, Brandon. That's fine. Yeah. No, I I like it. I've used it a bit more. We'll actually answer your question. Alright, perfect. Dodge it. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

So let's get into it.

Elevator Up To Screams

SPEAKER_01 14:43

So the metal gate of the elevator slams shut behind you, and you can hear uh the the continuous thunk of the elevator as it starts uh as it starts rising through the dirt. And you can hear the the chains beginning to tighten, the rattling of it as you're slowly and steadily lifted towards the upper levels. You can see you can still see in this area because most of you have dark vision, but there's also two torches sitting on the sides of the elevator that are lit.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Not gonna gaslight us this time, Brandon.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

No.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

And uh as the elevator rises to the top, uh, you are initially blinded by the sunlight, because it is still high noon, and for the first few seconds it's silent. And then you hear the first scream.

SPEAKER_07 15:35

Uh we turn around and tell Dane to shut up. Stop screaming.

SPEAKER_06 15:42

That's you. Calm down. It's okay.

SPEAKER_07 15:47

Who's Dane? There's no Dane anymore. Uh we look back. There's is there a small child screaming in the elevator?

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Like No. I I I was getting there and you interrupted me.

SPEAKER_07 15:59

Do continue. You're doing great.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Thanks. Uh finally the elevator reaches the top and it slows. You the gears grind, chains rattle, and the metal screeches to a stop, and you hear a distant roar that shakes the entire ground around you. You can see, and and just a couple blocks away from you, right outside of the Monster Menagerie, that there's dust raining down from the buildings, there's screams echoing from beyond the gate, and you can hear fighting just a short distance away.

SPEAKER_07 16:30

Oh, that doesn't sound like a box starts punching the down button, door close.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

Just kidding. Oh, it seems a little early for the 1230 feeding. Um what do you make of this?

SPEAKER_07 16:44

I can make a brooch, I can make a flower, I can and you wonder why we don't get left.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

The uh the screaming sounds, was it like male or female? Could we identify like by pitch?

SPEAKER_01 16:59

You can hear there are a couple people screaming, you can hear men, women, a couple children screaming. Uh you can from where you're at, you can smell there's some there's something on fire, and you can smell the smoke in the air. And uh you hear what sounds like a collapsing building.

SPEAKER_04 17:19

Do you think we should go help?

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Nelvax like starts running towards he wants to help these people. So you guys can come if you want. Nelvax is going.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Yeah, Elvar will pick Voss up on his shoulder and give Chase.

SPEAKER_07 17:37

Voss will accept the uh Uppies. Uppies.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Uppies. Right. Okay, so Clerics love uppies. Harleck, really? You're not gonna grab one of those torches after you complained about me taking one from you the last session?

SPEAKER_03 17:51

Oh no, I I I will grab a torch in order to Oh wait, no. Uh Lvex gave me a torch though. Uh right before we went into the builders. If I have a torch. I can see slightly. Okay. It's high noon. I mean next time, next time.

SPEAKER_06 18:09

Oh. So uh Zayn will come around the corner and see everybody running and run along with them.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Awesome. And uh that's good because there was only room for five in the elevator, and uh Elvar's new toy, George, took up one of those faces.

SPEAKER_06 18:28

So you see Zane running next to you with a churro in his hand.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Yeah, they're still warm.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Elvar's gonna double back for a churro. It is it is all he wanted out of this entire experience.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

Uh yeah, you see the churros saying it is it is go ahead, Zane.

SPEAKER_06 18:49

Zayn being the thoughtful party member and taking the detour away from the party. Um, well, as we're running along, hand out churros. There we go.

SPEAKER_07 19:01

That's what you were doing. So that's what you were doing while we were down there getting the map. Thanks, buddy. I really appreciate the chiro. Thank you. Zane, it hits the spot.

SPEAKER_06 19:16

Elvar said he wanted a churro.

SPEAKER_04 19:19

No, Elvar, don't eat him while you run.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

Oh, Voss is just on his shoulders. Jump, jump, jump.

SPEAKER_07 19:26

Yeah, yeah. Voss is like just gingerly eating it, enjoying his little ride.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Meanwhile, he's holding another tro in front of Elvar to like entice him along. On a steak.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

Alright, so you guys all run up to the towns uh to one of the uh many town squares, and in front of you is chaos.

Chaos In The Town Square

SPEAKER_01 19:47

What you see is uh civilians running back and forth, uh running, stumbling over debris. You hear screams echoing through smoke-filled streets. There's a couple shattered market stalls split, you see fruit pottery and blood mix in the cobblestones below, and there's a building that's half collapsed, dust drifting in the air. Once you actually are able to concentrate and see what's going on in the town, you see that that building that's fell that's fallen, there are two people trapped under the debris. Uh there are a few guards, a werewolf guards, that are fighting monsters, which you can see is a some sort of giant and two giant spiders, if you were to take a right. Now there is an option. Uh you know that there's also, if you take a left in front of this building, there's a way out of the city and back towards your bastion.

SPEAKER_06 20:40

Now does it look like does it look like the werewolf guards are protecting the civilians?

SPEAKER_01 20:49

It looks like the werewolf guards are fighting the monsters. And what are these monsters? What type of giant? Uh you can't uh roll actually. Yeah, roll me a nature check.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

Oh, I'm I'm super good at this. Uh that's gonna be a four. It's a really big giant.

SPEAKER_07 21:09

Can we all roll nature check?

SPEAKER_02 21:11

I'm a Goliath. I should know giants, right? You should.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Uh yeah, they're fighting what looks to be two very large spiders and some sort of giant.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

You all Elvar's gonna go having been attacked by these were guards before and seeing a giant and even not knowing exactly what type of giant it is, feeling kinship to it, is gonna go try and run towards them.

SPEAKER_06 21:43

Zane is gonna try to evaluate the situation and see what the civilians around are doing if they're running away, if they're gonna try to because his contribution to defeating the giants and the giant spiders would involve magic. Which is apparently outlawed. So while he's all for helping people. Dot dot dot. Um he's not willing to get himself locked up for it, or more importantly, we're not willing to get killed.

SPEAKER_07 22:16

By the werewolves for saving them. By the werewolves for saving them, yeah. Yeah, I think Voss is not gonna be super I mean he's still gonna he's not gonna be hopping off of Elvar by any means, but he's going to uh try to see maybe what like if I can get a better read on these giants and find out are we running into two and he's essentially trying to ascertain, am I running into two enemies here, or let's help these giants kill the werewolves because they're friendly.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

Uh uh what are the civilians that are trapped? What is the debris that's on top of them?

SPEAKER_01 22:49

That's a half-collapsed building.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Okay. So I'm so more than 500 pounds, we're thinking, then. Of stuff. Yes. Yep. Alright, so Harleck's not able to handle that in any way.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Yep, so okay. So what you see, now that you've got a full assessment of the square, uh, the two individuals, there's there's a man and a woman that's trapped under the debris of a half-collapsed building. There's a child standing on uh some raised steps of a large temple, and it looks to be he looks to be terrif just petrified, paralyzed with fear, uh staring at the giant and screaming. Uh the werewolf guards uh look to be intercepting or trying to get between the humans and the monsters, but they're quickly being overrun. You see one guard getting slashed or getting knocked to the ground and then pummeled by the giant, and he's no longer moving.

SPEAKER_06 23:42

You said there's two guards?

SPEAKER_01 23:44

There's a total of six guards, and one just got slapped down to the ground.

SPEAKER_07 23:48

Elvar's going to help the giants, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Yeah, Elvar's going to help the giants.

SPEAKER_07 23:53

Okay.

unknown 23:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 23:57

Zayn is gonna go try to see if he can get to the human the the civilians. Could be watching watching the fight, but trying to get to the humans to see if or the humans, I assume they're humans, uh racist.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

But are you all going towards the fight? And then we're gonna start a like an initiative tracker.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

I'd be going towards the civilians as well with Zane.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

I mean that the whole scene is the fight, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Yep. Or you can go off to the left and leave the city.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

No, we all go towards to help the people, is what it sounds like. Whether that's fighting or saving we're going towards action.

Initiative And Picking Sides

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Let's help the giants or some people.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

Let's roll some initiative and join the mat, please. Milvex has a nine. Oh, a 21.

SPEAKER_07 24:45

I got a one. Unnatural. Oh my god. Just so you know.

SPEAKER_06 24:50

An unnatural one. An unnatural one?

SPEAKER_05 24:57

What?

SPEAKER_06 24:59

Oh my god. You have a negative to your initiative?

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Negative minus one text.

SPEAKER_06 25:08

How do you have a negative at level six? Never mind.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

His dexterity is minus one.

SPEAKER_06 25:12

Or only level six.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Dexterity or your initiative only modifies with your initiative. Or sorry, your dexterity bonus, right? It doesn't change with your proficiency.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

No, you have the alert feat, so you get the proficiency out of tiers. Mm-hmm. Okay. I get half proficiency. Yeah, by default, it's just dexterity.

SPEAKER_06 25:32

Uh, so Zayn got a 12. Holy crap.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

12? Alright, so I got a 12 for Zayn, one for Voss, and 9 for Nilvax, 21 for Arlik and a 12 for El.

SPEAKER_06 25:42

Oh goodness, this is not what I was envisioning when you described it.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

What did I mess up?

SPEAKER_06 25:48

No, I thought, uh, I don't know if you messed it up as much as I misunderstood. I thought it was like the giant spider and giants were together.

SPEAKER_07 25:57

Don't cut him any slack.

SPEAKER_06 25:59

Um.

SPEAKER_07 26:00

He messed it up.

SPEAKER_06 26:02

That's that is uh passive aggressive speak for yes, he did not describe it well enough for me to actually visualize it. Anyway, I thought it was like a group. So for the listeners, it's not. It is a city street where the giant is off one fork in the road, one of the giant spiders is off another fork in the road, and another giant spider, so it's a Y-shaped intersection, so three. I don't know where we're at, but the top left.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

They're all less than 40 feet from each other. I don't know how you consider that not a group.

SPEAKER_07 26:34

Well, I thought they were clumped together and they were all fighting each other. Uh I never want to be accused of helping Brandon or ever being on his side, but he's they are kind of all grouped up in this little square down here. Y-shaped square.

SPEAKER_06 26:47

Okay, sure. I thought they were together. Anyway, where's the ship? Did you say Y-shape square?

SPEAKER_00 26:52

The Y-square. I don't think you're wrong, but it is funny to hear somebody say Y-shaped square. As a square has a very specific shape associated with it.

SPEAKER_06 27:06

It is a shape. You can't do it. I'm with you. It's got you said that we're off to the left somewhere?

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Yeah, yeah, top left. Go up that giant spider beam path. You are on the map. It's circled in black. Follow the line. Refresh the screen. Refresh maybe? Zoom out, refresh. There is now dicks on top of dicks.

SPEAKER_06 27:28

Okay, now we're showing. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 27:30

Why were two people drawing very similar penises on the map? I mean dicks kind of look the same.

SPEAKER_06 27:36

And now I don't see the NPCs, but what is going on?

SPEAKER_00 27:40

That drawing was ballin.

SPEAKER_07 27:43

Brought to you by a fifth grader with crowns. With what? Crowns. You know, the things you eat when you're hungry. Crayons.

SPEAKER_06 27:54

Crayons.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Oh, you again with the crayons. See?

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Well, I don't call them crowns. Which is what you said, which is what goes on a king's head. Yes. Yeah, that's right. Crayons. Or a queen's. Or a queen. Or an emperor, possibly.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

Or it goes in a box.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

How have we done 11 sessions and we haven't gained a level? Go fuck yourself. How's that?

SPEAKER_03 28:18

Well, well, I feel like I have not asked it. I was defending you full well why we're not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

Yeah, it's all Brandon's fault. That's full well why we're not going anywhere. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 28:32

I mean, as much as he railroads us, you'd think he'd be in control a little bit more, but true.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

Not like I gave you an option at all. Hey, just because we're on the tracks doesn't mean that we're going fast.

unknown 28:45

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Harleck, you're up first. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_03 28:48

Uh seeing the chaos. Uh everyone seems like they're pretty engaged in what's going on over there, right? Yes. Uh, I'm gonna cast disguise self on myself, uh, and make myself just kind of like look like a random street child. Uh, and then start booking to try to get past all the guards and hope that they are fully fully engaged with the spider, so I can just go towards the people. Okay. I don't like my chances, I don't move that fast. Uh right. I make it to lunch.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

So yeah, you take off down uh one of the first Y square segments, and uh you're able to and you're you're about 15 feet from the first giant spider.

unknown 29:36

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

And I'm just gonna like be screaming like some random little kid, like, ugh, where's my mob? Just try to sell it, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

Okay. As you run towards danger.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

That's what's dangerous.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

You have kids. You know exactly how unreliable they are. They just go right towards the stuff you don't want them to. Oh, kids, it's a hot fire, stay away. Oh, let me just run right at it. They're stupid. Come on, Andrew.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

It sounds pretty kids to me. Yeah, truth.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Yeah, you you got me. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Alright, so what you see in front of you is uh four of these guards are gonna take uh the so guard one and guard three in front of the giant spider that Nelvax or Harleck is in front of are each gonna swing at this giant spider. And they're gonna dig into it with its sword, with each of their swords, and they're gonna deal some damage to it. And then guard two and three. Uh guard three is gonna take a swing at the other giant spider. And the giant spider uh knocks away with one of its legs as it goes to attack back. And the giant spider grabs it with both of its legs and bites into the guard. Uh-oh. And the guard seems to go limp while the spider is holding it.

SPEAKER_07 31:05

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SPEAKER_02 31:15

I I thought it was Rouchiette. Rouchiette ready.

SPEAKER_01 31:21

Alright, Zayn, your turn.

SPEAKER_06 31:24

Um Zane will use it, he'll use a dash action and run 60 60 feet, I think. Yep. So he runs 60 feet directly towards the child on the map.

unknown 31:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 31:39

And as he's going, uses bonus action to uh summon his sword. Hold on. I'm gonna Zane is gonna make sure that he is not getting within melee range of guards or spiders.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

So that makes sense.

SPEAKER_06 31:55

So he'll be running towards there. Um, and yeah, that's action, bonus action movement. And uh well, as he's approaching the child, say to uh stay calm, we'll we're here to help. Conjuring a spear or conjuring a sword directly out of his hand as it pierces through his hand to come open.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

I'm sure the child feels very safe.

SPEAKER_06 32:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

As a grown man, I would shit myself. Alright. Uh this giant in the middle of the town square is gonna reach down and grab the leg of the guard that he just knocked down to the ground and crushed, and he's going to use the body of that guard and swing at one of the other guards around him. And uh the giant clips the side of this other guard, knocking him 10 feet to the side. Eldvar.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Alright, Eldvar is slightly aroused watching this giant just fling a guard into another guard. Um, and then he's gonna remember, oh yeah, I'm in the middle of something right now. Uh he is going to draw with his left hand the rune of the avalanche and cast um uh expeditious retreat on himself, although he will not be retreating, he will be advancing. And so now as uh his full movement, he will be running with Boss Dane, so I'll grab you two. Uh 7-0 feet to get in melee with the guard captain that is engaged with the crazed giant. Uh quick question: is the giant a male or female giant? It is a male giant. Male. Uh so he'll call out in Joton or Giant. Uh Easy Brother! I'm here to help! As he takes two attacks on the guard captain. And so the first one is going to be not great. That's a 10-to-hit, so four slashing damage on that miss.

SPEAKER_04 34:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

And the second one will be a natural one for another four slashing damage.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

Uh, the giant still holding the body of the guard that he was using as an uh improvised weapon, turns to you after you've spoken to him and sees you whiff on this guard captain twice, and you hear a guttural laugh.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

I'm gonna take like four points of psychic damage just as shame. Yeah, that's my turn. Action, bonus action, and movement.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

Okay. Uh the guard captain barely missing your attacks is gonna turn on you, and you see recognition in the in the werewolf's eyes. And he's got he's got special armor on that's modified to fit with the claws of the uh the werewolf. So he's still holding a shield, and he's got a short sword in his other hand that are both modified to fit in this j large werewolf's hands, and you see recognition in his eyes as he turns and sees uh Vostane, and he's going to uh he's gonna try to swing at you, Eldvar. Pretty good. That was a 22 hit. Uh Eldvar will cast shield and it will miss. Perfect. And then he's gonna take a bonus action and try to shield bash uh Vostain. Can he reach Vostane on my shoulder? Oh, he's still on his shoulder. Yeah, okay, he's gonna try to shield bash you. Okay. And I gotta remember how to use a shield bash.

SPEAKER_06 35:54

Yeah, is it shield is it shove with your shield? I think it's contested athletics.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

I think it's contested athletics. I don't know about the 2024 rules.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Yeah. I think it's improvised weapon unless they have the shield master feet.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

They make a strength saving throw, which the save is eight plus your strength modifier and proficiency bonus. On a failed save, you either push the target five feet from you or calls it to have the prone condition.

SPEAKER_06 36:22

Once per shove, right?

SPEAKER_01 36:25

I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_00 36:28

They call it shield bash now, but it's the same idea, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

Oh, yeah. That will be a nat 20 for a 27 to save.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Oof.

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Yeah, that saves for sure. Yeah, he goes to hit you with a bash and just kind of thuds against your chest as you still stand there. I'm gonna spin spitting his eye. You're spitting your eye. Okay. That's a free action. Crying is a free action.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

Makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

Crying.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

Alright, Nelvax. Okay. Uh let me just update these notes real quick. Tap, tap, tap, enter. Alright, uh, so you had me roll initiative, so I uh used uncanny metabolism, which is once per long rest. When I roll initiative, I regain all of my focus points and get a 1d8 plus 6 HP back. So I have full focus and full HP. Unless you have uh something overall that I'm just open to. I didn't want to do it without saying. Okay, just make sure. That's just a feature. It's yeah, my uh I don't know what level I get it at, but uncanny metabolism, yeah, it's a monk thing.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

Uh so I'm feeling uh feisty. Um I didn't actually do any measuring, I was doing note-taking. I have a walking speed of 45 feet, which gets me most of the way to this here spider. Um I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that there is nothing in this high noon sun that is dimly lit around me.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

Uh no, some of the buildings have partial shadow, but like it's shade. It's not even shadow.

SPEAKER_00 38:02

It wouldn't be dimly lit.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

No.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Yeah. I didn't think so. That's okay. Uh I'll use Step of the Wind so I can take uh dash action as a bonus action. Okay. Uh so that'll let me get up close to the two guards by this uh the closer giant spider. And I'll get it behind them. And then I get two attacks per action. So I will uh I think I'm just gonna I'll pull my scimitar and just slash at each of them once. Just real quick, try to distract them, give the spider an opening here. Uh so the first attack is a wow, whopping nine to hit. That is not hit. And the second attack is a nineteen to hit. That does hit. Hell yeah. Uh the nineteen to hit does seven damage.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Alright. And are you hitting guard one or guard three?

SPEAKER_00 39:04

Guard three was the one I missed. I hit guard one, and I think that flaria blows is a bonus action, so I think that's all I got to do. Yes, I walk in. Yeah, so I run in, I run around these guys, I do like a quick like 360 spinslash. Uh I my scimitar scrapes off the armor of guard three and connects into an open spot for guard one and just does a little bit of damage to him. But now they know they are under threat. But none other than Nelvax. Okay. Past turn.

SPEAKER_06 39:35

Apparently we're on the monster side.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Boss, you are up.

SPEAKER_07 39:39

Alright. Um well, from the uh shoulder of Elvar, uh, I'm gonna see this guard four over here, and gonna go ahead and cast Guard 4 is a body.

SPEAKER_01 39:55

Guard 4 is a body that is being used as a weapon.

SPEAKER_07 39:58

Oh, well, it's not an actual person. No. It used to be Um Would a ranged attack against the guard captain be done at disadvantage?

SPEAKER_01 40:07

Yes. Well As a matter of fact, any range attack you use right now is a disadvantage because you have an enemy within five feet of you.

SPEAKER_07 40:15

Oh, I thought it was only if the target was within five feet.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

No.

unknown 40:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:21

You have the threatening condition right now.

SPEAKER_07 40:24

Well then, fine. Be that way. Uh I will go ahead and use uh my cantrip word of radiance. And that is uh con save of thirteen. On the guard captain I will select is the guard captain.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Uh that is a 13 plus one for 14.

SPEAKER_07 40:46

Well, he saves. Uh I doesn't think does it take half damage? I would say in the description. Yeah, it would say in the description. Yeah, does not. Okay. Uh that's it for me.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Alright. Um, you once again hear some screaming as the rubble shifts in all this combat, and it it pins the man and woman down even further. And it seems to attract this uh this giant spider A, which is on the uh which is just south of all of you. And the spider is now drawn to them. The child turns towards Zane, seeing Zayn running full blossom at him with a sword in his hand and a giant half orc, and the child starts screaming at Zane.

SPEAKER_06 41:35

What is he saying?

SPEAKER_01 41:37

High-pitched scream.

SPEAKER_06 41:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 41:39

What uh what what language is that scream in? Is that in common?

SPEAKER_01 41:43

Uh that would be in common, yes. It's in child. It's in infernal. Good luck.

SPEAKER_02 41:53

I think Zayn speaks infernal.

SPEAKER_06 41:56

Child that child that speaks infernal. That's children are not creepy to begin with. Now it's being infernal.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Alright, Harleck. Back up to you.

SPEAKER_03 42:09

Uh, over here where all these tables are, uh, would that be

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SPEAKER_03 42:13

considered difficult terrain? Uh trying to pass through them? Yes. Ah. Alright. I'm just gonna hope that everyone's busy enough to not swing at me then. Uh and then I run uh again screaming like uh like a small child. Uh to hear uh common. You're like a sniveling child. I don't even know what language Marley speaks. Or draconic, I guess, but yeah. My bob's over there! Yeah, just running around. And then uh if nothing swings at me, I'm gonna try to use the dash action. Well, I'll probably try to use the dash action anyway.

SPEAKER_01 42:58

Well, you are just in combat range of everybody right now.

SPEAKER_03 43:01

Nobody is trying to take a swing at you. Yeah. I'm gonna try to run again. Okay. Which would all you hear.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

The giant spider seeing you finally in his peripherals are he's gonna take a big swing at you. And guard one seeing this is going to try to get between you and the spider.

SPEAKER_03 43:22

Oh, he's so heroic.

SPEAKER_01 43:25

And uh Nelvax, that means he steps out of your out of your range if you want to take a swing at him.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

I think Nelvax knows that this kid who's about to get attacked is actually Harleck, right? Like I would have said that. I think I'm gonna let that slide. I'm gonna let the guard try to protect Nelvax, even though we're not in the same team currently. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

And yeah, the the guard captain steps in between you and takes the hit for you.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

My hero. Uh that's uh that's all I got until I can get to them. I don't want to be trying. From the middle of the street.

SPEAKER_01 44:02

Okay. Uh guard two that was uh flung away from the giant notices that the spider is now focused on the man and woman pinned under the debris and is gonna run over and place himself between the spider and the man and woman, while guard five is gonna take another swing at the giant spider. That is a Nat 20. So that's gonna be a lot of damage. And Guard 3 is gonna turn towards you, Nelvex, and take a swing at you. Does a seven hit?

SPEAKER_00 44:37

No. When he which kind of weapon has he got? Guard three? Short sword. So he turns his back on the giant spider to swing at me. Even though I didn't hit him. Like I cut in his armor and he turns Okay. Yep. Um I just like I backhand it as he like he does like a lunge at me, like a jab, and I just like backhand it out of like danger zone to swing wide and not hit me.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Okay. Uh giant spider B is gonna the he's a little pissed off that the guard blocked him from eating a tasty child. And you're gonna see him with all with with his four front arms raise up, and he's gonna grab the guard and take a big old bite of him. And it's all good for us, Brandon. And the guard, you see the guards, even through the fur, you see the the guard's color kind of change and go a little pale, and the guard goes limp in the spider's arms. And spider A down here is gonna drop the guard that he's holding and run towards the man and woman under the debris. Under the debris. And take a blade out of the guard.

SPEAKER_06 45:49

He was holding a guard?

SPEAKER_07 45:51

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SPEAKER_01 46:03

And he's gonna take a swipe at the guard and miss. So Zayn, you're up. I have no idea who to shoot at.

SPEAKER_06 46:17

So Zayn will uh move forward and step around the child and get to the other to basically stand between the child and the um no, between the giant and the guard captain and the I don't even. I'm moving up a little bit. Um to hopefully shield the child, which I'm turning my back to the child, which is probably gonna kill me, but um I have no idea who the good guys and bad guys are in this situation, and that's including us.

SPEAKER_02 46:50

So are we the bad guys?

SPEAKER_06 46:52

Hey guys, are we the bad guys?

SPEAKER_02 46:54

We're we're definitely not the good guys.

SPEAKER_06 46:56

No, no, I'm pretty sure we're not the good guys. See, the the guards are acting like good guys, but we're fighting on the other side, so I'm not really sure. Uh so uh Voss attacked. Okay, so Voss and Nelvax both attacked guards, right?

unknown 47:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 47:17

Uh Voss, Nelvax, yeah, both attack guards. Elvar tried to attack a guard.

SPEAKER_06 47:22

Well, I I understand, but Elvar, I I Zayn has known him for a day.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

So Yeah, fair.

SPEAKER_06 47:29

Whereas the rest of them he's been running around with for a while. So but uh the biggest threat looks like the guard captain. So Zane will is he in melee range or is he not in melee range? Not in melee range.

SPEAKER_01 47:45

Not where he is.

SPEAKER_06 47:46

Just outside of melee range. So he will launch uh two uh elder splashes. Eldritch blasts at the guard captain. Okay. 16? That hits. 12 points of damage. Alright. And it will jove the guard captain back five feet. And to the giant. Yep. And then uh a ooh, uh 24! That hits. And five.

SPEAKER_07 48:20

Alright. Let's go back another five feet. Uh do we get opportunity attacks against him?

SPEAKER_06 48:27

No. No. No, he's not gonna because he sees that Harleck is over that way. The the main reason he wants to shove him is just to put him off balance so that he's confused, even though that's more of an RP thing and an atmosphere thing than anything else. And it actually, I guess it would. If boss is gonna stay sitting on a shoulder, it's not gonna help him at all, because I'm pretty sure that Eldrith was gonna close the distance as soon as it's his turn. But anyway, alright. And that is action, bonus action. That's something for a bonus action. Give me one second. Nope. Uh yeah, because I'm not gonna miss the step. So I and Zayn will say quit it.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

What does he say quit it for?

SPEAKER_06 49:21

Um because he feels that his party members are being childish. Uh so Zayn will say, I guess we're going after the guards? Question mark? In past turn.

SPEAKER_01 49:37

Is Zane the kind of guy that does say the word like question mark?

SPEAKER_07 49:43

However, comma.

SPEAKER_06 49:46

Sure.

SPEAKER_07 49:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 49:50

I guess that's his personality now. Alright. Yes and.

SPEAKER_01 49:55

The giant seeing the guard captain getting pushed around is uh gonna drop the body that he's using as a weapon and reach down and try to grab the guard captain. And he's going to lift him straight up in the air, and he's gonna he's gonna try to literally rip a leg off of this guard captain. The guard captain screams in pain as the giant is wrenching his leg back and forth, but he's not uh he's not able to to to rip it off just yet. Eldvar.

SPEAKER_06 50:26

Just yet.

SPEAKER_02 50:28

Uh Eldvar is gonna use the influence action to yell out to the giant while pointing at the man and woman Brother, we need to help the small folk. And so that should be a persuasion check. With my massive plus zero. What is Oh, it's not a feature you're just trying to persuade him to help? Yeah, the influence action to persuade.

SPEAKER_06 50:52

It was a thing.

SPEAKER_02 50:54

That's a thing in 2024. You enjoyed that, Justin?

SPEAKER_00 51:00

You can edit that out. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_06 51:05

It's just one doesn't like the sound of swallowing.

SPEAKER_00 51:10

The mic is like a full foot from my phone. It's either you hear me good enough or you don't. Like what are your options here? I don't know what you want from me.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

I think most of us like the sound of swallowing, though, right?

SPEAKER_07 51:21

Uh why did Ray, I don't get it. Why did Ray take his headphones off of him?

SPEAKER_01 51:34

Give me a persuasion check.

SPEAKER_07 51:36

I'd I'd swear Ray didn't listen to the first podcast before he decided to join. I know.

SPEAKER_02 51:42

Uh no, see, I did though. That's an 11, and that's probably as good as I'm gonna get, so I'm not gonna use inspiration on it. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 51:53

Um The giant, while looking right at you, Eldar, is gonna reach his head forward slightly and take a few like chomps on the guard like guard captain's leg.

SPEAKER_02 52:05

Yes, brother, eat that one. Help the small ones.

SPEAKER_01 52:08

Anything else, Eldvar? No, that's gonna be my turn. Alright. The guard captain, while screaming in pain, has just dropped his shield to the ground and he's just trying to hack away at the guard with the sword that he's holding. Giant? Or hack away at the giant with the sword that he's holding. Uh, but he's in so much pain he can't seem to get any kind of leverage or good smacks against the giant while the giant is continuously trying to pull this guard captain's leg out of its socket while taking a few little tasty chomps. Nelvax, you're up.

SPEAKER_00 52:43

I feel a little torn. Not like the guard captain who is actually being torn.

SPEAKER_07 52:50

Here's pulling your leg. Got eating. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 52:54

Yeah, I mean, like the giant spiders clearly are not on our team from the chomping they're doing to our team and trying to eat these civilians. Uh is there any way to size up like what's going on? Like, do the are these guard these guards and guard captain like recognizable at all as people that we maybe had any kind of rapport with that maybe we would consider changing sides for? I think we can manage to just like look around and see if I recognize any of their faces.

SPEAKER_01 53:22

I'll let you roll me a d20 for it. Take up your bonus action. Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

Just a monk what I need bonus actions for.

SPEAKER_01 53:31

True.

SPEAKER_00 53:32

Oh, it's a three. How good is that?

SPEAKER_01 53:34

That is not good. That is not good at all. Yeah. Uh yeah, I mean, Nelvax, you were pretty busy in the in the palace square in the gardens when everything was going down. You were flying around like a superhero, saving people, uh, hunting things, and um you you just didn't really pay attention to the people that were turned into werewolves before everything hit the fan.

SPEAKER_00 53:59

Cool. Cool, cool. Uh so guard three who swung at me and I just like knocked his sword away. I'm gonna do like a quick little whirlwind slash and swing at him twice, again with my scimitar, just uh just to see what happens here. Alright. Um, natural one plus six for seven. And oh, uh natural twenty plus six for twenty-six.

SPEAKER_01 54:21

Alright, uh then that twenty does hit. Uh double dice, please.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

Oh yeah. Uh so that'll be uh two d eight plus three. Uh nine plus three is twelve. So twelve slashing damage to uh the guard. The first attack comes across um at like his chest and just like scrapes across as a blessed breastplate or chainmail or whatever it is he's wearing his guard uniform. And the second one comes across closer to the eyes and like gets in his little like are they wearing helmets? I assume they are.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

No, they're not wearing helmets.

SPEAKER_00 54:53

They're not wearing helmets. So he tries to like dodge his head back, and I catch his cheek and his nose as the scimitar slashes across his nose and has a fine spray of mice across the uh giant spider there.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

Yeah, the the guard is he turns to you as his head rips to one side and he uh whips to one side and he turns back to you and he snarls, and blood is just dripping down the fangs, down his fangs as his teeth are exposed. He's pretty pissed off.

SPEAKER_00 55:20

Yeah, uh bad duck, I'd say.

SPEAKER_01 55:23

That's a bad duck.

SPEAKER_07 55:27

Uh that's paper threateningly.

SPEAKER_01 55:30

Alright, boss, you're up.

SPEAKER_07 55:33

Alright. So, in the age-old uh DD adage, intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, while wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. I'm gonna take my high wisdom and my belief that the giant is in fact a friend, and put it to good use. Casting uh fast friends on the giant at the third level.

unknown 55:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 55:58

What is fast friends? Can you Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 56:01

Uh so when I need to get something done, and I can't rely on promises, sworn oaths, or contracts, I can cast this spell on a humanoid. I mean, this is a humanoid, correct? Do giants constitute a humanoid? I think giants count as humanoids. Let me check. If not, I'll I'll redact this, but I'm pretty sure they do. Let me check that. And they can understand me. That's actually the other question.

SPEAKER_06 56:23

Does it not humanoids? I'm pretty sure they're not humanoids. They are not humanoids.

SPEAKER_07 56:29

Oh, they're not humanoids. Okay. Uh dang, I really wanted to go off of this fact and try to get the giant to free the people. Okay, well, seeing now his target is uh out of melee range, the being the guard captain. And uh the fact that uh my word of radiance didn't work last time, I'm going to attempt to do uh guiding bolt. Third level at the guard captain, because I'm really unhappy with these werewolves. That would be a 23 to hit. That does hit. Alright. Maybe I can make friends this way. Or maybe it's gonna really piss him off that I'm uh killing his snack. We'll find out. This is a lot of dice. Holy smokes. 26 damage.

SPEAKER_01 57:16

Yeah, you're uh this giant gnawing on the leg of the guard captain uh sees this guiding bolt come in. How do you kill the guard captain?

SPEAKER_07 57:27

Uh all the damage goes to straight to his the gu the guard captain's head, uh, making sure not to damage any of the tasty vitals and say uh the voice right. Hey, you finished that there's snack. Uh but hopefully this will make him a little less uh wiggly and slightly crispier for ya. And he says that in common. Okay. Wait, can I can I actually speak? I feel like I can speak other languages. Let me look at my do I have a ring of the orator?

SPEAKER_00 58:04

Uh you do have a ring of the orator.

SPEAKER_07 58:08

Yeah, I'm just trying to see. Uh if you project your voice while speaking language listening creature don't understand, you can make cre you can make the creatures understand what you're saying. You must be able to see the creature. There we go. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and use that as well. Alright. Uh can I use that?

SPEAKER_00 58:25

Well, you have to be able to see the creature.

SPEAKER_07 58:27

Yeah, I can see the I I want to use this on the uh the giant that we're standing in front of. What is daylight? Essentially conveying a message. I'm attempting to toast his snack for him.

SPEAKER_01 58:37

Alright. It's not an action or anything, it doesn't say that.

SPEAKER_07 58:40

It doesn't say action, yeah.

unknown 58:42

Cost.

SPEAKER_01 58:43

We can take it as a bonus action.

SPEAKER_07 58:45

Yeah. I'm not gonna move or anything, I'm just gonna stay on my uh trusty friend here.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

Okay. Uh the giant stops gnawing and stares directly at you, boss.

SPEAKER_07 58:57

With a smile.

SPEAKER_01 58:58

With a bloody, toothy half grin.

SPEAKER_07 59:03

He's still our friend.

SPEAKER_01 59:05

Alright. Uh so the anything else, boss?

SPEAKER_07 59:08

Nope, that's it.

SPEAKER_01 59:09

Alright. So the man and woman that is b that are below the rubble right now, uh, their screams are getting quieter. It sounds like the breath is being pushed out of them. And the child is as you step around him, Zayn, he's going to take a couple steps back and continue just screaming at the top of his lungs. Do you want to take an opportunity attack?

SPEAKER_06 59:36

So Zayn being thoroughly confused and not knowing who's the bad guy, who's the good guy.

SPEAKER_08 59:40

Sweet not just getting I say stay there. No.

SPEAKER_01 59:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 59:48

Uh Harleck back up top with you. Uh, I am gonna continue trying to get to well, I guess I can get to the I'm gonna get over to the man so I'm not as close to the to the giant spider. Uh, and then try to assess if there's any way I can loosen things or try to get him free with my massive muscles. Uh do you have any spells to help you? Are you just trying to like uh the best I have in this situation would be levitate, um, which is why I had asked if the rubble was was around 500 pounds, because that's the max that I could lift with that spell.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:25

Okay, so I I'll say that uh for levitate in this instance, you because everything's so close together, you can grab up to 500 pounds of rubble and move it off of them. Okay. Then yeah, I'd like to do that then. Alright. Any kind of rolls or anything you need to do with that, or just happens?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:43

Uh it is let me get it up.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:46

The rubble gets a wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:51

The rubble is gonna make it. Good luck. And I can move things up to 20 feet in the air and around. I'm gonna move it up top of above the spider. Alright. Just leave it, let it float above the spider in the guard, and that way uh once I can get the people clear, um, just gonna let let it drop. Okay. Nice. I like that. Good job. Anything else? Uh if I have the ability to try to like usher the the lady, even though I'm this like small child, I'll drop the the little kid's voice.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:26

It's like, oh, you guys gotta come with me. Come on now.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:30

Which is not. I was gonna say, that's dropping the little kid's voice. Got it. Okay. Uh yeah, so the man and woman look at you as all this rubble is lifted off of them, but it it they their eyes are fluttering and they're barely staying conscious. They're not getting up.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:49

Alright. You've come so far since the windmill, I just have to say. You know, back then you were just murdering innocent civilians. Now you're trying to I asked. I asked.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:02

Okay. Anything else, Harleck?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:05

Uh no, that's it. That's all I can do my turn.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:07

Alright, so Nelvax, from where you stand, the giant spider holding the guard is uh goes fully limp and drops to the ground, and the spider drops it to the ground, and the guard doesn't move any longer.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:22

Weird.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:23

And then I would say if anybody's looking towards guard five, south of you all, he takes a step towards a giant spider and falters and drops to the ground. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:36

We're almost out of enemies here. This is gonna be easy.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:40

Guard one and guard two uh are gonna turn towards the spiders, seeing that their brothers just died and take slashes at them.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:48

At their brothers?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

At the spiders.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:53

Is that guarding?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:54

Sorry, maybe what's gonna do. Were you saying the guard went limp or the spider went limp? This the guard went limp. Okay. That makes way more sense.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:03

And both the guards are gonna hit the spiders that are in front of them. And guard three is going to take his sword, and just out of anger, he's gonna continue to stab the spider as the spider the as the spider's legs give out and it drops to the ground. The guard's then gonna turn and look at you, Nelvex, and he's gonna rush towards the rush past all three of you to the giant. You all have a chance for an opportunity attack if you'd like to take one.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:36

Guards are hesitate.

unknown 1:03:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:40

Elvar will whiff with a 12 to hit for four slashing damage on the mess. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:49

Uh I got a 16 to hit. It does hit. Alright. Coming at you with four bludgeoning damage from uh Voss's mace. Perched to top. Eldvar. How do you kill this guard? Uh he hits him with his mace in the back of the head, and it slightly gets he has to kind of like wiggle it a little bit to get the spikes out as he falls to the ground, and it almost pulls him off of Eldvar, but he manages to kind of hang on.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:22

Yeah, the the momentum from your your hit and pulling back actually takes the guard's body a little bit further than you, Voss, and he's gonna slide to a stop on the cobblestone directly in front of the giant.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:34

Alright. Uh Voss is a free action, I'll say, Hey, there's uh one more snack for you. Have uh that guy like super tasty as well, like a cream puff.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:49

Okay. Um guard two, uh, the last remaining guard, seeing everything that's transpiring around him, and seeing the giant and this child that is Harlek, is going to intentionally step away from the giant and place himself between Harleck and the Giant and all of you. And the spider's gonna take a big chomp at him. Uh, he does miss, the guard takes gets a shield up just in time to miss. Spider A, no longer entangled by the guard, is gonna step up to the woman and start making a tasty treat of her.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:26

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:28

And his fangs sink deep inside the woman.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:31

Do does anybody do we see the guard like shielding Harlek? Well, Harleck's.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:39

From where you are all are, I would say the only person that might have been able to see it is Nelvax. And obviously Harlek. And uh the woman after getting bit, her struggles stop and her eyes stop fluttering.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:55

So Zayn will as much as he can see of the situation. Will look directly at the giant and he will tell the giant because he doesn't know that the woman is dead. Of course he can't see that. Um he will tell the giant to um he will give the giant a suggestion to help clear the rubble. Because he also doesn't know that the guard's still alive. He will tell the giant to or suggest to the giant to help clear the rubble, save the people, and then head back to wherever it is he came

Hypnotic Pattern And The Escape

SPEAKER_06 1:06:33

from. Casting suggestion. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:36

Suggestion. You suggest the course of activity scribbled in no more than twenty-five words to one creature you can see within range that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound achievable and not involve anything that would obviously deal damage to the target or its allies. Uh the target must succeed on a wisdom saving throw, or have the charm condition for the duration, or until you or your allies deal damage to the target. The charmed target pursues a suggestion to the best of its ability. The suggested activity can continue for the entire duration, but if the suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, the spell ends. Alright. Wisdom saving throw. Yeah. Giants are not good at that, and it failed.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:13

Alright. So as as Zayn sees the giant moving towards that, if that's what he's doing, he will say he's he's gonna help us save the people. Something like that. So that everybody can hear.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:29

Okay. Anything else, Zane?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:32

He will start walking that direction. Actually, he'll I guess I can just move. Since there's no enemies, he will go this way.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:41

Well the frost giant is still gonna take a swing at you. He's not your friend.

unknown 1:07:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:49

This way.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:52

Does Zane know that he's not our friend though?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:55

Zane doesn't think anybody's his friend, so he's gonna be wary. And he just cast a quote unquote hostile spell. I don't know whether a suggestion is hostile or not.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:05

But Okay. So uh the giant is gonna take a few steps away, and he's gonna reach down, and he's gonna try to grab the man and Harleck.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:17

Save, I said.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:19

Yep, save.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:22

So he's gonna grab the man. The man is not struggling whatsoever. Harleck, I need you to give me a strength saving throw.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:29

Strength save? Oh my god, no, thank you. Dear Christ. A seven.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:38

Alright. The giant is gonna reach down. Each of its hands, the left hand is gonna grab around the man that's in the rubble, and the right hand is gonna wrap around Harleck as a child. And then the giant is gonna turn and walk past you, Zane. You have a chance, you want to give an opportunity attack against him. Is he carrying the He's carrying the man and Harlech.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:02

So an attack of opportunity. Can I tell him that he's saved them?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:07

No. You told him to save the people and return to where he came from. Uh verbatim compliance.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:17

Did the guard take an opportunity attack?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:19

Uh the guard is gonna take an opportunity attack, yes. And he's gonna whiff hard. The guard's gonna take a swing and then start screaming at the giant uh and then you just can't understand what he's saying, but he's roaring at the giant as this child and man are being taken away. Did we see Harleck get taken by our friend? Yeah, I'm gonna say that you all know that he's a child and you can see him being carried away.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:46

Did you describe the manner in which Harlech is being taken away? Is it like a comforting, protective way, or like I'm gonna eat you in 10 minutes?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:53

Uh he's holding each of them in their hands. Like his hands are wrapped around each of them, and he's just carrying them at the sides, like a briefcase.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:59

Like I might carry a hot dog? Yeah. That I didn't want a seagull to steal from me. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:06

Uh no, I'm not gonna take an opportunity attack.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:11

Okay. With that description, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:15

Eldvar, your turn. Uh Eldvar is gonna see that there's really nothing left for him to do. Um, you know, he knows Harleck's got magic and can probably get out of the situation, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:30

I don't know. But can I?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:40

I mean, in Eldvar's memory, you most recently were everywhere in the tunnels, right? You were next to him, you were down the tunnel, you were down a different tunnel. You're magic, man. And so, um, yeah, he's gonna realize that there's nothing left to do, and he's just gonna yell out to the giant, um, bring him to my place, and then just, I guess, retreat back in the direction of There is still a guard up and a giant spider. Yeah, and they'll they'll take care of each other. Oh, okay. Um he was most interested in helping the giant. The giant is free, and Eldar uh does not see anything that he can really intervene on and at this point. So I think uh back towards the north is is where our house is, right? Even though it's south of the city, but I think it's north on this map.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:40

Yes, it is north of the map.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:41

Alright, and then Voss, if if you want to get off when I'm when I start leaving, you're welcome to it. Okay. Um you hopping off?

SPEAKER_07 1:11:50

Well, I kind of want to make a some s some sort of a check to like assess the situation. I'm not sure what I have seen, what I haven't seen. Uh I'm like uh otherwise, if I don't have a chance to make a choice, I'd have to go with Eldvar, because so far I've kind of been following his lead on pr like helping out the giant, and I have no reason to think he's not a friend. He hasn't done anything hostile towards us.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:13

So you'll be able to do that on your turn.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:16

Okay. So right now I'll give you the option to hop off of Eldvar's back or go with him.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:22

Uh I don't, I just go ahead and hop off.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:26

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:29

Novax, you're up.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:30

I think Novax is worried about Harlik.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:35

That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:37

Uh let me just check the distance here. The distance is less than 45 feet. Yeah, uh, so Novax is gonna uh not like what he saw. Like, despite everything he heard, he's not gonna like it. So he's gonna run and take like a slide tackle. Um he's gonna uh sheath his scimitar and go full unarmed for this motion here. Uh so I'm gonna start with uh a couple of quick unarmed attacks, uh like sweeping kicks to the giant's ankles to try to uh just I don't know, stop him from stealing his buddy to make bread out of his bones. Uh first hit is a 26 to hit.

unknown 1:13:15

That hits.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:16

Second is a 20 24 to hit.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:18

That also hits.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:19

Alright, so the first hit we're gonna take uh 9 bludgeoning damage. And then I think I can do a stunning strike. Hold on. I'm pretty sure I can stun him. I want him to not walk my friend off to eat him. Just gotta figure out which of these damn monk features is the right one. Stunning strike. Once per round, if you hit an enemy with a monk weapon or unarmed strike, I can expand a focus point to attempt a stunning strike. Target must make a DT. DC 13 con save. He's a giant, that's not great. If it fails, it's stunned. If it's successful, then its speed is halved until the start of my next turn. So at the very least, it will not escape it. And then the next attack roll made against it has advantage. So please attempt a con save, Brandi, for your giants.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:17

Well, uh, giants are very good at con saves.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:19

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:20

Yeah, it's really bad. And that gives me a 19.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:24

Okay. Is it passes? So he has his speed halved until the next turn. I do expend a key point to do so.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:30

Alright. Uh the giant, as you attack him, is seems to like shake his head a little bit and he turns back around towards you, Nelvex, still holding Harleck and the uh man.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:43

So uh take a second uh and like point at him and then point at Child Harleck, and point at the crown and say, put him down. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:55

Anything else, Nelvex?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:56

Does he do it?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:58

Not right now, he doesn't, no.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:59

Okay. Uh yeah, I'm gonna activate my bonus section of Flurrier Blows. I'm gonna hit him three more times. Okay. Uh is it three or two? I think it's only two times, actually. Flurry blows, two more strikes. Here we go. The first hit is a 14 to hit. Uh, that does hit. That was just a warning, anyways. And uh 14 to hit again. That hits. One of those should have technically had advantage, but that's fine. Uh, and that is a total of 18 additional bludgeoning damage. I'm gonna punch him right in the like once in each kneecap. Like, make sure he's aware that I'm not cool with him running out with my buddy.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:43

Okay. Give me some damage. Uh yeah, 18 bludgeoning. 18 total. Got it.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:49

To the kneecaps directly.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:50

Yeah. Uh the giant uh staggers a little bit and just catches himself before he drops to the ground.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:59

Excellent. I don't want no beef. I just want my my bird back. I just want my bird back. Anything else, Nelvax? No, that's good. Alright. Voss.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:10

Okay. Uh so uh Voss is gonna look over at Nilvax and say, hey, Nilvax, uh easy, easy. He's friendly. I think that's really bad voice. Is he? I don't know. Honestly, at this point, Voss doesn't actually know, but what he's going to do to try to help out the situation is cast hypnotic pattern. I can do that. Alright, what is that? Wisdom save of 13. Hypnotic pattern, create a twisting pattern of colors. Third of a cube within range. Uh pattern appears for a moment and vanishes. Each creature in the area who can see the pattern must succeed on a wisdom saving through have the charm conditioned. Uh when they're charmed, they have incapacitated and a speed of zero. So I think if I attack the or if I put that on the giant, it has to be on top of Harleck and the man, correct? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:59

And I failed.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:00

Okay.

unknown 1:17:01

Alright.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:02

Let's go ahead and do that. I'm just trying to get the get our friends back.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:05

Okay, the giant fails, and the man fails.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:08

Hey Nilvax, let's uh let's let's try to solve this peacefully. I think he's one of the good guys here, but I'm not exactly sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:17

That sounds great to me. Nilvax will go over and try to pull Harleck up away from the giant's grasp. If we're I don't know if we're still on combat or not. I really know how this works.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:27

There is still a giant spider and a guard.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:29

Okay. Then I don't get to do anything.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:32

His hypnotic pattern would have knocked out my concentration on the floating rocks above the spider. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:40

Ooh, nice. So yeah, those dropped. Uh roll me. I mean, there was a giant spider and a guard.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:50

You know what? Uh I I like the the creativity here, Harlek. Give me uh roll me 2d8 damage. 2d8 five.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:01

Alright, how do you kill this giant spider? Uh well I guess when uh Harleck turns into a drooling small child of like getting smoked with the. I think your disguise drops too. Your Harlechs are. Yeah, I just Harlech just like hocks back like tongue out, and then uh the rocks just come crashing down.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:22

Actually, no, you wouldn't, because it's not a concentration spell. I think it stays on you for the duration. Disguise self. Uh yeah, it's not concentration.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:33

So I just look like a passed out kid.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:35

Is levitation a concentration spell?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:37

It levitation is concentration.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:40

Okay. Oh, so you weren't a child anymore when you were being carried by the giant.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:45

No, disguise self isn't concentration. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:48

Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:49

Yep. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:50

Okay. Um yeah. The child that is up here sees everything that's going on and he just runs off. He just takes off around the block, still screaming at the top of his lungs. Uh, so what does incapacitation look like in 2024? Incapacitated 2024 cannot take actions, bonus actions, or reactions. Uh its concentration is broken, it cannot speak, and it has disadvantage on initiative roles of surprised. Condition doesn't prevent movement on its own, though it's often accompanied by other conditions like paralyzed, petrified, or stunned.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:28

What does that leave you to do?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:30

Move, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:32

I think you can make an attempt to save on your turn, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:35

Well, hypnotic pattern also says you're speed zero.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:39

Yeah, hypnotic pattern makes your speed zero, and and you need somebody else to wake you. You don't get another save. So you're just sleeping there, Harleck. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:50

Yeah. Uh so do you drop the thing that things that are your holding, or do you Yeah, the guard giant drops both of those guys and falls to the ground at the same time, barely missing crushing Harleck and the man. Um Guard 2, seeing everything that's going on, is going to. Oh, sorry, Harlick. It's your turn, you can't do anything. I'm gonna skip you.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:17

Well, if he was dropped, then he would be damaged and he would wake up. It's not that far of a drop.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:23

How far was he drop from? He said he was holding my feet. Five feet.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:26

Yeah, I don't know how tall this giant is.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:29

But guard two is gonna. Like roadburn from falling? Like they are moving, alright? So like maybe he skids like skins his.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:35

No, he he stopped and turned towards you, Nelvax, when you punched him.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:39

Threw him while he was turning towards me using that centripable port?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:43

No damage is done to Harleck. Guard two is gonna rush past Voss and Zayn trying to get past to trying to get to to and Nelvax actually. He's gonna use his action and bonus action to try to get to this man that was just dropped. All three of you have a chance for an opportunity attack.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:04

He's the enemy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:05

Yeah. As far as as far as Zane, we were attacking the guards. Have no idea that guard is going to try to help the man.

unknown 1:21:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:19

So he he will take his attack of opportunity.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:22

I guess yeah. A seven does not hit? Uh Zane?

SPEAKER_06 1:21:27

19?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:28

That does hit.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:29

13?

SPEAKER_07 1:21:31

How do you kill the guard? You mean he wasn't going to help the man. We'll never get answers.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:43

As Zayn sees the guard charging forward, he's basically gonna tee up and take a baseball stance and double hand his freaking sword and just funk as he lops his head off.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:57

Okay. Alright. Um, so with everything dead except for the giant who's incapacitated, uh you are out of combat unless you want to attack the giant.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:10

Can I can I take my opportunity attack anyway, even though it's dead? Yeah. Uh so Novax was like very confused about what's going on. So his plan when he saw the guard coming at him was just to like grapple him. So he does. He grabs him like around the waist and like gives him a little suplex and rolls him to the ground. And then like after he's on the ground holding this corpse, he looks and notices that there's no head attached anymore. And he's just like squeezing more blood out of his body.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:38

Uh oh, thank God Harley couldn't see that. Alright, well then you guys are out of combat. How long does hypnotic pattern last, Voss?

SPEAKER_07 1:22:49

Uh let me see. Is it off a spell? I think it's one minute.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:56

It's one minute. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:57

One minute. Okay. So I think uh Voss will say hey guys, uh that that spell's not gonna last uh too long. We we might want to get it out of here, and he's gonna go up and uh talk like grab the man and then retreat back the way we came towards where Elbar went. Okay. Because at this point it's a Voss's head space. What's that? Never mind, go ahead. Grab grab man. Um Voss's headspace is he's not sure that the the giant actually understands them. He doesn't view him as an enemy. He just views him as somebody that's confused, so he wants to kind of get away with the people that they're trying to help, including the unconscious man and the unconscious Harleck.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:50

Does anybody grab Harleck? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:53

If like Harleck was or sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:57

Oh Phew, thank God.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:58

Nelvax definitely will if nobody else does. Nelvax is pretty tight with Harleck. And so now you guys head north out of the city?

SPEAKER_07 1:24:06

Yeah. The direction Elkar was going. North or south?

SPEAKER_01 1:24:09

Which way's our The City is south, but I always describe compass directions on the map that we're looking at.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:17

Okay, yeah, we'll go north on the map towards our house that's south.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:22

To the south.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:22

It's a long trip.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:25

Alright, uh as you guys are are leaving the city, you're not harassed anymore by any other guards, but you do hear a roar in the distance and uh the sound of uh the sound of crumbling and buildings being wrecked and a few screams.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:42

So Zayn as as we're walking along, Zayn is Are we the good guys? Question mark.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:52

And Harlock, you wake up.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:54

Oh yeah. Uh when the man comes to uh Voss will s set him down and then want to make sure he's okay before letting him continue on his life.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:06

Uh the man is not able to stand by himself.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:10

Oh. Then then Voss will continue to carry him.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:15

I guess we have a new servant.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:18

And he'll he'll look at the he'll look down at the man when he regains consciousness and say, Hey uh, we can take you back with us if you need uh some taken care of. Or is there a place you might want us to drop you off?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:31

He says in a very pained voice, there's a there's a clinic with a healer jewelry right around the corner. If you could drop me off.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:40

Okay, we'll take him there. Okay. We say no. We put him in shackles. No, just gotta take him to the pattern again.

unknown 1:25:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:49

Go back to sleep.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:52

Wrong answer. A minute later. Let me ask you again. No, no, no. I've got fast friends for that. He's human. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:01

Alright, Al, so you drop him off uh at this clinic and you're you leave the city without being harassed any longer. Or anymore. Um, you guys want to take a five-minute break before we continue?

unknown 1:26:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:12

Yeah, but first, it's like just a note, we weren't really harassed then either.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:20

You know what I gotta say, I I I predicted a lot of outcomes from that. I didn't expect you to side with the giant.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:29

I mean, Novax got his attention to turn around and I stopped him from running off with our friend, and we we went on our way. Like, we're not gonna be a good person. But we are in Soutu people, a child and people arguably.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:43

Yeah, the child's not dead for sure.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:46

We almost saved the lady.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:49

Yeah. And the guards are the bad guys in our mind. The guards are the bad guys.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:55

I tried real hard to figure out who the bad guys were.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:59

I just did a bad job. Everyone seemed terrible in the moment. Yeah. Including us.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:06

So, as you guys are leaving the city, is there anything you're saying to one another? Are you talking about this at all?

SPEAKER_06 1:27:12

I Zayn really asked, are we the good guys?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:15

Uh so I think uh Voss will well he knows screams are bad, but he doesn't know if these are bad screams or potentially good screams. So I'm gonna go ahead and do uh I think this would just be an intelligence check.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:36

So you're trying to determine if it's a if it's a screamer or a bad scream.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:42

If if these if the screams are coming from the giant or just more guards, because in his mind guards are bad and there's lots of them out there just terrorizing the city. So he kind of is thinking that guards are bad. Uh give me perception. Oh perception.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:57

I mean, because realistically got twenty Somebody could have summoned in those bad guys, the giant and the spiders to fight off the bad guards, but where they could have escaped from the monster menagerie. Oh yeah. Well, probably not the giant.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:18

Well, I mean Voss is convinced that the guards are bad. But anyway, my perception check was a 21.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:25

21. With a 21, you do hear some guttural screams, which does sound that do sound like guard uh werewolf guard screams and and roars of pain, but you also hear uh mix in with that screams of uh men and women that are are being hurt.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:43

Oh I think Voss is gonna chuck that up and say, uh guys, those those guards, man, they're they're really ramsacking this town. We should probably get out of here until we can do something more about them. They're they're quite a problem. Did you see they almost killed that uh giant back there?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:00

Oh, I think the one tried to help me out there when I was pretending to be that kid.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:06

Uh no. He uh it he did exactly what we asked him to, but uh the fella wasn't quite too smart. He started walking away with you. Sorry there, Elvar. Not trying to say, you know, all giants aren't smart, but that one just Oh, I meant I meant the guard. Oh the wait.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:25

I don't know if if we might have been on the wrong side there. A boss has a puzzled look comes across his face.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:37

I think Nelvax and Zane are the two smart ones of this group, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:29:42

Yeah. So uh wait, you're you're you're saying the the guards were the good guys?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:52

Well, I don't know if they were exactly the good guys, but it did seem like they might have been trying to help the civilians. Like I said, that one guard seemed like he was trying to help me.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:02

I don't think I saw that, did I? Actually, I asked if I saw that.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:05

I didn't think no the giant was in front of you.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:08

Okay. Well uh I guess that changes things a bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:14

Well, we did save the one civilian.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:17

He seemed to be pretty grateful for it, too. What does Nelvax think about all this? Is he saying anything?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:24

He's not saying much. He's mostly just glad that Harlick is okay. Um the whole thing was kind of confusing. Like, he definitely had his hesitations during the fight, like not really sure. Like, none of the bad guys actually attacked him, so like that is usually a sign of who the who the bad guys are. But none of the good guys were like the only people who attacked him, he had attacked first. So he's kinda like, uh, I don't really know. It didn't he didn't get a good read off of the giant, and like this the one spider did eat that lady.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:00

So he's mostly just kind of mulling it over right now, just kind of listening and keeping to himself. He checked on Harleck. Like, uh once Harleck came to, he like let him down and made sure we're walking together and like you know, patted him off, make sure he was alright, but not real sure about if we did the right thing or not. Not that like that was the worst thing we could have ever done.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:23

We didn't pickpocket the guy before he dropped him off at the did you?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:29

Uh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:34

So they're going through Zayn's mind, he's analyzing the whole situation as it happened and thinking about had they sided with the other side, would it have ended up any different? Or would we still have one dead civilian, one live civilian, and a child that ran off? And then we'd still had the guards to contend with later, because as far as we're concerned, the guards are always gonna be after us. So at the end of the day, we really didn't I mean, yeah, maybe we should have helped the guards, but I don't think the guards would have helped us.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:15

No, that's fair.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:17

I mean the guards and may I don't know why the guard would have tried to save you, Harley.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:24

I don't that that doesn't maybe if I was actually looking like me, he may not have.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:30

But but I don't know why he would be saving I don't I don't understand why the guards would be doing anything to help civilians right now. Any civilians.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:39

No Well they're I was gonna say, as far as what happened though, wasn't it that they're just invoking the stuff with the hags, they still need followers, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:32:50

But all the guards chose to they they chose the loyalty of the hags, or chose to be loyal to the hags, and the ones that weren't loyal to the hags that still wanted to protect the city m went with as far as we know, Lord Mongermonger. So in Zayn's mind, anybody that's a Wareguard is bad because they chose to side with uh Hags. That's as far as his I mean I don't know how true it is, but he's still Zayn is still questioning that you know were we really the good guys in that situation, or were we just the people who uh are we feeling like uh Indiana Jones and we really didn't have that much of an outcome of that on that story or effect on the outcome of that story?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:45

A vexing fight to be sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:47

And Alvar is just completely convinced that the giant was the good guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:52

Oh, absolutely. Uh the guards had most recently attacked him, and the giant is a giant, and so clearly the giant is good and the guards are bad. There's really no question about it.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:04

Alright.

Twill’s Uncharted Bazaar Shopping Spree

SPEAKER_01 1:34:05

So, as you're all walking back uh to the bastion, you come across a uh short uh cobalt carrying a large bag and a few satchels on his side, and he sees you and he he straightens up, even though the bag is obviously extremely heavy. He straightens up and he walks over to you with a large smile and he says, Ah! Oh, oh, big day, huh? I can see it. You guys are all pretty tired. Uh but I uh I I know travelers like you, adventurers, you may want to take a whirl at Twill's Unchartered Bazaar. Hmm, really? Say more.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:47

You immediately have my attention.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:50

Wait, wait, did you say Charter's Bazaar? Twill's uncharted bizarre. Bazaar. Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:59

Well, uh you guys are a veteran. You're obviously wandering around. Probably don't have a good place to lay your head down at night. Well, I can supply you with the things you need. You need health potions? I got 'em. You want some swords? I got 'em. You want a lantern? I got it. What do you need? A detached cobalt's head. Oh. I mean you could do that if you'd like. I don't think you'd like what would happen. I've got magic protecting my body. You are offering. I don't have any cobalt heads. I try not to collect those. My mom really doesn't like when I do that. But I do have, and he reaches into one of his side satchels and pulls it out, a uh a goblin's head. He says, I do have one of these. Got it on my most recent adventure. Hunter silver pieces, it's yours.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:46

It's not a cobalt.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:49

So you're an adventurer? No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:53

I'm a salesman.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:54

Then how did you get this on your last adventure?

SPEAKER_01 1:35:57

Well, my adventures are going around collecting things so I can sell it to good people like you. So you're an adventurer. Yeah. Well, I'm a s I'm an adventuring salesman. Sometimes we're going to have a lot of fun. We were just having a discussion.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:12

And I'm not really sure we're the good people that you're looking for.

unknown 1:36:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:19

If you guys don't want anything, I also I I I can go. I I also, if I don't have it with me, I can probably go find it for you if you got a place I can meet you.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:29

Oh I do procurements. Uh Voss looks a bit uneasy uh giving this guy directions back to their house.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:37

Uh Novex has some contacts. So Novex uh puts a little swagger on it, like steps forward, shakes the little kobold's hand, and says, You don't have a business card, do you?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:48

Oh, my friend, a man of culture. And he reaches hand behind his back and uh whips it out, and you see a little bit of smoke appear between his two fingers, and uh in between is a small business card.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:01

Perfect. I will take it and like I'd like to also like magically sleight of hand, like whip it out of existence, like a flick, flick, flick, poof, gone.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:15

Roll me a perception check, Nelvax.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:18

Perception. I have advantage on something here.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:22

On on things you can see, and yes, you do have advantage.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:25

Advantage on s on eyeballs, hell yeah. This is a consistent thing with me. Uh 19 for perception. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:33

Uh though Twill maintains the smile on his face, you can see that his eyes track your hand as you're moving the card through your fingers and make it disappear.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:43

Oh yeah. Uh respect. So I like I don't know if he's looking, like if he can see that I see that he sees, like, but I know he knows. I know that you know that I know.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:54

Oh, this guy's got style.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:58

Uh Voss will kind of walk up to the Cobalt and say, uh, do you have any uh access to the uh the tower?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:09

Uh I mean, things are a bit a little tough there. I don't know if you've heard lately, but I could probably get a message in or out if that's what you're looking for.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:17

Yeah, I was wondering if you can give me any information about uh the the going-ons of some uh high-ranking officials in the in the tower. But first uh kind of want to make sure you're actually able to access something like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:33

I can probably get you some information. Uh the more you pay, the more I'm willing to put myself at danger to get that information.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:41

Yeah, that sounds good for me. I need you to uh to check up on uh a lady by the name of Eldra. Elyra sorry, Elyra. Uh she's a magistrate. Shouldn't be too hard to track down. He's gonna uh uh toss him five gold coins. Say I think this should uh cover more than any of the danger you find yourself in. And I'd like to get a uh an answer back within 24 hours, if you don't mind.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:12

Uh so you toss him five gold, is that what you said? Yeah. Alright, yeah. Uh take five gold out of your inventory. He snatches the gold out of the air and looks at it, shakes it a little bit, and then puts it in one of his pouches. And he says, Ah, 24 hours, that's gonna be a little tight. I can get it to you within 48 hours.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:31

I'll send him another five gold.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:34

Oh, 24 hours it is, my friend.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:36

Alright. We'll uh we'll we'll beat uh be right up here around the corner.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:44

And then um Eldvar hearing that he's talking about uh Elyra is gonna say, um, if you're checking in on Ellyra, uh put in a good word for me, and it's gonna toss him five gold as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:57

Uh he's gonna look back between Voss and Eldvar. He's like, uh yeah, man, you you got it. Yeah, I'll put in a good word for you. Five gold, absolutely. I'll say whatever you want. How big do you want your dick to be?

SPEAKER_04 1:40:09

Oh, my.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:11

I mean, just the standard, like ten inches, you know. Standard ten inches. Oh my okay, all right. Maybe I didn't realize how big of a man you were. Yeah, I got you. 10 inches, got it. Uh anybody else looking for anything? I do have some things to sell.

unknown 1:40:28

No.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:29

What does he have? What do you got to sell? Um yeah, I got an inventory list for us, Brandon.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:35

Uh friend of mine just lost uh a valuable lantern. What would you have the range of personal lanterns?

SPEAKER_07 1:40:44

Uh you got jugs that produce mayonnaise or armor with nimble flaps? Just got some favorites back here.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:54

Uh hold up. Okay. So he uh at the mention of a lantern, he slings the bag that's on his back onto the ground, and he dives half into it, and his legs are kicking out from behind him as he's searching around in the bag, and then he pulls out this brass lantern that's filled with uh silver mists that are shifting inside of it, and you can hear a soft murmur coming from the lantern. He says, Oh, alright, if you wanted a lantern, I got one for you. This, I call it the whispering lantern. What it does, not only does it light it up, because obviously none of you have dark vision, but not only does it light the area up, but it also once per day, I mean, when you go to sleep, you know, once per day, you can use it to reveal any ethereal or invisible things around you.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:51

Ooh. How much does that cost?

SPEAKER_01 1:41:54

That's gonna be 150 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:57

Ah, sold. And I'll cash over 150 gold, and I'll hand the lantern to Harlik.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:04

Alright. So he went into the sack, did it look like he was disappearing into an extra-dimensional space, or did it look like it was just a backpack? Would Eldvar know what an extra-dimensional space is? I mean, he's seen Harlik with the bag of holding. Okay. Uh yeah, his body should be able to figure out if like it if it's big enough to hold the body.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:30

Yeah, yeah. His body, even though it's small, is too big to fit into the uh too big to fit into that bag. So you can kind of determine it's an extra-dimensional space. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:43

Can I just push him into it and close the bag? That that was my thought.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:49

You can try if you'd like. You can try if you would like.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:57

No. Um next time he goes in the bag. Uh Zane will ask, what kind of how many healing po what kind of healing potions do you have?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:06

I just got uh potions. I don't have a whole lot right now. I've got four healing potions on me, but I can get you some more. You want greater healing potions, superior healing potions, ultimate healing potions, wondrous healing potions, you name it, I can probably get it for you, but right now I only have four normal healing potions.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:22

Um, how much for the four healing potions?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:27

For all four, I'll give you for 50 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:30

I will take that.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:32

Okay, subtract 50 gold pieces from your inventory. And add four healing potions.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:36

So after having conducted these businesses, Novax will like extend his hand again in a much more friendly gesture this time. Like o overly friendly, like, you know, we're we're doing business now. We've got an arrangement. You know, we we start to understand each other, right? We're business partners even, possibly. Uh so shakes his hand and says, listen, I'm uh kind of stealthy. I like to be up close and personal with my uh counterparts. What might you have that might suit me?

SPEAKER_01 1:44:02

Oh, you wanna be uh up and close and personal? Unfortunately, I don't have anything for you at the moment, but I could probably find something for you. Do you want to be able to hit harder? Do you wanna uh be able to sneak around a little stealthier? Do you wanna maybe jump from shadow to the shadow?

SPEAKER_00 1:44:18

Uh the shadows is kind of my thing, and I am very sneaky. So something along those lines if it actually made me better. Uh what kind of stuff do you have in mind? I don't want to, you know, egg you on without giving you good reason.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:29

Oh, if you want eggs, I got eggs. I got ostrich eggs, I got lion eggs, I've got griffin eggs. You name it, I got the eggs.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:36

No, not so much the eggs, the the sneaky sneaky slash shadowy portions of the eggs. I just want to know more about them. I don't want to ask you to go through trouble if it's not going to pay out.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:47

Uh, well, uh there are a few capes and cloaks out there that could probably help you with that. Uh make you a little faster, make you a little sneakier, uh some that make you a little stronger, be able to withstand a little more damage. I gotta tell you though, those kinds of things are pricey.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:04

What about in the hitting regard? What what might you offer on that on that side?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:08

Uh well, do you like the punch or do you like to hit things with a big stick?

SPEAKER_00 1:45:13

More more he looks around. He's like more punchy usually, but I I hit things from time to time with sharp and blunt objects.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:20

Okay. Uh well I can probably find you some uh like maybe some bracers that'll help you out. I would be interested in bracers. Alright, yeah, let me uh let me look around. Uh when I come back with a message in 24 and 48 sorry, 24 hours. 24 hours, uh he points towards Voss. Uh, then I'll I'll I'll see what I can find for you.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:42

Okay. And then I will also supply him with a contact for one of my thieves' acquaintances, so he doesn't have to know where we are directly, so he knows how to get a hold of us because I recognize that was a uh something Voss wasn't comfortable with.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:57

Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. The other thing is that business card I gave you, if you just say my name three times within it, I'll uh I'll show up. Good to know. What's your name? Is his name?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:07

Guys, it's it's it's Twill. Twill, twill, twill, Nelvax says, holding the card in his hand.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:15

Uh Twill and everything he's carrying disappears into a black smoke and appears about six inches closer to you. Whoa! All right. Uh you can only do that once a day. I don't think you I would really appreciate it if you didn't do it in those short distances. It doesn't feel real good.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:34

Hey uh Twill, any uh any chance you can uh you got in that bag of yours a staff of thunder and lightning? Uh you know I like to bring the thunder and sometimes it comes out as lightning. Nope. I it holds up as anything lightning.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:51

Is that what you're looking for? You're looking for some kind something to help you with lightning? I can I can do that.

unknown 1:46:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:00

Uh I I mean I don't have anything right now, but I can come back to you with something.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:05

Yes, death of thunder and lightning might be kind of fun. See if you can wrestle something like that up on your adventures.

unknown 1:47:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:13

Uh anybody else looking for anything? Oh, by the way, uh, I do have this. And he he reaches back and he dives back into his bag. And we don't push him in. Nope. We don't push a mirror.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:23

Dives back into his bag and he pulls out about it and he saw the looks that his friends were giving him, his party mates were giving him, and he pulls out a jar that's got a bunch of corks all over it, and he says, Is this what you're looking for?

SPEAKER_07 1:47:41

Hey, that uh looks just like the one I saw. Does it make oil and mayonnaise and stuff?

SPEAKER_01 1:47:46

Oh my god, so much mayo. And he pulls like a little cork out and some mayo comes out and he licks his finger. How much you want for that? Oh, uh, well, I've only got two of these. So uh it's gonna be a little pricey. Uh this is going to be 1,500 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:08

1,500 gold pieces, you gotta be out of your mind. That's that mayo ain't made of gold. No, but the poison on the other side might be might as well be. Yeah, I tried to do that in the last campaign. That's not a money printer. It's all supply and demand. Yeah. And instantly as soon as the we get it, the demand goes down.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:33

Zay will ask if uh if he if Quill has or Quill? Twill. Twill. Do I love it?

SPEAKER_01 1:48:40

Hey, if Twill's too much for you, you can just call me Jorbin. That's my first name.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:43

Okay, that'll help, Jordan. Um do you have any special calling a simies?

SPEAKER_01 1:48:51

Do I have any special what? Inks? Inks. Uh I I mean I have ink ink, if that's what you're looking for. You're looking for magic ink?

SPEAKER_06 1:49:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:03

I can probably find some for you.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:05

Do you have any with you?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:07

No, I don't normally carry magic ink. That stuff disappears way too fast. Eh? See what I did there?

SPEAKER_06 1:49:14

You will get a half smile out of Zane.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:17

I don't I don't get it. Oh, it and he he kind of looks back towards uh Harlek.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:23

He says, Well, it's a Zayn just shakes his head.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:27

It disappears really fast.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:29

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:30

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:33

Uh what about you, big man? Looking for anything specific that I can find for you?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:37

Well, I mean, my my sword is having a hard time holding an edge. Do you have anything in that sack that that might replace it? Oh, you want a new sword? Uh a great one though. Oh, a like a great sword.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:51

I thought you were talking about the 10 inch thing that we were just mentioning.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:54

Well, I mean, for another five, it might be twelve, but uh I'm I could use something to swing around.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:02

Brother, if you give me another five gold, I will tell her that you lost a leg in battle and you're walking around on your dick.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:08

Oh my god. You know, it might tear her apart, so that might be a little bit too much for her to take.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:15

Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. Voss Voss shoots him a look, knowing he's talking about his mom. Hey, uh you know you're uh he's delivering this message to my mom, right? Ariel. Wait, wait, she's your mom? Dude, she's a smokeshow. Well, I know that. Where do you think I got my uh my my good looks from?

SPEAKER_02 1:50:37

Or like singing in the background. Now that now that you say it, like I mean, she's a whole lot of woman though.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:47

Well, uh I I think that I'll take that as a compliment there, pal. You must take after your father. I think that's a compliment too.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:56

Alright, I can I can find you some kind of great sword. What about you, uh uh uh uh uh I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name. I was about to call you feathers. That's that would probably have been very rude.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:05

No, just a little bit. Uh my name's Harlech. I don't think I really need anything right now. Nelvax bought the lantern. Uh what if we could trouble you down the road? I might be looking to, if I can't make one myself, a hat that can help me disguise myself a little bit. I don't need that now or anything. Something to help you disguise yourself.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:25

I can do that, I can do that. Uh wait, was this one of Santa's elves that just came to cra collect our Christmas list?

SPEAKER_03 1:51:33

I was gonna try crafting one in the workshop area, but um if it came down to either hunting one down or making one over time.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:42

Might as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:43

You have something to uh ask Zane?

SPEAKER_06 1:51:45

Yeah, so Zayn will say, Do you have anything that helps you remember things that you kind of remember but don't fully re uh a notebook? Zane gives him a slow blink.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:02

Not a notebook. Uh no, I I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:07

Okay. Then the last thing I have to ask is do you have anything that you are afraid to open the box for?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:15

Anything I'm afraid to open a box for.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:18

Yeah, uh anything that you've gotten that you're afraid to deal with.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:24

No, no, I normally get rid of those things pretty fast. But if you're interested, if I pick up any of my travels, I can bring them to you first. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:32

Alright, you got it. Do you have anything just weird in that bag? I just showed you the mayo jar.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:39

That's not that weird. Alright, one second.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:42

I got one of those at the counter.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:44

Hold hold up. I I do this one thing. And he reaches into a side pouch on his belt and he pulls out this uh he pulls out this large tentacle and it's just waving around frantically as he's holding it. And it's about it's about three feet long, and it's got suckers on the side of it, and he says, I've been told somebody use this as a sword. Don't look like a sword to me. W what that thing do? I don't know. I don't really bring it out too often. What do you want for it? I mean, like I said, I don't I'm not really sure what it does. Uh apart where there are 20 gold pieces.

unknown 1:53:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:26

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:28

I don't think anyone's anybody's gonna take it for 20 gold pieces, why not?

SPEAKER_00 1:53:33

Yeah, uh sure. Novaxl's cough over 20 more gold. Go ahead. Because I haven't really used the scimitar for all its fanciness.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:43

A tentacle is gonna be much better for you.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:45

What should I add to my inventory, Brandon?

SPEAKER_01 1:53:48

Add a tentacle sword to your inventory.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:50

Add a tentacle sword to inventory.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:53

Add Cthulhu's dildo to your inventory. Can I what kind of lantern was that, by the way? Uh I dropped it in the chat. Uh it's a whispering lantern.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:05

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:06

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:06

So uh oh, go ahead. Can I sheath the sword by having it wrap around my waist? Uh if you maybe I don't know enough about it yet. Maybe I have to like attune to it or get to know it a little better first before it's.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:19

Can he sheath it by sticking it down his pants?

SPEAKER_00 1:54:22

Can I stick it in my prison pocket? Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:26

Uh Ray, a prison pocket is an anus.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:28

Uh no, no, no. Prison prison wallet.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:31

Prison wallet.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:32

Prison wallet.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:33

God.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:33

Well, then what do you think your prison pocket is?

SPEAKER_06 1:54:36

Same thing. Uh the front. Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:39

It's a front cause. It's where you stick your hands to keep them warm. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:48

And so he's going to look all around, look around at the group real quick, and he's going to kind of be like a server at Applebee's and he's going to say, he's going to point at you 101. He's going to start with Nelbex, and he's going to say, All right, looking for some bracers, maybe something that can uh help you hit a little bit harder, a little bit better. Uh then he's going to point towards Zayn. He says, looking for some magic ink. And you're also looking for anything that I'm afraid of. I got you. Jokes on you, I'm afraid of a lot. Uh he's going to look towards Voss and say, looking for anything that deals lightning damage. Lightning damage rod, lightning damage staff. I got you. I'll find something. And you also want me to drop a message off to your mom asking her how she is. Finding out anything specific. There you go. Alright. Thank you. Point towards Harlach and say, You want something to help you disguise yourself a little bit. And then finally he's going to point towards Olivar and say, You're looking for a sword. A great sword. You also want me to tell uh Big Boy's mom over here how big your penis is. I got you. Yes. Alright. And so uh Twill starts packing up, and then just as he slings his bag over his shoulder, he stands up really straight, and you see his eyes glaze over, and he reaches in his pouch and pulls out a small black stone and walks over towards Harlek and holds it palm up towards him.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:11

Uh what what's this?

SPEAKER_01 1:56:13

He doesn't say anything, he still looks glazed over. Uh I grab the stone. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:23

His guy's been up helpful towards us, so I don't have any reason to not trust him right now. The glazed eyes, but but okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:33

Right now, that's okay. We'll find out.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:35

Yeah, we'll find out. Uh add an onyx stone to your inventory, Harleck. And as soon as Harleck grabs the stone out of Twill's hand, uh Twill's face unglazes, and he shakes his hand a little bit, and he says, Oh, well, been looking on unload that one for a while. Well, it's all on you now, and he starts walking away.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:55

Oh no. Yeah, I didn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:00

Uh Harleck's first curse. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:07

Didn't think it was gonna be that easy.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:10

You know, it may be on it maybe on a hole, but you can get rid of any cursed object by giving it to a child.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:16

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:19

Turns out you guys know where one is. Cursed object? No, a child.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:24

We do?

SPEAKER_01 1:57:26

Yeah, you just save one.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:27

Is that no? Apparently a half orc running at him with a sword made him afraid.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:38

Alright. Alright. Uh so do you anything you guys want to do on your way to your bastion, or are you just arriving at your bastion?

SPEAKER_06 1:57:45

Uh do we still have did we drop off with Jory? Did we drop off the Yes. Did he have like potions and stuff?

SPEAKER_00 1:57:53

No. Since we're still in the city, I presume?

SPEAKER_01 1:57:57

No, you're out of the city.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:59

Oh like we're all the way out?

SPEAKER_01 1:58:00

Yeah, you're out of out of the city.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:02

Okay. Uh would I know of any like thieves guild like drop points? Like I could leave a note for them to find later.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:11

Uh yeah, I would say that you can uh You can leave a note. What are you trying to to leave? What does this note look like?

SPEAKER_00 1:58:19

Uh so I'd want to leave a little like a just scroll a quick note, like, hey, find out some information about Twill. Like the the merchant twilight and I'd give it to uh Ember, my little uh summon companion, my yeah, magical companion, and have him go drop it off, leave it in the little stash, you know. The cache, even just come back, yeah. So I'd like hopefully my network of homies in the Thieves Guild can try to let me know if he's above board, or if he's you know reasonable but troublesome kind of merchant kind of guy because he's dealing with some weird wares. I just want to know, like he seems above the board for as far as I can tell, but I'd like to know a little bit more about who I'm doing disinfective with for future actions.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:04

Roll me a d20, Justin.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:06

Let's hope we can do better than the three I got last time. 18. That's pretty good. Alright. Is that good? That's pretty good. Okay, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:16

Better than a seven. I assume good.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:17

But I could be wrong. Yeah, I mean, not as good as a 19, but better than a three, but worse than a seven. Wait, what?

unknown 1:59:27

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:29

So you all get to and uh Justin, obviously, you're not gonna get the information right away.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:35

Totally, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:36

Okay. Um so yeah, you all walk up to your or walk towards your bastion.

Back At The Bastion With Seinmonder

SPEAKER_01 1:59:43

The city, the smoke from the city, even the screams that you were hearing have faded behind you, swallowed by the uh the the dusk and just kind of the distance. And you can hear or sorry as the bastion comes into view, the world feels quiet, silent, hollow even, and you see the bastion standing before you, but it's changed a little bit since you last walked up to it. You can see guards patrolling outside uh outside the gates of the bastion. Uh there is one standing at the very entrance, you recognize them immediately as Seinmonders uh men. You can see that there is two crudely struck constructed uh catapults in the front yard of the bastion, pointing towards the gate. And Seinmonder is inspecting one of those catapults.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:36

Um Zane will walk up to Seinmonder and uh ask him or have a greeting. Hello and say, uh you've made some changes.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:53

I happen to like what you've done with the place.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:56

Yeah, I just I know eventually they're gonna come for us, and I want to make sure that we're in a good place. They're not gonna take us without a fight.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:04

Yeah, that's for sure. Talking of a bunch.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:10

Uminder looks tired, right? His though his armor has obviously been polished since he's gotten to your bastion, he look he looks tired. He looks like he's aged ten years since he since you saw him uh in the city a week ago. And he looks at all of you and he says, Did you did you find the uh did you find the builder?

SPEAKER_06 2:01:35

You mean the architect?

SPEAKER_01 2:01:37

Yep, the architect.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:39

Oh yeah Yeah, we found him. Oh, he was a crazy looking.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:44

Uh I mean he doesn't he doesn't really get out much from what I've heard.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:48

Yeah, we he we found him and he gave us this. And Eldvar is gonna hoist up his model of the children, dubbed George, uh, and show it as being the only thing that we got from the architect.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:02

Seinmonders' eyes visibly raise, and you can all see this, and he says, he gave that to you?

SPEAKER_02 2:02:09

Uh yeah, this is George, and I love him and I squeeze him, and he is he is precious to me.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:16

You all didn't see that, like one of them as you were down there, right? No, we didn't we didn't we didn't see one of them, there were like twenty.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:27

There was a whole bunch of them.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:29

Twenty? I he was supposed to stop with those experiments.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:33

Yeah, well, he didn't. And uh kind of wanted to make him pay for it, but instead he gave us his eye and we were on our way.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:42

I I mean I think he did stop with these. Uh he said there were others, and we didn't meet the others.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:49

Yeah, he was all kinds of crazy.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:52

Um I'm gonna disguise self as the builder really quick. It was like, please don't take my children and and well played.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:05

That's how you fucking barred, Ray. Uh, you know what? It's it's way too late and doesn't matter anymore, but you get heroic inspiration. You're gonna lose it in like this. Yes. Uh so he he turns to you. Hey, Seinmonder looks towards Harleck and he he's kind of taken back in disbelief. He says, that's gonna be a problem. We're definitely gonna have to take care of that at some point. What about did you see anything else? Did you see any of my men?

SPEAKER_04 2:03:44

Oh, we met a guy named Durick.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:46

I don't know who that is.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:48

Oh, well then uh no one worries about him then.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:52

I mean, we saw some we saw some were guards on the street. Those ones were your men, but not in war.

SPEAKER_07 2:03:59

We passed a churro stand too.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:02

It was delicious.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:04

Oh, they were lovely.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:05

Alright, let's go back from the churros. You saw some of my men? Did you we saw the were guards that used to be your men? Well, I know they have taken an oath and gone down uh the the wrong path, but they're still my men. Oh, I mean they they were men.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:26

Uh but I think I think it's pronounced werewolf. No, no, they were men. Um there were some giant spiders that killed them. Uh there was a uh frost giant that killed them.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:39

Um they're they're definitely no longer men. Um Cymander lowers his head and he turns his his eyes away from all of you, and you can see his shoulders trembling slightly. And he sah he says without looking at you all, he says, I think uh I think I've had enough for today. I'm gonna go relax a bit. Maybe polish my armor.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:04

Yeah, we were thinking kind of the same thing, just not polishing your armor. But definitely could take a break. It's been a long couple days. I could use some rest myself, and I'd like to visit my workshop. Unless you uh did you turn my workshop into a catapult?

SPEAKER_01 2:05:20

Uh Seinmonder chuckles, but it's obviously strained, and he says, No, there's uh there wasn't enough books in there.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:30

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 2:05:33

Zane snaps his head. What? Books.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:39

Uh uh Voss will like nod as he like pretending he understands.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:44

So uh Sein Miner, we're calling it a day at 2 p.m. Is that the type of work schedule you work your men to?

SPEAKER_01 2:05:51

I did describe on the way over here that it was dusk.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:55

Oh. Uh we had a time skip then because it was like high noon when we were fighting the uh the giant, and it's only two hours from town to our place.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:04

Well, we talked to that Colby.

SPEAKER_06 2:06:06

We talked to the guy, we had to do a detour to Jury's clinic.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:10

Probably pushing the winter solstice. I mean, who the fuck are you?

SPEAKER_02 2:06:13

Yeah, I missed that one.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:15

Yeah. How could you? Brendan, I'm on your team. Give me some good fucking bracers.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:22

You get heroic inspiration. Heroic inspiration for everyone. All right. And I'm not gonna get you still have to buy them from the salesperson. You don't even know how much it's tools gonna charge you.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:35

I've got like half the party's money. I'm good. Yeah, I mean, if you didn't afford them, it's gonna be Nelvax. We're all getting scammed.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:45

All right. Uh Seinmonder walks away towards the towards the house. Is there anything you all would like to do in the bastion before you take a long rest?

Downtime Plans And Research Threads

SPEAKER_06 2:06:56

Um Zainwell start doing some research in in the library, and the topic that he is going to be looking up is possible ways for reversing the oath slash curse of the wear guards. That's what he's gonna send tell his uh he's gonna research it, but he's also gonna tell explain what he's trying to do to his uh helper guy.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:25

Okay. Alright, uh, you guys are researching that. Uh anything for Nelvax?

SPEAKER_00 2:07:32

Uh please come back around to me.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:34

Okay. Voss.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:37

So how long are we gonna be in the house for?

SPEAKER_01 2:07:40

A night.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:41

So we'll leave in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:43

I mean you guys will you guys can stay as long as you want. You still have to decide which of the next two things you want you which of the next two things you want to do.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:53

So I I've got uh like are we going to start the session at the end of the long rest or where's where's the next you guys are gonna start the session at the end of the long rest, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:05

So what I want from you guys tonight is what the next step is for all of you. Like where you want to go next, and then so I can prep for it, and then uh anything you want to do before the long rest.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:20

Alright, so I I've got two. So the first thing, probably when we get back, um Elvar is gonna go into probably Voss's study where he's hanging out, and he's gonna say, Um, Voss, uh look, I I know you like the Uppies, and it helps you speed up, but um I feel really bad about slamming you into that monster while I had you on the Uppies, and I have something to propose to you. And so he's gonna pull out his arm, like his uh mithril armor, as well as the armor that he's picked up. The uh the armor that like sucks in shadows and is super dark. They say, um, this this armor has served me well. It's extremely light. Uh I I wouldn't feel great offering it to you without offering you the alternative, which is this other armor that we found, but it's a lot heavier. And I think I think if you take my old armor, this mithril armor, you'll be able to move faster and you'll be more effective when we really need you. And though it means it means less uppies, I'll still give you uppies.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:41

Yeah, to be honest, uh kind of I kinda like this this I'm I'm a bit attached to it. Not that sentimental or anything, but I don't I don't mind getting the occasional uppie from you, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:52

I I I get that, but maybe just maybe just try it. Maybe just see how it feels. It's extremely light. You can move like a feather on the breeze. Like ten more feet.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:11

Ten more feet on everything. Oh, okay. So it's it's mithril armor. Okay, I'll I'll take a look at it.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:18

It's it's mithril armor, it has no strength requirement. Okay, and so you'll get your full speed and you'll be stealthy because it doesn't disappo uh give you disadvantage on stealth.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:30

I kind of like honestly, I like the flavor of the armor that I've been swinging, especially having passed without trace. So yeah, let me uh let me get through this like rework of of uh of Voss and I'll I'll let you know on the other side if I take it or not. Okay. Thank you, buddy. I uh I really appreciate you being along with me and all this uh this these adventures that we're going. We're gonna have a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:55

I I I agree. I just like I said, I feel really bad about you slamming your face into the claw of that monster.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:05

My face is fine. Take a look at this face. It's it's abolished, and no, no worries, my friend.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:11

I mean, it doesn't look near as good as your mom's.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:14

Uh I would happen to agree with you, but you know, we're talking about my mom after all, so uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:20

Yeah, so I I have to remind myself of that sometimes because the things I would do to her if she would just give me a chance. With a standard 10-inch penis.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:33

It's a bit on the small side for a glide, you know. Um, so for for Voss, I think he's he, I mean, depending on what the the rest of the party is doing, um he's gonna spend the evening like unpacking the letter that he received right before we left on our last adventure. That was the letter from his mother, um, which he believes to be a forgery or some type of a fake. Um Uh but he wants to dig into that more and he he's he's not gonna go on an adventure unless he hears back uh from the cobalt guy, whatever his name is. Okay Twill. Or um he's gonna go try to use his contacts and his ability to sneak about the city to to figure out what's going on with his mom. So that's kind of Voss's next he's I mean, as much as he wants to, you know, use the map, go find the box, empty the box, um his his mother's actually his his mother if he feels like his mother's at all in danger, he's gonna prioritize that over the rest of what the party's doing.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:38

Okay. And so the uh oh, go ahead, Bill.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:42

Nope. I'll let everybody take their turn. I got a question afterward. Hopefully I'll

George’s “Heart” Experiment Goes Wrong

SPEAKER_06 2:12:47

remember.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:47

Yeah, so the other thing that uh Eldvar would do is probably about like 2-3 in the morning, he's gonna go bursting into Nelvax's room and just kind of like stare at him until he wakes up.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:03

Uh I'm awake when you come in, but I pretend to be asleep.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:07

Uh Nelvax, are you awake? Nelvax, um can we can we can we do it? Can we bring George to life? I I solved your puzzle.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:26

Huh? What uh uh hold on what what are you what are you saying? Who's George?

SPEAKER_02 2:13:32

The puzzle you gave me to bring George to life. I solved it.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:37

Oh tell me about it.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:39

Zayn said you're an expert on constructions, and George is a construction, and you told me that if I love him, he'll come to life, and I said, I you know, I'll I'll love him with all my heart, and and can we do it? Because you have a heart to give. I I thought about giving him my heart, but then I'd be dead, and that would not work. And so can you have a heart to give him? Can we can we use that heart to bring George to life?

SPEAKER_00 2:14:13

Oh, yeah, I mean we can try, but I think this heart's bigger than that whole statue, and I'll pull out the heart of LeBron.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:20

Yeah. Lorraine.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:22

Uh Lorraine? LeBron, Lorraine? Lebrain?

SPEAKER_01 2:14:27

Yeah, it's you pull it out, it is uh it is a large crystal, red crystal, and it is almost as large as George.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:36

Did you have a plan for how to uh gestures between the heart and the figurine? You just want to set it on top?

SPEAKER_02 2:14:47

I mean, I think we just shove it in. Like a little bit of lube, a lot of force, it probably will fit.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:54

Well, hey, why don't we go to the workshop and I'll give this to you when we get there and we can see what happens. I think you have a good idea of what you want to do. I I'm gonna see what happens. If it doesn't, if it doesn't work out, I want the heart back, if that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it it's your heart. I just I solved the puzzle.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:16

So I imagine that on the way the the bar is probably on the way to the the workshop, right? Okay, so I'm gonna grab myself a little little glass of wine to observe this, and then I'll we get to the workshop uh place the figurine on the table, and then I'm gonna give the heart of the rain to Eldvar to conduct his experiment. He's gonna stick it.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:40

Uh yeah, so Elvar is gonna just like find something around in this workshop to to function as some sort of lubricant. Uh he's gonna slit George open um using one of his George is not a soft model. Oh, yeah, that's fine. I'm not a soft person. Okay. Uh so he's gonna he's gonna cut deeply with a hand axe into George and try and shove this heart into the chest cavity, knowing that it's like pretty much the same size as George. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:16

Uh Elvar, it gives you a lot of resistance. Um he's used to that. Okay. Yeah, it's it's it's giving you a lot of resistance. You can't really fit the heart in there. Uh are you gonna push harder? Yes. Give me a strength. Give me an athletics check.

SPEAKER_00 2:16:36

Oh. Not better.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:40

Um, so that's 12. I still have heroic inspiration, so I'm gonna re-roll that.

SPEAKER_00 2:16:49

I want this to succeed. Can I also can I assist, aid, help, whatever? I'm I'm prefer to.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:58

I cast guidance in my sleep. No guys. You are there, you can hold the model for him if you'd like.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:04

I can cast guidance. I will cast guidance. I'll even add. He gets a d4. I'm gonna run my athletics here.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:14

Uh that's a that's a 22 now with a four on the athletics or a four on the guidance.

SPEAKER_00 2:17:21

My athletics was only a 10, but I'm only trying to help. So like I only have to like try to keep it from wiggling too much.

SPEAKER_01 2:17:28

Alright. Eldar, uh it's after cutting a big hole in the back of George and now shoving trying to shove this crystal into it, um, you hear a couple groans and strains of George, and you push a little harder, and it starts to sink in, you get excited, and you just force it down, and you hear a crack, and the crystal hits the table below it as George splits in four pieces.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:03

And he is destroyed.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:07

Uh we can do something about this. Uh uh, we've got people for this. This isn't the end. We we'll figure this out. George isn't done for. Well here, have some wine.

SPEAKER_05 2:18:18

No, no, but uh but I but I love him. He's my George.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:25

No, no, it's okay. George isn't done. George is just there's more of him to love right now, and we'll bring him back. He'll be better than ever. You know? Uh we'll put him back together. Can we can we fix him? We can fix him. We can rebuild him stronger.

SPEAKER_05 2:18:40

Yes, we can yes we can.

SPEAKER_00 2:18:41

Faster, more efficient than ever before.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:46

Oh, okay. Um, and he's gonna like gather up the pieces of George and just like stick him in a basket and carry that basket back to his room, just defeated and wailing.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:59

Elvar, I need you to remove George from your inventory and add four different sections of George to your inventory. Uh push too hard, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 2:19:13

Sometimes all right.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:16

Um, Harleck, is there anything you're doing for your lung rest?

SPEAKER_03 2:19:20

Um, yeah.

The Cursed Onyx And Potion Crafting

SPEAKER_03 2:19:22

I'm gonna try to go up uh to see if Zane wouldn't mind helping me identify this uh mysterious black crystal I so eagerly took. Uh and then beyond that, I guess I would try to whip up some more potions as I can in the garden uh or you know the botany thing.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:40

Sure. Uh roll me a 1d4, Harleck. Oh no. A three. Add three health potions to your inventory. Nice. Nice. Okay. Uh how are you asking Zayn for help? And how is Zane going to help?

SPEAKER_04 2:20:02

Hey Zane.

SPEAKER_03 2:20:04

Yeah, I was gonna say, I was just gonna basically just go up. I was just gonna basically just go up and ask, like, uh hey Zane.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:09

I noticed uh that bender didn't really look right when I got took this from him, and he seemed really happy about getting rid of it. Will you mind checking this out?

SPEAKER_06 2:20:19

Um, Zane will look at Arlik and he'll say, um, yeah, let's let's go down to my study, and uh he'll give some verbal directions to his uh minion in the library doing the research and go down to the arcane study and basically investigate the device or the the gem to see what he can learn about it. I can't remember if I used my identify already or not, did I?

SPEAKER_02 2:20:50

Yeah, for the heart of Lorraine.

SPEAKER_06 2:20:52

Okay. Um so he'll just use what he knows about Arcana and try to figure it out. See what he can figure out.

SPEAKER_01 2:21:02

Are you taking the Onyx uh stone from Harleck?

SPEAKER_06 2:21:07

I know. Okay, I'm having Harleck carry it down and set it on the table in front of him.

SPEAKER_01 2:21:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:21:15

On the work.

SPEAKER_01 2:21:16

Harleck, the moment you set it down, you feel an overwhelming urge to pick it back up. Uh roll me a Christmas saving throw. A nine. Okay. Um Harleck, no matter you're just looking at the stone, you you just realize how beautiful it is as you as you kind of get sucked into just the void that is the colorless uh the color of the stone, and you instinctively reach for it and grab it and pick it back up. And you save my precious.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:47

That's exactly what I was thinking. I scoop it up then. I was like, oh, so pretty.

SPEAKER_06 2:21:54

Zane observing this, I will assume he is familiar with cursed objects.

SPEAKER_01 2:22:00

Yeah, as a warlock, absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 2:22:03

Don't you have a couple?

SPEAKER_01 2:22:05

Aren't you a cursed object? Yes I am.

SPEAKER_06 2:22:10

But uh, so knowing that, he'll yeah he'll say, Harley, just put your hand down holding the crystal and just set it down so that I can examine it. I won't take it from you.

SPEAKER_03 2:22:26

Oh, okay. As I'm like kinda hiding it now, like if you if you say so. And I hold it out for him.

SPEAKER_06 2:22:34

And I will investigate it. And I will use a stern voice and tell Harleck to hold it still. Intimidation to try to get him to calm down.

SPEAKER_01 2:22:44

Uh not really need it in this instance. Harleck is able to maintain his maintain his uh his steadiness, if you will, as he's holding it. Roman investigation check.

SPEAKER_06 2:22:58

Rolling investigation, not arcana? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:01

Or arcana. Arcana will work too. You said investigate.

SPEAKER_06 2:23:05

Using my arcane knowledge, but okay. Arcana is plus four, it doesn't matter. Uh rolled a five for nine.

SPEAKER_01 2:23:13

Alright. Uh with a nine, Zane, uh you you you can you can feel you can feel something is pulling at you and at every other person that's near this stone, but you've you sense a strange bond between Harleck and the stone.

SPEAKER_06 2:23:32

Zane will say so I'm not sure what it does or why it does it, but it seems to have connected to you. And he looks at Harleck and says, I'm fairly certain that it is cursed, and you are now locked to it.

SPEAKER_04 2:23:53

Oh, great.

SPEAKER_06 2:23:55

Well, not all curses are bad. I mean it's kind of in the name, but not all curses cursed items are bad. You just might not be able to get rid of it. Apparently you can get rid of it because that quill guy got rid of it, but right now it doesn't look like you're strong enough to get rid of it.

SPEAKER_04 2:24:23

I will do more.

SPEAKER_06 2:24:25

I w uh maybe maybe uh there's plenty of familiars running around these parts. Yeah. So um I would say just keep a hold of it and I will do more research and see what we can find out.

SPEAKER_04 2:24:44

Oh thank you, thank you. I could get lucky on a certain day, and maybe Voss will have it.

SPEAKER_03 2:24:54

But no, I go and go and do uh the the potion stuff and whatever now, but cool.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:59

Alright. And finally, Nelvax, anything you want to do for your long rest?

Library Secrets And Selling Fine Wine

SPEAKER_00 2:25:04

Yes. Um I had some time to think about it. And one of the things I like the most about this mansion is the fine wines that are stored within. I'd like to use the storehouse to take some of those wines and trade them on the market and earn some money for the gang. Uh I get a 10% increased profit from whatever we sell. I didn't really see any prices for them. I don't really care how much money we actually generate, as long as we still have wine and we make some money off of it. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:25:36

Roll me roll me a d100.

SPEAKER_00 2:25:38

A D100. Alright. Uh rolling to everyone. Oh, that's a six. Is that good?

SPEAKER_07 2:25:48

It's gonna be absolutely freaking great or horrible. One of the two.

SPEAKER_01 2:25:53

So out of the inventory of wine, there are a lot of there's a lot of wine here, but you find six exquisite bottles of wine that you can probably sell.

SPEAKER_00 2:26:03

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 2:26:04

Okay, so you're gonna talk to Twill about that then?

SPEAKER_00 2:26:07

No, I have a storehouse, which its whole function is to sell shit and make money for me. Ah, okay. One of my two, yeah, one of my two bastion rooms is a storehouse. So I put I tell my people to do the thing. They they're just gonna make money, is how I read what the storehouse does. Is it just makes money?

SPEAKER_01 2:26:27

All right. Uh taking off six of those bottles.

SPEAKER_00 2:26:30

Yeah, no one else is going to the wine like I do, so who's gonna know? I just generate more money from my my pocket that I buy stuff for people with. It's fine. Nobody'll know. It's fine. Nobody's gonna know. Uh the other thing I'd like to do is uh I think I'd previously asked the library to look into the queen specifically. I'm gonna ask my librarianslash spend my time, just looking for any kind of like inconsistencies or mysteries amongst the royal family in general outside of like the death of the prince, because that is one that we already kind of know about. If there's any other inconsistencies that maybe we could learn some more clues into the background and the history of the royal family that maybe could pertain to our clues in the future, whether it's the king, the prince, the OG queen, the new queen, or the the hagi princesses. Um I don't know that I've really distinguished in my head the difference between my player knowledge and character knowledge just yet. Yeah. So I'd like to get Nelva X closer to what I understand.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:34

Yeah, so the storekeeper or what room is this? Store library storehouse and library are my two. Alright. Yeah, uh the librarian comes up to you and says, uh So I I I I've uh uh she's a she's an older-looking woman. She says I've uh I I found a few things. One, I I don't I don't think through some accounts of uh, you know, visual accounts, things that people have seen, I don't think that there's there's one princess. Or maybe there's not one queen. Yeah, I don't think there's one queen. I think there's multiple queens, and they're all raising this princess.

SPEAKER_00 2:28:18

Really? Um can you help me understand what that means?

SPEAKER_01 2:28:23

Uh I think there's they're they're shape changers. Uh a couple people have been fired from the castle, a couple have disappeared. I uh I'm not really sure too much. There's a lot of back and forth here, but I'm pretty sure what we've found and what I've put together, that there's three queens and there's one princess. And the three queens are hags.

SPEAKER_00 2:28:46

Three hag queens and one princess on top of the original queen. Yes. Interesting. And who might know of this? Do the mysteries suggest?

SPEAKER_01 2:28:59

Uh well, the king would know. I don't think you could ask him. Um there's probably a few guards that know. Lord Seinmonder might know a few things. But yeah, I think there's three original queens and one princess who's now the queen. But obviously we've seen her face. She's she's bad. She's very bad.

SPEAKER_00 2:29:17

Indubitably.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:19

Indubitably.

SPEAKER_00 2:29:20

Okay. Well keep looking. If you find anything else, I would love to learn more. And in the meantime, um, good work. And I'll sh I'll I'll flick her a gold piece as a token of my gratitude. Perfect. She gets good wages, don't get me wrong, but like this was worth the extra gold piece.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:39

Yeah, uh, she takes it. She's that's more money than she's gonna make in a couple months, so that's great.

SPEAKER_00 2:29:47

Strong encouragement, really. Yeah, it's uh you know it's uh what's the right word for it? Compensation for her extraordinary performance.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:57

All the star points.

SPEAKER_00 2:29:59

So many stars. It's like stickers on her wall.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:02

Yeah, something like that. Uh and the storehouse through some of the selling, uh, through through like bartering and everything, it wouldn't happen immediately, but I'm gonna do it now so I don't forget it. Uh they're able to sell your six bottles for 450 gold pieces.

SPEAKER_00 2:30:19

Ooh, 450 gold pieces. I'm not telling anybody. I'm just subjecting just updating my inventory. Don't w don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:27

Okay. Uh Zayn, did you have something you want to ask?

SPEAKER_06 2:30:30

Uh I was just gonna say, just in case I didn't get this point, uh I will tell my assistant, my lab assistant in the arcane study. Okay. Tell my arc my the lab assistant in the arcane study to research the cursed gem. So that is what the two research is that are going on. And Zayn will be about he'll be focusing on the the werewolf curse thing and let his arcane study handle the other one.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:02

Okay. Alright. Okay. Uh so Eldvar.

SPEAKER_02 2:31:08

One thing that I forgot, Eldvar, uh, before the night is up, is going to attune to the new armor. The uh armor of entropy that he found.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:18

Okay. Um, so you have attuned to it, and now you recognize the or now you uh know the full name of this armor. It's called the Lux Eater plate. Ooh.

SPEAKER_06 2:31:31

Luxeater?

SPEAKER_00 2:31:33

I don't like that. Wait a minute. X or U or C K?

SPEAKER_01 2:31:38

L-U-X.

SPEAKER_00 2:31:40

I don't like that.

SPEAKER_03 2:31:41

Well Eater has an E in it. So yeah, I feel like Lux is a very uh it's like a another like a synonymous with like illumination.

SPEAKER_02 2:31:49

It is.

SPEAKER_03 2:31:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:31:52

It doesn't pop up in the inventory when I try to add it. So it does not. Okay. We'll homebrew it later.

unknown 2:31:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 2:31:59

Whispering lantern is the same way.

SPEAKER_00 2:32:01

Probably the tentacle sword as well, I imagine.

SPEAKER_01 2:32:04

Yeah, it's correct. All from worldsmith.io.

SPEAKER_00 2:32:09

Okay. Nailed it.

SPEAKER_01 2:32:10

Is there anything else anybody wants to do before a long rest? I got one more thing to say.

SPEAKER_04 2:32:14

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 2:32:15

Let me just look at my daily stuff to see if I want to burn anything real quick. Yeah, I'm gonna jump really high. Just one time, just because I can. Burn a spell slot. Just jump. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:32:31

So when he jumps up, I'm gonna cast hold person and hold him up there.

SPEAKER_01 2:32:35

I know that's not what it means, but uh Voss.

Patron Dream And Tempest Domain Shift

SPEAKER_01 2:32:45

Yeah. As you lay your head on your pillow, you you pass out. Your your body's exhausted, and you fall asleep quickly. Uh and you just have these dreams over and over again of your friend, um your friend Xanover falling over and over again. And you can see his blood and the realization that you're not strong enough to save him. And you can feel your hands trembling, and you can hear your your voice whisper into the darkness of your dream, saying, I'm sorry. I tried, I wasn't enough. And the the darkness, it seems to listen, and a faint ripple forms in front of you. A tall man steps out of the darkness with a soft glow blooming around him, and you can it it seems like the light is playfully shifting around his form, almost like candlelight through stained glass. And you recognize him as your patron. And he's floating directly in front of you in this darkness, and though you you normally recognize his voice as teasing, you you right now it's It's warm and still got a little bit of mischievousness in it, but it's it's warm and it's gentle. And he places his hand on your shoulder and he says, Little spark. You carry a wound, no trick can soothe. You've used my gifts well. Avoiding danger, turning odds, weaving shadows, making friends. And he lifts his hand towards you, touching your cheek, and you can feel a warmth kind of engulf you. But shadows cannot shield a heart that wants to protect. Your grief has changed you. And your patron disappears from in front of you. And where there was once darkness, lightning flashes all around you. And it starts booming. You hear thunder booming all around you as lightning crashes into the ground, lightning arcing across the sky, and another figure steps forward, sheathed in in blue and white light. You were never meant to hide my spark. You were meant to stand and fight. And then this new figure that you see steps forward and shoots directly in front of you. He says, Child of grief, you feel powerless. You mourn the one you failed to save. But your sorrow is not weakness. It is the spark of what you are becoming. You beg for strength, not for vengeance, but to protect those around you. The powerless call out and the storm answers. And you wake in a start. And you can look as you look around you in the room, you see a little spark on your fingertips. And you've now transitioned from a trickery domain cleric to a tempest domain cleric.

SPEAKER_07 2:35:50

I can identify whatever I want to. Is there at least like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like theme song playing in the background? That's probably reference that you won't even get.

SPEAKER_01 2:36:07

Oh, this episode?

SPEAKER_07 2:36:08

No, no, no, no. What are we doing with that? That last episode.

SPEAKER_02 2:36:15

It's just sitting out there.

SPEAKER_07 2:36:17

It's just sitting out there? Okay. Well, listeners, Teenage Mutant Turtles. They're coming back. Don't worry.

SPEAKER_01 2:36:24

You know, this is my problem with you guys. I put out that beautiful thing. The first thing that said is there teenage mutant ninja turtles?

SPEAKER_07 2:36:32

That was really good. I like that. Well done, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 2:36:36

I thought it was really good.

SPEAKER_07 2:36:38

Did you see Ray's facial expressions throughout that he did? No, I thought it was really awesome. He hasn't. He hasn't been, he wasn't wincing and trying to like cover his ears for words in the episode.

SPEAKER_03 2:36:57

And then your patron touches your penis.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:04

I want to tell you what. An Ethiopian sledge.

SPEAKER_03 2:37:08

No, I thought that whole thing was awesome.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:10

Yeah, that was really good, right?

SPEAKER_03 2:37:11

Very thematically. That was good.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:14

Hey, I like I like Tempest Clerics. I think I could uh I think I could do something with that. Yeah, who knows? I've never played a Tempest Cleric before.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:26

Wait. They also use prepared spells.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:29

Do have to prepare. Damn it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 2:37:35

You ruined everything. Way from the top rope.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:39

Forget, forget this cleric, this random cleric class that has to prepare spells. I ain't doing another one of those. Never again.

SPEAKER_01 2:37:49

Uh Nelvex.

SPEAKER_00 2:37:51

Uh yeah, I'm a little surprised. I thought you were enjoying yourself as a trickery cleric.

SPEAKER_07 2:37:57

Is this something that you were pursuing or just it so we I can I can spill the beans. We we had a a total uh one-shot uh there's our last recording for this this episode. And I think you could totally edit this out uh if you really wanted to. But the while while we're doing that, I actually play tested a Tempest Cleric character that I felt was more like my my entire character is ranged attack. Like I have like I there's not a lot I can do and from a melee standpoint, and so I play tested a Tempest Cleric and actually really liked it. So more more tanky, more up close melee, and it worked really, really well. Um I mean Ray Ray did a lot in that episode.

SPEAKER_02 2:38:47

Did I Ray hid while you blew everybody out?

SPEAKER_03 2:38:51

I feel like I was hiding.

SPEAKER_00 2:38:54

I mean I didn't want to find but it takes a lot of effort to hide that character.

SPEAKER_03 2:38:58

No, you're you're fine. Famously, we know I'm not good at combat.

SPEAKER_07 2:39:02

Well, so I I built I mean to be honest, like I built this character out. I was like, oh, I'll just be the meat shield and Ray can do all the damage. And somehow this creature did all the damage for the entire combat scenario we went through, and he was an Ninja Turtle. It was what what was the name, Andrew? It's like Rafaelangelo?

SPEAKER_02 2:39:21

Rafaelangelo or something like that.

SPEAKER_07 2:39:22

Ralphatello, Ralfatello, Ralfatello was his name.

SPEAKER_03 2:39:25

I rolled incredibly low like the entire night, too.

SPEAKER_02 2:39:28

Yes, it was not entirely your your fault, but yeah, it it was it was a lot of fun to play, and so and and Ray wasn't a bard, believe it or not. What was I? Yeah, what was your case? Oh, I was uh warlock on the broom or something like that, right?

SPEAKER_03 2:39:44

I was the uh yeah, the imp Oh yeah, the broom.

SPEAKER_02 2:39:48

You're a Sorlock. Yeah, Sorlock. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:39:52

Anyway, so it was a lot of fun to play. It was just more just it's it's gonna just changing Voss back into more of a melee damage cleric. Uh apparently I'm gonna have to prepare spells, but you know, there's trade-offs to everything.

SPEAKER_00 2:40:05

Hell yeah, cool. I'm glad we're gonna get more out of it. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_07 2:40:08

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, we'll see.

SPEAKER_00 2:40:10

I personally didn't need any help sneaking, but I I thought it was a cool little gig, you know?

SPEAKER_02 2:40:15

A little weakened. And we didn't have to kill Voss for for making the change either.

SPEAKER_00 2:40:20

You know. That's not bad.

SPEAKER_07 2:40:23

We'll see. All right.

Wrap Up And Social Plugs

SPEAKER_07 2:40:24

I mean, it could work out horribly.

SPEAKER_01 2:40:25

That's good. That is where we're gonna end for the night. Uh so I hope you all enjoyed that. Uh make sure you give us a now, let me start that over again. Yeah, just do it again. Yeah, doing it again. Nope, nope. Oh, all of it. It's from the beginning. Welcome to Oathbreaker. DJ. I am keeping it.

SPEAKER_00 2:40:55

Lenscap.

SPEAKER_01 2:40:57

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SPEAKER_03 2:41:30

Thanks for listening, everybody. It's been nerdy. It's been nerdy. It's been dirty. Hi everyone.