Dalelands - Episode 13 'Mission Improbable'

The party anxiously awaits Orion's exit from Castle Krag. Once reunited, they must decide to either attempt to subdue Powell and retrieve the orb now... or tail him and wait for a more opportune moment to strike. In order to slow the Zhent and Banites within to help both Orion and protect Val, Hoj and Ike perform another wild shape heist while Joanna hears voices on the wind.

Transcript

SPEAKER_09 0:01

Thanks so much for joining us for episode 13 of the Dale Lands campaign.

SPEAKER_06 0:10

What's funny about that man? Nothing's funny. I did a scream. I was like, don't look at all that.

SPEAKER_11 0:28

Step out back and scream like Dallas steps out back to fart.

SPEAKER_06 0:32

At the same time if I breathe in.

SPEAKER_09 0:36

Well, the air goes out when you scream. Technicalities. Anyways.

SPEAKER_06 0:41

I'll need a breath after.

SPEAKER_23 0:46

You can breathe out and scream like we did. No one said you had to do it in this.

SPEAKER_10 0:52

Oh, you caught me post scream.

unknown 0:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 0:57

All right. Dal's gone due to recap.

SPEAKER_09 1:05

Sorry. We began last episode with a slightly hungover party after Hodge was victorious in the Skullcrackers at Old Skull Inn, a pun competition that is run weekly, that the party joined after a very stressful and strenuous day where they barely survived and then let Pal Nickam get away with the orb of Damara. They realized this the next morning that their top priority should be getting it back, and they need to find wherever he might have gone. Before they set off, they negotiated with a gnome bomb salesman, purchasing two smoke bombs, which could help them in their current situation, possibly, where they have found themselves waiting outside of Castle Crag, a sort of home base for the cult of Bane and in some respect the Zenterim as well. As well as various unaffiliated bandits, undead and forest creatures that have taken up residence in this ruined and rebuilt and ruined again castle. Orion is inside the castle. He made his way there under the spell of invisibility, pass without his trace, barkskin, any others?

SPEAKER_21 2:53

Longstrider, guidance.

SPEAKER_09 2:55

Lomstrider and guard guidance. He uh spotted a unused tunnel, sort of a uh secret entrance that got him into the labyrinth underneath this castle, which remains largely intact. Most of the uh sun-facing portion of this castle has been ruined, but the labyrinth seems to be in relatively good shape. Uh passed by invisibly a few undead, a few bandits, a cult of Bane temple underground that seemed to be actively torturing someone either for an offering or or any number of uh insane Bane cult shit that they might be doing, um, continued on and found that this secret entrance was a good one to take, as you found yourself very quickly at the door to Pal Nickum. Smartly uh waited a little bit away from the door until two cultists of Bain very angrily and loudly walked up to the door, clattering on this loud stone trap sort of thing that clacks very loud to to let anyone know uh who is in this um secret room that somebody is approaching. They were met very quickly by a glyph of warding and a pistol held by the Zenterum member who has been guarding Powell this entire time, uh, that you saw and were shot at um by uh previously. He warned them they went off, and you got up the courage to sneak quietly towards the door to see if you could listen in and hear anything, any conversation. Uh, you noticed that there were a handful of Zenterim, not just Powell and his companion, but a couple other very high-up Zenterim that they were discussing, possibly trading, uh selling this artifact, uh, and making sure to keep it away from the cult of Bane. You decided to wait as long as you could before your spells would wear off. You had an hour with each of them. So uh with ten minutes left, you decided it wasn't worth waiting any longer, and that you would leave and rejoin and and share the information you've learned with the party. Turning around and clattering on the stone, the very loud stone, dropping your plus one long sword behind as it as your uh carrier on your hip sort of uh broke uh and and the sword fell out, clattered on the ground, you ran as fast as you could up these stairs and felt a shot of a pistol immediately on the back of your heel that was deflected with the barkskin spell. That is fifty minutes into the future, where we pick up is with the party as Orion heads off invisibly. We have a group of four awaiting his arrival for fifty minutes. Hodge has a timer going magically, counting down the minutes. My orb. And you overlook this castle crag as you can't even see your associate walking down into this secret entrance. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 7:17

Do we think this is gonna work? Like, do we think he's gonna be okay?

SPEAKER_05 7:20

Oh, he'll be fine. He can handle himself.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

I hope so.

SPEAKER_11 7:28

What do we do if he's not fine? Who knows how many are inside?

SPEAKER_06 7:34

We attempt to rescue him. But what would Orion want us to do?

SPEAKER_11 7:42

I think if he were desperate enough, he would call out for us.

SPEAKER_06 7:48

At the very least, we have to try. Because I think he would expect us to not try. You know? And like to prove a point about friendship and love and all that. We have to go and try. And love.

SPEAKER_22 8:04

Why are you looking at me? You asked! Yeah, because you threw it in there. It was weird. Whatever.

SPEAKER_06 8:10

Love Orion? At least in a corner of our heart. Very not far away corner.

SPEAKER_22 8:17

Yes, of course.

SPEAKER_06 8:19

Big heart, then. He has a dedicated corner.

SPEAKER_13 8:22

That's why my eyes are should be big eyes, big heart. Can't lose. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_11 8:30

We would try we will probably die, but you know. A for effort. That kind of thing.

SPEAKER_22 8:36

Well.

SPEAKER_11 8:37

We don't know how many of the higher-up zents there are inside either.

SPEAKER_06 8:42

Probably too many. Yeah. Which is why we sent Orion in the first place. I don't think that going in. Uh guns blazing is a good choice. Even if we were to try and rescue him, if he were to get captured, it would be another stealth mission, probably you as a spider or a bug. Yes. I just hope he comes back soon. Yes. In the meantime, it seems there's only one way in and out of this fort.

SPEAKER_11 9:17

Besides the way Orion went in. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 9:20

Not well traveled. Anyone that would be leaving under normal circumstances would likely take this bridge. And we're like in the woodline. You're right on the tree line. Yeah, there are people in like the parapets, like guards.

SPEAKER_09 9:32

The only people you were able to see from ground level was the two were the two guards guarding the main entrance. So I'll put them on the board here. What if we're inside? Uh no, they are they are outside, but in kind of the doorway. Okay. So inside I mean the walls are destroyed, so there's no roof. Sure. So they're just kind of standing in the middle of two ruined walls, essentially.

SPEAKER_11 10:05

If we want to destroy that bridge, we'll have to take them out.

SPEAKER_06 10:10

Or I could craft some sort of illusion to make them think that there's nothing going on in front of them. Are there walls to the side of them? Like Mission Impossible this, put like a screen up of what it looks like in front of them.

SPEAKER_09 10:29

It used to be, it looks like it used to be an arched doorway. Yeah. But the stone over top has crumbled, and the door, uh the wood has been salvaged to make this bridge. Yes. So it used to be this towering arched doorway. And then obviously the arch broke, so they were like, fuck it, let's make a little bridge. And again, the the drop, I said last time, the drop is about 30 feet on that cliff.

SPEAKER_06 10:58

If that's just wide enough. And just tall enough. I could create a 15-foot projection of what they are currently seeing in front of them with the bridge perfectly intact, uh, which could last for up to ten minutes. In that time, one of us could sneak forward and weaken the bridge to the point that it is on the verge of collapse. Would they not hear it? Well, someone would have to be very stealthy, like chewing on it. Or like sawing it very carefully with a tiny knife. Chewing on it.

SPEAKER_11 11:34

You see, I can chew on it.

SPEAKER_06 11:37

See? We're talking to a sp spider. May I remind you? He is a spider.

SPEAKER_22 11:41

I don't like looking at him looking at you when you're in spider form.

SPEAKER_06 11:45

And even then they may not just turn into a termite. Uh that would be Is it a rope bridge? Can we just lay it on the wall?

SPEAKER_09 11:53

Uh no, it's it's a like I said, it's it's salvaged wood from a door. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 11:59

And I kind of climb on the wall to get underneath it.

SPEAKER_06 12:02

That might be best. I wonder.

SPEAKER_09 12:04

You can get 30 feet underneath it, or I mean, spider climb you can.

SPEAKER_06 12:07

And it's a 15-foot gap there across the bridge, maybe?

SPEAKER_09 12:11

It's 10 feet. The bridge is 15 foot feet long, but the gap, it's covering a 10-foot gap.

SPEAKER_06 12:18

Okay. Okay, so I mean.

SPEAKER_11 12:24

Would question would structures, are they like immune to poison damage? Probably. Um not acid, but if they are, I'd probably need to change into something else.

SPEAKER_12 12:42

No.

unknown 12:43

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 12:43

They're not immune to poison? No. That's crazy. Oh shit. We're looking at the DMG. I'm going off of doors, because they don't provide.

SPEAKER_06 12:53

Um how suspicious would it be if I mean how quiet.

SPEAKER_09 12:58

Like psychic damage, I would say it wouldn't. But it's poison, I think, could eat into the wood.

SPEAKER_11 13:05

Okay. That was my thought, too.

SPEAKER_09 13:06

Weaken it.

SPEAKER_06 13:07

Um yeah, because like bleach is poison.

SPEAKER_11 13:11

I could hide in the moat that would ensure that they don't see me even more. So stupid.

SPEAKER_06 13:21

It's it's worth a shot.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

We pulled off horse hast. So we do. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 13:26

And then assuming Powell or whoever wields the orb, we don't necessarily care directly about Powell as much as we just do the orb. Yeah. The second it gets close to the bridge, either we snag the person who has it, or the orb itself and collapse the bridge underneath them, and then run. Because again, even if we kill two or three of them, or the person that has the orb, the whole castle will be upon us.

SPEAKER_11 13:55

So you're saying if we can only hope that Powell will cross last.

SPEAKER_06 14:02

Or first.

SPEAKER_11 14:05

Or first, but then he'll fall.

SPEAKER_06 14:08

If well, it won't collapse when he enters it. At a time that we choose, with uh you know, we get it to the point where one of my spells or yours could put the final blow.

SPEAKER_11 14:20

So as soon as he crosses, I can restrain him. Yes. And then the rest will fall.

SPEAKER_06 14:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 14:28

It might be our only shot, I'm afraid.

SPEAKER_06 14:31

I can have my I can detect magic for up to ten minutes, so I could keep that maybe just going. Yeah. Cast it as start to cast it as I just sit there and wait for it to run out, and then maybe the range is thirty feet, so if we're close enough, I could just sit the discern probably precisely where that orb is, who has it, and then allow you to target that person, get them, collapse the bridge, kill them, run from them. I don't care. One man is not uh much stand up against all five of us, and then leave as quickly as possible. Agreed. Because we could the other option I think would be to follow whoever leaves with the orb to a point where they are not reinforced by the members of this castle.

SPEAKER_11 15:31

I'm just afraid that Powell and the Zents are traveling together. Yes. Which is should be worse case.

SPEAKER_06 15:39

I don't think they'll leave this fort unmanned. No.

SPEAKER_11 15:42

No.

SPEAKER_06 15:43

But we should wait to see what Orion has to say.

SPEAKER_11 15:48

Wait till he's back to gnaw on the bridge.

SPEAKER_06 15:51

Yes. At least. Alright. But I will start ritually casting Detect Magic, and then when I finish casting it, I'm just gonna start the ritual again so that I can keep it up kind of perpetually.

SPEAKER_09 16:06

Is the ritual for Detect Magic an hour?

SPEAKER_06 16:09

Ten minutes.

SPEAKER_09 16:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 16:11

And its duration is also ten minutes. Okay. So I'll just keep it up, and if I detect the fucking orb starting to come out of the castle or whatever.

SPEAKER_11 16:20

So at that point, it'd have been an hour, so I'll need to wild sheep again.

SPEAKER_06 16:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 16:25

Okay, that's fine.

SPEAKER_06 16:26

I mean, you may have a different. I mean, we could start to weaken the bridge now, but I'm worried. Yeah, I mean, we could just weaken it now. You know, I could put that illusion up, see if that works. I mean, you'd have to be really quiet. If he's under the bridge and he's just like like chewing.

SPEAKER_09 16:50

If you do that, I will not require rolls. Okay. That's uh you have long enough to slowly eat away at it. Yeah. And I'm gonna mission. Yeah, they wouldn't suspect a thing if that minor illusion is it would be a silent image.

SPEAKER_06 17:04

Yeah. It's really big. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 17:05

So my aim is to go down into the moat.

SPEAKER_06 17:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 17:09

Go down into the moat and come at the other side. So they so nobody sees me even if they're up on the parapets. Yes. And come from that side.

SPEAKER_06 17:19

My minor illusion and all my illusion spells have like a 90-foot range too, so I don't really have to even get that close to cast it. So yes, that's exactly right. You'd go under, and then I mean, in terms of numbers, it's a 10-minute long spell, and he's doing damage every six seconds technically. We'd have plenty of time, right? Yeah. Okay. 100%. Um maybe I will just create the sound of like rocks scattering behind them with minor illusion, and then that same action economy. I'll like have them look, and then when they turn back, it's like a screen.

SPEAKER_18 17:56

So funny. Uh hell yeah.

unknown 17:58

All right. Mike.

SPEAKER_06 17:59

Good ready.

SPEAKER_09 18:00

I'm ready.

unknown 18:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 18:02

A minor illusion. Um you see these two cultists. Uh you hear that? They turn around.

SPEAKER_06 18:11

And then the other way. Perfect recreation of what they were seeing out of that collapsed doorway. Wish me luck.

SPEAKER_09 18:19

They turn and and obviously, I mean, can you see them through it? Is it like a one-way.

SPEAKER_06 18:25

Because I know it's an illusion theoretically, it is whatever, whatever it's called. Faint. So I can technically see through it. And anyone, because you guys saw me do it, and I'm like telling you it's an illusion, you can theoretically see through it as well. So you if you can see from under the bridge or if you can see them through the woods. I think I can also use my hat to cast message, so I will keep brilliant a beam on you and be like, hey, they're coming out to piss off the bridge or something. I don't know. Okay. Uh just in case.

SPEAKER_09 18:54

Right now they're just in that case, no on the bridge on the other side. Okay. Great. Alright. Is there a particular way you're trying to damage this bridge? Are you trying to fully break it so that it falls right now?

SPEAKER_11 19:10

Or are you putting it kind of on the edge of the putting it on the edge so Ike is gnawing at the end that is like the end that is closest to the edge. So that it kind of so that yeah, so that when eventually they walk, it falls down and they all slope down that way. Um yeah, okay. Skeeting away at it. Literally.

SPEAKER_09 19:36

Alright. Uh you that 10-minute countdown uh will say it took you five minutes to discuss that plan before deciding on it. So it has been uh 15 minutes since Orion left. Okay. The bridge is sufficiently weakened, do you feel? Uh you can hear it kind of creaking, the wood kind of splitting. Um the guards still are just kind of chatting with each other, just kind of looking around. None the wiser, you guys are fully in the tree line, so uh yeah, but don't suspect a thing as as uh I'm assuming Ike, you want to get back to the tree line with the rest of the group. Yep. Um so you uh go up. Um you've got 15 minutes left on on your wild shape. Um and everyone returns to the tree line, the uh illusion spell fades and doesn't seem like they notice.

SPEAKER_14 20:40

Nice.

SPEAKER_09 20:41

Alright, hi. No, we've got to be.

SPEAKER_11 20:44

I'm like stretching my mandibles.

SPEAKER_14 20:47

That's uh I'm good.

SPEAKER_06 20:49

Should have turned into a beaver. Uh I don't know. I don't think so. They can't climb walls, though.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

That's true.

SPEAKER_11 20:57

But they didn't suspect a thing, and it is very weak. So I think if we can get one body across, we'll be alright.

unknown 21:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 21:10

Now we wait and hope Orion comes back. I hope so too. I don't really want to go across that bridge.

SPEAKER_11 21:17

Uh no, you would fall if you did. 30 feet down.

SPEAKER_06 21:24

Duh. You're our best friend. Because if we didn't, Orion would be like, I knew it.

SPEAKER_21 21:30

Slow it down.

SPEAKER_06 21:30

I was right about everything.

SPEAKER_21 21:32

I think Orion would expect nobody. That's what I'm saying. I wish I would have like said, like, if I don't come out, don't don't talk to me about me.

SPEAKER_06 21:43

We should have given you a time limit. Oh. Hmm. I could shoot a m message to Orion.

SPEAKER_21 21:51

Do you have to see me?

SPEAKER_06 21:53

What's the distance on it? Message.

SPEAKER_21 21:55

Can you look at that?

SPEAKER_06 21:56

I think it's Can I respond?

SPEAKER_11 21:58

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 21:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_21 22:00

Woo! You can respond to this message.

SPEAKER_11 22:03

Well, wouldn't other people receive a message since it's in a general area?

SPEAKER_06 22:07

No, it's to a person if I don't point. You can cast a point towards a creature within range and whisper a message.

SPEAKER_09 22:14

Ranges. 120 feet. Point towards a creature. You are just at the edge of that.

SPEAKER_06 22:20

So I mean I would point towards like the center of the castle.

SPEAKER_11 22:24

Because I'm like, you don't want to give the message to the wrong person.

SPEAKER_06 22:26

No, it goes to a person I'm thinking of. It's not just like someone. I see. I see, I see.

SPEAKER_09 22:32

You have one bar of reception on your message.

SPEAKER_06 22:36

Coming like really crackling. Yeah. This is gonna cost you 10 cents. I guess. Bridge.

SPEAKER_13 22:46

It's safe.

SPEAKER_06 22:47

Bridge, not good. Bridge good.

SPEAKER_13 22:50

Safe. Go.

SPEAKER_06 22:52

We had a baby. It's a boy.

unknown 22:54

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 22:55

We did a baby commercial. No. Had a baby. It's a boy. Um we'll send it in the chat later. Um, but I will, I guess 30 minutes in. Okay. Just hit Orion up. Orion! It's me.

SPEAKER_21 23:09

Orion. Oh. Do I have to speak?

SPEAKER_11 23:12

Or can you just kind of whisper? If you want to respond, you'd have to whisper, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:19

Uh whisper. Yeah, a whisper. Comply in a whisper that only you can hear.

unknown 23:25

Whatever.

SPEAKER_18 23:25

30 minutes in, would I be alone enough that I can?

SPEAKER_09 23:28

Uh 30 minutes in, you are wait- this is post uh this is post-Bay nights coming down the hall. And uh you are waiting, listening at the door. So this is also post-stealth check.

SPEAKER_21 23:44

So if I am quiet enough.

SPEAKER_09 23:46

You are behind a wooden door. They are the people on the other side are communicating and you can barely hear them, and they're speaking in full full voice. Uh so you feel pretty confident that you could probably whisper and they wouldn't hear it.

SPEAKER_15 24:03

Orion, it's me, Hodge. Don't respond if it'll compromise your position. Maybe you can grunt or something. But we need to know if you're safe.

SPEAKER_14 24:16

I'm safe.

unknown 24:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_19 24:19

I don't know. Will that pick that up? It should. I'm safe.

SPEAKER_14 24:25

That's gonna be so loud.

SPEAKER_11 24:29

I'm so safe. He says he's safe. But that's all I can do.

SPEAKER_09 24:33

Uh great shapes back in the work.

SPEAKER_06 24:41

Is it like having eight eyes?

SPEAKER_11 24:43

It's incredible. It's worth having eight legs. I feel very wobbly. I was wondering what that was. Yeah. I like pull a like a two-inch splinter in my task.

SPEAKER_14 25:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 25:02

A spar of wood. Gonna be tasting cedar for days.

SPEAKER_22 25:08

Well, I thought you'd like that though. Insect. I can't remember what tasting was.

SPEAKER_11 25:12

It's not the worst, no.

SPEAKER_21 25:14

No worse.

SPEAKER_11 25:15

Because it's covered, covered in when you when you're eating it for ten minutes.

SPEAKER_21 25:19

Eating wood for ten.

SPEAKER_06 25:24

Val, what's your favorite flavor of wood?

SPEAKER_03 25:26

Val, don't answer that. Well, or maybe do.

SPEAKER_11 25:29

Mine would have to be. Oh god, maple? Well. Mine would have to be cedar with syrup. Well. Hardly knower.

SPEAKER_06 25:38

What? Ah.

SPEAKER_14 25:41

You're not here right now.

SPEAKER_09 25:43

I'm everywhere. We have to banish him. He said cedar, and I said hardly knower.

SPEAKER_06 25:50

Maplewood is pretty good. Makes maple syrup.

SPEAKER_18 25:53

It does make maple syrup. Is that real in those? Hickory smoked bacon anymore?

SPEAKER_06 25:58

Yeah, it's real. We're not going to invent 300 brands.

SPEAKER_09 26:00

Hickory and cherry. It has to be because somebody makes waffles all the time.

SPEAKER_11 26:04

Hickory and cherry are great woods to make furniture out of. Oh very nice. Because they're so sorry, I'll stop.

SPEAKER_06 26:12

Do you believe in cutting down trees? I thought that might be like ah.

SPEAKER_11 26:17

No, of course. I've I've cut down many.

SPEAKER_06 26:19

You know. Sacrilegious or something. Is there's a religious order? Would you consider it that?

SPEAKER_11 26:26

No. With certain druids, they are a bit uh interest th they behave interestingly around cutting down trees and such, but I I have cut down many a tree in my time, and it's necessary, of course, you don't waste any of it.

SPEAKER_05 26:43

Right, of course.

SPEAKER_11 26:45

Like uh like your hunting, you know. I'm not against hunting, as long as you're going to eat it and use all the parts.

SPEAKER_07 26:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 26:52

But just cutting for sport, hunting for sport is despicable.

SPEAKER_05 26:58

I see that.

SPEAKER_11 26:59

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 27:02

Scary.

SPEAKER_11 27:03

I had to custom make my own rocking chair to fit my stature. Humble brag.

SPEAKER_06 27:10

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_11 27:11

I'm not making your size, huh? No, they unfortunately they don't. But I had to make my own.

SPEAKER_13 27:22

Anything that I want to respond with.

SPEAKER_11 27:28

It's a boar, it's a bear being this big.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

It's dinner every day. I mean you're tall, yes. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_11 27:48

We'll talk about it later.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 27:55

Exactly. I don't make them look at my foot next to Joanna's. When you do that, it actually makes you look a bit like a monster.

SPEAKER_06 28:04

I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_11 28:05

Joanna's feet seemed far from the mark. Oh god.

SPEAKER_13 28:09

Hey, that's not true. My tiny feet are sad. That's not Joanna feels bad.

SPEAKER_14 28:16

She likes the toes.

SPEAKER_13 28:20

Look at the huge. She like side hung's eye, and it's like, we didn't we didn't mean it to turn like that. No, I know you didn't.

SPEAKER_11 28:27

I misspoke. I know you didn't mean it like that. It's just what I am. It's fine.

SPEAKER_13 28:32

No.

SPEAKER_11 28:33

I we need O'Rion to come back.

SPEAKER_13 28:34

You're right. We are going to talk about this later, because that is not great.

SPEAKER_06 28:37

Yeah. Where is that boy? I'll make an illusion around the base of Jrana's feet to make her look like she has huge Hobbit feet. See?

SPEAKER_13 28:46

Oh, I don't I don't like that. It's impressive. The magic is impressive, but the visual is upsetting.

SPEAKER_06 28:52

Yeah. I can do long toenails, too.

SPEAKER_13 28:54

No, thank you. Okay. That's all right.

SPEAKER_09 28:58

Um 15 more minutes pass. There are five minutes left until your timer goes off. Is there anything else you'd like to do?

SPEAKER_06 29:06

My orb. It's almost time for Orion's invisibility to be off.

SPEAKER_17 29:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 29:11

I did forget that I was meant to use that message to allow Orion to know when the timer was going to go off for the invisibility.

SPEAKER_21 29:20

He's got a really good internal.

SPEAKER_06 29:22

Which I cannot do again, so I do hope Orion was paying attention. I think he'll be alright. I think he'll know.

SPEAKER_04 29:27

He's very like regimented, so I feel like he like can tell.

SPEAKER_11 29:30

Darn Valley.

SPEAKER_18 29:36

That's true.

SPEAKER_11 29:37

Val, are you feeling alright around this castle?

SPEAKER_18 29:41

It's a little nerve-wracking, to be honest. I very much would rather not go inside if we can help it.

SPEAKER_11 29:48

Your hands look a little shaky. We're here for you, and we'll protect you at all costs.

SPEAKER_18 29:54

Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_11 29:58

You have nothing to worry about.

SPEAKER_05 30:00

Do you have any idea what they would do with you if they were to capture you? Are they trying to kill you?

SPEAKER_18 30:07

I don't. I don't actually know. I know they want my power. But I don't know if I need to be alive for that. And I don't really want to find out today. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 30:20

Nor do we. We're not going to. We're not going to ever find out.

SPEAKER_09 30:27

Five more minutes pass. Your timer dings. And you hear. You hear a gunshot echo.

unknown 30:41

Oh no.

SPEAKER_09 30:43

Inside the castle. O'Rion. You are running up the stairs. You feel a bullet magically bounce and reflect off of the back of your ankle. If you look down, you are still invisible. But you turn back, your sword is on the ground, and a Zenterim mercenary chasing after you with a gun in front, looking to see if he can see any sign of you.

SPEAKER_21 31:13

I keep running. I am not trying to run with that sword.

SPEAKER_09 31:16

Okay. You're running as fast as you can.

SPEAKER_21 31:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 31:19

Which is really fast.

SPEAKER_21 31:20

Yeah, I have with my gas, I have 90 feet of each.

SPEAKER_09 31:23

Oh shit, yeah.

SPEAKER_21 31:24

Yeah, because it's really won't be fine.

SPEAKER_09 31:26

Yeah, because of your other spell.

SPEAKER_21 31:28

Yeah, if long strider. Yeah, we when can we see running?

SPEAKER_06 31:32

What is long strider? Extra 10 feet. So 90 because of your 35. Nice. Wait. Please. 30? That's 70 plus 30 feet. I just used an action to fire that gun.

SPEAKER_21 31:42

So he gave us 35 plus 10 is 45. Double that is 90.

SPEAKER_09 31:48

Wait.

SPEAKER_06 31:49

Long stride is 10 feet.

SPEAKER_09 31:50

You get an extra. Can I see long charge? So it would be 80 feet.

SPEAKER_06 31:54

No. It would be 35 plus 10.

unknown 31:57

45.

SPEAKER_11 31:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 31:59

So your normal walk is a few. I was adding the wrong thing. Okay, yeah. So yeah, it would add 10 feet for each. 45 and 45. Okay, 90 feet every six seconds. That's insane.

SPEAKER_23 32:15

But I have long spider now. Awesome.

SPEAKER_09 32:16

15 feet per se.

SPEAKER_23 32:18

Yeah. That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_09 32:21

That's from home plate to first base.

SPEAKER_18 32:25

Yeah, basically.

SPEAKER_14 32:26

If you guys even channel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 32:30

They probably do, but they're also not armored up and fighting. That's 10 miles. If that guy comes out by himself, then all right.

SPEAKER_06 32:39

Hopefully he doesn't move.

SPEAKER_20 32:42

I feel like I should be fair.

SPEAKER_06 32:42

It is a full like Olympic sprint.

SPEAKER_11 32:44

Well, you're also like heavy because you're tall and muscular, so.

SPEAKER_21 32:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 32:50

Alright.

SPEAKER_21 32:52

Damn it. Emily said, I'm getting in that Google Doc leader.

SPEAKER_09 32:58

So the 50 minutes have passed. Hodge and the rest of the group know that Orion is on his way out and you hear this gunshot.

SPEAKER_14 33:10

Oh no.

SPEAKER_09 33:11

What do you do? Ready in action.

SPEAKER_18 33:14

Yeah. How far away is he from where we can see him is the question.

SPEAKER_06 33:22

The tunnel is we know. I know he went down. It's the hole in the base of the tower there. You can kind of see the collapsed wall.

SPEAKER_21 33:28

I am still invisible as well, so I don't know if you would see me.

SPEAKER_06 33:31

And you guys are on this tree line on the very edge. We know where he went, and I feel okay. Do we see the guards react at all?

unknown 33:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 33:39

Uh you do see both of the guards turn and look at this gunshot.

SPEAKER_06 33:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 33:44

Um, and you hear um some chatter within the walls.

SPEAKER_06 33:51

Um They're not alarmed, and one gunshot's not enough to put down Orion.

SPEAKER_11 33:56

No.

SPEAKER_06 33:57

No. Should trust him, give him a moment. But if we don't hear from him very soon, very, very soon, we should make a plan at least to enter. Going in now, if he's already dead, won't help anything, and if he's captured, we would need a plan.

SPEAKER_11 34:15

If he does come back out, I think we need to lay in wait for a few minutes. Or a little bit, and then when the lull, when it quiets down, then we can do something.

SPEAKER_23 34:26

Yeah. Yes. As soon as we heard the gunshot, Joanna's hands started to go out like that.

SPEAKER_06 34:30

Oh, sound like just so far back in the corner, is it?

SPEAKER_22 34:36

What? Oh, I didn't know that was happening. Sorry.

SPEAKER_09 34:40

Um, Orion, you know that he will not get a shot on you this round because you are up the stairs and he is down the stairs, and you're much quicker than him. But once you reach this hallway, he is going to be firing shots the whole way. Um He knows that you you are on a straight hallway. There are a few doors, but he'll see if you open them. Um But uh he will just be firing shots straight down this hallway the entire time.

SPEAKER_05 35:08

Uh zigzag.

unknown 35:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:10

So on this turn, you are safe. Um what is your passive perception? I hate when he asks that.

SPEAKER_06 35:20

And then it's always low, and he's like, okay. 15.

SPEAKER_09 35:24

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 35:24

That's really high, Dallas.

SPEAKER_09 35:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:27

Uh it is.

SPEAKER_09 35:31

You hear the screaming continues from this temple.

SPEAKER_08 35:39

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 35:40

And you hear the crack of a whip snapping on skin.

unknown 35:49

Oh no.

SPEAKER_17 35:51

You hear I don't know where she goes, I swear.

SPEAKER_09 35:57

And then another whoosh the next turn. You hear the loud footsteps as this centrim continues uh running up the stairs after you, and you hear a gunshot as a bullet whizzes towards you. This is a disadvantage.

SPEAKER_05 36:27

Did he dash?

SPEAKER_09 36:31

No, he's not dash.

SPEAKER_06 36:33

What's the range on that pistol?

SPEAKER_09 36:34

Loser. That is a natural one.

SPEAKER_18 36:37

Oh it jams. You see, disadvantage because you're invisible somehow.

SPEAKER_09 36:44

Uh you hear this bullet whiz past your ear.

SPEAKER_05 36:49

What was that gunshot? And exactly.

SPEAKER_09 36:54

You see one of the bandits uh hearing the first gunshot has popped his head out the door. Oh and blood splatters across the hallway.

SPEAKER_16 37:07

No.

SPEAKER_09 37:09

And you hear a scream from the man behind him. You know there are three in this group, now two. Uh you know that there are undead further down the hallway towards your exit. Um that is your turn. You guys hear another bullet rings out, and you see these two guards um uh pull out longbows and start looking around. Uh, not in your direction, but back towards the castle. Uh make perception checks for me.

SPEAKER_11 37:50

Scared. I mean, five. I know, right? Thirteen.

SPEAKER_23 37:58

Natural one for a total of six. Join it this way.

SPEAKER_22 38:06

Ah, seven.

SPEAKER_09 38:09

Eight and seven. Thirteen being the highest. Okay. You notice nothing else.

SPEAKER_15 38:14

We should start moving towards where Orion entered just in case he has help on the way out. Yes, I'm going to do it.

SPEAKER_13 38:19

Exactly.

SPEAKER_15 38:21

Join it this way.

SPEAKER_13 38:22

I'm sorry. Sorry. Been there for a long time and all the trees look the same.

unknown 38:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:27

Wow. Ike will have some words with you about that later.

SPEAKER_11 38:31

What would you say?

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Oh, you're on here a long time and all the trees look the same.

SPEAKER_09 38:35

Joanna, they did do that. Whoa! On that natural one for perception.

SPEAKER_19 38:41

No. I don't believe you.

SPEAKER_09 38:43

You the reason you weren't paying very close attention was that you were trying to decipher this deep whisper in the back of the forest. What?

SPEAKER_18 39:02

What?

SPEAKER_09 39:03

You turn you turn around, you look deeper into the forest, and then Hodge grabs you and snaps you out of it.

SPEAKER_15 39:10

Um god now.

SPEAKER_03 39:12

Yeah, sorry. Alright. Yeah. What happened? Um I think we just move the tree line.

SPEAKER_15 39:19

There's no time. We have to go see Harry any time.

SPEAKER_09 39:22

I guess. Are you moving up out of the tree line? Is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_06 39:26

Further down the tree line potentially to get a good look at where.

SPEAKER_09 39:31

You guys are here toward where you're saying, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 39:37

You're still a spider?

SPEAKER_09 39:39

No.

SPEAKER_21 39:40

Right? You're a man now. I'm a man now. You're a real boy. Do you guys want to pick pennies, or did you get it?

SPEAKER_23 39:51

Was it like too indecipherable to understand what it was said? Like I just like heard something. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 39:56

It was a very deep song of the bottom. You could hardly you were kind of trying to decide whether it was wind through the trees. Okay. Or if it was actually some voice. Did you hear the trees speaking to you? Back inside. Another shot rings out towards Orion.

SPEAKER_21 40:24

How far am I from the end?

SPEAKER_09 40:28

You're about halfway there at this point.

SPEAKER_06 40:30

You can move 60. And you just moved 180.

SPEAKER_09 40:34

Well, he's moving, he's moving 30.

SPEAKER_06 40:36

Yeah, it's two sounds.

SPEAKER_09 40:38

But yeah. So 60.

SPEAKER_21 40:39

I'm debating whether or not I should take the dodge action.

SPEAKER_09 40:43

Um that's up to you. No. I mean, but he already has this advantage.

SPEAKER_21 40:47

Okay. Then I can't go wait. Then I I forgot what dodge did. You're fucking invisible.

SPEAKER_09 40:55

Uh, what's your C? Oh fuck. With the bark skin?

SPEAKER_21 40:59

With the bark skin, I will do 17.

SPEAKER_18 41:03

Look at it. Plus, I command the bullet to not hit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 41:07

Exactly.

SPEAKER_23 41:07

I command the bullet to shit.

SPEAKER_18 41:08

Yes, can you both start praying, please?

SPEAKER_23 41:11

Okay. Sure. I thought. Sometimes.

SPEAKER_14 41:19

With disadvantage.

SPEAKER_16 41:24

Usually that's when the guy bulk is out of my like I'm like blade. And then it does.

SPEAKER_11 41:30

It goes. Fascinating.

SPEAKER_16 41:32

You're telling me.

SPEAKER_09 41:37

Did did bent it. Oh. Did did bent it. It's a one on the D10 for a four damage.

SPEAKER_21 41:44

Okay. Do I pop out of invisibility?

SPEAKER_09 41:46

If you take damage.

SPEAKER_06 41:47

Oh, I don't believe so.

SPEAKER_09 41:48

Okay. If you do damage. That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_21 41:50

Okay. He's used to paint on um missions like this.

SPEAKER_09 41:55

A bullet rips through the back of your thigh. Blood starts pouring out onto the stone. I can see you now.

SPEAKER_21 42:09

But we can't. Um, can I can I cast a spell?

SPEAKER_06 42:13

Uh you will go on invisible. Okay. But you would know. But yeah. It's still up to you.

SPEAKER_09 42:27

I would like the four of you to make stealth checks, please.

SPEAKER_14 42:31

But when I went in 30 feet of the other.

SPEAKER_21 42:43

Oh, wait, I should probably roll a concentration check.

SPEAKER_11 42:45

Oh my god, I'm using my inspiration. I'm using Lucky to give myself advantage on this bullshit.

SPEAKER_21 42:51

Concentrating on something.

SPEAKER_11 42:52

What'd you do?

SPEAKER_21 42:54

Somebody.

SPEAKER_11 42:54

Okay, that's not a good one. You wanna give me advantage on that? I got a two. So I'm using inspiration.

SPEAKER_21 42:59

Okay, I that's better. I'm concentrating on pass without a trace.

SPEAKER_11 43:06

That's a 13 stone. PC's 10.

SPEAKER_06 43:10

Uh 10. Constitution save and throw.

SPEAKER_09 43:14

Con save. What the hell? Okay, pass without a trace is gone. I don't have to do that. Your footsteps, as blood starts to pour out of your leg, your footsteps get louder. He is now able to track you in some capacity.

SPEAKER_21 43:28

Am I able to- Hey, that leaves only one.

SPEAKER_09 43:30

We could jump him.

SPEAKER_21 43:33

Ooh. I'll jump him. Can I take an action to like?

SPEAKER_09 43:37

This turn you dashed.

SPEAKER_21 43:40

Next turn.

SPEAKER_09 43:41

Uh once we get to it, I would just keep it.

SPEAKER_06 43:45

Is he a disadvantage?

SPEAKER_21 43:47

He knows where I am and I'll know where I'll where I'll go.

SPEAKER_11 43:49

Well that'll lead him out so we can all jump.

SPEAKER_09 43:52

Is will be at long range with the pistol this next turn.

SPEAKER_21 43:56

But people are now looking for all this.

SPEAKER_09 44:01

So Orion getting slightly louder, leaving a blood trail outside you hear from the top of the keep. If you wouldn't mind putting three on the top. As you guys are running to get closer to Orion, you hear uh one uh member of the Zenterim uh shout I see movement in the trees! Uh they don't seem to be they're not firing at you yet, uh, but they obviously see some sort of movement uh as you guys are uh making your way across the tree line. Back inside. Orion, what would you like to do with your turn? You th three more dashes, you will be outside. I'm sorry, two more.

SPEAKER_21 45:03

Okay. And it would it be an action to like tie a piece of cloth around.

SPEAKER_09 45:12

That would be a medicine check.

SPEAKER_21 45:16

So an action. And I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_09 45:18

That would be an action, yeah. I would get the fuck out of there. Alright. Um another two shots ring out.

SPEAKER_15 45:31

At uh it would be a disadvantage, that's what he said. Yep.

SPEAKER_09 45:36

Uh your AC is 17. A 16 just misses. Yep, yeah. But a 17 will help you. Damn. Alright, alright, alright.

SPEAKER_14 45:48

Okay. 16 left.

SPEAKER_09 45:50

8 damage. Oh. This one catches you in the back of the shoulder. 16. 8 damage. As one whizzes right past you, just barely missing your ear. It almost uh bursts your eardrum how close it was.

SPEAKER_06 46:05

There wasn't a single corner in this fucking place.

SPEAKER_09 46:08

Uh you went straight from here, she went straight. There were options to go different ways, but you continued straight and it led you directly to where you wanted to be. Um hallway.

unknown 46:22

Cool.

SPEAKER_09 46:23

And you start to see the undead uh kind of rushing out like uh coming to this sound. Make an acrobatics check, please. Easily done.

SPEAKER_21 46:38

Don't say that yet. I know. Yeah, it's funny.

SPEAKER_09 46:43

What do you do here?

SPEAKER_21 46:45

I parkour off the wall. Yep. Yep, 100%.

SPEAKER_09 46:49

NFL Street 2 wall run. Uh you just uh up and over this group of undead. You now have full cover behind a group of undead that didn't even know you were there. They might have heard a skittering across the wall. Um but the blood on your leg and your shoulder does drip onto them as you do. Uh and they just go yummy. Just looking around, what the fuck was that? Uh and you hear the Zachin go, no! Uh as he sees them kind of look up and back behind them, he knows that you got past. Um the uh the bandits have pulled their dead compatriot back into the room and into cover. They would have possibly joined this fight, but immediately off that gnat one, having been shot in the fucking head, uh they pulled him in and slammed the door shut.

SPEAKER_06 47:52

Slammed this guy. It's also not a bainite. So he just killed, he's a Zen, right? And he just killed a Bainite.

SPEAKER_09 47:59

This was one of the three random bandits. They're unassociated, yeah, unaffiliated. Um unfortunately didn't really add fuel to the fire. But I need a perception check as well.

SPEAKER_21 48:18

No, it's not the bouncy dice. That thing bounces. I got Becca. I dropped it and I said, Oh, Becca, it's by your foot. Can you get it for me?

SPEAKER_06 48:30

She threw it in. I was like, what the fuck? I thought Becca whipped it out because it like flew across the room.

SPEAKER_09 48:35

It's like, uh You continue to hear the whipping and the lashing and screaming, and in between these screams, you hear I only poured her drinks!

SPEAKER_17 48:51

Her name's Val, please! I don't know, I don't know anything else. Pour her drinks.

SPEAKER_06 48:56

Is that the guy we wanted to get kicked from? The piss cut.

SPEAKER_09 49:02

You guys would remember that uh this previous night at Old Skull Inn, there was a new bartender that you did not recognize. Oh which may mean they needed to replace somebody else.

SPEAKER_21 49:16

No shit. Oh, spy.

SPEAKER_09 49:23

Outside, you guys hear them shout that they can see you, that there's movement in the trees. You're not see you see, you look up and you see three archers posted up on the top uh of this of this tower of the keep. What would you like to do? Fuck. So I see. You can go deeper into the forest if you want more cover uh and to hide. Uh you do continue to hear these shots kind of ringing out. Uh and you know that uh they they are looking in the exact direction that O'Rion would be coming out from. He is still invisible for another nine minutes. Uh so you do have that. Uh but uh you guys will have will have been have moved over that way as well.

SPEAKER_23 50:18

Have thaumaturgy, so I 30 feet behind us can make like an animal sound. So they think like that's where it was.

SPEAKER_06 50:26

Yeah, you could make an animal sound, maybe in an alternate direction.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

I said 30 feet on a direction.

SPEAKER_06 50:34

Yeah, but where we were still in a straight line, maybe like off to our side or something, like it's still moving, maybe. Yeah. He's gonna say behind us and diagonal. Sure.

SPEAKER_23 50:47

Woo!

SPEAKER_09 50:49

Uh, so you're making a sound deeper into the forest, you said? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 50:54

Of like a monster, maybe something scary.

SPEAKER_23 50:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:59

Like a owl bear?

SPEAKER_23 51:00

I was thinking that kind of. Or just a bear.

SPEAKER_06 51:02

Whatever you want. Any animal, yeah. Whatever you want. That's not the one they're gonna be like, let's go get it. Hopefully, one they're gonna be like, uh, let's leave it alone.

SPEAKER_13 51:10

Uh, owl bear noise 30 feet behind us, kind of corner further into the forest.

SPEAKER_09 51:14

Okay. Uh you see two of them uh look over in that direction towards the sound, the other one still kind of looking in the trees. Uh I will need another stealth check. Can I remember shape?

SPEAKER_11 51:29

This is gonna be much easier.

SPEAKER_07 51:31

Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_11 51:33

Okay. I'm going to channel the energy I had just felt a while back and change back into a spider. So I have one, so I have better stealth.

SPEAKER_22 51:48

Oh no. 19.

SPEAKER_11 51:51

Fuck. 14.

SPEAKER_01 51:55

Oh, same, actually.

SPEAKER_11 51:57

Four. Four?

SPEAKER_09 51:57

Oh no. Um that evens out, right?

unknown 52:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 52:02

What's the average? Uh the DC this time was a 10. Uh the the one is still looking uh in your direction. He has knocked his boat, but he has not uh let it loose yet. Um gunshots are ringing out, they're not sure. No information has reached this top level, obviously. Um it is just pistol shots that are going, they're on alert. Uh you could to them, you could just be travelers who are wandering past and also hearing these gunshots. You don't seem to be a threat at the moment.

SPEAKER_11 52:36

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_14 52:38

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 52:40

Um back inside, Orion. This is your final turn until you will be outside. At the end of this turn, you will have reached the tunnel and have and will see outside. You will be able to possibly even see uh no, you're deeper into the trench, you wouldn't be able to see your group, but um you will reach daylight, essentially. Um, behind you, obviously, you do not hear any gunshots, as he cannot see you at all. You are behind a wave of undead. Uh, you just hear him shout, The alarm! Ring the alarm!

unknown 53:16

Fuck.

SPEAKER_09 53:17

And uh a couple seconds later, you start to hear ting, ding, ding, ding. Just alarms start going off one by one uh through, making their way kind of through the castle as multiple alarms throughout this castle uh start to be rung. Um and outside you guys hear the same guy at the top.

SPEAKER_17 53:44

Intruders! Be on alert!

SPEAKER_09 53:48

Uh as two of them uh ignoring the sound of the bear begin to look down, uh uh they turn. The one is still trained on the direction that he is seeing. He's not necessarily even seeing bodies, he's just kind of seeing fabric through these trees. Um, but the other two train their bows on the exits to the keep. So they are going to look here.

unknown 54:21

Look here.

SPEAKER_09 54:25

Should we go back? What would you like to do? Is Orion he's not quite back with us? Uh O'Rion, unless there's anything else you'd like to do, you can dash.

SPEAKER_21 54:34

I'm very scared that I'm going to go down the next time he hits me. If he hits me. I had eight hit points and it's a D10 of damage.

SPEAKER_09 54:40

So you have full cover. Are you gonna use your action to dash and get outside, or what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_21 54:45

I will I will do that.

SPEAKER_11 54:47

I can then heal. I can then heal you.

SPEAKER_21 54:49

Yeah, I can heal myself as well.

SPEAKER_09 54:51

But you should dash. I think you said you have full cover.

SPEAKER_21 54:55

I have full cover. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 54:56

Okay, so you have full cover and you're going down this tunnel now.

SPEAKER_21 54:59

I'm going, I'm gonna do this tunnel.

SPEAKER_09 55:01

And you're much faster than him.

SPEAKER_21 55:02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 55:03

Uh okay. You reach daylight. Uh, you are now out at the bottom of this cavern. Uh, you have 30 feet to climb up um to reach your group. Uh you don't see them, but you do hear the alarms have reached outside as well. Uh you are still invisible.

SPEAKER_01 55:27

Moments more.

SPEAKER_09 55:29

Nine minutes more. It's only yeah, it's only been a couple seconds.

SPEAKER_21 55:32

So now my question is will my blood trail stop if I heal myself?

SPEAKER_09 55:38

If you if you take some time, if you take an action to make a medicine check and are successful, you will stop the beating.

SPEAKER_21 55:45

Okay. I would like to do that on your next turn. I okay. I'm in the sewer, right?

SPEAKER_09 55:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_21 55:52

That's fucking gross.

SPEAKER_09 55:54

Whether it's like it's well, it's less of a sewer now. Like it's not being used.

SPEAKER_21 56:00

Oh, okay. So there's no like.

SPEAKER_09 56:01

So they don't even know that it's really there. Because I was gonna say this is a it's gross here because it's used to heavy and it has been completely ignored.

SPEAKER_06 56:09

What? If you like get healing in a couple days, you're not gonna get like gangrene. What I'm saying is poop in your wound. Have you got your tetanus shot?

SPEAKER_21 56:18

I would say this is the perfect place to heal myself and staunch the bleeding because it's where yeah, they can't track me out. This is where the like bodily fluids added to the big thing. It's where they do the pooping. Having casting. Yeah, and I've always said that.

SPEAKER_09 56:32

So to detect Orion.

SPEAKER_06 56:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 56:37

So would I then very strong particular magic? Well, if Orion comes within 30 feet of me, I would detect all those spells that are uh you are because you are 30 feet up right now on the cavern, he is just out of range next to her, and you would detect him climbing up. Okay.

SPEAKER_21 56:55

Is it like magic costume?

SPEAKER_06 56:57

If it is, I wouldn't have been casting it. I believe it is. Then I would not be casting it.

SPEAKER_11 57:02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 57:03

Is it?

SPEAKER_11 57:04

It seems I don't think it is. I'm checking. I think it just lasts. Well, you Rickful casted it too, so.

SPEAKER_06 57:10

It is casting. I'm not casting the shit.

SPEAKER_11 57:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:16

Invisibility. I'm not casting the past.

SPEAKER_09 57:18

Uh true, true, true. Yeah, it's so fair. Yeah. Uh Ryan's just like, sorry, buddy! Okay. Uh this next turn you can make your medicine check uh just before you hop out to the outside, and you can use your 35 feet or 45 feet of movement.

SPEAKER_21 57:43

Nine.

SPEAKER_09 57:44

You are not able to tend to the wounds um in order to stop the bleeding, the blood from leaking out. You are still leaving a trail. If you want to withhold from your movement and instead continue using the rest of the time on your turn, I will allow you to take it as instead of doing your movement, continuing to tend to those wounds. So you have either 45 feet, which could get you to the top of the cavern, uh, on an acrobatics check, or uh make a medicine check and stop the bleeding. She just cure wounds and stop the bleeding.

SPEAKER_21 58:26

I'll I won't be invisible anymore.

SPEAKER_09 58:28

Oh, fuck. Would you like to do a medicine check instead of your movement, or do you want to move?

SPEAKER_21 58:34

I'm gonna keep going. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 58:36

Make an acrobatics check to try and get off the network. She puts the bell out of her hand. Hey, we're gonna kill it.

SPEAKER_18 58:51

That's fine. I heard the sound of my kitty.

SPEAKER_06 58:52

That's hair. That's also you get hair. That's fair. At least Nat 20.

SPEAKER_09 59:00

I just see the biggest child smile. She likes she sits up straight too.

SPEAKER_21 59:07

Because like with my attacks and stuff, I mostly have saves. So when I actually get to roll and it's a crit, I'm so excited. It's such a rare occurrence.

SPEAKER_09 59:15

I will say on that nat 20, uh just floats. You go so quickly that it somehow like tightens your bandages as you're running and stifles the blood. So you look back and yeah. Uh or you're able to you're able to move so quickly that you realize that you can just grab and pressure. Stove your fingers in it.

SPEAKER_21 59:37

I'm going so quickly that my muscles tense up enough that all my veins squeeze together and um it staunches the bleeding. But only naturally it does. Amazing. We've never done that. Everything's pretend. You skirt up uh so quickly.

SPEAKER_09 59:58

And uh you see your party hidden in the tree line. Orion's okay.

SPEAKER_21 1:00:05

I run towards them and I just like run!

SPEAKER_09 1:00:11

Yeah, you just hear a butt, like maybe a little pitter-patter of footsteps, and then run!

unknown 1:00:18

Oh my god! Where?

SPEAKER_11 1:00:20

We should run back towards the bridge.

SPEAKER_22 1:00:22

Yes, into the woods as well. Okay, yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:25

Into the woods. Okay.

SPEAKER_22 1:00:26

Into the woods.

unknown 1:00:27

Into the woods.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:27

Uh the alarms are still going off, the bells are still going. Uh people are still looking around trying to find an escape. Um, and you run off. Uh, I'm assuming you're running back in the direction that you came.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:42

Yeah, back into the wood line and then kind of looping back around towards the bridge.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:46

Oh, okay, so you still want to be in this area. Right there.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:49

Because we want to watch the bridge.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:51

Just in case. And then okay, I'll be back. Especially if they start to chase us out of the fort. I'll fucking hit it with a firebolt. If the plan goes to shit, whatever, we know where the orb is, but I don't want to be followed by 30 men.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:02

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:02

Uh checks again, please. What?

SPEAKER_09 1:01:06

Check my Instagram.

SPEAKER_21 1:01:07

Me too this time.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:08

Uh no. You are invisible, so you're fine.

SPEAKER_21 1:01:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:11

That's a sounds like a problem.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:14

At advantage, because we're obscured, haven't we?

unknown 1:01:18

I don't care.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:19

Add advantage if you use uh your inspiration, if you have one.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:25

Okay, well, you just tell me how the game works. I got it.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:30

Six sixteen.

SPEAKER_23 1:01:32

Uh net one for a total of five.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_23 1:01:35

Not one for a total of five. Oh my god!

SPEAKER_17 1:01:38

My guys! Twenty-one!

SPEAKER_11 1:01:41

Uh please tell me a sixteen and a twenty-one and a run past Joanna.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:45

I don't have to be faster than them.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:53

Well uh Joanna No Joanna trips on one of my legs and Val in their armor uh clatter and both stumble out uh in into the open out of the tree line. Two arrows sink into the grass directly next to you. Yeah. And you hear I see them! The tree line across the bridge! Perfect.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:27

Uh the arrows do miss.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:29

You do have the opportunity to stand back up and get back into the tree line.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:32

Yeah, bye. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:33

But they do know where at least the two of you are.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:36

Yeah. Um, and they saw you running.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:40

Behind the tree. Uh fur you guys want to just tuck back further into the trees and wait. Okay.

SPEAKER_23 1:02:46

I'm gonna go farther into the tree.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:48

I have 120 feet on the my fireball, so I'm just kind of hoping to stay within that poise to take out the bridge and walk back in. I see a force coming out.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:01

Um Passive Perceptions, please.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:07

Uh 15.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:10

Those fucking L's again come to save the day, perhaps?

SPEAKER_11 1:03:13

It's it's whispering. It's a different forest.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:17

Passive Perception, eleven.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:20

Three fifteens. You guys hear angry shouting, and then uh some kind of grunting and and it's sort of a different language.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:38

Uh, yeah, come on, we speak goblins.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:43

I can speak that uh you just be uh make a perception check to see if you can actually hear you you can on that passive, you can hear a man shouting and goblins kind of speaking goblin either to each other or to this man. But the man is shouting in common. Goblin. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:04

Uh you hear the man shouts. You fucking goblins. You caused this, didn't you? You mangy motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:16

Uh and you hear the goblins uh three of them. Uh you hear them talking in goblin to each other. Uh what? Gobbo's. He said goblins like it was a slur. Uh you hear the goblins speaking in goblin to each other. We can take him out, can't we?

SPEAKER_14 1:04:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:36

It's three of us and one of him. Yeah. Fucking guy worships a god that's failed many times over.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:45

Take that shit out.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:46

Sounds like me. Uh yeah, because he sucks.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:48

Do you guys do anything or do you want to continue waiting in the street line? You can you can hear that it's about 60 feet you uh into the forest uh this way about um where those goblin tracks kind of tailed off from when you were pat following uh Pal and his end.

SPEAKER_23 1:05:04

She'll definitely whisper to everybody, be like, they think the goblins caused this, and the goblins are talking about fighting back.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:10

I think we just hands off, let them kill each other.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:14

Yes, yes, hands off, of course. Oh yes. None of our goblins and numbers.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:18

If anything, they'll cause a big enough distraction that we can get out. I like it. Unnoticed.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:22

Or at least deeper within and keep watch on the door.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:26

Because we have to get that oil.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:28

They're they're talking a big game right now together.

SPEAKER_23 1:05:31

Probably gonna try.

SPEAKER_21 1:05:36

Yes, good.

SPEAKER_23 1:05:37

Oh, and you've speaking of, and she will are you invisible?

SPEAKER_21 1:05:40

No, no.

SPEAKER_15 1:05:41

No, still technically.

SPEAKER_23 1:05:42

Where are you? Alright, give me your back. Her hand is like starting to glue. Where are you so I can fix you? Clearly got messed up. I'm obviously right here. Don't do that. So scary. She'll put a hand on your shoulder. Uh curious. Yippee.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:05

Oh, kinky. I don't say it like that.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:09

I'll put a spider leg on your leg. Spider leg on your leg.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:15

I just need three blood three more.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:17

Well, okay, then you're back at full.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:19

Yay! Again, he doesn't say it like that.

SPEAKER_13 1:06:24

Thank you. It's one thing when you're quiet when you're visible. When you're invisible, speak up behind me. We almost got ourselves killed.

SPEAKER_18 1:06:34

That's your fault.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:41

I'm like the way in Dante.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:43

Alright. Uh, you guys are gonna hear combat start. Oh, sick. Uh the goblins are going to attack this bay night. Uh meanwhile, the alarms are still ringing. Um and the guards are still working. See if he gets his nuts out here. You hear uh a mate connect with a goblin.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:10

Ooh! That sounded like it was on the head.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:14

Bloodying one of them. Uh, you hear fucking uh and all three of the uh goblin uh warriors uh slash at this band with their sim tards being ganged up by like toddler-sized things with fives.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:40

Uh two of them are going to hit off.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:44

We've got to go.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:46

Makes me think of a very specific scene of some movie where like a guy just gets like fucking stabbed like crazy.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:53

For 10 days. Um the next next round, you do see those little things.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:03

And the mummy two, I think.

SPEAKER_21 1:08:05

I've never seen Paul two? I've never seen the bisexual classic, the mummy.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:11

That's fine. You haven't? Excellent. That was crazy.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:16

Whoa. What is it?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:19

Can I still see the bridge that we've been 120 feet? Uh you can still see it.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:24

Um you see five more uh cultists of Bain join the group of guards at the front guarding the gate. Uh, you hear a lot of commotion and they're just kind of talking to each other. They look very scattered as if they don't know where it goes. Uh you um three with fifteen passive uh can hear uh someone say the word invisible, and then they all kind of gasp and go, fuck. And then you see they all start to kind of spread out.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:05

In the moat?

SPEAKER_11 1:09:06

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:07

Wait. Oh I see, I see, I see.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:10

Bastards cross that fucking bridge.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:13

And then two on all that for nothing. They might they might at some point, but uh for now they're spreading out, kind of looking, making sure they guard any exit. Uh this is all rubble, so they an invisible person could have gotten through and and and gotten through the rubble and crossed. Uh, but they're all kind of on their on their heels looking around. Um continuing on. Uh does anyone want to do anything with these guards that are out here, or do you just kind of waiting until somebody crosses?

SPEAKER_20 1:09:47

I think that we should just run.

SPEAKER_21 1:09:50

I think the bridge plan is really fun, but I think if we do that. It's yeah, it's gonna put them directly on our trail. I think we need to just go.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:58

I could also just collapse the bridge now, ensure no one follows us, at least in this moment.

SPEAKER_21 1:10:05

Can do you have a spell that's like more Can your unseen servant do it?

SPEAKER_06 1:10:11

No. No. He can't really do damage.

unknown 1:10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:14

And he's not up and a bunch of other things. I could like um I mean a fire hole coming out of the woods from like 120 feet away, they're gonna be like they're out in them woods.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:27

But you know, I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:30

I say we just wait a minute.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:32

Uh, you can see that there is some sort of communication disconnect because the Xenterum at the top obviously saw you and fired shots at you. The Bainites that are right, not next to you, but closest to you, clearly have not gotten that message. We need I think we just need to wait a minute.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:49

We're still hidden. Just take a breath.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:53

Uh Orion, tell us what you learned, please, quickly.

SPEAKER_21 1:10:58

So I was in there and there was a bunch of undead, first of all. Um, okay, hold on. Let me get my thoughts together as Lily.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:06

Yeah. I can help you as well.

SPEAKER_21 1:11:09

Okay, I I passed a room and there was uh screaming and somebody being whipped, and um, I heard I don't know where she goes, I swear. I only poured her drinks. Her name is Val, so they know Val is nearby and who she is. So we need to keep her concealed and safe.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:27

Oh at least from the Bay Knights.

SPEAKER_21 1:11:29

So that is what I learned. There are a lot of Bay Knights in this temple. There are also bandits and Zentarim who and it seems like there's a lot of infighting. Um about the orb. Pal does have it, he wants to sell it to the Zentarim. Um, and I couldn't hear much in the hallway because the door was so uh heavy and there was a glyph of warding, so I could not get close. But I did hear um chromatic dragon orb swallow power, and Bane can't know, need to leave tonight. So it they mostly likely are leaving tonight, and we can track them.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:11

Good, good.

SPEAKER_21 1:12:13

I do think that was safe. I don't think that they're actually going to swallow it right now.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:17

No, no. I I feel like the Zents are trying to buy buy the orb from him, but he's not going to give it up willingly.

SPEAKER_21 1:12:25

I agree, which is why I think that we should wait here in the woods, wait until we see Powell and the Zent, since they are leaving and they are not bringing the Bay Knights with them, and I think that we should track them and kill them swiftly and quietly away from his castle.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:40

We need to keep our distance then. Wait till they leave. Wait till the alarm also ceases. Make sure they aren't following us.

SPEAKER_21 1:12:48

Seems like they think it they are the goblins right now. Goblins could be invisible. Why not?

SPEAKER_06 1:12:53

Why is the Bane why is the Bainite and the Goblins out here at all? Did I make an insight trick? It's clearly the goblins that were with How? Right? He had goblins with him?

SPEAKER_09 1:13:07

He did. Uh, you would assume that uh goblins were not allowed in Castle Crack. Oh, they're racist. Yeah, well, Loki. Well they have a violent nature. Uh and on that note, you hear the Bay Knight's mace clatter and get blocked by the scimtar of a goblin. And you hear you would hear uh Johanna uh Jump on him! I've got him on his back foot! And you hear the other two shh uh slide their cimtars into uh this bay knight as he screams Help me! Help me! Uh the goblins seem to have the upper hand here. They're winning, sounds like it.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:57

Sounds good for us. Pardon.

SPEAKER_22 1:13:59

Yeah, they're really excited about it.

SPEAKER_23 1:14:01

Is that the Bay Knight who they like ushered out of that meeting?

unknown 1:14:06

No.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:06

Or was that not? No, you have not seen anyone come or go uh the whole time that you've been here. Um just seems like a guy who is kind of assigned to to this you can see like scattered stones, like it looks like a dilapidated kind of uh not an outhouse, but like a little building that is away from the the castle um that they kind of use as a little outpost, yeah. Um so combat is still going on out there uh inside the castle, alarms still ringing. You then see This is so fun. You then see five Zenterim.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:05

Cross that bridge, bitch.

SPEAKER_11 1:15:11

They wouldn't die, they would just have to climb back.

SPEAKER_22 1:15:13

But it would be inconvenient.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:15

Uh you see the five Zentrim come to the entrance uh and communicate with the one uh Bainite who is still uh guarding that entrance. You do not recognize any of them. Um they are not the higher ups, they are all seem to be lower class uh in this Zenterim uh pyramid scheme. Um and you see them talking uh and then they point to where they saw Val and Joanna fall, and they you look and you see they're pointing directly at the two arrows. You guys are tucked further back into the trees at this point, uh, but the pointing follows by uh this group of Zenterim uh and two of the Bay Knights going towards uh the bridge.

SPEAKER_21 1:16:17

I wonder if their weight will be enough then. I hope so.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:24

Uh six of them can fit on at once as soon as the the last two, four of them step on and they kind of like uh they're hustling across, so they don't really feel that it sinks. It sinks under them. Um that's going out. And then on the as the last two step on, all six. Yeah. A loud splintering of wood, and then uh uh tumbling men uh scream out as they're falling down. Uh they're all going to take eleven bludgeoning damage as they fall. Um they are mangled at the bottom of this uh as the the one who did not fit on the bridge uh watches in terror as six of his uh kind of associates fall down, and you see they all kind of uh cluster around and look down. Are you alright? Are you alright? They must have set a fucking trip. Uh and the one the one he's gonna look, he does not see you deeper into the trees, but he pulls his his bow and he's scanning as best as he can uh to see if he can see you guys through. Fuck, they must have run. Uh but they have smoke bombs. They seemingly have no option to get across other than climbing down and then climbing back up. So that's two whole turns of movement on successful uh acrobatic checks. Should we move back further now? Yeah, that's fine. I like this one. The map the map is oh come around.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:12

You guys are much further than the map checks.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:14

Over there.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:14

I don't know. Because this maybe Powell will come out a secret entrance. Rather than the front door.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:21

Well now they can't use the front door anyway, so yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:26

I mean it is night, isn't it? No. Oh. Uh you you guys went here pretty directly after you woke up.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:34

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:34

Why am I thinking it's nighttime this whole time? It took a couple hours to get here.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:40

But it's only m noon or so. Oh well. Uh and then obviously you were in.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:48

So I don't know. Dry moat. I don't know if there yes. I don't know if there is another way across.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:56

I mean, we can- You guys have only seen this side of it, so there might be a back way. Um, but you could certainly go around and check if you wanted to. Uh it doesn't seem like at this point uh you obviously haven't seen the man with the pistol. Uh, you haven't seen Powell or any of the high-ranking Zinterim. So uh and you did not hear Orion as you were running away, you did not hear the door open again or more footsteps behind. You definitely would have heard more footsteps behind on that loud stone. So it seems as though Powell and his high ranking Zinterim did not follow.

unknown 1:19:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:37

And they said they were coming out tonight.

SPEAKER_21 1:19:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:40

If they're leaving tonight, then we have to just wait to say.

SPEAKER_21 1:19:43

We have to wait them out. We need to also find another entrance, an exit to see.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:48

Perhaps back where you came out of.

SPEAKER_21 1:19:52

I think that they would have known about that entrance.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:58

You you are pretty certain that nobody knows about that.

SPEAKER_21 1:20:01

I don't think anybody knows about that.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:03

Though you did leave a blood trail through it.

SPEAKER_21 1:20:06

I left a blood trail through it, but sorry. Sure that is other blood there.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:14

Bunch of fucking crazy cultists, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:20:18

Well not if not if nobody knows that that exists.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:24

Maybe rat's blood. Somewhere. Fuck.

unknown 1:20:29

I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:32

Uh you hear one goblin killed, and then two more stabs into the uh the bay knight. Uh you hear.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:40

No! Scrima!

SPEAKER_09 1:20:44

Uh a name? That was yeah, that was the goblin who died.

SPEAKER_18 1:20:47

Oh, goblin.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:50

Um, but uh two more cimtars into this bay knight. So uh if you're tracking the battle, the bay knight seems to be close to close to death. Uh but the goblins have lost one of their members. Are you guys moving around to get a look at the other side of the castle, or what do you what do you want to do here?

SPEAKER_06 1:21:10

I think Ike is correct. We should scope uh place out, maybe get away from this skirmish that may be attracting attention. They will either find a way across or rebuild this bridge, but. Does anyone have any means to observe this crossing here while we are away? I don't think so. A familiar, perhaps, something like that. Orion, was that you? I think I heard a gas.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:41

I cannot conjure a familiar in my in my current shape.

SPEAKER_21 1:21:44

I can.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:45

But Orion can.

SPEAKER_21 1:21:47

Um for that?

SPEAKER_11 1:21:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:51

That sucks.

SPEAKER_21 1:21:52

I don't think I have to. I think I can cast it one time for free. Let me see. Let me see. I I have something. I think so. Because they can't Wild Companion. As an action you can spend it expend. I can use a wild shape charge. Oh. Which I never use.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:10

Is that not also for your sorry form though?

SPEAKER_21 1:22:14

That's I don't believe so.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:17

That is I'm pretty sure story form charges.

SPEAKER_21 1:22:22

Yeah, they are different they're different.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:23

Oh, cool. Wow.

SPEAKER_21 1:22:26

No, I lied.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:28

Yeah, I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_21 1:22:29

But I haven't used it yet. So I still have both charges.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:34

Go for it.

SPEAKER_21 1:22:35

Fair enough, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:36

I mean, just so that you could there's probably a range to communicate, but you could have it just come back into range.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:43

And if it's using its eyes, you can't use yours, though.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:47

No, if she's using its eyes.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:51

But if it can communicate with her. Yeah, it can communicate with you.

SPEAKER_21 1:22:55

It can communicate with me, but only within a hundred feet.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:58

Yeah, but it could f like if it's a bird, it could fly into a hundred feet, be like, hey, they're leaving! Hey, come back, they're leaving. So not in the have fun.

SPEAKER_21 1:23:08

Unfortunately, I really want a dog. Like Orion's like Orion has a dog, but it's not in the raven. It's not in the right um challenge rating.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:19

This gotta be like a can or something.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:22

Uh you guys are moving around the tree line to the other side of the keep. In a way that's impossible to perceive. Yes. You guys are deep into the tree. Hovering on the edge, I was having you make stealth checks, but deeper in. Um Ryan, are you um casting your Fine Familiar?

SPEAKER_21 1:23:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:45

What are you casting?

SPEAKER_21 1:23:48

It's going to be my dog. I changed my mind to this dog. I'm casting it with the cat stat block, though.

SPEAKER_11 1:23:55

Yeah, that's great.

SPEAKER_21 1:23:56

I have a cat dog.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:57

Excuse me.

unknown 1:23:58

Perfect.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:59

Cat dog.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:00

I do too.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:01

And you're leaving it here to watch the bridge.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:05

Got it.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:06

I could also just stay.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:08

Nope. Orion, sit, sit, stay.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:16

Could you have it uh just howl? If howl.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:23

Yes, of course. Um, take up. Howl if you see the man that was in the room that tried to kill me.

unknown 1:24:34

Oh.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:35

And any of his buddies.

SPEAKER_15 1:24:39

Buddies. Good girl.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:42

Oh my god. It's what you would say to a dog. It's fine.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:46

Yeah, no, no, I said it as a dog, and then I was like, wait, that's gonna be taken out of context.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:51

No, it's not. No, it's not. It's fully within context.

SPEAKER_21 1:24:54

I control to edit. It will be in context.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:58

It just starts supplies. Well, now you have the audio. Yeah, now you have the audio of Lily saying good girl, so you can put that anyway.

SPEAKER_23 1:25:04

Well, I have a- Take an edit of me, please! I think I really want an edit of me. I have audio of that, and then there's audio of me barking. So, you know, we both have a- Oh my god! Oh my god, we're gonna make an enemy.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:19

What are the woods? Yeah. Okay. Uh so you loop around uh deep into the woods, and you do see another exit on the other side of the keep.

unknown 1:25:32

Look!

SPEAKER_09 1:25:33

Near the saltines.

SPEAKER_21 1:25:36

Oh no.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:36

Yeah. Um not sponsored. That just uh kind of the map looks different than it actually. It just the land just extends. It's flat from there. Oh. Um so there's just the mole right in front. Uh so they possibly could have left and just went on this field. You could look for tracks if you wanted to.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:00

Um, but you would have to go out into the open because it does connect kind of to a trail.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:06

Ryan's still invisible.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:08

No. Uh I would say you're bordering on it.

SPEAKER_21 1:26:13

Okay. Okay. I didn't describe my dog.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:16

Well, you just cast a spell, yeah.

unknown 1:26:17

Fuck!

SPEAKER_21 1:26:18

It's okay. Oh! Um I gotta go.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:22

Big spider. That's not out of the ordinary, right? It's spooky woods. Is this spooky? Big ah spider.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:29

Big aw spider. Oh, don't worry, it's just a giant spider. I will look for I will go and make a spell track for me, please.

SPEAKER_17 1:26:36

Uh, guidance.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:37

My roles have been.

SPEAKER_17 1:26:38

Shit today! Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_21 1:26:41

This is my dog.

unknown 1:26:42

Oh!

SPEAKER_06 1:26:43

That's just a black German shepherd.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:45

Yep. Okay. Uh 14.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:48

For tracking track?

SPEAKER_11 1:26:50

For stealth.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:51

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:56

They don't seem to notice you. Good. Those are the top of the keep. Um you walk up, check, you can check the trail, see if you can see any PAL trim-shaped any any prints that have come in the past ten minutes or so. Okay. Survival.

unknown 1:27:21

Fuck.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:21

Oh, I have guidance. Did you use that for your stealth though? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:26

Can't I use it once?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:27

Oh, really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:27:28

Oh, I thought you could have it till it goes up. Well, I got a natural twenty anyways.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:32

Oh! Sorry to harsh your vibe for a second in Dallas. Yeah. Fuck you. Uh, natural twenty. I am one with the wilderness. Your uh your spiders are tingling Fantastic. Fork. Oh god.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:52

Oh god.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:55

Hey, we're trying to play DD over here. I don't know what you guys are doing.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:58

My dog was rolling over.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:00

Pockets.

SPEAKER_13 1:28:02

I included. I just said, oh, look at the thought.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:04

Yeah. It is an audio-based thing, so any talking will disrupt the entire thing.

SPEAKER_14 1:28:10

So right.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:15

Um on your Nat 20, uh, your spider senses are tingling. You sense that there have been no footsteps in the past 10 minutes. But you hear right here. You hear footsteps walking to the door and grab onto it as if they're about to come out.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:42

Great.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:43

Uh I am going to climb up a tree.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:47

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:49

You quickly climb up a tree. The door comes out. You see a pistol. Reach. Point back and forth.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:02

This dude's fucking God.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:03

Ghost is clear.

unknown 1:29:05

Come on.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:06

He walks out. You see behind him Powell Nickum. And five high-ranking Zentrim members. They all walk out in a tight group looking, scouting around the area. You're in a tree, you're safe. You guys are deeper into the trees, you're safe. They continue up the trail towards Dagger Falls.

SPEAKER_17 1:29:43

Dagger Falls? What are they gonna do in Dagger Falls?

SPEAKER_09 1:29:50

You can make a history check if you'd like. I will do that. Fuck.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:56

Uh nope. That's an eight.

SPEAKER_13 1:29:58

Seventeen. Twelve. Nice.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:00

Let me in here. Let me add it. I'll say Hodge gets advantage on this one.

SPEAKER_21 1:30:05

Let's freaking go! Should I uh wild shift version on a spell slot? Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:10

Oh, that was actually straight fucking dookie.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:13

Umteen being the highest, right? Joanna, you remember speak of the Constable's Tower being used by the Zenterim.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:26

Oh, that's where the Constable's Tower is.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:31

And a highly dangerous magical artifact going into a highly dangerous magical tower could spell trouble for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:47

How the fuck are we gonna get him separated? Oh my god. Do we want to follow? What do we want to do?

SPEAKER_21 1:30:56

I want to follow. I want to kill them.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:58

I'm gonna come back down the tree.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:00

Pick them off one moment.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:02

You will see them walking.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:04

Oh, really? Okay, good.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:05

Yeah. Because you guys are you guys are watching the tree line. The trail goes right through the tree line.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:11

Okay, okay, cool. Yeah, I think we follow.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:15

I make some kind of like investigation check or something to determine like if these guys are high-ranking like their daddy is, you know, a high-ranking general, and they got this like on merit, like they're high-ranking.

SPEAKER_23 1:31:27

Checking for an nepotism check?

SPEAKER_06 1:31:28

Yes, see if they look high-ranking because they're huge badasses, or if they're high ranking because they're like money.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:36

The Xenterim works by merit. Yeah. Damn it! Usually in favor of that.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:47

No. No. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:50

Maybe two Zenterim. You are slightly outnumbered.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:56

Guy with the gun was shooting.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:57

And severely outpowered.

SPEAKER_14 1:32:00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:32:12

I think we should still let them get out of here so that we can like, you know, attack them or whatever we want to do when they don't have backup that is ten feet away.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:23

Yeah. And wait till they uh I think we should follow them. Go into Dagger Falls. We are also going to Dagger Falls. Wait and see if they sleep. And don't go straight to the tower. If they do rest, we might have to steal. I don't see the only other option to get them separated.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:52

That's the only option. We could potentially lure them into the woods one by one and execute them.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:02

I could attempt to send a message to Powell himself. I could send a message to Powell and get him to go off course.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:14

But we could also mislead them somehow or turn them against each other, I think it'll be quite difficult. The only way we could either do it is to convince the Zent that Powell has no plans to share this with them, or it will backstab them, or the other way around, that Powell plans to backstab the Zent. Get them to potentially turn on each other, but to do that to probe their minds or to plant those seeds would require a level of magical deceit, I don't think would be convincing enough.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:51

Yes. And what could we possibly say in a message to get him to separate himself with the group with probably have at least one guard with him at all times?

SPEAKER_06 1:34:03

Yes, the man with the pistol, it seems. Maybe he is our key, then convince him. The man with the pistol, is he he's a Zetterum agent.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:19

Yeah. Yeah. He's kind of uh he has been with Powell. He was kind of the agent that PAL was negotiating. He was he was supposed to secure the Nathlum from PAL. That was the deal that was set forth. Obviously, Powell failed that mission uh and needed something to recoup it because the Zentrum was still with him uh holding that failure over him. Yeah. Now he has this, which is worth much, much more. Um and he uh judging by what you know of Powell, the conversations you've had, and this small conversation you overheard at the door, Orion, he seems to be wanting to get this deal done quickly, but also sees the power that this object holds and uh I literally just had a thought.

SPEAKER_12 1:35:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:32

This just came to me. I can send a message to the high ranking Zent and convince him that he could kill Powell with ease and take the orb for himself. They they know that. Well it'll just give him a nudge, maybe. One less person to deal with. Maybe it'll drive them mad enough to turn on each other.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:00

But I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:02

I'm at a loss.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:11

But regardless, I think we follow them Yes at a great distance. Follow them. I don't want to be worrying about whether they'll hear us. I think I trust you and uh Orion to track them. And we know where they're heading. Perhaps we could even get ahead of them. Yes.

SPEAKER_21 1:36:36

But I think the odds are that they're actually going to use this artifact and not just keep passing it along to the next highest bidder.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:45

I think that's what they're going to do. Whoever's going to offer the most for it.

SPEAKER_21 1:36:51

So do we take the risk and maybe just forget about this for a little while, if it's just going to keep switching hands for a while and there's no danger to the town, or do we think that they're actually going to be stupid enough to swallow it and create just something that can put a town in jeopardy?

SPEAKER_11 1:37:16

Perhaps they're taking it to the tower to attempt to extract its power. I'm not sure. But the I know the Zent wanted, and Powell is most likely offering uh uh demanding a very large sum for it.

SPEAKER_21 1:37:34

My training tells me though that sometimes we need to know our own limits. I'm wondering if this is our limit.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:47

We came all this way to put all this effort in and just to leave it behind and put people in potential danger. I would hate to let it go.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:14

At this moment of quiet contemplation decision making, Orion, you feel um a slight change within you as you ran away from a fight and recognized that hand-to-hand combat, head-to-head combat is not always the answer. Voting for a fight that you might not win is not always the answer. It is wise sometimes to let things go until the opportune moment. And you will level up to full.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:10

Let's go. Nice. Woo! All right, your shoulders seem broader.

SPEAKER_21 1:39:20

Oh. He doesn't do that.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:23

That was an above-table joke, then. Fuck.

SPEAKER_21 1:39:29

Awesome. Get my ASI, bitches.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:34

Ability score improvement for those unfamiliar with the term. So we're following them from a distance till we get to Dagger Falls.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:43

I don't even want to. I mean, unless there's a way we can get out ahead of them and lay a trap.

SPEAKER_14 1:39:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:49

How long is the journey to Dagger Falls? It's gotta be at least they have to rest at some point before they get it there, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:39:56

Uh that is a two-day journey.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:59

Yeah. So. Oh, if they don't know. If I can horse heist this again, we wait till they sleep. They're taking shifts. If I probably they will be.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:11

If they're taking shifts, then we could draw at least the one taking the watch out.

SPEAKER_15 1:40:16

Yeah. Perhaps. Perhaps.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:22

And if we are stealthy enough, find that orb and get it to the hell out of here. I just fear what will happen if we wait. But that might be the best thing to do.

SPEAKER_21 1:40:42

I might be taking a feet actually.

unknown 1:40:44

Well.

SPEAKER_21 1:40:50

I have to read some stuff because I wasn't planning on doing that, and so now all of my stuff is deciding to actually show up and give me more than two feats to look at. Oh yeah. Of course.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:02

What a privilege. Tracking them along this trail. Until nightfall. Until nightfall. Mm-hmm. Okay. Is there anything anyone wants to do on this hours-long trek? It's about 1 p.m. at this point. You'll you'll settle down for rest in eight hours. Yeah. We can't do any short, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:27

Oh no. Uh as they're walking, can I try and focus and see if I hear that voice again? Or it like determine if it was actually wind or not?

SPEAKER_12 1:41:40

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:41:42

Um make a perception check. Maybe it was just the goblins from earlier.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:54

Sure. Uh twenty-seven.

SPEAKER_17 1:42:00

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_09 1:42:02

You're um you're reminded of the voice and the shadow of Nauralis that spoke to you a few nights ago.

SPEAKER_18 1:42:25

What? That's mad.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:29

Strange that it wouldn't be able to communicate you with you clearly, though you were focused on other things. You had a lot of friends around, it was very tense. Um but it is very clear to you that it was Gnarless trying to communicate with you, yes. Whoa. What is it? Possibly offering some advice, warning of some sort. Um hard to tell, but you do not hear the voice. This is just um recognition of what it actually was.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:16

Um yeah, as they continue to walk, she'll just kind of say a little prayer to say in her head, like you're trying to warn us against this or give us some advice or something like that. Really helpful. Because I think we're doing the right thing, but I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:43

This time, all you do here is the wind through the trees.

SPEAKER_14 1:43:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:54

Eight hours of travel through the Dagger Hills, steep and rugged, broken by thorn-choked ravines and hidden glens. The path becomes quite hard to find and quite hard to follow as you meander through these hills. So I'll need survival checks either from uh Ike and Orion, or if one wants to help the other.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:29

Well, I already rolled so that he's though.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:32

Nineteen. Nineteen. You're able to stay on the trail, and you're fairly confident that the Zentrim who are leading this trek are as well. You also notice humanoid footprints, boot prints that kind of go across the trail at a diagonal and then become beast prints.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:20

They seem to be hours old, probably from last night. Very strange.

SPEAKER_11 1:45:36

It must be. I think that or end. This could prove to be a shortcut.

SPEAKER_15 1:45:43

Shortcut to where?

SPEAKER_11 1:45:44

To Dagger Force to get ahead of them.

SPEAKER_15 1:45:47

What sort of beast?

SPEAKER_11 1:45:49

Wolf. Wolf prince. Like the where kind? That's what I'm fine guy. Typically those are bipedal.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:00

Yes, is it bipedal? Wolf prints or quadrupedal.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:05

Um make another survival check this time at Advantage.

SPEAKER_21 1:46:12

Should I also make one?

SPEAKER_09 1:46:14

Uh Ike is following his own lead here. Twenty-one. Did you make it at Advantage? Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. Twenty-one. It does seem to be the tracks of a werewolf. Something you have not encountered yet before.

SPEAKER_21 1:46:33

Oh no. That scares Orion.

unknown 1:46:39

Oh.

SPEAKER_21 1:46:40

We can be friends with a werewolf, right? That's how it works.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:43

Kind of cutting across the trail. It seems like they kind of uh were wandering, like it weaves along the trail and then cuts off the trail as it starts to turn to be steel. Hmm. This is very interesting. And you see claw marks on the trees as if this turning was not voluntary. Or was in such a rush that they were chasing something or this could it could be a shortcut towards Dagger Falls.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:24

You might be able to get ahead of them and perhaps find an ally along the way.

SPEAKER_21 1:47:30

Umrion? Does he think he knows about the werewolf now?

SPEAKER_09 1:47:36

If you share that information.

SPEAKER_21 1:47:40

Being the paranoid guy that he is, and I know it's a very low chance personally, but Orion, I would like for him to make um that be a check to see if this werewolf. I don't know how you would know this. Like, is this for him? Is this somebody that's tracking him?

SPEAKER_09 1:48:08

They're going the opposite direction as you've gone.

SPEAKER_21 1:48:11

He is turned.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:16

Like, I don't think even if this is a shortcut. He would be a werewolf no longer at this point. Yeah. But this may not be any business of ours in my mind. Could be. If you're called to this person, we could track him backwards, find the trail again, and maybe meet up with him if this person needs our help, but it's just very strange to see it here.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:52

Yes. I agree. But these words have proven strange. They are. Let's press on. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:04

Okay. Um you press on, the sun begins to set as you rise and fall through the dagger hills. Um continuing on this uh on this rugged path and trail. Um you come to sort of uh a flat part of the trail. Uh you're on it for about fifteen minutes, and you look over and you see a shepherd leading uh a goat herd behind him in towards what looks like his farm and his home. They seem to have been grazing. You can see the grass is short around where he's walking. Walking uh and he's walking facing away from you back towards uh his home. This this sort of old man with a long uh gray goatee, uh just kind of hunched over uh slowly walking as his goats kind of uh uh nip at his ankles and and try to hurry him up. They know where they're going, but it seems like the goats themselves are trying to get him to they're sh sort of shepherding him as he is in his old age.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:26

What a sight.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:28

Um he takes good care of them. The sun uh continues to set until uh there is no light on this road anymore. And you begin to hear out to the west howls of werewolves. Oh god a an entire pack, it seems far enough away that they likely don't catch your trail or scent.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:05

Unless we wanted them to. Let's hope they catch their trail. The Zent scent.

SPEAKER_14 1:51:13

The Zen scent.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:15

The scent.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:19

Zen Sent something. How would you like to camp on this night? What are you looking for?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:27

Looking for them.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:31

Well, was that your phone?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:32

Yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_14 1:51:33

That's my that's my that's my text. I was like, what a hell? I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:38

Um yeah, far enough aware we can camp and like to have like some brush between us and them.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:46

I don't know if are we even camping yet, or we want to highlight no fire. Yeah. Do we want to like wait for them to get settled and kind of spy on them a little bit to want to hatch a plan? Because we won't get exhaustion until the full eight hours of the night pass, and then we'll get exhaustion.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:03

Or can we uh continue to that's so if you're traveling every hour you have to make a constitution save to see um every hour past eight. Or to stay up a little bit last time. But if you are if you are just waiting, then yeah, it would have to it would be the next night.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:20

Um so if you're pressing on for another hour, I'd ask for a constitution save, but we're an hour behind them at least. I wouldn't say you you're out of I I'm thinking you're out of sight, like double out of sight. Yeah. Yeah. So again five hundred yards maybe.

SPEAKER_11 1:52:40

I can send my familiar towards where they go and watch for them to sleep and tell me how many are watching and where.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:47

Yeah, that or Orion can sneak up as well. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:52:53

Well it yes, the my owl will be fairly unseen and it would be natural.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:00

Yeah. You can't communicate with him that that far though. He'd have to fly back, which is that's fine. Yeah, yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:08

We can make camp here and I can use their eyes.

unknown 1:53:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:13

Great. I will summon my familiar, and upon my shoulder appears a barn owl.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:27

Amazing. Um are you you're sending the barn owl to scout?

SPEAKER_11 1:53:35

Yes, I am sending the barn owl to scout. Um if it's more than a hundred feet away, which I'm assuming it will be, uh, it would just have to come back to me to communicate. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:49

I'm I'm assuming you're about 500 to 1000 yards.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:52

Yeah, that's fine. That's fine.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:53

Half a mile to one mile.

SPEAKER_11 1:53:55

So yeah, it can it can go. Yeah, yeah. Um but yeah, so it would basically want it to scout um scout and tell when they go to sleep, and how many are on a watch. And how far they are from the camp. Come back to me.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:20

As it flaps, heads up above the trees and flies about a mile to the centrum traveling party. You wait a couple minutes and comes back, uh, lands on your shoulder and it communicates with you telepathically.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:09

How many are watching?

SPEAKER_08 1:55:13

Three The one with the orb sleeps. The one with the gun is awake. All right.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:41

What do we do?

SPEAKER_19 1:55:43

I could sneak when I don't know if he's a s he's sleeping, but I couldn't attempt to take it off of him.

SPEAKER_21 1:55:53

I also have locate object now. Oh should I save my level up?

SPEAKER_08 1:55:58

Yeah, what do you what do you do?

SPEAKER_21 1:55:59

I got an ability check or an ability score improvement. I got plus two to my wisdom. So I now have an 18 wisdom.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:09

Did I just take a feat?

SPEAKER_21 1:56:10

I didn't.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:11

I feel like at this point's better for ASI.

SPEAKER_21 1:56:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:14

Level four, level four.

SPEAKER_21 1:56:15

I also took a new cantrip. I took message after Hodge uh cast that on me. I learned it in return. Um and I took uh what did I just say? Locate object.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:28

Yeah. Sweet. That's huge. That is a awesome spell.

SPEAKER_17 1:56:34

Where the fuck is the rod?

SPEAKER_15 1:56:38

I wonder if we could scatter them somehow. Get them separated. Very difficult.

SPEAKER_20 1:56:48

I'm sorry, I was finishing my level up when you said Pal is asleep.

SPEAKER_09 1:56:54

Pal is asleep. Gunman with the pistol is awake. There are three awake, and the rest are sleeping.

SPEAKER_21 1:57:02

So I can't do that.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:04

Um they are illuminated by campfire. Um, so it'd be easy to find them if you desired, but again, I do not recommend taking them on in combat.

SPEAKER_19 1:57:18

Hotch, do you have another um charge of that invisibility?

SPEAKER_05 1:57:23

I could make you invisible.

SPEAKER_21 1:57:25

I feel a little more powerful than I did earlier, and I think that I could pass without a trace again. Rob him.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:37

You nearly died.

SPEAKER_21 1:57:39

I did nearly die.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:40

The one gentleman that is still there.

SPEAKER_21 1:57:42

But I am fast.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:44

You are very fast, but it scares me.

SPEAKER_21 1:57:47

I'm fast and I am quiet. It scares me because if we feel it's a good idea, if we do rob him, they will track us until we are dead.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:58

Or until they are. We have friends at some places. We can We're already on the path to meet back up with uh Sullivan. Perhaps he's a crude enough pal. Will the Zantimega stink in a major town? I think that they would.

SPEAKER_11 1:58:22

I would imagine that they would.

SPEAKER_06 1:58:24

If they lose if they lose this orb, that will be on Powell. They've not paid anything for it yet. Their gripes will be with him still. That is true. Finding us, finding this orb, they didn't even know about it.

SPEAKER_11 1:58:42

I think if we can But the Zant do want the orb.

SPEAKER_06 1:58:46

We are not as fast as Orion. No. If Orion can sneak, can gain access to the orb and steal it quickly, we could go our separate ways. Meet at a specific point far away. Because we cannot keep up with you. Orion, if you were to run like your life depended on it, you could gain much more ground than we all could together. We could separate, we could reconvene at a specific location, we could meet where Sullivan is, we could go back to Shadowdale Town.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:20

They'll be looking for us in both.

SPEAKER_21 1:59:22

We should not go to any of our typical locations.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:25

Go to um go to Humble Hill.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:27

Humble Hill, the farm that was abandoned.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:29

Go to the abandoned farm in Humble Hill.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:32

It's not quite furnished, but nobody lives there. Meet there. When you it's near Dagger Falls. Fuck.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:43

When he's invisible, when he picks that orb up, is it gonna just be a floating orb in campfire?

SPEAKER_06 1:59:48

If it's added to his person, it should become enveloped under the spell.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:55

If he takes possession of it, it quickly and especially because it shrinks. When you possess it and becomes close to your body, I mean it's what? It's the size of an orange normally, and it shrinks to basically uh six inch.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:09

It's like a size of a palantir.

unknown 2:00:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:12

It's a Lord of the Rings reference, by the way.

SPEAKER_19 2:00:14

I didn't hear you.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:15

Said it's the size of a palantir.

SPEAKER_19 2:00:17

Oh.

unknown 2:00:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:00:18

Just a Lord of the Rings reference. I think it's six inch diameter, not radius.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:22

Six inch diameter is small.

SPEAKER_21 2:00:25

Well, yeah, but how do you swallow that?

SPEAKER_06 2:00:27

Six inches is like this big.

SPEAKER_21 2:00:30

It's a fushiki.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:33

Yeah? It is low-key. It's a bigger Fushiki.

SPEAKER_21 2:00:36

Did we already make that reference?

SPEAKER_06 2:00:37

No, it's maybe like a six inch diameter by four.

SPEAKER_22 2:00:41

Okay. So like a Yeah, it should be like Yeah, you have a bag.

SPEAKER_09 2:00:46

Wrap it up in a. Well, you saw that he has it wrapped in a um aluminum foil. In a lead cloth.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:56

I was joking.

SPEAKER_18 2:00:58

Let's cloth.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:00

Which would stop a locate object spell, I believe. I mean, we know where it is. Would it?

SPEAKER_21 2:01:08

Now once again, I do ask. Do we think that this is worth it?

SPEAKER_06 2:01:14

This is an extremely I mean. Well?

SPEAKER_18 2:01:19

Is it worth it?

SPEAKER_11 2:01:21

If we can pull this off somehow. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_21 2:01:29

What the fuck was it?

SPEAKER_16 2:01:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:32

It's a six-inch diameter of the ball.

SPEAKER_16 2:01:35

I'm looking at whatever the fuck is it. It looks like a boob implant.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:39

It's a Holly Steel Fife spear. Just a random dodgeball does not help. Showing a woman with holding it does. What do you mean? It's the main picture that pulled.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:50

I was looking at all the dogs at it then. Who said boobin plant? Me. That's not a boob implant.

SPEAKER_21 2:01:56

No, it just looks like it where she's pulling it and it would be her safe texture early.

SPEAKER_11 2:02:03

Like a bag of sand. If we are able to pull this off. 40-year-old virgin. We should head to Humble Hill. And if we can send a message to Sullivan and immediately make our way over to Shadowdale and get into that circle, so we are out of here.

SPEAKER_15 2:02:29

Teleport.

SPEAKER_11 2:02:33

That's our means of escape from the Zent at this point.

SPEAKER_21 2:02:37

Now, if we take this object as well, we will be subject to carrying it on our persons for a very long time because I do not foresee us running into any dragons. No. Although we bring it back. Didn't wait, I wasn't there for that. Does anybody know of any that lady? Yeah, any anybody who could destroy this.

SPEAKER_06 2:03:03

We met a what was her name? Storm. One of the chosen of Mistra.

SPEAKER_11 2:03:10

Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:11

She's one of the seven sisters, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:03:13

Seven sisters, yes. She was she impressed upon us the urgency by which to get this orb back. And then we're questioning whether or not this is worth it, but it's somebody that powerful urging this.

SPEAKER_21 2:03:24

So that's our mission then.

SPEAKER_06 2:03:25

We take the orb and we bring it to the She may be able to help, yes, which you don't know where that is, so Humble Hill, we reconvene and then take it to her directly.

SPEAKER_19 2:03:36

Why don't we meet there?

SPEAKER_11 2:03:38

Because they'll be looking for us there.

SPEAKER_06 2:03:40

It's where they stole it. We were on the road to her when they took it from us. And also, I may not be able to describe accurately where it is to you. I could conjure an image of a map potentially and show you you're clever enough.

SPEAKER_11 2:03:54

It's north of the center. You'll see trails leading to the farmlands.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:00

But you should stay off the main roads while you have that.

SPEAKER_18 2:04:04

I should.

unknown 2:04:05

Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_18 2:04:07

Don't love it.

SPEAKER_21 2:04:08

Can I give a fun little celestial fact real quick? Because I'm a fucking nerd. Because you said Seven Sisters. In the sky, the constellation Orion is hunting the seven sisters, constellations of Pleiades.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:18

Whoa. Not something you want to do in this game, mate.

SPEAKER_21 2:04:22

Definitely not, but I thought that was a fun little bit.

SPEAKER_09 2:04:24

Maybe you should nuke the ball on your head.

SPEAKER_18 2:04:26

I can't believe you're hunting our cars. That's pretty fucked up.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:30

So the daughters of Atlas.

SPEAKER_18 2:04:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:04:32

Um, so the plan is, and are you executing this right now that Orion is going to leave Scout ahead? And then you are going to meet at Humboldt Hill in uh two days' time? I hate to leave you by yourself.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:47

I know that scares me. Your invisibility will only last an hour.

SPEAKER_21 2:04:51

I'm good at hiding.

unknown 2:04:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:55

And running.

SPEAKER_06 2:04:56

If he open fires on you again, make sure to use the trees to your advantage. Hide behind them. Get cover. Yes.

SPEAKER_21 2:05:04

Are we sure that locate objects or any kind of spell to find this orb will be dampened by the lead?

SPEAKER_06 2:05:16

I'm fairly certain spell. Can't locate an object if any thickness of lead blocks a direct path between you and the object.

SPEAKER_14 2:05:24

It's quite convenient. Martman.

SPEAKER_06 2:05:30

That's why Powell has it wrapped in that cloth, I assume.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:34

He's gonna be sleeping like Gandalf with a billion here.

SPEAKER_21 2:05:39

So scary. I hate it.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:41

I know it's like this. Um Do you go?

SPEAKER_21 2:05:48

Okay. I'm invisible. Cass without a tri without a trace. Bark's getting it, I'm getting all these back. Long strider. As long as I can. You have the spell slots for those. That's what I'm trying to find out.

SPEAKER_06 2:06:00

I have it. I can give you invisibility.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:05

Yeah, but she didn't use a whole lot with the level.

SPEAKER_21 2:06:07

I have two more level ones and one level two.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:10

Perfect.

SPEAKER_21 2:06:11

That's enough. What the hell? Lightning bug? I swear they're breeding in our room because we keep it.

SPEAKER_06 2:06:19

Lightning bug larva are also carnivorous.

SPEAKER_09 2:06:23

You're taking long strider as well?

SPEAKER_18 2:06:25

Yeah. Um, okay. So let me see here.

SPEAKER_09 2:06:28

I would say with Longstrider, it would take you about 12 minutes to reach them. Walking.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:35

God, I'm fucking scared, guys. I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:37

It's like a five miles. And two days later we're like, where the hell?

SPEAKER_21 2:06:42

I really don't want to die. I really like him. You won't.

unknown 2:06:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:48

Power of running. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_18 2:06:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 2:06:51

It's even worse.

SPEAKER_06 2:06:53

Did you have to cast without a trace?

SPEAKER_11 2:06:56

I could also cast barkskin on you. I could also cast barkskin on you to save yourself a slot.

SPEAKER_21 2:07:02

Yes, please. Yeah, do that. You have to get close to me in order for that to touch you.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:11

So I will cast barkskin on you.

SPEAKER_06 2:07:15

Invisible.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:16

It lasts for one hour.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:18

It'll only be for a minute, but yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:07:20

It takes 12 minutes to get there.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:22

And you can use it over and over again for ability checks up to a minute.

SPEAKER_18 2:07:26

Well, I'll just take 12 minutes to get there. I will also get it. I will cast that.

SPEAKER_06 2:07:39

I will cast. I'm going to mask you. Swear. A beast.

SPEAKER_18 2:07:52

Alrighty, definitely two way.

SPEAKER_06 2:07:54

It just in terms of magical detection, if someone attempts to locate a creature or a humanoid or something. Um just gonna mask your aura so you're not appear as a humanoid to anyone anymore. Because if they attempt to search for you as if they had originally thought that spell should fail, if they're looking for a humanoid that will not pick you up, will mask you as a beast. You will appear as a beast to all magical effects.

SPEAKER_11 2:08:26

That is sick.

SPEAKER_06 2:08:27

That is sick. If I cast it on myself or anyone else for 30 days in a row, it's permanent. Whoa.

SPEAKER_21 2:08:35

Is that concentration? That just happens. That's insane.

SPEAKER_06 2:08:39

24 hours. So I'm gonna do that on myself at some point. I need to do it for 30 days straight, and it's a second-level spell, so I don't really have the extra levels to do it. But I can make it, especially over time, that none of us would be under the effect of any humanoid targeting spell. Which would be a whole person, which would be like a lot of charm effects would not affect us at all. I'm not upset. No.

SPEAKER_11 2:09:03

But it would take like 30, 60, 90. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 2:09:06

It would take a year for us to like all make the effect of that spell. Me first, but for now.

SPEAKER_09 2:09:14

That's so just the confusion of the person related.

SPEAKER_17 2:09:20

I am a person!

SPEAKER_09 2:09:21

Again, you have magic cast upon you.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:25

You're glowing.

SPEAKER_09 2:09:26

Uh invisible, fast, protected. Oh my god. Uh you venture out away from the group. Let's go. Um like I said, it'll be about a 12-minute walk to reach them a mile away. Just quick for a walking mile. Mood Maiden. With that long stride.

SPEAKER_11 2:09:51

Moon maiden bless you.

SPEAKER_09 2:09:54

Halfway there. You hear large clanking, heavily armored footsteps. They seem humanoid.

SPEAKER_12 2:10:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:10:09

Seemed and you catch the glint of a massive sword catching the moonlight and directing it to your eyes. And your knee begins to ache. Your knee? Double your knee, bro. And that's where we're gonna end. I don't know!

SPEAKER_21 2:10:32

What?

SPEAKER_09 2:10:33

Our session. Is it your dad?

SPEAKER_21 2:10:35

I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 2:10:36

Thanks so much for joining us for episode 13.

SPEAKER_23 2:10:40

I don't know if I'm with your knees in real life. What's wrong with your knees?

SPEAKER_09 2:10:43

That was a fun one, guys. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_21 2:10:45

That was crazy. What the hell?

SPEAKER_23 2:10:47

Christ.

SPEAKER_21 2:10:49

I'm hearing voices. Your knees are fucked up.

SPEAKER_11 2:10:52

See you next week. What did you write in your lore?

SPEAKER_00 2:10:59

Thanks so much for tuning in to the Chaotic Naturals Podcast. You can find us on all of our socials at Chaotic Naturals or send us an email to chaotic naturalspod at gmail.com. New episodes of the Dale Lands every Wednesday. Find us wherever you listen to podcasts.