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you for listening and enjoy Scrambling up from below are the sounds of large claws
on stone as the blood wrought rats approach seers location. The sound sort of
echo off of the caverns before you realize they're kind of all about you.
One is coming up from behind you, but two are coming up from behind
sea as well as the one that breaks free of the the sort of wooden
crate that it was sleeping in that sea struck on the head. You didn't
do any damage to it, did you know? So I failed? Great?
So for three of you standing with Bibbel, Bibbil is once again sort
of saying stay still, they'll eat him and then we'll run past you.
Do hear scraping coming from behind you. However, Sea, you're right next
to one, and you recognize that there are rats all about you. And
we're going to open up today's session by rollingson initiative. Place yourselves, Sea,
you can't really move anywhere. You're just stuck where you. The other
three can move themselves in amongst this sort of gray area, and then roll
me some initiative, please, and I will roll for the rats and bibble
nice true to form. Never over ten. Okay, Well, yeah,
I've got a maximum roll which is just thirty one or my initiative, but
you've got thirty one. I have an impressive question. What I have question
as well? The level seven? Okay? All right? Oh, I
thought you were saying that you haven't leveled up previously. I was wondering if
we had leveled up last week. But never mind. Well, Bi,
we've got a dirty twenty. Okay, So I wonder who's going first here?
It's track with a thirty one. I don't even understand how I think
he stole all of my initiative. That's what happened here. Initiative around it
a time, I'm a time with extra one begin an amazing ability or a
thing that's on like a thing is that there's a ring that absorbs the initiatives
of everyone around them. That's like maybe just a bit. Yeah, if
you don't, you don't roll your own initiative, you just take half away
of everyone else's. Yeah, it would be amazing. There you go,
Ye, take that away. You're welcome for the free item or ability.
Okay, time wizard, Yeah, you are the first to respond here.
A thirty one probably means that you're witnessing time in a different way to everyone
else. Has this rat breaks free, you recognize that there are some crawling
up from underneath you and crawling up onto this sort of broken piece of the
bridge, the blood river running underneath, and see you now with sort of
three of these rats kind of agro to him pretty obviously, since they don't
they're not really aware that you guys are here. And there is one,
however, that's coming up behind you that you'd be aware of as well.
What would you like to do opening up the combat? Right? I think?
Yeah, right, sort of. Sometimes it doesn't always work, but
sometimes it gets sort of like spider senses halfing and time just sort of slows
down for him, right, So he sees this all coming, and he
already has a spell pair head and he immediately casts a magic missile at the
green rat. Okay, that's the one coming up behind you, scrabbling up
over the side of this thing. And yeah, these things are big,
bloated and twisted from feasting on the angel blood below. They are the size
of a horse, but they're kind of like grotesquely mutated, so they're kind
of like muscular and and and yeah, bloated magic missiles. Yeah, so
I'll go ahead and do that. That's going to be. It's just a
level one. That's three darts and that's nine points of damage. Nine points
of damage. As these three magic missiles sort of arcane missiles, homing missiles
launch out of the end of this staff, the rat is scrambling up over
the edge, and maybe you're hoping that the impact of some of these would
stop its movement or maybe even push it off the edge. It just eats
it. It doesn't even seem to sort of really recognize it, maybe twitching
its nose a little at one of them as it scrambles up over the edge.
Okay, so it doesn't seem like it's taken any damage. At all.
Oh, it's certainly taken damage. Yeah, it took the full nine
damage. It's just that it has a lot more HP than nine, got
it? Okay, and I will all move over here, all right?
Uh, bibble will go now, let's see you guys rested, right?
Yeah, so I think you'd probably be a good idea for him to start
with this bloody guard. This is a bonus action. I'm not sure I
used it one last time. Start checking when we rested. We rested before
at like the beginning of last session, right, we didn't rest again at
the end. Correct, Yes, you've had you had a long rest before
the events of the last session that you did, and then you had another
short rest just during that time. But yeah, you're you are in a
position to be able to do a long rest in terms of your bowl of
sheltering has recharged. I think has been like ten hours, but you haven't
had a long rest. Bibblum draws some some blood up and draws some blood
from the air. Whoever, you know, what, any any of you,
if you'd like, if you're witnessing this or you're curious, this is
the second time he has cast this spell. You can make ar Kana checks
if you'd like to determine an element about this spell. He starts sort of
whirling his staff around, drawing, drawing blood to it, and then he
casts this spell, the blood flinging outwards. Jilden, he's actually drawing blood
from all of you, including himself. He's taking It's just like he's taking
little tiny amounts of blood. Porous was mosing it out of out of your
bodies, including his eron, including the rats. And he draws a bunch
of blood in and then he flings it out and it creates these shields,
the kind of the blood shield that just sits over your skin kind of just
gives you a sort of slight red hue. As he gives ac bonuses to
himself, Cirrus, and Rack. The next time you're going to take for
me, at least ask first what them again? Yeah, you guys have
a plus two tier a C for five minutes. And remember he can move
this, but he seems to have chosen himself and Thrack and Cyrus this time.
Then I think what it will probably do is he sort of looks over
to you Track and says, oh, have you done that? Then I'll
try and help you with this one here, and then you see him hull
a ball of blood at the same rat that you attacked. Now, why
can't I roll that though? DC twelve deck check from the rat at twenty
one from the rat. The rat sort of brings itself up onto the side.
This blood ball is launched towards it, and the rat kind of moves
with sort of exceptional grace considering its size and bulk, dipping out of the
way of this thing, the blood landing and splashing over the edge and running
down into into the river of blood. Okay, I guess was his term.
Here come the rats. The first one I think the will attack is
this one that's coming up behind you. I think the first person it sees
is Syrus. So it's going to rush for you, Cyrus, and it
is going to attempt to bite you and claw at you with a sixteen versus
your ac and then a seven ah that misses both. Okay, now see
your round one. This could be unfortunately, you know, I think they're
going to be properly surround you. Yeah, all three of these guys are
a grad to you. They're not even aware of the others. Because this
was part of Biball's plan. Unfortunately, here come lots of attacks. Okay,
so three gentlemen, please three bites as they suddenly rush up over the
edge. See her turning and preparing himself getting into one of his stances.
As these three enormous rats jump and rush one to three bite it's fifteen ten
tens. I think they all miss three laws natural one and eighteen and A
nineteen the eighteen and nineteen hit me all right, ronny, and D twenty
for this rat to mess up this critical failure twenty. Yes, please,
I'll let you roll nine consequences. And nine is that this rat has pulled
a muscle and its speed is halved permanently, well until it's next rats but
have eaten before twenty. Yeah, I'll have to remember that one. I'll
give it a little symbol that I probably won't be able to say because I'm
umed too far out. So remember that one blue rat is speed half if
I try and move that thing. Okay, And then these two hits,
so one two I'm gonna have used that one. It's just the seven and
the four slashing damage okay, um, okay, cool cyrus, Yes,
your turn. I am going to attack the green rat with my sword.
Yes, okay for sixteen sixteen hits for six slashing six slashing damage. Yep,
uh, yep, that's it for me. That's it all right?
Yeah? See us surrounded by three of these enormous rats sort of jumping around.
You're sort of dodging and weaving. A couple of them catch you with
with claws, but you brush off the attack. What are you doing now?
All right? Then? I think I smile. You see the eyes
of my forehead also widen into a bit of a grin. I'm going to
attack the one that's red with my staff, okay or a twenty to hit.
And do you think as you are doing this you might hear a shout
from Thrack, So get out of there. I'll let you decide what you
want to do with that. I want to say canonically that that was what
also Thrack said. That was cru responding, that was children turning into a
like cur zero dog little terrier. It wasn't. There's a chara here presently,
okay, life, I must well, I attacked this thing and hit
him for a twelve twelve is a miss? Oh you twelve down? Sorry?
Yeah? Good? Twelve damn sorry? Ye then I shall attack again
with the same attack with my staff or twenty two to hit yep, all
right another seven? Yeah, okay, then I shall just roll this for
my own sake. I hear thrak say I should get out of there,
and so you see me sigh, And then as I say, the rats
around me, I guess that you know they're doing whatever rats do. They're
shittering and such. And I as I breathe in and breathe out again,
you see this pink electric mist kind of leave my breath and I get lighter
as I engage a step of the wind to disengage and then move five ten
fifteen, twenty twenty five, thirty thirty five all right forty. First of
all, my favorite character out of him and lab but I can't remember his
name, the one that has to be a sleep all right they need So
yeah, that's how that looked to me. Uh And I think, yeah,
you're kind of like you see see a kind of deal a few strikes
with his quarters stuff, and then suddenly he just he is gone. The
rats kind of like look around. You see them lifting their noses and sniffing
the air and then turning back towards where you as a group are and Bibble
says, oh what you're doing here? That can come for us now exactly
the rats? Okay, children, all right, dad back, dad,
back, cover your ears. I walk over to this edge of the wall.
Was supposed shuffling over us edge of the wall here, and I'm going
to cast thunder wave, which is a fifteen fuck cube originating from me.
Yeah, so I think that should catch all Wait, maybe not the back
one, maybe too far away. Yeah, you get these two? Yeah,
so they need to make constitutions. They've all right one two, nineteen
and twenty two. Wow, that's so cool, lib say, But they'll
take half damage. Main rats. They're very chunky, and that didn't work.
Anybody got a better plan? Can you? What was your plan?
My hands of my ears? It would have still been very loud. You'll
have heard ear shatter, a crack of thunder, and probably a lot of
the dust on the bridge will have gone outwards. But apparently these rats are
like dug in with their claws, so they just don't move. I have
a little graphical glitch. Can you just use the ruler again in any way?
Because I can't click on my own rats. I can only see the
ruler for some reason. All right, thank you, Yeah, all right,
yeah, you deal too damage. It's it's nothing. They're not even
aware of it, but they do sort of immediately see you, and you
see all three of them target Jill. Then suddenly it was a good plan.
Okay, anything else on your ten a great plan, even one might
think, I don't want to judge you too harshly, because you have had
two incredible combats in a row up until that maneuver there. Yeah, which
in fairness would have been great if they hadn't saved, because they'd have been
pushed away from me, so it would have been Yeah, okay, goodbye,
I'm good. I am going to I'm going to stay as I am.
I'm just going to stand here and just plant myself end of time,
all right, actually doing uh rack back to the top of the round.
Yeah. After I shouted, that's how I immediately looked down, and I
have something in my hand, and I was closing my eyes sort of chanting
an incantation, whispering, and I opened my eyes and I spread my hands
out and I finished the incantation, and black tentacles start to sprout up out
of the ground around the rats in a twenty foot square. Okay, is
this the something of Haydar spell It's called black tentacles. Oh, this is
just black tentacles. Okay, I wonder if Dar is white tentacles. Actually,
all right, I don't know. I never get to play D and
D and DM. I have no idea what any of the spells do because
I never get to play wizard characters because the characters never get a high enough
level and I never get to cast spells. So I'm really looking forward to
you guys getting out of this set of tunnels into my next time you have
a wizard character. There's so many wayards waiting for you on the other side
of the I'm very excited about that. No, I just I just really
remember anything as the actual truth. All Right. I'm going to try and
give you a call loo can spell thing because I'm guessing you're going to use
this a couple of times. So yeah, I should have asked you before.
Yes, this is something I will use. I think I have an
actual thing that is of like tentacles. I have so many yes inscription.
Is it a circle or a square? Is a square foot square? We're
going to use this anyway? And I'm not sure when it says twenty foot
square, I'm not sure if it means like twenty foot from corner to corner
or if it means twenty foot by twenty foot, but if wax in the
chat, yeah, I don't know actually, because a cube is different as
well. And this is called black tentacles. All right, let's beck this
out. So that is twenty foot across. You should be able to move
that. Well, that's cool. Yeah, that's very cool. All right,
Yeah, okay, yeah, I put it right on those three.
It is not on Jill Dan. So you're saying, and they don't have
to do anything right now, right, but at the start of their turn,
they will have to make a dexterity check against my bell safe DC are.
You're saying it's four by four squares sides. Yeah, this is what
we've got. That's correct, right, agree. I know we've talked about
this before, but just to get around my head, so it says when
a creature enters the area for the first time, if it's been spawned underneath
them, does that not count? I don't. That's not how we've been
playing it. That's not how it's been explained to me, Yeah, I
feel like. But then again, sometimes it does specifically say if a creature
starts its turn there or moves into that turn on its first time. Give
it a google. It does say that. It does say that. It
says when a creature enters the affected area for the first time on a turn
or starts it's turned there. Yeah, there you go. So that's why
I find that the best way to go about reading D and D terminology and
stuff is that they specifically word things in a certain way for a reason.
But everything is worded structured in a certain way. You just have to look
for the key wording. They have a particular way of wording everything, and
after a few years of running games, you sort of like, that's what
you're really looking for. I don't. This is why I don't know what
all these spells are of the of my head. I just look for certain
key phrases in there and figure out from there what it does. Cool.
Uh, all right, So on their turn they have to do a thing
you're doing anything else? Bonus action? Nope, I've got no bonus actions
or nothing. O. Bibble looks at you, trag like, what did
you just summone up? And he says, they stand back, came me,
and he starts carrying out for his one k can do. Umm,
Now, this is a line, a one hundred foot line that I think
he can probably send through these two, So I think he'll do that.
The speller is actually a lightning bolt, but we canonically and no one in
character has any idea of what Kameha is, which means I can get away
with this. You hear him scream and then he launches a line of lightning
from his hands. They have to make decks saves. Yeah, one,
two, thirteen, and fourteen. His spell save DC is twelve, which
is a shame, so they make it, but they take half of thirty
two damage still, so sixteen damage for you, sixteen damage for you.
As this. Yeah, this sort of force, crackling with energy launches out
from Bibble's hands. It's his sort of biggest move that he's able to do.
It pushes him back a couple of squares as well as he launches this
thing out because he's so small and frail and it the energy sort of just
pulses pushes through these rats, electrifying them. They do react to this.
They sort of they react and spin sort of expecting something to be there that's
attacking them, you know, like an animal might do. From something like
this, They spin around a few few times. I think maybe the blue
one kind of looks down towards this way. But there's also all of these
tentacles coming out. They've got Jilden right next to them, so they're kind
of all over the place. Bibble will then move one space forward and it
will be the rats turn. Now, now let's do the black tentacle stuff
first. So what do they have to do? Deck sabes again? Yeah,
shame. All right, We're going to go fifteen blue, pink,
red, one two three, eighteen fourteen twenty one, So pink fails.
Yeah. Audio, I've realized that quite often we say stuff like the green
rat and the blue rat and stuff, and you know, audio listeners might
understand that each of the rat tokens have token like colored tokens to be able
to differentiate between which token on the map that we're using that they're talking about.
I just feel like that might be really confusing. Sometimes it's not that
the rat is one of them is green. They don't come out, you
know, one rat is a giant green rat and one is a blue rat.
And every time, you know, all of my creatures for some reason
are color coded in that way. That's what we're talking about, and I'm
just I just want to clarify that because I think it every time we say
the blue rat. Maybe I'm just being pedantic about it. Yeah, Okay,
somewhere is not in going thank god, oh my god this whole time,
Oh my god, ied it because they were like, there was blue
rat straining around. One of them was blue. One of them was like
power rangers. Yeah, universe, So I'm sorry. You said the colors
really quickly. Which one the pink one failed? Pink pink one fail.
Okay, so the pink one is restrained and takes three D six bludgeoning.
The other two are good, right, restrain, give me the damage just
eleven yeah, and take eleven yeah. I think these technacles wrap around this
rap, wrapping around its back legs and around its waist, holding it in
place. It starts nipping and biting and clawing at the tentacles, but it's
restrained for now, and the other two are still free. Okay, they're
free to one, free to attack, free to check the king, free
to check the king. I think actually I'm going to do this to your
children. I'm going to sort of lock you in this way arrested, you
know what. I'm just to be sure because I know what players are like.
I'm going to go there like that. I'm going to check mate you
fully because I think you're going to get well, technically there's a wall I
can walk along. Well, there's not anymore. All right, you guys
are level seven. It's time to grow up. If you don't even have
start the level of bullshit, I haven't my sleep. I know. I'm
going to work with what I have got on this side of things. And
they're just racks. Okay, let's do some attacks and both of these are
going to come in on you, yild and two bytes from these two and
two claws, so fifteen and natural twenty or fourteen and the twenty four.
Yeah, the twenty and the twenty four will hit right one byte. So
that's all of that. They're two so four? What is that twelve?
That's like Math's mate, were twelve piercing, Well, it's six piercing and
six necrotic damage. I don't know if that I didn't think you have resistances.
But and then eight slashing damage. The one that bites you is the
red one there, you see that. The blue one kind of slashes Jildan
and one of them bites her. When the rat that bites Jildren takes hold,
you see, it absorbs some of Jildren's blood and I say absorbed sort
of in an arcane way. Isn't like it slashes this. Oh, it
bites into you and sucks it up like a vampire. You see it kind
of arcanely take in some of your your blood in as a magical essence.
And it has plus two to its attack and damage rolls point of order for
what is the rats total speed? Can you tell us? Yeah? This
one the rat the rats can move forty feet. Okay, so in that
case, blue rats speed was half to twenty and then they had to move
through difficult terrain to get to Jildren. Did they take it still? Yeah?
You know what might be right here? So half is twenty so it
could get to there, and half again it's ten. And it came from
where here was a triangle. It was there the triangles here, so it
can move ten feet? Yes? Is there? So it could still attack,
but you aren't pinned in They feel free to wait, why can it
only move ten feet? Because it's half and half again? Right, because
it because difficulty in plus when it got a natural one, its speed was
released by half. Yeah. Nice, Yeah, I didn't know that was
perfect. The tentacles was difficult to rain either. Cool. And then an
attack on Cyrus from the other one down here a bite and then some claws,
the plaus being a twenty four the oh the clause hit? All right,
another scratch view for nine slashing damage here, okay, and that is
the end of the rats turn. How does this rat escape it's restrained?
Does it make a check or does it just so? Is here? A
creature restrained by the tentacles can use its action make a strength to deck stirty
check against your spell DC, so it can go again either strength or dexterity.
Yeah, so it's free. Cool, it's free, but its action
has been used. Yeah, all right, all right, so it still
has movement. Yeah, but it is all difficult to right, Yes it
is. Let's have it move. I think I might have it run away
from the tentacles because it is going to be afraid of them, and then
I'll just have it and it's turned there as it just runs backwards away from
the tentacles because it's aware of what they are in its very basic animalistic way.
Yeah, it was grabbed by them and it was like, what was
that mean? Yeah, that kind of thing? Um cirrus your term.
Yeah, I have a question. Do the rats look necrotic? Um?
When you say necrotic, what do you mean? Uh? Well, like
I'm dead if I were to hit them with if I were to hit them
with necrotic damage, would it do less damage? I don't think there's really
any way for you to determine that unless you have an ability you you can.
This isn't really a thing. This isn't really a thing you can do.
But sometimes I will give you those checks if it makes sense that you
can sort of passively make a quick perception or an investigation or Arkarna check or
something like that alternatively, And this is just something that I think you can
take moving forward. Everyone has the ability to do the sort of final fantasy
Libra move and just scan a thing. You can use an action to use
a perception check and our Karna check and investigation check. If you, guys
ever want to just determine information about a thing you're fighting that isn't something that
we can justify you get just passively. I don't mind a couple of little
checks like that every now and then, but something this specific, I think
you'd have to take, you know, every round of six seconds, so
you're having to sort of just like really analyze what you're looking at totally.
I believe that's like a high level warrior thing to be able to like determine
certain things like that. Anyway, Yeah, there's a few things that you
do it. There's a couple of abilities in some of the classes. I
think I had one on Tie when we played spell Wind. If there's a
fighter, yeah, yeah. But I also think it's fine if you have
if you burn an action you might be able to determine based on your you
know whatever role. You get some information, so some things like resistance is
or just random information. I might give you anything specific, like whether it
has a resistance in the croyic damage, But I don't think you can tell
these things, you know, they don't. You've been counted a lot of
undead stuff over the last couple of months in game, in character, in
game, and but these things are very much alive, you know. They
The weird thing about being under this mountain is it's the first place since leaving
Umah and Moon that you have found things are still alive down here in this
mountain. You know, the wendigo was a living creature. The rats are
a living creature. The darrow are down here as well. But yeah,
so this it just looks like a sort of weird, gross mutated, sort
of forcibly grown rat. You know, if you would have just sort of
like steroid up roid up a rat, that's really what you're looking at.
They definitely have some sort of arcane thing going on. They've absorbed some of
children's blood, but I don't think you really know that. So I'm going
to say I don't think you can tell just passively. Okay, Okay,
good, but I want to I don't think that serious. Can You can
cast if you want, Okay, I don't think Sirus would at this point.
I just wanted to make sure before I do what I'm about to do
that they weren't like very obviously necrotic, and I would have seen it.
But Sirus is not thinking super much like that. So I'm going to cast
in flict wounds. Okay, thirteen thirteen is a miss I think instead of
this being a thing like you have to actually touch this creature, and you
maybe have one sword in hand and you reach forward for this rat. But
even though it's large and it's got a large surface area, this thing's pretty
quick and it has the animalistic reflexes, and it just whips away from you
as you sort of begin to attempt to cast a spell. The chrotic energy,
the divine energy that allows you to cast this spell, coalescing and missing
as the rat ducts out of the way of this spell, going in for
its sort of own attack, which would take place on another turn. But
yeah, you miss okay, oh man, okay, I'm just I'm in
a pickle. I was really hoping on that inflict wounds. Mmmm. Okay.
Uh. Then I'm going to cast as a bonus action sanctuary on myself.
Okay, that gives you even more icy No, that's the wisdom.
Vulcary means they can't hurt me. Yeah, they can't hit me, all
right, and that's it. That's it. Yeah, okay, yeah,
your turn. I see the blood wrote rat in the south, the green
tinged one facing Cirrus attack. I see Cyrus cast to spell on herself I
see the other ones surround Jilden. I look both ways, then I look
at Thrack, and then I run north towards Jildin. As I do.
I think my eyes looked attract knowingly. The other ones on my forehead looked
straight on towards the creature I'm running towards, which is the pink one which
I noticed expel this notion of fear. I'm going to run towards it forty
feet my maximum movement right towards it. Then I'm going to attack it as
per usual, okay, or a nineteen to hit at it. Six points
of bludgeoning damage. Okay. I'm going to invoke my crusher feet to now
reposition it five feet to the east back into the tentacles okay, which means
immediately it has to make a deck save five is a fail. So it
takes the damage and is restrained again more of the tentacles. These tentacles just
start pummeling it as it comes back into range and grabbing its legs or twelve
bludgeoning. This one's actually looking weakened. Now. Restrained means I have advantage
on media tags. Yes, maybe, let's find out. I think so.
But there was a time I knew all of this off the top of
my head, but since then I've suffered a great deal of trauma and no
longer full brown, full blown brain damage. Restrained, ah, restrained,
I don't know, I have restrained. Restrained creatures become zero. Attack rolls
against the creature have advantage, and then creatures attack rolls have disadvantage, and
it has a disadvantage on the deck staves as well, in which case I
swing at it again with my h God would staff or sixteen to hit hit
eleven points blooding damage. It's on deaths door, but it's not dead.
Okay, I throw the staff down to the floor with the clang, and
as I do, I then do two punches left and right at the creature
tend to hit and missus smack You smack a tentacle by accident? Maybe yeah,
give me the damage nine points blushing damage. How do you kill it?
Well? Okay, So I come in, I punch it, and
as I do, I think I just kind of startled again with my purple
hue. I kind of almost resemble a tentacle as well, you know,
same purple lithe And so it jumps into the writhing mass of actual tentacles which
grab them. I swing at the swing at it again with an arc to
its head, and as I do, pulling it back, as I mentioned,
I throw the stuff to the ground and it hits the ground. And
at that point I then punched twice again, you know, off the hip,
as if like couched, you know, like a like a Lance one
two, And I think that final punch just cracks right in front of its
nose and the stuff bounces back up and I catch it and it's dead.
I'm standing. I'm ready, and I'm looking to the to the other ones
to the to the east. Okay, nice end of your turn there,
and Jildin's turn. I'm tapping my staff in my hand like come back,
go back. She never fared me before. And I cast Underwave again a
flashlight every and every TV showever. It's a brand new flashlight. I put
the batteries editioning. There's two conslaves, two conslaves and seventeen. I rolled
really well in the campaign. You really do. Man. Every time I
do any sort of save, it always fails. But there we go.
They still do no damage to each of them. All right, cool?
Better than the two diamonds. Yeah, it's the sort of same scene happening.
It's this banger. It's made me better by staff. It's leeching all
of the power, Rabbit, and I'm like trying to take it off,
but I'm struggling because I'm being bitten by us. Darren get it as she
actually put a bangle on his staff listeners. Yeah, that's the one that
you made. It's nice you made that. He made that, I made,
you shipped. I'm a smith. That's what I'm so confused about.
No, no, no nos, track made it. Okay, Okay,
Yeah, you take off all the makeup and it's card under there. Imagine
Cords just such a good role player that he's able to literally be you in
real life. Everyone's all it took was a weekend and you can do it
perfect me. Okay, throughout your turn. Top of the round. Yeah
all right, well you know, I'm just going to cast fire ball on
top of these people and start right in there. There's a pink one dead.
Yes, sorry, I accidentally hit controls the I've inputted the the damage
wrong on the other one. But I think I inputted the damage wrong on
one of these rats, and they actually I think one of them. Jildren
did look like it took a bit more damage because I miscalculated, So you're
welcome. Hip. I don't know how, I don't know what it was
on before, and I can't be aboble to figure it out, but I'm
pretty sure it might have even taken double damage from that, remember when you
just looked at but if he had advantage on a string target? Do I
range any attack rolls? Yeah, it just says attack rolls, So yeah,
excellent. Okay, I'll just do a fireboat on the on the blue
rat. Okay, wait, the blue rat isn't restrained. It's got it's
either from restrained, are they no, it's it's movement is halved because of
a natural one critical bright. Yeah yeah, I'll just I'll do it anyways,
I'll do a firebomb. Yeah right, so top of my staff,
some light coalesques, and then fire bolt shoots out of it at the blue
rat. It is a natural twenty seven. Nice me the damage sixteen.
It's good. This rat looks like it's on death's door now after that,
yeah, I think maybe the firebolt that comes out is like twice the size
that it normally is. You know, you just get these surges of arcane
energy the same way. Sometimes you get like a little surge of strength,
or you're feeling good that day, you eat your protein and I think,
yeah, just a little sort of spell wind arcane surge launches towards this rat
and it takes a little extra damage. It sort of reacts that way as
well. This one does not look good right now, anything else on your
turn, No, that's it, okay. I think Bibble will just do
the same thing. I think he's going to try and launch blood ball at
that same rats or just following you as the two of you launched these attacks
nineteen from the rat on its deck. Save means he misses Bibble. I
think probably just gets a little closer to youth Rack during this. He tends
to gravitate towards someone whoever is in the least amount of danger during combats.
And here come the rats. Let's have the two that are currently attacking children
make their attacks. Here we go one two, Let's have them do their
their dexterity saying yeah, you're right, yeah, let's do that. One
two, six, both restrained and they take damage. Yeah, twelve bludgeoning
killed blue one. He just rolled double twenty fours. Yeah, the blue
one, you see these like tentacles wrap around it and just crush it.
You see the creature just being brought down. Yeah, it's nasty. The
other one is crushed and it sort of reacts to it, and then just
in a sort of spasmodic bite goes after children landing the by. It does
have a plus two that's actually a twenty six, So you take eleven piercing
damage to necrotic damage and then also two more piercing damage and two more necrotic
damage because this thing is sort of has blood magic where it is able to
absorb some magical lessons from your blood, which it does again, and it
gains plus two bonus to its attack and damage. Right, so it actually
has disadvantage on its attack as a restrained creature. Oh could have been clutch
is clutch because this one was the twenty four on the eleven, So actually
a thirteen misses here, yes, all right, reclaim all of your HP
or miss I remember, and since it can't get out of it can't try
to roll to get out, let's turn either. Yeah, does it only
get one attack? It wouldn't matter, it doesn't some you ban yeah,
I don't think it matters, because that's not how muli attack works anyway.
Clause coming in natural one lea rommire D twenty for another consequence for the rats
fifteen, it takes one D six hp as it opens a wound trying to
sort of like in that thrashing and writhing around trying to escape this thing whilst
also sort of bloodlusted and trying to eat Jildin. It injures itself from me
a D six and it'll take that much damage. I okay, another five
damage for that one. There's one attacking cyrus. So here come two attacks
towards you, A twenty one and A twenty four. But it has to
because I have sanctuary on. Yes, it has to make a wisdom saving
thrill A nine. Does that fail? Yes, okay, it's going to
rush past you, then it will you have you can use your reaction to
make an opportunity attack if you want. Ooh, that's right, okay.
And because I'm a work caster, yeah, and because I'm a work caster,
I can use a spell. Okay. I am going to try and
hit it with inflict wounds again. Sixteen sixteen hits Oh my gosh. Uh
uh fast at level two. That's nineteen damage, nineteen ratic damage, chrotic
damage. I think you by the way, you get the sense that that
does full damage to this creature. As you run, I think it actually
loses its attack as well, doesn't it because you can't move sanctuary, So
it loses the attack that it attempts to make, and instead, as it
kind of moves towards you, tries to bite you. You put your hands
on it and deal all of this necronic damage, this sort of dark magic
running through and across the rats flank injuring it, and that actually is the
end of its turn. I think. I think it's going to just stay
there. You can't move. It just loses that attack. So it is
now your actual turn. So that was your reaction. Awesome. I'm going
to slash at it with my sword fourteen fourteen hits fourteen? Is there a
nine slashing damage? Nine additional slashing damage to this one? Okay? Anything
else from you? No? I think that's it. Is it out of
my No, I'm still engaged with it. Yeah, okay, cool,
Now that's it for me. Think you all right? Turn? Okay,
first question, is this red creature the red tinged blood will rat Is it's
restrained, yes, yes, yes, a little thing on it, so
it cannot move correct, cannot move. It has this advantage on dexterity.
Saving throws and attack rolls against it have advantage, and the creature's attack roles
have disadvantage. Okay, all right. And the creature that's by serious,
that is in merely range of serious, right, she can swing it it
that can hit back. Yes, yeah, yes, that's right, all
right? In that case. I look at Jildren. She seems to be
more than capable. I've been hearing, you know, just trying to keep
as aware of as possible to the combat. I think what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna run down south my full my thirty feet here. I believe
that was thirty feet. I didn't broadcast it, but it was. I'm
here to down here thirty feet and then I'm going to again have my left
hand flat. I'm going to then put my right hand on top of it
and then contort it so I stack my fingers up and then crush them to
the shape of a spider and push my hand towards them. You kind of
see, nothing happened at me but towards where the spider is. You then
start to see its first start to wriggle and writhe as I cast spy the
infestation on it. Mm okay, so what do I need to to make
a constitution saving throw on the save twenty two? It's safe. I guess
it only takes half the poison damage, so instead of seven, it's going
going to take three. All right, that's my turn three damage. That's
a grain one. Yeah. Yes, in fact, I'm gonna five ten.
Just moop my phone movement towards it. Okay. The green one is
looking messed up at this point, by the way, but it is still
alive and sort of confused by serious more than aware. I think, like
your infestation, you recognize cirus that this thing is already covered in like weird
little gross blood lives, so it's very used to being infested. Jild in
your turn M yeah, I like playing with claws still, yeah, and
I will use primal savagery to just lash out at this rat in front of
me. Fourteen the hit, oh, well, fourteen hits anyway, It
doesn't it does, but you can roll again to try and get a natural
twenty yippie nineteen us really close anyway anyway? Fourteen acid damage, fourteen acid
damage. Yeah, Jordan's strong it. Yeah, this hurts it. I
think you break a claw across its face. This one is looking messed up
as well. Both of them look like they're on their last legs but still
going. Um. But yeah, that is me done now. I'm I'm
more comfortable and I like crashed down to bet and I'm like, he gave
me. Okay, rank your turn. Yeah. I I look at Jilding
and I showed that one is already dead. And I turn and I'll cast
a a fireball down the green one. Okay, he was talking about men't
we then he's fully appointing it. That's out for your interpretation. Perhaps the
fu comes out at the end of my staff. It's a team. Miss,
that's a mess. Yeah, over the top of this thing's head,
striking one of the cave walls. The gems that are all throughout the walls
light up as the fire hits it. But miss anything else I see,
Bibble will just continue to copy you. I think I'm going to throw a
blood splash at this one, natural one from the rat, which means it
takes the damage. This actually strikes it. The sort of ball of acidic
blood that Bibble is throwing towards this rat down here, strikes it, burns
the sign the flank of the rat, but doesn't kill it. It is
I think, he shouts to you, sirrus great, no strike, but
instead the rant is going to try and bite you again. Serious another wiz
save eighteen? Does that mean right? No, it doesn't have to do
it doesn't have to do a wid saves because I hit it last time?
Does it cool? Yep? All right, here we go here. Here's
some attacks for you. Are twenty two and nine dog bite heads. The
deal nine piercing damage and two necrotic damage to it also sort of absorbs some
of your blood magical essence. The other one starts its turn, needs to
make a deck save. Is that right? Hold on a creature that starts
its turn in this area and is already restrained by the tentacles takes three D
six bludgeoning damage. All right, give me that damage fourteen. Another one
is crushed and broken by the black tentacles. It is brought down Jilden just
continuing to hear it on the head. Black continues to be crushed and twisted
it turned over by the tentacles. Ah nice, yeah, cirrus. Okay,
I I'm going to attack it once more with my long sword. Eleven.
This is why you should have made her that magical sword when you were
in the forge and you were like, ah, she never uses it,
uh An eleven misses. This thing just kind of like dives out of the
way of your long sword. Okay, then I'm going to cast healing word
on myself. Yeah, see her, and you defeat the rat? Can
I defeat that rat? M h. I shall give it a try.
I run to towards this. I then shove the God would stick or staff
or it's not really a staff, it's got I do what I do.
I vault off it for lying that God would branch. I shove it into
the ground. I vault off it and die. Attack with a twenty one
to hit. Anyone's going to hit eleven points of blooding damage. Okay.
As the staff comes cresting down from up on high, it lands straight onto
the head of the rat and carries down forwards towards the ground. That chin
of the rat hits the pavement with a crack, and as it does,
you see the fur that was writhing around start to just break open as tiny
pink spiders start to crawl out of its head where blood should have been.
And then you see one fist sized spider come out and crawl Upstirrus back and
it sit on the shoulder. Okay, yeah, the last rat falls,
the sort of twisted form of these giant, grotesque rats falling in an odd
angle, the black tentacles turning over the rats bodies that have been caught in
those tentacles, and you are successful. Bibbil sort of leans back against thracks
thigh and says, oh, I hate those things. I usually just creep
past. Oh great job, and he gives a thumbs up to see her.
I gave one thumbs up, and yes, I'm not quite sure what
a thumbs up means, but I return it anyway. Right, I walk
up to Cyrus and hander a ocean thank you potion. This is one of
my spells. It does two D four plus two if it's their postion appealing.
Mm hmm, do I need to roll or you? It's yours.
You can do whatever you want with it. You don't have to use it
now if you don't want to, Okay, I pocket it should we rest
they have no complaints? Probably a good idea, terrible idea, absolutely terrible.
Is there a place nearby, bible that we could arrest. There's only
four of these rants, right, that's probably a nest. I agree with
the goblin. How many rats would be in the nest? Oh? I
don't know how many of those things are, but they do not stop coming.
Right? Well, we should keep moving, man. In that case,
I drink the potion. You could rest at the door. At least
we have our bags to something. I have no need to rest if the
party wants to keep moving forwards. We do have a pask to do.
And I can't tell if it's day or night, but time is of the
essence here the world is ending or has ended? Does time even matter?
I'd look to drag. Yes, it's just that I will be of no
use to you any further unless I rest. Ah very well. The fist
sized spider is busy weaving a web in between serious as horns. Disgusting.
What that was out of character. I'm disgusted with your decision to do this
spider stuff. I have no idea what you mean. Yeah, well,
I think, and you'll have to lean on us for now. As we
continue move along, I don't think we can rest here, all right,
be careful then, So you get to the four platter two, it tastes
like red Bull. Tastes like red Bull. I love red Bull. Bibboll
sort of turns his staff around to the point end and just sort of like
pokes tracks asshole with it. I'm sorry, right up. I mean you
are clothing on, but he's poking at you between like between the chakes.
Yeah, do you want We've gotta go right, you want to get to
the door off that way? Okay, yeah, I'll start walking. Don't
do that again, all right? Oh well, okay, all right on
you go any wings at childon going back? Okay, yeah, you guys
start moving through the along this sort of broken section of the large Darrow built
dwarf and built bridges that sit above the river. Everyone rolled me a d
twenty please at twenty nineteen from jilden Well from thrac seventeen from Sier four from
Syruh's Okay, soon the river actually departs. You get to an area where
you find the end of the river and the glow of that angelic blood gives
wine and it falls to practically complete darkness. You see Bibble sort of pointing
in varying different directions. He says, there used to be a way down
there that would take you out to the water. You could go all the
way down this little path. You'd come out at the sea. You know,
the creatures would come up from the water though, the bastard things.
So we had to block that off first, and then that way that would
take you all the way back out to the forest. But the other side,
we don't want to be going to the other side. You want to
come out and the safe side? Right? What side do you want to
come out? Presumably the safe side? Hi? Safe side? Right?
Is that like a historical lew? Have you verified it? Well? This
side is where we're going. You you want to go to the newlands.
You're trained to get to the house and knowledge, so you come out right
on the edge of it when we should be. If you come out of
that signs you'll come out in the river lands. So you know it's up
to you, really, But I don't think there river lands are very safe.
It's harder to see. That's chaotic madness. I'd hate you, bitch
of chaos. That would be terrible right, that's right. You know humans
too. Don't trust them. I shouldn't terrible all of them. We need
to exit whatever side is closest to our destination. Right. Uh, well,
you're never going to get to your destination, but this one will take
you to the no Leans proper. That'll take you out of the Riverlands's no
point going there unless it's d which is not so you know, don't need
to go there, right, How can you tell if it's night or day
in a place like this, well, not day D I guess you can
roll religion check or some other history check twenty nice for twenty four. Yeah,
and the rest of you can do it as well. To have this
knowledge. Bible says D d h I, not day duh. Thrack and
see it. You're fully aware of what D is. D is a ceremony
held by the people of the river lands where everybody bathes in the water because
the water there it's a stark. It's sort of a contrast to the river
that you've got flowing in the mountain. Here in the river lands, there
is an angel that a sort of flows. The rivers all flow to a
central point and then it continues to flow upwards. Vertically, so there's a
point where the rivers start to flow upwards, and then it flows upwards into
four sort of arms like a fountain, and then that rains over the surrounding
area constantly. And there are ceremonies and festivals that are held known as d
that where the people here go and bathe in the rivers, so they you
know, they get the effects of the angels buffs. And that's the river
lands. It is, however, not quite where you want to be going.
It's kind of on the other side. And he said it's not the
right now, correct, correct, And it's a seasonal thing, not like
a time of day. Correct yep, okay, yeah from me a D
twenty four. Let's see what time it is, and we'll see if he
knows what time it is. It is two am. Let's see Bibble knows
the time. Yes, he says it's probably night time. Ah, I'd
say early morning probably. To answer your other question, I don't know why
you're looking at me like that, asked if it was day. I was
wondering how you did know. How can you tell from a place like this
where there's no natural light. I've been doing this job a long time since
I was a wee little skinny boy. Nothing but you know, big heart
and bigger scrout, but learn things. I'm one of the only derol that
it gets to open the doors looking at the biggest scrout. H Well,
we should continue on. Then we haven't made it the door yet, have
we? Okay? The Blood River has passed, however, and you're just
moving through an area that feels a lot less like the bridges before and starts
to become more like sort of standard walkways and and sort of hallways. Really
it's still quite large, but it seems to be significantly smaller. With the
natural cavern of the river behind you gone, you start moving into smaller little
areas. He says, it's just up here then ah better claiming not claiming
claiming, but you know, an inclane for your wheel leagues, So prepare
yourselves because it's a bit nasty and it does start to incline, and it
isn't steps, it's an actual incline that gets quite steep. You have to
start trudging up for a little while here, maybe about twenty minutes before Bibble
brings you to another door, and it's very similar to the one that you
came through again. It's pitch black in here, So those of you with
dark vision, maybe someone torch for Jilden. I don't know, if not,
Jildin's been stumbling through the dark for the last thirty minutes. If it's
pitched If it's pitch dark, I think I noticed. And so yet again
left hand flat as a plane. Right hand that as well contorts into a
stack, and then it resembles a spider if like a torch was still shined
through it. As you see like three, how would you say, like
neon pink spiders kind of just crawl out of the gaps in the floor and
kind of light her way like a runway, And every single time she passes
one, the one of the far back dims and another one crawls out from
in front to take its place. Yeah, so you can see this thing
ahead of you, and he brings you to a door that is sort of
built somewhat into the natural mountain that comes down over the top of it,
and then some of the mason stone around it. But the door is it's
very different to the other areas of the caves that you've been moving through because
it's pretty much almost all been exclusively masoned out of stone or the natural cabin
itself. The door is a big iron thing, an enormous door really,
with all of these sort of pipes and pneumatic parts to it. There is
a couple of like symbols on the door, but it doesn't seem like a
magical door in an in any case. There is a pretty large looking indent
at the center of the door, and Bibble stops before it and says,
let's see if this thing still works. Remember the last time I opened this
one. To be honest, we decided to keep it closed, so prepared
yourselves. I don't know what's on the other side of it. Didn't they
want to know what was coming out of the normal after all, there you
know what's it went down? So I suppose. And he pulls out instead
of his huge ring of keys that he's he's got, and he starts counting
through them. It seems to be the way that he figures out the keys.
He counts for a little while. Once he gets to key thirty three,
he pulls out just a circle of iron is what it is, sitting
on the end of a sort of key ring chain, and he presses the
circle into the sort of circular depression on the door, and it creaks to
life, this huge rusted iron thing popping and unlocking with a sort of odd
pneumatic sound. The door doesn't open like open up, It just sort of
seems to unlock. And before he sort of pushes the door open, he
turns to you or with his hand outstretched and says, no, it's not
necessary, but it is customary to provide your guide with a little tip for
the effort. Accept a rare gems, artifacts, magical things, rarities,
and of course fingers. You're not coming with us now there they're mad.
No, I live here. What's out there but death? What do we
have here? Nothing but life? Seems to me you have your fasher of
death here too. Now a lot of us are dead, granted, but
there's still fourteen of us alive. The river's flowing, We've got food rats.
I I've held on to his bangle because he put it on and then
promptly died. Yeah, I'm gonna crouch down or like kind of get on
one knee so that I can look at him in the eyes because I'm tall,
uh, and hand him the bangle and say, now you have to
be very careful with this, all right. You have to not use everything.
I can do a little bit at a time. Like the blood.
If you were to use all of your blood, you would die, right.
If you only use a little bit, then it can do good things
for you. Let me just roll an intelligence check for him. A twelve.
He says, all right, yeah, okay, I do appreciate this
gift. Is this your tape? I thought this was just a friendly gift
between friends. Immediately I rummage around in her pocket and bring out a handful
of random gems, about five or so. Any of these take it?
Enery? He takes all five. That's nice. What's that? Then?
It's it's a bullshit night. It's nice that one. It's quite rare.
Okay, that's a good one. No, okay, nice, all right,
thank you children. He puts them in his pants under that's where he
keeps them. Ifamily, George, of gosh, he's looking. He's still
looking at the three of you, including Serrus, expectantly. Could you describe
around us? Uh? It is the end. It's it's an almost discarded
hallway, you know, like as if it's not like a grand entrance way
or anything like that. This is like if you were going to a club.
This is the back entrance, you know, like this is at the
top of a steep sort of incline that was mason stone underfoot. It's pretty
wide, it's probably about forty foot wide. Significantly shorter and way less wide
than the other areas that you've been in, and it's still quite tall.
It's probably like twelve foot tall. Significantly tall, especially considering these a darrow
and they're quite short. But it's kind of just an open area and around
you is mostly natural cave. Some of it's been kind of mason back and
smoothed the stone. But yeah, and then you just have this huge doorway
ahead of you, very very little rish and pass the bridge and the river
and all. The River of Blood was about half an hour ago, maybe
forty five minutes ago, and then you started walking up about twenty minutes ago.
Okay, yeah, so we're high up. Well, when you first
entered in the first doorway, there was a sort of spiraling downwards, and
you went down for quite some time, and you get the sense that you
went deeper into the mountain. Some of the bridge that you'd been traveling on.
You've been traveling for quite a while multiple, multiple hours, probably hard
for you to tell, but you've done a good trek through this mountain along
these bridgeways, but you get the sense that some of them were taking you
deeper and deeper downwards. You were constantly going downwards, and eventually you've come
back upwards again. You're probably about as high up as you were when you
came into the mountain. You've been for sure, you've been subterranean for a
lot of this traversal. I'm just going to give that to you because you're
a drow right, and you're aware of that. But also I think you
generally be aware of it because you've you have to go down quite far to
get to the river at first, and then come back up again to get
away from it. So where we are They no more drops? No,
Okay, now you're no longer on a bridge or anything. Okay, Yeah,
you went back into the mountain itself, and this has been carved out
of the mountain. Okay. I reach into my pack and I pull out
one of the Qui Goth pangs that I've been carrying. How qui Goth,
Yeah, qui goth gin I had the same thought, Yeah, And I
hand that to him. It's a white goth thing. What's that? It's
a a frozen creature, a large beast of a creature that lives in the
far north. All right, that's going to impress them. All that is.
They're gonna l like that one he puts it in her pocket in his
robe. I'll reach into my satchel of knapsack of holding and I'll take out
a little bongo drum and hand it to him. What's that a hat?
Why is that? Uh? Nighty? It's an instrument. You tap it
with your hands. It does so it's like that cat tapping the bongo mame.
You know. He just immediately starts tapping it. It's awful. I
love that. That's fantastic. That's going to piss off ith. All right.
So I've never had a drought finger before. I'm kidding. I've got
plenty of fingers. Do you feel that? What percassive beating in your chest
after every breath was there? That's your life giving back to us courtesy of
the group. Treasure is keep that as your tip, all right, no
need for you don't have to tip me. It's fine, customer, but
that's all right. I walk away. He says right, ah, well,
it's been a pleasure. Absolutely no chance you get where you're going,
and if you do survive out there, you need to come back this way,
just as a tat tat on the doorway, and I will be with
you in you know, two to three business days, because it depends where
I am. I'll get here eventually. All right, Okay, thank you,
thank you for the a bits and pieces in my life. You're welcome.
Ah okay, let's see what's on you know, the other side.
What's behind door number thirty three? And he sort of pushes the door out
found gives the full that ball and what you say on the other side of
it is a sort of haunting testament to the scourge that has ruined this world.
The light washing in first, Actually no it doesn't. It's two am,
so there's nothing but darkness on the other side, but there would be
some lights and moonlight. That gives you an idea of what's going on out
here. You see Bibble kind of look a little forlorn as the door pushes
open, and he kind of looks about and says, Hi, well,
there you go. Ain't what it used to be out there? That's a
sad say well, good luck on your travels. Somewhere in this forest is
the real thing, if it avoided the blink of gourd after you, and
he moves out of the way, and outside is the Noland's Forest, a
sort of haunting testament to the scourge. That was once a sort of lush
and verdant expanse teeming with life. It is now a sort of desolate wasteland.
The air is heavy with a sort of oppressive stillness. It's immediately a
forest. There are trees here that are black and deadened. There is sort
of a faint rustle of skeletal branches with these trees, but where they were
once sort of towering and green, that are now twisted and gnulled. Their
bark is all charred and cracked, sort of resembling grotesque sculptures of their former
selves. Even the ground is barren, just sort of an expanse of sort
of ash and soil, brittle lifeless leaves sitting on the underfoot. There's a
sort of unnatural fog as well that's clinging to the forest floor. It casts
a sort of bizarre twilight in the in the moonlight and the silence is weird.
It's almost deafening because there are no birds, there are no insects,
there's no buzz, there are no animals stirring at the door opening. It
is this horrible, chilling reminder of the evil that blighted it, a place
where life has been utterly extinguished. And as you all step forward and out
once again, out into this kind of lighted forest, BIBBYL says, chiddy
you, and you hear the stone door close behind you. I wonder how
long Bibbyl in his people will live. I give it a week and be
surprised. The resourceful bunch they are. They managed to swindle loads out of
my bunch of stuff anyway. And he told of our Russians, their angel
is very much alive. I suppose how do you kill blood? Don't ask
a question like that in a place like this. What do you mean that
they're just asking for trouble? Something out there to take it at a challenge?
No, children, can you? I don't really I apologize for my
ignorance, But can you connect somehow to this forest? H well? I
mean ever already, actually this place isn't happy. I start making a show
and kneeling down on the ground and putting both my hands down and my face
flat to the ground, listening, trying to pay attention to it. Bullshiting
basically, I would I would probably try to see if she's bullshitting, I
think, can I is there some insight I can roll there to see if
she's full? Yeah, Jilden, you need to either make a performance or
a deception check, and then everyone roll an insight against that if they'd lie.
Oh yeah, she's good, she's horrist bullshit. I'm just leaning on
my staff, just sort of like watching and like nodding, Jildren, did
you do any sort of check for this place? Like do you have knowledge
of this forest? It's not too far from where you were born? Likely
because I walked all the way around these areas to get to so it's potentially
I'll roll and see if I walked around this area on the way in,
somehow you'd encountered one of the darrow before, so it's not impossible you've been
up here before. I can say, I reckon, this is north of
of where you're from. All right, Oh, even I've been here?
Odds, I haven't I've been here? Okay, Yeah, there is a
forest just north of where you were born. I don't know if we've said
it, so I'm referring to it as where you were born, which makes
it sound like we're going to suddenly reveal that you were born in Manhattan,
and there's going to be name you used to be. It's going to mean
something when we reveal the name, but it's not the case. Peb all
Along. There is a forest to the north of you known as Aarvan Door,
which is a very very large forest, very Elven, and is like,
ah, well, I guess I'll give you one over what I have
on Aarvan Door because it's not a big not a big deal. Would elves
live here? And the place has like an unnatural beauty or an unearthly beauty.
Unnatural makes it sound evil, not really that it is so beautiful that
only the elves can handle the beauty of it. So you pretty much need
to be an elf to live here. Anyone who isn't of Elven lineage has
they sometimes will be driven mad. It's that beautiful. It makes you go
crazy if you spend too long there. So I'm not saying it didn't drive
you crazy, but maybe you pass through there easily. The most beautiful place
on the planet, including the meadows, the flowers, and the canopies of
Arvon Dora Unreal. The forest to the north of that is known as the
no Lands, which is where you are now, somewhere within the No Lands,
and what is presumably most of the No Lands is the area known as
the House of Knowledge, which is also known as the no Lands with a
K in front of it, whereas this is the no Lands, which is
spelled n O L N L A N D S which and these are colloquial
names given to this area of the forest by like humans and you know,
elves and stuff that live nearby, because this place doesn't really have anyone that
lives here. This place is is the area outside of the House of Knowledge,
and it was last time you were here, a very lush and verdant
area filled with teeming with life. But it has no real angel or populace.
It's just it's sort of its own area because it's sitting on the edge
of where the angel is supposed to be. The Angel of Ogma is supposed
to be within the House of Knowledge, but the House of Knowledge itself it's
almost completely inaccessible to mortals. You have to be a phase stag or a
fay creature, a true pay as well. You can't just you can't just
be like a fake in or an elf or something, even though you know
a Sylvan sort of high leveled alve would potentially struggle to find this place.
So yeah, I mean you would know that, you would understand this kind
of area, and you would know it to have been an incredibly beautiful forest.
Not quite on the avin door level. But yeah, this doesn't look
like it at all. Is it still dark out? It's two am?
Yeah, I think it's like three four am now, but yeah, it
would still be dark. Okay, the dancing lights or the spiders that were
the dancing lights are no longer there. But the spider that's now made a
comfy little web in between the horns of cyrus it's abdomen starts blowing a neon
pink and it pulses, and that is now in place of the dancing lights
to light the way, to make sure that those who cannot see in the
dark can see in the dark. But it's kind of selfish because the spider
is really just doing it on its own accord to get flies. While Jilden
is on the ground still. I'm gonna climb down next to her and put
my head down, and I'm going to try to quietly whisper Alnas has not
lost to you. I freeze immediately. I was told, shame Elnus has
not lost to you. I turn and grab her by the shoulders and shake.
What do you know? What do you know of him? Where is
he? What do you know? Now? I don't know? Children,
That is all I know. I spoke, I spoke the angel. Are
you in? Is that you? No? I'm sorry? It was it
was a message. It wasn't a message. A message from a message where
I spoke with the angel when I brought Bib back back? What was the
angel's name again? Or all or the blood of Yes? Okay, I
suppose I spoke to No, no, no, no, no no.
They said many things about how we had to continue and how to seek vengeance.
And that's what they do. They lie. They lie to you.
They tell you what you want to hear and show. They do tell it
said how jilden el Naus is not lost to her? Oh, Doren's know
anything about it? This is impossible. It's not you if you've been reading
my diary, is that it you've been invading my privacy. Absolutely, this
is a trick. I have no earthly idea who Elnus is, and I
do not care unless you want me to. But until you say so,
that means I don't even think about him. Don't even don't even think about
him. Don't even let your mind wander overhead his name again. Forget him,
forget we ever had this conversation. You know nothing of him? All
right? It's mine, all right, it's mine that heaven. I wouldn't
I have my own? Can I ask you something I don't answer? Is
he or is he your angel? I told you, don't forget about him?
Do not mention him to me? A day careful about this one yielded.
I know nod and I uh tear my eyes from her, and I
walk away from her, I whispered to Childen, not too long a ghost.
She was playing with blood magic. Who knows? Maybe yours is necks
mm tuk my blood. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it doesn't
matter, it's not the shame started to shame. Why don't you shattered the
body? It's no longer yours. It doesn't matter. I stand up and
just slowly walk away, mumbling to myself, looking at the trees and the
scener doesn't matter, doesn't You'll forgive you? I tilt my head watching her
go. I shake it. Should someone follow her? I looked. I
would like to know your intentions? So yeah, what do you mean my
intentions? You're just having a bit of fun? Shall be game? Come
now? We're here to save the world? Only not? Yes, I
don't believe now is the time for an inquisition. A good total friend is
walking off into the distance. Surely you should go stop her if you don't
want an inquisition, and you will cease these pointless questions to begin strife within
our group, or you will regret them, and I'll walk off towards yielding.
Am I? I wonder what he means by that? Yes, I
wonder I should shrug innocently at Cyrus. And what about you? Sir?
Hmm? What about me? What have you lost? It's quite a personal
question. What have I lost? What do you mean? What have I
lost? I believe we've all lost something. We've all lost the world,
have we not? Everyone we know cared for? Cared for? Yes?
Have you placed? However? What brought you to moon? I believe I
just deflected one inquisition? What's spurred this one on? You? Hear this
strum of a small insectoid leg twang a string in between your horns. It's
almost like a small stringed instrument. If you choose to believe that we are
not worth your time, and that this mission is not worth your time,
that you'd rather so discord between us instead of being united with us, after
everything we've been through, after everything we've done. I saw how you saved
my life today. I saw you can pretend all you want, this folly,
this play you perform. But I think you're just as found as you
were once lost in us, and we would keep you safe if you allowed
it. I think the eyes on my forehead kind of blink asynchronously at her
as she says these things to me. I think my actual eyes they don't
really give off too much of an expression, sayer when I tucked my chin
in when she says I was found, and I think, I crane my
head and I ask her, what do you mean by not worth my time?
Exactly? If none of this And I swish my index finger around,
just pointing just this way, and that none of this meant anything to me?
Do you think I wouldn't still be here, and that's why your behavior
baffles. It's confusing. You're confusing. Oh oh my, that's the nicest
thing you've ever said to me. Don't you understand what I'm saying? Side?
Do you speak common tongues? See, that's what I'm talking about.
What do you mean? That's what I'm talking about. I've heard that phrase
before. Nothing you say is direct, nothing you say is honest. Everything
is deflection. Everything's a riddle. You dance around answering questions or being who
you are or showing us who you really are with the grace that you do
in battle. Now, Barb, it for me to tell you how to
live your life or who to be. But we care about you. We
care about this mission. I care about this mission, and I don't know
why you seem to need to sabotage the things that are good. I think
when you say we care about you again, my two Elvin eyes look,
they don't really give off much of an emotion. They're kind of looking at
you straight on. The ones on my forehead again, they kind of almost
flinch, you know, they squint as if they're trying to perceive something that's
not there, But I don't know without an insight role, if you'd be
able to tell any more. But I'm listening. Yeah, I actually I'm
not going to do an insight role because I don't think that Cirrus needs to
know whether she's right. I think she knows she's right, or she knows
she thinks that she's right. Well, she's right to herself. I mean,
what you think is your own reality. However, Yeah, I look
up to say Cirus, and I just shrugged my shoulders and say, I'm
here on this quest. It's like you are and the other two. I'm
here to save the world. Why can't I have a little bit of conversation
while we do it? I'm not too sure. I think you know better
than that. What do you mean by that? You know that you can
have conversation. But you are smart. Oh see here, and you know
the webs that you weave, and I know it's a bit of part time
fun for you. I know it's how you get your kicks, as it
were. But this this thing that we have, it is as delicate as
a spider's web. Then speak straight, my dear, What do you want
from me? Work with us? Now? I do, But it's the
things you say, you know, like what you just said to Jorden about
me? What did I say? You inferred the Jildren shouldn't trust me?
I never you know what's he here? M hm. When you're ready to
have a direct, honest conversation, you know where to find me. I'm
always around, but I've been very good at playing games. If you want
a direct answer, ask direct questions. Why did you come to Moon?
Why did I come to Moon? Much like most other people who just end
up in the ass crack of the world, I was on a mission,
a quest, an adventure. Does that mean you failed your quest? Far
from it? Why would you infer I failed my quest? What was it?
Quid pro quo? I have a question for yourself. All right,
let's play the same game, play the same question. Why were you in
Moon? I know you were there for quite some time, but why?
You're not a goliath at least I don't think there's goliath in you. I
look around at the up and down at hones. No, I take a
deep breath in My brow is furrowed, and I I look like I'm doing
a calculation. But I'm not very good at math. I was a member
of a war band for many years. I wasn't the most high ranking,
but I was up there, a leader, sometimes not always. My war
band was like a family, and as all things end, it ended.
We were overrun at one point and everyone was lost, and yeah, is
that how you? But not this? And I wave my hand, the
one mirroring the one that's bound. H. No, I was born,
born like it. No, I see. Yes, I was the last
standing at that battle, and I lost everyone I cared about. So I
felt a call. There's a there's a a word for it, some sort
of black knight of the soul. They use that word to describe sometimes why
people are drawn to four yel In any case, I found myself on a
ship, and I found that ship landing and moon, and I was welcomed
with open arms. Sounds to me like you simply got an advance on everyone
else's trauma, on the losing everyone part. Suff I said to say that
I'm not out yet looking for God. Well that's a lie. What were
you out here looking for? Didn't I just say, I look at the
sky? Do we find him? M I suppose it makes no matter now,
since everyone presumably, Although I wonder if that's the case or not,
he is either very much dead or dying. My mission was to go to
Moon and infer what I could about your rock the mountain. Suffice it to
say, I think I passed with flying colors when I got this, and
I waved the staff about, oh that it matters anymore, and I sheathed.
What were you going to do after? Go home? Home is strong
word for where it is, but yes, to return was the goal.
Have a quiet life, far from quiet, far far from quiet, but
different, more homoginized, perhaps, is the term I'd want to use now.
I would like to do an insight role very well. Twelve entirely up
to you how to determine what RUS takes from that. You don't seem to
think that I'm necessarily hiding anything. As I talk to you again and whenever
I do get into candid conversation, it's different when I'm in battle. Facial
expressions are different. They're kind of a bit more telling, especially when against
monsters and conversation. If I'm being a shit or if we're talking like this,
My Elvin eyes tend not to have more than one one and a half
expressions, which is disregard as I'm talking to you. There's nothing else with
the twelve that you can necessarily make out. My eyes on the forehead are
idle. Okay, as for your insight onto my what I just said about
homogenized, I meant what I said. You surmise that mostly drow live where
I am? Yeah? Did you not fit with them? With whom your
people? Ooh, that's a actually subject. I know. It's like,
so yes, sir, yes and no. It's a two part story.
Perhaps we should save it for some other time. All right, I wonder
if that turtle has been eaten yet. I look after where Thrack followed into
the forest to find children. I am glad to know you, sir.
I look up at her, facing away from the forest, and I tilt
my head incredulous. Very well, I start walking in the direction that they
were that they left. Yeah, nice day, Okay, great idea,
and then follow Let's see if any of you recognize the name el Naeus.
Because it is possible, you have to roll very high. I'm talking like
basically you have to pull a natural twenty. So obviously, Jolden you don't
have to do this, but Thrack, Sea and Cyrus you can roll either
religion, history. You know what religion or history? I think I got
a twenty six, sure, and nineteen not a natural twenty six is high,
okay, So Thrack you have heard the name al Naeus, and maybe
it takes you a moment. You know, after this conversation you storm off
after after Jilden and you can see her sort of total form with her walking
stick, moving through the sort of broken underbrush. You recognize that cyrus and
see her begin having a conversation. As you're following her, you sort of
remember or piece together where you've heard the name al Neaus before. El Naeus
is an angel. In a very very remote part of the world, very
very far to the northwest of the world, there is a monastery to Moonbo
or sahnein Moonbo, the goddess of the Moon dreams and transcendents, and the
people that this monastery spend their time seeking visions through sort of any means necessary.
Basically, they take tonics and potions and sleep weeds and they do meditation,
and over the years, the visions brought on by these monks have come
true pretty much all the time. So lots of people who are aware of
this monastery will travel there, but it is pretty much a secret. Really,
it's a closely guarded secret. I would imagine the only way that you
could possibly know about this is through hard I doubt he's even written this down.
He maybe told you this through some sort of you know, like trust
moment. Maybe it didn't feel like one at the time, but maybe now
you recognize they might have been because this is a really remote little village and
generally speaking, no one goes there. And the angel here is known as
el Naeus. And el Naus is a sphere, a perfect sphere that floats
at the top of the or the peak of the tallest mountain. And this
sphere changes colors between blues and reds, but predominantly remains cream in color.
You can go up to al Naeus. You can touch it, but no
marks can be left on it, paint just anything. If you try and
mark this thing painted, you know, whatever you try and do to it,
no mark is left on it. And to touch it, it is
entirely frictionless. So it's a bizarre sensation to touch this thing. It generates
no friction whatsoever. It's only as visible as the moon is so visible to
the extent that the moon is in the sense that during a full moon,
Elneus appears fully corporeal. During half moon, the angel is translucent, and
when the moon is missing, Alnaeus can't be seen, and you can't really
see Alneus during during the daylight hours very well. So I think you know
that and that I'll give you that kind of information on it. There's some
other stuff that you wouldn't be aware of or maybe don't recall, but they're
talking about al Naeus and it's bizarre that that Jilden would sort of have such
a reaction to this, to this because this is far north right, northwest,
northwest yea, which is so I would know that she's definitely not from
there. Correct. Taurtals there are a couple of areas in the world where
turtles are from. I don't think Jilden has mentioned where she was born and
brought up, but there are certainly no Taurtals up there. There is an
island in the west, sort of central west, where there are some Taurtals.
The rest of the Tautals are predominantly southeast, So like the opposite side
of the world. Now, the opposite side of the world does mean you
could take a ship and just you know, go from the southeast of the
map and get to the northwest of the world. Again, not many people
really use boats and travel by boats. There isn't a lot of navel technology
out there, but she's at all. So yeah, it's it's kind of
it. I think it would certainly strike odd, but el Naus is a
is a closely guarded angel. Secret people don't do not share where Alnaeus is,
and these monks are capable of I guess my next question is when they
were having their argument, I'm not sure I overheard what Cyrus was saying.
I know I heard what children were saying because she lost her Yeah, he
sort of whispered it to her. I think, right, Maya, you
said, you've got down quite close to her and whispered into her. That
was that was me. Yeah, I got down quite close and whispered serious.
I meant if I said, yeah, yees, sirr's got close.
And then I just remember if I heard the name el Naus or not.
I think Jordan said it a couple of times while she did. Yeah,
okay, what you want to think about that would be strange for me to
have heard. She said before. Yeah, she did mention it during the
Dragon breakout. Give me a set, because Leah has disconnected from our audio
thing. We need her here for this particular conversation. I probably do both
ends of it if you like, Yeah, give me a second, and
I'm going to try and refresh our session. Don't know what chat, don't
talk to me. If all audio suddenly drops viewers and listeners, then just
bear with me for thirty seconds, because it might. I'd go so far
as to say that I've kicked us all out of the call and now I
can't get back in. Can you still hear me? Chat? All right?
We can. We can talk about we can talk about the game without
the players for once. We can talk about secrets. Quick, ask me
any questions. It's possible the entire site is down that we use for for
audio here. I don't know what the hell has happened here, So I
mean this could be the end, be the end of the session. Let
me see if I can just pick him up on discord. We have a
live channel. Hello, Hello, all right, Hello, yep. I
don't know what has happened to the audio feed, but we'll have to survive
without thee is. Let's clean in here. It is. It is.
But yeah, let's let's answer your questions and then maybe we'll just have to
call it a little bit early. Let's answer your questions, which will I've
completely forgotten you were asking. I was just asking as good that ladies in
now. Did you when you were having just now the bit of argument with
serious on the floor of the for the ground of the forest, did you
say el Naus like loudly? I could have heard it. I think you
did. Yeah, okay, So if you weren't in the call and you
missed it like I rolled and was able to oh yeah, it was only
as I sent the message that I stopped hearing it. All right, then
I think, yeah, you're the only one who's aware of anything to do
with this angel el name. Yes, as you as you sort of chase
after can I? Yeah, yeah, you said, and you said that.
I would think it's odd because, like, I'm using a little bit
of real world knowledge here, but I know that turtles don't really spend a
lot of time in northern parts. They don't really like the cold too much,
and as far as I'm aware, I feel like they're all close into
the equator the same here. Most of the turtles are in warmer environments,
right, Okay, so I can make that connection. Okay, there's certainly
none that are in the cold. I mean, there's obviously, you know,
any of tootles around that would have traveled. But they're right, most
of the tall homes are pretty and warm. Yeah, okay, that's all
I wanted to know. Okay, all right, Well, for the the
sake of our entire audio thing going down, I think we'll call it there.
As we see you sort of chasing after Jilden here pondering over the the
namel Naus and the angel that that represents, we'll call it there. Thanks
for thanks for watching, everybody. I don't know what happened to our audio.
I mean, it's not a big deal, but we should be able
to fix it for next week. Tune in next week for a very special
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