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Thank you for listening and enjoy. Okay, there was two things that went
wrong with the intro there, and I don't know why. One of them
was that the audio didn't kick in. Hi, let's start again. The
party are in the wind to Goo Peaks in the Blood Vein Pass, which
is an area that is in habited by a dwarven like creatures known as the
Darrow. And you were in a forge, an ancient forge that was once
you used to create incredibly powerful artifacts from the ore that was in the that
is in the mountain and the River of Blood that serves as the angel of
this part of the world that flows underneath the mountain. Last week you worked
together to try and create some artifacts in this forge. You were successful.
There was a bunch of sort of a skill challenge to beat in which you
had to get a significant amount of successes or fails, or depending on the
amount of successes or failures that you got depended on sort of what you were
able to create, what came out of it, and how effective that thing
would be. You've got six successes in three fails, which works out as
a partial success. There were four options, all successes, partial successes,
mostly fails, and all fails. So you've got partial successes, and you
created five sets of bangles. However, just as you were sort of finishing
up with the creation of these bangles, the the sort of arcane approach and
the noise and the process here drew some some of this sort of blood in
the area. This place is there's a lot of blood magic or hemimancy going
on here, both from the darrow that used the blood magic as well as
the river of blood itself. And even while you're here and interfacing with magic
and using the the natural blood magic of the area to create these things,
you ended up sort of a growing some oozes which attacked you all. You
pretty you did pretty well. They were they were pretty violent and pretty dangerous
for a little while, and then with a flash of genius, not the
literal flash of genius, which is a mechanical thing in the game, but
the flash of genius from Jilden to cast a spell over everybody of walking on
liquid or whatever that spell is called. I think it's just called walk on
water, but it works water walk. You were able to defeat the users
at the end of it, I think was where we ended the session,
and that's also where we pick up. I think you also have bibble with
you who's looking a little exhausted after, you know, I think you get
the sense that he's not used to fighting as hard as he has been while
in your company, especially against these kinds of creatures, and he sort of
rests on his staff as the bangles behind you cool, the metal and the
metallurgy of creating them cooling. What do you, guys, do you have
the chance here to well do whatever you want? What do you want to
do? A point of order. I am still a giant Paul. Oh,
that's right, that's right. Yes, I knew there was something during
that combat. You transformed into a boar, a giant boar for the first
time, and it completely freaked out thrack for reasons that we now understand because
we've seen some of the track's backstory. Yeah. So I also I think
I put like blood on my face. I put like a blood symbol on
my face and went completely insane, right, Okay, I think that's what
happened. Yeah, I this thing died right in front of me, didn't
it. H Yeah, you can. You can sort of position yourselves however
you want. But I think everyone was very close to it and it exploded,
So everyone was kind of affected by the final death throw of this thing.
It was it? Now? Was it made of blood or what was
it? Was it line? Yes, it is made of blood, the
blood of vowel, which is the blood right, Okay, so actually drenched
in blood. I think Frank is just sort of, you know, catching
his breath and just sort of silently stood looking out, not saying a word.
Okay. I think at this moment, say, we'd be watching to
see what's going to happen next. The York is going crazy and blood is
moving and attacking people. So I take a step back, ignore them in
a way, and keep looking to the periphery just in case any more of
these creatures show up because now I'm aware of blood, but also I'm aware
of the creature from before as well, the wendigo. Okay, noted?
Can I roll an insight on Thrack? Uh? Yeah, I don't see
why not go for it? I will let nine nine. I think I'll
just let orchish. You can determine what that? Do you think? What
do you what are you trying to? Uh? I guess I'm trying to,
like, notice, if you're losing your mind? How how bad is
it being lost? Well, I mean he's not hiding anything. He just
looks. He looks like exactly how you'd imagine an awkwould look after a bottle.
He's covered in bland that he's got, you know, his staff in
one hand, and it's dripping blood. Blood's dripping off his face, and
he's just like breathing heavy, just sort of catching his breath browls coming to
that. I mean, he just he doesn't seem himself. But I think
normally he would be like looking through a spellbook or yeah, okay, oh
Rack, are you all right? Everyone? All right, I'm I've clearly
lost it. I shake off in poor form, shake all the blood off,
and return to children form not noticing. I imagine that you're actually behind
Frank, so I don't think he notices that either. He's just kind of
looking out over the Okay, I'm all right, don't worry about me from
right? Does anyone? I wasn't worrying what it's worth all. I just
feel tough. Actually that was a wonderful experience. Yeah. I think I'm
going to be tasting that for some time though. All Right, all right,
Sierra, Mmm, do you need any healing? Yes? Okank you
I as healing word on you. It's verse seven. Okay, thank you
for that much. What does your healing look like to me? So all
of my magic is this sort of h your white kind of ice like so
you think about like not full dry ice or anything, but it's kind of
got that smoky, foggy feel to it. So it's a mix of that
pure white, and when I heal it kind of like, no, it
doesn't feel cold, it feels very warm. Okay. So it's a bit
strange because it probably looks like it would feel cold, but it feels very
warm and very nice. I see. Yeah, So I would probably just
put my hand on your arm or wherever the wounds were and kind of just
heal them one at a time, and the light would pool in the areas
that need healing and then just kind of like float through you until they dissipate.
You have my thanks, and I say is cheers of digested skin from
the blood ooze where I was, well, I was in there for a
bit, right, damn So where I think you're in there for a round
or two. Yeah, but it definitely would have. Yeah, I mean
it was literally burning you with acid jestive sort of something the losers do.
Thank you. I say that. I turn around, Jordan, do you
need any as always, don't worry about me. Oh your bridge, let's
do it anyway, So glad I could help you to make those oh mm
hmm, yeah, I think you hear like a like a flack flack thrack
like slaps whose staff a couple of times against the hewn stone of the platform
that we're all standing on, and then he sort of sits down on like
a step and he starts wiping the blood off his staff. Oh you got
over here quickly, surprising. Not the sort of passion to be close when
danger is near. Usually at least he just grunts out. You just keeps
working. Yeah, find trying to just clear himself off the rag pretty fruitlessly.
I don't there's blood everywhere. I recall us being sort of odds for
the most part this whole time, anyway, So I would just turn away
and shamble over to where the bracelets are and kind of look at them.
I'd come over to you, thrack and put a hand on your arm and
say, do you need healing? Nah, I'll be fine. And I
think I just sort of stand up, and I'm like, I'm doing the
things that you do in a situation where you're maybe I think I look a
bit embarrassed, and I'm like, looking through my spell book the things you
do. Yeah, if you were caught seen doing something like you're not supposed
to do and then you're trying to cover it up, maybe just walking around
looking through my spell book stuff like that. Okay, what if it's possible
a rest would be in order for me? I don't know about you.
If we can just arrest? Didn't we didn't? We just rest like you
didn't do a long rest? Yes? How long did it take us to
make the bangles a good point? Actually it has been some time. I
have stats somewhere there was, I did have an answer. I think bangles
was a couple of hours times five. So let's go with ten hours.
Ten hours ago you finished your long rest. So ten hours ago was when
the the sheltering bowl broke apart. M hmm, all right, I should
let you all know that I don't have any spells left in me. What
does that mean? It means that I don't have us And she's tired.
She might be tired, but what does that mean? Can your God not
reach us down here when you're tired? When I'm tired, I'm not a
fit vessel. The vessel must be prepared for such things. Interesting, just
curious, as alle like. It's a bit of a mistake to run yourself
to ragged anyway on account of the fact you don't ever feel good about resting?
Does that mean ever to have you feel awful? You just feel more
and more awful, and it just stacks and stacks till you never know what
it feels to feel good again? What is water relief? Now for a
moment, stop what making sense making it worse for her? She made her
own choices, and you don't have to bring it up all the time.
Well, now, all the time. It's a little bit of exaggerating,
isn't it. I think I maybe mentioned it once or twice. I can
bear it not to worry. So do you level out now? Is it
a new normal for you? Or do you just keep going more and more
and more pent How does it work for you? I wonder? How does
it work for you? To feel no fear? Well? I mean I
feel no fear. There is nothing to fear for yourself. You feel no
relief, right, that's correct, I feel no relief. So when things
get too tough fear, when the strain builds up, is there an How
can there be relief in that case? It's just you just keep endure,
I see. And so you keep mounting this stress, this strain like a
branch being twisted. There is no give. Ever, one can be a
strong branch who assage of endurance. Do just your prayer that yes, it
feels good to wield my body in a way that is controlled. It feels
good to control my mind against discomfort. Really, you can endure anything.
It's just a matter of It's a matter of will I should ever feel hopeless?
Well, I think because the rack stopped me, nothing will ever feel
completely hopeless. I think that there is hope in enduring as well. Better
you than me anyway, Are we done here? Or what did you make?
The things? The trinkets or what? I looked at the rag?
Yeah, I'm already over looking at them. I walked away from Yes,
okay, yeah, all right, you've got four that look the same and
one that looks different. You've created five bangles. Give me an investigation check
with Advantage Natural twenty seven. All right, you know everything you need to
know about these. The first one are the the basic bangles, and they
are exactly the bangles that we said they would be the final Fantasy seven looking
ones. And what they do is the bangle of Vole pierces the user's skin.
When activating the ability, the bangle drains the user of a portion of
their blood. While wearing this magical silver bangle, you may activate it at
any time and immediately gain an additional action. The user immediately suffers a level
of exhaustion. To be clear, you can just go I would like six
additional actions. Please do those and then drop immediately to zero HP and stuff.
For all of the six levels of exhaustion I wanted. You have four
of those might die. You can become my guy weaponized Coen. The fifth
bangle is slightly differently. It has the shard the sort of shark tooth triangular
shard in it. This is the Angelic Bangle of Volt. Now, this
has the exact same thing. You pierces your skin when you activate, it
drains a portion of your blood. You have the same thing, gaining an
action for a level of exhaustion. However, Additionally, once per long rest,
the user has the ability to cast the Feeble Mind and Final Hour spells.
That's an eighth levels and a ninth level spell using their own spell casting
modifier. Any creature targeted by the spell must make it saving throw with disadvantage.
When casting one of these spells, the wearer of the Angelic Bangle of
Volt immediately suffers four levels of exhaustion. If the wearer is of eleventh level
or higher, the bangle only causes two levels of exhaustion to cast the spells,
and if the wearer is a fifteenth level or higher, the bangle no
longer causes exhaustion to the wearer, including the actions thing. If you get
to fifteenth level and you're wearing this, you basically have six actions per turn.
We're never getting a nice way of saying you're never getting to fifteen.
I promise, I'm trying. I promise, I'm trying to get you to
level fifty. If you make it to level fifteen, you automatically win the
campaign. You can do six things at once. It's pretty crazy. Let
me read the spells that you get as well. So Feeble Mind is an
eighth level enchantment range of one hundred and fifty feet. An action, you
blast the mind of a creature that you can see within range, attempting to
shout its intellect and personality. The target takes forty six psychic damage and must
make an intelligence saving throw again. This is with disadvantage if you're wearing that.
On a failed save, the creature's intelligence and charismas score becomes one.
The creature can't cast spells, activate magic items, and understand language, or
communicate in any intelligent await. The creature can, however, identify its friends,
follow them, and even protect them. At the end of every thirty
days, the creature can repeat it saving throw against this spell. If it
succeeds on its saving throw spell ends. So this is basically transformed person into
dog person. And if you cast that and you're under level eleven, you
take five levels of exhaustion four. I think if you you immediately take four
levels of exhaustion, is it worth it to just cast it on SEO right
now? What's the Final Hour spell? Well, first of all, yes
see please make please make me an intelligence saving throw, and the final Hour
spell is a ninth level spell one action, and this is you attack the
essence of a creature you can see, attempting to sever the bonds that tie
it to existence. The creature must make a wisdom saving throw again with disadvantage
if you're the one wearing the bangle, taking twelve D ten psychic damage on
a failed save or half as much on a successful one. A creature that
fails is safe gains a level of exhaustion immediately and again every ten minutes for
the next hour. A creature that gains a level of exhaustion this way can
repeat the saving throw to end this effect. On a success, the effect
ends, but all the cumulated levels of exhaustion remain. A creature killed by
this spell ceases to exist and cannot be resurrected by any means short of a
wish spell. Oh wow, yeah, and I'll link you both of these
spells in our thing. So we just pass that on death. Yeah,
that's what you wanted to do, right, that was your plan? Mm
hm yeah? How do how do we? How how does one remove levels
of exhaustion? Again? Besides long resting? That's it? Yeah? Thanks,
long rest wishing it away? Maybe wonderful. I have any spells that
are like you get the effects of a long rest, because then that would
be ope, you like thrack, use the spell and then I just tap
you and then you're awake again. Yeah. So Frank is he's studying all
of these bangles in his hands and he's doing little incantations under his breath try
and figure out exactly what they do. And he stops, and he his
jaw drops a little, and he looks up at everyone and says, this
one, this one right, this is why we did it. This is
why we've done all of this. This, this could do it. A
wearer of this would be able to cast incredibly complex magic, very powerful.
There are sacrifices involved with using it, as there are with all of these
bangals, but it can make us very powerful. It needs a half spelt
caster, though, so either myself or I guess student or serious should be
the one to use it, and that one is far too much of a
bad fellow with self sacrifice as it is so no to her and I want
nothing to do with it. So you sound like the perfect candidate. Congratulations,
Okay, serious? Mhm, he's looking at you. But what what?
What do you think? Right you? I agree, I don't.
I could wear it, but I don't. Doesn't matter to me as long
as it's someone who's well versed in casting spells. Yes, well, I
think it's probably better that I save all of my strength so that I can
heal you all appropriately and you can use it more effectively. The us not
be coy. You just made the thing. Who better to use it than
yourself? Right? I honestly don't care? Who? Where is it?
Inside check? Do I believe him? Twenty one? Yeah? He has
no envy. They took his envy away. He has no envy. He
doesn't care. Doesn't mean there isn't anything else behind it. That means that
you want to like? Is this coming from a place of he literally just
wants whoever he's he's being. He's being one tactical like who's capable of using
this, and that's all I care about. He has no envy. He
puts it on, all right, not do it, and then he passes
the other ones out. He hands one too serious as you think it?
Yes, thank you, briefly explains to her what it does. Why not
hands one to see her. It's not really my kind of style, but
I shall take it nonetheless, thank you. I take it, hands rough,
nod to him. It will make you more powerful, hands one to
bibbl Oh, thank you very much. What does it do again? If
you give it blood, it will allow you to move much quicker. Oh,
for a short period of time. I'm more glad you give the more
you can do. But it's dangerous. It will kill you if you give
too much. Right, Okay, do I wear it? Yeah? Put
it on your wrist. That's yes, I help, We will put it
on on. Bear in mind, this thing snaps to your wrist and immediately
piers. There are spikes on the inside of it. This thing painful.
This thing is painful, and it opens a wound on your arm wherever you
put it. Yeah, okay, it stabs into you. Brag. I've
heard of Orkish tradition and Orkish well ornaments. But you went pretty hard on
this, didn't you. This was just the best. This was the design
that they had. I just followed the instructions. I see, this could
be the key for us. You understand that right for saving everything that's left
alive, perceiving everything left alive. I put mine in my bag. I
should put my key on my keyholder for now. Walks up to the olden
She got her arms crossed. It's not looking at me. She doesn't seem
to be in any particular moon. She's just watching impassively. I'll take the
bangle out and I'll say, maybe there'll be a moment, Maybe there'll be
a moment where you decide, no matter how much discuss you to weigh something
like this, it will be worthy. He hands it to her. H
She looks at track for a long moment, and then at the bracelet and
then tie is one of the leather strips that is around her staff, around
the bracelet, and that's a dangle from her staff. Instead of putting on
I've put mine on. It stabs into my flesh and blood trickles down my
arm. And then I go to work at my alchemy lab immediately trying to
craft up a healing potion. My eyes all data, sirius, I imagine
she has hers? Has she put hers on or no? I said that
I put it on before I knew that it stabbed into me. So I'm
going to go with that. Like I think, I put it on as
soon as he gave it to me, and then saw that it stepped into
me, and then I, ah, I don't look pleased, but I'm
wearing it. Nonetheless, I'm enduring. Bibbil clams his on too, his
arrest immediately. Oh, bastard, Oh that's smart. All right, let's
give it a go. It doesn't work. It takes an hour to attune
to this. Yeah, I would know that. I would relay that information
to him. It will take a while for the magical item to get now,
you, oh, explained mister Bill. Okay, hooray. Well I've
suffered worse. I will walk over this year and have a private conversation.
Mm hmm. I tap my staff next to him, and the bangal swings
a little bit. You're not looking and wearing yours? Then? No,
not really, like I said, it's not really my thing. Yeah,
it's not a shame to be one with magic. Really is that a choice?
Is that because you're incapable? I never said I was incapable of magic.
My people are quite attuned to it. Oh, you don't say much
of anything of any value at least, But no, you've never mentioned your
incapability, So why you choose not to use it. Well, it's not
so much that I am incapable of magic. Our dear orc friend there,
mister Srag. As you see, he relies on a book and reading to
cast spells. I'm no sorcerer. At the same time, what I have
learned, well, it's not through such means. I haven't learned through rooms
insiduals. I've learned through training and beatings. That being said, I am
still a conduit for magic, I say, and my six eyes flicker at
children looking down at her, staring unblinking. My actual eyes are less intense,
tired, maybe trying to be appeasing, I suppose to this small talk.
I squint up at his eyes and attacked quickly, pokem in one of
them with a five. You reach up, but actually no, I'm only
five for two hmm. I just tilt my head and you miss mm hmm.
They hurt like your normal life. I suppose in a way. I've
never tried to touch them. They get to die, they blink when they
need to do. They cry. Perhaps have you ever cried to many die?
Mm hmm. Interesting, But you're choosing not to wear the bangle?
I am, yes, what is this dwarven? Mm hmm? Well,
I mean we found it in a dwarphn cave with pygmy dowarfs with well forged
forged by an or. It's quite rare, say you know, my travelers.
Not often you find ork forged. Mm hmmm. I wonder what folk
would say back home if they saw me wearing an orc forged item. I
do care about back home. I order it anyway by all account, quite
likely, m you live your life caring about doors back home. I shake
my head, not saying anything. The eyes on my forehead are now closed.
Try and read the expression on his face. Hmmm. Inside. You've
been around me for quite some time now, putting up with my shit.
You will notice that when I do talk to you, I have my normal
eyes that most people tend to have unless there are cyclops or just without them,
and I tend not to be very expressive with these eyes. The ones
on my forehead are a little bit more. Uh well, they kind of
do their own thing, sometimes express what I'm expressing. Sometimes they express,
almost like a sub emotion, something ulterior. Looking at me right now,
Well, do you ascertain that I don't truly care for anybody back at home,
really, or at least what they think that much? I'm being truthful?
M plan on never using good or you're a peasing track by keeping hold
of it? M. I wonder you see it is partially what Well,
it's all craft, it's dwarf in may, but at the same time it's
also divine. No, M, you like the divine? I look at
the stuff. I don't. I twist the staff in my hand. I
dig the bottom part out into the ground, shaking it about. I toggle
it. I don't like the divine so much as it is a tool.
HUHM. You like the power? Like the power is useful. So you're
gathering a toolbox of a saw force of habit. Perhaps we'll call it,
yes, perhaps very well? What about yourself? I see you haven't quite
it put it on yet. I prefer to have full control over my faculties.
Don't truss people too much these days, say can't trust people too much,
not even your Orkish friend, not a fact. That is the problem
most of the time. And you fear that this bangle will take away from
your faculties? Is that it Sometimes in your life you'll lose something that makes
you so suspicious of everything else that comes your way. Perhaps I've already lost
too much, very exclusing much more? How did you say you were?
Again? And it rolled? And I bunk him on the shoulder with my
staff and walk away from the conversation. I allow it. Hm, okay,
which of the other two is closest to bibble? I guess that would
bring me since I gave him the thing. He's watching you? What are
you doing watching me? I'm working on at my alchemy, my potion maker's
lab that I've just folded out, and I'm mixing a potion. Your spells,
how do you cast them? If you don't use blood? Its omplicating?
It depends on the spell. It's a form of arcane incantations and movements
sometimes and reagents. I'm saying all this while I'm I'm not looking up at
him. I'm just sort of working. What about that? One points at
cyrus h h. Spell casting is connected to her faith. Oh that's like
yours? Is no? Suppose it is not really no, although I suppose
there might be something to say that. I have faith in my own abilities
and the abilities that have of those that have come before me and paved the
way through hard work and diligent study. Right, So, which changel do
you belong to? Yeah? Uh? Bract sort of stares for He stops
what he's doing for a moment, and then stares off, and then sort
of blinks his eyes. I no longer belong to any angel and continues working.
All right, Well, what about her? If you're curious, you
could speak to her about it. I don't think it's my place to speak
of her faith. What's her name? Karen? No? Serious? Are
you sure about that? Yeah? Yes, I'm quite sure. I've known
her for many years. Let's test this, thay Karen back stops and looks
at him, a puzzled look on his should you a bizarre look with his
sort of very wrinkled and locked face. He's kind of got like very loose
skin that sits on his head amongst all of his frazzled gray hair. No,
you're right, she did not respond to it. Cirrus mm hmm.
Yes is his name, and he didn't know your name? Mm hmm.
Part come here, all right? I walk over? Which god do you
belong to? Which angel provides you with your magic? Boreal? The mountain?
This mountain? No north? Oh? Right? Uma? Very cold?
Yes? Oh it's cold. That's right. I've never been to Uma.
There's a mountain there, is it? That is correct? Yes?
Well, I can offer you this. You trade your mountain and you're cold
for a mountain of warmth and blood. I'm sorry, I don't understand.
I think very uncharacteristic. Frak stops what he's doing for a moment and then
starts laughing and continues his work and tries to stifle a smile. I'm afraid
I don't understand your meaning. Oh well, you can use blood instead of
rocks? Is that what you need to cast your spells? I assure you
it's far more than rocks. Yes, like what? Well? The very
earth that what you're standing on the ground itself, the sky itself. A
mountain touches earth to sky. It is the place between under and above.
It is everywhere and everything? Right, Okay, And I teach me a
spell. Let me see if I can do it hum all right, Well,
uh, first I suppose I'm to your knees and I get on my
knees. Oh, it's hands for me to do it, my age,
but creaks down his knees. Open, put your hand to the earth.
Okay, all right, uh close your eyes. Okay, now, cease
to be. Well, I don't want to do that. That's a metaphorically
cease to be did you know, Just kind of stop thinking of the fact
that you are and just be Hey, all right, I can do that.
I see here. See said, I don't think can you hear your
breathing? Hey, listen to that, and think about the fact that you're
touching earth and you're touching sky. And think about the fact that every cavern,
every hole, every wound was once something. It was full, it
was matter. Bring it back together the way rock robs against rock, the
way sky never breaks. Feel the wound together, knowing that you our hole
as it will be. Okay, Now what I reach down and I cut
my hand a little, not a lot. You know, We're not talking
like one of those like movie cuts where someone takes a knife diagonally down their
hand or anything, but just like you know, a little bead of blood,
and I reach out and I say, heal it, heel the break.
Okay, But thinking of being part of the earth and the sky and
whatnot, Yes, you are just like everything else. Okay, then we
go eh, let it work? No, no every where? No,
how about this? Instead, instead of thinking of the earth and the sky,
think of the river of blood below you. Think of the blood that
courses through you as a river, just as that river courses through this mountain.
It is a being like you. Think of the way that blood is
needed to knit things together, to keep things alive, to purify or poison.
You can decide whether you want it to feel or harm. Ask it
to heal you sound like one of the elders. Okay, let's see here,
ever of blood he ask you to heal. Let's here wound. Ask
you to heal this here wound that's not working? All right? Do you
have a memory, yes, of something that was very difficult, your worst
memory? Oh, my worst memory. That's easy, all right. Think
about how helpless you felt, how lost? Right, think about how everything
inside you was once dark, and then close your eyes and think of your
angel. Okay, and offer yourself as a vessel for its purpose. It's
goodness, all right, ask it to never let you feel that helpless again?
All right, ever, blood blood of aol, never let me feel
helpless as I was that day when I lost that which was so dear to
me, that which can never be regained, my sweet quickery clock box.
I'll never get it back. Right now? What now, let all in
relinquish yourself. I'm gonna roll. I'm gonna roll something for Bible here.
I'm gonna roll a wisdom check with Bibo, a nine we as advantage.
Oh, actually it's the fourteen year rolled of the advantage already, he says.
Nothing's happening. I don't know now, Why did you say a thing
like that, Karen? That was uncalled for? Who's Karen? Yeah,
I'm sorry. I I don't understand what you mean. What did I say?
He told me to cut me on hard, it out and throw it
into the river. No, I've got things to do today, right,
I didn't say that. I don't mind doing it eventually, but you know,
maybe on the last day or something. Is that what you heard?
I look around, uh, I look around us and down at the river
of blood. Do I notice anything at all? Absolutely? No change?
Nothing, nothing, Okay, I didn't say that. If it, if
I may, it sounds like that is what your angel is speaking to you.
That's what your angel wants chained. All right. Well, have you
got a knife? Uh? You got a sword, but I don't know
if I can use it. Have you got a dagger? Small bibil?
No? I don't. You can have mine? No? No, no?
But yeah, you know I could be wrong. It could be you
know there are darker things around, things that make requests of us. I
wouldn't listen to it. I don't know what I'm talking about. Hey,
okay, sorry, I couldn't teach you a spell. No, it's all
right. I wasn't expecting miracles. Okay, you want me to show you
one? H I suppose so. Have you got a ball a little bowl?
Anywhere's that strange bull you've got? But right? I? Yeah,
I get the ball? Ay right? Give us your finger. He wounded
one. Okay, he squeezes it. We need a bit more blood than
that. Can you cut it some more? I don't think this is a
good idea. People. Oh you're gonna love it. It's not too bad.
He reaches around you and sort of on the edge of your long sword
runs his finger down it, cutting his own finger. He squeezes some droplets
of blood into the ball. Who wants to join us? What about communes?
I'm quite happy just watching. Thank you yourself. All right, Cone,
here's a few dropes. Okay, I add a few more drops to
the ball. All right, Yeah, it just makes it all together.
That's mean in your blood there and look at that. Okay, Now you
got some water or something? Help it go down? Go down? How
so water is drink? You drink it? No? I mean, what
do you mean? Help it go down? Hey? We're going to drink
this. I'm sorry. I can't bibble. I really appreciate you teaching me
a spell. I appreciate it, but I don't think i'm supposed to.
I don't think i'm supposed to your angel. I think it takes a lot,
and I think that it may. Yeah, I need to stay pure
for my I don't understand this is going to meet you stronger? Do you
like it? Strong's going for you? Hair is on your chaste or as
strong as I need to be? All right, if you say so?
Can I have some water? Though? Yes, of course, I pour
some water from my skin. He mixes it around. He says like,
oh, like I am. You don't have to say that. Really,
that's sort of well, that's it bottoms up, he drinks it back.
That's the ball down. Ah, that's the stuff. Oh that hits a
spot. All right, I feel good now? Ooh, pillin strong?
Did I notice any change whatsoever? You may give me either an insight or
an arkara check. You may even give me a medicine check if you'd like,
whichever one of those. Okay, I'll do insight seventeen. He actually
does seem like he gained some life, kind of like he gained some energy.
I think you noticed that he his demeanor becomes kind of like he was
creaking around and struggling to like lean down and stuff, and now he's moving
with a bit more fluidity. He's kind of like he looks a little more
spry. But yeah, I don't know if you know much more than that.
Okay, y, do you know what a voodoo doll is? I
do not. Would you like to make one of the big green fella there?
Why would I? What is it for? Well, we confuse his
blood and a ruby and we put it within the door, and then we
can fuck with him huh, no, thank you. Since I am nearby,
could I like rolls to see if I heard him say that? Check?
Okay, but I heard all of it. Okay, I don't anything.
I'm sort of watching. Yeah, my role in ar Kanacheckah sixteen.
Voodoo dolls are legit a little tiny constructs that people make really messed up,
like it's not good to do, and you can make them in two different
ways. You can make a voodoo doll that actually protects you in some way.
So, for example, what it would mechanically do is potentially if you
made a voodoo doll of yourself and made it with the intention of it being
a protective thing, it can take damage for you. Right, So if
you say it has ten h pay when it gets hit by an attack,
you can use the voodoo doll to take that damage. Alternatively, you can
do exactly what we know voodoo dolls in most media to be, which is
like attack it and it would hurt you and harm you or potentially control you
and things like that. Again, it's more dodgy blood magic. You can
give me another Arkana check for the spell he cast before. If you want
twenty four oh, you know exactly what he did. This is like the
most basic blood magic spell of all time. You and some other people can
mix blood together. You sort of put a very basic it's a ritual that
you can cast essentially, and you can. It's very simple magic and very
basic enchanting that you can do. But he essentially bolstered his HP for about
forty eight hours. He's got extra HP right now. Okay, yeah,
I'm so sort of just watching. I'm not interrupting the conversation. Well,
this has been in lightning. Thank you people. Oh, I don't know,
Shay. Compared to the elders, I can imagine, you're very powerful
Elders, I'm powerful. I don't know. They're very old, very very
old. One of them's hand is no longer his own hand. What does
that mean? Or nug He cut off his hand and attached a magical claw
to it, so now he has the power of the nightclaw. Right.
Ongra has got extra eyes like your boy. That's very interesting. She wears
some around her neck like pearls, and they see I think she sees everything
I do. You often, have you heard from your angel before telling you
to cut your heart out? No, I've never heard. I heard of
anyone talking, you know, like we are with the angel, even the
elders. Interesting. Yeah, I'll walk up and well, not walk up
and just start speaking. I've read that some angels are Moroccan, very powerful
beast than they are scenting beings, perhaps the river Bland. There's no need
of speaking, there are more than There's more than one way to speak.
Speaking within the mind, speaking with your heart, the whole of your heart
is a way of speaking. Need need, exhaustion, hunger, pain,
always of speaking with no voice. Don't listen to everything that speaks to you,
Bibbil. All right, I mean that's kind of my job. I'm
the one that opens the door. I'm the guide bring people through the mountain.
No, You're You're right. Sorry. Although I feel as though I
have failed your your journey, I do not think I'm going to be able
to deliver you to where you're trying to go. What is that? Because
I do not believe you can get there? Why not because you are mortal?
H oh? Right, you said that there were issues with people going
to the forest. Aye, No one's going in right, not anyone that
you know, like you or I? Can you still show us the way?
Kinda I suppose or draw map. I don't think there's a map that
can be drawn. I can take you to the Nolans forest. From there,
you're on your own. I suppose I look to Thrack. All right,
that would be most helpful, Bubble. If you can lead us as
far as you can, I'll do that. Shall we go? Now?
Has it been an hour? Can I use this? He holds up the
bangle. How long has it been about an hour? Okay? Sure,
yes, it should be attained to you. Oh hey, so what can
I do again? All right? You should be very cautious with using it.
If you do, there will be immediate were in an immediate exchange.
For a moment, you will feel very quick, but like you could do
things faster. But immediately after that you will feel pretty awful and probably need
the rest. Okay, ah at, let's use his blood? Yes?
Oh, look you for me. I can use blood very well. Even
have a spell that kind of meets blood, so maybe I can. Well,
let's give it a Goway I am that I am watching him extremely closely
to try and figure out what he's doing. Yeah, everyone gives me perception
checks sixteen nine one twenty four. He's not even watching he's half time,
Jilden, you are vaguely able to perceive Bibbel as he suddenly blurs out of
existence. He vanishes from sight for everyone, Jilden, you recognize that he
starts basically moving at super speed. For the rest of us. We see
that scene in X Men where Quicksilver is running around the room and everyone's completely
still, and Bibble just just starts moving around the room. He moves to
the other side of the forge, kind of catches himself, moves back.
You guys are all in slow motion. He runs over to where Thrack is,
pulls thracks trousers down. That's just standing there. He moves round to
where Cirus is. He takes her sword out and then puts it into the
scabbard the wrong way around, so it's pointing upwards in the most dangerous fashion.
He moves over to where Sea is. He looks in Sea's eyes and
then he tickles Seyr under the armpits. Nothing happens when Sea does not react.
He moves round to Jilden, and there's that you know that scene in
that movie where Superman is looking at the Flash and he kind of almost sees
him. That's Jilden and he sort of like jumps a little bit. He
moves back around to where he was at the beginning and then decides to move
out of the room. We follow him run out to the bridge. He
looks over the edge of the bridge and runs all the way back in,
appearing once again in front of Cyrus and in front of Thrack. As the
the effect wears off, and he says, oh that was bloody. Mother
heart grabs his heart and falls down. Uh. I run to him.
Is he is he alive? My god? Oh my god? I cast
a glass. Did you kill him? Did we kill him? I cast
a smile of sixteen? He's dead? He used six dash action? Is
he he's like dead? Dead? Is? Yeah? Okay? No start
ager thing. It's a good thing as a preference for speed. Pick him
up. I pick him up. Before you do that, I say to
this serious, before you get any grand notions about a burial in the river,
waste not want not that could be useful. And I pointed the bangle
on his arm. Oh yeah, I would also say we should search him
or anything. Yes, well you can take the bangle you have no use,
but really, if you don't mind, you take the bag map.
It's gross. Okay, I pulled the bangle off. I don't imagine it
easily schwlch Oh, all right, I suppose you search him, and then
what do I find on him? I'm searching him, okay. One,
you find a quarter staff. This is a stave essentially that is used for
casting magic. It doesn't do anything specific. It isn't like a magical plus
one stave or anything like that. What you find in it. He has
a little satchel, and when you open up the satchel you find lots of
little things in here. There's like a few gems, gemstones. They look
like rubies or something like that. It's the same gems that you find in
all of the walls. Some of these gems he uses in spell casting,
and you recognize that these are a little material components that he might use.
There is weirdly, there's just a bunch of like hay in there. It
looks very old, sitting in the bottom of the In the bottom of the
bag, there's a there's half a bottle of a potion which has corked.
The bottle looks really old and grimy. There's another bottle which looks like it
contains a clear liquid. It could be water, but it's it's the way
it sloshes around in there is a little thicker than water. You obviously have
the bangle. And uh, he also had where did I put it?
Must have something us to cast his spells with. Hang on retrying to figure
out what I wrote down. He does have something else, but I can't
remember what it was. But it's the most unique item of his, and
I'm pretty sure he was a It was the spell scroll. Right, he
has he has keys? Probably he has he has his bloody keys he had.
There's a ring of keys, and they're all different shapes and sizes.
You can tell immediately. I think thrank that two of them are magical in
nature. Okay, yeah, I take it all down, but I know
I wrote it down like a week and a half ago. I wrote all
of this. Ah yeah, okay, then what h I right? Well,
he wanted to be thrown into the river. You you need help?
Uh huh you'd say that. Actually it's really weird if I'm honest, Yes,
you should pick him up. Okay, just to make sure. Have
we taken the bangle of it? Yeah? You've got the bangle? I
yeah, I carry him like a. You know, he's very light,
he's small like a loon. Yeahm or little guy. You know what else?
He had on him fingers, lots of fingers, that's what it was.
H Yeah, on his hands, little fingers of his people or assorted
fingers, all of them dried out and kind of cured, leathery fingers.
One's a fish finger. Are there any is am I getting any sort of
magical? Yeah? You can keep us collector. Okay, he did have
that one extra finger in one hand. I assumed it was either grafted or
born that way, but I'm not sure if we'll ever find out. Now,
no, m m, yeah, I tossed him in. Oh no,
no, no, no, don't toss him in yet, do well?
I would like to if you hold him over the river, I would
like to put my hand on his heart and close my eyes and say,
Vaul, take care of him, and then yeah, then you could throw
him in. Well, let's have you first make a wisdom saving Sorry,
okay, oh, done it now? Twenty two something begins whispering to you.
As soon as you touch his chest and you speak, you hear the
whisper of a what sounds like a very effeminate kind of voice speaking to you
from nowhere in particular, but you do sort of. It does feel like
this person is whispering almost directly into your ear, if that makes sense.
So it's it doesn't sound like it's coming from anywhere exactly, but it is
kind of a bizarre whisper. And you hear the voice say, why wouldn't
you want to bring him back to life? Bring him back out the same
way you always do. I can't spare the dying while my hand is on
his chest. It has no effect. There's no effect. The voice whispers
and says, well, perhaps not exactly the same way as you always do.
Sorry, Okay, can I can I try to infer? Can I
try to figure out what this person is saying? Well, you tell me,
what do you think that they're inferring? Well, it's been longer than
a minute. Yeah, I also do not have any spell slots. I
have hold on. Oh god, I know that what they're I just want
to double check that it's not like a spell that I have forgotten that I
can totally do before I move on to like metaphorical stuff. Okay, he's
not. I don't know. His resurrection is something that a cleric of seventy
level. Really, I can reve I can revivify and it's died within the
last minute. Uh, but I have I don't have it prepared. I
had to prepare cost. Yeah, that's why I didn't have it. A
bunch of yes, that's why I don't have it. So now I'm thinking,
have you you see me do this before? I know who you are?
Who are you? Well? I am the blood of all. You'll
have to forgive me angel. But I don't believe I have the skill that
you think I do. I think you do. Look around as it a
guess. Thrah, can you put him down? Don't throw off the bridge?
Put him down? I run over to get the all and I cut
my hand. Can you help? You? Can everyone help? Trying to
use some sort of blood magic? You want me to catch your hand for
you? No? Can you can put some of your own? What are
you doing? What are you trying to receive? I'm not using it?
Will you trust me? You know we can get blood from the river.
Well, no, it has to be. I suppose I owe you blood
already, don't I from that one time which you will let up. I
woke up to her and and do I do it. I guess I just
prevent present my forearm and just look away. Yeah, I I I kind
of. I'm like thinking in response to this voice, like, that's where
I'm responding to. And I say, a moment ago, you asked him
to cut his own heart out? What do you wish for him? Are
you talking out loud right now? No? Do you are you looking?
I mean, does she look to me? Yeah? I probably, Yeah,
I'm in that case. I think I attract my hand once I see
she's gone over the deep end and take a couple steps back and go,
oh, what I wish for him? He couldn't quite understand. He is
a follower, you are a leader? Are you just testing me? No?
No, I'm recruiting you. I stop what I'm doing. You know
who I serve my brother? What use for his clerics do you have?
I seek only vengeance for my other brothers and sisters and those look one now
we seek the same thing. Yes, and you will need my little follower
there to guide you from this place to the next. H Everyone, cut
your hands in the ball please? How yeah? I do it? Okay?
Have you lost your band? What are you trying to achieve? I?
Uh, I look at Jilden. Can you trust me? I won't.
I just don't understand. What are you doing? Tell me, I'm
trying to bring him back. Why he's useless to us? We need him?
But what in what way? Rations? Just trust me? Please,
He's the one that told the rations to begin with. Oh my God,
trust me blood in the ball, I woke up too serious. I am
now maybe a foot away from her. I look up because I'm only five
to two, and I gesture with my finger index finger to bend down towards
me. Do you I look down at you, and then I I hinge
at the hip. I do not slouch. I grab your horn and cut
my arm with it, and then into the boltb Okay, thank you,
You're welcome. I shake my hand and bind it and walk away. At
Serious's outburst, I put a boss, my hands on my staff and just
stare at her. I'm trying to infer what it is I'm saying. Here
is a desperation, is it? Where is this insistence coming from an eighteen
or one inside? Uh? Okay, you would see that I have a
sort of far away look, and I think you would recognize that it's the
sort of far away look that I have had when we were in the temple
in Moon, like when I was commune anywhere communing with my angel, when
there was like a level of spiritualism that was happening there, when we found
out that we were supposed to be, you know, that we were Kira.
You would notice that Siras has this sort of far away look a lot
of the time, but it's been dwindling since we left Moon and since we
started our journey, and I have it maybe a bit after I meditate or
when I pray, but in general, you have maybe seen me be more
and more present here and I have that look now where I'm kind of my
eyes aren't really trained on anything specific. I'm angry because I'm panicked and determined,
and I think it wouldn't be a stretch for you to see that I'm
acting with a purpose, a sudden purpose, like yeah, I mean that's
an eighteen. So I'll just say like I'm acting as though I've been given
instructions. They're not going to make me imbibe anything. You're just want my
blood in the bowl. That's right, Yes, that's right. I look
incredibly uncomfortable, And then I look into your eyes again and give nothing else
away. As I take out rest of aol dagger and cut the back of
my hand and then allow it to drip one drop of blood. Yes,
I then find I pull out my water skin and I pour water into it,
and then I close my eyes and I swirl the bowl to mix the
blood and the water. And then I come back to kneeling next to bible.
I kind of lift them up a little. Actually, I would have
my leg up. This is getting very detailed, but you know I would
have my leg up to hold him because I have one arm, so I
would have my leg. He would be resting on my leg knee knead up,
and then I would open his mouth and uh pour pour the mixture from
the bowl into his mouth, and then put my hand on his chest again.
You will need to agree to something, read to what your companions,
each of them along your journey. They will betray you, They will turn
against you, They will in another way. When it is offered. You
must ensure vengeance is right. You must promise me this. Sorry, give
me a second. What use do you have for bargains for prices? One?
Vengeance? What you seek is our aim? Because I see the path
before you do you think you are the first cure to try and kill that
which is killing us? Do you think you're special? You're not. You
are merely the last. How do you know they will betray me all have
before? I don't understand. What do you think you will ask, it
will bargain. They will not accept this world. It is already deaded.
You cannot save it. I promise to end that which ends this world.
Very get it, and I shall return life to my follower, end and
last thing. Cirrus of the dragon, Cirrus of the forest, Cirrus of
the mountain. Please tell children, tell Naz has not left. The voice
falls silent below you on the ground. There's a oh shake. That was
good. That was good. That was that was fast as well. I've
never moved so fast. Where's my stuff? But am I? Are you
robbing me? No? After all I've done for you? Is that what
this has been? You tricked me? No? I I needed to bring
you back that they're right here and take them. I sorry about that.
People, I thought you were there. You have to do a lot more
than that. What happened to me? Well, use the bangle. You
used the bangle, and that back too much for you to throw me in
the river. Please don't let me just throw out here. I'll be eaten
by the racks. Okay, well, uh, welcome back, and thank
you. We need you to help us get to where we're going. So
I don't think I can do that where you're trying to go. Yes you
can, and we're going to show it to us anyway, but thank you.
Can I put that bangle back on? Please? Can I have that
back? No, nothing's finn now oh you said it was. Yeah,
you'll get it back when we leave the mountain there, okay, I'm back.
Oh all right, okay, where's my vodka? Did you take that
to you? So right here? And I snapped my fingers at seer mm
hmmm, do a little dangly like you can have some? Go on.
I look at her snapping her hands and then look at her in the face
like he didn't just and then I present the vodka. Okay, on the
vodka? All right? Are we ready to go? Then? Yes?
Yes, okay, all right? I feel like I feel like death warmed
up. I don't believe you. Oh sorry, what why why you got
a bone with blood in it? You tried it again? Didn't you.
I know that was when you just did it earlier. Leftovers. All right,
okay, all right, let me get my waits about me. All
right, we're going to head out. Do you want to go to death
or straight out of the mountain? I look at everyone, because there's a
big turning almost immediately out of here. If we go straight across, we
can go to death. If you want to just head on out, go
out to the Nolans, then we can do that right, Oh, straight
out? Everyone? What do you think? I have no need for supplies,
and I'm not curious enough to meet more of his foot Perhaps he wants
no. I think I'm ready to go rack Jordan. It's quite a differ
excitement for me for one day, and I am very bored of being side
issh caves awfully echoing shied here Hello, Hello, Oh hell, that's just
you saying hello multiple times? How I were toping? You wouldn't watch me
while I did it? I think we should I don't know there, I'm
not sure I want to meet the nowadays. Perhaps we should just leave.
Yes, things to do on the way back? What does he do?
This a lot to get his brain checked? You know there are worms that
crawl up through your blood and into your brain, brought it from the inside
out. Gotta be careful. Yes, all right, we're ready to go.
Okay, do you want me to take a look at his brain?
No, I think it's fine. It's just like that. Unfortunately, I've
got a good friend back in Dearth names Isla the Wretch. She's very similar
to your children. She's very good. What she'll do is she'll get the
blood out of your brain, and the person their eyes roll up in their
head, they start foaming at the mouth, and then she puts it all
back in. It's like being born. You feel very good in the morning.
You don't very feel very good the first night, but the next day
you feel very good. I can try that on him, you know.
No, I think that's I think that's quite already. Think not be happy
about that. Pray we thank you. Okay, all right, follow me.
Then we're going to go out here. We're going to head it right
across the crooked bridge. Now, it's always been called the crooked bridge because
it's been it's wobbly. It doesn't wobble, but it's kind of wobbly like
a snake's way. But it's now also called the crooked bridge because it's falling
apart, all right. So we tried to drop it. We tried to
drop it when everything was going down, and we couldn't do it because it's
body had to bring down a big stone bridge like that. Sort of things
absolutely knackered. I should hold. But there are rats, big bastards too,
like a horse. So eyes, lovely rats. Okay, whether those
be rat hoses or horse rats, big big blood rope rats, they are
bustard things, huge, take a bite, Yeah, you lost a whole
kidney one bite. Nasty buggers. I ever tried taking a bite out of
them. We all of them that we kill, of course, coming what's
your white egg for? Let's meet them? All right? Okay, you'll
hear him too. Strange sound is hearing a big rats used to a little
rat, right, but hearing that big sounds strange? Don't sound right?
What does it sound like? He does that impression? Okay? So eyes
and ears, because I don't like those bastards the first, and they're nasty,
and they sit underneath the bridge like a big pair of testicles, and
they'll jump up at you quite them. That's cool. I'm not going first.
You can go first. That's you're on the bum Yeah. I'm already
walking straight out, so they're right. If you hear the creature, he's
dead. He's done. Okay, he will be our shield. We'll stay
back blast them from the fire, all right. I walk ahead, looking
around to see if I can find these rot rats. So just point of
order. We've had about an hour for you to attune, and we went
through all of that in that time. Did we have a short rest?
Yes? May I roll hit die? Yeah? I was about to give
you all the opportunity to do that. You've had a short rest. You
can use hip dice to recover your HP. You also get any ability and
things that you get on a short rest. Let's see here as well.
Seriously of another spell, but I'll i'll giview it later. What okay,
Cool, you've gained a spell? Whoa oh wow, allow to a nexus?
Wow? Shame that wasn't your level up right? It dies got a
natural one and there's the balance. Okay. So yeah, some time passes
as you travel out of the orge and back out across the the big sort
of stone bridges and we're not talking little rickety bridges. These are huge,
great big stones sort of roadways that are built up and above the river.
They move through just this enormous cavernous region. There are enormous kind of plints
that hold the cavern up and the underneath you. Almost at all times there
is just an absolutely huge red crimson river that glows from within, providing an
under lit experience at all times. All of you during all of these scenes
have been entirely red lit from below at almost all times. And as you
head out, there's again a little bit of a walk. Everything is.
It's a huge expanse of space that is being traversed as you move around this
along these sort of ancient sort of tradeways. But eventually you do come to
a split. There is a junction where you can head to the left,
which would have been the way that you came here, you can head straight
over, which Bibble claims is the way to Deraf, the village that he's
from, and you can head to the right, which is the way out
towards the no Lands forest. No Lands is spelt La n d s by
the way, whenever he's saying that, and he sort of ushers Seer first
and continues to just sort of send him forwards like a canary down the mine
shaft. But you do notice as you sort of begin progressing along this bridge.
Very shortly after moving along it, this bridge is damaged massively. There's
just huge areas where the stone has been chipped away and broken and fallen away.
And he starts weaving along the area. It isn't anywhere near as sort
of dangerous as he makes out. It's very easy to not fall off of
this thing. You're not talking with this there is there's like thirty feet either
side of you at the thinnest points where this thing is broken. But he
seems to be he's almost got like vertigo. As he's moving along. He
seems to be absolutely incredibly paranoid at the fact that this thing is broken.
You get the sense that he's never seen damage dealt to these things before,
and the entire thing just is so outside of what he's capable of imagining that
he just he's obsessed with it. And he sort of seems extra frightened for
some reason moving along this area. So let's first of all, have our
scout roll me a check. What sort of jack I will I will tell
you you can do a perception or an investigation check Natural twenty for twenty five.
Yeah, you are leading the path here, and this isn't for scouting
out for creatures. This is looking for genuine structural weaknesses as you're moving along
this path and sort of pathfinding for them. It's actually illegal to say the
word pathfinder while you're playing D and D, so it's pathfinding while you're path
finding for the party here. You actually do notice that there are several spots
where there are cracks and weak points in the stone bridge that could easily give
way under too much weight or pressure. But you suspect that it isn't the
amount of weight that the five of you could produce. If you maybe had
like a wagon or something like that, or if you had you know,
like draft horses or something, or packed mules, you might run into trouble
in some of these areas. Either either way, I think you probably would
you quite easily for whatever reason. Maybe some of the areas that you're from
are similar to this, but you very naturally and definitely identify some of those
areas and you can avoid them, even though I think you feel like you
can probably do it. Anyway. There are some narrow areas that do present
themselves. There finally comes a point along this sort of bridge where they actually
did a very good job at breaking a huge amount of it up. Bibble
says, hey, this is where we first started. We trade, and
we trade, and this took us a bit of a week, you know,
to do all of this. We just couldn't get this last part down
because underneath this is a that is a lord bearing the plinth under there.
So what we didn't realize is that there are other bits. So we went
breaking in from the right break break break, breaking in from the left break
break break, only to find out there's a bloody pillar underneath this one part.
So we gave up and started doing all the bits back there. We
still couldn't do it. Yeah, we need to. We needed more people,
I think. Okay, will one of you carry me over that I've
already started going? All right, give me an acrobatics check to an acrobatics
check. Yeah, this is a This is balancing across a very narrow section
of this bridge that I have already deemed is like safe ish with my natural
twenty. Yeah, this is purely a balancing act. No advantage, no
fifteen fifteen easy for you today, Yeah, you tiptoe across it, dancing
at the other side of it. Some parts of it kind of crumble underfoot,
but it's not in a very dangerous way. It's not so narrow that
you aren't able to do this. Bibble is kind of holding on to you,
sirrus and looking up at you. Would you can you carry me over
there? I don't have balance. I can't do it. How big is
he? He's he's about four foot five something like that. He's not super
small. He's not like he's a dwarf. Essentially, you're looking at a
dwarf, but he's very light for a dwarf. Most dwarfs are very stocky.
That he's quite light because he's sort of emaciated and thin. Right,
I'm gonna test. I'm just gonna like reach down and grab a put my
arm around his waist and then lift him up like like football style, yeah,
you know, with my one arm. Yeah, And I'm going to
see if I can balance myself because it's I mean, that's it's a I'm
gonna have to throw all of my weight onto my other side. But yeah,
yeah, give me an acrobatics check, please go, miss me acrobatics
huh it's a great thing that I have such high dexterity. Ten is just
about enough to make it. You wobble across this thing, holding bibble under
arm, he says, Look at me, I'm flying. Look at that.
Look at that. You're wobbling. You're wobbling too much. Still you
make it across. Who wants to go next? Ah, there's no,
by the way, there's absolutely no way Sheldon's making it through this. It's
just a Is it short enough that I could leap one song? No?
Not really, No, it's it's like a section of the bridge that sort
of tapers into a long part which is clearly like underneath it was a load
bearing a seat of stone plinths that's holding this bridge down. I can't remember
the word. What what's the distance? Let's say fifty feet? Fifty feet?
Okay, yeah, I I'll fly over. I can't fly on myself.
Ok yeah, sure, it's gonna blower. I thank you. I
can't balance the personal thank you for me? Would I be able to use
the help action to assist Jilden to get over by using my dancing lights,
which for me manifests spiders to light up the way so you can at least
see her feet are going on this jagged path. Yeah, I mean it's
not unlt. It's pretty well lit. Remembering to my chef. Sure had
been a while, and you see a horrible sighs. My limbs start elongating
and contorting as I become a giant spider. Okay, okay, that works.
Can we just talk about the now three episodes in a row? Leah
just pulling out some god tear imagery to any episode just out of nowhere.
Age the sound of it, Oh God, everything cracking. She still retains
part of that total shell, Like the head is still a total but it's
like it's spider, but with like my head grinning. I'm sorry, John,
I'm giving you a spider for the next time you want to do it.
But yeah, I mean spiders have spider climb, so you can just
walk along this. Yeah indeed, Yeah, remain that way for as long
as possible. I'm trying to think, do I have an additional set of
eyes above my head? I could turn and look into all of your eyes
with for the first time maintain gaze and it flips a leg disdainfully towards you.
So yes, it's not I already am okay, ah, yeah,
horrific as the giant spider legs follow you across the bridge here, um all
right, se yeah, yes, another perception or investigation check? Please one
investigation check, I mean, right, or no perception. That's the one
thirteen. Not so good, not so good at all. It's made me
a dexterity saving thrown. Okay forty A trap is activated underfoot, you step
on a piece of stone and a magical explosion of energy courses upwards. You're
able to dodge entirely out of the way and suffer no damage from this.
And people says, oh, that's right. There are traps on this part.
This is kind of the entrance, so I think whoever made this part
of the bridge was paranoid. So there's lots of traps. It's certain stones
you don't want to step on. If you look underfoot, you see the
stone that circle. Don't step on any circle, cobblestone, anything, anything
circular. Just avoid it for now, all right, all right? In
my mind, the entire coupled area is all circular. Stones are different kinds
of shapes some two you know, like, yeah, it definitely doesn't have
the difference between shapes. Chance, So late. My legs are going to
avoid a trap. They both looks up to you, saraus and says,
circles are the one with the three sides. Right, triangle, that's what
a triangle is. Triangle just to say it's foot it's about it's a triangle
you don't want to step on, right, Okay? Pooh, that could
have been bad, do you think? Yeah? Also, there's a magical
fog up ahead, a magical fog I makes it harder to sport. The
triangles you mentioned row before earlier, didn't you? M m. They're not
here anymore, are they? Oh? No, they're way way back that
way the drough entrance right, okay, past the river. The river goes.
Then there's a real one with water, and then you go past that,
and then you go down. They're down deep trough. And then they
live on a big spider Did you know that, he says to spider children.
Fascinating. I don't know how that works. Like they liveing in its
teeth, they live in in its waves and under its legs. Don't get
any ideas well. I mean, if you want to let me write you
Vixim with the frostiest glore leggies are doing just fine. All right, let's
carry on. That's what I thought. Up ahead. There is a thick
magical fog that shrouds around this bridge, obscuring your vision. This will be
a group check, a survival check. And there's five of you. And
do you know what, I'm just going to include you know what, No
Bibble's going to give you a plus ten to this. You have to beat
a sixty. We are forty one so far. Fifty six. He passed
it. As you're passing through you, you hear Bibble sort of mumbling to
himself. I think you're gonna be careful in the fog, because the thing
with the fog is it's not the traps. I mean, the traps are
nasty. We've lost a lot of people to those traps. But it's the
rats. They'll come flying out nowhere, you know. He turns around.
No one's near him. Oh, it's the rats. Very out for the
rats. I will attempt to again use dancing lights in a way in which
I will try and leave a spider wherever my foot has fallen, so people
behind me no where to step. Okay, all I would like you to
do right now is rob me a d twenty please all right? Four?
Or you hear this noise echoing up ahead? Are you making that sound again?
No? That's not me? That's right, all right, then I
think we have rats. Okay, how far away did they sound? Um?
Give me a perception check? All right, perception check, coming right
up again? A ten. It's strange because that's the sound is echoing upwards.
So it's hard to determine whether they're almost like directly below you or upp
ahead or behind you. I don't think you can quite tell because it's just
the acoustics of this play is a bizarre Bibbil says, right, I think
the best thing for you to do is we don't want to be making a
lot of noise, all right, So you you're quite soft foot creep ahead
and if you can see them, let us know where they are. It
will sneak by. Oh me, the one that the head already, I
proceed, give me a stealth check and a perception check. As he walks
away, Bibble ushers the other three in and says he's going to die.
There's no choice. At this point. We're surrounded. His screams begin.
You'll know he's eaten by them, And do we make a break for it
and the run. We just got to get a little waysy here then we'll
be away here. All right, you'll hear it soon enough. No,
how long has it been? Okay? Ah? Are we on? Are
we on the other side, like we're safe now of the potentially falling we're
on the other side of the Yeah, the okay, the broken bits,
it's still it's still a broken, messed up bridge here compared to what you've
seen so far. Okay, how long has it been since we use the
protection bawl the bowl of long resting? Probably about ten hours now, to
be honest, I think it's probably been about two hours since you left,
and it was about eight hours, right, so well maybe eleven because we
have another hour in between there. So the bawl is good to use again,
if that's what you're asking. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
I'm gonna pull out the ball. I'm gonna say everyone get under the ball.
Oh, great idea. They'll feast on him. They'll be all full
up and we can just sneak on are Oh, that'll be laying on their
backs fall seer. I'm like whispering, serious name. I already ruled for
stealth and moved ahead, making the perception rule fourteen, the twenty two of
stealth. You are very stealthily moving ahead of the rest of the crow behind
you. You can hear them kind of whispering spring whispering between themselves. If
you look back, you see you see people going like this thumbs up,
and ahead of you, you see a giant rat tail moving into a couple
of crates, very old discarded wooden crates, almost as if this thing is
like sheltering inside these crates, just the one I turned back. If they
can see me night, I have one finger up gesture gesture for you to
come back. Bibble makes a gesture of like like a stabbing motion. Kill
it, kill it quick. Take your pick who you're going to listen to,
your fellow CURA member or Bibbel a guy who how long since we've crossed
over the broken bit of the bridge, like an hour ago? That was
an hour ago? Okay, then I am not flying anymore on on the
ground. Okay, we have to roll for it, buddy, sing bro,
I have no fears. I was rolling to see if it was wise
for me to go on, so I know it's not wise to proceed but
I swing at it anyway. Bibble says ah boy, right, there's never
just one. Okay, stay still, stay as still as you can.
He will draw them. Um, yes, hold on, Uh see,
how do you attack this rat? Well, you see, I am going
to sneak up to it's wherever it is slumbering. It is large. It
is a rat. That's the size of a horse. I see, well
that's quite big. Considering again, I'm not the biggest person. I'm going
to take my god wood staff, raise it in the air, slowly,
quietly, with two arms behind my head, curve my back, there's a
bit of a click my spine, and then swack on its head as hard
as possible and as fast as possible. Yeah. For an eleven, Yeah,
you thwack this thing. You said it was sleeping, right or slumbering.
It is slumbering. You have advantage on the attack. Another eleven.
Yeah, I think you smack this thing and it you hit it, but
you realize that this thing is huge. You know. You'll bring this quarterstaff
down on like a fleshy part of its flank, and it kind of raises
up in front of you, and immediately as it moves you hear the wood
of the crpe breaking around it. Everybody else. You hear the scurrying of
other rats, two for coming from behind you, scurrying upwards, one coming
from your left, scurrying upwards from underneath the bridge. Bibble is saying everyone,
they'd still actually dropped to the ground, and he drops prone and just
stays completely still. And we'll see how that combat works out for you next
week. Thank you so much for watching. Everybody, tune in next time
to find out how this combat concludes and how this area concludes as you begin
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