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you for listening and enjoy. In the months since his arrival, my brother
has effortlessly swept death across this world at the borders of a land unreachable during
winter. As spring falls, Winter's icy crap it opens nature's gateway and emits
annihilation. In the dead of night, only hours before the sun will rise
on the village of Moon, the war bells toll for the first time in
over a century, distant sounds of battle as sword and axe strike bone and
sinew. The snow still thick across the landscape even at the start of summer,
and the sudden rush of motion as the Goliath villagers rush from their beds
to the doors of their huts and longhouses. Cyrus stirs from her bed.
You're at the shrine grounds Cirrus, which is where you and the other clerics
stay and have stayed for some time. And there's several other people around you
that are rushing to get from their beds and move. Several of them are
wrapping themselves in furs and wraps and arm This is something that I don't think
you will have experienced, even in the long time you've been here. There
is a woman, Amleth, a goliath woman that sleeps beside you, and
she speaks to you. Suddenly, where is doors? I don't know what
is happening. I don't know. Get ready yourself, what do you do?
I immediately reach under my mattress or my sword and begin buckling it,
and I prepare for battle. We move now to the communal long house,
where Sea and Jilden open the doors to their rooms. The long house itself
is in absolute chaos. There are wide doors at the end of the longhouse,
as several goliaths rush in and several rush out. The children are being
ushered in by the winter hearth, which is sparkling with starlight shards. A
goliath watchman who I don't think either of you would recognize, covered in very
thick boiled lever armor. Shouts to the crowd, if you can fight,
then fight. We are under attack. Creatures of the night swarm from the
south. Go go ushering people out of the door. He moves away from
you and rushes out with them. Fear and Jilden, What are you two
doing? In response to this? Bank care may care? Where are you
going? Who's going to talk? My feet? Where'd he bring him back?
Here? For goodness sake? What are they doing? Why are they
all rushing around everywhere? I don't even see. I'm not too sure that.
Whatever it is, it's quite a din. Now they have to go.
Now, where are we're going to go? It's awfully busy to where
the noise is coming from. We have to you stay here, old woman?
Why not perfect? Because I haven't finished my cross word yet? You
don't mind, thank you. I'm looking for seven letter words for the ethereal
guardian beasts. They're protectors of the ancient terms. Any idea a seven letter
word for an ethereal guardian beast? It starts with an sh? I think,
yes, yes, we don't have time for this. Oh it's seraphim
obviously, seraphim. Yes, yes, sir, but that was the last
one. That was the last one. Fine, we'll see what the commotions
are about. Ay con Ay count at Hard's magical tower north of the village.
There is a sudden, sharp ringing in thras ears and I think we
see you sit up in your humble bed. It is very early in the
morning, it is like three four am. As you sit up. Ahead
of you, floating magically in the air is a single sheet of paper.
As he grasps it, the ink appears to write across the page. Find
your group quickly, it is time. What do you do well? I
was prepared for this show. I gather them my thanks quickly. They were
waiting next to the door. Ah, some components things you like that.
Put on my bear, grab my staff, my spell book, and I
head at the tower towards down. As we follow Thrack rushing out of the
tower, down the steps and out into the snow covered landscape, you can
see that the fires around town are lit. The sounds of chaos increase as
you move closer. The town is absolute madness. The goliaths are in a
fervor as many rush to equip armor and weapons. Most appear to be moving
swiftly towards the south and towards the sounds of the fighting. You catch sight
of Sea and Jilden at the Long House, and moving down behind the Long
House from the hillside is Cyrus. The four of you are able to meet
up. Who have you been anyway? I needed your hair failure? What's
going on? How is not the time for foot massages? So is the
time for? What do you mean? I believe it has been done?
Ragnarock? Your prophecy? Do you say that was a dream? And I
was not sure if it was real? But I think I think it might
be. Where's the smart one? Serious? What is Ragnarok again? Do
I know of Ragnarock in my studies? Give me a religion check? First
official role bloody twenty and not a natural twenty A bloody one, bloody one,
A dirty twenty. Yeah, so you were know that Ragnarok is the
word that the Goliaths used here in the north in Moon specifically, the clerics
and the individuals of your religion up here understand Ragnarok to be the end of
the world. It is a climactic battle amongst several of the gods, though
there are a lot of things that are said to come to pass before Ragnarok
actually begins, a sort of endless winter. There's supposedly supposed to be these
enormous beasts that fight and chase, destroying the sun and the moon. There
are supposed to be valkyries that fly and engage with the giants. None of
these things seem to have come to pass. For one thing, it's summer,
and for the majority of the time that you've been here it has been
winter. The ice of the lake completely frozen over, whereas you know,
for the last week or so the ice of the lake has actually been thawing
out. So this sort of endless winter, these crazy battles between the gods
and stuff, doesn't seem to have really happened. That is how the Goliath
understand the end of the world and what Ragnarok is supposed to be. However,
track you have probably been banging on about this for the last few months
after witnessing in a dream that the end of the world is happening. So
yes, to answer your to your question, you would know generally what Ragnarok
is. It's a very similar understanding to what the current you know, real
world Norse mythology version of Ragnarok is that these guys is believe in with a
few tweets here and there. Of course, Okay, the signs aren't there.
The signs weren't there? The signs mm hmm. And maybe it's a
Ragnarock, not the Ragnarock. Perhaps regardless, we must fight? Are you
ready? If I must so? I have to, right, there's an
awful lot of empty places over there, some good food on the table.
We'll just go and shit down for a while, just let them all house
out. I don't know, No, we fight fine, mh rock yesh,
what are we to expect? Bar blood? And oh why didn't you
say so? Come on? Then I start limbering up, just to be
sure. I am still apathetic about this. But I suppose I'll follow anyway.
I've forgot nothing better doing im. I'll let my stuff I follow.
Okay, where are you each heading? I would begin walking in the direction
of the loudest part of the battle, so where everyone is running, I
would be going there. Yeah, south is the answer. Everyone seems to
be moving south, unless you know you can see the elderly people and children
moving away from the south. If anyone lives that way and actually heading towards
the longhouse that you're moving away from. You each sort of move briskly towards
the south. The closer you get you can see that there are like pockets
of fighting. There are lots of golias involved, not just the watch but
just townsfolk that have taken up arms and rushed into the fray. As you
move towards the south you come into view of the South watch Tower. It
is a site of complete madness. There are creatures swarming the area, these
sort of icy stairs and jagged movements. These are creatures that you would recognize
as undead. There are animals in amongst these undead wolves, screeching birds,
squirrels, rabbits. There's even a goat that runs past rapidly, running at
people and biting rather than trying to use its horns. Just kind of chaos
these are. There's a huge amount of undead creatures here. The main threat
seems to come from not the animals, though, but a set of humanoid
figures, a species that nobody here would recognize. They have great, big
jaws filled with rows of teeth, animalistic eyes, and those that still have
skin have it covered in scales. These are lizard folk as far as sort
of anyone else would be aware. But you guys, there is no such
thing in this world. There's no lizard folk. This isn't a you know,
like, oh, these are guys from some area of the world.
No one's ever seen anything like this before. To all the rest of us,
we would recognize them as these small lizards. There is normal lizards,
There are alligators. There are even dragons, but not humanoid creatures that are
wielding weapons and armor and shields like these are. Most of them are sort
of frozen. They seem to be sort of white and covered in snow,
skin missing in places, bones showing some of them an outright skeleton being held
together by whatever undead magic holds together a skeleton. These lizard folk are quite
small and thin, rather than like muscular big creatures. They're sort of similar
to a velociraptor for our mind's eye, and they're fighting with goliaths across the
entire southern range, from the mountain tower at the east all the way along
to the lake itself. Currently, the lake flows because it is after all
summer, even in the frozen area here in the north, the four of
you would recognize Oswald, the leader of the Watch, and a group of
his warriors fighting to the east by the tower itself. There's a ferocity to
his eyes as he swings his enormous weapon into the skull of a lizard man,
destroying the undead threat. He turns locks eyes with your group, and
then he shouts at you, but across the chaos you cannot make out a
word. We are going to immediately roll, ben ishie. I think you're
seeing those poor tortals have lost their shells, and I'm going to bring you
guys down to here so you can start anywhere in this dark square, place
yourselves wherever you want to be. And for those of us looking, this
is the sort of idea of the area here as the group rushed towards the
eastern tower and a lot of undead creatures are about Oswald and another goliath of
fighting just ahead of you. And let me get this turn order up for
us as well as we steamroll into battle immediately, all right, as long
as that's where you want to start. I ruled one. Oh wow,
really for a total of five. Oh cool? Yeah, who am I
missing? Brack? You've got to click your token I'm on a turn order
for Marstown. We snating. Oh no, you are there. Sorry,
sorry, yes, I hate to just make it again. Okay, here
we get all right. Let me just but the other two fellows. So
for the purposes of this combat here, all of these guys in the background
are essentially like you know, like when you used to play Street Fighter,
and they would just be like a bunch of two d guys cheering in the
background. That's what's happening here. The immediate threat are the ones that are
around Oswald and the other goliath ahead of you. Okay, first up is
Thrack. What do you do? I will podcast o, sure, I
think my bit far. I'll move up fifteen feet and Marble cos I'll just
do a firebolt. So I raise my staff and read from my spell book,
and a little fire boat will leave, and I'm going to be attacking
the it's here closes. I'll give them colors. We'll call that guy red
lizard. This red lizard is getting firebolt, dude, green lizard, what
a classic and orange lizard. So fire coalesques at the end of my staff
as I raise it above my head and it sort of shoots out at them
and eleven is a miss. What happens? I think it just maybe there's
a snow drift near him and he's dodging around in battle, and it just
hits the snow drift, melts away from snow, burst of sort of water
and steam in the air. Okay, end of your time. Yeah,
let's the end of my town, all right? Children. I finished limbering
up and slowly placed my staff on the ground in front of me, and
then I burn a section wild shape into a dire wolf. Okay, and
with my fifty feet of movement, I'm going to jump straight over to this
lizard folk and I'm going to bite him. I also have pack tactics,
which means advantage on attack roll. If an ally is an inflow fit,
which it is, so it is correct, you become a full blown dire
wolf. Right. I can just give you access to a dire wolf and
you can roll from that. If that would make your life easier, why
not? All right, let me let me make your life harder for a
minute. No. I am incredibly aware, and everyone watching and listening it
should be aware that this is how I expect every single druid to be pain
in the asked where it goes. Yeah, okay, there is a dire
Wolf. Let me quickly give you access to it. Yes, Sunny,
represent your HP so that we can you get the HP right. It's been
a long time since I GM for a yes Druid. Apart from our session
Zeros in which you didn't do any sort of transformations and stuff, I'm not
sure any of us has ever showing you transform I don't think. So.
This is the first time I spent a long time relaxing, and I feel
just about ready now. I think, okay I could do this. You
should have and what I do is I'll just put them in the character sheet
section. You should have access to the dire Wolf there, yeah, yeah,
yeah, all right, so now, and let me know if you
have problems with how to use terrible rules. But that's their thirteen to hit,
all right, h thirteen to hit hits nice and it must do a
strength saving throw to see this knocked prone. Okay, there's the strength saving
throw natural one from me. So that's ten piercing damage and it's knocked prone.
Nice. Yeah, I think. Yeah. You sort of just attack
this. You just running forward, you train form into this horrific gigantic wharf
grabbing at this sort of small velociraptor looking lizard folk with a little club in
its hand, and then yeah, you just wrench it down to the ground.
I'd tell you probably just pull off one of its legs if I'm honest,
and I still sound like children's from this giant dire wolf. Just sure,
yeah, cool, all right, it is the zombie lizard folks turned
as they are going to try and hit I guess the first one, the
one that's on the ground, that's prone, He's going to remain prone,
but he is going to try and hit you with this heavy club. Does
attacking from prone give me disadvantage? I don't think it does. So that's
a twenty one against whatever your ac is. Is a diary saddle hit all
right, you take three bludgeoning damage. Oh yeah, little bastard. Yeah.
The other one is going to try and hit Oswald on a twenty.
It actually does hit him. It's going to deal three bluddeoning damage to him.
Oswald gets hit by this thing as he sort of turns around, and
he's a direwolf running at him, and for a moment he's like confused.
He's a very large goliath is Oswald. He's a big boy. And here's
some artwork to remind ourselves as sort of an idea of what this guy is.
He is the quintessential absolutely massive brickshit house goliath, probably the strongest,
biggest goliath in town. And this little tiny club from this sort of skeletal
lizardfolk, it does nothing to him. He just sort of shrugs it off,
ignoring the dire wolf tearing at the lizardfolk behind him. He turns as
if to attack you. There's a second goliath next to him who is going
to take a couple of hits as well. Here and eighteen as the another
three. It's a lot of threes. I feel like Pebe's screaming right now.
And yeah, the same kind of thing. This Gulie is a little
smaller, but he is a member of the Watch. He takes a bit
of damage here. It's his turn. He's going to respond by striking sort
of chaotically at the the same lizard folk there. He's going to miss.
He sort of gets hit by one lis of folk, hit by another.
He swings the little creature ducks underneath it, snapping wildly with its sort of
skeletal jaws. Flesh and scales hanging off. And then it is sears turn.
I guess it's time to earn our keep. I run my maximum speed,
which I believe is forty off kilter ian. I want to say this
direction that's forty not close enough to get into combat. And this turn,
I'm going to reach into my pocket and throw a purple dart from my hip
towards this zombie lizard mend that is engaged with Jildreen right now. Okay,
it is prone, you have disadvantage, it is pro Okay, I will
let you control see that. I will Okay, I'll attack the other one
that's just passed her instead with the same dark am I giving with that hit
six points of piercing damage. Okay, and that was at the blue one.
Yeah, yes, yeah, this this sort of dart you sort of
sling it underhand. It launches over the dire wolf which is sort of still
dragging around this lizard folk on the ground, with the sort of old total
voice of Jilden coming out of it. And yeah, the dart like strikes
this this lizard folk. What it does, however, is it hits the
lizard folk and just goes straight through it. Tearing sort of flesh off of
the skeleton of this thing, breaking a few bones, and then sort of
clattering out of the other side of it, leaving a pretty large wound that
you get the sense that these creatures, maybe it's the snow or the undeath,
they're quite fragile. As this thing breaks through. That would be my
turn for now. Okay, Oswald is going to swing his long sword here.
Now he is going to do it too handed as he attacks one of
these guys on a twenty three. I think what he does is just obliterate
the one that you just struck. You see the lizard taken aback as the
force of the dart hits it dumbles a little bit, and then it's bifurcated
by Oswold's enormous stature with this huge long sword that he brings down, and
you see the skeleton of this thing kind of break away from some of the
flesh as it collapses and the magic drains out of it. Okay, it
is Cyrus's turn. Yes, Okay, I am going to run forward about
here and I'm going to past sacred flame on the orange one. Okay,
that is a deck, say from me, I believe ye, yes,
seventeen. Look at that dances away from the sacred flame. So I think
it just misses, right, he just avoids it. What does it look
like? Though? I'm curious about how this looks to everyone else, even
though this thing sort of like definitely dances away from whatever the result is.
Yeah, I reach out a hand, and in the place where it was
standing, a pure white radiance just kind of flashes in the spot like a
like a big photo flash, almost leaving a small crater. We're in the
snow where it was. Okay, you have a bonus action if you want
to do something else. Yeah, I would like to cast Shield of Faith
on the rack. Actually, okay, so yeah, thank you have a
plus two AC for ten minutes. There's a concentration spell, so if you
take any sort of damage, you have to make us safe to keep that
spell going. Yeah, all right, Rack your turn top of the round.
Right. I'm going to reach into my pouch, my component's pouch,
and I will take out a small shard of glass. I will throw it
up in the air, and as I raised my staff, it suspends itself.
There. I read through my spell book and I cast a cloud of
daggers, and I would like it to be right. All right, this
time, I'm prepared. We're prepared this time. I think this is the
correct size. Yes it is, okay, so you should be able to
move that. Okay, all right, so I put it right. I
think it's five feet in never a direction towards one bigger. Five feet in
every direction makes that one bigger. I'm going to trust you not to wag
Stephen to tell me whether. All right, so our cast a cloud of
peggos? Yeah, I'm assuming this is sort of does what it says on
the tin. There's just a huge amount of swirling daggers that magically appear and
start cutting everything in place. Does it immediately start doing damage or is it
when it starts to turn? A creature takes four D four slashing damage when
it enters the spells area for the first time, or on a turn it
starts it's turned there. Okay, then go ahead and give me forty four.
Okay, it could have been better. Average role. It's the most
average role with nine, but it's enough to kill them both. What does
it do? How does it? How does it look? Yeah? There
are many different types of daggers. Some without hilt, some with different colored
wraps on some of them, and they're all swirling around, these creatures,
and I think as they realize they're in danger, they look up and make
their little blizard folk noises. But it's too late, as these daggers hair
through their own dead flesh, going right through their body as if they were
paper. And eventually it shoots too much for them, and they scream in
frustration as they fall to the ground, leaking out sort of congealed dark,
undead blood. Okay, nice, uh jilding another bit. And as I'm
like worrying away at this thing, I'm almost it's like an exaltation, Like
I look so thrilled to being into this thing fifteen yep that hits on the
ground. As I assume you just continue to like drag it around you with
my food. Almost yeah, and you just like shake your enormous dial wolf
head, ripping this thing apart. And again as the magic sort of unwields
from these creatures, you see them sort of fall apart, like it as
if this was a very old corpse, you know, And it's just sort
of like the magic was holding some of the bones and the parts of this
creature together, and once you shake the life out of it literally or the
undeath out of it, it sort of falls apart and the lego noise players
ass clattered to the ground. Oswald sees you, guys, and catches your
eye. He makes a quick glance around him, sort of a quick battlefield
surveillance, as he sees all of his Goliath, the watchman, the people
of the town, and you see them all rushing in, fighting with more
of these lizard folk, fighting with creatures. And there's an element to this
where it's quite difficult to see. It is nighttime, but there are fires
lit all across the town and including the tower that sits above you. And
we're sort of without even missing a beat, I think, as soon as
you shake this last thing dead. He glances at the battlefield and shouts back
to you, my grandmother Brina set in place an emergency wall should something like
this happen. Oh, I am not sure she expected something exactly like this.
Travel to the peak above us there, pull the lever. It will
bring down part of the mountain in a controlled fall. It will roll across
the land and create a wall, maybe the only way to keep them at
bay. If nothing else, it will slow them down. Go now,
the entrance is in the caverns through the tower. He turns away from you
and is already marching towards the battle. Just follow the covern up. Go
now, tell me what to do. We'll be done. I begin running,
run to where he told us to go. Yeah, the tower is
a watch tower. It's extremely tall. It's sort of extremely so, it's
maybe like forty feet tall. But as soon as you like, the door
is wide open to this thing, the watch have already left. There is
no there's not a single goliath left in the tower. It's completely empty.
It may be the first time you guys have ever been into this tower.
The lower floor of this circular building is pretty much just a set of tables,
as if this is their sort of their mess area, the mess hall.
There are three doors, two of which are open and clearly lead upwards.
There are sets of stairs that are at the back of this tower,
and then there's a third locked door, which is on the east and wall,
the side of the actual cavern. Which door do you take? I
think at this point I'm still following cyrus So, waiting for her to decide,
since she's been hit the longest. Do I happen to know which which
place will get me to the cavern directly the eastern side, right, it
seems very likely it would be the eastern door. Yeah, uh yeah,
then I I head there immediately. Yeah. Yeah. You go to open
the door, and for a moment you think it might be locked, but
you recognize that actually it's just probably not been opened in a huge amount of
time. Yet it still doesn't quite open. Oh can I put all into
it full speed? Oh you're still a dire wolf. Yeah, give me
no warning. Give me an athletics check, which on the sheet might just
be a strength check, so they sometimes have skills listed underneath that you can
yeah, strength, just click on the word strength eleven and eleven. You
rush at this door, and you actually see the door open a ways,
like it pushes open like four or five inches. It sort of breaks the
this seal that is that has been holding this door in place. You then
you sort of recognize that the door itself is the wood of this door is
sort of expanded into place, which is what is really causing it to remain
completely stiff. But you're gonna have to give it another bash. Whoever wants
to attempt that can give me another athletics check. I walk away drunk hold
check. Yeah, go oh great, how does this look because it doesn't
work? Yeah, I think I see the effect that the dire Wolf just
had, and I'm feeling optimistic with how much it opened, so I just
sort of elbow it. I'm not really tacking into it too much, and
I am so embarrassed when it fails. I look left and right and I
walk towards the door. I take my staff and I place it by the
base of the door and it leans on the wall on the other side.
I'm going to push down and lift myself up and then kick the door with
both legs and see what happens. Yeah, for the sake of using the
staff, I'll let you do this as a as an athletics or an acrobatics
check since you're a monk. Okay twelve with a plus six. Yeah it's
just enough. Yeah, you sort of managed to bar this door open.
It isn't pretty. It isn't like an impressive flourish at all. But you
know, with a with a kick and the sort of softening up of the
door from the dire wolf, the door pushes open again. It doesn't open
all the way, but it's enough for all of you to be able to
move past it and move into the caverns beyond. And I'm assuming you all
do that. You squeeze through this doorway and into the the cave here,
and it isn't at first sort of a natural cave. It is actually more
like a mine shaft or something like that. As you guys start moving in
and away from the tower, the twists and turns of this cavern continue for
quite a while, and you're able to follow wooden steps and supports that indicate
the route. However, after a few minutes of climbing and moving and rushing,
the tunnel eventually sort of loses its way to disrepair. Is if no
one has traveled this route in a very long time. It gets very dark
in here. I know three of you have dark vision, and one might
do while being a die wolf. I'm not sure, but I'll give you
some sort of a I don't think so. Okay, Well, I'll give
you a smell ability that you're able there. I can smell, yeah,
sight do you have keen smell? But can I fit? Is the question?
Do I actually fit down these tunnels? Yeah? You're you're big,
but you're no wider than a goliath. And these are tunnels that the goliath
use. So almost every time I ever mentioned a door or a you know,
a building or something, always assume that it's slightly bigger than what you
sort of have in your mind's eye, because these are goliath structures. So
for the most part, they build everything to their own size. So,
yeah, you're able to fit through these tunnels. They're not. It's not
incredibly narrow, though it does shift and change the more it becomes a natural
cavern. But I don't think you have any problem maneuvering through it. But
will say that you're kind of following with a sense of smell maybe as you
follow the rest of the pack. Here there are openings and crawlways all about
you. There are sounds of fighting echoing off the walls for a time,
until eventually they're just suffocated by the mountain above and around you. The sort
of chaos of the night and the adrenaline and the madness that you've moved away
from calm for a moment, but also lend a sense of pressure to sort
of navigating through these tunnels. You're generally continuing upwards, But there are so
many offshoots that start to branch off from this. You get the sense that
sometime a very very long time ago, this place is probably mined, and
these are the sort of old mining tunnels and caverns that they're used. However,
it becomes just a complete crosshatch of tunnels and crawlways and varying places that
you might be able to go if everyone could make me a survival check to
navigate the tunnels correctly or not, and dire Wolf you only take the first
three stats from dire Wolf, so strength, decks, and con and then
for anything else like a charisma based check or a wisdom check, I think
you take them from your sheet unless it's perception on hearing or smell. Yeah,
yes, survival. Okay, I'm glad you're okay, because it's been
literally about five years since that GM. I've never played at during before.
We're definitely going to get it wrong then. I'm sure someone that's twenty four,
all right, twenty four thrank god natural one or you know four see
her with the five cyrus with an eight. I think at one point here
the three of you that can see very well begin to disagree on which way
to go. I think that there are like four or five openings in front
of you, and there's a moment where you all kind of have to pause
because all of the possible ways that this could go, all of them seem
to lead on a slight incline upwards, so you're able to move up them,
and it would technically be moving upwards. But which one is the sort
of correct route to the precipice that you're aiming for? I think brings you
to a stop, and maybe you start to sort of quietly disagree or bicker.
I don't think at this point you're able to tell which way is which.
You've been turning and climbing and moving for so long that I don't think
you really know which way is east west, you know, children, I'm
going to say that because you do have that sense of smell or maybe a
sort of a heightened sense of something here you can sense and maybe smell,
the one of these specific tunnels will lead you up to an area where you
can smell. It's more of I think what you would get is more of
a smell of like iron and like man made things, rather than you know,
anything definitive. But the rest of the tunnels just smell like any other
cave and shaft here, whereas one of them clearly has a sense of like
iron you know that kind of like wead iron blood smell. So I think
you can probably determine that. How this transpires, I don't know. As
the three of you start to bicker, and then a wolf starts speaking,
I will throw up a small package of bones that I obviously try to eat
from whatever those creatures are, and then smells like smells delicious, and I
just walk off on my own. I don't even care which the way I
was that smells delicious to me. I'll never get to that. I just
follow trepidaciously behind God's above and I follow along with them. I am not
surprised at all, and I also follow them. Okay, yeah, I
think you will follow the wolf and there's a there's a few turns again before
you navigate around a turning here through a couple more caverns, and then you
start to notice structure again, old mining shaft supports that lead you to the
cavern exit. However, the exit is blocked. There is a huge iron
door which is chained and locked shut. The frame is built deep into the
stone of the cavern, and the lock is a circular mechanism with eight symbols
on it. You can turn the lock in a circle like it sort of
would look to our eye like a combination lock on a safe. At the
center of the lock is an arrow indicating which point to turn the lock too,
and above the lock itself are some scratched arrows pointing left, then right,
then left once more. What that looks like for you guys is again
on the right you'll see the scratched arrows and also some writing. Now that
is written in Goliath or Giantish and quite old script. Giantish. Does anyone
speak giant? I think yes you do. Then if you want to read
that out you can. Protected by boreoles right, giants of stone and mountain
mite. Who are these in strength and grace? Guardians of the north Moost
place. I didn't ad a crash word. I can't say it's not a
crossword. Protected by orioles right, stone and mountain guardians golombs where now guardians,
it's asking for guardians of Woreel. That's you know more about this than
any of us. Serious. Yes, Wrial is our angel. The mountain
is a bit strong, but yes, just got nothing on it. Only
apologies my mind northmost Yes, protected you the entire time you've lived there.
That's right, okay, if you wouldsist, I do because I like truth.
I guess. M hmm. There's a room here. I point to
the room that is taking a spot where numbers normally do recognize that room,
the one where numbers normally do, right, which it's right above the key.
It's like the fist. Oh, the one that's on the on there.
You can give me, I guess an investigation check or or religion check
or if you want to justify another one, I can do religion not entirely
sure how a mountain for an angel has protected me? But that's besides the
point eight. This is either the symbol for protection or necessity. Oh,
I'm giving that to you because the DC is you're under it, but your
close right. I mean, in this place, protection and necessity are the
same thing. The angel's protection is what allows us to live here. Otherwise
we'd all freeze and die. Very well. Who is there a way that
we would know anything about mythical animals or creatures? They might be considered guardians?
Yeah, I mean you can make me. I guess, I guess
that would be an investigation check as well from you. And do you mean,
just to be specific, do you mean mythical protective creatures of the surrounding
area here or in general? H I would say around around here, okay,
Elevin, there isn't a There isn't an animal that comes to mind that
is sort of very obviously an animal that the golias here revere as a protection
animal. You get the sense that maybe you glanced over something at some point
in your time since you moved here at one point that there was some sort
of element of a protective creature or something like that. But in general,
the golias here don't seem to revere any real animals as protective of the area,
at least not over one another. There are a few creatures around,
You've encountered, things like the quag off, which are very dangerous and protective
of their own thing. They're a yetty around, but they don't consider them
to be sort of protective animals. They're in short, no, But you're
not sure if you, you know, are just uneducated on that. I
don't suppose it's going to be a seven letter word is it okay? Seven
letters? Yeah, it's maybe it's nimbersa never mind, right, I mean
guardians of the northmost place would be Wrial itself, right, Guardians of Woreal.
Well we all know what Woreal is, right then? They so obviously
I suppose you know what is guarding the mountain. But I'm looking at this
and these dials, and nothing looks like a mountain's guardian to me. Just
the mountain itself, the snow guarden mountain by covering it. Perhaps you see
this image right here, the three the three mh try mm hmm. I
point to the trikettra, but I don't I don't know what it's that.
No right here? Oh right, yes, the answer be three mmmm.
Shall we try the mountain first, just to see what happens. I don't
even know what you're looking at. I'm assuming it's still dark and I can't
see a single Did you have a torch in your pouch? No? Do
I look like I have hands to use a torch? M you see me
quickly reach into my pouch and strike the torture against her, let her furry
back. How you expect that to work? Jesus Crashed had a dead work.
On that note, you're allowed to say Jesus Christ in all of my
campaigns. What that is. What that is is the universal translator that is
being used on table story. As you said, some other defied grace.
That's what it sounded like in the actual situation. But you're always allowed to
say exclaim because I do it as well. Yeah, again, like I
will, I will state that for all intents and purposes, this is a
safe lock. With the arrows point in left left right. I think I
said left right left, and I mean left left right. Before we play
with the dial, I would like to look around and check for traps if
possible, A great idea. You meet, an investigation check or you know
what, I'll give you a perception check for this if you want, okay,
then in that case, I shall use a perception check. Twenty one.
This is absolutely not trapped. Yeah, this is just a door with
a lock on it, presumably just to keep out creatures or you know,
any none to do wells, you know, street tufts. But yeah,
there doesn't seem to be any sort of dangerous trap or anything. You just
simply have to get the lock unlocked. You're game. I turned to serious
and I see. If I was a betting man, i'd say that,
well, that plaque next to that symbol you talked about is likely the password,
right, okay, and I uh move the dial according to the pattern
that is here, so left, left, right to which symbols oh oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I will say this
as well. Now, usually, because this is a milestone XP game,
usually I will let people sacrifice XP for hints. In this game, there's
two ways that you can gain hints. To get a direct hint from me,
it will cost one of you one HP permanently, you reduce your HP
by one and you get a hint from me. Alternatively, you can activate
chat like phone and Friend or whatever it was called in Millionaire, where you
would get the poll the chat. You take Chat out of EMO only mode
and that will cost you one difficulty of whatever the next thing you do is
will be at disadvantage. Okay. And it isn't just something where you go
you can't, you can't game that, it will be I will. I
will impose disadvantage on the next important thing you do, rather than you go,
oh, I would like to play hopscotch. Can I make an exact
rabat check for all of us, just one uh, all of you will
have one round. Basically, you'll have one round of disadvantage. Not all
of us lose one HP, just one person we choose, so you can
you can designate one of you to lose one HP. You then go ahead
and lose an HP, I say. Or basically you have a luck curse
on you, and that's how you get to possible hints. Okay, before
choosing to utilize either of those things, I propose to all of you,
uh that perhaps it could be left to the key, left to the mountain,
right to the key. But okay, that would be just a guess
better than nothing. It's not trapped, so we can try as many times
as we want. Right right, That's what I'm going to do. Then
right to the key, left to the mountain, right back to the key.
You mean, left to the key, left to the mountain, right
left to the key, left to the mountain, right back to the key,
key mountain. You know, I'll just let you do that from now
on key mountain. And then what was the last I'm sorry, key key
it rattles, that doesn't seem to come unlocked. Okay, I put it
back into its original position, so that we can keep track of the left
right left, mm hmm. Who are these and strength and grace? Guardians
of the northmost place? Are there any would I know of any tales or
folk folk stories that the Goliaths would have told of guardians of boreal or stone
creatures or things like that. Very possibly you can give me, I guess
a religion check, or I think I guess a history check would be okay
as well. Okay, I think I'll go with you this. You're also
free to like argue me on any of those things if there's something that you're
like, oh, with this work because of this, you know you can't
be like, well, inn, a flets check would work here, but
you know, yea history twenty Yes, the answer is the Goliaths themselves.
They revere themselves as the protectors of Worial and you know the town, so
most of their stories revolve around your tales of heroism or you know which group
of Goliaths did this to protect this? Who built what? It's similar to
how Oswald is known as the sort of like survival master and is the biggest
and strongest. He's sort of just revered on that alone because he's the head
of the watch. So yeah, generally, I think that it would sort
of click with you that this is probably just referencing the Goliath themselves. Okay,
yeah, I repeat that back to everyone. I turned to serious and
I say, is there any significance with this creature on the lock with these
people? Is there any? I mean, it looks like a lion to
me, myrtles, but would there be a symbol that I would be able
to relate it to. Yeah, you can give me another history check and
I'll and I'll see if that justifies again, seventeen killing it. I don't
think you've ever heard of any You've probably never even heard of mentioned a lion.
Yeah, I don't think that they've ever said anything like that. They
don't go sailing. They have a lake, but they really they have some
rowboats and they use them from time to time in summer. You have to
use it to get to the temple, but they don't. They're not fishermen.
They don't go they're not explorers. The they do have mines. They
mine the areas for predominantly sort of coal and starlight shards, but they don't
they don't really consider themselves to be miners, you know, they like how
dwarves are culturally like very sort of tied to that. Yeah, and yeah
the others. I think you could justify certain elements to the key because it's
a lock the mountain because Dunatus varrial the mountain that you live a byron on
frost. Goliaths are incredibly resilient to extreme weather and cold. The tree is
idricil, which is the tree of life, and it's part of the whole
religion. And the fisk could represent your strength of incredibly strong naturally. So
I think those elements to you pop out based on you're seventeen. There,
you know what he should have said at the beginning outside in the battle,
what the past word was at perfect time to snap back to the battle happening
outside, And you see in this very moment Oswald behead one of these creatures
and then he suddenly blinks, looks back at the tower and says, oh
shit, and then dives back into there into the fray. Amazing. You
get a few things on Yeah, I bet, what do we know of
Riel's right, like the specifics of the right, like, so we know
there's a protection, do we understand the actual that details the protection how it
came about what actually is no. I mean, Cirrus has certainly got a
lot more information on the specifics of the religion here and how they practice their
faith to do not test the mountain God and the representing angel Wriel. But
Forriel's right, it's pretty vague. I think even to you, Sirus,
there are lots of mini rights. You've been through a few of them.
Woriols right is most likely just representative of the general protection aura that Woreel provides,
which is essentially that this is an unlivable landscape and it is an absolutely
brutal Arctic area. However, the area around where the angels seated is protected
from that condition, and so it becomes quite a liverblen hospitable place. And
that's where they built their town around this lake, around this tempoint, around
the angel. So yeah, Woriols right is probably a general term for the
sort of protective aura that the angel provides. Hear me out, how about
frost No, never mind, how about all that we left to the mountain
Woreo, then to the frost or varioles right, all the snow and at
stuff, and then turn it right back to the key to unlock it.
Perhaps, Yeah, let's try that. Yeah, I think we give that
a try. Yeah, you you try it, you feel I think that
the first one was correct. As you hear a quiet like click as you
turn it to the mountain, then you go to frost. Did you say
right, I'm not sure whether it clicks or not. Back to the key
doesn't open. Okay, well we can be certain. Then there's right that
we're getting somewhere. Right, I've done my job again. Lean on the
wall, you vanish into the darkness, drought, whatever that thing is that
they can just become. It might be wood elves. Actually, they just
become the area with this lion symbol. Like to us, it looks like
a lion. What does that look like to the characters? A lion?
I think a lion is a is a pretty famous animal here as well.
I like to think that in D and D there are you know how I've
never actually seen a lion, I don't think, but I know exactly what
a lion is. That would be the case for most basic creatures for you
guys as well. Obviously you're in a sort of iron age. There isn't
there isn't. It's not very technologically advanced in this world, but lions and
certain even like owlbears. You can factor in a lot of the mythical creatures
as well, dragons and stuff. You would know what a lion is.
I think. So there would be certain animals and certain creatures that I think
it's worth question whether you would know. But I think it would be pretty
obvious that it's a lion to you. I think, especially you, you'd
have a more of an idea. For all. I know where you're from,
there are lions there as well. To be honest, we tried mountain
lion mountain. We could but it's left left, right, isn't it?
So it would be lion mountain in something else? Right lion? We did?
You're not see something when we tried mountain. Yes, right, it
doesn't change anything. You can go all the way around. It's not simply
is it a spin dial? I'm assuming yes. It's like blackwise clockwise anti
clockwise, yes, clockwise. I don't did this in world up? Sorry,
well I think I would. I think I would step back and maybe
into the shadows, and I'm going to sit down across lagging In through a
bit of reading and meditating with my book for a moment. As they continue
on. I don't have hands, so I can't even manipulate this thing.
If I want to think, I'll watch them do it, can I?
I suppose you see on the on the right of the image here these are
tumbles. I would like to pay attention to those as whatever happens happens next.
Okay, I look at I look at this, and I say,
well, Warriel protects us from frost, protects us from cold, right right,
So maybe we could try well, we could either try the fist,
which could mean strength merely strength. Idrisil also is part of the beliefs here,
so maybe if we stuck with beliefs and then the key. But we
know that the mountain is the first one. Yes, the mountain is the
first one. Okay, so I would like to try mountain, then turn
it all the way to Idrissil and then to the key. No, I
think it's the same same thing. Yeah, okay, how about mountain fist
key? I try that. I think give me an investigation or a perception
check. Tumbler watcher investigation or perception tumbler watcher seventy. You know you recognize
that the whatever the mechanism does because I don't know how to crack and safe
either. But you notice that the response from the mechanism on mountain fist seems
to be at least two correct answers in there. Oh, but it does
the frost mountain fist frost. Try that mountain round to fist, round to
frost yep. As the final piece clicks into place, you hear as if
on the outside of this door there is just ice breaking, and then the
door sort of shudders as if it's unlocked and can potentially be pushed again.
All right, I try to push it a moment. It gives me the
opportunity to Yeah, once again, I shall need a strength or athletics check
from your plays. Okay, I stay against the wall nineteen. Yeah,
it's something in you allows you to push this door, and you feel resistance
immediately, like this thing it's not going to open, as if the outside
of it is just entirely blocked. Like you're trying to push this door and
swing it open. You take a deep breath, push and there is just
a single splinter of ice from the outside of this thing that runs and cracks
along the outside of this door, and then bang thing opens, there is
a huge gust of wind, frozen wind that rushes in here, and you
are able to see immediately the precipice that this opens up onto. It is
pretty obvious that you've made it to the correct place. By the way,
there is a cliff side, and I think as each of you steps outside
that you can see down below the sounds of that fight continue the town and
the north, the town to the north of where you are, and then
the watch tower, which is almost directly below the precipice. However, more
sort of obvious to your eyes as you walk out, is that, wrapped
with huge thick ropes and chains, is just a huge amount of stone and
loose rocks sitting right on the edge of the precipice. Of this the ropes
and chains are all attached to a single rope grab and catch lever, which
when pulled seems as though it will in theory release the rocks and the stone
and slate and create this emergency wall that Oswald spoke of below. However,
also as you step outside, of course, there is a loud screech as
these undead birds fly towards you, suddenly attracted by signs of movement, and
I am going to bring us over to next on that. Yeah. Again,
there's the precipice, and you guys can place yourselves wherever you need to
be in that square there and rob me some initiative. What is flying towards
you? Are two giant undead ravens ahead of you? Is the lever which
simply needs to be pulled at some point? Are they in the air and
unreachable? Right now? They are in the air. They are thirty feet
up, thirty feet out, and they're sort of dive bombing at you right
now. How long has it been since we first had the combat? Half
an hour? Max? Yep? Okay, all right, I'm gonna name
this one blue raven and you that's so, I mean Green raven. That's
it. I'll give them their own initiatives, I think, to make it
fun and mix it up. Okay, The very first one to go will
be the blue raven as it rushes in towards where you guys are bringing it
with that up so that people can see the turn order in the stream,
and here we go, all right. These things can fly pretty far,
yes they can. Let's see how I measured this for myself. Okay,
it can fly to yeah, which is all it does, I think on
its turn there. I don't think it's I don't think it's doing any crazy
stuff because it is not technically surprised, but they are surprised to see you,
so it just sort of like kareems off from the course. I think
you probably caught them as you are open the door, just kind of circling
above the battlefield, and then they catch your eye and you catch theirs,
and this thing just turns and rushes towards where you are. Okay, bringing
us the thracks turn. This thing is flying directly at you, guys,
but it's still thirty think. Uh, I will yeah, I will cast
Majac Mitchell. I've raised my staff and from behind me at three points,
these little shards of red light up here and they zoom off at the blue
bird. Then okay, and we decided that we were going to roll for
damage on each one, right, Yeah, I think I just I just
hear it what I just go through click three times? Right, Yes,
it's just that in some I actually have no idea at this point which is
the correct way to do it. But some people roll one and you take
that damage for all three of them, but we thought it'd be more fun
roll the individual Downage showed off some magic missiles and I do looks like thirteen
damage. Nice. Yeah, this one of the better words. Fucks it
up. The missiles fly through the air. The creature is flying and then
you just you crack this thing out of the air. It almost falls,
I think for a while as it's sort of about to dive bomb at you.
It's Talon's coming up. It's beak opening up. This thing just gets
knocked out of flight. They have some of their feathers on. They have
sort of like skeletal wings and feathers that are somewhat keeping them aloft. But
you also get the sense that there's an element of magic here. Their eyes
are kind of blue and almost contain a blue light, and for a moment
it flickers out as if the fire is extinguished, before it opens its mouth
again, turns and sort of glides back into place. You've injured it quite
significantly, but it is still flying. Jilden, it is your turn.
Reminder, this thing is thirty feet up. Hmmm, go for the lever
and I'm just gonna run straight fifty foot towards the lever. Nice and that's
actually it, and then fus action. I'm just gonna dash and say him
again. Okay, so I'm almost at the lever. I'm here, yeah,
nice, Okay, dire Wolf rushes forward. We'll we'll figure out some
way to like bench children for your dire Wolf token, so you can have
both on their future. Both for now, all right. The second raven
is absolutely gonna see you. They've got linked health, which is super annoying.
I will go like, yes, yeah, this one's gonna rush down
flying. It sees you, it catches you flying underneath it. It turns
in that sort of like F sixteen way that birds can do on a on
a dime in the air, and it is going to fly down at you.
It is going to attack you with its talents. Never been attacked by
a talent before. Oh all right, that is a thirteen against the dire
Wolf facing that will miss. Okay, Yeah, it just these I think
you sort of like am moving so quickly that it just you feel these claws
just attempt to rake at the flank of your Direwarf body and it flies off.
What it is going to do is fly away. However, a little
bit say goodbye, shakes letter words, but the rosary laugh before Yeah,
it flies back up another ten feet and away twenty feet, bringing us to
see us turn. Okay, I am going to run my movement to forty
feet to the center of the field, and as I do, I am
going to then throw another dart. It's this undead raven which I believe is
in the air, right, so I can't correct punch it. Okay,
yeah, all right, that you feel the case, then I'll throw a
dart at it instead. Okay. It's a range on a dart, twenty
sixty twenty to sixty, all right. Twenty means you can throw it accurately,
so you don't take disadvantage sixty max range, So between twenty and sixty
you have disadvantage. Anything over sixty you just won't hit. Understood, in
which case it does not hit? That's correct, Yes, it doesn't it.
Do you want to roll again? Just in case it's an actual one?
Sure, because you've got a course, you've got a little special condition
actual one. Mark it down on your little tally. It's marked, and
anybody watching and listening you'll find out what why I'm telling him to tell you
that another time all right, Cyrus, your turn. Oh yeah, I
cannot. I was unbelievable. Uh. I'm going to also run forward right
here, and I am going to cast That wasn't my whole turn? Sorry?
What else do you want to I want? Sorry? Natural one?
My turn was over. I just spent my key point to patient defense.
I have no idea what that means, but okay, it's a tool that
will help us later. All right, I don't know what patient defense is,
but Cyrus, carry on with your turn. Okay, Yeah, I'm
going to cast a guiding bolt at this blue raven eleven is a miss?
What does this look like though, because this is a pretty baller move usually,
Yeah, so similar to my sacred flame, like nothing is like a
golden yellow radiance. It's more like a pure white shock, almost not necessarily
lightning, but closer to that, I think. And so I cast out
this guiding bolt and it's literally just a bright sphere of white light that just
tries to take this thing out. Yeah, yeah, I think as you
you do. Is this the end of your turn? Actually? What else
do you want to do? Um? Give a bonus action? Yeah?
I think this is the end of my turn. Actually, yeah, okay,
yeah, I think as you sort of you cast a spell, there's
almost like a thundercrack of noise, and then in the distance there is a
huge sound as if the earth itself cracks in two, coming from further south,
a sort of crunching and rumbling of something moving towards the town. You
don't have long to get this wall down. It is the ravens turn,
and I think it's just going to go for its closest foe here as it
screeches and rushes at you, even another talent attack and eighteen versus your ac
serrush that hits. Okay, you're going to take twelve slashing damages. These
talons rake across your body, grabbing and clawing at you, and then this
thing, with another beat of its wings, flies upwards and away again.
It is now twenty feet above where it looks to be on the map.
Thrack. Uh yeah, okay, I am. I'll go ahead and pash
fire bolt at the at the raven, the blue raven. Okay, all
right, okay, haven't tuned. Yeah, So I pass the fire vault
and it heaven damage that is enough to destroy this one. You strike this
one, it sort of catches a flame slightly, and again you see that
sort of like flame of its eye go out. The creature falls out of
the air, and again the bones of the creature and the skeleton and the
skull sort of fall apart before it clatters to the ground and rolls across into
the stone and snow here on the press of pairs there is still another one
flying around. Is that the end of your turn? I'll move if so,
yes, I'm done older, okay, Jilden, you'll turn all right,
We're gonna move next to the river and assess it. Can I do
something where that was? Look at it? Yep? This is a classic
video game lever. It is a big looking thing. The all of the
ropes are attached to this thing in such a way that if you pull that
lever sort of ninety degrees anti clockwise towards you, it will release the catch
of the netting and the chains, and it will release the rocks. The
lever itself is enormous, and it's clearly designed for a very big, strong
goliath to pull it. But that is essentially all. It is, just
a thing that you need to pull towards you. Does it look frozen in
any way or obstructed. No, it looks very old. It looks big
and tough to move, but in general seems to be functioning from a cursory
glance. Well, I'd like to jump over to the other side of it
and try and push it with all of my diwolfully strength. All right,
give me a strength check please, Natural twenty three. It's beautiful. Yeah,
you start to push this, give me strengths and you're doing this with
your mouth or you like doing it like a shoulder, a shoulder flank area.
Yeah, I think. Yeah. You get into the into the position
here and start to push this lever around with your dire wolf body. As
you do so, there is this horrendous noise that from below reaches up and
suddenly there is a a creature which is larger than I think anything any of
you have ever seen. Ah. This thing hauls itself upwards and a hand.
Just as the lever lets release of the clatch and some of the the
rocks start to fall away, a gigantic hand lands on the rock. As
this hand lands, it crashes down and stops the rocks from falling. Below.
The fighting sort of intensifies as the Golias rally to fire upon the monstrous
giant. This is a frost giant. It is an enormous undead giant,
which is the size of the mountain itself. Its face is not even looking
at you, guys. It's just resting its hand on these rocks and it
brings up an enormous club, and the tower below you is immediately destroyed.
The goliath screaming out, and nothing but snow and rock and carnage from below.
However, up here, the hand is stopping a wall from coming down.
Okay, the hand has entered the bow Acrow Titan and it has and
I'm gonna roll it now. I'd like to equip my omni direction on mobility
gear. Literally, what is happening right now is that moment that it comes
up behind it. Yeah, I'm going to use their bonus action to de
wild shape. Okay, and I assume the pushing of the thing was my
action, So that's my turn it over. Yes, that was your action?
Yeah, Okay. The raven is still in play here. It is
going to attempt to attack you once again as it flies down with its talents
coming out and nineteen against your de wild shaped. Oh yeah, that will
hurt body as you take seven slashing damage. The claws raking across your significant
shell, but also grabbing purchase on some fleshy parts and tearing a wound across
you as it flies past. Suddenly, and I think this thing is going
to fly over here. Now time for the hand. Now the hand of
the necro Titan has multi attack. The first thing it's going to do is
try and smack Jilden because you're so close to it. There is a as
the hand kind of like bats at you, some of the rocks start falling,
and then it stabilizes itself again, stopping them from rocking as you somehow,
I guess maybe you just become a rock for a moment. There is
it smacks at scooping the my shell, just yeah, spinning my little like
a Mario thing. When they get and then it is going to do a
slam attack. As the fist comes down, each preacher within one hundred and
fifty feet of the hand must make a DC fourteen strength saving throw or take
one D ten force damage and be knocked prome DC fourteen strength saving strength saves
please or this is from all of us everyone, yes, everything on the
ground within Actually you know what else? It isn't everything on the ground I
remember planning this. Now the raven is also potentially going to get caught in
this because it's force, It is going to get fought, and also I
think that destroys it. Yep idiot, because this is force damage. What's
happening is that the concussive wave is what is causing the damage here and striking
everything. As it hits the ground. You can feel bits of the mountain
above you loosening and running down. The sort of precipice that you're on does
have a slight overhang from the mountain above you, and there are rocks landing
on the area. The giant raven is destroyed by this concussive blast, does
it wrecks everything inside? Now, Cyrus and Jilden, you are prone and
you take seven fours much as you are pushed over by this thing thrack and
see it just kind of holding still as this concussive wave rocks the area,
chunks of the mountainside falling down into the battle below. As more of the
hordes of these zombifie lizard folken creatures rush into a fray of battle with the
goliaths, and it is sears turn. What do I do here? I'm
going to just for my sake, roll a wisdom save. I ruled an
eight, so I'm going to send foolish, I guess, and I am
going to use my full movement, which is eighty if I use step of
the wind to basically burn a key point, you know, to use that
as my bonus action to get there as a dash. So I have my
action now. I think I am going to smack the hand with my ish,
you know with personally children, smack the hand with my quarter stuff.
Okay, give me an attack row. All right, see there we go.
An ate an eight is not enough to damage this creature. I think
you hit it. It's not hard to hit, but you recognize now that
this thing is undead. This was once probably just a normal frost giant.
I don't know what you guys know about giants in this setting, probably nothing,
but in general the giants are very giant like attack on titan size things.
And this one is still covered in elements of flesh that seem to have
sort of become leathery with death and then in undeath. While it's still alive
and moving around, it still has elements of frost and ice, and this
sort of leather skin that was probably once you know, soft from moisture that
is now you know, it's probably been dead for a good long while.
The areas of the hand and the fingers that are covered in skin still are
like hitting the mountain itself. And I think, yeah, you recognize that
as you strike, and doesn't seem to even affect this thing at all.
Okay, that is my tote. Okay, Cirrus, you are prone.
Yes, I would like to become not prone if possible. I'd like to
stand up. Yep, that will cost you half of your total possible movement
you do, okay, and then I would like to just for the math,
so that would cost me fifteen. So I would like to use dash
to run forward. So would the dash count for my current speed? Because
I think it's not chrone that. Yes, I think it's like whatever the
maximum you do is halved for this round. Okay, I might be wrong.
Chat has one second to save you before you move. Wa wax staven
save us someone you your power, someone him from a pop ball. Yeah
nope, okay, I think it makes I think it makes sense to me
that dashing would have the same like if my movement speeders have I mean I
can google it. I wish Maya would do it. That why do you
think you're in this campaign? I should have Also, it's let's be googling
everything for me, love journal, can't can't hop here. All right,
we're gonna go with Yeah, me too, I have gloves on, so
well, calculate your total movement including the dash and half it. That's that's
what I think it is. Okay, okay, cool. And if I'm
wrong, well, it's only the fate of weld in the balance, so
it's okay, no big deal. Okay, thank you. I'm going to
run forward thirty then I will okay, Then I'm gonna cast. I'm gonna
try guiding Bolt on the hand again. Okay, whoa twenty three twenty three
is a hit. Yeah, I'm going to cast that level two. Actually,
so damage, that's a lot of damage, radiant damage. Radiant damage
means it's holy damage basically. All right, So you've done damage bad twenty
three m looking at it, you would hope, So yeah, I do.
I do. I'm sure. And while this does seem to do a
lot of damage and tear through and run through some of the flesh. The
fact that it's radiant doesn't actually seem to have any additional effect. Okay,
okay, uh. After that, I'm going to cast healing word on myself
as a bonus action. All right. I think you can move the extra
on dash is what I'm getting from chat. It's not the toe, okay,
okay, if you want to move an extra what fifteen feet? Fifteen?
Yeah, I'll take that fifteen because I think it. I think it
would be good. Thank you preoccupied it in the usual question, but yeah,
fifteen okay, right, then I'm gonna cast healing word on myself level
one cast take seven seven heel okay, Frank, I will was distracted.
I will move okay, all right, need help, thank you thirty ft
and then I know I will use my dash move an additional theory feet and
then I'm going to uh him absolutely nothing else. Yeah, actually no,
I'll cast the expeditious retreat as a bonus action. Okay, you don't have
can trips. Isn't a dashabus, No, that's just not all right?
Alright, sorry, actually yeah, sorry, I distracted around hours a bonus
action because I use the expiditious retreat. Okay, ye all right, yea,
I see, Yeah, you're welcome. It's my turn. I'm done.
Okay, children, Okay, I see I this picture that he has
various rings and jewelries on. Is that just a flavor or would he actually
have various metallic endorsements? He has these huge, ginormous metallic rings on these
huge fingers and gigantic metallic bracelets. Then I will cast heat metal upon one
of these rings upon his fingers, so it would just remain save. Any
creature in physical contact with the object tasts two D eight fire damage when I
cast it. I don't think is there a safe for it? No?
I think it's just flat damage. Uh let me yeah, and yeah,
you've done it. If the creatures holding or wearing the object, you must
succeed on a con saving throat. Oh there you go. Sorry, I
think it still takes the full damage. It's just the weather. It drops
the object actually, so slop a finger off, so I'll do the con
say for you regardless. I don't think you can drop it but nine,
so it fails. It's only four fire damage or fire damage. It can't
drop the ring, but it does have disadvantage on its next attack apparently directly.
Yeah, yes, okay, it's take that you're a big bastard.
Yeah, one of these rings finger, Yeah, just it does that glowing
hot red thing. The creature sort of does respond like it does that,
like it turns and its hand moves in one direction and in sort of a
reflexive move. I think it's just going to attempt to bat away at you.
Let's see one for Maya and two for Leah Gilden to Jilden, you
are going to be potentially subjected to this on a nine, I'm guessing it's
a miss. As again it sort of reflexively responds to the heat from the
ring and the Yeah, you're able to sort of turtle up just in time
and avoid being struck by it. However, once again it is going to
bring up its hand and each needs to make a strength save Children's up cirrus.
You're back on the ground. Thrank hits the ground. See it hits
the ground and you take ten force damage as this concussive blast strike. Actually
I'm going to push you to the ground. Yep, do some bullshit,
Okay, As I'm about to fall, I fall and hit the ground and
then I sort of focus my energy, and in front of me a clock
appears and it starts ticking, and then it starts ticking backwards, and I
spring back to my feet and I get to Everything sort of goes back in
time for me about five seconds and I get to roll again. Okay,
cool, and I do worse time around happens and then he just falls back
and then I just fall over, and actually this time it's worse. And
I'd like to take a point of damage, and I slam my face into
the eye. Well, you take eleven points of damage. The other two
take ten points of damage from this, and all three of you are on
the ground. See how it's your turn. I use my half my speed
to get up, So now my total speat is twenty. Before I continue,
it's important to ask, so this creature, this necro title is uh,
are all the fingers, I mean, are they counted as individual fingers
or is it just one entity? The hand is one entity? Okay,
all right? Yeah, if you want to get funky with doing something with
one of the fingers, then it might you know, you can do any
like get funky with a finger. Yeah, mechanically it's just it's just a
hand. But yeah, potentially you can. You can always think outside the
box and it ll okay, you know, whatever happens, all right,
In which case I will try and swing down on the nearest finger to me
with my quarter staff. Whether sixteen to hit, sixteen does hit? Okay?
And with that I have the crusher feet whenever ideal blunt damage, I
can once return move something. What moved the creature? I'm hitting five feet
away from me? So like creature, I was hoping finger and so by
trying to move the finger away from the rubbles that that particular finger is on.
Okay, I think that that's fair to say that you do that.
Did you say you add an extra thing in there? Or you're just hitting
it. I'm just hitting it to move. Yeah, I'm hitting it with
damage. Let me roll the damage sorry, six points of blooding damage.
And as I do that, the finger shifts five feet. Yeah, okay,
you know what else I'm gonna do? Do you have like some sort
of monk DC monk DC, Yeah, like, do you have a DC
for anything? Asn't because some I know some classes have different I don't have
a spell save DC or anything like that. No, all right, but
let's set it to wisdom. Okay, and tell me what your spell saved
DC would be. H Okay, you can just go on your spell page
and set it to wisdom and it will give you an answer, by the
way, rather than figuring it out. Okay, spell page. Umm,
it's a spell casting ability none I can change into wisdom. Yeah. Twelve
twelve Okay, I'm going to roll a con save for this giant, and
if it rolls under a twelve, something significant happening, which it does as
seven. By the way, this giant has a plus four to its con
save. So okay. I think what happens here is essentially you cause this
giant to react because I think you it's already reacting to the fact that the
ring is burning its hand. Then you sort of force its hand backwards or
its finger back road, and at this point it takes its hand off of
the rocks. There is enough for this thing to lift this ginormous hand upwards
and suddenly crashing down the mountainside a huge cascade of snow and rocks following in
their way. As these rocks crumble and rush across the landscape below, you
see this like creature step away from the mountain. The entire time you were
fighting it. It didn't even look at you. You're able to watch as
these these rocks rush in in a sort of loose wall, eventually crashing into
the lake itself at the western edge of the town limits. It appears to
have worked. It's rudimentary, but a wall. Nonetheless, this sort of
thin veil between the town on one side and the Horde of Creatures on the
other. But it is something. What do you guys do immediately after that
with creatures of that size on this side. I don't think that it's going
to have done much. I am not a problem. I feel I can
have a bowl of stew if the stew still exists. We need to assess
the situation, I believe. Can we look over and we can we tell
if it stopped the onslaught of the Horde of Undead Creatures? How was the
town doing? Can we see that? From me? From up here?
It looks as if maybe you'd probably have to go down. There's also an
annoyous amount of DeBras that's like lifting up and creating it. The tower has
been crushed, correct, there's no way back out. Will the top of
the tower was destroyed. I mean it's possible. You can still get out
through the bottom. Okay. The Necro Titan, it stopped. Uh,
it just stopped, and it was looking at something the whole time, right,
it was yeah, just sort of like attacking the people below, okay,
rather than you for just the refords of creatures below and Goliath, there
wasn't a significant target. He was spoke as ill. Okay, right,
are there more of them or just the one? Can I see in the
distance, give me a perception check, okay? Twenty it's first of all,
it's very hard to see. There is a sort of icy mist,
and it's nighttime. The only light really is coming from the town and some
of the fires lit around where the watchtower was. The creature, the Necro
Titan is actually moving away right now, its feet moving away from the area.
It seems to be the only one. But you can see on the
ground on the other side of the wall that there are other giants where the
Necro Titan is absolutely enormous. These are more traditional looking giants. Imagine if
you've seen Game of Thrones they had those giants with the White Walkers, those
ones, they're still very sill out the size of a house, but there
are a few of those littered in there that looked like they were about to
like they were close enough to the wall as it came down that you probably
stopped them just by bringing this ball down in time. But in terms of
necro tight and it seems to be just the one and it's sort of moving
away right now. I think I turned too serious, and I say,
well, if Woreol is going to do anything now, well now's the time
to do it. I can I see Woreol from where we're standing, I
don't think so. Okay, it's pretty far away. The town is on
the so there's the town is on a lake. The lake is pretty huge.
The town is on one side of it, and at the center of
it is where Woreol is. But it's just too dark. It's too far
away and too dark. Okay, magic catch my pa ATTERI moment, I'd
like to take sure sniff agun. Yeah. You. What I'll give you
is that you are safe to come down out of the mountain and by the
time you sort of get to the next point will have been short rest time,
so an hour or so, and we're going to say that that's what
happens. I think as you proceed down the mountain, you do realize that
part of this tower has been destroyed, and as you walk through some of
the debris, you're able to still get out, but the tower itself is
clearly wrecked. Predominantly the top half of the tower has just been destroyed.
It was sort of like hitting a golf ball off of a tee for this
necro Titan, and you have to move through some debris, but you're able
to get back outside. This place is a mess. What do you think
happened here? I think we saw what happened here, absolutely oblivious by the
way, just walking around like a yeah. The the loose stone wall is
actually enormous. It's much larger than it appeared from the top of the mountain.
It seems to have pulled a great deal of the mountain down with it
as it fell, so the shale and rock ceiling off the town from the
wilderness on the other side. And there's a brief lull in the fighting after
this wall came down. The necro Titan retreated back into the midst of the
cold and the night. Most of the undead seem to have sort of followed
with those that are on this side of the wall mopped up by the townsfolk
and the fighters of the watch. Oswald regroups with his men, and I
think in this time you're also able to sit to one side, patch yourselves
up. You can do anything. You regain on a short rest, you
get back, you get you can roll, hit dice and yeah, a
loose hour ish of time asses as Oswald moves around, and he's moving all
the way up and down. So the space between where the Eastern watchtower is
and the lake itself is pretty significant. So he moves up and down that
checking with his men and the townsfolk and stuff. After some time he comes
to you and he requests that you go and find Thoughts, the head cleric
who sort of heads up the relationship between the angel Bril and the council who
run the town of Moon here. And I think he's sort of standing there.
He's kind of cut up and bruised up, and you know, most
people are looking pretty battered. There are a few dead. And he says,
first of all, I think he gives for the first time in all
the time you've maybe known him, he doesn't give you each a look of
disdain. It's not it's not that he gives you a smile or a warm
look, but he doesn't give you a look of you know, mild,
the dying or the test. I'm just giving him that look though mutual.
Yeah, he says, thoughts, I have heard nothing from him all week
now that I come to think of it, Please find him. We need
him more than anyone for this foe. Yes, of course, he didn't
say anything to you the last time you saw him. Thus often says many
things, but most of it is cryptic. I don't deal in rooms and
prophecies. I deal in blood, That is all prophecies. Did he mention
one? Yes, we have known something was coming. Myself thought odd.
A few of the council members, and you didn't think to tell any of
us. We did not know what it would be, and you four specifically,
I was told to tell nothing at all. Oh, right, that
makes you feel well. If he knew that there was a prophecy, he
would have taken action. He would be he would be doing what he believed
to be right too. We have taken action. We have set you to
task, weak in and week out, training you or is this asked?
What that was? Chols m hm Errands chores to be sure that was your
training. It has made you stronger. Now, look how well you build
a wall? I think I start. I do not know where heart is.
He has been gone for some time. As he is one to do
much like thoughts, he deals in ways that I simply do not understand.
Turned what how often does Thors visit for Riel? Would it be reasonable for
me to think that that's where he went. He's there more than anyone,
and he's there more than he's at his house or he's at the shrine grounds
or anything like that. Yeah, he spends a significant amount of time with
the angel. We must start with Woreol. If he knew that something was
coming, he would commune, ask for guidance. He would be in constant
communication. He would not leave. He would not leave us. It looks
like he already had. That would be curious. Indeed, if he had
left and get your hope, Chap mm hmm, would not the us.
Okay, mm hmmm. Where do you go to the temple? Yeah?
I think that's where I would suggest we had anyone had an argument When I
need hard or something? How do I usually find him? You don't he
finds you? Is a short answer. He I don't think he has literally
ever responded to a summons from you, or even if you've been like,
hey, do you want something to eat? You know, he he's just
not that way inclined. He is very sort of alien in the way that
he thinks. And I think although you will have got to know him over
the years, he's still just a complete mystery and he vanishes for huge periods
of time. I think you've you've probably spent more time alone than with him,
even while studying directly underneath him at the Wizard's Tower. Yeah, all
right, oh yeah, I'll go with him. Hang, I'll go to
the Angel. Okay, yeah, I think you sort of pack up a
few things, you know, brush yourselves off, and head back in towards
the town itself. For only a few months of the year, the water
of the great lake that this town sits aside is unfrozen, and travel to
and from the Temple of Dunatis during the summer simply must be made by boat,
so I think you, and there's plenty of them rowboats and canoes.
The lake is known as the Lake of Serenity or the Lake of Tranquility,
so it's always sitting very still it's very easy to get to and fro and
I think, yeah, seriously, you just lead them to a row boat.
Everybody gets in out of curiosity. Who would be the person who actually
rows the rowboat out of the group, just so I have a picture in
my head. Absolutely not me. Yeah, I feel like I would probably
offer to do it just to like, yeah cleric. As a cleric here,
I would feel it would be my duty to do the grundiest tasks along
the way. Yeah, I just step into the boat and go to the
bow and lie down with my arms behind my head. I watched my bag
up nut immediately try to stop her from grabbing my nuts. Ye, my
nut bag roll the nut bag again. She's actually done it. You're gonna
have to what's the what's the DC on that? I think it's just contested
role, So you can roll your own dexterity based check back. I do
decksterity or can I do perception? You'd be quite used to this by now,
So which everyone you prefer? Yeah? Yeah, I think yeah,
yeah, go for whichever. I've told you I'm getting my bag of nuts,
so you know what. Okay, Well, in that case, i'd
like to use your perception oh, yeah, you recorded history. Finally good.
He grabs, she grabs nuts as to day. Indeed, I never
thought i'd love to see the day. It's been a year? Has it
not been a year? And you've even trained together for a lot of time
in large fruitful or not full? It really is the end. Perhaps the
training was good after all? Uh for threack apparently? Yeah. You You
clamber into the boat and head across the lake, and there's a sort of
sudden quiet and chill to the night settling on you as the boat makes it
steady way across the water, the tranquil lake lapping at the wood of the
boat for some time, until eventually the temple itself comes into view. I
don't know if all of you will have been to this temple, but that
would be up to you to sort of figure out in your own minds.
But this thing is huge from the from the distance and during the day it
is crazy site. At the center of this huge lake is this miniature mountain
range, And at the center of that miniature mountain range is this enormous stone
temple built around the natural mountain. And along this temple are these huge glyphs
that glow a sort of steady orange twinkling in the night sky like oddly shaped
stars. And the temple is built around the mountain, and the mountain is
the angel Woriel, the creature that keeps this town protected from the harsh and
unforgiving Arctic lands beyond its influence. And this temple is often empty, but
especially so tonight. There's nobody at the foot of the mountain. There are
no other boats except one, and one man is sat naked at the foot
of the stairway that leads up into the temple, facing away from you.
On his knees, A small and thin goliath thaws. His body is a
sort of orchestra of scarification and lattice work tattoos, and his gray head beard
flows back across his shoulders in the timid breeze. As you approach. He
doesn't stand, he doesn't turn. He simply begins to speak and says,
the towns, the people, the animals, even the angels are all gone.
This wave of death has been moving towards us for a full cycle,
our full year. It has even destroyed the plants. I do not despair,
child, All hope is not lost. There must be more of us
alive. Out there. There has to be a way to stop this.
Last summer, when I witnessed the Aurora, the omen of dark days,
I prepare the group to travel out to stop it. Our strongest myself had
the wizard Oswald, and when our alchemist but the angel groaned in commune.
You need convince me this would end in failure. What we are witnessing,
what begun a year past, is the end of the world be in our
ton Ragnarok. But the prophecy is wrong. This is not how it is
supposed to be. The prophecy of Ragnarok is wrong. Something about all of
this is wrong. This is now Regnaroc as it was foretold. It's too
early still for real. Showed me four faces against all lords. Four strangers
stand before me. It seems that through divine understanding only you are bonded,
bonded beyond the surface things, bonded. A's the soul more even than blood.
Yet you are a family, a tete. You may even know this
bonding in many tongues across the world over it is known as cura. It
is due to this bond that you are shielded from the dark eyes of whatever
has caused this swift death of our world, and it is due to this
bond that you are our only hope. He stands up slowly and finally turns
to you. The old Goliath's body is swaying, as if he's not eaten
or slept for days. Clasp one another's hands quickly. Now time is a
luxury we can no longer enjoy. Old still must die before you then,
or see it can object. I quickly reach out and crab over that end.
Thank your house cold, kay. I'll take searous hand and serious hand
and pat her on the hand. Mhm. You may notice now that one
of my hands is concealed, so it's small and deformed. I pull back
my cloak and reveal it. Eh m, I still turn away and still
hold it. Anyway. You will feel now the power not just afoil,
but of all the angels of all the gods. They represent a great string
that binds us and them flows through you. It nexts you to them.
If they are the angels of our gods, and you are the word of
yourself, our angels our aspara the spoken valkyrie. Perhaps look now it manifests.
There's a slight heat sensation as a symbol appears upon your skin. Eh,
it looks a little something like this, which you cannot see on the
dark mode. Hey, that'll do. You each have this symbol somewhere upon
your body, but it's up to you to tell me where on your body.
It appears right on my throat. Nice. It appears on my right
shoulder. It is on my bed chest. It's also on my chest s.
Yeah, it looks like a combination of a sort of dark tattoo and
a scar, maybe a burn as it appears. He continues to speak,
but turns away from you again, looking back at the angel for a moment.
You may each have been born outsiders, but you are one of us
now. No matter who you are, where you come from, what you
look like, our differences disappear when faced with death. He turns around and
he's smiling for the first time. He rests his eyes for a little longer
on children than anyone else after saying that, and then he says, chosen,
cura hid me. Now this next task, I beseech you there is
another warrior out there, one who may just by us the time we need.
In this world, angels live among us, many great invincible beings of
immeasurable power, a bridge between us and the gods. These creatures are not
as you might imagine them. While some are human like in her appearance,
most are alien. A sitting mountain, a giant boar, a hovering sphere.
Each of the angels provides a powerful boon to the surrounding area and its
inhabitants. They do not speak to us, they do not move. We
built our world around them. They shaped our cultures. We rely on them
until something dark came along. Now, one by one, the angels have
been slain, the people of the lands around them slaughtered. A wave of
death is spreading across our world. Only a few places remain as a final
bastion of life, only a few against an endless horde of a polivion.
And within these few a single band of unlikely heroes, bound by forces beyond
their understanding. In this world, there is only a single word that describes
their soul bound connections. Hello. This is Brad Whoto from Table Story.
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