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Thank you for listening and enjoy. So this is flight. I wonder
if I can see your house from here? Yielden, yep, my mistake.
She's in her shell. I believe that dragons can go upwards of almost
three hundred feet per second. I hope it doesn't go that fast. See
where are we going? No response? See where are we going? I
suppose it he's taking us exactly where we need to go. You're very observant
of you. Yell? Then are you ready to come out of your show?
Do I have to? What's the matter with her? I suppose I
tap her with my stuff? What's the matter with you? Pop my head
out of my shell? I think myself. Anyone gave you a permission get
ath we, I tap it again, then put it away, and then
proceed to keep looking out beyond the dragon's spine, holding onto one of its
long spikes on its neck. Enraptured by the dragon scales, and I'm sort
of just like looking at them, touching them a lot. Every now and
then there's a sort of puff of fire that comes out from under some of
the scales you have to avoid. Beautiful. Oh well, do you think
this creature is m I would estimate, uh, probably thousands, if not
hundreds. Do you think we're all dragon can? Did they come from?
Did you if you think we're all dragon king? No? Do you think
dragon can come from these? From this dragon? The other dragons? They
say that they do. But do you know anything about that frag? Is
that knowledge that I might have about dragons? Let's find out, roll me
a history check rack, get around much, Golden boy, No response if
I so? The the going myth. So there are creatures that are known
as dragon born, And the sort of understanding of how they came about wasn't
that they were They're not like related to or they weren't born of like dragons
or half dragons or anything. It's that they were either created by dragons or
created by one of the potential dragon or draconic angels which are out there.
Well serious, I believe that dragon born were either created by dragons, which
is what I think. Most of the readings I have read say, aren't
some religious teachings say that they were created by several different angels. Yes,
thank you, I say a raison. You're curious. My father always told
me it was the angels when I looked at when I looked in as,
I didn't see anything that I recognized. Of course, Well, about how
long have we been in flight now? Maybe twenty minutes? And do we
know roughly what direction we're going? Based on some vis it seems like you're
going south right, makes sense back where we came from. All okay,
you think we're going back peraps extra cold, I hope. Oh well,
dragons, this horrible no response. This is the first one I've ever met.
Take drag. What do you think this dragon versus that big old hen
thing? Oh? Undoubtedly this dragon would destroy act undead giant. Well,
here's hoping. I'm not sure that's the reason we're going back there. I
think perhaps she just wants to see for himself. I guessed as much,
DM, does this dragon look like it has any loose scales? You can
make me a survival check, or I guess an investigation or a perception check.
I'll take any of those, exception alright. Twenty two. The scales
on this thing are or on its back at least where you are all predominantly
sat around and sort of gripping onto. Some of the spines and spikes that
come off of its neck and down its spine are enormous. They're like they're
huge, just like sitting on a like a palette, you know, that's
the size they are. None of them look loose here whatsoever. However,
there are lots of smaller scales that you've and you've probably you would have seen
these as it was standing up and speaking to you. They run all along
it and underneath different parts of its body. And actually as the thing took
off, a bunch of those scales did fall off and shed, and it
was like coins falling, you know. Most of them probably the size of
a dinner plate, the smallest one being the size of a dinner plate.
But you know that's kind of thing. So actually, it seems to have
quite a lot of loose scales, but not on the part that you're sat
on, on the top, on this sort of underside of this dragon,
there's a decent I need to remember what character I'm playing now. I can't
just look for shinies to as much as I do, but I'll keep an
eye out just in case. But thank you, because of course you mentioned
before it was metallic, So I'm thinking to myself, well, dragon metal
could feture hefty price. Are we there yet? Are we going higher lower?
Are we just maintaining a steady course right now? Well, we could
feel or sense when we're landing. Yeah, you can tell when he's going
up and down. For the most part, he's sort of I think the
first part of this journey was quite turbulent, as he was out over the
open water and heading in towards the mountain range. At this point, he
seems to be weaving between a lot of the mountains that are in the snowfields.
He's already passed over the pure lands and he seems to be in that
area and just see to be kind of lazily loping through this area. You
get the sense that the dragon knows the direction it's going, but is also
somewhat searching and kind of looking as it's lying through the air, as it
sort of snakes across that landscape. But yeah, I mean I can tell
when it's going up and down, but I don't think it is very much
I see anything beyond the King the Nation of Uma at our height. Yeah,
give me a perception check, and then also let's see how I want
to roll me a D six as well. Five. It's pretty misty.
It's got that kind of snowy, misty, white out looking vision or lack
of vision, so really you can't see much at all, and it's not
really through any fault of your eyesight, more just that this whole area is
quite pretty much just it's not a clear day, and it's pretty much just
it looks like an entirely mist covered continent from where you are right now,
generally speaking, under the assumption that this dragon flies at least close to Voiol,
that it will immediately clear up and maybe there you'd have an idea of
looking out beyond that, but I don't think so right now, just based
on weather conditions, which is what that de sixt was. No, I've
never asked any of you what brought you to Moon. You'll have to speak
up. I never asked any of you what brought you to Moon? That's
so loud, not deaf. I'll take that as no answer. Yeah,
I'm not. I don't look. I think i'm sort of but one hand
like lazily gripped on a like a spine, and I just sort of like
going over some notes. I don't look up, and you ask your question.
I packed my head out and I have one hand holding onto her spine,
and I have my eyes tightly closed or refuse to look at the ground
around me. Well what brought Oh you've always been in Moon, right,
always, but for a while. Yes, why did you come back?
Oh I'm not from here, I'm from far away. Oh I came for
four wheel. You didn't have your own angel? Not really? How is
that possible? The angels everywhere you're born under one where you're not. I
was not. I help my eyes slightly to squinty up at stairs. I
was born between two h I'm sure that you can tell by how I look
that I'm not exactly Well, there was no angel for me, clearly,
just two angels who didn't really want me. So I came here. I
wasn't going to bring attention to your the way you looked. But since you've
brought it up, now, are you some sort of mongrooking or something?
My friend, my father was dragon born, Emreus mace hurt, dragon born.
My mother, Oh elfour half elf? Oh so you're you're part dragon
dragon like like this beast. Were neither of you listening now? Nor he
spoke of where dragon king come from? No, she saw nothing in the
dragon's eye like a father's. Some people have really strange relationships with their parents.
I didn't know if they were talking about it literally. Mhm. Who
knows how father family tree goes back? Really? Family bastards are in the
line and my there's a note lizard, no offense, jil Din a fence
taken fully good, turned back to look over the horizon. I never meant
to stay in Moon. In fact, I don't know why I stayed in
Moon. I never wanted to be here. This was just a stop on
the way on the way to wear. I thought i'd figured that out once
I got there, but I didn't. I was searching. Whoever it was,
must ought to have been more important than hitting your feet round the foot
brocades were quite good, and Moon, Yes, quite a stretching. But
no, no, that wasn't why out as time, I've been looking for
signs and yet I found none. I came here I thought i'd find more,
and I'm stuck in this snowy wasteland. And now look at me,
I'm at a dragon. Consider it that the seeking you were doing brought you
to Moon, brought you to us bonde. Did remember you make that sound
so dirty? Do I just be my ears what it is? Eh?
Maybe that was his visional along. Maybe you're the key after all? Key,
I retreat back into my show. Well, I've told you once before.
Wasn't lying still the same? I came on pilgrimage, That's all I'm
sharing with you, all right? Who I now? The angel of the
Nearish Land drow En glaith. I suppose let's see give me a history check,
a dirty twenty, a dirty twenty, or your secrets will be mine.
The drow have several angels underground. There are several angels underground, There
are several out at sea, and there are several at the tops of mountains,
and there are several in the skies flying around as well. There are
even a few just walking about all over the world that don't really adhere to
the rule of sort of remaining within its localized domain. That's just brow angels.
No, that was just a general angel bit of knowledge Angel, Okay,
right. The closest one to here would probably be from the mountain range,
which is directly south of So directly south of Uma, it's a place
known as Selve. Just slightly south west of that is a place known as
Reld, and there is a mountain range that runs all the way along from
west to east, quite a significant way south of where you are in Uma.
Underneath that mountain range there is a pretty significant seat of Drow people and
places. I don't know how much of this you would know personally, and
I don't know how much of it you might trust from the from the books
that you have read, because there is not a lot of pretty solid information
about a lot of the places in the underdark and how they worship their angels
and even what their angels are. This isn't a setting in which all Drow
are evil, but most of the Drow that live underground, and most of
the to be honest, most of the civilizations that live underground, and most
of the angels that are underground tend to align evil in some way or form.
Along that mountain range, there is a there is a roaming Dryder angel
known as known as it is the Angel of Silver Tom and it is called
the vh A. That is the closest one and I will write that down
for you as well, so that you have that. And that would be
the closest sort of Drow civilization and kind of a city maybe under there that
you would have known about at least a huge set of tunnels. And there
is a pretty just ginormous and I'm saying Dryder, but I think that a
drider is probably just the closest thing to describe what it is are driders,
and this thing is very different. But it's one of the more human like
angels actually, So there's that as well. I know anything about its alignment
very evil. Yeah, No one goes in that mountain range. People go
out of their way to travel by land and go all the way through the
till plains until and railed and salvey up to Uma. Anybody that might have
traveled here by foot probably made that journey. If you did choose to go
through and under through the mountains and stuff, it would have been incredibly treacherous.
I think you know Frodo going through that spider tunnel in the Lord of
the Rings. It's a horrible set of very dangerous, dryder riddled, chaotic,
evil, drder riddled areas. And if you run into that angel,
I mean, I don't think there's a single person that has survived. And
that angel is said to be able to just pretty much immediately entraw you and
turn you into a driver of its own. So that's kind of what it's
supposed to do. So it's like incredibly haunted, incredibly scary. People don't
go in there. That's the closest rove, okay, all right, but
drow could potentially live there, even though it's okay, all right. There
are other drough societies, and there's other drought. There's an above ground area
where there are a drought as well, very lawfully good drought, but not
not nearby, nowhere nearby, absolutely miles away on one of the only sort
of islands. I think I would say, yeah, hmmm, do you
think the under dark is faring as well's everywhere else? Oh, I wouldn't
doubt it. As below as above or whatever they say. It's the end
of the days. You must have traveled a long while to get here.
Oh, yes, Jilden wasn't the only one to get foot wraps. How
long did it take me? Too long? Mm hmm, I see,
I just keep about all I would say. I'll just keep studying, reading
my book, words that I've read dozens of times before. I think,
I pipe up. Why why are you so curious all of a sudden?
M? I don't know. I suppose situations like this suing any knowledge be
helpful, But I guess it's sort of rasping the strolls and trying to find
a needle in a haystack. I've had of shower thoughts before, but never
dragging back thoughts. But here we are. Mhm. Pilgrimage, she said,
yes, pilgrimage. Pilgrimages are generally religious. And are they not?
Well, I mean it depends, that's it. M. I think this
line of inquiry and inquisition is making not disturbed. But he finds it all
rather amusing. You know, I think this is probably the longest either you've
spoken to me directly for a while. Well, I can't speak for everyone
now, serious, can I? No? It was one thing when you
were visiting you know, people come to moon here and there. I mean,
it doesn't happen all of the time, but it does happen, and
a great majority of the time they don't stay. And I think of the
life you have before you came to be your own business, and it's of
course it still is. I don't mean to imply it isn't, but I
suppose I do think that now we are bonded. That word again, well,
does it not mean family? I should like to know my family if
I'm to have one. This goes awful, Oh family, Yes, I'm
not buying your birth year celebration gifts. You can think again, well,
she's the grandmother. That's always been the case. I suppose I mean who
I am, and where I'm from, and what I've been doing. I
suppose you could say I've been doing since birth a long journey, then quiet,
and then how long ago watched your birth? Anyway, how old are
you. I'd put my head back out and stare at him. It's like
the most abrupt thing you've ever seen, just like this tatal head of him,
thump out of the shell. I think I take my staff out and
push your head back into its shell. Going it's rude to stare they had
been one's about a jibe that youth had respect. I believe youth is relative.
No, mm hmm, Bye, I want to say it was my
birthday. I think you see. Siah's just gonna turn around again, looking
out in the horizon. Mm hm eh Frank, no response. Bye.
But he's like severely aware of his peripheral vision right now in case you try
to do something now, I expect advantage on like slapping away her hand if
she tries to steal something, I poke her hand out and start tapping his
leg. Yes, children, what can you see? I have a fear
of heights. I'm not looking. I have a fear of heights. He
describe it to me. I want to live a curiously through If you've got
a fear of it, why would you want me to describe what it looks
like flying on top of a dragon. But because I can't shay, it's
with my own eyes, so it doesn't matter. Really, Yes, I'll
just imagine it and that won't cause you fear. If it did, I
wouldn't have asked, would I. Well, it seems to me you tend
to ask for things you don't really want. Often like what wreck? Like?
What? I uh, can I see anything? It's just still foggy.
Let's see, we'll have a set of perception text from everyone. Why
not including the total I'm not looking for you're not looking around eighteen rongs today
for me? Great twenty one, No, boss, find that on eighteen
twenty one? You can all see something. Yes, the set of mountains
that you are passing through or you're about to pass through. You recognize that
one of them has that shape of a serpent that has the serpent caverns underneath
that you had visited some time ago. So you get the sense that any
moment now the dragon will be sort of entering into the area that Voreel protects,
and the they're probably going to at least fly through the town of Moon
where you started this journey. Right, we're almost back. You're doing good.
Good, it's been too long. Oh, I'm not sure what to
expect. I expect you to get a handful of fresh snow and jump it
straight into my shell once we land. Please, what do you mean for
that? Well, we've been gone for days. Who knows how many more
attacks they've had to endure. Well, surely they've been able to protect the
city. I cannot say for sure, we can only hope would you like
to find out because as flying on the dragon back towards the town of Moon
at sunset, really here you finally get a kind of a bird's eye view,
and after a few minutes you can see the huge lake that expands out.
Also, I think you would recognize as you sort of break through into
the presence of the angels protective sort of barrier, which is in kind of
an equidistant dome around the area. You immediately recognize that effect because the chill
of the air and everything remains, and the heat of the dragon remains,
but the general presence of arctic cold here significantly reduces, and then slowly the
sort of mist departs and you get a really probably the bizarre perspective on this
town that you've all been staying in. The lake is enormous, and it
stretches out in a sort of egg shape, with the tapering end of the
egg towards the south, and at the center of this lake is just an
absolutely enormous mountain slash temple where you have this set of huge spikes that come
up out of the top of it. It doesn't look much like a mountain,
but there's not really any other way to describe it, as it sort
of just has these enormous columns that taper off at the top that make up
the body of the Voreo and the temple that they built around it, and
then this enormous lake, which on one side of it has the town of
Moon. As the dragon begins to sort of somewhat descend here you can make
out that wall that you brought down from the furthest south end mountainside remains in
place, and the town seems to have lights and fires, and it doesn't
seem to be in quite as much chaos as you left it two days ago,
and it's not overrun. It doesn't seem to be like destroyed or anything.
It seems to be holding. And the dragon begins to descend towards the
center of the lake and the woil. However, the dragon's head sort of
suddenly snaps upwards, and each of you is forced to sort of hold on
as body sort of shifts. The dragon with the beat of its wings and
another sudden increase in temperature, suddenly dives towards the other side. I don't
know why that happened, and yeah, it dives towards the other side of
the lake, shooting straight past the angel and heading for the south side of
the lake. As he does so, I think you, since you roll
so high on those perception checks, I'm just going to give it to you
anyway. You notice a group of goliaths that are backing away from what looks
to be a small localized malstream of snow. Riothemus dives suddenly across this lake,
and the water lifts up as it and steams with its body as it
brings you down. The dragon's head sort of turns somewhat back to you and
says, and he turns over in a barrel roll, and each of you
tumble from the back of the snow. I would like everyone to make me
a dexterity saving throw as you land in the snow natural twenty, natural twenty
at sixteen and then at five and a six. All right, you had
to beat at fifteen or else you start this combat prone. Everybody, please
roll me some initiative as we land here. I think, as I fall
off the dragon, like the world turns upside down. But then my feet
kind of just tracked towards the floor, and I'm still counting on my hand
carry the leap month uh eighty eight, and I'm on my feet and they're
on the floor. Yeah, as always, place yourselves within the sort of
black or dark area that is there on the map. You will see that
there are two creatures known as snow defilers. There are also two goliaths,
and behind those two goliaths two goliath children. These two goliaths ahead of you,
one is very clearly a Goliath shield maiden, which means she's part of
the Watch. But she is sort of an esteemed member of the Watch,
so she's particularly good at fighting. She's probably she might be a captain or
something. She might lead a group on excursions. It could mean a number
of different things, but she's a fighting goliath. The other goliath, while
being naturally very big and burly and masculine in sort of stature, appears to
be he's not covered in armor and doesn't have one of the moon bucklers,
and doesn't seem to have that kind of fighting sense to him. However,
both of them do look injured. They look as though they've already been fighting,
and maybe they've been fighting for some time. You are going to land
next to these creatures, the two creatures shambling towards these goliaths as you land
in the snow, two of you kind of just rolling over and just getting
swarmed and buried in this snow for a second before bringing your heads up.
Two of you landing successfully, you know, rolling maybe in and coming to
a stand, can easily make out that these creatures that are moving towards the
goliaths here are kind of like spirits or ghosts. They are quite hard to
make out because they are caught within their own sort of personal snowstorm, a
ghostly visage, within a snowstorm of their own here. Now you are landing,
but the dragon lifts up, suddenly flies upwards, and then dips over
the other side of the wall. And then there's the sound of undead and
sudden dragonfire as re Othemus begins to lay waste to just the endless undead that
are beyond the wall there, leaving you to deal with whatever these two creatures
are here. Now, I do need to roll initiative for all of my
creatures as well. I came back, got back and leave as soon as
we need him. Of course he does, Yeah, she says, is
gone. Let me grab a quick initiative for these two as well. The
the goliaths, I don't think have any idea what's going on at first,
because they just see a dragon appear, which is something I doubt they've ever
seen, and then a bunch of people roll off the back of it.
Regardless of whether you recognize them or not, they appear to be fighting for
their lives. And at the top of the turn order and starting us off
is you are standing where you want to be stood the beginning of this.
Okay, right, So remind me what what does it take to stand up
from pro half your movement? Okay, I will stand up, and I
think I will go with a magic missile. So I raise my staff and
some energy coalesques at the end of it, and I sort of send out
a few burst of energy from the tip my staff towards the yellow snow drifting
Okay, snow defiler, sorry, put it right, filer. Okay,
he's a very well he's about to be defiled by my magic missiles, very
very particular about my snow defilers. Okay, let's see here. So this
is four five and two. As these things fly across, I think that
these creatures are sort of quite hard to recognize any thing really, as they
kind of have their backs to you. The magic missiles launch through the sort
of localized little snowstorm and they strike this creature. As two of them hit,
you see the creature almost blur and shift in place a bit like you
know in the matrix when the agents are avoiding bullets. It sort of does
that even though these magic missiles are hitting the creature it's one minute's away from
you. Then it turns and you get a glimpse of this creature and it
does seem to be almost like a ghostly robed individual with white, cold dead
eyes. And then again a shift as the third one hits, it acknowledges
that you've hit it, but it continues to sort of shamble towards the two
goliaths there as well. You want to do anything else, Yeah, I'll
move closer, so I have. I'll move like there, okay, bout
as far as I can get. You know, it's my joan, Okay,
all rightlith number one, the the man goliath rushes forward with mace in
hand and a sort of a war cry as he rushes at this creature.
As soon as you see him disappear into the snowstorm around this creature. You
sort of lose track of him, even though he's so close to you.
This snowstorm around this creature obscures where he is, but you do again see
that kind of odd blurring and shifting as the goliath attempts to attack this creature,
and he is successful as he deals a little damage to it himself,
and then the creature is going to attack back twice. Well, not good
for him. He is immediately out. Yeah, he runs into this snowstorm.
He strikes at this creature, swinging his mace, and then suddenly there
is this kind of maelstrom of movement within this snowstorm, the snow defiler itself
moving, flitting beyond where you can see it, and then behind this goliath
then it's the snowstorm kind of covers it. And then you hear like a
thigh and crunch of snow, and you see that mace roll out as this
guy is done. So we shall say there's a sort of a scream from
behind the creature as the second goliath runs in as well, rushing forward.
Now she would have but doesn't have a completely different weapon. One second,
I'm pretty sure. I added this right at the beginning of the campaign when
I added all the weapons to Goliath to the Goliath character sheet, because I
knew there would be an endless amount of Goliath in combat. All right,
here we go, and ain't she misses anyway, just kind of blurs through
this creature as she begins screaming and attacking the snow Defiler Cyrus two ghosts ahead
of you. Yeah, I landed pro Yah. Yes, that's half of
my movement. Okay, first I'm gonna move up of fifteen feet. I'm
doing like math mm hmm. Okay, I think I can do this as
much as I want. I'm going to use my channel divinity turn on dead
on the snow Defiler to my left. Okay, what does that day?
Each undead that I can see or hear, or that can see or hear
me within thirty feet must make a Wisdom savings throw. If the creature fails
its throw, it's turned for one minute. Turned creature must spend its turns
trying to move as far away from you as you can. And it can't
willingly move to a space within thirty feet of you. It can't take reactions.
It can only use dash to try and get away. Okay, let's
go Wisdom Savings thrier. Yeah, I'm min atcha A twelve. What's your
spell side DC? It is fourteen? Okay, so that's a fail.
So this thing is feared right now. Yeah, I can't hit the other
one unfortunately. It's like within thirty feet and I'm five feet away from thirty
five? Can I see? Can I see the goliaths that are attacking this
other snow defiler? I know that there's lots of snow. You can see
visibility, you can see, uh somewhat, let's see. Yeah, you
it's it's sort of like the area that is blue around this creature is obscured,
but you can see. Okay, I'm going to cast there is no
snowstorm outside of these creatures because you're within the fouriel protection. There is never
a snowstorm here. Okay, yeah, okay, in that case, I'm
going to cast healing word ah on the other goliath. That's still five okay
for eight healing or eight healing? Nice? All right, that's it for
me, thanks, all right. The other snow defiler has to spend its
times moving far away from music. Can it can't willingly move to a space
within thirty five of you, and it also can't take reactions for its action.
It can use the only use the dash action, or try to escape
from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's no way to move
the crew, you can use the dodge action. Okay, I think it's
going to try and escape. Then it is going to move. Ah all
the way over here and head along the wall and ahead of you, by
the way, at the top of this battle map is part of that wall
that you brought down, the sort of the natural wall that you've made immediately
out of Lego in the first episode. So that's where you're at, but
you're on the very are the lake side of it? Jild in your turn.
Yeah, that's right, get out of here. I'm going to run
towards these sort of area where the other dude is, I guess. So
here's my full movement and then uh so so my vision on him is kind
of obscured, yes, okay, then and her and that's the yeah,
the guy. There's a a man and a woman here. The man got
obliterated in round one and the woman is in there fighting this thing. Yeah,
think of Goliath. Lagatha from from vikings. That's what you're looking at.
I haven't taste of my medicine. I'm going to cast a moonbeam down
upon it, so that'll be a constitution. Slaving through con save two blastard
right, still takes half as much, so eight halved for radiant damage.
Okay, um, yes, it is engulfed in these ghostly flames, and
it is searing heat. Pain there You like badding cause I don't? All
right? Yeah, I think yeah. You see this thing kind of continue
to blur and shift as this column of light strikes it. It stays there
as well. Right, Is it at all a shape shifter? Or is
it just it's certain magic? Yeah? No, it's basically a ghost,
is the closest thing I can describe it as. Okay, does moonbeam stay
there? Do I need to give you a little thing? Yes? It
does persist. Let us make the moonbeam? All right? You want to
do anything else on your turn? While I am no create a moonbeam?
Spell marker about that? How big is it? Five foot? All right?
See it is your turn? Okay, what do we do? I
think what I shall do is I will move thirty feet now I use my
full distance of forty feet and move to here. And then I am going
to bring both hands in front of me, and the six slits on my
forehead open up into magenta ovals again and glower magenta, a bright magenta hue,
almost as if they're exuding light. And as that happens, I open
my mouth and you see a magenta fire in my mouth, and I spit
a faery fire at this snow dephiler in a twenty foot cube. That is
my drough magic, okay, and I have to make a deck sae dexterity
saving through yes eighteen eighteen succeeds, so they are not going to glow.
However, as long as they remain in that spot, they should have disadvantage.
And that spot would be a twenty foot cube. And I don't mind
where it is as long as it doesn't touch anybody who is a friend,
okay, because I can't draw, but if it's to draw, it would
be like here, okay, well there you go there it is. H
Yeah, you scuffed everything up? Great, No, it's okay, that's
fine, all right, yeah put it there, okay, put it back,
okay, ye, put it back. We'll do eventually once I can
click on the the game. I normally have a role that if you draw
on my map without mention that you are immediately removed from the campaign. But
I'm gonna let you off one. Everyone gets one. Everybody gets one,
all right? Sorry, my computers one for each campaign, or do the
mistakes from other campaigns carry their carryout? Because someone drew an eye on the
dragon last week, and that person when I found out who that was,
there so much, so much struggle. It's unbelievable. Okay, Sorry,
my computer's freaking out and it keeps closing my roll twenty windows um okue at
the end, you're turn to the top of the round. Let me see
I think that that counts as an action, so it would be my turn.
Yes, all right, h rack top of the round. Right.
I assume it's pretty hard to tell if these snow the filers are injured.
It's pretty hard to tell you, Okay, I will I'm gonna go ahead
and try to cast a fire bolt at the yellow one. A right ten
is a miss? Okay, so is out of the way of this spell?
Yes, because of fairy fire. You have advantage because of fairy fire.
He resisted. Yeah, I thought I got the fire still though,
that works. I don't know. The resistance is just for the glow effect,
I believe. Okay, quite really I think so the double jacks foursome.
That seems insane, but yeah, it's an actual spell. Right.
Each object was outlined in blue green your choice. Any creature in the area
when the spells cast is also outlined in light. If it fails, a
text areas saving sorry for the duration. Objects and affected creatures should then like
any attack ro against an affected creature or object has advantage of the attacker can
see it, and the affected creature object can't benefit from being invisible. Uh
is affected? Must mean them things that wouldn't need to make us say well
the fair enough? Okay? Uh yeah, okay, Well I missed,
but even though I missed, I still raised my staff. Some fire came
out of the end of it, and U shot over to the snow deviler,
going through it sort of matrix style. Then I will move five,
ten, fifteen, I'll move over. Heah agree, And that is my
tad. Yeah, all right, this goliath in there, Goliath Lagatha swinging
her great sword again at the creature. Oh man, if only that veriphire
had landed. That it's a ten. The miss there's just a bunch of
screaming coming from inside this thing, and then the snow defiler itself is how
smart is this thing? Is it kind of aware of what it is?
Yeah? All right, now it's starting its turn, does it Does it
become affected by the moonbeam there? Technically yes, but I used it wrong,
so in the future that would be the case. Oh, I see
it's not. Okay, Yeah, I'm going to move. I guess I'm
going to move over to here. The kind of just like it's it's a
bizarre thing to witness as it moves, it's no longer shambling. It kind
of just like blurs and shifts. And then suddenly you're inside of the sort
of area of effect of this snow shroud. And then the intensity of the
vortex of snow that surrounds it kicks up immensely. Those of you that are
inside of this creature's area of effect need to make me a dexterity saving throat,
please, dexterity saving throw. Yes, sorry, there you go,
and then a natural twenty as the Yeah, so, the the area of
effect kicks up massively. The bits of ice and snow in here turn into
little blades. There are even little stones that are picked up from the ground.
As this thing starts to slash at you, Jilden, you'll take the
full amount of twenty five damage and see a you take half rounded down.
Oh, as I see this happening horrifying in my eye, I think that
I will use a reaction to do my CHRONogy magic bullshit, and Jill then
can try and roll Dexterity shave again. Okay that minus two? Yeah,
yeah, well it can be worse this time. I think it's exactly the
same. Like it's probably confusing for you because you're sure this spell went off
and you just witness it happened exactly the same way again, japping you just
see it happen again, but different bits hitter instead. Dix Magic car is
a great name for it in the chat room there. Nice Okay, that
is the end of its turn, however, and it is Oh no,
that one's dead. Wait, I've messed everything up. We're behind that one's
dead. That one okay, yeah, so it would be her turn.
The shield made them, but we're going with Cyrus. Ok I am damn
it. I'm just gonna do I know that we want to kill this thing.
But I'm just going to do what Harris would do and cast Channel Divinity,
turn on Den again to try and scare this thing off because it's doing
a lot of really horrific things. Yeah, it's yes, yes, yeah.
Are you doing role playing? Doing what your character would do? What
an eleven? That's under my Uh okay, so it fails. Do you
want to do anything else? You still have a bonus? Yes, I
want to heal jild In thy leaf as if I don't have to touch you
to do it. Jilden. Uh, well that's some healing. Seven kild
you for seven e the other snow defire. That is exiting the map now.
A rule that I'm sure that we're all aware of because all of you
have played in a campaign of mine before. I have a rule where I
make the map relatively big, and you can escape battle by exiting the map.
If you can get off the map, you leave the combat, and
for you, time is paused. For everyone else still on the battle map,
it continues. Bear in mind like turns are rounds are six seconds,
so for you, like twelve seconds might pass before you might want to rejoin
the battle, but you simply cannot. You're out. It's over. You've
held down all the top buttons in a final Fantasy game and you've escaped the
battle. The same goes for this enemy as it exits the combat and is
gone, bringing us to Jildren's turn. Forgive me again? What is it?
A role of concentration check? For a spell you need to make a
constitution savings throughout? Okay, I will remember that eventually. All right,
some to you? Does the turns creature not have to move away? Or
who does she turn? She turned both of them, but this one hasn't
had its tone yet. Okay. So yeah, when you take damage while
maintaining a spell with a concentration tag, you have to make a con saving
throat with the DC of ten which you've beaten or half of the damage taken,
whichever is higher, which for you is this? So it was half
of twenty five, which is twelve, so you had to beat at twelve.
Either way, you've done it and you maintain concentration on your spell.
Oh annoying. Okay, I'm gonna rather than move my moonbeam, I'm gonna
burnus action wild shape into a brown bear. So probably, as I imagine,
this storm sends me spinning and as I spin, I kind of just
like transform into this massive bear and I'm going to multi tack two attacks.
I think you gave me a it's a sheet to roll with cool, So
first I'm gonna bite it seventeen hits. This is like you know when you
bite into like ice cream and it's the worst thing, like a solero or
something something that's like, you know, like got some to it. And
that's what it feels like, is you bite into this thing intimidating thing.
Ever someone into ice cream in front of me, I would respect them forever.
I would do whatever. They're the only way that you can get respect.
Does it bleed? Can I taste any blood? No, it doesn't
bleed. It kind of bleeds cold, is what it just feels like.
It's almost as if this thing, if this thing was a person, its
lungs would be a snowstorm, you know. Interesting it's a snow ghost in
that case, much find like a weird purchase. As you sort of tear
through this thing, it does feel like you bite into something, but it
isn't like you're tearing into flesh exactly. It would be a big hoof of
cold air and snow. As I bite this thing and then immediately exhale everywhere
at the grossness of it. So that's twenty two to hit the claws tack
as well. Yes, so that's eleven slashing, seven piercing, eighteen altogether.
All right, Yeah, I think you get the sense that actually wild
shape, you turn into an actual bear. You don't have a magical weapon,
do you. You're not You're not a magical bear. I don't count
as a magical weapon. So yeah, you get the sense that sort of
this is you're not doing as much damage as you wouldn't probably do to just
something that was alive, and it has resistance to these sorts of attacks from
non magical weapons. Important question, when I'm wild shaped, am I still
feeling this like burning Loki burning that I've been feeling. I'm gonna be honest
with you, that is kind of up to you. I guess it depends
how you wild shaped. You consider yourself to still just be you, but
you've turned into a bear, or have you taken on an aspect of a
particular animal that you know or or you know something like that. I've definitely
taken on something other than children. Yeah, that's then maybe it would you
know, dampen it a little something like that. It's really up to you.
I was really wondering if biting this ice cream would make me feel better.
Actually, this is kind of nice. You're not sort of magically on
fire, and as annoying as that is for a GM to do to you,
to be like, it's up to you whether you're feeling you know how
bad this feels. It really is, So I want you to interpret it
however you and however you interpreted that little situation with the dragon, I'll let
you sort of carry over some of that, Okay, see ya, Okay,
I am going to step where is the curse there is? I'm going
to step down here just to the southwest of the creature, and then I'm
going to bring out my quarter staff and swing towards it for twenty two to
hit twenty two hits. So with that that six into bludgeting damage and I'm
going to use my crusher feet to move at five feet to the north way
to the northeast. Sorry, Okay. Then I'm going to follow up on
it, and as I do, I am going to use flurry of blows,
burning one key point and then punching it with a closed fist towards the
creature. Let me see, it's unarmed attack for a fourteen to hit fourteen
hits. Okay, with that fourteen hitting, I am going to try and
do an open armed tech open hand technique. You see that once the disconnects
with this apparition, the hand then opens up again towards it. It needs
to succeed a dexterity saving sorry, a strength saving throw sorry ten ten fails.
It then flies fifteen feet in that direction towards the moonbeam. Yeah,
into the moonbeam? All right? You also do damage on that punch,
surely? Um no, that's just part of the Oh yes, of course
with the unarmed strike. Five points of bludding damage okay, nice, Yeah,
and it just it gets launched backwards the I guess it's sort of an
element of as you do this open palm strike, this creature is just sort
of like blurred backwards. There's almost like a wall that it gets pushed back
by as it does fall under the effects and get pushed back into this moonbeam
here, Okay, is that the end of your time? Does the moonbeam
now damage it as it flies into it? I think on its turn it
does. That's what I mean, and in that case, I pray on
and I attack it one more time. Okay, let me see unarmed strike
twenty to hit thirty twenty five to hit. Okay, and then I use
the last time I movement to backflip out of its circle of bullshit. Okay,
you push it back into the moonbeam. Then it's it's now in the
moonboom. Yeah you you yeah, I mean, yeah, you do all
that stuff, and then we we're seeing backflip out. It's tracks turned top
of the round again. Yeah, all right, I think I'm just gonna
try again with the fire bolt at the It's just no definer sixteen is gonna
hit sixteen pain fire damage, which is magical fire damage from a magical spell.
Correct, Yeah, I mean that strikes it deals the full ten damage
to it actually watches through the air, you know when everyone else likes to
hear a fire ball. Yeah, okay, doing anything else? Uh yeah,
I'm gonna run away a little okay, Okay, it is it's turn
again. Everyone gets plus one HP. Healed, not not permanent. It
needs to make a con save as well. Okay. Before the show began
today, I was explaining that I have been on a call to an estate
agents and I kept muddling my words and it was so embarrassing and really annoying,
and I said that I just it's the worst possible day for me to
have to DM because I can't speak today. And every time I screw up
ever, they get to heal a hip point and I mean it seriously happens
a con save five. Oh that will fail. So now why spelling so
hard? Of eight radiant damage eat radiant damage could have been fourteen, could
have been something better than fourteen, could have been something better? All right,
this thing is currently just fleeing. It is running away from everyone,
so it is going to move. Well, let's see this way, I
guess, because it has no choice but to go that way. Oh yeah,
I'm back, I'm back. It's running away. It's turned. It's
the under the turn, undead effects from Cirrus's cleric balls. And you're not
going to get any loot off this ghost. Bloody late the goliath, I
think, seeing this thing run away, drops to her knees and starts to
sort of attempt to tend to the wounds of the the other goliath that's on
the floor there. Serious, it's your turn. Is the other Goliath dead
dead? Like he has a red axe, so I assumed he was dead?
But is he Does he have wounds that? Can Can he his death
be spared? Can I give me a medicine check and lose one because you
also can't speak today? Okay, I'm losing one. Ah. Oh he
is not dead dead, No he is. She is in fact very injured
and and bleeding out and wounded on the ground and exhausted. Okay, okay,
cool, okay, uh yeah, I'm gonna run towards him, not
get hit by this moonbeam? Me? Does that make me get hit by
the moonbeam? No? Moon beam is good. If you are underneath it,
you will be hit by it. I don't think I'm completely underneath it
here, I'm like a like a corner, just a handle over the Bumpson
boat. I think it's technically on this one, yes, technically okay,
okay, okay, okay, cool. Great, Then I am going to
cass healing word because I can't touch him. I'm too far. Hopefully this
just gives him a little a little bump for now it's five uh yeah,
this you see, like some of his wounds slowly kind of patch together.
And heal. The goliath next to him looks up and nods at you,
but you know, continues to sort of deal with some of the other wounds
on him. But he doesn't look like he's quite on death door anymore as
you're pulling amazing Jim, Oh no, you still got to move. Sorry,
I have one I have I still have an action. I just want
to double check to see if I can do this, because I actually don't
know one hundred and twenty feet. Yeah, I can still hit this thing.
I'm going to cast a guiding bolt on this thing that's running away.
Okay, seventeen hits sixteen radiant damage. All right, Yeah, this is
incredible. I think this thing like for a moment, these sort of snowstorm
entirely drops and you see this sort of strange wraith. It's sort of just
nothing more than a kind of a hood and a set of icy eyes.
As this guiding bolt strikes it. Then there's a moment as the snowstorm picks
up around it again, you get the sentence on its last legs, but
it's still up bringing us to see ars turn Hey spiked m right, don't
you forget it. I'm gonna run forty feet as I can as a bath.
And then I'm also going to use my bonus action to move the moonbeam.
Actually I can move up to sixty foot, so I'm gonna drop it
rat on top of him again, okay, yeah, which you won't do
any damage until his turn. Yeah, and I think that's all I can
do. I don't think i'd want to risk going close to it, so
in turn, all right, now it's it's turn. Now it's my turn.
So I am also going to move forty feet and so I'm now here.
And then then wait, what is the distance of a dart again?
What is the twenty sixty? All right, so he is twenty he is
thirty away from me. So I guess I can throw it with disadvantage.
Yeah, okay, in which case I throw it with disadvantage, I'll give
you one second my se clothes and it is here throwing it with disadvantage sixteen
to hit at it six points a piercing damage. I guess half because it's
wibbly wobbly. Correct. Yeah. The dart flies through the snowstorm, it
strikes the creature. There's a blur for a moment. It's still going Okay,
tear it. That's what said. Okay, rack ah right, okay,
let me tell you look what I can do. I think I might
have to magic missile if I want to hear it. Oh no, a
fire bolt one hundred and twenty feet. Okay, see I've done. Move
there, and we'll try and do We'll try and do a buire a boat
again. Okay, and you know what, Nah, let's just do magic
missile. Let's let's go ahead and kill this thing. Okay, So again,
raise my staff, light collaces at the end of it, and three
much cooler dance. Then see how do I kill it? Not to kill
it? Right? Okay, Well, I kill it by because he's in
the way, he's missus snowring and grabbing thread, and kill it. I
did not hear a word of that German that you just spoke, but I
wouldn't have been able to understand anyways, because I don't speak German. So
I shoot three three darts out and they sort of all hit him at the
same time, and they like go through the snow and it sort of dissipates
in a strange way, and there's anything left on the ground. I don't
know, kill it. Yeah, The first one strikes this thing, the
second one strikes it, the third one strikes it, and then the snow,
the snowstorm around it immediately drops, and then it's almost as if the
thing turns to ice and then shatters like broken glass. And before the eye
and shards and snow hit the ground, there doesn't seem to be anything left
behind besides snow and a moonbeam, which is still there as well. Okay,
as you defeat the final snow defiler from the other side of the wall,
you can hear that there are creatures that are clambering up, trying to
climb up the side of this wall. After hearing all of this commotion on
the other side, there's one final burst of flame from the dragon that runs
across the other side of this wall, and apparently it's just going like that.
That's got and the dragon does a sort of an arc in the sky,
coming around and heading back towards where you guys are, but flies directly
over you and flies across the lake towards the Temple of Junitus, where voriol
is that it glides to a sort of slow stop at the very peak at
the top of one of the areas of the temple. It's somewhat clouded in
miss but you can see the dragon come to rest on a huge stone platform
over hanging the lake. However, you guys are out of combat here with
the the goliaths. You hear from the ground. The the goliath sort of
come to after being healed from Cyrus. The children, the children. The
woman above him is kind of like pushing him back down as he tries to
stand up, and she says, they are fine, they are fine.
Rest we have been saved. Thank you. She looks up at each of
you outlanders. I think I recognize you from the town. Yes, please,
no, no, A reward would not be necessary. Please, no
reward. I have nothing here. We we ran. That's all right,
that's all right. Tell us what happened during the day. Our house it
is on the lake. Ruth Guardy is a fisherman. It was attacked.
I was asleep the attack last night, the night before. They are coming
from the lake. Now we must warn the others, all right. The
two children come running over. One of them runs straight towards Jild and the
bear. The other one runs towards worst Cyrus to come from a bear.
You can see that there's a boy and a girl maybe eight or nine years
old. The boy runs straight towards Jilden and is immediately grabbing at your at
your fur, just sort of shouting at you, excited to see a bear.
And the girl kind of walks quietly towards the area where all of you
are standing beside her mother. She sort of looks towards you, Cyrus,
and is sort of just kind of like looking you up and down inquisitively.
These all borrow children. These are my children, says the dragon. I
am Astrid. This is horse Guard Bjorn, and thora thank you. I
am not sure we would have been able to deal with them whatever. These
creatures are so many, very fearsome. Do you need help? Where are
you going? I suppose we will have to go to the inn. Perhaps
maybe I can take them back to the watch. I am afraid to stay
at our house. Yes, I think that's a smart idea. Hill.
I will walk up to the boy and children. And I was trying to
climb on to Jodder. Yeah, I will say, I'll let it happen.
Actually lay down, he laid out a perfect I say, Bejorn.
That means bare in your language, does it not? And I help him
on Jordan's back and I give her a patridge spirits I suppose touch me.
Yeah, he's like excitedly responding to you, jumping up and down on the
bear. There's sort of he doesn't seem to have any element of fear to
him after what's happened. During the fight. He was kind of kneeling with
one hand on a rock as if ready to throw at any moment, with
the with his sister behind him. The but as soon as that fight ended,
soon as he sort of realized that it was safe again, he ran
straight towards this and it's just immediately enamored with climbing up and jumping all over
Jilled and the bear. He's there's a moment where he kind of gives you
a sort of an odd look, but I think you're probably used to that
by now Thrack she only looked like it from anyone. Yeah, but yeah,
he generally is just sort of extremely excitable. They take it easy back
then pulling, feeling absolutely like tearing at your fur and jumping. I think
I leaned down to the girl, your name was thora. She looks at
you, looks at her mother, who gives her a little nod and looks
back at you, and she says, you know, I've before a yell.
I do. Have you been to Fouriel? I have? She kind
of looks back to Astrid and the Goliath says, Dora has a deep connection
with Wario. She is to become a cleric one day, Aurrah, did
you know that? That's what I am? A cleric? She sort of
shyly nods, looking at you. You're very brave, I'm very smart.
I think you'll be a great cleric one day. She looks to her mother
again and then looks back at you, and then she raises up her hand
to you, almost as if she's kind of going for a high five.
This is a thing that you might recognize. Very young clerics that are brought
into the order will do a thing where they hold their hand up towards elders,
which is sort of just a sign of respect, but it's also imitating
one of the prayers that you do, where you sit as a cleric and
hold one hand up towards the mountain. I raise my hand back at her
and smile. She smiles and immediately runs behind her mother. We must get
moving. Will you be going into the town? Yes, I believe so.
Roath guard can you walk? She helps him up, and I think
we sort of get a sort of scene here of you guys each getting up
and moving away from the area, the kids riding on the back of Jilden
as a bear, and the two golias kind of shambling. The man has
a few wounds on him, but the woman, the shield Maiden, actually
seems like she is covered in way more wounds. A couple of them look
a little older. She's got bandages around her arms, and you get the
sense that she's probably been fighting these undead for the last two days. As
you guys moved towards the town, they explain that the undead seem to come
at night and the sun is setting at the moment, but during the day
they've been able to sleep, and at night the watch and all of the
village people have to sort of line the wall that it's they're they're climbing over,
but they're able to hold the line here. There's been no sign of
the big necro tighter either, if you were to probably inquire about that one.
As you head back into the into the town, back into Moon,
there's a sort of somber atmosphere. I think people seem to be kind of
extremely exhausted. Is the sense you get everyone who has the ability to not
even fight, but I think stand at this point is being kind of drafted
into shifts overnight and brought to the wall to fight, and then everyone's trying
to sleep throughout the day. There are groups of people just all around the
town. There is some of the storage longhouses are being used as temporary sort
of healing rooms where there are a few of the clerics, some that you
might recognize Cirrus, working on healing people and making sure that people get rest.
You get the sense that they're gearing up for another long night of fighting
these creatures. As you head back into the town, Sirrus, roll me
a D three one. I think. As you guys are moving through the
town, you hear another voice that you recognize from behind you, the voice
of Thaws, the goliath head cleric who sent you out on the excursion.
He says, so you have found him, Warrior Rios. He is as
majestic as my grandfather told me so long ago, as an asshole not to
be that guy. But Warrior, he's a dragon. You could have just
a dragon. What makes him a warrior? Exactly. Dragons are warriors by
nature. This dragon Rios and he is a brother, were made curer and
set the task of defending the world. Is this not a warrior brother?
Where is his brother? Right now? We only saw the one mm Hm
who Giefs was killed Charner the red Dread. From what I was told as
a boy, they fought Charnas, believing this to be the reason they were
made cura. My grandfather, I Fold, was able to cure the Oathmus.
It was him who sent Riothemus to slumber on the island of black Rock.
I see it seems they chose the wrong fight all those many years ago.
I think that he would like to meet with you. You mentioned your
grandfather, He remembers Riothemus. He is currently meeting with the two. They
will set him to task. He will help us defend this war tonight?
What shall we do? What she said, you must also visit the two,
are you sure? Nobody, especially not Outlanders, have met with them
without being ordained to do so in hundreds of years. But our traditions must
be set aside. You will make your way to the temple and travel to
the very top where the dragon sits, and do not fear serious. It
is not the stone walk. There are other ways through the mountain. You
will find the two there. And this dragon couldn't have thought to take us
to himself. M I suspect it's leaped his mind. Dragons are not like
us. They think in strange ways. Well, okay, I guess losing
daylight, right, I guess it's time to move. I look around to
my compatriots and see what they want to do. Yes, it's move as
quickly as possible. May wor your guide you and may do you, and
it has shield you. I will be staying here for the night for what
is to come. He kind of looks across each of you, and he
looks tired, but he actually looks less tired than the last time you saw
him. Thank you. He nods, turns and heads back into one of
the tents where the clerics are working on people. I think we sort of
see another short jawned across town as you guys moved towards the lake and then
once again get in one of the a row boats at the other side.
This time, however, once you go across this lake and make it to
the shore of the Temple of Junatics and the angel Boreal. You are met
by a few of the clerics that stay here. The last time you came
here, they weren't present, but this is a more recognizable site, I
think for you, Sirrus, you probably make this travel a few times.
However, they kind of moved towards the rowboats here as if they were kind
of expecting you, but also perhaps they were sort of roused by the arrival
of a dragon landing on top of the temple. A few of them greet
each of you and begin to sort of bring you into the temple its itself.
The clerics, with their robes and hoods low on their brows, appear
as if they're kind of conducting a right tonight when they come to collect you
and bring you inside. And then they slowly shuffle across the snow. And
these are big clerics, because these are all goliaths under here. So it's
a lot of very large statuted, robed individuals bringing the four of you into
the temple here. And again it's quite a It's a large place with huge
halls and enormous chambers, but they're quite bare for the most part, mostly
just kind of cold stone with varying interchangeable parts of polished stone wall and then
just the raw kind of mountain stone of woriol. And they slowly shuffle across
the hallways and through the chambers of this temple with you, guys between them.
I think they kind of surround you and usher you through. There is
a sort of arcane hum based on the sort of energy produced from the mountain
angel. It's really the only sound, I think, apart from your own
footsteps and the footsteps of the goliaths as they bring you up and through some
winding stairs and down some lick corridors with giant tiss and goliath writings on the
walls, through chambers with nothing on the natural stone, until eventually you're brought
to a door made entirely of ice. And the chamber is plain, but
there is a it is carved stone, but there's not really anything in here.
The door that is made entirely of ice here is really not a door
that I should I probably shouldn't call it a door. It is more like
a sort of just shard of ice at one end of this chamber, and
it's casting a sort of arcane blue glow across the room. The lyrics stop
and sort of surround you and bring you towards this, the icy door.
Each of you might look into it, and your reflection inside this ice is
very fractured, and it splits into multiple versions of you that seem to refract
into this. A cleric, that one that you might know, says to
you, sirrus, do you know where you are? What you are going
to have to do here? And you can make me a religion check?
Oh, yeah, you know what this is. And the goliath kind of
nods at you, but then turns towards the others and says, this is
the door of validity, the door of eyes. You will whisper to the
eyes and give the still mountain an emotion, a feeling. This sacrifice must
be made to continue. Is it permanent? By any chance? This must
be a sacrifice any any emotion. Some of our emotions, even the uncomfortable
ones, have a use. So think carefully. Without this emotion, will
you continue to be yourself? You, especially you as cure, must remain
as unchanged as possible. When you have spoken your emotion, it may never
be returned. That is for the mountain to decide in time. Go then
the two away to beyond the clerics depart immediately in a quiet shuffle, and
you're sort of left in front of this strange, icy door. I immediately
like collapse to my knees and begin some form of meditative prayer. I'm like
looking, I'm looking for an answer from Forurial somehow, like I know that
I'm not supposed to be asking forrial, but I'm like praying for an answer
to come to me. Okay, give me another religion check, because my
first instinct surely cannot be it ten. I don't think you get anything.
Yeah, on a ten. So we are supposed to give our emotion before
we go and speak to the two, or when we speak to the two,
in order to pass through this door to visit with them, you have
to tell the door. I think I walk up to the door quite jauntily
at the offer of being able to shed myself of an emotion, and I
just drew and I whispered at the door fear. Okay, I mean,
yeah, you walk up to it and there's no significant feeling within you at
first, for you and you alone, the door turns into a sort of
stationary liquid. After you speak to it. The water of the doorway invites
you and only you to step through. I step into it without hesitation.
As you step through, there's a sort of strange feeling deep within you,
as if something is being osmosed from you within the cool water. And see
your steps through and it's no longer in sight of the rest of you.
I step forward and I look to Jilden and Thrac and I say, it
must be a sacrifice. Oh, this is crazy. I can't believe I'm
doing this. It's the only thing I can think of. It's the only
thing coming into my brain. And if Cyrus, if this is all that
Sarrus is thinking, then she will just think that this is what she needs
to do. I look at the door and I say, hope, ah,
okay, the same thing happens for you. It turns to liquid,
and as you step through, there's a bizarre feeling as if something is being
osmos I'm going to the water. I can can igles. Will you allow
me to time you back and try to convince you to not do that?
Yeah? Totally? Please? Wait wait do we even know? Can we
even hear? Say that? It's entirely up to you? How loud you
think you said that? The room is incredibly quiet, but yeah, I
would have said it, like I'm like pronouncing this thing for my like religious
order. I'm making a like a pronouncement here, so you would definitely hear
it. Yeah, okay, so yep, yeah. You witness her say
this. You witness her moved through this kind of icy door, and it's
weird. It's like a strange trick of the eye as they move into the
door. For them, it's liquid, but for you it remains eyes.
And then yeah, she is standing up and stepping towards the ice again.
I step up to her and I touch her on the shoulder. DearS,
I know what you're thinking, and losing any emotion to sacrifice, it doesn't
have to be the emotion it drives you. In fact, the priests advised
that choosing emotion it is not the core of our beaut stuck much of a
sacrifice that it doesn't change you forever. Are you trying to convince her?
And I'm saying, is what if it isn't enough of a sacrifice and she
ends up in the hell wasteland or something. I didn't say anything about any
emotion not being enough. That's what tricksters do. They leave information out.
They're not tricksters, they're clerics. I just think that you cannot be a
sacrifice, no, hope, cannot be what you say. You will no
longer be yourself. I've to be clear. I've known serious for a decade
roughly. Yeah, we're not best mates or anything, but we've known each
other, so it's all I can think. Surely it must be what I'm
meant to say. What else if I say? If I say anger,
that's a negative emotion. Surely it would seem as though, you know,
my life would be better off without anger. But if I'm never angry,
I can't protect you. If I'm not afraid, I can't protect you,
you seem rather driven by shame. To me, you can stand to lose
a bit of that if I how could I protect you? You'll have duty?
Now, I think you should think about it for a minute. They
must be an emotion that you could give up. It does not change you
so much? Is it even possible? How do you know she won't change
for the better anyway? Perhaps, Hope? It's keeping her to door,
you know, yielding? Why don't you go next? Okay? Just am
well up to the door. And then when I get to the door,
I stop and I lean on my staff for a while and just think for
a moment. Despite all of the words that I've obviously said to Syrus,
the harsh seeming words, really trying to think about what would change my perception
and what has been guiding me all this whole time, and whether or not
I could stand to lose it for the best. It can only be thought
the best, but yes, surely will help indignation. Yep, the door
turns to liquid, invites you in the steps, sir Rock, what are
you going to say? I would be lying. The first thought that came
to mind wasn't the emotion that follows me in my dreams and nightmares? But
it would change me too much. So I walk up to the door and
I say, plainly, envy, step through any stemps. Sorry, this
is the worst. I don't know, this is so tough. I begin
pacing what is going through Cirrus's mind, Cirus sort of like as part of
this, as part of this religious order, this order of boreal like it's
a it's a very peaceful religion. And most of the things that she's been
trying to like heal from our negative emotions to find like the positive emotions,
and so the word sacrifice just keeps like repeating in her mind, like it
doesn't seem to be a good enough sacrifice to get rid of the emotions that
she's already been trying to get rid of. It would be different if it
was a gift, if it was like, we are going to lift this
from you. But because the word sacrifice was used, she is only thinking
of it as I must sacrifice myself, and myself is any positivity that I've
been trying to work towards, because yeah, so it's like her original idea
was hope. It was just the first thing that popped into her mind.
And she understands why that I understand why that would not obviously work out for
a situation where we need to like to save the world. But uh,
shame doesn't It feels like a gift to lose shame. That's not a sacrifice.
So, oh my gosh. And now she's at this point I'm thinking,
like, as part of the Kira is that I am meant to be
influenced by them through this bond that we have, Like, is that when
I'm am I supposed to listen to Jilden? Now because Jilden is now just
as much a part of my spiritual life and experience now as worel in some
regards. And I know that I'm holding everything back by being and down in
this place. I'm just losing it. And also the crazy thing is is
my next thought was peace because I am a peace cleric. But I was
like, I cannot get rid of peace. I was like, I don't.
I would break my I would break the character Like do I just reroll
the characters clericness? If I did that, yeah, you would va show
yourself And I think it would literally mechanically impact you. But I mean you
can do it. Yeah, okay. Uh. I walk up to the
door and I take deep breath and I say relief. Hello. This is
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