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Thank you for listening and enjoy watch Tower thirty three, Sitting around fifty
feet tall with five distinct levels, including a rooftop lookout. Constructed partly from
ironwood and timber. You are would see that this tower looks ancient. This
thing looks like it has been around for a very very long time. Vines
and moss covered parts of the walls, but those walls and the wood are
weathered considering the harsh conditions it has withstood over the years. And as the
day wanes, a sort of autumnal chill takes to the air, and on
the lookout floor, a carrier pigeon lands on the arm of a thin,
young elf. He takes the note from the ankle of the bird and places
the pigeon within one of the cobes. He opens the small note and his
eyes widen. However, within the tower itself, the hearth flickers at one
side of the room, and we see the faces of three other elves.
What are Brion, Falcore and Cyrus doing? Do you think? And when
we come to see these characters, what do we see? What time of
day is it? Rommie a d twenty four let's find out seventy five pm.
I think that at this time I would be in the main hole cleaning
my weapon by bunk sword. Okay, what do we see? Who are
we looking at? You see before you a elf, A high elf,
dark and complexion head shave. A beard is pointed out through the beer like
a nest, A bit of a bigger bill than a usual you might expect
from our kin. My body seems to have been marred by battle before you
see this self breast in black and red filigree, male armor out of something
not quite iron, not quite would, but something perhaps fay. He's in
the hole cleaning his long sword, his shield still strapped to his back,
while at the same time muttering. Notice that he might be instructing, and
he passes by of the finer arts and crafts looking after once tools. Yeah,
I think there is a passer by Felcore. What are you doing?
Yes, I think Felcore is well, he's he's an elf younger, not
overly young at one hundred and twenty, is walking back from the kitchen with
a glass of wine, going to sit at a table and to play some
chess by himself, sort of by himself. You're seeing across the table playing
on the other side. He's a sort of translucent gray outline of himself,
And if you watch closely, he will move a piece on one side of
the chessboard, and then he will move his body and switch places with the
gray, translucent outline and move the chest piece on the other side of the
board. Yeah, a pretty common sight of fell Core sort of flitting back
and forth between these well, between the sort of corporeal form and this odd
sort of translucent outline. Lastly, we come to Cyrus and what is she
doing and how does she look compared to what we normally would say. Yeah,
Cirrus is sat up. I'm sat up on a window sill or sort
of any surface that I can look out over the the view from and I'm
wearing sort of comfortable by prepared clothes, leathers, reds, and blacks.
My hair is shorter, I look quite a bit younger, and I look
like I got a chip on my shoulder. And I'm trying to peel the
skin from an apple, trying to not rip the skin as much as possible.
All right, give me a survival check. Oh goodness, Remember to
roll from your your young young serrus and then at the bottom it says as
change that to whatever your character is is, because then it will tell us
in the thing. Oh yes, okay, you got two natural twenties there,
So you tell me how this guy's uh what the apple? Yeah,
I mean this is what you're doing. The survival check is for how you
do this. Yeah. So I bring the apple up to my mouth and
I pierce it a tiny bit. My teeth are kind of sharp, so
I use my canine and I pierce it. And then I I'm using my
hands. I'm not using a knife. I just start to peel the skin,
pulling it from the flesh of the apple. And I'm doing it very
focused and very delicately, in as many rings around as possible, until the
skin comes completely off. Yeah, it's amazing with one hand as well.
Right well, I'm holding the apple in this hand and then using the other
hand to peel it off you. I think you'd hear Falcon scarf under his
breath and mumble something. You want to give me a perception check, Cirrus.
Yeah, yeah, I do. If I hear him mumble, I
kind of like cast a look under my brow five. Yeah, yeah,
you you hear him mumble, but I don't think you can make out anything
if you kind of oh yeah, not giving you a friendly look. His
eyes and arrowed. That's disgusted. I eat the skin and throw the apple
out the window, keeping his gaze. He turns away from me and continues
to play dragon chess with himself. Yeah, who's winning? I am,
of course. Yeah. So you hear the sound of the steps, sort
of the wood of the stairs creaking as you can hear the fourth member of
your group moving down from the roof. Wicks is on lookout. He shouldn't
really be coming down here, so that would be odd to all of you.
He kind of scurries past Uflcor and then moves past you Cyrus and heads
towards where Barrion is and says, well, he has got a message.
Speak Major Realnishes schedule, sir, and he hands you a tiny, little
pigeon note. I take the note from him in one hand, nodding.
It's not forceful, it's just deaf. Yeah, yeah, this is what
it is. See this written here. Real Nish is the person that you
report to Major real Nish hmm, thirty four note check in big two.
Very well, yeah, we must make haste as soon as possible. I
trust you look after the Ford while we're gods. Two weeks. I give
him a saluting kind what is our Helvin salute? It's the exact one from
exact on time. Now, I don't what do you think it is?
This is uh, this is Cirus's people. What do you think Cirus?
Oh? I do kind of like the one from attack on Titan, to
be honest, Yeah, I think I want to keep it. Which arm
is Cirrus is weaker? My right arm? I think it's done with the
right arm. I always perform the salute with my left arm. My right
arm is concealed usually sort of like wrapped up in bandages and leathers. And
when we're out in battle for all intents and purposes. I might as well
just not have a right arm in terms of what it looks like and how
it shielded. At this point, I want to know what happened the first
time you did that for this group with my left darm. Yeah, you
came up, you were told to report to this place. You would have
approached on your horse. You would have found this tower. I think they
probably would have sent you by yourself, to be honest, to report to
this tower. Maybe you had an escort some of the way, but you
would have arrived eventually. As the recruit and the replacement that you are.
You would have, you know, been introduced to to Valiant Wicks, Valiant
Felcourt and captain are you going to call him brunor? Which is the vampire
that you guys encountered before bury On? And then at some point during that
you would have had to have given a salute, and I'm curious how that
went. I would like to I want to know specifically what Felkre did as
well. But you carry on well before this, I'd like to know were
we warned what was coming to our tower? Absolutely not. You would have
been told you're getting a replacement. Was I scouting was I on the rooftop
Ronnie and D four yeah four. So I would have come running down the
stairs and said we are being attacked by Dragonborn, shouting it and ran out
the front door, and Vicks would have grabbed his long sword, would have
reported to you Beryon. I would have gone out the front door as well,
stepped in front of my two shield and hair. But upon seeing her
approach, I would have more than likely told my meant to stand down.
I presume she had in her free hand a writ from the kingdom. Yeah.
She would also be in the full uniform of the aid ourselves. I
think that day, after a cursory glance to make sure she wasn't wearing the
bloodied uniform. What about Baron has this expression on his face that isn't stirn
not really, but maybe perhaps tinged with a bit of sorrow. I think
that day, seeing this our felf at our doorstep, maybe perhaps he grew
an extra wrinkle that day, But he didn't say anything. I don't think
Wicks would have been too reserved with his questions, but I don't think he
would have been I don't think you'd get the sense that he disliked you for
your dragonborn heritage. That he would have been asking you questions all day the
moment he could where are you from, how do you what's going on?
Was your mum or your dad? Way? What is this? Your grandparents?
How are you in our army? Why didn't they like you know?
Just stuff like that. He would have been just sort of questioning you constantly.
Belcore would have been on watch, which means he would have been at
the top of this. He would have had a long bow drawn on you
as soon as you sort of approached after being told to stand How did Falcore
treat Cyrus on the first day like the enemy? And she's, of course
look at her and look at her with disgusting disdain. Every time she catches
me glancing she knows what I feel. And I've probably said it to her
more than once. Yeah, three months later we're here and yeah, bury
on, so you begin, how do you prepare everybody? And what do
you do? And what do you say? And after getting this note stand
up. I brush myself off and my sword is already clean. I shape
it, and then Belli and fell Core half light. We have a job
to do. It appears that our neighbors at Tower thirty four have not checked
in something to miss all right after you fell core it's sir, I say
too, yes, and I'm at the door. I sidle up to Baryon
never called me sir before, and then I follow hmm, cirrus, I
say to her. She walks towards the door. Yeah, you would do
well to refer your senior officer. There's valiant half life. You need to
do more than most. If it is. I'm sure you know that,
right, you are all right? Sorry? I pause, Okay, to
try that one more time. I apologize, sir very well. Let's go
there. Yeah, you have horses, but it's up to you whether you
take them by horseback. It's going to take you three to four hours to
get there. There we do, okay, Yeah, we see you guys
mount up Wicks lights one of the the symbols at the top of the tower
that suggests that members are out ranging. You see him sort of do the
salute, and we see the three of you trot out on horseback and start
moving through the Aidas forest. So you're in thirty three. Thirty four is
south of you, with thirty five being at the most southeastern tip of the
kingdom. Thirty five is a basically a lighthouse. It's literally on the ocean.
Thirty four is the most southeastern forest based watch tower. And I think
you probably know the way very well. But let's get some survival checks from
all three of you as you begin to travel through the forest. And just
a note, let's just check here. Everybody here should have a long sword
and a long bow. If you don't, you can add one. I
want to know how to do that. I didn't check your sheets properly.
I've got them, Okay, I have two short swords. Okay, Yeah,
that's fine, Yeah, totally fine, Okay, great, just checking.
You guys are armed with the military standard, but you are going the
legoless route, which I will allow. He's got those two little legoleiss swords.
I carry my lawn boat even though I can't use it, and these
guys know that I can't use it. Really, yeah, you're not allowed
to not carry it, yeap. She would be out of uniform if she
was. And yeah, with the three of you on horseback, what is
the uniform? Is it the same as buryons or you have like a captain's
uniform? Is yours slightly different? I would like to say that here on
the perimeter, we don't demarcate our superior, not quite anyway. If anything,
there would be a small wooden patch on my sheet. Okay, a
seven from Buryon, a twenty two from Cyrus, and a twenty one from
Thrac there, which is why I said makes you click the rolling as thing
at the bottom. That's what that does. That you switch between the varying
character sheets that you'll have as we as we do any of these flashbacks,
including the Thrack one, because you didn't need actual character sheets. Yeah,
you're able to navigate through the through the forest pretty easily. There is there
isn't necessarily a path exactly, but I think that there is a well known
route that is now and again traveled. Part of your ranging duties would be
to range southwards to a certain you know area where you would potentially meet with
the other members of the other towers. The same would go for north of
you to watch Tower Thate two as well. So I think you know half
way of this, you know half away of this journey really well, the
second half of the journey. Why is it do you think that Beryon rolled
at seven here? Because he probably knows better than anybody here is probably extremely
skilled at this kind of thing, even though I know we can see his
official stats, but you know, roleplaywise, I wouldn't imagine that he wouldn't
wouldn't normally roll at seven. You know, when we go ranging, we
all play our separate tasks, and for this, Verryon puts a lot of
trust into fel Core is one of our more accomplished rangers within our troop and
as of late has had to pick up a certain degree of slack. So
very On, I believe, would be focusing on other matters at hand,
thinking to himself what exactly is playing out here in Tower thirty four and if
young Cyrus is up to the task whatever it may be. Okay, Yeah.
We see them on their horses moving through the forest, and this forest
is significant. It is a huge forest that spans across the entire kingdom for
the for the most part, there are some meadows and there are some open
plains and fields here and there, but generally speaking, in terms of the
size of this kingdom and aid Us is one of the sort of mid to
larger sized kingdoms in the world, there is it is almost entirely forest,
and the trees here are huge. They tower up to ridiculous heights. Their
branches weaven a dense canopy across a lot of the the Kingdom. It does
mean that you spend a lot of time in a sort of perpetual twilight.
The sun will burst through in places and moonlight and such at night, but
it is it is a pretty it's a pretty repetitive sight. And with no
sort of sun or moon easy guidance, it does kind of become this monotonous
journey. I think the woods here are ridiculous. Everything here and some of
the creatures as well. But the foliage, the trees, the flowers,
the grass, the vines, everything grows with an extraordinary vitality. It is
it is quite literally infused with magical essence. The trees, even the grass
will instantly regrow when you cut it. Now. I don't mean it sort
of spring like pops back immediately, but it immediately begins regenerating. A blade
of grass will grow back to what it was cut from a day before.
A tree would take many years, but it would immediately start growing again.
The understanding from the elves here is that the roots of everything connect with a
single spot, which is somewhat towards the center of the forest. It's kind
of more northwest than dead center, but where the capital city is ADUs and
the angel the Phoenix, which is a perpetual flame in stark contrast to the
wood and the you know, the foliage in the green roy But it said
that the roots all connects underground to that point, and the angel provides unbelievable
vitality to the area, amongst a couple of other things as well. So
this monotonous journey continues. Who out of the three of you probably would be
at the forefront of this who would potentially be scouting for any sort of creatures
or maybe even enemies? Who are the whose elven eyes are the elven eyes?
I don't think that that is something I'm particularly skilled at currently, but
it would be me because our old scout is no longer with us and we
have a useless half life taking her place. Okay, give me a perception
check then, please seven at seven Cyrus, give me a perception check.
While you've you've passed over. You've been traveling for maybe about two hours,
pretty unknotable, nothing major has happened. You've seen creatures. It would be
like stags and things elks and you know, deer, but nothing that strikes
you as dangerous necessarily. There are no like quack goths waiting to jump out
at you. But you passed by a tree. The tree is pretty far
away. This is some elve and I you know the zoom in stuff,
but you recognize that one of the trees here is damaged quite significantly. One
underside of this tree has been chipped away, almost clawed at. You'd suspect
maybe some sort of animals clawed at this thing. And there are scorch marks
along the tree as well. You're about halfway through your journey, but you're
a little bit more on the tower thirty three side of things, so this
isn't really your area any longer. But this is something that you, I
think maybe surprised that Phelcord doesn't bring up. You are muted speaker from behind.
Captain sir speak Yeah, yeah, Captain sir, yes, speak light
of the east. The tree up there, hm hmm what of the tree?
Uh damage, scorch marks applause, you would say immediately, so would
you, Falco. You just simply missed it. At one point I raised
my left hand to stop the horse. H I would like to believe that
the horses themselves would instinctively stop even before the rains are pulled, and turn
my horse cautiously towards the scorch. Mark. I turned to my two and
I say, stay you on your guard and approach the sword. Yeah,
baron, you can give me a perception or an investigation check if you'd like.
But no, actually you can have if you haven't got it already,
a proficiency in history. No, that's not prevalent right now. I just
remembered it. That's all very well. And eleven or perception eleven four perception.
You don't get the sense that this was done recently, as in today,
it must have been done recently enough that the tree hasn't begun to regenerate.
A wound to a tree like this would regenerate over a matter of months.
But there doesn't seem to have been any levels of regeneration yet, so
this would have been done within the last week or two. Maybe the immediate
area surrounding this tree. You don't see anything or sense anything off. It
doesn't seem like whatever has done this is still here anymore. Yeah, what
else would you like to do? Aside from the scorch mark here on the
tree. Is there any damage surrounding it? There is. There are several
trees in this kind of cluster. Once you get closer, you can see
that some of the trees behind this one also have scorch marks, but not
the scratching, suggesting that some sort of flame was projected in this direction.
The scratching and the claw marks is a little it just seems very haphazard.
Would I have recognized these scratch marks from any creatures that we are aware of?
You can give me an investigation or a nature check investigation or nature both
not so good at thirteen thirteen. Whatever did this was a pretty big The
claws are that the clawing is chaotic. It seems like it isn't like just
a scratch, you know. It seems like something kind of wailed on this
tree for whatever reason. So there's just sort of scratch marks throughout this thing.
Every now and then bears and owl bears and things of that kind of
nature will sort of scratch these trees up. They do it in a way
to sort of like sharpen their claws and things, and this looks similar to
that. But but it's quite hard to determine what creature would have done this.
You get the sense that it would certainly be something bigger than you are,
Bigger than a sort of an average elf size, bigger than your average
sort of humanoid. Maybe not as big as something like an albet or a
bear, but closer to that size. Lastly, yeah, how far away
yet are we from our post? Thirty four? Got about an hour and
a half to two hours, in which case I turned to my two and
they tell them you both best stay on your guard. While this may not
be connected to the outpost, we don't want to be set upon by some
errant beast. Come now, and I head back on the trail. Yeah,
high salute, Yes, sir, my use sir, And I also
suck glance to her left handed salute just for a second that I'm used to
it now. She gets a curt nod from me. It's Falco used to
it now. I don't look at it salutes discuss me. Okay, all
right, yeah, I think you are continue on with the rest of your
journey. It was five o'clock when you left Journeys, about four hours you're
pushing autumn night falls as you travel for the remainder of this journey. Is
there anything significant that you're looking for, or preparing for or doing on this
last section, I'd say predominantly the last hour. As you approach watch Tower
thirty four, as my scouts are keeping an eye out on dangers nearby,
I want to think that my sights are on the horizon to where we're going,
much in the same way as hours left a beacon as we left to
signify our roami. I intend to spot if there are any errand signals way
before we need to worry. Okay, give me a perception check a forty
Okay, anyone else doing anything? Yeah, I would keep I'm keeping an
eye on everything around us, since Belcore is clearly unable to Okay, alcohol,
what do you doing anything? Performing my duties as scout? All right?
As it ordered? Hmm, let me have perception checkers? Are them
plays? Yes? I think I am actually surely see dialed in for a
while. That was a natural twenty for listeners. Yeah, okay, so
very on Cyrus. You don't pick up on anything of note, but that
isn't to say that you fail. I think you are aware that you don't
pick up on anything of note. Whatever was leaving the sort of the damage
or whatever had done that, and whatever else might be out there doesn't spring
out to you. There isn't really anything that you can recognize. As you
are progress fel Court about half an hour out from Tower thirty four, you
do recognize now that something you're on the trail of something else. You eventually,
during this path finding, I think you probably find the path that the
elves of Tower thirty four use to travel to and from and range this area.
So you actually are able to pretty quickly determine you know that probably over
the last you know, many years, but specifically within the last few weeks.
You can see that there are movements of other horses that would have come
through the area. As they move out, probably in groups of two,
you know, pairs of two to go and do morning, noon, evening,
you know, early morning scouts, same as you would do at your
tower with one of the others, and when they come back, they would
come back on this route. So you're able to follow that eventually and be
able to literally pathfind for the rest of the grow. However, you notice
that something else seems to be moving along with this this path. Something else
kind of got onto this trail as well and started following it, because the
sort of the markers that you would be looking for to potentially if you were
tracking something no longer just suggest horses and riders on the back of horses,
but that something else was moving through the underbrush as well. There's a little
bit more damage to some of the foliage. There's a little more suggestion of
a bulkier thing moving through the underbrush, and it would have also followed this
same route, which almost certainly leads to the tower. You're definitely heading in
the right direction, but it's ahead of you. Right as soon as I
noticed this, raise a hand to signal for us to stop, and then
I won't wait for the captain to approach to get and raises. I believe
all three of our horses stop instinctively. Then with the light tap, I
proceeds. What is it? There's something that's gone on the trail. I'm
not sure what it deals, but I think it's close very well. Both
of you be on your guard. It's big, captain, and I'll even
though my head is faced forward towards the threat, I flick my eyes to
the side. Do you think it could be a wife? And m hm?
Hi for one hope not However, if it is, we will be
repaired. Rd mm hmm. Right on, keep on, young, serious
is right hand side, yes, sir, m hmm. Okay, I
guess phell call make me another perception check for the final portion of this off.
Okay, nothing jumps out of you. Nothing seems to be hiding,
nothing seems to be sort of lying in wait. It doesn't seem to be
any traps or anything like that. You make your way along the forest floor
and eventually where your watch tower is built out of a sort of a natural
rocky outcropping that was mined away and then the forest grew up around it.
Thirty four takes you up a natural incline to a sort of an overlook that
is still not as high up as the tree canopies, but sits up once
the watch tower is built. And the watchtower here is built partially out of
stone as well as would this watch tower sits kind of on a stone outlook.
As you get a little closer, this one's a little further east,
a little closer to the Learning and Kingdom, which is just a big wasteland
of rock and volcanoes and things. The forest gives way to a lot more
stone and rock in this area, and this is one of the first signs
of it, and your horses follow up a very obvious trail. The area
here, however, is a little more open. The canopy breaks away and
you get an actual view of the night sky from thirty four. I have
no idea if you've been here before. It's very possible you've been stationed here
before with the way that the rotations work. But this one is actually set
up, and you can see the tower ahead of you, and you can
also see around the tower in your approach to it. There doesn't appear to
be anything sort of obviously untoward as you approach it. However, much to
this artworks argrin, this tower looks at something like this, but where this
has lights, there are none. The tower itself is intact but sort of
eerily quiet, no signs of any sort of like battle going on or anything
like that. But there should be lights. You should at least see fire
light, camp light, torch light. While obviously all of the elves have
dark vision, you don't see in colors, it's much nicer to live with
firelight and torchlight. There are obviously certain situations in which you would dowse all
of the flames. But it's very strange for this to be happening. On
top of that, it's very strange to not suddenly see movement. If you
were on watch at your tower and you saw three figures on horseback moving towards
your tower, you would be immediately responding to that. If you'd be moving,
you'd be reacting, you'd be loading arrows into a long something like that,
potentially lighting signal fires things like that. There are no lights, there
are no torch lights, there's no half light. It doesn't appear to be
any movement whatsoever coming from the tower. But you're not in the tower yet.
This is you're on your approach up. What do you do? Mhm?
This is passing strange. Dear, you think they're still alive? I
would hope so unlikely. I turned to the recruit. I don't say anything
to her. I take you off the energy of not quite your place to
wish such a thing. I say, let's not put such things into existence
before they happen. I just want to clarify. I don't think i've we've
we've been working together for three four months now. How long has it been
since serious has been here? Three months. Three months. I think things
have gotten better between us because I no longer acknowledge her presence unless I'm ordered
to. She may prefer that, but I ignore almost everything she says.
M hmm. It is unlike Sergeant Balin to keep guests waiting. I still
have my hand up. Test. I put my hand up to silence him,
and I say listen at this point, I would like to be very
attentive to listen now, to see if there's any rustling, any movement,
any emotion, see if we feel anything off. Is anybody watching us?
Yeah, okay, give me a perception check, and I'm going to double
it with an insight check very well. Yeah, twenty one for perception,
twenty one on perception, eighteen for insight. I mean roll the dice as
well. Here, Okay, something's definitely off, there is. There's an
absolutely no way. This is completely against protocol to leave a tower completely unattended.
The only time you would ever do that is if you were under attack,
or it was being burned down, destroyed in some way, or you
had to literally, for whatever reason, rally your squad outside to encounter battle
outside. You again, don't really see any signs of battle out the front
of this tower or in the immediate area. You'd expect there to be something,
if there was some sort of battle that took place, or they'd rallied
the group out. There is no sound. There is no sound from coming
from the tower. There are no sounds from the stable behind the tower,
and there doesn't appear to be really any sound coming from within this tower.
It is quite literally eerily quiet. You sort of maybe a little a little
too quiet to say something so tropy, a little too sort of still,
I reply, no, stay close, going together, keep an eye open
for traps, anything that moves you stay close to me, I say to
Cyrus, Yes, sir, oh dare He says, keep an eye out
for traps, and I would immediately look for traps. Okay, give me
an investigation. When you're approaching the tower, Are we are together? Yes,
we are all going together? Yes, A ten ten, it's enough.
There are no traps here, I think fell call. Let's say that
maybe you're at the head of the pack as you're kind of moving. I
know that you're going to be a sort of moving up as a three.
But well, actually i'd imagine you will witness all of these things together there's
no traps, there's no yeah, sort of again, no signs of battle
or anything bizarre until you get to the main door. As you round part
of the tower and find the main door, which is not too dissimilar to
the one that you have as sort of giant iron wood thing which can withstand
a pretty decent amount of damage, you get close to it and you can
see that it is open. It's also kind of hanging a little awkwardly.
It is. You get the sense that this has been forced open, signs
of a struggle with the doorway itself. It's open and it's still intact,
but the fact that this huge, sort of very strong and well built door
is partly broken immediately suggests to you that it's been forced open. Right as
we usually enter buildings, I would send my image of myself in first.
He's a gray, translucent, translucent version of myself, and here into the
room first in a way that would grab the attention of anyone who might be
in there. While he is doing that, I look in look inside to
see what I see. Yeah, the the echo you have, what does
it sense? Can it see as well? Or is it just a canary?
Right now? I do not have that kind of control. I cannot
see what it sees grow something. Yes, other things can see it and
attack it if they wish. Yeah. Yeah, So the translucent version of
yourself sort of shoots forward and in through the open doorway. And at the
same time you move to a close window. Yeah, and look in.
I think I would look in the front door. I would look in at
the door winning Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. You send this thing
in. Nothing immediately happens, nothing out grows to it. Nothing, you
know, no trap springs close or if the thing swings down or anything like
that. At that point you peer in and see if you can make anything
out. The ground floor here, again, this tower is much like your
your tower, although it has four floors and this might be where we get
confused with Americans here. But ground floor, second floor, third floor,
fourth being the roof which is a roofed thing that you can see out.
So it has a floor which is kind of open with a roof over the
top of it. And yeah, the ground floor here is sort of a
chaos. It is. There are t overturned there are scorch marks, there
are signs of a sort of hurried battle. There is blood there's a lot
of blood strewn about in varying different forms. There are polls that have pulled
up. There are sort of jets of blood that have just been sort of
thrown up the walls. It's quite a lot. You also witness a sort
of an upturned table, and on that table, or sort of impaled on
one of the broken table legs, is a soldier, a valiant in the
same uniform as yours. This one maybe is about the same age as you
Felkre. You get the sense that sort of a major fight took place here.
But whatever happened to this valiant caused a lot of but not all of
this blood. His body is torn, ripped, and also impaled on this
thing. The scene of gore that you walk into or peer into, it's
pretty distinctive. It is. It's a brutal killing of this valiant, and
there's just an enormous amount of blood in this room. But there are some
other things in here. But you get the gist, and nothing attacks you,
Nothing suddenly comes at you or anything like that. And I think if
as you step in, or you peer in and step in, I think
maybe the other two behind you are quite close. Right The plan is that
you move pretty solid lay as of grope. You move into this room,
and you all witness this scene in front of you. First of all,
how does everybody react and how does everybody actually feel? I suppose we'll start
with fel Call since he's the first through the door. Felcre walks in with
both blades drawn. He sees the gore but ignores it, ensures the room
is safe, and then watches the staircase leading up while the other two enter.
I would step in next. I would see the gore and that's her
unbidden great Phoenix. I would then try and identify the fallen elf. Who
is it? Early in time, Barris, do you know them? You've
you've met with them all. I don't see why you wouldn't have done,
but yes, of course I've been at this job long enough. We have
met. Yeah, this is a zaia. I think I would immediately try
and ascertain what happened. What did this? Yeah, they were which had
like a creature killed them, Yet at the same time, no creature would
also then go so far as to impale them. Not like this, not
this cruelly serious. You step in and do what goes through Cirrus's mind,
and what does Serious do? I don't know if Serious has seen anything like
this before. I don't think probably any of you really have when it comes
to your your fellow militiaman. But CRUs is a little younger than everybody else
here. Yeah, I think I'm I take a step in and I freeze,
and I'm looking around and my eyes are kind of wild, and I
don't really know where to begin. I'm sort of overwhelmed. I don't know,
you know, like I don't know the order of things, what I
should be doing suddenly. There's just so much to take in, so many
things. What does it all mean? So I'm frozen a bit? Do
I notice this? Probably I am very bad at concealing my feelings, my
reactions to things. Steady yourself, half light. You will notice that I
call you half light, not life. Now. It's not the time to
get emotions, to let them get the upper hand, not now. Be
strong, use your head. Yeah, yes, sir, fall them out.
Do they have bite marks on them? How did they receive damage?
Okay, give me an investigation check or you can. You can probably justify
a medicine check for this as well, if you want investigation or medicine.
I think I'll go for well, they're both the same for me. Seventeen
seventeen. Yeah. You move closer to the to the body, and you
you see that this this valiant was was slashed by presumably large clause. It's
similar to the type of thing that you saw on the tree before, but
this is obviously elder and flesh that this has done this too. It's made
a terrible mess of a huge amou out of this ELF's body, arm's legs,
body. There are parts of the face where the flesh has been completely
torn off. You can see the jaw and the bone and sinew and teeth
underneath from this ELF's wounds, but you do also make out bite wounds as
well. You can see that the left hand of the elf has been completely
removed. That doesn't look like a claw, that looks like something has bitten
it off. No different than if you saw something like a dire wolf a
huge set of jaws that are very powerful, and you've maybe sort of seen
something or learned about this in some way, these kinds of wounds, and
this elf does actually have several bite wounds on him as well. Parts of
this room are scorched with what looks like it probably was some sort of flame,
But the elf doesn't appear to have any bone wounds or any sort of
gorch marks on what's left of his uniform. Would I have known if Valiant
Sire was a magic caster of any kiny. No, The three valiants here
are pretty much your basic militiam and they are sword and board. Zaiah specifically
was more of a sort of a fencing style fighter. The the other two
elves, Darris and Tan, were particularly proficient with longbows, and Thalan's kind
of an all rounder. He's pretty good at a lot of things. He
does have a couple of spells to him, but it would be more along
the lines of a Thalan's a bit more like a ranger class those kinds of
spells, a few Druidic or most borderline spells, like they get that good
burying hunter's mark, that kind of thing. So the squash marks were not
from self defense on our side, is what I'm hesitating. Yeah, No,
these these were not majors. Very rarely do they actually post majors to
these watch towers. By the way, it's a little bit of a snub,
and I think it's a little bit revealing the ADUs majors the high Elves
are there. There are some unbelievably powerful majors in this part of the world
that belong to this kingdom, and they retain all of them for the standing
army, for the people that move out in groups. If they don't become
you know, like ambo black ops, times majors, palatial guard, angel
guard, things like that, they usually wouldn't, for want of a better
word, squander a mage on a watch tower. You guys are kind of
here to die, so that they know something has gone wrong, and then
they'll send in a much larger group if this is an attack from you know
where it be Dragon Bond on this side or whatever from the other side.
The early warning a little bit. You're kind of the vanguard, but you're
also kind of the canary down the mind shaft. So very rarely do you
find particularly proficient mages and more casters in the watchhouse. It's not unheard of
though, and obviously everyone pretty much everyone can cast a little bit of magic.
It's just innate to the high off way of life. So yeah,
no, to answer your question, this was it's very, very unlikely that
any of these guys were able to cast any sort of fire, magic,
fireball, fire bolt, anything like that. Very well well for thirty four
not to have sent any form of warning. Both short form were written not
to call in. This must have happened very fast. I look towards where
towards the staircase. Are you up or are you waiting for us? I
am standing at the foot of the stair and my image is a couple of
steps ahead of me. I'm not on you. Right, we move forward
image first, I'm about five steps behind him. Okay, Yeah. The
blood trails lead up the stairs, which you'd be able to notice. Felcore
again, a lot of blood, a lot, a lot more than maybe
you would expect, even even with the significant wounds to valiance. The there's
a lot of blood running up this uh staircase. And you steadily move up
to the second floor. Give me a perception to seven. Yeah, you
move into the second floor. The barracks not too dissimilar to your own.
Obviously, you guys can trance, but it's still nice to do that in
a comfortable bed. Every now and then you will have a half elf among
your ranks, which you guys have. But you know, you'll have half
elf, half human or you know, half orc or something like that.
Pretty rare. You made us generally looked down upon. But you know,
barracks are still provided. God. You lead and then the two others follow
in not too dissimilar. The state of this room, beds overturned, lockers
broken into personal items, scattered chaos about this room. There is in this
room you find the next valiant. There is a corpse on the floor.
The corpse is The corpse looks as though the valiant was attempting to flee the
room and was sort of maybe struck from behind, as they are sort of
partially up. The stairs that lead upwards to the third floor are kind of
like splayed across that area. Yeah, I take it. Sorry after you,
nothing jumps out you and eat your attacked or anything like that. I'll
be sure to let you know if it does. I do the exact same
thing. I moved to the next set of stairs and keep watch as the
other two enter. Okay, I followed close. I turned to make sure
that horle recruit is also following me. A. Yeah. At the beginning
of this session, a bird flew in to deliver a message. Am I
to resume that on the top floor of all these outposts, we have a
rookery with message birds. Yeah, I turned to Felkre. We must need
to make sure that we're able to send a message from here, if possible,
we die after that. I take that as an order. Go,
you take everything I say as an order. Yeah, okay. I immediately
ran up stairs my image first, I'm going directly to the rookery to look
for it, and you two are staying on the second floor. I would
I would follow Fellcourt to the edge of the stairs, not go up them,
but I would sort of take where his place was before he left.
And looked back at Barian. You see Baryon looking upon this dead health.
I take it it is, yes, not the Valiant, Yes, yes,
this is Valiant Tan. I was still young. I have a hard
time piecing together what this was. What did this moved around and destroyed these
people? What shoed them like a wild animal? Yet look at this,
I pointed the locus, the documents both wild, yet clearly there is motive,
there is thought, intelligence behind this. I think you catch my eye
got to one of Cyrus's hornes before looking away. Perhaps you caught it.
Perhaps you didn't. I caught it. I always catch it. Are you
sure it's not just a wife urn like one? Not? I flinch when
you say the name. I look at Cyrus in the eyes, saying that
name is mere taboo amongst the others. Sirus herself had never seen this person
than before, but all saying the name does just causes thereon a further furrow
his brow. Look around. I don't believe something like that could fit in
a room like this. I looked at the door to the door frame.
Are there's scratch marks? If something forced its way through stretch it perhaps burst
through. I'm an investigation check. Investigation at ten pretty hard to tell with
the sort of chaos in the room. But you get the sense that,
yes they did, and in fact, give me another investigation check. I'll
see if you're very well out of springboard. Off of that one a natural
one to another piece of information, which no, you can't. You get
the idea that that yet the door was sealed from this side and that the
thing broke through. M let's press on. I would like to sorry,
of course, I would like to do something strange. Can I smell the
room and see if it smells familiar to me in any way. Give me
a perception check. Six. This room is an interesting one. I mean
smells. You know, you get the faint whiff of what every barracks probably
smells like, sort of that musky sleep smell. Significantly, you get the
scent of blood from this room. There are no scorch marks in this room.
Downstairs, there was a faint smell of smoke or whatever you would call
that, like a you know, an ashtray, like a burned wood scent.
But this room smells. There's just this entire tower has a faint scent
of that metallic scent of blood to it. Yeah. I don't think you
pick up on anything significant. Okay, with a six, we must press
on it was a good at the center be ink it make me another perception
check. Okay. Is she sniffing this time to perceive? No, she's
looking to perceive this time to see what I was going to ask if I
could assist her to give her advantage. I mean, you can do your
own perception or investigation check of just things in the room, if you'd like
joy in the room and looking around. You know, it is rather hurried
because we have split up now and fail core for a seven. I'm not
sure if I ascertain anything. Yeah, I don't think you're looking at detail.
You're looking at the bigger picture, the chaos, the fact that whatever
did this came in this sort of chaos downstairs, there was some sort of
skirmish, it came upstairs. There was another skirmish in this room. This
other valiant was killed presumably trying to go upstairs. And you see the blood
trowl head upstairs as well, which is going to rewind time a little bit.
As we follow Felcore up the stairs with his it's called echo translucent mirrors
moving ahead of him. You go up to the third floor, because to
get to the roof you've got to go through the third floor. You see
another elf in here. You recognize from the sigil that this is the sergeant.
But do you I assume you just push through this room. This is
sort of a command center, and yeah, just a general command center.
This is the area that you would plan and you'd have a similar looking room,
a map across the lone dodge table and that kind of thing in here.
I would ensure that there are no threats on the floor. Afere I
had done that. I would continue on ordered. Yeah, you can give
me a perception check or an investigation chock eleven. Nothing jumps out at you.
Nothing in here seems to be a threat. You know, the room
isn't particularly large, so it's pretty easy to scan the room. You see
the dead elf, he's for sure dead. You recognize the general chaos continues
through this room. There's blood running up one wall, and then there is
this blood trail that continues upwards through the room. No throat, right,
I continue on? Okay? Yeah, you push out up onto the roof.
The roof is mostly intact. Once you get up here, you actually
see that the roof of this lookout point is a little different to the way
that yours is built up. This roof has a blister. They have a
full blown blister, sort of tucked away it is. The blister is like
partially built but not ready to fire. So they have a few more things
along this roof. There are some barrels, there are some ammunition things,
and there are some huge bolts that are tied to one side of the the
inner war here, but the chaos doesn't quite continue. There is, however,
still a lot of blood, and you find the final valiant another corpse.
He seems like he was doing something as well as they all do.
However, you're looking for the rookery, which you find a few sort of
pigeon holes. For the most part, pigeons are used every now and then
they do use other birds because elves can somewhat commune with small beasts and things.
So you will find that other elves will use whatever they want to use,
doves, owls, hawks, you know, whatever comes in. But
your basic sort of form of communication here is sending several pigeons with several messages
and hope that one gets through. The rookery destroyed. The pigeons dead,
each and every one of them has been clearly sort of maliciously killed. And
I forget what you came up here specifically to do, but that is the
state that you find. The rookery itself in came up here to send a
messing, which I or too secure them. Anyways, I think I would
before immediately running back and reporting this, I would take a look around,
using the tower's height to ensure we weren't being approached and nothing was approaching that,
okay, give me a perception check in eleven Yeah, nothing here,
nothing approaching. You do the standard checks that I think you've probably gotten very
used to doing, but this time you do it with significant purpose. As
you move from one corner to the other, make sure you're looking, checking
that, sensing, hearing. You know, this is a perception check.
You've been trained to use all of your senses to try and discover anything off,
discover anything we're going on looking about. Yeah, you find no an
immediate thing that seems to jump out at you that potentially you are sort of
about to come under attack, or if there's any creatures out there, if
there's something you know hidden in this room. So yeah, you you clear
it right? Then I would run back to the floor below. Yeah,
the floor below is a different one. And I think probably around this time
the other two come up and meet you on the third floor. Sirrus and
and very Own come up, and Folcore comes down. It's so hard to
train my mouth out of calling you. You're on the characters rank is destroyed,
all of the pigeons dead. It is as I feared. I look
around, Well, whomever did this, it was targeted one. It's hard
to say who or what. We have a lot of competition. We are
here for a reason, and this is it right here DM, aside from
the pigeons. Is there some other way, some other form of communication.
I know we had a flare before, or signaling our beating of our thought.
Is there a thing akin to a distress signal used in these towers?
There is. There's a signal flare that you can launch from the roof,
which is a magical arrow that is fired from the roof, and it not
only does it launch particularly high, but it goes up and it lights a
beacon in the sky which then floats in whichever direction you fired it. So,
for example, you would fire the protocol is to fire a signal flare
up in the direction of this tower from your tower, and then one to
thirty five, So thirty three would fire at thirty four and thirty two.
This one would fire at thirty five and thirty three, and then the signals
would eventually float over to you and you would see this floating light. You
know, it's almost a fairy fire arrow, you know, just or the
dancing lights errow. So you have these magical arrows, you have plenty of
them in your tower. You would assume that they have plenty in this tower
as well. And the rest of the tower is clear. I uh clear,
okay, sorry, Yeah, yes, I've seen no other threats,
and I don't see anything approaching either, in which case I walk past Felcour
and go to the recorry myself to search for these flares. Yeah. Yet
you move up, you see the same thing. You find the final valiant
Darius, and you recognize that, in fact, Daris was killed while trying
to signal for help. He has the quiver of signaling ur more slashing wounds
to this one and some scorch marks. You can see that several of the
signaling flares look as though they were probably partially ignited but never launched, so
they just sort of did nothing and died out here. I pick up as
quiver and I pick out several signal flares. I assume that depending on the
message, we would send differing amounts of arrrow different hues, and I pick
the ones that are necessary for alerting the other towers. At thirty four has
fallen yep and fired them into the sky ensecutively. Yeah. I think YouTube
below here and see the as he fires several of these in different directions,
and the arrow goes into the sky, ignites and begins to float in the
direction that you wish it to, which I assume would be north and south
based on the location of this town. I'd like yeah to run up the
stairs when he does this and say, sir, should we not be concerned
about thirty three? Could this not be a trap? Ah, you are
correct, that's gone. Thirty three is like a skeleton crew. Yes,
good thinking. We have sent out the relevant flares now it is nighttime despite
the connage. It is auspicious for us to be here now where the flares
can be seen bright in the sky. Who must needs, first of all,
clear this place out? Find out what killed these people? How?
Why were they all in separate floors and not covering each other? This is
passing strange, even for an incursion. After that, we shall double time
at back thirty three and Phoenix willing. You are wrong, Yes, sir,
there's a body on this floor. Correct, Yeah, there's a body
on every floor. Yes, we are currently by the body of I believe
the sergeant. Why were they here by themselves? Right the third floor you
find sergeants failing not fail in the streamer. That sergeant Thalin, who maybe
looks like Falin but probably not and this is the sort of the command center.
The the map lies across this. Even though the command center is in
chaos, there was clearly a battle in here. You get the sense of
that Thalan fought. His body is positioned defensively. You can see a deep
claw mark across his chest. No scorch marks in this room. But who
would like to make me an Arkanna check if they're looking at Thalen's body,
you might pick up something else. Again, this is Arcanna. So whoever
might have some skill with magic or maybe you'll get lucky. I like all
pure blood high out some magical ability. Okay, I would like to assist
and give them advantage. Sure you know what, Yeah, I'll allow it.
Sometimes the irony of the fact that eventually seriously will become one of the
most powerful clerics in the entire world. Unfathomable levels of strength that they party
are at in the present day part of the campaign at fifteen, So as
you're looking over Saleen's body, the two of you work together to sort of
determine what happened to sale In. His body has additional puncture wounds. The
thing that is odd about these puncture wounds is they don't I don't really match
any of the other wounds that you've seen on some of the some of the
well, I guess the only other body you've properly inspected at the bottom floor.
But they don't match a puncture wound that might be fit with an arrow.
If they learn had taken several arrows to the chest, the arrows would
probably still be in there if they'd been torn out. They leave a particular
kind of puncture wound. These are very clean puncture wounds. The type of
thing that usually comes from be something like a fleschete, those little tiny little
blades that would be rounded in such a way that they would go in and
come out very easily, not barbed, but you get more of a sense
that this was done magically. This is magical in nature. It might be
similar to something like, you know, like a magic missile that would strike
someone and then obviously the magic would dissipate, but the damage would still be
there. Maybe somebody who casts something like ice knife and then the ice explodes
right and there's little shards of ice would strike someone. If someone had been
struck with and stabbed with ice, they would have a puncture wound. The
ice would melt, the puncture wound would remain in a certain way. That's
what this looks like to you. Not necessarily saying it was ice or it
was something like that kind of thing, but the fact that the puncture wounds
are so clean suggests that they were punctured by some form of magic and then
the magic dissipated and left a very clean puncture wound in here. Here's several
of these across his body. What do you see? So, call,
don't we see it together? I think we discovered it together. I think.
Yeah. So to answer your question about the assist, I sort of
just don't really even think about it until it comes up. But if it's
something that you you can justifiably do together, it makes sense to me,
you know, if it's something that likes. It was Thrack and it was
an arkana based check, and he was with three other people who clearly had
never used magic before. It doesn't make sense that they would be able to
assist in any ways. As long as you can sort of justify assisting,
then the two of you look over this together, I think is what's happening.
That's what that is. And the two of you come to this conclusion
I mean you can kind of we can imagine that you've had that conversation of
everything I said as you're pouring over it. You know, you're kind of
doing your body cop moment right Why I didn't desist when Cyrus was sniffing?
Yeah, that doesn't make as much sense to me. I look over at
him, and what are your orders? Captain? And yet we need to
make sure we understand everything first? Why were they separate? What were they
doing? Why did they fight alone? I think Fast has got my surprise.
May I speak plainly, sir, you may. I'm not sure it
matters. I mean, I'm sure it matters in the long run, but
right now Wix is alone, and this the border is compromised. Scoffs and
interrupts her. Matters If the captain says it matters, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry, sir. I don't mean to be disrespectful. I'm just saying that
at this point, both posts could be gone. Do not apologize for the
counsel that I asked for. You are correct. Time is of the essence.
However, we have let go the signal. Flairs Mix is watching,
you'll have seen it. I apologize, sir, but that's if he's still
alive, if anyone's there to see it, And if he's already fallen,
then what then that's at least two outposts gone. It's many, many miles
of pre terrain. And do we know who has done it? Do we
know why? Do we know where they're going next? Do you know for
whom they're working for? These are important? But could we not just make
an assumption that it's the Kingdom? Speak plainly? It could be the Learning
Kingdom, small war band sent out to take down one tower, draw the
other tower out to investigate, take the other tower. It could just be
a well planned defensive and we're sitting, we're sitting gulls out here. I
again glance to the crimson tipped points of her horns when she says the Learning
and Kingdom, And back to her again, I say, and are you
familiar with how the Kingdom operates, how they send their war bands, if
they send magic casters? How familiar would I be? Because I've been I
mean, i've across the border. I've been there, but I don't and
I've heard stories from my father who was a warrior. Yeah, so I
feel like I would know a considerable amount in terms of yeah, yeah,
I think your your trip to the Learning and Kingdom taught you nothing other than
that you died. And I think it's up to you whether your father told
you this stuff. So you tell me whether he told you, and I'll
tell you how much you know. Okay, I think he would have told
me about He would have regaled me with stories of battle that he had been
in. He probably would have told me about the group that he was a
part of, and he may have told me about the warriors with special abilities.
Yeah, so the more powerful you are that can be physically. But
it is also in reference to the fact that the dragon born kingdom that borders
this one, the angel here, provides these sort of borderlined superpowers to the
dragon born. The The downside to it is that they're the dragon born here
often born with sort of perceived physical abnormalities or impairments. You know, that
can be, it could be, It could range in all sorts of different
ways. But some dragon born come out of this and they're practically like Superman,
you know, They're just they're unbelievably strong, or they've got like something
like laser vision, or they can fly, and a lot of them come
out with significant magical prowess. A lot of them come out with psionic abilities.
The stronger you are, the more likely you are to be given a
group and just you're free to do what you want with it. To a
degree, very rarely do the dragon born venture out from their area their kingdom.
There's a sort of rocky wasteland at the southernmost tip of that kingdom.
There's a big volcano. A little further north of that is where they sort
of have their own They have their own sort of city. It isn't anything
like what you might find in aidas with these beautiful structures that are built.
The Learning Kingdom is a complete wasteland for the most part, and they live
in these kind of it's sort of like it's almost like povery is what it
would look like to us, but they choose to live that way, and
it's just because of the chaos, so much chaos here. It is almost
like a dragonborn mad Max kingdom. Obviously they don't have cars and things like
that driving around, but the mentality behind that kind of approach there at these
just pockets of towns and people and groups, cults and stuff that all kind
of operate independently. They don't really have like a a king or a queen
or anything, but they do have warlords and chieftains that are really strong.
Some of them are really really strong, and they have a huge amount of
influence, so they kind of have the sort of a king. So it
really depends on somewhat where your father came from, how strong he was,
and which one of these groups he might have belonged to. Generally speaking,
however, one thing is it just permeates through the entire dragon born culture.
They don't care about expanding their borders. They're unbelievably protective of them. No
one really makes it too far into the Learning and Kingdom before they're either killed
or you know, enslaved or something. They do not like outsiders. They
will not accept them. They kill them, they eat them. You know,
it's any number of awful things, but they they really don't go much
further. The top of the Learning and Kingdom. There's a huge river and
they don't go over it. On this side of things. The only real
land border that isn't part of that river is this forest with Aidas. Aidas
has pushed its border into the Learning and Kingdom. Aidas is kind of the
invader. But this was like a thousand years ago, the last time they
even expanded even slightly. It's really rare that a group would potentially do this,
but it isn't un heard of. It is chaos. So in that
chaos, there is no there's really no pattern. So and I think maybe
this is what your father would have told you in that you know, he
I think would have been And this you know that not everyone in this kingdom
is completely insane. Not everyone in this kingdom is like that. A lot
of these warlords are probably they probably know what's going on, and they're controlling
just a group of insane dragon born. And within that you've got your people.
You know that Max is in there, so that's probably your dad,
and you got out. So there are plenty of that escape. There are
plenty that go out. They go to find other places to live in the
world, and there are plenty of dragon born out there. There's another dragon
born kingdom. There are only two dragon born kingdoms in this world. There's
pretty much a good one and a bad one because these guys are insane because
of their aim. The Angel is not too dissimilar to the boar. The
Big Boar that kind of has a bit of an influence on the alignment of
the people here. It kind of makes them more crazy. So the further
away from it you get, some of that craziness is reduced. It is
nowhere near as intense as Big Bore, but it is there is some of
that to it. So people try and escape all the time, and little
groups will try and escape because they see their group as a family, so
they'll have their group rush into the forest. Aidus will sometimes see that as
an invasion and kill them all. Sometimes they actually make it. Alternatively,
there are groups of chaotic dragonborn that just want to kill everyone. I just
want to expand and want to go and do this thing, so they will
rush into the borderlands of Aidus and Learning Kingdom, and then they'll get into
a skirmish with the elves as well. So very long winded answer to give
you some you know, some contexts, but generally speaking, there is no
real pattern. There is no where the Aidias Kingdom has these nice watch towers
that are all numbered, and they have their routines and they have their structure
to their military and stuff. Learning In Kingdom just kind of has crazy people
everywhere, and groups of insane. You know, bad dragon born with superpowers.
You know, some of them are really strong and some of them are
not. Some of them just you know, have slightly longer claws or something.
You know, you'll have these dragon born that come flying out there with
huge wings and six arms and stuff. Some of them are the venom of
their people. Yeah, so it yeah, there really isn't an answer that
you that you would come up with here, but it certainly isn't out of
the realm of possibility that one of the stronger warlords, one of the stronger
chieftains could come up with a plan like what you're suggesting, that they distract
and take down one or two of the towers and it gives them an opening
and they're allowed to move in. This also bearon is I think something you're
very aware of as well. I think this is one of the biggest fears
of the Aidas Kingdom is that you know, that's what these watch towers are
for. The key is to make sure they never get close to the main
kingdom. The biggest fear I think that you would be aware of at your
level is that they somehow unleash their angel, which is a hydra, and
then that thing just comes through because there is a hydra that is trying to
break out. It isn't actually localized like all the other angels, not all
of them, but ninety percent of the angels in this world are just a
thing in one place. This hydra could roam if it wanted. They keep
it there, so Aidas is petrified of that being a thing that they can
control. So that's what we're doing. Yeah, that's what you know.
Yeah, just to inform you and give you the context, I believe I
would take one long sigh, looked at the carnage around me again, my
fallen brothers and sisters, look back upon Cyrus and say, you're right.
We have a very long lived We tend to labor activity sometimes, but to
be expeditious right now would be the best course of action. Thank you,
Thank you, sir. Who wants to give me a perception check not me,
I think, oh, Baron, just as you say that being expeditious,
your ears attuned to a sound that you realize has been kind of going
for a little while, but it's just been caught in amongst all of everything
else. There has been a repetitive sort of no any that quick just every
now and then coming from the floor above you, the lookout point the quote
unquote roof. Are you sure you cleared everything? Valcal? It's very quiet.
I didn't notice anything. Why listen, d I of my head towards
the sound. I look at Captain. Why not back? I sent my
hack out to stand and follow stealthily behind it. My emotion to cirrus to
be slow. Everyone give me stuff. Checks. Oh, you can also
do whatever you were going to do. Oh, I was just gonna say.
I put my hand on the on my sword and I look at him
and wait for the ocean to drop my sword. Okay, another double twenty?
What is happening today? Second time? Today? You've wronged two plenty
in one row. Yeah, I feel like it should be rewarded. But
I don't know how to reward you, because other than the three of you
sneak upstairs successfully, which you kind of do anyway, the three of you
move up the stairway, the echo going first, and then the other three
two three, I don't know with the echo counts as you are not move
upwards and onto the top floor. The three of you moving into this upstairs.
This is again, this is sort of an open thing with a roof
above it, so you catch that kind of autumnal wind from the forest outside
and you focus again looking or hearing that taps sound. The body of Darius
in the sort of center back part of this tower is covered and surrounded by
blood. The wounds on this individual from the slashing after it sort of seems
like he was rushing to try and get to the edge of the lookout to
fire these signals. You can see there's blood that runs up this wall and
over the edge of the wall. It is then that you realize that some
of that blood that is sort of just all in one big mess around this
body, a poll of it on the outer wall, is actually pulling from
blood dripping from the roof, as in the roof above you dropping down.
I looked to the captain. I look back, waiting for the nod for
me to move on to the roof. Look like I'm ready to climb up
arised me for half a second, Like not, Yego goes first and I
try to stealthily climb the roof. Okay, yeah, I guess you need
to make me an acrobatics check and a stealth check. I'm gonna roll a
dice of my own thirteen for acrobatics and a twenty for stealth. Yeah,
it's pretty dexterous. It's not the perfect you know, leap, turn,
pivot, and maybe another little sort of jump up and silently jump up onto
the roof of this thing. The tiles on the roof are old and covered
in moss and things, and as you sort of jump up onto it,
they make just a little creaking noise as you get up there. The echo
is already up here. It hasn't aggrowed anything at all. There is nothing
up here. The roof just is a roof. There are tiles covered in
moss and algae. That's it. Where is the blood? Give me a
perception check three. The area where the blood is dripping down from. It's
confusing. The blood just appears to be dripping from the edge of the roof,
as if the roof itself is bleeding from a tiny wound. It's just
some blood is just dropping from the edge of the roof. I can I
is there like a small piece of Is there like a stone or something laying
on the roof? I can throw Yeah, for sure, a bit of
tile or something. Yeah, I suspect something magical or illusion pastings making it
hard for me to find out what's happening. So I throw it down in
the general direction of the where the blood is drimping. Okay, roll me,
just row me in D twenty an eight stone. You sort of toss
it towards the edge of the roof where the blood is. Yes, yeah,
well I'm I think I'm I'm going to do this strategically, so I
think there might be something there I can't see. So I'm trying to hit
whatever it is where blood is dripping from it. But if I miss,
I wanted to possibly distract this creature and the stone to hit like a tree
or something. If I can, it hits thin air, stops, bounces,
rolls off the edge of the roof. You hit something, but there's
nothing where it is. Whatever it hit is invisible, right. I crouched
down and I make a hand signal the Captain my creeper by hostile unseen by
lot. There is a low guttural growl that comes from the area where this
stone hit. I think you you would all hear it. This is it
sound familiar? Do I recognize that type of girl? Do I recognize that
sound? You mean? Inside check to your dad thirteen. It kind of
sounds Dragonborney. It does sound like a dragon or a large reptile or something
like that. Okay, but it's just it's so much bigger than it.
It's deeper. You get that sense that whatever this is, this animal is
large. Okay, it's too deep. The thing that's done this is too
big. It could be a small dragon, could be a drake, could
be the wyvern, it could be something like that. But I don't think
you get an exact sort of idea. Okay. I motion towards bury on
night, make a motion like big. Okay. So we stepped out on
to the roof. Is there a door by us? The roof I think
probably has a hatch, right, and I think that has been broken off
of its hinges. The doors have all been broken, Every single consecutive door
has been broken to this point. My emotion of our court. Get behind
me. I'm on top of the roof, the roof. You're on the
level. But I like kneeled down and showed you my hat, my arm
hand and do you like give you a signal. He's above you on the
tiles of the roof. You're just on the top floor. The sort of
lookout right right, get down? Yeah, I immediately I leave my image
app and immediately try to climb down quietly. Uh yeah, another acrobatics and
another stealth I'm gonna roll backflip. I can roll here now, Oh stealthy
seven. But acrobatics was tonic two. Okay, it's not quiet, it's
not stealthy. You jump off the roof. There's that typical sound of like
ceramic tiles right being trodden on. And but but the acrobatic maneuver to get
you back in into the underside of the roof is uh is very legal less
jumping up those rocks. In that movie the Falling Bridge bit, you hear
the scurrying of something, the heavy thing on the roof, moving across the
tiles. Almost as soon as Felcar is out of sight, you get the
sense of this thing moves from one side of the roof to the other.
Whatever did this, it's still here, whatever destroying our brothers and sisters.
Captain Dahlia, this is not to be trifled with. Slowly, get behind
me, beg for the horses. I go to say something to argue with
him, but then I stop myself and I get behind him. I think
you would have losed My eyes flash white going down the stairs and I follow
his is immediately. No, it was not a dime. I point up
again and I follow behind them as well, but they are behind me.
You are going quickly or stealthily? I know, ideally both. But what
would you favor? I speak good, favor being fast? Okay, let's
get just a dex stericy role from everyone, A straight dexterity. It's a
straight dex role. It's not really a skill as it's just how fast can
you move a six fourteen? And I'm good at yeah, and I do
terribly. I think it's awkward. It's awkward getting through this place because there's
so much chaos. Right There's there's overturned tables, there's stuff strewn about.
There are core is that you have to step over as you move down from
the third to the second floor, from the second to the ground floor,
you have to kind of move around the absolute chaos of the tables that have
been overturned. On the bottom floor with the corpse of valiants, I air,
you make it to the the doorway in front of you, and what
do you do as you're so you're at the bottom floor, here, you're
going straight out. Once we get to the door, I don't let Alcore
take the door. I go first. Things have change you. How do
you how do you get through this door? What's the what's the approach to
this doorway? Just to give you the opportunity to be as paranoid as you
want. I placed my hand just above where the handle would be and push
every so slightly, maybe a bit more towards the hint, so it moves
slower. Yeah, this door is kind of broken as well. Remember it's
a big sort of iron wood thing, and it's an awkward push. You
know, the closer you are to the hinge, the harder it is to
push such a heavy door. Give me an athletics check athletics the one thing
I'm good at. I rolled night with plus six. Yeah, I think.
I mean, if you weren't good at this, you wouldn't have even
moved. It is the thing here. But it does open, but it
creaks pretty loudly. I think there's no avoiding the fact that this door was
going to make a lot of noise to open a little bit. There's a
kind of a as this the old wood kind of turns. There are some
splintering as it kind of scrapes as you're pushing it. It stops as if
it stops on something on the other side. I don't push any further.
I listen. Yeah, give me a perception check twenty. Uh yeah,
you all hear this on the other side of the door. You hear drug
or not want death? You friend will be your faue drug or neither.
I turned back to my compatriots. Raca, it's track ring any pills mm
hmm what I will let Syrus roll me at D twenty. If you get
a twenty, you would know something about Draca. He's rolled so many twenties
already. Yeah, this is the one time to do it, and I
no way had anyone's heard of Draca. Did you do this? Braca?
BRACR kill elf? Try kill JACR? Track car? When? Why?
Why do they try and kill you? Why did you approach the tower?
Rare make mistake in drac car life. Drag R want phoenix flame? You
bring phoenix to dracord. I'm afraid we cannot do that. You will bring
phoenix to record my pause? Very well? We will bring the phoenix to
the car. Yes, good? Oh? When soon? When soon?
Mm? Hmmm, Dramr, I have no more time. Drag R need
phoenix or must go back? What do you need the phoenix flame for?
Drac Or must go back to Win? Draca. We're born and where is
that record? Drag R make too many mistakes in drancards life. I must
go back to Win I who are born? Well, Dragon, you will
be making one more mistake if you do not let us go. You bring
Drack off Phoenix track of reborn. It's true what the other elves say?
What do you know of the phoenix? Phoenix? Allow you to be reborn?
Track Car want this? TRACR wished to be reborn? Dear, Yes,
the phoenix and the phoenix flame. Is this a gift bestowed upon the
elves of our country? Has just? Is it freely available? Or is
herking for the impossible? Generally speaking, it's believed, somewhat proven. You
have to be sort of born within the proximity of the phoenix flame. But
it's rare that someone comes back to life, though it does happen every now
and then. Someone will die from whatever it is they die from. It
could be anything disease, it could be old age, it could be an
arrow to the heart, and then they come back immediately the disease they have
is gone. They get another ten years. If they're dying of old age,
their heart heals itself and they are alive again. It's for sure the
additional benefit or one of the additional benefits of the angel here, as well
as obviously regrowing everything around it. It's generally understood that this just means you
have to be born here. So some people who are not Elven have been
born in Aidas and this has happened again. You're reducing the rarey. This
is just stories and myth at this point, but it is something that is
logged and written and understood to a degree. It's pretty common knowledge, so
I think you'd all know about it. But it's just a it's a pure
orang thing. There's almost no way you definitely couldn't bestow this upon him.
If anyone could, maybe the sort of high clerics of the Phoenix Flame that
are in the temple that is all the way back in the capital city of
ADUs, which is also called Aadors. But there's yeah, I mean,
whatever he's asking for here is not it's certainly not something that you can do.
What you ask of me. It's heavy Brakha, especially after what you've
done here. Yeah, you have made any mistakes in your life. Let
us go be on your way and to make not another mistake this day.
Falcre and Sarah's give me perception checks. Blood is pulling under the doorway.
You can see that it's kind of partially it's like invisible, and then it
sort of fades out, you know, it kind of stops being invisible as
it pulls and moves from under the doorway. This ah person or thing on
the other side of the door is bleeding so much now that they've moved and
they're standing on the other side of this door. Draka says, you,
oh, leave one, leave it turn. I cannot with flame. I
look back, Mike impatriots. I left a hand up and then the two
fingers out swish my hand back twice. This is an emotion they both know.
Stay clear of me about ten feet. I watch Belcore for a moment
after I see that, to see what Belcour does. Can I see beyond
the door? Is the door open? No, the door's like slightly a
jar, but not much. Okay, Yah you he pushed it open a
little bit, but not not because it just immediately bite up again. To
someone, I'd say, is there any windows? Yeah, there are windows.
I would move over to one of the windows, and I would when
when I jumped off the roof and lost sight of my echo, it would
have dissipated. I would summon another one outside. Is there bushes within thirty
feet of the door, definitely, and it would be summoned in the bushes.
Okay, let me roll a a little dice. Oh, okay,
yeah, that happens. There's no response from Drakhara on the other side of
the door. When you do that, both of you clear of me now?
Yes? Yeah, and reminiscent of a New Zealand hacker. I raised
my right leg up in the air and slammed downwards on the ground. The
ground shake, yes, and the earth tremors. As I try and cast
earth tremor. Okay, earth tremor, I cause a tremor on the ground
in a ten foot radius. Each creature other than myself in that area must
make a dexterity saving throw, and then on a failed save, that creature
takes one D six blushing damage and is knocked prone. Oh let's go,
let me roll some checks or draca here so it is a dexter is saving
throw correct? Twenty one? Oh saves the door doesn't if you want to
do something with the door, I kick through the door. Afterwards, I'm
pressing the attack for thirty four. Okay, does anything happen on a felt
stave here? They take no damage, but the ground, if the ground
is earth or stone, becomes difficult to rain until clear. Okay the Yeah,
the door blows open. You kick the door through. You hear on
the other side of it no phone, and we'll kill you and find another
earth to bring me the flame. Kick the door open. However, on
the other side there's nothing. There is a pool of blood that kind of
dissipates and vanishes. Romy some initiatives please sixteen and oh do we need to
select our tokens? Yes, yeah, it's my bad. I did not
click this first because I I found weird things going on. Oh my god,
I got a twenty again. I sull just got it sixteen again.
I'd like to thank you for letting us roll those initiatives again. Yeah,
you got to take the first one. Oh, what's happening here? I
was just fine. I did it first. I didn't do it. I
did one roll, all right, and you didn't have clearly two roles there,
but I took the lower one, didn't I but the first one I
had to roll again to get my token up. All right. That on
map here is obviously just kind of an idea of the surroundings. There's actually
lots of blood and chaos in this room next to you and a corpse,
but this is as close as I can get it too. Now, this
motherfucker you don't know where he is, so he's finishing. First person to
that turn is bear on. I'm going to give you that entire earth tremor
thing just as a free action. You can have a whole action. Okay.
I run to where I think he is and stop, and then I
am going to just swing give me an attack rom okay, A sixteen h
and at twelve, I'm going for a disadvantage. Uh it's a twelve or
sixteen if it's invisible and it's just disadvantage, and then it's a twelve.
Otherwise it's sixteen, all right, twelve it is? Why not? Yeah,
complete miss you just catch air. You suspect him today, Okay.
In that case, I now take a step back in the doorway and protect
mine. Okay, young Cyrus, Yeah, I am going to rush forward
as well. Two right next to baron, barryon, and uh try to
slash again in front in a big suite. See if I can catch it
as well, and that's going to be twenty two or ten for disadvantage,
twenty to ten with disadvantages a miss as well catching it, just launch forward,
I say, get behind me. That was my whole movement to get
here, so I cannot get behind him at the moment. All right,
disobeying and direct order. Now you are moving backwards, but it's on the
next six seconds. Yeah, yeah, okay, fell core, I did
say I was by a window. Is it all round if I start my
turn over here? Absolutely yeah, I just okay, yeah, it's gonna
be anywhere you want. But too late now for the other two. Yep,
well I'm just really smart. Yep. In Maatine, I will I
will run out the front door, and I will also take a swing,
and as I do, my image comes next to me. So I swing
with my short sword for a nineteen and that's a disapandage and a ten ten
is a less and then I go again with my offhand weapon as I'm dual
wielding things, and I get an eighteen and a twenty six. The eighteen
will hit something. Okay, have a six piercing damage. Okay, let's
make a concentration check. I think these still invisible. Yeah, I mean
the echo clearly catches something. The sword bites into something. Oh, that's
it's me. I'm just offhand. I have no idea what you're doing.
But yeah, sure, I'm legalless as said before. So okay, yeah,
you catch something, but I mean it's it's bizarre, an invisible thing,
but you've definitely you sense that your sword strikes this creature. Okay,
that is the end of my turn. Okay, there's a shuffling in front
of where you guys are. You guys go rushing forward. There is just
a bunch of swinging and missing, and then you sort of you sense that
Felcore catches something and then in front of you just manifesting. Is he Actually
I don't think you even see it. You just get a sense of heat
building in front of you. Everyone, make me a dextery saving throw ooh
eight fte Okay, so young Cyrus, you will only take half of this
twenty one damage. There is a building heat and then suddenly, kind of
before you're even aware of it, the invisibility over the flame drops and there
is just fire. A wall of fire hits all of you and deals twenty
one damage to Falc or twenty one damage to bear On and then ten damage
to young Cirrus. I also have resistance to fire, because all can take
half again. The flame came from this direction, do you see that?
No? This direction? Yes, you need to keep the echo. Yes,
the echo puffs away all right, and then it is thereon's turn.
I immediately press on towards the source of the flame, and I swing out
again with my sword. The thirteen to hit thirteen is a miss, Okay,
I have an extra attack. I realize I'll try again natural one.
Do you know what's the day twenty one? Oh? I think that means
you roll another two D twenty and we oh no, no, no,
Your weapon and falls from your grasp and then it's ten feet away. You
know what happens. It's so not expecting it to hit something, and it
does. It just doesn't hurt this creature. You strike something in an awkward
way, and you then feel the blade kind of wrenched from your grasp as
if something backs it away, or just an incredibly strong thing twists your wrists
backwards. You maybe for the first time, get the sense of the size
and strength of this thing as it does that whatever this thing is in front
of you is really big and really strong. Okay, so you just drop
your sword? Yeah, all right, And where is my sword now?
Ten feet away? Ten feet away? We can say it's ten feet to
the south of you. Very well, that is my turn, okay,
young Cyrus. Yeah, I saw I saw his sword hit something, so
I'm going to uh run up and try and hit the same thing again.
What I should have said was my sword But no, never mind. Uh
and eleven is a miss? Okay, yeah, I guess. Oh wait,
no, I can take another Uh, I can take another action,
right, I don't know as I have what level? Second second? No?
No, sorry, one moment is extra attack right, Okay, nope,
never mind, I cannot. I don't know what you're looking at.
Second wind which gives you a little Yes, you can use a bonus action.
Two. It's the thing Neo does where he goes like that and then
just gets from Okay, yeah, okay, I can walk on water anyway.
That's it, thank you, all right, I'll call your turn.
Yes, I will move over here, and I will use a second wind
to attempt to regain some of my health. He does it. So it's
one D ten plus my fighting level. So nice, I got a nine
on the roll. I find a level is three, so that's twelve hit
points and that is unfortunately my turn. This black square represents magical darkness that
suddenly the area around you. It's like ink spreads through the air, as
if ink in water is just moving until eventually the two of you are in
complete magical darkness. Now I'm putting it here Felcor for you. You just
see and that this is a sphere in this area. As darkness suddenly surrounds
you. In this darkness, you hear the crunching of leaves underneath. As
you sense this creature moving around within this darkness. Not only is invisible,
but he is in the darkness as well, moving around. He's moved about
a little bit. What those they're on there? I instinctively run towards where
my sword fell out of from the natural one, because that's more important right
now, and run south. You can recollect it on your movement. Sort
of a free action thing. Okay, then I go back into the darkness,
because that's where serious is still, and I shall, I guess,
move deeper into it and yet again try and swing at this creature. Okay,
I couldn't see it to begin with. The fourteen to hit nothing,
catching air again, a third, the twelve catching air, just swinging wildly
in this darkness. Roll low enough and you will strike cirrus. H that's
okay, cirrus. Yeah, I mm hmmmm mm hmmm. I say leave
the darkness. Okay, I'm going to listen to that direct order. But
before I do, I'm going to reach out and grab his arm and cast
guidance on him. And then I'm going to try and escape the darkness towards
where I last offt Belcore okay, yeah, okay, feel ten yes,
okay, yes, yeah, yep, yep. Sorry. I saw falcor
go up in the list and I was like, okay, it's already done.
I'll call your ten. Yes, there's a bonus action. I will
resummon my echo, and my echo move here, and I will move.
I'll move here. I can't really do anything else. I have no idea
where this thing is, so I'm ready action. Remember you can always do
something like that, right, Can I try and finde you can? Yeah?
As an action, Okay, I will tempted to. It's down.
Okay from mere stealth check Wow an eight excellent hidden with a skill of eight.
That's the DC for this thing to see you if it wants to eying.
Okay from the darkness here, Uh yeah, I think again. You
hear the sounds of grass underfoot and leaves and stuff crunching as this thing is
moving around you, Barren, but it's hard to get your bearings as this
thing makes a few attacks here and now, let's see a bite at thirteen
verses your ac. Some claws and eleven verses your ace is also going to
be a miss, and then a shadow spike a twenty. It's five piercing
damage. Why is it giving me two of them? Oh? No,
it is correct. Is it supposed to be correct? Oh? No,
this is okay, it's it's it's five piercing and four necrotic damage. You
take that. This is you're struck by a magical spike that goes into your
body and immediately dissipates. You recognize this to be the same thing that happened
to them, the sergeant upstairs. And then there's a bunch of noise as
it moves around you and into your turn h. I move away from it,
okay and stand by cirrus. H what do we do? Stay put?
Mm hm. You're your guard and you see it strike true? All
right? If anything happens to us, run mhm Okay, Okay, you'll
turn serious. Hummm hmmm. I am going to ready and action and m
hm hmmm. Yeah. I think I'm just gonna like honker down and like
prepared to be attacked. Okay, So when you're ready in action, you
just tell me what uh your action is and on what the trigger would be.
So, for example, if I see him, I fire an arrow.
Yeah. If if I see him getting close to bury On or I
I lunch with my sword, I slash with my sword. Okay, call
yah, I will I suppose I don't realize how terribly I've hidden, Yes,
so I we I'll just continue to hide. I'll move my echo a
little bit further and I'll prepare and tack action my short sword. Okay.
The echo that swiped hat from fifteen to hit thanks fourteen slashing damage to the
echo yeah, and there's one hit point. It's gone. Okay, there
is a crunch of the branch behind you, valcre I think you just instinctively
duck and there is a as a as a something is clearly behind you and
trying to attack you, and you roll out of the way by pure chance
and just instant im Right, Can I use that help action to attack it?
Yeah, you still have disadvantage because you can't see him. But yeah,
right, but I do. When I hold an action like that,
do I get to use But it's just an action and that's that's it,
right, Like a reaction, you just it's your reaction to use it and
an action. It's just the action. Whatever it is nineteen nineteen, will
hit it five for being sing five piercings. Think a con save twenty three
on the con save is still invisible? You do. There is a kind
of a year as you strike this thing. It's fiver rear, it's whatever
it is is enormous and in front of you, but invisible, you know
what I mean? Like it's just you get the sense of it, the
heat of it. You can sense the creature bear on. It's your turn.
I run past Cyrus to the sound of elcore and swing at it or
in its location with my sword again, Phoenix, help me. That's eleven
points of slashing damage. Okay, I am then going to use it just
to saf it drops. Carry on, Okay, I am then going to
use a superiority guy in order to try and trip attack it. So with
this, now they must succeed a strength saving throw or for prone on the
floor. Okay, strength save. Wow, natural one. Not only does
it fall, I think it breaks the invisibility, they also take two extra
points of damage from the superiority diet. Yeah, there is a sort of
a crazy maneuver here. As you sort of sense where this creature is,
you get an attack in and just by pure I think instinct again here you
do something that sends it off balance. You're able to use this creature's size
and bulk your sort of skill with the blade to bring this thing around.
It spins awkwardly, and then you feel that sort of the earth tremor again,
as if the spell had gone off. This creature lands and the invisibility
rocks, and I think the first time you see the creature in front of
you as well, you see this person and it is in fact a dragon
born, a huge dragon born. His body is unnaturally large, sort of
bloated and twisted with muscle. He doesn't wear anything that seems to signify that
he's any part of any clan of the dragon born or anything like that.
Some of them have certain clans scarification tattoos. His body is covered in scales
that protrude into spikes in a lot of places as well. His eyes are
sunken really deep into his skull under this very thick brow. He has four
horns, two large sets and well one large set and one small set of
horns, and he is covered in wounds. He's bleeding from so many slash
wounds, puncture wounds. He's got arrows sticking out of him broken in some
places. The amount of damage to his huge body would absolutely kill anyone else
that the elves that were here before that fought with him, fought really well.
It's it's ridiculous that he's still alive after the amount of damage that he
clearly has on him. He's bleeding from everywhere. There's blood pouring out of
his body. As he lands here, sort of falls backwards awkwardly onto his
onto his rump, and yeah, baron you trip him up. Then with
my extra attack, I plunged down on the creature for a twenty two to
hit. Because they're prone. That is a hit ten more points of slashing
damage. Nice. Okay, yeah he's still alive. That ends my turn.
Okay, cyrus. Yeah. I run forward and I'm i I'm screaming
with rage like I'm filled with unbridled rage as I wheeled my sword and plunge
it down into his body. Okay nineteen eighteen, yeap, that is mea
damage five slashing. Where do you plunge it into him? I'm going for
his neck. I wanted to chop his head off. Yeah, if possible.
You run forward, screaming. He looks up at you and says,
no, sister, you kill him. The sword buries into his neck.
Go done. I look down at the blood that's on my hands, down
at my sword. I turned to her and say, well done. You
are no sister of this one. Yes, but you may be a step
closer to kin with us. Speak for yourself. She's just as dangerous as
that thing on the ground. I pull my sword from its neck and I
wipe it on my shoulder, keeping his eye before sheathing my sword again.
You sleep well enough from what I can tell. Oh, yes, I
always know where you are there, don't I? And then my echo steps
out from behind her. So do it? Then? Are you asking me
to kill you? Would you? I would never openly attack someone who wears
our uniform, and you would know that if you knew anything about what we
are and what we represent, that I expect you will someday. I expect
that to be me lying on the ground someday with your sword plunging into it.
Enough, because I'm sure everyone else he look down on the corpse.
We need to return. This may be the only one. Salute and go
to get the horses. Serious, go inside, collect all the tags of
the fallen. Meet us by the horses. I am well done, Thank
you, sir. I'm walking sort of backwards, still looking at dra Car
before I turn back and walk into the tower collect the tags. Yeah,
I think. As we see you sort of step through the doorway and start
collecting the tower, we have a moment of seeing how young Cyrus looks here
before we see Cyrus age, she gets a little older. The forest that
is around Cyrus and around this tower, lush and green, fades to a
blackened withered forest. All of the trees turned to broken, blackened, ash
and cyrus older now in the forest, surrounded by thrack with Jilden and Sea
as we return to present day. Hello, this is Brad Woto from Table
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