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Thank you for listening and enjoy rack. You sit within a room of broken
mirrors, your reflection in each one splitting into hundreds more. In some of
the reflections, you witness yourself looking back. In some, your reflection is
looking away from you. In some, the world is on fire. In
some there are reflections of your party members looking back at you. What do
you do? What I would? I would study the closest mirrors. Okay,
give me a perception check, right? Sixteen sixteen? What are you
studying it for? I mean, I just kind of figure out what's going
on, So I guess I'm just taking in my surroundings. Behind you.
War Leader Coogan calls out the Wilder Beast, don't let them cross the river
heard them back Frct. The Wilderbeast herd is moving away from the war band.
Somewhere in the distance there is the thundering of big boars, enormous trotters
slamming into the ground as they do, the war band following it with their
drums striking in unison the familiar sounds of Xilan and the pack move northwards.
However, you and your kinship are in charge of the wilder Beast heard this
month. The wilder Beast are a necessary part of the pack. Overall.
The leather alone is precious to the war leaders. Besides, you are three
of your pack kinship members, Ursul, Brock, and Sean. All of
you are mounted. It very rare that the the orcs of your your your
pack, your try bar are not Most ride horses or wargs, but some
ride other things. You can really have anything that makes sense as long as
it isn't flying. What are the four of you riding a top of walks?
Well, I wasn't just asking you, I was asking and Brok and
Shan as well. Yeah, what you said, a walk walks walks,
Ye walks walks, So a wark is this sort of it's kind of it's
kind of like a wolf, but they're much bigger. The biggest and strongest
ones are the sizes of horses, but they're kind of evil, to be
honest, they are. They're a little smarter than sort of your traditional wharf.
Generally speaking, they're just used as horses. The group that you're all
a part of this sort of kinship are all on these wards. The entire
war band that follows Big Bore is known as the pack, and then there
are war leaders, But between the four of you, you're just in charge
of keeping these wilderbeats, this herd, which is moving away from the pack
and is heading towards one of the rivers. The first thing I'd like you
to do for me, Thrac is role for fury. So this is how
much you are under the influence of Big Bore, and generally speaking kind of
how tilted you are at anything and everything that's going to be happening today.
So just roll me a D twenty and it's a gradient from one to twenty
and you can call one. Do you think one means you're more furious or
twenty means you're more furious? Ah? Thanks one you okay? Blues contrial,
Yeah, fourteen fourteen. Okay, yeah, how do you guys go
about bringing these wilderbeas, this herd back to the pack. Can't we just
scream at them? I was going to scream at them. Yeah, well
don't do it. It will Yeah. No, no, you can't scream
at them again. It's just gonna displease the spirits. It's going to make
my life really odd, is it that? What do you think, runty
little frack? No looking back there? Why is it all the way back
there anyway? Thinking? Let's thinking, brain only frack your ma. But
you're back there, though, is it right? And I'll catch up to
them. I'm real confused, I think. So. Yeah, we've got
these three other orcs that are now sort of riding about on these walks with
with Thrack. I think for the rest of us that viewing Thrack, he
looked significantly younger. I wouldn't say necessarily that he is a child, but
I think he looks significantly younger to us or the three. He's he's compact,
is what. He's maybe a little smaller than the others than the other
three. The other three give us a quick rundown of who each of you
are. And also I'm just going to mention that Orkish had no idea this
was happening until they appeared on the screen. Me, ork Green. That
is literally what Orkish sent to Kalamachipaka about what his character artwork needed to look
like. Yeah, that's true, he did a great job. Yeah,
do you want to give us any more detail? Rock Rock Ork Green a
varying fire. Yeah, Brock is enormous. He's an absolute giant, covered
probably in scars, probably one of the bigger Orcs in the in the pack,
what about in front? None on the back? Uh? What about
Ear Orc shaman talk to spirits and stuff? Well, I lucked stature make
up for in all of my wily ways. Big stick she carries. At
least you're bigger than Thrack though it's shiny looking a little bigger than Frank.
Okay, so we've got a shaman. What about Sean? Yes, Sean
Orc Green Green, and I'm a scout run around quick, bigger than him?
Yeah, leggy, fast, big legs is you're like the ear from
from Vinland saga. Just because we always bring your characters back to Vinland Targa
exactly. Okay, Yeah, so the four of you are sort of riding
now out across these plains, and the plains of Ixilan are kind of like
just long tall grass, yellowed grass for the most part, with really relatively
flat landscape, I think, sort of you know, the like the sea
of grass that the doth Racky ride around on in Game of Thrones, or
you know there are just those like planes that are in Mongolia on Earth.
It's that kind of a landscape. And the the warband that you're a part
of are all mounted. They never stop moving. You sleep on the back
of your walk or your horse or your bear or whatever you're riding around on.
There is an absolutely ginormous pig a boar, which is the angel that
moves around this area. All it does is just move around, and anyone
that gets close to it gets more and more angry, more and more furious,
and loses more and more of their will. And that is just moving
away from you. And the entire group is moving across the plains here,
while the wilderbased kind of meander towards the river. So your plan is to
shout at them, Is that right? Show wowed? I mean, why
are we on Wilderby's duty again? I swear it's just last week we were
doing it, rack, run up the front and then bang real loud so
that they have to come around for something. Yeah, okay, right,
and I'll go and do that all rah, alright, buying my axe on
something I don't know, another piece of order. I'm right back in it
now, all right. Give me an intimidation check. Yeah, I will
do. If you do it good, I'll have some. So you're sort
of trying to assert dominance over the herd of wilderbees, to sort of compel
them to move in the desired direction. And I think you do so.
I think as you sort of you we see your walk take off around the
south side of the herd, and as you rush towards the head of the
pack, you start striking your axe against whatever it was you said you were
going to shield or something. What have you got. I've just got a
big axe and I'm just smacking it against another piece of ward that I used
to hit the or Yeah, okay, so you're just clacking this thing clackity
clack, clack clack. And yeah, I think you see the head of
the herd kind of veer off from the water and not going into the river
anymore. But they are also not quite heading back to your your pack,
but you've stopped them from going into the water. However, they kind of
seem skittish now, they stop moving quite as a pack. They think they're
being hunted. The ones at the front start taking off at a bit more
of a pace. They start to spread a little further out, and you
get the sense that any any moment now they're gonna they're just gonna bolt and
go wild. What if you brocko show about its dylish sort of? I
don't know what he's doing. Why should I do all that? Okay,
what you tone obviously not good enough, did you? Yeah? What you
said? Try thinking for yourself for once, Yeah, think for yourself,
thinking like I said, you do this thing? Well, fraggy boy,
I've got something for you. I know you likely that you're thinking, Yeah,
I've got a present for you this time. Okay, right as hard
as I can on my walk to try and like go and head them off.
Okay, that's another present. Yeah, this will be an animal handling
check. I'm not I've got Yeah, this is a fail. What happens?
I think I just I'm too close to them before get around to head
them off, So I just get too clouds and they go to the exact
direction I don't want them to. Yeah, they start freaking out, moving
and splitting off into different streams of wilderbast. Yeah, Thrack has completely screwed
this up. The other three? What do you three do? I got
a fucking tell us. I guess we're gonna have to do it ourselves,
then, aren't we? All right? Fine, all right, fine Track,
I'm gonna need more of your toenails. I don't need your help.
I can do it on my own. Doesn't look like it's not just your
ride that's gonna get to and fuck, it's all of ours. Yeah,
does something? How about you doing something now? Otherwise are pre tenue?
I think in orc fashion I would. I would ride right up to him
and you know, yeah, just dine and try it. Oh fucky boy,
I look down at him. You want to try me in front of
people? Himself? They can't do it? Do it? Do it?
Cracks. It sounds like crying from fight on board fight. We've got to
get the wild debris. Come on now. I wouldn't mind being tanned if
I get to see you wallet frack sweat. He's dripping down fracks forehead looking
up at this massive work way bigger than he is. What sort of weapons
you've got, Bronc. I've got many weapons? Are do? Got myself
my trusty war axe on my back. I've got myself my trusty throwing axes
on my hips. I've got myself this board tusks stuck in me arm.
I put it out on occasion and scratch me ars with it, right,
I can't just I'll just have one axe, actually, just one wore axe
and a knife. Right, So I think Frank gets a bit nervous,
and he says, leave off. Then let me do my job with you
do yours one more chance, fraggy boy. I'm in a good mood,
so you get this done. I got a present for you. Yeah,
all sort of like push his walk a bit with mine before I ride off
to try and round up the wilder beast. Okay, how are you attempting
it this time? Ah? I think I'll try. I think I'm angry
right now, so I'm probably going to go You're probably going to try to
right head them off with this time. I'm going to shout at them again,
all right in ray, Yeah it's another intimidation check then please Okay,
it's a natural twenty four. Yeah, I mean everything that you want to
happen happens. What is that? How does this go? Yeah? I
just I think I'm riding my walk and I you know, kick into its
flanks and it bolts forward, and it's just, you know, incredible,
the agility of the walk in rider, jumping from from stone to grass down
the hill. I streak in front of the wilderbeast pack, shouting the whole
time, your bloody base, turn yourselves around, come on, and they
all it's like it's like they're listening to me. It's magical. They're starting
to believe. And they all go in the exact direction that I want them
to. Back to the to the tribe, back to my carriers rocks.
As these things come out us ready to atta street, pashed brackish. I
am sort of stood tall in sadow looking over the other three. All right,
Well, as these beasts come we frat theyrd. I guess the rest
of the pack is ready to just take him. We were hiding hide some
rocks, and when they come towards us, we're going to get them with
spears and axes and point bits. You're gonna get me with spears and the
wield of beasts. Yeah, you want to kill these are wild debased going
on. I'm really angry. Blood, let's control you. By the way,
this happens every time you're on Wilder based Brock eventually tries to kill them
all and eat them Yorks boys. Yeah, Thrack, you sort of managed
to veer these things back. You guys get back into sort of a formation
here behind the wilderbease and bring them back in. And then there's just sort
of a horrible, sickening thud and a crunch. As Thrack you are taken
off the top of your walk and hit by an enormous uh just tree trunk
basically of a weapon, and the an elk pulls up beside you as your
wark kind of skitters away on top of it. Cogan, the your war
leader, not the war leader of the entire thing, but one of the
bigger orcs, looks down at you and says, don't load up and again,
ah, I lowered my eyes. Yes we do my side. No
food for him, he says to Brock. Mm hmm, all from me,
back on your walls, bucking line. Okay, ye ye. The
elk that he's riding on is sort of missing one entire antler. He sort
of wraps one arm around it and just shoves this elk's head one way,
which is just pretty much how it's It doesn't have rains or anything. He
just pushes the elk's head around and he sort of kicks the back of this
elk, and war leader Cogan starts like moving back into wards where the greater
pack is. Eyes up, watch to the light the right, watch to
the left, War is a foot oh war. While you're in the long
grass down there there, there's just a bizarre shift. It is nighttime.
To the right of you is Shn and the two of you are now crawling
through this grass. Sean turning to you, gesturing to stay low and quiet.
There's something ahead of you. There is a wagon sort of trundling across
the plains. Four people each one looks heavily on. Three human men and
a woman. The back of the wagon has supplies, weapons, food,
mead. Behind the wagon, the long grass, stirs Brock and Ursule are
in position. These people are making the dangerous attempt to cross Exilan north to
south ud Wager down into the golden forest. Perhaps your options are always only
two. You can kill them and return the supplies to the pack, or
capture them and bring them to the Big Boar. His influence will force them
to join the fury in the pack. There aren't just orcs here. There
are people that have been caught in the influence of Big Boar riding along,
but predominantly it's orcs. What do you do, ah, I would look
bored a scout John, and you know I would shy. What do you
think? Hi? We can take them if we're quick quite like m h
I? Okay? Which one do I go for? Which ones are there?
Again? So there are four humans. They all look well armored,
like they look like nights basically, but their armor looks a little actually,
do you know what? Let's have? So this is going to be Sean
making a perception check. But thrack. You need to roll it, Okay?
What you roll is what Sean says. It's a natural one to five.
It's a big fail. It's dark. It's hard to see really at
the distance that you're at. Their armor looks like it's in okay condition.
They're heavily armored. They've got great swords, they've got long bows. They
don't have headgear. On so you can make out their features. They have
small heads on such big armor, but you can make out that there's three
men and a woman. All of them look like they can probably fight,
all of them strong and muscular looking for humans, puny human, but still
great boars balls. Why don't you go for the woman? It's about your
size. Okay, now, oh, count you down? Ready? Okay?
Free two one, a little rabbit. Ah, I burst out,
immediately, start screaming, and I've got my axe. I'm like wielding it
over my head, charging down the hill, going after roll for waring,
rolling for furly thirteen at thirteen okay, yeah, you start, you burst
out of the grass and rush forward. What is Sean doing? I'm following
up, burst out of the grass. Rock. We were waiting on the
sideline in front of my face like a polar bear, hiding my pointy tusks.
But when they go, I'm gonna go, God, don't wait for
me. Don't let me becoming my axes. Okay, yeah, you you
all start rushing forward. Suddenly, the the people on the wagon sort of
turn and see that you're rushing towards them. They glance at each other and
one of them says to the other go go, go, go, go
go. They start striking at the horses flanks. The wagon takes off,
but it's not on this there's no road here. They're not moving along a
road. This wagon starts bouncing up and down through the long grass as you
guys start rushing forward. Let's have make me an athletics check for the group.
Okay, let's get those horses fifteen. Yeah, you guys are easily
a to catch up to this this wagon. What do you do when four
of you descend on it? I take out the horses first. And when
you say take them out, oh, slip their throats if I can,
or break their legs even better. Okay, Yeah, in a classic maneuver,
sean who is very quick, I think, peels ahead of everyone.
You see what weapon you have. I've got two small axes, and I
have a bow and arrow also, but I think i'd probably be using my
axes. Yeah. One of the axes flies through the air and just jams
in the side of one of the horses. Necks, it winnies, it
bucks. The entire wagon lifts and moves one way. The other horse is
sort of freaking out at the smell of blood and the chaos that's suddenly erupted.
And then you're on it with the second axe, running it along the
underside of this horse's neck, blood gushing down everywhere. The first horse isn't
dead, the second one is dying quickly, but the wagon pretty much comes
immediately to a stop. The four people that are on the wagon pull out
these swords, but they struggle to lift them. Now that you're closer,
you can see all four of these people are quite old. Not old like
ancient. They're probably like fifties sixties, but like older than you'd maybe expect.
They also seem to be struggling in that armor and with these swords as
they start a panic. Oh, just fend him off. It's orcs.
Who's the biggest one. The biggest one is the guy that was actually on
the reins, but he's jumped up now and got a sword. But they're
relatively similar in size and stature. I approach you, yep. I walk
up to him, and then looking down, I assume I'm a few feet
taller. Yeah, he's on a wagon, and I think you still kind
of come up to eye level with him. All right, Well, I
mean i'd like to grab him by the head and pull his head out of
his spine. But I don't know is that possible. Let's see, let's
have another athletics check from Thrack. Oh, he's trying to do the classic
rock my naver. I think he actually puts this great sword like into your
chest, like he swings it poorly. It doesn't actually you can you feel
that it doesn't bite deep. This is a graze for you, Brock.
But it completely immobilizes him. He thinks that he's got a pretty decent strike
on you, and then you've got your hands on his head right well,
in that case, as the act digs into my chest, are flexed to
bury it in place, he tries to pull it, it doesn't come out.
I grab his head out. The spine comes connected like a fox skebab
the back of the woman starts screaming. She just rushes at you, Brock,
jumping off of the wagon, running at you with another great sword.
She literally can't even lift this thing. What are the other hawks doing at
this point? One of them alive, Two of them that have jumped off
the back of this wagon and are just running into the grass, running away
in fear. Go on francky boy, do something trip up the one that's
coming for Brock easily done. I think you do that with our check rak,
What are you doing? I'm chasing that running okay, Yeah, I've
got my I've got my axe out. If I catch up to him,
I'm just going to swing it at them. Yeah, just an athletics check,
that's all I need. Natural one. I go to swing and it's
like in video games, you know how you're chasing something and then you swing
and as you're swinging, they get ahead a little bit, so that happens.
But I go off balance and I fall over and I think I'll cut
myself on the axe. I'll go flying into the long grass. What the
fuck is he doing? Well? I pull out my bow and arrow and
I I want to pish and arrow into the legs of one of these ones
that are running away. Yeah, okay, Frank romin acrobatics check for this
one. Ah yeah, good luck with that one. That's thirteen thirteen.
It's an ugly shot because they're in long grass. The arrow flies through the
arcs a little bit and you see one of them go falling into the grass.
Ahead of Thrack. There is a woman now that's standing up and turning
to seeing who has tripped her arm. She says, go away from me.
Go away on one side, brock on the other, you'll make a
fight. Splcimen, I don't understand what you're saying. Really, got some
rope blinder up. I can have an arm you can have an army.
Was it righty tight? You're lefty Lucy. I forget twisting the army twisting
Okay? Yeah, she's just screaming as you're twisting an arm off. It
was lefty Lucy. Its the plate mal armor was like it's still intact,
but like bent and twisted in a horrible way. You could like you feel
the arm break underneath the armor. You feel the armor kind of like bend
and awkwardly turn, metal scraping against metal. She is screaming, Yeah,
you're not going to get a rag and shove it in her mouth. Yeah,
she's absolutely losing her mind. The okay, thrank, you are back
on your feet, bleeding from a wound on your head, blood running into
one of your eyes. Yeah. I think it just makes me more upset,
So I chase the other one down even harder. Okay, give me.
In athletics check, stare ahead of you. Now it's ten, it's
time. Yeah, the one. So one of them has vanished because when
you were on the ground, you get back up, one of them has
fallen over, but you're not aware of it. So you chase the one
that you can see. You know that scene in them in Jurassic Park two,
I think where the veloci raptors are moving through the grass and you get
that like bird's eye girl of of just seeing the grass parting and stuff.
I think you're just kind of doing that as you chase after one of these
guys. Give me a perception check sixteen sixteen. Let's roll the twenty a
three. You see this coming really easily. There's like a terrible sword swing
from this guy's you're running to try and catch up to him. He stops,
He turns around, plants his feet and swings this sword as hard as
you can, but it's clumsy. It's terrible. You see it coming,
What do you do? Yeah? I take it on my on my pauldering
my shoulder armor that I've got. I know that it's not coming down hard
enough for it to It's just going to get stuck in the leather. Yeah,
I don't think it's get stuck. It just kind of hits that his
arm. His wrist twists awkwardly. He loses the or this great sword flies
over your shoulder and clanks behind you, and he just kind of starts backing
up. Stay away from me, Stay stay away from me. I feel,
you know, anger and shame of a tripping. There's blood in my
face. I know the others are watching me, or they're nearby. I'll
lift my axe up over my head and I come. I come down with
it too, as hard as I can on this fellow's head, and whatever's
in the way, you may try and give me an ethletics check again,
an eight, an eight. I think that you actually get him, but
it doesn't kill him. I think this just goes into like the area above
his shoulder, and this axe goes it buries in. He will die from
this, for sure, But he doesn't die now. He is just screaming.
Blood. A gout of blood just rushes up, strikes you in the
face. One half of your face is now in this guy's blood. The
other half is covered in your own, and he just starts screaming. The
axe is kind of caught, it's wedged on like his collar bone or something.
As you start like wrenching this thing backwards, he's screaming and losing his
mind. What do you do? I'll put my foot in his mouth.
It's dual purpose. It shuts him up and it also gives me leverage to
pull the axe out of his shoulder. Yeah. Oh, and I love
when they sing it playing with your food frat. It breaks his jaw.
As you finally wrench this thing free, he hits the ground. He rolls
over it. He can't seem to move. He's still screaming. One of
his arms kind of completely limped, the other one reaching out trying to defend
himself. He's looking up at you. His eyes are looking at you.
There's just an enormous amount of fear in his eyes. What do you do?
I decapitate him? Yeah, he don't need to do a check for
it. He's not moving or anything. You just bring the axe down and
his head rolls from behind you. There is a scream as somebody's running up
with the great sword. The second guy is running towards you, well limp
running, but running with the great sword out in front of him, thrusting
out towards you. What do you do. I would just do an easy
perry with my axe and then a fluid motion to swing the axe down on
his head. Okay, give me an athletic exchecquive advantage because he has an
arrow in his calf. Marami's on. Yeah, you do exactly what you
want to do here. You parry his sword. You recognize that these people
are not fighters while they're in armor. What's going on here? You don't
know. You've encountered fighters before. You've encountered humans with this kind of heavy
metal armor on that they wear from the other lands. And when they usually
have this metal on, they're actually usually a formidable fight. This is not
at all. This is like fighting children for you. You just parry this.
You bring the sword around, run it across this guy's armor and bat
him to one side. He drops his sword, falls, stumbles, rolls
across in front of you, and then what do you do? Bring the
axe down on his head. It lands in the middle of his face.
This axe just splits his nose and his eyes and his face caves in.
There's just a horrible wet crunch. As you kill this last one, there
is a behind you. The others are are carrying an unconscious now woman.
The three men I reckon the horses are dead. Her arm is like completely
destroyed, but inside the armor it's kind of hanging awkwardly and twisted angle because
the armor is also ripped off. Oh yeah, yeah, we've got a
message for your frack from your ancestors. They said you're a fucking mess.
Oh's that whatever almost got you know, didn't they? Well, well,
well little Ranti's growing up and he helping out on the haunts, killing a
few squishy people in tin pots. Well I didn't say earlier. Ah,
the present for you. I found something else for you now instead, I
think you earned it was in this wagoner here. I've seen you the way
you look at our shamings and our sorcerers. They have power. You've got
nothing. I've seen you reading, I've seen you of things. Well,
I just found something for you. Looks like a scroll. Oh with the
stick said, it's a scroll of cleaning or something. Single use there you
are, maybe you can learn it or something. A hand brag this uh
this scroll it's rolled up. Uh yeah, I take it, and I'm
sort of snatching out of his hand and I'm right, well, you know,
I don't. I don't need this to kill now one Rock. As
he grabbed it, there's a squelch to the scroll, and you notice a
familiar smell. Do you open there? He's the smell ship ship looks like
for cleaning. I think I would know before I open it, because he's
done this to me. Oh, oh, it's a I'll throw it on
the ground and covered in blood and I'm pissed off, and I'll push Brock.
Maybe I've got present for you gripping my axe it's wrong. And oh
unless the DM wants to roll, I don't think I'm move Yeah, I
mean you need to roll me in athletics, check rank with disadvantage because you
are significantly smaller than him. And then you need to roll me in athletics
check for Brock, which will be with advantage because he's significantly bigger than you.
Thanks, so I'll get a furt thing mm hmm. And and Rock
it's an eleven. Yeah. I think what happens here is there's one of
that you know, those moments where you definitely don't push him over, but
for the first time Rank pushes you and there's a little strength to it,
and he makes you stumble backwards a little take a few steps back, I'll
lose ground, yeah, Or I look back at the shit scroll and go,
that was a gift. Frag Now I say his name, I don't
say run Tea, just Frack. And I think you realize for the first
time I looking at you like a runt. No more, you are fret.
I don't do nothing, but you might want to watch your back now,
Fraggy boy. Thrack, the enormous bore is thundering across the plains day
and night. The riders behind it, each orc on horseback walk. Some
of them are riding on top of bears. There's the one on an elk,
one of the elite war leaders. Igmat is sort of striding along behind
big boar on a two headed lizard, a giant lizard. And you're sitting
on your walk and you look up at the boar with its influence filling your
mind, sort of gripping your will, and you swell with that familiar fury,
the anger that binds you to the pack, roll for fury. And
I think when we as an audience see Thrack, now he looks a little
older I did before. He looks a little, a little different, a
little maybe a little more like the thrank that we recognize. And you've rolled
a natural one natural one, which means I'm fully enraged, as angry as
I've ever been. I am in complete control under the ball. I mean,
what's the closest living creature near me. There's an orc called Shazagh.
I'll walk up to Shazag and I punch him fall on in the face.
Okay from me, athletics jack as far as I can. Natural twenty three.
You walk up to this orc who's bigger than you, who's sitting there
with like a like a rabbit or something that's been cooked on a stick,
and he's just chewing it. And he turns around and just says, well
well, and then you just knock him out. It's a one punch,
a world star bang. You just strike him. Everyone around you is suddenly
everyone just starts punching each other. Immediately, roll me a D twenty twelve.
There's a point during this where everyone is fighting everyone. You're just in
this mess. People are striking each other, they're throwing things. Some of
the orcs are just killing each other because that's what they do. You turn
around at one point and someone runs directly into you on the back of their
walk, and you're just caught by this spun around and as you hit the
ground you feel the sensation of hitting water. There's like a splash. Again.
You find yourself in that sort of strange place with mirrors. You're on
top of your walg riding through just fractal mirrors. A lot of them are
broken again. In some of them is your own reflection. In some of
them is the reflection of your orc friends and family and kinship. In some
of them are the members of the Cura. In some is just fire.
In one is an empty chair. In one is you looking back at you.
One is you looking away and you're sort of trotting slowly on the back
of your warg. As you look down at your warg Rommia D twenty again
seven, it's a decade the work is. It looks like a corpse,
basically like you've just dug this thing up. It's definitely your walk. I
don't know if you named it or I didn't care or anything like that,
but this was scab completely partly decayed and rotting. As you ride along,
eventually you come to an area where there are stone walls. There are these
crumbling kind of ancient walls. There are red plants that are growing up out
of the ground. There are trees that have green bark and red blossoms.
And there is now just a single mirror, but it looks kind of like
a door more than a mirror. But your reflection stares back at you.
There is a familiar voice, speaking in a language that you don't understand,
coming through mirror, and you see a creature on the other side, sort
of a tall, strong looking human, but much larger, larger than you,
larger than a lot of the orcs. He's got a bald head,
and in one hand he's holding a sort of a shining glass ball. He's
got a red cloak around his shoulders. And when he speaks, the words
he's speaking make no sense to your ear, but they appear around the doorway
magically, glittering and floating in the air on your side of this mirror.
As he turns to you, he looks at you and sort of folds out
of existence, leaving you staring at your own reflection. Behind you, your
three companions arrive in the mirror. They appear different the orcs you recognize beside
you. As you look at them are simply shadows in the mirror. There
are twenty four words floating around the doorway, and each one is written in
Orcish, floating around, glittering, and you can move them when you choose
to move them. The companions understand that you have to match three sets of
four words. Here are all of the words. Those of you that are
watching this and not listening, this is what you need to do. The
other three you're here, match three sets four words. Once you put them
into the little depressions that are on the all there, that will count.
That's what you are So three sets of four words. Okay, out of
puzzles, take me head out. What's it mean? Franky? Can you
tell us what it means? Their words? Oh? I got that when
I made all sorts of different things. Don't I tell it to yourself?
What was wish? That would mean a point to cure? Ah? You
word in it? It's a weird looking word. Never said anything like that,
I think, Rommi roll me. I guess an investigation or a history
check would be fine. Okay, an natural a natural one. Yeah?
You you reading, you understand what it says and the you know that feeling
of like when when you have a thought, or you're trying to recall something
that's on the tip of your tongue and you just can't quite remember what that
thing is. You know, that one word that you're looking for, or
the actor that's in that movie, or you know what I mean, that
kind of feeling. That's what you have intensely when you look at that word.
Yeah, okay, was it mean to you? And you're like,
I should not? Yeah, and I don't all that book reading not doing
you much good? Are they? What did I tell you? What did
he tell him? Rash? To him Rocks reading his books? Didn't I?
All right? Yeah you didn't? Y two times? Actually, how
many times? At least? One? Oh? All sounds very Yorky now
that blood and drums? Yeah yeah, but you know what else sounds?
Walking? One word A resets it for what's that mean? Walk? Oh
yet? What dove on my aunts? All right, I'll do We'll check
him out, okay, walk aside? Drums? Yeah, what's your work
in? Hm? It's living in excel brash the boar, walks, drums?
Oh yeah, things from home? I think? Yeah, oh yeah,
that must be what it is. I could have told you that makes
sense. Yeah, you could have. I could have told you about your
kay worse. Can you tell us you didn't know, didn't joke? I
did? And then I don't tell you things for Freddy do I cough up?
Baby's angry? All right? The the four words sort of glitter and
vanish as they're accepted. I think he's doing something. It's always doing something.
Yes, it's right. Change brack you because your shame. Okay,
do your stupid ideal magic. Everyone knows you can't do magic. We are
talking the spirit saying that my back. I silently moved my name in next
without looking back at them, kind of landing. And then last one,
I said Frank was going to die twelve winners ago. Well, they're not
always one hundred percent accurate. Time moves differently for spirits. Yeah, i'd
know because I talked to him all the time. See. Yeah, it
might have meant thirteen moons before you die. It's hard to tell it me
though, rack blood and escape, glitter and vanish. You guys can carry
on there. Wait, so if he does, then I died in thirteen
months. Yeah pretty much. Yeah, I think that's what they think.
That last one was done more on instinct than thinking yep, and i'd like
to think that I'm sort of coming back who I am today. What do
you think you can roll me a D twenty? Can you give me your
portion of me tonight? I'll lask the spirits again. I'll just give you
frags all the two. I don't think you are. I don't think you
fully come back to who you are today with giving the portions away, do
you? Fraagy boy? It's for the greater They're great. You ain't doing
much growing anyway. Uh m hmm. Okay, what do the spirits say
about me? Yeah? Yeah. They say you're going to be the strongest
up in the clan. Yeah yeah. In fact, some of them say
you're already the strongest walk in the clan. And I have been. I've
killed most of people with it backed me. Yeah yeah yeah. They say
when you die, you're going to be the one calling the shot. Yeah.
I'm there in the fields, yeah, with grouching around with Big four.
But they also said you need to keep me at your right hand side
for that to happen. So I guess you'll have to keep protecting me,
which wants me right right? You tired? You remember? Oh? Yeah,
the one you used to tearing that. Yeah. Yeah, me asked
one thing. Yeah, yeah, don't touch me. I'm going to keep
you there. You've picked four more words when I they born, flag,
flames, envy, and run. Can you show your working on that one.
Yeah. I think it's just sort of pieces of emotion that are stuck
to track from his past and even though envy was taken from him as a
reason why he chose to chose to have that taken away. Okay, the
four words back, all four of them, All three of your sets had
to do with the past. Grasp or word drums was all excellent. Yeah,
Chains, thrack, blood, escape, past, corn, flag,
flames, envy, run, emotional past. Yeah. Can you show us
because it displays in this mirror what the night looked like that Thrack left,
how we did it, what happened? Yeah, it was. It was
a night where we saw another group coming through Exelon, and I think we
were sent to had attack care of them again this time. And they didn't
look like fighters. They were dressed in robes and they had staves and they
were walking around with no, we're just like packs on. Didn't look like
they had been traveling long, didn't look like they knew how long it would
take for them to get through, So I really doing them a favor,
you know, cutting them up now before they died of something else. There's
no way they're going to cross the plains with that little supplies. So we're
tracking them down and it's the middle of the night and we're chasing them.
Then we sort of loose track of each other. It's a little strange because
we're chasing them and we feel like we're going to catch them now, that
same feeling we get every time. And we finally get ironds around these trespasses
coming into all Land, they just slip away at the last moment, and
we get more and more angry, and before I know it, I'm completely
alone and I'm chasing just one of them, and I get closer, closer,
and I'll reach out to grab him, and he is gone by the
time my hands get around his robe, and it's nothing but a rope now,
and I'm pulling the roll apart trying to get to him, and all
I find in there is a small stone statue and it's a tower tarts.
I've never seen it before, but I recognize it, and I get about
five seconds looking at it before I'm gone, blanes are gone, the wind
on my face is gone, and our main heart stower. Yeah, you're
sitting in a a chair. I don't know if you've honestly ever sat in
a chair before, and we're talking what is essentially as close to a sort
of modern day like armchair as you can get. Really. There's a fire
in a half and there is a slightly larger version of this that you're looking
at across from you, with this big human. I don't know if you've
ever seen a goliath before, so because I don't think they've ever on that
far south, it would be unbelievably rare. So there's just what looks to
you to be just an enormous human, sort of grayish skin, a long
beard, but a bald head. And he's wearing very little, for hard
is usually wearing robes upon robes and stuff like that, but he is wearing
just sort of like a like a vest and some like travelers trousers with his
feet out bare, his arms out, and you can see that his arms
are covered in little bits of sort of patterned scarification, and then lots of
tattoos, and all of the tattoos are like runes, as if someone has
just etched runs across his arms and his shoulders. He's not entirely covered in
this, but there's quite a few of them. And he's turning over in
his hand the little tower, and he's looking at it, and he looks
up at you, and he looks down at the tower, and he puts
the tower down next to the hearth and says, it worked. Where am
I? Where are you? I am hard? What is your name?
Our names? Your end? And I charge him? Make me a wisdom
saving throw? Okay, ah, certain you're not moving, You're just pinned
to this. What you do to me ah a very simple spell. Don't
worry you. We'll be able to move soon enough. Doris whisper, where
are you? Well? I'm a wizard. What are you? Ah?
I'm pursed off. That's where I am. Not for long. The pig
has done this to you, to all of you. It's not the words
that you said, just sort of fucking feel its drining out of me.
Have you ever had a cup of tea? Who look in your hands?
Drink it. By the time you are finished, you will feel much better.
Spos not dir smow hot water. It is water. Not really dirt
leaves that comes from very far away, very very far away. Don't spill
it. Oh it's hot, Yes, I drinks hot water. Come,
I think you can handle a little bit of hot water. Bounty in one.
You don't look as angry as you were a minute ago. Yeah,
what am I here? Because you want to be here? That and I
need you to be here as well. But sort of a side effect,
okay to you, big old man wished and you want my hair? Why
you are unique? Your kinship? I think you call them They have rejected
you your whole life, and I sort of understand how this feels a little
bit. I was born with an affinity for magic, and so were you.
You think that it has been muscles and the skills training that have made
you grow. And when you shoved your friend, you think that this was
your muscles. Now it was the magic. When you are able to hurt
the animals, you think you scared them with sticks? Come, it was
magic. Slowly you are growing in power, but without training mentorship, you
will amount to nothing. However, with I suppose a little guidance, you
can amount to great things if you would like. Takes a sip of his
today, you mean fucking the spouse like this one. Ah. Yes,
there are many spells. There are different affinities that perhaps you will take a
shine too. I am a fan of many different types of spells. This
place that you are in is my greatest spell. It is a tower.
I build it. In fact, I am building it, and I will
build it. You, however, I think perhaps are going to amount to
even greater things. Your mind is unique. I suspect perhaps sometimes you lose
time. Have you ever woken up when you didn't realize that you were asleep?
Perhaps I try to stand up. Yeah, you can move, I'll
get clouds natural laining. How you know so much about me? That question
is easy. You told me yourself. The fire behind you that is burning
becomes very intense. As you are back on the planes and there is fire
everywhere. As far as your eyes can sort of see and scan across the
horizon, there is pretty much nothing but death all around you. You can
hear the war leaders screaming in the distance, Orcs clashing with the undead.
They're lizard creatures. They're gnashing at orc flesh. There are orcs that are
crushing and bludgeoning their skeletal foes in the sky. Something flies overhead, a
shadow within a shadow, just an absolutely enormous, decaying dragon. There's a
flash of energy from its mouth, and green poison rains across the battlefield,
reducing any orc it covers into a sort of boiling, fleshy mulch. There's
a sort of overwhelming additional presence as well, as if, as if death
itself is trying to pull you into the ground, into an early grave.
The skin on your body is burning, opening in wounds and sores. The
heart in your chest is beating harder and faster than it should be, as
if it's struggling to remain. Far into the distance, the wrecked and broken
corpse of big Boar lies the Angel of Grooms. The boar's flesh has been
torn open, the bones of the giant pig's ribs have split through its side,
and the orcs nearby have gone into a frenzy. They're tearing and striking
at friend and foe alike. The left eye of the boar's carcass is missing,
and as you stare into it, it stares back into you, and
you get a strange feeling of deja vaux. What do you do? Hi?
I'll walk towards it slowly as in a complete Gates. I can't control
myself. Okay, Sean, Yes, what are you doing? I'm not
I'm fighting. I'm running looking for anyone, but I recognize. Okay,
let's have a thrack romy a perception check eight ten eighteen. Who are you
ideally looking for? John? I'm looking for Brock. Brock. What are
you doing killing? Yeah? Brock is standing like thirty five feet to your
right, Sean. He has got a lance through his side. It has
gone straight through one side and it's coming out of his back. He's missing
his entire left arm. He's swinging with his right and just taking out one
zombie after the other. These lizard folks, they're much smaller than you are,
much thinner. They're basically skeletons with some flesh dangling off of them.
Are just jumping at him like velociraptors were jump to that t rex, and
he's just taking them out one by one. One latches onto his back.
You can see the flesh of his shoulder tear away as he grabs it,
flings it. What do you do, Sean, Yeah, I just start
fighting everything around me. Now I'm fighting from my life because if he's going
down, I don't know what the future holds. Yeah, okay, thrack
roming and athletics check seventeen seventeen. Yeah, you start moving through like parting
these zombies moving towards him. There are other orcs that are just kind of
being decimated around you, destroying it is nothing but flames fire. There are
these pools of poison that are smoking up the long grass of the planes here
almost entirely on fire. It's it's extremely hot. It's difficult to breathe.
A little zombie creature jumps up at you. You instinctively grab its face and
fling it behind you. Another one jumps up on your back. You feel
its claws raking through your skin. What do you do? I shout,
where's Ozol? Where is oz right side? Somewhere? A group of shaman
elders, we're all going in a tight knit group towards the ball. We
need the eyeball beyond that one small shamans. They're all moving together. You
can hear them kind of chanting, and you can see this kind of with
the wisps of sort of strange necromancy around them. Is somewhat affecting these creatures.
They're able to repel them and part them somewhat. Every nine and then
one will break through and they have to manually dispose of it. As they
move towards the boar. Will need to roll your wisdom saving throw via thrack.
You've got to protect the protect the shamans. Project eleven is a fail.
You go into full blown fury as you get you and the other shamans
get too close to the eye. I remember, straight for the ball,
running straight for the boar. Yeah, you you see, or just break
free of the other shamans. A sort of gaulish lizard and much bigger than
the others slams into the side of you. Four and as you go to
stand back up, you are impaled on something. You look down. There
is a lance or a stick that is just sticking through your stomach. The
creature that was that has pushed you jumps onto you. There is It starts
like raking at your skin. There's flesh. A second one jumps onto us,
or they start biting at your shoulder. One bites at your face,
rips your cheek clean off. What are the other two doing? I'm running
after them. I'm going to try and feel these things off. My little
shammy. I needed to fix me on. Give me an athletics check,
please Thrack. At ten, you try to run after them, but bro
for the first time in your life, you feel weak. You've actually lost
so much blood. You think you're running, but you're not on the ground.
You are laying there and bleeding out. Sean. While you're looking at
Bronc, he has no legs. His body has been torn from his legs,
and he is still crawling forward with one arm until eventually he slows and
stops. What do you do? I run up and I take his I
take his weapon, and I kick him over to make sure he's dead.
He's definitely dead, very dead, and I chase after where Urzel is.
I need another wisdom saved from Thrack having you make it, But I also
need a dexterity saving thrown. As the sky opens up and rains more poison,
you can that is a fail, Urzol. You're still alive, You're
fending these things off, and then you are hit by just a wave of
poisoned breath. This melts you. Your skin is melted straight off the bone.
It takes seconds, uh, Sean, You jump backwards. You are,
but you are caught by a bunch of this as well. You feel
your skin boiling, you feel your hair boiling. You look at your hands
and arms as they welt and open. You're still somewhere alive. You turn
around and you see Thrack Thrac, who you haven't seen for years. He
looks completely different. His hair has got a weird style to it. He's
wearing like these strange clothes and these robes and things. He's like gripping a
book under one arm. Run Rabbit, Run Brack, What are you doing?
I think that I continue walking towards the ball. I'm like observing these
orcs that I used to know better than anyone perish. But it's just something
happening far far away, or in a dream or in a haze. And
I hear the words she's saying, But I'm just walking towards that empty eye
socket ball? No? No, what are you doing? Run? Will?
I say? Don't you do best? Run? Uh? Something burst
out of Sean's chest. A hand and a wrist bursts out the Parts of
Sean's body that were melting from the poison sort of slough away as something crawls
upwards out of Shan's chest, a second hand and then a sort of a
horned figure dressed in northern wear. As Cirrus pulls herself out from the chest
cavity of Shan, Sirus is moving towards you. The boar in the background
still draws you forward. What are you doing, throg Cirrus? Now it
is Cirrus. I sort of shake my head and blank my eyes. Ah,
oh, Cirrus shore you. Cirrus is just walking towards you, no
noise, no speaking, just staring at you. Around you, the orcs
are falling one by one, slain by these creatures, melted under this sort
of devastating airborne poisoned breath, or just simply falling dead from the physical toll
that seems to be taking place on living creatures on this battlefield. You have
an option here. You can keep walking or you can wake up. I'll
keep walking. What's the intention? I don't know. I just know I'll
have to get to the ball above you. This dragon seems to be circling
you now. As you're moving towards the boar. The battlefield is empty.
There's now nothing where there were bodies. There is really just nothingness, but
an intense kind of wind starts blowing across this this planes. As you look
across it, you get the sense that the corpses and the skeletons, and
the weapons, and even the angel itself has probably been laying here for six
months, nine months, a year, probably longer. But above you,
the dragon is still circling far above you. How far above? I get
a good look out there. You may try give me a perception check with
disadvantage. Yeah, I sort of shaded my eyes. I try to get
a good look at this thing, and a natural one. As you're looking
up, the wind is so intense, I think that it makes it difficult
even to open your eyes for a moment. And you're looking up and all
you can see is just darkness. It's not really even the shape of a
dragon anymore. It is like just an emission of light that's swirling around.
And as you're looking up, it starts to become kind of just a maelstrom,
just sort of a whirlpool, the clouds turning in and spinning. With
this darkness. You can't make out a shape or any detail. I how
would I be able to? I think I would just keep going towards the
ball. I think there's something I need there, or there's something I need
to know that need to be closer. The corpse of the boar is absolutely
huge. There's a bizarre sense of deja vaux here, as if you've done
this before. You're looking over this thing and it is there's no flesh on
it anymore. It is just bones. The eye sockets are, the head
is sort of tilted at such a strange angle that both of the eyes are
kind of looking in your direction. The back legs are kind of just have
just collapsed in a kind of a heap of bones. But the ribs and
the rib cage remains pretty much just this absolutely enormous thing. This is and
the bore is pretty enormous. It would look like an apartment building, you
know, on its side. That's the kind of size that you're looking up
at. Within the rib cage, sitting on the ground is a little tiny
little chip of bone, just a little tiny little thing like a It would
be the size of a dice. But you recognize that one thing it is
what is calling you towards it. Why Ronny are wisdom save seventeen are seventeen.
There's a strange feeling like a closer you get to this thing, it's
like your body is on fire. And as you progress forward, you feel
this just intense pain inside your head, like a like an incredibly powerful Migraine
archaic ginde. Behind you, there are voices calling towards you. I recognize
him, You do recognize them. These are the voices of your orc kinship.
But I can look. Yeah, you turn back. There is not
just your immediate kinship, and so Orcs in this tribe don't really have like
family when you're born. You're just put on a baby walk and that's it.
You don't like really stay with your mom and your dad and your brothers
and stuff. You just become part of the pack. You can see them
at the head of your entire pack, but there are so many more Orcs
behind them. There's just an endless sea of Orcs just and it spreads out
as far as the eye can see, across the plains. You look back
now at your entire bloodline, all of your kin, and all of the
Orcs that were ever part of the pack, and they're kind of looking at
you. What do you do? What do you want? Why are you
here? Why am I here? Why are you here? Why are you
here? What do you want? What do you want? Hey? I
want I want to stop this. This has to stop, It has to
stop. There is a voice from next to you that says you are the
very last of your bloodline. Oh yeah, there's a kind of blurry shadow
standing next to you. You get the sense that it's kind of casually viewing
the hawks, and they're all shouting out at you alongside you. I get
the sense that we have met before, but I can't figure out how A
very last? What are you? There's something I have to get And I'll
take a moment and look at all the people the way of life, bone
now forever, the very last, and I turn my back on them and
I'll go towards the ball again. Do you think that that chip of bone
is going to help you, going to stop you from joining them? A
fry boy. I stand up a bit straighter and I sigh. I don't
believe we know if it will or it won't. I'm not doing nothing certainly
won't help, and I'll continue forward. Everything in this world must be purged,
everything must die. God, who are you? I am death and
I am here to reap. I told you to run death. Here we
are in mesh? Yes, why why didn't you run? There is no
other way to what end, no other way to what precisely that the end.
In order for this world to be reborn, everything must die. Your
tricks may help you once, perhaps twice. You can save someone, bring
them back, only to die again. A piece of an angel will not
save you. The angels themselves cannot stand against me. What hope do you
have? He's hopeless. All things must start right, all but one.
I don't think that's how it works. Are you the god of death?
If I kill you, maybe you won't be able to I've tried. Maybe
someone like you lacks the motivation. Look around you. This is nothing but
my motivation. It's mine too, very well, until we meet again.
I turn away from him and go to the ball. Yep, Am I
able to find the bound tip? Mm hm yes, I pick it up
in my hand and study. Yeah. As you look at it, you
feel the sense of kind of cold air on your face, that chill that
you've been accustomed to during your journey. And there's a kind of crunching sound
and of footsteps pacing about nearby. It's been three days, see it Jilden
and Syrus have crafted a sort of poor sled from some logs and the pelt
that you made from a yetty, and have been dragging you away from the
site of the fallen Condor. Over some time, Seeer managed to locate a
doorway into the mountain. There is dwarven script across an iron door, and
with repeated attempts to gain access, they've just fruitless so far. However,
after sort of camping outside of this doorway, Frank returns to consciousness and as
you kind of open your eyes for the first time, I mean an intense
First of all, you need to peece so bad. Then the hunger,
the headache, the sickness, You feel incredibly unwell. See you from behind
where you are, no doubt, arms crossed, leaning against one of the
walls. The door rattles, and a little metal slit on the doorway opens,
and bloodshot eyes peer out and up at you and say, who goes
there? We thought everyone was bleeding dead? Well, funny you should ask,
not all of us are dead. The name is a see It,
and I, me and my companions have been on a long journey in seek
respite. If you should be so gracious to offer it. All right,
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