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you for listening and enjoy You all are traveling across the land of the Giants
sell they to get to the other side, and after a few encounters,
you found yourselves at a tower which you're able to identify as Hard's Tower,
which is the wizard that has been training our wizard over the past many years.
I don't remember the exact amount the Big Wiz the Big Wiz, however,
this tower is on the north side of Moon and you are significantly far
away from it. You're in the giant land southeast of Moon, and as
you guys escape from the zombie hordes that are sort of chasing after you,
you managed to scramble up this sort of mountain and find yourselves at Hard's Tower,
and it does look exactly the same as as the one that you left
behind in Moon, at least from the outside it looks exactly the same.
There's a huge doorway at the top of some ice covered steps. There's a
giant clock above the doorway with cymbals on it that seemingly have nothing to do
with time, even though we're gonna we're gonna call it a clock anyway.
And you can see that there is candlelight flickering in some of the windows.
There is also a plume of blue smoke from the chimneys at the top.
The zombies are pretty far away at this point. You've managed to escape them,
so there's no immediate sort of threat. They're not like chomping at your
heels. Exactly what do you guys do when you arrive? And can everyone
roll me at D twenty twenty? Nice and Cirrus with the twenty and jelled
them with a nine and track with an eight. Okay, thank you,
but it's till my shine, Cirrus, we've gone together. I don't like
that, I know, well, uh, I think I would. This
is exactly the same, right, yes, so, I mean this is
the tower that I've spent the past ten years in so I would know,
like knots in the wood and things is exactly the same down as that.
Yeah, you can give me an investigation check as well if you'd like.
Okay, absolutely usually helps players from feeling okay, unless usually trusts me better,
even though either way, I'm still going to give you the same kind
of answers. I mean, from what you are able to discern with a
nine there, it really does look like the same tower, the same kind
of not the same brick placement, things like that. Okay, so I
fully believe that this is the exact same tower, and I will yeah,
I'll just and as I always would think, Yeah, how do you get
into this tower? I presume it has some sort of like spell or something
that you know, it wouldn't just have like a lock on a door.
This this guy is a pretty hardcore wizard. Is there something you have to
do to get inside? And what is? Yes? Absolutely so the door
actually isn't the entrance hall. You. It looks like it, but you
put a little bit of a little bit of arcane energy into it and a
piece of wood comes off the door and you kind of ride it up like
a lift and you come in the second floor. Okay, yeah, you
step inside, the door opens, you step in and inside. This appears
to be Hard's tower in every way, not just a replica. This is
Hard's tower somehow. Okay, So I would I would call out for Hard,
I think first, knowing that this is probably a fool's errand odd are
you in here? There is no response. Okay? Is there anything delicious
hanging around? Almost definitely. Yeah. He probably has a decent amount of
food stores of his own, since he doesn't live in the middle of the
city or apparently in any city or town at this point he is, So
he does have like food available that you can help yourself to. I would
imagine a small It's probably got some weird stuff as well, probably has some
more excite foods than just the basic sort of fish and dried meats and things
that you are have. You really only been able to eat in the moon
for a while. I put together a terrible feast. Three. Yeah,
you just start grabbing random things and putting them together, and they do not
jam and cheese, sandwiches, mix fish, fish, children's love cat absolutely
great or something. Did you get some cat food? Is there some sort
of pet that. I think he does have a cat. Yeah, he's
got a black cat. And so I turned to Jilden and say, actually
that that's meant for Jasper. But Jasper has great taste. This is delicious.
Aside from the Thrack, have any of us been in here before?
I think that's up to you. I think he doesn't like it when people
come in, so he if he's in town, probably not. But I
think it's up to whether Thrack has invited you guys in, in which case
I don't think I've been in here before. I don't think that even I
have been in here before. I doubt it. The only person that might
have been here before is Jilden, and it would have been without permission,
right, She's snuck in like as a bird something. I actually I imagine
if you get in with that permission, the place looks different, like perhaps
it looks really bare and empty, whereas if you come in with permission,
it maybe looks a bit more interesting. It's a weird place like that,
there are rooms within rooms, even though from the outside it probably looks a
little tardie in that it looks a little bigger once you get inside. The
first floor sometimes has beds on it, and sometimes it's a living area.
Sometimes it looks like the beds really far away, or it's not there at
all, but when you need it, it appears. The second floor has
a library and just an extensive set of areas that would allow you to study
varying things, not just books, but scrolls and anything that might be used
to store knowledge. There is a third floor which is kind of a study
room, and an experimentation room, which is usually a room of utter and
complete chaos, but it's a big room that you can practice spells in.
And then there's a fourth floor which is completely off limits. That track may
or may not have been to and it may or may not have been a
dream, and it may or may not have been real, but I think
has only been there once if it was real. So yeah, I mean,
in a way, this place sort of does this bizarre thing where as
you move around the room, you very comfortably find yourself. You know,
if you're looking for food, you turn around in the food stores just a
little closer to where you need them to be. And if you kind of
turn back and you want somewhere to sit comfortably, maybe there's like a really
modern looking couch that you can sit on. It kind of does weird things
like that, but it's not obvious. It's not like, you know,
like doctor Strange, where every shifting and mirroring. It just feels kind of
comfortable, like a dream. You know how in a dream you'll walk from
your own room into and then you're in Spain and you just do notice this
requirement or not. You definitely be aware of it. Yeah, it's not
like it's tricking your charming you, or it's just just a bizarre sensation.
I think that I would if I noticed this, I would stretch and then
reach out to where I assume would be a bell to pull a rope to
like like a room alarm in a room alarming, but you know, like
a bell. You know, I don't know. I was brought up extremely
poor, so now I don't have bells in my mind to summon someone to
this room. Room. Yeah, roll me, roll me. You can
roll me a D twenty, or you can roll me in our carna check.
I guess might be more fun. Okay, rolling in our carna check.
Momentarily it's going to be there. We go eight sort of reach out
for a bell, but the yeah, there's no manifestation of a rope or
a bell or anything like that that happens. The sort of the I wish
for something and it appears in my hands is a little bit outside of whatever
enchantment is happening in this room. It's more like, you know, if
you look around the room that you're in right now, if you're if your
glass of juice was a little bit out of arms rage, well actually as
you look over to it, it would be within arm's reach. Understood,
right. I'd like to investigate or yeah, see if I can find any
evidence of someone having been here recently. Yeah, sure, give me an
investigation check. Yeah, there's there's there's someone here now it's you guys.
There's also a lot of evidence that people have been here recently. You can
see that there is like a used cup nearby that looks like it hasn't you
know, grown a fur of mold over it. There's a little drip of
water in the bottom. There's a discarded plate. In another area of the
room. The cat bowl is filled with cat food. Someone's been feeding the
cat. Yeah, it looks like it's been pretty recently used. Yeah,
rock, do you see this? Ah? I don't mean to rush you
too, but I also mean to rush you too, as let's not forget
the horde of frozen undead at our heels. Is it safe to be here?
Can this place move? Where is your big ways? I completely ignore
them and I'll continue searching the tower. Okay, what are you looking at?
I'm looking for harm. Look everywhere, even in the restricted level.
Give me an investigation check. I do enjoy the way we chat as he
wanders off up some stairs. There are windows and you can see out of
them, and what you see outside is the outside that you expect. You're
not seeing a different place or anything like that. So you're able to and
because you're in a tower and you're you're on top of a sort of a
rock face, it's not like very very high and on top of a mountain,
but you are elevated. You can see the landscape around, and you're
not in any sort of immediate immediate danger. But you do have the ability
to scout a little bit in here. At fifteen. Yeah, you do
a little look around. It's only actually been a couple of days since you
were last in here, because you've you've stayed here and then you traveled under
the blue was that my ball? Well, you can see you know,
evidence of you know, stuff that you've done recently, the last a couple
of days ago, just sort of further confirming that this really does feel like
the same place. But yeah, there's not there's no there's no hard here.
As you're looking about your you're sort of wandering around looking for this big
goliath wizard. When you do decide finally to push up to that fourth floor,
there is a door at the top of the stairway, this huge kind
of oaken door with a strange ruining symbol on the on the front of it,
which looks like a bit like a combination between that old giant tish script
that you've seen everywhere on the old magic stuff and something new, some sort
of invention of hards However, pinned to the door is a note, a
piece of sort of vellum paper which is pinned with a little shard of bluestone,
and it says, yes, do you have to read it out for
the class? I do hope you're faring well with your quest. Would absolutely
love to be there and hope out directly, but there's still a few things
I need to evaluate. Times a tricky thing, isn't it. I look,
I paused for just the briefest moment and look at my companions. I
thought we had more of it. What you're upstairs? Are you not?
Oh? Are you not with me? You ignored me and went upstairs by
yourself? Okay, with you eating the cat food? Children is just standing
behind I look at it. Yeah, I look at Jill. Didn't then
I thought we had more of it. Alas, keep your up your studies
and good luck, my young apprentice. As you read the final word,
you recognize that on the back of this note, this random piece of paper,
is a scroll of It's a scroll of haste, the spell haste.
Very sure, isn't it? Hey, did you give you a gift?
Yes? I will talk to get away in my knapsack of holding. Yeah,
you're not going to force us to be friends. Gim it's not going
to happen. Okay, Ronny and our kanachack thrack h Eventually the roles are
not on my side. Yeah, an eleven. Yeah, I think I'm
just going to give you some passive vagaries here. You get the sense now
for the first time since staying here, having never really questioned it before,
that Hard has clearly enchanted to his tower tos in sort of superposition. All
the doorways to the tower lead to the same place. Somehow, through some
sort of intricate combination of magic, abduration, divination, illusion, probably a
sprinkle of transmutation magic, Hard has sort of created this wonder and essentially this
whole time you've been staying in a pocket dimension, the front door always leads
to the area from which you entered. So I think you can figure that
out. And also as a group, you can all stay here and recover
and do a long rest outside of the mechanics of the little mini game once
you leave again. Does Hard have could you describe so in this main room
as children and rack her upstairs? Does? How is the room decorated?
Is? Does it have trophies of you know, stud he could he go
into a bit of detail as to what's around me. I think it looks
like a bachelor pad belonging to a scientist, you know, like, so
it's it's and it's chaos, like, it's not tidy. There are books
and pieces of paper everywhere. There's trinkets, strange little devices, random magic
things will happen like a thing will just whiz past your head and then kind
of like disperse into an arcane burst. It's a it's a I think it's
pretty chaotic, but it's a bit like, yeah, like the type of
place that would that would belong to someone who just it's sort of an ADHD
nightmare, I think. But it's everything pertains to some sort of arcane element,
so that everything is either a book or something that you can learn from
or a strange trinket to be like taken apart. There's probably just bits like
there's an element of Tony Starkism, you know, where there's just like inventions
and imbued items and things like that, enchanted elements to everything. Everything has
a touch of magic. But yeah, it's pretty chaotic, and you probably
happen to move things just to you know, comfortably find somewhere to sit every
now and then. Is it all ourcane or does anything have a touch of
the divine? Perhaps? I guess you'd have to give me an arkanacheck to
figure it out. Okay, oh sixteen, which is two eight, so
close enough. Yeah, that's so it's a weird one because the the line
between divine magic and sort of just your basic every day arcane magic. It's
a bit like how you know, if we saw things that we think might
be magic could be explained with science eventually. It's the same kind of thing.
Wizards are really a step underneath. Divine magic is much more pure.
It is much more sort of natural, I guess, And then wizards will
use that and twist it and bend it to make it do whatever they want
it to do, whereas divine magic is a bit more of a gift that
comes from wherever. But they all kind of lead to the same place.
I think that there are plenty of divine things in here that you sign up,
you'll see certain trinkets that you'll recognize, some of the clerics maybe where
in Moon, and you might see other trinkets here that belong to other areas
of the world as well. Do I see or recognize the Moon religious trinket?
I think on a sixteen you definitely would find several. Yeah, is
serious in here with me? Probably? Then I'll like to try and steal
one without her noticing. Okay, make me a sleight of hand check,
and then what is your passive perception? That's the that's the d S cirrus.
It's under the skills table. Yeah, it's like a completely separate box
beneath you're oh seventeen, god damn quite literally, all right, let's see
if I beat it with a twenty. Yeah, you pocket a little divine
trinket here. Most of Moon's trinkets would be kind of like a Viking looking
thing, or like a stone or something. So you tell me what you
pocket. I think I noticed one of those little focuses that these moony and
clerics seem to carry around, a triangular based pendant that they carry around their
necks. Sometimes when they use them, when they cast, they clasp onto
them, so the points kind of dig into their palms to prey, to
heal, to do that kind of stuff. I looked at. I think
I noticed an older one, and it catches my eye, and I take
it from I imagine some sort of like on the ground, strewn around papers,
like torn open bibles or whatever, just like notes and things. There's
one that's on a device like maybe perhaps it was held in place to you
know, to scientifically like find out what's going on with this thing. And
it's now in my possession. And what's there now is a rock a pebble.
Yeah, okay, yeah, you sort of Indiana Jones it mm hmmm,
uh yeah, okay, you now have this item, that's all Okay.
Do you think that they can get in bed? I wonder most certaintly?
Oh where did you come from? I've just been wondering, wandering around
the looking around the sea wagon steel. Yeah, you two the RCT.
There's almost no way they can get in. It would have to be someone
who is extremely intelligent and able to cast spells. You know that we would
be able to break into this tower. I'm going to I'm going to actually
the drow and tell him that I didn't ask the question. Didn't you you
say that they most certainly could. I did, said they were certainly good.
Okay, then I'll say it much nicer. I'd say something like no,
I I highly doubt they would be able to get in unless they have
some sort of spell cast someone with some sort of arcane affinity and a fair
amount of intelligence. Why are they following as anyway? How are they tracking
it this whole way for a start? And sure do they have something that
is telling them to go wherever it is they're going? Some person or some
instinct? What is it? Perhaps it's like you and cat food. They're
just hungry. Surely more taste immoseals than us did. I don't know you're
eating cat food, not me is delicious, it's cat food. I'm unsure
their motives, but I do believe we would be safe here for a half
day at least. So where do you think had is? I don't believe
I've ever known will hard Is in my entire life, even when he stood
right in front of me. You're telling me you don't have some strange wizardly
senses to know where he is. You can't just let your finger and stick
it in the air and have some sort of set up to static effect.
I believe that hadd intentionally never taught me how to find him. So no,
are you sure he even likes you? No? Extrange a lot.
That's okay, we're your friends. Now I'm on the books. Mm hmm.
I now the cat food on her. You have turtle breath. You
are some no thank you sharing is Carrie, And I'll go over to the
ladder and get out like some mate. Some ork food. It's like branded,
you know, it was like just said ork food and it's it's the
only place in the entire town that It isn't like fish or like car brings
this stuff in and ran Sometimes there's just like different food from somewhere else in
the world that you're able to eat. And you get some Orc food shanks
or branded with a little barcode on it on the wrapping blister pack. Okay,
dribbling down my chin. It's like I'm a different person when I'm eating.
I look using my hands. Yeah, I'm a I'm a federal version
of myself. It's got that Orc raised chicken. Okay, So you guys
are going to rest a little bit and do you can you can basically,
well, I'm giving you the option. You get the benefits of a long
rest just by visiting heartsnower on this on this map. So yeah, you
still have to sort of spend some time here sort of RP wise, but
you know, mechanically you can have your full complement of spells, your HP
restore, then up to half of your hit die rounded up back. So
I need to learn that spell. What were the rules on that? Again,
I've forgotten. I will find it. While myrgles asks for the third
time my question before we end, I'm going again. Sorry, go ahead,
Yeah, I just I turned to thrack and I say, is anything
here yours? Yeah? Well, yeah, I have a room. You
do it does of course? And you kept everything to your room? Well
no, I mean yeah, my personal possessions are all in there. But
everything here on the first three levels are I was allowed to use it my
leisure, but it's not yours. No, I'm not sure it's hearts either,
it's just sort of the towers or do you have some personal items?
I have a couple of personal items I did to show your good friends around.
I stare at her intensely. What am I still eating? Am I
still eating a haunch of eggs leg like a medieval king? Stare at her
and wait for her to I'm waiting for her to say, finish your food
first. But no, come on, get up with it. The house
tour? Is it okay? I keep eating? My glasses actually float off
of my face. If we're fighting these jumbies more, we might be done
faster. Should I decide of yourself show more? It's it's it's something,
all right? What do you mean? I'm just saying it's it's a side
of your missing yea, hmm, what eating? I can hear the lines
you're refusing to sail he and it's killing me. I am a nun h
what are you trying to say? Your dinner? It's a little sketch book
from my dad dreams and thank you draw only things I like. Okay,
I only ask because well, you may not have an opportunity to be here
again, and now that we know the way of the journey, you might
consider bringing more of your things. I could have to carry them. I
don't think that will be necessary, all right, Yeah, I actually would
like to look around for this is highly this be weird, but I would
like to look around for things from my homeland Z to see if there's anything
familiar to me, because it seems like it seems like Odd has been to
many places obviously. Yeah, and I may not have seen anything of the
like for the last ten years, so of course, yeah, give me
an investigation check please six six. I think what this does is it actually
does you do actually find something? You find a little a sort of little
almost like a child's toy, a little wooden hydra. Oh, that is
something that I don't think you probably have ever seen. And it's very rudimentary,
you know, this is like pave Man but yeah, you do find
something. There's only one place this could possibly be from. So I think
you do find something, but you can I mean, I guess you can
take it if you want to steal it. I'm actually not going to.
I'm just gonna like, hould it, look at it, run my fingers
over it, and then place it back where it was kind of exactly in
the configuration that it was. And that's it. Yeah, while you're looking
around, there's a repetitive tapping that starts hitting the windows. And as you
guys are doing whatever it is that you're doing in your food, looking about
kind of trying to relax, you recognize that there's hail outside as it starts
sleeting, and there's kind of a not a storm, but worsening of weather
outside while you're in here. Well, it's good that we're inside. I
suppose that's say. Weather isn't a natural is it? It is not unnatural?
Though? In response, the hearths and the fires are suddenly flowme where
they they grow larger and begin to heat the power up a little better,
a little more. Did you do that? Did you do this? Fact?
This is just what it is. This is how the tower works it's
an automate the system. This is just the tower. Why couldn't it do
this area? Why couldn't you do this earlier? I could have damaged some
hot water my feet. It wasn't cold enough earlier. But maybe the tower
should learn to read my mind filling a hot bowl with water and links the
water. Yeah, easily done. I'm on the most comfortable couch with like
a little table. It's like a lazy boy mixed with like a school table.
It's got like a little a little desk that comes out over the side
of it, and I'm studying the scroll next to a fire. Can I
raw ocana? Yes, let's do that role. So a reminder for everyone.
When a spell is copied from a spell scroll, the copy I must
succeed on an intelligence Arkana check with the DC that's equal to ten plus the
spells level. What's haste three? It is a level three spell. Yes,
if the check exceeds, the spell is successfully copied, and you have
to do it on a long rest or over eight hours, and do you
get a thirteen or better? Okay? Do you copy it into your book
and you have the ability to cast the spell? Haste excellent? Yeah,
I think that you guys are able to pass this day in sort of relative
comfort considering the travel that you've been doing over the last week or so,
because I remember now that you've done the entire mini game and it wasn't one
day. Each of those hexes was a day, so it's been many days,
including the part where you just went round in circles for about four days.
So yeah, it's probably been about two weeks. And my massive achilles
heel when it comes to GMing is keeping track of how long it's been,
and almost all of my campaigns, it's imperative that I remember, and I
never did. So, Yeah, you can spend the day here kind of
relaxing. You're reading this spell, practicing it, learning it. Jilden is
making tea and then horrendous meals. I'm choking my feet. I don't know
that was soaking your soaking your feet. I think they do that somewhere.
Probably Gilding does. Now, that's what does That's what she's trying to That's
what I've been saving every time. You've never had a cup of tea from
Jilding. You guys are all piecing it together. She's dipping water. No,
no, no, no, yeah, And so one issue is that
there is only one bed, which is Thrax bed. Yeah, okay,
if anyone wants to sleep or anything like that, then be aware of the
fact that there is only one. I can see mercles typing already. So
we come the next morning, Thrack and jild and wake up in the bed
and at the end of the bed is serious praying yeah, yeah, yeah,
and see it just meditating on the back of Jilden's shell they kept in
the bed. No, so yeah, I think, Yeah, I'm curious.
I guess as to who is I actually genuinely want to know the sleeping
arrangements. Okay, I don't know how that falls. Ah, So what
are you guys doing? Mm hmm. If it's safe, and we've surmise
this place is safe, then I'd likely still be in the main room,
legs crossed, eyes closed. I've got this little wax book in my hands,
a red crystal in my other, and writing notes of the days gone
by with this bleeding crystal that drips a brail onto the wax. And that's
what I do. Well. I would have tried to sleep with Track and
he probably would have kicked me out of the bed. So now I was
curled up by the fire in my show. Just for clarication, sleep with
track or sleep with track? Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, as she
does every night. I don't know this is this is a nightly occur How
are you ready to ready to crack a shell to go around this conversation around
respecting? Yes? Yes, in my own okay, right, I think
I found like a patch of the wooden floor, but I have decided to
sleep on like a dog by the front door, not not by the front
door, like meditating on the literally does the thing where she like turns around
and around and around before like normal friends, I'm the only one being normal,
and I'm an ork wizard. For the record, I would one try
and I would be like, oh, you didn't know, and then just
pull from the wall like you know, some mats or something like something that
you could sleep on more comfortably than the wooden floor, and like blankets like
oh they're just here. You just have to You've got Murphy no, thank
you Modern day once. Yeah, yeah, I sleep kind of since we've
got started this journey. I sleep like on my back holding my sword like
like I'm dead or something like a Viking put to like a viking put to
rest. Yeah, that's that's how I sleep. Okay, I light the
arrow on fire, and I launched it. I mean a romantic, a
smart novel. He lifts his arrow for ready for launch, He lives his
arrow for okay. Yeah, so I think, yeah, you are able
to yeah, figure out this bizarre sleeping arrangement. See, he doesn't really
sleep. He just kind of finds a corner of the one of the rooms
and begins to do his candle wax braille ritual situation. It's my dream.
And that's when there's a knock on the door. Hello, Hello, Oh,
by the God, please somebody let me in. We have squatters,
right right, yeah, And it continues for what Hello, I right to
wake up? For rac I think someone needs help. Someone's upside to be
let in. I are you in my room? Yeah? I would have
come into I reach for the massive battle axe that's above my headboard, but
sort of wake myself up and I take my staff instead, and I run
out to one of the windows and look down. Can I see, Yes,
you can. You can see a figure who's sort of dressed in like
a long cloak. It's dark out, so it's pretty hard to make out
any real detail. But there's a guy that's rapping on the door every now
and then he looks behind him and then wraps on the door again. There's
a lot of stuff out here that's trying to kill me. Hello, Oh,
by the god, who are you? Come on there? Hello?
My name is Bruno. We should let him in. What's the password?
Oh, bloody, I don't know. I've never been here before. How
did you get you password? I can't remember. I ran somewhat and then
I walked, and then I ran some more. I don't even know where
I am. I'd ask him to lower his head. Let me see your
face, Yes, it lowers, is heard, and from where you are,
you can just sort of make out a pale face and two very red
eyes. Okay, would I be able to put that together with anything looks
evil? Kill it? Thanks? I suppose give me a perception check.
Cool A ten, A nice even ten. And I mean he does have
glowing red eyes. He looks pretty right, but then lots of people have
red eyes. Mm hmm, I mean I have neon pink eyes. You
know, has got literally sith eyes. I'm going to covered in blood?
Are we the baddies. Hmm, what's Jilding doing? Sleeping there? Points
suggesting he's an elf by the way, very pale skin, right eye.
I would like to look down outside the window as well. How did you
get out here? Well, because I've never been in there? Where are
you from? How did you come to be here? Well? Where is
here? If he doesn't know, he doesn't deserve to know. What is?
What is this region called again Selve and I'll spell it for you.
But they also okay, you're in Selve, the giant lands. Bloody hell,
I'm from Mercuria. Do I know anything about that place? Mercuria?
Yeah, I don't see why you wouldn't. It is west of here.
It is is pretty far west. In fact, it's over an entire mountain
range, like a huge mountain range. Uma is at the north of the
map, south of east. Southeast of it is where you are at the
moment in the sort of and you're quite far into Salve. West of this
is a place called Reld, which is a big kind of open expanse of
land. Then there's an enormous like Pangaea splitting mountain range that runs all the
way down called the Rift and sort of pretty much directly west of here is
Mercuria. It is it borders on the Tyran Empire, which is the place
which was with the other option that you had to potentially go to to go
and visit with the Angel of Tia. And then just west of that is
where marbell is, which is where like modrous modial situation is happening. The
place this Mercuria is a predominantly Elvin place. Lots of half elves here,
but still predominantly sort of Elven, and they are relatively well known. They
have they sort of worship their angel Shin, which is the angel of a
Matarasu, which is basically a giant golden sphere that sits in the sky above
their city, and it casts a vibrant light over the region twenty four hours
a day. It's like always daytime. The reason I think Cyrus might know
a little bit about this place is that the the clerics here are like really
noble, super lawful, good clerics of light, and they do flares and
summon fires and things like that. But most of the elves here, born
underneath this light are born with like fully white eyes, no pupil, no
iris, just like fully white, and most of the people from that place
are known to be like extreme logicians. They're like a little odd in that
way that they're kind of like God is what's his name, Spock, you
know what is his people called the Vulcans. Vulcans, they're a bit like
Vulcans, but they have a border alliance with the Tyran Empire and they are
part of this war, this like ever long war with the Kuran Empire,
which are two big warring nations in the Kuran are like really the only nation
in the whole world that have been trying to overtake everywhere because they want control
of every angel. So generally speaking, yeah, Mercuria is kind of like
a well regarded and good place, mostly l and generally speaking light based magics
and things and very logical times. I know this, I know of this
place, good people. As far as I'm aware, we should let him
in. Do you have any strong opinions on eating flesh? Uh? Well,
I suppose if you really wanted me to, I I it's better than
being eaten by whatever's out here. So if that's what, if that's what
it takes, then I suppose I could you now I enjoy a pragmatist.
When you say put it to a vote, I say I he could be
entertained for the evening. I also say I, but I believe that because
it's God's tower, Thrack should get the final word. It's his tower too.
Well, I abstain anyway, I would like to I would like to
use detect magic on him to see if he's using some sort of illusion magic.
Okay, yeah, that can I do that? I have a spell?
Yeah, I think so. Let me just see what detect from magic
doesnt It? Sometimes it does weird things. You sense the presence of magic
within thirty If you sense magic in this way, you can use your action
to see a faint or on any visible creature objecting the bears magic and you
learn it's school of magic if any Okay, I don't think he's got any
insane magic going on. Okay, let me my notes, yahn't. I
don't think that he has any sort of enchantments or spells or anything like that.
He doesn't have any magical items on him. Oh interesting? Okay?
Yeah. I then I I cast made hand, which goes down and does
a little thing with a door that allows him in. But he gets in
a different way, doesn't come up a lift like we do. A trap
door opens up and he just slides down harmlessly into the first floor. Yeah
cool, Yeah, all right, what do you guys do? Go down
and greet him. Yeah, you step into the room. He has his
hood back up. Interesting, I'm standing just in case things get hairy,
And as you step in, he says, thank you so much for letting
me in. Ah huh. This is an odd building, isn't it?
And he obviously has changed his demeanor passively. He looks a nun. I'm
enough. He has his cloak back up. His skin is very, very
pale. His eyes are fully red all the way across. But now that
you see him a little closer, his clothes are kind of tattered and ripped
and shredded. His feet are entirely bare, and his nails on his feet
and his hands are long and pointed. And when he speaks his two of
his teeth are very long and pointy, a little longer and pointier than you
might expect them to be. So for the record, as I said before,
if you do start eating people, you can start with the green one
over there. Do you suspect I would like to eat someone you look rather
famished. No, that's not why I'm here. Why are you here?
I felt compelled show you lie to bear here? Why? Of course,
it seems it's rather difficult for me to get in and out of homes.
Now, I haven't figured that one out yet. I suppose asking nicely seems
to do the trick for you, though, So you've got that going for
you. Thank you so very much. Well, what change to make it
so hard? Lots of questions, But I tell you what, I'll answer
them if afterwards you answer my questions. Oh, we could just kick you
out into the cold again. You could try, Oh, stelly boy,
igniting a five would buy soul. The choice is yours. I'm going to
cast charm person on him. Okay, I'm on the other side of the
room, sitting down watching all right here, Let me put it at the
info. Let me see if I can do this. U a wisdom saving
throw here you go. Wisdom saving throw and does so with advantage if you
or your companions are fighting it, which we are not, okay, and
if it fails, A saving throw is charmed by you until a spell ends,
or until you will your companions do anything harmful to it. Charm creature
regards you as a friendly winkins blah blah blah. One wisdom saving throw coming
up before. I have a question. Okay, is this creature humanoid?
They would have to be humanoid, because if it's what I think it is,
it's not a humanoid. Correct, it is not a human So,
uh, you said you want? I think I think I would story that
I'm on the story side. Probably I wouldn't try, or I would suspect
that it's possible as a wizard. So if I could ald Z that,
I will old Z you won't do anything controlling controls nuclear Uh yeah, okay,
right, I don't know, you won't say anything. I'll look to
my I'm looking to companions looking at me. Okay, I don't want to
destroy you. I will I'll agree, I'll say, all right, right,
I suppose I shall just start from the beginning. Then, Yes,
I didn't lie about where I'm from. I'm from Mercuria. Ah, I
would suspect I'm the last person from Mercuria who is alive. It's gone now,
it's all bloody gone. Actually, like the inside check, how's this
talking? Okay? Twenty five? Uh, looks like he's telling the truth
fallen? Has it, yes, as has most of this world. Tell
me how did it happen that giant deity in your sky? How did they
reach it? How did it end well? For me? It was a
day like any other. I was a bread maker, elven bread, a
simple position of kneading dough. I went to my place of work, started
kneading the dough, and then everyone became sick. Quickly minutes that something had
come over the mountains. And then a lot of things came over the mountains.
Those creatures out there, sharp tear, he smiles, chin fell from
the sky, and before the angel hit the ground, it turned to ash
along with most people. There was something else large. If I'd gotten a
better look at it, I'd be able to tell you what it was.
But my money's on a dragon. It flew over, That's all it did,
and everyone was dead, including the angel. Took maybe two hours before
everyone turned to ash, but not me. I remained was changed. I
suppose I should come clean. I wasn't just a simple breadmaker. Well,
I suppose. By day, no, I was a breadmaker, But at
night I was known as the dancing killer of Mercuria. You can all roll
a history check if you want. Oh, oh, never heard of you
before? Yeah? Have you heard of mercure before? Brack and serious?
You've heard of the Dancing Killer of Mercuria, a notorious serial killer who preyed
upon the innocent buyer the cover of night. It said that he would force
his victims to dance with him before he killed them, and then he would
replace their shoes with ballet shoes as a sort of calling card after they died.
Never been called, No one knows who it was, has been around
for like one hundred years. Two of you look like you recognize that name.
You would be correct. Your reputation precedes you. If it is your
reputation, right. Well, a few changes after that, one being that
actually, yes, I do partake of blood. I suppose it's just extremely
difficult to find because everyone's gone m h. Killed them with your face,
and not just the people, the animals, plant life, everything is dead
gone, ash h. Your people are known for their logic, are they
not? Yes? Oh? Would you agree? Behoove you to save what
remains of my people of the world of your food source? Well, I
have this sense, I suppose it's almost like a sense of smell direction there
are still people alive out there on the fringes under the water, on the
islands. I think somewhere back there, I think perhaps where you came from.
And of course there are four people right here. But again I'm not
here for a meal unless you're offering. Yeah, earlier when we entered this
building, did only Thrack realize the like the transdimensional nature of this? Yeah,
you know, unless he's explained it to you, which and it's been
several hours, so you can justify doing that if you want to. We're
rather quite brief me in Thrack. If he has, I don't know.
Did you ask? I wouldn't have asked, because I wouldn't have known to
ask, But if you said something, I would have listened even if I
didn't reply. Did anyone ask how is Hart's Tower here? I know?
I think as we walked around, I probably would have been a spectamarkably shame
when I shouldn't have been in fast time, and probably asked a lot of
little questions to you. I guess if Jildren was curious about it, I
would share that knowledge with her. And if sorry I forgot your name,
I wanted to call you something I wanted to just insult you. Yes,
yeah, that's not what it was. I see, I happened to be
there, you know, meditating in the corner or something they're not. I
guess you would have overheard. I would have blabbed him if you explained anything
to me, I'd have opened my mouth and told him everything, even if
he wasn't listening. Okay, in that case, I would have asked this
question to our newfound friend. You asked us, where are we am?
I to guess that you didn't just step in here through the Giant Lands but
from mer Curiam. No, that's ruse. Why where are we? Is
there something special in this town? No? I'm just rather quite curious.
It is All's some delicious cat food? Would you like them? There's no
town here at all? To tower? Just a tower? Do you say
tower or town? Because out of character in my mind, Sea, after
hearing what Jilden told him from Drag, believes there are multiple of these hard
towers. They all come to the same place, but they have multiple entrances.
So he may have not come in here through from the Giant Lands one,
but from where he comes from this is just a tower, is that
right? Special one? A messy one. All right, let's have some
inside checks from everyone that just spoke inside. Okay, twenty I got a
fourteen time I couldn't speak. Uh Cia, m hm, you're able to
tell that he knows you're lying to him. I just smile colegilly at him.
He smiles back, two of his teeth gleaming in the firelight. What
does he have thanks killing? Yeah, he's got big old, big old
fangs, big old vampy fangs. Just so you were drawn here? Were
you? I think I was sent actually shan by whom I Wantever it is
is that it's hunting you. Let you carry your back jumping horch. I
told you you don't seem like the type who enjoys being a pawn. Correct?
Do you still feel compelled? Yes? Are you strong? I'm stronger
than I've ever been. Perhaps we can come to an agreement, am understanding?
Perhaps, though there is somebody pulling my strings? When you stepped in
here, did you feel your strings? But how do your strings feel?
Now? It's not clear cut feeling. I just know that I'm to find
you and then do what dance that might be nice? Ends me without my
shoes? Do you want to do? What you are compelled to do.
Something is out there and it's killing. No, it's more than killing,
it's removing everything. There will be nothing left of this world of ours at
the end of it. But I suspect Rock and Ash and whatever has done
this, perhaps a few of these preachers, maybe even me. That doesn't
seem very fun to me. No, that's what I was getting at before
there are meals, now will there be? We're no master issued their task.
I suspect not show why you Why are you still alive? That's a
good question, and inside checked to see how Like I feel like he's being
incredibly truthful this whole time, But I just want to double check that that's
actually what I'm receiving from this. You can roll, okay, natural one.
I think you probably think he is lying on a natural one. Yeah,
okay, I'm just keeping an eye on him. So what was your
intent in coming here then braving all of this weather? My intent played no
real part in it. I don't think. I don't suppose you really breathe
with intent every single breath you take. I just began running one day.
Really it was hunting. You were being hunted, and I found you.
You are my prey. That's the sensation, But what catch and release?
I suppose I can't really let that happen. But perhaps we can come to
an agreement because we're not really your prey? Are we not truly? Or
something's pray? Something doesn't like you, something you like actually think you don't
like me. I don't even know your names? Is not or really your
name? Yes? Was that an invitation to share? I suppose I don't
mind no skin off my nose. I would look for more interesting pray than
the four of you. I'm offended. No, No, he's right.
We're not very interesting and we're definitely not very delicious, so it's probably best
if you just move on, all right, I'll do that, Okay,
it's nice. No ag you don't want to try her footsteel or tea or
something and guess and he's neither right? What do you want from us for
such an agreement? I should like to ask just one of you to dance
ah waltz? Is it if you know the steps? One? Two,
three, ad nausea? You know what? We actually have some music,
don't we? Alas I'm not sure any of my compatriots you can play.
I I don't think I can't, but I do have instruments. I can
play the harmonica. I pulled out a harmonica and pass it a harmonica Watts.
It's a classic. It's not great. Well you've heard boss. He
rolled a nine on her performance for the harmonica waltz. For those listening,
sounds like a melodica version of the Holl's moving castle. Who would like to
dance? See how wonderful? Field about it? Into qushion forward H fine,
I shall, I shall dance with you. Bruno moves across the floor.
The wooden floorboards underneath him make no sound as his feet move across the
ground, and he moves quite quickly, but it looks like he's moving kind
of slowly. But he gets across the room to where you are with a
distinct speed. As he gets close to you can feel him and his intensity
and a sort of as a sort of aura as he gets near you,
and he smells you. I think I smell bag like dogs in a park.
You're from underground and you're from an overground You know, I heard that
the forest was the first of all a pity, but underground was the quickest
nowhere for them to run in all those caverns tunnels. M such a shame.
I guess I'm lucky. Mm hmm. Yes, I don't think you'll
make a good dance partner for me. A pity your friends they I've chosen
you. I don't know what's more ironic, calling them friends or saying they
chose me. That's precisely why you're of no interest to me. Let's see
an orc h bapa. I put my staff in front of him. I
got up to dance. What else you do? He's gone? Story of
my life. I just go back and sit back down. He's behind rack.
He steps out of a shadow. There's the flicker of the flame of
the fire lights his face. He says, I don't like being told what
to do. Have fun. I'll just be down here playing this tiny violin
for myself. I don't like surprises. And I turned to face him,
staff in hand. What manner of arc? Are you the angry kind?
I think? To my degree, other not so much. What do you
think about your pig? You think it's too angry to die? I think
I'd never imagined you dead. No, you'll not do as a dance partner.
Her glances a look at Siah as the eyes catch you. There's a
a brief moment where you can't look away, and then he says, definitely
not you. She's a nun who managed to command these creatures all too well.
I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon. Command she sent them
scurrying. Oh oh, I see, I see. I thought you were
calling me a creature. Never mind, I go back to reading. Even
from my perch, I felt the sensation, the urge to flee. Very
good. I'm sure he doesn't like that. Perhaps you can teach me how
to do it. Perhaps I can. And what of the total I've got
two left feets, Sonny, you don't want me? Have you? Stand
it all over your toes? Oh you have so much more than that.
Oh, I don't think I know looking down at my food. Of the
very dull individuals here, you have a slight glimmer the nice person. I
told me that I tried to shave me a magical artifact. It didn't go
very well. I lost all of my hair for five years. It doesn't
grown back properly. Actually, flattery, get to know where sunshine up?
Too old for that? Well? Maybe shared interest something I puck brow commanded
you for how long told you where to go and what to do. Let's
not pretend to know anything about me. I don't know anything about you,
but I sense charm, and not the type that we'll have. He glances
at the other three people removing their clothes, the type that compels you to
do things tricks you. I'm not tricked, I never had been. But
I don't look him in the eye when I say that. Tell me,
why do you cover yourself in blood? Where does anyone have any sort of
artifact? People offer themselves up in different ways, sometimes in servitude, sometimes
in something a little bit more material. Did your people reject you? I
don't like you. You look him in the eye, Yeah, make me
a wisdom saving throw thirteen? You like him? It always happens as you
look at him, his eyes boring into yours. The red ows into you,
and he takes on the form of a trusted friend. Be heated and
protected. You're not under control like he's not. He can't command you or
anything, but you are compelled to take his requests or actions in the most
favorable way you can. And you are also a willing target for feeding of
any kind if he wishes my good thumb he says, perhaps you would like
to dance and a true sands wonderful. Yes, I'm immediately confusion. I
would like to Yeah, I can I read the situation. Now that's a
tough one. I guess you have to make me nature checks first. Oh
okay, cool, I got a ten with a plus seven, so that's
great, good luck yielding h cyrus. If this guy is a vampire,
they have the ability to charm people. They have extremely powerful enchantments and charisma
in which they're able to sort of force people to their side. There was
a moment where you felt that he was almost about to do it to you,
and you looked into his eyes, and then Jilden's switching attitude might suggest
to you that's what he's done. It's up to you to determine it.
There isn't really a way for you to know without casting a spell, but
you do know that they have the ability to do this kind of thing.
Okay, sorry, I'm just reading. I would like to create an emboldening
bond. I can do this to three of us, so I'm going to
choose guild in the rack, sorry, sir, and I, and this
will allow her to roll it before add a number of roll to an attack
role ability check her saving throw. So hopefully when you use this feature,
do you do anything or do you just think it and it happens? Ooh,
I think I do raise my hand to my normal prayer motion, so
it would be like a cleric prayer hand kind of comes up and then I
would just sort of imagine like a glowing light from the top of my head
to my feet and then it extending out. You wouldn't see it though,
this is all just like mental but the people who would be part of the
emboldening bond would feel from their feet it reach up to the top of their
head like in a warm blow. Okay, I'm gonna roll a perception check
for Bruno. Okay, he glances at you as you do it. The
emboldening bond takes old. Okay, I dance, then? How about outside?
I've never danced in the snow and hail. Yes, I used to
love dancing outside of hours ago. If we go inside is fair enough.
I'm already made making my way outside. I don't have my cloak on,
I don't have any of my cold weather stuff on. I castill look to
thrack and then I'll look back at Jorden. I think inside would be enough.
You'll find this place as ample space. Don't be shilly. Come on,
it's lovely outside. Oh do you think? What are you? What
are you doing where somebody has to dance with him and you're all too cowardly
to do it? I expected, he smiled. Dang, I wish I
had a spell where I could speak into Thrack's mind instead of having to say
something out loud. Wait, hold on, I cast sending. You do
have? Yeah? Uh? Yeah, I send, I send a message
to Thrack's mind, uh saying I am absolutely just Uh. Sending has three
components, verbal, somatic, and material. Yes, so what do you
do? The verbal component means that they'll hear you talk. Some attic is
like hands. You have to do some hand yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah. I mean can I whisper and do the semitic buy
my back because remember I have I do all of my Semitic stuff with one
hand, so I don't need a second hand to do it. Yeah.
Yeah, And I have a short piece of fine copper wire that I carry
along with me. Yeah, So I do whisper it quietly, mumble whisper.
Oh, I wrote, I didn't mean to roll ignore that promise.
I was just clicking out this thing. I rolled a sixteen on my perception
check. Yeah, I guess roll me a deception check. Okay, Oh
god, this is so bad because my charisma is abysmal. Big surprise.
Well, my god, Okay, as soon as you start incanting this spell,
he disappears again, but reappears immediately. He's standing on the roof upside
down. His head upside down is next to yours, next to your ears,
and he says, uh, whatever you're up to, we had an
agreement about your agreement. It's rather quite cold outside. Plus it's Hailey and
she's an old total. Hey, there's a dance. She's an ancient total
that's right danced to non include killing her either of weather exposure. That selling
good guy, am I you might there's plenty of room right here in the
dining room, but it's so very boring in here. I look at him
straight, So you're telling me it's still right next to your head. Yeah.
His demeanor is like really casual as well. It's like got his hands
in his pockets type, you know what I mean situation. He looks around
again, upside down, his eyes glancing to all three of you that are
not charmed while jilled, and it's kind of just like waddling away over to
the door, and he says, I shall have my dance with our fine
total, and the three of you can continue on your way. Oh oh,
is that what you think is happening? Okay, yeah, so I
say quickly, okay, I'm so sorry everyone. He says that, and
then I will I would like to roll to see he's saying that he's going
to kill her. Yeah, he just said you might die. He just
said the three of you can be on your way. I'm assuming he's threatening
her life right now. That's a safe assumption. He's taking her. I
place my hand on his face, and I cast sacred flame into his face.
He's standing right next to me, and I just I just okay,
yeah, sorry everyone, Sorry, No, I was waiting for it,
all right. I'll make a des save a twelve. I think that's lower
than the amount that he needs. Yes, yeah, yeah, you hit
him. His face just ignites and scorches. I'm gonna roll the dice here.
Okay, you see him recoil from the from the attack. Now,
let me check one thing here, okay, Yeah, He hisses and moves
a blinding speed into a corner of the ceiling. The cloak surrounding him kind
of begins to like kind of move up with the speed, and it falls
down with his eyes kind of glowing out of a shadow in the corner,
and he says, before you try anything hasty, I offer you a second
deal. Interesting. It seems you're weaker than you thought you were, and
your deals don't work out. You're bad at keeping them. This little thing
his face is like on fire and burning right, and you watch it heal.
No, that's not what I meant. I meant that for someone who
doesn't like being a puppet, you sure are acting like one. Can't keep
it in control, still doing your master's bidding, My master, once you're
all dead, I just want to dance with one of them. I rolled
a twenty on my knowledge of this fellow. Yeah, I know that a
dance means almost definitely, could be almost definitely. It's that getting getty warbur,
I shied. Come on, what are you doing to the poor man?
Okay? I cost the spell magic on her? Okay, you can't
spell magic? Is anyone immediately trying to attack him right now. Where is
he in the corner of the room, like up in it like Spider Man?
Up in the corner, Yes, top ceiling corner. Yes, you're
trying to attack him. Mm hmm. Okay. The trigger was when she
burnt his face. I was against the wall. I pushed off it like
a swimmer. Okay, right quick, let me make a battle that real
quick, Like I wasn't prepared to do this. You were expecting you were
expecting us to let children go and die. I'm so prepared for this.
I have two battle maps for it, like August is going to fucking cast
fireball and then the second. Okay, let me bring you over now again,
this is just going to be like a perfectly accurate you know, Hard's
tower. But it is the best that I could summon at shortish notice.
Yeah, now, let me put him there? Would the door be?
The door? Is this thing here? So put yourselves wherever you want to
be. Yeah, it's that. I think I was probably standing here when
he was hanging. And then roll some initiatives. I just want everyone to
know what a herculean RP effort I just did by attacking, not just immediately
being his fly. Imagine if she had done that, like and she was
like, no, that's exactly what I don't. I'm not taking it back.
It's not a joke. Stop laughing. Let's see if my is gonna
be any bit of the day, it is not always so burn seven how
why Yeah, I'm quite upset that. Let me. I would love to
turn this undead. Give him more strings. All right, Okay, he's
going first, I'm gonna let see it. You can have one see it.
You can have an attack and thrack, you can do your dispel magic.
Then more then we're going to initiative and never say I'm not a benevolent
DM. Good guys, m okay, so just my major action then just
the attack, right, yeah, you can have you can have an action
here, an attack action. Okay, whatever it was you said you were
going to do. Attack, Yeah, forty nine to hit. I imagine
I miss nine has a miss. Yes. It probably just kind of blurs
out of the way of it just moving from one another. Depends on what
spell level is on her. If it's third level or lower, it's just
gone, it's off of her. If it's fourth level, then I have
to or high I have to roll. Okay, let me. Just do
see is that it you've done? That is? Yeah? What an attack
action? Is? All right? Uh? Then dispel magic? Yeah,
you cast dispel magic. What does it look like? Yeah? I think
that. I like a solid piece of white light comes from the top of
my staff and it floats over to Jilden and it starts absorbing the spell into
it, and then it just puffs away. It has no effect. It
has no effect. The vampire's charm is an action, not a spell.
He didn't cast a spell. It's just a thing he can do. I
think that was a third level It was never say not a benevolent GM.
I think you waste a third level spell slot. Would you like to waste
another? I'll let you do it in order. He did save you from
using charm person before you have You've had your one controls E for the day.
Yeah, okay, now we're in tone order. Let's see what I
want to do here. Jill didn't remember your charmed m How far away is
this? Oh? I can get to hear? Cool? Yeah, he
vanishes again and appears here next to you, cirrus. Let means just let's
see. Upon reappearing, Bruno gains advantage on his next attack role check made
before the end of his turn as he catches his enemies off guard with sudden
appearance. So he vanishes for a moment into darkness and then appears. You
know what he does. He kind of like comes up out of the ground
like a shadow thing in front of you. And as he does so,
he his hand with these long claws is striking out at you with advantage of
twenty eight to hear. Wow. Okay, but what he does is instead
of dealing damage, he can grapple you, which is exciting. He can
grapple me. Yeah. Is there anything I can do to fight that?
If you have an ability that lets you do something like that, for example,
like shield is a reaction spell that would boost your ac I mean he
rolled at twenty eight, so I don't know, it's probably not. It's
okay, all right, I'm going to say he'll try. Yeah, you
want to rewind time he has attack? Yeah, I'm ald sing. Also,
I imagine as Reaper from Overwatch he just appeared. Yeah he eighteen?
Hey, yeah, I mean that that it's you know, a bond thing
up still in a I have my embolding bond. Yeah, but it's only
for adding the number to an attack roll ability checker saving through. So I
don't think any of those things. All right, he's got you around the
throat. I think he appears. I didn't want to say it, but
I mean he's probably so he's got you around the throat. I'm so sorry,
I'm so unprofessional. Let's see. Yeah, okay, I think he
can move as well. You're going to move around to behind Cyrus since he's
still got his movement. He's got Cyrus round the throat here, and I
don't know why I don't have Let me just check one thing here, because
I feel like the end of his turn he has got Legendary actions is a
nice learning moment for everybody. Legendary actions are actions that can be used at
the end of a creature's turn, anyone's turn. So you can do it
at the end of your turns as well. Actually, I think you can
only do it at the end of your turns. Can only do it at
the end of your turns? Or can you do it on the end of
his thinks at the end of the turn the orders at any time and only
at the end of another creature's turn. No, never mind, okay,
So yeah, okay, that's what happens. Then I think he's got you
by the throat here and he's behind you. You can feel that he's pretty
fucking strong, and he's pulling you backwards and like craning your your head sideways.
The rest of you can see that he's opening his mouth and his very
large bangs are lengthening. Well, that's terrifying. You can't have that.
So and that is the end of it. Ah, I'll hold on.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm reading it's entertaining. Uh, I'm
just gonna I'm just gonna cast magic missile at him. So magic missile and
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna cast at the first level. So this is
three dance come out of the end of my staff and strike him. They
kind of like go around Cyrus and hit him in the back, I think.
And we are hitting for five five three, so thirteen damage force damage
force damage. Yeah, he's like getting whipped about, but he's still holding
on to Cyrus while this happens. Okay, anything else, that's it.
That's my that's my turn. That's your turn, all right. See,
if you can bite, you just grapple. If he's got you grappled.
Does he have an advantage? Probably grappled creature. Well, I guess you're
restrained attack rolls against the creature. I have advantage, yes, okay,
so he's got advantage on this bite attack natural twenty nine. Oh my god,
out he is going to deal ten seventeen piercing damage and twelve No,
yeah, wait, which one is weird? No? Yeah, fifteen piercing
and one two piercing for no, sorry, fourteen fourteen yeah, fifteen fourteen.
I don't know if you have resistances to any of those things otherwise,
Yeah, So fifteen piercing damage and fourteen necrotic damage. He bites into your
neck, and I think everyone sees this. It's not a pretty thing.
It actually looks kind of sloppy, like he's not done it before. He's
not done it many times. As he just tears into the flesh a long
cirrus's throat, there is like a gout of blood. It just rushes out
from her neck as he breaks his teeth down, and then he sort of
drinks some in the target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to
the necrotic damage taken, and he regains hit points equal to that amount.
Oh wow, okay, is that permanent? From now on, I have
fourteens. This reduction lasts until the target finishes the long rest uh. The
target dies if this effect produces its hit point maximum to zero. A humanoids
slain in this way and then buried in the ground rises the following night as
the vampires sporn under the vampire's control. Oh nah, I'm just going to
try to do that. She's not going to resist for her next turn.
Okay, M Jill, den is your turn? M your friends are fighting?
Mhmm, yeah, yeah, I would move towards Oh god, that's
gonna get Yeah, I'd move towards him to try and and stop him from
doing whatever he is to Cyrus. Probably he'd see me advancing claws extended towards
him, and then I would. Yeah, I'd go to attack him.
Okay, there's a moonbeam. Attack should be a constitution saving Sorry, okay,
con save unless he's going to stop me anticipate charm. Don't you see
you can't attack him. I don't know. So the charm target regards the
vampire as a trusted friend to be heated and protected, although the target isn't
under the vampire's control. It takes the vampire's requests or actions in the most
favorable way it can, and it is a willing target for the buyer attack
each time the vampire hang on a minute. Yeah, no, that's it.
Oh, maybe I'm trying to think of the best reaction to this.
If she thinks she must be willing to target, she must be a willing
target for this attack. I think I try and pull Sirrus away instead,
I would try, don't take me, take me? What are you doing?
And I will use my trusted thorn whip again and try and pull Syrus
away from him. Okay, which would do damaged? Help me in half?
I don't do you have advantage on the attack role? Okay? Sixteen
A is seventeen? So fair? Yeah, I think like it does work,
but like he's just got such a good grip. You just don't see
her move. Try to shake you did at one hurt. This isn't fair.
This isn't fair. You're right, it's not fair, is it?
So very many of you and only one of me? Oh all right,
sears, turn, I am going to kick off the chair that he moved
away from and dashed straight towards him. Then I'm going to strike at him
with my staff, two hands with this knotted angel branch, and swing for
a twenty one to hit twenty one more hit put eleven points of blusheling damage
using my crusher feet. I would like to push him five feet north.
Uh, yeah, you know what, I'll let you do that, and
he releases you. Serious as you push him backwards, he holds his hands
up as well, like as you hit him, he holds his hands up.
Okay. Then I'd like to run in between the two of them and
strike again with my staff for twenty two to hit twenty two hits nine points
of blutting damage. At this point my eyes open, not the ones above
my nose, but the six just further up. They glow a that electric
purple, almost seems as if they shimmer. As I unleash a key point
and attack again with an unarmed strike for twelve to hit. One's gonna miss,
followed by a twenty to hit dirty twentys some one that's gonna hit.
Okay. Then as this fist connects, it stops just before it meets the
target. My palm opens up and I push forwards again. You see a
ripple of energy across the surface of his clothes as he takes five points of
blushing damage. However, with this open hand technique, he must now succeed
a dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone. Okay me six me saves.
That's my tip. Okay uh. At the end of your turn, he
says to you, he like like you hit him a couple of times right,
and he's like bumps backwards. He puts his hands up in the air
and he says, ouch, how very quick you are? I can move
faster? Would you like a race? Could you keep up? Though?
Oh no, you're going to be running for me. Ah. And actually
I'm not going to do anything on the end of your turn. I'm going
to go straight over to Cyrus like a'st thurning. H. My hand is
has gone to my neck and I pull it back to see how much blood
is sort of coming out of this wound. And I turn to look at
him and H and I say, how dare you? And then I uh
will grab my my necklace, the one that's sharp, the one that Seer
stole a copy of earlier, an older version, and it presses into my
palm and I h channel divinity turn on dead. So he has to succeed
a wisdom saving through I think wait, yeah, wisdom saving thro Yeah.
He as you like shout, he smiles, and when you sort of begin
this, he says, ah, yes, there it is a sixteen.
What does he have to what does he have to beat your spell save DC
on this spell page the middle top middle yea yeah, yeah, I'm so
upset it's fifteen. Even with your friendship, I can do I can,
yes, I can, I can roll a D four. Uh No,
that doesn't work because it's a spell safe. Okay, well would that still
count as a say it's not a saving throat? I don't think. Watch
me panic go through as many offers as I can before accepting this very bitter
defeat. Okay, yeah, I think he like closes his eyes as you
do this, even with like sea like punching him, you know, and
like slow mo, he like closes his eyes and he lets this spell like
hit him, and he licks his lips and says, ah, yes,
maybe we can use that one day. He looks at you see it like
hits him again, you know, and he snaps his head back, but
he's still looking at cyrus. Okay, anything else on your turn? Yes,
I am going to past sanctuary on myself as a bonus action. Okay,
yeah, all right, let's see I think, uh, all right.
The beginning of his turn, nothing, I think, he says,
Here is what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you a chance.
I gave you an opportunity to live. But now I shall hunt you.
I shall make it sport. In fact, the next time I see
you, the scales will not be balanced in your favor. And he disappears,
he's no longer in the room, boring, and I just jump into
the sofa and start penning my my little diary. Do I still for the
effects of the charm? Yeah? I think you. Yeah, let me
so confusing? Yeah, let me just double check how long that lasts?
Um, the effect lasts twenty four hours or until the vampire is destroyed or
on a different plane of existence than the target. Wow, or so there's
no on hits effect. That's if he hits her, she gets to make
the save again, I think, is how it works, all right.
I was going to start wailing on her. Oh well until the sofa,
right, goa where did you go? What did you do to him?
Where did you make him leave? We were supposed to dance, So now
we're not going to dance? Are we if ruined it again? Haven't you?
Mm hmm? So I was looking around wildly, trying to see if
he's gonna pop out of a shadow somewhere. You've never danced a day in
your life. You don't know anything about me and my dancing. I want
to water my dancing. Whenever younger medaled, my husband always liked this.
Do I still have that negative fourteen? Oh? Yeah, it's be until
long run, that's right. Yeah, I'm gonna put my hand on my
nesting cask your ones. Okay, well it's clear that two or whatever that
was has met his match. However, he's going to come back. He's
going to prepare, and so I suppose we have to too. I hope
he covers back. Yes, I'm sure you do. I look confused.
I think at this point you'd recognize I just look really confused and lost.
Mmm. I suppose should just go back to sleep. Then, yeah,
he doesn't return this night? What does everyone do? I don't think I
get off that sofa, legs crossed, main eyes closed, six eyes open,
jotting down what happened. I don't think I move unless disturbed, but
I did make mention of having to prepare. I think one eye opens every
now and then, just in case the total does anything. It's equal parts
concern but also well, it's killed in A daughter sat in a corner,
so if your drinkets around her, she has her back to the room,
staring into the corner. All of her drinkets to in front of her,
picking them up one by one and muttering things to herself. Why I am
doing some sort of like cleansing purification ritual with whatever abilities that I have here.
So yeah, like the charcoal from the fire, rubbing it on my
face, I guess, and then just like washing. I don't know.
I'm just I'm silent and I'm doing purification rituals on myself. I will sit
behind Jiorden and lean against her shell and just do some writing pull tasks.
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