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dragon summoning ritual. Mh So what dragon do we think Manvic's father would want
to summon? Mm hmm. Maybe best case maybe tear matt do summoning chaos
his birst case waitward sun stopping dark. Maybe that is the best case scenario,
Guests that I have. Worst case, something strong to fight ducks,
something strong who give themselves about I do not know. We need to learn
more of this to howk and of this teamat too, I suppose, and
Malevic's father's motivations. So perhaps we must trust these, this guidance that the
heart gives Malovic from time to time. Yes, continue to do so,
Yes, I have no other choice. I think indeed, you think it's
possible that the professor might know something of more of dragons. It's possible he
does know quite a bit of monstrosities of the occult of religion. He's always
a great conversationalist on those topics. At least could have me sources in the
right direction. Indeed, m hm hm, I need. I do think
we should tell Melevic of the ritual. Yes, if we are to keep
trust. My only issue, and this is not that we will not tell
him, It is that we discuss it. If we tell him this,
this also means that his passenger knows it as wells Doc. He could say
it is mm hmmm. It's possible that I might already be listening. I
do have a connection out Melevic, and it has spoke to me, say
words to Malevic. Mm hmm. Suppose not suppose it's different, but it
to me and you are able to have a dialogue. Hm hmm. How
were you touching Malevic? Were you uh? Were you connected in some way?
Was there a trauma emotional bond? Did you ask it? I did
not invite it, but and I fluxed my hand looking down at my blood
bond, scar my arm. I think connection it's a bit more complicated mhm.
Either way, we should be sharing the information, uh, at the
very least telling him it is for a summoning ritual for a powerful entity.
I do believe it is for a dragon, but that could be wrong.
No, maybe it will be good to assume that this is for some sort
of dragon, given the whole the dragon storyline, so to speak, that
we are being given, yes, but it is good to consider that there
might be other possibilities for sure. Right. So I suppose our next move
then is to let Malvic know what? Do we let him know in the
morning? He wanted time to think We can in the morning, but still
wish to send him the information. Indeed, all right, in the morning,
I suppose we set out to this hall of the gods. Yes,
yes, which if this is solder, it may have information non demat indeed
ordark we should keep an eye out. Yes, very good m hm hm.
Troubling is it not? Oh? I worry for our friend. I
worry for our safety and Malevic, Yes, but I do not really worry
for his safety in a way. All right, So I suppose that's that,
then? Do if you get some rest I can keep watch, are
you sure? Mm hmm right, uh oh, not here yet. But
should I ask Mosquito which any of this it would be in her vested interest
to stop the raising of the world. I could see if she's willing to
impart, though, I think I would need a good offering. The goats
things, whatever they were, they were fine, You need better the right
She is pleased with me? And do you know if you're offering this,
do not lie or do not very in their nature? For example, if
you continue to give your witch these demonic creatures, do you know that that?
May it be an issue with her desire for those offerings lessons and she
wants something seless you I know not. But there is a note that diet
cannot subsist on only one thing, and there is a limitation. Unless she
wishes for me to stay here, I would have to leave and there would
be no access. She is wise. Well, I suppose it cannot hurt
to help discuss things with the deities as we do. I suppose, yes,
I don't think raising the world is a good idea? Yeah, no,
very well, yes, I would recommend it. I shall give it
some time before I tried to commune with Forasma again as well. I get
the feeling that you know, just did you want to overstay the welcome,
so to speak. It's too much of a good thing begins to not be
good. Ah oh, I forgot to mention a osstalk. Huh. I
actually haven't blessed in some way. You were not there to see it.
But I believe for Asthma has blessed me with sir, with new healing capabilities
that don't pull upon my curse. That is very good to hear. Indeed,
I am please so all that to say you were right? Probably maybe
sort of. I sometimes am very often. It was a joke. It
was a very good one. I will sleep, I will take next watch
if you wish, Celia, that's good to me. I good good night
to you two. I'll squeeze them both on the shoulders before I head to
bed. Three dreams or Celia, you be goin to take first watch.
Do me a favor, and please make a perception check. All right,
and seven okay. As the rest of the camp falls to sleep, you
stare out across the barren ruins of Demorra. The the dry, cold wind
that blows through here is not too bad. Tonight it's reasonably mild. However,
you can't really get the scent out of that decaying dragon out of your
mind. Regardless of how many times rash talk as pressed digitated you Malvic and
Yara, which was many times, by the way, it took like a
solid twenty minutes. I think for each of you, many castings of pressed
to digitation to completely clean you up, and you still can't get that smell
out of your head. It's you know, where it like rests in like
the back of your throat, Like it's just kind of always that smell is
sticking with you. It's so thick that I can still taste it. Yep,
And otherwise your watch goes uninterrupted. Three hours pass, and I'm wondering,
are Celia, how do you feel about what's happening with Malevic right now?
Terrified my friends needs help and part of him doesn't see it. I
feel that I am going very closely to the edge. I am not shunting
or rejecting this entity. That it's coming from a place of desiring more information.
Do you think that's coming from you? Maybe I might even be so
bold to say that I feel confident I can fight it. All intriguing.
Three hours to pass. It's time for the next watch. Do you wake
anybody up? Rushtok m hm m launch time? Yes, nothing too interesting?
You sleep? Okay? It is too dry here. Do you like
some of my water flask? Yes? Jully, thank you? Share my
water skin with you? Yeah, thank you. The bedrooll is swarm,
thank you. Di will settle down. H see that settles down to bed
rash talk. Please make a perception check for me. I will. I
will also for the beginning of my watch, make sure that I use my
dark vision goggles. Okay, and that will be a critical success with a
thirty three because of site based okay, hmm okay, Or I'll shunk your
watch. As you groggly wake up from your watch in this ruined place,
you can pick out some voices amongst the camp. You hear Sakawachie talking with
some of her companions. What do you do? Oh, I listen.
I continue my watch, but I will listen. Do you purposefully try to
eavesdrop you go closer to like hear what they say? M Or do you
just try to listen at the periphery and I will listen at the periphery.
I am not a quiet one. I am not a dronist. Okay,
then I think what you get is it's some pieces of the conversation which you
wouldn't have picked up at all if you did not create. By the way,
Yes, it's Niki. I am worried too, but this is the
only hope. If we don't follow them, I am afraid we will never
succeed sucho. Yes, but surely there must be a safer way to do
this. If you have an idea. I am willing to listen, didn't
he? But you must take this risk. I am truly worried about Anomuran.
And what about them? Are you worried about them? That one called
Malevich he is experiencing some sort of I do not know what. Wait m
hm the rest of them and they seem to lower their volume and you lose
the rest of the conversation. Hm hmm. Otherwise your watch goes uninterrupted.
A three hours pass mm hmm. I will waitara for the final watch.
Mm hmmm. Uh. Who is there a fire? No, we are
not allowed to fires. Oh, very old watch. Yes? Yes,
would you like some warm tea? Oh God, yes, please, thank
you. I don't know why I would think it's a fire of its cold,
perhaps the urgency. Mmm. I make use some tea, but I
use rested digitation to warm it because I do not want to cut the fire.
Uh. Hand you the d and I will sleep. Yes, it's
something of note for my orbius watch. Very good, right, problems normally
happen on my watch, so we'll see. I'll try take you will for
you know again paralyzed or you wish me to help you put your armor on
in case something goes horribly wrong. Oh no, no, no, no
no no I can. I can push it on. Do it? You
get some rest? Who will? And I'm putting on my armor right now
to see you in the morning. Good night. M okay, yora,
please make me a perception check twenty five? Okay, uh yarrah. How
do you feel about tomorrow? This place? Hmm? How do I feel
about tomorrow? Will? It is a ransacked pile of shit, but a
mecca of archaeology, very interesting stuff. Admittedly, it reminds me quite a
bit of my time in the Gravelands, and I don't quite like that.
Not of bad things happened there, not of good people died. This place
definitely has me on God, despite my sarcastic nature, and I'm very worried
about its effects on my friends, and this whole of the gods, and
this whole discussion of a living god, it does fill me with unease.
Have you seen anything here that you feel is not what you expected, as
in the location, location, or any of the creatures that have been here.
Well, admittedly I didn't expect to see a big fucking undead dragon here.
I suppose we expected the demonic. We fought brimerats, we fought the
dragon. Have you anything like this undead dragon before? Hm? Hmm,
I thought a lot of undead. Reflecting upon it, I suppose I did
have to watch a lot on the sidelines. The whole war with tarpaponnets seems
a blur. Be honest with you, very well, your watch goes into
uninterrupted for three hours. My God gone has come. People are beginning to
stir in camp. I will I will begin to start waking oaks individually as
well, to make sure that they are up and if they need anything,
get water to them, et cetera. I'll start with this arsilia. This
is the time already. Good morning, darling. So do you need refreshment?
Yes? Yes, I'll go ahead and I'll hand my canteen over and
the watch wins without of us. And did you happen to see Moravick at
all? Hm? I assume he's resting. To be honest, I did
not quite look for him. That's fine. I'll go to see if I
can find him. Of course, I'll continue waking folks up, and i'll
wake Karoon next Karoon, dunning, rise and shine. I'm awake. I've
always been awake. Ah always, yes, mostly kind of. It's half
of my brain doesn't sleep while the other one does, and then it's slips
witch just half way through. Oh right, you you don't require as much
rest as me. I'm quite jealous, to be honest with you. Wow,
jealous half enough? I never thought, how are you doing, superior?
I'm going to ignore that. I'm going to ignore that. Have you
meaning to ask? Uh? I did not share it with anyone else,
but a secret. I'm very good at keeping secrets. Well, it is
more so me keeping one for you. The mirror? What mirror? The
one that I hopped off the wagon to pry from your hands? All right?
What about it? While you held it? You are muttering things?
Are you all right, I'm fine. I'm fine, superior even, I'm
fine. Right, well, if you would like to talk about it at
any point. You know, we have all seen things that have been quite
troublesome to us. No, I'm doing great, actually, never better in
fact, emotionally I am at ah. You know, very good. Point,
So that's good, just very good. Don't look at it at the
near. Don't look at it. What did you see in it? Yeah?
I don't know. Just don't look at it, okay, right,
right, well, the office still stands if you do wish to speak about
it. Thanks. I don't even know what there is to talk about.
I'm doing great. I don't have any nets swarming my head or nothing.
So I'm doing just perfect, excellent, And I'll ruffle ruffle Karoon's hair.
You are loved. Now I shall go wake up the lizard roshtoc there are
no there are no fires. Why, good morning morning. Hmmm. Well,
I don't like it here, No, no, I do not like
it here either. You know, I was reflecting a lot last night on
my watch. In this place reminds me a lot of the Cravelands. I
must be honest with you, how you lived there? I did not live
there. Your people do No. I grew up in Druma, but I
as part of the war efforts in the gravelands. My sister was one of
the warriors who fought alongside the knights of last war. H. I was
a medic. Yes, yes, I would anyone want to be there?
So dry Well, I don't think anyone would want to be there. It's
more so a matter of writing a horrifically powerful entity. That's well. It
was a lich ah whispering tyrant and all that. I have known bits,
but not much. M hmm. Perhaps there would be something interesting to learn
about when we are not here. Yes, but I would like to hear
about it. That sounds interesting, that is one word for it. M
Well, At any rate, we have much to do today. I will
get a meal together, excellent, I will make I will wake up well.
Actually, our seeing is looking for Manavic. So I suppose I'll help
you with breakfast. Yes, yes, you would like a hand? Sure,
Yes, I will have you old things for me. Unless you know
how to cook, well, I can cut things. I know a little
bit of how to cook, but I would rather watch and learn from you,
to be honest. That's fine. I will prepare excellent? Right?
Where is Malvic? Right now? I'm sitting in a dark tent, not
not sleep, just contemplating getting thoughts together, Confused that what's real and what's
not, Confuse that who to trust, who to believe? Asking if I
even trust myself at this point, and then the question pops in my head,
who or what am I really? Why am I going through this?
Mm hmmm? Are you in the outskirts of the camp? Yeah? I
moved it to the alsokers that they camp when for a slide rope. Okay,
I just feel like I don't really want to be around anyone right now
or during through the night. Please enroll me just a flat end. Twenty
mm hmmm, twenty wow. Okay do you do you often talk to yuh
mm, not really. Typically they start a conversation or they have like this
nagging way of scratching at the back of the mind, or maybe even sometimes
I feel like I pick up their emotions or there. But I never really
wanted to get the no dog. It's kind of always just there. Maybe
this time, after the conversation of got a little heated between you and I
opt on the idea of being alone. It seemed like a struck a chord,
and then a little piece of me felt like maybewhere more similar than different.
It It bothered me, but at the same time kind of gave me
comfort to know that even gods have emotions, or they have reach that they
passed on to us. This is one of the first nights in quite a
while, uh, that the hawk has not spoken to you. Mm hmmm.
It was playing in my head is a name Ta Matt over and over
again? And why it felt nurturing. I was very afraid with all the
laughter that was coming in the silence. When you get used to having something
there for so long and then it goes away, and as you're just met
with pure silence and then strange thoughts or something is introduced throws you for a
loop. Felt kind of cold, alone, scared, but the name and
it came into my mind. I felt everything opposing, conflicting feelings, but
they all felt very comfortable. It wasn't It wasn't like a invasion of my
thoughts like doc. It was more of that's where I want to be,
and you just seek out the answers. The name felt more motherly than my
own mother that I know everything comes with a cost. And then I wonder
why Doc never mentioned any others. It's always about him, And it's true,
it's his arrogance and his hatred towards us somewhat father. Maybe he was
trying to relate it to me so you can say on my cords more often
when it comes to similar feelings, find myself sort of pitying him, not
maybe not pitting him, but I like some kind of empathy. As dawn
has broken, you can see the rest of the camp is getting ready for
the day. A few of the others are kind of walking around, looks
like they're getting food and such ready. I'll stand up, pack up my
belongings, ground up the tin, and drag every thing back to the camp,
places it on the it's where area where we place all of our other
supplies, and silently go sit on a rock or you know, whatever is
near the tent, and I'll just be picking up like whatever rocks and rubble
on the ground, kind of like a kid who you know, does have
any interest in what the parents are talking about, just kind of on and
off in a corner and just contemplating. I have made breakfast, Yeah,
I'll have some Yes, absolutely. I'll get up and silently nod and take
whatever's off it. It's bread, some root vegetables, and probably some salt.
Pork hm basically applies what kind of meat is this? Yeah, pork,
I'm all right, don't just starve. I guess there's still bread and
root vegetables. I have some bread. Yeah, sure, I'll have bread,
not like pork. Oh, it's kind of gross. That's one.
You know, it's wallowing around, drinking and farting in taverns and it's gross.
Heavens. Yeah, m hm, m hmm. I'll take what you
don't eat then, and I'll grab whatever the pork is. Love ah Soccawachi's
companions and the Reclaimers also probably uh you know, uh having having their mourning
rituals, and they're also making some food and picking here and there. Socca
Wachie will probably make her way over with Zaiyah Intel and see they're just they
just sort of, you know, having having some water or or just finishing
up some food and whatnot themselves, and they walk over to you, and
Sacawachie wishes you all good morning. M hmmm, hello, good morning,
good morning. Are you ready to venture to the all of the gods,
you've been the most excited to go there. Yes, I'm hoping that it
will reveal something for us, at least hopefully to make some headway. Indeed,
Saiah says, I think that I have a reasonable idea of where to
get started today. What does your r IDEA A little while, I really
wish you wouldn't call me that it's apporrible. I was thinking. She points
like northwest and says there's sort of a switch back there that we might be
able to walk up. It's a few miles and then and perhaps we can
cross into the city there, and then we'll have to worry about some rubble,
but I think we can circumvent that if we go through the building there
or what's left of it. Good job, Yes, of course, wonderful.
I just looked the lizard and I got the crops so fast. What
I am? I hatchlings. Hatchlings tend to age fairly quickly. Yes,
I must reassure you again, I'm not a child, I am. I
know, we know we're talking about being grown up. They certainly are in
fact a full grown at ols. Adorable size doesn't matter and such. Hm.
So when you are all ready just let me know and we'll get We
get on our way and set out died. Thank you, sir, She
nods and walks back to the other side of the camp with you think they
would want the piggyback ride? The karun knew really how to stop infantalizing full
grown adults. Just a tiny child is a tiny No, there's not a
tiny child. I don't believe you prove it. What would you like me
to go to wherever they're from and request some sort of certificate of birth?
You mean there are more children? I would Why are there children leading a
caravan? I don't know. It's just a you know, kids just try
to walk in front of the caravan to pretend they're adults. Maybe that is
what's happening here. Is it a human child? What manner of child?
Is it? Different? Race? Karun? All right, yeah, it's
horrible whatever it is an adult? It is an adult, doubt. I
will get things ready and they'll stand up and I'll walk over to see if
I can help. Uh zaiyah Malvic. Actually, m we have a little
bit to talk about prior to heading out more information to be uh informed mm
hmm, sea, so that you know we are not hiding anything from you
that we discovered. Ah, yes, Rasta Cassilia, would you like to
m and I'll sit back down. It is quick, but and I lower
my voice a bit. The discovery of the dragon gland removal, you remember,
yes, m M, I was able to determine what that is for.
Really, Ay, I do not hesitate because of you, but because
of your passenger. But nonetheless I will tell you because I trust you go
on with it. It is for a dragging summoning ritual. Mm hmm.
Go yes, I already wanted sum a dragon A fine question we do not
have the answer for, but I wanted you to know it pertains to your
father. But I think that could still be used against you with the passenger.
We don't know what Your father has been quiet as over late, has
not said anything quite a long time. It's just odd. You would think
that I would be happy about this, but I'm actually quite worried. H
You. You spoke a name yesterday, the one that gave you a motherly
feeling. What was that name? Again? There's I believed hear, Matt
is what the whispers in the back of my memory. You should not be
able to speak that name Malevich who has the I think it's our Celia who's
got the highest perception check as Celia for sure. Plus thirteen. You and
Maldix maybe have the same per I think the rest of us have like plus
twelve thirteen I have thirteen if it is sight only okay eleven? Oh okay,
So actually a Rastak or Celia and Malawick please make perception check thirty twenty
three T two Okay, Malvic, you are the only one that notices,
as you say, tim N, there's ripples in some of the small puddles
in the dried lake bed around you. Hm, what was that? Did
she? Did you see that? That? See? What? M The
little puddles are something happened? Yeah? Do you know who dmat is?
I When a rash talk says the word the puddles ripples increase in size and
the vibration. I do not we have this, I say the name I
all I know is a night leaning well, I know is a feeling.
More so, the name was never spoken in common language. I believe is
maybe intraconic or something. It sounded weird to me when I was younger,
but now I can for some reason, my brain fog gets cleared up when
it came to that, and that name was the first thing I remember.
Is like being hot and cold at the same time, being hugged and strangled.
Well sense of comfort. Should remember that we are on a la line.
Hm. I will not speak a name. That is a fair point,
Malevic. He said her, what do you know about this? She
is the mother of all dragons, and your passenger is her firstborn. He
never mentioned her. He cannot speak her name. That is why I was
interested. When you said it jogged some memory of readings. You being able
to speak it is very telling. He has not been able to control you.
Your body is yours, Malevic. This is very good. It brought
me hope, not a diminish your hole. WY find myself questioning a lot
of things lately. That is good. I mean, I don't know if
it's good. It helps you. I don't know who I am what I
am questioning helps you find that answer. The memories that I thought of my
own are shifting. I find myself questioning not only myself, but just everything
around us. Why we do what we do. I noticed a change in
my skin. No matter I try to moisturize myself, it just feels scally.
I looked at the reflection in the water, and I don't even notice
myself anymore. It's just red everywhere. It was only on my upper part
of my face. Is this something that we too have noticed about? Mounovic
looking upon him as he says this, I will leave that up to you.
I find myself getting more and more angry. Every battle, I feel
more feral. What angers me the most are metallic dragons. Every time I
hear one, see you when I want to just rip it's hard out.
My patience is running thin with a lot of things. My emotions are starting
to meld into areas questioning what's really important and what's not. And I fear
that the things that we worry about a minuscule yes desire that you have to
harm these dragons. Where does it stem from? I do not know.
Does it feel as though it is an anger from an outside source? Does
it feel as though it is an anger from Do you feel that they're lesser?
They're here, They're not supposed to be here, They're not supposed to
share the same world as I decided, I don't understand why they're even here.
To begin with the laws of nature, as people have labeled us as
chromatic. M hm m hmm, the originals. What do you know of
your father? What sort of dragon is he? Red? I honestly do
not know. I figured red, but now I'm questioning it. All.
I remember the story is told, and he had a blinding beauty to him,
charismatic aura that just attracted everyone until men and women are like. Something
about his eyes, gold saucers, small slits, long, dark black hair,
That's all I really remember. Imposing figure, not very muscular in stature,
but you do know not to anger him. But these are all emotions
that may be confused to it. There was something about him that reminds me
a lot of the Hawk? Or does the Hawk remind me of him?
I don't know. Let's touch on that. What do you know of the
Hok? Your passenger? Powerful? Very scarily so, but they do not
do things out of order. They have purpose behind every word and not asking
about their morality all the things they do, I am asking about what you
know about them acts? Do you know what sort of entity they are?
Do you know what sort of dragon they might be? Do you know?
When I close my eyes to see him, it is smoke, blackness golden
sauces that appear from out the darkness, tints of red, imposing figure large,
larger than you can ever imagine. But there's a calmness and a strict
anger behind his words. Physically, I haven't seen much more than that.
But what I feel is a fire that burns hard than any fire. I
know the fire. Do you know where he is now? No, he
isn't really that mm hmm. Hell, indeed, your mother figure you felt.
He is the firstborn. He was spanished after creation of other species,
but dragons. He raised this world only wishing for himself to rule. Why
where was he banished? Because he was destroying everything that was created to become
the ruler? Why why would he destroy? I mean why? Because he
is an entity of chaos and that chaos went too far. He's always read
in meaning behind his words. He says, you're talking about a demon?
Right, dragon? Dragon? Perhaps still both? A dragon in the hills
that is the offspring of chaos. If it is a demon, I want
some samples. Hm hmm. You always make a light of situations, Korven,
I do be serious. I want those simples. It's a demon.
I do not believe it is possible He's been called a demonic dragon before.
From what I haven't gat it, but I don't. I don't know if
many of this lifetime he has even seen him he's does he have horns?
I do not know. I've only seen shadows, pierce eyes, large figure
of imposing. But I will say that you always protected me in some way.
Things that you have told me have all been truth. They came to
light, maybe not immediately, but down the line. He also told me
not to invest too much into you, into me, into all of you.
Oh okay, in the ways that you look at me when I'm not
around, speak whispers. That was long ago. When we first met,
it was only whispers, then very slight. I blocked them out. Obviously.
I don't think his words were folly. You had your reasons, I
had mine. But one thing that I can tell you, he did not
go back on his word about harm and you all all right, Well,
this is unimportant in this moment. We are looking for facts. We are
looking to figure out what lineage is, what all of this is. Your
father, you and I both indeed your father his name again, ah,
I do not want to speak his name. Oh y'all, Yes, oh,
y'all, do you know anything of your father's lineage. That's the thing
about dragons. They do as they please. I want to know why he
mate it with one of her stature, Why I was created, If I
was out of love, if I was out of a plan. That was
not the question, Malvic darning My head hurts. You're all right? Then
we can stop there may I don't know. When I struck a chord with
the dark, I asked what is he? To him? He laughed,
and I said, is he one of your mini offspring? He got quiet,
and this internal laughter that kissed me off beyond belief. But he did
not answer. Could you ask him again? I'd rather not, Manovic.
The reason I am asking is so that we might be able to figure this
out. There are many pieces on the board that we must make sure we
are aware of what there already. I do not want to speak of this.
No, all right, all right, you are very lucky to be
born the way you are. You know that have constant TOCs in your head,
be rated bash to pushed it aside, m hm. Not knowing who
you are, what you are, a purpose you're here for? Or I
feel is anger constantly? Arling? No, one. No one is doubting
that you had a horrible upbringing, that life was very hard for you.
I just want answers. Yes, but I am sick of being investigated Malovic,
and I will grab Malovic's hand, Malvic. You'll notice the temperature rise,
and you'll notice my hand is very cold. Malvic, look at me,
darling. I do not ask this to agitate you. I do not
ask this to cause you harm. I do not ask this to make you
feel any sort of ill feelings. I killed her, I took her last
breath, and I enjoyed it. My mother, your memories, just like
mine have been, may not be your own. I clapped to my hands
around her throat until I heard it crack, and then I burned the body
did there was nothing there. Then took her ashes and blew them to the
wind. We will figure this out, my love, all right, That
is what is important right now. Your past is your past. But you
have the ability to shape your future, and you have many people here who
are willing to help you shape that future. We're willing to help you.
Mm hmmm, so let us help you. Are not your enemy? Oh
but what if I am your enemy? I do not think so m M.
And if you are well, and I will squeeze your hand. I've
made you a promise. Ever not hm. We should get on with the
mission in past will. I feel that time will start ticking very soon.
I should be the least of your problems. There is a calamity that will
possibly happen. I do not know why I feel this way, but I've
dreamt about it many nights. Darkness, fires, storms, They're all coming.
The gods will fill the rafts of those above them, and calamity drops
your h We will be the ones on the receiving end. All the lies
become truth in due time. That plays in my head constantly. That helped
you with your answers, Melvic, I am aware we have impending doom.
You do not need to remind me. What I need for you to do
is try and seek answers within yourself. Try and figure this out, and
be there with us as we help you to figure this out. We need
answers, You need answers, and the more that we know, the more
that we can control. Why it's so important and isn't the fate of the
world the more important? Idea? Why me? Because you are a part
of that fate because you're a part of all of this. You weren't brought
here for no reason. We didn't get put together for no reason at all.
I believe the answers resides in tea, Matt, and let us find
out more. The puddles's around the camp ripple and splash. As the water
splashes out of the puddles begins to evaporate each of you. Please roll me
a flat D twenty mm hmm to fifteen fifteen, fifteen fourteen two. Okay,
Hi, I need to see you. I feel like she calls him,
he's silent. She is also chaos incarnate. She is the one who
produced the hoarc. I do not believe. So she is balanced. Sounds
like a demon to me. So she is balanced with Law in tandem.
You know, Doc won't share with me that his father wanted to get rid
of him. Said he was a mistake, the one that convinced, the
one that protected the hec was. I feel you don't know for said so,
and enter of chaos protected a dragon of chaos. It's complicated, but
I feel like I say, say it's a balance. Say, oh,
there is no balance to chaos without law. Malvic it's the same without with
evil and good. That's one name I dare not say. I am restricted
to saying the name of the counterpart to You're so called chaos that is interesting,
a demon that's definitely demons that is very interesting. And I look to
Rosch talk. So you cannot say their name, but you can say the
other one's name. There was restriction to both. But when we were traveling
back and things got really quiet, I felt like I was my mind was
being ripped into forty different areas, going many different ways. But the name
that calmed me, that brought me back to be able to grab you too
and pull you it was her, And that was the first time I've ever
been able to say her name or even remember that existed. To me.
Dark was the everything, the ruler of Galerian of many years past, ancient,
a power to not be challenged. But then there was something else there,
some kind of my fear intertwined with his. I don't know, but
at the end of the day, when I said her name, I felt
more children to my spine, but at the same time a burning furnace.
I felt that the current, it's the power to go on, And ever
since I said the name. He has not spoken. I need to see
her. I feel less sense sorry interrupted, run in our Celia. Please
roll another D twenty because we are winning right in the D twenty eleven five?
You sorry? I continue. I feel a sense of comfort in her
name, powerful just I want to be in her space. Or the more
I think of it, the more I needed and wanted. Runas Malvic is
talking, you notice that the sky is beginning to take on a red hue.
Huh, and fiery comets streak across the horizon. Huh. Does the
sky look a little darker to anyone else? And also there are comets?
Now? Has anyone know this? I'll close my eyes really tight. What
are you doing? Is this your doing? Why haven't you said anything?
This is definitely pretty demonic. We should perhaps see this conversation from that,
I'm getting less simplest. Ready, maybe get to the hull of the gods
quickly. Yes, you not want to be in this place anymore. He
has not cross me, you know, we know. I shall not cross
him until it gives me a reason. You have to understand he's always been
there, and I'll stand up not for us. He hasn't, but he
has for me. It's brought me to you right. What we consider chaos
and evil is objective. Your believe me, the kindness of God's has their
skeletons in their closet. He has whispered to me about yours, but I
cannot say anything. I just dare soon. Do you hope that you make
the right decisions? And I hope you do as well, considering your entity
wishes to praise the entire world. Everything comes to a reason, good,
good reason. Yes, consequences are definitely a thing that I believe that we
all can agree on. We ever missioned today. Yes, Now, just
look up at the sky and sigh, and then I'll walk off. I
will grip my shield tightly, stand up, brush off my skirt. I
will see you not the caravan. Yes, very good, and I will
walk off as well. I would like to take my spy glass out and
see if I can't see where these meteas are coming from or where they are
going. Sure, take a perception check. We've get a plus one with
a spy glass. Yeah, it's plus two because it's a good spy glass.
Perception eighteen twenty. Okay, it's a little bit like Metea writes,
like a meteor shower. So it's kind of pretty sure and unassuming and not
dangerous, maybe because they're not falling all the way to a Galian Ryan,
probably not burning up in the atmosphere. Yeah, they're coming from a specific
direction, or they're all going one way. I feel like any mushroom clouds
in the distance, right, all right, then it's probably fine. Sure,
Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much, No big deal. Do I
know anything about omens like this? You can absolutely make me an esoterical oral.
Oh you might know. Oh that's a natural twenty uh with a plus
seventeen on top of it. Uh. I think, ars Celia, you
you think this is definitely related to DMAT and that these these comments sort of
streaking through the sky could mean some kind of sign of chaos. I'll keep
that to myself. Born out, I'll walk off. Okay, is anybody
going to get Sakawachi Zia are you? Yeah? I was walking towards Ayah,
for sure, I was going to do watching. Yeah, after we
that is mentioned also go that way. Sure we can assume to all get
your supplies and the group together as Sakawachi, Dnigi and Zaia join you as
you begin to head towards the ruins of de Mora, again hoping to find
the hall of the gods. Okay, we are now in exploration mode.
What are you all doing for your tasks and exploration mode? Please, I
would assume the old position of scouting. I will do tracking. I'm gonna
just look around the immediate area for investigation. The investigation for al chemical supplies
or anything out of the ordinary in terms of foliage. Okay, so you're
searching then for yes, it's searching is different. Searching is hidden doors,
concealed hazard and so on. Oh, all right, yes, then I
guess it's invested. Investigation is seeking out information about your surroundings. While traveling
at half speed, you do a recall knowledge check to see what you see
and engage with as your journey along. All right, yeah, then that
is what I will do recall knowledge. You said, Yeah, it's a
recall knowledge check. So there's a lot of different ways that you can use
recall knowledge. It's under the skills. Let's see, ar Kanna, there's
a recall knowledge about crafting. But that has to be like you're flu crafting.
Well, you're focused on something that you are trying to you know,
figure out how it was crafted or you know whatever, whatever could I use
nature? Absolutely right? That is twenty eight. You didn't need to make
the role yet. I was just letting you know what it was. Sorry,
but I panicked and is it right? Sorry? I finished so quickly
with the role and I feel terrible. Do you want a roll to or
I think I'm good? I'm sorry? Okay? Uh? What about everybody
else? Are Celia Yara? If possible, I'd like to gather information and
specifically approach Sacawachi as we're traveling. I'd like to ask information about the celestial
event that's currently happening, perhaps try to get a time frame or context.
What exploration activity do you think this would fall under? Uh, it's a
skilled exploration activity, says use diplomacy to canvas the area to learn about a
specific topic. Yeah, okay, we will say you and Sacco WATCHI can
just kind of have a conversation about that stuff as you're living along, all
right. I'm sharing what I know about omens and falling comments and try to
see if anything might stick with her keep understanding for astronomy. Okay, and
Yara, what activity do you think you're going to take part in. I
will be searching. I will be quite honest. Conversation with Malvic put me
off quite greatly. I grow tired of our God's getting consulted repeatedly, so
I am off searching quietly. I'm sorry, which which activity was this search?
I'm looking for hazards and whatnot. Okay, all right, let's see,
MALVICU you were watching for danger. This is going to give you mechanically
a plus one two initiative roles. Let's go with korns and the twenty eight.
Okay, Karun, Let's give you some information about these ruins then.
I think I'm trying to think about some like non obvious information that you'd pick
up. I think, uh, I think as you're walking, Karun,
you get kind of like, now that you've been here for a few days,
you can kind of visualize how a lot of the ruins became so decrepit.
It's almost like Sherlock vision, you know, like you can kind of
you see like equations of patches of drugs on them all over my body.
Yeah, yeah, there's well, there's ready, I am doing drugs.
I think I think more along the lines of vision visualizing, like what has
happened at various locations. As you're traveling like through the ruins, you can
kind of like see how the building collapsed, you know, like initially how
it how it fell apart, that there was a battle at this at this
location, and like you know, you can see where some kind of huge
creature smashed into the side of the building. You know, you're getting like
a little bit of a of an altered reality overlay where you're seeing how things
have kind of like fallen apart. You're seeing various uh you know, like
spells cast and stuff like that, and you're trying to like visualize some of
the creatures based on some of the things that you've seen thus far while you're
here. Overall, not a ton of information, but a lot of cotton.
Lou Sure, Uh, there's I'm gonna say, mmmm, roll me
a D four two. Interesting Along the way, Karan, you find a
rolled up tapestry hidden in the hidden like underneath a destroyed table. Like as
you're walking through some of the buildings and the debris. Yeah, you see
like a tapestry that's kind of like sort of rolled up and protected as this
table like collapsed. It just fell in such a way that it protected this
you need to get out and you find it, and you can see this
tapestry shows you four people standing in a circle enacting a ritual. There is
a beastly yet regal frustacean size of a bear rising from a pillar of water.
Between these people. There are ruins describing this scene. Uh huh.
And I would imagine that probably our Celia is able to help you with those.
And you can see that these are Circorean ruins, and they describe the
city's greatest god callers channeling their combined power to summon the original protector of Demra,
the goddess Dyesad, and these four people. And I'll pace this in
our chat for you as well our Sagaias Howling blood yacki Al River, gen
in Winter Sun, and alkin star Eye. But they're all dead, probably
already right, they're so old, most likely. Behold everyone, I have
uncovered the truth of this ruin, I and I alone have discovered its secrets.
Pride them from its rubble. Behold now the scroll of whatever this says.
Can one of you read it? Yes? I could? Oh good?
What does it say? Ah? What does what language is it in?
I'll say what languages I know before I mentioned that, uh, Common,
LuxI, Sylvan, Elvin, Elliot, and Abyss, none of them.
This is well, then what I will do is touch my hand and
activate the ruins upon it, allowing me to read anything. Yeah, you
begin to read these things. And again it just kind of describes these these
four successors to de Mora Hume enacting this ritual, channeling their combined powers to
summon the original divine protector of Demorrah, the goddess at eyes ad reading the
table out to everyone so that they may know as well. Let's see.
And so these people who are mentioned are probably dead by now, right,
it has been so long, hmm uusually could we not assume their powers?
Somehow? There may be notes in the hull on what they did and how
the ritual works. Does not outline the ritual so much as it does outline
the succession and why it was done. Well, if there was ever any
time to summon a god, it would be to discover what is happening with
all of these meteorites, because they will not stop crazy, right, protector
go on? No, I just was saying it was a protector God.
We are looking for them, that is the goal. And is that all
we know about this goddess? You're asking mostly? I think that was mostly
what we knew. Yes, yes, a little bits I'm asking if but
I would know anything? Okay, I will take a religion check for this.
Come on plus fourteen, don't fuck me twenty four Okay, I'm gonna
say that you you really don't remember too much about this. Probably you remember
some of the conversations that have been had. Is the group here in ziah
as mentioned them in that isaad was again pretty much what a rashtak has told
you. Mhm. Noah, I suppose neither of us knows more. We
might though later m hm. I will continue looking to find tracks so that
we are not snuck up on. Yes, okay, or Celia, uh,
you have been speaking with Sakawachi, please make a diplomacy check. Twenty
five alrighty, Sakawachi is very concerned about these these comet sized meteorites. Yeah,
she's saying. She sort of speaks to you about the possibility of like
the gods being angry, or if you bring up anything about like Tiamatt do
you no, okay, we'll avoid saying the name. Okay, do you
mention anything about what you were talking about with malabic. No, I'll try
to be as vague as possible. Okay, Okay, this alters the answer,
which is why I was asking. I would not have this conversation without
asking Malevick first, so I'll keep sensitive information to ourselves. Okay. She's
definitely like, very concerned, is what you would pick up, and like,
I think she's a bit rushed. I think she's thinking that this is
related to what you are all doing right now here in Demorra. Thinking you
are the reason that this is happening is a lot of what she's talking about.
Whatever it is that we have found here is it must be angering the
gods. I do not understand why this is happening. There is no any
sort of celestial event that would occur annually that I am aware of that would
cause such a thing. Do you think it's dangerous? Yes, it is.
It can only be an omen of some kind of horrible thing. Look
at the sky. It's dread pard doesn't necessarily mean evil, but should be
careful. We should hurry whenever the sky changes color from the norm. I
am worried. I'm also worried. I hope we have not awoken anything with
our journey here. If what I am doing to try and save my people
and I'm mural, has caused more harm to the world, I do not
know what I will do. Perhaps you may find more answers to our Queshians
in the hall. Perhaps I look very uncomfortable. I am trying my best
to hold my tongue. Normally I would want to be as transparent as possible,
but I'm worried for my friend Malevik. I don't want to put a
certain name in more mouths. Okay, uh, Malvic, please make a
perception check for me. Twenty two. Okay, fair enough, thank you.
M H roll me a D eight please, Malvic. Love is good
now real high as you know, all right? Mm hm, never tell
us the odds. I didn't you said, lois right? We know the
odds? All good for who is subjective first and foremost? Sure rites,
Yes, so had that rolled the track by the way? Uh that was
my exploration mode. Huh huh. Just check a number real quick. Uh.
Definitely not making any secret roles. No, I just don't want to
be snuck up on by a weird plant hydra thing. Again. I don't
know why you think something like that might happen. Oh, not in a
place like this. No, this is a safe place. And I opened
up the wrong person's sheet. Muh okay, um, very well, uh
a rash talk. You find I think some pretty strange tracks along the way.
You find some how should I describe this? Something slithering? Some kind
of slithering tracks, not Slytherin tracks, but slithering. Take them all for
you? How'd you get here? You also find you find uh, some
really strange like uh, I don't know how to describe this. It's kind
of like, oh boy, it's it's a little bit like, uh,
something shifted. It almost looks like something was dragged on the ground. Okay,
that's the only way I can imagine this looks to you. I'm not
even gonna make you roll for this to determine what this is, because you
have no fucking idea. Oh okay, so the role would not help,
that's what You're totally fair the slithering. Is there something I can roll for
that? Nature? Yeah, I'll let you you choose which one would you
like to roll? Oh? I think I will do nature this time.
If it is more of a snake or something rather than a demon and about
how large is this? Is it huge talks that you see at least large?
I got a twenty nine nature Uh huh. I'm trying to look at
like scale patterns and other things of that note. Definitely not a snake.
Most likely you think, like for your first instinct, is some kind of
reptile. And then you notice that the tracks just kind of stop and you
use to that it flew at one point. Doesn't look like the dragon tracks
that you saw earlier. But yeah, beyond that, it's too difficult to
tell. I'm not sure with the slithering, is it just the slither or
is it also like that's why you said reptile or the claws next to it?
Okay, so it's it's just just like a no, no clause or
anything. Okay, keep your eyes up. Maybe something nasty and big flying?
What like those meteors? Ah No, more like a serpent, but
not a dragon. Ah. Something that slithers but can also perhaps fly.
Ah wonderful. Well, hopefully one of the meteors hit it. Also.
Something looks like it was dragged. Oh what is the direction? The direction
we are going for both of them? One of them west? You are
going northwest. They are roughly the same direction, or could at least pivot
easily. They are slightly off from us. Heepe eyes out something maybe dragged,
something, maybe flying or both. I do not like it. I
do not know what it is. A rash talk. Please roll me a
D eight A six. Okay. You are all searching for quite some time
today. Six hours pass before, Malvic, you noticed something. It's not
a creature. I would like you to roll me a D four please,
Malvic four. There's a strange group of clouds that have seemingly begun to form
relatively quickly, Malvic. Maybe within a minute or two of you traveling like
you look up, you probably climb over some debris, and then as everybody's
making their way up, you kind of look up and you notice the clouds
like quickly forming into storm clouds, and you see a storm begin to develop.
There's something odd, though, I'd like you to make a perception check
for me again. Please mhm. You hear the sound of some thunder click
quickly pick up. As rain begins to fall in the distance, you can
see the storm clouds beginning to spread out, and there's kind of a kind
of like a greenish haze that's falling all around. There's a smell on the
air. You know how storms have that ozone kind of smell. This one
is a little bit different, I think with the twenty three, I'm gonna
say, you can't quite make it out. It's different. It's not the
same kind of smell though. I will kind of catch up to the group
a good bit and I'll probably walk next Sorr I say yeah, and I'll
say they spoke of storms, and then I'll look up something's unnatural. Yeah,
I think something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what
it is, but does it have to be necessarily bad? I just kind
of look at her kind of perplexed, and then try to pick up more
of the scent and that I'm spelling. Are you in the front of the
group now? No, I believe you have to be in front of a
group of scout. Yeah, I was a little bit behind. You can
assume that you make kind of like patrols, you know. Yeah, just
trying to like keep an eye out around the area. Yes, So who
is in the front, Well, if no one else is, then I
suppose I would be. I'm quite determined at this point. Okay, as
the storm clouds begin to spread. The rain that's falling sort of follows Yarra.
As you are out in front, I would like you to make me
a fortitude save. Indeed, is this a spell effect? Nop? Very
good? Twenty six Okay, I think then we'll say that the rain mostly
falls in like larger droplets, and it kind of like hits your clothing,
and as it does, you can see little wisps rising up, and you
realize that the rain is eating Antra clothing. The rain is acidic. We
need to get into cover quickly. M all right, looking for cover of
any kind. Okay, everybody please make athletics checks for me. Oh fuck
meay, I'm going to reroll my critical failure ten. I'm retraining. Fuck
it. We're sure we're doing athletics checks and not another one. Where's what
not stone? So twenty seven that's all religion? Oh you also, that's
a one? Okay, we got two natural ones. A rashak is re
rolling his or a hero point alrighty for twenty seven? Huh okay, So
our final totals here Yara with a ten, Malevik with a thirty one,
or Cilia with an eighteen. Arash talk with a twenty seven and Karoum with
a one. Okay, so here is what happens. Question, does the
biology of my alchemists have any kind you know, resistance to acids? No?
No, not even a little bit on the hair? No, h
okay, everyone except for a rash talk and Malavik takes nine acid damage as
you run to buildings nearby trying to find cover. Uh. However, Karun,
unfortunately you take it double. That's gonna be eighteen acid damage to you,
Karun run. Maybe you're just caught completely off guard as you're trying to
rush to a building. Maybe your foot gets stuck, like on some debris
or something. You just fall and it's horrible, like tripped on the rain
drop, you trip on some debris, you fall. You're just there,
like getting rained on by this acid rain, stinging and burning build It hits
your flash side burn. I can try to put together a lean to of
some sort, demating or wherever you are. There's a lot of debris,
there's a lot of ruins and stuff. It's not that hard to find cover.
But yes, this storm agains to rage around you, and what was
once light rain now begins to pour as Karoon drags herself to some ruins.
You all see like this acid rain is kind of falling on the ground and
leaving marks, and you can smell that sort of a said acidic chemical reaction
happening. Yeah, I'm using press to digitation to clean off some of the
acid. If that doesn't work, I will immediately begin rousing splash on those
who are affected. Yes, I will just give for a minute. I
will use my hero's gloves on Karon. Oh oh I'm here. Ah,
you will feel a soothing, cooling aura your heels eleven points. Oh,
thank you. It's nice. Actually, mm hmm, that's amazing nice.
I wasn't muted. It's fun. It's not rained here. The moment we
do get it, ah storms rage around us. It was not here before.
Ah wack. I have a feat that I haven't had to use yet.
I don't know if it'll be applicable, but I will post it.
It's a lot of text, but it's recognized spell m hm ah because I'm
an expert. If it is a common spell level of for lower, I
will know what it is automatically. If not, you can roll arcane nature,
cultism or religion checks a secret role for me on whether or not I
recognize what it is, okay, and then it gives a successes and failures
there. If this is a spell, I think you would first of all,
you assume it's a spell. You don't know, saxon all it this
is a pretty incredible spell if it's a spell. For how quickly it popped
up, that's the reason I assumed it might be. Which is more worry
strange? Mm hmmm. Uh. I don't know this is a spell or
not, but if it is, it is m hmm not someone we can
trifle with or wing against. I think, as you are talking Rostock,
do you see the acid that is falling suddenly slows and balls of hail begin
to fall. Mm hm. This time, I'll just sit back and I'll
lock up. I'll look into the r's eyes sternly and firmly and sit back.
Yeah m hm. And then I'll turn to I say yeah uh.
And then after I turned to I say yeah, I'll look out at the
open display chaos. Mm hmm mhm. Is there anything we can cover ourselves
with so that we might be able to move from place to place? Mm
hmm. So I have a thing. I have a thing maybe it's uh,
it's this, does this? Would this? Uh? Would this have
any mirroring on this at all? Could I make a vaccine for the acid?
Unfortunately not, or an indote maybe now it would Specifically those are for
diseases and poisons, not a poison. Perhaps you could craft something out of
things that we have. I could, Yeah, I could. I do
have the extra tuber hmm. Could be held up off on side, so
things would roll off that probably acid would eat through it. Could we not
say? Could we not find something that might counteract the acid and some sort
of coat the canvas in it? I have nothing that would do that.
Did you say that the acidreine was replaced by hail? Yes, so the
acterine stop still puddles of it around mm hmm. Oh so it's just big
blocks of acid falling down. Now watching it hit the ground, does golf
ball sized tail? No? Does it make anything sizzle in a similar fashion?
Watching it doesn't appear so m hm. So really we just need something
for the hard A shield A shield shields. I have an extra one in
my bag. The hail begins to slow down. Oh, suddenly this fog
begins to roll through its dust fog it gets a lot warmer, and suddenly
there are little bits of fire that begin to rain down from the sky.
Thunder cracks in the distance as you see little walls of fire as they hit
the ground, little pebbles basically land and shoot up, little fountains of fire.
Hm hmm. Wondrous. Maybe we could just sit here for a little
while. Maybe in another maybe it'll go away. I do understand what is
happening. It's raining fire, So I'll just moment to myself. No fact,
this is a test. Ziah speaks up. I have never seen anything
like this. How could you in your tiny little life. Yeah, I'll
slowly stand up, look back towards the group. I have to go out
there. Hm hmm. Not a big I suppose this might be one of
those things that's not actually a test. But more so, you know,
I don't fucking know. I don't know. I should try to find the
whole first. Indeed, I'll do that, take note of how whatever's happening,
if it iss abits, am I leaving or not? But I will
believe that I'm the fastest one here. Let's see if I can find out
this a nation in a fast route to it. I will if I do
not return, carry on, I'll find you, okay, Malevic. Mm
hmm. I will activate to my crown or the Companion and take a bow
and I will be taking half damage for you the next ten minutes. Mhmm.
Thank you. Be safe, stick to buildings as you can. M
hmm. Look towards I'd say, I'll say sorry that you form this bond.
I want to go with you, and I know that I'll just slow
you down. Oh and don't be sorry. Meant what I said, I
made the bond happen mm hmm. And that would start off as fast as
I can. Malvic could call out and give us a sign of you need
us. He'll bring you any storm with you with where's it going again?
Ash sort of flows through the air, Malvic, please make me an athletics
check m hm twenty okay. Actually I'm gonna reroll that I possible. Oh
no, you already rolled. Never mind. Uh, You're gonna take six
fire damage mm hm, as the ash and the heat will probably hit you
in various locations. Did you kind of like rush out try and find is
this fire fire? Okay? I have a resistance to fire. Five?
Okay, so you also have an item, don't you. Yeah, but
I have to fix that. Oh, you haven't done it yet, okay,
okay, all right, I'll try to stick to buildings, six to
anything covering. Okay, I do not know if you're trying to who you
are. If this has anything to do with me, feel free to show
me signs what you need me to do to keep them safe, and I'll
just then I'll move to another location, well, trying to search for the
destination. Okay, please make a perception check for me, all right,
roll me a D four three. Oh boy, okay, don't get these
rolls on the tacks, but I definitely get stupid assects malvic. As you're
rushing between buildings, the fire changes yet again, and balls of hal begin
falling, and simultaneously with the balls of hal, acid begins to fall.
Mm hmm pems. There is no response to your questions. Yeah, dok,
why are you silent? You know this big ruling, powerful sucking you
claim to be in excided you know what's happening doing to you? I'll just
move and out of frustration, I want to stay in wait, but I
feel a sense of urgency. I will continue to run Okay, do another
location in another athletics check for me. Please, great, that is a
good thing, uh Malvic. I think you see the effects of this like
hail and acid, and it's like causing damage to these ruins, like pretty
serious damage you haven't seen. I mean that these ruins have been through a
lot, and it's causing damage now on top of these ruins already which have
been like weathered down beaten up over the centuries, and this is is something
else. You recognize that this is potentially pretty lethal, and you are finding
the best spots you can to dodge between buildings to avoid any of this hazardous
downpour. There's like the balls of hail have like graduated to like baseball size,
Like you're hearing cracks like it's it sounds like the crack of a bat
on a baseball, you know, when these hail balls are hitting the ground,
like some of them are betting themselves in the ground, and you know,
like it's like the sky is angry and it's as they hit the ground,
you see acid like melting the ice and like causing me streams of acid
to flow through the cracked broken mud that is here in this normally very dry
place now. Acid and water are beginning to spread here, creating a pretty
nasty hazard all about. And you searched for quite some time while you're gone,
fair amount of time passes the rest of you. What are you doing?
This isn't a few minutes? Yes, with this whole situation, with
mentioning she who shall not be named, might might I get the impression that
there's chaotic imbalance? It might be alleviated by making mention of her counterpart?
I don't know. I posited the question to ros talk m hm quietly as
a heads up. Yes, perhaps perhaps I see no harm in trying it.
Well, I see plenty of harm, but I see nothing to lose.
But uh hm, I have a feeling if it ends, Malevik will
think this test of his worked, if it is our cause, perhaps he
needs to see that it is not a test, but rather something else.
He's been gone quite a while. I no longer have a link to him
at the moment I meant to give him a monitor that could have sensed him
wherever he was. He ran too fast. Massilia Karule, Yes, I
worry about Malavik. Why he's been going quite some time? He leaves all
the time, not for this long in this sort of an environment. It's
got thick skin, Probably be fine, right, ah, Celia, you
would know if something happened to him. Yes, yes, I haven't felt
anything through our bond. I think he's all right for now. Yeah,
he's fine. We cannot just sit here with our tails between our legs for
much longer. No, how is the weather looking? The hail has started
to stop along the along with the acid rain. However, there's a strange
publish miasthma that seems to be uh making its way around fog like Now,
does that look like a spell I might recognize? I don't think so.
Okay, can I Can I identify alchemy on it? You can certainly try.
Give me is what I will do thirty Uh. You get the feeling
that this is most likely a poison, ah perfect Can I create an opison?
Mm hmmm mm hmmm, because I do have I do have some you
know what I could make? Maybe a vaccine? Or are you using any
of your quick alchemy to do this so? Or do you have some pre
made versions you can? I don't have any pre made, but I do
have perpetual perpetual infusions allows me to create two first level. Oh, I
have to choose between Oh, never mind, that doesn't help me at all.
Yeah, then yeah, I'll make one for me. These quick alchemy
to make yourself a what you're doing any lesser antidote? Yes? Okay?
Yes? What is that? Karun? Nothing? No? What is that
karun? What was what? Why did you make up? What is this
fog? That's nothing to worry about it. I know I'm worried about it.
We should might be poisoned. It could be poison it could be Now
I begin right, brought to the direction of Malvic. Alrighty oh, Carol,
uh, Takawachie and sire I followed the lizard. Go ahead and make
me athletics checks please eighteen. I'm sure that this is an athletics check,
or perhaps another one. Maybe it'll be better. Fortunately, as I will
keep you. That is a fool. Pretty well, I've never had to
do this much running in my entire life. Oh no, okay, all
right, Uh everybody except our Celia. Actually no, everybody including our Cilia.
Oh I don't even feel so bad now, because it might have even
gotten a thirty one. I wouldn't be safe. Well, it's gonna determine
what happens, Malvick, that same raindrop from Oh okay, hey I pressed
the button, did not go through? Oh there it is thirty one?
Uh yeah, everybody, please make a fortitude safe right thirty thirty two.
And if that's a success, that's a great twenty three. And if it
is a spell effect, is it right? One day I'll be able to
use this pouch. Okay, uh karun in Malvic, you have succeeded on
the saving chairs here. Yes see. Don't need to be jacked and absolutely
yoked in order to succeed at acrobatics. You just have to be able to
grit your teeth and bear it. Nothing with acrobatics, but okay, athletics,
athletics whatever, Okay. You are all running as best as you can
to avoid whatever this fucking purple mist is, because I mean you can.
I don't think anybody looks at it like it might be a favorable thing that
happens given the way that the weather has been acting here, and you do
your best to try and avoid it. However, you all run through it
at some point. Brune, you got a are you master with your fortitude
saves or is it just expert? I am an expert. Okay, so
that's just a regular success for you. Malvic. You said you are a
master, so that's yeah, that's a critical success for you. Okay,
everybody else failed. I also get a plus two items. I don't know
if that puts me into critical success, Like maybe I take the poison,
but it makes me even better. Okay. Those that failed, you're going
to take three persistent poison damage and mm hmmm, wrong Dice. That's why
I'm looking at to die and I'm like, I'm not supposed to roll that.
Um, I'm supposed to roll one of these. I fuck it,
let's just do it in a chat. Uh. Okay, those that failed
are taking sixteen poison damage. Uh. Malvic, you take none and no
persistent poison damage. Uh. Karoun you take eight poison damage and no persistent
poison take eight poison damage. Yes, all right, I'll allow it.
Okay. You are all sort of running through this stuff as best as you
can, trying to find Malevic. Malevic is running trying to find the site
in the hopes that you all don't have to deal with any of this for
three hours. You live for each other. Does anyone try to cleanse the
poison? Oh, it means easily, because in three hours I'll be dead.
Yes, I also have treated poison as well. Okay, I will
leave that all to you. Yaha. Yes, so I will have to
make checks on everyone in order to do this. It's you treat abasion to
prevent the spread of poison. I don't think I can ward medic this attempt
a medicine check against the poison DC. Yes, so this would be a
medicine check. I would first do it on myself for a thirty okay,
uh, and this is versus what so this is it's a poisons DC poisons
DC. Yes, this is just a success. Excellent. So I get
a plus two circumstance target saving throw target is a twenty five. Oh wonderful.
Well I do have a plus nineteen, so I'll be wonderful if a
kicked in or something. And then next I would do our squishiest, which
would be probably a arch talk for twenty six plus two. And this is
assuming we found cover. We're taking the time to go ahead and just catch
up wounds all that kind of stuff. Then I would do as cilia or
thirty three. And lastly I will help Karun nine so everyone gets a plus
two yes plus two to health no to saving throws against poison, Oh,
gloraate. By the time you treated Karun, this purple mist my asthma has
kind of gone away. Thunderclouds have started to roll outwards and spread out slowly
dissipating. The sky has returned to its normal hue, and after some hours
of searching, the group meets up again. Malevik in the distance, Malevic
voices again. I'm hearing her voice, Manvic, doing what are you?
What are you doing out here? I finally we had to mm hmmm.
I'll be honest with you. I don't actually know because why I thought you
were fine and you are so. I don't want to be the one to
say I told you so, that's poison. We had to run. We
couldn't they still all It would have been very bad. Yes, I forgot
about the poison that took an endidote. So I'm fine. Really, I
may have found where we need to go. Oh good, it's good.
Well, yes, mm hmmmm, everyone is all right. Everyone is all
right. Good. I take a bit, but I'll go check on uh
the others. Uh, not our immediate group, but the subgroup. I
actouldly say, yeah, m you all right, watch you may want to
come with me if you're comfortable. Well, and i'll h I assume I
found them. I mean it's been three hours, right, you think you
I'll uh reach out to take our head. Shouldn't we all go together?
I think you might want to see this first. Daniki obviously can come to
me and don't want to be alone with me. It was not a question.
Yeah, and I'll put my hand down and then i'll i'll walk away
and then point in the direction through There varied amongst the rubble, you can
see a what a building that sort of looks like Heart Temple, Heart Crypt.
It was quite a large building in its time, but there's a lot
of debris around. It's leads you to believe that this smaller building is part
of something bigger. There are two there's a set of double doors in the
front, sort of arch double doors. This must be it. You have
found it. Mm hmm. That I a good there's not delay. Why
have you taken us from the others. I wanted to make sure this was
your destination and to show you that you have nothing to worry about when it
comes to me. I noticed the way you guys still look at me.
I know the doubt, I understand it, but right now our goals are
aligned, and I just wanted to fortify your beliefs in the group at least
where you have none. For me. There's not bother me too much,
but believe in them I'm not. And then I'll walk back towards a group.
They definitely like share a look with each other as you do this.
Wait, mm hmm, my back to them, but I will turn and
keep you know, turn my face to them. Profile wise. Who do
you speak to when you are alone in the dock? Yeah, now,
no one. I'll put my head before a god, kitsch God, now,
lowering my head, and I'll turn around, slowly looking down from the
ground, and slowly rolled in my eyes up to fixate into her eyes.
It's dragging, dragging God. Yeah, yes, many have forgot. People
tend to focus on their current god deities, but there's things that are far
more ancient. I have been blessed, cursed, whichever way you want to
look at it, to be able to have some kind of complicated, misunderstood
relationship connection to this God. But he does not speak to me anymore,
and I can't help but feel a sort of emptiness inside me. But I
thought i'd be happy. I guess we all answer to someone in the end.
Perhaps you find me. If you need to speak to anyone, remember
that you have friends. I believe at that moment that word coming from Takawashi
would struck a chord with me more than with anyone else. Friends. You
say yes, you know when the noise is not loud anymore? On this's
pure silence. That word actually means something. Maybe I never really gave it
a real thought. It was just a word before the virgin may be onto
something, h funny thing. What silence gives and takes away? How old
are you? I am Iteen, you are wise beyond your years. Soku
is very wise. Mm hmm speak So I see why you protect her.
So I have a suspicious feeling that things here on out, whatever's through those
doors that you're looking for, will be a tide change normally, I am
forewarning, but I have nothing. All like I say, is every choice
as a consequence, and I'm starting to figure that out daily. Whatever the
case, it was nice knowing who you are. Knowledge changes us. Psychology
that I believe is the most powerful thing in this world, not money,
golder power of influence. It's knowledge and what we do with said stuff that's
the real real power. How comes corruption, law, chaos, the absent
idea of balance, whatever that means. It is my experience. But the
most powerful thing in this world is those surround yourself with. Mm hmm.
What tribe. I wouldn't know much about that, but maybe I'm starting to
figure that out. I think we should call the others here before now the
storm starts. There is power in the calling of names beyond our understanding,
special in this place. Whoever you call on, keep that note, and
then I'll turn and I'll walk towards the other group. I'll fetch the other
group. Melvic returns to the rest of you. Confirmation. Everything has been
confirmed. We are where we need to be. We need to carry m
hmm, finishing up, applying salve to Cassilia's wounds and wrapping everyone up.
I feel much better. Thank you are of course? Yes? Are we
all ready? Then? Yes we go. Yes, I'll lead them to
Squatchy and Nigian sire. Sure, there's a staircase leading up to uh some
arched double doors. Did you see in front of this building? Again?
There is kind of like one building in front of a larger temple slash crypt
looking building has mostly been destroyed around it. I would be looking around for
tracks again to see if any of what we saw is here. Make make
me another survival check, please, or actually you can make me a survival
check as I should say thirty one. Okay, Yeah, there's definitely tracks
around here, rashock. It doesn't look like the other stuff that you've seen,
really, but there's some weird stuff. I guess it. The closest,
the closest it would look like would be maybe some of the tracks you
saw with like a looked like something was being dragged. Mm hmm. Something
else is here fresh, I assume from before. Not really. I am
going to pound one of these and I would like to look for secret doors.
Okay, I got a perception check for me. Could please come in
and the seven seven? Uh? Okay? I imagine you probably like going
up to the wall and maybe trying to see if there's any bricks that are
out of place. I pounded this very good, disgusting looking solvent, and
that pupils are dilating. It's got a little dribbling down the sides and I'm
just hands up against the wall, just feeling the wall becoming one with the
wall melting, okay into the wall. When you start like trying to see
if you could see anything, feel anything along the wall, see if there's
like a button you could push or something along those lines, trying to spot
anything. You don't see anything. If there was not even yeah, if
there was like any sort of secret on the wall here, it might have
been destroyed. All right, Well, at least I have drugs in this
place. Do we notice any sort of statues or any architecture, any artwork
anything like that that it has all been weathered from what you can tell.
Are we inside our house still outside? Nobody's gone in yet? What is
I think? I'm going to depend on what Sacawachi and is doing, so
SCCAWATCHI would probably be doing the same thing that you are probably assisting Karun even
kind of looking around see if there's anything, maybe like brushing off parts of
the wall, stuff like that. There's a lot of dust here, and
you know, sand has just kind of gotten stuck on various bricks in the
stone and whatnot. He said, there's a door, Yeah, there's two.
It's two arched it's like a double door at the front. It's the
top of the stairs. I'd like to put my hands on both doors,
one on each of them, and I would like to read a psychometric resonance
if possible. Okay, let's brush your hands, your bare hands, or
any objects. I wanted to detect any significant emotional resonance attached to it.
Mhm, oh wow, there's so much. Well me, I will save
I think. Oh shit, Oh, you are a master on't it?
I am a master in it? Two three, I'm gonna reroll that?
Will I hold on? I ll the you rulled to ten? Oh,
reroll that? No shit, okay twenty two. This is a fail.
Uh. Or Celia probably lets out like a little scream as she is overwhelmed.
Um, oh my god, or Celia, Uh, this place has
a very large bevy of emotional attachment to it. This was a place of
worship. This is the hall of the gods. People. Would I imagine
that this was a city and there were people that would come here pray to
the gods. It's just a flood. You can't make it out. It's
all overwhelming you. And it is a combination of wants, needs, desires,
joy, happiness, sadness, pain, I mean, the whole gamut
of emotions. It's all overwhelming. It's like a tidal wave. Start by
putting both hands on the doors, and immediately I begin to shudder. We
rest my head against it. Yeah, m most overwhelming of these emotions,
because I don't think you can really tell the the time that any of this
happened. But there is a feeling of desperation and fear. Celia darning something
terrible happened here. So many desperate people became here. Oh it's all right,
you are here with us. You are not to stay with them.
Yeah, you take a five psychic damage. This is this is real.
This is what we were looking for, sight of where the God was likely
summoned in desperation, praps. Let us check the door for any sort of
traps, magical and otherwise. Yes, and I try to pull Celia slightly
to the side. I will sit down and hold my head my hands,
trying to process everything that just washed through me. Okay, somebody can make
a thievery check. Do you spot any traps? I can probably do that.
Have we not already checked the traps? It'll as secret doors. The
door was also for traps. Oh, but if it was, if I
see secret doors and traps, I'm sorry that was part of Yeah, it
does not appear to be trapped. It's cool, no need, everyone,
I've already done it, gone through the whole place, top to bottom.
No traps or secret doors or demons. That is something that was dragged here,
though I think I saw before. It's not fresh, if that helps,
But whatever it is may have taken residents in here. How would you
go? Could I examine that? Examine the tracks, the markings? Yes,
sure, anything? Is there anything more to glean from it? I
mean, you can definitely try. I'll try. Sure at a thirty one
I think for that ye oh, well there's one in thirty two chance that
I could get to thirty two on this. So critical at the sixteen,
so that looks like tracks to me. Yes, yes, let us be
careful then let us get in ourselves inside, regardless we do not know if
the weather is going to take another turn. I look towards I said,
and see the pain that she's in, and then turned to Sakawatchee. And
so remember what I said, especially here it's following the names and she speak,
I understand. Yeah, I'll try to find a way. I'm going
to go with the old routine. Push the door. I mean, w
that's just tracgic, push the door open. There's various bits of light breaking
in from various cracks and holes through the roof and through the sides of the
buildings. It's it's not super bright in here. There's just occasional like beams
of light that are making their way in. There are uh, let's see,
Uh, there's like a bunch of benches and things in here. There's
like, uh, some rubble in here. There is obviously uh like various
leafs and stuff on the wall, and there's like these uh sort of looks
like various corners. There's what appears to be like tangles of some kind of
like pinkish like blood red colored. It almost looks like a like a plant
or something that have kind of like spread across various parts of the wall.
There's two doors on the east and west side of the far side of the
room here, and it's this This building in particular, aside from what appears
to be a destroyed version of the crypt and temple looking structure behind it,
is significantly smaller. It's probably only like, uh like twenty five by fifty
feet or so, and in the far two corners of the room there's what
appeared to be two rooms with two doors at one door each. You signal
for the rest to come in, alvic or what do you do? Yeah?
After looking around savan area, make sure there's no immediate dangers. I
typically would like to thoroughly look around even more, but seeing that we are
against the element, so I will and I poked my head on the side
and say, are you all coming the way? It seems clear for now.
I'll offer a hand to help as Celia up if she wishes to take
it. Give me a minute. I'll join you soon. All right,
I will go in. I would follow the listen. I'll linger a moment,
look back at Arsenia. I'm staying near the door, but I will
walk in. Okay. I will stay outside for a little longer, looking
up with the sky fair enough the door, investigating around this place? What
do you doing? I'm actually continuing to look around for tracks to see if
that dragging has showed itself in here at all. I am nervous. Sure,
give me a survival check, I guess, or a perception check,
A rashta. I'll do a perception. It's one better if it's sight sure
thirty or thirty one, then okay. Kind of like around for these tracks
of rashtok Uh, there's nothing in here you can tell, like when you
open the when Malvic like opened the doors, they were pretty heavy and judging
by the size of those tracks, like, uh, if something did come
in here, the door was would probably be still open. However, as
you're looking around, you see these kind of like uh tangles sort of in
the corners and whatnot. It's hard to make them out, but you do
see something a little off putting. The tangles appear to be It's one of
those things like you you look at something just to you know, like casually,
and then you do like a double take. Uh, you think those
are tongues? I back up back to the door. Ah, have the
doors your self. There is something in here in the corners. They look
like tongues. There is something waiting. Would you like me to put light
on the ceiling to reveal them? It will likely make whatever it is angry.
I first, I'll look back at your a little bit of you see,
like a little movie. They're moving. Hurry Celia, Celia, Darling
what we may need to and the tongues all sort of begin to like undulate
and quiver. I cast light on the ceiling immediately to make sure that we
can see what's about to happen. I raise my shield and I scooped behind
Manovic. Yes, as you do. You see these gibbering tongues. I
don't like the fact that you and I would normally be ending the show on
that note. However, what I will be saying to you is that tomorrow
there will be an episode of Kura. Cura is returning after Brad's It's mental
illness. It's mental illness. Yes, Brad will be returning tomorrow for Kira.
We've got an episode tomorrow, so hopefully we'll see you there. And
we've got a chill show coming up soon, hopefully we'll see for that.
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