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you for listening and enjoy. The land before you is covered in great totem
poles. These enormous I suppose the only thing that we could really call them
is totem poles to describe what they might look like to you, sort of
ancient depictions of demons and giants can't into absolutely enormous stone columns. These things
are like skyscraper sized. Most of them have fallen to ruin, but there
are quite a few of them that still stand, and a few of them
are covered in glowing ruins. Giant tish runes that seem to depict sort of
varying depictions of strength and things that might mean strength, which I think Cyrus
would be able to translate pretty well. What do you do as you approach
this area begin to move between these giant totem poles. I mean, I'm
reading each of the potem poles for what information is on them, and then
I'm also I would like to also like investigate if there's anything else on them,
anything that's around on the ground. Perhaps, Okay, give me an
investigation check. In the meantime, I'd like to investigate what's if the area
around it looks at all disturbed. Someone's been here recently? Okay, that
would be a survival check or a perception check. Jilden, Yeah, this
place doesn't look anyone's really set foot here in a very very long time.
You get the sense that most of the area is not even being touched by
wildlife in a while. Umm, Cirrus. As you start manuing through some
of the area here, you're able to recognize Yeah, I mean really,
what you're looking at are just varying ruins that mean strength. The depictions are
of what you would assume to be the strongest of giants, and several of
the poles have the same kind of looking giant as if it might be the
same person. And then the different beasts and creatures specifically, there's a lot
of things here that look sort of demonic in origin, but these are probably
the conquests of the giant in question. So each of these totem poles probably
represents an ancient giant who was maybe the strongest of their tribe or the strongest
in the area. The area that has glowing ruins is absolutely imbued with sort
of arcane energy. Okay, and how big are the totem poles in size
empire state building? Oh oh okay, pteronormous. Yeah, we could see
them from days away. Yeah, Okay, they vary in size, but
we're talking big, really big. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's not like a test of strength where you pick up the totem pole
and move it around or anything. Try. Yeah, so what does it
say just strength on the on the pole? Just strength strength, strength,
or can you make sense of it's serious? Well, there's imagery images,
imagery of the strongest giants. It seems like, yeah, it's just honoring
the strongest giants that we're here. Think of every synonym for the word strength,
and that's pretty much what you're looking at. Yeah, they all sort
of ultimately mean strength in various ways. Who is the strongest thing. Who
is the strongest? So? What is it? Some sort of giant thesaurus
thing? Perhaps? Is there any one that stands out about the upper eyes
between all of us or between all of you guys of the pillars. Yes,
there's one sort of more central to the others that seems to be slightly
larger as larger than the others, and is significantly more intact and has all
of its runs intact. It seems to swell with the the arcane energy that
is powering the runes. I guess there is a very obvious and significant one
totem pole that seems to still be predominantly functioning for whatever it originally we're supposed
to do. Uh serious? Did you translate that for us? Does anything?
Yeah, it's the same thing different Take any six power synonyms of the
of the words strength. There's no change to the to the sort of grammar
and the and the words and the symbolology. It's just that this one is
that yeah intact. Okay, it's also really a large looking one. I
lean up to it, rest, well, they look at it. Yeah,
you can do that. Okay, he's touching it. He's touching it,
Okay, And can I do some sort of arcana check to see what
sort of magic is impued this thing? Absolutely you can, okay O ten
ten always said, yeah, it's enough to understand this. And I think
because you've been training from a goliath and you've come into contact with several of
the sort of ancient giant tish ways and the ways that they predominantly sort of
seem to imbue stone with spells and enchantments and things like that, and yeah,
that's essentially what this what this thing will do for you. It is
a giant totem pole that somewhat represents the strength of the giant that it is
showing or depicting. I guess give me a history check as well, and
I'll see how much you can pull unnatural one natural one something something. This
giant was big and strong, and the way that they imbued these totem poles
was with an aspect of each of these giants, maybe when they died or
maybe before they died, and in honor of them in some way. It's
almost like a statue. But what the totem poles will do is if you're
able to imbue the ruins with your own magic and infuse your own arcane energy.
With that within the totem pole, you'll get an element of the giant's
strength. That's what I believe true. Okay, yeah, I mean you
don't know why they did it, or who did it, or what its
exact purpose was, but you do understand the basics that essentially these totem poles
will grant you pretty much exclusively. It will only grant you strength. Yeah,
I'll do that. Okay, give me an Arkana check another act for
one I die, I'm dead pretty much for one's in a row. That
is those death saves. Actually, why do you look so confused? I
don't know. Actually, why is it that you fail this? Yeah?
I think when I was doing the history check, I reached to take out
my book and I slipped and fell on the ice and hit my head pretty
badly. And then I tried to get up so no one noticed, and
I was like, well, obviously you've got a you know, I put
my arcane energy into this totem pole, and I went to do that and
I just slipped again and hit my head on the tote pole. So I've
hit my head twice in a row, and I'd like to take two damage
please, you can take two damage if you want. You're also sort of
incorrectly interfacing with this totem pole and the magic within. There is a wave
of energy that pushes out from it. It's quite forceful. It's like a
very strong gust of wind. You see the snow lift up and away from
this totem pole, and I think it like pushes you backwards and billows your
cloak or your clothing for all of you. Each of you are sapped of
energy, and you suffer one level of exhaustion. Excellent, Thank you so
much. You can read. You can attempt to do this again. You're
aware that you have failed to interface with the totem pole correctly. As a
wizard, I will sort of look at everyone and say, sorry about it.
Let me try again. I feet, what did you know? I'll
stop it, concentrate and do it again. Twenty one. You've disadvantage on
ability checks. I use my inspiration point to cancel that out. Twenty one.
Yeah, twenty one. You see all of the different runs light up
across the totem pole. Another sort of buffet of forceful energy washes out across
you, but this time it kind of invigorates you. You get like a
brief sense of I guess just strength. You know, when you wake up
and you feel strong that day, or you lift something up and you're like,
man, I'm stronger than I realize. It's almost that kind of a
feeling that washes over you for a second. Everyone permanently gains plus one to
any strength saving throws that they make for now on WHOA, So do you
all know how to do that? On your sheets? I think you go
the very top, right next to where you've got core bio and spells.
There's a cog and in there if you see the sort of middle bloc,
you've got strength dexterity, can't blah blah blah, just put a plus one
next to strength. Yeah, I think that's how that works. Just double
check that you didn't give yourself a plus one in your overall strength. Pretty
sure it's full of saving throw I did it correctly? Cool right about it?
So you should have an additional plus one to your strength saving throws.
Yeah, you get the sense that attempting this again is going to kill you,
is going to kill you, is not going to this is not going
to stack you will simply you will simply fail over and over and over again
until you do die. Okay, all right, Well, doesn't like there's
anything else of interest? Did you? Did you tell Jill didn't what she
got for looking for tracks? There was no tracks or anything. Yes,
there is no tracks here at all. What time of thing is it right
now? Frommiere d twenty four and it's that time o'clock. It's ten o'clock
again, I it would be, yes, and in the evening, so
I'd be looking around in that case to see if we're being watched by anyone,
because I know that we're being followed by a horde, but at the
same time we're also being followed by someone else who has taken some interest in
us. Yeah, give me a perception check. Perception check. Are you
just using your eyes? Your elven eyes eyes just my yes, my drowsy
eyes. Let me roll disadvantage two dioceses one two. Uh, you don't
see any sort of vampiric creatures are clearly stalking you or anything like that.
There's really nothing for a very long time. At one point you see what
looks like a little heat mirage, almost as if there is a twinkle or
a blur in the very distance that you fixate on for a second, but
recognize that there's not actually anything there, and that is about it, all
right? Using other senses default two eyes. My eyes are very good,
so I would always use my eyes first. Has my affinity to the vampire
worn off? Now? No, not until you get to the checkered flag.
I do wonder if we shit our good friend again. He was ever
so nice. It did disappear quite a rapid day. It's quite rude.
Who didn't you clearly wanted to eat you. I think you're being silly.
Why would he want to eat me when you're here? Look at you,
your fat juice here, I uh, looked down and my massive oak body.
Yeah, I'm actually not sure. Perhaps he has I think the cured
meats. I don't think he wants leathery strips of whatever. I am.
He was lovely and you ran him away. Of course you did. I'm
not allowed to have anything. Apparently he picked in too serious. I was
probably just a misunderstanding. I'm sure he just slipped. There's nothing quite like
that, writer, cultural misunderstanding. He went went in for a kiss or
something exactly exactly right. Okay, we already confirmed earlier that she was under
some sort of Sorry, I guess I don't really think the role to see.
Yeah, she's just clearly still under the influence of whatever. Yeah we
know she's okay, Jill doing all right, and a pattern on the shell.
Let's come along, come along, come along, then come on a
big cla me. I'm trying to lead my grandfather to the to the home
and he doesn't want to go. Come on, Jill doing stop. I
think just show are all away. I think it is the zombie Hordstan.
Oh, thank you so much to Jim. We're doing We're moving on to
the next That scene is over, just so you won that. I'm going
to think about this moment, by the way, for the next weeks that
I am the worst. So yeah, small hours of the morning, starts
singing, We're just gonna out the window. No, I'm glad you remember,
I didn't remember that it was the zombie Hordes. So and I just
didn't know we were doing that yet. I just realized because they're so far
away, there's no way they'd be that far away. Yeah, I think
you guys hit this spot. And then I was like, yeah, time
to end the session. Uh so, uh yeah, let's do that,
so we were having Leah was rolling for the zombie Horde. Maya was rolling
for the possible chances of encounters Orchish's the GM and welcome to everyone. I'll
take it from here. Bread and any other roles were done by mugs,
so you can just do whatever you want. Mugs. We'll see you when
this is over. You're not needed for this part. Yeah, everyone roll
a Oh no, no, no, Horde rolled me a D two please,
okay, great? One two? The Horde moves closer, and then
it is your turn to roll me some survival checks please. Yeah, I
love rolling. I don't like rolling that load. These are a disadvantage.
Yes, that's right, until you do a long rest and I'm the lawyer.
Thank you, I need all that. I actually don't mind you guys
back GMing at all. I couldn't be more exhausted. I'm moving house.
I have a migraine forty that's enough. You've got to beat forty eight.
Everyone rolled me, speaking of migraines, a medicine check. If you can
beat forty eight again? Yes? Five from me? Oh goodness, oh
god, I am your resident cleric. Just spring one everywhere it stabs you
all right, you can move in any directions understanding, I guess. So
a reminder that the yeah, the the d C on the different areas and
hexes changes. If it's kind of just hilly, it is like kind of
over here, it is slightly more difficult. If it's very mountainous like here,
it's again yes, And then the kind of open areas here it is
easier to navigate through. So the DC goes up depending on the hex by
or so. Here you have to beat a DC of fifty six on your
survival tecks. But first we need a a D six from my four A
four, you're fine, no encounter. I have to remind myself of all
my all my rules that I wrote down. I did add one too.
Three No, I added two more. I don't know how I did this,
but somehow I added three more encounters to the potential role. So there
are more beasts out there for you to encounter. And when I say beasts,
I don't mean mechanically beasts, I mean things creatures to kill you.
There are more things to kill you with that are out there. This time
the encounters have been a D four, but now there are a D six.
But what has confused me so much is that I didn't delete any of
them, but there is but I've added three but it's still only a D
six, so I don't know why No matter what we roll. Yeah,
oh wait, no, I know what I did. I really hope that
you get this encounter. Okay, I'm sure we will. Yeah, one
of them is really bad in the sky. There's something far more dangerous out
there than there was. Not quite rugby weapon danger because that was horrible.
But okay, survival checks please DC fifty six. Wow. Wow. If
you roll a natural one right now, I'm going to make you fight it,
okay, and to natural ones. Okay, Well, you can't actually
go into these two hexes, So roun me a one two three four D
four this being one two three actually one two three four stressed? Come on?
Can't this is I guess this is no? Oh please, yeah,
you roll all the fails. I just really just get a one and we'll
be fine. Yes, it's perfect, Yes, progressing in the way that
you wanted to. Yay. Yeah, yeah, okay, never mind,
thanks, Jim Liah roll me in detail. So if you could roll a
one for one before a survival check, all right, survival checks please,
everybody, all right, survival check and you have to beat a fifty two.
Oh there's the net one from sirs for fifteen twenty nine plast seventeen no
plus nine? Have you oh? Yeah? How many times have you moved
since the last time you moved? Because you might be able to do it
the end. This will be the end of all. Okay, in the
end of this one. Okay, and that's forty six. But my math
isn't thirty six or forty six twenty this is forty six. Yeah, we
lost the way, all right, rommy another D four going one two,
three, four? Okay three or four? Be perfect? A two two
you move to this hex that's not perpose and then roll please yeah? Six?
Nice, Yeah, you're good. That's I think that's the end of
our two full turns. At the end of two full turns or four,
I believe. So that would mean that we get well, you do the
way I understood it was, we moved twice after every full day, after
every two turns, you can take a short rest, or after every full
turns you can take a long rest. Yeah. So that's sorry, that's
what I meant. It's been four turns. We've moved four times since our
last long rest. Yes, that's right. So you've got the rest everyone?
Yeah? Please? Does that take away the exhaustion? Yes it does?
Okay, awesome, everyone came. Roll me another medicine check. Okay,
something drastic and die is happening and we just don't know. Just before
hour after the long rest advantage okay, literally the morning after I see Oh
goodness, my goodness, just four years it's not good. Yeah, it's
not happening forty three Okay, it's simply just not aware. That is all
that means. All right, survival checks then, excellent. True one of
us is just like leaning out but has no clue. What is that?
Red? You try something new? What's that? Yeah? You've got fifty
two you've got to beat. Yeah, sixty three, sixty three you can
pick where you want to go. Uh yeah, see what's about? Right?
Okay? D two from children just make it a war. We've ever
needed you now as the time children Lord is still one heck's away from you.
Okay, roll me some survival checks. Come on, crack, what
are you doing? Twenty five age thirteen, fifty one fifty one and needed
a fifty two? So you found another D four please writing you might walk
right into it now, of course, sorry, what you are in charge
of this? Roll me a default for you. Sorry. By the way,
you go back and watch her face during that entire thing, So you
just go back and forth, back and forth here, that's all that's happening.
You're doing it again what you did before, where you just end up
walking up and down the same area, caught behind this river or something like
that. As we see you. I'm pretty sure we can cross on this
side. Yeah, that's what's happening. I think this is a horrible river
that's like not quite frozen enough, and you're terrified to step on that.
You are unable to get across right where Wait, I'm sick of going around
like this. All right, she is white. If I can color blind
you discover your camp from yesterday. Oh I want to be here. Wait
a minute, romme a D six, maya one D six that's another six?
Nice? Okay, didn't work. Also the encounters, by the way,
that you're more likely to encounter something bad in the hilly and mountainous areas.
Cool, right, okay. Survival checks Drug Survival fifty two again fifty
sixty three. This time we don't get caught or into the mountains rome a
D two for the hordes, it's one two looks like they found screen cracks.
And then as you no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no no no, that's exactly correct. That's exactly what
happens now. The Horde is threems, isn't it. I don't know entirely
to myself as the GM, I think it's actually one and the rest already
running. They're scared of our strength and prowess. Yeah, and they want
to bestow us with and has a wish I don't know why. And they
also say we're very handsome. Wow, are we free to place our markets?
Put them wherever you want them to be. Right behind this guy,
the hoard goes on a seventeen. Your initiatives, All right, let's go,
let's go. Oh my god, what's going wrong? I have a
plus four for initiative and I've never ruled above a ten. This is my
I don't know how many. You're one. You've then got a seven,
cyrus scotton eleven, and so you've got a five. Well, here they
come zombie swarm rushes in first. Oh, you know what we need to
check if you're all surprised. Oh no, we don't. We don't do
surprise. This isn't that kind of encounter. Never mind, all right,
how far away are you all? They can kind of go wherever. All
right, let's have them rush in one two three. That looks fun as
they swarm along may Romia D two A D two. All right, you're
one, then it shall be me right. One attack on Jill then with
an eight, one attack on Cyrus with a twenty five, and one attack
on sea with a twenty two. I'm guessing the twenty five and the twenty
two hit unless you do anything some kinds of things you have available. No,
right, I do not have anything available. I take that, okay,
seventeen bluddling damage too, Cirrus ten bludgeoning damage to sea. And I
think all that happens here is that just an enormous swarm comes up, like
the Horde comes up over that ridge line that you've been walking up and down
endlessly, and they just rush down at you, and it's just there's just
no escape. They just overwhelm you. As you're suddenly surrounded by them,
you know, defending yourselves and pushing them back. But in that chaos.
You are bludgeoned to bits by some of them. Okay, Cirrus, it's
your turn. Oh oh oh, okay, you're never going to guess what
I'm going to thought you were getting or something. Uh yeah, I'm gonna
channel divinity turn on dead. All of the hordes have to do wisdom saving
throws. Okay, left right, one, two, three, thirteen eleven
and one three fails again, three fails. I believe, so what you
need we went instantly. Yeah, the panic abates somewhat as you are able
to cast this ability again and you see that it creates an opening for you
all, and once again you're able to rush away from this horde and scramble
up this mountain I think, and I'll put them over here for now as
you flee the horde about your thoughts and feelings of Channel's divinity turn on dead.
When we gets the round table, I'm so not bothered by it because
I know what's coming up. Don't worry about it. I've got I've got
my g It's definitely going to be not undead. Yes, it's coming up.
There's a lot. There's going to be a lot of undead, but
there's only so much turn on Dead can do. Oh god, this is
just like when you're running along in Final Fantasy and you have to fight like
crap and you just I don't even care anymore, so you just flee.
You can't even be bothered. You know that. That's what's happening. Cool.
Well we run away and I say live and lovely. Yeah. Also
that works only up to a certain cr right, what was the cr for
that? Uh? Well what the destroyer? Undead? Turn on turn on
dead doesn't work up to doesn't Yeah, it works forever destroy Yeah, it's
the destroyer, the one. Yeah. Okay, you are one two one
half. It's your half. Yeah, I'm not worried about it at all,
No, i am. I'm actually glad you have it, to be
honest. It makes me feel less guilty about everything. Yeah. Okay,
survival checks. You've got to be the fifty six scary thirty thirty one.
Great. Wow, it was so amazing. I love this for us.
Forget it, yep. Move wherever you want your talk and wherever you'd like
it to be. All right, rolly perception checks sception, perception, perception,
and you've got to roll. You got to beat a fifty Yeah,
we read that. Well, yeah, we beat it good. Maybe sears
elvan Ere's witness some sort of purple crackling energy towards the east of your current
location. I see something purple and crackling, and it's not me, no
idea, this was out here, I was just trying to navigate us through,
right, Okay, what is it? See? Sure? No,
possibly our canes like a storm or something. Maybe I can touch it again.
That one is quite nice and tingly. Last time? Should we investigate?
Be my guest? I think we should? Okay, rom me a
D six please y D six A four. Uh, you're clear, you
can roll me. Some survival checks come more on. Everyone carry me at
twenty six from children, but carried absolutely. Yeah, you had to be
forty eight for this one. Forty eight We passed that. Children rob me
a D two. The horde follows. It's not real. Just I smell
so good to them. It is children's faults. She's leaving like candy wrappers,
easily fine. Act he's helping the vampires with them. Yeah, it's
actually trying the vampires just needing notes that tell me. Do you want to
go on a date with me? Yes? Yes, okay, it's a
vival, it's a valuable chank twenty two, twenty four, thirteen and fifteen.
That's that's a wind, No matter what I think is going to be,
that's a wind. I'm sorry, who's the GM? You're right?
Okay, what would you like to Would you like it to be a past?
Yeah? That's how GM. By the way, would you like the
cost? You though? He just got something? Your firstborn child? You
can't well, you guys are playing did you win? Cool? See?
Yeah, that's weird. It's really the only way to describe it. Okay,
this is a random encounter title. Please give me Oh no, you
can move first. You haven't moved, right, we haven't moved in any
direction you want. And then roll me a D six. Finally, an
odd number. An odd number. It's not an odd number that you need
to get an encounter. It's a low number. But you are not rolling,
damn you, you son of a you. You guys can roll me
survival checks as you navigate through this area. You're kind of off the beaten
path here. I think I think you guys are aware with every success.
Part of the survival checks here is just knowing where you are and being aware
of where you are, so you know that you're on the kind of north
side of the the Kingdom and that you're trying to get to the southeastern side,
so you're aware of it. And I think there's probably points where you
guys are like we see you guys looking over the map that you were given
and tracing a finger along and then you have to tap it right like in
movies. No one in real life has ever done that, but they always
in movies trace their finger along on the tap it and then such an annoying
triph and it pulls me out of everything. There. You don't do that
with your maps. If you do do it, you're not a real person.
Question. Yeah, no one us. I do it with my phone
actually, yeah, to select the destination. Yeah, just how phones they're
all touch screen now mugs. Okay, two, what we're going to?
We won Can we move? You didn't move? Then? Yes? Yes,
in fact moved to the to the location that you're heading towards. We'll
go in here instead. There are several enormous cboid stones stacked around this area
in a sort of vague star shape. It is probably not immediately away to
you that they're in a star shape because it's it would be a bird's eye
view star shape, not that they're stacked in a star shape like a Sorry,
mugs, I need you to say, whoa, whoa. I might
be able to what I should have done, really what I should have done
this earlier on, but this might it might be really loud. Whoa if
you could share that with that with the class black, could you put that
in our group because he's one that to me. Yeah, So this isn't
the thing from gone. This is that there are just kind of like strangely
oddly stacked stones in the area with a lot of this giantish stuff. It's
it's very stonehenge, you know, like it's not at all impressive exactly in
terms of like architecture or stonemasonry. It's just sort of like big and like
a monolith looking thing. And that's what's going on here. There are just
enormous cubes that are stacked around this area covered in snow. But at the
center of where all of these stones in this kind of star shape converge,
there is this field of crackling purple arcane energy. It's clearly coming from the
stones. But they also don't they don't covered in runes or anything like that.
It's just it's a bit like a kind of mesh of purple electricity sort
of crackling and moving. The area is very much a sort of set of
dunes of stone of snow, So it's kind of a bizarre landscape. What
do you do? Are there any there are runs here? Or no?
It's just the stones? Yeah, it doesn't there are no rooms here,
And I think that that would potentially be bizarre too, certainly Thrack. But
I'll allow any of you to know by now that almost all of the giant
Tish magic comes with runs, these big, large arcane runs that usually glow
and clearly are imbued by some sort of energy. But there's nothing, can
I big? I go over to the stones and I start digging at the
base of them to like move snow away, to see if maybe there are
runs. But it's underneath the snow, like maybe it's like drifted. Yeah.
Are you getting close to the energy, the crackling stuff? Oh?
Yeah, I probably have to do this, so yes, yeah, I
think the other three give me perception checks seventeen from me three it's Sime watching,
Yes, all past you watch as Cyrus gets close to the area where
these stones are, and the closer that she gets to that field of sort
of energy, she starts to move about as far as you can tell,
but as if she's almost teleporting from spot to spot in very sort of minute
ways. But to our eyes in the modern area, it looked like she
was glitching almost sort of jittering and moving about. But you, Sirius,
you feel no difference in your approach. You're just moving up to it.
But to those three, it looks like she's kind of like doing these little
short flips and teleports. Almost curious, is she walking into an active spell
or something? Right? You can give me an arkana check if you want.
I'll put her hand out and I'll try to use my Jedi power to
check and see what's happening. Okay with a fourteen fourteen doesn't make complete sense
to you how this is working, but you do get the sense that this
is some sort of conjuration magic. Maybe you've worked with teleportation spells, maybe
you've learned about them. Maybe you're Hard have actually messed about with some of
them. Hard definitely does a lot of telepa stuff, so he probably minimum
has explained it to you or spoken to you about it. And when he's
messing with teleportation magic, sometimes this is what happens to him. Unstable teleportation
magic will make you kind of flip in and out of the area that you're
in. It's not necessarily dangerous. If she moves into the very center of
this area, it's going to teleport you further away, but the what's happening
to her isn't dangerous. Obviously, stepping into the middle of this thing could
teleport you anyway. You could end up in the middle of the ocean.
You can end up in the middle of a mountain. You could end up
back where you came from. You could end up on the other side of
this circle. There's no telling where it would go. But that's what you're
looking at here, Okay. I would shout the SyRI CEUs, pay back,
come back, Cyrus underneath the snow as you are moving towards end.
Just as they begin shouting at you, you move some of the snow out
of the way, and you can see the underneath this thing. There are
runs underneath the snow. The snow is sitting on top of more of these
stones. It isn't grass and ground underneath frozen earth it is. It is
mason stone like this, These huge cubes and those underneath have enormous conjuration runs
on them. There are ruins. I balance some. I throw a stone
past in front of or past cyrus. It's gone come back, Okay.
I would start to move back if I can. Yeah, you're not You're
not being like this isn't a black hole? You're able to Yeah? Was
I able to discern any of the rooms at all? I guess, roll
me, uh, I guess it would have to be an arcana check.
I proceed towards the portal. What you what you're doing? I just walk.
This is a teleportation poor. It could take you anywhere exactly into the
heart, not where you want to go. It would be completely random with
the I wonder if it goes because I'm a wizard. But you don't do
everything going around a show court the whole time. We barely know anything.
If I am telling you, if you go into that poor, it could
take seem to the middle of the ocean. Is largely as it will tank
us to where we want to go. Well, then who are better to
go? And shy? It didn't she I'm standing as close to the edge
of the I pause for a second. I have two of my staffs,
and I stick not the magical one, but the other one into the portal
so that the end goes into the portal and switch it around if I can,
and then try to back out. Look at it. Yeah, I
guess make me a strength saving throw. Okay, oh he's got that plus
one. Come on and Andy to answer your question as well. Cyrus,
you you do see so, I mean, it's not that you understand what
the ruins mean, but they look like the symbols for either migration or wondering.
That is, it's quite hard, I think. I mean, a
nine is essentially a fail, so you're not fully sure. But that's the
kind of wording that it seems like is written on these ruins. But runs
aren't always just like words, right, Some of them are just symbolic.
Which staff was this? This was the non angel staff, the when I
had at the beginning of the campaign. Do you want to hold onto it
when it vanishes or do you want to let it go? Because as soon
as you put it, as soon as it goes over a certain sort of
threshold here it is yanked like there is no stopping this thing. It goes,
it gets pulled in and completely alipauds. You're able to hold onto it
and go with it, or you can let it go quickly. It depends
if I'm startled or not. Well would you be? You can make a
deck save if you'd rather the plus seven by Do you have a second character?
He's gone? What he's gone? I think he almost It's if under
any other circumstances, it would be funny. He puts this thing over the
lip of this thing, and then it gets pulled in and he just goes
with it, and it is like a half a second, he's just gone.
It's you do see him move forward and kind of lean in, and
you can tell that he kind of gets pulled, but he's just vanishes a
blink of an eye like he's got it works. Ilieve it, Frank,
you can make me an Arkana check. Actually, no, it make me
an intelligence saving throw instead. Okay, this is a this is a if
you will jump in right now, you'll go with him? Oh I relate
that to them. If we all go now, we will go with him.
Why would we want to do that right now? Right? We have
we have to go, no choice, We have to forever I go up,
chilled in with my massive strength, and I hold her over my head
by the shell, little legs kicking in the air. It's back and I
run into the I do that you can unless ye, then you truly object,
And no it's a half hearted objection. If he's going with him,
one for him to pick me up, all right, let's have see her
roll me a ah a D one hundred. I'm going to New York,
baby. You rolled a one hundred. That's the only way to get the
New York With one hundred. You can pick where you want to go on
this on this map here, game map, or anywhere not in the whole
world on this map. Finish line, please, oh the finish line.
Okay, but that is not all. Oh, As you're pulled into this
thing, sere uh, it's a bit like being thrown into the fucking the
by frost from you know, like the MCU, and you kind of you
get this sensation of being like propelled along a kind of tunnel. If you
would like, you can reach out and grab any one object from your past,
wherever it is in the entire world, and you can bring it to
yourself. I grabbed the seekest compass. Have you seen it? You're allowed
to have I think, well, I saw the illusion of it back in
the in Hards Tower. I think it would never have been open in display.
It would have been in a box if it actually truly existed, And
if it was there, then I'm reaching into that box. As you're moving
through this kind of by frost and this kind of strange and it is a
brief moment you're aware of that there is a something, there's something in here
that allows you to understand that you can at this point, in this moment
of superposition, reach out grab something, and you do. So you reach
out, you grab or something back. It's a wooden box with a constellation
on it that you recognize, and then you are spat out at the other
end romy a dexterity saving thrower. Please, and then after he's done that,
the rest of you can do it too. Exterity saving room. That's
going to be a twenty Land however you want. I think, as I'm
through this portal, I think that I just kind of appear on the other
side of the portal with that same velocity, kind of skidding on my feet,
just sh Can I have agency over what happens to me and Jildin.
She got a three and I got an eighteen. Absolutely you're the DM.
Okay, so I'm still carrying her over my head by the shell, little
legs kicking, and when we come through, like the inertia of stopping all
of a sudden forces me to like, if you're if you're English football overhead
throw, if you're if you're American soccer overhead throw, the total twenty yards
in front of me, and she's dead now, okay, he's dead.
No, she's not that she would probably slide on her tortal shell. I
would assume, yeah, most moment. Yeah, if there is a goomba,
they're dead flattened. Yeah, I mean you absolutely land on a koomber.
Okay, yeah. I think that the three of you come tumbling through.
You're spat out at this thing. It's kind of an awkward tumble as
you're all kind of rolling over one another. Serious you probably you sort of
land and stumble, but stay up right. I think those two go crazy
and standing as if he's been waiting all day for you, even though secretly
it was one second is sea with a presumably turning over a wooden case in
his hands. Mmm, I think you will like me likely see me just
putting it away, and now you don't know what it is. You can
ask, but I don't hold it open for long. I chance, not
a chance? You're sliding across. Was that one of the gifts from the
portal on the teleport? Come again? H that that you put in your
pocket? Was it a gift from the you know how? We now?
We never mind? Where did I say, strak? What did I tell
you? I chold you could take us anywhere, could take us where we
need to go and look it down, look where we are? I told
you you didn't know everything. Not extremely lucky. See you could have teleported
us into the maw of an undoug dragon. You have your agency, don't
you. I didn't pull you in with me today you foresaw and you didn't
pull you in? Did he shrack? Oh? What happened? We came
after you because we need to do this together, and you seem to think
that your decisions don't affect us when they do. What do you mean we
are all cra What does that mean? Exactly? Apart from we have these
ghost tattoos, we've been asked with shaving the world. Do you not care.
What does that even mean? All your gods are dead. The world
still exists, Life still has a chance to exist, but it won't with
you making these decisions on your own. You mean, like the decision to
walk towards the portal and grab stuff, the decision to walk towards a giant
arcane tower without asking permission and exhausting us for an entire day. You mean
asking permission to lead the way this entire excursion. I did one thing,
thrack, and you didn't stop me. You watch me do it, I
explained. I was in the middle of explaining how dangerous it was, and
you walked past us and just did it. Anyways, clearly anyway, it
seems like we are at the end of this little sojourn. So lead the
way if that is what you want to do. Well, you said you
won't. Every will make me a medicine check again, this means nothing,
right, So what are we looking? Forty in Natural twenty sixty eight fifty.
I think I said you need to be crushed it crushed it Uh.
Something fills off here. I think as these two are sort of bickering and
going back back and forth, all of you start to recognize that you feel
a little odd. It's hard to describe the sensation. It's almost as if
as if there's something at the edge of your vision, or as if there
is a a heaviness to the air here. There's something wrong is easy.
You feel potentially slightly unwell, maybe a little nauseous, almost as if you
have to go without looking down, you know, or being up higher.
I guess, come to think of it, it's not just the hot air
blowing at me. I do feel kind of off. Yes, m h
yesh, it's wrong. Show this time and this frustraed does you no good?
I tell you there's no good at all. Strug good for the souls,
that good for the body. Everyone rolled me some history checks or you
have made it to condor Reach, also known as the dream Lands. We've
got seventeen from children, twenty six from Frank, two from sea, and
a twenty from cirus. All right, these are individual checks, not a
group checks. So CIA knows nothing about Condor Reach. For some reason,
not many people do. Because this place is just a nothing in the world.
There's just it's just a stretch of nothing. No one lives here,
no one goes here. Some people call it the dreamlands. Condor ridge is
basically just an uninhabited stretch of land that has very little more than your average
flaora and fauna. Where you are right now is on the very edge of
sort of where condor ridge sort of means salve a. But for the first
time you see a place that is not entirely covered in snow, or at
least for the first time since getting to Moon. There's still a large amount
of snow here. The tundra sort of shows patches of frozen brown dirt.
There are trees that were once evergreen and are now withered and dead, blackened
by whatever light has spread across the land. And as you start to maybe
move across this landscape, the clouds above you shift and blur in an odd
way, as if caught in a sort of desert mirage. The angel here
is an enormous flying condor. That's all it is. Most parts of the
world refer to it as the Great Condor or something similar to that. Supposedly,
it does very little other than bring good dreams at night to those who
see it during the day. Would you like to do now your task,
because it has been some time, as were set by thaws was to travel
across. Now, you guys have a map right somewhere in here in one
of your hand outs that to travel across the the giant lands and across some
get somewhere into Condor Reach and find a way through the mountains. Here and
on the other side of the mountains, sort of slightly more southeast of where
you are, is a place called the House of Knowledge, which is a
forest. And that was his Well, this is his suggested route. His
essentially the same approach of keep the mountains on the right hand side of you
and eventually you'll find way through. So what does the group do here?
Well, after I finished yelling at here, I suppose I'd be like adjusting
my pack and stuff. Well, oh gosh, we keep going. Is
this isn't like a town, I'm sorry, like a bitst dwelling. No,
not at all. This is just like a big tundra. I'll give
you an image, but I don't think I have prepared. I can give
you the map that I can bring you back over to this map if you
want, because this was the this was the route he suggested. You are
sort of here, like right there, basically, so somewhere along here somewhere
nearby there you will have access to get through into the mountains. To give
you an idea of what the place looks like. The stream has already had
one. I'll send you a little picture in our group, And somewhere here
there's a dead big bird. Maybe maybe it's not dead, maybe it's alive.
Maybe we've been lied to. I wonder you think we've been lied to?
We believe all of this about everything being dead. Well, I mean,
our little vampire friend did seem to be rather quite morose about a situation,
and he was from quite some ways away, and he described in quite
gruesome detail the death of his own god. So, if anything, then
I imagine at the very least some gods are dead. Yes, you know
how people are. They like to assume that they know everything about everything,
just based on their own experiences. Oh m, you will mention something about
good dreams. I imagine once nightfall comes we'll be able to tell. But
whether or not this big bird is still alive based on how you slept,
hm, Well you'll have to see him for that, and seeing image quite
rare from what I know, at least I see. I don't know.
I don't know we've traveled quite far and still haven't really much in the way
of life. But we've only seen that. That's some angel if its influence
is only based on sight. Speaking of how are you feeling this serious?
You still game quite far away from your rock now? I'm fine, of
course, Oriel can reach me from anywhere. Just layering us here grumpy are
as he's as he's asking these questions. I think I noticed his glare and
I just look in his direction, eyes closed like a fox, just and
then that's I think I'm being pretty stealthy about mich Glaire. I don't think
you noticed at all. I'm rather quite perceptive to have eight eyes. I
thought you had three, okay, no two between my nose on either side
of my nose. Then I have four, well, no six on my
forehead. Oh god, okay in between his nose and two in between his
nice Uh Do I feel any better or you know now that I'm further away
from the vampire that drank my wood? Yeah, after your next long rest,
it will okay, all of the effects will be gone, including Jilbin's.
Oh well, shall we continue? It wouldn't do to stop now,
After all, we've come so far. Yes, I'm sure I ever seen
something and live here. Look, the snow is a lot less intense than
it has been. That's a blessing at least to found so much shelter that
we won't have us freezing or night. You have a shelter with you,
Yes, but it's not quite to stay as being by a nice cozy campfire
and not having a blizzard outside? Is it right? Forget about it?
I suppose what a boy up, boy? That's an interesting one. I
simply mean that track is correct. We do have an item that makes the
outdoors indoors know the dome. Yes, and it's very frustrating putting this dome
around us all the time, not being able to see a thing out of
it. Fair, What is something that you wish? Are you saying that
you wish of the magical dome that gives a shelter had windows to them?
Are you complaining about it? Yes? Perhaps I like to stargate at night.
I'm quite used to being able to look up and shield above and day
dream and night dream and whatever else you dream. I feel quite insecure from
getting out of my morning tens and not knowing what lays beneath me. Or
before me. Well, I suppose you can always sleep outside, And it's
precisely my point. We could now that's not snowing blowing a gale. We
can we can make a camp outside if you prefer. Let's get to lay
up the land verst shall we? I think we should put some miles in
between us and the hold and the vampire if we can. Before we it's
what was still following us. Can we like spot them across the horizon?
Uh? Yeah, give me a perception check, yeah, fourteen everyone can
do this if you want perception twenty two from me, twenty two for myself
as well, twenty five, twenty five do Yeah, No way anything is
behind you. You guys, telepoid, you have a good head start on
this thing. I still work there. That's presuming that there aren't worse things
ahead of us. I mean there's presumably stuff around you. Yeah, but
the horde that was chasing you, it's the weeks behind us, and bore
it and I keep marching onwards. Yeah what rang I follow? Uh?
Yeah, you start marching out across the tundra now and again there's sort of
swaths of land that are actually earth. It's frozen earth. But it's still
not snow for once dragging your heels through inches of snow? When you when
are you resting? What's the time of days for resting? Rommye. D
Twenty four, let's find out twenty two. Let's go twelve mid day.
You've got a good rank of daylight left. I'd say we should go into
the kids close to nightfall. And what are you looking for as you travel?
I would like to be looking for tracks of living things or tracks of
dead things that have been moving across this tundra. Okay, that's what you'd
like today, Signs of life and largely signs of familiarity that I used to
as symbols on trees, things that I am aware of that signify the person
I've been looking for. Okay, there is no more snow after you?
No, no thanks. Okay. If there is no more snow, there
is still some snow. Okay. I suppose I would still be looking for
actual paths, since the House of Knowledge is a known location and this is
a known path, so perhaps there might be some old roads or something.
Okay, I'll be looking for danger then, Okay, you give me a
perception check. See you can roll me. You can roll me perception,
survival or investigation. Children can roll me investigation or perception, and Cyrus can
roll me perception. M. Twenty four. I think of all of you
serious and jildren are sort of predominantly looking for signs of life here, whatever
that might be. I think actually what you find is nothing but death.
Even the plants are dead. The grass underfoot, while frozen and has presumably
been sort of packed into frozen earth, was probably somewhat alive. The weeds
and things that can still grow all blighted, the trees blighted, and you
really only find dead creatures. Every now and then you'll find like a mouse
or something, or a snow hair that's partially decayed. Presumably the cold really
slows that down here, so it wouldn't be as decayed, but it has
probably been dead for a very long time. You find no signs of life
none. There isn't birds in the sky, there isn't even bugs as just
really nothing here. The entire land seems to be significantly blighted. See you
on the ten. I'm going to come back to you, Thrank. What
were you looking for? Danger? Oh? Danger? Uh? Yeah?
That surprisingly little? You know, there's been a few things that have jumped
out you. There have been like undead giants, and there is you know,
there are bugs and stuff that have been swarming up from deep underground.
And yeah, this area is actually sort of so incredibly devoid of life and
also apparently devoid of undeath. The further you walk along over the next few
hours, the more of that kind of nausea and sickness kicks in. Maybe
you start to feel a little headachey and just sort of generally mildly unwell.
You know, it's not the type of thing that's completely debilitating, but it's
you'd become aware of it. You've all got mourning sickness, you know what
I mean. Like you're just like, oh, just feel absolutely rough,
but be pregnant, yes you are expecting, yeah little spider babies. Uh
the but you kind of maybe get the sense that stuff doesn't want to be
here, and so it probably left. Anything that was here has probably left
the area, including the undead creatures. The area is awful to be in,
and the fact that there isn't any undead here and they've been kind of
dotted all over like absolutely everywhere, suggests that something is repelling everything away.
But the sort of byproduct of that is that it is actually quite safe here,
at least when it comes to sort of predators and things like that.
Maybe not from whatever is doing this thing. You know, this horrible effect.
But yeah, no, no creatures. Okay, see it rolly an
investigation check off the back of that one investigation check. Going right up eleven,
you find a pillar, and I don't think that you're you might even
walk past it At first. I think maybe everyone sort of trundles past what
looks like another blighted tree, and then you just sort of have a feeling
maybe, and you look back at it. It still kind of looks like
a tree. You get a little closer and you recognize that this is a
This is a pillar or something like a wooden piece of signage, And behind
it, covered in some snow and debris, is a wooden sign. I
point towards the sign wordlessly. I pay no attention whatsoever to you. I
stay pointing until somebody sees me. I come over to look at the sign.
Does anybody speak dwarven Ooh nope, no, ye, all right,
would anybody maybe recognize the dwarfish text? Sorry? I only speak common Druidic
and snakesh ish. Is it what is it? Is it close to any
anything? Uh, it's kind of its own script. I think it's pretty
looking at Hebrew or something, you know? Yeah, okay, well then
yeah, there is a sign which has clearly got some writing on it in
a language that nobody understands. Hold the oh dang okay, I oh dang.
It's only what what someone hears. Because I have a spell called tongues,
so I could, But I also don't have a small clay model of
a cigaret. So no, you need comprehend sandwiches as a spell called comprehend
languages that you can past. Looking at the writing, is it just all
rooms? I mean it's a tough one to ask. I mean, do
we recognize anything as being perhaps like an arrow or numbers or something. Let
me look, let me look at what dwarfish script looks like. Mm hmmm,
yeah, it's pretty. It definitely looks like letters. This is kind
of These are what the dwarf and rooms look like. For those of you
that are at home, you'll have to do your own Google. But this
is this is what the text looks like. So it does look like lettering.
It's not too dissimilar from but doesn't mean anything. It does look like
there is maybe two words written and then you know, a space, and
then two more words much shorter words, two or three symbols. So it's
possible that it has a location and then a number. But I don't think
you know, I understood, dude. No, for sure. At the
very least, we know that perhaps there might be civilization somewhere with a sign
like this of would hm, I can I maybe try to detect magic on
it? Yeah, you can it or cast magic. It is a spell
you send them President of magic within thirty feet of you. If you sense
magic in this way, you can use your action to see a faint or
around any visible creature or object in the area there bears magic, and you
learn the school of magic. This is horrific for you because everything is a
wash with magic here. You suddenly realize that this is this you're not even
able to Your spell doesn't work. Almost. This is almost as if imagine,
you know, anything that is being affected by magic in the area maybe
lights up in a certain way and just kind of like is coated in a
color. Everything is coated in a color, and it's not, and it
is impeding your spell. Normally you can go, oh, that's an abjuration,
and that's a divination spell, and that's an enchantment. And this item
is this, this item is this, This thing is this, this thing
is this. What I will give you is that you're seeing sort of waves
of this arcane pressure emanating over here and just washing everything, kind of just
coming from a point somewhere slightly north of you. There is a horrific source
of magic that is completely a wash in this area. Okay, I sort
of lean on my staff and I say they some truly intented source of magic
coming from the north of us. Perhaps that might be the nest of this
giant bird or something. Then it's be weird, is alive? Maybe we're
not alone out here. Oh it's corpse, could be bleeding out anergy.
Who knows. I can't tell. Really, it's a lot. Well should
we should we follow it? Follow the trail? Yesh i it field?
Does it feel bad? Does it feel good? Does it feel powerful?
Very powerful? Oh? Excellent? It could be more dangerous than good.
It could be too much anything else. The faller Well, I mean the
map right, is it in a different direction than the direction that the map
is guiding us to. Uh. Yeah, the map is sort of guiding
you a little further east of where you are along the mountains. This source
of magic is somewhere to the north. Yeah. Oh, I do correct
me if I'm wrong. But I remember saying that it's does he know exactly?
Did he know exactly where the House of Knowledge is? Do you give
us a perfectly accurate map? No? Absolutely not. He he gave you
secondhand information. He hasn't done this travel. He is using information that he
has gathered over the years, presumably from scouts that know of a tunnel system
that leads through to the House of Knowledge from that location. Okay, it
is not an accurate thing. He literally just sketched like somewhere along here.
Yeah, it's very right. So yeah, so I would say, I'm
not sure he knows exactly where the House of Knowledge is. It could very
well be to the north of us. I see. I think it's worth
at least, didn't it. Look if we can and you follow the waves?
Okay, all right, Well, since no one else says anything to
say, then I'll start walking that one? Did it? I said?
Can you follow the waves? Oh? Can you I thought you said new
shoe. Sorry, yeah, I think so, well, what do we
all think? Absolutely, we should go follow it. There's no harm,
I suppose, Oh there could be plenty of harm. Isn't that where the
fun is? I ignore her back. They're going to end up together,
all right? Then I said, well, okay, and I'll try to
lead us in that direction as best I can. Okay, yeah, I
think you can. You can do this. The travel takes maybe about an
hour. The closer you get to this thing, the worse you start to
feel. Each of you starts to feel extremely unwell. I think the closer
you move over this hour to the source of this magic, the more it
intensifies the effects that you're already feeling, headachey, nauseas, the sort of
sense of vertigo. I think there are points where you can you're sort of
struggling to really focus on what's happening around you. You know, you're sort
of losing almost losing consciousness or losing time. As you sort of move and
trudge forward, it becomes so intense that I need you all to make me
a constitution saving throw seven fifteen. I've got a nine, I got a
sixteen seven A sixteen, A fifteen and a nine. Okay, Jilden and
thrack roll me a D six. Oh sick. You can taste blood in
your mouths and your insides feel real bad. You take that much necrotic damage.
Ah, I thought height was good. What's happening? I stood?
I don't know. Something's wrong, and I think this is the source?
Is it? Can I tell if it's the same thing that's been blaguing us
absolutely a while that As you progress, and just around this point you crest
over a hill and you discover the giant corpse of a condor. Its head
is the size of a large manner. Oh, that's cool, it is
It's wings spread out across the land, and you realize that you've actually been
able to see them for a long time. They just appeared to be a
sort of snowy mountain range or a hilly area. At first, the flesh
from the creature is completely decayed away. There is only a sort of snow
covered skeletal remnant the hollow eye sockets. As you look over this thing,
and when you view them sort of with the naked eye here, they actually
begin to sort of vibrate almost they blur your vision. If you focus on
it for too long, I think you sort of again. Your senses here
are bizarre. Being this close to the remain of the condor requires sort of
a tremendous physical or mental focus because your thoughts just start running wild. There
are visions appearing and vanishing, strange sort of mirages and shadows, moments of
time skipping as you find yourself a few steps away from where you stood a
moment ago. It is a bizarre sensation. I don't know if you've ever
been so extremely tired that you will see shadows and it will look like a
person almost. It's that kind of weird feeling you don't quite feel yourself,
and you can feel the sense of this thing warping your sort of perspective and
making it again, making you feel incredibly unwell. Well, sweet dreams,
that's going on. But Sai's a bird, Oh dissume, so are the
are It's just it's said it's killing everything, it's killing everything, or something
killed it, Well, something killed it obviously, but it's now it's killing
everything. It's it's the is there anything we can do? This whole land?
For how long? It seems like an awfully tall order for four folk.
But I wonder DM, looking at the scene in front of me,
this fallen angel, is there anything Am I able to approach it to get
closer? Not close enough that thrack will bark at me, but close enough
to see more of the scene. You can certainly try. I tend to
take a step forward. Okay, make me a wisdom saving throw. One
wisdom saving throw coming right up at thirteen. You are able to move forward.
It's not like it's creating a sort of a pressure that doesn't allow you
to move forward. And you begin to sort of slowly move forward, and
I think again, there's like skipping moments of time where you sort of lose
a few moments. It would almost feel like you're losing consciousness, and then
you snap back and you realize you've actually walked a little closer than you may
be intended to do. Ronny three D six three D six fourteen. I
think you really that your nose is bleeding heavily. You take fourteen psychic damage.
Okay, he is much closer than the rest of you are. Maybe
you guys were shouting at him, but he stumbled forward for a bit before
he sort of comes to his senses somewhat. I think I realized this,
and I will try and start backpedaling. Now you can do so free?
Are there only feathers around of this creature? No? No feathers bones?
In that case, I walk back to my party, I'm just further back,
swaying. How far away are we exactly from this thing? Let's see?
Did write it down? Apply? I didn't have written in a different
thing. I think you're about sixty feet. I think that was what I
wrote down. Yeah, okay, ooh well, there's our proof. At
least. I think I'd rather like to get a piece of that Barone with
our chemical properties are probably outstanding, will most likely kill you up on touch,
they wipe my notes. You're both correct, well, if you were
able to collect a piece of this it could potentially be crafted into the most
unbelievaably powerful artifact. But also getting within a few meters of this thing is
going to be hard to do. I will look at the party and I
will say, we have an intensely hard road ahead of us, and I
don't think we can ignore an opportunity like this. I believe I'm capable of
getting a piece of that bone, collecting it safely with skills I possess and
perhaps crafting it into something very useful. And I would like to proceed.
What do you all think? And I look at sea, looking at the
rack. You see, I've got this shit eating grin on me right now,
eyes closed, or eight of them. It's half sneer, half lear,
but it's all sere, and I say, do as you will,
truth be told. I was considering trying myself, but I know I can't.
I am sort of still swaying, But then after a moment of staring
blankly, I come too quickly and my gaye snaps to a thrack and then
towards this creature, dead, gigantic skull that we can see. No,
no, your message. We can't do this without you, and there's no
way you can do this without surely perishing. I started a panicked. In
fact, it's probably the most panics you've seen. Children't look no, no,
no, no, no, no, no you can't you can't go.
No it's too much of a risk. Nope, No, I'll I'll
take her by like the shell shoulders alders, and I'll say the shelders,
yes, thank you, And I'll sort of like lightly shake her and say
children. We can do this together. I'll need your help now. I
need you to focus, okay, and I need you to cast absorb elements.
Am I right? And it was all elements? Says it in?
Does that? Does that defend against any kind of damage type? No?
I think it's literally just the element of one so cold fire, acid and
lightning. I think, oh, acid, cold firelight and thunder. Okay,
never mind, I don't say that, And instead I say I will
need everyone's help for this, and I'll put one hand over to Serious and
our side. Serious. Is there why that you could bolster me against this
psychic damage? I think that I could do something that. I don't think
I have every anything that can completely keep you safe, but I can do
it best. Don't know it. It's not worth it. If you die,
then we'll just been left to hear the three version and all of these
dead gods everywhere. You can't do it, No, you can't just slaver
us like this. Curious though, you know that shell down that we have,
could that protect us for the time being? I don't know if it
protects from elements or anything like that? Is how protective? Is it?
Exactly? Next ten minutes and then it arranges itself into a magical protective dome
and accommodate six creatures. No spells or other magical effects can penetrate or be
cast through this magical barrier. Oh yes, I would imagine. What do
you think, dar, I think you'd have to try it, Okay,
I think that we would probably think that. Sorry, I would say,
I think that might work. That's the only thing I can offer you is
that idea. I don't know if I can help otherwise. I think it's
worth a try. I think this could help us. Are you sure?
Yes? I think that if we put the dome down, serious you have?
I've noticed some sort of spell you've cast on myself and Jildin that helps
boltster us against attacks in some way. I don't have to get too close
because I can use my magics to potentially get this piece without touching it.
Oh yes, you have to be able to see each other. I think
a few arms lengths, but we could do that. Okay. So what
I'm proposing is we set up the shelter here to give us a recipite from
this sort of attack that's coming from the corpse of this angel. Then we
gather our strength at least one of you comes outside, so serious can cost
the spell that benefits us and protects me. I get a bit closer and
use my magics to attempt to get a piece of this creature. We secure
it in, I don't know, a piece of cloth or something. Put
it in the bag of holding, and I might be able to study it
later and use it to make a weapon or potion or something very powerful that
could help us get through this insurmountable task we have before us. Now very
blasphemous, I get some blood out. And what about all the time to
be carrying this thing with you making us sick? It's just going to be
sick until you can figure out if it's useful. Tours, we could story
outside every night while we rest inside the shelter. And what are you going
to do when we're being attacked by already the frozen creature. You could just
go to throw it far away and hope it doesn't affect us. I'm the
archonist, but a bag of holding does store things in another dimension. It
shouldn't affect us from there. Yes, I would know that. I know
that everybody should know that. But thrack every time you touch it, every
time you test it. I don't have to touch it. It's but even
opening the bag, would it not? Yes? It might be dangerous,
But again, nah, I think that this could be worth the travel our
precautions are can take. I was wound about traveling with medias track. I
trust you. So if you think you can do this, No, you
don't, You don't have What do you mean, Jil didn't. She just
looks like desperately. Stop and think about what we are faced with here.
You have to put our lives at risk if we want to be successful,
if we want to save everyone this whole time, What do you think we'll
be doing here? In My life has been nothing but at risk since a
meeting, from day one and still but this is a clear potential reward that
can help us complete our task. We can't ignore it. How about some
good old fashioned democracy all in favor? Ah. I squint my eyes at
sea and reluctantly raised my hand as well. Then I look at the other
two. We'll have to do this, can I? I have known you
for so long? Yeah, I have not ever known you to be reckless?
Is that correct? You're pretty conservative when it comes to Yeah, I
don't. No, I don't think so. I mean, how long have
you been in the how long were you in the town for We've known each
other for ten years, Okay, I was like fourteen when we met.
Ok So maybe I was a bit reckless as a child. A fourteen year
old orc. We certainly not in the past. Middle. Yeah, you're
right, that's a that's a young adult for an Orc. I feel uncomfortable.
I'm sorry, Jildin. More than I think Thrac is right, I
think I should trust him as Cura. He's part of us for a reason.
If we were meant to come to this place and Thrack was with us,
then it stands to reason that he would always come to this determination.
And perhaps that's what he's supposed to do. I raise my hand, I
look thank Childing, and I'll put my hand down and walk up to her
and I'll say, listen, it's going to be times we have to do
things like this. See. I don't know why I need you to be
all right with her if you say no, oh I'm doing, but I
need you to say yes. I've got my hand on my shoulder, a
shoulder. I'm just looking up at this skull, and you see what is
just pure fear at this point, that's all this is. It's fear.
She is more afraid than you've ever seen her before. Really, if you
couldn't leave me all alone, okay, to be alone again, I don't
want to be a loon. If it's too hard, I'll come back.
I looked down, and it seemed to be thinking quite hard, eyes darting
across the floor as I try and steal myself and breathe in and h that's
good, that's great, good, it's really good. Maybe it's the only
way. It's the only way. That's fine if if you truly, if
your heart is set on doing they said the fine. I suppose if you
should die, then I should al should die. Maybe it's better than being
alone anyway. I'm sorry, but what is serious? And I chop liver,
God, do this without all of it. If one of us dies,
then we will carry on. We don't have a choice. Everything still
living out there is depending on us. I am I gesture for herd because
I think you're carrying the the sheltering ball. By gesture, I begin the
ritual of setting of the ball. All right. While she's doing that,
I'm going to set up my alchemy table, my little portable alchemy table,
and I'm going to make a little it's a spell, but I'm making a
little healing elixir to take with me on this short, dangerous trip. Okay,
with an I said, I can, I'll do everything I can.
I can heal you. I won't be too far. Okay, remind me,
sorry, how far away is this scll? Like in meters? Sixty
sixty feet? I think yes? Sorry feet? Do we have a sixty
foot long rope? Perhaps that's actually a good idea? In oh, well,
I've got written down what I have. I think I have a very
I have a fifty foot rope. That's a good idea. I'll wrap the
I'll tie it very securely the rope around like my chest and waist and say,
you know, if you have to, you might be able to pull
me back around your chest and your waist. We'd have like ten feet left.
That's it. I'm going to say, there's probably a good thirty forty
feet left, do you think playing? I think it should be good enough.
You're not going to actually touch it? Are you using the hand of
yours? No? I only I'll be thirty feet away from me, right,
It should be fine, then only halfway all right, anything happened to
us while the shelters. The shelter is how it's going to work. Roller
D twenty a one means it provides absolutely no other from this twenty means it
provides full over from the effect. I will roll this since I'm saying it
up, since my feelings will be associated with this, we can thirteen.
So it doesn't fully shield you, but it is on a gradient of one
to twenty. At thirteen, there is some shielding from this thing. It's
significant enough that I think it makes you feel much better while you're in the
shelter. I'm assuming you do the thing where you place the bottle upside down,
say the word, and it creates the dome. Yes, sixty feet
away from this skeleton condor, I'll say, yeah, So really this is
protecting us in some way. Yeah, go on there and you get on
with it. You're going to do it. We'll just do it. Would
I have had a time for a short rest? Um, I don't think
so. I mean you can figure that out amongst yourselves. But no,
I don't think so. I mean it's been almost basically as long as it's
been since you've got here, which is about twenty minutes. M hmmm,
all right, no worries. I'm not sure if they want to rest before
they go about not going to ask. I don't think see it is going
to ask, so I shall just watch. When you're ready, you'll tell
me. I it will only last for a short while. I have ten
minutes or so. I'm ready. I can after I've tied the rope around
me. I sorry, I'm ready. I take the lead. I will
take the end of the rope. Sorry, all right. I will do
two things. First, I will cast emboldening bond so that allows anyone within
thirty feet of us that we can see magical bond for ten minutes. You
get to roll at DE four and add the number roll to an attack,
rollability to check, or saving throw. And then I am going to Oh
goodness me, I think I will also cast guidance on track. So I
think that with this you would get to roll like basically total D eight or
bonus. It's only lasts for one minute, and it's a touch spell.
Oh oh yeah, you're right. Oh it like holds while I'm touching,
only while I'm touching. Okay, you cast it, but you have to
touch them. It costs it, and then a minute later it will drop,
so you'd have to keep recasting it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay, well yeah I would. I think you do it and then
have it. You say you have one minute, and then I'll go the
second you do it, okay, okay, yeah, before she does that,
though, can I discerned from here if there are like pieces of this
skull scattered about? Is there like a bone that I tell from here?
Is there like a small bone that I could take? You? Sure?
Do I need to like crack this thing out open? Yeah? Give me
an investigation check. I guess with disadvantage because you're far away, it makes
sense. I was seventeen seventeen. It actually doesn't look like there is there's
it's quite hot. Hard to tell because there's bits of snow and debris around,
but they look like rocks or broken bits of trees and things. If
you want, you can give me a nature check, okay. On top
of that with a disadvanse No, yeah, I think you get the sense
that this thing's bones are strong. Not only is it huge, and you
know, if you were able to find some of the small bones like on
a condor. There's probably small bones all over the place, even those things
are probably quite large at the scale of what this thing looks to be size
wise, you get the sense that the bones of this thing are probably going
to be significantly harder and more dense than you might find on sort of like
an average creature or yourselves. This thing being a divine beings a it's an
angel, so its bones are probably really strong, and even colliding with the
earth and crashing down like this in its death throws, it still didn't break
bits of it off, So there aren't Yeah, there's no like little bits
of own around. You're going to have to get over there and figure out
a way to either find one or chip a piece off. Okay, all
right, before you go, yeah ah, I'm also going to cast speaking
of hope on you, just just in case, in case I need to
heal you. And then you get like, you only get one concentration spell,
so you'll have to choose between that and guidance I think, and that
is the other one concentration as well. Sanctuary. Oh sorry, I didn't
mean to act. It was an accidental U click. The sanctuary one emboldening
bond is an ability so I don't think it's a spell. No, it'scentration,
guidance and speaking of high power. So you have to pick one.
Yeah, okay, sorry, I'm like so, I'm like really nervous that
the fact that we're doing this to you to choose then, as the cleric,
which one you want to do? They're both one minute. Yeah,
I know. The one is that it uh guidance gives you the opportunity to
add an extra dfour where so you would have a D eight. But speaking
of hope means that you can survive wisdom, saving throws and death rows.
And then also if you need to be healed, some one sounds better.
Yeah, can of hope? Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll go with
that one. A little bit of table talk there, because I'm pretty sure
I'm about to die sometimes. Table talk is just the universal translator that we're
using. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like they're talking in character
and it's coming through atween character. What sort of think we'll do best?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, there's a universal translator for Common as well.
There's no way you guys are speaking English, you know what I mean.
Everything is coming through a weird table story translation device Old English probably that's what
it is. Yeah, you're about to walk into the reactor, so I
really want to set you up as much as I can. Yeah, okay,
I'll look at you and after we discuss that at length, and like
you know, two spellcasters having a discussion about what spells are best for the
situation, I nod to you and say, okay, I'm ready, and
I take my spell book out and I'm ready to do my chanting and got
my staff in one hand, and I'm ready to go, and I'm nod
to you. What's great about this going with Beacon of Hope is that I
don't have to touch you, so you can go out and then I can
cast it if you needed to. Yeah, oh so I think first.
Okay, you go first, and then you get a minute from when you
get to your location. You wouldn't mind holding onto this, would you yielding?
Maybe as a bear or something. I hold the rope and put just
dangle it towards her. You can't stay in there, yep. Fantactically,
he'll just one of us need to stay in the dome thing. The dome
was kind of just like a you know, safe temporary shelter. Okay,
so what I was staying in there, okay, but it might be nice
to have if I'm really sick when I come back. Yeah, yeah,
we're not. Yeah, it's shutting it down, are we. I think
it lasts it goes eight hours, so yeah, doesn't say. I mean,
I'm already quite strong, so I would probably just not even bother as
woman. I would just settle my way upon the rope. Okay, I
guess we'll both hold it. Then she can make yourself use for for all
right, Oh, you take that back. Okay, I'm going and I
will start by doing a bit of misty step for my first my first trick,
I will be doing a misty step to get thirty feet closer. Okay.
And I missed the outline of myself just sort of and I vanish pulling
the rope top lightly. I think you're immediately subjected to the effects of this
thing. Rommy wisdom saving throw Yeah, Vanaje vantage. Yes, you have
advantage on wisdom save. I Beacon of hope as soon as you land,
like as soon as you get there, advantage or lay out of defour.
Uh, it's advantage for Beacon of Hope. The defour was was the guidance.
Yeah, yeah, this is Beacon of hope. Now, okay,
so wisdom saving throw with advantage three twenty three, okay, roller three D
six, okay eleven, Yeah, you take five psychic damage. Okay,
I cast fireball act and I will choose. Actually, I'll I'll take a
brief moment to see if they're from this range. Can I see on the
skull if there are any parts of it that might be weakened in some way,
A crack, anything around the eye, Yeah, the eye socket,
maybe, the probably not the beak, but maybe the teeth. I don't
know. Yeords don't have teeth for kith what they do in the cloak?
Yeah, rommy investigation check twenty five. Nothing on this thing looks weak.
Shit, Okay, I'll aim a fireball sort of that that lower part underneath
the eye socket. A fireball sounds. This is coming out of my staff
landing on the creature, and it does partly for fire damage. Yeah,
this is bizarre to watch this thing launch out of the end of your staff.
It kind of moves through the air bizarrely. It strikes the side of
where this condor's skull is and it kind of warps and distorts as it hits
the side of the skull. The smoke and the flame kind of dissipates afterwards,
and you can see that there's sort of a scorch mark on this thing,
but not that there is any significant damage. It hasn't like exploded into
bits, you know what I mean. It's sort of it's done something.
Okay, I'm going to try again. If I can, We'll cast it
again. Give me the damage thirty. This time another thirty, a similar
bizarre sort of visual as this fire hits the side of this thing and it
kind of warps and disperses in a very strange way. Still no significant damage.
More burn and scorch than any sort of breaks or cracks. I am
going to I'm going to cast a spell magic on it. Okay, what
could have killed a thing like this? Oh? Any spell level third or
lower immediately ends. For each spell that is fourth or higher, make an
ability check using a spell casting ability The DC equals ten plus the spell's level.
There is no spell on this thing to break. Okay. Uh,
I guess I'll go for. I'm out of higher level spell, so I
guess I'll go for. I'll try a cloud of daggers. This is a
concentration spell. It's every round it would do uh, forty four slashing damage.
Okay, every ten seconds it would do forty four slashing damage. Yeah,
it starts doing it. You see it. It's just the sort of
cloud of daggers spell creating these daggers. This you know, unlimited blade work
situation with that, you see that these daggers are like striking the side of
this thing and doing just an imperceptible amount of damage, if at any at
all. I turn to Serrus and I say, I'm you know, I'm
quite surprised you're allowing any of this to happen. The on't answer, surely,
this is like twelve counts of blasphemy right now? What do you?
First of all, it's not my angel. Second of all, it's killing
everything. It's making this world uninhabitable. And I know that that's not what
it's God wants. It's not what the gods want in and of itself.
Is a blight, a blasphemy made of its own making. Is to say
it's not your god anyway, just a passing thought. I tug onto the
rip for a second. I will do kah, I'll try I'll uh,
I'll try a cloud daggers again. I'll do it again, same thing.
Yeah, do you want to make me an investigation check? Sure? Uh,
sorry, that's I don't think I have advantage. That's eleven. I
just starting to get the feeling this thing is invincible and m hm. So
from where I can see, it's fully impact. Nothing I've done is done
any sort of damage to it, and it's rome a perception check. Okay,
six thing. There is one piece of this thing you can tell has
any level of damage to it. It is on the underside of its beak,
and you just catch it from the angle that you're at. Just being
close enough, you get the sense that this looks like the type of damage
that something might take if it was struck by something else. It's definitely nothing
that you've done. What you've done, you've thrown what about sixty A few
forty fours in there. You've probably done about at least one hundred damage or
something seventy two. I've done eighty two damage through its absolutely nothing, not
even a scratch. However, this thing does have damage to the underside of
its beak. If there is going to be any hope of view of getting
anything off of this thing or finding a small shard of it, it's probably
there. H I will walk forward another pen feet and see if I can
see anything. Okay, which I believe, and soils that on my beacon
of hope. Uh if you're taking if you're walking forward ten I'm walking forward
ten feet because I'm trying to keep the emboldening bond going. Okay, okay,
Cyrus make me a wisdom saving thrower, and thrank make me another perception
check twenty seven. That twenty at twenty seven, rob me three D six
and take half of that as psychic damage. I'm gonna have to take a
con save as well for the spell, and you're gonna have to hold the
concentration on your spell. Yeah, thanks one. Sorry, I'm taking half
of that. Yes, that's for six, so you round down you oh
sorry, and that I'm doing a constitution saving throw. But I, because
of war, would worcaster count as taking damage and keeping my concentration even though
we're not technically in battle. I think that right? Yeah, yeah,
okay, so then I have advantage. Oh it's a file. I think
that's that's a fail droppeaking of hope drops but we still have the emboldening bond,
which is the Yeah, the D four. I so you told me
to do an investigation right perception? Oh sorry, I rolled the wrong thing.
I share eight. Okay, anyway, stop getting so close, just
get to come back. This wasn't the plan. Too far rock, I've
almost got here. Just a little closer and I'll yeah, take a few
steps closer. Okay, filing, are you not going to heal the man?
How far away is he at this point? I probably like or five
feet away from you? If you haven't moved, that for sure is just
therefore, Yeah, do you move with me? I'm moving with you.
Yeah, I'm moving with you to maintain that. Uh. And I'm going
to ask healing word at you for seven healing and I will cast it on
myself as well or eight nine Okay, I take I take any closer.
I'm pulling this for a time. I'm pulling it back. This has gone
on for everyone for too long. This is folly. Do I so I
don't notice anything this close? No, you can probably get a little closer.
I will. Okayhead and past my chnk bush. Someone made hand and
I send it forward and I have it sort of much the beak where it
looks a weak and see if I can notice anything falling off or hear anything
or anything like that. That thing can move like a bag of sugar.
Right, it's five, it's five pounds. I think you attempt to feel
out some ten pounds. Ten pounds. I think I imagine that made hand.
You have some sort of sensory feedback from it. So give me an
investigation check again. We'll based it on that. Yeah, mm hmmm.
Twenty three. There's definitely loose bits on the cracked part of the bake.
It's that could potentially be splintered off, but you'd need to be stronger than
a mage hand. Okay, I released the mage hand, and I mm
hmm. This is this is like an undead creature. Yeah, basically,
no, it's fully dead. No, it's a fully dead dead creature.
It's a dead dead creature. Sorry. Yeah, so I suppose radiant damage
wouldn't have any extra momph to it. Uh No, the damage doesn't always
guarantee extra damage to undeads anyway. Yeah, it's unfortunately not as black and
white as final fantasy, you know, where you just find the opposite element
or whatever. It definitely works on some of them. I'll I'll try to
cast fire bolt at that specific spot. Pity if that does anything, So
I I'll release the mate hand and just a quick fire ball comes down to
the end of my staff and strikes the spot. And you want to see
the damage or it doesn't matter, and the attack role, the attack all
is an eleven. Eleven hits the area. You think again, it's hard
to see. Your vision, by the way, is constantly being just abused,
you know, while you're within the field of this thing's influence. But
give me the damage. I noticed that, like that might not be right,
and that feels wrong to me. Oh, I immediately it's wrong.
It's wrong. I drink a potion. I immediately go back in time and
I try that fireball again, and this time when it comes out, it
is a yeah, twenty three, twenty three, Yeah, give me the
damage. Eight. You see it strike the area that you want it to.
It's probably going to take a lot more damage than a fire damage.
Okay, I think I'm making progress, And I just just give me a
minute and I will sit down and I will attempt to this is insane.
I will attempt to uh do some arcane recovery. Okay, So I'm studying
my spell book, and I can do this once per day, but I
have to finish a short rest in order to do it. So I'm assuming
that I'm going to have to sit here for a work like twenty minutes.
Isn't your short rest like an hour or more? Short rest is an hour?
Yeah? With an hour, yeah, you'll definitely die. Okay,
I'm not going to do that, all right, Thank you for the warnings.
M You will definitely tell it, can I I saw the thing that
he was shooting at right like that direction. I saw where it hit.
Yeah, I am going to cast guiding bolt towards that. Okay, fifteen
uh, fifteen will hit the area? Ah, where's the demage? Oh?
Okay, okay, so that's twenty six twenty six. You see the
strike hit. This kind of splintered piece of the beak. Doesn't seem to
break a piece off of it. Yeah. A thrack, yeah, rommi,
a wisdom saving throw yeah. Twenty two twenty two. If you see
someone in front of you walking towards you, it is it is an orc
and they look very similar to you, a little older, the clothes of
your tribe. Some tattoos and scarification, and then they're gone. Cyrus,
make me a wisdom saving throw at ten. The blackness that is on your
fingers now is crawling up your arms, flowing like a drop of ink in
water, moving up your arms as you finished casting this spell. The two
of you, Cyrus, roll me three D six and take the full damage,
and Rack roll me sixty six and take half a little lucky with that
role, maybe just a bit. Okay, I got an eighteen, Cyrus
got ten for those listening. Yeah, that's enough track, I've almost got
it. You make you get the progress. Can you see what one more
try? Then we have to go. Not sure? It was like a
fool's errand to me after all, h yeah, I will ask. Yeah,
I'll do magic missile star magic missile. Three darts come out of the
tip of my staff and they do a total of nine damage. Nine damage.
Give me an investigation check twenty seven natural twenty seven natural twenty seven.
You see a piece of this thing splinter off of it that is no larger
than this eyes of a tooth, a human tooth, not a condor tooth,
And you just see it sparkle lift off from the edge of the splinter
of the broken part of this big with that last magic missile, and it
flies off and into the mouth the inside of the beach. That's cruel.
It's the range of thirty feet thirty feet. I can definitely get it,
get it. But can I see you in there? No? Your little
maid can feel around a bit. Yeah, I'll cost made hand and I'll
attempt to find it. I feel okay, Ah, I mean what else
can I else? I don't have anything. Run away is what we can
do. Well, you said that, you said that you get some feeling.
It makes sense that you would have some sort of weird feedback. Make
me an investigation check with disadvantage. I guess you have a plus seven to
investigation, right, what's that? You have a plus seven to investigation.
There's a chance we'll use a plus D four from the emboldening bond. That's
true. Okay, I got a fifteen, and I'm going to roll that
D four to get a nineteen. Come on, that's pretty good. Yeah,
you're you're feeling around in there. How much HP have you got?
By the way, are you under half of your total? I'm at twenty
seven out of forty. Okay, you're feeling around in there. As you're
feeling around, how does it? How does this feel to you? Do
you? How do you? Does it feel like it's just another hand of
yours? Or is it more of a sort of I don't know. I'm
sort of sensing some sort of weird you know info the term like sense memory,
how like you can like you know how touching surfaces feels before you feel
it, like a smooth piece of wood. You know how that feels.
You can imagine it in your mind. That's how it feels. It's it's
in my head. It's not like I have another arm coming out of my
chest or anything like that. It's just in my head. I have a
floating appendage, and when I feel things, I get that sort of sense
memory kind of feeling in my mind. I'm guy, it's just a long
mouth and we're feeling. I'm trying to start where I think it went and
move out from there. Uh, you feel someone else's hand, Take your
mage hand gently and hold it. Ah, who arguere rob me a constitution
saving throw five? Rob me ninety six? I'm question before you do that?
The D four you can add per turn, so but we're not in
turn back right now. Oh, you are a little bit in my head,
but you're good. In order, I would I would actually try and
argue that you can add a D ball to this. You're something bad is
going to happen, and you can add a default. It won't add Can
I can I do some time? You can do time bullshit? Okay,
I would like to do my last time bullshit in an attempt to stop this
terrible thing from happening to me, and I constolution save. Yeah, I
changed places places. It's a fifteen. That's time. If the D four
is an eighteen, okay, you've still got a roll in ninety six,
right, okay, nine D six you have to type this one out raw
ninety six ninety sixty seven thirty five damage. You've only got to take half
of that as a nicotic damage, okay, seventeen seventeen. Okay, Yeah,
he's looking pretty rough. Well, uh, the mage hand has recovered
what you think to be the thing that you're feeling for the rest of you.
He has stumbled forward like three or four feet. Crank. You're not
even aware that you've done that, right, You're just lost. The mage
hand is holding on to this thing, but it is it's burning the mage
hand to hold onto it, and you can feel it as if it was
burning your own hand. Okay, does it feel as though it's going to
hurt harm me? Would I know that? You would know? You can?
You're able to sense through this mage hand, so you can feel that
this thing is immense. And he did take the bag of holding with him,
didn't he? I see feel you for eight I immediately start bringing it
back and if I can, and I'm on me if I've stumbled forward again,
I believe I'm on the light maybe fifteen feet away from this thing,
so I would bring it back as quick as I can, and I have
the knapsack of holding, So I'm ah as it's coming back to me?
Do I? Well? The mage hand isn't returning to you. There is
a child, a little boy orc running towards you with the shard of this
angel held out towards you. Ah, But I was, I was retrieving
my mage hand and instead of the mache hand, this comes out. I
mean, yeah, this is I mean this feel like I have some sort
of agency over it. You know, have Maide's child, it is Maid's
child. Yeah, then I I don't know if I'd really be connecting the
two things. I'd still be like giving the mache hand commands to I'd be
holding open the bag and giving it commands to put it in the bag.
As I'm kind of stunned watching this child come out walking towards me. Yeah,
are you checking that it has brought you the piece because it could just
have a stone? Or are you just throwing it into the bag and get
now there? If I make the connection that the child is the maid hand,
then yes, I would check. Okay, your vision goes red suddenly,
as if you put a red film over the landscape the child. You
want the child to put the thing in the bag. That would be my
last man. If it's the maid hand, yes, yeah, yeah,
I mean it's no longer a child, it's the maid hand. Okay.
It has a little thing, a little white, tiny little it looks like
a like a shark tooth is what it would look like, right, Okay,
I mean I would see you let up, I was the bag.
He guys in the bag. This is my vision still, Yes, I
turn around and I try to make my way back to my I tie it
to my belt and wave. I got it back and I immediately stopped pulling
the rope's yeah, I'm going to walk backwards. I'm going to walk backwards
as he's like coming up, so i can still keep an eye on him,
but I'm moving back as well. Okay, I think once he gets
within thirty feet, I'm going to let go of the rope. I'm then
going to sprint towards him. I'm going to use my step of the wind
but thing a key points. I'm going to try and fireman carry him and
then use my action to run back. I have enough speed to be able
to do this. Yeah, all three of you need to make me wisdom
saving throws. Okay, rot on nineteen four, twelve twelve three D six
psychic damage. You take half, I'm taking eight damage. Yes, you've
all You've got to take half, and then lastly, thrack make me another
constitution saving throw only one okay with the default. This scene plays out as
he starts sort of walking backwards a little weakly. You start moving backwards with
him, Cyrus. Once he's within a sort of particular range you see see
a dart outside of the dome, rush over and help him back. The
four of you collapse into the dome. I would presume. And when you
look at Thrack, he is bleeding from his nose, his mouth, his
ears, and his eyes. Right, what did you get? What you
would went for? I got it. I ask your wounds on you.
I'll also take my ocean in my hands, sort of shaking a little bit.
Non drink my potion as well. Thrack standing outside of the dome around
you, All around this dome is your entire family. And when I say
your entire family, I mean every member of your bloodline that has ever existed,
all of them looking in and watching this happen, and then you pass
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