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Thank you for listening and enjoy. Dawn finally crests the horizon, and the
light reflecting off of the endless white of the snow fields lights the area up
for you for the first time in this very long night you've had so far.
Here is quite a good spot for a camp set up, as the
weather is oddly calm. There's still the sort of intense effects of the Arctic
area, but the effects of the cold and the exhaustion won't be affecting you
in this very small area. The area is notable for a couple of things.
First, you might notice a wagon which has probably been here for some
time. It looks like it probably crashed. It's broken and part buried in
the snow, and Sitting just adjacent to the wagon are three ancient obelisks sort
of columns made of bluestone. The wagon and its contents are mostly destroyed and
have been picked apart by wildlife, aside from a single lock box that seems
to have landed within a field of electricity. These stone pillars are each casting
a magical wall of electricity between them. Upon each of the pillars are writings
in primordial and sitting inside of a socket on each pillar are three removable magic
orbs. If you can figure out how to turn off the magical area of
effect, you might be able to gain access to the lock box. This
is also a good place to potentially camp. Would we rest here before approaching
this? You want to rest first, then play with the puzzle? Well,
quite tired, so immediately yep, so be You're more than welcome to
solve it while we're sleeping. I am right. So I gathers some of
the bywood that we took from the temple and I cashed fire boat on it
got up a bit of a fire, and I guess we're going to take
a rest. It seems like it, So I let them set the camp
up, and I don't think I'm going to investigate this thing either until they
do so. But yeah, I think I just crossed my extend. Go
into a miniative state. Okay, A long rest is about eight hours of
time. You don't actually have to sleep for that entire thing. You just
have to not be doing anything intense if you do. If you don't sleep
or go into a sort of Elvin trance for a significant amount of time,
you'll start to suffer exhaustion. But you don't have to. You can be
doing a long rest while essentially wandering around and solving a puzzle basically if you
want. It's entirely up to you. You can lay down and immediately go
to sleep and sleep for eight hours as well, but just for your information,
you are able to as long as you're not casting spells or like fighting
a bear or something. You're yeah, it still counts as a long rest.
It's also only dawn and you didn't get a full night sleep, but
you did already all wake from being asleep not too long ago. Describe the
puzzle again for me, please. What you have in front of you is
three stone pillars. They're about fifteen feet tall, and each one is casting
a wall of electricity between them, so there's three. And I can actually
show you in map form as well, just to frighten you a little bit,
because usually when I put people on a battle map, they're immediately like
panicking. Battle you have three stone pillars like this, with a crashed wagon
nearby casting electricity in a sort of pretty consistent wall, and at the center
of it there's a lock box. But there this entire sort of area here
is sort of safe from the effects. It's almost like a little warmer than
some of the other areas nearby. And this place is also marked on that
map that you were given. It is one it seems to be a notable
place that Thaws marked on your map, just to make sure that you knew
that you were on the right track. The stone pillars here are made of
bluestone, which is a stone which is native to the area. It really
is no different to just a basic building stone that there is no effect to
it other than it is blue in nature, and they call it bluestone.
The Goliath will build things out of this from time to time, but it
isn't necessarily innately magic in nature. However, there are sets of primordial writing
along the pillars each one has a different set of writing, and it seems
to be in primordial or sort of ancient giant tish. And inside of on
each of these walls there's a socket which has a magical orb inside that looks
like it can be removed. Are the orbs different in each pillar? Yes,
the orbs are slightly different in color. They are about the same size.
One is purple, one is more yellow, one is more orange.
Purple, yellow and orange. I would like to che can say if I
would I ever told anything about these pillars in my long years. Yeah,
give me a history check please. Fourteen. I don't know if you've been
told of these pillars specifically, but you probably would have learned that the first
giants, which are also that they call them the first giants, but really
they are the first goliath that sort of settled the area that became Moon.
They were very magical in nature. Generally speaking, the goliaths now don't practice
a lot of magic. It really is sort of only hard and the the
way that he studies magic is through book learning and spell casting. In that
way, whereas there are clerics that pull divine magic from the angel and the
gods. Beyond that, it isn't much of a day to day thing.
That the goliaths are not really known for being mages and don't tend to practice
it. That being said, according to history, the first giants and the
goliaths that first settled the area were extremely magical in nature. They used magic
for almost everything, and so there are lots and lots of sights and places
in and around Moon where there is distinct magical things of magical nature. So
sites where there would be something like this, where there's a sort of wall
of electricity, are huge tombs and places in the mountains which are sort of
locked behind extreme abduration magic that even by nobody's ever managed to break into,
places like the Serpent Cabin and things like that. It's not that you would
know what these pillars are exactly, but you would understand that this is where
that comes from, what it is and who made it, and what its
purpose? Is not too sure you do know where it comes from. Do
they look fragile by any chance? Damage to all? Worn? They look?
They look slightly time worn, but they should be more worn for where
they are and what's going on here. They actually seem to be quite well
preserved, which probably betrays the magical nature of whatever enchantment or spell is upon
the stone. If Thrack is inspecting it, I'm going to turn to him
and say, there appear to be three orbs inside them of a different color.
I wonder if perhaps we can deactivate it by taking out the orbs at
the same time if they power these things? An interesting proposal. Do you
wish to touch the electrified? I'm going to walk off, right, how
are they setting if I were to, if I were to take one of
them out physically, would I have to touch the pedler? Give me an
investigation in check nice and that's all one that comes out at a seven.
They're about sort of chest height on you, I think, and they seem
to just be sort of resting in the stone itself. But I think you
get the sense that to try and remove these things without knowing what they are
is going to be extremely dangerous. Right, Okay, that's right. I
was assuming, and I will continue to assume that are there any symbols or
anything on the pillars themselves? There's lots of writing in primordial prime Ordeal,
which I do not speak. Yeah, it looks like sort of Nordic rooms,
you know that old Nordic language like you might find in God of War
or something. Yeah, yeah, it looks similarity. Is there any similarity
to giant Tish or Goliath, modern modern Giant or Goliath. Yeah, it's
essentially sort of like archaic Goliath is. Really it'll be like reading something that
you know, reading Shakespeare or something. For us, it's lots of these.
I try reading it. You can absolutely read it. Yes, oh
okay, yeah for you this is readable. Okay, it might be like
there's probably some words in here that take you a moment to sort of like
figure out and stuff. But if you can read Giantish and you can read
Goliath, you can read Primordial. But treat them like slight, like they're
just three versions of the same language at different stages of a long period of
time. You know. So I don't know Aliath, but I know giant
Ish. If that affects my ability, Giantish is even closer to Primordial in
this scene. Okay, cool, cool, cool imagine yeah modern day Yeah,
Primordial is Goliath, right, and then Giantish is sort of a midway
point. So I'll give you this. This is what you can read,
and these are on each of the different pillars here. I feel like I
need to not be in dark mode for the stream version of this, because
you can't ever read the things here we go. Okay, yeah, I
read this out to everybody right the same page, and I read it again.
Pillar one, pillar of darn in this realm where day meets night and
the heavens hold their way. Three pillar standing cosmic light, unveiling secrets night
and day. Pillar two. The pillar of zenith has done, unfolds its
radiant grace. A sphere of dim light takes its place when shadows yield to
Twilight's call, the twilight orbs shelling thrall. Pillar three the pillar of dusk.
At the zenith where the sun rains eye, a brilliant orb must reflect
the sky, align the orbs with cosmic time, open gates and sees the
night. Okay, so well, I have my theories, and I suppose
you'll be keeping them to yourself or do we have to pay mm hmm,
I just sit back, X speakap. Well. Okay, we have a
pillar of dawn, Zenith, and dusk. Yes, we have purple,
yellow and orange. Yes. Now the third one says you have to open
it with cosmic time. Does that mean we have to wait for each time
of day to do this or does it mean that we just have to go
along with a story. I look at pillar two, the pillar of zenith,
talking about the shadows and twilight's cool. What color is the orb in
pillar two? The orb in pillar two is yellow? Well you see that?
That makes no sense. Surely that should be purple. Yes, it's
talking about, you know, the dusk and all. That yellow is not
dusk, it's bright, So the dusk one has to go in the the
purple one. Are you picking up what I'm putting down? Yes, that
makes it. It's a logical sense. My work here is done. I
expect twenty percent of the cut, and I sit back down again. I
don't know fante a wrong. I would have asked for more. Twenty five
not too late? Uh, Yellow dawn right? Orange seen it? I
would think that orange would be done and yellow would be seeing it. M
hm. However, the yellow one currently he's in pillar two, so I'm
not sure taking them out is safe though. The only one way to find
out, I say, with my hands cupped. I look at his hands
cup blankly on the pillar of dawn. Is the orange one in the pillar
of zenith is the yellow one, and in the pillar of dusk is the
pub one. Ah, I see, probably could have done that less confusingly
when it comes to the image. But that's where they are now. Right.
Dawn is orange, zenith is yellow, dusky is purple. Right,
Okay, the words do not match up. No, I begin filing my
nails. It does say to align the orbs with cosmic time, so maybe
we do have to wait. As hear said, maybe there's a position we
can stand in where the orbs are lying, look to the sky, and
then I'll start walking around the pillars slowly. Yeah, what are you looking
for? I'm looking for for any position where it feels like the orbs on
the top will match with anything to see in the sky. I suppose anything
I would know of the position of the stars or anything like that. Okay,
Yeah, give me any kind of looking for, like a hole or
gap in the fence or something like that. Even though I know it's electricity
nineteen Yeah, it's electricity. There are points where there are holes in the
electricity that you might be able to chance it and jump through if you can
leap over the top of it. It doesn't seem like there's electricity on across
the top, so you might be able to find a way to climb up
and jump over the thing or something like that. In terms of the way
that everything is laid out, the pillars are really similar looking. They're almost
exactly the same apart from the writing and that each socket contains an ORB in
it. You though, can tell that you can easily take these orbs out
without injuring yourself or it's certainly not going to hurt you. They look like
they're designed to be taken out and placed back in. Well, where have
we got to lose? Can I? Yeah, okay, I'll just go
and try and take an orb, all right? Which one? I So
you say the pillar that Dawn was orange? Yeah, so let's see.
Yeah, I will just I'll copy and paste it into our group as well.
Just confused, But Dawn is orange, Zenith's yellow dusk is purple.
It's just right to lift. I think I would try to stop her.
I think I'm used to her doing stupid things that gets her hurt, and
I'm wanting to contest strength as I got to try and grab one of these,
yeah, or something, because I think I ruled the one. I
think that that's the most dangerous thing on the planet. M hm you I'm
watching you contested text. Good luck, fair enough. You just did you
just did strength? Yeah, just to strengthen it. Yeah. Yeah,
he goes to he goes to stop you. You're like your arm is still
partially a bear and so this sort of like arm goes in and it just
it comes out. Yeah, it pops out of this thing, nice and
easy. It doesn't seem to be any effect from doing So. Which one
did you take again? Did you say orange? Um? I took yellow?
Yellow? Okay, yeah, it doesn't it doesn't matter, it doesn't
do anything. I want to go take another one. Yeah, which one
I want to go take? H Purple? Purple? Yeah, you pop
out purple and I think let's see everyone give me a perception check rolling well
where it counts eight, ten, seventeen, and see it. We're going
to say that you're standing on the side of one of these pillars, that
the one that contains the orange orb, and when they take that second orb
out on the other side, that orange orb flashes. The orange orb flashed,
but the orange one's been taking out. No, she took yellow and
purple. Now, yeah, yellow and all right, leave the orange one
alone, I say, And they just change the other two. They give
me my thing, the paper on zenith, so I'll go and do that,
going to check. But the purple one on zenith, and then I
guess the yellow one on door dusk. Yeah, And you place the purple
one into the zenith and nothing happens. There's no flash. None of the
other orbs flash. And then you put the yellow one in dawn. No,
you put the yellow one in dusk, and that also does nothing.
No response from the pillars. Eh, what about that's here? Did you
see anything when the two were out? The orange one glowed nothing? Useless
to me. I'll say, the two balls are again. Yeah, the
orange one blows. And do you remind me which pillar of dawn? Orange
one is in the pillar of dawn. It's done, It's done right now,
right now? All right? Well, shall we have to put the
purple one in it's twilight and then and then dusk. Is it in the
wildlight, all radiant? The orange ones in don and it is done?
Right? Okay, Then I'll show we wait until noon and put the weather
one in zenus. I'm sorry I wasn't listening. We went arguing this takes
six hours as that conversation back and forth endlessly on my yetti hide. Yes,
you can work on the stuff. So those of you remember that if
you want to work on the Yetti hide during this long rest, you don't
get any long rest effects. So anything you would normally get back on a
long rest, I can't remember what it is for you. Do wizards get
spells our long rest? Yeah, yeah, so you get. But everyone
else you are in the process of long resting here. I don't know if
there's anything else that you want to work on in this time specifically, but
again, the area is quite quite calm. And yes, I'm crocheting a
new hat. Okay, if it's been six hours, then I am already
long rested as an ilf. Yep, you get all your long rest things
back, whatever that is abilities anyone else doing anything of note, So I'm
just going to assume that's what you're doing. Yeah, I'm tanning the yeggy
pelt in nothing else that's serious. What are you doing? Yeah, I'm
gonna I'm gonna take that long rest, and then at some point when I
get up, I'll probably start tending to my blade and sharpening it. Okay,
yeah, and I think we see you guys doing that. Over the
course of the next few hours, the sun starts to rise up in the
air. The area around you is lit with sunlight, so you can finally
see sort of the landscape that you're in, and it's more of that kind
of hilly, rocky mountainous terrain with huge sort of expanses of snow. Everything
is covered in a pretty huge amount of snow here, and you can see
all around you pretty clearly. There doesn't seem to be any threats or anything
like that. No more yetis hiding. It doesn't really seem to be too
many creatures at all, though there really isn't anything out here as you've come
to expect from the areas outside of Moon anyway. The Kingdom of Uma is
really just a sort of snowy wasteland for the most part. Eventually, you
guys are sort of recognized that the sun is high up in the sky and
you're hitting the area around midday. I look at the rack, tilt my
head. I'm covered in like whatever I be covered in from tanning up out
for eight hours, six hours or whatever, and I'm not looking at him
every day in a minute I look towards the total. What I'm confused about
is midday. Does it really speak of twilight? No, it doesn't.
But at the same time, twilight would have been the opening hours of dawn.
Zenith implies the star being at the highest point of the day. All
right, I think, well we can try it. At this point.
Is the orange one still glowing or is it dimmed by this point it's been
glowing all day? All right, that's the worst thing that happened. It's
wrong, I guess just I walk over in slot in slot, which in
where is this? This is the dawn one? No, yeah, the
purple one, pink, purple and JENNI, yeah, nothing happens. We
should how about the other or about because if it's still glowing, we should
leave it. Brack goods up and so's yellow for zenith. It's shine.
I gonna put the yellow in the zenith. Um, you take the purple
one out and put the yellow in the zenith? Yeah, yep, okay
mm. And the orange one is still in yes, yeah, nothing happens.
Take the orange one out. Well, we don't. We don't have
all day to wait for the case. This is wrong. What if it's
the orange one still a little out. Uh no, the orange one it
went out when we put the purple one goes out. Oh god. I
walk up and I take the orange one out. You take the orange one
out, yes, which lights up the yellow one. All right, okay,
I'll go back to working on. Okay, how about now you put
the purple one in dusk and then you pull out the yellow one and see
what happens? Uh? Okay, children, would you like through the honors?
Sir slipil doing all of the moving up around and I'm just mumbling as
I walk away and place and I'm too young, all right, so what
are you doing? You're taking you're putting the purple one in? Uh yeah,
agree to think the yellow one out? Yeah yeah, kind of like
a changing of the guard. Yeah, nothing happens, okay, in that
case, make the yellow one blink again if you can. Lets me have
to read another day now, No, it should be fine. I'm I've
had left walking around. I'm going to sit here. Can you fly?
I think I have wings? I mean you didn't have and take the purple
one out. You take the purple one out, and you put which one
in the yellow one back in too? Yeah, so you just have the
yellow one in the senna. Yes, yeah, yeah, it lights up.
Okay if I had wings, if I could fly, do you think
I'd be walking around on my sore feet complaining all day. Yes, well
you might be right about that, but I can't fly. Okay, to
get I asked, I won't very well. At this point on your HUD
comes up an option two skip time. If you just press tea on your
keyboard and then select a time on the floor, you can sort of fast
forward through time if you'd like to do that at any point during this puzzle.
Before we do that, how tall are the walls fifteen feet? He
said, fifteen feet? Yeah, and the actual pillar itself is not electrified.
Yes, correct, I would like to jump on top of the pillar.
Yeah. Can you do that? Yep? I believe you. I
can do that. I'm not questioning it ever. Again, all right,
I can jump fifteen feet quite comfortably. I can your character. I believe
you can also probably do that. Yeah, you do that, I guess.
Make me an acrobatics check. But just to see how much flair you
want to put into it, or can put into it. Ten for acrobatics.
It's a pretty it's just a basic but he does it. He does
a standing lape of fifteen feet. By the way, anyone that's watching,
it's insane. If you're watching, I think as I jump, I kind
of like a push one leg down midway, and you see like a little
bit of a displacement of air as I use step of the winds to get
me there the rest of the way, all right, Neo at the end
of the first movie. And then I hoped down to the pit. Yeah,
he jumped down into the pit. No problem whatsoever. You're in there,
nothing happens, No, like, you're not like electrified, nothing crazy
explodes or anything like that. You find yourself in the middle of this these
pillars. There's nothing here. The area looks like one of these pillars is
somewhat built out of some natural looking stone, and it looks like maybe the
natural looking stone was once like maybe it housed something like perhaps there was like
a little heart on top of this thing or something like that. But generally
speaking, there's essentially nothing here apart from the lock box which was which seems
to have landed from the wrecked wagon a very long time ago. It's a
pretty small looking lock box it's partially buried in the snow. It's small enough
that you could pick it up. It would be like like a you know,
handheld but like sizeable looking thing, and it's not. It's just a
steel looking thing, like really basic looking lock box with a lock on the
front. Okay, I hold it to the group mhm hmm. I think
it doesn't react, and I just drop it on the floor and sit down
at sulk. Yeah, and then congratulations, look better. Yeah, would
you like to bring that over to us and we can see what's inside.
I hold it towards myself furtively, and then I go, fine, And
how heavy is this thing? Not very heavy at all? I think as
you're moving it around you can feel that there's a couple of items inside there
sort of moving around, but it's really only Yeah, it's not heavy at
all, like easily carriable. Okay, all right, sorry, I'm being
called all my really selfish characters in the group chairs seeing here. It's okay,
weird how the skin's happening, isn't it so weird? So we're all
guilty of it. I I think I jump over the top, I you
know, hop back down to the other side safely, if I can,
and then I'm still staring at the puzzle because I want to know what happens
if I hit tin now, I mean, yeah, you can just hit
tea or you can It's as up to you, guys, what you don't
You want to look into this lock box, or you can attempt to complete
the puzzle. I want to look in the lock box. The box is
locked. You could open it if you have some thieves tools or the key,
or get creative I guess beyond that. But the the official ways to
open it are to pick the lock or to use the key that unlocked.
Except I give the box to Jill and really just finished the puzzle, and
then we can just have the key. We just do it the right way.
Sure, yes, yeah, sure. In the meantime, I'm just
going to and I'm just bashing it on the ground open. Yeah. In
fact, Cyrus, give me an investigation check. Oh my goodness, all
right, I would like to know how long killed then is bashing annoyingly bashing
fish? At least twive minutes? All right? Five times? Oh god,
I would say. I would say, actually after two minutes, I
would stop, Okay, roll me a D ten twice m seven and one
seven and a one. Yeah, there is a thirty percent chance to destroy
some of the items within. So if you'd rolled a one, two or
three. You hear in that second minute of rat like just smashing this thing
against thing. You hear the shattering of glass, and also I think this
isn't this isn't this lock box. You just feel like a bunch of liquid
starts running out of the corn. I cast knock, okay, and I'm
locking. Yeah. Inside is two is a what looks like a sort of
an old scarf that is now drenched in ocean of greater healing. Two courts
and a bunch of glass. But there is also a bowl in here,
a pretty simple looking wooden bowl which actually doesn't look too dissimilar to Jilden's shell.
I would imagine, okay, copyright, there's is identity theft. What
is it? I imagine what's happened is as I this glass is shattered and
I've got expanding, they've probably stolen it. They're taking it straight from me,
and I'm not allowed touch it at this point, so yeah, absolutely
taking it out of her hand. There's a scarf, Yeah, it's like
an old scarf. You get the sense that the scarf was just wrapped around
the bottles of great healings. And then there's a bowl and a bowl.
I would like to inspect the wooden bowl. Yeah, give me an investigation
check. If I roll over an eight, Okay, at thirteen, that's
enough. This is a magical bowl. You get the sense that this is
a magical bowl because there are a set of ruins running around the rim of
the inside of the bowl that look like if you were to speak the words
that are written there, it would activate some sort of command on the ball
here. Okay, I would say, there the words the language of the
words. Yeah, but it's written in primordial Okay, I actually it's written
in Goliath. Sorry, I hand it over to like I should know how
to speak lith but apparently I do not, so I hand it over.
I went with Giant. Yeah, pretty close. You can probably ballpark it.
Okay. Yeah. When you when you look at this, it looks
for a moment you think it says maybe something like smelting bowl, and then
you realize it says sheltering bowl, sheltering ball. As you say the words
sheltering bowl, the local gadget sheltering ball. Yeah, it now and I'm
retconning. It says on the inside of this bowl, go go, gadget
sheltering bowl. And that is what it says in Goliath on the inside of
this thing. Yeah, you you sense that it sort of activates a magical
element to this bowl here, And I'll let thrack roll and our carna check
just to see if you can fully work out what it does. All right,
Hey, you look something I'm good at. Let's see if I get
a good roll. Oh no, this is the sheltering bowl that you have.
It is a magical item that will be very useful to you. You
can use an action to place the bowl down upside down and speak a command
word, which is go go sheltering bowl, and when you do, the
bowl shatters into countless shards. Over the course of ten minutes, these shards
become ethereal, rise and arrange themselves to form a magical protective dome with a
fifteen feet diameter. The dome can accommodate up to six creatures of medium size
or smaller. All creatures that touch the bowl and activation can move within the
dome freely, while the other entities are barred fromentary blah blah blah, blah
blah. You have an eight hour tent super tent, and after eight hours
it breaks apart. The ethereal shards turn back into a physical bowl in the
center of where the dome stood. Once the bowl has reformed, the feature
can be used again after twelve hours of past. This was probably this was
probably the prize possession of whoever owned that wagon. And you get the sense
that what happened here is that a wagon crashed. This lock box was launched
from the wagon through the electric wall, sorry, electric fence, it's a
literal electric fence, and then landed in the snow and very potentially got the
owner killed. Whatever happened to the owner was so long ago, right,
doesn't matter? Well, I'm interested in history, but I guess doesn't matter.
No. I thought you meant it in the sense of like, is
he going to come back and get us? Like as in like it happened
yesterday. It seems like it happened a very long time ago. All right,
Well, I guess that we didn't. Did she actually activate it?
Is there a shelter? No? I think she just activated the first part
of it by it with the room, and then from doing that you're able
to ascertain that you need to set this thing upside down and it will turn
out. I do that. I say, everyone touched this, you would
like a warm Okay? Am I allowed to touch it? Is it going
to break? Just don't break it? You can touch it, Clawn,
okay? And so is everyone touching it? Yes? All right, Then
I'll say the words, go, go gadget what is it? Shelter filtering,
Go, go sheltering, go, go gadget sheltering pole. That's correct,
Yes, it shatters and breaks apart. So ironically, what did you
do? It does break apart, and you see a bunch of shards turn
ethereal so they sort of sort of translucent and ghostly, and then slowly start
to grow and shift and move into place over the course of the next ten
minutes. And at the end of that ten minutes there is a sort of
translucent dome that you can move in and out. Really, it doesn't it's
not automatically warm and wonderful inside or anything like that, but it is.
It does have a significant effect on the ability to survive in this environment when
using this. If you are inside of this thing, you will not be
affected by the cold exhaustion, frozen condition situation. See how make me one
last investigation? Check, one last investigation. Chick, coming right up,
Just give me a sip the investigation that's this one five A right, you're
welcome. What do you guys do? Well? I think that perhaps Guilding's
curiosity would require that we started to finish this puzzle, and it could be
a good amount of time for me to finish this spot. We also have
to waste before the thing can be picked up again, right, twelve hours,
twelve hours to reuse it, eight hours for it to become a ball
again. Right. Okay, Well, I suppose we're sticking around a little
bit longer. I go back cross legged and back to meditation. I suppose,
yeahs, I think around. On the same time you start to make
progress on finishing up the pelt here and making it into something that is wearable,
the sun starts to set in this area. I would like to finish
the puzzle. Actually, even though we got the lock box, I want
to know what happens. So I go over and I remove the yellow or
a place or into the pillar of dusk. I would like to cast the
spell. I'm going to cast temporal awareness, so she can try that again.
Okay, what I literally roll back time mm hmm. But literally,
why you're about I go over and I remove the I stop stop stop stop
to stop there. Do not do not do that, do not n leave
it in and put the dusk orban. Okay, I do as he says.
But I'm very confused because it didn't seem to be an issue. It
didn't seem to be an issue last time. I say, what happens?
Does it light up? The yellow orb is currently in the pillar of zenith,
and it's lit up once you put the purple orb into the pillar of
dusk. I assue him. Yes, they both light up. Thank you
both light up. Oh that's all. The electric fence does not drop.
I believe you've given him another excuse if your smug as if he needed more.
I do not look smug at all. I just go right back,
but she said, she said as saying that I'm just calmly like working on
the peal. No smugness whatsoever, length face, like nothing even happened.
Yeah, I think dusk comes and the sun sets and you complete your yetty
skin cloak. Excellent rommy and our kanna check. I will there it is
you know exactly what this thing does. This is going to grant whoever wears
it. The whoever's wearing this has resistance to magical cold. And that's a
secret. Random image from Kalama Chupaca, the guy who did the artwork for
the character artwork which is on the screen. Just randomly do another thing that
I stole and thought it would be really good to use as a handout for
the YETI skin cloak. Perfect timing, Thank you very much, very cool.
So yeah, I think you're aware that whoever wears this will have resistance
to cold damage, you know, like the magical cold damage. It doesn't
do a huge amount for the the Oh wait, no, that's not true.
That is not true at all. That is not what I wrote down.
That is not solid snake. This gives you. It also gives you
advantage on constitution saving throws made for the frozen condition. Well, since you
have the character art for it, I guess you can have it. Oh
God's sake, I do not even look up at him when he says that,
And I will put it on. Okay, sort of flourish it around
my neck and it as it flutters behind me. It sort of stays there
for a moment longer than makes sense, and I'm regally posing with my staff
in one hand, and as from Jilden's point of view, the light catches
me just right, I think, and I'm silhouetted. When I was going
to say, was it doesn't settle quite right? Because I've settled right next
to you to get the warmth of the cloak. It settles down. I'm
just underneath that with you. You look down. I'm just like, I
think that I'm doing this amazing like first cloak pose and you're you've grabbed the
cloak and you're like the orphans of the Christmas present ghost underneath this clote warm
to hear. The music stops as I look down at you and sorry,
running everything for everybody the best. Will you give me that bit of text
and I can add it? Yea has some point? Okay? Do you
intend to share that thrack? You know? If someone needs it? Someone
needs it? Looks like I won't have a choice. And I sit down
and study I book, and I would like you what, since we're waiting
for the puzzle, I will take a long rest. Now, Yeah,
you can do that, I think somewhere in here in the next couple of
hours, the dome breaks yeah, and begins to reform, and night falls
comes and goes. Those of you that sleep through it can sleep through it.
Those of you that are watching can watch, and those of you that
are doing other things can do those other things. Before another day begins and
the sun begins to once again cross the horizon, and dawn arrives. We
dawn comes. What's that said? What's your we do with the orbs?
Now? Rack ah, place the remaining orb and the remaining pillar. All
right, I do that. How about you place the remaining orban the remaining
pillar? I say, yeah, you do that. The electricity on the
on the pillars dies down, fizzles out. Do you like that? You're
very smart? Shit, thanks for noticing. Take you long enough? Well,
I suppose that's the conclusion. I guess I would inspect the inside of
the area and see if there's anything else of interest there. Yeah, you
can roll an investigation check. This was an animal pen. At one point,
there would have probably been on one side of this a small shack or
a house or something where someone lived, and they probably kept something in here
that they didn't want to get out. But you know, they've they've created
a magical animal pen that then essentially that's what this would have been a very
long time ago. There was probably a goliath that lived out here and sort
of tried to survive. Now it's just a sort of pointless set of magical
pillars and just sort of magical pen be quite common. Or is this a
bit of an anomaly? Yeah, no, this is this is pretty weird.
This is an anomaly. Again, Thrack is aware that hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of years ago, the goliath that lived and settled the area would
probably have just built something like this for that reason, and that was just
kind of how they lived and they interacted an interface with magic. But yeah,
now it's unheard of. It's certainly not something that anyone has in moon
or unless you think you've seen it somewhere, then there's no reason for you
to know. Hold on one second. If these people intended to spend one
entire day to keep something in and it's no longer in, then where is
it? Hm? Hmmm, No, I'm kidding them. I would say
this was likely hundreds of years ago. There are a few things that would
survive, and if they did, they would be long gone, most likely
by now, one would hope very well is going. Do I know of
what sort of animals the original giants may have domestigated? Give me a history
check fourteen. It wouldn't have been exactly the same, But you're wearing it.
Ah, Yeah, that's sort of what I was thinking. Mark,
Yes, probably a yetti ben. I mean they keep them for a pet.
They farmed them. It did tastes quite nice. I don't think they
were exactly the same, but I believe they domesticated them for a various amount
of manual labor. They see. Is there anything else in the area now
that the fences down and the urgency has gone, there is not. No.
There was a quick way through this puzzle and a long way through this
puzzle, because I wasn't sure if you would need a rest here or whether
you was rushing. You know, I didn't know how you were going to
approach it. So I thought it would be interesting to give multiple different ways
to make this either easier or more difficult on you. Honestly, you could
have walked through it well like we could have cast absorbed elements, and just
in my eye, I wasn't quite going to put it past you or I
wouldn't have outright killed you. Pie were here, Yeah, he would have
done it. If Yeah, I'm assuming that you take the time now to
pack up your things. Who takes the bowl? Fact, if no one
else takes it, I will, But I'm not like clambering to get this
ball. Actually, I mean I have a you want the bowl? Yeah,
I think I kind of want the ball. It seems like it's gonna
sound crazy, but it's it's very uh, I don't know spiritual this ball.
You know, it's a ball. It might have no problem. It
shelters you, and it will remind you of me wherever you go us.
That is true. It will all right, okay, and then you continue
heading north, I assume, mm hmm. It's to be clear, everyone
gets their freezing reset. Yes, So those of you, yeah, that
had the freezing condition, you managed to you cure all levels of freezing by
taking a short rest in a comfortably warm environment. So you kind of already
did that previously. And you after you take a long rest, you can
you can heal up to three levels of that exhaustion. So DM, yeah,
there's my natty tracker. Also reset after a long rest. That's a
good question. I would think, if you want my opinion, yes,
I would think no. I would also think no, But I'm just trying
to figure out how many, like what how many long rests? We're going
to say no, but it might change. We'll see how how bad it
it gets. But I don't. The thing is, I don't imagine you're
going to be I know that you're absolutely devastated, but I don't. I
don't think you're going to roll that many ones. And the reason that we
do that is because you're you know, you want some buffer, but not
I think that's probably going to be quite strong. It sort of depends how
many long rests this party does. Some that's just a weird D and D
thing. Some parties long rest to every corner and some never do it.
And I think that that is really what will matter. So just to ensure
that you don't long rest to every single corner because it's annoying, I'm going
to say no for now. It's subject to terms and conditions apply, so
it might change. Okay, Yeah, I think you guys head out and
start traveling north and the the travel is pretty long as you start moving through
the the mountainous terrain Eventually it gives way to the area known as the pure
Lands, which is a very flat area where the mountains pass and now and
the hilly terrain gives way to It's almost a salt flat, but it's just
completely covered in snow and ice. There are points as you leave the snow
fields and move into the pure Lands that you recognize that you're actually walking along
huge icy lakes. It might take a while before you look down and recognize
that actually what is below some of the snow here is an enormous thick,
iced lake. And then it gives way again to earth, again covered in
snow. It's significantly easier to move across this, but it is a little
colder. There's a scent to the air of salt that you don't get the
senses from the area under foot, but that you're nearing the ocean and the
sea finally, and this really is just a slog at this point, as
you start moving north, completely safe in the knowledge that you're heading in the
right direction, but also it really is just a very boring and long day's
worth of walking here. When you get to the sea, there is a
chance that there might be some sort of boat or ship there is areas that
ships will drop people off here, and there are ships that pass through the
area, but they are so unbelievably rare that you're looking at literally once or
twice a year. The odds of taking a ship, finding a ship in
this area, or gaining access to a boat in this area are very very
low. Almost no one travels by sea in ocean because it's pretty much a
pangae and there is a scene an ocean out there, and people do fish
yet, but travel is not as prevalent apart from some of the coastal regions,
and this, while it is a coastal region, is a an Arctic
coastal region. There's nothing here. No one really comes through. So you
run into the question of whether of how you're going to cross the channel of
water between here and the island that Thaws informed you this dragon would be on
that he said was known as the Island of Black Rock. He said it
was an island that's covered in like black rocks and sand, and that you'll
find the King of Drakes there. So is anyone thinking about that and how
you're thinking about approaching doing that during this day of walk? Yes, yep,
I'm considering all the creatures I could wild shape into. Speaking if a
total can float a pokemon, this I think Technically speaking, I can hold
my breath for up to an hour, so if we had to, I
could just and you could all be on my back. But I don't know
if you'd all fit because you're pretty big. So but I can turn into
multiple creatures, including a giant crab, so maybe you could all film my
giant crabshell. It's a whale on your list. No, it's a good
question, ki, killer whale is a c R three. All right,
you can't do that, right, What do you say? I don't think
I need to be Oh wait no, maybe hang on. I don't know
how this works. I don't know the wild shape rules see three means you
can use your wild shape to transform to abuse of the challenge rating as high
as one high as one starting at sixth level. You can go as high
as your druid level divided by three rounded down. So that's nice and complicated.
Look a quick google wiles. They're all pretty I see r. I
can be a shark, shark, crocodile, all right, you know,
bring us over one at a time. Oh, this is like one of
those fun challenges. You're bringing the fox and the rabbit and the whatever back,
But it's me and I'm a crocodile and I'm eating all of you.
Every time she comes back, she's just got more blood around her. She's
like, yeah, I definitely dropped them off end of campaign. I guess
it would just become a campaign where it was just me and you those one
one campaign. I've always wanted the ghosts. I've always wanted to run one
of those. That would be an interesting way to get there, wouldn't it
kill all the party members of Okay, I will turn into a crocodile.
All right, Yeah, I imagine that you sort of maybe you float that
idea to the to the party, and yeah, I think eventually it takes
a little while, but you do find yourselves eventually at the shoreline and there
is pretty much just an expanse of water ahead of you. Give me perception
checks. We're going to do a group perception check. Yeah, and the
DC is aughty eight you be real beating easy easy, I can kill it.
Okay, and then someone rom me a D four al right, sixty
eight one? A one you're dead on one isn't a natural one? In
this situation, you actually get to the area that you need to be in,
and it probably isn't that you just walk straight up and then ahead of
you is you know where you need to get to, But there's not too
much traversal of the area. The day is clear, and you can see
an island which is sort of sitting out on the horizon. It's a small
looking island that's sort of just jutting up and really just looks like a set
of sort of black shards against the horizon. But you can recognize that there
is at least one island there. When you sort of maybe scan the rest
of the horizon, it doesn't seem like there's any other close bodies of land.
So it's a pretty good bet that this is the island that Thaws wants
you to get to. Is there on the shoreline by any chance? Is
there any Are there any boats that have just been abandoned and left behind?
You can give me an investigation or a survival check. Oh, I get
to choose yep, whichever one you're better at. Yeah, well, I
normally am great. It's the final yeah, natural one. There is a
boat there is it's destroyed. There is some parts of a boat, and
then you just see that it's wrecked. There's an the underpart of this boat
is completely missing. The wood has rotten away, and it's it's it's a
pretty large rowboat, but it's yeah, it's totaled. There is also supplies
in the area that seem to have come from this boat, but they have
for the most part also sort of fallen to disrepair. You can see that
there was once a hand axe, there was a little set of knives.
There's sort of just some scavenged materials. There is a couple of logs that
you might be able to take and dry out. You can see like bits
and pieces of clothing in the area. In the water here, because it's
so cold and arctic, there are ice floes, those sort of like discs
of ice that are floating out, and actually in those ice flows there are
bits of this boat that are just sort of frozen into it and allowing some
of these flows to even exist, like they've attached to it and they've grown
from that. But in terms of yeah, like any boats or any any
signs of a dark of any kind, there is nothing here. And actually,
since you did take a boat here, yes they did not drop you
off a dark or a port or anything like that. Yeah, I'm guessing
that the damage is too extreme for me to do a series of mending cantrips.
Yeah, it's beyond yeah, basic mending repair. Yeah, you have
to. You'd have to sort of rebuild a good portion of it and then
cast some sort of spell like that too. Yeah, so the flex seal,
I think it's just that's all it is. Yeah, Yeah, okay,
cool the owned of black Rock? Can we see from the coast or
not? Yes, you can see it, yeah, pretty far away?
Is it's it's on the horizon, which makes you think that it's somewhere it's
somewhere around a mile. Okay. In that case, I'm going to take
a couple of steps back and take a run towards the water, spend a
key point, and well I can't do any of that, So I look
towards yielding. Who was would honestly love it if you did, just like
Shadow the Hedgehog, get across the water and everything. Yeah, I'd be
so ready for that to happen. Yeah, I don't know. I left
this pretty pretty bare. There is some there are some options and some rolls
you can make but I wanted to see if you, if you guys,
have any ability to get across this water. I mean, it is this
thing that you need to figure out how to do. Someone was about to
say something, well, actually, my character can walk across waters. Not
again. That's a reference to another game that we play. We predominantly play
it off Rain, and a few of us all play in this D and
D campaign called Oracles Rest, in which Mergles showed up one day with the
character sheet that she just wrote a bunch of stuff on that wasn't what and
the ladyrin can do, and one of them was that she could just walk
on water, and we did a whole combat we did like multiple sessions before
finding out that she just absolutely can't do any of the stuff that was on
that character. I'll let you keep that one, at least in that in
that game, but not in this one. I don't give a shit about
Oracles Rest, but I'm watching all of you for this one. I will
use my fly dobility anyways and fly over to the island. They do that.
Bye, I don't know the spell. I don't know what that is.
They're a wizard. Wizards are really annoying. They can do pretty much
anything after a few so you're you're a crocodile, right, I can be
what do you prefer? I like being a crap and I start doing weird
crab like potions. Zero emotion on my face. This is I'm so used
to this kind of ridiculousness that just that has no effect on the Imagine having
pincher friend waiting for her to give me an honest answer. With that impulsively,
I turned into a crab. I think shock and disgust is painted on
my face, but it's kind of put on. You know, I am
now a giant crab. This is a pretty big crab. Yeah, okay,
children, I guess jildren make me a constitution saving throw. And this
is how wide and flat of a disc you can transform your crab shell into.
Crabs can low? Can they? They can swim though, right,
swim It's a swimming creature they do. They use their little legs to create
littles, a faster swim propellan through the world. Nineteen I'm going to I'm
going to say with a nineteen, you make yourself into a pretty big crab.
Here this is and I think this is you. This isn't really how
wild shape works, but I'm going to let it because it's fun. You
sort of know, you mutate yourself almost like you like when you're transforming.
You stretch the transmute yourself into a wider, weird mutative freak of a crab
that has a very like wide but probably way thinner shell than it should have
and is absolutely one of the most horrific things that any of you have ever
witnessed. Actually transforms into this growte part tortoise park crab disc. It could
be a crab as a tortal, not every creature that can world shape as
a tortal, but as a tortal because I already have the shell on my
back, shell like creatures come a lot more naturally to me, and I'm
therefore much more able to manipulate them to what I need. Yeah, maybe
you incorporate your own shell into it. Someone and carapist is basically my shell.
Yeah, it's still absolutely horrendous to look at. I like to imagine
I can feel her heartbeat like through the shell on my feet. It's awful.
You can take the I'll let you have the oars from the actual rowboat
that might be able to support you can turn the crab into a part swimming
thing with and part rowboat. I just kind of put my legs up,
like you know how horrific. My legs just float. You don't have to
help horrific, So do just horrible animal noises come out of your mouth when
you're saying that? Does I say crabs really have vocal cause do they the
way that a bear or something? So I think, yeah, realistically I
could wild shape. You shouldn't be able to talk. But I love the
fact that, like Jildren is just able to make sounds anyway and sound like
jild Oh, it's horrific. Yeah, I have horror what a crab is
here? It sunshine? Yeah, it's horrendous. But I'm guessing you will
climb upon this event horrific crab creature and sailor. Why I looked at the
oars and then to Syrus, and back to the oars and back to Cirrus,
and then sit back for the oars. Am I am I rowing us?
Yeah? Okay, your vessel you can partly swim and they can partly
row you. Okay, I'm rowing her. They're not doing anything. I'm
gonna throw her. Yeah, Brock's reading a book, probably in serious I'm
writing something. Okay, let's do a series of checks that I have to
now make up off the top of my head to figure out how this goes.
Because this is pretty weird. I think Jilden for Sere needs to make
me an athletics check. That is the basic swimming aspect here, Good boy,
as you swim along, you can have advantage even though you roll two
seventeen's there because they're rowing you as well. So it's going to take a
little bit of the effort off. But in order to keep everybody afloat,
yeah, you needed to roll pretty high. Everyone that is on the top
of this crab is going to get wet. The crab, I would imagine,
probably is quite well insulated. Crabs are probably good at not They probably
don't get cold, right, had thin caravas? Yeah, how how to
crab? Do anyone know anything about crabs? Depends on the location, of
course, cold crabs get cold. They can sense temperature, but don't feel
cold, not subject to hypothermia. That's good enough for me. Yeah,
all right, you don't need to make me the check. Then the three
of you on top are definitely going to get splashed. By some of this
arctic water. Make me consaves. Can the shelter bowl? Move the shelter
bowl? Yes, if we like, make shelter on the crab shell.
Oh yeah, you want to make the thing that they fly around in in
the Jetsons. You're gonna make a classic. Looking at the uff you draw
a UFI. I don't think we can. We just used it. It
was last night. I think that's a good point. Actually, it hasn't
been twelve hours, has it. You have to wait till the middle of
the day. Oh no, you have You've you've been walking for a full
day. Oh yeah, you're approaching sundown here, so it has been Yeah,
one all of a sudden starts making you can you can do this?
We can do this. Okay, it's a suggest, it's not my item.
I'm just asking the question. Uh yeah, I would. I would
pull out the ball and I would put it upside down on the back of
her shell and say, go go sheltering ball. You know what, I'm
absolutely allowing this. You create crab ufi submarine, whatever you want, whatever
it is, it is perfect as well if it attaches to hers and creates
like a pneumatic seal or whatever that's called, like you absolutely allowing it that
you can turn this thing into enough of a shadow that you're not affected by
the cold of the wind. You're not affected by the cold of the war.
You're certainly going to get a little bits here and there, but not
enough that it's going to need you to make any sort of checks here,
And honestly, on one athletics check, you travel the mile off the north
shore of Uma and the pure Lands and head towards this island. We're in
a hyperbolic chamber. On the s S. Yes, you you row,
slash swim the crab up to the island of black Rock, which the dragon
is said to be sleeping on. I think this crab sort of like scuttles
up this beach, which is so bizarre. As you get to this beach
and start walking along the sand here, Jilden, even as a crab,
you recognize that the sand here is very warm. Those of you that are
inside of the bubble might not notice the change immediately, but this place is
not just warm. It's quite hot. There is a distinct sense of heat
here. And as you're moving up the beach there are points where the bee
each just opens up and a burst of water and steam will launch out of
the ground here at random. There are geysers here that will just explode.
It's not so dangerous that you need to be worrying about it, like killing
you outright. But it is sort of a very bizarre island. If you
all jump off the top of this shell of children, you'll recognize that it's
warm here. It's extremely extremely warm, we'll say, not so boiling,
not so hot that it feels uncomfortable. But it's a massive and distinct change
from just a mile away. This island is predominantly black rocks, these sort
of like huge cliff sides with this black shale and strange sort of modica obsidian
that seems to have been It looks as if it's just been pushed out of
the ground. And then there are these areas where this steam is just rushing
up out of the earth itself. It's a very strange sensation. As you
guys make your way up the beach here, what what is the plan?
This is not a very large island. It seems like a very small thing.
It looks just like a rock in the middle of the ocean. I'm
just a crab, just a baby, I have too serious. I would
like to look around and see if I can notice any sort of trails or
previously walked paths in any direct survival check a team. No, there doesn't
really seem to be any tracks at all. There are some birds that are
flying around, but there are no no tracks, no sense of islanders,
no like humanoids, no people that seem like they live here, unless they're
maybe on one of the far sides of the island here, and yeah,
it just seems like a completely barren landscape. I start walking forward, and
I put my hand on the ground to feel the temperature. And then I
start walking even further off the beach, and I put my hand on the
ground again to see if it feels even hotter, and to see if maybe
there's an increase in temperature. As you enter the island. There is a
distinct increase in temperature. As you put your hand to the ground for the
second time, a little further up off the beach, the sand underneath your
hand suddenly gives way as part of the island comes alive, moving as the
black sand falls down off a set of gleaming golden scales, The sunlight reflecting
off of an enormous creature. As it awakens and stands, there is a
set of enormous wings that stretch out and open with this sort of deep groan.
As a beast appears, This gigantic golden dragon, the size of a
castle, reaches itself up, stretches itself before even open in its eyes.
There's a sniff in from its nose, and then a heavy breath out.
As soon as it breathes outwards. There's no fire. There's no flame,
but the temperature of the entire area around you raises a little noticeably. The
eyes of the creature open, reptilian and red. They lock on to you.
Immediately, another breath out and the island heats up again. The creature
sort of regards you for a moment, looking down at each of you.
There is a steady sort of breathing, and flames begin to lick at the
sides of its mouth. You get the immediate sense that you are standing before
an or maybe the apex predator of this world. Every fiber in your body
would potentially scream to run or fine, but it opens its mouth and speaks
a word booming across the island. Whoh, there's live boreal introduce yourself.
Ah sear of how Syria from mente Branzen. I say, arm track,
I'm sort of still a crab, sir, and crab you can speak crab.
We determine, yea, we determined that you wild shape. Just for
fun, jinn, I will do a wisdom saving through a first I think
twenty one. I just my robe is already partially open, and I just
kind of like do that and show the Cura symbol on my chest. The
dragon regards you. There's a moment where he looks directly at the symbol,
and then you see the enormous creature bring its head down, almost as if
it's bowing for a moment. The wings of this creature open again, and
as it lowers itself down, you recognize that upon his back he has the
Curer symbol. He closes his wings again and brings his head back up and
says, urah Cura. It is cu cure. But what's the threat?
I smack thrack with a giant leg rudder of a leg. I think I'm
just watching her. The nah twists. He looks down at you as a
group, and his eyes, which are very red, they begin to sort
of glow almost as if they alight with a flame in them. There is
some flame that licks out from his mouth and nostrils, and he fixes you
with a look. Do you look into his eyes? Yes, only if
they look back, Oh, they look back. He looks at each of
you, and his eyes swim as you look at them. It is as
if you can no longer look away. Immediately his eyes seem to grow,
the heat of the fire in them begins to feel as though it's physically burning
you. Your skin is aflame. For a moment, the landscape and the
ocean around you drifts away the eyes, and the intensity of the burning reaches
an almost maddening level. Immediately, the eyes sort of reach out, as
if they're grasping at you, as if they're pulling you into them, as
if you were thrown into a burning oven. A moment passes. You're alone.
Now. As you look down, you see a child's arms in place
of your own arms that you recognize but haven't seen in some time. It's
as if you're in a black void. There is some reflection from the ground
as you look down and see a version of yourself, maybe eight, nine,
ten years old, somewhere far above the void glitters with specs of twinkling
white like stars. Or perhaps you're so small that it's simply dust. A
voice speaks out, cirrus, a voice that you haven't heard in some time.
Whose voice do you think you hear? Byron? The voice says,
tell me cirrus. Imagine that in a different life, you have a good
friend. Your friend comes to you and tells me that they have committed a
crime. They explain that they're having trouble sleeping at night, and they feel
that you are the only one they can trust with their confession. A few
days later, you hear the news that someone has been arrested for your friend's
crime. Do you go to the watch, tell them what you know,
or perhaps encourage your friend to confess and warn them that if they do not
do so, you will tell. Or would you say nothing because you will
not betray a friend's confident, But say nothing? A voice speaks out to
use here one that you recognize. A voice that you haven't heard in some
time. Whose voice do you think it is? My teen? Tell me
here? In a different life, let us imagine you live in a local
town, a small village. There is not much work. The village itself
is barely making ends. You have just enough money to make it week to
week. Let us imagine you make a purchase at the local store. When
the sale is complete, you are given too much change. Do you say
something or keep quiet? I say something lest I disgrace my house and it's
what we have built here. Okay. The voice speaks out, one that
you recognize, a voice you haven't heard in some time? Whose voice do
you hear? Ah? I don't think the name would come to me or
I would recognize the voice it is. It is Uh, a leader of
the tribe. I was wanted a part of the warrior. The voice says,
tell me, freck are you replaceable? M yes, Gilden. A
voice speaks out, one that you recognize, the voice you haven't heard in
some time. Whose voice do you think you hear? Air? Nas Is?
The voice says, tell me children? What is evil? Evil?
He is knowing one's destiny and refusing it. It's been so long since I
heard where did you believe me? Hm? Do evil people exist? I
think somewhere. We always try and follow our souls, even if we don't
realize we're doing it. I don't think you can be evil In that case,
what would make somebody an evil person? Then to renounce everything you've known,
to deny who you are, but sure something you are not. Are
you an evil person? Oh no, of course not. No, no
no. Are you an evil person? Oh no no, I only ever
did my best for you. I am not an evil person. I've only
ever tried to follow what I thought was when you want it, but I
wanted. Are you an evil person? No no, no, no no
no no no no, I'm not an evil person. No no, Jilden.
There is fire all around you, nothing but fire. You are burning.
The flames are cooking you alive. You can feel the fire melting your
clothing, searing it to your skin, your eyes drying, the smoke filling
your lungs, scratching at your throat as you choke. They're screaming somewhere.
What do you do? I run away from it, from anything. You
try to run, but you fall. As you look down, you see
your reflection. What version of you do? We say? Do you see
a fairly young, total, raggedy, unkempt, covered in dirt, lost
and alone, not many trinkets, really, nothing to her name, no
ornaments upon her shell. Nothing She looks scared. Each of you snaps out
of this. It's reverence. There's a moment and a sense of vertigo as
you sort of return to your body from what feels like waking from a deep
sleep. Very quickly and suddenly your senses returned to you. It's it's warm
here, but jild, and specifically it feels there's there's still a sensation of
extreme heat to your skin. Yeah, make it stop. Mm hmm what
what is it doing? You feel it? No, I'm not a crab.
Do you think I would at this point, even on wild shape?
I think it would be so distracting and distressing. Guy would be reverting back
to toll form. Well mostly just writhing around kind of like really uncomfortable.
Well, no, no, are you all right? I make my way
over to her and put my hands on her as she had. Oh no,
no, don't touch me, don't touch me. She's she's pretty warm.
I think my eyes are still in the dragon. I'm still staring at
the dragon as well. Make it stop, Make it stop, make it
stop. Mhm, okay, I I will cost I'll cast a spell.
I can conjure healing electa hm. Oh it's okay. I I I my
I'm trying to healing word her. The problem is, I'm also trying to
think of something that I can do to cool her down. But I would
like to cast healing word on her. Yeah, you can do so.
This healing spell is cast that you jailled in. Do you think it helps?
No? Okay, huh does anyone have any ice or anything? Yes?
No, I think at this point I would dive into the water.
Yeah, rushes off, jumps into the water. It's cooler than you know,
just being near this dragon in the area. But the water here is
actually quite warm compared to the frozen areas literally everywhere else beyond this island.
I'm not email, I'm not I think I'm just thrashing around. I was
absolutely refusing to see any alternative here, very stubborn. I looked at the
dragon, and I ask him, it's just your magic. The dragon turns
its was watching children, turns its head down towards you, quite slowly,
and its head cocked slightly to one side. It says, listen, the
corns on her feet are quite sinister to look at, but they're not evil.
But children, if you just tell him you're evil, then maybe he
will leave you alone. But I'm not evil. I only ever did what
I've thought. And there's wandering from me. Did you ever ask of me?
Why have you abandoned me? Every night? Leave things for you?
I off for your things and you never speak to me. Oh? And
I ever did was for you? At this point, I think I am
kneeling in the water and just like basically screaming at the sky, I turned
to the dragons. Please, she's cure, she's chosen. Please stop.
What's light without a bit of dark? Am I right? I'm sorry?
Did you choose us? Did you put this tattoo on us? Right?
Right? So you were chosen just as she was, by whom we don't
know. But they had their reasons. They made a decision. It's not
yours to rebuke. Besides, what is evil anyway? You know? Like
a smell, a you know a way of thinking? What you do?
I mean, come on, she's a talking turtle. I mean, sure,
evil, but surely we can let this slide and move on the world
is ending? Right, h d not merchant? He looks at Jilden and
sort of nods his head in her direction. Yes, yes, no,
what wo morse? Well, my hands are tied. Why she worse?
Wow, we came to you because Ragnarok is upon us, well, a
version of Ragnarok. Then this maybe the last place untouched. Yeah uh,
As far as we know, undead creatures have swept across the continent, destroying
everything. If you haven't gotten the memo, all the angels are dead apparently,
see you give me a persuasion check. Persuasion check. Okay. Fifteen.
The dragon raises up a little. The wings of the dragon begin to
sort of vibrate and jitter. The dragon closes its eyes and then lifts its
head up and takes in another deep sniff. There's a moment that passes before
the eyes open. Portion bors we know Boreal is the only one that stands.
Yeah, fair Sirus, you can make me a I guess you can
make me a history check. Okay. Welve it Ivell might be Thau's grandfather
that he flippantly mentioned at some point over like a meal once. What I
happen to know if he's dead or alive? For sure? Dead is like
in his late sixties. H Yeah, yeah, okay, he has gone.
His grandson Thors takes his place. Yeah, do I know what that
is? The two yeah, yeah, you've heard of it enough. I
do not know, but if they are so with foil, then they would
be fine. There would be alive. There's a heat that starts to build
in the area. The flames that have been around his lips and his nose
rise a little bit, but there are also flames now that start to peek
out from under his scales and run down his tail. His tail raises up
behind him as he stands to his full size, and the rest of the
sand and the rocks fall off of him. He says, well, funny
you mentioned that actually none of us have wings, and Gilden here is useless,
and well my first point. He lowers a wing in front of you.
Well, I'm going to step on that wing and board the Golden Dragon.
Yeah. Yeah, it's hot to the touch, but not so bad
that you can't do so. He watches you as you step onto the wing
and begin to make your way up the wing to his back. I've got
to help Jordin out of the water. So how intensely is this burning?
That is it bearable or is it pretty unbearable? That is entirely up to
you? Mm hmmm, yeah, should right still down there? Don't leave
me. I would. I would also walk over the kilda and ah,
how do I how do I make it stop? I'll take her little turtle
hands and I'll look at her and say, why don't we try what we've
practiced. It's heat, right, it is, and I'm going to use
the power of cura to try and banish this pain with absorbed more moments.
You do have a spell that you worked on together. Yeah, you also
have a soul bond at this point and desperate please anything? Yes, willingly.
Yeah, I will mutter the incantation and sort of concentrate, and I
think that sort of like luminescent or start to glow around me, And then
if she does the same, I think that they'll become stronger and start surrounding
both of us. Do you want to give him a part of this pain?
Yes? Okay, Uh, it lessens for you, but you take
on something here that I'm just gonna let Leah d you Okay, however you
want to. You were holding my you were holding with your right hand.
I think I think your entire right arm would be pretty painful right now.
I think you will have taken on a sort of equivalent exchange and it's all
gone into your limb that's been holding me. So what what I've been feeling
right now is just yeah, it feels like you're holding over a flame constantly,
just this really really intense heat burning. You've I've been screaming over by
the shoreline, great by sharing ah ah, you'll feel it, Yes,
yes, I do. What is this? I don't know. I don't
understand. There was fire everywhere, fire. Why won't you stop it?
Why am I feeling that I'm quite down there? I'm not sure if dragons
get impatient. I think I grabbed rock with both arms right now, and
I'm just like, I'm not either, am I? And I'm sort of
imploring him at this point, shaking him. I look desperate, I look
terrified. I am grunting in pain, and I don't I don't think well
actually paying Thrack says, we all have evil inside of us, but it's
what we do now the mass, and I think at the sight of me
causing you pain, I actually let go, which is a fact for you,
because usually I don't care at all about how much pain I cause to
you or anybody. I don't I'm very selfish, and I don't know if
you'd notice that I kind of let you go and like step back a little
bit. Is she even going to let me on there? I would like
to cast a healing word on Thrack on his arm. I want to see
if that does anything. So I'm getting kind of like a psychosomatic vibe from
what's happening, and so I'm curious if, if not afflicted from the same
way of thinking, perhaps I can Yeah, Thrank, does it work?
I think that, I mean, how does it? How do you do
this? I think I think it would work. I think you just did
an act of selflessness and I think that would change the nature of the pain
and I think it would heal you. I maybe I still want to know
hash does this? Oh well, if you're if you're reacting to your arm
being in pain, I would just come over and I would I would just
put my hand on your arm, both hands on either side, and just
like move it in opposite direction and then back. Okay, yeah, I
think that the pain is mostly gone, but I do I do still outwardly
it looks like I'm better, So I yeah, yeah, that's better,
Thank you? Yes, And I'll turned to the dragon. Am I am?
I is that is that what you want? The dragon is watching you,
the eyes sort of rest on you for a moment, and he says,
yeah, how hot is this dragon? It would feel like you know
when you you know, when you touch like a car on a summer's day,
you know, like it's it's pretty it's pretty hot, but it's not
as hot as you might expect because it is quite literally flaming in places.
Okay, in that case, so when they start boarding the dragon, they
see I'm warming up like a like a skin flask of tea on its back.
It is whatever your maximum threshold for heat is, is how hot this
is? Okay? So just before it gets to the point where you're like,
I can't touch that any longer, right, is how it feels to
be on this constantly? I come over to Jildren and I take your your
hand, your turtle bertle hand, and I say, we can sort this
out. We need to get on the dragon now. I allow them to
fool me as we try and mount this dragon. Yeah, as we walk
by the dragon, I give it like a look deep in its eyes.
Right before getting on, it returns the look. But you just get the
sense of a very large, terrifying lizard looking back at you rather than you
know any specific sense. Between this week and next week's session, Leah,
I want you to give Orkish a secret about children, something that she probably
wouldn't want him to know. Maybe. As you each board the dragon,
the creature's wing attracts the moment even as it's shifting its weight, you recognize
that it's quite difficult to balance, and you find purchase grabbing onto jutting scales
or attaching yourself to a sort of a muscular part of the wing. There
are lots of spikes and ridges that run along the back of this dragon that
you can sort of grip onto, but it's pretty metallic feeling. The scales
feel like smooth metal, so it's quite hard to hold onto. But it's
too late. As the dragon starts to shift and move, Othamus lifts its
wings and he says hello. This is Brad Woto from Table Story. If
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