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slash discord. Thank you, Joy. Here's a bit of cinem arc that
I was able to find for you, rash talk. Perhaps a dash this
into the concoction. Yes, that will help the flavor. It's an unnecessary
ingredient for the recipe, but it will make it taste nice. Wait,
no this was needed? No you thank you? How much exactly do you
think you'll be able to make? Karoon was able to get many vials.
I should be able to make a portion for each of us with the few
spares, but I won't make those now in case Karoon wishes And what is
that you are adding in? Just ah ah? Do you wish to actually
know? I do, yes, and I'll pull out my journal. It
asked for the legs of a millipedes. M hm of course, fine,
there is no texture issue. M hm hmmd not like books. Yes,
I'm trying to make sort of a stew might make it more palatable. It
will likely tastes very unpleasant. You seem comfortable doing this. Have you done
this often? Uh? I mean I cook. I do enjoy making meals.
But in terms of this sort of thing, no, not that often.
Mm hm hm. It was more my grandmother's h expertise A you're fond
of her? Yes, yes, you raised me. Didn't know my parents
though, that's not uncommon in a lot of tribes. Yes, yes,
yeah, Well I come from a very large family. Oh how many siblings
did you have? Eight? Perhaps? What is a good amount? You
kind of lose track. Our families tend to they shift around quite a bit.
I don't think compared to your conventional human standards that they stay static.
What does a number that humans have when they reed? Oh? From my
studies, it varies quite a bit. Just one or perhaps up to eight
nine amendable amount to continue a legacy. I was expecting less. Actually,
I don't usually see that many children for humans. Of what I've observed,
it seems to be quite rare, but possible. It's not as grand as
twelve eighteen twenty five? Is that how many siblings you had? It depends,
sir. I don't know how many I have anymore. Breeding cycles are
large and frequent. Well, once a year's frequent, isn't it. Yes?
Yes, the parents of the brood usually continue for many years and have
six to eight in the clutch. I screwed all away at these notes.
Hear the sound of my pen scratching across the parchment. Could you have me
that, lad though? Please? Yes, of course here you are.
Thank you. How's the taste? Oh, I think it's still it's off?
Still many more? That's cinebark. All right, I'll have to go
get some well. Oh, sorry, I did not mean to burden me
with this. No, it is my pleasure to help. Oh once with
that. It just needs to similar thought. Thirteen minutes an hour. Very
good. Well, I'll go check on the others as I go find some
more. Thank you, and I will make my way over to the stores
where we've been keeping everything. Norah, Yes, oh what are you up
to? Well? I was just reading a little bit. Yeah, might
have taken a book from our travels. Oh, do you mind if I
ask what it is? How do you remember that one about the dusk Walker?
Mm? Hm hm hmm. Finishing up? Now? How are you
feeling about all of that? Hmm? It's interesting. I mean, it
doesn't answer my particular questions, I suppose, but it's an interesting bit of
fiction. Fiction mhm. I mean, I suppose it's fiction anyway, aren't
you? I suppose, I mean it takes liberties. But what about you?
When I close the book quickly? What have you been up to?
I'm just helping a rash tak brew up those potions, the ones that should
be able to allow us to revisit our memories, ones we've lost. Right,
it seems it's almost done. Well that is that is wonderful? And
how you feeling about that? Is it something you wish to look into?
Of course, there are pockets and memories that I cannot recall, especially those
around the missing moment. If I could do anything to get those memories back,
perhaps we would get some kind of information or divination on what exactly happened
to us, what brought us all together like this? Yes, I suppose
the things that we have remembered are fragmented. It'll be good to know.
It's very good to know. I sense hesitance with you. Well, there's
the whole nature of what is being kept from me by for asthma. I
suppose I would assume it's for asthma. I wonder if this will assist in
unearthing any of that, or if it's maybe something I shouldn't on earth.
I would like to know about my sister. I suppose you won't be alone
and we don't have to all take it together all at once. Yeah,
I suppose that's true. Have you seen Ralevic? Mmm? I think I
see his horns poking up over there? Malevic, darling, you would see
me up on the deck side, looking out into the open water, leaning
on the banister of the ship. It's kind of lost in thoughts as iver
there myself with Menda. I do not answer. You're a coal He's been
keeping to himself, hasn't he mm hmmm, Yes, I suppose I should
likely apologize lots of control what we were fighting. Well, then I'll leave
the two of you to it. I'll go get more bark for our dear
friend rash talk Ah Syria. Yes, I'll grab your hand and squeeze it
nicely. Checking in of course, if you need me, I'll be just
below deck, all right, I will gather my skirts and walk over towards
Malvic. Malvic, this is now a bad time. No, I'm just
looking out at the water as we travel, and it's rare that I go
one voyages like this. Have really never been on a ship this lot,
at least without being smuggled, So I'm just kind of taking in the atmosphere
of it all. I guess you could say it is quite beautiful, despite
being quite terrifying to be out of the middle of the water, hardly able
to swim rapids, able to take you under, and do you without any
sort of regard for your life or safety. Yes, Unfortunately, every circumstance
could be the same. M hm. Speaking of safety, I will move
closer and put a hand on the railing. I I wanted to apologize,
but why Well, whilst we were fighting that crew, I lost control.
I was I was attempting to I suppose my pride got in the way while
I was attempting to learn the spells that I have in my possession, because
the God's will it, I suppose a curse wills it, so I just
wished to apologize hitching you. I have not even realized that you've done such
a thing that light that killed those men with me. Oh that's surprising.
I thought you were the one that was more of a yeah, takeer of
life, more than a taker. You would see me looking at my hands,
and I suppose all hands are capable of both. Perhaps, I think
as it might be, I'll grab one of your hands, and such tiny
hands capable of taking life is a good reminder that we have to be responsible
for our actions and then take them into consideration, that every action becomes a
part of it. It's growing. Taking a life out of self defense and
the care of your clan. It's never a bad thing. Do not hold
it too close to your heart. You did with Dad. To be done.
I am still here, but now I have a reminder where there's here
now look on the side of my back. Shoulder came from now where with
ride. Nonetheless, I am sorry. I did not intend for you to
get in the way, well for it to be that long range. Did
you see how far I shot that fucking thing? I didn't see anything.
I guess I felt it. Did you feel how far I shot that fucking
thing. I guess I did have a constant reminder, and I'll let your
hand go. Wh She's a reminder for us all to be careful. I
suppose first are breathing there, being able to do things that are capable that
those that were lost at sea are not able to. Something came over me
out there. I didn't even go into a state of red like I normally
do. I felt like I needed to protect that that one for some reason
I don't understand. Perhaps we are tempering the flame. I don't know.
I don't like change very much because I don't understand it, and I feel
like I have a grip on who I will become what I am. It's
away from me. Every slip, whatever happened between me and our Cilia,
I feel like some of us rubbing off into me. I would have cut
those people down without thinking twice. But for some reason I thought about compassion
of her anger. Do you think that that is because of our Celia or
because you are learning m Maybe both. It is strange, though, mm
hmm. There's some magic that has now occurred between the two of you.
I'm still trying to figure out if it's a blessing a curse. There's always
two sides of a blade. Arra our always has its consequences. Someone ends
up getting hurt, no matter how gentle you try to do it. I
fear that if something happens to see either one of us, something drastic will
happen to the other. So trying to understand it. So what is it
like? How does it work? To your knowledge? And far? Yes,
I see glimpses. I'm pretty sure that I say it feels the same
strong emotions, some emotions that I don't understand, some emotions that checken responses.
My body acts in a different way. I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming
burst of what you would call anger probably feeds into her when she's critically hurt
of some sword. I feel like I can share the burden, but it's
an instinct. It's a reaction that I have to take immediately. If I
think too much on it, I lose the connection. Strangely, it feels
like when we're not close to the lay lines or what have you, the
connection is shortened faster, has to be more of an instinctual feeling. But
near those lay lines, it feels like it's more of a concentration, something
I can take my time and really pump my energy into. Mention has become
more clear, less foggy, and I feel more powerful. It's almost like
if I was a swing my sword, her hands are wrapped around mine.
The swing goes through well with two thoughts, as one more than my own.
It must mean nonsense to you. No, no, I mean you've
seen my magics, the real the result of a curse, of course.
But mm hm to be able to to take some of that pain away from
you all, I don't quite know if that is a curse. It feels
as if it is a blessing. It hurts, God doesn't hurt. But
I think being able to share those burdens, those parts of ourselves is a
very important thing. Mm hmm. You see the water out there, I
like to compare it to that. Right now, it's calming, tranquil.
People may even look at this term as serenity, peace. But the moment
that you trust too much into those waves, it can overtake you, overwhelm
you, overcome, you become crashing as hard as as the land itself can
bury you, take your breath away, strangulate you, or it can carry
you to safety, double ed sword, blessing and curses names. Really,
blessings can be just as scary as curses vice versa, as we're going to
find out as we reach assured as of mindev, I cannot promise you that
things will be smooth for our travels. As while I am traveling with you,
I'm debating and embarking on my own adventure, maybe splitting away from you
all for a while, find you on the back end. But do you
know what har I'm coming to you. I'm not thinking about it for a
long time, Malevic. I do not care to see you become a victim
of a discrimination that may become a part of why I exist and dev history
has been through a lot. As you know, or maybe you don't know,
Malevic, it does not mtter m hm. We are there for you.
You should not have to suffer such such cruelty alone. If only my
mother could see this now, So when actually caring for your mother, if
she was okay, I'll say, I'm sorry, it's fine. She's the
less cruel that I've come across. But you have to understand that not always
is it their fault to be afraid of something so different? Those that look
like me, are even worse. Have put a very bad scar across this
world, especially in mindev and those that can sort with the likes of me
or therefore look even worse, are very worse. They do not know how
to tell the difference. It's very sweet of you to care, but I
am not worth the time asients of love that you're pouring in their Rashtok and
Arcia and Karun and the other one manic. There is nothing more untrue that
I have ever heard come from your lips. You are worthy of love,
were worthy of friendship. You are worthy of companionship and for people to protect
you as you protect them. M Let us be there for you. I
do not doubt your sincere words. But do you have yet, and I
put a hand on my shoulder, You have yet come to the reality of
what it means to look like me. You will soon see. You said
it to yourself, dearest Yarrah, that you lost control. I wouldn't dare
see you mow down countless humans or are there because they fear me. Will
assess the situation. There's something you must know about me. I am too
cursed clearly from birth. There are some things that I'm finding out about myself.
Those that have a burning hatred towards me and express their means as so,
I answer back with violence, and I cannot control it. The raging
peace inside of me comes out and loses control. I have spent years on
quelling that. Then let us be there to help you quill it. They
have not been be a situation of so many at once. I will allow
whatever you ask out of respect for you, but if it gets too much,
now'll stare into your eyes, put me down, and put me down
fast without delay. The compacts. Shouldn't you feel for me that you say
you do needs to be out of love with a strike that can pierce my
heart? There are, i would say, rumors. Legends have told that
one that is born from such of a bloodline such as mine eventually become what
they fear the most, or what they desire the most. I am not
perfect. I desire power just as much as well more than the average person.
I will eventually, more than likely not be myself. You have to
promise me that you will not hesitate if I cannot come back. M all
right, good, But I would expect the same from you should anything happen
to me if any nature similar. That's not fair to ask you to put
someone down who is not themselves and cannot come back. That is what you
are asking me. You radiate a beauty beyond looks. There's something inside of
you that I cannot explain, but I can sense it of a divine order.
I cannot see these hands harming you potentially. Ah, you have to
leave that test to someone else. Holding you back as one thing, putting
you down is another. As a side speaking of curses, I believe rash
talk is putting the finishing touches on the concoctions he's saying he could make.
Hm uh, yes, I've heard. I do not want to partake in
that. It's not tested. We do not know what memories made come up.
It might be something that I ate five minutes ago. It could be
something that unlocked something that's far more dangerous than it needs to be. I
am. On the other hand, I'm convinced that the missing moments is not
a bad thing, that maybe it's protecting us from something we should not know.
But you want to hear then, from what I've heard, do not
even know if your memory is a true You may not be who you think
you are. That is probably why I send such a pull towards you.
So you need to be prepared, take some time alone, think this through.
Know that who you are now, and then that if you love who
you are now, a memory may unlock something that's more devastating. You may
not end up liking who you become or what you find out. Clearly,
understand that this is again tampering with things are not in the order that we
have received them in all right, But who is to hold back the great
Jara from curiosity? On your answers. I do know the person you are
today. I do cherish who you become will defined you of how you take
actions. Mhm m fair enough, man of it good and I'll lightly elbow
you. M hmm. You're pretty okay yourself, darling, And I will
walk off to rejoin Roschok and anyone who's down there. I'll watch as she
walks off so I cannot see. I'll smirk. We shall see, and
I'll keep watching in the distance, waiting for Larn to be seen. Another
day passes on the lake of Mists and Vales. You all have the opportunity
to rest, and it is fairly uneventful. The night is cold. You
feel those droplets of rain maybe turn into the occasional snowflake. Over the course
of the next day, it's gray and bitterly cold. You go about your
business on the Mermaids tears and you hear the crew bracing as Captain Tinhill begins
to spur them to work of our slides. We have ourselves a blizzard on
the way. I'm down. The main sails get to work. The crew
begins to make their way around the ship and begins to ready yourselves. You
can see the visibility has dropped. There's a sort of haze and that sort
of white out effect as the snow begins to come down more severely as it
gets later on to the day. It's almost evening, or so i'd say,
so very late afternoon, but it's been gray and kind of dark all
day. It's one of those days when you wake up and you think that
it's still nighttime out, but it's just one of those really dark mornings,
and you've all kind of been experiencing that throughout the day before, the before
the crew has started to get to work here. It's been relatively calm the
last day, so this is a bit jarring for you all, but you've
experienced it the previous the previous day as well. The sounds of wall now
replaced by a blizzard. The winds have picked up. There's biting cold.
With any skin that's exposed to the air, you can feel that sort of
those almost cutting winds sailing past you. Now as the waters get a little
bit more rough and the winds kick up, where are you all, I'm
trying to help with the sails and everything. I'm trying to get every to
help them make it as smooth as possible. Very well. I've joined Malvik
up on the deck. I am blow deck. It did not wish to
be out in the cold if possible, Very much the same as a rash
talk. I am bundled up below deck. I do not like this.
As you hear the crew moving about, there's a strange smell on the air.
Everybody make a perception chuck twenty five, success thirty one, twenty eight
O two chrits. Everybody recognizes the smell. It's a sort of strange,
sweet smelling, almost earthy sort of smell, which is odd amongst the snow
falling here on the lake. As the blizzard begins to kick up begins to
get difficult to see. You struggle to see past maybe fifteen feet in front
of you. The deck starts to get a little bit more difficult to walk
on Malvic and ar Celia, And as the smell begins to make you reminisce,
you think about that large bubble that you saw and the strange vision that
you had. That sweet smelling breeze triggers something in each of your minds flashes
from your visions standing next to each other, gazing at a gait much like
your visions from yesterday. You inhale a lung full of this crisp, sweet
smelling air. Your mind is once more whisked away from the present. This
time though there's no glowing gadance. Instead, your party is somewhere very cold
and very desolate. You trudge together through an arctic waste in the middle of
a snowstorm, Compelled by some unseen force to move toward an unknown destination.
In your hands, you pull one end of a rope secured to a sled
the trails behind your party. On the sled is the body of some large
creature hidden to you beneath a canvas tarp. Once again, Sakawachie stands at
a distance too far from you to do anything but watch ahead. A black
spire stands before you, just on the edge of the horizon, and as
quickly the spire resolves itself to be a ship mast, crunching snow beneath your
feet, yaws and rolls, and you are once more on the mermaid's tears
or sail, flapping wildly in a strong and bitter wind. Each of you
please roll me a D three two true one one very well. As your
vision subsides, you find yourselves once again on the ship's deck. This blizzard
has worsened significantly. The gun whales are coated in ice, Drifts of snow
are piled by the doors leading below decks, and the lake churns with big,
choppy waves. You can hear Captain Tinhill and the crew sort of yelling
as you move about the decks. And the most pressing matter is a creature
of elemental ice stands before you. Going to bring you over here. You
need to select your tokens as I drag them onto the map, and then
we're going to have you roll initiative. Just give me a second here to
position them, Okay, Carona was in three. Malevik you are in two.
Yara, you are in one. Oursh talk you are in one.
Please select your tokens and roll initiative. Got a twelve twenty water one for
ten mm hm question did we rest Durin that whole time? I know you
did? Yes? Okay, okay. As the blizzard itself seems to be
made manifest, icy missed starts to bellow out from this creature. As you
stand around a little shaken and bewildered, Sakawachie off to the side, looking
at each of you, I would like Arcilia to please make a perception check
twenty seven Barcilia, when Sakawachi looks at you, you pick up just a
hint of something for a second, I think you would recognize it as bewilderment,
maybe betrayal, that she looks at each of you. Now I need
to roll for initiative for this creature. Okay, we need initiative for Karun
and Sakawachie as well. Let's see here, k Karun, where are you
you are? Okay? M h it is Karoon's turn first? Okay.
Uh. Karun looks around a bit confused. Uh, what that was that
like what happened before? Is that an ice cube? What is happening?
And you, lady with visions, are you or is this do you know
what's happening? Are you? What is going on? Where's the rest of
the crew. Karun is just gonna kind of ask questions for her entire turn,
not really understanding what's going on as this happens. I would like everybody
to be aware, while you are in this snowstorm, you are all taking
a minus two penalty to any perception checks. You are taking a minu to
penalty to any ranged attack rolls and any auditory perception checks. Any torches that
you have are extinguished, So any of the torches that are around or lights
that are around the ship have gone out. If you are standing on the
deck and you move, something might happen. Okay, this creature, well,
now take its turn. Okay, nearest to it is a rash talk.
A rash talk. This strange creature, seemingly made out of ice,
turns towards you immediately you get you catch this chill. This long fingered,
clawed hand made of ice slashes towards you. That's a thirty five to hit.
That's a crit mm hmm. That is for thirty six slashing damage and
one persistent cold. I will use my reaction to raise my note. You're
too far away. JK what Okay, that's its first attack. Then it
will slash again. That is a nineteen to hit and that hits, but
not a crit for fifteen slashing damage and another one persistent cold. As it
attacks you a rashtak, you feel your flesh gets slice, your scales separate,
and the ice begins to spread from the wound as it will strike for
a third time. Seventeen hit. That barely misses because that was a big
damage. That was twenty slashing damage. That was a miss a rashok you
barely manage to get your staff up in time to block the attack. Okay.
Sakuwachi looks around a bit bewildered. She turns towards coron. I do
not know what this is. Perhaps this is another vision. Where is the
me? She looks around a bit confused the crew and she will cast bless
Okay, Malvic, it's your turn. M I'll look back towards Oursilia.
This is very much different than I normally act. For a acknowledgment of my
next action. As our eyes locked together, I will send a quick flash
of what I saw on Sakawachi's face, that strange look of betrayal. Something
is not right with her. I want to clarify, since you rolled so
high here, or Celia for this perception, check yes, when she looked
at you all, there was a look of maybe a touch of fear and
a touch of betrayal on her face. She looked at all of you.
I will I will essentially translate that over in a brief flash. What I
saw is in your mind's eye. I will quickly look towards Psychologic, but
only at a quick glance, and then push my attention towards this creature.
And as I do that, I hear a rastock scream in pain multiple times,
a rage for my first action. And then I will take the step
action, step closer five feet towards this creature, and I will shall be
flat footed. Okay, then I will one action then strike it with my
great sword. But as I do this and raise my great sword in the
air, I dig deep. You see the spark starts to come into my
nails in my hand and ride up my blade as it catches fire, and
I will swing with the draconic rage. No, do you need to?
Does it cost you any extra actions or anything to activate your iconic rage?
Okay? No, fair enough? I mean the rage is I just choose
when what type of rage? When it requires no action to do? No?
Okay, twenty four is a hit thirty yeah, okay, it was
fire. However, Malvic, when you attack, you see the fire before
it even reaches begins to melt away at this ice creature, and you hack
into it hard with your sword, like the sound of breaking glass. Ice
shatters and sprays in five feet all around the creature. I need reflex saves
from a rashock and yourself. Please gots eighteen. Okay, both of you
fail. Rash Talk oh yeah, okay, sucks. You take eight hold
damage, I'm sorry, piercing damage. Piercing damage and a rash talk falls
to the ground, nor rashock. You are dying one, Malvic, you
also take eight piercing damage and you are blinded as the ice hits you in
the face. Okay, so my temporary in points sixty six of that.
Okay, I'm not sure what happens to the blinded condition when you are knocked
unconscious, but I think a rashak you are also blinded in case you are
brought back. Yes, oh yeah, okay, is that it for your
turn? Blinded? Okay? Ah yes, where you have struck at Malvic,
you could see, like you know, the fire has sort of kind
of like spread out and uh melted more than you expect from this creature.
With that vision, Let's send it directly towards oursia. Uh, she can
make of it what she wants. In a flash of me seeing that it
did more damage, and then I was instantly blinded, so the vision was
just literally a flash. Okay, rash stock, Uh, you are after
that creature. Okay, our Celia, it is your turn. I WinCE
at the blinding flash, reeling a bit from it. Karn, Well,
please look out to Saatchi. Something is not right. I'm busy talking to
Saquachi. What is it? Can I help you? I do not know
this. Something is strange and you can see Saquachi is looking at you a
bit oddly, Karun Kuran makeup perception check for me very well. Yeah,
it's a twenty eight. You maybe didn't pick up on it first, but
Sakawachi is sort of looking at you a bit hesitantly. There's a look of
maybe fear on her face when she looks at you, a look of skepticism
that she doesn't seem to trust you in the moment. HM. Regardless,
Luke, it is our serious turn. Sorry very well. For my first
action, I will rush over five ten fifteen feet to hear. And as
I'm rushing forward, I would like to use exploit vulnerability on this creature esotericule
of nineteen. Okay, that is a fail all right. With a failure,
I can only exploit. It's the personal antithesis. So you see,
I reach into one of my component pouches and I'm rubbing this almost iridescent sand
onto the morning Star that Yara gave me. And for my final action,
I would like to swing my morning Star, or Celia. I'm going to
need you to make an acrobatics check first, okay fourteen ok uh, you
cannot reach the creature and you unfortunately begin to slip on the deck. You
can't get good footing. It's gonna waste one of your all right, So
then I will forego the morning Star to move into this position. As I'm
slipping around the floor is unstable, Okay, Yara it's your turn. Oh
that is not good. I will go ahead and I will tap into my
oracular curse in order to cast life link upon a rash Talk and a Cilia,
granting them both ten healing as Celia this Obviously, you're not hit,
so this doesn't count for you, but it will raise a rash talk or
at least allow him to breathe another bit of air or Rastok can you hear
me, darling? All right? Excellent? From there, I'm going to
go ahead and I will use battle meadow sin to treat wounds at an expert
level on a rosstalk for twenty two So that is a success for twenty five
points of healing, of course. And for my last action, I'm going
to cast vision of weakness. My eyes will flash a bright blue as I
go ahead and look towards this creature, I get a chance to know any
of its weaknesses as well as three of it's what is it? Which of
it's three is its lowest saving throw modifier. I'm not making an attack roll,
so this is not going to count anyway, but yes, I get
to know its weaknesses as well as its lowest saving throw. Okay, there's
no saving throw against this right? No, okay, okay, So is
saving throw modifiers reflex hm, that's all you get, I think, right,
If it has any weakness, it is weak to fire. Excellent Darling's
targets. It's reflexes, it's weak to fire. And that's just my turn.
Very well, Karun. Do I have any idea with my perception why
the human doesn't trust me? Not? Really. Everybody sort of experienced this
strange vision beforehand. Just to restate this for you, as you were,
you hadn't joined us yet. You had seen your party somewhere very cold,
very desolate, and you were all trudging together through an arctic waste in the
middle of a snowstorm. I'm held by some unseen force to move toward an
unknown destination. And in your hands you were pulling a rope secured to a
sled that trailed behind your party, And on the sled was the body of
some large creature hidden to you beneath a canvas tarp. Sakawachie was there at
a distance, observing things. And there was some strange black spire on the
horizon, crunching snow beneath your feet. You saw the vision coalescent to another
sight of you on the upper deck of the ship. Time had seemingly passed,
and a snowstorm that was on the horizon increased in its intensity. And
now the strange snow elemental a creature has come before your party. Very well,
before I deal with Sakuachi, I will be absolutely hearing the word fire
and reacting accordingly. Uh you sent fire, yes, darling, fire right,
sure, you chuck some of your lesser alchemists fire, which unfortunately doesn't
hit. But being the alchemist that you are, the splash blast snappalm that
manages to connect with the creature, and you can see that is especially effective.
As it lands upon it, it recoils in what you assume to be
pain. Ra I would like to pull out another one and just look at
Sachoacci and say, tell me about the spire. I do not know what
it is. What did the creature under the tarb? She says nothing?
What is your game? Human? Anything else in your turn career? Is
it possible to intimidate her for an intimidation check two? Oh boy, she
says to you, you will tell me when this is done. Is that
how intimidation works? She's very scared. Oh it did work. She is
very scared. All right, very well. Considation doesn't mean necessarily that you
get what you want. That's true. You can see that it's definitely scared.
Sakawachie, little human please, Oh all right, we will deal with
you after the thing. Don't panic. I will take cover in that smeton,
okay, a rash talk from the ground. I summon up some bugs
for a life boost upon myself. You can see several of them, like
emanating from various bits of your clothing, like sort of flying around. Some
are immediately like impacted by the cold, and you can see like several of
them like this is like falling off a mechanical question, because I don't actually
know. I know this begins at the start of the turn. If I
cast it on someone else, does it work on the same term as I
cast it if it's not myself, that might be a ruling you make,
because I don't know how fast healing works in that god, it's considered fast
healing mechanically. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to look it up quickly.
I'm not sure. Oh yes, yes, yes, I'm gonna say no.
Because the start of your turn happened before you cast Yeah, that's what
I was thinking. I figured i'd ask, Okay, that is totally fine.
All right, Ah, you're also prone, and you are you do
have persistent coal damage that will happen at the end of the turn. Yet,
okay, I figured, ah, well, you know what doesn't matter
about being prone. When I become a bug on the ground already, I
begin to elongate and grow extra legs. As I become a scorpion, my
tail whips up into a curve with a pincer point, and I begin to
change. I've just been told that it does happen. I guess h immediately
podcasting. All right, okay, I accept this question is do we have
a cool insect icon to give you? Because I'm not changing it out,
Can I just give you an insect icon? It's gotta we gotta have one,
Come on, baby talk, we need the books. Uh, let's
see. I think we'll use this one. This is normally for dark vision,
but it's kind of spooky, so we'll just give you that A nice
I want to note with this, I have imprecise tremar sense I don't need
to see now Oki doki, and that is my ten. Okay. Also,
just as a reminder, and this is my fault for not letting Karun
know. But any of your ranged attacks are essentially taking a minus two penalty.
Your perception checks are taking a minus two penalty. And a creature that
is fifteen feet away is basically concealed by this falling snow, this blizzard that
is happening right now. Okay, is that it for your turner raw shock?
Yes, alrighty, this blizzard born creature. Uh did you do it?
Makes no sense to try and do that. Uh? Okay, it
will I think probably strike towards Malvic. Malvic has done quite a bit of
damage to it. An ice claw attack headed your way Malvic twenty nine to
hit say, I agree, okay, uh, and this will be for
twelve slashing damage and six persistent cold damage. Wherever the claws rake against your
skin, you can see like ice crystals beginning to form. You could see
anybody that's around Malvic that fire that sort of has erupted, almost dies down
a little bit in these intense in this intense cold, it's initially or in
the next time. Uh So it's at the end of your turn you get
the persistent cold damage. Okay. Second attack twenty eight hit yep see,
and this is for an additional five persistent cold damage on top of fourteen slashing
damage. I've will raise my amulets here to reduce the damage by seven.
Okay, out of curiosity. How long does this blindness last? Blind?
Ah? Yes, blindness is blindness. Uh lasts for one round, one
round? All right, so you already has gone uh and Malvic Uh.
When Malevic's turn, I think uh comes back up. I think it's over
all right or at the this creature went before Malvic, he got blinded,
held, he got blinded when he attacked, so this is going to be
his blind ends at the end of his turn. Excellent, okay, okay
uh. And then the third attack and that is a miss with nine oh
in sanctuary is just old slash my sword out, rubb in my eyes in
the spots so that I was hit. How much is the benefit from the
blinding. It's not enough to fore for you to get hit, right,
Yeah, it's two perception checks and that's it right, Yeah, alrighty,
that is it for the creature's turn. Saku Wachie will get away from Karun,
I let her go, Yeah, will try to I think just kind
of take cover at the edge of the boat. She doesn't want to,
she doesn't seem to want to get close to any of you, and she
just takes cover. Alvic, So, wait, do I have to make
a roll for this persistent or is it just it's at the end of your
turn for the persistent? If you would like to try and get rid of
the persistent damage, you can try to do that. It's basically like trying
to get the ice off of you. Yeah, I will try to require
two actions. Yep, I will try to stoke the and this does not
count against this is not Wait does this count against attack actions or no?
This is me trying to put it out two actions that you're using to try
and get rid of the What is it so if I attack at the end,
does it affect that attack or no? Okay, Yeah, I will
try to stoke the inner fires inside of me. I will bump it down
and and essentially try to get in touch with my inner demon, so to
speak. Put these fires out, Let me put this ice out. What
do I need to uh? Looking at this block, it's heart Yeah,
there's so much. I summarized it. It says after you take damage,
you will then roll to see if it goes away. I think it's just
a flat D twenty. Yeah, d C fifteen flat D twenty also have
the weight selecting image. No, no, no, you can do it
right now. Oh okay, if you're doing assisted recovery, which you can
help yourself or an ally can help you to do it, it's twelve.
Okay, sorry, I'm just checking here. Okay, uh where did you
see that The DC is fifteen Russia it's something else. Yes, that's the
DC for the standard attempt at recovery after you take persistent damage, Yes,
it says hyer. Then roll a DC fifteen, check to see if you
recover. Right at the top that last sentence above the persistent damage rules,
it says, after you take persistant damage, roll a DC fifteen in flat
check to see if you recover from the damage. Oh so smarter, Oh
so yes, not to act. This is assisted recovery. Something different.
If he does not succeed, yes, it's a free check, but it's
an extra check on top of it. But you can prevent yourself from taking
it if you do it beforehand. Okay, I'm pretty sure, I feel
so well. Okay, it says up to the GM what they want DC
to be here using the following guidelines. The action might help require a skill
check or another role to determine effectiveness. YadA, YadA, yadda. Okay,
so I think you already committed to this, and you were trying to
clear off the ice. You have fire that is sort of part of your
rage. I think the DC will be ten for this, so you can
use those two actions. You stop the persistent coal damage and you sort of
catch your breath for a second. You still have one action left. You
are still blinded until the end of your turn. Slow down, and I
sort of raised my heart rate, and then I will pull my sword back
towards the ground and go for an upward swing towards the screen. Chailway remembered
where it was before and the feeling of combat, and I will swing with
your conic rage seventeen seventeen. You strike just kind of blindly, and you
just completely whi arsilia. Probably you dodge back as you see Malvic's great sword
approaching you, his eyes sort of covered in frost, slowly melting away.
After he swings, Malvic kind of blinks and you see the frosts dissipate from
around his eyes as end of my tie. Oky, dok or Cilia,
it's your turn. As I dived down trying to duck out of the way
of his wayward sword, I will attempt to do exploit to vulnerability again twenty
seven. Ooh, that is a success, all right. I will learn
its highest weakness, which is fire. But then I'll also learn the number
five. Very good. With that, I begin to pull out more of
this sparkling dust, and I will semear it onto the morning Star. I
will activate its mortal weakness with this success. Here, I will chemp to
swing. Okay, A twenty five is a hit. Okay. Then I
will do ten bludgeting damage plus two empowered plus five fire. Okay, Now
does is that plus five on top of the weakness that it has like this?
No, it is the weakness. No, it is the weakness.
Yeah, So do not get the plus three four personal into this sis.
I'm replacing that with the plus five Instead. You smack it with the morning
stark. You begin to see cracks develop, and as you connect, there's
a small fireball that erupts, and you see chunks of this thing just kind
of sliding off and falling to the ground. In this moment of weakness.
As it reels, I will strike again as hard as I can. Twenty
three. That is a it is flat footed. So that is in a
hit because you are in melee and it is still flat footed. Yes,
okay, that is a hit. I smash the morning Star down. I
do an additional nine plus the five weakness. Okay, yet again, our
Celia strikes more. Spider web cracks, crawl up this this snow and ice
creature. It seems to recoil in pain. As I swing with all of
my body weight. My features take on a likeness to Malevik when he is
in rage. You see that I am filled with bloodlust and a single minded
purpose. But that will be the end of my turn. Now, yarra.
Now, when a creature is flat footed, it's ac overall is reduced
by two. Yes for melee attacks. So I'm reading flat footed right now,
and it does not say that range is not applicable it someplace. I'm
positive. Yes, Unfortunately, I've read all right, all right, because
I also have a forum open as well. They were talking about it too,
But we can we can figure that out at another time, I suppose
anyhow, Uh, I will go ahead and I will place a hand upon
myself and cast guidance, and afterwards I will conjure up flame in my hands.
But it is a bright light of flame as I cast at third level
searing light which related to the new rules or not, because I am We've
looked at this before and it was like flatfooted due to flanking that isn't affected
by range. Flat footed in general is affected by flanking from range if it's
not from flanking. There you go, all right, well let me see
here, you know what, I will use a hero point as I would
like to re roll that twenty one here. Okay, let's see here,
just so I don't have to add everything. Let's do that, all right,
it doesn't hit anyway, I go wide. Yara activates her iron Man
circle in the center of her chest and a beam of light shoots out,
and uh it just like missus completely. That is my turn, okay,
Karoun, I would throw another fire alchemist fire at it. Alrighty I feel
kind of bad, okay, soccering, this is a twenty four to hit,
but you're kind of you're trying to see through this blizzard and it is
considered concealed, so only the splash damage will actually happen here and you just
kind of hear something connect in the distance, but it is not a direct
hit. Very well, I will take cover. Is it possible to examine
Sakuachi for anything else? In one way? And she just cowering? Was
she doing something? She's away from the group, she's you. You recognize
that she casts like kind of like blessed, but she hasn't done anything to
sort of spread it to the rest of you. She just it seems like
she's trying to stay away from you and the and the fight. All right,
And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you. I will take
cover in that's my turn. Okay, you can make it a diplomacy check.
Oh all right. Three goes about as well as you can expect.
After you like try to intimidate Sakawachie into like telling you something, she goes
to cower off to the side of the ship, and yeah, it's okay,
it's all right. Just after you, after you scream at her,
she doesn't seem very receptive. Okay, all right, Well, the rest
of you would have seen this, this sort of nap palm from the alchemist
fire spread and it definitely melted like a good chunk away from this creature.
I would lie two attack specifically with my pincerl and I'm a pint of my
tail, the nice poisonous tail I have that. What what creature did you
turn into? By the way, a scorpion? Okay, I am a
medium sized scorpion, so terrifying. Mm hmmm, still can talk to my
knowledge. It just sounds horrible, my little man taboo. Yes, yeah,
horrible lacking sound. It's fits fine, all right? Ah, that's
twenty eight to hits. That is it? Hit? Mmmm? That?
Lets me double check here. I'm gonna roll these separate because I don't know
how that affected. It is one D eight damage, so two damage?
Wait did I do? You did a D twenty? That's all right,
thank you, I feel like you rolled yeah roll a D eight yeah yeah
yeah? Seven damage plus what kind of damage is it bludgeoning? This is
piercing sky and then if it is susceptible or can take poison damage, it
has one persistent poison now I figured not, but I at least specify.
Unfortunately not it does take the seven the piercing damage however, yes, and
I will attack one more time. I'll do the plus thirteen minus five so
plus six. Nope, thirteen minus five. Well my math is off,
right, nineteen minus five eight plus eight. There we go, and a
twenty to hit. Okay? Uh? Did you and I do have the
tremith sense? That is a miss? Okay? I figured okay, and
then I need you to make a flat Uh. You take two persistant cold
damage and you after my last action. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought
that was no. I take a step back. What okay? And now
I will do two persistent cold and roll a flat D twenty six. It
stays, okay, I gotta actually roll myself. I totally forgot. Okay,
it's just a fire damage. Uh okay, I actually it's okay.
We can leave that, okay, because it would have been gone and then
it would have came back. Okay. Uh okay. So yes, the
person in cold damage stays uh, and that is it for your turn.
Blizzard born uh still sort of mindlessly attacking Malvic. It will strike with its
ice claws towards you. You can see this thing has all kinds of cracks
in it. Now, several chunks of like ice and snow have fallen off
of it. It definitely looks fucked up. Twenty four to hit mal what's
it? This will be for fifteen slashing damage and six persistent cold. Yes,
see me kind of slump over a little bit, but Knuts doesn't waive
any too much. Second attack a twenty nine to hit. It's time for
nineteen slashing damage. I will raise my heam you let and reduce it by
seven. Then you will definitely see me slump okay, and an additional two
more persistent cold damage. And the third attack they miss with a nine swaying
Malevic dodges out of the way. The third attack just barely you could see
the great sword, his hands sort of frozen over. There's just this rime
of cold as well as the fire that is erupting. There's a steam that
is just kind of boiling off of Malavik. As you see the ice and
fire just kind of contending with each other, you can hear little pops,
like little explosions going off from the difference in temperature. Sakawachi will continue to
cower and stay out of this fight as well as take cover. Alvic at
your turn, I'm just responding with it's not a very accurate sword strike it's
just gonna recklessly swing. Sorry, hang on one second, Uh take more
damage. You can see. I mean this thing is like the napalm from
from Karoon's Alchemist. Fire is like brings. You see, like chunks of
this thing falling off. I just have the roll to see if it goes
away at the end of its turn. Yes, it does. Okay,
Sorry, your turn twenty five. How do you destroy it now? I
think lumbering forward, I just throw my whole body weight into it, so
much so that I'll go through it and land right in front of a rostruck.
I think the sword of stop right between its legs as it hits the
deck and buries itself inside the ship does sound like shattering glass as the bits
fall all around the deck. As they do, this scene around you begins
to fall away mermaid's tears, and the crew look on, all of them,
sort of staying away from each of you, looking on and bewilderment.
H. The snow continues to fall. H Are you all right? I'll
look over my companions rash talk first, then Relevik. I'm taking the time
as I form back into my lizards self to scrape off all of the irons,
because you has a little piece of hard attack and this office sort of
squatting down a bit and offering it just like what she is food. Yes,
she looks at you. She looks at you like warily. She says,
I do not want your food. Oh right, well, living all
right? Some sort of animals do not treat me as such. I'm all
right, sure question, do you know anything about the vision or because you're
acting very suspicious? She closes, She closes her mouth, and she says,
why don't you tell me about it? I don't know what that means.
She looks towards the rest of you, and she says, is everyone
all right now? I am yes, I am fine, And you would
see me already kneeling over treaching Malefick's wounds. What happened? Mh smelled something
sweet like you the bob Captain Tinhill begins to approach. Are all of you
all right? Once I'm certain that my companions are safe, I will make
my way over to Sakawachie and sit down next to her. I think we
are all right, And something strange happened again. It was like the bubble
we passed through carried on a sweet wind. I you all were acting strangely
again, seemingly unaware of your environment, moving about the ship. It was
strange. I sought to make the crew prepare for the snow and blizzard,
and yet you all seem distant. Anigi like rushes up to Sakawachie. Can
you hear me now? Yes? Yes, to Anigia, I can?
I am all right? What happened? Did another one of those strange visions?
Perhaps, Saco WATCHI looks to all of you. I have something more.
I think we have as many questions as you do. We do not
know the answer or the meaning of any of this strange this time that Danigi
was not there. What did you see, Sachouatchi that we did not?
As I said, is asking this question. I put my hand on Yard's
leg and like weakly point towards Psycowatchi's face. There it is. That's the
look I am used to. Only a matter of time enough. Also,
did you all see aspire masks that turned into a mast? Yes? Yes,
and that's all creature in the tarp that couldn't make out what it was.
But I think Soakawachi, in my vision knew that the human will not
talk to me have someone with the humane skills should speak to word. It
felt as though we were compelled, not of our own agency. I do
not know what was under the tarp. I do not know what it was
that drew me forward. What was it you asked just before our celia?
What do you mean? I thought you had asked a question. I'm sorry.
Did Sacawachi see something that we did not? She was not among us
with us. She was looking at us from just makes me suspect that she
knows something. Please sack Watchie. You know that we just want to help
and we can't do it without you. Please make a Pomasey check. Okay,
ex sore anyway one of us might be able to Oh, never mind.
I was going to say, your sister, but you're old, well,
so fox that twenty seven. I do not think this is merely a
vision from which they hold us. I believe that this happened. You speak
of this missing moment. I think you are all there. There's it.
We're not here currently. There's a missing moment. Ah what we were doing
in a missing moment? And again, I'll squeeze Jaa's leg. Some things
we do not want to remember. This fire do any of us, recall
if it has any similarities to the one that I saw in my vision Erasmus,
so make a religion check. Thirty one definitely does not to seem different
completely. But when you think about that, you think about the spire.
When you visualize the spire, this place that you have been before you are
you know they are different, and it reminds you of that place once again.
And there's a moment where you see Yar's eyes go white. Yara,
the boat fades away, storm fades away. You find yourself before Forasma strange
mirror to your current appearance, different similar This look is reminiscent of what dusk
walkers are, the ash colored skin, white hair, as if the color
has been drained from you. Forasma looks upon you. You feel strange,
disconnect from your body, feels almost but there's still just that barest sensation of
feeling as if you have been to the dentist office almost right, that's sort
of barely there, feeling that you know something is touching your skin, or
you know that something is there, but it feels distant. There is a
room full of other creatures around you, a sort of conference it's taking place,
and what of her sisters? We're afraid it has not yet been decided.
What is it that you will wait for? Asthma balance? Both were
taken unjustly, and so a balance must be struck. We must discover the
swords, a second chance perhaps, and the sister we shall The scene fades
your You take a breath, and you see everyone else is concerned looking at
you. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. M h Now to be cure.
If dealing with me is too much for you, I'll just no,
no, no, just one moment, shake my head. It's to be
clear. The spire that we saw is different from for Asthma spire, and
this scene took place in far Asthma spire. It reminded you, yes,
something that is in your past. H m hmm. I did not know
if it's just relevant to now it's but I just had a vision I was
back in the spire I told you of Yeah, for Asthmas. It was
a conference of sorts to decide my fat that of my sister. I suppose,
I'm sorry, but you are not related. If that is of any
helpe. It is a different spire entirely, But I you think I'm sorry.
You see does a near this mean anything to you, Saco Wachi.
I do not know of what you speak, so the spire is not recognizable
in your memory either, Socoachi. As we speak of these things, I
will break out my journal and begin to sketch out to the different things that
I saw, the spire, the path that we were taking with the the
covered cart. Uh. Yeah, make a crafting roll, uh, Saco
WATCHI doesn't answer your question. I have a question. These we weren't in
a bubble visually this time. Correct, it was just the blizzard. And
last time I determined it wasn't magic that it affected us, but rather the
hallucinogenic oil more or less because it wasn't dispellable. I no earlist. I
noticed it had no effect. Is biological nature. So this one, I'm
trying to think and rack my brain on anything in the occult that may have
to do with this creature's effect, Perhaps something that isn't magical but can still
affect the mind. Psychic effects are not usually considered magic. Is there anything
I could roll? I'm just trying to whittle down in my mind. Yeah,
uh or conna I think mm hmm, I want reroll it? Okay.
Eighteen eighteen yes, m hmm to its twenty okay, of course spend
your hero point. And I think it's one of those occasions where it's there's
many possibilities where you wouldn't be able to necessarily whittle them down with the information
that you have mm hmm, too many possibilities. You just fear us stock
mumbling to himself and are going over what happened. Soakawachie, could you at
least explain to yours white as you are so mistrusting of us in this moment.
Cutch the tension with a knife. She bites her lip. I do
not know if I can trust you, dear raceless. What is euse that
we have done? She furrows her brow. She's struggling with something. Sakawachie,
it is you that said, and it was your words that you believe
we were fated to meet, that it was by design that we work together,
no paths a line and all the hogwash that they spilled. Now they
look at us as if we're the enemy that was just aboard this ship.
For your actions, for what you have done, we safe because of the
way that you look Kah for what you have done. Witches Soko Wachi,
we genuinely do not know we last I remember we saved your friends. She
looks towards Danigi's a bit wide eyed, obviously confused herself by this situation.
She looks to Sakuachi, sk what is wrong? Sakachi says one word in
a muran. Denigi thurrows her brow and then raises for brow a bit startled.
What what I will take an esoterical over role here? I will warn
you be extremely difficult. Okay plus thirteen don't feel me No, huh,
I'm gonna reroll that nineteen. You don't know what that is? It would
be anything, Danigi, what does that mean? Nigi's comforting Sakuachi, who
is obviously scared and worried. Nigi says, Sokku, let's us speak.
Danigi holds up a hand and says, give us some time, we will
stay here. She takes Sokawachi low death. If they are this mistrusting after
a vision we shared, why travel with them? Mm? We have proven
ourselves time and time again. I do not wish for companions that will throw
our experiences away. It is my seri, it is my theory that they
too are under some spell or enchantment. Perhaps it is also biological in nature.
I do not know if it is biological. I was running through many
different potential situations that would cause this. There are many many. It could
be psychic, it could be magical, but a different type could be biological.
But there was no bubble this time, but the sweet wind. There
was wind, and we did not exactly divine the cause between because of the
violence from the red duchess. I was holding a rope for the sails and
the mass before that smeller came through. When I came to, when it
became a little bit clearer, I was holding a rope to something else.
The ice between my hands felt real, The steps two felt familiar. I
didn't skip a bee. Ande of Us said. We continued on with whatever
was happening. I do not believe that is just a vision. No.
I believe that Pschowachie was witnessing something that we have probably done. May do
not know. I was selling your earlier that sometimes remembering things may not open
doors that you want to be open. No. If we think od spire
of the one that Ya speaks of is of a god, no, that
is a separate one. Yes, correct, But there was a spire in
of revisentation, let's call it, may of be of a god as well,
though they are not connected. Similarly, in that nature, the gods
may have spires erected in their stead, which means that we may have been
doing something going towards some said spire. Maybe what we were doing was something
every year trying to prevent. I mean, the only way that this gets
resolved, the only way that if we have done something horrible that we may
atone for it is if we are made aware of such a thing while the
humans are talking. Can I do an alchemical analysis of the snow? Sure,
make a grafting check one twenty one. Okay, there's more of that
oily substance in the snow and glus. It appears that's more of this oil
here in the snow. In the snow looks that way. Mm hmm.
Air is alive, you know, now that I think about it. Both
instances happened right before a storm, someone causing storms. The skull before the
bubble and the scull now before the wind. But why did it not affect
Daniki? But yet it affected those lyrics that we run to. He was
below deck, we were too, and Daniki was a Staniki affected the first
time. I would like to remind you all that we might we wear the
mark of ponds. Do you not remember, not believe that Daniki wears this
mark as well, only saco Wachi who is affected with us ah and it
may not be biological, but rather connected to the gates in the moment,
Do you not understand everyone? Right? You're so blinded. We are in
a game. You are ponds to these gods that us what's happening. Always
were, but now we can't feel even more special since we were chosen.
Unfortunately, we are playing right into their hands. Daniki and Sahouachi return above
deck. Sakawachie sort of holding her head down a little bit as she approaches.
She says, I apologize. I thought I saw something during the vision.
I cannot remember what it was. Can we clock whether or not she
is being truthful in this moment, because she seemed very inflamed. Make a
perception check sixteen sixteen. She's definitely calmed down. She seems to be addressing
you straightforwardly. What you can tell? I am not quite sure what I
saw and I can remember, yes, very good. Then I have a
follow question for you, do our path still align as you believe or have
you swayed your mind to think differently? They look at each other and Sakawachi
and Danigi speaks up and says, Soku still believes that we are on the
same path. I agree. Good, there's a reason why I asked you
and not hir and I'll turn to Sakowachi. Then you will do anything to
figure out what's going on? Correct? Yes, very good, parash Tar,
have you prepared? Ah? Yes, I believe so. I hate
you can only trust the cook smoky at this recipe is effective, hm,
it was psychology. Rashtok is the best cook I know. I have trusted
them. I have struck out at a rashtok, almost putting them down,
and they still travel with me. Trust has become a thing that was and
over time it may not even be fully had. But I do trust a
rashtok and the means of seeing through what they believe in. So with that,
Rachtok may have means for you to remember. Will you take the first
plunge into this memory? I do not understand what you are seeing. The
cook of this ship. I had a recipe called memories once lost It puts
you in a trance like state and helps recall what is lost. I have
made a number of dosis. I intended it for us to remember what was
in the lost moment. Its taste is vile, though, do not judge
my cooking by it. Denige steps up and says, I would do this
first. Do you have a missing moment? And I point to my neck
with the symbol no. I will make sure that this is safe where I
will put my hand on your intention is honorable, but we have limited doses,
and I believe we would much rather one of us test it. I
will take it in front of you in full to make sure that it is
indeed safe, if that is acceptable for trust. What do you imagine that
this that this food looks like? What is it? What do you think
it is? I tried to prepare it like a stew. It is a
bit thick and viscous. It does have some fats from animals as one of
the ingredients. There is no meat. There are no vegetables except perhaps some
root starches, as well as some spices and herbs. The fats are the
chunks you see floating, and of course there is the oil that is loocinogenic
as the main catalyst, something a cross between harrow and tapioca. Yes,
it has that terrible sheen of oil and fat glistening in it as it sloshes
a bit more than something viscous. Should I have put them in potion vials?
The wide mouthed kind that it may be gulped. It carries wine mouth
Mason jars. Such a millennial, I'm a witch. What do you expect?
Lots of pickles? Uh, rash talk? You drink this? I
look at all of them with holding it out. If I've uncorked it,
I do not know what will happen. Perhaps it looks at words are Perhaps
you want to be the one that tested a rushtack. He goes to the
conversation we had earlier, h what were you going to say? Rash talk.
I do not wish to put risk on others first for something I have
made. Well. If anything goes wrong, that is fine. I will
be able to treat you. I do hope so, But I do wish
to try it. I will I have doses for everyone, Yes, provided
I survive with no ill effects. Before you ingest that is there a way
that we can make you regurgitate if we need to. I do not know.
Oh, yes, I mean people. Oh right, that's different.
Can I make your throat with a finger method? What? Just sticking my
fingers down your throat? It typically works. Humans have a gegg reflex?
Do you not have one? Oh? I choose to chew because it is
more pleasant. But normally you might have to hit me hard in the gut.
All right, very good, I can do that, but only if
we need to. Yes, be right here, and I'm looking for a
lizard is normally tongue lulling out. I do not foam like mammals. Ah,
very good. Well, hopefully at least I can help your tiny bit
and ingesting it, and I will past guidance upon him. Thank you.
As Droness had said, I think bottom's up. I do not know why
we raise our tails to drink and pour it entirely down my gullet. Well,
h vile. Nothing seems to happen immediately, rushed. Nothing yet.
Perhaps you need to enter a trance, sit down meditation. I can do
that, and if that does not work, it may be something that happens
once we sleep after digestion. But I will meditate with my queen. If
meditation doesn't work, I can always knock you out too well. Is Smoky
here still? Smokey would be like down in the galley basically the ship.
Perhaps we could ask him yes, and I'd prefer I do to do my
meditation not on the deck. I little friends do not like the weather out
here so much. Nothing he likes here. We should get all out of
the snow. If it's got traces little oil. I begin to make my
way below deck. Yes, I will be following and making it appoint to
Smoky if there needs to be any sort of a transfer, if it's supposed
to be something that takes place immediately. Basically what Smokey has conveyed to you
is that this this recipe sort of varies a bit depending on the ingredients that
you use. It could be an hour before anything happens, allowing your body
to kind of digest. Sometimes it can take longer. Make a fortitude save
for me, please a rush tub twenty four plus one twenty five. Thank
you. Nothing happens for a while. Do you begin your meditation? I
do. I set up my mosquito candles and begin to summon my friends from
presumably me and my robes. I don't think anyone's figured out where they actually
they come from. M and they swirl about me as I begin to pray
to the mosquito witch. Okay, nothing happens for a while, about like
an hour passes. What are you all doing while this is going on?
I am below deck with a sample of the snow, and I am attempting
to use different types of paper infused papers to see if it's possible to craft
something that can give us an early warning if we are exposed to this to
this oil. Okay, make a crafting roll for me. I will also
require sit thirty two. Okay, that's awesome. I will also require I
think, get a perception check. I think this is twenty two. Okay,
uh karun? You think you can you can whip something up almost like
a barometer, that that kind of thing to sort of give you a little
bit of warning ahead of time with a thirty two you think you can maybe
get a few minutes of warning. H good. I will share my invention
with anyone who is around, just just so you are aware. This isn't
something you don't just like instantly do this. This is you have the idea,
you understand how to do it based on the stuff that you have.
It'll take you a little while to craft this. This isn't like done in
an hour that I am not telling a soul what I'm doing simply in the
corner fiddling with things, sure, mumbling to myself, okay, and what
I would like to make a point of directing your one off of the deck,
especially Sakawachi and Tnigi. Yeah, it doesn't take much convincing. The
ghost crew remains that they're posts and basically is continuing work. And one of
the reasons the ship is very fast. You've been making very good time across
this lake, and the main reason for that is they don't stop working.
They're constantly. They're just twenty four to seven sailing the ship so constantly.
The sails are as full as they can be regarding the storms and such that
you've encountered. But you've been making very good time across this like like four
days to make this trip. Is that's very impressive. And once I've completed
that, I will stand watch over rash talk to make myself available if she
needs me. Okay, yes, I would be working on Malevik's remaining wounds
and close by, I would assume so that I'm able to react to anything
having to do with a rash talk. This is going to be an about
an hour, so I'm not sure if you'd like me to roll for anything
or if you want me to just whatever normal stuff you have to do for
your for your treat wounds or whatever. Excellent, al right, twenty nine
points of healing. Does that bring you to maximum? No? Yeah,
yeah, pretty hurt. So we have an hour. We have an hour,
so I'll go more decent one will right? That one would not work,
although I think you can. I'll just roll another one. All right.
You would be fully healed by now, I would assume, and with
my remaining time, I will be refocusing so that my curse goes back down
to minor. So that would be about forty minutes, I think. Okay,
or Celia, as you are watching over a rash talk for the course
of the next hour, uh, I think you noticed a few things.
There's a rash talk. Do you do you are you related to Is there
any relation to like chameleons in your in your DNA? Do you think?
Yes? Actually there is not mine tribe, but there are lizard folk that
have ways to camouflage themselves naturally. Okay, so there's like a there's some
discoloration that happens in a rash talks. Scales here and there, little slight
stuff that you notice. You can see that a rash talk is breathing a
little heavy. Something is definitely happening. After like an hour or so,
I will not disturb him, And if anyone comes up to disturb him,
I will gently wave them off. Give them a nod. Rush shock,
Please roll a flat D twenty for me. Two? Okay, rush shock.
What did you see in the gate and you made your way in?
I saw the queen, Mosquito queen. I'd met her once before, but
I saw her there beckoning me, promising me and knowledge, not divine knowledge,
but knowledge of how to become more than just a lizard folk, become
something more primal, primeval, closer to a dragon. Almost anyone else would
see something different in the gate if they were observing what you saw, they
would have seen this mass of mosquitoes, an oddly vaguely humanoid shape amongst them,
amongst the rain of the swamp. You see the Mosquito queen backing you
inside the gate. You feel yourself moving forward. Compelled by this potential power,
you make your way towards the gate. You step through rowe me a
perception check. I will re roll that with a hero point natural worm.
My grits failed sixteen rash talk. You see something similar to what you saw
on your vision. You see others, groups of people. A tundra lies
before you. Everyone is strangely detached. Instead of rain, now you see
snow falling. There is a strange smell in the air. Hold your hand
out, you see dust hash, something fall into your hand, spores.
You think something bad is happening. You begin to cover your mouth, but
you feel like it's already too late. You've already breeded them in Yeah,
and you hear this heming sound, this bass filled sound, sound like none
you've ever heard before. Sounds like an animal. It's too far away.
It sounds like it's in water distant. Everyone's head turns. You feel yours
move as well, and you lose yourself in the moment. You find yourself
back in your meditative pose, but you're breathing heavily. Or Celia is shaking
you harstock hashtck. Are you all right? I m H I saw peace
of inside the gate. I heard the whale. We were in the tundra.
The crowds uh, there was a spore that was in the air.
Oh, we breathed in and do cry of a whale. I think deep
agoing, reverberating, as though it was deep in water, maybe under the
tundra in the north or Celia. You've been watching a rash talk sort of
go through something you've seen and sort of affected by whatever it is that he
saw, to the point where you were a little worried about him. And
then slowly over time he was convulsing periodically as if he was coughing, trying
to force something up, and then passed. Got another hour or so has
passed since this began happening. I'll take you into my arms and hold you.
You were shaking, harsh talk as if something we're trying to leave your
body, as when you get sick and you have like the flu, where
you cough a lot. You can feel that fatigue that kind of happens,
right, that's the way your body feels now astok, like you've been exercising,
but you haven't been. I am exhausted, I was I need to
get the God supports out. We may have something affecting us. I need
to rest. Mm hmmm. Darkness was approaching outside the rest of you.
I think we could all use the rest air. May you bring me to
a hammock. I will help you that way. Ah. The other doses
are in my bag of holding. Well. I do not sense any ill
effects aside from the heavy fatigue. Oh, it is good you watched me.
I took notes observations. There was discoloration, tremors, and I will
also share any other symptoms that I noticed during my watch discolorations. How so,
hatches of your scales had shifted in color, darker, mottled almost I
am not seen fine now, Yeah, some lizard folk tribes me change their
scale color, but I am of the swamp, not of that kind.
Hmhmm. Absolutely the sheared DNA h shared genetics. Maybe a er too tired
to think. Don't let it trouble you. I could not focus as well
as i'd like. Perhaps another could see better. In the recollection, I
felt a bit disconnected and that I was missing something and I don't know what.
And I do not know what happened after I heard the animal cry.
If it was indeed an animal, I will take out my journal and write
these things down. I'm sorry, I need rest rest and I almost collapse
into the hammock. He's sleeping. Now. Who do you think you're speaking
to? Right now? Everyone? I returned to them. I do not
know if it's wise for us to take how of Saquachi take it now,
but we are safe for the moment. Karun is so in the zone creating
this device. It does not even register snow has sort of died down by
the way at this point, after another hours, we could have another one
of us try it and just have the other's watch over. What. Yes,
I'm very willing to do so. I hope this doesn't come off wrong,
but I think perhaps it's best if you are the last you are the
one most capable of reviving us if something were to happen. That is fair.
I know that Malvic does not wish to do it, and karunis I
was preoccupied. Then I will do it. Are you sure? Here are
my notes, my observations and what's a rash talk shared? All right?
Do you mind if I write notes in this for you as well? Please
do so? Right, I will gather up another file where our ashtak has
pointed it out. I'll put my hand on your shoulder. Yes, I
normally do not intervene with your decisions, but I do not think it's good
for you to take it before and I'll just just her at our hands.
If you go into a unconscious state, that may affect you, it may
affect me as well. That's true. I did not know our connection.
The news is we're not. I don't think. I don't feel that we're
near anything that will actually enhance the bond day line wise, but we are
very untested. Maybe I should go in a different part of the ship if
you plan on doing this, that would leave the area alone. Everyone is
busy over there. Ah, I think continue doing what you Yeah, you're
doing so, I just I do not know. I hear you, and
I think it is wise. Perhaps we should ask Saka WATCHI to drink next.
Yeah, you at least get the answers. We need to deal with
that problem, which is much bigger than what we are experiencing right now.
If we cannot have trust in the star Gazer, then we are in a
bit of a setback. I just wanted to throw that in there. Do
continue, I squeeze your arm, Thank you, all right? We're in
this together. I'm sorry. That was a reckless thing for me to just
It is fine. You are in much care of your companions as as I
am. There's nothing to be a sorry about. The one answers your old
them, M all right, that's fine. Yes, concerned. You said
that shocked, said that they felt like something was inside them. Oh,
it seemed that they were coughing. They were trying to expel something. I
don't know if it was actually something. I don't mean to bring up old
wounds. But what happened to your companion's body? Yeah, droness, what
was his name? Yes, yes, you may want to examine. There
is not much of it left. You did not give them a proper burial.
You did not see the body. We could not. The spirit is
still and unrest. Do you have means of contacting spirits in a way but
not in the way that you hope? Fine? But the body, maybe
you shouldn't the last time you looked at whatever is left. We cannot remove
it, otherwise it will in the bag. Hm. We have a piece
of him that we are holding safe to deliver to his family or mm hmm.
I have had a mind and I believe a case of seeking out rituals
that might plead to the gods to restore him to his previous self. Mm
hmmm, I understand. Unfortunately, their body can have been of use if
there's indeed something inside of us. Mhm. It is not enough. He
would need his whole body, and it was well, it was in no
condition to safe. No apologized to bringing the old wounds that will lead this
be. It was a good idea. Yes, kay I go fetch Sakawachi.
Leave you both to it, all right? Did he say how the
spores were transferred? My understanding is that we actually I think you had a
vision so many episodes, yes, where you saw all of us, and
it sounds like it's the same spores in the previous vision that I had a
long time ago. Would I recall whether or not it was there was any
sort of spores in the era, or if it was snowing or anything like
that. Yeah, definitely, it all kind of lines up the snow.
Could it be related. It's possible the snow could be the oil, The
oil could be the spores. Well, whales produce oil, do they not?
Can I roll an esoteric oral on oils? Sure? Twenty one so
yeah. I mean, whale blubber is a typical thing that's traded and sold.
It makes like really good fat for various things, and like oil is
one of those things that's used for lamplight, especially among northern areas wherever there
be larger populations of whales. Kron pipes up from the corner, and just
as anything can make oil if you're brave enough, it goes back to terrifying.
Is it possible that this is perhaps a path which the whale has traveled,
was something of that sort, leaving some sort of residue. I don't
know. Putting things out of my skirts, I suppose. But my understanding
is that the whale was taken from here and imprisoned in Las Quelua or the
other way around around. Okay, it was imprisoned here, so I don't
know if it would have been able to travel unless it escaped. To our
knowledge, how far awa from where the oil is frozen in the ice.
This is very far away, though, perhaps work or something else than perhaps
Karen, what are you doing? I am making an early warning system.
No one has ever done it before, so it is a little bit challenging.
Can I help you? I don't know can we help you? That
depends how much chemistry? Do you know? Chemistry comes in many forms?
Never mind, I mean do you need it in the form of medicine,
so to speak. I know things about medicine. I don't know anything about
poisons or anything. Really, does Karoun believe that either one of these people
could feasibly help with this? Is it within either one of their domains?
To my knowledge? I mean you haven't. I mean the closest thing would
be any sort of medical preparations. But it's kind of far removed. I
think I continue to go on and be like, you know, when someone
has a magnetic personality, chemistry is all around them. Yes, it's true.
Yes, those those are things, and I am quite busy. I'm
almost done, though, I let you know when anyway, room has a
little monocle that grows fiddling. She said we were useless, essentially. Honestly,
it is a bit out of my purview. I think I might just
get in the way. Perhaps we see if Soakawachi is willing to take a
dose, or if we need to try it on someone else. Mhm,
let's go meet up with Melevick uh Dniki always sakawachie, are you still feeling
distant afraid? We had a breakthrough of some sort us? Talk is still
alive, breathing, We're resting. But Trial one was I believe his success.
You would like to share that information with you, if you're willing to
listen. I do believe that judging off is something that we both do not
understand, and and and then throwing mistrust and yeah, any kind of hard
for words around would be unlike you. You know, when I first met
you, I was a bit taken back by the way that you allowed me
to protect you without word, without caution, without without cowering or feeling well
like most people do. To see you act in such distrust for me,
vision or pastime, as you so say, is very unlike you, I
would like to point out, because we do not both do not know what
role we play in this old destiny that you speak of. So I was
wondering if you had time to think and settle down. Your appearance has never
frightened me. Mm hm, I do not remember exactly what I saw,
but yeah, if you believe that this food may help me, remember,
I am willing to try it. Yes, the outcome is different for everyone.
More than likely you only had one try it not leaning the weakest of
us all. I mean that in the best ways stature his bones. He's
very he's eating more, always complaining about only need need what they need to
eat and anyway, I'm just not as stout as yeah as I. But
with that, they survived, they're arresting, they're well, vitals are normal
from what I have been told. But I will say that it doesn't taste
pleasant. But I believe the more important thing is to getting you at the
ease of mine. It would ease my mind as well to not know that
you are in a state of worry. Betrayal to me is a word.
Distrust is a word that goes down in my core, you see. So
I would like for us all to either find out the truth and I say,
you're right. Let's say we are not to be trusted. We do
not have any recollection of what heaven but what is to happen. But having
an understanding can help us both and destiny and fate can be Though some may
think that they are threads that lead to these destinations are one sided, they
can be changed, at least, so you are says I, don't understand
it, So would you like to join us? Yes, I will let
us say. You do the talking. She has taken notes, and Nigi
I will sit with you. We'll both watch over as Psychowachi goes through.
Whatever they go through. It could be mild, it could be pleasant.
But the reason why I would like to sit with you personally is to keep
you back from disturbing. I do know that you have feelings that are very
strong, so to go watchie, and they may go through lapses that may
seem violent, or they may look like they're sleeping peacefully. We have not
tested enough to know, but I would like to keep you at bay.
Understood with your permission? Good? Iye, I do what I do for
my people. This is my task, and as I have said before,
I believe that all of our fate are intertwined. I must do this.
I will gently take sucker, watch his hand, look at her in the
eyes. We will all be here with you if anything goes wrong. You
have lots of hands to help, all right. Yeah, yeah, you
have my hand as well, succor mm hmm hm. Unlike a raster,
I say, yeah, is there a place of comfort that we can construct
the way that Psuchoquatchi is in the best comfort. It would be the equivalent
of like some blankets. You know, there's some extra furs the rug pile.
Yes, yes, sure, wrap and constrict so that they don't flash
out and maybe hurt themselves. I do not know. Not constrict someone in
that way. It only causes them harm. Understood. I'll leave it to
your devices. I'll stand next to the iggy as we get prepared. I
will read off my observations of a rash talk to help ease the expectations of
Saquatchi before they ingest this. It will take about an hour for it to
kick in. That is at least what we observed with a rash talk.
Kay, So please try to get comfortable. I will try. Here you
are the file and he looks at it. There's that like low camera angle
like looking up. She takes a deep breath. All right, m oh
vile mm hmm mhmm, like ruined leather. Mm hm m hm m hm
hm. She closes her eyes and she says, I will try to remember
what I saw. We are here for you. You will not be alone,
Karun. What does the device that you are working on look like?
You imagine. I'm just curious. I think it is part of a blown
glass item that I'd gotten from the alchemist's kit. Inside of the glass is
a small little bit of biological mess I have accumulated. And how it works
is you set it somewhere and when the little when a little ball of like
teeth and fur starts to rise, you will know that the oil has changed
the chemical makeup of the water and is uh, it is imminent. Okay,
as you are constructing this little markings on it. Uh, you rolled
ridiculously well for your crafting check before. What was there? Thirty two?
That's right, okay, thirty two. Uh, this has gone really well,
Like you had. It was one of those creative inspirations where you had
a very clear picture about what to do and it just it was it was
like a Eureka moment. You know, you're just like, oh, if
I just do that, it'll work, duh. You know, like I
should have realized the first time I looked at the oil. You know.
It was a bit of one of those kinds of moments. So you are
working on this and you're you know, you're you're hearing kind of bits and
pieces of everything that's going on. Mm hmm. An hour or so passes,
and you from your perspective, you're you're paying attention to this, You're
working on this. The uh, the contraption that you've set up in front
of you is just about ready. And it's at this point that you start
to see a reaction. Something's happening. Interesting. What is happening? Is
it? Is it doing the thing that I like? The little meat ball
is rising, starting to move very well? Hello? Everyone? Are you
here? So two things. I've built this contraption. It can give us
an early warm we are exposed to the oil again. Also, it is
giving us that early warning now, so be prepared. Have it been in
relation that? And I point to Saga Watchie for Karun to see que I
mean Scca Watchie is still kind of remaining, kind of quiet. She doesn't
seem to be reacting to anything that you're saying. Have I observed any rashes,
discolouration, any of the same symptoms that I saw on a rash talk?
Yes, I think she's experiencing the memory right now. And is some
Korun's device like partially outside, Like how does it work in terms of reading?
If that's how it's coming. Oh so it's not even finished. It's
mostly finished, alright, it's functional, right, it's just reacting right now.
It is re ending. Well, perhaps if it is spores, we
cover our mouths. At least I have no idea. But at least if
there is something we're breathing in, maybe that will reduce it. It doesn't
hurt to try, all right, I'm gonna begin looking for rags for us
to tire around our faces. Is it possible for me to create something like
this, create a rag, to improvise, to improvise something more effective than
the rag? Yeah, you can make a crafting check the natural wonderful.
That's an I don't want to suffocate myself. Never mind, Karn, I
think you're just you're in the midst of creating this, and you're like,
you know, you can definitely stop what you're working on and start doing that,
but there's nothing that you can do fast. That's fine. Yeah,
I won't even I won't bother. I'll just keep working out. Look,
I have to finish this. Just do your best to you know, prepare.
I feel like we already breathed it and it's reacting. It means that
it's already happening, right, we really have to cover ourselves. I do
not know, but it is worth a tribe. Perhaps it is an accumulation
of things. Yeah, fine, I'll cover my face with my cloak.
I will also cover my face. Okay, three of you make perception checks
for me face. Actually, Korean you can do this as well. I
mean perception checks forthy twenty eight. Okay, where am I? Well,
you're below deck. No. No, just because I've got the third team,
who are you people? Yara, You're the only one that notices there
is that strange, familiar smell. The smell is coming. Do not smell
that I'm covered up? I do not know. Keep yourselves covered? What
if it gets in our ear holes? That's not how ingesting things works?
Could be Danigi. The last time this happened, you were not affected,
but it affected the rest of us. We might have to rely on you
to protect Sakawachi. What's effect? He h. She looks at you kind
of strangely for a second, and she squints, and she's blinking slowly and
looking at you as if whatever it is that you're saying or gesturing is falling
on deaf ears. Oh nah, something's happening. You and our Celia,
as well as Karun, now begin to smell the sweet air, which you're
quite familiar with. You feel your vision begin to blur yeah, and the
ship begins to fall away. Hardly surprised as everything melts into another vision,
you stand on hard, frozen ground, in the scent of a circle of
towering black monoliths. The spires, each hundreds of feet tall, stand against
a moonless night sky, illuminated here and there by curtains of auroral light.
The sled you dragged with you in the previous vision is nowhere in sight.
The Saquachie is present once more. Watching from a distance below you. The
ground is a sheet of solid blackest ice. Through the nigh impenetrable ice,
you see the form of a massive beasts illuminated an iridescent blue light. You
feel compelled to get closer to the Titanic being, and kneel to do so.
The ice cracks slightly. A piercing scream breaks the hallucination and dissipates the
vision. Back on the Mermaid's tears, Sakawachi stands on the deck, mouth
agape, clearly caught in her own hallucinatory trance. She stares with wild eyes
at a mass of dark clouds rushing towards the ship at an alarming speed.
As the clouds near, they resolve into the shape of some massive, wail
like monster. The same dark shape just glimpsed lurking beneath the ice. It's
icy blue eyes shine through the storm like stars. The saws Sakawachie cries deliriously.
They've come to punish us. Indeed, the cloud monster's eyes become javelins
of light, which streak down toward the Mermaid's tears at incredible speed and land
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