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Thank you, Joy, Our investigators rest in the Traveler's yurt
is it's traveler's yurt? What's the name of this thing?
Or Celia has it the Explorer's yert, yes, which has
a sort of bigger on the inside vibe to it.
From the outside, it looks like a cylindrical survival tent
that could potentially house maybe four people, but the reality
inside is that it could actually contain ten. Outside, the
Fendolid Lara Temple yurt has been set up, Malvik has
tried to do some fishing to little to no success,
and our Celia is currently dealing with a disease picked
up from the Black Frost. Karun is pouring over notes
picked up from the Temple of Fendladlara left behind by
Doctor Riddleson as our group found out from Ilackney, the
brother of the ilvani elf that they ran into at
the ice Gate, that they in fact were the perpetrators
behind the deaths of the other ilvani elves. Along with
doctor Riddleson communicating to a Loachney what had happened after
saving him, He's agreed to rest here for the night
before setting out back to the ice skate to meet
up with the other Ilvarani sentries and his sister. So
what's everybody doing for the night?
Speaker 2: For you rest, I've set up my shrine in the
corner with the warmth, allowing the mosquitoes to surround and
buzz about me in a nice fun pattern. I have
distanced myself to not bother the other. I am currently
communing in order to retrain a listen from the mosquito,
which this will take seven days. This would be the first.
Speaker 3: I would be off in a corner with furs and
stuff laid out, and I will take a wood from
my pack, like some old dried wood I have before,
and to start car ring. Yeah, is it scarfing and arresting?
Speaker 1: That's probably the wood from the that other temple you
found on the lake. Yeah, okay, that's mostly driftwood. Okay, Celia,
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4: And Cilia is up to anything. I would be wiping
the sweat from my brow, attempting to do what I
can for her in the meantime, whilst I mustweet on
divine intervenures so to speak.
Speaker 5: Rest, just trying to get as much rest as they
possibly can right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, I think Karun will probably pipe up after
some study of these notes.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, oh, let's see um Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: So I've taken a look at all of the notes
that I found in the you know, of the temple,
the Temple of Fender, the Lara. I see a lot
of things that we were able to pick up in
the lab back in Leaperstad, and it really does seem
like doctor Rittleson and us were here and that we
accompanied him to the temple and were basically like his
assistants for a time. There's also a bunch of notes
that are like you know, dated, and there's a lot
of frustration that doctor Rittelson wasn't granted greater powers like
those Soyo recently afforded us, and that he wasn't chosen
by O Soyo. She holds up the paper for the
glorious duty of tracking and capturing the last salmon car
Aina murin for transport to the nameless spires. Snowy owl
pipes up at that is a muran? Is a muran?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's what I said. Are you did I mispronounce it
or something? It's not an elf? You know all your
crazy words that aren't elve and they don't make any sense.
Please go on about isn a muran? All right? Fine?
I mean I was getting to it, but if you're
going to be impatient, fine. He talks more about as
transporting isomuran to the nameless spires, so like that's the
thing that we saw in the dream, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, traveling with it in a sled, I believe.
Speaker 4: Is that not how Sokawachi got her mark as well?
Speaker 1: The mark that you have indicated belongs to the gate walkers.
The mark given to me by my elder. It was
given to us by n a Muran. He also talks
about like our deviant abilities and there's all kinds of
notes on them. Yeah, it looks like they were granted
to us by A Soyo it's the Soyo again.
Speaker 4: The whale, black foster oil.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: The model that we saw with all the tentacle.
Speaker 1: The model gave it to us.
Speaker 4: Well, the real version of the model that we saw.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 1: He says that there's also greater powers they were allowed
to use, so that means us, but we haven't manifested
them yet, and that we returned back here very suddenly
without the sled we'd left with. The doctor says he
suspects that O Soyo returned them us to Thislocation via
a teleportation effect once we were done. He talks a
little more like, you know, kind of crazy about our
refusal to tell him what exactly we did at the
Nameless Spires, and he ends it with some sort of
collective dismissal, said that Soyo's release is now underway and
we were now to return to the closest Ayudara and
await our rewards.
Speaker 4: Does it mention anything, said reward?
Speaker 1: No, it's a lot of frustration. You can tell he's
like angry. You see the way he's writing here. It's
like a scrawl.
Speaker 4: Yes, well he planned otherwise it would see him then.
Speaker 6: I don't know, knowing all of you.
Speaker 4: How would we be convinced to do such horrible things?
I mean there had to be manipulation at hand. Does
it note anything of that sort?
Speaker 1: No, not really, it doesn't go into details. I think
doctor Rittleson was trying to figure it all out.
Speaker 2: It it said it returned us to an Ayudara after
we would dismiss it.
Speaker 1: Oh, it says we returned here and then we went
back through an Audora. Probably it said the nearest one. Right,
So do we know any more near here other than
the one we came through?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Only the ones that we've been through throughout our journey.
Speaker 2: Leducated that would be the only one which would get
us close to leave yourstad h.
Speaker 4: It's all very confusing, Yes, missing pieces.
Speaker 1: Mhm.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 1: There were other notes, but they were destroyed. I couldn't
get anything else out of them mm hm.
Speaker 2: Useful nonetheless, So.
Speaker 4: Then how do we move forward? We continue on this
question to destroy the black frost whale? Yes, right, are
wrong so to speak? Find more answers, And it was.
Speaker 2: These spires, then.
Speaker 5: Seem is that if we do not, it is unlikely
that anyone else would.
Speaker 2: Perhaps this is well, you will find me. I am
Muran and move forward with it.
Speaker 1: If I'm a Muran is at the Nameless Spire, it
is where I would go.
Speaker 4: Karun, do you still have any position the notes from
all of us at his office as well?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah sure, yeah.
Speaker 4: May I have my file?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, give me a sec so, uh, Coron will
hand it over. It's kind of like a dossier on you.
It doesn't really have much about your past. It really
has info about.
Speaker 3: Who you are.
Speaker 1: And like when you were initially interviewed by doctor riddleson
these new files. These new files that Karun has detail
more about your deviant abilities and such.
Speaker 4: So there are no notes prior to me being a
dusk walker. Correct, So logically speaking, I could then introduce
that the entirety of the time that I've known doctor Riderlson,
it has been post transformation of some sort.
Speaker 3: Just did it.
Speaker 1: I'd also have some information about like how you were
assisting doctor Rutilson in the temple and stuff like that.
You were all you probably have like a there's probably
like a crude work chart or something along those lines,
something like you know, uh, doing different experiments and things
like that with the Black Frost. You would find that
you were probably one of the assistants working to infect
the Ilverani. Because of your medical knowledge.
Speaker 4: I close it and I had slide it far away
from me in disgust.
Speaker 1: A rash talk. You would have been a working to
research the disease of the black frost with doctor Ridleson
Malvic you were doing a lot of literal heavy lifting,
or Celia, you were most likely doing like extra assistance
with all of the different people. And you can see
that Karun was probably doing various alchemical tests on the
black frost such I'm assuming Karun would probably show you
each year your file.
Speaker 2: We have done a dreadful thing, yes, but if that
was not us in our right minds, we did not
necessarily do it could have also been posed as the
only way to save the population if we were presented
with evidence that showed that perfectly manipulated or not. Otherwise,
I do not think at least you, Yowell, you are
Celia would do it. The rest of us I could
see being convinced with a greater good knowledge acquisition.
Speaker 5: It would go against all of my training that I've
done since I was a little girl. Actively worked towards
the harm of other people.
Speaker 3: And I knew it was bullshit from the moment I
met him, that would have done that willingly.
Speaker 2: It's logical as well.
Speaker 4: Even still, even if we were, so to speak, some
sort of a hoske, it was my hands that infected them.
Speaker 2: True, but who knows how the man beinished it was.
You may have seen them as nothing more than animals
or monsters. It could have been a lusory testing a
disease on animals to prevent and help others. We don't
know yet. Do not blame yourself.
Speaker 1: Lockney sort of stirs and says, excuse me, well, I
know something about being forced to do things against your will.
I hold no animosity towards any of you. I did
things after being taken by the Black Frost, and my
mind was not my own. I old no hatred for you.
Speaker 4: Even still, I am sorry.
Speaker 1: He slowly nods his head.
Speaker 3: There will be.
Speaker 1: A more ample apology if you are able to stop
this from happening to anyone else.
Speaker 2: That is the goal.
Speaker 4: Well, I suppose if we cannot find any other information
in this moment, perhaps we make sure that we gain
ample rest, and I will then finish up attempting to
do what I can for you, or Celia Darling and
then I shall be off to pray and attempt to
find some sort of way to cure it.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, Tiara, of course, Darling.
Speaker 2: Anything for you, well, I will be going back to
my miss. It does. Unless there is anything else to discuss.
Speaker 5: I think we just tried to get some good rest tonight. Yeah,
a journey at least seventy days ahead of us.
Speaker 1: Oh seventy. I thought it was seven.
Speaker 2: Seventy times seven. No, no, no, that would just be
just seventy.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's wow. That's a long walk. Uh wow. And
did we find any way down to the ice?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 2: We have some climbing here, but also there are a
few of us that can fly.
Speaker 3: Flight.
Speaker 2: We could ease silly carry one or the other.
Speaker 5: They also took notes from my conversation with Lockney. I
asked many questions about the high ice fishing on it.
Perhaps it might help our arms at least a little,
and we.
Speaker 2: Have plenty of food, even if it is not always tasty.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Well, I'm going to get some sleep then.
Speaker 4: As well.
Speaker 1: By sleep, I mean dry heaving in the corner.
Speaker 3: No, we have the opposite in away from the.
Speaker 5: One side of the tent. Is dry heaving Karun. The
other side is just mosquitoes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mosquitoes.
Speaker 2: I put them in the corner. I'm not on the
entire side, and they don't bite unless I asked them to.
Speaker 4: They organized mosquitoes, you see. Nionized one might say.
Speaker 2: I only need two hours to sleep, so I will
commune and rest and I can keep an eye out.
Not that I expect anything out of here right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh Karun will enter a meditative state by
dry heaving in the corner. Rashtak has set up a
little shrine to the mosquito wench. Everybody else heading to bed, I.
Speaker 4: Will be taking care of oursilia and then stalking off
to be alone and send a prayer to Farasma. Yeah,
try and at least discuss my thoughts on all that
we've just found out and ask for the helps that
we need.
Speaker 1: Okay, um, let's see yah Rah need a check from you?
Please make a religion jack.
Speaker 4: Thirty four?
Speaker 1: Okay, um, roll me a one D four?
Speaker 8: These are.
Speaker 5: Three?
Speaker 1: Okay? How long do you try to do this?
Speaker 9: Yare?
Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know. I think I am. I'm quite fatigued,
and I suppose I've lost a little bit of a
sense of time. I am filled with grief. It is
violating what I have heard. Either I did it of
my own volition with reason, of course, and I've cast
harm when I am a healer, or something or someone
was manipulating me to do something so vile, something I
would never do to anyone, And seeing that handiwork is,
it's horrible. So I talk for quite some time about
that and my desire to make it right in any
way that I can. I discussed my confusion at the
whole thing, not understanding anything about.
Speaker 5: My false memories.
Speaker 4: Apparently of my sister, about the the change that my
body has incurred, about my desire to heal all Celia,
I am crashing out, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Take some time, okay, say it's about thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Before there is this feeling of silence as things begin
to fade away around you, just an empty, void silence,
and this strange yearning to walk forward.
Speaker 4: Is it similar to the one that I experienced some
months ago?
Speaker 1: Very similar?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: I will.
Speaker 4: Stand up off of my knees and brush the snow
and ice off of my skirt.
Speaker 1: Nice falls to the ground. The ground sort of ripples.
Speaker 4: I will walk.
Speaker 1: With each step you take, scenery around you begins to change. First,
ripples into a Mary you've seen now several times, leap
it shot It's streets, leap it stod riddlesome manner. The
next step sends this environment falling down and erupting forward.
You see the forests begin to grow, the forests begin
to fade away. The next step in the first world
comes into being, its chaotic nature in the distance, throwing
you off for a moment. Is that too fades away?
Soon you see pastrevelle, the Elvin architecture, the heat contrasting
its beauty, sensation of curiosity and happiness, jungles falling away,
and then you know instantly that you have returned to
Galarian SkyWatch. The environment changes. The lake is all around you.
You don't know when you stepped upon on the boat.
The ghostly spirits and the crew that you once knew
follow behind. Your journey continues, mirroring trips that you have taken,
and in each spot you see one of the faces
of your fellow investigators. As you now see the high
ice before you, you see at the edge spires or
rising m someone standing in front of them.
Speaker 8: Hello, sister, yirah, what has happened to you?
Speaker 4: I I do not know.
Speaker 1: Are you real? I don't know?
Speaker 4: Are you does she look as she was?
Speaker 1: She does like the last time you saw her.
Speaker 4: H How are you? Oh? Are you at the spies?
Speaker 1: I don't know where I am. I feel strange. Will
I see you soon?
Speaker 2: But I hope?
Speaker 4: So I try to reach for her.
Speaker 1: She extends a hand and as your fingertips touch ripple,
a thing act happens. She falls away. No, the spires
remain cascading Across the spires, you see black frosts begin
to grow. Everything begins to crumble and fade.
Speaker 3: High.
Speaker 1: Ice begins to fall away. Silence.
Speaker 3: Yes, m hm.
Speaker 1: You feel something heavy in your hand.
Speaker 4: I looked to it.
Speaker 1: There is single black frost snowflake resting there.
Speaker 4: And it is not melting.
Speaker 1: Cold to the damage.
Speaker 4: It's the cause of all of my problems.
Speaker 2: So yes.
Speaker 1: Begins to melt. For the briefest of moments, you think
you feel like something important has been decided. I don't
know how why, but you begin to awaken. You open
your eyes and you see the inside of the irt.
Speaker 4: I look around and there's everyone there.
Speaker 1: Yes, the drone is making the gentle sound of dry
heaving in the corner. Rash Talk appears to be resting
or reading. The others look to be asleep.
Speaker 4: Is there any residue on my hand from the heavy
frost smelting?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's probably looks to be a single drop of
water in your hand, almost black with.
Speaker 4: Soot, carn dunning. Yeah, I have a sample.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Why would you interrupt? What sample?
Speaker 4: I cannot quite explain it other than a vision. But
look to my hand, and I keep it horrifically steady.
I'm putting all of my mental energy into makings it's.
Speaker 1: So okay, So we need the vial. Interesting, it has
sort of similar properties to the oil stuff we found. Okay,
let's scoop it into a vial. Ah sort of shakes
it a little bit, holds it up. Yeah, got any more?
Where did you find this?
Speaker 4: It's it appeared.
Speaker 5: It appeared in my hand.
Speaker 4: I have no other way to explain it. I had
another one of those visions, like the one where I
was sent walking when I saw the spy as long ago.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was a heavy, heavy piece of snow in
my hand, and.
Speaker 4: I can't I can't explain it. But I willed it
to melt, and it did, and I have no idea
but to just still.
Speaker 5: It was there.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I will study it and let you know
what I find. It looks a lot like that stuff
we found on the ship.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm just quite confused.
Speaker 1: Well that's what you know alchemy is for, right, It's
to discover things and too, I don't know to science, right.
Speaker 11: Right, Okay, Well, I need to rest, but I'm really
interested in this stuff, so I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Just make sure it's safe and then uh you know,
you know, a little you know, a little uh you know, right,
and I.
Speaker 5: Will then a koroun.
Speaker 4: Thank you, darling. Here you get some rest, all right?
Speaker 1: Are you like you're not dying or anything?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm all right, okay, because I probably have
like you know, alix or vaccine for that.
Speaker 4: Well, I will let you know if I feel as
though I am dying, and we can attempt to rectify that,
but for now, I don't think so I'm just simply
shaking that as all.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, good night.
Speaker 12: Good night.
Speaker 4: Perhaps I should tape an nose or something or my
mouth shut.
Speaker 2: At night.
Speaker 4: At any rate, I will pull back the was it
the little flat on the yat? Just to see? Can
I get any gauge on possibly how long has passed
since I had my absolute crash out?
Speaker 1: Give me a perception check.
Speaker 4: Sixteen.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say because of the way that the
the sun just kind of stays out for long periods
of time. Here. It doesn't have your normal sort of
day cycle night cycle, right.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I will not bother anyone else, and I
will Is anyone awake for a watch?
Speaker 2: Actually I don't think so. That's definitely awake. It looks
like he's studying or praying or something.
Speaker 4: Though, rasta darling, you would see tears have like streamed
my makeup down my face. I look awful. How did
I get here?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: You took the Ayudara with us.
Speaker 4: We walked no, no no no. I left the yet
previously I do not remember getting back to the earth.
Speaker 2: Are her leaving the it? I do not think you
left the ardiara?
Speaker 4: So it was all dream, will am? I suppose it
was perhaps a vision or something, but I I saw
the spires the high ices is the correct way it is?
I believe it.
Speaker 2: Good to have at your confirmation.
Speaker 4: My sister was there.
Speaker 2: M hmm. Is that not similar to what you were expecting.
Speaker 4: Last I recall my previous vision had her by my side, being.
Speaker 2: Judged, so to speak, m order of operations. Perhaps, yes,
it may not be the same timeline. If those visions
are what is to come or what has happened?
Speaker 4: God, I had screwon take a sample, But there was
some all of a sudden in my vision, a bit
of black frost in my hand. It stayed solid, and
then I had the thought that this was the cause
of all of my problems, and it melted, but there
was a sample of it when I awoke.
Speaker 2: Hm that It's curious. Yeah, you did not leave the
yet to my knowledge, and if there is no it
does not snow in here enough fur the black frost
infected kind. I wonder if we all have had or
do still have one on us, If that is the
cause of your visions, they caused visions when we were
on the boat. You think that they were left by Wilson,
perhaps to continue to push us in a direction and
claiming they are divine.
Speaker 4: Does this sound to me like like this could be
sort of what I've experienced.
Speaker 3: Or what.
Speaker 1: There were no notes left by riddleson about this.
Speaker 4: I do not know. We did not have any sort
of notation on the topic.
Speaker 2: Perhaps so you did not know of it either.
Speaker 4: At any rate, we should all be keeping an eye
on each other. You may have something similar.
Speaker 2: I will ask Masquitoitch see if he may send some light.
Perhaps there's not me. You would be more powerful than that.
Speaker 4: So sorry to disturb you.
Speaker 2: No, I was quite shaking reading. It is fine. We
have time.
Speaker 4: Ross shock, darling. I will hugue very tightly. H. I
know that you do not necessarily intend for it, but
you are a great source of comfort for me.
Speaker 2: Ah, I they kill h That is not commen.
Speaker 4: You are strange, to be sure, but aren't we all? Hi,
thank you for being a good friend.
Speaker 2: Of course you are.
Speaker 4: Yes, I am going to rest now. Sorry, Sorry, no
apologies I needed.
Speaker 12: M hmm.
Speaker 2: I would begin setting out more for the Mersesquito witch
very well, to try to reach out and see if
it's can be confirmed that we all have this snowflake.
Speaker 1: Sure m hmm, yeah, making occultism role, I guess yes.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to check our stash to see if
there's something that can.
Speaker 7: Lure her he's here. Mm hmmm, yes, that could work.
Speaker 2: I pull out from my bag of holding a small,
tiny drake I okay, and place it on the shrine
in front of me. And then, because I am very,
very curious, and.
Speaker 1: This, by the way, tiny is still kind of big.
Speaker 2: I mean a Dronis's head is listed as tiny, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's somewhere in between the size of a
fist and a head.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I will then take one other thing out of my
bag of holding, the flask of she who walks, okay,
and I pull that over the tiny tiny drake.
Speaker 1: I okay.
Speaker 2: Now I will pray I wish to e roll this
as I rolled a five, hope that it is much
better thirty three okay.
Speaker 1: The after a short period of time, the mosquitoes be
into begin their feast.
Speaker 4: Oh, just as a little note or ostrog you would
know about the what is it, the the seibral of revelation.
So if you did wish to use that, if you
are to make any sort of religious ceremonies and whatnot,
you would get a plus two.
Speaker 2: You just have to is that the knight and bonus.
I cannot use it as my ambulance bonus to occultism positives.
Speaker 4: Ah, yes, you're doing occultism.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 4: Sorry for the interruption, no issue.
Speaker 2: I haven't moved the items I have sacrificed to her.
Speaker 1: Okay, it takes maybe a couple of minutes, but you
can see this mess sort of begin to, you know,
spread out from the original. I won't go into detail
about the grossness of this, but it's pretty gross. The
mosquitoes are enjoying it.
Speaker 2: It's not the size of grape.
Speaker 1: It's like the size of a fish.
Speaker 2: Speak big grape.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more like a more like a melon. Let's call
it the size of a like a cantalope. So as
the mosquitoes go to town on this rash, talk the eye,
you can swear like the mess that's left behind blinks
at you for a second, and there is this buzzings.
It almost feels like the mosquitoes increase in density as
they swirl about you. As you get this intense feeling
of satisfaction, and also like someone looking over your shoulder,
there's this increase in the sounds. Is the mosquitoes surround you.
They buzz about, bloated and gorged on the sacrifice that
you've provided. As they do so you can see that this.
It looks like a form can almost be made out
amongst the mosquitoes, just a silhouette a little bit darker
than the rest of the mosquitoes, just kind of looks
like it's walking towards you. There's no actual change in
the mosquitoes. You're almost ensphered in these mosquitoes. With each step.
It looks like these mosquitoes are taking blood. He's left
behind in shape of footprints. The shape here feels like
it is staring at you. What do you do?
Speaker 2: I lower my head. I'm not going full prostrate, but
lower my head. The visions I fear maybe a manipulation.
One of my companions had to m hm, that snowflake
up Pierre, and she wheeled it away. I do not
wish to under any influence who is situes debserving you.
I do not want to any others.
Speaker 1: The mosquitoes seem to be quite angry.
Speaker 2: Yes, if there is something that affects my mind, I
have come giving this as an offering to ask for
that to be revealed, so I may dispell it that
you have not have anything impeding you.
Speaker 1: There is a line of mosquitoes that begin to almost
look like They are forming some sort of rope or something,
and it connects to your head.
Speaker 2: I do not resist.
Speaker 1: You can see the mosquitos moving about, and the shape
in the mosquitoes looks as if they hold up several arms.
More mosquitoes from the sphere seem to go to work
on this rope connecting to your head. Several of them
begin to change. You can see this missed form around them.
More arms get thrown up, mosquitoes grow in intensity, the
arms fall. The mosquitoes connected to this rope begin to
just die away, and where they do, ice black frost
begins to form. One arm comes up as if it
is pointing behind you.
Speaker 2: Hey, look where I am being told?
Speaker 1: You turn and the mosquitoes have formed six spires in
the distance. The mosquitoes that have fallen turned to black
frost form a line heading to these six spires.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is our path. We intend do make it
to these spires. It will be your long journey, but
we will though. This is why I ask for no
manipulation from them, a preventative that we may get their hand.
We can do what we need to to remove this
influencer permanently.
Speaker 1: Mosquitoes begin to push you from behind. You feel this
gentle weight so to push you, and as you look
into the distance where the spires are, more mosquitoes begin
to fall and turn to black frost upon the ground.
Speaker 2: Oh, I will still be able to reach up to
you while we travel?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: Or are you telling me that I will be on
my own.
Speaker 1: For this time? It feels as if you were being
rushed and ah, as if he predency. This will be
most difficult.
Speaker 2: Very well, you will get there as quick as we
were hoping, which is as quick as possible.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Mosquitoes begin to fall away, leaving only this silhouetted shape
in the yurt. As the urt starts to come back up,
bends over and drinks from what is left of the sacrifice.
As it turns, mosquitoes begin to fall away as you
see the silhouette walk away from you, dissolving into more
mosquitoes as they separate.
Speaker 2: Do I feel any different after what seemed to be
the chain breaking.
Speaker 1: It did not feel as if the chain broke.
Speaker 2: Ah, they tried to and they could not, but the
dropping of heads potentially m M very well, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I think the feelings that you get are you are
being rushed you're being pushed. You are feeling as if
this will grow more difficult as you travel, and your
connection may grow weak.
Speaker 2: He says the final thanks and continues, then do read
and study on the lessons that the mosquito which has
given him. I will continue to have the mosquitoes that
have survived swirl around me. Get again.
Speaker 1: Very well. If that is all you all are resting,
Your night is uninterrupted, Have a full night's rest, comfortable
rest in this year.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Warm in here, it's comfortable. Make sure that you hit
your rest button at the top of your sheet, next
to your dying and wounded track below your HP the
rest for the night. Probably all begin to awaken similar times.
As people begin to stir, there are smells of the
smoke from the fire it's been keeping this place warm
all night. The smell of that sort of everlasting stew
going smells pretty close to nothing.
Speaker 2: Daily preparations, hypothies.
Speaker 1: No worries, and I think our celia, um, we need
to make a roll for you. All right, Let's see here.
Speaker 4: Do you want me to roll for treat wounds for
her or not treat wounds, some treat condition for her
as well?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yes, all right, we find it here, you go treat disease,
I should.
Speaker 1: Say, yeah, treat disease.
Speaker 4: Okay, what was the would that be a failure?
Speaker 1: No, this is a success okay, excellent. So the disease
does not advance to the next stage, but it is
still hm hmmm. Uh oh, I'm sorry. So you reduced
the passage? Yeah you so, I think you reduced this
to stage one.
Speaker 2: I think it was already at stage one.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was at stage two.
Speaker 12: And yeah for.
Speaker 4: The spell for cleanse affliction? Shall I be waiting towards
the evening or is it something I could expend the
spell slot for during the day and beat without that
spell slot obviously?
Speaker 1: Uh so? Uh yeah, basically you can expand the spell slot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, a Cilia, Yes, but you just am
here for a moment. Just sit down with me.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. Thank you for doing this. Yeah, I appreciate it,
of course.
Speaker 4: Are you feeling any better from last night?
Speaker 5: I do feel a little better, but there's perpetual chill
that I haven't been able to quite shake.
Speaker 4: Right, they give me your hands really quickly.
Speaker 5: I present my hands to you. I will hold.
Speaker 4: Them and they will begin to emit a golden light
as I attempt to cleanse the affliction from your body.
Is there a counteract number I should be making? Excellent?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, the rank is ten.
Speaker 4: You say twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think this looks like?
Speaker 4: No, our hands have this dull golden glow, and as
my magic begins to pour through our celia, it actually
begins to radiate from her veins. It is all throughout
her body. And now, as such, the magic must penetrate
through the circulatory system, so to speak, or at least
that is how my magic is interpreted. And as such,
you will notice that you begin to glow this golden hue.
All of your veins begin to slowly fill up with
this golden light. Is it each is up to where
the frost originally was put into you?
Speaker 5: It's warm. It feels like sunlight through a glass window.
Speaker 4: Do you feel it working?
Speaker 5: I feel the numbness leaving my fingertips, so it must
be taking hold.
Speaker 4: Excellent, It's good.
Speaker 5: Try to take it easy today just in case.
Speaker 4: Yes, let's.
Speaker 12: All right.
Speaker 4: Are you able to stand?
Speaker 5: It'll take a lot more than just a bite to
keep me down, and I will carefully stand back up.
Mm hm.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 2: Excellent. Mhm.
Speaker 5: Is there anything that you need?
Speaker 4: That is a good question. Let's talk the next time
that we're going to set down for the night day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 4: We've got things to do. We do well to save
things of that nature, and we've.
Speaker 5: Got a lot of time to talk. H All right, Well,
let me go see if I can find you some breakfast.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. I will go wander over to the your
meat hut. See what's floating around in there today, just.
Speaker 1: Like mystery meat in there.
Speaker 5: Yep. Oh, someone's thrown carrots in here. Yeah, a small carrot.
Speaker 1: It's just it doesn't really taste bad. It just doesn't
taste good. You know. It's like if you don't season anything.
It's like if a bunch of white dudes made it.
Speaker 5: Everything just boiled without any seasoning or salty nothing.
Speaker 3: Mmmm.
Speaker 5: At least it's warm.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna walk out the tin and go to Chary
Tom fishing.
Speaker 1: So I think what you learned yesterday from kind of
going out on your fishing expedition, it's probably gonna be
better if you try doing on the high ice, like
actually actually go down.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I guess maybe I'll like make a Yeah, maybe
I'll make a.
Speaker 1: Hunting since you could go hunting for like some some
rabbits maybe or even some wolves. There might be some
of those around.
Speaker 3: You said there's nothing here, Yeah, it's like rough. I'll
just wait. But what I'll do is I'll look over
down in the area and try to since I spoke
to Lockne what's name Locknee give me some tips and stuff,
So I would look for you know, where the sun
hit There is a sun, right, is it not dark?
Is it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's only like a few hours of nighttime.
It's probably only like three or four hours MAXA.
Speaker 3: Then I would look wherever the sun hits the ice
in there kind of like a morechine position, yeah, which
means the water is probably like a lot that the
ice is thinner. Yeah, and just kind of mark mentally
it would be.
Speaker 1: It's brutal. It's like one of those things where you
just you know, you like you have to cover your
eyes really to look out onto the high ice. It's
it like there's a reason that ula Kuk has the
is that like in that in snow blindness the glasses
it's it's yeah, it's brutal. Yep, just by looking down there,
I mean, make me a survival check.
Speaker 13: Okay, openness, all right, let's see scenes all right, twenty.
Speaker 1: Four Uh okay, So it looks bleak out there, like
it's just it's like it's like looking at an ocean
with just some snow drifts and yeah, like yeah, Jesus,
you can see like there might be some like chasms
and stuff out there. Like it sucks. It's gonna be rough.
You'll be lucky if you can do like eight hours
of travel in a day. And you will probably have
to take breaks.
Speaker 3: Take a deep and yellow breath.
Speaker 7: And just.
Speaker 3: Suck qwent teeth and eat some rations from my bag
when I touched that eared meat. And I will get
in the train to get in the way, you hear everyone,
or run around sure, expand my lungs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think uh, I think we all see you,
you know, having some breakfasts or what have you, and
just kind of getting yourselves prepared. Lockney, I believe you
provided a lockney with some of your old furs to
make back to the ice skate, so he'll eat and
probably and you are you tended to his wounds the
previous day and he uh yeah, I mean, he just
kind of readies himself.
Speaker 9: And and if we have any extra gears stashed away
in one of our deep, endless pockets, I think I'd
like to try to persuade the group to share at
least a dagger, perhaps a proces.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna walk up to him before you left.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. So I imagine both Malevik and I kind
of approach our arms full of extra stuff we've gathered
that is unnecessary for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the group.
Speaker 3: I will take the dagger out. It's kind of ironic. Yes,
is the professor's dagger. I won't tell him that. And
a plus one dagger. And but I don't know what
kind of fighter you are, But here's a plus one dagger,
and I won't say plus one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we removed I think we removed that striking room
from the.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well, he's a dagger, yes, in a sling
So I'll give up both of those slinging dagger.
Speaker 5: As you pull the dagger out, I will make eye
contact with you, and it's probably pretty clear that I'm
about to tell him exactly what it is, unless you
try to stop me. Perhaps it's a type of poetic justice.
This blade belonged to Rittelson.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. It also almost killed me with it.
Speaker 1: He holds it in his hand. I recognize it.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: It serves you well. It is already in much better
hands than it used to.
Speaker 1: You can see him like you can see him like
test out the balance a little bit, clearly knows what
he's doing. Spins it's probably like, spins it around in
his hand, checks to see the grip.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: I'll delete those knitment where also give them the slings.
Thank you for the advice for the ice. I don't
it's pretty hopeless out there. But if you were able
to make it back from the Black Ross, maybe we
have a chance. And I'll throw my forearm out in a.
Speaker 1: Gesture, extends his hand out the same way shakes come.
Speaker 3: From different sides of the world that at the end
of the day, we fight for the same course in
people's losses remembered heavy on my mind.
Speaker 7: It will.
Speaker 3: I will give it all I got.
Speaker 1: I am sure you will succeed. I owe somebody answer
bits and pieces from our confrontation when I was not myself.
But you are very capable fighters. If anyone can succeed,
I think it is you.
Speaker 3: Mhmm, Well, it won't be worth it unless you make
it back to your tribe, So go with care, thank you,
and it will turn and walk towards. Then I'll stop
and look back and say, whatever I did, I will
make it pay ten times fold, and I will continue
to walk the woods here to pack up my belonging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you all sort of just like helping take things
down at this point.
Speaker 5: Indeed. Yes, fortunately with the year, we just need to
pull on a tab and then it just.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does all that collapses into its own your meat.
Speaker 5: Flashbacks last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lockney gathers himself up, checks everything, and then says,
thank you for rescuing me. I'm sorry for what you
have been put through. I think Karon will actually walk
up to him and she'll say, it was really nice
seeing another elf. I I wish I had time to
get to know Ilvarani a little more. Maybe on the
way back. Maybe. Okay, don't get all sentimental. You should
probably go.
Speaker 4: Save travels, you lucky.
Speaker 1: Save travels. Beware the high ice as many dangers. Prepare
yourselves and you will arrive safely. Good luck.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: May Finder laid Laura watch over you no matter what happens.
May the rest of your lives be beautiful. Lockney hikes
up all of his furs begins to walk off, leaving goodbye.
Speaker 4: So this is it. Then we're all packed?
Speaker 5: Question? I still have stage one? Correct? Okay, as good
as he'll be.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you're clean gone?
Speaker 5: Okay, So I will remove the cold five now.
Speaker 2: And drained if you had not, I believe it's the
other one.
Speaker 5: Thank you? All right? Seventy days? Yes, begins now.
Speaker 1: So, like my ladder isn't going to be long enough
to go down there? You know that? Right?
Speaker 2: Oh, I have fly pre bad I could use that
and hold someone.
Speaker 4: I have that magic as well. And we also have
climbing gear if needed as well.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you will climb, you will not fly.
Speaker 5: No, do we have snowy owl? And then we've got
three humans with us? Correct?
Speaker 1: Ten people total? I'm sorry, nine people total.
Speaker 5: It's now we all Can you carry one of your
companions down?
Speaker 1: I can carry one down.
Speaker 2: Yes, I cannot fly indefinitely, but I would make it quick,
so potentially could take two if I can get up
and down in five minutes.
Speaker 4: Yes, mine is the same situation.
Speaker 5: If you don't mind, could you prioritize helping them down.
Speaker 2: Yes, I can do that.
Speaker 5: I'll climb down and from Olympic.
Speaker 3: Then everything needed for the climb. I think it's good
for me. Yes, we must keep training my body as
it goes through changes.
Speaker 2: Yes, the cold is bit before we go. I was
able to come here with the mosquito witch. M A
warning was given. It will get worse and more dangerous,
perhaps more than we expect, and at least Mike Ties.
She seemed to be not anxious, but worried, perhaps that
my connection will be weakened. I do not know if
that will be for other deities or AH entities. Looking
at Alvick with that note, be wary.
Speaker 4: Was your situation similar, Burstock, and similar to the samples
that I woke up with this morning? And at this
point I would have probably told the others as well,
what did you I saw? Just as half I'm not
giving that a secret.
Speaker 2: Perhaps eh, she could not remove what ties may I
saw chaine wrapped around my head. He attempted to remove
it but could not, and urged me with haste to
get through the spire. We may be running out of time.
Speaker 4: Very well, I will dig through my bag of holding
that I've got, and I will take out the climbing pack,
all of the kits and like all the petons and
everything like that that the others might need. And we
will keep an eye on you as well along the way.
All right, no harm shall come to either of you.
Speaker 5: All right, We'll take it nice and slow. I'll begin
to fashion essentially an anchor for us at the top,
driving a pet torn down into solid ground with a
cliff face, essentially trying to wrap ourselves the rope.
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh mm hmm. For those that are scaling
the cliff side, which seems to be our Celia and Malavik,
we have um m hmm some checks to make. Snowy
Owl will be taking Wow, and Numa is way stronger
than I was thinking, Holy shit, well they both are.
Speaker 5: What about the all of us look over at the
humans and they're just hella woll all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: Who's like, yeah, who got weaker for some reason? Like terribly.
Speaker 1: Baby hilarious. They all have a plus four mod for strength.
I thought that was pretty amazing. So yeah, I think
that snowy Owl would probably aim to take Enuma down first.
Probably how long would it take you to get down.
If you flying I.
Speaker 4: Wonder double speed if you're going down, as well as
how many seconds are in a round six seconds, it'd probably.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see if the average speed is thirty
feet for action, and you do three actions to fly down. Uh,
let's see some ninety effectively, ninety feet should not be
that bad. It's really only ah, it's really only like
thirty to forty seconds fly down to fly up is
going to be longer.
Speaker 2: Helps one point five meters a second the fly for
the for moving out of thirty foot per round or
per action, I should say, yeah, so I guess it'd
be ninety Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Feet per ninety ninety feet per.
Speaker 2: Fu taxo point five meters a second, well meters, Switching
to meters doesn't help my three Yeah, i'll do, I'll do.
Speaker 1: Let's call it. Let's call it probably forty feet a second.
Speaker 5: Yeah, technically if you throw them down, oh my god,
you save yourself some time.
Speaker 1: Let's call it. It's probably somewhere in the range of
like twenty seven to forty seconds to fly all the
way down.
Speaker 4: Now, prior to us flying down, I am scooping out
that spy glass that I have because I want to
make sure that we are not going to get attacked,
and anybody climbing is not going to get attacked. So
I will be trying to take a look unless somebody
with better perception would like to yoink it from me.
Speaker 5: I look around this, Oh I try.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, why how wonderful? Isn't it lovely? Yes, it's
just it's the lenses articulated in a very particular way
to make it so that the vision is a little
bit clearer on distant cobjects.
Speaker 5: Oh I look through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make a perception check spy glass.
Speaker 5: Oh cheesez. That's so bad twenty five Yep.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, kind of what you'd expect. It's
just like it's just a sea of ice, you know,
like it's there's some ridges, there's some canyons and things
down immediately below. It just looks like there's a bunch
of snow down there that's probably cascaded and blown off,
so there's like big snow drifts. I mean, who knows
how much of that is like ice underneath, you know,
but it's essentially lots of snow piled up at the
bottom of the cliff.
Speaker 5: Oh, we'll have to be careful. It's a bit difficult
to distinguish the terrain, but there might be snow banks around.
You might not be directly hitting ice when we land,
So perhaps we should try to have someone fly down first.
Speaker 2: All right, I have to take someone and fly down
and leave them there if it is safe, and then
come back up.
Speaker 1: Oh no, someone else is going to have to test that.
I'm not doing it. I'm just waiting down there for
death while everyone else is just taking their sweet time
to fly up and then come back down. What are
you crazy?
Speaker 5: I didn't think about Karun. We don't have someone to
carry Karun down.
Speaker 2: We will take multiple trips. We have to hmm, right,
I look to Taniki and their crew. Yeah, though I
know Taniki well enough. Would you like to be the
one to head down with me and stay and scout
while I come back and.
Speaker 1: Get the next I can do this, yes, very will.
Speaker 2: I suppose the easiest way, and I like crouch down
for a piggyback to give one nag you.
Speaker 1: Just you know, hops hops aboard.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm almost seven feet tall, so yeah, all right,
Well we will return shortly upon myself and it's Jeff.
Speaker 5: For arrivals can is here too, your son of a bitch?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay. Uh so let's see. So your fly speed
is actually twenty feet so five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, fly is twenty speed equal to my speed or
twenty whichever is greater. Okay, so my fly speed is twenty.
Speaker 1: Five okay, so yeah, I figure it's closer to like
forty seconds to get down. Sure, and uh you begin.
Let's see here, you gotta do a check.
Speaker 2: I think I not for flying holding them, yes, flying? No,
flying is just I have fly speed, So I do it.
Speaker 5: The ground, drop the baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, I guess. So we don't have any
any wonderful fast milements.
Speaker 4: You're having them do a difficult maneuver in flight.
Speaker 2: I'm going indeed not do it. This is the first
time I've ever flown.
Speaker 1: What is this strike?
Speaker 2: Yes, for my flight, A number of beetles burst out
of my robes and make what look like insect wings,
but out of beetles as they hold and cling together,
and an excessive amount of buzzing of hard carapist wings.
As I step off of the cliff and drop.
Speaker 1: You just see a raw shock right off the edge.
Are you watching the whole time? Are Celia? I am okay, yeah,
sort of sailing down towards the ground. Uh do you
think this is like particularly graceful here a shock.
Speaker 2: As graceful as perhaps a uh Hercules beetle flying? Okay,
so it's it's very solid. It is not not like
a little you know, floaty, it's like floaty. It just
it's almost gliding. Yeah, fall in the style.
Speaker 1: Holy shit talk, it's so fucking cold. Like you you
cascade off the side of the cliff and you know,
like hits you right in the face, absolute brutal wind
currents like blowing right back up towards you. As you
begin to descend down below, you can see the snow
that Arcilia was talking about. Denigi's like holding super tight,
and she says, are you sure you will be able
to stop in time?
Speaker 2: Yes? It is a spell. I have a little control.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've never done this before.
Speaker 2: Neither have I.
Speaker 1: Okay, the first time you've seen Denigie freak out the
entire trip, she's holding so tight, like there's probably a
moment where she's got you like a little bit by
the necker ashsack.
Speaker 5: This is so cute in my head, especially because she's
like this bloodthirsty roof this huntress, you know, and she's
so kute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she hasn't had really to deal with heights this
whole time, and uh, this just it's the first time
he's flying and uh just for ships and giggles of
rashtak Uh give me an acrobatics check.
Speaker 3: Will do.
Speaker 1: Let's see how graceful this is?
Speaker 5: Are you zooman not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a beetle. Yeah, it's a little bit like
a like a bug landing on a screen door. There's
that really sudden like you know, kind of sound a
rostock you land like a little bit hard. There's there's
snow banks, and I think you like kind of like
slide along the snow banks and maybe like humble a
little bit with the nie on your back as you
into the snow.
Speaker 3: M a.
Speaker 1: Shake, just a hand boakes up from the snow, thumbs up, hands.
Speaker 2: Pull them up. All right, they're fine. I have to
get the next one. Then I immediately start ascending.
Speaker 3: I's gonna start pegging the ice and using snow shoes. Good.
I made sure I said ice really.
Speaker 14: Fast, instantaneous, just like I know, I don't know what you're.
Speaker 3: With the ice anywhere hammering my pons titons in the
ice and extending a word wrapping rope around and making
sure they're very secure. I'm taking my time going down,
even though my climb speed is the same as my
regulars my bull sheet.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Malvic is gonna start climbing, or Celia, are
you basically staying on the same line as Malvic? Are
you doing a separate one.
Speaker 5: I'll actually delay him for a little while, so I'll
just stay to anchor the top just in case, so
I will not descend right away.
Speaker 15: Okay, Ink you rock climbing class in high school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the climbing kits. Let's see, you have two
climbing kits, and each one has fifty feet of rope,
which I'm assuming you've tied together. So that's one hundred
feet of rope. Then you have another fifty feet of rope,
another fifty feet of rope, and I think that's it.
I think you got two hundred feet of rope right now,
so you can tell after you've anchored the first pitan Malvick,
the rope does not extend all the way down. It's
about halfway down the cliff.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to ease my strength. Let's go down
by locking in.
Speaker 2: I do have two extra pieces of rope in my
bag of holding as well.
Speaker 1: That's what I was including. Ah, thank you, yeah, I
think and yeah, so I had one. So I don't
know if your personally, I don't know if your personal
inventories have rope. But there's one in each climbing kit
for two. Then I see in the stash, I see
one two more so I see on.
Speaker 5: You, on me, one on me too. Okay, Then Yara
said she has one.
Speaker 4: Mine is the one that is in the spicious pouch
for Yarra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've got three hundred feet of rope?
Speaker 7: How high?
Speaker 1: Up one hundred feet?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's fine. That'll muscle my way down using
ice picks and uh, ice shoes and nails with spikes,
are can maneuve it down. Sure, there's cracks and all
kinds of stuff in the wall as well.
Speaker 1: There is the climbing check for you to make for
an athletics check.
Speaker 3: Also, I imagine that this wall is not one clean
sheet of glass. I mean there's like ridges and stuff
that you could rest on and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So what's interesting is like the temple itself was like
ice glass almost right, So that was like sheer. So
this is definitely like more mountainous. You know, it has
things you can grab on. It's definitely easier. Still hard,
but easier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a check in the chat there for you,
mal because you begin your descent.
Speaker 3: Can I rerule it? Uh?
Speaker 1: You can? It was not a secret check. Yeah. If
it actually says your result in the chat, then it
was not a secret check. Okay, So you spend a
hero point to reroll. Yeah. I think as you step out, Malvic,
you just slip like immediately, like it's like and then
you catch yourself with the rope and you just hold
on tight. Again. There was just that moment where you
put your foot out, you know, testing to see where
a good good place to rest your your foot is
as you begin your climb, and you just slip right
off and there's probably that like butt clench moment for
a half a second and you grab onto the rope.
Speaker 3: And yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, uh yeah, and you begin to repel your way down. Ya.
Are you waiting for a raschok to come back up
before you start flying?
Speaker 4: Yes? So my plan is for to wait to see
how many times a rash talk can usher people while
also monitoring the other two while they are beginning of
the descent. So I will be staying at the top
basically kind of trying to see how many we have left,
and if so, I do also want to try and
make it so that I'm able to along the way,
try and ensure that we either replace the rope for
them towards the bottom since I can fly up and down,
or you know, just gather it up so that we
have it for the future.
Speaker 1: Okay, very well, a rash talk, you are beginning your
ascent while you see Malvic probably beginning his climb. Our
Celia is steadying the rope at the top, sort of
getting him into good position before they begin their descent.
Speaker 3: I believe if there's ridges, I would stop along the ridges.
Speaker 1: To sure sure, yeah, it's probably more along the lines
of like good better hand holds and some.
Speaker 3: Yeah of course, or like you know, if there's a ridge,
or helping down instead of having to jump down.
Speaker 16: Or like sure whatever.
Speaker 5: I won't wait until Malvic goes all the way to
the bottom. Just once we have those anchor points.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, Malevic is hammering and some pitons along the
way you have to use a piton. I think I
think it's like every it's probably like every twenty feet
or so.
Speaker 4: I bought one hundred, yes all they had you plenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have plenty one hundred pitons.
Speaker 4: Shit they were cheap as hell.
Speaker 1: Wow. Nice Yeah, dinkdin think kink ding. Think the pitons
definitely are making this easier for whoever else is climbing down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was my whole thought process. Is me taking
the little danger around dangerous routes to a higher strength
and very smart ye plumbing the perth.
Speaker 2: I believe you said it was forty seconds to go down, Yes,
so it's a double for me to go up.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So that would mean I can do three trips as
then carry three people down, up for one for two minutes,
down up for two minutes, and then down for the
forty seconds, and I would not be able to go
up again. So I can take three all right.
Speaker 4: And snowy Owl her capability or their capability is part
in what is the amounts that they are able to
take or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how they're fly works, So snowy Owl
is probably the same the same kind of restriction okay.
Speaker 4: All right, so we have two climbing, and then that's
snowy Owl and Rastoc flying. So they're able to take
three each, you said, yep, so that would be ten total.
Speaker 2: So care all right, so I can get the entire.
Speaker 4: Do you even need to cast fly?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 2: I don't think so?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Right, well, actually I would want to ensure I'm staying.
I would cast fly on my way down to make
sure the other two are safe.
Speaker 2: Anything or anything, if that makes sense. Yes, I would
take all of the group, snowy owls group except for
snowy Owl.
Speaker 1: Sure. Okay, so uh let's have a check from our
Celia then U.
Speaker 5: Since Arcilia is climbing, all right, let me remind you
that I have a big strong musk laze.
Speaker 1: Sure you can use the thing in the chat there
and the prompt.
Speaker 2: Amovement athletics athletics.
Speaker 15: It says missing actor, miss do.
Speaker 1: You need your token?
Speaker 2: That's weird, it's paused. No, that shouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: I just clicks, make sure you don't have anything selected,
and then do it. Maybe still not working, okay, I
will just end. Okay, oh I hit the wrong button.
Speaker 5: It is an ATHLETICSLL that that's a hero point twenty three.
Speaker 1: Okay, our Celia is definitely beginning to struggle up above you, Malvic.
Speaker 4: I am keeping an eye out as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just start to see like ice start to like.
Speaker 3: How far.
Speaker 1: I would imagine halfway between the top and where you
are right.
Speaker 3: Now, Okay, I will well, since I was stopping along
the way before, I was like she would drow up,
I will try to hold the rope as tight as possible.
Speaker 1: Sure, give me an athletics check, Malvic.
Speaker 3: Sure there we go. Mm hm.
Speaker 1: Oh. Yeah. So one of the pitons comes out, It
just pops out, uh, and you see Arcilia and she
just kind of holds onto the rope. Maybe get some
like rope burns, Arcilia. As you grab onto the rope,
you feel it burning through your gloves and uh, Malevic,
you just like hold the rope. You feel it like
almost about to pull some other pitons out, and you
like pull the rope back to the cliff and Arcilia
you sort of get slammed into the side of the
cliff as you care as you make your way down
to the next piton, uh, not with any like solid footholds.
For a second, you're trying. You see your feet like
dangling down trying to find you know, the nearest the
nearest place to rest your feet, and you find the
scar or Malvic had rested to set up the piton.
Speaker 3: Gosh, shit to your right, calm yourself, sorry, no, snake
it down.
Speaker 5: You know, having massive text makes it extremely difficult to
climb down.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I wouldn't know how to respond to that.
I'll just.
Speaker 4: Are you okay over that?
Speaker 3: Malvic?
Speaker 4: You look a little flustered.
Speaker 3: M h I won't say anything because I normally I
would be like, well, she almost died, But I'll I'll
just go and hold the rope closer to the wall
as as as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our Celia is definitely like scrabbling a little bit
to like get a good hold and uh yeah, Malvic,
give me another athletics check. You are basically at the
end of the rope, now, okay, Malvic. You begin to descend, However,
you begin to slip. Okay, you're hammering in the pitons.
You've got your like ice pick out to like help
you descend, like dink tink, tink tink, and then it
just kind of slides against the ice. You're expecting to
like have a second handhold, and now you're just like
held by one hand. Give me an acrobatics check's fifteen okay,
now now I need a reflex safe mm you see
Malvic begin to fall here? You are Malvic straight up
like he tries to swing himself. You could see because
it's like his the ice pick. He can't get like
a good uh indentation into the ice.
Speaker 17: Ding ding ding king.
Speaker 1: He's trying to like grab onto it, and he swings
himself off to the side and he's just falling for
like a good ten feet and then he grabs onto
a ledge just like bare handed, like digging his fingers
into the ice.
Speaker 4: Malevik, I'm here all right, m hm.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: You've got this.
Speaker 3: Okay? How far I'm up ninety feet in ninety okay?
Look up? Did you go and see you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Or Celia? Do you continue climbing orre you waiting
for malavikait.
Speaker 5: Until Malevik seems steady and gives me the signal to continue.
Speaker 3: I'll try that cool, very cold grip my teeth in
and I will try to slam my foot into the
ice to get some kind of hold to fill for
the next you.
Speaker 1: Got those you know, those grippy claw shoes on right,
the the crampons like dig like you basically kick the
ice to like get your claws in there. Okay, and
let's have another athletics check. I'll put that in the
chat again for you. Oh yes, Alavik, you continue your
descent now without the rope, and you are managing to
find good footholds. You can see he's beginning his descent.
He looks like he's found his rhythm. Now he's descending.
Speaker 3: Proball be hammering and tutons on one the way as
she'll have something to step on, because I do want
my descent to be the hardest one. Uh, all right,
step lightly. There's gonna be a pot where it becomes difficult.
Speaker 5: Okay, here I go. Can I descend?
Speaker 1: Okay, or Celia, make an athletics check.
Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't hit the button, my bad.
Speaker 1: Or Cilia. You begin to descend the rope and the pitons,
and it is uh very difficult. As you are descending, Uh,
you slip some more your your pick axe and the
rope just begins to sort of fall through your hands.
You're trying to grab and slow yourself. Give me a
fortitude save.
Speaker 5: Seventeen.
Speaker 1: Hmm, you take eight points of damage to your hands
effectively as you are the rope burns.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 1: Come on, ice is just breaking off and you can
see it like tumbling down, Analytic. You kind of duck
your head a little bit, just trying to keep an
eye out for our Cilia as they begin to sort
of slide down. Arcilia, I need a reflex save all right.
Speaker 5: Twenty six?
Speaker 1: Uh, okay, our celia. You can't hold onto the rope
as you slide down. You start to uh just your
hands start to burn so much. You're trying to keep
your grasp, but your your hands are just shaking so much.
You let go and you start falling.
Speaker 3: Is there anywhere I can make you reflect save to
try to grab her?
Speaker 1: You absolutely can, as not enough.
Speaker 3: I can make a rerull.
Speaker 4: I'm also flying to make sure this doesn't happen, and
I have contingencies if it if it fails.
Speaker 2: There is also a reaction called grab an edge. Oh wow,
there's a rest of things like that. No rest of
falls for flying. Grab an edge is separate if you
are not flying but climbing. When you follows off or
past an edge or other handhold. You may try to
grab it, potentially stop it your fall. You may succeed
that your choice of an acrobatics or reflex, usually the
climb DC. If you grab the ledge, you can then
climb or use athletics.
Speaker 1: Okay, Malvic, you reach out to try to grab our
Celia and unfortunately you miss.
Speaker 3: You're going to be able to You're gonna be able
to hold a seven five.
Speaker 4: I have a contingency if we are falling.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh, she has continuously it.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you sure you do not what to try?
Speaker 3: Emilia? That's what I was asking. Can you catch a
I don't know how much I cannot.
Speaker 5: Probably like two hundred and fifty pounds, probably.
Speaker 3: Times the fall speed.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have snap leaf.
Speaker 5: Put it in the chat.
Speaker 4: I got it exactly for something like this. I scoop
in as soon as I see Malvik miss ar Cilia.
I am scooping in. I don't care how much she weighs,
or if I take damage for trying to grab onto
her or anything. I am putting myself below her and
I'm trying to arrest this fall.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's yeah, we just see Malvic reaches out and
your fingertips probably just like blos past and your hand
gets slammed down our celia fall Yara, you rush in?
What do you do?
Speaker 4: I am trying as fast as I can to try
and scoop her up. So if I need to maneuver
in flight, I will do so.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, give me an acrobatics check thirty Yeah, Yara,
what does it look like?
Speaker 4: I see that. I have faith that Malevic is going
to be able to grab her. But I noticed that
she might just be falling a little too fast. So
as soon as I see this, I'm not far too
far away. I made sure to levitate close towards them.
I rush in as quickly as I can to try
and intercept. I go to diagonal so that I land
below her, so to speak. So my body weight is
going to take the brunt of her hitting me. So
there's no way I'm going to miss her by trying
to like grab her or anything. It's going to be
my body is underneath her.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, what what does your fly look like? What
is it? What do you what is what does your
wings look like? What's going on?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: For me, it's not necessarily a wings or anything. It
is like a levitation, so to speak. I'm an oracle,
so we're weird and creepy. So I suppose that there's
kind of a bluish glow about me, and my skirts
are flowing sort of, especially with all this wind that
is going.
Speaker 2: My hair is.
Speaker 4: Also going as well, and as I as I scoop in,
the light around me begins to flicker ever so more brightly.
Because I am panicked. Now I'm putting all of my
effort into catching her.
Speaker 1: Okay, you nimbly sort of spin and put yourself underneath
our celia, and you know, hits like a ton of bricks,
and you sort of catch her. The wind sort of
picks up as this is all happening, whistling pass.
Speaker 4: All right, Asilia, do you trust me?
Speaker 5: Of course? All right?
Speaker 4: As soon as we get close enough for it, I'm
going to trigger my snap leaf in order to go
ahead and grant us the effects of gentle landing, which
basically it will raise a magical updraft to arrest our
full instead of falling at full speed. We are going
to go ahead and slow to a sixty feet per
round for the duration of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so ten foot per second effectively. As you you
feel this intense frightfully cold wind, sort of blow your
hair up, blow your furs up. As you begin to
slow still move, moving quickly but significantly slower as you
are buffeted by this cushion of air.
Speaker 5: I'm all right, that was so cold.
Speaker 4: I will just hug her.
Speaker 5: I hug you as much as I can. My bones
are clattering against you.
Speaker 4: You're right, You're right, okay.
Speaker 1: You hear malevic from the cliff.
Speaker 3: I'm just laying on my back at that point, like ah,
I'll start working my way down.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. The rest of you begin to make your way down,
finally to the bottom of the cliff, the high ice
lays before you. You see this white and blue crevasses, hills,
small mountains of ice. It's beautiful in its own way,
but it's also overwhelming in more ways than one. The
vastness of it all, the emptiness, the brutality, and the
overwhelming reflection of the sunlight buffeting you all. It's overwhelming.
As you get yourself settled at the bottom of the cliff,
readying to make the trip across the high ice, I
think Lecouk will sort of speak up and mention about
the crampons. Right, I'm sorry, Enuma will speak up about
your crampons and the snow shoes, and will say you
might need to change your snow shoes or the crampons
as we move on the journey. Whenever we come across
a chasm, you would want to switch to your crampons,
but most of the trip we will be using snow shoes.
Does everyone have your snow blinders?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'm pulling out the appropriate gear.
Speaker 1: You all begin to gear up now for the walking
as opposed to the climbing. Now the rope and the pitons.
You have several patons that were left in the cliff,
the ropes. What are you doing there? Were you trying
to remove those as you came down? Malvic? Did somebody
go back up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm starting to move what I can as I
came down. Obviously I won't be able to get the
one that's at the top or anything so savage.
Speaker 1: As many as I good, Okay, I'll tell you what.
I'll take either a survival check or an athletics check
unless somebody is going to fly up and try and
remove the rope.
Speaker 4: I don't assume, after the shit that I've just pulled
that five minutes would have been enough. So I can
cast it again if we need it. It depends on
what you would like to do.
Speaker 1: Man's good ship, okay, uh yeah, Malvic. It's gonna take
you a bit of time because you're kind of like
trying to pull Yeah, you're trying to pull out like
each piton that you attached, you know, So roll me
a D six.
Speaker 3: Six.
Speaker 1: Okay. It's gonna take you about an hour, uh to
do this. It's repeated attempts. You know, you have to
take breaks and stuff because it's it's like using those
fucking ropes in the gym. You know, you're just this
brutal dude, like, oh, your traps, your your arms are
gonna be burning for days after this ship. Yeah, so I.
Speaker 3: Was training for days before we did this. Uh, all right,
gather at what I could and uh finally make it down.
Everyone else is probably having conversations and having fun, and
I'm just looking at everyone in discuss. So I was kidding,
I'm are you all. I'll walk over and throw down
the petons in the rope and sit kind of like
I don't care if it's cold. I'm kind of I
have to find something to sit. I don't know, and
the rest fucking tired trying to catch a large or
woman flying past me and trying to like steady on
a rope down four hundred feet. Yeah, I'm pretty fucking tired. So, yeah,
you're the one.
Speaker 2: Who climbed the most because of all of.
Speaker 5: That those half break Yeah, I only climbed half as much.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: But at the same time it feels good because I
need to have this kind of training in this environment.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you see the expedition before you the high ice,
you prepare yourselves, and after a little bit of a rest,
you gather yourselves up and prepare yourselves for the trip.
It's so much colder down here. Fucking hell, you didn't
think it could get any colder. I don't know if
any of you experienced extreme cold before, but it is
fucking horrific. It feels like your eyeballs are freezing. Yeah,
it feels it feels like your eyeballs are freezing. You know,
you need good facial coverage just to like not have
things freeze and get frost bitten. The wind is blowing
directly all over this place. It's it's hitting a cliff
behind you, and it's just it's horrific. I don't know
how well all prepared you were mentally to make this trip,
but seeing the ice before you and how vast it
is and seemingly endless is overwhelming. But we are entering
exploration mode for this trip. Now. Few things a little
bit different here. There is effectively a crossing the high
ice action that you can take to make this trip
the normal day on the ice that has been broken
down to you by Enuma and Lockney. Step one is
your daily preparation. Step two is you doing the cross
the high ice sector as your exploration activity. And step
three is effectively well, actually, i won't say that part
that's for me. Step three is basically taking a break.
You can only cross the high ice for a certain
amount of hours per day, and that includes using the yurt.
If you did not have the yurt, you would only
be able to travel for four hours a day. The
yurt doubles your effective traveling time, so it's a good
thing you found that. And then resting that's the trip,
or doing whatever other activities you would like down here,
just climbing down to the bottom of the cliff. It's
so much worse than what you experienced near the Temple Way. Colder,
the wind is way more harsh, the sun beating down
on you. Everything is overwhelming. So crossing the high ice
let us begin for your day. You can do a
few things to cross the high ice. You can, it's
just the expert. You can avoid notice, you can defend,
you can investigate, you can scout, you can support, or
you can use magic. What would you all like to do?
Speaker 3: I'm a scout. I'll have that all my scout. Here
we go.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, could you paste that list somewhere? Thank you?
Speaker 2: It's covering tracks available?
Speaker 1: Uh no, okay, you can make the assumption. Yeah, you
can make the assumption that, uh tracks will most likely
be covered pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: The wind is constantly blowing snow.
Speaker 3: They know no one gets lost. Thanks? Ye, that would
be investigate? What was.
Speaker 4: Avoid notice?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm just grabbing him from this list. Don't pay my thing.
Speaker 2: I will follow the X. But with malaffick or scouting.
Speaker 1: Kay uh I think karoon will avoid notice?
Speaker 5: Yes, all right?
Speaker 4: In ascidia? What is it you wanted to do?
Speaker 5: What does support mean? In this context?
Speaker 1: Can use your skills to help keep equipment in working order,
treat minor afflictions and wounds. As their eyes help to
protect against frostbite, jury rigged temporary solutions. This is the thing.
You know, Karun is probably good at crafting and medicine
checks effectively.
Speaker 5: Okay, you can.
Speaker 1: Use magic to aid in the expedition. That's ar kana, nature, occultism,
or religion. Investigate, you can defend.
Speaker 5: I think I will investigate, and what this will look
like is essentially I'm going to be taking detailed notes.
I understand that we are in obleak effective effectively at wasteland,
but notes such as the suppliers that we're using, logistics,
how everyone is doing, essentially keeping a survival journal. That
way we can keep track of how how many resources
we're using and presumably what we're going to need in
order to make the trip back. So a lot of
micromanaging information and journaling as we're going along.
Speaker 4: Sure, okay, and to Rostruck, you were assisting Malevic. Yes, yes,
so I suppose you said medicine checks in like, preventing
frostbite and maintaining everyone pretty much is part of support. Yeah,
all right, so I'll probably do that unless you think
use magic would be more preferable for what it is
we need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a combination of spells to cover a
duration of eight hours. You can cast can trips, you
can do stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I'll just support make lives simple.
Speaker 5: I think I think it will actually make more sense
if I what I said I wanted to do, if
it's considered a type of support, because it is kind
of logistical, like looking making sure everyone has a pair
of working shoes and stuff like that, so nothing magical
or medicine like crafting checks. I could do that.
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, okay, alrighty.
Speaker 3: I guess as the rotch talk is assisting me, I'll
be listening to what he has to say about finding
ways to purify maybe frozen ice or something. Maybe we
can make warm drinks or hot drinks in the yurt
and to keep people's inside leaves. May mean you don't
look out for that too.
Speaker 2: While scouting, most of the conversation would be either using
pressed digitation too warm. But we do have a lot
of water still in kegs.
Speaker 3: For the trailer. I need to do.
Speaker 2: A yes, and I need to as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, I'm sorry, Roschak, you are assisting the expert.
Speaker 2: Yes, and what do I need to roll for that?
Speaker 1: The match.
Speaker 2: Okay, and it says I get bonuses as a result.
I'm just not sure exactly.
Speaker 1: How skilled are you, Melovic. You're an expert. Mm hm
think it's a plus one plus two. I can't remember.
Speaker 2: There it is uh follow the expert. There is uh
the eye must be expert in the skill. While following
the expert, you match their tactic. Thanks to your eyes assistance,
you can add to your level as a proficiency bonus
to the associated skill check, even if you're untrained. I
am trained, and your level it says proficiency bonus of
your level. Additionally, you can gain the circumstance bonus to
your skill check based on your allies proficiency. So in theory,
I could add plus nine no, plus eleven, yes, plus eleven,
so this plus eleven yeah, oh god's all right, okay works.
That will be from my role mhmm. Okay, let's see
if this does what I wanted to Okay, there'd be
a thirty one then okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay. This is going to affect how long
the trip takes. Effectively, you are getting uh expedition points
that I'm keeping track of, cool, and that will determine
how long this journey takes okay, and Karun needs to
make a stealth check sort.
Speaker 3: Of steady can't arrived day?
Speaker 1: Can I do this from here? Nope, I'm not going
to re roll that. Yeah. Yeah, I think uh, Karun
is like trying to hie you guys as best as possible,
but I think a lot of those places end up
being not the safest. So as a group, you probably
come to the conclusion to probably just take the safer
roots as opposed to the more stealthy like going into
ravines and like not being directly on top, you know,
just in this like open expanse.
Speaker 3: Uh so.
Speaker 1: Let's see how many.
Speaker 3: Okay, hmm.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, I need to do some math. The first
leg of your trip is going to take you longer
than expected. You're going to add on makes.
Speaker 3: Sense to the first time out here.
Speaker 1: Well three extra days, So the first leg of your
trip twenty eight days. As you make your way across
the ice get to your first yeah, to get the
first leg, that is a full month effected chees.
Speaker 2: That's with thirty one two that's horrifying.
Speaker 16: Any decreet mm hmm, sorry, I'm about danger.
Speaker 3: That's without dangers.
Speaker 2: Not done yet, We're not done No, it's totally out.
It's totally without danger. I like that thought.
Speaker 4: Was a license safe.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight days later, were great, it's a vacation.
Speaker 1: Okay, walking the show snowpark along the journey this first
leg of your trip twenty eight days of past. As
far as rations go, are you pretty much subsisting on
the provided yurt meat he'll know, or Rashtok's pouch or
irregular rations? What are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm looking for fishing holes along this whole trip. It's
the whole point of the scouting. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking
for anything that's moving really, so even bugs and larva
should probably be none, but you never know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh, Effectively, when you stop, when you are
resting uh in the yurt, Malevic will probably go outside
and uh load up. Yeah, trying trying to do some fishing.
A Rashtok helps you with this, Malvic. You're actually able
to for this first leg of the journey, completely cover
the foo food. Food is completely covered. That was your
bonus for your crowd. You're able to catch enough fish
to keep everybody alive. Effectively, maybe there's a little bit
of food that you scrape together from the yurt meat.
When the rationals pouch just to like, uh, you know,
fill in the gaps.
Speaker 3: You're actually seizing it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's just fish the entire time, that's yeah.
Speaker 3: And we'll try to find new fancy ways to make
it dayteminnea wrapping it in like whatever leaves and yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the uh, the trip is slow going. This is brutal,
and during this last leg of the trip it gets
significantly colder. I need everybody to make me this is
going to be dude, almost positive. It ism just double checking.
You have a couple of choices. You can wait out
the cold, or you can try and push through it.
What would you like to do?
Speaker 3: Mmmm, we have a lot of people. This is not
just us US. I would say wait out. I would
go out and scout the area. Notice that if there's
canyons or any kind of like overlives that the wind
is going to be bouncing off that and be even
more treacherous. Pushing through probably sounds like traveling at night
as well.
Speaker 1: So no, it would be a normal travel. Just to
just to be clear, Oh, okay, a normal travel. You're
just kind of just trying to grin and bear it
through the cold.
Speaker 3: We do something better since our Syria has been spending
a lot of time at Malvic and a Rostok has
been spending a lot of time with Malvic recently. Instead
of I always went with my physical attributes of how
we should handle things. But I would start looking at
people's mental If you're traveling in twenty eight days on
the ice, open ice and needing the bland food, people
probably starting to get little tins. So I would look
at people's mental state and decide to put an input,
not decide for the group. Everyone's holding together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go for it. Make a perception check, chrit Yeah,
how do you all think you're feeling at this point?
And again, this is kind of the end of the
first leg of the journey here twenty eight days twenty
this is a month of traveling and it's gotten colder,
gotten significantly colder.
Speaker 4: So in our travels, if we are to brave the cold,
so to speak, I as a medical professional would note
the signs of you know, frostbite and things like that.
Would it be my opinion then that I think we
should continue, because that would be my priority everyone's health.
Speaker 1: Look at it like this, If you push through the cold,
everyone has to endure it. Effectively, they have to use
their fortitude to get through it, and if they are struggling,
they will be comfatigued, and.
Speaker 3: That will slow us all down, no matter how well
anybody else makes a check. So yeah, I would look
at everybody's like mental how they're feeling.
Speaker 1: You also have no idea how long this extreme cold
will last.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so based off how everyone's feeling, I'll put my
input in and relay that to the group. I've been
a lot quieter probably the last stretch of those maybe
ten days of that true, and more so monitoring everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how the rest of you look? Malevic at this point.
Speaker 2: I think a rachtak looks good actually, because every day,
eight hours of travel, I feel no effects of the weather.
I am comfortable, so I seem fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I'll just make a fortitude save for Karun.
I actually will do a will save. It probably makes
more sense. Yeah, I think Karun probably just kind of
comes off as uh. I mean, it couldn't get much worse, right, right,
all right, so normal the companions of snowy owl look,
I mean, they're used to this. They look like they're okay.
Speaker 5: I I'm obviously struggling, but you've seen me at worse
points my training with the Burning Sun Clan. Though not
extreme cold, I have been through extreme heat and also
a variety of wastelands in my travels. The desolation is
no stranger to me, and I make an effort to
try to lift people's spirits whereever I can, often referring
back to my journal and bringing up rekindling kind and
warm hearted memories that we made to get there.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like we're pushing through, all right, unless you
are you have something else, I thought.
Speaker 4: I think if everyone else is doing all right, I
will put my faith in that. I'm determined to get
to where we need to go.
Speaker 1: All right, Everybody, please make a basic fortitude save.
Speaker 2: M.
Speaker 5: I don't know why it's not working for me.
Speaker 3: Maybe log out, log back in.
Speaker 1: Okay, might not be that. It might be the ownership
or some ship. Try and figure it out.
Speaker 2: After the session.
Speaker 4: I rolled for ancestral geometry, which is the tattoo that
a Rashtuk gave me, and it was a nineteen that
I could swap in for forty tooth staves. But it
has been some days now, Yes, so should I reroll
that and see if I get.
Speaker 1: I think you can use what you had O.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you?
Speaker 16: Right?
Speaker 1: So that which I didn't tell you how long this
was going to be. I was just trying to speed
up the journey a little bit.
Speaker 4: Be a nineteen plus fifteen then.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay twenty nine for me? Okay, Uh, Karoon will
become fatigued. Unfortunately, I think she would save her last
hero point. I don't want to use that in case.
Is there any other bullshit shoes.
Speaker 4: Got and you gave her one at the start of
the session, right, No.
Speaker 1: She doesn't get one for the start.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's not here, right, she has potions.
Speaker 3: I don't know if any of those just something that
observed with I don't think forty two then never mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's mostly a perception. M.
Speaker 1: And she got some new shit, so I'm just checking
that's a bomb. Probably doesn't want to use that, Okay,
does myself up? Okay, I like myself on the fire.
That will make me warmer.
Speaker 3: Right, science exactly work?
Speaker 1: M hmmm yeah unfortunately not okay, So Karun is gonna
become fatigued. Uh, you push to the cold the karun
is Yara you're on support. I think you notice like
as you were traveling, like, oh my god, it's horrible
as you are moving uh through this the you know,
it's a combination of the wind, the like everything is
just buffeting you. It's it's that like quintessential quintessential image
of you all like snow shoes, like you could barely
see ship, like as the we is just blowing the snow.
It's not even a blizzard. It's just the wind blowing
the snow up off the ground and like just smacking
you in the face as you continue to like push forward,
slow going. Prune is like, okay, it's really freaking cold.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't feel my face. Is my face still moving?
Is it moving? Am I even talking? Or am I delusional?
Speaker 4: We can hear you, darling. Now, do I get the
idea that using a torch in this situation would be
terrible in any sort of way.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna help you.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to pull all this tops out for her,
that's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think maybe we should stop brutal.
Speaker 2: Uh how long have we traveled this?
Speaker 1: Two hour days?
Speaker 3: Cool? Tell you that's still fresh? Maybe like mm hmmm
umm oh.
Speaker 2: For today, I would do this. I don't know if
it would help. Well, Karun is worried about all of
the cold. My staff does have resist energy, which I
would give her cold resist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Karun.
Speaker 2: That helps.
Speaker 18: Oh wow, that's great. I can feel my lips again.
Oh wow oo Okay, now the eyes. Can you cast
you on my eyeballs please?
Speaker 2: It's it's only for all of you. Don't you have cockle?
Speaker 1: Ahh, I'm wearing.
Speaker 5: Them, Mark I something I forget to say?
Speaker 1: Would I forget to put them on?
Speaker 2: It's wearing, they're gading.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where she's wearing? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Car that the ice wind shouldn't be affecting your eyes.
Speaker 1: May maybe they're already frozen. Many fingers twelve?
Speaker 3: All right, I don't as much as possible to see
we can find somewhere set up. I'm assuming the closer
we get to the Senator colder I get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it is effectively the north pole that is
aimed for here. Yeah yeah, so, uh do you press on?
Do you rest?
Speaker 3: What do you do? We definitely rest and if she's
dying back there, I mean I would, I would yell out.
They've only been going for two hours.
Speaker 1: Okay, can we get going or do we stop?
Speaker 2: If my spell helped you. We should keep going.
Speaker 4: Mm we can only use they once a day, yes, correct, yes,
so perhaps I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Karn, great, it's fine, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Stand behind me. I can work as a windshield for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, Sorry to cut you, Sorry to cut you off, Melvic.
What did you say?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: You were scouting ahead?
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, okay, yeah I was.
Speaker 3: I was scouting ahead to see if there was any
areas we can go to block some of the wind
and stuff. And there's the least I can do. I
guess too, because I don't want to stop. When to
keep going?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, another two hours pass. You do your
best to shield the group from the cold, and after
these next two hours cold snap starts to go away.
You feel like get a little bit warmer as the
wind starts to just die down a little bit and
it's not quite so intense. Karoon is fatigued still, unfortunately,
but you keep moving all right. Now you make some
more progress for the day. As you begin your rest
for the night, you again struggle to tell, like how
long it's been.
Speaker 3: You have to do some.
Speaker 16: Guess work.
Speaker 1: You've been traveling now for a while, so I think
some of it might be like making landmarks and guessing
like how far you've traveled based on landmarks. Because the
sun was like still be up in the sky, it's
like really hard to tell.
Speaker 5: I would make a point of doing that as part
of my supporting as crude map making as I possibly can.
Speaker 3: I would take a pitan and slam it into the
ice as well and use the shadows as a guide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's Uh. I don't know how well that
works when you're close to the north pole.
Speaker 3: I mean, give a ticket. I just want an idea.
It's not going for exactly.
Speaker 2: I also do have a compass, which would point towards
the center.
Speaker 3: I think he's thinking about, well, magnetism, how does that
work with that? Assume it works, yeah, sundow.
Speaker 2: But timing wise, I wouldn't know just the direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some making like a I thought you could.
Speaker 2: You could use the direction knowledge, knowing that and then
the time of day to cross uh that information together.
Speaker 1: Sun dial at the north pole would essentially track the
sun's position as it circles the horizon, but the concept
of time as we know it wouldn't apply, so you
can really only have some rudimentary knowledge. That's what I
figured what would be happened.
Speaker 3: We can still track when the sun is going up
and going down based on the position at least Yeah,
reasons pas elimination.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, a few days to.
Speaker 3: Gather information.
Speaker 5: Very well, let's just open our mind's third eye and
head towards the great cosmic world bending evil that we're
trying to take care of. Yeah, exactly now, bad vibe detector.
Speaker 3: Lay lines.
Speaker 1: Oh, there is no lay line where you are currently
right interest okay, yeah, let us begin your next roles
leg number two here for downtime. If you are changing
your action, just let me know for your exploration activity.
Otherwise I will assume you're a same activity staying sick.
Speaker 4: Three and don't forget your ancestral geometry either, rosant, Yes.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thick rolls. Okay. Second leg of the journey.
Speaker 8: M hmmm mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh very nice.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: The second leg of the journey is quicker. You're able
to shave four days off.
Speaker 3: Of your trap for the days plus one.
Speaker 1: The second leg allows you to find a short cut.
This time Malevic and a rash talk Karun is able
to sort of guide you through some easier spots to
make the journey a little less visible on the outside.
You all will now take twenty one twenty one days
for the second leg here of this trip. Ar Celia,
it's a lot harder to like take note of things
as the journey has continued. You're finding like less and
less landmarks to really recognize. Stuff's kind of like blending together.
So there's you know, you can record that however you like.
Speaker 5: I'd like to imagine that I'm well aware that I'm
not doing a good job here, and it's more psychological
than actual benefiting us in any way. I go through
the emotions and I don't have a lot of the
answers of the things I'm trying to write down or
keep track of. There's just so much bleakness all around us.
But I'm still doing it, and I'm doing it to
inspire hope for our group, because I'm going through this
entire effort of taking plans for us on our trip back.
When we finish this and when we get home, we're
going to leave this place. And it's more my efforts
are more in preserving that than actually being helpful, because
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to actually be helpful.
Speaker 3: I will, if possible, if it's okay, take our say
with me to fision holes since she originally show me
out of fish and that can play a role in
that as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, fair enough. I would also like you all to
please make me a will save.
Speaker 3: O would you want to do that? Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2: Is it related to comfort because of the cold, because
if so, I not, all right, just figure that check.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna use the twenty I got from assistant geometry,
so it will be a crity either way.
Speaker 5: Thirty one, and if I succeed, it's a critical success instead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are all These are all successes, so whatever,
crazy success. So here's the thing. Throughout this second of
the trip. Throughout the second leg of the trip, you
have begun to dream again. The dreams have been under
control by you, but you can feel that something is
trying to change your dreams into nightmares. This has been
progressing more and more as your trip has continued. You've
been keeping them at bay, but it's been getting more
and more difficult.
Speaker 5: Once I realized that it's a pattern, not just a
series of weird nights. When we get ready to set
up the yurt, one evening, I will try to draw
everyone's attention. I've been having strange dreams. I feel as
if there's something trying to persuade them in an an
insidious way. Does there is anyone else feeling.
Speaker 3: That, oh, my dreams suck? So it's kind of hard
for me to like hit and point it.
Speaker 4: Ever since the vision that I had Tan dym Master,
have I noticed that any of these dreams have been different,
or that my dreams are in line perhaps with what
Osilia is saying.
Speaker 3: Or.
Speaker 1: I think you would all notice that something has been
wrong in your dreams as of late.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Indeed, it has been much the same for me.
Speaker 1: I mean normally I just dream about like well, my
drug empire and lipi Stad you know. But yeah, there's
something weird, like Egbert is not doing his job and
all his underlings are being maudy.
Speaker 5: I'm concerned that this might be linked to how we
were experiencing those dreams under the doctor's influence.
Speaker 3: M it's a possibility.
Speaker 5: Perhaps it wasn't his ability, but for Solio instead it
makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, Black Frost Snowflake, you are pointed out. That makes
me think, oh soyo not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did not know what Riddleson's gate walker power.
It was maybe it was influence m.
Speaker 5: Perhaps we should have entertained the possibility that our Soyo
knows that we are coming.
Speaker 3: I believe that you definitely know, and ap Amd it
kind of put us on this have to come to
them ever since that slimy thing back at the Suers
welcoming us almost.
Speaker 5: Did say that we would meet again, almost as a promise,
and become one.
Speaker 3: Whatever that meant.
Speaker 1: If I may, my friends, I I can feel the
Nameless Spires a little large in my mind's eye even now,
just as I know your own answers await you there
as well. Many months ago, my grandmother, Saysion, beheld a
dream of her own. A dream had informed her that
one of my people would need to undertake a great
quest to find a lost god and carry it to
the Nameless Spires. I volunteered for this quest, as I
suspect grandmother had expected I would, But she wasn't able
to tell me what I needed to do when I
reached these spires, only that as I drew near, I
would know the time would be right the dream of
her and learn my true destiny. I see how you
carry the weight of lost memories and these unsettling dreams
as well. And as you have protected and guided me
over so many miles, I invite you to come with
me on a new journey tonight, a journey into a dream,
journey to meet my grandmother. I fear this may be
the last time I will be able to speak to her,
but I also know she has great power and wisdom
and will be able to help us all. So please,
will you come with me into the dreaming tonight?
Speaker 5: Would be an honor?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Indeed, if it is able to help, But do see influence,
I will go.
Speaker 3: I don't like it, but I'll do it.
Speaker 4: Do we all need to? I looked to Malovic and
notice hesitants.
Speaker 1: I believe so. M hmm.
Speaker 3: Well, there might be an extra in there. You should
not mean no harm.
Speaker 2: Could to be aware of.
Speaker 5: Though, Yeah, can at least be prepared.
Speaker 3: I did not ask or have I spoke if the
hawk for days now. But there's a deal struck, yea trust.
But if any harm was to come to me, I
cannot promise any outcomes.
Speaker 1: Understood, Good.
Speaker 3: Dinger, It's fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Inside the herd, just as we have.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, right, very well, Yeah, good night to everyone.
Speaker 4: Good night.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Now roll over to my side. I don't close byes immediately,
I worry and eventually fall asleep.
Speaker 5: As I'm falling asleep, I will try to think of
Sakawachi's grandmother that I believe I saw in one of
the psychometric resiant readings, and I'll try to get as
much rest as I.
Speaker 1: Can as you all fall to sleep. You awaken together
on an unknown shore. You're a frozen ocean. You stand
on the outskirts of a small village full of low
dug in shelters built of sod and whalebone with animal
skin doors. Snowy Owl accompanies you alongside a small actual
snowy owl. You all immediately recognize this as a manifestation
of ruin. She leads you into the village, but she
reveals as her hometown. I'm innuit If any of you
look around, you notice no one else to appear. Snowy
Owl says, they are all asleep in their homes.
Speaker 3: This way.
Speaker 1: A larger building near the village center, partially raised structure
consisting of three forty foot diameter domes, merged into a
vaguely clover shaped hill. Snowy owl leads you into the building,
which consists of four rooms, each dug ten feet into
the frozen earth and insulated with animal furs. You see
an elderly woman rush forward and embrace snowy owl. Oh, Sakuachi,
it is you. It is you, Sakuachi. I'm snowy Owl.
Now grandmother. Of course you are my snowy owl. Now
tell me about your friends. Snowy Owl motions to each
of you. Introduce yourself to my grandmother, sess you.
Speaker 5: I am Marsilia of the Burning Sun clan Emissaria the
namath Kar tribe, and it is an honor to meet you.
Speaker 1: She smiles broadly. It is wonderful to meet you.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. And Melvick belong to no one.
Speaker 1: Navik the free.
Speaker 3: M hm hm mm hm oh, no, I didn't stick away.
Speaker 1: I'm Karun. I am an elf, do you know elves
Karun the elf is is good to meet you. It
is nice to meet you too. Am I doing this right?
Speaker 3: Yes? You can understand you.
Speaker 4: You could talk at normal speed.
Speaker 1: Matterfic is right, Okay, I'm talking at normal speed now.
Speaker 2: I am a rush Tuck of the River Kingdom, rush
Tak of the River Kingdom, and.
Speaker 15: And you're a.
Speaker 4: I'm from Druma but an oracle and it blessed one
of Arrasma. I suppose.
Speaker 1: Your blessed of Forasma. Once the introductions are over, snowy
Owl says, we are dreaming. We're close to the Nameless
Spire's grandmother, and it's time for you to tell me
what I must do. Sashu smirks playfully in response, of course,
I know you are dreaming. Come with me. She pulls
you all to one of the areas in the in
this home, Please be seated.
Speaker 3: Can I do a small perception check read on this? Sure?
Speaker 7: Sess you.
Speaker 3: Thirty one. I want to know if this after I say,
you have said something about dreams being manipulated and stuff
where she felt like it was off. I just want
to use all my senses, maybe even a touch of dog,
to feel if this is right. Something feels off. Granted
I'm always cautious, so it could be me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this person seems very sincere. This dream that you
have seems to be in control. Snowy Owl is seemingly
under control of what's happening. You do notice, however, that
you think there's something lurking in the shadows.
Speaker 3: M hmm, okay, so maybe maybe dark could be like
very faint, maybe beawful. I'll not say anything to anyone
to not alarm them, but if anyone is paying attention
to me, I am an extreme god. My eyes are
shifting back and forth. I'm mumbling under my breath very quietly.
Speaker 1: A nightmare not of this world lies frozen in the
ice below us, where it has remained imprisoned through the
sacrifice and vigilance of a people known as the Solomon Car.
Today only one yet lives. His name is Isa Murin,
and when he is no more, the Nightmare will be free.
He knows this, knows he is the last of the
Salmon Car and so he shared with me his people's
legacy and showed me what must be done. Should the
Nightmare stir once more, And now it does more than stir.
It quickens in the eyes, It uses portals and promises
a power trick others into engineering its freedom. And now
Urine has been taken bound to the very temple in
the heart of the nameless spires. His people once built
as a tomb over the Nightmare's grave, a tomb they
bolstered with the sacrifice of their own god. This is
your destiny, snow Yaw, the god you carry in your
soul must become the nude loach to the nightmare cell.
Once Ina Murin is no more, those you travel with
can be trusted to escort you to the first and
last temple of Aka Karu, the snow mother of the
salmon Kar, where the nightmare must once.
Speaker 17: More be contained. They know the route, well, they were
all there. Yeah, after all, I knew it goes.
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