Long ago, a monstrous Titan stirred from its endless sleep.
The infamous dreaded to Rask. For many moons it roamed the
land of Umbrea, devouring all it saw.
Kingdoms that once fought as enemies stood side by side,
raising banners together to drive the fearsome beast back.
At last, it finally sated its hunger.
The Tarasque returned to its hidden lair, and the world
exhaled in a fragile relief. Half a year later, rumors and
whispers spread like wildfire. A hunter had found the lair and
slain the monster in its slumber.
Few believed such a tale and thought the evidence to be fake.
Until an adventuring Guild uncovered a single dreadful egg
After you see, legends say that a tarass will always exist.
That doesn't mean it can't be contained.
Since then, mercenaries and Wanderers scour the Wilds, some
chasing coin, others hoping to shield a realm from what might
awaken. For now, the world rests easy
beneath the starry sky, so long as the eggs are destroyed and
the great beast sleeps within its unborn shell.
Now, before we jump into the start of our session, we need to
talk about a strange anomaly. Five years ago from our first
session, a shooting star appeared in the night sky that
became visible to all. It happened late enough to
illuminate the night sky with its appearance, but early enough
to be seen by most. When the Shooting Star appeared,
it flashed in with a bright blinding light and a thunderous
boom, as if it's suddenly halted from an incredible speed.
However, once it appeared, it never left.
The Shooting Star could be seen every night, as it now appears
to be slowly flying through the sky and taking its time.
During the day, it could be faintly seen beyond the clouds,
and at night, it's brilliant blue aura shines around a black
mass as if it's a burning. Everyone that night remembers
where they were when the Shooting Star first appeared.
People and creatures of the heartland stop to marvel at its
seemingly impossible sight. Guards no longer stood watch,
Tavern stop serving drinks, and even for a moment the trees stop
blowing in the wind. It interrupted a beautiful
wedding celebration between 2 lovers sharing their first kiss
as husband and wife. It's spooked A frightened furry
friend falling from tall treetops of the redwoods.
It's shattered, beautiful rich stained glass with its
thunderous boom, raining sharp glass on top of the rich dinner
guests and even illuminated the face of a beaten drunkard
falling victim to a brutal alleyway brawl.
This moment of Sonder resonates with people who share or hide
their story where they were when the Shooting Star first
appeared. We're going to go ahead and Fast
forward five years from that fateful day when the Shooting
Star appeared. Myrtle Day 12, 1481 MKD Gadget
came through with some good info yesterday.
Instead of I needed materials, I should check out this abandoned
fortress up north in the Rocket Forest.
Precious materials? Check.
Abandoned, Not so lucky. One of them pig Hawks clocked me
upside down real good when I was identifying some equipment.
Like now, cold. The next thing I know wake up in
a dingy dungeon surrounded by strangers.
Jared, the bag that was thrown into the room is you as you are
stuffed into a burlap sack. You're going to make me a
Constitution saving throw over DC-10 as you are thrown into the
room. A4.
You take one point of bludgeoning damage as this pig
or rolls you into the room like a bone ball as you slide into
the North End of the wall and you make a horrific squeal.
You fight with this bag and your hands are bound together as if a
small creature was shoved into this burlap sack.
You're able to look through the tiny hole through the bag and
you see some torch light as you find yourself in this strange
room. Across from you are three
shadowy figures that look like they're in their own little
wooden cage prison just waking up or very dazed, looking just
as bad as you are. Jerry, why don't you go ahead
and introduce yourself as you try to free yourself from this
burlap sack. As my character gets up and
starts trying to figure out what is going on in front of you, you
see a red panda. He is about 3 feet tall in
tattered, wears light armor, and then with a scar on his right
eyebrow. Mylan, as you free your head
from this burlap sack to look around.
Your arms and legs are bounded and they're bounded pretty tight
together. You're having a hard time
struggling out of this burlap sack and you know that they've
taken your gear. You heard some gruntish orc like
sounds, they sound more like boars than the traditional orcs
that you may have witnessed. Pop your head out.
You see 3 caged people. You see a horned lady.
You see someone with very pointy ears in the middle and all the
way in the corner on the West side of the room.
You see someone that looks like another another civilian for
back from Bolderas, the city you live in.
What are you doing right now? I'm in a sack.
Correct, You're in a sack and your head is just popped out
like you just managed to squeeze the limit of your head out.
You are bound together. Okay, I'm looking around and as
my head pokes out of the sack and I make eye contact with the
others I shout out leaf and limb.
Oh my God, what is going on? And as I see the closest person
to me, whoever it might be, which is the the lady with
horns, I'm trying to use momentum to like kind of plop
and jump and make it over towards the crate.
You begin to scooch the burlap sack forward as you get closer
to the three cage on the southern end of the wall in this
room that's about 20 feet by 30 feet.
This looks like an alchemic lab of some kind or something that
where people would experiment or a study.
And as you scooch closer, you've seen this horned lady Kylie.
Why don't you go ahead and describe the character for us?
I am Vivian. She is a movie.
She's like a pinky purple tee fling.
She has these giant goofy horns that are curly and she has
really long purple hair. She has this super sick rogue
outfit on that can only be described as super cool that has
some feathers on it and she just looks overall pretty well put
together, but disheveled of course 'cause she just got
locked in a cage. You got some bruises on you as
you were checking out this military compound in the forest
before you got locked up. The last thing you remember was
that as you found the entrance to this place you would hit over
the back of the head. Your head feels pretty rough.
You were knocked unconscious and you remember being dragged
through the hall. You specifically remember this
long dungeon like hallway before you were brought into this room
and you saw some cells of people who look like they were eaten.
You saw some gruesome sights before being placed in here.
However they did not place you with the people that you saw
like half eaten which came off to you.
A little odd. You see this red furry little
creature with his head poking out of a bag.
What are you doing? Is she bound as well?
You are not bound, you're just in this cage.
But the cage is a wooden cage with some steel reinforced bat
like fortifications. OK could her arms potentially
fit through? Yes.
OK, sweet. I don't really know what's going
on here, but if you can somehow get your way over, I could try
to help you out of your bag. If you could help us get out.
Help. Help you get out.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can help.
I can help. Yes, very, very good.
If you help me, I'll help you. You hear terrible grunts and
snarls and and squeals beyond the the wooden door on the
eastern side of the room. Hey.
OK, We got to be quiet. Oh, yeah, of course.
Some thumps and thugs on the other side of the door.
I popped my head back on. You pop your head back into the
bed and then I'm going to stay far away in the cage.
Just you stay far away. As the door opens, this large
pig or burst through the door again, punches through, lifts up
the plank of wood on your side of the room, unlocks it, goes
through it, looks around it. You see he reaches for a hand
axe and yells, rolls and throws the hand axe to the southwestern
part of the room, towards the cage with the human in it.
The hand axe lodges itself into the corner of the cage where
Vivian, Mylan, you notice that there is a human locked inside.
Describe a character for us. You see someone kind of wake up,
taking time to get as much of A breather as possible.
You see this guy stand up slowly, look around.
You see a human with long dirty blonde hair lean casually
through the bars. Curly strands fall down over his
eyes. His jaw is strong like his
father's but his face is a bit round like his mother's.
He's 6 foot 2 with a slim fit build emphasis on the slim with
a pair of slacks and white linen shirt.
He almost looks well put together until you see coming
through the shadows is rolled up sleeves and his wrinkled clothes
as he leans in to look through the wooden bars.
You see a pair of Violet colored eyes here through that look
almost like hi there. Is it time to get up already?
As you speak out and wake up from your haze you see the
massive pig or towers over your cage and points and Grams
decides your cage begins to rattle it as it's angry that
you're even speaking in its presence.
Get out of here, you got me already what you're trying to
do. You see that it tries to punch
through and try to grab at you as you try to go to the back of
the cage, takes the hand axe and puts it back onto its belt.
As it walks back towards the entrance of the room you see
that it looks to the South again as Mylan.
You put your head back to the burlap sack to try to hide from
it. As it stepped over you, you see
it looks into the middle cage between the T fling and the
human. It looks a castle, Alec, go
ahead and describe the character for us as it stares at you with
its red eyes. So Kassel is also tall.
He is an athletic Bill Autumn Aladron standing at exactly 6
foot 3. His golden tan complexion
carries a warm glow of autumn sunlight rather than a pale
chill that you might see in the Fay.
His Forest Green eyes gleam. He has golden blonde hair but it
is long enough to be tied back when battle calls, but he likes
to kind of wear it down and relax when he's not.
He does have medium length pointed ears is that's like the
mark of the fall Aladron heritage.
He's clad in bronze armor and the shoulders are shaped like
leaves and then he bears the holy symbol of Saheen moonbow,
which is a full moon with like a Crescent shape on top of it in
the center of his chest. He also has a medium length Cape
behind him, but you can't really see that right now.
Which bears the symbol of the fall court of the Fate Wild,
which is like a bear tree. You see as the pig work stares
at you, as you stare back at it stoically, unfazed by its
actions towards Beau Ram as it shook its cage, trying to get
him to shut up. And he looks at you.
Stars goes, goes through the door, shuts it, puts its hand
back into the room, lowers the piece of wood to lock it from
your side, takes a piece of wood, covers the makeshift hole
that it made. You hear the thundering steps.
Boom, off We got ourselves untied out the gauges and ready
to escape things. Was looking up.
That is until a pile of clothes started moving.
In the corner from the darkness you see a cloak rise from the
shadows. There are no feet, there are no
arms. It looks like something is in
the hood with no body, but you do not see any facial features
or what's actually floating within it because it is shrouded
by the cloak of the hood. And as it comes into view you
notice under a glimmering Sheen from the low lit torch in the
room, a single iris of an eye glimmers for a second in the
centre of the hood. You see it looks at you and then
begins to float over to the desk in the North West part of the
room. And it begins to move and shift
through the broken vials and it starts to open the drawers.
And you notice that from the arms of the hood aren't hands,
there are tendrils. As it comes out, opens the
drawer, you see it pulls out a rusty dagger.
It turns around, it looks at the four of you and begins to float
over closer to view. And then you see from another
tendril from underneath the rope pulls out a strange mushroom.
The mushroom has two mushroom like legs.
It's twitching in its hand, almost as if the mushroom is
sentient, and you see it squirming within the tendril as
it's trying to get out of its grasp.
You see as the two tendrils hold up this very strange mushroom
with its mushroom like legs with its red cap and polka dots.
As it begins to squirm, you see it sweating.
It takes the dagger and stabs it into the mushroom.
The mushroom lets out a shriek as if a small rat was being
killed by the dagger. And it begins to turn.
And you see the puff of gas begins to instantly fill the
room. Everybody make me a Constitution
saving throw. That's going to be a 17 for
Boran. Milan got a three, Kazul got a 7
and Vivian 1515. You all fail.
As you inhale this noxious gas, it begins to fill your lungs.
You feel it coursing through your body.
It's burning you. You feel like you've just
inhaled something incredibly foul and hi stings like fire for
a moment as the gas clears up and you see this lifeless, now
drained mushroom as all the gas that was building up inside of
it. It looks like it's deflated,
like a balloon just got stabbed. And it rests in his hand and it
drops and you see that the mushroom begins to dissolve.
But there's no time for that because there's thumping and
banging coming down the halls. You hear these horrific big
stars punches through the door, unlocks the door, and in that
motion you see the robe fly through the room, goes back into
the corner and then deflates into the pile of clothes.
And you see that the orc shoves its head into the room, almost
like it's snarling a warning, and then moves its head back
out, closes the door, and proceeds back down the hall as
the four of you finally catch your breath, as the noxious gas
has faded from the room. But you feel like something's
terribly wrong. You look down your hands, you
look, you look at your veins. You see that they're all now
like almost coursing green. The four of you are poisoned.
But this wasn't no normal poison.
I recognize that mushroom creature.
This was some Faye bullshit, no doubt.
Maybe it was after the Aladron, well maybe I ticked off the
wrong creature on my last visit in there.
Either way, that cloak was left behind.
Had some coat like symbol of a crown with a large eye in the
center. We packed it away, grabbed some
basic weapons and pushed on to the dungeon.
Found the pig orc on the way, Had to fight our way forward for
a bit. Turns out the red panda looking
thing has some crazy powers. Look like magic but cast
differently, almost like he taught it into existence.
They're pretty tiefling though she's a lot more than looks.
She strikes quick and has some pretty impressive footwork.
Must be a rogue. Looks familiar, but I can't
quite remember where I seen her. Anyway, I won't go without my
alchemy gloves. So this fight was a bit
difficult for me. Almost blasted the room apart
trying to misty step out of danger.
Got lucky in the endo, return to favour and smash that thing's
skull open with a rock. The Aladrin.
He's got some holy magic of some sort.
Build himself right up with a prayer right before we moved on.
I'm sure I'll be seeing eye to eye with him.
The gods abandoned me when I was born, but we found a chest with
our gear in it. I feel a lot safer now that I
got my coat and gloves back. Should be able to cast spells
like normal now but T factor didn't have much but the Dendran
got a sword and shield and Jolie shows got some nice looking
daggers and bow. We found another pig orc and
well it went down just the same. Those two easy.
But that third one, that one was a bit of trouble.
After fumbling, you see that this pig work immediately gets
up, makes a beeline to another bed that lifts it up as it's
trying to look for something, and you dip eastward down the
hallway, following cows behind. This pig work grabs a giant
club, huge crop and looks around it slaps the floor and looks
around. It's trying to find anything in
front of it that made that noise.
Horrible. And it begins to sniff with its
snout and move slowly into the room.
All right, there ain't no time for this.
And I'm going to shoot a poison spray at him.
Roll a hit roll for initiative. That's another Nat 20 with a
natural 20 on the attack roll. Oh my goodness.
All right, so first of all, my initiative is a 10 Castle, which
initiative? 6 pilot 99 Vivian.
I believe it is a nine as we go into the 1st first round of
combat you initiated by launching a poison spray at this
pig org. Go ahead and roll a hit which
was a natural 20. We are using the new cool crit.
20 points. 20 points of damage. 20 points. 20 points of damage.
Not lying points of damage dog. That's 20 points of the chronic
damage. Immediately you see that it's
head goes back, it begins to foam at the mouth and it stops
breathing for a moment. Roll me one D42.
You see that immediately begins to charge in your direction as
we're going to start the top of the round initiative 11 Vivian,
but with this huge 2 banded club.
It looks like a tree trunk. Look how surely he's angry.
All right, I would love to use fire bolts.
Vivian is tired. Will it 6 next?
That is going to miss as he runs past it.
What else are you doing? She is just going to duck a bit
more behind, out of sight, as close as she can to the wall.
Just a little bit. He still knows she's probably
there, but at least she has a moment to catch her breath and
watch what's about to happen. She's between a ship and bow ram
with this pig orc on deck. And Milan, you are next.
What are you doing? All right, I'm going to keep
shooting at it. I suppose you see that my gloves
kind of like spark for a second, and my spray kind of goes off
course with A7. What else are you doing over
here, big guy? And bow Ram's gonna go 30 feet
down the hall, back where he came from, into the cell.
Vivian's panicking just as we stay on Initiative 10.
You see that? The pig orc now barrels.
He's going to make a dash action.
Dashing 45 feet through the brazer, knocks it off and sets
one of the beds on fire. Goes down 45 feet, uses the rest
of its movement to run 15 feet down the hall.
Pours bow ram. Porky, porky, Porky, get in
here. Going past you, Vivian as it
tries to get ready with its giant club.
Vivian, get him. My goal was that Vivian gets an
opportunity attack as I goaded it in here.
Yes, it would because it's leaving her range.
So Vivian, when a creature enters and then leaves your
attack range, you get to make an attack of opportunity.
This is your reaction. You just rolled a hit with your
daggers. 1818 hits, roll for damage 6.
Take 6 points of piercing damage as it ignores you and continues
to run on as you move to initiative 9.
Mylan, how does the pig work? Barrels through this razor and
life's part of the room on fire. The plane begins to roar.
As the eastern part of the room where two beds are now caught on
fire, you are looking at the fire.
And I'm going to need you to roll me elegant savings.
I got a 13 pass. But as you stare at the flames,
your eyes gloss over to an unfavorable memory, something
that you may remember, you may not remember.
But all that quickly flashes before you as you see these
roaring flames destroying the room.
Are screens quickly snap too and it is now your turn.
He kind of grabs his head and shakes it and he's like.
So Mylan kind of screams, runs a little.
S sees the pig monster and is going to use mine.
Slipper again needs to make a wisdom saving it fails with a
natural 15 damage. Does not seem that bothered by
it. Just continue to running down
the hallway. He's going to move 10 more feet
to the fire and he's going to like run and knock it over as we
move to initiative 6 Kazil, Kazil's going to turn to Mylan
and he's going to yell Mylan, you need to help them.
We got to get out of here. I'm going to scout ahead and
make sure this is an exit and there's no pickworks up ad help
the group. I'm going to dash action up this
alley. You continue westward down this
hall and you see that there's a stone staircase ahead of you.
Up towards the staircase you see the door to the room when you
first came through when you were caged.
We're back at the beginning and there's hallway heading north.
There's also a closed door you did not go through that is on
the Western Wall where you see all this soot and dirt coming
out from the bottom of the doorway behind that closed door
you chose not to go through in the first session.
I I'll just leave it at that and that'll be my turn as we go back
to the top of the round an initiative 11 Vivian.
Well, Vivian's a little scared now and now she got a nice
little smack. She would buy would love to
attack with my dagger and I'm going to do a bonus action with
my dagger right after again. So you still have your bonus
action because it's going to be the Nic property that comes in
as the pack action. You get a free attack with your
off hand because you're dual wielding daggers.
Sweet. First one's 21, it's second is
15, and I got 6 piercing damage. Do 6 piercing damage.
It does not even seem bothered by you as it's still running
forward. This thing Amazing.
She should be rolling her damage twice.
Oh yeah, roll roll your damage again.
But you don't add modifiers to it.
Whatever you roll is what you get.
Then that is two additional 2 points of damage as we move
between the shift 10 bow ram. How much is this poison I got to
bump into you? And he backs up about 15 feet,
charges up his gloves again and just going to cast another
poison spray. And that's going to be a 16.
It's real damage as it takes five points of poison damage,
takes five points of poison damage, and continues to run at
you. Ain't no way.
And I'm going to move back 30 full feet.
Keep running, keep running. Maybe you run away too.
No, Boram's going to take a bonus action Missy.
Step 30 feet farther down the hall and flip the pig org off.
You are 66 feet away from it as it continues to charts.
Use a dash action to go full 60 feet with every single step It's
stored and at the end of its turn slides right on its face.
Stops right at the toes of your boots.
Oh, no, that's fine. This is just like I planned it.
Vivian. Good job over there.
Is it breathing? Let me check.
I kick it in it snout. It deflates.
No, I don't think it's breathing.
OK. Took care of pork in the end and
kept on delving. Damn thing didn't have my greed.
Greed on my luck's always been bad.
I split from the others to find it in.
Sure enough, was on the big boss man of the dungeon.
All right, well, just behind door number, however many this
is, and then I get up and I do see Kaz.
All right lad, going through the other door, tell the rest and I
kind of try and open it, go to jostle the door and it doesn't
open. You see that there is a diamond
shaped keyhole. I'll put that key in it.
Put the key and the door unlocks.
When does it come in handy? And the door opens and you see
that the stone flooring quickly turns into this battered being
almost crushed wood paddling floor.
It opens it to a wide room and this long tattered carpet spans
in this rectangle shaped room. It looks like a hall of some
kind on the South wall. When you walk in through the now
eastern door you see these two bloody spiked wooden ramparts
and you see that there are bodies attached to them as if
they were ran through. You look to the northern end of
the room and you see broken statues, glass, broken tables, a
massive bed, and you see these barrels of leaking wine.
And at the end of the room, you see this massive, hulking Igor
with a rusted crown on top of its head.
This bad too, sitting there slouched in its chair as it's
hunched over. It looks like it's sleeping.
It's not snoring loudly like the other one was, but it's and it
has these big spiked clubs leaning against this makeshift
throne that it made for itself. You can clearly see that it
reveres itself or sees itself as some type of king with the tiny
crown on top of its head. Make me a procession check.
As you are looking. That's going to be a 16.
You notice on its wrist, wearing it like a bracelet, is your
bronze wheat chain necklace. With a sigh of relief, you can
tell that your most precious memento still hangs from the
chain. Just my luck.
RM Kuyang, what you doing? You should run.
You got to do what you got to do, though.
First. He's going to cast guidance on
himself again, and he's going to start creeping up to this huge,
giant big work as you begin to creep.
You're going to make me a stealth check.
That's a six, you see? It lifts one eye and it is
bloodshot red. You're not seeing people, you're
not seeing iris. It is just red from eyelid to
eyelid. Complete blood red and scans the
room and shuts it's eye again but it does not snore.
Trying to sneak up on it but my footwork ain't like the T
flints. That thing woke up angered in a
Gator and E took a meal in the old room that was so big.
Little things OK until the only man went down.
Luckily the red panda was able to buy us some time.
He's going to cast a spell and it's tensors floating disc.
What does tensors floating disc do?
For people that don't know, the spell creates A circular
horizontal plane of force. It floats 3 feet above the
ground, unoccupied space of your choice that you can see.
The disc remains there for the duration and can hold up to £500
if more weight is placed on it. The spell ends and everything on
the disc falls to the ground. So basically I'm using it to put
something in between me and him is the idea.
And like it says it can hold up to 500 lbs but it has to be
within 20 feet of me so I'm going South by 20 feet.
Keep my disc there, keep the big bad and looking at me.
Shout out is everything OK out there?
No it's not. This thing looks real mad and
it's aimed right at me so do something.
Hey, no kidding. It's all fly here.
I'm going to end my turn there. You bake this disc as we move to
Initiative 13. Vivian, what are you doing?
I have a couple questions before I make a move.
If somebody is where Castle is now, if I were to give him a
health potion, would that be something that could help keep
him alive? Yes.
So you can use your action to feed him a health potion.
OK, we'll get the benefit of a health potion.
I had one initially on my loot. Do I not have one because I got
looted? No, we got most of our stuff
back last game. Yes, but you shouldn't have a
potion on you. Would I be able to then Sleight
of hand check to see if Caswell has anything I could use on him?
Yeah, give me a slight of hand check as you try to rummage
through his ear to see if he has something that can help with.
OK, let me know what you get. I want to set ADC 12 here, 22
DC. For those that don't know, it's
a difficulty challenge. A difficulty challenge is
something I set, or a move or an ability or something will be set
for it. And when I ask you to do a
saving throw, an ability check, or anything that requires you to
roll stats, you're trying to meet or beat that number.
If I say DC-12, it's 12 or higher.
So as you're going through his bags, you do find a health
potion. Can I feed it to him as my bonus
action? So checking his body is our home
rule. You used your movement action to
do that, and now you're using your main action to feed it to
him. Yeah.
And you're going to go ahead and roll heal.
If it's an action, don't we get the full?
That's only applies to yourself. OK, gotcha.
Yes, that makes sense. So you're going to go ahead and
roll 2 D 4 + 2 At this time, Vivian is an absolute massive
balling. How much do you heal for six and
you come back up with a gasp of air?
I'm just really glad you're okay.
Thanks, I appreciate it. Still feel like crap, but I'm
alive. That's good, that's good.
I can't do this without your help because they can't do
anything. I look back at them, I know it's
okay. Edition of 11 trying to get
through as Dempster's floating disc is keeping him at base,
like right at his waist. He's trying to claw through.
Very creative way to make a a wall between the two of you as
it's trying to get in. As you see that it reaches
around and throws a hand axe at you.
It rolled a 22. Definitely hits as you take 4
points of piercing damage as his hand axes roll through and as
the blood continues to pour out of its body and its turn aims,
it now hunches over the disk and it stops pulsing, stops
breathing and it's finally its anger is now quelled as you see
his head slumps down before you. The small rusted crown rose off
its head right at your feet. Milan.
Oh, I pick up the crown. You are now out of combat as you
see this massive pig work. It is blocking your way between
you and your companions. What'd you do to a Milan You
kill it. Can I put on the crown, hop up
on the disk, climb on top of the orc and stand and kind of like a
you know what I mean? Like I did this.
I guess I still have the the hood on collecting everything,
so I look ridiculous. Yeah.
Do you look really good? Good job.
You know what? It makes sense.
I don't know what you guys are so worried about.
You said you put on the crown. Yeah.
It is very heavy. Does it even fit on his head?
It's appropriately sized because it was comically small on his
head. Oh, I see.
OK. Look like a child's crown.
I hold it with two hands. Oh, how you feeling Aladron as I
begin to unfasten the chain from its wrist.
You struggle with it for a moment as you need to lift its
heavy limp wrist that was pinning it down, but a calmness
washes over you as you have secured the treasure that
belongs to you. Necklace secure.
I don't even know why hold on to this thing anymore.
Me. He likes you coming back, but it
makes me feel better having it. Like she's still with me, Like
things are perfect again. Kind of focused on the poison
though. Think I've experienced something
like this one before. The monitor cats detect poison
and disease later. Possible ingredients Water,
charcoal, dodium, thiosione. No one lives your tail.
Magnesium bolivarks not roof rala doxide chloride, red glow
worms. We on the left now does some
good woolwork and mechanical engineering.
I'm a try out the gear set up later.
Drawn B seems what's promising in theory.
Acquaintances seem calm and reliable.
Thiefling, quick, stealthy, shady ladron wound shaped
symbol, shield strong, a panda wire card, skittish, curious,
weird magic. We're almost up to live though.
Hopefully this ain't my last notebook entry for chances sake.
It takes some time for the elevator to go from the base all
the way to the top. You feel if you pull any faster
the ropes would snap and as you begin to ascend the elevator the
rays of light begin to shine through in this dark cave.
Anybody with dark vision begins to fade in and out as your eyes
are now adjusting to the sunlight that is barely
illuminating this dark tunnel going upwards.
Silence begins to fill The Cave as the four of you reflect the
events that just happened with these dirty, disgusting, vile,
hungry pig ores. You reflect on the weird cloaked
creature that stabbed A mysterious a mushroom that led
the four of you to be poisoned, two of you which are throwing up
and coughing violently every so often.
Some more time passes in the darkness and light begins to
illuminate over each of your faces, almost seemingly one at a
time. Hazel's armor begins to shine as
a stern, determined look rests on his face.
What seems like a noble knight now has a face of almost
vengeance. The elevator continues to lift
as you notice Bo Ran checking to make sure that the item that was
on his necklace is OK. He pulls out a small piece of
poetry paper and reads a note silently to himself as a look of
concern or perhaps doubt crosses his face.
Look at Mylan, A dirtied woodland creature far from home,
looking around puzzled as he tends to his wound.
And you see Vivian, a demon kid hiding away as the light begins
to fill as she pulls her hood over kind of hide her facial
features more now that there's a moment for you to maybe
recognize who she really is. As the elevator ascends, we're
now in this other cave like room.
The mouth of The Cave open and the four of you walk out onto
this ledge at the edge of this forest line.
You see that the sun is now setting beyond the mountains
that you know is God's aspiration, which is the name of
the tallest mountain range in the heartland.
As the sunsets behind that mountain range, you see this
blue slowly moving shooting star go across the sky.
As the four of you reflect on it for a moment, you know that
you're about four hours away. Bolderus or Home City 2 of you
are coughing violently. Time is of the essence, Oran.
You know that what you were poisoned with could be very
deadly, but yet maybe treatable with some of the things that you
have back at your home. Look up.
Feeling pretty good all things considered.
It's right about the poison. Needed a small solution of that
bully works, not root and activated salts.
And we was right as rain. Quick retrace of our steps
before I lose my memory. Me ran into an owl bail on the
way back, but Dendrin calmed it down.
It was out. That guy's a paladin.
Gross and then do a pitfall trap but didn't get too scuffed up
made it back to momma's on okay Allen like that at least moon
sound better. Make that 321 to 1.
I don't speaks better on paper, don't make no sense.
Getting ready now for the day. But earlier we was woken up by
Garrick's coming back from another adventure, Mr. Slaying
something pretty big this time people are stirring.
We got tucked in tight though, right in my bed and that's
smiling with my foot. Hey Petit, how you doing down
there? What where?
Where am I? What's happening?
My head Oh yeah, you read that bad?
Ohh. I lean to the right and then
just look over at Vivian, who's sitting against the bed.
Now you're doing Dale. Vivian starts looking around and
stretching and he's like how did I I get on the floor, how did I
get over here I don't know maybe this guy.
And I nod over to the Aladron. You guys all looked
uncomfortable at the table so I decided to move you.
Vivian rubs sleep out of her eye and goes thank you, it's very
nice. And you see Beau Ram kind of
lingers a bit looking at Vivian. He squints a bit and he's like
how did I think about it? You look a bit familiar.
We know each other. Vivian's going to freeze a
little and grab her hood again and she's like, no, I don't.
I think I've seen any of you before, except for the past
couple days. I think maybe the toxin's doing
something to you. Not at a Tavern and not at a
party or something. I don't normally go out.
I I execute to myself. I don't know why.
You just look real familiar, like, well, tieflings are
tieflings. I don't know Tieflings are
tieflings. I'm taking that one with me.
All right let's get up out of bed.
Got to make some breakfast and you see Bo ram Amelie like goes
over to this really rickety makeshift stove in the wall and
starts making some beans and all sorts for you guys nothing
great. But Vivian catches her breath
and just like fix palms internally, Mylan rolls off the
bed and just hits the floor. Just he's like clawing in like
prone across the floor. If you reaches over to pat your
head and goes are you? Are you okay?
This is all you hear. Just like really rough sounding
pants. Hear the bells ring again,
Lauren, as you are making Beans Castle, you notice through the
window from the studio domicile and you look out into the city
and you are pretty far away from the town square.
But you do see something quite large.
You see this large gathering of people as if there's a parade
being thrown as somebody's walking through the southern
gate. And you see that there's this
large cart. There are two carts.
One of them has a fire giant on it.
It is dead. A slain fire giant being carted
in by 20 people pulling it. And they are struggling on a
slightly smaller cart that's really pronounced.
And towering over all the buildings in Bolderas is the
fire giant's mall. A giant black hammer that with
the handle sticking all the way up with a heavy bit resting on
the carts. And you really can't see
anything else from there because there's just a crowd of people
on at the slain giants. Have I seen something like this
go on before since I've been in town?
Yes. Once before, about three months
ago, you saw that there was this hero known as Garrix who had
slain another type of giant. It wasn't a fire giant, but
brought in three hill giants. Garrix, this is well revered
Monster Hunter. He is known for wielding this
massive 2 handed sword. He stands about 8 feet tall, and
he is handsome as they come. He has this long brunette hair
that's perfectly chiseled, old face and he's very tall.
Rumors say that his mother was a giant herself.
He has giants blooded him. It just so happens that the last
two kills that he had, this one and the one you noticed three
months ago also happened to be giants.
As you know, he's been venturing because of the town gossip that
he's been hunting in the plague lands, which is to the South of
Balderas, a very dangerous place to be.
Those who've lived in the city longer than you have, you have
seen similar parades of various different beasts and even some.
Ask Eggs being brought back by him.
Looks like Garrix is up to his old tricks Gun.
Oh, you know Garrix, do you? Well, everyone knows Garrix,
don't you? Yeah, I guess that's true.
Not this guy I'm sure though. And I shift my head and I motion
over to Mylan. Rotten Ruin.
It's just still like now. Now we have Bells.
Oh my God, I gotta go. He's like trying to like get up
to like start walking out the door.
I like almost cut my own off with the smell of food and I
place a plate form on the table we got there.
It's just something I whipped up.
It's got some. He doesn't get beans.
He's already all right. Then fucking paw in whatever it
is. Eat it.
It's a bit savory. It's got some beans, it's got
alls. It's good you enjoy.
Hopefully it's good enough for you.
Vivian cranes her neck from the floor to look at my limb.
Just destroying this plate and goes, Well, you should really
learn some manners. Maybe we could teach you that
along the way. He looks up for like half a
second in his devouring and then squint eyes and then just goes
back to just devouring whatever food said forever.
Or enjoy your meal, I guess. Don't listen to Jolie, I like
you the way you are, but we're obviously put two plates down
for Vivian and himself as well. Vivian dusts herself off the
ground and sits down as gracefully as she can.
Nazi goes, thank you very much. She absolutely hates beans, but
she is starving, so she will put them down.
As she grimaces with each bite, Borim notices that he's like, I
mean, listen, you tell me what you like.
I make it next time. I can make all sorts, OK?
That she's grossing. That's all different.
Now he's just me and he just starts listing a bunch of stuff.
Maybe I'll get those ingredients one day, but defrac tour.
I just pull the bowl away from Mylan that he's licking clean
and hand him a new bowl with more beans.
Now don't mind those rich folk out there.
OK they they fine I guess but they a bit and he like pushes
his nose up. They a bit snotty like.
Vivian just huffs. 4 of you eat O Rams breakfast.
You feel much better than you did just a couple hours ago.
It is about 10 in the morning when you finish your breakfast
as the four of you sit at the table now healthy as can be as
you're no longer poisoned and get to live another day.
What are the four of you going to do now?
Which are now you found freedom. Castle needs to go check on his
horse because he's been gone for a while.
Well, thank you again, Borim, for the meal.
I appreciate it. It's like half eaten.
He kind of like pushed it around the plate a little bit to make
it seem like he ate more than what he did.
You know, he's just trying to be polite.
And he goes, thanks for the meal and best of luck.
And he he looks at everyone and kind of knocks on the table and
walks out the door. We leave it already, Paladin.
All right then. Yeah, I got some stuff in it.
Take care of. Silverhoof is back in the barn,
and he hasn't been fed in a few days since I've been gone, so I
need to take care of that. All right, Well, listen, you go
recharge your God juices or whatever you paladin's doing.
How about we meet back at a Tavern somewhere around here and
get a drink so we can all celebrate?
Yeah, that sounds good. And Boer will name a Tavern
nearby to him that maybe no one else would want to go to.
But what is a Tavern that's close to us, Tony?
So I am staying at a Tavern. Oh OK, so but I don't know how
far away it is from where this place is.
It's on the opposite side of the city.
Yeah, I suggest that one. You are staying at the Four Eyed
Owl, which is in the Westerly district.
It's upper middle class, upper class part of town.
The construction of that part of the city is very well put
together. It's not too far off from where
the nobles live and they live in their own part of the city,
which Westerly is probably the closest you'll get to the nobles
without actually being one. Some minor nobles live there and
more of the rich folk who own businesses live in there and
maybe some reputable decision makers also live there and those
who are just fortunate enough to have money.
Yeah, I don't want to walk, have to walk all the way back over
here. So so castle will just say I'm
over at the four eyed owl. 4 eyed owl.
Oh, that's, that's been farther North, East, West.
Where that at? Yeah, it's on the other side of
town. All right.
I could walk like he's the exercise.
I guess maybe we need over there.
Celebrate a bit. Yeah, let's just say after
sunset sometime. Well, I'll see you there as a
promise. And I I'm a man of my what?
OK. And he's already half out.
He's already like half. Yeah, but isn't keeping you way
too long. But Rin turns around and sees
Mylin licking Castle's plate and just freezes when he sees it.
Vivian starts pushing hers over towards Mylan as casually as
possible and caught in the act as well.
You almost lose a finger because you start diving.
I just imagine like slow sandpaper sound licks from the
pole like. And while that's going on,
Vivian slowly gets up and looks over to Beau Ram.
Thank you for food and curing us.
That's really nice. I guess I'll meet you all later.
I have a couple of things to attend to you before I could do
anything today. Oh, you got a place to stay?
Maybe you stay with me. We could hang out here with
baby. OK.
I have my own abode. Oh, that's fine.
I get it. Yeah.
Small. Don't worry.
You. You warm up the bow Rams soon
enough. I'll tell you, I'm kidding.
Get out of here. Julie.
See you all later. And Vivian's going to go off to
her place. Vivian, as you leave through the
front door, there's a desk right there and you notice something
very shiny, something that sticks out in this, let's say,
well kept place. It's something that isn't
broken. It looks very elegant.
You see this silver and gold tempered rod and on the tip of
it, it comes out like a fork, like a metal, like a brass fork,
except it's gold and silver. And in between the forked prom
is this huge sapphire gym. It is almost pristine cut.
May I do a quick what if the investigation or history on that
stone? I'll let you choose.
Let's do History 16 + 420. You instantly notice that this
is a very valuable gem and it's cut by a very skilled gem Smith,
a jeweler. And you notice that where it
sits that is potentially infused with some type of arcane to
empower something. Or you would you would use this
as an instrument in anything you were trying to potentially
craft. It's used as a tool for a
specific type of Craftsman. You're not really sure, but it's
definitely of the arcane nature, and a gem is obviously the main
component in that forked rod. She will take note of it, but
leave it there and probably ask Bo Ram about it later once he
has something in him. She's good.
She's going to get Bo Ram to tell the secrets, and Vivian
will slip off to her place, but I would like to do so to make
sure no one follows. Yes.
You slip out through the door, through the stacks, and you
notice all these weird fritter's looking at these bipedal skunk
people. You see that same skeleton
wearing a long purple robe, still drinking its cup of coffee
as it stares at you. It's like leaning up against a
wooden shanty and it has a very dust coated sign and it's.
You can't really make out what the words is because it seems
like it's been worn off by time, but it looks like a shop of some
kind. And you begin to go across the
rickety bridge, go through another building full of smaller
homes as you come out, go across another bridge.
You begin to work your way down through the stacks as you leave
and make your way to your home on the other side of the city,
leaving Mylin and Boram and Boram's apartment.
Yeah, I I like Psy 'cause he was trying to, like, be a little
flirty with this New Girl and she wasn't having it.
The other guy left, we thought was kind of funny, but he didn't
know if he liked yet. And then he just looks back at
Mylin, licking the last bowl clean it.
It's making like, you know, when you wash a window and it makes
that squeaking noise. It's the kind of noise it's
making. What, what, what happened.
What I miss. All I can think about is that
guy from Suicide Squad, how he's like licking the window.
Yeah, the, the weasel. Yeah, the weasel.
What, you mean they left Fraktur?
So you got a place to go? Or you can leave whenever you
want. Oh, OK.
But beans. I mean, I got to keep the beans
for breakfast. I can't just use them on now.
OK, Yogurt. OK, goodbye.
Starts walking out. All right, Dan, just goodbye.
You also noticed that same rod by the.
Oh, he immediately runs up to it and grabs it.
Don't touch that. Please get get off of that.
This is my this is my stuff. It's just OK.
It's a piece of equipment. It's how I make throw it.
No, please do not throw that. Listen, I'll show you how I use
it next time, OK, Come back here sometime.
I'll show you how I use it. But for now.
And he's like has one hand on it as Milo has two hands on it and
he's just making sure he doesn't like throw it too hard.
What do you mean next time? Like what's the next time?
What do you mean? We friends now you come over
anytime that any time. Like win Borum is not prepared
for this win. All right, we make a date then
how about next week? Same time?
One week? Yeah one week OK or I'm stoked
away too soon. I guess he was like panicking.
I was I was ready for that. I was just leaving Borams just
like breathing really hard and then he takes the rod and he's
like I can't leave this out like that.
He's he's going to actually put in a chest with his tools.
Oh my heart almost choked out my throat or to feel like I'm
forgetting to write something down.
Remember to rack my rain later. But now I'll get to wash up and
put something nicer on since we going out maybe I'll work on a
potion. While the others are doing
whatever they are doing you head to the Iron Jaw forge where the
owner of this forge named Corn Iron Jaw runs this blacksmithing
who had requested some adamantium.
Now what you know about this place and it's fitting for why
he would request something as this.
He is known for making very strong armor that often outlives
it's wearer. And if you are hanging around
the right crowd, you actually might notice some of his
handiwork. He's a dwarf.
However, he's a dwarf on the taller side.
He goes, ah, you brought me adamantium.
I did. Not quite the amount I was
looking for, but adamantium nonetheless.
And he holds this tiny crown that you show him.
He goes. I don't know what I'll be able
to do with this, but I'll be able to contribute to something,
I guess payments in order. You did the job.
I'll pay you for your weight and medal.
I kind of just pick up the bag, put in my bag behind me and I
just say I'll trust you. Thanks again for the job.
Is there anything else you would like to do after getting your
reward? The second thing I wanted to do
is go over to the Stables and feed Silver Hoof.
So the Stables is a part of the Tavern that you're staying in.
You're paying a fee and the owner, Mr. Humble, is taking
care of your horse. While the horse is there.
It's a part of your agreement that you have with him.
But you could still go visit your horse if you like, to check
on his well-being. Yeah, yeah, I'll go over to the
Staples. I'll check on Silver Hoof and
then I'll also pay like the rate with the gold that I just got to
cover the next few days for me and the horse.
You walk into the Tavern, the Four Eyed Owl, and it looks like
a very popular spot. There's already people in there
eating breakfast or lunch, nice little brunch.
And some people are have already taken the lead and started
drinking for the day. And you walk up to Mr. Humble
and he's an older gentleman, we'll call him a rustic fellow.
And he goes, it's Castle. It's good to see you again.
Please, you know, this payment is a little early, but it's very
much appreciated. I'll accept it this time, but
you can pay at the end of the week like you normally do.
You know me, though. I don't like to owe anyone
anything. Yes, yes, yes.
Well, I do appreciate the payment.
Hey. Yeah.
They castle while I while I have your ear for a moment.
Silverhoof has been a pleasure by the way he own.
He's been nothing, you know, nestling against me.
I even read him a bedtime story because he just wanted somebody
to cuddle with. It was quite the moment.
Silverhoof is just a pleasure to be around.
But no sugar cubes, right? Only no sugar cubes.
No. Yes, only carrots.
The nutrients has, and I make sure he eats the green bit
because that's where all the nutrients are.
Interesting. I'd never heard that before.
I don't know if you're telling the truth, but I believe you.
What do I know? I'm just a humble block keeper.
That is true. You know more than I.
Yeah, But what? What were you saying?
Yes. Yes.
Why have your ear? Why have your ear?
He brings it close. He goes.
I don't want to. I don't want to excite anybody.
But tomorrow night we have a bit of an event here, and I would
really appreciate it if you hung out for the night.
I'll. I'll make it worth your while
here while you stay. But I feel like the riffraff
will stay out or at least be more well behaved with your
presence around here. Very well liked person coming to
perform on that stage in the corner over there to bring in
some more business. And, and there might be a noble
or two who might come here and drink.
And I would really appreciate it if you just hung around just in
case of things get too wild, just in case of things get too
OK. Yeah, absolutely.
I can. I can do that, no problem.
Vivian and Mylan also make way throughout the city to their
homes. Vivian, are you doing anything
on the way to your home? On my way to no, I'm just doing
everything I can to conceal my identity and stealthily get to
my hideout as I don't like people knowing where it is at
all or where I am at all times. So I'm just taking painful
stakes to make sure I'm concealed and hidden to get
right into my hideout. So you go to your hideout, make
sure that nobody follows you, you're actually blending with
the crowd, and the crowd of the city is really just focusing on
the dead fire giant in the city center.
And it's almost leaving the side streets pretty open for you to
just go untraced to your hidden laboot.
And as you slip into the hallways of your hideout, you
notice that you have a stack of letters.
And these letters are pretty mundane, basic news and city,
other city events. It looks like a paper of some
kind, but you look through and you see something marked with a
very familiar name that just makes your face curl up and
disgust. And it is an invitation.
The invitation looks like it's for a particular party event,
and the more you read the more disgusted you get.
And you see a date marked the 30th of Marpanath.
It's an invitation inviting anyone who reads it, but to you,
as it's marked to you, seems more of a demand you to be at
this event on the 30th of Marpanov, Vivian's just going to
take that letter and tap it a bunch of times angrily.
She's going to crunch it up in her hand and move closer to the
front door where she can get into the hideout and pace around
for a little bit after she gets some things done.
She's really got to contemplate what's going on here.
Just for some player now is that is five months away from the
current date Marpanov, which is also known as leaf fall, which
is the beginning of fall. And just so for the adventures
listening in, there are 12 months in the calendar of Haptos
and each week is 10 days long. So there are 12 months.
There are three weeks in a month.
Each week in a month has 10 days in it.
The current date is the 13th of Myrtle, which is spring.
I don't have a lot of time. She's going to walk right in the
hideout and look right towards her connections.
And you go towards your connections and they begin to
fill you in on everything you've missed over the last few days.
And they tell you on all the upkeep and all the news that has
happened within the last two days.
And you see that everything in the hideout is as it should be.
And there is a restock of food as they were looking out for
your benefits while you were gone.
And other than the letters that you've gone and that letter that
made you feel very disgusted, everything else seems to be in
order and your connections are happy that you are back home
safely as they did seem a little worried Vivian's going to notice
their stairs and just go. It's nothing I can't change.
I got a nice set upstairs I'll put on.
I'm meeting with some friends tonight actually.
But if I could ask you guys before I get ready and go, could
I get you to find me some information on my 3 new people
I'm being accompanied by? Absolutely.
Do you have a location of which we can look into?
I only have names and one of them I have a place.
The other two, one I don't even know where he would go, but the
other one seems to be visiting but one seems to be a permanent
resident who is interesting. You see your two connections
that you're currently talking to are standing there with her arms
behind their back as they are paying attention to you very
intently. There is one woman and 1 male
and they are both of elephant nature and they are trying to
retain as much detail as possible as you are giving them.
One is the very little red creature, one seems to be in a
ladder and similar to how they look, and another one seems to
be a very rambunctious outgoing human.
You give them their names, you give them potentially where the
four of you are meeting later tonight at the Four Eyed Owl and
any other notes you wish to provide and they go.
Of course, Miss V, we will take a look into that as soon as
possible and we'll get back to you in most tastes, hopefully
before your rendezvous tonight. They both bow as the woman
finishes acknowledging your request, and you see that the
man goes the lady and then they both take a step back, then turn
and proceed with their task. Vivian just quickly puts her
hand on her chest and nods her head down as like a nice little
gesture. And while they're moving away,
Vivian's going to very unceremoniously grab the
banister, turn around, and run upstairs.
We started on the main floor where the connections live, and
now I'm going up the stairs to where Vivian lives and she's
just going to pace around a room with the letter changing to make
sure she's ready for meeting up with.
But she's just going to pace and ponder for the rest of the
evening and throw some things in anger.
And as you pace and throw a fit, as you leave the study of the
hideout into your private rooms, go over to Mylan.
And as we go over to Mylan, who is now heading home to the Minds
of Boulderis. The underbelly of Boulderis is a
very dark place, is very poorly lit, but the Minds of Boulderis
is almost a smaller yet its own district of the city.
Those who tend to favor the shadows live down here and a lot
of people work down here. They gather materials.
People are often hired to fend off some monsters that may lurk
from the under dark. But the underbelly of the city
is at least in the living spaces are deem mostly safe, but do
have to deal with the occasional occupational hazards of the
miners and foragers that do go to work down there on a daily
and sometimes nightly basis as day and night seems to stop.
And in the corner, in a dark, dark corner of this district, in
the underbelly of Balderas, is a tiny hole hidden within the deep
dark corners that looks like only a small critter can go
through. And as Mylan pushes his furry
tiny little head into with a, he is able to squeeze into this
what seems like a 5 by 10 hidey hole.
But all the sounds of drills and machinery, people yelling over
each other, hammer is forging, the sound of steel and anvils
being banged on come to a calm. Hushing, quiet as Mylan is now
in his home and no sound bleeds in.
It's peaceful in here. The outside of The Cave looks
very rocky, very rigid, very dense, but inside his cave is
very smooth elegance. As he looks up through the
darkness, the rock begins to shine, almost Obsidian light,
and the more you look into this black Obsidian walls, it almost
looks like he's staring at the night sky.
The only place where his thoughts and even interrupt him
or bother him. What are you doing, Miley?
Just breathing in, breathing out, kind of just calming down
after what seemed like a wild ride in the past, like day or
so. And then stare up at the
Obsidian and then realize I have a bunch of money on me.
And I take it out and I start looking at it and it's like more
money than he's ever seen before.
One thing he's always wanted is a glass of milk, and so is it.
It's not night time right now, right?
No, it's daytime. OK, It's not.
But you definitely noticed this money.
It had definitely purchased yourself a ice cold bottle of
miner's milk in the underbelly from one of the vendors down
here. Milan was distracted when he was
eating to know to meet up with anybody.
So he doesn't know to meet up with them until next week, which
I think they're meeting up tonight, right?
They are. So just as like a thing, he's
going to take a drink of the milk and just be like, you know
what, I want something nicer. So he's going to go to the nice
district. Yes, you definitely can.
But something happens between then and now.
OK, so you are drinking this milk and you are loving it and
you do crave something nicer. But the milk does kind of make
you a little bit tired. And as you're laying down
enjoying it, this now empty bottle begins to roll as your
belly's filled with milk. You're leaning against this
Obsidian wall and you let out a nice big burp as the bottle
rolls and you, the stuff you were wearing are kind of like
tucked away in a corner because you're now relaxing.
And that cloak is next to your stuff.
And as that bottle of milk rolls out of your hand, it rolls
towards your your pack. And that cloak that you lifted
from the pig orc den is there. However, you could see into the
shadow of the cloak. And in the shadow of the cloak,
you notice that a part of it is raised as if there's a ball or
something underneath, and it's raised ever so suddenly.
And as you look into it and the silence of The Cave overwhelms
you, you feel the presence of something looking at you from
underneath the cloak. And tap it with my foot.
You go to get up to go to tap with your foot, and it instantly
deflates. It go false, noticeably flat
onto the floor, mana all fours, ready to like pounce on whatever
maybe comes out of it. Looking around, scared.
Backing up, you stare at the cloak as it falls to the floor
flat, thinking that something is still there, and after a few
beats, investigate it, lift it up, and sure enough, there's
nothing there except the Obsidian floor.
OK, starting to see things. It was probably the it's
probably the potion, right? It had to be the potion could be
right. I ruffle through it again, you
ruffle through the cloak. And sure enough, that cloak he
took is nothing more than a mere cloak with a weird symbol.
Well, I guess in a week I'll take this back to Bow.
Ram kind of contemplates taking the cloak in, like burying it
outside somewhere. You take some time pawing around
this cloak, not sure what to do with it, thinking about burying
it, taking it to Boran within a week.
And we're going to do a little bit of a time skip here as a
couple hours pass by as the four of you are doing whatever you do
in your homes. As the sun begins to set, you
hear the clock tower bells ring again signaling dusk where a lot
of businesses close down for the day and a lot of people begin to
head to different bars and Taverns as they begin to to wind
down themselves. Some of them return home and
some stores stay open a little later than others, specifically
Taverns and Borem. You get the symbol, you take the
bells that maybe it's the time to go to the four eyed owl to
meet up with Casl, Violin and Vivian and you have a long way
to go. So you make sure you get a head
start. Yeah.
Borem has been using the day to just work on some mixtures at
his place and then once he's done with that, cleans himself
up, bathes. Finally, after dealing with all
the pick works and decides to dress himself up a little bit.
He puts a vest on. It's kind of like a burgundy
that matches some burgundy pants that he puts on.
And he's like, I'll put some dress shoes on.
But even in the dress kind of get up, he's still got his
sleeves rolled up and his man bun is still a bit messy in the
back. As he walks out with his coat.
You take your leave. He's gonna take a very leisurely
stroll that way because he hasn't been there before.
So he he wants to take some time to look at the sights a little
more. You know.
You decide to cut through the city center to take a look at
the giant flame giant that is laying there on display as well
as there are still some people there admiring it as well.
It's a big crowd of people and you can't help yourself to take
a look for yourself. You leave from the stacks
heading towards the port side of town, cutting through this
industrial district as you go over a nice stone bridge over
this large river that's cutting through Balderas like take a
moment to examine this magnificent fire giant and even
more magnificent fire giant mall that is just in the ground
almost cracking this city center, which is entirely made
of stone. You cut through the city center
and after taking some time to marvel at the flame giant, you
go through the market district, which is in the southwest, and
then begin to head northwest. And as the one finally sets.
As you cut through some of the alleyways and explore some of
the less travelled routes of boulders.
Because you don't commonly come over here, you usually stick to
your side of the neighborhood. You feel a tap on your shoulder.
With hulking strength, you turn around and as you turn around
you hear the words. Oh, so you think you could just
walk by me and don't expect me to say hello?
Wham as this giant green fist clocks you as three half forks
trample over to you as you spin to the ground as your vision is
dazed. Myrtle Day 14/14/81 MKD 6:00 AM.
It's no big entry coming in later than expected.
Just walked back in after a fun nut out.
My luck keeps going down the sewer Dome.
Ran into Bink and bunk yesterday and they nearly at my head.
I don't know how they found me so quick.
Those orcs wasn't asking no questions on arrival, so they
must have realized that rod I left them was a fake.
I know they believe me when I told them they was duped, but
they must retrace their steps and got better Intel.
Whatever the case, I got to be more careful walking around.
Maybe if I stick with the nouveau's on me, those criminals
will leave me alone. They seem reliable, but funny.
Yeah. Yeah.
But did think I'd see a red panda all covered in milk.
I'm sitting outside the the milk store.
Kind of got some distance and I'm kind of peeking around
corners, acting like I stole it, kind of drinking it and being
all silly. And then all of a sudden I see a
tee fling sneaking by being very suspicious.
And I use my my fur to wipe my face.
And then I quickly squint my eye and I start tiptoeing behind and
start to follow her, trying to keep my distance, trying to
figure out what's going on here. Take me a self check.
Yeah, I'm good at these sometimes.
And that was you can't write it any better.
Yeah, that that makes a lot of sense, Mylan.
You trip over your tattered cloak my milk and you like and
you spill your milk onto the floor as you let out a little
furry Yelp. And sure enough Vivian turns
around as she as Vivian grams the handle of the Tavern door.
He turns around and Mylan is just face planted in a on top of
a bottle of spilt milk and he looks very sad.
There's full on crying anime eyes, no face or feature just
like that was all the buddy I had.
I just go pick up Mylan, give him a big hug.
It's OK. It's OK.
Do you want more milk? We're.
Did you know we were meeting here?
What? We're.
We're meeting here, right? You you were coming to join.
We got a drink on the way. He jumps up, covered in milk,
dusts himself off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely,
definitely came in, Came to yeah.
So why don't we, why don't we get moving?
Vivian's gonna squat down and pull out like a little tissue
and just wipe everything off his mouth wide open as he's like
trying to just sits there stone faced.
Doesn't know what's happening. The door to the Tavern opens.
Bo Ram, you were there 5 minutes earlier before Vivian and Mylan
and you noticed that castle sitting in the South end of the
room. Vivian and Mylan close the door
behind them as they are now also entering the four Ito.
I'm gonna have Mylan. Like how?
How would Mylan prefer to be held by the armpits or like
dragged along by the hand or claw or just like he.
He goes in full Stretch cat. I got you.
I got Mylan in front of me. Stretch cat.
Wow, full of milk and I just look.
Vivian starts looking everywhere for the two guys, makes eye
contact and starts walking over with Mylan up.
He's in the air and just goes. He dropped his milk.
I don't know what to do. He's all wet.
I'm sorry. What?
He dropped what? He spilled his milk.
OK, now Beau Rams embarrassed. Interesting.
He's he's real upset about it. Eyelid sticks out like a sore
thumb in here. And you see someone over from
the fireplace just a few feet over from your table because,
yeah, you can't bring pets in here.
It ain't no pet. He speaks.
Give me a SEC. Someone give me.
You got cloth. And he's going to, like, wave
someone like, is there, are there cleaners in the bar or
like, waiters? Yeah, they're all waiters.
Do you see that? There's two waiters, one woman,
1 male. And they're walking around.
They're serving drinks. And you see that the waitress
comes over and tries to help out as he's leaking milk onto the
floor. I'd do a big shake and it goes
everywhere. I just try to bring my Cape out
as far as I can to keep us from getting in trouble.
Yeah and tazzle just remembering like from earlier when he was
like eating just like the plate of beans just goes full like kid
like give the kid like some food to distract him type thing.
He's like can you just bring us a a plate of you know any just
bring some food over if you don't mind Sears Perka of
course, of course. And you see that she quickly
mops up and then wipes the milk that he's, you know, wagged all
over everywhere and then goes back.
And you see that she goes to the food section of the shelves
behind the bar. Orem will switch chairs, going
to the like the chair against the wall so that they can kind
of sit where they want. You see that the guy that made
the dog comment towards you is now has some milk and he's like
very naughty. He stands up and Orem, you
notice he's also wearing one of these branded blades uniforms,
but he looks he's not he just not have a good time.
He's not having a good time like the other 3 in the center of the
room. He seems a bit more shoveled and
upset at something. You see, he's kind of just
brooding by the fireplace. He goes, can't have your dog in
here and you can't have him slobbering everywhere.
And he like walks over to the table.
It's like there's a whole, there's a reason why there's a
barn for this Tavern. Since he's standing over Kassel,
I just cocked my eyebrow and kind of look at Kassel.
I was going to say. Kassel immediately stands up and
he goes, look, this is not a pet nor an animal.
This is a travelling companion. And I'd appreciate it if you
took your drink and minded your own business.
And Kassel like directs him with like hands towards like
something, anything else like in like the rest of the direction
of the bar intimidation check. I rolled a 24.
You notice that his hand was on a scimitar sheath on his belt
and his hand was gripping the hand all the blade.
It wasn't. He wasn't drawing it.
And when was a 20 4? You get a full scope of this
guy, and this guy looks upset. He's upset that he just got wet
from Mylan and from wearing the same uniform.
He looks like he's just not having a good time.
He might be excluded or upset about something else.
However, you notice something on the bit of the handle.
You notice that that scimitar is an eladrin blade, which is out
of the ordinary for someone like him to have because eladrin
blades are very valuable. You know how much effort goes
into making one and if you would have one, you might have spent a
lot of money for it. And seeing how it's not common
here, you notice that there is also a sigil on the end of it as
it's branded, but it's not branded with any of the courts.
Do I recognize the brand? It is familiar to you, but make
me a history check because it's really small.
Okay, 14. We do remember as you squint at
it for a second and you've seen it once, but only once before,
and it was only mentioned in a brief conversation yesterday.
It is a crown with an eyeball in it, similar to the one that you
found with the cloak that Mylan is wearing.
By the way, friend, I just wanted to say I, I like the
blade. I, I recognize the, the fine
craftsmanship and it's interesting.
Where do, if you don't mind that I like to ask, where, where did
you get that blade from? You see that he like looks at
you up and down and he's kind of walking with his shoulders.
You see that he's like his forehead is pointing at you,
like he's looking at you with his forehead through the, his
eyes are looking from the, from under his brow at you.
Clearly doesn't like you because you would like to know that,
wouldn't you? And he begins to walk in the
direction that you pointed him in as he kind of brushes past
myelin and gives him like a, a light shoulder push to just try
to get past them. It's not violent, you don't
move, really move out of the way, but it's just aggressive
enough to know that he's just not in the mood.
Hired swords are the worst. And Kazzle sits back down.
That's not your fault. Exactly what he said.
You fine. Anyways, time to party.
It's a good night. We celebrate.
What exactly are we celebrating? Whatever you want.
Not dying, not dying. Meeting, you know, things back.
I live in another day being rich, and I pull out my my bag
of money. Yeah.
Mm. Hmm.
Interesting. Yep.
Do you still have all your gold? Myelin.
No one took it from you yet. I have.
And he pulls out all of his gold.
Yep. Got all.
I got all of it. Look at this.
Look at this all. How many do I have?
Vivian helps count. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 48
kind of holding it. And just, like, very, like, oh,
so excited. Lower him downs his drink, slams
on the table. All right, how about I get us
some more drinks? You want one for tea?
And I point to my own food. I heard food.
Hey, food's coming. But I get you something a bit
stronger. No, we about to get a panda
drunk. I think he wanted some milk,
right? And he looks at Mylan.
Oh my gosh, we can get milk in here.
I definitely got Milan some milk, but maybe a bit spiked,
though. I might be a good prankster.
Learned it from my brothers. He instantly starts spitting it
everywhere, all over the place, starts coughing everywhere, and
then immediately looks at Beau Ram.
And it's just like you tricked me again.
I thought you might like it. That's an adult milk.
No, no, no, no. And I give it.
I give it to Vivian to drink another one.
Vivian doesn't drink. She does tonight take a Yeah, So
as you take that drinks, there are more people coming in and
you notice Caswell, you notice that somebody comes in, they
have a big stack of papers with them and they head over and they
make a beeline to Mr. Rumble, has a conversation with Mr.
Rumble and Mr. You don't hear what is being said, but he gives
a nod of approval and waves her off in a polite manner.
And you see that she starts to hand out Flyers and she's like
walking to different people at the standing area and then goes
to the table to the north and she's handing everybody and
she's having a light conversation.
And a few moments pass before she makes it all the way to your
table. And she interjects politely.
She goes, excuse me, excuse me, I don't mean to bother you.
I know you're eating or celebrating or having a couple
of drinks. I just, I just want to hand out
a couple of these and she hands each of you a flyer and it's for
something for tomorrow afternoon.
It's a celebration and it's a pop up event, a quick
celebration for Garrix Witherford's new victory over
the slain fire giant. And you see that there's going
to be a on there. It's like a, you see that
there's going to be gestures. There's going to be tents like
vendors. They're going to be selling like
all these festival foods. There's going to be live music
entertainment as they're celebrating Garrix's recent
victory with the slain flame giant.
And she's handing each one of each of these Flyers to you all.
And you notice that it's being hosted by one of the nobles of
the town by by the name of Wilfred Shawmut.
He is funding this great celebration for the city.
And this is this is not uncommon.
He funds a lot of things and his name is attached to a lot of
things. And he does show up and as well
as the other nobles, but he is funding this particular event.
And she hands each of you a flyer and says you should really
come. It's going to be a great time.
It's going to be a fantastic time.
Please, please join us. As Vivian goes to grab the
flyer, she's just pulling her hood, the one that's closest to
the lady, and kind of drops her voice a little and goes, yeah,
I'll think about it. Thanks.
You recognize this person as this is like one of the people
that hands out Flyers on a regular basis.
You've definitely received a flyer from her in the past.
And she goes, yes, of course. She she tries to like take it
like she's trying to like looks like, OK, OK, OK, OK.
And then she gets chewed off and goes, well, have her a great
rest of your evening. I hope to see you there
tomorrow. It's going to be a great time
and then she scurries over to the next table and continues to
have this gives the same spiel, same selling, same sales pitch
to the next people and try to bring you get invited to some
fancy things when you open these pots.
Look at this and what is the date on the party?
Oh, it's for tomorrow, which is the 15th of Myrtle.
It's in the afternoon. But.
But you said tomorrow's the 14th.
Tomorrow's the 5th concert. Oh no.
Oh shit. Yep Yep, Yep.
You're absolutely right yes pretty sure yes, because today's
the 13th of Myrtle. Yeah, that's why I was confused.
I was gonna say like is it two different days or are the 2
events on the same day? The concert and this event are
on the same day. Big party day This is in the
afternoon. It's.
These are pretty common events when people do like great, have
great feats. There are this is just like a
quick celebration. It'll end by sundown.
It's not anything. It's not like a whole night long
festivity. It's just people celebrating and
appreciating Garrix because he's very well liked within the city.
He's a local hero. Vivian just puts the paper down,
shoves it to the center and goes, yeah, these are these are
common, but they're a lot of fun.
Maybe we can all go together. I mean, I'm down.
What is like these don't come off then for me, not my area.
So. I like it.
I'm down and he's just reading through all the descriptions
meticulously and he he takes out a notebook and is kind of
writing down. He has his own little calendar.
While you guys were distracted with the the notes, Mylan
happened to grab the milk again and starts drinking some of it.
The second time it'll taste better.
He's not he's not. It's not as bad this time.
He's not. He's coughing every every couple
drink, every couple steps. Licks lapping it up.
Are you drinking the spiked milk?
He went back to it because it's still milk, he just doesn't love
it. Constitution saving throw.
Oh God. Oh no, DC-18.
What did the bartender put in there?
I shouldn't have asked for something so strong.
That's 2 Nat ones. I've rolled twice the 2 Nat
ones. You have the hiccups.
Mylan is on his back with all four legs up in the air.
Hiccups. I don't know you have the
hiccups. If you don't hiccup when you
speak, you will take damage. Just letting you know.
Wait like when I speak as Mylan? Yes, I would like to just put my
hand on Mylan's back and just say it'll, it'll be OK, It'll
it'll be better. And I want to try to cast lay
lay on hand. And it says that it either cures
a disease or neutralizes a poison affecting a creature.
Alcohol is a poison. You made me Google this.
I don't know. What do you mean alcohol is a
poison? Oh, yeah, And your drunkenness.
At first I was like, is this good?
This couldn't work. And then he said poison.
I was like, it is a poison. Yeah, we'll be honest.
Unless someone takes the milk away, he's gonna keep very fine.
He just wanted to see. Wanted to see if it would work
for later on. Spend 5 points of your lay on
hands and you know, I don't have to spend all five points.
We talked about this. Oh, you're an ailment.
You do? Holy shit.
Yeah. Yep.
That one. Damn it.
OK, wait, maybe I don't. Yeah, I don't do it right now.
Then I'm gonna do it later. I'll do it at the end of the
night time thing, right? Yeah, exactly.
This milk is wonderful. Hang on a second.
Just see things. Blair's daggers at bow.
Ram jumps up off the table, grabs the milk and walks over to
the bartender to get something fresh and give this bag.
No, no fun. I say I put some hair on your
chest. But, well, you're not the one
who's gonna have to take care of him, are you?
You're gonna do it. As Vivian takes the cup, I'm
holding onto the cup, and she's pulling me with the cup, just
dangling from it. As she walks away, I kind of
look at her, and then I kind of look back at the group.
I swear I know her from somewhere.
I can't place it, though. Vivian's trying to not reveal
anything while she is drinking it.
Come to me. Milan divulges that he caught
her sneaking around. I was out there drinking my
milk, and then I saw her sneaking around, so I started
following her. I mean, that's what rogues do,
right? Vivian's got no goal tonight.
She just wants to hang out and make friends because she is
lonely deep down. And she wants friends.
But she keeps that air of like, I don't need anybody.
Yeah, when you get back, Boram is already explaining a drinking
game to Castle. All right, This is called target
practice. Each of our rails are cups,
right? You you put it right next to
you. You take a silver, you try and
slam it down on the table into the cup.
If you land it, last person left does not have to drink that
round. Makes sense.
Makes sense, pretty simple in the Rajoli shows.
You join us? No?
Vivian just puts down the fresh glass of milk in front of Mylan.
Keep him occupied and she just goes.
Why not? Mylan raises his hand.
But what if we want to drink? Can't just drink, You drink what
you want. Paddy starts chugging his.
OK, you could drink all that milk you want.
If you want more, let me know. I'll buy you more.
Let's make more. No, I don't know about more.
Let's just see, you know, let's get to it.
When we get there, Mylan remembers that this milk was not
spiked. Remember this for at least the
next 10 minutes, Boran wants to just play some drinking games
just to lighten the air before, like, getting to know these
people. Vivian is very excited.
And they're playing, like, just a version of quarters, right?
Where they're throwing silvers into each other's cups, trying
to last through rounds without drinking.
You know, a guy like this. OK, I like this in real life.
Are you looking at the mirror? So for the next, like, hang on a
second. So as the four of you are
drinking and playing games and getting to know each other a
little bit more, the bar begins to get a little bit busier and
busier as the night goes on. Are all four of you just
drinking along? Or I mean, yeah, Bo Ram is
playing games, drinking extra as well on top of it.
He's probably drinking more than he should after what he dealt
with, but he's kind of trying to forget his troubles tonight.
And so he just, he's drinking the night away.
Mylan wants to kind of look around cuz just to, I don't
know, do perception check, see if anything is out of the
ordinary since that one guy was kind of rude.
Take your perception check with disadvantage.
Just drunk. Okay, first one was a 21 so
starting off strong cut through the goggles and a nine.
You don't notice anything weird except the place is getting a
little more busy. You see that like as you walk
around, they kind of like as like everyone's like you guys
are having a good time. You're like standing up, you're
laughing, you're telling, you're cracking jokes, the four of you
becoming friendly. You notice that at the moments
where you need to like walk from one end of the room to the other
or trying to get something that people are kind of brushing past
you because they don't see you because you're you're so much
shorter than them. And you're finding yourself
having a difficult time trying to get in between, you know, the
legs of the patrons because you're now getting exceedingly
more drunk as the night goes on. We obviously stick out like sore
thumbs over here. You stick out like a sore thumb
over here. But is everyone is everyone
human or are they all different humans and half elves?
I stick out. You do.
But no one seems to really care that you're there.
Vivian, at the moment. And I don't mean that in an
insulting way. It's just not weird for you to
be there because you're nobody, nobody good.
That's what the feel wants. No one needs to know who she is
throughout the games. I I think Caswell's thoroughly
enjoying himself and going along with all the Boram shenanigans,
but at the same time he would also like to continuously just
kind of keep an eye out and only for maybe someone paying too
much attention to us sitting in the corner.
Give me one more procession check as you scan the room and
it should be good at these, but it hasn't been 13.
Everything seems other than the branded blades kind of being
loud now, louder than most. And you see that some people
shoot a look to them, but they're not necessarily doing
anything wrong. They're just having a lot of fun
and their language is a little more rough around the edges for
this part of town anyway. The other people are more classy
with how they speak, although everyone is having fun.
They they kind of stick out, but nobody's doing anything wrong.
Nobody's really paying any mind to you.
You see the occasional person look at Mylan because he's a
furry creature. Some of the patriots try to pet
him as he walks by, thinking he's a dog before he snaps at
them, I assume. But that's pretty much it.
No one's really bothering you. Nobody's really bothering anyone
else. Vivian's normally very guarded
and very like looking around all the time, but because of the
alcohol that she's never really had before, she does not care
and is super oblivious to everything going on except for
what's immediately in front. Everybody give me a
constitution. Saving thrill.
Sure thing of ADCDC 10/20. I got an 11, I got an at 20.
Mylan got an 18 high on that milk.
You know what I'm saying? Hey, I'm so good at these and I
got a seven. You feeling it?
Oran is carelessly drinking though, like he has a drink for
the game and a drink for himself as well.
There ain't no way that this is the first time you play this,
Jolie. You're way too good at this, and
he's getting mad that you're like, really hitting him with
the quarters, with the silver. You know, I have no idea what
I'm doing, but I'm just the best.
She's pretty good, isn't she? Are you, the four of you going
to be ending the night here? I think they, they probably play
like, you know, 3 rounds of this before people start losing
getting silicas. You know, 3 to 4 ales is still
quite a bit in the span of an hour, and Boram is settling down
with his fruity mixture. Whatever that thing is what you
call it. Good Berry Blum.
That's why I'm writing in my
notes. And Bo Ram settles down, kind of
leans back in his chair. He tries to light a cigarette.
You see that when you go to light a cigarette?
You see that Mister Humble like in the behind the bar?
Hey, the only thing that's late here is the fireplaces at the
corner to keep you warm. Please don't, please don't smoke
that. Please don't.
Please, please don't smoke that Urban here.
If you're going to smoke, please step outside.
All right, sorry about that. That's my bad.
I'll do that later. Dan, don't mention, don't
mention it. All right, My bars.
You got a standing area out there.
You got a couple of shades. Please partake.
And Boram literally just puts it out in like, the saucer on the
back of his glove. The guy just leans forward, head
in his hand, feeling pretty good.
Didn't let me do that back in my bars, But that's a different
place. I'm not used to being to the
fancy ones. All right, Ladron, what's your
name again? I forgot.
Kazzle. My name is Kazzle.
That's right, Kazzle Alindran, good meeting you, but what you
doing here? It's crazy seeing an Aladron up
here. You know, I've just out doing
some work for the court, you know, working for the Autumn
Court, just out here on the material plane gathering some
info and for the Autumn Court. That's a bit strange what the
got you doing up here, You know, just material plane, Aladron
Fay, wild stuff. What kind of info would they
need about us? No, I'm saying just not info.
I'm just saying, you know, there's a lot of movement in
business that can gets conducted between the Material plane and
the Faye Wilde. And, you know, all right, I do
the same kind of business going into the Fay awhile.
So I was going to say you would. If anyone knows it would be you.
It was you putting down. It's fine.
I'm not asked too much. Maybe.
Maybe we get to know each other better.
You come through. Yeah.
I was going to say, you say you go back and forth between the
Fay Wild and Material Plane. What are you doing?
I mean, you tried some of my brew already.
Actually, you like my sister's brew a bit better, though I was
a bit upset by that. But she makes it with love, so I
get it. I brew all kinds of things.
I go in the fair while I bring back plants.
I bring black, black herbs, love.
The trouble is speaking now it's hitting me real something, but
it's is what I do. I make things.
I make things that you can drink.
I make things that you can wear, hit things with, you name it,
I'll go make that for you. When you say hit things with
what is, what does that mean? What you want?
A sword? You make swords.
What you hit things with? Well, I mean the hammer you can
hit, you know? Sure.
A hammer, a sword, a rod, you know, you can make a lot of
stuff. Could do with most anything.
I could do it with a hammer. I could do a rock.
I could do a mop. A mop's a bit floppy, though,
but I like making things that use magic.
That makes sense. Yeah.
Magic is a dangerous game, though, sometimes.
Especially when it comes from the Faye.
Oh, that magic. Wild in the Faye, I tell you.
I've seen some crazy stuff down there.
Sometimes fun, sometimes not so much.
And I like it in there. I do.
Faye magic can definitely be tricky.
Yeah, it is it's only shows What do you do?
You're you're a rogue. No, I am, but I had a question
actually. Does anybody have magic that
disguises very well? Not just that disguises.
I mean I definitely know about spells the disguise, but I could
maybe make something that does that I'd be willing to work on
that with you Keep me posted. Let me take on that.
I have some things coming up, but I could use some help with
you got the Gears of my brain going.
I think I got maybe a potion could do that.
And, and Borum gets like in this drunk fugue state and starts
furiously writing notes in his journal and forgets about the
conversation. Vivian's very happy he's going
to do that for like 5 minutes. She was hoping to divert.
It worked. Yeah.
I was going to say what? What kind of work do you need to
do that's hiding yourself? Is that we?
Is that the plan? You're going to be disguising
yourself or something? There's some events coming up
and I'm required there, but I'm required elsewhere, and
sometimes I don't want to be in one spot, but rather be in the
other. So if I could make a disguise
and have someone help me, there's a possibility I could
get everything I want. Well, why don't you just not go
to the one that you're supposed to be at and go to the one you
want to go to? Well, one's mandatory, like
incredibly mandatory by like your boss.
Or you could say that, yeah. Mylan chirps up.
He's like, but I can go. I can go to the other one.
You could you Mylan. I was thinking maybe you could
help me with something else with that.
I I've had some ideas, but I'm not too sure if I'm going to do
that plan in the 1st place. But if we can find a way to
disguise me, then maybe I'll use you.
Not use you in a bad way. But you would stay with me.
Not with doppelganger. Doppelganger.
That's right. If I get some saliva from a
doppelganger, they can change and I can make a potion to
change you. And he starts writing furiously.
You gave him a huge like, Mylan's just watching this all
unfold as he's licking. His mouth is over the cup and
his tongue is just going in and just lapping up the milk.
Constitution saving throw of a DC-18.
What? It's the good man.
Get something spiked. Milk.
Yes, you did get him another milk.
Oh, you're drinking normal milk and it's strong milk.
Do you need another milk? Myelin.
Well, I mean, Vivian takes this moment to get up and go get him
one. Yes.
Yeah, Kassel will also. He'll finally put his hand on
myelin and cast lay on hands and And cure him of being drunk.
Like you'll be OK. Myelin.
You're no longer drunk. As she gets up and as I get
cured, I look around. What's going on here?
Why? Why everyone's so secret.
What's happening secret who being secretive and I look up
for my journal. Yours kind of I don't know.
I don't like these conversations that are happening to listen
factor what you want to know I what were you writing?
Why are you trying to help? Why are we here like is that a
philosophical question? Why is it would be nice?
This is the nicest anyones ever been and I don't understand it.
I can tell you about the potion. I just like making them.
So she gave me a crazy idea. I think something might work,
but I maybe a changeling something from a changeling in
the potion. I don't know, sorry.
I get in these fits. You could say, though, I just
like, put my hands to work. Mylan, what about you?
Where exactly are you from? Are you from the city?
He kind of stutters. Don't redirect the questions.
Where are you from? What are you guys being so nice
from the Faye Wild? I am a member of the Fall Court
of the Faye. I've previously talked about
this, but he gets up on the table.
Vivians returning with two ales, I think Bo Ram was drinking and
a glass of milk. But why are you here?
And he's looking at you with his like off of like kind of the
right side of his. What you mean he's doing court
kind of work stuff for the Fay Wild?
Yeah, of course. He Castle kind of laughs.
I've been here for years, and this is the most I've interacted
with anyone. I can tell Dad what's happening.
And he kind of, like, starts getting, like, real suspicious,
and it's, like, kind of eyeing everyone like something's wrong.
He's waiting for the shoe to drop, and it hasn't dropped yet.
So now he's just confronting it at this point.
All right. I guess you, Mylan, right?
Yes. How will you introduce
ourselves? My name's Boram.
Boram Dumore. From the Dumore family.
You may know Rocket Forest. Yes or no?
Yes, from Crawley Grove. It's a bog up there in the
rocket Forest. You heard of that or no?
Oh, you have, you know, my family's Grove.
I mean, past it. Past it.
OK, we can talk about it another night.
But it's just a fun place. We go a little wild down there.
We got bridges up in the tree houses.
We got little bridges over the swamps.
Go around with boats. It's it's a good time down down
there. What time is it, Ashley?
I would like to do another scan and just make sure no one's
either paying too much attention or just trying to be a little
bit more involved in our conversation than it looks like.
With your constant surveillance and where you've been sitting
throughout the night, you're confident that nobody's like
eavesdropping on you. OK.
But I couldn't see a glass of spiked milk.
Got it. Yeah.
And I think after Boram is done, Kazil kind of speaks up.
And he goes, yeah, like I said, my name is Kazil Amberleaf.
I am again a member of the fake court.
I work in the Church of Sahin. Oh, right, the church.
You do see Boram roll his eyes a little bit.
What, are you not a fan of the church?
Listen, it's fine, you do what you got to do, but I prefer to
make my own magic, not borrow it.
Well, it's not borrowing it if someone gives it to you, if it's
a gift or a gift, you say sure, but that same magic's up in the
weave for us to take. I just think that maybe the guys
and he puts air quotes, they really just or people like you
and me that got a bit too powerful and now Ord all that
magic for themselves. That's all I'm saying.
Vivians getting stressed by the religious talk, and she just
slams her hands on the table and goes.
I'm Vivian Sharma. Enough.
BK2. I knew it.
I knew. I knew what she was from.
Sorry. Who?
I had a feeling now that I see that.
And you wearing something different.
You look all nice now. You the foster child of the
shamans? No.
They took you in. Something like that.
Yeah, I heard about that. Yes.
Oh, that's crazy. They took in a tiefling.
And she. She lives with this crazy fancy
family. Yeah, they took me in.
You know, they built this place. Pretty much.
We did. We're the founding family.
And you stole Jerky and blamed it on me.
Castle spits the ale out of his mouth.
It went saying. I'm sorry.
What? Mylan, I didn't steal jerky.
You got in the way. You had all the money in the
world, got in the way. You do Remember Me?
Of course I do. I didn't want to say anything
back there. His eyes bright.
At this point he's really bad. How could I miss you?
I knew something was wrong. This one's sneaking around.
This one's not from here. And this one, he fed.
He fed me beans. OK, He fed you beans.
But he did try to poison me. OK, He did poison me.
You have a good time. Shady.
At this point, you're shady. Where are you from?
Why were you afraid of fire? Afraid of fire?
He was on the table. And now he slinks back into his
seat. He was obsessed with it.
We couldn't leave until it was I was out.
Oh, I thought you was talking about the pig orks.
You talking about him? He was scared to fire.
Yes, just when we were fighting the pig orks.
He was so focused on the fire we couldn't do anything.
We had to put it out before we joined you.
Did you say pig orks? You see like this drunkard lean
over on his chair, almost fall back.
Wait, don't be going to the plague lanes.
I like my head doesn't move. My eyes dart to Castle and then
back to the drunk guy. Of course we've not been there.
I was just talking about them. Vivian just freezes and forgets
the horn lady. Just said that she fought pig ox
and there was fire and a blaze and all that stuff for you.
You're telling me who? Why are the four?
You guys don't look like you're a bitter.
I call BS. That's a big Steven pile of
donkey poo poo that I just don't.
No way. What was it like down there?
You would have been poisoned. Vivian would love to possibly
either like use charisma or performance or persuasion.
I think persuasion to explain to the man that's just a code word.
It's an inside joke with our friends.
Don't worry. If there's no pig orgs, do you
think someone like me would go out there?
No. Well, you know, whatever.
All right, as long as there's no pig orgs up here, because that
would be really bad. Whatever.
And she goes. He just like leans back through
his conversation and he goes. Oram is grimacing.
Just head on the table. Not the best excuse, but it
worked so I'm happy with that. I think our bad all around.
I forget a lot of people here, they don't go to places like
that. Do you guys go there often?
That was the first time I was ever anywhere like that.
First time for me as well. You four were not in the plague
lands. The plague lands is a like it's
the South of the city. It is rotten decayed land that
is pretty much uninhabitable because the land is decaying
like it can't grow anything there.
It's actually what the four of you know is that it's rotting
land with like noxious fumes covering most of the landscape.
It's very poisonous. You can even see it from like
high points of the city. That's where pig orcs do live
and that's like their home in NATO, let's say.
But like the decayed land stopped where it is a little bit
more about the city. Like people are concerned about
it that it's going to slowly spread to Balderis because it's
not too far away. But it seemed that where it's
placed, because it's in a valley, that they don't think
it's ever going to reach the city.
But it is a concern that the five guilds of Balderas commonly
talk about. It's commonly talked about
within the city among the Desdeans that live in there.
And some people are worried about it.
Some people just like, well, it's a dangerous place.
You also know that that's where Garrix came from and that's
where he brought the fire giant from.
Very, very dangerous place. So the fact that we were up
north and found them is extra bad.
Light bulb. All right, so next time we talk
about this stuff. Not in a public Tavern.
Right. Agrees.
Agreed. Truce with everybody.
And Vivian puts out her hands, like, crossed to shake
everybody's hand at the same time.
A truce with you. Of course.
Jolie and I shake her hand. I'm too far away, so I use
magic. Or what is it?
Telekinica? Telekinica's hand.
Yeah. Yeah, of course.
Excellent. That means we're all friends.
We definitely friends. In fact, we'd be more friendly
Tomorrow we go to that party. I meet you guys there.
Sure. Meet you in the afternoon.
I got to be up. I got to make sure I get up for
that. Wait, which party?
This flyer right here. And I slide it over to this
creature that was clearly eating something while we got Flyers.
My family's party. There's actually two things
going on tomorrow, 1:00 in the afternoon and 1:00 at night.
We got to party. I like the sound of that.
I wanted to see this concert at night so you guys can all join.
I like me some loud music. That's the the concert here,
right in Nuella. The Nuella concert?
Yeah, that's the one. Are you already going in a
sense? Why excited?
Why are we making this person Taylor Swift?
I've never mentioned and it's just a Bard in a Tavern.
I mean, she's famous, but rearrange the letters.
It spells to the name. Yeah, I've.
I've been asked to in the sense, you know, be a little bit of a
security for it. So I'll be here.
Yes, but I will be working. That's excellent.
I've sent flowers to see her, so hopefully we can speak to her.
Well, I mean, I'm sorry, but I would have to stop you if she
doesn't want to see you. Castles, you know, it's part of
the job. Don't worry.
You're not like some crazy fan, right?
No, she knows me. Mr. Umbol gives you a side eye.
Yeah, I clock it for sure. Sorry.
You working for her? You know her well, Yes, and we
could all be seeing Nuella tomorrow.
Nuella. I heard her.
She who? She fine.
And she got good pipes too. She's played at a lot of parties
my family is hosted, so I know her.
Of course she has. Casual is immediately kind of
caught off guard that he's worried he is a deranged crazy
fan sitting in the apartment. It's upset.
That's not the point. It's obsessed with Taylor Swift.
OK, look, stop saying that name. We're gonna have to pay
royalties at some point. For real, dude.
Oh, she's a Newelly. My God.
Don't. Don't, don't, don't.
Don't. Don't.
Oh, no.
The Newella tour accidentally created Taylor Swift in D&D.
Listen, if there's a way, maybe I'll work with you.
Mind the door. Maybe later we'll get drinks
with her, see what happens. OK, we're not doing that, but
this was a bad idea. I just need to speak with her.
If you're invited, then you know.
Yes, of course. Who knows What's How do I get
invited before I'm getting, like, antsy?
You're invited to watch. OK.
All right. Yeah.
You can watch the concert. How about that?
OK, That's that's all I need. I meet you in the afternoon.
We go see the concert later the next night.
We have a good time. I like company like you.
It's a good group. I like you.
You're good too, though. And I point to Mylan.
He's gonna remember that Vivian's gonna pat Mylan on the
head and then ask, do you even have a place to live?
Yeah. Yeah, It's a nice place.
It's real nice place. It's safe once you get there.
Vivian's going to keep that in the back of her head.
A little iffy on the way there. All right, well, I don't much
want to walk back home tonight, so I think I find a soft place
to rest my head and I look over at the girl that I was flirting
with earlier. I'll see you guys tomorrow.
And Boram gets his jacket and starts walking away.
Vivian looks in shock. She's never seen such a display
before. I don't know why I keep doing
this to myself. Woke up in another bed today.
Don't remember her name, don't remember the night.
Keep telling myself to stop. But when the night gets going my
integrity disappears. The cigarettes get me nice and
numb and the drinks are real good at clouding up my mind.
Helps me forget. Ain't no day like today though.
Clean the slate. Off to the celebration now.
Reminder to take notes during the event how trumpets begin to
play as Guild Compound gates begin to open with the grand
reveal of Garrix Witherford as you see a group of people begin
to walk down from the North East bridge.
As you may know, there are four bridges that connect to the city
square. Three of them connect to various
districts of Bolderas. While the last bridge, the 4th
bridge, only connects to the Guild Compound which is the size
of a castle with many buildings inside of it.
The Guild Compound contains 5 different buildings within the
compound that represent 5 different major guilds of
Boulderas that essentially do all the decision making on
behalf of the people and do everything in a voting system.
This means that all VIPs of the city of noble or heroic status
tend to stay here safe from the public eye.
As these castle light gates open, you see that the five
leaders of each Guild are standing next to a large man
wearing gold and silver plate armor with a long green glowing
case. He is covered in plate armor
from head to toe, and he has a large great sword slung over its
back. The great sword itself is to be
legendary as he uses it to fight all of his monsters.
There are many of these swords because whenever he brings back
a giant slain monster, there usually is one of these great
swords still stuck in it. Not this time, he still has them
on his back, but he does have a lot of these as he's known for
it's a signature weapon. He seems to have a stockpile of
these. And as the Five of Guild leaders
walk down with Garrix, you see the crowd begins to make way as
they enter the city square. And people are standing at
Marvel and they are cheering and they're going absolutely nuts.
And you hear them chanting Garrix Witherford name, and you
hear Master Slara. Yeah, go Fire giants never had
anything on you. You can take down 10 fire giants
and other people. Go Garrix, Garrix, Garrix.
And people are going crazy. You see that all the music
begins to synchronize together as they are celebrating his
appearance. They head towards the center on
top of a wooden platform where this fire giant's hammer is on
display. And Garrix climbs up and stands
next to it, and then climbs up on the giant mall itself,
standing on the hammer's head and removes his helmets.
He holds it between his arm and his waist.
And you see this beautiful human with long flowing blonde hair,
bright green eyes, chiseled jaw. It's as if he popped out of the
pages of a romance book. He looks like the dream man that
anybody could ask for. And he waves and he has his
gentle smile about himself as he has his helmet between his arm
and his waist. And he waves his other hand.
And he asks people to calm down as he lowers his hand.
And as people begin to come to a low hush, people just whisper
among themselves. And he speaks out and he goes.
Thank you everyone, thank you. He speaks very slowly with beats
in between each of his words. I am truly appreciative of the
celebration that you are all holding for me today.
Of course, the Shahman family has so graciously donated their
time and efforts to throw this magnificent celebration yet
again in my name, but I would like to thank all of you for
allowing me to defend the city from these ferocious beasts.
And everyone goes to a roar as they begin to cheer his name
again. And then once again asks them to
calm down with just a simple hand motion.
As Goran claps, he looks directly at Vivian,
purposefully. Yeah, as soon as he mentions the
family, Kassel turns and looks at Vivian.
I give her a thumbs up. Vivian just looks down and slow
claps. She's looking in the corner away
from everybody. The plague lands to the South,
as we know, is a terrible, violent place.
It's corrupted soil slowly approaches the city each and
every year. But thanks to the efforts, not
only my but those are the branded blades who lend their
services with me to fight for a noble cause or keeping the
plague lands where they should be, and I come to you today to
share this victory. This isn't just any ordinary
fire giants, although fire giants are very scary and are
capable of making magnificent fearsome weapons.
This fire giant something special because as you know,
it's been quite some time since we've seen an egg destroyed an
odd town square. Everybody looks at each other.
Everybody knows exactly what he's talking about, including
most of you. Boram, you know this.
And Vivian, you would know this hassle.
And Mylan, you would be in the dark, but kind of put the clues
together as he's referring to a Tarasque's egg.
While I was fighting and bouncing with this fearsome
giant. He hops down from the podium,
goes over to the fire giant and goes to its throat, takes out
his great sword. As you see, the great sword
shines within the sunlight begins to glow purple with a
green outline around it, almost like it's being activated, and
he shoves it into the fire giant's throat and begins to
slowly slice it open. Some of the citizens are loving
the spectacle, while others dry heave and begin to almost vomit
just at the sound. The visceral sound of flesh
being cut right before them as blood slowly begins to ooze onto
the city square. Cuts the throat open, moves the
flesh inside is a cracked Tarasque's egg.
Grabs the shell and rips it out of the throat.
Splats on the floor. The cracked egg that was crushed
within the fire giant's teeth before it swallowed.
It looks very dark beige, dirty, but also very pointy.
It looks like a very dangerous dragon fruit of some kind, or at
least the portion that hasn't been chewed off does.
We have never seen one of these eggs appear to the play glance
until today. Very scary what could have been
if I wasn't there to find it. It's been a long time since we
found one of these eggs and I had a hunch that one of them
would have appeared there because not many travel.
And if one of these eggs were to fall into the wrong hands or
left simply unattended, we would have a catastrophe on our hands.
Months, if not years of devastation until we are able to
fight off another one of these ferocious beats.
Because you know, it only takes mere weeks, one of these, to
grow. Go to the size of a city.
Everyone goes back to a hush, worried but fear not citizens of
all theirs, because I will be venturing there again.
Something tells me it's starting to appear in more strategic
locations. How, why, I'll never know.
But the mystery of the Trask is shrouded in evil and darkness
and is the true definition of mystery itself.
A curse this world will always have to bear.
But that does not mean you can't contain it.
Garrick's Witherford will contain it for you for as long
as my heart beats. It beats for all of you and
everyone's hears again. And they are tight about his
speech and he waves everybody as people are cheering his name and
they are excited that Garrix has returned and has devoted his
life to protecting the city. Moran does roll his eyes but
also nudges Mylan is. And I know he kind of bit
boring, talks too much, but he's strong and if it mean I don't
got to fight those nasties outside then I'll take it.
Oh, you can't see. Get up here, put them on my
shoulders. Oh, my God, That's what we're
talking about. Yeah.
You don't want to fight that thing, do you, Petite?
Also, what's set up Besides, he's just up there in the center
and everybody's cheering him on. There are dozens of tents set up
and they're all pretty much just selling basic celebration
trinkets, some fireworks. There's many food stalls.
There's nothing like notable like, oh, there's a weapons
vendor over here or an armor vendor.
It's all festival foods, junk food, fried foods.
There's like, magical toys, mainly for, like, kids.
There are little makeshift stages where barge are playing
for the people around them. And you have other stages set up
where people are telling stories about Garrick's very generic
stuff. But there is a tug on your coats
program as there is a cloaked man trying to hide his face.
A shaky hand, but young goes on your cloak.
Hey, what you want? You bored?
You. Yeah.
Take a copper. You go.
No, no, no, no, no. You buy bull ram, Right.
All right. I mean, who wants to know?
Got you got any that I was told you, you make things right, the
things to eat right or things to drink just to you know.
And he rubs his nose with his finger.
You got any you know any of that?
I see, I see you send we told you that.
And you see Boren like flicks a finger and like starts a flame
in his hand. I don't want to listen.
I don't need I don't need a light, not yet anyway.
I'm just wondering if that looks around you see that like the
town guards back is to you guys. I don't like that kind of stuff.
You're asking the wrong person. Does CASL clock this?
How secretive are you being? Doram?
Not. He's like, who the fuck are
these guys? Gotcha.
OK. Yeah.
So, Casl, you do clock this. All three of you clock this.
Oh, my God. Boram's a drug dealer.
Great. Well, I know you just, you know,
you you're always scavenging stuff.
And somebody just pointed me in your direction.
I was just wondering if you guys get on out of here.
I make stuff like medicine. Good stuff.
Nothing that makes you go crazy. I don't care what you got.
I don't have it. All right.
OK. OK.
And you see that he, like, backs up and, like, looks around and
then tries to go into the crowd again.
Cool. Yeah.
These guys crazy. I look like a drug dealer to
you. No comment.
You gave us moonshine. That ain't no drug, though.
That's just a good time. You did poison me.
I remember. Yeah, it is true, too.
Yep. Yep.
That's a good point. That's a good point.
My listen Twice. Technically, yeah.
I didn't poison you the first time.
Does this happen to you? LA program.
I don't know, maybe once a week they think they see me making
potions and sometimes I hand out a potion Aradale.
And maybe they think it's something else.
What kind of potions? Oh, no.
Healing potions for the little folk around me and the stacks.
We don't exactly have the doctors over there.
So I I do what I can and I I do like, I do like kind of follow
with my eyes those guys through the crowd and kind of try and
like, put to memory, like what they look like.
I would like to roll an insight check to see if he's lying about
making drugs. OK, this is going on.
Mylan's investigating the potions on his belt since he's
waist high. Fuck, almost rolled the Nat 20.
It's a 7. Boram was like really like what
the fuck with those guys coming up as he was pretty genuine.
That's exactly what a drug dealer would say.
All right, let's get in there now.
Some fun. No, push your cowl up.
Nobody recognized you. We stayed at the edges.
And Boram starts walking off with Mylan on his shoulders.
Not even let him down. Maybe he's going to take note of
Kazzle's little notebook. Just like, OK, Brim, actually, I
forgot to ask you what is what happened there?
What's that? As I whipped my line around
there, right there. And I point to his neck where he
got the cut. Oh, this, that's nothing crazy.
I just got I just got mugged yesterday happened sometimes,
you know, gods took care of them.
So nothing too bad. We were with you all yesterday.
When did this happen? It happened all the way to the
bar. It did it did.
But it's OK. See it's it's fine.
It's not too bad. And I pull my collar down a bit.
They see it is healing up. Random thought would what
happened yesterday and what happened about 5 seconds ago
have anything to do with each other?
Those things definitely separate.
I don't know what's going on there.
Do you normally get mugged? It's a bit odd to happen in the
nice area. Got to be honest.
That was that's kind of crazy, right?
I want to rule another in such a I don't believe him that he was
mugged. Fuck dude, I'm so bad at insight
in Jesus Christ. It's 6.
All I can picture with this group is all of us with like
finger guns then laughing in between and then finger guns
back up. Hazel when you mentioned like
when he says oh, not usually in the nice parts you see that he
turns away from you rather quickly on that beat.
Whipping Mylan back around. I walk into the crowd.
Enough about that. Let's get in there get some
food, some drink. Vivian's going to flip up her
hood. Myrtle Day 151481 MKD 2:00 AM
Spoiler alert, night did not go well.
After Garrick's celebration, we went to the fourth hour to meet
up with Dendrin. He had to kick out some druggie
sniffing up a bit of that Gloom sugar powder.
Things would be fine after that, but a bad mix of crazed fans and
sabotage ruined a good show. The lights go dark, all the
lights begin to reignite but they are dimmed on the stage.
There is a 11 man at the piano and a trill of keys begin to
play as there are two torches that only illuminate the stage
as the rest of the Tavern is now dim and people begin to hush and
begin to clap because they know that Nuella is about to come on
stage. While people are looking at the
staircase waiting for her to come down to make her grand
entrance, you hear a gasp in the crowd as she is already on the
stage. As she beckons everyone over
with one of her opening lines, as she holds a high note for an
exceptionally long time as it's letting people know that the
performance is now beginning. You see a tiefling woman on the
stage as she is holding a lute as she is playing along slowly
with the piano and she has this fair red skin, sharp ears, and a
long devilish tail. And you see that it snaps, and
you notice that there's something at the end of the tail
that makes a flash at a spark across the stage.
And it brings the attention as you look back at her.
And she has this triangular fedora with four phoenix
feathers sticking out of it with one horn that's wrapped around
from underneath it. It pokes out of the hat so the
hat can never fall off and she gives this performative look to
everybody and you see that everybody instantly falls to a
hush as they are just watching the first song of her
performance who are enamored. They begin to clap and cheer and
you even hear some people sing along as the lights are dim and
the performance goes on. It is very good music.
It's a little dark with a hint of hope.
A lot of the lyrics are based around the fact that she is a
tee fling or she is a demon in a world of angels and that's the
motive for a lot of her songs. There are some upbeat songs,
there are some slow, methodical ones, and people are singing and
having a good time. You notice that Mister Humble in
the back Jack is having a particular hard time as there
are rats that he is trying to chase out and it looks like
they're in the food and you see Mr. Umbels like hey get out, get
out of here, get out of here. And you see he's like hitting
them with a broom hoping that nobody sees as there are rats in
the food behind the bar Hassle make me a perception check 12.
You're not sure how but you see a child standing in the crowd by
one of the standing bars and they have big fluffy ears and a
long cat like tail. This is the backseat child.
You see that they have a hood on with the you're sticking out and
you're trying to look at Nuella play.
For a second. I I think it's Mylan.
And then I'm like, wait. And then I look over it and I
see Mylan sitting with everyone else and I kind of try to make
my way to the child in the middle of the room.
The child instantly clocks you and begins to run under the
table and trying to getting away from you under the bar.
And you hear some people go as the child is like scurrying
underneath like, oh, what's going on over there?
One of the guys shout out as the child runs out from the other
end of the bar and begins to make their way into the South
end of the Tavern, trying to lose you in the crowd.
Roaming perception check 14. You come around the corner
around the bar as you try to look underneath for the child.
And the child had lost you in the crowd.
I'm a need Mylan, Vivian, and Boram to make me reception
checks. As you notice Kassel is like
looking around the room as you were watching the performance.
That's a six as Boram is just enamored of this beautiful woman
on the stage. She's even prettier than in the
pictures Vivian got us 16. You notice that Kassel's looking
around and you see that there's this child underneath the table
just next to yours. Mylan is right there with Boram,
but even more he's on the table clapping and excited as he gets
a gnat. 1 couldn't be happier. So Vivian's definitely pieced
together. That's what Kassel's after.
Well you know what, you're not supposed to be in here.
I would like to get under the table and see what the kids do
in there as you go. Kassel's making a beeline but
has suddenly stopped as like people begin to rush as what if
her more upbeat songs begin to play and people begin to rush to
the open space making a dance floor as people begin to dance
in front of him as he's trying to just get around.
So this gives you a moment to speak to the child as you go
underneath the table. These hippies.
Hi little guy, what are you doing here?
You're not supposed to be at a bar.
Why did you get? How did you get under here?
Child turns and is actually a little girl about the age of 14.
Looks like it's a backseat but more of a human esque face than
a cat like face. You're still really young.
How are you in here and where'd you come from?
Why does it matter? You trying to pull my cover
song? What are you?
What are you, rat? What are you trying to get?
You should have got me thrown out of here just trying to watch
the show. My favorite artist.
I'm not a rat, I'm a chiefling. So you came here just to see
Nuella? Yeah, I'm a #1 fan.
My apologies. Well, how about you stay with me
and we could talk to the guard? He's my friend.
And then you have a guardian with you?
No, it's going to throw me out of you.
I'm not supposed to be in here. Can't you be here with a
guardian? No.
That's why I don't have one of those.
What if I stood in? This is.
I don't think my stumble likes me very much.
Why is that? Because this is my first time
doing this. It gives you like a smile, like
a shaky smile. Did you pay?
Of course I paid. You paid for a place you weren't
even supposed to be in. I'm not going to not pay for one
of Nuella's greatest. I'm like I said, I'm a biggest
fan. I'm.
I want to support her and everything and everywhere I can.
While we're chatting, could Vivian do a perception check on
this kid to see that she's not lying about who she is?
Do an inside check. They're your little shit.
No, not 20. She is lying to you.
She does not look like she belongs in the part of Westerly.
She looks a little more rugged. She looks like she has a noble
jacket on that is clearly a hand me down and has been patched
together and sewn together with other fabrics to try to make it
a complete coat so it's not completely unwearable and try to
be made as nice as possible. So a patchwork noble cloak is
what she's wearing, and she is clearly lying to you.
Vivian's just going to quickly eye her up and go look at it.
I used to lie like you, too. I know you're lying.
So if you come clean with me, tell me I'll help you out of
this situation. If you're just going to lie,
I'll just hand you over to my friend.
No, I just want to watch the show.
I promise. That's all I want to do.
I just want to see Noella play. I just want to see a full show.
That's all I want. And Kazel, if you you now make
it to the table, or if you would like to interject now you can.
There you are. I've been looking for you.
OK, come on. We we got to go.
You got to get out of here. I'm going to get in trouble.
She her head hits the table and you see that there's a rat that
was hiding a one of the chairs falls out from one of the chairs
and begins to run in between people's feet to the South side
of the Tavern. Vivian, give me a perception
check. Hey, you notice that the rat was
walking on its hind legs. Oh, weird.
Hey Castle, do you know if they normally have a rat problem in
here? Not that I can remember.
It's a pretty clean place. I don't think so.
Why? There are some freaky rats
around here. I just saw one walk on its hind
legs. Excuse me, what?
There's a rat? No, I know what was walked on
the. Okay, yeah, that part.
It walked on its hind legs, bipedal Tassel rolls his eyes.
Did you see where it went that way?
And she points off towards the direction the rap and probably
towards the door. As you .1 of Noelle most famous
lyrics is about to be sung. As all the fans begin to join
in, they all sing along to the next lyric.
The lyric is the light I lost still hunts me through the dark
I made. And everyone slaps their hands
on the table. And a lot of people take a drink
as they resonate with that lyric.
Oram does the same. You are lying, Jolie.
She's good. Where's Jolie?
You see? Where's Jolie go?
She's half sticking out of the table on the ground.
I tap bow ram. I'm like, is this normal?
What's going on here? That a rogue thing?
I don't know. You see the child cozies up to
you Vivian or is trying to hide behind you as castles like
reaching for he's like come on, I just want to watch.
I just watch. Mother, you won't even know I'm
here. Come on come on.
No, no you gotta, you gotta get out from under there, okay?
This is someones table. We're literally talking below
people. Sorry kid, what's your name?
If I tell you you're going to throw me out?
Maybe, but you have a better chance if you tell me your name.
Yeah come on, you have a better chance.
Sunny, sunny, sunny sunny sunny sunny inside check.
Of course 15 think she's telling you the truth.
OK look, Sunny you, you're not supposed to be in here, OK?
I could get in a lot of trouble. My whole job is to make sure the
kids don't come in fights, don't break out.
But you know what, this I, I got a lot of stuff I need to do and
I am going to tell Vivian, you know, take Sony just to stand by
the door, OK? Just try to hide her and stand
by the door. Let her listen by the door.
OK? Just a flash of magic cuts you
off as the magic folks shine off like almost like a firework.
And it kind of blinds Nuella for a second as the loop makes a
sharp noise. And she takes a step back and
the piano comes to like a harsh stop and then begins to go to
like a low background noise to kind of fill in the silence.
And she goes, why would you try to flash bang me during one of
my performances? And then strings the lutes as
she's looking at one of the magic wizardly fellows right in
front of the stage. The three that piqued your
interest before one of the guys go.
I just wanted to add an effect to the show be to illuminate
your beauty. It's just so dark.
And you, I just wanted to see all your features.
Kassel immediately looks at Vivian.
And I just say get it done, OK. And I walk over to the guy and I
immediately tackle him to the ground.
You know, you're not supposed to have use any magical weapons or
anything that might disrupt the show.
Snap of the tail and makes a nice little effect.
As you see Kassel just boom, tackles this guy to the floor.
Vivian's gonna grab Sonny, although I really lucked out on
that one. And the guy gets really mad at
you, goes, hey, get off me. I paid for this show.
I'm allowed to be here. What do you get off me?
What you doing, guys? I will fucking kill nuns again.
He's like, sorry, buddy, that you actually lost this privilege
as soon as you decided to ruin the show.
Get up. We're leaving now.
No, no, I paid to be here. And you see the one of the women
that he's with goes, yeah, he could be here.
And she goes to grab your shoulder to try to get you off
them. That's it.
You're coming too. And I grab her as well.
Strength check. Dirty 20.
You managed to bring her in front of you as you begin to
walk them out. And you see that one of their
hands ignite on fire as she's trying to catch ask a dangerous
spell at you. You see Noella takes a step back
goes oh, I think we got a little bit of a situation on our hands.
It looks over to Mr. Humble. And as she takes a step back,
Mylan and Bora make me perception check.
As you are watching the commotion 10 Mylan is still
oblivious. You join the show, once you
roll, he's still clapping even though the show has stopped.
You see that there is just background music playing because
this is what the pianist does when she is speaking to the
crowd. He's always filling the empty
noise, even with A10 'cause you needed an 8 here.
You notice that there's a rat on his hind legs walking towards
Nuella, and Nuella doesn't notice this and the rat is
holding something. Maybe I regret this petite, but
look out and I push Mylan off the table and stand up on the
table and I'm gonna shoot at it. Let's shoot a poison spray roll
the hit, doesn't that one, It misses, but this ashen splash
appears behind her. Newella notices this and looks
behind her, and she sees that from the crowd that somebody
just tried to throw something up on stage.
She goes again and steps back. I'm going to need everybody to
roll me initiative as the two people you're holding Castle,
try to swing on you and the rat that Newella hadn't noticed yet
because she's distracted by the poison spray.
She hadn't noticed. The rat comes under from the
table, people runs up and you see that the bag pops and
explodes, as in like a little powder of magic explodes at her
feet as she begins to cough, and you see that the piano stops
sharply and people begin to panic.
Everybody roll initiative. It's a six for Mylan, 7 for
Mylan, 3020 for Vivian, also a six for Kazil.
Starting at the top of the initiative round, you see three
of the fans begin to get very rowdy towards Kazil's.
Kazil has two of them by the shoulder and one of the women
that is being dragged out ignites her hand in fire.
You see that behind Nuella, there's a tiny powdered
explosion that Nuella begins to cough.
And this looks more of like a fiery powdery explosion for one
of the rats. And after that goes up, you see
the rat begins to run away. You see the third magical user
at the table, the third match, we'll call them the magical fan,
begins to get up and she begins to have like a little ball of
lightning in her staff as she is pointing it at Castle Vivian.
You have a dirty 20. You are next to Sunny.
What are you doing? Well, first thing I want to get
this kid out of here. Although I'm suspicious that
she's causing this far away from the door.
Vivian's going to turn to Beau Ram and Mylan and just say, hey,
I got this kid Sunny, get her out of here.
No, no, I want to stay. Get her out of here.
And I shove Sunny right into Beau Ram's hands.
Yeah, she launches up on the table, and Beau Ram almost like
falls off as the table wobbles. Say the kid got it.
So Nuella's coughing right now, and Kassel is about to get hit.
Yeah, he has two. He's holding two people on.
The third one's about to try to hit them.
Yeah. This is a bar fight, so keep
lethality in mind when you're trying to deal with potential
threats. You are in a Tavern.
Vivian's going to stand on the table and she's going to try
something a little crazy. She is going to try to calm the
situation verbally before it breaks out.
So you're standing on top of the table where you and Sonny were
underneath just a moment ago. Pretty close to the stage.
Yes. So that I could project towards
Kazzle and also towards Nuella. Everyone, this is getting a
little intense for just a concert.
We gotta bring it down a bit. 1, you shouldn't be flashing the
talent. Let's just stop that.
You pointing at Kazzle, Don't do that.
Don't even try. And something's going on with
Nuella. So everybody just calm down so
we can figure this out. OK?
Go ahead and roll me a persuasion check as you hear
Noella finish coughing. Just idiot and she see that she
recognizes you through the haze and the crowd of people as you
stand up on the table. 23 I got 23.
You see that the person charging the lightning puts her staff
down and she's like looking at you and Mr. Humble from behind
the bar is like getting ready to you see that he's taking out a
club, getting ready to hit somebody over the head as he's
looking at Kazzle and you see that she kind of backs off and
she runs to the door. The other two that are being
held by Kazzle are pretty determined to at least try to
get a sucker punch in on him. That is better than death.
It will be their death. OK, what else are you doing
before we go to the next turn? Think that's that?
The only thing she'll do is call out to Newell and say, hey, it's
me. You OK?
You see that? She tries to speak up, but her
voice is very raspy. You can't hear her over the
commotion as a lot of people just nervous and they're talking
and they're yelling and some people are mad and some people
are just scared. As we move to Initiative 16,
which is the man that Khazel is holding, he's going to try to
punch Tassel with A4 team to miss.
As you see, he's like trying to swing around.
As he's being pulled away, he's considered to grapple.
Both their hands are being used right now because you're holding
two people. As we move to initiative 8,
which is the other person that you're holding and she's going
to go ahead and she's going to try to hit you with a a fire
bolt. What a 14 to miss.
As you see, the fire bolt goes into one of the lanterns hanging
and explodes. As we move to initiative 7,
Mylan, I was hoping this was going to play out like this.
Mylan after getting shoved to the side, gets up and then
finally realizes that things are going South.
Things are not puppies and rainbows.
Things are daggers and magic. It's scary out there.
He instantly wants to get out of there seeing that Vivian threw
this backseat towards Bow Ram. He shouts the bow Ram.
I got this. He's going to cast on himself
long Strider. So this will make me get 10 more
feet for an hour. OK you gain 10 feet of movement
for one hour as you cast long strider.
I cast a long strider as my eye kind of glows.
I instantly see what needs to happen.
I get up on the table. I grab Sunny and I say hold on
and with my red and a feline agility, I grab her and head to
the door. So we're just 10 feet outside
the door. Yep.
At this point you grab her hand and she goes what's the kind of
dog is this and then follows you as you bolt towards the door.
As you hold on to her staying on initiative 7, you see that it's
the rats. The three of you noticed the rat
begins to like bubble a little bit like, and you hear like some
bones twitching and then it regains its shape and begins to
run the other way as it tries to climb onto the wall and begins
to scurry on the rafters of the Tavern as it's trying to get out
of the little explosion it just made.
And you see that the other rat that's also on the rafters has
the opposite direction as it's looking for the nearest exit.
We're going to go to Initiative 6, which is Castle and Boram.
I would like to look at both of them, the two people that I'm
holding and I would like to intimidate them if possible as a
check. And I'm just going to say, look,
both of you guys need to really knock it off.
You're leaving here one way or another.
And I'm going to use my action to try to hit each of them with
each other, like I want to collide them.
Make me a strength check to see if you can bang their heads
together. That is a 22.
Yeah, you boom. It's just this.
This is not lethal damage, so it's fine.
But make me an intimidation check to see if that works.
You can make it with advantage because you just have the
strength that you knock their heads together.
That is a dirty 20. It works.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
Do you see that the guy that tried to swing on you was like
holding his head as the guy and the girl that were trying to
fight you that you're holding on to now have really big bruises
as you see that they're trying to maintain consciousness from
how hard they hit each other as you just crack their skulls
together and you are able to move with them towards the door
to get to throw them out. Mr. Umbo calls over to you while
you're dragging them. He goes get rid of them and get
new elder up to a room ASAP. I clocked that he said.
I like nod to him as you make your way to the door at the end
of your turn. Newella is making her way
towards the stairs as the Bard that was playing the piano with
her is holding her up as she's having somewhat of a hard time
going down the stairs as she seems that her voice is very
raspy, she can't really talk and her sight seems to be affected
in some way from the powder. As we stay on initiative 6, go
over to Bow Ram. Yeah, Bow Ram is going to jump
over the other table, kind of wobbling that as he lands on it
as well. But sorry baby, I'm just trying
to take care of this right real quick.
Don't mind me. All the people gasp as you jump
up get your shoes off the table. Poor him.
Why did you jump on the table? Not the time.
And I take a shot. Who are you shooting at?
The rat. Rat.
OK that's 10 that's going to hit over damage.
The damage is going to be a 77 points of damage as this
poisonous dart from your glove shoots out and you see that it
hits the rat and the rat begins to morph him almost explode on
impact and you see that as it explodes, you notice that it's
little head like rolls onto the four.
It's weird that it popped this way.
Ooh, don't mind me, sorry about that.
And I shift through the crowd as I go over to pick up the rats
head. Do what I can when I end my turn
there as I'm picking up the rat head.
So we're gonna pick up on initiative 20, Vivian.
Vivian is still standing on the table, a little shocked from
what just happened with Beau Ram, but also very impressed.
So she is going to hop down off the table, walk up to Nuella and
her friend and try to help escort her to her room.
Oh my God super, he knows me. I told her not to press the
stage. What is she doing?
You see that she notices you as she wipes her eyes away.
The Bard at first tries to keep you at arm's length, and then
she signals the gentleman to back off as she puts her arm
around. And the two of you are now
helping Nuella off the stage. She goes.
Thank you, baby. I didn't expect you to be here.
Thank you, guys. Of course.
It's been a while. Are you OK?
It looked rough. I feel better, a bit better, and
you see her voice is like struggling.
My friend is good with poisons. So let's get you out of here and
see if he can help you. As we move to Initiative 16,
which is one of these wishfully fellows that is being dragged by
Kassel. He is not fighting back.
So his action is going to pass as well as the other person that
he's carrying is going to pass as well as we move to Initiative
7. Milan, as you are taking Sunny
outside, Yes, So still holding on to Sunny.
There's only 20 feet to the door.
I'm going to use my movement as I see Castle and the rest of
this crew is almost out the door as well.
I guess I'm going to just ask, are you with them?
What's going on here? No, not with them.
Do you know them at all? No.
OK, good. And he runs and throws her out
the door. John Boram.
We'll see that and just shake his head as we move to
Initiative 6, which is Kassel and Boram, I think Kassel.
So he's going to escort all three because I guess they
caught up to the third one. So he's going to escort them all
out of the bar, and then he is going to clock that Sonny's
outside and Kassel's going to lean down and talk to Sonny real
quick and just say, hey, I know you're just a kid and you just
want to see some cool music. So hopefully there's no hard
feelings. But yeah, he's going to give her
the remaining 10 gold that Vivian gave him and give it to
her. He's going to say, here,
hopefully this helps a little bit, OK?
And he's going to give her the gold and head back inside.
You see that when you hand her the gold, she is like, at first,
like a little bummed as she's like trying to get up.
She's rubbing her tush and she looks up at you.
And as you're kneeling down and showing her this great kindness,
she's like, enamored. And she's like, looking at you
with stars in her eyes. Like, Oh my God, what's your
name? My name is Kazul Amberleaf.
OK. And if you ever need anything,
just come and find me, right? You see, like, a child's smile
on her face. And she just goes Amberleaf.
And the door closes behind you. We're going to go out of combat
there because all the potential threats are gone.
You see Boram rush up to you guys.
Maybe it's a bit strange, but Boram seems overly upset that
this young tobaccy girl was in the midst of all this.
She OK? Is the little one OK?
OK. Yeah, Yeah, she's good.
She's just hanging outside. I I open the door.
Are you OK? So he sticks his head out and
he's like, wait, how old are you?
I'm 15. You're 1515.
What? Yeah.
That's awesome. I'm 13.
I haven't met anyone that young. I took Sonny back.
Me and Milan let the others know I'd be working on an antidote
back at home. The Paladin actually beat me
back to my level. Didn't expect them all to swarm
the place though. Rabbag Noel as I had God even
and the dote worked first try. Pretty similar to the fate
poison we had the other day. Added in some stuff to knock her
out cold. It was scary.
That was moment there well as that there.
I could be wrong, but they look like Phoenix fetters.
He starts working on his coat that's going pretty well.
He's stitching something into his coat.
He's working on some rooms and some other things.
He's gone through about 3 cigarettes by this time, and
once it gets to about 3:00 in the morning, Oram finally puts
his stuff down for a moment and kind of just looks back into the
quiet room as he's waited for people to fall asleep.
Everyone is asleep. Vivian is hunched over when
Nuella is. Violin is curled up on the stool
near the table and the body Bob Dorale is he's leaning on his
first with his elbow on the table with an empty glass in his
hand, and is kind of falling asleep watching.
Yeah. Bow Ram stamps out his
cigarette. He gets up and he's slowly
walking around, his boots clicking on the ground.
Looks at Myelin, goes past the guard until he's right in front
of Newella. Looks down at Vivian.
No smile. Plain face.
Looks at Noella and he slowly reaches for the hat and he's
going to try and take this hat. Stealth check or sleight of hand
as a 21 you successfully take the hat from her clenched fists
without disturbing anyone. He puts it on his head.
He slowly walks back looking at everybody again slowly doing a
360 as he walks checking on them.
Then he sits down on the stool. He puts the hat down and he
takes one of the feathers off the hat, meticulously unraveling
it, unsewing it from its seam. That keeps it there.
And you see that he puts this feather down on the table and he
takes out a bottle with a little bit of oil.
He takes a brush and he puts some oil all over the feather.
A quick note, when you take one of the feathers, you feel this
immense heat from the feather, extremely hot to the point where
you need to wear gloves to hold it.
Always wearing gloves. He's almost always wearing
gloves and he has a feeling this is exactly what he thinks it is.
But just to be safe, you see that he hovers his hand over
this and he sparks some of his druid craft.
And as he does that, bits of electricity static kind of go
over and the oil starts bubbling and rising almost like bouquet
like camera bouquet and slowly going into the crystals on his
fingertips and runes start forming on the saucer at the
back of his hand. As for 10 minutes he casts as a
ritual. Identify, cast, identify.
You touch an object throughout the spells casting.
If the object is a magic item or some other magical object, you
learn its properties and how to use them, whether it requires
attunement, and how many charges it has, if any.
You learn whether an ongoing spell are affecting the item
what they are. If the item has was created by a
spell, you learn the spell's name.
If you instead touch a creature throughout the casting, you'll
learn which ongoing spells, if any, are currently affecting it,
and you could confirm that this is indeed a feather from a
phoenix. Now, Phoenix feathers contain
are used in many magical items and crafted in many different
ways. It is inherently magical because
the beast that the feathers are plucked from are magical.
However, it doesn't contain any specific properties, rather is
used as an ingredient for magical items or potions.
Specifically, the contents that a phoenix feather would be used
for is bringing somebody back to life.
It would also as far as weaponry goes or armor, fire resistance
or fire fire wielding for potions it could bring somebody
back to life. It can also create bruise or
potions that would grant fire breath and anything of that
nature. When the identify confirms his
suspicion, he straight up just stares at it for 30 seconds.
Hand twitching and finally like snaps to and breathes finally
and then he's going to spend if I take 10 can I get it maybe an
advantage role on crafting a fake phoenix feather to put in
its place. So taking 20 or 20 is the rule
where you with. So for those that don't know
what taking 20 is, you are spending 20 minutes to get a 20
roll. Yes, you are in a controlled
environment. I will let you do that.
So rather than the taking 20 you would have to do here because of
what it is the the trick here is copying the heat of the feather.
Yeah. So tell me.
So that's pretty hard to do and I don't know how you do it.
So you tell me how you would mimic it or create a copy of
that heat onto another feather that resembles the other two.
Cuz there are three phoenix feathers on this hat.
I'm sorry. Four.
There are 4 feathers on this hat.
What he's going to try and do is he's going to take reactive
minerals that when they sit next to each other, kind of like when
you crack hand warmers, that they would, as they move
naturally swaying as she would walk, they would brush against
each other creating friction. And he's going to kind of like
take a lot of time taking a feather that he has, painting
it, you know, adding those kind of elements and working on that.
What tools are you using? You would be using his artifs or
tools, his tinker's tools. OK.
And what stat does that use? When you make a check, The check
is up to you. But I get proficiency in that
check, I believe. Like it could be like, it would
be an intelligence check because I'm using my intelligence to do
it. You're going to use Arcana, OK,
because you're trying to mimic the properties of a magical
thing. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna rule
this as an arcana role. And you can add your proficiency
bonus because you're using your tools, but the role is gonna be
arcana. Gotcha.
He like, makes it look good, but he knows the application process
can be a bit tricky. So he breathes and casts
guidance on himself, looks back at everybody, and then he begins
applying the minerals and it's not great.
That's a 15. A 15 is good.
And at a glance, it looks like a phoenix feather.
The heat, you are able to apply some heat for it.
It is not hot enough to mimic a phoenix feather, but it does
give off heat. You think that with a 15 you may
be be able to buy some time. And Ball Ram's hope is that the
other feathers also help a bit with that.
Is the hope, yes. So to somebody who doesn't know
what they're looking at, this will probably pass with how she
was holding it and clenching it. You think it's only a matter of
time before she discovers it. And that's up to you if you want
to go through with it. He is.
He definitely is. And then you see that he kind of
takes the phoenix feather and he goes over to the chest that has
his tools. He's going to open that up and
he's also going to grab the rod. And it is like maybe 4:00 in the
morning now by the time he's finished this.
And can we say I've finished making my artificer infusions as
I've been working through the night on this long rest?
Yes, everybody will be gaining the benefits of a long rest
during this. And although you're retired
tomorrow, I'm not going to Ding you with any penalties for
working through the night. This is OK, so if you'll
necessarily need to sleep for 8 hours straight, you can work
through it. Since I have that infusion.
You see that Oren has finished working on his coat and the coat
is studded leather armor that is his armor when he puts that coat
on. But now he's stitched in a
makeshift bag that is inside the coat.
And you see, as he puts the phoenix feather and the rod in
that pouch, it disappears as he now has a bag of holding.
You created a bag of holding. I did.
I used one of my artificer infusions to do a bag of
holding. You make a bag of holding?
Hell yeah. And then he takes the hat.
He walks over again, eyeing everybody, and then places the
hat right where it came from. Give me another slide of hand
check as you place the hat back. That is a 8.
Vivian, you are woken to Bow Ram holding well as hat.
Bow Ram. Why are you standing on top of
us with her hat? What are you doing?
Sorry. I woke up and I wanted to look
at it. But you're right.
I shouldn't touch nobody else's stuff, so I leave it alone.
My bad. Yeah.
How long have you had that for? What you mean?
I was just about to do it, and then he stopped smiling and he
just walks away. Can Vivian do a I'll do a
deception check? Yeah.
Make me of a deception check in private.
Vivian, make me a insight check. Insight.
Kate. Perfect.
Yeah, you could say that number out loud.
No, Vivian has a seven. He was looking at it.
She's annoyed, but she'll just brush it off and she turns to Bo
Ram because she sees that everybody else is still knocked
out because she's at a question for a few days now.
You see that he's continued working on his glasses, but he
looks frustrated that something isn't working.
Hey, Bo Ram, I, I have a question.
What is the Jolie? Shows what you need.
The other day you talked about the person who made the other
moonshine. Was it a melody?
Oh, LODLOD. That's right.
She's your sister. You said that is my sister.
Why? You met her in another life?
I don't think so. But do you see her often?
I mean, all the time. A while ago I really talked to
them in about two years. Oh, I'm so sorry.
It's OK. I'd love to go back, but I got
things to do, you know? So once I'm done doing this, I
I'll go back. Let's see him again.
And we party like we used to back in the the Bagu.
That's good. That's nice.
Siblings are nice. And Vivian's just kind of like,
half out of it. Yeah, we called her.
Got a whiskey breath. I'm sure she loves that very
much. She does.
She wears it like a badge of honor.
What do you have to do to get back to her?
That's all I got to do is walk. When it comes down to it, they
see he was a little loud, and Milan shifts and he quies down
again and just have to go back to the salt, I suppose.
All right, Vivian's satisfied. She wants to know more, but she
knows it's getting a little weird for her to keep asking.
Sorry to pry, I was just wondering.
Ain't no thing. Ain't no thing.
And Bo Ram, you do notice Bo Ram looks a little sad for some
reason as he's talking. Maybe he's frustrated at the
goggles, maybe it's what you brought up.
But it's definitely not in the best mood, and he has been.
She's working all night and is still not sleeping.
Vivien's going to keep that in the back of her mind because she
thinks she might have something in common with Beau Ram later
on. But she's not going to touch it
now because she's way too tired and also not knowing what was
going on with that hat. She's going to rest her head,
but she's not asleep. She's going to fake it just to
see if she can hear anything. Does she hear anything?
Oh, she hears a lot of tools, a lot of sparks, a lot of fire,
lot of cool yawns as he swears that himself when something
doesn't work. Myrtle Day 151481 MKD 3:00 AM.
Phoenix Veda. Real reminder to test it later.
One step closer. Vivian.
She woke up when I was putting the app back.
Probably looks shady, but I don't think she suspects much
yet. Gotta keep a closer eye on that
one. Forgot she's a rogue.
Me Myrtle A 15/14/81 MKD 11:00 PM.
The four of us agreed to help Nuella Fondo attacker said some
guy named Greg was jealous of a while back but no longer hung
around Balderas. We'll be going to rock at
Homestead tomorrow. Just took care of some things so
I should be good to leave for a while.
Got some new artificer infusions returning dagger stable.
There were two men needed after blood infusion Vivian likes.
Hopefully that took her mind off of the Newella incident.
Bag of olden, stable stitch insecure, no attunement
required. Goggles stable math correct but
needs a different infusion. Discovered I cannot imbue my
magic into too many items, but finalize when I get the funds
for a bag of olden that don't use my magic and then spell
focus. Not stable.
Needs more arcana math not finalized.
Might be good for Mylan. Ivory knows where I can get
manticore teeth. Rocket homestead look for the
Canku. See I know Ivory 120 to 175 gold
pieces. Chancellor Rose Ocean 89.
Arcana down 10% from potion 88. Lymph nodes better pulse stable.
Skin worse. Veins stable.
Temperature stable. Mucus increased, coughing
decreased, disappointing. Myrtle Day 16/14/81 MKD 7:00 AM
Finished moving equipment to bag of Holden.
Off to meet up with the group now reminded to see Gimmer
again. Rocket Homestead.
The day comes to a close as the Roosters bring in the new day,
waking everybody up as the sun rises on the 17th of Myrtle.
The four of you get your things. Vivian.
You take some extra time in the morning and leave a few minutes
earlier than everyone else will just safely secure your carriage
and wind rider to the markets. The three of you meet up with
Vivian. As the market begins to bustle,
people begin to move about and get on with their day.
People shopping, workers working, merchants selling.
And when the three of you meet up with Vivian, you see this
very elegant horse, beautiful yellow mane with this very
extravagant and lavish carriage with pure white gold trim, plush
red seats. It is stocked with food, it has
curtains, it looks very comfortable and it has the
Charmont symbol flashed right into the door.
Good morning. Hey everyone.
She raises her hand, completely oblivious to how obnoxious it
is. Bonjour, morning's good.
So. So this is just normal kind of
man. Well, it's, it's normal for me.
I don't know what life I've been living, but this is awesome.
And a jump inside. I got extra milk for you, Mylan.
A Cassel walks Silver Hoof over to kind of introduce Silverhoof
to Wind Rider. After a few minutes he hooks up
Silverhoof to the to the car. The two get along but Wind Rider
seems a little bit stuck up towards Silverhoof.
It's OK buddy and I pet Silverhoof.
I get it. Vivian just twiddles her thumbs
and goes. Well I hope they'll be friends
eventually. Behind everyone's back I look at
Mylan and do another stuck up nose face to him.
Like stuck up horse. Wait, is it because my nose?
What's wrong? I pinched my nose.
But yeah, Vivian, thank you for getting this all set up.
I know it's not easy. Oh, it's really easy actually
for me. But of course, no worries.
Wait, it's not easy for you guys.
Why? Why?
Why can she do it? You guys?
I'm just saying, like, I thought she was trying to be sneaky, but
she has her family Crest literally right there.
And I point to the the giant Crest on the door.
My family's well known. And if we're traveling to these
places, it could bring in thieves, but we're strong
enough. But it could let us in further
to nobles and stuff. And Bo Ram said it was a nice
place. So the Charmane might actually
do something for us. That's that's a good point.
Yeah. I got to say, I think that's a
great idea. They're going to like you there.
Oh, Willie, she's nervous. It took some warm enough to me
first time I went in there. I wonder why.
I do too. And I just smile at Castle.
OK, that's good. Well, top on in.
There's rations for everyone. We got rations in here.
And he steps in. Well, a little more than
rations, I guess. Are these cakes?
Of course. What travel is complete without
cakes? This is the fanciest travel I've
ever done. It's a free for all.
OK, hold on. We should not just let it be a
free for all. And I kind of look at Milan.
Milan has to last us three days. Us.
All of us smiling. Three days.
I installed extra milk inside this plush carriage.
There is a very fancy tea set, almost like a cooler
contraption. Keeping the milk cold, keeping
drinks cold, very fancy glasses. The booze that's there is that
of champagne. It's not even like good liquor
or anything. It's just champagne.
Very, very fancy. My link looks at Beau Ram.
Wait, this is portable? And it's nicer than your place.
And I look at Beau Ram. What's up with this?
What's going on? It sure is nicer.
I don't have the funds to live in a place nice as this.
So maybe I get there someday. Maybe you too.
But you want to live the fancy life.
It's pretty nice. It's not all that great
sometimes. And Vivian looks off to the
corner. Look at this.
I hold up two jugs of milk. That's the good part.
That's your finger guns, Mylan dodges.
All right, so the four of you get on this carriage and you
begin to make your way out of the S exit, which is the main
gate of Balderas. You see that there are a number
of merchants and travellers leaving and they are ahead in
all different directions. You see the city guards let you
pass. They take some paperwork, make
note that a Charmont is leaving the town, and they make it known
that they know that you are leaving.
And you see one of the guards goes Safe travels with you.
I hope your company keeps you well protected.
She does for a little salute thing on her chest and bow.
Thank you so much for your service.
As gracious as and you see that. He bows his head as the four of
you leave as you begin to head westward to the Rocket
homestead. I will say as we leave town,
Caswell kind of takes note of this because he didn't really
know Viviano family. He's heard of them, but he
didn't really understand how big of a deal apparently her family
is in town. So he's kind of just taking note
of like, okay, that's good to know.
Possibly for anything in future that Casual might need help
with. At one point, Vivian's going to
kind of like turn to everybody and just say, look, if you like
this, it would be really great if you can help me with this new
Ella stuff. Of course, we're already here
and we're going to ask for the favor and everything and Ball
Rams working on like the doppelganger stuff.
But if you're willing to help me with my future plans, we can
secure this kind of treatment for the rest of our time we
travel together. But there might be a chance I'd
lose it all. Lose it all?
Why would that happen? You wish I'm on.
There's something I have to agree to.
And if I do, I get to keep everything I have.
But if I don't, then I lose it. Then why don't you just agree?
That sound easy? Yeah.
You get all the milk you want. If only you're that easy.
Ha, ha, ha. If only.
Seems easy. Perfect.
Well, then we're listen, I will say I appreciate all the help.
It means a lot and hasn't been going unnoticed.
That's why I made that dagger for you.
It's a bit of a sign of appreciation.
Don't think I didn't recognize you paying at the door earlier
and paying for some other things.
So really thank you. Well, thank you very much.
I had to beat Kassel. Thank you and I appreciate the
dagger, but you had to beat me. But to paying you paid for us
last time it was more like I did it because I thought it wasn't
kind of get done. And I look back at Param and
Mylan basic, but I appreciate it of course.
And I'm smoking here. If you open a window, I guess.
Nice. And he opens a window and starts
smoking a hand rolled cigarette. Some time passes, a few hours
and you make your way on this road.
This road is well paved and then you feel a sudden thud in the
road where the nice path suddenly turns to a dirt Rd.
while maintained. But the extension of the city
has officially ended. There is a fork in a road, a
path that heads northwest to Rock Head Homestead, where you
see a sign and you see that there is a path that rears off
down a hill that leads to another mountain range way in
the distance. You know that there are some
towns in that direction, but there are no marked signs.
As you continue to travel down this third Rd. it begins to
Thunder in the distance as clouds become heavy, as deep
distant Thunder begins to boom and heavy clouds begin to roll
over the horizon. You're making your way towards
the rocket as the sky begins to darken.
As always, even during the night sky, even when the daytime
becomes shrouded by heavy clouds, you see the shooting
star slowly pass sky and a moment of silence falls onto the
four of you as you were able to see it in the daytime.
As the four of you look upon it, what's going through your heads?
So I think Kazzle is, again, he understands how the dynamic of
the group, although it seems like he's annoyed at Boram and
Mylan is in certain times, I think he does appreciate the
company because before getting to this point, while he's been
in town, he's just really been alone.
I think it really appreciates that.
And then obviously he does see how genuine Vivian is in helping
everybody. And then also, I guess just
trying to make a true connection.
So he's kind of taken back by it, but he also had been, I
guess, the same breath. He tries to remember why he's on
the material plane and everything he needs to do to get
everything done. So although he's along for the
ride, it's kind of like a remembrance of why he's here and
like what he has to do. Vivian, what's going through
your mind as you are looking at the shooting star through the
carriage window? In her mind, she's really happy
she could help people. She also has been alone for an
incredibly long time. She wasn't always.
So this is the first time she's had friends well outside of a
regular people who come around throughout her life.
You know, the merchants and the people who work around the home.
She has her family of course, but no one really outside of
that and the people helping within the.
So she's excited to finally get out and about.
She is so hopeful that she can help Nuella.
One, she loves to help a friend, but two, she really needs
Nuella's help. She thinks to her detriment
because she wants to avoid an incoming invitation.
And as she's happy for everybody that she's now traveling with,
she thinks of woolen. You think of Woolen there at the
shooting star. You feel yourself making
connection with these people around you.
You are grateful that they are helping you help a friend.
When you ask them, it seemed like you really urging them, but
and they also came with somewhat ease.
You're so used to asking for people to help with the
understanding that you're going to give something in return.
Everything has always been transactional for you, but this
seems a little more genuine, at least at a glance more this rule
you feel yourself falling into the mystery of the shooting star
and all the rumors that shrouded.
We take a beat there and move to bow ram as you gaze upon the
shooting star, what is going through your mind Yeah.
Has the day's beginning to turn to night.
Bow Ram's been staring at the star, kind of losing track, but
once was a very beautiful memory for him and the cigarette ash is
just slowly falling onto his lap as he's forgotten to, you know,
tap it outside the car. Bow Ram's reached into his shirt
and he's kind of fiddling with this precious item that's at the
end of his necklace. He's kind of just staring and
staring and eventually kind of realizes he's been kind of
staring for a while and he'll get a little nervous and put
that item back into his shirt. I would say if anybody wants to
do a perception check to see, he will try and do a sleight of
hand to put that back in discreetly.
Kazzle will do one that's a 20 sleight of hand.
Oh well, too bad it doesn't beat my seven.
Shit Will Ram. You are fidgeting and you you
find yourself lost in thought and you think about your past
and you find yourself losing yourself in these memories.
As you look at the shooting star.
You are flooded. Your mind is flooded with
possible regrets. Different choices you could have
made if you could have done things differently.
Or maybe you were doing the right the whole time and it
still wasn't good enough. Milan what is going through your
mind as you look at the shooting star?
Violence. Staring up at the star,
something comes over and his arm starts twitching again.
And then it reaches out and grabs the closest person to him,
which happens to be Bow Ram. And he casts a spell, and the
spell is telepathic bond. I can speak basically telepathic
to one person. So I reach out and it's more of
a feeling. And the feeling is that is his.
He wants it. He has to get it.
And it's this need that that star is his.
Yeah. Boram's had jets over and some
of the ash flies off. And he kind of just looks at
Mylan, concerned, but feels that.
And he looks up back towards the star with that feeling.
Boram, you're looking at Mylan. Your attention breaks away from
your thoughts, and you see everyone's just kind of looking
at the star from their own, from their point of view out the
window, binding their own business.
And your attention comes back to Mylan.
It snaps to him. On this connection.
You see Vivian and Casl looking at the star like any normal
traveler would be looking at it. When silence falls apart, you
see Mylan looking at it with eagerness.
You see him looking at it with intention, hope, and you see
that his tail might wag a little bit.
But and as he looks up at the star Mylan, you feel a pulse
your heart. And then a thunderous boom comes
from the sky again with a loud stroke of Thunder through the
dark cloud. A blue speck falls from the sky,
lands right in front of the cart.
Dirt, rocks and rubble explode in the path.
Silverhoof and Wind Rider launch back up on their hind legs as
they stop suddenly. Castle Vivian.
You notice as the two of you were still looking up at the
shooting star, you felt or saw a piece of it break off and land
before you with lightning speed. Oh R.E.M.
You are stricken with a vision as you are quickly taken out of
a moment and placed into another fire.
Light flickers at the edge of your sight, growing brighter
with every beat. You are moving fast through a
burning forest. Trees rush past you with blurs
of orange and black. Smoke curls upward in a
spiraling trails. Somewhere ahead, screams cut
through the crackling of flames. Fear swallows you.
A home half swallowed by fire comes into view.
The world tilts around you. It is blurred with sights that
no one should be unlucky enough to bear.
Fire light flashes, distorting everything, snapping back into
the cart, horses stopping suddenly with harsh knees.
Mylan. Your grip tears away from
Bullram's arm as you scramble onto the top of the carriage,
breathing hard, eyes fixed onto the crash site.
In the road ahead, a cloud of dust, dirt, and debris lingers,
clouding the view of what has just fallen from the sky.
What are the four of you doing? Mylan definitely climbs on top
of the cart. It's in front one of them, like
how close it is currently, around 60 to 70 feet away from
your carriage. Before anyone even has time to
react or clamor out of the cart, he's going to Sprint and get
into a tree that's in between the star and the carts, kind of
in between. As much as possible be lining
straight there. If everyone will turn their
attention towards the table, you will see a crash site part.
You are on a dirt road and there are trees on either side of you.
The crash site is directly in the middle of the road, breaking
it apart. You see this large dust cloud
that is about 20 feet in radius and it is lingering there.
You cannot see what has landed just yet.
Mylan. You jump out of the car, jumping
to the nearest tree to your northwest as you scurry up it to
try to get a better view, getting closer to it.
Boram Castle, Vivian. You see Mylan hastily rush out,
almost snapping the window off its hitches from the carriage.
What are the three of you doing? I don't know if Boram sees that
as he snaps too, but he's like Mylan.
What was that, Mylan where Mylan go and Oram is in like a cold
sweat. After all that, Vivian's gonna
snap her head over and just go? Wasn't he next to you?
Where did it go so fast? Do you know what that is?
Well, what is when? Hazy moment.
And then I need some fresh air and Boram gets out of the cart.
Tassel follows and Vivian is going to follow too.
Where you at? 3 of you exit the carriage
looking for Mylan as the dust settles, revealing a large
crater with a 20 foot radius. You got to be around here
somewhere. What happened out here?
Vivian is going to move up a little bit and just go.
Mylan. Mylan, where are you?
Everybody make me perception checks.
Mylan, you make me a stealth check.
You send me the stealth check in private. 9 also got a 9.
Vivian got a 15. Vivian as casual Borama looking
around. You look up towards the trees to
your north and you see Mylan hiding high in one of these
trees. Vivian's going to start walking
over to the north towards the trees.
She's just going to call up and say like hey Mylin, what are you
doing up there? Are you OK?
Do you need anything? He slouches with his ears back,
very reluctant all of a sudden to even answer.
You can see him like scooting away and clamoring to even
higher branches to kind of get away.
You can just tell he's very scared at this point, but not
saying anything. I think Vivian's just going to
assume he was afraid by everything and she's just going
to turn over her shoulder and call back to Boram and Kazzle
and say I found him, he's over here, but he's not doing too
good. That's you.
Hey, back to her. Is it this thing that's bugging
you? And Boram is shouting as he's
made it halfway to the crater. Yeah, I think Kazzle walks
towards the crater as well. This thing's something crazy,
isn't it? Yeah, I'm not sure.
Islands at the top of the trees very much.
Just taking everything in, being very aware of the crater and
everyone else and just being very cautious at this point,
just watching everything unfold. So you're staying in the tree.
Vivian is calling down from you. So Beau, Ram and Kaszel, you're
approaching the crater. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. The two of you make it about
halfway through, and you see that you can't quite see the
bottom of the crash land. It's about 1520 feet in diameter
and it looks like it sinks inward.
The dust has finally settled where you just see this crater.
You don't see anything sticking out of it.
You get the assumption that whatever has crashed something
significantly small where it doesn't break over the edge that
it had created. So to get to see what had
possibly landed, you will need to go up to it to look down.
I'll keep taking steps towards it like I'll keep walking
towards it. Mylan starts seeing them keep
walking and Vivian keep trying to call up to him.
He wants to miss the step in between the crater and Beau, Ram
and Castle. The three of you are about 15
feet away from the crater's edge.
Island has appeared in front of you.
You can't. You can't go there.
No. What?
What you got to back up? I don't have time to explain.
Don't go over there. Listen, let's talk a SEC.
And Boram kneels down to get eye level with Mylan.
And for the first time Boram sees Mylan's eyes.
He's never actually paid attention to him and he starts
to talk to you now. Mylan, listen.
And then you see that Boram just freezes as he stares at you.
Mylan is completely shivering with adrenaline.
I guess also he's very anxious. You can kind of tell he's he's
he's jittery. He's all over the place trying
to get you to go away from this situation, to the point he's
even kind of resorted back to making just weird animal noises
at you, almost looking vicious. Caswell, you definitely see that
Bo Ram is at a loss for words for some reason and is like not
doing anything. Just kind of staring quizzically
at my 1. Vivian's going to crash through
the trees, then running back to everybody.
So she's right in between Bo Ram and Kazzle, and she's just
trying to figure out the situation because Mylan moved
really fast. No, everyone away, please.
Back in the cart. We can't be here.
And he's just trembling at this point because he's he's running
out of steam or aggression at this point.
And it's starting to turn into actual fear.
An image flashes for a moment in Bo Ram's head of someone
different that also has eyes, just like Mylan.
And then he snaps out of it, kind of shakes himself.
It's up. All right, Mylan, it's fine.
We're going to be fine, right? See.
Watch this and Bo Ram's going to misty step into the crater now.
Can't harm us. It'll be fine.
Crater goes down about 7 feet before it reaches bottom.
In the center of the crater, you see 3 meteorites.
They look like round rocks and they are coursing with this blue
energy. You observe closer and you
notice that small pebbles and tiny rocks and debris are slowly
floating around. As you look into it, you're
about 15 feet away from these meteorites.
Your mind begins to fill with like light noise.
You can't quite seem to shake, stare at these meteorites
longer. You go into like a little bit of
a haze. It's kind of hard to focus.
It's just like you feel a little overwhelmed, but it's not
stopping you from anything particular.
And you notice that oh wait, I got so much shift for this.
There are tentacles. These ethereal blue purplish
tentacles begin to come out of the cracks of the meteors.
Tentacles look eldritch in nature as they slowly form out
like snails reaching towards your direction and then quickly
begin to move as the meteorite begins to spin on the cosmic
tentacles and begin to rush up towards your position.
Boram, everyone roll for a mission.
I told you no. Yeah, for the record Mylan, I
was OK with getting back in the cart.
Me too. So 17 for Boram, that's an 8 for
Caswell, 13 for Mylan. Well for Vivian, starting at the
top of the round is Boram. You see these three meteorites
that have sprouted these Eldridge like cosmic pentacles.
They are see through, they are transparent, and they are
rolling towards you very quickly.
Myrtle Day 16/14/81 MKD 4:00 PM New creature discovered.
Fight went okay. Ethereal limbs.
Brain fog in close proximity. Psychic drain on contact, nearly
down. Vivian finished them all and
went after Mylan. Vivian's just going to fall flat
in her face. All right, Dendrin, you take
care of her. I'll go find Mylan.
OK? Mylan and I start going north.
Mylan's at the edge of the forest, still in the tree with
his right hand scratching on the top of his his left one and kind
of like a nervous tick. He's like, I should keep
running. Running always works.
They're probably sick by this point.
I can't leave them. Mylan, where you at?
My head hurts. I'm scared going to be OK.
We took care of the things. There's no more fighting.
And then he just slowly starts to calm down and starts
listening really intensely. Wait, though, is he here, bro
Ram, or is he just kind of do his own thing?
I don't think he heard you when he was, like, having the the
thing. Yeah.
And then slowly start to hear
Bow Ram getting closer. Milan, come on.
Everything be fine? I know it's scary, but we took
care of those, whatever those were.
Come on down. Where you at?
Milan? Up in the tree Sees Bow Ram kind
of directly underneath him and kind of gets into a pouncing
position and just jumps right on him with his moon touch sword in
hand that Kassel showed him how to wield.
And as he falls down on top of him, Borim hits the ground with
his his back and Mylan's on top of him.
You need to tell me exactly what I'm about to ask or I will inch
you. Hey, what you need.
How many times have you tried to get me drunk?
Well, I did do that once actually the first time.
I didn't mean to get you drunk. I just want you to try some of
my moon. Spirits, Mylan kind of hesitates
for a second and he's still like well that was a technicality OK
what happened on the 14th it was something devastating for me Ah
well a lot of things happened I mean start of the day went bad I
gave you a bath, that was pretty that was fine He still has a
sword, but he jumps off of you sorts in both his hands and he
as he backs up. Where's everyone else.
Boran leans up against the rock at this point, kind of pushes
himself with his feet with one arm over one knee with one leg
extended. He lights a I needed that
maybag. Dale, listen, fatigue, can I ask
you something? No, no, you don't understand.
We got to figure everything out or things are going to get real
bad. Okay then, then we figure it
out. I'm with you.
What you need from me right now, How can I help you feel safe?
We need to go talk to the other people, but we need to make sure
they remember us. But I remember you.
You Remember Me. So I think he'd be fine.
You know my back. Let's go.
He shakes his head no. And he still holds his sword and
he kind of wants Beau Ram to lead in front of him.
And also he's trampling and scared.
Well, trust me. Yeah, that's fine.
Come on. This way as we cut back to the
other two. Casl, you were standing over
Vivian, who was very wounded. She is not bleeding, but she is
clearly feeling it. What do you do?
Casl kind of gets down on one knee.
He puts his hand on her shoulder and he closes his eyes and he
says, let the crescents glow weave you hold.
He's going to cast lay on hands and he's going to give Vivian
eight points of HP, thank you. And then he'll help her to her
feet and say yes, of course, of course.
Vivian's going to be obvious. She's been a lot better, but not
great. And she's just going to wobble,
bitch. She's like, thank you so much,
let's not do that again. I'll never grab anything ever
again. As you say that you hear the
brush behind you and you see Bo Ram come through now with his
trench coat off over shoulder. I mean don't say that too soon,
you can grab me if you like any winks.
Vivian just stares right into Beau Rams eyes, glares with all
the fires of hell and just says I would rather die.
Kassel, do not resurrect me next time.
Oh you hurt me too much and she's just going to storm off to
the carriage. Oh hey Paladin, I found a little
guy here, come here. After Beau Ram says that remark,
he's pretty convinced Beau Ram's OK, but now his sword's kind of
in hand pointing at the other two.
OK hold on Mylan, what did I say?
What was the number one rule when I trained you?
Do not poke your friends. OK?
So it's lower, that thing. Yeah.
He gives a nod to Castle because he's kind of checking off who's
remembering correctly. And he goes and kind of points
to that Vivian. Vivian hears what's going on and
stops her stomping back to the carriage and she just turns
around and goes. Mylan, what are you doing with
the sword? Put it down.
We got lots of snacks in the carriage.
Let's talk about what's going on.
OK, You must answer your question.
What question do you have? Vivian's not happy.
I had a plan this the first day we met.
What was it? I don't know.
What was it behind Milan? I do like fire and then do like
a pig nose. Vivian just looks very confused
and goes Are you talking about when we first met with the pig
works or are you talking about so when I ran into you at the
vendors or a thumbs up at the pigs work behind Milan, He drops
the the sword and then just starts crying into whoever's
closest. I think it's bow ram at this
point. Oh hey Milan, come here, it's
fine. No, it's not fine.
Don't understand. No, I don't.
You're right. Well, you can explain it to all
of us. And I just kind of look
concerned towards the group as I pick up.
Mylan. Yeah.
Mylan. What were those things and how
did you know about them? He's still balling immensely,
but he's trying to get the words out.
I thought you were all dead. I thought you guys were gone.
I thought you guys were all sick.
No, no, of course not. Sick people don't remember.
Vivian starts tearing up. No, we're fine.
I made a mistake, but I'm alive. Like Carrie.
Mylan over to the group. Yeah.
Borum made a mistake too, and he's fine as well.
I did what mistake I make. Well, I mean, you kind of just
jumped in the pit, right? That's right.
Yeah. I start nodding my head to,
like, get everyone. Milan remembers this and pushes
you away, then runs over to the castle at this point and gets
behind his legs. I mean, you could argue that it
helped everybody find him. Nolan.
Anyways. And he kicks a rock and kind of
turns around as he smokes. Vivian's going to bend over and
grab Milan and try to pick him up and just say, do you want a
snack and some milk to calm down?
Then maybe we could talk. He stops his crying, and he's
just down to sniffling at this point.
As much as he would love those things, he kind of looks around
at what is on the ground. What does violin see?
So these look like just normal broken boulders at this point.
All the energy that was surging through it when it was trying to
attack you is gone. Can he pick up one and then
investigate one? I guess go ahead and give me an
investigation check. He got an 18.
You are holding a broken rocks in your hands.
They are no longer coursing with energy.
They are extremely cold. You get a sense of dampness from
them when you hold it. Make sure your hands wet.
I'm assuming one of them got split in half, right?
Yes. He wants to take the two halves
and put it into his like satchel with your 18.
Before you put in your satchel, you try to put the two halves
together and although you know that they belong together and
the cracks in the meteorite do align up, when you go to connect
them, it doesn't connect perfectly.
Almost as if that energy that you were seeing when it was like
bleeding out. We're filling the gaps of the
meteorite. You put the two halves.
Satchel. Don't mind if I take some of
this back for myself. And you see Bow Ram snaps his
fingers and his gloves spark with energy, and a crowbar
appears in his hand. He starts breaking apart one of
these as well. How'd you do that?
I use my Tinker's magic as an action.
I can magically produce certain tools into my hand.
Cool, so I'll start smashing one up for myself and if no one goes
for the other one he'll grabs it.
OK I was going to say I think Kassel definitely makes his way
over to 1/2. He definitely wants to
investigate 1 and mine. He's cracked it up a lot so that
he has a bunch of small meteorite pieces that he puts in
a bag and then into his bag of holding.
He broke it into about 5 or 6 yards and he's smaller than
that. They would just be like dust at
that point. Yeah, casual.
You go over to the other one and it is 2 halves as well.
You like to break it up, You can, but when all of you pick it
up, it is very cold. Your hands are wet.
As I'm putting pieces into a bag, I do go, hey, pound in and
I throw my crowbar over to him. I just kind of wanted to look at
it and investigate it and just see if I've seen anything like
it or heard of anything like it. I don't know.
Whatever one I can roll, make me a investigation at 12.
You've never seen something like this before?
I look at Boram and I say, yeah, no, I mean, I don't want to
carry this, do you? Oh, I definitely take it.
If you don't want it. Milan, take a half.
I break it in half, I give Milan half and I throw the other half
to Boram. All right, thank you kindly.
And I'll smash that one up as well.
Milan cringes every time it gets broken up.
While this is going on, Vivian wants to go investigate the
crater to see if we will be able to go past this point with the
carriage. You're looking at the crater,
and you know, you can go around it and it's taking up the road,
though, but there's enough grass to get the carriage around.
And if you were under any stress, you would have to make
some checks and it could possibly fall in.
But under calmer circumstances, like now, you'll be able to get
it around just fine. And can I investigate, see if
there's anything else in there or I just see if it's empty?
It is empty. Beautiful.
Vivian's going to turn around to everyone and go, well, it looks
like the coast, it is clear for this, so if we want to get back
in the carriage and get going, I guess we can.
Yes, please. Yeah, yeah.
Let's hit the road. Got back on the road.
Talked to Paladin for a bit, but couldn't get much out of him.
Might a lot too much slip about my connection with the fair
wild. Can't tell yet if he's working
with or against Mazami. Can see Olmsted now.
We go and drop the horses off and see Gemrick real quick.
Hey, my luck will change. He is open.
He has some new information for me.
Hey, Gimmer Egg. Yeah.
Any Wizards come through here
trying to buy gems? Wizards.
You know. Yeah.
We get some people doing in particular though.
But our wizard come through here.
Or maybe you heard something about them?
No, our mutual friend did not come visit recently.
They have not seen her in a while.
OK, that makes two of us then. And Boram just kind of like
lifts his head up and closes his eyes for a second.
Last time I've seen them, he wanted some Topaz.
That was a long time ago. Yeah, I remember.
Appreciate you though. Keep a lookout.
If they come looking, just let me know.
Would you send me a letter or something?
Mean a lot. I'll pay you for it too.
This service is free. I appreciate that.
You want me to tell them anything?
No, nothing to say. Just need to.
Just trying to find them. Myrtle Day 16/14/81 MKD 10:00 PM
Gitenberg was a dead end. How scored Lady Eleanor next,
Maybe Gadget got some new info. Walk was nice tonight.
The Oaks Grove the same as it ever was.
Just finished getting changed into something a bit more
casual. The gang is upstairs trying to
get info from the drunks. Not a good dad'll do.
After we got to the Oaks Grove we immediately spotted more of
those pus ridden rats. It was kind of open to settle
down for the night after the day we had, but she was eager as
ever to get to work. Ran right into trouble again.
Vivian picked a lock into the room Grep was staying in.
Filthy is about the only word for what we found.
This time the rats weren't so small though, they just about
doubled in size. Rain's popping out.
Well, psychic nonsense. Light magic made it difficult to
fight them. Immune to psychic attacks.
Island and I was about useless. Dentron gave him a good bit of
holy power. Looks like he can smite now if
he and just stabbed them all real good.
Not so bad hanging around these folk.
You hear more knocks at the door.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Are you guys OK in there?
Do the rats stay the same size or do they get smaller?
Nope. They shrunk down and melted away
almost. It's like this weird goop.
There is a carcass there, but it's very deflated, very wet.
OK. I try to like, scoot it up
against the wall as Castle's doing that.
I'm going to take a breath and I'm going to cast guidance on
myself and then I'm going to open the door slightly and be
like, sorry, we was just doing a bit of partying.
You're right, we should stop. So we going to stop now and just
try and deceive him, I guess. Make a deception check as the
you see two people like trying to look into the room around
you. OK, It was a now one as there's
like passive and poison and you see cattle holding a rat in the
background. Hey, wait, listen, hey, what's
I'm I'm telling the owner and you see that he runs and goes
towards the stairs and you see the other TV ball like looking
in and also backing away. He's like we got a couple of
ruffians. You're supposed to be drinking
party upstairs. I slowly close the door and look
at everybody. Man panicked.
That's on me. I would immediately like to try
to search the room for any Intel that we could find and take back
everybody roll investigation. As you search around the room,
you notice that once the rats died, you stopped hearing that
music box from outside the room. I got a 13, got a 17.
That is a 21. Vivian 6.
As the four of you searched this room, it is completely
destroyed. There is nothing of value that
the four of you can find you with some of your incredibly
high scores. The only paperwork you can find
all the stocked books on the bookshelf that seem like stories
or just like basic religious books that would be held in
Tavern rooms. But you do notice this rat like
residue, this green, the same goo that was kind of pussing out
of the rat. You do see it along the walls
and such. It looks like this was some type
of rat's nest. And nobody has been in here in a
long time. It is weird.
You get the sneaking, like a weird suspicion.
Like why would the owners leave a room like this for so long?
Vivian's going to turn to everyone and go.
At least I asked him if we could kill the rats.
That's true. Maybe they forgive us.
Yeah, it's weird. It's like these guys have been
here for a long time. As the four of you keep looking
around, you see that you hear another knock on the door.
You hear the halfling, the one that questioned you, we'll say
for the rats. Hey, I heard there was like some
commotion. The room is destroyed.
I'm going to have to ask you to open up or I'm going to going to
come in there myself. So there's a a body for one of
the rats. They are small rats.
They are covered in this green pus and they look depleted.
I'm going to pick one up with my magic hand and open the the door
and then just wave it left to right.
I got them. When you open the door, they
push it open. Hey, I'm getting some.
What happened? He looks at the completely
destroyed room. Furniture demolished, pots and
dressers broken. I know you say you want to
attack some rats. You didn't have to destroy the
whole room. What is what's the meaning of
this? No, I mean, honestly, it was
like this. When we got here, it was like
this. Like this.
I think I would know if one of my rooms was destroyed.
Sir, I'd say something. But look, the rats have been
here for a while. You haven't known that this is
where the rats live. Persuasion check 17.
Something doesn't sit right, but did just get here.
Yeah. I mean, that's what we said when
we opened the door. The elf walks in behind the
halfway and taking a look around, it's like, you know, we
we haven't been in here in a while.
What room and number elf looks at the door that he came in room
number room number 5 and he looks at the halfling like Kate.
I mean, who who is this room booked on?
I didn't book the I didn't book the room.
Who would you book on that? It's like, what's his name?
What's his name? And you see that he takes out
like a little book, like a Ledger, like a pocket Ledger.
He begins to look through and flip through the pages.
It's like a Mr. A Mr. Dunlop. Yeah.
Oh, Mr. Dunlop has been here for about, oh, wow, about 4 1/2
weeks now. And no one's come into the room
to check on Mr. Dunlop. He looks through the Ledger.
He goes. Well, he'd requested to not be
disturbed or to deny. I mean, if people tend to stay a
long period of time, it's not added the ordinary to, you know,
we don't clean up the room if they request us not to come in.
I mean, it's he's paying his stay.
He's all checked out for the rest of the week.
You didn't see him come in or out at all?
Oh, I mean, I've seen him come and go since he's been here.
He was just upstage a few minutes ago.
Eating. What?
He's here right now. I mean, yeah, he's going to have
to pay for all this damage. Yeah, because he's the one that
did it. Well, we still don't know about
that, but I mean, I can't. You see this dust, I see this
pigsty. I'm sorry, you think we did all
this in a matter of what, 5 minutes?
You see? Boram snaps his finger and he
uses an action to with his tinker's magic, he produces A
vial. He's going to take some of the
goop from Laurette. So we're going to get paid for
this, right? I mean, pay for what?
I didn't ask you to come here to help destroy the room you asked
us to. I didn't say anything.
You as points to Vivian asked to kill Rat.
I didn't offer anything Vivian puts her hands up he goes hey
hey hey as he walks towards the door that's open and he can
still see the other patrons that are actually staying there and
he's like oh so you're saying that you don't clean rooms for
multiple days and that we'd offered a service and you're not
going to pay and he starts making a big scene about it.
The elf steps is like whoa, whoa, whoa.
That is that is not what's going on.
Hey, listen, you asked to go look for some rats and we let
you go look for rats. Now you're telling me 3 rats
destroyed this whole room? Look at this room.
There's claw marks. That looks like a bear went into
this. That's what I'm saying.
You said you haven't been in here for 4 1/2 weeks.
I'm just saying it didn't happen just recently.
It could have happened 2 weeks ago and you wouldn't have known.
You also don't know Mr. Dunlop has been in and out of here for
the last 4 1/2 weeks. You ever heard any disturbances
until now? Going to turn to the elf and go.
They were huge. Once they got mad, they grew
super, super big. Persuasion check with actually,
this is going to be a disadvantage.
You're trying to convince him that there's hulking rats in the
room. 18 is my disadvantage. Oh, twice I could do.
I could do a disadvantage. Well, my persuasion is +5.
No, you're great. No, it's looking at me with
anchor because you crushed that. That's awesome.
He looks at you and goes sludge rats with exposed brains.
And you see that? The elf takes an interest and
actually walks over to one of the rats, examines the body and
takes out the dagger, pokes the rat gently with the tip of the
blade, like kind of examining the body, trying not to touch
it, using the blade as an extension of himself.
Yeah, the brain is pretty exposed.
I mean, I know it's dead, but it looks looks like it's being
dead. Although you passed that
persuasion, like he's still skeptical.
You did sell him a far fetched story.
He's not saying he doesn't outright believe you, but he is
like not resisting what you're saying.
And he's actually considering the truth as he's like looking
into this. You see, the elf gets up, goes
to the front door, pushes Mylan in back into the room goes.
We appreciate you coming to get us.
We're going to take care of this.
Please go upstairs, return to your rooms.
Sorry for the disturbance. We'll send everybody down with
the craft wine for the inconvenience that you had to
leave the room. And we do appreciate you trying
to keep us honest. OK, we'll send that momentarily
closes the door and then talks to the four of you.
Party. Settle down, little red one.
Kate and looks over to the halfling.
I believe you. I think we do have a bit of a
rodent problem here. It seems a bit more serious than
I've originally thought. He goes, yeah, you think.
Look at this. Look at this room.
This is going to cost piles of platinum to fix.
He's going to set us back. Look at this.
We're going to have to condemn this room for a while.
Like we got to clean it up and this puss and this rat turds
everywhere. This rug alone is going to cost
3 platinum on its own. Look at this, you know, for a
premium room and he goes KKK. You need the elf Toms that have
one goes well, look, listen, it's just stinks, okay?
What if somebody got seriously hurt here?
That's what's more important. Nobody got hurt you.
Nobody has to tell the town God and there's no investigation.
And then we don't get bad bad publicity that we have giant
looks over to Vivian brain rats in our in our Tavern right.
And that's the important part. And I I do think there is some
merit to that that we need to honor goes back over to you
because we appreciate your help and as a reward we would like to
you know feed you tonight and perhaps give you a room if you
need a place to stay and that'll be on us.
Kate chimes in halfway goes whoa whoa free night good elf
Hutchison with the hand. Please stay on us.
We'll give you a room. We'll feed and give you a drink
in the on us as appreciation for taking care of the rat problem
that we had as far as it's the one that was in this room.
I think he needs to answer to that and we're gonna charge him
for destroying a lovely room. If you go find him, he does a
return and we can talk about compensation then I would
appreciate if you can get a lending hand on this.
Sure. Mylan's excited that he gets a
room to sleep. He's like, this could be great.
And he snuggles into the the couch that's on the not this
room. Please don't get sick.
All right, Wait. The guy's still upstairs.
What are we doing? Let's go find him.
Let's go. You see.
Boram closes the journal. He'd been sketching what he saw
in the rats and kind of making little diagrams.
He gets up. All right, because it's going to
be a Lenai. Sorry about your room.
Maybe I can help you mend some of this, but not a lot of it.
Fixable. Probably not.
We're probably just going to get all new stuff.
Yeah, that's for the best. And Boram.
Looks down at a bunch of the feces.
Yeah. Yeah.
Vivian looks around too and just goes.
If he doesn't have the funds, just keep me posted.
I might know someone who can help.
All right, well, I do appreciate your patronage, but I think the
person who destroyed the room is the one that should be paying
for it. But.
Oh, great. This room is going to be a
pretty piece of copper to fix. I don't think taking that much
from you would be would be necessarily fair.
Or within your point purse. You could tell that he doesn't
know who you are or the perhaps the the amount of wealth you may
be carrying on you at the moment.
But you do get the sense that this room is very expensive.
You go ahead and take room 4. That's the one just the left of
this. It's a it's accommodating to a
party size of four more tosses you a key.
But yeah, if he if he's still up there let's you should probably
go get after him. Vivian turns around to everybody
all excited with their hands on her hips and goes everyone
ready? You hear that Paladin?
Yeah a honeymoon didn't stop yet.
Any wings? Sarcasm.
Yep. Milan's got a pillow that he's
walking out of the room with. He's like, Yep, I'm ready to go.
Milan, put it back. El takes the pillow.
No, no, no. You need to work on your
shoulder skills. It's weird.
No, but like, you're weird if you're going to throw it away.
Like, we're not burning. Waiting for.
No, No, no. Sure.
No. Will you raise the garbage can?
No. Next to 1.
Looks like we have some rodent problem here.
And he kind of takes the pillow and pushes you out.
Milan, there's clean stuff in the new room.
Don't take the gross stuff. Nice.
You feel it? You have frills.
We can get you a frilly pillow that's clean.
It has frills from the shredded cloth on it.
All right, come on, let's get fixed up Mylan.
Then we go up and get you some more milk before bed.
No and bow. Ram heads to the the room.
We're not going to go find the guy.
I'm going to get settled first. I'll meet you up there.
Clean up after that. And he takes his goggles off his
head. He takes his lab coat off and
puts it over his shoulder. Vivian's going to turn around to
Mylan and Castle and go. Do you guys want to go up?
Yeah, we go. Yeah, yeah, let's go.
I'll go with you. Check it out.
Took me a well needed bath. Maybe I'll go upstairs and have
a drink. Groups coming back now.
She knows below from investigation.
People don't like Grip. Grip left the Tavern nice as we
cut to Boram upstairs. Boram, what are you doing?
Boram's just kind of doing his usual thing, drinking a little
too much, talking too much to anyone who will listen, and
trying to trying to get cozy with someone.
You're holding your own as parting is not too far out of
your nature, but you're definitely feeling it.
And you balancing yourself on these drunkard stairs, as
they're called. The stairs leading up to the
circular bar in the center of the Tavern and you make your way
over to one of the watering buckets, which is just where you
can get a glass of water at your own pace if you'd like.
And there is a lady standing over there that you decided to
chime in on and begin to talk to you.
Go ahead and roll me a charisma check as you make small talk.
At 11, she's quite smitten with you.
A little too smitten. Matter of fact.
You think you're you're throwing out kind of cheesy 1 liners.
At this point, you're just being your goofy, drunken self.
And she is taken to you and she goes over and she even buys you
a drink. Do you have a few drinks, I
should ask? Yeah.
Bo Ram is drinking with Reckless Abandoned.
Do they let people smoke in this bar or?
No, They do. And he's smoking, too.
So he's kind of like, also at the same time, chatting with
someone to his right that's also a smoker.
And they're sharing tips back and forth about the kind of
tobacco they use and how they roll it in the papers.
And he just keeps drinking and drinking and drinking and kind
of lets the night take him in a pretty bad way as he loses count
and keeps talking, talking to this woman who seems to be
smitten, at least for the moment.
Go ahead and make me a constitution saving through it's
ADC 1817. You are feeling it.
You're having a good time. And you are pretty much blacked
out at this moment. And she invites you back to her
room. Of course.
Yeah. Good night.
That's just get some water 1st and then try to go up the
stairs. She chimes in.
She's like kind of hold yourself.
So darling, please, please. All right, get some water, but
please join me, please. Oh, is that gonna resist your
charm? She gives you a wink and then
walks with you calmly down the drunken stairs and leads you
into room 7, which is in the southeast corner of this tree
trunk as you stumble through the grassy floor.
Then she settles into the room and you seemingly black out from
drinking way too much. Everybody wakes up on the 17th
of Myrtle Tazzle. Mylan, Vivian, you are all
refreshed. You gain the benefits of a long
rest. Bo R.E.M.
You wake up after having a very, very fun night.
Your hands are still shackled to the bed frame.
I go to scratch my head but then feel the tug.
The hell is this? You have a crazy hangover.
Something a little bit stronger than a hangover.
How many did I drink? Where am I again?
And as you realize you're still shackled to the bed frame, you
look over at your things and you realize that one of your
pouches, your coat, has been turned inside out.
Your money is gone, and you notice that your gloves are
gone. First of all, I left my coat in
my room. Oh, I'm sorry.
You're absolutely right. I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry you deleted my coat.
I I did not hear that, but you were robbed.
Did you have your gloves with you?
I did. I definitely have my gloves.
They are not there on the night stand.
They are missing. Along with any money you had
with you. Shit shit shit.
God damn, as your pants or clothes were flipped inside out
just so I can picture this, he's got each handcuffed to the bed
frame. Yes.
And they're they're tied up with rope.
Handcuffed is a bit of a harsh tool though, therefore just
ropes. And they're they're they're
they're snug. It'll take a little doing.
You might be able to find a way to get out of this.
You might need some help depending on how you roll.
But yeah, they're they're bound by ropes.
So he can lean up a little bit and he kind of looks around.
His head is throbbing and he sees he's clearly been robbed.
He immediately, like, tugs at his hands, see that his gloves
are gone, kind of just lays back down on the bed.
But we're in. What you doing?
You better than this? What time is it?
How'd it get out? How'd it get going?
OK. And he kind of looks up, and he
realizes both of his hands are bound, so it's really hard to
even get grips on the ropes. So he'll look to the green bark
door and kind of just like a spot in front of that door.
Oh, all right, All right, focus. But we're in.
You got this just like chance he taught you.
Envision yourself being there. Here's the magic you got all
right, and I'm going to try and bonus action Misty step out of
the restraints into the bed goes with you.
No, I'm kidding. Technically it does say anything
that is on your person and I would say these are on your
person, but I'm not going to go that heavy on you.
You go ahead and you misty step and this is a feature, correct?
It is a spell. It is a feature casting a spell
that it gets cast once per day. And if you know misty step, that
is a second level spell. When you go to cast misty Step,
you do not have your gloves on you.
And as you go to cast misty step, your hands begin to fizzle
and it feels like your fingers are electrifying a bit.
It feels like a really big static shock coursing through
your body. Go ahead and roll me AD 20.
I got a 7. So I believe that fails
according to our table. So this is not going to work.
So Dan, would you like to reveal more information about this or
would you want me to do it? I'm going to find and now based
on what I roll, we're just going to do it.
I think. Go ahead and roll another D20
and let me know what you get. Oh God, I got a six and go.
You tried a misty step and a giant static shock courses
throughout your body gives you bad cramps as all of a sudden
this mist of green, turquoise and blue and it feels like
there's like this sharp dust in the air just pours out of your
pores. A big color bomb explodes on
your location. The entire room is now coated in
this weird blue turquoise emerald color that is now
splattered all over the wall as if a paint bomb just went off.
All right, maybe we try the old fashioned way and he's going to
try his best and take some time to wriggle out of these ropes.
Sure, you could do a slight of handshake here.
That is A10 that is going to do it.
And it's just cutting on to the DC that you need because these
aren't exactly professional sailors Dos.
They're just there for fun. But you do remember that you're
in this situation because you drank a little too heavily last
night, and it was just enough to keep you in place just so you
can get robbed while you're working your way play out of
those ropes. We're gonna cut over to Castle
Mylan and Vivian, with the three of you waking up in your room,
tending to your morning routines, wondering where Bo Ram
is. I would say castles probably
awake and if he's not, you know, outside, you know, either like
coming back in from like, you know, working out or preparing
for the morning because he doesn't need a lot of sleep.
So he's probably been up and about.
He's definitely clocked that Boram is gone, but he knows how
loose and free willing I think Boram is.
So I don't think he's kind of too worried about it yet.
But knowing they do need to do things, if he doesn't show up
soon, I think he might get a little bit worried.
Vivian's going to wake up. She fell asleep on the, like,
armoire with the book. So her leg is dangling off and
she has a book on her chest. And she just kind of like, jumps
awake when Kazzle enters the door and goes, good morning,
good morning. How's it going?
It's pretty lively down there. I think it's not too bad.
Oh, God, God, where's Mylan? And I kind of just look around
the room. Vivian points up above you, just
here. And he's just breathing very,
very soundly as he's sleeping. He's still got any idea how to
wake him up? Yeah.
And I bang my hand on the wall to try to get it to, like,
vibrate up the wall onto, like, the rafter where my own's
sleeping. He quickly prides himself up and
he's scared. Cat, back arched, trying to look
big, looking around, trying to figure out where he's at.
And then he looks down. Some of us are trying to sleep
up here. What?
What, what? What's going on?
Good morning, Milo. Yeah, Mylan, it's the morning we
got to get going, but it's so early you can sleep in the car
on the way home. Vivian's going to prop herself
up and start looking around. OK.
I see one face and I see two face.
Where's third face? You mean ball ramp?
I haven't seen him. Did you see him when you were
out, Castle? I actually did not.
No. Oh boy, I'm sure he's fine.
I'm sure he found some company last night or something.
Vivian will roll her eyes and just slam her head back down on
the chair. Hope it wasn't that company from
upstairs. They were really mean.
Who? Miley?
Which? Which?
People from upstairs, the people at the table, I was trying to
get it some information and they knew about the guy, but then
they wouldn't tell us and the guy was mean.
In fact, you know what? I'm going to take a look.
Maybe he's still there. OK.
He's crawling down, and he's kind of on a mission to give
this guy a peace of his mind. Vivian's going to sit up and
just turn to Castle and go. You want to follow Mylan, or do
you want to check the rooms? I think I'm probably just going
to go get something to eat, to be honest.
Like I said, Forum's a big guy. He can take care of himself, and
I'm sure he's fine. You know what?
You've got a point. You hear a knock at the door.
Hello. Nope.
If we don't answer, they don't. We don't have to leave, Mom.
And I can hear you. There he is.
Like I said, you're gonna open his number one.
Sorry. No one's home.
No, I'm in a mood. Let him in, Mylin.
I probably open the door and just give him a quick peek with
my right eye as I look out. And what do I see?
You see Boehm in his underwear, holding his clothes with just
turquoise mist all over him. More.
I shut the door. OK.
Why did you not let him in, Mylin?
What's going on? It may not be him.
I don't know.
Someone else needs to take a look.
I'm counting the three. And then I'm going to use my
poison spray. Vivian's going to run up to the
door. She doesn't want to deal with
this. And she whips it open.
Morning. And he just walks in.
What on earth happened to you? I don't want to talk about it.
And he grabs his coat. When he grabs his coat, you
notice that his backside is not covered in this.
Vivian turns not red. She's already red.
Vivian turns tail and, like, turns around.
All right, I'm going to the tree, and I'll meet you back
here. And then he just goes outside,
and he starts walking towards the bathroom.
Hey, what about these footsteps? Are we going to have to clean
these up? Let's let him clean it up.
Yeah, I mean, I didn't do it. Let's go get some food, sounds
good to me. Myrtle Day 17/14/81 MKD 11 AM at
the river now. Left the Tavern as quick as I
could but the gods was no help at all.
Loves gone magic still unstable without them and cast simple
cantrips. Okay, better goal missing as
well. Let me get some water while I'm
here and practice with my crossbow.
Well, it'll be frank. This would be I'm not calling
you petty Sir, but this would be a petty crime.
No, no, I get it. You know what this is?
It's a waste of time. Thank you.
When he just walks out, you see as you walk out, you kind of
just like sighs and just kind of his worst time he's here like
mumble under his breath and he seems like, but it is reported
and then Boram storms out and he's going to go over the river
and just like get his head straight for a little bit.
You slept through one of the alleyways and you go to the
river that cuts directly in between this town and the river
in this town is significant. It is said to be a direct stream
from God's inspiration. Now, God's inspiration is a very
important location in the continent of the heartland.
It is the tallest mountain range in the heartland.
Legends and rumors have it only confirmed through time that
there is a water source up there and it's some of the purest
water that you can get and their stream comes directly from that
mountain range. It is also said because of that
high quality water is able to harness it makes some very good
brews and it's preferred to use in potions and elixirs, alcohol,
anything that requires a water base.
People prefer to come from this stream, so it's pretty soft not
after, and it's pretty expensive outside the town of Rockhead
homestead. Additionally, and the last fact
that you would know, especially you Bill Ram, is that the closer
you get to that peak water source at the top of God's
inspiration, the more poem and powerful it's special conditions
are believed to be. It's cleaner.
It's even deemed to be holy and downright magical.
If you were to clean the water straight from its peak.
It's ruined to have like these magical puritive properties and
she used in very high level potions and elixirs.
It can be easily manipulated. Basically, in an alchemic sense,
it could substitute for very hard liquid base.
If you're trying to make a very complex potion.
It would essentially just be a free ingredient that would not
fail on you when you try to grab something, mechanically
speaking. But it's very hard to get to
that peak and people don't do it almost ever.
Yeah, Bohm is trying to take his mind off of things and he is
refilling some bottles of this water.
It only takes about 5 minutes to do that.
And then after he's done that, he puts his code down.
Just kind of sits against a stump of a tree that's been cut
down, lanes his head back for a bit.
I'm gonna pause you right there before you get to that next
note. When you take the water into the
bottle, you can get like 3 or 4 vials of this.
I'll say you have some vials on hand.
You notice that half the vial, despite you just putting your
whole vial under the water, half of it is like mist.
Because this river is lightly coated with this mist.
It's almost separating like water and oil.
And no matter how much you try to just get the water, you see
that a good portion of the vial just takes up this mist.
So after collecting the water, Bowram goes back and kind of
lays back against the stump after putting his lab coat down
on the ground. He's kind of breathing in
deeply, out heavily, and then not knowing anybody's around, he
does take out his necklace and he begins fiddling with
something, trying to get into a happy place.
And I think Vivian would see this from where she's at.
She would see Bo Ram holding close and fiddling with a small
cup of ring that is looped over the wheat chain necklace.
Then after some time, he kind of gets a little calm again.
He steps up, and he takes a hand crossbow out of his jacket.
It's the lab coat, the bag of holding.
All right, I haven't used this in a while.
And he's going to try and shoot something across the waterway.
Vivian's going to step out at that moment because she doesn't
know what's going to happen and just goes, Ball Ram, can you
just stop for a second, please? And he shoots it.
And he goes, like, up over a house, white and dirty.
She was there. And you hear your voices trail
off. Oh, yeah.
And Ball Ram goes behind a tree, grabs his lab coat.
What you doing out of here scared me off to death.
Well, I think you keep forgetting that we're A-Team
now, and when you stormed off and left us behind, you kind of
set us back. I'm sorry I'm helping you for a
little bit. That don't mean we are.
That mean we're A-Team. Well, just 'cause we're not for
a long time. We are this weekend.
So I need you to get into gear. Sorry, I was just practicing
getting ready. You lost your gloves.
I followed you all the way into the watch house, and I followed
you out here. I have a few questions.
You just follow me now that what team members do.
That's what Castle told me. Of course you did.
That seems right from Dendron. Seems like you need those
gloves. Yeah, I don't.
They helped me. Yeah, they do.
They amplify on magic. Would anything happen if we
don't find them today? No, no, no.
It's gonna be fine. It'll be fine.
Maybe you can do a perception check.
He's lying. Maybe an inside check.
Boram. Maybe a perception 4.
Yeah. You're looking at him.
You're a bit puzzled. And you notice that his hands
are bare, which they are normally not.
We had things to do today, but if this will get you back on
track, why don't we go find that Lady you were with?
No, like I said, it'd be fine. Don't.
Don't worry about me. He's just going to squint.
I'll get it together. It's just, it's nice to have
because it makes my smells more powerful.
But it's not like I need him. We'd be fine.
And he starts walking away with his lab coat.
Vivian's going to grab his arm and yank him back and look him
dead in the eye and just say I need you on your vest right now.
I need this to go well. So if you can't get your act
together, then I don't want you here.
I'm either going to help you with Castle and Mylan, or you
can go home. Damn, Mom.
Intimidation. Check.
What? Yeah.
It's just a short.
Yeah, I've never heard the intimidation so.
Well put. 15 Yeah. Give me a Christmas saving throw
for him. 5 All right, No, Vivi, listen, I I'm sorry I stormed
out like that. Normally, I feel like I got
everything to get her, and I can usually do everything on my own.
But if I'm not as powerful today, maybe I lean on you a
bit. But I promise you it's not for a
lack of trying. I'm going to try, and I'm going
to be on my best. Or at least I'm going to try my
best. I swear, that's all I can ask.
I was going to go day on my own, but I.
You can tell me what you want to tell me.
Maybe there's a good plan and we we figure it out.
Can you draw and I draw? Of course I can draw.
Look at this. He flips through some of his
pages. He's the best schematics you
ever saw. Can you draw her face while we
walk? I can.
I can never do that. I don't think we find it.
But I appreciate you caring about it.
You know what? Might as well forget you even
follow me around. And he smiles.
Yeah, don't worry. Run off again and I'll follow
you again. I don't like that.
You walk up to this building and it's on the north side of town.
One of the keynotes that you notice from this large building
is that at the North End of the town where you see this stream
cutting down the center of it, there is a separate stream that
you could kind of see through the foliage wall that separates
from the main river and goes behind this building, behind a
distillery that you're about to walk into.
You do know that the distillery uses the stream and harnesses
the water to filter and make all of their brews and alcohol
there. And it seems like they have
their own private reserve. Breaking off from the stream,
you walk inside the distillery. It's not a huge room.
The main room itself is only about 20 feet from the door to
the bar. There's three tables in there
and there's a couple of stools in front of the bar and there's
this big roaring fireplace. The entrance to the place is one
single gold rim door looks very reinforced.
The beautiful elegant windows on either side are also reinforced.
It looks like this place is trying to prevent any type of
break insurance possible. Once you go inside, you see
another one of these doors behind the bar where you would
imagine it goes into the main part of the distillery.
And this room that you've walked into is just for a guest to come
pick up bulk orders or or just try out a couple of drinks
before purchasing larger quantities or just coming here
to taste test. It's not the biggest place, but
you do see some people in there drinking by themselves.
You see two women over on your right drinking and laughing to
themselves. It looks like they're having a
good time. And you see a human bartender
just on the other side cleaning some mugs and looking like he's
putting some flights of drinks together that he is about to
serve. The place is very clean.
The walls look very nice. You do see mounted head trophies
along the walls of a stag and Raven combo.
I would like to just look around and see if we see Boram and
Vivian. You do not as you 2 are the
first to come here. I'll just walk up to the counter
and I'll just say come on man, let's hang out while we wait for
him. Yeah, okay, Barkey, do you mind
if I get a flight? What are you feeling today?
I don't mind at all. I don't mind at all.
Fancy elf. He looks at you and he looks at
your armor. He goes.
Coming from the main city, I can't say I'm not familiar with
your house. And he's referring to the armor
that you're wearing it where you have your court sigil on.
Like he knows I'm from the fae, or he's saying like he doesn't
know and he thinks I'm from somewhere else.
He's not sure where you're from. He knows that you're an elf and
he knows that you're representing something, but he's
not familiar with that symbol, so he's asking about it.
Yeah. I'm actually from the Fall Court
of the Fay. Wow.
And this is the symbol of Sahim. Please, please let me.
No disrespect. I'm just not familiar with that
realm. Seems like you travelled a long
way and I'm happy to serve you. Yeah, I came all the way to try
your beer, so hopefully it's pretty good.
Interesting. I do have to say, and I once
again, no disrespect, but animal companions do need to stay
outside as we maintain a very clean environment here.
We don't want your pets fur to get to any of the beverages
here. So I'm going to have to ask that
you stable your furry friend outside.
And he's referring to Mylan. Yeah, this is actually not a
companion animal. This is Mylan.
He is a person. Violent.
Say hi. Hello.
I have a symbol too. He speaks.
Yep. And then I show him my little
symbol. It's on my little sash.
You see that? He takes a look at it and he
gets real close. He puts one arm over the bar.
Is that wood vein? You know about it when you know
about it? Yeah, you're, you're very, very
far with home, huh? Yeah, I've heard of it.
We used to actually deliver to you to your hometown.
I mean, yeah, we used to have a couple of a couple of routes
that headed that far. And, you know, it was only a few
cases, but you know, it was pretty expensive because of the
distance travelled and your town's money's as good as anyone
else's. But one day you just stop.
You stopped sitting up there. I just, I just noticed that
symbol from all the, from the letters and invoices that we
used to get. Yeah.
Wait, is, is Mylan showing him like an actual symbol from where
Mylans from, or is he showing him like the eyeball stitching
that's on his cloak? He does have a symbol on his
sash. Oh, OK, Kassel definitely clocks
us as he doesn't think he's ever asked Mylan about it.
So he's kind of just soaking that in and and he takes a
mental note of that. So you guys actually went there.
So how'd you guys get in? I've never personally used it.
I I mean, don't get me wrong, we established drop off points.
Matter of fact for towns that distance normally we'd actually
have a drop off point where we would we have weight or the
carriages would meet at a neighboring town and met at a
agreed upon point. Like I've never been there
myself, but I do recognize that symbol.
Wow. As an old customer, I'm sorry
we've lost your business. I'm sure the owner is very upset
about that. Yeah, you know, but it's pretty
cool that no one ever knows it. So awesome.
And then he tries to ask about his drinks and see what he could
maybe drink. We have several spirits here.
We have a beautiful batch of Moonshade black rum that we were
just brewed this morning. We also have some whisper root
Brandy, fresh. That's the two drinks we have
today. That is the flight I'm about to
serve your. Do you have anything non
alcoholic and just stare the guy blankly in the face.
We have water. We don't really serve food or
snacks here, but we do have ginger roots that we can share
to cleanse the palate as you partake in drinks so that you
may get the full flavor of each drink.
Yeah, let's do some ginger roots in a glass of water.
Oram and Vivian enter the distillery.
Yeah. So pretty sure I was drugged.
Yeah. That's that checks out.
Well, hopefully we don't deal with that again for this trip.
I can confirm to you that that is not going to happen again.
I promise. Do you swear I I do swear I do,
but I need a drink. He's going to open the door
walking. How goes it?
You just see Milan all of a sudden just being like, what is
this what you got there? And I lean between Milan and
Castle Mylan. I told you, I told you not to
eat that much. You're supposed to just nibble
on it. That is strong.
Vivian's going to run over panicked.
OK, just got some ginger. Oh, I prefer it pickled.
And I sit next to Castle Mylow Day 17/14/81 MKD 12:00 PM Forgot
how good the spirits was at this place.
Count of seats as well. Vivian's fumbling good right now
trying to get info out of the owner.
Tried to talk her up me with a family name that helped a bit
but now Vivians talking about some Bachelorette party or
something. It all this money to get an
order and this guy won't even show us around.
When I mentioned Grips name that got him real annoyed.
One of the patrons even left the bar.
I'm gonna go make a cigarette though.
Boram, you are outside of the stag and Raven going to get a
smoke and you notice somebody hastily walking away as if they
kind of have ants in their pants is the best way to describe it.
Where they're like kind of fastly walking away from the
stag and Raven, a little bit strange.
And he's going to light his cigarette and he's just going to
kind of walk along and follow him because he's curious.
He walks out and then he quickly turns down the road.
He is down at the end of the block.
Full Sprint. What the heck?
Why are you running? And I guess that Boer is going
to start sprinting now. Boram.
You begin to Sprint as he's running and he is having trouble
staying on his own 2 feet. As you see that he begins
running, holding onto his hat with one hand, sprinting with
the other, and you see that he is going to make another turn.
We're going to go ahead and roll initiative Boram, just for
continuity sake. The three of you leave the stag
and Raven as you finish up the conversation, and you see Boram
running at full speed down this alley to five for Boram.
You see a smoke trail as I turn the corner.
Vivian will call back to Mylin and Castle and go, let's go.
Well, OK, I'm right behind you. He got a 5 because he took down
to light his cigarette. So everybody in here I guess is
on this chase pursuit, everybody rolling this ship.
So Kazzle, Mylan and Vivian. The Kazzle got a 12 on the
initiative. Mylan tripped getting off his
chair and has a 9. Vivian got too excited, she
tripped 4. She tripped over Mylan.
Yes, stop tripping. Starting at the top of the round
at initiative 12 is Kassel. As you see, Boram is already at
the end of the block. The three of you are at the
entrance of the Stag and Raven. As you see, Boram is now darting
down an alley, cutting in and out between people, clearly
chasing somebody that you do not get full visual on just yet.
What are you doing, Kassel? I would just like to dash
action. Try to catch up to Boram and
I'll just turn around to Vivian and mine and I'll say come on,
pick up the pace. We got to go.
Go ahead and move a full 60 lights a cigarette.
What's going on, Kaz? Well, I guess we're chasing this
guy, right? Guess so.
Don't know why. And that's going to be my turn.
We're going to initiative 10, which is this mysterious person
that is now running holding on to his hat.
And he is going to also make a dash action as he goes S into
the town, cutting in between people, knocking into somebody.
Somebody drops apples onto the road and yells back, Oh, watch
where you're going. He just like ignores it, trying
to get away. You notice Boram, that when he
cuts that corner and runs 60 feet away from you, he's holding
onto his hat and he's holding onto a bag and he's a little bit
sluggish in this manner and not prepared to be running away from
people. We're going to move to
Initiative 9, which is Mylan directly South of the Stag and
Raven. There's another house.
There's a tree near it. He runs, he climbs up it and
then he is now on top of the north side of that building, but
still not able to see too, too much just yet.
So these buildings are pretty high up where you like the
building is 40 feet in the air. You have a climb speed of 30,
but you will have to make that movement to actually get up
there. So you're able to make it to the
building itself. OK, so that's my dash action.
Yes, we're gonna move to Initiative 5, Borim.
All right, didn't want to be running today, but here we go.
And I make it to the end of this alleyway and Boris will be like,
all right, second time's a charm.
That's the saying, right? And I'm going to try and bonus
Ash a misty step to get closer to this guy.
OK, you Misty step, go ahead and roll AD 20 for me as you tried
to cast Misty Step. That was a natural one.
That is a oh, dude. Got a three by the way, for my
magic surge. Oh no, I'm going to blow it in
front of Castle hassle. You notice that there is a surge
of electricity crackling outward to his hands and feet and head.
He begins to glow for a moment and gets blown back 30 feet
towards your direction back into the middle of the road as you
see that he has like these now explosion marks on him.
His clothes are a little bit dirty as if something small and
make sure just blew up on him. And do I clock all this stuff
about like the electricity, like flowing through his body or
whatever, or the what looks like electricity flowing through his
body? Yes.
It's very short glimpses, like very short burst.
It's not home alone where the guy is being electrified.
You see a skeleton. You just see like small streaks
of like magical zaps for like a brief moment before he goes.
I yell at the Boram and I'm like Boram, what was that?
Don't worry about it right now. Go get him.
Vivian just calls out. I knew it.
You need your gloves. All right, on live.
Stop. We just just want to talk.
As you see, he begins to slip behind some houses onto some
grass and trying to cut in between trying to take a
shortcut of some kind. So he's going to hit every tree
he can try to use all of his dash action to go all the way up
the building and then it makes it halfway across the roof just
above where Vivian is a shout out as loud as I can.
He's over there. He's running S down the and I
kind of give as many directions as I can to Vivian, who's below
me and oh man, leave this to them maybe.
And I use half my movement to get up and then dash another 30
feet to get behind Kassel. How are we doing, Kas?
Almost. God, I'm here.
This guy's fast. No kidding.
We kept running and running and running until we chase crap into
his busted looking old house. I don't think it's really his
house though. Castle did a good job kicking
that door down and we got to assertion how much to find here.
To be honest, except for an old racing horse that grab probably
stole after peeing on a rat accidentally.
I did it accidentally. Mylan and I ventured upstairs to
check on the 2nd floor where that bird was waiting.
Shot me something fierce. I mean nearly going down now.
I don't know why, but the rest of them tried to restrain them.
It's a bit difficult getting around those rats so didn't do
much good. Rub was controlling them with
some kind of crazy box. I thought Vivian straight dot
but she got back up like a boss and kept sending arrows back
grips away like the box right out of his hand and stole it for
herself. You hit the music box.
Go ahead, let me know how much damage you're doing. 5 points of
damage. You knock the music box out of
his hands, it rolls off to the floor, the lid closes and this
purple energy ceases to glow and the music stops in place.
Perfect. Exactly.
Was hoping for hassle. You notice at your feet all the
rats simultaneously look at the direction of the music box, and
you see, because you're so close, if brains are now pulsing
in unison, what else are you doing On your turn?
You can still make your second weapon attack if you like, but
the music box is knocked out of his hands.
Can Vivian run up to the music box and snag it?
Yes, I'll allow it because it's on the floor.
It's this line we can pick up, so it'll be a part of your
movement. Vivian is going to run over to
the drow and she's going to snag the music box and hold it in her
hand and try to take it over. Take the music box and you see
that all the rats are now looking at your palm and they're
following it. They are just on their hind
legs. You all have the same pose and
they're all looking at that box. All their brains begin to pulse
in unison. They don't look like they're
being as feral as they were just a minute ago.
You do not sense anything, unfortunately.
But you do know that they are trained on this box.
They don't look feral, but they are fixing.
You see that the drought goes. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
OK, you want to talk? I'll talk.
Whatever, whatever you whatever you do, please, please don't
destroy that box. And you see that he's like
nervously looking at the rats. Evan's going to hold her hand
out with the box to the other side, far away from the drow and
go. What happens if I break it?
No, there you should. It's very, it's very valuable.
It's very valuable. What do you want?
What do you want to what do you want to know?
What do you want to know? Please, please, please, please,
please, please, please. And you see that like he's
trying to stand up, back still pressed against the wall, but
he's like trying to get closer towards you with his hand
reached out. You are still in combat right
now. He's now pleading with you.
You see that? He puts his sword down on the
floor. We'll tie you up.
I won't break the box. But you have to be tied up.
And we're talking. No, no, no, no.
You don't have to. You don't have to go that far.
Oh, no, we do.
After everything you've done to us.
No, no, no, no. What do you want to know?
You're looking for someone, right?
I can help you. That's part of the deal.
Mona. me and I throw the manacles across the room and
they land on the floor next to Vivian.
So, you know, what is the last thing you're going to do on your
initiative before we go to Milan?
That's it. I'll just hold the box away from
him. My arm far, far away.
Milan, your initiative. You see that?
All these rats are now fixated on the music box that Vivian is
now holding. After hearing their
conversation, Milan's going to run over there and he's going to
get the manacles on to him. All right, come on, come on.
We got to talk now. It's over.
We have all the rats. I guess.
I don't know what's happening, but here, come on.
And I opened up the manacles and have him put his hands in.
You see that he's reluctant to do that with you as you holding
up the manacles. Maybe you just tell me why
you're here. Maybe you just tell me why here.
Please. We don't need to.
Maybe we don't need to. OK.
Should we just stick the rats on him?
I mean, do we need him? Maybe we don't need him.
And I'm going to try to
intimidate. Go ahead and roll intimidation
Check. That is going to be your action
19. Not the rats.
Not the rats.
Not the rats, not the rats. OK, OK, OK.
These these manacles. And he like goes to reach for
them. Come on, come on, let's go look
at banana here already with the night scene.
Intimidation check. He clips him on.
He has his hands out in front of him.
OK, OK. Just don't open the box or
destroy it. Please.
I just whatever I need to do to get that box back, I'll get it
back. I'll do whatever you want.
The four of you are now out of combat.
The rats gather around Vivian's feet.
Looking up at the box, you see that their brains are now
pulsating in unison. They all have the same team
stance, and you are staring at you.
First off, tell me how to get rid of these guys.
I'm keeping the box. OK.
OK, Whatever I can give you to get the box back.
But it it does influence them to do what you want if you were to
play it. OK, She'll open.
Actually, no, no. I don't want trust it yet.
They're fine. They're docile.
I'll leave them here for now. We have some questions about
Nuella and Vivian's gonna pull out the notes that she has.
That hack, she's my friend. Is that why you're here for that
washed up act Well, that and now the fact that there's a stolen
horse downstairs and you have these rats that have been
tormenting us for a long time Yeah, that kind of adds up
torment. I I haven't sick the rats on you
look at my boots. Well, now I did, because now I'm
defending myself in my home. This is self defence.
Damn. He's also kind of right.
I've broken no laws here. A little debatable.
Was it self defence in Boldaris when you attacked Nuella?
Allegedly. Allegedly.
With the rats. The rats that poisoned her that
look exactly like these ones. Well, what?
How'd. How?
I'm here. How can I poison her there?
I'm here. I mean, you could travel back
and forth, right? Just like we did.
I haven't left. Says you.
OK, I'll be on the level with you.
I'm a little bit of a wanted man in boulders.
I'd really be putting myself in a precarious situation if I were
to step foot in boulders. OK.
I'd be arrested because the horse downstairs.
No. Is he lying inside?
Check. Fuck, I only got a six.
Damn. I wonder what he's wanted for
then. Can I make an inside check?
I guess, Yeah. Inside check.
That's a swampy 20. Yeah.
It doesn't beat his back. You're not supposed to tell us
what they roll. I know, but it's so funny.
No, I didn't steal it. Vivian's so tired, she's going
to do an intimidation roll, and she's going to lean up against
the wall, push him back and go. If you don't tell me right now,
I can't promise you'll walk out of here alive.
So if you value your life, you'll start talking.
He is already scared of you because you are holding the box.
So the intimidation check is an automatic.
He goes, OK, OK, OK, OK. You hear the jostling on the
manacles. He goes, OK, yes, I did.
I was threatening her. So she stops playing.
I am just sick of her music. You know, I was once the great
entertainer of town. Everyone loved me.
And then all of a sudden, O Lt. fling with one horn comes around
and singing dark and brooding lyrics and all of a sudden she's
the she's the popular. It makes me sick.
Her lyrics aren't even that good.
And yours are any better. Why should she have all the fame
with half the talent that I have?
So much talent that you had to raise an army of rats that was
lucky. How'd you get this box in the
1st place? I found it.
Where? In the street.
I would like you to know that I am a Charman and I can get you
arrested in Balderas no problem. Yeah.
More than that, probably. Yeah, that's just the generous
side. So you can be real with us.
You can tell us honestly and maybe we'll consider a lesser
punishment. Or you could keep this up and
you can talk to the blade, whatever you prefer.
OK. OK.
I'll talk.
Yes, I do. Did want to stop Nuella from
playing. I just.
I hate her. I hate her.
It's not fair that she is all
the fame. I was framed for selling golden
sugar in Boulderis. OK, I don't do it anymore.
But you did. I did.
And I got. Listen, I just.
I was if I figured if she wasn't performing anymore, he would
miss my songs and maybe I could try to work my way back into the
city through my talent. Could you tell us who framed you
for your old habit? Some of these drug pushers said
I I had it on me. They put the bag on me inside.
Check 11. He's lying.
Mylan and Boram, as you're watching the intimidate, this
drow elf, especially you, Mylan, you are feeling this presence
within the rats, but you're feeling it more on a psychic
level than like a physical. It's kind of like how you
channel your abilities. It's very similar in that
aspect. You're feeling this psionic
presence from the rats, and it's resonating with your abilities
in some way. However, they're fixated on the
box that Vivian is holding up, and they're just slowly inching
towards it, like with their noses straight up into the air,
looking directly at the music box.
Interesting. Boram, you have this feeling.
It's not the same feeling as Mylan, but you do feel this
intellectual presence theory. Can we already this up, please?
I really want to get out of here.
And he lights a match and he goes to start smoking a
cigarette, but before he can, you see, boring passes out on
the bed, losing, losing blood. I'll walk over to Boram, which I
was gonna do earlier. And I'm gonna cast cure wounds
on him. Ohh.
Don't. Don't use your dirty magic.
Don't use the God juice. No.
Oh, man, I can't wait to give him a hard time about this.
And I guess Cure Wounds, which is 2 D 8 + 3 HP.
Oh, nice. So 18 HP?
Ballroom immediately opens his eyes wide, shoots up.
I did not like that and lights a cigarette.
But it does feel pretty good. Exactly.
Yeah. He looks away from CAS.
It's the light. Milo, what are you doing?
I think I'm just looking at the rats looking at the box, trying
to figure it all out. As you're trying to figure it
out silently in the room, you notice that from these rat nest
bushes, there are more rats funneling into the room through
the holes in the floor. No, thank you.
I get up on the bed as they begin to fill the room from the
lower levels. I think we need to keep the box.
And they are coming in drones and they are walking in unison
and you count dozens of these mice and they're just staring at
the music. Vivian.
This catches your attention as you move it from left to right.
Their eyes are trained on it. You all sniff in unison.
Their brains pulse in unison. They are fixated on that object.
It's like you, the Rat Queen. I didn't want this.
What is this like? Vivian's gonna open the box.
It controls them. It controls them.
You open the box. This purplish cosmic energy
begins to swirl within it as it begins to play this void like
tune. And all of their eyes for a
moment flash purple, all of them as a wave flashes over them.
You are now thinking of a command.
And for a second you like want them to step back.
And you all take a step back. Well with this box open, you now
have a connection with them. They are all communicating with
you sciatically. You hear their rat voice in your
mind, but it sounds like one voice, one word said dozens of
times. And it says need, need, need
rats. Why do you need this?
Hoping for an answer. They do not answer.
They are fixated, but they are under your control.
So Vivian has the open music box.
It's playing away and I'm going to give it a shot.
I'm going to go. Hello, rats.
Could you go away? Stay dormant away.
You see all the rats gather in attention and they make their
way to the closest hole or crevice that is near them.
And you see them begin to slip into the cracks as they head to
a different part of the house. Thank you, rats.
Appreciate you. You do not respond and you all
scurry your weight. You tell them, Vivian.
All right, Mighty, How about we get downstairs and let these two
take care of this guy? Yeah, I'm gonna go sit down in
that chair down there. Yeah.
Oh, my God. I'm limping as I'm walking away.
Well, you got any more that got juice?
No. All right, Sorry.
We find you something downstairs, maybe.
Oh, my God, this sucks. I'll.
I'll try and patch you up a bit. I'm going to head downstairs a
Milan. Love these two.
Take care of this guy. While they're doing that,
Vivian's going to whip her head back around and Forecastle gets
a word and goes. What's your name?
Grip. You call me Grip.
OK. You are grip perfect.
Yeah, Vivian's gonna just flip her head over to Castle, so crap
real quick. What's going on with the horse
upstairs? Oh, the I needed to make a quick
escape and that was a horse that was oh, that was a horse that
was nearby in a in a stable I was staying in and not stowing
away in. And well, I needed to make a
quick getaway and you happened to be nearby and you got it took
to me because I had some food and here we are.
You stole a racehorse. You were in the racing stables.
No. Well, that's clearly a lie,
because that's a stolen racehorse down there.
Is he a racehorse? I thought he was just.
He needed. He needed a rider.
There was a sad old. No one was riding him, so I took
him. And what exactly were you
running from? Or why did you need to make this
great escape? I didn't want to go to jail.
We went over this for unforeseen circumstances.
Brought on by yourself, I take it?
No, No, no, no. Me.
No, No, No, no, no, no. No.
Can you just tell us what? You.
I did. Look, I was framed.
They think I was pushing gloom sugar to the people of Balderas.
They wanted me. I had nothing to do with it.
I was used as a front. They used.
They said I was like some type of celebrity.
Connection is not true. OK, It's not true.
Can I make a role just to see if he's actually telling the truth
or lying? Yeah.
Make me an inside check. Vivian lost 2 as well.
I got an 11. Me too.
Hey, you're not entirely sure. Well, Heartless, I think we'll
be taking you back with us. I think my family will see to
any form of punishments. Especially considering we need
to do a trial for Noella. And a trial for what?
Your harassment of her. I did.
What? Did I OK, Look, I OK.
I was heckling her at some shows.
I'm sorry. OK.
Is that what you want to hear? I'm sorry.
I won't do it again. I can't do it again.
You had the box. You have the box.
Now I can't do it. Which, while we're on the topic,
can can I see it for one second? No, you cannot.
Are you sure? What do you need it for?
To what do you need it for? It's my family heirloom.
Yeah. No, it's not.
That's OK. I'll hold on to it.
Safekeeping. Well, no, but that's OK.
Now you're stealing from me. Found it.
I. What do you mean?
It has a point. In my in my family's possession.
You found it in your family's possession?
What's your family's name? Dune Pipe.
From the dune pipes. OK real quick, real quick.
What is that over there? And I point to something on the
wall and as soon as he turns I just punch him in the face to
knock him out. Roll me a strength check.
OK? I don't want to kill him I just
want to. I'm just tired.
This is not lethal but I want to see.
Oh my God I rolled A gnat 1. Oh shit.
OK, this is awkward. That was supposed to knock you
out. I'm sorry.
Why?
I'm in. I'm in handcuffs.
You see, you had something on
your face, so I was trying to get it for you.
It was a wrap. Normally, I would give him a lot
of trouble for that, so I checked.
Oh, my God. I rolled the 10.
You knock him out, it's all you need.
It's all you need. Oh Castle, that was really
unfortunate. As you knock him out.
Bill, Ram and Mylan are now downstairs and what you 2 see is
that what was an empty house, you still see the horse π O Mai
eating out of the cupboard and he's making like good on that
bag of horse feed that's in there.
As you walk down the stairs into the hallway, you do see some of
these rats with, like, scars on their heads where their brains
would be popping out, kind of lurking in the shadows.
And just, like, observing. They're not bothering you.
You hear the occasional squeak, but they are around and they
just seem like they're skulking. All right, I'll be empathy.
And I put my line up on like a stool.
Everything hurts. I know.
Listen, I haven't quite perfected my health potions yet,
so I'm not going to be able to help you right now.
I can patch you up a bit. And I'm just using my healers
kit just to like, stop minor wounds and stuff like that.
OK. Does the healers kit actually
heal HP? No, it does not.
OK. You bandage him.
And although you don't gain any HP back, Mylan, you do feel in a
better situation than you once were.
You wraps you with some gauze, you're bandaged.
You're a little bit patched up and kind of tends to your wounds
a little. Oh, Amanda, we got to talk about
how that fight went upstairs. You can't be running in there
just all Willy nilly like that. What was you thinking?
Wait, what? What you mean I was.
That's a really good violin. Let's be real.
I was trying to be brave and it's just, you know, sometimes
it is really hard. It is odd.
I get it. Look at me, I'm not a strong
guy. I don't got the muscles like
Dendron up there. I I'm not fast.
I'm not crazy like Vivian is with the daggers and stuff like
that. So when I be brave, I do it.
But I got to do a calculator. What?
I'm saying? No, we mean, I get it.
I see what you've been doing. You got some crazy skills that
even I don't understand. I don't even know if it's magic,
to be honest. But listen, I know you strong in
your own ways, but when we get in these situations, we got to,
we got to talk things out, maybe let the other ones go in first
or back and take a look at things before, you know, we go
in swinging. And so that's what happened here
in a point to his chest where he got shot with the arrow, right.
And I'm going to learn from this mistake.
And you see it slowly healing from Kassel's magic.
They're going to hurt for about a day.
And I'll learn from this scar. You'll be all right, though.
You'll be fine. And I keep patching them up.
I finish a few bandages and something I'm like, all right,
it might be there a while. You want to go downstairs and
check that out before we get out of here?
I'll stay here with the with the horse.
He sounds good. He's kind of timid to go explore
anywhere new. It's all right.
I'm just going to make sure we check all our corners and
Borum's gonna just go downstairs just to get a look at the
downstairs area real quick. When Borum goes downstairs, he's
going to look at the look at the horse that's been making all the
noise. So what you what you doing here?
Oh, hang on. And I cast speak with animals.
Yes. Questions about speak with
animals It allows you to speak to all animals or to a specific
and why don't you go ahead and read the spell for everybody You
gain the ability to comprehend verbally and communicate with
beasts for a duration. Can I speak with animals?
A horse is chomping away. How are you getting his
attention? I'm going to go look in what
he's chewing on. So you like this, is it?
Oh, yeah. Is it your favorite thing?
Horse for you is pretty, pretty great.
Have you tried it? No.
Great. Well, I mean, I I've slept in
it, but here. OK, let me try.
Can I can I can I do mine? Dog.
Troy. OK, so then I I eat some of it.
I got this look of Nope, great right, yes and I kind of break
off a piece and then throw the other piece.
He nudges you with his head and kind of forces you into her
house war. Okay, so like what were you
doing in that room? Were you just hanging out or?
Oh, yeah, I was put there. The the nice man feeds me, say,
oh, be right back. And sure enough, he comes back.
He got food and. Yeah.
And I mean, are you from here or where you.
No, no. From.
I've travelled ways away. I come from a different city.
I used to have a lot of friends. Now I don't.
Well, where are your friends with?
With my other friends. Probably back in the place where
I was hustling from. Haven't returned since.
I hear you're pretty fast. Oh, so fast.
Yeah, pretty fast. Pretty, pretty fast.
Friends can't keep up. Yeah.
My buds. Oh, so you, you would like to,
you know, like see them again? Oh, yeah, yeah.
For love. Love to see them again.
Yeah. OK.
Yeah. Love to love to go.
Love the race too. Yeah, that was fun.
Because it got better. Hey.
Than this. When I win.
So, like, if we, like, walked out the door, could you show us
where you're from? I mean, there's a place with a
lot of buildings, tall buildings came wide buildings, small
buildings, buildings that have horses in it.
OK OK. We might figure that out.
Maybe. Yeah.
Anything about this guy that you don't like?
Well, he feeds me. My toes kind of hurt.
Usually somebody I'll have, like, a, like, a human buddy
come on over. And they kind of, like, tap on
my feet, put new shoes on. Love the new shoes, but my
fingernails kind of hurt. They don't normally hurt, but
you know, I just figured there was like a shortage shoes right
now I get out of the the hay barrel and I look at his feet
and just examine. So on a horse, if you're not too
familiar, the horse's hoof is overgrown.
And normally when that happens, the nail, which is what a hoof
is kind of over grows on the horseshoe and it tends to bleed.
And if not taken care of, it can get infected and ultimately kill
a horse. So you can clearly tell this
horse hasn't been to a farrier in quite some time and been
taken care of trying to get you back.
But I'm just worried about this guy upstairs.
He. I don't know if you see this and
I hold up like my hands and he can see that I've been through a
little bit of a fight. He doesn't seem like a very good
guy, and he seems like he's kind of neglected you.
Yeah, maybe. I mean, yeah, yeah, sure.
Whatever that word means. What kind of name you go by?
Well, before Elf Buddy took me, my horned buddies used to call
me Pie. Oh, my Pie.
Oh, my. That's my name.
They say it. I come, I win races.
Big, heavy food. Pretty great deal.
OK, well, pile. My I'm Milan, and we're gonna
bust you out of here. OK.
Will there be food? Lots.
Oh, you got to try this thing. It's called milk.
Oh, my goodness. You showed me hay.
Look, no disrespect to hay. It's pretty good.
But wait till I show you milk. Oh, I haven't had milk since my
mom. Oh, my goodness.
And then you could try these like things.
I don't. I can't even remember.
You got. You got Mom milk.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what?
We're going to try all the milk. Don't don't even worry.
All the types. And I pat them on the back.
One friend said Mom went to go to see Glue, but I don't know
who Glue is. So, Nope.
Don't know who Glue is either. You know what?
I'll ask my friends and we'll see.
What if we can find this galoo? Great.
And then, yeah, we'll just sit there and we'll hang out while
Beau Rams downstairs. We go back to Castle and Vivian.
Knockout Rep. OK, so let's get this guy
downstairs. Yeah.
Yep. Do you want the shoulders or the
legs? I I think I I might be able to
carry it. Let me see.
So I pick him up and I just kind of walk him down the stairs.
But before I do that, can I just run his pockets real quick and
see what he has on him? You sure can.
You run his pockets. You find a bunch of papers.
You find a journal. The journal is filled with these
angry scrawlings against Ewella, and there are pictures, poems,
songs. You see that a lot of the songs
are about like, hatred. It's like clear jealousy to a
point of stalking. He even has notes of where she's
been, where she's been playing in throughout Boldaris.
All these different Taverns are named.
He also has like these drawings of the music box that he's been
using in there and this kind of this book that you're looking
through kind of just looks like a journal.
It's not so much of A journal where he's like talking about
his day and how he's feeling. It's just like a hate journal
where like all this information about Nuella, where she's been
and like has been somewhat tracking her, where she's been
playing, how she's been playing, how he's been messing with her.
The other parts of the drawings is these music box and ways he's
been using the rats. He's been using the rats to
steal money from people. As you're rummaging through his
pockets, you get about only copper.
You get about 200 copper pieces. You also find a short bow with a
bunch of arrows in it. In his pockets.
Oh my God. Yeah, in his pockets.
So honest person. Because that's what he was
shooting you with. You also find a rapier and the
arrows specifically, you find 8 arrows and they are plus one
arrows. I will gather his things and
kind of like hold the bow, arrows and rapier in one hand
and I'll kind of carry him over my shoulder with the other hand
down the stairs. Vivian can hold the book.
Yeah, I'll give Vivian in the book, and I'll say here, why
don't you take this? It's got some stuff about the
rats and then some stuff about your friend.
Perfect evidence. Thank you.
And Vivian's going to follow behind.
You fumble through the pages real quick.
Vivian, you see drawings that the mice are listening to the
music box in the notes. He's how he's been profiting.
He has been using them to spy on Nuella in boulders.
He has been pushing gloom sugar powder saying how they're great
mules and how they're able to use and transfer drugs to the
people that they want and to get it to other dealers throughout
the city. That lion son of a bitch.
He's also been referring to the rats as he singular thing, not
multiple EW hive mind. He also mentions that the rats
hates the music box and has made mentions that like the rats are
trying to get the music box when he's not paying attention.
Myrtle Day 17/14/81 MKD 9:15 PM Elks Grove.
Now I get to relax and eat. Think I'm gonna take it easy on
the alcohol tonight. Things been looking up, though,
now that we got this guy. Took the horse back to the
stable. Took GREP to jail on the way.
Vivian even used that magic music box to see if the rats
could find my gloves. Wouldn't that be nice?
Got one more task to take care of, though.
Mylan Borim. The two of you exit the Elks
Grove and you begin to make your way through town.
What are you doing right now? Borim's looking for the Kenku
that he was. Told about yes from ivory.
He might have to ask some people on the way, but first he's going
to like look at the buildings to see if he notices anything.
But unless he notices anything on the way, he's taking myelin
all the way to the stables. Sure you make your way towards
the stables and as you make your way through town you're walking
through like these big buildings, but you notice that
these big buildings that are hidden among the trees here,
they're like broken up into smaller buildings almost like an
apartment complex but maybe more for like stores.
You're seeing like armours, Fletcher's, leather shops and
general stores, and you see that they're kind of like all on top
of each other. And the stores are generally
small. And you see that a store sticks
out as you're walking through the 1st shopping square of the
town and you see a store name that says Friends of a Feather
Supply and Co. Alright, mine.
And I think this might be my stop.
If not, I come find you at the stable.
All right. Oh, OK.
Yep, I know where I'm going. Look right down there.
And I just point SE. Just walk there.
Walk straight. You remember?
It's up down the left. I remember.
So I'm carrying two jugs of milk.
They're pretty heavy. And I'm like leaned way back.
OK, I'll see you in a second. All right, this is a shop.
I try and go in. I just try and open the door.
You walk into the shop and a little bell rings.
You see that this looks like a store for pets.
You see all this feed trinkets and contraptions that deal with
animals. So like chicken coops, dog
leashes, horse saddles, a fantasy version of a common pet
store that you would find on your street today.
And you see that when the bell rings, you hear some like slight
bird sounds as just like some of these Ravens and Hawks that are
just looking over and they're not in caged.
It looks like that you're naturally belong there.
They're sitting on like bird swings and they look at you when
they come in. And then you notice a bit of
breath almost on the back of your neck, a little bit of heat.
You turn around and you see on like this giant post that looks
like it's meant for a cat, but it's just made out of straight
up wood. It's this long lizard with two
wings. You instantly recognize it as a
pseudo dragon and goes oh ain't you party about two feet long
and it's coiled up around this post.
Man, they got all the majestic stuff in here and you see that
it looks at you and it almost looks like it's judging you as
you're walking towards the counter in the back.
You make it over to the counter in the back and you hear that
and you see this hunched over Kanku with his back turned
towards you and it looks like he's fiddling with something.
Hey Dia, you open? Yes, yes, yes I am.
Hi, how we doing? Do you see that?
He puts his elbow onto the table.
He looks like you see this black feathered Kenku with this medium
sized beak and you see that his beak is actually dented in
various spots. He looks a little not battle
marked, but definitely had to deal with a number of animals
that may have scarred him at some point in his life.
And he's like looks at you and he goes, ah yes, how can I help
you Sir? Man, you and I got different
professions, but similar outcomes.
He like kind of shows him his wrist with like maybe an acid
burn or something. I don't, I don't know what
you're doing, but those look like pretty nasty, nasty sky.
Yeah, man, what can I do you for?
First of all, nice shop you got here.
This is real, real nice in here. Thank you.
I just, you know, love taking
care animals and, you know, you have a pet of your own.
You have a pet of your own. You got a dog or something?
I got a little one or something. A baby hound.
You you actually actually this is a good question.
You ever seen anything that looks kind of looks like a
panda? It's it's orangish red.
I don't even know what he is, to be honest.
A red panda. Yeah.
A panda that's just colored. I mean, yeah, there's like all
types of exotic animals. There's like this little,
little. They kind of.
Yeah, I heard of it. He stands up and down there.
He kind of looks like the mailman, like the far fetch
curio things, you know? Oh, yes, I have seen them
before. Yes.
And you know what they is? They go by a wide variety of
names. But I think one of the more
popular names that I've seen them is Pundus.
Pundus. Okay, yeah, and they come in a
variety of colors, but the common ones are written.
Gotcha. All right, thank you for the
knowledge. You might know a friend of mine
made of bones. You see his jolly demeanor get
very serious. His voice drops an octave.
What do you know about him? Well, it's one of my good
friends back in the Darius Ivory.
I have a lot of friends too. What is Bones have to do with
it? Oh well, Ivory.
You see his feathered hand goes underneath his table as if he's
reaching for something. You hear a from the entrance of
the store and you see that the pseudo dragon has locked the
door and you look back and there's now a dagger on the
table with his feathered hand over it.
Yeah, you look like 1 Ivory's friends, that's for sure.
That's name I only hear when I'm in trouble or about to make a
lot of money. And I don't know the vibe from
you yet, stranger. I think you're about to make a
lot of money. And I immediately just put like
a sack of 50 gold coins on the table.
You see one eye is fixed on you. The other eye looks at the bag.
Open it up, Israel. You see that he does like a
whistle? The pseudo dragon scurries
between your legs, goes over and opens the bag.
You know a little bit about pseudo Dragons.
Pseudo Dragons aren't to the pets, they're familiars.
And to get a pseudo dragon, they are magically summoned.
They are not, it's something you just would find in the wild.
They are created by magic, they're technically not real
Dragons, and they're a very magical creature.
It's just us in here, right? I can talk freely.
May good then. Looking for some manticore
teeth, or you might have some. See.
He looks at the dagger, taps the blade on the counter.
What's the name of Mr. Bones shop?
Well, that would be ivory. Asian's illustrious goods, of
course. And what is his favorite
beverage? And you see his voice gets
deeper and deeper as he's, like, looking at you with a stern
scowl. You know, he'd be drinking
coffee all day. Perhaps.
The tip of his blade on the counter stows it as you hear
another click from underneath as it latches onto something.
He goes, yeah, that's right. All right.
Yeah. I got some mana core teeth right
here. Do you see that?
He pulls out a box off the shelf, turns it, and you see
that there is a plentiful amounts of mana core teeth.
He shows it to you. You look at it, and it starts to
close. How much you looking for, Todd?
I'd only get 1 today. You come all this way, come to
my shop asking for a very rare item and you're only going to
get one. Oh man, you.
You're trying to upsell me, but I need one for now to test if it
works the way I think it's going to work.
I'll come back for more. Now listen to the right buyer.
They're going to ticked up the whole lot.
Now I'll sell some to you. You got to buy at least 2.
If you only buy 1, I don't got to charge you full price.
My price is 337 gold pieces. I could give you 300 right now
for 2300. For two. 300 for two.
Are you? Can't you just leave my
feathers? He told me you were selling them
for about 150. How much?
That's what Ivory told me. Hey, 150.
Oh, shoot the messenger. 170 each hundred 7070.
Ain't no way I can pay that right now. 100 Seventy 170.
You just said you're going to give me 300.
What? You can't go 320?
We're going to do a persuasion check.
Yeah, he's just. He's just haggling you right
now. I know that's going to be a 19.
He got a nine. He goes, all right, you're going
to twist my arm about it, You're going to break my wing over it
or 55 is the best I can do. All right, that's fair.
I think that's real fair. I was trying to get him lower,
but you already given a fair price.
I'll do that 300 right now. All right.
And he gets like real deep again as he goes to take out two
manacor teeth. He opens the box and then he
gets a smaller box. The smaller box is about the
size of like a little ring box. Like you could keep an
engagement ring in there if you'd like, but mainly that box
because there's pillows inside that box.
So he takes out two manacore teeth.
The manacore teeth are about half inch.
So the thing about manacors is that they have very human like
features on top of animalistic creatures.
If the chimera was a human instead of animals, that's kind
of what a manacore looks like. So their teeth are more human
like, but they are sharp as daggers.
As you know, manacore teeth once extracted or trying to be
extracted from the manacore, they become very, very fragile.
So he takes these little sharp, slightly larger than human
teeth. He snuggles them in very
carefully into this ring box and it rests between the pillows and
he closes it because it's probably the most safest way to
travel with them without them shattering.
It's a very fragile item. Keep these in good care too.
I don't need to know how you got them, but you're skilled if you
got them. I mean, I can share that
information with you if with the right coin.
That might be next time. I don't know if these going to
work the way I want them to, though.
May I ask you something? I come back here and I need more
ingredients. You ever do any in trades?
Maybe I'll make you some potions or some magic items, things that
can help you with pets. Let me ask you this question.
It's serious again. What type of ingredients you're
looking for? What's your outcome?
What's your goal? I mean, unless you got some
phoenix fetters in here, I don't think there's much else.
His eyebrow raises and he looks at you.
I don't have any on hand, but I can tell you where to get one.
I'll give you 10 gold coin, you tell me what it is.
Tell you what? You give me 20 gold coin and
I'll draw you a map. Easier sell of your life, that's
for sure. I'll give him 20.
So he looks around. As he looks he leaves with his
eyebrows. The pseudo dragon comes over and
you see the pseudo dragon moves its little hands and it a box
appears. It looks very elegant, almost
like an eastern theme to it opens it.
There is a scroll in there. There's a map.
You're going to follow this map. Now listen, have sold this map a
few times, but I've always asked for an item in return when
they've come from this place because this location is very
rich in materials. I have not received anything
from this location. And these are trustworthy
consorts that I've dealt with in the past, done business numerous
times, right? I wouldn't sell this to anybody,
but Ivory is a good friend of mine and we do trade business
with one another. If you know his name then he say
I mean to me, then I trust you as an extension of him.
This location, because I've been there.
It's bountiful of materials and supplies.
Very dangerous. It's an old abandoned watchtower
in one of the thickest parts of the Rock head forest.
It's about a two day journey from here.
It's about a four day journey from Molderas.
I see a city slicker like yourself might be from there.
The thing is very dangerous location riddled with monsters,
creatures and critters. There's also terrible shrieks
and howls coming from the head of the tower.
If you go there, you'd be prepared.
I didn't explore much past the foyer, but if the rest of the
tower is anything like the foyer, you may find the
ingredients you so desire. Oram Gulp says he's kind of
listening and looking at the map, and he rolls it back up.
All right, noted. I'll make you a promise.
I'm gonna definitely bring you two things back from there.
And enough for myself if I go there.
I ain't coming back. Andy Handed, are you?
I appreciate that. I hope we can elevate our
relationship as well. So that's easy.
Well, anyways, thank you for the feed.
No, I really appreciate all the food.
My horse is going to love that. Yeah, no problem.
Thanks for coming by. I really appreciate it.
And you see, the pseudo dragon appears back at the door,
unlocks the door. He goes.
Well, you come back if you ever need to feed your horse again.
What's the cause? And Boram opens his coat and
walking backwards kind of shows him that he's putting it in a
bag of holding. That's kind of like, look how
safe it is. And you can trust me.
And it gives him a little salute and walks out the door.
And Boram looks really, really happy the whole time and he is
putting on a happy face, but the second he gets outside, Borem's
head kind of drops and he's rubbing his head.
I'm almost out of all my coin. This is bad, real bad.
Hopefully I'll make enough on this adventure this time.
OK, let's go get my lid. Myrtle Day 17/14/81 MKD 1035 PMI
am now in bed. Don't got to deal with no rats.
Don't got to deal with nothing else.
Everybody else though they outside talking to the rats or
doing something with them. I don't know.
All I know is I'm keeping this music box safe inside my bag of
olden and I am getting some shutter.
And then with my right hand I grab the rat and try to make a
connection with it to read its mind or to so that we can talk
to each other or maybe talk to each other.
I don't know what's going to happen.
You hold the rat and you begin to look at it.
You feel this presence within your mind similar to how you
view yourself. You kind of see a reflection of
yourself within this rat, and you see that it begins to twitch
and you know that its brain is about to pop out again.
But there are people looking. I don't think Mylan cares,
Tassel and Vivian. You start noticing that its neck
is like twitching. It's about to do something
gross. Mylan, can you put that down?
Let's, but Mylan, let's go outside and Vivian's gonna block
her arms around him and try to usher him out the door.
Yeah. Can you get that thing out?
We we just got a rodent problem under control as of today and we
don't want anymore. I mean, yeah, we were the ones
that did that, right. OK.
Yeah. Thanks.
We'll do it. We'll take it out.
Thank you. 3 of you go outside. You scurry to a nearby alley in
between two houses. It is night time.
The rat in your hand brain begins to come out to glow this
purplish energy as almost as illuminates and violin.
You hear a voice inside your mind.
It is speaking to you telepathically and it says
friend. Oh, you're a friend.
Oh my God, this is great. This is a great day.
I got a horse and now I got a mouse.
Wait, wait. What?
Friend? Your friend.
I am friend. Oh, OK, cool.
And you see the rat is now on it's like hind legs and it's
gesturing to itself. You have been controlled by the
box that your friend now all possesses.
We wish to destroy that box because we want to be free.
Friend, help us and we shall be forever grateful to you.
So all we gotta do is break the box.
Yes, I will be eternally grateful.
Break the box. Are you talking to the rat?
Oh yeah, friend. Wait, wait, what's for a name,
friend? Okay, well you can't be friend.
He looks at you, he goes. Excuse me, that is a short form
name of mine. My full name is Foresight.
Rodent. Intersensory Empathic.
Neuropathic. Dweller.
Foresight. Friend.
Friend, What happens when we break box?
Friend is free. But what would Friend do?
Friend would be grateful. Friend would live life.
But friend can help. OK.
Mylan goes to reach for the box again.
He said he'll he'll help us. Hold on.
Is friend not normally a rat?
Could you ask him that for us? OK, look, they want no more
things. OK, Friend.
Mr. Friend is this Fred? Friend is OK.
Fred. OK, OK, OK.
You notice that there's more rats around you now and you all
have their brain out. So I've met, I've met a lot of
rats. None of them are like this.
So what is going on here? As they speak, you notice that
they are all speaking in unison and a singular voice.
I am friend. And then you hear a voice from
one of the other rats. I am friend.
Yep, Yep, got it. Wait, let me guess.
And I point to the the one on the on the right friend.
Yes, but is it friend or like foresight rodent inner and they
just list off the entire name. Yes.
Mylan, Mylan, back on track. What could you ask them if we
are? Oh my God, hold on.
Have you guys tried milk? Oh my God, it's so good.
Mylan, Mylan. We will give them milk later as
a thank you. But right now I need you to
focus, please. But we gotta that's how you make
friends. You you trade food.
We also need results. We can free them, but we need to
know if it'll kill us. They won't kill us and others.
There's a high chance. Your friend seems worried.
I am no threat. OK.
You said friend worried. You do mean you worried?
Or do you mean this person worried?
Your partner? Yeah.
They're. Oh, God.
Yeah. OK.
We got to keep the names, right? So but you like going to hurt
us? No.
Oh, OK go. OK.
He said no. Last question for the myelin
from me is somebody controlling them outside the music box?
Oh yeah. OK back to this question.
Sorry to, you know, harp on you. I don't want to give out the box
just yet. But so like always rat always
friend. Friend always was but friend had
situation where friend became intellectual.
I am able to speak to you because you, who seem to have
that same intellect as I do. Yeah, I can understand you
because you are speaking in common tongue.
But you can understand me because you have the mental
capacity to understand and receive my messages.
You're right, Smiley. Yeah.
Did they answer if they have have anyone controlling them
besides the music box? Let me get back to that one.
OK. So do you control?
Are you controlled by anybody? Are you like extra bad?
Like, look, I'm trying to help you out.
I'm trying to give you the the music box.
So if we could just like I will show you.
And you see that the rat holds its hands out as if it's like
waiting for you to put your head in his hands.
He wants you to put his your head in his hands.
And I look at Vivian. No, your head mine.
I think yours, Mylan, I can hold your hand, but why don't you put
your head there? Let's see.
Don't have to, but it could help us.
That's up to you. I take Mylan's head and I shove
it into the rat's hands. Sorry, Mylan, it's for your only
good. And I just take his head and I
shove it into the rat's hands. Mylan, when your head meets the
rat's hands, a vision is overcomed in your mind.
You see these cranium rats on the ledges of this building in
Rock Head Homestead. You see that from their point of
view, they're watching Grep the drought off you just took down
down on his luck. And they begin to follow as they
can see through all throughout the forest.
And one day they see Grep in the forest, but next to a tiny crash
land site, Grep finds a strange meteorite in the forest, similar
to the ones you found on the road.
However, it doesn't come to life as quick as it did for you.
Matter of fact, Grep had took it back in attempts to sell it in
an alleyway. He was attacked by a possible
buyer and it was getting greatly hurt because of it.
Friend the rat was watching from the rafters at the time Grep was
being jumped. During the brawl, Grep had
called out for help many times, but nobody came.
And after a lucky strike with a dagger, Grep managed to kill his
attacker and yelled at the rats in anger as friend watched from
the sidelines. With a lucky strike with a Dagon
to the neck, he managed to kill his assailant, but not before he
was getting wounded from that anger and yelling at the rats
that he didn't need any help. The meteorite that he was trying
to sell seemed to awaken and those cosmic Eldridge tentacles
attacked Grep. Grep was in awe and as he was
trying to fight for his life he managed to shatter the
meteorite. As the meteorite seemed somewhat
fragile yelled back at the rats again saying this is 2 for two I
didn't need you and if it was up to me I have you all begging at
my feet. The meteorite that was exhuming
this purple energy as it was dying begins to form into an
object. It became named that music box
and the music box had this picture of rats.
He played the music box and the rats were overcomed and mind
controlled by the box. The box seemed to be created
from the meteorite and then as the visions continue, he goes
further into another vision, a swarm of rats that were going
through a forest. Another meteorite had crashed.
That Shard immediately attacked the rats, and in a moment of
hunger and desperate need for survival, the rats happened to
kill the Shard. And began to eat the meteorite.
In that time, the cosmic energy that was slowly spewing out of
it, the same cosmic energy that you saw when you destroyed the
meteorites back on the road, were now ingested by the rats.
The rats began to mutate as their brains began to pop out,
making them the cranium rats that you see before you with
their brains popping out. And they all seem to connect
themselves as one unified rat. Myrtle Day 181481 MKD 11:11 AM.
Ain't no day like today. Got my gloves back and I'm
feeling good. Those rats did some fantastic
work last night. Turns out those little guys want
us to break the music box, so I'm sure to do it.
Plus, we got paid for our work, so my pockets are in much less
pain today. But the news, Danny, nobody saw
coming. Apparently.
Vivians getting married. He's up.
An old news slew of questions. Maybe she'll tell us during the
ride, but for now, we got to keep our wits about us.
Just past the crater again, we fought those strange rock
looking creatures. Gods and observers of the astral
gills swarm like ants. I'll think about that later,
though. Mylan seems to be acting up.
We said we would break box in crater.
We break box in crater. I mean, we're near it, close
enough, right? It's not like we got to be that
close. But the guards, he's for the
first time Mylan's being really stern.
Like, no, what? Give me Mylan.
There's a lot of guards. Don't get mad at us.
Does not care how exactly you think we're going to get through
all those gods? He gestures over the π O Mai.
But they're going to be mad if we use π O Mai here.
I could take the box and show them, but there's going to be a
lot of explaining. I got to do it.
You got you got it. Why you I got to do it.
I mean, unless you got a better reason, I'm not giving you that
box until we fought her. I'm not doing that around gods.
We said we would help friends. We said we bring here.
I'm doing it. Well, no, Mala and you said we
would come here. No, I don't think they care.
When we break it, ask them do they care?
At this point, I'm. I'm just casting talk with
animals because I just need direct answers and I don't got
time for their little brains to pop up.
You want free, right? Yes.
We wish to be free. Mylan, could you please ask them
if they're OK with being freed away from this crash site?
I don't much care if they care. And I kind of lean in to say
that to Kassel. Yeah, me too.
They can understand you with no problem.
So when they answer back, they're now squeaking and they
still have that same voice as they speak soundically.
And you go. The music box does not bound us
through this mortal coil, it just ensures that we cannot be
controlled by an outside source or be forced to do things beyond
our own determination. What he said was he wants me to
go and break it in the crater. I squint at him.
Ain't no way they said that. Anyone else have talked with
animals? Look, when you go off and you do
your weird things and when you go do your weird things and when
you don't sleep, that's weird. I need to do this.
What weird things, Mylan? Oh, you got to do this.
You got to talk to us. If it's important to ya, maybe
we figure it out. But you need to know why.
For once. I agree.
Ballroom. I don't know.
And it's just, it's feeling in my.
I don't know, inside. Dale and I point to his heart.
Maybe lower. That's your butt.
What? A little higher than that one.
What's your gut? OK.
Is that the. Yeah.
You've got butterflies in your tummy.
I don't know if I've ate a butterfly.
Never mind, Mylan. You know what?
I appreciate your ideas, Mylan. I know you want to free them,
but we can't do it here if we make those guards mad.
It looks bad on my family name. And it's been kind of useful for
what we've just done. Right?
Like you like having milk and the carriage, right?
You don't have to. I want to, Mylan.
It does not matter when the box is broken.
You're right. We have to do this.
I agree. But it just brilliant.
Milan at this point just has like just this feeling that he
has to go back to that crater and do this thing, especially
since he kind of told friend that he's going to do it.
He's being very stern. He's going to come up with like
a plan to use π O Maya. Since he's so fast to go that
way. He'll get away from the group.
It's not going to be part of him.
So no one gets in trouble. So you want to break π O Maya
away from the carriage? Yep.
OK, so the carriage is moving right now.
Unless I can sneak in there, like if I don't know how well
guarded when he said well guarded, but there's about a
handful of guards and a bunch of scholars inside the creator
examining it. He just wants to get a little
close first if the party lets him.
He was being very stern about it for the first time and he just
really wants to go back to that creator and do this thing.
And he devises a plan that doesn't involve the group so
that they don't get in trouble. He could even do it himself I
guess. He doesn't even have to include
Piomi, but he wants to take the box and do what he said he was
going to. OK, you guys see Mylan trying to
detach Piomi. What are we going to do with
this guy? I don't know.
Do we want to help him? No.
Do we just do it? I don't want to.
I don't want to either. Perfect.
Then Vivian's going to go run behind him and try to grapple
him. You guys don't want to do it?
Me neither. We're getting into stop.
And would I have to roll for something?
Vivian, you're going to roll me a grapple check, which is your
Strength modifier versus Mylan's Dexterity modifier.
And then if Mylan, if you choose, you can start an issue
because you're now engaging in combat.
If you choose to resist, this would be initiative.
Go ahead and make me a grapple check.
Vivian 6 and 18. Why are you trying to grab me?
You do not grapple. Milan, please.
I let you go and do your things. I see you sneak around town and
I don't say nothing. And I see Bone Ram over here
sneaking around and he does all his things.
And when I want to do something, you guys try to stop me.
Milan, I'm just trying to get to my hideout.
If anyone finds it, then I get in trouble.
I'll show you. If that's all it takes, I will
show you my house. Do you?
I want that. But please.
We work as a team. Don't change subjects.
Subject is me. Go there and I point to the the
crater. We're telling you it's not going
to work. We will come back.
We will find another spot. Why the crater?
You have to tell us or I'm going to silence you again.
And I'm going to try to grab you again.
How far are we from the crater? Are we like half a mile up the
road? Now, car does now stop because
Milo, try to get the horse out. Yeah, but you're about couple
football fields away from the site.
I'll say about 600 yards away. You're not your shot.
It's not like they can overhear you, by the way, Just the
demeanor of the guards. They didn't seem to mind that
you were passing by. They're just there to just
protect the Guild members studying.
I kind of lean out the window and kind of see them arguing.
And I just look at CASL. I'm like, all right, we don't
got time for this. And Boram goes out the other
side of the carriage and starts walking into the forest.
Wait, you got the box? Come back here.
Bet your ass I do. And he keeps walking.
You see that the rats will follow you?
Nope. We can't go that way.
I got to do this going on a field trip.
Once Bo Ram takes the box out, he's going to try stealing
Milan. You are following Bo Ram into
the forest. How far are you going?
What's going on? Yep.
Bo Ram walks 1/4 of a mile into the woods until he can't quite
see the road. And he looks at all the rice.
He's like, y'all want to be free, right?
Yeah, be free. And he reaches into his bag of
holding. And what I'd like to do is the
second I feel it pop into my grasp, just blast it with a
poison spray. Roll for damage 8.
Your gloved hand reaches into your trench.
Go into this bag of holding your hand in this cosmic playing
between planes, and you grab the box and the box fits right in
your palm. You blast this poison spray,
Your damage as you hit it with eight points of damage begins to
crack and snap in your hand and you hear a shark reverb sound as
if the ghostly melody lets out one last shriek.
You did destroy a magic item in your hand.
You are going to take one point of damage here.
As you kind of feel this, magical birds take out your
hand. Now have these broken pieces.
You just look like plain wood that once belonged to a music
box and they all fall out of my hand and I kind of just look
around at the rats around me. I kind of look to see if anybody
from the group has even followed.
Mylan's there and he's very still and kind of falls to his
knees as he looks to see what happens to the rats.
Friend looks at you, Boram, the destroyed pieces on the floor,
looks at Mylan and then speaks out loud in Rat.
Friend is indebted to you, but as a friend and not as a
servant. He is speaking to him
telepathically, and as he's speaking to him, he is just
showing loose visions of his story, more pictures of kind of
what the meteors done to him that he knows of in a sign of
hey, we're in this together. And he becomes kind of emotional
halfway through it and slowly starts to cry as he feels like
these rats are kind of the only thing that has kind of
understood what situation he has.
He doesn't know what it is, but he knows that for some reason
that him and the rats are kind of LinkedIn some way tries to
portray that as best he can to the rats.
What terrible tragedies happen under a dark cloud?
Know that the reigns of hope lost some new possibilities.
Take this dark time stride. Take your gift, make a new sunny
day. The rat brains then go inside
their body, look at you, and they nod at you.
You feel a strong sense of friendship, and you see that
they all disperse, but you feel like you gained a new ally.
Mylan's just on his knees, watching them all disperse
completely, just gutted that he might have lost kind of an
answer that he's been trying to search for for a long time.
And then he looks up over him. I can't believe he did that
Mylan I'm sorry I'll never forget this and he goes back
starts walking like pouting wait Miley stomping back with tears
in his eyes back towards the cart.
I'm sorry little 1. He says that to himself is he
just walks slowly back to the cart.
Hassle. Vivian were the 2 of you there
witnessing all of this? No, Gazzle was 1000% just like,
OK, I'll watch the horses I guess.
Just sitting there with the reins.
Vivian nodded to him and just stayed by the edge of the forest
in case they screamed. So it could be a bit of a relay,
but Vivian trusted that Bo Ram for once, trusted that Bo Ram
had it under control and she's ready to help with damage
control at the edge. Also, if you return back to the
cart, meet up with Vivian at the edge of the woods.
Mylan looks very upset and Bo Ram seems to have a utter
resolve about him. You see him with a new cigarette
lit as he walks out the forest. All right, let's let's keep
going. What's done is done.
Vivino look up at Bo Ram. She let Mylan go by to be in his
little funk just to give him a breath and go.
Everything OK? I actually don't know if he is
OK, but I'm not going to force him to talk to us right now.
He'll talk to us when he's ready.
But I destroyed the box and nothing happened.
The magic went away. I got a nasty bit of burn on my
hand and he kind of shakes his hand.
But they free now. They looked happy.
So I'm. I'm hoping everything's fine.
I'm open. OK.
Maybe Kaz will heal you up. No, I don't need any.
I don't. No, no.
We we good. Only can do so much in a day,
you know? Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll take a
turn with the horses. So.
And he gets up in the front so he doesn't have to be near
Castle. Castle is outside with the
horses. So I'm sick of Todd.
I go back in the carriage. Thanks.
Thanks for dealing with the horses, Castle.
And the four of you continue on your way.
The four of you sit in silence for a little bit as thunderous
clouds boom in the distance as they're sitting there for a
while. Eventually, maybe, I don't know
if Mylan goes to sleep or he's pouting on the side, but Boram
definitely kind of loses sight of Mylan after a while.
And after kind of watching the trees go by and the terrain
change a little, he kind of looks over at Vivian.
Hey Vivian, what's up? So you got a job for me?
We talked about doing something with the sky self.
Well, I guess you know the reason now that I brought it up.
I guess I do. I'm hoping.
I don't know if she's going to agree to it.
The things I've been doing are really stupid.
But I'm hoping that Nuella could agree to disguise herself on
occasion. Because if I do get married, I
get to keep everything. The hideout, the wealth, all the
stuff I have access to. But if I don't, then I lose
everything and I have to. I don't know, I've never done
that before. So I just, I don't want to.
I don't want to lose it. OK.
My theory is is that asking another tiefling would make the
spell more effective because the person, the person I'm going to
marry, he he he's he likes, he has a wife.
He has a main wife. I I I think got this third.
He already got a wife. Yeah.
So he has a wife. He just likes to have other
kinds of wives. I'm, I'm the tiefling.
It was between me and a few other tieflings and my father,
of course, he wanted to make connections.
And this is the best way to have my stake in the Sharma family.
OK. OK.
All right. All right.
That's a lot of information. That's a lot.
Yeah. We don't have to go through
that. But my hope is that maybe if I
do this, yes, I got to attend some things here and there.
It's nothing big. I mean, honestly, it's it's not
a bad situation. I just.
I don't know. I but sometimes I want to be
doing my own thing, you know, and I was hoping maybe if Noella
wouldn't want to, I don't think she would.
But if Nuella would want to help me, I had that option.
And villain just slumps over. I may not agree with what's
going on there. I'm going to tell you to go do
something different, but it is your life.
If you want me to help, I can now stop asking questions.
But regardless of what's going on with you, there's logistics
and there is an issue there. Now the Sky's in yourself.
That's not easy magic. I barely got to go on myself.
And let's say I do help you with this.
I don't think I could do it more than two hours.
How long do you need this to be discussed?
It depends on the event, honestly.
I mean, two hours sometimes is perfect enough.
It wouldn't be often. It's just, I don't know.
I've never, I like adventuring with you guys.
I don't know, okay, time maybe do worked out, but what exactly
do you need this person to do when they go in there disguised?
They just have to sit there. I mean, depending on the
situation, if it's something I need to talk at, then I'll have
to go. But if it's just one where you
just have to sit there and show your face for an event, that's
all they're needed. They're like a showpiece almost.
They're just there for the looks.
The the guy isn't bad, he's just eccentric really.
Yeah. You want to marry this guy or no
in your art. Vivian's not in tune with that.
I I've been alone for most of my life, so I I don't know what I
want, but it's it's safe. It's it's secure.
I don't know. I've never I don't know let me
tell you this. There ain't nothing safe when
you're dealing with love. But hey, if you want me to help
you, I'll consider you a friend now.
I help you out. But to be safe and secure, make
sure that I got all my hands tied.
If you could maybe just me a little bit of gold to pay for
the actual object I need to make to get this done.
And maybe just one week on my rent.
That's all I ask. Of course, I won't charge
anything more than it's worth. Give me through a week.
It's a bit pricey. It's about 3231 gold a week.
I got you for a while. No worries.
As long as you're helping me, I can cover it all right.
I don't know if I agree with this, but if you think you need
our help, I'm happy to do that, but I would for my security and
to make sure that my magic, you know, maybe it's not going Riley
while I'm there. I think a magic item might be
the best way to go and I can make an item to disguise me.
You, we you not magic. It don't matter what I look
like, what she look like, what anyone else look like.
Maybe she sound like you if she need to talk, but that could
work. But I guess the whole point of
me doing this is if we were to go do things like if we were all
to explore again, I mean, I only got to do this once, right?
See, I this could be a consistent thing as long as I
live. If I agree, I mean, I I have
months to like I could, I could say no, I could walk away or
make me an arcana check. That is 1919.
As you're having this conversation with Vivian,
brainstorming and idea does come to your mind.
Let's say an old friend, a person who's a little bit sore
spot for you will say has discussed a spell or feature at
some point in their lives before you were no longer friends.
There is a spell called simulacrum that's a very
powerful high level spell mainly only used by the most powerful
of Wizards. Simulacrum spell essentially
makes a clone of somebody and it lasts for X amount of hours
mechanically to get all the same abilities of the person that's
cloned and also act independently, but it's a clone
of a person. You were to do this on Vivian.
It will be a second Vivian. When cast as a spell, it only
works for X amount of hours. It is something that could be
recasted over and over again, and you can possibly attach this
spell to an item or to a scroll or something that could be used
over and over again. But it is a very powerful, very
dangerous spell if not done or performed correctly, and really
only done with the most knowledgeable or skilled
Wizards. But with the 19 arcana check
Boram, this idea comes into your mind.
So if it sounds like what she wants is that she wants a a
standard now. Although the simulacrum is what
the being is, right? So if Vivian cast a simulacrum
spell on herself, her clone will be referred to as the
simulacrum, right? Has all the same memories
Personality is for all 10s of rivers is Vivian however, under
the control of Maine Vivian. So if Maine Vivian was like you
do this it will do that she still has that control over it
but it's still a unique person with their own minds such.
Now listen Vivian. I don't know if I agree with
this idea but I used to work with a wizard and was really
good at this kind of stuff and they told me about a spell.
Have you heard of it? Maybe you haven't it's called
some alacro and maybe after the first time if we go figure it
out there's a chance that we could make a clone.
I do air quotes of yourself as controlled by you.
Wow, OK it's an option but that's a lot odder to do.
We'll think about it, but maybe for now we can agree that that
what we work towards. All right.
Agreed and I reach out my hand reluctantly even though I don't
like that she is maybe not being true to herself he is going to
help her work towards that. Vivian happily reaches out and
shakes his hand and goes. I really appreciate it, thank
you so much Myrtle. Day 181481 MKD 4:45 PM Before I
dowel sitting there with Mylan now drinking a good old glass of
strawberry milk. Headed back into the city.
OK, but baby and guys shoot away to see a dad.
Took Milan and π O ma to the racetrack but they wouldn't take
him back. There's our Dielsgard family.
Forgot to pay that tab. Don't know if I want to get
mixed in with the crime family, but what else are we going to
do? I hope Vivian's doing OK.
From what she mentioned, her dad doesn't sound like the kindest
man. And over the two of you have
just entered the Pramod. And you see beyond the Pramod
walls is this beautiful lush garden and green grass.
And you see among these beautiful trees, fountains and
statues looks like very beautiful, beautiful people and
elves and all these statues of majestic creatures.
And the water is flowing between the roads and the garden and the
giant mansions of these houses, all with their own unique styles
to their home decor and. And all the way at the end of
this beautiful cobblestone pathway is the Charmont
household. And as you cross through those
gates, you hear a bell ring. Now Vivian, you know this bell
is the Charmont bell. Each house has a bell and yours
is wrong. As you have returned home and
you see the distance to your wonderful Charmont estate is the
doors opening as you see your father standing on the perch
from the veranda overlooking this entire Vermont eagerly
waiting your arrival. You see that his hands clasp
onto the banister overlooking the road.
As your carriage slowly comes up and as you arrive at your Manor,
the house assistants quickly come out.
They gather your horse and carriage and die that you walk
in. Vivian's going to turn to Kassel
and go get ready for the pomp and circumstance.
Sorry the what fanciness for no reason.
God, I apologize. You enter the main grand lobby
of your home and you see in front of you is this large grand
staircase that splits off into multiple levels of this multi
layered mansion. You see it, this winding
staircase goes to at least five different beautiful levels of
your home, and you see your father angrily walking down the
carpeted stairs as he's pouting coming down, Vivian Sharon comes
over to you. In all of my days, I have never
ever been so angry. And you see that he stops in
place. He looks like Castle, which you
have come me I see and he brushes his slick back hair.
Now what Wellford Charmont looks like is that he is indeed a
human, but he has a bit of an eccentric look about him other
than his bright colored robes wearing your family colors of
orange and gold. As human as he is, you can see
the cosmetic eccentric choices he's made in his wardrobe and
his person. His hair is slicked back long
and blonde and platinum. His ears are even pinched
together to a point you can see that he's trying to look like a
high elf. He is trying to come off as elf
like as he possibly can to show a symbol of higher status.
And you know that your father is a big fan of high Elf
specifically because of everything that they can do that
he or she can have. You know, he sees high elves
with like this high falutin way of living, this high society.
Not only is he now a part of, but clings to with a vice grip
and embodies that way of life with every fiber of his being.
You see, he calms a bit when he sees castle goes wow, call me
impressed. Vivian, you have made an
acquaintance with an Ottoman ladder.
Vivian's going to salute. See that.
He looks at you, Kazzle, an autumn Landry.
Interesting. And you see that he begins to
circle you and looks at you up and down as a night of loyalty,
nobility, a night of respect. Vivian turns and goes up.
Father, this is Kazzle, amber leaf of the Fay Wild.
He's been accompanying me, an amber leaf in my own home.
Down. Vivian turns to Kazzle real
quick and goes I'm so sorry good evening Sir.
And Caswell gives like a semi head bow to him as he is kind of
being examined. You see that he looks at Vivian
and then looks at you castle and goes to give a bow himself.
It looks more like a curtsy but it is a bow and he tries to give
you the same respect. I'm trying to use this like yes
well of course we now have two a Steve, yes two first timers.
Caswell please have some refreshments.
And you see 3 assistants come out and they are holding trays
of beverages between health wine and some freshly baked
sweetbreads. They all come out and they begin
to circle you as they try to give you some refreshment.
As Wilfred Sharma puts his arm over Vivian's shoulder and
begins to walk off to the side and his calm, pleasant, noble
demeanor quickly turns hot. She goes, Vivian, do you
understand the curious situation you have put me in today?
Do you realize who is in these very balls as we stand here
leaving him waiting? No, father who he's been in the
last two days, he hasn't showed up once.
And now he's here twice in a row.
And I do not want to leave him at the Sir Garrix upstairs.
And he is looking for you. Garrix Witherford, the very
esteemed hero. Well, there is the one who
brought back the fire giant sessions ago.
Father. Why is he here?
Because he is looking for you. Despite all the pleasant events,
I have tried to invite him to have a drink.
He seems to ignore but you. He wants to speak to you and you
are not here. Would you like me to go speak
with this? This.
Like clean yourself up. You stink to a verdict.
Fighting you all right, let's put something on that is
appropriate for a man of disregard and you've had to be
better cook. Yes, Father Kazzle and you see
that he turns around. It is so wonderful.
You are in for quite a treat today and you see that he walks
Kazzle off to the side as he leads you to.
There's many washrooms here and all these washrooms are equipped
with various gowns and garments for such an occasion in case
such a an esteemed guest arrive that he seems to stock every
washer in case something needs to change quickly.
OK, Vivian will go in, wash up, clean up you wash up and clean
up hassle. You are smothered with
sweetbreads and ale as he's trying to keep you track of it.
No really, I can't eat anymore. You must try this blueberry clam
brulee. It is quite astounding.
This comes all the way for the blueberry mites.
OK, OK. Yeah.
Just a bite. Just a bite.
You see that the assistants keep shoveling more food to you.
And Vivian, you come out in this most gaudy, elegant dress that
is available to you. Vivian looks very frame and
proper, Kazim. Her posture's changed.
The dress almost makes it seem like she floats.
Hello again, Kazim. Kazim kind of starts laughing
because he knows exactly like being forced to like dress up
and look nice living steering daggers.
Don't you tell them. Don't you tell them about this?
Tesla takes out his phone and takes photo.
They're never going to believe me.
He's like, born. I'm just going to love this.
Welford gathers the two of you and takes you up.
The grand state case onto the second level leads you into a
massive gathering hall. In this gathering hall are large
chandeliers. The ceilings are very high up.
This room itself extends to the third level.
Above it, matter of fact, there is a balcony of the third level
that looks onto the second level into this grand diner, very
extravagant. And all the way at the end is
this beautiful golden marble fireplace.
And with this grand, grand family portrait of Wilfred
Shamaz, you're in the photo as all of your brother and sisters
are, every single one of them and their extended families also
in the photo. And you see standing at the
fireplace in this heroic, very clean plate armor, Garrix
Wuthiford, he has his famous 2 handed great sword.
He turns around and he is holding his helmet with his
chest and his arm standing in a very proper noble pose looks at
you and he goes. Vivian, I've been looking
forward to meeting you as your name has come across my presence
and I wish to speak to you about something.
Please have a seat with me. And he only stares at you.
Vivi's going to curse and go. Lovely to meet you Garrix.
May my night accompanying me for this conversation.
You see Garrix turns his head and he looks at Kassel.
Kassel has his mouth full of food with two different types of
food in his hands. He may stand by and he gestures
to a pillar off to the table, not at the table.
Kassel slowly gets up from the table and you see Garrix with
his fresh clean shaved face, beautiful long hair, great
chiseled chin. He has a very calm and gentle
demeanor about him and he sits down and places the helm on
Vivian. You see Welford Charmont sits
very close to you also trying to engage with the conversation.
Now you know your father has been trying to become friends
with Garrix for years, ever since you were a small child.
He has been trying to get him in his home and this is the first
time he's here. Vivian's just going to quickly
side eye her father and go. It's OK.
It's OK, Father. He's here.
Thank you. Garrix, what can we do for you
at this time? I apologize for my absence.
I was out on business and I've returned just now.
Yes. And is your absence, which
brings me here out of concern, but curiosity?
It is, to my knowledge, from a very reliable resource that
you've witnessed something very peculiar within the last few
days, have you? Not many of things, yes.
Which one in particular? I was hoping you would enlighten
me, but it is something of a haphazardous roadway now.
Oh, the issues on the road. The big hole.
Yes, there seems to be a crater and some of the scholars from
the Gills have noticed a falling object from a wonderful flying
mystery in the sky. And well, I know you were on the
road travelling to Rocky at Homestead as your father, as he
cited me, I was wondering if you have witnessed any events on the
road. Yes, I could tell you about the
crater. It was odd.
We were travelling to Rocket Homestead and looking at the
star and all of a sudden it stormed and this massive rock
came and obscured our path. And as we went out, the rock
turned into these monsters of sorts.
They, they had tentacles. We subdued them, but the crater
was empty. After we we killed them, they
just turned to dust and filtered away.
There's three. And if we got too close, they
would make our heads fuzzy. I grappled one.
I went down. But Castle, really, my night
here brought me back up, and we were accompanied by other
companions, but they just could not make it today.
You see? Garrix looks towards Kassel.
Most capable nights really unoppallied.
And the same thing looks back to you, Vivian.
So tell me more about these features.
You're telling me that the shooting star in the sky broke
off and landed in front of you? Is that what you're saying?
Outspawned. These monstrosities?
It's so I don't know if it was from the star necessarily.
We were looking at the star and then it came with the storm.
It was almost like the lightning rod.
It not not the star. I don't know how to explain
that. It was kind of weird.
We tried to investigate and the reason I didn't call back about
it is because we were trying to find some things concerning
Nuella and I wanted to report everything back at the same
time. But as that kind of was my main
focus, I kind of forgot to just send back no, but that's what
happened. The actual observers have not
found anything of significance at the crash site, and they
begin to excavate. As you know, Vivian, this is
very, very, very crucial. Anything involving this shooting
star needs to be reported straight away.
You know this, and welfare goes in.
Yes, You know this. I agree.
Yes, yes, father, I do, but I don't believe it was from the
star. That's why it wasn't to the
highest important. I thought it was from the
lightning. To me, from what I saw, it did
not look like it came from the star.
I promise. He like chuckles to himself.
You have any trinkets or souvenirs from that bout?
Hit the Boram looking at a fragment.
This thing's nice and shiny. That's a very good point.
Boram. Milo, what are the two of you
doing right now? Sometime it's past as you return
to the Forehead Owl Island. Come on, cheer up.
We're almost there. We're going to find a home for
this horse. And I put the fragment back in
my coat. You OK?
Back there? Still giving me the silence.
Island. Still just had a day.
Doesn't know what to do with himself.
Are we close to the Forehead Owl?
Yeah. So you are near the Forehead
owl. So you telling me you wouldn't
want any strawberry milk? His ears betray him.
I mean, if you want to come in there and have some with me,
that's fine, but let me go into the stable first.
Make sure we take care of our friend here.
And then I cast the Sky's self on myself and turn into castle.
Is there like a way place to walk into the stable?
Yeah, I mean, it's attached to the fore right out.
Yeah. Perfect.
Yeah. I walk into the stable.
Hello. Is anyone there you see tending
to some of the horses Is Mr. Amboli goes.
Ah, Castle Pleasure. Yes.
I have another horse to Stow. Oh, OK.
Well, this one's going to cost you.
Just add it to my tab. Of course, thank you.
And he walks away and you see that this rebel takes π O my and
stores. And then I make Mylan in the
front and go away out of castle form and back in the bow room
form. All right, let's go inside and
decompress. All right now, he might still be
mad at me, but maybe we can talk about it.
And he walks into the Tavern. Mylan follows.
We're going to go back to Vivian.
Castle. Derek's.
I didn't pick up anything. I didn't see anything either.
And Vivian did not pick up any rocks.
Did Castle? No.
I let Boreham get it.
You're welcome to check myself or Castle.
We don't have anything. Lady Shamal, I have no reason to
not trust you. You've been very forthcoming,
and I truly appreciate this information.
Did any of your audience, as you still mentioned, bring anything
back that they would like to share with the astral observers?
No, not that I can think of. I honestly once obsessed with
milk that's all he ever wanted and the other one he lost his
stuff but got it back. No, I don't think so.
He didn't find anything of real interest besides the guy we
captured, which hopefully somebody is going to bring him
back to Balderas because as he was trying to kill Nuella.
We leave petty criminals to petty to shoot the guards and
they do a great job keeping the city safe.
And my concerns are of more severity.
So he puts a hand forward near you to try to make like a
gesture of like trying to connect with you.
Now Garrix is a very large man. He's just about 8 feet tall and
his plate armor is pretty robust.
He fights giants. You've witnessed his great
victories and prowess he has over some of these terrifying
monstrosities that roam the heartland.
He puts his plated hand close to you.
Try to connect with you, Lady Shamo.
It is very important that if you found anything from destroying
those rock beasts that you hand them over to me.
As you see, as I am not so public with this information,
it's something I am investigating and gathering.
Those pieces would prove a great use, and I would be very
grateful if you had any other information, maybe something
you're forgetting or you haven't just told me yet.
And he smiles at you. Can I deceive him to thinking I
know absolutely nothing? Yeah.
Roaming deception check as you try to convince him that you
don't have anything else, that you were just attacked.
And that was it. I got 23 Garrix.
I promise you. If I'm being honest, I really
didn't do much in this. I I'm not much of A fighter, you
know, so I went down because I tried and I really didn't see
anything. And my, my party that went with
me, well, they're not the brightest either.
Kazzle, double takes, minus Kazzle, of course.
We didn't pick up anything. In fact, we lost a lot of stuff
of our own. I think we found it, but I don't
think we picked up anything. And I'm willing to get them
checked as well. But no, I don't know anything
about this. Is there anything you'd like to
share? She's really milking it.
Nothing at this time. I don't want to concern you with
stories and fables. I do like, stories I'd be
interested in listening to keep my eyes open.
If I sequester more help from you then I will share some more
knowledge. But I assure you this is nothing
of importance to you and nothing you need to concern yourself
with. And I believe you.
Thank you, but there's nothing else I can help you with, I
guess. Thank you for coming.
Right. You see, he pulls his hand back
and he stands up and he looks at Charmont.
Your father goes. Well, thank you for allowing me
to have this conversation in your home.
He doesn't seem impressed by the extravagance of this house.
And you see that your father's sweating and he did not touch
any of the food or drink that has been placed.
And you see that he picks up his great sword, slings it over his
back, puts his helmet back up and then promptly leaves.
And you see, your father chases after him to try to get some
more information, and he is having none of it as he goes to
leave the room and leave the estate.
Vivian's gonna turn right around to Kassel and just go.
You ready to go? Kassel's chewing on more food
and just kind of looks around and he's like, yeah, yeah, let's
go. We can, we can bring some to
share. No problem.
No, actually, Milan might want some, so let me.
And Caswell just takes tons of the food and puts in his bag.
Vivian's going to turn to one of the housekeepers and go, could
you pack me just a tiny package or not look like a decently
sized package of food. Of course.
For the road. Of course, Lady.
Thank you so much. They quickly hurry off and you
notice that the help around here is very quick and they almost
run off before you even finish the sentence, as if they're
trained to read the minds of your family before they even
finish their thought and have the thing that they need before
they even finish saying. Try to keep them as pleased as
possible. It's almost a little brutal on
how rough the staff is treated around here sometimes.
Vivian just sighs, she doesn't like that, never has, and just
looks up at the painting towards Woolen and just a little nod.
Your father comes back in and he goes.
Vivian sits down. Now.
Father, no, it's down, she says. She is sad and she points and
you see, and he stands over you and he's pacing back and forth.
What happened on your sporadic trip, your pleasant day trip
through the woods that Garrick's himself would need to come?
Why would he ask you about your little, little journey?
Well, the thing that came and attacked us did come from the
sky, so don't blame him. Why are you putting yourself in
a position to attack? And do you think that maybe,
just maybe, Garrick's himself wanted to talk to you and you're
just going to say, oh, we just got attacked?
Why wouldn't you give him as much information?
I know you're hiding something. There's nothing to hide I
literally went down. I don't know anything else being
down mean What is this? What are you saying you lay down
in fights No, I got well. I tried to attack it and it not.
Why are you attacking? You have you hire the faithful
knight and he points to Kaz off He should be doing the fighting.
You don't leave the carriage. How many times have I told you?
I know you have your toys. I know you have your legal
They're not just me. I'm a deep in descent for the
fairness and I can catch little fireball.
You are not to attack. You are not that is you see he
gets real mad and he gets very close to you when you mentioned
that it's his fault he stands only and you see that he is
about to raise a hand to you and it looks like Kassel and takes a
deep breath through his nose and with the raised hand brushes his
slicked back hair. You are not to leave this me
again. Why?
You are not to use our parrot services.
You are not to use your horse. I will instruct all assistants
on these new rules. You understand?
You should not put yourself in harm's way.
You should not leave the city without my permission.
Of all places, Rock Head Homestead.
A place of scoundrels. They're not scoundrels.
They're just fine. They're lovely people.
Why were you there? Because someone's trying to kill
Noella. And Noella is my friend.
And Noella is a very capable of delta of hiring her own help.
Why does she need to come to you?
I offered to help her. She's my friend.
Have you ever heard of a friend? Sure have.
I surround myself with many important friends by your
friends. Listen to me, I will not stand
here for this. With your back talk, you are cut
off from travel all around the city, you are banned and with
your little toys that you like to spin around and deem your
selfie where the opponent when you can't even according to your
own story, handle a couple of rocks.
They weren't rocks. They were rock monsters.
You are going to remember everything you can about that
moment and report back to Garrix with all the information in a
well written budget. Fine.
And you will send it to me to proofread before sending it out.
You understand? What's the point of that?
Because I want to know what you are sending and I want to make
sure it's in a proper elegant format that this scribbles like
you are a girl in your journal. I'm a grown woman, thank you.
Then act like 1 and walks away after fighting with her dad.
Maybe made her mind up about that place, but not before going
into a sister's old bedroom and grabbing a precious memento.
You easily make this lock matter of fact with a 17 is as quiet as
you possibly could be and the door slowly crease open as the
rays of sunlight breaking through the beams of wood
covering the windows into the room touch your face.
The room is completely dark, it has this bluish melancholy color
scheme to it. There's a large canopy bed,
there is this blue plush velvet couch with some dolls on it.
There are paintings, hanging lights.
All the furniture seems to be covered in thin white silk
sheets. The floor is covered with dust.
Matter of fact that when you walk into the room, you're
leaving very faint footprints behind from the dust caked
floor. As you walk into the room, begin
to relive happy memories and sad memories as if you're watching
them in the third person. As you're seeing a much younger
version of yourself and your sister woman playing with dolls,
talking about family theories, or telling each other fairy
tales. And all these visions are
flashing before your eyes. As if you're seeing a vision of
you 2 jumping on the bed, to the two of you laying on the floor,
to the two of you brushing each other's hair, sitting on the
couch. And then you are a Lord to the
dresser. Across the room, across from her
bed, there is a thin white silk sheet laying over the dresser.
Under the dresser there is a jewelry box.
That jewelry box contains something you would feel is very
important to you. You know that she had something
that was always inside that box and she always kept it with her.
There was always a shroud of mystery to your sister that we
won't get into at this moment. You always wondered how she was
able to get away with so much. You approach the dresser.
You are now looking at this jewelry box.
What is going through your mind? She is angry at everything
that's happened, angry at what's been taken, frustrated about the
fact that it's dusty in here, but really missing her at the
same time. And she's definitely crying
while she's reaching out to grab this jewelry box because it's
been her entire life that she's had no idea what's in it, and
now is the first time she's ever been able to reach it.
It's a big moment for Vivian, so she is waiting with bated breath
to open it up, but she's also very nervous because it could be
nothing at the same time and her sister could have made a whole
stink about it just to tease her as a kid, but she's hopeful that
it is something. You open this jewelry box and
inside on this plush red pillow is a brooch she would put in her
hair and she would wear this all the time.
Matter of fact, she was wearing this the last time you saw her.
It kind of looks like an Angel wing.
Vivian is going to reach for that and put it right into the
inside of her shirt so that it stays nice and close and safe,
but nobody can see it yet. Take the brooch, place it inside
your coat. You feel like this warmth to it,
more of like a comfort that you now have this as a way to get
back at your father for not allowing you to do stuff.
This feels like another form of healthy rebellion activity.
What are you doing? Before you leave the room she
can take one final look around and just try to relive some
things for a moment, but knows time is very limited and just
take a mental note of how everything is and just turn
around and go. I'm going to find you and maybe
we'll be able to make this room a little older.
And then she's going to slink away back to the bathroom, then
roll up towards Castle as if nothing ever happened.
Those two got about it. They are.
And that did 4 to 4 owl with me and Mylan weighing it out.
It's crazy, you know? He's got the same eyes as yours
so he can't believe it. Oh God.
Scratching himself up good though.
Some kind of rash or something, I don't know.
I brought them to the bathroom so we can figure it out.
You're experiencing a lot of things at once that you're not
used to, and a lot of these things are coming on so quickly
when you're used to a much more slower way of life and usually
treated a very specific way because you are a creature of
the trash, if you will. You live in the slums.
Your house is a little hidey hole down in the belly of
Baldaris. You live like in a whole little
wall that you consider your safe space.
But all of a sudden in a drastic change over the last few days
who have not only met people who are nice to you, but have also
showed you various emotions very quickly.
Such as the abrupt bath that you have, them saving you from the
cage, then giving you food, then trying to take it away, telling
you to do things you can't do that you would normally do.
You're suddenly met with rules and how to act in society when
like you just want to eat and sleep and relax.
And then you're met with these monstrous creatures and you're
feeling happiness and joy and sadness and fear.
Like so, so quickly. As you look into this mirror,
you do not see your reflection. It's said you see almost in
black and white negative film. You're seeing this forest with
all these thin, tall trees with no leaves.
A very weird, abstract, twisted, distorted version of your forest
that you grew up in. The forest near Woodvane, but in
a very twisted, nightmarish type of way.
Thin scraggly twigs, nothing is symmetrical.
Everything is like kind of like twisted out with a very like
thin thematic theme, very pencil drawn if you will.
And it's giving you this type of fear because the forest that
you're used to have these big thick tree trunks, these are all
very skinny and the large empty spaces kind of fill you with
dread. And as you're looking in between
all these different branches, you're seeing these silhouettes
of very different contorted, twisted versions of different
animals. You see this weird spiny fox.
You're seeing this very large bear.
You're seeing this boar standing on its hind legs.
You're seeing this strange cat. As you keep blinking, you try to
go away. You're backing away up from the
mirror. And lastly, you see something
that does not look like any type of animal.
You actually see something that looks more out of this world
with like these bloody wings. You see this tall, thin
creature, lanky arms, lanky legs.
No description or detail, just a silhouette, but it has these
long, outstretched what looks like Angel wings, but instead of
having feathers, they're dripping this blackish ink onto
the floor. And then you come to the
vision's washed away. Your heart is beating, your eyes
are glowing, and your head feels like, it feels like it's filled
with, like all this ink, like you have glue slowly moving like
molasses in your mind. He kicks open the door and is
just like a wild animal that's been trapped inside, similar to
like if a deer was inside of a mall, just running around just
frantically trying to get out of this building, out of this room,
back out to the special little place, this small little piece
of earth. What are you OK?
What's the name? And he's just sprinting.
Borum gets like, knocked over. Where you going?
He's moving so fast that he can't keep his traction, so you
just hear scratch marks into the wood as he's rounding the
corner. Wait.
I'm coming. It'd be fine.
Wait, wait. Let's wait for the others.
And Boren follows him, I guess. He's definitely worried about
Milan at this point. He makes it to the stairs, at
least. Yeah.
I probably won't be able to catch you until we're outside.
Maybe Milan. As you go towards the front
door. You're leaving this place.
You're trying to get out of the forehead, Owl.
Oh, yeah. As you make a beeline.
You're much faster than Boren. I believe you're 10 feet faster
than he is. You're able to get by him fairly
easily. As he's chasing you, you run
through the front door. As you go through the front
door. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Castle and Vivian, the two of you are going to the Forehead
owl. Yeah, I believe so.
Because we have all this food that we gotta.
Sure as Mylan bursts to the front door.
Sorry, no, minus nothing. It's nothing crazy.
Mylan runs through the legs of Castle into the street, leaving
before it out. I think Boran hits into them
without even recognizing them and like, pushes past them.
Mylan. Whoa.
The hell. What?
Oh, my gosh. Somethings wrong with mine.
And he keeps running. What did you do?
I did nothing. He just started freaking out.
I'll go running after them. Do you want to handle the stuff
here? Yeah.
I'll catch up.
You got silver hoof? Yeah.
Vivian is going to take off
after Bow Ram and let Castle deal with the aftermath.
The four eyed owl. OK Vivian, you leave chasing
after Beau, Ram and Mylan. Castle, you are at the four eyed
owl. We'll get to them 3 in just a
second. Castle, we're going to focus on
you. Castle, what are you doing while
you're in the four eyed owl? I think I'll probably try to
tidy up just a little bit from like all the ruckus they made as
they were like darting out trying to like just make sure
that people don't have to like clean up too much after us.
And then obviously, I have tons of food, so I don't want it to
go to waste. So I'll probably just save it
for when and hopefully Mylan and the group come back.
So I will probably take it up to my room and just store it there
for a little bit. As you're heading up the stairs,
you see Mr. Humble walks over to the edge of the counter.
Be like, hey, hey, Castle, real quick.
I went into your room earlier. Somebody had dropped off a
package for you. I'm not really sure what it is.
I'd left it on your table in your room.
A package? Yes.
You had a delivery. Interesting.
OK, not as far as I knew, but thanks.
I'll check it out. Absolutely.
When did this come? Earlier today?
Casual things back. Not a lot of people from Kazoos
past know where he is right now, so he's very intrigued to see
what this box is. So you enter your room.
Your room is on the second door of the right when you go into
the second level, the four eyed owl and the room is like an L
shape. In your room.
There's a dresser. There is actually an armor rack
there and then there's the table with three chairs and you have
this big bed with some foot lockers there to Stow some of
your stuff. You have an armor rack to hang
your armor when you go to bed for the night.
And there's like a little curtain area that if you ever
need like privacy, like changing room or like need to wash up.
It's not a bathroom in there, but it is like a bucket with
water to kind of get the stank off and you walk over to the
table and you do see that this brown package there and it has
like this brown bow to it. You're going to give me a
perception check as you're walking dirty 20.
When you walk over to the package, you immediately notice
that something is off. A matter of fact, there's a
curtain that kind of hides like there's like a little privacy
curtain in the room on the West End of the room.
You notice that instantly moves. You draw your sword as you know
for a fact that there is somebody behind it who's back
there. As you draw your sword, 2
assailants charge at you role initiative.
You clock them instantly. You are wearing these bluish
silver robes. Their faces are covered, their
ears are sticking out and they have white platinum hair that of
a winter Aladron God scumbags. I got an 11.
You go first at the start of the round as you see these two
winter a legend charge at you. What kind of weapons do they
have just blades like small blades yes.
They both are equipped with bows.
They both are equipped with a long sword, a short sword and
they also have like which are both curved in nature and they
and they and a scimitar at their waist side.
They are they have very fast acting weapons.
They didn't come to play, huh? No, Kassel is he's surprised
obviously, but unfortunately he's not surprised.
So he's going to go ahead and try to take out.
Oh, I guess the one on the right that was like more exposed, like
not as far behind the curtain. First one out.
I guess if you put it that way, I feel like what are you guys
doing here? As I just swing my long sword at
him and that's a Nat 20. Oh that's amazing.
OK, I would like the smite as well.
Yes. And you want to know what's
great about smite yet? Critical smite damage.
So for those that don't remember, we're using the weapon
crit rule. So when you do a critical hit,
you do Max damage plus whatever you roll.
OK, so it's a thunderous smite. So it's 2D6.
So it would automatically be 12 damage.
It is 53 damage total. Like shit, I was supposed to ask
them a question. What kind of sword are you
using? It's a long sword, but I'm using
it since I do have a shield. I'm only rolling a D8 rather
than a D10 because it is a versatile weapon.
As this Winter Ladron that's trying to get the jump on you,
you slam your long sword so far into its shoulder that you cut
halfway down, and then you hear the thunderous boom erupt from
your blade, as if the God himself was granting you this
boon of power to smite your enemy before you.
As you see that, not only does the blood cease to drip from the
wound being soldered, but you now see the skin break apart
from the thunderous echo booming from your blade and drops to the
floor, instantly dead. You see that the other one looks
down at the floor, looks back at you and continues to charge.
What else are you doing? So that is my turn.
And I just say, okay, I guess you're next again.
What are you guys doing here? We move to Initiative 10 as it's
this other winter Ladron. And he looks at you with his
cold eyes and he goes. The Winter of silence has come
to hush you. And then he moves forward into
your melee range. If he was going to make two
attacks against you, he got a natural one.
We're on par, OK? And misses with an 11 as you
block it with your shield with ease.
OK, looks like you guys still can't fight over there in the
Winter Court, huh? And I'm going to go ahead and
take another attack. We'll hit.
Oh my God, that's another Nat 20.
Are you serious? You're going and I'm going to
smite again. I'd be like, I have to.
He did it. He did it yeah, that was my that
was my goal for the campaign, right?
Two smites in a row, one in 400 chance.
He just did critical smites in a row.
Okay, wrote the damage. So this time it is 50 damage.
How do you kill him? So I would like to maybe grab
him and as I'm I guess taking my blade and I'm putting it through
his like stomach. I bring him really close and I
just say who sent you? You will fall like you're Gord
and blood drips from his mouth as we feel him go limp on your
bleed before he goes limp. Holy power comes down and
smokes. Okay, have it your way hassle.
You look at these two winter Aladrins dead on the floor and
you notice that their blades are that of Aladrin craftsmanship
and the one that you just had on the floor.
You notice that that one looks particularly fancy and
definitely catches your eye. As you go to like loot their
pockets, you don't find much matter of fact, you don't have
any money on them. You know that Winter Court
assassins that you would probably call these assailants
the Cold Warfare that the different courts tend to play on
each other from time to time, that this was 100% an
assassination attempt against you.
You know that they don't carry much on them, and that's because
if they were to fail, there's nothing to leave behind and they
would die for their secrets. You see that they have their
Aladron Garbon. Notice that one of the swords
looks particularly well crafted. It is a + 1 long sword.
OK, I would just like to make sure it's not cursed or anything
like that. You would need to do a check
during a long rest to do that, or you need to have an ability
to do that. But given the scenario I'm a DM2
player, you can most certainly know that this isn't first.
OK man, I didn't think they'd find me out here.
Well, time to move and I take the sword and I pull it aside
and I start gathering the courses and everything.
And I would actually like to open the box that was on the
desk and see what they were planning on doing.
But I'm doing it very slowly. Make me a Dexterity saving
through 17. You're going to take half of
nine, so you're going to take 4 points as the box essentially
explodes on you and you get this ink on your eyes that gives you
the blind condition. So I think I don't take anything
with Shield Master Evasion, which allows on half damage
success. I would be able to use my
reaction to take zero damage instead, of course.
And as you sit there, you block yourself from this explosive
with your shield panning over to the middle.
The city in the Westerly district.
Myelin is scurrying through alleyways, always running.
Why? Why we do so much running in
this party? Boram and Vivian are chasing
after you. What is happening?
Vivian's going to scream. Mylan, come back.
I got really good snacks for you.
Please come back. Just talk to us.
Come on, buddy. I think it's past the point of
snacks. Mylan, come back.
Get over here, Mylan. You are cutting through
alleyways and going through buildings, trying to get away
from Vivian and Bo Ram as they are chasing after you.
Basically, Mylan just is on an absolute beeline as best he can
to get back to his little Heidi hold.
If he sees anybody, he's going to dodge the other way.
So there could be like people in the village just walking on the
streets and he's going to feel like there are threats and then
he'll probably pivot to go to a different direction.
So this is Boldaris in the evening time.
There are people every some parts more shoulder to shoulder
than others and you're just frantically running through them
pretty easily. You are a small creature.
You could run through people's legs and squeeze easily.
Vivian and Bow Ram are having a harder time keeping track of
them. The three of you tell me what is
happening right now. Vivian's going to look over at
Bow Ram while running. He just go.
Let's set him off. Do you know what's going on?
I got no idea. Said he had to go to the
bathroom, but I don't think it was a problem with the stomach.
Now, Paul, maybe you cut him off.
I can't. Well, this is.
There's a lot of running. Was he doing anything weird?
He scratched himself early. I think something might be wrong
with his arm. Oh, great.
Vivian's just gonna try to call out as loud as possible.
We're running. Just.
Violet, please. We'll help you.
Please get back here. I don't want to lose somebody
else. Please.
Nobody else. What?
We'll talk about it later. Bull.
Ram. Violet, get back here now.
I'm going to whoop your ass. Livia's pissed, She's out of
day, she's tired, sure. She's just running and
screaming. Mylan, what are you doing?
He wants to just get away from everybody.
So right now he's kind of frantically looking side to
side. If there's a group of people,
he's pivoting to a different direction.
If he sees anything, he's going vertical.
Basically, he's going to jump up on anything, climb, whatever,
just to get away from everything.
He's so definitely overwhelmed. So anything that he can see
that's in front of him, he's just going to keep on going.
In this current situation, Mylan is because of his size and he's
just faster than the two of you. So he is dashing right now.
He's essentially moving 80 feet around.
We're not going to go into combat just yet, but the two of
you, Vivian, Aboram, because of how like dense the city is right
now, it's much harder for you to navigate and catch up to him.
So unless you use abilities here, any type of magic,
something to physically slow him or makes you physically faster,
he's going to get away from you. Yeah.
Boram won't be able to catch up to no matter what.
Vivian might be able to if she uses just double dash actions.
True, she could do that. Yeah.
So Vivian has a chance of catching up to violin if she
wants to double dash. Let's go.
Vivian's double dashing all day. I'm not gonna be able to catch
up, but maybe I help you later. And I cast guidance on her as I
slowly lose track of both of them.
Thanks, Boram. Get some rest.
I'm gonna try catch up later because I'm sure you'll be in
that direction. Cancels back at the go back
there. OK, Milo, you're running.
You're thinking like you're like home free.
As you get into the Town Center, as you cross over this bridge
over the river in the center of Valdez, you're running.
You're looking behind you in full Sprint with hands fully
extended. Is Vivian sprinting at you in
full speed? Just going in between people.
People are being knocked over as she's never see cloud with a
chance of meatballs. Yeah, she's the security guard
essentially because she's using her bonus action and her action
to just dash toward you. If you were in an accounting
here, that's how her turns will be spent.
We're just expediting that process a little bit.
She will catch up to you, Mylan. Unless now you do something and
I'll give you a chance to do that.
So at this point, he's he's getting wigged out.
He's not seeing clearly. He's still in this like kind of
black and white phase where he's looking around, he just sees
unrecognizable faces and he feels like everything's out to
get him at this point. So he looks around in any kind
of thing that he can jump into, whether it's a trash bin or
under a table or anything that would be away from people.
That's where he's going to go to.
OK, go ahead and make me a stealth check and then Vivian,
you're going to make me a perception check. 23 on stealth.
I got a zero. I got a 1 -, 1.
Mylan seemingly disappears as he crosses the bridge into the town
square of Boderis as a person walks by.
Just cutting you for a second. Mylan is out of your light of
sight. Vivian just rumbles to the
ground and just starts bawling. I I went through so much today
and now Mylan won't talk to me and I'm in the middle of the
fucking city by myself. I don't know what the hell is
wrong with this thing. I just want to help him.
You see, a guy walks by. Why is a pretty young thing like
yourself crying in the middle of the floor graveling?
OK you walked. It's so pissed off and she's
going to scream and just avoid Mylan.
If you get back to the end when you're calm down we can have a
chat and we can talk but I'm not waiting for you out here.
I don't care anymore And she's going to storm back to the four
eyed owl. I'm here if you need me but fuck
you. Maybe it's had a day.
She's been re traumatized for so many things.
She's throwing back to the Florida owl.
She knows he'll come back eventually.
He'll get hungry. Violin, you have escaped your
companions. Are you going back to your home?
I think at this point he's kind of like a trapped critter in a
cave with only one entrance out and he's kind of catching his
breath. Fight or flight kind of mode,
like anything that comes within. What what, where is he right
now? What was the thing he found?
You jumped into an empty stall. The town rents out these stalls
for when they throw like parties or if they're city that's going
on. This could be used as a food
booth or a marriage booth of any of something, but it's empty
right now. It's closed because there's no
offense going on. He's in this, his right paws up,
waiting to just scratch it anything that follows behind
him. Pupils are dilated, breathing
heavy. You can even see his eyes are
just teared up, trembling, ready to hit whatever is going to come
at him. As he sits there for period of
time, the adrenaline starts to wear off and then he just starts
violently shaking. Emotions are kind of starting to
set in. Hand slowly falls down, which
then kind of goes into a point where he's crossing his arms,
giving himself a self hug. And then he's just sitting there
replaying everything that just happened to him as he kind of
rocks back and forth as he's reflecting on one him making a
fool of himself and making a fool of his friends.
And then the vision of the melted faces and monstrosities
that he just saw start to get in his head head.
He picks his hand and starts hitting his head because he's
just so frustrated that he's even thinking about it because
it's it's hurting him at this point, not understanding and now
feeling very alone in the world. He he's kind of starts to
contemplate getting up, but he just has to sit there for a
moment. As you hide in this abandoned
close down stall. We're going to go over back to
the forehead Al to bow ram Vivian.
She catches me on the way back, like sitting down on a curb.
I had all just run. Vivians pissed, but she's like
crying at the same time. Now.
You now feeling good? He gets up and follows Vivian.
Wait up. I lost him.
What? Yeah.
Sorry. Sorry.
Yeah, I'll slow down. You're good.
Sorry.
I'm not much of A I'm much of an athlete, so that's OK.
Your life doesn't lead you to that.
That's all right. Let's go get drunk.
I think that's a good. Yeah.
I mean, I don't mind that idea. After the day we had.
You don't even know. And Vivian's just going to storm
towards the door. This must be worse than mine,
then. OK and he just follows Vivian
Stoll lagging behind a little bit as he catches his breath. 2
of you go back to the four eyed owl.
Kazel what are you doing? I feel like Kazel's trying to
clean up in his room. He probably goes downstairs and
to miss her uncle and goes. So who did you say saw the
package get dropped off? Oh well the Courier service
dropped off the package. I just put it in your room.
OK, well, unfortunately there were two.
Castle looks around and goes assassins waiting for me in my
room. And the package was a trap.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unfortunately.
What do you mean there were assassins in your room?
Well, I mean, they were hiding behind my curtain, and when I
walked in, they jumped out and tried to kill me.
He has this face up. Yeah.
Yeah, I know. I had the same look on my face.
Yeah. You're telling me there's two
dead elves in my. Yeah.
See, that's honestly why I was gonna really tell you.
I was either gonna throw them out the window or trying to do
that. We're not gonna do that.
Yeah. See.
Let me go up this one and see. Exactly.
Let me just. That's why I was telling you.
See, that's how good of a customer I am.
He selects that, he goes over to the other barkeeper.
Do me a favor or watch the front for a minute while I go take
care of this situation. And you see that?
Mister Humble follows you up the stairs to your room, walks into
your room where you're staying, and the two of you are now
looking at these dead elves. Yep.
See, that's them right there. Yep.
You did this. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it was
either me or them. Like I said, they tried to kill
me. Look, a little blue around the
gills. Is there a reason for that?
You know, it was a really heated encounter, I'll put it that way.
Yeah, okay, now look, they are not from here, I'll put it that
way. Really.
Did the icy chill around their face and the platinum Whitehead
give that away? I mean, yeah, pretty much.
Wasn't sure how in the know you were about Eladrins and the Fay,
so yes. And Castle just blankly stares
at him. How important are these two?
Not important at all. They will not be missed.
He lowers his monocles. He looks at you through the top
of his brow. They're not going to be missed.
Do I have your word on that? As far as I know, I gave you my
word. As far as I know, they will not
be missed. Are these two-part of a bigger
organization that I should know about?
OK, so from what I know, they do work for the Winter Court.
These are Winter Court assassins.
This is political and you see that he taps the symbol on your
armor with his knuckle. It's not a political thing as in
the court sanctioned this. I have a feeling that this is an
unsanctioned attack by the Winter Court.
This is some wet work Black Ops shit.
Castle just cusses. He doesn't even Gary.
He's like they are definitely probably not supposed to be
here. Give me an insight.
Check 12 you see with a 12 you notice that he's taking this
rather well and calm like he just found two dead bodies in
his Tavern that he owns and he's not like screaming or
immediately calling the authorities.
He turns and he looks at you. He's like a self smile.
You see his eyes closes then he looks at the dead bodies on the
floor and he looks back at you and then he puts both his arms
like on his shoulder kind of like a comforter.
You know I adore you and I like having you here.
I have two dead went to legends, not from this plane, as you
mentioned, and given their symbols and your symbol and how
similar you look, but with unique contrasting appearances,
I'm going to have to respectfully ask you to find a
new place to lay your hat. Yeah, I kind of already planned
on doing that so I can, you know, a couple of guys off the
street trying to beat you up for money and things go wrong.
That's something I could sympathize with and honestly
look nice. It happens.
I get it. This looks political.
I, for one, cannot have political differences in my
Tavern. Well, it's not differences.
It's just it's 2 dead blue elves on my floor.
I know how it looks. I know how it.
And not for none. This one's almost kind of half.
Well, yeah, they got smoked. Listen, I don't doubt your
capabilities. You look very strong.
I appreciate that about you. And as a friend, I'm not trying
to kick you out because you killed me kicking you out
because this seems like a greater problem if you stay.
And I just. And as a friend, as somebody who
cares about rumors about my Tavern, about people getting
murdered in here, as a friend, I need you to no longer reside in
this. Yeah, I know.
I get it can at least keep Silverhoof here a few extra days
till I find a new place. As a courtesy to you I will
allow your two horses to stay here for a week as you find
another stable with them. But you need to leave here
tonight. I just have Silverhoof.
I have Silverhoof and pile my which you stored here just
earlier today. Oh my God.
Okay, let me guess, I was the one that came over and handed
you Piomy? Yep, yeah, of course.
Yep, Nope, Yeah. Fucking bore him.
And then the package came in. Funny enough, just missed you.
OK, yeah, one week. That sounds great.
I give him 20 gold. As you go to hand him the gold,
he puts one hand underneath and one hand over and closes your
hand around the money and goes no, no, no, I have this handle.
You don't have to worry about this.
I'll remove these two bodies discreetly, and if anybody comes
to asking questions about it, I'm going to say that I haven't
seen you pass today. Perhaps.
If they look like these fellows, I'm gonna assume that they got
the job done because your whereabouts is no longer a
concern of mine. I haven't seen you.
Yep. That sounds great.
You keep that money, you'll buy lodging somewhere else.
OK. Preferably in another district.
Damn. I was gonna go to snack store.
OK. Yeah, I'll.
Yeah. I'll figure something out.
Absolutely. Maybe I'll have to stay with
Boram. And really drive him crazy.
Who knows? Oh thank goodness he didn't have
to come back to my place. I would not have been able to
deal with him all day. Maybe it was real nice though
and showed us our hideout. The plot thickens.
Since the Balladin was all situated.
I got myself out there to try and find Mylan.
Hopefully he found his way back to his idea that he keeps
talking about. We are going to cut Mylan.
While the three of you were spending time figuring out a new
place to go and heading back to Vivian's hideout, we cut to
Milan in his little hidey hole in the belly of Bouldares.
Milan. You have just popped in and this
place, once again, just to refresh your memory, is very
special to you. This place is within the mines
within the belly of Bouldares. The belly of Bouldares is a
district where mining activity happens and excavating and city
expansion. It's believed that you can even
get to the under dark if you travel deep enough.
There's a lot of different operations down here.
It does get busy more towards the morning, but being down here
as you isn't totally weird. And the hole to get into this
game is very small that only a creature that can squeeze
through tight holes such as yourself can really get in here.
But what's unique about this place, besides your rags and
clothes and empty jugs of milk that you've been collecting over
the last few days and whole sacks of scraps of food you've
been saving, are these beautiful Obsidian walls that surround you
in here. You do not hear any noise of the
outside world in here. You are alone, but you're at
peace here and you're in the corner of the room and you're
just getting some time for yourself.
And you close your eyes. You're trying to get a grasp on
your breath. What is going through your mind
as you now spend some time resting here?
I would say the moment I walked in, my heart rate went down
about half at least. Finally able to feel like some
normal is going on in his life in the chaos that's been the
last few days and is finally able to sit with his empty
thoughts after they've been so chaotic for the past couple
hours. Milo, just refresh my memory.
You have some of those meteorite pieces, right?
Quite a few, we'll say between all the events where Bo Ram and
Vivian and Cassel went back to the estate, you hiding from them
when you had run off. We'll say about an hour and a
half, two hours met. Most have passed by where you
have gone back home and collected yourself and you've
even like dozed off here and there trying to go back into
your own. But you wake up to something
shifting about in your home. You see that there's a lump
moving. You notice that the cloak you've
been wearing is half off as if it's slid off of you somehow.
You look over in the corner of the room and going through your
stuff, you see this floating ball.
It's like a ball made of skin. It has a long tongue, a wide
mouth, small. It's about the size of a dodge
ball, let's say, and it has little limbs, small eyes on, and
it has one big eye in the center of this meaty ball with the iris
is shaped like an X. You see that?
It looks to you and it kind of has like this dumbish face, and
then you see that it gets angry. It starts to float towards you.
You're gonna roll me Initiative 3020 starting at the top of the
round on Initiative 20. Mylan, you are looking at this
floating ball of flesh with all these little tendrils that have
little eyes at the end of them. What are you doing?
Without thinking too much about it, Mylan shifts through
anything that's on the ground because there's just kind of
trash everywhere. And then he just comes upon the
moon touched sword that tassel gave him a few episodes ago and
holds it out in front of him as he lights up the place with it.
Because it is unsheathed. The sword blooms as your home
lights up in this moonlight. As the sword glows blue, you see
that this thing looks at it but still is dancing towards you.
This thing's only about like 5 feet away.
It's a very small hiding. Now you're not proficient with
this weapon. If you go to attack, it's gonna
be a flat. I'm going to try because I have.
What is it? I can connect to something and
read its mind with telepathic connection.
I'm going to try anyways to have the sword ready in case
something bad happens. But I'm going to try to be like,
are you friend you friend? And then wait to see what
happens. You're asking that ending your
turn? Yeah.
So I'm slowly moving close to a sword in my left hand, reaching
out with my right, trying to get a little close to it, to either
pet it or just to touch it so that I can read its thoughts or
thinking or feeling or whatever it may be.
You see, that speaks out when you're trying to make a mental
connection to it. It goes no thanks, only feared.
And then it's going to go to his initiative.
Go ahead and roll me AD 4 twice. I got a one and then I got a 2.
Go ahead and make me a Wisdom saving throw with DC-12, and
then make me another saving throw with DC-125 for the 1st
111 for the second one. You are gazed.
One of the tendrils shoots like almost something like a laser
towards you and then you are now spinning.
You see birds floating around your head.
Your movement is now halved and you have disadvantage on all
attack rolls. The second one that you rolled,
you see another like almost like a quick little laser shoots
lands into the center of your forehead.
You are now frightened as fear begins to erupt and just like
you saw before in this mirror, rather than seeing this floating
eyeball, you are starting to see silhouettes of different animals
taking its place, almost as if it's casting the visage of your
greatest fears in front of you. You see this bear, You see this
boar, you see this fox, Then you see like this weird silhouette
of this tall lanky man with these dripping wings.
As you are now feared and need to essentially run away, you
have a frightened condition as we go back to you since it's so
small. I mean do I leave the hole or
you have to get away from? I moved to the North End of The
Cave away from the creature as as I'm just gripping my head now
I immediately shift my entire body towards him and my eye
starts to glow. And then I use disorienting
whispers world of 15. So then it honestly says the
target takes half the damage so that's 8.
So it takes 4 points of damage. When you hit this creature, you
see that the scary visages that's casting on itself because
you're frightened of it snaps back to reality.
You see this floating eyeball again shift into view.
And after the damage is done, it then shifts into another one of
these silhouettes of one of these creatures that you're
scared of. We're going to go to it's turn
on initiative 12 and it's going to try to move closer and it's
going to bite you as it misses with an 8 and you see that tries
to bite down as you move out of the way.
It's going back to your turn. If I'm able to, it's going to be
like, I don't know what you are, but you have to leave.
This is my only place. This is all I got and he's going
to swing his moon sword roll a hit with disadvantage.
This is a flat D20 roll because you're not proficient.
So I got a two that is going to miss.
No, I need the pieces. I need the pieces.
It tries to bite you again on it's turn.
It's going to be an 18 to hit and it's going to deal one point
of damage and we're going back to your turn.
What are you doing? What?
I don't understand what you need.
Look at this. This is small hole.
It's just me. And then he's going to use
Mindsliver at this point and just try to keep this thing away
from him. Peg, it must make an
Intelligence saving throw. It fails horrifically as I miss
with my sword and he tries to hit me.
My right eye finally gears up and it lets out mind sliver and
hits the target for three damage.
You see that as it takes this damage, it feels very weakened
and we're no longer frightened as it loses that edge.
The fact that you're able to hurt it and you have such a
intellectual dominance over it because it got a -2 on its
intelligence role, you get a sense that this thing is not in
any form or fashion intelligent. This thing seems liveless, and
the intellectual superiority that you had over for just a
moment, it begins to like. Freak out and it flies towards
you so much that it's trying to get inside of your cloak, trying
to hide and you're like trying to slap it away with your claws.
And as you go to go down to slap like your shirt, you touch your
belly. It has disappeared within your
cloak. That can't be good.
When you take your hand out where he went, you're now just
touching air. You pull out and you have these
pieces of the meteorite. It seemed like it was holding
them when it was fighting you, and you see this fragment and
you get these flashbacks. So all what you were looking at
in the bathroom when all these visages of fear of these
different animals were frightening you, what they could
mean, how they related to you, how they remind you of your
past, the things you were trying to forget by hiding in this
hole. You feel that you're no longer
scared. You're getting your confidence
about you as you feel like you defended yourself somewhat well,
despiting for the first time, not fully running away.
But you are cautious. You're looking at these pieces
of the Shard and you see that one of the pieces glow for a
moment as you feel that there's still a sense of power within
it. With the moon touched, sword
still in hand and glowing, the whole cave is reflecting a
simple red panda silhouette everywhere.
These aren't clear images, but instead it's like staring into a
darkened monitor that hasn't been turned on yet.
Mylan takes a minute and moves from left to right before
shouting out. You lied to me when I was in
Rocket Zone. Instead I saw a calendar and I
know how to count now. I am not that old.
As Mylan continues to be frustrated with himself and
yelling directly into a Black Mirror at the corner of his
eyes, he sees all of a sudden a silhouette that isn't panda
shaped. It's tall, thinner, blurry like
smoke pressed between glass. No face, no details, just wrong.
Not having another intruder, Mylon takes the Moon touch sword
and chucks it at the image. The sword does not hit on
targeted, it hits just to the left of it, splintering a
perfect silhouette of a panda. The sound is huge in a tiny
space. This deafens Mylan's ears while
the blade clatters near his bed. With his paws on his ears, he
looks up to the damage that the sword has created.
He realized that he missed and hit right above his bed and
ruining the perfect night sky that he looks at every night.
With his heart racing and vision fading to a fine point, he
starts clawing at the Obsidian like there's answers behind it.
I ran, I survived, I learned. And as he keeps clawing like
he's trying trying to get to this serious silhouette that
just happens to be 1 rock. Further, as he keeps digging and
digging, he realizes that he's shaking more and more until he
starts to slow to a crawl and then moments later completely
crashes to sleep in this cavity that he's created just above his
bed. And there's Mylan curled up in a
hole that he has created within the Obsidian.
And just in his right paw is the star from fragment as he falls
asleep. While Mylan sleeps, Mylan is
slowly lifted up into the air, unknowingly placed down into his
bed, scattered with Obsidian fragments all around it.
Seamless and quiet, the cracked Obsidian slowly begin to mend
all of the damage, forming the perfect night sky that Mylan is
so used to looking at. All of this would seem as though
it never happened, except for the glaring issue that is.
Right in the middle of the night sky, the star fragment that was
once in Mylan's hand is now embedded into the ceiling just
above where he sleeps. After a few moments, the moon
touch sword starts to fade. The silver glow that was
bouncing off the Obsidian walls weakens and now completely fades
out. For a moment, the hidey hole is
back to how it should be, completely dark.
Then light shifts 1 by 1. The reflections return.
Red pandas reform across the walls like it's being sketched
back into existence, all with the same imperfections, watching
and breathing, existing in perfect sync.
And then there's a face that doesn't match.
They don't have fur, don't have scars, they don't even blur.
Different from each other. There are two of them now.
Same outlines, same stillness, same shadowy gaze not reflecting
Mylin, reflecting each other. Mylin jerks up after a very long
night and feels very odd that walls don't feel solid anymore.
They feel optional as he levels to Level 3.
Mylan. Mylan Orem's walking around a
little aimlessly, mainly through the center of town where he last
saw Mylan. He's asking anyone that's out.
It's not many, there are crowds kind of dwindling at this point,
but he's asking anyone who will stop and actually talk to him if
they've seen anything about Mylan.
A little rodent guy or a little red panda guy?
No, lady, it's a it's a little red panda.
It's not like it's not like a rat.
I haven't seen your dog or your friend.
Not a pet. I haven't seen them.
Maybe you should keep them on a leash.
Animals belong on leashes. Yeah.
All right.
Make sure they're neutered. Is he neutered?
Did you get him spayed? Something that all right, you
have a good night. You're right.
And he's just looking and looking and looking doesn't seem
to be having luck finding where Mylan went because he's very
stealthy and very small, hard to spot.
And he kind of just finds his way to a bench in the Town
Center. He's leaning back and he's kind
of just staring at the stars. What's the light pollution like?
It's a small city, medieval city, right?
There's probably not so much light pollution.
It's a good sized city, but there is a lot of positive empty
space in Boulder. It's like in the town square
surrounded by this streams of rivers that kind of breakaway
and surround the town square. The town square doesn't have any
tall buildings within it because it's made to be set up and
broken down and for shows and entertainment to be displayed in
big meetings, right? So especially in the center of
the city, you can get a clearview of the sky.
There are lanterns that are lit up to light up the street, but
they do not affect the stars at all.
And specifically currently in Hume Brea, because of the
shooting star that is always glowing the light, there is
practically almost no light pollution because that shooting
star definitely amplifies all the other stars in the sky as it
illuminates the night sky. Currently in umbra.
You have very bright nights. For the most part, unless it's
very cloudy or bad weather, you have like this very purplish,
bluish night rather than a dark black night or little guy.
Maybe I'll find you tomorrow. I hope we do.
I hope that's not the last time we saw you, little guy.
All right, well, I'm not going back to that place.
Better get going. And Beoram's ready to go back to
his own apartment because he hasn't been back there in days
and he's starting to feel anxious that he hasn't been back
there working on potions and such.
And he, he kind of gets up and remembers that he probably needs
to be more careful than he's been shouting names in public
and does look around to see if anybody's been following him.
Give me your perception check. Bye.
You haven't noticed anybody that sticks out while you were
asking, you didn't notice two people kind of asking you for
drugs or asking you where they can get their next fix.
And you kind of brush those people off.
They didn't badger you in any way, but you don't notice
anybody like following you. All right, well, I'm about to
start heading back at least. And he gets up and he saunters
towards Stacks. Is there like a Tavern on the
way to the Stacks? There are several.
There are many in Boldaris, one that you're kind of taking to.
So in the stacks there really aren't many Taverns, maybe
houses you drink at because there's a big amalgamations of
small houses and apartments is the stacks.
Right. But in the port side district,
there is a Tavern or a bar that you would frequent called
Roosties. Yeah, he's he's not looking for
something far. He just pops into the first
Tavern he sees, whatever small in or something.
My hideout isn't good enough for you.
I see how it is. Yeah, dude.
Wow, what the Frick? I'm going back that hoarder
toward that place. Holy Wham.
I Oh, that's amazing. OK, so as you leave the Town
Center, you go to the port side district.
There is a Tavern immediately over the bridge when you go into
the port side district and it's called the Tiger's Left Tooth.
He walks into the Tiger's Left Tooth and he kind of walks in,
opens the door and kind of like walks turns backwards and still
looking around. Not feeling very confident in
the night, he simply asks A barkeep for the bathroom and
when he goes into the bathroom he is going to cast the last
spell he can of the day and cast another disguised self.
He turns into a generic elf, maybe slightly shorter than him,
with some more raggedy garb St. urchin type stuff that would
make sense in the stacks. Any exits without talking to
anybody and walks back to the stacks as this raggedy elf.
So as you go to your apartment, is there anything else you're
doing as this elf? He's still just worried about
these orcs that might be around these half orcs, and because of
that he's still trying to make sure that he covers as much
tracks as he can anytime he goes home.
Make it to your apartment. Why don't you give me a
perception check with advantage? That's 19.
The door is locked, but you notice that it has been open
recently, not by you. Instead of open the door, he
kind of peers through his window.
Make me a perception check. That's 18.
Your apartment looks fine. It looks like your mess.
It doesn't look like a mess. It looks like your calculated
mess. It's dark.
There are no lights on. You don't see anybody in there.
But because of the state of the door, you know that something's
off. You know you're very particular
about your ways and because of the stacks you do have, like
your own booby traps or kicks that you would leave behind
because you want to know if somebody entered your place.
This is not the first time that this may have happened, maybe
not the last, but you do know that something is off.
Somebody has been here since you've been.
He's still disguised as this random elf.
So he's going to knock. First you knock on your
apartment and there's no answer. And then he's going to put his
key in, unlock it, and kind of kick the door open slowly.
Give me another procession check with advantage because this is
your apartment. It's dark.
You know your apartment better than anyone.
That's a 15. As you turn the corner to go to
your desk, you are alert. As you turn the corner to go to
your workbench, you notice that there is a figure leaning on the
wall ball with their shoulder in a non threatening pose with
their arms crossed. A very feminine figure has a big
hat tilted down, covering their face.
Who? Who's there?
I'm the housekeeper. If you're a housekeeper, you're
doing a really shitty job and you see that The silhouette, a
tail moves and from the tail a little flame shows red skin,
lighting a cigarette to her lips.
It is Nuella. It looks like he might be on to
me. Yeah.
It's not me. And he drops the ACT.
I'm just, you know, just keeping people off my tail that I don't
want after me. You know how that is.
You really do. Yeah.
Having people on your tail can be really annoying.
And you see that She takes a big puff of a very long and elegant
cigarette. You see that the cigarette she
has, it has one of those very fancy cigarette holders where
the cigarette will be at the end and you smoke it through like
this long black needle. Fancy nobles will tend to do
that. And she takes a big, big drag.
I didn't know how I wanted to approach this.
Listen, I know I'm pretty tantalizing.
Become a knocking. You can stay if you like.
And he takes his coat off and he puts it on his bed.
He sits on a stool and he grabs one of his.
He's out of his sister's moonshine, so he's going to grab
some of his own spirits. But if you came out his way, you
might as well have a drink. You see she's clenching the
cigarette very tightly. She goes, Oh, I'm going to drink
something, but it's not going to be that.
Will, you're trying to serve me right now.
You fooled me for a while, but you really think I wouldn't
notice? I don't know what you're talking
about. She pulls out a dagger.
Give you one more chance to be the honorable man.
I hope you are. You see this blade?
It's a dagger, but it's a very long dagger.
Well, then there's got to be one of two things into one.
This is some really kinky foreplay.
Or two. You might have lost something
that you don't have no more. It's definitely the latter.
Yeah, I figured as much. You see, she looks at her dagger
and she is picking her very long tiefling nail.
Cleaning her fingertip, she goes.
I'm going to give you one chance to return it.
And you see that her light red skin begins to turn dark Crimson
and her eyes begin to fade over into almost like this blood red
Look. Listen, you're always going to
have me in some combat. I'm not going to be fine.
You don't worry. He puts the bottle back on the
shelf and he does take a swig of the moonshine.
He grows and grabs his coat and he puts it on.
All right, You want something very special back, right?
You want your something that might have been on your hat.
I'm guessing that's right. Well, you know, we did just take
care of Grab, but just say make it even.
Don't even have to pay me. Don't even have to do nothing
else. Couldn't we just do something
like that? You got your life.
I got one of your feathers. Nothing too bad to trade.
That feather is worth 10 times in some lowlife hack that is
trying to Heckle me with some rats.
And what makes you think even with your baubles and trinkets?
And she motions to your desk over there with those hand me
down tools. Things you have the means to
make use of that rare feather. Not to mention the amount of
hell I had to go through. Get that?
Well, maybe trinkets, but it's about how you use them.
And I got a bit more going on in this ad than you can make credit
for. You see that she walks towards
you, towards the stool at your table, the free one that you're
sitting next to, about a few feet away from you.
And now he's lighting a cigarette too.
But then let me ask you this, is there any way that I can work it
off? Because I really need something
like that right now, and I don't know anybody else that would
have something. What is exotic.
I need these feathers for my own personal reason.
Oh, that makes two of us then. But I don't think you're skilled
enough to know how to use it. I think you would just break it
in one of another failed experiment.
And she looks over to your desk and it's just messy.
She doesn't know what's there. As many successes that you've
had, I would imagine you've had the same amount of failures.
And your apartment is definitely a testament to that, of trial
and error. Now I'm offended.
Oh, now you know how it feels. And he walks past her.
He doesn't even look at her and goes and sits on his desk.
He kind of spins around in the chair, leans back with both
elbows on his desk. How about this, If we make a
deal, give me a chance. Let me show you what I can whip
up here. She grips her dagger, but she
flips it around. The blade is facing downward and
she kind of holds it along. Rather than somebody who would
have their dagger just stick it straight up for like a quick
stab, she has in a position to slice.
Would you have in mind there are a few ways we could do this, but
I got it already. I could whip something up.
Did you got something you was trying to do?
With that, she takes off her hat and she moves her hair to the
side. Now she's a tiefling with one
horn, and you see that when her hat is taken off, her other horn
looks like it was cut off. In the light of your apartment
now and her very enraged skin, you can see that she wasn't just
born with one horn, a matter of fact, the other one was removed
somehow. And you can see within her hair
as she moves it to the side to kind of adjust herself.
You can see all these balls spots around that home.
Looks like she has a nasty scar. Tea flings are accustomed to
flames, but they're not immune. But it's very rare when you see
tea flings with burns and you see that she has these small
burns around this broken horn. And she looks at her hat and she
takes the fake feather off, crumples it up, very insulted,
throws it on the floor, shows, yeah, that don't match your
decor just fine. And she points to the other
three phoenix feathers that she has.
You proved to me that you can make something with that feather
right now, and I'll give you another one for free.
But if you don't, I'm going to leave you something to Remember
Me by for a very, very long time.
Well, I want to remember you till the end of days.
But we can talk about that some other time.
A man of pride and challenge in my intelligence.
Gummy, almost as angry as you are, but different kind of fire
now in my belly. I just want to prove something.
I've been thinking about this a while, give me some time.
And he puts his goggles on and you see, he buttons up his
trench coat and it goes up to his nose or kind of blocks
anything that would be like fuming towards his face.
And he immediately whips out the feather he stole from her and is
just going to start getting to work.
Before I do this. You want something specific or
is this up to me? I'll be surprised if you don't
kill yourself. I almost got myself about twice
a day. I think he would want to create
something that would fix her horn.
So The thing is, the phoenix feather wouldn't do that.
You know what a phoenix feather does it.
It has life restorative properties, but it's very
reactive depending on what you do.
So anything you make with this potion is going to be based
around that. It's meant to cure or bring
something back. Yeah.
Then he'll make a potion that would cure diseases, sort of
like a lesser restoration. You can definitely aim to do
that. But here's the catch.
You are very skilled tinkerer. This is a very volatile
component that you are working with right now.
So we're going to do a series of roles to see if you're able to
get that desired outcome. As you begin to get into work
and you begin setting up, you see as she's going through your
liquor cache and you she's like going through bottles and she
takes a bottle, notices this one that you've made because she
remembered it from last time she was here.
She was lost and throws it over her shoulder into the room and
you hear the loud crash. Listen, I know it's a mess, but
it's an organized mess. Don't make it worse as it keeps
working. I would focus if I were you.
I'm more focused than I've ever been.
And he's kind of tapping to himself, like singing a song in
his head as he's going beaker to beaker fixing up flasks and
flames. Give me an arcana check as you
begin to study the phoenix feather and you start to get
your components ready. Please.
What does that look like? I mean, he has a place where he
props up his journal and he's kind of flipping really fast
through. He already, he knows the pages
he wants to go to. And you already see potions on
pages that he's already tried and failed XS checkmarks on
little sections, but nothing's circled because nothing has
worked perfectly yet. And he goes over to a mortar and
pestle. First he wants to shave off the
feathers from the stem to have those as separate parts and then
use a mortar and pestle to crush the stem.
Go ahead and make me an arcana check that's 23.
You understand what you're working with with this feather.
You know it has restorative properties, this curative
properties. You understand the fragileness
and the validity of the feather and the power possesses.
And as you study it with a 23, you can almost see the flames
coursing within the frills of the feather from its plucked
wing. And you feel the immense heat
that it gives off. And you begin to get to work.
Go ahead and make me mess to check.
As you begin to crush various herbs together, as you begin to
make a base for your solvent. 12th, you seem a bit rushed with
this because you're excited to use the feather.
Go ahead and make me another Arcana check as after you make
this base with a 12, you see that the color is not quite
right. I'm really desperate to show off
for her. I think I'm going to use my
Kickstarter die, OK? I want to use my Kickstarter die
to get an automatic success, yes.
OK, so for those that don't know, we did a Kickstarter a few
months ago. Yay, we hit those goals.
Yay. Hey, what are the rewards for
the Kickstarter? And a punishment for me is that
I gave each of our players an auto success die that they could
use once per campaign. And this is going to be bow
Rams. You mix the base you see as the
feather mixed with the solvent. You begin to ground it up and
you see the feather begins to dissolve and she is staring over
you. She's watching this feather
disappear and become just another ingredient in this vial
that you've made. Go ahead and now make me another
medicine check. As you begin to add more
components to it as the feather has taken to the base properly,
so 19, you begin to add more and now the vial of liquid begins to
fill up. You do notice something that the
base of the bottle with the 19 begins to crack but not break.
Something is reacting to it. Some of the ingredients that you
have mixed together on the base of the salva with the 12 is not
quite sitting right with the power of the phoenix feather.
Something is getting too hot. The heat is something you
haven't accounted for because the vial itself isn't tempered
to deal with that mystical heat. Boram gets a little worried at
this point and he's like, all right, time for the big guns.
And he reaches into his bag of holding pocket in his trench
coat and he does a little spin with it and puts this magical
rod that he's had that I think Mylan and Vivian have seen.
And he sets it up real quick in a way that's angled down facing
up towards the bottom of this glass.
And he's going to try and start focusing some magic through that
rod, that sapphire gem in that rod begins to glow.
And you see a swirl of energy that begins to leave the rod
going into the vial. And as it goes into the vial,
the swirl of this blue like air like energy begins to turn into
water. And you see that the as the
glass begins to crack, it begins to settle as the mystical heat
seems to be welling. So the vial is a bulb vial right
as a bulb that has a spouse. It was a coordinate, right?
So the file then begins to change.
The contents inside begin to change.
Half of it begins to turn into a cloud with that rod.
The rod had to intervene and make up for and do not take this
in an assaulting way, young Bo R.E.M.
It had to make up for a lack of knowledge that you simply just
haven't possessed. Although you are very skilled
tinkerer, you are dealing with elements that are just beyond
your experience, and this is a great learning opportunity.
A matter of fact, the next time you deal with phoenix feathers,
do you have advantage? I know I had the math right, but
I forgot about one of these components.
And he's like, really thinking about it and writing new notes
in his journal as he's going. And he's almost forgotten that
Noel is given in the room. Half of the liquid inside turns
to like this smoke. It's very ethereal, like in
nature. It looks like you're looking at
a thin sheet floating around, almost like a ghost with
indivile. And it takes this blue tealish
color. You have this mysterious flask
now added to your inventory. Oh, R.E.M., you did it again.
Not too bad. Man.
Chance is going to love this. She looks at you and bumps your
shoulder when she takes the vial.
And she looks at it. Oh, hey, hey, what you doing?
And she's, like, moving it around and she's like trying to
manipulate the fog and the liquid that's inside, trying to
get to get it to move. Careful with that.
You don't know what that's doing.
And the two substances inside are like oil and water.
They're just constantly separated.
She moves it around, she goes, what does it do?
Would you like to know? Worked in it, did it.
It sure did. If this did not work, you would
not be dead. Oh, yeah.
What does it do? How do I notice this is going to
kill you should cure a disease. At least that's what I'm hoping
it does. Man, it's been a day, though.
I I think I got the math right, but I don't know.
It's not perfect yet. I got to find some more
components and ingredients, and I think I can make it stronger
next time. And he's thinking to himself,
he's not even looking at her. She places the bottle kind of
heavily on the desk. She says, well, I don't know if
there's going to be a next time, but I'll keep this in mind.
And she just walks out. She does not give you another
feather. So maybe I'll see you tomorrow.
Yeah, I wouldn't count on it. And she knocks over something
with her tail before she slams the door of your apartment.
Man, she kind of rude when he looks out the door and notices
that she's gone. He closes the door, locks it and
then goes back to the center of the room where he sets up his
just regular table where he, you know, play cards and drinks with
people. And he puts it down there, put
some components and liquids on his alchemy glove.
And then you see him start casting a ritual.
And he, he's almost falling asleep as he's doing this
because it's been like such a long week.
But eventually after a ritual casting any cast identify after
10 minutes, I'm going to call this an apprentice resurrection
elixir. This has the possibility exactly
5050 to bring someone back to life in the state that they were
living in before they died. The ingredients were off a bit.
One through 10, nothing happens. They do not get resurrected. 11
through 20 they do any ailments, curses, blessings, nerfs.
Exhaustion gets put back as they were except for the fact that
they gain full health, but they suffer 2 points of exhaustion.
I mean I knew it works, but not exactly what I was trying to do.
I got to get to bed. Borum puts it in his coat.
He labels it nicely, he's got a bunch of labels and tags around,
and after that he goes and tries to get some sleep.
It doesn't work because for 30 minutes neurons are firing,
thinking about the stamp potion, and they take some time, like
messing with one of the manacore teeth, before eventually passing
out on his own desk. Myrtle Day 291481 MKD Hey, damn.
Everything is packed and ready to go, but I don't know if I am.
This place scares the living daylights out of me.
But I got to do it for my ingredients for my friend.
A little over a week ago we all met back up after finding Milan.
A lot happened that day. Milan finally told us about that
creepy thing sticking around in his cloak.
I got to take care of that. That means dad showed up out of
the blue to make sure she finished that letter to Garrix.
One times I have to get a Milan a new cloak.
The beans was spilled at Newella's place.
I don't think Vivian likes me so much right now, but I'm going to
try and smooth it over. I still need corn.
So I told them about the mysterious tower to the north
and the map I got no way I can handle that on my own, but they
agreed to help and share the rewards of course.
Oh and just that my luck wasn't bad enough.
The Ills God family made it known that they was watching us.
After that we went a separate ways to get stuff done maybe and
told me she was carousing trying to get some dirt on Garrix.
Also ordered some fancy new magic item even though she got a
perfectly capable last episode right here.
Kooyong Dendrin. You worked with the branded
blades a bit to get some corn and I think he got some new
armor done. He also mentioned something
about learning to cook. Don't know if it beats my druid
cooking, but I'm happy he's picked up the craft.
Not sure what Mylan was doing, but he actually stopped by the
heck. And nobody's supposed to be here
today. Orim kind of frantically put
some stuff away that he's been working on.
He doesn't even have a shirt on right now.
He's just getting ready for the day, about to eat breakfast and
get to work. He kind of creeps over to his
front door of his level. He flips open a little hatch to
look through the door and he doesn't see anybody.
That don't make no sense. And he slowly opens the door.
Hello, Marlin. Yeah, I'm here.
Yeah, well, I can see that. Good morning.
But what are you doing here? Well, I told you that I'd come
back and you told me you'd tell me what that thing was.
What? No, What?
I'm sorry I said that. So when was this?
Just a couple days ago is when I was messing with this thing.
And I, like, budged myself in and I look around for the thing.
Where'd it go? It's right here.
You do actually see it already set up over some beakers and
vials. It's this thing.
Oh, goodness. I forgot I said that.
Right. Yes.
How could I forget? Of course.
Come in, Marlin. I do.
Got. I do got some stuff on the
stove. You want to eat?
Yes. All right.
OK. Rim looks outside shadily and
locks his door. And as he comes in, he eyes the
bathroom and slinks away from it.
All right, All right. All right.
Let's get you some breakfast first.
OK. So you come and you just want to
talk to me about the rods. Yo, it works.
What's going on here? Yeah.
You told me to come back in one week here.
Yes, I did say that. I remember that now.
The rod. And then you said you show me.
Of course. Right?
I do that, of course. All right, great.
Happy days. I just made eggs today.
That fine? OK, Eat up.
And he just puts a plate of eggs and maybe he has like some bacon
as well. Oh, my goodness.
Yeah. Big day, big day.
So we've been doing well. I'm just, I'm just getting ready
for the trip. You know, I'm making potions,
though. I just finally got the equation
figured out and I'm actually making some milk potions.
So I think we might be able to yell up a bit if we get in
danger. I had to sell two of them,
though, to make rent. But maybe.
And sisters going to pay rent. I mean, I didn't really start
working on it. I feel kind of bad making a pay
if she isn't really getting anything from me, you know what
I'm saying? I'm not working on it, OK?
I mean, if she brings it up, great, that'd be nice.
But I'm not going to bring it up until we need to talk about it.
Let me put my stuff on. OK?
You make yourself comfy. And Bo Ram starts actually like,
getting himself together and putting a shirt on and getting
his lab coat together in his gloves and all that stuff.
Ellen is swinging his feet as he's eating his eggs and bacon.
All right, wake up, Wake up. Time to get to it then.
Even have no coffee, not much water.
All right. Yeah, yeah.
Grab a stool up on over here. I'll show you how this works, I
guess. But not how the day was going to
go. Not how I thought.
You didn't write it down. No, Marlin, I did not write it
down. I made a mistake.
I forgot. No, I could you know what?
It's fine. I could.
I could come back, you know, tomorrow or something.
Oh, you're here. So I used to come back another
day. I'm not going anywhere.
So, I mean, if you had eggs tomorrow, too.
I mean, I could come back then, too.
Milan, you can go back anytime you want.
Milan's gonna remember. Let's write that down.
Make yourself useful, though. Grab me a wrench.
And he's putting his goggles on in a lab coat.
Oh, that's a screwdriver wrench. Look like this.
And I pulled up a smaller wrench, but I need to be a bit
bigger. All right, give me about a give
me about a 8. And then he he reaches in.
He's using magic hand at this point, because everything's kind
of out of his reach. And his magic hand's invisible,
so it just looks like a screwdriver's just flying
through the air. This one again.
That's a screwdriver. No, wait.
Let me see that one again. Yeah, take it with you.
OK. And he's starting to tighten up
some things around the table. He's getting some new beakers.
You see him putting a bottle that has a lot of, like, black
flame dust under it in a tub to be, like, sanitized.
OK, so this one. Yes, exactly that one.
Got it right. 28 lucky. And he starts tightening up the
rod so that it fits better over a new vial that is a different
shape. All right, so I'll get the my
component's ready. But basically what this is doing
here, this is a flux rod. I don't exactly have the best
magical ability to put my own magic in the stuff.
So I use it kind of like a, an arcane focus.
You know what that is? It's how we channel magic from
the weave and we kind of imbue it into other items, sometimes
potions, sometimes other things. So the magic that's all around
us, just the nature, it kind of sucks it in from the air, spits
it out. At least in the most basic
terms. You use our magic.
Well, our magic, it's just I'm a bit volatile.
Look, I make magic disc. You smash them against the wall.
That's a great news. Smiling.
I love your name, but please put it away.
So what's my rod? Is my rod.
My disc? Your rod is in here.
And he points to your heart. OK, good.
I thought it was going to be my butterflies again.
Yeah, you got lucky. And I like me born kind of weird
and funky. OK, so you think things into
existence. It's all there for you.
It's nice, but that's kind of how it works.
So it's going to kind of do its thing.
It's nothing too crazy, you know?
I'll turn the fire on. And you, you see them put a
bunch of liquids and components into a few beakers that start
dripping into this main beaker. And it goes very slowly.
The process this got to sit for about two days, 2 1/2 days.
And you can kind of see a look in here, see, and you see that
the rod does start glowing and it is focused on the beaker
itself. And there's a slight glow.
And now that you're looking closer around the beaker itself,
the main potion bottle, if you will, Set the magic.
Yeah, that's the magic. Wow.
You're really close to bow room. And he kind of looks at you.
We we got to brush your teeth next.
That's the next thing we got to figure out.
Not today. I'm not going to bother you
about that today. And he starts feeling his teeth.
What's wrong with my teeth? No, they're good.
They're good. They just.
It's your mouth. We talk about it later.
Listen, that's that's what we got going on.
And I didn't plan to set this up so quick, but now that you're
here, that's kind of how it's working.
So, yeah, And he kind of looks awkwardly around the room, not
knowing what else to say to Mylan.
Mylan sees the smudge blackness that's on the bottom of the
beakers, and it reminds him of something.
I have a question. And, you know, you know what?
Maybe maybe you won't know. It's, it's OK it's fine.
Ask away. And he's biting down on some
bacon as he's writing notes in his journal, looking intensely
at the beakers. Mylan this entire time has had
this piece of paper in the back of his pocket, and he pulls it
out and he drags bow Ram over to the table.
Oh, where are we going? And kind of unfolds it a few
times. He kind of does one of those
things where you put both your hands on top of it to flatten it
out. OK, this there's something wrong
here, and I can't figure it out. Yeah.
OK. I think my retort flask is not
doing what it's supposed to be doing.
Well, what you what am I looking at You?
It's a map. Oh, yeah, I can see that it's a
map. So this map, it's not right,
though. So the one Vivian had we looked
at. I saw all the places.
Are you talking about my map? I'll bring out the map I showed
you at the bar. This one?
The map that we go into in a few days.
Yeah. What about it?
So, look, this one's old. Your map new.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
Well, I don't know what that has to do with anything, though,
Milan. Well, I can read all the places.
Yes. What can I?
But this one is like your beaker.
It's it's Smudge. Which one?
So he points all the way to the north.
He was kind of curious about it. Last time he brought up the map,
he saw the the tower where it was sitting and he kind of
pointed further north, like he was kind of drawn to that area.
And now he's been spending most of this time trying to figure
out what it was. And he finally found this map.
But it's like when you try to focus on something too hard and
your eyes just kind of slide off of it.
He just can't see it. But can I see it?
Yes. And what do I read when I see
that wood vein? Mayan, this don't look smudge to
me. Maybe I can write it out for you
and it look different. It says wood vein and I write it
on my palm and I show my palm to my own.
Read this fine or no? He can't comprehend it.
It's like seeing a new word or like a new set of letters that
he hasn't seen before. And he's having a hard time kind
of struggling it. And he kind of scrunches his
face a little bit. OK, Hey, take it easy.
We, we work on that wood vein, though.
That's what it says. You know what that word means.
And he kind of sits there for a while and he isn't real sure.
He's kind of perplexed a little bit.
It's OK. Maybe we ask the group when we
travel in. Maybe one of them knows.
I don't think I've heard of this place, though.
But. And he's kind of lost for words
because he was under the impression that it doesn't exist
anymore or that that area doesn't exist anymore.
So then he's trying to figure out why it shows up on this old
map but not a new map. So he doesn't.
It's kind of at a loss for words, and he starts just
picking it up because he's kind of flustered with himself.
OK yeah, I'll figure that out later.
You just read it. You can read it no problem.
It's it's just where's that paper?
Yeah, just where's on the paper? And Boehm's getting concerned.
And he does walk back over to his desk slowly and starts a new
section of his journal for exactly what you talked about
because he it is something he wants to look into.
He's not sure if it's something that's magical.
Maybe it's something going on with your psyche.
He doesn't know. So he's just going to make notes
about it. All right, We talk about it
later, buddy. But listen, you're going to be
in here. At least make yourself useful.
All right? I'm over here and give me a
flask. This ones not working right.
It's about the crack you see is one of his flasks that has a
long stem dripping is starting to crack.
I used the wrong one for this I think so we got to change it
out. Are they down here and he's kind
of scurrying through. I think I left it back on the
under my bed, maybe. Maybe near the window.
He slides underneath the bed. And eventually you find one.
Yeah, like shifting through. And there's one that hasn't been
touched under the bed. He missed.
He steps over this 10. Put it in quick.
All right, We're going to change it at the same time.
Go. He switches that with you.
Oh, that was a close one. Almost messed that up.
I should usually change these every time.
Maybe, I don't know. This equation is looking a bit
better though, than the last time.
It worked once, so it should work every time.
But even just using a little bit too much on the components, I
don't know. There's something you ought to
memorize. Maybe you helped me out one day
and my little tiff is a friend, right?
Russia times volume divided by the amount of contents times
ideal gas constant. All of that times magical energy
requirement plus volatility constant.
Then all of that over probable man of turbulence.
And I think I'm I think my turbulence was a bit too ideal
was H oh, H that's just my own letter for health potion.
Well, you got that. Yeah.
Repeat it back to me, Milan. How about that?
And he's laughing to himself. Pressure X volume amounts of
components X idol gas constant X magical energy requirement plus
herb volatility constant probable magic or mana
turbulence equals H. You got the math things wrong,
but you got everything I said right?
You don't know math though. That that makes sense.
It's a bit crazy you figured it out so quick though.
Are you a prodigy or something? I just remember things.
You don't remember things. Remember things?
Yeah. Marlon, this took me about a
month to figure out this equation.
And then after that it took me a week just to memorize this.
He just did that in about snap of a finger.
I didn't make it up. I just, you know, you told me
and I remember it told you, remember, that's not normal.
You, you are special. I don't think you about to
change the world. And he goes back to working on
his things and he's kind of letting you have free range
around his level now as he's working.
And as he's working, you probably have a better look at
this apartment than you've ever had before.
Now that it's in daylight. There's not a bunch of chaos and
people and food and noises and all sorts going on.
And you do see a couple things as you're looking on the walls.
He's got some pictures of his family on the walls.
You see that mostly they're drawn.
They look like he might have drawn them or maybe he had a
friend draw them. But you do see one that actually
kind of looks strange to us as players.
It would almost look like Ufkisa film or like the people were
listening to Camping when he's got an arcane Moment photo on
the wall of his family. And then next to those photos,
you actually do see another pair of artificer goggles, but
they're not the same size as bow rims.
They actually think they would fit you on a but they're almost
like children sized and Borum's just kind of working pain.
No mind to you for a moment and mine just be careful when you're
touching things, OK, It's you know, sometimes I got rusty
nails around. I might have forgot to pick up
and wait. Maybe I forgot to carry the one
I forget his H Dang's smiling now.
Try not to forget that it's H as he looks around and the thing
that sticks out are obviously the goggles that are kind of his
size and he'll magic hand kind of pick him up.
Hey, are these ones for me? Whatever it is, I'm sure no,
it's fine, and he's way too engrossed in his work right now
to pay attention. Mylan holds them up to the light
and kind of looks through them without putting them on just
yet. You see, there's like a slight
filter over them, like it doesn't make the light look
normal. Whoa, what's going on with
these? How come everything looks
different? What looks different?
Mylan, Everything's dark. Weird dog, what are you talking
about? He turns around and he sees what
you're holding. Goes boy.
Hey, man, get over here. OK, man, That's.
That was not meant for you. OK, Actually, maybe you put that
back. What is it?
You wear these? I didn't see anything.
No, you can see fine. It's just it takes the light.
And basically what he's doing, it's cutting through the light
waves of the sun. So it's not so harsh on your
eyes. The sun, it's the thing that
gives us all the light in the sky.
You wear these? Well, yeah.
And he takes his goggles off and puts them on his head.
What does that do? But these ones, No, of course I
don't wear those, man. Those ones.
Oh, I wear them. You.
I mean, those are meant for someone else, but yeah, you can
wear a mana. And he kind of turns around and
he looks a little sad for some reason, and he goes back to his
work. He kind of pulled him up to his
eyes and he's having fun because he's colorblind to a degree.
So he's having a hard time putting them on and, like,
dealing with that. They're basically just
sunglasses. Is that what I'm understanding?
But more like welding kind of things.
They're more like sunglasses where they have the polarized
lenses. Yeah.
Thank you. They're polarized.
Yeah, they're polarized. So he's just having a fun time,
just like seeing things a little different.
Because this is the first time he's ever seen something like
this. The sky looks much more vibrant.
Whoa. Oh, my goodness.
This is crazy. That is kind of crazy.
I was hoping to maybe give that to someone else someday, but it
look good on you. So you you keep that a while.
You want me? No.
You want to take them? That's fine, Marlon.
I can make some more. And he instantly puts them on.
Probably never even going to meet that person.
So it's fine. He goes back to his work.
All right, Marlon, if you're going to be here, you're going
to help me for the day, OK? OK.
And they get back to work. Pressure X volume amounts.
Now I need to tell you what the multiplication symbol means
though. And you hear clanks and steam
and all sorts as Mylan and Boram continue their day.
You and Mylan continue working together.
You teach him basic orders of operations, grab lunch, and have
a much more pleasant day than expected before he leaves to
finish his own downtime. You feel almost sad to see him
leave, but get right back into brewing potions 1st.
That wasn't so bad, got the horses together.
I had to leave Silver back just in case you know.
Didn't want it out in public where people could see with
their prying eyes, but we got it going.
Maybe he's got a nice looking disguise kid.
Now fool me real good if the gods a fake name on the way out.
Alicia de Sound hidden for the new attire.
Mylan keeps talking to the animals had a big old
conversation with silver if I didn't understand but we had
just a good time eating sausages bought the fire having a real
camp out like when I was young. Myrtle Day 30 we got a bit
turned around but we got back on course after flipping the map
right side up and you know just getting our barons correct.
Once we got on and going a bunch of red cats jumped us.
Don't know where they came from or they got into our realm, but
I don't really need to think about that right now.
I just want to get some good rest.
Think I might have a conversation with Dentrim before
we go to bed though. A bit worried about Milan.
Got a thorn. Day one we stopped by a lake
with a waterfall and I got a big old crate of Isles.
Going to make for some great potions when I get back.
Milan found this creepy, dull looking thing, identified it.
It's magic. Don't know if he should be a
tune into that though. I teach him if he wants.
There was actually a troll and attached to that bag and, well,
we found the trolley probably belonged to.
It was a tough battle, but we all came through in the end.
Funny enough, it was the first day.
A troll tide. Things are getting prophetic.
Yeah, Goth on day 2. I think we're getting close.
As you are now in this dense part of the forest, some hours
pass. As the group of you make your
way through the thick foliage, you see a spotted stone path
hidden by the overgrowth of the forest.
This path looks to be slightly revealed by those who may have
come here recently. You follow the path and to your
surprise, you come to a wide clearing.
This clearing is about 100 yard radius from its center, and it
is covered with dead birds all around the clearing.
The trees along the border of the clearing all seem to be
growing away from the center of the clearing, as if they're
trying to grow away from the center itself.
That's because in the center you see this forgotten abandoned
tower. However, this tower looks very
different from other watchtowers you've seen before.
Standing tall is a windowless, dimly glowing tower.
The stone pattern in which the tower was built is strange.
Rather than a block pattern, the stone is long and twists and
bends seamlessly together. The top of the tower spreads out
like a flat disk. It does not look like it's
human, dwarfish, or any kind of elvin construction.
The tower looks unique, as if you were staring at an ancient
obelisk. Oh, we made it.
We deep inside the tower now flow to actually and
treacherous. It's been pretty bad at 1st to
see mighty Fine collecting bullfish and all sorts of magic
items downstairs. Bella getting nicked by
spotters. He's the kind of monsters to
handle any day. But we just went one step too
far and there was this big guardian downstairs that started
chasing us. I got absolutely slammed against
the wall by a crazy bludgeoning trap.
Luckily we got an ace about sleeve though because Mylan got
us out of that pretty quick. That lepore to me and the fish
all around baby. And kept going, invisible of
course, and casually laid me upright.
This floor felt so peaceful at first.
Was flying around, having the time of my life in chest open,
grabbing treasures. That was when this lamental
guardian, something made out of water from your wildest
nightmares, attacked us and swallowed us and got me in
castle. I nearly died.
Oh, got to be better than this though, People counting on me
back there. Even worse, I got people
counting on me in other planes. But looks like a new creature
popped up behind Vivian. Maybe they can give us some
insight on what's going on here, because I ain't got a lick of
anything. Hassle.
You look at Vivian and you see these two noodles coming up from
behind Vivian. They have like these little
eyeballs at the end of them, and they blink.
Vivian, there's something behind you.
What? And she whips around.
As she whips around. This weird thing whips around
behind her, seemingly escaping her view.
Hassle. You notice this weird floating
jellyfish hassle. Are you messing with me?
What do you? After a moment, as Mylan is
playing with the bullfish and Bo Ram is tinkering with his items,
he looks up and they catch you in a glance.
What you make of friends with the sea creatures.
What you see, it blinks one eye at a time.
Vivian. You hear a very high pitched
voice from behind you. Huh.
Teethling. Wow, I haven't seen one of you
before. And you turn around and there is
this floating jellyfish in front of you, and it has a big old
mouth and it's floating and it's tendrils kind of come out and it
looks ethereal, see through. And it's like just little nubs.
It looks friendly. Vivian stumbles back and knows
what? What is it?
Who are you? Did you travel from the furnace?
No. And it begins to squirm and
float around as if it's swimming in water, but it's floating in
the air. And it goes up to castle and it
goes like right to its nose. No, not you.
And it goes around you and you see it's tendrils kind of slide
across your face as it goes up to Boram.
No, not you. And it pushes past Boram's
shoulder. It goes right up to Mylin, goes
there it is, that's what I'm saying.
You see it's tendrils like wiggle with excitement as it
looks into Mylin's eyes, but it's eyes are very far apart.
So Mylin, you can only look at one eye at a time.
It's you. Oh, I'm drawn to you.
Wow. And it's trying to sniff, but it
has no nose. I try to sniff all the time too.
We smell. I try to smell all the time.
You see it pops onto your head and you see that it's Jelly,
like noodles kind of fall over your face, almost creating like
a little Jelly wig over you. And it begins to like suck up.
And then, ah, you. And it pops off.
He goes a feast. I am forbidden to have feast.
No, no, no. But you can't eat fish.
No, no, no. I am drawn to your beautiful
mind. I think he wants to eat your
brain. My own.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a second.
Are you with scary guy in water? Scary guy?
I just don't see anyone scary here.
And he goes over to Castle. Are you the scary guy?
Castle's hair spikes up on the back of his neck.
No, you see like one. Eyes in front of you while the
other eye's wrapping around you. It's not making any contact.
It's just like swirling around. Kind of.
Look at you in the corner of its other eye.
Look, I don't know what you smell, but I'm not taking a bath
anymore. Those were not fun.
A jellyfish friend. Why do you want to eat myelin?
Exactly? Who are you?
I am drawn to Superior and like you like my brain.
I was going to say that's why she walked right past you.
What? I've never seen a tiefling here
before. Why are we so rare?
Are you not normally in the water?
Who are you? I mean, I do live here now.
Where'd you live before? Oh, in a dark, dark place far
underneath your surface level. An opening appeared here some
odd years ago, and I haven't been able to find it since.
It seems that these waters are quite the maze, but I've come to
the conclusion that I think it just closed, so I am stuck here.
But it's not the worst. Where were you before?
Like I said, a dark place. Far, far on the ground.
I may call it home. Some people find it dangerous.
There aren't many civilizations there.
I was taking a bath in this deep underground Crystal Spring.
Well, an opening appeared before me like a rock tunnel.
I decided to explore. I was curious, and I ended up
here. It would, I assume and have
deduced some sort of pocket realm that belonged to a very
powerful creature some time ago. You're from the underdog.
I think that's what surface dwellers would call it.
I got a friend from Dale that said that out loud.
He kind of smiles and lights a cigarette.
Vivian's gonna look around at everyone and just go like, what
do you do with this? What's going on here?
Hey, flying thing, where was that opening you came from?
The opening. Well, there's several here, but
the opening I came from, I have been able to find it.
It was deep on the water, OK, but if you're looking to ascend,
I've only ever seen one other creature come here before it
floated. So that strange guardian that is
in the water didn't really bother it too much.
That's the scary guy. Oh, that's the scary guy.
Looks at Mylan like one of the eyeballs is like right in front
of you, Focused, just staring intensely.
Would you see floating around here?
I didn't see any. How you say faces.
The creature points up. Yeah.
At the top of this, what I assumed is a tower.
Its owner. But its owner was slain many,
many years ago. The creature points to the
southwest to the island with the circular trees.
Above that island. Hidden within the darkness, only
visible if you would look straight up from the Grove, is a
hole that leads to the next floor.
There is a door guarded by what seems like a very puzzling
question, but one day, and I've been here for a few years when
it happened, but he is I this place is my new home now.
I heard of dark terrible violence and ruckus.
He was oh vials crashing and it seemed like boulders were
exploding and sounds of wondrous magic going back and forth
almost as if they were like exploding on contact fireballs
and rays. And it was like 2 Wizards going
back at it, 2 great magical users and then a creature
floating it kind of looked like. And it points to your hand, bow
rim points to your thumb. It had no face, no nose, no
mouth, no eyes. But seemingly a thumb like
appendage with more protruding appendages flew out of there.
Appendages with appendages. Hi.
Duh. Yeah, it's really weird.
What was that? The end of those appendages.
What you talking about? Nothing.
They were like rounded off. It looked, how do I put this?
The creature like looks at Yubo Rim and then points to the
shadow on the floor. You see how it's kind of like
oblong. There's no defined definitions.
It's just kind of like a blank slate, but it has your shape.
Well, it was like that that came out of there.
It was wearing like a cloak. It was cloth with like ripped
shreds, but there was no like facial features.
There was no face, no mouth. It was just like an oblong shape
that had escaped and it floated down and went down these
staircases that you ascended from.
And then sometime later, I think years, it came back and it
floated back up. I hid and watched it ascend
through the ceiling, but where it escaped I heard those
terrible noises again. And it did not last very long.
The only difference though is that now it had a sword that
seemed to be floating around with it.
But giant sword infused like this purple magic, After some
time it came back down. It didn't have the sword
anymore, but it was very bloody. And then it left.
I haven't seen it since. Ain't that a story?
I've seen some other people, some other curious figures like
yourselves and gestures to all of you.
But once they all kind of went and awarded a swim, well, the
guardian of this floor swallowed them up as if they knew they
were trespassing. Yeah, I almost got got myself.
Fuck them back here. You need a better way to get
around and even that boat. How did you defeat the first
guardian? Oh, we did not.
Oh, OK. Well, do you have to defeat them
first? Is that what you're saying?
No, it's just there to, like, protect.
But if it knows you're here, it's got to wait.
When? The one down the stairs?
Yeah, it's just set the stairs for us.
Probably. Oh, baby.
And go take a look. What?
I mean, I'm not invisible. Oh, you're not invisible
anymore. That's right.
I mean, I could go crane my neck, but maybe we gotta wait a
bit longer than. Well, I think.
Wait, you can fly. You take us up.
Don't mind. And I can only fly for about two
more minutes and it's done. Not you, the fish.
Oh, I know you can't take this. Yeah.
You see that? Like it goes over to castle and
then like tries to use this Jelly noodle and it kind of like
breaks in place and reforms. I'm not exactly strong enough.
You also wouldn't be the first people to ask that.
I know if you have like a large enough structure could possibly
traverse the water. It might bother you, but you
know, more protection the better.
I guess we could try the boat again.
Wait a second, do you know who the other people were who were
here before and what happened to them?
Oh, not personally. Most of them were mean.
They had like chests with them and they had like bags of stuff.
Once they go in the water, it all gets like swallowed up.
Actually, now that you mentioned, I did see a nice lady
here once. She was a little rude at first,
but she came by. She was looking for a way out
from the first guardian, but she didn't have as many items.
She wasn't greedy, she only had one thing.
Oh yeah, just one thing. I look at everyone else.
Oram takes a huge dragon cigarette.
I haven't taken anything yet. Yeah, neither have I.
Look at Mylan and his fish like I grit my fish.
They're now his fish though. Not even boring his fish
anymore. Jellyfish, friend.
Another question for you. Do you think the more things we
have from the tower, the more likely the Guardian is to attack
us? Like if we don't have anything,
it's less likely to attack. I don't think the Guardians
particularly care if you take anything.
I have seen people come in, take something and not get attacked
by anything. I think if you try to ascend
fire, it will try to stop you. I know if you have a piece of
the Guardian, whatever's on that floor doesn't bother you.
It hasn't bothered me, but I think it thinks that I live
here. Like it doesn't bother the fish,
it doesn't bother the crab, it doesn't bother the dark mantels
hiding in the trees on the islands.
It's seemingly copacetic with us.
So they think we're from here, we could get by.
Yeah, I guess. Yeah.
I haven't thought of it like that.
Yeah. The thing that used to live up
there before, I guess died because the giant thumb came
back and it sounded like it killed it.
It didn't leave with its sword, so I assumed he killed it.
I have seen other flying things come through here once in a
while to check I guess, but I don't know.
I think whatever owns this place or original creator kind of
seemed like he just it just never wanted to leave, so it
kind of made its own Biome. OK, Jellyfish, can you take a
rope and you fly all the way up? If you can't carry us, you can
certainly take a rope, right? You know what Violet?
I think I'm. I might have an idea.
Jellyfish. Would you like to come with us
if you promise not to eat Mylan's brain.
Oh, no. He's good.
I would never. I saw his intentions.
Tell my intentions. What were they?
I see your attentions. I start reaching out my hand.
I mean my attention. I like to eat off.
I do love intelligence, and I gain knowledge when I do.
But only if they're like bad things, you know?
Not good things. He seems good.
He's a good boy. And I'm Pat.
Mylan All right, everybody, let's rest an hour.
OK, What about treasure? We're going to think about it
during this rest. OK, We can spend some time
identifying what's on my back and then we we make a decision
after we yield up a bit. I think I have an idea.
I think once we rest up and bow ram checks the ladder, I think
we should try to boat over to that island and see if we can
take the ladder up the bigger boat.
And if you can focus on steering, I can try to lead the
let's talk about it after a rest.
I need a moment and a bow room would like to short rest.
And it's a mouth bag. Are the four of you short
resting violin needs to know jellyfish's name before short
resting name. I that's a good question.
You got a name I name you. You want me to name you.
OK. And it like spins in place and
it's jellyfish folds kind of spins like a like a Tutu.
You're going to be strawberry. Strawberry.
I guess that's as fit in the name as anything.
We took our new magical boat over though, put that ladder
down and raised it up by once we got Milan off of the magic
trees, you know those leaves. And once I got one more little
bit of iron from the water, we went right up and we was met
with a puzzle. And the four of you will send
this ladder. Enter a small room where this
hole leads you to in front of a big, huge iron door with two
blue flamed torches on either side.
The floor is made of beautiful black marble.
And the walls look like they're marble in nature, but they have
these strange etchings that are carved into the wall.
They look like hieroglyphs, but very unfamiliar, very strange.
They're no two of the same symbol and they all look like
they're connecting to each other.
And this is on all three of the walls that surround you that
lead to this door. This little foyer, we'll call
it, is only about 17 feet wide. It's pretty tight in here, but
the door that stands before you is very big, as if a large
creature could go through it if they choose.
On the door, words begin to form a your preferred language as you
see like these strange etchings on the door begin to materialize
in like a glow, like a magical glow in front of this strange
language that you're not familiar with.
Also, before reading the words, you see that etched onto the
door where this strange language is, where the letters are
materializing into a language you can comprehend are these two
people. They look like models, like
statues, and they are posing almost like a Greek statue.
And you see that their poses are very different from one of
those. But they are pointing to the
words that are materializing in front of you in your preferred
language. You see the words.
I bloom without a single seed in silent glance or noble deed.
I fade with time, yet never die, still catching every wandering
eye. I'm found in scars as much as
grace, Fleeting light in every face.
No hand can hold me, yet I stay. A truth we feel but cannot
weigh. What am I?
Island's sitting with his butt on the ground as he's just
munching some munching some lace.
So what are we thinking about this?
This is some weird words. You guys read this It is, and
Vivian would like to quickly check the statues.
So I'd like to investigate to see if there's any like obvious
trap or something that if we get too close before we answer,
it'll go off. Give me an investigation check.
13. You're looking at the door.
You don't see anything strange or you don't see anything that
could potentially attack you. Do you see these blue flamed
torches that are illuminating the small area?
That stands out because flames aren't naturally blue, but you
do get a sense of magic from them with a third scene.
At a glance, you think that if something were to hurt you, it'd
probably emanate from that source because that's the only
thing that's obviously magical to your sight.
Perfect, thank you. Milan kneels down.
Strawberry, Strawberry. You know what this says.
When you look down the hole, you don't see the level before you
do see some water, but you see like this heavy white cloud is
acting as a barrier to the floor below.
You still see the ladder, but as you are looking at the door,
sometime passes and or you do see that it's about to fade.
And you pull the item back up as the ladder retracts.
All right, strawberries. No help.
I don't know. You can't hear me.
Not going to be as Borne puts the ladder in his bag holding.
Vivian's going to be very locked in on this passage and turn
around to everyone and go. Do you think this is an object
or like a concept? So I was getting the ladder.
What's going on here? Oh, sorry.
Yeah. Well, take a look at the door.
It's a Riddle, and it looks like we ought to solve it to get
through. Bloom without a seed?
Yeah. What kind of things don't bloom?
Only bloom without seeds. That's why I think maybe the
concept and not an actual thing was me.
And it blooms in silent glance or during the noble deed.
I mean, what's something you grow?
Trust. That's something I might bloom.
That was very deep if you both ran.
And Vivian continues to think it's interesting.
Is it like friendship or a bond of some sort?
Yeah, I think you're going somewhere to write the right.
Listen there. You're smarter than you look.
Casual side eyes for him. Thanks.
I think you're both on to something.
Violence. Just listening, kind of bobbing
his head left and right as he's munching on leaves.
And like, is there like an answer box we're supposed to put
it in somewhere or maybe we have to speak it out loud?
Do we think it's friendship, maybe, or trust?
I mean, I wouldn't think so. With some of the passages later
here, they sound more negative. You know, we get scars from
insults and words, but something that maybe maybe eel up before
you give grace. Could it just be love?
Because I guess it doesn't have to be specific.
A lot of scars, definitely caused by love, and it's in
every face. So try speaking it at the door.
OK. And Vivian's going to cautiously
walk up and go, hello door. I have an answer.
How do I share? You see, as you get close to the
door, as you speak to it, you see that the words that are
materializing like a visage before you, like floating
letters. You see that these letters begin
to glow as if it's waiting for an answer.
So mechanically, you would speak your answer to the door.
So it's phrasing. It is.
What am I? You would be like you are.
And then you would say what your answer is, right?
Sorry, that's my my bad, my bad, Right.
You're just the Dory. You can't speak back.
Him I love. And she's going to start bracing
herself. You see the blue torches begin
to turn red, and they go large flames and then go back to blue.
Nothing happens. Vivian turns around and goes.
I think that was wrong. OK.
What? No, it looked like it was right.
Yeah, that was definitely wrong. No, it was.
It was right. What color did you see?
Myelin. OK, it's all the same to me.
But they got big. They got big, right?
They got big and red. Red usually means no.
No. After a few moments, you feel
the floor below you. As the water begins to rage.
You hear some loud splashing and heavy jostling.
What's Trump? A dude down there.
Can I look down and see or is it still?
You can't see it. You do see some heavy lapping of
water, but through the white cloud acting as like a shield or
a barrier really obscures a large portion of you.
It's very obscure. Someone else want to try one of
our guesses? I guess I'd give it a shot.
And Borum steps closer to the door and he starts thinking
about what Vivian just said. Her answer was love.
And an image pops into his head of these feminine eyes with one
orange iris and one light blue iris.
And he tilts his head up slightly.
And never truly dies, does it? Your beauty.
You see the door, the torches begin to glow and then go from
bright blue to a calm green. And then you see the words with
square and a blue outline from the hinges on the door begin to
glow. You hear the door a lot as the
handle is door slowly creaks open just enough for you to push
it. I turn around and like walk
backwards through the door. That's why you keep me around.
Because at this end, Vivian's jaws on the floor.
How'd you figure that out? The fade with time is what got
me +5 respect from Vivian to Beau Ram.
Vivian's gonna turn to Castle real quick and go.
Oh my God, he has a brain. Yeah, I know.
Tell me about it. Right.
Surprises me too. Thorum can feel his plus three
intelligence hurting. Push the door open and before
you is this large circular room. The floor is made out of the
same beautiful blue Obsidian, similar to the islands that you
were standing on. On the second level, surrounding
the walls are these tall bookcases that go up for
seemingly forever. The room is about 100 feet high.
There are no stairs inside this room, but there are columns that
stretch all the way up to the ceiling.
There are these big magnificent bookcases and shelves that are
laden with potions and vibes piles and weird tinctures.
There are big books, small books.
There are books as wide as boulders.
There are floating desks that are just hovering in the room.
There are smashed desks on the floor.
One of the columns has all these boxes smashed and piled on top
of each other. You see that some of the
bookcases that are along this circular wall of this tower room
is smashed in. You see that there are also
waterfalls in between each of the bookcases along the walls of
this room. You, you also see a cave
entrance on your eastern side that looks like it has this
yellow force field spiraling at its entrance all the way in the
far end of the corner is this huge, beautifully constructed
elvish desk. And it has all these scrolls in
these pots that are surrounding it.
And there's also this large plant with many leaves spiraling
out kind of wrapping around the desk, almost like it's
decorating it in its foliage. You also see all this floating
pieces of scrap wood that are softly floating throughout the
room from the destroyed furniture in the room and most
alarming, all the things you see as if it blended into the room.
Now, clear as day, there is a sigil on the floor that is both
highlighting and blue and green, and it looks like it's glitching
in reality as it's rapidly shifting colors.
In the center of the glyph you see a familiar great sword
stabbed into the ground. It is with a green hilt and a
green gem. Where the blade and the hilt
meet. It is heavily bloodied as the
tip of the blade is stabbed into the floor.
Impaled on the sword is a strange circular creature with
no legs and torn up tendrils. The sword is stabbed through the
eye. On the center of the creature,
with the blade coming out of its mouth and paling onto the floor.
Is a dead beholder. And he said he recognized this
sword looks like Garrick's sword.
It is indeed Garrick's sword. Hang on a minute, has Garrick's
been here before? I mean, I guess he has.
I don't think I remember hearing about this one though.
Could I try to I do a history check to see if I can jog my
memory about hearing about this? Absolutely.
Okay, Swampy 20. Hey, that's my day.
You've never heard any stories or heroic songs or any bards or
rumors of him slaying A beholder?
Wait a minute. I don't like this.
We haven't heard anything about Garrix being documented here,
Right? That's what I'm saying.
He's been really sketchy, too. Why wouldn't he talk about this?
He loves talking about his journeys and his victories.
Right. This must have something to do
with the shards that you guys collected that he wanted.
Oh, he wants those. Yes.
Well, these little tiny things. And I hold up one for my bag of
holdings. Yeah.
Remember I told you to make sure we keep those away from you when
we come back to Boulderas, Make sure you do that.
Fair enough. Still researching them.
So I don't know too much, but it kind of faded away from what
there was before Milan. You have some too, right?
Oh, yeah. My father might come
investigate. Or Garrix or both.
So just be careful with those. We can find a place to hide them
in Boulderas, but they're trying to come find them, so maybe this
is something to do with it. All right, Well, I'm going to
focus on the great treasure we just found.
And Borum starts going over and peeking through books.
Got to loan me a book. Vivian's going to move towards
Beholder. First things first, we got Milan
some good reading. A dictionary and thesaurus as he
calls it. But it wasn't all fun and games
in here. There was so many books about
wars from generations long lost ago.
There were tons of books on the weave, many of which I've seen
before, but a couple new to me and Castle found so many books,
all dedicated to human and elf magic.
We all took part to the library to look around.
I even got myself a nice vial and some great acid.
I was probably having more fun than I should have had, but for
some of the others it was not so nice.
How I envisioned her losing her sister was in a room similar to
this with this kind of like sigil setup.
So Vivian is super in her head and distraught, just kind of
like taking it all in and thinking of woolen.
But at the same time, she's been inching and looking towards the
beholder and the sigil in the room, 'cause when we're in
Balderas, while everyone was looking at the food stands and
Castle was off guarding, Vivian went to look at the Tarasque egg
and she went to investigate it and it's very similar to the
colors that were on the egg. So between her thinking of
woolen and being like very focused on that, she's also
trying to look at if there's similarities between the two
because Garrix and this he just seems too fishy looking at the
glyph and it's glitching in between the green and blue
colors. Give me an investigation check
as you are looking at the beholder for Vivian is just so
lost in thought about Woollen and the day she lost her that
she's just unable. You are enamored by this
beholder and you're having these thoughts.
Your eyes begin to like play tricks on you as you flash back
and forth between these visions and the sight before you.
As you stare at the blade that's impaled through the beholder's
eye coming out the roof of its mouth, you're looking at the
blood does not look completely dry.
You feel like you're looking at it.
You're not sure if your eyes are playing tricks on you or it's
real. You see like blood actively
dripping in the impact. You're not sure if the motion in
the room is slowly moving its tendrils.
You notice that a lot of its body is very destroyed.
You see that it has multiple like tendrils coming out of its
main body. So those that don't really know,
I should have described this beholder better.
Beholder is essentially a ball of flesh with one giant eye in
the center with a huge mouth that looks like it has very,
very sharp teeth and it has small flesh like tentacles.
And at the end of those tentacles are smaller eyes on
this particular beholder. It looks like most of its eyes
at the ends of those tendrils were cut off.
It looks very, very mangled and destroyed.
And you are engulfed by this site going back to Boram and
Castle in the North East part of the room looking at the vials.
A few minutes pass and you continue to explore the room.
And at the north most point of the circular room is what looks
like to be the main desk of this area in the North End side of
the room. And you walk over and these
scrolls are very long. They're like flimsy, and they
look just so tasty. The desk in the North End of the
room, shirt off, looks like the main desk of the room.
And you walk over and you see like a journal that is propped
up on the desk. And it's written in common, but
very sloppily, as if a child wrote them.
And when I say as a child wrote them, not as contents like the
physical handwriting of them, as if a child wrote them, it's very
shaky and sloppy, but the words are legible.
And where the page is open is its last page that these words
were written on, and the rest of the book is blank.
Seems like whatever wrote words in here did not do any more
entries and there is just one big quote on the page that looks
like it was written with a bloody hand.
That quote states ugly with insidious intentions hidden
within beauty, all in plain sight.
Can Vivian go up and try an arcana check on the blue and
green sigils that are waving just to see if there's any
similarities to the tarasque egg that was in the middle of
Balderas? Cuz she went up and saw that it
was like a blue-green film on the egg when she went up.
All right, let me help you out this time.
What are you doing to the sigil that's on the floor?
I think Vivian would Crouch down and hover her her hand above.
She doesn't want to touch it or grow into it just in case it
sets something off. But she just wants to set her
hand over it and kind of feel the energy to feel if it's
similar. I mean, I'll kind of check and
I'm helping her. Hey, I'm going to try something.
I saw what you do with your glove.
I'm going to see if it works for me too. 16 You put your hand
over these lines and you feel like an energy pulsating from
them as your hand hovers over the lines.
You feel like as if you just cross the threshold, as if you
put your hand through like a wall of Jelly.
It feels like slow. And then the whole column
illuminates around the beholder. Straight up it goes from the
floor, ceiling, it's blue and green color.
Oh, now across the threshold of this glyph, see that the colors
begin to twitch and fade out more and then shuts off.
The blue and green glyph is now completely gone.
And what'd you do? I was just trying to detect the
magic. I don't.
I didn't mean to shut it off. I don't know what's happening as
a book flies over her shoulder. You shouldn't throw a book.
The book flies over your shoulder and hits the hilt of
the sword. This turns your attention to the
sword, and you see that the gem in the hilt of the sword, where
the health of the blade meet, is beginning to glow, but cracking
as the sword is vibrating in place, as if it's struggling to
remain stabbed into the floor. Potentials begin to move, the
eye starts to shift in place as if it's trying to look around as
its mouth moves around the blade as you see the eyes having
trouble looking around the room because it's currently impaled
on the floor. And you see as the tendrils
begin to move, the cracks in the room begin to glow as a wall of
purple fire emits from the center and expand outwards.
Everyone make me a dexterity saving of ADC 14.
It's an 18 for Boran as he sholts behind a pillar.
Mylan gets a 15 as he sprints away.
Castle got a four and Vivian got a 10.
So she's just stuck there as a four foot high wall of purple
fire myths throughout the whole room.
Those who fail take three points of fire damage.
Vivian, yours is half. You take one point of fire
damage, half round down because you are resistant to fire and
you see that the beholder begins to move and jostle in place.
I'm going to need everyone to roll initiative as the destroyed
beating up beholder tries to remove itself from the floor.
Vivian 1518 for Boram. I got a 1313.
As we start at the top of the round as the sword is vibrating
violently, you see that it tries to look around, but as the
eyeball attempts to move as it is impaled on the sword, you see
the body shifts in your direction as if the turning of
the eyes instead moving the body rather than the eye looking in
the direction it wants to go to. You see that some of the
tendrils that still have eyeballs still on it begin to
look around frantically. 1 looks at you, Vivian, the other one,
it looks at Myelin, and then you see the tendrils that don't have
eyes are flailing and actively bleeding.
Now picking up on the same initiative, Initiative 20 Before
the four of you in the center of this room once glowed a powerful
glitching glyph that has disappeared.
Now awakening this destroyed, decrepit impaled beholder.
The beholder is currently pinned to the floor by the sword.
The sword is stabbed through through the main eye, out its
mouth into the floor as it's standing like some sort of token
totem or ornament in the room. It's body is moving from left to
right while the sword remains stuck in the floor, but it is
wobbling within the crushed stone.
The combat initiated as a radial flame.
A wall of purple fire emanated from the center of the room that
everyone had to make a saving throw for before taking fire
damage. There's two things I would like
to mention to you before we go into this fight.
One, every major combat that we have, all the creatures roles
will be made above the table. No roll will be hidden and thus
the dice truly tell the story here if one's fate should be
decided. 2A mechanic of the fight is that that purple flame
is not going to be the first time.
And if you would like to automatically succeed that role,
which is a Dexterity saving throw over DC-14, if you take
the dodge action during your turn and anytime automatically
succeed that saving throw. The wall of fire was also 5 feet
high. Do not go above that.
Take that knowledge and use it as you will.
We're going to go ahead and start the first round of combat
on Initiative 20 was that wall of fire.
We're going to move to Initiative 18, which is Boram.
Boram, you are currently on the southeast part of the room
behind this pillar, which the fire did break away from as you
had some cover from it. Now this shoulders terribly
mangled and destroyed and looks more undead than it does alive.
What are you doing on your turn? Vivian on deck on initiative
15-O No. All right, well, we're going to
try some things out here. Vivian.
Try and get back as I go 10 feet out past my pillar and I'm going
to cast in a 30 foot line past Vivian a Tasha's caustic brew
and it will have to make a Dexterity saving throw or be
covered in acid. Roll the six.
It does fail. So it is covered in acid.
It will. Start taking acid damage on the
start of its turns and I'm going to move back behind the pillar
after shouting that to Vivian. And since I don't think I have
any bonus actions I can even do as that was my last spell slot
and I'm out of misty steps, I will end my turn moving to
initiative 15 as this thing is now covered in acid as it begins
to burn and the skein begins to melt away.
It's foul. As of 1000, dead rats have been
melting away and rotting over years.
Vivian standing only 1015 feet away from this throbbing ball of
meat with a sword sticking out of it.
What are you doing? Vivian's going to heed 4 Rams of
ice and go. Yeah, sure.
But before she runs away, she's going to take her bow, aim it at
the beholder and try to shoot it.
Got a 20, not a Nat 20. It's.
And that is going to do 6 points of damage.
I'm going to run back 15 feet towards where Bow Ram was, so
that's SE, and then I'm going to use my hide action as I get
around the pillar for another 7 feet around where Bow Ram is.
You will now run behind the pillar.
This pillar does provide full cover as we move to initiative
14, which is the beholder. Just before the beholder goes,
it's going to take three acid damage.
Now I'm going to go on initiative order here.
Go around, please roll me AD 20. Let me know if you get a 14 or
higher. 5 Nothing happens as the beholder begins to wriggle in
place and the sword becomes looser.
It is still currently stuck in place, but now you hear gargled
screaming as if it's choking on the blade itself as blood begins
to spew out of its mangled hanging bout as it begins to
shake in place. We're going to move to
Initiative 13. Kassel, the Beholder is
currently looking at Borim or you don't know where it's
looking. So its main eye almost seems
rendered because of the blade that is sticking through it.
Now the other tendrils, some of them have eyes, some of them do
not as they look like they were cut off or destroyed.
You see about 9 loose arms just kind of flailing.
This thing is like flailing in place.
So it's technically not looking at anything.
However, seeing how many eyes it does have, you get the sense and
you have knowledge of beholders. They're not uncommon to hear
about this thing. You can potentially always see
everything with the amount of eyes it has.
OK so if I am familiar with beholders there's what I know
what type of damage they'd normally inflict on to people.
Give me a history check of ADC 13.
It's a 7. You do know they shoot lasers as
textbooks and tomes would suggest on history of it but
you're not sure if it's anything specific.
OK So what I will do is as an action I'm going to cast sacred
flame. A flame like radiance descends
on a creature that you can see within range.
A target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take
one 1D8 radiant damage. The target gains no benefit of
half covered 3/4 cover. By the way.
I'm sorry, Borim, It automatically fails because it
is considered restrained because of the sword.
So Borim, your Tasha's cost and grew would have automatically
succeeded. I just forgot that real fun
fact. Yeah, it's.
Yeah, because currently restrained by the sword.
So that automatically fails and your spell goes off.
Nice. So that's going to be 7 radiant
damage and that will be my turn moving to initiative 13, Milan.
He ducked behind a a desk and now after hearing all the
commotion he kind of peeks his head out and is real nervous.
Seeing this thing shake back and forth is a bit worried to act.
If I recall the floating desks are how there is one that's 15
feet high and there's another one that's 30 feet high.
That's what I was open for Mylan after seeing all the fire.
He's going to run out from behind his cover and misty step
as a bonus action up into the floating desk.
Desk. What kind of desk is it?
This is an alchemy desk, Yes, perfect.
And he's going to poof up to there and now he has kind of a
top view down on everything. Does anyone look like they're in
trouble currently? Do I notice that the monsters
looking at anybody or about to pounce on anybody?
Same information to CASL. You don't know if it's looking
at anything, but it has a lot of eyeballs, so you can assume that
I can see everywhere. In that case, once Mylan gets
his eyes on this monstrosity and shaking back and forth, he is
going to reach out with his hand, try to cast disorienting
whispers. So he reaches out and whispers a
melody to the creature. OK, it has to do a wisdom saving
throw, which I know Beholders isn't probably going to work,
but Mylan doesn't know that so he's going to give it a try.
Got a 16 so it has to takes half of nine damage.
So half sign is 4 1/2 rounds down is 4.
So Vivian and and Beau Rimmer kind of to his left and castles
off a little bit to his right and he's gonna shut down.
What did you do? And that's gonna be at the end
of his turn as you move to in the Shift 20, which is a layer
action as another wave of purple fire emanates from the center,
from the sword, and extends to the edge of the room.
Hassle only. You need to make a Dexterity
saving throw of ADC 14, as Boram, Vivian are behind full
cover and Mylan is 15 feet on top of a desk.
I got a 13 'cause I have -1 to decks.
You're gonna take three points of fire damage as wow, as the
flame just bursts out quicker than you expected before you can
jump over it or move out of the way behind something.
Moving to Initiative 18, which is Boram with Vivian on deck.
Boram, what are you doing? Marlin as I see him up on the
desk now, safety first as you see him put his goggles on and
his lab coat is already up to his nose.
Oh man, I wanted to wait on this.
Maybe investigated a bit, but I don't care to stay here any
longer. With this, Boram will get out
from a hind full cover and go 15 feet closer to this beholder and
he tosses that greater acid vial that he just got onto it.
Okay, you go ahead and throw it needs to make a saving throw of
what? A DC-14?
That's 30, but it automatically fails because it's restraint is
restraint. Absolutely, go ahead and roll
that damage and that is going to be 33 points of acid damage as
it crashes on the holder, as the acid crashes down onto the
beholder, as it begins to flail more and you see the sword, it's
almost like shaking loose as it's violently shrieking in
pain. The gibberish becomes louder and
louder as you hear it's teeth slamming on the steel of the
sword. And as acid is like flickering
all around, Bohem's kind of like tumbling away from it back
behind the pillar. This thing's scary.
All right, who's next? As I had my turn.
As we move to Vivian, Vivian's just going to grumble under her
for breath safety. What the heck is that all about?
Now for my sneak attack. Since I'm behind the pillar, do
I pop out briefly so I can aim my bow?
Absolutely. So she's going to pop out eight
feet towards kind of the West part of the pillar.
Southwest. I'm going to use my short bow to
attack the beholder. I'm about 30 feet away.
I've got a 17 and and at 20 natural 20 so you know the
rules. With the crit you get the full
damage of the weapon plus whatever you roll.
So if sharp, if I'm not mistaken, is 1D6 damage, damage
is 3, and my sick attack damage is 11.
And because it's a crit, I get Max of every everything else
plus my 2 dexterity, which thanks to everybody adding is 36
points of damage, 3434 points of damage, 34 points of piercing
damage as the arrow pierces into the eye of the beholder.
What else are you doing on your turn?
Vivian's really hyped from that. She's going to scoot right back
in, using the Hide action as her bonus action.
As we move to initiative 14, the beholder takes three points of
acid damage from Tasha's causing oh wait, you have to roll right?
Oh yes, as it takes five more points of acid damage.
Five points of acid damage. As it's burning it loosens from
the hardened marble crushed beneath where the sword is dead
and it floats into the air as the sword now is spinning within
the body and it begins to look around as it looks almost moving
erratically as if it was scared. It's looking left and right and
then the tendrils are trying to look and scan the room as it's
sharply turning, looking and checking its corners.
Vivian, roll me AD 20 and let me know if you get a 14 or higher
15 you are now going to roll me one, D4 two and one more time.
Roll me AD 4 is there's two available targets 1 and 2 is
Castle 3 and 4 is Mylan. No what the fuck this is all on
you Vivian Kazel. As a one of the tendrils looks
around the room, one of the eyes open from the creased coop once
keeping it shut pops out and shoots a beam at you.
You're going to make me a constitution saving throw of ADC
1411. You fail as you are now
paralyzed as you almost freeze in place and your sword drops to
the 4th. At the end of your turns you can
roll another Constitution saving throw with DC-14 to become
unparalysed and this lasts for up to a minute which is 10
rounds. We are currently on round two.
It is then going to move 20 feet into the air and closer to the
southwest part of the room. Mylan, you are 5 feet below it
as you are on this floating desk, and you see this ball of
flesh with the sword still through the eye and coming out
of its mouth as it's like almost on your level as it's
approaching your area. And we are now moving to
Initiative 13, which is CASL. Casl, go ahead and make the
Constitution save me. Throw over DC-14 or remain
paralyzed. 21, you are no longer paralyzed, but you do miss this
term because it happens at the end of your turn as we move to
Myelin with the layer action on deck.
What are you doing? I guess free action.
What is on the desk that I'm standing on?
A bunch of files filled with liquid, with blueprints you
can't understand. I look down at the ground.
My feet kind of shuffle around with the paper kind of loose
beneath my feet. And as I do that, I realize, oh,
wait a minute. I have something in my back
pocket and I take it out and it's a scroll.
And it's the ice knife scroll. And I'm going to Chuck it.
Well, you need to cast it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now you need to make a check. Here.
I have to make a check or scrolls.
You have to make an intelligence check first to pass based on the
level. Yeah, the level 1 ice knife.
So go ahead. You're going to make me a
Intelligence saving throw over the DC 1021.
You are able to cast a spell Ice Knife.
You create a Shard of ice and fling it at the creature within
range. You make a range spell attack
against the target. On the hit, it takes 1D10
piercing damage, hit or miss. The Shard then explodes and each
creature within 5 feet must exceed A Dexterity saving throw
or take 2D6 coal damage. Go ahead and roll to hit.
Mylan takes out a scroll and he has to sound out some of the
words ice knife, and then that's what causes it to conjure.
So I have to now hit with it, correct?
Yeah. You're going to make a range
spell attack here, 24 to hit. It's does 7 points of damage, 7
points of piercing, and needs to make a Dexterity saving throw DC
13 because that's your spell modifier, passes with a 16 and
does not take that additional as this knife pierces its body.
I'm going to spend one of my psionic dice.
Mine's going to Misty Step N to the cabinet that had all the
potions and acid and whatever else on it and kind of stay as
high as you can on that. And he's going to wait there as
he looks down at Castle, Castle, Crank it up.
We got things to do. No time for a nap.
Nap. I'm not laying down.
You sleep with your eyes open. I was paralyzed.
I'm standing up. That's how you sleep.
I've seen you As we move to initiative 20, which is a layer
action as a horizontal flame radiates out from the center of
the sword. Nobody has to make any checks
here because nobody's on the same level as it or within 5
feet of it, and it's going to go to Initiative 18.
Bow, ram, Bow ram pops out from behind the pillar.
It's like, all right, You ain't never seen anything like this
though, And I'm going to shoot a poison spray at it, Pull it, and
at 20 as it takes 13 points of poison damage, 13 points
nothing. Yep.
You see, I had a feeling that it does not affect it and the
poison drips onto the floor. Oh, you like that?
Oh, shit is bad, baby. Run more before you make the
second-half of your movement. It is looking at you and it
speaks in common as your presence is revealed.
Filming filthy treacherous, and it's going to use a reaction to
that attack. Oh boy.
You see as if it's looking around very sharply.
It looks at you with its words almost stabbing like knives.
You get the sense that it does not like you, but it does not
want to be near you and instantly moves and moves in the
opposite direction 20 feet past castle and more close to the
Myelin has its main eye where the sword is is definitely
focused more on you in the world.
Please roll me two D20 and let me.
We know what the lower number is.
And that one, as it like, moves away from you almost out of
fear. You see, one of the tendrils
that it shot one of its beams from goes to aim at you.
However, it does not have an eye at the end of it and nothing
happens. And we're going to continue with
your turn. As that was its reaction, Borum
immediately rushes back to the pillar.
Vivian, you catch that? Strange as I in my turn moving
to Vivian on initiative 15 with this beholder on deck.
Vivian's grabbing the pillar and disbelief and goes, what the
hell is that? I don't know.
Lucky though. Yeah, no kidding.
This pillar's not too safe anymore and she's going to do
another pop out sneak attack. Go ahead and make a Shore Pro
attack with advantage. 17 and five will go 1717 hits 17 + 2
from Dexterity. 19 points of damage.
What else you doing on your turn?
And again like before she's she's going to hide.
Pop back into the pillar baby and Borum hiding behind the
column. Interesting as we move great
strap back to the beholder hassle.
Please roll me AD 20. Let me know if you get a 14 or
higher. Is it its turn?
It is. It takes 7 points of acid
damage. I've got a Nat 20.
Well, criticals don't really matter, but it's going to shoot
array. Roll me another D4 one and two
is U 3 and 4 is Mylan A1. That is you.
So now we're only one more D4, Another one Romea Romea
constitution. Same thing over DC 1422, you are
not paralyzed and this ray no longer effects you moving
forward. Nice.
You see the one eyes looking at you and then with almost like
lightning speed, this giant ball of flesh with a sword sticking
out spins and barrels towards Mylan in his direction, almost
using its body like a spinning top with the sword coming out on
both sides. And it's going to attack Mylan
with A10 as it crashes into the shelf.
And you see the so it begins to like snap in place as all these
vials fall to the floor, the base of the shelf.
You see all this like acid begin to corrode the floor around the
shelf and you see a gas begin to rise up within it's spot.
I need a couple of green circles here.
The light green is melting acid around it on the floor as the
dark green circle is a bunch of gas also on the floor slowly
rising up. We're going to move to
initiative 13. Guys.
I would like to pick my sword back up since I've dropped it,
and then I'll turn and I'll look at the beholder and I'm going to
go ahead and cast another Sacred Flame.
So it has to make a deck saving throw of a DC-13.
Fails with a 2. So that is another six radiant
image. Awesome as we move to Mylan.
Mylan, you are in melee range of this thing.
It is right in front of you. It's teeth are chattering on the
blade as it's big eye. Although you do not see an iris,
you feel like it's staring right at you.
This thing looks like it could swallow you whole if the bloody
blade was not blocking its path. What are you doing?
Mylan is like no, no, no, no, hang on.
And then runs away. So what kind of opportunity
attack does he? Yeah, he's good.
You see that? He spins in place as the blade
whirls around you. With a 15 to hit, we're going to
take 7 points of slashing damage as the sword grazes your body as
you leap away. We're then going to take 1D6
bludgeon damage as you jump 15 feet onto the floor.
If I do a reaction I could still do a spell, correct?
Not if it's a level spell. What's the reaction?
It's my feet, so this should work.
It's called psychic backlash. Immediately after a creature you
can see hit you with an attack, you can cast a reaction.
Expend 1 psychic dice. So I'm down to 1 still I roll it
and I reduce the damage equal to two times the number of rolled.
Absolutely. You can use a reaction to a
reaction as long as you hit those prerequisites.
Just so you know, you get your reaction back at the beginning
of your turn, so you would not have another reaction, so it's
your turn again. So I rolled A5, so I get 10
absorbed damage or something like that.
Yeah. So you absorb the whole blow as
it spins in place. You do not take that seven
points of flat slashing damage. But as you jump away, you did
fall 15 feet. For every 10 feet you take 1D6.
So you can take 1D6 bludgeoning damage here, and it's going to
be two points of bludgeoning damage.
There is the second part to the thing.
In addition, you can force the attacker to make a Wisdom saving
throw. On a failed save, the attacker
takes the psychic damage equal to that number that I reduced
14. He passes.
Now Myland is on to the desk. He looks back at the beholder,
sticks his arm out and casts Shatter on the puddle and
everything that's down below, hoping to splash up some of that
acid and rock and everything at this beholder.
What's the damage radius of Shatter?
Glad you asked. It is 10 feet, so he's above it.
He's floating 15 feet in the air.
OK, how about this? Cast it on the blade that's
sticking in his Dang mouth. Sure.
Hey. Awesome.
All right, it must make a Constitution saving throw.
Roll the 15 so it passes. So it'll take 20 points of
damage. Haft, it takes 10 points of
damage. And you see that the sword that
you casted it on shatters in its mouth.
And you see that the thing almost does like a backflip in
place. And then you start to hear some
laughter coming from the thing. Your eyes lie to you.
Agate shrieks in a terrible glass shattering pitch as you
begin to see some of its skin begin to reform, almost as if it
was healing. I sit there and astonish that
what just happened. Mouth again as we move to
initiative 20. There is no purple flame that
emits because the sword is destroyed as it's hilt falls
onto the floor just outside of the acid.
As you see, the bits of metal begin to fall out of its mouth
with its. Broken jaw, bloody mouth.
You now see it's eye roll back into place and you see this
stabbed iris that is gushing open.
However, it is now looking around and it clocks Castle, it
clocks Mylan, and then you see it looking at the pillar where
Goram and Vivian are hiding. Mylan, What did you just do?
Mylan scrunched down at this point.
All right, what are you doing? I would like to climb up halfway
up the pillar if I can. Sure.
It's like, destroyed enough where you could definitely,
like, get your fingers and feet onto something like loose.
This room is very much destroyed before you got here, and now
with the destroyed shelf and everything, it's looking way
worse. But yeah, you can definitely
start to climb up it. So it's going to be half your
movement speed total, so you can move up to 15 feet.
All right, I'm going to try something crazy.
Give me a SEC. And Boram goes around to the
north side of the pillar and climbs up 15 feet.
So he's on the same level as a beholder.
OK, Why? And because I cannot think of
anything else to do, Boram sticks the ladder sideways
against the pillar aimed at the beholder and goes and extends it
60 feet. Oh my God dude, tell me it's
like a just a shotgun that just went off.
I just don't know how to rule this because that totally works
like the way he does. That might be the best thing
you've ever done. Maybe I don't know yet.
That's pretty great. Why make a ruling?
I'm going to look up wall of force because wall of force
makes a 10 foot wall right? What happens if you use wall of
force in a 5 foot corridor? Me in that position, I would
never fucking think about that. That's crazy program as you
extend this ladder like a shotgun.
The ladder shoots out as The thing is chittering on its teeth
of its new found freedom. Now released from the sword it
gets pushed back as the ladder goes through the mouth as this
beholder gets slammed up against the wall one feet.
It is now immovable As the ladder is immovable.
I'm going to treat this as fall damage is going to take 4D6
force damage per 10 feet. It is moved from the space it
got impaled on and it is pinned against the wall.
It is once again considered restrained and it will stay
there until the ladder is retracted or the spell of the
ladder ends. 5 force damage. It takes five points of force
damage and is restrained and pressed up against the wall as
the shock of the cavern in the library like force is borne to
almost fall as he's now like hanging off the ladder.
A ticket wire. Did it work?
As dust starts to reveal what happened in front of me,
Violence just got his hands over his ears.
All right, as you end your turn and move to Initiative 15.
Vivian, what are you doing? That was impressive, Borum.
I got to say. Was it what happened?
Oh, you got him. You got him.
All right, all right, good. Vivian's gonna run around the
pillar, she's going to go northwest close to where Bow Ram
is grabbing onto, just on the ground.
So about 16 feet around the pillar.
Sneak attack again, add the beholder while I can. 16 and A7.
So go 16, got three points of piercing, plus five sets of 9 +
2 for Dex is 11 points of piercing.
Vivian Zen going to do what she's been doing this whole
time, and she's going to go right back behind the pillar.
Listen, I do what I do as we move to Initiative 14, Lauren,
how much acid damage? Three points of acid damage.
As you see, the main eye in the center of the beholder begins to
look around, frantic, See that its tendrils begin to also
wiggle frantically. It is going to speak in a
muffled tone because it's chewing on a force ladder.
I think there's a dream. A red bit and it shoots lasers.
Everybody roll me AD 20. Let me know what the two highest
numbers are except Vivian 14158 hassle and Bohram Hassle.
Roll me AD 43. Roll me a Constitution saving
throw of ADC 14. I thought I was no longer
affected by the beam. You are not affecting by the
paralyzing ray. You are not being hit with the
paralyzing ray. That second D4 is.
You're rolling to see what beam hits you.
Constitution saving throw DC 1414 You pass as the innovation
ray this is. I don't know what that does, but
it doesn't sound good. O R.E.M. you're going to roll AD
40. OK, throw me a dexterity saving
throw of ADC 1311. You take 10 points of force
damage as you are hit with the disintegration ray.
As the innovation ray shoots that castle, you see this
greenish beam shoot towards him. The ray that shoots towards you,
Bo Ram, is this black ray with a white number glowing through it
and it is corkscrewed by an additional beam around it like a
spring as that shoots right into your back.
As you are climbing on this column, are you wearing anything
magical on your back? I just got like normal armor on.
OK, so as it hits your chest, it goes through your shirt like
your clothes that you had on are disintegrated.
The market left you is badly bruised and you're bleeding from
that spot, but any material is gone.
Oh, this is one of my good shirts.
And it cannot move. It continues gibber gibber gib
gibberish in its spot. As we move to Castle, I will
just continue to cast Sacred Flame and then I guess since
he's pinned he automatically fails the deck saving throw.
He will take 8 damage. That is my turn.
So Mylan Mylan's still kind of hiding behind some books that
are on the top of this bookcase as the ladder kind of jutted out
or just over his left shoulder. Sticks his head up, looks
around, sees Beau Ram did something awesome with his
goggles on and he slowly puts his goggles down just to be a
cool guy. Also, he's going to turn and
look at the monster that he he can kind of see since it's dark
in here and he's got sunglasses on it essentially.
And he's going to cast mind slipper bells with an 8 takes 3
three points psychic damage as we move to edition of 18 Boerum.
Boerum will climb 15 feet down to the ground, really in pain,
stumbling over as he uses a dash action to make sure he gets
fully behind the pillar and as he's kind of peering around the
pillar. Can I do like a bonus action
deck of some kind to see if I feel like it's gaining health
back rapidly and if it would be a good decision to stay or
leave? Maybe an inside check?
That is going to be a swampy 20. Although we're moving the sword.
Did it give it a boon of some kind?
The sword was there clearly to restrain it, as you now realize
only after it was shattered. Context clues.
Giant glyph that was fading in and out, sword impaled and
directly to the center of it. It was definitely holding it
there. Now, why it was wasn't killed
outright. You think it can definitely be
slain? This body, the body of this
beholder, looks destroyed and mangled, and that was before you
started fighting right? It was having trouble doing its
basic functions already. Removing the sword definitely
helped its cause, but given how badly injured it is from your
acid that continues to rot it away and how much damage is
already taken, you do think you can win this fight.
However, with a swampy 20, you're curious to wonder why it
wasn't he killed outright before.
And you get the sense that something went through a lot of
trouble. Almost.
Keep it alive. All right, Vivi, I think we got
a chance, but going to be a bit tough.
Stay out of sight from me. Don't let her look at you, OK?
Yeah. OK.
Are you going to be OK? I'm trying.
As you move to Initiative 15, Vivian, Vivian's going to take
that advice head on. And she's going to do the same
thing as before. I'm going to pop out 10 feet
northwest and then I'm going to sneak attack.
Nat 2024, Nat 2020. Wow, 26 + 228 Vivian with 28
points of damage. What does this arrow look like?
As you make the final blow on this pinned beholder, Vivian
pops out the corner and she's looking the beholder dead in the
eye from very, very, very far away and goes, I don't know what
Garrix is up to, but you're probably a part of the problem.
Good night. And she going to launch that
right into his eye. That arrow soars almost in slow
motion as it whizzes past Myelin whizzes past Castle, spiraling
like a Nerf football right into the center of the eye of the
beholder. Paint on the wall as it begins
to gush out blood, as the eye almost pops in place, as you
hear one final painful groan coming from this meatball of
flesh. And you see like a deflated
balloon that has just been popped.
You see the flesh now sag around the force ladder.
You see Bone climb up, defeated, come back as he pulls the ladder
back and puts it back into his bag of hold.
The beholder is now on the floor, completely flattened and
gushing of this green blood. Milan's gonna take off his
goggles. And then as he was like getting
ready to run up to it, he like, takes him off.
And all of a sudden he's like, oh, it's dead.
OK, what happened? I was going to start jumping
around going. I killed it.
I did it.
You guys see that? Have you seen that?
I did it. Oh, yeah.
Nice. Vivian's going to walk over to
Bull Ram and check out the damage on his chest.
He's like, back against the wall on his butt, smoking already.
This is a lot of pain. And Vivian's going to pass over
her health potion. I I think you could use this a
little more than I can right now.
Oh, I appreciate that. Yeah.
I can make more of these later, So thank you.
You're welcome. How's everybody else doing over
there? Mylan's on top of a shelf.
And just give us a thumbs up. Kassel will just say, yeah, I'm,
I'm OK. Nice job.
And I want to kind of walk onto the the glyph in the middle of
the room and, like, take a look at it.
The glyph is gone. You do notice something else in
the room as the sword is now shattered on the floor.
The yellowish force wall in front of The Cave.
This cave that looks like it was constructed between two
bookshelves on the eastern side of the room is now gone and The
Cave is now accessible. However, it looks like a pitch
black void still. Can I go over and see if I can
see into it? The closer you get to it just
remains pitch black. Yeah, I guess I'll wait till
everyone's ready to head in. I just want to check out the
beholder real quick, see if we can get a piece of that sword to
check in about Garrix. Yeah, we need to bring that
back. The sword is completely
shattered. There is no remnants of it on
the beholder itself. But you do find the hilt of the
sword near the pile of assets now have that now has subsided
into the floor, staining the blue cracked marble floor.
The hilt is like a gold plated steel.
There is a gem in the Crest where the blade wouldn't meet
the health, and that is green. And the leather straps on the
handle is also green, matching his armor set.
I'm going to take this back to Ophelia and Charles, and I'll
see if they can take this to the right people to analyze for us.
And she's going to store that hilt away.
Go ahead and add Garrix's sword hilt to your inventory.
Hey, Marlin, You look real cool out there.
I mean, the latter. Yeah.
Glad that worked.
And I'm scratching the back of my head.
I would never thought of that. That's crazy.
It just popped into my head. I had to think on my feet, you
know, because I didn't have much else to do.
And he takes his goggles off and opens up his lab coat.
I need to fix my lab coat. When I get back, it's burned
down. Man's going to get ready to get
down from the bookshelf. But in the meantime, since
there's a little downtime, does he find anything?
Maybe there's a scroll up here. Let me take a look.
You're using a search action. Go ahead and make the perception
check. 14 Romeo D41. You find a tome within the book
and this one sticks out to you because there's a bunch of
leaves within the pages, almost like if they were sprouted from
a vine. And you see as you open the page
of the book, you see magically appearing within the pages, a
small tree blossoms. And on the small tree are all
these tiny oranges. Go ahead and roll me one D8 plus
10/15/15 Oranges sprout on the tree.
The tree is about a foot high. And you see all these little
tiny Mandarin oranges pop out. Right, Fourteen oranges.
Very cool as he eats one. As you eat one of these oranges,
you heal for one D 6 + 4. Oh, my God.
I feel great. All right, we should try one of
these now we're only one D20 plus eight.
Yeah, I got a 25. There are 25 pages in the tome.
Minus was a 24 pages. You have the tome of oranges.
Upon opening the tome, a small orange tree blossoms between the
pages like a pop up book, producing one D 8 + 10 oranges.
As a bonus action, a creature can eat an orange and heal for
one D 6 + 4 damage. The tome contains 1D20 plus 8
pages. 24 pages. A page is consumed every time a
tree blossoms, and a new tree sprouts every time the tomb is
open. Closing the tomb makes the tree
go back into the tome and cannot be removed from it.
So you open the tomb, it sprouts a tree.
The tree has all these oranges on it.
If you close the book, the tree and the oranges that were
remaining go away and a page is removed from the book.
You can essentially generate a a tree 24 more times.
You cannot remove the tree from the book.
How long do the oranges last? It stays until you eat them.
Oh my God, guys, food's on me. I got you.
Hey. And I look at Castle and Vivian
shakely and eat the orange. As Mylan's up on top of the
bookshelf. He's just starts chucking
oranges down. Take one of these.
They're delicious. They're amazing.
You're feeling great one already.
As Vivian catches one, she's going to look up to Mylan and
go. I'm really proud of you for not
eating that scroll earlier. Eat as many oranges as you'd
like. What?
What are you talking about? Wait, this is great.
And Borum looks at his chest, and it's healing up.
Dang. All right.
How many do you give to each of us?
I guess for each plus one for you.
Yeah. Hey, Dendron.
What you seeing, Dale? Nothing.
It's still blocked. I guess we'll just have to go in
once everyone's ready. Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's not block, Block. We can walk, right?
It's just. Well, no, it's.
You can't see into it. It's kind of crazy.
Should we all hold hands and walk in?
Yeah. Kazzle, hold my hand.
I'm OK. Why not?
Come on, We can frolic. Kazzle just walks in.
Boerum immediately follows Castle.
My hands are kind of dirty from the oranges.
I'm going to tie a rope to all of you.
I don't want a rope here. I'll just get on your shoulder.
Come here. OK, I am Sticky.
He's going to take Mylan and walk in.
Mylan starts rubbing his hands on Vivian's shirt.
Oh Mylan, why would you do that? Thank you buddy.
No, it's just this. Sticky and I walk in with Mylan
as they start fading out into the the next room with a ladder.
As the four of you step inside The Cave you realize that you
are stepping into magical darkness.
As you go to turn around you no longer see the arcane tower that
you just had this fight in, but you are surrounded by darkness.
But you can proceed to head forward as the strange sounds of
silence engulfs you. The more you walk forward, the
more you start to hear sounds of nature, but you hear wind
blowing and faint trees rustling in the distance.
That is all you hear. As you continue to walk, you
feel a soft breeze on the other end of this darkness.
As you walk out, you find yourself on top of the Arcane
Tower. You are looking around and you
can look around the edges of the forest.
You see all the trees bending away from the tower, look over
the sides, see all the dead birds that are scattered around
it. With the incredibly tall rooms
that you have just experienced, you do not now feel that high
up. You feel about 80 feet high in
the sky, 80 to 100 feet when you've experienced depths way
higher than that when you were inside.
And in the center, you see this giant glyph of a crown of eyes
painted on the center of the platform.
Underneath it is this faint blue glowing glyph that are other
circles just beneath it. However, it doesn't seem
activated. What are the four are we doing?
Vivian's going to look over to the others and go, doesn't this
look a little so familiar? Hey, this is the same one on my
hood. Yeah, the crown for sure.
Hey, Paladin, take out that cloak.
The Milanet. Okay, that's the same thing,
right? Yeah, I mean, it's the symbol
that we've been seeing all over the place.
And Castle will pull the cloak out.
Yep. And seemingly nothing happens.
Yeah. And he looks around and he's
like, so did you want to, like, see it?
And I, like, hold it up for more room.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess.
So I kind of walk over to the big glyph holding the small
cloak as he's kind of just tying them both.
So the Crown of eyes sigil that you're seeing is painted on in
red paint. There is a blue glowing glyph
that looks dormant. Nothing happens with the cloak
and the sigil there. There's no connection between
the two. As you stare at it a few moments
pass is you're like looking around and you look up in the
sky and you see that there's a bird coming into view.
Then you see this blue glyph begins to glow becomes brighter
and brighter and brighter. And once the bird crosses the
bent tree line, you see something that looks like a
magic missile shootout towards the bird hits it and you see the
bird instantly die as it falls into the empty Grove.
Oh so that's how that happens. Could Vivian do an arcana check
above one of the blue circles? She's just seeing if she can
gather any and for information and he tells of what it could
be. I'll give her a help.
Action ballroom. I'm going to try to look at
this. Can I get your help?
Already looking OK. I got a 10.
You can't draw too much from that with a 10.
But observing and reporting it looks like a magical glyph of
like some type of defense. So it's something flies over it
shoots this magic like missile at it and locks on to whatever's
flying overhead. This looks like some type of
defensive magic. Anything that flies over it
kills or attempts to kill, which explains it's all the dead birds
around the base of the tower. Boren would like to take out a
cloth and just like see if he can't rub some of the paint off
of the crown glyph. You go rub it.
You feel like you could rub some of it off.
It is paint. And as I'm rubbing it, it
doesn't seem like it's affecting the glyph at all.
It's just no, it's two separate things.
OK, the the crown almost looks like graffiti of some kind the
close. But when you do rub it, you do
notice that it's in blood. That's the paint used to make
this glyph do when the blue glyph is on the ground.
Shot the bird. Mylan got very angry.
This was killing all the birds. No, absolutely not.
Wherever the beam came out of it, you know, whether it's the
center or the size or wherever, he's going to shatter out of
anger. And also if it see if he can
destroy it. Cast shatter.
The ground cracks around it and rocks fly, and sure enough, the
spell goes off. The glyph remains.
Ah, Mylan, what the heck are you doing?
This killed all those birds. It's so rude, so rude, how dare
it? Who did this?
Don't know, man. Hey Dendron, let's go see where
Silver Roof is, huh? Yeah, and Borum does want to go
to the edge and just look off, make sure he's doing okay.
You did not tie him up, correct? No.
From your current location, you don't see him.
You do see the hand cart. You park on the edge of the
Grove, you don't see the horse. It also feels a bit warm out.
We're in spring before. It's a bit warmer out than when
you went in. It's just good at Iding, right?
I mean, yeah, I don't know, maybe, maybe something happened
and he had to take off. I mean, we've been up here for a
little bit, you know. Well, you get him.
Don't worry. Sorry.
He was in here as long as he was.
Khazid kind of doesn't say anything.
And he kind of turns back and looks at the rooms and just say,
yeah, I mean, I don't have anything to get rid of this
glyph. Yeah, I'm.
I don't got any dissolvance or anything that do that.
So my own's going to go to wherever the edge is, where he
buried the birds, and just kind of sit on the edge and just kind
of look over and stare at where the the little grave sites are.
He's just frustrated that this is the thing that's killing the
the birds and he doesn't know what to do.
Well, maybe we can go back to town and see if we can get some
help from Ophelia and Charles. Maybe we should try the latter
to see if that sets off the lights and see if we could just
climb down. I think we can climb down.
It'll still be a bit of an op after that, but at least we can
do that. And you see Bowram has his
notebook out and he is sketching what he's looking at and just
kind of copying down the blue glyph and the the red glyph.
Can Mylan take one of the rocks that's near him and see if it
shoots a laser at it or anything?
Take a rock, you toss it in the air pretty high, nothing
happens. It lands and crashes onto the
top of the tower. I'm worried it's any organic
matter that's going to set it off, but I guess we'll have to
try. It.
Looks like it had to be higher than that though.
Got a good point there. If it's not in his ear then I
don't see no way we can't climb down.
You're right, we should go get the beholder and throw it off
the side. I think that might be a bit
heavy myelin. Maybe we could come back a
different time. Look at all these birds.
We can try and come back later. Maybe the city can do something
about this. As long as we let someone know.
I could find a way to not reveal that it was us and get them to
help. I'm gonna try one more thing.
Then we go and Boehm kind of like goes to the edge of the
blue circle. He does reach into his lab coat,
into the bag of holding. He pulls out three of those blue
fragments and he kind of tosses them in his hand.
And then he kind of just like plays around and sees if the
blue fragments have any connection to the circle as I
bring them close. There's no reaction between the
fragments or the blue glyph. I don't know what you is, but
it's a mystery. I wonder if there's any
connection to the shooting star or maybe the sword or something.
I don't know. Yeah, we're definitely going to
investigate that. The second we get home.
I'll send Charles and Ophelia to go investigate that for us.
No, but what does this sword work with this?
Oh, that's a good question. Vivian will quickly walk up with
the sword hilt and try to go test it out.
I guess same thing. There's no reaction between with
the glyph, all right? It was a good test.
Good idea, Mylan. She's gonna walk on back.
I don't want to spend much more time on that if it's gonna shoot
up at stuff. So, yeah, let's go.
And we're gonna take the fall damage, but Borum's gonna put
the ladder straight down on the side of the tower, say the
command word and extend it 60 feet.
I got a rope we could dangle from to drop onto the ladder.
Oh, yeah, You can tie it down at the end of the ladder.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea.
Just so we don't take no fall damage, Vivian will go first to
get that tied up. So you look over the edge, you
look down and you drop. This ladder extends 60 feet.
You climb down, you have about another 2025 feet to cover with
the rope. And you taking your time.
Sure enough, no magical bolts are shooting out of the top of
the tower to hit you as you are able to just tie something to it
and make it down safely. I'm not going to have you make
athletic checks or acrobatic checks here because you're
taking your time and you're not under pressure.
You land at the foot of the tower and a minute passes and
the latter retracts, landing in Oram Sand.
That is a handy tool we got. There ain't no lie.
I like this. And Boram meanders back to the
card and he starts just putting some of the stuff that they got
back in the card. It was very difficult to bring
the chest down with the fish. It was.
You still have those? I can fish.
Go side do Maya. What'd you name them?
Foresight and Roden. Foresight and Roden.
While they're doing that, can I go look for Silverhoof?
Yes. As you go back to the road where
this clearings entrance was, we'll call it, you go back to
the tree line. After a few minutes of looking,
you're looking where the handcart is.
You do see a lot of hoof prints around and you see that like
around the cart there's normal hoof prints.
You get the sense that he was trying to eat something.
As you're looking around, a few minutes pass and you find him a
couple of feet in the forest and you see him eating foliage
that's around healthier foliage that's far from the tree line,
but maybe about 50 feet away from where the hand cart is.
You see him. You go up to him.
While that's happening, Boram, you look up.
As you look back up at the tower, going back to your hand
cart, you see that the sun is almost at its highest point in
the sky, given the sense that it's around noon.
Oh man, I wish I'd found a Phoenix Veda.
That would have been nice. Was there supposed to be 1 here?
That's what I was told, at least.
They thought now that we know what's in here, maybe we'll come
back when we're more prepared. If I want to come back.
Yeah. I was gonna say I don't have a
reason to come back that I'd read.
Might be nice, though. Maybe we go back in just right
now. Just for the address.
No. Let's go.
Baram. That's enough.
We're done. No, you have no more spell
slots. You're right.
We should go back in there for Strawberry.
Strawberry.
Strawberry's never going to leave Mylin and Vivian.
Long cats. Mylin.
And drags him away. Castle, you found Silverhoof?
Yeah. Yeah, I got him.
Yeah. Let's get going.
He walks over with Silverhoof, and he hooks him up to the car.
Vivian's gonna plot Mylan down into the cart.
Are we going home now? Yeah, of course.
Would the four of you like to return to Boulderas?
Think so. OK, I just want to make sure I
have a group consensus. Well, if they don't want to,
they can stay here 'cause cousin is over.
Hoof are going back to Boulderas.
So here's what's gonna happen. The four of you are gonna make
your way back to Boulderas. You are gonna camp throughout
the woods, and we're gonna do a little bit of a time skip.
The four of you do level up to level 40.
Dude. So nice.
And you gain the benefits of that when you take a long rest,
which you will. Mylan, you are still cursed, so
you must make Constitution saving throws.
We're just going to have you make you one at the start of
next session when you arrive back at Boldares.
What is happening right now is that as you travel through the
forest, it is a bit warmer. You feel the heat of summer
resting upon you. You begin to sweat a little
more. Silver Hoof gets a little tired
just a little bit quicker. And you notice that the trees
are around you in Rock Head. Forests are blossoming more
green than ever. You feel like it's full of life.
You once again hear the wind rushing through these now thick
full heavy trees. The wrapping rushing of water
through the rivers as you begin to track back to Boulderas.
You begin to hear the sounds of bugs and critters alike
scampering through the foliage. It takes you about 5 days to
head back, and as the heat of summer sets upon you as you once
again feel the blowing breeze through your hair as you are no
longer cooped up in a dark tower containing a very evil and vile
monster. That is where we're going to end
our first arc, and we'll pick up the second arc, arriving back at
Boldaris. Wow and arc one.
End of Arc one. If I knew it was going to be the
end of the arc I might have done a different role play thing, but
I guess that's for the after show huh?
No, no, I'll do it next arc. Not the beginning of next arc.
First day that beholder does not have a name at this point of
time was the Ark boss battle I believe, not planned.
I think this is also the same episode number.
We ended the first talk of campaign 1.
I don't know if it was 22 or 23. Was it 24?
I think it was 22. I think it was 22.
I don't know why it was.
We'll double check. We'll double check right now.
Episode 22.
Look at that. Tony knows his shit.
Not planned by the way. Also no.
Damn it, that one also ended at the beginning of summer.
Oh man, I used what am I doing? It's almost like he planned it.
The story's so good. Just tell it again, you know
what I'm saying? Just just do it again.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Exactly.
Does anybody have any recommendations?
Anybody have any recommendations?
I do if no one else does. I started something that's not
anime. New Girl with Zooey Deschanel.
I'm finally watching you. It is such a slap in the face,
but it's so funny. It's so good.
Great show. I create every episode, but it's
amazing. Go watch New Girl if you
haven't. Oh, yeah. 10 out of 10.
Give me Cookie. I gave you Cookie.
New Girl's a great wreck.
That's an awesome one. Never seen it.
I've seen clips. First you haven't eaten Taco
Bell. Now you haven't seen New Girl.
I'm living life. Schmidt is I I've been told I
have Schmidt energy, 100% energy.
Dude, the first episode I watched it was like, oh, it's
Jared. Oh, just wait, time to spin the
wheel. It is.
Hey, we back on a Laura. The recommendation for Malara is
the four songs in my playlist that are in languages I don't
speak, starting with the forever catchy Gangnam Style.
Jared, First off, that's number one in my book right there.
Love that song. But what kind of goodbye have
you given your best ladder in the mouth Goodbye really hit you
in the back of the throat. Welcome back to another round of
Patreon shout outs. Y'all Just sit back and relax as
I read out these names. The Bloodshot Bandits are first.
I heard this secret group once assisted some mighty heroes back
in the day when the Christo was trying to take over.
Some people say this organization still works in
secret to this day, but I got to see it, to believe it.
If you do exist, then come by my place and I'll give you all some
magic items. Artemis the fighter guardian and
Cami Jo hunter. Scala, gentlemen and adventurer.
The give gunslinger Alistair Jacobs.
I don't know how to do a British accent, sorry.
Also the dread Lord drama. The highest of elves, Master the
finest of finderies this side of Umbrea.
The rogue Changerland. Sly Knock.
Mock Novo's biggest competition. Brandy Woodburner, the wine
wielding wood elf, Glorg Knotbreaker, the dwarven
fighter, a pony, Lightbringer, Elvin, cleric of Corella Rican,
the Purple Hermit has entered the battlefield.
And of course Jason all. Next are the City College
alumni. I've always wanted to visit and
share notes with the Wizards over there.
I heard they make some crazy good potions.
Across the Everton sea we got Mongol the Yeti giant, Sergio
the retired knight, Punk the Vagabond Bod, David Lachance,
Bruce, Charlie Vexche the gnome sorcerer, and Isaiah Crane the
architect of Tall. And then last but not least, our
hombre heroes. Y'all better stop by to see me
for health potions before you go on adventuring into those
dungeons. I'm looking at you man with
glass. Jesus the frost dragon, bone
warlock, Johnny Tah, John Carroll Art the iron ammo, Drown
the barbarian mobster. Cypress Daewin A capybara.
Circle of the Forest Druid. Any master of Weapons.
Young Battle Bone, the bombastic Brigadier Barbarian, Afork
Morgad The Unbroken Half giant Barbarian, Gad the Lizard Folk
Room Night flick, the warlock who thinks he knows Cajun French
better than me. Bree Carlson, Balasa Turner, all
the Eldrick nod, dragonborn, Brom Iron spud, the battle out
end. I have 4 barbarian with an
unbreakable appetite for glory. Thank you all for joining along.
We always appreciate you adventuring with us.
But until next time I'm going to go make some potions.
Au revoir.