Hello everybody. Welcome back to D and D4 O Four.
I am your DM, Tony, and join with me today.
All the other three songs that rock but you might have forgot
existed, starting with the number one studio.
Jerry. What's going on?
Guys are most checking in. I got to say, my Slept on song,
the one that I as soon as you listen to it, you got to play it
again, is Spodeyodi Dopalicious by Outkast.
What is that? If you don't know that song, as
soon as you hear it, you're going to start hearing the
trumpets. You're going to be like, this is
just, it's such a good vibe. It's awesome.
Love that song so much you don't know it.
Go check it out. What about you, Dan?
There it is. Hey, I am Dan.
I play Menace Pebble Walker, your tiny little swarm keeper
Ranger. And I am the good people of this
podcast. It's by Jack Johnson, pretty,
pretty popular artist, but I don't think a lot of people know
or have listened to good people. That is a song that doesn't get
in enough recognition and I go back to listen to it constantly
and it's. I think it's a a very fitting
song for our times. It aged very well, so definitely
go back and give that a listen. So that's my song.
What about you, Drell? Yeah, my name is Drell.
I play Alec of the Wait, my name is Alec.
I play Drell of the Ashbourne and my song it actually took me
a while to think of something but I'm.
I think I'm going to go with when your heart Stops beating by
plus 44. If anyone doesn't know who that
is it, it was a band that was created by Travis Barker and
Mark from Blink 182 when they took like a hiatus and they have
like a bunch of other people in it and it was just like one of
the songs. It's it's not as good as Blink
182 music, but it's it's it's definitely like a sing along in
the car. It's it's pretty good.
So go check it out. What about you, Tony?
My go to song would have to be Peaches by the presidents of the
United States of America, where it's like millions of Peaches,
Peaches for me, that's like my go to karaoke song too.
It's like such a good one. It's such a good song.
I've never heard that song. Where you should look good
because it slept on. Now I heard of it.
Not. Slept on not.
So done. Confirmed you.
Know the deal before we go for the recap.
We're going to go ahead and roll for the rundown and today's
rundown is brought to you. Bye.
Jared. What's going on guys?
If you haven't heard, we updated our website and I'm talking not
even like a slight update. Massive overhaul.
Overhaul. Tore it all down, rebuilt it,
rebuilt, and we bought a few domains.
So now if you go to d&d4o4.com that is right.
D and D4 O four.com will get you to our new site.
Go check it out. We have character BIOS, episode
blogs, you can comment on every episode straight to the site.
We have the same merch, but we're going to be updating that
soon. Contact information on all of
the platforms is there too, and we we're going to add a few
extra little things in there every so often.
So D and d404.com. But Jared, I live in Canada and
my parliament is super restrictive.
How can I access the website? So we also bought So Funny
story. So in Canada D&D 404 is some
kind of military license. So we we bought that domain as
well. So D and d404.ca.
Nice if you wanted to get there. And also also 404 pod.com works
as well. So we now have 3 domains, and.
Comment in the discord what the Australian websites are and
maybe we'll buy that too. Yeah, you know what?
Just get them all. wellgetthe.org, the, the Nets.
We'll get them all. As a Canadian adjacent, I'm I'm
very excited to boot down my. Anyways, roll that dice.
We're gonna roll it. We're rolling it where I roll a
giant rubber foam D4. Where I am number 12 is dead,
No2 is Alec, Three is dead, 4 is Jared First try.
Rolling it, that was a pretty good roll, right?
That I was impressed with that. Happy with the roll.
I don't think I'm happy with the results, yeah.
Is it? It is.
This is my favorite segment when it's not me.
See, it's the way you threw the dice you gave it to.
Normally. You throw it half assed and then
it rolls and you feel. The mischievous nature of his
toss? Yeah, that.
One was like a legit good toss. So it really randomized it.
I'm. Just so excited about this arc,
bro. That's why I'm just.
A basketball pun for the D Indian nerds.
I like it. So last time on D&D 404, we're
chilling on Priscilla, right? And out of nowhere these nulls
jump us. Classic move, but no biggie.
We handled it with style. Things got wild when Menace
tried to speed up and whoops, Hello double headed Alec
Crocodile. Bit of a scare but almost
whipped out some serious magic and Drell was on clean up duty.
Teamwork makes the dream work. After the adrenaline rush, we
had a moment. You know, we got philosophical
about life stuff while picking off the last of the nulls.
Good times. We roll into San Lo and picture
this, a village with a big old floating rock overhead.
Yeah, not your everyday site. Drill was all about the speed
potions at the shop. And Menace our boy got big.
Like 8 feet tall big thanks to some potion magic.
But the heart of the episode Menace.
In the journal shop Sparks flew with new me Is it love?
Who knows. Menace in New me totally vibing
at the journal shop. Could this be the start of
something epic, Right. Meanwhile, Drill didn't want to
show his journal, saying it was his diary and Armo's.
He's all in. He's ready to share his only
catch. It's a demonic tome, which
definitely gave new me a bit of a scare.
Wrapped up the episode by going out of the journal shop, seeing
a mysterious dwarf with some fancy tools.
A golden hammer. Stick around folks, we got love
in the air mystery to solve. Definitely going to be having a
chat with a dwarf and Bard Play that intro.
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the
world of Humbrea, featuring three first time adventurers and
one very patient DM. This is D and D4 O 4.
Fellas, boyos, welcome to session 90.
Wow, look at that. Wow, we're in session 90, boys.
What you think of that 10 away? We're 10 away from the big 100.
Let's see if you guys survive till then.
All right, we're we are going to pick up Section 90 in a heart of
the mountain city full of minotaurs San Lo.
Our three adventurers just left the journal shop, where Menace
made a great new friend named Numi.
After setting some plans to meet Numi at the local Tavern of Milk
and Honey, where outsiders are allowed, they discover a dwarven
teenager, an older teenager with a golden hammer, and the another
Fell Auburn attached to his waist.
Walking out of the blacksmith shop with a bunch of supplies,
this catches your attention and that is where we are going to
pick up. It is currently midday.
The city is bustling with workers.
People are traveling, buying, selling and work.
It is moderately dense and there are eyes.
Everywhere. What are you doing?
Guys, see what I'm seeing, right?
What Joel like looks around like he does.
Over there, I point a little too high because I'm used to
pointing up. Menace is also 710.
No, I'm pretty sure it's 8 feet. Pretty sure it's closer to 8
feet. Better now, and Joel does like
the hand height measuring thing on his head to menace.
Can I see who's taller? I'm usually 4 foot, so I'm
probably like 8 right right now. Probably not, but anyways, but
Oh yeah, that's wait, isn't that the guy Lord Baron was talking
to us about? What's his name?
I it's in my notes. But I don't.
I don't have him out right now. Starts with AOB.
He's a dwarf. We need him.
Let's get him. Knows what that orange elf was
talking about. Doric There's an O in there.
As soon as I hear his name, I start stomping over there,
trying to get in front of him to start a conversation.
Like a drill. Like a drill.
I thought we were about to stick up on him.
Oh. I thought we were just going to
go talk to him, but. How are the three of you
approaching this dwarf? I just want to get in front of
him, to stop him so that we can like start a conversation with
him. But I want to be like ready to
act in case he tries to do something with his his Lantern.
How far away is he from us? He's about 30 feet away from
you, He's walking out of the blacksmiths forge and he has
about 3-4 crates in his hand stacked on top of each other.
When he walks out of the forge, you see that he's navigating
through the tall minotaurs. He's about four feet tall
himself, but the way he's stepping, it's like the
minotaurs are like walking by him and he's moving like water
through their legs, like navigating through them, like
he's done this a million times before, almost.
You start to walk over. He's walking the same pace as
you. How are you trying to get his
attention or how are you getting in front of?
Him. Well, now that you mention it,
if he's moving so swiftly through all this, I'm starting
to rethink. Oh my God.
Do the all. Do the all.
Accidental bump into trade? He's not rushing.
He's walking with purpose. No, I know, but he's very swift.
Which if he starts to run, Oh my God, I don't want to do a
chasing, you know, to be. I'll try to get in front of him
and then bump into him and see if he if he like magically goes
around me or something. First, give me a performance
check. Oh.
OK, our boy's good at that, right?
Performance 18 Oh what is this? Oh wow, look at these things
over this on the in the store. With an 18 performance check you
managed to get in front of him and you go to like bump into him
very naturally. Doesn't he doesn't assume that
you're trying to get into his way?
It seems as realistic as you made it to for him to believe.
It looks like you just like tripped in front of him and he
like almost. He pivots out of the way almost
like a dance movie, like jumps on his left foot and then jumps
on his right foot to get around you and continues to walk.
He doesn't look at you. He doesn't pay any mind.
Give me. Perception Check. 11.
OK, you don't notice anything other than the clothes that he's
wearing. He's wearing leather clothes.
He's covered in suit. It looks like he has been
working at an anvil all day and he's wearing this metal helmet.
I look at Menace and I go Menace, you're next and I push
him towards. Yeah, he's still like, he's
probably a little farther away from me now, but he's like.
What? Where does it look like he's
walking towards? He's heading north.
Oh, he's heading north? Yes, OK.
I kind of walk forward. I stumble a little, 'cause I'm
not used to my weight. And I shrug it drill and I I
just try and tail him for a second to get an idea of where
he's going. Go ahead and make me a stealth
check with advantage if the three of you are following him.
Not great. That is a 2033.
I got a Nat 20. Almost.
What did you get? 13 No 12. 12.
The three of you are confidently trailing him.
You believe that you're not getting his attention, even you.
Almost as you're stumbling, Reginald is like, come on, stop
tripping over stuff with your 12, you know, you notice that
your footing is very off, almost more.
In a weird way, you feel like you're tripping over something
that isn't there. And like, you're looking back.
You're like, I didn't even bump it to anybody.
And Rachel's like, come on, come on, Wait, you got two left feet.
What is this, amateur hour? And the three of you follow
along. Then you notice that he heads
more northeast, where a lot of the tents look similar.
They look like homes and you see like soft smokestacks of, like,
people cooking inside or doing their daily activities.
But it looks more residential in this part of the area.
And then he takes one of the dirt roads to the side and you
notice that there is a watchtower with two of these
Centurion Minotaurs looking about.
Looks like they're just guarding the area down, menace.
When you talk to the guard in episode 89, when he ignored you,
they look the same. It looks like he was guarding an
area specifically from outside. Same thing for this path.
Looks like there's a large chunk of the city that you're not
meant to go in. You see the dwarven teenager.
The dwarven child look up at the tower.
He waits a second, and then, just as swiftly as he was moving
around the citizens of the town, he slips behind another tent and
uses it almost as an alleyway to proceed further with your
stealth checks. You manage to follow his steps.
You wait a few beats and then you follow along and he's
heading north through the residential area and he's trying
not to be seen by the townsfolk that would, more or less.
Care that he's there. What are the three of you doing
as you continue to follow along? I wanna make just like a
perception of the area around us and I wanna actually see if
anyone else, like if we're looking for him, I wanna maybe
think other people are looking for him as well.
So then I just I wanted to see like if anyone else is paying
attention to him or looks like they might be following him or
interested in like following him.
As well make me a reception chip.
That's in that one. Nothing out of.
The ordinary you just see a lot of minotaurs.
You see families, you see kids running around, Looks like
they're playing amongst themselves.
You see mother minotaurs taking care of their their duties.
You see? Very, very.
Normal residential activity. Grow.
Pay attention. You're falling behind.
What? Sorry.
Looking around I. Just want to believe a Nat one
like a bug flew in his eye when he was trying to receive
something. What is this?
Have a shower? Well, you don't know how to
stalk people. Look around.
Cheese. All right, you don't need to be
rude, Reginald. All right, let's keep going.
Yeah, seriously. Sorry.
It's. You don't need to take
supplements to look bigger menace.
It's natural and I keep going you.
Take one D4 Cutting words. No.
Yeah. Right now, I just want to keep
following this guy unless some of you have another jerk up your
sleeve. Nope.
I'm down. Just keep following him.
Yeah, I'm down to follow him. I'm just worried that it's going
to seem more suspicious the more we follow him.
Right. I'm feeling that too.
I would almost, yeah. I don't know.
Let's just keep wearing it. You've continued through the
residential area, as now the three of you are also dodging
the view of the people living within their homes.
They seem preoccupied, so it's very easy to navigate.
You see that? He now heads for the hills
beyond the residential area. You see that he waits.
There's a hole in one of the fences.
It's. Very small.
Looks like he it's actually a hidden entrance way into the
town. He approaches the wooden gate.
He looks around, doesn't see anything, and then moves a plank
to the side that's just big enough for somebody of four feet
squeezed through seamlessly. And then he slowly brings the
boxes through, and then the plane closes.
And a three of you approached the gate.
I popped my head out of a bunch of SIDS I was hiding in.
All right, let's go. It is a mountainous area.
That would work. Can can the other guys make it
through if they like struggle? Would they make noise or
something? Yes.
Anything that is over 5 feet tall would probably have a hard
time squeezing through this. So Menace is big right now as
well, right? So he is.
That's my next. Has been over 3 hours.
This particular barrier is about 15 feet tall.
This isn't the main defending wall, but like it looks like
it's like a keep out area. All right, everybody, use your
quiet stuff and I have bonus action float over the wall.
Oh yeah, let's just use our quiet stuff, 'cause we all have
that. Drell pulls out his ring of
jumping and he's gonna just try to jump over.
Yes, 15 feet is so easy for the ring of jumping for you because
of your strength. You just go hop up and you hop
over. That's wonderful.
Almost your next. I'm just misty step through I
guess with my. Wretched goes, come on, come on.
And he opens up the plank so you can see where you need to go and
go. And you misty Step 3 feet
forward. That was the best thing that's
ever happened for such a mundane aspect of the game.
Three of you make it over this fence and you see the dwarf
leagues ahead of you. It seems like now he's like
moving as fast as he could and he seems like he's heading
towards a Cape. Are there like other people?
Like, what does it look like once we?
Not in this. Area so it looks like an
abandoned town or abandoned. Give me a Perception check.
Oh, that's a lot better. That's a 25 looks.
Like an old mine. Looks like he's heading towards
a mine shaft of some kind. OK, it looks old because you
could tell that the entrance way, the wood, the struct, the
foundation to hold open the entrance way is it is rotted.
It's not, it doesn't look stable.
It doesn't look well taken care of.
The tracks for mine carts are broken and it looks just
overgrown. So activity here looks like it
it stopped. Got it.
I suppose I'll wait for for him to enter and see if he looks
around before moving forward towards the entrance.
Sure does so as he moves towards the entrance, he gives one last
glance and he looks around left to right.
He looks above him, he goes through some of the overgrown
foliage and he goes inside The Cave.
All right, we just going in this cave here.
God, I hate caves. What?
Since when, as like the three of you were talking, you see a
quick green flash, guys. I hate to say it.
I think it's time. And I pull out a Lantern.
Nope. Nope.
Not doing it. Nope.
Not going. Can't make me.
This is our actual quest. Can't make me.
Actual quest. I'm not going back there.
Last time I turned into a giant dragon.
I try and persuade Drell to my Drell.
Listen, all right. That thing's long gone.
We took care of it. This is going to be a whole
different area. We're stronger now, right?
You're the strongest out of all of us.
You'll be fine. You think so?
Yeah, look at you. You're all natty.
Like, somewhat. I know.
Wait, what do you mean? He's talking about menace.
Yeah, our most. And I'm thinking about the blood
sharks. OK.
I'm gonna go up to the entrance of The Cave and I'm gonna check
to see if there are any like traps or alarms before I.
Give me an investigation check. That's gonna be 22.
Not bad, You do not spot any alarms, traps.
Bamboozles or hoodwinks? What you do see when you gaze.
Inside the is that. A couple of feet in, it looks
like the mine has collapsed in on itself, preventing you from
going further than a couple. Of I knew it.
Video game, Secret passage. Shit, there's going to be a
waterfall in here almost, so I can feel it.
Hang on X nay on the waterfalls, my favorite thing.
We're bringing up all the trauma this.
Episode all the trauma. Yeah, I pull, I pull out the
Lantern and I hesitate. I'm like, I don't think we have
another option guys. Have.
Any other ideas? Let's go.
No. What if it's just a door?
And I try to walk through the wall.
Take two points of bludging damage just to walk through a
bunch of rocks. Fuck.
All right, all right. Do it.
Fine. And I thought.
You'd point to the. What about?
New me. Oh no.
Guys, could I use an emergency magic letter to write to new me?
You cool with that? Who?
We got we got 9 left. I'm not.
I'm not going to lie, I already used one.
You better make it quick. Better start.
You use your scribble handwriting and not that.
Do me. I don't know how to explain
this, but we're in the predicament.
I will tell you about it tomorrow, or maybe the next time
I see you. I'm sorry, but I will have to
cancel our next meeting. I promise I'll be back.
Best Minis Pebble Walker and I write it on the magic letter,
seal it, and throw it into the air.
You take up this green envelope, the letter from the FFCS, the
magical envelope, and you gingerly you wave it in the air
and it slowly disappears into this green dust and surely it is
delivered. Just like last time.
Forgive me, new me. I like the Lantern.
You see, as the world begins to contort and change around you,
shadow overtakes the sun, The Cave becomes darker and the
rocks become twisted and slowly reformed and move.
Out of the way. They begin to meld back into The
Cave wall, now giving you. On passage deeper into The Cave
outside, you see the large glowing moon.
And that's the only light source, as now all the trees,
the land and rock look decrepit, and you also see.
A rundown version of San Lo. You.
Do not sense any activity beyond its walls.
You now have a dark cave. For you I'm.
Going to cast light on I suppose drills drill.
What do you want Light on this time?
My head like a light bulb I. Don't know if it works on living
stuff. I'll try.
I try and cast it on Charles
head. I think it needs to be an item,
but I'm sure you can find something on his head where it
illuminates. All right.
Fine. My sunglasses.
My sunglasses do it only. Oh my God and I.
I cast it on his sunglasses. Wow, whole new meaning of
sunglasses. Is it still maroon?
No, this one's like a green. Like a club neon green.
Man, I was expecting Cyclops over here.
Your. Sunglasses illuminate this
bright neon green like a Lantern torch, working almost as a
flashlight. Where you look is where there is
light and softly illuminates everything around you.
And you are in this cave and it looks like it just goes forward.
And as the neon light illuminates, the light is now
also reflecting off these little mushrooms along the cavern
walls. They shine green and a light
blue. And you hear the soft echoing of
hammers banging away down the cavern tunnel.
Like more than one. It sounds like one, but it's
like a steady beat. Turn the beat.
Around Oh well, should we go this way?
Yep, all right. In we go.
And Menace is feeling very sad thinking about New me as he
walks forward. Drill's walking like he's he is
the Apple Vision Pro Zone and he's like just waving his hands
around with the lights. On.
You wander deep into this cave and before you know it, you find
yourself in this massive cavern and opens up.
You see a torch lit almost like a.
Forge. Fire deep in the distance, The
Cave is filled with these green and light blue.
Hues there is an. Opening on the other end of The
Cave where the moon shines through to provide some more
light, you see the distance about 60 feet away from you.
Is the. Dwarven child hammering away at
an anvil that's slightly bigger than the average anvil.
He's on a step stool, and then you see a humongous shadow
lurking in the background just beyond the moonlight that is
illuminating the better part of this cave, and it looks like a
hulking figure. Is.
Sitting down, hunched over in his cave that's barely able to
contain him. I put my finger to my nose like
not it. Wait to go talk to him?
Is that what we're trying to do or?
Whatever. Dude, I almost like, I don't
know. I'm getting not great vibes now.
I feel like we should ambush him and steal his Lantern and then
talk to him, but he's pretty agile for what it seems like.
I mean, kids these days playing hopscotch and running amok and
playing tag and be just so nimble.
They're hard to. They're hard to catch sometimes.
You know when, Lord. Baron was talking to us about
this guy. Did did he happen to mention
like, if he was friendly, if he was in hiding, if he was like or
like if he was lost like I? It seems to me he's just
chilling here so. Lord Baron was talking about
who? Who were you asking about?
This wasn't he The blacksmith. The blacksmith.
The guy. They were looking for a
blacksmith, so Lord Banner requested you to find a
blacksmith and one of the places they were looking was the Kabuki
Alice. He did not give you a name.
The only lead that you had, you had potentially 2 leads from
Reese who had found who mentioned Dwark to you who you
believe is this dwarf child because he has the matching
hammer which was an important detail he left with you And the
other lead that he had that he felt that ended up being a dead
end was a drow elf named Centric.
Got it. Got it.
Got.
It So what are the three of you doing as you are overlooking
about 80 feet away you see this dwarver child.
His back is to you, kind of like on an angle.
You see that he's hammering away, and beyond the moonlight
you see this hulking figure, like hunched over, sitting down.
You cannot see any defining characteristics because you're
just too far away, but it looks like there's a giant human
sitting down. What do you guys want to do?
Intro like leans over and he's like whispering.
I mean, maybe I could sneak up, go invisible, and take the
Lantern, just to be safe. Is this Lantern at his hip?
It is. I mean, but what's the worst
that happens? He flips his Lantern in the
can't. We just like, if we're close
enough, he'll take us with him, right?
And then we can. Like, I don't think the
Lantern's the big issue. What it OK, so when he's
hammering, is he just non-stop hammering?
Has he ever put it down for a moment to like, I don't know, do
something else with either hands?
It's been like a few seconds since you guys were talking, so
it looks like he's trying to shape something on an end.
I'm curious that once he puts the hammer down for whatever
moment, then that's when we strike and then yeah.
You you're thinking about the quench.
Yep. Or the flux.
When he has to flux the the heat of whatever he's going.
No, Yep, any of those things. So I'm thinking he's going to
put it down at one point. That's when we strike we we
disarm him. Or maybe he's nice.
Maybe we just got to talk to him.
That's what I'm saying. Like, I just feel like, but I
mean we let's be real. With a monstrosity over there,
we. OK, what's what do you got
against tall people? And drill stands a little
taller. They don't go.
Yeah, and I stand a little taller and then like, yeah,
remember, we're trying to hide. I just.
I I mean. I don't have anything great
right now with my spells. I.
Just. I just don't think the best way
to make a friend is to steal their shit and then try to talk
to them, yeah. I mean, we could be if we wanted
at that point, if we disarm him and then talk to him, that's
better than us ambushing him and fighting him.
So he's going to take it as oh hey.
I vote. I go invisible, then pop up and
say hi. When you mention that idea
menace, so about a few moments have passed.
You hear him still hammering away, and as you pitch that idea
you see a large hulking hand reach beyond the moonlight.
Its flesh tone is very Gray, heavily tattooed, and the
tattoos shine and and they they are very luminescent within the
moonlight, almost providing its own light source.
And you see that stretches across the cavern and the hand
itself is about like a good 1/4 of The Cave.
And you see that has a large finger place next to the anvil.
It looks like he's adjusting the the very small item in
comparison to him on the anvil and then his hand reaches around
the back of the dwarf. He's fixing his posture and then
proceeds. No words are said during this
process, but it looks like it's guiding him.
And then the hand. Reaches.
Back to the shadow. See, he's just trying to learn
from his master. Oh, or what if he's what if he's
like fucking hypnotized or something?
Because remember, Armo's like, tripped in front of him and he
didn't even say anything. He just kept walking.
So, like, what if what if he's just being controlled by this
person? I could do one thing, I don't
know. I'll just throw it out there and
see what you guys think. So I do have another.
I can teleport right behind him, and then I can cast.
Teleport behind him. The dwarf.
And then I can cast friends on him.
But then he'll know you casted it right?
Yeah, but if he's being mind controlled by this other guy,
then that doesn't matter, right? Love this mind control theory.
Almost. I need to remind you of how some
of these abilities work, and right here you see that there's
a credential for the friends and he's flipping.
Through your tome. Under the French spell and now
regional. Some glasses you need to be.
What's the firmage here? Not hostile.
And appearing and scaring somebody in a dark cave in
another realm where they don't belong may puts place you in the
hostile category. I'm just saying I don't.
Think he would? Gerald's like, pointing the
Reginald and nodding in his head.
This is what I'm talking about. I'm not a paralegal but.
I'm just saying, actually, I guess I'm if.
I If he doesn't even know I exist, I'm not technically
hostile, right? Oh no.
It sounds like hearsay to me. I now realize how much lawyers
and demons who make packs with mortals have in common.
Menace's hand is still raised from his idea too.
My hand's getting tired. What are we doing?
I got I got one. One last thing before we go with
Menace's idea. I dispel magic and then we go in
there. I feel like we do that.
If we run into trouble just to save your spell slot, you know
what I mean? Because if we run into trouble,
then we can. We can.
If we notice something's magical, we can dispel it.
OK, I'll stay here. Oh the.
First sign of In trouble. Oh, I'm ready.
This is. I'm starting to regret coming up
with this idea. All right, I'm going to go
invisible with a bonus action, and I'm going to Sprint 60 feet
forward for the Dash action. You run up 60 feet and you take
notice behind a boulder. Maybe a perception check and see
what you see. Nine with a nine.
You see a dwarf hammering away on what looks like to be an
outline. Of a sword.
Nothing. Specific It is still burning.
Rather than red hot, it's burning green hot.
You see that the flame next to him is burning green, and he's
using this fell fire to keep the item warm as he looks like he's
shaping it 20 feet away from the anvil.
An additional 40 feet beyond that is the hulking figure
beyond the moonlight, and now you can get a better look and
you see the outline of two large eyes, completely blue.
You do not see any type of iris or pupils.
It's completely blue and you hear deep breaths.
It is a large humanoid shape and then a fist emerges from the
darkness. The grey arm reaches beyond the
sunlight and just as fast as you ran over, slams his hand down on
you. Menis almost like a cage right
on top of you. Shit.
Yes, you can see invisible things.
The massive fingers and your new size make it just thick enough
for you not to go through it, and he's like grabbing the
ground, making a cage with his own hand, and you see that his
face stretches beyond the shadow.
Into the moonlight. Before You is a massive giant
sitting in a crater, using it as a seat for himself, hunched over
in his dark. Cave.
His tattoos stretch across his body with large tribal marks.
They are the same color as his eyes.
They are acting as a light source now that that they are
being reflected from the moonlight.
It is a. Bald, Gray, giant, very muscular
looks a little bit old. Big Gray beard that melds in
with his flesh tone. He tries to look under his hand.
He speaks in a very deep voice, trespassers and shadow fell.
Now I've seen it all. And he's looking.
Right at you, despite you being invisible.
Yeah, after six seconds like I went invisible like I'm Innis.
I don't mean you any harm. You see the dwarf?
Does it notice or acknowledge what's going on?
He's hammering. Away Drill pulls out his book
that is keeping score for everything and he marks one for
drill and 0 for minutes because he was right about.
Just going to jot this down real quick, OK?
All right, Ormos, what do we do? Should he cast dispel magic?
I don't. I don't know if that's going to
help. I don't know, and I kind of wait
to see what happens. Oh, I got an idea.
Reginald, get out there. Hold on.
I mean, let's just see if he can see you, then we'll really know
what we're dealing with about it.
It's. Not it's not a bad idea,
although I do have a problem with putting me in harm's way.
I thought you were this almighty, powerful demon.
From the 9 Hells, I earned my seven wins.
You're right, you shouldn't put yourself in that danger.
Now that I'm over here, I can tell that your voice is echoing
everywhere. We were not being quiet.
All right. Well, if you can hear us, then I
was right, Menace. Didn't say you were wrong.
I throw Reginald. You see that the giant lifts his
hand up and he sets you free menace as he's looking at you,
and you see his blue eyes, like almost as his eyebrows are
moving, examining you. In place, Minnis, Pepper Walker,
Oh my. God, he knows his name.
Drell. He knows my name.
That. Oh, he can't hear me.
Yeah, that's crazy. You said that you yelled it out
loud. Yeah.
When you say Drell's name, he doesn't have a suspicious face
anymore. He has a curious face as he
looks into the other end of The Cave, and then he leans back so
slightly into the moonlight, puts his hands on his.
Massive legs, he goes. Please step forward if you mean
no harm. Yes, absolutely.
Sorry for giving you a a a scare here and I step forward.
You step forward, so now you're illuminating more in the
moonlight, and then you step into the dwarf's view and he
looks up for a moment and then stops hammering, and he's like
looking around that he looks at the giant, that he looks at you
again menace, and then the giant turns towards the dwarf.
And he gives him a calming gesture, almost an at ease type
of movement, and you see the dwarf become relaxed and he's no
longer worried. Please join me.
And he's talking to you, Drell. And you almost.
Gosh, he knows you're there. Fuck.
OK, all right. Almost.
You go first. I walk in, I guess I.
I'm rubbing my shoulder like a kid that got caught trying to
get a cookie from the cookie jar.
Drell And almost as the two of you step forward towards the
moonlit cavern and you see this massive giant, he's only wearing
like a giant fur belt. It looks like the belt is
made-up from like this, a massive beast, and it's only
covering his waist down. And it looks like a mix of
leather armor and just cloth to keep him.
Warm he is bare. Chested, completely lit up with
various tattoos. It looks like this beautiful
tapestry on his skin. Very fit.
He looks at Armos. Because we have AT.
Fling. We have a Minotaur and we have a
face. I never thought I would meet the
son of Brax. Oh fuck.
You know my dad. I know your father very well.
And like a good way, like your friends.
Or like, a bad way where it's probably a bad idea that, you
know, I'm his son. We used to adventure together,
and he reaches his massive hand over and he introduces himself.
I go by Screus. Oh my God, oh fuck.
I put my hand out to shake his hand and say, Yep, I've
definitely heard of you. I'm drill as you know.
Yeah. And I shake his hand.
You like his hit, like half of his finger is like more than
double your size. And you go ahead and you try to
shake his hand, try to and he pulls it back.
I never thought. I would ever meet you because I
did not think my name would ever reach your years.
You were just. You were just a little lad when
your father's passed. But it's nice to finally meet
you. Yep, Yeah.
Been a been a long time since since then, you know, quite a
few years. Feels like yesterday in my eyes.
That was adventuring with your father.
Well, unfortunately I never got to do that.
So he kind of like died when I was young.
So I guess lucky for you to feel, make it feel like it was
yesterday because definitely doesn't feel like that for me.
Such as the Ashbourne Way? What brings the Son of Brax to
Shadow Phil? Well, we are looking for Lord
Baron I guess. Sent us on a quest looking for a
blacksmith to I guess possibly help with something he's trying
to do. He smirks at that name.
He goes. What is Baron?
Trying to achieve these days science stuff.
So he believes in, Yeah. So listen Scorius, we're we're
trying to stop Vera Grimgar from like blowing up the world and
stuff. So I don't even know where to
begin. It's another name I haven't
heard in a very long time. That lunatic, although crazy and
has some power behind his words. To those in Brea.
Is it the main catalyst driving its destruction today?
Yeah, yeah, we know the main guy.
Drell looks at Armos. Look at armos with a side eye.
Wait a minute. Hang on.
I can explain. Can you?
Can you or Rose? I'll just show him your journal
and I do air quotes. Yeah, well, why don't you show
him yours? Oh yeah, I got one right here,
and I pull mine out. Wait, this is not about me.
Listen, we we got to tell you. We found we found the other
hammer. Did you make that?
You say Hammer. He looks over, He looks over to
the dwarf and he looks back at you and he goes.
You found you have the Ignis hammer.
Yes. Do we have it on us, or do we
leave it with Lord Baron? Baron has.
It Baron. Fuck yeah.
Yeah. We left it with Baron, as you
call him. The overachiever.
Not the worst hands you could have left it with, but then
again, an item with such lure isn't really safe anywhere.
However, a fortress is a good spot to leave it.
Yeah, I think he's like, I don't know.
He has that. And I think he has like, I don't
know, like one of those blue, like, acrylic shards or
something. I don't know.
Excuse me, what did you? Can't you?
Elaborate. Minnis, do you want to explain
what I was talking about? Oh yeah, didn't what was his
name Bowden or something Made made a pretty cool Shard.
Another name I didn't expect to hear today Bowden.
Look at us. It seems like the three of you
have been around. Boden was your father and I's
travelling companion. Part of our hunting party went
crazy trying to pursue the knowledge of blood shards.
After Christo's first attack that devastated the heartland,
he attempted to purify one of the gems because he thought it
it may have held the key to a Cristo's demise.
Now, whether it is or isn't, I believe in Boden.
Boden was a very smart man. However, that knowledge
corrupted him and he's just a former shell of what he once
was. Truly tragic what happened to
him? But many great Wizards have
fallen to a worse fate. He left me with his purified gem
in which I have protected in one of my homes in his honor.
Now I don't think it really possesses that much in its own
within its original state. The last thing he had requested
of me before he converted to his new form was to craft a weapon
that was able to socket and hold one of these gems.
Something strong enough because these things tend to have a lot
of condensed magical energy with him.
The last weapon I was able to make.
He looks at you drill. With your father's axe.
Oh, damn it, I knew it. Oh, I didn't want to say
anything. And in a result of that creation
of that axe, I've lost one of my most valuable smithing hammers.
And then he leans closer into the light, and he shows his
right shoulder. And you?
See that against his Gray flesh, his shoulder and a lot and most
of his upper arm is completely black with this yellow scarring
or looks like Energy's escaping this golden energy that is
releasing through the cracks of his skin menace.
You instantly recognize this energy leaving his body.
It's the same feeling you got when Bando bars passed.
You get the sense that he's slowly dying.
Oh my goodness, I'm, I'm sorry and I just give him a look.
Well, it's not your fault and these things happen.
I put my trust in boat in now, although I'm sure he was on the
right path to solving the issue. To my knowledge he only made one
of these gems, and I don't think a single weapon would be able to
take out an alleged God as he refers to a Christo.
Well, we, you know, we saw the gem that you were talking about
in your temple. We actually met it.
The temple's keepers. They're pretty cool.
You should go meet him sometime. But I'm very familiar with the
Laura. One of my trusted servants.
OK. Wasn't sure if you know you've
met or you know, I don't know. Whatever.
Anyways, what a task that you watch over.
I don't know the person that was tasked before.
I don't know how long ago you disappeared.
I don't know these things. I'm I'm confused.
Didn't that happen like 300 years ago?
Laura is very old in relation to you to AT fling.
OK, First off, I look great. Rage.
Second off, wait a minute. How do you know our names?
But you don't know where we've been?
You see that? He points.
To his eyes and he goes, Most gods have true sight and if they
don't then I would really call him a God.
Hey, did you know our friend Bando bars?
I'm familiar with Bando bars. Unfortunately, I haven't sensed
his. I haven't sensed him in a very
long time. I assume that he may have
passed. Oh yeah, we we were there.
You would be. Vandobarus was known for his
trickery and often meddled in the qualms of mortals where we
should simply step aside, for it is not our responsibility.
To clean up the problems that. So to speak.
You. Created.
I look over at the dwarf and then back at the God, aren't
you? Kind of.
I'm twiddling my thumbs. Aren't you kind of meddling in
now? Right now like.
He looks over at the dwarf, he looks at you and he actually
laughs. I guess you have a fairpoint, as
you can probably sense I am. My time is slowly creeping up on
my. On me as well.
Time waits for nobody, whether you are a God or not.
I'm simply passing my teachings along.
Hi Doric, can I wave awkwardly? He's looking at Scurrius and
when you say hi, he doesn't look at you and then Scurrius turns
to you. He goes, he can't hear you.
Oh oh, is he deaf? He is.
He also doesn't speak. He understands gestures and I
believe he can read lips. But most of our conversations
have just been as simple as pointing and communicating
through our gestures and body language.
Minnis looks at Armos, then looks at Drell and then thinks
back to when we used all these abilities to get over a damn
wall, 'cause we thought he could hear us, and then just feels
really embarrassed. So let me get this right.
You're passing all your knowledge on to somebody who
can't hear or talk? Is that what I'm understanding?
If somebody is able to use an artifact as rich as the one he
has in his hands, they are worthy of the knowledge I have.
I was going to say almost. It's pretty insensitive.
Just because somebody can't hear doesn't mean it's a boundary
that cannot be overcome. As far as I'm concerned,
blacksmithing is very noisy and easily the most annoying part of
creating anything. Yeah, we're stop porting.
Yeah, Armos, stop pointing out other people's downfall.
Wow, Armos was so. My poof back into my mini form
because my potion wears off. It's not what I meant.
I'm just saying, how can we communicate to this person?
I want to be back. I want to be tall again.
Under my guidance you will not communicate with him.
I can be tall. Oh, oh, sorry.
So we have come to we've come here because a God walking
around the bitterior plane is always cause for alarm.
As you can probably assume, I'm well sought after by my own
followers and well, it becomes a bit of a burden from time to
time when you are just trying to teach somebody new and everybody
wants to be taught by you. So we have retreated here to the
fell where time is works a bit differently here.
It's skewed. A moment can last forever, or it
can pass the blink of an eye, so we can we're able to use
Shadowfall to our advantage, so I can train him in a much
steadier pace. So what are we doing?
You're creating a weapon. Is that what it is?
One of many. This is right now.
I'm teaching him some techniques.
Yeah, the fundamentals. And he looks over and you see a
whole bunch of weapons and a whole bunch of armours being
made and nothing looks like extraordinary.
It looks like he's practicing repetition.
You've got to create 1000 swords to make your first decent sword,
but why have you followed Young Dwark here today?
Well, we kind of want the same thing you want.
I think you're hoping to find someone that might be able to
craft some crazy weapon that could fight evil, you know?
It's your goal to slay a Christo.
Why else would you be pursuing these items?
Why are you here? Miss Oh, looking at me.
I look left and right, left and right.
You're the one here looking for weapons to fight evil.
Quote UN quote. Yeah, well, we, it's our, our
group journey. We need to fight the bad guys,
you know, and a Christo needs to be stopped.
So you know A. Problem that has plagued Humrea
and other realms for many, many years.
He looks at Armos and he goes. He seems to have the closest
connection to him, and then he points to Reginald as you
possess a piece of him on your shoulder.
Oh, he can, he can see him. OK, things make sense.
He's rethinking all the blood shots that he's.
Stupid. Hey, do you think there's a way
to like purify his book? Like I didn't purify those gems
he looks over at. Armos, after you mentioned that
menace and he may I see the tome?
Yeah, so I I willingly give it to him, just because if at any
point I want it, I can call it back.
It's like one of its abilities. Wade Olmos, I don't think
there's really giving that to a guy you see like Rachel, like
pull his fur and then as you hand the book over.
Gross. His radiance is all over it.
He he picks it up between his fingers and he looks at it, and
as he points it to himself, almost drel and minutes, you
quickly see the acrylic Shard in his tome turn into an eyeball
that stares at Scraeus. He goes.
His putrid reeks in every realm. He throws the book back to you
and lands at your feet. He's keeping tabs on you as he
points to the eye, and then the eye disappears within the
acrylic Chard. The gem you possess is indeed
one of these acrylic gems, the one that Bowden had purified.
If Bowden was around, sure, maybe he could, if he didn't go
mad with the knowledge that. He possessed.
I mean, where did you see him last?
Bowden? Yeah.
Like, is there a chance he's still alive?
Or a nafic. He points to minutes.
And he goes, yeah, he goes, yes, he's currently a nafic.
Oh, I know it. Well, I told you guys he was the
Narthic. And Menace writes one for him on
his journal. As many Wizards become when they
chase evil magic, You see, Boden was obsessed with finding a
cure, which I guess isn't the worst thing in the world.
He was trying to solve the problem.
You see, Boden is a bit older, four times as old as your
father, Darrell. She.
Boden was a very powerful wizard that ventured with us.
Is he? Although he his knowledge was
for the magical arcane aughts, he did enjoy the occasional
monster hunting from time to time and that's why he travelled
with us. And then a crystal attacked for
the first time 600 years ago. You see, Drell, your father is a
bit older than you may think. Under our guidance, we had
magical means to prolong his life.
He may have been still alive today fighting, if it wasn't for
the disease plaguing his body. Same disease that plagues yours.
Oh, oh, come on. Why'd you just say that in front
of everyone? Wait, Jerrell, What's he talking
about? Thing he's not talking about.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's some what, some crazy giant guy.
He's going old, you know, he's losing his mind.
He's got no idea what he's talking about.
I step forward and I'm like, wait, what do you mean?
Wow, dude, sick HIPAA laws school.
Drell's father, Brax, had something called Frost rot.
Something. OK, here we go.
And as he starts to talk about it, like Drell kind of distances
himself, but he's still an earshot.
Drell's ancestors, the early fighters of the Ashbournes for
the dragon named Edgar, who's known for his rage, A powerful
dragon. The clan managed to slay Edgar
and in their old ways decided to drink his blood, thinking would
grant them power of the dragon. It did.
It gave them this great boon that passed on through his
lineage. Those that succumbed to its
power through their rage were afflicted by this Frost Rot.
See, the Frost Rot lies dormant. If you live a passive life but
become stronger and more effective the more you use it
for your advantage and drills farther, Well, he was an angry
one when he wanted to be, but that's all Ash points.
They like to go out fighting and that's how.
Brax went out. Oh my gosh.
We're going to have to enroll Drell in some anger management
classes. He He rages a lot.
I slowly start turning back and looking at Drell.
What happened to his axe? I would imagine it's where he.
Was slain, and for someone who doesn't know that, where would
that be? I'm unaware of his exact
location, but I know it's somewhere within the North
Trillis Mountain sea. Your father knew that this
disease was creeping up on him. The the gem that was keeping him
alive, which essentially Grant makes you age slower in common
terms, wasn't slowing down the disease quite enough.
And your father did not want to die through the frost rod, so he
wanted to go out the way he wanted.
He travelled deep within the mountains of North Trillis.
He wanted to go find the Wolf God Frostoon, which is the God
beast of wolves, an elder wolf God that lives in north shores
that would appear when the moon is highest in the sky.
Beasts worship Frostoon. Your father killed Frostoon when
he was on the material plane hunting with other large winter
dire wolves. He slayed the wolf.
Badly injured. He succumbed to the disease.
Next to it, your father died a God Slayer, a feat not commonly
obtained by the greatest of heroes.
Classic Dad. There's a lot to unpack here.
And you see that you laughed. So I have.
I have. So many questions.
Lots of questions and I just kind of look at Drell.
Very sad. You know, puts his sunglasses
back on. All his dirt's in my eyes did.
You think you guys were going to talk to a God today, did you?
No. Yeah, I did.
I saw it on your white board behind me.
Chris has been white. So I kind of want to like
explain kind of what's been going on with the tome to him
that we've been get that I've been halving to gather blood
shards and then it's you know bridge is being formed and that
there's a obvious kind of thing at the end and see if he thinks
it's something that could bring a Cristo back to it similar to
how he's hiding and here is a Cristo hiding in this type of.
You divulge all the information that you have about what you've
been doing to him. Yeah, just because I'm like, I'm
starting to like, obviously since he meant said that about
Reginald, that's where armost his mind's probably going to.
So you tell him all the information about what you've
been doing up until this point when you met him, and he goes,
so you're the catalyst for his return.
That bridge that you're building is the bridge between his realm
Bayloon, our realm of Humrea. When you complete that bridge,
you will have full connection to this world and you will be able
to return to wreak havoc. That's what I was afraid of.
When this before the second attack happened, we knew the
name Virile Grimgar. As you mentioned before, he was
a catalyst for that attack. We knew that Virile was using
the Red Dawn to further his plan.
These these lunatics, these cultists were so that were once
outcasted by the world felt a felt that the 'cause that Vero
was spewing to them to be a just one because they thought that
Cristo would reimagine the world and their image where all he
wants to do was take all life. Boden was was trying to prevent
that attack, but it happened too soon.
His his research wasn't nearly complete to purify one of these
gems. And after he left with Horatio,
which was lucky that a person who believed that he was a child
of God happened to be one, he used Horatio and he traded A
momentarily ceasefire with the world because he knows that the
energy he can get from a for someone with a God heart was
worth more than all of the lives that walk around today.
Because that one God heart within Horatio could fuel him
for many years the same energy that you are giving him harmos.
Keep God hearts away from devils, OK?
OK. Armos is trying to take all that
in and just grabs Reginald from by his scruff and and starts
yelling at him like did you know everything about this?
You knew all this? He's like, he's like Armos, I'm
going to level with you. Yes.
What do you think we've been doing?
And you see that? He jumps down all onto the
floor. What do you think we've been
doing this whole time? I give you power so you can, so
you can run around and essentially burn things, get
your revenge on the person. The demon that took Layla.
You wanted this power for your own selfish gain, and Acristo
gave that to you in the form of me.
Why do you think you can destroy everything so easily?
Why do you think you have all this power behind your
fingertips? It's because of me.
We made a deal so you can get your revenge in exchange for
Bloodshots to rebuild the bridge.
What do you think we've been doing?
Our most is filled with rage, and he doesn't know what, like
how to, how to express it. Just sitting there like just
fists clenched, staring at a rabbit that's looking up at him.
It it would he would audibly be turning more red at this point,
or or like, visibly more red, but.
More red than a red evening. Yeah, exactly.
I don't like this contract any more than you do.
I don't want to serve you respectfully, but here we are.
But Reginald, you're like our friend now, yeah?
Good Co workers? Sure.
What? Originally I fed.
I fed you. Hey.
Yeah, it was. It was great.
Don't get me wrong, you've got a lot of great stuff here in the
material plane. I want to go back to balloon.
That is where I belong. Oh, I thought.
I kind of thought we were like, you know, going to hang out for
the long haul and you'd, you know, come with us on cool
adventures and stuff. We're just a mean to an end for
this guy. Oh, I see.
Reginald Wow. That's what our contract is.
I don't want to serve Cristo any more than he does and he dresses
the Armos. I would love to be my own free
demon. I need to earn that, right?
So I have to work and I have to serve him and he looks at Armos.
Armos for the for the first time is already starting to like plan
Reginald's demise because he's so angry.
Scurriest chimes in. Here's my two cents as a God
who's not supposed to meddle mortal problems.
However, what makes a God angry is someone who's not a God
trying to play God, Which is why I don't like a Christo.
He is not a God, but he sure has the power of 1 these days.
He's nothing more than a lich hiding behind the guise of
unholy magic. To defeat him, you need to meet
him. Otherwise he will find other
ways to come here, other cultists to do his bidding.
If it's not you, or most, it's someone else, and it could be
Virile or someone like Virile. I'm sure you've already met
others who have. The passion is that crazy Kook
already has. So is there anything you can do
to help us on this journey? I mean, we we came all this way.
I feel more defeated talking to you than I have in any other
battle than he just screams because he's so fucking.
Frustrated. Walk it off.
Almost wrong. Walk it off.
He. Looks at Dwork.
He looks at you. So you're telling me that Baron
has the other hammer? The Ignis hammer?
Sure does. The hammer he's using is Rinse
Galatas. Hammer.
Rinth was a powerful blacksmith. Eon's old.
I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but he was quite
talented. These artifacts was what he used
to forge powerful weapons. Dwark here holds huge promise.
These weapons, these hammers. Contain the power to build and
craft legendary weapons and perhaps not wound its user, and
he gestures to his arm that is slowly leaking this energy.
Perhaps if we had the other hammer and the gem, perhaps we
can craft more weapons. This will take time.
I recommend Drell when he looks at you.
I recommend you make amends with your past and the troubles that
plague your mind, and you find your father's axe that it'll
already be 1 weapon capable of holding one of these gems.
If we had another gem, perhaps two is better than one.
And then when Almost Here finishes the bridge, perhaps you
can face a crystal head on. If Bowden was right, perhaps
these weapons will have an effect against him.
But you're saying if if we were to find, yeah 'cause we have two
gems, so if we were able to find Boden, then he could turn
Armos's gem into a third one. There's two.
Gems. And now he looks surprised for
the first time. Oh, the week lost past that.
Yeah, Minnis found it in a tunnel.
Yeah, we were helping Kenny Joe with the school project.
Yep. Then we found an alchemy jug,
and then I made friends with a snake.
And then I we kept going. Then we made Reginald.
Oh no, not Reginald. Well, almost I think swam across
and found it. Wait, where's this tunnel?
I I find it hard to believe that you were just wandering in a
cave one. Day.
Well, we were at a cave or bug bears.
Then we went to fight some jazzy dudes who was in that house
where? Which was outside of See.
It was outside of Gilo. Was in a well, wasn't.
In a Well, yeah. You point to him while I went
down well. Gilo is.
And he goes, yeah, that was Bowden's house.
Oh, you know, that makes a lot of sense now that I'm thinking
about it. Oh my fucking God.
OK now. Does it all make sense?
Armas from ARC One. This is all.
Is it all? Coming together.
Well, you found a book. With this in Arc 3.
No, I thought it was the fucking Jack.
Bolsinki's oh. No Jazzy Melzinki, which just
happened to be with the Jazzy Jazz Bandits.
And he's an. Initiate, almost show him your
creature book. Monster Notebook, Yes.
So you take out the mouse and notebook and it's a book that
Bowden was like researching on, and it's filled with various
monsters. Mechanically, if early on in the
game you were able to have a chance to find weaknesses for
early game monsters, but there was a page folded in where.
He was a nafic and it was notes about the nafic.
You show him the book and Scurrius laughs to himself and
he goes, he knew he was going to turn into this, he knew he was
going to succumb to this, and he yet prepared for it.
That's the Boden I know. He was leaving clues.
Yeah, tried to capture him too. You met Boden?
Met so strong word for what happened really.
We he followed us and it was late night at camp and then I
tried to capture him with a net and then he ran away.
Why was he following you? Did you have one of these gems
on you? Yeah, that's.
Well, now that makes sense. So if he's or nothing following
one of these gems around, he's probably studying its abilities
and how it reacts to mortals. Wait, does this book?
And I point to Hermos's tone, is this can this, like, listen in
on our conversations as well? Like can, is everything we're
talking about being communicated.
Well, when I picked it up, there was an eyeball looking at me.
I would assume he might be able to hear you.
What? Wrap it in foil.
To spell magic. Wait, wait, I need that.
Here's what I'll do. Baron has this other hammer.
I will take Young Dwark here, and we will go, and we will
craft using both hammers. We'll move tired to the Chapel
where I have my tools, and we'll begin crafting another weapon.
He looks at Drell and he goes. I feel there's already one made.
Just for you. If you want to take the journey.
He looks at Armos and he goes. You're not much of A weapon user
I see. Or the magic kind.
If you find Moden, perhaps the two of you can have a discussion
and he looks at you menace. If I would craft a second weapon
might be for you. Oh, OK.
I mean, I I'm pretty happy with my God Sling here, but you know,
Melora, you ever met Melora, you hang out in like your world.
You don't have godly Taverns, but I've had.
I've have crossed paths with Medora, yeah.
I'm new to this. Cool.
Yep. Yeah, she's she's awesome.
We're like best pals. Best Pals.
A follower of Mellor is always welcome.
Good. Good.
Good, good. So.
Well, next time you see her, tell her, tell her Minnesota,
what's up. Yep.
Not exactly.
So, OK, Not a plan.
Plan is good. Plans are good.
And we appreciate you helping us out in any capacity.
We'll, I suppose when we're done here in the Kambuki Isles, we'll
go back. That way he can a witch.
A man is rubbing his shoulder again.
Do you? Don't.
You don't happen to know like the exact location of the
crystal petted hydra the Kambuki has, do you?
I'm unfamiliar with this beast. Oh, OK, OK.
All around the Kambuki Isles, they're made.
Yeah, I heard people saying that.
Yeah. Got ocean hydras.
Got cave hydras, Land hydras, iron scales, hydras.
Always the exact same. Got some hydras with five heads.
Hitch every time. He's been pacing this entire
time and is just losing his mind the more I hear the word hydra.
Cool, Cool, cool, cool. Yeah, so.
That's fine. Venice is like really starting
to get worried at this leg of the journey that all of his
efforts have been for nothing, and he's going to go home empty
handed and he's just kind of staring at the ground.
I will go back to my Chapel, greet Alaura once again.
I hope she's excited to see me. I'm sure she's doing a great job
watching over my home. It seems hopeful that the three
of you have met me this day. Perhaps Dwork has done more than
progress in his blacksmithic abilities.
He he led 3 unlikely heroes to my presence.
Some might call that divine faith.
I just call it luck. He looks like you Menace.
What's up he? Look, he goes raise.
Let me see your sling for a moment.
Yeah, OK. I've never let anybody touch it
before. You could He holds it out and he
like, holds on way too long and gets lifted off the ground as
he's going, and then finally. You see Scurrios gets nice and
close and he looks at your sling and he could easily tell that
this is like your preferred weapon and he.
He's starting to examine it and he goes, maybe able to craft
something jewel liking, and this will be a little out of the
ordinary fedora here and a great test of his skills.
Laura has done a great job already and she he he could
sense the the her influence on the sling and he goes.
But perhaps we could make a few adjustments to it to maybe hold
one of these gems. To to hold it.
Oh Oh well, you. You don't need to do anything
specifically for me as long as we get the proper tools needed
to defeat him. But if it happens to work, I
promise you I will wield it greatly.
He leans back and he looks like Dwarak, and he makes a few hand
gestures. He's like, almost like sign
language. And you see, Dwarak begins to
wrap up some of his supplies and it looks like they're ready to
set out. And he looks at.
He looks like Drell. He gets closer.
Drell's holding back tears. Behind his sunglasses he goes.
I'm really happy to have met you today.
Your father was a mighty warrior.
We've killed, we've travelled and haunted many dangerous
beasts together, Giants, Dragons, beholders, there's a
lot of great times. Yeah, I'm, I'm glad I was
finally meet, you know, finally able to meet someone that knew
my dad better than I did and was able to spend a lot of time with
them. So it's good to hear, you know,
war stories. Your father haunted down evil
God of beasts that would raid and pillage simply just to
destroy He. If he did not go out and fight,
the father you would have met would not have lived up to your
expectations today. Your father wanted to go out the
way the Ashbourne's have believed they should go out
their entire lives. He wanted to go out a Monster
Hunter, and if he were to stick around to try to raise you, he
feared that you would not have respected him the way you will
respect other great fighters today.
And he would rather you have the memory and the legend of how
your people live than an elderly man who wouldn't be able to
stand. Well, I guess, you know, maybe I
will be like him. I actually have a crazy psycho
beast God chasing me as well, thanks to this guy.
And I thumbs back over to Armas. Talking about the no God, that's
fucking sound. All this so you know, who knows,
maybe maybe I'll be able to kill one too one day.
We'll just have to see. He nods at you and he gives you.
He tries to shake your hand, but he gives you a sign of respect.
He makes like a a symbol with his hand.
If you're anything like your father, you have.
I have full faith in you. And he sits back.
He goes, well, looks like we have a work cut out for us.
We're going to be gathering all things and be heading back to my
Chapel and heading back to my Chapel shortly.
Do you need? Passage through S Trulis Yes oh.
Goodness yes, if that's possible while we are.
Leaving. Now you can come with me.
Oh, oh. OK, yeah, that works.
No. Oh no, we got, never mind.
Yeah, we got some stuff we got to take care of.
No guy, I mean guys, if you need, if you want to go back and
start getting that stuff ready, that that's cool and he's
kicking a rock. Oh, OK, Yeah.
Then no, just no, no, we got it. We got some stuff we got to take
care of here. Yeah, we got some hydras to
kill. Armos already feels like
everything's defeated as far as he's considered, like you know,
like he just can't, isn't going to win in his ability.
So he wants to make sure that at least Menace completes his his
quest, but he doesn't know. He wants to like talk to Menace
and just be like level with him because we've kind of been going
around doing all these things, you know, type of situation.
And I level with Menace and I'm like miss.
I don't know if there is a crystal headed hydra, but if you
want to stay here and fight it and search, we can and then make
our way back to South Trillis any way you want.
But we've asked a lot of people about this, and we don't even
have a lead currently. And let's just say fighting a
God would be a better trophy to bring back to your tribe than
any hydra there is. Don't start listening.
Oh man, I I I point to the the Scratus.
He stares intently. I'm gonna be honest guys.
I don't know if it exists for real.
It's it's been a legend in our tried for a long time.
It's been said that warriors have tried and failed centuries
and centuries and centuries ago. I don't know if it is real, but
I'm going to at least try and see if I can find it.
If you want to join me, that would mean the world.
But if nothing happens of it, I I apologize that I couldn't lead
you to greater Beast dwell and that I couldn't help you get
through this shit. And I look at Reginald.
Don't look at him. Don't you dare.
You take that best friend Paige out of that book.
Yeah, we're upset at you right now, Reginald.
Oh, you're upset the demon for doing demon things?
Oh. Man, just breaking the Pines in
a circle and just stop you from talking.
I am going to do it but that is not the point right now.
Scurrius chimes in to you menace as he's like listening and part
of the conversation he goes. Make sure you are satisfied with
your old life before you willingly throw it away for
others. You're taking a big risk if you
choose to go down this road with him and he looks at Armas.
It's a big risk. That you may not return from if
you're going to go all out, If you're going to go all out, make
sure you've taken care of the business that is important to
you. That is some that is advice from
a God. And I'm writing that down in my
journal Advice from a God wow. Hey, you don't happen to have
any like I don't know, plus 5 armor or anything for my dying?
Friend over here, do you? Yeah.
Yeah, what is all this stuff that you have over here?
Least we can do is. Simple.
Utilize some of it. We're practicing technique and
form. You see, wielding a hammer of
that magnitude can take a lot out of you, so he's practicing
repetition. The armor here is simple.
Plate armor, chainmail, various different styles.
I think you're better equipped the way you are than taking this
stuff around. Got you.
Just had to ask. Understood.
I mean, when you're with a God and he's making lots of armor,
like. My crafting days are long behind
me, and he taps on his wounded shoulder.
All right. Well, we've got business to take
care of here. We'll see you on the other side.
Not, no. Not like when we're dead that
that came out wrong. Like we'll see you in South
Trellis. And the guy's dying, Minnis,
come on. I'm sorry.
I know. I know, I know.
You know what? We're all dying.
Now. Let's think about it and I start
talking about drills. Drills are already walking
towards the exit. You see, Rachel's next to
Trellis was like, so now that you're like dying and in the
foreseeable future, if you were to pass, what would you want to
happen to your hands? I The last thing I would want is
for you to put your little grubby mouth all over them.
OK, hey listen, you never know what you ask and he waddles away
back to Armas. Well, we're going to be
travelled within Shadowfeld, perhaps.
Sometimes the answers you're looking for aren't as clear as
day and might and you might find some answers within the
darkness. If your adventure has brought
you here, then take a look. Around.
Thank you for speaking with us and I'm glad we found you.
When we did, I think we're going to be having AI think we're
going to be leaning at each other quite heavily in the next
month or so. I look forward to our next
encounter. And you see that he slowly gets
up his. Full.
Body shines within the moonlight as he's using the opening from
the moon to illuminate his whole body and he begins to turn and
start packing up the tiny equipment from Doric and puts
him on his shoulder and begins to climb out.
Through the top. As he leaves The Cave, The Cave
is now that much darker since he has left and the only light
source is the dying forge flame and your and drell sunglasses
and my feather and your feather and almost is red hot rage.
The three of you are currently in shadow fell in San Lo.
What would the three of you like to do?
We should probably hurry out of here, right?
Well, I mean, he said. I mean, what are you looking
for? Might be in the darkness.
So what if this hydras in this cave?
OK, maybe and I try and think. Back to like Adam Poussel and
see if I can 'cause I know, I know Drell can like see portals,
so I'm trying to see if I can call in that same promise that
was made. Yes, Drell knows of all active
portals to Shadow Fell. So when you think back to Madame
Fizzell, she mentioned that this being that you're looking for
this, this crystal Hydra was in the town of San Lo.
Interesting, but it could be in. Yeah, it could be in shadow,
yeah. What if?
What if it was the shadow fell sin low?
Oh, I never really thought about that.
I suppose I was so. Yeah, because wouldn't people in
a town see a Hydra if they if they knew?
Yeah, I I mean, I guess that makes sense.
I want to just do just a general perception check of like the
town, because are we we're not in the town now or we are.
The The Cave, the mine that you went through was like just
beyond, like a wall. It's considered to be inside the
city, but it's like in a closed off area because the mine was no
longer active. Yeah, I want to do an
investigation check while we're in The Cave, I guess just to see
if there's anything related to a Hydra or, I don't know, OK.
So you go ahead and you look through The Cave.
The Cave is essentially this giant cavern that Scarius and
Dwark were using as a forge to teach.
So as Doric would be able to learn from Scarius, you're
looking around, you don't see any hieroglyphics, you just see
the old remains of soot. That's.
Exactly what I was hoping. Soot, dust, ignorance that have
been ruined and all this old armor they just like left it
behind. You examine the armor a little
bit and you see you see the obvious floors from Dworak.
It looks like he's been practicing every waking moment
towards crafting. It was constant repetition and
some of the armor looks fantastic, great standard armor
and others look really dented and poorly managed.
You look around The Cave and it's just like a straight shot
from where you entered to this large room that's Grace was able
to sit in, and you start to walk outside of The Cave to go
towards San Lo, still observing. And you see the town of San Lo
and it's completely deserted. You like go past that that fence
that you initially came in. It's like all destroyed and torn
down. The city is deserted and empty.
The buildings are run down and nearly destroyed.
However, they do look very similar to the.
Buildings that you passed. The gates surrounding the city,
like beating and worn and swing loosely on its rotting hinges.
The moon is high in the sky, and it's illuminating everything
around you, but you notice one very obvious detail that's
missing. There is no floating island
here. And that is where we'll end this
week's session. That's suspicious.
That's weird. Lore.
Episode heavy lore. Episode heavy Lore.
Episode Wow Wow wow wow. More episodes are always good.
Be good. The Thick Lore episodes.
Yeah, we got another journey. We got New quest Quest Go North.
New quest unlocked. So look, pulling back the
curtain a little bit I always try to avoid talking heavy
episodes when it's like you guys don't really travel that much.
It's just like you talking to one person the entire episode.
But this was like a much needed session.
This is eventually going to come for those that are taking notes
there was a lot of things dropped in this session.
Hope everybody's theories and are holding up, or perhaps some
questions are answered for any. Conspiracy.
You can see this, but Armos Jared is just shaking his head.
So. Mad.
Why? Because Reginald called you out.
Well, there's that. But the yeah, I was I'm saving
it. I'm trying to just save it.
After show after show. I was a very strong moment
between Armos and Reginald. It's like kind of a wake up call
a little bit. You have to like Reginald is,
you know, friendly or whatever, but like you have to remember he
is a demon and working for the dude that's trying to eat the
world, essentially. Yeah, Oh, you know, I want the,
the storyline where he's like in the last moment, Reginald's
like. No he.
Jumps in front of Armas. The the Fable 2 ending.
He's not gonna get a. Chance.
That's for. Sure, solid, solid sword.
Great job. Yeah, Great job, everybody.
Everybody gets an inspiration. Die for roll.
Everybody big. Episodes.
It's a big episodes really. It's a big checkpoint episode.
I'll take that. Idea.
And with that being said, does anybody have any
recommendations? Oh, I mean, no one else has one.
I have one but it's not like anything crazy.
Don't you take it this week? I just started watching this
show. It's called Avid Elementary.
I don't know if you guys have seen it.
It's on Hulu. Oh, I think.
Is it a comedy? It's pretty.
Funny it's I like oh who's the teacher.
So it's it has the guy from Everyone Hates Chris.
Yes. Yes.
So he's in it and it's it's so good.
Like some of it like there's just one like specific episode
that I just could not stop laughing the whole time.
But they are coming out with Season 3.
It'll probably actually be out on Hulu by the time this airs.
So you've got like 2 episodes or two seasons.
Catch up on if you want. It's just like a good, like
light hearted, Yeah, I don't know comedy.
A good. Comedy to wind down from.
From a betrayal that you'll never recover from, yeah.
Yeah, and gotcha. It's, it's.
Super funny because there's this just one teacher as well that
totally reminds me. So she's like just this die hard
blue collar lady from like, 'cause it's based in
Philadelphia, so she's just like this blue collared like Philly
lady from like South Philly. And it just reminds me of Tony
and like his like, New York voice that he does for, you
know, some characters and it's just too funny.
It's too. Funny.
Well, I never do a New York voice for my characters, OK?
They just happen. To sound out?
No, no, no. You try not.
You try not to do it on purpose. Some of his characters.
You mean all of his characters? Oh.
Oh my. God here.
Oh, I'm. Crafting.
Here Scrais was like, hey, I'm crafting here like, what are you
doing? And with that being said, we're
gonna go ahead and move on to our Patreon supporters.
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Starting with the blood charred bandits.
A small fox peeks its head out of a giant footstep.
Morgan Oldfield does the same. Hero and companion look towards
their target, then back at each other with a worried glance.
As silent as can be, the 2 hunters flank their prey.
Washed in shadow, the beast can be seen breathing deep in sleep.
It was not a giant after all. Artemis and Chemi Joe leave the
Wild Side Tavern in good spirits.
He never knew Sir Jefferson could act so confident.
The two barmaids even came along for the journey.
As they are headed towards the luscious farm and vineyard.
Something feels off, but Artemis can't seem to put his gauntlet
on it. Rocco the croco continues E not
sure exactly what he will find along the way.
After 1/2 day's journey, Rocco stumbles upon a young Kuwatoa
seemingly stuck in the mud after reaching out to help.
Bang, chop, whack. The little guy hits him with a
butterfly spin and swift strike to the jaw.
The last thing Rocco sees before falling unconscious is a small
ribbon waving in the wind. Baby Dread peeks out from behind
Amanda. Laura wait.
Wrong show. The dread in his young drowl
form holds tight to his mother. She picks him up and runs,
shouting for someone in the distance.
Hearing over his mother's shoulder, Baby Dread watches in
horror as the green flames spread like wild magic fire.
The door closes just in time for a Laura to force Julius into a
duel. The tension is palpable as a
ceramic tumbleweed made from the vase menace destroyed rolls by.
Alaura shifts her foot along the floor, shifting to a more
optimal stance. Boom.
Alma slams her fist down on a Raptor, then waves at Reese.
He found her just in time. As this new lead can't be left
unlead, Alma's smile turns to that of shock with whimsy.
Reese asks if his new hairstyle is really that bad.
Before Alma can answer, Reese feels the breath of a giant
reptile on his neck. How blam boom.
Julius Kendrick throws the chronic magic this way and that,
doing his best to keep his distance from this mass martial
artist. Every time he thinks there was
time to light his Lantern, Alara shortens the gap.
Aha, she was careless and Julius blasts a hole right through her
mask. But wait, there is no one behind
that mask as it falls to the ground.
And why does he feel like he is falling too?
A young fighter donned in holy plate armor scans the bounty
board of a local Tavern. The barkeep shouts over.
Not much coin to be made there, Lottie.
Nor do we care to share it with someone like yourself.
The fighter turns calmly and places a strong hand over the
hilt of his sword. The barkeep changes his tone
when he recognizes the face before him.
Prince Aaron, please forgive me. The man in the corner watches
this happen, but there is something wrong with this man.
It's like he's never held a fork, a knife before.
People are staring at the Prince, so maybe he can sneak
away during the shift in focus. Reigns sweats as he tries to
keep up appearances. Rommel sets up camp close to a
portless shore of the Kombuki Isles.
Sample after sample. He collects rocks, dirt and bark
and takes note of their strange similarities.
It is as if the terrain in this area shares a heartbeat with the
plants rooted into it. He prepares a ritual on the
ground with materials he collected.
Let's hope he got the math right.
And finally, Warden enters Humbrea once more, but this time
with a new outlook. Fully decked out with new armor
and new skills, this hero is sure to turn some heads.
What kind of adventures will they embark on next month?
Next are the City College alumni.
Andrew Hall sits sweating as he puts Quill to scroll on his
final Test, not because of the difficulty, but because of the
broken Ray Frost conditioner. He's pretty sure he aced that
test. Takajiwa has finished the arena,
but now it's time to build his very first Rocket Boot League
car. He paints the trim titanium
white and prepares to train his newly enlisted club members at
the Wenner Strom. Or should I say Punk runs from
the Red Guard, his bandmates close behind.
As they dash away, Punk pitches a new song to his band members
that goes I fought the guards and the guards Won.
Robit takes the end of the day, bread out back to be thrown away
at the end of his shift, but places it into a bag of holding
instead. It is said great cities are
built on great foundations. St.
Chaos is trying to cut a distribution deal with the
luscious farm and vineyard, but has hit a bump in the road.
Their head wine maker wants to meet in person.
St. Chaos is now wondering if he can
obtain a True Polymorph spell with his wine drunk rat army
scoot dude finally got back to us.
I I mean, Tragar Melt Metal is spending his last summer
studying in a dusty cave a few miles just outside the City
College. He's the first of his family to
go to college, and also the first goblin to ever get
accepted to the Sidgit College. Sergio Rodriguez frantically
looks for the missing blood shards that he was supposed to
be guarding. If he doesn't find them, he can
kiss this job with a Red Guard goodbye.
What would he even do if that happened?
Next is Sly the wear raccoon. Sly follows an armored guy, a
gnome, and two barmaids out of the Wild Side Tavern.
They should make easy targets and last but not least are
Humbre's heroes. Abdulrahman begins brewing his
new anti theft potion to actually thwart a thief.
This time Alex Dread questions the first person he meets
looking for clues on the anti theft potion thievery.
Caleb Schneider feels a bit weirded out that this random guy
would question him in the middle of a duel.
However, Johnny Tarr uses the distraction to his advantage and
lunges towards Caleb in Dilmore Man with Glass waves, his new
patron goodbye as he prepares to leave the store in search of
this anti theft potion. Odomel doesn't really understand
all these new techniques but tries her best to follow the
Rocket Boot League match. Nubs tries to explain how the
player Beast Sense is performing what is called an ERA elemental
dribble. Back in the potion shop, someone
named Will Miller watches in curiosity as a shop owner throws
his Home Brew Potion at a thief. And that's it for this month's
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