Crooked Crossroads

Chasing Barendur

Session 15

Characters

player characters

Aldric
Ash
Ipid
Scorn
Starling

Session Summary

Summary

Ipid’s Tormented Awakening: The paladin recovers from supernatural possession with a massive scar and no memory of recent events, using divine healing while sensing remnant laughter from the possessing entity
Mountain Journey: The party travels through worsening snow conditions with frost giant allies, learning that fire giants led by a mad god are seeking immortality relics, connected to the vampiric celestial they previously released
The Crystal Oracle: They encounter a seven-eyed quartz giant that psychically scans their minds and shares visions of its creation by an ancient wizard, leading them to a massive quarry
Alistair’s Tomb: The party meets the ancient lich Alistair, founder of Alistair’s Lost and creator of the quartz giants, who demonstrates vast knowledge of their backgrounds and motivations
The Lich’s Dangerous Game: Starling and Aldric participate in a magical bargain where they risk losing flesh to gain temporal powers, ultimately succeeding and receiving enhanced abilities
Political Schemes Unveiled: Alistair reveals his plan for the party to assassinate the corrupt ruler Lornick in exchange for dealing with the fire giant invasion, offering magical items as insurance
Intelligence About Threats: The lich provides crucial information about the released celestial-vampire hybrid currently partying in Linlithgow and offers an alternative route through dangerous caves
Cave Descent: Following a quartz cat guide, the party enters an underground system filled with glowing crystals, mushrooms, and an underground lake with a mysterious aquatic creature
Divine Visions and Backstory: During their rest, Ipid receives another vision from the Nameless One and shares his traumatic military past, including his search for his missing dragonborn brother
Combat Encounters: The party faces an elemental cultist wizard and multiple bulette attacks, demonstrating improved teamwork and effective use of their new magical abilities
Growing Power and Uncertainty: The session ends with the party having gained significant magical abilities and information, but carrying the weight of complex political schemes and uncertain divine connections as they prepare to continue deeper into the cave system

The Lich’s Bargain

Chapter 1: Awakening in Agony

Pain carved through Ipid’s consciousness like a red-hot blade through butter, dragging him from the merciless depths of supernatural slumber. Snow crunched beneath his trembling form as awareness crashed over him in waves of excruciating clarity. His chest burned with the memory of divine fire, each breath a testament to survival against impossible odds.

The massive scar ran from shoulder to hip like a canyon carved by lightning, three inches of raised flesh that told a story his mind refused to remember. Where had the cave gone? The last thing he recalled was stepping into ancient darkness, and now…

“Easy there, friend.” Scorn’s gravelly voice cut through the mountain wind. The bard’s weathered face creased with concern as he approached, his practiced eye taking in the paladin’s condition. “You’ve been walking like a man possessed—which, considering recent events, isn’t far from the truth.”

Ipid’s hands trembled as he pressed them to the wound, divine energy flowing through his fingertips in golden streams. But as the magic worked its healing, something else stirred—a remnant echo of laughter that wasn’t his own, dark and ancient and thoroughly amused by mortal suffering.

“What happened to me?” Ipid’s voice cracked like breaking stone.

“That’s what we’d like to know,” came a new voice. Ash stepped forward, the tiefling’s imposing frame cutting a striking silhouette against the snow-laden peaks. Mithril armor gleamed beneath his traveling cloak, and his greatsword’s pommel caught the dying light. “You put on quite the show, though. Never seen fighting like that.”

The flask Scorn offered burned like liquid fire down Ipid’s throat, only his fourth taste of alcohol, and each drop reminded him why he typically abstained. But the warmth spread through his chest, chasing away some of the supernatural cold that had settled in his bones.

“I’m sorry,” Ipid managed, meeting the tiefling’s eyes. “Whatever I did while… not myself.”

Ash’s laugh was surprisingly warm. “Nothing to apologize for. That possessed version of you was badass.”

Chapter 2: The Gathering Storm

The mountain pass stretched before them like the spine of some primordial beast, each peak sharper than ancient steel. Snow fell in thick curtains, transforming what should have been a weeks-long journey into something that might be measured in days, if they survived that long.

Grumble and Rumble, their frost giant escorts, moved through the terrain with the casual grace of beings born to these heights. Their massive forms cut through the blizzard like living avalanches, each step sending tremors through the earth that spoke of power beyond mortal understanding.

“Fire giants don’t usually venture this high,” Grumble’s voice rumbled like distant thunder. “But something drives them now. Something that makes them forget the old boundaries.”

“The red star,” Rumble added, his breath forming crystalline clouds in the frigid air. “Appeared three nights past, bleeding light into these mountains. The mad god’s herald, some say.”

Starling pulled her cloak tighter, her keen eyes scanning the storm-lashed peaks. “The vampiric celestial we released. It has to be connected.”

The very air seemed to thicken with ominous possibility. In the distance, barely audible above the wind’s howl, came the rhythmic pounding of something massive approaching—footsteps that made the mountain itself tremble.

Chapter 3: The Crystal Oracle

From the swirling snow emerged a vision that defied mortal comprehension. The quartz giant moved with the inexorable grace of a controlled landslide, forty feet of living crystal carved from the mountain’s heart. Seven eyes blazed like stars across its towering head, each one holding depths that spoke of ancient wisdom and terrible purpose.

Light smoke rose from the cracks between its crystal components, energy flowing like luminous blood through veins of living stone. When it stopped before them, the very air grew heavy with potential, as if reality itself held its breath.

“By the gods,” Aldric whispered, his scholarly mind racing to catalog something that shouldn’t exist.

The giant’s psychic touch was gentle but absolute, tendrils of crystal-clear thought that slipped through mental defenses like water through cracks. In an instant, it knew them: their fears, their hopes, their secrets carved in memory’s stone. Starling felt her consciousness touched by something vast and patient, and in return, visions flowed like quicksilver through her mind.

She saw the creation: an ancient wizard with eyes like winter storms, his hands moving in patterns that rewrote the laws of nature itself. Crystal sang under his touch, becoming more than mere stone, ascending to something approaching divinity. Seven giants carved from living quartz, each one a masterwork of impossible artistry.

“The creator waits,” the giant’s voice resonated not through air but through bone and spirit. “The maker of makers calls you to account.”

Chapter 4: The Quarry of Wonders

The quarry opened before them like a wound in the world’s flesh, its walls bearing the precise scars where giants had been carved from living rock. Six quartz colossi stood in perfect formation around a simple tomb, their crystalline forms catching and refracting the dying light into rainbow cascades that painted the snow in impossible colors.

Smaller constructs moved through the space with purposeful determination: headless stone warriors, crystal birds that had never known flight, and equine forms that stepped with the precision of clockwork. The air thrummed with their labor, a symphony of grinding stone that spoke of endless, patient work.

“I’m not going near that tomb,” Grumble declared, his massive frame somehow diminished by proximity to these ancient guardians. “Whatever sleeps there, it’s older than winter itself.”

Aldric’s trained eye picked out the magical symbols carved into the tomb’s quartz walls—protective wards that made his skin crawl with their complexity. “This is work beyond any academy,” he murmured. “Whoever built this understood magic on a level we can barely comprehend.”

Time itself seemed to slow as they approached the tomb’s entrance, each step weighted with the gravity of approaching something that existed outside normal reality’s constraints.

Chapter 5: Audience with Eternity

The chamber within was stark in its simplicity—just a figure seated on a chair of living quartz, surrounded by walls that pulsed with veins of golden light. But the figure…

Alistair was death given form and purpose. His skeleton gleamed like polished ivory, and where eyes should have been, thick quartz orbs held depths that reflected not light but possibility itself. When he spoke, his voice carried the weight of centuries, each word carved from experience that spanned the rise and fall of kingdoms.

“Welcome, little mortals,” the lich said, and somehow his fleshless visage managed to convey amusement. “I am Alistair, and you stand in the tomb of my supposed death—though as you can see, rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.”

His gaze fell upon each of them in turn, and they felt themselves dissected by an intelligence that had forgotten more about existence than they would ever learn. “Aldric of the Academy, haunted by visions of your own ending. Starling of the wild places, carrying guilt like a stone in your chest. Scorn, who sings songs of others’ glories while doubting his own worth. Ash, running from consequences that pursue you like hounds. And Ipid…” The quartz eyes lingered on the paladin. “Poor Ipid, wrestling with divine abandonment and wondering if redemption is truly possible.”

“How do you—” Ipid began.

“Know you?” Alistair’s laugh was like wind through empty halls. “Time is my domain, little paladin. I have watched your threads weave through possibility’s tapestry since before you drew breath.”

Chapter 6: The Price of Power

The lich’s offer gleamed with terrible temptation: stones of temporal quartz that could capture moments and preserve them like insects in amber. But power, as always, demanded its price.

“A game,” Alistair proposed, his skeletal fingers tracing patterns in the air that left phosphorescent trails. “Guess the correct value, and claim your prize. Guess incorrectly…” His gesture was eloquent. “Well, flesh is such a transient thing anyway.”

Starling and Aldric exchanged glances that spoke volumes. Adventure had taught them both that the greatest treasures often lay behind the most terrible prices.

“We accept,” Starling said, her voice steady despite the fear that danced like ice in her veins.

The game unfolded like a dark ritual. Wrong answers came with immediate consequences: their right hands transformed to bone in an instant, pain lancing through their arms like liquid fire. But when the final question came: “What is the value of a single moment?” understanding bloomed in their minds like dawn breaking over winter mountains.

“Everything,” they answered in unison.

The lich’s approval was palpable as their hands returned to flesh, though pale as morning frost. Power flowed into them—Aldric gained the terrible gift of calling back the recently dead, while Starling received dominion over the boundary between consciousness and dream.

“Wear your scars proudly,” Alistair advised, noting their pale hands. “They mark you as those who have bargained with eternity and emerged with something resembling victory.”

Chapter 7: Schemes Within Schemes

The lich’s true purpose unfolded like a poisonous flower, each petal revealing new layers of manipulation. Lornick, the corrupt ruler of Alistair’s Lost, possessed artifacts that the ancient wizard coveted. The mountain pass had collapsed, but alternative routes existed: through caves haunted by elemental magics and worse things besides.

“Political theater,” Alistair mused, his tone suggesting he found the concept deliciously ironic. “You kill Lornick, I pretend to execute you for the crime, and my heir inherits a throne cleaned of corruption. Everyone gets what they want, assuming you survive the experience.”

Ipid’s distrust was a tangible thing, radiating from him like heat from a forge. “And what assurance do we have that innocent people won’t suffer for this scheme?”

The tracking ring Alistair provided felt like touching winter itself, a cold stone circle that would forever connect hunter to prey. “Insurance,” the lich explained. “Should I prove unworthy of your trust, you’ll always know where to find me.”

The marble cat that would serve as their guide sat purring in Starling’s lap, its quartz eyes reflecting miniature galaxies. Even the lich’s servants held wonders that spoke of power beyond mortal comprehension.

Chapter 8: Into the Crystal Deeps

The cave mouth yawned before them like a titan’s gullet, breathing forth the scents of salt water and growing things that had never known sunlight. Luminescent crystals studded the walls like captured stars, while mushrooms the size of dinner plates glowed with their own inner radiance.

Their quartz guide picked its way through the uneven terrain with feline grace, leading them deeper into a world that existed in the spaces between the familiar and the impossible. An underground lake stretched into darkness, its waters alive with bioluminescent organisms that painted ripples in shades of blue and green.

“Something lives down there,” Scorn observed, noting the hulking shape that paced the lake’s bottom with restless energy. The creature’s form was obscured by the glowing water, but its size and movement suggested power that would be unwise to challenge.

They made camp on the lake’s shore, taking watches through a night filled with grinding sounds and distant echoes that spoke of vast spaces and ancient purposes. During his vigil, Ipid received another vision from the Nameless One, the stag-headed deity whose interest in him remained both blessing and burden.

“Do not fear your strength,” the god counseled, antlers branching like living lightning against a sky of stars. “The lich tests you because he recognizes what you could become.”

Chapter 9: Descent into Chaos

Morning brought the echo of mad laughter through stone corridors, a sound that chilled the blood and set teeth on edge. They chose to press deeper into the cave system rather than risk the underwater guardian, following passages that led toward uncertain destiny.

The elemental cultist they encountered was everything legends claimed about mad wizards: wild-eyed, powerful, and thoroughly convinced of his own righteousness. Boulders danced at his command like obedient pets, while arcane energy crackled around his form in visible manifestations of barely controlled power.

His attempt to banish Scorn failed against the bard’s natural resistance to magical coercion, but it served as adequate warning that this was no mere hermit playing with cantrips. When Ipid’s commanding voice forced the wizard to grovel, and Starling’s soul-rending magic separated spirit from flesh, their opponent collapsed like a marionette with severed strings.

“Twenty-four hours,” Starling explained, examining her handiwork with professional interest. “His soul will find its way back eventually, assuming we don’t destroy the body.”

But the cave held more dangers than solitary wizards.

Chapter 10: The Bulette Hunt

The first attack came without warning: a nightmare of chitin and teeth erupting from solid stone as if the earth itself had turned predator. The bulette’s massive form struck Scorn with the force of a controlled avalanche, its hide gleaming like polished armor in the crystal-light.

Combat in the confined spaces was a brutal dance of survival. Ash’s greatsword sang as it carved chunks from the creature’s armored hide, while Ipid’s blade burned with divine fire that sputtered and reformed in patterns that spoke of changing allegiances among the heavenly powers.

Starling’s magic lanced through the beast like concentrated malice, old wounds reopening under the pressure of necrotic energy. Aldric’s flames painted the cave walls in shifting orange light, carefully controlled to avoid incinerating his companions in the narrow confines.

The first bulette’s death was just the beginning. More emerged from hidden burrows, their hunger driving them to swarm tactics that turned the cave into a killing ground. Only through coordination born of shared trials did the party survive, each member covering another’s weakness, creating a whole that was greater than its parts.

When the grinding of chitin against stone finally fell silent, they stood amid scattered remains that would feed the cave’s scavengers for months to come. But victory felt hollow in the depths, where every sound echoed with the promise of greater challenges waiting in the darkness ahead.

Epilogue: The Price of Progress

As silence settled over the crystal depths like a burial shroud, the party took stock of their situation. They had gained power from the lich’s bargain, survived the cave’s initial challenges, and proven their ability to work as a unified force. But each victory carried its own cost: Ipid’s divine connection remained fractured, Aldric bore knowledge of his prophesied death, and all of them carried the weight of promises made to creatures whose true agendas remained shrouded in shadow.

The path ahead led deeper into mystery, toward political intrigue in mountain cities and confrontations with powers that treated mortal concerns as amusing diversions. They had played the lich’s game and won—but in the realm of immortal schemers, victory was often just another form of entrapment.

The cave waited in patient darkness, holding secrets that would shape their destiny in ways they couldn’t yet imagine. And somewhere behind them, in a tomb of living quartz, an ancient intelligence pursued plans that spanned centuries, using heroes and villains alike as pieces in a game whose rules were written in the fundamental forces of reality itself.

The adventure continued, each step taking them further from the familiar world of simple choices and straightforward heroism, and deeper into a realm where power was currency, trust was luxury, and the price of success might prove higher than any of them were prepared to pay.

Aldric, Ash, Chasing Barendur, Crooked Crossroads, Ipid, Recap, Scorn, Starling

Transcript

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The oldest player I’ve had in a game was 74.

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Nice.

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Who’s the youngest?

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I ran a game for a group of eight-year-olds.

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Oh, that’d be fun.

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Oh, wow.

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That’s hilarious.

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That’s rave.

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Yeah, so it was for a kid’s birthday party, and they’re like, oh, can they they’re excited about DD?

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This was right when the DD movie came out.

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Oh, okay.

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And they’re like, can you run them a game?

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And I’m like, okay, yeah.

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Yeah, I can do that.

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Now, I didn’t give any of them a character sheet.

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None of them had stats.

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They got to roll dice, and that determined everything.

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I bet you was chaotic as hell, too.

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Oh, yeah.

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They’re like, oh, we beat the bandit.

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And one of these kids is like, all right, I’m going to start slurping up his blood.

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You’re eight years old.

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What are you doing?

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It’s those damn phones, man.

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I’m telling you.

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No, this kid, it will forever haunt me what he said about that.

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He said, I just love corpse juice.

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Keep an eye on it, man.

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Keep an eye on that kid.

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Yeah, that was my first sign that the brain rot was really spreading.

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Corpse juice.

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It’s kind of badass.

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Let me just say, I listened to the last session on Spotify.

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I just want to say, you guys are the sweetest little bastards ever because I knew Elias wasn’t going to kill Ipid, but you guys were still wasting spell slots to try to heal me.

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And it’s so funny because I could hear Elias be like, he won’t die.

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It seems like he’s possessed.

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It doesn’t seem like he’s going to die.

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I cast healing word.

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I want a healing time.

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I was like, oh, how sweet.

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I loved how Aldrich was just like, what’s wrong with Ipid?

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We were so concerned.

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I woke up hungover as hell with the excerpt of Elias explaining to me what Ipid had gone through.

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No, I didn’t explain what Ipid had gone through in the game.

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I waited for him to listen to it for that.

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I wrote him a little short story about what was going through his head while that was happening.

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So cool.

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Yeah, it’s pretty cool stuff, man.

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Can’t wait to get back into it.

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I missed you guys last week, so.

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Hang on, one second.

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I’ll be right back.

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Go ahead.

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Okay.

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I know for sure the next date I’m probably going to miss is the 26th or the whatever the spell.

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Because I’m getting married that weekend.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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I can’t really focus on DD.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, I’ve had five couples that have played in my DD games now get married.

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Aw, that’s.

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Because I figure if you can convince a woman to play through a whole DD game with you, she’s probably already convinced you’re a good guy already.

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Right.

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Actually, it took me like three months to convince my wife to take up the DM.

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She has severe social anxiety, and I pretty much don’t.

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Sarah was like a counselor at this college thing, Upward Bound, which is like these high schoolers that go to a college for like a month or two during the summer, and they like do college classes and stuff and try to experience the college thing.

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A program that’s being defunded right now, of course.

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But while she was a counselor there, she ran these DD nights.

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So she was able to get these groups of high schoolers into DD and they ran like a short campaign throughout the whole two months throughout the whole summer.

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So she was really into that.

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Alright.

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So we’re going to pick up with a quick recap from what happened last week.

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So last week, you had been fighting the invasion of giants.

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You had fought Cyclops, Ogres, and even a fire giant on the mountain.

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And then you were joined by a tiefling named Ash.

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He had an encounter with his commander and needed to get out of town quickly.

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As you were going up the mountain, the snow continued to get worse, and you encountered Grumble, a frost giant who you befriended.

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Grumble decided to help you guys fight some fire giants who were building portals to summon more giants from far away.

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With the threat of an impending invasion, you went up to fight fire giants, not knowing how many there would be.

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And at the first portal, you found three of them.

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Now, Ipid was horribly possessed.

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Billowing smoke and flames, he charged right into the fight recklessly, where he would be cut to pieces and keep fighting with a rapture.

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Relentless supernatural rage.

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After this fight, you discovered that there was another portal being built.

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Here, you found another fire giant, but this one had reinforcements of lesser giants, two cyclopses and four hill giants.

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Now, you unleashed a variety of spells upon them, and the frost giants took down the fire giant while you dealt with the smaller ones.

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After you succeeded in disabling the portals, you began to travel north again, and that’s where we left off.

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Or not north, but up the mountain.

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I get it mixed up.

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I have a tendency to always believe uphill is north.

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That’s common.

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Yeah, trust me.

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It messed me up as a boy scout.

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And now, Rumble and Rumble, your two new frost giant companions, are leading you deeper into the mountains as the snow thickens.

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It is an unfortuitous storm that has come in.

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You expected to have weeks to make it through the pass, but now it may only be days.

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As you go up the pass, you can see where the heavy rain and snow before has washed out boulders, sent shale across the path, and the sound of falling stones still echo.

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What do you guys want to do while traveling?

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They are leading you to the quartz giants.

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Can we say at this point Ipid’s caught up, or is he just now awakened from whatever the hell is going on?

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Ipid is experiencing the worst supernatural hangover of his life.

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I wouldn’t say he feels bad.

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He feels like he got put in a blender and stitched back together afterwards.

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So how long since me coming to has happened?

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You basically woke up on the road, already walking.

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Okay.

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Ipid in a groggy voice, as he steps.

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He kind of looks down and he looks up at the rest of you.

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He’s kind of like in the back of the pack.

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And he’s like, guys.

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And this is the first time I guess I’ve spoken.

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Holy shit, he speaks.

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Are you okay?

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How.

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So, you said that in the excerpt that I woke up in a lot of pain.

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Is this still true?

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Yes, you are still in excruciating pain.

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Every step hits throughout your whole body, and you can feel a horrendous pain where your chest was cut right open.

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Ipid falls to his knees and kind of takes a second to breathe.

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He’s like, What?

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What happened?

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Perception checks to see who notices Ipid stopping.

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He said, Perception.

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Yeah.

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Me.

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Ash and Starling, you don’t notice Ipid stopping, and you keep continuing along with Tom and the giants as you’re walking up the mountain.

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Scorn, you notice Ipid quietly falling to the ground behind you.

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Yeah, I’m gonna go over there and just I’m not gonna try and get him up right away.

00:08:24.920 –> 00:08:28.360
I don’t know he’s up to it, but I’ll kneel down and put a hand on his shoulder.

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Ipid, you remember anything?

00:08:31.480 –> 00:08:37.639
I oh god, and Ipid kind of grabs the shoulder that I guess is sliced into, right?

00:08:40.519 –> 00:08:40.920
Yes.

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He’s like, I don’t I don’t remember anything since we left the cave and we got the giant that was fleeing.

00:08:49.240 –> 00:08:50.200
Oh god.

00:08:50.519 –> 00:08:55.399
Yeah, you haven’t been yourself, but well, you’ve been through a lot.

00:08:56.279 –> 00:09:01.799
Um so I gave myself one HP just so that I wasn’t exactly at zero.

00:09:02.120 –> 00:09:08.680
Um can Ipid go ahead and just so that he can hold on.

00:09:09.000 –> 00:09:14.600
Um he’s gonna go ahead and put all 35 leon hands on himself and mainly in the area of his shoulder.

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Ipid, as you heal yourself, putting your hands and pushing the holy magic through it, you feel the remnant laughter of the god that had possessed you.

00:09:25.960 –> 00:09:30.920
You feel your shoulder pop back into its socket and the bones fusing.

00:09:31.559 –> 00:09:32.600
Do I have a cool scar?

00:09:32.759 –> 00:09:34.360
Like a cool badass sexy scar?

00:09:34.680 –> 00:09:44.759
So where your body was once covered in lots of small scars, on your left side, there is now one massive scar going all the way down to your hip.

00:09:45.079 –> 00:09:48.840
It’s about three inches wide and is on the front and back.

00:09:49.160 –> 00:09:50.039
Holy shit.

00:09:50.680 –> 00:09:53.000
So I was like a walking piece of string cheese.

00:09:53.319 –> 00:09:55.000
Yeah, you got cut in half.

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Ipid, after he heals himself, his breathing kind of comes back to normal.

00:10:00.279 –> 00:10:00.600
He’s like.

00:10:02.159 –> 00:10:02.720
Where are we?

00:10:02.799 –> 00:10:03.120
What happened?

00:10:03.200 –> 00:10:04.159
How long has it been since.

00:10:04.559 –> 00:10:05.200
Oh, God.

00:10:05.840 –> 00:10:06.399
I think.

00:10:07.360 –> 00:10:10.799
I think that God that has been in contact with me, he.

00:10:11.039 –> 00:10:12.240
I think he got to me.

00:10:12.559 –> 00:10:13.919
Well, something got to you.

00:10:14.240 –> 00:10:15.600
Here, you need to take the edge off.

00:10:15.759 –> 00:10:17.519
Scorn hands him a flask.

00:10:19.120 –> 00:10:19.759
Um.

00:10:20.399 –> 00:10:21.759
Ipid takes a sip.

00:10:22.080 –> 00:10:25.679
This is the fourth time Ipid has ever consumed alcohol.

00:10:28.240 –> 00:10:28.720
And he’s a.

00:10:31.120 –> 00:10:32.399
He takes a drink and he’s…

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he winces.

00:10:33.519 –> 00:10:36.559
He’s like, thank you, Scorn.

00:10:37.120 –> 00:10:38.159
Um, sure.

00:10:38.879 –> 00:10:42.559
Uh, at this point, do the other two realize what’s going on?

00:10:42.720 –> 00:10:45.279
Are they still just I’m conversing with the giants?

00:10:45.360 –> 00:10:47.919
I’m probably 200 feet above him.

00:10:50.559 –> 00:10:51.279
Who are they?

00:10:51.519 –> 00:10:54.399
And Ipid points at the two giants and the new teethwings.

00:10:54.960 –> 00:10:56.240
Uh, allies.

00:10:56.879 –> 00:11:01.840
The giants are fighting each other, and um, these ones are out to kill the same ones we are.

00:11:02.159 –> 00:11:05.279
So, for the moment, we’ve we’ve allied with them.

00:11:05.519 –> 00:11:07.200
That’s Grumble, and that’s Rumble.

00:11:07.840 –> 00:11:10.960
Okay, Grumble, Rumble, and the small one?

00:11:11.759 –> 00:11:12.080
What?

00:11:12.240 –> 00:11:13.759
Oh, the one who’s not a giant?

00:11:15.360 –> 00:11:16.000
That’s a teeth link.

00:11:16.080 –> 00:11:16.639
What are you talking about?

00:11:16.879 –> 00:11:18.080
What’s his name, Scorn?

00:11:18.879 –> 00:11:19.279
He’s tall.

00:11:19.759 –> 00:11:20.799
He’s a little taller than I am.

00:11:20.879 –> 00:11:21.680
Are you trying to say something?

00:11:22.000 –> 00:11:22.960
No, to God.

00:11:24.240 –> 00:11:25.519
I don’t know what happened.

00:11:25.759 –> 00:11:26.320
Oh, okay.

00:11:26.480 –> 00:11:26.799
All right.

00:11:27.120 –> 00:11:27.279
Okay.

00:11:27.360 –> 00:11:27.600
Thank you.

00:11:28.000 –> 00:11:28.320
Ash.

00:11:28.879 –> 00:11:29.759
He’s okay.

00:11:30.080 –> 00:11:32.000
I mean, as far as we can tell, he’s okay.

00:11:32.159 –> 00:11:33.680
We’re not sure about before.

00:11:34.240 –> 00:11:34.720
Oh, okay.

00:11:35.919 –> 00:11:38.639
Said he had to leave town in a hurry, but you know, that’s happened to all of us.

00:11:38.879 –> 00:11:39.680
Melrose?

00:11:40.879 –> 00:11:42.240
I believe so, yes.

00:11:43.519 –> 00:11:45.440
You guys just didn’t ask any questions, huh?

00:11:46.000 –> 00:11:47.919
Lots of people leave Melrose in a hurry.

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Understood.

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Ipid musters the strength to get back up, and he’s like, Alright, I think I could walk again, but I’m a little out of it.

00:11:56.799 –> 00:11:57.759
No, you’re a lot out of it.

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Come on.

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As you’re walking, your consciousness fades in and out.

00:12:05.200 –> 00:12:08.240
Tom looks beside you, looks back, and sees you.

00:12:08.559 –> 00:12:11.200
He says, Just get on the horse, Ipid.

00:12:13.039 –> 00:12:17.039
I know we’re not riding them because of the snow, but just get on the horse.

00:12:17.920 –> 00:12:19.039
Tom, no, it’s fine.

00:12:19.120 –> 00:12:19.600
I can walk.

00:12:19.680 –> 00:12:21.200
I need to keep moving.

00:12:24.080 –> 00:12:24.559
I should keep.

00:12:24.720 –> 00:12:25.759
I should stay on my feet.

00:12:26.080 –> 00:12:28.480
You look like you’re more than half dead.

00:12:29.120 –> 00:12:32.000
Well, don’t we have more things to take care of?

00:12:32.399 –> 00:12:33.279
Where are we headed?

00:12:33.600 –> 00:12:34.480
Where are we headed?

00:12:34.559 –> 00:12:36.399
Rumble and Grumble are leading the way, right?

00:12:36.720 –> 00:12:37.279
Yes.

00:12:37.600 –> 00:12:38.159
Uh-huh.

00:12:38.319 –> 00:12:38.639
Okay.

00:12:38.960 –> 00:12:40.960
I’ll ask Ash if they’ve told him.

00:12:41.279 –> 00:12:42.799
He speaks giant, I think.

00:12:43.120 –> 00:12:44.319
Ash, are you muted?

00:12:44.559 –> 00:12:44.879
No.

00:12:45.360 –> 00:12:45.840
Yeah, okay.

00:12:46.000 –> 00:12:46.159
I.

00:12:46.399 –> 00:12:46.720
Yeah, I.

00:12:47.519 –> 00:12:49.039
Scorn is asking you a question.

00:12:49.360 –> 00:12:51.120
I’m like 300 feet above.

00:12:51.200 –> 00:12:52.720
You gotta sort of flag me down.

00:12:54.319 –> 00:12:56.960
I’m still talking with the giants, but I eventually notice.

00:12:57.279 –> 00:12:59.759
Oh, fuck is everybody at?

00:13:00.080 –> 00:13:01.039
I go back.

00:13:02.879 –> 00:13:04.080
Oh, he’s awake.

00:13:04.319 –> 00:13:05.279
He speaks.

00:13:05.600 –> 00:13:06.080
Hi.

00:13:06.960 –> 00:13:07.680
Nice to meet you.

00:13:07.840 –> 00:13:11.840
And Ipid tries to stand up proudly and goes to shake his hand.

00:13:12.399 –> 00:13:13.120
I’m Ipid.

00:13:13.360 –> 00:13:15.600
Sorry about whatever the hell I was doing.

00:13:16.639 –> 00:13:18.720
That was badass fucking shit, dude.

00:13:19.360 –> 00:13:19.920
Right.

00:13:21.200 –> 00:13:27.279
Ipid, as you shake his hand, it feels like there’s lightning running through your arm with the freshly reconnected nerves.

00:13:27.600 –> 00:13:28.080
Oof.

00:13:28.720 –> 00:13:29.840
You alright, dude?

00:13:30.879 –> 00:13:32.240
Yeah, I’m fine.

00:13:33.440 –> 00:13:35.039
Ipid looks at your whole getup.

00:13:35.200 –> 00:13:36.559
Do you so you’re still in.

00:13:36.799 –> 00:13:40.399
Would you say you’re still in like your soldier-esque kind of getup?

00:13:40.720 –> 00:13:44.799
I’m sort of, yeah, like mithril armor, but you don’t see a sword.

00:13:46.960 –> 00:13:48.879
So, you come from Melrose.

00:13:49.200 –> 00:13:50.240
Are you a soldier?

00:13:51.600 –> 00:13:52.319
What I used to be.

00:13:52.559 –> 00:13:52.960
Oh, my God.

00:13:53.920 –> 00:13:55.920
Until I pissed.

00:13:56.240 –> 00:13:58.080
My commander officer pissed me off.

00:13:58.319 –> 00:14:01.440
I beat the shit out of him, stole his gear, and fucking booked it.

00:14:01.680 –> 00:14:02.879
And then I met you guys.

00:14:03.200 –> 00:14:04.399
And you guys are fun.

00:14:05.120 –> 00:14:05.600
I see.

00:14:06.720 –> 00:14:11.200
Well, I guess I can relate to upsetting officers and such as well.

00:14:11.519 –> 00:14:11.680
And.

00:14:12.720 –> 00:14:13.279
Oh, yeah.

00:14:13.920 –> 00:14:16.080
Ibid gives you a half-hearted salute.

00:14:16.399 –> 00:14:17.680
Oh, don’t do that shit to me.

00:14:20.799 –> 00:14:24.319
Anyway, we’re going to the third circle.

00:14:24.720 –> 00:14:28.000
Hopefully, we take care of that before they can repair.

00:14:28.240 –> 00:14:29.200
Rumble looks down at you.

00:14:29.360 –> 00:14:33.200
No, we already took care of the third circle, he says in his low, giant voice.

00:14:34.000 –> 00:14:37.840
We’re going back to the Crystal Giants, where the quartz giants dwell.

00:14:38.400 –> 00:14:39.039
Oh, yeah.

00:14:39.360 –> 00:14:39.600
Okay.

00:14:39.840 –> 00:14:41.920
We’re going to the quartz village.

00:14:42.240 –> 00:14:43.120
Oh, okay.

00:14:43.440 –> 00:14:46.559
There’ll be ale, beds, and hopefully, from what I understand.

00:14:48.079 –> 00:14:49.360
They live in a quarry.

00:14:49.600 –> 00:14:50.480
Oh, nice.

00:14:51.519 –> 00:14:52.639
That was lovely.

00:14:52.960 –> 00:14:54.480
I completely misunderstood.

00:14:54.720 –> 00:14:56.240
A little bit of mistranslation there.

00:14:56.400 –> 00:14:57.120
I apologize.

00:14:57.360 –> 00:14:58.480
Oh, you speak giant.

00:14:58.799 –> 00:14:59.600
Yeah, a little bit.

00:14:59.680 –> 00:15:00.319
I pick it up.

00:15:00.480 –> 00:15:00.879
Ah.

00:15:01.120 –> 00:15:01.519
Nice.

00:15:03.080 –> 00:15:04.360
Ipid looks down at his hand.

00:15:04.600 –> 00:15:05.720
Did I get married?

00:15:06.039 –> 00:15:08.840
He looks at the ring that he has on his hand.

00:15:09.000 –> 00:15:09.799
What is this?

00:15:11.000 –> 00:15:11.879
I don’t think so.

00:15:12.360 –> 00:15:12.840
I only remember.

00:15:14.360 –> 00:15:15.399
Oh, oh, what?

00:15:16.679 –> 00:15:18.039
We’ve been married for three days.

00:15:18.120 –> 00:15:20.360
You didn’t ceremony myself.

00:15:22.120 –> 00:15:26.919
Ipid, um, you’ve never seen his face go red, but his face is red.

00:15:27.240 –> 00:15:28.759
Now, what?

00:15:28.840 –> 00:15:29.240
What are you?

00:15:29.399 –> 00:15:29.559
What?

00:15:29.799 –> 00:15:30.919
What are you talking about?

00:15:31.240 –> 00:15:31.559
It’s.

00:15:31.879 –> 00:15:33.639
Do you really think it’s a mistake now?

00:15:33.720 –> 00:15:33.879
What?

00:15:34.039 –> 00:15:35.720
Did not mean anything to you?

00:15:37.000 –> 00:15:37.960
No, it’s okay, Ipid.

00:15:38.039 –> 00:15:38.600
I’m just joking.

00:15:38.759 –> 00:15:39.559
Ash is just sitting there.

00:15:39.799 –> 00:15:41.639
Not sure if this is a joke or if this is serious.

00:15:41.720 –> 00:15:45.240
He’s like, true.

00:15:45.559 –> 00:15:46.679
Ash has been here two days.

00:15:46.919 –> 00:15:48.039
He’s like, what the hell?

00:15:49.639 –> 00:15:50.039
Um.

00:15:50.360 –> 00:15:51.320
Oh, what?

00:15:52.120 –> 00:15:52.440
Okay.

00:15:53.080 –> 00:15:53.320
Um.

00:15:53.960 –> 00:15:58.039
Ipid, like, calms out, and he’s like, he takes off the ring and he looks at it.

00:15:58.360 –> 00:16:01.480
And this is in reference to the ring that I was given at the end of the last session.

00:16:02.440 –> 00:16:07.639
As you slip off the ring, you feel the pain in your body amplify.

00:16:08.600 –> 00:16:10.600
Oh, what the hell is this?

00:16:10.680 –> 00:16:11.799
And he puts it back on quickly.

00:16:12.039 –> 00:16:13.399
The ring of regeneration.

00:16:13.720 –> 00:16:15.960
I believe it helps you heal a bit.

00:16:16.440 –> 00:16:17.399
Oh, okay.

00:16:17.720 –> 00:16:18.680
You’re going to need it.

00:16:19.000 –> 00:16:19.639
Oh, yeah.

00:16:19.799 –> 00:16:20.600
Thank you.

00:16:21.879 –> 00:16:25.720
Ipid, you’re going to be at full health in about.

00:16:27.480 –> 00:16:33.799
Actually, can you roll me 3d6 for the 30 minutes that you’ve been walking since your last fight?

00:16:34.120 –> 00:16:35.000
3D6.

00:16:35.480 –> 00:16:36.759
No problemo.

00:16:37.399 –> 00:16:38.759
D6 per ten minutes.

00:16:39.000 –> 00:16:39.559
Eleven?

00:16:40.120 –> 00:16:46.440
Alright, you regain eleven of your missing hit points, and I’m just going to top you off back to full.

00:16:46.759 –> 00:16:47.639
Okay, cool.

00:16:47.960 –> 00:16:49.720
So I’m feeling more or less myself.

00:16:50.360 –> 00:16:50.519
Yes.

00:16:51.799 –> 00:16:53.159
Just extension crisis.

00:16:53.480 –> 00:16:55.559
Minus a big gash in your armor.

00:16:55.879 –> 00:16:57.960
Aw, I gotta get new armor.

00:16:58.120 –> 00:16:58.840
This is bad.

00:16:59.000 –> 00:17:00.600
I have some chainmail on it.

00:17:00.919 –> 00:17:04.680
Um, well, we’ll get that situated once we set up for the night.

00:17:05.160 –> 00:17:06.440
We should probably keep moving.

00:17:06.759 –> 00:17:06.920
Okay.

00:17:07.640 –> 00:17:18.440
As Rumble and Gumble proceed, you see large steps in the snow, where there’s now around half an inch come down since you began coming up the mountain.

00:17:18.759 –> 00:17:21.480
The sounds of the mountains around you grow muted.

00:17:21.720 –> 00:17:26.279
The wind more distant as the snow begins to thicken and it’s falling.

00:17:26.599 –> 00:17:30.039
You hear Grumble and Rumble talking back and forth to each other.

00:17:30.360 –> 00:17:32.039
Sounds like cannon fire.

00:17:33.079 –> 00:17:36.680
And in the distance, you see the glowing of lights.

00:17:37.000 –> 00:17:38.839
Oh, that’s the one that is.

00:17:39.319 –> 00:17:39.960
Should we hurry?

00:17:40.759 –> 00:17:42.360
We received a message.

00:17:42.680 –> 00:17:42.920
Okay.

00:17:43.400 –> 00:17:44.839
The pass is snowed through.

00:17:45.160 –> 00:17:46.839
You’re gonna have to take a different route.

00:17:47.160 –> 00:17:47.720
Oh, okay.

00:17:47.880 –> 00:17:48.440
I read it.

00:17:48.680 –> 00:17:49.160
Oh, God.

00:17:49.640 –> 00:17:49.880
Yeah.

00:17:50.119 –> 00:17:52.039
This is gonna be fun or shit.

00:17:52.279 –> 00:17:53.720
What time of day is it?

00:17:54.680 –> 00:17:56.119
Somewhere between 7 p.m.

00:17:56.200 –> 00:17:56.759
and midnight.

00:17:57.000 –> 00:17:58.119
We should probably set up soon.

00:17:59.079 –> 00:18:04.360
As you see the lights in the distance, you hear more and more rumbling and grinding.

00:18:04.680 –> 00:18:06.759
The sound of stone walking.

00:18:07.079 –> 00:18:09.480
I just grumble and they recognize the sound.

00:18:10.039 –> 00:18:13.799
They look at you laughing with their deep throaty voices.

00:18:14.440 –> 00:18:16.839
Oh, that’s the sound of our friends.

00:18:17.720 –> 00:18:17.960
Okay.

00:18:18.440 –> 00:18:21.319
The quartz giants aren’t as nimble as we are.

00:18:21.640 –> 00:18:22.119
Gotcha.

00:18:23.480 –> 00:18:25.559
If you guys are nimble, I don’t know what is.

00:18:27.160 –> 00:18:31.640
Well, you’ve seen a great deal of us being nimble.

00:18:31.960 –> 00:18:34.440
We move through the snow better than anyone.

00:18:34.759 –> 00:18:40.279
This is our friends, the quartz giants, they don’t they don’t move through anything easily.

00:18:40.599 –> 00:18:43.799
You took out that fire giant quick fast and in a hurry.

00:18:44.039 –> 00:18:45.720
I’m assuming they understand common.

00:18:46.200 –> 00:18:49.000
They understand common, but they cannot speak it.

00:18:49.319 –> 00:18:49.559
Okay.

00:18:49.880 –> 00:18:52.200
So anything the group says, I don’t need to translate.

00:18:52.360 –> 00:18:52.680
That’s.

00:18:53.240 –> 00:18:55.559
If you guys have questions, you can ask them directly.

00:18:55.720 –> 00:18:56.759
I’ll translate.

00:18:57.079 –> 00:18:59.640
Yeah, so if anything, I just have a question for the group.

00:18:59.880 –> 00:19:01.640
What exactly have we gotten ourselves into?

00:19:01.720 –> 00:19:03.160
I’m still a little gray on that.

00:19:03.480 –> 00:19:04.440
Sort of too.

00:19:04.759 –> 00:19:09.319
All I know is you guys fighting giants, and I need to do something.

00:19:09.559 –> 00:19:10.039
Here I am.

00:19:10.279 –> 00:19:12.360
Can’t go back to Melrose, obviously.

00:19:13.720 –> 00:19:15.720
Um, Ipid looks over and scoring.

00:19:15.880 –> 00:19:16.839
Like, is everything so?

00:19:16.920 –> 00:19:19.480
Like, what’s going on, like, exactly?

00:19:19.799 –> 00:19:21.960
Oh, heck, I just got here myself.

00:19:22.279 –> 00:19:24.599
Um, the giants are fighting each other.

00:19:24.920 –> 00:19:28.039
There’s, uh, these uh quartz.

00:19:28.360 –> 00:19:29.319
They’re not quartz giants.

00:19:29.400 –> 00:19:30.840
What kind of giants are these we’ve got here?

00:19:31.160 –> 00:19:31.639
Frost.

00:19:32.039 –> 00:19:33.720
You have frost giants with you.

00:19:34.200 –> 00:19:34.759
Okay, yeah.

00:19:35.319 –> 00:19:42.680
The uh frost giants apparently are local, and there’s an incursion of fire giants from elsewhere, and they’re fighting.

00:19:43.000 –> 00:19:45.559
Uh, I’m not sure what it’s all about.

00:19:46.200 –> 00:19:49.240
Are these the are these the fire giants?

00:19:49.400 –> 00:19:52.680
Like, are these the ones who were initially attacking Melrose?

00:19:53.240 –> 00:19:53.880
Yes.

00:19:54.200 –> 00:19:55.240
Oh, okay.

00:19:56.759 –> 00:19:59.160
Um, uh, Ash, could you?

00:19:59.400 –> 00:20:00.680
Well, I mean, they speak common.

00:20:01.240 –> 00:20:02.360
Just translate this to me.

00:20:04.319 –> 00:20:05.279
Like, looks up at the giants.

00:20:05.440 –> 00:20:09.759
I mean, like, so these fire giants, they’re the ones that are attacking Melrose.

00:20:10.160 –> 00:20:11.599
How long ago have they been here?

00:20:11.920 –> 00:20:19.759
Um, when we were at Melrose, they explained to us that they hadn’t been attacked by giants in forever, and now their city is under onslaught of attacks.

00:20:20.079 –> 00:20:24.480
Uh, do you have any reasoning or do you have any mote?

00:20:24.640 –> 00:20:27.119
Do they have any motives on why they’re doing this now?

00:20:27.440 –> 00:20:29.039
What exactly is going on here?

00:20:29.359 –> 00:20:31.599
They’ve been fighting amongst themselves.

00:20:31.920 –> 00:20:41.680
For a long time, we had peace with them, but recently, a faction led by a mad god has begun heading our way.

00:20:42.000 –> 00:20:48.319
From the deep south, where they linger in the deserts, they have come to claim our cities.

00:20:48.640 –> 00:20:54.079
They have come to burn out the land and lay waste to all who live here.

00:20:54.720 –> 00:20:56.799
They’re in search of relics.

00:20:57.440 –> 00:20:59.519
They hear rumors of immortality.

00:21:00.160 –> 00:21:01.279
This sounds familiar.

00:21:02.880 –> 00:21:03.920
What’s the name of this god?

00:21:05.039 –> 00:21:13.279
Recently, there was a sign: a red star glowing in the sky, and a streak of light heading to these very mountains.

00:21:15.599 –> 00:21:16.960
Ipid’s eyes widen.

00:21:17.279 –> 00:21:19.599
Guys, do you think it’s here?

00:21:19.920 –> 00:21:24.240
Would I have heard anything about this in Melrose during my time or at all?

00:21:24.880 –> 00:21:25.680
You have not.

00:21:26.559 –> 00:21:27.440
This is news.

00:21:27.759 –> 00:21:30.559
You knew that was under attack, but you did not know why.

00:21:30.880 –> 00:21:32.400
I don’t know what you guys are wrapped in.

00:21:33.119 –> 00:21:35.039
Kind of sounds like it’s going to be a good fight.

00:21:35.359 –> 00:21:40.559
So, well, I don’t know how much my group here has explained.

00:21:40.880 –> 00:21:43.200
But we’ve been too busy fighting.

00:21:43.440 –> 00:21:45.839
That’s obviously possessed.

00:21:46.160 –> 00:21:46.400
Yeah.

00:21:46.720 –> 00:21:47.680
Again, sorry about that.

00:21:47.839 –> 00:21:50.160
That was a terrible first impression.

00:21:50.480 –> 00:21:53.680
Um, like I said, dude, that was awesome.

00:21:54.000 –> 00:22:01.839
Um, we’re after this thing that they’re probably talking about.

00:22:02.160 –> 00:22:02.799
Ah, okay.

00:22:03.759 –> 00:22:08.559
He was a being that was being kept in a temple.

00:22:08.880 –> 00:22:10.640
By some means, he escaped.

00:22:10.960 –> 00:22:14.559
Ipid nervously looks at Scorn and Aldrich.

00:22:18.880 –> 00:22:21.759
Um, and we’re pretty much trying to get a hold of it.

00:22:22.400 –> 00:22:25.839
Well, it’s up to no good.

00:22:26.480 –> 00:22:44.400
Um, and Ipid, in the best way you can explain, and I’m gonna just explain medally, uh, is that um there’s a cult with temples around the world pretty much with different pieces of immortality that we’re trying to get a hold of.

00:22:44.720 –> 00:23:03.039
In the first temple that we visited, there is this vampiric celestial that was released from a carsophic or like a like a tomb or something, um, and it released in a bright shining light with a red star attached.

00:23:03.360 –> 00:23:05.200
So, exactly what they’re talking about.

00:23:06.960 –> 00:23:10.799
The third temple, what’d you say?

00:23:11.119 –> 00:23:14.400
As a you fuckers are dealing with vampires and giants.

00:23:14.880 –> 00:23:15.440
What the fuck?

00:23:15.519 –> 00:23:16.799
This is awesome.

00:23:18.079 –> 00:23:37.599
Uh, I mean, yeah, some might call this awesome, but um, we had left Drowning Wallace because that was one of the sites of one of their temples with one of the keys to their cult’s way of immortality, and that celestial was also a piece of their goal of immortality.

00:23:37.920 –> 00:23:42.240
And it being released, we’re not sure how good of an idea that might be.

00:23:42.559 –> 00:23:44.480
Who knows what it might be up to?

00:23:44.799 –> 00:23:54.640
Um, we met another person who knows about it more, and he explained that the celestial is a being of its own choice.

00:23:54.799 –> 00:23:57.200
It’s not neither good nor bad.

00:23:59.119 –> 00:24:01.119
Okay, it’s an abomination.

00:24:02.319 –> 00:24:03.680
Yeah, what he said.

00:24:04.000 –> 00:24:07.839
Well, like I said, I just did it for the fighting and adventure.

00:24:08.480 –> 00:24:16.000
In the distance, you feel the ground shaking, and you see a large crystalline form approaching through the snow.

00:24:17.279 –> 00:24:20.960
Its seven eyes glowing atop its head.

00:24:21.279 –> 00:24:22.400
Is this a giant or something?

00:24:28.160 –> 00:24:28.880
Oh, wow.

00:24:29.920 –> 00:24:38.799
As it moves, a light smoke rises from the cracks in its body, where you see the flow of energy connecting crystal.

00:24:39.119 –> 00:24:47.759
It looks as if someone carved it from the mountain itself with rough tools, and it moves with all the grace of a landslide.

00:24:48.720 –> 00:24:50.880
I think this is the context.

00:24:51.360 –> 00:24:54.960
I could be wrong, but I don’t want to fight that thing yet.

00:24:55.680 –> 00:24:57.759
I look at Grumble and Rumble.

00:24:58.079 –> 00:24:59.519
Is that our friend?

00:25:00.079 –> 00:25:02.559
They look down at you with a half-smirk.

00:25:02.880 –> 00:25:03.759
Well, it’s going to decide.

00:25:05.559 –> 00:25:06.119
Soon.

00:25:07.000 –> 00:25:07.880
This is true.

00:25:08.200 –> 00:25:13.400
And you feel an overwhelming psychic presence throbbing through your skulls.

00:25:13.720 –> 00:25:14.599
Not again.

00:25:16.200 –> 00:25:24.680
You feel your minds being searched meticulously, methodically and patiently going through every one of your thoughts and memories.

00:25:25.000 –> 00:25:28.039
It digs through it and then moves on.

00:25:28.359 –> 00:25:30.119
Oh, that was fucking weird.

00:25:30.440 –> 00:25:31.480
That felt terrible.

00:25:31.640 –> 00:25:32.599
I feel violated.

00:25:32.920 –> 00:25:34.200
Rumble looks down at you.

00:25:34.519 –> 00:25:35.880
Well, it decides it likes you.

00:25:35.960 –> 00:25:37.720
See, its eyes are going in a good pattern.

00:25:38.519 –> 00:25:40.519
And you see its eyes merrily flashing.

00:25:41.079 –> 00:25:42.920
I’ll take your word for it.

00:25:43.240 –> 00:25:44.920
Yeah, we’ll take your word for it, bro.

00:25:45.160 –> 00:25:51.960
Yeah, I don’t know how this giant is morally, but I mean, if it just morally checked all of our minds, then I can.

00:25:52.119 –> 00:25:56.680
I’m just more rest assured that the rest of you guys are on the level.

00:25:57.160 –> 00:26:05.000
Starling is going to, as a show of good faith, walk forward slowly and just reach her hand up toward the quartz giant.

00:26:05.559 –> 00:26:11.480
As you reach your hand up, you feel a lingering psychic presence, an invitation.

00:26:11.799 –> 00:26:14.519
Like an outstretched hand, it waits for you.

00:26:14.839 –> 00:26:18.119
It’s gonna move a little bit closer, kind of close the distance.

00:26:18.440 –> 00:26:22.599
As you approach, your mind is filled with images.

00:26:22.920 –> 00:26:35.079
You see an old wizard enlarging himself with magic and picking up enormous tools, and day after day he meticulously carves a giant from quartz.

00:26:35.400 –> 00:26:36.200
Are we all seeing it?

00:26:36.359 –> 00:26:41.640
As you see it take shape, you hear the echoing of the wizard’s words.

00:26:41.960 –> 00:26:47.799
You are to live, you are to make more, you are to grow and expand.

00:26:48.119 –> 00:27:11.480
And then one day you see the image of the wizard sitting down in a small throne surrounded by seven of these giants, and you see the light fade from his eyes, and you see the giants quietly stand watch for a few days, a few years, a few centuries, and then they begin to move.

00:27:11.799 –> 00:27:17.240
A tear just kind of runs down her face, and she just like quietly, like in her mind, says thank you.

00:27:17.559 –> 00:27:21.880
The quartz giant turns around and begins walking back to the quarry.

00:27:22.200 –> 00:27:23.799
Is everything okay, Starling?

00:27:24.119 –> 00:27:25.400
Yeah, everything’s fine.

00:27:26.039 –> 00:27:27.319
I think we can follow him.

00:27:27.480 –> 00:27:30.119
He just shared his past with us and his history.

00:27:30.440 –> 00:27:32.839
Oh, wait, so we all saw that or just Starling?

00:27:33.079 –> 00:27:34.119
Just Starling.

00:27:34.440 –> 00:27:34.680
Oh.

00:27:35.240 –> 00:27:35.799
Oh, okay.

00:27:36.680 –> 00:27:38.839
And if it follows.

00:27:39.160 –> 00:27:44.680
You see Rumble and Grumble following the quartz giant, but they never get too close.

00:27:45.319 –> 00:28:02.920
You see the quartz giant begin to slide down the slope in the snow, and to regain its footing, it just pounds its feet a foot into the ground, displacing the stone around it with tremendous force, and it continues up, leaving a path of craters in its wake.

00:28:07.240 –> 00:28:21.400
As you crest the mountain, coming near where the pass reaches its highest point, you see it lead down into a massive quartz quarry, where you see six more of the quartz giants.

00:28:21.720 –> 00:28:25.079
They stand silently in a circle around a tomb.

00:28:25.400 –> 00:28:27.799
I’m just gonna whisper this is their creator.

00:28:28.119 –> 00:28:29.880
Oh, oh wow, wow.

00:28:30.839 –> 00:28:32.519
I thought these things just existed.

00:28:32.680 –> 00:28:35.559
I didn’t know a person they were made.

00:28:36.119 –> 00:28:37.240
They’re constructs?

00:28:37.559 –> 00:28:38.680
Not giants.

00:28:39.000 –> 00:28:39.799
Interesting.

00:28:40.119 –> 00:28:43.640
Rumble and Grumble continue walking down.

00:28:43.960 –> 00:28:49.640
They say, We were sent over here to make peace with these things, to learn their ways.

00:28:49.799 –> 00:28:53.400
We thought there was more of them, but we have only seen seven.

00:28:53.960 –> 00:28:59.720
And as you look around the quarry, you can see from the quarry walls where they were carved out of the stone.

00:29:00.039 –> 00:29:07.319
Massive, massive holes in the shape of their bodies, each rising forty, fifty feet tall.

00:29:08.360 –> 00:29:15.240
If it looks around for the bird he struck down with his spear, would it be here?

00:29:15.559 –> 00:29:16.119
Yes.

00:29:16.440 –> 00:29:22.279
You’ll see a number of smaller quartz creatures around the gathering.

00:29:23.240 –> 00:29:35.880
While there are only seven giants, you see a number of them carved like bodies without heads walking around, and you see a number of creatures, like the stone birds.

00:29:36.200 –> 00:29:42.680
You also see stone horses hauling things back and forth in a flurry of activity.

00:29:43.000 –> 00:29:52.840
And the air around you is filled with the terrible grinding noise of stone against stone, as you can barely hear each other screaming.

00:29:53.160 –> 00:29:54.360
This is impressive.

00:29:54.680 –> 00:29:55.240
Very.

00:29:58.519 –> 00:30:00.920
Are they leading us to talk to him?

00:30:01.240 –> 00:30:03.400
And he points at the wizard.

00:30:03.720 –> 00:30:04.440
I think so.

00:30:06.480 –> 00:30:07.119
Grumble?

00:30:07.200 –> 00:30:08.799
Are we talking to the wizard?

00:30:09.119 –> 00:30:11.039
Yes, but I must prepare you.

00:30:11.279 –> 00:30:12.480
Prepare us how?

00:30:12.720 –> 00:30:13.279
And why?

00:30:13.920 –> 00:30:17.039
Well, what are your feelings toward the undead?

00:30:17.920 –> 00:30:20.000
As long as they don’t bite me, I’m okay.

00:30:20.319 –> 00:30:22.160
I asked the others the same question.

00:30:22.480 –> 00:30:22.960
Translate.

00:30:24.240 –> 00:30:26.240
Most of them are very messy eaters.

00:30:27.200 –> 00:30:28.240
Very true.

00:30:28.559 –> 00:30:34.640
Some people can’t help being undead, and some people, well, they lose themselves when being undead.

00:30:34.960 –> 00:30:37.599
So I guess it goes by a case-by-case scenario.

00:30:37.920 –> 00:30:38.160
Yeah.

00:30:40.559 –> 00:30:42.480
Is this wizard undead?

00:30:42.720 –> 00:30:44.000
He’s not a lich, is he?

00:30:44.319 –> 00:30:51.599
The giant looks down at you and laughs, although echoes of his laughter barely cutting above the noise of grinding stone.

00:30:57.279 –> 00:31:04.720
As you approach the tomb, the air grows heavier, and you feel a presence within watching you.

00:31:05.039 –> 00:31:09.599
And Aldric do some kind of magic check to feel what he’s feeling.

00:31:09.920 –> 00:31:10.160
Yes.

00:31:10.319 –> 00:31:13.119
This is our magic or understanding.

00:31:15.839 –> 00:31:17.119
Yes, roll Arcana.

00:31:19.039 –> 00:31:31.200
Aldric, you recognize the unmistakable presence, the overwhelming power of someone who has not only defied death, but has claimed magical supremacy over it.

00:31:32.000 –> 00:31:34.000
Commonly, they are known as a lich.

00:31:34.640 –> 00:31:40.480
This undead being of great mastery sits in the tomb waiting.

00:31:41.200 –> 00:31:42.559
I think I read about this.

00:31:42.880 –> 00:31:43.759
I think you might be right.

00:31:43.839 –> 00:31:44.960
There could be a lich in here.

00:31:45.039 –> 00:31:45.920
I’ve only heard of them.

00:31:46.400 –> 00:31:48.160
I was told to stay away from them.

00:31:48.799 –> 00:31:49.680
I was too.

00:31:50.319 –> 00:31:51.359
This one might not.

00:31:51.839 –> 00:31:53.519
This one might not seem so bad.

00:31:53.839 –> 00:31:54.000
Yeah.

00:31:54.319 –> 00:31:58.160
I mean, Starling, from what she said, she knows their story.

00:31:58.400 –> 00:31:59.200
What do you think?

00:31:59.519 –> 00:32:00.400
I think they’re fine.

00:32:00.640 –> 00:32:02.960
These creatures, they’re not harmful.

00:32:03.119 –> 00:32:04.240
They don’t destroy things.

00:32:04.400 –> 00:32:05.759
They only create things.

00:32:06.079 –> 00:32:06.720
And you didn’t.

00:32:07.279 –> 00:32:16.079
Yeah, I guess if the lich meant any word meant any ill intent, these things would not be as welcoming as they are to me to us, you know?

00:32:17.599 –> 00:32:21.039
You might be on the level, but we should be cautious.

00:32:21.360 –> 00:32:21.680
Yeah.

00:32:22.240 –> 00:32:34.799
As you walk up to the tomb, once you are within a hundred feet of it, every stone contract stops in its place, and the entire quarry is silent.

00:32:35.119 –> 00:32:42.880
That uh you feel the psychic presence of the seven quartz giants looking down on you.

00:32:43.200 –> 00:32:50.400
You feel the undead burden from within the tomb, and the silence feels deafening.

00:32:51.920 –> 00:32:53.200
They’re trying to make peace.

00:32:53.519 –> 00:32:54.880
You see them stop.

00:32:55.200 –> 00:32:56.480
They look down at you.

00:32:56.799 –> 00:32:58.480
We’re not going any further.

00:32:59.519 –> 00:33:04.240
We will make peace with the stone giants, but we will not speak with their master.

00:33:04.559 –> 00:33:04.799
Oh.

00:33:05.279 –> 00:33:05.599
Okay.

00:33:06.160 –> 00:33:08.000
Well, I’m going to translate that.

00:33:08.319 –> 00:33:09.440
What do you guys think?

00:33:09.680 –> 00:33:11.680
Sounds like they want us to talk to him.

00:33:12.240 –> 00:33:12.559
Yeah.

00:33:13.200 –> 00:33:15.599
And I have nothing against speaking to these people.

00:33:15.920 –> 00:33:18.160
I mean, or talk to him.

00:33:18.720 –> 00:33:28.559
We’re I assume, and as he looks at like the other stone constructs, specifically the bird ones, he’s like, I think they were aware that we’re peaceful, especially at this point.

00:33:28.720 –> 00:33:33.599
We had sent a message earlier at a bird I accidentally struck down.

00:33:34.799 –> 00:33:39.279
Um, so I should probably go apologize for that anyway.

00:33:39.920 –> 00:33:40.240
Yeah.

00:33:41.360 –> 00:33:41.839
Right.

00:33:43.119 –> 00:33:43.279
Okay.

00:33:44.559 –> 00:33:46.319
We really should ask about the creature.

00:33:46.559 –> 00:33:50.640
If the lich has unbound wisdom, surely he knows about it.

00:33:50.960 –> 00:33:52.079
That is fair.

00:33:52.240 –> 00:33:53.519
It’s fair like that.

00:33:54.400 –> 00:33:55.920
Perhaps he knows something.

00:33:56.559 –> 00:33:56.880
Yeah.

00:33:57.519 –> 00:33:58.480
There’s a tomb, right?

00:33:58.720 –> 00:34:00.799
There’s like a physical tomb, right?

00:34:01.360 –> 00:34:04.720
Yes, a physical tomb built from quartz.

00:34:05.039 –> 00:34:10.559
Can Aldric take a look and see if there’s anything written on it or carved on it?

00:34:11.440 –> 00:34:13.039
Yes, Aldric.

00:34:13.360 –> 00:34:20.239
As you examine the tomb, you see familiar symbols from long ago.

00:34:20.559 –> 00:34:24.320
In your magical studies, you once had a vision.

00:34:24.639 –> 00:34:28.159
These symbols were something you have seen then.

00:34:28.639 –> 00:34:38.400
And as you see them again, you feel your mind throb with divining potential, and you feel that this is a place of power.

00:34:39.039 –> 00:34:40.400
Feel the power here, guys.

00:34:40.720 –> 00:34:52.079
I’m gonna sort of gesture at one of the quartz giants and sort of, I guess, portray my intentions of peace through my mind.

00:34:52.720 –> 00:34:56.559
Or just simply state we don’t want to fight.

00:34:57.519 –> 00:35:01.440
Will we be allowed safe passage to talk?

00:35:02.239 –> 00:35:03.599
You send out your message.

00:35:03.760 –> 00:35:05.039
You feel when you’re returning.

00:35:05.360 –> 00:35:05.840
The quartz.

00:35:07.320 –> 00:35:12.679
Giants intimidating, powerful, overwhelming.

00:35:13.000 –> 00:35:23.159
They give you a glimpse of the magnitude of their master’s power, and you feel as though you are standing beneath the waves of Tsunami.

00:35:23.480 –> 00:35:35.000
As his power rolls over you for just a brief moment, your body goes chill, your spine stiff, and your legs threaten to give out underneath you.

00:35:35.320 –> 00:35:39.639
I’m physically discomforted with this girmising in my face.

00:35:40.360 –> 00:35:41.239
You okay, Ash?

00:35:45.400 –> 00:35:47.960
Do you think we’re good to keep going?

00:35:48.920 –> 00:35:50.119
Don’t know yet.

00:35:50.760 –> 00:35:58.840
Ipid kind of like looks around at the other giants, and he’s like, Well, it won’t do us any good just standing here, and Ipid starts to walk towards the tomb.

00:35:59.079 –> 00:36:02.039
I’ll join him as you approach the tomb.

00:36:03.239 –> 00:36:05.719
You feel the magical power swell.

00:36:06.039 –> 00:36:09.239
You feel the balance in the air shift.

00:36:10.840 –> 00:36:15.960
And with every step you take closer to it, you feel time slow down.

00:36:16.920 –> 00:36:23.480
As you are about to enter the tomb, you see the snow in the distance falling so slowly.

00:36:23.800 –> 00:36:26.360
It looks as if it’s suspended in the air.

00:36:26.679 –> 00:36:41.239
Stepping inside, you see there is just a simple chair carved of quartz with no adornments, and in it there is a bare skeleton, and in that skeleton’s eyes are thick quartz orbs.

00:36:43.000 –> 00:36:44.679
Uh hello.

00:36:45.559 –> 00:36:46.440
Hello.

00:36:46.760 –> 00:36:49.800
You hear the voice of the skeleton reverberating.

00:36:50.119 –> 00:36:53.800
Uh hi, uh nice to meet you.

00:36:54.119 –> 00:36:58.199
Um you’re the creator of these quartz giants, correct?

00:36:58.519 –> 00:37:01.000
Yes, they are my life’s work.

00:37:01.320 –> 00:37:05.719
I dedicated everything I had to making perfect giants.

00:37:06.039 –> 00:37:09.079
Well, they are beautiful creatures.

00:37:09.400 –> 00:37:14.920
They seem to be very magical and very powerful in their own right.

00:37:15.159 –> 00:37:17.239
Um could I ask your name, sir?

00:37:17.400 –> 00:37:18.760
Or could I ask your name?

00:37:19.079 –> 00:37:25.880
As he looks at you, your mind throbs, and you feel a piercing thought through your mind.

00:37:26.199 –> 00:37:29.320
Alstair Alstair?

00:37:30.119 –> 00:37:31.639
You mean like the lost one?

00:37:32.280 –> 00:37:34.280
From this from the city of Alstair.

00:37:35.000 –> 00:37:35.480
Yes.

00:37:35.800 –> 00:37:39.480
They did name the city after me many years after I had left.

00:37:39.800 –> 00:37:40.280
Wow.

00:37:40.599 –> 00:37:43.400
Um it’s an honor, sir.

00:37:43.719 –> 00:37:50.679
Um we found ourselves up here to help out with the ongoing attacks on Melrose.

00:37:51.000 –> 00:37:55.159
It seems that you guys are having some very unkind visitors in these mountains.

00:37:56.039 –> 00:37:57.239
He laughs.

00:37:57.559 –> 00:37:59.880
His humor echoes.

00:38:00.199 –> 00:38:04.440
It carries all of the warmth of the flesh that was once on his bones.

00:38:06.280 –> 00:38:10.760
Oh, those pests they’re nothing too hard to deal with.

00:38:11.400 –> 00:38:13.239
Have you cleaned them up for me?

00:38:13.559 –> 00:38:14.280
That’s good.

00:38:14.920 –> 00:38:17.800
Ipid looks down at his gashing scar.

00:38:18.360 –> 00:38:18.599
Yeah.

00:38:19.880 –> 00:38:21.400
They were preparing an invasion.

00:38:21.559 –> 00:38:23.400
Have you dealt with the circles?

00:38:24.199 –> 00:38:24.599
Yes.

00:38:25.239 –> 00:38:26.519
Rather fun, by the way.

00:38:26.840 –> 00:38:28.679
He looks towards you, Ash.

00:38:29.000 –> 00:38:31.079
Oh, you enjoy combat?

00:38:31.400 –> 00:38:32.280
A little bit.

00:38:32.599 –> 00:38:40.360
Well, you feel the you see the orbs circling in his skull, and you feel like they are looking at you.

00:38:41.320 –> 00:38:43.400
You’ll have much combat in the future.

00:38:43.719 –> 00:38:45.800
Are you confident you’ll always enjoy it?

00:38:46.119 –> 00:38:46.760
Don’t know yet.

00:38:46.840 –> 00:38:47.960
That’s for the future me.

00:38:48.360 –> 00:38:51.880
He looks around at you, and he points towards Aldric.

00:38:52.199 –> 00:38:55.639
Looking at Aldric, he says, You are a divener.

00:38:55.960 –> 00:38:56.360
Yes.

00:38:56.920 –> 00:38:58.440
You seek the future?

00:38:58.760 –> 00:38:59.400
I do.

00:38:59.719 –> 00:39:04.679
You do the same thing I once did, doing anything to avoid death.

00:39:05.000 –> 00:39:06.199
How did you know?

00:39:07.400 –> 00:39:10.519
I have been around a long, long time.

00:39:11.079 –> 00:39:14.920
I have seen a great many wizards rise and a great many wizards fall.

00:39:15.239 –> 00:39:17.719
Almost none remember where I am.

00:39:18.039 –> 00:39:19.559
None remember my cause.

00:39:20.119 –> 00:39:22.119
But I remember that look in your eyes.

00:39:22.440 –> 00:39:24.679
That isn’t even a fear of death.

00:39:25.000 –> 00:39:27.079
You’re afraid of fate itself.

00:39:27.400 –> 00:39:29.159
Aldric is nodding.

00:39:29.400 –> 00:39:31.000
Ipid looks over at Aldric.

00:39:31.239 –> 00:39:34.440
Aldric, have you seen your death?

00:39:35.400 –> 00:39:40.840
Uh when I was young, I had a dream.

00:39:41.159 –> 00:39:44.840
Yeah, I saw something, and it scared me.

00:39:45.159 –> 00:39:50.920
And I think this witch knows exactly what I’m talking about.

00:39:51.239 –> 00:39:52.039
What I’m feeling.

00:39:52.280 –> 00:39:54.920
He can yeah, he can feel me.

00:39:55.480 –> 00:39:58.360
Oh wow, that’s I’m sorry.

00:39:58.679 –> 00:40:01.800
Is that why you’re so obsessed with the future?

00:40:02.119 –> 00:40:05.800
I mean, after that, yeah, I wanted to know more about.

00:40:08.800 –> 00:40:13.920
Looking ahead, and I want to know could it be avoided?

00:40:14.239 –> 00:40:16.159
He looks down at Starling.

00:40:16.480 –> 00:40:19.440
You also seek the future, but for different reasons.

00:40:19.760 –> 00:40:22.800
You don’t seek it out of fear, but obedience.

00:40:23.119 –> 00:40:25.199
You were taught to seek the future.

00:40:25.519 –> 00:40:26.320
That’s very true.

00:40:26.639 –> 00:40:28.639
There is a secret to this stone.

00:40:28.960 –> 00:40:30.800
He gestures to the marble.

00:40:31.119 –> 00:40:34.639
Not the marble, the quartz of which his tomb is carved.

00:40:34.960 –> 00:40:37.920
You see golden veins of crystal running through it.

00:40:38.239 –> 00:40:41.199
And he says, There is a secret here.

00:40:41.519 –> 00:40:47.280
If you take this stone, there are craftsmen in the city to which you could head.

00:40:47.679 –> 00:40:50.639
Could make you items of great power.

00:40:51.440 –> 00:40:53.039
But it comes at a price.

00:40:55.599 –> 00:40:56.559
It’s a game.

00:40:56.880 –> 00:41:01.039
You have to guess how much it should cost, and then offer it to me.

00:41:01.360 –> 00:41:06.000
And though what you offer is enough, you will get a piece of the stone to take.

00:41:06.320 –> 00:41:09.599
If it is not, I will take a piece of you.

00:41:09.920 –> 00:41:12.079
He gestures to all five of you.

00:41:12.400 –> 00:41:14.559
Any of you who wish to play can.

00:41:14.880 –> 00:41:16.079
What will you take from us?

00:41:16.400 –> 00:41:17.440
You get to choose.

00:41:18.000 –> 00:41:19.199
What should I take?

00:41:19.519 –> 00:41:20.639
He smiles at Ku.

00:41:21.119 –> 00:41:24.639
You are taking the stone which is the flesh of my creations.

00:41:25.280 –> 00:41:28.639
You take a pound of stone and I will take a pound of flesh.

00:41:30.320 –> 00:41:33.199
I personally have given up plenty of flesh already myself.

00:41:33.679 –> 00:41:38.400
So I think I think I might be fine.

00:41:38.639 –> 00:41:41.599
But if we’re willing to pay the price, you won’t take that then.

00:41:41.920 –> 00:41:44.159
Yes, but you have to guess what the price is.

00:41:44.480 –> 00:41:47.840
Do we still get the item if you if we get it wrong?

00:41:48.159 –> 00:41:48.320
Yes.

00:41:55.119 –> 00:41:57.360
Either way, you get a pound of stone.

00:41:57.679 –> 00:42:00.960
But if you cannot pay correctly, I get a pound of flesh.

00:42:01.280 –> 00:42:03.679
Are we allowed to ask questions about the stone?

00:42:04.000 –> 00:42:04.480
Yes.

00:42:04.800 –> 00:42:09.519
I mean, Aldric’s gonna look at the stone and see if he can tell anything about it.

00:42:09.840 –> 00:42:13.280
Just from his arcane knowledge.

00:42:13.599 –> 00:42:19.840
From the time you spent examining the tomb, you know some of the properties of this stone.

00:42:20.159 –> 00:42:27.199
It is imbued with time itself, and you can store a moment to use when needed.

00:42:27.840 –> 00:42:30.239
What you put in that moment is up to you.

00:42:31.199 –> 00:42:33.199
You can store time itself.

00:42:33.760 –> 00:42:34.320
Yes.

00:42:35.519 –> 00:42:37.519
I relay that to the group.

00:42:38.800 –> 00:42:39.840
Isn’t that interesting?

00:42:40.159 –> 00:42:41.840
What does that mean exactly?

00:42:42.159 –> 00:42:43.440
Magic is always weird.

00:42:43.519 –> 00:42:44.159
Why does that have to be?

00:42:44.480 –> 00:42:47.599
Yeah, I’m not too versed in magic either.

00:42:47.920 –> 00:42:51.039
I know a little bit of stuff, not what you guys are doing.

00:42:51.440 –> 00:42:56.000
I mean, to me, it’s people are always just pushing boundaries in any way they can.

00:42:56.320 –> 00:43:01.679
They’re just trying to go farther and farther, like, avoid death, change time.

00:43:02.320 –> 00:43:07.199
Sounds like this is directed more towards you, Aldric, not towards my riddleness.

00:43:07.519 –> 00:43:07.840
Could be.

00:43:08.719 –> 00:43:10.800
I’m still playing, whether it’s for Aldric.

00:43:11.119 –> 00:43:11.280
Oh.

00:43:11.760 –> 00:43:14.320
Um, are you guys sure this is a smart idea, though?

00:43:14.559 –> 00:43:16.159
I would hate to see you guys get hurt.

00:43:16.480 –> 00:43:22.800
Yeah, I’m gonna politely bow out and Starling.

00:43:22.880 –> 00:43:25.679
Do you feel some kind of connection to this?

00:43:26.000 –> 00:43:28.559
But I’m very brave, Aldric, for you.

00:43:29.199 –> 00:43:29.679
No doubt.

00:43:30.000 –> 00:43:35.760
When the time comes, you mean, I mean, can me and Starling play this together?

00:43:36.079 –> 00:43:38.480
Oh, each has to play on their own.

00:43:38.800 –> 00:43:42.400
You could wait for someone to go first and see if they lose.

00:43:43.119 –> 00:43:43.840
We have to play.

00:43:44.320 –> 00:43:45.119
Oh, no.

00:43:45.760 –> 00:43:46.000
Okay.

00:43:46.239 –> 00:43:47.119
It is a game.

00:43:47.440 –> 00:43:49.679
It wouldn’t be a game if you had to.

00:43:50.000 –> 00:43:52.000
I’m just gonna politely bow out, Mr.

00:43:52.239 –> 00:43:56.480
Mr. Lich, and I’m gonna also say that you are not what I was expecting.

00:43:56.639 –> 00:44:01.599
You’re much more if Ipid puts a hand on Aldric’s shoulder.

00:44:01.920 –> 00:44:11.280
You know, I don’t mean to say this to force you to want to do this or anything like that, but you’ve been a lot more braver than you let on, Aldric.

00:44:11.440 –> 00:44:16.800
If you feel like this is something you need to do, then do what you must, you know?

00:44:17.119 –> 00:44:20.559
You know, it’s not every day you come across someone like this.

00:44:20.880 –> 00:44:21.760
Very true.

00:44:23.119 –> 00:44:23.679
Me also.

00:44:26.400 –> 00:44:28.320
Starling’s just gonna step forward.

00:44:30.559 –> 00:44:32.800
Alright, um, I’ll play.

00:44:32.960 –> 00:44:38.480
I’d like to give a bit of my strength and a bit of my nimbleness to you forever.

00:44:38.880 –> 00:44:40.159
It’ll always be yours.

00:44:40.639 –> 00:44:42.159
Think the nimbleness.

00:44:42.480 –> 00:44:43.199
Hmm.

00:44:43.679 –> 00:44:45.360
An interesting choice.

00:44:45.679 –> 00:44:46.480
Here looks.

00:44:46.960 –> 00:44:48.400
Who is going next?

00:44:49.039 –> 00:44:50.880
Well, I guess it’s only me.

00:44:51.199 –> 00:44:59.840
If it’s I have to choose, I will say strength as well, and my ability to talk to people.

00:45:00.159 –> 00:45:02.079
I never had much of that anyway.

00:45:03.360 –> 00:45:05.920
And you, he points towards Scorn.

00:45:06.239 –> 00:45:07.199
Will you play?

00:45:09.239 –> 00:45:10.119
I’m not sure.

00:45:10.440 –> 00:45:12.519
Scorn begins playing a dirge.

00:45:12.920 –> 00:45:14.519
Requiem for a mage.

00:45:18.519 –> 00:45:25.639
Aldric sends Scorn a message using the message cantrip and says, Come on, inspire us a bit, would you?

00:45:26.119 –> 00:45:26.760
Oh, yes.

00:45:27.000 –> 00:45:29.800
Uh, have we short-rested since our last battle at all?

00:45:30.119 –> 00:45:30.360
No.

00:45:30.679 –> 00:45:33.480
Okay, I yeah, I got done pretty much out of bardic inspiration.

00:45:33.800 –> 00:45:34.039
Okay.

00:45:34.360 –> 00:45:39.159
What I will do is, can I say, uh, can I ask, is Starling a human?

00:45:39.400 –> 00:45:40.119
He’s a high elf.

00:45:40.599 –> 00:45:40.840
Right.

00:45:41.159 –> 00:45:49.159
I get heroic inspiration every day, so I’d like to see if I could have given her my heroic inspiration.

00:45:49.400 –> 00:45:51.239
Or did I do that in this moment?

00:45:51.559 –> 00:45:52.119
Yes.

00:45:52.440 –> 00:45:59.639
And can I say when I touched Aldric, I gave him guidance so he will have an extra D4 for anything?

00:46:00.280 –> 00:46:00.760
Yes.

00:46:01.079 –> 00:46:01.719
There you go.

00:46:02.039 –> 00:46:08.360
Now, both of you, you feel the presence echoing through your mind.

00:46:09.000 –> 00:46:11.159
And you hear you say, That’s not right.

00:46:11.719 –> 00:46:14.280
And you feel your flesh wither a little.

00:46:14.920 –> 00:46:20.119
And then you feel a strange tingling in your right hand, both of you.

00:46:20.440 –> 00:46:24.519
And you look down, and your whole hand is just bone.

00:46:25.800 –> 00:46:31.239
Hold on, there’s an orb of stone.

00:46:31.719 –> 00:46:35.559
It is this smoky white quartz with gold crystal running through it.

00:46:35.880 –> 00:46:38.119
You feel it thrown with power.

00:46:38.760 –> 00:46:39.800
Now we have to guess.

00:46:40.119 –> 00:46:44.199
If you guess right next time, I’ll give you your hand back.

00:46:44.920 –> 00:46:45.960
I think I misunderstood.

00:46:46.199 –> 00:46:48.039
I think I misunderstood the game.

00:46:50.599 –> 00:46:51.719
Okay, off table.

00:46:51.880 –> 00:46:54.679
I thought we were going to guess some kind of price, gold price.

00:46:56.039 –> 00:46:57.079
Price is right.

00:47:00.039 –> 00:47:02.119
What are we playing off table?

00:47:03.000 –> 00:47:05.480
Can you explain again what we’re supposed to do?

00:47:05.800 –> 00:47:09.079
To explain it simply, the lich is messing with you.

00:47:09.400 –> 00:47:11.880
He is taunting you for your mortal forgals.

00:47:12.199 –> 00:47:16.039
He is taunting you with power to get you to get greedier and greedier.

00:47:17.480 –> 00:47:19.719
That’s why I bowed the fuck out.

00:47:21.559 –> 00:47:31.000
Dude, the lich just did a test to show who the greedy ones are in who are just really impulsive.

00:47:31.639 –> 00:47:33.559
It has nothing to do with what she can gain.

00:47:33.639 –> 00:47:34.760
It’s just fun for her.

00:47:35.079 –> 00:47:35.800
Oh, okay.

00:47:36.119 –> 00:47:38.679
I mean, Aldric would have been seduced by it.

00:47:38.760 –> 00:47:42.360
It’s talking about time and being able to change time or something.

00:47:42.599 –> 00:47:43.400
Aldric would have been.

00:47:43.880 –> 00:47:48.599
I mean, regardless, you guys got ore that is useful, I guess.

00:47:48.920 –> 00:47:50.519
Yeah, how will you proceed?

00:47:50.840 –> 00:47:52.679
The Lich is offering more.

00:47:53.000 –> 00:47:55.639
Not more stone, but something else.

00:47:56.280 –> 00:47:57.000
I don’t know.

00:47:57.320 –> 00:47:59.239
Starling, do you have any idea what to do?

00:47:59.559 –> 00:48:10.679
So our choice is: we our choice is we can either make another assessment or we can stay as we are with what you’ve already traded us and what you’ve already taken from us.

00:48:11.000 –> 00:48:13.000
And you can ask him more questions.

00:48:13.320 –> 00:48:15.880
And the purpose is to guess the value of the stone.

00:48:16.199 –> 00:48:16.760
Yes.

00:48:21.079 –> 00:48:25.880
Is this something you used to trans keep your spirit alive?

00:48:26.199 –> 00:48:26.440
No.

00:48:26.920 –> 00:48:33.880
The stone is the precise amount of stone of this magical stone it takes to contain one whole moment.

00:48:34.519 –> 00:48:35.639
Do you want a hint?

00:48:35.960 –> 00:48:37.320
Aldric needs a hint.

00:48:37.960 –> 00:48:39.480
The lich looks at you.

00:48:39.800 –> 00:48:41.480
Tell me, wizard.

00:48:41.800 –> 00:48:43.079
Tell me, Cleric.

00:48:43.400 –> 00:48:45.880
What is the value of a single moment?

00:48:46.199 –> 00:48:48.360
Can a single moment spare a life?

00:48:48.679 –> 00:48:49.880
Can it make one?

00:48:50.199 –> 00:48:53.400
What would you offer for one moment at the right time?

00:48:53.719 –> 00:48:57.559
I think the answer would be everything.

00:48:58.119 –> 00:49:00.440
You would offer your whole body.

00:49:00.760 –> 00:49:01.800
Yeah, if you needed.

00:49:03.320 –> 00:49:04.840
So that’s your guys’ answer.

00:49:05.159 –> 00:49:05.880
Everything?

00:49:07.480 –> 00:49:09.559
I think you got no choice in the moment.

00:49:09.880 –> 00:49:11.239
There isn’t a choice, really.

00:49:11.559 –> 00:49:15.719
When the moment comes, you offer everything because you have to.

00:49:16.599 –> 00:49:17.480
That’s my answer.

00:49:17.800 –> 00:49:19.320
And what is your answer, Starling?

00:49:19.639 –> 00:49:21.239
Agree with Aldrich.

00:49:21.400 –> 00:49:22.760
You would offer anything in the moment.

00:49:22.840 –> 00:49:24.039
You could lose so.

00:49:26.599 –> 00:49:29.000
You see the Lich looking at both of you.

00:49:29.320 –> 00:49:30.440
I agree.

00:49:30.760 –> 00:49:32.840
One moment is worth everything.

00:49:35.320 –> 00:49:40.280
One moment can be the difference between a life of good and evil.

00:49:40.599 –> 00:49:46.039
A lifelong regret or everything falling apart.

00:49:47.639 –> 00:49:52.199
I will give you back your flesh, but it will linger with my power.

00:49:52.519 –> 00:49:59.559
A reminder, as you see the flesh grow back, first the muscles, then you see the tendons, and finally the skin.

00:49:59.880 –> 00:50:02.920
It stays much paler than it was before.

00:50:03.239 –> 00:50:07.880
You don’t feel any blood or pulse through it, yet it responds.

00:50:08.519 –> 00:50:08.760
Just.

00:50:10.159 –> 00:50:13.920
Want to say the two palest characters just go a little bit paler.

00:50:15.920 –> 00:50:19.360
You guys have copy paper toned hands.

00:50:21.280 –> 00:50:27.360
Ipid in the back of all of this, he gives a sigh of relief to see that his friends got their hands back.

00:50:29.840 –> 00:50:33.199
I will leave you a parting gift with these hands.

00:50:33.519 –> 00:50:34.719
Does it feel cold?

00:50:35.039 –> 00:50:38.880
If you touch it with your left hand, it does feel cold.

00:50:39.840 –> 00:50:40.159
Tell me.

00:50:41.119 –> 00:50:43.119
What is the bit of magic you yearn for?

00:50:43.440 –> 00:50:48.880
Aldrich’s just looking at his hand and moving it, like opening and closing it.

00:50:49.199 –> 00:50:51.920
I want to change the future.

00:50:52.239 –> 00:50:53.039
But how?

00:50:54.000 –> 00:50:56.079
There are many ways to change the future.

00:50:56.400 –> 00:50:59.119
If you just wanted to change, I can give you that.

00:50:59.440 –> 00:51:00.480
You can give me that?

00:51:00.800 –> 00:51:03.199
Yes, but no control.

00:51:04.079 –> 00:51:06.480
Fate on top of fate.

00:51:06.800 –> 00:51:10.800
Offering the gods a chance to rewrite their own choices.

00:51:11.920 –> 00:51:13.119
That sounds far too scary.

00:51:14.639 –> 00:51:19.679
I guess I want to make sure I can save someone.

00:51:20.159 –> 00:51:21.920
You want to save someone?

00:51:22.239 –> 00:51:25.519
By changing what could happen in a moment.

00:51:25.840 –> 00:51:30.880
I can already sometimes do it, but it’s haphazard in a way it doesn’t always work.

00:51:31.199 –> 00:51:32.719
How would you spare them?

00:51:33.039 –> 00:51:35.039
Would you give them unlife?

00:51:35.360 –> 00:51:36.480
Spare the life?

00:51:37.039 –> 00:51:39.360
Or claim it as your own in service?

00:51:39.679 –> 00:51:40.719
I guess unlife.

00:51:40.800 –> 00:51:42.079
Well, that makes me uncomfortable.

00:51:42.400 –> 00:51:44.239
Makes him a little uncomfortable.

00:51:44.559 –> 00:51:45.280
That’s alright.

00:51:45.519 –> 00:51:47.599
We can all stand this bit of discomfort.

00:51:47.760 –> 00:51:48.800
He looks at Aldric.

00:51:50.320 –> 00:51:50.639
Whoa.

00:51:51.760 –> 00:51:52.320
Huh?

00:51:53.280 –> 00:51:57.280
With this hand, I will give you one spell.

00:51:57.599 –> 00:52:00.719
You can bring back a lost moment and restore life.

00:52:01.360 –> 00:52:09.920
Now, mechanically, what he’s going to do is he is going to give you the ability to cast revivify once a day without a spell slot.

00:52:10.880 –> 00:52:12.960
He turns towards Starling.

00:52:13.280 –> 00:52:14.480
What do you want?

00:52:14.800 –> 00:52:15.519
I’d like to be able to do that.

00:52:15.760 –> 00:52:17.280
How would you be in the future?

00:52:17.599 –> 00:52:20.719
I would like to be able to keep someone busy for several days.

00:52:21.039 –> 00:52:25.519
Someone potentially more dangerous that we can’t deal with without killing them.

00:52:26.000 –> 00:52:27.360
Keep someone busy.

00:52:27.679 –> 00:52:29.679
There’s many ways to keep someone busy.

00:52:30.000 –> 00:52:32.960
Would you like spectral hounds to chase them?

00:52:33.280 –> 00:52:36.559
Would you like to trap them in a nightmare of unneeded death?

00:52:36.880 –> 00:52:40.639
Would you simply like to put them to sleep in an eternal slumber?

00:52:40.960 –> 00:52:43.920
Would you like to steal their soul and put it in a bottle?

00:52:44.239 –> 00:52:48.400
Stealing your soul actually sounds pretty promising, especially if they deserve it.

00:52:48.719 –> 00:52:52.320
Dealing the soul, but it comes with a cost.

00:52:53.519 –> 00:52:55.119
Perhaps not stealing your soul.

00:52:55.280 –> 00:52:58.639
Could I just make them wander aimlessly for as long as I like?

00:52:58.960 –> 00:53:01.440
Oh, I can’t give you as long as you like.

00:53:02.079 –> 00:53:04.559
There’s only so much power I can fit into a hand.

00:53:04.880 –> 00:53:05.920
How about a day?

00:53:06.239 –> 00:53:07.199
A day sounds good.

00:53:07.440 –> 00:53:21.119
No, he’s going to give you the access to the spell feign death, but it will last twenty-four hours, and you can do it to an unwilling creature who fails a wisdom-saving throw.

00:53:21.360 –> 00:53:22.159
Oh my.

00:53:24.079 –> 00:53:26.719
He just gave them two loaded guns.

00:53:27.679 –> 00:53:28.400
I love it.

00:53:28.639 –> 00:53:29.519
Thank you.

00:53:30.400 –> 00:53:39.599
Aldric or Ipid kind of leans over at Aldric is just like, I think this goes to show that I don’t know much about any of these than I think I do.

00:53:39.920 –> 00:53:43.920
Yeah, well, we all have our own thoughts.

00:53:45.440 –> 00:53:49.920
I lean over to Ipid and say, don’t piss off Starling.

00:53:52.480 –> 00:53:52.960
Oh, trust.

00:53:53.360 –> 00:53:56.000
That’s what I’m gathering for this entire thing.

00:53:56.159 –> 00:54:00.559
Oh, trust me, as long as she’s been with us, I never planned on it.

00:54:00.880 –> 00:54:01.519
Yes, I am.

00:54:01.760 –> 00:54:03.679
You see the lich looking around at you.

00:54:03.920 –> 00:54:05.679
You have a little piece of me.

00:54:06.000 –> 00:54:07.519
A little bit of wisdom.

00:54:07.840 –> 00:54:09.440
A little bit of power.

00:54:10.320 –> 00:54:12.000
A little bit of Mambo No. 5.

00:54:17.039 –> 00:54:18.559
You had to do it.

00:54:20.880 –> 00:54:21.760
It was right there.

00:54:24.719 –> 00:54:27.360
Oh, I have bad news for you all.

00:54:28.639 –> 00:54:31.760
You were intending to pass through the mountains, correct?

00:54:32.559 –> 00:54:32.720
Yeah.

00:54:33.360 –> 00:54:35.760
We’re headed to the town named after you, actually.

00:54:37.039 –> 00:54:37.599
Yes.

00:54:38.480 –> 00:54:42.079
The way has collapsed underneath the snowfall and the rain.

00:54:42.639 –> 00:54:47.440
Perhaps if you could move several tons of stone easily, you could get through.

00:54:48.400 –> 00:54:50.000
We have some helpers with that.

00:54:50.559 –> 00:54:54.960
However, the way is dangerous, and the mountains are not safe.

00:54:55.280 –> 00:55:00.880
Due to recent events, they are unstable and prone to landslides.

00:55:01.199 –> 00:55:03.360
I cannot recommend you go through there.

00:55:03.679 –> 00:55:07.920
There is a way that is less treacherous, though it still offers danger.

00:55:08.239 –> 00:55:09.760
The only safe route is to turn.

00:55:11.320 –> 00:55:11.719
Back.

00:55:12.039 –> 00:55:15.880
Can I do an insight check to see if he’s like not trying to lead us down the trap?

00:55:16.760 –> 00:55:17.239
Yes.

00:55:19.400 –> 00:55:20.199
Say fine.

00:55:22.440 –> 00:55:24.599
Um, what is this way you propose then?

00:55:24.920 –> 00:55:25.880
It is a cave.

00:55:26.360 –> 00:55:29.960
Deep in my quarry, there is a passageway that is formed.

00:55:30.280 –> 00:55:40.280
You can travel through there, however, there are some who have taken up residence inside a wizard, a wizard who specializes in elemental magic.

00:55:40.599 –> 00:55:43.880
I do not know his name, but he is feisty.

00:55:44.519 –> 00:55:45.480
Territorial.

00:55:46.119 –> 00:55:50.360
Should you be willing to face him, you have a much easier route through the mountains.

00:55:51.000 –> 00:55:54.679
If you do not, there is no guarantee you will make it through.

00:55:55.559 –> 00:55:56.199
I see.

00:55:56.519 –> 00:56:02.760
Um in regards to the fire giants that we’ve dealt with, what is the likelihood of them returning?

00:56:03.000 –> 00:56:04.760
Do you happen to know anything about that?

00:56:05.320 –> 00:56:07.719
These giants will be back and soon.

00:56:09.000 –> 00:56:13.159
We do have that still we do have that scroll of recall, don’t we?

00:56:13.480 –> 00:56:13.719
Yes.

00:56:16.760 –> 00:56:21.000
It might go back to where all those giants came from originally to attack here.

00:56:21.320 –> 00:56:22.920
Yes, I’m fairly certain it does.

00:56:23.239 –> 00:56:25.000
That’s why I don’t want to go there.

00:56:25.320 –> 00:56:27.000
Yeah, I guess.

00:56:27.320 –> 00:56:29.079
Um all right.

00:56:29.320 –> 00:56:31.320
Also would you like to make a deal?

00:56:31.639 –> 00:56:33.239
He grins at you.

00:56:33.559 –> 00:56:35.400
The skull hanging open.

00:56:35.960 –> 00:56:37.639
I can deal with this little problem.

00:56:37.880 –> 00:56:41.320
You just give me the scroll and give me something valuable.

00:56:41.639 –> 00:56:50.519
I mean, the scroll itself is pretty valuable, I would say the eyes spin around the skull, and you feel them focusing on you, Ipid.

00:56:51.079 –> 00:56:52.360
What can you give me?

00:56:52.679 –> 00:56:54.519
I well, hold on.

00:57:06.039 –> 00:57:07.800
I feel like that’s more of a problem for you.

00:57:08.119 –> 00:57:10.679
Yes, I don’t mind fire giants.

00:57:11.000 –> 00:57:14.199
You think I have some obligation to protect people?

00:57:14.519 –> 00:57:25.400
No, but it seems like these guys are terrorizing these mountains, the home of your giants, and it doesn’t seem like your giants are really violent in any way.

00:57:25.719 –> 00:57:31.800
It just seems like these fire giants they might come and he stares at you.

00:57:32.119 –> 00:57:33.960
You do not know violence.

00:57:34.280 –> 00:57:41.719
And you see an image of one of the quartz giants picking up a fire giant and ripping it clean in half.

00:57:42.920 –> 00:57:45.880
Oh, they can be as violent as I want them to.

00:57:46.440 –> 00:57:50.280
Do not suppose that because I have spared you, I am peaceful.

00:57:50.920 –> 00:57:51.800
I see.

00:57:52.440 –> 00:58:06.280
So, in other words, you act in self-defense, but you’re telling me that if these things were to come back, whatever you do won’t be any help to us to Melrose or any of the surrounding cities of these mountains if they were to come back.

00:58:06.599 –> 00:58:07.960
Certainly not.

00:58:08.280 –> 00:58:13.880
However, if you can make me a good offer, I could be persuaded to be a little more proactive.

00:58:14.440 –> 00:58:24.440
And you see a vision of seven quartz giants appearing in the home of the fire giants, each of them wielding massive quartz swords.

00:58:24.760 –> 00:58:25.559
What do you want?

00:58:25.719 –> 00:58:26.360
Is there anything else?

00:58:26.599 –> 00:58:28.840
There is a job for you.

00:58:29.159 –> 00:58:29.400
Okay.

00:58:30.039 –> 00:58:31.400
What kind of job?

00:58:32.679 –> 00:58:33.639
He looks at you.

00:58:33.960 –> 00:58:36.119
The eyes rolling yet again.

00:58:36.440 –> 00:58:40.199
I do believe you are familiar with the cultists of Berendur.

00:58:41.400 –> 00:58:46.119
I think you know everything we know based on your type of magic, so yes.

00:58:46.440 –> 00:58:48.440
I need you to kill someone for me.

00:58:48.760 –> 00:58:49.960
Oh, is that all okay?

00:58:50.519 –> 00:58:54.199
I’m if it like looks back at scorn and looks back.

00:58:54.519 –> 00:59:03.000
Um that depends on who in the city I built, there’s a man who rules it.

00:59:03.320 –> 00:59:12.360
He has claimed immortality through the wrong means with one of the twisted artifacts of the cultists of Berendur.

00:59:12.679 –> 00:59:15.480
I need you to slay him and recover it.

00:59:16.039 –> 00:59:19.800
He is not invulnerable, merely a mortal.

00:59:20.119 –> 00:59:23.239
You cut him down and he will die, but he will not age.

00:59:23.559 –> 00:59:27.000
And he has been a wicked force over my city for far too long.

00:59:27.320 –> 00:59:30.039
So you’re telling me he got to the temple before we could.

00:59:30.360 –> 00:59:32.599
He got to the temple decades ago.

00:59:36.280 –> 00:59:36.599
No.

00:59:37.239 –> 00:59:40.199
The cult is plotting his demise even as we speak.

00:59:40.519 –> 00:59:42.840
So I need you to kill him first and take it.

00:59:46.840 –> 00:59:49.800
So it goes to show that this cult is still active.

00:59:56.440 –> 00:59:59.639
You’ve probably encountered them more than you are aware of.

00:59:59.960 –> 01:00:00.440
Is that so?

01:00:00.679 –> 01:00:02.920
They have great resources and many agents.

01:00:03.559 –> 01:00:06.679
And they have learned not to be as obvious as they once were.

01:00:07.000 –> 01:00:08.519
They go by many names.

01:00:09.159 –> 01:00:10.840
You cannot trust most that you meet.

01:00:12.159 –> 01:00:13.280
When they are about.

01:00:13.599 –> 01:00:16.960
More commonly, they’ve been summoning devils to do their work.

01:00:17.760 –> 01:00:19.280
Aid in blood and coin.

01:00:19.599 –> 01:00:20.639
I remember those.

01:00:20.960 –> 01:00:23.039
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

01:00:23.360 –> 01:00:30.639
Flashback to the bloody scene of us killing a bone devil in the depths of Drowning Wallis.

01:00:32.239 –> 01:00:37.360
Oh, and before that, there were those two Cambians who were determined to get that chalice from us.

01:00:37.679 –> 01:00:38.239
Very true.

01:00:38.960 –> 01:00:41.119
These guys have been fighting Cambians?

01:00:41.519 –> 01:00:42.159
Fuck yeah.

01:00:44.000 –> 01:00:45.440
Oh, we didn’t fight them.

01:00:45.599 –> 01:00:50.239
I just well, I bullshitted them until they went away.

01:00:50.559 –> 01:00:51.760
Um, yes.

01:00:52.719 –> 01:00:54.719
Um, they weren’t very smart.

01:00:55.280 –> 01:00:59.760
And you, what would you want to do with this artifact if we were to retrieve it?

01:01:01.760 –> 01:01:03.679
I just need this man dead.

01:01:04.000 –> 01:01:06.159
The skull grins white at you.

01:01:06.639 –> 01:01:08.800
I am going back to my city.

01:01:09.119 –> 01:01:16.559
Ipid does an insight check to see if he’s just going to be an asshole at that city if he were to get back there.

01:01:16.719 –> 01:01:18.719
Or whatever he might be plotting.

01:01:19.039 –> 01:01:20.159
World insight.

01:01:20.480 –> 01:01:21.280
God damn it.

01:01:22.559 –> 01:01:24.079
Same thing I got.

01:01:24.880 –> 01:01:30.559
I’d like to make a history check to see if I know anything about the current ruler of Alistair Lost.

01:01:31.199 –> 01:01:31.760
Yes.

01:01:32.079 –> 01:01:32.880
Let’s try that.

01:01:33.199 –> 01:01:35.840
Yeah, because I guess that would be widely known for the most part.

01:01:36.960 –> 01:01:37.280
Nice.

01:01:37.519 –> 01:01:38.719
Well, that could have been worse.

01:01:39.039 –> 01:01:43.599
The current ruler has been in place for around a hundred years now.

01:01:43.920 –> 01:01:50.559
He is known for his magical experiments and the strange tormented figures that come out of them.

01:01:51.199 –> 01:01:54.000
It’s said that there are no prisons in the city.

01:01:54.320 –> 01:01:56.960
A fact that he boasts about.

01:01:57.519 –> 01:02:03.920
But where there are no prisons just means that the prisoners never last long enough to be stuck in one.

01:02:04.239 –> 01:02:06.800
Every crime has a death penalty or worse.

01:02:07.119 –> 01:02:07.360
Yeah.

01:02:07.679 –> 01:02:08.719
So what’s this guy’s name?

01:02:09.039 –> 01:02:09.840
He looks at you.

01:02:10.079 –> 01:02:11.280
His name is Lornick.

01:02:11.760 –> 01:02:12.880
Yes, I’ve heard of him.

01:02:13.119 –> 01:02:14.800
The city might be better off without him.

01:02:14.960 –> 01:02:15.760
Oh, certainly.

01:02:15.920 –> 01:02:17.760
If you return you do.

01:02:18.400 –> 01:02:20.000
What will I do?

01:02:21.280 –> 01:02:24.880
I’ll prepare to set justice back in order in the city.

01:02:25.760 –> 01:02:29.199
I will reestablish my heir’s rightful throne.

01:02:29.519 –> 01:02:32.639
So we’re just going to give you the city and you’re going to get right back.

01:02:33.280 –> 01:02:34.960
So you have an heir.

01:02:35.280 –> 01:02:35.840
Who would that be?

01:02:36.079 –> 01:02:36.400
I do.

01:02:36.639 –> 01:02:37.440
Well, it’s your heir.

01:02:37.519 –> 01:02:41.599
I didn’t mean you’re going to keep it away, but you’re going to give it to your heir, right?

01:02:42.079 –> 01:02:42.639
Yes.

01:02:42.960 –> 01:02:43.920
And who would that be?

01:02:44.239 –> 01:02:48.559
A young man born just a year ago in the city of Linlithgow.

01:02:48.800 –> 01:02:55.199
I don’t know his name yet, but he has pure white hair and eyes as blue as the ocean.

01:02:55.519 –> 01:02:56.880
He will be a good ruler.

01:02:57.360 –> 01:03:04.159
Probably going to be a power vacuum pretty quick if we take out Lornick and look after your heir.

01:03:04.480 –> 01:03:07.519
Well, yes, he won’t be ready to rule until he comes of age.

01:03:07.840 –> 01:03:10.559
Well, I can stand in for a little while.

01:03:10.880 –> 01:03:13.519
Yes, I suppose for you that would be a little while.

01:03:14.480 –> 01:03:17.280
Alistair, is this man Lornick a vampire?

01:03:17.599 –> 01:03:18.239
Is what?

01:03:18.559 –> 01:03:19.519
Is this Lornick?

01:03:19.679 –> 01:03:20.800
Is he a vampire?

01:03:21.119 –> 01:03:22.880
No, he is not.

01:03:23.199 –> 01:03:26.639
Had you ever thought of becoming a vampire when you were still alive?

01:03:26.960 –> 01:03:28.480
Oh, I had considered it.

01:03:28.800 –> 01:03:32.239
It would just be a trip over to Drowning Wallis and paying the right people.

01:03:32.880 –> 01:03:35.679
But no, I never found it too appealing.

01:03:36.000 –> 01:03:40.639
I wished to be free of all carnal desires.

01:03:40.960 –> 01:03:47.440
No more hunger, no more thirst, and being a vampire is all about hunger and thirst.

01:03:48.000 –> 01:03:49.039
Understandable.

01:03:49.679 –> 01:03:53.280
Well, Linlithgow is on the way to Alistair’s lost.

01:03:53.920 –> 01:03:55.760
We could find your heir.

01:03:56.079 –> 01:03:57.280
Yes, you could.

01:03:57.599 –> 01:04:00.719
Are they like related to you in blood, though?

01:04:00.880 –> 01:04:02.719
Like, how far back does this go?

01:04:03.039 –> 01:04:06.239
This goes back to when I fled the city of Alistair.

01:04:06.559 –> 01:04:08.079
Back when I got lost.

01:04:11.119 –> 01:04:12.559
How long ago was that?

01:04:12.880 –> 01:04:14.719
Oh, I don’t remember the years.

01:04:15.039 –> 01:04:20.559
But I went and founded a city in the mountains, and since then my bloodline has remained there.

01:04:20.880 –> 01:04:21.440
I see.

01:04:21.760 –> 01:04:25.039
Now, these usurpers who chased me from my throne.

01:04:25.360 –> 01:04:27.199
They are the ones who rule now.

01:04:27.519 –> 01:04:30.960
And I merely want them smeared on the ground like an insect.

01:04:31.519 –> 01:04:31.760
Okay.

01:04:32.320 –> 01:04:33.599
So this is the deal.

01:04:33.920 –> 01:04:36.079
You want your throne back.

01:04:36.400 –> 01:04:40.079
The throne that rightfully was yours to go back into your bloodline.

01:04:40.400 –> 01:04:47.119
And from doing this, you will give the throne to your heir once he or she is ready, or whichever.

01:04:47.760 –> 01:04:56.720
And you will be able to have your giants help stop the invasion of the fire giants of this land.

01:04:57.039 –> 01:04:57.519
Yes.

01:04:57.840 –> 01:04:59.360
It is a fair bargain.

01:04:59.679 –> 01:05:02.400
I topple one throne and you topple another.

01:05:02.720 –> 01:05:05.360
We’re keeping the artifact from a cult.

01:05:05.760 –> 01:05:06.639
That is true.

01:05:07.440 –> 01:05:11.360
It’s another thing to mark off our list, pretty much.

01:05:11.679 –> 01:05:11.840
Oh.

01:05:13.159 –> 01:05:15.000
I don’t care what happens to the artifact.

01:05:15.239 –> 01:05:18.440
It’s a trinket, and I know better immortality than that.

01:05:18.760 –> 01:05:22.280
Um I have another question for you, though.

01:05:22.599 –> 01:05:31.559
We understand that you might be aware of a recent event that took place of a being that was released recently.

01:05:31.880 –> 01:05:33.719
Well, not so recent.

01:05:34.039 –> 01:05:37.639
A few months ago, it flew across the sky from west to east.

01:05:38.199 –> 01:05:40.119
Oh, you speak of that thing.

01:05:40.760 –> 01:05:41.480
That thing.

01:05:41.960 –> 01:05:42.280
Yes.

01:05:42.599 –> 01:05:45.239
Well, where I’m from, we call that a woman.

01:05:45.880 –> 01:05:46.039
What?

01:05:46.599 –> 01:05:48.519
But you might call it something else.

01:05:48.840 –> 01:05:50.119
Well, that’s interesting.

01:05:50.440 –> 01:05:51.880
What do you mean by that?

01:05:52.199 –> 01:05:53.480
I mean it’s a woman.

01:05:53.800 –> 01:05:53.960
Oh.

01:05:54.360 –> 01:05:59.000
She is currently frolicking and partying in Linlithgow.

01:05:59.960 –> 01:06:04.199
From what I have heard, she can drink like no other.

01:06:05.079 –> 01:06:08.119
You wouldn’t happen to know what she looks like, would you?

01:06:08.679 –> 01:06:10.039
What she looks like?

01:06:10.360 –> 01:06:10.840
Yes.

01:06:11.400 –> 01:06:15.079
Stark white hair and burning red eyes.

01:06:15.400 –> 01:06:17.960
Her skin is as pale as the moonlight.

01:06:21.639 –> 01:06:26.440
Now, she walks around in whatever clothing she pleases.

01:06:26.760 –> 01:06:31.000
Typically now, it is just whatever the peasants in town favor.

01:06:31.239 –> 01:06:32.760
Common fashion.

01:06:34.039 –> 01:06:36.360
You are aware it’s a celestial, though, right?

01:06:36.440 –> 01:06:39.239
And it’s just drinking in Linlithgow.

01:06:39.320 –> 01:06:40.199
That’s all it’s doing?

01:06:40.519 –> 01:06:40.760
Yes.

01:06:41.400 –> 01:06:42.840
That’s all it’s doing right now.

01:06:43.159 –> 01:06:47.079
It’s part celestial and I think part vampire, if I can recall correctly.

01:06:47.320 –> 01:06:47.639
Yes.

01:06:47.960 –> 01:06:50.679
So there are quite a few people it has been drinking from.

01:06:51.000 –> 01:06:52.760
Yes, we should go to Linlithgow.

01:06:55.480 –> 01:06:55.800
No, God.

01:06:56.599 –> 01:06:56.679
Okay.

01:06:58.280 –> 01:07:00.119
Sounds like a fun time.

01:07:00.760 –> 01:07:08.679
Well, yeah, I think it’s our obligation to go find her because, well, and put her back where she came from.

01:07:09.000 –> 01:07:09.159
Yeah.

01:07:09.880 –> 01:07:11.320
I wouldn’t recommend that.

01:07:11.639 –> 01:07:14.199
That sell has been broken and it won’t go back in.

01:07:14.519 –> 01:07:14.760
Oh.

01:07:15.000 –> 01:07:16.440
The cat’s out of the bag.

01:07:16.760 –> 01:07:20.679
Well, how was she stored away all that time ago then?

01:07:21.239 –> 01:07:21.800
How?

01:07:22.119 –> 01:07:22.360
Yeah.

01:07:22.840 –> 01:07:23.400
Yes.

01:07:23.719 –> 01:07:26.360
Are you familiar with how to bind a celestial?

01:07:26.840 –> 01:07:27.559
Not really.

01:07:27.880 –> 01:07:28.920
Not particularly now.

01:07:29.239 –> 01:07:32.039
It involves a lot of long, complicated magic.

01:07:32.360 –> 01:07:38.199
Now, unless you have two or three decades to spend casting that magic, you won’t get her in there anytime soon.

01:07:38.519 –> 01:07:39.079
Understood.

01:07:39.639 –> 01:07:41.559
I do have other plans, yes.

01:07:41.880 –> 01:07:43.400
Do you want some advice?

01:07:43.719 –> 01:07:44.599
Sure, always.

01:07:45.239 –> 01:07:47.079
You should be the voice of temptation.

01:07:47.400 –> 01:07:48.679
Lure her away.

01:07:49.000 –> 01:07:50.519
Get her to do whatever you please.

01:07:50.840 –> 01:07:53.719
Offer her all the joys she wishes.

01:07:54.119 –> 01:07:55.719
Who’s gonna do that anyway?

01:07:57.239 –> 01:07:58.119
No problem.

01:08:00.519 –> 01:08:00.920
All right.

01:08:01.159 –> 01:08:05.800
You see, celestials, they have all their tendencies towards good and whatnot.

01:08:06.119 –> 01:08:10.920
And vampires, they have all their tendencies towards every kind of indulgence.

01:08:11.239 –> 01:08:16.760
This thing, it will indulge in whatever it pleases, but it inherently is good.

01:08:17.079 –> 01:08:17.479
Right.

01:08:17.800 –> 01:08:19.479
But it can be corrupted.

01:08:19.800 –> 01:08:21.640
There is such a thing as a fallen angel.

01:08:21.800 –> 01:08:22.920
I have made a few.

01:08:23.239 –> 01:08:24.520
So we should get there soon.

01:08:24.840 –> 01:08:25.399
Yes.

01:08:25.720 –> 01:08:27.479
And you’re not the only ones looking.

01:08:27.800 –> 01:08:28.760
I’m sure we’re not.

01:08:29.079 –> 01:08:33.399
If the cultists of Berendur get there first, they will have a powerful tool.

01:08:33.720 –> 01:08:35.000
We can’t allow that.

01:08:35.319 –> 01:08:38.039
I just have one question about Lornick.

01:08:40.439 –> 01:08:45.239
Why didn’t you try to just directly get rid of him yourself?

01:08:45.560 –> 01:08:50.840
Well, Alistair, there’s something you should understand about human nature.

01:08:51.479 –> 01:08:57.960
And that is, whenever a ruler comes in, kills the existing one, knocks everything around, and takes over.

01:08:58.279 –> 01:09:00.279
People generally don’t like that if it’s a lich.

01:09:00.760 –> 01:09:01.399
I interrupted.

01:09:02.039 –> 01:09:13.399
Eventually it’s come and kill a despot, and then a handsome person shows up and says, Oh, I’ll take over and make everything powerful and nice, and he just happens to be a powerful wizard who’s kind of scary.

01:09:13.720 –> 01:09:15.000
They’re okay with that.

01:09:15.319 –> 01:09:18.039
I’m also going to need to pretend to kill you guys.

01:09:18.359 –> 01:09:19.000
Wait, what?

01:09:19.319 –> 01:09:23.800
Pretend I need an excuse to take over.

01:09:24.119 –> 01:09:31.640
So you are going to go in there, kill the existing ruler, be violent and wicked, and then I will come in, put a big show on, and slay you.

01:09:31.960 –> 01:09:33.720
Oh no, don’t do violent and wicked.

01:09:33.960 –> 01:09:34.199
Sorry.

01:09:35.159 –> 01:09:36.920
Does that mean we can never come back?

01:09:37.239 –> 01:09:39.239
Don’t worry, I won’t actually kill you.

01:09:39.560 –> 01:09:41.159
Just a bit of political theater.

01:09:44.199 –> 01:09:45.319
I’m not sure.

01:09:46.520 –> 01:09:56.359
You mean to and how are we to believe that you will lead Alistair Lost into something that the people there deserve?

01:09:56.680 –> 01:10:00.520
You mean to tell me that this current ruler is corrupt or wicked?

01:10:00.840 –> 01:10:02.520
And are you to be better?

01:10:02.840 –> 01:10:06.760
I don’t know if I’d be less less wicked, but certainly less corrupt.

01:10:07.079 –> 01:10:09.960
Yeah, he doesn’t want anything of this world.

01:10:10.279 –> 01:10:10.520
Okay.

01:10:11.159 –> 01:10:12.279
Doesn’t want money?

01:10:12.520 –> 01:10:12.920
Doesn’t want to.

01:10:17.760 –> 01:10:20.000
Ipid sees some collateral.

01:10:20.319 –> 01:10:23.760
Ipid sees one side of this and he’s keeping it to himself.

01:10:25.920 –> 01:10:27.279
We need some collateral.

01:10:28.560 –> 01:10:30.880
We need something to put trust in you.

01:10:30.960 –> 01:10:35.119
We’ll give back, but it seems like we’re putting an awful lot of trust in you.

01:10:35.520 –> 01:10:36.800
You may actually kill us.

01:10:37.680 –> 01:10:38.399
We couldn’t do anything.

01:10:38.720 –> 01:10:39.600
How about this?

01:10:39.920 –> 01:10:41.439
I will give you all rings.

01:10:42.000 –> 01:10:47.039
Enchanted rings that can take you back to the crossroads whenever you please.

01:10:47.359 –> 01:10:50.319
Ooh, that would actually be really helpful.

01:10:50.640 –> 01:10:51.840
What about the horses?

01:10:52.159 –> 01:10:53.039
Yeah, can we take our rifles?

01:10:53.439 –> 01:10:54.640
We can take the horses.

01:10:54.960 –> 01:10:55.760
Oh, thank God.

01:10:58.640 –> 01:11:06.399
And if we were to leave the crooked cross goes, we would go back to where we had originally went to, like, come from.

01:11:06.720 –> 01:11:06.960
Oh.

01:11:07.359 –> 01:11:08.159
No, one way.

01:11:08.720 –> 01:11:12.159
So it’s a bit of an escape route, but not much of a highway.

01:11:13.119 –> 01:11:18.720
And so I’m thinking, as we put on a little show, you guys get holed up in some rickety tavern.

01:11:18.800 –> 01:11:20.800
I burn the thing down and declare you dead.

01:11:21.119 –> 01:11:24.640
Wouldn’t be necessary if nobody knew it was us who killed him.

01:11:24.960 –> 01:11:25.680
Wait, that’s true.

01:11:26.560 –> 01:11:30.560
I don’t need them to know it was you, but I need them to know it was someone.

01:11:31.840 –> 01:11:39.920
Right, because if the ruler of Alistair Lost goes away and then there’s nobody to really take over, that would raise suspicion.

01:11:40.239 –> 01:11:45.119
Oh, I guess we could probably kill it.

01:11:46.399 –> 01:11:47.840
We’re gonna steal that relic.

01:11:48.079 –> 01:11:49.840
We could probably pin it on the cultists.

01:11:50.159 –> 01:11:51.840
You do what to the cultists?

01:11:52.159 –> 01:11:54.720
Oh, we could probably get the cultist blame for his death.

01:11:55.039 –> 01:11:56.479
Yes, that would be very good.

01:11:56.800 –> 01:11:58.640
And then you could go kill some of them instead.

01:11:58.960 –> 01:11:59.600
For real.

01:12:00.720 –> 01:12:01.840
Oh, yes.

01:12:02.159 –> 01:12:05.279
Always a good excuse to go on a violent rampage.

01:12:06.640 –> 01:12:08.319
Yeah, nobody likes him very much.

01:12:08.560 –> 01:12:10.000
Yeah, you’re speaking violent.

01:12:10.239 –> 01:12:12.800
Well, I will give you the rings.

01:12:13.119 –> 01:12:19.760
Together, the five of them can make a summoning circle that will send you back to the crossroads whenever it is formed.

01:12:20.079 –> 01:12:21.199
I’ve heard of the crossroads.

01:12:21.279 –> 01:12:22.000
I’ve been missing.

01:12:22.399 –> 01:12:26.000
Oh, it’s a mighty fine city where no one’s really in charge, and everyone thinks they are.

01:12:26.319 –> 01:12:26.880
Oh, nice.

01:12:27.680 –> 01:12:29.039
That’s where I met these guys.

01:12:29.279 –> 01:12:30.399
He points in scorn and all.

01:12:32.319 –> 01:12:32.640
Yep.

01:12:32.880 –> 01:12:35.439
I have an old friend who’s planning on opening a tavern there.

01:12:35.920 –> 01:12:37.119
I mean, you can check that out.

01:12:38.880 –> 01:12:39.119
Okay.

01:12:39.920 –> 01:12:43.600
Um, understood, sir.

01:12:43.920 –> 01:12:45.600
So you will go kill him.

01:12:45.920 –> 01:12:49.119
We will deal with it.

01:12:49.439 –> 01:12:49.920
Yes.

01:12:50.479 –> 01:12:52.159
I will know if he’s not dead.

01:12:52.479 –> 01:12:55.520
At a minimum, he’ll be removed from power permanently.

01:12:55.840 –> 01:12:58.479
We have our own means of taking care of business.

01:12:58.800 –> 01:13:00.560
You just leave that part to us.

01:13:00.880 –> 01:13:05.680
You will know when things are being taken care of, since you’re all knowing, clearly.

01:13:06.000 –> 01:13:06.960
Oh, not all knowing.

01:13:07.119 –> 01:13:09.119
I just know everything that happens in the city.

01:13:09.920 –> 01:13:11.439
I have spies everywhere.

01:13:11.760 –> 01:13:14.720
Well, then you’ll know what happens when it happens.

01:13:15.920 –> 01:13:19.760
You can see Ipid’s growing to be a little frustrated with him.

01:13:20.319 –> 01:13:26.960
I mean, if he’s really as evil and wicked and terrible as you say he is, I mean, I don’t see a problem with we should kill him then.

01:13:27.359 –> 01:13:28.000
Why wouldn’t we?

01:13:28.239 –> 01:13:29.520
I’m a starling on this.

01:13:30.159 –> 01:13:31.760
Ipid, why do you have such a problem?

01:13:32.560 –> 01:13:36.399
I have no problem with Ipid, like, sort of just like he kind of like loses himself.

01:13:36.800 –> 01:13:40.399
I have no problem with taking care of a crooked, corrupt leader.

01:13:40.720 –> 01:13:46.159
I guess I just have a problem with not knowing what this guy is going to be up to once he decides to take over.

01:13:46.319 –> 01:13:48.399
And he looks over at Alzdare.

01:13:49.119 –> 01:13:51.279
Mean to tell me you’re going to be a better leader?

01:13:51.600 –> 01:13:58.560
It seems like your ways of communicating to us and playing these games seem wicked in your own right.

01:13:58.800 –> 01:14:01.039
And I honestly, I honestly don’t trust you.

01:14:01.359 –> 01:14:03.840
He could have kept both of our arms, but he didn’t.

01:14:04.159 –> 01:14:08.880
I understand that, but that’s just a matter of him playing his weird games.

01:14:09.199 –> 01:14:11.359
I guess we’ll have a lot of time to think about it, Ipid.

01:14:11.680 –> 01:14:12.960
Ipid looks over at the Lich.

01:14:13.600 –> 01:14:21.920
Look, we’ll take care of this guy because it’s simply the right thing to do, and it’s something that we need to take care of regardless.

01:14:22.239 –> 01:14:34.880
But believe me, when I say this, if you treat innocent people or if you decide to be corrupt to this city, I personally will prevent that from happening.

01:14:35.199 –> 01:14:36.159
And he looks at the Lich.

01:14:36.720 –> 01:14:37.920
Lich looks at you.

01:14:38.239 –> 01:14:39.920
I admire your confidence.

01:14:40.239 –> 01:14:44.880
I admire your selfish belief that you are a tool of justice.

01:14:46.399 –> 01:14:47.520
Very well.

01:14:47.840 –> 01:14:51.920
If I do wrong by your judgment, you are free to come after me.

01:14:52.239 –> 01:14:55.119
Would you like a token so you can find me easier?

01:14:55.439 –> 01:14:58.159
Ipid looks at him and he nods.

01:14:58.479 –> 01:15:06.399
You see him reach down to the stone next to him, and you see it glow and meld under his fingers and he hands you a stone ring.

01:15:06.800 –> 01:15:07.840
Getting a lot of rings.

01:15:08.720 –> 01:15:13.439
His thorns feel colder than the air around him, like touching ice.

01:15:15.239 –> 01:15:17.399
Wear this ring and you’ll know where I am.

01:15:17.720 –> 01:15:19.560
No matter where I am, you’ll know.

01:15:19.880 –> 01:15:22.680
So, should you choose, you can come find me.

01:15:23.000 –> 01:15:25.880
Ipid takes the ring and he puts it away.

01:15:26.199 –> 01:15:38.439
And he looks over at the rest of the group and he looks up at the litch and he says, Well, if that’s everything, I if it just seems frustrated, he’s like, Just where’s this where’s this cave you speak of?

01:15:38.600 –> 01:15:40.359
So we can just get to Alistair Lost.

01:15:41.159 –> 01:15:42.199
Wait, Linlithgow.

01:15:42.680 –> 01:15:44.520
Or, yeah, Linlithgow.

01:15:44.920 –> 01:15:47.960
I will give you a little servant to follow.

01:15:48.279 –> 01:15:51.479
Don’t worry, it’s quite adorable and friendly.

01:15:51.800 –> 01:15:52.199
Right.

01:15:52.520 –> 01:16:00.520
From outside, you hear the slow grinding of stone quicken, and inside you see a marble cat come walking in.

01:16:00.840 –> 01:16:02.439
This will lead you to the cave.

01:16:02.760 –> 01:16:14.680
Ipid, without looking at the lich, and without making much motion to the rest of the group, he steps away from the area and like leaves the tomb just to wait outside at this point.

01:16:15.079 –> 01:16:17.159
Litch looks around at those who remain.

01:16:17.479 –> 01:16:18.680
Are you going to follow him?

01:16:18.920 –> 01:16:20.520
Would you like to have something further?

01:16:20.840 –> 01:16:22.039
I believe we’re done here.

01:16:23.399 –> 01:16:25.319
I think we’ll get late anyway.

01:16:26.039 –> 01:16:27.880
Do we still have that stone in our hand?

01:16:28.199 –> 01:16:28.680
Yes.

01:16:29.000 –> 01:16:32.119
So, does this stone have a power or doesn’t?

01:16:33.399 –> 01:16:34.760
It has a latent power.

01:16:35.079 –> 01:16:40.039
But should you give it the specific unlocking of it will be a craftsman in Linlithgow.

01:16:40.359 –> 01:16:41.319
Oh, yeah, right.

01:16:41.640 –> 01:16:43.319
Well, Aldric will pocket that.

01:16:43.560 –> 01:16:44.520
I guess that’s it.

01:16:45.000 –> 01:16:47.479
You know, I’d like to speak to you in the future.

01:16:48.119 –> 01:16:50.039
Maybe once all this blows over.

01:16:50.359 –> 01:16:50.840
Yes.

01:16:51.159 –> 01:16:54.920
Well, after all this blows over, I’ll be in Alistair Lost.

01:16:55.479 –> 01:16:58.520
Yeah, maybe you and I will have something interesting to discuss.

01:16:58.840 –> 01:17:00.359
He looks at you with his grin.

01:17:00.680 –> 01:17:01.800
Hopefully, we do.

01:17:02.119 –> 01:17:04.039
Aldric will start to walk away.

01:17:05.239 –> 01:17:10.199
As you are walking away, you hear say one more thing.

01:17:10.520 –> 01:17:13.880
The man you’re looking for, his name is Morrigan.

01:17:14.920 –> 01:17:18.520
He is the craftsman who will bring out the potential in the stone.

01:17:18.840 –> 01:17:19.880
Oh, and Linlithgow.

01:17:21.560 –> 01:17:26.359
Alright, let’s take a 15-minute break here and pick up as you are entering the caverns.

01:17:26.680 –> 01:17:27.159
Alrighty.

01:17:27.319 –> 01:17:27.560
Okay.

01:17:27.800 –> 01:17:28.439
Sounds good.

01:17:29.159 –> 01:17:31.000
I feel like we had a lot of info there.

01:17:31.239 –> 01:17:40.119
See, when we come back, can we do like a two-minute QA of like what the hell’s going on?

01:17:40.760 –> 01:17:40.920
Yeah.

01:17:41.479 –> 01:17:41.640
Yeah.

01:17:41.880 –> 01:17:46.039
Yeah, because I would like to just make sure I know our mission and the pieces.

01:17:46.359 –> 01:17:47.079
Yeah, certainly.

01:17:47.399 –> 01:17:47.960
Cool.

01:17:48.600 –> 01:17:49.960
I’ll see you soon.

01:17:57.319 –> 01:17:58.199
Hello.

01:17:59.079 –> 01:17:59.560
Hello.

01:17:59.880 –> 01:18:01.000
Play any musical instrument?

01:18:01.159 –> 01:18:02.039
No.

01:18:09.159 –> 01:18:09.800
Oh, wow.

01:18:10.119 –> 01:18:11.159
My son, I’m listening.

01:18:11.560 –> 01:18:12.199
I bet that’s fun.

01:18:12.520 –> 01:18:13.399
I bet that’s fun.

01:18:15.880 –> 01:18:19.479
The black things are damp and it’s you don’t hear the drum.

01:18:19.560 –> 01:18:20.920
It gives you like crushing sounds.

01:18:21.800 –> 01:18:23.399
They’re not loud at all.

01:18:24.920 –> 01:18:32.039
I wish they just made the chocolate chip cookie dough cookies without the chocolate chips.

01:18:33.079 –> 01:18:34.279
Yeah, I just want cookie dough.

01:18:34.359 –> 01:18:35.159
Just straight cookie dough.

01:18:37.319 –> 01:18:40.119
You can just make cookie dough with no chocolate chips.

01:18:40.840 –> 01:18:43.159
I want Costco to do it, alright?

01:18:48.039 –> 01:18:48.600
I never.

01:18:49.159 –> 01:18:52.680
When I go shopping, I usually try to avoid stuff like this.

01:18:53.079 –> 01:18:55.720
Then my fiancé, she likes, she’s like, ooh, cookies.

01:18:55.800 –> 01:18:57.239
She puts it in the cart and looks at me.

01:18:58.039 –> 01:18:59.239
I’m like, all right.

01:18:59.800 –> 01:19:02.199
And these are really hard to stop eating.

01:19:02.520 –> 01:19:05.720
Dude, I crush those Costco cookies.

01:19:06.600 –> 01:19:07.479
I can’t buy them.

01:19:07.640 –> 01:19:11.479
I would gain 20 pounds if I bought those every time I went to Costco.

01:19:13.079 –> 01:19:13.720
They’re so.

01:19:14.279 –> 01:19:14.840
They’re very.

01:19:16.520 –> 01:19:19.479
There’s something specific about the way that they’re baked, that I really.

01:19:19.880 –> 01:19:21.079
They’re so snackable.

01:19:21.960 –> 01:19:23.079
These soft looks.

01:19:23.479 –> 01:19:25.560
Soft cookies are the best.

01:19:27.479 –> 01:19:30.039
And I mean, 60 cookies for 10 bucks?

01:19:30.520 –> 01:19:30.680
Good.

01:19:31.479 –> 01:19:32.199
That’s awesome.

01:19:32.439 –> 01:19:34.439
It’s like 60 cents a cookie.

01:19:34.760 –> 01:19:36.359
Yeah, I love Costco.

01:19:37.640 –> 01:19:39.000
I don’t have any around.

01:19:39.560 –> 01:19:40.039
Dang.

01:19:40.600 –> 01:19:43.239
Well, kind of don’t get like 30 minutes for apparently.

01:19:43.640 –> 01:19:44.680
I used to be a green.

01:19:45.159 –> 01:19:47.000
We used to be a BJ’s family.

01:19:47.319 –> 01:19:47.640
Okay.

01:19:48.439 –> 01:19:55.000
But I was a BJs for like two years, and then when I moved to this apartment, the Costco is literally so much closer.

01:19:55.079 –> 01:19:56.359
I don’t know why I didn’t do the Switch.

01:19:56.439 –> 01:20:00.199
So I was just like, alright, when the new year starts, we’ll become Costco members.

01:20:01.239 –> 01:20:03.560
I’m literally five minutes away from a Costco.

01:20:04.199 –> 01:20:05.960
And you know what kills me?

01:20:06.279 –> 01:20:08.439
Is those $1.50 hot dogs.

01:20:09.640 –> 01:20:12.439
I’m not a big fan of hot dogs in general.

01:20:12.760 –> 01:20:14.840
So I did go today.

01:20:16.640 –> 01:20:22.239
Left spending almost like we spent like $300 on what we needed.

01:20:22.560 –> 01:20:22.800
Yeah.

01:20:23.600 –> 01:20:29.840
And then I got my slice of pizza and a soda, and Sarah got her thing of vanilla ice cream.

01:20:30.479 –> 01:20:33.760
And I was like, ah, yes, it’s 10 a.m.

01:20:34.000 –> 01:20:37.359
This is a great way to start my morning.

01:20:38.000 –> 01:20:44.640
When I was a freshman in college, I was really broke, but I was still on my parents’ Costco membership.

01:20:44.720 –> 01:20:48.239
So I decided I was going to try to figure out how to make that work.

01:20:48.560 –> 01:20:55.119
And so one of the things about being an engineering student is you’re really good at optimizing things.

01:20:56.319 –> 01:21:07.439
One of the bad things about being an engineering student is you don’t really have the presence of mind to think I shouldn’t just optimize my diet to get the right amount of calories with the least effort and least money.

01:21:08.720 –> 01:21:17.760
So due to that lack of presence of mind and being 18 and all that, I decided I was just going to live off of Costco pizza.

01:21:18.399 –> 01:21:24.159
And I found out you can survive off of three Costco pizzas a week.

01:21:25.359 –> 01:21:26.319
And so that’s what I would do.

01:21:26.479 –> 01:21:30.880
I would go to Costco three times a week and buy a pizza, and that’s all I would eat.

01:21:31.199 –> 01:21:33.359
And I did that for a solid two months.

01:21:33.680 –> 01:21:35.840
And then I’m like, man, I’m going to die.

01:21:36.319 –> 01:21:37.680
I need some vegetables.

01:21:38.319 –> 01:21:44.880
Oh, Elias, I see a discrepancy here because we changed my legacy from Infernal.

01:21:45.520 –> 01:21:45.600
What?

01:21:48.079 –> 01:21:50.000
Okay, just give me a second to update that.

01:21:51.279 –> 01:21:52.880
So what are we drinking, Alistair?

01:21:55.920 –> 01:21:59.119
Because the same as coffee.

01:22:00.239 –> 01:22:01.279
What do you do with your coffee?

01:22:01.359 –> 01:22:02.720
I want to know how you take your coffee.

01:22:02.880 –> 01:22:03.840
What do you think I do?

01:22:04.000 –> 01:22:07.279
And I think it will be very close to what Alistair does.

01:22:07.520 –> 01:22:08.880
It’s coffee not tea, though.

01:22:09.119 –> 01:22:10.960
I think you do just straight black coffee.

01:22:11.199 –> 01:22:11.840
Correct.

01:22:13.439 –> 01:22:13.760
Yeah.

01:22:14.079 –> 01:22:16.159
Just like Aldrich would do, I think.

01:22:16.479 –> 01:22:21.279
Very much based off of the drinks that you’ve seen me consume weekly.

01:22:21.600 –> 01:22:26.399
The safe assumption for my coffee order is like, I want three cream, I want three sugar.

01:22:28.800 –> 01:22:29.119
Yeah.

01:22:31.279 –> 01:22:35.119
Are you a caramel macchiato kind of person?

01:22:35.760 –> 01:22:36.640
No, I’m not that.

01:22:36.800 –> 01:22:39.199
No, I really only stick to the cream and sugar.

01:22:39.520 –> 01:22:42.079
And honestly, I try not to drink a lot of coffee anyway.

01:22:42.239 –> 01:22:45.600
Before I was doing it daily, but I always put sugar in my coffee.

01:22:45.760 –> 01:22:46.640
So it was like.

01:22:49.520 –> 01:22:55.520
Yeah, I switched to doing black coffee because I think I had too much sugar in my diet anyway.

01:22:55.600 –> 01:22:57.840
So I was adding extra sugar and coffee.

01:22:57.920 –> 01:23:00.880
And I just thought, well, maybe that’s a way to cut down for me.

01:23:01.199 –> 01:23:04.800
When you do black coffee, are you being more specific with your type of coffee, though?

01:23:04.880 –> 01:23:13.359
Because I feel like when you’re customizing your coffee and stuff, I literally could care less about the type of coffee I was drinking because I was always filling it with cream and sugar.

01:23:13.680 –> 01:23:18.159
Like, are you like, ah, this specific brand and this roast is exactly what I need?

01:23:18.399 –> 01:23:19.439
No, I’m very lazy.

01:23:19.520 –> 01:23:21.600
I’m not a coffee person like that.

01:23:21.920 –> 01:23:22.800
But I know what you mean.

01:23:22.880 –> 01:23:25.920
People will go and like research it, right?

01:23:26.000 –> 01:23:28.399
They will go and get specific beans.

01:23:28.800 –> 01:23:29.760
No, I’m quite lazy.

01:23:30.159 –> 01:23:31.359
I just get whatever.

01:23:32.319 –> 01:23:34.880
I just want something warm to drink.

01:23:35.439 –> 01:23:36.720
And coffee is pretty good for that.

01:23:37.600 –> 01:23:37.840
Yeah.

01:23:39.199 –> 01:23:41.520
I drink coffee like an engineering student.

01:23:41.840 –> 01:23:51.279
So I got in the habit of drinking so much coffee throughout the day that I would have a coffee like an hour before bed and I would still sleep.

01:23:52.399 –> 01:23:54.720
So I would get up, I would have coffee.

01:23:55.039 –> 01:24:01.760
I’d go to class, I’d have more coffee, and it would just keep that going back and forth of like every two hours another coffee.

01:24:02.079 –> 01:24:04.479
And then I’m like, how much caffeine am I having in the day?

01:24:04.640 –> 01:24:06.079
And the answer was too much.

01:24:07.439 –> 01:24:08.640
Bad for your bladder.

01:24:08.960 –> 01:24:12.399
Do you get any shakes or other symptoms?

01:24:13.600 –> 01:24:16.239
No, but I would get the shakes if I stopped having it.

01:24:17.439 –> 01:24:24.399
I think if I had too much, I get a little bit like I was having somewhere around 2,000 milligrams of caffeine in a day.

01:24:25.359 –> 01:24:30.239
Earlier, I would drink a 300-milligram monster and took a nap.

01:24:30.560 –> 01:24:30.880
Yeah.

01:24:31.840 –> 01:24:34.560
I have ADHD, so the caffeine affects me weird.

01:24:35.439 –> 01:24:37.840
And so I just always wanted more.

01:24:38.079 –> 01:24:41.760
So one day I had, I think it was nine bangs in a day.

01:24:42.720 –> 01:24:43.600
What’s a bang?

01:24:43.920 –> 01:24:44.560
It’s an American.

01:24:44.640 –> 01:24:47.840
It’s an energy drink with like an obscene amount of calf.

01:24:48.079 –> 01:24:51.199
It has the legal limit of caffeine of how much you can put in one can.

01:24:53.760 –> 01:24:54.079
Honestly.

01:24:54.720 –> 01:24:58.640
It’s like as much caffeine as a person should have in a day is in one can of those.

01:24:58.960 –> 01:25:01.119
And I had nine of those one day.

01:25:02.079 –> 01:25:05.279
Were you like seeing the next dimension by that point?

01:25:05.600 –> 01:25:06.960
Dude, my heart was fluttering.

01:25:07.039 –> 01:25:08.560
I was feeling like I was going to pass out.

01:25:08.720 –> 01:25:10.000
I was sweating a ton.

01:25:10.319 –> 01:25:11.439
It was horrible.

01:25:11.760 –> 01:25:12.880
Did it put you off?

01:25:13.199 –> 01:25:15.760
Or the next day you go and do some more?

01:25:18.199 –> 01:25:20.199
No, I stopped having bangs after that.

01:25:20.520 –> 01:25:21.000
Oh, you thought?

01:25:21.640 –> 01:25:23.319
Yeah, I was just done with those.

01:25:23.960 –> 01:25:25.079
Ipid, what are you drinking?

01:25:25.239 –> 01:25:26.760
I’m sorry, Ray, what are you drinking?

01:25:27.000 –> 01:25:29.560
That’s the first time I ever heard you call me by my nickname.

01:25:31.640 –> 01:25:33.960
You’re gonna, you might make fun of me for this.

01:25:34.119 –> 01:25:38.279
I’m having ginger ale mixed with some good old Irish whiskey.

01:25:38.520 –> 01:25:45.319
But it’s probably that was not what I expected to hear.

01:25:45.560 –> 01:25:46.680
Yeah, but that’s interesting.

01:25:48.920 –> 01:25:54.840
But the most garbage shit head Irish whiskey you could think of.

01:25:55.079 –> 01:26:03.000
Dude, I feel like you just like you get the vibe of someone who walks into the gas station, grabs a random soda, and grabs something off the bottom of yourself.

01:26:03.640 –> 01:26:07.079
Yeah, I mean, what do you want from me?

01:26:07.399 –> 01:26:08.359
It’s what I do.

01:26:08.680 –> 01:26:10.119
No, I’ve been there.

01:26:13.000 –> 01:26:16.600
I learned my lesson about drinking off the bottom shelf once.

01:26:17.720 –> 01:26:25.800
I drank a whole bottle of bottom shelf Canadian whiskey, and that was the worst hangover I’ve ever had.

01:26:28.119 –> 01:26:29.960
I told my wife about the pork street story.

01:26:30.199 –> 01:26:32.359
She just her ass off.

01:26:32.439 –> 01:26:33.000
She does look.

01:26:34.600 –> 01:26:37.319
Alright, and once Scorn gets back, we’ll get started again.

01:26:37.640 –> 01:26:38.039
Go ahead.

01:26:38.119 –> 01:26:39.640
My camera’s off because I’m eating.

01:26:39.960 –> 01:26:40.439
Oh, okay.

01:26:40.600 –> 01:26:41.000
Alright.

01:26:41.319 –> 01:26:43.479
I was like, oh, man, Olmar’s going to show back up.

01:26:44.520 –> 01:26:47.319
How do you guys feel about if I eat with the camera on?

01:26:47.720 –> 01:26:48.600
I’m fine with that.

01:26:48.840 –> 01:26:49.399
I hate you.

01:26:49.640 –> 01:26:49.960
Cool.

01:26:50.119 –> 01:26:51.319
I’m going to still do it.

01:26:54.359 –> 01:26:54.840
I know.

01:26:55.079 –> 01:26:55.560
I don’t know.

01:26:55.880 –> 01:26:57.479
I’ll mute myself for a while.

01:26:57.720 –> 01:27:01.000
So, does anyone have any questions about what just happened?

01:27:01.319 –> 01:27:02.760
So we can clarify that now.

01:27:03.079 –> 01:27:07.479
My question was going to be kind of the order of what we’re going to do.

01:27:07.720 –> 01:27:20.199
I think it’s, if I can say it’s going to be wizard in cave, go to Linlithgow, see Celestial, see guy who’s going to make a stone, and then after that, go to Alistair’s Lost.

01:27:20.840 –> 01:27:21.000
Yeah.

01:27:21.239 –> 01:27:22.439
Like, something like that.

01:27:22.680 –> 01:27:22.920
Oh.

01:27:23.399 –> 01:27:30.600
And are we comfortable with Melrose and the giant problem going to be taken care of by this lich guy?

01:27:32.520 –> 01:27:33.479
Yeah, that’s CBD.

01:27:33.640 –> 01:27:36.359
Ipid is very untrustworthy.

01:27:37.159 –> 01:27:38.680
Like, he does not trust this guy.

01:27:38.920 –> 01:27:43.720
He wants to help Melrose, but he doesn’t know if he can put his complete faith on him.

01:27:43.880 –> 01:27:49.479
And he doesn’t know how he feels about this guy being the new roller of Alistair’s Lost if that were to come to be.

01:27:49.880 –> 01:27:51.960
I know he has an heir in Linlithgow, but.

01:27:52.359 –> 01:27:55.479
So Ipid has some serious moral conflicts.

01:27:56.439 –> 01:27:59.159
That’s why he was very standoffish towards the end there.

01:28:00.680 –> 01:28:07.960
Scorn doesn’t make any promises about killing someone in advance because then words like premeditated get thrown around in the courtroom.

01:28:14.680 –> 01:28:21.239
Scorn has been in a situation or two that has taught him to be smart.

01:28:22.119 –> 01:28:25.079
I think Aldrich’s interested in preserving life.

01:28:25.720 –> 01:28:30.840
Like, he saw from his dream that he might die, and he’s wanting to prevent that.

01:28:31.159 –> 01:28:37.399
And he also is then generally kind of feeling that he can help other people as well.

01:28:37.720 –> 01:28:43.800
So I think he’s kind of siding with Ipid, being like, does he necessarily have to die?

01:28:43.960 –> 01:28:46.119
This wizard in Alistair’s Lost?

01:28:46.279 –> 01:28:48.600
I know Ipid was paying like the, you know.

01:28:49.079 –> 01:28:54.600
Yeah, Ipid for sure is going to have to take this by, like, he’s going to have to see it for himself.

01:28:54.920 –> 01:28:59.960
He’s going to try to judge this person, whoever he is, as he can.

01:29:00.119 –> 01:29:07.000
I know Scorn insists based on his history check that this person isn’t any good news, but Ipid wouldn’t know much about him.

01:29:07.319 –> 01:29:13.399
So, like, he’s not going to kill somebody that he doesn’t feel the need that he needs to kill.

01:29:13.479 –> 01:29:15.399
He’s not going to do it just for a job, but he’s also.

01:29:15.640 –> 01:29:19.239
But he might kill them if he deems it necessary.

01:29:19.560 –> 01:29:26.279
I think Aldrich’s with Ipid, but for a different reason, which is just the general preservation of life.

01:29:26.600 –> 01:29:30.680
And at the moment, I feel like Aldrich’s going in a very cleric-y direction.

01:29:31.479 –> 01:29:32.279
Is that okay?

01:29:33.000 –> 01:29:33.159
Yeah.

01:29:33.640 –> 01:29:34.439
Well, I mean, are you like…

01:29:37.640 –> 01:29:40.039
Our cleric is very gun-ho, too.

01:29:40.199 –> 01:29:41.560
She’s just like, alright, babe, I’m down.

01:29:41.720 –> 01:29:42.199
Let’s do it.

01:29:44.359 –> 01:29:52.039
Yeah, cleric is maybe going off, and I’m going towards cleric, and cleric’s going away from cleric sometimes.

01:29:52.279 –> 01:29:54.359
Yeah, so I think, yeah, maybe that will be okay.

01:29:54.680 –> 01:29:56.279
Clerics aren’t intrinsically good.

01:29:56.439 –> 01:30:00.520
They’re just the same alignment typically as the god they worship.

01:30:00.760 –> 01:30:01.000
Okay.

01:30:01.319 –> 01:30:02.680
So they can do anything still.

01:30:03.399 –> 01:30:03.560
Yeah.

01:30:05.880 –> 01:30:09.399
Yeah, I just hope you don’t feel I’m doing too many cleric things.

01:30:09.720 –> 01:30:12.680
Oh, I think you’re just being Aldrich.

01:30:14.680 –> 01:30:16.920
So if you’re trying to cast cleric spells,

01:30:18.239 –> 01:30:21.119
I’m being like, I want to use the cleric spell list, but still be a wizard.

01:30:21.439 –> 01:30:22.880
That might be a bit of a problem.

01:30:23.199 –> 01:30:25.199
That’d be literally you trying to be a cleric.

01:30:25.439 –> 01:30:25.760
Yeah.

01:30:26.720 –> 01:30:30.560
We also got the big lore drop that Aldric has seen his death.

01:30:31.520 –> 01:30:33.199
Yeah, you can ask about that.

01:30:33.359 –> 01:30:35.359
I haven’t said everything about it yet.

01:30:35.680 –> 01:30:36.239
Gotcha.

01:30:36.560 –> 01:30:38.479
Alright, did the map update for everyone?

01:30:38.720 –> 01:30:39.520
Sure did.

01:30:39.840 –> 01:30:40.000
Yeah.

01:30:40.960 –> 01:30:43.840
Oh, I had a question about Alistair’s Lost.

01:30:44.159 –> 01:30:52.800
Is the ruler person that we’re going to kill, are they in a temple or are they just in like a regular palace or something or a ruler?

01:30:53.600 –> 01:30:54.880
They’re in a regular palace.

01:30:54.960 –> 01:30:56.159
They’re not in a temple.

01:30:56.479 –> 01:30:59.760
So is there also a temple that we’re working towards?

01:31:00.079 –> 01:31:07.199
Well, they probably went to the temple that was in Alistair’s Lost because they have the relic that’s keeping them alive.

01:31:07.520 –> 01:31:13.680
So if anything, I think going to the temple would pretty much be pointless unless we find out more things in Alistair’s Lost.

01:31:13.840 –> 01:31:15.680
But we know he has the thing we’re looking for.

01:31:16.000 –> 01:31:16.239
Okay.

01:31:16.560 –> 01:31:19.840
If that’s right, then, okay, I can get on board with that.

01:31:20.000 –> 01:31:23.520
Yeah, it’s just whether or not we’re needing to go to a temple.

01:31:23.840 –> 01:31:26.079
Either way, we’re going to have to face this guy, right?

01:31:26.239 –> 01:31:31.119
Because our whole objective is to hit all these temple locations and all of the relics in these temples.

01:31:31.279 –> 01:31:33.279
This is just the first time where we have.

01:31:33.760 –> 01:31:40.720
Well, not the first time, but like, this is like we know who has the relic, and we know that it’s keeping him alive or whatever.

01:31:41.760 –> 01:31:43.199
Yeah, that’s helped.

01:31:43.359 –> 01:31:44.159
Thank you.

01:31:46.000 –> 01:31:47.199
I’m going to go back to Ethan.

01:31:49.039 –> 01:31:50.479
Can Starling pet the kitty?

01:31:50.640 –> 01:31:51.680
Can Starling what?

01:31:51.920 –> 01:31:52.960
Pet the kitty.

01:31:53.520 –> 01:31:55.439
Yes, Starling can pet the kitty.

01:31:56.079 –> 01:32:03.920
You guys are following a small quartz cat, the size of a regular cat, and it has led you into the mouth of a cave.

01:32:04.239 –> 01:32:09.600
It smells of salt water and mushrooms.

01:32:09.920 –> 01:32:11.119
The cave of the cat?

01:32:11.439 –> 01:32:12.159
The cave.

01:32:12.479 –> 01:32:12.960
Oh, okay.

01:32:15.680 –> 01:32:18.000
I’m like, Starling, why are you smelling the cat?

01:32:22.880 –> 01:32:24.319
Alright, so we’re in the cave.

01:32:25.439 –> 01:32:28.640
As you’re walking through the cave, you hear a rumbling in the walls.

01:32:29.279 –> 01:32:31.520
Are these red things mushrooms or crystals?

01:32:31.840 –> 01:32:33.680
There’s mushrooms and crystals.

01:32:34.560 –> 01:32:39.439
There are crystals with loading floating red lights glowing around them.

01:32:39.760 –> 01:32:41.279
The bit sort of like talks to the group.

01:32:42.159 –> 01:32:46.079
Sorry about being pretty short with him at the end there.

01:32:46.880 –> 01:32:49.359
I don’t trust this slitch as far as I could throw him.

01:32:49.600 –> 01:32:50.399
Actually, I take that back.

01:32:50.479 –> 01:32:52.479
I could probably throw him pretty far, but you know what I mean.

01:32:52.800 –> 01:32:54.960
You know, he can hear everything the cat hears, right?

01:32:55.279 –> 01:32:56.319
Yeah, I don’t care.

01:32:56.640 –> 01:32:56.880
Okay.

01:32:59.600 –> 01:33:00.079
To be fair.

01:33:00.319 –> 01:33:00.880
Good answer.

01:33:01.840 –> 01:33:03.600
And to be fair, Scorn, we’ve been.

01:33:04.239 –> 01:33:08.880
I feel like we’ve been being watched for like a lot of different things.

01:33:09.760 –> 01:33:12.000
I feel like whatever we do isn’t even private anymore.

01:33:12.800 –> 01:33:13.600
Probably isn’t.

01:33:13.760 –> 01:33:15.119
I wish the cat could cross.

01:33:15.359 –> 01:33:16.640
He is a freaking cat.

01:33:16.960 –> 01:33:18.800
I mean, the cat is leading us, right?

01:33:18.880 –> 01:33:20.560
Or no, it just led us to the cave.

01:33:20.800 –> 01:33:22.319
Yes, it just led you to the cave.

01:33:22.399 –> 01:33:24.079
It’s still sitting at the cavemouth.

01:33:24.399 –> 01:33:24.800
Oh, okay.

01:33:24.960 –> 01:33:26.880
So then he didn’t hear what I just said.

01:33:27.199 –> 01:33:29.279
Scorn, you feel a rumbling behind you.

01:33:29.600 –> 01:33:31.199
Your feet shift on the ground.

01:33:31.520 –> 01:33:32.479
I look behind me.

01:33:32.800 –> 01:33:34.079
You don’t see anything.

01:33:34.399 –> 01:33:35.279
You alright, Scorn?

01:33:35.680 –> 01:33:36.239
Heard something.

01:33:36.399 –> 01:33:37.119
Ground shook.

01:33:37.359 –> 01:33:37.840
No idea why.

01:33:39.520 –> 01:33:40.960
You haven’t had anything to drink, have you?

01:33:41.279 –> 01:33:43.439
Um, well, no more than usual.

01:33:43.760 –> 01:33:44.479
Right, right.

01:33:45.680 –> 01:33:53.039
I don’t know why, but I feel like I feel like Scorn has a regular scent of liquor on him.

01:33:55.279 –> 01:33:58.479
But not in, like, a gross, like, oh, that guy’s drunk kind of way.

01:33:58.800 –> 01:33:59.199
You know?

01:33:59.359 –> 01:33:59.520
Like.

01:34:00.399 –> 01:34:01.520
Not like a wineout.

01:34:02.000 –> 01:34:02.239
No.

01:34:02.399 –> 01:34:03.840
Just like a tiger.

01:34:04.399 –> 01:34:04.560
Yeah.

01:34:04.800 –> 01:34:12.159
As you look out at the water, it’s mostly still, except you see small waves where the ground is lightly rumbling.

01:34:12.720 –> 01:34:13.920
Place seems to be moving a lot.

01:34:14.000 –> 01:34:20.880
Do you think it’s from the footsteps of the giants above, or this wizard guy that that thing was talking about?

01:34:21.199 –> 01:34:22.079
Could go either way.

01:34:22.319 –> 01:34:23.119
It’s crazy, too.

01:34:23.439 –> 01:34:27.439
The fact that we have met Alistair of Alistair’s Lost.

01:34:27.760 –> 01:34:30.399
Yeah, that wasn’t on my bingo card for today at all.

01:34:30.720 –> 01:34:30.960
Yeah.

01:34:31.600 –> 01:34:33.359
A lot isn’t on my bingo card today.

01:34:33.680 –> 01:34:34.000
Also.

01:34:34.479 –> 01:34:35.439
What’s bingo?

01:34:37.359 –> 01:34:41.119
Or as you step away from the group, you feel the ground shifting underneath you.

01:34:41.439 –> 01:34:43.119
Make a dexterity saving throw.

01:34:43.359 –> 01:34:43.760
Who?

01:34:44.000 –> 01:34:44.399
Me?

01:34:44.880 –> 01:34:45.359
Yes.

01:34:45.680 –> 01:34:46.319
Oh, boy.

01:34:46.640 –> 01:34:47.039
Oh, yeah.

01:34:47.119 –> 01:34:48.560
I don’t even realize where Scorn is.

01:34:48.720 –> 01:34:49.680
It’s a good save.

01:34:49.920 –> 01:34:51.279
Scorn’s just looking around.

01:34:51.600 –> 01:34:52.880
And the die roll’s coming.

01:34:53.119 –> 01:34:53.920
Yes, there it is.

01:34:54.000 –> 01:34:55.199
Oh, that’s awful.

01:34:55.520 –> 01:34:56.800
So what happens to Scorn?

01:34:56.960 –> 01:34:59.520
A boulette comes leaping out of the ground.

01:34:59.840 –> 01:35:01.199
Oh, there’s a day ruiner.

01:35:02.560 –> 01:35:03.840
Is he attacking me?

01:35:04.159 –> 01:35:04.800
He is.

01:35:05.439 –> 01:35:06.560
Am I prone?

01:35:07.279 –> 01:35:08.399
You are prone.

01:35:08.720 –> 01:35:11.119
Well, I’m in big trouble here.

01:35:11.359 –> 01:35:11.680
You had?

01:35:12.000 –> 01:35:13.520
Oh, I’m just over here.

01:35:13.840 –> 01:35:14.239
His little.

01:35:14.720 –> 01:35:16.479
He’s like in that little corner, I see.

01:35:16.800 –> 01:35:17.039
Yeah.

01:35:17.359 –> 01:35:17.920
So what a torture.

01:35:19.079 –> 01:35:20.119
12 points of damage?

01:35:20.439 –> 01:35:21.000
Yes.

01:35:21.319 –> 01:35:22.119
That’s not good.

01:35:22.199 –> 01:35:23.399
Should I roll for initiative?

01:35:23.720 –> 01:35:24.039
Yes.

01:35:24.199 –> 01:35:25.720
Everyone roll for initiative.

01:35:27.159 –> 01:35:28.039
Oh, baby.

01:35:28.359 –> 01:35:29.720
Natural 20.

01:35:30.039 –> 01:35:31.399
Oh, we rolled the same one.

01:35:31.720 –> 01:35:32.359
Same up here.

01:35:32.439 –> 01:35:33.319
I got 21, too.

01:35:33.560 –> 01:35:35.079
Oh, and the Boulevard goes before I do.

01:35:35.399 –> 01:35:35.560
Okay.

01:35:37.079 –> 01:35:37.479
Scorn.

01:35:37.720 –> 01:35:39.239
Scorn’s about to die.

01:35:40.760 –> 01:35:41.319
Oh, shit.

01:35:41.479 –> 01:35:42.279
We haven’t rested.

01:35:44.840 –> 01:35:48.520
I’m the only one, like, with full things, though, right now.

01:35:48.840 –> 01:35:49.319
I think.

01:35:49.800 –> 01:35:51.079
A lot of my spells are gone.

01:35:51.399 –> 01:35:52.680
I think all my spells are gone.

01:35:52.840 –> 01:35:53.479
Oh, no, wait.

01:35:53.640 –> 01:35:54.439
They’re all here.

01:35:54.680 –> 01:35:55.479
They shouldn’t be.

01:35:55.880 –> 01:35:56.840
I wish I’d rested.

01:35:57.079 –> 01:35:57.399
Okay.

01:35:59.239 –> 01:36:01.720
I remember using all my third level slots.

01:36:02.039 –> 01:36:03.319
And my fourth level slots.

01:36:03.399 –> 01:36:05.800
So, yeah, I’ve got a second and a first.

01:36:06.119 –> 01:36:06.439
Okay.

01:36:08.520 –> 01:36:09.880
I am ready to die.

01:36:12.199 –> 01:36:13.319
First and initiative.

01:36:13.399 –> 01:36:14.279
We have Ash.

01:36:14.840 –> 01:36:22.039
You leap to your feet because you see a large creature come burrowing out of the ground and leap straight at Scorn.

01:36:22.359 –> 01:36:24.840
I summon my great sword and start.

01:36:25.560 –> 01:36:27.319
I will take two swings.

01:36:27.640 –> 01:36:28.359
Seventeen.

01:36:28.439 –> 01:36:29.319
Does seventeen hit?

01:36:29.640 –> 01:36:31.159
Seventeen does hit, yes.

01:36:31.479 –> 01:36:32.199
Alright.

01:36:32.520 –> 01:36:33.000
Alright.

01:36:33.159 –> 01:36:35.720
And for the next one, I’m going to throw it as well.

01:36:36.760 –> 01:36:37.319
Nice.

01:36:38.279 –> 01:36:39.319
Oh, yeah.

01:36:41.720 –> 01:36:42.840
And then booming.

01:36:42.920 –> 01:36:46.520
We got a fucking figure out how to go dice basically.

01:36:46.680 –> 01:36:47.800
Or four times.

01:36:49.000 –> 01:36:50.039
I apologize.

01:36:50.359 –> 01:36:51.079
No worries.

01:36:51.399 –> 01:36:51.880
Three.

01:36:52.359 –> 01:36:52.760
Alright.

01:36:53.000 –> 01:36:53.479
All of it.

01:36:53.800 –> 01:36:54.840
Four points of damage.

01:36:55.000 –> 01:36:58.680
That’s you carve deep into the side of the boulet.

01:36:59.159 –> 01:37:01.159
It flails about on the ground.

01:37:01.479 –> 01:37:02.920
And Ipid, it’s your turn.

01:37:03.000 –> 01:37:05.159
You can see it beginning to burrow away.

01:37:06.119 –> 01:37:09.319
Before Ipid does that, he rises through the pain.

01:37:09.399 –> 01:37:10.439
He’s probably still dealing with.

01:37:10.840 –> 01:37:11.880
He’s going to rush it.

01:37:13.239 –> 01:37:15.479
And, um, good lord, come on.

01:37:15.800 –> 01:37:16.279
There we go.

01:37:16.520 –> 01:37:19.960
Okay, Ipid’s going to attack with his greatsword.

01:37:20.359 –> 01:37:21.960
He misses, I assume.

01:37:22.279 –> 01:37:22.840
One second.

01:37:22.920 –> 01:37:25.239
I’m not seeing your rolls, so I’m going to reload.

01:37:25.800 –> 01:37:26.520
You’re good.

01:37:27.960 –> 01:37:28.920
What did you roll?

01:37:29.399 –> 01:37:31.880
I rolled a nine, but I do get a graze.

01:37:32.199 –> 01:37:35.000
Yes, you do death to graze for three damage.

01:37:36.119 –> 01:37:39.159
I’m going to do my second attack to hit it again.

01:37:39.479 –> 01:37:40.840
I got a 23 to hit.

01:37:41.159 –> 01:37:43.479
That it’s normal damage.

01:37:43.800 –> 01:37:49.319
That’s going to be eight damage, but Ipid’s going to do it with a smite.

01:37:50.199 –> 01:37:53.399
You should still have your savage attacker, right?

01:37:53.720 –> 01:37:54.279
Oh, shit.

01:37:54.439 –> 01:37:56.119
Yeah, you’re completely right.

01:37:56.359 –> 01:37:57.560
Let me roll damage again.

01:37:57.880 –> 01:37:58.920
It’s going to be a nine.

01:37:59.159 –> 01:38:00.199
Thanks for reminding me.

01:38:01.880 –> 01:38:03.479
He’s going to put extra stank on it.

01:38:03.640 –> 01:38:08.840
He’s going to add his innate spell of Divine Smite’s bonus action.

01:38:09.159 –> 01:38:09.319
Oh.

01:38:09.640 –> 01:38:10.039
Never mind.

01:38:10.119 –> 01:38:11.159
I used that one final.

01:38:11.239 –> 01:38:12.359
I do it as a spell.

01:38:13.000 –> 01:38:13.880
Holy crap.

01:38:14.119 –> 01:38:14.439
Okay.

01:38:15.079 –> 01:38:15.560
Oh, win.

01:38:18.199 –> 01:38:19.960
So that’s 11 damage total.

01:38:20.279 –> 01:38:21.800
Does my Divine Smite look different?

01:38:22.039 –> 01:38:23.560
I’m kind of curious about that.

01:38:23.800 –> 01:38:30.119
Does the magic that Ipid has in regards to his paladin abilities look different than what they regularly do?

01:38:30.439 –> 01:38:35.960
As you swing, you feel the light begin building up after you, and then just kind of sputter out.

01:38:37.239 –> 01:38:37.479
Okay.

01:38:38.039 –> 01:38:40.439
You see the boulette burrow under the ground.

01:38:40.760 –> 01:38:41.960
Damn, this thing’s tough.

01:38:42.199 –> 01:38:47.319
I still did 14 damage, so like that’s 14 plus whatever this guy made.

01:38:47.560 –> 01:38:51.239
And you see it pop out of the ground right in front of Starling and attack.

01:38:52.600 –> 01:38:53.720
17 it hits.

01:38:54.039 –> 01:38:57.159
Gets you with the first bite for 17 damage.

01:38:57.239 –> 01:38:58.600
It goes for another one.

01:39:00.439 –> 01:39:11.239
As you step away from its second bite after it pops out of the ground, Scorn, you’ve seen the boulette pop out of the ground, attack you, and then immediately go after Starling.

01:39:11.319 –> 01:39:12.359
What do you do?

01:39:13.880 –> 01:39:15.560
It’s pretty badly wounded.

01:39:15.880 –> 01:39:17.640
I’m not so badly wounded.

01:39:18.359 –> 01:39:19.640
I’m going to move over here.

01:39:19.960 –> 01:39:24.279
And I’ll cast True Strike and bump it with my staff.

01:39:24.600 –> 01:39:26.039
And that’s really weak.

01:39:26.199 –> 01:39:27.000
I think that missed.

01:39:27.479 –> 01:39:28.279
That misses.

01:39:28.600 –> 01:39:29.000
Yep.

01:39:29.239 –> 01:39:29.479
Okay.

01:39:30.039 –> 01:39:30.920
Yeah, I’m going to die.

01:39:31.239 –> 01:39:31.720
I’m done.

01:39:32.039 –> 01:39:33.880
Alright, Starling, it is your turn.

01:39:34.199 –> 01:39:37.640
You see this massive creature come burrowing out of the ground at you.

01:39:38.359 –> 01:39:45.319
I’m going to innately cast Misty Step and get over here next to Scorn and cast your wounds.

01:39:45.800 –> 01:39:47.720
See, let’s do it at third level.

01:39:48.039 –> 01:39:49.479
He’s not hurt that badly, really.

01:39:49.720 –> 01:39:50.520
He really isn’t?

01:39:50.680 –> 01:39:50.920
Okay.

01:39:52.039 –> 01:39:52.600
It’s okay.

01:39:52.920 –> 01:39:54.359
He’s about to get that third level.

01:39:54.680 –> 01:39:54.920
Okay.

01:39:55.399 –> 01:39:57.319
Oh, that’s plenty.

01:39:57.640 –> 01:39:57.880
Yeah.

01:39:58.359 –> 01:39:59.399
And that’s my turn.

01:39:59.720 –> 01:40:00.199
Thank you so much.

01:40:01.479 –> 01:40:02.520
It’s your turn.

01:40:02.840 –> 01:40:08.359
This massive creature went burrowing to the ground right up behind your party and now attacking from the other side.

01:40:09.000 –> 01:40:10.359
See, Scorn’s in front of me.

01:40:10.760 –> 01:40:12.199
It looks like it’s attacking Scorn?

01:40:12.760 –> 01:40:13.319
Yes.

01:40:13.640 –> 01:40:14.039
Right.

01:40:14.279 –> 01:40:18.760
Well, can I move around Scorn and

01:40:20.079 –> 01:40:22.560
Starling to the beast’s side.

01:40:22.960 –> 01:40:23.199
Yes.

01:40:23.439 –> 01:40:23.840
Like that.

01:40:24.479 –> 01:40:31.279
And cast Burning Hats towards the beast at first level.

01:40:32.239 –> 01:40:33.680
How do you rotate that cone?

01:40:33.920 –> 01:40:34.720
Oh, there we go.

01:40:35.039 –> 01:40:36.000
Try not to hit.

01:40:36.159 –> 01:40:36.800
I’ll be right back.

01:40:36.880 –> 01:40:38.079
I gotta medicate my dog.

01:40:40.079 –> 01:40:42.000
So he’s gonna make a dexterity save a throw.

01:40:42.399 –> 01:40:43.199
It fails.

01:40:44.000 –> 01:40:44.960
Go 3d6.

01:40:45.760 –> 01:40:48.800
Fire damage of 11.

01:40:49.439 –> 01:40:49.680
Okay.

01:40:50.479 –> 01:40:50.640
Oh.

01:40:51.039 –> 01:40:53.760
So was am I in that cone or no?

01:40:54.079 –> 01:40:54.319
No.

01:40:54.960 –> 01:40:55.279
Okay.

01:40:56.399 –> 01:40:57.600
Don’t worry about it.

01:40:58.239 –> 01:41:00.800
And then can I move another.

01:41:01.439 –> 01:41:02.560
Yeah, I think I can, right?

01:41:02.640 –> 01:41:03.279
I can move.

01:41:03.600 –> 01:41:06.239
Yes, but that does provoke an opportunity attack.

01:41:06.560 –> 01:41:08.239
Uh okay.

01:41:08.880 –> 01:41:09.840
Let’s live with it.

01:41:10.000 –> 01:41:10.640
Okay, go.

01:41:12.239 –> 01:41:15.119
I use um I want to use cutting words.

01:41:15.439 –> 01:41:16.800
And I start shouting at the beast.

01:41:16.880 –> 01:41:17.680
No, no, I’m over here.

01:41:17.920 –> 01:41:18.319
Come on.

01:41:18.640 –> 01:41:20.000
I don’t know if it’s gonna help.

01:41:20.319 –> 01:41:23.439
And uh, it depends on how well it rolls.

01:41:23.680 –> 01:41:24.319
Not very well.

01:41:25.359 –> 01:41:28.079
Minus two on the on the uh bulette’s attack.

01:41:28.319 –> 01:41:29.439
That’s what we’re gonna hit.

01:41:29.760 –> 01:41:30.319
Uh-huh.

01:41:30.640 –> 01:41:32.560
It still gets a piece of Aldrich.

01:41:32.800 –> 01:41:33.359
I tried.

01:41:33.680 –> 01:41:34.319
Thank you.

01:41:34.640 –> 01:41:34.880
Oh.

01:41:35.359 –> 01:41:38.720
A rather big piece of Aldrich as it takes a bite out of your side.

01:41:40.800 –> 01:41:41.680
Ash, are you back?

01:41:42.000 –> 01:41:42.640
Yeah, I’m back.

01:41:42.720 –> 01:41:43.439
I’m so sorry.

01:41:43.680 –> 01:41:45.199
Alright, it’s your turn now.

01:41:45.520 –> 01:41:46.479
Alright.

01:41:47.840 –> 01:41:50.640
You just saw Aldrich get chomped on by the bulette.

01:41:50.880 –> 01:41:52.319
Well, that’s not nice.

01:41:52.640 –> 01:41:52.960
Ow!

01:41:54.000 –> 01:41:57.199
Can I get right there and have advantage?

01:41:57.520 –> 01:41:57.760
Yes.

01:41:58.319 –> 01:41:58.880
Sweet.

01:41:59.119 –> 01:42:00.159
That’s what I’m going to do.

01:42:00.319 –> 01:42:02.800
And then I’ll take two swings of my sword.

01:42:03.039 –> 01:42:03.680
Alright.

01:42:03.840 –> 01:42:06.399
Now I’m 14 of that last hits.

01:42:06.720 –> 01:42:10.800
As you get this hit off on the bulette, you see it go scurrying under the ground.

01:42:11.119 –> 01:42:12.800
The cave goes quiet.

01:42:13.119 –> 01:42:16.159
So, um, should we find a place to rest?

01:42:16.479 –> 01:42:16.800
Yeah.

01:42:17.119 –> 01:42:17.359
Yeah.

01:42:17.920 –> 01:42:19.840
I’m kind of out of everything.

01:42:23.840 –> 01:42:25.439
Aldrich is clipping his side.

01:42:25.840 –> 01:42:26.239
Ow!

01:42:26.640 –> 01:42:28.079
Are you sure this thing won’t come back?

01:42:28.319 –> 01:42:29.680
We didn’t kill it, did we?

01:42:30.319 –> 01:42:32.000
Oh, I’m not sure it won’t come back.

01:42:33.439 –> 01:42:37.600
But yeah, we’re all kind of low on resources.

01:42:38.560 –> 01:42:40.800
I should have thought of it sooner, but yeah, we should rest.

01:42:41.119 –> 01:42:41.600
I’m gonna.

01:42:42.159 –> 01:42:44.239
Do I have an action or are we still in the order?

01:42:44.479 –> 01:42:45.840
You’re out of initiative.

01:42:46.159 –> 01:42:46.479
Okay.

01:42:47.840 –> 01:42:49.920
Go to cast cure wounds on myself.

01:42:50.560 –> 01:42:50.960
Twelve.

01:42:51.359 –> 01:42:54.800
I’m never sure if I’m supposed to add that myself or you will do that.

01:42:55.039 –> 01:42:56.159
I’ll apply that.

01:42:56.319 –> 01:42:56.640
Okay.

01:42:57.760 –> 01:42:59.680
You see the water glowing merrily.

01:43:00.000 –> 01:43:06.079
One boat floating in it and one chompkin off remarkably similar to the bulette.

01:43:06.319 –> 01:43:07.760
There could be more of those things.

01:43:08.079 –> 01:43:08.399
Yeah.

01:43:09.039 –> 01:43:11.920
And I’m mostly out of spells.

01:43:12.319 –> 01:43:13.199
Everything else, too.

01:43:14.000 –> 01:43:17.760
Let’s make a perimeter and hunkered down for the night.

01:43:18.079 –> 01:43:18.880
Can they swim?

01:43:19.760 –> 01:43:21.039
Know anything about these things?

01:43:22.000 –> 01:43:23.680
I don’t know anything about them.

01:43:24.399 –> 01:43:28.800
Can Aldrich or someone else do some kind of check to know if these things can sit?

01:43:29.359 –> 01:43:31.439
I’d like to make a survival check to see what you know.

01:43:31.840 –> 01:43:33.760
Let me see what my thing on survival is.

01:43:33.920 –> 01:43:35.039
I don’t think I have a house.

01:43:36.479 –> 01:43:39.359
The bulette are dark cave-dwelling creatures.

01:43:39.680 –> 01:43:44.960
They sense movement through the tremors in the ground, and they wait for ambushes.

01:43:45.279 –> 01:43:50.560
When confronted, they will fight viciously, but will flee after attacks.

01:43:52.159 –> 01:43:58.239
They circle back when they feel like there’s someone who is easy to single out.

01:43:59.520 –> 01:44:00.800
That thing’s going to come back.

01:44:01.039 –> 01:44:03.199
We’re going to have to find a place that’s safe.

01:44:04.720 –> 01:44:07.439
If it starts to walk like the sand, like the guys.

01:44:15.520 –> 01:44:19.840
Well, if we have to stay still, I mean, huh?

01:44:20.319 –> 01:44:24.960
Well, look, this thing, these things single people out.

01:44:25.119 –> 01:44:34.159
If we just stick very close together and we have somebody on watch every hour, or like throughout the hours of the night, so everybody could get a popular rest, I think we’ll be okay.

01:44:34.319 –> 01:44:38.399
And if we’re not just making too many movements amongst ourselves either.

01:44:38.720 –> 01:44:41.680
As you step away from the group, you feel a rumbling Scorn.

01:44:42.000 –> 01:44:43.840
Yeah, I’m going to run back to the group real fast.

01:44:44.079 –> 01:44:45.119
God damn it, Scorn.

01:44:46.079 –> 01:44:46.880
I’m out of there.

01:44:49.439 –> 01:44:52.159
I’m looking for a safe place for that rest.

01:44:53.520 –> 01:44:57.279
I think the safest place, Scorn, is if we’re just all together, no matter where.

01:44:57.520 –> 01:45:00.560
This thing probably can move around anywhere in this cave.

01:45:00.800 –> 01:45:01.359
Oh, okay.

01:45:01.520 –> 01:45:02.159
Alright.

01:45:02.640 –> 01:45:07.520
I’m just going to have a quick look around where the land shark won’t eat me.

01:45:07.840 –> 01:45:10.880
Scorn Scorn’s checking out the boat here.

01:45:11.520 –> 01:45:19.920
And this boat seems to be used for rowing across this small underground lake that glows with vibration.

01:45:21.159 –> 01:45:23.319
Vibrant activity in the water.

01:45:24.359 –> 01:45:25.239
What kind of activity?

01:45:25.319 –> 01:45:27.560
Is there something alive down there, or is it magic?

01:45:27.880 –> 01:45:29.239
Or something else?

01:45:29.560 –> 01:45:32.119
It seems to be some kind of living creature.

01:45:32.760 –> 01:45:33.560
Oh, okay.

01:45:33.720 –> 01:45:35.000
No going on the water then.

01:45:36.279 –> 01:45:37.239
I guess you’re right.

01:45:37.479 –> 01:45:40.199
We’ll have to just keep watches.

01:45:40.520 –> 01:45:40.760
Yeah.

01:45:41.399 –> 01:45:45.640
Well, let’s set up our things here and I’ll take first watch for the night.

01:45:45.880 –> 01:45:48.119
While you guys get some rest, and we’ll take shifts.

01:45:48.680 –> 01:45:50.119
Div’s on the big rock.

01:45:53.560 –> 01:45:56.439
If it sits crisscross applesauce on the floor.

01:45:57.079 –> 01:46:00.600
Aldric, we’ll take out that rock and look at it as he sits down.

01:46:01.079 –> 01:46:02.439
Close to Ippit.

01:46:02.680 –> 01:46:10.359
Aldric, as you examine the rock, you see small lights pulsing through the small streaks of gold and crystal in it.

01:46:10.920 –> 01:46:11.960
What do you see there, Aldric?

01:46:12.439 –> 01:46:14.359
It’s the stone from the lich.

01:46:15.000 –> 01:46:16.199
Can you see the gold?

01:46:16.520 –> 01:46:18.119
Yeah, it looks pretty interesting.

01:46:19.479 –> 01:46:24.760
I wonder if the Smith and Lindless Gal will be able to make anything extremely useful for this.

01:46:25.079 –> 01:46:27.880
The Lich told us to look for some guy named Moradin.

01:46:28.199 –> 01:46:28.439
Yeah.

01:46:29.079 –> 01:46:32.039
Keep an eye on that, so he’s the one who’s gonna do it.

01:46:32.359 –> 01:46:38.840
Yeah, we’ll keep an eye out for Moradin so that you and Starling can make good use of these things.

01:46:39.159 –> 01:46:40.840
Does Starling have one of these as well?

01:46:41.159 –> 01:46:41.800
He does.

01:46:42.119 –> 01:46:42.840
Oh, cool.

01:46:43.000 –> 01:46:43.960
Oh, that’s good then.

01:46:44.279 –> 01:46:58.199
Aldric, I don’t mean to pry or anything, but um, I’m uh if you don’t want to talk about it, we don’t you don’t have to, but um uh back there, you brought up the fact that you saw your own death in a dream?

01:46:58.520 –> 01:47:08.199
Yeah, um, we went to see someone about it, and they said it might not be a dream, it might be a premonition.

01:47:08.520 –> 01:47:16.680
And after that, I got pretty interested in the future, you know, seeing as though, you know, you don’t want your life cut short.

01:47:17.560 –> 01:47:20.359
So you believe it to be cut short.

01:47:20.439 –> 01:47:25.159
I mean, again, you don’t have to share this if you don’t, but how’d you die?

01:47:25.479 –> 01:47:28.359
Oh, um, just a hand.

01:47:28.840 –> 01:47:31.079
I saw a hand coming at me.

01:47:31.239 –> 01:47:33.239
It was bony, skeletal.

01:47:33.560 –> 01:47:35.800
Maybe I think there was flesh on it.

01:47:35.880 –> 01:47:37.159
I don’t remember.

01:47:37.720 –> 01:47:38.760
That’s all I remember.

01:47:39.079 –> 01:47:39.640
I see.

01:47:39.960 –> 01:47:41.239
That’s some scared stuff, right?

01:47:41.640 –> 01:47:41.800
Yeah.

01:47:42.039 –> 01:47:42.600
Yeah, really.

01:47:43.640 –> 01:47:50.680
Well, I think ever since then, I’ve been interested in the future and, you know, trying to trying to stop that.

01:47:51.239 –> 01:47:58.039
See if I can find out how I can maybe prevent that by changing the future if I could.

01:47:58.359 –> 01:48:01.319
So if I see it coming at me, I can avoid it or something.

01:48:01.640 –> 01:48:06.039
Oh, having knowledge of your death is a double-edged sword.

01:48:06.199 –> 01:48:08.920
I mean, yes, it’s a curse, but it’s also a blessing.

01:48:09.239 –> 01:48:11.720
You know, you’re not going to die from anything short of that.

01:48:12.359 –> 01:48:13.000
I hope.

01:48:13.319 –> 01:48:13.800
I can’t.

01:48:15.000 –> 01:48:19.880
You didn’t see yourself getting eaten by a land shark, so we know that’s not going to kill you.

01:48:20.760 –> 01:48:22.840
That’s a positive way to look at it, yeah.

01:48:23.159 –> 01:48:28.520
And I mean, do you happen to recall how old you were when you died?

01:48:28.840 –> 01:48:29.720
No, I don’t.

01:48:29.960 –> 01:48:30.039
Okay.

01:48:30.279 –> 01:48:31.159
I don’t know.

01:48:31.479 –> 01:48:34.119
It just was a vision of the future.

01:48:34.199 –> 01:48:35.560
That’s that’s all I know.

01:48:35.880 –> 01:48:36.439
Right, right.

01:48:36.680 –> 01:48:38.279
Well, this is a question for the group.

01:48:38.359 –> 01:48:39.079
If you want to.

01:48:39.399 –> 01:48:40.840
I don’t particularly want to.

01:48:41.079 –> 01:48:43.159
I’ve always been rather fond of surprises.

01:48:43.479 –> 01:48:45.399
Maybe not that kind, but yes.

01:48:45.720 –> 01:48:47.319
It’ll be here when it arrives.

01:48:47.640 –> 01:48:54.600
I just hope that when I die, it’s uh it’s not because I was weak, you know.

01:48:55.880 –> 01:48:57.720
I don’t think there’s any danger of that.

01:48:58.039 –> 01:48:58.520
I don’t.

01:48:58.680 –> 01:48:58.840
Yeah.

01:49:01.399 –> 01:49:03.880
You’re always throwing yourself into the battle, I don’t think.

01:49:04.199 –> 01:49:04.520
Yeah.

01:49:04.840 –> 01:49:13.079
Yeah, speaking of battles, could you guys tell me more about what I was going through while I was out mentally?

01:49:13.399 –> 01:49:14.039
What did you guys?

01:49:14.520 –> 01:49:15.399
How was I?

01:49:16.039 –> 01:49:17.239
You didn’t say anything.

01:49:17.399 –> 01:49:22.199
You just went and you did some crazy shit.

01:49:22.439 –> 01:49:22.920
Mm-hmm.

01:49:23.399 –> 01:49:28.920
And then hits that she’d have killed you somehow didn’t.

01:49:29.239 –> 01:49:30.359
And there was fire.

01:49:30.680 –> 01:49:30.920
Yep.

01:49:31.079 –> 01:49:32.920
There was fire coming from your eyes.

01:49:33.800 –> 01:49:35.479
You were falling apart, but you were laughing.

01:49:35.800 –> 01:49:38.039
Blue smoke coming out of you in various places, too.

01:49:38.359 –> 01:49:38.600
Yeah.

01:49:39.479 –> 01:49:41.479
And you leap like 90 feet.

01:49:41.640 –> 01:49:43.479
I don’t know how the hell you did that.

01:49:43.800 –> 01:49:44.439
Wow.

01:49:44.760 –> 01:49:45.159
That’s.

01:49:46.520 –> 01:49:48.279
I’ll try to catch up with you.

01:49:49.880 –> 01:49:51.079
That’s crazy.

01:49:51.399 –> 01:50:03.880
I, on my end, well, mentally, I got visited by the god who was pestering me these past couple of days.

01:50:04.520 –> 01:50:13.159
If it looks over at Starling, you remember that symbol that we found in the mountains that came from that giant.

01:50:13.479 –> 01:50:17.079
Where I kind of yeah, where I kind of went MIA for a minute.

01:50:17.399 –> 01:50:20.760
That same god that connected to me in that way spoke to me.

01:50:22.399 –> 01:50:29.600
Um, it gave me advice and all right, wait, sorry.

01:50:29.680 –> 01:50:32.079
I just everything cut out for me on my end.

01:50:32.399 –> 01:50:33.039
It was Discord.

01:50:34.479 –> 01:50:35.359
Oh, it was Discord.

01:50:35.439 –> 01:50:35.520
Okay.

01:50:35.680 –> 01:50:36.640
Well, last thing I heard.

01:50:36.880 –> 01:50:37.920
It’s spread up to you.

01:50:38.159 –> 01:50:38.640
Oh, yeah.

01:50:38.880 –> 01:50:57.520
It um it spoke to me and it was trying to connect with me, explaining to me that my strength is something that, you know, is sacred and that it’s primal.

01:50:57.600 –> 01:51:06.960
Well, it it’s hard to explain, but I don’t I think I think I made a new connection other than the god that Bahamut that I’m used to.

01:51:07.279 –> 01:51:09.680
Um, this god called itself the nameless one.

01:51:09.920 –> 01:51:11.600
Well, at least that’s what it’s been called.

01:51:12.399 –> 01:51:14.800
So, you’ve caught the attention of a higher power.

01:51:14.960 –> 01:51:16.159
Congratulations.

01:51:16.479 –> 01:51:34.399
I don’t know if I mean it really likes it really likes how I hurt things, but it also tells me that the things that I do, like, okay, so I made a mistake a while ago.

01:51:34.560 –> 01:51:38.479
I’ve been trying to redeem myself from this mistake a long time ago.

01:51:38.800 –> 01:51:45.760
Uh, I was uh back where I’m from, I lived amongst a tribe of dragonborns.

01:51:46.800 –> 01:51:51.600
I was raised in pretty much a family that was kind, but strict.

01:51:51.920 –> 01:52:00.000
Um, my father, he was in our army, and so was my older brother.

01:52:00.319 –> 01:52:02.960
And then I took followed suit after.

01:52:03.199 –> 01:52:08.880
I had gone on a mission against an enemy that we were dealing with.

01:52:09.199 –> 01:52:25.359
I had gone behind enemy lines, and well, I was sent to burn down a building-a building that was meant to house weapons, supplies, things that would have been useful to the enemy that if we were to get a hold of beforehand and destroy hand, it would have given us the upper hand in battle.

01:52:25.600 –> 01:52:28.000
Let me guess it was not filled with weapons.

01:52:28.159 –> 01:52:31.520
No, and Ippit’s voice begins to tremble.

01:52:31.840 –> 01:52:33.359
You don’t ought to say you don’t have to.

01:52:33.520 –> 01:52:35.439
I can kind of put two and two together.

01:52:35.760 –> 01:52:39.840
No, I’m trying to work past this.

01:52:40.159 –> 01:52:41.760
It was filled with innocence.

01:52:42.079 –> 01:52:43.119
It was filled with family.

01:52:43.359 –> 01:52:49.840
It was filled with members of this other group, families, children.

01:52:50.159 –> 01:52:53.359
They were fleeing the building, because clearly it was on fire.

01:52:53.520 –> 01:52:59.359
And, well, the first thing that came out was a teen, a young boy, and I struck him down in panic.

01:52:59.600 –> 01:53:05.680
This god tells me that I’ve redeemed myself to no longer burden myself with this.

01:53:06.319 –> 01:53:07.680
And I don’t know.

01:53:08.000 –> 01:53:09.840
Ippit just kind of like he slumps over.

01:53:10.079 –> 01:53:11.840
I know, I don’t have much to say on that.

01:53:13.520 –> 01:53:16.000
Work through it as best as you can, my friend.

01:53:16.640 –> 01:53:18.079
I can’t help you.

01:53:18.399 –> 01:53:19.359
I wish I could.

01:53:20.800 –> 01:53:22.159
No, I appreciate it.

01:53:22.479 –> 01:53:24.079
I’m just, I don’t know.

01:53:24.319 –> 01:53:26.880
I never really spoken about it out loud.

01:53:27.039 –> 01:53:31.680
And I know I just met you, Ash, but I’ve been with these guys for a while now, and I don’t know.

01:53:33.199 –> 01:53:38.079
I feel like this is one of the steps I need to take in being honest with myself.

01:53:38.399 –> 01:53:42.720
With the mistake that I made, with the way that I keep trying to redeem myself for it.

01:53:43.600 –> 01:53:46.239
So, is that why you were going on the path through Guynne?

01:53:46.720 –> 01:53:49.600
Well, 50-50 yes and no.

01:53:51.039 –> 01:53:57.680
I left my tribe initially due to the fact that I had an argument with our general.

01:53:58.000 –> 01:54:00.239
He called those people collateral.

01:54:00.560 –> 01:54:07.279
And it really made me think about my place in that tribe and to be a soldier for them.

01:54:07.600 –> 01:54:08.560
So I left home.

01:54:08.800 –> 01:54:10.239
I left my mother behind.

01:54:10.560 –> 01:54:13.600
My father died in battle years ago when I was young.

01:54:13.920 –> 01:54:18.640
And my brother left home about a few years before I left home.

01:54:18.880 –> 01:54:21.760
He was given a prominent position in the army.

01:54:22.079 –> 01:54:25.119
And the day of his promotion, there was going to be a ceremony.

01:54:25.439 –> 01:54:27.279
And that same day, he disappeared.

01:54:27.600 –> 01:54:35.279
And that’s why I’ve been asking about Dragonborns and other soldiers, people who might have seen him, because I’ve been looking for him.

01:54:35.600 –> 01:54:41.039
That’s why I’m pretty adamant about getting to forgot what that city was called.

01:54:41.199 –> 01:54:41.680
Hold on.

01:54:42.079 –> 01:54:42.880
I got it right here.

01:54:43.199 –> 01:54:46.000
That’s why I’m pretty adamant about getting to Jedburg.

01:54:46.319 –> 01:54:59.039
Last thing I heard, or last thing we heard from that spy guard weeks ago, that there was a traveler, a dragonborn soldier, who was going through there.

01:54:59.279 –> 01:55:01.119
So that’s sort of what I’ve been after.

01:55:01.439 –> 01:55:03.039
Might as well be candid about that.

01:55:04.000 –> 01:55:05.439
We’re certainly heading in that direction.

01:55:05.760 –> 01:55:07.760
So we’ll get to Jedburg.

01:55:07.920 –> 01:55:09.119
We will get you to Jedburgh.

01:55:09.439 –> 01:55:14.399
Of course, you know, whatever we need to do is priority, right?

01:55:14.560 –> 01:55:17.840
But I don’t feel like what this is this is my journey.

01:55:17.920 –> 01:55:21.760
And of course, my clear thing is to get a hold of this Barador cult, but.

01:55:23.159 –> 01:55:25.000
You know, I do have a goal in in mind.

01:55:25.239 –> 01:55:28.199
I don’t want to burden any of that on you guys either.

01:55:28.359 –> 01:55:31.640
That’s just I want you just to be aware of that.

01:55:32.680 –> 01:55:36.439
Speaking of priorities, who is going to take watch?

01:55:36.760 –> 01:55:38.119
Uh, I said they were.

01:55:39.159 –> 01:55:40.680
I can I can do a watch.

01:55:41.479 –> 01:55:42.199
I’ll do a watch.

01:55:42.439 –> 01:55:43.239
I’ll sleep.

01:55:45.399 –> 01:55:47.479
Wait, Ippit probably needs sleep too.

01:55:47.800 –> 01:55:49.079
Elves don’t even sleep.

01:55:49.239 –> 01:55:50.199
What’s up with that?

01:55:50.520 –> 01:55:51.560
I’ll meditate.

01:55:51.880 –> 01:55:52.840
Oh, okay then.

01:55:54.520 –> 01:55:55.640
You’ll see Aldric.

01:55:56.119 –> 01:55:57.560
Chiefly needs his beauty rest.

01:55:58.359 –> 01:56:01.640
Wherever Aldric’s sleeping, you’ll see him clutching that stone.

01:56:01.960 –> 01:56:02.439
Thinking.

01:56:02.760 –> 01:56:03.159
Look at.

01:56:03.560 –> 01:56:05.000
You know, we know it’s about time.

01:56:06.199 –> 01:56:08.600
And maybe changing a moment or something.

01:56:08.920 –> 01:56:10.840
So we’re seeing Aldric.

01:56:11.239 –> 01:56:13.239
He’ll be sleeping, clutching that stone.

01:56:14.520 –> 01:56:20.680
So to be clear, on watch, Scorn, Ash, Starling, and then who?

01:56:21.800 –> 01:56:23.479
Ippit will probably take final watch.

01:56:23.560 –> 01:56:24.119
I don’t think.

01:56:24.359 –> 01:56:24.680
Alright.

01:56:24.840 –> 01:56:27.159
Well, Scorn, on your watch.

01:56:28.680 –> 01:56:30.840
Can you please roll me a survival check?

01:56:31.159 –> 01:56:31.800
Coming up.

01:56:32.039 –> 01:56:32.680
See the die.

01:56:32.840 –> 01:56:33.479
There it is.

01:56:33.800 –> 01:56:41.800
As you’re on watch, you’re watching the swirling lake beside you, and you see a large figure pacing at the bottom of it.

01:56:42.119 –> 01:56:42.840
Pacing.

01:56:43.159 –> 01:56:43.800
Underwater.

01:56:44.039 –> 01:56:44.359
Yes.

01:56:44.680 –> 01:56:45.399
Pacing.

01:56:45.880 –> 01:56:48.439
Walking from one end of the lake to the other.

01:56:48.760 –> 01:56:49.079
Okay.

01:56:49.239 –> 01:56:50.520
What’s it look like?

01:56:50.840 –> 01:56:53.640
It’s a large, hulking humanoid figure.

01:56:53.960 –> 01:57:00.199
Two long legs and two thick, burly arms, but you can’t make out much of the details through the glaring lights.

01:57:00.840 –> 01:57:01.479
Wow.

01:57:01.800 –> 01:57:05.720
I’ll just keep my eyes open in case it comes out of the water.

01:57:07.960 –> 01:57:14.279
Ash, can you roll me a percept not a perception check, a survival check for your watch?

01:57:14.600 –> 01:57:15.479
Oh, fuck.

01:57:16.359 –> 01:57:17.720
You don’t really notice much.

01:57:17.880 –> 01:57:23.720
It’s quiet in the cave, and the lake glows peacefully beside you as you fall asleep a little early.

01:57:24.039 –> 01:57:28.439
Starling, you go to watch and you find Ash asleep.

01:57:28.760 –> 01:57:30.199
I’m just gonna let him sleep.

01:57:30.840 –> 01:57:33.079
Can you roll me a survival check, please?

01:57:33.399 –> 01:57:33.880
Certainly.

01:57:34.039 –> 01:57:34.840
Did it roll?

01:57:35.720 –> 01:57:35.960
Yes.

01:57:36.680 –> 01:57:37.479
I can’t see it.

01:57:37.800 –> 01:57:41.479
As you’re watching, you feel a slight rumble underneath.

01:57:41.800 –> 01:57:46.840
It happens again and again, as if something’s under the ground patrolling.

01:57:47.159 –> 01:57:49.960
Ippit, it is turn for your watch.

01:57:50.279 –> 01:57:50.760
Alright.

01:57:51.239 –> 01:57:58.279
While you are on watch, you don’t pay much details to what’s around you, and you are caught up in a vision.

01:57:58.600 –> 01:58:11.079
As you’re sitting on watch, you see a figure sitting in front of you with a stag’s head and legs, and it looks you in the eyes.

01:58:11.399 –> 01:58:11.880
Ippit.

01:58:12.439 –> 01:58:13.319
It’s you again.

01:58:13.640 –> 01:58:15.319
You met the undead.

01:58:16.359 –> 01:58:17.720
Uh the the lich?

01:58:18.119 –> 01:58:18.439
Yeah.

01:58:18.760 –> 01:58:21.000
You did not give in to temptation.

01:58:21.319 –> 01:58:23.479
Well, I didn’t feel the need to.

01:58:23.720 –> 01:58:25.239
I don’t really trust that guy.

01:58:25.560 –> 01:58:27.720
And you are prepared to destroy him.

01:58:28.039 –> 01:58:28.920
If need be.

01:58:29.239 –> 01:58:31.560
I’m not just gonna destroy him to destroy him.

01:58:31.800 –> 01:58:32.600
You know this.

01:58:32.920 –> 01:58:34.680
Be ready for action, Ippit.

01:58:35.079 –> 01:58:38.359
Do not be hasty in destroying him if unnecessary.

01:58:38.680 –> 01:58:42.119
He could be a potent ally, but unchecked.

01:58:42.439 –> 01:58:44.680
He could be a destructive force.

01:58:45.000 –> 01:58:47.319
You know, I’m starting to really miss Bahamut.

01:58:49.239 –> 01:58:51.720
He is not as talkative as I am.

01:58:52.039 –> 01:58:55.800
He is more distant and less involved in mortal affairs.

01:58:56.119 –> 01:59:00.439
I understand that, but I have a question for you since you keep visiting me.

01:59:00.760 –> 01:59:02.760
Did you cut off my connection with him?

01:59:03.079 –> 01:59:05.000
He looks at you with a sly grin.

01:59:05.640 –> 01:59:07.239
Why would I do that?

01:59:07.560 –> 01:59:08.039
I don’t know.

01:59:08.199 –> 01:59:14.760
It just seems like you kind of took control of me, so you’re really eager to get a hold of me.

01:59:15.079 –> 01:59:17.640
I just went where there was a connection severed.

01:59:17.960 –> 01:59:19.479
I didn’t sever one.

01:59:19.800 –> 01:59:26.520
Ippit goes silent, and he tries to just dismiss this vision and looks away.

01:59:26.840 –> 01:59:31.560
The last of his words you hear echoing as the vision fades.

01:59:31.880 –> 01:59:34.359
Do not fear strength.

01:59:35.000 –> 01:59:40.039
And you come to the end of your watch, shaking off the remnants of the vision.

01:59:41.000 –> 01:59:45.479
As you all get up, you feel a slight rumble under the ground.

01:59:45.800 –> 01:59:48.840
Something is waiting for whoever breaks off first.

01:59:49.159 –> 01:59:51.159
I’m gonna press the long rest button.

01:59:51.479 –> 01:59:53.479
Yes, everyone long rest, please.

01:59:53.800 –> 01:59:54.439
Oh, thank God.

01:59:57.319 –> 02:00:01.159
Long rest is hit, nice.

02:00:01.399 –> 02:00:01.960
Wow.

02:00:02.279 –> 02:00:05.880
You hear a laughter echoing through the cave.

02:00:06.760 –> 02:00:08.439
That’s a rude wake-up call.

02:00:09.079 –> 02:00:10.920
Um, everybody get your things together.

02:00:11.239 –> 02:00:15.399
I think the longer we stay here, or the less time we stay here, the better.

02:00:16.600 –> 02:00:17.319
I agree.

02:00:17.640 –> 02:00:22.520
Um, alright, well, make sure you guys stick close together and, um, well.

02:00:24.079 –> 02:00:24.960
What should be our next step?

02:00:25.119 –> 02:00:26.319
Where should we head to next?

02:00:26.640 –> 02:00:28.159
There’s something in the water.

02:00:28.479 –> 02:00:29.119
Oh, yeah?

02:00:29.439 –> 02:00:29.680
Yeah.

02:00:30.159 –> 02:00:35.119
It’s um it’s it’s walking upright on the bottom of the lake there.

02:00:36.159 –> 02:00:36.960
Really big.

02:00:37.279 –> 02:00:39.680
I just watched it pacing back and forth for a while.

02:00:39.840 –> 02:00:44.479
It uh it wasn’t inclined to come out of the water, so I left it alone.

02:00:45.119 –> 02:00:47.039
Yeah, that’s probably that was probably the spark decision.

02:00:47.359 –> 02:00:51.439
Um do you think it would be dangerous if we were to like take this boat and go onto the water?

02:00:52.239 –> 02:00:54.319
I think it would be incredibly dangerous.

02:00:54.640 –> 02:00:57.359
And well, this boat’s here for a reason.

02:00:57.680 –> 02:01:01.039
I’m I’m assuming that the wizard who lives in these caverns uses it.

02:01:01.359 –> 02:01:02.960
We might need it to get to him.

02:01:04.159 –> 02:01:05.920
His lair might be on the other side of the lake.

02:01:06.239 –> 02:01:06.720
I don’t know.

02:01:07.039 –> 02:01:10.159
Plus, I don’t think there’s any way there’s less danger.

02:01:11.840 –> 02:01:13.840
Almost three of you can fit on the boat.

02:01:14.159 –> 02:01:17.359
Well, then one person rows it back over and picks up the other two.

02:01:17.680 –> 02:01:18.720
There’s five of us.

02:01:19.039 –> 02:01:20.079
What about the horses?

02:01:20.399 –> 02:01:21.119
Plenty of hell.

02:01:21.520 –> 02:01:22.079
I don’t know.

02:01:22.399 –> 02:01:23.119
And Tom.

02:01:23.680 –> 02:01:24.319
Oh, we should.

02:01:24.560 –> 02:01:25.680
Yeah, we have a big group.

02:01:25.920 –> 02:01:26.159
Yeah.

02:01:26.640 –> 02:01:31.920
And we can’t leave one horse on one side or he’s going to eat the grain, so we need to take the grain, and then we gotta eat the flocks.

02:01:32.159 –> 02:01:33.199
And we gotta leave the gag.

02:01:37.039 –> 02:01:40.000
Let’s ditch the boat idea for a minute.

02:01:40.319 –> 02:01:44.960
Yeah, let’s explore deeper in what we can actually, you know, like walk.

02:01:45.279 –> 02:01:46.319
Yeah, sounds good.

02:01:47.119 –> 02:01:52.399
Now with a little more pep and step, now that you finally got a f a good rest, uh, gets moving.

02:01:52.880 –> 02:01:55.520
Um, should we head east?

02:01:55.840 –> 02:01:56.239
I think.

02:01:56.960 –> 02:01:58.560
Yes, I think we should head east.

02:01:59.119 –> 02:02:02.560
We totally would know what the directions are while we’re in a cave.

02:02:05.359 –> 02:02:06.880
Oh, Pilla’s always north.

02:02:07.199 –> 02:02:07.600
Right.

02:02:09.199 –> 02:02:11.600
Scorn waves at uh Starling.

02:02:11.840 –> 02:02:12.319
Aldric.

02:02:13.119 –> 02:02:13.680
We’re going this way.

02:02:13.840 –> 02:02:14.479
Keep up.

02:02:15.119 –> 02:02:15.760
Aldric.

02:02:16.000 –> 02:02:17.840
Aldric, I have something to say to you.

02:02:18.159 –> 02:02:21.760
As you get further from the party, you feel the rumble grow louder.

02:02:23.279 –> 02:02:24.960
Is Aldric ignoring you?

02:02:25.520 –> 02:02:26.239
I guess so.

02:02:26.560 –> 02:02:27.920
Oh, I’m sorry, I was on mute.

02:02:34.560 –> 02:02:35.039
Oh my god.

02:02:35.520 –> 02:02:37.279
Aldric had his AirPods then.

02:02:40.159 –> 02:02:42.720
Aldric was uh having visions for a moment.

02:02:42.880 –> 02:02:43.680
Okay, I’m sorry.

02:02:43.920 –> 02:02:44.960
Uh thing?

02:02:45.520 –> 02:02:51.199
Your quartz crystal that you got from the lich, you should try looking in it sometime when you’re alone.

02:02:51.520 –> 02:02:53.039
Oh when I’m alone.

02:02:53.359 –> 02:02:55.359
Yeah, just like you would a crystal ball.

02:02:55.600 –> 02:02:56.479
You might see something.

02:02:56.720 –> 02:02:56.960
Oh.

02:02:58.239 –> 02:02:59.600
I haven’t tried it yet.

02:02:59.920 –> 02:03:00.880
I think you can.

02:03:01.359 –> 02:03:06.640
Yeah, you can look at it when we go back to I think it looks pretty beautiful.

02:03:06.960 –> 02:03:07.520
Pretty beautiful.

02:03:07.600 –> 02:03:11.119
It’s got this gold, like, line going through it.

02:03:11.439 –> 02:03:12.720
Okay, I’m not going in the water.

02:03:13.039 –> 02:03:13.600
Never mind that.

02:03:14.159 –> 02:03:16.079
Do you get any feelings from it so far?

02:03:16.640 –> 02:03:17.760
It feels magical.

02:03:18.079 –> 02:03:18.319
Yeah.

02:03:18.640 –> 02:03:20.640
It’s a big cave complex.

02:03:21.840 –> 02:03:32.399
Yeah, did you did he say did the giant explain that oh sorry let me there we go did the giant explain that we would come across the wizard on the way out?

02:03:32.720 –> 02:03:38.399
Like is he on the way out towards the exit or will he just he might just be somewhere?

02:03:38.720 –> 02:03:48.239
As you approach a glowing light on the other side of the cave, you see a pile of boulders begin moving and you see a wizard walking towards you.

02:03:48.560 –> 02:03:49.840
It’s a weird-looking wizard.

02:03:50.720 –> 02:03:51.920
You call that a wizard?

02:03:52.159 –> 02:03:53.039
I mean, okay.

02:03:55.439 –> 02:03:59.359
As he holds out his hand, you hear him muttering under his breath.

02:03:59.680 –> 02:04:00.960
Okay, I’m taking cover.

02:04:01.279 –> 02:04:02.560
World initiative.

02:04:03.199 –> 02:04:03.439
Okay.

02:04:05.039 –> 02:04:05.680
There we go.

02:04:06.079 –> 02:04:06.640
Nice.

02:04:08.159 –> 02:04:10.319
Oh, Earth Elemental Common Initiative.

02:04:10.640 –> 02:04:12.800
Oh, man, Aldric saying the cult.

02:04:17.439 –> 02:04:18.960
Where’s the elemental cultist?

02:04:19.359 –> 02:04:20.000
Up here.

02:04:20.319 –> 02:04:21.840
Oh, I thought that was a wizard.

02:04:22.159 –> 02:04:25.359
Um it might it might be a wizard.

02:04:25.680 –> 02:04:26.239
Oh, okay.

02:04:26.319 –> 02:04:27.680
The photo just looks a little bit.

02:04:27.760 –> 02:04:27.920
Yeah.

02:04:28.239 –> 02:04:32.319
I’m pretty sure this big earth elemental here isn’t the wizard, so it’s it’s this guy.

02:04:32.640 –> 02:04:34.720
Oh yeah, I don’t think that’s the wizard either.

02:04:34.960 –> 02:04:35.680
I don’t know.

02:04:36.000 –> 02:04:37.359
So what’s happening here?

02:04:37.680 –> 02:04:47.920
Uh as you see him casting the spell scorn, make a charisma saving throw.

02:04:48.239 –> 02:04:51.119
Oh, that was like the best person to ask.

02:04:51.680 –> 02:04:52.000
Okay.

02:04:52.640 –> 02:04:53.680
Um yeah.

02:04:53.920 –> 02:04:55.680
Dice don’t fail me now.

02:04:56.000 –> 02:04:58.239
Go ahead, be a charismatic bastard, you.

02:04:59.039 –> 02:04:59.920
That’s pretty good.

02:05:00.239 –> 02:05:03.439
You feel magic trying to pull you into another plane.

02:05:03.760 –> 02:05:05.119
Oh, he’s one of those.

02:05:05.680 –> 02:05:07.039
And it doesn’t work.

02:05:07.359 –> 02:05:08.640
It doesn’t work.

02:05:08.960 –> 02:05:09.359
Good.

02:05:09.760 –> 02:05:10.239
It did.

02:05:10.720 –> 02:05:12.079
It’s your turn.

02:05:12.720 –> 02:05:14.560
Make a perception check for me.

02:05:14.880 –> 02:05:15.920
Uh, Yssoa.

02:05:16.000 –> 02:05:16.640
I got you.

02:05:16.800 –> 02:05:17.520
That’s a seven.

02:05:17.680 –> 02:05:19.119
Ippit is rolling terrible today.

02:05:19.359 –> 02:05:19.600
You know what?

02:05:19.760 –> 02:05:20.319
That’s what I get.

02:05:20.640 –> 02:05:23.680
Last session I played, I won three natty plenties, so I feel like.

02:05:26.920 –> 02:05:28.520
Alright, continue with your turn.

02:05:28.840 –> 02:05:29.560
That’s crazy.

02:05:29.720 –> 02:05:30.920
How you okay?

02:05:32.680 –> 02:05:36.359
Um, does Ippit realize this guy is getting a little aggressive towards us?

02:05:36.920 –> 02:05:40.119
I guess he just tried to banish Scorn, but would I have noticed that?

02:05:40.439 –> 02:05:40.680
No.

02:05:41.159 –> 02:05:41.880
God damn it.

02:05:42.119 –> 02:05:48.920
Um, okay, Ippit’s going to compel duel.

02:05:49.239 –> 02:05:50.680
Or actually, never mind.

02:05:51.000 –> 02:05:52.439
I take that back, I’m sorry.

02:05:52.760 –> 02:05:57.159
Um, Ippit’s going to cast command on the wizard.

02:05:57.479 –> 02:06:00.439
He’s going to do it at second level.

02:06:00.760 –> 02:06:05.560
And he is going to command the wizard to grovel.

02:06:06.199 –> 02:06:09.319
He has to beat a DC-17 wisdom saving throw.

02:06:09.960 –> 02:06:10.199
What?

02:06:10.520 –> 02:06:11.319
He fails.

02:06:11.960 –> 02:06:12.119
Yeah.

02:06:12.359 –> 02:06:16.119
So Ippit, yeah, he just like stand down before he echoes.

02:06:16.359 –> 02:06:24.920
That means he is now prone and it seems like he doesn’t get a turn when you do that command, right?

02:06:25.239 –> 02:06:25.880
Well, he would end up.

02:06:27.720 –> 02:06:31.720
Oh, wait, so he goes one turn just being prone and then the other one, like.

02:06:32.279 –> 02:06:35.880
So on his turn, he starts prone and then ends his turn.

02:06:36.199 –> 02:06:36.920
Oh, okay.

02:06:37.239 –> 02:06:39.640
And plus, it takes a whole turn for him to get up from being.

02:06:40.119 –> 02:06:40.279
Yeah.

02:06:40.840 –> 02:06:41.159
Okay.

02:06:41.479 –> 02:06:43.479
Getting up from prone just takes half your movement.

02:06:43.720 –> 02:06:45.239
Do you have anything else to do?

02:06:45.560 –> 02:06:47.960
I think that’s it for right now, honestly.

02:06:48.199 –> 02:06:50.279
Starling, it is your turn.

02:06:50.600 –> 02:06:57.000
You saw this cultist casting a spell and then immediately Ippit commanding it kneel.

02:06:57.479 –> 02:06:58.840
It’s on the ground now.

02:06:59.079 –> 02:06:59.800
What do you do?

02:07:00.359 –> 02:07:02.439
I would like to cast my new spell on it.

02:07:03.640 –> 02:07:05.560
Feign death, that’s not feign death.

02:07:05.880 –> 02:07:06.359
Alright.

02:07:06.680 –> 02:07:13.720
So it has to make a DC-15 wisdom saving throw, or else its soul is pushed out of its body.

02:07:14.039 –> 02:07:16.600
It fails as he collapses.

02:07:17.239 –> 02:07:19.880
Does he get his soul back after 24 hours?

02:07:20.199 –> 02:07:20.520
Yes.

02:07:20.840 –> 02:07:22.680
If you haven’t destroyed his body.

02:07:23.000 –> 02:07:23.880
Okay, okay.

02:07:24.439 –> 02:07:26.199
I was about to feel really bad.

02:07:26.520 –> 02:07:27.399
Okay, I would like.

02:07:28.840 –> 02:07:37.560
So I’d like to move over to him and look back over my shoulder and tell them, you know, don’t hurt his body.

02:07:37.720 –> 02:07:38.760
There’s no reason to kill him.

02:07:38.840 –> 02:07:40.279
He’s not going to be able to move.

02:07:40.600 –> 02:07:41.640
That’s so funny.

02:07:41.960 –> 02:07:43.720
He casts a spell, it fails.

02:07:43.960 –> 02:07:47.399
I tell him to grovel, and then Starling makes him go limp.

02:07:52.119 –> 02:07:53.880
Will you do anything else on your turn?

02:07:54.199 –> 02:07:55.319
Other than move to him?

02:07:55.399 –> 02:07:55.720
No.

02:07:56.359 –> 02:07:57.960
Scorn is your turn.

02:07:58.279 –> 02:08:01.960
Yeah, I’m kind of disappointed he’s unconscious now, so I can’t taunt him.

02:08:03.079 –> 02:08:04.439
He just looks at the wizard.

02:08:04.520 –> 02:08:06.520
It’s like, you call that a banishment spell.

02:08:06.680 –> 02:08:07.880
This is a banishment spell.

02:08:08.199 –> 02:08:12.199
And he banishes the attempts to banish the Earth Elemental here.

02:08:12.439 –> 02:08:14.279
Because it’s kind of scary.

02:08:14.600 –> 02:08:15.800
So what’s my DC.

02:08:17.000 –> 02:08:18.199
I’m not sure where it is on this.

02:08:20.359 –> 02:08:21.000
Should be a 15.

02:08:21.079 –> 02:08:24.439
DC 15 Charisma save for the Earth Elemental.

02:08:24.760 –> 02:08:25.960
Yeah, that’s it.

02:08:26.600 –> 02:08:27.479
It fails.

02:08:28.600 –> 02:08:29.560
Ooh, ouch.

02:08:29.800 –> 02:08:30.680
I saw the 14.

02:08:30.760 –> 02:08:31.560
I was like, oh, no.

02:08:32.039 –> 02:08:33.319
That’s so funny.

02:08:33.560 –> 02:08:33.880
This.

02:08:34.359 –> 02:08:36.840
They just pulled up on us and we said, no.

02:08:40.760 –> 02:08:42.039
Aldric, it’s your turn.

02:08:42.199 –> 02:08:43.239
What do you do?

02:08:43.560 –> 02:08:46.119
I look around for an exit.

02:08:49.079 –> 02:08:50.760
The Earth Elemental was standing.

02:08:50.920 –> 02:08:53.479
There’s a path that leads deeper into the cave.

02:08:53.800 –> 02:08:56.119
I just say, come on, let’s go.

02:08:56.439 –> 02:08:58.199
And dash 60 feet.

02:08:58.359 –> 02:08:59.960
Can I use action to dash?

02:09:00.279 –> 02:09:00.600
Yeah.

02:09:01.159 –> 02:09:02.439
Is that 60 feet, yeah?

02:09:02.760 –> 02:09:03.000
Yeah.

02:09:03.720 –> 02:09:04.920
You’re gonna dash all the way over there.

02:09:05.399 –> 02:09:05.880
Let’s go, guys.

02:09:05.960 –> 02:09:06.199
Come on.

02:09:06.279 –> 02:09:07.239
Let’s just go.

02:09:07.560 –> 02:09:11.079
And run towards the exit.

02:09:11.399 –> 02:09:12.039
Aldric.

02:09:12.520 –> 02:09:13.079
Uh-oh.

02:09:13.399 –> 02:09:15.800
You separated from the group, you fool.

02:09:16.760 –> 02:09:23.079
As you step away from the group, you feel a sense of dread as the ground rumbles underneath you.

02:09:23.399 –> 02:09:24.199
Oh, no.

02:09:26.439 –> 02:09:28.119
Well, I always feel dread.

02:09:28.359 –> 02:09:28.920
It’s fine.

02:09:29.239 –> 02:09:29.640
Don’t worry about it.

02:09:29.800 –> 02:09:32.359
I see a group come leaping out of the ground at you.

02:09:32.680 –> 02:09:34.600
Can I understand if it’s the same one?

02:09:34.680 –> 02:09:35.800
Does it look like the same one?

02:09:36.119 –> 02:09:36.680
It doesn’t.

02:09:36.840 –> 02:09:38.279
This one looks unharmed.

02:09:38.840 –> 02:09:40.359
Are you sure it didn’t just long rest?

02:09:40.840 –> 02:09:43.560
Make a DC-15 dexterity saving throw.

02:09:43.800 –> 02:09:44.840
It’s okay, Aldric.

02:09:44.920 –> 02:09:46.680
You know you won’t die here.

02:09:49.880 –> 02:09:51.159
Still don’t like pain.

02:09:53.000 –> 02:09:54.279
Oh, 20.

02:09:54.439 –> 02:09:54.920
Natural.

02:09:55.079 –> 02:09:55.560
20.

02:09:55.640 –> 02:09:57.079
Or 21 total.

02:09:58.279 –> 02:10:01.159
You take half damage and are pushed five feet away.

02:10:01.479 –> 02:10:03.159
Half damage was 17.

02:10:04.119 –> 02:10:04.359
Yeah.

02:10:05.479 –> 02:10:06.039
Ow.

02:10:06.920 –> 02:10:07.720
No, that was wrong.

02:10:08.039 –> 02:10:09.239
Half damage was eight.

02:10:09.479 –> 02:10:10.039
Oh, okay.

02:10:11.079 –> 02:10:12.600
So you should be at 29.

02:10:13.479 –> 02:10:13.880
Okay, okay.

02:10:14.119 –> 02:10:15.159
Phew, pew, pew.

02:10:15.720 –> 02:10:17.239
Now, Ash, it is your turn.

02:10:23.800 –> 02:10:24.359
That hits?

02:10:24.600 –> 02:10:24.920
Ooh.

02:10:30.640 –> 02:10:31.199
Nice damage.

02:10:32.479 –> 02:10:32.960
Hits.

02:10:34.079 –> 02:10:36.640
Is Booming Blade an action or a bonus action?

02:10:37.119 –> 02:10:38.239
It’s a bonus action.

02:10:41.520 –> 02:10:42.079
Alright, that’s.

02:10:43.359 –> 02:10:45.119
Do you do anything else on your tier?

02:10:45.439 –> 02:10:46.319
Oh, sorry, no.

02:10:46.479 –> 02:10:47.119
No, that’s it.

02:10:47.439 –> 02:10:48.079
Alright.

02:10:48.720 –> 02:10:52.399
You feel a rumbling in the ground as something comes out of it underneath you.

02:10:52.720 –> 02:10:53.359
Oh, God.

02:10:54.000 –> 02:10:54.560
Another one?

02:10:57.359 –> 02:11:01.920
Aldric and Ash need to make dexterity saving throws.

02:11:02.560 –> 02:11:06.399
And Ash narrowly makes it.

02:11:07.039 –> 02:11:07.760
It’s pushed away.

02:11:07.840 –> 02:11:10.000
It takes half damage, and Aldric fails.

02:11:10.319 –> 02:11:13.760
May I use my heroic inspiration to try?

02:11:15.039 –> 02:11:16.800
Is it a roll again, yeah?

02:11:17.279 –> 02:11:17.439
Yeah.

02:11:18.399 –> 02:11:19.520
Alright, I’ll try again.

02:11:19.840 –> 02:11:22.880
Oh, we forgot to roll your portent, so roll those as well.

02:11:23.199 –> 02:11:23.520
Okay.

02:11:23.840 –> 02:11:26.479
I’ll do that dexterity saving throw again first.

02:11:27.119 –> 02:11:28.159
No, not really better.

02:11:28.319 –> 02:11:29.279
Twelve this time.

02:11:29.600 –> 02:11:29.760
Okay.

02:11:30.319 –> 02:11:30.720
Amazing.

02:11:31.039 –> 02:11:33.039
You want to lose one of your portons now?

02:11:33.359 –> 02:11:33.680
Uh.

02:11:35.520 –> 02:11:36.479
Um, I guess so.

02:11:36.880 –> 02:11:38.560
Yeah, I’ll use the one to save.

02:11:38.880 –> 02:11:40.720
I think I’m gonna die if I don’t.

02:11:41.119 –> 02:11:44.000
We’re immediately under attack from the second hulep.

02:11:44.159 –> 02:11:45.520
Well, the first one that popped up.

02:11:45.840 –> 02:11:47.279
The one you’ve been laying into.

02:11:47.600 –> 02:11:52.319
If he moves, he takes he hits you with two bites.

02:11:52.640 –> 02:11:55.600
One for eight damage and one for twenty-one.

02:11:56.079 –> 02:11:57.600
And if it, it is your turn.

02:11:57.920 –> 02:12:02.720
After commanding the cultists to kneel, you have heard chaos from further in the caves.

02:12:03.359 –> 02:12:11.119
If it sees these guys messing up my homies, so if it’s gonna run, run over to the first one he sees, you’re gonna hit it.

02:12:11.439 –> 02:12:12.720
You gotta be eating me.

02:12:12.960 –> 02:12:13.520
What is this?

02:12:13.840 –> 02:12:14.560
Got a one.

02:12:16.000 –> 02:12:18.159
Think you need to take damage off of all?

02:12:18.640 –> 02:12:20.239
Yes, the three from the graze.

02:12:21.199 –> 02:12:22.960
I’m gonna attack once more.

02:12:23.520 –> 02:12:24.800
It’s a thirteen.

02:12:25.119 –> 02:12:27.520
Then that does not hit.

02:12:27.840 –> 02:12:29.760
Damn, so it’s just another graze.

02:12:30.079 –> 02:12:32.880
Elias, I think you need to take some damage off of Aldric.

02:12:33.119 –> 02:12:40.640
I mean, give Aldric more damage because you still get half damage on the thing jumping at them.

02:12:41.600 –> 02:12:44.720
So I think it was 15 damage.

02:12:44.960 –> 02:12:46.720
That should be seven, so he should get two.

02:12:47.520 –> 02:12:47.840
Thank you.

02:12:48.079 –> 02:12:48.399
Yeah.

02:12:48.720 –> 02:12:48.960
Yeah.

02:12:49.439 –> 02:12:51.199
Starling, it is your turn.

02:12:51.520 –> 02:12:54.960
I’m going to bonus action innately cast misty step.

02:12:55.680 –> 02:12:58.960
Okay, move myself over here next to Aldric.

02:12:59.520 –> 02:13:08.079
And I’m going to, for my action, cast inflict wounds on the bulette, level three, DC 15, constitution saving throw.

02:13:08.640 –> 02:13:09.359
It makes it.

02:13:09.600 –> 02:13:10.079
Oh, wow.

02:13:10.159 –> 02:13:10.880
It takes half to damage.

02:13:11.039 –> 02:13:12.000
More damage?

02:13:13.520 –> 02:13:14.159
Not bad.

02:13:14.479 –> 02:13:18.560
You see wounds that have recently healed opening back up on its back.

02:13:18.880 –> 02:13:20.640
And Scorn, it is your turn.

02:13:22.239 –> 02:13:23.920
Scorn’s not going to move.

02:13:24.560 –> 02:13:25.279
Not just yet.

02:13:25.760 –> 02:13:30.640
He doesn’t want to give away his position to any other, you know, monsters.

02:13:31.199 –> 02:13:32.079
So I’m just going to.

02:13:32.640 –> 02:13:34.960
I’m just going to hit with a fireball attack.

02:13:35.600 –> 02:13:36.479
Oh, man.

02:13:36.800 –> 02:13:37.199
I am not.

02:13:38.399 –> 02:13:40.000
Not making good attack rolls today.

02:13:40.319 –> 02:13:40.960
Okay, that’s…

02:13:41.359 –> 02:13:42.239
That’s me done.

02:13:42.560 –> 02:13:43.359
That’s all I’m doing.

02:13:43.600 –> 02:13:44.960
Aldric, it is your turn.

02:13:45.279 –> 02:13:53.279
Aldric is not thinking on Scorn’s level, so he’s going to try and run 30 feet towards the back.

02:13:53.920 –> 02:13:56.399
Alright, that’s an opportunity attack.

02:13:56.960 –> 02:13:57.359
Alright.

02:13:57.680 –> 02:13:58.319
Oh, dear.

02:13:58.479 –> 02:13:59.920
Can I make him fail?

02:14:00.239 –> 02:14:00.479
Yes.

02:14:01.039 –> 02:14:03.119
Make him fail with my portent.

02:14:03.439 –> 02:14:04.399
I knew he was going to miss.

02:14:04.479 –> 02:14:05.039
It’s okay.

02:14:06.000 –> 02:14:07.520
And what would you do with your turn?

02:14:07.840 –> 02:14:08.720
Okay, sorry, yeah.

02:14:09.279 –> 02:14:11.760
Then he’ll turn around and.

02:14:13.039 –> 02:14:15.439
Oh, I have well.

02:14:16.000 –> 02:14:21.279
If I use shatter, would I be getting my companions in the same figure?

02:14:21.520 –> 02:14:23.520
It’s a ten-foot radius.

02:14:23.840 –> 02:14:27.600
Would I be able to cast it without getting my companions or not?

02:14:27.840 –> 02:14:30.159
So you still would hit them.

02:14:30.479 –> 02:14:32.560
Yeah, I think I shouldn’t do that then.

02:14:32.800 –> 02:14:40.000
So, yeah, realizing that, you’ll just cast Toll the Dead on the one that’s next to Ipid.

02:14:40.640 –> 02:14:41.600
You’ll till the dead.

02:14:41.920 –> 02:14:44.640
It’s a DC-14 wisdom saving throw.

02:14:44.800 –> 02:14:45.520
Oh, that’s it.

02:14:45.760 –> 02:14:46.479
It fails.

02:14:47.039 –> 02:14:48.479
Okay, so then damage is.

02:14:49.039 –> 02:14:50.640
Has it been damaged already?

02:14:50.960 –> 02:14:51.520
Yes.

02:14:51.840 –> 02:14:52.800
Yeah, hasn’t it?

02:14:52.960 –> 02:14:55.279
So that makes it 2d12.

02:14:55.920 –> 02:14:56.239
Alright?

02:14:56.640 –> 02:14:57.279
2D12.

02:14:57.359 –> 02:14:57.680
Yeah, yeah.

02:14:58.159 –> 02:14:58.399
Wow.

02:14:59.039 –> 02:14:59.520
Here we go.

02:14:59.600 –> 02:15:00.399
Here we go.

02:15:00.720 –> 02:15:01.279
Not too bad.

02:15:01.359 –> 02:15:02.000
Not too bad.

02:15:02.319 –> 02:15:02.880
19.

02:15:03.359 –> 02:15:05.920
That’s the end of the turn.

02:15:08.720 –> 02:15:13.600
If I move two blocks down, would I be an opportunity attack?

02:15:13.920 –> 02:15:14.159
No.

02:15:14.720 –> 02:15:15.439
Okay, back.

02:15:16.239 –> 02:15:19.680
So I can give somebody an obstacle attack to one on my sword.

02:15:19.840 –> 02:15:20.239
Actually, no.

02:15:20.560 –> 02:15:23.279
And would you like to use one of your attacks for Booming Blade?

02:15:23.600 –> 02:15:24.960
Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.

02:15:27.720 –> 02:15:28.600
Because I have Warmad.

02:15:28.680 –> 02:15:30.199
At least one of my attacks is still.

02:15:30.920 –> 02:15:32.760
Let me double-check that real quick.

02:15:33.079 –> 02:15:36.119
I’m just curious about an interaction there.

02:15:36.439 –> 02:15:39.560
So you can’t do Booming Blade with that.

02:15:39.880 –> 02:15:40.199
Okay.

02:15:41.079 –> 02:15:44.520
So you have to use one of your cantrips that are in action.

02:15:45.319 –> 02:15:45.800
It’s weird.

02:15:46.279 –> 02:15:47.560
On my description.

02:15:47.640 –> 02:15:48.199
It’s weird.

02:15:48.279 –> 02:15:48.680
It’s weird.

02:15:48.920 –> 02:15:50.760
Or, let’s look at that again.

02:15:51.079 –> 02:15:56.439
Oh, so you’re saying you want to do that as one of your attacks instead of a full action.

02:15:56.760 –> 02:15:57.479
Yeah, it’s fine.

02:15:58.199 –> 02:15:59.560
Okay, yeah, you can do that.

02:15:59.880 –> 02:16:00.119
Okay.

02:16:00.279 –> 02:16:02.039
Because I was going to use Action Surge.

02:16:02.119 –> 02:16:02.439
Anyway.

02:16:04.520 –> 02:16:09.399
And when you Action Surge, you can do that again on your next attack action.

02:16:10.359 –> 02:16:10.680
Okay.

02:16:11.000 –> 02:16:11.560
Yes, I did.

02:16:12.600 –> 02:16:14.520
That does definitely hit.

02:16:18.439 –> 02:16:19.159
Action Surge.

02:16:22.039 –> 02:16:24.520
Are you not going to use Booming Blade on that last attack?

02:16:24.840 –> 02:16:25.239
Oh, yeah.

02:16:25.399 –> 02:16:25.720
Sorry.

02:16:25.800 –> 02:16:26.279
Thank you.

02:16:28.039 –> 02:16:28.600
Nice.

02:16:28.920 –> 02:16:31.000
Alright, so how do you kill this one?

02:16:32.200 –> 02:16:37.319
Stab it straight into the back of it right at this where I think the spine is.

02:16:37.639 –> 02:16:41.399
As you stab it straight through, you feel its heavy shell cracking.

02:16:42.440 –> 02:16:44.840
It stops moving underneath you.

02:16:47.399 –> 02:16:48.200
Sorry, guys.

02:16:48.440 –> 02:16:49.399
That’s my turn.

02:16:49.719 –> 02:16:53.719
Alright, and next, immediately, you’re under attack from the other one.

02:16:54.040 –> 02:16:57.479
It chomps down on your armor, unable to make it through.

02:16:57.799 –> 02:16:59.719
And Ipid, it is your turn.

02:17:00.040 –> 02:17:00.360
Alright.

02:17:00.600 –> 02:17:05.639
You just saw Ash finish off one bullet, and now you are on the other end.

02:17:05.959 –> 02:17:08.120
Ipid’s going to try to hit this thing once more.

02:17:08.360 –> 02:17:09.159
What the hell am I doing?

02:17:09.799 –> 02:17:10.360
Advantage.

02:17:10.680 –> 02:17:11.239
Advantage?

02:17:11.319 –> 02:17:12.200
Alright, Silas.

02:17:12.920 –> 02:17:13.479
25.

02:17:14.120 –> 02:17:14.360
Yeah.

02:17:14.920 –> 02:17:18.600
Alright, I’m going to roll two damages for my Savage Attacker.

02:17:19.399 –> 02:17:20.360
That’s a 10.

02:17:20.680 –> 02:17:21.079
Alright.

02:17:21.319 –> 02:17:22.600
That’s for my first hit.

02:17:23.239 –> 02:17:24.760
You know what, since I already hit.

02:17:24.840 –> 02:17:27.159
I’m going to go ahead and use a bonus action.

02:17:27.719 –> 02:17:30.120
And I’m going to Divine Smite It.

02:17:30.360 –> 02:17:34.520
Gonna be a 12, so that’s gonna be 22 damage total.

02:17:35.879 –> 02:17:38.040
And he’s gonna try to hit it once more.

02:17:38.680 –> 02:17:39.399
19.

02:17:39.719 –> 02:17:40.280
That hits.

02:17:40.600 –> 02:17:41.559
Fish for the crit.

02:17:41.719 –> 02:17:42.520
Yeah, might as well.

02:17:42.840 –> 02:17:43.000
Yeah.

02:17:43.399 –> 02:17:43.799
Alright.

02:17:44.920 –> 02:17:45.799
Roll damage.

02:17:46.120 –> 02:17:47.799
That’s gonna be 9 damage.

02:17:48.600 –> 02:17:52.360
You see, it’s heavily wounded and it’s getting away to run away.

02:17:52.680 –> 02:17:53.719
Oh, no, you don’t.

02:17:54.680 –> 02:17:56.120
Starling, it’s your turn.

02:17:56.680 –> 02:17:59.000
It’s gonna get inflicted when it’s down at third level.

02:17:59.319 –> 02:18:00.360
DC 15 cons.

02:18:01.159 –> 02:18:01.879
It fails.

02:18:02.040 –> 02:18:03.000
Roll damage.

02:18:03.319 –> 02:18:04.120
Did it roll?

02:18:04.440 –> 02:18:04.680
Yeah.

02:18:05.000 –> 02:18:05.159
Yeah.

02:18:05.719 –> 02:18:18.600
So you see the bullet, its wounds growing as all of the damage that has accumulated in the past few days fighting you guys comes back to overwhelm it as it collapses to the cave floor.

02:18:18.920 –> 02:18:19.479
Nice.

02:18:19.799 –> 02:18:21.959
The cave grows quiet once again.

02:18:22.280 –> 02:18:25.000
And we’re gonna leave off here before you go deeper.

02:18:25.239 –> 02:18:26.280
That was fun, guys.

02:18:26.520 –> 02:18:27.479
It really was.

02:18:28.680 –> 02:18:32.200
Where that elemental pops back in like, what, 20 seconds?

02:18:33.719 –> 02:18:34.360
It’s coming back.

02:18:35.639 –> 02:18:36.760
We’re gonna have to move.

02:18:39.079 –> 02:18:39.639
But nice.

02:18:39.719 –> 02:18:40.760
We dealt with these things.

02:18:41.000 –> 02:18:41.479
Boop.

02:18:43.639 –> 02:18:44.200
Alright.

02:18:44.520 –> 02:18:46.120
And I made a little form.

02:18:46.600 –> 02:18:48.360
I’m gonna send it in the chat.

02:18:48.680 –> 02:18:52.680
Just for fleshing out your backstory if you want to use it for that.

02:18:53.319 –> 02:18:54.520
That’s a really cool tool.

02:18:54.680 –> 02:18:55.879
I liked it.

02:18:56.520 –> 02:19:00.840
It’s just meant to make it a little easier to work on your details.

02:19:01.159 –> 02:19:03.079
Is that the one for the backstories?

02:19:03.399 –> 02:19:03.639
Yeah.

02:19:04.120 –> 02:19:08.280
Okay, yeah, I sent you some answers for those questions.

02:19:08.600 –> 02:19:09.399
Yeah, I saw those.

02:19:09.559 –> 02:19:10.040
They’re good.

02:19:10.360 –> 02:19:10.760
Thank you.

02:19:11.000 –> 02:19:11.399
Alright.

02:19:11.719 –> 02:19:12.760
You all have a good night.

02:19:13.079 –> 02:19:14.360
You guys have a good night.

02:19:14.680 –> 02:19:15.239
You too.

02:19:15.479 –> 02:19:16.120
You guys have a good night.

02:19:17.719 –> 02:19:19.719
You guys have a good night, and I’ll see you next week.

02:19:20.040 –> 02:19:21.000
See you all next week.

02:19:21.319 –> 02:19:21.959
Have a good one.

02:19:22.920 –> 02:19:23.479
Bye-bye.

Chasing Barendur Session 15