Crooked Crossroads

Chasing Barendur

Session 17

Characters

player characters

Ash
Aldric
Ipid
Scorn
Starling

Session Summary

Emergence & Revelation

Party exits mountain caves at Linlithgow quarry after days underground
Spot mysterious winged figure flying toward city’s magical towers
Learn city is rebuilding after fire giant attacks

Ipid’s Tragic Homecoming

Dragonborn soldiers at city gates recognize Ipid as tribal deserter
Learns devastating news: Delmir homeland overrun, only 1/3 of tribe survived
General Varka (his former mentor) leads 30 survivors but left to fight fire giants
Mother’s fate unknown—survivors scattered as mercenaries

The Broken Wand Tavern

Scorn reunites with contact Sorcha, a dancer with criminal connections
Sorcha offers job investigating mysterious winged creature visiting wizard’s tower
Party indulges: Scorn gets intoxicated and performs exceptional musical show
Starling seduces tiefling sorceress, disappears to back rooms

Midnight Conspiracy

Sorcha reveals target: wizard Emirenesis who allows only one visitor—angel with fangs
Job: infiltrate tower while wizard teaches elsewhere
Payment: whatever loot they can steal
Sorcha offers 2000 gold for info on celestial Seraphim—Scorn refuses

The Tower Heist

Plan: Aldric poses as student with Ipid/Starling as bodyguards while Scorn/Ash break in
Aldric pays 500 gold for magic lessons, discusses troll spells with wizard
Scorn disguises as wizard, picks tower lock successfully
Navigate fire traps, find cages and alchemical equipment

Magical Theft & Traps

Ash steals elven chainmail, runed sword, and cloak of protection
Third item triggers magical wall of force, trapping Ash
Wizard senses disturbance, mentions sending guards
Ash uses spell storing ring to break free from magical prison

The Celestial Vampire

Reach tower summit, encounter terrifying angel: black wings, red eyes, blood-red hair, fangs
Creature dispels Scorn’s disguise, reveals she feeds on wizard’s magical blood
Manipulates wizard while using him as supernatural food source

Aerial Chase & Capture

Scorn thundersteps both thieves out tower window to street level
Angel pursues, grabs both men in flight toward industrial district
Second thunderstep fails—Scorn escapes to alley, angel carries Ash away
Scorn casts slow on creature, Ash creates magical darkness around himself

Emergency Extraction

Scorn sends urgent message to Starling about Ash’s capture
Starling feigns illness to end wizard lesson early
Party successfully withdraws while Ash remains prisoner
Session ends with Ash captured, carrying stolen magical items in bag of holding

Key Consequences

Party’s cover blown with celestial vampire
Ash captured with valuable stolen magical items
Wizard likely aware his tower was breached
Celestial creature’s true nature and motives still mysterious

Session 17: The Angel of Blood and Shadows

A Tale of Ancient Vengeance and Celestial Terror

Dawn’s Bitter Revelation

The mountain caves had held them prisoner for days—cold stone walls weeping with moisture, the endless echo of their footsteps haunting the darkness. When morning light finally kissed their faces at the quarry’s edge, it should have been a moment of triumph. Instead, it marked the beginning of their most harrowing adventure yet.

Ipid, the bronze-scaled dragonborn warrior, breathed deeply of the crisp mountain air, his relief palpable after the suffocating underground passages. The quarry stretched before them like a great wound in the earth, carved by countless hands rebuilding what the fire giants had torn asunder. Workers hauled massive stone blocks on steel-wheeled wagons, their muscles straining against the weight of Linlithgow’s reconstruction.

“Amazin’ that you made it through the whole system,” wheezed an old quarryman, his weathered face creased with genuine astonishment. “Most folk don’t come out the other side, if you catch my meaning.”

But it was Scorn, the silver-tongued tiefling bard, who spotted the ominous figure first—a robed silhouette with wings cutting through the dawn sky, heading north toward the city’s magical spires. Something about that distant form sent ice through his demonic blood, though he could not yet name why.

The Divided City and a Warrior’s Shame

Linlithgow rose before them like a testament to contradictions. The northern districts soared with elegant towers and mystical spires where scholars pursued arcane wisdom, while the southern quarters belched smoke from countless refineries and forges. The very air seemed divided—sweet with magical energy in one breath, acrid with industrial ambition in the next.

At the city gates, dragonborn soldiers in gleaming mail conducted their inspections with military precision. Ipid’s steps faltered, his hand instinctively moving to the scarred dragon insignia on his shoulder plate—the mark of the Delmir tribe, cut through with shame.

“Hide me,” he whispered desperately to his companions, his proud warrior’s bearing crumbling. “They’ll know me for a deserter.”

But fate, as always, had crueler plans. A familiar voice rang out across the checkpoint like a sword striking stone: “Ipid of the Delmir! By the ancient fires, is that truly you?”

The reunion that followed would haunt Ipid’s dreams. His old comrade’s face bore the hollow look of a survivor, and the news he carried was darker than the mountain caves they’d just escaped. The Delmir homeland—those proud peaks where dragons once soared—lay in ruins. Enemies wielding terrible magic had swept through like a plague, leaving only scattered survivors to sell their swords as mercenaries.

“A third of our people,” the soldier said, his voice breaking like old leather. “That’s all that remains. General Varka leads thirty of us here, but she left two days past with hired blades to hunt fire giants in the hills.” He paused, noting the pain in Ipid’s golden eyes. “Your mother… we don’t know, brother. We just don’t know.”

Descent into the Broken Wand

The tavern’s name proved prophetic—the Broken Wand drew outcasts and rogues like moths to flame. Dancers swayed on stage in costumes that caught the lamplight like captured rainbows, while the air hung thick with smoke, cheap ale, and desperate dreams. This was Scorn’s element, a place where silver tongues and quick fingers earned more than honest work.

Sorcha materialized from the crowd like a vision of temptation—gold teeth flashing in a knowing smile, her dancer’s grace concealing the predator beneath. She pulled Scorn backstage into a haze of exotic incense that made reality bend at the edges.

“I have work for those clever enough to take it,” she purred, her words sliding through the drugged air like silk over steel. “There’s a wizard’s tower that needs… investigating. And a creature with wings and fangs that shouldn’t exist.”

While Scorn negotiated in the perfumed shadows, his companions sampled the tavern’s dubious hospitality. Aldric, the scholarly mage, found himself bewildered by the bartender’s increasingly suggestive offers, while Starling’s eyes gleamed with predatory interest as she spotted a striking tiefling sorceress across the crowded room.

The night dissolved into a kaleidoscope of intoxication and desire. Scorn, elevated by expensive rock whiskey and whatever arcane substances laced the air, took to the stage with borrowed lute in hand. His performance transcended mere music—it became something primal, a song that reached into the very souls of his audience and squeezed gold from their purses.

Meanwhile, Starling’s hunt concluded successfully as she lured the dark-horned sorceress to the tavern’s private chambers, leaving a trail of satisfied murmurs in their wake.

The Midnight Conspiracy

When the tavern’s revelry reached its peak, Sorcha led Scorn to a shadowed corner table where candlelight danced like trapped spirits. Her proposition unfurled like a map to treasure and damnation in equal measure.

“The wizard Emirenesis,” she began, her voice dropping to a conspirator’s whisper, “teaches eager students but guards his tower like a dragon hoards gold. None are permitted inside—save for one visitor. A being with the wings of an angel and the teeth of a predator.”

The job’s parameters crystallized through the haze of intoxication: infiltrate the tower while the wizard was away, discover the truth about his mysterious patron, and claim whatever treasures could be found. Payment would be whatever they could carry, plus answers to questions that had haunted Scorn since his first glimpse of the supernatural.

Sorcha’s final offer hung in the air like poisoned honey: two thousand gold pieces for information about Seraphim, the celestial who owned a tavern in the Crooked Crossroads. But some secrets, Scorn knew, were worth more than gold.

The Heist Unfolds

Dawn brought clarity and purpose to their scheming. The plan emerged with the precision of a well-crafted blade: Aldric would play the wealthy student seeking arcane tutelage, with Ipid and Starling as his imposing bodyguards. Meanwhile, Scorn and Ash would breach the wizard’s sanctum while he was distracted by his lesson.

Five hundred gold coins clinked into Emirenesis’s payment receptacle like the tolling of a bell. The ancient gnome emerged—beard flowing to his toes, eyebrows curling impossibly upward—his eyes gleaming with the avarice only wizards truly understood.

“Troll magic, you say?” Emirenesis cackled as Aldric spoke of his grimoire’s dark contents. “Fascinating! Such primitive yet potent craft. Come, let us discuss your education properly.”

While the wizard led his “student” to the peaceful North Greens for their lesson, Scorn wove illusion around himself like a second skin. To any observer, he now bore the wizard’s distinctive appearance—a masterwork of deception that would have made the greatest confidence men weep with envy.

The tower’s lock yielded to Scorn’s nimble fingers like a maiden’s virtue to a demon’s charm. But Emirenesis had not survived centuries of magical study without learning paranoia. Fire traps erupted from the stairwell in sheets of crimson fury, though the tiefling blood in both infiltrators’ veins turned the flames into mere discomfort.

Dispel magic flowed from Scorn’s lips like a prayer to forgotten gods, unraveling the protective enchantments and revealing the truth beneath—ancient runes carved into every surface, telling stories in languages that predated empires.

The Tower of Secrets

Each floor revealed new horrors and wonders. Cages designed for creatures that should not exist. Alchemical apparatus bubbling with substances that defied nature’s laws. And finally, a chamber filled with magical treasures that glittered like fallen stars.

Ash, ever the opportunist, claimed his prizes: elven chainmail that whispered of moonlit forests, a rune-carved blade that hummed with barely contained power, and a cloak that seemed to bend shadows around itself. But magic always extracted its price.

The moment his fingers closed around the third item, reality snapped like an overstretched bowstring. Walls of pure force erupted around him, trapping him in a cage of crystallized magic while alarms shrieked through the tower’s depths.

Below, Aldric fought to maintain his charade as Emirenesis grew increasingly agitated, sensing disturbances in his carefully warded domain. The wizard’s eyes kept drifting toward his tower, suspicion growing like storm clouds.

“Perhaps we should continue this lesson another time,” Emirenesis muttered, his ancient mind calculating threats and possibilities.

But Ash proved resourceful in extremity. The ring of spell storing on his finger became his salvation—raw magical energy channeled through will and desperation, shattering the force barrier in a display of power that would have impressed the tower’s absent master.

The Angel of Blood

The tower’s summit held secrets that mortal minds were never meant to comprehend. There, amid floating grimoires and bubbling potions of unnamed purpose, waited the source of all their troubles.

She stood like a nightmare given form—wings of midnight black spread wide enough to blot out the sun, eyes burning crimson with unholy hunger, hair the color of fresh-spilled blood cascading over alabaster skin. Her smile revealed teeth designed for tearing souls, and her very presence made reality seem fragile and uncertain.

“Another little mouse has wandered into my web,” she purred, her voice carrying harmonics that spoke to parts of the mind better left undisturbed. With a gesture casual as swatting a fly, she dispelled Scorn’s disguise, leaving him exposed and vulnerable before her terrible majesty.

“The old fool below makes such delicious magical blood,” she continued conversationally, as if discussing the weather rather than predation. “And he’s so easily manipulated. Men of learning think themselves above base corruption, but they’re often the most corruptible of all.”

Scorn’s every instinct screamed for flight, but the creature’s warning about traps on the descent gave him pause. When he called for Ash to join him, the warrior’s face went pale as moonlight upon seeing the celestial predator in all her terrible glory.

Thunder and Darkness

Desperation bred innovation. Scorn’s thunderstep spell crackled through the air like bottled lightning, tearing through space itself to deposit both thieves on the street below. For a heartbeat, freedom seemed within their grasp.

Then those massive wings spread wide, blotting out the morning sun as the creature dove after them with predatory grace. Her talons closed around both men like a raptor claiming field mice, lifting them into the sky as easily as a child might pluck flowers.

The city spread below them in a dizzying panorama of towers and smoke as she carried them toward the industrial district. Scorn’s second thunderstep crackled with desperate energy, but magic faltered under pressure—he materialized alone in a shadowed alley while the creature bore Ash away toward the belching smokestacks.

Slow magic flowed from Scorn’s fingertips like molasses, hampering the angel’s flight even as Ash drew his stolen blade and wreathed himself in darkness deeper than midnight. The chase became a dance of magic and desperation played out against the morning sky.

The Message of Doom

Scorn’s sending spell cut through the æther like a blade through silk, carrying urgent warning to his distant companions: “The creature flies away with Ash toward the smokestacks—mission compromised, extract immediately!”

Starling, quick-witted even in crisis, feigned sudden illness to provide cover for their withdrawal. The wizard, seeing his “student’s” bodyguard apparently stricken, agreed to end the lesson early—never knowing how close he’d come to losing everything he’d spent centuries accumulating.

As the sun climbed higher over Linlithgow’s divided skyline, the party found themselves scattered and shaken. Ash remained in the clutches of a creature that should not exist, carrying with him a bag of stolen treasures and the secrets they’d risked everything to uncover.

The angel of blood and shadows had shown them the price of meddling in affairs beyond mortal understanding. But in the city of towers and smokestacks, where magic and industry warred for dominance, their greatest trials were only beginning.

What dark purpose drove the celestial predator? What connection bound her to the ancient wizard in his tower of secrets? And in the industrial maze of Linlithgow’s southern districts, what fate awaited the captured warrior?

The answers lay shrouded in shadow and blood, waiting to be written in the next chapter of their increasingly perilous tale…

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

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Transcript

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Okay, it’s recording all right.

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Hello.

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Hey, hey, what’s up?

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Oh, not much.

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I’m getting ready to start running some more games.

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I have two more Dagger Heart games that I’m going to be starting soon.

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And then I’m going to be running a game for the Cosmere event next month.

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Damn.

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Daddy Master is hard at work.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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How are you guys doing?

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It’s been a busy day.

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Same here.

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I’ve been up since .

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So I’m going to see if I don’t crash during this session tonight.

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What time is it now where you are?

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8 p.m.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, that’s a long one.

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I never work weekends, but to get more days off without having to use vacation time, I did a scheduled change with a co-worker.

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So I’m doing 10 days straight to get four days off.

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And the weekends for the parks, you have to, you go in at 5.

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And I take my time to get ready and stuff.

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So was my wake-up time today.

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I used to get up at to go to the gym, but it’s been a while.

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Yeah, I used to work the early shift.

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And on game night, by the time we were done, I’d been up for 20 hours.

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Good lord.

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It was hard.

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I tried to see if I could fit in a nap today, but I just wasn’t feeling it.

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Like, I was not in the zone to go to sleep.

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So I was like, all right, we power through.

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Because tomorrow I have to be up at the same time.

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So we’ll see how it goes.

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Aldrich’s joining us tonight?

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I believe so.

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Okay.

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I haven’t heard anything otherwise.

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Okay.

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I always like to ask to be sure because he has a streak that he needs to keep up, man.

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He’s online.

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He just hasn’t joined the audio yet.

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He’s making a T.

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Can you guys hear me?

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Now we can.

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Yep.

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How’s it going, Champ?

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It’s going.

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I’m debating on whether I should go on tonight.

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Since my trip got moved, it’s a couple of weeks.

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Oh, no, what happened?

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Ah, something with a cabin.

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I don’t know.

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So, they just gave me a new date.

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I’ll be right back.

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So, how are you guys doing?

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Pretty good.

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I can’t complain.

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I get married in six days.

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Congratulations.

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Awesome.

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I’m a little stressed out about it or anxious about it simply because of family reasons.

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Every other thing I’m pretty chill about.

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It’s going to be a mixture of a bunch of people who are never together.

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And there’s a reason I moved out when I was 18.

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So we’ll see how it goes.

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See, I just decided to go off and elope because my wedding would have looked ridiculous.

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Half of my relatives are strictly against alcohol.

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The other half would sneak it in other ways.

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And none of them really get along.

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It was originally just going to be an elopement for me and Sarah, but some other factors were at play.

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People were offering things.

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And Sarah wanted more of a wedding anyway.

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So we were like, all right, let’s take what we’re given and let’s work off of that.

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Our wedding’s not going to be traditional anyway, but not to go into crazy detail.

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It’s just going to be, it’s.

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We’re getting elope.

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We’re getting married in a courthouse and they allow about 15 people to witness.

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So we’re just going to have close friends and family for that.

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And then we’re going to have a celebration with friends and family afterwards at a location.

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That’s pretty much all we’re doing.

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Oh, that’s what me and Ollie did.

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We got married at Fort Jackson, South Carolina courthouse, just me and her.

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And then I don’t even remember what date that was.

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And then our actual wedding, which is June 16th, is the day we do our anniversary.

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Got you.

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Yeah, that’s something me and her had to talk about.

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It’s just like, so we have our wedding anniversary, and then we have our anniversary of when we got together.

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And our anniversary when we got together is , 2017.

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So Thanksgiving.

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Yeah.

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You waited a reasonable time to get married.

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I had a few years ago.

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He got married to a woman he had met a month before.

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Oh, wow.

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Was he in the middle?

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We took our time because we did long distance for five of those years.

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Oh, wow.

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And then after she graduated and got her bachelor’s, she moved down to Florida with me and we’ve been.

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Together since.

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Cool.

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And to answer you, my friend wasn’t in the military.

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He was just being stupid for other reasons.

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Are they still together?

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No.

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I’m wondering why.

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The divorce happened about three months after they got married.

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Oh my gosh, dude.

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Wow.

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I hope they’re going to go a whole lifetime without one.

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See, she discovered he has a nasty habit of lots of things, like not cleaning the house ever, not doing dishes, drinking an obscene amount of Mountain Dew.

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Just an unhealthy guy all around.

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And when I say don’t do dishes, I mean he would rather pile dishes in the kitchen and let them mold than wash them.

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Wow, no.

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But he wasn’t exactly marriage material.

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That boy isn’t human material by the sounds of it.

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He probably has diabetes by now.

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He would drink sometimes three or four gallons of Mountain Dew in a day.

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Now go red or original.

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Like, what are we talking about?

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Only original.

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Alright, now we got everyone here.

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Yay!

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So before I start with the recap, we’re going to talk about what we want to do this session.

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I had prepared two different paths to take, depending on which way you guys wanted to go at things.

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We can skip over the rest of the caves and start getting to the city right away.

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Or we can do more in the caves and get into the city later.

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I’m up for anything.

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I think I’m fine either way.

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Same.

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Yeah, I mean, we can continue the path we’re on if you had other things planned for the cave.

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Let’s continue.

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You know?

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Flip a coin.

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Yeah, we could totally just flip a coin.

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I’m that okay with it being up to chance.

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I had more prepared for the caves in case people weren’t here for them.

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Oh, okay.

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So I’m asking if you guys would want to see that or if you’re okay moving on forward as planned.

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So wait, so the extra cave stuff was just as a buffer in case somebody wasn’t here?

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Yeah.

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So I get it.

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Yeah.

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You can recycle all that other stuff for the caves later.

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Yeah, pretty.

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Yeah.

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If we’re all here, let’s go ahead and continue.

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I don’t know if next session, since I know I’m not going to be here, comes into…

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I mean, we’ll see where the game takes us.

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Well, probably going to still be in the city next session, and there’s always stuff to do in the city.

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Beautiful, yep.

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Alright, so last time, you were doing a treacherous trek through a dark and wet cave.

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Tom and the horses had to head back while you made your way along a narrow ledge next to a bottomless cavern.

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For hours you found your way along there, and then after finally getting to solid ground, you rest.

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The voices you heard in the mist get louder as you approach a settlement.

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Strange, distorted goblins standing seven and a half feet tall are populated in the settlement.

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After slaughtering the group, Iphit, in his fury to try and shatter the tools of sacrifice that the goblins were using, he gained the approval of the god.

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And now his weapon bears his mark.

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Oops.

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As you travel through the caves, it is perpetually dark and wet, and you keep going lower and lower.

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You feel as though you’ve been walking down for days and days.

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You’ve lost track of how many times you’ve slept, how long it has been since you entered the cave.

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The sound of your own breathing echoes off of the walls.

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You encounter a few minor nuisances, cave creatures, traps left by the goblins, and other things.

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Pushing forward, eventually you began to smell fresh air, began to breathe lighter, and eventually it opened up.

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And now you are standing outside of the cave.

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And around you is a large quarry.

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Thank God, air.

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I don’t know how people can stay inside for more than one day, let alone the bullshit we just went through.

00:09:43.240 –> 00:09:46.759
Well, I don’t think I expected this kind of exit.

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Whose quarry this is?

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Is it on a map?

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You guys have a map.

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I don’t even know if you guys have.

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My game’s paused, so.

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No, no, no.

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That’s asking that in character.

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Oh!

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Yeah.

00:10:02.480 –> 00:10:07.039
Well, after that trek, I don’t know if I could find us on a map at all.

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I think if my memory serves me well, we simply just went through the mountains, and we should be on the east side of the mountains, at least closer to.

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I always get confused.

00:10:27.039 –> 00:10:29.679
Is it Allstairs Lost first or Linlithgow?

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Linlithgow.

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Allstairs Lost is further along the coast.

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Got you.

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Yeah.

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I think.

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I think we could get our bearings if we climb out of this quarry.

00:10:40.240 –> 00:10:40.480
Yeah.

00:10:41.279 –> 00:10:43.840
Or maybe, I mean, Starling, you can fly.

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Can you get some…

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Can you get some height and maybe see our surroundings now that we’re finally out of here?

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Let’s see.

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What time is it?

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We don’t know.

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So, as you have entered the quarry, it is early in the morning and the sun is just breaking.

00:11:02.159 –> 00:11:07.279
Oh, you guys have just gotten up after a long rest.

00:11:07.600 –> 00:11:08.399
Oh, thank God.

00:11:08.960 –> 00:11:10.320
Maybe we should save it.

00:11:10.879 –> 00:11:12.559
One of us could climb out of the quarry.

00:11:12.799 –> 00:11:13.440
Yeah, okay.

00:11:13.759 –> 00:11:16.960
I forget that you have to fly in darkness.

00:11:17.200 –> 00:11:18.320
It’s not so bad.

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I mean, it helped us last session.

00:11:20.159 –> 00:11:22.000
Well, it helped you last session.

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It helped you too.

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You’re alive, right?

00:11:26.720 –> 00:11:27.759
That is true, yes.

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As you are standing in the quarry, you can see workers walking up a long mountain path to the quarry.

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They carry much heavy equipment with them, and you see wagons rolling.

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Thick, heavy things, with steel wheels and thick masts that they roll upon, each built to carry slabs of stone for construction.

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What do you do as the workers approach?

00:11:56.159 –> 00:11:57.039
There you go, Edward.

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Smile and wave.

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Flying required.

00:12:03.279 –> 00:12:03.919
Wait, what?

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Ask them where we are.

00:12:06.320 –> 00:12:08.799
I was going to ask Scorn to do that, but I mean, I can, I guess.

00:12:09.840 –> 00:12:10.480
I can do that.

00:12:10.639 –> 00:12:11.200
Yeah, sure.

00:12:11.600 –> 00:12:13.519
Yeah, he’s the people talker.

00:12:16.559 –> 00:12:17.600
I can be.

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I mean, Scorn, I would argue to say you’re more charismatic than I am.

00:12:23.519 –> 00:12:24.240
I’m a bard.

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What do you want?

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Yeah, I’ll shout them.

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Good morning, sirs.

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As they approach, they wave towards you.

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Good morning.

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Did you make it through the cave?

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Mayor, we’ve been under the mountains.

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Started on the other side, came out here.

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I’m not sure exactly where here is, though, if you know what I mean.

00:12:45.680 –> 00:12:49.039
Are you saying you went all the way through the caves under the mountains?

00:12:49.360 –> 00:12:49.920
Indeed.

00:12:50.240 –> 00:12:50.799
We had to.

00:12:50.879 –> 00:12:52.319
The pass was blocked.

00:12:52.639 –> 00:12:54.480
What kind of maniacs are you?

00:12:54.799 –> 00:12:57.039
You could have gotten lost in the caves.

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I think for a while.

00:13:01.279 –> 00:13:02.480
Almost did that too.

00:13:02.799 –> 00:13:05.039
Not two years ago, the pathway collapsed.

00:13:05.200 –> 00:13:06.240
There’s nothing left of it.

00:13:06.559 –> 00:13:08.720
Well, it’s not entirely gone, I assure you.

00:13:09.039 –> 00:13:09.360
Yeah.

00:13:10.080 –> 00:13:10.720
In any event.

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Can you tell me whose quarry this is that we’ve inadvertently wandered into?

00:13:17.519 –> 00:13:19.759
And is Linlithgow anywhere nearby?

00:13:20.080 –> 00:13:23.039
Oh, this is a quarry of Linlithgow.

00:13:23.200 –> 00:13:26.639
It’s dedicated to rebuilding the castle after the last attack.

00:13:26.960 –> 00:13:27.519
What attack?

00:13:28.000 –> 00:13:30.240
We’ve been dealing with some fire giants.

00:13:32.720 –> 00:13:34.399
Yes, we met a few of those.

00:13:34.960 –> 00:13:37.920
Just recently, we sent off adventurers to deal with them.

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As expensive as they were, we hope they were worth it.

00:13:45.519 –> 00:13:46.960
Wait, you guys are getting paid?

00:13:48.080 –> 00:13:50.399
How much do we charge for fire giants?

00:13:52.000 –> 00:13:55.920
I think we just asked them for some rations and some cloaks.

00:13:58.240 –> 00:14:00.399
Wow, we’re doing this wrong.

00:14:00.720 –> 00:14:07.279
Well, if you could point me in the direction of Linlithgow, we’ll be on our way, and you’ll have an interesting story to tell.

00:14:07.600 –> 00:14:16.240
He points to a wide road leading down the mountain, beaten by heavy caravans of stone passing up and down the mountain.

00:14:16.559 –> 00:14:23.279
You can see where it leads to a large castle being built in the distance, and beyond that, a city.

00:14:23.600 –> 00:14:32.160
You can see that the north side of the city has many spires and towers, a great deal of places that seem to be built for research.

00:14:32.480 –> 00:14:41.840
And the other side of the city, it fills the air with smoke and smog, as you see dozens of refineries burning away.

00:14:42.480 –> 00:14:43.920
Well, this looks lovely.

00:14:44.240 –> 00:14:49.519
The air smells fresh here, but you doubt it will be in the city.

00:14:51.519 –> 00:14:53.120
So nice to be back.

00:14:53.440 –> 00:14:55.279
Oh, you’ve been here before, Scorn.

00:14:55.840 –> 00:14:57.120
Yeah, I was looking for someone.

00:14:57.440 –> 00:14:58.240
Oh, okay.

00:14:58.879 –> 00:15:01.840
As you are walking down the road away from the workers.

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You see someone flying up above the city.

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Long flowing robes dangle behind them as they soar above, heading into the north.

00:15:16.120 –> 00:15:18.440
Guys, is that man I think?

00:15:18.840 –> 00:15:23.720
Yeah, that might be wow.

00:15:23.879 –> 00:15:26.519
It just they’re just out here.

00:15:27.399 –> 00:15:28.679
Who the fuck are they?

00:15:29.559 –> 00:15:35.559
You know that thing that we talked about that got released in a temple that we visited a couple months ago?

00:15:35.879 –> 00:15:36.759
Vaguely.

00:15:37.399 –> 00:15:38.919
Yeah, I think it might be that.

00:15:40.120 –> 00:15:42.840
Oh, that’s a woman.

00:15:43.159 –> 00:15:43.960
Is it a woman?

00:15:44.600 –> 00:15:45.480
Did we know that?

00:15:46.919 –> 00:15:50.919
Well, from a technical standpoint, no, you don’t.

00:15:51.159 –> 00:15:53.559
But from what you’ve been told, guess you do.

00:15:53.879 –> 00:15:54.360
Oh, okay.

00:15:54.440 –> 00:15:54.840
Alright.

00:15:56.840 –> 00:16:00.919
Because the only other flying woman that I know is Starling and Seraphim.

00:16:02.600 –> 00:16:07.480
So did it, like, did it go to the outskirts of the town, or did it go to the north of the town?

00:16:07.720 –> 00:16:12.120
It was flying to the north of the town, and it disappeared into the tops of one of the towers.

00:16:12.440 –> 00:16:15.720
It seems like they’ve made residence here.

00:16:16.039 –> 00:16:17.399
We should go see it.

00:16:19.320 –> 00:16:20.600
Yeah, I think it’s due.

00:16:21.000 –> 00:16:24.360
It doesn’t seem to be causing any harm, right?

00:16:24.680 –> 00:16:25.080
I mean.

00:16:25.559 –> 00:16:27.720
That remains to be seen.

00:16:28.360 –> 00:16:32.200
Well, let’s think about how it went last time, right?

00:16:33.399 –> 00:16:41.480
It was going to be released from its coffin, but we left the temple in a hurry to avoid any damage to us.

00:16:41.799 –> 00:16:46.200
As we left the temple, it shot up into the sky and left.

00:16:47.159 –> 00:16:47.639
Yep.

00:16:48.120 –> 00:16:48.680
That’s all we know.

00:16:50.200 –> 00:16:58.680
Well, we also know that, you know, it was the cultists of Barador who were trying to release it, which makes it sound like not a very good thing in my mind.

00:16:59.000 –> 00:17:06.200
I mean, I hear you, but like, what if it’s just a thing that exists in this world, but they just happen.

00:17:06.519 –> 00:17:09.799
It just happens to have something that the Barador cult wants.

00:17:10.039 –> 00:17:14.759
That doesn’t mean it itself is chaotic or evil in any way.

00:17:15.079 –> 00:17:17.799
Well, I suppose this would be our opportunity to find out.

00:17:18.119 –> 00:17:18.599
Yay!

00:17:19.160 –> 00:17:19.720
Yes.

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As you approach the city, you see a group of soldiers screening people as they walk up to this near the castle.

00:17:31.079 –> 00:17:34.119
They’re all wearing similar armor.

00:17:35.640 –> 00:17:42.039
You all see the bold image of a dragon on their shoulder plates.

00:17:42.519 –> 00:17:43.799
The military this time?

00:17:44.360 –> 00:17:47.079
What do the soldiers look like race-wise?

00:17:47.400 –> 00:17:49.559
They are entirely dragon-born.

00:17:50.360 –> 00:17:50.920
Interesting.

00:17:51.160 –> 00:17:52.039
Friends of yours?

00:17:53.000 –> 00:17:53.799
You take this one.

00:17:54.360 –> 00:17:55.799
If it freezes.

00:17:56.119 –> 00:18:01.960
And he steps back from the main road and hides behind a bush.

00:18:05.480 –> 00:18:08.039
Okay, someone else picked this one.

00:18:08.759 –> 00:18:09.240
Guys, guys.

00:18:09.880 –> 00:18:11.319
Guys, guys, guys, hold on.

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Come here, come here.

00:18:12.519 –> 00:18:14.759
And he’s trying not to be obvious.

00:18:17.240 –> 00:18:18.920
Is there something wrong with this dude?

00:18:19.079 –> 00:18:19.559
No, no.

00:18:19.720 –> 00:18:20.039
That’s.

00:18:23.160 –> 00:18:35.640
If it goes into his pack and he takes out a shoulder plate with the exact same insignia that these soldiers have, but there’s a scratch cut through it.

00:18:35.960 –> 00:18:40.759
He’s like, have you guys ever heard of the Delmir tribe?

00:18:41.079 –> 00:18:41.480
Nope.

00:18:42.680 –> 00:18:42.839
Nope.

00:18:43.319 –> 00:18:43.480
Cool.

00:18:43.799 –> 00:18:44.680
Yeah, you shouldn’t have.

00:18:44.759 –> 00:18:45.640
They’re not from here.

00:18:45.880 –> 00:18:47.000
I don’t know why they’re here.

00:18:50.200 –> 00:18:51.559
Do they recognize you?

00:18:52.759 –> 00:18:53.559
I hope not.

00:18:53.880 –> 00:19:00.200
Iphit like pops his head over at the soldiers that are at the entrance of the city, would I recognize these guys?

00:19:00.519 –> 00:19:02.360
Like the specific soldiers?

00:19:03.000 –> 00:19:04.920
You do recognize them.

00:19:07.160 –> 00:19:09.000
Yeah, they do look familiar.

00:19:09.160 –> 00:19:11.799
I mean, how often do you see dragonborns going on and around, you know?

00:19:12.039 –> 00:19:13.319
God damn it.

00:19:13.960 –> 00:19:15.400
Okay, so is there a…

00:19:15.720 –> 00:19:17.559
What exactly is the problem here?

00:19:17.880 –> 00:19:24.119
Well, look, I left them, and it’s not nice to leave them without good reason.

00:19:25.480 –> 00:19:26.279
You’re tipping shit.

00:19:27.000 –> 00:19:29.559
So are you, would they consider you AWOL?

00:19:29.880 –> 00:19:31.400
Maybe even a deserter?

00:19:32.599 –> 00:19:33.000
Yes.

00:19:33.559 –> 00:19:34.599
Well, that would be a problem.

00:19:34.840 –> 00:19:35.480
Yes.

00:19:35.799 –> 00:19:36.599
All right, then.

00:19:36.920 –> 00:19:37.400
Hold on.

00:19:38.680 –> 00:19:39.240
God damn it.

00:19:39.400 –> 00:19:40.360
Maybe it’s been long enough.

00:19:40.519 –> 00:19:41.880
I haven’t been home in a year.

00:19:42.200 –> 00:19:42.519
So.

00:19:44.360 –> 00:19:45.880
I think they’ll still remember you.

00:19:46.119 –> 00:19:46.920
God damn it.

00:19:47.240 –> 00:19:48.360
Does anybody have makeup?

00:19:48.519 –> 00:19:49.480
Does anybody have anything?

00:19:50.200 –> 00:19:52.039
You’re a fucking dragonborn.

00:19:55.079 –> 00:19:55.960
Keep your voice out.

00:19:56.200 –> 00:19:56.840
God damn it.

00:19:57.160 –> 00:19:58.039
Keep your voice down.

00:20:00.360 –> 00:20:02.519
I have a disguise spell, but it only works on me.

00:20:04.480 –> 00:20:05.200
That’s you know what?

00:20:05.279 –> 00:20:05.680
That’s fine.

00:20:05.920 –> 00:20:18.480
If it um he he finds this cloak in his pack and he puts it over his his his head um hopefully just to be a little more targeted.

00:20:20.799 –> 00:20:22.000
Your tail’s poking out.

00:20:22.319 –> 00:20:23.039
Oh, damn it.

00:20:23.440 –> 00:20:29.599
And he tries to cover it, but the tail is popping, making it look like I have hold on.

00:20:29.759 –> 00:20:39.279
Before we see if we can distract him, I can cast a spell like saying fire or something over in that direction, and maybe they’ll go if we can just sneak by.

00:20:39.759 –> 00:20:41.920
Yeah, do you see how some of them are red?

00:20:42.079 –> 00:20:43.759
I don’t think most of them will care.

00:20:43.920 –> 00:20:47.759
I mean, like, I’m looking some of these guys, they’re pretty.

00:20:48.960 –> 00:20:49.920
They’re heavily armored.

00:20:50.000 –> 00:20:53.039
There are a lot of them, so maybe spellcasting might be a little risky.

00:20:53.359 –> 00:20:56.000
Yeah, you know, just booming place.

00:20:56.559 –> 00:20:57.440
I’ve got it, Iphit.

00:20:57.599 –> 00:20:58.000
It’s okay.

00:20:58.480 –> 00:20:59.599
I’ll get through this.

00:20:59.920 –> 00:21:00.079
Okay.

00:21:00.319 –> 00:21:00.720
If anything.

00:21:00.960 –> 00:21:04.480
Look, if anything happens and they want to speak to me, let them speak to me.

00:21:04.559 –> 00:21:04.799
I’m just.

00:21:04.960 –> 00:21:10.799
I don’t want to get you guys involved in this if they feel the need to be assholes about this.

00:21:11.119 –> 00:21:12.079
Well, we’re traveling with you.

00:21:12.160 –> 00:21:12.799
We’re involved.

00:21:13.039 –> 00:21:14.880
So thanks for the heads up.

00:21:15.839 –> 00:21:19.119
Iphit goes to the back of the group and he’s like, lead the way, guys.

00:21:19.279 –> 00:21:20.559
And he keeps his head down.

00:21:20.880 –> 00:21:23.119
Are they also paladins?

00:21:23.440 –> 00:21:23.759
No.

00:21:27.599 –> 00:21:31.920
As you look at them, you see the trappings of mercenaries.

00:21:32.240 –> 00:21:36.960
Aldric would like to put on his white robe as well.

00:21:38.880 –> 00:21:40.079
The ones we got from.

00:21:42.640 –> 00:21:42.960
Yes.

00:21:43.759 –> 00:21:44.960
Vampire guy.

00:21:45.279 –> 00:21:46.480
From Elspeth, yeah.

00:21:46.799 –> 00:21:48.079
I forget you kept that.

00:21:48.319 –> 00:21:49.440
I forget you kept that.

00:21:50.559 –> 00:21:51.839
It’s a little everything.

00:21:52.079 –> 00:21:53.200
Throw nothing away.

00:21:53.519 –> 00:21:59.839
It’s a little bit dirty because I used it as a grapple, a winch.

00:22:00.400 –> 00:22:00.960
Oh, you’re right.

00:22:02.720 –> 00:22:05.759
Aldric has a real green thumb compared to the rest of us.

00:22:06.400 –> 00:22:09.440
It’s a little bit dirty, but I’m putting it on.

00:22:10.720 –> 00:22:11.519
I say, let’s go.

00:22:12.000 –> 00:22:17.200
As you approach, the soldiers don’t pay much mind to you as you’re walking down the road.

00:22:17.519 –> 00:22:20.400
They are scanning the horizon for something much larger.

00:22:20.720 –> 00:22:23.039
Iphit, pull a stealth check.

00:22:23.440 –> 00:22:24.079
Oh, wow.

00:22:24.240 –> 00:22:25.759
The thing I’m so good at.

00:22:28.240 –> 00:22:29.920
I have heavy armor on.

00:22:32.400 –> 00:22:33.360
That’s a five.

00:22:36.400 –> 00:22:44.880
As you are trying to sneak by without catching attention, one of them grabs your shoulder, looks you dead in the eyes, and recognizes you.

00:22:45.200 –> 00:22:46.480
Oh, it’s too late.

00:22:47.119 –> 00:22:48.480
Iphit looks at him.

00:22:49.599 –> 00:22:50.400
Hello.

00:22:51.279 –> 00:22:54.559
He smiles at you, Iphit, and says, What are you doing here?

00:22:57.519 –> 00:23:00.640
And this guy would just be some random soldier, correct?

00:23:01.119 –> 00:23:03.200
Just another soldier you would serve with.

00:23:03.519 –> 00:23:03.839
Right.

00:23:04.160 –> 00:23:07.680
It’s just like, hey, Steve, um.

00:23:09.920 –> 00:23:10.160
I.

00:23:10.640 –> 00:23:12.799
What do you, what are you guys doing here?

00:23:13.759 –> 00:23:16.240
Oh, things took a bad turn since you left.

00:23:18.079 –> 00:23:20.319
What do you wait, wait, wait, what do you mean?

00:23:22.160 –> 00:23:24.000
Our lands were overrun.

00:23:25.200 –> 00:23:26.000
By who?

00:23:28.079 –> 00:23:29.279
It doesn’t matter now.

00:23:30.720 –> 00:23:33.839
Those that are left of us are working as mercenaries now.

00:23:35.519 –> 00:23:36.000
What do you mean?

00:23:36.079 –> 00:23:36.559
What happened to the.

00:23:36.799 –> 00:23:37.599
What happened to the tribe?

00:23:37.680 –> 00:23:38.160
What happened?

00:23:38.720 –> 00:23:39.119
How?

00:23:41.039 –> 00:23:42.799
What about Prokhil?

00:23:42.960 –> 00:23:43.279
What about…

00:23:43.599 –> 00:23:44.480
What about my mom?

00:23:44.640 –> 00:23:45.119
Is she…

00:23:45.599 –> 00:23:46.400
What happened?

00:23:46.880 –> 00:23:59.279
I don’t know where she went, but as the fighting had progressed after you left, we started making more and more losses, and they came at us with greater and greater magic.

00:24:01.440 –> 00:24:05.279
Until eventually they had a solid hold on our land and we were forced to flee.

00:24:06.240 –> 00:24:07.599
Did we flee as a whole?

00:24:07.680 –> 00:24:08.480
Are we scattered?

00:24:09.599 –> 00:24:13.279
We’re scattered groups now, working as mercenaries where we can.

00:24:14.559 –> 00:24:15.119
Jesus.

00:24:15.920 –> 00:24:16.079
Who?

00:24:16.240 –> 00:24:16.400
Who?

00:24:16.799 –> 00:24:17.920
I mean, Jesus, who’s that?

00:24:20.720 –> 00:24:21.440
Who is here?

00:24:21.680 –> 00:24:22.880
Like, how many of you…

00:24:23.119 –> 00:24:25.039
How many of you guys are there here?

00:24:25.360 –> 00:24:26.880
There’s about 30 of us here.

00:24:27.200 –> 00:24:27.759
Alright.

00:24:28.079 –> 00:24:28.559
Any.

00:24:31.200 –> 00:24:34.639
I mean, are you guys under control of somebody?

00:24:34.720 –> 00:24:37.840
Like, who’s leading this group or are you guys all just together?

00:24:39.759 –> 00:24:42.880
Looking at you, he says, Varka’s leading.

00:24:46.559 –> 00:24:46.880
Oh.

00:24:47.759 –> 00:24:48.000
She.

00:24:48.240 –> 00:24:48.880
Oh, okay.

00:24:49.200 –> 00:24:50.000
She’s leading?

00:24:50.160 –> 00:24:51.119
Oh, great.

00:24:51.440 –> 00:24:56.559
But the majority of us have ended up in the crooked crossroads, working jobs where we can.

00:24:58.799 –> 00:25:01.440
Where is she, if you don’t mind me asking?

00:25:02.079 –> 00:25:03.920
Oh, she left with a group of adventurers.

00:25:05.240 –> 00:25:08.680
To go fight the fire giants up in the hills.

00:25:09.960 –> 00:25:10.599
Right, right.

00:25:10.759 –> 00:25:11.160
Seems right.

00:25:11.319 –> 00:25:11.960
Seems right.

00:25:12.279 –> 00:25:14.200
Um, okay, cool.

00:25:14.519 –> 00:25:16.279
Um, thanks, man.

00:25:17.799 –> 00:25:21.720
Um, I clearly had things to do.

00:25:22.599 –> 00:25:25.319
Um, I didn’t expect us to all.

00:25:25.720 –> 00:25:27.079
I didn’t expect this to happen.

00:25:27.319 –> 00:25:27.480
I.

00:25:27.799 –> 00:25:28.839
How long ago did this happen?

00:25:28.920 –> 00:25:30.359
How long have you guys been here?

00:25:31.240 –> 00:25:34.359
Oh, this happened just a little over a year ago.

00:25:34.680 –> 00:25:35.319
Gosh.

00:25:35.559 –> 00:25:35.799
Okay.

00:25:37.000 –> 00:25:37.559
Um.

00:25:38.519 –> 00:25:38.920
Alright.

00:25:39.079 –> 00:25:42.839
And you said that a majority of you guys fled to the crooked crossroads?

00:25:43.160 –> 00:25:45.240
Yeah, a majority of the ones alive.

00:25:45.559 –> 00:25:46.359
Hmm.

00:25:46.680 –> 00:25:47.000
Okay.

00:25:47.480 –> 00:25:47.799
Um.

00:25:48.440 –> 00:25:50.759
About a third of us made it out.

00:25:51.079 –> 00:25:51.720
Damn.

00:25:51.960 –> 00:25:52.279
Okay.

00:25:52.920 –> 00:25:54.519
Um, and okay.

00:25:54.759 –> 00:25:59.559
Uh, and you guys, I mean, I already gave you the name of my mother.

00:25:59.640 –> 00:26:01.799
There’s nobody named Prokhil with you guys, right?

00:26:02.119 –> 00:26:02.359
No.

00:26:02.920 –> 00:26:03.240
Okay.

00:26:03.559 –> 00:26:05.640
Um, I’ll be back.

00:26:06.200 –> 00:26:06.279
Probably.

00:26:06.759 –> 00:26:10.039
Anyone who couldn’t fight is back at the crossroads now.

00:26:10.359 –> 00:26:10.680
Okay.

00:26:11.000 –> 00:26:12.119
I mean, okay.

00:26:12.359 –> 00:26:12.599
All right.

00:26:12.680 –> 00:26:13.079
Thank you.

00:26:13.240 –> 00:26:13.880
Um, I’m gonna.

00:26:14.519 –> 00:26:19.960
I’m here on other business to attend to, but how long do you think till uh she comes back?

00:26:20.200 –> 00:26:25.799
Um, from how long ago did she leave to go um to go into the mountains?

00:26:26.119 –> 00:26:27.079
Oh, about two days.

00:26:27.240 –> 00:26:28.839
Not sure when she’ll be back.

00:26:29.160 –> 00:26:30.599
Okay, cool.

00:26:31.079 –> 00:26:32.599
Um, thanks.

00:26:33.160 –> 00:26:37.640
Um, uh, you don’t mind if I just go back to my group, right?

00:26:37.960 –> 00:26:41.160
Is there a reason why you stopped me other than just to ask what I’m doing?

00:26:41.480 –> 00:26:43.319
Oh, just to see what you’re doing.

00:26:44.200 –> 00:26:45.400
Okay, cool.

00:26:47.000 –> 00:26:58.920
Um, Ibid shakes his hand, and um, he’s, uh, he, uh, he, like, says a draconic goodbye, and he catches back up with the group.

00:26:59.880 –> 00:27:00.920
Are you in trouble?

00:27:01.240 –> 00:27:07.640
Um, no, I’m not, but it seems like my people are.

00:27:08.599 –> 00:27:19.079
It seems like a foe that we were facing, they overpowered the tribe, and it seems like our home has been invaded, and we’re scattered.

00:27:19.400 –> 00:27:21.799
And, um, my mom’s a part of that.

00:27:22.039 –> 00:27:23.240
I don’t know where she is.

00:27:25.640 –> 00:27:26.920
So, where’s home?

00:27:27.240 –> 00:27:29.400
Uh, in the northwest.

00:27:29.720 –> 00:27:31.799
Uh, I forgot the name.

00:27:34.360 –> 00:27:34.839
What’s that?

00:27:35.000 –> 00:27:35.880
What’s that one?

00:27:38.759 –> 00:27:39.720
Hold on, guys.

00:27:40.039 –> 00:27:41.160
Speard McGregor.

00:27:41.480 –> 00:27:42.039
There you go.

00:27:42.279 –> 00:27:43.319
Yeah, I just fall in the.

00:27:43.640 –> 00:27:45.799
Yeah, we’re near Speard McGregor.

00:27:45.880 –> 00:27:47.559
That’s where I’m from.

00:27:47.880 –> 00:27:49.000
Um, yeah.

00:27:49.559 –> 00:27:51.720
Uh, long way from home, clearly.

00:27:52.039 –> 00:27:52.839
Obviously.

00:27:53.559 –> 00:27:57.640
I want a little more insight about the fighting that was going on.

00:27:58.759 –> 00:28:03.960
The people that your tribe were fighting were working for Spear McGregor.

00:28:05.559 –> 00:28:08.039
And it was a border conflict between the two of you.

00:28:08.279 –> 00:28:13.000
You, to the north of Spear McGregor, were trying to enforce your borders.

00:28:13.319 –> 00:28:17.400
But now it seems that it’s been overrun and claimed.

00:28:18.039 –> 00:28:21.480
And so the kingdom of Abhane has taken your lands.

00:28:23.000 –> 00:28:30.920
Yeah, so we pretty much the Delmir don’t have a home now, and now we’re scattered, based on everything that guy told us.

00:28:31.079 –> 00:28:46.839
And an old mentor, General Arca, she’s with them, and she’s one of the adventurers that went in the mountains to help with the fire giant ordeal.

00:28:48.119 –> 00:28:48.680
Let’s see.

00:28:52.039 –> 00:29:05.720
An old general of mine, it seems like about 30 of the soldiers of the Delamere tribe are here, and they scattered like the rest of my people, and they ended up here.

00:29:06.039 –> 00:29:10.759
And Varka is with them, which is an old mentor and general of mine.

00:29:11.640 –> 00:29:17.400
And she is part of the group that went into the mountains to help out with the fire giants to help Linlithgow.

00:29:18.119 –> 00:29:19.160
Seems like they’re doing it.

00:29:19.400 –> 00:29:22.360
Seems like they’re working here for coin, pretty much.

00:29:22.680 –> 00:29:24.840
That’s all, really, based on what I could tell.

00:29:25.319 –> 00:29:27.880
Are you going to go back with your tribe?

00:29:28.599 –> 00:29:32.039
I’m going to wait till maybe I can get a hold of Varka.

00:29:32.119 –> 00:29:34.360
Me and her really didn’t end off on good terms.

00:29:34.599 –> 00:29:39.000
I mean, she was the last person I yelled at before I had left the tribe.

00:29:40.279 –> 00:29:44.200
But she might know something about my mother or something.

00:29:44.360 –> 00:29:44.759
I don’t know.

00:29:46.200 –> 00:29:46.680
I don’t know.

00:29:47.000 –> 00:29:47.880
I’m conflicted.

00:29:48.759 –> 00:29:50.039
Let’s move on.

00:29:50.840 –> 00:29:55.000
Seeing the dragonborn soldiers continue along the road.

00:29:55.319 –> 00:30:04.440
You can see blasts of fire where magic was cast against walls of the castle, leaving deep cracks and scattered rubble.

00:30:06.960 –> 00:30:12.480
You can see where many unfortunate people caught in the fighting did not quite make it out.

00:30:12.799 –> 00:30:15.279
And the air in the rebuilding is somber.

00:30:15.759 –> 00:30:19.920
As we were going further into the city, it gets more lively.

00:30:20.240 –> 00:30:30.160
The people there, mostly humans and gnomes and dwarves, are going about the city.

00:30:30.480 –> 00:30:32.880
But there is a stark difference.

00:30:35.759 –> 00:30:38.640
There is a dividing line in the city.

00:30:40.480 –> 00:30:52.960
Between the two parts, you see some in the north have much more magical apparel, clothing that shimmers and glitters in the sunlight.

00:30:53.279 –> 00:30:58.640
And to the south, it seems that everyone is covered in a layer of soot.

00:31:00.880 –> 00:31:04.000
Yeah, this is some kind of mining town, isn’t it?

00:31:06.240 –> 00:31:12.400
Half of it’s a mining town, the other half is given over to magical research.

00:31:12.720 –> 00:31:14.799
Oh, interesting place.

00:31:16.079 –> 00:31:18.480
You think we’d be able to find some sending stones here?

00:31:18.559 –> 00:31:21.279
I feel like that’s something that we wanted to add to our repertoire, correct?

00:31:21.440 –> 00:31:22.400
It’s a possibility.

00:31:22.720 –> 00:31:25.920
Let’s keep an eye out for that because I feel like that’d be really useful for us.

00:31:26.240 –> 00:31:30.400
So, do I know of a good inn, preferably on the north side of town?

00:31:33.279 –> 00:31:34.799
Kind of rough over here.

00:31:35.759 –> 00:31:40.319
And we do want to go north because that’s where we saw the person fly to.

00:31:42.880 –> 00:31:47.920
So, your favorite inn up in the north is called the Broken Wand.

00:31:48.799 –> 00:31:49.759
Sounds painful.

00:31:54.480 –> 00:31:55.599
Broken wand, it is.

00:31:57.759 –> 00:32:09.119
As you are walking down the streets, you hear people hawking goods, selling all sorts of magical items, some half-finished, some are things you’ve never heard before.

00:32:09.440 –> 00:32:18.960
Most of the people you see have marks of students and are a little threadbare, but nonetheless in much better condition than those in the south.

00:32:19.279 –> 00:32:35.119
As you approach the broken wand, you can see where Scorn’s favorite tavern here is known for two things: having the cheapest beer on this side of the city and having the best dancers.

00:32:35.759 –> 00:32:52.960
As you walk into the tavern, you see the bottom half of the room is dominated by a stage, on which you see a variety of men and women in vibrant and playful costumes dancing elaborate numbers on the stage.

00:32:53.279 –> 00:32:59.920
This is a place where bards are known to make their reputation, whether through dancing or showmanship of their music.

00:33:00.240 –> 00:33:04.400
Is this just regular dancing or like the other kind?

00:33:06.559 –> 00:33:07.680
Are they strippers?

00:33:07.839 –> 00:33:08.240
What a question.

00:33:09.119 –> 00:33:11.279
Did we walk into a trip joint?

00:33:11.920 –> 00:33:13.119
Or is this just entertainment?

00:33:14.079 –> 00:33:15.200
Surely not.

00:33:15.519 –> 00:33:20.960
Okay, I was about to say, because like because Ibid would have reacted a certain way if we did.

00:33:21.279 –> 00:33:22.480
It would have been great.

00:33:24.400 –> 00:33:29.360
To answer your question, they don’t take their clothes off on stage, but they will after you pay them.

00:33:31.039 –> 00:33:34.240
If it still keeps his head down, he’s like, Scorn, where the hell are we?

00:33:34.559 –> 00:33:34.799
What?

00:33:34.960 –> 00:33:36.160
It’s the broken wand.

00:33:36.720 –> 00:33:37.039
Right.

00:33:37.920 –> 00:33:41.440
There’s not a lot of broken wands in here, and as much as I thought there would be.

00:33:42.480 –> 00:33:43.200
Certainly not, bro.

00:33:43.920 –> 00:33:45.200
It’s an inside joke.

00:33:46.240 –> 00:33:47.839
If it keeps his head down, he’s doing this.

00:33:48.240 –> 00:33:49.920
Place is as lively as ever.

00:33:50.240 –> 00:33:52.960
Yeah, I could tell, yeah.

00:33:54.559 –> 00:33:58.160
Starling starts looking through her bag, just chakra coincurs.

00:34:02.960 –> 00:34:05.119
Your coincurs is still there.

00:34:06.000 –> 00:34:11.440
Scorn, you see someone dancing on stage in a bit of a skimpy outfit.

00:34:11.760 –> 00:34:20.239
Someone you remember by the name of Scorcha, and as you catch her eye, she waves to you and gestures for you to approach the stage.

00:34:20.559 –> 00:34:24.480
That would be Sorcea, unless I had a typo in my write-up.

00:34:24.720 –> 00:34:27.599
There was a typo on one of them, so sorry about that.

00:34:27.920 –> 00:34:28.559
That’s okay.

00:34:30.320 –> 00:34:31.920
Scorn looks at his friends.

00:34:32.159 –> 00:34:34.800
He’s like, I’m going to be right back.

00:34:35.119 –> 00:34:35.280
Okay.

00:34:36.239 –> 00:34:37.360
I go over to the stage.

00:34:37.679 –> 00:34:38.559
We’ll be around.

00:34:39.599 –> 00:34:46.239
As you approach the stage, she steps off and grabs your hand and begins pulling you backstage.

00:34:46.559 –> 00:34:47.679
Wait, backstage?

00:34:47.840 –> 00:34:48.960
Not onto the stage?

00:34:49.280 –> 00:34:50.480
No, backstage.

00:34:51.039 –> 00:34:51.360
Okay.

00:34:53.119 –> 00:34:54.159
Get it, old man.

00:34:54.480 –> 00:34:55.039
Yep.

00:34:55.360 –> 00:34:58.800
Okay, Scorn’s just going to follow her lead for the moment.

00:34:59.039 –> 00:35:00.480
Where are they taking him?

00:35:01.119 –> 00:35:02.239
He seems comfortable.

00:35:03.199 –> 00:35:05.280
You ask that, you don’t need to know.

00:35:09.239 –> 00:35:11.480
God, this place freaks me out.

00:35:12.760 –> 00:35:15.000
We’ll get to Scorn backstage in a bit.

00:35:15.079 –> 00:35:17.639
What do the rest of you do now that he has been drug away?

00:35:18.199 –> 00:35:19.000
I’m just drinking.

00:35:19.239 –> 00:35:23.239
Aldric, we’ll go to the bar and ask if there are any famous teas.

00:35:27.000 –> 00:35:35.239
The barkeep looks at you, gives you a wink, and says, Yes, we have the best tea for all of that problem, and winks again.

00:35:36.840 –> 00:35:40.920
Aldrich doesn’t understand and says, Sure, sure, yeah, okay.

00:35:41.000 –> 00:35:42.280
I’ll help some of that.

00:35:45.159 –> 00:35:46.840
Oh, this is gonna be fun.

00:35:50.199 –> 00:35:51.159
Oh, my God.

00:35:51.800 –> 00:35:56.440
He looks at you and says, Well, will you take it to your room?

00:35:57.239 –> 00:36:00.679
I don’t have a room yet.

00:36:01.320 –> 00:36:06.280
I’ll turn to my I’ll turn to Ipid and the rest of them and say, Are we gonna get a room here?

00:36:06.599 –> 00:36:08.760
Ipid hasn’t moved from where you left him.

00:36:08.840 –> 00:36:12.039
He’s still in the middle of the place with his head down.

00:36:14.599 –> 00:36:16.119
It seems we’re gonna get a room here.

00:36:16.280 –> 00:36:18.519
I think we should definitely get a room here.

00:36:20.760 –> 00:36:21.960
I go over to screen.

00:36:22.760 –> 00:36:24.599
Start shoving him to the bar.

00:36:24.760 –> 00:36:26.039
Sit down, holy man.

00:36:27.880 –> 00:36:28.440
Oh, okay.

00:36:28.679 –> 00:36:29.800
Um, water, please.

00:36:30.599 –> 00:36:31.960
Can I have a water for my water?

00:36:32.679 –> 00:36:34.119
Yes, yes, a water.

00:36:35.079 –> 00:36:36.119
Stop speaking!

00:36:38.039 –> 00:36:39.719
In quotation marks, sir.

00:36:39.960 –> 00:36:41.079
I just want water.

00:36:41.800 –> 00:36:45.400
I don’t care for these random things you’re trying to sell my friend here.

00:36:45.639 –> 00:36:47.559
Aldrich, don’t trust whatever he tries to sell you.

00:36:47.719 –> 00:36:49.719
Make sure you sniff the tea before you drink it.

00:36:50.039 –> 00:36:52.840
And you see what it’s pouring from, okay?

00:36:53.480 –> 00:36:53.719
What?

00:36:54.280 –> 00:36:55.400
It’s a famous tea.

00:36:55.559 –> 00:36:55.800
What?

00:36:57.880 –> 00:36:58.119
What?

00:36:58.280 –> 00:36:59.000
It seemed okay.

00:36:59.159 –> 00:37:00.920
They said it won’t be good for me.

00:37:05.400 –> 00:37:06.280
Can’t take him anywhere.

00:37:10.440 –> 00:37:13.320
Any longer seek medical attention.

00:37:18.519 –> 00:37:22.840
Well, he pours you your tea, and Scorn gives you your water.

00:37:23.159 –> 00:37:23.400
Huh?

00:37:23.800 –> 00:37:25.480
Does anyone else order anything?

00:37:25.800 –> 00:37:28.119
Dang, Scorn’s behind the bar and he gave me a water.

00:37:28.440 –> 00:37:29.239
Oh, not Scorn.

00:37:29.320 –> 00:37:29.639
I’m sorry.

00:37:29.719 –> 00:37:31.400
Ipid, you have your water.

00:37:33.239 –> 00:37:33.800
Nice.

00:37:34.119 –> 00:37:35.480
I’ll just take a nail.

00:37:35.880 –> 00:37:36.280
I’m good.

00:37:36.760 –> 00:37:38.920
This is funny as shit to me.

00:37:41.320 –> 00:37:42.920
Darling, are you going to drink anything?

00:37:43.239 –> 00:37:44.840
Starling is in her own world.

00:37:45.000 –> 00:37:49.159
She’s over there sitting down when they’re shopping on the stage.

00:37:50.360 –> 00:37:51.639
You guys have blood?

00:37:52.519 –> 00:37:53.880
Does Starling drink blood?

00:37:54.440 –> 00:37:55.000
Starling isn’t.

00:37:55.320 –> 00:37:56.679
Starling doesn’t drink blood.

00:37:57.000 –> 00:37:58.280
No, I don’t drink blood.

00:37:58.440 –> 00:37:58.760
Oh, no.

00:37:59.079 –> 00:37:59.320
No.

00:37:59.639 –> 00:38:05.079
Look, I know she has very fair-skinned, but no, she’s not a vampire or anything.

00:38:05.400 –> 00:38:05.559
Yeah.

00:38:06.039 –> 00:38:07.719
Hell, could have pulled me.

00:38:12.280 –> 00:38:12.760
Scorn.

00:38:12.920 –> 00:38:23.480
As you are pulled backstage through the curtains, you are assaulted by the stench of way too much incense, and it floats like a thick cloud in the room.

00:38:23.960 –> 00:38:24.920
I can deal with that.

00:38:25.239 –> 00:38:29.800
You begin to feel yourself getting high, and your worries drifting away.

00:38:29.960 –> 00:38:32.119
Can you make a constitution check for me?

00:38:32.440 –> 00:38:33.800
Oh, alrighty then.

00:38:34.280 –> 00:38:34.679
Let’s see.

00:38:34.760 –> 00:38:35.239
Where’s my.

00:38:35.559 –> 00:38:36.360
Yeah, there we go.

00:38:36.679 –> 00:38:37.960
Oh, boy, my colon sucks.

00:38:38.039 –> 00:38:38.280
Okay.

00:38:39.159 –> 00:38:40.519
Is it gonna roll?

00:38:41.159 –> 00:38:41.480
Okay.

00:38:43.079 –> 00:38:43.559
There it is.

00:38:43.800 –> 00:38:44.760
Bit of a lag there.

00:38:45.400 –> 00:38:46.920
All right, Scorn.

00:38:47.239 –> 00:38:51.800
As you feel the drugs in the air coming over you, you begin to feel a little giddy.

00:38:52.119 –> 00:38:54.360
You feel nimble, you feel light.

00:38:54.679 –> 00:38:56.440
Your heart is racing a little bit.

00:38:56.760 –> 00:38:58.280
Everything is new and exciting.

00:38:58.440 –> 00:39:00.760
The colors seem brighter.

00:39:01.159 –> 00:39:06.119
The woman who pulled you back looks at you, says, We need you for a job.

00:39:06.760 –> 00:39:09.719
Oh, you realize I just got here, right?

00:39:10.119 –> 00:39:14.280
Haven’t been to town in I don’t know how long, and the first word’s out of your mouth, you need me for a job.

00:39:14.519 –> 00:39:15.639
You can do better than that.

00:39:15.960 –> 00:39:17.400
Well, it’s pressing, all right?

00:39:17.480 –> 00:39:21.639
We need someone who has discreet people from out of town.

00:39:21.960 –> 00:39:24.039
Well, they are from out of town.

00:39:24.920 –> 00:39:28.199
Discreet, that’s the tricky part, isn’t it?

00:39:28.519 –> 00:39:30.679
Will you be able to do this job for us?

00:39:31.000 –> 00:39:34.760
Well, I don’t know what the job is, so I’m not sure.

00:39:35.559 –> 00:39:36.920
I’m open to the concept.

00:39:37.079 –> 00:39:38.280
We should talk about this.

00:39:38.840 –> 00:39:41.559
I’m certainly not going to make any promises for my friends.

00:39:41.880 –> 00:39:44.039
Alright, I have to get back up on stage.

00:39:44.360 –> 00:39:47.639
Meet me down here at midnight, and we’ll discuss the job.

00:39:48.280 –> 00:39:49.480
We’ll talk later.

00:39:49.800 –> 00:39:51.880
It’s nice to see you too, by the way.

00:39:52.199 –> 00:39:54.440
Oh, great to see you.

00:39:55.320 –> 00:39:58.760
Just tell the holy man not to get himself in a twist here.

00:39:59.400 –> 00:40:01.880
Oh, he’s not that holy.

00:40:02.519 –> 00:40:03.800
I’ll take care of it.

00:40:06.039 –> 00:40:06.920
Scorn makes his eggs.

00:40:08.159 –> 00:40:16.480
Exit and if she’s going back to the stage, I’ll let her go a bit before I do.

00:40:17.440 –> 00:40:23.760
I’d like to imagine when she goes on stage, another dancer gets off the stage, walks by Scorn’s like, how you doing, sweetheart?

00:40:27.840 –> 00:40:28.880
Oh my god.

00:40:31.360 –> 00:40:43.360
As you are walking out from behind the stage, the air feels a little clearer, but your head still feels a little extra light, and the room feels like it’s slightly spinning.

00:40:43.679 –> 00:40:47.119
Everything seems brighter, and you just can’t keep a smile off your face.

00:40:47.440 –> 00:40:48.719
Okay, Scorn comes back.

00:40:48.960 –> 00:40:55.119
He’s he may or may not be successfully avoiding a stupid grin.

00:40:55.440 –> 00:40:56.079
Let’s face it.

00:40:56.719 –> 00:40:57.920
He’s grinning.

00:40:59.119 –> 00:41:00.079
Scorn, right?

00:41:00.239 –> 00:41:00.800
You look.

00:41:01.280 –> 00:41:01.599
You look.

00:41:01.920 –> 00:41:03.760
I’m not used to you smiling this much.

00:41:04.079 –> 00:41:05.360
What do you do back there?

00:41:06.000 –> 00:41:07.119
Old friend, haven’t seen her in here.

00:41:07.199 –> 00:41:08.239
She just wanted to catch up.

00:41:08.559 –> 00:41:10.639
And we’re going to talk later.

00:41:10.880 –> 00:41:12.960
Oh, because you guys weren’t able to talk just now?

00:41:13.280 –> 00:41:13.599
No.

00:41:13.920 –> 00:41:14.800
Not at length.

00:41:15.280 –> 00:41:15.519
No.

00:41:16.400 –> 00:41:17.599
Starling, where’d you come from?

00:41:17.679 –> 00:41:20.320
I thought you were over there looking at the people.

00:41:26.880 –> 00:41:27.199
Okay.

00:41:27.920 –> 00:41:28.800
Are we done here?

00:41:29.760 –> 00:41:30.639
What else do we need from here?

00:41:30.880 –> 00:41:31.039
What?

00:41:31.199 –> 00:41:31.679
Can we get it?

00:41:31.760 –> 00:41:32.239
We’re not done.

00:41:32.480 –> 00:41:33.440
I haven’t even had a drink yet.

00:41:33.519 –> 00:41:34.320
What are you talking about?

00:41:34.559 –> 00:41:35.199
Oh, God.

00:41:37.760 –> 00:41:41.119
As you go to get a drink, Scorn, you recognize the bartender.

00:41:41.440 –> 00:41:47.119
As he looks at you, he recognizes you as well and says, Oh, are you going to play for us tonight?

00:41:48.000 –> 00:41:48.880
I’m open to it.

00:41:49.119 –> 00:41:50.719
Yes, I very well might.

00:41:51.039 –> 00:41:54.320
Up until I’m free until midnight or so.

00:41:54.639 –> 00:41:55.039
Oh, good.

00:41:55.119 –> 00:41:56.239
They loved you last time.

00:41:56.559 –> 00:41:59.760
You have a way of bringing in such a dark mood.

00:42:00.079 –> 00:42:02.480
Yes, I’m surprised how popular that turns out to be.

00:42:02.800 –> 00:42:05.039
Anyway, I need a drink.

00:42:05.360 –> 00:42:06.400
Oh, what kind of drink?

00:42:06.639 –> 00:42:07.199
What’s good?

00:42:07.440 –> 00:42:08.719
Not that cheap beer you sell.

00:42:08.960 –> 00:42:09.519
What’s good?

00:42:09.760 –> 00:42:10.559
What’s good?

00:42:11.519 –> 00:42:12.800
We have rock whiskey.

00:42:13.119 –> 00:42:14.719
It’s smoked up in the mountains.

00:42:14.960 –> 00:42:16.239
Triple distilled.

00:42:16.559 –> 00:42:18.159
Yeah, that sounds like just the thing.

00:42:18.400 –> 00:42:20.000
All right, that’s five golds a shot.

00:42:22.000 –> 00:42:24.400
Something I don’t need to drink very much of.

00:42:24.639 –> 00:42:24.960
Okay.

00:42:28.000 –> 00:42:32.880
I’ll give the man six gold and enjoy my shot.

00:42:33.199 –> 00:42:35.840
This shooting whiskey or sipping whiskey.

00:42:36.400 –> 00:42:37.840
This is sipping whiskey.

00:42:38.159 –> 00:42:39.119
Oh, good.

00:42:39.440 –> 00:42:41.519
I’m sure hope so for five damn gold.

00:42:41.920 –> 00:42:43.199
It’ll last longer.

00:42:43.519 –> 00:42:45.280
So, yeah, that’s a thing that happened.

00:42:45.599 –> 00:42:47.760
Seems like a little bit of a little bit of a little palate.

00:42:48.079 –> 00:42:55.440
Your head begins to feel much lighter, and you feel much more inclined to be happy and make friends with everyone around you.

00:42:55.599 –> 00:42:57.920
Can you make another constitution check for me?

00:42:58.719 –> 00:43:00.719
I’m going to fail another constitution check.

00:43:01.039 –> 00:43:02.239
Ah, here we go.

00:43:06.559 –> 00:43:07.840
The dice love me.

00:43:08.159 –> 00:43:08.480
Okay.

00:43:09.360 –> 00:43:10.960
What’s in that Kool-Aid, man?

00:43:12.320 –> 00:43:16.320
Scorn, you are now the happiest you have been in the past year.

00:43:16.960 –> 00:43:19.119
Nothing can bring you down right now.

00:43:19.679 –> 00:43:20.320
That’s good.

00:43:20.639 –> 00:43:21.519
In what way?

00:43:22.159 –> 00:43:24.079
You begin to feel giddy.

00:43:24.400 –> 00:43:29.440
And you remember they’ll let you on stage if you put on a costume as you go walk behind stage.

00:43:30.079 –> 00:43:31.360
Yeah, I don’t think so.

00:43:33.440 –> 00:43:36.079
Aldrich screening me in to ask if the group.

00:43:36.559 –> 00:43:39.840
Do you think Gorn was a dancer?

00:43:40.880 –> 00:43:41.840
He’s a bard.

00:43:42.000 –> 00:43:47.280
I’m sure he’s had his fair share in entertainment in various ways.

00:43:47.599 –> 00:43:48.719
We don’t judge here.

00:43:49.360 –> 00:43:52.239
Do we notice Scorn going behind the stage?

00:43:52.719 –> 00:43:53.119
Scorn.

00:43:53.280 –> 00:43:54.719
Yeah, Scorn’s not going to be dancing.

00:43:55.280 –> 00:43:56.480
He’ll enjoy himself.

00:43:56.800 –> 00:43:57.280
Yes.

00:43:57.599 –> 00:44:00.159
He might even start playing, whether they want him to or not.

00:44:00.800 –> 00:44:06.320
Scorn, you make it behind stage, and you put on a frivolous costume.

00:44:06.960 –> 00:44:08.239
Oh, good God.

00:44:10.800 –> 00:44:16.800
You managed to find a long chiffron skirt and a bikini top.

00:44:17.119 –> 00:44:18.559
Oh my god.

00:44:19.519 –> 00:44:20.079
Nope.

00:44:20.400 –> 00:44:20.639
Nope.

00:44:21.360 –> 00:44:22.320
Scorn’s not doing drag.

00:44:22.480 –> 00:44:23.679
I don’t care about Rollin One.

00:44:25.920 –> 00:44:27.440
What else do you find?

00:44:28.960 –> 00:44:29.599
Hmm.

00:44:29.920 –> 00:44:31.280
What else do I find?

00:44:32.159 –> 00:44:33.280
That’s a good question.

00:44:33.440 –> 00:44:34.880
I had not thought about this.

00:44:35.199 –> 00:44:37.760
Well, the dancers are in their costumes.

00:44:38.000 –> 00:44:40.000
Their regular clothes are probably hanging back here.

00:44:40.320 –> 00:44:40.800
Yes.

00:44:41.119 –> 00:44:41.360
Yeah.

00:44:41.519 –> 00:44:42.079
Mm-hmm.

00:44:42.400 –> 00:44:42.639
Okay.

00:44:43.280 –> 00:44:43.599
Yeah.

00:44:45.360 –> 00:44:47.199
Yeah, see if Sorcerer’s clothes are here.

00:44:47.519 –> 00:44:48.159
They are.

00:44:49.119 –> 00:44:49.360
Okay.

00:44:49.599 –> 00:44:50.000
Hmm.

00:44:50.159 –> 00:44:50.880
Now what?

00:44:52.480 –> 00:44:54.000
Think for a minute here.

00:44:55.519 –> 00:44:56.400
Yeah, I got nothing.

00:44:57.920 –> 00:44:59.280
I’m not going to mess with her clothes.

00:44:59.360 –> 00:44:59.599
No.

00:45:00.239 –> 00:45:05.519
As you make it in the back, you find an instrument.

00:45:06.400 –> 00:45:07.760
What instrument do you find?

00:45:10.280 –> 00:45:12.519
Very possibly a loot.

00:45:12.760 –> 00:45:13.159
Let’s see.

00:45:13.400 –> 00:45:14.280
What do I know to play?

00:45:14.360 –> 00:45:14.519
Yeah.

00:45:14.760 –> 00:45:16.280
A lute, most likely.

00:45:16.599 –> 00:45:16.760
Yeah.

00:45:18.039 –> 00:45:22.039
You feel your awareness slipping away as you pick up the loot.

00:45:22.360 –> 00:45:25.239
And the next thing you know, you’re on stage playing.

00:45:28.360 –> 00:45:28.920
Oh, boy.

00:45:29.079 –> 00:45:34.920
You’re sitting on the front of your stage with your legs dangling off because if you stood, you’d be falling over.

00:45:36.360 –> 00:45:43.320
You play as the dancers are dancing behind you, and your music is lively and rowdy.

00:45:44.840 –> 00:45:45.559
I don’t know what they do.

00:45:45.800 –> 00:45:47.400
Do a performance check.

00:45:47.719 –> 00:45:47.960
Okay.

00:45:49.159 –> 00:45:51.000
Are the dice still hating on me tonight?

00:45:51.079 –> 00:45:52.280
Let’s find out.

00:45:52.599 –> 00:45:54.039
Nope, got a 25.

00:45:55.239 –> 00:45:58.360
You sing even better when you’re high.

00:46:01.159 –> 00:46:01.719
Come on.

00:46:02.360 –> 00:46:04.679
Yeah, he’ll play Sorcerer’s favorite.

00:46:05.320 –> 00:46:06.280
Favorites.

00:46:06.920 –> 00:46:09.480
The music picks up and gets livelier.

00:46:09.639 –> 00:46:15.480
As the dancers are spinning on the stage, you hear more and more people filtering into the room.

00:46:16.119 –> 00:46:19.719
You find yourself staring out at a sea of faces.

00:46:20.039 –> 00:46:23.400
You can’t seem to focus on one, and they all seem to be laughing.

00:46:23.800 –> 00:46:24.599
You feel great.

00:46:25.400 –> 00:46:26.280
Sounds familiar.

00:46:26.519 –> 00:46:26.920
Yes.

00:46:27.239 –> 00:46:29.480
How much money’s being thrown at my boy here?

00:46:31.000 –> 00:46:32.280
You got a 25.

00:46:34.599 –> 00:46:36.199
It’s a good performance.

00:46:39.079 –> 00:46:44.280
If it’s still at the bar, but he has his back turned to the bar, and he’s only looking at Scorn.

00:46:44.360 –> 00:46:45.960
He’s just like, wow, he’s doing really good tonight.

00:46:46.199 –> 00:46:47.320
Have you guys seen him like this before?

00:46:47.480 –> 00:46:47.880
This is the first.

00:46:48.119 –> 00:46:48.360
Wow.

00:46:48.760 –> 00:46:49.320
Wow.

00:46:51.320 –> 00:46:52.920
Yeah, he’s doing even better than before.

00:46:53.239 –> 00:46:54.280
He’s improved.

00:46:54.599 –> 00:46:54.840
Yeah.

00:46:56.920 –> 00:47:02.519
Now, as you’re performing, people are throwing gold up to you.

00:47:03.159 –> 00:47:03.960
But you don’t care.

00:47:04.119 –> 00:47:05.800
You don’t care about money right now.

00:47:06.119 –> 00:47:08.199
You just want to sing your lungs out.

00:47:08.519 –> 00:47:12.199
You hear Scorn singing with a high and mighty voice.

00:47:13.800 –> 00:47:20.199
It cuts above the roar of the audience and echoes off the walls.

00:47:21.159 –> 00:47:24.119
What do the rest of you do while Scorn performs?

00:47:24.440 –> 00:47:30.360
Like, is it fitting in with the vibe of the place, or is it like he’s getting too much?

00:47:30.840 –> 00:47:33.159
I don’t think too much is anything for this place.

00:47:34.119 –> 00:47:34.519
Nah.

00:47:35.800 –> 00:47:38.679
A rowdy atmosphere fits in with the vibe here.

00:47:39.239 –> 00:47:39.400
Yeah.

00:47:39.639 –> 00:47:40.119
Alright.

00:47:40.440 –> 00:47:40.599
Yeah.

00:47:41.559 –> 00:47:43.159
I’m just drinking it.

00:47:45.079 –> 00:47:48.519
If it, um, if it’s just trying to keep a low profile.

00:47:50.360 –> 00:47:54.119
He’s quietly sipping on his water, avoiding eye contact with anyone.

00:47:54.440 –> 00:47:58.119
Ultric will say, I think we just got some new.

00:47:58.440 –> 00:48:00.280
I think I just got some new abilities.

00:48:02.679 –> 00:48:04.440
Something awoken in me.

00:48:06.440 –> 00:48:06.679
Yeah.

00:48:09.239 –> 00:48:10.360
Tomorrow, I think I.

00:48:11.000 –> 00:48:13.159
If you want me to fly, I think I can fly.

00:48:13.480 –> 00:48:15.320
I’ve been looking at Starling.

00:48:15.800 –> 00:48:16.519
Go for it.

00:48:16.840 –> 00:48:19.960
You know, I’ve been watching what you can do.

00:48:20.280 –> 00:48:21.079
I’m trying to.

00:48:21.880 –> 00:48:23.400
I think I can do it.

00:48:23.960 –> 00:48:25.079
Believe me, Aldrich.

00:48:25.719 –> 00:48:27.559
I believe I can fly.

00:48:28.519 –> 00:48:28.840
Okay.

00:48:29.480 –> 00:48:32.039
Scorn’s song is in the general now.

00:48:32.679 –> 00:48:35.480
I was just saying it was, I believe I could fly.

00:48:37.320 –> 00:48:39.159
Just wondering how things are going with Starlink.

00:48:39.239 –> 00:48:40.599
Starling, are you doing okay?

00:48:41.239 –> 00:48:42.199
I’m doing just fine.

00:48:42.280 –> 00:48:43.079
How is your tea?

00:48:43.159 –> 00:48:44.119
Do you feel okay?

00:48:45.320 –> 00:48:46.119
I think so.

00:48:46.280 –> 00:48:46.920
Yeah, I’m fine.

00:48:47.400 –> 00:48:48.199
It’s not bad.

00:48:48.360 –> 00:48:48.519
Yeah.

00:48:48.840 –> 00:48:51.960
As you’re drinking this tea, you feel your heart rate.

00:48:52.920 –> 00:48:54.920
You feel your heart beating harder and harder.

00:48:55.159 –> 00:48:57.320
And you feel the blood rushing to your face.

00:48:58.039 –> 00:48:59.159
This is a bit hot in here.

00:48:59.239 –> 00:49:01.159
Is anyone getting hot in here?

00:49:01.480 –> 00:49:03.079
Oh, it’s very hot in here.

00:49:03.719 –> 00:49:04.679
I feel fine.

00:49:05.239 –> 00:49:06.280
Yeah, just fine.

00:49:06.360 –> 00:49:07.800
It’s damn tea, isn’t it?

00:49:07.960 –> 00:49:08.199
Hey.

00:49:09.639 –> 00:49:11.639
Aldric, what do you think about tapeling over there?

00:49:12.039 –> 00:49:12.679
Tea fling.

00:49:12.840 –> 00:49:13.159
Which one?

00:49:13.320 –> 00:49:13.880
Scorn?

00:49:14.199 –> 00:49:14.760
Purple.

00:49:16.039 –> 00:49:17.559
No, not Scorn.

00:49:18.280 –> 00:49:19.239
Younger one.

00:49:22.360 –> 00:49:22.840
Ouch.

00:49:35.639 –> 00:49:36.840
The younger one.

00:49:40.360 –> 00:49:40.920
They’re fine.

00:49:41.000 –> 00:49:41.480
They’re fine.

00:49:41.800 –> 00:49:42.119
Why?

00:49:42.920 –> 00:49:44.039
What are you thinking about them?

00:49:44.599 –> 00:49:45.239
They seem okay?

00:49:45.559 –> 00:49:46.519
Yeah, they seem okay.

00:49:46.920 –> 00:49:47.480
I’ll be back.

00:49:47.639 –> 00:49:48.199
I’ll be back.

00:49:48.599 –> 00:49:51.400
She just disappears and goes to talk to the purple people.

00:49:54.840 –> 00:49:56.519
If it’s on the other end of the bar.

00:49:57.159 –> 00:49:58.360
No, I don’t want to dance.

00:49:58.440 –> 00:49:59.159
Thank you, though.

00:50:03.159 –> 00:50:06.840
You’re beginning to feel the bar get more and more crowded.

00:50:08.039 –> 00:50:08.760
As more people.

00:50:10.239 –> 00:50:11.679
Slip into the room.

00:50:12.000 –> 00:50:16.000
So tell me, what kind of tiefling are you looking for, Starling?

00:50:16.960 –> 00:50:21.840
Um, one that’s kind of, I don’t know, pretty and feminine.

00:50:22.159 –> 00:50:25.360
You find a tiefling woman as you make your way over.

00:50:25.679 –> 00:50:33.920
She stands a bit taller than you, wearing heels with a shaved head and long curled horns.

00:50:34.239 –> 00:50:39.599
Unlike some of the other tielings like Scorn, these ones look more like antelope horns.

00:50:39.920 –> 00:50:41.440
And she’s younger.

00:50:43.679 –> 00:50:45.280
I’m never gonna live that down.

00:50:48.639 –> 00:50:50.880
Guys, I swear Starling’s a jerk, not me.

00:50:53.119 –> 00:50:54.480
No, it’s okay.

00:50:55.440 –> 00:50:56.400
Right, right, right.

00:50:59.519 –> 00:51:00.960
She looks up at you.

00:51:01.519 –> 00:51:02.800
What are you doing here?

00:51:03.760 –> 00:51:05.280
Oh, I just came here with my friends.

00:51:05.360 –> 00:51:06.400
I’m new in town.

00:51:08.079 –> 00:51:09.360
Do you live here?

00:51:11.199 –> 00:51:12.960
Oh, I do magic here.

00:51:13.920 –> 00:51:17.280
It might not look like it, but I’m a sorcerer.

00:51:18.480 –> 00:51:18.800
Oh.

00:51:19.119 –> 00:51:20.639
Can you make things disappear?

00:51:20.960 –> 00:51:22.639
No, I’m good at making things appear.

00:51:22.800 –> 00:51:23.920
Show up out of nowhere.

00:51:24.239 –> 00:51:24.480
Oh.

00:51:25.280 –> 00:51:25.920
Disappearing act.

00:51:26.239 –> 00:51:27.760
I haven’t got that half down.

00:51:28.960 –> 00:51:30.159
I can help you.

00:51:30.800 –> 00:51:31.440
Oh, yeah?

00:51:32.000 –> 00:51:32.400
Oh, yeah.

00:51:32.559 –> 00:51:34.400
You want to disappear to the back rooms?

00:51:38.239 –> 00:51:40.480
All right, roll persuasion.

00:51:44.320 –> 00:51:45.760
If it’s going to die.

00:51:48.239 –> 00:51:49.119
Where’s Starling going?

00:51:52.079 –> 00:51:53.440
Anywhere she wants to.

00:51:54.079 –> 00:51:56.000
She said something about a tiefling.

00:51:56.400 –> 00:51:56.559
19.

00:51:56.800 –> 00:51:57.599
I don’t know what happened.

00:51:57.920 –> 00:51:58.320
Alright.

00:51:58.639 –> 00:51:59.679
The tiefling looks too.

00:51:59.840 –> 00:52:01.360
I’m willing to disappear with you.

00:52:01.679 –> 00:52:01.840
I.

00:52:02.559 –> 00:52:05.440
Starling just kind of like links her arm inside the people.

00:52:06.400 –> 00:52:07.679
Okay, let’s disappear.

00:52:08.000 –> 00:52:10.320
And just kind of drags her to the back rooms.

00:52:10.639 –> 00:52:14.480
You drag her off to the back rooms for whatever you will be doing for the night.

00:52:16.639 –> 00:52:18.079
Guys, where’d Starling go?

00:52:18.320 –> 00:52:19.199
Sounds good.

00:52:24.400 –> 00:52:26.079
Starling has left the chat.

00:52:26.960 –> 00:52:27.519
I don’t know.

00:52:27.679 –> 00:52:32.000
She said something about Tiefling and asking me what I think about Tieflings.

00:52:32.159 –> 00:52:37.199
I don’t know if she was trying to check about what I think about Scorn or what I think about Ash or something.

00:52:37.440 –> 00:52:38.079
I don’t know what’s going to.

00:52:39.039 –> 00:52:46.079
As you are all in the bar, some of you drinking, some of you playing on stage, and some of you pursuing tieflings.

00:52:46.639 –> 00:52:47.679
The night grows.

00:52:48.880 –> 00:52:55.679
You came in here in the early morning, and you’re partying in the bar until it reaches about midnight.

00:52:56.000 –> 00:52:57.199
Oh my god.

00:52:58.320 –> 00:52:59.360
Excellent.

00:52:59.679 –> 00:52:59.920
Yeah.

00:53:00.480 –> 00:53:07.280
The thick smoke that was backstage now permeates the air throughout the entire establishment.

00:53:07.599 –> 00:53:11.280
You are all feeling wonderful, but you have no sense of time right now.

00:53:11.599 –> 00:53:12.400
Scorn.

00:53:12.719 –> 00:53:14.000
Scorn knows how to keep time.

00:53:14.239 –> 00:53:18.960
Your performance is finishing off as it gets to about midnight.

00:53:19.280 –> 00:53:24.559
And you see Sorcha gesturing towards you, sitting at a table in a dark corner.

00:53:24.880 –> 00:53:30.800
Okay, Scorn takes his leave of the stage, casts off a thaumaturgy and shouts very loudly, no Encore.

00:53:33.599 –> 00:53:34.320
Thank you, little night.

00:53:37.039 –> 00:53:37.920
Thank you all.

00:53:38.239 –> 00:53:40.320
Wouldn’t it be what I did if I hadn’t been high?

00:53:40.880 –> 00:53:44.079
And go talk to Sorcha.

00:53:44.400 –> 00:53:46.320
Hey, do you know whose loot this is?

00:53:50.800 –> 00:53:52.000
Sorcha looks at it.

00:53:52.320 –> 00:53:53.440
No, did you steal it?

00:53:53.760 –> 00:53:55.440
I just borrowed it.

00:53:55.679 –> 00:53:57.840
Well, as long as you put it back, it’s not stealing it.

00:53:58.400 –> 00:53:59.199
Exactly.

00:53:59.519 –> 00:54:06.000
Now, what’s this, um, what’s this job you want me and my friends to help you with?

00:54:06.320 –> 00:54:08.800
She grows a little more quiet and serious.

00:54:09.119 –> 00:54:14.000
Are you aware of a mysterious being that has made its way here recently?

00:54:14.320 –> 00:54:17.760
It has the wings of an angel and fangs.

00:54:19.519 –> 00:54:23.760
I’m aware of it, and I know where it came from.

00:54:24.079 –> 00:54:24.639
You do?

00:54:24.960 –> 00:54:25.280
Yes.

00:54:25.679 –> 00:54:29.360
The only question is whether it needs to be put back where it came from.

00:54:29.679 –> 00:54:30.800
What do you know about that?

00:54:31.119 –> 00:54:33.840
Oh, we don’t know if it needs to be put back where it came from.

00:54:34.159 –> 00:54:36.880
But can’t be causing too much trouble, then.

00:54:37.360 –> 00:54:40.960
We want you to find out about someone it’s been consorting with.

00:54:41.280 –> 00:54:44.400
It goes to the same tower every night.

00:54:44.720 –> 00:54:46.480
An old wizard lives there.

00:54:46.639 –> 00:54:51.840
He teaches classes throughout the town, but we don’t know what he could be doing.

00:54:52.159 –> 00:54:55.360
We need someone to get in there and find out.

00:54:55.679 –> 00:55:00.639
He’s currently accepting new students, which is why we need someone from out of town.

00:55:01.280 –> 00:55:03.840
Ah, yes, yes, I see.

00:55:04.159 –> 00:55:06.639
Well, could be a learning opportunity in any case.

00:55:08.159 –> 00:55:09.599
I have a wizard with me who.

00:55:11.400 –> 00:55:13.800
Is always looking for new magics to learn.

00:55:14.119 –> 00:55:15.480
Not sure about the rest of the party.

00:55:15.800 –> 00:55:18.440
They’re more into, I don’t know, wrecking things.

00:55:19.079 –> 00:55:19.559
Hey.

00:55:20.039 –> 00:55:20.599
Yes.

00:55:24.360 –> 00:55:26.360
I wonder if he’d accept a bard as a student.

00:55:26.599 –> 00:55:28.519
If you showed talent, maybe.

00:55:29.159 –> 00:55:31.079
Oh, well, that shouldn’t be a problem.

00:55:31.400 –> 00:55:33.559
But we need someone to infiltrate his tower.

00:55:34.199 –> 00:55:38.760
But we need to make sure that he is out with a student when that happens.

00:55:39.880 –> 00:55:40.920
Yes, of course.

00:55:41.239 –> 00:55:43.079
We’re going to be infiltrating the tower.

00:55:43.320 –> 00:55:47.159
We need you to make sure the wizard is out of the tower.

00:55:47.480 –> 00:55:47.719
Oh.

00:55:48.519 –> 00:55:50.599
So his um his students.

00:55:50.760 –> 00:55:52.280
He doesn’t do his teaching in the tower then.

00:55:52.360 –> 00:55:53.079
He does it elsewhere.

00:55:53.400 –> 00:55:54.199
He does it elsewhere.

00:55:54.360 –> 00:55:56.119
He doesn’t let anyone into the tower.

00:55:56.440 –> 00:55:59.880
Which is why it’s so strange that someone has been going in and out of it.

00:56:00.199 –> 00:56:00.840
Hmm.

00:56:01.159 –> 00:56:04.679
I think we can do something to help you, yes.

00:56:05.639 –> 00:56:06.840
We’ll get him a new student.

00:56:07.079 –> 00:56:07.480
Yes.

00:56:08.119 –> 00:56:14.280
Um we’ll need to set up uh need to set at least a couple of us up in a nice place on the north side.

00:56:14.760 –> 00:56:15.719
It’s gonna cost.

00:56:16.039 –> 00:56:18.679
Can you help cover expenses if we run into anything?

00:56:19.000 –> 00:56:19.880
To an extent.

00:56:20.599 –> 00:56:21.000
Of course.

00:56:21.239 –> 00:56:21.960
Not everything.

00:56:23.000 –> 00:56:23.719
All right then.

00:56:23.960 –> 00:56:25.719
I’ll uh I’ll talk to my people.

00:56:26.039 –> 00:56:28.119
The wizard’s name is Emirenesis.

00:56:28.360 –> 00:56:29.639
Emirenesis.

00:56:29.960 –> 00:56:30.840
That’s interesting.

00:56:31.159 –> 00:56:32.920
I’m not gonna try and spell that.

00:56:35.800 –> 00:56:39.000
Emirenesis. Do you want a spelling?

00:56:39.320 –> 00:56:41.880
I’m just gonna take a wild guess in the chat.

00:56:42.119 –> 00:56:44.760
I’m just putting that there so I don’t forget his name.

00:56:45.079 –> 00:56:45.400
Okay.

00:56:46.039 –> 00:56:47.960
I think I know which tower you mean.

00:56:48.840 –> 00:56:53.480
So we’ll uh we’ll set up our uh our pupil as far from there as possible.

00:56:53.800 –> 00:56:55.079
Emirenesis?

00:56:55.320 –> 00:56:55.719
Oh no.

00:56:55.880 –> 00:56:56.519
I read that.

00:56:56.920 –> 00:56:57.079
No.

00:56:57.320 –> 00:56:58.599
You totally totally read that.

00:57:03.559 –> 00:57:07.960
And um is there any pay uh to be had for this job?

00:57:08.519 –> 00:57:11.639
Well I was hoping you could take care of that yourself.

00:57:12.199 –> 00:57:13.480
She grins at you.

00:57:13.800 –> 00:57:16.599
After all, this one is your problem, isn’t it?

00:57:19.320 –> 00:57:20.840
Seems like it’s yours as well.

00:57:21.159 –> 00:57:23.320
This is our profit, not a problem for us.

00:57:23.480 –> 00:57:26.679
We’re happy however this goes, but you have a vested interest.

00:57:27.000 –> 00:57:28.119
So who is this?

00:57:28.440 –> 00:57:29.880
I wouldn’t overestimate that.

00:57:30.440 –> 00:57:34.360
You can take what spoils you find from the tower and we’ll cover for it.

00:57:34.679 –> 00:57:35.800
Well, that’s interesting.

00:57:36.360 –> 00:57:38.920
We’ll watch we’ll give you a place to stay.

00:57:39.239 –> 00:57:42.920
All you need to do is separate the wizard from the tower.

00:57:43.239 –> 00:57:43.880
Of course.

00:57:44.519 –> 00:57:45.000
Of course.

00:57:45.639 –> 00:57:46.760
Yes, we can do that.

00:57:47.079 –> 00:57:52.440
Steve smiles at you, and you count more gold teeth than real ones.

00:57:54.039 –> 00:57:56.119
And you feel the air grow a bit thicker.

00:57:56.440 –> 00:58:00.280
I know you like this place, Scorn, but you should probably stay somewhere else for the night.

00:58:00.599 –> 00:58:03.559
Well, it’s a bit late to be out on the streets, isn’t it?

00:58:03.880 –> 00:58:06.039
Yes, but we have a house for you.

00:58:07.400 –> 00:58:08.199
All right, then.

00:58:08.519 –> 00:58:09.079
Lead on.

00:58:09.400 –> 00:58:15.159
Directly across the road, number fifteen, you have to knock three times and say the password.

00:58:15.480 –> 00:58:16.360
That would be what?

00:58:16.679 –> 00:58:18.199
Stolen secrets.

00:58:19.159 –> 00:58:20.199
All right then.

00:58:20.519 –> 00:58:23.159
Is there anything else you wanted to talk to me about?

00:58:23.480 –> 00:58:25.159
Well, how have you been doing, Scorn?

00:58:25.239 –> 00:58:26.440
We have a little while to catch up.

00:58:26.760 –> 00:58:27.559
I am well.

00:58:28.440 –> 00:58:31.559
I spent a great deal of time on the road after I left school.

00:58:31.880 –> 00:58:40.679
And found myself investigating an old temple, and this bizarre creature escaped from it not long after.

00:58:41.000 –> 00:58:41.800
Oh, yes?

00:58:42.119 –> 00:58:42.599
Yes.

00:58:42.920 –> 00:58:47.800
Not that I had anything to do with that, but well, someone wanted it released.

00:58:48.119 –> 00:58:55.960
Well, speaking of things you didn’t have anything to do with, there’s a new tavern owner in the crooked crossroads who’s making waves.

00:58:56.280 –> 00:58:57.800
Well, haven’t been there in months.

00:58:58.119 –> 00:58:58.840
What’s that about?

00:58:59.159 –> 00:59:02.599
They go by the name of Seraphim, the celestial.

00:59:02.920 –> 00:59:07.000
Now something odd happened.

00:59:07.320 –> 00:59:10.920
We were doing some clerical work, our people there.

00:59:11.400 –> 00:59:17.480
And we happened to notice that this particular tavern is now in your possession.

00:59:18.039 –> 00:59:19.320
Wait, my possession?

00:59:19.639 –> 00:59:20.119
Yes.

00:59:20.440 –> 00:59:27.320
You are the inheritor of the one who died, who mysteriously you have very few connections to.

00:59:27.639 –> 00:59:28.679
She put it in my name.

00:59:28.920 –> 00:59:30.039
Is that what you’re telling me?

00:59:30.360 –> 00:59:33.079
Yes, so what’s going on, Scorn?

00:59:33.320 –> 00:59:35.880
Well, I’m not exactly sure myself.

00:59:36.440 –> 00:59:37.880
It’s interesting.

00:59:38.199 –> 00:59:46.920
Some celestial turns up here and is making waves, and then a celestial turns up there and is making waves, and you’re tied to both of them.

00:59:48.199 –> 00:59:50.119
As I said, I’ve been traveling for a while.

00:59:50.199 –> 00:59:51.800
I’ve made a lot of connections.

00:59:52.119 –> 01:00:02.840
We can give you some decent compensation if you can tell us who is that tavern owner and how did they come into come into it there.

01:00:03.159 –> 01:00:06.039
Why would they need something claimed in your name?

01:00:06.840 –> 01:00:10.280
Scorn motions her to come closer so we can whisper in her ear.

01:00:10.599 –> 01:00:10.760
She

01:00:12.239 –> 01:00:13.039
Leans forward.

01:00:13.360 –> 01:00:14.960
That’s a secret.

01:00:16.239 –> 01:00:17.599
She smiles.

01:00:18.159 –> 01:00:20.639
We pay a lot for that kind of secret.

01:00:20.960 –> 01:00:23.440
Well, yes, I’m aware of that.

01:00:23.760 –> 01:00:26.639
Some secrets don’t really have a price.

01:00:26.960 –> 01:00:28.559
No, not a thousand?

01:00:28.880 –> 01:00:29.119
No.

01:00:29.920 –> 01:00:30.960
She leans closer.

01:00:31.119 –> 01:00:32.320
Two thousand.

01:00:34.159 –> 01:00:35.280
Is this a test?

01:00:35.599 –> 01:00:36.880
You’re being ridiculous.

01:00:37.199 –> 01:00:39.840
Looking up at you, she glances around.

01:00:40.320 –> 01:00:42.719
Come back if you want to sell this secret.

01:00:43.039 –> 01:00:44.880
Oh, I’ll keep that offer in mind.

01:00:45.039 –> 01:00:46.559
It’s very interesting.

01:00:46.880 –> 01:00:51.599
In the meantime, I think I’ll retire to that house across the street.

01:00:52.239 –> 01:00:55.199
Where in the bloody hell did everyone else go?

01:00:56.159 –> 01:00:59.280
Is anybody else from our group still in the tavern?

01:00:59.920 –> 01:01:01.199
Everyone still is.

01:01:02.079 –> 01:01:03.199
Except maybe Starling.

01:01:03.440 –> 01:01:06.000
Ash is just sitting at the bar drinking still.

01:01:07.280 –> 01:01:08.480
Yeah, Eldric’s soon can see.

01:01:08.880 –> 01:01:10.639
I guess you would be near Ash.

01:01:10.960 –> 01:01:13.599
Yeah, I think the three of us are all sitting together at the bar.

01:01:13.920 –> 01:01:14.079
Okay.

01:01:14.320 –> 01:01:16.960
I’ll excuse myself.

01:01:17.280 –> 01:01:20.159
It’s definitely about time to turn in.

01:01:20.800 –> 01:01:25.360
And I’ll discuss the job with you people.

01:01:25.599 –> 01:01:26.800
Thank you for that.

01:01:27.440 –> 01:01:29.519
Yes, Scorn, thank you.

01:01:30.480 –> 01:01:34.239
And thank you for the secrets that we didn’t have to pay for tonight.

01:01:36.400 –> 01:01:38.960
All of Scorn’s contacts are so fishy.

01:01:39.920 –> 01:01:40.480
Yep.

01:01:41.199 –> 01:01:41.760
They are.

01:01:42.719 –> 01:01:43.119
Great.

01:01:43.360 –> 01:01:43.679
Yes.

01:01:43.920 –> 01:01:46.719
He’s like, yep, you got those for free.

01:01:48.000 –> 01:01:51.360
But it’s not like I don’t expect anything for them.

01:01:52.559 –> 01:01:55.199
Just operate anything for free.

01:01:56.079 –> 01:01:58.480
When you need something, just ask.

01:01:58.800 –> 01:02:01.760
And if it’s not too much, we can get it for you.

01:02:02.639 –> 01:02:03.280
That’s good.

01:02:03.440 –> 01:02:04.480
That’s very good.

01:02:04.800 –> 01:02:05.280
All right.

01:02:05.840 –> 01:02:07.360
Just one rule.

01:02:07.679 –> 01:02:10.320
And it’s the same rule we always follow.

01:02:10.639 –> 01:02:16.079
When you get a favor and you’re receiving it, you don’t get to ask where it comes from.

01:02:18.320 –> 01:02:20.719
Oh, I think we should both remember that.

01:02:22.239 –> 01:02:28.639
I’ll talk to you here tomorrow after I discuss this with my friends.

01:02:30.480 –> 01:02:33.920
As you enter, well, a walk away from here.

01:02:34.960 –> 01:02:38.079
You see Starling entering the tavern again.

01:02:38.400 –> 01:02:41.760
And a very tired purple teethling following.

01:02:43.599 –> 01:02:45.280
Is Starling tired?

01:02:45.599 –> 01:02:45.840
No.

01:02:50.559 –> 01:02:50.960
Right.

01:02:52.400 –> 01:02:57.440
So Scorn goes over to the bar and just, you know, makes a signal to rally the troops.

01:02:57.760 –> 01:02:58.480
Oh, thank God.

01:02:58.559 –> 01:02:58.960
Are we leaving?

01:02:59.119 –> 01:03:00.159
Are we almost out of here?

01:03:00.480 –> 01:03:02.079
I’ve good news.

01:03:02.159 –> 01:03:02.480
Good news.

01:03:02.559 –> 01:03:03.920
I’ve got us a place to stay.

01:03:04.800 –> 01:03:05.280
Thank God.

01:03:05.360 –> 01:03:06.159
It’s not here, right?

01:03:06.320 –> 01:03:11.440
No, it’s just right across the street, so we don’t have to go wandering around town at midnight.

01:03:11.760 –> 01:03:15.039
And it’s being covered by some locals.

01:03:15.280 –> 01:03:15.440
Oh.

01:03:15.679 –> 01:03:16.400
As a courtesy.

01:03:16.800 –> 01:03:17.119
Oh, wow.

01:03:18.400 –> 01:03:18.800
Oh, my goodness.

01:03:19.039 –> 01:03:19.840
No, no, no.

01:03:20.159 –> 01:03:27.840
And I also have a line on that individual we saw flying away as we entered the town.

01:03:28.159 –> 01:03:29.440
Oh, good to know.

01:03:30.480 –> 01:03:31.280
So what’s that?

01:03:32.880 –> 01:03:33.440
Let’s go.

01:03:33.679 –> 01:03:34.480
We’ll talk later.

01:03:34.719 –> 01:03:35.199
Not here.

01:03:36.320 –> 01:03:36.480
Okay.

01:03:36.719 –> 01:03:37.599
Oh, hey, Starling.

01:03:38.079 –> 01:03:39.039
Where’d you go?

01:03:39.360 –> 01:03:40.079
Oh, hey.

01:03:40.880 –> 01:03:42.079
Don’t worry about it.

01:03:42.400 –> 01:03:43.119
Oh, okay.

01:03:43.599 –> 01:03:44.800
Do I look worried?

01:03:45.440 –> 01:03:46.880
No, but if it does.

01:03:47.440 –> 01:03:48.800
I’m worried about him.

01:03:49.039 –> 01:03:50.320
That’s his normal face.

01:03:52.320 –> 01:03:52.480
What?

01:03:52.559 –> 01:03:53.119
I’m not worried.

01:03:53.280 –> 01:03:56.159
I mean, I feel like I’m a healthy amount of worried.

01:03:56.400 –> 01:04:00.320
You know, my friends are disappearing in this strange tavern.

01:04:00.480 –> 01:04:01.440
It’s not safe here.

01:04:01.760 –> 01:04:02.960
You see what I mean?

01:04:03.280 –> 01:04:03.519
What?

01:04:04.320 –> 01:04:05.360
For him, this is normal.

01:04:05.679 –> 01:04:07.360
He’s a wonderful scaly brother.

01:04:08.320 –> 01:04:08.639
Yep.

01:04:08.960 –> 01:04:09.599
Scaly.

01:04:09.760 –> 01:04:11.199
Well, you don’t get to say that.

01:04:16.480 –> 01:04:22.960
As you walk out of the tavern, you see the city is still alive and buzzing this time of night.

01:04:23.920 –> 01:04:27.760
And there are merchants on the street selling various street foods.

01:04:28.320 –> 01:04:30.880
Food, roast fried breads.

01:04:31.679 –> 01:04:33.440
I got the bunchies so bad now.

01:04:33.760 –> 01:04:35.039
I agree with Ash.

01:04:35.119 –> 01:04:36.639
I think we should get some food.

01:04:36.880 –> 01:04:37.760
I haven’t eaten.

01:04:38.159 –> 01:04:39.280
And I’m pretty hungry.

01:04:41.199 –> 01:04:45.599
We’ve just been eating rations for the past couple of nights in the cave.

01:04:46.320 –> 01:04:47.760
Some real food would be nice.

01:04:48.079 –> 01:04:49.599
Yeah, lasagna on a stick.

01:04:51.280 –> 01:04:51.599
What?

01:04:52.559 –> 01:04:53.679
It’s magic, okay?

01:04:55.280 –> 01:04:59.360
Ah, you need some fry bread and some fucking chicken.

01:04:59.679 –> 01:05:00.559
That works too.

01:05:00.880 –> 01:05:01.920
Where’s the nearest?

01:05:02.639 –> 01:05:08.559
Where’s the nearest stand that has a high-protein dinner for if it’s about ten feet away?

01:05:08.720 –> 01:05:11.519
You see somewhere they are just selling these.

01:05:13.239 –> 01:05:15.639
Large roasted chunks of meat.

01:05:15.960 –> 01:05:20.599
They look like they were just cut right off of something and roasted right in front of you.

01:05:21.400 –> 01:05:23.480
Each one is easily a six-inch cube.

01:05:23.719 –> 01:05:25.079
Ooh, perfect.

01:05:26.199 –> 01:05:30.920
Ibid walks up to the stand and he’s like, Hello, good evening.

01:05:31.559 –> 01:05:32.599
How much for one of those?

01:05:32.760 –> 01:05:36.760
And he points at the comically large piece of meat with a bone sticking out.

01:05:37.960 –> 01:05:40.119
The man looks at you a little dumbfounded.

01:05:40.199 –> 01:05:41.000
What do you mean, one?

01:05:41.719 –> 01:05:49.880
He points down to his hand where you see he has a fried bread, and you can see where he has been cutting off slices of the meat and filling sandwiches.

01:05:50.199 –> 01:05:52.440
Wow, my gluttony has really gotten to me there.

01:05:53.400 –> 01:05:54.360
So hungry now.

01:05:55.960 –> 01:05:58.440
How much for five of those sandwiches?

01:05:58.760 –> 01:06:01.239
He looks five, dude.

01:06:01.320 –> 01:06:02.119
Do you not see me?

01:06:02.360 –> 01:06:04.199
He points at his hot, sexy body.

01:06:09.480 –> 01:06:10.360
I’ll sell you five.

01:06:10.440 –> 01:06:12.119
They’re one silver apiece.

01:06:12.440 –> 01:06:12.679
Okay.

01:06:13.000 –> 01:06:14.760
Ibid gives him one gold.

01:06:16.920 –> 01:06:18.840
Holy man, what the fuck are you doing?

01:06:19.159 –> 01:06:19.400
What?

01:06:19.480 –> 01:06:20.360
I’m getting food.

01:06:20.920 –> 01:06:21.480
Fucking open.

01:06:21.960 –> 01:06:22.519
Never mind.

01:06:22.760 –> 01:06:23.960
Buy sandwiches.

01:06:24.519 –> 01:06:25.079
Buying sandwiches.

01:06:25.239 –> 01:06:25.719
Wait, hold on.

01:06:25.800 –> 01:06:29.079
Can I just get as many as I can for one gold for my friends here?

01:06:31.000 –> 01:06:32.199
I can make ten, yeah.

01:06:32.519 –> 01:06:33.000
Perfect.

01:06:33.079 –> 01:06:33.719
Yeah, that’d be great.

01:06:34.119 –> 01:06:39.000
Shave off most of one of these massive chunks of meat, making ten of these sandwiches.

01:06:40.360 –> 01:06:43.480
Each of them is wrapped in a bit of parchment as he hands them all to you.

01:06:43.960 –> 01:06:44.280
Wonderful.

01:06:44.599 –> 01:06:48.440
It doesn’t see, it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of meat left on that bone.

01:06:48.679 –> 01:06:49.960
Are you going to use any more?

01:06:50.599 –> 01:06:51.880
You want the bone, too?

01:06:52.440 –> 01:06:54.119
He likes to chew on the bones.

01:06:54.440 –> 01:06:54.920
Yeah, I do.

01:06:55.079 –> 01:06:57.800
He just reaches for the bone and hands it straight to you.

01:06:58.119 –> 01:06:59.000
Ah, Scorn.

01:06:59.320 –> 01:07:02.360
And Ibbid starts gnawing at it with his sharp teeth.

01:07:05.559 –> 01:07:06.119
Thank you.

01:07:08.840 –> 01:07:10.440
I think the house is right over here.

01:07:10.760 –> 01:07:15.719
Scorn’s going to take his sandwich and walk across the street for number 15.

01:07:16.599 –> 01:07:19.400
If you find number 15, there’s no door handle.

01:07:19.719 –> 01:07:20.119
That’s okay.

01:07:20.280 –> 01:07:21.559
Just a flat door.

01:07:22.199 –> 01:07:23.480
I knock three times.

01:07:24.440 –> 01:07:26.760
You hear three knocks from behind the door.

01:07:27.719 –> 01:07:28.039
Yeah.

01:07:28.360 –> 01:07:29.079
He’s going to.

01:07:29.320 –> 01:07:33.719
He’s going to say, I don’t even know if they can hear me because there’s a whole door between us, but yeah.

01:07:33.960 –> 01:07:37.480
I don’t want to say it too loud, but I’ll say, stolen secrets.

01:07:37.800 –> 01:07:43.159
The door slides open and you see a ghastly gray hand floating in the air.

01:07:43.480 –> 01:07:43.559
Oh.

01:07:43.960 –> 01:07:47.559
Disappears, and you see a staircase leading down.

01:07:48.199 –> 01:07:48.840
I expected.

01:07:49.239 –> 01:07:49.960
What was that?

01:07:50.679 –> 01:07:53.159
That was the butler.

01:07:53.400 –> 01:07:54.599
This is pretty creepy.

01:07:55.480 –> 01:07:55.559
Yeah.

01:07:55.719 –> 01:07:57.079
Scorn’s going to light a lamp.

01:07:57.159 –> 01:07:58.440
I think he’s got a lamp.

01:07:59.000 –> 01:07:59.960
Or does he have a torch?

01:08:00.119 –> 01:08:01.159
What’s he got?

01:08:01.480 –> 01:08:03.320
I got something for light, I think.

01:08:03.639 –> 01:08:04.280
Maybe I don’t.

01:08:04.360 –> 01:08:06.119
I have dark vision, so I might not.

01:08:06.440 –> 01:08:07.400
Yeah, I’ve got a lamp.

01:08:07.639 –> 01:08:11.639
I’ll just light the lamp and walk inside.

01:08:11.960 –> 01:08:18.359
As you walk down the stairs, the air is filled with the scent of old books.

01:08:19.319 –> 01:08:27.479
And after walking down for what seems to be five minutes, it opens up into a floor of a library.

01:08:27.800 –> 01:08:34.279
And you see rows and rows of books, all behind grates and chains.

01:08:35.079 –> 01:08:36.439
Is there anyone here?

01:08:37.000 –> 01:08:38.279
Isn’t this supposed to be where we’re standing?

01:08:38.600 –> 01:08:40.680
I don’t see anyone where you’re at yet.

01:08:41.560 –> 01:08:43.479
Scorn calls out, is anybody home?

01:08:43.640 –> 01:08:44.039
Hello?

01:08:44.279 –> 01:08:45.319
You’re here an old man.

01:08:45.640 –> 01:08:46.439
Hello.

01:08:46.760 –> 01:08:47.880
Ah, there you are.

01:08:48.920 –> 01:08:50.279
Sorcea sent me over here.

01:08:50.359 –> 01:08:53.319
She said that this was a place we could stay the night.

01:08:53.640 –> 01:08:56.039
Are you the ones who will be doing her job?

01:08:56.680 –> 01:08:57.239
Job.

01:08:57.560 –> 01:08:57.880
Yeah.

01:08:58.199 –> 01:08:58.520
I guess.

01:08:58.680 –> 01:08:58.920
Are we?

01:08:59.079 –> 01:09:02.600
Well, now, I still need to work out some details of that.

01:09:02.920 –> 01:09:05.640
What kind of details need to be worked out?

01:09:07.800 –> 01:09:11.640
Well, my compatriots here, I haven’t discussed it with them yet.

01:09:11.720 –> 01:09:13.399
I don’t know if they were going to be willing.

01:09:13.720 –> 01:09:15.479
I made that very clear to her.

01:09:15.800 –> 01:09:16.680
Sorry if you don’t get the money.

01:09:16.920 –> 01:09:18.760
So long as the job gets done.

01:09:21.319 –> 01:09:22.600
Follow me into the rooms.

01:09:22.920 –> 01:09:23.720
Thank you, sir.

01:09:23.960 –> 01:09:25.720
He leads you down the halls.

01:09:26.039 –> 01:09:29.479
The air is very dry, very still.

01:09:31.239 –> 01:09:39.399
And he leads you down a hallway with rows and rows of doors, each leading to a small room with a single bed in it.

01:09:40.119 –> 01:09:41.880
You’ll sleep here for the night.

01:09:42.359 –> 01:09:43.399
Thank you, sir.

01:09:44.039 –> 01:09:49.319
As he leaves you behind, make a perception check.

01:09:51.079 –> 01:09:52.600
My best thing, where are you?

01:09:52.840 –> 01:09:53.399
Perception.

01:09:53.560 –> 01:09:53.960
There we go.

01:09:54.199 –> 01:09:56.520
My dice are taking a while to roll tonight.

01:09:56.840 –> 01:09:58.520
Scorn, you don’t notice anything.

01:09:58.680 –> 01:10:01.079
Everyone else, make your perception checks as well.

01:10:03.880 –> 01:10:11.159
Eldric and Starling, you two notice, discreetly cast spells to monitor the hallway.

01:10:11.479 –> 01:10:12.840
They will know when you leave.

01:10:14.239 –> 01:10:23.439
Even when you get back, as you’re examining, you find there are magical runes engraved in the doors.

01:10:23.760 –> 01:10:26.479
They can be sealed from a distance.

01:10:26.800 –> 01:10:28.960
They decide whether you can get out.

01:10:29.600 –> 01:10:30.880
Are you seeing that?

01:10:31.199 –> 01:10:31.920
I’m seeing that.

01:10:32.079 –> 01:10:39.680
Before any of us go inside of the rooms, I’d like to just disclose that very quietly to the group.

01:10:41.199 –> 01:10:42.239
Not surprising.

01:10:43.359 –> 01:10:44.640
Ibbid gnawing on his bone.

01:10:44.960 –> 01:10:46.319
So are we not going in the room?

01:10:47.840 –> 01:10:48.319
I don’t know.

01:10:48.399 –> 01:10:50.079
I got a bad feeling about this.

01:10:50.399 –> 01:10:51.439
We’re safe here.

01:10:51.760 –> 01:10:53.039
I know these people.

01:10:53.600 –> 01:10:58.560
Now, if you want to know what I found out tonight, step into my room for a minute and we’ll talk.

01:10:58.880 –> 01:10:59.119
Okay.

01:10:59.600 –> 01:10:59.920
All right.

01:11:00.079 –> 01:11:01.119
Sounds good.

01:11:01.760 –> 01:11:05.680
Just, I don’t know, keep your guard up, I guess.

01:11:06.640 –> 01:11:08.159
Always a good idea.

01:11:08.479 –> 01:11:19.119
So the creature we’ve been looking for has been visiting a wizard’s tower regularly.

01:11:19.439 –> 01:11:24.239
And my friends here in town are wanting to know what they’re up to.

01:11:24.560 –> 01:11:26.399
And we’re looking for the same information.

01:11:26.720 –> 01:11:28.720
So we have a common purpose.

01:11:28.960 –> 01:11:30.800
This wizard takes on students.

01:11:31.119 –> 01:11:32.800
He doesn’t teach them in his tower.

01:11:32.960 –> 01:11:34.000
He goes to them.

01:11:34.319 –> 01:11:34.640
So.

01:11:35.520 –> 01:11:40.640
Eldric, what would you think about hiring a magical tutor while we’re here in town?

01:11:42.000 –> 01:11:42.479
Why not?

01:11:42.720 –> 01:11:42.880
Yeah.

01:11:43.439 –> 01:11:43.760
Yeah.

01:11:45.039 –> 01:11:47.039
You’re always looking to learn new magic, I know.

01:11:47.359 –> 01:11:52.640
I’m sure everyone knows a bit different things in their experience.

01:11:52.800 –> 01:11:54.720
So yeah, I think it’ll be useful.

01:11:55.039 –> 01:12:09.279
So the objective is to get him out of the tower while the rest of us discreetly, at least I hope discreetly, enter it and find out what’s going on there and leave before he gets back.

01:12:09.840 –> 01:12:12.640
Break into some wizard’s tower?

01:12:12.800 –> 01:12:14.159
I know, crazy, isn’t it?

01:12:16.479 –> 01:12:19.439
Should Eldric be left alone with this wizard?

01:12:19.760 –> 01:12:25.359
Oh, if you think you should have a bodyguard, that’s you know, that’s a detail we need to work out.

01:12:25.680 –> 01:12:27.680
It probably wouldn’t be a bad idea.

01:12:29.279 –> 01:12:31.600
Particularly, some of us aren’t going to be.

01:12:32.319 –> 01:12:39.920
Yeah, some of us aren’t going to be well, some of us aren’t that stealthy, and breaking into a wizard’s tower is not the best thing for them to do.

01:12:40.720 –> 01:12:41.439
Yeah, yeah.

01:12:41.760 –> 01:12:46.319
As you hear loud crunching from Ibbid eating his bones.

01:12:48.960 –> 01:12:50.640
Why do you need to break into the tower?

01:12:51.680 –> 01:12:58.720
That creature that escaped from the temple, the celestial vampire, it’s been visiting him on a regular basis.

01:12:59.039 –> 01:13:08.239
And this is a man who doesn’t let anyone into his tower, but she apparently has his approval to come and go.

01:13:08.560 –> 01:13:10.399
So certain people want to know why.

01:13:10.720 –> 01:13:14.720
As payment, they’re offering whatever loot we can get from the tower, which is, of course, just fine.

01:13:14.880 –> 01:13:19.600
I’d rather make it look like a burglary than what it actually is.

01:13:22.159 –> 01:13:23.920
Scorn, what will they do with the information?

01:13:24.159 –> 01:13:25.680
Will she be hurt in any way?

01:13:26.960 –> 01:13:29.600
I think that depends on the information that we find.

01:13:30.560 –> 01:13:34.720
Right now, nobody knows much about this creature.

01:13:36.880 –> 01:13:42.720
I mean, if it’s just a friendly visit, so to speak, that’s one thing.

01:13:42.960 –> 01:13:47.199
If the two of them are plotting to take over the city, then that would be something else.

01:13:47.520 –> 01:13:48.640
Nobody knows.

01:13:50.800 –> 01:13:54.399
Well, yeah, I’ll ask the wizard some questions.

01:13:54.720 –> 01:13:56.079
I mean, I’ve got plenty to ask about.

01:13:56.560 –> 01:14:04.720
Yeah, and I’ll tag along with Aldric and make it seem like me and him are buddies, and I’m kind of just like with him trying, you know, I’m just with him.

01:14:05.039 –> 01:14:14.560
Okay, to get him out of the tower during your lessons, we’ll need to set you up with some kind of living quarters as far from his tower as we can get.

01:14:14.880 –> 01:14:22.720
I’m sure we can find a place in Soot Town over there where all the mining and stuff are going on.

01:14:22.960 –> 01:14:28.079
That’d be the, you know, deep in there would probably be the best place for him to come over.

01:14:28.640 –> 01:14:30.239
If he’s willing to go down there.

01:14:30.800 –> 01:14:34.239
He may want to just get out of there as soon as possible.

01:14:35.439 –> 01:14:38.000
I guess that’s a fair luxury place.

01:14:39.760 –> 01:14:45.039
Something that could help with his mission is a sending stone so we can keep in contact.

01:14:46.000 –> 01:14:47.760
Well, I have the sending spell now.

01:14:48.079 –> 01:14:48.640
Oh, okay.

01:14:49.600 –> 01:14:54.960
So, I mean, yeah, it takes a bit of effort, but I can do that.

01:14:55.279 –> 01:14:56.960
Starling, did you say you have it as well?

01:14:57.279 –> 01:14:57.760
I do.

01:14:58.079 –> 01:14:58.960
Excellent.

01:14:59.279 –> 01:15:01.680
Maybe we can hold off on the sending stones for now.

01:15:02.319 –> 01:15:02.880
Sounds good.

01:15:03.039 –> 01:15:03.600
Yeah, they’re going to be able to do it.

01:15:04.159 –> 01:15:04.399
What happens?

01:15:04.640 –> 01:15:06.479
Wait, wait, Eldric, do you have the spell?

01:15:06.800 –> 01:15:07.039
No.

01:15:07.520 –> 01:15:07.760
No?

01:15:08.079 –> 01:15:10.880
Well, how do we, if we need to tell you guys something.

01:15:11.439 –> 01:15:13.520
Yeah, that’s the tricky part.

01:15:18.279 –> 01:15:19.880
I mean, you’ll be my bodyguard.

01:15:20.279 –> 01:15:20.920
Yeah, that’s true.

01:15:21.239 –> 01:15:21.640
That’s true.

01:15:21.880 –> 01:15:26.760
I mean, well, the thing is, our group is a little bit uneven, you know?

01:15:27.479 –> 01:15:28.920
Yeah, I understand.

01:15:29.479 –> 01:15:30.840
Ash, how sneaky are you?

01:15:31.000 –> 01:15:32.680
Or how sneaky can you be?

01:15:33.560 –> 01:15:34.039
Good.

01:15:34.359 –> 01:15:35.000
Say again?

01:15:36.520 –> 01:15:37.239
Hang on.

01:15:38.680 –> 01:15:40.600
I look pretty fucking sneaky.

01:15:40.680 –> 01:15:41.880
I have a plus six.

01:15:42.199 –> 01:15:43.000
Oh, yes.

01:15:43.239 –> 01:15:43.479
Okay.

01:15:45.640 –> 01:15:49.319
Ash and I can hit the Wizard’s Tower.

01:15:49.880 –> 01:15:54.439
And Ipid, if you want to be Aldric’s bodyguard, that’s a good thing.

01:15:54.680 –> 01:15:56.279
And Starling, I’ll stay with you.

01:15:57.159 –> 01:16:00.520
If you’re with them, then there’s someone who can cast sending with each group.

01:16:00.760 –> 01:16:01.319
That’s true.

01:16:01.560 –> 01:16:02.359
That makes sense.

01:16:03.000 –> 01:16:05.560
Do you want to pose as a student or as a.

01:16:06.359 –> 01:16:10.520
I was about to say, well, I mean, I’m about to say, Starling is a magic user.

01:16:10.840 –> 01:16:13.000
She can pose as somebody who’s also trying to learn.

01:16:13.079 –> 01:16:14.520
It would make more sense, you know?

01:16:15.640 –> 01:16:16.840
And I’m not sure if I can do it.

01:16:17.000 –> 01:16:17.399
I don’t think.

01:16:17.800 –> 01:16:18.920
Yeah, yeah, that too.

01:16:19.239 –> 01:16:22.279
I just know it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go in that tower, you know.

01:16:23.239 –> 01:16:23.560
Yeah.

01:16:23.880 –> 01:16:25.319
So I think that’ll work.

01:16:25.640 –> 01:16:34.039
And if everyone’s agreeable, we can do this and find out what’s going on with that creature.

01:16:34.359 –> 01:16:38.439
And if you don’t want to do it, well, I’ll take care of it myself because I owe these people a favor.

01:16:39.640 –> 01:16:41.159
Did I mention that part?

01:16:41.800 –> 01:16:43.479
Maybe we’ve just assumed.

01:16:44.119 –> 01:16:47.479
Well, does anyone have anything to add?

01:16:48.039 –> 01:16:54.199
Well, is there any connection to those people that you want to tell us about?

01:16:54.840 –> 01:16:56.279
Do we want to?

01:16:57.319 –> 01:16:58.119
Oh, the reason.

01:16:58.680 –> 01:16:59.640
Oh, the reason they.

01:17:00.520 –> 01:17:07.079
The reason that Sorcha asked me about it is because we are from out of town and we are not known to be connected with them.

01:17:07.399 –> 01:17:08.039
Fine, okay.

01:17:08.279 –> 01:17:09.399
You keep your secrets then.

01:17:09.560 –> 01:17:13.640
Well, Derek, there’s also the matter we need to find the craftsman, Morag.

01:17:13.960 –> 01:17:17.079
She can craft our quartz crystal into something useful.

01:17:17.720 –> 01:17:19.399
I completely forgot you guys had that.

01:17:20.840 –> 01:17:21.640
Excellent.

01:17:21.960 –> 01:17:26.359
All right, well, I’m going to turn in and we’re going to work out some details tomorrow.

01:17:26.520 –> 01:17:27.560
It’s been a long day.

01:17:27.880 –> 01:17:29.399
Do you all get our own rooms?

01:17:29.720 –> 01:17:30.199
Yes.

01:17:30.520 –> 01:17:31.159
Yes.

01:17:31.800 –> 01:17:32.359
Nice.

01:17:33.239 –> 01:17:34.279
Morag’s a.

01:17:35.399 –> 01:17:39.479
Do we know what kind of creep like species person Morag is?

01:17:39.560 –> 01:17:41.079
I can’t remember from last time.

01:17:41.560 –> 01:17:42.039
You don’t.

01:17:42.279 –> 01:17:42.600
We don’t.

01:17:42.760 –> 01:17:45.079
Do you know that Morag is a craftsman?

01:17:46.039 –> 01:17:47.000
Starling, you said she.

01:17:47.239 –> 01:17:48.039
How do you know it’s she?

01:17:48.520 –> 01:17:49.479
I just said Morag.

01:17:49.720 –> 01:17:51.159
I mean, the creature is a she.

01:17:52.119 –> 01:17:58.039
That’s what Lornick told us that it was a she, but Morag, I don’t know if Morag’s a man or a woman or something else.

01:17:58.359 –> 01:17:59.159
Oh, okay, okay, okay.

01:18:00.039 –> 01:18:02.039
I gotta take a quick bio break.

01:18:02.760 –> 01:18:04.359
Guys, I’m gonna take a 15 here.

01:18:05.000 –> 01:18:05.239
Yeah.

01:18:05.960 –> 01:18:06.119
Yeah.

01:18:07.079 –> 01:18:07.399
Thanks.

01:18:13.239 –> 01:18:15.960
Do you want to hear the weirdest fucking thing that happened to me?

01:18:16.520 –> 01:18:16.920
Sure.

01:18:17.479 –> 01:18:25.079
I’ve for the past 45 minutes, I’ve been trying to find my S key from the keyboard.

01:18:25.399 –> 01:18:26.199
It’s gone.

01:18:28.680 –> 01:18:30.279
Okay, that’s interesting.

01:18:30.600 –> 01:18:32.199
I have no idea how.

01:18:33.479 –> 01:18:42.840
Fortunately, you were mainly focused on you, but could you pull your microphone through your mouth a little bit?

01:18:42.920 –> 01:18:44.279
You’re like feeling real bad in this.

01:18:45.000 –> 01:18:45.880
Oh, that’s not good.

01:18:46.119 –> 01:18:46.840
Never a good thing.

01:18:47.159 –> 01:18:49.479
Yeah, it is just fucking gone.

01:18:49.800 –> 01:18:50.920
No clue where it’s at.

01:18:51.079 –> 01:18:52.439
Yeah, that’s bizarre.

01:18:52.760 –> 01:18:57.000
I’m still bewildered because I have no goddamn clue where this is.

01:19:41.880 –> 01:19:42.680
Easy to listen to.

01:19:43.319 –> 01:19:43.720
Anything?

01:19:43.960 –> 01:19:44.520
Who me?

01:19:45.000 –> 01:19:45.239
Yeah.

01:19:46.119 –> 01:19:50.600
Oh, yeah, I listen to a lot of stuff, mostly streaming music.

01:19:51.319 –> 01:19:53.800
I like trip-hop and I like symphonic metal.

01:19:54.680 –> 01:19:56.039
Just not at the same time.

01:19:56.680 –> 01:19:59.720
Me and my wife are going to see Sleep Token in September.

01:20:00.039 –> 01:20:00.359
Okay.

01:20:01.560 –> 01:20:02.600
They’re pretty funky.

01:20:02.920 –> 01:20:04.119
I’m not familiar with them.

01:20:04.439 –> 01:20:09.880
It’s a lot of RB rap, rock, metal, operatics.

01:20:11.319 –> 01:20:11.479
Okay.

01:20:12.199 –> 01:20:13.159
They’re interesting.

01:20:13.399 –> 01:20:14.920
Check out a couple of stuff.

01:20:16.159 –> 01:20:16.479
Songs.

01:20:16.640 –> 01:20:19.119
One is Alkaline.

01:20:19.359 –> 01:20:20.239
That one’s a good one.

01:20:20.560 –> 01:20:20.880
Okay.

01:20:21.119 –> 01:20:22.560
I will check that out soon.

01:20:22.800 –> 01:20:23.279
Let’s see.

01:20:23.439 –> 01:20:24.319
Music.

01:20:26.880 –> 01:20:27.199
Okay.

01:20:27.359 –> 01:20:28.399
Yeah, there it is.

01:20:28.720 –> 01:20:29.439
I found it.

01:20:29.680 –> 01:20:31.439
Check it out after the game.

01:20:39.920 –> 01:20:40.239
Ooh.

01:20:40.560 –> 01:20:43.600
Andor got 14 Emmy nominations.

01:20:44.640 –> 01:20:46.239
Fucking saw that.

01:20:46.560 –> 01:20:49.199
That second season was just perfect.

01:20:51.279 –> 01:20:53.680
Diego Luna didn’t get any nomination, though.

01:20:53.760 –> 01:20:54.560
That sucks.

01:20:54.880 –> 01:21:01.600
Yeah, I would have thought there’d be a couple of acting Emmys for that one.

01:21:02.239 –> 01:21:02.880
For real.

01:21:05.680 –> 01:21:07.039
You play What’s Your 3?

01:21:07.680 –> 01:21:08.319
Oh, no.

01:21:09.199 –> 01:21:11.039
I don’t really do any computer gaming.

01:21:13.199 –> 01:21:20.479
My laptop won’t really run any of the good ones, and all my time is taken up doing, you know, prep for my other game.

01:21:21.439 –> 01:21:23.279
And that’s about to come to a close.

01:21:23.600 –> 01:21:23.920
Nice.

01:21:24.319 –> 01:21:27.840
We’re going to wrap it up after, I don’t know, three dozen sessions or so.

01:21:28.159 –> 01:21:29.439
Starting to write a book today.

01:21:29.760 –> 01:21:31.439
Elias is giving me tips.

01:21:31.760 –> 01:21:32.720
Ah, cool.

01:21:32.960 –> 01:21:42.960
I can write a research paper on history and shit with cited sources and shit, but storytelling is something I’ve been wanting to delve into.

01:21:43.279 –> 01:21:43.600
Yeah.

01:21:45.119 –> 01:21:49.840
Yeah, I got a half-finished novel on my computer that I don’t think I’m ever going to get back to.

01:21:52.000 –> 01:21:53.359
There was a time when I had time.

01:21:53.520 –> 01:22:00.960
I had more time to write, and then my friends were like, hey, somebody else needs a GM for a while.

01:22:01.039 –> 01:22:02.319
And I’m like, yeah, I got this.

01:22:02.960 –> 01:22:05.520
So I’ve been GMing ever since.

01:22:06.560 –> 01:22:07.520
What’s the book on?

01:22:07.920 –> 01:22:08.399
About?

01:22:09.439 –> 01:22:10.319
Or genre?

01:22:10.960 –> 01:22:11.840
Science fiction.

01:22:12.159 –> 01:22:12.880
Oh, nice.

01:22:13.119 –> 01:22:13.359
Yeah.

01:22:13.840 –> 01:22:16.319
I run a lot of science fiction games, and that one was.

01:22:16.880 –> 01:22:20.640
The novel was loosely based on a campaign I ran a few years ago.

01:22:20.960 –> 01:22:21.520
Oh, cool.

01:22:21.760 –> 01:22:34.960
My wife told me something that Hank Green said is like the moment you get an explanation on what the magic is, it crosses into the realms of science fiction.

01:22:36.239 –> 01:22:38.479
I was like, that is so fucking true.

01:22:38.640 –> 01:22:39.680
That’s one way to look at it.

01:22:39.920 –> 01:22:50.000
Because she said that George Lucas, as soon as he introduced midichlorians and gave an explanation to why the Jedi are the way they are, it went into science fiction.

01:22:50.319 –> 01:22:51.359
Pretty much.

01:22:52.479 –> 01:22:53.039
Arthur C.

01:22:53.199 –> 01:22:55.199
Clarke said something that was about the opposite of that.

01:22:55.840 –> 01:23:00.319
He said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

01:23:00.560 –> 01:23:01.600
That’s true.

01:23:02.560 –> 01:23:04.000
Okay, I’m done here.

01:23:04.239 –> 01:23:16.159
I have a campaign setting that I’ve run stuff in before where one of the big premises of the campaign is the average person can’t tell the difference between the advanced technology and the magic.

01:23:18.319 –> 01:23:19.439
The Omnissiah.

01:23:19.920 –> 01:23:21.039
Omnissiah.

01:23:21.199 –> 01:23:22.880
Oh, hail the machine spirits.

01:23:24.079 –> 01:23:25.680
I’m a big 40k nerd.

01:23:26.560 –> 01:23:27.600
I tried to get into it.

01:23:27.680 –> 01:23:28.000
I’m a shit.

01:23:28.079 –> 01:23:29.840
I’m a little model that I need to paint.

01:23:31.279 –> 01:23:33.760
I’m ADHD and Autistic of Hell.

01:23:34.239 –> 01:23:36.640
I just like watching the lore videos on YouTube.

01:23:37.199 –> 01:23:38.960
I’ll listen more for like hours.

01:23:39.119 –> 01:23:39.840
It’s great.

01:23:40.159 –> 01:23:40.399
Yeah.

01:23:40.720 –> 01:23:42.079
Bricky does a really good one.

01:23:42.239 –> 01:23:42.960
I love that video.

01:23:43.039 –> 01:23:44.000
It’s just so funny.

01:23:44.239 –> 01:23:45.279
On all the factions.

01:23:45.600 –> 01:23:46.239
Every turn.

01:23:46.800 –> 01:23:49.199
I did like the Space Marine 2 game.

01:23:49.359 –> 01:23:50.800
That was fucking cool as shit.

01:23:51.119 –> 01:23:51.439
It is.

01:23:51.600 –> 01:23:52.960
And they keep adding stuff to it.

01:23:53.039 –> 01:23:54.800
And Space Marine 3 is confirmed.

01:23:54.880 –> 01:23:56.720
I have a friend that works for PlayStation.

01:23:56.880 –> 01:23:59.600
And they let me know they’re going to be doing another one.

01:24:00.159 –> 01:24:01.359
I’m excited for that.

01:24:04.079 –> 01:24:07.119
I haven’t played that game probably in a year.

01:24:08.479 –> 01:24:11.520
And Space Wolves are my favorite, and I remember they added those.

01:24:12.640 –> 01:24:16.720
They added a Space Wolf helmet that looks pretty spectacular.

01:24:16.960 –> 01:24:17.439
Nice.

01:24:23.439 –> 01:24:28.079
I was telling Scorn, I have no idea where my fucking S key went.

01:24:28.319 –> 01:24:32.000
It popped off mid-game, and I’ve been trying to look for it for the past 45 minutes.

01:24:33.359 –> 01:24:35.199
No goddamn clue where the fuck is that?

01:24:36.800 –> 01:24:39.600
Session so rowdy, bro lost his S key.

01:24:39.920 –> 01:24:40.479
I did!

01:24:42.399 –> 01:24:46.720
I had to switch over to my phone trying to look for it and fucking trash can and shit.

01:24:46.800 –> 01:24:48.319
I was like, what the fuck did I go?

01:24:48.960 –> 01:24:50.319
I had to replace all my keys now.

01:24:50.560 –> 01:24:52.319
Fortunately, I have another keyboard.

01:24:52.960 –> 01:24:54.720
Well, how’s everyone doing now?

01:24:55.840 –> 01:24:56.000
Good.

01:24:56.479 –> 01:24:56.960
I’m doing great.

01:24:58.319 –> 01:24:58.720
Much better.

01:25:06.560 –> 01:25:08.399
Probably can’t do that at midnight tonight.

01:25:09.039 –> 01:25:12.399
I was going to mix a Cuba libre, but I forgot to get lime juice.

01:25:12.720 –> 01:25:13.279
Oh, no.

01:25:13.600 –> 01:25:14.880
First world problems, right?

01:25:15.199 –> 01:25:15.359
Right.

01:25:18.520 –> 01:25:20.359
Who needs alcohol when you have Percocet?

01:25:22.359 –> 01:25:23.640
I don’t have Percocet.

01:25:24.199 –> 01:25:25.000
I don’t either.

01:25:25.319 –> 01:25:27.880
I have a steady supply for my doctor.

01:25:28.199 –> 01:25:28.439
Okay.

01:25:29.000 –> 01:25:29.800
I have water.

01:25:30.199 –> 01:25:31.319
Such an Ipid thing to say.

01:25:31.720 –> 01:25:32.039
You have water?

01:25:34.199 –> 01:25:34.760
Listen.

01:25:35.960 –> 01:25:37.560
It is like the first session I’m coming.

01:25:37.720 –> 01:25:42.039
I haven’t had an alcoholic beverage simply because I’m waking up at tomorrow.

01:25:42.199 –> 01:25:44.760
So I’m trying not to screw myself over.

01:25:46.279 –> 01:25:47.159
It’s valid.

01:25:47.640 –> 01:25:48.439
Valid.

01:25:49.399 –> 01:25:50.359
But yeah, Aldric.

01:25:50.520 –> 01:25:53.000
So, yeah, I’m having a nice water on the rocks.

01:25:57.319 –> 01:25:58.199
I need to know.

01:25:58.520 –> 01:25:58.760
Yeah.

01:25:59.079 –> 01:26:00.279
Last session was a beer.

01:26:00.439 –> 01:26:03.000
This time it’s my Yeti filled with water.

01:26:03.640 –> 01:26:03.800
Okay.

01:26:05.319 –> 01:26:06.359
Very proud of you.

01:26:06.600 –> 01:26:07.000
Thank you.

01:26:07.159 –> 01:26:09.159
I’m better as a person.

01:26:11.319 –> 01:26:16.920
So we’re going to pick up as you have left the underground establishment of the knaves.

01:26:17.239 –> 01:26:18.840
Two minutes of long rest.

01:26:19.800 –> 01:26:20.359
Yes.

01:26:21.319 –> 01:26:27.960
And here, out on the streets, you’ve been given a bit of direction on where to find the wizard.

01:26:28.279 –> 01:26:30.840
But how much gold do you all have?

01:26:32.760 –> 01:26:34.119
Let me take a quick look here.

01:26:34.439 –> 01:26:38.039
After I paid for dinner, I have 307 gold.

01:26:38.279 –> 01:26:38.840
29.

01:26:39.239 –> 01:26:39.800
29.

01:26:40.359 –> 01:26:40.760
29.

01:26:41.000 –> 01:26:41.239
Let’s see.

01:26:41.479 –> 01:26:41.960
17.

01:26:42.439 –> 01:26:44.119
I’ve got like, what is that?

01:26:44.600 –> 01:26:46.119
I got 715.

01:26:46.680 –> 01:26:50.119
I got 18 gold and I got 40 platinum.

01:26:50.680 –> 01:26:55.079
And I’ve still got five of these bloodstones that are worth 50 gold pieces each.

01:26:55.399 –> 01:26:56.760
Starling’s broke.

01:26:57.079 –> 01:27:00.439
Yeah, how much you pay that tiefling for whatever the hell you did to her?

01:27:00.840 –> 01:27:02.119
My screw.

01:27:04.760 –> 01:27:06.760
Dang, that’s how you know Starling’s good.

01:27:06.840 –> 01:27:10.359
She went to an establishment, got away with that without having to pay anything.

01:27:11.800 –> 01:27:12.439
That’s easy.

01:27:12.600 –> 01:27:15.000
You just go and look for somebody looking for the same thing.

01:27:16.039 –> 01:27:16.680
Anyway.

01:27:17.239 –> 01:27:17.960
There you go.

01:27:20.119 –> 01:27:24.199
You’re going to have to figure out how to pony up 500 gold for each student.

01:27:25.000 –> 01:27:26.119
Yeah, okay, yeah.

01:27:26.279 –> 01:27:27.399
So two bodyguards.

01:27:30.199 –> 01:27:30.439
Yeah.

01:27:31.079 –> 01:27:35.640
I think the first thing we need to do is: where’s this wizard’s tower at on this map?

01:27:36.520 –> 01:27:37.239
Up here.

01:27:37.960 –> 01:27:38.279
Okay.

01:27:38.840 –> 01:27:39.640
And where are we at?

01:27:40.359 –> 01:27:41.720
You’re down at the lower circle.

01:27:42.279 –> 01:27:42.680
Oh, okay.

01:27:43.000 –> 01:27:44.039
Staying here.

01:27:44.359 –> 01:27:54.520
So we need to set Aldric up as a student with a place in town, like way the hell over on the west side.

01:27:54.840 –> 01:27:56.199
Yeah, because anything under.

01:27:57.319 –> 01:27:59.159
The wizard doesn’t go to your house.

01:27:59.479 –> 01:28:01.800
Oh, where does he teach?

01:28:02.119 –> 01:28:06.439
He teaches magic up on the North Greens, a little bit above town.

01:28:06.760 –> 01:28:07.079
Oh.

01:28:07.399 –> 01:28:07.720
Okay.

01:28:08.199 –> 01:28:10.279
Well, that solves that problem.

01:28:10.600 –> 01:28:12.439
So that’s really close.

01:28:13.319 –> 01:28:15.239
Yeah, we’ll just have to make sure it’s a long lesson.

01:28:15.479 –> 01:28:16.119
That was wonderful.

01:28:16.199 –> 01:28:17.399
We’ll go on a nature walk.

01:28:18.920 –> 01:28:22.199
So, how much gold to 500?

01:28:22.439 –> 01:28:23.640
500 per student.

01:28:24.279 –> 01:28:25.960
All right, well, for how long?

01:28:26.279 –> 01:28:27.079
Is that how long?

01:28:27.640 –> 01:28:28.119
For a day?

01:28:29.079 –> 01:28:30.520
One eight-hour lesson.

01:28:30.840 –> 01:28:31.000
Okay.

01:28:32.680 –> 01:28:32.840
Okay.

01:28:33.720 –> 01:28:34.760
I’ll gladly pay it.

01:28:35.560 –> 01:28:36.600
Wait, how much money do you have?

01:28:37.159 –> 01:28:38.520
Gets to learn a spell.

01:28:38.840 –> 01:28:39.640
Oh, wow.

01:28:39.880 –> 01:28:42.359
I think Aldric would be genuinely interested anyway.

01:28:42.520 –> 01:28:44.439
So I’ve got 715.

01:28:44.600 –> 01:28:45.239
I can just pay.

01:28:45.640 –> 01:28:45.880
God!

01:28:48.359 –> 01:28:49.239
Alrighty then.

01:28:49.399 –> 01:28:49.960
He’s good.

01:28:50.520 –> 01:28:55.880
I’m starting to realize Aldric hasn’t picked up a single tab ever since we started adventuring with each other.

01:28:58.680 –> 01:28:59.640
Now you realize.

01:29:00.439 –> 01:29:01.800
Because he’s always studying.

01:29:02.119 –> 01:29:02.760
Yeah, right.

01:29:03.079 –> 01:29:08.359
Well, do you think he’d be suspicious if Aldric is seen with two bodyguards?

01:29:08.600 –> 01:29:14.359
Like, should we come up with maybe a fabricated story on why we’re accompanying him?

01:29:14.600 –> 01:29:19.640
Well, he’s an amateur and you’re his partners.

01:29:20.119 –> 01:29:22.199
Somebody’s Ipid.

01:29:22.520 –> 01:29:25.239
Your people have a bit of a reputation in town right now.

01:29:25.560 –> 01:29:26.520
Shit, you’re right.

01:29:26.760 –> 01:29:29.000
Oh, he totally could have just hired me.

01:29:30.359 –> 01:29:34.359
Right, yeah, you’re my mercenary bodyguard guy.

01:29:34.680 –> 01:29:36.600
Why would a person like you need a bodyguard?

01:29:36.680 –> 01:29:42.439
Maybe we can make it so that, like, I don’t know who said it just now, but it’s like you’re like somebody’s rich kid.

01:29:43.159 –> 01:29:43.960
Bingo.

01:29:44.279 –> 01:29:45.319
Yep, yep.

01:29:46.840 –> 01:29:48.680
It would make sense on why I would be hired.

01:29:48.840 –> 01:29:52.119
I mean, Starling, I mean, she looks mercenary-ish, right?

01:29:52.680 –> 01:29:53.560
Yeah, so, like.

01:29:54.199 –> 01:29:54.760
She does.

01:29:55.079 –> 01:29:55.560
What do you mean?

01:29:56.359 –> 01:29:57.079
I mean, look at her.

01:29:57.159 –> 01:29:57.560
She looks.

01:29:59.000 –> 01:30:01.159
All right, so the mercenaries over here, Devin.

01:30:02.119 –> 01:30:04.600
Please tell me Starling actually does that.

01:30:07.960 –> 01:30:08.279
Okay.

01:30:08.840 –> 01:30:11.880
And Ipid puts an elbow on top of Starling and says, like, we’re great.

01:30:12.039 –> 01:30:12.520
We’re great.

01:30:14.359 –> 01:30:15.079
We’re great.

01:30:15.319 –> 01:30:17.000
She kind of slugs him in the shoulder a little bit.

01:30:19.279 –> 01:30:19.760
Ow.

01:30:20.640 –> 01:30:22.000
That’s where my scar was.

01:30:22.880 –> 01:30:23.119
Oh.

01:30:24.479 –> 01:30:25.359
Sorry, Ipid.

01:30:26.720 –> 01:30:30.000
All that remains now is to contact the wizard.

01:30:30.319 –> 01:30:32.159
You’ll have to approach him at his tower.

01:30:32.399 –> 01:30:35.760
Do you need to give some kind of signal Scorn to your people?

01:30:36.079 –> 01:30:36.880
Yeah, I’m going to go.

01:30:37.520 –> 01:30:41.199
Well, when they’re expecting us to do the job.

01:30:41.520 –> 01:30:43.760
So we’ll get it done.

01:30:44.079 –> 01:30:48.720
And I will let Sorcha know what we find out afterwards.

01:30:49.039 –> 01:30:56.800
And I mean, if we don’t find anything out, we’re even, because I promised her to do a job in return for some information that she didn’t actually have.

01:30:57.119 –> 01:30:58.399
So that worked well.

01:30:58.720 –> 01:30:59.119
Gotcha.

01:30:59.359 –> 01:31:00.399
Well, put a skank.

01:31:01.199 –> 01:31:02.000
Oh, my God.

01:31:02.239 –> 01:31:03.039
Oh, my God.

01:31:05.359 –> 01:31:06.000
I missed that.

01:31:06.239 –> 01:31:06.560
What?

01:31:07.199 –> 01:31:07.920
Nothing.

01:31:08.239 –> 01:31:08.560
Nothing.

01:31:09.680 –> 01:31:11.279
Starling called your friend a skank.

01:31:11.439 –> 01:31:12.479
That’s not nice, Starling.

01:31:14.000 –> 01:31:15.279
No, really not.

01:31:17.119 –> 01:31:21.760
No, she said she would tell me everything she knew about the individual I was looking for.

01:31:22.000 –> 01:31:24.319
And, well, that turned out to be nothing.

01:31:24.640 –> 01:31:24.880
Right.

01:31:25.199 –> 01:31:26.319
But that’s okay.

01:31:26.960 –> 01:31:28.560
Two can play at that game.

01:31:29.199 –> 01:31:32.560
So if we end up finding out nothing about the wizard, then I’ll call us even.

01:31:33.279 –> 01:31:34.159
It’s okay, Scorn.

01:31:34.239 –> 01:31:35.359
I too court women.

01:31:35.520 –> 01:31:36.159
I understand.

01:31:39.039 –> 01:31:41.920
I wasn’t exactly courting Sorcha.

01:31:42.399 –> 01:31:43.199
Right, right.

01:31:43.439 –> 01:31:44.399
It was sure you are.

01:31:45.119 –> 01:31:45.680
No, it was.

01:31:45.840 –> 01:31:52.159
I was, as I said, last time I was here, I was looking for someone, and I wasn’t looking for anyone else, if you know what I mean.

01:31:52.479 –> 01:31:52.880
I see.

01:31:53.119 –> 01:31:53.279
Yeah.

01:31:54.000 –> 01:31:55.600
He has a way with women, you know.

01:31:55.840 –> 01:31:58.159
Sorcha didn’t appreciate that one bit.

01:31:58.479 –> 01:31:58.800
Oh.

01:32:02.159 –> 01:32:12.239
So the plan right now sounds like you, uh, Scorn and Ash, you guys sort of like hang back while we take Mr.

01:32:12.319 –> 01:32:20.800
Richie Rich over here to the front doors of this tower, get him hired, and then we’re off on our way.

01:32:21.119 –> 01:32:23.359
And then you guys are going to be able to break in.

01:32:24.479 –> 01:32:29.760
If anything happens on either of our ends, you know, Starling, you have sending, Scorn, you have sending.

01:32:29.840 –> 01:32:31.119
We’ll be in contact with each other.

01:32:31.439 –> 01:32:32.399
Get in this place.

01:32:32.720 –> 01:32:34.640
Don’t they seal it magically?

01:32:35.279 –> 01:32:36.640
We’ll figure that out.

01:32:36.960 –> 01:32:38.720
If we can’t get in, we can’t get in.

01:32:39.039 –> 01:32:39.920
That’s the funny thing.

01:32:41.359 –> 01:32:44.159
I mean, I’m fairly good at picking locks.

01:32:44.479 –> 01:32:47.279
So if the door is locked, that’s not a problem.

01:32:47.520 –> 01:32:51.760
If it has arcane wards on it, then that’s another story.

01:32:52.720 –> 01:32:54.880
I’m sure you guys will figure it out.

01:32:56.720 –> 01:32:58.079
We will figure it out.

01:32:58.960 –> 01:33:00.720
Who’s got dispel magic?

01:33:01.039 –> 01:33:01.600
Anybody?

01:33:02.159 –> 01:33:02.800
Oh, boy.

01:33:04.319 –> 01:33:05.760
I got dispel enemies.

01:33:05.920 –> 01:33:06.560
Any flexes?

01:33:06.800 –> 01:33:07.359
Oh, yeah.

01:33:07.600 –> 01:33:08.319
We know.

01:33:10.880 –> 01:33:16.159
If anyone has dispel magic, I would ask you to put it in the ring of spell storing.

01:33:16.479 –> 01:33:18.000
No, unfortunately not.

01:33:18.319 –> 01:33:18.560
Okay.

01:33:18.880 –> 01:33:19.680
Not an option.

01:33:20.000 –> 01:33:20.800
I’m looking.

01:33:21.119 –> 01:33:22.399
Aldric, you don’t have that one?

01:33:22.720 –> 01:33:23.039
Nope.

01:33:23.279 –> 01:33:23.760
Oh, that’s…

01:33:23.920 –> 01:33:26.000
Yeah, it was counterspell, it was the one you had, I think.

01:33:26.319 –> 01:33:27.279
Counterspell, yeah.

01:33:27.520 –> 01:33:28.159
Yeah, okay.

01:33:28.479 –> 01:33:29.439
What level is it?

01:33:29.600 –> 01:33:30.560
It’s third level.

01:33:30.880 –> 01:33:31.760
Oh, never mind.

01:33:32.000 –> 01:33:34.000
Yeah, for a paladin, that’s a lot.

01:33:35.119 –> 01:33:37.439
Okay, well, no dispel magic.

01:33:37.600 –> 01:33:38.399
I’ll do without.

01:33:38.640 –> 01:33:40.960
How many spells can your ring store?

01:33:41.279 –> 01:33:44.159
It can store five levels of spells.

01:33:44.960 –> 01:33:46.640
And I’ve got a couple of my extras.

01:33:47.119 –> 01:33:49.680
My favorite’s in it is, you know, extra backup right now.

01:33:49.840 –> 01:33:54.720
But if there’s anything you’d suggest I take, I’ll make room for it in the ring.

01:33:55.039 –> 01:33:56.399
Oh, hold on.

01:33:57.760 –> 01:33:58.720
Scorn, take this.

01:33:58.960 –> 01:34:03.600
And Ipid takes out his mystery key, I feel like this might be worth a shot.

01:34:04.399 –> 01:34:06.560
It didn’t work last time, but I mean, it might work with you.

01:34:06.880 –> 01:34:07.359
Hmm.

01:34:07.680 –> 01:34:08.640
How does this work?

01:34:09.279 –> 01:34:13.439
The key has a 5% chance of unlocking any lock into which it’s inserted.

01:34:13.760 –> 01:34:16.159
Once the key unlocks something, the key disappears.

01:34:17.119 –> 01:34:18.399
I’ll take those odds.

01:34:18.720 –> 01:34:18.960
Yeah.

01:34:19.279 –> 01:34:20.640
I mean, it’s worth a shot.

01:34:20.880 –> 01:34:21.840
Thank you so much.

01:34:22.159 –> 01:34:22.720
Of course.

01:34:23.279 –> 01:34:23.520
Okay.

01:34:24.000 –> 01:34:26.079
I think I’m as ready as I’m going to be.

01:34:27.039 –> 01:34:28.000
Ash, how about you?

01:34:28.319 –> 01:34:29.359
Fucking go.

01:34:31.359 –> 01:34:32.319
Alrighty then.

01:34:32.640 –> 01:34:35.600
You know, this new tiefling guy we have curses a lot.

01:34:35.920 –> 01:34:36.479
Yep.

01:34:36.720 –> 01:34:37.199
Yep.

01:34:40.960 –> 01:34:45.119
As you approach the wizard’s tower, you see it looming in the sky.

01:34:45.760 –> 01:34:49.600
And in a brass plaque, you see written on there.

01:34:49.840 –> 01:34:54.000
All payment for students must be paid in advance.

01:34:55.920 –> 01:34:58.399
And beside it is a hatch.

01:34:59.439 –> 01:34:59.920
Open it.

01:35:00.239 –> 01:35:03.600
Put something in and drop it in to be stored safely within.

01:35:03.920 –> 01:35:04.640
Okay, then.

01:35:05.039 –> 01:35:06.399
This is the gold hatch.

01:35:06.960 –> 01:35:07.680
Alright, I’ll do it.

01:35:08.079 –> 01:35:09.760
You said you were going to cough up the cast.

01:35:09.840 –> 01:35:10.560
Go ahead.

01:35:11.439 –> 01:35:11.680
Oh.

01:35:12.239 –> 01:35:12.960
Okay, then.

01:35:13.199 –> 01:35:13.840
It’s gone.

01:35:15.359 –> 01:35:17.920
As you drop the money in, you feel the air.

01:35:19.399 –> 01:35:20.359
Behind you, stir.

01:35:22.600 –> 01:35:24.520
I feel a hand on your shoulder.

01:35:24.840 –> 01:35:27.079
Well, ah, I turn around.

01:35:27.720 –> 01:35:35.319
You see a gnarly old wizard, beard down to his toes, eyebrows curl up and touch his forehead.

01:35:35.960 –> 01:35:38.279
His hair is long and shaggy.

01:35:39.159 –> 01:35:41.319
Sir, please keep your hands off of him.

01:35:42.199 –> 01:35:43.880
Oh, it’s okay, I’ve been.

01:35:44.199 –> 01:35:44.760
Looks around.

01:35:46.680 –> 01:35:47.399
You paid.

01:35:47.720 –> 01:35:49.720
What spell do you want to learn today?

01:35:50.680 –> 01:35:55.159
Well, actually, do you mind if we kind of do a walk and talk?

01:35:55.479 –> 01:35:55.960
Oh, yes.

01:35:56.119 –> 01:35:57.640
You have me for eight hours.

01:35:57.960 –> 01:35:58.279
Yeah.

01:35:58.760 –> 01:36:01.319
I understand we’re going to go and have a walk in this nice park here.

01:36:01.720 –> 01:36:02.119
Is that right?

01:36:02.279 –> 01:36:04.600
Yes, it’s an excellent place for experimentation.

01:36:05.720 –> 01:36:15.159
Well, I’ve got this spellbook that I got a long time ago, and has a couple of spells in it that I haven’t yet worked out how to use.

01:36:15.800 –> 01:36:18.680
I was wondering if you can help me with that.

01:36:19.000 –> 01:36:20.680
It’s just something I can figure out.

01:36:21.239 –> 01:36:22.680
Yes, definitely.

01:36:23.000 –> 01:36:30.439
It’s wonderful to have something interesting instead of another person that wants to learn confusion.

01:36:33.800 –> 01:36:34.840
Tell me about it, yeah.

01:36:37.000 –> 01:36:44.119
Well, I’ve got my bodyguards with me because, you know, the recent troubles have just been really playing on my mind.

01:36:44.279 –> 01:36:47.239
So yes, with the fire giants and whatnot.

01:36:47.560 –> 01:36:48.840
Yeah, it’s been terrible.

01:36:49.640 –> 01:36:56.039
So they’ll probably just be walking a bit behind, I imagine, just to keep a lookout.

01:36:56.279 –> 01:36:57.640
Ipid stands proudly.

01:36:58.199 –> 01:37:00.520
His stature straight as hell.

01:37:00.840 –> 01:37:02.520
The wizard looks up towards Ipid.

01:37:03.239 –> 01:37:07.720
winces at his shoulder when he notices Ipid doesn’t have a shoulder plate on.

01:37:08.920 –> 01:37:11.319
And continues following Aldric North.

01:37:11.640 –> 01:37:17.479
Yeah, so, like I was saying, I got this spell book from a troll a while ago.

01:37:18.520 –> 01:37:19.560
It’s a long story.

01:37:20.279 –> 01:37:22.840
You say you got a spell book from a troll?

01:37:23.159 –> 01:37:23.399
Yeah.

01:37:24.199 –> 01:37:24.920
Oh, that’s excellent.

01:37:25.399 –> 01:37:26.199
That’s exceptional.

01:37:26.439 –> 01:37:28.039
Yeah, he had his own spells and everything.

01:37:28.199 –> 01:37:31.000
Maybe I can even show you what I know about that spell.

01:37:31.319 –> 01:37:33.479
Would you be interested in a trade?

01:37:34.279 –> 01:37:34.840
Oh, yes.

01:37:35.079 –> 01:37:36.039
Very interested.

01:37:36.359 –> 01:37:38.920
I’ll help you decipher one of these spells.

01:37:39.560 –> 01:37:40.520
Excellent.

01:37:41.239 –> 01:37:51.880
So, according to the spellbook that you gave me ages ago, that I haven’t used yet, it apparently had greater invisibility, invisibility, and thunderstep.

01:37:52.279 –> 01:37:56.439
So, I guess I wanted to choose greater invisibility.

01:37:56.760 –> 01:37:58.920
I guess I would like to learn that spell.

01:38:00.439 –> 01:38:03.800
If you remember, you gave me this troll spell from ages ago.

01:38:04.760 –> 01:38:09.560
I kind of forgot to use it, so I thought this was a good moment to bring that back.

01:38:09.880 –> 01:38:14.199
You said it had thunderstep and greater invisibility and the troll spell.

01:38:14.439 –> 01:38:14.760
Yes.

01:38:15.399 –> 01:38:18.920
Can I learn all of them, or is it just like I can only learn one?

01:38:19.960 –> 01:38:20.920
You can learn both.

01:38:21.239 –> 01:38:21.560
Yeah.

01:38:21.880 –> 01:38:22.119
Okay.

01:38:23.479 –> 01:38:28.600
I’ll just tell the wizard that I’m interested in learning greater invisibility as we walk.

01:38:28.920 –> 01:38:30.119
He looks over to.

01:38:30.520 –> 01:38:32.039
Greater invisibility, you say.

01:38:32.119 –> 01:38:33.560
The troll can turn invisible.

01:38:33.880 –> 01:38:40.279
Yeah, and then he was like guarding a bridge and not letting anyone pass, but we had to get past.

01:38:40.600 –> 01:38:42.199
And it was this whole thing.

01:38:43.239 –> 01:38:44.840
I think we got him.

01:38:45.159 –> 01:38:46.359
That is certainly remarkable.

01:38:46.520 –> 01:38:48.439
How did you fight an invisible troll?

01:38:49.800 –> 01:38:50.680
Very difficult.

01:38:51.399 –> 01:38:53.000
With a great difficulty, yeah.

01:38:53.319 –> 01:38:55.079
There were three goats there, too.

01:38:58.119 –> 01:39:01.880
Yeah, there were three goats there, yeah, and they wanted to cross.

01:39:02.199 –> 01:39:03.880
And it was the whole thing.

01:39:04.199 –> 01:39:05.560
Just had to be there.

01:39:06.840 –> 01:39:14.359
Yeah, I think, you know, when I write my memoirs one day, I’ll write a story about those goats and that troll.

01:39:14.680 –> 01:39:15.479
Yes, yes.

01:39:15.960 –> 01:39:20.119
Continuous listening to your story as you walk into the field.

01:39:20.439 –> 01:39:25.079
Yeah, so he also gave me a spell called Blazing Briar Heart.

01:39:26.039 –> 01:39:28.279
I can discuss that kind of thing.

01:39:28.600 –> 01:39:30.840
He was like skilled in troll magic.

01:39:32.119 –> 01:39:33.560
It was really wild.

01:39:33.880 –> 01:39:36.600
Oh, yes, you’ll definitely have to show me this spell.

01:39:37.560 –> 01:39:39.560
If it’s worthwhile, I might refund you.

01:39:40.039 –> 01:39:41.800
Oh, that sounds good, yeah.

01:39:42.119 –> 01:39:45.000
And now we cut to outside the wizard’s tower.

01:39:46.439 –> 01:39:46.840
Yes.

01:39:47.800 –> 01:39:52.680
I’m going to cast a sky self, so I look like that wizard.

01:39:53.000 –> 01:39:53.319
Okay.

01:39:55.399 –> 01:39:58.760
And I’ll be talking to Ash like he’s a student.

01:39:59.079 –> 01:40:01.000
Ash, if anyone asks, you’re an eldritch knight.

01:40:01.079 –> 01:40:02.279
I’m an eldritch knight.

01:40:02.600 –> 01:40:03.880
Well, that’s even better.

01:40:04.840 –> 01:40:05.159
So.

01:40:06.920 –> 01:40:07.399
Score!

01:40:07.960 –> 01:40:09.720
You can do that without lying to them.

01:40:10.600 –> 01:40:11.960
Yeah, I’ll go up to the door.

01:40:12.840 –> 01:40:13.640
What’s it look like?

01:40:13.960 –> 01:40:18.600
You see massive wooden double door has a gothic arch.

01:40:20.159 –> 01:40:24.800
And it is bound in brass with a thick open keyhole in the middle.

01:40:25.760 –> 01:40:27.680
Got a half a mind to steal his friggin’ door.

01:40:28.000 –> 01:40:30.000
Um, looks like it’s valuable.

01:40:30.319 –> 01:40:32.399
So, check to see if it’s locked.

01:40:32.720 –> 01:40:33.680
It probably is.

01:40:34.000 –> 01:40:34.640
It is.

01:40:34.960 –> 01:40:35.199
Okay.

01:40:35.520 –> 01:40:36.880
I have lockpicks.

01:40:37.199 –> 01:40:38.399
So, lockpicks.

01:40:38.479 –> 01:40:38.960
Let me see.

01:40:39.279 –> 01:40:40.159
These tools.

01:40:40.479 –> 01:40:42.720
Yeah, I’ve got a plus five with these tools.

01:40:43.039 –> 01:40:44.800
So, we’ll try that first.

01:40:45.119 –> 01:40:47.199
Alright, make a sleight of hand check.

01:40:47.520 –> 01:40:48.560
Oh, okay.

01:40:49.039 –> 01:40:51.279
I’ve only got a plus three with sleight of hand.

01:40:51.840 –> 01:40:53.920
I’m better off just rolling for the tools.

01:40:54.239 –> 01:40:56.159
Alright, scroll for the tools then.

01:40:56.479 –> 01:40:59.199
And let’s see what’s gonna happen here.

01:40:59.520 –> 01:41:00.720
That could be better.

01:41:01.039 –> 01:41:04.880
After working the door for a little bit, the lock clicks open.

01:41:05.199 –> 01:41:05.439
Okay.

01:41:05.920 –> 01:41:07.840
The door swings inward.

01:41:08.159 –> 01:41:09.279
Holy shit, you did it.

01:41:09.520 –> 01:41:14.479
Keep an eye out for any arcane wards or traps or whatever.

01:41:16.479 –> 01:41:18.239
Close the door behind us and lock it.

01:41:18.560 –> 01:41:27.920
As you close the door, locking it, the air in the tower feels dusty, as if it hasn’t moved in years.

01:41:28.560 –> 01:41:32.000
Everything you see is covered in a thick layer of dust.

01:41:33.920 –> 01:41:34.239
Okay.

01:41:35.600 –> 01:41:37.920
Let’s go upstairs.

01:41:38.239 –> 01:41:38.560
Alright.

01:41:39.039 –> 01:41:40.720
We saw that creature departing this tower.

01:41:40.800 –> 01:41:42.640
It flew out of an upper floor, I’m guessing.

01:41:42.960 –> 01:41:43.439
Yes.

01:41:43.760 –> 01:41:44.239
Huh?

01:41:44.399 –> 01:41:44.560
Okay.

01:41:45.119 –> 01:41:46.319
That’s where we want to go.

01:41:46.560 –> 01:41:47.920
How are we going to get past the dust?

01:41:48.000 –> 01:41:49.920
He’s going to notice somebody’s footprints.

01:41:50.159 –> 01:41:53.840
Yes, or if he clicks down here, it’ll look like a robbery, but.

01:41:54.159 –> 01:41:55.039
Ah, okay.

01:41:55.840 –> 01:41:56.560
So, yeah.

01:41:57.119 –> 01:42:00.159
We got to find some valuables and totally steal them.

01:42:00.800 –> 01:42:02.479
Yeah, I got a big-ass bag of holdings.

01:42:06.000 –> 01:42:06.319
Okay.

01:42:07.520 –> 01:42:07.680
Yeah.

01:42:08.640 –> 01:42:10.000
Is there dust on the floor?

01:42:10.319 –> 01:42:10.880
There is.

01:42:11.199 –> 01:42:12.239
Yeah, that’s a problem.

01:42:12.560 –> 01:42:12.880
Okay.

01:42:13.439 –> 01:42:14.079
We are just.

01:42:14.479 –> 01:42:18.000
Yeah, we’ve got maybe eight hours or a little less.

01:42:18.720 –> 01:42:19.279
Let’s go up.

01:42:19.520 –> 01:42:19.920
Fuck it.

01:42:20.000 –> 01:42:20.479
Let’s just go.

01:42:20.800 –> 01:42:21.600
Is there a stairway?

01:42:21.840 –> 01:42:26.960
Yes, there is a large curved stairway that goes around the edge of the tower leading up to the next floor.

01:42:27.520 –> 01:42:30.239
Excellent, what to get, and I’ll just shove it in the bag.

01:42:31.279 –> 01:42:33.039
I’ll let you know if I see anything good.

01:42:33.359 –> 01:42:39.119
As you take your first step onto the stairs, you begin to see sigils glow.

01:42:39.359 –> 01:42:41.119
Make a dexterity saving throw.

01:42:41.439 –> 01:42:42.560
Fire in the hole.

01:42:42.880 –> 01:42:43.600
Oh, man.

01:42:43.920 –> 01:42:44.239
Okay.

01:42:44.960 –> 01:42:45.760
Okay, I’m good.

01:42:46.079 –> 01:42:50.239
You manage to leap backwards as fire comes shooting out of the stairs.

01:42:50.560 –> 01:42:51.760
Oh, fire.

01:42:52.079 –> 01:42:52.399
Yeah.

01:42:54.000 –> 01:42:56.399
We’re both tieflings, so I’m not sure we’re worried about it.

01:42:56.880 –> 01:42:59.840
You an infernal tiefling or one of those other weirdo tieflings?

01:43:00.000 –> 01:43:00.960
I think I’m a weirdo thing.

01:43:01.359 –> 01:43:01.840
Oh, okay.

01:43:02.159 –> 01:43:03.520
I’m fire-resistant.

01:43:04.319 –> 01:43:06.159
I’m necrotic and resistant.

01:43:06.479 –> 01:43:07.039
Oh, okay.

01:43:07.279 –> 01:43:08.960
Well, that’s a thing, too.

01:43:09.279 –> 01:43:12.319
So, it turns out I totally forgot.

01:43:12.399 –> 01:43:14.239
I got dispel magic at some point.

01:43:14.560 –> 01:43:17.359
So, I didn’t need to ask anyone else in the party for it.

01:43:18.399 –> 01:43:19.840
This is what happens when I miss a run.

01:43:19.920 –> 01:43:22.079
I don’t remember what’s on my own damn character sheet.

01:43:22.399 –> 01:43:25.199
So, cast a spell magic on the stairs.

01:43:25.680 –> 01:43:26.960
Magic fades.

01:43:27.279 –> 01:43:28.960
Okay, that’s not going to hold for very long.

01:43:29.119 –> 01:43:29.680
So, where are you?

01:43:29.840 –> 01:43:38.159
As you cast dispel magic, the dust goes away, and you see carved runes on every surface.

01:43:40.079 –> 01:43:42.239
Don’t touch a god’s damn thing.

01:43:42.560 –> 01:43:43.119
Nope.

01:43:43.439 –> 01:43:46.560
I cast spell magic on the stairs, so I think the stairs are safe.

01:43:46.880 –> 01:43:49.359
So, we should book it upstairs.

01:43:49.680 –> 01:43:52.159
And yeah, Scorn will try his luck with the stairs again.

01:43:52.399 –> 01:43:53.439
You want me to go first?

01:43:54.000 –> 01:43:54.479
That’s okay.

01:43:55.039 –> 01:43:55.680
It’s alright.

01:43:56.159 –> 01:44:09.039
As you continue up the stairs, one after the other, you hear clicks and clanks as mundane traps try to activate magical reactions that fail.

01:44:09.359 –> 01:44:09.680
Okay.

01:44:11.520 –> 01:44:13.279
Can we get to the top of the steps?

01:44:13.600 –> 01:44:19.119
As you circle again and again, you see the inside of the tower is hollow.

01:44:19.439 –> 01:44:22.479
And within there are pillars of floating books.

01:44:23.039 –> 01:44:24.000
And there’s both.

01:44:24.800 –> 01:44:32.479
The stairs circle maybe half a dozen times leading upwards to the next floor.

01:44:32.800 –> 01:44:33.119
Okay.

01:44:35.119 –> 01:44:36.399
What do we see when we get there?

01:44:36.720 –> 01:44:40.399
When you get to the next floor, you see rows of cages.

01:44:40.720 –> 01:44:42.159
Nothing in them currently.

01:44:43.359 –> 01:44:47.199
And you see the remnants of magical castings.

01:44:47.520 –> 01:44:51.920
And you see recipes of some kind scrawled out in alchemic notes.

01:44:52.880 –> 01:44:53.760
Interesting.

01:44:54.800 –> 01:44:56.640
What language are they in?

01:44:56.960 –> 01:45:00.159
The notes are not in a written language that you know.

01:45:00.640 –> 01:45:04.159
They seem to be comprised entirely of alchemical symbols.

01:45:05.039 –> 01:45:05.199
Okay.

01:45:07.439 –> 01:45:09.279
Yeah, I’m not sure what that’s about.

01:45:10.560 –> 01:45:12.800
Let’s continue on up next floor.

01:45:13.119 –> 01:45:19.439
As you continue up to the next floor, up here, you find many different magical items.

01:45:21.159 –> 01:45:21.720
Displayed.

01:45:21.960 –> 01:45:26.600
Is there any traps around these that I can just start shoving things in my bag?

01:45:27.239 –> 01:45:28.680
You don’t see any traps.

01:45:30.119 –> 01:45:32.279
Cautiously take the first one item.

01:45:32.520 –> 01:45:35.319
Well, what do I see that’s good?

01:45:35.640 –> 01:45:36.520
This is a test one.

01:45:37.000 –> 01:45:38.279
Anything I recognize?

01:45:38.600 –> 01:45:48.279
Let’s see what the first thing you find is okay.

01:45:48.840 –> 01:45:52.920
The first item that you find is Elven Chainmail.

01:45:53.479 –> 01:45:54.199
Oh, yes.

01:45:54.520 –> 01:45:55.880
Going in the bag.

01:45:56.199 –> 01:45:56.760
Yep.

01:45:57.640 –> 01:45:59.640
I’ve been meaning to get some magic armor.

01:46:00.520 –> 01:46:01.560
Elven chainmail.

01:46:01.720 –> 01:46:02.119
Nice.

01:46:02.439 –> 01:46:05.560
Is it like a full suit of chainmail or is it a chain shirt?

01:46:05.800 –> 01:46:06.920
A chain shirt.

01:46:07.239 –> 01:46:07.960
Oh, perfect.

01:46:08.119 –> 01:46:08.760
I love it.

01:46:09.880 –> 01:46:11.640
I go to the next thing.

01:46:12.039 –> 01:46:14.840
Any traps or alarms go off when he takes it?

01:46:15.159 –> 01:46:16.600
You don’t hear or see anything.

01:46:16.920 –> 01:46:17.159
Okay.

01:46:17.479 –> 01:46:19.800
Guess he’s paranoid downstairs, not up here.

01:46:20.119 –> 01:46:21.479
I take another item.

01:46:21.800 –> 01:46:22.920
I don’t know what it is.

01:46:23.159 –> 01:46:24.039
I’m just kidding.

01:46:24.520 –> 01:46:26.279
Let’s find out what it is first.

01:46:27.239 –> 01:46:28.439
Or at least what it looks like.

01:46:28.760 –> 01:46:29.000
Yeah.

01:46:29.479 –> 01:46:31.960
Look, I’m here to cause chaos and steal shit.

01:46:32.039 –> 01:46:35.960
I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing with your side piece, so I’m fucking going to my shit.

01:46:36.279 –> 01:46:37.640
She’s not my side piece.

01:46:37.800 –> 01:46:46.840
And for information, for information on the celestial vampire hybrid and what on earth it’s up to with this wizard.

01:46:47.079 –> 01:46:47.880
Oh, okay.

01:46:48.199 –> 01:46:49.079
Still, I’m still here.

01:46:49.319 –> 01:46:50.119
Just steal shit.

01:46:50.279 –> 01:46:51.079
What do I find?

01:46:51.399 –> 01:46:52.439
Excellent.

01:46:53.399 –> 01:46:53.880
Here.

01:46:56.119 –> 01:46:58.840
You find a sword engraved with runes.

01:46:59.399 –> 01:46:59.800
Ooh.

01:47:00.039 –> 01:47:00.359
Pretty.

01:47:01.079 –> 01:47:02.359
I put that on my back.

01:47:02.680 –> 01:47:05.159
Is it a great sword, long sword, short sword?

01:47:05.399 –> 01:47:07.000
It is a short sword.

01:47:07.319 –> 01:47:07.560
Okay.

01:47:08.119 –> 01:47:09.399
Put it on my belt.

01:47:09.720 –> 01:47:11.319
Do you keep grabbing items?

01:47:11.640 –> 01:47:11.960
Yep.

01:47:12.760 –> 01:47:15.960
Okay, I’m going to start heading up to the next level.

01:47:16.279 –> 01:47:18.199
Grab as much shit as I can, and I’ll meet you there.

01:47:18.439 –> 01:47:18.920
Mm-hmm.

01:47:19.159 –> 01:47:19.399
Okay.

01:47:19.880 –> 01:47:21.239
What’s the next item I see?

01:47:21.479 –> 01:47:25.880
Or what are the items that I can see and what to get?

01:47:26.119 –> 01:47:27.479
I’ll base on that.

01:47:28.760 –> 01:47:30.920
Just a vague description.

01:47:31.560 –> 01:47:33.479
You find a cloak of protection.

01:47:34.520 –> 01:47:35.000
Yoink.

01:47:35.399 –> 01:47:35.800
Yep.

01:47:36.039 –> 01:47:39.560
As you grab the third item, the room fills with magic.

01:47:39.880 –> 01:47:40.840
Oh, quick, oh, quick.

01:47:41.319 –> 01:47:41.560
No.

01:47:41.880 –> 01:47:43.640
Did I mention I was going upstairs?

01:47:43.960 –> 01:47:44.359
Yes.

01:47:45.000 –> 01:47:47.479
You have gone upstairs, Scorn.

01:47:47.720 –> 01:47:55.720
And you begin to see the way to the stairs being sealed off with a magical force.

01:47:56.039 –> 01:47:58.600
You might make it if you can run fast enough.

01:47:58.920 –> 01:48:00.119
Um, yeah, but I think.

01:48:00.600 –> 01:48:01.239
Dexterity check.

01:48:01.560 –> 01:48:02.119
I’d be thinking.

01:48:04.199 –> 01:48:04.840
Ash.

01:48:05.159 –> 01:48:05.640
Ash.

01:48:05.720 –> 01:48:06.439
Oh, okay.

01:48:07.960 –> 01:48:08.680
Say that one more time.

01:48:09.000 –> 01:48:11.960
Scorn is already on the stairs, working his way up.

01:48:12.520 –> 01:48:16.359
Ash, you are seeing your way out being closed off with magic.

01:48:17.239 –> 01:48:18.199
I run.

01:48:18.439 –> 01:48:19.880
I run as fast as I can.

01:48:20.119 –> 01:48:21.640
Make a dexterity check.

01:48:21.960 –> 01:48:22.840
Dexterity.

01:48:25.399 –> 01:48:26.039
It’s not good.

01:48:26.359 –> 01:48:27.880
You make it almost there.

01:48:28.199 –> 01:48:33.800
You manage to hit it with your hand the moment it seals shut, and you are locked in the tower.

01:48:34.760 –> 01:48:35.720
Is it a door?

01:48:36.039 –> 01:48:38.680
Oh, it is just a magical wall of force.

01:48:39.000 –> 01:48:41.079
It glows with a purple energy.

01:48:41.399 –> 01:48:43.720
It shocks your fingers when you touch it.

01:48:45.000 –> 01:48:49.000
So, I might have to use dispel magic again.

01:48:49.319 –> 01:48:50.359
Sorry, I got greedy.

01:48:50.600 –> 01:48:51.159
It’s okay.

01:48:53.239 –> 01:48:55.720
Am I going to have to make a check for this?

01:48:56.279 –> 01:48:59.800
So I think that might be a really high-level spell.

01:49:00.439 –> 01:49:02.039
I have magic missiles.

01:49:03.000 –> 01:49:03.800
Would that work?

01:49:04.119 –> 01:49:04.520
Maybe.

01:49:04.920 –> 01:49:07.319
Yeah, I’m going to try to dispel magic again.

01:49:07.880 –> 01:49:09.000
Let’s save yourself all salt.

01:49:09.159 –> 01:49:11.159
Let me see if my magic missile will work.

01:49:11.479 –> 01:49:11.640
Okay.

01:49:11.960 –> 01:49:13.479
Well, I already did it, but.

01:49:13.800 –> 01:49:15.000
Oh, never mind.

01:49:15.239 –> 01:49:15.560
Yeah.

01:49:18.119 –> 01:49:18.760
Let’s see.

01:49:19.079 –> 01:49:21.079
You do have to make a check for that.

01:49:21.399 –> 01:49:21.720
Okay.

01:49:23.079 –> 01:49:26.920
And that’s an ability check using my charisma.

01:49:27.079 –> 01:49:27.960
Okay, no problem.

01:49:28.199 –> 01:49:28.840
Got this.

01:49:29.159 –> 01:49:29.800
There it is.

01:49:30.039 –> 01:49:30.279
Okay.

01:49:30.680 –> 01:49:31.319
We’re rolling.

01:49:31.560 –> 01:49:32.520
Oh, that’s crap.

01:49:32.680 –> 01:49:33.479
That’s what that is.

01:49:33.960 –> 01:49:34.840
Oh, boy.

01:49:35.159 –> 01:49:38.760
Your magic burns up against the wall as it holds fast.

01:49:39.079 –> 01:49:39.399
Okay.

01:49:40.199 –> 01:49:41.880
Yeah, go ahead and try your magic missile there.

01:49:42.199 –> 01:49:44.600
Sing magic missile at first level.

01:49:46.439 –> 01:49:47.720
It’s looking good.

01:49:48.039 –> 01:49:49.399
Well, that’s not bad.

01:49:50.119 –> 01:49:54.359
Your magic rams into the wall, dispersing against it.

01:49:56.119 –> 01:49:57.079
Do I see any.

01:49:57.720 –> 01:49:59.239
Do you see any runes in here?

01:49:59.560 –> 01:50:04.520
You see runes on the outside across from you outside the wall.

01:50:06.840 –> 01:50:08.840
I guess I can try and figure out how to turn it off.

01:50:09.159 –> 01:50:09.960
I got nothing.

01:50:10.279 –> 01:50:11.640
Alright, roll Arcana.

01:50:12.119 –> 01:50:12.439
Okay.

01:50:12.760 –> 01:50:13.239
Let’s see.

01:50:14.439 –> 01:50:15.079
Alrighty.

01:50:15.319 –> 01:50:16.600
Ah, it’s almost a 20.

01:50:16.680 –> 01:50:17.239
Jeez.

01:50:18.760 –> 01:50:20.600
This wall can be turned off.

01:50:20.680 –> 01:50:20.760
You.

01:50:22.159 –> 01:50:27.600
Just have to put the same amount of magic into it as was put into making it.

01:50:27.920 –> 01:50:30.479
It will take five levels of spell slots.

01:50:32.079 –> 01:50:32.399
Okay.

01:50:33.039 –> 01:50:34.239
Let me see what I want to do here.

01:50:35.680 –> 01:50:37.359
Does my magic missile count?

01:50:37.920 –> 01:50:38.319
There’s one.

01:50:38.640 –> 01:50:41.359
No, you have to apply the magic from the other side.

01:50:42.560 –> 01:50:42.880
Okay.

01:50:43.760 –> 01:50:45.920
So I’m going to.

01:50:46.319 –> 01:50:48.000
Let your ring cast.

01:50:48.319 –> 01:50:50.720
Yeah, I’ve got five spell levels in my ring.

01:50:51.039 –> 01:50:52.319
So I can use that.

01:50:52.640 –> 01:50:53.039
Alright.

01:50:53.199 –> 01:50:58.560
As you push the magic into it, the wall flickers and disappears.

01:51:00.079 –> 01:51:01.119
And now we’re going to go.

01:51:01.359 –> 01:51:02.560
Is Ipid here?

01:51:02.800 –> 01:51:03.119
Did he.

01:51:03.920 –> 01:51:04.479
I’m still here.

01:51:04.560 –> 01:51:05.199
I’m just doing something.

01:51:05.279 –> 01:51:06.000
I’m listening.

01:51:06.319 –> 01:51:06.640
Okay.

01:51:07.199 –> 01:51:09.439
We’re going back to the field.

01:51:10.079 –> 01:51:12.479
Aldric has shown off his magic.

01:51:12.960 –> 01:51:16.720
The burning thorns, grasping where they would be an enemy.

01:51:17.039 –> 01:51:19.199
And the wizard is very impressed.

01:51:19.840 –> 01:51:21.359
Yeah, that’s what the troll can do.

01:51:22.000 –> 01:51:25.439
Roll Arcana to see if it’s a good enough spell to get your money back.

01:51:25.760 –> 01:51:26.880
Here we go.

01:51:27.520 –> 01:51:27.760
No.

01:51:29.359 –> 01:51:30.960
Heroic inspiration?

01:51:32.239 –> 01:51:32.479
Yeah.

01:51:33.920 –> 01:51:35.439
Did you roll your portent yet?

01:51:35.680 –> 01:51:36.000
No.

01:51:36.319 –> 01:51:38.479
You can go ahead and roll those now if you want.

01:51:40.159 –> 01:51:43.680
I’ll do the heroic inspiration first, if that’s okay.

01:51:44.000 –> 01:51:44.239
Yeah.

01:51:44.720 –> 01:51:50.479
Meanwhile, me and Starling are on the sidelines, and Ipid’s like, yeah, these woods are actually really pretty.

01:51:53.199 –> 01:51:54.079
Twenty this time.

01:51:54.640 –> 01:51:58.880
Should I roll the portense publicly for a change?

01:51:59.199 –> 01:51:59.840
You can if you want.

01:52:00.479 –> 01:52:02.000
I mean, you got a 20, isn’t that?

01:52:02.399 –> 01:52:02.800
Yeah, I know.

01:52:02.880 –> 01:52:03.840
I’m just saying this for.

01:52:04.159 –> 01:52:05.279
Let’s do it publicly.

01:52:05.600 –> 01:52:06.000
Oh, okay.

01:52:06.880 –> 01:52:07.119
Got you.

01:52:07.520 –> 01:52:08.079
Just for fun.

01:52:08.399 –> 01:52:08.960
Oh, nice.

01:52:09.039 –> 01:52:09.760
That’s good ones.

01:52:10.079 –> 01:52:11.760
Yeah, yeah, pretty good ones.

01:52:12.399 –> 01:52:16.239
So 20 on the heroic inspiration.

01:52:16.560 –> 01:52:24.399
As you are watching doing this spell, you see him look over to his tower and begin muttering something under his breath.

01:52:27.840 –> 01:52:28.800
Is everything okay?

01:52:29.119 –> 01:52:29.920
He looks over at you.

01:52:30.079 –> 01:52:32.239
Oh, just a minor disturbance in my tower.

01:52:32.560 –> 01:52:33.119
It’s alright.

01:52:33.199 –> 01:52:34.960
I’ve sent the city guard that way.

01:52:35.840 –> 01:52:38.000
Oh, yeah, well, yeah.

01:52:38.159 –> 01:52:41.520
Is anyone there to guard the tower while you’re away?

01:52:41.680 –> 01:52:44.560
I mean, are you okay leaving your tower like that?

01:52:44.880 –> 01:52:45.840
Oh, it’s okay.

01:52:46.159 –> 01:52:49.199
They probably won’t make it to the lethal traps on the higher floors.

01:52:50.800 –> 01:52:52.560
Oh, that’s good that you’ve got those then.

01:52:55.840 –> 01:53:02.319
I guess you don’t employ any guards yourself or any housekeepers or something?

01:53:02.880 –> 01:53:03.439
Oh, no.

01:53:03.520 –> 01:53:05.359
I do it entirely magically.

01:53:05.680 –> 01:53:07.680
Much easier to maintain that way.

01:53:08.319 –> 01:53:10.399
Yeah, maybe you don’t have to pay people as well.

01:53:10.479 –> 01:53:11.199
That’s always good.

01:53:11.520 –> 01:53:13.119
Yeah, saves money and time.

01:53:13.439 –> 01:53:13.680
Yeah.

01:53:15.439 –> 01:53:17.279
I come from a very rich family.

01:53:17.600 –> 01:53:18.159
Very rich.

01:53:18.479 –> 01:53:18.800
Oh, yeah.

01:53:19.760 –> 01:53:23.359
Yeah, we’re always looking to save money, so I can totally understand.

01:53:23.680 –> 01:53:25.680
I’m just trying to distract him with chit-chat.

01:53:27.279 –> 01:53:39.680
Yeah, Iphid overhears all this and he looks over at Starling, I’m just like, um, you know, I’d probably like, hey, I would probably let them know that they’re probably going to have company soon.

01:53:40.000 –> 01:53:40.159
Okay.

01:53:40.399 –> 01:53:40.560
Yeah.

01:53:40.880 –> 01:53:41.039
Yeah.

01:53:41.119 –> 01:53:45.359
Aldric will shoot the side eye glance towards his companions.

01:53:45.439 –> 01:53:45.600
Yeah.

01:53:46.079 –> 01:53:46.800
As he’s jazzing.

01:53:48.399 –> 01:53:50.640
Discreetly as possible.

01:53:51.359 –> 01:53:54.960
Iphid’s like, you need to use the bathroom, well, there’s a bush over there.

01:53:57.279 –> 01:53:58.079
There’s anyone.

01:54:02.239 –> 01:54:07.840
Or just go and like squat down in the bush and start sitting there to my brain.

01:54:08.000 –> 01:54:08.560
Scorn.

01:54:11.199 –> 01:54:15.520
Iphid looks at Aldric and the wizard, like, duty calls, you know?

01:54:15.840 –> 01:54:16.960
When you gotta go, you gotta go.

01:54:17.279 –> 01:54:20.159
The wizard looks a bit disturbed by your actions.

01:54:20.800 –> 01:54:21.920
Nice day here, isn’t it?

01:54:22.239 –> 01:54:24.239
Do you go walking in the park very often?

01:54:25.279 –> 01:54:26.479
Was it look a title?

01:54:27.680 –> 01:54:29.359
Yes, quite often.

01:54:29.680 –> 01:54:31.760
This is where I normally hold my lessons.

01:54:32.079 –> 01:54:33.359
That’s absolutely wonderful.

01:54:33.760 –> 01:54:35.760
What’s the name of that flower over there?

01:54:37.279 –> 01:54:38.960
Oh, I’m not a botanist.

01:54:41.439 –> 01:54:42.960
Well, sure, okay.

01:54:43.840 –> 01:54:48.239
Well, I think it’s called, and Aldric will make up some random name and start.

01:54:48.560 –> 01:54:55.760
He’s going to start telling a random story about the flower based on what he knows about the flower in order to try and distract the wizard.

01:54:58.079 –> 01:55:02.239
Like over there in the bush, like instant transmission, like Dragon Ball Z. Scorn.

01:55:02.720 –> 01:55:04.640
Hey, the city guard’s on their way to you.

01:55:05.359 –> 01:55:07.119
What did you guys do wrong?

01:55:08.000 –> 01:55:10.560
Scorn replies, oh, lots of traps here.

01:55:10.800 –> 01:55:12.159
Guards won’t be a problem.

01:55:12.479 –> 01:55:12.800
Oh.

01:55:13.359 –> 01:55:15.359
You’ve heard that from him before.

01:55:17.039 –> 01:55:18.239
Be a problem, okay.

01:55:19.199 –> 01:55:19.359
Okay.

01:55:20.319 –> 01:55:21.840
I’m still disguised as a wizard for.

01:55:23.239 –> 01:55:25.079
As the guards are concerned, I own this place.

01:55:25.399 –> 01:55:25.880
That’s right.

01:55:26.359 –> 01:55:27.079
Very smart.

01:55:27.319 –> 01:55:28.279
Very smart.

01:55:28.840 –> 01:55:31.079
So, um, yeah, we need to keep going.

01:55:31.239 –> 01:55:35.880
Up to um, well, what’s on the next level up from where we just were?

01:55:36.199 –> 01:55:38.039
You’re approaching the top of the tower.

01:55:38.359 –> 01:55:38.760
Oh, good.

01:55:39.000 –> 01:55:41.960
There’s got two floors that left, it seems.

01:55:42.279 –> 01:55:44.199
And what is the next floor?

01:55:44.279 –> 01:55:50.439
As you work your way up, you find racks and racks of potions.

01:55:51.560 –> 01:55:54.359
Different colors, each swirling in their own magic.

01:55:54.680 –> 01:55:54.920
Huh?

01:55:55.239 –> 01:55:57.560
Do I want to risk it again, Scorn?

01:55:57.960 –> 01:56:01.079
Uh, see if any of them are healing potions.

01:56:01.399 –> 01:56:02.359
We’re gonna need them.

01:56:03.000 –> 01:56:06.119
None of the potions are labeled, but you’re free to try one.

01:56:06.439 –> 01:56:06.760
Um.

01:56:08.199 –> 01:56:11.319
I mean, I can just stick a whole bunch in the freaking bag if you want me to.

01:56:11.720 –> 01:56:12.680
You sure about that?

01:56:13.159 –> 01:56:18.840
Well, um, it’s all fun and games until somebody loses a first-person pronoun.

01:56:19.960 –> 01:56:23.159
Um, don’t blow up, okay?

01:56:23.319 –> 01:56:24.520
Just don’t explode.

01:56:25.399 –> 01:56:27.880
I’m not, I’m just gonna go with you.

01:56:28.439 –> 01:56:28.760
Okay.

01:56:30.039 –> 01:56:30.600
All right.

01:56:30.920 –> 01:56:39.000
Um, okay, we’re gonna guess we’re leaving the potions where they are, because none of them are labeled, and that’s just all kinds of trouble.

01:56:39.319 –> 01:56:41.880
And uh, yeah, make our way up the next set of stairs.

01:56:42.199 –> 01:56:46.039
As you make your way up the next set of stairs, you hear a voice calling down.

01:56:46.359 –> 01:56:47.960
It sounds familiar.

01:56:48.279 –> 01:56:48.520
Oh?

01:56:49.000 –> 01:56:52.439
Could have sworn it was Seraphim if you didn’t know better.

01:56:53.079 –> 01:56:57.560
Okay, so the creature came back while we were away.

01:56:57.880 –> 01:57:02.439
Um, I look at um Ash, it’s like, so she’s up there.

01:57:02.760 –> 01:57:03.960
Okay, let’s go.

01:57:04.840 –> 01:57:10.279
Thing is, yeah, the teacher and the student thing isn’t gonna work because he doesn’t have students here.

01:57:10.600 –> 01:57:14.119
So, I mean, I look like him, but what are we gonna tell her about you?

01:57:14.760 –> 01:57:15.800
I have no idea.

01:57:15.960 –> 01:57:17.880
We’ll figure that shit out when we get there.

01:57:18.279 –> 01:57:20.039
Or you just talk to her by yourself.

01:57:20.199 –> 01:57:21.560
I’ll just stay outside the door.

01:57:21.800 –> 01:57:23.399
Yeah, stay out of sight.

01:57:23.720 –> 01:57:26.680
Um, try a few of those potions, see how that goes.

01:57:27.560 –> 01:57:28.920
No, I’ll go up.

01:57:29.239 –> 01:57:37.000
As you go up, you see an angel standing before you, wearing the common clothes of the street here.

01:57:37.319 –> 01:57:42.359
She stands with dark black wings and bright red eyes.

01:57:43.000 –> 01:57:49.960
Her hair is almost the color of blood, and she smiles with a mouthful of sharp teeth.

01:57:52.199 –> 01:57:57.560
She looks at you, mutters something, and you feel your disguise falling apart.

01:57:57.880 –> 01:57:59.079
Oh, crap.

01:58:01.000 –> 01:58:02.359
Yeah, this is bad.

01:58:02.680 –> 01:58:12.520
Um she walks over to a chair and sits down, lounging her legs up on one side while she lays back on the other.

01:58:13.399 –> 01:58:16.039
Okay, so she’s not like immediately hostile.

01:58:16.359 –> 01:58:17.399
She looks at you.

01:58:17.720 –> 01:58:18.680
Who are you?

01:58:19.000 –> 01:58:23.560
Oh, just a traveler who’s looking for some information.

01:58:23.880 –> 01:58:25.000
Oh, amazing.

01:58:25.159 –> 01:58:27.319
I’m just a traveler looking for information.

01:58:27.640 –> 01:58:29.000
Funny how these things align.

01:58:29.319 –> 01:58:30.119
Perhaps we can help you.

01:58:31.079 –> 01:58:32.359
You’re somewhere you should be.

01:58:33.239 –> 01:58:33.560
And you?

01:58:33.800 –> 01:58:34.680
But I do that too.

01:58:35.479 –> 01:58:37.159
See, you’re here.

01:58:38.039 –> 01:58:41.000
So, I guess the question would be: why?

01:58:41.640 –> 01:58:42.199
Why?

01:58:42.760 –> 01:58:43.159
Why?

01:58:43.319 –> 01:58:43.960
Why?

01:58:44.279 –> 01:58:54.119
Well, if you found a rich old man who was just so easy to manipulate, I think you would do what you could to milk that.

01:58:54.439 –> 01:58:55.800
Oh, and that’s all, is it?

01:58:57.079 –> 01:58:59.399
Well, what do you mean that’s all?

01:58:59.479 –> 01:59:00.439
That’s a lot.

01:59:01.000 –> 01:59:03.720
You’re just, um, you’re just using him.

01:59:03.880 –> 01:59:04.760
A place to stay.

01:59:05.079 –> 01:59:06.119
Someone to look after you.

01:59:06.439 –> 01:59:07.800
I’m going to say look after me.

01:59:07.880 –> 01:59:09.239
He’s more of a snack than that.

01:59:09.399 –> 01:59:11.399
She smiles with her sharp teeth.

01:59:11.720 –> 01:59:13.560
Ah, yes, of course.

01:59:14.119 –> 01:59:16.199
Magical blood tastes the best.

01:59:16.520 –> 01:59:17.800
I can see why.

01:59:18.760 –> 01:59:22.039
So, I’m uh I’m going to take my leave.

01:59:22.359 –> 01:59:23.159
Are you sure?

01:59:23.479 –> 01:59:24.039
Yes.

01:59:24.359 –> 01:59:25.079
You should know.

01:59:25.399 –> 01:59:28.039
Most of the wizard’s traps go off on the way down.

01:59:28.359 –> 01:59:32.199
Oh, well, I’ll have to be on the lookout for them then.

01:59:32.520 –> 01:59:33.640
The guard is coming.

01:59:33.880 –> 01:59:34.359
Mm-hmm.

01:59:34.600 –> 01:59:38.039
Not really a problem, unless you want to make it one.

01:59:38.359 –> 01:59:39.800
Well, why isn’t it a problem?

01:59:40.039 –> 01:59:42.279
They’re going to show up here and throw you in jail.

01:59:42.520 –> 01:59:43.239
Or worse.

01:59:43.560 –> 01:59:43.720
Oh.

01:59:43.960 –> 01:59:45.720
They might make you do community service.

01:59:46.039 –> 01:59:47.319
No, I don’t think they will.

01:59:47.560 –> 01:59:49.560
I’m going to step towards the stairs.

01:59:49.720 –> 01:59:51.159
Is she doing anything to stop me?

01:59:51.479 –> 01:59:52.520
No, she’s not.

01:59:53.159 –> 01:59:53.479
Okay.

01:59:53.800 –> 01:59:54.680
Okay, did we see…

01:59:54.920 –> 01:59:58.279
Were there any windows on any of the lower floors?

01:59:58.600 –> 01:59:59.239
There were not.

01:59:59.479 –> 01:59:59.960
Mm-hmm.

02:00:00.119 –> 02:00:00.279
Okay.

02:00:00.600 –> 02:00:04.199
The only window in this whole tower that you’ve seen is the one on this floor.

02:00:04.520 –> 02:00:04.760
Okay.

02:00:05.239 –> 02:00:06.199
How high up are we?

02:00:06.520 –> 02:00:07.479
About fifty feet.

02:00:07.720 –> 02:00:08.439
Not a problem.

02:00:08.680 –> 02:00:09.000
Scorn.

02:00:09.159 –> 02:00:11.560
Yeah, Scorn goes over to the stairs and says, Hey, Ash.

02:00:11.960 –> 02:00:12.359
He is?

02:00:12.760 –> 02:00:14.039
Can you come up here for a moment?

02:00:14.359 –> 02:00:14.840
Sure.

02:00:15.479 –> 02:00:16.760
Start walking upstairs.

02:00:16.920 –> 02:00:17.159
Yes.

02:00:17.479 –> 02:00:18.039
Ash.

02:00:18.359 –> 02:00:22.680
As you make it to the top of the stairs, you make eye contact with one of the most.

02:00:24.159 –> 02:00:26.319
Terrifying women you have ever met.

02:00:26.960 –> 02:00:33.359
Her hair looks like the blood of her victims, and her eyes burn like the fires of hell.

02:00:33.600 –> 02:00:38.319
As she stares you down, you feel yourself shaking in your boots.

02:00:39.359 –> 02:00:40.960
Make a wisdom-saving throw.

02:00:41.279 –> 02:00:45.279
I am intrigued and scared at the same god’s damn time.

02:00:45.840 –> 02:00:47.439
Yeah, that makes two of us.

02:00:47.760 –> 02:00:49.039
Wisdom saving throw?

02:00:49.359 –> 02:00:49.840
Yes.

02:00:50.479 –> 02:00:51.359
Where’s my savings?

02:00:52.319 –> 02:00:53.520
Oh, this ain’t gonna be good.

02:00:53.840 –> 02:00:55.520
Hey, there is hope.

02:00:55.840 –> 02:01:00.000
You feel it pass over you in waves, barely able to withstand it.

02:01:00.319 –> 02:01:02.640
As I said, I’m intrigued and scared.

02:01:02.960 –> 02:01:03.279
Okay.

02:01:04.000 –> 02:01:07.520
Scorn’s going over to the window, and he’s motioning Ash to join him there.

02:01:07.840 –> 02:01:09.359
Cautiously go over.

02:01:10.000 –> 02:01:13.039
Look back at the angel of death.

02:01:14.319 –> 02:01:16.560
I’m sorry, I don’t think I got your name.

02:01:16.800 –> 02:01:17.840
Oh, I don’t have a name.

02:01:18.159 –> 02:01:20.239
Oh, well, they don’t cost anything, you know.

02:01:20.319 –> 02:01:21.359
You should get yourself one.

02:01:21.680 –> 02:01:24.960
And I put my hand on Ash’s shoulder and cast Thunderstep.

02:01:25.199 –> 02:01:26.399
I shall call you Misty!

02:01:28.960 –> 02:01:30.800
Yeah, we’re leaving by the window.

02:01:32.000 –> 02:01:32.960
Where are you going?

02:01:33.279 –> 02:01:34.720
Well, down to ground level.

02:01:35.039 –> 02:01:38.640
As you cast Thunderstep, you make it to the ground.

02:01:39.279 –> 02:01:47.920
You immediately feel overshadowed as massive wings stretch out, blocking out the sun above you as she dives.

02:01:50.560 –> 02:01:51.439
Oh, dear.

02:01:51.840 –> 02:01:53.279
Is she attacking us?

02:01:53.600 –> 02:01:53.840
No.

02:01:54.159 –> 02:01:54.479
Okay.

02:01:54.800 –> 02:01:56.479
But she does pick you both up.

02:01:58.319 –> 02:02:00.800
Yeah, I’m not okay with that.

02:02:01.119 –> 02:02:01.359
No.

02:02:02.000 –> 02:02:03.199
What do you do?

02:02:05.520 –> 02:02:06.079
Misty?

02:02:06.319 –> 02:02:07.279
Misty just down.

02:02:09.119 –> 02:02:10.960
I can cast Thunderstep again.

02:02:13.439 –> 02:02:20.720
Just reach out and touch Ash and look for someplace on the ground that she won’t be able to get to easily.

02:02:20.960 –> 02:02:22.560
You know, a narrow alley or something.

02:02:22.880 –> 02:02:27.520
Make a dexterity check to see if you can grab Ash while she’s pulling you through the air.

02:02:27.840 –> 02:02:28.000
Okay.

02:02:29.119 –> 02:02:30.800
I’m going to try to go towards the two.

02:02:31.439 –> 02:02:32.720
So, an ability check.

02:02:32.960 –> 02:02:33.600
Is it good?

02:02:33.840 –> 02:02:34.640
It’s not good.

02:02:34.960 –> 02:02:36.880
So you thunderstep away, Ash.

02:02:37.039 –> 02:02:40.960
You feel the roar of thunder shaking as your ears are ringing.

02:02:41.279 –> 02:02:44.479
I was going to say, if I can’t get a hold of him, I probably shouldn’t cast it.

02:02:45.760 –> 02:02:47.279
But if it’s too late for that, okay.

02:02:47.680 –> 02:02:48.399
It’s going.

02:02:48.720 –> 02:02:51.359
You’ve made it down into the alleyway.

02:02:52.560 –> 02:02:58.079
And you see her continue flying south to the smokestacks.

02:02:59.199 –> 02:02:59.520
Okay.

02:03:02.479 –> 02:03:03.600
Thunderstep.

02:03:03.920 –> 02:03:04.960
Oh, that’s not right.

02:03:05.920 –> 02:03:08.000
Something weird’s going on with my character sheet.

02:03:08.880 –> 02:03:09.680
Thunderstep.

02:03:09.760 –> 02:03:10.239
That’s better.

02:03:10.479 –> 02:03:11.199
Yeah, there we go.

02:03:11.520 –> 02:03:11.920
Huh.

02:03:12.159 –> 02:03:13.359
Still have one of those left.

02:03:13.520 –> 02:03:14.720
Yeah, that’s more like it.

02:03:14.880 –> 02:03:15.840
Okay, Thunderstep.

02:03:16.000 –> 02:03:16.640
There it is.

02:03:17.600 –> 02:03:18.239
Damage.

02:03:18.560 –> 02:03:21.680
I hate to do that, but that’s what the spell does.

02:03:21.840 –> 02:03:23.199
16 points of thunder damage.

02:03:23.520 –> 02:03:24.319
And then you make a.

02:03:26.640 –> 02:03:29.600
Yeah, make a DC-15 Constitution saving throw.

02:03:29.920 –> 02:03:30.960
Oh, you’ve got this.

02:03:31.920 –> 02:03:33.840
Scorn, she’s just a baby.

02:03:34.159 –> 02:03:34.560
I know.

02:03:34.800 –> 02:03:36.640
The baby who was going to carry me off somewhere.

02:03:37.039 –> 02:03:37.279
Nope.

02:03:37.600 –> 02:03:38.800
Doesn’t sound so bad.

02:03:39.920 –> 02:03:40.800
Well, you’re on the ground.

02:03:40.880 –> 02:03:42.640
I’m floating through the fucking air.

02:03:43.279 –> 02:03:44.479
Yeah, I don’t like it.

02:03:45.359 –> 02:03:45.840
Ouch.

02:03:46.479 –> 02:03:46.960
What do we got?

02:03:47.199 –> 02:03:47.840
What have I got left?

02:03:48.880 –> 02:03:51.199
Most of my stuff doesn’t have much range.

02:03:51.520 –> 02:03:55.439
If she’s close enough, she’s within 120 feet.

02:03:55.600 –> 02:03:57.039
I will cast slow.

02:03:57.359 –> 02:03:57.840
The is.

02:03:59.039 –> 02:04:00.239
This is getting ugly.

02:04:01.039 –> 02:04:01.359
Yeah.

02:04:01.680 –> 02:04:02.000
Okay.

02:04:02.399 –> 02:04:03.760
And we’ll try and slow her down.

02:04:04.079 –> 02:04:08.000
You do manage to slow her as she begins moving through the air more slowly.

02:04:08.319 –> 02:04:10.399
That’s darkness around me using my sword.

02:04:11.760 –> 02:04:14.399
So see if I can follow her.

02:04:14.640 –> 02:04:16.319
Maybe she can’t see me.

02:04:17.279 –> 02:04:18.079
Alright.

02:04:18.399 –> 02:04:19.600
She is still carrying you.

02:04:19.760 –> 02:04:22.079
However, you are both wreathed in darkness.

02:04:22.399 –> 02:04:29.680
Scorn, where you once saw Ash and the angel is now a cloud of darkness.

02:04:30.000 –> 02:04:30.880
Oh dear.

02:04:31.520 –> 02:04:32.960
Isn’t it stationary, though?

02:04:33.279 –> 02:04:36.079
If you cast it on your sword, it follows your sword.

02:04:36.800 –> 02:04:37.119
Okay.

02:04:37.760 –> 02:04:40.319
So, yeah, I’m just going to have to keep following.

02:04:40.640 –> 02:04:42.560
There’s not much I can do right now.

02:04:44.159 –> 02:04:46.319
You are going to have to run to keep up.

02:04:46.640 –> 02:04:47.279
Mm-hmm.

02:04:47.520 –> 02:04:47.840
Okay.

02:04:48.159 –> 02:04:50.560
So you are running through the alleys, chasing.

02:04:51.119 –> 02:04:52.800
Do you send a message to anyone?

02:04:53.119 –> 02:04:53.439
Yeah.

02:04:54.319 –> 02:04:56.640
Send a message to Starling.

02:04:57.840 –> 02:04:59.680
The creature is flying off with Ash.

02:04:59.760 –> 02:05:00.560
I’m pursuing.

02:05:00.800 –> 02:05:02.000
Is it a woman?

02:05:02.640 –> 02:05:03.840
It is terrible.

02:05:04.720 –> 02:05:05.119
I can’t.

02:05:05.840 –> 02:05:08.800
Yeah, I’m kind of out of spell slots.

02:05:09.439 –> 02:05:14.399
Yeah, I’ve used up way too many spell slots on this caper, and it’s getting ugly.

02:05:14.800 –> 02:05:16.960
You’re showing how much way you guys were going.

02:05:17.279 –> 02:05:21.840
If it’s looking at Aldric’s spells, like, good job, Aldric, you’re doing great, man.

02:05:25.319 –> 02:05:26.920
Thank you, guard.

02:05:29.479 –> 02:05:31.319
Where is she taking him, though?

02:05:31.479 –> 02:05:32.279
That’s the question.

02:05:32.520 –> 02:05:33.000
Everything alright.

02:05:33.399 –> 02:05:34.520
Starling, you look worried.

02:05:34.760 –> 02:05:36.279
Ah, just a stomachache, Bob.

02:05:37.000 –> 02:05:37.239
Right.

02:05:37.720 –> 02:05:39.239
I’m coming down with something.

02:05:39.560 –> 02:05:40.279
Oh, you had to.

02:05:40.439 –> 02:05:41.720
Oh, you didn’t just have to pee.

02:05:42.039 –> 02:05:42.199
Oh.

02:05:42.840 –> 02:05:42.920
Yeah.

02:05:48.600 –> 02:05:53.000
Young Master Aldric, I think we need to go.

02:05:53.319 –> 02:05:53.880
Oh, really?

02:05:54.039 –> 02:05:55.720
Is it that thing that we discussed?

02:05:56.359 –> 02:05:56.680
Okay.

02:05:58.840 –> 02:06:04.199
I think we’re going to have to maybe come back to this later.

02:06:04.680 –> 02:06:05.560
Would that be okay?

02:06:05.880 –> 02:06:07.239
I’m sorry, Master Wizard.

02:06:07.319 –> 02:06:08.680
I am very ill.

02:06:09.239 –> 02:06:10.600
Oh, it’s alright.

02:06:10.920 –> 02:06:13.560
I know how the food here can make you.

02:06:13.880 –> 02:06:14.119
Yeah.

02:06:14.760 –> 02:06:15.399
We’re going to go.

02:06:16.600 –> 02:06:19.399
I bet you some of the street food last night.

02:06:19.720 –> 02:06:20.199
We did.

02:06:20.359 –> 02:06:21.479
I’m so sorry.

02:06:21.880 –> 02:06:23.159
I feel terrible.

02:06:23.479 –> 02:06:23.880
It’s okay.

02:06:23.960 –> 02:06:26.199
You know, I think we can do this lesson another time.

02:06:26.840 –> 02:06:28.039
We’ll finish you another time.

02:06:28.439 –> 02:06:28.840
It’s alright.

02:06:28.920 –> 02:06:30.840
The spells you want in there are simple enough.

02:06:31.000 –> 02:06:32.680
I can write you instructions.

02:06:34.119 –> 02:06:35.239
That would be fine, yeah.

02:06:35.800 –> 02:06:40.680
But, you know, I would like to come and meet you again in the future for a lovely walk around the park.

02:06:40.840 –> 02:06:45.239
I mean, I would like to discuss some of the trees and some of the flowers and stuff like that with you.

02:06:45.319 –> 02:06:46.279
I’m sure it’d be very nice.

02:06:46.600 –> 02:06:47.640
Aldric, please.

02:06:47.880 –> 02:06:50.520
I want to make sure we get you home in one piece.

02:06:50.840 –> 02:06:51.479
Oh, fine.

02:06:51.560 –> 02:06:52.439
Sure, sure, sure.

02:06:53.000 –> 02:06:57.960
Yeah, I think we might need to get my guard here off to a doctor.

02:06:58.199 –> 02:06:58.520
Aldric.

02:06:59.560 –> 02:07:01.319
Starling starts throwing up a bush.

02:07:01.640 –> 02:07:01.960
Oh, my God.

02:07:04.920 –> 02:07:06.359
I think we got to go see a doctor.

02:07:06.439 –> 02:07:06.920
I’m sorry.

02:07:08.199 –> 02:07:09.880
If it’s looking at Starling, like, oh, God.

02:07:11.960 –> 02:07:14.119
Yes, Master Aldric, we gotta go.

02:07:16.119 –> 02:07:16.439
Oh!

02:07:18.359 –> 02:07:21.000
I’m gonna be holding her hair back on her hair back.

02:07:22.199 –> 02:07:23.560
You might want to stop early tonight.

02:07:23.640 –> 02:07:24.840
Would you like to do that here?

02:07:25.319 –> 02:07:26.520
It’s a good spot for me.

02:07:27.880 –> 02:07:28.680
That’d be fine.

02:07:28.920 –> 02:07:29.239
Yeah.

02:07:30.279 –> 02:07:30.520
All right.

02:07:30.600 –> 02:07:32.119
So we’ll pick us up next week.

02:07:32.359 –> 02:07:35.880
With Ash being carried away by the angel.

02:07:36.199 –> 02:07:37.560
I am so sorry.

02:07:38.199 –> 02:07:39.239
Poor Ash.

02:07:39.800 –> 02:07:44.279
I thought I was trying to give you an advantage by going towards you at the same time.

02:07:44.840 –> 02:07:47.560
Worst part is you’ve got that bag of holding with you.

02:07:47.880 –> 02:07:48.199
Yeah.

02:07:48.840 –> 02:07:49.479
Oh, well.

02:07:50.119 –> 02:07:50.600
That was fun.

02:07:50.920 –> 02:07:51.720
Thank you, guys.

02:07:52.279 –> 02:07:53.720
I will see you next week.

02:07:54.039 –> 02:07:56.119
I’ll see you next week.

02:07:56.439 –> 02:07:58.359
This was highly entertaining.

02:08:00.760 –> 02:08:00.920
Thank you.

02:08:02.199 –> 02:08:03.560
Congratulations on your marriage.

02:08:03.640 –> 02:08:04.279
That’s amazing.

02:08:05.720 –> 02:08:06.359
Congratulations.

02:08:06.840 –> 02:08:06.920
Yeah.

02:08:09.000 –> 02:08:09.239
Yeah.

02:08:09.560 –> 02:08:12.520
I’ll be back after that.

02:08:13.319 –> 02:08:15.000
I’ll be back after next Saturday.

02:08:16.520 –> 02:08:18.840
I’m sure to catch up with you guys then.

02:08:19.079 –> 02:08:19.239
Yeah.

02:08:19.399 –> 02:08:21.560
You got a honeymoon planned?

02:08:22.600 –> 02:08:30.520
Not immediately, simply because of funds, but we plan on sitting down and looking at our options as soon as this wedding’s out of the way.

02:08:30.680 –> 02:08:32.279
Because that’s the way we’re thinking about it.

02:08:36.439 –> 02:08:39.159
We can worry about what we want to do for our honeymoon.

02:08:40.119 –> 02:08:40.760
Bye, gentlemen.

02:08:40.840 –> 02:08:41.720
Y’all have a great night.

02:08:43.000 –> 02:08:43.560
Bye, everybody.

02:08:44.199 –> 02:08:44.600
Have a good night.

02:08:45.239 –> 02:08:46.520
Good morning, Aldric.

02:08:47.159 –> 02:08:47.880
Good morning.

02:08:51.159 –> 02:08:51.960
Bye-bye.

02:08:52.279 –> 02:08:52.840
Bye.

Chasing Barendur Session 17