Crooked Crossroads

Chasing Barendur

Session 18

Characters

player characters

Ash
Aldric
Ipid
Scorn
Starling

Session Summary

• Desperate Chase – Scorn pursues the vampiric celestial carrying Ash across Red Heart Green to a 120-foot foundry tower

• Foundry Infiltration Planning – Party regroups and observes the gang-controlled foundry, identifying tattooed enforcers and employee entrances

• Failed Busking Attempt – Scorn’s poor performance attracts hostile attention from gold-pierced gang boss and his magical enforcers

• Invisible Escape – Starling casts greater invisibility on Scorn to help him vanish from the confrontation

• Suggestion Magic Success – Scorn uses magic to convince the gang boss to help them find their friend, gaining legitimate entry

• Meeting Raymond – The tattooed foundry worker provides crucial advice about the celestial’s preferences for blood and alcohol

• Tower Confrontation – Party reaches the top and finds Ash unconscious with the red-eyed celestial

• Celestial Negotiation – Scorn offers fire grog, changing the celestial’s eyes from red to grey and calming her demeanor

• Tavern Discussions – At the Broken Wand, the celestial reveals she has no name and asks the party to choose one

• Escape Planning – Sorcha arranges elaborate decoy plan using magical doubles to distract city guards

• Crafting Magical Rings – Starling and Aldric visit Morrigan, who creates teleportation rings from enchanted quartz spheres

• Learning Mine Secrets – Morrigan reveals cultists are feeding miners to an eldritch beast in ancient temple ruins

• City Escape – Decoy plan succeeds as fake Scorns and Ashes scatter while the real party slips away unnoticed

• Mountain Journey – Three-hour travel through scenic mountain terrain to reach the mining operation

• Meeting Mine Guard – Jedrick explains the unusual nature of the disappearances where no bodies are ever found

• Underground Descent – Party ventures deep into wet, dark mine tunnels using Starling’s darkvision spell

• Cultist Battle – Intense combat in ancient ruins with the celestial summoning a radiant greatsword and devastating enemies

• The Water’s Lure – Starling hears Aerith’s voice calling from the underground lake, only she can perceive it

• Drowning and Death – Starling is dragged underwater by Old Vicolas Lethbiel, a massive tentacled avatar of an ancient god

• Divine Resurrection – The celestial fights the beast underwater, kills it, and brings Starling back from death with divine magic

• Mission Complete – Party emerges victorious with the creature’s severed head, having ended the miners’ disappearances

The Celestial’s Hunt: A Tale of Blood, Steel, and Ancient Horrors

Chapter I: The Chase Through Red Heart Green

The dark blot against the smoke-filled sky moved with predatory grace, wings beating in terrible rhythm as it carried its prize southward. Scorn’s lungs burned like bellows as he sprinted through Red Heart Green, weaving between startled families who scattered their picnic baskets in his wake. Above him, the vampiric celestial clutched Ash in her talons like a hawk with a rabbit, her red eyes gleaming with unholy hunger.

Despite the slow spell he’d managed to cast in their previous encounter, Scorn could barely keep pace with the creature’s flight. His boots pounded against grass still wet with morning dew as the acrid stench of iron and sulfur grew stronger with each desperate stride. The foundry district loomed ahead like a vision from the industrial hells, its towering smokestacks belching dark clouds that blotted out the sun.

The celestial disappeared into a structure that scraped the heavens itself—a 120-foot tower of steel and stone that rose beside the foundry like a finger pointing toward damnation. Scorn reached the base and pounded his fists against the massive gates until his knuckles bled, but the thunderous roar of molten metal and grinding machinery swallowed his desperate shouts whole.

Gasping for breath, he retreated to a trash-filled alley that reeked of industrial waste and broken dreams. From this vantage point, he could watch the tower while planning his next move. Above him, somewhere in that steel monument to progress, his friend lay at the mercy of a creature that existed between the realms of divine and damned.

Chapter II: The Gang’s Domain

Starling’s sending spell crackled through the air like lightning given voice, and soon the remaining companions converged on Scorn’s hiding place with the urgency of wolves closing on wounded prey. Aldric’s face went pale as parchment when Raymond emerged from the foundry—a figure from his past wreathed in tattoos and steel piercings, moving with the casual confidence of one who owned the very ground he walked upon.

The party pressed themselves against Ipid’s bulk like children hiding behind their father’s legs, watching as Raymond disappeared back into the industrial maze. Only then did they dare reunite with Scorn in his makeshift sanctuary among the refuse and shadows.

“The creature from the temple,” Scorn explained, his voice hoarse from running and shouting. “She was waiting in the wizard’s tower, tried to grab us both. Now she has Ash and our entire haul of magical treasures.”

The foundry before them was no mere factory but a fortress of steel and flame. Gang members bearing burn-scarred emblems and ink that told stories of violence moved through employee entrances with the practiced ease of those who ruled through fear. Their tattoos weren’t mere decoration but declarations of allegiance to something darker than honest labor.

When Scorn attempted to gain entry through busking, his performance was so painfully poor it attracted exactly the wrong kind of attention. A well-dressed man with gold piercings that caught the hellish light from the foundry’s fires sent two enforcers to deal with the disturbance. These weren’t ordinary thugs but living weapons—hairless giants whose skin bore glowing runic tattoos and whose iron shackles marked them as slaves to something beyond mortal comprehension.

Chapter III: Invisible Deceptions

Starling saved them all with quick thinking and quicker magic. As she pretended to stumble, her spell wrapped around Scorn like a cloak woven from shadow and starlight, rendering him invisible to mortal eyes. The enforcers stopped mid-stride, their tattoos flaring with confused light as their target simply vanished.

“Where did he go?” one rumbled, his voice like grinding stone.

“Magic,” the other spat, his shackles glowing brighter. “Always more damned magic.”

While Aldric and Starling played concerned citizens leading the enforcers away, Scorn slipped through their grasp like smoke through fingers. But rather than flee, he did what any sensible person would consider madness—he approached the gold-pierced boss directly, trusting in magic and desperate audacity.

The suggestion spell wrapped around the gang leader’s mind like silk around steel, gentle but unbreakable. “Help us find our friend,” Scorn whispered from the realm of invisibility, and suddenly the boss was nodding, his eyes glazed with magical compulsion.

“Of course,” the man said smoothly. “Follow me.”

Chapter IV: Into the Heart of Industry

The foundry’s interior was a vision of controlled chaos that would have impressed the devils themselves. Massive cauldrons bubbled with molten metal while workers moved through clouds of sulfurous steam like damned souls tending the forges of the afterlife. The smell of iron and flame filled their nostrils as their guide led them deeper into this mechanical underworld.

Raymond appeared as if summoned by their need, his face bearing the worn confidence of one who’d learned to navigate dangerous waters. His tank top revealed arms covered in tattoos that spoke of allegiances and betrayals, while steel-toed boots marked him as someone who belonged in this realm of fire and metal.

“I work in mold-making,” he explained as he guided them toward the tower. “Been watching your situation develop. Interesting friends you’ve made.”

As they climbed the seemingly endless stairs, Raymond revealed information that chilled them more than the wind whistling through the tower’s joints. The missing miners, the Thistleveil cult, the ancient temples where things that should stay buried had begun to stir. But most important was his advice about the creature waiting above.

“She likes blood and booze,” he said with the casual tone of one discussing the weather. “Keep that in mind.”

Chapter V: The Summit Confrontation

At the tower’s peak, where tools for smokestack repair lay scattered like the bones of metal giants, they found Ash unconscious on the floor. The vampiric celestial perched nearby like a beautiful gargoyle, her red eyes burning with inner fire and black wings spread wide enough to blot out hope itself.

Scorn’s hand trembled only slightly as he offered his flask of fire grog—liquid courage distilled from grain and desperation. The celestial’s expression changed the moment the alcohol touched her lips, red eyes shifting to calmer grey like storm clouds parting to reveal peaceful skies.

“Much better,” she purred, her voice carrying the musical quality of wind chimes made from angel bones. “The wizard was profitable but terribly dull. No conversation, no quality refreshments.”

Without warning, she scooped up Ash and stepped to the window’s edge. For a heart-stopping moment, it seemed she might simply drop him to the street below. Instead, she smiled with fangs that gleamed like polished ivory.

“I’ll meet you at ground level,” she announced, and leaped from the window with Ash cradled in her arms.

Chapter VI: Revelations at Street Level

The celestial’s true nature became apparent as they found her sitting casually with a dazed but unharmed Ash among the bustling street vendors. When observed indirectly, she appeared as nothing more than an attractive young woman—no wings, no fangs, no aura of supernatural menace. Street merchants smiled and offered her free trinkets, their minds unable to process the predator hiding in plain sight.

“I don’t have a name,” she admitted when asked, tilting her head with curious innocence. “Perhaps you could choose something appropriate?”

At the Broken Wand tavern, their sanctuary reeked of old beer and older secrets. The very air seemed to make visitors tipsy, as if the walls themselves had absorbed decades of alcoholic vapors. The celestial immediately claimed a spot at the bar and began working her way through their strongest spirits with the methodical approach of a scholar studying ancient texts.

Ipid settled into a corner booth, flames flickering in his eyes as he watched their new companion with the wariness of one fire-touched recognizing another creature of elemental power.

Chapter VII: The Price of Theft

Sorcha’s fury hit Scorn like a physical blow when he met with her backstage. The tavern manager’s brilliant mind had already calculated the cost of their wizard tower heist, and the mathematics were grim indeed.

“He’s got the entire guard searching for you,” she hissed, her words sharp as broken glass. “Accurate descriptions, magical tracking, the works. You’ve brought the kind of heat that burns down establishments like mine.”

But Sorcha was nothing if not resourceful. As they spoke, she was already orchestrating an escape plan that would have impressed the finest military strategists. Six perfect doubles of Scorn sat at a corner table, while six Ash duplicates lined the bar, each one crafted with such attention to detail that even close friends might be fooled.

The plan was elegant in its audacity—when morning came, the decoys would scatter through the city like startled birds, leading the guards on a dozen false chases while the real party slipped away unnoticed.

Chapter VIII: The Wolf’s Workshop

While Scorn and Ash remained hidden, Starling and Aldric ventured forth to find Morrigan. Raymond’s directions led them toward sounds that would haunt lesser souls—mechanical screaming that spoke of metal being tortured into impossible shapes.

The craftsman they found defied every expectation. Eighteen feet of muscle and fur, with eyes like pools of starless night and claws that could rend stone, Morrigan worked at his anvil with the focused intensity of creation itself. He examined their enchanted quartz spheres with the careful attention of an artist evaluating precious gems.

“Teleportation rings,” he rumbled, his voice carrying the weight of centuries. “Simple enough. I owe favors to the lich anyway.”

As he worked, hammer ringing against magical metal, Morrigan shared disturbing news about the mine situation. The missing workers weren’t random victims but calculated sacrifices to something that dwelt in darkness deeper than any earthly cavern.

“The Thistleveil cult claims to prevent disaster,” he warned, testing the rings’ magical resonance. “But they seek power for themselves. Whatever you find down there, go in ready for blood.”

Chapter IX: Escape from the City

The deception unfolded like a masterwork symphony. As dawn painted the sky in shades of rose and gold, Aldric’s disguise magic transformed him into the most forgettable man who ever lived, while Ash donned white robes that suggested pilgrimage rather than piracy.

The moment they stepped from the Broken Wand, chaos erupted in twelve directions at once. Scorn’s doubles sprinted through marketplace and alley, tavern and temple, each one drawing guards like honey draws flies. The real party walked calmly through the confusion, invisible in plain sight as the city’s finest chased shadows and illusions.

Three hours of mountain travel brought them to air so clean it seemed alien after the foundry’s choking atmosphere. Snow-capped peaks thrust toward heaven while autumn colors painted the lower slopes in nature’s own masterpiece. For a brief moment, they could almost forget the darkness they carried with them and the greater darkness they rode toward.

Chapter X: The Mine’s Mouth

Jedrick had been standing guard for eight hours, his face bearing the thousand-yard stare of a soldier who’d seen too much magic used for purposes too dark to name. When Aldric’s aggressive questioning confirmed the man’s innocence, Jedrick’s relief was palpable.

“When miners die normally, we find bodies,” he explained, his voice hollow with remembered horror. “Cave-ins, gas explosions, equipment failures—there’s always something left to bury. But these men… it’s like they never existed at all.”

The descent into the earth felt like traveling backward through time itself. Wet stone walls closed around them as Starling’s spell granted them vision in the absolute darkness. Turn after turn led them deeper, until even Jedrick’s sense of direction failed and they moved by instinct alone.

The ancient ruins that awaited them at the tunnel’s end spoke of civilizations that had learned too much about things that should remain unknown. Metal twisted by time and malice created chambers where the very air seemed to whisper secrets better left unheard.

Chapter XI: Battle in the Depths

The cultists emerged from shadows like living nightmares, their flails crackling with thunder that split stone and shattered courage. But they had not counted on the celestial’s true power being unleashed in service of her new companions.

Light blazed from her summoned greatsword as she carved through enemies with the terrible joy of a predator finally allowed to hunt. Radiance painted the ancient walls as she split cultists like overripe fruit, her laughter echoing through the chambers like silver bells announcing doom.

Starling took a brutal hit that would have felled a lesser soul, the cultist’s flail crushing ribs and driving breath from her lungs. But Aldric’s chromatic orb answered with fire that turned their attacker into a pillar of flame, while Scorn’s weapon sang with celestial power.

The battle was savage but brief—when gods fight mortals, the outcome is never truly in doubt.

Chapter XII: The Voice from the Deep

In the aftermath of victory, as floating coffins bobbed in the disturbed lake like grim lilies, Starling heard her name called from beneath the dark waters. Only she could perceive the voice that claimed to be Aerith, someone from her past who had abandoned their shared faith for reasons too painful to remember.

“It’s really her,” Starling whispered, reaching for the celestial’s hand. “I can feel it.”

Scorn’s attempt to dispel the illusion failed like rain against stone. Whatever force drew Starling toward the water was beyond his power to break. Hand in hand with the celestial, Starling stepped into the lake that reflected no light and held no warmth.

Something with the strength of ancient malice wrapped around her leg and dragged her into depths that had never known the sun. In the radiant glow of the celestial’s blade, Starling glimpsed her doom—Old Vicolas Lethbiel, avatar of a god whose name should never be spoken, all tentacles and hunger and hate older than human memory.

The water filled her lungs as darkness filled her vision. Death came not as release but as weight—the weight of all the sacrifices this creature had consumed, all the miners who had vanished into its eternal hunger.

Chapter XIII: Resurrection and Revelation

But death was not the end. The celestial fought the ancient horror with divine fury, her blade carving through flesh that had terrorized the depths for millennia. Light poured through Starling’s drowned body as the creature’s influence was severed, black tar seeping from her lungs as broken bones straightened and her collapsed chest drew breath once more.

The celestial emerged from the now-calm waters carrying two prizes—Starling, gasping and alive, and the severed head of Old Vicolas Lethbiel, grotesque and dripping with the ichor of ages.

“The creature is dead,” she announced with satisfaction, her fangs glinting as she smiled. “No more miners will vanish. Though Starling can repay me with a snack sometimes.”

The floating coffins settled as the lake’s supernatural agitation ended. The cultists’ sacrificial chamber stood revealed for what it truly was—a feeding ground for something that should never have been allowed to live. The Thistleveil cult had indeed sought to prevent disaster, but only by feeding it regularly rather than facing the greater challenge of destroying it entirely.

As they prepared to leave the ruins behind, the party realized they had accomplished something beyond mere gold and glory. They had ended a horror that had devoured innocents for unknown years, and gained an ally whose power defied mortal understanding.

The celestial walked among them now not as captor or enemy, but as something stranger and more wonderful—a creature of divine violence who had chosen to protect rather than prey, to heal rather than hunt.

At least for now.

Behind them, the mine stretched empty and silent, its depths finally free of the ancient hunger that had claimed so many lives. Ahead lay the surface world, where Raymond waited with their reward and new adventures beckoned from beyond the horizon.

The vampiric celestial hummed a tune that sounded like starlight given voice, her unnamed presence a reminder that in a world full of darkness, sometimes salvation came wearing fangs and wings, carrying a sword made of pure radiance.

To be continued…

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

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Transcript

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So, to get started with this, we’re going to do a little recap of what happened last time.

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It was a little hectic.

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So, you left the cave and you went to the Broken Wand, a tavern where everyone had a good time, and you found out about a wizard that you needed to steal some stuff from.

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From there, you went over to a safe house from Scorn’s associates, and then you went to the wizard’s tower while the others distracted the wizard.

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This went fairly well.

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Is that fairly well?

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Is that what fairly well looks like?

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No, I’m frightened.

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What’s a disaster look like?

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Okay, sorry to interrupt.

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And as the situation in the tower was resolving, Ash and Scorn met the thing that had come shooting out of the crypt all those months ago.

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And currently, it is carrying Ash into the south where the sky is full of smoke and it smells like iron.

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And where we’re at now, Scorn is running, chasing after a dark blot in the sky.

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Yeah, I um I seem to recall the last thing I did last session was managed to hit it with a slow spell.

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Yes.

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But that only gives me a little more time.

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So, uh.

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Oh my god, what am I going to do?

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Um, let’s see here.

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Yeah, okay.

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How high up is this thing?

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How high is it flying?

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About 70 feet.

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Okay.

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Hmm.

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Out of third and fourth level slots.

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I’ve been burning way too many spells.

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Okay.

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Well, no, that won’t work either.

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Nothing’s working.

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I got nothing here.

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I’m going to try and follow it and keep up with it.

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As you’re running, you do manage to barely keep up with it.

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And you’re running and running across the Red Heart Green, a big open area full of grass and trees.

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And you see lots of people picnicking as you are running full tilt through this after a shadow in the sky.

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Try not to step on anyone’s lunch.

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A little ways past there, after running through the picnickers, you see it enter a tower with ash.

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Oh, that can’t be good.

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The base of it goes to a foundry, and you see smoke coming out of a nearby stack, where it has stained the sides of the tower, and you see a high metal fence around it.

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Oh dear.

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This is not good.

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Right.

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Is there a gate to that fence?

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There is a quite large gate.

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You can see where it swings open to allow carts in and out that roll on thick metal rails.

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Okay.

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Gate is currently closed.

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That’s okay.

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Scorn goes up and pounds on the gate.

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As you pound on the gate, you feel your fist thump on it again and again and again, but you don’t out.

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You do not even compete with the roar coming from within the foundry.

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Ouch.

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Okay.

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Well, I can’t even do ascending a lot of spots.

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Alright.

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Gonna have to try something else.

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Can we do any in the meantime things while Scorn is thinking?

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I think they should, because Scorn’s gonna have to fall back and just keep an eye on that tower in case that creature leaves.

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So I’m at this point, all I’m gonna do is watch and wait.

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Scorn is staking out the tower, and what do you do?

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Find a place where I can observe it without being observed myself.

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I’m just gonna kind of try and fade into these shadows.

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Alright, you’re skulking around in a nearby alley.

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Angle deep and trash.

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You’re hiding.

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Okay.

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Should I make a stealth check?

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Yes.

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Probably regret it, but I’ll do it.

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Well, that could be worse.

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You are hiding very well in this alleyway.

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You see people walking by not noticing you, and you have a clear view of the tower.

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Very good.

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Okay.

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I’ll just stand by there.

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Does Starling have any more sending spells?

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Starling does.

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And because we know everything’s just kind of hit the fan.

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Yep.

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Well, let’s see.

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I can only respond with 25 words.

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So let me see what I can do here.

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Get a notepad.

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That white mouth on the map is where Scorn is located.

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Yeah.

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Tower next to Forge, two blocks south of Red Heart Green.

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Ash is Ash inside with Breacher.

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I’m watching.

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I’m observing.

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Yeah, I’m observing.

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I’m not going to use another spell this long, sorry.

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He had he had to neat backup.

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But you knew that.

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Yeah.

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Um, would would um Ipkid be able to carry both of us if he was flying.

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My idea is to have Aldric cast fly on on Ipkid.

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But I don’t know if he’d like carry us as well.

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I mean, he’s strong enough, but pretty heavy, probably.

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Two people.

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I don’t think it’s all at once.

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I don’t think you have any restrictions when you like.

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I mean, it’s just your carry weight, because your flying is just movement.

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I don’t think there’s anything.

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If he is carrying you, he will be burdened and he will be flying at half speed.

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Oh, right.

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Maybe that wouldn’t help.

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I just thought this fly gives you like sixty flies faster than normal running, isn’t it?

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Is that right?

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Yes.

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But I don’t know.

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Leaving someone.

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Like, I can go and fly or cast fly on someone, but we’ll just be leaving the other two behind.

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Because me, Starling, and Ipkid are together, right?

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Yeah.

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Also make a really big spectacle if people want to go.

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Oh, true.

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It’s the middle of the day.

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True.

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Well.

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I mean, when you have Scorn’s location, you could probably just walk here.

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Just dash.

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Yeah, but I think I think we need to run.

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Do you run?

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I should run.

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I’m very ill.

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I need to get to the doctor.

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Yeah.

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I assume that guy’s being left behind now.

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Yes.

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I’m sure.

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I hope you bought it.

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I’m screaming over the sound of everybody having their nice outing.

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Come with me, Master Aldric.

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I’m very ill.

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Yeah, so Aldric was making his excuses to leave last time today.

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Yeah, so I think try and start running towards the south.

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There’s like a big road there.

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We’ll make our way over there.

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As the three of you are running down the road, you’re passing stalls and vendors.

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The road is thick and busy.

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Try as you might run, you can only manage a bit of a normal walking pace, making your way through the crowds.

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Okay, how long is it there?

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You’ll make it there in around 30 minutes.

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It’s about a mile and a half.

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And you’re continuing.

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You’re crossing Red Heart Green full of picnickers, and you see the large smoke stack that Scorn told you to look for just two blocks south of there.

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Maybe Scorn could have been taking a short rest during that time, I wonder.

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As you approach.

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Aldric, you see a familiar man.

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He has lots of tattoos all over his forearms and up across his exposed shoulders from his tank top.

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You see some of his most distinctive piercings are the large spikes across his brows and the many, many metal bits that adorn his ears.

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Oh.

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You see him walking out of the foundry.

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Of that tower.

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Where that tower was.

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Oh.

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I know that guy.

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Is that a good you know that guy or a bad you know that guy?

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Bad, I think.

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Well, it’s been a while since I’ve seen him.

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Well, maybe we should hide behind Ipkid.

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Sure.

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Yeah, Aldric will walk behind Ipkid.

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I know that guy.

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Uh, well, if it’s the guy I’m thinking.

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Roll stealth.

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Who knew?

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Can he get a banana?

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Frightening laugh.

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I don’t know.

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I might have had a portent from last time.

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Damn.

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You should have a high portent.

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I think I do, right?

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I don’t think I used either of them.

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I’ll use the high one.

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I think it was like 19.

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You see a little glimpse into the future and quickly duck behind Ipkid as you see Raymond walking past.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I thought it was him.

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Oh, geez.

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Aldric gets a nervous kind of look on his face.

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I don’t want to talk to that guy.

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That guy.

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Tattoos.

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Yeah.

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Stop.

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No, no.

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I don’t like this.

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Stay behind Ipkid.

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Yeah.

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Starling’s gonna like kind of stretch.

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Kind of make his stomach look as big as possible, like give Starling on your shoulders.

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You see Raymond walking past and the gates close behind him.

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And he goes in.

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Yes.

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Ah, this is not good.

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So, does Scorn see them at any point during all this?

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From where you’re at, you manage to see the entire spectacle.

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Okay.

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And you’re still hidden and unnoticed by them as you see Aldric hiding behind Ipkid.

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Is he gone?

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He’s gone.

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I’m gonna cast Message if they’re if they’re close enough.

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I think it’s 120 feet for a message.

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Yeah, they’re close enough.

00:10:00.680 –> 00:10:00.759
Yeah.

00:10:02.320 –> 00:10:02.960
Yeah, okay.

00:10:03.279 –> 00:10:06.080
You hear you hear Scorn’s voice, Aldric.

00:10:06.399 –> 00:10:10.480
The next time someone you know goes in there, we should go with them.

00:10:10.799 –> 00:10:16.000
Oh, but he does you mean, like, willingly, like, like like we’re with him.

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But I don’t like him.

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This is not a good guy.

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I can send him away.

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Although it can send a message as well.

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Although it can send message as well.

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And I’ll say that.

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Where are you?

00:10:26.879 –> 00:10:27.759
Where are you?

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Um.

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I’m over here pretending to be a trash can.

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In the alley.

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Okay.

00:10:36.480 –> 00:10:38.000
We’ll go we’ll go meet him in the alley.

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We’ll go look down the alley.

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You see where Scorn is tucked away in a little corner, hiding behind some boards he pulled together real quickly.

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I’ll come out when they enter the alley.

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Safety and numbers.

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This is disgusting.

00:10:53.679 –> 00:10:55.440
Um what are you doing?

00:10:56.559 –> 00:11:00.559
Um hiding and watching that tower.

00:11:01.679 –> 00:11:09.519
Yeah, the um that that creature from the temple uh was in the wizard’s tower while you guys were distracting the wizard.

00:11:09.680 –> 00:11:11.600
We didn’t think of that.

00:11:11.919 –> 00:11:13.120
I’m embarrassed.

00:11:13.440 –> 00:11:18.159
Anyway, uh so we met the creature and things did not go well.

00:11:18.799 –> 00:11:21.600
Uh she tried to grab both of us, but I got away.

00:11:21.919 –> 00:11:23.440
I tried to help Ash get away.

00:11:23.600 –> 00:11:24.639
It didn’t work.

00:11:24.960 –> 00:11:27.200
And now the two of them are up there.

00:11:28.320 –> 00:11:28.960
Get Ash back.

00:11:29.039 –> 00:11:29.200
No.

00:11:29.680 –> 00:11:32.320
And does the Celestial seem like something.

00:11:32.720 –> 00:11:34.000
Are we gonna need to fight that?

00:11:34.159 –> 00:11:36.639
Or what are we we know what we need to do with that?

00:11:36.879 –> 00:11:38.559
You do not want to fight that thing.

00:11:38.879 –> 00:11:39.120
No.

00:11:39.600 –> 00:11:40.000
Uh-uh.

00:11:41.519 –> 00:11:44.559
Well, I mean, aside from the red eyes and the fangs, I guess so.

00:11:45.919 –> 00:11:47.600
I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

00:11:48.240 –> 00:11:48.639
Ghastly.

00:11:54.000 –> 00:11:55.440
So how are we going to get in there?

00:11:55.759 –> 00:11:59.440
Um we’re going to convince someone to take us inside.

00:11:59.680 –> 00:12:00.960
How many people have gone in now?

00:12:01.600 –> 00:12:03.360
Uh I think just that one guy.

00:12:03.680 –> 00:12:06.799
So who who knew this wouldn’t be a popular place?

00:12:07.759 –> 00:12:09.600
How strong is that guy, Aldrich?

00:12:09.840 –> 00:12:12.319
Is he someone we could pay off or select us in?

00:12:12.639 –> 00:12:13.680
Hey, oh, maybe.

00:12:14.559 –> 00:12:16.480
I would recall his character.

00:12:16.799 –> 00:12:20.559
He is exactly the kind of sleaze ball that you can pay to get in somewhere.

00:12:20.879 –> 00:12:21.120
Yeah.

00:12:21.440 –> 00:12:24.080
Well, I mean that’s that gets expensive.

00:12:24.240 –> 00:12:25.840
I was just gonna cast a spell on him.

00:12:26.159 –> 00:12:31.600
Well either way works, but uh hopefully he’s not in there too long.

00:12:32.000 –> 00:12:34.159
Maybe we can talk to him when he gets out.

00:12:34.559 –> 00:12:35.920
Still got two hundred gold.

00:12:36.159 –> 00:12:38.399
Don’t know how much it’s gonna take to bribe someone.

00:12:39.759 –> 00:12:41.360
Depends on what’s going on in there.

00:12:43.440 –> 00:12:44.639
Okay, good idea.

00:12:44.960 –> 00:12:45.600
I love it.

00:12:45.920 –> 00:12:50.399
Can I ask the DM what was our plan for the Celestial?

00:12:50.879 –> 00:12:51.920
Like, generally?

00:12:52.879 –> 00:12:54.080
Stay away from it.

00:12:54.399 –> 00:12:54.639
Like.

00:12:56.159 –> 00:12:56.559
Mary.

00:12:58.879 –> 00:13:00.960
What do we play a merry fuck kill here?

00:13:01.279 –> 00:13:01.440
Yeah.

00:13:01.759 –> 00:13:02.159
Like we need.

00:13:04.480 –> 00:13:08.000
The plan was generally try to convince it to not be evil.

00:13:08.240 –> 00:13:08.399
Yeah.

00:13:08.639 –> 00:13:11.440
So Mary does fall under that little bit.

00:13:11.680 –> 00:13:13.440
Maybe not if you are evil.

00:13:14.080 –> 00:13:14.399
Okay.

00:13:14.879 –> 00:13:17.120
And do we know what it was doing in the town?

00:13:17.360 –> 00:13:17.519
Dr.

00:13:17.759 –> 00:13:18.080
Kelt?

00:13:18.319 –> 00:13:19.759
I can’t really quite remember.

00:13:20.080 –> 00:13:25.200
Um what the Lich had told you is that it was going on a fest drinking in town.

00:13:25.519 –> 00:13:26.639
Oh yeah, yeah.

00:13:27.200 –> 00:13:30.960
Was it causing a ruckus or problems around town?

00:13:31.279 –> 00:13:32.799
It does not seem to have been.

00:13:33.039 –> 00:13:36.879
However, you have just disturbed its drinking situation.

00:13:37.200 –> 00:13:38.000
That’s right.

00:13:38.639 –> 00:13:54.480
Yeah, so uh Scorn will explain that he he did speak with it for a bit and it claims to just be using that wizard uh because he’s uh well off and easily manipulated.

00:13:54.799 –> 00:13:58.639
And what it’s doing in this tower, I have no idea.

00:13:59.279 –> 00:14:04.720
Oh, and um Ash has a bag of holding with a whole buttload of that wizard’s magic items in it.

00:14:05.039 –> 00:14:07.039
It would it would be nice to recover those.

00:14:07.360 –> 00:14:08.080
And Ash.

00:14:08.399 –> 00:14:09.120
And Ash.

00:14:13.120 –> 00:14:18.799
And uh were the cultist people after Celestial?

00:14:19.120 –> 00:14:20.720
Is anyone came after the Celestial?

00:14:21.279 –> 00:14:23.519
I haven’t seen any cultists around here.

00:14:24.079 –> 00:14:27.360
Uh it’s not to say they aren’t here, but I haven’t seen them.

00:14:27.680 –> 00:14:29.120
You don’t know for sure.

00:14:29.440 –> 00:14:29.920
Right.

00:14:30.240 –> 00:14:44.079
But corrupting a vampiric celestial to their cause is exactly what the cult that um the cult that is operating here under the name of the Thistleveil.

00:14:44.400 –> 00:14:45.600
Oh, interesting.

00:14:46.319 –> 00:14:51.039
Yeah, just to get it in my head, why are we going after the celestial celestial?

00:14:51.759 –> 00:14:56.639
Um because if you don’t, it will eventually wreak untold chaos.

00:14:56.960 –> 00:14:59.840
And you know it will eventually become God.

00:15:00.639 –> 00:15:00.799
Okay.

00:15:01.279 –> 00:15:01.759
That’s good.

00:15:03.159 –> 00:15:12.039
So how how these next few while how the next while goes for it will greatly affect what kind of god it comes.

00:15:12.360 –> 00:15:12.600
Okay.

00:15:12.759 –> 00:15:14.360
Shall we look for another way in?

00:15:14.600 –> 00:15:18.120
The other idea I had was to send a message to that guy.

00:15:18.200 –> 00:15:18.840
I just saw him.

00:15:19.000 –> 00:15:23.080
If he’s still within a hundred and twenty feet, I can maybe talk to you.

00:15:24.200 –> 00:15:24.519
Yeah.

00:15:24.840 –> 00:15:27.559
I think looking for another way in may be the way to go here.

00:15:27.879 –> 00:15:30.039
Okay, well, we’ll look first.

00:15:30.600 –> 00:15:34.360
You are at the back loading bay of the foundry.

00:15:34.679 –> 00:15:41.399
As you walk around the building, you find several doors on the front marked employees only.

00:15:42.039 –> 00:15:47.159
And occasionally you see people dressed quite similarly to Raymond.

00:15:47.480 –> 00:15:57.960
Lots of spiky piercings, lots of tattoos, and lots of emblems of flames worn and tattooed on them, walking in and out of the building.

00:15:58.759 –> 00:16:00.200
This is a like a…

00:16:00.759 –> 00:16:02.200
I know a little bit about these people.

00:16:02.360 –> 00:16:07.240
It’s like a a a gang, kind of.

00:16:07.559 –> 00:16:08.680
But also a business.

00:16:09.320 –> 00:16:11.799
I’m pretty sure they want to control things around here.

00:16:11.960 –> 00:16:15.480
So they might be quite difficult to work with.

00:16:15.799 –> 00:16:16.120
Okay.

00:16:16.440 –> 00:16:19.960
And apparently the uh the angel has made contact with them.

00:16:20.279 –> 00:16:20.600
Yeah.

00:16:21.399 –> 00:16:25.240
Maybe she just thought it was a nice looking tower and never been there before.

00:16:25.559 –> 00:16:25.960
Right.

00:16:26.360 –> 00:16:28.360
I am less than optimistic.

00:16:28.680 –> 00:16:30.680
So are we seeing all this through the fence?

00:16:31.000 –> 00:16:32.600
Because I thought that went all the way around it.

00:16:32.919 –> 00:16:40.360
Well the fence goes around the building and then there is a gap in the front where they’re coming in and out.

00:16:40.680 –> 00:16:46.680
Now the fence wraps up to the sides of the building there and there are that employee entrances that aren’t fenced in.

00:16:49.879 –> 00:16:53.799
You could burn the fence down discreetly.

00:16:54.440 –> 00:16:55.399
It is steel.

00:16:55.639 –> 00:16:56.519
It is steel.

00:16:56.840 –> 00:16:57.799
It’s not gonna burn.

00:16:58.120 –> 00:16:58.360
Okay.

00:16:58.840 –> 00:16:59.320
Right.

00:16:59.639 –> 00:17:01.480
Just thinking of the things Aldrich could do.

00:17:01.639 –> 00:17:03.559
He’s generally got fire.

00:17:04.039 –> 00:17:05.559
I don’t think that helps that much.

00:17:06.119 –> 00:17:06.440
I guess.

00:17:07.960 –> 00:17:11.559
As you are watching, you hear a bell tolling out from the tower.

00:17:11.880 –> 00:17:24.920
It rings three times, calling out the hour, and you begin to see more of these tattooed people approaching from all around the streets and going in through the employee entrances.

00:17:25.240 –> 00:17:25.480
Okay.

00:17:26.440 –> 00:17:27.240
Alright, that’s fine.

00:17:27.400 –> 00:17:33.079
Scorn’s gonna go park himself out in front of the employee entrances and begin busking.

00:17:33.400 –> 00:17:35.559
He is playing his heart out.

00:17:35.799 –> 00:17:37.000
Roll performance.

00:17:37.319 –> 00:17:39.079
Okay, make some friends here.

00:17:41.079 –> 00:17:42.119
I don’t know what it rolled.

00:17:42.519 –> 00:17:45.000
My computer’s lagging really bad and I can’t see a thing.

00:17:45.960 –> 00:17:47.240
Oh, well, shit.

00:17:48.200 –> 00:17:49.720
Oh, that’s awful.

00:17:50.039 –> 00:17:51.079
Not liking this sound.

00:17:51.559 –> 00:18:02.360
As you’re performing, someone walks out from the building, wearing much nicer clothes and gold piercings instead of the sharper, dark-colored ones that the others wear.

00:18:02.680 –> 00:18:12.360
You see him talking to a few thugs, big, muscly ones, hands wrapped in iron shackles, and he begins pointing at you.

00:18:14.279 –> 00:18:16.119
I think I played a song he doesn’t like.

00:18:16.440 –> 00:18:21.640
The two thugs approach you, one on each side, and they put their hands on your shoulders.

00:18:21.960 –> 00:18:22.920
What do you do?

00:18:23.240 –> 00:18:24.759
I cast calm emotions.

00:18:25.079 –> 00:18:29.240
As you cast calm emotions, you see a vicious glint in their eye.

00:18:29.559 –> 00:18:34.039
For these men, violence is something they do when they’re calm.

00:18:37.240 –> 00:18:41.960
Uh, okay, so I can use this spell to make them indifferent to you.

00:18:42.279 –> 00:18:44.759
Indifferent about creatures of your choice that it’s hostile toward.

00:18:45.000 –> 00:18:46.519
They get a saving throw, of course.

00:18:47.079 –> 00:18:50.440
I’m gonna I’m gonna try that DC fifteen charisma save.

00:18:50.599 –> 00:18:51.480
Hope for the best.

00:18:51.799 –> 00:18:55.640
As you cast the spell, you see the shackles glow.

00:18:57.000 –> 00:18:59.160
And they get a bit angrier at you.

00:18:59.480 –> 00:19:00.279
Well, damn.

00:19:00.519 –> 00:19:00.759
Okay.

00:19:01.160 –> 00:19:02.599
Sorry, this doesn’t look good.

00:19:02.920 –> 00:19:03.400
What do we do?

00:19:04.119 –> 00:19:05.400
Maybe you should talk to your friend.

00:19:05.799 –> 00:19:06.440
Alright, alright.

00:19:06.680 –> 00:19:07.000
Okay.

00:19:07.319 –> 00:19:10.039
Uh yeah, Aldric will cast a message.

00:19:11.160 –> 00:19:12.279
Trying to locate.

00:19:12.680 –> 00:19:14.440
Oh, but it’s within range.

00:19:14.839 –> 00:19:15.960
The whole thing is within range.

00:19:16.279 –> 00:19:18.839
Raymond, it’s Aldrich.

00:19:19.160 –> 00:19:21.880
If you can hear me, I mean I didn’t help him.

00:19:22.279 –> 00:19:24.279
Alright, so I’m gonna roll three D hundred.

00:19:24.519 –> 00:19:26.599
If it’s under one twenty, he’s in range.

00:19:27.880 –> 00:19:28.279
Nope.

00:19:28.920 –> 00:19:30.440
He is not in range currently.

00:19:30.599 –> 00:19:32.519
He is somewhere else in the facility.

00:19:32.840 –> 00:19:34.759
No response, I can’t get through to this guy.

00:19:35.000 –> 00:19:36.759
Alright, I guess we’re gonna have to fight.

00:19:39.079 –> 00:19:41.079
Does anyone uh you have a charm?

00:19:41.240 –> 00:19:42.840
Can you charm them or anything, sorry?

00:19:43.000 –> 00:19:44.599
Can you have the charming time?

00:19:47.079 –> 00:19:49.000
I’m gonna burn their face off tight.

00:19:50.039 –> 00:19:50.360
Okay.

00:19:51.319 –> 00:19:52.360
No, I don’t have charm.

00:19:52.840 –> 00:19:56.200
I don’t have anything disguising or anything either.

00:19:56.519 –> 00:19:56.759
Yeah.

00:19:57.559 –> 00:19:58.840
I can make him invisible.

00:19:59.000 –> 00:20:00.360
I can make Scorn invisible.

00:20:06.559 –> 00:20:07.680
Actually sounds quite good.

00:20:08.000 –> 00:20:09.440
I won’t say no to that.

00:20:09.759 –> 00:20:10.079
Okay.

00:20:10.640 –> 00:20:14.559
I’m going to kind of wander out from where me and Aldric are tucked in.

00:20:14.880 –> 00:20:18.720
And I am just going to trip over Scorn.

00:20:19.279 –> 00:20:21.200
Like, in between the two clubs.

00:20:21.279 –> 00:20:24.480
Just trip as hard as I can on top and cast him.

00:20:24.799 –> 00:20:26.079
Scorn goes invisible.

00:20:26.240 –> 00:20:31.440
And now you find yourself the focus of these two big, muscly idiots.

00:20:33.359 –> 00:20:34.880
I don’t know what happened.

00:20:35.200 –> 00:20:35.680
I just.

00:20:36.000 –> 00:20:36.880
I tripped.

00:20:36.960 –> 00:20:37.839
It was terrible.

00:20:38.240 –> 00:20:39.440
I’m really sorry.

00:20:39.759 –> 00:20:42.400
They’re looking down at you, confused and angry.

00:20:43.440 –> 00:20:48.319
And as they start to get angry, you see their shackles glow, and they calm down.

00:20:49.599 –> 00:20:50.319
Oh, wow.

00:20:50.960 –> 00:20:54.000
Aldric will start running over and say, oh my gosh, are you alright?

00:20:54.720 –> 00:20:55.839
I’m alright, Aldric.

00:20:56.000 –> 00:20:56.720
I’m so sorry.

00:20:57.039 –> 00:20:58.240
I’m really sorry, guys.

00:20:58.960 –> 00:21:03.920
I think I need to go lie down somewhere, and I’m just going to try to pull Aldric away from these guys.

00:21:04.559 –> 00:21:07.279
Scorn’s crawling away very quietly.

00:21:08.880 –> 00:21:11.839
You know, Scorn crawls away.

00:21:12.160 –> 00:21:17.920
You two make your way away from the thugs who go back to talk to the man with the golden piercings.

00:21:18.240 –> 00:21:20.240
Well, that kind of worked, I think.

00:21:20.480 –> 00:21:21.039
I guess so.

00:21:22.000 –> 00:21:23.359
Scorn, are you there?

00:21:23.680 –> 00:21:24.319
Where are you?

00:21:24.480 –> 00:21:25.200
Can you hear me?

00:21:25.519 –> 00:21:28.799
Scorn comes crawling up next to Aldric.

00:21:29.440 –> 00:21:31.519
Stands up and brushes himself off.

00:21:31.839 –> 00:21:33.759
But he’s invisible, so nobody sees that.

00:21:36.319 –> 00:21:37.200
Yeah, I’m over here.

00:21:37.440 –> 00:21:38.720
It’s a really tough room here.

00:21:39.039 –> 00:21:39.839
I see that.

00:21:40.319 –> 00:21:40.559
Yeah.

00:21:43.279 –> 00:21:44.640
How high is that tower?

00:21:44.960 –> 00:21:48.799
It stands a little over 120 feet at the top.

00:21:49.119 –> 00:21:49.359
Okay.

00:21:49.839 –> 00:21:50.559
Oh, boy.

00:21:51.599 –> 00:21:53.279
Out of range for Thunderstep.

00:21:53.680 –> 00:21:55.920
You think you could climb the wall and get inside?

00:21:56.240 –> 00:21:57.759
Oh, I’m terrible at climbing.

00:21:59.039 –> 00:22:01.839
If you can get in, you’re invisible.

00:22:02.000 –> 00:22:02.480
I don’t know.

00:22:02.720 –> 00:22:04.079
Do you use this as a check?

00:22:04.400 –> 00:22:04.880
Yes, you say.

00:22:05.759 –> 00:22:08.240
Invisibility is good.

00:22:09.119 –> 00:22:11.119
Starling, can you do that to anyone else?

00:22:11.440 –> 00:22:11.759
No.

00:22:12.079 –> 00:22:12.400
Oh.

00:22:12.720 –> 00:22:13.519
Damn.

00:22:14.160 –> 00:22:14.480
Alright.

00:22:15.440 –> 00:22:17.039
And it’s only in the last minute.

00:22:17.279 –> 00:22:19.039
Oh, it’s awesome.

00:22:19.360 –> 00:22:21.680
So it’s not the invisibility spell.

00:22:21.839 –> 00:22:22.079
It’s.

00:22:22.640 –> 00:22:23.119
Greater invisibility.

00:22:24.079 –> 00:22:24.480
Oh, it’s.

00:22:25.200 –> 00:22:25.360
Oh.

00:22:26.079 –> 00:22:26.720
Oh, my.

00:22:27.039 –> 00:22:27.360
Okay.

00:22:28.319 –> 00:22:29.519
It’s greater invisibility.

00:22:29.680 –> 00:22:30.720
That’s another story.

00:22:32.880 –> 00:22:34.880
Aldric’s got the fly spell.

00:22:35.440 –> 00:22:36.240
He does, yeah.

00:22:36.880 –> 00:22:38.960
So, um, alright.

00:22:40.160 –> 00:22:41.440
Before that spell wears off.

00:22:41.599 –> 00:22:41.920
Okay.

00:22:42.240 –> 00:22:49.599
If I can see any ingress into that tower that’s within 90 feet of me, I can use Thunderstep.

00:22:49.920 –> 00:22:50.559
There is not.

00:22:50.799 –> 00:22:51.920
But up the top.

00:22:52.880 –> 00:22:53.360
There is.

00:22:54.000 –> 00:22:58.079
The tower is mostly sealed off and goes up alongside a smokestack.

00:22:58.400 –> 00:22:58.799
Hmm?

00:22:58.960 –> 00:22:59.200
Okay.

00:22:59.680 –> 00:23:01.039
Well, shoot.

00:23:01.360 –> 00:23:02.720
I’d have to get within.

00:23:03.200 –> 00:23:05.759
I’d have to get within 90 feet of it.

00:23:06.000 –> 00:23:08.000
That’s 120 feet tall.

00:23:08.319 –> 00:23:10.160
And how tall is the forge?

00:23:10.799 –> 00:23:14.400
The forge is about 80 feet tall, so you could get on top of there.

00:23:14.960 –> 00:23:15.200
Yeah.

00:23:15.519 –> 00:23:18.000
Yeah, if we can get up to the top of the forge.

00:23:18.319 –> 00:23:18.799
Ah.

00:23:20.240 –> 00:23:20.480
Okay.

00:23:21.039 –> 00:23:22.880
You can only take one person with you.

00:23:23.200 –> 00:23:23.360
Yeah.

00:23:23.440 –> 00:23:24.079
Is that right?

00:23:24.400 –> 00:23:25.360
Yeah, that’s a problem.

00:23:25.599 –> 00:23:26.559
There’s four of us.

00:23:28.400 –> 00:23:31.200
You could take Starling, and I could fly up there.

00:23:31.440 –> 00:23:31.920
Maybe.

00:23:32.319 –> 00:23:33.119
Take Ibit.

00:23:33.279 –> 00:23:36.319
Take Ibit, and I can wait till it’s dark, and then I can fly up there.

00:23:37.119 –> 00:23:38.799
I don’t know if we should wait that long.

00:23:39.680 –> 00:23:44.559
Also, Ibit’s player isn’t here, so, you know, that’s kind of off the table.

00:23:44.720 –> 00:23:46.799
If I take someone, it’s going to be one of you guys.

00:23:48.160 –> 00:23:48.400
Okay.

00:23:49.440 –> 00:23:50.960
Are you stealthy, Starling?

00:23:51.200 –> 00:23:52.079
Not particularly.

00:23:52.559 –> 00:23:53.200
Maybe there.

00:23:53.920 –> 00:23:54.240
Okay.

00:23:54.559 –> 00:23:55.119
Alright.

00:23:55.440 –> 00:23:58.319
I’m thinking who is best to cast fly on.

00:23:58.640 –> 00:23:58.960
Yeah.

00:24:00.480 –> 00:24:04.720
Is the guy with the gold piercings still there?

00:24:05.200 –> 00:24:08.799
Yes, he’s still out there watching Aldric and Starling.

00:24:11.759 –> 00:24:22.799
Well, I will start to try to act nonchalant, just looking around not looking at the foundry area, just looking at the opposite area.

00:24:23.759 –> 00:24:24.000
Yeah.

00:24:24.319 –> 00:24:26.240
Invisibility is going to wear off real soon.

00:24:28.480 –> 00:24:30.799
Yeah, I’ll wait till I’m invisible again.

00:24:31.200 –> 00:24:32.319
Yeah, call out to him.

00:24:32.559 –> 00:24:33.279
Wave him over.

00:24:33.599 –> 00:24:34.240
Golden one?

00:24:34.720 –> 00:24:35.039
Yeah.

00:24:35.360 –> 00:24:36.960
You with the gold piercings.

00:24:37.279 –> 00:24:37.759
This way.

00:24:38.079 –> 00:24:43.599
He becomes walking over and motions to the two thicks next to him and they come following behind.

00:24:43.920 –> 00:24:51.279
As they walk over, you notice neither of the big muscly ones have any hair on their bodies.

00:24:51.599 –> 00:24:54.400
And almost every inch of them is tattooed.

00:24:55.200 –> 00:24:58.559
Amongst the tattoos, you see some that are glowing with runes.

00:25:01.039 –> 00:25:01.840
Not good.

00:25:02.480 –> 00:25:03.360
Not good at all.

00:25:03.599 –> 00:25:03.840
Okay.

00:25:05.480 –> 00:25:07.640
Yeah, I got one more thing to try here.

00:25:07.960 –> 00:25:12.359
Um Scorn casts suggestion on their boss.

00:25:12.680 –> 00:25:14.599
And what do you suggest?

00:25:15.240 –> 00:25:17.319
I want you to help us look for our friend.

00:25:17.640 –> 00:25:18.759
That’s all we need.

00:25:19.079 –> 00:25:19.880
And there we are.

00:25:20.200 –> 00:25:21.880
Wisdom save fifteen.

00:25:24.599 –> 00:25:26.119
Okay, now we’re hitting somewhere.

00:25:26.440 –> 00:25:27.640
And what do you suggest?

00:25:27.960 –> 00:25:28.359
Specifically.

00:25:28.680 –> 00:25:28.920
Told him.

00:25:29.160 –> 00:25:31.160
Told him I want him to help us look for our friend.

00:25:32.200 –> 00:25:33.720
Now where’s your friend at?

00:25:34.359 –> 00:25:36.119
I point to the top of the tower.

00:25:36.440 –> 00:25:37.480
He’s up there.

00:25:37.960 –> 00:25:38.839
Squints at you.

00:25:39.240 –> 00:25:44.200
And you notice when he squints, you can hear a little clack when his piercings hit together.

00:25:45.000 –> 00:25:46.279
We’ll get your friend.

00:25:46.599 –> 00:25:47.160
Lead on.

00:25:47.480 –> 00:25:50.039
He begins leading you inside the foundry.

00:25:50.359 –> 00:25:57.799
And the moment you step in, you smell sulfur, iron, and all manner of metal.

00:25:58.279 –> 00:26:03.160
Begins walking with you, leading you through the foundry, and you see where things are being cast.

00:26:03.720 –> 00:26:13.160
You see absolutely massive pots of metal bubbling, carefully mixed, and you see them pouring and casting.

00:26:13.480 –> 00:26:18.119
And he leads you across the foundry and leads you up to a staircase.

00:26:18.599 –> 00:26:21.960
Says, Up there that leads up the tower.

00:26:22.279 –> 00:26:22.599
Okay.

00:26:23.240 –> 00:26:24.039
Are you coming?

00:26:24.279 –> 00:26:26.359
No, I have to get back to my duties.

00:26:27.000 –> 00:26:27.240
Oh.

00:26:28.839 –> 00:26:30.440
Well, fair enough.

00:26:32.359 –> 00:26:35.400
Scorn is kind of waving everybody through really quick.

00:26:35.960 –> 00:26:45.880
You hear loud, rapid clanks of steel shoes hitting the ground on the steel plating of the floor as you see someone running towards you.

00:26:46.759 –> 00:26:49.960
Aldric, you hear Raymond shouting, Aldric!

00:26:50.279 –> 00:26:51.720
What are you doing in here?

00:26:56.119 –> 00:26:58.759
Oh, we’re looking for our friend, Raymond.

00:26:59.880 –> 00:27:00.279
In here?

00:27:00.839 –> 00:27:01.480
Oh, yeah.

00:27:01.799 –> 00:27:03.319
It’s a long story.

00:27:04.119 –> 00:27:05.240
He’s upstairs.

00:27:06.519 –> 00:27:10.759
We’re just we’ve asked permission from the manager.

00:27:11.880 –> 00:27:14.680
He’s allowed us to go upstairs and find him.

00:27:14.920 –> 00:27:16.920
Raymond looks over to the site manager.

00:27:17.240 –> 00:27:18.360
I’m going with them.

00:27:18.680 –> 00:27:21.079
Oh, yeah, sure.

00:27:21.240 –> 00:27:21.559
Yeah.

00:27:22.839 –> 00:27:25.319
Raymond walks over and shakes your hand, Aldric.

00:27:25.640 –> 00:27:29.799
And as you do, you feel a lot of grease and grime left over from that hand.

00:27:30.200 –> 00:27:32.440
And your hand is stained black.

00:27:33.400 –> 00:27:33.640
Yeah.

00:27:34.440 –> 00:27:36.119
Nice to see you, I think.

00:27:36.360 –> 00:27:37.319
It’s been a while.

00:27:37.640 –> 00:27:38.119
Yes.

00:27:38.680 –> 00:27:39.960
Let’s go talk about something.

00:27:40.119 –> 00:27:42.200
And he begins leading you up the stairs.

00:27:42.519 –> 00:27:43.400
Alright, let’s go.

00:27:43.720 –> 00:27:52.839
And as he’s leading you walking up the stairs, you hear the clank, clank, clank of his steel-footed boots against the steel stairs.

00:27:53.319 –> 00:27:55.400
You’re working with these guys now, right?

00:27:56.039 –> 00:27:56.759
Oh, yeah.

00:27:57.079 –> 00:27:57.319
Yeah.

00:27:57.880 –> 00:27:59.000
They like what I do here.

00:28:00.360 –> 00:28:05.799
I’m one of their mold-making department here, and I focus on making the best molds for the casting.

00:28:05.960 –> 00:28:06.680
I do a good job.

00:28:07.240 –> 00:28:08.200
I’m happy for you.

00:28:08.440 –> 00:28:10.920
Yeah, but fuck, I don’t get a break while stays.

00:28:11.160 –> 00:28:13.240
Yeah, they work pretty hard here.

00:28:14.119 –> 00:28:15.640
So much equipment downstairs.

00:28:16.119 –> 00:28:18.119
Oh, yeah, we make the best stuff in the city.

00:28:18.440 –> 00:28:20.839
But hey, you’re an adventurer now, ain’t ya?

00:28:21.160 –> 00:28:22.759
Uh, yeah, yeah.

00:28:23.319 –> 00:28:25.160
That’s that’s me.

00:28:25.480 –> 00:28:28.440
Well, ain’t that just the best thing I’ve heard all day?

00:28:28.759 –> 00:28:30.759
I need an adventurer right now.

00:28:31.079 –> 00:28:37.240
And you keep walking up the stairs and the clank, clank, clank of his boots ringing against your ears.

00:28:37.720 –> 00:28:40.519
You would see Aldric’s face is kind of screwed up the whole time.

00:28:41.160 –> 00:28:41.319
Yeah.

00:28:41.880 –> 00:28:42.599
And he looks at you.

00:28:42.680 –> 00:28:43.640
Now I know straight.

00:28:43.799 –> 00:28:45.480
I do still owe you some.

00:28:45.799 –> 00:28:46.360
All right.

00:28:46.680 –> 00:28:50.360
But you help me out and I’ll pay you back what I owe you and double on top of it.

00:28:50.680 –> 00:28:56.599
Oh, why, uh, well, just let me know what is what is it you need to do?

00:28:56.920 –> 00:28:58.839
I need someone to go down to the mines.

00:28:59.160 –> 00:29:00.599
His eyes grew serious.

00:29:00.920 –> 00:29:02.360
There’s something down there.

00:29:02.680 –> 00:29:04.360
Something old and ancient.

00:29:04.680 –> 00:29:07.960
One of these mines broken to an old ancient temple.

00:29:08.119 –> 00:29:10.279
In the bottom of an underground lake.

00:29:10.599 –> 00:29:12.519
And we need someone to go investigate it.

00:29:12.759 –> 00:29:15.400
Our miners are disappearing every time they go down there.

00:29:15.799 –> 00:29:16.839
Temple, you say.

00:29:17.000 –> 00:29:19.240
Aldric’s eyes would light up a little bit.

00:29:19.559 –> 00:29:22.119
Do you know anything about the temple?

00:29:22.360 –> 00:29:23.400
No, we don’t.

00:29:24.039 –> 00:29:26.119
We’ve only heard back from a few of the miners.

00:29:26.440 –> 00:29:29.880
Anyone who’s gone in to take a good look at it doesn’t come back out.

00:29:30.519 –> 00:29:41.079
Any idea what the picture or creatures are is We don’t know exactly what it is, but we do know someone’s been messing around down there.

00:29:41.559 –> 00:29:46.920
Thistlevale’s been doing something in those caves and we think they might be involved in this.

00:29:47.240 –> 00:29:48.200
Thistlevale.

00:29:48.440 –> 00:29:49.000
Who’s that?

00:29:49.240 –> 00:29:52.920
I’ll glance at Scorn or Starling.

00:29:53.319 –> 00:29:57.079
Does that ring a like in a kind of does that ring a bell to you?

00:29:58.440 –> 00:30:02.279
Cover name that’s the cover name that our cultist friends are using around here.

00:30:03.720 –> 00:30:04.759
There is a really hot.

00:30:06.079 –> 00:30:07.279
Here’s like another wirecom.

00:30:07.519 –> 00:30:07.759
Okay.

00:30:08.079 –> 00:30:09.519
Now I need you to go in there.

00:30:09.839 –> 00:30:11.759
Find out what taking our miners.

00:30:12.079 –> 00:30:14.640
Now you go in there, sort that out, and get out here.

00:30:14.960 –> 00:30:16.559
I’ll pay you whatever you ask.

00:30:16.880 –> 00:30:22.240
If you can also help us to get our friend out, then as much as you can.

00:30:23.200 –> 00:30:24.960
Help us to get our friend back here.

00:30:25.279 –> 00:30:27.279
Then, yeah, I’ll consider it.

00:30:27.920 –> 00:30:28.960
Squints at you.

00:30:29.279 –> 00:30:30.000
Okay, okay.

00:30:30.319 –> 00:30:31.599
Yeah, we can make that work.

00:30:32.079 –> 00:30:35.359
I just need you to be real careful when you’re down there, alright?

00:30:35.680 –> 00:30:37.200
We don’t know what’s happening.

00:30:37.519 –> 00:30:42.880
Yeah, well, I mean, we’ve actually been to a few temples recently, so we know there’s some weird stuff going on.

00:30:43.200 –> 00:30:44.480
We will be careful.

00:30:44.799 –> 00:30:47.920
And you know something about that flying lady, don’t you?

00:30:48.559 –> 00:30:48.720
Yeah.

00:30:49.359 –> 00:30:49.599
Yeah.

00:30:50.079 –> 00:30:52.559
Well, just a little way, just a little advice.

00:30:52.799 –> 00:30:54.079
I saw her flying in here.

00:30:54.400 –> 00:30:54.640
Okay.

00:30:55.279 –> 00:30:59.440
She likes two things above all else blood and booze.

00:30:59.759 –> 00:31:02.720
Give her both of those, and she’ll go along with whatever you want.

00:31:03.039 –> 00:31:05.680
That’s how they keep her up here from making a mess.

00:31:06.240 –> 00:31:11.759
I think we can do things as far as Warren, do you carry around some booze?

00:31:12.000 –> 00:31:14.559
Oh, I always have a flask with me, yes.

00:31:16.400 –> 00:31:18.000
Also, I also have blood.

00:31:18.240 –> 00:31:18.960
You have blood?

00:31:19.200 –> 00:31:20.400
Most people do.

00:31:22.640 –> 00:31:25.039
Yeah, but we don’t want to sacrifice yourself.

00:31:25.680 –> 00:31:30.160
Oh, oh, no, the smart ones never kill their supply.

00:31:30.720 –> 00:31:31.839
I think she knows better.

00:31:32.160 –> 00:31:36.480
As you’ve been walking, you’ve gone up roughly ten staircases now.

00:31:37.119 –> 00:31:38.880
Your calves are burning.

00:31:39.200 –> 00:31:42.559
And Raymond doesn’t even seem tired at this point.

00:31:42.960 –> 00:31:46.480
He says, points up to a steel door top.

00:31:46.640 –> 00:31:48.079
Okay, gonna go through there.

00:31:48.400 –> 00:31:50.240
But remember, blood and booze.

00:31:50.480 –> 00:31:51.440
You’re not coming in?

00:31:51.680 –> 00:31:51.920
No.

00:31:52.480 –> 00:31:53.039
No, I’m not.

00:31:53.359 –> 00:31:54.960
What kind of pants is Raymond here?

00:31:55.200 –> 00:32:02.240
Raymond is wearing long cargo pants of a thick canvas and lots of burn holes.

00:32:02.880 –> 00:32:09.839
You can see where his pockets are full of tools, and they’ve been stitched repeatedly from where they’ve torn out time and time again.

00:32:10.160 –> 00:32:15.680
This thick canvas was once white, but is now mostly brown or black.

00:32:16.000 –> 00:32:22.799
If you take the time to ask him, you would find out that they have never been washed, only worn to work and nowhere else.

00:32:23.119 –> 00:32:29.599
Now, the pants are held up by thick, heavy suspenders that go over his tank top.

00:32:29.839 –> 00:32:33.119
Okay, so I can’t see his calves to compliment how nice his calves look.

00:32:33.440 –> 00:32:33.759
No.

00:32:40.400 –> 00:32:41.440
I’ll wait out here.

00:32:41.759 –> 00:32:43.519
Too many people in there would spook it.

00:32:43.759 –> 00:32:44.559
Fine, fine.

00:32:45.119 –> 00:32:47.119
We had that happen to a guy a while ago.

00:32:47.440 –> 00:32:49.519
He got thrown right out the tower.

00:32:49.839 –> 00:32:54.880
So I don’t feel like trying to learn how to fly on a hundred foot fall.

00:32:55.440 –> 00:32:58.319
You guys just be in there and handle it yourselves.

00:32:58.640 –> 00:32:59.680
We’ll manage.

00:33:00.319 –> 00:33:02.640
Just stay away from the windows.

00:33:02.960 –> 00:33:05.680
Well, that’s how I left the last tower where I met this creature.

00:33:06.720 –> 00:33:07.759
Is there a handle on the door?

00:33:07.839 –> 00:33:08.559
Is it closed?

00:33:08.880 –> 00:33:11.360
It is closed and has a thick steel handle.

00:33:11.599 –> 00:33:14.640
As you grab the handle, it feels cold.

00:33:14.960 –> 00:33:21.839
And as the door swings open, you see an unconscious man laying on the ground.

00:33:22.160 –> 00:33:23.839
Oh, I hope that’s not Ash.

00:33:24.160 –> 00:33:24.960
It is.

00:33:25.920 –> 00:33:31.759
And above him, you see the celestial with red eyes and black wings.

00:33:32.319 –> 00:33:35.759
Aldric whispers blood and booze to the other two.

00:33:38.319 –> 00:33:44.480
Scorn just looks disapproving and says to her, I hope he gave you permission to do that.

00:33:44.799 –> 00:33:47.599
She looks at you, blinks real slow.

00:33:47.920 –> 00:33:49.519
What’s permission?

00:33:50.720 –> 00:33:51.839
So, no permission.

00:33:52.640 –> 00:33:53.680
Was he okay with it?

00:33:53.920 –> 00:33:55.599
Oh, I didn’t do anything to him.

00:33:55.920 –> 00:33:57.039
He’s unconscious.

00:33:57.519 –> 00:33:59.039
He was that way when I landed.

00:33:59.279 –> 00:33:59.839
Hmm.

00:34:00.079 –> 00:34:01.839
He was conscious when you took off, though.

00:34:02.160 –> 00:34:05.119
Well, there was a lot of flying in between then and here.

00:34:05.839 –> 00:34:06.400
Yes.

00:34:06.720 –> 00:34:07.279
Faintly.

00:34:07.599 –> 00:34:09.199
Uh, yeah, something like that.

00:34:09.519 –> 00:34:12.800
Um, is he injured in any way at all that we can see?

00:34:13.119 –> 00:34:13.360
No.

00:34:13.840 –> 00:34:14.079
Okay.

00:34:14.400 –> 00:34:15.920
What can we see around the room?

00:34:16.239 –> 00:34:31.519
Around the room, you can see where there are various tools for repair of the smokestacks, where regularly they have to go in and change out the brake work from the terrible acidic smoke that comes out of these plumes from the refining that they do here.

00:34:31.840 –> 00:34:40.000
If you look carefully at the bricks around the room, you can see where they have slowly eaten away by the very air itself here.

00:34:40.559 –> 00:34:49.679
Well, uh, Celestial takes a step forward towards you, walking one step at a time, watching you all closely.

00:34:50.000 –> 00:34:51.280
Aldric, what did you say?

00:34:51.599 –> 00:34:53.760
Asked her what she’s doing with this tower.

00:34:54.000 –> 00:34:55.519
He looks at you.

00:34:55.840 –> 00:34:56.800
Curious.

00:34:57.360 –> 00:35:00.000
I don’t do anything up here in this tower.

00:35:00.320 –> 00:35:04.400
Before he passed out, this man asked for somewhere to land, so I landed.

00:35:04.960 –> 00:35:05.840
Ah, okay.

00:35:08.119 –> 00:35:12.280
Well, he obviously needs medical attention.

00:35:12.599 –> 00:35:17.719
And you, after all that flying, carrying him that way, must be rather thirsty.

00:35:18.039 –> 00:35:18.840
Oh, yes.

00:35:19.079 –> 00:35:19.800
Very.

00:35:20.119 –> 00:35:20.440
Okay.

00:35:20.760 –> 00:35:21.320
Alright.

00:35:22.360 –> 00:35:28.599
Scorn gets out his flask with the good fire grog and offers it to her.

00:35:28.920 –> 00:35:34.119
She gingerly takes the flask, smells it, and then takes a big swallow.

00:35:34.440 –> 00:35:35.400
She looks you.

00:35:35.719 –> 00:35:39.480
And you see her eyes go from a red to a faded grey.

00:35:39.800 –> 00:35:42.360
Oh, that might be a good sign.

00:35:42.679 –> 00:35:45.559
She takes another long swallow from the flask.

00:35:45.880 –> 00:35:47.320
She looks at you guys.

00:35:47.639 –> 00:35:49.239
What are you doing here?

00:35:49.559 –> 00:35:51.400
Oh, well, we came to find him.

00:35:53.000 –> 00:35:55.320
Like I said, he needs medical attention.

00:35:55.639 –> 00:35:58.440
She looks over at him, unconscious in the ground.

00:35:59.159 –> 00:36:01.400
I don’t think he needs much medical attention.

00:36:02.039 –> 00:36:03.880
Well, going unconscious can’t be good.

00:36:04.199 –> 00:36:05.559
Oh, there’s plenty of worse things.

00:36:05.719 –> 00:36:07.639
People go unconscious every day.

00:36:08.920 –> 00:36:11.480
Yes, but it’s not his time.

00:36:12.119 –> 00:36:15.400
I mean, he usually sleeps at night on the daytime.

00:36:15.480 –> 00:36:16.039
You know what I mean?

00:36:16.199 –> 00:36:17.559
Oh, he sleeps at night.

00:36:17.639 –> 00:36:18.360
That’s what’s wrong.

00:36:18.679 –> 00:36:20.599
Well, we can just make sure he stays asleep.

00:36:20.920 –> 00:36:23.800
Ah, yes, I don’t think we should leave without him.

00:36:24.119 –> 00:36:26.920
She walks over and picks him up with one hand.

00:36:27.239 –> 00:36:28.360
Well, let’s go.

00:36:28.679 –> 00:36:31.559
Oh, so you’re um you’re coming too, then?

00:36:31.800 –> 00:36:33.719
Well, you guys seem interesting.

00:36:34.360 –> 00:36:35.559
All right then.

00:36:36.519 –> 00:36:37.239
Shall we go?

00:36:37.559 –> 00:36:39.960
She says, I’ll meet you guys at the bottom.

00:36:40.280 –> 00:36:40.599
Okay.

00:36:41.239 –> 00:36:43.639
Um here, we can take him.

00:36:43.880 –> 00:36:45.159
You don’t need to carry him anymore.

00:36:45.400 –> 00:36:47.000
It’s like, oh, don’t Nori, I got it.

00:36:47.320 –> 00:36:51.880
And laughs a little maniacally and falls backwards outside the window, taking him with her.

00:36:52.199 –> 00:36:53.639
Oh my god.

00:36:54.039 –> 00:36:56.039
Look around, see if his bag is here.

00:36:57.320 –> 00:36:57.960
It is not.

00:36:58.599 –> 00:36:59.320
It’s still with him.

00:36:59.480 –> 00:37:00.199
It’s still on him.

00:37:00.280 –> 00:37:00.840
Okay, good.

00:37:03.239 –> 00:37:05.239
Okay, so she’s going to meet us at the bottom.

00:37:05.559 –> 00:37:06.920
Are we okay with this?

00:37:07.239 –> 00:37:08.440
Yeah, why do you?

00:37:08.760 –> 00:37:09.320
Hmm?

00:37:09.639 –> 00:37:09.880
Yeah.

00:37:10.519 –> 00:37:13.400
Yeah, when she’s got a few drinks in her.

00:37:15.800 –> 00:37:19.559
So when we get to the bottom and meet her, where are we going?

00:37:21.559 –> 00:37:24.199
Oh, I don’t think we should take her anywhere near the cultists.

00:37:24.840 –> 00:37:26.039
That could go very badly.

00:37:26.840 –> 00:37:27.800
But we can’t protect her.

00:37:28.199 –> 00:37:30.679
By keeping her away from the cultists.

00:37:31.320 –> 00:37:33.960
Scorn’s like, oh my god.

00:37:35.079 –> 00:37:36.840
He’s looking a little scared now.

00:37:38.360 –> 00:37:41.159
Do you think that’s do you think we can do that?

00:37:42.599 –> 00:37:42.920
Okay.

00:37:43.159 –> 00:37:43.800
Alright.

00:37:44.440 –> 00:37:45.400
The mines.

00:37:45.719 –> 00:37:46.360
Sounds good.

00:37:46.599 –> 00:37:46.840
Yeah.

00:37:47.639 –> 00:37:48.840
We have bigger problems.

00:37:49.079 –> 00:37:49.719
Like, yeah.

00:37:50.360 –> 00:37:52.519
Um, yeah, that is a big problem.

00:37:52.840 –> 00:37:53.079
Okay.

00:37:53.960 –> 00:37:57.079
I don’t know what she’s going to do next, but she needs to do something strange.

00:37:57.320 –> 00:37:57.719
Mm-hmm.

00:37:58.679 –> 00:38:01.800
And I gotta rest before we go to the mines.

00:38:02.760 –> 00:38:09.159
I’ve used up way too many spells today getting in and out of the wizard’s tower and then getting us into this one.

00:38:10.039 –> 00:38:11.960
Um, so yeah.

00:38:12.280 –> 00:38:14.840
Um, I guess we’re just gonna see how this goes.

00:38:15.159 –> 00:38:15.480
Yeah.

00:38:16.280 –> 00:38:25.320
So we want to go and find a place to rest or see if we can convince her to give us ash to make sure he’s okay.

00:38:25.639 –> 00:38:27.159
Yeah, I don’t think she wants to hurt him.

00:38:27.400 –> 00:38:28.360
She would have done it by now.

00:38:28.679 –> 00:38:29.880
What does she want to do?

00:38:30.519 –> 00:38:30.760
Drink.

00:38:31.960 –> 00:38:33.639
She wants to drink.

00:38:33.960 –> 00:38:37.239
She wants to drink and she wants to play or something.

00:38:37.400 –> 00:38:37.559
Yeah.

00:38:38.280 –> 00:38:39.559
We go to the bar then.

00:38:40.199 –> 00:38:43.719
Um well, it’s like you said, we don’t know what she’ll do.

00:38:45.320 –> 00:38:48.280
Oh, I mean, best case scenario, she has a good time.

00:38:48.599 –> 00:38:50.760
Worst case scenario, no one else does.

00:38:51.880 –> 00:38:53.800
But yeah, we can take her to the bar.

00:38:53.960 –> 00:38:55.559
The old Broken Wand.

00:38:55.880 –> 00:38:56.679
Oh, yeah.

00:38:56.920 –> 00:38:57.480
Broken Wand.

00:38:58.039 –> 00:38:58.280
Yeah.

00:38:58.599 –> 00:39:02.599
As you begin walking down the stairs, Raymond looks at you.

00:39:02.920 –> 00:39:03.800
How’d it go?

00:39:04.119 –> 00:39:05.639
Better than we expected.

00:39:05.960 –> 00:39:11.320
You know, we’re not ready to go into that main right now, but we might look into it tomorrow.

00:39:11.639 –> 00:39:12.760
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.

00:39:13.079 –> 00:39:16.599
Well, I can’t leave work, so I’ll be here tomorrow as well.

00:39:16.920 –> 00:39:19.880
Just come back here when you’ve dealt with it.

00:39:20.280 –> 00:39:21.320
We can settle you up.

00:39:21.559 –> 00:39:21.960
Sure.

00:39:22.199 –> 00:39:22.360
So.

00:39:22.599 –> 00:39:23.239
I have a question.

00:39:23.400 –> 00:39:24.519
How’s the business going?

00:39:24.840 –> 00:39:26.360
Oh, business is going great.

00:39:26.920 –> 00:39:27.159
Yeah.

00:39:27.720 –> 00:39:29.880
We bought out the last two mines in town.

00:39:29.960 –> 00:39:31.079
They’re all Mars now.

00:39:33.079 –> 00:39:34.440
How do the people feel about that?

00:39:35.000 –> 00:39:36.119
Oh, they like it.

00:39:36.440 –> 00:39:36.599
Yeah.

00:39:37.239 –> 00:39:39.320
We really haven’t gotten much complaint about it.

00:39:40.440 –> 00:39:44.199
They’re really bothered by the wizards here, though.

00:39:44.440 –> 00:39:45.720
Why are they bothered by the wizards?

00:39:45.880 –> 00:39:48.920
Oh, the wizard’s been doing weird experiments on people lately.

00:39:49.239 –> 00:39:50.920
Oh, how weird.

00:39:51.239 –> 00:39:52.599
We saw one guy.

00:39:52.920 –> 00:39:54.679
They turned him into a horse.

00:39:55.000 –> 00:39:56.519
But they didn’t do it the whole way.

00:39:57.159 –> 00:39:59.400
So it was just a horse with the face of a man.

00:39:59.720 –> 00:40:01.000
I’ve seen this movie.

00:40:01.880 –> 00:40:02.199
Okay.

00:40:02.519 –> 00:40:03.320
That’s weird.

00:40:03.639 –> 00:40:05.559
But no, don’t worry about that.

00:40:06.119 –> 00:40:06.760
Just stay away from.

00:40:08.159 –> 00:40:08.960
The wizards, honestly.

00:40:09.039 –> 00:40:11.280
They’re too much trouble to be worth dealing with.

00:40:12.159 –> 00:40:12.559
Notice.

00:40:13.920 –> 00:40:17.599
Just try not to get too involved over in that side of town.

00:40:17.920 –> 00:40:21.039
Before you know it, they’re going to be asking you to do something you regret.

00:40:21.280 –> 00:40:23.599
Alright, that’s interesting coming from him.

00:40:23.760 –> 00:40:23.920
Okay.

00:40:25.199 –> 00:40:26.800
How do you know so much about the wizards?

00:40:26.880 –> 00:40:27.360
What they do?

00:40:27.679 –> 00:40:29.519
I, uh, glances around.

00:40:29.920 –> 00:40:31.840
I do a lot of business with them.

00:40:32.159 –> 00:40:37.360
So they need a lot of very specialized implements, and that’s what I do.

00:40:38.000 –> 00:40:42.400
I make specialized instruments of all various metals and types.

00:40:42.719 –> 00:40:47.199
And because of that, I end up seeing a lot more of their experiments than most people.

00:40:47.760 –> 00:40:49.440
See that crack experience.

00:40:49.599 –> 00:40:51.519
Yeah, just don’t get too close to them, alright?

00:40:51.840 –> 00:40:53.360
Don’t agree too much with them.

00:40:53.679 –> 00:41:00.800
And I don’t know how true this is, but I’ve heard rumors there’s a lich who’s trying to do stuff something with a kid in town.

00:41:01.119 –> 00:41:08.320
Do something, meaning here’s a lich trying to possess someone in town.

00:41:10.320 –> 00:41:10.719
Interesting.

00:41:11.119 –> 00:41:12.639
Does this lich have a name?

00:41:12.960 –> 00:41:20.880
I don’t know if it’s true, but the wizard I was talking to said the lich he was spying on, he’s always there.

00:41:21.519 –> 00:41:25.760
This wizard said he had been hiring a group of adventurers when he was spying on them.

00:41:26.400 –> 00:41:30.800
Ruthless folk who would do anything, anything a lich agreed with him, they would go for.

00:41:31.119 –> 00:41:32.719
As long as they got enough out of it.

00:41:32.960 –> 00:41:34.079
They sound dangerous.

00:41:34.400 –> 00:41:36.880
Yeah, keep an eye out on the other adventurers you see too.

00:41:36.960 –> 00:41:38.800
You don’t know which one of them it might be.

00:41:39.440 –> 00:41:42.079
Yeah, I mean, it’s a dangerous business.

00:41:42.400 –> 00:41:45.760
Yeah, but some of the wizards in town, they’ve been watching that lich for a while.

00:41:45.840 –> 00:41:51.039
They’ve known about him for decades, and he’s just now getting ready to make his move.

00:41:51.519 –> 00:41:53.519
Do the people all know about this, do you think?

00:41:53.840 –> 00:41:54.000
No.

00:41:54.239 –> 00:41:55.760
Regular No?

00:41:56.400 –> 00:41:56.639
No.

00:41:57.119 –> 00:41:58.719
No, they got this under tight wraps.

00:41:58.880 –> 00:42:00.480
I only know because I make stuff for it.

00:42:00.800 –> 00:42:01.920
You make stuff for the lich?

00:42:02.480 –> 00:42:04.159
No, I make stuff to deal with the lich.

00:42:04.639 –> 00:42:05.840
Oh, true, true.

00:42:06.159 –> 00:42:08.719
All that’s been in high demand recently.

00:42:09.039 –> 00:42:09.360
Yeah.

00:42:10.000 –> 00:42:18.079
And word has it that the one in charge over in Aldric’s Lost, he’s been running experiments on the people there too.

00:42:18.400 –> 00:42:24.960
He’s been buying a lot of very specialized implements, kind of tools that you don’t need for anything good.

00:42:25.280 –> 00:42:28.159
The way it looks from me, I think he’s working with the lich.

00:42:29.119 –> 00:42:32.239
Well, thanks for the heads up.

00:42:32.880 –> 00:42:35.679
Yeah, and be careful around adventurers.

00:42:36.079 –> 00:42:38.960
I know you’re an adventurer yourself, but be careful around them.

00:42:39.280 –> 00:42:39.599
Yeah.

00:42:39.920 –> 00:42:49.679
Um, you know, we do from time to time come across other groups, and they tend to be untrustworthy, so we’re always on the lookout.

00:42:50.000 –> 00:42:53.440
As you reach the bottom of the stairs, he puts a hand on your shoulder, Aldric.

00:42:53.920 –> 00:42:56.000
Alright, well, I gotta get back to work.

00:42:56.320 –> 00:42:58.559
I’ll see you when you wrap up things for me.

00:42:58.880 –> 00:42:59.119
Alright.

00:42:59.280 –> 00:43:03.519
He goes walking away with a clank, clank, clank of his boots.

00:43:03.840 –> 00:43:05.360
I don’t like that guy.

00:43:06.320 –> 00:43:08.320
Well, he certainly was informative.

00:43:10.000 –> 00:43:12.320
I know you know already, but we can’t trust him.

00:43:12.639 –> 00:43:14.000
You just really can’t trust him.

00:43:14.159 –> 00:43:18.480
But maybe we can work with him as long as he can give us some cash after that.

00:43:18.960 –> 00:43:20.239
We want to keep our distance.

00:43:21.119 –> 00:43:21.519
Let’s go.

00:43:21.760 –> 00:43:35.679
As you go walking out of the foundry, the air feels a bit lighter out there, and you see the celestial sitting in the streets with Ash, looking up at you as you walk out of the building.

00:43:36.000 –> 00:43:37.360
Is she still unconscious?

00:43:37.679 –> 00:43:41.760
No, he is sitting next to her looking quite dazed.

00:43:42.400 –> 00:43:44.079
Ash, Ash, are you okay?

00:43:45.280 –> 00:43:45.920
He looks up.

00:43:46.880 –> 00:43:50.639
Nods and just keeps kind of rocking after he nods.

00:43:50.960 –> 00:43:53.440
Alright, um, does he look wounded at all?

00:43:53.840 –> 00:43:54.480
He doesn’t.

00:43:54.800 –> 00:43:56.960
Let’s get you to a safe place.

00:43:57.280 –> 00:44:01.039
As you go walking through the streets, you notice something.

00:44:01.360 –> 00:44:06.639
If you see the celestial out of the corner of your eye, you don’t notice anything strange about her.

00:44:07.599 –> 00:44:11.679
As you look a bit longer, you see that her wings are gone.

00:44:12.239 –> 00:44:13.360
She doesn’t have fangs.

00:44:13.519 –> 00:44:15.599
She looks perfectly like a normal human now.

00:44:15.920 –> 00:44:20.559
That must be why she can stand at the radar while she’s not in trouble.

00:44:22.000 –> 00:44:23.280
Seems like a lot of people do.

00:44:24.400 –> 00:44:24.639
Yeah.

00:44:25.280 –> 00:44:32.960
As you’re walking through the streets, you come up to the stalls where the vendors are as you approach the Broken Wand.

00:44:33.280 –> 00:44:36.239
And you see her walking amongst the vendors and talking to them.

00:44:36.559 –> 00:44:39.440
See them, they’re quite friendly with her and giving her free things.

00:44:39.760 –> 00:44:42.559
And she’s walking along after you guys.

00:44:42.880 –> 00:44:44.400
Do you go to the Broken Wand?

00:44:44.639 –> 00:44:46.720
Scorn, do you need to do anything first?

00:44:47.920 –> 00:44:49.119
Yeah, leave town.

00:44:50.800 –> 00:44:51.440
I’m fine.

00:44:51.679 –> 00:44:52.239
It’s all good.

00:44:52.480 –> 00:44:53.679
Broken Wand, it is.

00:44:54.000 –> 00:44:54.400
Yes.

00:44:54.960 –> 00:45:02.960
As you step into the Broken Wand, it smells pretty skunky, and you feel a little tipsy the moment you start breathing it in.

00:45:03.840 –> 00:45:05.119
What do you think of this place?

00:45:05.679 –> 00:45:06.720
What should we call you?

00:45:06.960 –> 00:45:07.760
Don’t huh?

00:45:09.079 –> 00:45:09.559
Barkeep, please.

00:45:09.880 –> 00:45:11.800
She looks uh what do you mean?

00:45:11.960 –> 00:45:12.679
What do you call me?

00:45:12.920 –> 00:45:13.800
What’s your name?

00:45:14.119 –> 00:45:15.400
Oh, I don’t got one of those.

00:45:15.880 –> 00:45:16.599
You want one?

00:45:16.920 –> 00:45:18.440
Yes, but pick a good one.

00:45:18.679 –> 00:45:19.000
Okay.

00:45:19.320 –> 00:45:20.280
I’ll think about it.

00:45:20.519 –> 00:45:21.079
Yeah, yeah.

00:45:21.320 –> 00:45:22.599
Give me a few options.

00:45:22.840 –> 00:45:24.199
Well, what do you think of this, please?

00:45:24.519 –> 00:45:32.760
He looks around and you see her glancing back and forth between the stage with the exposed skin and the bar with the exposed liquor.

00:45:33.079 –> 00:45:35.480
I’m having a hard time deciding what I want in here.

00:45:35.800 –> 00:45:37.159
Let me start with the booze.

00:45:37.239 –> 00:45:38.039
The booze is good.

00:45:38.360 –> 00:45:38.760
Uh-huh.

00:45:39.000 –> 00:45:39.800
Yeah, yeah.

00:45:40.440 –> 00:45:45.960
And she begins walking over to the bar, and you notice she is barefoot.

00:45:46.280 –> 00:45:47.559
Do all there are people in the list?

00:45:48.360 –> 00:45:48.599
No.

00:45:50.119 –> 00:45:55.480
She’s just steps up to the bar and sits down, looks back at you guys.

00:45:55.800 –> 00:45:56.840
Well, you’re paying, right?

00:45:57.159 –> 00:45:58.760
Oh, I can spot you for now.

00:46:00.119 –> 00:46:00.519
Alright.

00:46:00.679 –> 00:46:01.719
She looks at Barkeep.

00:46:01.800 –> 00:46:03.239
Give me something hard and cheap.

00:46:03.559 –> 00:46:04.679
And he pours her a shot.

00:46:04.920 –> 00:46:07.480
You see her pound it and immediately ask for another.

00:46:07.719 –> 00:46:09.079
I get quite expensive.

00:46:09.639 –> 00:46:11.639
Shall we go and see if Ash is okay?

00:46:12.280 –> 00:46:14.519
Can Ash What’s Ash doing?

00:46:14.920 –> 00:46:17.239
Is he like sitting down somewhere or standing up?

00:46:17.880 –> 00:46:19.880
Ash is just following you guys around.

00:46:20.199 –> 00:46:21.880
Right now he’s just standing with you.

00:46:22.760 –> 00:46:23.880
How do you feel?

00:46:24.199 –> 00:46:25.400
I feel okay.

00:46:25.719 –> 00:46:26.440
What happened?

00:46:26.760 –> 00:46:30.519
Well, um, how you doing, Ash?

00:46:30.840 –> 00:46:32.440
I’m not quite sure, Scorn.

00:46:32.519 –> 00:46:36.519
I remember we fell out of a tower, and I got grabbed out of the air.

00:46:36.840 –> 00:46:38.599
Oh, and fall out of a tower.

00:46:38.679 –> 00:46:40.360
I teleported us out of it.

00:46:40.679 –> 00:46:44.760
And then I passed out somewhere up in the sky after using my darkness.

00:46:45.159 –> 00:46:45.719
Uh-huh.

00:46:46.360 –> 00:46:58.840
So, yeah, we found you at the forge down in Market Town, and this nice lady was kind enough to bring you back here with us.

00:46:59.159 –> 00:47:01.480
He looks over at the Celestial.

00:47:02.119 –> 00:47:04.920
Wait, wasn’t she trying to kill us?

00:47:05.239 –> 00:47:06.920
Actually, she was not.

00:47:08.280 –> 00:47:10.280
I think if she wanted to kill us, she could have.

00:47:10.599 –> 00:47:12.440
So be nice to her.

00:47:13.079 –> 00:47:14.280
Oh, Ash, look at you.

00:47:14.519 –> 00:47:15.000
Be nice.

00:47:15.159 –> 00:47:15.480
I got it.

00:47:15.639 –> 00:47:15.960
I got it.

00:47:16.119 –> 00:47:16.280
Yeah.

00:47:16.519 –> 00:47:18.119
Begins walking towards the bar.

00:47:18.440 –> 00:47:19.960
Hey, Scorn stops him.

00:47:20.039 –> 00:47:21.079
Hey, have you still got that bag?

00:47:22.199 –> 00:47:23.320
Yeah, I got my bag.

00:47:23.639 –> 00:47:24.280
Okay, good.

00:47:24.519 –> 00:47:26.760
We’ll divvy up the loot later.

00:47:27.079 –> 00:47:27.320
Yeah.

00:47:28.280 –> 00:47:30.199
He goes and walks up to the bar.

00:47:30.519 –> 00:47:34.280
You see him sit down there and begin immediately ordering with the celestial.

00:47:34.599 –> 00:47:38.920
And you see Ipid quietly sitting in the corner of the bar.

00:47:39.239 –> 00:47:41.880
And you see a flame flickering in his eyes.

00:47:42.199 –> 00:47:49.960
A little while after you’ve been there, you see Sorcho walk out from behind stage and point at you, Scorn.

00:47:50.440 –> 00:47:52.039
You, we gotta talk.

00:47:53.159 –> 00:47:54.599
And I’m not happy.

00:47:56.119 –> 00:47:57.559
Nobody’s happy.

00:47:57.880 –> 00:47:59.960
Scorn’s gonna go talk to her.

00:48:00.599 –> 00:48:05.719
So goes backstage and immediately turns around at you once you’re past the curtains.

00:48:06.039 –> 00:48:07.960
What did you do in the tower?

00:48:08.599 –> 00:48:12.039
Oh, well, there was an unexpected wrinkle.

00:48:12.280 –> 00:48:13.559
She’s sitting at the bar now.

00:48:14.679 –> 00:48:17.960
We decoyed the wizard out of his tower.

00:48:18.119 –> 00:48:19.239
That was easy.

00:48:19.559 –> 00:48:19.719
Yeah.

00:48:20.119 –> 00:48:25.719
We didn’t account for the creature who’s been associating with him lately.

00:48:26.039 –> 00:48:27.000
She was there.

00:48:27.320 –> 00:48:30.199
And is that why you set off every trap on your way through there?

00:48:30.840 –> 00:48:31.639
No, no.

00:48:32.440 –> 00:48:32.760
She was.

00:48:32.920 –> 00:48:34.679
We found her after the traps.

00:48:35.000 –> 00:48:35.239
Okay.

00:48:35.719 –> 00:48:36.519
Oh, Sorcerer.

00:48:36.679 –> 00:48:41.639
Does it surprise you that one of the best wizards in town is a little bit better at magic than I am?

00:48:41.960 –> 00:48:43.239
Does it surprise me?

00:48:43.559 –> 00:48:43.800
No.

00:48:44.360 –> 00:48:46.039
What I heard it be that way?

00:48:46.280 –> 00:48:47.079
Also, no.

00:48:48.039 –> 00:48:49.400
It was not easy.

00:48:49.719 –> 00:48:52.280
Actually, it was a little harder than I expected.

00:48:52.599 –> 00:48:58.280
And there was the bit at the end where she grabbed Ash and took off with him.

00:48:58.519 –> 00:49:00.039
She tried to grab me, too.

00:49:00.519 –> 00:49:01.320
She’s very strong.

00:49:01.639 –> 00:49:03.239
So tell me about this complication.

00:49:03.400 –> 00:49:04.599
What’s going on with that?

00:49:05.880 –> 00:49:08.360
We’re going to get her out of town for a while.

00:49:09.000 –> 00:49:10.039
It would appear.

00:49:10.360 –> 00:49:11.800
And yes, I actually believe her.

00:49:11.960 –> 00:49:14.840
She doesn’t seem to be the type to use guile.

00:49:16.119 –> 00:49:19.480
She was just using him as a meal ticket.

00:49:19.800 –> 00:49:20.760
Well, drink ticket.

00:49:21.000 –> 00:49:22.679
He’s well to do and easily manipulated.

00:49:22.840 –> 00:49:23.400
That was it.

00:49:23.719 –> 00:49:23.960
Okay.

00:49:24.599 –> 00:49:28.519
Now, whatever other magical research he might have been up to, I’m not sure.

00:49:28.840 –> 00:49:32.440
You wanted to know what she was doing with him, and I think we know now.

00:49:32.760 –> 00:49:36.119
Well, it’s good to know that he’s easily manipulated.

00:49:36.440 –> 00:49:39.960
We have lots of great manipulators here, and that’s a good way in.

00:49:40.280 –> 00:49:43.880
Well, I’m glad that something useful to you came out of this.

00:49:45.639 –> 00:49:49.159
Has the wizard been making any trouble since someone set off all his traps?

00:49:49.480 –> 00:49:50.119
Oh, yeah.

00:49:50.440 –> 00:49:51.800
For that, I apologize.

00:49:52.119 –> 00:49:54.920
No one’s made this much of a fuss in town in a decade.

00:49:55.239 –> 00:49:57.639
He has got the whole guard running around the whole place.

00:49:57.960 –> 00:49:59.880
Everything is up in the air right now.

00:50:00.199 –> 00:50:00.360
Oh.

00:50:00.599 –> 00:50:00.840
Okay.

00:50:01.320 –> 00:50:05.320
So getting her out of town is a good idea because that will get us out of town, too.

00:50:05.960 –> 00:50:06.519
Yes.

00:50:06.840 –> 00:50:08.840
Yeah, and he has dropped.

00:50:10.400 –> 00:50:12.320
Of you guys, and they’re pretty accurate.

00:50:12.639 –> 00:50:14.000
I wonder how he managed that.

00:50:14.159 –> 00:50:15.039
He didn’t see us.

00:50:15.360 –> 00:50:16.639
He’s a wizard.

00:50:17.119 –> 00:50:18.719
I’m sure he could have done something.

00:50:19.840 –> 00:50:21.280
Guards looking for us, huh?

00:50:21.599 –> 00:50:23.119
How often do they come into this place?

00:50:23.440 –> 00:50:24.079
This place?

00:50:24.559 –> 00:50:25.039
Never.

00:50:25.360 –> 00:50:27.440
Well, then we came to the right place.

00:50:28.000 –> 00:50:28.880
Lucky us.

00:50:29.360 –> 00:50:31.280
But outside this place?

00:50:31.599 –> 00:50:32.400
They’re watching.

00:50:32.719 –> 00:50:32.800
Okay.

00:50:33.119 –> 00:50:33.920
Alright then.

00:50:34.559 –> 00:50:36.559
So they probably know you’re in here.

00:50:36.880 –> 00:50:37.039
Okay.

00:50:38.880 –> 00:50:42.000
We’re going to get her out of town tomorrow.

00:50:42.320 –> 00:50:47.840
If there’s anything your people can do about the guards, please do so.

00:50:48.159 –> 00:50:53.119
We can give you about 30 minutes to get out of get out of here.

00:50:53.760 –> 00:50:55.440
Well, do we need to do that right away?

00:50:55.679 –> 00:50:56.800
Or could it be tomorrow?

00:50:57.199 –> 00:50:57.840
Be tomorrow.

00:50:58.079 –> 00:50:58.480
Okay, then.

00:50:58.639 –> 00:51:01.119
It’d probably be easier tomorrow, to be honest.

00:51:01.679 –> 00:51:03.199
It would appear we’re spending the night here.

00:51:03.920 –> 00:51:08.480
We’re going to need some help with you backstage while we prepare to get your little getaway.

00:51:09.039 –> 00:51:09.360
Okay.

00:51:10.000 –> 00:51:13.199
I’ll message Aldrich with the message spell.

00:51:13.440 –> 00:51:15.920
We’re uh I’m going to be backstage for a bit.

00:51:16.159 –> 00:51:16.960
Everything’s fine.

00:51:17.199 –> 00:51:18.320
Don’t leave the bar.

00:51:18.559 –> 00:51:19.199
Bye.

00:51:19.519 –> 00:51:20.639
We’re just going to rest here.

00:51:20.880 –> 00:51:21.920
Too much has happened.

00:51:22.559 –> 00:51:26.639
Um yeah, Scorn will follow her backstage, find out what she needs.

00:51:27.039 –> 00:51:27.519
Just look.

00:51:27.920 –> 00:51:32.239
See her digging through a chest, begin pulling out all sorts of disguise supplies.

00:51:32.559 –> 00:51:39.679
So here’s what we’re gonna do: we’re gonna get five decoys to go out and run, and then you guys go after.

00:51:40.719 –> 00:51:42.719
Well, that doesn’t sound dangerous for you at all.

00:51:42.960 –> 00:51:44.320
Um, all right.

00:51:44.800 –> 00:51:48.559
We just need a little time to help you get prepared and get a good look at you.

00:51:48.880 –> 00:51:49.679
Oh, okay.

00:51:50.159 –> 00:51:55.360
You can see her pulling out a palette and start mixing a blue paint to try and match your skin.

00:51:55.679 –> 00:52:02.239
And as you two are sitting out there at the bars, it is a bit less lively than when Scorn was playing last time.

00:52:02.559 –> 00:52:06.880
And the tavern has a sort of mellow feel to it as people walk in and out.

00:52:07.199 –> 00:52:12.239
Just generally to appreciate the atmosphere, have a few drinks, and make a few deals.

00:52:12.559 –> 00:52:18.000
The bartender looks over you, looks straight backstage, and looks back at you guys.

00:52:18.320 –> 00:52:19.440
So you’re getting a room?

00:52:19.760 –> 00:52:20.079
Yeah.

00:52:20.320 –> 00:52:21.360
How many rooms?

00:52:22.559 –> 00:52:25.280
Did we get individual rooms last time?

00:52:25.840 –> 00:52:26.719
I don’t remember.

00:52:27.199 –> 00:52:27.920
To the DM.

00:52:28.159 –> 00:52:29.199
Did we get individual?

00:52:30.559 –> 00:52:34.159
Last time you rested, you had individual rooms, but that was at the safe house.

00:52:34.480 –> 00:52:35.440
Oh, that was there.

00:52:35.760 –> 00:52:36.079
Yeah.

00:52:36.719 –> 00:52:38.880
You’ve done both shared and individual rooms.

00:52:39.199 –> 00:52:47.679
Well, I guess we need one for if it’s Scorn dash myself and disallow it still.

00:52:49.119 –> 00:52:50.880
How much for six rooms?

00:52:51.440 –> 00:52:52.239
Six rooms.

00:52:52.800 –> 00:52:54.159
That’ll be 14 gold.

00:52:54.400 –> 00:52:54.880
Right.

00:52:56.159 –> 00:52:57.199
Yeah, six rooms.

00:52:57.360 –> 00:52:59.199
We’re going to stay at least one night.

00:52:59.519 –> 00:53:00.639
Probably just one night for now.

00:53:00.960 –> 00:53:01.599
We’ll do one night.

00:53:02.079 –> 00:53:02.800
Just one night?

00:53:03.039 –> 00:53:03.360
Yeah.

00:53:03.679 –> 00:53:08.320
The bartender reaches under the bar and pulls out a few keys for you.

00:53:08.639 –> 00:53:10.639
Now, just bring these back in the morning.

00:53:12.000 –> 00:53:19.840
As the bar mellows and you prepare for the night, is there anything you will do overnight to prepare for tomorrow?

00:53:20.159 –> 00:53:20.480
Oh.

00:53:21.679 –> 00:53:26.400
We should have a look at the magic items that we absconded with.

00:53:26.719 –> 00:53:27.280
Yes.

00:53:27.599 –> 00:53:32.639
And before he goes into the before he retires, Scorn is going to play at least one song.

00:53:32.960 –> 00:53:34.800
Alright, roll performance for that song.

00:53:35.039 –> 00:53:37.199
Boy, that’s absolutely terrible.

00:53:38.320 –> 00:53:39.199
I got a twelve.

00:53:39.280 –> 00:53:40.159
It’s mediocre.

00:53:40.480 –> 00:53:43.519
It’s not an exciting night, and you get seven gold.

00:53:43.840 –> 00:53:44.079
Okay.

00:53:45.679 –> 00:53:48.239
And Scorn’s song is in the chat.

00:53:48.480 –> 00:53:49.360
Oh, wow.

00:53:50.960 –> 00:53:51.519
Yes.

00:53:51.840 –> 00:53:54.639
And yes, some people may recognize that song.

00:53:54.880 –> 00:53:56.480
You’re going to steal steel from the best.

00:53:56.719 –> 00:53:57.199
Seven gold.

00:53:57.280 –> 00:53:57.840
Oh, my God.

00:53:58.079 –> 00:53:58.239
Okay.

00:53:58.559 –> 00:54:03.280
I think Aldric would be trying to get Ash to rest and make sure he’s okay.

00:54:03.920 –> 00:54:05.360
Ash makes it up to the room.

00:54:05.679 –> 00:54:08.639
Seems a bit dazed as he goes in and lays down.

00:54:08.960 –> 00:54:09.199
Yeah.

00:54:09.360 –> 00:54:12.960
Um, I’ve totally forgotten what we stole from that wizard’s tower.

00:54:13.280 –> 00:54:14.480
Oh, that’s alright.

00:54:14.800 –> 00:54:19.360
So, you guys got three things from the wizard’s tower.

00:54:20.559 –> 00:54:25.440
You’ve got elven chain mail, a rune sword, and a cloak of protection.

00:54:25.760 –> 00:54:26.079
Okay.

00:54:26.480 –> 00:54:28.239
Well, I’ve got a cloak of protection.

00:54:28.480 –> 00:54:29.280
I’m good on that.

00:54:29.599 –> 00:54:29.920
Hmm.

00:54:30.000 –> 00:54:31.199
And I’ve got right.

00:54:31.679 –> 00:54:34.159
Anybody else want the elven chain mail?

00:54:34.400 –> 00:54:35.039
I’ll take the break.

00:54:35.519 –> 00:54:36.159
Oh, okay.

00:54:37.599 –> 00:54:39.039
I’m kind of thinking I could use it.

00:54:40.720 –> 00:54:42.159
My armor class is pitiful.

00:54:42.400 –> 00:54:42.960
Yeah, go ahead.

00:54:44.639 –> 00:54:46.159
Was that a chain shirt?

00:54:46.480 –> 00:54:47.599
Or was it chain mail?

00:54:47.920 –> 00:54:48.639
Chain shirt shirt.

00:54:49.440 –> 00:54:51.039
Well, that’s medium armor.

00:54:52.320 –> 00:54:55.119
Yeah, I’ll have an AC-16 with that.

00:54:55.440 –> 00:54:55.760
Okay.

00:54:56.320 –> 00:55:01.199
Alright, we’re going to have a 15-minute break here, and then we’re going to pick up in the morning as they’re leaving the tavern.

00:55:02.239 –> 00:55:02.639
Yes.

00:55:04.239 –> 00:55:04.639
Ooh.

00:55:04.880 –> 00:55:05.280
Wow.

00:55:05.519 –> 00:55:05.840
Okay.

00:55:13.320 –> 00:55:16.679
So, I’m going to start off recapping a bit where we’re at.

00:55:17.320 –> 00:55:20.039
You’ve recovered Ash and the Celestial.

00:55:20.360 –> 00:55:24.280
Found a variety of helpful items that you have stolen from a very angry wizard.

00:55:24.599 –> 00:55:27.159
And now you are preparing to leave town.

00:55:27.480 –> 00:55:32.840
Are you going to do the job for Raymond, or are you going to skip town instead?

00:55:33.480 –> 00:55:37.000
Oh, um, I think Raymond’s job would kind of get us out of town.

00:55:37.320 –> 00:55:39.239
Yes, but you’ll have to go back to collect payment.

00:55:42.199 –> 00:55:45.400
Oh, how we need to find Morrigan the craftsman.

00:55:46.360 –> 00:55:47.400
Oh, yes.

00:55:48.039 –> 00:55:55.880
Um, my thinking is if we go into the mines for a while, when we come back, there won’t be quite as much heat.

00:55:56.199 –> 00:55:58.440
Yeah, let things cool off.

00:55:58.760 –> 00:56:00.679
Um, or we could leave town.

00:56:01.000 –> 00:56:02.039
I’m fine either way.

00:56:02.199 –> 00:56:04.840
I would kind of like to investigate the cult.

00:56:05.159 –> 00:56:07.400
That’s that could be kind of important.

00:56:08.039 –> 00:56:09.960
Uh, Aldrich can’t hear you.

00:56:11.000 –> 00:56:11.719
Oh, sorry.

00:56:11.960 –> 00:56:19.000
What if Starling and Aldric went to see Morrigan while Scorn lays low for a bit?

00:56:19.320 –> 00:56:19.960
Would that be enough?

00:56:20.119 –> 00:56:21.239
Would that take a while?

00:56:21.639 –> 00:56:25.800
Or could we do that and because I don’t think we’re being looked for?

00:56:26.119 –> 00:56:26.920
Is that right?

00:56:27.239 –> 00:56:28.599
Unless they know you with me.

00:56:28.920 –> 00:56:34.360
Well, from what they told you, it’s only Scorn and Ash that are being actively looked for.

00:56:34.679 –> 00:56:34.920
Okay.

00:56:35.400 –> 00:56:36.840
So we could go out in the morning.

00:56:37.480 –> 00:56:42.039
We could say that Starling and Aldric maybe go out in the morning, try to find this Morrigan person.

00:56:42.440 –> 00:56:44.440
If that’s not going to take a long time.

00:56:44.760 –> 00:56:45.320
Yes.

00:56:45.639 –> 00:56:45.880
Yeah.

00:56:46.199 –> 00:56:47.559
You want to take Yippid with you?

00:56:47.800 –> 00:56:50.840
He looks like Yiddish will follow along quietly.

00:56:51.159 –> 00:56:51.880
Simmering.

00:56:53.239 –> 00:56:55.639
What did we go and find this Morrigan from Prince of Four?

00:56:56.280 –> 00:56:58.599
Oh, you remember those stones you got from a witch?

00:56:59.239 –> 00:57:00.199
Well, kind of.

00:57:03.000 –> 00:57:04.360
Of course, spirits, yeah.

00:57:05.000 –> 00:57:06.920
What do we want to do with those spheres?

00:57:07.000 –> 00:57:09.079
We want to get them identified or something.

00:57:09.320 –> 00:57:12.360
I guess they could be crafted with something extremely valuable.

00:57:15.159 –> 00:57:15.960
Okay, sure.

00:57:16.360 –> 00:57:17.559
Let’s go see about that.

00:57:18.199 –> 00:57:20.199
How do you go about finding Morrigan?

00:57:20.519 –> 00:57:21.000
Good question.

00:57:21.400 –> 00:57:24.280
I think we should stop by and ask Raymond for a ship’s over.

00:57:26.440 –> 00:57:28.119
So it’s morning time, though, isn’t it?

00:57:28.440 –> 00:57:28.599
Yeah.

00:57:29.320 –> 00:57:32.280
Raymond’s at the foundry basically all day.

00:57:32.840 –> 00:57:35.719
We could drop by in the morning, ask him if he knows.

00:57:36.039 –> 00:57:36.199
Yeah.

00:57:36.519 –> 00:57:37.079
Sounds good.

00:57:37.159 –> 00:57:38.440
He seems to know everybody.

00:57:38.760 –> 00:57:42.199
I just wouldn’t tell him that we’re not going to do his hearing.

00:57:42.440 –> 00:57:42.840
Oh, yeah.

00:57:42.920 –> 00:57:43.639
That’ll be fine.

00:57:43.800 –> 00:57:44.440
We’re not?

00:57:45.079 –> 00:57:46.199
Oh, are we going to reappear?

00:57:48.679 –> 00:57:52.039
I’m good either way, but I thought we had decided.

00:57:52.360 –> 00:57:53.880
If we haven’t decided yet, okay.

00:57:54.519 –> 00:57:55.480
That’ll be the decision.

00:57:56.360 –> 00:57:57.559
You’re going to tell him we’re not doing it.

00:57:57.719 –> 00:57:57.960
Okay.

00:58:03.719 –> 00:58:10.119
You’ve noticed Scorn has this very, very healthy sense of paranoia that stops working whenever it would be really useful.

00:58:12.039 –> 00:58:16.760
So he’s all in favor of going down to the mines and investigating the cult.

00:58:17.559 –> 00:58:18.840
Might not be a good idea.

00:58:19.159 –> 00:58:22.280
So, yeah, we’ll go to Raymond.

00:58:22.360 –> 00:58:25.159
We’ll try and see if we can find something out from him.

00:58:25.480 –> 00:58:32.519
As you’re walking up to the building outside the foundry, you find him standing outside a cigarette between his fingers.

00:58:32.840 –> 00:58:33.239
Raymond.

00:58:33.800 –> 00:58:35.159
Staring off into space.

00:58:35.480 –> 00:58:36.199
Raymond.

00:58:36.599 –> 00:58:37.000
Hello?

00:58:37.400 –> 00:58:43.480
He’s kind of just staring into nothing for a while, keeps smoking, then looks over at you after about five minutes.

00:58:44.119 –> 00:58:44.679
Raymond.

00:58:45.000 –> 00:58:45.159
Yeah.

00:58:45.639 –> 00:58:45.719
Okay.

00:58:46.519 –> 00:58:46.760
Yeah.

00:58:47.719 –> 00:58:48.199
I’m fine.

00:58:48.280 –> 00:58:49.639
I’m just taking a quick smoke.

00:58:49.880 –> 00:58:51.559
You seem a little spaced out.

00:58:52.199 –> 00:58:54.280
Oh, it’s just the time of day.

00:58:55.079 –> 00:58:56.360
Still not quite awake yet.

00:58:56.679 –> 00:58:57.239
Fair enough.

00:58:57.960 –> 00:59:04.440
We are looking, actually, for some information that can help us with that mine job that you’re asking us to do.

00:59:04.760 –> 00:59:06.360
Aldrich will kind of lie.

00:59:06.679 –> 00:59:11.159
Raymond and say, there’s a person in town by the name.

00:59:11.559 –> 00:59:12.920
I think it’s Morrigan.

00:59:13.159 –> 00:59:13.639
Morrigan.

00:59:13.880 –> 00:59:14.920
Morrigan, yeah.

00:59:15.719 –> 00:59:18.199
They’re going to be able to help us craft something.

00:59:18.519 –> 00:59:22.920
And that will actually help us as we go investigate world deception.

00:59:23.239 –> 00:59:24.679
So minus one.

00:59:24.920 –> 00:59:26.119
See my role.

00:59:27.000 –> 00:59:27.400
Let’s see.

00:59:30.360 –> 00:59:31.000
Seven.

00:59:31.559 –> 00:59:32.840
Raymond looks at you.

00:59:33.159 –> 00:59:36.920
You know, I know who you’re looking for.

00:59:37.239 –> 00:59:39.239
He’s a tinkerer, a magical sort.

00:59:39.880 –> 00:59:43.800
What could you possibly be needing that’s going to help you in the mines?

00:59:45.079 –> 00:59:46.760
Um, oh, we’re sweating.

00:59:51.239 –> 00:59:58.360
Um, yeah, well, uh, we were both magic users.

00:59:59.000 –> 00:59:59.239
Yeah.

00:59:59.720 –> 01:00:01.320
So, they’re gonna make this.

01:00:01.960 –> 01:00:10.840
We have a certain object that they’re gonna enhance the power of, and we’re gonna be able to use the magic in that stone to make magic things.

01:00:12.239 –> 01:00:12.480
Happen.

01:00:12.800 –> 01:00:14.000
It’s very complicated.

01:00:14.159 –> 01:00:16.480
If you’re not a magic dude, you wouldn’t understand.

01:00:18.639 –> 01:00:23.440
You see him put out his current cigarette by crushing it in his hand and then pull out another one.

01:00:23.760 –> 01:00:27.920
Pulls out a small lighter out of his pocket, lights it, and begins smoking another one.

01:00:28.639 –> 01:00:29.039
That’s you.

01:00:29.440 –> 01:00:34.480
I don’t think you’re quite being honest with me, but I don’t want to be involved in wizard shit.

01:00:35.599 –> 01:00:38.000
You know, actually, it’s related to other adventuring stuff.

01:00:38.639 –> 01:00:40.800
Just keep your wizard shit away from me.

01:00:41.119 –> 01:00:42.480
I don’t need your wizard shit.

01:00:42.719 –> 01:00:44.239
That’s why I was lying to you.

01:00:44.639 –> 01:00:46.400
It’s better if you don’t know it.

01:00:48.639 –> 01:00:49.119
Well, it’s such.

01:00:49.440 –> 01:00:52.079
You see, that’s where you can kind of mess things up.

01:00:52.320 –> 01:00:54.639
Most people, you don’t admit that you’re lying.

01:00:54.960 –> 01:00:58.000
Right, but it was for your own good.

01:00:58.320 –> 01:01:02.320
Like, you know, you don’t want to know because it will mess you up in your business.

01:01:02.559 –> 01:01:04.079
And you’re saying it’s wizard shit.

01:01:04.400 –> 01:01:04.719
Oh.

01:01:05.360 –> 01:01:06.480
Well, I thought you didn’t.

01:01:07.039 –> 01:01:07.280
Okay.

01:01:07.599 –> 01:01:08.559
It’s wizard shit.

01:01:08.880 –> 01:01:12.480
Yeah, I work with wizards, and that’s why I don’t want to get involved in their business.

01:01:12.800 –> 01:01:12.960
Yeah.

01:01:13.280 –> 01:01:14.239
Neither do I, really.

01:01:15.039 –> 01:01:17.119
I’ve seen wizards turn people inside out.

01:01:17.280 –> 01:01:19.679
Just dump them on the street, points a finger at them.

01:01:20.400 –> 01:01:21.360
Guts everywhere.

01:01:21.679 –> 01:01:24.559
Yeah, you gotta control what you’re using.

01:01:24.960 –> 01:01:30.480
We found these guys in a tavern messing things up with fire.

01:01:30.800 –> 01:01:34.239
They didn’t know how to use that, which just ended so badly for them.

01:01:34.400 –> 01:01:35.440
The tavern’s gone.

01:01:35.679 –> 01:01:36.320
As you can imagine.

01:01:36.719 –> 01:01:37.840
Yeah, I can imagine.

01:01:38.159 –> 01:01:39.119
So you killed them all?

01:01:39.199 –> 01:01:39.920
Is that what you’re saying?

01:01:40.400 –> 01:01:41.280
They almost killed them.

01:01:41.519 –> 01:01:43.119
You blew up a whole tavern on him?

01:01:43.519 –> 01:01:46.719
They kind of almost did half of that themselves, really.

01:01:46.960 –> 01:01:48.320
It was a bit of both of us.

01:01:48.639 –> 01:01:50.320
He’s kind of looking at you.

01:01:50.639 –> 01:01:54.400
And he puts out the cigarette he was working on and smoking his third.

01:01:55.119 –> 01:01:56.239
They had it coming.

01:01:56.559 –> 01:01:58.079
They had it coming, you said.

01:01:58.400 –> 01:02:00.800
I mean, just telling yourself.

01:02:01.119 –> 01:02:02.639
Do you kill people a lot?

01:02:03.280 –> 01:02:03.599
No.

01:02:04.559 –> 01:02:06.559
When was the last time you killed someone?

01:02:06.880 –> 01:02:09.280
Well, I mean, like, a couple of days ago.

01:02:09.599 –> 01:02:11.440
See, most people would say never.

01:02:13.840 –> 01:02:15.360
But it’s kind of part of the job.

01:02:16.400 –> 01:02:18.159
You know, you go trying to.

01:02:18.800 –> 01:02:32.079
You go on missions or you try and do things for people for money, and sometimes other people don’t want you to do those things, and sometimes they try to stop you doing those things, and you have to stop them stopping you.

01:02:32.400 –> 01:02:34.960
He takes a long drag on his cigarette.

01:02:35.280 –> 01:02:40.400
So what you’re doing now is you’re not studying no more, and instead you’re killing people for money.

01:02:40.719 –> 01:02:41.599
And you know what?

01:02:41.679 –> 01:02:44.239
You learn a lot by being out in the world.

01:02:46.800 –> 01:02:49.039
Look, the killing thing, that’s just a…

01:02:49.440 –> 01:02:50.719
That’s not the main goal.

01:02:51.039 –> 01:02:53.599
I can’t help it if the world is evil and dangerous.

01:02:53.920 –> 01:02:56.239
Takes another long pull on his cigarette.

01:02:56.559 –> 01:02:58.159
Well, fuck Aldrich.

01:02:59.039 –> 01:03:02.559
You’ve gotten into the thick of it since I last saw you.

01:03:03.199 –> 01:03:03.519
Yeah.

01:03:03.840 –> 01:03:04.639
I mean, things.

01:03:05.519 –> 01:03:09.599
Things were not moving along very well for me in those days.

01:03:09.760 –> 01:03:16.559
So, yeah, since I found these adventures on this group, we’ve been learning actually a lot more than I thought.

01:03:17.360 –> 01:03:17.760
Ah.

01:03:18.079 –> 01:03:22.320
Yeah, I guess that’s how wizards get to the point where they just turn you inside out.

01:03:22.639 –> 01:03:24.320
So used to killing people don’t even.

01:03:26.719 –> 01:03:28.800
I hope I never reached that point, though.

01:03:29.119 –> 01:03:30.400
I mean, that’s quite evil.

01:03:31.119 –> 01:03:34.159
Trust me, it’s only people that, you know, that are doing bad things.

01:03:35.039 –> 01:03:36.159
We’re a nice group.

01:03:36.719 –> 01:03:39.440
You’re a nice group, so you only kill the people you don’t like.

01:03:39.760 –> 01:03:42.239
Uh, uh, what’s the time?

01:03:42.800 –> 01:03:44.079
We need to be going, Starling.

01:03:44.239 –> 01:03:45.039
I think I knew you’re going.

01:03:46.159 –> 01:03:48.320
Yeah, Raymond, I don’t really understand it myself.

01:03:48.400 –> 01:03:49.679
It’s just wizard shit, man.

01:03:50.159 –> 01:03:52.159
He takes another drag on his cigarette.

01:03:52.400 –> 01:03:53.920
Yeah, wizard shit.

01:03:54.559 –> 01:03:55.440
Yeah, bro.

01:03:55.760 –> 01:03:57.679
Well, I gotta go back to work.

01:03:58.000 –> 01:04:02.480
Well, but did you know where this Morrigan person was?

01:04:03.199 –> 01:04:04.159
Yeah, yeah.

01:04:04.480 –> 01:04:11.760
Okay, so wherever we’re at here, you want to head about east for about, oh, three or four blocks.

01:04:12.079 –> 01:04:14.320
And then you’re going to start to hear some screaming.

01:04:15.360 –> 01:04:17.440
That’s the general direction you want to head in.

01:04:18.320 –> 01:04:20.159
Don’t let the screaming bother you much.

01:04:20.320 –> 01:04:21.679
It’s not actually screaming.

01:04:21.760 –> 01:04:23.519
It’s just what his workshop sounds like.

01:04:23.840 –> 01:04:24.239
You know?

01:04:24.559 –> 01:04:26.880
It makes you feel better to think about it that way.

01:04:28.639 –> 01:04:28.880
Okay.

01:04:29.360 –> 01:04:30.480
Thanks, Raymond.

01:04:30.720 –> 01:04:34.159
Yeah, well, best of luck, and I hope you don’t go around killing people.

01:04:34.960 –> 01:04:35.440
God damn.

01:04:38.000 –> 01:04:40.239
He goes walking inside the foundry.

01:04:40.559 –> 01:04:41.519
It’s not like that.

01:04:41.920 –> 01:04:42.079
Okay.

01:04:48.000 –> 01:04:54.000
Should we starling, you know, some of that may have been true, but, you know.

01:04:54.639 –> 01:04:57.280
Aldric, just tell the truth.

01:04:57.440 –> 01:04:58.720
Just tell the truth from now on.

01:04:58.800 –> 01:04:59.760
I think you’ll be better.

01:05:04.880 –> 01:05:05.679
Oh, dear.

01:05:06.000 –> 01:05:06.480
Should we go?

01:05:06.800 –> 01:05:11.920
As you go walking down the streets, you make it a couple blocks before you hear the most horrendous wail you’ve ever.

01:05:13.159 –> 01:05:13.400
Ever.

01:05:13.800 –> 01:05:14.360
Holy.

01:05:15.000 –> 01:05:17.000
I totally thought, like, whale sample.

01:05:24.039 –> 01:05:27.000
It sounds like a banshee being run through a guitar amp.

01:05:27.239 –> 01:05:34.360
As it howls over you, you hear it skipping every so often, and then you hear it stop.

01:05:34.679 –> 01:05:37.960
And you hear a lot of swearing coming from that direction.

01:05:38.280 –> 01:05:41.400
Remind me to check the property values in this area.

01:05:42.920 –> 01:05:44.920
Well, Aldrich, that’s where we need to go.

01:05:45.239 –> 01:05:45.559
Yeah.

01:05:45.880 –> 01:05:49.800
I clutch my amulet of Turn of the Dead, and that’s it.

01:05:49.960 –> 01:05:52.280
Just clutch it and then walk forward.

01:05:52.679 –> 01:05:53.079
Scared.

01:05:53.559 –> 01:06:01.079
As you’re walking forward, you see a large open-air workshop with a covered roof and no walls.

01:06:01.400 –> 01:06:07.639
And there you see one of the largest, most horrendous creatures you’ve ever seen walking on two legs.

01:06:07.960 –> 01:06:10.199
A long, wolfish face.

01:06:10.760 –> 01:06:17.320
Thick, furry body rippling with muscles, and long claws extending out of his hands.

01:06:17.639 –> 01:06:20.760
His eyes are a deep black.

01:06:21.239 –> 01:06:22.760
You see no iris.

01:06:23.639 –> 01:06:26.599
And you hear him swearing at his workplace.

01:06:26.920 –> 01:06:32.519
First thing you hear from him as you turn around the corner to his workshop is God damn McFucket!

01:06:32.920 –> 01:06:38.039
And you see him holding a hammer and swinging at it at a contraption that spins belts for grinding.

01:06:38.360 –> 01:06:40.599
Arlen, do you want to do the talking here or tonight?

01:06:41.480 –> 01:06:42.360
I guess I’ll walk you.

01:06:42.679 –> 01:06:43.400
We should have brought Ash.

01:06:43.480 –> 01:06:44.280
You love this guy.

01:06:44.519 –> 01:06:47.480
We brought Ipid, but I think he’s looking a bit quiet.

01:06:47.960 –> 01:06:48.599
That’s all you need.

01:06:48.840 –> 01:06:49.480
Come on, Ipid.

01:06:49.639 –> 01:06:50.280
Come on, Alder.

01:06:50.679 –> 01:06:51.000
Alright.

01:06:51.239 –> 01:06:54.599
He’s going to walk up, big, huge, bulky, furry person.

01:06:54.920 –> 01:06:57.880
As you walk up to him, he stands up straight to look at you.

01:06:58.199 –> 01:06:59.320
And he looks down.

01:06:59.639 –> 01:07:03.079
He’s about 18 feet tall when he’s fully standing.

01:07:03.559 –> 01:07:04.519
He’s a wolf person.

01:07:04.840 –> 01:07:05.159
Yeah.

01:07:05.480 –> 01:07:10.039
You see, the hammer he’s holding is fit to be an anvil if you put it down.

01:07:10.360 –> 01:07:11.880
That’s very impressive.

01:07:12.199 –> 01:07:13.480
He looks over at you.

01:07:13.800 –> 01:07:14.760
What do you want?

01:07:15.079 –> 01:07:16.840
Um, you’re Morrigan, right?

01:07:17.159 –> 01:07:17.480
Yeah.

01:07:17.800 –> 01:07:20.440
You’re not the Morrigan, you’re just Morrigan.

01:07:20.599 –> 01:07:21.719
I’m just Morrigan.

01:07:22.039 –> 01:07:22.599
Okay, great.

01:07:22.679 –> 01:07:24.280
You’re exactly who I came to see.

01:07:24.519 –> 01:07:30.599
Um, she’s gonna get like really close, kind of lean in, and kind of present the orb of quartz to him.

01:07:30.920 –> 01:07:32.039
What can you do with this?

01:07:32.360 –> 01:07:34.039
Or what are you willing to do with it?

01:07:34.360 –> 01:07:35.480
Show me your hands.

01:07:35.800 –> 01:07:37.320
He looks at your hands.

01:07:37.639 –> 01:07:39.320
You made a deal with a witch.

01:07:39.559 –> 01:07:40.519
What do you want?

01:07:40.840 –> 01:07:44.360
Um I want this uh spear to be useful to me.

01:07:44.840 –> 01:07:45.079
Okay.

01:07:45.559 –> 01:07:46.920
I can do a lot with a sphere.

01:07:47.079 –> 01:07:49.559
What we can do so much with these things.

01:07:52.840 –> 01:07:53.639
One in the background.

01:07:53.800 –> 01:07:54.920
Whoa, I got one too.

01:07:55.480 –> 01:07:57.400
I can make it so you can put a spell in it.

01:07:57.719 –> 01:08:00.679
Keep on hand for whenever you need another one.

01:08:01.239 –> 01:08:02.840
I could make it shoot fire.

01:08:03.320 –> 01:08:05.159
I could make it explode when you throw it.

01:08:06.599 –> 01:08:08.199
The opportunities are endless here, okay?

01:08:08.280 –> 01:08:09.400
This is enchanted quartz.

01:08:09.480 –> 01:08:10.519
There’s all sorts of things.

01:08:10.840 –> 01:08:13.800
Your imagination is the limit, so you’ve got to give me some direction.

01:08:14.760 –> 01:08:17.640
Can you make them work together?

01:08:17.880 –> 01:08:18.840
I have a stone too.

01:08:19.159 –> 01:08:20.279
How do you want them to work together?

01:08:20.439 –> 01:08:21.880
What do you want to do with the two of them?

01:08:22.119 –> 01:08:23.720
Well, I had an idea.

01:08:24.039 –> 01:08:26.520
Sometimes we need to get somewhere real quick.

01:08:26.840 –> 01:08:34.920
And sometimes we’re not in that place, but we want to be in the if one of us has the stone, we can travel to the other person.

01:08:35.560 –> 01:08:36.279
Teleport.

01:08:36.600 –> 01:08:36.840
Okay.

01:08:37.079 –> 01:08:38.039
Yeah, we can do that.

01:08:38.359 –> 01:08:39.079
That sounds great.

01:08:39.239 –> 01:08:39.800
Yeah, let’s see.

01:08:40.199 –> 01:08:41.800
How many people do you want to be able to take?

01:08:42.039 –> 01:08:42.760
I don’t know.

01:08:43.079 –> 01:08:43.399
One?

01:08:43.800 –> 01:08:45.880
Do you think I want to arrive intact?

01:08:46.199 –> 01:08:47.399
Yes, preferably.

01:08:47.560 –> 01:08:49.479
How many limbs is an acceptable loss?

01:08:49.720 –> 01:08:50.520
Zero.

01:08:51.479 –> 01:08:52.760
Okay, I think I can work with that.

01:08:53.159 –> 01:08:55.319
You want a stone that can teleport you to the other one.

01:08:55.640 –> 01:08:55.720
Yeah.

01:08:55.960 –> 01:08:57.560
Unless you had any other ideas, Starling.

01:08:59.239 –> 01:09:00.279
That was very creative.

01:09:00.359 –> 01:09:01.399
That sounds wonderful, Aldric.

01:09:01.720 –> 01:09:04.840
Yeah, I’m just thinking, because we don’t have a lot of movement-based stuff.

01:09:05.079 –> 01:09:10.760
Like our previous circumstances with that tower there, we need more movement.

01:09:11.079 –> 01:09:11.640
I agree.

01:09:11.960 –> 01:09:16.039
So, the stone, when you use it, it’ll teleport you next to the other stone.

01:09:16.359 –> 01:09:16.520
Yeah.

01:09:16.920 –> 01:09:17.319
Yes.

01:09:17.560 –> 01:09:17.800
Okay.

01:09:18.279 –> 01:09:20.359
Now, I need you to understand this.

01:09:20.680 –> 01:09:22.680
You want them distance between them, right?

01:09:22.920 –> 01:09:24.520
You don’t want them right on top of each other?

01:09:24.840 –> 01:09:28.520
Because I couldn’t make it, so it teleports it right into each other and becomes a whole mess.

01:09:28.760 –> 01:09:30.359
This is going to be a friendly thing.

01:09:31.319 –> 01:09:33.319
Yeah, friendly people meet each other.

01:09:33.399 –> 01:09:35.640
I think I’ve heard an experiment like that once.

01:09:36.039 –> 01:09:39.399
Okay, so you don’t want to get mangled in horrific ways.

01:09:41.720 –> 01:09:44.039
I mean, it sounds like a good thing to do to your enemies.

01:09:44.359 –> 01:09:46.680
Well, I think this is going to be for friends.

01:09:47.000 –> 01:09:47.640
Okay, okay.

01:09:47.880 –> 01:09:49.159
Just give me a little bit.

01:09:49.479 –> 01:09:50.760
Come back in an hour.

01:09:51.079 –> 01:09:51.560
That’s all.

01:09:51.720 –> 01:09:53.079
Well, sounds good.

01:09:53.800 –> 01:09:57.000
Are we going to need to give you some money for this?

01:09:57.319 –> 01:09:57.800
How much?

01:09:58.119 –> 01:09:58.840
Oh, no.

01:09:59.159 –> 01:10:02.359
That thing would kill me if I charged someone for one of his favors.

01:10:02.680 –> 01:10:03.479
Oh, wow.

01:10:03.800 –> 01:10:04.119
Okay.

01:10:04.359 –> 01:10:05.800
Let’s continue on, lich.

01:10:07.239 –> 01:10:09.560
Don’t mention who gave you these, okay?

01:10:09.880 –> 01:10:11.000
No, I don’t say this.

01:10:11.479 –> 01:10:12.840
So wait, because we’re working.

01:10:14.159 –> 01:10:14.720
With this lich.

01:10:15.520 –> 01:10:17.039
We’re a force to reckon.

01:10:17.520 –> 01:10:23.279
I wouldn’t say that, but I would say that you’re a powder keg waiting to go off.

01:10:23.600 –> 01:10:23.920
Sure.

01:10:24.079 –> 01:10:25.199
It’s not always about that.

01:10:25.439 –> 01:10:26.720
Hey, what do you know about this lich?

01:10:27.279 –> 01:10:29.199
Oh, I’ve worked for him for decades.

01:10:29.520 –> 01:10:30.399
Because he trusts?

01:10:31.520 –> 01:10:33.279
Trust is a hard word with him.

01:10:34.720 –> 01:10:35.680
How could I put it?

01:10:35.920 –> 01:10:41.279
He’ll keep his word, but if you don’t make him swear to anything, you kind of, yeah.

01:10:41.600 –> 01:10:43.439
So he’ll do whatever he wants.

01:10:44.960 –> 01:10:48.800
If you’re working with what he wants to happen, then that’s that’ll be okay.

01:10:49.439 –> 01:10:57.039
But if you’re not, then, well, as long as you don’t double-cross him, you should be okay.

01:10:57.359 –> 01:11:01.760
But you double-cross him, and that’s when he starts branding meteors down on Biddy.

01:11:02.159 –> 01:11:04.079
So you said something about making him swear.

01:11:04.159 –> 01:11:08.399
So if we can make him swear somehow, he will definitely have to do it.

01:11:08.720 –> 01:11:08.960
Yeah.

01:11:09.359 –> 01:11:11.359
He’s like bound by honor or something.

01:11:11.680 –> 01:11:11.840
No.

01:11:12.000 –> 01:11:13.840
No, he does magical contracts.

01:11:14.159 –> 01:11:14.479
Right.

01:11:14.800 –> 01:11:18.960
So it’ll enforce the contract magically, so he can’t get out of it.

01:11:19.600 –> 01:11:25.279
But you’re also bound to it, so if you step out of the contract, bad stuff will happen to you.

01:11:25.600 –> 01:11:25.840
Yeah.

01:11:26.079 –> 01:11:26.720
That’s great.

01:11:26.960 –> 01:11:27.920
Make sure that heads off.

01:11:28.239 –> 01:11:30.239
But you should just be careful with him, you know?

01:11:30.560 –> 01:11:36.880
It’s like he points over at a rather strangely bladed object that’s spinning rapidly.

01:11:37.039 –> 01:11:38.000
It’s like one of those.

01:11:38.319 –> 01:11:41.359
A wonderful tool, but if you use it wrong, it’ll tear you to shreds.

01:11:41.680 –> 01:11:46.479
You know, we are just an adventuring group making our way in the world, so it’s good to see this advice.

01:11:47.680 –> 01:11:51.199
And just, you know, you’re your adventurers, you understand.

01:11:51.520 –> 01:11:52.720
It’s a bloody job.

01:11:53.039 –> 01:11:54.720
People aren’t going to understand that.

01:11:55.039 –> 01:11:58.159
And so you might not want to say you’re adventurers.

01:11:58.880 –> 01:12:00.319
Darling, you said I should tell the truth.

01:12:01.840 –> 01:12:05.039
You should tell the truth, but you should also let Sorin do all the walking.

01:12:08.479 –> 01:12:09.119
Funny.

01:12:12.640 –> 01:12:13.760
So, okay.

01:12:14.079 –> 01:12:16.479
I’ll tell the truth if someone asks me a question.

01:12:16.800 –> 01:12:18.880
Just tell the truth if never.

01:12:19.439 –> 01:12:20.239
We’ll talk about it.

01:12:20.720 –> 01:12:21.039
Okay.

01:12:22.640 –> 01:12:28.079
Morrigan goes, and immediately you see him begin grinding away at the stones, shaping them.

01:12:28.399 –> 01:12:34.319
And that horrendous screeching noise is back as this whole machine wears to life.

01:12:34.640 –> 01:12:35.199
Can we go?

01:12:35.279 –> 01:12:36.159
Can we go?

01:12:36.800 –> 01:12:46.880
You’re going to notice that Starling just kind of stares watching Morrigan work for a little bit too long and then, you know, casually mentions, you know, I used to read a lot of books like this.

01:12:47.199 –> 01:12:50.479
Anyway, Aldric, what are we going to do for an hour?

01:12:53.680 –> 01:12:55.199
Well, uh, are you okay?

01:12:55.520 –> 01:12:57.920
Uh, yeah, I’m fine.

01:12:58.159 –> 01:12:58.479
Okay.

01:12:58.800 –> 01:13:00.720
Uh, want to get some lunch?

01:13:01.039 –> 01:13:01.520
I don’t know.

01:13:01.760 –> 01:13:02.079
Sure.

01:13:02.399 –> 01:13:04.079
Anyway, you guys go get food.

01:13:05.279 –> 01:13:09.119
And then you return to find Morrigan sitting with two rings.

01:13:09.680 –> 01:13:13.119
Even sitting down in a chair, he still towers over you.

01:13:13.600 –> 01:13:14.960
Walk into the stones.

01:13:15.279 –> 01:13:16.479
He holds up the rings.

01:13:16.720 –> 01:13:17.920
These are your stones.

01:13:18.239 –> 01:13:18.800
Wow.

01:13:19.039 –> 01:13:25.119
They’ll adjust to fit on any finger, and just when you need it, you can use it a few times a day.

01:13:26.000 –> 01:13:29.359
So three times a day, you can teleport next to the other person with it.

01:13:29.760 –> 01:13:32.239
Sounds even better than I thought, because that’s very cute.

01:13:32.560 –> 01:13:33.439
Just be careful.

01:13:34.079 –> 01:13:34.720
How far?

01:13:35.039 –> 01:13:35.199
Yeah.

01:13:35.439 –> 01:13:36.159
Any distance.

01:13:36.479 –> 01:13:38.239
But it’ll only take one person.

01:13:38.560 –> 01:13:38.960
What it?

01:13:39.439 –> 01:13:45.039
But keep in mind, if someone who’s working against it gets their hands on these, they can show up right when you don’t expect it.

01:13:45.359 –> 01:13:46.720
You mean if someone’s stolen it?

01:13:47.039 –> 01:13:47.279
Yeah.

01:13:47.600 –> 01:13:49.760
Yeah, so we need to take care of it.

01:13:50.000 –> 01:13:51.199
No mangling, right?

01:13:51.840 –> 01:13:52.479
I don’t think so.

01:13:52.560 –> 01:13:53.600
Why don’t you try it out?

01:13:54.720 –> 01:13:55.119
Don’t worry.

01:13:55.199 –> 01:13:58.399
If you get mangled, I can sort out the ring afterwards.

01:13:59.680 –> 01:14:00.399
Right, okay.

01:14:00.720 –> 01:14:02.159
I’ll put it on.

01:14:02.239 –> 01:14:05.680
I’ve only got one attuned item, so I’ve got space.

01:14:06.319 –> 01:14:06.479
I don’t.

01:14:07.119 –> 01:14:08.079
These aren’t attuned.

01:14:08.319 –> 01:14:09.039
Oh, they’re not attuned.

01:14:09.199 –> 01:14:09.439
That’s right.

01:14:10.560 –> 01:14:11.359
Whoever wears it.

01:14:11.600 –> 01:14:11.840
Cool.

01:14:11.920 –> 01:14:12.800
So I’ll put it on.

01:14:13.119 –> 01:14:17.520
And then I’ll go walk like 50 feet away.

01:14:17.760 –> 01:14:18.640
I’ll put mine on.

01:14:18.800 –> 01:14:22.560
Alright, so you just roll the ring over your finger and that should activate it.

01:14:22.880 –> 01:14:23.359
Oh, okay.

01:14:23.520 –> 01:14:25.119
So putting it on activates it.

01:14:25.359 –> 01:14:30.000
You know, putting it on, you just have to have it on, and then you gotta then you gotta rub it to activate it.

01:14:30.159 –> 01:14:30.800
Rub it.

01:14:31.359 –> 01:14:31.840
Twist it.

01:14:31.920 –> 01:14:32.399
Alright, okay.

01:14:32.640 –> 01:14:32.800
Yeah.

01:14:33.039 –> 01:14:34.239
I’ll send a message to Starling.

01:14:34.399 –> 01:14:35.920
I’ll say, you go first or I go first?

01:14:36.239 –> 01:14:36.880
You go first.

01:14:37.039 –> 01:14:37.760
Come back here.

01:14:38.079 –> 01:14:38.319
Okay.

01:14:38.880 –> 01:14:40.479
Oh, yeah, that wouldn’t make sense if we.

01:14:40.880 –> 01:14:41.359
Right, yeah.

01:14:41.600 –> 01:14:42.640
Uh, twist.

01:14:43.119 –> 01:14:47.920
As you twist it, your ears pop, and in a flash, you’re standing before Starling.

01:14:48.239 –> 01:14:50.640
Ah, works very well.

01:14:50.960 –> 01:14:52.000
Are my limbs okay?

01:14:52.319 –> 01:14:52.960
Morgan looks.

01:14:53.199 –> 01:14:54.319
No, I think one’s missing.

01:14:54.640 –> 01:14:55.199
Oh, no.

01:14:55.520 –> 01:14:56.000
Oh, well.

01:14:56.479 –> 01:14:57.199
I look down.

01:14:57.600 –> 01:14:59.039
All your limbs are still there.

01:14:59.359 –> 01:15:00.319
Ah, Morrigan.

01:15:00.720 –> 01:15:02.000
He’s grinning at you.

01:15:02.319 –> 01:15:05.199
His teeth look long and sharp enough to shred you.

01:15:05.520 –> 01:15:07.039
Aha ha ha ha ha.

01:15:09.359 –> 01:15:10.239
Nervous laughter.

01:15:10.800 –> 01:15:12.479
Well, do you get neat on the other crafting?

01:15:12.720 –> 01:15:13.680
Good question, yes.

01:15:15.159 –> 01:15:16.359
Oh, I have what about you all?

01:15:16.840 –> 01:15:20.039
Just taking a quick look at all the stuff I was looking at before.

01:15:20.439 –> 01:15:21.319
No, I think I’m good.

01:15:21.880 –> 01:15:22.199
Okay.

01:15:22.520 –> 01:15:26.279
That was a lot nicer than I thought it was could possibly be.

01:15:26.600 –> 01:15:27.960
Oh, I’m a good craftsman.

01:15:28.279 –> 01:15:28.920
Certainly are.

01:15:29.399 –> 01:15:36.359
Um, you wouldn’t have happened to have heard anything about like um a mine around here or around.

01:15:37.239 –> 01:15:39.000
He looks dead dead in your eyes.

01:15:39.319 –> 01:15:42.199
There is like three dozen mines around here.

01:15:42.520 –> 01:15:45.880
I mean, like, there’s a specific one that right now is having a lot of trouble.

01:15:46.600 –> 01:15:48.920
Are you talking about the one where the miners are disappearing?

01:15:49.239 –> 01:15:49.479
Yeah.

01:15:49.960 –> 01:15:50.199
Yeah?

01:15:50.600 –> 01:15:50.840
Yeah?

01:15:51.079 –> 01:15:51.159
Yeah.

01:15:51.720 –> 01:15:52.760
Um, yeah.

01:15:53.560 –> 01:15:55.479
There’s miners disappearing out of one of the mines.

01:15:55.720 –> 01:16:00.439
Which is weird because normally, you know, miners dying is pretty common, but they can normally find the bodies.

01:16:00.680 –> 01:16:02.279
That’s pretty scary.

01:16:02.600 –> 01:16:06.600
So, any idea what’s happening to any idea what what is doing that?

01:16:06.920 –> 01:16:08.279
You know, you want my bet?

01:16:08.600 –> 01:16:08.840
Yeah.

01:16:09.319 –> 01:16:11.720
Someone’s feeding them to an eldritch beast.

01:16:12.039 –> 01:16:15.319
They’ve summoned something from beyond, and now that it’s hungry.

01:16:15.640 –> 01:16:16.520
Celestial?

01:16:16.760 –> 01:16:17.399
Vampire?

01:16:19.079 –> 01:16:20.039
I want to think that.

01:16:20.359 –> 01:16:22.760
But you’ve seen that thing flying around town, right?

01:16:23.079 –> 01:16:24.359
That’s what I thought it could be.

01:16:24.680 –> 01:16:26.520
No, I don’t think so.

01:16:27.640 –> 01:16:31.159
You see, the thing about a vampire is it can only eat so much, you know?

01:16:31.479 –> 01:16:34.119
It’s only going to snack on one or two people a day at most.

01:16:34.520 –> 01:16:36.520
This is dozens of miners going missing.

01:16:38.199 –> 01:16:40.520
And, you know, vampires leave behind a body.

01:16:40.920 –> 01:16:42.680
It points to something even worse.

01:16:43.000 –> 01:16:43.239
Yeah.

01:16:43.800 –> 01:16:46.600
Also, I’ve heard a bit of a rumor.

01:16:46.920 –> 01:16:56.199
Don’t go spreading this around, but I think this whole mess, it definitely has something to do with the Thistles.

01:16:56.760 –> 01:16:58.920
Second time I’ve heard someone say something like that.

01:16:59.239 –> 01:17:06.199
See, they claim they’re preventing some great disaster, but I don’t think that’s what they’re doing.

01:17:06.279 –> 01:17:07.800
I think they’re trying to do something else.

01:17:08.119 –> 01:17:09.159
They’re trying to use it.

01:17:09.479 –> 01:17:10.359
What are their goals?

01:17:10.439 –> 01:17:10.920
What’s your goal?

01:17:11.239 –> 01:17:11.479
Goals?

01:17:12.840 –> 01:17:15.800
I think they want power, same as anyone else.

01:17:16.439 –> 01:17:18.119
And that they have found a way to get it.

01:17:18.439 –> 01:17:20.119
But be careful around this town.

01:17:20.439 –> 01:17:21.720
They’re everywhere here.

01:17:22.039 –> 01:17:23.319
Don’t stay out too late.

01:17:23.560 –> 01:17:25.159
Don’t go down the dark alleys.

01:17:25.479 –> 01:17:31.239
Because, yeah, miners started disappearing recently, but there’s been people disappearing from this town for a long time.

01:17:32.520 –> 01:17:33.479
Be careful.

01:17:33.800 –> 01:17:40.039
And if you have to go deep into the mine where the miners are going and missing, you should go in ready for a fight.

01:17:40.600 –> 01:17:46.279
Well, yeah, that’s part of why we wanted to come here first, so we were a bit better equipped.

01:17:46.600 –> 01:17:49.399
Oh, he leans back in his chair.

01:17:49.720 –> 01:17:51.640
I do think you’ll do all right.

01:17:52.279 –> 01:17:55.000
You know, just survived meeting Alistair.

01:17:55.159 –> 01:17:58.119
There’s there shouldn’t be too much that will knock you off easy.

01:17:58.439 –> 01:18:00.039
He saw something in it, I guess.

01:18:00.359 –> 01:18:04.119
Yeah, he has a way of looking into the future better than most.

01:18:04.439 –> 01:18:05.159
He leans back.

01:18:05.239 –> 01:18:06.680
Well, you better get going.

01:18:07.000 –> 01:18:08.520
Hurry up with your business.

01:18:09.159 –> 01:18:09.479
Thank you.

01:18:10.439 –> 01:18:14.039
As he sits back, says, you know, I was cursed once.

01:18:14.359 –> 01:18:17.159
I used to be twice as tall, and now I’m short.

01:18:19.159 –> 01:18:20.520
So he sits back.

01:18:20.840 –> 01:18:25.000
You see lots of scars hidden underneath the fur.

01:18:25.319 –> 01:18:27.800
A long history he doesn’t like to tell.

01:18:28.119 –> 01:18:34.039
And you go walking away in the streets as you find your way back to the broken wand.

01:18:34.359 –> 01:18:41.560
The streets are full of the mixed scents of the street food tempting you as you step through the doors.

01:18:41.880 –> 01:18:44.119
It smells horrendous.

01:18:44.439 –> 01:18:49.159
And you look and you see six Sorins sitting at a table.

01:18:49.479 –> 01:18:50.840
Hello, Sorin.

01:18:51.319 –> 01:18:52.600
Five of them don’t react.

01:18:52.760 –> 01:18:54.279
They don’t know his name.

01:18:56.199 –> 01:18:57.640
What’s going on?

01:19:00.279 –> 01:19:01.960
Am I one of them or is this?

01:19:02.279 –> 01:19:03.079
You’re one of them.

01:19:03.399 –> 01:19:05.000
Okay, how did I get here?

01:19:05.319 –> 01:19:08.520
So you are preparing for the run out.

01:19:10.039 –> 01:19:15.479
Where those are your doubles who are going to be running through the city as a distraction.

01:19:15.880 –> 01:19:16.359
Right.

01:19:17.319 –> 01:19:21.239
You’ve been helping them with their makeup and building up their disguises.

01:19:22.359 –> 01:19:22.680
Okay.

01:19:23.319 –> 01:19:24.439
What’s all this?

01:19:25.720 –> 01:19:26.279
Uh.

01:19:27.560 –> 01:19:29.640
Soon I’ll be in every major city.

01:19:31.479 –> 01:19:32.840
Starting a franchise.

01:19:33.079 –> 01:19:35.800
Now, these are the guys who are going to help us escape.

01:19:36.119 –> 01:19:37.640
Oh, that’s pretty smart.

01:19:38.359 –> 01:19:38.840
You do this.

01:19:39.800 –> 01:19:40.840
Oh, no, this wasn’t me.

01:19:41.399 –> 01:19:42.840
This was Sorin’s idea.

01:19:43.159 –> 01:19:44.119
She’s brilliant.

01:19:44.439 –> 01:19:45.640
Crazy, but brilliant.

01:19:45.960 –> 01:19:46.359
Smartly.

01:19:49.159 –> 01:19:52.840
I think there’s a squad of Ashes around here somewhere too, but I’m not sure.

01:19:53.159 –> 01:19:54.520
So, uh, what’s our next move?

01:19:54.840 –> 01:19:55.960
First, where’s our friend?

01:19:56.199 –> 01:19:56.680
Sorin.

01:19:57.640 –> 01:19:58.600
Oh, yes.

01:19:58.920 –> 01:20:00.840
Uh, Ash and um…

01:20:01.319 –> 01:20:02.600
Yeah, the lady with no name.

01:20:02.760 –> 01:20:03.000
Okay.

01:20:03.800 –> 01:20:04.920
Yeah, where are they?

01:20:05.479 –> 01:20:08.039
You see six Ashes sitting at the bar.

01:20:09.000 –> 01:20:12.600
And you see the celestial trying to out-drink all six at once.

01:20:16.079 –> 01:20:17.600
Are we going to go in that mine?

01:20:18.079 –> 01:20:25.119
Um well on the one hand I’m I’m kind of worried about whatever the that cult is up to.

01:20:25.439 –> 01:20:26.880
And yeah, I think they’re down there.

01:20:27.199 –> 01:20:33.279
On the other hand, I’m interested in in keeping our new friend over there as far away from the cult as possible.

01:20:33.600 –> 01:20:34.640
It’s a dilemma.

01:20:39.279 –> 01:20:40.399
We’d be telling the truth.

01:20:41.760 –> 01:20:43.199
I’m not sure how smart she is.

01:20:43.520 –> 01:20:47.920
I mean, okay, she’s incredibly strong and she can drink like a fish and she can fly.

01:20:48.239 –> 01:20:49.680
I don’t know how smart she is.

01:20:50.079 –> 01:20:55.439
Well, she was already uh what extorting or using one of the most powerful ones in the city.

01:20:55.520 –> 01:20:57.039
That’s pretty smart.

01:20:57.920 –> 01:20:59.840
Not sure how much brains that took.

01:21:00.159 –> 01:21:01.760
Well, it’s a fair point.

01:21:04.079 –> 01:21:06.239
Which still leaves us with this decision.

01:21:06.880 –> 01:21:09.199
I mine spread with you guys.

01:21:09.439 –> 01:21:10.720
What do you think, Aldric?

01:21:11.279 –> 01:21:13.199
I’m for going for the mines.

01:21:13.439 –> 01:21:16.319
I think being an underground will be fine for a while.

01:21:17.680 –> 01:21:18.000
Okay.

01:21:18.560 –> 01:21:24.079
As you’re preparing, your doubles are anxiously awaiting their roles.

01:21:24.720 –> 01:21:27.520
Excited to stir up some chaos in town.

01:21:27.840 –> 01:21:33.840
Now, is the mine like on the edge of the city or is it like in the city?

01:21:34.159 –> 01:21:35.520
It’s a ways out of the city.

01:21:35.920 –> 01:21:36.560
A ways out.

01:21:36.880 –> 01:21:39.600
Is that going to be like a few days kind of thing?

01:21:39.920 –> 01:21:40.560
Or is that?

01:21:41.359 –> 01:21:43.520
It’s about three hours outside of the city.

01:21:44.640 –> 01:21:44.880
Alright.

01:21:45.119 –> 01:21:45.520
You ready?

01:21:45.920 –> 01:21:46.079
Yeah.

01:21:46.319 –> 01:21:51.840
Yeah, I’m gonna work with my boys on their speech patterns and the way they walk.

01:21:52.159 –> 01:21:53.279
Like, no, no, no, no, no.

01:21:53.439 –> 01:21:55.600
That’s does my tail do that when I walk?

01:21:56.000 –> 01:21:58.560
Anyway, um, get them ready to go.

01:21:58.800 –> 01:21:59.279
And I’ll do it.

01:21:59.439 –> 01:22:02.720
As they’re getting prepared, they’re getting better and better at imitating you.

01:22:03.039 –> 01:22:12.239
I’m gonna use the inspiring leader feet and just do a short, uh, give them a short speech, a pep talk, and give them all twelve temporary hit points.

01:22:12.560 –> 01:22:13.600
Just in case.

01:22:14.239 –> 01:22:15.119
Cool idea.

01:22:15.439 –> 01:22:20.079
I normally use that for my own party, but today I’m giving all those hit points to myself.

01:22:20.399 –> 01:22:21.119
Sort of.

01:22:22.720 –> 01:22:27.760
You prepare to get out of town, and you’re standing all around the door.

01:22:28.079 –> 01:22:29.920
The mine is to the south.

01:22:30.239 –> 01:22:35.279
So you’ll have to pass through the Red Heart Green again and out through Market Town.

01:22:37.119 –> 01:22:37.359
Okay.

01:22:37.840 –> 01:22:39.760
I’ll cast disguise self.

01:22:40.079 –> 01:22:45.119
I will offer a white robe to Ash.

01:22:45.439 –> 01:22:47.760
Ash looks at you and puts it on.

01:22:48.079 –> 01:22:49.279
We’re gonna have a good time.

01:22:49.600 –> 01:22:50.640
We’re gonna be fine, yeah.

01:22:50.960 –> 01:22:52.720
What do you disguise yourself to look like?

01:22:53.039 –> 01:22:55.279
What a perfectly ordinary human being.

01:22:55.600 –> 01:22:57.920
Nondescript twenty-something male.

01:22:59.920 –> 01:23:00.720
Just a guy.

01:23:01.039 –> 01:23:03.680
And I can walk around town saying, Hello, fellow humans.

01:23:04.079 –> 01:23:05.840
Although I don’t think you should actually do that.

01:23:06.159 –> 01:23:06.960
I don’t think I should.

01:23:07.039 –> 01:23:07.199
No.

01:23:08.159 –> 01:23:09.039
He knows better.

01:23:09.600 –> 01:23:10.960
But you could if you wanted to.

01:23:11.279 –> 01:23:16.960
As you step out the doors, you see guards everywhere on the streets.

01:23:17.279 –> 01:23:19.279
None of them seem to be looking for you.

01:23:19.600 –> 01:23:24.399
As you five step out, the celestial follows.

01:23:24.720 –> 01:23:38.079
You walk out of the tavern and no one’s paying attention until you hear the guards start to yell as you’re a little ways away from the tavern and you see a few different Sorins all running for the center of town.

01:23:40.000 –> 01:23:44.399
You see five Ashes heading north in the opposite direction.

01:23:47.199 –> 01:23:51.680
As they scatter, you are attracting no extra attention.

01:23:52.239 –> 01:24:05.439
As you make your way out of town, you hear the guards on high alert chasing people up and down the streets as the whole town is in a little bit of chaos.

01:24:06.079 –> 01:24:09.359
We really start something up when we went to that wizard’s tower.

01:24:09.680 –> 01:24:10.640
Yeah, we did.

01:24:11.520 –> 01:24:12.319
Who was he?

01:24:12.640 –> 01:24:15.439
Uh just a local wizard, you know?

01:24:15.760 –> 01:24:18.000
Um a rather good one.

01:24:19.520 –> 01:24:26.960
Sorin could have hired me for for any job that needed doing, but she had to pick one that I suck at.

01:24:27.600 –> 01:24:28.399
And here we are.

01:24:28.720 –> 01:24:33.279
As you’re making your way towards the mines, the beauty of the mountains catch you.

01:24:33.600 –> 01:24:44.000
The light snow on the peaks, the gentle orange of the greenery entering fall, and you feel the cool breeze of the autumn air.

01:24:44.479 –> 01:24:48.479
Go for a long ways until you find the exterior of the mine.

01:24:48.800 –> 01:24:51.920
There are carts around and tracks leading deep inside.

01:24:52.239 –> 01:24:54.640
And you see a man sitting outside.

01:24:54.960 –> 01:24:56.880
Are you the ones Raymond sent?

01:24:57.439 –> 01:24:59.520
Yeah, my name’s Aldric.

01:24:59.840 –> 01:25:00.640
Aldric?

01:25:01.199 –> 01:25:02.399
Uh Aldric.

01:25:02.880 –> 01:25:03.600
Aldric.

01:25:04.319 –> 01:25:05.760
Yeah, that was that level, dude.

01:25:06.000 –> 01:25:07.119
This is Starling.

01:25:07.439 –> 01:25:09.520
This is uh I’m I’m Lorim.

01:25:09.680 –> 01:25:11.279
Lorim and Lorim.

01:25:11.600 –> 01:25:12.960
Lorim Ipsum, yes.

01:25:13.119 –> 01:25:13.680
That’s me.

01:25:14.000 –> 01:25:14.800
We’re here to help.

01:25:15.119 –> 01:25:15.840
What’s going on?

01:25:17.239 –> 01:25:19.880
We’ve had miners disappearing and we’re suspicious.

01:25:20.359 –> 01:25:23.000
We kind of dug into something we shouldn’t have.

01:25:23.319 –> 01:25:27.800
And we basically need to hire some adventurers, do some adventure work.

01:25:28.119 –> 01:25:28.760
Let me see.

01:25:29.640 –> 01:25:31.319
I think there are no bodies being found.

01:25:31.399 –> 01:25:31.880
Is that right?

01:25:32.199 –> 01:25:33.000
Yeah, none of them.

01:25:33.640 –> 01:25:37.239
See, normally if something goes wrong, we’ll dig out a few bodies, but we haven’t found anything.

01:25:37.399 –> 01:25:38.920
Let me start an investigation.

01:25:39.239 –> 01:25:40.359
Is it you doing it?

01:25:40.680 –> 01:25:41.000
What?

01:25:44.439 –> 01:25:46.199
He looks at you kinda, kinda confused.

01:25:46.359 –> 01:25:46.840
What do you mean?

01:25:47.000 –> 01:25:47.880
Is it me doing it?

01:25:48.199 –> 01:25:49.079
We’re experts.

01:25:51.720 –> 01:25:53.880
It’s part of the investigative process.

01:25:55.479 –> 01:25:57.159
Are you responsible for this?

01:25:57.479 –> 01:25:58.039
We can tell.

01:25:58.199 –> 01:25:59.079
Don’t lie.

01:26:00.359 –> 01:26:01.479
He looks at you.

01:26:01.800 –> 01:26:02.039
No.

01:26:02.840 –> 01:26:04.920
I am not responsible for this.

01:26:05.880 –> 01:26:06.680
Inside check.

01:26:06.840 –> 01:26:08.199
No, I’m just kidding.

01:26:10.439 –> 01:26:12.039
I think he’s telling the truth.

01:26:12.359 –> 01:26:13.560
I think you’re telling the truth.

01:26:13.640 –> 01:26:13.800
Yeah.

01:26:14.039 –> 01:26:15.159
We’ll let you off this time.

01:26:15.319 –> 01:26:16.920
It’d be a lot more convenient if it was him.

01:26:17.079 –> 01:26:17.640
One and done.

01:26:17.720 –> 01:26:18.359
And we go home.

01:26:18.520 –> 01:26:19.239
One and done.

01:26:20.600 –> 01:26:21.479
I believe you.

01:26:21.800 –> 01:26:22.039
No.

01:26:23.239 –> 01:26:24.279
We’re going to go in.

01:26:24.359 –> 01:26:25.640
We’re going to see what’s going on.

01:26:26.199 –> 01:26:26.840
What’s your name?

01:26:27.079 –> 01:26:28.359
My name is Jedrick.

01:26:28.680 –> 01:26:29.479
Jedrick.

01:26:29.960 –> 01:26:31.079
Well, nice to meet you.

01:26:31.319 –> 01:26:32.760
Are you in charge around here?

01:26:33.079 –> 01:26:33.399
No.

01:26:33.960 –> 01:26:37.239
I’m just the idiot that made me stand by the door for eight hours.

01:26:38.199 –> 01:26:40.760
Do you need something to drink?

01:26:41.000 –> 01:26:41.640
Something to eat?

01:26:41.960 –> 01:26:42.439
You okay?

01:26:45.319 –> 01:26:46.439
Oh my gosh.

01:26:48.920 –> 01:26:49.239
Hello.

01:26:50.279 –> 01:26:50.840
Hey, hello.

01:26:52.279 –> 01:26:53.239
Congratulations.

01:26:53.560 –> 01:26:54.600
Congratulations.

01:26:54.920 –> 01:26:55.159
Yeah.

01:26:55.720 –> 01:26:57.000
He’s fine.

01:26:59.319 –> 01:26:59.720
Have a.

01:27:01.720 –> 01:27:01.960
Bye.

01:27:02.439 –> 01:27:03.159
Bye-bye.

01:27:09.399 –> 01:27:11.079
Oh, so cute.

01:27:12.600 –> 01:27:13.960
Jedrick looks at you guys.

01:27:14.199 –> 01:27:22.039
So, if you were in charge of an important mine, would you stand by the door for eight hours or would you pick some idiot from your mind?

01:27:23.239 –> 01:27:23.720
Well, I’d.

01:27:24.279 –> 01:27:24.600
Eight hours.

01:27:24.760 –> 01:27:26.199
I’d pick someone with some stamina.

01:27:26.520 –> 01:27:28.760
Yeah, well, I’m someone with some stamina.

01:27:29.079 –> 01:27:29.479
Okay, then.

01:27:29.720 –> 01:27:30.199
Good man.

01:27:30.840 –> 01:27:31.640
You’re doing a great job.

01:27:33.319 –> 01:27:37.960
I’ll lead you guys down to where we are losing miners, and you’ll have to go further after.

01:27:38.520 –> 01:27:39.880
You’re not going to come with us?

01:27:40.199 –> 01:27:40.439
No.

01:27:40.920 –> 01:27:45.079
Oh, but you’re so, you know, you’re doing such a good job.

01:27:45.399 –> 01:27:45.800
Yeah, I.

01:27:46.840 –> 01:27:47.640
You could help.

01:27:49.000 –> 01:27:49.960
I gotta be real with you.

01:27:50.199 –> 01:27:50.680
I have.

01:27:51.159 –> 01:27:55.239
I have a heartfelt belief that I have to abide by.

01:27:55.560 –> 01:27:56.199
What belief?

01:27:56.840 –> 01:27:59.720
I don’t want to die in some weird magical bullshit.

01:28:01.479 –> 01:28:02.199
I get that a lot.

01:28:02.760 –> 01:28:04.359
Yeah, we have to be getting that a lot.

01:28:05.239 –> 01:28:05.800
Fair enough.

01:28:06.119 –> 01:28:06.600
Jedrick.

01:28:07.399 –> 01:28:09.239
There’s some wizard shit down there, Jedrick.

01:28:09.399 –> 01:28:09.800
I feel it.

01:28:10.039 –> 01:28:10.199
Yeah.

01:28:10.840 –> 01:28:12.520
Yeah, I ain’t messing with that.

01:28:13.159 –> 01:28:15.399
You know what happens when you get involved in wizard shit?

01:28:16.439 –> 01:28:16.840
Bang!

01:28:17.079 –> 01:28:17.720
Blow it on half.

01:28:19.000 –> 01:28:19.560
Oh, no.

01:28:21.640 –> 01:28:22.680
I was a soldier once.

01:28:23.239 –> 01:28:25.479
You ever see what a wizard does on the battlefield?

01:28:26.680 –> 01:28:27.159
I’ve heard it.

01:28:27.319 –> 01:28:27.960
I’ve read about it.

01:28:28.279 –> 01:28:30.359
I’ve seen a wizard blow out half a platoon.

01:28:30.680 –> 01:28:31.399
One shot.

01:28:31.720 –> 01:28:33.239
I ain’t messing with wizards, man.

01:28:33.560 –> 01:28:37.479
And, well, just to tell you, I am actually a wizard as well.

01:28:37.720 –> 01:28:38.680
So I hope you can get on the window.

01:28:38.920 –> 01:28:40.199
Takes a few steps back from you.

01:28:41.079 –> 01:28:41.880
Hold up, Santa.

01:28:43.079 –> 01:28:44.359
Don’t do no wizard shit.

01:28:44.600 –> 01:28:46.039
Keep that for down in the mine.

01:28:46.279 –> 01:28:47.880
I hold up my finger.

01:28:50.199 –> 01:28:51.319
I’m just scaring you.

01:28:53.800 –> 01:28:56.680
Just say, well, I hope you’ve been telling the truth.

01:28:57.720 –> 01:28:58.520
I’m telling the truth.

01:28:58.600 –> 01:28:59.479
Just put it away.

01:28:59.720 –> 01:29:01.319
Did you tell us everything you know?

01:29:01.640 –> 01:29:02.840
Everything I know.

01:29:03.159 –> 01:29:03.720
Okay, then.

01:29:04.039 –> 01:29:04.520
You’ll be fine.

01:29:04.600 –> 01:29:06.039
You’ve got nothing to be scared of.

01:29:06.359 –> 01:29:07.399
I’ll put my finger down.

01:29:07.880 –> 01:29:09.800
Just go do your thing down there.

01:29:10.039 –> 01:29:10.840
We’ll be back.

01:29:11.079 –> 01:29:11.319
Yes.

01:29:11.560 –> 01:29:12.039
I hope soon.

01:29:13.159 –> 01:29:15.399
He begins leading you down the mines.

01:29:15.960 –> 01:29:18.279
It is wet and dark.

01:29:18.600 –> 01:29:23.399
The stone is slick and rough cut as you descend.

01:29:23.720 –> 01:29:25.560
You feel the air growing heavier.

01:29:25.960 –> 01:29:29.000
Keep going down, down, down.

01:29:29.640 –> 01:29:34.279
You take left turns, right turns, so many bends you don’t know what direction you’re headed in.

01:29:34.600 –> 01:29:36.520
Will there be some lights on the way?

01:29:36.840 –> 01:29:39.079
No, just the lights you’re carrying.

01:29:39.319 –> 01:29:44.520
Eventually, you are being led into a clearing as you stand.

01:29:45.159 –> 01:29:46.039
We’re missing one.

01:29:46.520 –> 01:29:47.640
That’s the light level.

01:29:48.039 –> 01:29:49.000
I would like to.

01:29:49.560 –> 01:29:50.439
Who doesn’t have darkness?

01:29:50.680 –> 01:29:52.279
Who’s having issues seeing you, Sorin?

01:29:52.439 –> 01:29:55.319
Uh, I don’t have dark vision, but I would have had a light.

01:29:55.560 –> 01:29:58.359
I’ve got a natural people at the country.

01:29:58.680 –> 01:29:59.800
But if you want to give some.

01:30:00.199 –> 01:30:00.600
What do you have?

01:30:00.840 –> 01:30:01.319
What can you do?

01:30:01.399 –> 01:30:04.760
Well, I can make you have a room to be dark for an hour.

01:30:06.760 –> 01:30:08.119
I can have four people.

01:30:08.439 –> 01:30:08.760
Oh.

01:30:09.319 –> 01:30:12.199
Does that take a lot of your energy away?

01:30:12.359 –> 01:30:14.119
Or do you think it’s worth it?

01:30:14.359 –> 01:30:15.319
I can do it once again.

01:30:15.960 –> 01:30:16.279
Alright.

01:30:16.439 –> 01:30:16.840
Yeah, please.

01:30:18.640 –> 01:30:19.760
I’ve never had dark version.

01:30:20.319 –> 01:30:21.600
I want to know what it’s like.

01:30:26.479 –> 01:30:28.000
300 feet, you say.

01:30:28.319 –> 01:30:28.720
Yes.

01:30:29.039 –> 01:30:30.800
Well, I wonder what that’s like.

01:30:31.680 –> 01:30:33.439
Mine’s usually good for about 60 feet.

01:30:33.600 –> 01:30:34.640
It’s not too bad.

01:30:35.920 –> 01:30:38.159
You should be able to see in the dark a bit now.

01:30:38.800 –> 01:30:39.680
Cool.

01:30:40.720 –> 01:30:42.000
Buzzy leads you down here.

01:30:42.159 –> 01:30:44.000
He says, This is the ruins we found.

01:30:44.319 –> 01:30:45.520
We don’t go any further.

01:30:45.840 –> 01:30:47.119
That’s up to you guys.

01:30:47.680 –> 01:30:49.520
Is our celestial friend with us?

01:30:49.840 –> 01:30:50.319
Yes.

01:30:50.640 –> 01:30:52.000
Don’t mind the wings.

01:30:52.479 –> 01:30:52.880
Right.

01:30:53.840 –> 01:30:54.399
Oh my.

01:30:54.479 –> 01:30:55.680
Is she a large creature?

01:30:56.000 –> 01:31:00.479
No, just the token I brought in was had me worried for a second.

01:31:00.800 –> 01:31:06.159
As you stand here, you hear people moving around and preparing to fight.

01:31:06.479 –> 01:31:07.520
They know you’re here.

01:31:08.720 –> 01:31:16.239
As you stand here, the stench of dead bodies rises from around you, blowing your direction.

01:31:16.560 –> 01:31:17.840
I guess it’s what the boss does.

01:31:18.720 –> 01:31:20.560
We’d better be ready for a fight.

01:31:20.880 –> 01:31:24.479
Uh, yeah, okay, Tess, arm mage armor.

01:31:24.720 –> 01:31:26.159
My AC should blow up by C.

01:31:26.479 –> 01:31:28.399
Not that that will help very much, I think.

01:31:30.079 –> 01:31:32.720
Three points is a pretty good difference.

01:31:33.039 –> 01:31:40.640
Now you see the rusty walls of a ruin built out of metal, and you hear the rumbling of something deep underneath a lake.

01:31:40.960 –> 01:31:47.199
You can hear the sound of water lapping up against a shore, and you smell dead bodies.

01:31:47.840 –> 01:31:51.680
You hear people preparing for a fight?

01:31:52.399 –> 01:31:52.720
Yes.

01:31:53.600 –> 01:31:55.199
Which direction is that coming from?

01:31:55.520 –> 01:31:56.079
West.

01:31:56.960 –> 01:31:57.359
West.

01:31:57.520 –> 01:31:57.840
Okay.

01:31:58.319 –> 01:32:03.039
Um, Scorn’s going this way quickly.

01:32:03.359 –> 01:32:09.039
You see brick, worn away over time, laid right into the stone.

01:32:09.359 –> 01:32:10.800
I can’t see beyond the.

01:32:12.079 –> 01:32:13.279
Is it showing for you guys?

01:32:13.359 –> 01:32:16.239
I can only see black up to where my character is.

01:32:16.479 –> 01:32:23.119
Yeah, um, your light spell isn’t moving with you, but you should have dark vision now, so I’m not sure how to correct that.

01:32:23.359 –> 01:32:24.960
Maybe I need to stop the light.

01:32:25.279 –> 01:32:25.920
That fixed it.

01:32:26.479 –> 01:32:27.279
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:32:27.600 –> 01:32:27.920
Okay.

01:32:28.239 –> 01:32:28.800
Here we are.

01:32:29.119 –> 01:32:30.960
Your dark vision was broken.

01:32:32.640 –> 01:32:34.479
Did you give me it properly, Starling?

01:32:35.039 –> 01:32:37.279
Okay, no, I guess I can’t see just great.

01:32:37.680 –> 01:32:38.560
But did you say Starling?

01:32:38.720 –> 01:32:39.680
Did you say you can’t see?

01:32:40.000 –> 01:32:41.359
I can’t see anything.

01:32:42.000 –> 01:32:44.319
I mean, I can see, but I can’t see like any green.

01:32:44.560 –> 01:32:44.960
Oh, okay.

01:32:45.920 –> 01:32:48.239
So, dark vision shows up as black and white.

01:32:48.960 –> 01:32:49.279
Yeah.

01:32:49.840 –> 01:32:50.319
That’s pretty good.

01:32:50.479 –> 01:32:50.720
Okay.

01:32:50.880 –> 01:32:51.760
I’ve never seen that before.

01:32:52.239 –> 01:32:57.439
As you step past the corner of the wall, something shoots out at you.

01:32:59.439 –> 01:33:06.720
You are hit with a claw from the darkness as one of the cultists leaps out and attacks.

01:33:07.359 –> 01:33:13.039
You take nice 17 thunder damage as it hits you with its elemental attack.

01:33:13.520 –> 01:33:14.000
Everybody.

01:33:14.560 –> 01:33:15.680
Roll initiative.

01:33:15.920 –> 01:33:16.399
Yay.

01:33:16.720 –> 01:33:20.159
First thing you see happen is the celestial rush forward.

01:33:20.479 –> 01:33:21.680
Are they the bad guys?

01:33:22.000 –> 01:33:22.880
They’re the bad guys.

01:33:23.439 –> 01:33:23.840
Yes.

01:33:24.399 –> 01:33:26.560
She wheels around the corner.

01:33:26.880 –> 01:33:30.000
And you see her summon a weapon in her hands.

01:33:31.439 –> 01:33:31.680
Um.

01:33:33.119 –> 01:33:37.840
You watch as she carves into the cultist with a radiant weapon.

01:33:38.159 –> 01:33:39.439
Oh, I like her.

01:33:39.760 –> 01:33:40.000
Okay.

01:33:40.640 –> 01:33:42.319
And Starling, it is your turn.

01:33:48.000 –> 01:33:50.560
Second one, if you see fifty cases here.

01:33:51.600 –> 01:33:52.960
Makes it with a 19.

01:33:55.279 –> 01:33:59.680
As your damage sinks in, you see the wounds from this greatsword grow.

01:34:00.000 –> 01:34:00.399
Eat.

01:34:00.800 –> 01:34:02.640
Scorn, it is your turn.

01:34:02.960 –> 01:34:07.520
You’ve seen your celestial friend summon a weapon and leap into action.

01:34:07.840 –> 01:34:09.760
Yeah, I’m rather impressed.

01:34:10.399 –> 01:34:11.199
Let’s see.

01:34:12.079 –> 01:34:13.840
Over here, I don’t see anything.

01:34:14.159 –> 01:34:15.600
Over here, what do I see?

01:34:15.840 –> 01:34:16.319
Oh, okay.

01:34:16.479 –> 01:34:17.760
There’s one of them here.

01:34:18.079 –> 01:34:19.600
Oh, I got a radiant weapon, too.

01:34:19.920 –> 01:34:23.439
I mean, okay, it’s True Strike with a quarter staff.

01:34:23.760 –> 01:34:25.680
Um, yeah, let’s do that.

01:34:25.840 –> 01:34:27.760
Let’s see how much is that gonna do?

01:34:28.079 –> 01:34:29.680
Oh, I’m eighth level now.

01:34:29.920 –> 01:34:30.560
Let me see here.

01:34:30.720 –> 01:34:32.000
True Strike, where are you?

01:34:32.319 –> 01:34:33.359
Yeah, there it is.

01:34:33.680 –> 01:34:35.520
Okay, let’s see.

01:34:35.840 –> 01:34:38.319
Extra radiant damage, we reach fifth level.

01:34:38.560 –> 01:34:38.800
Okay.

01:34:39.439 –> 01:34:40.079
Cool.

01:34:41.359 –> 01:34:45.680
I’m using my charisma for attacks and damage on this one.

01:34:46.000 –> 01:34:49.279
So, D20 plus seven.

01:34:49.680 –> 01:34:51.840
Well, twenty-four to hit.

01:34:52.159 –> 01:34:53.199
That hits.

01:34:53.520 –> 01:34:56.800
And D8, D6, plus four.

01:34:57.119 –> 01:34:57.680
There we go.

01:34:58.000 –> 01:34:58.800
Not bad.

01:34:59.039 –> 01:35:00.720
So I got a 13.

01:35:01.039 –> 01:35:03.039
You wail on it with your stick.

01:35:03.359 –> 01:35:05.680
And yeah, it’s also radiant damage, by the way.

01:35:06.800 –> 01:35:09.439
Ash spends his turn running to catch up.

01:35:09.760 –> 01:35:13.039
Scorn, do you do anything with your bonus action?

01:35:13.680 –> 01:35:15.039
Um, yeah.

01:35:15.439 –> 01:35:17.840
Uh, Starling done got hit, so.

01:35:19.239 –> 01:35:21.640
I’m gonna give her a bardic inspiration.

01:35:22.760 –> 01:35:23.720
Just in case.

01:35:24.039 –> 01:35:25.319
Oh, yeah, there it is.

01:35:25.640 –> 01:35:27.399
Alright, Aldric, it is your turn.

01:35:28.279 –> 01:35:32.439
I can’t see anything right now, so I’m gonna move one corner there.

01:35:32.760 –> 01:35:37.239
So now I see one guy and the party surrounding him.

01:35:37.720 –> 01:35:41.960
Does he look really wounded or he looks very wounded?

01:35:42.279 –> 01:35:42.840
Alright.

01:35:44.600 –> 01:35:45.319
Just gonna.

01:35:46.680 –> 01:35:47.319
Can I.

01:35:47.800 –> 01:35:53.079
Can I just hold my some kind of spell for something else coming out?

01:35:53.399 –> 01:35:55.800
Because I think I don’t need to intervene there.

01:35:56.119 –> 01:35:57.960
Oh, what spell do you want to hold?

01:35:58.279 –> 01:36:00.119
We’ll say chromatic orb.

01:36:00.359 –> 01:36:00.920
Alright.

01:36:01.239 –> 01:36:04.600
Or we’ll say a fire chromatic orb.

01:36:05.720 –> 01:36:08.439
Cultist lashes out with a flail.

01:36:09.319 –> 01:36:15.960
He manages to hit Starling with the flail, dealing 26 damage.

01:36:16.279 –> 01:36:16.920
Not okay.

01:36:17.399 –> 01:36:18.279
And Aldric.

01:36:18.760 –> 01:36:21.000
You see another one coming around the corner.

01:36:21.319 –> 01:36:23.079
You can cast your spell.

01:36:23.399 –> 01:36:23.640
Yeah.

01:36:23.880 –> 01:36:24.920
Chromatic orbit.

01:36:26.119 –> 01:36:26.760
That hits.

01:36:27.079 –> 01:36:27.720
Roll double.

01:36:31.319 –> 01:36:34.119
When you click on roll attack, there’ll be the option to roll critical.

01:36:34.439 –> 01:36:35.000
Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:36:35.560 –> 01:36:36.840
Why does it say 68?

01:36:36.920 –> 01:36:38.039
Is it really 68?

01:36:38.840 –> 01:36:39.000
Yeah.

01:36:39.159 –> 01:36:40.520
Well, that’s doubled for your crit.

01:36:40.600 –> 01:36:41.560
It’s normally three.

01:36:41.880 –> 01:36:42.199
It’s no.

01:36:42.520 –> 01:36:46.359
Oh, yeah, it’s got your extra dice already in there.

01:36:46.680 –> 01:36:50.520
So, okay, I’ll hit critical hit, and I hope it doesn’t do it like that.

01:36:50.600 –> 01:36:51.239
Yeah, it looks good.

01:36:51.399 –> 01:36:52.680
Ooh, ooh, pretty good.

01:36:53.000 –> 01:36:53.640
Good shot.

01:36:53.960 –> 01:36:55.079
Yeah, pretty good shot.

01:36:55.399 –> 01:37:04.760
You see your celestial friend hold up her great sword with a massive shining light as it carves down.

01:37:06.600 –> 01:37:09.319
Is this person’s dice correct?

01:37:09.880 –> 01:37:11.239
That’s a lot of dice.

01:37:11.880 –> 01:37:12.760
It was damaged.

01:37:13.159 –> 01:37:13.880
That is correct.

01:37:14.039 –> 01:37:18.359
That is what the vampiric celestial does.

01:37:18.920 –> 01:37:22.600
And you see her gleefully cut the cultist clean in half.

01:37:22.920 –> 01:37:24.279
Well, there’s blood.

01:37:24.520 –> 01:37:25.880
And half of it’s fine.

01:37:26.920 –> 01:37:29.640
She begins rushing over to go attack the next one.

01:37:29.960 –> 01:37:31.720
And Starling, it is your turn.

01:37:32.520 –> 01:37:34.600
You’re feeling kind of fucked up right now.

01:37:40.680 –> 01:37:41.079
Sorry.

01:37:41.399 –> 01:37:42.680
What was the total?

01:37:43.239 –> 01:37:43.800
27.

01:37:43.960 –> 01:37:44.920
I updated you.

01:37:45.399 –> 01:37:45.560
Okay.

01:37:46.199 –> 01:37:52.039
And as you’re looking around, you notice lots of bodies stacked up and lots of coffins.

01:37:55.159 –> 01:37:55.399
Yep.

01:37:55.640 –> 01:37:56.680
Pretty horrible.

01:37:57.000 –> 01:37:57.479
What do you do?

01:37:57.560 –> 01:37:58.520
Anything else on your turn?

01:37:58.680 –> 01:37:59.479
Nothing I’ll turn.

01:38:00.279 –> 01:38:00.600
Alright.

01:38:00.920 –> 01:38:02.520
Scorn, it is your turn.

01:38:03.159 –> 01:38:07.159
These cultists hit hard and don’t go down easy.

01:38:07.960 –> 01:38:09.560
They don’t like Starling one bit.

01:38:10.600 –> 01:38:11.560
It’s not good.

01:38:11.880 –> 01:38:13.800
So there’s another one over this away.

01:38:14.119 –> 01:38:15.319
I can’t see him yet.

01:38:15.560 –> 01:38:16.920
I’m going to head over there.

01:38:17.239 –> 01:38:18.760
I still don’t see him.

01:38:19.399 –> 01:38:20.119
A little more movement.

01:38:20.279 –> 01:38:21.479
Oh, there he is.

01:38:21.800 –> 01:38:23.560
Well, he’s just getting firebolted.

01:38:23.880 –> 01:38:25.239
Because that’s fun.

01:38:25.880 –> 01:38:27.640
And that’s a whopping 16.

01:38:27.960 –> 01:38:28.680
That hits.

01:38:29.319 –> 01:38:29.640
Okay.

01:38:30.359 –> 01:38:31.479
Damage says.

01:38:32.119 –> 01:38:33.159
Well, that’s weak.

01:38:33.479 –> 01:38:34.600
Seven points of damage.

01:38:34.840 –> 01:38:38.119
You hit him with a little bit of fire and he looks pissed off.

01:38:39.479 –> 01:38:41.720
And I’m going to duck back over here.

01:38:42.039 –> 01:38:44.279
And that’s going to be the end of my turn for now.

01:38:44.920 –> 01:38:47.960
You see Ash go running straight towards you.

01:38:48.279 –> 01:38:50.039
And Iphid is not far behind.

01:38:50.359 –> 01:38:52.520
And Aldric, it is your turn.

01:38:52.840 –> 01:38:53.319
Right.

01:38:53.640 –> 01:38:55.800
Is Starling still quite messed up?

01:38:55.960 –> 01:38:57.720
Or she looks kind of okay now?

01:38:58.039 –> 01:38:59.720
She is still quite messed up.

01:39:00.039 –> 01:39:00.359
Yeah.

01:39:00.680 –> 01:39:03.319
I’m going to cure wounds Starling as well.

01:39:03.640 –> 01:39:04.760
Just first level.

01:39:05.560 –> 01:39:06.039
That is.

01:39:06.920 –> 01:39:07.560
Oh, no.

01:39:07.800 –> 01:39:09.880
A whopping seven points.

01:39:10.439 –> 01:39:10.920
Hold up.

01:39:11.079 –> 01:39:11.880
One and a two.

01:39:12.359 –> 01:39:12.840
Oh, well.

01:39:13.000 –> 01:39:17.960
Um, and then I’m going to say to our, remember, you got that ring.

01:39:18.279 –> 01:39:19.960
If we’re in trouble, we can use it.

01:39:20.119 –> 01:39:22.680
And then I’ll step back a few paces.

01:39:22.840 –> 01:39:23.479
That’s my turn.

01:39:23.720 –> 01:39:29.560
You the cultist run forward and then clawing away with its flail.

01:39:29.880 –> 01:39:33.399
It attacks your vampiric friend twice, but fails to hit.

01:39:34.680 –> 01:39:39.159
She raises her sword and comes down with a heavy strike.

01:39:39.479 –> 01:39:42.840
She carves across the cultist’s chest as they buckle.

01:39:43.159 –> 01:39:44.760
And Starling, it is your turn.

01:39:45.079 –> 01:39:46.279
So that one’s deaf, right?

01:39:46.520 –> 01:39:47.960
Yeah, this one’s dead.

01:39:48.279 –> 01:39:48.600
Okay.

01:39:48.920 –> 01:39:49.239
Yep.

01:39:49.399 –> 01:39:51.399
The one because she’s fighting currently.

01:39:51.720 –> 01:39:52.760
No, that one’s not down.

01:39:52.920 –> 01:39:53.960
It’s still on speed.

01:39:54.119 –> 01:39:55.640
Okay, so we’re going to ray of frost.

01:39:56.439 –> 01:39:57.880
That does not hit.

01:39:58.199 –> 01:39:58.520
Okay.

01:39:58.760 –> 01:39:59.640
I’m going to use the game.

01:40:00.520 –> 01:40:01.880
Scorn, it is your turn.

01:40:02.840 –> 01:40:03.000
Yeah.

01:40:03.640 –> 01:40:06.439
I’m just going to move this away.

01:40:07.079 –> 01:40:09.159
And now I don’t see.

01:40:09.399 –> 01:40:11.239
Oh, there’s that cultist right there.

01:40:12.199 –> 01:40:15.399
Let’s hit him with the dissonant whispers.

01:40:15.720 –> 01:40:18.760
See if we can get our friend an opportunity attack because.

01:40:20.720 –> 01:40:22.800
They need to make all the attacks they can.

01:40:23.359 –> 01:40:25.520
Okay, it’s a DC-15 wisdom saving through.

01:40:26.159 –> 01:40:26.560
Makes sense.

01:40:27.359 –> 01:40:28.479
I’d say they made it.

01:40:28.800 –> 01:40:30.079
Half damage.

01:40:31.039 –> 01:40:34.560
So, six psychic damage, and they don’t go running off.

01:40:34.880 –> 01:40:35.520
And I’m gonna.

01:40:36.000 –> 01:40:38.720
Yeah, I’m gonna duck behind cover there.

01:40:40.800 –> 01:40:42.319
Aldric, it is your turn.

01:40:42.560 –> 01:40:42.880
Okay.

01:40:43.279 –> 01:40:49.760
I’d just like to make a flaming spear appear behind the cultist about there.

01:40:50.079 –> 01:40:51.439
Oh, what happened there?

01:40:51.680 –> 01:40:52.720
Um, did that work?

01:40:53.199 –> 01:40:53.439
There.

01:40:53.920 –> 01:40:54.720
Yeah, there.

01:40:55.199 –> 01:40:55.439
Wow.

01:40:56.079 –> 01:41:03.840
And I don’t know if technically you could make allow me to use my bonus action to move the spear into their range or not.

01:41:04.880 –> 01:41:07.039
Because I can move it with my bonus action.

01:41:07.199 –> 01:41:08.000
I don’t know if it’s two.

01:41:08.880 –> 01:41:09.600
Yes, you can.

01:41:09.920 –> 01:41:12.000
Then it will make the dexterity saving grow.

01:41:12.319 –> 01:41:12.479
Yeah.

01:41:12.880 –> 01:41:13.760
Two fails.

01:41:13.920 –> 01:41:14.479
Or something.

01:41:15.600 –> 01:41:16.079
That will be.

01:41:16.239 –> 01:41:17.520
Does it say 2d6?

01:41:17.920 –> 01:41:18.960
Yes, 2d6.

01:41:19.199 –> 01:41:19.840
Very well.

01:41:20.800 –> 01:41:28.640
Well, six movement-wise, I’m interested in seeing what’s down the hall there.

01:41:28.960 –> 01:41:29.359
Oh, no.

01:41:29.600 –> 01:41:32.079
You spot another cultist hiding behind the corner.

01:41:32.720 –> 01:41:34.640
What looks like a bunch of dead bodies.

01:41:34.960 –> 01:41:36.960
Yes, many dead bodies.

01:41:38.319 –> 01:41:44.000
I used 25, so if I’ve got five more, I’ll set five back, and I’ll shout cultists.

01:41:44.640 –> 01:41:45.359
That’s my turn.

01:41:45.680 –> 01:41:47.760
See the cultist come running up to you.

01:41:48.319 –> 01:41:52.720
Begins attacking who’s first in his line of sight, which is Ash.

01:41:53.600 –> 01:41:56.399
Makes two attacks against Ash, both of which fail.

01:41:56.720 –> 01:41:58.880
And it’s your celestial friend’s turn again.

01:41:59.199 –> 01:42:03.279
And she wields her mighty great sword with fury and delight.

01:42:04.159 –> 01:42:08.079
As you hear her laughing as she carves another one in half.

01:42:09.680 –> 01:42:11.199
Starling, it is your turn.

01:42:11.760 –> 01:42:12.319
You’re muted.

01:42:12.640 –> 01:42:16.000
We’re going to try to ray of frost the guy down here fighting Scorn and Iphid.

01:42:17.279 –> 01:42:18.000
That hits.

01:42:19.439 –> 01:42:20.640
Scorn, it is your turn.

01:42:21.199 –> 01:42:22.720
There is yet another one.

01:42:23.600 –> 01:42:24.560
Yes, and it’s.

01:42:25.680 –> 01:42:26.720
It’s in melee.

01:42:26.960 –> 01:42:27.600
I can do that.

01:42:28.079 –> 01:42:31.600
Move down here and we’ll true strike him again.

01:42:34.640 –> 01:42:36.000
Well, that’s just awful.

01:42:37.920 –> 01:42:40.319
Been on a streak with those ones lately.

01:42:40.640 –> 01:42:45.680
And Scorn will stay right there and then try and get the cultist’s attention.

01:42:46.079 –> 01:42:48.399
Ash begins making his attacks.

01:42:49.039 –> 01:42:51.359
Oh, that’s gonna hurt.

01:42:52.000 –> 01:42:53.359
Well, three ones, though.

01:42:53.680 –> 01:42:54.000
Yeah.

01:42:54.319 –> 01:42:56.479
Then Iphid begins making his attacks.

01:42:56.800 –> 01:42:59.039
His eyes burning with fury.

01:43:00.319 –> 01:43:02.319
And Aldric, it is your turn.

01:43:02.960 –> 01:43:09.760
Okay, if I can move my flaming spear around without hitting people, I would.

01:43:09.840 –> 01:43:10.560
I don’t know if I.

01:43:11.279 –> 01:43:15.840
You can’t to get it to target the cultist without hitting.

01:43:16.319 –> 01:43:16.640
Yeah.

01:43:16.960 –> 01:43:18.640
I think just leave it there.

01:43:18.960 –> 01:43:22.000
And I’ll toll the dead on the cultist.

01:43:22.159 –> 01:43:24.079
You can see 14 wisdom.

01:43:24.399 –> 01:43:24.960
Makes it.

01:43:25.199 –> 01:43:25.760
Makes it.

01:43:26.000 –> 01:43:27.600
So that means no hits.

01:43:27.920 –> 01:43:28.560
No hit.

01:43:29.199 –> 01:43:29.439
Okay.

01:43:29.920 –> 01:43:32.399
Um, going for over there.

01:43:32.720 –> 01:43:34.079
What do I see around anything?

01:43:34.479 –> 01:43:37.199
You see some broken tables, not much over here.

01:43:37.520 –> 01:43:39.760
It’s mostly dilapidated walls.

01:43:40.640 –> 01:43:43.119
You know, that will kind of come back a bit.

01:43:43.439 –> 01:43:45.039
Yes, it was sick.

01:43:45.680 –> 01:43:49.039
Scorn, you’ve successfully managed to get his attention.

01:43:49.359 –> 01:43:50.239
Oh, good.

01:43:50.880 –> 01:43:55.439
I’m going to give him a cutting word on that first one, because I think he might hit me.

01:43:56.319 –> 01:44:00.800
Scorn taunts him and throws off his aim, and he subtracts four from that first attack.

01:44:01.119 –> 01:44:03.520
Alright, so he doesn’t hit you with either of them.

01:44:03.840 –> 01:44:05.279
Screaming and rage.

01:44:06.479 –> 01:44:07.520
My plan worked.

01:44:07.840 –> 01:44:08.399
Alright.

01:44:08.960 –> 01:44:10.479
Your celestial friend.

01:44:10.880 –> 01:44:12.560
Because, God, you got this last one.

01:44:12.720 –> 01:44:13.199
Get him!

01:44:13.600 –> 01:44:15.279
And Starling, it is your turn.

01:44:15.600 –> 01:44:16.720
Alright, yeah, we’re gonna guiding bolt.

01:44:17.439 –> 01:44:20.239
Oh, come on, that’s your bath.

01:44:20.640 –> 01:44:21.279
Uh, yeah.

01:44:21.840 –> 01:44:22.479
It was bad.

01:44:23.119 –> 01:44:23.760
It was a one.

01:44:24.239 –> 01:44:24.960
It was a one.

01:44:25.520 –> 01:44:25.760
Okay.

01:44:26.880 –> 01:44:28.319
Alright, I do nothing.

01:44:28.800 –> 01:44:30.720
Alright, then it is Scorn’s turn.

01:44:31.039 –> 01:44:31.439
Yes.

01:44:32.079 –> 01:44:36.319
Scorn unlimbers his walking stick and casts True Strike.

01:44:36.640 –> 01:44:38.159
Just as I was saying.

01:44:38.800 –> 01:44:39.840
Oh, that’s much better.

01:44:40.159 –> 01:44:42.560
And damage is not so great.

01:44:42.800 –> 01:44:44.800
Well, nine points of radiant damage to him.

01:44:45.119 –> 01:44:46.640
Will you do anything else on your turn?

01:44:47.199 –> 01:44:48.079
That’s me done.

01:44:48.319 –> 01:44:48.560
Yeah.

01:44:49.199 –> 01:44:52.880
See Ash flexing his shoulders and pulling out his sword again.

01:44:53.199 –> 01:45:01.199
This time he only manages to hit once, and then Iphid follows up with his attacks and fails to hit at all.

01:45:01.520 –> 01:45:03.119
And Aldric, it is your turn.

01:45:03.359 –> 01:45:06.079
Does that guy look near dead or not?

01:45:06.399 –> 01:45:09.119
He looks like he can take a few more hits, but he’s almost there.

01:45:09.359 –> 01:45:09.520
Okay.

01:45:10.159 –> 01:45:13.680
Okay, I’m gonna move this spear fast.

01:45:16.159 –> 01:45:16.880
No, I’m not.

01:45:17.520 –> 01:45:18.079
Leave it there.

01:45:18.239 –> 01:45:19.199
Leave it there.

01:45:21.159 –> 01:45:23.880
I just uh toll the dead again for the game.

01:45:24.600 –> 01:45:25.159
Alright.

01:45:25.479 –> 01:45:27.079
I’m trying to save my spouse.

01:45:27.159 –> 01:45:28.359
I’m not trying to use too many.

01:45:28.520 –> 01:45:29.079
That’s why.

01:45:29.399 –> 01:45:31.640
Use the weaker ones.

01:45:32.840 –> 01:45:33.000
Okay.

01:45:33.640 –> 01:45:34.439
Failed this time.

01:45:34.600 –> 01:45:35.239
Why the weak?

01:45:35.720 –> 01:45:36.119
Yes.

01:45:36.680 –> 01:45:38.039
Roll your damage.

01:45:39.880 –> 01:45:41.159
Should be D12s.

01:45:41.479 –> 01:45:41.880
Oops.

01:45:42.520 –> 01:45:43.239
Scratch that.

01:45:43.720 –> 01:45:44.600
Well, better.

01:45:45.720 –> 01:45:46.119
Yes.

01:45:46.760 –> 01:45:48.600
You see him sinking to his knees.

01:45:48.760 –> 01:45:50.600
He is almost dead.

01:45:50.920 –> 01:45:56.520
In his last moments, he is clawing out at Scorn again, trying to take him down.

01:45:56.840 –> 01:45:57.479
Uh-oh.

01:45:57.800 –> 01:45:59.159
And he might do it.

01:46:01.000 –> 01:46:02.520
Cutting words won’t help with that one.

01:46:02.680 –> 01:46:03.800
What’s my damage?

01:46:04.439 –> 01:46:05.239
All at once.

01:46:06.439 –> 01:46:07.319
36.

01:46:08.279 –> 01:46:08.600
Okay.

01:46:09.640 –> 01:46:10.119
36.

01:46:10.600 –> 01:46:11.960
Uh, thunder damage.

01:46:12.520 –> 01:46:14.039
Leaves me with 15.

01:46:14.439 –> 01:46:14.840
Let’s see.

01:46:15.000 –> 01:46:16.439
You got off easy on that one.

01:46:16.760 –> 01:46:17.319
Uh, yeah.

01:46:17.640 –> 01:46:19.000
Yeah, he could have taken me out.

01:46:19.319 –> 01:46:21.720
You hear the celestial nice, nice hit.

01:46:21.880 –> 01:46:22.520
Good hit.

01:46:22.840 –> 01:46:24.359
And Starling, it is your turn.

01:46:28.279 –> 01:46:28.680
Alright.

01:46:30.359 –> 01:46:30.520
Yeah.

01:46:30.840 –> 01:46:32.520
I fell through my wave with some sword.

01:46:32.760 –> 01:46:33.000
Alright.

01:46:33.239 –> 01:46:36.439
3d4 and a DC15 saving throw for him.

01:46:36.680 –> 01:46:37.079
Yes.

01:46:37.319 –> 01:46:37.960
Aha.

01:46:38.600 –> 01:46:39.000
Aha.

01:46:39.479 –> 01:46:39.880
Damage.

01:46:41.960 –> 01:46:49.319
You watch as the many wounds the cultist had accumulated over battle grow as he falls to the ground succumbing to them.

01:46:49.640 –> 01:46:50.199
Nice.

01:46:50.520 –> 01:46:55.640
It is quiet now, and all you hear is the lapping of water against the shore.

01:46:56.279 –> 01:47:01.000
Scorn goes over to our celestial friend.

01:47:01.960 –> 01:47:04.520
I don’t suppose you have any healing powers, do you?

01:47:04.840 –> 01:47:05.640
She looks at you.

01:47:06.199 –> 01:47:06.760
I do.

01:47:07.079 –> 01:47:08.119
Just a little bit.

01:47:08.439 –> 01:47:08.600
Oh.

01:47:09.239 –> 01:47:11.239
Ah, would you mind terribly?

01:47:11.560 –> 01:47:13.319
That last one did a real number on me.

01:47:13.640 –> 01:47:16.680
Well, I could do something more if you were already dead.

01:47:17.319 –> 01:47:19.720
Uh, I’m not in any hurry.

01:47:20.039 –> 01:47:20.359
No.

01:47:21.000 –> 01:47:21.479
Fine.

01:47:21.720 –> 01:47:24.520
She holds out her hands and a glowing light radiates from.

01:47:25.560 –> 01:47:26.680
How much was that?

01:47:27.000 –> 01:47:29.640
Uh, 34, which puts you up to 49.

01:47:29.960 –> 01:47:31.880
Oh, well, almost full.

01:47:32.199 –> 01:47:32.840
She’s good.

01:47:33.079 –> 01:47:35.479
And Scorn’s like, oh, no, no, that’s that’s just fine.

01:47:35.720 –> 01:47:36.840
Thank you so much.

01:47:37.159 –> 01:47:38.199
Are you having fun?

01:47:38.520 –> 01:47:39.960
Oh, so much fun.

01:47:41.159 –> 01:47:42.359
There’s something in the water.

01:47:42.680 –> 01:47:43.399
Wait, the water.

01:47:43.560 –> 01:47:44.199
Oh, yes.

01:47:45.239 –> 01:47:48.520
She’s standing out at the edge of the water, staring at something.

01:47:48.840 –> 01:47:50.920
And you see the bubbles rising.

01:47:51.479 –> 01:47:52.840
There’s a flaming spear here.

01:47:56.920 –> 01:47:57.479
It’s gone.

01:47:57.560 –> 01:47:58.199
It’s gone.

01:47:58.520 –> 01:47:59.159
Oh, okay.

01:47:59.479 –> 01:48:01.319
I do hope she’s careful.

01:48:01.640 –> 01:48:04.119
Wait, so where you guys are now, that’s water?

01:48:05.079 –> 01:48:07.880
There’s um yeah, there’s the shoreline right there.

01:48:08.199 –> 01:48:09.399
I thought those were picked me.

01:48:09.720 –> 01:48:10.119
So did I.

01:48:10.199 –> 01:48:11.479
That’s what I was getting confused about.

01:48:12.760 –> 01:48:13.079
Oh.

01:48:13.399 –> 01:48:14.520
Well, that’s what they look like.

01:48:14.680 –> 01:48:15.640
I don’t know what they are.

01:48:15.960 –> 01:48:17.079
They’re just planks.

01:48:18.359 –> 01:48:19.079
They’re like coffins.

01:48:19.319 –> 01:48:21.159
Floating bits of wood in the water.

01:48:21.800 –> 01:48:24.039
Looking like the remains of coffins.

01:48:24.359 –> 01:48:26.039
I thought they were Titanic planks.

01:48:26.199 –> 01:48:28.119
DiCaprio can sit on one of those.

01:48:29.479 –> 01:48:30.600
Sorry, not DiCaprio.

01:48:30.760 –> 01:48:31.720
Yeah, Winslet.

01:48:32.600 –> 01:48:33.640
Must be careful.

01:48:33.960 –> 01:48:36.680
You hear someone calling to you from under the water.

01:48:37.000 –> 01:48:39.399
Their voice rising out clearly.

01:48:39.720 –> 01:48:40.920
Starling.

01:48:41.399 –> 01:48:43.960
And you hear it beckoning you into the water.

01:48:44.439 –> 01:48:45.000
We all hear it.

01:48:45.079 –> 01:48:46.039
Or only Starling.

01:48:46.520 –> 01:48:47.399
Only Starling.

01:48:47.640 –> 01:48:47.800
Oh.

01:48:48.359 –> 01:48:48.520
Okay.

01:48:48.760 –> 01:48:50.199
I’m going to ask the celestial thing.

01:48:50.680 –> 01:48:51.319
She looks like you.

01:48:51.640 –> 01:48:53.000
No, I don’t hear anything.

01:48:53.319 –> 01:48:54.840
There’s something out there that’s calling.

01:48:55.159 –> 01:48:55.399
Huh?

01:48:55.960 –> 01:48:56.439
Are you okay?

01:48:56.920 –> 01:48:58.359
Um, I don’t think so.

01:48:58.680 –> 01:49:01.560
Uh, do you want to step away from the water?

01:49:01.640 –> 01:49:02.600
Or will you?

01:49:02.920 –> 01:49:03.800
What are you thinking?

01:49:04.119 –> 01:49:08.520
I’m going to walk up to the Celestial and ask her if she will hold my hand and not let me.

01:49:08.760 –> 01:49:09.319
He looks at you.

01:49:09.640 –> 01:49:11.000
Yeah, I can hold your hand.

01:49:11.319 –> 01:49:11.560
Okay.

01:49:11.880 –> 01:49:13.239
Just don’t let go, okay?

01:49:13.800 –> 01:49:14.039
Okay.

01:49:14.520 –> 01:49:15.399
Alright, I’m gonna.

01:49:15.720 –> 01:49:21.960
Starling’s gonna kinda ease out in the water a little bit as far as she can while holding Celestial and just kind of look around.

01:49:22.279 –> 01:49:27.319
As you look out, I think you can almost see someone standing on the water.

01:49:28.199 –> 01:49:29.479
Looking at you, Aldric.

01:49:29.560 –> 01:49:30.279
I don’t see anything.

01:49:31.159 –> 01:49:32.119
Oh, oh, Starling.

01:49:32.199 –> 01:49:32.760
No, don’t.

01:49:32.920 –> 01:49:33.319
Uh-uh.

01:49:33.880 –> 01:49:38.760
Scorn is at the ready with the counter-charm, if it’s needed.

01:49:39.079 –> 01:49:42.680
But it sounds so familiar, like after your point.

01:49:43.159 –> 01:49:44.520
You hear it calling out again.

01:49:44.760 –> 01:49:46.439
Come out here, Starling.

01:49:46.760 –> 01:49:47.880
I need you.

01:49:48.199 –> 01:49:50.840
And it’s a familiar voice from your past.

01:49:51.159 –> 01:49:53.000
Regarding staying who I am.

01:49:53.640 –> 01:49:57.159
Why would anyone you know be down here?

01:49:57.479 –> 01:49:58.439
Think about it.

01:49:59.000 –> 01:50:00.119
Okay, I better.

01:50:00.520 –> 01:50:01.800
I’ll let her stay on the shore.

01:50:02.119 –> 01:50:03.960
Darling, don’t go.

01:50:04.600 –> 01:50:07.159
The voice doesn’t sound frustrated.

01:50:08.359 –> 01:50:13.079
Do you have any temple connections in your past that we should know about?

01:50:13.319 –> 01:50:14.359
Temple connections.

01:50:15.000 –> 01:50:18.520
There was another cleric who’s been working the team.

01:50:18.760 –> 01:50:19.239
They left.

01:50:19.399 –> 01:50:20.840
They left her faith and went to.

01:50:22.159 –> 01:50:22.399
Someone.

01:50:22.640 –> 01:50:24.159
I mean, I think that’s just falling.

01:50:24.319 –> 01:50:25.119
I will call it.

01:50:26.079 –> 01:50:27.840
Oh, sorry to hear that.

01:50:28.159 –> 01:50:30.479
Uh, are you sure she’s not out there?

01:50:30.720 –> 01:50:34.960
I really I think it’s I think it’s highly unlikely.

01:50:35.279 –> 01:50:37.520
Oh, what should what should we do?

01:50:37.680 –> 01:50:42.000
I don’t like the Scorn casturgy and then thinks better of it.

01:50:42.239 –> 01:50:46.479
He acts like he’s about to shout and then he’s like, No, no.

01:50:47.760 –> 01:50:48.800
Bad idea.

01:50:49.119 –> 01:50:51.039
I guess you better leave yellow.

01:50:53.680 –> 01:50:56.000
I think there’s probably more of them.

01:50:56.640 –> 01:50:59.199
Were you involved in temple work in the past?

01:50:59.520 –> 01:51:01.840
Is there anything what did you used to do?

01:51:02.159 –> 01:51:06.880
I used to protect Savros’s wizards.

01:51:07.359 –> 01:51:08.720
Savaros’ wizards?

01:51:08.880 –> 01:51:09.119
Yes.

01:51:09.279 –> 01:51:10.159
Who’s Savaros?

01:51:10.560 –> 01:51:11.439
Not familiar with them.

01:51:11.760 –> 01:51:15.359
Darling, you see the figure walking closer towards you.

01:51:15.680 –> 01:51:17.760
You make out it looks like Aerith.

01:51:18.319 –> 01:51:19.520
Come here, Starling.

01:51:19.680 –> 01:51:20.720
I just need you.

01:51:21.359 –> 01:51:23.920
Guys, you don’t see her, she’s right there.

01:51:24.239 –> 01:51:26.159
Does Scorn hear or see anything?

01:51:26.479 –> 01:51:26.800
No.

01:51:28.000 –> 01:51:28.319
Okay.

01:51:28.720 –> 01:51:30.319
Don’t know what you’re talking about.

01:51:30.640 –> 01:51:35.279
Was this person your friend, your funneling, your partner?

01:51:37.439 –> 01:51:38.000
What happened?

01:51:38.159 –> 01:51:38.880
She just slept.

01:51:39.039 –> 01:51:41.520
He just slept in the middle of the night and I never saw her again.

01:51:42.159 –> 01:51:43.840
Her dries like she’s really out there.

01:51:44.000 –> 01:51:44.960
We should get her.

01:51:45.920 –> 01:51:46.159
Okay.

01:51:47.119 –> 01:51:49.279
Magical effect within range.

01:51:49.600 –> 01:51:59.920
Um Scorn suspects this is some kind of trickery, obviously magical, and he’s going to cast dispel magic if he can.

01:52:00.239 –> 01:52:03.920
Since this isn’t directed at him, he can’t see it, he can’t hear it.

01:52:04.079 –> 01:52:13.840
But as Scorn casts dispel magic, Scorn, can you make me a scalp uh an ability check with your spell casting ability, please?

01:52:14.000 –> 01:52:14.800
Mm-hmm.

01:52:15.760 –> 01:52:16.239
Yep.

01:52:16.479 –> 01:52:17.039
We’ll do.

01:52:17.359 –> 01:52:18.079
Here we go.

01:52:18.399 –> 01:52:20.399
Charisma ability check.

01:52:20.720 –> 01:52:21.039
Ew.

01:52:21.359 –> 01:52:22.399
It’s up thirteen.

01:52:22.720 –> 01:52:26.239
You still see the figure walking towards you on the water.

01:52:26.880 –> 01:52:27.520
That’s a fail.

01:52:28.479 –> 01:52:29.520
She calls out to you.

01:52:29.680 –> 01:52:31.199
I just need you to come with me.

01:52:31.520 –> 01:52:32.560
Just for a little while.

01:52:32.800 –> 01:52:33.840
I like the celestial.

01:52:35.600 –> 01:52:36.479
She smiles at you.

01:52:36.880 –> 01:52:37.119
Yes.

01:52:37.760 –> 01:52:39.520
Okay, let’s go swimming.

01:52:39.840 –> 01:52:40.880
Don’t do it.

01:52:41.520 –> 01:52:47.840
You take a few steps into the water, and you feel something wrap around your leg and pull you under.

01:52:52.319 –> 01:52:58.079
As you are drugged deeper and deeper, you still feel the celestial holding your hand.

01:52:59.119 –> 01:53:09.680
And as you open your eyes under the water, by the light of the celestial sword, you see a massive tentacled beast, the avatar of an old god.

01:53:10.000 –> 01:53:10.640
I’m a game.

01:53:11.359 –> 01:53:20.640
Don’t remember much as it begins to fade away, but you see the celestial fighting it while still holding your hand as you suck in water and pass out.

01:53:23.439 –> 01:53:33.039
You guys see the celestial enter the water with Starling, and you see the light of the sword flashing underneath the waves.

01:53:33.359 –> 01:53:41.840
The water is churned up with malevolent fury as it splashes and splashes and eventually it stops.

01:53:42.159 –> 01:53:48.239
The celestial rises from the water, holding Starling limp and lifeless.

01:53:48.800 –> 01:53:55.039
It brings her up and lays her out on the shore and looks frustrated.

01:53:56.319 –> 01:54:01.279
You mortals die so easily and you see it begin casting a spell.

01:54:02.159 –> 01:54:07.840
Aldrich’s also going to try spare the dying even though maybe she doesn’t look alive.

01:54:08.159 –> 01:54:10.079
He’s just doing it anyway.

01:54:10.319 –> 01:54:13.359
As you cast the spell, she is already dead.

01:54:14.239 –> 01:54:15.600
Sworn it’s not working.

01:54:17.359 –> 01:54:19.359
Let the celestial handle this.

01:54:19.680 –> 01:54:29.199
You see the celestial pour light through the stop of Starling as water comes seeping out of her lungs, a black tar.

01:54:29.760 –> 01:54:31.760
And she begins to breathe again.

01:54:32.079 –> 01:54:38.479
You see broken bones straighten out and a collapsed rib cage fill up with air.

01:54:39.119 –> 01:54:44.960
And Starling, you feel yourself waking up after drowning and the bottom of the lake.

01:54:45.279 –> 01:54:46.079
Nothing else.

01:54:46.640 –> 01:54:55.520
And you see the celestial has you in one hand and the head of the creature at the bottom of the lake in the other.

01:54:56.560 –> 01:54:57.840
What happened, Starling?

01:54:57.920 –> 01:54:58.399
Are you okay?

01:54:59.039 –> 01:55:02.000
I guess I guess I’m okay.

01:55:03.119 –> 01:55:05.520
I I am so sorry.

01:55:05.840 –> 01:55:07.279
She’s talking celestial.

01:55:07.439 –> 01:55:10.560
I am I am so sorry that you had something past.

01:55:11.119 –> 01:55:16.800
I thought we were just going to go see my friends and and that every you hit that we’re strong enough.

01:55:17.039 –> 01:55:18.399
Celestial smiles at you.

01:55:18.560 –> 01:55:19.359
It’s okay.

01:55:19.680 –> 01:55:21.039
Everyone dies sometimes.

01:55:23.319 –> 01:55:24.119
Don’t worry.

01:55:24.439 –> 01:55:26.359
You can pay me back with a snack sometimes.

01:55:26.520 –> 01:55:29.399
And she smiles and you see sharp fangs.

01:55:30.600 –> 01:55:31.560
Whatever he wants.

01:55:35.239 –> 01:55:43.000
It is quiet, and the water is still lapping back and forth with large waves from the disturbances of the fighting.

01:55:43.319 –> 01:55:50.119
You can see where several of the coffins that were stacked around have been pulled into the water and are now floating.

01:55:50.840 –> 01:55:54.920
Every so often, one of them tilts and sinks.

01:55:56.119 –> 01:55:57.159
What was that thing?

01:55:58.119 –> 01:55:59.880
Old Vicolas Lethbiel.

01:56:00.279 –> 01:56:00.920
What was it?

01:56:01.239 –> 01:56:02.520
Yeah, what was that thing?

01:56:02.840 –> 01:56:03.720
It was alive.

01:56:04.039 –> 01:56:07.640
And then she holds up this nasty, grotesque head of a squid.

01:56:07.960 –> 01:56:09.159
But it’s dead now.

01:56:10.760 –> 01:56:11.079
Okay.

01:56:13.720 –> 01:56:18.359
Well, I think do we think that’s what’s been at the bottom of this?

01:56:18.920 –> 01:56:21.479
Too many bodies on the line.

01:56:21.640 –> 01:56:22.600
Too many coffins.

01:56:22.840 –> 01:56:23.159
Yeah.

01:56:25.159 –> 01:56:29.319
I think there are more cultists, but is this the reason they were down here, do you think?

01:56:29.640 –> 01:56:30.520
Oh, okay.

01:56:31.079 –> 01:56:32.119
Probably worshiping it.

01:56:32.439 –> 01:56:34.439
Making sacrifices to it.

01:56:35.079 –> 01:56:35.399
Oh.

01:56:36.039 –> 01:56:38.520
I mean, disgusting, but sounds about right.

01:56:40.600 –> 01:56:42.439
Oh, he will be.

01:56:42.760 –> 01:56:43.239
Alright.

01:56:43.800 –> 01:56:47.079
Well, we’re going to leave off here in the cave.

01:56:47.720 –> 01:56:51.880
And we’re going to pick up as you are leaving and going to collect your reward.

01:56:52.199 –> 01:56:52.359
Okay.

01:56:53.000 –> 01:56:53.239
Cool.

01:56:53.880 –> 01:56:54.760
Yeah, that was good fun.

01:56:55.079 –> 01:56:56.359
Well, thank you, you guys.

01:56:57.720 –> 01:56:58.920
Not what I expected.

01:56:59.159 –> 01:56:59.560
Yes.

01:56:59.800 –> 01:57:00.600
Very good.

01:57:00.920 –> 01:57:02.039
It’s very cinematic.

01:57:02.199 –> 01:57:03.399
Very cinematic, death.

01:57:09.720 –> 01:57:27.000
I gotta be honest, part of me was like, Elias may not let me come back from this, but that Celestial said to me, oh, I could do a lot more for you if you were dead already, I was like, okay, death isn’t gonna be a problem right here.

01:57:28.920 –> 01:57:29.880
That was good.

01:57:30.520 –> 01:57:31.239
Thank you guys.

01:57:31.399 –> 01:57:32.439
I’ll see you next week.

01:57:32.760 –> 01:57:33.479
Same time.

01:57:34.520 –> 01:57:36.680
Is everyone three next week?

01:57:37.000 –> 01:57:37.399
I should be here.

01:57:37.640 –> 01:57:38.359
I believe so.

01:57:38.680 –> 01:57:39.079
I’ll be.

01:57:39.880 –> 01:57:44.119
One wasn’t here because he got married, and the other wasn’t here because he got sick.

01:57:44.439 –> 01:57:49.479
And as far as I know, the marriage isn’t going to change, but the getting sick will get better.

01:57:50.760 –> 01:57:52.600
Yeah, I’m going to keep quiet on that.

01:57:54.760 –> 01:57:55.000
Yeah.

01:57:57.479 –> 01:57:59.560
Congratulations, Ray.

01:57:59.960 –> 01:58:01.239
You will be listening, maybe.

01:58:03.159 –> 01:58:04.680
Congratulations if you’re listening.

01:58:05.000 –> 01:58:06.039
Congratulations, Ray.

01:58:06.359 –> 01:58:07.319
Good night, guys.

01:58:07.640 –> 01:58:08.119
Good night.

01:58:08.600 –> 01:58:09.319
Good night.

01:58:09.960 –> 01:58:11.560
Everyone, see you next week.

01:58:11.880 –> 01:58:13.159
See you next time, my baby.

01:58:13.239 –> 01:58:13.720
See you.

Chasing Barendur Session 18