Crooked Crossroads

Seeking Loramigs

Session 9

Characters

player characters

Manny
Kaz
Vincent
Wilfred

Session Summary

War Escalation – Learning about battles at Aberfeldy, giant attacks on Melrose, martial law in Gobhane, and anarchist activities in Mara

• Frost Fever Crisis – Vincent and Wilfred fall ill with magical frost fever, turning their skin blue while burning hot to the touch

• Refugee Town Arrival – Party travels to an overcrowded town filled with displaced people from war-torn Aberfeldy

• Merchant Encounter – Meeting a displaced, entitled merchant who complains about aid quality despite his desperate circumstances

• Temple Seeking – Finding the wooden temple of Selûne where an old healer and young assistant tend to the sick

• Elemental Cure Explanation – Healer reveals frost fever requires elemental magic from slain creatures to cure

• Receiving Magical Token – Assistant provides carved token that will absorb elemental essence when creatures are killed nearby

• Forest Reconnaissance – Party ventures north to track elementals, finding ice, fire, and water elemental domains

• Battle Preparation – Kaz casts protective spells while approaching the unfrozen pond containing water elementals

• Water Elemental Combat – Intense battle where both party members are repeatedly grappled, drowned, and nearly killed

• Near-Death Experience – Both Kaz and Manny fall unconscious and begin dying from drowning damage

• Mysterious Rescue – Old healer and assistant arrive just in time to save their lives from the elemental encounter

• Healer’s Bargain – Rescued healer demands retrieval of ancient youth-restoration tome from mountain ruins as payment

• Self-Treatment – Manny uses the cure on himself when frost fever symptoms appear on his own skin

• Camp Return and Healing – Successfully administering cure to Vincent and Wilfred, restoring their health

• Quest Connection Realization – Party discovers the ruins the healer seeks are the same ones from their original necromantic mission

• Trauma Processing – Both survivors remain haunted by water sounds after their near-drowning experience with the elementals

Frost Fever’s Curse: A Tale of Elemental Magic and Ancient Bargains

Chapter I: The Spreading Shadow of War

Dawn broke over a world consumed by madness, painting the snow-covered mountains in shades of blood and gold while distant smoke columns marked where civilizations burned. The war between Mara and Abhainn had spread like plague across the realm, turning neighbors into enemies and cities into graveyards.

At Aberfeldy, the battle lines had crystallized into a nightmare of trenches and steel, neither side yielding so much as a foot of frozen ground. Giants from the elder peaks had descended upon Melrose like walking mountains, reducing the once-proud city to rubble and ash. Gobhane had declared martial law as Jarl Dykk marshaled his forces around Dornick, preparing for the inevitable hammer blow that would fall when Mara’s armies turned their attention northward.

Even within Mara itself, anarchists worked like termites in the foundation, undermining their own war effort with sabotage and rebellion. The world had gone mad with violence, and in such times, even the smallest misfortunes could become matters of life and death.

Kaz discovered this truth when they found Vincent and Wilfred writhing in their bedrolls, skin turned the blue-white of winter death despite flesh that burned like forge-heated metal. The frost fever had come for them in the night, a magical pestilence born from the touch of elemental ice that could kill as surely as any sword.

“I’ve seen this before,” Manny said, his voice grim as mountain stone. “In the northern wastes, when the ice sprites grow bold. We need healing, and we need it quickly.”

Chapter II: The Refugee’s Lament

The town ahead reeked of desperation long before they could see its walls. The stench of unwashed bodies, refuse, and broken dreams hung in the air like a funeral shroud, while refugee tents sprouted from the fields like mushrooms after rain. These were the displaced souls of Aberfeldy, driven from their homes by fire and sword, now clinging to life in whatever shelter they could find.

They left Vincent and Wilfred in the wagon’s warmth under the watchful eye of their faithful horse, whose intelligent gaze promised she would guard them well. Then Kaz and Manny set forth into the chaos of a world turned upside down, their boots squelching through mud that mixed melted snow with human misery.

A young merchant approached them with the shuffling gait of the defeated, his once-fine clothes now little more than rags that spoke of fall from grace. His eyes held the hollow look of one who had lost everything, yet when Kaz offered him precious rations, entitlement flickered beneath his gratitude.

“Not much meat in this,” he complained, examining their gift with the critical eye of one who had forgotten his circumstances. “But I suppose it will do. The city burned, you know. The sewers exploded when those Mara devils attacked. Everything I worked for, gone in smoke and flame.”

His words painted pictures of horror—streets running with fire, the very foundations of civilization cracking beneath the weight of war. Kaz bit back their irritation at his ingratitude, recognizing the shell-shocked bewilderment of a man whose world had ended in a single night.

Chapter III: The Temple of Healing

Through streets clogged with the desperate and dispossessed, they made their way to a wooden temple whose spire thrust toward heaven like a prayer made manifest. The symbol of Solun’s rising sun crowned its peak, a beacon of hope in a sea of despair. Inside, the mingled scents of healing herbs and human suffering created an atmosphere thick enough to taste.

The old healer moved among his patients like a shepherd tending his flock, his long beard silver as starlight and his hands gentle as falling snow. Beside him worked a young assistant whose knowing eyes seemed to hold secrets deeper than her years should allow. Beds lined the temple’s interior, filled with those whose bodies bore the invisible wounds of magical maladies.

“Frost fever,” the healer confirmed after hearing their description, his voice carrying the weight of long experience with such ailments. “The touch of ice elementals, passed through proximity to their magic. Your friends will die without treatment, but the cure requires more than herbs and prayers.”

His explanation chilled them more than the mountain wind. They would need to slay elementals themselves, harvesting the very essence of their magical nature to forge a remedy. Ice elementals were numerous but weak, requiring a dozen deaths to gather sufficient power. Fire elementals blazed with potent magic but carried dangers that could reduce flesh to ash in heartbeats. Water elementals offered the middle path—dangerous but manageable, requiring only two kills to cure their companions.

“Choose carefully,” the healer’s assistant warned as she pressed a carved token into Kaz’s palm. “The water spirits will try to drown you. Many hunters never return from such encounters.”

Chapter IV: Into the Elemental Wilds

North of the refugee camp, the forest stretched like a cathedral of ice and shadow, heavy snow weighing down the evergreen boughs until they groaned like tortured souls. Kaz’s magical senses tingled with the presence of elemental forces, each type leaving its distinctive signature upon the natural world.

They found the ice elementals first, in a clearing where winter had gone mad with artistic ambition. Icicles hung from every surface like crystal chandeliers, some stretching from treetop to ground in frozen waterfalls that transformed the space into a palace fit for the Queen of Winter herself. The creatures dwelt here in numbers that made direct confrontation suicide.

The fire elemental revealed itself as a pillar of living flame that danced and spun in defiance of all natural law, reaching toward the sky with hungry tongues that promised immolation for any who drew too close. Beautiful and terrible, it blazed without fuel in the heart of its clearing, a piece of the elemental plane of fire made manifest in the mortal world.

But it was the water elementals’ domain that called to them—a small pond that refused to freeze despite the killing cold, its surface occasionally disturbed by movements that spoke of intelligence lurking beneath. Evergreen sentinels surrounded the clearing like witnesses to ancient magic, their branches heavy with snow that muffled all sound save the soft lapping of impossible water.

Chapter V: The Dance of Drowning

Kaz wove magical protections around themselves as they prepared for battle, calling upon bladesong to enhance their reflexes and summoning armor of pure force to turn aside crushing blows. The pond lay before them like a mirror reflecting the gray sky, deceptively peaceful until Kaz’s ice knife shattered that tranquility with crystalline violence.

The spell struck true, binding the emerging water elemental with chains of frost that slowed its fluid movements. But what rose from the depths was a nightmare of liquid malice—a creature of pure water given terrible purpose, its form shifting between wave and whirlpool as it sought to drag them into its crushing embrace.

Manny’s witch bolt crackled across the clearing, lightning dancing through the elemental’s body and setting the very air ablaze with electrical fury. But their enemy was relentless, flowing forward like a tide of destruction that sought to engulf everything in its path.

The battle became a desperate dance between survival and suffocation. The water elemental’s grasp was inescapable as iron chains, pulling Manny into its crushing depths where liquid became solid and breath became impossible. He emerged gasping and half-drowned, only to have Kaz suffer the same fate as a second elemental rose from the pond’s depths.

Again and again they were seized, their strength meaning nothing against the inexorable pull of living water. Kaz’s shadow blade flickered and died as concentration broke under the weight of drowning despair, while Manny’s desperate healing magic provided only momentary respite from their aquatic doom.

The elementals pursued them with the patience of the tide, caring nothing for the booming thunder that erupted when their quarry tried to flee. Each step away from the water earned punishment in crushing waves and suffocating embrace, until both adventurers lay unconscious on the forest floor, their life’s breath mixing with the snow in crimson pools.

Chapter VI: The Healer’s Price

Consciousness returned like dawn breaking through storm clouds, bringing with it the warm scents of the temple and the knowledge that death had been cheated by the narrowest of margins. The old healer stood over them with the satisfied expression of one who had snatched souls from the very jaws of oblivion, though his young assistant’s knowing wink suggested there was more to their rescue than mere coincidence.

“I happened to be gathering herbs nearby,” the healer explained with the casual tone of one discussing the weather. “Most fortunate for you both.”

But fortune, they learned, came with a price. The healer’s request was simple enough in words yet staggering in implication—they must venture into the mountain ruins and retrieve an ancient tome whose flesh-carved spells could grant him another lifetime of service to the healing arts. Failure would mean his death, a burden he placed upon their shoulders with the weight of absolute certainty.

“The magic you seek is older than kingdoms,” he warned as he handed them the glowing token and a bottle of liquid that shimmered with inner light. “It was carved into living flesh by mages who understood that some knowledge could only be preserved in blood and bone. Find it, or watch me wither to dust within the year.”

When Manny felt the first blue tinge creeping across his own skin, the healer’s cure proved its worth. Warmth spread through his body like summer sunrise while something dark and cold fled his presence, driven out by magic that burned away the elemental taint with cleansing fire.

Chapter VII: The Circle Completed

Their return to camp was a journey through a world transformed by trauma. Every drip of melting snow sounded like approaching doom, every squelch of boots in mud echoed with the memory of drowning in living water. The forest itself seemed hostile now, filled with liquid threats that lurked behind every tree and shadow.

Tix greeted their bedraggled appearance with characteristic bluntness, though their eyes showed concern beneath the humor. Vincent and Wilfred lay in the wagon’s warmth, their blue-tinged skin a constant reminder of how close death had come to claiming them all.

The cure worked with the efficiency of well-crafted magic. Drops of the healer’s liquid combined with the token’s stored elemental essence to drive the frost fever from their companions’ bodies, restoring healthy color and easy breathing where death had nearly taken root. The magical taint fled like shadow before flame, leaving behind only the memory of how close they had come to loss.

As night settled over their camp like a protective blanket, the party faced the strange mathematics of fate. The ruins the healer sought were the same ones from their original quest—a convergence of purpose that spoke of destiny or manipulation beyond their understanding. They had saved their friends but bound themselves to new obligations, traded one danger for another in the endless spiral of adventure.

The sound of their horse’s gentle breathing mixed with the whisper of wind through trees, while somewhere in the distance, water dripped from melting icicles with a sound that made both Kaz and Manny flinch involuntarily. The forest held its peace for now, but they all knew that tomorrow would bring new challenges, new choices between safety and necessity.

In the wagon’s warmth, surrounded by the simple comfort of shared survival, they planned their next moves. The healer’s tome awaited in ruins filled with necromantic secrets, while the wider world burned in wars that showed no sign of ending. They had become players in games larger than themselves, bound by obligations and driven by needs that pulled them ever deeper into the dangerous heart of a world gone mad.

The frost fever was cured, but its cure had cost them more than they yet realized. In the morning, they would learn just how high the price of survival could climb, and whether the magic they sought in ancient ruins would prove salvation or damnation for them all.

Outside their circle of warmth and light, the mountain wilderness stretched endless and dark, filled with elementals and worse things that hungered for the warmth of mortal life. But for now, they were safe, alive, and together—a small victory in a world that offered precious few of those to those who walked the dangerous paths of adventure.

To be continued…

Crooked Crossroads, Kaz Sirota, Manny Green, Seeking Loramigs, Vincent Dawnstrike, Wilfred Stump

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Transcript

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To start off, you guys are mostly aware that Mara has been invading Abhain and is trying to take the city of Aberfeldy.

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Right now, that is a violent and bloody battlefield.

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They have dug trenches and neither side is budging.

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So I’m going to mark it out in red where the current battle line is.

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So right here is where the battle lines are currently drawn.

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They extend down here to the river and up to this river as well.

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The armies of Mara made a good push for that first little while, but they have met a lot of resistance after making it a little ways into the territory.

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So this whole region is just currently in violent conflict.

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Now going south, the city of Melrose has been under attack by giants.

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Giants have come down from the mountains and have assaulted the city.

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It is mostly destroyed at this point and evacuated.

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Due to these events, the country of Gobhane has entered martial law and it is currently posting troops around Melrose to rebuild.

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Now moving north again, Jarl Dykk is building forces around Dornick in preparation to stave off an invasion from Mara, who seems to be in an expansionist phase.

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And in the meanwhile, in Mara, there are groups that are undermining the progress of the war.

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The anarchists in Mara have been greatly hindering progress and have been causing many new obstacles to come up.

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And that is what we are going to be focusing on today.

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So, how are you guys doing today?

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Doing all right.

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All right.

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Well, you are in the frozen north.

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Aberfeldy has been under siege, catching stray fire from the lines of conflict.

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You robbed the bank and ran into the west.

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Currently, you are at a small town on the border of the lake.

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And a little ways from there, you have your wagon parked.

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The snow falls heavily.

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The air is crisp, and the ground is hard.

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As you sit in camp, both Vincent and Wilfrid have come down with an illness from the cold and cannot travel.

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Sounds like I’m all being covered in fur.

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Oh, I don’t have fur, and I seem to be fine.

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I guess they’re just not as tough as you and I.

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Yes.

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Now, Ticks is also doing quite well.

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I’m not bothered by the cold.

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Yeah, which is weird, because like, aren’t you a reptile?

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Yes, are you warm or cold-blooded?

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That’s not impolite to ask.

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See, I’m more along the lines of a winter reptile.

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I’m cold-blooded, but I don’t freeze up.

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It’s because she’s cold-hosted as well.

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Now, as you prepare, your companions are looking terribly ill, and they need a remedy.

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Will you head back to Aberfeldy?

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Or will you head to the nearby town to find something?

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Well, I feel like we should.

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If we head to the nearby town, it will be quick, but they probably won’t have that much stuff, seeing as old everything they have is being spread thin for the refugees.

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Yes, although Aberfeldy is all in war and I with the business we had completed there, I feel if we may have been spotted.

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Yeah, there’s more risks in Aberfeldy if we went back there.

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I mean, we could quickly check the town, and if they don’t have what we need there, we can then plan to head to Aberfeldy.

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Yeah, I mean, even if we can’t find exactly what we need, we should be able to find someone who can tell us what we need.

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Does that make sense?

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Yes, find a lead.

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Whether it’s somewhere else.

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I’m having a last adender episode where Saka and Katara and Man has to find frogs for Decepton.

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I’m just thinking about this.

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Should we find some frogs?

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Is that what we need to do?

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Yes, some frozen frogs.

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I mean, weather’s right for it.

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But yes, let’s head into town.

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We can see if there’s any information any weeds and.

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Take it from there.

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As you look at Wilfred and Vincent, their skin is turning blue, but it is hot and warm to the touch.

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Do I know anything of this?

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I mean, I’m from technically pretty far up north, but not necessarily this climate.

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Is there anything that I’ve heard of?

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Where you’re from, it doesn’t quite get as cold in the winters, but you do remember occasionally someone coming in with frost fever.

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It is a magical illness when someone is infected with the elementals of frost.

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Hmm.

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Do I know of any cure?

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You don’t know of a cure, but you do know that they should know more in town.

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Okay, so I’ll share that information then with Kaz.

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Well, it seems like it’s frost fever.

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I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know too much.

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I’m guessing the town should know.

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Can probably get some leads there.

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All right, let’s find a healer.

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Yeah.

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Me and the guys maybe stay.

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Do we carry them in?

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I don’t know if I can carry either of them.

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I mean, a cabin, uh, wagon’s warm.

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Yeah, I mean, if they stay in the cabin all bundled up, that should be okay, right?

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I think it should be.

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Oh, God.

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So I guess we’ll make it all tucked in nice.

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Lay a glass of water out for each of them and some rations.

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Try not to die before we get better.

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We should try to be back before to check in on them before, hopefully before nightfall.

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But if you do feel like dying, don’t.

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Yes, I agree.

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And I’ll turn to the horse and I’ll be like, it’s your job to look after them.

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You got it?

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She looks at you and says, Yes, I got it.

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And you remember that hallucinations are one of the early symptoms of frost fever.

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Crap, we’re coming down with it too.

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We gotta go quick.

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Gotta go quick.

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Let’s go.

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So I guess when I said running off towards town as you’re running towards town, the snow is thick and heavy underfoot.

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It is wet as it has begun to warm.

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As you feel the warm air blowing, you see little bits of snow melting.

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The sun feels nice against your skin, and you smell earth turned up.

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As you approach the town, the smell begins to go sour, as you smell unwashed refugees and piling refuse.

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Walking into town, you see a great number of tents set up around the edges of town where clear fields provide eager opportunity to host them.

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As you’re walking up, you see a young man looking at you and says, Please, do you have anything to spare?

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He wears nice clothes.

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However, they are worn thin and ragged and have not been repaired lately.

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Do you know I think Kazi kind of opens out his pockets and she just kind of crumbs fall out and then they kind of go, Yeah, I think we’re in the same boat as you, buddy.

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He looks at you.

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Oh, you’re running from Aberfeldy.

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Yeah.

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Last I heard, the whole sewers exploded.

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They think it was the gas in the sewers had been broken from the street lamps, and one of the bombs set it off.

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Oh, wow.

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Gosh, I hope not too many were injured, although that’s quite a tall order in times of war, like we find ourselves in.

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Tell me, you’ve come more recently than we have.

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What is the status of the city?

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I mean, it wasn’t good when we left.

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The advanced troops of Mara had just hit the city when we were making our escape.

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We weren’t there very long.

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Seems that they are likely in a full-blown war there.

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He looks down, disheartened.

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His eyes hollow.

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I was having a good time in the city.

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I was a merchant, you see.

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I sold goods, but my shop is gone.

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And the city was burning.

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I’m sorry.

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It is quite a tragedy what is happening.

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You’ve been here now for a few days.

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Do you know of anyone skilled in medicines and cures in the area?

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There’s a healer in town, but I don’t know how well they’ll suit you.

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What do you mean by that?

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They don’t seem keen on just providing a cure.

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You have to go out and get things for yourself.

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They’re overrun and running low on supplies.

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That shouldn’t be too terrible.

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We can should be able to handle that as long as we are told what we need and have the help in the actual curing part.

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I’ll reach into my pack.

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Do I have any dregs of rations left?

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I mean, I can now roll for ration.

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Yes, roll for rations and see what you have from the last little while.

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I’ll need a second.

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I am currently downstairs giving my dog a treat, so I’ll have to run back up to my dice on my computer.

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Take this dog.

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Take it.

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Take it.

00:11:17.279 –> 00:11:18.559
Don’t just lick it.

00:11:19.200 –> 00:11:20.720
She’s getting a popsicle.

00:11:21.680 –> 00:11:28.879
He ate just some chicken broth that I froze because she’s being loud and obnoxious.

00:11:29.519 –> 00:11:30.879
And it’s like 90 degrees.

00:11:32.639 –> 00:11:35.600
It’s like 90 degrees in Duluth, and I’m dying.

00:11:36.240 –> 00:11:38.320
It’s 90 degrees.

00:11:40.559 –> 00:11:42.320
Well, it’s not in English.

00:11:44.399 –> 00:11:45.840
Oh, my 25.

00:11:46.159 –> 00:11:47.440
25 is five.

00:11:48.080 –> 00:11:49.360
Let me double check that.

00:11:49.919 –> 00:11:53.440
No, it’s higher than that because 25 is like room temp.

00:11:53.759 –> 00:11:55.600
Oh, that’s like plus 30 plus.

00:11:55.680 –> 00:11:57.360
Yes, that’s above 30 degrees.

00:11:57.680 –> 00:11:58.320
That is hot.

00:11:58.480 –> 00:11:58.720
Yeah.

00:11:59.039 –> 00:11:59.200
Yeah.

00:11:59.840 –> 00:12:03.039
I was like, okay, does the room is about Celsius?

00:12:03.360 –> 00:12:09.360
Oh, it’s about 90 degrees Celsius here, which let me check.

00:12:09.519 –> 00:12:15.920
Well, that is, so we’re looking at about 65 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit here currently.

00:12:16.240 –> 00:12:20.000
Okay, where I’m at, it’s about 38 degrees Celsius.

00:12:21.039 –> 00:12:21.920
That’s pretty bad.

00:12:22.080 –> 00:12:27.120
Thing is, if I was elsewhere in the UK, I would also be suffering, but I currently live.

00:12:27.680 –> 00:12:33.360
I live on the coast, so I’ve got like the nice coastal breeze, and I’m also kind of in a valley on the coast.

00:12:33.519 –> 00:12:41.039
So like the mountains and like the breeze are keeping the temperature much cooler than elsewhere in the UK.

00:12:41.600 –> 00:12:43.440
So it’s okay.

00:12:45.279 –> 00:12:52.319
Yeah, the worst I’ve had at a place that I lived in was it was about 48 degrees Celsius.

00:12:52.639 –> 00:12:53.519
Oh my.

00:12:55.200 –> 00:12:57.360
And that was Las Vegas, Nevada.

00:12:57.600 –> 00:13:01.840
One of the nastiest little hellholes in the U.S.

00:13:02.480 –> 00:13:03.360
Oh, gosh.

00:13:03.680 –> 00:13:04.000
Yeah.

00:13:05.600 –> 00:13:08.720
If there’s anywhere the devil lives, it’s Las Vegas.

00:13:11.120 –> 00:13:13.200
Where did the little dicey things go?

00:13:13.440 –> 00:13:14.960
Why are you not up?

00:13:17.279 –> 00:13:20.319
So are either of you fans of Brandon Sanderson?

00:13:20.639 –> 00:13:23.120
I have not read any of his works.

00:13:23.600 –> 00:13:24.319
I know of him.

00:13:25.840 –> 00:13:30.879
I’ve read enough that I might have and just not paid attention to the author.

00:13:31.200 –> 00:13:34.240
So he’s a thought high fantasy author.

00:13:34.879 –> 00:13:41.519
And I’m going to be running the role-playing game based off of his world next week.

00:13:41.840 –> 00:13:44.639
And I’m going to run that for a little while for a start playing event.

00:13:45.600 –> 00:13:46.639
That’s pretty cool.

00:13:46.960 –> 00:13:49.519
Well, I rolled a D4 and I got one.

00:13:49.840 –> 00:13:50.159
All right.

00:13:50.319 –> 00:13:52.319
So you have one ration on hand.

00:13:52.639 –> 00:13:53.039
I get it.

00:13:53.120 –> 00:13:55.680
It’s two D4, I think.

00:13:56.000 –> 00:13:57.519
So I’ll roll my other D4.

00:13:58.159 –> 00:13:58.960
Another one.

00:13:59.600 –> 00:14:01.039
You have two rations.

00:14:01.680 –> 00:14:06.240
I will give one ration to the merchant.

00:14:06.879 –> 00:14:10.799
He looks at your bundle of scavenged food and says, well, thank you.

00:14:10.960 –> 00:14:12.480
I guess it’s better than nothing.

00:14:12.799 –> 00:14:14.799
Can’t be too picky these days.

00:14:15.120 –> 00:14:18.720
I kind of look at him with a slight shock and a gas.

00:14:18.799 –> 00:14:23.200
I’m like, I just gave you half of the food I have.

00:14:23.519 –> 00:14:25.200
And you are going to be sooty?

00:14:25.759 –> 00:14:26.879
It’s tough times.

00:14:26.960 –> 00:14:35.680
I’ve had to educate myself on how to survive at least by really a skill that these times it seems everyone needs.

00:14:36.000 –> 00:14:39.200
Well, thank you for your insight about the healer.

00:14:39.279 –> 00:14:41.920
And did he give us directions to where they are?

00:14:42.240 –> 00:14:46.319
Yes, they’re a little ways in town in a small church.

00:14:47.200 –> 00:14:50.319
Well, shall we go find this healer then, Ken?

00:14:51.759 –> 00:14:54.639
Yeah, let’s leave this guy who’s definitely not starving.

00:14:57.279 –> 00:15:00.559
And then, yeah, I can’t as well just kind of walk off.

00:15:00.879 –> 00:15:01.120
Like.

00:15:04.039 –> 00:15:20.679
Definitely like annoyed at how the merchant’s like, can’t be too picky these days and just like you’ve clearly never been starving that kind of annoyance does that cause us used to going hungry, you know?

00:15:20.919 –> 00:15:37.080
So as you walk away, you see others begging in the streets and you hear children crying in the distance towards the tents in the fields, and the ground is wet and soggy.

00:15:37.720 –> 00:15:43.879
Your road, which had been frozen when you had first come into town, is now churning up with mud.

00:15:44.200 –> 00:15:52.840
As you take a step, you sink into your ankles with a deep squelch and you make your way down the central road.

00:15:53.159 –> 00:15:58.919
As you get closer to the actual town itself, you find a welcome sight.

00:15:59.240 –> 00:16:02.200
The roads in town are paved with stones.

00:16:02.519 –> 00:16:09.000
Stepping up out of the mud, you can see all around you where people are desperate.

00:16:09.320 –> 00:16:17.960
The people in town have been boarding their windows and preparing to fight off the refugees if necessary.

00:16:18.279 –> 00:16:23.879
They look distrustful as they walk up and down the streets tending to their business.

00:16:24.519 –> 00:16:27.960
You find a small church a little ways into town.

00:16:28.279 –> 00:16:36.840
Built out of wood, it has a high rising steeple and on top the symbol of the rising sun.

00:16:37.720 –> 00:16:40.039
This is a temple of Selûne.

00:16:41.879 –> 00:16:45.559
Inside this small church, you can see through the windows.

00:16:45.879 –> 00:16:50.759
There is an old man sitting and a young woman next to him.

00:16:51.080 –> 00:16:55.240
And they are tending to many people laying on beds with inside.

00:16:59.320 –> 00:17:04.519
Hello, we are here to get some help from a healer.

00:17:04.839 –> 00:17:07.160
Our friends are quite sick.

00:17:07.799 –> 00:17:16.119
The old man turns towards you, brushes his long beard, and you see crumbs of what he has last eaten falling out onto the ground.

00:17:17.799 –> 00:17:19.240
I’m the healer.

00:17:19.799 –> 00:17:22.839
Can you tell me what’s wrong?

00:17:23.480 –> 00:17:24.920
A frost fever.

00:17:25.559 –> 00:17:27.160
Frost fever.

00:17:28.119 –> 00:17:28.759
Yes.

00:17:29.720 –> 00:17:32.360
A common malady.

00:17:33.640 –> 00:17:38.920
Do you have a cure that you can help us with cure?

00:17:39.240 –> 00:17:40.519
He looks at you.

00:17:40.839 –> 00:17:42.759
I have no cure.

00:17:44.360 –> 00:17:46.279
You’ll have to go get one.

00:17:47.240 –> 00:17:49.079
What is it that we need?

00:17:49.640 –> 00:17:51.079
You need to slay.

00:17:53.240 –> 00:17:55.799
Slay a creature of the woods.

00:17:59.319 –> 00:18:01.559
A strange beast.

00:18:06.680 –> 00:18:08.200
Just a strange beast?

00:18:08.360 –> 00:18:10.200
I mean, what does they look like?

00:18:11.480 –> 00:18:15.559
They are little elementals that live in these woods.

00:18:17.079 –> 00:18:20.200
Long pointed noses, wings.

00:18:21.079 –> 00:18:23.319
They are wicked little creatures.

00:18:23.640 –> 00:18:25.400
They live in flocks.

00:18:25.720 –> 00:18:28.759
You should need maybe a dozen of them.

00:18:29.319 –> 00:18:31.480
And you can cure someone.

00:18:32.279 –> 00:18:33.880
Is it a dozen people we need?

00:18:35.720 –> 00:18:35.960
What?

00:18:37.720 –> 00:18:40.360
Is it a dozen just for one cure?

00:18:40.920 –> 00:18:43.240
Would that cover more than one person?

00:18:44.759 –> 00:18:47.079
It looks, he looks at you.

00:18:47.400 –> 00:18:55.240
I do think you should be able to, if you need more, find something bigger.

00:18:55.799 –> 00:19:00.920
There is water elementals that live in the woods.

00:19:01.240 –> 00:19:09.079
If you can overwhelm several of them, that can make more than more cures than these frozen creatures.

00:19:10.360 –> 00:19:15.480
Or if you seek out a quick…

00:19:16.119 –> 00:19:25.720
There are larger fire elementals, more dangerous than the water elementals, yet they are much better for a cure.

00:19:26.039 –> 00:19:31.079
But nonetheless, you need to slay an elementals of some sort.

00:19:31.400 –> 00:19:37.720
It is the elemental magic that causes this, and it is by that that they can be cured.

00:19:38.279 –> 00:19:50.039
Any specific areas of the woods that elementals are known to be in, or any best way we can be tracking them down, or do we just have to head out and wander?

00:19:50.920 –> 00:19:53.400
Oh, there should be.

00:19:53.720 –> 00:19:56.440
There should be some ways to find them.

00:19:56.759 –> 00:20:02.920
If I recall, these elementals leave a magical trace in the air as they go.

00:20:04.960 –> 00:20:09.359
Travel, but you must be sensitive to magic to find them.

00:20:09.680 –> 00:20:13.359
If you go north of the town, that is where they are most common.

00:20:13.680 –> 00:20:21.039
He slumps back into his shoulders and begins walking back towards the other patients that he is attending.

00:20:21.359 –> 00:20:25.039
Do we just bring the creatures close to you?

00:20:25.119 –> 00:20:27.119
It’s a certain part we need a harvest.

00:20:28.000 –> 00:20:34.480
His young assistant walks up to you and hands you a small carved token.

00:20:35.440 –> 00:20:42.720
So she mutters, I think you just need this while you’re fighting them.

00:20:43.039 –> 00:20:49.359
And this will absorb their magic when you slay them.

00:20:49.680 –> 00:20:50.960
Seems simple enough.

00:20:51.119 –> 00:20:54.400
I’ll kind of turn to Kaz slightly, hesitantly.

00:20:54.960 –> 00:20:56.720
Bring the token back.

00:20:57.039 –> 00:21:02.000
After fighting enough of them, its eyes will glow.

00:21:03.680 –> 00:21:06.880
Just bring it back and we can make you a cure.

00:21:07.839 –> 00:21:10.160
Oh, take the token.

00:21:10.640 –> 00:21:13.839
Like, well, I guess we best be on our way then, Kaz.

00:21:15.599 –> 00:21:19.519
The sooner we can get our friends back up, the better.

00:21:20.160 –> 00:21:29.440
As well as I fear with a proximity to them and that we may be falling to it soon as well.

00:21:29.680 –> 00:21:33.279
Want to make sure we can fight with the healthiest.

00:21:33.920 –> 00:21:39.359
Yeah, and how we can take out enough elementals on our own.

00:21:40.240 –> 00:21:42.640
I don’t think we should go after the fire elemental.

00:21:42.799 –> 00:21:44.400
I don’t think we can manage that.

00:21:44.880 –> 00:21:47.279
We’d likely be her, just the two of us.

00:21:48.400 –> 00:21:52.960
Sure, we might be able to make we might be able to take out the water elementals.

00:21:53.119 –> 00:22:00.079
So, what a couple water elementals?

00:22:01.039 –> 00:22:02.079
Would that be enough?

00:22:02.720 –> 00:22:06.240
He looks at you and holds up her fingers.

00:22:06.559 –> 00:22:13.440
Two water elementals should be enough for all of you.

00:22:13.759 –> 00:22:16.960
Oh, that seems simple enough.

00:22:17.519 –> 00:22:18.559
Be careful.

00:22:19.119 –> 00:22:20.720
Each one is dangerous.

00:22:21.279 –> 00:22:23.759
Anything we should know in particular?

00:22:24.720 –> 00:22:30.880
If you get too close to a water elemental, it will suck you in.

00:22:31.839 –> 00:22:34.160
I was wondering if that might be the case.

00:22:34.880 –> 00:22:36.720
It will suffocate you.

00:22:37.680 –> 00:22:40.079
We have to keep our distance then.

00:22:40.400 –> 00:22:42.559
Yeah, so you have enough range.

00:22:42.880 –> 00:22:44.880
I know I often see you with your sword.

00:22:44.960 –> 00:22:47.519
Do you have ranged abilities as well?

00:22:47.839 –> 00:22:49.599
Yeah, I got some marine stuff.

00:22:49.759 –> 00:22:53.759
Doesn’t do as much damage, but does it a pinch?

00:22:54.319 –> 00:22:58.799
And I do have that little spell I picked up from my new teacher.

00:23:00.480 –> 00:23:04.160
And do you know any ice magic?

00:23:04.720 –> 00:23:09.039
Um elemental magic.

00:23:09.200 –> 00:23:10.960
I could potentially make some ice out of it.

00:23:11.279 –> 00:23:18.160
If you can do damage with the ice, it will slow down the water elemental.

00:23:18.799 –> 00:23:20.240
I don’t believe I have any.

00:23:20.400 –> 00:23:23.360
I tend to have more necromantic.

00:23:24.000 –> 00:23:29.360
I’ve got ice knife, chromatic orb that could potentially turn into ice, Daniel.

00:23:29.759 –> 00:23:30.559
Yes, yes.

00:23:33.279 –> 00:23:33.920
I might be able to.

00:23:35.519 –> 00:23:40.720
You want to slow down the water elemental and stay away from it.

00:23:41.039 –> 00:23:41.360
Okay.

00:23:42.000 –> 00:23:45.680
I do ice knife, you explode to the frozen bottom elemental.

00:23:45.920 –> 00:23:47.119
We’ve got a plan.

00:23:47.440 –> 00:23:49.119
Yes, it seems we do.

00:23:49.440 –> 00:23:51.759
Well, I guess up north we head.

00:23:52.079 –> 00:24:05.759
As you begin travelling in north of the town, you feel the cold wind blowing, it carrying a great deal of wet, heavy snow that sticks to you as it blows.

00:24:06.400 –> 00:24:15.519
You feel chills run down your spine in the heavy wetness, and you make slow progress through the snow to the north.

00:24:17.680 –> 00:24:19.519
Make an arcana check.

00:24:21.680 –> 00:24:23.840
Why are my dice feels so bad today?

00:24:25.200 –> 00:24:29.039
Kaz, you sense something up ahead.

00:24:29.360 –> 00:24:33.039
A great number of elemental forces gathering.

00:24:33.360 –> 00:24:35.840
None of them are powerful, but there are many.

00:24:36.480 –> 00:24:38.639
I think we found the ice, guys.

00:24:40.160 –> 00:24:44.480
We want to try for these at all or just keep moving.

00:24:45.360 –> 00:24:56.559
Do you want to be in a battle with lots of little guys surrounding you that you could potentially take out with a lot of like AoE style spells if we have any?

00:24:56.880 –> 00:24:59.759
Or do we want to just fight two things?

00:25:02.720 –> 00:25:03.759
I’m worried that we won’t get.

00:25:05.559 –> 00:25:07.319
Enough out of these little ones.

00:25:07.480 –> 00:25:09.799
It sounds like they needed quite a few.

00:25:10.680 –> 00:25:10.839
Yeah.

00:25:11.400 –> 00:25:16.599
Can I send them back if these are like the ice things or not?

00:25:17.160 –> 00:25:17.559
Yes.

00:25:18.119 –> 00:25:18.440
Cool.

00:25:18.759 –> 00:25:23.400
I have a feeling fireball would be quite useful in this situation.

00:25:24.039 –> 00:25:49.799
As your familiar flies ahead, it flies up to where you sense the many, many elemental forces, and within there, you see icicles dangling from every surface, hanging heavily off of trees, bending boughs, some starting at the top branches of a tree and continuing all the way to where they meet the ground.

00:25:50.119 –> 00:25:54.519
Yep, those are the ICDs that we don’t really want to try for.

00:25:55.400 –> 00:26:00.200
Well, we know where they are if we can’t deal with the water elementals.

00:26:00.920 –> 00:26:01.799
Seems fair enough.

00:26:02.039 –> 00:26:05.640
Keep moving for now, but I’ll bug this spot.

00:26:05.960 –> 00:26:10.920
I’ll kind of be keeping a bit of a using my cartography skills.

00:26:11.559 –> 00:26:25.400
I will kind of make a rough map in both where we found these so we can backtrack away if we need to to find these guys as you approach and skirt around the icy clearing.

00:26:25.720 –> 00:26:32.440
You hear the delicate sound of ice blowing in the wind, gently clattering against itself.

00:26:33.400 –> 00:26:37.319
You go further north, making arcana checks.

00:26:40.599 –> 00:26:41.880
Oh, okay.

00:26:42.519 –> 00:26:51.319
Many, you sense a burning presence off to the west, like a fire ignited in the magic itself.

00:26:51.640 –> 00:26:54.759
You feel it ferocious and roaring.

00:26:55.400 –> 00:26:58.680
Well, I think I know what the fire one is.

00:26:59.000 –> 00:27:02.759
Okay, I’m just going to the direction I felt in the west.

00:27:03.079 –> 00:27:06.119
I can send my snake forward again to double check if you want.

00:27:06.359 –> 00:27:07.079
We can, yeah.

00:27:08.680 –> 00:27:21.559
As you send your snake forward, it continues through the frozen forest with the thick evergreen trees until it comes upon a clearing.

00:27:22.200 –> 00:27:29.400
Where in the center of it there is a pillar of fire spinning, reaching high into the air.

00:27:29.720 –> 00:27:34.119
It burns without fuel and dances wickedly in the wind.

00:27:35.000 –> 00:27:37.400
Yeah, we don’t want to do that one, do we?

00:27:37.720 –> 00:27:39.400
Not with just two of us.

00:27:39.720 –> 00:27:42.440
Yeah, that seems quite challenging.

00:27:42.599 –> 00:27:45.880
I don’t think I have a whole lot that’s good against fire.

00:27:47.079 –> 00:27:49.960
Yeah, I mean, I’m reckless, but I’m not that reckless.

00:27:50.279 –> 00:27:50.519
Yeah.

00:27:50.920 –> 00:27:54.440
It doesn’t do our friends any good if we end up dead.

00:27:56.599 –> 00:28:00.440
Shall we keep moving, see if you can find those water elementals?

00:28:00.599 –> 00:28:03.559
And if not, we’ll circle back for the ice one.

00:28:04.440 –> 00:28:04.680
Yeah.

00:28:06.279 –> 00:28:19.799
As you continue along the frozen ground, the wet snow clings to you and occasionally falls off of the trees with a loud thump, settling onto the ground.

00:28:21.319 –> 00:28:23.319
Make another arcana check.

00:28:27.559 –> 00:28:35.720
You’re aware of a watery presence, liquid and fine, up ahead, but it feels unclear.

00:28:35.880 –> 00:28:38.039
There may be one, two, maybe even three.

00:28:38.119 –> 00:28:39.480
You’re not sure.

00:28:41.079 –> 00:28:43.720
All right, my little flying friend, you know what to do.

00:28:46.119 –> 00:28:47.319
You have to leave it.

00:28:48.599 –> 00:28:55.000
As your snake goes flying up, it finds your clearing.

00:28:55.319 –> 00:29:02.039
Amidst the evergreen trees, there is a small clearing with a pond that strangely is not frozen.

00:29:02.360 –> 00:29:05.799
Every so often the surface of the water moves on its own.

00:29:08.440 –> 00:29:09.480
Think we got him?

00:29:10.119 –> 00:29:12.200
Seems like it, shall we?

00:29:14.119 –> 00:29:15.799
I will cast me.

00:29:18.200 –> 00:29:18.920
You’re fine.

00:29:19.000 –> 00:29:21.079
I will cast mage armor on myself.

00:29:22.039 –> 00:29:26.599
Dog, you are not being a booty face.

00:29:26.920 –> 00:29:27.240
Okay.

00:29:27.559 –> 00:29:29.480
Mage armor has been cast.

00:29:29.960 –> 00:29:31.079
I am already.

00:29:32.599 –> 00:29:35.799
I am going to activate Bladesong as well.

00:29:37.079 –> 00:29:38.599
Yeah, no, ma’am.

00:29:38.920 –> 00:29:39.720
No, ma’am.

00:29:40.039 –> 00:29:53.240
As you two step into the clearing, you don’t see anything except the spill of water, which occasionally splashes over the edges of the pond all on its own.

00:30:01.000 –> 00:30:02.840
So we go over and poke it.

00:30:03.480 –> 00:30:04.920
You should probably keep a bit of distance.

00:30:06.319 –> 00:30:10.240
Maybe throw something in, but yes, you might need to loop them out.

00:30:11.519 –> 00:30:14.640
I mean, they said freeze it, so let’s try an ice knife.

00:30:15.599 –> 00:30:19.599
Can I cast ice knife at the water?

00:30:19.920 –> 00:30:20.400
Yes.

00:30:22.240 –> 00:30:25.839
As you cast your spell, it shoots across the clearing.

00:30:26.160 –> 00:30:36.799
It hits the water with an icy splash, briefly freezing the surface before the ice fades and you see something emerging from the water.

00:30:37.119 –> 00:30:38.559
I mean, I got an artwork 20.

00:30:38.720 –> 00:30:39.680
Does that get anything?

00:30:40.000 –> 00:30:41.359
Roll your damage.

00:30:41.680 –> 00:30:44.160
You roll with a crit on that.

00:30:44.480 –> 00:30:47.359
You see, the water elemental is slow.

00:30:47.680 –> 00:30:55.119
It comes lurching forward, but doesn’t make it far as you see the ice crystals binding it up within, preventing its movement.

00:30:55.440 –> 00:30:59.039
All right, quick, like, do a thing.

00:31:00.640 –> 00:31:01.680
Magic missile, maybe?

00:31:03.039 –> 00:31:04.480
Roll initiative.

00:31:04.799 –> 00:31:05.039
Yeah.

00:31:06.000 –> 00:31:10.799
Manny, you are the first to respond as the water elemental emerges.

00:31:11.119 –> 00:31:18.160
You see this large, swirling mass of water come out of the pond and towards you.

00:31:18.480 –> 00:31:19.759
What do you do?

00:31:20.079 –> 00:31:21.519
Oh, you’re on mute.

00:31:22.400 –> 00:31:24.720
Sorry, my dog had been bugging, so I had muted myself.

00:31:24.799 –> 00:31:30.480
So I was gonna, yeah, do witch bolt at it, which got a 25.

00:31:31.119 –> 00:31:41.519
Roll damage streaks through it like a rising storm on the ocean.

00:31:41.839 –> 00:31:50.720
Did the lightning damage, like, did it seem to do normal damage, or do I feel like that was less effective than I expected it to be?

00:31:50.799 –> 00:31:54.079
Or it did normal damage.

00:31:55.920 –> 00:31:57.759
Okay, lightning works.

00:31:58.319 –> 00:32:00.559
Well, that’s all I got right now.

00:32:00.880 –> 00:32:02.640
All right, Kaz, it is your turn.

00:32:02.960 –> 00:32:06.079
The water elemental still crackling with lightning within.

00:32:06.720 –> 00:32:15.839
Okay, and it should still have the effects of the ice knife until the end of its turn.

00:32:16.480 –> 00:32:16.880
Yes.

00:32:17.440 –> 00:32:21.440
So I don’t need to do another ice damage yet.

00:32:21.680 –> 00:32:23.920
I can worry about that next time.

00:32:24.559 –> 00:32:27.440
So let’s do.

00:32:29.360 –> 00:32:33.440
Let’s stick with magic missile and I’ll do it at second.

00:32:37.759 –> 00:32:39.119
And I’ve got to do it like what?

00:32:39.200 –> 00:32:39.920
Three more times?

00:32:40.240 –> 00:32:41.839
Yeah, three more times.

00:32:45.920 –> 00:32:49.759
You see the magic missiles hitting the water, but not doing much effect.

00:32:50.720 –> 00:32:53.599
All right, so we need elemental damage.

00:32:53.920 –> 00:32:54.240
Okay.

00:32:54.880 –> 00:32:57.599
Next time I’ll do chromatic orb.

00:32:58.880 –> 00:33:00.480
And is that your turn?

00:33:03.119 –> 00:33:07.039
I might duck into the bushes and hide.

00:33:07.599 –> 00:33:09.039
Roll stealth.

00:33:11.279 –> 00:33:14.480
You are effectively hidden from the creature.

00:33:15.360 –> 00:33:18.079
And now Manny is its sole focus.

00:33:21.039 –> 00:33:22.079
That’s fine.

00:33:22.720 –> 00:33:34.640
It comes surging forward like a wave crashing over the land, moving in slow motion, has the ice inside of it halts it like the slowing of a river.

00:33:34.960 –> 00:33:36.720
And Manny, it is your turn.

00:33:39.039 –> 00:33:40.160
Let’s see.

00:33:42.079 –> 00:33:48.559
I will try casting shadow on it.

00:33:49.200 –> 00:33:53.119
Might not do anything, but let’s see if I do damage.

00:33:53.200 –> 00:33:54.880
And I’ll just center it right on in.

00:33:55.759 –> 00:33:58.000
So come saving throw.

00:34:00.960 –> 00:34:04.799
It makes the saving throw, taking half damage.

00:34:05.360 –> 00:34:05.680
Okay.

00:34:06.880 –> 00:34:09.679
So full damage would be six.

00:34:09.920 –> 00:34:10.320
Dang.

00:34:12.559 –> 00:34:16.480
You see the water surge a little bit as you cast your spell.

00:34:17.119 –> 00:34:20.159
But then bonus action.

00:34:21.199 –> 00:34:23.440
My witch bolt gets damaged.

00:34:23.599 –> 00:34:24.079
Let’s see.

00:34:24.159 –> 00:34:25.679
Is that no way?

00:34:27.280 –> 00:34:30.880
I do hear ongoing damage.

00:34:32.239 –> 00:34:32.480
Okay.

00:34:32.800 –> 00:34:35.599
Then it’s 11 from the witch bolt.

00:34:36.239 –> 00:34:44.480
The lightning continues to crackle through the water, further enhancing the image of a winter tempest.

00:34:44.800 –> 00:34:45.840
Given life.

00:34:46.480 –> 00:34:51.039
A stormy ocean surging towards you menacingly.

00:34:52.239 –> 00:34:54.079
Well, this would be fun that it hits me.

00:34:54.400 –> 00:34:55.519
It is your turn.

00:34:56.159 –> 00:34:56.480
Okay.

00:34:58.079 –> 00:35:02.880
I’m going to do a chromatic orb.

00:35:07.320 –> 00:35:08.760
That does not hit.

00:35:09.320 –> 00:35:09.559
No!

00:35:10.679 –> 00:35:13.880
I’m sorry, I was hoping to do more ice damage to it.

00:35:14.199 –> 00:35:15.159
It’s okay.

00:35:15.800 –> 00:35:17.960
I kind of have a plan.

00:35:18.920 –> 00:35:19.639
Why the word?

00:35:24.199 –> 00:35:25.320
Can I still cast?

00:35:25.880 –> 00:35:29.239
The casting of shadow blade is a bonus action, but I have cast a spell.

00:35:29.559 –> 00:35:31.800
Is it like I can’t cast another.

00:35:32.519 –> 00:35:34.039
You can still cast a bonus action.

00:35:34.519 –> 00:35:35.000
Okay, great.

00:35:35.320 –> 00:35:37.320
I will activate a shadow blade.

00:35:39.239 –> 00:35:44.519
I personally don’t like the rule that you can only do one magic thing a turn.

00:35:46.119 –> 00:35:46.440
Yeah.

00:35:47.159 –> 00:35:52.519
Plus, a shadow blade, I can yeet it as an action and recall it as a bonus action if need be.

00:35:52.840 –> 00:35:59.159
So you’ve seen emergency yeet if necessary.

00:36:00.360 –> 00:36:06.760
The watery tempest shattering through the ice within as it rushes towards Manny.

00:36:13.960 –> 00:36:18.039
Make a DC-15 saving throw.

00:36:18.440 –> 00:36:20.039
Strength saving throw.

00:36:23.400 –> 00:36:36.440
As you fail, the water wraps around you and you are grappled, restrained, and suffocating as the water surrounds you.

00:36:37.639 –> 00:36:37.960
Yeah.

00:36:39.880 –> 00:36:41.880
Was this part of the plan, Manny?

00:36:44.360 –> 00:36:46.519
I have a plan for this, and it’s like, eh.

00:36:47.480 –> 00:36:54.360
You take 24 bludgeoning damage as the water surges over you.

00:36:55.239 –> 00:36:56.039
Oh, yeah.

00:36:56.840 –> 00:36:58.280
Concentration.

00:36:58.920 –> 00:36:59.559
Oh, yeah.

00:37:00.119 –> 00:37:01.800
Thank you, Warcaster.

00:37:02.440 –> 00:37:04.679
At least my concentration went well.

00:37:05.320 –> 00:37:16.039
And Manny, on the start of each of your turns, you can make a DC-15 strength saving throw to escape.

00:37:16.360 –> 00:37:16.679
Okay.

00:37:17.960 –> 00:37:18.199
So.

00:37:20.360 –> 00:37:21.320
You’re fine.

00:37:21.639 –> 00:37:23.000
So let’s see that.

00:37:23.320 –> 00:37:24.199
Saving throw.

00:37:24.840 –> 00:37:25.239
Hey.

00:37:27.320 –> 00:37:30.360
So you managed to pull yourself out of the water.

00:37:32.519 –> 00:37:33.480
I am.

00:37:35.719 –> 00:37:36.840
You are fine.

00:37:37.400 –> 00:37:40.360
I’m going to cast Thunderclap.

00:37:41.320 –> 00:37:42.280
Can’t fail.

00:37:43.239 –> 00:37:43.719
I think I just.

00:37:45.000 –> 00:37:46.119
It fails.

00:37:46.440 –> 00:37:47.000
Yay.

00:37:47.960 –> 00:37:48.840
Damage.

00:37:49.480 –> 00:37:50.119
Roll.

00:37:51.639 –> 00:38:02.440
Okay, and then I still have my bonus action of my witch bolt damage.

00:38:04.039 –> 00:38:08.039
And I can’t run away without it trying to get me.

00:38:08.280 –> 00:38:11.960
So it’s better to just run away.

00:38:12.920 –> 00:38:21.079
Yeah, so I’ll just, I guess, take the thing and I’ll kind of get away.

00:38:22.599 –> 00:38:24.599
Reaches out towards you as you run.

00:38:24.920 –> 00:38:32.840
And you feel the water splashing against your back, wet and cold as it fails to hit you.

00:38:33.159 –> 00:38:33.480
Okay.

00:38:35.320 –> 00:38:36.679
Alive for now.

00:38:37.320 –> 00:38:39.239
Kael, it is your turn.

00:38:39.880 –> 00:38:40.199
Okay.

00:38:41.000 –> 00:38:44.920
I’m going to try the Ray of Frost again because we need that thing slowed.

00:38:46.119 –> 00:38:47.800
Or should I try the ice knife again?

00:38:48.039 –> 00:38:54.679
Because it still does minor AoE damage.

00:38:55.000 –> 00:38:57.480
Do you want the tactical opinion on this?

00:38:58.119 –> 00:39:08.119
Tactical opinion, it makes more sense to do Ice Knife because it should be guaranteed at least half 2d6 cold damage from the five feet.

00:39:08.760 –> 00:39:11.719
Yes, and you don’t need any minimum damage to slow it.

00:39:11.800 –> 00:39:13.800
You just need cold damage.

00:39:16.280 –> 00:39:17.960
That does hit, however.

00:39:18.920 –> 00:39:20.199
Roll damage.

00:39:21.079 –> 00:39:25.720
And then I would also like to roll down if you can to the saving throw, regardless.

00:39:26.039 –> 00:39:26.679
Yes.

00:39:28.280 –> 00:39:29.480
It fails that one.

00:39:29.639 –> 00:39:32.199
So go ahead and roll damage for full on that.

00:39:41.880 –> 00:39:43.400
I’ll just roll it manually into.

00:39:48.440 –> 00:39:53.239
You see the ice thickening into the surface of the water.

00:39:53.880 –> 00:39:58.039
The lightning crackling around as it surges.

00:39:59.000 –> 00:40:00.679
How much health do you want, Manny?

00:40:02.519 –> 00:40:05.480
I’m at about half health.

00:40:05.800 –> 00:40:06.840
Okay, and you’re already.

00:40:08.159 –> 00:40:15.360
Healer, so as a bonus, I will just kind of step out of hiding and then just kind of say, take that, you fucker.

00:40:17.840 –> 00:40:20.400
I’m gonna try and get his attention on me.

00:40:21.039 –> 00:40:27.840
So if yeah, because we don’t want the healer going down, roll intimidation.

00:40:28.800 –> 00:40:32.400
Sure, I don’t think Kael is that intimidating, though.

00:40:32.639 –> 00:40:34.239
They’re just a little guy.

00:40:36.800 –> 00:40:41.039
Yeah, you’re not very scary, but you do have its attention.

00:40:42.559 –> 00:40:44.639
Will you do anything else on your turn?

00:40:46.079 –> 00:40:47.360
Go, ah, shit.

00:40:52.800 –> 00:40:55.280
The water elemental surges towards you.

00:40:58.079 –> 00:41:01.679
It doesn’t make it far as the ice within slows it down.

00:41:05.119 –> 00:41:07.280
And Manny, it is your turn.

00:41:08.559 –> 00:41:15.519
I am going to cast one of my big spells and cast lightning bolt at it.

00:41:16.400 –> 00:41:18.719
So we get a real long line.

00:41:21.840 –> 00:41:23.440
Because that’s not going to hit.

00:41:24.320 –> 00:41:25.119
Yeah, there we go.

00:41:25.280 –> 00:41:25.360
We.

00:41:28.719 –> 00:41:30.880
It fails its saving throw.

00:41:32.079 –> 00:41:32.719
Damage.

00:41:34.639 –> 00:41:46.800
As the lightning bolt strikes it, the intensity of the lightning surging within doubles as it is now a light show moving and violent.

00:41:47.760 –> 00:41:48.400
Oh, God.

00:41:52.079 –> 00:42:14.239
Um, well, I’ll then I guess use my bonus action to fill it with even more lightning from my where is things I can okay.

00:42:14.880 –> 00:42:18.719
So which bolt I did off on my bonus action.

00:42:19.679 –> 00:42:21.039
Max damage on that.

00:42:21.599 –> 00:42:27.280
As this lightning goes surging through it, you see the water crackle and explode.

00:42:30.159 –> 00:42:34.079
And you hear a rushing from the pond.

00:42:35.360 –> 00:42:36.000
Oh gosh.

00:42:36.960 –> 00:42:40.639
Something comes surging out towards Kael.

00:42:43.599 –> 00:42:46.239
The water elemental surges around Kael.

00:42:50.079 –> 00:42:51.679
Do I get a deck saving through?

00:42:52.239 –> 00:42:53.920
It’s your turn first.

00:42:54.880 –> 00:42:55.199
Okay.

00:42:55.840 –> 00:42:57.760
It’s my turn first.

00:42:58.320 –> 00:43:02.880
So you have a moment to react as this thing surges up around you.

00:43:05.920 –> 00:43:13.039
As I’m going to forego my shadow blade and cast dragons.

00:43:19.679 –> 00:43:20.320
All right.

00:43:26.000 –> 00:43:31.599
Wait, it says I have no available slots, but I should because I’ve only cast shadow blade.

00:43:31.920 –> 00:43:33.519
No, I did magic missile.

00:43:33.679 –> 00:43:34.320
Fuck.

00:43:35.280 –> 00:43:37.280
I did magic missile at second.

00:43:40.480 –> 00:43:43.519
I know I’m going to run low on self lost myself.

00:43:44.320 –> 00:43:46.480
I’m running low on spells, man.

00:43:47.440 –> 00:43:52.480
In which case, I’m not going to give up my shadow blade.

00:43:52.559 –> 00:43:57.360
I’m going to quickly stab it before disengaging and getting the fuck out of there.

00:44:00.159 –> 00:44:04.320
I think I’ll cast Booming Blade as I stab.

00:44:04.800 –> 00:44:06.559
All right, roll to hit.

00:44:40.720 –> 00:44:41.679
Are you there, Kael?

00:44:42.400 –> 00:44:43.039
Yeah, sorry.

00:44:43.519 –> 00:44:45.679
Trying to work out how much.

00:44:46.800 –> 00:44:48.960
I always forget how much damage Shadow Blade does.

00:44:49.199 –> 00:44:50.559
So it’s 2d8.

00:44:50.880 –> 00:44:51.840
Yeah, just 2d8.

00:44:52.000 –> 00:44:52.720
Cool.

00:44:53.360 –> 00:44:58.000
Okay, so that’s 14 total with the Booming Blade and the Shadow Blade.

00:44:59.280 –> 00:45:02.320
When it moves, it will do the watchman do.

00:45:05.280 –> 00:45:07.840
And I’m now going to disengage.

00:45:09.159 –> 00:45:16.360
Engage and move a con accent.

00:45:16.599 –> 00:45:17.320
There we go.

00:45:17.960 –> 00:45:19.000
I’m going to move there.

00:45:23.079 –> 00:45:27.000
And as you leave, the elemental comes surging afterwards.

00:45:30.280 –> 00:45:31.000
I tried to.

00:45:32.119 –> 00:45:39.559
As it surges over the top of you, make a DC 15 strength saving throw as it tries to pull you within its body.

00:45:39.880 –> 00:45:41.320
Why’d it go to be strength?

00:45:41.559 –> 00:45:41.960
Why not?

00:45:42.440 –> 00:45:42.760
Oh, yeah.

00:45:42.840 –> 00:45:44.840
No, I ain’t good at strength either.

00:45:45.159 –> 00:45:48.119
I’m going to be dexting out of the way, but nah.

00:45:48.840 –> 00:45:49.960
Got a saving throw.

00:45:50.039 –> 00:45:53.320
I mean, a normal throw is still plus, I’ve got plus zero.

00:45:53.960 –> 00:46:02.679
It pulls you within its body, and you are grappled and it bludgeons you.

00:46:03.639 –> 00:46:04.360
Oh, God.

00:46:10.280 –> 00:46:11.960
Well, I don’t want to cast any spells.

00:46:12.039 –> 00:46:14.280
I was going to hurt Kael.

00:46:15.239 –> 00:46:16.039
Just do it.

00:46:16.679 –> 00:46:19.960
If I did, like, that lightning spell, that would hit you too.

00:46:22.519 –> 00:46:23.079
Oh, God.

00:46:23.719 –> 00:46:26.920
I’m trying to think of what spells will be effective, but not.

00:46:27.639 –> 00:46:30.679
Kael, make your constitution saving throw for your shadow blade.

00:46:31.880 –> 00:46:34.119
Advantage, because blade song is active.

00:46:35.880 –> 00:46:36.519
Fuck.

00:46:38.360 –> 00:46:45.880
Your shadow blade disappears as you struggle for breath as you are tossed around in the waves.

00:46:47.000 –> 00:46:49.960
I’ve only got one fast level spell left.

00:46:57.800 –> 00:47:06.440
So as you are suffocating, you have one minute to hold your breath before you start taking levels of exhaustion.

00:47:11.000 –> 00:47:14.840
If you hit level six of exhaustion, you die.

00:47:16.199 –> 00:47:23.079
So you have 16 rounds in the water elemental before you drown.

00:47:23.719 –> 00:47:26.199
I mean, hopefully we’ll have killed it by then, right?

00:47:26.519 –> 00:47:30.199
Yeah, hopefully it doesn’t take us that long to get you out.

00:47:31.159 –> 00:47:31.800
Oh, God.

00:47:32.360 –> 00:47:34.840
All right, Manny, it is your turn.

00:47:35.159 –> 00:47:37.079
Well, let’s see.

00:47:39.000 –> 00:47:42.599
What can I cast that’s not going to kill Kael?

00:47:45.159 –> 00:47:48.760
Because I have a feeling my lightning spells are going to travel through the water.

00:47:49.000 –> 00:47:51.000
I think that’s going to be a bad time.

00:47:51.880 –> 00:47:53.079
I guess I’m going to…

00:47:56.360 –> 00:47:56.599
I…

00:47:57.559 –> 00:47:58.119
Let’s see.

00:47:58.679 –> 00:48:07.400
I’ll try shadow again and just place it where it’s not hitting the creature, but not Kael.

00:48:09.239 –> 00:48:10.599
Makes it saving throw.

00:48:11.239 –> 00:48:13.880
So that would be full damage, so I guess seven.

00:48:16.760 –> 00:48:21.800
With a successful 15 strength check, you can pull Kael out of the water.

00:48:22.440 –> 00:48:25.480
Okay, I can just get to Kael there, so then I will try.

00:48:25.880 –> 00:48:28.519
Can I do that within like my bonus action?

00:48:29.159 –> 00:48:30.360
My strength check.

00:48:30.679 –> 00:48:32.039
Or will I eat a full action?

00:48:32.360 –> 00:48:32.519
Okay.

00:48:32.840 –> 00:48:34.360
You can use your bonus action.

00:48:36.440 –> 00:48:37.320
Strength check.

00:48:37.400 –> 00:48:38.599
It’s not going to go great.

00:48:39.880 –> 00:48:40.519
I tried.

00:48:40.599 –> 00:48:41.400
I’m sorry.

00:48:42.360 –> 00:48:46.280
You grab Kael with a mighty effort and just pull on her.

00:48:46.599 –> 00:48:48.119
Pulling a little bit on her arm.

00:48:48.280 –> 00:48:51.960
Feels like you’re going to pull her arm out of the socket, but you don’t get her out of the water.

00:48:52.280 –> 00:48:55.559
My weak magic arms are not strong enough for this.

00:48:55.880 –> 00:48:57.880
And Kael, sorry then, not her.

00:48:58.440 –> 00:49:00.760
Kael, it is your turn.

00:49:01.079 –> 00:49:04.519
You make your strength saving throw to see if you get out of the water.

00:49:04.840 –> 00:49:08.280
If not, you take 2d8 bludgeoning damage.

00:49:08.920 –> 00:49:10.599
So I’ve got a roll of 15, right?

00:49:10.840 –> 00:49:11.239
Basically.

00:49:12.119 –> 00:49:14.039
It is a DC14 to escape.

00:49:14.119 –> 00:49:15.800
So I’m going to roll a 14.

00:49:16.360 –> 00:49:16.679
Yeah.

00:49:17.000 –> 00:49:19.559
And if you have athletics, you can add that.

00:49:20.599 –> 00:49:21.400
Oh, my God!

00:49:21.960 –> 00:49:24.119
Kael!

00:49:25.079 –> 00:49:28.599
All right, Kael slips out of the water elemental.

00:49:28.920 –> 00:49:32.199
Okay, was that like action, bonus, action, free action?

00:49:32.440 –> 00:49:33.320
What was that?

00:49:36.360 –> 00:49:37.960
That was an action.

00:49:38.599 –> 00:49:40.519
So I’ve got a bonus action.

00:49:41.480 –> 00:49:42.840
Okay, yeah, bonus action.

00:49:42.920 –> 00:49:47.480
I’m just going to kind of disengage and get the fuck out of there.

00:49:48.119 –> 00:49:48.440
Yeah.

00:49:54.119 –> 00:49:54.599
All right.

00:49:54.679 –> 00:49:56.039
The water elemental.

00:49:57.880 –> 00:50:02.920
It surges forward and tries to pull Manny in.

00:50:03.559 –> 00:50:03.880
Yeah.

00:50:05.480 –> 00:50:07.400
Dog, why are you like this?

00:50:07.800 –> 00:50:08.920
Make a strength saving throw.

00:50:15.519 –> 00:50:17.519
Well, I think I failed.

00:50:17.840 –> 00:50:19.039
Oh, boy, howdy.

00:50:20.079 –> 00:50:21.119
Boy, howdy.

00:50:22.480 –> 00:50:23.199
Almost.

00:50:23.519 –> 00:50:25.679
I’m hanging on by a thread.

00:50:27.199 –> 00:50:30.800
Manny is bludgeoned and pulled into the water.

00:50:31.760 –> 00:50:33.360
This is going great.

00:50:36.800 –> 00:50:38.079
Pop, please.

00:50:38.239 –> 00:50:39.679
Stop bugging at me.

00:50:40.320 –> 00:50:42.239
And Manny, it is your turn.

00:50:42.880 –> 00:50:48.000
Okay, so it reminds me: is escaping that’s a full action?

00:50:51.039 –> 00:50:51.360
Yes.

00:50:53.280 –> 00:50:53.599
Now.

00:50:55.840 –> 00:50:56.159
Okay.

00:50:56.719 –> 00:50:57.679
Pop, please.

00:50:57.760 –> 00:51:00.079
This is a very traumatic moment.

00:51:01.119 –> 00:51:11.360
So I will then use my meta-magic to change cure wound into a bonus action.

00:51:14.159 –> 00:51:15.519
That was meant for.

00:51:18.400 –> 00:51:20.079
So, puppy, please.

00:51:20.239 –> 00:51:21.280
I beg of you.

00:51:21.920 –> 00:51:25.599
So now my cue wound is bonus action.

00:51:26.880 –> 00:51:28.960
So I get 17 more health.

00:51:29.599 –> 00:51:30.400
Huzzah.

00:51:31.679 –> 00:51:32.239
Dog.

00:51:32.719 –> 00:51:33.599
No, ma’am.

00:51:33.920 –> 00:51:35.440
I’m disappointed in you.

00:51:35.760 –> 00:51:36.239
Yes.

00:51:37.599 –> 00:51:43.440
So then I will use my action, dog, to try and escape.

00:51:46.880 –> 00:51:48.480
All right, roll strength.

00:51:49.760 –> 00:51:50.400
That is.

00:51:50.960 –> 00:51:51.519
What pee?

00:51:52.000 –> 00:52:01.280
Just barely managed to make it out of the water, flopping onto the ground, gasping for air, soaked and shivering.

00:52:02.480 –> 00:52:08.639
Oh, I can’t get kicked by this thing again, so I am gonna risk the hit.

00:52:08.960 –> 00:52:09.440
Dog!

00:52:09.920 –> 00:52:12.639
I’m gonna risk the hit and just book it.

00:52:15.119 –> 00:52:17.599
Just have one as far as I can that way.

00:52:18.239 –> 00:52:19.360
I can go a little further.

00:52:19.440 –> 00:52:21.840
I think I just need a stretch.

00:52:22.320 –> 00:52:26.559
We help your turn!

00:52:27.199 –> 00:52:27.760
Why?

00:52:28.960 –> 00:52:30.880
I don’t wanna run away!

00:52:32.000 –> 00:52:33.840
Hold on, I can’t even reaction.

00:52:34.719 –> 00:52:38.800
Well, well, I guess I don’t make it that far.

00:52:39.119 –> 00:52:45.920
So, Manny, you attempt your turn to run away as it crashes over you like a tidal wave.

00:52:46.800 –> 00:52:57.360
Well, the last thing you see before going unconscious is Kael watching, preparing to leap in, looking almost as drowned as you are.

00:52:59.519 –> 00:53:01.440
Oh, it’s been a good one, y’all!

00:53:02.159 –> 00:53:03.920
Kael, it is your turn.

00:53:04.480 –> 00:53:06.400
Ah, fuck!

00:53:08.159 –> 00:53:20.159
I think, like, the briefest thought of just running away and saving themselves does like flicker to their mind.

00:53:21.760 –> 00:53:25.599
Like, I will be honest about Kael’s weak thing.

00:53:25.760 –> 00:53:28.079
They do briefly think, should I just run?

00:53:28.719 –> 00:53:39.280
But, like, these are the this is like the first group of people that have actually taken them in and just kind of actually show not just tolerance but kindness to Kael.

00:53:39.679 –> 00:53:42.079
So they’re like, nah, fuck it, let’s do it.

00:53:42.400 –> 00:53:45.199
Let’s kill this bitch and save my new friends.

00:53:45.519 –> 00:53:50.559
Oh, who comes?

00:53:51.440 –> 00:53:55.280
Is there any way I can give myself advantage for this for this round?

00:53:55.599 –> 00:53:56.960
So I can get a sneak attack.

00:53:57.599 –> 00:54:06.159
Oh, what if I use my bonus action to hide at the beginning of my round and then I immediately yeet myself forwards with that?

00:54:06.239 –> 00:54:08.159
That would give me advantage for sneak attack, right?

00:54:08.480 –> 00:54:09.599
Yeah, that would work.

00:54:09.920 –> 00:54:10.880
Cool.

00:54:11.199 –> 00:54:14.079
Let’s do a quick stealth.

00:54:16.320 –> 00:54:16.960
That’ll do.

00:54:17.039 –> 00:54:17.679
28.

00:54:18.239 –> 00:54:19.280
You are hidden.

00:54:19.599 –> 00:54:19.840
Good.

00:54:20.159 –> 00:54:23.119
As you hide in the tree preparing to attack.

00:54:23.440 –> 00:54:27.280
Okay, so now I’ve got advantage for my rapier attack.

00:54:27.920 –> 00:54:28.480
Round four.

00:54:29.199 –> 00:54:31.440
And I’m going to attack with booming blade as well.

00:54:31.760 –> 00:54:32.320
All right.

00:54:32.639 –> 00:54:33.840
And do remember that your next.

00:54:35.360 –> 00:54:38.720
It should have taken extra booming blade damage from the previous time it moved as well.

00:54:39.039 –> 00:54:41.760
Yes, so roll that 2d8 for that right now.

00:54:42.639 –> 00:54:43.039
Cool.

00:54:43.519 –> 00:54:46.239
So that’s the booming blade for this one go round.

00:54:46.960 –> 00:54:49.760
That’s moving damage from the first time it smooth.

00:54:50.400 –> 00:54:54.559
And now I’ll do the rapier damage for this go round.

00:54:54.639 –> 00:54:56.079
And then I’ll do the sneak attack.

00:54:58.559 –> 00:55:00.000
Ah, where sneak attack?

00:55:02.880 –> 00:55:03.360
There we go.

00:55:03.519 –> 00:55:04.400
There’s my wait.

00:55:04.480 –> 00:55:05.039
Yeah, there’s me.

00:55:07.440 –> 00:55:09.440
Okay, so with all of that damage.

00:55:22.360 –> 00:55:25.800
I’ve got like 20 feet of movement left.

00:55:27.639 –> 00:55:34.920
I’m gonna just hope he doesn’t hit me and just kind of jump out of the way.

00:55:37.400 –> 00:55:38.440
It hits.

00:55:38.760 –> 00:55:39.719
Damn it.

00:55:41.239 –> 00:55:41.880
Still up.

00:55:43.079 –> 00:55:45.320
Like a wave crashing over your back.

00:55:45.639 –> 00:55:47.639
The water elemental hits you.

00:55:49.159 –> 00:55:50.760
I’ve got like three HP left.

00:55:50.920 –> 00:55:52.039
Jesus Christ.

00:55:52.280 –> 00:55:52.840
Oh, God.

00:55:53.800 –> 00:55:54.920
The other two will come back.

00:55:55.000 –> 00:55:55.880
You’re like, hey, what happened?

00:55:56.119 –> 00:55:57.400
Like, well, we all died.

00:55:57.719 –> 00:56:03.719
The water elemental comes surging towards you, leaving Manny drowned on the ground next to it.

00:56:04.280 –> 00:56:06.119
Roll damage for the booming blade.

00:56:06.679 –> 00:56:07.000
Okay.

00:56:14.280 –> 00:56:17.159
And then it begins crashing over you.

00:56:19.960 –> 00:56:21.239
Pulling you in.

00:56:21.800 –> 00:56:24.920
Have you ever had an unsuccessful well reshot?

00:56:26.199 –> 00:56:30.360
The first one was unsuccessful this encounter.

00:56:30.679 –> 00:56:40.199
But ever since then, they’ve all succeeded this, I will take damage and drown and die.

00:56:40.519 –> 00:56:41.800
You’re going to drown, yeah.

00:56:42.119 –> 00:56:43.719
So we’re both dying right now.

00:56:44.280 –> 00:56:47.960
So because we’re both dying right now, can I ask for bullshit advantage?

00:56:48.039 –> 00:56:50.519
Because if I fail, we both die.

00:56:53.400 –> 00:56:58.119
You can roll with advantage in a last desperate moment.

00:56:58.440 –> 00:56:59.400
Thank you.

00:57:00.599 –> 00:57:01.639
Oh, thank God.

00:57:05.480 –> 00:57:06.840
I need to.

00:57:06.920 –> 00:57:07.400
Thank you.

00:57:07.559 –> 00:57:08.760
Thank you so much.

00:57:09.400 –> 00:57:10.599
Thank you, Dice God.

00:57:11.880 –> 00:57:17.559
I will take whatever penalty you give me for asking for that advantage.

00:57:17.639 –> 00:57:18.840
I will take it.

00:57:19.480 –> 00:57:22.360
All right, Manny, make your death-saving throw.

00:57:25.400 –> 00:57:25.960
Oh, no.

00:57:26.840 –> 00:57:29.880
Well, this may be the end of Manny.

00:57:30.760 –> 00:57:32.039
They had a good run.

00:57:32.679 –> 00:57:35.239
I mean, you’ve still got one success.

00:57:37.639 –> 00:57:39.400
Don’t roll another failure, basically.

00:57:41.000 –> 00:57:41.960
Two more failures.

00:57:42.199 –> 00:57:42.599
Well, one more.

00:57:42.840 –> 00:57:44.679
Two more failures and you die.

00:57:45.320 –> 00:57:45.559
Yeah.

00:57:46.360 –> 00:57:48.679
I thought a natural wonder was two failures.

00:57:49.320 –> 00:57:50.760
That was why you weren’t doing that roll.

00:57:51.320 –> 00:57:53.960
Manny hasn’t rolled a one on Death Saves.

00:57:54.760 –> 00:57:55.079
Okay.

00:57:55.400 –> 00:57:56.199
Oh, that was a two.

00:57:58.119 –> 00:57:59.960
I saw the red and feared the worst.

00:58:00.280 –> 00:58:02.440
You’re on your last ropes.

00:58:05.079 –> 00:58:07.800
Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle.

00:58:08.119 –> 00:58:10.360
We should have gone for the small one.

00:58:11.960 –> 00:58:15.400
I could have just fireballed them off and it would have been done.

00:58:15.960 –> 00:58:16.280
Okay.

00:58:17.559 –> 00:58:19.639
I’ll do the same being.

00:58:20.519 –> 00:58:25.320
I will hide in order to get the advantage for the sneak attack first.

00:58:26.199 –> 00:58:27.400
Oh, I’m sorry, Bobby.

00:58:28.840 –> 00:58:30.920
17 good enough to hide?

00:58:31.239 –> 00:58:31.800
Yes.

00:58:32.679 –> 00:58:33.000
Good.

00:58:33.239 –> 00:58:34.840
That means I get sneak attack.

00:58:37.400 –> 00:58:40.440
And I’m doing booming blade on top of this as well.

00:58:51.800 –> 00:58:55.400
Oh, you don’t need to hide actually because you have vexed from your last attack.

00:58:56.039 –> 00:58:57.000
Oh, okay.

00:58:57.159 –> 00:58:57.880
So that’s great.

00:58:57.960 –> 00:58:59.159
I’ve still got my bonus action then.

00:58:59.400 –> 00:59:01.159
I can use that to disengage and run.

00:59:01.400 –> 00:59:01.800
Great.

00:59:03.320 –> 00:59:03.639
So.

00:59:11.800 –> 00:59:20.360
And because I have my bonus action, I’m going to disengage and run as far as I possibly fucking can.

00:59:25.800 –> 00:59:27.000
Sorry, my computer’s fucking…

00:59:27.480 –> 00:59:29.480
I’m trying to find a place that’s like 40 feet away.

00:59:29.720 –> 00:59:30.920
Okay, that’s 40 feet.

00:59:31.239 –> 00:59:34.920
And now when it comes after me, it will take the additional booming blade damage.

00:59:35.239 –> 00:59:38.679
As you run by the water, you see something surging underneath it.

00:59:39.000 –> 00:59:39.559
Don’t know.

00:59:41.960 –> 00:59:44.039
I was worried about going by the water.

00:59:44.360 –> 00:59:45.800
It comes rushing towards you.

00:59:45.880 –> 00:59:47.639
Roll your booming blade damage.

00:59:47.960 –> 00:59:49.639
Is there a possibility this could go?

00:59:53.880 –> 00:59:58.519
The elemental slows a bit, but still pursues you.

00:59:59.159 –> 01:00:00.760
Jesus Christ!

01:00:01.079 –> 01:00:03.480
Make a DC-15 strength.

01:00:04.119 –> 01:00:04.440
You go.

01:00:06.360 –> 01:00:10.840
I will take all the exhaustion disadvantages you give me after the.

01:00:12.079 –> 01:00:15.679
Battle, if you let me like continuously roll this with advantage, please.

01:00:16.000 –> 01:00:17.840
All right, roll with advantage.

01:00:18.159 –> 01:00:18.400
Cool.

01:00:18.559 –> 01:00:21.760
I will take any exhaustion you give me afterwards.

01:00:24.000 –> 01:00:24.239
No!

01:00:25.840 –> 01:00:30.960
You are sucked in as you are bludgeoned and pulled into the water.

01:00:31.119 –> 01:00:43.039
You feel yourself going unconscious, and you see, in the corner of your vision, an old man with a young woman next to him approaching from the distance.

01:00:43.360 –> 01:00:48.719
I think I just weakly gurgle out as I just feel myself drown.

01:00:51.280 –> 01:00:53.519
You fade into darkness.

01:00:53.840 –> 01:01:07.519
In a moment, you’re blinking open, and the last thing you see through the bit of darkness pulling at your vision is two glowing green eyes from the totem you have, and then it’s nothing.

01:01:07.840 –> 01:01:13.840
You two wake up in the small church, drowned and wet.

01:01:14.400 –> 01:01:16.320
Your lungs ache.

01:01:16.639 –> 01:01:23.360
Your bones hurt, your muscles are strained as you lay weakly in the bed.

01:01:24.000 –> 01:01:26.239
Kael, are you alright?

01:01:27.440 –> 01:01:29.360
Surprisingly, I’ve been worse.

01:01:30.000 –> 01:01:30.320
Oh.

01:01:31.280 –> 01:01:31.599
What?

01:01:33.360 –> 01:01:35.280
Did you finish beat it off?

01:01:36.480 –> 01:01:37.599
Finish it off now?

01:01:38.159 –> 01:01:38.639
I didn’t.

01:01:38.960 –> 01:01:40.079
Someone appeared.

01:01:40.639 –> 01:01:41.360
I don’t know.

01:01:42.000 –> 01:01:44.639
I’ll try to sit up and look when I’m probably taking note.

01:01:44.719 –> 01:01:47.440
They’ll end up to how did we get back here?

01:01:48.079 –> 01:01:57.679
You see the old man looking a bit damp, tending to the people around you, and his younger assistant working feverishly.

01:01:58.000 –> 01:02:00.000
He looks over at you guys.

01:02:00.559 –> 01:02:02.159
You almost died.

01:02:02.800 –> 01:02:03.920
Yeah, that happened.

01:02:04.320 –> 01:02:06.079
You got right lucky you did.

01:02:06.400 –> 01:02:09.199
You should have gone after the small ones.

01:02:10.719 –> 01:02:11.840
Why did you help us?

01:02:16.559 –> 01:02:19.760
I just happened to be nearby.

01:02:20.960 –> 01:02:24.239
And you see his assistant turn and wink at you.

01:02:25.679 –> 01:02:28.639
Well, thank you for saving us.

01:02:28.800 –> 01:02:38.400
I feel what would have happened to be that we would have very much been dead, as well as a compatriot.

01:02:40.480 –> 01:02:42.559
How can I repay you?

01:02:42.800 –> 01:02:45.519
Is coin still helpful in these times?

01:02:46.000 –> 01:02:46.719
He looks at you.

01:02:46.960 –> 01:02:49.519
Oh, no coin is necessary.

01:02:49.840 –> 01:02:50.480
Well, then.

01:02:51.360 –> 01:02:52.639
Oh, I didn’t do much.

01:02:52.800 –> 01:02:54.960
You had almost finished it.

01:02:57.199 –> 01:02:58.960
But I do need a favor.

01:03:00.079 –> 01:03:02.880
Yes, what is that favor?

01:03:03.199 –> 01:03:05.840
There are some ruins to the mountains here.

01:03:06.400 –> 01:03:08.480
There is an item I need.

01:03:09.360 –> 01:03:10.079
What kind of item?

01:03:11.440 –> 01:03:20.880
I am growing old, but in these caves, in these ruins, there is something that can regain my youth.

01:03:22.480 –> 01:03:30.079
It is an ancient spell written in a tome, carved into the flesh of men.

01:03:31.039 –> 01:03:35.760
It only works once, but it will give you a whole other lifetime.

01:03:36.079 –> 01:03:37.840
Bring me this tome.

01:03:38.159 –> 01:03:39.039
I need it.

01:03:39.599 –> 01:03:43.679
What if we are unsuccessful in retrieving it?

01:03:44.000 –> 01:03:45.440
Then I will die.

01:03:46.400 –> 01:03:47.199
No pressure then.

01:03:47.519 –> 01:03:50.480
Mind if we go after we’ve crushed ourselves off of it?

01:03:51.119 –> 01:03:54.719
And made sure our friends are taken care of.

01:03:54.880 –> 01:03:57.039
Is there a cure we can bring them?

01:03:57.119 –> 01:03:59.840
Were we able to get what we needed for that?

01:04:00.400 –> 01:04:05.840
He pulls the totem with the glowing green eyes out of his pocket and hands it to you.

01:04:06.159 –> 01:04:07.199
That should do.

01:04:10.800 –> 01:04:14.239
He pulls out of another pocket a small bottle.

01:04:14.559 –> 01:04:20.400
Give them each one drop of this, and then the magic from the totem will work on them.

01:04:20.719 –> 01:04:21.360
Alright.

01:04:22.000 –> 01:04:26.480
He points at you, and you look down, and your skin is turning blue.

01:04:26.800 –> 01:04:28.960
You’re going to need some yourself.

01:04:29.599 –> 01:04:35.199
Yes, see, there I was feeling that might be the case when we left for our mission.

01:04:36.159 –> 01:04:41.039
I guess I’ll test it out on myself first, make sure I don’t die on the way to a friend.

01:04:41.440 –> 01:04:44.559
I’ll take the sip and use the totem.

01:04:45.440 –> 01:04:51.679
As you take the sip, the eyes of the totem flash, and you feel a warmth spreading through you.

01:04:52.239 –> 01:04:58.880
You see your skin return to its natural hue, and you feel something fleeing your presence.

01:04:59.760 –> 01:05:05.440
It might be your imagination, but it seems like you saw something flutter out one of the windows.

01:05:07.840 –> 01:05:11.760
Well, we should probably get back to our friends, don’t you say, Kael?

01:05:14.440 –> 01:05:15.400
Yeah, yeah.

01:05:17.960 –> 01:05:23.000
As you are walking back, every sound of water is menacing.

01:05:23.320 –> 01:05:27.719
The drip of melting snow, the squelch of your boots.

01:05:28.039 –> 01:05:33.000
All of it carries a new threat that sends shivers down your spine.

01:05:33.800 –> 01:05:37.079
Kael will sleep it off and then repress it like he does everything else.

01:05:39.559 –> 01:05:44.199
As you make your way back towards the wagon, your companions are still there.

01:05:44.599 –> 01:05:45.559
Takes looks at you.

01:05:46.199 –> 01:05:48.119
Well, you look half drowned.

01:05:50.199 –> 01:05:54.760
Well, probably because we were fully drowned a while ago.

01:05:56.199 –> 01:05:56.840
Yes.

01:05:57.480 –> 01:05:58.840
Fully drowned.

01:06:00.039 –> 01:06:02.199
Yeah, yeah, well, you know, we walked it off.

01:06:02.519 –> 01:06:04.760
That’s why we’re only half drowned now, you see.

01:06:06.760 –> 01:06:08.119
Kicks and nods.

01:06:08.440 –> 01:06:11.159
Not the most intelligent, but very trusting.

01:06:12.039 –> 01:06:16.280
We got what we need to fix up our friends here.

01:06:16.679 –> 01:06:21.400
Also, you know, pour the liquid and hold up the talisman.

01:06:21.639 –> 01:06:24.760
See if we can rouse our friends.

01:06:25.079 –> 01:06:35.079
As their skin returns to its normal hues, you see the light begin to fade as night approaches.

01:06:36.119 –> 01:06:43.800
The warmth of the wagon is a firm comfort compared to the freezing ice waters of the water elementals.

01:06:46.679 –> 01:06:49.079
And we can take a much needed long rest.

01:06:49.400 –> 01:06:49.800
Yes.

01:06:50.039 –> 01:06:50.519
Yes.

01:06:52.119 –> 01:06:53.239
Add a character though.

01:06:53.320 –> 01:06:58.760
How much health was that last water elemental on before you needed to have the doctor save us?

01:07:00.119 –> 01:07:00.599
Ten.

01:07:01.480 –> 01:07:03.000
Oh my god.

01:07:04.599 –> 01:07:08.119
If I’d have ever survived one more round, I could have fucking killed it.

01:07:09.079 –> 01:07:11.639
Gosh, and I was unconscious, like most of that one.

01:07:11.960 –> 01:07:15.000
That was like mostly you take that one down.

01:07:15.880 –> 01:07:16.840
Oh my gosh.

01:07:17.480 –> 01:07:18.280
Gosh.

01:07:18.599 –> 01:07:22.360
Yeah, I don’t think we should let Kael and Manny go off on their own.

01:07:28.039 –> 01:07:29.960
We’re the squishiest characters as well.

01:07:30.039 –> 01:07:32.440
We have like the smallest amount of health.

01:07:32.760 –> 01:07:35.239
Yeah, it’s hard when both of us are squishy.

01:07:35.320 –> 01:07:36.920
We both have the same weaknesses.

01:07:37.719 –> 01:07:40.199
Aka, we’re both not strong.

01:07:41.159 –> 01:07:44.920
I have a negative strength and you have zero strength.

01:07:45.400 –> 01:07:49.239
So yeah, we probably should have gone after the small ice ones.

01:07:49.320 –> 01:07:51.559
I could have just obliterated them with a firebell.

01:07:52.519 –> 01:07:55.159
Hey, but at least we didn’t go for the giant fire one.

01:07:55.559 –> 01:08:01.239
That probably would have been that we would have died after like one hit for that one.

01:08:02.519 –> 01:08:11.719
Now, as you prepare to sleep and you’re drifting off, your minds are haunted by the sound of waves.

01:08:12.599 –> 01:08:20.119
As you dream of being on ships sinking in the ocean, crossing rivers and being pulled under.

01:08:22.359 –> 01:08:27.640
Gosh, yeah, let’s welcome back and we’ll just both of us will just be deeply traumatized.

01:08:28.279 –> 01:08:29.560
I mean, Kael won’t act like it.

01:08:30.279 –> 01:08:34.279
I wasn’t kidding when I said that I’m going to repress it after a night’s sleep.

01:08:36.119 –> 01:08:37.000
Tripping deep down.

01:08:37.239 –> 01:08:38.039
Well, no, not fine.

01:08:38.279 –> 01:08:38.920
There we go.

01:08:39.479 –> 01:08:49.560
No, the ruins that the old man described, they are the same ruins that you have your quest to enter.

01:08:50.199 –> 01:08:51.079
I thought as much.

01:08:51.319 –> 01:08:51.720
I thought as much.

01:08:53.399 –> 01:08:55.720
The necromatic connection.

01:08:57.640 –> 01:09:01.479
Oh, he’s not going to become undead, is he, in order to live forever?

01:09:02.359 –> 01:09:03.159
I’m sure.

01:09:03.479 –> 01:09:09.560
I know we’re looking at a for an artifact that brings the dead back to life.

01:09:09.720 –> 01:09:12.920
And I don’t know if that’s the same book, is that artifact?

01:09:13.159 –> 01:09:17.560
We’ll have to figure out if that we can actually complete his favor.

01:09:18.199 –> 01:09:21.319
I mean, at least it’s just a favorite.

01:09:21.640 –> 01:09:27.399
The penalty for not completing it is just that he’ll die, and he’s too old to hold it against us, you know.

01:09:27.640 –> 01:09:30.840
I mean, his apprentice might, but she also might not.

01:09:31.000 –> 01:09:31.479
Who knows?

01:09:31.720 –> 01:09:33.880
What’s another vengeful spirit after us?

01:09:36.359 –> 01:09:45.159
Well, I really like if we could leave a town without making enemies, but I mean, it’s a lot of fun, you’ve got to admit.

01:09:46.119 –> 01:09:47.720
It has its moments.

01:09:48.359 –> 01:09:50.520
All right, this is where we’re going to wrap up for today.

01:09:50.600 –> 01:09:52.439
It’s going to be a bit of a shorter session.

01:09:52.760 –> 01:09:53.960
Makes sense.

01:09:56.199 –> 01:10:00.920
Oh, should we tell him when I get back that we did actually die?

01:10:03.560 –> 01:10:05.479
Just try and play his drive for as long as you can.

01:10:07.479 –> 01:10:07.800
Oh, yeah.

01:10:08.359 –> 01:10:08.600
Oh, yeah.

01:10:09.000 –> 01:10:10.760
You’ve got your own mission in the beginning of this.

01:10:10.840 –> 01:10:12.439
You’ve got to revive us first.

01:10:17.920 –> 01:10:21.600
No, you didn’t die, but you came very close.

01:10:25.840 –> 01:10:32.479
Because I was also, you didn’t see it, but I was tracking how many rounds it would be until the old man showed up.

01:10:32.800 –> 01:10:33.039
Oh.

01:10:33.600 –> 01:10:41.279
If you had gone down earlier and failed your death-saving throws and not defeated them, you might have actually died.

01:10:43.039 –> 01:10:43.279
Okay.

01:10:44.560 –> 01:10:47.279
Dang, mystery clock going on in the background.

01:10:48.239 –> 01:10:50.159
Hey, at least we hung on.

01:10:50.479 –> 01:10:55.039
We may not have actually beat both of the monsters, but hey, at least we hung on long enough.

01:10:55.359 –> 01:10:57.119
We hung on long enough.

01:10:58.079 –> 01:11:02.479
And I was not expecting to get whelm back every turn.

01:11:03.039 –> 01:11:06.000
Yeah, that ruined us.

01:11:08.479 –> 01:11:10.399
And then the fact, like, okay, I’m going to run away.

01:11:10.640 –> 01:11:17.760
Well, guess I like somehow, wow, I’m using my actual source abilities of quickened spells to heal myself and escape.

01:11:17.920 –> 01:11:19.199
Oh, and now I’m dead.

01:11:21.760 –> 01:11:23.119
That was so funny.

01:11:23.439 –> 01:11:24.720
Because you’re like, I’m going to risk it.

01:11:24.880 –> 01:11:25.600
I’m going to get away.

01:11:25.920 –> 01:11:28.000
And then it’s critical hit on your back.

01:11:28.560 –> 01:11:30.800
I know, I even got myself like a decent hit point.

01:11:30.960 –> 01:11:31.520
I’m like, great.

01:11:31.680 –> 01:11:36.000
I’m almost at 20 and I took one of those attacks.

01:11:36.159 –> 01:11:39.119
The last time it did like seven damage or something.

01:11:39.199 –> 01:11:40.159
It was like, it wasn’t too much.

01:11:40.319 –> 01:11:42.000
He’s like, oh, no.

01:11:43.119 –> 01:11:46.800
Well, it was also almost max damage.

01:11:47.119 –> 01:11:47.520
Dang.

01:11:50.079 –> 01:11:56.319
I will happily take any story penalties for the bullshit advantages you let me have.

01:11:56.560 –> 01:11:59.359
Like, I am happy to do that.

01:12:00.239 –> 01:12:01.600
No, this is a side quest.

01:12:02.079 –> 01:12:04.159
You get a little extra advantage.

01:12:04.479 –> 01:12:05.680
Okay, thanks.

01:12:07.119 –> 01:12:08.560
Appreciate it.

01:12:08.880 –> 01:12:10.239
Yeah, I think, yeah, we’ve learned a lot.

01:12:10.399 –> 01:12:13.920
So don’t let the two goobies can’t do that on their own.

01:12:14.880 –> 01:12:16.319
We need the boys with them.

01:12:17.520 –> 01:12:21.680
Don’t let the two squishy casters out on their own to hunt things.

01:12:22.319 –> 01:12:22.640
Yeah.

01:12:24.159 –> 01:12:25.680
Just send us to a library.

01:12:25.840 –> 01:12:27.119
We’re fine there.

01:12:30.399 –> 01:12:37.039
It is interesting to kind of map out which of the team ups are like the worst possible for what type of mission.

01:12:37.680 –> 01:12:41.520
I know the worst team up for the worst mission first off.

01:12:42.800 –> 01:12:43.279
Yes.

01:12:43.920 –> 01:12:49.439
Going and hunting an enemy whose main ability is strength-based.

01:12:49.760 –> 01:12:50.079
Yeah.

01:12:50.399 –> 01:12:53.039
Yeah, that was, I think, where we messed up.

01:12:54.000 –> 01:12:56.560
And I was like, okay, I’m like, oh, well, I like playing around.

01:12:56.960 –> 01:13:00.399
Okay, I know like underwater tough sun is based off of a constitution.

01:13:00.640 –> 01:13:02.479
I have really good constitution.

01:13:02.800 –> 01:13:06.239
So if I’m not in the water, I can chill for a second.

01:13:06.479 –> 01:13:06.720
No.

01:13:07.920 –> 01:13:12.079
If it was like dex-based, like, I’ve got like a plus 10 to dex.

01:13:12.960 –> 01:13:16.000
Yeah, you have a plus 11, actually, to your dexterity dexterity.

01:13:16.319 –> 01:13:17.039
Plus 11.

01:13:18.000 –> 01:13:20.000
And I have plenty of dex.

01:13:21.760 –> 01:13:28.800
So you would, you would, you would almost always succeed on a dexterity saving throw on these.

01:13:29.119 –> 01:13:30.479
But your strength is zero.

01:13:31.199 –> 01:13:38.239
And my strength is negative one, although my strength saving throws one, I think, because of, I don’t know, apparently something.

01:13:40.800 –> 01:13:41.119
Yeah.

01:13:41.520 –> 01:13:42.880
Well, we’ve won.

01:13:43.840 –> 01:13:44.640
We’ve grown.

01:13:45.199 –> 01:13:46.880
We gained some trauma.

01:13:47.199 –> 01:13:49.199
Oh, and a good day’s work.

01:13:50.079 –> 01:13:50.399
Yeah.

01:13:51.520 –> 01:13:57.680
So you have a cloak of protection and a ring of protection, both of which give a plus one to your saving throws.

01:13:58.000 –> 01:14:04.720
And give a minus one from your strength, which is why it’s a plus one.

01:14:05.279 –> 01:14:05.840
And that’s plus one.

01:14:06.479 –> 01:14:09.359
Yeah, I’m like, okay, I know I got something like myself is high.

01:14:09.439 –> 01:14:14.399
I’m like, eh, I trust the, I trust DD beyond the forge that they’re doing the math.

01:14:15.279 –> 01:14:15.840
Yes, I have to do that.

01:14:18.880 –> 01:14:21.119
If we utilize Scully, then.

01:14:22.960 –> 01:14:24.479
I wasn’t thinking.

01:14:25.439 –> 01:14:28.399
Plus, we could have thrown the skeleton at the water on the mental.

01:14:30.720 –> 01:14:37.600
He probably wouldn’t have done much damage, but he could have at least been pulled us out.

01:14:38.079 –> 01:14:40.000
He could have pulled us out of the water.

01:14:40.319 –> 01:14:45.199
Yeah, or been tactical bait if he got then got kind of drowned in our place.

01:14:46.079 –> 01:14:51.039
Also, it was easy enough to handle the first one because you had enough spell slots to keep it slowed.

01:14:51.359 –> 01:14:51.600
Yeah.

01:14:51.840 –> 01:14:52.159
Yeah.

01:14:52.880 –> 01:14:54.159
I ran out of spell slots.

01:14:54.239 –> 01:15:00.479
I’m like, the only thing that I had left were like, it all required enough distance to not get the disadvantage.

01:15:00.560 –> 01:15:03.039
And I didn’t want to risk the disadvantage for everything.

01:15:03.600 –> 01:15:13.439
But this takes me to one of my favorite favorite abilities to combine.

01:15:15.239 –> 01:15:23.239
It takes a fair bit of synergy, but you can have someone summon a water elemental and then quicken it with ease.

01:15:28.279 –> 01:15:31.319
It is very good for dealing with casters.

01:15:31.640 –> 01:15:31.960
Yeah.

01:15:32.840 –> 01:15:43.720
Oh, and in one of the other weekly games I play, we’ve been playing this game for like five and a half years.

01:15:43.880 –> 01:15:45.399
We’ve now reached level 20.

01:15:45.640 –> 01:15:48.119
So we’ve been doing this a long fucking time.

01:15:48.439 –> 01:15:50.520
But we have two druids in the party.

01:15:50.840 –> 01:16:03.560
And whenever we’re like looking at a battle where like we need like a lot of aero effect things because it’s like a full-on war style battle, they’re just like, right, both of us, let’s do call lightning.

01:16:03.640 –> 01:16:06.920
One of us calls lightning and then we can just consistently call lightning.

01:16:07.079 –> 01:16:08.920
Both of us can call it from the storm.

01:16:09.239 –> 01:16:14.359
Like it’s when two casters can cast the same spell and can utilize the same spell.

01:16:14.439 –> 01:16:17.000
And yeah, it does a lot.

01:16:17.319 –> 01:16:21.479
Yeah, there’s a lot of fun interactions that can happen with spells.

01:16:22.119 –> 01:16:27.399
But some of my favorite spells are conjuration spells.

01:16:28.840 –> 01:16:35.720
I’d love to get like a potion for fly and then cast Dragon’s Breast so then I can actually be flying while breathing fire.

01:16:42.439 –> 01:16:46.600
Well, once you get third level spells, you’re a wizard, so you will be able to learn fly.

01:16:47.239 –> 01:16:53.720
Yeah, but unless I get an artifact that allows me to cast two concentration spells at once, I can’t do them both at once.

01:16:54.039 –> 01:16:54.439
True.

01:16:55.640 –> 01:16:59.880
I prefer to look for when I next steal stuff going at that level.

01:17:02.279 –> 01:17:04.600
We’ll see what you find in the next one.

01:17:04.920 –> 01:17:05.560
Cool.

01:17:06.199 –> 01:17:10.840
So, where we’re at right now, what do you guys want to see in the games going forward?

01:17:12.119 –> 01:17:19.720
At some point, I want to introduce the party to my hag mother, which is at the very end.

01:17:20.680 –> 01:17:22.199
Yeah, that’ll go great.

01:17:22.439 –> 01:17:23.560
Cause would love her.

01:17:24.439 –> 01:17:26.359
Vincent would hate it.

01:17:31.399 –> 01:17:32.840
Unsure about Wilford.

01:17:33.239 –> 01:17:41.640
You probably enjoy the woodsiness, but I’d probably like to delve more into like backstory elements just to see.

01:17:41.800 –> 01:18:01.800
Because I often find the best way to develop a character’s personality and kind of make them more, I don’t know, deeper is to look into the tiny sentences that you might have written for a backstory and really just kind of blow it up and just kind of fuck with them.

01:18:02.680 –> 01:18:08.760
And something I do is I believe in continuously writing your backstory.

01:18:09.319 –> 01:18:09.560
Yeah.

01:18:10.520 –> 01:18:16.359
You can always be like, hey, there’s this stuff I want to add to my backstory that involves this town.

01:18:16.680 –> 01:18:23.239
And I encourage you to write stuff and send it to me of this is something incorporated in my backstory.

01:18:23.319 –> 01:18:25.399
I want to see in a few sessions, something like that.

01:18:26.279 –> 01:18:26.520
Yeah.

01:18:29.159 –> 01:18:37.239
I mean, if ever we travel near Falkirk, I’d love to kind of just have like, oh, look, there’s the orphanage Kaz grew up in.

01:18:37.319 –> 01:18:40.920
I’m like, I’d love to just do that kind of thing as well, if we ever go near there.

01:18:41.880 –> 01:18:45.239
Because that’s the only thing that I know is concrete about the backstory.

01:18:45.479 –> 01:18:49.800
But I also love kind of developing the character as I play them.

01:18:51.159 –> 01:18:55.319
There’s always the damage, like, oh, going into it, like, this is how I’m going to play this character.

01:18:55.399 –> 01:19:03.239
But then as you get into it and you’re actually playing that character and interacting, there’s always those kind of small changes or new ideas that crop up.

01:19:03.560 –> 01:19:18.680
Yeah, I mean, what’s really interesting, like, that my first iteration of like a rogue wizard was like an absolute asshole of a magpie kenku who was kind of airing on chaotic evil.

01:19:18.920 –> 01:19:22.359
And then eventually it just kind of got into what if there were just like a bit of fun.

01:19:22.600 –> 01:19:27.000
Okay, let’s do a fox, a bit of a trickster still, but in general, it’s harmless.

01:19:27.079 –> 01:19:29.159
And now it’s just kind of pure chaos.

01:19:29.479 –> 01:19:31.319
Like, I mean, Kaz isn’t chaotic good.

01:19:31.800 –> 01:19:34.279
Don’t get me wrong, but they’re not chaotic evil.

01:19:34.600 –> 01:19:34.760
Yeah.

01:19:35.399 –> 01:19:46.119
Speaking of parties that are bordering chaotic evil, the other party I have on Saturdays, they kind of found out where a witch was.

01:19:46.439 –> 01:19:54.199
And instead of trying to organize something to go take down the witch or that, they made deals with the lich for magic.

01:19:58.520 –> 01:20:05.399
And there’s a paladin who’s having a moral conflict with his god and is being tempted by another god.

01:20:06.039 –> 01:20:06.680
Oh my god.

01:20:07.399 –> 01:20:11.000
So, you know, you know, like the you know, the broken with paladin.

01:20:11.159 –> 01:20:13.319
I was thinking, let’s take that a step further.

01:20:13.640 –> 01:20:14.840
What happens when a paladin?

01:20:16.560 –> 01:20:18.239
That switches gods.

01:20:18.560 –> 01:20:21.359
And I’m interested to see if he’ll go down that path.

01:20:21.680 –> 01:20:22.000
Yeah.

01:20:22.880 –> 01:20:31.680
I had a really interesting kind of character concept, which so they used to be a high-powered cleric, but then their god died.

01:20:32.000 –> 01:20:37.119
And so they’re back to being level one, and they’re having to, like, do they go down the do they continue down the cleric route?

01:20:37.199 –> 01:20:41.840
Do they try and find a new god, or do they just kind of learn a different way of doing magic?

01:20:41.920 –> 01:20:43.680
Or do they just give up magic entirely?

01:20:44.000 –> 01:20:56.960
And like, that whole kind of thing is like, you often find like newbie players at DD, like they have really beautifully well-written backstories, but it’s like, but how you’re just level one.

01:20:57.600 –> 01:21:05.520
So I kind of got this kind of idea, like, well, you can still have the really complex backstory, but you’ve got to think, why are they level one?

01:21:06.000 –> 01:21:09.199
Okay, what if a cleric that their god died?

01:21:09.359 –> 01:21:14.239
Or like, what if a warlock lost patron pact?

01:21:14.479 –> 01:21:25.680
Or like, what if a fighter got like mortally wounded and like how I have to relearn how to like like walk again, for example, like that kind of thing.

01:21:25.760 –> 01:21:30.880
So like having a reason as to why you’re back to being level one after that rich backstory.

01:21:30.960 –> 01:21:33.680
And I would love to play a character like that, you know?

01:21:34.000 –> 01:21:41.199
I have, yeah, I have a similar idea for, okay, there’s a campaign I’m going to be in that’s going to be like revolutionary America era.

01:21:41.520 –> 01:21:55.760
And so I’m playing, gonna play a um, my aarakocra used to be an infamous pirate back in the age of piracy, but it’s been a, he retired, disappeared before the age of piracy ended, and decided to become an artist.

01:21:56.079 –> 01:21:59.680
So over the 50 years, he’s like trying to study the oats now.

01:21:59.760 –> 01:22:01.520
So he’s turned into a bard.

01:22:02.159 –> 01:22:08.000
But like he still has some of his, a little bit of his pirating skills, but like not me like he decided, guess what?

01:22:08.159 –> 01:22:09.119
Korea changed.

01:22:09.279 –> 01:22:10.880
Now I do poetry.

01:22:11.520 –> 01:22:12.000
So he has a lot of fun.

01:22:15.279 –> 01:22:18.880
Like, oh, I was this infamous pirate doesn’t know I’ve left that behind now.

01:22:19.199 –> 01:22:20.560
The oats that I came about.

01:22:21.119 –> 01:22:24.479
I was very much inspired by our flag means death.

01:22:24.800 –> 01:22:26.079
Okay, that’s what I was about to say.

01:22:26.239 –> 01:22:28.560
I’m like, that sounds like our flag means death.

01:22:28.880 –> 01:22:29.199
Yes.

01:22:29.359 –> 01:22:31.199
Okay, I made this character when I was watching.

01:22:31.359 –> 01:22:32.319
Like, yes, yes, yes.

01:22:32.479 –> 01:22:34.159
He was my inspiration.

01:22:34.800 –> 01:22:36.720
Just how gay is this character?

01:22:37.119 –> 01:22:41.119
Well, probably pretty, but probably put it gay.

01:22:41.279 –> 01:22:46.239
But unfortunately, I’m pretty sure the entire group that I’m in is pretty fit.

01:22:46.560 –> 01:22:48.159
So I’m like, well, we’ll see.

01:22:48.479 –> 01:22:52.640
No, I think they’re all safe people, but it’s supposed to kind of be like, well, don’t know very much what we do.

01:22:53.520 –> 01:22:57.119
I think it would be super fun to do a gay pirate campaign.

01:22:57.439 –> 01:22:58.720
It would be great.

01:23:01.920 –> 01:23:04.079
There is a tabletop role-playing game.

01:23:05.920 –> 01:23:07.359
I forget the exact name of it.

01:23:07.920 –> 01:23:10.479
I think it’s called Swords and Lesbians or something.

01:23:12.800 –> 01:23:13.520
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:23:14.159 –> 01:23:15.840
Yeah, I’ve run that before.

01:23:16.159 –> 01:23:16.479
Yeah.

01:23:17.439 –> 01:23:25.680
Although, separate from that, me and my friends, we did actually briefly ran a pirates campaign.

01:23:26.000 –> 01:23:28.720
It was, it did turn out to be very gay.

01:23:28.800 –> 01:23:31.199
I don’t think any of our characters were straight.

01:23:32.079 –> 01:23:36.800
And we were definitely kind of airing on chaotic evil, that kind of level as well.

01:23:36.960 –> 01:23:41.039
The only reason it’s kind of stopped was mostly because we ran out of things to do.

01:23:41.279 –> 01:23:49.279
The reason we ran out of things to do is because we made it our mission to whenever we stopped in a port, we would try to leave that city worse than when we found it.

01:23:50.079 –> 01:23:53.600
Like in one case, we incited a civil war between the two rival factions.

01:23:53.760 –> 01:23:57.119
In another case, we so we had a deck of many tarrasques.

01:23:57.439 –> 01:24:06.640
We pulled a card and kind of had a tarrasque suddenly just appear and then demolished the town as we then sailed away.

01:24:07.680 –> 01:24:08.560
We had another one.

01:24:08.720 –> 01:24:21.760
We found a site of ancient ruins where we kind of essentially awoke the lich that had been defeated centuries ago and were like, here you go, go wild on the island.

01:24:23.279 –> 01:24:29.920
So yeah, we were literally doing a campaign of like, how can we fuck shit up so badly?

01:24:30.239 –> 01:24:32.399
And eventually we’re just like, okay, we run out of ideas.

01:24:32.720 –> 01:24:35.119
I guess the campaign is like coming to a close.

01:24:36.319 –> 01:24:41.039
But yeah, I played the captain of the ship, which was just so much fun.

01:24:41.199 –> 01:24:46.000
And like, you know, you know, Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet.

01:24:46.319 –> 01:24:46.479
Yeah.

01:24:47.039 –> 01:24:50.399
I was kind of like her, but like, so gay.

01:24:52.239 –> 01:25:00.159
Okay, I don’t know, but like, Treasured Planet definitely has some gay vibes to it a lot of the time.

01:25:00.800 –> 01:25:06.319
Yeah, it has the gay vibes that all kind of a lot of that early 2000s media does.

01:25:06.399 –> 01:25:09.359
It’s like, something food is going on here.

01:25:09.680 –> 01:25:09.840
Yeah.

01:25:10.239 –> 01:25:12.319
I don’t know if I just write a character.

01:25:12.640 –> 01:25:14.720
I mean, it kind of makes sense if you meet me, but you know.

01:25:15.279 –> 01:25:15.439
Yeah.

01:25:17.399 –> 01:25:19.640
I tried playing a straight character once.

01:25:21.159 –> 01:25:30.520
It went all right, but I ended up deciding to make them horribly suicidal because they hated everything.

01:25:31.159 –> 01:25:39.479
Oh, and just because, like, I don’t know, like, trying to act straight made me hate playing the character.

01:25:39.720 –> 01:25:41.239
So I wanted to die.

01:25:43.159 –> 01:25:46.680
Yeah, no, because I don’t like fact or queer in some sort.

01:25:48.119 –> 01:25:56.039
Actually, no, like, the one time I did try playing a straight character, me and my friend, we ended up queerbaiting our two characters together.

01:25:56.359 –> 01:25:58.520
And so eventually we were just like, we’re just queerbaiting a character.

01:25:58.600 –> 01:25:59.159
Ah, fuck it.

01:25:59.239 –> 01:25:59.720
They’re gay.

01:25:59.800 –> 01:26:00.600
There we go.

01:26:00.920 –> 01:26:07.000
And so I couldn’t even play a straight character in the end because of accidental queerbaiting.

01:26:07.079 –> 01:26:08.119
And then we’re like, no, this is wrong.

01:26:08.439 –> 01:26:10.279
We can’t queerbait ourselves.

01:26:15.399 –> 01:26:17.319
Thing is, what was really funny in that campaign?

01:26:17.479 –> 01:26:28.279
So the accidental queer baity character, it all went to a head when like he sacrificed himself in order to save the party.

01:26:28.600 –> 01:26:35.880
And then my new character ended up being adopted by my old character’s kind of queer baity boyfriend.

01:26:36.199 –> 01:26:46.039
So then eventually, like when they then rescued my old character from hell and kind of brought him back, I was then just like, wait, I’m playing my dad and my son.

01:26:48.119 –> 01:26:48.359
Yeah.

01:26:49.560 –> 01:26:50.439
It was a lot of fun.

01:26:50.760 –> 01:26:51.880
Sounds like it.

01:26:52.199 –> 01:26:54.680
So I’m going to send something in the chat.

01:26:55.960 –> 01:27:03.560
I’m commissioning an art piece for my listings.

01:27:04.119 –> 01:27:06.119
And I want it to be very queer.

01:27:06.279 –> 01:27:10.119
So I went out of my way to hire an actual queer artist who understands.

01:27:10.760 –> 01:27:13.479
And I got one of the first sketches of that.

01:27:13.800 –> 01:27:17.399
And it should be done the listing next week.

01:27:19.000 –> 01:27:20.359
Oh, it’s so good.

01:27:21.319 –> 01:27:23.000
That’s really cool.

01:27:23.640 –> 01:27:23.880
Yeah.

01:27:24.039 –> 01:27:30.680
And this is going to be the campaign art for the Dagger Heart games that I’m going to be running.

01:27:33.159 –> 01:27:36.840
Do either of you guys want to play in a Dagger Heart game on Saturdays?

01:27:37.880 –> 01:27:41.079
I would love to, but currently I physically can’t.

01:27:41.399 –> 01:27:41.720
Okay.

01:27:42.760 –> 01:27:50.840
Yeah, unfortunately, I think I’m going to be, especially coming up soon, it’s going to be competition season for my gymnast.

01:27:51.000 –> 01:27:53.319
I’ll be out of town like every other weekend.

01:27:53.640 –> 01:27:53.960
Oh, yeah.

01:27:54.920 –> 01:27:56.680
That says in September.

01:27:57.000 –> 01:28:04.359
Yeah, like last me like six months’ time and when things might have calmed down and I should and I should be free, but like currently.

01:28:05.560 –> 01:28:13.720
Yeah, at the moment I think I’m not available to, but it’s definitely something I’d be interested in if my schedule hopefully clears up at some point.

01:28:14.600 –> 01:28:20.279
Yeah, let me know when your schedules clear up if you want to play a game and what time slots that would be in.

01:28:20.600 –> 01:28:22.359
And I can see about opening one up.

01:28:23.960 –> 01:28:26.680
Because I don’t know, I’m really excited about Dagger Heart.

01:28:27.239 –> 01:28:32.439
Yeah, I’ve been watching some of the Critical Role ones on it, and it’s a lot of fun.

01:28:32.760 –> 01:28:37.000
Yeah, a little bit of the Critical Role and a little of High Rollers.

01:28:37.239 –> 01:28:39.079
They were also going to do one, I think.

01:28:40.600 –> 01:28:44.600
You know, like, you know, Matt Mercer was one of the first men I ever saw.

01:28:44.680 –> 01:28:48.199
And I’m like, oh, wait, I’m actually having gay thoughts about this guy.

01:28:50.680 –> 01:28:54.199
That was one of the moments when I realized, like, I’m definitely not straight.

01:28:55.560 –> 01:28:59.239
But there were a lot of signs, especially in high school.

01:29:00.359 –> 01:29:01.640
I was in choir.

01:29:02.920 –> 01:29:04.680
I was on the swim team.

01:29:05.000 –> 01:29:05.960
I did theater.

01:29:06.840 –> 01:29:07.079
Yeah.

01:29:08.199 –> 01:29:13.800
No, I remember one time when I was in, well, I guess you call it high school.

01:29:14.119 –> 01:29:15.319
We call it secondary school.

01:29:17.560 –> 01:29:20.039
But basically, from like 14, 15, that kind of age.

01:29:20.279 –> 01:29:26.279
And I remember one of my female friends just kind of like, I was like, oh, thank you, kind of thing.

01:29:26.359 –> 01:29:27.640
And then just kind of kissing me on the cheek.

01:29:27.720 –> 01:29:33.319
And I had like a full-on, like, my brain stopped working for like a minute.

01:29:34.840 –> 01:29:35.319
Ding it is.

01:29:36.279 –> 01:29:39.960
It still took me like another two years for me to realize I wasn’t straight.

01:29:40.439 –> 01:29:41.479
Oh, see, it was a.

01:29:42.119 –> 01:29:45.560
Yeah, and then when I went up to my mom and said, hey, I think I might be by.

01:29:45.880 –> 01:29:49.079
She just looked at me and I’m like, so you finally realized, right?

01:29:51.319 –> 01:29:52.760
Oh, see, I’m Ace.

01:29:53.079 –> 01:29:59.079
So it was a weird lot of, wait, y’all aren’t joking about a conceptual attraction.

01:29:59.720 –> 01:30:00.600
Wait, what?

01:30:01.640 –> 01:30:02.600
I’m Ace as well.

01:30:02.680 –> 01:30:03.640
And so I get that.

01:30:03.800 –> 01:30:05.319
I get that a lot.

01:30:05.640 –> 01:30:07.640
Yeah, because I’m like both ace and aro.

01:30:07.800 –> 01:30:12.439
And so when I was going to college, my roommate asked me, and I hadn’t picked it up by then.

01:30:12.680 –> 01:30:16.840
And then I fully spotted and like, wait, should I be like fully knowing this?

01:30:18.239 –> 01:30:18.640
What do you mean?

01:30:18.800 –> 01:30:20.720
Like, I don’t think I’ve ever had a crush.

01:30:20.800 –> 01:30:21.680
I’m like, oh, God.

01:30:22.319 –> 01:30:27.680
So, see, I would confuse finding people very aesthetically attracting with being sexually attracted.

01:30:27.760 –> 01:30:30.479
And that was a whole confusing thing.

01:30:30.720 –> 01:30:31.039
Oh, yeah.

01:30:31.359 –> 01:30:32.560
Yeah, people can be beautiful.

01:30:32.720 –> 01:30:34.319
Matt Bomer is a beautiful man.

01:30:36.159 –> 01:30:38.239
He transcends all sexuality.

01:30:38.560 –> 01:30:42.800
Like, I know straight men who are like, yeah, no, he’s a beautiful man.

01:30:43.520 –> 01:30:44.720
He is very beautiful.

01:30:45.039 –> 01:30:55.600
No, the thing is, I’ve found it really funny whenever because I’ve kind of worked out the gender stuff before I worked out the sexuality stuff, which normally is the other way around.

01:30:55.760 –> 01:30:58.960
You work out your gay and then you work out your gender’s all funky.

01:30:59.520 –> 01:30:59.680
Yeah.

01:30:59.840 –> 01:31:03.439
But no, I can’t, I knew the gender funky stuff from way earlier.

01:31:03.680 –> 01:31:14.239
The thing is, because I was then very open about it, even throughout university as well, whenever my friends were kind of like questioning their own like sexuality or gender, they would always come up to me and talk to me about it.

01:31:14.319 –> 01:31:17.359
So I kind of became like the mother gay.

01:31:20.000 –> 01:31:28.239
I’m like, you know, the mother gay, that’s not like it is like a sense of being, you know, if you’re a mother gay, you basically help all the young baby gays.

01:31:28.800 –> 01:31:28.960
Yeah.

01:31:29.199 –> 01:31:38.640
So I just became like this beacon of advice for all the young queer folk at my uni, which I wasn’t intending to do, but it was a lot of fun.

01:31:40.319 –> 01:31:41.439
I realized something.

01:31:42.239 –> 01:31:45.520
I attract a lot of lesbians into my social circles.

01:31:45.840 –> 01:31:50.640
And I spent a while trying to figure that out why that happens.

01:31:50.800 –> 01:31:52.159
And I realized what it is.

01:31:52.479 –> 01:31:52.640
Okay.

01:31:53.279 –> 01:31:58.960
I have a very masculine presence, but without being toxic or threatened.

01:31:59.600 –> 01:31:59.920
Yeah.

01:32:01.199 –> 01:32:04.159
Like the opposite of dude bro energy.

01:32:04.479 –> 01:32:04.720
Yeah.

01:32:05.920 –> 01:32:09.920
But at the same time, I’m non-binary and I’ve figured that out pretty early.

01:32:10.239 –> 01:32:14.239
I tried explaining that to my mom when I was like 11 and it didn’t go well.

01:32:14.560 –> 01:32:15.279
Oh my god.

01:32:16.079 –> 01:32:19.439
I hope not that I’m non-binary until like 2020.

01:32:19.520 –> 01:32:20.239
The pandemic happened.

01:32:20.720 –> 01:32:22.000
Oh, that’s this boy.

01:32:23.680 –> 01:32:24.159
Oh, yeah.

01:32:24.319 –> 01:32:30.079
So many of my friends realized their gender like had time to figure out their gender stuff in the pandemic.

01:32:30.159 –> 01:32:33.039
And then they were just like coming up to me like, oh my god, you were right.

01:32:33.199 –> 01:32:37.039
It just took me to be able to sit alone with my thoughts, which I couldn’t do till now.

01:32:37.920 –> 01:32:41.279
I was like, oh, because I kept confusing with being ace.

01:32:41.520 –> 01:32:43.840
I’m like, oh, I know I’m uncomfortable being sexualized.

01:32:43.920 –> 01:32:46.000
And I’m like, oh, that’s why I feel those uncomfortabilities.

01:32:46.159 –> 01:32:48.960
And they’re like, I am alone in my house.

01:32:49.199 –> 01:32:50.079
Well, my parents have.

01:32:50.800 –> 01:32:53.600
I don’t think there’s something else going on here.

01:32:55.439 –> 01:33:03.359
I just find it fun being gender fluid because every now and again, like someone will just kind of use a generic term, and then I can just clap back with, like, I don’t think I’m that today.

01:33:05.680 –> 01:33:16.399
My partner was just like, I was, uh, we were all hanging out, a bunch of us, and I was talking to a couple of other girls because we all have various chronic issues.

01:33:16.479 –> 01:33:22.479
So we were just kind of like confining each other about just how shit it all is.

01:33:23.039 –> 01:33:24.960
And then my partner came up and was like, you girls done?

01:33:25.119 –> 01:33:28.239
And I just kind of looked back at him like, I’m not a girl today.

01:33:28.399 –> 01:33:29.439
I’m sorry.

01:33:35.439 –> 01:33:45.279
I always find it funny because whenever we slip up the Kaz, because my voice is feminine, you always slip up with she, but I find it funny because Kaz is actually born male.

01:33:46.960 –> 01:33:49.279
Oh, dude, I am so bad about that.

01:33:49.439 –> 01:33:50.479
And I’m sorry.

01:33:50.800 –> 01:33:52.479
No, no, I do try.

01:33:53.840 –> 01:33:59.520
I slip up every now and again, but as well, but I slip up to he because I know that they were born male.

01:34:00.000 –> 01:34:05.600
Their full name is Patryk as in like the Eastern European version of Patrick.

01:34:06.239 –> 01:34:06.479
Okay.

01:34:07.279 –> 01:34:07.439
Yeah.

01:34:08.880 –> 01:34:24.800
Basically, I got it because I was looking up, I knew I wanted to play a fox and I was looking up Eastern European folklore because whenever you’re trying to find fox tricksters and folklore, either you go to Japan or you go to Eastern Europe, you know?

01:34:26.319 –> 01:34:31.920
I didn’t really want to try and find a Japanese selling name because I knew I’d like horrendously mispronounce it.

01:34:32.079 –> 01:34:34.399
So I just go with the Eastern Europe.

01:34:35.279 –> 01:34:56.720
And I found a fox named Patryk has who was like essentially this trickster spirit that just kind of hops to and fro in different, I think it was Estonian stories that basically kind of pops up and then causes a bit of may and then just disappears the next day.

01:34:57.039 –> 01:35:00.159
And I was like, yeah, right, I can see that.

01:35:00.479 –> 01:35:02.479
So Patryk has was born.

01:35:04.319 –> 01:35:10.960
Yeah, I tie a lot of it’s a lot of a lot of the stuff people are like, man, you’re so original.

01:35:11.119 –> 01:35:14.399
You have all these ideas and I have no idea where they come from and stuff.

01:35:14.720 –> 01:35:16.079
And you know what it is?

01:35:16.399 –> 01:35:17.840
Is no one actually knows.

01:35:19.159 –> 01:35:20.680
Native American folklore.

01:35:21.640 –> 01:35:27.399
And so I just take whatever is like from my, like, whatever I’ve learned from my relatives and stuff like that.

01:35:27.720 –> 01:35:31.239
And like all the stuff about my tribe and all of that.

01:35:31.479 –> 01:35:33.640
And I just take that.

01:35:33.960 –> 01:35:37.159
And then people are like, wow, this is so fresh and original.

01:35:37.319 –> 01:35:38.760
This is like so different.

01:35:42.199 –> 01:35:47.319
Like, one of my favorite contrasts is ravens.

01:35:47.800 –> 01:35:51.560
In so many places, ravens are connected to bad omens.

01:35:52.439 –> 01:36:01.079
I mean, not necessarily in Norse mythology, because in Norse mythology, ravens are associated with wisdom because they are Odin’s eyes, essentially.

01:36:01.239 –> 01:36:06.119
Like, he uses ravens to kind of see across all of Midgard.

01:36:07.239 –> 01:36:10.760
Yeah, what Memory and Thought were their names or something like that.

01:36:12.039 –> 01:36:17.399
But in native Alaskan folklore, ravens are much more seen as…

01:36:17.640 –> 01:36:23.079
So the Raven, the story of the Raven there is that they were all originally white.

01:36:23.399 –> 01:36:31.000
And, you know, every culture has a story of the firebringer, the person who taught them fire.

01:36:31.560 –> 01:36:35.000
And in Native Alaskan, that’s the ravens.

01:36:35.960 –> 01:36:42.439
And the reason ravens are black is because their feathers were burned when they stole fire.

01:36:42.760 –> 01:36:43.960
Oh, that’s cool.

01:36:44.600 –> 01:36:44.920
Yeah.

01:36:46.119 –> 01:36:50.039
And fun bits of lore like that that are really unique.

01:36:51.560 –> 01:37:00.840
I always like getting inspiration from like not just folklore, but also specifically historical folklore.

01:37:01.000 –> 01:37:06.439
So like the kind of folklore which is based in like history.

01:37:07.720 –> 01:37:13.079
I mean, I will forever love the various Arthurian legends and myths.

01:37:13.399 –> 01:37:19.000
And mostly because like we know that Camelot was a place.

01:37:19.239 –> 01:37:30.439
We know that several locations that are identified and several, like a few figures that are named, like they were figures in ancient Wales.

01:37:30.680 –> 01:37:32.119
Like we know this.

01:37:33.079 –> 01:37:43.000
But because like we, there’s no original Arthurian story that like we don’t know what the original version of it was.

01:37:43.560 –> 01:37:53.800
Like all of the stories that we know now are essentially just kind of fan fictions of each other where like different bards would find the Arthurian legend and be like, oh, I love that.

01:37:53.960 –> 01:37:55.479
But what if this happened instead?

01:37:55.640 –> 01:37:56.760
Or what if it happened this way?

01:37:56.840 –> 01:38:00.359
Or what if I introduced a new series of characters in it?

01:38:00.680 –> 01:38:11.159
And it just kind of became this like national thing like across like Wales and England where people just loved these stories and just kept on adding more to them.

01:38:11.399 –> 01:38:16.520
And so we no longer have a singular canon for the Arthurian legend.

01:38:16.600 –> 01:38:25.239
I mean the tales from Monmouth are the most well-known and the most famous, but they’re not the oldest version of it.

01:38:25.319 –> 01:38:30.520
And they’re not like, and because of that, we can’t call them the canon version of it.

01:38:30.840 –> 01:38:36.119
And it’s the kind of thing where in some cases you find like, oh, Arthur or Morgana, they were brother and sister.

01:38:36.920 –> 01:38:38.680
Or like Nimue was Arthur’s mother.

01:38:38.840 –> 01:38:39.479
No, she wasn’t.

01:38:39.960 –> 01:38:41.640
Mordred was Morgana’s son.

01:38:41.720 –> 01:38:42.600
No, he wasn’t.

01:38:42.920 –> 01:38:49.079
Like, there are just so many like discrepancies between the stories.

01:38:49.159 –> 01:38:49.239
Yeah.

01:38:49.399 –> 01:38:51.159
And there’s no one way of telling it.

01:38:51.479 –> 01:38:52.119
I love it.

01:38:52.439 –> 01:38:54.680
Yeah, I love doing world building like that.

01:38:55.880 –> 01:39:05.880
The longer you play in my world and the more of them you see, the more you start to see that people in different places have different perspectives on what’s happening in the world.

01:39:07.159 –> 01:39:19.560
Like something that players last night ran into really for the first time was that adventurers are considered violent, dangerous people in the country that they’re in.

01:39:19.880 –> 01:39:22.119
Adventurers are not seen as glorious heroes.

01:39:22.279 –> 01:39:25.159
They are seen as violent rogues.

01:39:25.479 –> 01:39:37.000
And one of the first things that an old associate of one of the characters asks him after finding out he’s an adventurer was, when was the last time you killed someone?

01:39:37.319 –> 01:39:38.199
Oh, wow.

01:39:38.439 –> 01:39:38.600
Yeah.

01:39:39.159 –> 01:39:41.640
And he’s like, oh, it’s been a few days.

01:39:41.960 –> 01:39:46.439
And this associate of his, like, you know, most people say never.

01:39:46.760 –> 01:39:50.439
And it was to underline that, you know, you’re adventurers.

01:39:50.520 –> 01:39:52.199
You’re not normal people anymore.

01:39:52.520 –> 01:39:52.760
Yeah.

01:39:53.560 –> 01:39:58.119
Like, you might have always been outlaws and standing on the edge of society.

01:39:58.199 –> 01:40:00.199
And that’s how you ended up adventurers.

01:40:00.520 –> 01:40:03.640
But normal everyday people don’t become adventurers.

01:40:04.840 –> 01:40:09.640
We’re with something similar like the massive long-running campaign that we’ve been having.

01:40:09.800 –> 01:40:18.760
It was after we kind of were getting to the really high levels and that our

01:40:20.079 –> 01:40:26.319
DM kind of was like putting it into the perspective, like normal people, you don’t get past level one.

01:40:26.399 –> 01:40:39.279
Someone who’s like really skilled or like a commander in battle might get up to like level five, or like someone who’s like a high elite assassin might get up to level 10.

01:40:39.600 –> 01:40:45.600
You guys are now level 15 because like this was a while ago when we were still level 15, which is insane to say.

01:40:47.359 –> 01:41:10.000
And it was like we then had to give different rumors to the DM that would be circling about our characters because of how well known they’d become and like how incredible the feats were and just kind of like what’s something that’s being said about your character?

01:41:10.239 –> 01:41:25.760
Like what is a word that often comes to mind about your character when they’re talking of like what’s an exaggerated feat that your character did or may not have done at all and it was just blown out of proportion, that kind of thing.

01:41:26.319 –> 01:41:30.479
And it was really interesting just trying to come up with those kind of things.

01:41:30.640 –> 01:41:38.640
And because I was my character in that campaign is a Fae sorcerer.

01:41:39.279 –> 01:41:42.399
So literally like as strange as you come.

01:41:42.560 –> 01:41:57.520
And because in the world that we’re playing in, Fae are generally mistrusted because of like the whole like name stealing kind of thing, like trickster natures of them.

01:41:58.960 –> 01:42:07.039
Like a lot of the rumors I had to think in the context of also being like, oh, well, he’s also a Fae.

01:42:07.439 –> 01:42:10.159
So like, where are those rumors coming in?

01:42:10.640 –> 01:42:14.000
It’s really interesting just trying to think everything up.

01:42:14.640 –> 01:42:23.520
Yeah, I like to follow a rule that is only one in 10 people would make it to the next level whenever you level up.

01:42:23.840 –> 01:42:26.880
Nine out of ten people would die or stop there.

01:42:27.199 –> 01:42:33.119
And what that means is by the time you make it to level six, you’re already one in a million.

01:42:33.439 –> 01:42:33.760
Yeah.

01:42:35.600 –> 01:42:40.960
By the time you make it to level nine, you or level ten, you are one in a billion.

01:42:41.279 –> 01:42:46.159
And so there’s only a handful of people who would be even level 10.

01:42:46.479 –> 01:42:50.079
And not even like, not even that there would only be a handful at a time.

01:42:50.880 –> 01:42:57.920
It is a generational thing where only a few generations you get someone who would ever even make it close to level 20.

01:43:01.439 –> 01:43:09.279
And that starts to become more and more apparent as you get up higher and higher levels is you stand out.

01:43:11.279 –> 01:43:13.760
You’re not on the same level as people anymore.

01:43:14.399 –> 01:43:21.680
Yeah, it’s that kind of thing where like even if you don’t have the strength ability, you have enough of like bonuses and things.

01:43:21.840 –> 01:43:29.680
Like even if you just kind of backhand someone, if they’re a level one, you still could potentially kill them, even if you’re considerably a weak character for your class.

01:43:30.239 –> 01:43:30.399
Yeah.

01:43:31.359 –> 01:43:37.920
Where even at this point, the average person in the world has five hit points.

01:43:39.840 –> 01:43:40.079
Yeah.

01:43:40.960 –> 01:43:41.119
Yeah.

01:43:42.399 –> 01:43:43.039
I mean, I remember.

01:43:43.760 –> 01:43:47.039
Wouldn’t survive a conflict with a water elemental.

01:43:47.359 –> 01:43:47.520
Yeah.

01:43:48.159 –> 01:43:58.960
I mean, I remember one point when we were playing, we were, we’d reached like kind of level 12 kind of level at this point.

01:43:59.279 –> 01:44:12.640
And we were like loads of reinforcements from the enemy were kind of approaching and my characters were just like, well, shit, let’s do this and cast like a kind of high level shatter at the approaching enemy.

01:44:12.960 –> 01:44:16.560
And they were only low-level reinforcements.

01:44:17.039 –> 01:44:19.279
Like all of them died instantly.

01:44:19.600 –> 01:44:21.760
So it’s just that kind of thing.

01:44:21.920 –> 01:44:26.479
You don’t realize how high level you are until you face low-level characters, you know.

01:44:29.039 –> 01:44:36.399
Like you fight, if you fight a bunch of level one characters, that’s the average person you find in a town.

01:44:36.640 –> 01:44:37.920
They’re level one.

01:44:39.439 –> 01:44:40.640
You fight them?

01:44:40.960 –> 01:44:43.600
You can cast fireball and wipe them out loud.

01:44:44.880 –> 01:44:52.880
You can just roll up with, or say a fighter can roll up and just cut his way through the whole group.

01:44:53.520 –> 01:44:58.239
And you’re reaching a level of power that is more and more dangerous.

01:44:58.560 –> 01:45:03.600
And you are more and more of an outstanding rogue the more powerful you get.

01:45:04.479 –> 01:45:12.880
Honestly, I’d like to also think about the political aspects of that.

01:45:12.960 –> 01:45:19.760
Because I know in the high-level campaign, we ran into a lot of political stuff because we had the

01:45:21.319 –> 01:45:28.359
Capabilities of like just kind of rocking up to a political court and being able to say, like, well, if you don’t do it like this, we’ll just kill you.

01:45:28.600 –> 01:45:30.119
And like, we could have done that.

01:45:30.199 –> 01:45:46.199
I mean, we didn’t because we’re not murder hobos in this campaign, but like, but like the fact that they had like, um, uh, we had to have we had to sign up with a handler in order for them to trust us to like go do the saving the world thing.

01:45:46.520 –> 01:45:57.960
Um, because they’re like, right, we need you because you’re powerful enough to destroy to like destroy the godlike beings threatening us, but at the same time, we need to make sure you won’t destroy us.

01:45:58.279 –> 01:46:00.279
So, sign up all these things.

01:46:01.000 –> 01:46:02.600
This is your handler, go at it.

01:46:02.760 –> 01:46:05.000
And like, we had a handler, you know?

01:46:06.600 –> 01:46:19.159
So, if ever, when we get to the even higher levels, if we play for that long, political impact of that as well, like when we get to different countries, that would be really fun to say.

01:46:19.800 –> 01:46:23.319
Well, your actions are already having a political impact.

01:46:24.840 –> 01:46:25.720
That is true.

01:46:25.880 –> 01:46:27.399
We did just blow up a town.

01:46:27.720 –> 01:46:33.079
The things that you have done, the information you have spread around has already advanced things.

01:46:36.119 –> 01:46:50.119
Okay, how much of an influence of Kaz selling the information before Manny was able to give the information to the right people affected the war that befell Albert Alpha Felix?

01:46:50.520 –> 01:46:59.239
So, that pretty much is why they made it all the way to bombing the hotel.

01:47:02.039 –> 01:47:05.000
You almost got killed.

01:47:08.279 –> 01:47:15.960
That exposed that agent, and that has also contributed to greater instability in Mara in general.

01:47:17.239 –> 01:47:25.079
And there’s stuff that’s happening in different places that you guys aren’t involved with, but it tangentially affects you.

01:47:26.439 –> 01:47:38.199
So, the magical rings that give them the cold resistance, that was something someone I had campaigns about two years ago was making and selling constantly.

01:47:39.399 –> 01:47:44.279
And that’s why they were able to have those to do their invasion at the timing that they did.

01:47:44.600 –> 01:47:54.760
And so, there’s these long-term consequences that happen where it might be something that you don’t see for maybe even years.

01:47:54.920 –> 01:47:57.239
You might not even be playing with me anymore when it happens.

01:47:57.560 –> 01:48:02.920
But the choices you’re making now are going to have consequences in the long term in this setting.

01:48:03.560 –> 01:48:08.279
I mean, I do love playing in a game where the DM considers consequences.

01:48:08.520 –> 01:48:20.600
Like, I do because it makes me double think every single choice, and then I still make the most chaotic choice possible because my character is fucking chaotic.

01:48:20.920 –> 01:48:23.479
I don’t remember the not played a chaotic character.

01:48:23.720 –> 01:48:25.960
I apologize in advance.

01:48:26.600 –> 01:48:27.640
Oh, that’s fine.

01:48:27.960 –> 01:48:43.079
Or, like, in Drowning Falls, um, the characters there who were there, they lifted a fog that has been coming over the city again and again for centuries, and they banished it with what they did.

01:48:43.399 –> 01:48:45.000
So, that’s not a problem there anymore.

01:48:45.159 –> 01:48:48.199
That’s drastically affecting Drowning Falls right now.

01:48:48.520 –> 01:48:51.399
And so, there’s drastic changes happening there.

01:48:51.560 –> 01:48:56.279
The whole country of Gobhan is under martial law now because of that.

01:48:58.760 –> 01:49:08.840
And so, because the country basically became much more free and available, but also there was an attack on the city of Melrose by the giants.

01:49:09.079 –> 01:49:11.880
That’s another thing contributing to it being under martial law.

01:49:12.199 –> 01:49:25.640
So, a few things have happened altogether that players were involved with, whereas for the players, it just felt like the players don’t see a trail of consequences, they don’t see one thing overlapping with the other to cause all this.

01:49:25.720 –> 01:49:27.640
They just see one adventure at a time.

01:49:27.960 –> 01:49:33.560
Do you ever get stressed out trying to think of the consequences of your players’ actions?

01:49:33.880 –> 01:49:35.319
Oh, no, it’s fun for me.

01:49:35.640 –> 01:49:35.800
Okay.

01:49:36.680 –> 01:49:37.000
I don’t know.

01:49:37.079 –> 01:49:40.520
It’s very much in line with how I think it’s easy for me.

01:49:42.039 –> 01:49:50.039
I can’t recommend running games like this to most people because, you know, most people don’t most people can’t.

01:49:50.359 –> 01:50:03.159
Most people can’t plan out consequences and how stuff happens in the long term because, you know, what happens one thing after the other, it might not look like it does.

01:50:03.479 –> 01:50:05.800
They might not see the long-term things of this.

01:50:06.119 –> 01:50:17.800
Like, the giants in Melrose, that was foreshadowed in the first session that, well, in the second session that they had, but they didn’t run into those consequences until way later.

01:50:18.119 –> 01:50:20.680
Yeah, I mean, I don’t always think of like.

01:50:23.359 –> 01:50:42.960
I tend to think of direct consequences whenever I’m DMing, but more often than not, I mean, I, as a DM, as a DMing style, I give them the world that they’re playing in, give them like any relevant law, and just kind of have a law document for as and when they come across it at later dates.

01:50:43.279 –> 01:50:45.760
And then I essentially just let them go wild.

01:50:46.079 –> 01:50:47.279
I don’t plan ahead.

01:50:47.439 –> 01:51:04.239
I just kind of say, do what you want to do and make everything up on the spot, which also a kind of DMing style that I wouldn’t recommend to everyone because you have to be able to be quipping your feet and you have to be able to be able to think of things on the fly very quickly, which not everyone can do.

01:51:05.920 –> 01:51:07.119
I do recognize that.

01:51:08.720 –> 01:51:16.640
But it is a lot of fun because one of the more recent campaign, one of the more recent games that I did, it was a couple of weeks ago.

01:51:19.279 –> 01:51:23.439
One of the players were just like, I’m just going to check for poison around, just seeing if there’s anything around.

01:51:23.600 –> 01:51:25.359
And I was like, okay, you know what?

01:51:25.439 –> 01:51:27.600
You’ve activated a poisoning plot.

01:51:27.680 –> 01:51:28.159
There you go.

01:51:28.399 –> 01:51:30.239
There’s someone carrying poison.

01:51:30.399 –> 01:51:31.199
What do you do?

01:51:31.520 –> 01:51:36.319
And they uncovered a plot to poison an important figure.

01:51:36.640 –> 01:51:41.920
And so they’d learned of a tea party between the nobles that was happening later that evening.

01:51:42.399 –> 01:51:47.520
So they’re like, right, let’s go to the nobles, warn them, and stop the poisoning from happening.

01:51:47.840 –> 01:51:49.119
They warned the nobles.

01:51:49.439 –> 01:51:51.119
No one died of poisoning.

01:51:51.439 –> 01:51:53.920
And so the players were like, yay, we did it.

01:51:54.079 –> 01:51:55.199
We succeeded.

01:51:55.520 –> 01:51:58.399
However, I’d never planned to poison one of the nobles.

01:51:58.560 –> 01:51:59.680
I say I don’t plan.

01:51:59.840 –> 01:52:00.640
I didn’t plan things.

01:52:00.720 –> 01:52:04.239
When I made it up on the spot, I was like, they’re not going to poison a noble.

01:52:04.560 –> 01:52:13.760
So at breakfast the next morning, the party then overheard that a powerful, influential merchant had been found dead that morning.

01:52:14.079 –> 01:52:15.920
And then I ended the session.

01:52:18.000 –> 01:52:23.920
My father was in the room as I was DMing this and being like, and now we bring the session to the close.

01:52:24.000 –> 01:52:27.279
And my partner protested probably louder than my players did.

01:52:31.439 –> 01:52:35.840
I’m very chaotic as a DM as well as a player, apparently.

01:52:36.479 –> 01:52:43.920
So how I met my partner was I was using dating apps to bait people into DD games.

01:52:44.560 –> 01:52:45.119
Nice.

01:52:46.640 –> 01:52:47.600
Good shout.

01:52:49.520 –> 01:52:52.720
Because I had gotten frustrated with not being able to find players.

01:52:53.039 –> 01:52:53.199
Right.

01:52:53.760 –> 01:53:01.119
And I figure if someone’s willing to go on a dating app and end up convinced to play a DD game, that’s going to be a long-term player.

01:53:01.359 –> 01:53:02.319
And I was right.

01:53:03.039 –> 01:53:03.279
Yeah.

01:53:03.920 –> 01:53:08.239
But I’ve done this, I did this for a span of about four years.

01:53:08.800 –> 01:53:13.119
And I met some of the most bizarre people ever doing this.

01:53:14.079 –> 01:53:18.720
And I feel like I was kind of fishing for that, you know?

01:53:20.000 –> 01:53:23.199
Because it would kind of go, oh, hey, do you want to meet people?

01:53:23.359 –> 01:53:24.960
I’m like, oh, come play the DD games.

01:53:25.039 –> 01:53:27.119
You can meet people, socialize, and do that.

01:53:27.439 –> 01:53:27.760
Right.

01:53:28.399 –> 01:53:31.680
And I was kind of pitching it as a dating thing.

01:53:32.319 –> 01:53:39.680
And where I’m at now, I have had five couples that have played in my games get married.

01:53:40.000 –> 01:53:40.560
Dang.

01:53:41.199 –> 01:53:43.279
That’s a pretty good shout.

01:53:43.439 –> 01:53:45.600
Like, they’ve invited you to them, right?

01:53:46.880 –> 01:53:48.479
So one was my wedding.

01:53:48.640 –> 01:53:49.439
I didn’t have a wedding.

01:53:49.520 –> 01:53:52.000
I just got married at a courthouse.

01:53:52.640 –> 01:53:52.960
Yeah.

01:53:53.279 –> 01:53:55.279
Another did go to the wedding.

01:53:56.079 –> 01:53:59.359
One, I did not go to the wedding.

01:53:59.439 –> 01:54:00.479
I didn’t really care.

01:54:01.760 –> 01:54:08.720
They were just kind of like, they played like three games together and then they just went off and were like, oh, we kind of want to do our own thing.

01:54:08.960 –> 01:54:11.760
So they just kind of met there and then started dating.

01:54:13.520 –> 01:54:14.800
But they got married eventually.

01:54:15.119 –> 01:54:19.520
And then another, this is one of my friends up in Alaska.

01:54:19.760 –> 01:54:22.239
He eloped.

01:54:22.479 –> 01:54:29.439
So he and his wife, they didn’t really do much in the terms of a wedding.

01:54:29.760 –> 01:54:34.800
And so out of them, there’s been a few that have had weddings, but I’ve only been to one of them.

01:54:35.119 –> 01:54:35.439
Okay.

01:54:36.000 –> 01:54:36.239
All right.

01:54:36.319 –> 01:54:38.479
Well, thank you guys for playing and hanging out today.

01:54:38.640 –> 01:54:40.960
I do like to take some time to talk about things.

01:54:41.520 –> 01:54:42.640
It was fun.

01:54:43.279 –> 01:54:45.359
It was fun chatting at the end of the session.

01:54:45.680 –> 01:54:45.840
Yeah.

01:54:46.000 –> 01:54:46.880
Well, thank you guys.

01:54:47.039 –> 01:54:48.560
And I’ll see you next week.

01:54:48.880 –> 01:54:49.199
Yeah.

01:54:49.520 –> 01:54:49.840
Yeah.

01:54:50.159 –> 01:54:53.199
And remember, we’re telling the others that we did die in the end.

01:54:56.640 –> 01:54:56.960
All right.

01:54:57.039 –> 01:54:58.720
Well, have a good day, you guys.

01:54:59.279 –> 01:54:59.600
Yeah.

01:55:00.239 –> 01:55:00.960
See you next week.

01:55:01.680 –> 01:55:02.399
See you next week.

01:55:03.039 –> 01:55:03.439
Bye.

Seeking Loramigs Session 9