Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Episode 1: A Light in the Woods | Overlight: Fractured Paradox

Episode Date: August 17, 2026

A motley crew of Skyborn explorers encounter strange occurrences in their fractured, floating world. Using the Overlight RPG system, this kaleidoscopic fantasy crosses through colorful landscapes, with our heroes channeling the mythical Overlight to perform astonishing feats! Fennel, Udos, and Matlalihuitl meet Thokmay, a Zenith Monk in search of someone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First, we would love to thank the Renegade Game Studios people who made this gorgeous world and the artists who contributed the art to that book. It's really stunning. You can see this GM screen that has the art as well. It's so gorgeous. Thank you so much, Redicate Game Studios for helping to make this show possible. We also want to tell you folks to go to renegade.com to check out Overlight and all their other games. They have a lot of tabletop games.

If you check out Becca Scott's Game the Game on YouTube, you can see her playing a lot of the Renegade Studio games. So go check those out. They're really wonderful folks. And you're going to get to see this game today too. Also, if you want to find out more about Overlight, you can check out geek and sundry.com, and there are going to be lots of articles talking about the game and the world. So that's it. I'm going to introduce our cast right now, and then we'll get started. Let's do it.

Okay. Hi, I'm Rachel Seeley. I'm playing a Bonnian, which you'll find out what that is later. Slav. And I'm Josh Dempster, and I'm going to be playing a Teryxian, which is basically a tiny lizard bird man. So very clear and not vague at all. I'm Hamanah Mahoney. I'm going to be playing a Zenith monk named Takma.

Nice. Hi guys, my name is Philip Jean-Marie. I'm playing U.S. Kudos and Aramel from the Shard of Vale, who is a gilded laborer. All right, and with that, we will start episode one of Overlight, a light in the woods. Welcome back. I just want to thank Caleb Drool for that amazing introduction.

I mean, you guys didn't see it. You'll see it after or on the break or something. I felt it. Reverberated through the chroma, all the colors of the rainbow. It is mind-blowingly gorgeous, so I can't wait for you guys to see it. But you guys saw it. It's awesome. Thank you, Caleb.

And with that, we begin episode one, a light in the woods. The overlight touches us all. But in so many diverse ways, it's sometimes easy to forget that we're all under the same, unending, boundless light. Each folk living on their respective shards, the many-legged Novipendra on Nova, the zenith order of monks and the ape like Hamanu on zenith, the bird-like tyroxines of quill, the varied banari, of Banyan, the Harkine of Hark, who are much like you and me,

the masked Orumel of Vale, and the fiery, mighty pyroy of pyre. Each of the vast floating continents we call shards steadily moves one above the other in what we've come to call cycles, because in this world that has no sun and no moon and no day and no night, we measure time by the movement of these shards. And in this world are the skyborne. A small subset of folk from every shard who are able to channel the overlight to perform bold and miraculous feats.

Some say the skyborne will heal this fractured world. Others say the skyborn are a sign that we are all doomed. But for the skyborn, there is much to discover. And perhaps one day they'll prove all the rumors to be true. Today we find ourselves on the forest-like shard of Banyan. On the edge of the great forests, a group of three sky-born wander admiring the scenery. At first, they seem like a strange assortment of folk. In passing, one might lose themselves in wondering how and why these three came to be a trio.

But once you've met them, once you've known them, you see that they are as strangely suited for one another as is each shard that hangs in the boundless space once known as sky. We have Udos, who's tall as a reed and strong as an ox, his hands. capable of turning the humblest of materials into strong pieces that are essential to shipbuilding. Though his folk, the masked appreciators of fine art called the Arumel, claim vigor as their central virtue of the overlight, Udos is one of the few that claims another, the low but forceful red light that signifies might. We have fennel, parts small mammal, and the rest tree. Fennel's form is a duality of nature that was born on the far shard of Banyan.

In the woods the folk and in the folk the woods, as the saying goes. Banyan is a forest land that boasts a bounty of diversity with several species of Baniari coexisting. Compassion is the declared virtue of this green, vibrant land, but Fennell herself proclaims another virtue as her own. The moving, driving virtue of will. And Mat, Mat-Lahuito, Matt for short, is a problem. proud yet somewhat reserved member of the reptilian bird-like folk called the Turexians. His feathered wings held close to his body, Mott's curious mind observes and records the world in his unique way. Unlike his fellow feathered folk from the jungleed shard known as quill,

Mott does not ascribe to the virtue of logic that his kinfolk cling to. Though he is smart and perhaps because he is smart, Mott instead claims the soft green, warming light of compassion as his own. And here we have the starting party. You're on the edge of the great forest of Banyan. Banyan is the home shard of our dear fennel. You all...

You all find yourselves here after days and days of wandering around the great forest, looking and observing and learning. You love to explore together, and now you are here with no particular direction to go in. I've been documenting all the creatures and plants that I've seen on Banyan, and I feel like it's never-ending.

When you said you could show me all the life on Banyan, I thought there would be an end. Well, we're a quarter of the way through. There's more. That's so exciting and all so terrifying. No, it's so terrifying. Everything here is pretty great. It's all very nice. And the people here are very nice, too. But where is this magical wood that you spoke of? I really need to get my hands on this particular wood

so that I could maybe assemble a few. The hearthwood tree? Yes. No. I might be hesitant to share. No. No, you cannot cut it down, because if you do, you will kill us all. Not cut it, just parts of it to... Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Udos, why do you, is that why you've been hanging out with? I guess I was under the impression that- It would not make a good ship.

Well, I mean, besides ships, just for other things, such as tools or-uh, not a good idea. From what I understand, the hearth wood is a very important aspect of each Benyan culture. I mean, I've offered, you can read my, journal where I write down everything that I, you haven't expressed any interest, I can't understand why, but. It's the mother tree. Okay. You cannot kill the mother tree. She gave me this nut. It's my favorite. I respect it. So I can show it to you, but I will not allow you to cut it down or take any part of it. Okay. But that's it. I will not cut it down. I will not take any part of it. Do you promise? I promise.

Yeah, that's, I would love to see it myself. It's beautiful. It's the most. this beautiful tree in the entire realms. It is the best tree that ever was planted on any of the shards. I can guarantee you that, and no one would ever try and fight me. I just wanna point out that you've said that about every tree we've passed so far.

That is true. It's still true. You're not right. Ours is the biggest though, and it gives the best nuts. That is a lovely nut. Should we head to the hearthwood tree? Sure, could you do me a favor

and would you draw it? Could I get a drawing of it? Yeah, of course. Yes, I can lead the way. So as the Torexian Mott pulls out his scrapbook and starts doodling the hearthwood nut, the three of you go on your way, you head back down the path that you came from

and you start the long journey down to Fennell's hearthwood tree. Now the hearthwood tree is a bit of a long way. And as you said, Fennell, you've only seen about a quarter of Banyan because it is a very large, beautiful, varied landscape. So on this long journey, you are walking down,

and it is daylight out. And again, there are no days or nights. So we'll say it is daylight. Not late or early daylight. And as you're walking, you come upon someone who is, you see someone huddled next to a tree just off of the path.

You can't tell if it's gender at all, but it's someone in a black hood who is huddled and hugging their knees and just gently rocking, seeming to need to calm themselves. And it's up a ways on the path. You can just see the dark figure against the green landscape. Fennell's going to run over immediately. Yeah, I'm right behind her. Okay, so you start running down the path and you see this person.

Actually, yes, you see this person huddled. When you arrive to them, what do they do? What am I gonna do? I have no idea where Chenu is. And what if that thing comes back? And it tries to hurt me and we get even more separated. Hello? What am I? Hello?

Hi. Hi. My name is Fennell. You can call me Fen for short, but Fennell is a fun name to say. Oh, you're so small. I'm small, but the tree is big. The tree is big.

This is me. These are my branches. What? You're the tree? Yeah. She sort of like wiggles all of her branches all at once. They're all covered in these little like gold medallion looking leaves. Almost like a birch tree with a willow tree.

Just, blah, la, lo. That is quite wondrous. I'm a banyan. I'm a banyari. Oh, well, um, uh, well, um, uh, well, Well, it's nice to be on your home, on your shard. It's so great to be here. I just wish it was under better circumstances.

Is it working okay? Well, I came here on a mission from my Zenith order of monks, and I met a friend, and we got really close, and things were going to be different for me and for them. and now they're gone. They're gone because there was a creature. There was a, you know, it looked like a big, sort of like pig, but big tusks, like two foot long tusks

and they were sharp like swords. And it tried to run us through and we sort of, we scattered and I came back to regroup at this tree with Chinu and Chinu's not here. What is the Chenu? Chinoo. Chinoo's a Hamano. Oh. My friend, my companion, my traveling companion.

But I don't know where she went. Well, we gotta find her. What if she got run through by the... Well, we'll find her. But what if we find her and she's... Well, you can't think that way. Listen, if she is injured, then we have to find her fast. But if she's not, she's...

We're probably out in the forest trying to look for you. Right. We'll find her. Or the darkness has taken her. No, she'll never come back. You can't think that way. Listen, on Bonin, we don't think that way. Everything is possible, and we can find her, I promise.

Right, okay, do you have a special way of tracking Hamanu or? No. Okay. But I know where look. Really? Well, this is my home shard. I know this place pretty well. Maybe you know where that creature lives?

Maybe he rode her off into his secret murder cave, and he's gonna eat her. I don't think Bonin has any murder caves, but do I know this creature and do I know? Do you want to roll for that, see if you know? Oh, sure, let's do the first roll of the game. No pressure. What's it gonna be?

Actually, I'm gonna have the three of you roll for it. Okay. This is gonna be a folklore role. Three of you, not. The three, yes, yes, not you. Because you've already seen it, and you're clearly not sure what it is. First roll of the game.

First roll of the game. Woo! Oh. Okay, so you got one, so you got a four on your spirit die. So you can get a success. No success. It's two, two, three, three, three. So, three three is and three two.

So no successes. The spirit dye has a four on it. And I believe, can you bank that? Ooh, I'm gonna have to check that later. I think you can bank that in your spirit pool as a success, even though you did not succeed. Sorry, as an extra, a new spirit pool die. Okay.

Okay, so now you two will roll folklore. All right. Gotta roll a six for a six. So folklore and wisdom. Give you a sign. Yeah, six and above is a success. No success. Did we just really, we almost hold the exact same thing.

That's very. Did we get anything for that? Well, I mean, maybe. You're in tune, clearly. So I get a spirit pool point for that is what you're saying? Is that what's happening? Yes. Okay.

That's how we're gonna operate right now. And now, I believe you are, yes. Oh wait, three six. You both were trained in folklore. And Udoz. And actually, I saw the creature in the best year, but I can't remember it's name. Okay, great.

Well, like you as a person. Yeah. I was like, should I just know? Three, six. So you're gonna do three of your wisdom and one of your, and one D6 because you are not trained in folklore. So four D6 total. Yes, 46 total.

And then a spirit die. I can't see it. Four. I got a five. Oh. So close. No. One and a two.

We're so unsuccessful. Maybe it'll just get better from here. English cross. None of you are entirely sure, based off of that description, what type of beast Tukma is describing. But as a Turexian, and as a pyre, a pyroid. Armel.

As an Ormel from, sorry, from Vale. Oh, how dare you. This is getting me, Rachel. How dare you. Throwing labels around. Well, as someone with might as your core virtue, that's what my brain was trying to say. You did study some of the pyroi culture. Now, pyre is the lower most shard, where might is the virtue.

And between the two of you, you look at each other, and you both are kind of trying to put your finger. There's something, for you, it's something about pyre, and you say that out loud, and Mott and Fennell hear you, something to do, pirate, pirate. Pirates. And you, Mott, you're... Vaguely reminds me. Yeah, because of your studies on, as a Teryxian, Turixians are very smart and well-learned.

There's something in your studies that you're trying to put together. I feel like I've heard tell of, you said it looked like a pig? Yeah, like, um, but like furrier, long, coarse hair. Giant tusks. Have a vague recollection of like a large bipedal pig creature coming from one of the other shards. You said pyre? Pire. Why would it be here?

That doesn't make sense. That's a long way to go. The weather is great. Yes, thank you for noticing. But why would it be here? It's a long distance to travel for a giant pig. It's not often the creatures of the darkness are on your shard. No.

Or maybe it's such an apex predator that it's just thriving here, because it's not a little. it doesn't have any other animals to. But how did it get here? If pyre's the lowest shard, that's a long distance to travel. I doubt it charted a boat on its own. It might be very smart, you never know. I crossed a line and I apologize.

I haven't met this creature yet. Everything is very smart in its own way. Could it have been someone's pet? Oh, oh, that's not a good thought. Who would keep that as a pet? Well, it's definitely not domesticated anymore. It doesn't sound very nice. And you and your compatriot, Chenu, was it?

Chenu. Were attacked here? Yeah, nearby here, and I circled back after we parted ways to see if Chenow would meet me back at this spot. But it doesn't appear that's what's occurred. Do you know which direction Chenu went? Do I? I think that might take some orienting. Yeah.

Do you want to, let's see, what would that be as a roll? Let's have you roll. Well, yes, since you, it's not a knowledge thing. It's more like how aware you were when you were running, right? Right. I mean, that could just be perception. Sure. Yeah, let's say that's perception, wisdom.

So that's going to be my wisdom, which is D8, and then my perception, which is D6, And then this guy. Actually, wait, no, I'm going to make a perception will. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's not about wisdom. It's more like. Oh, that's better for me, so I'll take it.

It's more, yeah. It's more about like your will to survive as you were running out of the woods. And also your will to find your friend. All right. Let's do it. Ooh. Oh, one, two successes. Yeah.

Two successes. Woo! All right. Finally. On my special die. So you got a luminous success. Ooh, woohoo. So our first success role.

Yay, we're doing it everyone. Listen, we wouldn't have had this successful role without the first three roles. You guys, sent me out. You blessed the table, which I didn't mention before, but this table's so gorgeous. Oh my goodness. I don't know the name of the artist,

but I promise next time I will know, and I will say, give them a shout out. But yes, okay, so you guys, So you get two beautiful successes. You got a two on your spirit die, though, right? Yes. Okay, so you don't get a spirit flare from that. So yes, you actually look around finally.

You look up and you remember coming through the woods and eventually you felt like you were far enough and you got to this path and you felt safe. And so you just plopped down right here. And when you came, you crossed the path. So you know you came from a cross. across the path and the other side. There's a clear path.

Yeah. Okay. I think it was, it must have been down this path here. We came down this way. And then we sat by the tree for a while before we were interrupted. I would like to alight on a branch above the clearing of the tree where this occurred.

And I would like to try to use Beastways. And potentially compassion, depending, is it just the, just the skill track to see if I can use my training with animals to identify the multiple tracks, and either figure out where the pig went. I almost called it a piglet, which makes it sound adorable.

I mean, was it not cute? You can be scary and cute. Or to figure out where you can't. Because it's either gonna be basically handprints on the ground because of, to be Hamanu feet or it's going to be like hooves. Yeah. And so there should only be three sets of recentish tracks.

Right. It shouldn't be too hard to identify. Great, so you get up high on a tree. Mott flutters up and Matt is about, what is it, four feet tallish? Yeah, about four feet tall. Yeah, so. Nice giant Teryxian.

Huge, huge Trixian. He flutters out his wings, which usually keeps pretty close to his body, But this time you see him flutter them out in this beautiful display of blue and turquoise and red feathers and he flutters up to the top of the tree. And from there he looks down in the direction that Takme pointed across the path.

So now let's have you make that Beesway's roll. Beesway's Compassion. Beesway's Compassion, okay, so do 10 to gate. Where? There we go. All right, so we'll do spirit first. Just get out of the way, right. All right.

Here. Oh, there you go. Thank you. You have one success there, right? Yep. Is that another? Oh, that's a 10. See, I'm seeing this stuff with you see tens.

Ooh, three successes, four successes. Wow. What? Okay, see? You're welcome. It's gonna. It's only downhill from here. Oh no.

I hope you see a legendary success. At some point. Well, the GM just said she wanted to see it, so we'll never get it. Yes, yeah. Legendary successes, six successes on the virtue and skill die, and then a four on the spirit die. That is nuts, and I hope we see it.

Well, you could, if you got five, you could boost it right. That's true. That is true. We could aim a little lower. You know a little lower. No. Just be prepared to spin that spirit. Yes.

Okay. So that was a brilliant. Is that a brilliant success? No, radiant success. I'll take it. Very good. Radiant success. So from your perch up high, and you land on a tall, what looks like an aspen, it's kind of a thin trunk tree, it gently sways when you sit on a top of it.

It's very slim but strong. And as you sit on what if it's higher branches, you look down, and you do, you do. get a sense of your compassion bubbling up. Compassion as your core virtue is really what drives you, and this is what you love to do to connect with nature and with other beings. And so you look down and you see like a slight greenish energy start to guide your gaze,

and you see three different paths, three different footprints that are going throughout throughout the forest in this direction. So you clearly see the footprints that were Tukmase that came here and came sat on this tree, crossed the path and the cane sat in the tree. And then back in the forest, you see another set of footprints

that does look like a four-legged, hoof type animal, so it's two large hoofs that are pressed a couple of inches into the ground. He's mad. And you see that one, from your orientation, you see that it came towards your direction with the other set of prints, and then it turned back and went in the other direction. And then a little bit further off, quite further off, you see the Hamanus, what you understand to be the Hamanus paw prints in the ground. And they match some of Tukmase, but they mostly turned around and ran way back.

over into the forest. Okay. So I think I've, as I'm perched up on the tree, like my talons dug into the trunk, like occasionally my wings will flutter to help steady me, but like a smile has crept across my face because I'm just so happy to be up in the air again. After I compose myself,

I take note of the three tracks and I yell down. If you went that way and, The pig went that way. I think I know which direction your friend Chenu went in. Really? Well, which way I have to go after her? We don't know what happens, so let's just collect and come up with the game plan

because I know I would like to help you. Does it look like the way he pointed that thing might be headed towards my tribe? No. Okay. Because you were heading down the path towards Tukme and past her. So if you think of it,

The path is like this way. Takma's sitting on one side of the path and then the direction he's pointing is this way. You were going straight ahead. Perfect. So it's, yeah, it would be a different direction. Okay. Yeah, I want to know what this creature is,

but we need to help your friend. I'm ready to throw my lot in with you. I've also never seen a Hamanu, so like, but are you guys okay with? You guys don't even know me. So, you're here and you need help. That's good enough. Yeah.

What? I don't know. Oh, no. Come on. I don't know, guys. What are your second thoughts about? Because what if we put ourselves in danger and we die? That's a distinct possibility every second of every day.

I mean, I'm pretty strong. And I'm all about learning experiences, and it sounds like death is the ultimate learning experience. I'm ready to fight. All right. I trust you guys. Let's do it. Let's go! I don't even know your guys' names.

Udos. Udos. Nice to meet you. Oh, I'm Takma. Nice to meet you, Takma. I'm Fennell. Fennel? Matlalaito.

We call it Mat. Okay, great. That works better for me. A lot of us. Fennell, Udos. Yes. Great, I'm Takma. Did I say that?

Can I call you talk? Oh, sure. Sure. I've never had a nickname before. Nake names are great and they are a sign of affection. Oh. Now, wait two of you. NICNames are great and a sign of it. When the two of you have this exchange,

you also sense something in each other. And you are different folk, very different folk. You are a Harkin-descended Zenith monk. So a lot of the monks are descended from the humans of this world. And so essentially you are human. And you as this, mammalian slash tree hybrid folk, very different folk, but you have something shared between you

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I never had a friend before? Well, I just want to preface this by saying, I already have a bond mate. No, it's not a bond mate. I'm pretty sure you can't have two of them. No, it's not a bond. But also, I would have many friends. I have two friends.

I don't know, it's an invisible bond that ties two people together. Well, I mean, it's kind of like that. But it's not, I mean, it's kind of like that, but it's not. Friends are people that you choose to be with. Oh. It's like a family that you pick.

Yeah, not by blood, but by choice. Oh, okay. And we, um, what do we do together? We're at each other, near each other. This? This is it. Just look for friends, them, other friends. Sometimes we can draw together.

I can show you all of my favorite plants. Um, now that you're my friend, I can show you my hearthwood nut. And I can show you my drawing of a hearthwood nut. I can show you my ship, but that's- A ship. Yes. Collecting so many friends, I'm so excited. That's a very nice nut.

Thank you. You're welcome. And a drawing, that's a very nice drawing of a nut. Thank you. You're all having this. On the pathway. Do you want to start into the forest? Yeah.

Which tracks should we follow? Does it look like the tracks, the Hamanu tracks, at least what I assume are Hamanu tracks deeper in the forest? Do they split off from the piglet tracks? Quick, you can't see that far. No, it's cute. You can't quite see that far into the forest. Okay.

But you do see that the Hamanu path of tracks go that way into the forest, and yes, you do see, they seem to go into a similar direction. Okay, so these seem just about parallel, so I guess I'll lead the way from up above. Yeah, let's go find our friend, and then we can add more friends. Amanu's feet look like big hands.

Okay, that checks out, and I like, I crouched down and I try to sketch the best outline of. No, wait, yeah. Wait, Sarah, you weren't finished drawing. I thought it was just gonna be that line. I was like that's not what they, it's never. Oh, yeah, no, I try to, I don't, I don't stop drawing and drawing until I think it's done necessarily.

Most of them are more than one line. Right, it's not like an instant thing. I wish. Right, great. This drawings are very realistic. I know, I quietly pack my pen and things back up and just flutter up into a tree like, oh. So Mott flutters back up into the tree line.

And from there, he, He starts to guide you all down along the tracks that he can see from above. And so now you are entering the forest. And you, mostly on your journeys, whenever you enter the forest, it's because Fennell has led you to a certain spot where she knows that there will be something of interest for you all to learn about and explore

and for you to sketch on. So now you're entering part of the forest that Fennell is not familiar with. And so this is very, this is new territory for all of you. You have not leading you from above, just in front of you and above. And you walk down the path, and you walk, and there's more walking, and some time passes. Probably, you see the tracks too.

It's not as if the tracks have stopped. You're still following tracks for maybe the equivalent of an hour of our time. And so you get to a certain point where the tree line starts to become dense, And there is a point where as the tree line gets denser, you start to see some shrubbery just past that, and then some rockiness. So the tree, basically we're losing the trees and it's transitioning to a different terrain?

Yeah. Okay. And the path, because there are now rocks, you see that in the dirt, from the forest, as it goes into the denser tree line, you still see the path, but the tracks, but you can now see that the tracks leave off because now it's rockier towards,

in that direction that the tracks went. I called down, hold slope. I think I've lost the trail. Fennell, do you know anything about where we are? No, this is very unusual. There aren't very many ferns, and there's not very much moss. It doesn't really look like my shard anymore.

So we're in uncharted territory? I don't know it. I pull my journal out and start sketching, but while I'm dutling, I, we should probably stick to the tree line until we figure out what's going on, try to pick up the trail from here, but it might be tough. Do you guys have any ideas? No. I have my black meditation spirit. I'm sort of just shrinking it and growing it in my hands sort of like a nervous tick, like an anxiety tool, anxiety ball. Yeah, I flutter down. And like, what is that? Tell me everything about it. This is my meditation sphere. It helps me focus on my meditations and my studies

and my, you know, it helps me feel better in times like this. If you're bonded with Chenu, are you able to sense if they're close? We're not actually bonded yet. We sort of came together under not very traditional means. means, not the regular way most Zenith monks and Haman who go about it. So we will be bonded when we get back to Zenith, but right now we're not, and I can't, I can't hear, I can't hear Chinu yet because of that. I can't hear her. We'll find her. And also non-traditional is awesome. You're trying something new.

Right, you're the only one who thinks that. Well, I happen to know a lot, so there. She's not the only one. It's true. Well, we're a very smart party. Well, I appreciate it. Not a lot of the people from my old order or the other orders are very, uh, very, um, into the idea. So, uh, not, not great, not well received.

Well, I think you're cool. Cool. That's all that matters here. Yeah? And I know you're not alone. As a Teryxian who feels closer to compassion than I do logic, I don't necessarily fit in either. Right. You understand my plight. And you said you are okay with the darkness that happens after, or maybe during, or so you understand.

I don't know if we had that conversation, but we can loop back around to it. You said you weren't afraid of death. The never-ending void after we're gone. When you put it like that, you know, I'm starting to have second thoughts. It was more to motivate Udo's. It was like a bit of a tactic.

Wait, how do you feel about the never-ending void? I'm still on the, well, the never-ending void. I'm scared to death of it. Oh, no, no, no. There's no reason to be as scared of it. Just as the over-light gives us power. You know, so does, so can the darkness if we let it. But you, you know, you have to accept it.

You can't be scared of it. Yeah, the darkness can be real cool. Everything's cool. I just want to last, guys. I just want to have my name out on every shard. People know my name. Who does? Just like carve it in a tree or something?

No. Not simple, but through my artistry. That's all. Did you make your mask? It's actually handed down from a third-generation mask. It was handed down from my father's father. He was a gilded labor as well. It's very precise.

Thank you. You're welcome. Appreciate it. And so, Takami, you are peering at Udos's mask, and you start to see, nope, that's not correct. Wrong sound. Erase that sound from your memory. That was scary.

It got very dark all of a sudden. Yeah. You stare into his mask and you were pulled into the voice. Right. And you're all in. TPK. That's it. Thanks for joining in.

My iTunes is now GMing. So you are peering at Udo's mask and you see this delicate fine detail. Udo's, what does your mask look like? My mask is a wooden mask with ornate jewelry placed inside of it. The ornate jewelry kind of signifies the craft that, My family has mastered, which is ships. And as you could see, it's ornamented and crafted to kind of look a little intimidating.

That's why it has kind of an angry face. It's working. I'm very scared. We should find your friend. Yeah. Can you tell me what I would see from the tree line if I'm up at the top, like if I'm surveying this transition into rockiness.

Right. Is there like, what am I? I want the lay of the lane. So because you're now in the dense part of the tree line, you can't see much ahead, but you would have to move a bit out of it, just get to the other side of it to see what's over there on the rocky side, right?

That's what you wanna see. Yeah. So if you just fly about 25 feet from where, where you are, you would clear the denser part of the forest into the rocky land. Okay, I would like to do that, but also make it clear that I'm going to stick to the tree line now that you've terrified me

about the Great Dark Beyond. I thought we were having a fun adventure. I wanna go see you actually. All right, let's go. Don't make me say I told you so. It's all of these roots of her tree just like, like a little, like an, She's very fast, but it's like a tree octopus.

Like the underwater coconut octopus? Perfect. Okay, so Mott and Fennell, you are, you're flying and you're running towards the edge of that dense tree line, right? Fennell, we don't know what's past there. Sorry, I'm trying to be quiet. Fennell's running ahead.

Fennell's very excited now. I've never seen this before. There might be new trees down here. So Fennell, you run ahead of Mott now. Ma is flying in your front of. And Fennell, you, you're looking way past, you're not looking down at where your roots are, and your root starts to catch something,

and you fall over. Little turtled, because she's a giant tree, so she uses all of her roots and branches to, like, roll herself and then push back up so that she's standing. You create, like, some sort of root hamster ball. Yes. I mean, she's basically a red panda, The semi-hamp's triple is very appropriate.

What did I trip on? Well, you see a, it looks almost like a natural bedding. As if maybe there was a storm and some wind that caused some vines to get entwined. And it's very thick. It looks like it was made by nature. So you don't think it's an actual nest. but you sense something about it. And I'm gonna have you roll.

Let's see, what will you roll? This will be compassion. Mm-hmm. So I need my tams. I need tams. Where are you, Fennel? Where are you in my book? I don't know.

Well, there you are. Okay, so, ooh, how about this is perception compassion? I like that. Let's do that. I get D-10s. and D8s. Don't be mean to me, please. One, two, three, four, four.

Wow. Nice. All right. Four successes, so that is another radius. That's how we roll. That's how we roll. Oh, sorry, is that like a jinx? How dare you?

I thought you were doing a pun. Oh, yeah, it was. Did you mean? Was it an accident? Yep. That's how we roll. That's how we roll. No, just me personally.

I'm offended. There's someone watching here who is a master at puns. They know who they are. So you, after you kind of, do you unturtle yourself? Are you still on your back? Yeah, totally unturdle. So you flip over and you get on your paws and you look to see what you tripped on. And sure enough, there's this nest of vines that have become intertwined.

And you see something moving in there. And because you've got a radiant. success. I'm going to say that you also notice that in this dense forest line, a little ways off, another maybe 10 feet away in the brush, there are little eyes looking out at you. They're very close to the ground. They're under the brush. There's maybe four or five pairs of eyes. What's the thing moving in the nest? What does it look like? Oh, what does it look like? You see brownish-gray fur. Do I see any pig-like features? No.

I'm just gonna look up and stare at mom, I'm assuming, is the eyes that are watching me. And just kind of crouch and try to make myself look as non-threatening as possible. Just like, I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. And just wait to see if it moves. Okay, I'm gonna have you roll.

Hmm, let's see. Persuasion? Persuasion compassion. Okay. All right. To see if you can convince this animal, the mom, as you said, that you are not trying to hurt anyone. Don't hurt me, please. You did kick her child.

I fell over her child. I didn't kick it. That's one. What is this? What is this? I can't see it. It's a one. It's only one success.

One success. So that is not a success. Oh. You guys betrayed me. Listen. Are you talking to your dice? Yes. You guys.

You guys. And I think I'm up on the tree line up in the branches. And I'm just drawing things and taking notes. And I was like, oh, a funnel was supposed to be here. But I haven't heard anything yet. So I'm just like, oh, that's weird. Whatever. Yeah, you're still, you're still, you got distracted by a little,

a little, a really nice leaf up there. You're starting to sketch it. Incredibly detailed the veins. Okay, yeah. Yep, yes, it has lots of beautiful veins. You're like, I love those leaf veins. So what's gonna tack me? So out from the brush crawls one of the pairs of eyes.

And it is, it's a small creature. It's about one and a half to, maybe two feet in length. Long, long, slender arms and big, wide eyes and some little ears. And it comes out of the brush, looking at you with wide eyes, clearly waiting to see what your next move will be. Do I recognize it at all? Is this something that my- You would recognize this.

So this is called the Nittanzien. Nittanzian. Yes, it's one of the species of Baniari folk. Oh, it's a friend. I'm gonna back away a little bit from the baby. I don't want to be too close. But I'm gonna try and do I know if we speak the same language?

Yes, you would know that they don't speak verbally. They're animals. So they speak through body language and you can try to put your intention out to them. It's more of an innate animal type of instinct. I'm going to back up from the kid. and lay down on my back. Okay.

So that they see that I'm allowing myself to be vulnerable and I'm not here to harm them. Okay. So as you roll onto your back again, literally showing your belly to this mama, Mama Nintenzian, she looks at you and she's a bit surprised. She makes the little sound that's like,

and the other pairs of eyes come out behind you. And you see, I think I said four or five, how many did I say five? Five and something. You see four more, thank you, four more, those pairs of eyes turn into four more of these Nintensian who come up and one of them is actually very not shy anymore.

It just bounds right up to you and it kind of like plays around with your roots and sees what you're gonna do. I wanna play with it a little bit. Okay. So you start to play back with it and you're having this nice little banter with this Nintensian. I mean.

I'm gonna walk up and go. Finnell, did you have babies? Why this happens? No, they're not my babies. No, but keep your distance. I just want them to feel safe. This is their nest and I point with some of my roots over to the little vine nest that they've made

so that people can avoid it when they come in if they're coming into the area. Don't step on. the baby. Oh, okay. I'll just go over here then. I'll just go like wide. Around this.

Can I try to use my beastways to see if I can communicate with them in some way, maybe see if they've seen something strange run through here? Sure. Is it just, what virtue am I rolling for beastways? For beast ways. You want me to roll compassion? Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Okay, all right guys, all right. Because these are your peoples from your same shard. One. One success, okay. Never mind. So I take it back. Okay, so that was-

Is it better than spirit? Am I able to use a spirit point to? Oh. Yes, you are. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it. Beautiful use of spirit flame.

My, my, umed. Spirit flare, inact. Use it. Enact. Enact. Activated. It's good. So, yes, this is great.

So when you get an odd number of successes, you can spend a spirit point to bump it up to the next level, which becomes a success in this case. So now you have a luminous success. And so what do you say or do? I want to try and indicate tracks or tracking and use my roots and my branches and my own tiny little. pause to try and communicate, have you seen anything coming through here, while still trying to be

non-threatening as much as possible. Okay, so you, are you still on your back? Mm-hmm. Okay, you roll over, you kind of turtle your way over onto your side, and with your roots and your paws, you start to kind of do this on the ground. Or like make pictures in the dust. Oh, there you go. Okay. You try to draw pictures of maybe of a pig type thing? A pig with a question mark and a giant ape or as much as fennel can draw an ape, which is questionable with a question mark.

And then just like tracking and footprints and all sorts of weird things that she's trying. So these five Nintentian just look curiously. curiously at you, the one who's playing with your roots stops and is looking at you making these designs in the ground, in the grass, in the dirt, and then starts making their own designs. Anything I can make sense of? Or just? No. It's just, now the mama Netanzian sees you doing that, and she's trying really hard to understand, but she doesn't find any, she doesn't see any pattern in that. But she walks slowly, she looks at you, she sees that you're not a threat.

She walks over to where you saw what you believe to be the nest, and she starts pawing at it. Does it look like the small creature might be stuck in it? With your luminous success, yes. You now understand that the mama Nintan Tzian is scared because her child is stuck in this tangle of vines. Okay. I want to crawl over and immediately start helping. Okay. Now where are the rest of you? I was, I feel like I was kind of trailing behind you two.

Yeah, I think we were together, yeah. But then we kind of walked up on it in the middle of that. Okay, so you're kind of here. We're here, but the Fennel's instructed us to stay back. So I think I would at least sort of like give them some room. Okay. Ma'am, I'm going to have you roll a, well, at this point, would you have noticed? I think I heard the noises

and it was the who's were sounds I hadn't heard before so it was like oh I wonder I wonder if I don't got caught up and so I fly back I maintain height so I can just kind of look down like I don't want to disturb anything and also the longer it takes them

and notice me the longer I have to draw them so I'm like listening and watching but also just kind of like oh these are new and when it seems like you've gone in and you're starting to help. I yell down. Fenn, what are these things? Oh, they're kind of, they're Banyari,

but they're a different species. We don't speak the same language, but I think that this one's little baby is caught, so I'm trying to get it out. Okay. I was thinking about trying to like be stether, but I can just help. It'll be a little.

weird because you'll be inside something that's pretty sentient, but if you want. You wanna. That was some shade. I'm gonna. I'm gonna float myself down and start digging with my extendable talons. Great, okay.

Ooh. All right, so. It's very awkward. It's like a chicken trying to pick something off the ground like one foot at a time. So and as a, so Teryxians do have very sharp talons that are a few inches long and slightly curved, right? Is that right?

Yes. I just realized that that could be like... Really not safe? Yeah. Well, not necessarily that, but alarming. Alarming is more what I was like, oh, I'll help. Fush! So, yes, you fluttered down from the top of the trees,

and the other, the Nintensian family does kind of move out of the way, and they're like, Okay, well, Fennell has been nice. So if this is Fennell's friend, you know, they're just cautiously looking at you. You whip out your towel, and a couple of them scurry away, maybe to go further. But the mama's staying right there and she has her eye on you.

And nod to her. Okay. No, wait, because that'd be weird. I'm just like, and I move incredibly slowly and gently. Like, I have my claws extended and just like gently dig and try to cut at the vines around it.

I'm making it very clear that I'm not like, ah. All right. When the mama sees you doing that, she sees the slowness and she walks over and she gets closer now, as if she's standing guard. But with her, yeah, even with her long arms, she hasn't, she's been pawing and she hasn't succeeded. So, yes, she's going to let you all try to do this. So let me have you both do. Now, okay, I'm going to have you both do a skill test. It's gonna be, let's see, this might be,

I'm gonna make this, ha ha ha. That's never a great sound. When the DM chuckles evilly to themselves. I'm nervous. So this tangle of vines, as you start to dig, you notice that it's very taut. And you're thinking that not only was this created by the wind, but it started

growing after it was all nestled together. And these vines are connected to other root systems nearby. So this is a living, strong thing that you're trying to pull at. I'm gonna have you both roll athletics and might. Okay. Yep, that's untrained, so that's gonna be 40-6s. 40-6s for Sun Hall.

Same here. Okay, both of you. It could be, it's probably not gonna. Yep. I like the little cute baby weaklings are their ones who are like, we'll help. Zero, is that zero? You got one, didn't you?

No, no. That was nothing. Okay, so no successes. Wee. One? One success. And then whatever that is. Okay.

Nothing. All right, we got nothing. So two of you, you with your Talensmont and Fennell with your own roots, you're trying to, this is a root system that's stronger than your own roots. So it's kind of like, human fingers were trying to pry steel a steel cage apart.

It's just you're not really gaining any ground at all. And the mama is watching kind of looking disappointed, but still hopeful looking down at her baby to make sure she's okay. Can I maybe step in? Can I step in and help? Because I see that they're kind of struggling. And I actually have a blundgeoning tool, but at the top of it, it's actually a, like, it's a crest-like blade, the very top,

and at the end it's very cone-like, and it kind of finishes until a fine point, and you have a crest, and the other end of it, it's kind of blunt and rounded. So you could swing it, chop it, cut it. I think that this type of tool will be really good in helping out, you know,

release these babies from the vines, right? Yeah, and you got all the damage types covered, so if you play another thing, we're like... You need to get hit, we're set. Yeah, so should we... Okay. Did I give it a shot? Yeah, please do.

While he's doing that, can I actually use one of my chroma root to try and fry the roots away? Yeah. So let's see. Chroma test. This is our first chroma test. Oh, God. Nice. So you'd like to use chromat test, and you have your bludgeoning tool.

So you step up from where you were standing back with Takma. And you have your bludgeoning tool ready. And the mama's standing steady, and she now looks at you, and she's like, okay. I just give her a look like it's okay even though I can't communicate with her I just kind of want to give her a knowing look that I am

concerned about her kid and her kid is going to be fine well my body language my body language that I've had to live with this mask my whole life so I'm very good at communicating like without words if Spider-Man can have expressive eyes

so can he does he's a very talented can that be a thing That's cool. Yeah. I mean, if your mask can emote, oh wow, that's really cool.

Why not? Does Udos's mask? I support this. Let us know in chat. It's really cool. Just that. I think that would be cool. He's a skyborne.

I would love that. Yeah, I'm so into this. I'm into that. Your mask is real good. You know, I think your body language goes a long way and so that, yes, your mask can almost seem to change what it expresses because your body language is so humble and warm. And also your compassion role goes a long way.

Because this is your fellow Baniari and you and now Mott have clearly shown to help. Yes, this mama Nintan Sien is, she's still, you know, she wants her baby out of this trap or whatever it is. But she, yes, she's watching you vigilantly and she's not doing anything. She's just watching. Okay? So now you want to do root. All right. So now for root, you're going to roll compassion and vigor.

See, this is okay even if I shatter. Well, you shatter. You have how many? You have a lot of spirit points. I don't think you're going to burn through your spirit pool magically. You have a lot of spirit points. I'm just going to use all 15. Oh, 15.

Oh, my goodness. Two. All right. And it costs two. And it costs too. So great. So now on a chroma test, when you roll a, whatever number you roll on your spirit die is the cost of the chroma test. So you just spent two of your 15 spirit pool points.

And you had a luminous success with two sixes, two eights, actually, right? So you get very tired from trying to dig at this vine. And you know when something is stronger than yourself. you know and respect all of the life forms on this shard so you realize that you have been vested by this vine. So you step back and you get up on your haunches and the tree is extending up above you. And at the very tips of your, you said willow tree, kind of looks like a willow tree. Yeah, it's like a willow birch tree. At the very tips of the ends of your leaves and branches, you all start to see a very soft green glow.

and that green glow extends from the tips up to the top of your branches and down the trunk, and it encompasses you. And as you feel this light of compassion overcome you, do you want to describe what else happens? Do you want me to? The roots underneath her that she uses to walk begin to grow longer and thicker, and they also start to, it's like the green glow, pulses and radiates down towards her feet and in through her trunk. And these roots that are glowing and getting stronger and bigger, like reach into the tangle

and start to pry it open and like cracking an egg. So you get a good, you get a pretty good grip on this. And now you, with the light of the chroma refracting through you in this very specific way through with your compassion and your vigor, you take hold of a section of the vines and grasp bond to it. Now with a luminous success, you're going to be able to get a strong but momentary grip. Now, you're not going to be able to pry open, but your companions see that you have this really good grip on it.

Okay. Okay. Then I'll just hold it in place as much as I can. Yeah, but now you have like a solid handhold or root hold. I think I'm going to go in and grab it because I feel like out of the four of us I have the most human hands Okay what are you grabbing

Okay that's specious First of all That's super specious And I'm not going to stand for that Wow Nothing wrong with some Yeah he's like Oh look at me with my opposable thumbs

Sure need to work on your compassion It's okay Is it far down Or is it like you've moved it and there's the creature or is it like a pit? So she hasn't moved it. She's gotten a good grasp and it's not far down. It's actually on top of the forest floor,

but it's almost as if like on the East Coast or anywhere else with fall, you've raked. Someone has, the wind has raked a bunch of leaves together in a pile, but this is vines and then they kept growing and they got very dense. Right. So, yeah. It's not deep.

It's not just tight, yeah. It's tight and there's maybe two layers of vines. So it's not, yeah, it's not very deep. So you have a grip on it, but you haven't pulled it open? It's like it somehow it got under it and it's, it's, it's as if it's in a cage of vines. Okay. Yeah. Sorry, what did you? But she got a grip on it but didn't open it?

Right. Okay. She has a good grip, but before the both of them were just kind of clawing at it and not moving at all. But now there's a good handhold, at least. If only one of us knew how to use simple machines and mechanics to leverage their abilities. I think I can. I mean, I've got a big stick. Maybe I can pull it up and then you guys can pull it up with me

and we can all pull it up together. Teamwork. Yeah, should I use my weapon for this or do you want me to just use my hands? As long as you're not too close to the baby. Let me give you more description too to help you make this decision. So you see that fennel's roots have gotten a good grip

on this like, oh goodness. No. Oh goodness. Did you just say burn it? What? No, I whispered it to my son. and not viewed, please don't enjoy. Void shaman monk, void shaman monk is gonna void shaman monk.

Shamank. It's all about darkness, right? You're right, I wouldn't do fire. I would suspend it in the void to, yes. Yes. I want to talk about how you help things. Just because you're afraid of the darkness

doesn't mean it's not helpful. And how you respond to constructive criticism. Okay, but I'm right. So you all see that fennel has this handhold, and fennel is trying to pull, and trying to pull backwards. Oh, we do a tug of war. Your legs, fennel, are just kind of slipping in the forest floor. It's just too soft for you to get a good,

and even though you have a big tree as part of your body, you don't have much mass to work with, so you're just kind of slipping. And that's what you see. Should we assist? We should. We should help her. I say we yank on her real hard.

Can you cut the vines? Oh, wait. Now, if I were to cut the vines, would that do any damage to the tree? Would that... No, near where I'm holding. Okay. Just near where I'm holding.

I'm holding them up for you so you can snatch them. Just chop, chop. Slice it right down? Yeah. Okay. Well, what if we... Hear me out.

Mm-hmm. What if we just help you pull, and then we'll pull back the roots without having to maybe stab a child? Just an idea. Or hurt whatever this is. That's always good. Sure.

Pull me. Yeah, like I said, this right yanker real hard. Don't hurt me, bees. I'm very small. I can't do anything. Is my jewel dragonfly anywhere nearby? The last time you saw your jeweled dragon,

It had found a beautiful grove that had some honeysuckle. And honeysuckle is its favorite flower. I don't want to bother. Dude, me too. Onion has the best honeysuckle. They're very big and they have a lot of flavor. So Matt will be distracting.

He's probably wasted right now. Ronk on honeysuckle. We do it too. It's the name of my first album. It's drunk on. Honey suck. Oh. Be it, baby.

So what would you all like to do? I guess I'll take my, I have a large staff made of, the overlight equivalent of black walnut with one singular yellow ribbon tied on it. So I think I'm gonna wrap that around, fennels, with the largest mass, if that's the torso of, or if it's part of the tree below you, I'm not sure, but whatever I feel is the most,

most surface area, I'm going to wrap it around that and then with both my hands sort of pull back on that. You're getting behind fennel with your staff holding you both together? Yeah, for better grip rather than just like grabbing her waist, I guess. Okay. So you're not using a chroma, right? You're just doing this physical task. My cromas would make everybody insane.

Well, then let's not do that. Hi, Dad, please. You know what really help is if you just... Nope, no, I don't think so. Let's all just get crazy. And then, I don't know if we're able to, like, work together. Like, if we could, if there's a co-op role, if we're all pulling. Assisted role?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so I'm going to have you roll athletics. Talk about you're going to roll athletics vigor. And then how would Udos help? I don't want to use my blade quite just yet, or my blundering tool with a crest-like blade. I want to first just try to help

by pulling the vines the opposite, on the other side, if that makes any sense, to kind of have an opening. Right? Yeah. Try and, like, pry it. Because you two are on one side. I want to kind of go on the other side

and try to pry it open. So I'll have you do that first as a skill test, and then depending on, How, if you succeed, then that can help your role. Okay, got you. Okay, so 3D8. So, okay, yeah, what do you? I'm gonna do athletics and what should I do?

Actually, well, you're, so you're trying to pry open the vines. I'm actually gonna have you do, because this is more about, you work with your hands. So this is kind of right up your alley to do something precise like this. I want to say craft, but it's like the opposite of craft. On you craft? Let's do craft. Technically, I'm using my hands.

You're using your hands, exactly. Yeah, so I'll have you do... Distruction. I can do that. I'll have you do craft and... You're crafting a hole. Might. And athletics?

Or, okay. Might. Okay. Or vigor. Since you were going to do athletics, we'll split the difference. We'll say craft. and vigor. Crafting is knowing how to put things together

and then take them apart. That is true, thank you very much. So three tens, three eights and one spirit. What's that called? You'll learn someday. Ooh, you got a spirit. Oh, and is that one success? It's an eight.

I see one. Yeah, that's a success. So you have two successes there with the spirit. Oh, you have three successes. So you have two successes and a four on the spirit die, which means since you already have an even number of successes, you can pool, you can add that spirit point to your pool.

So add one to your spirit pool. Or to your, that your, right? Your ain't pool. We're not in combat. Oh, yeah, we're not in combat. And this was vigor anyway, but yeah. Sweet. The fear pools with the might.

Must we want to fight all these nice creatures. No. What? Diddy? So, okay. So that was two successes. So that's a luminous success. Twice.

And now, get back in there. So the two of you are, you are getting in place to pull, and you're trying to find the most comfortable position so you're not kind of yanking on poor Fennell's tummy. It would be really unfortunate if I cut you in half somehow. So as you're, right? It's not crazy. I'd be really counterproductive.

Wow. So you two are kind of figuring out the physics of that. And Udo steps up and I'm going to say, Do you keep your weapon slings somewhere? Okay, you put it back in because you're not going to use it for this. You step up and you crouch down. You're very tall and lanky, so you have to get down close to the ground for this. And you put your hands into this intertangled web of vines, and you feel how strong they are.

And you start to pry them open, and you can feel the vines resisting, but you are able to open them a bit. and the little nitansien that's stuck inside there kind of pokes its nose up at you and and you are you pride it open

a little bit so you've gotten it open some the Nitzan Sien still can't fit out of the hole that you've gotten but it's starting to give way can you cut one of the roots, it might get enough room.

Yeah, I think I don't have a choice. I pretty much have to cut it. Oh, well, we're still got to do our thing. True. We're doing. That was a pre-en. Yes, that's right. So that was successful. You helped to, like, loosen that section of the vines. We're trying to open it on both sides.

Right. So now, actually, so yeah, you loosen the point that is right next to where fennel was gripping. So, yes, that does help you. So I'm going to have you, hold on, what do you have for? Oh, you tell me, athletics and vigor? Athletics and vigor Or I'm at?

Athletics and might? Hold on. I want to swap out one of your dice because you got an assist from Udos. Oh, sure. Athletics and vigor? So how about you add? Athletics and...

For me, I did athletics and... You did craft and vigor. And then let's have you do athletics and vigor. I'm going to have you swap out one of your vigor D6s for a... That was two sixes, a D-8. Just literally one. Yeah, one of the three, one of the three vigor D6. So you're gonna do one D8 and five D6s.

So there's one success and three on the die and then I'll swap out this for a D8. All right, second half of your roll. So two successes. Nice. Okay, so now that the vines are, that strange little nature made vine cage has been loosened a little bit by your friend Udos.

He shifts back to be out of the way. And you now have found the comfortable way to grip each other. And you just pull straight back with your staff holding you together. And that grip that you had, it holds. And so you are able to pull the vine cage open just a little bit. So now we have two small holes that the, the vine cage has opened it, right? Two small holes?

We were trying to make one big one, I think is what our attention was. Because I was grabbing, like, a section and pulling it back. I thought he was grabbing the same section, and he's pulling the east. So maybe he was, okay, so he was grabbing, so if your hands, your roots were there, then he's grabbing like there maybe. Yeah, to like, like, right. Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah.

So he was on the other side. So yeah, so you widen. So now the hole is twice as big. and the little Netentian that's inside kind of like warms its nose out and now it can fit its whole head out. And it's wiggling a little, its shoulders are still a little bit stuck though.

And it's trying to, and the mama is now also like reaching in and trying to help. Still can't quite get this little one out. Get down here and help, please. I have hollow bones. Please, Paul. Please help.

You can see that. The vines are already kind of like, these are active living vines. So, yeah, there's all, they're still, they're all growing and you can still see them growing. And this Nintensian is getting its shoulders kind of stuck because the vines are tightening just a little bit, not scarily.

Yeah. Okay. I would like to fly down from where I am. How much of the baby Natanson is? It's up to its shoulders now. Would I be able to get rope or like under its arms? Like on, it's too tight. Basically, its arms are pinned its head off.

Well, that's why I would like to get under its arms and not be like, hey, let me just pull you up by your neck, poor little baby creature. Now, Fennell still has her grip until basically, You know, Phenno still has her grip. She's still connected. So if you want to do another pull, you can. If you want to...

Start hacking. I might have to just start hacking. Start hacking. Yeah. You can see where it is now, so you can avoid it. Okay. Just keep in mind, too. You got, you both got two, everyone got two successes on their roles.

Yeah. So... It's a hard role. It's a hard role, but maybe... We gotta save the baby. My talents don't do anything. Can I do, like, a folklore test to see if I've heard of anything like this plant before? Sure, yeah.

So, 66, I think, wisdom and folklore. You can certainly try. Are we thinking wisdom and folklore or logic in folklore? So I'm going to say logic and folklore. Okay. All right. So that's 3D6. 3D8.

Okay, no, no that. Not that. One and a flare. All right, so do you want to use that spirit flare right away for success? Yes. Okay, so you got two successes. Now, so Mat-Lahuito drifts down from,

oh wait, you were on the ground already, right? Or no, will you back up? I hadn't actually come down yet. She asked me to come down, but I was digging. Yeah, I was digging. Yeah, that's right. So you come. But I think I gave them space when they

I started to crowd around because I'm like, I weigh about 60 pounds, I don't know what. Yeah. So you walk back up because you're on the ground. Sorry, what is it you're trying to do again? I am trying to see if I've heard of anything like this creature because it seems like we're all, if Fennell hasn't encountered anything like this

and these creatures are being attacked by it, like maybe somewhere we've already encountered a creature from another shard, like maybe I know something about tangling, strangling vines. Yeah, so, okay. So you walk up to this vine cage and you start to look through your, it's not a scrapbook, it's a drawing.

A journal, your journal where you sketchbook. Thank you, that's the work. You flip through the pages of your sketchbook, and you are, something castage at your eye, and yes, you remember that. you saw something similar to this. It was much bigger. And this was an amazing moment that you all witnessed.

You witnessed, actually, they were not there. This is why they don't remember this. But you had hung back on your journeys, and you witnessed a pretty large animal, get out of a cage like this by having basically the other animals that were there held the vines open and the animal was able to wiggle through because it was the vines were held open at the time. Okay. I would like to use beastways to communicate to the mama

that we need her hands as well and maybe the hands of the rest of them. Okay. Great. So beastways. Yep, D8, D10. Here. Talking to animals. That's one. We got another spirit flare. It's pretty much the same as last time.

Do you want to use that spirit flare? What do you think? Use it immediately. Yeah. Okay. The reason I was so stressed out is that I have a very small spirit pool. Yeah. So I'm already facing down all kinds of fun stuff.

Some potential shatters. It was confused as to why I looked so distraught. That is why. Understandable. Makes a good story. Okay. So you, now this is, how would you like to communicate with the Nitenzian? I'm not saying that all wrong.

Sorry, Paul. It sounds great. I would like to. to approach her. And I, like, put my hand on her and then, like, I put my hand on her hand, and then, like, lower myself to the ground and start to, like, mime scrabbling. Mm-hmm.

And then I look at the entanglement and then look back at her. Okay. To see if she picked up on the miming. So she looks at you and then she looks at the miming that you're doing and at the vine cage and she kind of, she puts her hand on the vines like that. And then I do the same and I nod. Okay. So she gets it, yeah.

Okay. And so I look at all of you guys and like... Pull. Okay, so you're still gripping. We're gonna just pull, you're gonna get in there too? Everyone do a row. Everyone do, you all have done a pull roll, so you're gonna repeat your roll, you're together, so you'll just roll for both of you.

Do I still keep that de-8 of advantage? You gave me last time? Yes, and actually I will have you do the same role now that you all are in it. What is it? I think it was athletics vigor. Mine is craft and- Yours was craft, yep.

I'll let go for that again. Not three successes. Woo, that's great, okay. So you got a limit of success? Nothing. Okay, all right. It's all good. You're still holding strong there.

You got your chroma in. All right. I got one here. 17. One, two, three. Three? That's another loop. Wow.

That's really good. We are on a roll. A roll. One. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So that's three successes between the two of you. and you still have that root grip that's holding. And now we have the Mama Nittanzian gripping and you all pull and it's just enough. And the Nittanzian wiggles out and scampers to its mama and all the rest of the family gathers around. I climb in. You climb, no.

Oh my. She's just like, It just seems so nice in there. No. Five episodes later, we're still in the Vine King. Still here making rolls. Do I like it in here? Just leave me.

There's no point without Jenno. It's dark like the void. Fennel's gonna take one of her roots and just slap the rest of the roots and go, I don't like you. I hate this thing. That's a new emotion. I don't like that.

New emotion. Welcome to my, Are you very hateful? Not hateful, just angry. It's powerful. It's a very big emotion. Feels good. I know the tensions and emotions are running high,

but should we check on the baby and make sure everything's? Yes, probably. So you look over at the Nintensian families, and all six of them are united again, and they're all hugging each other and, you know, pawing at each other lovingly. And the baby seems fine.

seems fine. The baby looks okay. Just maybe a little hungry probably because who knows how long it was in there. The mama Natantian comes over to the four of you who are, you are all gathered around the vine cage and she just looks up at you and you can see her in her eyes this sense of peace and deep, deep thanks. I'm going to reach out my little pause for her.

This is a really good day. We should go find your friend. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. The Nizsansian scampers off and you all look around and you realize that it's time for a break. I was like, what is that actually?

Oh my God. Oh, God. A shark break? Oh, God. It's a sharp break. We broke the world. Shatter. We will be back in 10 minutes and when we return.

you will continue looking for Chenu. We'll be back in 10 minutes. Come back. Welcome back to Overlight y'all. What? Oh, is it that five? Is it over doing that? I mean, look at the lights.

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Thank you all, everyone. in the studio and who's not in the studio. Okay, so we are back from our break. And last, last we left off, you all had just freed the Nitanian family's baby from this vine cave cage. The baby did not even thank us. Yeah.

The baby didn't thank you. The mama did. The mom didn't. Yes. She needs to teach those manners. We shared a moment. We held hands. We shared a moment.

And for all you know, for the rest of their lives, this Nintanthian family will remember. you all for this very valorous moment of you all joining your powers together and you even using your chroma powers to help free this baby Nintensian from a vine cage. So here you are. Yep. Yes. Sinal is Sailor moon. Absolutely. So here you are. You're in this dense part of the forest. Now, I do want to, never mind. Oh, I was going to give more information about Takami, but I will let you do that.

I don't know which piece of a break. Spoil all my secrets. No, yeah, yeah. Well, no, yeah, yeah. Okay. So you all are in this dense part of the forest. There's a rocky part on one side, and then there's where you came from on the other side.

And you saw, basically, you're not that far from where the tracks were and are, so you still see those two sets of tracks, the Hamanu tracks, and this, quote unquote, piglet, as you've called it. I mean, us, we've called it that, or just like, just you? It was my.

I heard some people echo it, though. It was yes anded by the thing. Because he documents everything, so whenever he documents it, that makes it official. As long as there's no other documentation of this preacher, its name's officially piglet because that's what I wrote in my journal. There you go. Well, I'm going to write in my journal.

It's called Devil Snort. Devil friend killing, snorty snort. Tusk beast. I like that I'm rubbing off on you already. It's been a few hours and you're already taking, you know, your life into your schedule. You fit in our group really well. Yeah, where did I even get there?

You're out of nowhere. Oh. You suddenly have a journal. You know, I had to document people I met during my mission and be like, did I get it converted? Yes, no, it's really just a check. one of the boxes things, but... So you do seem to be getting along pretty well.

Do you... Do we have a description of you? What do you look like? We know you're wearing... Yes. The robe. So I am from... I'm Harkin descent,

so I'm very much humanoid as we would know it today. But... And normally when you go through the order, they shave your head, but I haven't gotten all the way through. That's why I'm on the mission. is partly to finish off my training as a monk,

so I still have my hair, but I'm mostly in all black, loose, not form-fitting robes, and I have this large black shawl, because on Zenith it's a snow shard or an icy shard, so even here I still feel sort of like a security blanket with it. It's just kind of, I'm always wearing it, so it's a part of me. But yeah, I'm very average height, but I'm very lean and slender.

But you can't really tell with the shapeless rags I wear. But humbly dressed and not bald yet. Not bald yet. Yet. That makes two of us. Okay, so you see, the three of you are taking in the presence of this Zenith monk. And I believe none of you have been in the presence. that was in its monk before.

So, and remind me, did you want to walk, which direction were you walking in? What was the next? We tried to ask them for help. Oh yeah, they scampered off. And they said, no, we need help. No, you stop and help us. We need help.

They got what they wanted and they left. We have not come to a conclusion about where to go next. We thought that we were following her friends' footprints. And now we've lost the tracks. So. I know we're not bounded yet, but since we do have that innate draw to each other, is there a way that I could maybe connect with Chanu on a more low-key level and maybe discern which direction? I just think really hard.

You know what? My constant. Let's see. Let's see what happens. Do you have any chroma that might help with this? No, all of yours are void. The void. The darkness, crushing emptiness.

I mean, if I go insane, I could see another dimension maybe, and maybe the people in the other dimension could give me some insight. Wait, is that a chroma? No, I just, okay. You're really good at this voice. I feel like she just said this out loud during this discussion. Okay. Wait, can we try a different tactic?

You and your friend Chenu are friends, right? Okay, this is where companions. Your bond mate is what you called it. So we have two options. We're standing here at the end of the path and we're looking at rocks and more wooded area. If you know Chenu, she's your bond mate, which direction do you think she would go?

And so when Matt says that, You think, yeah, maybe there is a way, we're not bonded yet, but we are connected. We, you know, our souls are connected or they will be soon. So I'm going to have you roll an intuition, compassion. Okay. Let me just make sure this promo wouldn't work. If I just made myself go a little crazy. Just like a s'nish.

A ghost. A skosh of crazy. A scoge. And if there's a way for me to help, aside from just being supportive, I would like to do that. Okay, okay. How about, so since you, yeah, you gave that suggestion, I'll have you roll first to see if you can give a little assist, a little boost. I can offer her a sip from my flower nectar. I'm not going to say the whole name.

It just gets weird. But flower nectar flask, we'll call it. Uh-huh. I wanna know. Oh, here, just take a sip from my bone tube. My bone tube. Well, why didn't you say so? Of course I wanna sip out of it.

No, what do you mean? This sounds very inappropriate. Of course I want a sip out of your bone tube. Sit my brain. I think I could use this chroma. It's called the crushing emptiness, but hear me out. As a void shaman, I'm drawn to the void, almost in like, sort of this, like, obsessive, romantic frenzied way.

And so I think using this on myself to call upon the void to give me guidance would make sense for me. And also one of the parts of it is compassion. Yeah. So it is about, and might, so it's about my strength to speak to the void and come back from that, but also the compassion I'm sort of holding out to it in a way to convince it to help me to find my friend. This is very convincing.

I'm going to say not this time because this is used during combat, and if you use it with them as your target, with Chenu as your target, I would do it on myself. Do this on yourself? And I could still take the effect. If next we go into combat, because it does have effects. However, I roll, I could still take that in when we actually enter combat. I don't think it works as a combat, though. Combat chroma.

I do, um... Well, I mean, the effects of it are like Target must re-roll their next test using the worst of the two results. I think you need like a target, like an enemy target to use it, though. Sorry. But the void, I love it. But the void. While she's ruminating on the void, can Fennell just get down, like, eyeball the ground and look for some tracks?

Sure. Since she knows. I am going to have you roll, and you're going to be looking for tracks. How about you both roll? Tukma, your role is going to be, what did I say, intuition? Do I say that already outlawed? I don't remember. Who said that?

Ghosts. I know it. Ghosts? Listen, I've talked about ghosts too much. It was intuition, compassion. I think I did say it out loud. Intuition, compassion. Yeah.

Now hold it off for one second. I think you were also going to do a roll to see if you could assist. Yeah. Oh, you're going to offer your bone tube. Well, I was trying to figure out if there was a way for me to help productively. And I was like, oh, maybe this.

Maybe a sip on the bone tube will calm the nerves. It's a little sippy, sippy. Why don't you? But it could be anything. I was just offering a suggestion. And so I was like, I want to use these.

I'll offer my nuts. Is it an intoxicating nectar or what's the situation? It's just flour nectar, so it is both delicious, nutritious, and full of sugar. It's got all the sugar. You can look into the void real. Yeah. They're natural sugars. Okay, Udoz?

That could help me a lot. It's not like psychoactive. I'm going to let you decide whether or not you take it. Well, that's going to do it. Does you make me decide or not? No, it's not going to make it. you have sight beyond sight or some other thing like that. I don't understand consuming things that don't. I thought you might be thirsty and a little bit of sweet relief could help you calm down.

If you need some psychoactive herbs. Sure, Udo. I have some. She's not going to thank you. Really? Do you want a psychoactive herb? I have some. Nice. So Fennel pulls out. This is one fine bone tube, by the way. It's a sash and inside the sash are all these pockets and she just has plants, there's like a hundred tiny pockets inside this giant sash she's wearing and it's just full of plants. So you've been holding out on us. I didn't know that this was what you wanted. But I found it in case you want to see some weird stuff. If I could use that to communicate with the void, I mean, it makes the walls center between me and it, you know?

I've seen a lot of weird things taking this, so maybe... Great. My walls did start talking to me, but I don't think that's what we're. what you're asking for? So what is this leave? Are you going to take it? Yeah, I think I would to try and open up my mind to the void to help me find my friend.

Okay, so this is a psychoactive. Yeah, it's literally just like a weird psychoactive plant that all the bonans take when they're just looking to party. Ayahuasca. Yep, pretty much. Ayahuasca is not for parties. It's for silver-shed. Being into the future.

The future and throwing up a lot. It's very good for that. Okay, so Fennell pulls off a leaf from this little bunch and handsy one. And you take it. You're gonna see some weird stuff. Just drink a lot of water. I see weird stuff even when I don't do.

What is this called? Don't worry about it. Okay. That's a beautiful name. Don't worry about it. Does that get me any bonuses to my dice? I'm gonna say this role is intuition and compassion. I'm gonna have you just roll, do a quick, quick test.

Skill test. And drug test. And a drug test. Do a drug. P in the skull. Listen, she's hippie mom. She's probably a little bit. The overlight drugging crisis.

I mean, ever so one, if we're not getting that, Into that search. Let's get all the drugs in now. We're just setting the mood. So I'm gonna have you do, hmm, I wanna say folklore and compassion. For tracking or for the plant? No, no.

For assisting me with drugs. Yeah. For enabling. Are you a cop? You have to tell me you're a cop. I don't have to tell me you you're a cop. I don't have to tell you if I'm a void cop. A void cop.

What is a void cop? This is the void cop test. You have to tell it. One. One. One. Two. Two.

You have two successes. I gave you the right part and that's a poisonous part. Okay, so wait. Oh, I was rolling my... You did your straight roll. Okay, okay, cool. It just looks like one.

Just one, but, oh, and I didn't get a flare, so... So you got one? And then, yeah. Okay, so with her roll, I will give to you that you got the baseline success. Okay. And so you take the leaf. Good thing I ate those drugs,

I'd really be out of luck right now. Yeah. Kids. Dang it. This is the character I made. Duke drugs. Wait. Okay.

Just to do them if you want to communicate with the voice. You really need help out. Help from the voice. This is live, Alisa. I know, it's live. Oh my God. Oh, my God. Wait, we're live.

We're live. We're live. Smoke bomb. We're live. Another show. We're live. We're live. We're live.

Yes. Okay. Let's, um, So, uh, Takma takes the, the leaf. And then I'm gonna, I'm gonna sit down on the ground and, and enter a sort of, cross my legs and sort of enter a meditative state, uh, to try and reach out to Chenu. Great. Okay. Um, so you've closed your eyes.

You, uh, slow your breath. And I have my, my black meditation sphere too, that I'm sort of methodically. Mm-hmm. Rolling and handling, yeah. Mm-hmm. So as you roll the black meditation sphere in your hands, you feel the smoothness start to calm you. You feel your entire body start to feel heavier and you recognize this as your meditative state that you've reached. And even though you're not bonded with Chenu yet, you do, in the way that you can sometimes feel the presence of someone before they enter,

room or you maybe it's an innate thing you you sense that that chenew is nearby but that's it you do sense that chenew is nearby and you're getting a direction you feel the direction is definitely out of the dense part of the forest and towards the rockiness okay can i uh can i can Can the understanding to me sort of appear as like seeing Chenu's shadow? Sort of if I'm picked, like I have a vision in my mind, it's sort of an, you know, an endless void, but there's like a deeper darkness that sort of mimics that shape that's in a specific direction. Yeah. Okay.

So yeah, when you open your eyes from this meditative state, you see Chenu's shadow as if Cheneu's standing behind you and her shadow is cast towards the direction of those rocks. Might I suggest something? There's no way that I'm gonna be able to make it over those rocks. I don't have wings. So, Tukme, you, do you share this with the party? Yes, yeah. So you say, it's-

I saw Chenu. I know what direction Chenu went. I see her shadow. It's this direction. It has to be. Then we should follow. But there's no way that I'm gonna be able to make that trick. It's too jagged.

You can just climb. I'm going to climb. I don't think it's far. I don't, since we're not actually bonded, I don't think if, if that were not actually bonded, that I would be able to sense her unless she was close enough, you know, so I just not that far. If we were bonded, maybe, but.

Would it be wise of us to all go, or should we just send some people? I think we should stick together, especially if there's a dangerous piece. Piglet running around. I mean, you guys, I know you're being very nice, but you guys don't know me and you don't owe me anything in this, you know, you don't know Chenu at all. So if it's not something you wanna undertake, that's something I understand.

Well, I'm coming. We've come this far. You helped us with, you helped the Natanzanza. You don't have to help us. You helped us for no reason. I don't see, we offered to help you from the start. Right, I just. Right, you're right. I just, you know, in case you needed an out or anything.

No, we're friends and friends help each other. Right, that's what they do and draw pictures. Yes, they do. We've already taken drugs together. That's also true. Yeah, also I'm very high right now, but I have it under control. I get high all the time. I mean, not like that, but.

From my meditative states, so. You're going to fit in very good with us. What do you mean? So at that. Oh. Yeah. And I just like flap my wings a couple times and laugh to myself at my dad joke. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

Yes. I am the count. When your wings flap. You're like a bellows for a fire. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. This is terrible. Bye, I enjoy it. So with that, you guys have this very mirthful,

moment and you decide to walk towards the rocky part. Okay, so you exit the dense part of the forest line. Stranger things. Are we in the upside down though? I was not prepared. They all become weird animal people. You exit the dense part of the forest. And as you saw before, the ground

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podcast new episodes every Friday do you see the shadow it's going it seems like it's going into or up the boulders it's kept being cast on the larger shadow I'm sorry the larger boulder I was like oh no no way bigger shadows yeah that's great she's seven feet tall so that's great um on the larger boulder so maybe indicating behind it is it is Is the shadow slipping under the boulder or is it overlapping? It's kind of just over it, yeah. Okay.

I don't know, it's being cast on the larger boulder there. Maybe it's covering up an entrance to a cave or we're supposed to go over it or there's some limitations to this mess that I'm using, so. Why don't I take a look? I'm the only one who can just leave the ground at will, so. You guys stay staying.

Physically maybe, all right. Metaphysically. Just had drugs. I was, you know, I'm trying to be helpful and I just take off. Okay, so Mott, in the middle of his sentence, I'm trying to be helpful, flutter, flutter, flutter. So Mott rises above the ground

and zips over to the other side of the boulder to see what's on the other side. And sure enough, you do see that there is an entrance to a cave. And so there's a larger boulder and there's the two smaller boulders next to it. And from where you all are standing, it looks like three boulders,

but really it's just the backside of one larger rock formation. Beast Ways for tracks just to see. I don't wanna walk into anything like super terrible. And if there's no Hamanu tracks around here, I just, no thanks. Okay, so, yes, go for it. Beast Ways, Compassion.

What's wrong with you? We got a smart to Rixie in here. Thank you. One. Two. Oh no, that's a one. I thought it was a seven. Yeah. One seven.

All right. We can pretend it's a seven. Are you still high? Yes, I told you that. Sevens look like one. It just makes you focus. So you don't see from as high up as you are, you can't tell if there's tracks on the ground.

You're just a little bit too high up. All right. So yeah, I swing back around like you were right. Whatever you did worked and there is an entrance back there. I'm willing to check it out, but I'm not really great in enclosed spaces. Oh yeah, you have a problem with walls? Well, ceilings more like. I have these dumb little legs and wings and these little chicken arms is how I get around.

So like it's, I can fall along with you guys, but if something goes wrong, I'm basically trapped. You can just perch on my shoulder. Hi-fight. Perch on my shoulder. Let me, hi-fi. We're very short. Is that okay, Udos?

Yeah, I would say just perch on my shirt because we're gonna need you for anything that we encounter. All right, so I awkwardly flutter. Settle on his shoulder. Okay. Start pre-name. Make sure to get me too.

It's like, oh, picking your clothes. The lastress has like a little ticker. The hook. The hook is cleaning out the edges and the mask. There you go. Oh, there you go. Nice. Get the dirt that's settled in there.

Great. So Mott flutters up and rests on your shoulder. And so now the four of you. Did you sleep away for us to get inside? Yeah, there's an entrance around. on the back of the rock, so. Let's go. I'm ready for an adventure.

Be cautious, I couldn't get a sense of what may or may not be in there. I don't know that word. What, there? No. Cautious. Oh. It was a joke.

And so Fennell, as she did before, runs ahead. No sense of self-preservation. Her octopus-like roots kind of swirling in front of her and then behind her and moving the ground, underneath her, and the rest of you follow suit. And you come- Yeah, I don't have a problem with it at all,

so I'll pull it up there. So you come around the side of the boulder and you see the entrance, and it's a pretty nice size entrance. You can't see, it's dark in there. You see maybe some tingees of lightness, so you're at the entrance of the cave and you do see that there's looser dirt, at the entrance of the cave.

Do you want to enter? Do you want to? So it looks like there is disturbed dirt and stuff around the entrance of the cave. In like a fresh grave kind of situation? Or like a... Oh, it means that someone has entered or exited. Do you want to roll for it to find out more?

Who wants to roll? And this is going to be perception. I do think that my... I have 14 spirit points, guys, so I mean... I have, well, it makes Fender. Well, yours are shakers, too. I have 12 right now until I bonded with. Oh, that's right.

You're not bonded yet. Yeah. I would think maybe on the plant, I might be hyper-focused and have a higher attention to detail, so I might notice it. You can all roll. Oh, okay. Yeah, how about you all roll? I'm going to have you roll yours as, since this is your future bond mate,

you can do perception, compassion. I'm gonna say the rest of you can do perception, wisdom. Two successes. Two successes? Ooh, all right, so you already have two. You can bank that spirit point. Can I do it when it's an even number of successes? Okay, because it's not gonna help you.

Yeah, you already have two. So yeah, I'll. Oh, sorry, you can bank it, yeah. I thought you can bank it, so I can use it as. You can keep it, yeah. Okay, I'll do that. Let's do a final fest. One success, all right.

Dueling rolls. Oh, wow. And a flare! What? What? Whoa. That's a really good role. Did you also take the drug?

No. So that was four successes and a flare. So you already have an even number so you can bank that spirit points. Yes. Okay, so, and oh, you got nothing? I only had one success. Okay, one success.

and one's success. Sorry. No worries. Great, great. Okay, so you had two. Okay, you had four. Okay, so you all are standing at the entrance to this cave and you see the dirt,

that brown dirt, it gets looser as you get closer to the entrance. Not quite like sand, but just a looser dirt. The Teryxian and the Oramel, Mott and Udos, you look down at the ground end, It, you know, it just looks like dirt. It just looks kind of like there, maybe there have been like some tracks and animals

and wind that has moved it. You with your compassion role, you don't notice anything per se, but you have a strong sense that Chenu is here, is here, not was, but is. Like this is the right direction. I smell her. You smell her, you sense her.

the shadow is gone but you still have you just feel it and then you with your success you know this shard you know this shard

well and you know how quickly and easily the landscape can change based on what part of the shard you're in you're not in the part that you know but you put your roots near this loosened dirt and you look closely,

you peer into it and you see something. You see another hoof, deep hoof, just one. It seems like there was some wind here earlier. And then you see a partial Hamanu print as well. I'm relaying that to the other tree. Okay. If we go down here, I think we're in for a fight, but I think if we don't go down here,

Your friend is in for a very one-sided fight. We have to help her. Okay. Let's go. Okay. Fennell's gonna walk in but with her dukes up. All right, Fennell's got-brediting. Yeah, all the branches as well.

All the branches are ready, but her two tiny little paws. Oh. I love it. The branches are curled up into fists. Yeah. Put them up, put them up. She'll start crying if she sees it, but that's, you know, she's trying.

This is a very willful Baniari, so yes, she'll, you know, I'm tough. You're like bubbles. I'm very tough. So, Fennell, the willful, brave little Baniari, goes first. And our monk, who is connected

to this missing Hamanu, goes second. We could go together. I think I would have more eagerness, or the same, if not much more, than her to get in there and find. So you both go in and the two of you follow behind? Yeah, I just, I lean down to Udo's.

Oh right, you're on his shoulder. Follow, but at a distance. If I need space, I will need space. Gotcha, bro. How high is the ceiling is really that constricting for? It's, let's say it's about 10-ish feet. Okay, 10 feet. But I can't.

My wingspan is probably like six to seven feet. So they're jagged rocks at the top of the cave. From what you see, no. Okay. No, you're walking in and it's a smooth top and about 10 feet. So you're pretty tall and the Turoxine is on your shoulders, but the two of you together, if you crouch a little bit,

you can clear the ceiling. Yeah, and I'm in a sitting position. I think you're about 11 feet together because you're about seven, almost seven feet tall. Yeah, so you just have to crouch down. You both kind of. Yeah. So I just, I relayed that to him.

in the hopes that there is a more open area, but if not, if something goes wrong, I just basically fall on the floor and that's what I'm doing for that fight. Very useful. Yeah, that's good. So the four of you are now walking into this cave and it stays about this same height

for about 50 feet or so. You're walking down and you don't see any other offshoot, offshoots. You get a little bit further down and I'm gonna have you all do perception. Just say perception wisdom? Let's make it perception wisdom again, yeah, all around. Yeah.

Oh, I'm just gonna give it a shot. You roll like you're dropping a mic. That's amazing. Mic drop. It was a power move for sure. One success. All right, all right. Oops.

Two, three. Oh wait, before you roll, before you roll. Before you roll, before you roll, sorry, I just realize something. You're gonna, yeah, still do compassion. Perception. Yeah, no, yeah, perception. That's the best one. Okay, yeah.

At least it's a success. One success. Oh, by the way, there's a mechanic we haven't mentioned or used yet, which is if you get, what is it, you can always spend a spirit point to bump up to the, to add a success to bump up to the next level. So if you have one, you can bump up to a two, if you have a three to four.

I'm gonna. Yeah, you can spend the point. I wanna spend my brand new point on that and get a four instead. I'll do that too. I just got one from the last. Great, so you both had one success and now you're gonna spend to get two each.

I had, no, I had three. Oh, you had three. Oh great. This is in a seven. All right, so then you, yeah, so now you have a radiant, again, you have a radiant success. Okay, so you both succeed.

and as you're going down this cave, it does start to get smaller. And the ceiling does come down a little bit. So you start to sense, it can only be described as like, there's a glow, there's something that you feel is starting to get stronger, a glow. And this is different from Chenu.

You still feel her too, but there's also a glow a glow that's drawing you in. And it feels nice. It's not ominous. You actually feel this glow and you see up ahead that there is light coming from somewhere. So there's probably some other

part of the cave that's open to the outside. So it feels like sunlight and not like torchlight? Well, it feels like overlight, the overlight. Ah, yes. Yeah. But yes, it's not torchlight. It feels like just natural overlay. Okay.

And it feels pretty strong as well. You feel that like nice, warm glow of overlight. Like when you're standing in the overlight and as a skyborn, you feel the power of it and knowing that you can channel it, that's what you're feeling from here. Cool, okay, relay that information. Okay, cool.

So we're all feeling like comforted by this swelling of overlight in a cave? There's like, it sounds like there's an opening in the ceiling where it's coming in. Let's go see. So, you want to go see what it is? Yes. All right.

So the cave, it continues on in that main path, but then this other direction where the glow was coming from, you turn into that, and it's a little bit more constricted. And so the two of you, you probably will start to hit your head against the ceiling pretty bad here, because it goes down to, it goes down, slowly. You can see ahead, it just keeps sloping down till it evens out at about seven feet. Okay, I tap Udus in the shoulder. I have to hop down now.

Go for it, buddy. Oh, that's sad terradacal. Yeah, and just like, kind of like slay lower myself down. At least you can walk on your feet. I have to kneel down and crawl on my hands and knees. You're right, that is more embarrassing. As I scuttle away. Seven feet. Oh, okay. You don't have to get on your hands. Not yet.

Udo's is very dramatic. There's like this much room when you're so much room in your side. I got it, I got it. Yeah. So is Udo's crawling? Well, if I don't have to, I don't have to. Okay.

I was just trying to make you feel better. You're limboing. That's nice. You're limboleming. That's dramatic. One of those, oh, your problems aren't bad. And playful. It's so fun.

So you hop off of Udos's shoulder and you do have to crowd down more now and you all continue down this kind of hallway into the cave and the overlight grows stronger as you get closer and now you start to see the outline of what you would see

if it's kind of an edge if there was a circle in a ceiling and the light is creating that shadow the hard edge you see that up ahead and as you get closer let's do another round of perception yes you all rolled

decently this time. One success. Okay. But otherwise nothing. Hey. One, two. Ha ha ha. Two.

Let's do a fennel. Two and a spirit flare. Oh, I'm really really well. Yeah. You have one success. Okay, so once again, Fennell is, um, Fennel is the best.

Super perceptive, guys. Fennell is very, Geron, Lynn. I see everything. Fennell is very in tune with this land. And even when she is in a place that she doesn't know as her own parts of the Banyan shard, she still feels pretty in tune.

And so as you approach this hard light that you see on the ground, Fennell, you can see up above. And you're also shorter than everyone. So you can see more in front of them. as the top of the cave starts to give way, there's a large open space ahead. And what you see is...

Nature. You see these spiraling, light, geometrical swirls, dancing. And there are parts of the light that are still... You can't quite see because you're not... in this space yet, but you can see the edges of it and there are all these different colors swirling and it's something you've never seen before.

And it's in the light that's coming down from the... It's like on the edges of the light. I'm gonna go over and put just one of my branches very, on the edge of it, barely to happen. So to get close to it, you have to go into this open space. So do you wanna go into the open space? Cautiously, yeah. She's learned this word.

She knows what it means now. So you, Fennell cautiously roots herself over to the, and now you all notice that Fennell has been, you know, running ahead a lot today, but now Fennell is moving slowly and very inquisitively looking ahead.

So you all are seeing that. Fennell, as you approach this, the opening of this little hallway you're in, finally you do enter this big open space and so there is one big opening at the top and I would say it's 50 feet tall the opening at the top is pretty circular it was as if it's been carved by water that type of natural opening and the overlight just purely runs through it or shines through it what is coming Over the edges is incredibly, it's just something you've never seen or witnessed or knew to exist in this world. You're seeing what almost looks like a waterfall, but it's made of light, overlight.

And as the light falls over the edge and into this cavern, it's filling the darker spaces with these beautiful fractured bits of overlight that are spiraling. and if you have seen like a seashell or those natural patterns like a fern, those things that have a very like specific mathematical, yeah, the Fibonacci sequence. Yeah, fractals. So the light is doing, is making those types of shapes. Okay. I'm going to touch it with one of my branches.

Okay. So you go over to one of the corners of this outside, the outside corners of the, the outside corners of this. space and you dip one of your branches in from above and you feel this warm gentleness. And you get one spirit point. Oh, I'm going to step all the way in. I just want to feel it. Okay. And she reaches up the branches like she's, when she unfurls herself completely, because she's got a couple of like a foot or something of trunk underneath her tiny little legs, when she unfurls her branches and reaches them up all the way, she's about six feet tall. And she's like pseudo-photosynthesizing right now, just light.

So I love this image. So we have our beautiful, we have our beautiful Banjari Verthad, who is a tiny little red panda that is connected to a tree. And her willow branches, birch branches, are kind of being bathed by this fractured overlight coming from above. Gorgeous. And you feel renewed, you get, you just get this boot.

boost of spirit. I've whipped out my sketchbook and I'm like fiercely trying to capture what I'm seeing. And I'm, I was hesitant when I saw Fennell running towards it, but I also wanted to see if it would do anything so I didn't tell her not to touch it.

You see me as the giddy pig? Yeah. You were gonna do it anyway. It's very on brand for a tracks. I'm very curious. It's very, very, very, very, If I can't stop you, then I want to know what happens. I want to learn from it.

Well, to be fair, he's coming from like a place where he hates Boniari, right? No, I don't hate them. Well, we're friends. Well, are the Teraxian culture. Oh, right, culturally. We do have, we've had some trouble with race relations in the past.

But now we're friends, it's fun. We're friends. Maybe a small part of him still wants you to die. Oh my goodness. I hope not. She starts doing this like, there's a specific dance that her tribe does to like celebrate things where they just kind of sway. Like they're in a breeze and she starts to do that in the light. She's just, oh, happy.

It's light. It feels wonderful. And upon seeing that you were not only not harmed but seem to be having a great time, I take off and try to do a little, some aerial stunts, just kind of stretching my wing. wings out because it's been a while, so I haven't just been flying, I've been hanging out with everybody. Dance parties.

All right. So I think that would be wind lore and then. Only if there's Kylie Minogue. I guess it's will or might. Okay, so you basically want to fly around this cave. Yeah, I wanna take it in. The cavern. Yeah. Great, and are you gonna, okay, so you,

it's gonna be bad. You crash and you lift off of the ground, having been encased in that small highway, that small tunnel, you are so happy to see, you are so happy to see a big open space with a tall ceiling and the light coming through. So you take up off from the ground, so go ahead and roll wind lore and figure,

or will, same die for you, but let's make it a windler will. I'll roll my beautiful resin die to make it, That's all. One, two. Boom, and a free spirit point because I'm born to fly! Oh, right.

So, and that means that is it one specifically on the spirit die? Yeah. So one acts like a four for Matla lewito. That's so cool. With any role? For him when I do. Why?

When I do acrobatic stunts, because I just love being in the air. And I do, so this was just like a beautiful, thematically tied. tight moment where we get to display a mechanic as well. Yay! Okay, so two and a flare, two and a free spirit point. Two and a free spirit point. Wonderful.

So, Matt, you lift up off of the ground and you start to do barrel rolls around the edge of the cavern. And you're also now bathed in this beautiful fractal light. I start laughing maniacally. And you get a spirit point for the laugh. specifically. Yes. Because you're

flapping your wings, so you have to laugh. Come on over. Ha! Ha! It's very exhausting. I'm so glad that's canon and you can never change it.

It's out there now. Yep. Yep. The internet has seen it. If the internet has seen it, it's just law. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. So Udos and Talk Me. Should we? You see your two friends having a ball. Yeah, I was a little apprehensive at first, but seeing what the light is doing to them, they seem to be having a good time. What we're doing with the light, okay? Consent. Consent is important. Yours to work. It's an okay place, and then it feels pretty good right now.

I'm not responding. I'm still laughing maniacally and just like whipping around to your barrels. I think I want to stretch out. I've been kind of crouched over. and this light will, yeah, do me some good. Okay. Let's jump in the light. Let's sunbathe. All right. So you jump into, do you want to jump into the overlight in the center or the fractal light on the edges?

Oh, man. Let's do the fractal light on the edges. Okay. So you, yeah, so you exit that tunnel and you step into the fractal light. And you remember from when you were a child. child and your, was it warrior father? Yeah, but you're worried. You remember how your warrior father would come home and he would go soak in a nice, like,

a hot spring to ease his tight muscles. And you didn't realize this, but this whole time, you've been very tense. And so when you step into this fractal light fall, you feel that tension just slip. just slip away and you feel renewed and you get a spirit point. Yay. Thank you. Thanks.

Talk, come dance. It's so much fun. Who's creating the largest shadow in the overlay? Probably you, right? Probably me, yeah. I think that's what I would do is I would go, once I see Udos join it. What sort of pose are you?

I think I'm just giving a long stretch. He's creating a lot of surface area. I love it. There you go. So I think what I want to do is I'll go into the fractal with Udos, but I would take up that same meditative pose I did in the woods to find Chanu earlier, but I'm going to try and sit in his shadow. So I'm sort of partially in the over or the fractaled overlight,

but also partially in the shape. shadow and sort of in between those worlds is where I feel most capable and most at ease. So I think I'm going to do that with the intention of reconnecting with that shadow lead of Chenu. Okay. So you're sheltered by the tall Udos. You're basically in his... So if he's standing out like this, I'm sort of down at his feet sort of, my meditation. Is he acting like a shade like a shade for you basically?

That's what I was hoping, yeah. Got it. Okay, so you're not in the fractal light directly. I'm thinking like it's PC. So if I'm sitting under him, you know, a good chunk of me is in the shadow, but then, you know, maybe some is fracking onto my arms or on one of my cross legs or across my, wherever it's sort of missing his. But I am on the edge, so would you be in the middle of where all the light is shining

or are you going to be on the outside? Whatever sits me in your shadow. Okay. Cool. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, you're just inside, if there's that hard overlight that's not being refracted in the center, making a column towards the entrance, you have stepped out of that, just out of that,

and are standing there. And you seeing the shadow he is creating now behind, kind of close to the wall, I guess, you just step right behind him and sit and you go into your meditative stage. Yeah, with the same I did in the woods with my meditation sphere. Great. So you close your eyes again, you slow your breath, and you start to feel, you feel oneness with this space. You feel like in all the ways that the overlight embodies the seven virtues, you feel that you all are kind of one together here in this space. And it's very comforting.

It's very calming. You don't feel it as strongly, like the, you know, it doesn't completely ease you, maybe because you're not sitting in the fracture, but also because you're worried about your friend. But you do gain that sense of calm. But I don't sense Chenow beyond that. Oh yeah, do you wanna roll for that?

Sure, yes. I think before you, when you rolled for it, it was like, compassion and, maybe perception, I think so. Actually, you know what? I'm going to do, I'm going to have you roll intuition and compassion now. Okay. That works for me.

Oh, goodbye. Miss you. One success, so I'll expend, I think it's just one. Yeah, this one, so I'll expend a spirit point to make it too. All right, great. So that's a luminous success. Oh. You get into your meditative state.

your breathing has slowed, your heartbeat has come to a resting pace. And once again, you start to feel Chenu. And you feel her shadow, and it's here somewhere. You know it's here within these rocks somewhere. Cheenu is here. Yeah. It was, it was, it's one-ness. It's fine.

It was radiant. Yeah. A little more. Okay, then after some time doing that, I would explain to all of you. I think, I think Chayna's here in this room or close by in these caverns. I think she's here.

That would make sense, but if she's not, Where would she be if she's not in this? She might be further in. There is more to explore, I think. There's tunnels out the other side? Okay. Yes, there is a, you do notice that there's... Actually, sorry, no.

So you came to the end of that tunnel. You went one way, right? Because you saw the light, you were drawn to the light. And if you go back that way, there was more tunnel to explore. Okay, but there's not an exit. No, this isn't enclosed, except for the open... I don't think she would have gone up there. Is she Teryxian?

I don't remember you saying that. She can climb. We live in a mountainous shard, so. Okay. She can climb, but I think, I don't know, I just don't think she would do that. Well, we should go back. There was another path we could take.

Let's go. Okay, so you want to go back. Okay. So you all feel this, it's, you feel invigorated, you feel boosted. You leave. I did not get a spirit point.

I know. Oh, okay. I just wanted to confirm. You did not. You step out of Udo's Shaden back into the hallway, right? The rest of you leave the various parts of the,

you know, you're doing your barrel. So you had flit it down to have that conversation, or maybe you had it from there. I don't know. I think I calmed down. Okay. I calmed down.

It was like, it was a little tiring as well. Okay. So you flit it down. And so now you all remembering why you're here, you exit this beautiful place. Go back into the main tunnel.

And who is first? What order are you all in? I would be up in front. Same? Pretty much the same. Okay. You two can't alight on his shoulder yet because this is the lower.

But then once you get back to that main tunnel, that was about 10 feet, you still can if you want. But you all continue back down the direction that you had been going. You continue down that path. And you start to, yeah, you start to see that the caves, the tunnels start to branch out into different places,

starts to go kind of lower underground. Let's say there are two tunnels that you specifically are big enough for you all to fit. Can I look for tracks? You sure can. Is that compassion, beastways? Yeah. Perception.

Compassion. Beastways. Okay. That's okay. I will take that. I can do that. No. Wow.

All right. Nothing across the world. I can try too. I don't have beastways, but. Yeah, sure. You all can, I'll have you two do. Yeah, I'll roll on beastways as well. Beastways and then.

Compassion. All six, eight. Zero, six. So, oh, you're untrained, yeah, okay. None of us, no. Wow. Come on. Wait, so the only person who's trained in beastways.

Oh, you two. I have D8. I got two six. Oh, great. I got two six. Was that on, okay. Because I have three D6 and three, I have no beastways.

Ah, okay. So what, which was four? Did you roll with four? Oh, my bad. Yeah, you just get one D6 for something you're untrained in. Oh, sorry. Well, how about this? I'll give you one, and then if you spend a spirit point.

Okay. You can have the two. My bad, y'all. It's all right. We're listening. We know you're trying to cheat. If it's the worst thing you do, we're good. Yeah, yeah.

We're basically part of the open beta test for this. It's out officially, but this is a brand new system and all that stuff. For us, it's our beta test. Yeah. So who all succeeded? Oh, just Udos then. Yeah, great work. Udos, even though this is not your shard.

And even though you've never been here before and you never met the Hamanu, you're remembering from before when you saw the tracks and you heard the description that Tukme gave you. about this piglet, this beast that had, you know, attacked them, chased them, and made them split up. You remember, now finally, it goes, oh, I know what it was. It's a shovel tusk.

Shovel tusk. That's what it was. It was a shovel tusk, y'all. Can you track those? Hmm? Can you track those? I don't have the ability to track them. I mean, you know, I'll have you do,

I want you to do another role. Yes. Boop-boot-boop-boop. Now. Duh. Duh. How did we forget that it was a show? It's so obvious now.

Piglet, shovel toss, same thing. Yeah, very simple. My mask was on too tight. I guess it was laugh flying, so I think, you know. Ha, ha, ha, I'm fine with it. Are you? Very much, though. I want to have you roll.

You're untrained in beastways, but, but since this is a, pyroi animal. This is from your home shard, and you're now remembering. Oh, sorry. Ah, goodness, I keep doing that. No, this is, you study, you're basically a pyroi fanboy. Because you, yeah, you like, might is your core virtue, and you're like, oh, those are supposed to be my people, but not.

So you know a lot about pyre. That's what I meant to say. Yes. And so you remember from your studies, you're starting to remember things about the shovel test. I'm going to give you, for this role, I'll give you the D6 and Beastways. So do a full 3D6 for Beastways and then,

I'm gonna say Vigger. Vigor? Yeah. All right, you got it. 3D8s, right? 3D6 and 3D8. You got it, 3D6, 3D8s, 1. Let's go.

Drop the mic. Drop the mic. Whoa! Really? Anything? Right. Or if you'd got any success? Oh, my guy.

Redo. Well, this doesn't count, right? Yeah, I mean, you can re-roll that. Oh, just that? Just that one. The one thing. Getting green. Oh, Mike, you did it again.

Re-roll it. Three. You got re-roll it again. Thank you, but you didn't get any other success. I didn't get anything, but, you know, it was more for just. But you get a spiritual dice for that, so I will let you keep you. Keep the spirit point. But, yeah, you don't, you just remember now from, yeah, from your previous role, you, it finally hits you, it's a shovel tusk, it's from Pire.

And this, yeah, you just remember that right in this moment. And I know specifics about what it does, how it, I know all that stuff. I know. Yeah. So you know that, you know that it is a very big beast. It's boar-like. It looks like a boar, as we know a boar to be. So it is pig-like.

And actually, you said more furry than a pig, and it does have patches of rough fur on its sides. And as Takami, now it makes sense to you because the scimitar, it's like a curved sword-like tusk that the shovel tusk has. So you, knowing that, and knowing this enclosed space, you could, you know,

maybe, we're all gonna die. Relay the message to them. Relay the message to them. Yeah, you have more information about physically how this shovel tusk might move through this space, for instance. Guys, it just kind of. Oh.

Oh. Like a light bulb, it's a shovel tusk. Shoveltuck just wants to let you guys down. Yeah, you already said that. Yeah, you're reiterating. I thought I was having. We were all there for the first time Did you write it down?

Did you think you said it in your head because I've done that before? I did. This beast is not want to play with. Yeah, you don't want to play with this beast. Then we need to help a friend. Do you know where it would go? Well, it likes to burrow in caves.

Okay. And in the darkness. We are in a cave. Definitely wouldn't be anywhere near the overlight. whatsoever. It hides itself from the overlight, actually. Does it like darkness? Yes. Which is the darkest tunnel? You like darkness. Where would you go in these caves?

This way. Let's go, then. That's as good as it gets. Is you going to pick a tunnel? Towards the darkness. The darker tunnel. Well, if it's a, if it's a, so what we're saying is, is that the pig, the devil fiend, pig snort snort, I think it was, pig-borne, snort.

Devil snort. Made these tunnels. Is that what you're saying? Could be a possibility. So if we follow the smallest tunnel, that would be the freshest one because it's had less time to dig it out. Yes, but the only concern I'd have with that

is that if we crawl in this small tunnel, we're pretty much gonna be defenseless. Battle would be hard. Let's go for the darkest. Right, can we discern which tunnel is the darkest one? Yeah, you can, so you're looking at the two paths, right? And you're trying to see which one is the darkest one.

Yeah, can I use my, my, can I use my black meditation sphere to maybe it channels the darkness, so maybe it channels the darkness, Maybe it's drawn to darker areas or like shadowy parts of shards or things like that is maybe what it's more in tune with. The, I mean, the two tunnels, here I'll give you some more information

about the two tunnels because, so you can see which one is the darker one. Okay. One is more narrow and tall, and the other one is lower and lower wider. So the darker one is going to be the taller, narrow one. Okay. And it's just because of the orientation to the entrance. But is it tall and narrow this beast? Well, no, but Chenu is. I don't think Chenu could fit through the shorter one. That makes sense. But I'd hate to imagine the worst. But what if

Chenu was in the beast mouth and being dragged through rob the case. I've brought up several times that she might be dead. So in that case she could fit a number of places depending on how many pieces of her body had been removed or if she's been sort of dissolved into some sort of paste and is now being carried around in some sort of bucket or you really, you really don't know. I don't know.

I think we should try to avoid worst case scenarios. Udos, we're going to have to talk about tact. I'm sorry man, it's just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm a realist. We all thought that, like, of course that she could go down these caves and pieces, sorry. Sorry. Eini, me, miy mo, one.

If Chinna was alive, she could only fit down this one. She was still alive and walking. Then we'll go down this one. Hava, you sneaking suspicion that she's alive just because I am hopeful. Do you wanna hear more in my theories? No. No.

No. One more. I'd like. No. Okay, so what if? Listen, she's got a lot of fur. highly flammable. I'm just saying.

I don't know what she said, but judging from your faces, it wasn't good. I continue down the tunnel. I was hypothesizing. No. No. You want to go ahead?

Yeah. I don't think, I don't smell like singed anything. I don't think she was lit on fire. It's just a theory. She could have been burned somewhere else and then put it in a bucket and brought you. You're a very, very darkly minded person,

but we're still friends. Oh, great. I really like you. Oh. I don't know why I thought you, no. I've been on the ground. Yes, Matt walks bravely down this less narrower, taller, and darker entryway.

And go ahead and do a perception. Perception. What do I perceive? Perceive. Perceive your death coming at you very quickly from the darkness. Oh, I definitely can. Oh, and just for context, the way that I'm picking. Mot moving is the bird creatures from the dark crystal

where it's kind of like herky, jerky and weird. Skexies. Skexies, yes. Because like my body's just not built for walking, so when I do it, it looks like that. I'm a fan. Like a giant scary penguin. It's a swagger.

One. Flare. Okay. I see, yeah, I see a six. Did I lose a, okay. Yeah, where's the other guy? Oh. All right, so you got one and a flare.

Would you like to use your player? Yes, absolutely. Then you got two. So you notice, as it's getting darker, you do notice, it's strange, but you notice two things. You notice just partial Hamannu prints next to... Partial, which part of the, which, like, what do the prints look like? It looks like maybe just, here and there, just a light touch.

And then next to them you do see more of these shovel tusks. Now you know that to be trucks. Okay. And it's going down. Like multiple shovel tusks. Goh, run. No, no, no. Just the one set.

It has four legs, so it's a lot of them, but you can tell that it's just one shovel tusk. Okay. I call back down the tunnel. I'm like I found piglet footprints and Hamano footprints. We got to, we got it. We gotta go. Yep.

We gotta go, let's go. Do you see any blood? It's pretty dark, not yet. But someday I'm gonna teach you the meaning of optimistic. Because I have a sense of like a dinosaur lizard, like I can probably smell blood. There's almost certainly blood in the air. But I didn't wanna just be like, yeah, of course.

Do you wanna check for blood? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, for blood scent. Use these olfactory senses for something. Why don't you use your beast ways? And. Beasties? Yeah, we'll keep it straight, simple.

Beast Ways compassion. Okay. Even though it's, yeah, yeah, still. Beast ways compassion. Thank you. Spirit player. Wow. I'm a queen.

This is how we're going to decide which shard to go to next. We're just going to drop it and see where I see one. Okay. Did you re-roll that? Yeah. Am I clear? I feel like I was disqualified because I was over-enthusiastic. Enthesism is good.

Missing the dice tray is. Less good, yeah. Yes, that's good. So, no, you don't smell, you, you, you don't really smell anything besides dirt. Yeah, nothing, it's just dirt, yeah. So there's some iron scent in the air, but. Who knows? You're not, you can't rule it out, but you're, yeah.

Yeah. So my not yet was like, no, not yet. Okay. So, um. Yeah, let's go. We got to hurry. Okay. You continue down this new tunnel path.

And it's dark, it gets darker and darker, but up ahead you do see another sort of opening. So you keep walking and need you all to do perception checks. Oh my glob. Wisdom perception? Yes. Oh, God, I have nothing. And yours is the compassion.

Compassion's worse for me. Is it? Yeah. Oh, my bad. Can I do the regular one? Do you want me? Wisdom. Yeah, go ahead and do wisdom protection.

No, but I got a spirit player. Nice. You got a spirit flare? One. Oh, spirit flare one. Okay, I'll, this isn't one. Okay, so I'll use my spirit flare immediately to make it two successes.

Beautiful. Nice. Nice. Okay. Did you already roll? Ooh. I did roll. I got one success.

I did roll. I don't want to talk. Thanks for bringing it up. I got it. I'll use my flare to make it two successes. Great. So you both got two successes with your flares. And so you two two are the first to see.

You see the feet that are dark gray fur. And it's just, it's just, it's, It's in a sitting, you can tell the foot and the leg coming from is kind of in a sitting position, but the rest of the body is beyond what you can see. So the entrance opens up like that, and then the foot is kind of sticking out. And you also see shovel tests with their shovel tests laying on the dirt. And you see a very muscular purpose. person as well.

Hey. Is that Chenu? A muscular person? You see the foot? The gray fur foot. You would recognize this. Is Chenu's foot? Yeah.

But also there's a different muscular person? Three people. Well, one dead piglet, potentially. I hope it's dead. A Chenu and whoever this man is. And something. Well, that foot belongs to Chenu, but I don't know. who that person is.

We have to help her, it doesn't matter. Hello. Hello, hello. It goes down into that open way. The shovel, you can see the shovel tests also on the other side, raise up. Not dead. And that's where we have to end today.

Thank you, guys. Overlight, episode one. Ooh, yes, thank you. That's it. We did it. I want to thank Renegade Game Studios one more time. Thank you so much for letting us play this beautiful game. And you all should stick around.

I believe fan girling is after us. And we'll be back next week at 4 p.m. to find out what's in this little cove? Are the pigless good? Are they demon-horned boar? The devil's. I'm a little nervous. Very large pigs.

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