Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Episode 3: Aloft | Overlight: Fractured Paradox

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

Before the party can depart for Zenith, they must make it off of Banyan in one piece. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi everyone, welcome to Overlight episode three. Yay! Back here, we had a week off because of Thanksgiving, and I hope you all had a good or pleasant or relaxing or exciting Thanksgiving, whatever you want. I have some announcements to give before we proceed. Big, big thank you to Renegade Game Studios,

who are the developers of this beautiful RPG Overlight. Without them, this show would not exist because this game wouldn't exist. Thank you to Quenchai. Maria and the developer names, who I'm always scared of messing up, so I'm going to read it straight off the book. Paul Alexander Butler and George Holland. Thank you guys so much for letting us play this wonderful game on stream for all of our friends

out there. Now, we want you to know that you can go to renegadegamesodios.com to check out Overlight and all the other amazing games that these developers have. Yeah, just check out. They have some exciting stuff coming out soon, so definitely go to their website. and check that out. Also, check out Becca Scott's How to Play and Game the Game on YouTube,

where you can see her and some other folks from around the stream play some of their other games. So you have some homework to do on the break or after the show, go check out Renegadegamesudios.com. We have a surprise. What is it? What is it? Got a know, got to know.

Yes. Get ready, y'all. I don't even know what this is. The crew has kept this a secret from all of us here at the table. and now we're taking off this. We did guess it was a sandwich though, so if it's a sandwich, I'm gonna be really disappointed

if it's not a deep dish pizza. Sorry guys. Okay, I'm gonna, are ready to like for this review? Yes, unveiled, unveiled this. So what is it? One, two, three. My God. That is super beautiful.

It's both being good. Who did they eat or? That is great. Is it carved on all sides? Yeah. on all sides. This is the prettiest dice left I've ever seen in my life.

Is it for me specifically? Do I get to take it home? It's rainbow stained, which I didn't even know you could do to wood. Incredible. Oh, I wanna roll dice in it. Can we, can I? Can we all have a picture in it?

Can we all roll a D20 in it to Chris in it? A D20, no. I don't have a D20. All the D4. I've got to put my yellow one. I'm a spirit. Do a D4. All right.

Ready? Okay, ready? Ready? This is D4. Oh, snap. Oh, I did really back. Guys, we did not do well. Do you change the foam inside here?

No, it's soaked off or bad. The next one's will be better. One of those? One of those? There's. Thank you. I believe this is who made the dice tray. Is that what I'm to infer from this?

Who made it? Thank you everyone at dog might. Oh, wait, you can't even see. Hold on. Yes, hold that up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Every single side. Oh my gosh.

It's gorgeous. Wow, thank you, thank you so much dogmite. And it sits on these like, like it's a fancy bathtub. Yeah. I love a jewelry box. I wanna visit wherever it has these

to put on the roll. Right? I'm obsessed with this distray. How did this happen? Oh, well, we have other people to thank who helps make this happen. Denise and Sacks at Geekin Sundry. Aw, thank you.

Do they see our struggles with our dice? We were making do with what we had. But this is huge, this is so luxurious. I mean, thank you so much. Will it make our dice rolls better or worse? It's better, it's truly better. I'm gonna break it in half.

No. Unacceptable. Yeah, you've heard of shards, that's what you're gonna be. We'll never heard it, we promise. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Well, with that done, I believe the only thing left is to do a bit of a recap.

My evil twin is going to talk you through what happened last time on Overlight. I prefer her. Aw. She has a cocoa tea. Our story picks up where we last left our party, staring down a dark tunnel at the unmistakable figure of Takme's lost companion, Chenu.

The party proceeds down the tunnel to find Chenu comfortably sipping tea and playfully chatting, with the large shovel tusk, whose tracks they followed here. Takme, Finnell, Mott, and Udo's take in the scene. They are standing in a large, cozily decorated cavern. Chenu is here. At her full height, she is a seven-foot-tall ape-like creature. A fancy ape, one might say.

The group also meets the pyrroy whose home this is, Longanum, a pyroi phyrithane, or warrior, who left her home with her tiny pet shovel tusk, Odgar, who has clearly become fully grown since their last voyage from home. As the story continues, we learn more about each character's background and motivation. Now, as a fully formed party, the group decides to go visit Fennell's hearthwood tree, while also looking for the Zenith monk who promised to perform Chenu and Takme's bonding ceremony.

Along the path to the Verthod-Harthwood, Mott's jeweled dragonfly, Pili, finds the group, still slightly drunk from its nectar binge. The group arrives at the Verthod village, and the non-Verthod members of the party are attacked by the Verthod defenders. Their leader steps forward. This is Fennell's brother, Velt. Velt is intensely protective of their hearthwood tree, fearing that it will be destroyed by outsiders like some other Harthwoods have been.

Fennell proposes blindfolding the party members while leading them to the tree so that they do not learn of its location. Velt agrees to this. And so the party travels blindfolded to Fennell and Velt's hearthwood tree. This is the tree from which they were hatched. This is their mother,

and the mother of all Verthod Banjari. Chenu and Takmei are instructed by Fenel to deposit an offering into the tree so that it will bless their bond. Velt goes and retrieves the Verthod elder Jimba so that she can speak some words over the party on this sacred site. Jimba is both a Verthod elder and a Skyborn, the oldest Skyborn anyone in the party has ever met. Jimba says a blessing over the party and over the future bondmates, Tukme and Chenu. She also confirms to them that the Zenith monk they seek, Bend, passed through this part of the shard and his likely already on his way to Zenith, which leaves the party to find him so that he can officially seal Takme and Chenu's union as bondmates. To find out what happens next in our story,

tune in to episode three of Overlight, starting now. Welcome back, and now that we have been caught up on what happened last time on Overlight, we will begin episode three, aloft. Oh, really? So last time we were with our party, They were on Banyan. They were at Fennell's hearthwood tree and got some information from an old skyborn Banjari who told them that Bend, the Zenith monk that you were looking forward

to perform the bonding ceremony for Chenu and Takme was very likely already on his way to Zenith, which likely means that the party needs to make a decision as to whether they will follow and try to find this Zenith monk. You pick up just outside of Fennell's hearthwood tree village. You have said your goodbyes, you have spent a little time there, enjoying more of the scenery.

Velt kind of took a liking to you all after a while. And so now you are just outside of the village and you're on the path. Where are you going? Well, we have to get to, we have to get to where we're going. Oh, I quite agree, although I find it uncouth to request it. Although I would love for you to join that our friends do come with us against their will. You think they don't want to come with this?

I just know that as lovely as this planet is, Zenith is less suitable for habitation. Right, it's a little harsh. Quite, and not everyone has a big furry gorilla to snuggle up to. Wait, I thought that we all have a big furry gorilla to snuggle up to now. Oh. Oh, are we all cuddle buddies?

Yeah. Yes, please. I thought we were gonna witness, do you guys want witnesses? Oh, I would love witnesses. Oh, you know me, I'm so extra. I do know that about you. Quite well. Well, yeah, I think they wanna,

you guys wanted to come with us, right? I wanna go. Of course, I've never seen it. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I haven't seen out there, and there's a lot of, I mean, I already told you why I want to go everywhere, because I gotta find a nut, a specific kind of nut. So I wanna go, yeah.

So wonderful. Well, just like your Hawthwood Tree, our ceremonies are quite ritualistic and very important. So this would be lovely to share part of our culture with all of you. Yes, and oh I hope it happens. I've been wanted, I've wanted to share your mind for so long without any consequences. Right, the way it stands right now, I'm not a fan. It does quite hurt. I haven't reacted as much as you have, but yes, it It maims me when I try to, it maims me.

Right, I know. It's really shocking for the rest of us too. You just, there's silence and then both of you gasp and kind of stumble, yeah, that's uncomfortable. So we shall have silence with no gasping afterwards. Well, unless some else happens. Well, that's true. We just stabbed while we're thinking.

We should find a ship. Oh, yes. There's the shards are too far away to just merely fly. It is. For some of us, yes, certainly it is. My grandfather actually had a feet of underground ships kind of stowed away. What? With different shards, for sure.

But the only problem is that I don't know where all of them are. There might be one here near Banyan. Would it be near a port? I mean, that would seem... Would it be literally underground? No, that for sure, probably. Maybe in plain sight, you know. A port is a place where we could check out.

I mean, that would make sense, you know. So we should have had to a port so you can reach out to your contacts. Where would your dad have put it? Or some blue collar front yard, maybe. Blue collar. Are we gonna be seeing a seedy underbelly of the city? Excuse me, we don't have a seedy underbelly here.

There's literally seeds everywhere. Yes. And you all have bellies. It's true! Very hard to believe. There's nothing untoward here. We're all very nice. We don't have any seating under. Actually, my grandfather did tell me of this underground that does exist in Banyan.

I still am new to it. I don't know much about it, but I do know if we talk to a patriarch, someone like of, from your, I don't know from your tribe. Like Jimba? Jimba, okay, that rings, okay, that's starting to ring a bell. Okay, so Jimba. We just talked to her. Hot Hops. Yeah, she was the hot tub.

She performed the prayer over all of us. She was a hot tub. That's right. She's one. I think she actually, yeah, she actually might be able to get us in contact with this ship and also with the, yes, with her. Stay here, I'm gonna run back in

and I'm gonna say hi to everyone really quick, I promise, just really fast. But then I'm also gonna say hi to Jamba and talk to her. Oh, thanks. Yeah. So Fennell, so you run back into your village? Okay, so you are very excited because you get to say hi, invite everyone again before you leave the shard.

And so your roots are, you're almost tripping over your route to show excited. But sure enough, you get to the entrance of your village and the Verthod defenders all see you running in. They're like, oh, oh, hi, hi, hi. Hey, yes, but I love you and I'll see you later. Oh, I love you, Fennell. Bye, bye, bye, bye, okay. So you run past the defenders who are in their posts. And where exactly do you want to go?

I want to go find Jemba, if I know where she's going to be. You certainly do know where she's going to be. So you, outside of the entrance of the village, there are all of the pods and huts that everyone lives in, and some of them are sheds where some baby nuts are being stored until they are ready. to either plant elsewhere or hatch. And so you run past all of these little huts and into a bit of a dip in the forest. The ground gets lower, softer, warmer.

And this is where you know to find Jamba. She has a special hut in this section. And sure enough, you come upon her hut and you see steam coming from the top of the hut. I hope she's making tea. Yes! It's fennel. Oh, fennel, I knew you couldn't stay way long.

And you hear her roots shuffling on the forest floor as she slowly makes her way to the door, slowly. She's my favorite. And so finally she opens the door. Fennell. Don't tell me you already went to zenith and back. I totally did. You did?

No. Oh. Because I had a question. So you remember the guy in my party that has the fake face on, the mask? Oh yes, that Ulramel, the tall, tall, allramel one. So he, his dad and he make a lot of boats, ships. And he said his dad hid a boat on every shard. And there was something about seedy underbelly.

But I don't, would you have any idea where to look? for a hidden ship? Oh, well, Fennell, I never thought you would be talking to me about a seedy underbelly. I, well, I didn't that it. Oh, I know, I'm just messing with you. You're a grown-up now. You can know these things.

I am a grown-up. There's a lot about Bunyan that you don't know. Oh? But I will tell you that yes. I do know of a seedy underbelly where someone can find a ship. Where? Well, you're gonna have to go to the other side of the medallion fields.

You know, remember where that is? This is the birds and the beast hog. Fur funnel. The medallion. Just like on the other side of her flirting paper, like CDUFidelity. Medallions? Question mark, this is in the 70s.

Now that you're in the belt. So the medallion field, do you remember where that is, right, child? I think so, yes. All right, once you get to the medallion fields, you're going to cross them. Uh-huh. And let's see.

Jimba sticks her head out, the door and looks up at the sky. It looks like we're about in the time of the cycles where you will get there and it should be nice and bright there. You won't have to traverse that big open field in the nighttime. It can be kind of scary sometimes. You never know who might be lurking around. Well, I'm easily scared, so that's good. Okay.

Well, you're going to get to the medallion fields and you're going to cross them and on the other side of that, that is the edge of the Banyan Shard. Okay. Be careful. It's very windy there. Have you ever been near the edge of a Banyan Shard? Once. I didn't like it. It's very scary. It's very windy.

I went there once and I almost caught ill because of it. It's very windy. Oh, boy. I had to bundle up. It was very dangerous for me. You know I get sick very easily, right? I do. I know.

My roots get very cold. and I can't move them very well. So that's why I need your friend to make me that hot tub. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. I just want to make sure you remember that.

Oh, I remember. Of course, I would not forget a hot tub for you. Oh, thank you, Fennel. Yeah. There's a space for it right over here. Do you see right there? There's space for it. Okay.

Well, I'm sorry. Enough about the hot tub. I got distracted. I know. I get distracted easily, too. Oh, yes. Do you want some tea, by the way? Yeah.

Wait, no. Are you sure? I got me, yes. Okay. I really want some, but I gotta go fast because my friends have to go through the ceremony and I'm really excited about it and if I stay here and get some tea,

then I'm gonna stay here for a long time. That sounds like you shouldn't do that then. Yeah. All right. Can I get some to go? Oh, yes. She kind of bumbles over to her little kitchen area and pulls out

a hollowed out acorn and takes the tea kettle the tea kettle from the stove. The bun is made up. Don't have to say. And she pours you a little to go of tea and puts the top of the acorn on top. Here you go, chat. I'm so excited.

Okay. Oh well, it's been so nice to see you twice now too. No, I didn't expect to be back so soon, but now I gotta go. All right. Oh, is there anyone specific I should talk to once I'm on the other side of the medallion field? There is, hmm, from what I remember, there is a banyari there who helps to ferry people away from the shard on that cede, underbelly ship. So once you get there, there should be someone, some banyar. I can't remember now which folk they were.

Was it the nittance? No, they were too small. And she just starts muttering to herself and trying to remember. Do you know a name? A name? I barely know my own name, child. Oh, you know your name. It's Jimba. I know. Okay.

It's hot tub. My name is hot tub. Our village elder. Hot tub nut. Oh, my God. Formed up. Wait. No.

No. Oh, we broke Vana. It was the hot tub. Just saying it's the worst idea I've ever. Okay. I think I have all the information I need. I will remember your hot tub. All right.

So she reaches, so her silver gray leaves reach out towards you and kind of scuffle your little cheekies. All right. Well, I hope to see you again here sometime. I love that you're an adventurer. Oh, I'll miss you too, darling. But you know what? As a skyborn, I understand you have to.

You have to travel and find the world yourself. I'm an adventure now. Yes, you are, Fennell. Just don't remember where you came from. Don't remember. Don't forget. Don't forget where you came from. I won't forget.

Don't forget you ever lived here. Don't up. When I get back, you remember who I am. If you remember too much, then you won't do what you need to do out there. So don't remember too much, but do remember a little. Wise lady. Yeah.

You figure it out. Okay. Don't overthink it, go on. I'll see you. But think a lot about it. Don't overthink it, but think a lot about it. I'm just gonna run right back. All right, so Fanon just runs out of the hut

and runs back onto the path and out of the village. Bye, bye, bye, bye, be safe. But you say, Fenal. Oh, is it like the opening of like Beauty and the Beast where it's like Bonjour, except for it's, Ovo. I love you. Yes. Ova, Ova, Ova,

except in by, If that's a language. You scuttle your little roots out back onto the path and you find your party and- Okay, so I think I know where we need to go. I don't have a name of anyone to talk to you, but when I said CD Underbelly, Chamba told me to go across the medallion fields

and towards the edge of the shard. Is it illegal what we're doing, by the way? I mean, the word CD Underbelly is thrown out quite often. Are you really the one to talk about illegal? Didn't we do the whole thing about the road? I'm not shaming anyone. I'm not crime shaming anyone. However, I just want to know what I'm getting into.

Why is it matter? Laws are just constructs. And I've never committed a crime before. I wanna be a criminal. No. I think it's a right word. Yeah. Oh, I thought it.

Criminal. Okay, yeah. That's, huh. Well, if we're all blindly going into a seedy underbelly, I mean, I'm not going to stop us, but... I don't really think we have a lot of bad doers on Bonn. See, these underground ships, from my understanding, were placed when there was a Teryxian Boniari war going on.

And so the Trixians, being the swan ones that they are, they actually plan to have... Excuse me. Well, they were just offended by this conversation. These are the facts. This is the history. I'm sorry. This is... I am very...

very good at brain things, thank you very much. No, I know. You are, you are. Not to be taken. Personally, I just wanted to let you guys to know that these ships were placed around each shard as an escape route. As a temporary, well, not temporary,

but as an emergency escape route. But as we are no longer at war, they're just for travel and everything? Well, some of them are. Some of them are undiscovered. Some of them are hidden in plain sight. Some of them are not functional. Would you be able to operate one if we found it?

Sure. Really? Yes. Oh, you can do that? Definitely. Can you imagine if my tree was a giant rocket ship? It's not, but it becomes. You need to, yes, but I just urge you to not even what if that, because Mr. over here is going to carve it up and make it into a ship if you

if you hypothesize a little much. You sure? I would love to see that. No. Look, see, now we're all thinking. All right, let's go. Let's get you a little further away from my tree. Let's go.

So as you start to walk down the path, and where exactly are you going? Medallion fields. Medallion fields, great. So Fennel knows the way to go, and you start going that way towards the medallion fields. And on your journey, you notice some more of those strong, strong vines.

By the way, Longano and Odgar are also with you and just along for the... Are they coming? Did they plan to come to the next shard with us? Well, you haven't discussed that with them. But they are just with you. They're kind of out venturing with you. We're going to pass through another shot on the way up, though. Because we're on Banyan now, and then we're going to move into another one, and then

Oh, Quill, we're going to pass over Quill and then get to Zenith. What's on Quill? My home for one. Oh, that's right. Sorry. Yeah, just, you know, forgetting the race that you guys been intertwined with for generations.

Because I just want to be friends with everyone, all right? I don't like to think of anyone as an enemy. And they'll love you there. Cool, really? Yeah. Do we really need to pass by Quill? Do we need to stop by Quill? Can we just go straight through?

Well, no, but I'm just saying that Quill's on the way. Oh, okay. We should probably. Yes, I'm just saying we're not going. just one shard up, we're going two shards up and quills the... Quite a journey. It's a flyover shard. Stop there.

Quills of a fly over shard. That hurts a lot. I don't know we should stop there. I mean, it's just the base of knowledge for all of the shards. But you know, flyover, that's fine too. Yeah. Everybody loves libraries. It's fine. I get it. I want to go see a library. I really like books, but I don't think they would really like me there. I'm sure they would.

We're friends. We are friends. Oh yes, and all of your vote-old friends didn't attack him. Yeah, because we're friends, but I don't know if everyone on your shard thinks that. We're big on discussion and logic, so if I explain the situation to anybody,

they will accept my reasoning. I just don't want to die. I think the main thing with knowledge people is that you have to answer their questions with questions. Really? What do you mean? Whoa, he did it. Well, let's, if I were to answer every one of your questions,

would you have anything left to figure out? I don't know, that's the question we'll have to, dang it, you got me by a homoone. Excuse me. You surprised. I'm just, I'm very surprised. But wondrously so. It just makes me more excited to travel the shards with you

to be outfoxed by a gorilla. Well, you have to understand. Well, no, not. at the moment, but when two minds become one, you will never, ever beat us. I don't think we're, were we trying to fight them? What are you talking about? I don't wanna fight any,

no, I do wanna fight everyone, but I also love everyone. It's really weird. I know, it's complicated. My instinct is that everything's a competition. Yeah. But almost in a fun way. Like who could be the nicest?

That's so stupid. I won't. Oh, hey, Look, longer, you hear Longano behind you bringing up the rear, just goes right off the, just the edge of the path and picks up an armful of vines, the dead vines. You wanted these, right? You wanted some strong vines?

Yes, I did. Well, this is how I usually find them. They're really good for weaving. Yeah, well, and you all have your own ropy vines. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Not these vines, but. I mean, mine are attached to me. Oh, true, true.

All right, well, yeah, I would carry as many as I can, really. That makes sense, like extension cord cables. Yeah, I just kind of rope them up on my shoulders. What are you gonna do with those? You gonna make something? Hey, I, well, maybe, maybe Longa Noble will teach me how to make, I don't know, didn't you say you made rugs out of them

and all kinds of doilies maybe? Fun little woven things, or maybe just rope. I could show you how to make rope. Yeah, sure. Aren't they already like a rope? Oh yeah, are they all ready like a rope? Yeah, but if you weave them together, they get incredibly strong.

What's the suspension weight? I don't know. All right, but strong, huh? All right, let's make some ropes. Hey, Longano, are you gonna come to Zenith with us? Longa no looks at Odgar and Odiger is just kind of pleasantly lumbering along. I don't know, I mean, I don't know, I don't want to impose.

I mean, Odgird's really heavy, okay? O'Dgare's really heavy. You're happy to have you? I would just like to point out that Oudgar is from a warm shard and Zinid is the opposite of that and there's distinct possibility that he would freeze to death almost immediately. Oh yeah, no, no I don't want

Odgar to freeze to death. It's a good point. They could just make him a really nice coat. Out of the vine. Yeah. Oh. They probably provide good insulation. That is how many folk,

actually sustain life there is they don't use their natural coat. They have an additional, I don't need additional coating, but. You have a built-in coat. I do. It's very nice. I mean, yeah, I guess if we can make a coat for Adgar, I'll have to make my own, too. I think about it, and she looks down at her, like, leather onesie. Well, maybe we could buy one.

Maybe buy one in the seedy underbelly. I don't know if they even have stores. Well, we kind of just trade things here. We don't really have a currency system. I don't have any coins on me, but I have a lot of berries. Well, maybe we could trade rugs and rope for coats. Ooh, let's try that. Let's do it.

Do you think one of your peoples back and construct like a coat made out of leaves? Go back to Jimba real quick. I think that's right. We're already like a ways away. Yeah, you're like, let's say you're like, Let's say you're a couple of hours into your journey at this point.

But what did you wait that long to ask? Like, are you coming with those? What's happening? Longa's been, like, selffully following, like, she said goodbye and was in the same direction. Yeah, she's like traveling along, but like, weird shrugging. Like, I don't know, I guess, yeah.

She never stopped shrugging. Yeah, she's shrug emoji girl. That's long ago. Strug-a-moji girl. So you continue on your journey. Peely is flying above the path. Has he sobered up from his binge at the base of the tree? Yeah, he hasn't seen any nectar in a while,

so he's a little grumpy, actually. He and I have to have a talk about his addiction. This is getting really out of hand. It happens every time we travel. Do you say that to him? Or do you say that to... Yeah, I've flown up and just having like a really somber conversation with him

about how, how, what, Whenever anything happens, he's always off getting wasted on nectar. It's like, I might need you sometimes, bud. Peely responds to this with a squeal that you recognize as him saying, you're not by dead. And I sigh, and I hold out the nectar tube

for him to take a sip from like, I know. But just keep it under control, okay? I care about you. And then I head back down and join the crew. But I'm gonna maintain a little, like, hover distance. I'm tired. Like, now that we're out and going for a long walk,

I want to stretch out my wings a little bit. Oh, nice. Great. So you stretch your wings out and fly above the path and just enjoy the beautiful open air. It's a nice over-lighty day, sunny, over-lighty. How do you say that? It's a nice bright day.

Vibrant. Yeah, vibrant. You can see, like, the over-lighty. dappling along the tops of the trees around you, and you're just really soaking in. Sounds wonderful. Wonderful. I'm going to turn to you and go. So what's like the most messed up thing you've ever seen?

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When the chaotic are on the case. Right now, the look in your eyes. And I just, like, get another 10 feet in front, so I can't look at her. I'm going to scout ahead, talk mud. Good talk. This was a wonderful, catching up with you. I was great.

I said one thing, and then you went away, so I don't know. I can't hear you. It's very windy up here. I'm going to go see. See what Peleys up. Maybe you just show me your notebook, the page where this thing happened.

Okay, and it's like I unlatch, like basically I have my journal just latched to my belt with some leather, so I unhook it. And I drop it down. You can catch this, right? Yeah. Yes. And I just, I dropped that.

100%. Yeah, I'm just gonna drop it for her and be like, enjoy, you read anything you want. It's an open book just like I am. You don't have any secrets? How did that, how did that work? Are you sure? You really did it.

The journal flutters down from Mott's Talon and you can see it flapping in the wind and then you catch it. I'm gonna read it. Yeah, let me know if you have any questions. I hope she doesn't ask me any questions. I'll lean over every now and then I'll be like, that's just a picture.

I think if you look out one of the pages. I don't mean. Oh yes, scribbly scribble scribble. No, flip back to the video. Those aren't scribbles, no look, no look for real. Oh, yes, darkness, yes I see. So what are you seeing in Matt's journal? I don't know.

What am I seeing? I don't know where. Is there darkness? Basically it's documentation, like botanical drawings of all the plants we've come across and sketches of the animals we've encountered. There's like, I started a sketch of Cheyneau, but I was too intimidated and stopped.

I got her hair, but that was in the little. I'm a massive target for creativity. Yes, I would agree. I found some darkness at the very top of this page. It says, no one to talk to, question mark. You can talk to me. It was more, ah. You sad?

Well, my lifelong companion is a dragonfly, so you know, we have wonderful. Is there such thing as dragonfly rehab? I don't know, maybe I could start one. I think if you buried him in the snow on Zenith and left him just to the point of hypothermia, that would really knock some sense into him. I'm not gonna entomb my best friend in a frozen coffin.

What's wrong with you? It's fine. Yeah, not in, not infinitely. You just do it until you see your vision and then you come back. And hopefully you get to keep all of your body parts. Peely squeals from above very disdainfully. I only lost two toes.

He's got a lot of legs. I don't mean he's to be in. His vision is fine. Have you seen his eyes? All those facets? He's not missing anything. You don't understand. So up ahead, Fennell, you start to recognize

that the forest is starting to get thinner and the path is now kind of dissipating and you are at the, you know, where the medallion fields begin. You have to cross this. And she gestures in general to the scene ahead. Yeah, it's like in Jurassic Park, like the reveal of the dinosaurs. Yeah.

You can see, I awkwardly take my sunglasses. Yeah. Just droll it over your face. Don't sing too much of that song. I didn't. They do move in herds. Fennell's branches like gesture towards the trees. And you can see through the break in the trees,

this beautiful open forest with golden long grasses. And it's just the grasses are like, The grasses are like gently swaying and the wind and the overlight is shining on them and slightly sparkling. And it's a very vast field. It's probably like a football field's length. And then on the other side of it, you do see basically sky. The horizon is right there in front of you. And you've made it.

This is after several hours of traveling, by the way, because the shards are all very large. or continents. So it took you a long time to get here and finally you are here at the medallion fields. And why are they called the medallion fields? Is there, are there medallions inside? No, we don't have currency here. Right, are the flowers shaped like medallions?

Some of the leaves are kind of like mine. And you, you- How tall are the grass? The grass is probably about a foot high. Hmm, so perfect Pokemon height. What? What? What darkness do you speak on?

It's me. Can I would like to do a folklore slash wisdom check to see if I know anything about the medallion fields. Search my up here database. My up here. You're not up here. Yeah, that was satisfying. First official role in our gorgeous, gorgeous dice-cream.

One success. One success. But still feels like a million dollars. Nice. I'm glad you feel good about that. I'm glad you feel good about that, the failure. Shade in the overlight. So you try to think back about whether, number one, whether you passed by here before with Fennell

and with Udo's as you were, you know, exploring this countryside. Fennell did show you some key locations, but you can't quite, You don't remember this visually, and you don't remember having studied it before. Well, guys, I don't know anything about these fields. Looks just like any, you know, they're unique,

obviously, otherwise they wouldn't have a name like that, but. But it's past this, is it? Yes, it's all over there where you see just sky, that's where the edge of our shard is. Now, Jemba did tell me that it's a good thing we're not traversing this field at night because it can be kind of dangerous. Can I try and do like a perception check

just to make sure there's nothing's around us? Sure. Yeah, I want to as well. All right. Do some listening and Some looking, some listen. Many of us need like more overlight, like a recharge.

Now would be the time to do it, right? I feel like we got pretty topped off at the cave. The cave? The fractal overlight cave. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm flying in. So this is perception. and wisdom, D8 and D6, okay.

Ooh, I see a spirit. A one flare. So I can make it with two successes. You can certainly do that. Two successes. Two successes. One, two, same. Oh, beautiful, okay.

So Takame and Chenu, you scan, you look out onto the field. You got a luminous success. So you notice that on the edges of this large open space, there are some trees that are darker. They're kind of what you would think of as like evergreen or pine, like very beautiful, like dark green trees. Whereas the rest of the forest behind you that you've left is the kind of more deciduous like shades of oak. I'm probably going to get all these tree names wrong. Maple and oak and you see more variety,

but these are just like dark green kind of broody sections on either side of you. And you notice, you do notice some movement in that forest. And where's the forest on, like we're in the forest that we're in? So you're, yeah, you just exited the path forest like the rest of Banyan, which is like a kind of beautiful green light color. And then you have just turned into where that, forest gives way and ends and now there's a big field of golden grass that's about a foot high

on either side of that field there's this darker forest do i know but not forward forward is the edge of the shard yeah and as far it's like at least a hundred feet or so away well maybe more than it's probably two football field links one and a half football field links always so straight forward is the edge of the shard do i know what tribes or or subsets Yeah, you do, and I'm gonna have you roll to see how much you know. What is it? It's gonna be your folklore wisdom.

Folklore wisdom. Actually, what's your higher rating? Compassion or wisdom? Compassion. Then I'm gonna have you roll folklore compassion. Nice. Getting that D10. Get that D10.

Three. Nice. That's our girl. Nice. I know some things. Felon knows. A bunch of things. That's another luminous success.

So Fennell, you, even though Jimba didn't mention this in her last bit of info she gave you, you start to remember that the medallion forest is a place that Jimba and the other elders told you not to go as a child. And it was because those dark, edgy places of the, edgy, so edgy and dark, edges of the forest, edges of the forest on either side of the medallion fields are occupied by what's called the feldgat yes so the feldgats are not one of the traditionally like baniari folk they are an animal they are a beast that is similar to like an elk very strong big elk they have what some Boniari think to be as an evil presence, something that's very uneasy, that Boniari feel a lot of

unease around them, and they've been fabled to have done some not great stuff to different Baniari folk in the past, which is why usually the Baniari like to leave them alone. Can I use a spirit point to bump up my three, two, of four? Absolutely. All right, let's do that. Well done. Good use of spirit flaring. Not me. Is there like a safe way through this?

Do I know if there's a safe sort of like out of the way path through? So yeah, so right as of right now, it's a straight shot to the edge of the shard. As long as you go straight, you won't go into this forest. With that extra spirit flare, I'll also tell you that the fell gap prefer the darkness. So as long as you're in overlight daylight, they will not enter this field, which means you have until the end of whatever this cycle is to get there.

Okay. We should hurry. This is not really a safe place to be. I think I see something moving in the trees. Don't go into the trees, don't go in the darkness. Just go straight and stay in the light. I just don't know why everybody has such a problem with the darkness. It's fine.

Well, sometimes bad things sit in the darkness. Sometimes good things, but here. And some things, sometimes bad things sit right in the light in front of you. Sure, but in this instance, no. Let's hurry over there. That's really deep, it's really deep, Chanu. Did you tell us about the Felga?

Did you share that you shared all that information with us? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you all heard that. Yeah, that's, high-tailed. I'm stressed out by that, I don't wanna get mulled. in the darkness. I think that was probably the scariest and darkest thing I've ever seen.

What did you see? One of the Felgat killed one of my friends on their horns because they're very sharp. They will run at you and they'll like stab you through the bed. Impale you? Yeah. And then you're kind of stuck on their horns and then you die there.

Do you know if they can jump? Like what's the limit of their vertical reach? I don't know. I've only seen one once and I was very young. Let's just say though, if a feldgat came after one of you, especially after Tocme, I would literally, and it's like my eyes turned a little yellow as I say that. She's very passionate.

Yeah. We should find the ship. Udos and Tukme make a perception role. Udos and Tachma. Sorry, did I, yeah, Udos and Tukme. Yeah. Okay. I did make one already.

Make a new one? Okay. Is that, okay. I have no perception. Ah ha. So, okay. I think you're only gonna. One, two, three.

All right. Nice. Luminous. Can I have, can I? Having this screen here is so nice. And you are welcome to use a spirit point to bump that on. I think I will.

All right, so that's four successes. If you have untrained, it's only 1D6. Ew. Yeah, 1D6, and then your wisdom. The drama. That went really far away. Oh, good to know, yeah, the tray bounces. All right.

Wow, that's for. Is there something? No, there's one success. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Oh, I got one way there. Okay. And that's it. Should I bulk it up?

Yeah, you could use a spirit point. All right. So we have a luminous and a radiant success. So Udos, with your luminous success, you are listening to your fellow companions, chat this out, and you just over your shoulder on the, let's say, the right side of that dark, right side of the field where the darkness is.

You sense something watching you, and you look, but you don't see it. Takme, you have that same sense. of something with its eyes on you, you turn around and you look straight into the eyes of an eight and a half foot tall elk with antlers, and it's in the forest. So it's far off.

But it's undeniably there just behind the tree line, staring straight at you. Its antlers are like multi-tiered, almost like you could hang like Christmas, like that kind of traditional Christmas light elk type of beautiful antlers. and it's very large, and it's just looking at you.

What did you say they look like again? They're, they've got four legs, they're super tall. They're like eight feet tall. Yeah. They got lots of antlers? Yeah. Yeah. They have piercing gaze.

Yeah. Yeah, they look like that. Oh no, yeah. Let's just run, let's go. Can I use my visage of terror? Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Looks spooky. This is our first chroma? What's happening here? It's my chroma, yeah. Yeah, this is our first chroma role of the, chroma test of the... Can I try? That way, leave us alone. Yeah, go for us.

Yeah, you did. It feels me. Of this episode, yeah. This episode, okay. So it's a D10, D8, 3D8, 2, 3D4, and then D10, 3D10. Okay.

Vantage of terror. of terror. So yeah, what virtues are? I'm a might, my D10 and D8, resist, no, D10, I'm gonna do the visage of terror. Lovely. D10 and D8. Okay, here we go. All right, that's Will and might. One, two. You see.

Is that a nine? This one, this one is a nine, so you've got two. 40, 40. 40? Yeah, I say 40 was a success. Yeah. What did I go like two successes? Two successes. Two, three spirit points.

Okay. See, that's a success. So yeah, deduct those three spirit points from your spirit pool. That was an expensive one. I'm getting low, guys. We're gonna have a first shatter. Ooh.

Oh, please. Oh, shatter, please. Okay. I do too. All right, guys, all in on Chrome in this game. I wanna shatter. I want to shatter on MindStrake,

because all of the shit that happens when you shout around MindStrake is actually kind of cool. I get an eyeball and then it starts to leak black fur. Oh goodness. Super creepy. I love it. Okay. So Udo, a big fan.

Was mine Radiant or luminous? Yours, you had two, right? Yeah. So you got luminous success. So once Takame says, does it look like that? The entire party turns and you all now, you do see this eight and a half foot tall, elk looking, evil looking, scary, big, giant elk.

Maybe he's just misunderstood. Udos, you see it, and just on instinct, you're at the drop of the hat, you're like, I got to defend my party. And so you summon up your might, you square off your shoulders, and this red haze starts to kind of float gently over your whole body, all of your muscles pulsating with it.

And then you open your mouth and a street, of yellow essence spirit also floods from your face. And what else happens? And then? Yes, I am. What does this look like, I should say? Oh, okay. Well, it looks pretty frightening.

It looks as though like gases of some sort are coming from different orifices of my body. And they're different colors. Yeah, it looks gross. All of them. Just coming out the mask, coming out the mouth, You know what I mean? And your back is turned to the rest of the party,

so they don't see this face on, but they can see what's happening from, like, behind and from the side. Okay, okay. It's slowly creating this larger elk-like figure that's way bigger than the one that we're looking at right now, and the gases are kind of forming the shape of the elk with the arms, like with the antlers, and then the eyes are actually going to be this piercing yellow,

and it looks back at the elk. Oh, good idea, make it a friend. No, man, this is a bit of terror. No, this is like Elf is fighting each other. If we have the strongest. This is like my hologram. This like gaseous forming of elk form, it is much larger.

It's probably like 12 to 15 feet. So it's a good four feet higher, taller than this elk. and it approaches the tree line. The elk, the felgat sees it and it turns away and then disappears into the forest line. That's right. That was super spooky.

Can you teach me how to be spooky? I'll be spooky, too. I'll try. Alright, well crisis averted, I guess. Let's go. You're welcome. Thank you. But again, I still maintain

If one approaches or kills or hurts any of you, I shall rip it apart and break its antlers like they were mere fingernails. Ow. And then she'll bathe in its blood. It's quite beautiful actually. Yes. Okay.

So metal has run ahead, right? My wife's bib shall become ready with vengeance. Well, I'm ready to continue on after that. Do we find this ship? Maybe you could put that in your journal. Yeah, I'm gonna, maybe not the blood bathing, but I'm definitely in a document. That is the best part.

So Fennel, otherwise, Fennel has run ahead, everyone. Just so you know, Fennel is in the field right now. Vanilla. Fennel has run into the field right now. Are you all following or? Yeah, overhead. You're overhead?

About 20 feet up in the air. After seeing that, I'm like, no. Like I want to be out of range of anything just on the ground. All right, so you're, you're going, yeah, you're going straight down the field. It is a large field. I'm terrible.

I should know how long it would take to cross two football fields. You are terrible. If we're running. If we're running, let me see, like how fast. I mean, I'm a girl, I'm real fast. You know, because I can run 40 yards. I can run 40 yards on like six seconds. I haven't run a single football yard since I was like 16.

Yeah. I mean, we could cross it. I want to say two football fields in under a minute. Walking? Yeah, no, we run really fast. Why are we running? Yeah, 200 yards, I'm gonna say like, yeah, minute and a half. My instinct is to run, but if you're walking,

then I'm gonna like yo-yo back every once again. Why are we running the thing one away? That's true. But there's definitely more. She said Felgett. That's a multiple. I am power walking. So Fennell's power walking.

Who else is? Doesn't even exert you. Where are you to let go fast? Depending on what Talk Me is doing, my instinct just to run. So if Tagme is just like casually walking and strolling, then I'll yo-yo back every once in a while to check on. Okay, so Takami, you're strolling in the back?

Like, there we go. Yes, and we're moving, we're going real fast. I don't understand. I think I'm right next to her just because we're kind of on a, we're on the hunt. We need to find this shift. Okay, so you two are in the front

and then you're yo-yoing between the different groups. And I'm flying overhead. You're flying ahead. I think, okay. Takami is more interested in, and like, keeping an eye on the tree line and keeping like her wear abouts of like the grass around her, then she is moving fast, and I think it's difficult to

do both those things. So if that means she has to come in, I don't think she's like dragging her butt or whatever, but yeah, but you're, yeah, you're, I'm not going to run because I think that would break the concentration of trying to stay aware of this. Okay, so you're keeping lookout kind of in the back. Yeah. Okay. Um, so as you, uh, are crossing this field, you're all, you're making pretty good progress. Uh, you don't see any more fell gaps. Um, and you do start to notice some little smaller, like smaller little animals in the fields. One of them looks like a frog, but looks like it's made of leaves, which is very strange, and you kind of see a family of them hopping around and all over. You also do see some flowers that the

center of them looks like a medallion, which is possibly why this is called medallion fields. So as you're making your progress... Can I collect one of those? You sure can. I definitely just like... grabbing a bunch as we go. Oh, really? Yeah. Fennell collects everything. So Fennell grabs a bunch and puts them in some of her pockets.

Yep. And you, Takame also grabs some. I just want one. Okay, so you grab one and you just kind of admire it, maybe smell it. Maybe I'll tuck it behind my ear. Lovely. It looks very nice on you.

Thank you. And so, um. Could be a bouquet. I'm gonna make her bouquet. All right. That's we're running. I'm gonna put some in my pockets. Did you wink at me with both eyes?

I think I did. It's the mask. It's the mask. Oh, do you mean for the ceremony? It's a bouquet for the ceremony? We're not getting married. It's a ritual. Ponding.

It does sound, Manganow from the middle of the middle back says, it does kind of sound like a marriage of some kind, but. And it's better than leaving a dead animal for them. Is it? You're wrong. Mm. Okay, well, agree, disagree. Cultural differences.

I can respect that. I think you've ever seen the Chenu really chow down. So as you are, looking forward to that. You all are making progress. It's going pretty well, about 20 minutes past. You're maybe about a, it's big enough that it takes an hour to cross. Let's just say that. You're a third of the way through.

We're just going to call it that. You're a third of the way into the field. Let's say the back of the party is a third of the way, and everyone else is kind of covering, you're right in the middle of the field. the party covers the middle of the field. How many times can I say the middle of the field? Can we, one more please? What's that?

Are we in the middle of the field? Middle of the field. That sounds like I was in sports, right? I want someone to remix that and like really hot. Middle of field. Middle of field. Middle of field. Middle of the field.

Middle of the field. Middle of the field. Middle of the field. Oh my goodness. So as you are traversing the middle of the field. Man, we've been here for such a long time. ESPN, we've got your new, sportscasting since 2018.

So you're there in that place. Cut partway through. You had me, then you lost me. I'm here from middle of the field and nothing else. Is this called a loft or is it called middle of the field? Retaining the name of the episode. You, I want to say, Mott, make a perception. Okay.

Just Mott. I hope it's perceptive. I'm not very perceptive, so good luck, everyone. Good luck, everybody else. But you're high up. Do you get an overhead bonus? Always. Oh, zero, why'd you make that?

It's only one. Really? Oh, I see it. In the corner, why'd you make that noise? Why'd you make that noise? That sounded good. Still not great. Okay, so just one success.

All right. You could spend this skill point to get Illuminous. Just saying. Break. Shatter. You know what, I don't want my spirit points. So yes, I got two bonus ones last game. Shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter.

I'm also gonna perform all my chroma at once. All right. Oh, yeah. Break your soul. Yeah, do it. Break your soul. I'll be there to pick up your soul pieces. That sounds like a 90s emo album.

Break your soul. It would be break my soul because it was all. Yeah. That's right. Cut my life at. See? See? It works.

It's the song. Metal of the field. That's the man. The band name is metal of the field. Break my soul by your favorite emo rock band. It's her emo rock band, middle of the field. Oh, I love it. Oh, my gosh.

If anyone is inspired to do art, oh, actually. Oh, our rock band will look so cool. We are the emo bands, yeah. I already accidentally drew our album art. It's like us traveling in the field. Yeah. It might not make it out over that. It's. Oh!

Yeah, I even got Longano and Odgar in there. Is that it? Oh, that's like Lord of the Rings. Oh, that's so cool. I love it. You're one of the, oh yeah, also. This is very Princess Miyazaki. The visit of Tair. No.

Oh my God. Oh, God. That brain part hurt. I love her. I love her. Princess Vizaki. I'm here for it. Can I have Princess Monica Mone.

Okay. Yes, for the record, you said it correctly. Yeah, I did. Shut up, chat. I hate fake anime girls. Okay, hold on. We are in the middle of a field. We know of them.

I'm back. I'm back. All right, we're back in the middle of the field. All right. So, Matt, with that luminous success, you start to feel the winds shift. And you look up and you notice that it's getting dark. It's starting to get dark.

But what about what? Hot-Tops. Guys, the cycle. It's time to run. It's time to run. Don't be afraid. Nope, it's time to run. Oh, talk me that.

We're not on Zenith right now. Chinna, can you grab her? The void will, yeah, well, I know. The void will protect us right now. The void is with us on our shards. You just pick her up and we can. So as you're having this discussion, it has now become darkness.

So it looks like just after the sun has set and there's that dark blue hue, but there's still a little bit of radiance coming from above. And for you, since we don't have a sunset, this is just a shard more completely covering It's like an eclipse. Yeah, it's like an eclipse, yeah.

So it looks like a dark dusk. And you, so now you all have been moving through this field and you notice the darkness and you do cautiously now look to the edges of the dark forest and see movement. Okay, let's run, we gotta go. Okay, you're ready? I'm gonna call to Peeley to gain altitude and use beast tether to get a sense of what we are looked like,

how much danger we're currently in. Okay. It's probably a terrible idea. Why would you say that? Because it's probably a lot of danger. One, two, three, four. Okay, four successes and it cost me three spirit points. All right, nice.

Good roll. Yeah, that was good. Four successes, that's a radiant success. Dang. And so you- Shatter? No, I still have six spirit points left. Good six.

I have 13. Start the countdown chip. I'm starting at seven. So Ma'am, you, now Peely has been flying pretty close to you. You fly over to Peely and you, when you beast tether, you probably just kind of perch on top of Peely. Yeah. Perch on Peely.

She maintained contact, I think. Yes. That was a chroma roll, yes? That was a chroma roll. Okay. Just give me one second. and use his many-faceted eyes. He can also see in different spectra

because he's a dragonfly, so I have a much better sense of the surroundings using his eyes than mine. Right, so now with your radiant success, you're basically warging with this beast, and you can see what Peeley sees, as long as you concentrate. You can't control him, but you basically have taken over his senses of sight and also hearing

since you had a radiant success. So now, Pele's ears can hear things that you cannot on different frequencies, and you're hearing that there is like this deep rumbling of hoofs that's kind of moving through the forest and coming a little bit closer and closer to the center,

the field. A lot of enemy presence, or at least unfriendly presence. And then in terms of, of what you can see as Peeley, yeah, you just, you can get a sense that there is a lot of movement and it's moving towards the center from both sides. Oh man, all right, I'm gonna yell down.

Don't panic, just keep moving. It's not a big deal. You what? Everything's fine, guys. As soon as you say, don't panic, I immediately panic. I'm just gonna stay up here. What do you do?

Just starts breathing very heavily and like whispering under her breath to the nut and she's gripping it really hard and just booking it. Okay. As fast as her little root legs can carry her. All right, so Fennell is booking it towards the edge of the shard.

What else does everyone else doing? I think I'm trying to keep up. He said not to panic, but she's freaking out. It causes a little bit of panic in me. I think I'm kind of freaking out and trying to keep up with her. Oh, so you're running behind Fennell basically. All right.

What are you two doing? Well, how fast are you going? Well, if everyone's gonna go away, what are you gonna do? I would like to run my butt off. Can I just climb on you? Sure. Great, okay.

Yeah, grab on, hold on to my fur. I'm doing it tootro style. Hell you. So, yeah, you probably. That's a Miyazaki movie, I don't know if you know. Oh, Prince is Meazaki. Oh, we, meazaki. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.

Okay, so, um. You climb onto Chenu's back and are now getting a piggyback ride from your Hamanu friend. And, Ma, what are you doing? I'm going to maintain altitude and just try to keep pace with Pili so we can keep an eye on the team because I'm also panicking. Okay. But I'm also safe. But there's nothing. I know there's nothing I can do to help my team against eight foot tall elk.

I'm a little dinosaur bird man. so I'm just eyes and ears right now. Okay. So as you all are, so you're all maintaining your positions in the group and running towards the edge of the forest. Longano and Tok, sorry, and Ogger are also running along with you. And you start to see a break in the trees on either side,

and you start to see some of these elks appearing on the field in the darkness. And their eyes are kind of glowing, like yellowish, with tinge of red. So one of them starts barreling towards you, Chenu.

Oh, goody. So I'm gonna need you to roll initiative. Oh, yay! We're together, so I would roll it too. Oh, she just rolls and then... Right, yeah. Do you?

Open test. All right. Let's see. I could make an argument. What about... It's just one of them? It's going to be either... Actually, let's make it perception.

Okay, I have that. Because you're not actually, you know, you're just like... Do I get your role, perception and wisdom? Give me one second to get to your page. Perception and wisdom? Yeah, perception and wisdom. Open test is three skills, three virtue, one, spru.

Okay. All righty, but it's open. So single highest die roll. All right, baby. Let's see what happens. And I am rolling for this. Come on. Scary else.

Oh, and I got a spirit point, no big deal. But still that only gives me a seven. Oh, seven? A seven is the highest. Well, I get to add the spirit point that I roll to it. So it's seven. Oh, well, for the open test it's.

Just against. Just the Helgat. Number you roll. Let's hope these spell guys can't roll well. They have hooves, so I'm feeling pretty positive. That was terrible. It's awful. Hoos. Dad jokes. Who. Okay.

Right? Every swathen I catch myself, just jamming. Yeah. Okay, so, Cheney, you, what was your... It was a total of a seven. I had it. Six was a heist, and then I rolled a four on my spirit tie. So y'all, that's a seven. Oh, seven, okay. So Chano, you, so Tuck me has climbed on your back and you've just started running

and you start to see these, on your right side, you start to see these elk start to breach into the field. And you notice that one of them is just heading straight for you. And it's on a line, on an angle where you're running, it's going to reach you. Okay. And sure enough, the Felgat charges at you. and I'm gonna need you to roll a,

oh, so they beat me? Yes, dang, well, yeah, resistance and might. Resistance and might? Yes. But that doesn't count as my turn, right? This, yeah, this is your, oh wait, hold on, sorry. First time doing combat here.

No worries, because I have something I'd like to do on my turn. Combat, combat, combat, rip it open and drink its blood? Well, they have to be, oh yeah, basically, we'll definitely tell me if whenever it gets to three or fewer health, healthy points. Okay, healthy points.

Healthy points. Resistance is a D6. Yeah, so since the Felgett won the initiative, this is you just making sure. Mitigating some stuff. And withstand whatever it's gone on. All right, so sorry, resistance and might. Yes, resistance might.

I don't know why I have a D. Oh, I know I have a 12th. Okay. And do I add a spirit point as well? Or spirit die? Um, yes. All right. Oh, well, two.

I have two. I got a 10. Does that matter? That's a 0, I think. No, that's a 10. Is it? Freckin' 10s and percentage dice are always. I know. Wait, where's the present?

Oh, I got it. And I'm telling you if I have any successes, right? This success counts as a number. a point of damage. Oh wait, hold on. Um, oh this is, sorry, this is like a defense roll. I might be doing this differently. Give me one. I'm reading the bare bones cheat sheet, so.

Okay, that I'll look in the book really quickly. Yeah, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. But anyway, cool die roll, feeling good. Like I'm not gonna get too hurt. Also, my next move is really cool. I'm gonna chroma, I'm gonna chroma out my eyes. Oh, your eyes. Yeah, I think I'm gonna shatter too

because I only have seven spirits. Yeah. So you know what I'm gonna do real quick, which I should have done before I had you do that role. Okay. We're gonna figure out the rest of initiative. So the Felgat. Okay, first.

Great. And then, um, me. You. Okay. I'm for that. Who are the heaviest hitters? Well, I'm with. I could do it. Or I'm with Chinu.

I should probably go after her. Like that one two punch. Yeah, I'm literally attached to her. I can go after too. Yeah, I'll go. I have a decent amount of health. So I have Chenu first, then Takme, then Udos. Yep.

And then Fennell, then I'll follow up with probably flapping feathers in one of their faces to freak it out. Fantastic. Nice. And then we can do Lunga No. That's fine strike. Ooh.

And shovel toe. I'm basically cyclops. I can't work. wait to chroma on this beast. Okay. So what was your result on that role again? Do you want successes or highest number? All right, so this is a skill test.

So we what is? Number of successes, yeah. Perfect, two. So you got two, okay. So the Felgett that has charged at you, because you had a tiny bit of a heads up but not enough to like change your course. It does make impact with you.

And you are, you are, I have 15 healthy points. Healthy points. That's a very healthy. Do your worst felgat. I don't see it in here. Oh goodness, okay. So you take two points of damage.

Flesh wound, don't care. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay, so. How are you at, you don't have 15, do you? Yeah, I do. Oh. Yeah, I'm burly. Yes.

So now we have, so that first Felgat made impact with Chenu. The rest of you probably noticed that. Ow-wee! But you also have some other Felget that are staring you all down. Thank you. Now it was Chenu and Takme. So first Velgat went.

Now, I'll just have the rest of them all. Okay, so Udos. Udos. Sorry guys. Wish I saw them but didn't. Wait, you're next, aren't you? Oh, yes, sorry. Well, they're still going.

There's still going. All of them. All of them. All 20 of them. Fantastic. It's been nice being on the show. See you all later. I always enjoyed being alive, but I can adjust.

That's what I was referring to when I awkwardly take it. That's a bad joke. So Udos, so Chenu, you've been hit by a felgett. I've been strafied. Udo's, yeah. A smooth, felgett. Oh, actually, so Udoz, I need you and Fennell.

Yeah. To make a resistance might roll. Oh boy. Resistance. Can I steal three sixes for me? Yes, of course. Oh, this is perfect. This is right up my alley.

Really? Yes. I got three D-10s and three D-8. So hopefully we could make them happen. And do add your spirit. Nothing. Oof-da. Oh, oof, nothing.

Not a. So these are combat tests. I'm having you roll. And if you do get a four on the spirit die, it counts towards your fury pool, which can be used the way that you use spirit dye during combat. Just defy-fire.

Yay! Flare. Flare, flare, flare, flare. How many? Seven, six, seven. So one, two, and a flare, a fury point. Now that, so you have two luminous success. Oh wait, this is a combat test, so.

Six, six, seven. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, don't chart change yourself. You could use a point to make it four. Yeah. Boo-ya. Yes, so in a combat test, each rolled success counts as a single point of damage.

So you have, give it a single point of damage. in three damage to your Felgett. That's right, Felgett. Better recognize. Wow. Sure it does now that you're hurting it. And Fennell, did you do your role? Yeah. You did?

Oh, you got nothing? Yeah. Okay. I got nothing. You're gonna take two points of damage. Okay, dokey. Okay. So, thank you for bearing with me. All good.

You got it. This is like a really good time to have wings, I think. Mm-hmm. Show off. Well, well, well. Must be nice. I was blowing to fly guys. Teraxian.

Meena said Zia, bro. We'll see you there. Bye. Okay. Like a hollow bone. That's fair. Yeah, I do like to brag about my hollow bones because it makes me so light.

Okay, so now it is Chenu's turn. All right, I am ready for this chroma, but are you? I'm gonna bronze resilience. Who are you talking? Okay, well this is Cheneu, this is Cheneu's real voice. Cheneu, you see her as a, as a, dainty British ape with an apron and a bib,

but this time she has, she's been hit. So now she's turned into some other beastly form. Her mouth opens and snarls and saliva and spittle is just dripping as she like screams. Not my friends. And she, chroma's bronze resilience. So what I get to do is basically... Oh wait, wait, wait, why don't you roll first and then we'll...

Yes. Yeah? Yeah, let's see if I actually do it. Let's see what... All right, so this is cool. You believe in you. All right, I'm getting ahead of myself. Okay, compassion and vigor.

I'm feeling good about it. It's D6s and D10s. And Dan, let's see how much it costs. She's kind of like... I'm gonna break. Ooh! Nice. Pretty good.

Okay, so actually only two. No, it only costs. All right, two. Wasn't that three? That's good. No. Oh, I thought it thought so three-70. Oh, it can be.

Oh. So, luminous success. So luminous success. I basically get to make a single attempt to protect my ally, talk me at any point during this combat. When I do, I get to perform a skill test as normal to reduce the damage that I suffer on behalf of my ally. So basically, I get to absorb some damage once for the rest of this.

This is kind of like a precursor defense move. All right. on her shield. Cool, and it only costs two points, so now I'm at five out of seven. All right, so, so you, wait, that was your turn, yes? Okay, yeah, and I kinda, I wanna light up

sort of orangey yellow, but more coppery anyway because it's bronze resilient, so I wanna just look at them and kind of like with a burst of copper, just like emanate it, and then it kind of dwindles down, but you can feel that, yeah, it pulls us. around me and he knows next time he tries to, I don't know, injure Tocme, that bronze shield is gonna like magnetize

his antlers towards me. Could you use it on anyone though, or do you have to pick somebody? It just says ally, I guess. I guess it could be anybody. Protect ally during this combat. We know who she'll prioritize if things get down. Speaking of which, Tukme, it's your turn.

Yay! Well, with sort of the impending darkness of the shadow brought on by the higher shard. Takma is feeling sort of more in her element and stronger and she is going to use her chroma crushing emptiness on the. I'm sorry, it laughed, that's hilarious. Yeah.

What is this song? Takma, what are you doing in your room? I'm just practicing my crushing emptiness. Crushing, Let's see if the Felgat can cry. Oh my God. So yeah, it's basically the way the Felgat was making eye contact with her before, she's sending that right back

and sort of putting this energy inside of its mind or trying to have this effect of crushing emptiness. Cute, right? Great. All right. Cute, right? So that is one success. Nice.

And two successes. And it costs two. All right. Nice roll. So you got a luminous success on that. So now this Belgat has seen Cheneu's weird glowing energy and is paused but still seems like ready for action. And Tukme, you turn to it and what does this look like?

So I've sort of pulled, I've dropped down from Chenu and I've pulled out my, Tukme has pulled out her black spirit orb and she's sort of channeling it but she's not breaking eye contact with the Felgat. And she's sort of smiling in this really like insanely wicked way. And no one else can see this, but the Felgat would be able to see this like string of black energy coming from the orb and sort of like entering its eyes and kind of going back. into its mind. And yeah, it fills it with this, like, panic and terror that sort of makes it very unsure of itself and questioning of what the darkness brings. Wow, great.

But mechanically, it's gotta re-roll, it's next. Exactly. It's next, it takes the worst of- Our parties would be such a cool anime party. Yes. Yeah. So on rock band.

So on the next go around, once it's the Felgat's turn again, it'll roll with disadvantage. Essentially, yeah. All right, cool. So next up is Udos. Oh no. Yes. Oh no.

Oh, no. Shatter, shatter. And just to clarify, there's three Felgett that have now targeted you. There's some others lurking on the edges nearby, but only three of them have made combat with you so far. I think it's time for me to use my wrathful strike. Yes, hey. Please.

Man. Okay, so wrathful strikes, some overlight on this. No. So that's your will and might. We'll agree to disagree. But like what about the darkness, I'm just saying. I mean that felgat crying is pretty beautiful. So thank you so much.

Yeah, he's crying tears of blackbaker. Like stop to, oh my God. Oh, oh. No one can see it, but he can feel it. So you have your will and your might dice. Yes. Yes. No, I'm gonna do,

are not gonna do might and resistance? Or no? Might and will. You're doing wrathful strike, which is two different virtues, will and might. Oh, my bad, my bad, I'm sorry, sorry. D6. I liked how I tried to sneak.

Trying to get those extra rolls in, you know? Yeah. I wouldn't mind some extra dinner rolls right now. After the table turned out not to be a pizza. I am just a giant square sandwich. All right. What have you done? It cost you three and you didn't get anything.

Oh boy. Oh no. That was an expensive failure. Last time you tried to use Rathful Strike, you were a schoolboy and you haven't had to do this chroma for a long time so it kind of sometimes you're like, I'm not sure if this is work. but I'll try.

So you square yourself off with this feldgat and you concentrate on your fists and they start to glow with this red energy, but the red energy sputters out and you kind of shake your hands and you can't get it to come back. This doesn't usually happen, guys. Sorry, doesn't normally happen at all. It's really embarrassing.

What was supposed to happen? I yell. We have one minute, so let's do fennel. I'm gonna look for one that hasn't been injured yet, but is still coming towards us. Fennel like squids forward and puts a hand on the side of her head, and she's gonna try and mine strike it. Yeah! Open test.

On the side of your head? Yeah, my head. So I like channel it. All right, great. A bolt of yellow, like a bullet shoots out of her head. Go for it. And it has, it's an open test, Will versus Mental. Great.

Oh, I have to, I'm sorry. Mental. And it cost me two. All those dice are so pretty. Well, open test isn't it a single highest? Yeah, but for, so there's like luminous and radiant. It's depending on the damage, so I'm going to have to make another roll with my will. What was your highest?

I was just seeing if it succeeds. Oh, got it. So now I have to roll six, my highest is six. Okay, that was your open test will versus mental roll? Okay, so, wait, but, but open test, it was only a luminous success. So if they lose the open test, they're gonna take two damage. Okay, so you take your little mammalian hand

and put it on your temple and you focus, staring straight at this Felgat who's nearest to you. And the Felgat has already charged you once, and you took some damage. So you're feeling a little, you know, pissed that this thing has attacked you. You did succeed that luminous. So you see that strike lance out from your brain,

a yellow lightning bolt to the Felgat. And the Felgat seems dazed for a second, but it still starts coming at you. Did it take that? Did not take the damage? Did not take the damage. Oh, guys, we're gonna shatter and nothing will be left of our remains.

That sounds fun. All right, so. Right, in a good way, I mean. So now, Maat, you've been, you're still flying up above and you start to see your, it's not going well. Longa, by the way, and shovel tusk, let's just imagine they're fighting some other fell gats. Just whatever.

And holding their own because they're great. They're holding their own, they're fine. But they have a lot of, fail gats around them so they're distracted and cannot help you, sorry. But you start to see the shift of the charge. You cannot, you're not an oxtronomonymous or whatever it's called. Ostrachonomist. Someone who studies the cycles and can predict them.

You're not an ostraconomist. I wanted to rule on that, but I'm like, I didn't study that in college. I didn't study it. But you, you're hoping maybe the things will shift, but for now it is still darkness and it will be once we return after this. Oh, let's do it. Stay tuned.

Welcome back to Overlight Episode 3, Aloft. We are in the middle of a combat where our party is in the middle of the medallion field on Banyan. They're trying to get to the edge of the charge so they can leave this place and they've been attacked by so far three murderous evil fell gaps.

Scary elk. So now it is Mott's turn in battle, right? Fennell, we completed your, okay, we completed your turn. Mott. You've been flying above, you've used beastways on Pili as a tether to pick up

some extra sensory information. What are you, what would you like to do on your turn? So seeing my party not being quite as successful as, well, Udo, Udos and Fennell are in danger now. I saw them both get attacked.

I'm not worried about you, Chey. I know you can handle yourself, and I'm just terrified for the point and you tear one of these things open. We're not worried about you, because you open air. Well, I'm about to come down, Udowd. I am going to fly down and attempt to catch my whip on the leg of the Phelgat closest to Fennell,

because we have the strongest one and hang out the longest. All right. And fly around it in a circle and wrap it up. And I'm going to argue for wind lore and compassion because I don't want to hurt this beast.

I think despite how scary they are, they're also pretty magnificent. I've ever seen them before. So an immobilizing one will give me a better chance to look at it. So yeah, you're using your beast ways. What was it, win-lore and compassion? Yeah, because I'm flying.

Got it. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, Compassion makes sense to me too, because through your beastways training, you know how to wrangle animals without hurting them. So yeah. Okay, I'm gonna try to bring this bad boy down. Cowboy Mott.

Um, one. I got a little excited about that one. If there's one, there must be 20. No, one success. One success. All right, so. Three, five, four fives. That's really tough.

Yeah. That's tough. Okay. All right. All right. So only one. And then, yeah, I'm gonna use a spirit point. All right.

So that brings up to luminous success. Yes. And what, tell me you were, so you use your whip to, you dive down from the air. Yeah, I'm gonna dive bomb. I'm gonna close my wings and just drop until I get to about 10, 15 feet off the ground, flare my wings to slow down and just swoop towards the,

the feldgat closest to fennel, and draw my whip, try to hook it around one of the legs, and just use that momentum to swimming around and try to wrap it up. Okay, so you... Hog tie it while standing up. You do this, you dive bomb, you get your whip out, and you do get it around one of the legs. And so now the feldgat is still pretty strong, so you can see it, feel like, it resisting, but it does slow it down a bit, and it does take two damage, two damage. So.

Nice. It's not immobilized, but I will take it. Yeah, it's slowed down for sure. Because it probably looked super cool. All right, so now it is the fill gets turning in. Okay. Disadvantage, disadvantage. Right, thank you for that reminder.

So yours is going to enroll first. So I'm going to roll twice for this one. What was zero again? 10? Yeah, I like that face. Oh, but when you roll it, it's just a zero. Oh, okay. You all live.

Awesome. Nice. So. Just a forever hug. The worst of those two was 10, because they both were. Oh. Whoa. Yeah.

So, oh wait, and we're doing the number of, so one, two, three. Okay, so the Felcat that is targeting you two. Now we have a Chenu who's like lightly glowing orange. Yeah, like I'd love it to look bronze, but yeah, it's probably closer. Bronze, yeah. It's bronze. It's bronze. Oh, it's bronze.

Okay, Sparkly. Resilience. And then Tockeme has the little noodle, noodle of the void. Wow. The void noodle? The void noodle. Sounds like an appetizer. The void noodle.

That's a good point. You were like staring into this Felgat's eyes and I'm holding it in fear. Right. But the Felgat is strong and it charges you both again. And you take, well, it's one, three days. damage total. Well, don't we get a resistance roll? And also, which one of us is it attacking?

Are you still on, you know, you jumped down, right? I'm gonna say it's attacking chain. Okay, yeah. I'll take the brunt of it. I think, and I roll a resistance check? I'm not sure that's how this system works. This time yes, but I was, sorry. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, so just three damage.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Ooh, 15 is starting to start. to not seem like the biggest number in the whole world anymore. Ooh, yikes. Okay, so now, so that Felgett went, so now let's go through these into two real quick. So, Oudos, and this is for Fennell.

Okay, so Udos, the Felget that you were trying to wrathful strike, it doesn't laugh because, you know, it's not going to laugh at you, but you sense it laughing at you. Smirking at me. And so it charges at you and it just clips your arm as it passes. So you take one damage.

And then Fennell, your mindful strike was successful and it slowed it down. So you would have taken two damage but you will take one damage because of that. All right. So now it's... It could be worse.

It could be worse. I've not chosen... to use my bronze resilience against anyone. Maybe we should focus one of them so that Shane who can drink its blood. Don't you get health or something for? I get cool shit. If it's my turn, will you, are any of them three healthy points or lower?

Not as of yet. Dang. I will let you know. Okay, thank you. Then I will actually, by the way, my bronze resilience now, my defense move is actually just a free thing I can do anytime during combat, but I chose not to do it

because I'm not that much in danger. Also, time to just attack with my, I'm gonna use my ornamented staff. I'm gonna smack it right between the eyes. Nice. And I would like to use either vigor or might, and I would really like to use brawl. Okay.

Really badly. Yeah, so you're making an attack. So straight up combat test. What would you like to roll? Might and brawl? Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yes.

Okay, so D10s and D8s. Nice, I like that. I never saw it come in. That's a nice roll. Okay, as the spittle draws forth from my lips, I do, oh yeah, okay, so two and, and a spirit point, which turns into a Fury Man. Yeah, Fury Man, that's right.

Spicy boy. Spicy. It turns out of the Spicey. It doesn't count, it doesn't count towards roll at all, right? That was your attack roll, right? Attack roll, so that you got two successes. Two successes, so that's two points of damage.

Okay. Right, yes. And the Fury Pool, you can- He'll just go into the Fury Man. The Fury Man Pool. Yeah, it'll just be part of your Fury Pool for this whole combat. Okay, sweet.

And you can replace your spirit points with it. So as the Spittle drips from my mouth, it kind of slaps him in the eye too, because it is long and greasy and it does not disconnect easily, my spittle, that is. And as it does, I pick up my ornamented staff and I look at it, I look him right between the eyes.

And I'd like to clip one of his antlers on the way down to crack his skull. Great. Maybe even just like a little fingernail of antler kind of flies away. All right, so you- Not just pretty as it once was. You kind of nick one of the antlers

and the fell god is not pleased, but it also, you struck it basically in the head then? Yeah. Yeah. So you also do cause a wound like above, between his antler and its head and its eye. And so it took some damage, yeah. There is no compassion in me, Matt.

That's Director Anger at the Felgat, please. I'm like fluttering around. I just notice as you're not trying to kill them. And I am. What, you have two drinks? I'm a beverage baby. And not a Fury Man. Okay, so, all right, so that was Chinna's turn and now talk about.

Okay, I'm going to just do a regular attack with my staff. All right. So that is going to be my virtue, which I get 3B10 for that. And then also my skill, which would be brawl. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So you are doing a brawl and will role? Yeah, and then I'm gonna use Mighty Blow as well,

the combat maneuver. Ooh, beautiful. If it's successful, we'll add the spirit die amount to. That's amazing. That's amazing. Yeah, there's a whole two pages of these combat maneuvers. Out maneuver and aim and challenge. It's pretty sweet.

Ooh, a flare. Oh my God. Oh my God. Dang, that's four extra damage. But I only got one success, so. Five damage total. Use a point to bump it up and then it's. Wait, how many successes you get?

I got one, but I can expend a spirit point to make it higher. Yes. Yeah, this is your Mighty Blow roll or which? Yeah, I mean, it's Mighty, I can only use Mighty Blow if the roll's successful. Ah, got it. Oh, then yes, you can use your point.

Okay, and I will use your point. And I will use one spirit point to make that a luminous success. Great. For the open combat role. And then I will use the flare as a four to cause four extra damage with the mighty blow. All right. Wow. That's the most damage anyone's done.

So what's the total damage here? So it's just six. Oh, is it six? Oh, is it six four plus. Oh yeah, you had two successes. So two plus four. Yeah. All right, woo, all right.

So I'm just gonna, I'm just sort of gonna jump forward and slam my staff down like into the crown of its head. And because it was close to that other, the place that it was wounded just before by Chenu, it definitely knocks back and it stumbles and it seems disoriented. So we actually go, we go, ah, ah, and then our, the points of our staffs meet and we just go, hi.

Funny meaning you. They're always connected. I think I'm down to six spirit now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a secret though, so I'm not worried. Oh, okay. Let me borrow some. Udos, sweet cat, actually.

Udos, it's your turn. You are staring down a feldgette. No, I don't like it I think I'm going to use my well-crafted blundgeoning tool that has a crest-like blade at the top of it, all made completely out of

titanium. Whoa. Or adamantium, whatever. Okay, sure that's going to make an attack with your bludgeoning tool. Yes, my bludgeoning tool. All right? So this is a combat, right? Yeah, combat test.

Would I be able to use might and vigor? No, because this is a chromesis, you need to do a skill and a virtue. Oh, that sucks. Okay, so then I probably have to do might and resistance. Would I be able to use machinery?

I don't know, ask her. Can I use machinery? Because whenever I think of machinery, I'm just thinking of, you know, me. Are you training? Not coming. I am the machine. You are trained in machinery, right?

Yes. I don't have that on my sheet. I mean, I have a D-10 machinery. A large, I guess a plunging tool could be a simple tool. Could, like, use as a lever maybe. Yeah, okay. I'll like to do that. I like you.

Wow. Good job. It's just so much more fun to roll those higher dice. It is. It is. I'm going to do 3D10. We'll say that you created this bludgeoning tool with some extra, extra cool stuff because you, it's tailored to you as a fighter.

Like you know how to use it in a certain way. So machinery. Like if anyone else were to pick it up, we couldn't use machinery. You would just, anyone else would be, if they can pick it up, they would just throw, like, they would just hit someone with it and go on. But he knows how to like balance it a certain way.

Nice. I'm like Thor. I love it. Yeah. I'm picturing like a butterfly knife on a stick, how it like, shoo. Hey, I like that. Something.

I'm gonna roll twice, okay, guys. 10, six. No, that is a one on that die. I mean, I mean, yeah, right. Yeah, it's a 10, yeah, it's a one, 100. So that is, there's a success over there. You did get one success. Okay.

Come on. Oh, wow, wow, you knocked that on. That was a success, the one you knocked, yeah. So it's two successes. So three successes. Yeah, so three total. Three successes. Nice.

Okay, so that's three points of damage. Or bump it, or bump it. Should I bump it? Yeah, always. We have seven spiritual. You're fine. You're fine. Oh my gosh.

You guys all want to shatter. I want someone to get rid of this. This helps me to go and die. Third episode. Can I bump it up then? Let me just bump it up. Yeah. All right.

Yeah. Keep track of what you started with. Okay. Oh, I started with like 10. So keep, keep 10 here and then seven. Ah, there we go. Okay, so talk me Uros. Your turn, Fennell.

I'd like to move out of the way a little bit, but I'm gonna mind strike again, the one that is sort of tied up. And I too, I'm gonna do a mighty blow. Woohoo! Nice. I'm just being dragged around by this thing now. It really helps it hits.

It's embarrassing. That's one, two. What is this, what is this? That's two successes, and it cost me two. Cost you two spirit points. and we're gonna do another open test. I really hope you guys are nice to me. So now this is the mighty blow?

Yeah. Okay. Well, wait, this is the- Oh, the mind strike? Oh god, it's only five. So it's against, the mine strike is an open test, so it's against mental. Okay. Well versus mental.

It's only five. I mean, you're allowed to use my mechanical pencil. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. So you did succeed on the first? The, yeah? It had a luminous. Okay. Okay.

So Fennell, once again, you put your fingers to your temple and you concentrate and you look at this Velgat who's now kind of like a little bit pulling mott along but also just like tangled up in the whip and that yellow bolt of lightning lances out. hits the feldat and the feldgat is, you can see it, it is a little, it stumbles and it does take some damage. I think it would just be four points then. Four points? Because Mighty Blow allows me to use what I rolled on my, my chroma dye, which is two. And then I did a luminous success. Right, so one, two, okay. Great.

Okay. All right, so Mott is up. I'm down to seven. How healthy is the one that I'm tethered to? The one that you're tethered to. The one that you're tethered to of the three is in the middle in terms of health. Is that right? Yes.

I have a lot of health. All right. The weakest one is you two. Cheneu and Tukwai. Sounds like it's ready for its blood to be quoth. Not quite. I'll let you know. If in which.

Okay. So. All right. It's a third, right? Yeah, and there's a third. and that's the healthiest one. But it only has one person fighting it, so. All right.

I'm going to attempt to flick the whip to release it from the leg and just try to smack the thing across the face with the whip to, at least deter it. Like, this clearly my plan didn't work. I think really just the damage cried as. Oh my God.

I'm not into that type of thing. How dare? All right, so combat test? Yes. I need to, what's my? This one I'm not going to let you use compassion for it. Yeah, no, I was thinking like maybe resolve and might maybe. It's not great.

Resolve? Yeah, I would D8 for resolve. Or will, because I'm like I don't want to do this, but it might just be well resolved. I'll let you do resolve and might. Okay. Okay, here goes guys. Okay. I'm trying to embarrass this Felgett.

No. I always do that. Anytime it dies. Gasp. It's exciting. You never know what's going to happen. Two successes. Two successes.

All right. So that's a luminous success. So yes, you snap the whip back from off of its. its leg and you just kind of whip it in the face. Yeah. Trying to deter like, I don't have many options, guys.

I'm so legal. I probably wait like 30 pounds. A little glove appears on the end of the whip. That's what VineWet feels to me. Grass Pokemon move. Every time it's just. Yeah, and I think as I make contact, I'm like, I'm so sorry.

As you're, yeah, as you're, you're like, I'm sorry, this is for you're good. Okay. So now, the Phil gets turning. All right. Okay. Then how many fury points does everybody have?

Just out of curiosity. Fury, I have zero. I have zero. Big nun. Okay, then I'm good. Thank you for life. If you're good, what? Well, I have one of my abilities

is that at the end of combat, Fury points can be converted into spirit points. So that is like a good thing to use, but if there's only one, I'm not gonna risk shattering myself. Although animals will love me, should I do so? Animals love me. Okay, so. That's your shatter.

Shatter one is like, birds will just perch on you. Wait, well, I think you should do it because these are animals, so. They'll perch on them. I don't think they'll still be agroed on us. Only one way to find out. Shatter. Okay, so Mott and Fennell, the Felget that you have been fighting

Oh, wait, now. Okay, the Felga that you've been fighting is still pretty dazed from that mind strike and also from the face whipping. And it just, it's still trying to recover. Okay. Cool. Stung.

Stained. Stunt. And now Udo's, your Felgat, where did we last leave off? Your Felgat. It was raised them for one damage. Yes, it grazed you. So now it turns around. And it goes right at you again, and this time it gets your leg.

One damage. You don't need that. Oh, no, no. I got some skinny legs, too, guys. Not big targets. Yeah, not my chicken legs. And then. Why would they do that?

It's like when a bicycle hits a stop sign. You're like, what? What are the odds? It's like bouncing a pencil on its thing. So, Takamian, Chenu, you're, fell gap. I'm trying to remember where did we last week. I just bonted it real good.

Oh yeah, we both. We both both boned. Okay. Double bonk. Yes. Don, don't. In that double bonk, it's now kind of just like, it's mad and it just drives,

it pushes both of you back and it kind of knocks the wind out of you, so you take one point of damage each. Each, it can, it was two total, but I'm just splitting it between the two. By the way, I forgot to mention I obtained a dramatic wound last time. Okay.

All right. That three points. So I would like it to be punctured in, through my gut. You saw like the Battle Buster Scruggs when he's like, it didn't hit anything vital. It didn't hit anything vital. But like it kind of passes through my guts.

It's just the, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So now you. My apron is solid. Not your apron. All right. So that was their turn.

So now back. to Chen, are any of them three hit points are lower? No. Okay, can I hold and see if maybe this turn Everybody shush! William Shatner has something to say.

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podcast. One of them might. So I am, I'm thirsty for blood. Yeah. So I'm just going to like, I'm going to be on my defense and then I just want to hold my turn until I see that maybe one of them gets three hit points or lower. Okay. Or healthy points.

Are we anywhere near three hit points? You're not to. Not like you're not. Yeah. We're not. Well, no. Then I don't want to wait. I don't want to get some hopes, though.

Okay, okay. Thank you for letting me know. I, you know what, I'm just gonna, I wanna do a mighty blow. Oh, I'm gonna break or shatter, that's fine. So as you're getting ready to defend or attack against this felget, you're all starting to notice the winds pick up again

and there's a shift happening. It's good, maybe. Maybe, yeah. Maybe. It's still darkness, but you feel, Speaking of wins, I'm gonna mighty blow this fell got right in the first. Well placed arrow to the, oh, a sore, oh, okay, great.

So it's still my staff, but I'm gonna do it. I will spend two spirit points. I must see if my attack is successful. First, last time it was might and brawl. Is that okay? D-8s and D-10s. Yep. Check it.

So mighty blow. Oh, oh, darn it. Except although I got, well, no, I got a Fury. Or Fury Point. But I didn't, but no successes. You can bank that Fury Point. I will bank the Fury Point. So it's not successful.

Okay, I got a little distracted by being, by being cute with our, well, by being gutted. That was last night. So maybe I just got distracted by being cute and presentational with our double donks, double bongs. Double bonks. Oh, dear. Okay.

That just rolled out. Yeah. You guys are a rap group and that's your name. No one said this is a family show. Double bon. What's a bong? Double don't. I heard double don't.

What's a don't? It's just, well, it's also close to dong, I guess. That's what I kind of. Really? Double dong. I'm like just down. Yeah, they were like double dong. There was don't know.

It just wasn't funny. Yeah, I don't know. All right. Donkey Kong. I'm just saying, we're not the first ones. It's true. Okay. A donkey con.

But donkey, because that's a different. Oh, that exists. Do I still have to? I have to spare points, right? You have them until the end of the combat? No, I mean, because Mighty Blow actually is. Oh, it does cost two spirit points. So even if I'm not successful, I spend it?

Well, you didn't even get to spend to do Mighty Blow, right? You're attacked. and succeeds, you can't do that. So I can't do it. Okay. On a successful attack. Yeah. Talk me.

I am gonna try and just do that. That seemed pretty effective. The doc, so I'm gonna go ahead and try and do that again. The donk is super effective. The dock is strong with this one. The dog is gay. The dog is gay. Nice.

You're welcome. Yeah, well, Mr. So you're doing another dong. Some dank don't. I like this dice of them because you just get to always roll. A ton of time. Yeah. Yeah. It's very satisfying to have like a whole.

Yeah. There's one, two, three. Ooh. Three successes. Nice. Three successes. I will spend, yeah, I'll spend another point to make it four.

So that's four damage. And then I'm gonna use the mighty blow to add the two to it as well. Okay, so six, damage. Wow, nice. And with this blow, Takme, since it's kind of, she's seeing that it's sort of dazed, she's gonna try and use this move

to sort of sweep the legs. So why it's sort of like kind of confused or distracted, she's gonna try and sweep the legs so she can maybe in her next move have more of an advantage on piercing its soft belly. Maybe that's why I missed, because if you made it fall, and we both kind of swung at the same,

same time I was like, oh, where'd it go? I wished because it had fallen. Oh, yeah, I should have. Yes. If we had the telepathy guy. I know. Gotta get bonded. So.

What did they stay? This day we're working on next year. So Takami, you successfully use your staff to sweep this Felgat's leg. It loses this balance and it ends up

on its side. Now I can see the soft meat of your belly. Okay. Okay. Udos. What do you like to do? I think we should end this thing. We should, now it's down on the ground.

I'd like to, wait, this is my fail gate. This is my fell gate. You got legs, you can move. Damn. Yeah, so the one, it had just charged you again, so it's, you know. Oh, no. I think I'm going to have to use

my blengening tool again because, You're trying to save those spirit points. Yeah. Right. Don't be afraid to shatter. You can have left. Six. Break our souls.

You good. To what? Chroma, you know, spend them up. Shatter baby. Spend them up. Shatter baby. We're in them back. You're first.

I don't want to be the first one to shatter. So I think I'm just going to use the combat. I'm going to just. I don't want to be the first. I don't want to be the first. I don't. It's going to be a little awkward. So yeah, can I use might and machinery again?

For your bullet, yes, blushing two. Nice. Okay, thanks. I'll use might and machinery. One, two, three here. One, two, three, might be a boy. Here we go. What do we have here?

This is like a magic eye test. Why have you got these dice? I can't get it. Five a five and a two. No, that look, me. Oh, you're rolling twice, right? I mean, half and half. That is a five.

Okay. Thought it might have been a six. You think everything's a six. You're right. Ah, I just see one six. Yeah, there's one six here. That's a first. Oh, booty two juice.

That's a one. It's only one success. One success. It sounds like a weird restaurant. So you use your bludging tool. Sorry. I don't know what is happening. Anytime I knock something over with my butt,

I just yell into the night, booty too juicy. Got it. And I just did that. I've never heard that. Sorry, I'm sorry. So, Udos, you, once again, you get ready to use your bludgeoning tool with its special balance that only you know about, but this time you don't quite get the balance and you miss the feldgat.

Wow, you need to practice. Strike. Fiddle. You know what I'm doing. Same thing as always. Alright, gonna try a mine strike, but I'm gonna try it. Beautiful.

Strike its chest now. We're gonna do another, I have a feeling these guys have a decent mental skill, but you know, whatever. So it's an open test. That's a nothing. It's a big zero. We are annoying the crap out of these fell guys.

We're really inconveniencing them. They're now late for a meeting or something. Come on guys. You don't have to do anything because I can succeed. Great. I got none. Okay. So then you stand then and you're still just trying to conjure

your mind strike energy and it's just not. Yeah. Am I able to move away after doing a chroma? Can I? Yeah. Okay, I wanna scoop back. All right, cool. Just octopos out.

Put some distance. Yeah. I only have seven health. I need some space. All right. Oh, I can shoot your wounds eventually. And then Matt. I am just gonna continue escalating my battle tactics

and do the most fearsome attack known to Teryxian's paroxysm of feathers. Oh, I basically have a seizure on the enemy's face, and if I succeed, they get debuffed. All right. I think this is honestly how birds do it. Yeah, actually. The history, yeah. The history here, the Trixian captain Anconi once successfully dealt with an intoxicated pyroy emissary who had turned savage by violently leaping at his face in a furious explosion of feathers and talons, distracting him long enough for everyone else to escape.

So basically I'm going to try to annoy it enough that it can't do anything on its next term. Should we try to escape? Well, there are two others. There are two others. All right, here goes, guys. What if we all just copy what you do? Yay! I see a spirit.

A spirit flare and no. Amy. Amy, so you have a real-mature every time. I saw the four. All right. You're not allowed to react. You gotta keep it bottled up. Dice are just so fun, Havana.

You know that. So you fly up to the, the Felgat's face, and you start to do this and it just kind of like, oh, it just moves away. It goes, no, thank you. So now, at this point, yeah. At this point, you all hear from the middle of the field. Yes, I was waiting.

The back of the middle of the field. You hear shovel tusk galloping towards one. One shovel tusseltask. And then Longoonaut is behind the shovel tusk, just like whacking one of the fell gas. And you hear Longonaut say, run! Run, run to where the show, edge of the shard! And the shovel test comes by and, um, one second. This is our day of sex machina.

Maybe. The shovel test comes by. Plot armor. That's plot armor. To keep us from a TPK right now on the third episode. I have one spirit point now. The shovel test reaches the, you guys' felgat and gives it a hearty blow.

Oh, hearty blow. A hearty. It's on the ground. Can she rip that inside? She rips a tear in its side. It's not super, super deep, but it's, it hurts. It hurts that felgat. And then...

Do not deny me. The other two felgats see this happen and are now very scared. And are now very scared. So they're not watching you. Oh, ours died? No, yours didn't. die. But it's on the ground. It's bleeding now from, it has two different wounds because you gave it a wound. You knocked it in the head and now it has a side wound. It's on the side. The other two fell gats have never seen a shovel tusk. So they're just, they look and they're, they're not looking at you guys anymore. Excellent. Run! I already took off as soon as I had failed. Yeah, the one on the ground, it's not doing anything really. So it doesn't even look, it doesn't even look like I'd be thirsty for it.

It probably looks pretty tasty to you, but it's not yet, it's not there yet. Okay, well, I would love to drink, I would love to quaff its blood, you know I can do that and instantly kill it. However, it seems like the rest of our party is departing. Yeah, I guess we should go.

We'll get you some blood to cough soon, okay? Okay, thank you, hop on. Hey! Okay, talk me, jumps back on. Yeah, yeah, I'll cough blood another time. Everybody's running. I'm running. All right.

I don't want to leave her behind though. Who? Longano, is she running with us? Logano is behind you all, but running. Okay, I'm gonna go back to her and run with her because I don't want her to be left behind. Okay, so Longano is running and sees that you've hung back and she catches up and just scoops you up and puts you on her shoulder and keeps running.

That's probably weird looking, but kind of cute and I'm enjoying it. So now everybody's running towards the shard. The shovel tusk, if any of you looks back, you see that the shovel tusk is like watching the felget to see if any of them are going to make a move. I love Ongar. Yeah, Ongar's the best. As you get closer to the end of this field, you start to see the, finally, the cycle is shifting to a time where it's becoming lighter.

And it's not daytime fully, but it is significantly brighter. And so the two remaining fell gats who are on the field, just disdainfully kind of walk back into their forest. And the one that's on the ground is not going anywhere. It's hurt. And then the shovel tusk seeing this. Longa no just says, and Adker comes in barrels.

And so you have reached the edge of the field. And now you're at the edge of the shard. So now that you're at the edge of the shard, you do feel the wind pick up. and you notice, as Jimba told you, Fenil, that it feels a little bit dangerous, but you're all still on your feet. You're still probably on Longa Nose's shoulders, so you're holding on. You're on Chenu's shoulders, and you're holding on. And so, you, Udos, you look around for this seedy underbelly, and all you see is just, like, not even a hut, but one of those, like, a roof, a slug.

a slat of wood and a stick holding it up. That's all you see. So there's a carriage inside, it's a trap. Definitely is a trap. Do you think someone lives there? Wait, describe it one more time. It's like a wooden plank, maybe like five by five feet,

and it has a stick holding it up. So it's like literally a trap. It's a leap to. Wait, Mike guys' question. Do my fury men, do they go away at my fury pool? Yes. We are out of combat. Bye spicy boys.

Bye spicy boys. You're out of combat, so yes, no more fury poolness. Let it be known that I did acquire too and that felt real good. Nice. But that's why I was spittling a lot. Guys, I don't trust this at all. It's a lean to, it's a shelter.

Jimba said that there was a boni, right, down here. She didn't remember what kind, but that's probably the person we need to talk to and that might be their house. I don't speak Boniari, so maybe you should go. I mean, do people live in boards hung up by sticks? We sometimes. Really?

Yeah. It's a shelter from the weather. We like the nature. Yeah, we don't mind the rain. We're trees. You notice a little, a little just like something kind of under its breath talking, and you see poking out from behind the square part of this, you see a little fellow,

a little Verthod fellow. I jumped out immediately and run over to him. Seems ill-advised. I do a lot of ill-advised things, but I'm gonna make sure this one knows I'm its friend. I'm gonna pull out of flower. Aw. Okay, so you run towards this Verthod

and it's quite small, it's smaller than you are. Oh. But you can tell it is older than you. It's probably like middley, verthod. Is it the kind with the pod on its back? Yes. Oh, I like this.

Mm-hmm. So, the Verthod is now like fully from behind the little slat and like, oh, this one of those. Yeah, hi, my name is Fennell. These are all of my friends. We are trying to find an underground ship that might be in plain sight.

We don't know what it looks like. Oh, does it look like that one? And Glimb points towards the edge of the shard down. What do you point? That look, look. Do what? Use your eyes to look down. Down, down, way down.

That one, you see it? No way. Come over here, is that the ship? That's it. Oh, cool, can we use it? This is for you, by the way. Oh, thank you. So, this hanging off the shard like off a ship,

like an emergency boat or something like that? Yeah, if you imagine that like if this were water, the water line's way low and this is like the edge of the shard is like a cliff, it's just lower. It's not like, you know, above the shark. So we couldn't see it when we were on the shark, but yeah, we looked over the edge and we saw it. Okay.

That's terrifying. Can we use that? Yes, yes. I believe so. That's what it's here for unless there's some other thing you want to do with the ship? No, just fly it. Okay.

Fly it? fly it. There's someone there to fly it. You can look at it if you want. And that's all I can think of. Just don't destroy it or burn it. No, I don't want to. Okay. I don't think, well, he- My grandfather made this ship.

Yeah. I know how to operate it. What? Yeah. Is your grandfather the? Yes. You're talking about, uh, you mean, uh, is it, uh, what's the name?

Uh, um, is it, uh, the chief of papers? No, no, no, no. His name is dreams. You mean Erix. Jeff. Erix. Erix. Erix.

Yes. Erix. Wow. Wow. I've been here at this port for a long time, and I never met someone who is related to a person who built a ship. You're welcome. I mean, I met a lot of Oramel before, but wow, you are, yeah. And the Bertha just kind of bad. Are you a big deal?

Yeah, apparently, you don't need to do that. Oh, no, no, he's all the way down. Oh, mm-hmm. Why are you prostrating all the way, not on the floor? Oh, this is an honor, it's an honor. Oh, I have to soak in this moment. It's such an honor. Thank you.

I wanna go check out the ship. How strong are the winds here? Am I able to like, say if they navigate in the air? Or is that? You would be knocked around, but you could probably. A light end. How far down is it? I would say it's about 50 feet down.

How much vine do we have? Plenty. Well, yeah, you have vine. Should I have a system. Is there a ladder? So this Verthot is still bowing down. Yes, what an honor. Oh, you want to get on the ship.

Yes. Okay, so the Verthod kind of, oh, also the Verthad has like a girth. It's a pretty big, like wide little guy. So he waddles over to the edge of the shard, and you are shocked to hear, I can't whistle, but this Verthod can whistle, man. It's like the loudest, strongest whistle you've ever heard, like, whew! Like really loud. And if you look over the side, you're probably at the side looking.

The ship starts to rise up. Can you teach me how to do this? Oh yeah, so you just tick me too. Uh-huh. And just flop. That was good. Was it? Yeah, sure.

Good, good, they learned how to whistle. Keep working on it. Someone just learned how to do that because I can't do that with the mask. Sorry. Talkma, let's peer over the side of the shod and see how far down it goes. Okay.

Be careful. So I'm gonna army crawl. Don't fall to the edge. Okay, yeah. I'm gonna walk right up to the edge. So you're being whipped by the wind and your robe is all over. over. Oh, I look epic. I've got a lot of clothes.

A lot of clothes. A lot of excess fabric, like whipping around in the wind. That medallion that was, that flower starts to flap. Oh, yeah. Maybe I take it out and drop it off the edge of the shard. It's very epic. I'm just, I'm actually going to undaintily peek over the edge on the ground. So you see the ship starting to rise and you, you see that there's a few deck hands that are kind of like working the sails and stuff. What do I see even like, I mean, it's this down. What do I see down?

Oh, yeah, okay. So it's pretty vast, right? Like, these are huge continents. So when you look down, you're not, let me think, what the weather is like. Clouds gonna. Well, gonna. Wait, hold on.

This will be in the backdrop of the endless sea full of stars. So do you like see a floating continent in outer space? We are on Banyan, right? Yeah. Okay, so below says Harkine. And so you look down and it is very, very hazy, but you see just the edge of the Harkine continent. And it's almost like an impression because it's so far away, but you can see like it's darker green and then lighter green on the side.

So you can just kind of make it out. I mean I just consider it. So, yeah, you're just kind of pensive. looking at this, you know, maybe have never seen, been on the edge of a shard quite like this, so you're kind of taken in by the sight. One day we'll get down to the very bottom and we'll get a good look at the dark sea of stars below it all.

Is that when you will be your most powerful? Only one way to find out. Yes, we must go up to go down. You gotta get up to get down. So now... I have to get down. The ship has been, the ship is now, now it's arrived. It's up at its level with the shard, the edge of the shard.

One of the deck hands rolls down a plank, a plank, not a plank, a ramp, sorry, not a plank, don't worry. Pirates now. Yeah, like puts down a plank, a ramp for you all to ascend and enter the ship. I'm gonna scramble on. Okay. Yes, I follow. Let's go guys. If you ever need to come this way again, my name is Glim.

I, I, uh, this is part, this is my port. Thank you. You are super cool and we will see you later. Thank you. Work on that whistling. Yeah. Better, better this time, I think. Thanks.

Okay, so. I'm good at whistling. You know, I feel like you need zero more practice. Are you sure? I'm still going to practice. So now you all get on this ship and there is an Armel captain who you see just kind of waiting,

looking often, you know, observing the weather and then turns around and looks at you all. Hello, Akila. Yes. Who does? Oh, look at you. It's been a while. It has been a long time.

You were just a boy when I last saw you. A growing boy. Hmm. Yes. Wow. Seems like you've found quite a group of people here. I'm Fennel. Yes. Hello.

These are all my traveling companies. Chay knew, lovely to make your acquaintance. We're his friends. That's the word. It's friends. Can call me Mott. I'm gonna try to like get Peeley's attention and direct him on to either like the deck or below decks And then go up to like the highest point of the ship what would be the crow's nest. I'm not sure how this is

It looks like a typical what we would imagine as like a typical Captain Hutt Jolly Roger that 18th century ship. Yeah, basically so there is a crow's nest I'm gonna go hang out up there. All right so you and Pili go up there. Yeah, great All right, well. Oh, and this is Tachma. Tachma. Don't look too long in your eyes. I like yell back down from the-

This captain is quite taken with Tachma. Go on. This is flirting. I'm ready. I haven't met many Zenith monks, but you're probably the most beautiful I've seen. Flattery, okay. What is?

What does that mean? Hold his gaze. Oh. She. I'm just saying. They? They? You're really beautiful.

Kila, we actually have trying to go to Zenith to bond these two so that they can be bonded. She's taken. Pretty much. It's an open relationship. It isn't romantic.

But we, you know, you get her, you get me, really. Wait, wait, wait. That I... I would be very happy with that. I'm very confused. Oh, well... Akela is down.

Is Akela, sorry, a man, woman or... Akela is a she. Okay, okay, got it. All right, well, it's a long journey, so perhaps we can enjoy ourselves. Absolutely, yes, and I'm not quite connected all the way at this point, so... What is happening? Where would you like to go? Are you selling me with a-

No, I'm. I'm learning a lot. Look, I'm very intuitive. I'm a very intuitive, Hamanu, and it seems as though, well, I might be a third wheel on this trip, and so I'll go and juge the rooms, I think. From the crow's nest, this is deeply uncomfortable. This is not flirting.

I've heard another thing. Well, where is it that you would like to go? Zenith, Zanith, correct guys? That's right. Going back home. We're going to fly right over Quill and go to Zedith. Yes. Why are you laughing?

I don't know. It's just fun to tease, isn't it? We don't have to stop it, Quill, this time. It's a flyover shard, whatever. There's a slight callback, but he understood. While you're saying this, Akila, Akila, right? Yes. Akela gives signals like, oh, what's the cell?

What, what, but, and the ship pan, the deck hands all flutter into action and you alight. Oh, oh, get it. Oh, oh, light and move a loft. Oh, well, you light aloft. A loft. You are now aloft in the overlight.

Are you the captain of this ship now? No, you're not. No, I'm not. That would be so rude. Yeah, move over. My grandpa made this. Oh, Captain Philips. I got that.

I'm the captain. No. Okay. So now you are aloft in the breeze. You're leaving Bannon and you see as you depart from the shard, you can see, you can see it grow in your, or actually get smaller and smaller. It's expanding. I'm like, you know, we have to be your vertigo. Yeah.

Fennell just like wraps herself around the. because she suddenly realizes she's terrified of not being on the ground. Are you in the crows nice up there? No, she's on the deck. She's like wrapping around the mask as much as she can just holding on for dear life. Got it.

These roots and shit. I'm going to swab the decks because I like my place is clean. All right. And this is dirty. Okay. I feel like you're still probably bleeding some. Oh, how do wounds heal?

Because I do have, I have taken a bit of damage. Um, now, ooh, I have that page open before. Wounded healing. But I do like the idea of Cheneu and like a bloodied apron bleeding onto the day. This is her property, like bleeding onto the day. Here's the thing, now that you were on the ship

and out of combat, this, you're, uh, oh, it doesn't work. It has to be, there's a science test, science test, but it has to be brilliant or better. But I think that's if you're still in combat or if you're still in danger,

but you're out of danger now and we're almost at the end. of the story today, so I think during this journey, you will have time to. Would my dramatic wound heal them? Yeah. Sweet, great. Did I make that out?

Get the swabbing. That's what I just read. Yep. Okay. Oh, the dramatics because it's the story, so at the end of the story. Yes, the party rest and prepares for further adventures unless the GM has something else in mind.

All characters may heal all dramatic wounds at this time. Yes, so you're on the ship. This is gonna take some time to get to Zenith. All right. So, yes. Are we healing back up spirit points as well? At the start of the next one, you will. Okay.

So yes, so you're now leaving Banyan. You see the continent gets smaller and smaller as you rise up. And then you start to see the bottom of quill. And now quill is many separate shards. It's a broken shard floating. and you're basically aiming between two of them. You're kind of going straight up and between... There's plenty of space.

We're doodle jumping. Doodle jumping. I haven't heard that term, but sure. Is it based on a phone game? What's that? So... Like a five-year-old phone game. So now this journey takes...

Timely. Takes the equivalent of, I want to say, like, oh, yeah, like five to five. six days. Yeah, so you have plenty of time to like relax and socialize with the captain, whatever. Is it an open bar on this ship?

Oh yeah. What's that? Is there an open bar on this ship? I want to buy the inclusive package. Okay. Like it's a cruise now? So after I'm skipping ahead, but after

about five and a half days you start to approach zenith. And you notice the overlight gets brighter because now there are fewer shards that are blocking the stream of overlight towards you. So it starts to get brighter. As you approach the underside of the shard,

you come up and you notice, again, very strong winds. Did you have a... No, I was just gasping. I was reacting. I was sorry. No, I was just like... Strong winds.

Probably. A pile of sixes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So now you safely land. So now you safely land. This Ormel captain is very skilled, and so she's able to dock really, not land, but just off of the zenith port, the edge of the shard.

Now you all are gathered on the... all are gathered on the deck. You know, your time is, you're arrived and it's time to go. And so Akela just looks you over and says, well, here you are. I hope you're dressed warmly enough, because it's pretty cold out there. I had a great time with you and with you. Thank you for letting me explore your darkness. I never knew I had so much darkness in me. Yeah, I did not anticipate that either, but I find it's really. I'll see you again. Yeah?

Well, I hope so. If you don't, just don't freeze the death or something. Oh, no way. This is a very harsh continent. I just want to remind you, no, and I take my ornamental staff, and I walk onto the port and I say, no, this is home. We have 15 more minutes, but I wish we could end. You live!

That's good, buddy. Also, like five days ago, you never wanted to come back here. Right, right, right, I know, but now it's like the only place I've ever going to go. It's the only place I'm ever going to get bonded with you. We should disembark. It was very nice to be on this ship with you. I learned a lot of things. My book on flirting is getting very full.

But also I hate this. I don't like being in the air. So I will see you later. Bye. She like bolts off the ship. Ready to be on ground. Yeah, they've just put down the rampant you're immediately off.

And you notice how cold it is as soon as you step, step on. And you notice the wind. And so, and the rest of you also exit the ship. And now, now comes the work of finding Bend. So. Yeah, before we go, though, I want to pick up, like, I'm excited to, I'm so excited to share with you. Our home world, take a look at this.

And I imagine, because we're so close to the overlay, I want to pack this snow together really like hard and it kind of turns a little crystalline, but it forms kind of a prism, I think. Like a prism, not a snowball, but you can, if you pack it close enough, it's like the light can shine through and refract in like a really fun kind of way. Oh, that sounds like a lumina, that's not what you're doing? I don't, no, no, it's just something fun.

It's like something that kids can do with the snow. Refracting the overlight. Yeah, refracting the overlight and forming forming rainbows that kind of like a rave or, you know, those kind of lights shine onto the surface of the white snow. So you disembark the ship, the cruise ship for a rave. I'm into it.

Yeah, I'm trying to just get you excited about the. What is this? This is snow. You've never, it's basically, you know how when it rains? Yes. That's water from the sky. This is just a different version of it. It's a cold version.

Cold water. Might be confusing, yes, but it's, I can explain the science to you, but that would take too long. Eat some. Will it hurt? I mean, yes, eventually. If you sit in it long enough

without any protection from the cold, yes. But I can eat it? Mm-hmm. Oh yes. It melts on your tongue. You can even catch it falling from the sky. Face plants right into the snow.

But you were wearing like nothing, right? Like you've got munk clothes. Well, I have like a leather, apron with like, yeah, like an OB-1 Canobi kind of rope, you know what I mean? But I am very skinny. Fennell sits up covered and snow goes, we should get you a coat. Well, we had the vines on the ship and we had time and I am able to craft. So I could have made some garments for people. I desperately need one. Yeah. They might not be like super thick, but the vine density, if it covers enough, I think maybe I could prevent.

Yeah, I would absolutely say during your travels, you were able to kind of like suit up basically for the cold. While you're standing here and you're two planted and having this conversation, I'm gonna have you all do a hazard test. What is that? Because it's cold. Oh my gosh, what is a hazard test?

Because I'm covered in fur. This sounds scary. Yeah. I don't even know. What do we do? What are we going to die? A hazard test is an open test. I'm gonna roll a hazard rating for Blizzard.

Oh my gosh. I hate Zedith already. Take it back. Actually, you're gonna do, I'm gonna say you guys do resistance might, I think. That'd be great. There's a lot of D-6s. A physical remand.

Yeah, so, well, if anyone can argue for otherwise, I would say, for themselves, I mean, I would say resistance might or vigor would be. I'm down for that. Yeah, either way. Yeah. Does everyone have a rating in resistance? Yes. Yeah.

Okay. Yes. Well, there you go. What about will and resolve? Resolve. I think, I would let you do resolve and might. That changes nothing. What about your will power to survive?

That's what I'm thinking. Even though your joints might be locking up just a little bit. You're just so determined. Well, the Zenith order trains on the shards, so you guys should have like a. That's true, this is your home shard. You know what, yes, I'm sorry, this is your home shard. You can use will.

You two can use will if you like. Nah, I'm good with might. Can I use? We're different people, we're different people. Okay. All right, and then, nice. Nice. Where I can add to seven, seven is my result.

I can add one to my highest role. Oh wait, oh, it's supposed to be survival in the book. Is it survival? Oh, dang. Now I wanna use, now I wanna me either. I wanna use resistance. I got zero there, I got zero. I would say let's, this is our first hazard test,

so let's use survival if you have it, if you don't use resistance. Okay, and then same virtue says whatever you we were gonna use before. Sound good? Yes, it does. Hopefully this blizzard has bad luck. Yikes, no success.

What did you? My highest was a five. You're like a little chihuahua. Oh, it's open. It's an open test, yes, and I have not rolled yet. Oh yeah. Bines wrapped around your tree and you're just like, just your face is out.

That's a nine baby. So if the spirit die result is four, do not increase the second highest result by one. There does not do anything on. Oh, I see. You can add one number to your highest number. Okay, so six. This is eight.

Oh, wow. Oh, you rolled a 20, that's great. I think that'll do it. Did every, wheeh? Six is good, I think. You know an eight, dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

You took the highest numbers. Oh, at all, you guys? Open test. Yeah, I meant to. I mean, I got a nine, but no one's talking about. No one's talking about it, so. Oh, you got a nine? Yo, she got a nine.

What? No, no, that's so mighty. Did everyone roll? J's. Yep. J's. Yes, and I will roll. There I am. Winy.

I got it. Don't look because you'll be worried about what I'm rolling. No. Oh my God, that sounded like so many things. Do you just roll all of your dice? There's like the 20s, why are there? D20s in there.

Okay, so now if the player character rolls higher, they suffer zero damage from the hazard. If my, My role is higher. It's determined the second highest single result from my hazard role and that's the amount of damage that the character suffers. So who had the highest of you are?

Nine. Nine. So good. You're sorry? Oh my God. We don't die. You don't look sorry, Elie. Not prepared for this.

Wait. What's really, you don't die. But it's cold outside. Okay, so. I know. She rolled a nine and she's a giant damage. So the second highest single result from the hazard roll was 11.

What are you doing what? The second highest? What is lizard made out of? Wow, so we all know. Actual daggers. Yeah. D-12s. Oh, wow, wow.

So. It's been training to be a blizzard's for life. Oh, that's, whoa, no. I'm not gonna do that to you. Kill us all. You know, that would mean 15 points. How much health do you have? Well, first,

We're up to full. Oh, I've got, yeah, we're back up to full. Yes, you are back up to full. Then I have 15. Okay. Fuck. So you only almost die. This giggle.

This giggle is that. She's T.B.K. We have five minutes left and I'm going to do something ridiculous, but I'm going to do it anyway because we have five minutes left and you'll be fill up next time anyway. You take the damage. 11. Yes. Okay. So, by the way, you're giving me.

Okay. So, one, two, three, one, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight, two, nine, ten, eleven, nine, nine, ten, eleven. You're so cold. You can't feel your limbs. Who's, who's dramatic? Well, I guess you all then take a lip. Wait, wait, no, I can't.

I have 10. That's the difference between what you rolled? That will kill me. The difference? Isn't it supposed to be the difference from what you rolled and what she rolled? You were right. Oh my God.

Oh my God. It's ready to do it. I haven't been here in a while. I just like the idea. So you say the difference between my second highest. Right. Otherwise, why would we roll? Otherwise, Jess, you would roll.

Okay, so then thank you. So you take two damage. All right. That's a lot better. Yeah. And what else? What was everyone else's? I was an eight.

Eight, so you take three. That was the six. Okay, so you take five. Six, yeah. Five. Cool, I'm now to have health immediately. So, half healthy stuff. Yes.

Okay. So you're all standing, your face planted in the snow too, so you quickly realize that you cannot feel your face or the front of your body. and you roll over and kind of like try to scrabble up

and you all realize that you are freezing and the vines are keeping some warmth in your body which is good but you need to get to shelter like immediately and we gotta kill some animals and make stuff out of leather too I have some scraps of leather can we go on the side? Oh wait yeah

oh don't worry okay but before we do that we know where to go yes let's quickly go to shelter can we go inside I can move You do know where to go. Yeah, because this is your shard. So you do know where to go, and you remember, you look at which side of the shard you're on, and you see off in the near, not in the too far away,

but you do see a very warm-looking stone structure, kind of like a cottage. And you can see smoke coming from its chimney. There it is, surely they'll be compassionate towards us and also towards the monks of the void. That's not, no. No, we don't say that, do we? No, I just mean, no one last to us.

Yes, that's right. So we don't mention that. Let's go. I can't kill my face. So you all start walking. Maybe the three of you who took some damage, one of you gets on the back of the shovel test, Longono helps you, you know.

So you all are a very cold, frozen party. Oh, I put the dragonfly under my armpits. Okay. Thank you. I have my wings gathered around me standing on the back. You can go in my other arm, Talkma actually takes great pleasure. We have a minute and a half, so I'm just going to wrap us up.

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