Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 106 - The Endless Atheneeum

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

Vox Machina race against time to earn the blessing of the Goddess of Knowledge while Vecna continues to gain power. Guest starring Darin De Paul.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I believe there's a merchant. Yes, there is, and I just realized I had it on and I hadn't announced it yet. Oh, but I'm like, ugh. So we got these back in the store. Chee-ch-ch-ch-ch-o- Yeah, what kind of is. We've got them red now, and we've got them on this chain and on this chain, rope thing, cord,

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I can't tell. It's a pencil pack. This is all our one. I may have like asked them to make this, because this is all great. Okay, so we all put, we have our own Pencils, everybody has a pencil. We've got the, how do you want to do this pencil?

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He just keeps on giving. Thank you, Laura. You're welcome. I'm excited. Yeah, inevitable. Mixed up. Show, you only have about 400 tickets Is that true? Yeah.

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It's going to be a madhouse. Yes. And there may or may not be, I don't know if I should announce this. One of us is going to die that night and I don't mean a character. We may or may not have special merchandise that you can only get at the live show. What? But surely it will be in the store afterwards, Laura? Nope, it's just a live show, thank you.

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getting information and perhaps a blessing or two to aid them in their coming battle against Vecna, the intent to ascend entity, the long, I guess missing and recently returned Archelich that plagued the end of the age of Arcanum. You have since discovered the location of his rebirth, followed into the shadow fell through the city of Thorem Fala, took down his tower of Entropis, did battle, and nearly fell. You escaped in time, and in this recovery period have been seeking out information on how to stop him before this ascension occurs, and by what tools necessary. You've traveled to the Blessed Fields of Elysium, where you met Pike's deity, the Everlight, Sarenrae, where

she was ceasing. You made your way to the fortress of the sun, where you met with the Donfather Pellor, took his challenge, and received his blessing. You were then given him from him from about the whereabouts of the knowing goddess, under the domain of knowledge, who had been hidden away since her wounding during the calamity. The key to her realm was apparently hidden within not an object, but an individual.

And with given loose information about the you tracked down a small home in the forested regions outside the pools of Wittabakh in the Cliff Keep Mountains. There you spoke with this individual, this individual, Sprig the Abnoxious, and then were immediately assailed by a number of assassins sent by the whispered one, Vecna, apparently keeping watch on your current location and able to send such groups of assassins with vast haste. You did battle, managed to save the life

of Sprig the Abnoxious, and through conversation unveiled that he was indeed a key to this realm. Kielas, by entwining your hands with the rest of the party, and focusing on this strange magical essence hidden within Spriggs' form, you completed your plane shift spell. You found yourself suddenly within a dimension of an endless library, shelves of winding books and tomes that seem to spiral beyond sight. And in the midst of this amazing atmosphere, a voice She called you to a central portion of the chamber, and there it seems you've come across the knowing mistress I own herself there awaiting your arrival.

Did we see her? Did we see her? You did. Okay, is she old or young? I just can't remember. So, I'm gonna go over this. Okay. So, to bring us back into the moment.

Just gonna paint a happy little god. Just be a happy little god. So you glance around, your vision darting from shelf to stack, the dark-lit area is empty of anything but empty vessels carrying books. Until you see it, the shelves have stopped ahead to reveal a circular common area within the library, where the ground domes downward, an 80-foot concave pit of cushions and tables, all standing at odd angles without sliding, holding teacups and writing implements against gravity, as you know it. Long, spiraling streams of silver, blue, and gray silk descend from the supposed ceiling that is

beyond your sight, the material resting in gentle piles amongst the cushions, sorry microphone, against the cushions. Sitting within the center of the dome, no larger than a normal person, is an older woman of long, wavy silver hair. Her olive skin is somewhat weathered with wrinkles. But the warmth of her smile and her vibrant purple eyes

put you at ease. Her blue and white robes tumble out from her form in tendrils of parchment, that snake Take through the pillows like roots of a giant tree. This is the mistress, and she beckons you forward. Step forward. Oh, yeah, I think we should. Are we like on the edge of the bowl?

Is she in the bowl, and we're on the edge of the bowl? Yeah, you guys are on the edge of it. She's in the very center of it. Are we going to go into the bowl? Are we allowed? Nothing seems to be holding you back. I'm going to start. Oh, Ayun, oh goddess of knowledge,

oh Lord who knows all, You know. But I... Let me ask you a question. And you see, I didn't phrase that as a question, because I know how God's work, and that probably would have been my question, and then I just to talk to a turnip,

which I've done, found it pleasant. That being said, this is my question. The next thing out of my mouth is going to be my question. Why did you choose me to be your key? nothing, I'm a coward. Why would you ever choose me? Good question. She opens her arms as you stand at the edge of this dome precipice, and you watch as the tendrils kind of unfurl, kind of pulling back a bit, reveal it small pathways to walk down toward her, and her arms kind of open and her welcoming

motion. Yeah, yeah. I'm walking in. Let's go in. Take a tumble. The purpose in choosing you was, as with all the other keys I've chosen before you, an unlikely choice. You were at odds with many of my, but I saw within you still the seed of the seeker of knowledge. So, in that balance, I found a proper vessel, someone who, at what I was. at once would not be the choice that I would make to hide my key. Thank you. But a person not beyond the realm of redemption within the domain that I look over.

Thank you. Now come, please. Sit, you've come a long way. I'm curious as to what your reasons are for coming to me this hour, and I wish to see if my assumptions are correct. I don't know already. The goddess of knowledge that's implied in the title. Not insulting anyone.

Like, knock, knock. Who's there? You would know. You watch as her stoic expression curls into a smile and her head kind of falls back a bit to a small chuckle. She's... Humor is perhaps a bit of thin in these things. thin in these walls as of late.

It's nice to have a land. Thank you. Excellent. Who was it, though? It was me the whole time. It was Larkin, my friend. Oh, you know what? Larkin.

I don't know who that is. Many don't. Well said. O mighty Ayoon, we are here to ask you for help. For a great danger, you might already know this, but a great danger has befallen the world. There is one who has come from another plane to become a god himself, Vecna. And he, for all we know, he may already have achieved godhood, but he's well on his path. I know much about this individual you speak, and I had assumed this was the reason for your arrival.

Do you know if he's been successful? not sense to me change and it costs. Cosmetology of the... I thought that was like hair and bacon. It's a different word. I'm not wearing outlining. I mean, not doing school. Either one. Her domains expand beyond just knowledge, guys.

Hence the unfurling. I've been thinking about it's fine or express beard. It's Frenchy. Yeah. Beauty school trap. No, no. But no. You see, this is this.

Wagner is in direct opposition to what I represent, and I believe has taken some precautions to keep from my distant sight. So while I have assumptions and what information makes its way to me, there is a bit of relying on you to fill in the gaps. Do you wish to know? Well, do you intend to return to face this entity, or have you chosen or found champions in Exandria who would rise up against this individual.

I realize that was an option. Hadn't to go to us. Wow, maybe that's very self-centered of us now that I think about it. We tend to face him down ourselves. Yeah, we want to fight. We're heading his direction, no matter what. Do you think you have the strength required to do this?

Well, we're gathering the strength right now. Some among us have already, the one who's making a weird face has already He's already sworn allegiance to another god. Yeah, hashtag blessed. Her eyes closed for a minute and she nods. The coming fight does in need, indeed warrant the aid that these journeys would muster.

And I can see the touch of my brethren on you already. And she kind of notions towards Vax and Vax and Pike. Even with these gods, we are still, there is still much doubt as to our success. We are not certain, we are not. We are not. We are at once and we like, best hopeful. Like if this is a broom motion,

like we were just getting like swooped, was it? It works. Yeah. She gives us. Swip on. Hennel mentioned something about the prime trammels. I was wondering if that would surface.

Well, if you would surface. if you are indeed here seeking my gift, note that I do not grant it likely, for those who are not already claimed, and she glances around the rest of the group, and Grog Strongjaw. Just being within my realm is of near a painful discomfort to you.

For that, I apologize, and can see you are not to be my vessel. It's okay, Grohl. Oh, a roller coaster. I was going up and then right now. That was cold. Thank you for your gaze, my lady. Grob just invented amusement park rides.

Keelith of Zepra, you have been carved from empathy and acceptance. While you do indeed pursue understanding, my gifts find little purchase on your path of responsibility. Percival, Frederick Stein von Musil, Kowalski, Doro III. She knows everything. Jesus. You have always been a student of knowledge and a seeker of truths. I'm fond of your hunger for understanding, but you do keep.

your secrets and are selfish with your discovery still. You have much growing to do, Scanlan Short-hauled. You are a buffoon. At least that is the facade you craft and display to the world while you weave tales of the experiences around you and share your stories with any who would listen. You wrestle the mysteries of Exandria From their hidden places And shout them To any who would listen And inspire the loss to find purpose

You hold the blade of the White Duke And walk a parallel path You are a storyteller And I am the keeper of all stories I shall task you with my challenge Not to question Your infinite knowledge and judgment but my stories are

more of little barroom tales and silly poems to pass the time. I would hardly call them epic histories of civilization. For now, perhaps. Stories in the end, just make sure yours is a good one. Do you think that your compatriots

would have the strength now to rise against such a scourge? Had you not been there to lift their spirits with these tails. Deeper than you let on. And a cube. And a cube. She glances over a you with a knowing look. If you have faith in me,

I will have faith in you and trust you and your knowledge, and I will try to complete any task you ask of me. Then let the challenge be placed before you. Scanlan Shortalt, somewhere within this library lies the book that contains the incantation of isolation, the arcane right that banished the chained oblivion. You have one hour to retrieve it. Your friends can help you, but you can only present one tone to me. And should it be incorrect, then I shall await another warrior of keved mind to find me and accept my gift. For I can only guide one strong enough to face the foe before you. Return to me when you are certain you have found it.

Your challenge begins. Now, and with that, her entire body just vanishes and a gust of wind. All the little tendrils of paper flutter out. And come to rest within the dome, and you look up and see the immensity of this library. of this library. I had a couple more questions. Incantation of isolations? I don't.

I speak primordial. We don't know the name of the book, right? So we can't locate object. There's a tone that contains the incantation of what? Isolation. Isolation. Which was what they used. What is with this pencil?

It was like dipped in ketchup or something. Don't use that. Use one of your own. But it needs to be sharp. Wait, wait. Just push really hard. How do we do this? How do we do that?

Sprigg, yes. Do you have a tome in your place that has the incantation of isolation? Not anymore. Oh shit. Bernie, Bernie, Ashie, bye-bye. Do you remember the name of it? No. I'm going to try, cast, locate object, and just say I'll cast it on the

tome that contains the incantation of isolation. Try it, why not? All righty. Could it work like that? I don't know. It was, it was. An object known to you as long as you've seen it up close, within 30 feet at least once. Oh. Really?

Yeah, it's the spell I am now. Well, describe or name an object that is familiar to you. You sense the direction of the object's location. As long as that object is within a thousand feet of you. Okay. So you cast it. So you cast the spell. Oh, yeah.

And you think about it, and you concentrate. Nothing. I'm going to kneel down and pray to to the Dawn Father, since he was one of the ones that helped fight the Chained Oblivion to see if he could guide us it off. Okay. You close your eyes and focus,

and you begin to beseech the knowledge and wisdom of the Don Father. Two minutes passed with the no answer. Two minutes. You guys can keep doing things while I'm doing this. During that two minutes, I'm gonna scan the room. Is there anything, is there any kind of design or purpose to the layout of the room?

Anything that stands up besides books. As you glance around the room, quickly, you see there are probably two dozen bookshelf aisle openings all around this central dome area. You begin to look around, you don't see any specific signs. Go ahead and roll a perception check. I'm going to use my last luck, the sleep cycle. Natural 20.

Oh. Glancing about, you don't see any signs on the books. You do notice, though, however, there are hundreds of those somewhat spectral keepers in the library that are moving tomes through and organizing and relocating things. Just like you saw when you first entered. The calamity. They're spectral. Right?

They're spectral, yeah. You can't. I'm going to go try to talk to one of them. Okay. No, one of them is currently pulling books out. And you can see the basic shimmering outline of like a humanoid form, and they're just taking a book off and stack you it and finding another. Hello, sir.

Do you have language? Can you speak? Can turns and looks to you for a second? Can you help us find a book? It contains an incantation of isolation. Or about the chained oblivion? Or about the chained oblivion? Where are the...

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No chance. I'm up on my broom and see if I get a ping on my locate object. Before we start flying around, what do we know? When was this last used, this book? 886 years ago or whatever, right? Yeah, eight hundred twelve years ago. Wow, you know that? Right.

Well, it's 812 whatever PD, right? Yep. Okay. 812 years ago. Divergence. So we're looking for a very old book. Yes. Who was used by Ioun?

Who is it used by? Potentially. Or the Donfather helped seal with Ione. Correct. So it's some sort of a wizard's two, sorcerers? I have a question. Didn't we, didn't one of us have a potion or scroll of language speaking or language? Somebody did. Didn't we have that? Do any of the tomes have titles on them though? On the spines? Glancing about and some of them do. They're all in Celestial.

I'm going to read off some of the titles. Primordial. None visibly currently in primordial. Is that the language they used before the... I feel like Celestio would be would, but the Donfather would speak though. Celestial would be close, I would think, more closer than primordial, but primordial might be in there. So make an investigation check. Who else is looking through books? I don't speak celestial, so it doesn't really matter. Well, make separate investigation checks. Uh, 12.

We're making investigation checks? Anybody who's searching currently, we're doing something that involves searching through books. Ooh. Twenty-one. Twenty-one. Twenty-one. Twelve. Okay.

Ooh, that's good. 22. All right. You guys begin just fanning out. And it's so overwhelming, it's so immense. There's just thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of books within your immediate visual vicinity. And like I said, about 150 feet beyond you,

it just seems to like fade into shadow. And the more you walk towards that shadow, it just reveals more books. And they curve and spiral and almost seem to intertwine in that kind of Escher painting like advance towards the ceiling that you don't see. Does it seem like some are older than others? Yeah, they seem scattered.

As you're going around, you find summer, The celestial, the further way from the center you get, you do find some sections that are other languages. Use D.C. some that are imbiscite. You don't find any that are primordial yet. Scattered amongst or categorized by language? The ones that are nearest to the center here are all names.

They are all names of people. Okay. So we need to find one that's not a name of a person. Are there, but... But who used the incantation of isolation? Perhaps if we find the book of the user, we will find their spells. Does Paolo have a book?

Would they have a book? Are they dead? I guess if they're- No, it continues writing, right? Potentially there's a book. So there's a book that says Pelo on it. Or I'm gonna like the Dawn Father or something. Or if Vecna is a dead man,

maybe a book with Bechna's name on it? I don't know why that, the incantation of isolation would be. Hey, Percy, are these, Books arranged in any sort of order. Chronological name, anything? Oh, you didn't see anything when you looked? You're having a hard time really finding

any sort of pattern to the books. Can I look at the book binding though? Does some books seem like they would fall apart more? Yeah, I mean, there's a wide variety of ages and types. And it's hard, once again, like the sense of the pattern of the sections of books, some of them seem to be clustered together and something seem to have similar colorations.

The further into the side and the further out you get from this, the more kind of scattered they get. It's almost like the organization begins from the center and either are reorganized for reasons that are beyond your comprehension. And you get the sense as you begin to hear the slight, you got the natural 20? Yeah.

So you've been kind of glancing about and looking out. You kind of pick up the slight sound. And you look up and you can see some of these shelves that are coming down from the ceiling, kind of stopping about 30 feet above you, are sliding and moving. The actual library seems to have some sort of slow, rearranging movement to it.

Is there any type of a, I start looking at the ceiling. Is there any type of, what are those, like the observatory, like, what are those called, Percy? The celestial tell you the star thing. Oh, like some sort of, like the giant,

astrolade or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ashley, you know those big rotating things and you can put in the year, in the month, in the calendar. Oh, right, right. Nothing you've seen so far. Ory. Awesome. Ascalade does ORI.

Do you have any ideas? What am I looking for? Perception check? Yep. That's good. She called on you. 30 total. Looking around your current vicinity, you've seen nothing like that.

And you have a pretty clear beat on the bowl. Are there any books in the bowl? There are a handful that are on one of them. I'm going to just take a look at what's in the bowl. I'm John Bin's not throwing pillows around. Does she leave anything cool behind? As you're throwing the pillows, some of them kind of fling off the side, you uncover what looks to be a couple of empty cups of tea.

I drink them. All right, you get some kind of stale library temperature tea. You do find a couple of large books on one of the nearby tables. Oh, I found a large book on one of the nearby tables. I'm going to read the names of these books. Okay. One of them, the name is Jena Kumor. Doesn't ring a bell. And another one appears to be a book that pertains to the attempts of creating alchemical transitions from one base element to another. Essentially, what was the attempt at a philosopher stone-like object long ago and the various trials and tribulations and unfortunate deaths that occurred because of it?

Interesting. Do I see anything different, 150 feet up? Does the change in perspective on the room below reveal anything? The change of perspective shows you, one, you do finally see a ceiling. And it's like two mirrored libraries in the ceiling and the floor. There are bookshelves that come up and stop, and there are bookshelves that come down and stop. Oh. And you look up and you can see there are other spirits kind of hanging upside down, walking along the pathways above as well. Oh, oh. Oh, Castlevania Symphony of the night. Wait, so there's, it's like a mirror image, the top of the top of the middle of the night. image the top and bottom? Kind of, yeah.

But they're not exact mirror images. There's just a bottom and a top part of the library. Oh, wow. What if that line is the demarcation between the divergent? Pre-divergence and post-divergents. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Go up and in. I can't.

Here, get on the broom, Scan, then. We'll fly up. All right, so Scanning, you jump on her broom. You fly up. Who's taking a look, make an investigation check. I'm going to take a look, but I'm going to I'm going to pull out my Ayn stone and just clutch it in my hand and kind of close my eyes and pray on it for a second. Hope that guides me in some way. Roll a religion check.

Religion check. Come on, come on. Good money. Okay, well that's terrible, but... Luck. I don't have luck. You're a guy, right guy. Can you inspire yourself? I can inspire myself.

That poor bastard. I will inspire myself with a little song. Okay. Scanlancito, he's got tiny feet, when he likes to cast spells, he does it with his pito. When you go to sleep, better check your chitos, because after he eat those, he likes to take a chito. All right.

Give that book. Yeah, you earned that D12. That's a 12. Yay! All right, so that brings it up to 12. 21. Okay, this is your investigation check to search about. Oh, no, it's a religion check.

Yes. Clutching the Ayoon stone, as you sing this song, the stone kind of glows ever so faintly in your hand, and you glance up and you can see about ten of the various spectral librarians that are wandering have stopped and they're all just looking at you, seemingly temporarily distracted or entranced by the song. It's good time to talk to one. Okay.

Oh! You land next to all the librarians, and as soon as you land, There's like a moment of quiet and they all go about their business again. Oh shit. On behalf of the mistress Ayoun, I speak in her name and I'll hold up the stone. It's always good to lie in the fucking peasants. Well, she tapped me, she tapped me, it's not a lie. She tasked me with this.

We seek a book, we would love some help. And it contains the incantation of isolation. Maybe about 812 years old-ish, maybe 813. No one seems to be paying attention to your words. Maybe you have to speak that shit. Maybe sing it. Maybe you have to sing it. I have to sing it.

Pull out of mythcarver. Pull out of the cover and sing. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I pull out a sword. It's a bardic sword. Okay, you know, sing their spirit. Just sing like you're, you know, like it's a microphone.

Okay. Just take a look. It's in a book. Yes, yes. The Scanlan rainbow. I can read anything. Oh my God. Oh my God. You watch as the same librarians all of a sudden stop what they're doing and turn back towards you.

The sword is kind of vibrating and ringing. It's expanding the notes of your song, as is the nature of Myth Carver. You seem to have their attention. Now ask, now sing and question. It's been about 20 minutes, by the way. Oh, Jesus. I mean, I would... I sing to you in desperation. I'm looking for a tome of isolation. We need to find a tome so we can go home and kill a guy named Vecna.

It would really make us, nothing rhymes with Vegna. Rule of performance check. 29. Yeah. Whoa. You watch as the librarians kind of kind of to gather, like they're up above you, and they gather closely to you as you're singing this song,

and as you finish your final verse, they all look a little confused, and they all begin to shift as one unit around at the edge of one of the bookcases. Scanlan! Scallon! What, what? We have an earring.

No, right? Sorry. The library, keep quiet. Your stories, it's your storytelling. Keep telling the story about the calamity. Maybe if you talk about Vecna some more, and what happened? I don't know my.

History. Roll a history check. Tell him, heckna, rhymes with Vecna. Oh, thanks. If it helps at all. 23. Okay, I mean. Really good at lying.

That's true. Vekna didn't have too much involvement in the calamity directly. The calamity mainly involved the gods battling and involved. The chain oblivion. The chain oblivion involved the ceiling of that deity during one of the major battles of the calamity. the calamity, though those are elements of the history that pertain to the calamity that you recall. But we're following the little surge of spectraals.

Okay, I'm just gonna keep talking, I guess. The book we're looking for is fraught with insanity. It dates back to the time of calamity. Yeah! It's about a guy with oblivion chains. You know his name. What's his name, yo? Did a chain of blimp?

Did they change oblivion? Oh, God. You cannot drug. Because he's sealed. Because he's sealed. Oh, my God. Oh, fuck. We are those people.

Ben Manuel just turned it out. Yeah. Sorry. All right. So, as you continue to sing, the more, with each beat, each name that's mentioned that deals with the calamity and the chained oblivion, you watch as their pace seems to quicken a bit. And then as the singing kind of

slows, they begin to slow down again. There's a specific correlation and drive between your storytelling and your song singing and apparently the drive in which they're pushing towards your... Keep telling a story, just keep telling the story. Tell him the song about Vecna just might wreck you. Okay, okay. It's close, it doesn't work.

Okay, I got it. Here's Prigg, yelling from down below, as he doesn't have any earring. If we don't act soon, Vecna might just wreck you. I got it in there for you. Tell them about your neck, Ma. Oh, yeah. Wait, what? If you're discussing your neck to your mother,

you would- What? Oh, Christ. People get paid for that. Oh, God. Call back to earlier discussion. Nobody knows. Oh, God, I hope I get it. I get it.

The book is eight centuries of Or so I'm told. Yeah. It's fraught with mystery. It's teeming with history. So please listen to me and don't kiss me because I really need this book right now. Roll another performance second.

Yes! Come on. No. Inspire yourself. 22. 22. Okay. They continue to push at a brisk pace and you watch as other of the special Liberians' to gather into this group, and it's now a cluster about 25 of them that are like snaking

around these bookcases and traveling at a pretty fair pace, which once was walking pace and then went to a jogging pace. They're now like darting through, and they're leading you quickly away from the center of the library where everyone else seems to be clustered. Yeah, so the two of you kind of following and swishing behind them, you're going over and around bookcases. Some of the bookcases you see have like giant holes in the center and you can kind of dart through and dive past. The speed is increasing to the point where the wind's starting to kick up in your hair, and you're kind of amazed at the speed of these librarians and the fact that they're being driven by your very song, and also the fact that you have

no idea how far away the rest of your friends are in this library, and this library seems to just go on and on and on. You continue forward for another 10 minutes or so. So you've hit just over the 30-minute mark at this point, and you feel this little pulse in the stone. I do continue to inspire. I will do one more. I'll recite a poem. This little gnomie went to the heavens. This little gnomie wants to go home.

This little nomi is looking for a book. This little nomi is trusting I own. This little nomi wants to go wee, wee, we, all the way to this tome. That's right. I did it. Roll a performance check with advantage. National 20.

Didn't even need it. Didn't even need it. So, you, the speed is dangerous to the point where as trying to follow them, you almost lose sight of them a couple times. You being the driver of this, I need you to go ahead and make, this would be a perception check and make sure you can keep them in your vision. Yeah, I'm getting it got bars, y'all. 22. 22, okay. That's enough.

You nearly lose them a few times, and you're like, you have to take a second and kind of listen out there, and you see a faint glow of their spectral form in the distance, go there, so you continue to get chase. Then eventually, at about the 40-minute mark or so, you come to the outside of what looks to be, and what's interesting too is a lot of these bookcases are made of different materials, something like dark wood, light wood,

some of them are like metal and various substances. You come to what appears to be on the ceiling, jammed in. It looks like a bookcase, but it's made of a very, very dark, like, almost slate gray metal. And it has chains across it and a series of locks on it. And you see them all the librarians are just clustered and encircled around it right now. Can they open it up? Can you open it up? Find somebody that can pick them locks. There's no response to them.

They don't have physical, wait, they can pick books. They can pick books, but they don't seem to have books. Vax, can you hear me? I don't know, 500 feet. We've been traveling for... I know from... You've been traveling for a while to your tooth. You can try to pick it.

You can try. Come on, multi-class and into that road. Yeah. All right, so you fumble around and quickly pull out your... My set. Yeah. All right, go ahead and roll a D20, add your dexterity modifier and your proficiency bonus. My proficiency bonus.

I'm going to inspire her. Okay. I'm so vain. I probably think the song is about me. I'm so vain. Yeah, I got a one on your inspiration. You roll well. But I wrote well, so it doesn't matter.

Hopefully. 18 plus my dexterity modifier plus my proficiency bonus. Yeah. 30. Wow. Yeah, she rolled a 19. The DC was 30. Oh, that's right.

It's for me. Plus inspiration, no, plus inspiration was 31. All right. So that. Yeah, the DC on that was 30. Oh, Gbies. Wow. So you.

There are DCs up to 30? Sure. Yeah. 30 is considered nearly impossible. In godly realms. We are dad asses now. Don't say, what happens when you say that shit? Don't say that.

Stop it. No, I'm just saying. There's difficulties are going to get harder. Oh, okay. In God realm, it will be. Yeah. Yeah. Godlock.

You say God and I go, uh-uh. So, as you work your way down, down the chain, you get through a few of them, and there's one big lock in the center that is kind of bolted into this, what looks to be a big double doorway or hinged opening to this bookcase. And this one takes you a few moments to get into, and it snaps your lock pick. And as soon as you hear the tink, your heart sinks, but you still have a little bit of leverage and you push forward on the broken pick, and it's just enough to get the tumbler to click in. So your loft pick is busted. You're gonna have to get a new one. However, it does open on one side.

Oh my god. That was the hardest lock I've been picked, I swear. You open and you can see what appear to be about 25 different books of different shapes, sizes, colors, all ancient that are all in this small loft section. Are any of the spectraals like looking at one specifically? No, they are all just at this side. Can you do your ironstone? Sure, sure, sure. I'll black light it. Is it glow?

Is it glow for anything in particular? They're all speckled. You take your iron stone, and as you go across, it doesn't seem to have an effect. All right, I'm going to just quickly scan the books to see if any of them look particularly old. Can I read any of them? What languages do you know?

Elvish, common, undercommon, abyssal and draconic. And you? Not much. No Marquesian and common. Okay. There are a handful, let's say about 10 of them you cannot read. There is one book that has nothing on the spine, it's just blank. You see about five of them appear to be an abyssal.

And you're reading through them, a lot of them talk about, they are history books that talk about the Lord of the Hells. There's one that speaks on rites and rituals of sacrifice. There's one that talks about the annihilation of a race that no longer exists in the world during the Age of Arcannum. There's one that talks about the... the birth of the room children. There's a number of, there's all these sort of books here

that I'll talk about different things, but nothing seems to stand out to you as the tome might be looking for. Well, I could potentially try to grab all of them and shove them in the bag of colding. And then what? How many minutes are left and how far are we from our friends? You have about 15 minutes left

and it's about 10 minutes of travel. Oh, shit. We could take them all back and see if anyone can read. It seems pretty shitty, just dump them out pile, but I don't know what else to do. We can bring them back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's what spirits will put out.

The one that has no, nothing on the binding. Can I just open that and flip through real quick? Yeah, you pull it up. I start grabbing other ones and putting them in the bag. You pull up the one with nothing on it. It's like a, it's a very thin book. It's only about that wide or so, and it's like a dark gray leather. It looks damaged.

It looks like part of it's burnt and kind of scarred up on the outside. There's no words in the cover and you open it up, and it's about four pages that are blank. that are blink. This is the thing. See if you can see it. See what can you do? Do you have a spell that lets you see things?

Reveals things? Cup of Christ. I do not. I do not. Talk to it. Okay, sure. Oh yeah. Sing to it or something.

Sure. I'll sing to a book, Matt. What is in school? Read to me. Of times gone by, can it be? You are here when a bunch of gods died. Okay, that's all I get. Okay. Doesn't seem to have any effect.

Doesn't seem to respond to the singing. Don't tell anyone I sang to a book. I won't. I won't. You just keep saying I'm just taking books. We've got just not enough time. It takes you about a minute of just throw them all in there. 25 books. 25 books.

Let's get back. Fuck. All right. Let's go. It's four minutes. All right, you guys dart back. You get low enough to the point where you're in between the two bookcases. The heights vary, and at some cases you're having to like suddenly shift up and over to avoid slamming into the side of a large bookcase.

So you're just shooting through this kind of, it's almost like an up and down version of the Star Wars entry to the Death Star. Thank you. My. The locate object never pinged, my incantation of isolation locate object? Uh, interestingly enough, thank you for reminding me of that. As soon as he pulled the book out, the one that he's holding, the one with no text on it, it pinged. Oh shit, I described a bunch of books, but that's the one. Are you sure?

I mean, it's gotta be, and it's you. Keep looking at it while we're flying, see if you can figure it out. Hold it upside down. Hold on to me though, because you're going to pretty fast. Listen to, I'm gonna listen to it. Okay. Kana check. 13 plus 5, 18. 18, okay. As you're like starting by, you're like clutching your side and kind of with your hand around or waist kind of reading through it and like,

you almost lose it a couple times. Plus Jack of All Trades? Plus what's total? So 21. 21. You get the sense that there is something magical about it. I would say you can't put your finger on it, but there's, it's like there's, what faint arcane essence that you can kind of sense just from your usage of spells and the feeling of releasing spells Like the charging release of arcane energy You get the sense of that release a little bit from the book like it's almost wanting something. It's pulling something very faintly Tease it. What spell? I don't want to hurt it Threatened it place the place the mythcarver on it place miscarver on it. Okay I'll place myth carver on it and

I don't know what to cast on a book make a dexterity saving I'll cast friends on it. Oh God, that was almost so bad. Caste on it? Sure. Okay. As you kind of released the cantrip, the book seems to, it absorbs the magic, but no reaction.

28. 28. As you dart around the corner, one of the shifting bookcases comes right in front of you and you just die out of the way in time, Scaling, you barely hold on. I need you to roll a strength check. Oh, God. Can I hold on to his wrist, help out?

Not good. It's like a mom, bat mom, you know? This would be a strength saving throw, yeah. This sort of. Ten. Ten? You just barely, the book's like, you catch it, right as it falls,

and you hold it in your hand. What if you write in it? Yeah, what if you write in it? And say, hey, I need the incantation of isolation. What if it talks back? Right in the book? No, I never watched Harry Potter. Jesus, right in the book?

I'm talking about that later. I've never read it, I'd never write it, I'd never write it. Do you have a quill? Can you write something? I must have a quill, right? I'm a storyteller. You have to pull it out of your pouch, yeah.

Okay, I'll pull out my quill. And your inkwell? Jesus, while we're flying? This seems like it's a bad idea. You want to try it? No! How about when we land? Did you cast friends on it?

Did it work? No, it absorbed the spell and seemed to like it, but nothing happened. What else can you do to imbue it with magic? I have the ion stone, but it doesn't do anything. As you're rushing, then you're making another dexterity saving throw. Oh, jeebus. Oh, God. Okay. 24, 25, 27.

Wush, you just yank out of the way of another one that seems a shift. It's one that goes from ceiling to floor. It's one solid bookcase that just comes right in the way. You manage to dart around the side, make another strength saving throw to hold onto the book. Oh, that's about, that's 17. 17, okay. What could you cast with it?

So the book you hold onto with one hand and you pull it back and the pages kind of flap a little bit in the wind. I'll try to cast a more powerful, spell into it without hurting it though. That's the thing. If I do like lightning, what if it burns the fucking book? Sucked it in. I'll do thunderwave on it, right? The Thunderwave, the first level spell? No, no, no, no, yeah, shoots things out. Don't you have, like, suggestion or, or? Crazy laughter or something? Yeah, I'll just, I'll dominate monster. That's a super high level spell. What level spell is that? Eight. Eight level spell, dominate monster in the book. Okay,

So as you're flying through you, cast the spell into the book, and the book, it takes the entirety of the spell into it, and you watch as suddenly text in bolts across all of the pages from the inside. The book is now filled with scribblings and writing. What language is it? I don't know, what language is it?

It appears to be common to you. Oh, it's a notebook. It's somebody who was figuring this out as they were writing it. You can answer over your shirt. shoulder and it's empty. Are you sure something's there because I think you might be crazy. Yes, I have a beautiful mind. Where that you arc down into the center of the library where you see the large dome where you first met Ayoon.

You're not sure how much time you have left, but it's down to the wire. Go, go. Do I see any words that say isolation or incantation or anything? It's only like a small book. It's a small book. It's a small book. I like to read things and really understand me. Oh my God.

The script on the cover does, it's a little, it seems in a weird way, the best I could say is a Google Translate version, but it loosely translates to the Tome of isolation. Oh, it's like the whole thing. It's a cookbook. She just asked from the Tome, right? You got it. Yeah. We're good, we're good. Alone, I am Tome. Yeah, basically, yeah.

She disappeared. Where is she? She's going to reappear. Maybe. Let's go down to her bowl. Yeah, we're at the bowl. All right, so let's go down into the bowl and wait for her to ride. You guys, land in the center there.

What's everybody else doing right now? I barrel rolled out of the way as they rush by and ran next to them. I was sitting on the couch. I've been digging through the pillows. Okay. Looking for change to the couch. Oh, you know that heckna could rhyme with Vecna?

Did you hear when I heard when you yelled it? Oh good, just trying to help. It was the neck ma that I couldn't come up with a way. Have you speaking to your mother, let's say? Yeah. And you're pointing at your neck. You're such a pain in the neck, ma. Exactly.

Pain in the neck, ma. Pretty good. Looking for Vecna, he's pain in the neck, ma. Fight him, I say, heck no. I wish you would have been chosen by high-own. As soon as that happens, the wind picks up, and for a moment you kind of close your eyes from the sudden burst of air into your face,

and as you kind of reopen and adjust, there in the center of the dome where she was before, you see the knowing mistress. There resting, her arms kind of crossed in front of a rope. in front of her robes and she looks out. So are you to present your findings? I just casually blow the hair out of my face. And walk over to her and say,

oh, mighty, mighty goddess. It was a challenging challenge. But I think you'll be pretty happy with the results. and as I hold up the book, I'll cast wrist pocket and make it disappear. Oh God, oh it's God! Just kidding. And it's back. She doesn't flinch. This is what we've found for you.

I hope it pleases you. And this is your final choice. You know, we didn't actually look at the other ten books. We just filled an answer. Is that your final lesson? Yes, yes. With conviction, I, I, I firmly believe that this is the correct book.

She takes and looks out of. It has been a while since I thumbed through these pages myself. This will do you well in the coming fray. And she hands it out to you. Can I still see the writing? Yeah. I'll cherish it all way. So, you who have wandered the vast library that surrounds you,

through your knowledge, through your magic, magnetic, telling, spinning of yarns through your knowledge of history, perseverance, and apparently decent grip, have managed to return to me and complete the challenge I said before you. And for that, I grant my grace unto you for the coming fray, Scanlon Shorthold.

And it's a little off putting it first, But in her forehead where you saw, if you heard two kind of purple eyes, a third eye opens up in the center of the forehead. And it seems to glow for a second, and you watch is on Scanlan. This kind of warmth fills your body, and you stand up straight instinctually. And you guys watch as a strange purple glow appears in the center of his forehead in the same place where her eye was. Oh, you have a third eye! Is it cool or is it gross? That's cool.

It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. Checks will dig. Yep. It's a ride, you're good. It gently fades away, the warm vanishes, and you're restored to yourself.

So, that given the case, Yeah, buddy! You have the tone of isolation. Oh my gosh. And the blessing of the knowing mistress. Oh, wow. You chose. What?

That is the cup of a carpenter. Okay, I gain plus two to my intelligence. Oh. Just all the timesies? As a bonus action, I can channel the omniscience of Ayun for one hour whenever you successfully hit a creature with a spell or attack. You can learn one of the creature's stats of your choice from the following list. AC, senses, saving throw bonuses, damage resistances, damage resistances, damage immunities, damage vulnerabilities. During this hour, you also have advantage on initiative roles and on saving throws.

Once this ability is used, it cannot be used again. For like a week. Okay. How many things can you learn about? Just one. You pick one. We can learn what his vulnerabilities are. That's like a game mark in a character.

Any time you can learn one thing. That's the gold thing that came with the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Game Genie. Game code for an hour. I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky. The pen is what you're sore. The Tome, as an action, I can expend a spell slot

of any level higher than three. Thank you, Travis. The cover and the internal pages glow and hidden text of the rights of prime banishment. While legible, you can spend an action to invoke the rights of banishment against the target. The target must make a wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the target is banished and sealed.

And this book is immediately teleported to the endless Athenium. On success, the text becomes blurred until the end of your next turn. On success. On success, on a failure of their saving throw, right? Yeah, so if they succeed on their saving throw, they resist the ability, and you cannot read the book for another turn. Oh.

Got it. After that turn, I can read it again. You can attempt it again. DC is. DC 10. What? A wisdom saving. Slow.

Oh. Plus five. That's key info. Yeah. Oh, boys. Plus five to DC for each D.C. divine trammle fused to the target. Plus five to T-a-T-Chi- We gotta be Matador's and attach a bunch of pegs to the thing before we deliver the killing blow.

We literally stick the trammels onto Vecna. Pekadors, we'll be piccadores, right? They put the darts on the back of the bowl, soften it up, and then killing blow. And do we have any of these yet? I have one. Wait, I have a, no, I have a stone. We have one stone. You have a stone that supposedly has something to do with their construction. But we were supposed to ask I. Yeah, I'm gonna. Right? No, I think we're done here, guys.

We'll just go to Home Depot and get some trains. Can I pull out the little, the little Perlow power? All right, you pull it out and there it glows before you. It was in my pocket. There you go. There it is. It's bright, like a tiny star for a second, and you kind of have to root your gaze.

But there it is still warm to the touch, a small pearl of bright divine light. So, with this blessing, I hope to be of some aid in the coming battle. Also, any questions you may have, I'm here to answer. Yes, so many. How do we make a tremor? We have a stone and we want more, I assume. The prime trammal you speak of, the companion to this right of which you've sought out and recovered.

The construct is small but complex. and the design is unknowable for most mortal eyes. Each trammel requires a fragment of divinity. You have one there. That fragment is lost until the seal is broken. So it is a very exhausting process for a deity to give this fragment. Now the original trammels that we had utilized

were forged by the hand of the all hammer, atop the fiery core anvil deep beneath the Osmits Sea. The core anvil. The core handle. The core handle. The core handler. Beneath the Osmit Sea. To seal a god, the number of trammels you would require

depends on how marred the god may be. You have an easier chance of applying the trammels the more wounded the entity is. It is imperfect and it's only been given in use the once against the chained oblivion. And with the luckbringer's blessing, we succeeded against the entity. It took us four trammels,

and the full might of Pellor upon the beast to banish it beyond the veil. However, the chained oblivion's power was fully realized at this time. The Corrandle, this was part of the domain of the Allhammer's greatest creations. It was where the first dwarves were given form and breath. It's where the trammels were carved and made in the last great war. It lies

beneath the undersea volcano, now known as Skald Seat. Scald seat? Scald seat. Scald seat. Scald seat. It sits at the bottom of the ocean, off the eastern coast of Issylra, not far from the fishing village known as Shorecombe, at which point the third eye flashes in the direction of Kieleth. And Kieleth, a vision fills your mind suddenly of the shoreline over Issylra. The cold, cloud-covered sky, but you see below grass and recent rainfall-covered fields

that lead to a somewhat marshy and mud-covered shoreline. And there you see a small fishing village, getting out to a very rocky beachfront and waves that seem to crest and crest and break against a drop-off into the ocean. You can see some low-built docks that lead all the fishermen in and out into the ocean, and the vision pulls you back,

what appears to be miles away from that, and you get a sense, as you see this small column of black smoke that just emerges from the ocean, across endless open sea, that that is the signal of where where this volcano lies. The vision fades from you. She then said, she then said to you and says,

Find a way below through the tunnels of toxic fume, unbreatheable, without proper preparation, to the core anvil and forge these trammels. You warned there may be protections that still remain within the forgotten halls of the Allhammer, or new denizens, that occupy the subterranean depths.

Now to forge such a tremor, however, is an undertaking no mortal has attempted. To shape the materials would require the strength of a Titan. And she looks towards you and the eye flashes and suddenly your mind fills with hundreds of years of the knowledge of folding heated metals, of the clings of lives past,

shaping and building weapons and armor. And for a second, you pull back and you can see the large dwarf-like stone form of the allhammer, slamming down under the heated metals of the core anvil. That's great. As the vision fades, you know how to forge. Yeah! So you're not proficient.

proficient with blacksmithing tools. Proficient with blacksmithing tools? Yes, you are. Oh my God, you are a bootmaker now. Yeah, that's awesome. Weapon maker. And suddenly you understand most of the tools in Percy's workshop.

That water's not so evil after all. The war is over and both sides lost. The war is over and both sides lost. Kingdoms were reduced to cinders, an army scattered like bones in the dust. Now the survival. survivors claw to what's left of a broken world, praying the darkness chooses someone else tonight. But in the shadow dark, the darkness always wins.

This is old school adventuring at its most cruel. Your torch ticks down in real time. And when that flame dies, something else rises to finish the job. This is a brutal rules-light nightmare with a story that emerges organically based on the decisions that the characters make. This is what it felt like to play RPGs in the air. 80s and man, it is so good to be back. Join the Glass Cannon podcast as we plunge into the shadow dark every Thursday night at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube.com slash the Glass Cannon with the podcast

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She turns towards you, Persia. Yeah, don't look at somebody else. Motherfucker, that's you. To look away. A kid in the back of the classroom. Percy takes one step behind Kiela. It's like the good that farts in class that looks the guy behind him.

The third eye opens once more and flashes. You see the purple glow in the center of Percival's forehead for a moment. And in an instant, the intricate designs of the Prime Tram will flood into your mind. The celestial instructions racing through like a shock of electricity, the blueprint's spinning like a clear dream. Straight out of the Navigator.

It's just all the star charts being crammed at once. And with that, it drops from your mind, and you fall to your knees with a pounding headache. I'm not supposed to know that. And you will only know it for as long as it's required. So, she, we the creators did breathe the beauty into this world. We planted the seeds that would blossom into this incredible weave of Exhumbria.

However, what is the purpose of the parent but to teach what they can then set their children free? Some God's rule through fear, others through love, and others still through perceived fate. Destiny has its place. The real deception is that you have no choice. A path can be groomed before you, But it is you who must take those steps.

And not every rosy walkway leads to a better day. For me, our greatest purpose has passed. The moment we granted your forebearers the spot to seek their own purpose, we now stay to inspire, to guide, to guard the gate, to keep the hate of ignorance we spawned in our hubris from burning away everything. The rest is up to you. We need you, perhaps, but you do not need us.

That is our gift. You, they touched. You are the embodiment of this truth. All mortal life has potential with or without the gods. We offer some paths, but it's up to you to decide if they are the right ones for you. clutches her stomach a moment. What more do you ask of me? What more do you wish to know?

Do you know? I have questions. Yes, ask. Vakna, you're familiar. You know not where he is, but you know of him. I know of as much of his history as I was allowed to see, yes. Vakner was a force of insurmountable intellect among mortals. and his creative bending of known arcane theory

enabled many of the powerful artifacts of war that stoke the flames at the calamity a century later. His contributions were appreciated but overlooked by those around him, and in his hubris, he sought to carve history in his image. He sought forgotten magics and slew those who shared this same knowledge to leave only him standing with it. He bypassed his own mortality through terrible

necromantic rights to lichdom. Amassing a force of like-minded followers and hordes of undead terrors, then vanished into the shadow fell, to overtake the dark city of Tharham Fala, where he erected the terrible tower in Trapas. From this very seat of power, Vecna harnessed an event called the celestial solstice.

He used this, merging of lay energies in power to reforge manses of energy all across Exandria to suit his needs, opening portals at his whim within his city to anywhere across the world, allowing his armies to lay siege to anything before him and extend his influence and rule. His hoard assaulted a couple of prominent townships, slaughtering denizens and forcing old enemies to kneel before slaying and raising them as his own. One such arrival was named Kaz, who upon their defeat was offered eternal life

through vampirism in exchange for swearing fealty to Vecna as his chief lieutenant. This made Kaz into Kaz the bloody-handed. Wegna forged a relic blade for him with a fraction of his consciousness and gifted it to his new lieutenant, And with this the lichelord had become a new terror among the rising tensions of the bickering nations. Months of turmoil followed as the shadow of Vettness' unstoppable forces struck

with precision and those fled before retaliation. However, the use of the solstice was discovered and reverse engineered, allowing the holy army titled the Beacon of Arms to storm his city under the banner of the Donfather, led by the champion Yosvada, climbing in tropis to face the Lichlord in combat. Yorsvada was struck down by the undying king with a mortal blow. In the final moments of the hero's life, he witnessed the Lieutenant Kaz's turn on his winded master, and strike him with the very blade he was gifted, driven to usurp him to become his own new lord. The ensuing conflict left Kaz nothing but ash, and utterly destroyed a vetner's body,

leaving nothing but his left eye and hand. Yoss passed on to the realm of Palor due to his wounds, and the survivors left the Shadowfeld, the tails of victory. The terrible artifacts, the eye, the hand, the sword were never recovered. The sword is bent on vengeance, on hatred for the whispered one.

A powerful evil drives that sword, but for a just end. Should one be able to find and tame such a thing? It may be of great use. That is all I have to offer on the history of Aetna, and I hope it can be evade to you in your coming battle. The sword of Kaz. The sword of Kass. Okay.

Does it have a name? I mean. And where was it last seen? Was it away? In Tharambala, at the scene of the battle. Oh. Sword of Caz. You don't think? I don't think.

I don't think. It was eight hundred years ago. I mean, you know. Different sword. Different sword. Not craving it. No. I have another question, Pete.

You know who I serve. I do. I see the shadows that cling to you. Vecna seeks godhood. We understand that my lady achieved the same. Did you learn anything from her path that would help us here? You watch us, suddenly your expression changes. Her mouth kind of falls open ever so gently.

And her hair, wavy and calm, seems to curl in but a moment and lift. Her expression falls to one of trepidation and horror. And then there was one more. It was complete. I can sense his ascension. The cosmos expand to make room. Our time timble accelerates.

You can see now her eyes begin to race back and forth. It will take him some time to understand and utilize his nature fully. If he expands beyond his avatar, it will be more difficult to seal him. The more tramles it may require and the loss may be far greater. Do you have a seat of power?

Understand. And she can only leads forward to you. I am not Ayun given full form, but a partial avatar of my essence given shape. by the worship of my children, as was the dawn father that who guided you here. Our realms are our bodies and our true presence held in the hearts

of those who grant us their faith. To hold purely as an avatar like this is dangerous. For while it focuses and grants us much present power as we were forced to do in the calamity in the last great war, it may also leave us open to grievous injury. And she opens her robe, and there you can see amongst the kind of olive, gold skin.

You see a large, darkened gash that still festers unheeled to this day of black curling void. And as you look at this open wound, you feel yourself drawn toward it, like your vision begins to be pulled towards this infinite nothing. She closes it. You can see a bit of sweat dripping from the brow. The cost was great, but now.

necessary. Vecton has ascended being is fresh. He will need to expand his warship vastly to learn how to disseminate his power and claim his domains. What he will need for this to happen is a display of unstoppable power, a miracle of terror, a wave of despair that would occupy the hearts of many in but a moment. I know not his method, but I know enough of his ways to assume there's already a plan in motion and has been for sure. some time. If you can strike before he claims this full ascension, before he can seize his dominion on this plane, then you may still have a chance.

She turns to you Scanlan. You are the teller of tales. One who enlivens the world through Psalm and word. Take this fragment of my own story and help craft the passages of the world's future. She reaches into the center of her robe and seems to be almost into her chest and plugs forth a small gray gem about the size of a peanut. It glows faintly,

and as she removes it, you hear a terrible creaking sound throughout the library. You watch his books plummet from the darkness above and slam into the ground around you, distant cases crack and bow. The roar of the damaged space echoes to a halt. The danger seemingly in control.

There. I can spare no more. I must rest and concentrate. I have something of you inside of me. Would it help you? She smiles. I could use a steward for a moment, someone eager to learn, and relearn some important lessons. A thread broken ranch. Would you be so kind as to help an old woman tend to her books a bit? It would be my pleasure. I didn't believe in you. I didn't believe in you. I didn't think you were real, but I found out that things aren't what we see, and things can change. It would be my honor.

Were there's an imp by the name of Demystric, and if he's all right? He's fine for now. I'm not asking for me. The nice lady with the Atlers wanted to know. He's fine. But woe to those who live in the home in crack hammer where he's currently rooted. He's a very bad performer. I'll be right with you.

Of course. Well, then, this is different. I don't think I'm going to be alone anymore. I asked you for power. It seems like you gave me strength. I'm glad to hear that. And you? You call me darling.

No, I never did that before. Oh. I kiss on the forehead. Oh, dear me. Oh, goodness gracious. Life is loud and noisy. And it's a celebration, and I didn't know that. So once in a while, with what little time we have, be happy.

I was wrong about you, you know? Me. Oh. You're far greater than I will ever be. If only I could be a mirror of you. Thank you, Sprite, for everything. We've only known you a short time, but I feel like you. I'm only a short person.

You could have that one for free. I will. Go on with it. No, no. You've taught us much in a short time. I'm sorry that we broke your house, but it seems like you've found a suitable replacement. A lot of books in here. That's going to keep me busy. You, secrets.

Celebrate it with your friends. Remember that. And when I look at these books, I'm going to think of you. That pleases me. Oh, good. Be happy here. I think you're going to be the hardest to say goodbye to us. Because you cared. No one ever cared before.

That's why they called me Sprigg. I wasn't good enough to be a broken branch. I was just a sprig. So I got my name. If only people knew that Spriggs give foundation to the entire tree. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's her hand to you. This is new. And should you have friends? Should your friends succeed? There is far much more to look forward to learning. Excellent.

But some of those little wispy things, I don't trust them, you know. If they get out of order, we should a wispy thing grab. How will we remember that? This is going to be a very good conversation to have. We need a mnemonic device. Come, we'll think of one. Very well, we shall.

After the rest of you, I fear my power is waned, and I don't have the means of sending you a myself. But if you are able to return under your own power, then I wish you all the greatest of luck. And please, don't be a stranger. I have your books. Oh, yes. 24 of them. I think they were like, you know, really secret ones,

so I would hate to, you know, He throws her finger and you watch his three spectral servants kind of apparate behind you and pick up the books and we're going to take them back to be organized. Not to worry. Travel safe, my friends. And Scambling, don't ever forget how important you are. To them, to Kaylee, and to yourself.

You owe yourself far more than you lend. We'll remember. Boyce break. Take care, darling. Until next time. That's good. Off we go, then. Come, Methrid.

She takes his hand and stands up, and they both begin to walk away, and as it does, there's a slight increase of light in the room as a flash, and then as it slowly comes back to a normal site, you find yourself back at the entrance, almost bathhouse-like area of the domain where you arrived. The marble, slightly more cracked than you left it before, but still standing.

Enjoy the other side, Spring. I go up to Percy. Are you all right, dear? Strangely, yes. Yes, quite. Didn't think I would be. Back. What's gonna happen when you?

Shall we? Where are we going? Back to where we came from. Look, in the beginning or like more recently. Back to the cabin. Okay. The cabin. A little house.

You mean? Spryg's cabin. Sprague's cabin. Why would we go there? We still have a man tied up. He's been sitting there for probably about an hour or two. Who? Oh yeah, the guy that you put in the shackles.

Oh, sure he's fine. Let's just go to Whiteson. We want to get the shackles back. Oh, it's the shackles. Well, I want to talk to him too, but yes. We're going for the shackles. All right. They're pretty cool. They are pretty impressive. Yeah, just totally take somebody out of the point.

But she said we have the timetable is shortened. We need to have any shackles. Why are we going to White Stone then? We have to find this place in the middle of the ocean. Well, now that we know where it is, you can probably just bamphus there, can't you? I need to go to Whitestone or to Veselyne. Before we go to Issylra.

Wait. She can't bamfus there. Is there? Is there on the Cisdler? Yeah. How close did I recognize the shore Kisdok? Shore comes about, I'd say about few miles away from.

From Vasselheim to the southwest? Southwest going towards Pira. Yes, past beyond Pira, like along the coast. Okay. So we can. Start there. Should be able to just trees straight us right there, right? From the cabin to Vasselheim?

Yeah. I think so. You didn't see none of the particular trees you got a close look at. You may have to scry to get a specific tree in mind for the spell, but you can do that. Pike, you seem very quiet. Pike goes, I'm sorry, I'm just overwhelmed.

There's a lot going on. I know when I feel overwhelmed, I like to punch things. Do you want to hit me? Okay. Oh, too strong. Oh, such a monster. Sorry, and she cures wounds on you. Thank you. I burn my eighth level spell, but the plane ships is back

to Spriggs' house. All right, does you all gather hands together with a familiar flash and a pull through the divine gate. You all find yourselves thrust once more back to the primaterial plane as your feet land squarely in the partially charred, wooded remains of Spriggs' house deep in a ravine in the cliff keep mountains of Taldore and Exandria.

And that's where we're gonna take a break. Wow. What? Oh, Saffrey. Wow. Darren. Thank you so much for joining. Thank you.

Oh, there we're. Oh, man. You are so great. Masterclass. Oh, my. Thank you for coming. Had to happen. It's history.

It's a journey. I love it. I love it. 35 years? 37. 37. That's great. I love it.

And who knows? Maybe. In another 37? Something will happen. Yeah, in another 37 years. There we'll do this. with this again. Hopefully sooner, but yeah. Anyway, thank you as much, Don't for joining us.

Thank you guys. Thank you guys. It was a pleasure. We know you just came on this show so you could get onto talks. We'll take it anyway. You could have just asked if you wanted to meet Brian Fosser. He's going to just introduce you. He's got a good beard. All right guys, so before we go, we have a giveaway during the break

in which we're giving out this awesome, oh God, this awesome pieces of pieces. This is the Purple Heart Dice Tower from Warmwood. Yep, the same color that you use for your, to assemble your awesome magnetic dice tower from Wormwood. What was the word we chose? Knowledge. Thank you, knowledge.

The word in the chat room is knowledge. I thought you said college. I did too. Go to college kids. College. So come over to the Twitch chat, and when prompted, go ahead and enter the word knowledge to enter the giveaway. And we'll have the announcement of who won that.

We'll make it back from the break. See you guys in a few minutes. Brilliant. A couple things. First off, a couple of mid-show announcements, I guess we forgot to mention. One, Laura did signal boost, which you just saw. Yay! Yay! It's a good one. It's a good one. It's a good one. And second, if you haven't seen it already, we announced at Comic-Con that we are doing a critical role comic book.

Showed up! Which we're super excited. It's written by a good friend of the show Matt Colville. If you're not familiar with this stuff, you should. He's written a couple of books. He's written a lot of video game stuff, and he's very talented. His Dialog is to Die for him. He is actually. You can check him out.

Goethe. And he has a great YouTube channel. But yeah, he's a good friend of the show, and his writing is amazing. And our artist, Olivia Samson, who is a creator artist in the community for quite some time. And we wanted to pull somebody from the community to bring the story to life of how Vox Machina came together. together, how they met, and then if it goes well, continue to do the story of all the pre-stream adventures that you guys think they've got a chance to see. So that's the goal. We'll see. Long-term. But anyway, we're happy to announce it. We'll have more information in the future as it comes out.

I've seen mostly R for issue one in its book in the truth. I haven't seen it. Oh, well. Okay. And they say I keep secrets. Yeah. It's bullshit. Music level. Shave.

Shame. Yeah. A little dumb. Split. All right. And to Emerald Star in the chat who named their puppy Grog, that's awesome. That is awesome. Congrats on your puppy.

Is there a winner? There is a winner. Well, the puppy named Grog. And the winner of the giveaway is Fluffy arsonist. Fluffy arsonist, congratulations. Donova will contact you to get your information and get that shipped out to you. Don't be mad at an arsonist when they're fluffy. It's hard.

All righty. So. Diving back in. So you guys are returning to Whitestone? Where are you going to? Sprague's. Oh, Sprague's Cabin, correct. As the surge of momentum comes to a halt on your feet, once again touch the ground here within the

somewhat charred remains of Spriggs Cabin, you look about, looks like the crickets have taken the surrounding forest. Night has fallen since your exit. What would you like to do? Is there any threatening creatures in the vicinity? Giants. Make a perception, Chuck. Can I look to you because we came.

We'd been fighting. We'd been fighting when we left, so I'm gonna make sure that we could. Don't worry, it's a 14. You glance about very quickly at the surrounding woods and trees. Aside from it looks to be a squirrel that scatters upon the sound of your footfall. Later. Careful of traps. I think they're still in place.

Yeah, and squirrels. B. Spare trap. Yep. Oh God! It just slams two feet above it though. I'm going to go into the room and find the nice creature that we left there. Okay. As you walk in amongst the rubble, you see there still trapped within the iron cage-like manacles and bindings of the small iron ball.

You see the slavering tongue of the undeadiness. entity that you had entrapped. Oh, I don't suppose we need you anymore, do we? I'm just going to take out my sword and just very slowly end that. Oh, come. Yeah. You see it like squeal out as you slowly just saw your way into its body until it lies still once more, robbing it of its second death. Manas.

The ball retracts. The ball retracts. Nice, they're done. Well, he was doing that. I just want to stealth away with my brother for a moment and just say, I'm sorry about everything. How far away did you just pull me? Far enough that nobody can hear us.

Make an investigation check. Jesus Christ. Ten. Oh, damn it. You can hear me. As you pull them off, you get three steps from the building before. A heavy iron bear trap snaps onto your leg. Outstanding.

Thank you, Matt. Outstanding. Outstanding. You suffer. We're basically gods. The words were uttered. 11 points of piercing damage, and you are currently grappled. I deserve that.

That's comma. I'm gonna, let's get it off your, pull it off. Okay, between the two of you, it takes your moment but you should peel it off and the wounds aren't too bad. I cast lay on hands. You're back to normal, you're fine, your boots ripped up. Jesus. All right, watch your step.

Come on, come on, pass it all. Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna just not move though, because I don't want to step on another one of those fucking things. Well, Keylet chuckles at that a little bit. I'm gonna just look around and find a, like a, Little piece to remember Sprigby from his house to take with me.

Okay. I'm going to check through the books just to see if there's anything. And then I'll help them check through the books once I grab something. Make an investigation check. Each of you. 22. Yours is much better than mine. Five.

Five. You find some elements of partially charred pipes, some small statues that appear have been destroyed in the recent battle. You find some unkept plants that were potted and then left to dry out. There are many things here that you could take if you want to have memory of him, but a lot of his internal... Does this rusty bolt kind of represent Sprag? No.

Fuck. I think that may have actually even come with us. I think that might have been us. I'll just... I'll regrow this plant later. There you go. Sprague. All right, so you search for, through books, you pull the backs off to the side.

Can I ask you a question? Yes. Yeah. First, I'm very happy for you. Congratulations. Thank you. I've seen it coming for a long time. I didn't. Well, you're smart in a lot of other ways, so...

And I'm so happy. He makes you so happy. And you're in, you know, when I go, you're in good hands. And he's in good hands. I mean, he's getting the better end of the bargain. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. I didn't plan it.

If I had, I would have told you. And then when I saw you, it was, it just seemed like, bad timing to say anything and then things kept happening and... I spent so many years standing at your side. I just thought on that day, I'd be standing at your side. I know. I know. It was very spare of the moment. Nobody was standing at our side, except for each other. Under ordinary circumstances, I would be giving you quite a yearful. I know. But there's not nothing ordinary about any of this.

And I don't have time to be upset at my oldest friend. I just don't have time. I'm happy for you. I don't want you to go. I love you. You know I love you. Would you do me one favor when I'm gone? I don't know we could be dead tomorrow.

We could. I could I behold you? She's probably going to outlast you, but. while you're around, keep her company for me. If she ever talks to me again, I swear I will. Well, you know what you've got going for you is that you look a lot like me, so you can remind her of me once in a while. Good call.

Hey. Thank you. I'm going to make perception check as I walk back by myself. Can I have a quick aside with Percy? Yeah, you've traced your path back the same way you walked, and you managed to avoid the traps easily this time, being far more aware of the surroundings. In the meantime, while you two are emerging

through the household. We're looking through books, yeah. Looking through books. So do you think we'll ever have gods in our lives? You know? I don't think they fancy as much. I mean, I don't really fancy them, though, so I guess that's fair.

But they're allowed that. I'm not angry. Me neither. My books are still lovely, the library is still lovely. It made a lot of things better. You know, I felt really guilty about it for a while, and like something was wrong with me. Like, Mayo, I don't understand why I didn't feel it,

why I didn't understand. And I don't think it was until Sarah and Ray, and even Ayune just now mentioned that we serve that balance and that non-believers are necessary. It made me feel like a little bit less of a fuck up, I guess, in this whole situation. I think you're just fine, mostly. Well, apparently you're a madman, so.

Apparently. A God called you a madman. I know. Holy shit. Honestly, I'm a little touched. Yeah, it's kind of a compliment. If it went for the migraine. I'm sorry, by the way.

You may be the only one who understands this, but I just needed something that was mine for a little while. So little of who we are is ours, and I knew it would end. It was nice. Wow. Aune is quite a goddess, and she does not respect secrets, though,

and I, on the other hand, feel that secrets can be precious. I just don't understand why you were still enigmatic after you already told us in front of Palor. I thought that, uh, It's kind of a slap in the face. Well, I thought she may kill me at that point. That was honestly fearing for my life there a little bit.

And at that point, everything was just so awkward. I hope you know my frustration is only out of, well, what you just said, I guess. Wanting something to be mine that I won't have. Well, we'll see. We'll see. I don't know. Some things you don't get to keep. Yes, one of the bonuses of not being one of the chosen of the gods is we don't have to believe in destiny. No, we don't. We just, I think, heard a big speech from a god about not believing in destiny. I follow destiny my whole life.

I know. It wasn't until I got to the end that I realized that the whole thing was kind of ironic. Ronic. Yeah. Why do we have to listen to anything they say? Cheers. Cheers. Cheers to the faithless.

This is actually a book. I kind of inhaled a little bit. That wasn't intentional. That was a plant. You've been holding a plant and I've been holding a book. That got weird. I don't even know where we got these glasses in the story. I think that was legitimately you were still holding a potted plant.

Oh, God. That's coffee's been there for a while. He's been there for a while. How does it feel to be a chosen by a goddess at this point? Who me? Yes, you. I know you've been listening. Can we walk in at this point? Jim.

Well, no, I'll put Skelet aside. We all watch. I'm going to see it. My cue. Yeah, no, the seed, the little bean. You want to see it? Yeah, I want to see it. All right.

Is it squishy? Didn't you do this before with the other one? Did I? Didn't you try to like squish it or something? No, not that. Yeah, not the seed of the... That was the pearl. I don't know what any of you are talking about.

Are you giving it to me? No, I've got there for hair. Don't flick the bean. What does it smell like? What's the smell like? Make a perception check. It's a seed of power. Don't fucking rob me at my discovery.

Discovery. It smells like myr and sandalwood. 11. Best you can make out, it smells like, you want me to laugh now. It smells like old forgotten papers and parchment. It's been like in her rose for like a century. Yeah, it's been tucked in that old boob crevice. Why don't you, I want you to swallow the bean.

Sallow the bean. Yeah, I mean, look, think about Sprigg, right? I mean, his tummy was glowing like fucking Teddy Ruckspin. I want to see you swallow that shit. Sure, for romancing the beam. All right, I will mime swallowing the beam while I wrist pocket it. There's a step for that.

Are you crazy? I was only kidding. You'll be stuck at home by yourself for a thousand years. So make a slide a hand check. Slide a hand check. Ooh. Oh. Five. Frog.

Grog. Make a perception check. I lose these every time. I don't care how it's five. I guess it's plus three. Come on, remember when you put a stone giants? Whoa. Oh!

The shack of all trades. Right. That's a second. Minus one, which is five. So you all watch as he takes the, he takes the small essence stone and kind of like whispers under his breath a small incantation. Like flicks his fingers and then it vanishes and he goes,

It's so overt, yet you are entranced. He swallowed that thing. I mean, I hope you know what you're doing. Do we get time with you before you leave? I trust you 100% grog. This two shall pass. It's like Scanlan just did the trick I do with my kids all the time, which is watch, watch, watch. One, two, three.

Where did that picture, grove? I pick Scanlan up by his scruff his neck and I hold my ear to his tummy. Make your perception check. My stomach exists. You hear the occasional... Oh my God, it's growing. Tell me your last rock, you know, before you burst if it happens. I leave all of my world.

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Yeah, I'm holding him up like a seashell. Yeah. Shake him a bit. It'll start the reaction. Check out, sugar, sugar, sure, go, surrog, sure, go. Stop men handling Scandalin. Why? Because he doesn't like it.

Do not like it? Ordinarily, yes, but not today. When I pass it, I'll retrieve the item. Oh, shit. He is very, very good retrieving it. Keeping it safe. You lost me. I'm sorry.

We probably need to hurry. Let's, this is going to be an obrequest. Let's not go to Whitestone. I feel like we're being watched. Maybe Vasselheim? Oh, yeah! That's right. We never even addressed that.

Oh, shit. Vasselheim would be... Why didn't we ask Guy in about that? Why didn't you just kill the assassin guy that we were going to ask? He didn't speak English anyway. He was just blah-de-thing. He wasn't really going to offer information anyway. Who are you?

Who the fuck are you? Hyde, why are you doing that boy? Is that the imp? No. No, standing by the doorway. You see there, arms crossed, casually, standing before you, standing before you, Beckna. What?

What? Woo! No! Oh shit, fuck, bald! You must have traveled quite a distance. You must have traveled quite a distance to be far from my sight. Is he see-through?

I tried to shoot an arrow at him. Oh, God. Okay, roll for an attack. Oh, Jesus. Cocked. Oh, that's not cocked. Cacked. Cact.

Cact. 29. It passes to his body. I knew it, I fucking knew it. Kind of laughs for a second, and you see him smiling his terrible grin across curled yellow teeth. You see that flicker of green energy sparking in his left eye.

Seems to pulse as his brow arches above it. I admire your resolve. You did it. You solved the riddle. You found my home, ruined my tower, slew one of my greatest outglites, and even then you failed. Still, impressive. That is most definitely worthy of a fine round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. This smug clapping comes to a halt. He nods.

You're the only ones to get away. Others found me before you did. And another group of supposed heroes came and assaulted me shortly after you vanished. No matter. They all fell and rose again. Perception check. Yeah, insight maybe, insight? Insight.

Insight. See if he's lying. Inside, sure. Inside check. Inside check. Go for it. If you want to make one. With natural 20, please. Oh, yes.

Yes, fact yes. Thanks for double check. It is, it is like I would lie about it. But that's a six, that's a six. She's lying, she's lying. 22. Eh. Oh, sorry, I'm not, yeah.

Whispers. Whispers. He's the God of secrets, why do you expect? The pencils are adorable. They are so cute. They are so good. You know what, guys? I didn't even know that this was ever a thing.

No. We didn't know we were making pencils. Don't you remember? This is the first time I remember. We definitely... We definitely sent them in the text thread. We've thrown out so many cool ideas on that text thread. I don't know which ones have come through. No, when I say like, hey, name your quote on the text thread

and you send in a quote, that means it's probably pretty solid. I get asked for personal quotes all the time. Right, back to game. Consider your path one of earned existence. I would recommend you not waste such a rare lease on your arrogant lives. I'm gonna walk right up to him while he's talking and just inspect his ugly fucking face. You see through his beautifully adorned like crushed velvet robes with gold trim. You see the tattered edges where gems and bobbles hang around his neck.

You can see the tendons and muscles. tendons and muscle that are pulled taut against the skin that is drawn against his nearly skeletal frame. He just smiles back at you looking down from that one sickly, almost pale blue iris in that green glowing burst of energy where his other eye would be. How's that eye socket doing, Prind?

Well, these are the concerns of a mortal. My vision sees far more than it wants to do. While he's rambling, can Keyleth be looking for the nearest big-ass tree? Sure. Kind of around. She just kind of starts glancing through the windows. There's plenty of big-ass trees in your area. Yeah, any clear path of least resistance. Look around to these big-ass trees. Look at all these big-ass trees.

Also, is there anybody in the forest? A bunch of people just crating their pants. Natural 19s. Yeah, there's plenty to see, and you don't see anybody else nearby in the forest. else nearby in the forest. But path that fleece their resistance without traps. Yeah, you see a path you can take. I'm not entirely certain I am mortal anymore.

I know what you are. And I know you know where I have. Come whenever you lie. Are coming? Are you all too bloody duff to see? It's over. I'm no longer the undying king. I am the king of all.

All, I am not the scourge and secret. I am the tyrant unmatched. Are we being surrounded right now? Yes, you're very grand, and I begin to finger fuck his eye-hole in the illusion. So majestic. As soon as your finger goes forward, his image flickers out and appears in the same room behind you.

Now right up against Percy and Scanlan. We need to go. I am Vettna the unholy. I am God upon Exandria. Vyvetna. I come to play with the toys left by insolent forgotten ancients and make this world into a new epoch. What this means, however, is an end, end to borders and nations.

Be the will Vecna. So, ask yourself, you want peace? There is no peace The way things are You all bicker and stabbing Murder in the names of your mothers Your fathers There's one

Everyone will live And when they die That need not be the end either under my banner I can see your every move I know your plot I know your destination I know your place your capabilities, your allies, and your imminent.

Should you continue, offer you the chance to stand down, discard your imprison gods and pledge to me. Many you love will, many you love already have. I love it when they come begging for a truce. That means he's scared. Is it more important to throw away your lives against an unstoppable God or to return to your families? And I think you were right.

If you persist, I will not only destroy you, I will erase the memory of you ever existing from the mind of anyone you've ever known or cared for. I don't think you have that power. I don't know. You know, then try. Try me. I think, you know, as generous as this offer is,

we just don't enjoy associating with new money. Let's get out of you now. Very well. I amice have gods with big tics. Enjoy the forge. I point out the path that way. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. That's the portal opens, and you guys go darting off the dreshing

you're here in the distance, the Do you see this? One after another, you all jump through the portal. Emerging. In Vassalheim. In Vasselheim. All of you dart out just as the dusk sun begins to hit on the distant mountains this far across the ocean.

I look around is there back to me anywhere to be seen. Nowhere. We need sanctuary. Can you make a matter? Right now? We need to rest eventually and you need to commune. Yeah, we got to figure out where to do you. And we have to assume that we're being seen and heard it all time. Yeah, we need some sunblock.

I wonder if he can see us in your dimension. Maybe not. Probably not. He said of Exandria. He said he couldn't see us when we were in the library. Where do I feel him now? Same distance. Same distance.

Same place. Let's do this quick. We need to rest. You need to talk as much to do. There's much to do. And this does not feel good. Go to Raven Queen's temple right now? Riven Queen or the mansion?

Raven Queen will take the mansion to the mansion. Maybe we can do the mansion outside of a temple? Sure. Or even inside. Ooh, good cool. Baselheim doesn't take very kind of the magic stuff. Well, it's a little. Aren't you also kind of wanted here right now?

I will literally shoot. Should we put his guys on him? Yes. Give him a hat. Okay, the first thing you guys notice as you take in your surroundings, even though dusk is happening, this seems to be a larger bustle than you're used to

in Vasselheim. You begin to see there's a sky, there's a sky ship at Port, and a lot of the various bastions, the general bastions, the volunteer army that run across much of the city, you see them kind of darting back and forth, carrying supplies. there's a kind of a buzzing energy to the air of the city

that you haven't seen in a while. I'm gonna just grab someone at some point. I did tell the Ashari to start alerting the nearby towns. You grab a gentleman who runs past you. He has like a graying beard with the patches of black still. His top of his head is shaved bald and you can see a bit of what looks to be some sort of a tattoo across one half of his face that curls into his ear. He's rushing with what looks like a cluster of spears under one arm and he's wearing hide armor on his chest.

You got this. What is the commotion? Apparently, we're gearing up for some sort of an assault. How soon? We don't know. We've just been told to prepare. Who told? Probably us.

Just want to find out where it came from. The chain a command from the top of the bastions as well. Apparently from some of the other temples here are speaking of some entities, some Vecna. Oh, shit. Good man, carry on, prepare. Very well. I bet whenever he ascended, all the clerics felt it. I'm dead more than likely.

Very well. He goes to run off two of his compatriot stop and turn and get like a slow glance of recognition. Just keep running. Keep running. Keep running. Let's keep going. They've got bigger things happening right now.

Just keep running. They... Mish demeanor. You guys continue, they kind of stare for a second and then keep running. They look to be preoccupied. Yeah. But you get the sense that at least word of someone matching your image has been disseminated throughout the time.

I am quite famous. Do you want me to disguise you? Sure, or not? What am I looking like? Take this hat. I have to return to it. It takes forever. Oh, that's true.

All right, I'll cast seeming on you, on all of us. Because I can. You make me look like Terry. No, what? That's not helpful. That's not. No, it's not. No, it felt like he was in the room where it happened.

The room where it happened. The room where it happened? Keep running toward the right of great temple Does this something? I'll just make him look blue. You should probably try and use our words. No. Blue and a foot smaller, like Blue Man Group.

Black clothes, blue face, bald. You have a little more of an ASMR appearance, the larger one. It looked like a Vegas you've seen. Oh, man. All right, where are you guys charging off to? Yeah, Raven Queen Tone. Okay, you're hearing at the Ravens Crest.

Yeah. All right. You make your way to the... I'm gonna keep looking around and make sure no one's tailing us. Okay, make a perception check. 21. 21. All right. Keeping an eye out, you don't see anybody following you at the moment. That doesn't appear to be an issue. So you head to the area of the dusk meadow, to the southeast of the city. You come through the dry and cold and dusty sector. A little bit of snow appears to have melted in the slush at the corners, but most of it's been kind of pushed off the main roads to the side.

You see dirty snow kind of matted at the edges. You follow Vax very quickly through the streets, and you see a few of the veiled maidens of the Ravens Crest Erie taking note of you, and as you approach, they just point over to the Ravens Quest silently as you walk past. Quickly, quickly walk past. I'm just gonna walk up the steps. Fair enough.

Push open the door. You rush past the, you're coming from the other side as opposed to the main entrance, so you rush past the Hall of that goes, which is the Grand Library that's attached to the Ravens Crest. Everybody's with me. Yeah. And you come to the front doors. They are closed currently, but you have two of the maidens there at the front. And as you begin to turn from the side, they glance over and give notice,

and then turn and push the doors open in preparation. With that, you all enter Raven's Crest itself. And looking within, you can see the beautiful interior of carved obsidians and gold trims and sigils that are marked and pushed throughout the interior of the structure. Are you leading into the central chamber? Yeah, I'm bringing everybody with me right now.

Okay. No one stops you. And as you head up the stairs into the second chamber, and then finally to the large set of doorways that lead you into the central communion chamber of Raven's Crest. You guys enter this beautiful room that is surrounded in stained glass imagery of varying colors, largely in dark purples and reds, blues. In the center, you see a large circular pool where a deep crimson liquid just sits perfectly still, familiar

to both Percival and Vaxilland. We need to talk, and I plant a big fucking kiss on a mouth. And then I turn to the rest of the group and say, nobody fucking touches me. Do you understand? Where are you going? Understood. I walk in and I inhale as deeply as I can

as I shove my face into the room. I hold trinket back so that he doesn't go after him. Okay. I watch on the side and don't take my eyes off of him. Okay. Pike Instincture walks up to the very edge but avoids touching any liquid and it's like, as you watch, Vax just disappear into this thick.

liquid, no bubbles rise, you see a bit of movement from thrashing beneath the surface and in stillness. Is this what he goes through every time? This is normal. Is he a vampire? He's a vampire. I think he died in there. I don't think that's how it works. No. But I do think he's dead. He's undead, isn't he? He's a zombie. He's not a zombie. He's flushes cold.

Gross. Excellent. We kill him? We should kill him. As the Hannock in pain subsides, much easier now than it was your previous ventures to this communion, the darkness surrounds you, familiar, but you are intent, you are driven. The very force of your conversation

is pushed out from your personality into this ether, this surrounding infinite void, and the familiar voice comes. You'll burn within tent, my feathered boy. He needs to talk. Talk, we shall. Speak your mind. You still see nothing around you.

It's just the voice from the darkness. We were too late to stop him. Vetna. I sensed it, yes. This dead man who wanted to be a god is now fucking God. We've been speaking to your brothers and sisters. your found family, and they are arming us with what we need to fight your foe. You know who he is.

He is upon us and I have come to you for aid. And as I have learned, he is somewhat akin to you. He was one of us and has ascended like you. He is no kin to me. He is no kin to me. He ascends for selfish reasons, whereas I was merely following my destiny. He will be destroyed. You have the tools. You have the means. The weave is tangled before us. The threads grow knotted, hard to follow, but yours still glows so bright into that terrible knot.

thing, man, is your enemy, yes? As he is the enemy of all things. I have come here seeking power. For my blessing already. These trammels, these fragments of divinity, have you that in you? No much of these trammels, not but they were used, but I fear that is beyond my knowledge.

Knowing Mistress would be the one to speak to. We have. And what do you need of me? We need to power Trammels, the dawn father. The knowing mistress had contributed to our cause, to your cause. These seeds of power offer the same. At this point, you feel a finger can trace across your chin from behind. You feel an arm, the weight resting on your shoulder.

It pulls and turns you around, and as you spin, you come face to face with the porcelain mask you're so familiar with, as the hand still holds the edge of your cheek in your shoulder. Am I to believe that this is not some ploy to diminish my power and leave me vulnerable to cast me from my seat? You but do you know them? Do you think I've been welcome since I entered this past? Anthion, my existence is perpetually a threat to the creators. If anything, part of this burden that we all face lies

on my shoulders as well. Why would they not think to strike it two birds with one stone, at which point you watch the feathers of her dress kind of furl out a bit, like a bird that's at a chill? How much you want this wretch taken? Down. Make a persuasion check, silent stare. My faith in you, my faith touch.

Not forget that is you. Put all your faith in me. Watch your threat. In that instant, everything goes black once more, and you feel the pain and the heat in your lungs. But then it subsides quickly, and you stay there beneath the familiar thick surface of the blood. No need for air. You're just chilling like a villain under the whole.

What? The instinct of breath is still there, but you realize after a moment of panic that it's not necessary. You can't see. Your body is clenched tight. Your muscles are still tense. You guys, after waiting for about 30 minutes it feels like of tense silence, you watch as the surface of the pool, splashes it upward, and you watch as a crimson vax comes to the surface.

Not gasping for breath. Monster, kill it. Just quietly. Stoic, as he comes to the edge of the pool, step after step, dripping the blood with each footprint on the ground. Your fist hurts a bit from the tightness, but as you unfurl your fingers, you look down

and see a small onyx oval. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's an oeuvre. It's a stone about the size of a gem that big on your hand. Big Bean. I want to try and make one more jump.

Just a minute. I have a question. How many times have you done that? Six. Mark Odds. This has been the craziest 48 hours of my life. I mean, wow guys. campaign in 48 hours. It's a lot. Wow.

I could have just been chilling. Yeah. I'm glad you came and found us good. Bad decisions, haven't you? I just stand clutching a gem dripping blood, looking at the love of my life. I kiss him back through the blood. Oh, no.

It takes like any. Fuck you, you kiss your bear. On the mouth. It looks like he'll have had some barbecue and wasn't paying attention. We don't know where that blood's from. That's love yon. No, you know where that blood's brought?

I was not expecting that. Don't tell us. Like kissing a hundred pennies. You did it. Okay, all right, let's clean you up. Do we want to try and run one more time before we... Run where? Well, end of the forge, I suppose.

Find a sword, head of the forge. How do we go to the forge? There's no trees there. Why, it was all right. Do we give a shit about cord at all or no? It would be great to have a fourth bean, but... Would not say no to do. You're on a ticking time clock. I like the idea of the cord bean,

but I really want to go to bed. Let's set up camp and if you feel like you want to make one last, well. I mean, I'll ask, you might just say no. We don't even know where to find him, though. Uh-uh. Nope. We're running out of time. Yep.

But it's right here, it's like popping into blockbuster when you go to the grocery store. Might as well see what's up. Blackbuster. Blackbuster. Nobody knows of Black Plotless. Maybe. It's like being able to... No, vlogbuster. Where are you from?

Okay. Errol's video. 2020. Um... Hollywood video. Do we want to set up shop here? Do we want to set up shop at the Temple of Court? I think here.

Let's sleep. I mean, we got like free reign. We got like backstage passes. Everybody's like, part too here. I think honestly we're not saying. Honestly here, there's just have difficulty identifying which of our blood is going to be splattered on the ground. And I'm good with management.

I think we can. Let's just look. Yeah, you seem to be super tight with us. Do you want to head over to Cord's Temple as well? I have a feeling if we find him, we'll have to go to another plane. Yeah, there was more assesment. Assassment.

No, assess as well. Yeah. If you want to go do a little bit of footwork and see what it might take to get there, I can rest and try and get us there. Remember, you have to find a tuning fork, though, that is attuned to the specific plane. You're speaking words that he doesn't.

Someone should go with. You need a magical vibrating fork that is connected to the vibrating plane of corn. I'll go with you. I was just going to go to speak to a break of groom. I don't know it's so hard about that. He gave me these gloves last time. Right.

I'm just letting you know the prerequisites that we might, so you can ask the right quark. Just go. I'm gonna sleep. Am I still blue? You're still blue and you still look like Blue Man Group. So do you want me to go with you so that I can undo that when we get there? You Tweedles want to come? Yeah.

Yeah. Or do you want to talk to him blue? No, no, I want to be blue. Yeah, I want to stay blue. But when you talk to Groon, do you want to be blue? Yeah, you can just like dissipate, right? So I'll come with you. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. All right, you guys rest. I'm gonna go find us a bean of strength and might and sex appeal. Can I go to the temple of hall? Yeah.

So you guys make your way. Am I making a mansion for the rest of you? Well, we can sleep. I feel like the mansion is the smartest thing because if not. They don't have Raven Queen Cots or something? We don't know. We can still see in here. Oh, that's true.

You're right. You're right. All right. Enjoy yourselves. You create the shimmering doorway and you guys can enter the mansion without issue. To the spa. To the spa.

I'll dump the hat so I turn into the Meat Man so no one can recognize me. I'll walk with myself. Okay. So the three of you make your way to the Braving Grounds. As we're walking, I want to whisper to Scanlan though. I'm going to whisper to the Meat Man's crotch because that's about even, right?

I think he's a little bigger. I'll whisper to his waistline. So the sword that Aynne was talking about, right? The sword of curse? The swords of curse, yes. Oh, geez. Okay. Do you think it could possibly be the sword that Grog had?

The thought did occur to me, yes. But there are big differences. You know, for sure? I'll be the rat. Well, Ayn did not talk about a talking sword, for one. Well, no, but she didn't say it wasn't a talking sword. That's true. She said it was a vengeful sword, which.

Do you think we should go get it to make sure? I mean. We should have asked for some sort of identifying a feature. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we really should have. She said, do you have any more questions? And we didn't. Yes. But maybe if we see that sword, we can be like,

hey, do you know who Kassas? And if he does, then we'll like, Oh, fuck. You want to go visit Cravenage. But I'm saying this quiet, I don't want Quagherrini's that we're doing this, because he's kind of got a thing for Cravenage. I held the sword once. You did? I have a thing for Cravenage as well.

Oh, fuck. Like, you know, shit. Make an intelligence roll, actually. Roll it 20, add your intelligence modifier. Plus one, because you have a permanent plus two to your intelligence. Intelligence check? Yeah. what's your intelligence modifier?

I like that you don't know what that is after. 11. Your intelligence is higher now. After Ion. The top. Don't forget your IUN papers. Oh yeah, and you just got plus two intelligence. Eight, plus two, plus one, is 11.

Oh, God. Okay, continue. Mm, continue. You didn't pass the test. I mean, do I get to add my jack of all, Jay? Yeah, plus three. Fourteen. Maybe you chose. Anything?

Anything? Let me continue. It was a very powerful sword. Yeah. But perhaps it's worth a check. How do we get there? We'll have to talk to Keyleth about it. I don't think the timeline's matched.

Why? I could be wrong. I'm not there. No, but I mean, like Delia the Breyer would, Lord Breyerwood had the sword. They were seeking Vecna. Yeah. That's where they got that shit. It could, you know.

Oh, that's true. It could work out. But they were making out like Vecna had this. They were making out. sword while we had the cravenile. We don't know anything like the sort of cats, other than it exists. No, Vecna doesn't have the sword right now.

No one seen the sword or Caz? No one's seen the sort of Caz since Vignom is destroyed, along with Caz. So. It's like the ring going down to river to oblivion. So Craven Edge could be the sword of Cair. Got lost and was re-found. By the Briarwoods.

By the Briarwoods. They were going to awaken him, but then, you know, he died. Or it's just a sword. Or it's just a sword that just likes blood. We got to do something. Can we go? Sorry, girl. You actually are walking in there.

We're walking. We're walking. How do we know? Okay. We're not wasting time with this conversation. We're traveling in this conversation. I didn't realize. Yeah.

We'll ask Kilith when we get back. Okay. We sent it to the plane of the Dred Emperor. She knows how to get it, I think, yes. So, you guys make your way through the proven grounds. Where you're heading to specifically? To the temple of called with the big man outside. Trialforch.

The Trialforch. Okay. You make your way to the Trow Forge. The doors are currently closed. It is mid-evening at this point. It's probably at this point with the communion and guys making your way across the city. Yes, close to midnight. Nice. Your knocks are very loud and easily heard. About 20 seconds later, let me begin to open. You hear the cinching of chains as the doors are kind of pulled open

ever so slightly and one of the monks of cord. arrives at the front, sees you, recognizes you with just a bit of glance. He's blue. Oh, it's right. He's not recognized you. I apologize for the late flower. Don't be confused. It's me, Grog Strong Grog. Weholder of the Titanstone Knuckles. Aminco. I will drop the form of Grog.

Yeah. Yeah. Very well. Can I help you? Yeah, I seek an audience with Earthbreak Agroon, if I might. Super, super, super, super, important. Very important. It pertains to the emergence of Vector. All right, this may coordinate with this current effort.

Very well, please enter. Oh. Can we come in? Yeah, yeah. You guys make your way in. I am a legitimate businessman. I'm very curious as to why you are here, then. for business dealings.

You work with Voxmachina. I shouldn't have said anything. You walk through the halls. Your foot falls echoing across the stone floor, the large archways and the pillars. It is very quiet. And as you approach the edge of the central sandpit in the center you see Groom currently sitting in meditation

with what looks to be something drawn in the sand with a finger. Some sort of a sketch. May I approach? The head facing away from you kind of picks up a bit. You may. Three point steps. And slowly stands up and rush the sand from the hands,

not looking, not turning, but just looking over the shoulder ever so slightly at you. What brings you to the temple at this hour? We have urgent business. What are you drawn there? Finish your statement. Right, sorry. We come with grim tidings.

Bechner is it large and we mean to take him down. I know only what I've been told. We are gathering the monks for defense of the city, awaiting orders. I'm trying to meditate on where this danger is. We have a theory. We think he might be originating in wild boat? No, no, he's, he is in, yep, he is disco dancing.

What the fuck? He might, he's going to, we've been speaking to the gods. You might want to talk to me, I'm like, his like, most prized people. I'm gonna stand next to Grog while I say this. In the sandpit? Yeah, fuck. I'm gonna fly down to the sandpit.

and land next to Grog. Lady Vixolia, great fighter, very brave. Hi. Still hasn't turned around, but it seems to be listening. Champion of Pellor, the Donfather. Same continent as the fire. We've been speaking to the gods. We're taking on Vecna, hopefully not alone,

but we need to speak with court. I know that sounds odd, but I was hoping, Grog was hoping. I was hoping that you would know how to contact him directly. Perhaps maybe have something that had that was tuned to his plane of existence, potentially. You have drawn cause attention once directly. He is aware of you.

Should you wish to speak that I can teach. It is a long process of piety. meditation and learning of the history of the storm lord himself. But it can be done. How long of a process is this that we're talking? You cannot rush faith. I'm not trying to rush faith.

I'm just saying that Fetna has ascended to Godhood. We have a limited amount of time to take him down. We need to speak with court. Can't help you. You can't speak to him directly? I can meditate and reach out, perhaps, but... Maybe draw his attention to us. The need is dire.

It doesn't work the way you ask. Court isn't a giving God. He's not. Make a religion check. Okay, yeah. This is going to go so well. Do it, and sure. I wish I had read the...

Oh, you know. Hold on, holda, hold on. Oh, no, 20. Okay. You know about Cord. CORD, from what you understand, is the god of competition and storms and chaotic nature and good, neutral territory, but is emphasizes contest and self-reliance.

Yeah, it's not the kind of God you could beseech with a word. But you can like, you know, tell him there's a big fight coming. Call out to him, get his attention. See if he wants, like, box seats or something? Yeah, say like, like, fucking he can help take down a big, big bad guy. Free food and drinks? Definitely. Like, you know, prime tickets to UFC fight.

Do you happen to know from all your years of meditation, like what plane or where cord might reside? Eusegard. He is God. East Guard. East Guard. East God. East God. Ah.

East God. He is God. That's what I thought is. Y-S-G-A-R-D. What? What? That's the best. A-I-D.

East God. Hmm. Is that on another plane? Near the fields of Elysium is a totally different place. Listen, he is very busy right now with his meditation garden. Right, yeah. So you have nothing else that you can do? I know that you're going to fight his troops,

but the fact of the matter is, Vettna is a god. If we can't find some way to speak to cord, we may not be able to save the world again. Action now would prevent the spread of his power. If what you say is true, I'm certain cordalding knows. But we can, what you ask is not within our ability to grant. Fair enough. You don't happen to have a bean on you, do you? Pardon up?

Powerful beans? Super. For the first time you see Cord, can I glance over his shoulder at you with... He hasn't looked at this whole thing. No, he's been just like... Should, like back to you, kind of looking over the shoulder. He finds turns and goes... It gives an edge to one of the other monks up top who kind of darts off a few awkward quiet minutes past. Just the bullet jumps down into the sandpit, runs up, and hands you a small satchel.

What? I look inside. It is filled with beans. Yeah! It's all I wanted. You got everything you wanted, Doc. Congratulations. Everybody else got one, I've got a satchel.

A whole fucking sex. Just fucking name the group after me. We are out, thank you. Can I see what he was drawing in the sand while we were over there? Make perception check. I'll do it too because I was curious. Okay, yeah, you go for it. Don't worry about it.

You glance over and you see one sketch appears to be a general overview overview of the city of all the different quarters make up the mountain, and it looks like he's essentially trying to work out defense positions in the city and preparing for some sort of a siege. I thank you for seeing us this late hour, and I wish you luck in the defense of this temple and this city.

I wish I could be of more help. You have been. Grin. If Vakner attacks here, he'll bring undead. That's all right. We'll bring the store. Oh, fuck, that was a dope line. Sorry, I'm cool. I'm cool. We're out. If you ever need any antique furniture or decor, ask for the meat man. He gets you a good deal. But he just turns back your facing away.

Really, really creepy as a meat man, I just want to talk. Make sure as we back away. Back away. Back away. Back away. What was Gordon painting? It was Gordon? He was drawing in the sand. Please tell me it was a horse playing saxophone.

That's all I know. He sits back down in the sand pit and goes back to his concentration, leaves you to your business. That was a total win. I got a bag full of beans. Good job, Crog. And we know the cord is on. He's a god. So.

Yeah, he's in his god. You're saying it weird. He's God. He's God. So back to the Raven. Sure, I'll change back. Yeah. I can't do it again.

What do you mean? You can't? I guess I can do it one more time. Sure. We're going back to sleep, right? I'll make you blue again. I'll make you blue again. But this time I make us all blue.

Lovely. Can I have a desire to bang on drums? Play on plate. Dark blue skin, light blue hair? Sure. I'll be opposite. I like that painted bald caps. What?

Not blue painted bald caps? No, no, no. I want beautiful hair. I've always wanted blue hair. You get it. That's not the blamanger by now. I'll be involved in so old crying. We make home away back to the temple.

Is the bustle the same outside of the temple? Well, as you step out of the temple and Scanlan blues you all. You make your way across... Episode title, the blue judey. Yeah. The multiple blue jobs. Okay, so as you exit the temple, it's late night, and it looks like the bustle is calmed down a little bit, as it is the evening, but you do see there are, normally what are small kind of patrol lights at the edges of the walls. You can see large fires are burning at the edges to extend eyesight. You can see a few, and it's interesting, you've, you see Wyverns in the sky.

You hear the familiar cries of Wyverns, and at first, it catches you off guard. But Vexalli, glancing up, and you can see they all have what looks to be some sort of barding on them, silver and blue barting. Oh, shit! It's like the town of Bahamets? Yep. Flockingham dragons, they have Wevernwriters here that act as air patrol during times of intense possible. Hell yeah, the Air Force is up. Air Force got scrambled. Yeah, quabble.

Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh. Formation. Smoke. Really, really, really. Really hope Baselheim stands. You guys make your way back to Raven's Crest, to the entranceway, to the entrance way, to Scanlan's magnificent mansion and to the rest of your party. Firstly washed. Yay!

So, just a question. What's on the menu? Beans apparently. No, look, how do you even know that? I just assumed. No, he's talking about, because I know you. The kitchen is, they've got lots of beans. Why would you only serve beans? There's no like meat or fish? It's vegan.

It's vegan here. We serve a lot of beans. Because of your daughter? Yes. Well, she's not here. Can we make an exception? She's always here in my heart. That's not me. That's not in the kitchen, though, so we're going to cook anything we like. I got what we needed.

I got myself a bean. You got a shard? In fact, I got several shards. What? I got a bag full of shards. Hold on the power might bow you all over. That actually might, especially if not eaten with rice. These are...

What are you doing? Oh, it's dry beans. It's all right, I can eat anything. How do you feel? It tastes like ash. Yeah, so does everything. It tastes like ash. We used to eat these in the fire as shory all the time.

These are like a rare delicacy. Good fine, frog. I could grow some more. Oh my god. We could have coal bean soup all the time at home, you guys. These are coal beans. They're great. Cool.

I'm making shit on fire. Goddeme, I had it! There could be an actual seat of power within there. Is there a table nearby? Yeah, you're not too far from the... I dump all the beans out on the table. Any beans that look different from the rest? Make an investigation check.

I'll look over his shoulder and help look. I'm gonna help look. Sixteen. It's not bad. That's not bad. You actually find four beans that look to be a bit darker. Darker. But squishier. They look to maybe be a little on the other.

A little on the rotten side. These are the beans. I mean, I should have thought cord is like a fist, and you put one of each four on the knuckles. I squish each one of the beans. They squish easy. I'm not a praying, I'm not a praying man. Bless my gutlet.

Oh, great, cord. Anything happen? Oh. Please see. There's a little juice running down your gum. No, they're glowing? Well. Fermented?

A little funky. I'll borrow some fresh ones. You know what? I bet if I pray hard enough they will disappear. Look above you! Oh! I could slide a hand check. Hey, it's not terrible.

I got plus two! 18! Strangely, Scanlan and Pike are kind of impressed. I just rolled two. Wow, that's impressive. You know the line between me and Cold, super tight. Keelith goes behind Grog and starts cleaning up the beans that he just threw. Pretty good, right?

Honestly? Kind of blown away. I know. Maybe I should get a tattoo for Cole, kind of like the symbols you have first ever, right? What do you think of the tattoo? Uh, I don't know, like a fist. Or a bean. Hey, don't put ideas in my head. A little happy bean. Actually, the symbol of Stormlord's kind of cool.

I can show it for you and she pulls a piece of paper and sketches it up for you. And it's this kind of cool disc, like this dark metal disc with blue bolts of lightning that stick out of the sun. The Stormlord symbol is the gem. That is like a cartoon bean. I'm not putting it on my body. It's a bean with a dick. That is the world's, the dick is smaller than the balls. Well, no, but it's a bean.

It's like a parrot's beak. Listen, we're gonna stick with the storm lord Sigel. We are going to save the world. Oh my God. Well, listen, I found out where court is. He's in a place called... Ooh. Isgard.

He's God. Sure, sure. Sure. Do you know you familiar? No. Why'd you say sure? I was just seeming intelligent. I do that all the time.

Anybody have any idea where that is? No. Do we? Can ask. Okay, who can we ask? I'm asking the dungeon check. Only if you're trained in it. I'm making a little check.

Cheapers. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not trained. But I'm not trained in. Resilization of his knuckles. Chast of 12. 17 for me.

You're not training religion. I had a whole lot of information gleaned on this. Oh well. Okay. I had Pike rolled. Pike didn't really great. Fuck. Pursay?

With your migraine. Yeah. Do you know what else we need to make these channels? I've been thinking a lot. I've been trying to skirt around this information for a bunch of reasons, so I've been making in making a mental shopping list. Yeah.

And from what you recall, it seems that one, the tools that were used to build them are generally with the actual, the Amble Forge. Nice. And it's more the essence of the god that drives the tremble. The material required is pure platinum. Platinum mines.

Yeah, that we're buried under a mountain. So, we know with the tree of the mountain. They are. You mean the ones? How much platinum do we need? I don't know which ones you're talking about. The tremels are about that long. They're like giant stakes of platinum.

We need a lot of platinum. Don't we need a lot of diamonds too? I'm attempting to do the math of how much platinum. Or the next time one of us dies? I mean if you were to melt down platinum pieces, each tremble would probably be close to, I'd say, the density and the thickness of it. Like 500 platinum.

Each tremors 500 platinum. Yeah, for like the thickness of it, like for the pure platinum structure. How much do we have? How much do we have? Well, I didn't write exactly how much platinum we have. I just transpose the platinum into gold in my notes.

Okay. We can buy platinum. We can just go a little bank. The little bank can exchange it. You can exchange gold for platinum. Okay. Wait, Grog, you had it in your original bag of holding. Yep.

How much was written down on our original bag of holding list? I don't know, there were like a bunch of digits. Do you know what still have it written down? If he actually has the phrase a bunch of digits, that would make me so happy right now. You know, we could always take Kima's great sword. It's made out of solid platinum. Oh, ha. You see, the, the, the, oh God. Well, no, she has that sort of this.

Yeah, she does. Yeah. You have to take it from her. Hey, who was the other band of travelers who fought and lost? 1600 platinum. We had 1,600 platinum. 1609. 1619.

I mean, I hope we're not going to find out. 1619. I, this part of me that just doesn't want to know. We're going to find out. So we could just go to the bank here in Basile-Lheim and switch out the money for platinum. We have enough goal to do. It's like finding out.

500 platinum meets, you said? Yeah. So 500? No, I mean, I could just stop like this. Is there a place where we're going to five bars? Is that 5,000 gold would be 500 platinum? Okay. I have to melt it down to get rid of the impurities to get the metal down to its purest form.

There's a process to it that you are actually familiar with. Now, for me of two of us, it should not be a problem. So because we have all these like shards, right, these like magical beans, if we lose, do it, Did we effectively kill all the guards who shards we have? We depower them, so they'll certainly be weak when they go against Vecna. Yeah, that's a lot of responsibly I was not aware of. Yeah. Well, okay, cool.

Needy not lose. At all. They're still diminished after, if we do defeat Vecna, that part of them is forever chaining him. Just if we fail, then he could be coming after them. They have no line of defense. Worst scenario possible, cool. Good to know. Good news is you do know that divine gate works both ways.

Sure. He could not travel into their realms. They cannot travel into that. However, it prevents them from intervening directly on his dominion over the prime material plan. And as far as we know, the Southern group did not have the help of gods. Right. As far as we know. As far as we know, unless they went to all the other gods we have not met yet. We can't, it's not like we can't just look in on anyone that we need to really quickly. We're feeling the urge. Do you know who it could have been? I mean, we might want to check and see if all of

Laura Gilmore, Kima, all our buddies are okay, Cash, Zara. That was my first thought. My question is, does it matter at the moment? Yes. Of course it matters, dear. Does it? Does it just make us panic? At least we'd know if he raised them up like he said he did.

It will be fighting an undead Gilmore, an undead allure. Oh, all right, point made. Point made. Very well made. Your sister. Let's start with... I have a few scrys that I want to do anyway. Can we scribe from this dimension?

Nope, I gotta pop out. So... Shouldn't you rest most of? No. No. I should finish this first. Um... I'm just wondering if I do any type of large magic if it'll alert him.

He'll... Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what happened to that skull that we got in Brimsyth's basement? With the gem. The gem in the eye. Furnary you should ask. Remember we thought it might be connected? I'd have a gem in one eye if I were...

Yeah, a green emerald gem in one socket, you dicks. Where is it? Laura has it. You gave it, yeah, we give it a lot. What? Allura has it. No, East and Percy's workshop. Sure.

And Allura came down and saw it, and no, I gave it to Allura. I wonder if it's spying on everything. I'm sorry, Grog. I gave you your deck of cards back. The school was very dangerous, and at the time it seemed like the right thing to do. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Look, we just went and got a bunch of beans for you.

That's true. And also, buddy, we might be dead in a week. You really don't want to hold on to that kind of shit. We may be going to get the skull back. Well, yeah, because I was just, we could get the skull back and I was just, because I was going through my notes, my old diary of everything that we've been through.

It literally has a leaf on it, my God. I have like four diaries of everything we've been through. I've read them. But we said, and the dumb character keeps a diary. It said evil skull and brimsyth, well, 121. We found an evil skull in Brimside's house. It may be.

be connected to Craven Edge. And I put stars next to it. Did you put stars next to it because it was important? I don't know. That's just what I wrote down what looks like a year and a half ago. I mean, do you need me to drop my scholastic knowledge on this shit? Because it talked to me, and it was like, if you free me, I give you a wish. The skull?

Yeah. Why do you think I was trying to break that shit? I don't believe if you freed it, you would have gotten a wish. I think you would have fought something. Do you know for sure? No. Then what are we talking about? Let's find out what's going on with the skull.

Yeah, I mean we are kind of in final days here. Yeah, we've got like, let's give ourselves. Well, maybe it was just a litch or something. We're going to try and take 40 hours, so it's much done soon as possible. Okay, because it is things. We describe on the fucking friends. Yeah. We need to check in on that skull, maybe.

Sure. And you need to maybe open up the plane to the dread emperor and see about the craven edge. That is low priority. What, no? The gods must be crazy. I know. Part two. That's low priority.

Is it? I don't think that's the thing. What if that weapon is like super, super good against the thing? It's just because it's a sword? Well, okay, wait, did she say we needed the sword? Also, I kind of think the knight guy that you fought that was super, super awful was, was the bloody, Yeah. No, Cass is destroyed.

is destroyed. He turned to ash. He fought Vecna and was turned to ash. Did the night have a sword? He did. A giant blade that emitted Chetto. But it wasn't described. Maybe that was the sword. No, the sword has been... He did say he'd admitted Chattin. Caz the bloody-handed, right? Yeah. Oh, wait, the death knight. He fought against Vecna. They destroyed each other. It's the reason Vecna was destroyed to begin with.

But maybe he brought Kaz back and that was the death night we fought. Maybe. The world is full of mysteries. One of which is whether or not her friends are alive. Why don't we find out? All right, I'm going to step outside and I'm going to scry on Allura first. And I'm going to... So, you're scrying first. Allora.

Okay. So, you step out into the center of the structure. Wait, is anybody around? Nothing's weird now the ordinary? We're trying to pool of bloods. You're in the Ravencrest. Perception, chat. Okay. I just want to make sure people just punked us at...

We're inside a church. We're inside a church. Reception check. Doesn't mean assassins can't get inside a church. Just go, just cry. Okay, I'm going. You're fine. Okay, so as you sit in focus,

concentrate, you draw out the various arcanglifts in the ground and focus on allure. Your vision expands into the sky, rushing through the night, air, and the spattering of clouds that have amassed over Vasselheim. It fires through the stratage the sphere dives down into the center of Haman, into what looks to be a bedroom. She is

currently at a desk and is feverishly writing on parchment. She's kind of her hairs tossled a bit and she has a thick robe kind of over her shoulders and you can see if she finishes writing something rolls it up, seals it, sets it into a pile. I think so a second Cast a spell, absentmindedly. It flickers off and vanishes. She goes back to writing. The door opens and you watch as Kima comes in and kind of brings a little tray with some hot tea and sets it down beside her kind of rubs her shoulder a bit and Lurr just looks back at her and kind of nods. You guys are the worst. Lerr just kind of puts her face in her hand for a second. Rubs her temples. She looks tired

and then Kima leaves the room and Lohler is just left there to I think for a second, looks out the window of her tower, and goes back to her writing. Was she covered with blood? No, she's fine. She's safe in Amon. Good. She's undead.

We gotta kill up. They're both safe. Stahl was next on the list? Well, Laura has the skull. Do we have any way to talk to her? Should I do Gilmore next? Is that necessary? Is it pretty strong the object?

No. I can scry on an object, right? An object or a person. Yeah. Should I do the skull? You know? Is it a safe assumption that the skull is with her? She's pretty fucking badass.

I mean, it might just be like a litchful actory or something. It might not be a big deal. Who else would have gone into battle against Vecna? Well, if it is lichesary. It's a big world. That would be something we would have been on. Just anybody. Could have been cash.

It could have been Terry. Who? Who? Oh, that fancy fellow. Oh my God, can you scraw on Terry? What if he came searching for us? The Terry was still in... Pick a city.

Let's just keep looking at people in various cities. Terry, Terry, we would feel it. Yes, that's right. Keeleth just spit out an idea. I mean, if that skull, which looked like his skull, which looked like his fucking head. We've dealt with the litch before. If it has even a chance of being a vessel

for his life force, even a chance when we want to not use it but destroy it. I will impart the information that you did discover that the skull was the skull of a Ghihi See. Oh, that was from like 300 hours ago. Like a Gini, right? No, no, no. They're a...

It's another race. A race of people that traverse the astral scene. But it has one eye. Oh, it has two eyes. The emerald in there was just like... The skull's shape was kind of alien. It was kind of elongated. It was elven.

It was hundreds of hours ago. I just wanted to save you circling about something without some information. Thanks, ma'am. Oh, we'll still circle... I'm sure you will. We're not done talking about it. Oh, yeah. This cluster fuck's not over.

It's been a half hour of this fuckery right here. A little hemming, a little bit of hawing. Wait a minute. Didn't we also, are we forgetting about one undead thing? Didn't we want to go back and talk to Delilah's body? Oh yeah, we're going to have that converse. We can do that in that bag. That's right.

She's in the bag of holding. She's in the bag of colding. We can talk to her in. Oh, she might be in the colding. Let's talk to it. Let's get in the mansion and talk to it. holding. We've got the line.

You jabbed her. That's right. We didn't give a fuck. Let's go in the mansion first. Are we not in the mansion right now? We are not in the mansion right now? We stepped out for a second. Oh, never left.

Yeah, it was just Keith and I. The doors open. We're talking about. Yeah, real quick, I still want to scry on the shore comb. We're going to set up, we're going to set her up so that she's nice. And you guys get her set up. In a chair. In a chair and we're going to bind her.

You guys pull the corpse of Delilah Briowardwood out of the back. Postmore. It hasn't been that long. The body's stiff. I mean, she, a lot of the head is missing. She looks good. Brick and mortis has definitely caused the body to kind of tighten up a bit. What's the expression on the face? There's a lot of dead gas. I mean, limp.

Like it's, it's, yeah, the muscles relax. Cool. Okay, so, as you guys propping this up, you complete your scrying on Shorcombe, and what you do is you get a vision of the central area of the city right near the the cliff side. There's like these sheer cliffs that drop off for maybe like a couple hundred feet and lead down to the gravelly, rocky beach. Dark rocks, pebbles that go out for maybe about 30 feet until they hit the water. And that's where they have these wooden steps that wind down the side of the cliff that lead to the docks. And they have wrenches and cranes that lift heavy objects to and from the docks to get actually into this city. You do see the

A lot of the trees are very thin, but within the actual city proper, you see a handful of larger trees that are, at this time, because it's pushing into the end of winter, beginning of spring, a lot of them are just leafless, but possible to use your transperia plants with. You've propped up her corpse, you've bounded.

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Check. 17. Was Craven Edge? It's sold. That's a good one. That's a great. Yes. The sort of cat.

Solid question. We could ask about Vecnon her buddy. Who the guy was? That's right. Bloody fist, bloody snub. I'm writing them down in my mind. Bloody-handed. Mm-hmm.

Right. What he has done to prepare for the inevitable attempt to rebind him. Does he have any weaknesses? Is that too broad? Does she have to answer? Do they have to answer? No. Oh.

Fuck. But she might not care, right? I don't know. We've got a few things we can threaten her with. Do you want to fill us in on those things? We can attempt to have her consecrated and buried in the Raven Queen's Temple so that nothing will ever bring her back again. Oh, that's fine. Oh, that's fine.

One more question. Also, in theory, I think it's possible that I could just send her to hell. Do we want to ask where he is or where he was going? Or? I haven't really experimented with this. I've really been excited to try. What his plan is after ascending?

Pass the buddy. A bit. You are a married matter. Where he is or where he's planning to attack first or what his display of power is going to be? Oh, sure. Because he wanted to, he also do a display of power. He's going to do a big display of power.

To get followers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we have sword of cast, bloody knight, what he's trying to do to prevent his binding, the weakness fears, and display of power. Unless the knight was sideless. I don't know, let's find out.

No. Possible. Possible. You give it those five? Yeah. I feel pretty good. I like this plan. Let's do it.

Like this candle. Okay. She gets her holy symbol. gets her holy symbol, takes out her component pouch and begins setting up the ritual for the Speak With Dead spell. It takes her but a moment to invoke it. Her eyes glow. The symbol suddenly shines this column of light

onto the corpse of Delilah Briarwood there motionless against the chair that you've found the body. The spell now released. The glyphs in the ground kind of feeling glowing with this energy. Pike reaches out and concentrates. There's no spirit. What?

Shit. She's already been brought back. There's no soul to grasp. If the soul is beyond reach, her, she's not dead. How many times are we going to have to fight this bitch? How? She got away. She got away.

I don't know. I don't know what that means. It means, and she... I'm a holy man. I'm a priest of Ayun. I don't know about the... about the undead. Because you got holes. My brother, please. My son. Shit. Well, even as a source of information, as a source of vengeance, she is just a constant

disappointment. Can I scry on her? Do you have another spell slot? I have three fifth level spells, plus my scry and I that I haven't used yet. So if you'd like to yet? I'd get to step outside again. Yep. All right. Maybe sneak about it, okay? Do we have to do it outside?

We already did. Yeah, this is a little plane of existence. All right. We have to be on the same plane. What's your spell D.C.? 21. You concentrate your vision and focus on the whereabouts, perhaps, of where Delilah Breyer would

might be if she's on this plane. Your vision pulls out of your body, rockets once again through the stratosphere. The darkness. It's hard to place direction, but your essence is drawn back down to the clouds over what looks to be the center of a rocky mountain range, covered in snow and ice. There's suddenly another flash,

and there you are amongst the city of Thar and Vala. There's another flash, and you see what looks to be a hole in the ground, a large carved tunnel. You see hooded figure. blurry at the edges of this vision emerging. And there you see stepping out of the tunnel. Delilah Briarwood with both eyes, steps out, her hood up, pulls it back.

She glances off to a direction you can't see and goes, it's almost ready. The voice comes in through your ear. No, no, no, no. What you see. I hate him so much. Immediately you pull out of the the scrying experience and you look around and your friends are staring at you.

You guys didn't hear anything, but once again you hear in your ear once more. Don't worry. All shall be revealed soon in her. Oh God. Sleep well. There's no safe place to hide. He can see us everywhere. He knows we should go. We should go. We should go. Where? You're outside of the mansion. Come in the mansion. What if he come in the mansion? What if he come?

What if he comes here to try and find us and he kills all of these people? What if we let him let him here? He knows we'll lead him anywhere, darling. And Delilah? She's alive. She's at the home, Fala. Both eyes is time.

She's going to ask. She'll remove it soon. She said, it's almost time. It's happening soon. Whatever he's doing, it's happening soon. And then he spoke to me in my vision. He said my name. He knows.

She's alive. I know. How many times? As many as it takes. Can you plane shift us from here, from the mansion? No. No. You can plane shift from the mansion. Plus we need to rest. We have to rest. You have to rest.

I can bear my ninth level spell and get us there right now. No. No. But we'll lose the mansion. We need the mansion to sleep. We can't sleep anymore without the mansion. I can sleep and I can plane shift us when we wake up. when we wake up from this mansion. Is that ninth level spell? We can also just step outside and then.

Seventh. Okay. I could also, we could just transport via plants. We'll do that in a tree to get us to shore, shore comb. Shore bottom. Sure bottom. As awful as it is, we need to sleep.

If we can't fight in the morning or any time. We have to prepare. The tunnels have toxic fumes and all sorts of stuff. We're going to have to breathe. Go underwater. We're going to have to figure out a way to survive. We have to deal with poisoned there and breathing in the water. No problem.

You know, like you do. This is the water shari for those. Things. Yeah, that's smart. I could also just cast water breathing on like eight of us. Well that save us from poison. Water breathing gets you under the water, but you still have poison in the air once you get to the... get to the mopah tubes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but the, do those, the things ruin the water, shari, the like, would those help with poison as well? Those help you filter water into air. Poisons is a different thing. Heroes feast. Yes. Heroes feast. Yeah.

For a chalice. We have two chalices. For an amount of time. For an amount of time. Chalice from the palace? This is the truth is true. Okay. That could work.

We have to go so many places. There's so many places. It's gonna be all right. We have one advantage that they do not. What's that? Opposable thumbs. That too. Giant.

Opposable thumbs? Only one of us is underestimating the other. We can do this. That's a good point. You mean we're the, are we? Then. No. You're fine.

We know we have to be careful. The plan then is sleep and then we go to Shorecombe And then we go under this volcano to the anvil. We're talking about platinum. Borrowing skull seat. Some water breathing equipment before we go. I can do that to us. You can do that.

I can cause water breathing on the grass. Excellent. Heroes feast while the breeding platinum. Breeding. Platinum. We'll do that in the morning. And then you're going to hit something with a hammer. Okay.

Bank in the morning. Bank in the morning, then off. And then through a tree. At dawn. At dawn we bank. At dawn we bank. Perbulous. There's a percent.

Shall we rest up? Yes. One more thing before we go to sleep. Not to draw this out any longer. I'm going to right before bed just attempt to turn into using my true polymorph. One of those fun, winged, tall creatures we met at Pellor's place. An angel? Wait to turn who into that? Me. Yourself? Yeah. The Planet Tower. You can definitely do that.

What? The Planet Man. Really? With True Polymo? Yeah. And... You've seen it. There you go. You've seen it, but I don't know it. No, you watch. Are you doing this privately or in front of everybody? Just in my room. Okay. In your room, in your room, you suddenly grow to the size of a 11, 12 foot. muscular humanoid, bald head, deep blue skin with beautiful white angel wings that unfurled for a 24-foot tip-to-tip length.

You feel holy power surge through your body. Just wanted to make sure that would work. Do you do anything? No, I just kind of stand there naked looking at myself. Anything else that happens in that room, you don't want to know. As the winged Dr. Manhattan stands there in his room, staring at his own Manhattan junk. So this is what it sounds like when doves cry. Just a slower addition of hallelujah, so you touch yourself through the night.

The night. Oh, it was only really good performance. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The wings curl in. All right. Oh, that was the most home game moment we've had. And on that note, we're going to close tonight's episode.

Oh, oh. Oh, my gosh. All right, guys. Thanks again, always been playing. Thank you guys for watching. I think it was again Darren DePaul for coming. again and Darren DePaul for coming and guessing this week. Closing Sprigg's story in an interesting way. I wasn't sure how he was going to do that. And yeah, we'll see you guys next week. Be safe.

Love each other. And is it Thursday yet? Good night. Hallelujah.