Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 27 - The Path to Whitestone

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

Greyskull Keep is infiltrated by ghostly attackers as Vox Machina prepares to make their way Northeast to Whitestone to confront the Briarwoods head on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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family and his escape into the wilds of Tal'Dorei, were going to be coming to Iman to bridge a political handshake with sovereign Uriel and all of Tal'Dorei proper to build a bridge across the channel that separates this continent from Wild Mount across the sea. Upon hearing about this, the party was planning to, after being invited to this banquet, gather information, And in the process doing so, Vax got himself caught by sneaking into their bedroom after them and was nearly killed in the process. The group managed to aid him, pull him out from the jaws of death, and the Briar Woods escaped through arcane means leaving a shattered carriage, a mostly beaten driver of their carriage, and through the scuffle, a number of guards were hurt or killed.

And the party, upon meeting an individual named Lilith, a teafling, and leading her back to the keep, they were attacked or seemingly attacked by a series of bounty hunters that were after her. There were some intense violence displayed against a few of them, and this all got back to the council. The council then called Max Machinacchina to the central palace and essentially began the structure of a trial to see if they themselves were responsible for essentially, attacking guests of the council, ruining what could have been a very lucrative union between the two towns and possibly murdering an old woman. So they were had their membership revoked, and during this sequence, apparently the charmed Seeker Assum was

restored, but seemingly to little effect. The group then left realizing that perhaps the moral ramifications of many of their actions are having bigger impact due to their visibility and their heroic status in the kingdom at large. When they returned to the keep, they found two representatives of the northern farmers of Iman that required aid. A series of their livestock had been stolen over the past few weeks and was putting them in dire straits when it came to the necessary amount of meat they had to raise. The group trying to turn their morality on its head decided to aid this, awaited out in the center of the cow pasture at night. masquerading through illusionary magic as cows themselves.

Of which the giant rock, a gargantuan bird that swooped down and grabbed cowlith, Kee-lith here, stepped her away. The rest of the party, Tiberius then enabled to fly through arcane means, and thus we had a squadron of evening cows chasing after the rock, which then got turned into a cow to crash into a mountain. They chased it back to its perch up in the Clipside Mountains to the northwest of Iman. Such an old trope in fantasy. Isn't it though? Oh, cowmifies.

My little chestnut. And engaged apparently a guardian of this rock, a gnome druid who had been removed from society for quite some time. After some rather roundabout and at some points on the edge of conflict conversation, they managed to convince him to instead take the bird and flee across the Osmit Sea to the northwest towards Vasselheim, where it would be a much better landscape for the creature to thrive and grow.

And after that, the party is making their way back, you know, and right around, I'd say, beginning of daybreak, towards the keep. So that is where we left off. Percy. Yes. Hello. Darkness. cold, lonely, darkness. A flicker of light. It swells, bright, white, blinding, then flashes of your family,

screaming. Julius, silenced by a bolt to the throat. Vesper thrown from a tower wall. Your younger brother's lifeless bodies tossed in a pile, the smell of death filling your cell. Your father, Frederick, a blade jutting from his chest, slick with crimson. Your mother, Johanna, burn with iron, screaming. Cassandra, running towards you, calling your name into the night, begging you to help.

One, two, three arrows. She falls. Darkness once more. Darkness and red. Red of blood. Red of burning fire. The sky is fire. The world burns with full.

flame and iron. The smoke rises from the cinders, coalescing into a face. Black is soot with eyes as burning coals and a wicked grin. It speaks with a raspy, rumbling bass like a slow-moving landslide. Or vengeance, personal. You made a gift is yours, and your gifts shall bring justice. Our bargain stands eager to clow. You suddenly come to consciousness, gasping loudly. Against the air, you feel the warmth of the forge across the side of the workshop, calling across your face. You were sitting at your workbench, having fallen asleep, and missed a pile of contraptions in mid-construction.

As you look around, you can see your leathered gloves are still on you. You are apron on, blackened suits, but across your face and a series of things you were in mid-billed on, just broken before you on your workshop table. How long have I been here? There's nobody in the room, and you have no idea. You're underground, subterranean in the workshop. You haven't seen the sun probably for a good day and a half. It's a new day. I didn't waste it at all. You have no idea quite how long you've been down here,

and you've been left alone for quite some time. I had upstairs. Okay. You go and you open the metallic door that leads into your workshop and come around the corner, and there's a chair set in the corner where the Jarrett would be sitting. Jarrett, one of the head guards of your facility.

Jarrett, however, is instead standing, hands up to his throat going with no visible assailant. Are we there? No, we're not even there. I want you to go in the roll initiative. Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!

Trinket was down there. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Was. No, you're here? Don't say that. You do it. Just saying the trinket died already.

Don't see it. Natural 20, 28. Really? On the nutshell, Chris he doesn't. Look at it, look at that. What is with that dice in you, man? We're in it already. That's how you start that. It's good.

You are the yin to Will Wheaton's bag. I was going to say he was sitting here, so. He was sitting here just like 20 minutes ago. We were here to keep the universe floating. I rubbed him for luck when he was leaving with the building. It was a little rub for life. It's a different table. We're good.

No, it's good. It's good, it's balance. There we go. You're barrens. We need him. He's various. Yeah, do you have Barron's? What's wrong with Barrens?

You must practice Barron. All right. That's what I'm saying, I'm Barron's. What's your total? 28. You are definitely Going first. Okay.

Like, bad stone, like reached the... All right. So you are up first. What do you want to do? As you come around the corner and you see this visual in front of you. visual in front of you. I want to go ahead and roll for Trinket, too. Ooh. You win this.

Oh, do. So I just see him up like this. You can look down, 19. Nice. Just for some references, it looked like he's possessed, or does it look like he's trying to remove something? Looks like he's trying to remove something around his neck. And looking down, you could see his feet are actually off the ground,

ticking. It looks like there's a little bit of air, whiffing around behind him. How insane would it be to try and make a shot beneath his legs. You can certainly go for it, try. I'm going to drop down and actually, can I make a name shot against something I can't see?

You can try, it'll be with disadvantage, but you can definitely make it. Is this in the kitchen? Yeah, I got three shots. Wait, can I make a request that the rest of us do the sounds of the ricocheting bullets in case he misses? Certainly. Okay, I want 5.1 though, so start here and make it all the way down. Okay.

Okay. You're not going to miss, so it doesn't matter. So it doesn't matter. I'm going to take an aim shot for my first shot and then just start firing block and line. Okay. A shot. Disadvantage against an invisible assailant?

No, that's, that's. Would you say it misses? I'm just making, yeah, I missed. I'm just making sure I didn't hit a misfire. No, I didn't, thank God. Okay. So what's the total? You have to do it.

What? Jesus Christ. Try again. Still hits. Still hits. Still hits. Still hits. We can miss.

Oh. Wow. Inhale, ricochet. I'm sorry I'm not really lost. I'm totally lost. So, oh, that's 16 points of damage. All right. And he has to make a Constitution saving throw to not be knocked prone.

Okay, what's the DC on that? Where's my DC? Let's see, what's to say? DC, 8 plus my proficiency mod plus my dexterity mod. So 8 plus... plus 19, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18. 19. Sure enough.

You see all of a sudden the air go, and whip per second, and Jarrett falls to his knees. I'm gonna take two more shots right above his head. Go for it. Don't hit Jared. Jared's on his knees, like, prone, essentially, right there. You can still hit Jared. He's our best guy.

That's 20. Do you have disadvantage on these, by the way? I don't. No, you still have disadvantage on these. It is still an invisible creature. 20. 20 hits. That's 13. 13 does not hit.

Wait, you know, 13 points of damage. Oh, got you. Yeah. Yes. And then 20 again. 20 hits. Nine points of damage. Nine points damage. The gunshots are echoing through the hallway.

Whatever this weird entity is, you can see some of the nearby cloth and dust kind of swirl up from its movement. You hear this, oh! This kind of angry, sucking sound in the air around you. Do you want to move or stay where you are? I'm gonna stay where I am. Okay. I'm gonna just keep yelling. So, help, help!

Alright, so for this turn... I don't think I have an earring. You see another some sort of wind come around the corner towards you. This one turns around and to go over to the bars, and you can see in the distance it's moving over towards where you're captive. currently is.

Where the boxmachina is, relative to where the keep is, how far away are we? I didn't know that. Proof. At the end of this combat round, we'll save for now, all of you guys are right towards the outskirts of the keep and you hear the muffled ringing of gunshots from the inside of the keep. We do hear this. I'm sure it's nothing.

He's probably tinkering. Nevertheless. Oh, as soon as I hear that, I'll cast fly on myself, it's just, okay, we'll get to that. Okay, we'll get to that. Are you wearing an earring for a scene? I don't think I am. It's not. It's not.

The engine that swishes down the stairs and comes at you. That's going to be a 22. I've missed. And a 12. That does not. All right. It swings towards you and gets a giant slam of extremely condensed air with a raking claw impact hits you in the torso,

doing 15 points of damage against you. Bludgeoning damage. The other one swings out in the same direction, though, at this time, you actually pull off to the side and knock it out of the way with your pepper box. The one back there is going to attempt to grapple. Succeeds. Already? That's action now, and you can see now the driver that you had last, you had put into prison is currently being now gurgling, strangling sounds in the distance. That ends it. Trinkets up. Trinket. I guess he can see

First, he's getting attacked, and instinct takes over, and he runs forward, and he clasps. All right, go ahead and roll through the attacks. Thanks, that's what happens. That does not hit. That's a natural 20. Yes. That will hit. Yeah.

It begins. Amber dextrous. Oh, wait, that's the wrong thing. That's a 2D4. Correct. Yes. Roll 2D4 and then multiply those by two. 17 damage?

17 damage, nice. Trigot runs up, kind of coming out of his somewhat sleeping stupor. Goes for a bite attack and just gabs nothing, but then turns around and just rakes a claw backwards, and manages to get the back of whatever this empty is and you hear it scream. You do it, least. I have a technical dispute really quickly. Yes? Could the wraith have gotten that far since I knocked him prone?

Yes, it could have, because it happens to movement speed. Oh, thank you. Never mind. Movement is actually 50. Ignore me. 50! Oh my gosh. I didn't know that.

Not that you know that. But it moved far for what you think it should have been able. By the way, for the record, Matthew, I have no idea of what we're fighting. No. Nobody does. I'm just saying I haven't met again. Congrats. I'm proud of you.

That's a first. Fresh start. I'm proud of you. Good news. Do it. Jarrett then gets up, sees this happening, moves over, and pulls out the key to begin to try to open the prison door, spends the turn doing so, manages to get the door open this, the end of Jarrett's turn.

Now the rest of you guys roll initiative. Come on, you giant ball bearing. That... Does that count if I sit in my box and it just slammed in to the side. Does that count? Or should I let it roll naturally? Let it roll naturally. No, I'm, well, I mean that would not count. It's fine. Wherever it lands, you take it, just going forward. Okay. I won't roll the big one in it.

All right, so 25 to 20? Huh? Oh, we're doing it? Keep up, people. Keep up. Come on. You guys are now, you hear the again shot. You're entering this intense. I don't think it's anything. Okay. I think it's just him tinkering.

So Scalon stays behind. All right, so 25 to 20, 20 to 15. All right, what did your scores? 15. Fitting. It's got a pencil on my eye. 16, sorry. 16, too.

Thank you. Thank you all, by the way, for leaving a bear on suicide watch. That was really cool. You're welcome. Really cool. Well, because if you wanted to pet something, it would be cuddly.

When he started talking about the guy choking, I was like, oh my God. Back, would you get again? Is Jared paging himself? This is what happened. I guess I'm not. I guess I'm that emo. All right.

All right. You got 15. 15. 15. And what did you get facts? 15. All right. 15.

I got three. Just at . You got three? Yeah. Okay. With your, with your, with my. I don't have any initiative. Oh, shit.

All right, so you guys all spin your turn, if you choose to, to rush through the gates. As soon as the gunshots go off, you can see, uh, um, Shane's up on top and she sees it. She sees this and gives a quick turn and you can see the gates begin to open. You hear this angry grunting as your orcguard is pulling the doors open as fast as you can. You guys find a moment and slip through running towards the front of the keep. You guys manage to get with full dash and full turn, including your flight, because you fly a little bit faster but you had a little more of an arc to get over. You guys get to the front of the keep this turn. So you won't get into this until next round.

Okay. That brings back to the top Percy, you're up. Can I make, can I, there's no way I can fire at the one who's far away from me right now. It's hard to see. But Jared's got him. I can ignore cover, though. You can ignore cover, but it's still you have this entity in front of you. I mean, you'll be at disadvantage regardless.

You should do something invisible, and you have something that's in melee of you, and you have arranged weapons, so. I'm going to see if there's a charge left in my glove and try and take the... There wouldn't be a charge left in my glove. It's the OA right now. You glance down at the glove and you can see the gemstone in the center of the palm is currently dark and... noise. Okay. Hold on, sorry.

And the hammer, motherfucker. It gets weird when it's up close. Let's see what we do. I'm all right. I'm going to just, I'm going to, there's no way I can step back right now, is there? Currently, I mean you can, if you want to, it'll get a free strike on you. Okay, I'm just going to try and take shots then at it. I'm just going to fire it.

The one in front of you? Yeah. Okay, go for it. With disadvantage on each shot. Firing with disadvantage? Screw it, I'm gonna take my first one with a sharpshooter just to see if I can do any damage. Okay. Nope.

Okay. I actually, that's a misfire. So the pepper box, you go to the shoot and there you go. The actual barrel gets clogged and there's a burst of the flame. It's rattled the flame. Okay. That's all I want. That's what I was. The fire for a second and you kind of have to like shake it out right now.

It's like completely offset and it's going to take a moment for you to eat. even get it to a point we can fire again. Okay. Don't have to do it every. Do I have six seconds? No, we have to. You do. You've used one attack, you have two more attacks, but

I don't have time to, well, it misfired, so that's... Yeah, that weapon, you have to use an action to repair. Okay, I'm going to... I'm going to do something a little weird. Okay. I'm going to pull out bad news. I know I can't shoot this close with it, or God only knows what would happen. I'm going to try and swing it like a pugil stick, and I'm going to try and swing it like a pugil stick, I'm just going to try and hit him with the Dundum Bad News.

Okay. Awesome. Go ahead and make amelia attack. This is strength-based. Oh, boy. So I do proficiency modifier and your strength modifier. Get him. 15.

So I'll have disadvantage on it. Because you can't see it. Roll high. You're not proficient. 15? Yes. 15 just barely here. Yes!

All right, so go ahead and roll. I'll say 1D with the size of bad news. I'd say 1D6. Yeah. Plus your shrink modifier. Four. So four points of damage, you whack bludgeon it with your, so you took a turn, took it out as your third attack is then slamming it in the side.

Whatever it ends to you smack, it's pushed against the wall. You're afraid, go and roll a D20 for me. Just 14. Okay. So the impact does not appear to damage bad news in this instance. Yay! It is a fragile construct and even doing melee attacks so that it, does subject it to a misfire possibility as actually

game-signity. I hit it with the stock. I was careful. I know. Hit him with the stock. Okay, so that concludes your turn? Yeah, I'm kind of, yeah. Okay, you see there.

All right, the one that's in front of you now is going to go ahead and shh, kind of go over this way, shrink it. Well, no, it's still Amelia, so it doesn't actually get an attack. It does get two strikes on you. That is a 17. Nope. And that is 18. I'm 18.

Armour class is 18. So it does just hit you. Can I do that crazy thing? No, that's been, I've eliminated that. Oh, you remove that, okay, no, mind. I don't have the new update, sorry. Oh, I get that for you. I don't have a Dodge anymore, right?

No, the Dodge is not there, because it really came into point. Yeah, it was really, yeah. Do you have four in a little more instead? Okay, so that puts you at another 15 points of bludging damage, as it smacks you right across the head. Your eyes kind of grow dizzy for a second, and you take a minute to refocus your vision, and you can now see in the air the shimmering expression that looks like a humanoid

face just stretched and ghastly going in front of you, but it's still barely even visible and only because of the proximity are you able to actually make out any sort of shape or shimmer in the air in front of you. The other one is attempting to go ahead and make a, I'm just going to choke out your prisoner. Chuck out the prisoner. What? Yeah, he's trying to kill the prisoner. What? However, the prisoner resists through athletics. No, I was currently like holding back and made the strength of the entity. Man, I've been looking at like two months. So that ends its turn. Trinkets up.

Trinkets up. You're going to try to jump and land on top of the ghostly thing and bite its face. All right, go for you. Yeah. I don't know how to do that. Alright, right, right. To do like a real leap, Trink would have to back up and then run towards it.

The Trinket wants to do that. Yeah. Okay. So Trinket backs up. As it does, it gets one free swipe a trinket. Trinket, that is a 18 hit? I am having an issue here. Okay.

Because I have 18 in parentheses, and then I wrote a 20, and I circled it, and I don't know why. I don't know why. 18 is probably. Yeah, we'll say 18. Okay. So that hits, Trinket takes 15 points of bludgeoning damage. More Trinket.

He sweeps out and back hands Trinket is back. However, Trinket now leaps. Go ahead and make an athletics check. He has better arma class than I do. He does. Does he have armor? He does. He's got his bullet armor, man.

He's a cannonball. What am I doing? A strength? Athletics, yeah, would be... 17? 17. And yeah, Tringet leaps forward, slamming this entity onto the ground, knocking it thrown, and you get to go ahead and make a bite attack. Yes! That didn't count because it slipped out of my hand. That was even worse than the other one. So 11. It did slip down on my hand. I shouldn't count if it goes like that. Well, that... You're one, yeah. So Trigot manages to not get prone, however. Because it gets pushed out of the way,

and Triggins has a hard time. Trigget just makes a big slash and a bite out in the air where it once was and misses entirely. But he's gotten prone. That's what you get it. Jared's not going to attempt to like Trinkeet missed? He missed.

He missed. Jarrett manages to reach out and grab on whatever this creature is and pull on to it. So Jared. and is going to attempt to try and pull it back. For this, I will do a contested roll on that. Roll the one. Jarrett pulled it back that far, managing to let go of its quarry

and is currently holding on to some sort of angry, whirling entity at that point. That ends Jarrett's turn. The rest of you guys. For our guests at this point. I'm just going to move all my guys on my guys. Just managed to make your way up into the armory up top. First is Vex. You rush in there. And what do you want to do?

I want to run down and shoot something. Okay. You can get just about there. Can I see anything? Can I ricochet an arrow to hit? I would say you have three-quarters cover. So it would be disadvantage. Disadvantage on the attack. Triple. It's like a pool player.

It's like disadvantage because it's invisible, so it's just one of those, like, it's just hard to hit for garland. It's just a real shitty. Actually, I didn't hold that. Okay. That was the same line. Which time? 28. 28.

28 hits. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Your children. Oh, I didn't fucking Hatters mark him. No. Damn it. Um, back.

15. 15 points of damage. The first arrow, sinks in whatever is there, and you can see it just kind of jutting out of no physical space. Now I'm going to hatters mark him, and I'm going to hatters mark him. Mark him and I'm going to hit him again. Can I do that? Technically it's part of your attack. You do attacks first and then you can bonus action. So you're like, and then you're hunter's mark after. All right. That one doesn't hit.

Doesn't matter. Did you miss? I missed it. Second shot just shatters against the back wall of stone. You can't hunter's mark it. I'm nother's mark him. All right. That entity is now hunter's mark. That ends Vex's turn.

Keelef, you know also make your way into the doorway? How far can I get? Uh-uh. Oh. Not there. Nothing's in visual sight right now, unfortunately. Nothing's in visual sight? No, not with full, like half of that was getting to that point. You could dash and try and make your way in, but you wouldn't be able to do anything.

Can I dash in and then make a bonus action? You could, yeah. Good call. Grog, you're on deck. I'll just wait. Okay. Okay. Feel the place there.

Grog, you're up. You managed to just charge. You have a little... Let me scroach over so I can be behind Vax. There, okay. Perfect. Vex. You have a little better movement, so you actually managed to get two more squares in. What's your speed again? It's...

50. 50. Okay, yeah, you managed to get up to there, and now your turn begins. I'm going to a rage, and I come in and I turn to the right, and I'll run as close as I can to Jared and... Jared. Yeah, Jared. Whist me fun. All right.

Yeah. So you're just charging, angry. You see Jared's like currently reaching back and trying to go for his crossbow. Now his Sinner T's like in his face. He's just, well, he's grappled it with one arm and he's like reaching back and try and grab it. You come rushing in.

Go for it. I take out a holy oil vial out of the bag of holding. I crush it in my hand and I take a swing at whatever he's holding. Yeah. Cool. So as you pull out, the pain from the glass even just further. Angers you. You can see a mix of holy water and blood trickled down from your fists as you clench it. Go ahead and swing for a punch at the disadvantage.

Oh. That's a one. So that first strike just whoops over. Through your anger, you're unable to focus on where this entity may be. Not to a good start with this. No. Number two. Disadvantage. That's... Fuck. You're not. Different dice. What's the total? What's the total?

Fifteen. Fifteen just barely hit. barely hit. Hey! Red roll, uh. These guys? Do you unroll that, half that damage, yes? One.

Plus rage? Plus rage. Two. Oh, right. Who has a freaking laser? Uh, eight. So eight points of damage to it. All ready.

Whack, it hits and you hear this sound as it takes the impact. And you can see this kind of strange, angry face appears suddenly out of the shimmering air that just then disperses again, and you don't quite know where it is. You're making a third strike now if you want. Did it do any holy damage? Did not appear to have any additional effect on the edge? Well, hell, it was worth a shot. Oh, that is a bit. 19.

19 still hits. Go ahead and roll. Next attack. Eight again. Eight damage again. Bish! Wack! You backhanded with your third strike this time finding the edge of its face again.

You see the chair right next to it kind of tumble as it. It barely managed to catch itself and keep itself aloft. Nevertheless, this strange, invisible entity is still there holding its ground. Would you say the blood from my hand is splattering Jared behind him? For me to go over to Jared, Jared is currently trying to grab onto the creature and keep it grappled. So yeah, it's kind of spattering on him. I'm a painter.

All right, that ends Grog's turn. Vax and Tiberius. You guys both just get up to the edge of this room here. Your cap is looking really nice, Fax. I'm clicking my boots of haste and I get double movement. so I get to go 60 feet. Yep. So I'm gonna slink right up besides Trinket

and stab the shit out of this invisible thing. Oh, stab him! Stop him! Hey, what do they look like? All right. So because Trinket's right there, this is a sneak attack. That hits.

That is 29 to hit. Uh, that'll hit. That'll hit. It is prone. It is invisible, but it is prone, so that evens out to just no admit to this image. Okay. 8, 4, 17, is 11, 14, 16. New math, yeah. See, where am I hat?

Oh, is 19, sort of 25 for the first hit. 35, all right. Yes. It's only if it's, oh. You have to double name. No. He didn't, that's a critical hit. Oh, right.

You should sneak attack. One shy. Got it. All right, so now out comes the dagger of lice. I don't roll that one. Lice. Yes, of life stealing. It misses, so then I come back, well, does 15 hit?

I think just barely hits. Just barely hits. Oh, that's better than a hook. That is three plus six is nine for damage. All righty. And then the keen dagger comes back. Whihip, and that gets a 27th. That also hits.

Four, nine of damage. All right. So as you rush over, you stab downward, you hear this sound as your blade comes down into whatever into the area, your hand kind of moves around as it struggles against the blade. You pull it out, grab your other dagger, throw it in the air, catch it, slant it down again for the third strike,

and then pull back and stab a third time. Yeah. That's pretty thick. And Trinket is very comforting pressed against my shoulder as I do all that. Yeah, he's like, supple. Supple bear. Hashtag subble bear.

Hashtag is supple bear. Supple bear. All right. That ends your turn. Tiberius, what are you doing? How far can I get up? He's still alive, ish. He's right. That's about as far as you can get with your movement.

You currently do not have visual on either of them. You're flying. What's your fly speed? 60 feet. Infinite. You said the last time when we found it was 40, I believe, wasn't it? Was it 40? No. That was 60. It was double the...

Shit. Hold on, no, I have a card. Go to the Old Testament. You have a card, and I find it fast. I find it fast. 60 feet. 60. It is 60, you're right.

It's 60 feet. You can go double. So you are, you're now. Just like, schoasting down the stairway. I'm going to attempt something I haven't actually tried before. All right, go for it. I'm going, because there's one to my right and one of my left, right? There's one over here that has Grog and Jarrett kind of flaking the other one that has Percy, Vax and Trinket all around it.

No one's actually prone on the ground. Oh, snap. It's hard to see normally. It's very hard to see now that it's like swarmed. So I'm like, at my envision. Do I have visual of both wraiths? You have visual of both entities, whatever they are. Okay, sorry.

I'm calling on wraiths because they're like, ah, it's... Okay, so I'm going to cast at... Have we rested, by the way? Nope. No, you have not rested yet. We've been up on like. We're down a bunch of spells.

Yeah, you're still where you were when you came back. Well, to be fair, we talked... We didn't have a battle. Yeah. We can't use... I'm good. There's flies and stuff. That's true.

I'm going to try to do this bad now. I'm going to look at two my racks on my left. And at sixth level, I'm going to try to do glacial blasts and split the damage and try to hit both of them, because it does 8D8 damage. Are you doing the single stream? I'm trying to split my arc. So instead of doing with this, I'm trying to f-

Okay. Something I've done before. How much damage is it? At six level, it's 8-D-8 damage. Okay. And what's the saving throw? 17. 17.

17. Okay. Jarritt and Vax have to make saving throws as well on this. Using evasion. So go and make that, Jared. Rolled in 18 for in his high deck. So yeah, Jared makes save those half damage for Jared. 28 for me.

All right, so you take no damage because you're a rogue, and let's go to hold damage. 18 for one. Right hand. That's hand. This one fails. This one succeeds. Cool.

Right hand does. That's a 10. Oh, sweet. That's a D10. No, no, no. That's a D-10. These are D8s. Sorry.

My bad. It's actually not prone. That's a D-8, right? That doesn't a D8. Okay, cool. Right hand, the eight's, 10 plus that's 14 to my right,

and then 18 to my left. So how much is that? So 14 to my right, 18 to my left. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. So... The one that doesn't save gets... It would if it wasn't immune.

Who? However, as you arc down and ice blast comes through, you can see Baxter manages to pull down to the ground and get out of the way in time. Jarrett ducks out of the way and just blasts over, hitting both these entities. Ice crackles around both. both their forms, but then the forms kind of shift out of it. So that ends your turn right there.

It comes back to Scanlan. Oh, where am I? We were right there. Just entered the room behind everybody else. Where does Percy do his tinkering? Over here. Because I can't see what's going on down there. You just see currently these three down the hallway.

You just see Tiberius, like glass and a bunch of ice arc in the air. Okay, so I know there's shit going on down there, but I can't really see what. Mm-hmm. So I would have, I would probably just dimension door into the tinkering room, because that's where I assume Percy is. Okay. And then I kind of see what's going on and nobody's there. Do I still have line of sight on anybody? Can I see through the building?

Currently you see Percy through this doorway right there. Okay. Well, then I will, I can't move. I can move also, can you move as well? Dimension was your action. I'll move towards him. All right. And then, oh, then I see a crazy thing in front of me.

Yep. Yes, you do. Shit. So I probably take a couple of stuff back. Okay. Oh, oh, no. Nope. Nope.

Nope. And then I'll just inspire Percy. Yay. The good fight the good fight. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, all the single Persies! All the single Persies! All the single Persies! I put your guns up, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Degin inspiration dice, do you and Percy? What is that, is the D10? D10, yeah. The reason is to the top of the combat round? Percy, you're up first. I'm going to use my action to try and clear my gun. Okay, so go ahead and make your check. That's, what is that again?

Is that again? Did it change since last time? That one shouldn't change, no. Okay, so it's 11. I'm adding my bonus time. What you roll? Nine. Nine. As you pull over your pepper box, you're like,

P-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-p-p-the-act. The actual barrel comes off and hits the ground, ting, ting, ting, and rolls off towards the back of the room. I'm tossing it into my room. Okay. I'm using an action surge. Actually, can I even do that? Yes, I'm going to use my action surge, and I'm going to walk over to the wraith on the ground, put the barrel of bad news up to it, and pull the trigger.

The wraith is no longer on the ground, by the way. Is he not? The entity, actually, upon looking, is immune to being prone. Oh! So we won't recon it anything, but as you go to pull the barrel up, you can see now the face is standing up. see now the face is standing up before you. I'm just gonna try and shove it until I hit something and then pull.

Okay, so go ahead and roll a disadvantage. Okay. Bad news? 22. 22 hits, go ahead and roll damage. We're all gonna go dip. Oh, man, that's gonna be the loud as fuck. 19.

19. Bad news goes off. The sound is deafening in the room, the echoing of the explosion through the stone walls. You, I'm gonna go ahead and have you roll a Constitution to say everything. Vax or Liam. Vax, both maybe.

What now? Constitution saving. Constitution saving. Do you feel like it to scream in your ear? That is a 15. A 15, okay. You don't go deaf, but your ears are ringing very, very hard. The entity screams and the disperses.

Yay! Nice. You get a grip point back. Oh, you do. Dope. Okay. You're still two more times. Or you have to use one to reload.

I have to use one to reload. I have one more attack, but I've already moved. I didn't move. I'm gonna try and roll around the corner and see if I can take another. Okay, so you pull around there, okay. And I'm going to take a, yeah, just another shot. Okay.

27. 27. 27, hits. Go ahead and all damage. 13, 15, 16, 16. 19 points of damage. Okay. This time, the shot goes off.

Right by your head, Tiberius. You're flying in the air and you look down and see him pull the bad news out right beneath you, and before you have a chance to react, the flash of the muzzle just bursting forward, a big plume of black powder, like, just smoke fills the air around you. So I see a big flash? Yes. Okay, and what do you want to roll? Make a constitution table.

Out of control. Sorry. Seven. Seven. Okay, you are considered deaf until the start of his death. Okay, so as soon as I hear the, I see the flash, I go, ah! That's not good. Okay.

That's not a good. All right. So, that ends your turn, Percy? Yeah. All right. Next, this entity, Senator Mark, is going to rush forward. No. Straight out of the grapple from Jarrett.

Just shifts right out of his hands. It's going to run forward and take a double attack against the prisoner. That's 19-6, with five hits. And that is a... 15 hits as well. It takes 30 points of damage. What the f. It's currently unconscious. Oh, shit.

Punches them twice, and you see the poor driver is knocked up into the ceiling, falls down onto the bed and is like half laying off. You can see blood trickling down the front of his faces. Oh, God. And slowly close. Need him alive. That brings us to Trinket's turn. Trinket's turn. Trinket.

Trinket rushes forward. And goes... No, we're not... Actually, we're not going to roll Trinket into your turn since you're going to... Oh, alright. Then he stays there. Tringett stays there until it's your turn. Jarrett is going to rush forward and come to this corner.

I think crossbow is not much aid at this point. It reaches over and pulls out a short sword. And we're just forward with the short sword. Yeah, that's with disadvantage, it's a... So it's a nine rolls. A 20 and a three. Great. Sorry, Jared. Yeah, just swinging through trying to pierce through the bars at this entity and just can't seem to get any sort of attack to hit and land on the creature. So he's actually locked in the thing still? Jared got the door open and came through to try and grab the creature and has to try to pull him back.

The creature just sifted right through its hands again to go ahead and attack the prisoner. That ends Jarrett's turn. Vex, it is now your turn. Okay, can I move forward so I can see? Yep, you can see about there, give you a visual on the entity. All right. Yeah, I'll do that, I'll shoot him. Okay. He's center's marked already, okay, good. He is, yes, so both attacks at disadvantage.

Um, a 15? 15 hits, okay. Uh, d-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. 16. 16. Oh, that's the damage. All right. With the additional hunter's mark?

Yes. Okay. And then 14 doesn't hit. 14 does not hit. Aero just disappears in the back of the cell, just scattering and shattering against the stone wall. And Trinket, can he get up to him? Trinquet can get up to rush up.

Oh, but I took all the attacks. Correct. So Trinket runs and rushes up, but it doesn't act. Trinkett stays in the corner then. He can't do shit. Okay. Tringett just cheers you on. He just shakes off.

Cool, that ends your turn. Kieleth. Okay, I'm going to seeing the direction that everyone's pointing, going to kind of walk up and reach around Vex. And I'm going to cast fairy fire right, oh God, on direction. On direction. Go ahead.

On yourself. Oh, God. Ah! Good fail. It's a 20-foot cube, so I want to cast it right in the cell. Okay. Doing the reach around. Okay, cool.

So as you cast that, you can see now That's just courteous. It's going to turn to make a save. What's the DC on that? Against my spells DC? Yes. And it fails with a 14. All right, so you guys watch as she reaches her hand out, the entire cell all of a sudden there's a burst of purplish light and these little kind of dust stars of purple glowing begin to drift down from the ceiling.

As they do, they cling to whatever this form is. And you can now see very clearly this invisible entity that is surrounded in these purple sparkles. that looks humanoid from the torso up, but its legs are kind of shimmering and shifting around. You now have a very clear look on it. You've nullified its invisibility. You have advantage now. Is it advantage as well?

Yeah, you have advantage. So you guys all now have advantage on this entity. And I'm going to take my bonus action to do Healing Word on the, it's not Jared that's unconscious. No, it's the cab driver. The guy. On the cab driver. Okay.

So go ahead and roll for the healing. Bucky. Desmond. Desmond. What's his name? Desmond. Desmond? Sorry, brother. Jarrett and Desmond.

Hubert. How much is he healed? Um, six plus my spell modifier. I think is that right? Is that how it works? Yeah. It's my, plus my spell level. Is that what it is?

What are you doing? It's plus plus, I think it's plus five. Healing word? Thuring word. Three word, yeah. Three four, plus my spell casting ability modifier. Six. Six.

So, uh, 12. 12. Gotcha. Okay. Desmond's eyes kind of clarify for a second. He begins to breathe heavily. Still looking very wounded but conscious and prone across the bed as the entity that's hunter and brother's marg.

Still looming over it, bringing its fists up for another round to try and finish its job. That ends your turn, Kieliff? Grog, you're up. There you are. Hold still, Casper. And I run up and I swing. As you rush up, eagerly. Blasherly, meet your strike.

Nice! Come on, Bob. That's 28. That hits. Okay. That's 27. It's. It's.

This would hit Tiamat. 17. 17. Something else it hits. So roll damage three times. As you just rush up the bars open, bring the axe out on top of this, now sparkling purple anxie. He's 10.

14 on the first one, plus the fire damage. 17 plus 21. No, is that right? Did I do that right? Yeah. Yeah. 41. The second one. Okay. And 9, 17. 21 again! Nice.

Alright, so you remember, whack, whack, whiff. Hammer down a third time on top of the screen. You can see its body, being beaten around by the attack. and you see the whispering of its wind around its lower body starting to slow and it's looking like it's getting more sluggish, but it's definitely still intent on its job. That ends your turn of Grog. Max, you're up. All right. In a split second, I'm watching Grog take the thing apart. I size up everybody in front of me in the distance, and I think I can sort of assassin creed my way through the crowd because I can go 60 feet normally, so 30 feet if it's crowded.

And I'm going to use Grog's proximity to take this thing apart. Okay, I will say you would normally get advantage because you're attacking it through the bar. with melee, it disables it, so it's just a straight attack. Straight, that's fine. You're going to fight it through prison bars with daggers, which is difficult. So the first one is terrible. It's a 14. 14 misses, unfortunately.

And that's where the sneak attack damage is, right? Well, it's the first attack you get on it would get it. So even if you miss the first attack, you can still get it for the second and third. Third one is a 21. That does hit. Go ahead and roll the sneakie set. There's the delivery system, and that is the Dekeen dagger. Ahah, seven, one six, seven, one eight, one six, seven.

Oh, foot two. Oh, 38, 38. All right. With that, you, the first blade comes through, and you try and get it through the bars, it gets nothing, you pull back, take the other dagger, and swing through it, falls too wide, and you have to bring your arm back. This time, you can see after Grog has slammed it with the hammer, it kind of falls, and you can see its form. The sparkles kind of come towards the edge, like, slamming its back into the bar,

and it's right there in front of you, and use that instance to go ahead and reach through the bars, grab up by the throat, and just stab it repeatedly. Yes! At which point it's formed disperses in the wind around you. Andy Dufrey. On consciousness. And I slap Grog on the back and say, you soften the shit of him.

That's terrible English. You soften him up for me, asshole. You're drinking. Still softening. As you said, it's still softening, I was like, you soften the shit of him. For me. You shitted them up for me, Grog. Good job.

You guys look over in the, you see Desmond is still in the bed kind of like eyes wide. I rush over to Desmond, and out of my pouch I bring out a sandwich that I had made earlier. I had it to him, I go, Desmond, Decker, do you have it? It's a Decker sandwich, you should have it. It gets up in the bed and takes it. What happens? I run up and I cast two wounds on him. Okay.

It's got an oil for the cure run to on that? Are you casting that all over the place now, aren't you? Fancy pants. From the tinkering room, I yell out. Is it safe? Is it safe? Can I come out now? Yep.

It is safe. There's like four more of them. Stay back, stay back. I'll stay. I remember I have the holy oil in my hand mixed with the blood, and I start blessing him with bloody fist. 17. Who?

The prisoner? Awesome. Do I add my wisdom to that, or is it just three Without God saying. Without God saying. Pardon me, he's, he doesn't know Kessel's right off. I don't know. All right, cool.

How was that sandwich? Desmond isn't eating it. He was just holding it and still kind of like taking in. What happened? What was that? What was that thing? Nasty bits. Okay, what was that thing? What was that thing?

I would say opaque buttholes. Can we do like a check? Make an arcana check. I'm making an arcana check too. Acona check, too. I don't know. I don't know anything. I rolled one by accident.

No. I'll take the. As a note, if you rolled by accident, you have to roll intentionally to take the score. 22. Because if you were to accidentally and be like, that doesn't count, I didn't actually roll. But just, yeah.

A hard 12. I rolled a 22. Acona check. Solid. 22? Yeah. Oh. He's faced these things before.

That's what it is. That's the thing. You've seen these, these entities are used by certain high-level arcane practitioners, they can be summoned as certain spells. They're error-elemental based in nature, but they're generally known as Invisible Stalkers. Invisible Stalkers? They have the worst. They're used as assassins that have a very sole, single-minded purpose. All I know is they feel like the Briarwoods. You get that based on recent events,

there's probably a good probability that was the source of this. Do you know from your previous experience if there's any way to protect a game? against them? Other than setting up woods? All I know is how to stick my face into beehives, apparently. Yeah. That's racist. Do we know? Does anybody know how to protect against the air, stalkers? Give me a day, I'll find out. We'll find out. Jared, at which point is kind of hand against the wall and goes.

I would recommend it next time you decide to put me on watch. You let me know if we're up against things that are invisible. I apologize. I was not prepared for such a photo show up. We're unprepared to warn you, I'm sorry. That's all right. If I might ask, what exactly are we up against here? Park of we know. It seems like we're up against either vampires or liches. Once again, I could... Prepare the troops. There will be some changes made to the keep over the next couple of days.

We should show up security as to me. I would like also to consider possibly some changes made to our income, as this suddenly turned from just a general guarding job to going up against the denizens of the endosings of the end. of the after life. It's already been a very dangerous proposition. Of course. We shall discuss that in late, is it the morning? Very well. I'm going to go ahead and make sure the rest of my team is alive. Yes. Jared, are you up for it?

I mean, if the pay is good, yes. No. Do you know it's up for anything? You understand. Okay, I talk to you in the morning. I think about if rest is necessary. He makes his way up the stairs to the rest of the keep. And a desert at this point, he's kind of still in shock and just starts to finally eating the sandwich that you handed him. It's cool quite. I had one yesterday.

Maybe it's best not to move from down here. No, you should stay in the guest room. Come. Do you have already someone in the guest room? Is it safe for there? Yes, it is. I told you they'd come for me. Yes, you did.

I told you they would. Don't worry. But you know what? You're still alive. You've had the worst couple days. I put it. Okay. He wipes the blood from the side of his face.

He's going to look at it. He's going to take you upstairs and get you all for that. Who do we talk to you? Who? Who? Who? Who do we talk to you that works for us that does the actual construction to the keep?

That is one of Hurielle's staff. In which case, we cannot talk to them right now. Because they don't like us. The individual that were responsible for the construction of the keep was Lord Riskel Daxio, which is an elven gentleman on the council that helped oversee the whole construction and help you guys design it. Is he still on the bed? Still on the bed, just sitting. I sit down next to him and say, listen, you are a victim of circumstance. We understand that.

We are, to a certain degree as well. We're not leaving our side. And really, there's no other choice. I mean, you're kind of fucked like we're. So we will do our best protect you. I promise you. I promise you. Okay. Are you a servant that does the force? I volunteer to sleep down in the room. Oh wow. You shall stay in my quarters.

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Don't worry. We can enchant his room as well to have an alerts thing go on if anything happens over midnight and it would be safer. I shall be sleeping in my laboratory for next. several nights as well. I mean, I can still go ahead and do the planer bindings to an elemental. Right. That maybe I should have done beforehand. Nobody got by them, they're invisible.

No, it lasts 30 days. I like all of these things, but I think Vrog is a bunkmate is a good idea. Yes. At this point, Desmond leans into you and kind of quietly says in your ear back, says, is it? Is it, is what I'm sleeping going to be away from him? Looks over towards Percy. Yes.

Yes, it will. You don't hear this. You don't hear that. It's fine. You'll have him in between you and him. You don't hear that. It's whispered at the back. It's all right.

Oh, I'm sorry. Who's our circuit of coat this thing? There is a lot of history for Percy wrapped up in this, and he has done you wrong. No question. The answer is yes. You will be separate from Percival.

You will be protected. And you have my word. Make persuasion rule. Don't you have my ax? As you do as I'm like, I'm going to use luck. I'm using my luck. Call for a win. Natural 20, the luck.

You. Kind of takes another bite of the sandwich and kind of packs it away. A little piece of cloth he had in pocket and puts it in there. You can still see as he brings his hand up, you can see the blood streak against where the fingers were on the lower half of that hand. Just kind of strokes the edge of his chin and goes, okay. I trust you. Please. Please let them kill me. We may be fuck-ups. Speak for yourself. But we're not without ability. Now you have my word. I promise you.

Okay. Retire. Desmond dear, let's go upstairs. Grog. Grog! Um, that bed needs to go back up to the guestroom. Fuck you now. I'm gonna take the fucking bed up to his death. It takes you roughly another 20 minutes or so to bring it out. Fitting it to the door. Oh, I'm in. What is that to do this old man?

He's mulling for girls. As you call up, Erwin eventually comes down. Hey, yes, Tybiraeus, you called? Yes, it's quite early in the morning has his nightcap on and he's kind of rubbing his eyes. Yeah, what time is it? Oh. Right now it's about probably 6.30 in the morning or so. It's just after sunrise. You guys have him slept.

Oh, shit. Never mind. I'll talk to you once we've slept. Oh, you're an asshole now. Go back to sleep. I didn't realize what time it was. I thought it was like 10 a.m., which is totally different than 6 a.m. I didn't know that. It's all right. In the morning, then, master type, it is. He goes off to his, get back to his bed to sleep. We go to sleep? Yeah, we need to sleep. Yeah, we sleep. I'm, I fall, gently fall asleep under Percy's work bed. I'm not sure I wouldn't do that. Where I've been hiding this whole lot. Okay, make a self-check.

You're not gonna sleep down there. Natural swing. Oh! We're rich in 20s tonight. All right, so the rest of you go to sleep, you're all going to... I'm going into my... I'm going to go into my... your workshop? My workshop.

On the way up, I fall in next to Keeler. Ask, is your hand all right? It's fine. Do you need anything? Nope. All right. Since he's sleeping in the room with me, I take him. room with me, I take a few of the caltrops that I have and I put them on the inside of the

doorway before I close it. Okay. So you guys are going to set it up there. Percy, you're going to workshop. Go ahead and roll a perception check, Percy. 17. 17. Okay. You go back your work as is necessary. I'm fixing my gun. Okay. Is it bow? The materials that requires you to do so are expensive. You actually have to pay the cost of the gun and go ahead and make another check. What is that sound? I said, I was trying to sleep. So go make another tinkering check, and the cost of the pepper box should be at the bottom of your...

Is it the whole cost or half, or...? It should be half the cost, it should say under the repair rules for Misfire. Half cost, oh my god, that's awful. Okay, tinkering check. Uh, 12. 12. 12, okay. Just higher, technically that would be a success.

Yeah. So you take the rest of the morning, kind of unsleeved, you know, the dark bags into your eyes, you managed to get the pepper box back. Well, I was asleep. I wasn't with them, so I just woke up really early. Right, right. But even so, like, you're not sure, even though you slept, it hasn't been very restful. Like, it's been technically enough to rest, but, you know, your evening has been fraught with nightmares perpetually. I was talking to you.

But your pivot box is repaired and does cost you half the cost of the record box. I think 75 goals, which I have. I sleep in my little nook in my laboratory. Okay. So, you guys rest through the rest of the morning, waking up past noon. about two in the afternoon, you all gradually begin to come to consciousness, making your way downstairs. As you come down, so you can already smell, breakfast has been prepared. You can see Lena, it already has the meals set out for you, and as you guys can do coach, she's like, Oh, he's so nice of all of you to come down. It was very interesting. These very nice folks came by this morning and topped up a whole bunch of food and fresh veggies and stuff, late for a great

Great meal. It was very nice. It was a lot of wonderful. Hey. Booty served. And she kind of gets out of the plates and gives you kind of a smile through her. I love you. Is this a frittata? I believe that's what it's called in some circles.

I'm trying a few new things. Come up a beer check. Go for it. I'm going to take some food and feed it to Lockheed and roll for my... 56. That's no... Don't you do a beer in check now? Sixty-six.

No effect, unfortunately. Just a little tangle? Hmm? There is a slight tingle, but it's mostly just a placebo. Sorry. As you guys are having your meals and you're feeding food and teaching this, everyone roll perception chat. Perception check. At home?

Oh. Wow. 16. I rolled a one. 17. This rotata is lovely. Six. Six.

Eight. Sixteen. But my passive is 21. Right, understood. Good to know. And person down there. You go ahead. I'm down much.

As you guys are in the middle of your meal, you hear clearing the stillness and quiet of the low munching up. And sitting at the table adjacent to you guys, completely unnoticed in his entry, is Sikkar-Assum, arms crossed, sitting at the chair. Don't know what, you are sneaky. I need to talk to you. We are not cool right now. Obviously not, that's why I'm here to have a conversation with the rest of you. Please continue to eat.

I don't need to disturb you. Oh, very well. Help yourself to a frittata. I've already eaten, but I appreciate you know. Try this a cuna frittata. It's really good. No. No.

Let him talk, let him talk. What a wonderful meal. Dizzy boy, come down. Just absolutely. It's sticky, haven't they? Well, first and foremost, I would like to thank you, Kielith, for clearing my head. Cored Breywood had locked me into some form of mental charm during my attempt to aid Vax. See, I've told you of what.

And... Leave you. Sorry, I'm a little defensive right now. Continue. That's all right. Things are a bit mixed up. It's hard to explain. Let's just say I've been clouded in my judgment for the past few days until you cleanse me. me. I'm sorry to uphold the charade back in the palace.

Apologize are mine, I think. I believe you had some sort of plan and I thought I knew better, and for that I'm sorry. I cannot say that is untrue, but I accept your apology. Can I roll for Insight to make sure he's... You may? Roll hi. I know! That was a shit roll. Fine. He's a hard person to gauge anyway.

He really is. You've gathered over time that most of his work deals in a network of spies and gathering information across all of Tal'Dorei. So he is very well trained to hide the essence of his true nature and intent. Hard to read, but he seems pleasant as he's been and given the circumstances. This is what I have. Nevertheless, I accept your apology, and I apologize for having a politely. for having upholding the charade during the council meeting. But I had to keep up appearances,

so it was not to cause any sort of stir at the time. I fear, based on my observation, since that our very own sovereign also felt of the same charm I did, and has been clouded since the dinner the night before. Sovereign. That makes sense. We're kind of afraid of that.

He's fallen for that stuff before. He's been through quite a bit, and while he's a very resolute and a very good man, I would say that he's a very good man. predisposed to outer influence from those that are quite strong-willed. And this is why you kept up our accusations against us in front of him. Under those conditions, the room filled with guards, they're all intent against keeping you at bay. Should you have made any attempt to try and cleanse him as well, during that

time, I think you are to have end up in prison. All worse. So why didn't you want to show that you were also cleansed? What was the point of holding up the charade? Because when you're under this influence, to speak against the proposed ally of the charm is to draw a line. I wish to stay in his good graces because that would enable us a much better chance

and continue close enough to him to absolve him of this charm. If I were to reveal this instantaneously in the presence of the entire council, I fear that might have put me in the same court of disfavor as you and lost any future chance of expelling this influence. Do you think it's only Yuri-Lah

Do you think it's the rest of the council as well? Best I can gather, most of the council is not as well, how do I put it? Not used to business with Voxmarking her. Alora seems to be of clear mind, as she is very powerfully protected against influence it and did not have any immediate interaction

with the briwords during that dinner. I fear the intent was on the sovereign himself. So, Wait, are you saying that the Briarwood's... The Briarwoods corrupted him? He said when it corrupted me. Was it during the dinner while we were all sitting there? Yes.

Apparently it takes not but a glance. Oh shit! They could have got many of us. Yes, they did. Me. It was rather inconvenient. I hate them. Sorry. I think we have something in common.

Aren't you deaf? No, it was brief. It was brief. I mean, what? I mean, what? Are you talking so loud? Yes. I was getting it back.

There are a few options to our disposal. You could continue to work to clear your name during his distraction southward. If you have some ideas to how we could get close enough to him to absolve him of this now, that means the risk of, should anything go poorly, being poked with many, many spear holes. Is it possible to sneak into his room and restore him with him with him? hurt anybody knowing? You're confident that may be more of a mission for the quieter of your bunch. Should they be a little more intelligent with their actions going forward?

What about? Browling them out, like to a luncheon or whatnot, a brunch? I will say, based on recent circumstances, he is very, very careful and defensive. I have a pretty careful brunch. I have fair chances of getting in, but no ability to cure him. Well, what if Keyleth, who can do it, probably more often to like a fly or a fly or a lot? like a fly or a very small creature, traveled on you, you snuck in, she popped out, did the thing, money.

Don't really... Unless they're caught, in which case you've got two of our members against the entire palace guard. Right. Well, then you go with them and dimension door out. I didn't even want to face the little invisible thing downstairs. Wait, hold on. Why don't we home like a special dinner? He hates our fucking guns.

Why don't we let the Speaker assume finish? Speaking of your opinion, is it safer to try and clear our name through the traditional legal means? Honestly, I have no idea. I think this plan, if successful, is quite inspired. However, failure would probably end in the immediate incarceration and or death of both individuals involved. individuals involved.

Public execution has not befit the countrywide name of Vox Marcona if you were to fail. If you were to succeed, that would be the most direct route between two points. So are we in agreement that we have to clear Uriel's mind first? No, no. The other option is to clear our names and not worry about clearing his mind. Uriel, if he's got his mind controlled. It doesn't matter if we try to clear our names. He's going to find us guilty. But during our trial, we have a judgment. direct line of sight to him, we might be able to get through to him.

Does he still trust Alura? As far as I know, yes. You know, if we've killed the Briar Woods, is this even a point? We have to leave in our view. That's true. He doesn't trust Alora. She wasn't even allowed in the room to talk to us. There's definitely suspicion there, right?

He did. He did question her allegiances. Hmm. That's the case, then perhaps her current power is not as strong in the council. the council when regarding you, but she is still a member of the council, should she not be immediately affiliated with you for her purposes. This is up to you. I, um, whatever you choose to do, if it requires my aid, I would give it a day before I have to leave. My next intent is to head. Well, I wish to go past the eastern curtain set up by Whitestone into Wild Mount. I have spent the better part of the past days since the cleansing, seeking all records

of the Briarwoods and their doings, there is a period of about eight years in which there is no public record of their goings-on. And it appears that most records that deal with their involvement in Wildmount and whatever homestead gave them their title Lord and Lady Briarwood has all been but erased. So I intend to go to the source. Wildmount itself in research. This will take me some time, of course. What do you plan on leaving? Sooner with it. Sooner the better, I was thinking tomorrow. Is Percy here? Is Percy in the room? Percy is not in here. Percy is down in the workshop. I go get Percy.

We could go with you. Okay. I was going to be at the door. Oh, I come around the corner and I see Percy. Percy is currently leaning up against the side of the wall, listening in the whole conversation. Hey, I was looking for you. You want to come and actually join the conversation for once

instead of, you know, standing outside the door and just listening to them because I really feel like this is going to be your time to input and maybe really help. really help? I don't feel like doing that. Lead on. Okay. Degro assume we have managed to capture and keep one of the coachmen down in our cell. Would he be safer in our hands or within the castle walls? Percy and I walk in. I'm fucking asking. Well, that depends. If you have strong defenses and the enemy has no means of entering, then we'd be safer here.

The palace itself is a very well protected area. However, there currently is, well, an open invitation into the palace, and if the essence of our enemy is, as I think it is, then they can enter whenever they like. Never mind. I think we're really choosing between two parts here. Either we stay in town and tinker and gamble.

Or we go with the seeker. Or we're runaways. Well, runaways. We leave. We're going to the Briarwood. That's what I'm talking about. The minute we leave, we're outlaws. They've told us not to go anywhere.

We can leave. We just cannot flee. We can travel as we fit. We just let them let them know where we're going. But we can't tell them, we're going to check out your, we're going to get proof, which is what they want. Yes, we lie. Also, isn't, oh.

Oh, oh. Wait, what's the name of the town? White Stone? Not White Stone. But I agree. You should not leave. Wait, oh, I thought he was saying he was going to go to their hotel. He's going to Wildman, the kingdom of the prior woods. They're from, right. He's going to go to Wild Mount, which is another continent.

Of course, because there are another... Wait, hold on. Hold on. She's going to Wild Mount. He's not going to White Stone. He's going to Wild Mount. Yeah. Which is on another continent.

Yeah. If we go to another continent, it doesn't matter if we're fleeing or not. It's going to look like fleeing. Yeah. Why are you going to wild mount? notify them that we're leaving the continent. I'm trying to find as much information to incriminate them in case whatever your tempting does not work.

Seeker, would you mind staying for a week or so before your venture? We need time to convince the Councilor to A-letters leave without conflict and to procure particular items and things that we need very briefly. It would just take some time. I've already made arrangements for travel. I could try, but... Depends on what you need me here for.

What do we need him here for? Ultimately protection or a good ear. And what do you do genuinely think that they're gonna let us go with permission? They're really, we're not on their good side. No, they're not. They're not gonna let us go. No, we're gonna be outlaws.

We have to clear ourselves by ending the charm on Uriel by finishing off Silas. Or by killing the Briar Woods, thus ending the charm. Silas Briar Woods. So that would be a way to clear your name and clear his head. Let's do that. Your choice. Personal.

What of eight days? Instead of two days. I'm sorry. No, no, Percival. What do you think we should do? Go seek revenge on your family and get some blood on our hands, Briarwood blood, or do the sneaky thing and try to... Please, we need your input.

You know them better than any. I really don't. I really... I think we're here because I wasn't prepared. Can I do an inside check on him? See if he knows more than what he's saying? Sure. Move it up. You can go ahead and show old D20. Nine. Is there anything you're holding back?

Nope. He seems clear as day telling the honest truth. I don't think we're here in this city to become lords and ladies serving Uriel, as good a man he is. I think Percival is our ally, and this is a grievous wrong done to him, and we can kill two birds with one stone. Right. I think we are in the situation we're in, because we now know how much we don't know. How much I don't know. I'm not prepared. If we face them now, I'm going to get you all killed. I agree. We need proper preparation. Percy, I'm pretty sure you have a background on vampires. and what have you. As do I, as I've researched soon in the last couple days. There's other things that we should research as well, and probably arm ourselves for that kind of conflict

if it comes to it. Quite frankly, I have a dealing, if it's the whole town we're dealing with, we need to find out how many innocents there are to save. And if the number is low enough, we can just fly in there with an army ourselves, which takes some time. The Daconian Nights, I am an ambassador to Drakonia. Officially, after all of the six, my stint and giving them the wheel of mending and proving my point. You gave them the wheel? No, I showed it to them proving that my quest was true, which they gave me full ambassadorship, which means that if harm comes to a stormwind, harm comes to all of draconia.

Okay. I didn't know we had a whole army at our disposal. That's wonderful to hear. If worse comes to worse. It started on the bottom now we're here. Yeah. Diplomatic immunity. But even then, our relations must be strong with Imman, which is we need their allyship as well. I agree.

The colony will not go into things alone. While I'm... We need a union. I agree. While we're not serving Muriel, that's our purpose, I also don't want to leave an enemy of the state. Right. That's not good for me, for what I want. So... I got it to Jared. Eight days.

What do you think of eight days? That's your first name, my God. And what go with Jerry? Well, he's not going... Oh, not Jared. He's not even going where we would be going. We would be going to White Stone, right? That's where the Briarwoods down.

But, Kielif, Uriel is the law and the law is now corrupt. And why don't we save his mind before we go? Here's the thing. Here's the thing. He's going to find out stuff about the Briarwoods. Right. What's the fucking point of him going? If we're just going to go attack the Briarwoods before we're going?

we know what he knows. We need to let him go, find out his shit, take care of Uriel, wait till he gets back. Go take out what? As Bex is saying this, Tiberius is getting a half-chub. A what? A half-chub? Well, that's just weird. You can't see it because it's inside. You said it out loud. Anyway. I'm just saying, strategy. Fair know. It's a strategy. It's a strategy chub. All right. Strategy chub. Okay. Claire for still weirded out.

Come on. You got to be context. Sorry. Best of a specific. But now 30 seconds later, I see what you mean. Sorry. Easy. Her brain is what I'm talking about.

Assume, can I say. You shouldn't put that. That's weird too. Damn it. Okay. Assume says, my getting too wild mount is not easy, nor is it safe. I cannot linger for long, maybe a few days. How soon will you return?

That depends on if I even return. Nice. Can you give him some parchment? Every spy I've sent to seek information on the Briar Woods or to White Stone has not come back. I'll give him two strips of scroll to tell scription. Okay. If any harm falls upon me, roll right on this, blah blah, blah, explain what it does. Okay.

How many of those do you have, by the way? I have like 30 tickets left, so 28 now. Okay. I have another idea. Yoriel said that he was resistant, but he said that he would bring me in to have his people check me out. Check out my story. That could be an entree. What if Keyleth and Scanlan wrote in my pockets as mice?

I'm not that small. As roaches. You're pretty small. Just as mice. Or bug roly-poly's little... Magic user's choice. Can you cast magic when you're transformed? No.

So they'd have to pop out. What's his name? That's Matt. No. Could, okay, wait. Seeker. Can you shrink yourself and still do magic teeny tiny? Are you asking me?

Scandon. Either of you. No. The secret, Scanlan, but I can shit on things. Yes. Could you get the secret inspiration before he goes on his ventures well? They could last him 20 minutes, yes. Damn it.

Get him to the docks, maybe. Yes, maybe. Super fast. I don't know, I never mind. No, no. Seiko, what do you think, what was your goal of coming here? Did you want us to come with you or what? My journey requires the utmost in silence, speed, stealth, and I mean no offense to your entourage, but I think I can do this alone and should. However, this journey may take me two weeks a month, many months. I do it. I do. not know. I'm doing this just in case whatever you're choosing to do fails at least. If Oxmachina falls in this, I can come back with proof enough to try and once the army has

been gathered, perhaps we can rally all of Immon against White Stone. If you die, can you like write a letter and saw your name saying that we were right, you were wrong, you were full of shit, the Brow Woods are assholes. But a lot more eloquently than that, or not. I can try my best. That would be lovely. What I can do, I go ahead and drew it craft, I go up to his arm, and I drew it craft like a wooden kind of armband around him. Make it look kind of cool.

And put that on him. On to Tiberius? No, onto Hussum. Now I can scry through that. That way, I can at least check in on you every once in a while, if you're okay with that. I could have shot on him and had the same effect. I figured a cool arm bracelet might be a little bit more style. Take a persuasion rule.

What about being invisible? Not bad. Can you cast spells while you're invisible? They're immediately reaching spills. If you have greater invisibility, you can. 21. Just big invisibility you can. We've always sought out the path of the most glory.

And I think that that is the ryer woods. going into a giant vampire-litch-ridden castle and killing two evil bastards amid their army of protesters is the coolest thing we could ever do. It's super duper, super duper cool. Here's the thing. It's not going to be just two, I don't think. It's going to be an entire town of people that they've controlled. You think we can get into Sovereign Uriel without anyone detecting magic on us? He's got He's got clerics all around him. Paladin's...

But SIGLussu knows all the ins and outs of the palace. We're leaving town tomorrow. We'd have to do it step, but he knows how to get in. He did say it was an inspired idea. He did. His words. He did. Regardless, you have to make a choice soon.

I cannot do-de-dally. Either way. I feel like... Yes. He takes the wooden band and puts it around his arm and says, if this will put you at ease, I'll take it. Don't worry, I want to abuse it. I promise.

Could you potentially help us with sneaking in the... the castle? If you... I could get you in the door, but I could not escort you to that room. That would put myself in extreme danger in the entirety of our mission. Could you distract people? I couldn't do that quite well, yes. Here's my reservation. We can get there, but something tells me we're still going to be fighting a big fight in

a palace. I'd rather fight that big fight in the Briarwood Palace. Scanlon and I are in agreement, and here's the problem. If things go south in Uriel's Palace, we are then forced to fight against people who are good and true. If we are... Or give up. Or give up and go to jail, which sucks. But if we go to the Briarwoods, we can kill every motherfucker in that way. There are a number of innocents that we need to figure it out still. What if we talk to Allura?

No, the air part is why... You killed an old lady! She attacked us, and I will not back down from that decision. She did have an old lady's smell. All right, all right, all right. Can we just vote on something, please? It's Percy's being oh so quiet about all this. Percy is being very quiet about this. Are you sure you have nothing to say?

It's fucking your family. It's the people that attacked your family. You have no contribution to this. Maybe we should leave it up too. I'm still throwing you. I owe everybody in apology. No. No.

No, we shall do that. I still feel terrible about dragging you all into this and putting you in danger. We're choosing to do it. We're in this now. Percy, let me ask you. A voice whispers in your ear, Percy. No one hears this.

If you're with me, Vengeance. If you're with me, we can be prepared for them this time. Yeah, yeah. We know enough to prepare ourselves. We can have ourselves ready this time. How many days do we have? Do we need?

I would like eight days. Can I see if he looks like shaken or if he fucked up at all? I mean, he looks mistaken and fucked up. Yeah, he's just a horrible feature. The answer is yes. I think a week to prepare is reasonable. And then leave. And then we leave.

We leave quietly. Wait, we're leaving to White Stoll? The time of day is this? Yes. It's probably like three in the after. I've been avoiding it for too long, and now I know too much. The law of this land is compromised.

Percival, I agree with you. I think this is the right choice. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, say no. Ooh. Nice. Then it's settled. I'll be on my way. Wait. Before you go, could I talk to you?

Oh. Certainly. Were you going to say anything else so that, because I'll talk to you in private. Three days and I'll be off on my side of the mission. Cool. Very well. I follow you out? Yes. He walks out, walks with you. I'm in the laboratory.

Okay, as you guys scatter. I'm going to hold you before you. I just wanted to say, I'm so sorry and thank you, and thank you for doing this for me. I fear my temper before this weight is lifted from my heart. I do not wish to lose myself like that again, and I'm so sorry for everything I've done. I put my hand, Tiberius puts his hand,

on Percy's children, go, I'm sorry for the tragedy, which is your family. and what these bribors have befallen to them. And I will promise you. I will do my best to have you give that final blow and that barrel to the names assigned to them. But now, it is a far dangerous situation, as you all know. I will do my best to maintain myself. I apologize. And as you all scatter, Percy as you walk out, the same voice creeps in your ear. Now, as you step out with Seagoras soon, which now has like a bit of I'm haste to his step. Arms kind of crossed and looking around.

So, you wish to speak with me? Yes, I do. You're a ranger. I am. You're very, very strong. I can be. I've only ever seen people like thieves, like my brother, do things like you've done. Can you teach me anything that you know to help me

maybe be a little more stealthy as well? We'll go over what you know, and perhaps there are a few tricks I could teach you. you in the three days I have. I can't guarantee that they'll be extremely changing, as there's a very short time to train over what I've learned over a lifetime, but I can certainly attempt. I appreciate it. I require your concentration for those days, though, before I leave. At most. All right. Meeting at the morrow, crack of dawn. I'll be at the front of your keep.

Okay. Got it about, and he heads off outside of the keep. The rest of you, what are you doing? I go to my laboratory. Okay. What time is it? About three, four in the afternoon now. The temple of serenry is in the city. It's part of the keep, yeah. Before anybody go, before I go to the local, oh, the actual temple you went to, that is inside the city, yes.

I'm going to use that earring real quick. You can go into the city, you just can't get to the cloud top district. Use the earring real quick. I'm going to write a quick letter. If anybody goes shopping, let me know. Curious love shopping. He really, really does. So, to try and expedite this over the next period of time you want to take to prepare,

what are you going to do? Percy. I'm going to finish up those things that we talked about earlier, spent some time making some ammunition and build the, and I'm going to attempt to build what we were talking about. Okay, go ahead and make a tinkering check for ammunition. What we were talking about? Yeah. Can I help him with that?

Can I assist him? I would say the tinkering, the mechanisms involved, would be so far beyond your understanding as a druid. Even just metalwork in general, you could cheer him on. but you would not be able to do your system with it. Go Percy Go, go, go. That's pretty good. 24.

24? Okay. You managed to produce 25 rounds for your pepperbox and 10 rounds for the bad news. Ooh. That inspiration, I'm saying. No, I use that. Use that to repair it.

Use that to repair as pepperbox. Oh. All right. Okay. Roll for the secondary construction. Is this the... The bomb. Okay.

Eleven. Eleven. You take a better part of two days, attempting to get these to work, and most of your materials are ruined, unfortunately. You managed to come out with it with... Now I want you to write this down. Smokebomb question mark. Thank you. It may function.

We will see upon use. But you have one at your disposal that is questionable. Hi, that. However, for the cost of the cost. of the ammunition and the cost of the smoke bombs construction already that comes to about, I'd say, 75 gold pieces. So mark that off. And you're spending, you're attempting to make, based on what you told me, an Archimedes death ray. They're not hard. Like, I mean, I say that as like knowing my actual skill level, I could

make one. You could. To be functional with the materials that are at your disposal, it's going to be very large and hard to move. Bag of holding. We were talking about making it collapsible. I could make a collapsible one that's basically a dodecahedron, like an observatory. I just need you to make a skeletal. You spend the remainder of this week of preparation.

Go ahead and roll your tinkering check. This is going to cost you in materials. Hold on. Can I pause quickly quick. You don't need to do this if you want to make more ammo and other stuff. I can do this without you making this. and spending the rest of the time if you want to make other stuff. Option.

What do you want to do? Story-wise, it's more amusing. OK, go forth. All right, so the actual materials for this. It's copper. I know, it's copper. But the actual adageons involved, the mirrors, the lenses, the whole thing, in order to be the scale and quality

to even make it even remotely functional, also be extremely high quality and some of them custom-made within the first couple of days within this, rush order. I'd say the total cost is going to come to about 1,200 gold pieces. I'll pitch in for that. How much you have? At this point, I have less than 100 gold. Less than 100 gold, I'll pay for it and fold. What is the diameter of this?

The actual focal lens is about this big. The whole construct can be carried by two people. But it will fold. I just say what's the bravest of the actual? the actual lens. Oh, dear. Turn that off. Of the lens itself.

This is the radius of the lens. I mean, even when it's collapsed, it can be carried by one person, but it's still a heavy mechanism. So it's only one foot, two feet, three feet? I think it's about two and a half feet in diameter. Are you sure you want to do that? He's already agreed. Go ahead and roll. It's fine.

That's what we were talking about. 22. 22? Actually, you're 14. Yeah, 22. 22. Through the materials and the construct of it, you get partway through the final stages of it, and as you're tightening one of the sections, all of a sudden there's a sound. Your whole body freezes as you glance over. The lens itself is a giant crack through it.

There shouldn't be a glass piece. There's no glass. Oh, man. For the construct, for this one. This one, there was a glass. There is a focusing lens that is part of what the initial blast, otherwise there wouldn't be a point of actually projecting a ray from. Oh, fuck. I think they're all different sorts of construction based on. This is the one we're going for here. Or you could say the center of the road of the bedroom, but regardless, the tinkering roll was not high enough to construct the device.

Sorry. The whole thing's wasted. Can we try and repair the crack? You have to commission a whole, like it isn't something you can repair. The entire piece is constructed from a solid piece. You would have to. Can we put it on the mending wheel? You could attempt to it.

Hey. Oh, this is, okay. Okay. Just a piece. All right. I want to go to this door. I would like to get a shovel and a pickaxe. Okay.

Thank you to the gumboles, too. We're going to go. We're going to go. We don't have to go. We can just a shovel and a pickax. Oh, yeah. That's fun. Save RP for good shit.

Now we're done. Four gold pieces for the two of those. You got them. I don't think. Secondary tinkering check. Make a pizza check. 22. 22.

Check's good. This time, you go back, and as you're tightening it, the actual metal housing of the device ends up bending in a way that both cracks the gem and causes the frame itself to be dented to the point where the beam will be imperfect. This is a very, very hard thing that you've come up with your mind that has not been instructed before. And the level of difficulty to create this is very difficult. It does not cost you additional money. thanks to the mending wheel, but right now the entire device looks like it's going to be, to

continue, it's going to take more time and money to construct it. I can always use this for spare parts for other things, but... You're already 1,200 in? How much more would you have to put in? I'd say about half the cost of an additional 600. How many more days? Two more days. Ooh, I like that.

How many more days have we had? Eight. We agreed upon eight. It's agreed upon eight, so we were pushing in about three days. in about seven, then. All they've built a smoke bomb and a round of bullets, so. Correct. All right, I'll put a little more time in this.

Can I get some inspiration for this, too? That would be awesome. Oh. Music you made. There's nothing I can do to help them. I can even recommend a- Unfortunately, what's your intellect? Go for.

What's your intellect? What would you like? Here comes the sun. I've got a plus. Here do-do-do, do-do. Here comes the sun. It's all right. Do-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D.

Kill the vampire. It's been all right. Come on. Come on. Percy Roll. Percy Roll. Come on. Oh, Percy Roll.

23? That's a good one. Working on the device a third time. You get it right to the point you think it could work, and you go to set it up. As you do, you find that the light focuses in a way that actually slowly melts the copper on the outside of the housing of the device and it begins to melt onto itself and you kind of pull it out of the light. It's just this design is, it's beyond your grasp right now. This is something.

You're inventing something that it takes quite a lot of time to eventually perfect. Oh, you're just going to, okay. I'm going to put these away as a, as a, for later time, and if I have one more day, I would like to work on a Can we maybe a version of it that's not collapsible that we can at least melt? I got it. We've got it taken care. So anyway, that's been your guys' week as well. That's my week, okay.

Okay. You bought your pickax and your shovel. Cool. Vex, what are you doing? I'm training. You're training? Okay. All right, I want to be brief.

I have four things I want to do, but I'll be very brief. I promise, I promise, I promise. Okay, so the first thing I want to do is I think at some point I heard Tiberius talking about wooden stakes. stakes and vampire, so I just want to go buy about 10 wooden stakes. I give him extra to give me 20. Okay. I'm going shopping. Does anyone need any wood? Yes, give me some holy arrows.

Could I get a loaner on that or? Yeah, okay. Okay. I thought you said you were going to be brief. Quite frankly, Max, anything I buy. On my own? I thought we got a bit of an allowance. We did.

We did. All right, so this is a week, so I get some gold from these people and I go. and I go and I get, I don't even know what they said, I'm getting 10 wooden stakes for myself. 20, technically, because Tiberius requested 10 other ones. 20 wooden stakes, all right. Those will cost you a total of two gold. That's what I thought. And then what did you want?

I wanted some holierras. Make an investigation check? Or just like holy water. Try to get some holy water. Or holy water. I'll get to that. Yeah. An investigation you say?

That is a 13. 13. As soon around the town. Holy arrows, and it is an enchantment. They're pricey and they don't appear to be anywhere in the major shops, even top of my Gilmores, that's not something they specialize in, is usually like a special order type thing. It's a holy water flasks can be purchased at 25 gold piece.

Hey, I'll get to that. All right, so we got wood, that was two gold, you said. All right, minus two. The next thing I want to do is, yeah, where I write it, is go to the Temple of Fulchreux. Saurin ray. Okay. And get my sister's holy oil for her. Yes. How much is that? Holy oil? Yeah. I mean, as opposed to the Holy Water? Like both, if you got it? Well, holy oil is a more, it's an expensive version. Holy water is a one-use. Holy

Holy oil can be applied to a weapon. Two things. That's what I run. Two things. Okay, yeah. Okay. How does the stakes weigh, like each stick? Each steak, let's say a cluster of ten, if that's what you wanted, would weigh about five pounds. Five pounds. Sure. All right, so I'm going to get... They're relatively light. Tell him that he bought me... 20 more.

Tell him that he bought you? Tell him he bought you. Okay. I'm going to reckon that. Turn to her burgherba. Okay. All right, good. Forty stakes, four gold.

Sure. There they go. Then I went to the Temple of Sarenrae, and I got two vials of holy oil, one for my sister, one for me. Those were 100 gold a piece. Okay. Got it. I can't. Oh, you gave me gold.

I did. I'll get four vials of that. Yeah. Okay. I've got to work that out, I promise. And then I also find, I ask if the cleric who helped bring Pike back to life is here. Yeah, Tristan is here. Jesus, how do you do that?

Because I have to. And when I find him, I say, you remember my friend Pike? I do, yes. You remember me? Yes, we expect to you. Is that a healing? well, by the way, inspects the wounds in the side of your neck. It is. I'm grateful. I need a keepsake of your deity.

And he steps away and goes back and disappears for a minute, comes back, and he's holding in a chain around his neck a... It looks like it's seen some years of use, but it's still clean and stolen, very well kept. A identical holy symbol of Saron Ray is the one that Pike keeps around her neck and hands it over and puts it over your head. May she keep you safe and bring your soul to redemption. It reminds me of my friend. As it should. He packs you on the cheek.

As it should. All right, so Chaw number two down. I would like to go to Uriel's temple and ask the guards if anyone has seen my belt or Simon. You are stopped at the edge of the Cloud Top District, the guards, see you as you approach, and they just kind of lock the doorway and say... We're sorry but Fox Machinier has been given no passage into the Cloud Top District at this time. I understand, I don't mean to go in. I understand that we caused a lot of trouble, and I am very sorry.

And I don't mean to be any further trouble. There is a belt that I left inside. That's certainly unfortunate, isn't it? Have you seen a snake called Simon? Or any snake? Both the guards can look at each other and laugh, or it's like, piss off. Okay, chore number four.

number four, I would like to go for the rest of the week and I give everybody, I go back, I give everybody the things, I would like to spend the rest of the week because I'm ready, hanging out across the road from the butcher's house that Kynan ran from and if there are any youths his age who go there to shop, I would like to ask, as they leave, you're not here, as they leave, if they've any idea where he's gone, and what that digital noise was. Make a perception check. Perception check.

Oh, oh, that's a seven, I thought it was a one. That is a 17. 17, okay. Keeping an eye out, you do eventually come across a boy that looks about his age, late teens, maybe early 20s, comes by and gathers a little bit of meat and rushes off and you kind of stop him. Excuse me, I'm sorry to take you away from your day. I'm sorry, what is your name? Jameson? Jameson. Yeah, can I help you? I've really got to get this over this. I understand, I'll just take a second of your time. I owe a boy who lives here named Kynan. I owe him a few silver,

and I want to see that he gets it. Is he in town? Make a deception check. The meteorite. The meteorite. Um, uh, that's a 15. 15? It gives you look over and says, Yeah.

Well, I'm certain you're getting me silver, but Kynan's been gone for the better part of a week. Where would he have gone? I don't know. He just told us all he was off to find his destiny as some sort of bullshit like that. And he always set his head in the clouds that one. I agree. You never talked about what? Where he was going, how he meant to go about doing it. No. Kipped himself mostly.

Sorry, I wish he could be more service. If I see him, where should I send him? You, well, I don't know who that guy is. If you see him, tell him that Vee is looking for him at Grace Gold Keep. Well, I'll pass that along. Thank you. Good day. And he kind of hurries off to continue his errand. Are you all right, old man? Do you need to help us?

I'm fighting is fighting. This is your last errand? That's it. Scanlon. I go to Gilmores. Are we near Gilmores? Yeah, I mean, Gilmors in the city. He's not in the cloud talks, so you have access to it.

I want to know if such a thing exists, and if so, how much a potion or a scroll that could invoke either hallow or spirit guardians. Oh, oh. What? You're trumped. Say what? That's fun. Like some of a bunch of spirit guardians, four,

Hallow is five. Sounds pretty accurate. There we go. It's a cloud of spirit guardians. Okay. Asking on, there is a, there are no potions for, but there is a scroll of hallow available. And I will say that comes to roughly 6,000 gold pieces

for the scroll of hallow. Oh, we've got four grand. How much? 6,000 for the Hallow Scroll. And for the Spirit Guardian instead it was, fourth level? Fourth Levels. That one is 2,000. Ooh.

Interesting. What does that do? Spirit Guardians would some beings around us that would... Spearang is level three, actually, not level four. That actually makes it a lot cheaper. That is 600 gold. 600 gold.

It scares evil things away. It's good. It's a pikey thing. Do it. Yeah. It's a what thing? It's a pikey thing. Okay.

Can I cast that? If I have a scroll, it's good. If you have a scroll you can, yeah, it has a chance of failing. One of us. We're better at it because we can. I'll buy one of the... How much did you say? 600.

600 gold pieces. I'll buy one of those. All right. Scroll of Spear gardens. There's only one available, but yeah. Okay, yes, I will. I would also like to find a smithy of some sort and make me like a little metal choker, like a chain mail. Ah. A partial coiff. Okay. You, remembering that you just spoken to Karen before, which is kind of the renowned custom blacksmith in Imon,

you speak with her and she, you know, a chain mail half coiff, you know, kind of around the neck there is relatively inexpensive, it's just a partial piece of armor. She kind of looks at some scrap chamey on the side, and it's like, more than happy to use that for it. It shouldn't take me more than an hour, too, maybe at most. We'll get one for everyone. I'd think they can fight besides the neck, right? Yeah, technically, but still. Sure, I'll get eight of them, or seven of them.

Okay. All right. How much are? Seven of those, I'd say for the whole seven, I'll put you at 100 gold, just because it's custom orders. Sure. So seven of those. What are they? Chain mail chokers. Chain mail dickies. Oh, Dickies. Oh, Dickies. Oh, what?

Do you have one more? And a small one, Avomadee. All righty. A little tiny one. She awkwardly has to be judge and turns that request down.

He's uncomfortable with that. Then I Bound me. Cockmail. Cockmail. I bowed it. Yes, secondary Tiberius. I go to Gilmore's Glory's Goods.

Okay. And ask at the front door if Gilmore is there. Gilmore, unfortunately, is in Western currently, still overseen the construction of his expansion store. Understood. Who is the most knowledgeable person next to Gilmore in this store right now? That would be... What's your name I guess? I'm trying to bring it up here.

Oh, that girl. I can't find me an updated NPC sheep. Did me what her name was? Sherry. Sherry, thank you. Shelby, no. Sherry is there greeting you. She is.

She is. That would probably be me. Oh, hi. You remember me. Yes. I have a very important question. I won't take up much of your time. Good.

I pull out a small metal skull cap, dinted in a few places. in a few places, rusted a bit from the under dark. Oh, yeah. What can you tell me about this? She takes it. If you're requesting identification of a magical item, that is a service we charge. Sis, can I borrow a bit of the money?

How much do you need? How much would that require? 125 gold pieces per enchantment identified. Done. All right. Talk her down. She takes it, steps and sites on the counter and starts going through her books and she starts like kind of looking at it and holding it for a second and kind of doing a full inspection

of it and researching it. Based on the enchantment on this device, it's very crude in construction and the enchantment is of an arcane offshoot of language I'm not very familiar with, but it appears it is a guard from some sort of mental influence, if worn, it would give you a stronger resistance against things that would attempt to peer into your mind. We're talking magic. Yes. So essentially what it would do is it would give you advantage on wisdom saving throws against magical spells. Against...

Against wisdom. It's... Give you advantage on wisdom saving throws against magical effects. Hells yes. That's fucking brilliant. That's how Cloroda managed to avoid a lot of... I hand out of the gold and say... What the helmet?

Scan nonsense. as regards. She kind of noticeably blushed the being, goes, well, send mine back if you wouldn't mind. You know it. I've got work to do, and she rushes off. Thank you. All right, now. Very clever. There's 16 a lot. I only have eight. Oh, God. Just kidding. The real quick ones go to the Temple Sunray to pick up my canteen. Okay.

Have you paid for it already? Yes. Yes. You get the canteen. The explanation is the enchantment of the actual water creation itself is a separate than the Holy Enchantment that has been attached to it. The Holy Enchantment is not very powerful because it has already enchanted item. How it functions is the first burst per day that you use of the water does an additional 1D6 radiant damage.

That's it. But any additional after that is just water. It's just whatever water is immediately contained within it at the start of the day is considered blessed. Once that's expelled, all the rest that it creates, because it's pulling it out of the elemental plane of water. That's how it's continuously projecting it. The rest of it is just run straight through, so it doesn't have a chance to even absorb the blessing. Gotcha. Great. Cool.

Second thing, I drop off my swallow to, or I'll call it the surge blade is what I'll call it. and to have that enchanted on both ends. With. One side fire, the other side water. So however many mages I have to hire for that to happen in 10 days, I think we talked about it. It would be eight days? Are we talking about the granny?

Oh, no, no, no. Is that only one side? So what enchantment do you want? Do you want to just do an additional? What do you want it to be? I want it to be a magical weapon. Just a magical weapon? Yeah.

Okay. Just a general plus. plus one magical weapon. Yeah. Okay. That would take about, let me double check the rarity. This is here. One quick setup here would be this way.

In the meantime, check out those critical roll key pains available on the Econcentry. That would run you approximately 700 gold to create it as a plus one magical item. Okay. one mage a week to do it. So I'll put you that. Okay. So if you had 20 mages, it would be plus 20.

So for the week that it takes, you pay 700 gold pieces. Your quarter staff with a couple of daggers type to the end. Surge blade. Surge blade. A couple of daggers. Okay. Sirge blade. What?

What's the search? What's about? I stopped at Gilmores. Okay. And I drop off my ring of protection. and pay whatever that is to add a plus one to make it a, instead of a minor in actual ring of protection. The unfortunate thing is an enchantment cannot be progressively enhanced. You would have to disenchant and then re-enchant the entire. I said that they could do that. There, before. I would just have to cough up the green, or the gill, as it were.

No, they can enchant the item with it, but it would be the cost of basically re-enchanting the item. How much would it make us be a thing? That would be. Yeah, that's fine. All right, here we go. That would cost approximately 25,000 gold pieces. Oh, geez. Oh, that's it?

25,000? Would take a better part of a year. It's a plus two rigged protection is a very powerful item. It's a good investment. Have you even acquired one earlier? It was. How about? Good luck.

Buffing the ring of store spelling. Sparing. Spel storing? The thing that I had that I still want. That one. The ring of stores. Chalk. That's right.

Chalking of spell storing is, no, that's its enchantment. There is no more powerful version of the ring of spell storing. Oh, that's shit. If you wanted to attempt to do that yourself on your own time, you could. Ooh, I'm going to do that. That will cost you upwards 60,000. upwards 60,000 gold pieces and about a year. Well, not, all right, now, now right now.

How about we stick to the level we're at? You know what, I didn't know all that stuff was gonna be that way. That's all right. How do you look, if you don't ask, it's all right. Exactly, no, it's good to ask these things. Okay, so in the, while the days are going, I want to add one of those.

Roll for animal handling to teach Lockheed stuff, and which is like every morning or whatever. And then also, I'll say throughout the week, because you've taught Lockheed a lot of things back to back. You can't like just cram everything in there in the period of four days and be like, you've learned everything. So I'll give you a roll for,

because you've already taught Lockheed one thing this week. Roll for a second thing you want to teach Lockheed. Like with advantage. I'm just having fun. Can I roll for one beer? Sure, I'll give you advantage. I'll give you advantage. Oh, no, that's fine.

I'll just take that. That's 17. It's a rule of advantage. Go for it. 17. Okay. Let's think of brevity, can I roll one beer check? Yeah. You can roll several beer checks.

Yeah, you go to a bunch of beer checks. Forty-three. A ton of beer checks. Do it. 81. No. Oh, That's good.

16. 16. 68. That's not a good. 19. How did you get under 10? How do you get under 10? Fifty-eight.

Okay. So by the time the week comes to an end of the other side of your beard has finally filled in and you are back to a full-bearded grog sabbord. Good job, Baralga. So yeah, no, that succeeds. It takes you a few days to get it through, but what do you want to teach Lockheed? Ripping your pillow. I'm going to teach him to be quiet. Okay?

To be quiet. A very important thing to teach a creature. Yes. Okay. So Lockheed has learned to be quiet. Good. Anything else? Yes. The, the, I just want to make sure I get that, that, that is. Throughout the days, I'm going to go to all the shops and see how many glass, just mirrors. I'm looking for mirrors, so all kinds of mirrors, every size. As long as I can. There are plenty of mirrors out there.

There are general stores that sell them all over. I'm looking for five by five to ten by ten size mirrors. Feet? Yeah. Five by five? No, no, inches. Okay. Stone man.

I'm misunderstood. Like there and then like that. Okay, yeah. I'll say, I mean, they're, yeah, they could have them customate if they weren't out there, but they have mirrors of that size available. I need about 1,500 of them. What? Can I get 1,500? How many can I get? There aren't that many mirrors in the city. Okay. I want to get as many. I have all of them. You know, if you hold two right up next to you know it? It looks like there's a million. You know what? That's true. That's true. They're five gold apiece. Okay. And of what is currently available,

for purchase, you may be able to acquire about 35 mirrors, and you will clean out most of the places that will stop selling them to you. That's a lot of mirrors. That's cutting-edge technology in this day and age. If I laid them out on a flat surface, how many feet would that... On a bed. How many feet would that cover? Or a ceiling, how many feet would that cover? Well, two per foot, dibs. That's math. Five inches apiece, right? You can fit two in a foot. So you just bought 35. So that's about 17 feet of meads. 17 whole feet of meters.

In a row, in a line, right. If you're doing a square, it's like three feet by three feet. Four by four. Say four by four foot, yeah. So there you go. Four by four. I'll take all that. How much is that?

35 times five. So we're looking at 175 gold. Done. And I think I get that. Right, right, right, right. And then the, just for timeline stuff, I'm going to do as much as I can to start enchanting my bolts. And I'm going to work with Keyleth on stuff.

Keeleth's been working with Percy this whole time. The whole time? I'm telling you. It's taking the entire week for him. You said you were assisting him. No, you said I couldn't assist him. You said I had no intelligence to assist him. Okay, so then I thought you said you were still going to help share my mind.

No, I said so. No worries. I'm going to try to make as well. as many as sleep arrows as I can't, bolts again. But the particular thing with Kiela is I would like to enchant a bolt that is a smoke screen, but it is consists of my holy water. So I'll be using a pour from a day from the canteen and use it as a mist instead of a smoke.

So a mist. The enchantment of an arrow to do that is the use of a fog spell. There is no way to infuse a fog spell with holy water. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I don't know if you can put holy water. I can do it fog spell.

Can we fuse a fox spell with a sleep spell? No. Can we try super hard? Sure, make a roll. God damn it, okay. Make a roll. The best I could possibly do is maybe take one of these holy water things?

It's good roll. What am I rolling? Plus Arcana. Do you think it matters? No. No. 24. 24, okay.

After spending approximately 500 gold in materials, the enchantment fails, both spells fizzled. You lost 500 gold. Okay, it was worth a shot. But now you know, probably can't combine two spells into a single enchantment. I'm just saying. And knowing he's off the bottle.

Don't worry, I came out of my pocket. I've got fog. Okay. How about you get nothing else and we move on? Last thing, then I do. No last thing. I stop it in Loras. You go towards the Cloudtop district and the guard stop you again and be like,

you've already been told you're not allowed. I remember that as I walk up and I go, I go back to Grace Cole Keep. Oh wait, I don't do that. Oh wait, I don't do that. Hashtaguerreira Anacama. I realize what I'm doing, and I'm doing it, and I stop. Okay. So you head back to the key. Also, this will just take 10 seconds. At some point in the week, when Keelith is taking a walk, I'm going to kill everybody.

I go into her garden and I clip one flower. And I take it. Okay. All right. How many sleep bolts can I make in 10 days? How many sleep bolts? Well, let's see. Eight. You're sleeping your money.

Sorry. He said I could do that. I'm kind of busy this way. Can we get back to the keep him we've all left like four days ago? That would be awesome. I will say. Karen Grochie's in. Look, guys, hoagie stuff.

Get a type of area. We left. We left. We got really bored and we left. We left. Okay, I will say for each arrow will cost you you 600 gold and will take you six days to do per arrow. You will-

Six days per arrow? Yes. It's one day per 100 gold of an enchantment. How do you make any money? Which is even me making it higher than the book says. It should take you four times that. Cool. Can it cost more if I hire a mage?

Oh, should that say? Oh my god. Just fuck. I need to do shit too. One arrow. I can't be everyone's bitch. So three and a half days and it costs you 1,200 gold for a single sleep arrow. Or sleep bolt.

Sweet, and I can do two of those, and I'm broke. He's done, he spent people, he's spent. I got like 48 gold now. Okay, so you've done all your shopping in one day and spent the rest of the week doing those. All right, so there you go. You're broke and you have two sleep bolts on your person. Keyleth.

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See what everybody's talking about and join us in the dark. $95,000. It's going to be a lot more than you think, apparently. Because I'm like, well, I got like, you know. Alchemist supplies, 50 gold. Oh, come on. It's enchanted, yo. It's magic. Give me all the magic.

How much is that called? This is made of things. Yeah. This is made of things. And then I go home and I make a few cure wounds potions, try it out since I've learned and I've been studying and I've been doing my research. So maybe like, do like level two, level three, cure wounds persons. A level two healing potion, a greater healing potion.

The materials involved in creating that will come to, I'd say about, 400 apiece, and you'd have time to create two. It's about four days per potion. To purchase, they cost about five to six hundred. She's getting a discount because she's making it herself. Wait, they cost five or six hundred and they cost four hundred to be amazing. Yes. It's your first time doing it. They'll probably get cheaper over time as you get better at it, but. Oh, okay, cheaper over time as I get better at it. That's funzies. Okay. Well, let me make one, what is that, a greater healing potion?

It's a greater healing potion. So for each one you make, roll D20 and add five. Let me make one for right now. Okay. That's an 18. That's pretty good. Then yeah, you successfully create the potion, no issue. Awesome.

And then I'm going to make a couple of, I have a Percy roll. And he hates me for it. And now I'm going to make a couple of, how long will it take me to make a daylight scroll? A daylight scroll? What level is that? Third. Third? Third?

That'll take you, it'll cost you about, I'd say, 600 gold piece will take you six days. You don't have time. You can pay more to have somebody else help you make one if you wanted to. Then I make two greater healing potions and call it. Actually, no, no, no. I want to experiment. I want to take one of those holy water bottles, and I want to see if I can enchant it.

I can enchant it with my fog spell to make it like a holy water fog grenade. Where when you throw it, it'll go with my fog spell. Yeah. But also combine it with a light-bomb. You know that upon throwing the holy water, it would shatter. It would create a fog, but the holy water itself would just still affect the creature you threw it at. You be able to blend the two enchantments. They don't necessarily mix, because the fog itself is not created from the water, it's created from the glass that you're enchanting.

Plus, we didn't get any holy water, he only got holy oil to put on our weapon. We've had a couple flasks of holy water, I think. Oh, okay. I do. What if I enchant it with, like, daylight? Oh, wait, it's still on. It'll still take it. Enchanting a glass, it's a whole different thing.

Daylight, that's more of a school thing to... I'm going to do it anyway, because I'm going to do the fog thing, because I said it. I'm going to commit. Okay. That will cost you... Set standard. I'll put it at 500 gold pieces, and it'll take you five days. For a fog scroll?

No, for the fog, holy water thing. The fog. The holy smoke grenade. Someday we will get out of the character creation menu, but not this day. I don't like the nose yet. I don't like the nose yet. It's too low. Sure, that'll be my two things I do.

This hair? This hair. This hair? Natural 20. All right. You feel the fog enchantment take shape in the glass vial. It seems relatively unstable. You gather that this glass was not meant to contain an enchantment at the get-go. You somehow managed to make it function, but you have to be very careful with that vial. Okay, put it in here. No, don't.

Who knows what will happen if it actually is thrown? We'll put it in a bag of heartening. Give it a scammer. Yeah. Who would like a very unstable item. Percy's used to unstable things. I give it to Scanlan. Is that a jab? No, never mind. It's a fog-enchanted vial of Holy Water.

You can write it down that way if you like. Not discuss my taste. Really? Put on my back. I mean, I'll just hang it. No, please be careful. It's very careful. One night.

It's very gentle. Oh, wait. I tell I'm Scanlan. Scanlan. This is very delicate. Please be very gentle with this. You're telling Scallon to be gentle. I will put it where I put all gentle things.

That I trust. I trust that more. Fine, good. You do not make the wisest decisions yet, Your Majesty, I must say. He asked for it. What was once holy. All right.

Your prox. Oh, God. All right, so. What is the one? I give everyone else the chain that gives everyone the chain mill. Okay, there's a little chain mill. Oh, look at this so fancy. I wrote that.

I take that fancy box I bought a couple times ago, and I take the blue crystal that we found in our very first adventure, and I put it in it, and I seal it tight. Okay. And then I also, shit. And one more thing I want to do. Oh, yes. I drink my shit-scrying potion, shit in a jar, and leave it in the kitchen. Okay.

Oh, and tell the help, don't touch it. Okay. It takes much convincing, but nevertheless, the acquies to your request being the All right, anything else? Yeah. Just going to let the guards know to watch our guest while we're away and keep him under protection. Okay. Are we leaving him here? I thought everyone to go somewhere to the...

Oh, God. The what one? The guy who builds stuff, like regardless, that'd do that, or is that just in my head? Lord Doxio, you mean? Yeah. What about him? So I didn't do that yet, okay. Yeah, you're going to do something on his room, Keylet?

I go find Jarrett. Okay. And I give him... The element. All the things. ...and I say, Do not let... Lesmond?

Leave your side. Think two, too. Watch him, watch for invisible anything. Protect him with everything you can. I will do this with my life. Do not worry. Have we given them a raise? I just gave him too to fucking go. Double the rest of the people.

Double the guard on him. And yeah, everybody, fuck. Just two. They all make, five of them make a hundred a month. Five of them make 100 a month. Two of them make 50 a month. I give another 200 to him and tell him to pass it out to the rest of the guard. We'll be back soon.

Very generous, and I think you'll be very happy to find this. Thank you very much. And add another guard to the watch. Two to Jared. Two to Desmond at all times. Very well. I will do this. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to tell Erwin to go and ask for court, for the Lord that we can reconstruct and tell him that we would like to make some changes and have the cells converted into barracks for our soldiers. They won't do anything. Just tell them that. That's what I do.

That's what Tiberius does. Okay. Erwin goes, all right, sir. And he wanders off. Eating a good reputation does not mean holding prison so tomorrow. About an hour or so later, Irwin Return says, I'm sorry they would not allow me into the central district. I do not have the proper papers to pass within. I mentioned that I worked for you and they told me I was not to enter.

Maybe we should have said like a different name. It's okay. They would have known when they got to work. That's true, Grant. Shall we head out? Yes. Did I learn anything from a secret asylum? Go ahead and roll a D20 adding your wisdom modifier.

Oh, geez, really? Come on, Laura. Oh, geez. What if I roll like shit? Then it'll be hilarious. Come on, roll that die. Come on. I'll say, make it with advantage because Asim is a very, very good teacher.

He is. He's so good. He's awesome. No, that's terrible. You look. Advantage, advantage. You are playing D and D right now. All right. That's my wisdom?

Reality. Is that quality? 17? It's pretty good. 17? Is she an emperor now? Is that how this works? All right, so talking with Assum, you, he works with you for a bit and teaches you the Ranger ability

skirmisher stealth. Scirmisher stealth? Nice. The rural juror. Rur. Okay. So if you start one of your turdens hidden from a creature, a creature, you can then, as a bonus action, at the end of your turn, make another stealth

check to remain hidden from them. You essentially can dive between areas and still be hidden. What just happened there? While I'm attacking? Yeah. That's all Rangers? So yeah. We'll go over the details of it after the game. But yeah. Essentially, you learn a new Ranger ability from Secretism.

Nope. Wow. I bought some sticks. All right. At the end of the first day, before all that stuff happens. Sorry, guys, this is necessary. Is it? Is it? And this is the first.

Look, guys, I destroyed him. Everybody shut up and let Grog go on a one-man solo. We're on 10. We're on 10. What a piece of one. Just going to secede. It's how noble and reasoned. I was joking.

What do you want to do? He's up to 10. Yeah, no. It's serious. I spent my dad the first night, and I write the sports instruction to my father, and I go, do your father. And I tell him about

the circumstances with the vampires. Dear diary. Sorry. At the end of it I go, I invoke the embattice of right of war time as of now. And moreover, as your son. When I provide concrete evidence, you will know. But in the meantime, I would have you gather 50 ground troops of the Joconian knights

and 50 winged soldiers of the Wyvern fleet. Have them at the ready for my signal. I know it will take you a few days of travel to get here. But this is a town of vampires and possibly liches, which you know, just need to be destroyed no matter what. Your son, with love, Tiberius. All right. Everyone is aware that Tiberius is the giant eagles and Lord of the Rings.

Tiberius can invoke just ultimate destruction at the call of whatever he wants. I don't know what's going on there. All right, as the week comes to a close, eventually a note appears before you, Tiberius. Then your magical room. It reads, Tiberius, child, I understand your request. However, you are fresh to these political matters, and as the young one prone to jump at the sight of a shadow, I would need some very, very heavy proof to invoke wartime, which, if I might add, is not your jurisdiction but my own. Should you wish to bring this to my attention, you are welcome to But you have but one chance before I set aside this intrusion to my work time as mere poppycock. Iberius, I trust that in time you will prove yourself to this family and to this country. But for the time being, business matters of this largest scale.

are best left to those with experience. With love, proven installment. Send him three more letters. He'd gather. He didn't say no, which is a word he always says, which is a lot better than what he always says. I walk into Tibera's room while he's having this conversation with himself, and I say it.

Kids, eh. What are you doing in you? I'm talking to myself, Scanlon. All right. Per usual. I'm going to go get some garlic from the kitchen, and then let's go. Oh, I love garlic.

I'll follow you. I write a note, address to Yereal, hand it to our main butler, who I know his name. Irwin. Irwin. And it basically says, Yuriel, FYI, we didn't totally flee. We're looking for evidence. Don't know. No, no, no. We didn't flee. We'll be back. How about that? We'll be back. All right, the note is left with Irwin.

I tell him, only give this to anybody if they come looking for us and they're angry. He has no trouble. P. has no cameras. Of course. All right. Grog, do you think I should do the whole elemental, you know, guardian thing? Warnock. All right.

How are you doing, Grog? I'm fucking bored. Any else to do that at all? I've been sitting here for 30 fucking minutes. I'm bored. Cast an element. and make it smash everything around the key. Oh, here, hit me that Ruby.

Here, just hit me once. Ting! Got! Catch it. Right. Water elemental seems appropriate, based on our knowledge, yeah? Water elemental, poof. All right.

And planar bindings. All right, so. And I talked to him in my elemental speech, which I can do. And you say? And I say, look. Look, we're gonna be gone for like 30 days. We have a prisoner here.

Make sure nothing or no one brings him any harm. That makes you Thursday. No, I was gonna return. You know I can speak English. What's the elemental. gives you an acknowledgment and speaks back in its own time. Ecolonant of, for my time here I serve. Wait, what? I'm sorry.

My time here I serve is essentially the essence of what you get first. For my time here I serve. My time here I serve. All right. Onward. I love doing this show. Do we know where we're going? Yeah.

We're going to cure the guy now. I know what we're going. The guy. Oh. What we're doing? Percival Dorolo knows what we're going to go. We head to Terse Fields. Are we, are we,

are we riding there by horseback? Is that what we're doing? Nope. And both, no. For your mind and the rest will follow. Do we know where we're going? Well, Percy's in the Turst Fields. The Turst Fields, you do know.

Some of you may have passed by them. They are to the east, kind of northeast area of Western, on the eastern side of the continent. It's about, I'd see, about four days. four days, four and a half days travel horseback. What if we purchased a carriage? What if we went on airship instead? We had one at a disposal, don't we?

Do we not? Well, we had one out of disposal when we were friends of the city. It's a, I think it's in the Cloud Top District, actually. Well, costs a little bit more co-ing to rent one, but I have a feeling there and a wagon. Let's just go on the down-low. Besides, yeah, yeah.

We're trying not to tell anybody that we're leaving. Download up there on the Opie, right? Just down low. Carriage, let's go. How much do they can? You're under carriage? Do we need a carriage? No, we have a stable full of horses.

Rain it in. Yes, we're going to fight them. We're going to. We have the teleportation sigil for a sigil. For Western. Oh, yeah. Is Briarman keep over there? Westrun is most of the way across the continent.

It's about a days right out from Western. Oh, shit. That would shave time. I would shave about three days off of your journey. Matt, I'm pretty sure it's to Google. Do that. Western, yeah. Do you guys?

Do you go back to Western? Tirstfields is just north. We'll do that. Let's do it. Let's great. I love that idea a lot. What's in those fields? What's in those fields?

The tourist fields are a farming community that takes care of a lot of the eastern side. They're not really an extension of Western, but it's one of the closest cities, and they do a lot of food trade up into White Stone, or did previously. It's where I would make our camp before we start heading out. Got it. How do you have they had their camp? I think we can talk about a plan? Yes. I think, Percival, you're leading the way.

Use my sister as an advisor, but you're leading the way right now. I'm gonna draw out a crude map while we make our way so that I can sort of let you all know where we're going. Well, then join me in my laboratory, everyone. All right, yes, we go to Tiberius's laboratory. Okay, Tiberius, you go ahead and cast a teleportation circle. Not yet. I go, hey, look at the laboratory, guys.

What do you think? and make some scanning, it looks like you're in front. All right, now I cast circle teleportation. I use my sigil there. Yep. There's a set up there. Yep. And the circle appears.

You guys rush through it. You do not have your horses with you because they would not be able to travel to the teleportation circle with you. However, you could probably procure some in western. It's fine. And doing that, you guys, just for the case of brevity on this,

because we've been missing that for a little missing that for a lot of this session. Let's do this in real time. Yes. We'll say the total gold to purchase horses for the whole party. After I had gold. Because let's be honest, I would have. You would have.

Go ahead and make it persuasion rule. You would have. Even in real time. Do it, do it. 21. Yeah. 21, OK. Yeah, we'll put you at about.

We'll say because you are renowned in this area and you've helped them during the Winter's Crest Festival the year before, using that discount and well-knowledge there, you managed to procure all, everyone that outfit with horses, including your Warhorse, for 210 gold. Got it. Which is a pretty decent discount. Yes, it is. Real talk.

All right. All right. Can I share my map? You can, yeah. You made a map? You drew that just now? You drew that just now? No, I've like forged all of our documents.

You are aware of that, right? Like any time we've needed papers. Wait, wait, where is West. Oh, there's West Run, that's where we are right now. So we have to go, whee-wee-wee-I-I-I-I. I just spin on your map, Kersy. Up through the woods into like mountains, Whitestone is mountains.

But you can handle that. Yeah, I can handle both. We've got, we're here, and we've got to go. Here. Great. All right. Let's set out. We have two paths. You have the path into the center of the Partchwood woods that leads up into

the valley of the Alabaster Cierras that surround it. That is the direct route to White Stone that leads through the main pathway through the central forest to the front of the city. There's also the Alabaster Cierras themselves which surround that peninsula that extends into the northern part of the continent. They are very tall, fjord-like craggy mountain ranges right up against the seal on the edge. They're a little more treacherous, but a little more out of the way in kind of a backdoor route. So you guys choose which route you want to take.

I would prefer not the direct route. Always go on the back door. Can you say anything that is just not laced with sexual innuendo? I'm trying to figure it out. Mountain ranges are part of my favorite terrain, so we don't get disadvantaged, you know, traveling through. I would prefer taking that direction. I don't want to head straight towards them.

There probably will be mountain giants, though, remember that throw boulders and they'll be terrible? The Pershwood forests are dangerous as they are. There's really no safe way. All right. Trust Percy, whatever you say. I do as well. Percy, you are aware of that.

There have been problems in the past with various mountain-faring giants that lived north of White Stone that occasionally would wander too far south. They mostly kept it themselves, but occasionally they had some crossover, and there were some scuffles here and there. Okay, so you guys are deciding to take the alabaster sierras? Yes, and I want to cast pass without a trace on everyone. Okay. You guys head out from Westeroon. It takes about a day's worth of travel.

You go ahead and stop in the Turs fields. It's a small farming community. You ask around for a bit. Most of the folks there say they haven't had much trade or communication with white stone like they used to. They do just provide crops and such, but they don't allow anyone passed into the actual forest. so they're traded at the boundary of the forest. I still pay gold, but it just seems like a very more enclosed scenario, but very few folks there seem to be questioned as business as usual, still left within tourist fields.

Make your way northward to the bottom of the alabaster sierras. And as you begin heading up the outskirts of this mountain range, you do notice that the mountains are extremely high in altitude of interest. Like, it just is this perpetual climate, nearly a 40, reangle as you continue upward further, further, further. And the drop off at the edge of the clip is 1,000, 2,000 feet at times, just straight down into the ocean or rocks below. There are pads worn up here. It has been used as travel before, although uncertain as to how recent they have been traversed. Occasionally, the wind picks up and you kind

of have to steal yourself and put yourself again to the side. The path, thankfully, is maybe 15, 20, sometimes 30 feet in width. It's not too much where you're being forced against the edge, but it's enough to just be aware of the danger of the circumstance. You guys are heading up, I'd say, about half a day's travel. It's about two in the afternoon before the... Also, you can tell through the... There are slight outcroppings, a few hundred feet down to the bottom, a few bits of stone that jut out from the side, and you can see small... nests or bushes that have kind of taken root on those side areas. The rock itself of this mountain range is unusually unnaturally white. The actual rock that forms this entire region

is very, it's almost like a glowing quartz-like texture. There are parts that almost translate some parts that are just a very, very milky white. And it's, you can get, number one, you can now understand as to partially why the area is called white stone in the town nearby. And you've heard mention from Percy in the past of the large quarries there that mined the stone for various uses and export it throughout Al-Talori. That's where a large portion of the town was kind of built around that trade at the very beginning of its construction. Eventually, you come to a point where there is a fall-off on the path, where there erosion or some sort of large impact of the side caused the path to fall into a scooped crevasse. It is a smooth fall down the side. There's no way across other than a large sea salt air rotted rope bridge that goes across

about 100 feet. And you see it kind of rocking with the wind. I don't think this looks very stable. Man, you know what I will give for a flying fucking carpet right now? So the bridge is just out? No, the bridge is across. It just looks a little rickety. It's not like terrible or frightening, but it's been there for a while and you can see tell from the color of the rope. How far is it across the?

A hundred feet. I'm going to... Should I go first, everyone? I just want to inspect it from an engineering perspective if that's possible. Do I make an investigation check? Oh, that's a good idea. Ten. Okay.

Looking at it, I mean, the anchors are pretty solid in the stonework. There's no looseness to their element. The rope itself is taught, and it seems to have a service long enough. There are no signs of extreme wear other than just time and web. I'm going to walk forward. It's a bridge. I'm going to tie the fucking rope around your waist before you do that. Oh, that's quite a good idea.

Sarinraegee. Jeepers. I start to, I'm going to use perception. I'm going to look at it before going out. That is a 23. All right. Are you taking your horse with you? No.

No. I leave my horse with my sister. Okay. Horses left with it. I'm on foot. I'm on all fours, really. Spidering out. out. Making a ray across, you could halfway across the bridge.

Hold on to me, just the creaking sound and the slight movement as the wind picks up at times, and you kind of like... So I'm lasting, but can I make, what would I make like is an insight check to decide if I thought Grog could make it across this thing? I'm going to investigate. Make an intelligence check. Just roll and add your intelligence modifier. Is it 10? Poo! Take that zero off it and you got it.

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100 feet. Once you're across, let's secure the rope that's attached to you and we'll make ourselves just a guideline that we can hang on to. I like it. All right, he sounds like a Debbie Downer, Grog, but I'll go across. and then you can follow. Okay, you make the rest of your cross.

No issue. The rope bridge carries your weight all the way. Tie a rope. All right. I tie the other side. Is there anything on the other side? I could tie it. There's a couple of small flipside trees that kind of grow off

and strange kind of almost like twisting bonsite tree-like branches that stick off. They're pretty sturdy. I use a sailor knot. Okay. I use a special ranger knot that's really extra strong. Secret ranger knot. Well played. All right.

Genter is it next. I double not mine. Oh, we're gonna get the horses across. No, they're not coming. They're not coming? Oh. Bye. Oh.

Keep me with you. Geepers. Were you warned a half elf when you're gonna do that? All right. Spooks you for a second. You can hold on. You make your way across. Oh, sure.

You guys are now on the other side. You're holding on to everyone's horses left behind and now you need to do. Trinket. I tie up all the horses to a very large tree. Are we just going by foot now? Is that what we're doing? Looks like it. Can horses not pass to there? Or do they just get across over? You've tried.

Tiberius, are you still on our side? I'm on, everybody's, I'm still on the. Are you with me still? Your side. Correct. Will you guys fly on Trinket? I love you. Sure. Do you want to make it across? I can climb on him and you can fly on him and you have to get to you have to get me.

Use one little spell. If I cast it on him, I would probably jump on myself because I'm a little bit heavier than you are, darling. Then do it! She's haggling you right now. No, no, no. You can have him afterwards. No, yeah, you can go, and I'll just use the little rope.

Yeah, it's fine. All right. Proceed. So you cast fly on, Tricket, Tricket. No, I don't. I don't do shit yet. Okay, got you. For you guys to get across, so something happens,

then I can cast down. Save people. Just protect him. Yes, so you get on Trinkets back? No, no. He hasn't cast it on him yet. No, take her hanging back. So who's going across now?

I am. Okay, you make it across, issue, no problem. You're light enough and able to guide the movement of the bridge. I think I only had one for talk to the other day. Here's my question. What looks shaky? The connection of the bridge or the actual physical condition

of the bridge itself? The physical condition of the bridge. There's no actual visible point that is... A big bridge. Yeah. All right, just for like bonus, added safety in case this bridge gives away, I'm going to cast Grasping Vine and kind of have it

loop and wrap around the edge of the bridge, kind of further and force it. Great. The vines reach around and wrap around the edges of the actual wood slats and the rope hand holds, and it seems to be pretty well held on that side. Clever. At least outside will be fine, and then I'll

do, de, de, easy. No issue. Oh, okay, that's good too. Cool, make it across to that prol. What else needs to go across? Just you and Tiberiusan. You want to make it first? No, it's fine.

I hop on shrink it and I pet Lockheed now, we're a friend. And then I hop on to drink it and cast fly on him and like remember how to go across. And then as we start flowing across, I'm going to cast telekinesis on Grog and take him with me. Kind of like a big lantern. Okay. Concentration spells. Yeah? Yep. All right.

That should be 12 seconds to get across a bridge, right? Yeah, that'll be 12 seconds, which will be enough time. So as you're coasting over with Trinket, kind of floating, you turn around and cast helconaise's grog, all of a sudden you're lifted up and kind of held a loft. You look down over yourself. Waving your hands instinctually, looking down, you can see about a good 600, 700-7-foot drop before the rock kind of comes to a point which would probably splinter or crush anyone that fell into it, it and then it's pushed out into the ocean. So it's a little scary, but you start flailing

about as you're being pulled across by Tiberius. Eventually, Trinket comes, lands on the other side safely. You guide, grog over, down onto his feet. Safe and sat. Yay. Yay. The horses. Oh, the horses. Oh, yeah. What do you want to do with the horses? We tied them up.

I'm going to dispel the fly, but I'm going to hold the telekinesis for the 10 minutes I can. and on grog. I'm not going to keep that as well going. Okay, cool. All right. I say a prayer of thanks to the horses who will surely die of starvation. Nay. Oh, may.

They were tied up in a super grassy area with a shit ton of water around. They'll be eaten by something long before that. That's fine. All right. So. Ampire horses. So what's our plan?

What are we doing? Plan is walk until we get there. Yep. The path. Pinch is a little bit tighter as you go across about a 10-foot width and you guys begin pulling across as a sudden large gust of sea air blows in as you guys go ahead and buckle down to hold on. I'd like you all to roll an athletics check. Are we in mountains? Yes. So I'm in advantage.

You're advantage on it. Sweet. Me too, I can. That's true, yeah. Yes. What is this? Athletics. Athletics.

Athletics. That's 11. 9. 18. 19. 10. 11. 21.

All right. As you guys are holding tight, both Scanlan and Vex are trying to grab something, they're holding on a rocks, but before they can get enough. Wait. They're both so small. How many time is past? How many time is past? This is like three seconds. Oh.

Oh. A pass since the bridge? Yeah. Five, six minutes. Can I try to curse them? because I saw the Telkenesis is going. Can I switch it? You can catch one of them.

Why, Matthew? Because the spell is to be directed. Are this flying off a cliff? It's pounds. They're both being dragged by the wind off the side of the cliff. You can see them like grabbing the ground. Vax is being pulled off the side as Scandl is actually going to look up. I know Vax can't.

I grab Vex. Tell my sister I love her. I jump and try and grab Vex. Okay. Vax. You want to hold me? I'm Vox. Wait, are you grabbing him?

Because if you're grabbing him, I'm Vex. It's right, no worries. So you grab Vax and hold them in place as you reach out and grab Vax by the arms and pull him back onto it. Wait, who? You. You.

He grabs me. I grab her. He grabs her. Who held you with telling me? Scamlin is still flying off the cliff? I know, but he still said he grabbed me. Okay. Then you're being held aloft now by Tiberius' Telkenesis concentrating.

Scanlan has fallen out of view off the side of the table. I grasping behind him before he goes out of you. Okay. It's all right. All right, I'll say, go ahead and make an attack roll. It's grasping vine. I can wait, I can manipulate a thousand pounds. You've got me. Make an attack roll.

What? Yeah. This is to aim the vine as he falls. 19. Not a problem. The vine grabs Scamlin and pulls and pulls him back and holds on as the wind slowly dies down. I got it back to the cliff.

All right, you guys. That's like a bunch of light. The wind dies down. You guys now begin pushing yourself very close to the edge of this pathway up the side of the seaside cliff. It doesn't seem to deviate much beyond that 10, 15 foot width now, which puts you all of general unease. As the sun's getting closer and closer to setting, you're making your way around the crest.

You've been traveling this mountain range for a good number of hours now, and you're at a decent height and you're on foot a good distance inside the Alabaster Sierra mountain range. Perception check, everyone. Yeah. Five. Four. Three, two, one. Twenty-five. Twenty-six. Twenty-nine. I rolled a natural one with negative two. Okay. Those of you with a higher perception than twenty on this roll. As you're blowing along, you hear this echoing sound, this in the distance, kind of the winds carrying it as it's blowing past you.

Does it sound like anything nature-based? Like that's something I could do. That's something I could possibly have talked to in the past? Is it something I would know? You would... Does it have a mustache? Go ahead and make an intelligence check. You, go and make an nature check. Oh, yes.

21. 25. It is birdish in nature, but it sounds too guttural and too articulate to be a bird. There is enough of... you notice there's enough of this like... There's like a language of the chittering that is bird-like, but there is actual voice. You recall... Recall that there are various creatures that make the cliff sides home. One of the ones that are more obnoxious and that some of the earlier traders of Weis had problems with making this path for mining were clusters of harpies. Oh, fucken harpy.

Oh, no. Harpies. Harpies. They're the opposite of the hoppers, which are good. What's a harpy? A harpy is a jerk, stupid butthole who is super loud. You glance over as you have in this conversation. over as you have in this conversation behind you, you can see in the distance from where you were a couple of these dark shapes like swooping down and you see a cluster about four

or five of these harpies just diving. Can we find a place to maybe settle down? Like burrow? Can we stealth? Delft. Actually, wait. I cast past that a trace on us. Don't worry. I can make us all look like cows again. Oh. Oh, shh. How long is the concentration I'm past without a trace? How long as the concentration? Can you hold that concentration? Um, up to one hour? Okay. It's faded since then.

Where are we against the mountain? Are you still on the mountain edge? Yeah, you're still on the path and you just look back from where you came from. So we have like a mountain behind our backs. Yeah, sheer cliff that goes up probably another 400 feet. I turn around and I cast Move Earth, my six level fucker, and I clear out like a cave. Okay. So as you guys are concentrating on this, eventually Keelope begins to focus, and over the next minute or so, she begins to push a... I can't pass that on a trace on us now.

Okay. As this is happening, you're watching what's happened. You can see now the harpies have definitely found some sort of prey and they're distracted as they're slowly tearing apart what you're gathering are the horses you left behind. Oh, you, what, you! I'm saying this all in my head. Yeah. Good news is they're distracted. Horses saved our lives, guys.

Should we keep going? Should we keep going? That news is they're probably not going to be there. It's getting dark. I think we should camp in this cave. So you're saying there's a chance. chance. Oh my God.

So over the next few minutes, so, Kielith, you pushed a good like 10 by 15 foot cavern into the side of this wall that didn't previously exist. You guys are able to step out of the light as the sun's just starting to disappear over the mountain range, the cliff keep, which you can see in the distance across this channel now. There's like a channel of water between the two. I go ahead and drew a little campfire. Tiberius. Do we want light?

Well, I'm going to use hide-in, plane site. I'm going to see if I can do this, that sort of ability to kind of camouflage the opening of the cave to where they wouldn't be able to see it. Sure, sure. All right, make itself a check. 28. 28. Okay. You take the next 15 minutes or so finding what nearby pieces of brush you can and rocks that have kind of been loosely around the area and you start setting up this pattern of them that closes off some of the entrance from the smooth opening that Kieliff had created. It takes a little ingenuity because it's just rock opening,

and there isn't a whole lot of brush and things around. But you feel you've managed to masquerade it to the point where from a distant eye it would be hard to see that there is an actual cavern there. At this point, though, the sun has set. Night has come in, and you guys are sitting within this cavern hearing just the distant sound of the ocean waves crashing against the bottom

of these cliffside coastal fjords. Me and Tiberius made a fire. All right, fire is made. I lit it by spitting on it with fire and stuff. and various forms relatively useful and effective can't fire within this cave. So, here guys. I want to use my holy oil and dip a couple arrows in the holy oil, because I know I can make three based on what we've done before.

You can, yes. Do be aware the holy oil will only probably last about a day before it eventually. Oh, really? Oh, so I'll do that right before. Yeah, it's one of those things where if you just dip it now and leave it, eventually over time, it'll just either evaporate or drip off of them. of the arrow. Good to know. While my sister's looking at her shit,

I bogart trinket and sort of climb up onto me in like a sleeping bag and cuddle into his softest warm parts. Can fall asleep? Trinquet at first kind of half of sleep kind of produces you away, but then kind of recognizes your scent and let you do it. Just ganked my sleeping bag. Sorry, not sorry. I'm going to find a little patch of dust

and do a little dust bath real quick. Okay. And then I'm going to be a little bit I want to use one of my books of stuff and start researching liches just because I want to. That's the thing. Okay. I mean, what book would you be researching this in?

Togun Spirit Guide. The researcher ability is kind of you can go to places of research and find books. You don't really keep like a total of all knowledge with you. So next time you find a town or you're in town, then you can use the ability to research in advance. But just do you find a Togan Spirit Guide then? No. I asked Grog how he's doing.

On board of shit. You want to arm wrestle? No. All right. Come on, do it, Groh. Do you want to just punch me from a reason? You can't beat a girl? Do you guys all rest with even?

Yeah. But we should take watch. Is Percy still awake? Is Percy still awake? Are you still awake? I'm going to fall asleep last, so. I also stay up with Percy. Okay.

Taking first... I'll take first loss. Wake me up when you're tired. I'm gonna feed Lockheed some treats. Okay. You guys continue your business for the evening? I talk to Percy for a second. Go for it.

Percy, while we're alone for a moment. Yes. There's something that's been bothering me and I can't get it out of my head. And I thought I'd talk to you about it. Because I feel... We're friends, right? We're friends. Are we friends? Sure.

I'd like to think so, yes. We've been through a lot, been together a while. It's been a while, I guess. Two years now? I suppose. I go invisible and see if I can hear their conversation. Okay, go ahead and make perception, too. Perception or stealth or...

20. Oh shit. Okay. You were keeping relatively low and able to overhear their conversation. You know, I... you're a very... you're a very... I'm a very brilliant person, but... Thank you. I can't help, but... I feel like I'm being watched right now,

but that's... Never mind. Just forget I said anything. I can't help but feel like there's something else. There's something more to this that you're not telling us. And I didn't really think of anything until when we were having that. when we were having that fight where Tiberius brutally murdered that old woman. And trying not to think about it. As you, yeah, me too.

But the one thing that I can't get out of my head was something that you said during that fight. And, you know, for a long time, I was like, damn, Percy's got really cool one-liners, and he's so smart, and I wish I could have cool one-liners. You and Grog got really cool one-liners. have really cool one-liners. And then you said, your soul is now forfeits

to the person you shot that night. And I thought, wow, that was an interesting one-liner. And then I thought, I did that, didn't I? Yeah, yeah, you did. And for some reason, I was the only one who noticed it. And I don't know if that's because I'm just reading into things, if that was just a, a,

really awesome but scary and brutal thing to say in the moment? Or if there's something deeper that you might be serving? Honestly, I'll say I've had a number of years thinking about what I would do and what I would say, how I would go about this. It's kind of obsession is not healthy and I know that and it's no way to live. And I'm sure that that was something on the list of things I thought I would say, some attempt to be scary when I met them as opposed to being scared. I think I was, again, I don't really remember much because I was so angry. I've never been so angry and I think I was just trying to sound threatening. And I'd had these dreams before. You know, I've... don't build anything like this without the knowledge that you're... I'm aware that inventing this thing has been a mistake.

What thing? I ploughed my gun. What are you saying? You... Knowledge? You didn't build that without inspiration? What do you mean? I've had thoughts about it, but I didn't... I didn't really think about it. what I was doing, what I was going to build, until I decided to take my revenge. And I'd never thought about building it

because I realized what a dangerous idea it was. And I feared that for the day that that comes back to haunt me. I don't know what I'll do. But I don't know. I think I was just trying to say something to be intimidating. I honestly didn't even think I was going to kill him. It just happened. Can I see if he's lying to me?

Go ahead and make an insight check. 17. 17. Go ahead and roll to you 20. Is your insight really that good? Yeah, I'm wise as fuck! Add your charisma modifier. Yeah.

Eighty-equent, my charisma modifier? Eighteen. Oh! Best you can tell you're seeming honest and sharing open-hearted to you. You feel like you've really gotten to the core truth of what Percy's about. What? What? Until you've gotten to the core and truth of what Percy's about.

Perhaps you're questioning this has upset him, and you kind of feel like maybe you've pushed this a little too far. Yep. Throw it away. I do regret what happened. I know he was a bad man, but I still, I hope to never lose my temper like that again. You've got to roleplay that shit.

He convinced you. I still really feel like we're being watched. Do you feel like? Ever since. She's like, I don't know. I think, honestly, I think we both need sleep. It's really distracting. Yeah.

Well, I love you. I love you too. Perfect. I'm going to with you to the end. Yes. Let's sleep. Okay. Guys, through your turns, the evening goes by uneventful.

Morning comes to you. You could hear the distant cause of seagulls, waking you up as the heat from the morning. Sun begins to eventually hit this side of the cave, since you're on the side of the mountain, by the time you wake up, you realize the hour's probably a little bit past noon. Oh, shit. We were. We were too late.

We were too late. It's so dark in here because of the cave thing. Okay, so wait, Percy, how much further out are we from Whitesone? Yeah, how much time have we got left? You've got that you probably have about a day's worth of travel, and you'll be able to make your way down into the being from here. You've come up quite a bit of the mountain range. Oh, so... Have another day before we can camp close enough to attack.

far. Let's keep going. Should we stealth through the mountains just in case they have any kind of lookouts? Oh, they will have more. Yes. I cast across the other trays on us again. Let's go slower. And can I stay, should we all stealth, try at least?

Yes. Let's keep stealthy. Okay. You guys gather outside of the cavern and head up continuing along this path. Eventually you do notice that the path becomes broken and you're broken in your path. The path becomes broken and too steep to continue. It actually falls and tumbles down into this long, sliding ravine. There is a slight kind of rock slide trail that you could climb up and over, and it looks like there is a separate ravine or a separation where the two mountains join that

could possibly be traversed. Let's do it. But continuing on the seaside path is not going to work. This does bring you inward towards not maybe a little further south than you would have wanted to for an optimal backdoor entrance into white stone, but it's about your only path. Have I walked this path before? If I never walk this path? You would have had no reason to walk this path.

You've heard about it, you know of this side of the mountain range, but based on your history, there is no reason you would have come here. What it takes to get into that back door. I'll make a stealth check, by the way, just so we're aware of what your stealth roles are with the path path by the train. Add 10 to it. 10?

Oh, well, I got a 40 then. 27. 37. Nine. With the 10? Oh, 19. 19, okay. 32.

32. 27. That's pretty good spread. All right. Look at that. We're twinsies. So you guys, there's the path. Are you heading up the rock slide trail?

You all, one, begin to climb over the trail and some rocks kind of tumble and loose beneath your feet. You kind of help each other get to the very top. What's my mage hand to help me? That's adorable. As he looks at the clock. That's adorable. I grab her rock. So you all eventually manage to make it over the top of the rock side trail, and eventually

it leads into what is where these two large mountains come together, and there is a small path leads between winds and travels down, where you can see bits of the rock have fallen and crumpled, and there are small boulders and such. They're just over time and through erosion have tumbled down this ravine to start filling it with occasional chunks of stone. You begin walking through this ravine for another good 45 minutes to an hour, keeping a keen eye out. Okay. Is this the same ravine? The eyebrows.

Traveling across? All the eyebrows. Basically, you have been traveling up the side of the coast. You've now turned inward over the mountain range to head down to the valley of White Stone. You are currently just now heading up through the mountain range inwards towards the valley. Is this the river? There's no river here.

It's just stone that comes together for a pathway in between. This is where two large peaks of the mountains basically come to join at the bottom. Okay. So we're not at the river. I shall name this path. The river is actually inside the valley into the south of White Stone. It's cool. So pressing down, I would like you all to roll a perception check. Oh, natural 20!

Natural 20! Natural 20! 1-1, 2020. 16. 14. 16. Okay. As all of you guys are trudging forward,

both vex and vex and vex, you kind of hear the slight noise of a couple rocks. Down the ravine behind you, you both turn and look. Your ears, twitch. For a split second, you swear you see between some of the rocks and pads of jagged stone that mark the walls of this ravine, you see a quick blur of blue that vanishes behind a higher platform above you. Smurfs. Where is it?

Everybody should... A large blur of blue just disappear behind one of the outcroppings that's kind of blocking your view of higher up the I cast stone skin. Okay. Stealth. As... Fasten my cloak of displeasperse. And I...

You guys prepare for a second, and as you're all paying attention, you guys also see another shift the blue go... Like, go across the way. And this time you see it's something large and blue that moves across the stone and goes into a small cavern. It looks about 25 feet up all the way. That's just past your visual range from this low in the ravine. Do we have any kind of visual on what it could be? It moved very quickly. and for a split second, you could see it appeared to be,

the way it's moved was almost serpentine, like shh. And vanished inside. You swear you saw limbs, though. It wasn't a giant snake. There was something attached to. What? And I whisper, but for sake of microphones. Yeah.

Do you know of a creature that's blue and fast, and it's kind of snakey, but has arms and legs? Let me think about it for a second. Do I know a creature? It's blue and snaky. It sounds like basilists, but they're too slow. It's super, super fast. What did you roll?

I don't know. It was 24. Could we have knock on as well. Yes. You've heard of various lizard-like creatures that can hurt a large sizes. Usually those fall into the realm of dragons and such. The color blue, though, is uncommon unless it were a blue dragon. However, the motion of this creature does not seem to necessarily

be the territory of a blue dragon. the territory of a blue dragon. You're hard to point exactly what this is, but you do know it's probably something in the serpentine type. I heard them describe it, but I know it from the description, just from my local knowledge. Go ahead and make a history check. The blue thing's weird. The blue thing is what's throwing me. Nine. Nine. Unfortunately, nothing of this type has come across here. If it has, it's been too long

and you've forgotten it. There are no, there are number of dangerous things. that exist in these mountains. I'm a really good idea. Wait, wait, wait, wait, yes. Goh. Just throw something. No, no, no.

Grog, pick up something really heavy and throw it as far as you can. I'm over and I grab Scanlan. No! No, no, no, no. Oh, I put Scanlan down. Find a large rock. Really, really far, rock.

That's tumbled down, maybe. Yeah, they're easy to find. There's like some that are this big, some that are larger, they're really heavy. And I like, discus the thing, and whoop! And everybody duck down as quiet as possible. Shoot. That was great.

Two. 24. Nice. You release the rock. Skids to a halt. As that does, you'd see suddenly over the course something very quickly moves and it's a head. It's a snout. You see it's probably a good six.

Six, seven foot wide. A giant lizard-like toothy jaw, blue scales against it with large, kind of horned ridges across the back of its head, and its claws on the edge. Looks down, looks down at the rest of you. Beer's back. It saw us? It saw us? It's not saying.

Well, of course it's sauce. With 37 stealth, you know, it's sauce? Holyoke. But it didn't seem to give a shit? It just withdrew over the edge of the... Should we run? We can proceed. No, we just move really fast, away from it.

I can cast anti-life shell on us, and we can just hold ass really fast. Let's do it. Move with us, your shell? Yeah, yeah, yeah, as long as you stay close to me. Move, move to her. You move in a group. You fuck this thing. Do it.

Just get out of that. Okay. Okay. Okay. As you begin casting, you finish the spell as the sphere appears, at which point you now see a large blue blur dart off of the cliffside in the air, and skidding right in the front of you guys,

blocking off the side of the ravine you guys are running towards. You can now see it. A huge, elongated serpentine body covered in blue scales and horns. You can see what looks to be six to eight arms in a series of legs all across its long, a snake-like torso. As it looks and snarls at you all, you see sparks of energy, like electricity.

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