Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 28 - The Sun Tree

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

Vox Machina sneaks their way into the town of Whitestone with the intent of inspiring revolution, but could not be prepared for the horrors that await them inside…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They sent a couple of assassins out to attempt to take out their driver who was spilling information, and essentially it was going to be Voxymakina's way of being free of any sort of political issues based on their actions that evening. And after much discussion and preparation, I'm purchasing a lot of mirrors, the party took their transit over to the east, northeast, towards White Stone, where they began to traverse the alabaster Sierra's to the north, using the mountain range as opposed to going directly through the forest. There they managed to avoid encountering a

bunch of harpies that were distracted by eating the horses they left behind. They camp for the evening and began to make their way through some sort of a mountainous valley that led in towards the forest surrounding Whitestone. While they were traveling down this pass, there was a rumbling and some sort of really fast, rapid-moving, large blue creature that leaped down in front, catching them off guard. And that is where we begin today. Did the creature look like that? Did the creature look like that? Yeah, right?

That would be smart. I never do that. I do. It's so dumb. What's dumb? I have a question. What did you roll on your beard check? What I roll my beard check?

I know it's growing. We can't. Well, obviously. Seriously. This, well, no, no shave till 10K. That's true. And my Halloween costume requires a decent amount of facial hair. Oh, that's right.

Sexy amount of facial hair? You beast, be glad there's a table between you and I. I was a little worried about some performance coming up, but at a performance capture, but I got moved back, so. So you can shake. Yeah. Yeah. How far are we from 10K?

I got a shave. 500. 509. Five hundred and nine away. All right. So like tomorrow. Yeah, no. It's a nice.

All right, so everyone, as this huge blue-scale reptilian-like creature with multiple arms and legs comes skittering down the side of the cliffs, blocking off the entirety of this passage, snarling at you with its sharp teeth and this seeming like sparking blue electrical energy kind of jutting out of the corners of its mouth, I want you all to roll initiative. Oh. So soon. Which one? I add 20 to this, right?

Is that how it works? Not good. Oh, no. Oh, it was cock. Still not great. Still not great, but you didn't, is what you're saying? I did, but I did. Add some hit points.

Yeah, add some hit points. How many do you have? D12 plus constitution modifier. Yeah, D12. We were barbarian, man. Hey, we played D&D. Hey, that's good. Plus.

Whoa, 16 extra health points. Oh, would you roll? You rolled an 11 plus 5. Dang. That's hot. That's pretty hot. So many hit points for the Barbarian. And if you want, you could just boost two.

Are you at 12 now? What? Level 12? Level 12. You're level 12? Don't complicate things. Just smash. Smash.

All right. So. How many spells does he get? All of them. All of them. All right. So, initiatives, we have 25 to 20, anyone. 20.

21. All right. All right. 19 to 15. Oh, let me do. 16. 16? 15 to 10. 10.

Oh, no. 10 to 5. I consistently boss. See you guys in like an hour. I got a four. Alan, you have consistently the best initiative roles. It's delightful. Save it for when it counts.

As you should. All right, so first up, Percy, instinctively with your drive towards White Stone and this creature in your way, you are already ready for this encounter. What are you gonna do? I'm going to, it's bigger than sin, isn't it? It is considered a huge creature.

Okay, so I'm going to alert everybody. Get down, and I'm gonna take three shots. I'm just gonna start you. You're just gonna start you. I'm just gonna, hey, look at that thing. Hey, Percy, going to do what Percy going to do. What if you could reason with him?

He is definitely. Why doesn't it reason with me? Definitely. That's what I'm asking. It could reason with me. There's a lot of heads in the way. Just aim true. I'm aiming at.

I'm gonna use the sharpshooter for extra damage. All right. Three pepper box shots. I will be less handsome with one ear. I'm just saying. The minus five. Yeah, so that's, uh, could be an improvement.

So 17. 17 hits. Oh. Oh, go ahead and just roll the attacks and success. Hmm? Don't roll the attacks and succession so we know how many hit. Okay.

Shot. Second one is it hits 18 plus seven. Yeah, it hits. For the third one, I'm going to go for a headshot instead of a sharpshooter. Okay. And that's 21. Okay, all three hit.

Go and roll damage. Dark Cloud AIDS as well. 17. 17 damage? Better. Better. 25. That went really well.

And then the last one, do I do any damage when I hit the head? Normal damage. So last one is seven points of damage, plus he's got. Disavantage on his tax this round. Yeah, disadvantage on a tax round. Gotcha. Do you want to stay where you are going to move? Am I touching the wall?

You're right kind of close to one. All right, I'm going to. I'm gonna brace against a wall. Okay, brace against that wall there, gotcha. And I'm going to mark all this off. Alrighty. Um, okay. Next up is the creature.

This is rolled really high on its initiative. It's going to go ahead to see it at a movement of 50 feet. Okay. We're in a freaking... We're gonna death trap. It's gonna be fine, guys. We're like a... We're out of door.

If the valley is like, it's like a taco shell. Is it a valley or is it like those are cliff sides and we can fall? It's like a taco shell and we're the meat. Yeah, yeah. I'm around it with that problem. You guys, it's pretty sheer. You'd have to do some lime checks if you want to show. Got it.

Unless you're in Japan. So it screes forward, lowers its jaw, and rears its head back as it does. You see its eyes flare with electrical energy and the inside of its mouth can still with a brightish blue white power. Get down. A bolt of electrical energy comes forward hitting grog,

Vax, Scanlan and Percy. It's electrified. Electrified. Actually, no, it would move up to... Hmm, it's only 20 feet. So to get maximum in this, let's see. Maybe it doesn't do what you have well. Don't think about it.

Just go. Don't calculate it, man. Actually, for optimal impact here, instead, it's going to go there. I have to put my head in its mouth. Practically. It will then do it. on it would be grog, vex, and trinkets. I approve of that.

I realize that it's a fine thing. Its bolt is only 20 feet long, so utilizing its optimal lightning bolt length, you guys were clustered together. Okay. All right, so I need you guys three to roll a dexterity saving throw. With advantage because I'm in the mountains.

You do advantage. It only affects attacks. Oh, that's right. This is a smash save. 19. Good to know. 21. All right, and Trinket.

Ah, ah. Ha, rah, ra. Um, eight. You got an eight. He got an eight. Ooh, okay. 33 points of lightning damage to both of you. Okay.

Wait, that means. Drink takes 66. 66. Trinck is fucking dead, yo. What? Unconscious. Which one? Dead or unconscious?

He's unconscious. Don't throw around the D word, unless it's the D word died. So, as there is a crackling energy. Ford, you do brace yourself, managing to get mostly out of the way. Unfortunately, both of you dodging out of the way, leaves an open shot for your large bear that just takes the brunt of it, throwing Trinket up against the side of the actual mountainous cavern and then slumps to the ground, smoking off the fur.

Does Triniton have to make saving throws? Yes. Saving throws, yes. No one has any resistance. Not yet until we get to the throw. That will end. Wait. Your armor, I've got like a spellleader.

He's only got 42 hit points. Yeah. Whoa. I think he should have more from leveling up, but even more wouldn't be that much higher. Okay, so that's rough. That ends its turn. You're up first. So you would like to rage.

Dengence. Pensions. So you're going to say yourself this fourth. I am going to hunter's mark him. All righty. And then I'm going to go. going to why is he closer now? Okay.

Sorry, Grog. Well, I'm gonna hail of thorns in. Already? Oh no. Frog is always in the bay. I do need a good back tickle. Go-neesh, Ben-Hen. 30.

30 hits? No, wait, that's wrong. No, 30. 30 hits? I'm so angry right. I'm so angry about it. right now. It's going to deep.

It's not a for once. 10. 3D10. Once you're the one not doing damage to the bear. That's good. It's 20. It's a bonus action so we can heal. I both do it.

What is that? 22. 22. 22 also hits? No, that's the attack. Oh, it's the damage. Okay, gotcha. And Grog also.

Oh, yeah. Because you're right next to it. Would that be considered piercing, bludgeon, or slashing damage? slashing damage. It doesn't matter, you have not taken your turn to rage. Oh, fucking shit. That'd be full damage upon you, grog. Ow!

Oh, shit, I'm sorry. The other one was 27. Yeah, okay. Oh. Oh. 10 plus 15. 15. 15, yeah.

This is including the hunter's mark, right? Yes. All right. So. Oh wait, no, I wasn't adding a seven. Wait, no, that's a lie. That's a 15, 17 plus 5, 21. 21, got it.

All right. So as you look over and you see Trinket on the ground, smoldering spire of a smoke pulling off his body. Can I pull him out of the way? Can I pull him into a little crevice? This way you mean? For my move. Is that a move action or would that be an action action?

That would be more of an action, unfortunately. Oh no. But you angrily turn around, at least Your arrow firing a completely furious hail of thorns into the creature as it hits and shatters across its hide. Some of it's scattering onto Grog. You don't even care. You just focus in anger. Pull out a second arrow and unleash this one actually jamming underneath one of the scales. You could see a little trickle of dark, dark, deep purple blood beginning to pour from the wound. I get out of the line. Okay, where do you want to go? Towards the little crevice. Right there? Yeah. Okay. We can't fool him, but I still want to be near tricky. Okay. That ends your turn. Grog, you're up.

Getting ass lit up with the hail of thorns, I'm going to a rage. Okay. I'm going to a frenzy rage. Oh, all righty. I would like to attack three times with buffeting wool. Certainly. No more shopping today.

That is 24. That hits. 21. That hits. He! 26. That also hits. That's a really cool.

Okay. The first one is 11. 13. 13. First one. 13 damage. Another sign. No, that's good.

Nesting. Fourteenth and second one? Yes. Yes. Nesting. 17, 19, 21, plus the fire damage. Good to know. Including fire.

All right. So, going to the rage, you just see that same fury. You can smell the burnt hair in the air, and you use that to fuel that, along with a pain, to just, whack, and just start bludgeoning the creature right up in its face. You can see it's like thrashing and snarling at you and snapping with each blow. You guys are locked in this kind of, you know, Titan versus. you know human battle right now cool are you gonna stay where you are I'm gonna move could I move towards you a little bit this way there yeah staying next to him

but just out of the way of other projectiles that might be coming up my bottle fair enough okay going as you turn key lift you're up okay I'm right I'm right right where is trinket think it's right there you're over here follow the smell I'm gonna go ahead and go to Trinket. I was right, make a death saving throw, by the way. Oh, snap. Almost forgot.

Oh, no. Rolled D-20. Roll like your bear's blood-colored one. Why would you do that? He rolled a 19. Okay, so not creeping closer to death yet. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and do a pure wound spell on him. All right.

Thank you, Keel. I'll just do first level. Oh. It's not worth too second. I'll give him a shut up, wait him up, wake him up. I instantly felt guilty, Dick. You're guilty up to another level.

Yeah, you did. Okay. So I would have done a cantrip, Dick. Two and you plus ten. All right, that's pretty good. That's not bad. That's an eight and a seven plus ten. So 25.

25. 25 hit points conscious. That's great. prone but conscious. He licks her. Okay. And then as a bonus action, can I, looking at whatever the shit this is, pull out my spark stone that I got from my fire sherry.

Oh, wow, we're going there. Okay. Is that like break glass in case of emergency? Yeah, I don't know what it does. Oh, great. I hope I'm right next to you. So, after you think, finish healing trinket, you pull up, reach out and pull this.

And as you're holding your hands, you can feel it's warm to the touch, almost too hot to hold. And there's a slight pulsing, almost like a heartbeat pulse to it. You hold it in your hands and just crush it, concentrating all your energy on it. As you do, what seem to be hard and sturdy, all of a sudden turns brittle in your fingers, and it cracks and breaks, almost like it was made of a very, very brittle earth. As it breaks and your hands come together, the too hot to touch becomes too hot to touch. And for a moment, your hands burst into flames. and you instinctively pull back like you want to go ahead and put out the fire.

But then it falls to a normal temperature again, but the flames remain, and you can now see your hands are now emitting flame from all the fingers. Is that permanent? What does it do? We'll find out, and I'd go Minxie. All right. And I brought the hood. That tiger's on fire. Gila transforms into Mingsy, and has Minxie.

appears, her form transitioning into this large albino saber-toothed tiger. You can see both of the tiger's claws embedded in the ground of this rocky terrain are having flicks of fire and flame curling off of the actual claws. Hell yeah, I look like an Ed Hardy tattoo. I regret everything. All right, that's your turn. Are you going to move? You're going to stay there? Well, I moved to trinket. Right, but you can break your movement up.

Oh, yeah. You've moved 20 feet. You still have 10 more feet to move if you want. I'll start ahead and to try and flank him, to flank the blue base. Okay, she'll be there. Okay. All right, that ends Kieleth. Now it be Tiberius, Tiberius, who now takes the turn to cast a stone skin on himself.

Then kind of backs up behind this side there, preparing for the next round. Max, you're up. Okay, Vax drops, click the boots of haste together. And for everyone who keeps asking, if I click my boots of haste together, I then get to attack three times. I get that question about three times a week, so that's how I do it.

So click the boots of face together, and then I'm going to crouch low and scoot. No, the other side of Minksi, and I should be able to go 60 feet without a problem all the way past the fucker. Yeah, keep going as far as I can. That's as far as I can go? Yep.

Right, and I guess I will just dagger him in the ass then. All right. So, first is a... I love that guy. It'll be 24. 24 hits. Yeah. And this would be sneak attack because he's with grog.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So here's the damage for the attack is... 27 is 9 plus. Oh, this is 13, 17, 19, 20, 26. 31 for the first. Second attack go, oh, that's not the right at all.

Second attack goes, same 23. All right, that hits. Okay, and this is regular damage now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's seven. Seven, already. And then the last dagger, the keen dagger, stabs him in the butt again, and that

is 16. 16, that does not hit. Whiff. You actually go with a third one. The first one stabs through, and you can see you've actually hit some sort of an internal organ as you pull back and starts gouting blood. Using that, you stab a second blade in the same area and tend to open the wound another inch, inch and a half. The third one you pull back, but it slinks around looking over its shoulder, it's long, sinewy neck, curling over and staring at you, and your blade catches the hide instead and streaks off of the scales.

Oh, hi. That'll end your turn. Scaling, you're up. Do I have to heal Trinket anymore? No, he's okay. Okay. Then I will, I will do,

let's see here, we want to get him away from us or do we want to hurt him. Let's do, I want to hurt him. Well, I don't hurt things very well. Do what you do. Do what you do.

Do what you do. You do you, Scanlon. Okay. I'll do some, some, Big Bee hand, some Bigby's hand. I summon Bigby's hand. Bigby's hand. Big Bat's hand.

Giant spectral hand kind of sparkling arcane energy appears roughly in front of your space. It's in front of me. I can't make it go in front of him. You can. Like I'm just saying just from a flavor standpoint. Well then I do one of these. The Sugar Ray Liner, I do this.

And then I throw my bat hand forward. And I'll just punch him in the face. Go for it. I like that. Right, because I can do this. It says huge or smaller creature, at least with grasping hand. Is that count? You can just punch something with it, no matter its size,

to do damage. Okay, so the clenched fish. Clenched fish. Clenched fish. Clenched fish. Clenched attack. This is the one you're talking about. All right, so for the clenched fist.

Yeah, so just make a melee spell attack. So roll D20 and add your spell attack modifier. Bees. Oh no. 13. 13. As the fist swings out, it ducks out of the way.

It's serpentine body ducking as the fish just arcs off into the middle of the air, spinning around, preparing itself for a secondary round, hopefully. Good, good try, Scamol. Oh, boy. Back sees it fly over his head and watches it pass. I'll take a step to my left,

so I'm not in the same line of fires. as Percy. And I'll also inspire Grog. Okay. He's Grog. He's crog. He's big. He's strong like wood. He's better than bad. He's good. Everyone wants a Grog.

That's a ten. That's a ten. D-10, yeah. Eat an inspiration die from the bard. Great. Top of the round again. Percy, you're up. I'm going to scoot a little bit forward. I'm just into that little crevice.

You're gonna take three more shots just to see what I can do. Okay, you have the sharpshooter feet, right? With the sharpshooter fee. Okay, so it wouldn't have partial cover right now, but you ignore that. I have sharpshooter so I can ignore it. Good to know. Yeah.

So, but I'm going to be taking a negative for these hits. Still three, three, three attacks per. Yeah. Okay. You have to reload after this turn. Yeah. Dumb-Dum. Um.

Oh no. Missfire? Miss fire. First shot, as you pull up to the side, you pull your pepperbox out and go to fire. As you do, you pull the trigger, and the actual barrel sticks off the side, spins off and pink, pink, pink on the ground.

Fuck. So that's your attack. Foles. That's your turn, because it'll take you the rest of the turn. Just say your soul is forfeit, just for coolness. This normally doesn't happen to me. I don't quite know when, it happens to all guys sometimes. So, can I at least use my bonus to pick up the pieces?

Yeah, okay. You collect the other boxes and you pull your back up to it. Make sure you grab your dignity as well. I'm just gonna leave that as an open target for a little while. Fair enough. Okay, now on its turn, it's going to, well first off, let's see here. Dammit attack the time.

It does not recharge its lightning breath. It's gonna move here. It's going to go ahead and make a, Two attacks. It's going to turn around and its head that's looking at you now after you stabbing at the back reaches down. Its giant jaws open. You can see like this thick saliva

that's coating its fangs in it with serpentine speed. Bites at you. Hey, rogues evasion. That's going to be a 23 to hit. So uncanny dodge, I can dodge for half damage. So is it what to hit? 23. 23 hits, but I take half damage.

All right. Alright, so, let's see, that would be... Ha, oh, 150th star, broil it. Jesus. It would be 26 damage, so you take 13. That's nothing. Ain't nothing. It's a piercing damage.

And then it is going to, as it bites, it turns around, and its tail begins to snake around your body grog, and its whole bite means to try and reaperage around to constrict and crush you. Oh, shit. That is a 21 to hit. That hits. Alrighty. So, you take 21 points of bludgeoning damage. Halfed. So there'd be 11 points of bludgeon damage plus

21 points of slashing damage. Wow. Halfed as well. So total 22 damage. Okay. And you are considered grappled and restrained currently as the entire creature begins to wrap around you and you're currently, you're trying to hold onto your axe but your whole body's being crushed by this large chomene creature. You can-

Piece of shit. You can feel every pulse of its muscles tensing, is the pain and ache, you can feel muscles and ligaments tearing and popping as it pulls in on you. Not cool. That's going to, and it's going to, as part of its grapple, move you with it to there. And it'll end its turn.

Vex, you're up. Okay. How does the hide thing work? Do I hide at the beginning of the turn or at the end of the turn? At the end of the turn. Okay. I'm gonna move out. Okay, it has a reach of 10.

So you are tentedly within its melee range. So you can run, but you'll take attack of opportunity from it if you do. Just so you're aware. Can I still arrow it from where I am? You can, but you have disadvantage on all your range attacks because you are in the lately with it. Does it cancel out because I'm in the mountains? It doesn't affect your attacks.

Damn it! Sorry. It's up to you. You could stay where you are and take disadvantage on all your attacks, or you could run past and get a free swipe on you. Your call. I'm gonna try to run, run. I'm gonna try to back up. Okay, over to here?

Like how far? Oh no. Wait, I can't see. I didn't forget my glasses. Okay, you're right here. Uh-huh. You can try and back up this way if you wanted to get away. Yeah, I'll try to back up towards, who is that?

Percy. I'll try to back towards Percy. Right there? Over here? Sure, yeah. No, no, not. What's Trinket doing? Well, Trinket's healed and he's going to come with me.

Okay, so Trinket gets up and you have its 40 movement. It can move. Although he's angry about it because he wants to fight, but I just won't let him right now. Okay, so as you rush away, the creature takes a... That's a 26 to hit. Oh, Jesus, really? Shit, does it hit Trunkett, too? No, just me.

Junquette was too far away. So you take 18 points of piercing damage. Oh, it's 3D10, sorry. Oh. 19, I rolled the one for the names. 19 points of piercing damage as its mouth lashes out, takes a chunk of your shoulder for a second and you wrench yourself away and keep running.

Take the rest of your turn. Okay, I'm going to shoot him. Yes, you are. Okay. 202. That hits. Okay. 14 for the first hit.

Okay. The second one is through the blazing bow at 22. Second one hits. First one missed the 14. Or did it hit? Oh no, 14 was the damage. All right. Second one blazing bow.

D-d-dard-dard-dard-d-d-d-d-d. 16. 16 damage. All right. Okay. And... Oh, and I hide. You currently are completely in its visual range.

You have to be behind something to reasonably become hip. I'm behind behind me. Percy. No, it has to, like, a band of person doesn't work. It has to be like behind a pillar or in deep shadow. Something that would break your line of sight to it for a moment to the point where it no longer knows quite where you are. It works.

It totally works. Who said that? Who said that? But now you know. All right. That's your turn. Grog, your eyes. I would like to try and break the gravel.

All right. 20? Yes, and because you are restrained, I'm going to check what fast a condition here. Just be safe. This is a dirty dog. Okay, so just go ahead and you're making an athletics check. Natural 20.

Yes. That was good. All right. I buy its tail. You son of my bitch! As your teeth sink into one of its scales and you yank it out with the sheer force of your muscle your neck,

it unfurls for a second. You manage to pull yourself out of its grasp. I'm so pissed that I broke free that I would like to use intimidating presence on this creature. Okay, all right. That is an action to do that, though, isn't it? Is it?

Yeah. I'm reserved. Or a later time. Or a later time. But you do have a bonus action still. I get the shit out of me. I get another time, go for it. Okay, uh, 21.

21 does hit. So, that's 20, 22, sorry, 22 hits. Also hits one more. Okay. Oh, I get one more. Ha ha. Also 22. Meaning it was one better than your previous.

Oh, got it. Just one hit. Just one hit. Just keep rolling 22. I know. And 12 and 15. 15. With fire damage.

Oh, so as you pull away, you reach back with your hammer and whack, slam it, and would side, causing the strength, of fire to emanate from the impact. It shrinks back for a second and... You grab me, you ask first. This is a repair die. All right, Kila threw up.

I'm gonna do my biting Claw attacks. Alright. Let me... Yeah, I'm gonna move kind of in that crux a little bit more, one more if you can. Beautiful. All right. Let's do... I'm gonna do my claw attacks first.

Go for it. To see what it does. What was it? It was... way between two. So that's 12 plus, it's always different. Okay, 20. 20 hits?

Yeah. Okay, so that is, I haven't been Minksy in battle in a while. Wendy's damage. Plus your flaming claws. Don't forget your flaming claws. Yeah, six, so 11 damage for the claws. That's initial 1D6 fire damage. Plus one D's, oh wait, that's actually,

what did I just say? I said 10, 11. And then an actual 1d6. Yes. Ooh, another four, so what did I say? 15. So any of your claw attacks, or any of your claws attacks you do in any of your forms,

now get an additional 1D6 fire damage. Nice. Hell yeah. Nice. And then I'm going to do my bite attack. My God go for it. Your bite attack is not a good idea. Okay, clearly.

16, so the 2nd. Plus, plus the plus the, plus. Only six plus seven, so 28. That hits. You're going to roll damage for the bite. Which is 2D6. Your bad math is running off from a now. Eighth plus five, so 12.

A plus five is 13. 13. 14, unless I get an extra damage, or my collar, is 14. Okay, cool. So after you, your flaming claw strikes across its outer body, its legs kind of pull away from the pain as you reach up and bite into the edge of its tail.

Almost as its tail tries to whip away, you catch it and it pulls you forward a few feet as you just clenched down on it. It eventually yanks its way out, taking a couple of scales with, and you can see a streak where the teeth marks are in the back of its tail. Awesome. Is that any to turn? Yeah. All right. Nice, big Zey.

Tiberius is going to cast telekinesis and send his glaive up spinning. It's a glaive. He has a glaive? What's that? It's a thing to crawl the old lady. It's the granny grinder. The Granger. You know, so bad.

Rolls at two, unfortunately, though. Fuck. Just streaks off and spins back around, and then while it misses the creature, comes back and stops hovering above his head with a slow spin. It's just they're kind of curling his fingers, grinning at the creature. Banjana is moving two. Go back behind the rock. There's Mama Norese no fool. Backs, you're up.

All right, it's preoccupied, so I just leisurely walk backwards about 30 feet, looking at the same wound that I started before. I started before. Yeah, oh, back up the chasm here, even further away. Yeah, and I'm just gonna throw three daggers into the wound that I already hit. So I'm gonna do that again. That, I know that hits because it hit the last time. That is 23.

That hits. And it's sneak attack because he's occupied because that's 11 plus. Oh, that's a good, dear. 11, 21, 26, 29, 34, 39, 39, 39 for the first. 39 for the first dagger. That's just the first dagger? Whoa!

You can tag, man. Next one doesn't hit, probably. That's a 17? 17 just barely hits. Just barely hits. Yeah, okay. What do you say 17? That is an eight of damage.

All right. And I just wait a second and go, and then, right, and that, and because I was such a cock, it misses. 16. So, who, oh, perfect, second dagger. Bed's actually, wedges in with the second dagger, opening the wound even more.

You're like, perfect opening. You go through the third one, and it's grown wise to it, and turns out and it actually rakes its claw out and deflects the dagger midair. Teammie! And she goes on. Vex, look at me! Oh, shit.

Nice one. Nice. That brings us to Scanlan. Oh, oh, this is unusual. Okay. That's hurt. I still have my big beast and big beast. hand up so I kind of do one of these where I say, oh, wise guys, see? Oh!

Boopo, bobo, bo bo bo bo. And I just poke them in the eyes. All right, as you say, nice guy, hey, he's just trying hands floating up in the air and its head snarls that and tries to bite at the hand. Go ahead and roll your skull attack. Uh, 19. Yeah! All right. So you get to go ahead and, let's see, with this one.

4D8 points of force damage. points of force damage. It's awesome. Into the eyes. Into the eyeballs. 14. 19. 19 points of force damage.

As you jam both of its fingers into the sides of its head, both of its eyes recoil in it, it reaches out and starts thrashing at the air around as the hand kind of just dodges around from it. I hide behind Shinket. All right. With the smell of sort of smoldering fur in my nose. Yeah. And as a bonus action, I will, who's up next?

Who's coming soon? Percy next. I'm up next. Okay, I will inspire Percy. Thank you. I'll just start doing this move. And I'll put some scaling on you. When you need a head.

That's all. And I get closer. Pull, oh, God, scaling on me. You'd be gradually take a D-10 inspiration dice from Scanlan. Is the creature blinded from the pokey-poke? It is not. Damn it.

It is a resilient creature, and the impact was mainly absorbed by the ocular sockets, as opposed to the eyes. I did ask for science, Jesus. Just bone around. All right, and Skilinlis turn cursier up. Okay. All right, I'm gonna try and fix this broken piece of Gosef.

Do I lose another spell for that? Or is that just the same? You can maintain concentration on it. Okay. I hit a 12, which is just barely enough to fix it. Okay. So you take your action to go ahead and repair the gun. And I'm gonna burn an action surge.

Okay. So I'm just, I'm like, I finally get it and it just starts going. And I'm just gonna empty out the chamber. All right, three shots. It just starts going. Ho Nelly. Using your bonus action to reload.

Figure on the trigger guard. I don't have to reload yet. I got six shots. So we're still three in the chamber. That's right. Okay, yeah. Unless you actually, as part of the misfire, you would lose one, so you have two in the chamber right now.

I have two in the chamber? Yes. Okay, so I'll do two and then use the third one to reel up. Okay, all right. So, oh, this will be fun. Uh-huh, uh, sharpshooter shot. That's 22. 22 hits.

Nice. And just take the second shot right now. That's, really, really? Really? Really? Are we going there? No. Did he miss fire again? You didn't miss fire.

Did you roll? Missfired again, I've rolled two. No! I got one shot off. You got one shot off, go to roll damage. Sharp shooter damage, so I guess the plus 10 damage. That's fun. Can you have added inspiration dice to that?

To a misfire? No, the misfire still hits. There's a lot of strengths to the gunslinger. This is the one penalty is if you roll bad. So that's, okay, at least this is a badass. I at least did some damage, 16, 17, 15, 15,000. 21, that. 24 damage.

plus four points of fire damage. Nice. Okay. So as you go and you fix it, it takes the first shot with a burst of flame that shoots out the front of the barrel. The second shot, this time the actual metal in the front arcs upward, and it looks like this is going to take a moment to really seriously repair it.

Paperbox is coming through pretty rough in this fight. Oh, no. So that's your turn? I thought it's rough as Stitch over there, huh? We're in a group. Yeah, and the creature does regain use of its lightning breath. All right. Oh, I was about to say, and.

So you want to move anywhere? Yeah, I want to get a little further back. I want to roll the other side of the cave again if possible. Which way? I mean over here? Yeah, like, see that little outcrupping of rock? Right here? Further, further back.

Like, yeah, like that, like over there. Okay. Yeah. Start move, Percy. All righty. All right. That thing scares me. That thing scares me.

Um, okay. That ends Percy's turn. The beast. Don't think too, like, Yeah. It just burps out lightning. Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen it. I know.

Guys. What is he doing? He's thinking. Guys. We broke the DM. No. You know the Sileries. before the storm.

This is bad. He erupts. He hasn't said anything. All right, so. Oh no. I started that for a really long time. Here comes the other three. Here comes the boom.

So this be here is going to shift back here. Here. You to attack an opportunity on it, Keeler. It's going to take a swing. Burn it. Fire slap. So 16. 16 just misses. It gets right out of your grasp. The flames just lick across the outside of its scales. As it pulls back, rears down right in your face.

And Godzilla style just unleashes a burst of electrical energy. Dudge it. Dudge it. Oh shit. I need you guys to both make dexterity saving throws. With inspiration. Okay. With inspiration.

Dexterity saves? I don't need it. Yes. That's not good. That's not good. 19. Full work. Okay, 33 points of lighting damage to you, Rog, 66 to you.

Can I use my stone's endurance? You can. Okay. What? What's the maximum health of Minxie's form? I'm out. I'm out of the Achilles form. And how much damage goes over?

Not that many, thank God, 12. 12, okay, so as Mingzi all of a sudden, gets blasted, you can see the form shrink down, Achilles' normal form on the ground, hands still flaming, a little bit of a cinch to the back of the her hair and kind of stands back up. I'll take that. Oh no.

All right. That'll end its turn. Vex you're up. Oh, God. Okay, I'm going to, can I as a bonus action give Trinket a healing potion? You can't? That would be more of an action

to feed it to something else. Okay, never mind. I am going to attack it. Okay. Okay. How down us can get it? He's, um, I miss. That's a 14.

14 does not hit, unfortunately. First arrow just regishes and shatters across the heart of his body. Good times, good times. 16, both miss. Both arrows just explode across its height. It's too thick. This dice is out for the rest of the game. And I am gonna run to the, I'm gonna run.

Is there an outcrap? where we are, I can't see. Right here a little bit, if you pull fully in on this side. I'm gonna pull fully in on that side. Okay, but we get laser pointers, by the way, guys, this is good for letting me know exactly where you're on. I know, just this is no. All right, and Trinkett's gonna stay there, mood?

And he's gonna keep protecting Scanlan. All right, Trinck's gonna stay right there, guarding the giant gnome. Oh, thank you. The giant hand, small nose. Grog, you're up. Bha, ah, I try and match the Godzilla roar. It's not really as good.

Nice to swing three times. Go for it. Fire, hammer. That's 18. 18, that hits. Okay. 21. 21 hits.

And 19. 19 hits. Awesome. Damage. There we're the danis. 13. 13. Who's been hit?

It's good. 23. Yeah. And 15. 15. Rock's been hit. 22. All right.

How do you want to do this? Oh! You never said it's a little rough. I kept waiting for you to say it's a little rough. It's hard to tell with sent a T. Got it so fast. I like to reach up with my firebrand Warhammer and I would like to smash it on top of its scorn and when it hits the ground. I just like to kick turning it into jelly and paste and sweet jams and I can bottle up and sell later.

You guys watch this, this, this continuous barrage. this horrible bludgeoning, every impact almost quakes the inside of this valley. Rocks are beginning to tumble and fall around it, and you can see each horrible sickening smack. Its head just collapses more and more. The mush begins to spill out from under it and this giant pool of dark violet liquid

and gelatinous mush that was once the inside of its head begin to just grow around it as SROG just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting and hitting and hitting, Hitting and hitting. Grogh? Hitting. Grog? I use Bigby's hand to stop the hammer. Baby!

You enraged! Rating! Love is I hope? Love is I? Love is my! Love his boy? Think of the beard. What happened? Oh, look, we made jelly.

Yeah. Speaking of jelly, I would like to go ahead and do a nature to see if I can salvage some goods from whatever? I walk up to it and kick it and say, that's shrink it, you dick. Okay. Can I roll a hit dice to recover some? If you guys want to take a short rest, you can.

Oh, yes. I would like to fix my gun. Do we need to hide? Do we need to climb up to its little cave that it was in, maybe, and hide? Did it have a cave? It had a cave, didn't it come out of a cave? You saw it was up on a higher platform,

you didn't see a cavern. Oh, I thought it was really. I rolled a 21 to like collect goods. Okay. Looking through the book that you have, the creature, you eventually takes a while to look through is you guys taking your short rest. You can use your head dice to heal yourself.

It's known as a behir. A behir? B-H-I-R. B-H-I-R. B-H-I-R. And Be-H-H-H-I-R. Be-H-H-H-H. Be-H-H-E, right now, present.

There are two things of two, I mean, Anything in the face and teeth are gone. They're just mush. The entire head is destroyed. Sure. The two things in the book that are worthwhile, like really worth money, are some of its hide can be repurposed for lightning-resist-based armor.

But currently, it's unknown who has the speciality to actually work with that material. These creatures are difficult to harvest, and a lot of their locations are unknown. A lot of them were hunted down for that long and almost thought to have gone extinct. Oh. Oh.

However, yeah, so you don't know anybody possibly Karen and Iman, but the hide can be possibly harvested. There is also a gland in its throat that it uses to charge its lightning breath. I'd like that. I want that. Okay, go ahead and roll for the hide first, if you guys want to go ahead and do that. Can I stealth and climb up and see if I can see a cavern? Sure.

Natural 20! Central 20. Yes! Oh snap. We'll take it. What do I add to? Mountains are her favorite tree. This is be on your.

Acrobatics? For the climb, this would be athletics. Athletics. Oh, that's not what it was. I moved it. It was 14. Yeah. Oh, no.

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Nothing that resembles an abode or a cavern from this position. Don't lick it. I see my sister struggling and climb up next door. You're almost as weak as I am, dude. There we go.

Acrobatics? What is it? No, athletics. Athletics. Oh, shit. Acrobatics. Yeah. Come on. Can I flip up there?

No. No, I can't. Wait, I'll use luck. I'll do it again. Go for it. You're gonna lose one? Oh, no, you were about to rest. Wow. Oh, really.

You got worse than me. Oh, my fingernail. That really stinks. Damn it. The twins give a terrible display of rock climbing in the middle of this. Parkour. Parkour.

Parkour. You go ahead and roll for the plan. It's a video game moment of like jump. Jump. Jump. Skyrum. 18. Don't that.

Do I get high? I'll take that 18 for 28. 28. Your first. Rex, can I see your dagger? Yeah, she's up a hill. He's up a hill. Nice.

He didn't even get up a little bit. It takes most of your short rests. You will not be able to use your hit dice for healing on this because you're spending the time harvesting instead. Fine. I would not have this. But you managed to, thankfully, the damage that you managed to, thankfully, the damage that Grog had inflicted upon its head, destroyed most of its matter, right up to the throat gland, which is mostly untouched. It's salvageable. You know how much it's worth, probably a decent amount,

as the book says that they're rare, especially to find intact. Yeah, Grog, what a dick, huh? We've got jaws. It's not even like a tooth? Like one, I'm gonna put that in a jar, and we're gonna put that away. You did a number on that one's face. Grog goes to work. Boom. Kilda here, take its glands, money. I may have something I can do with this, actually.

With what? The land? Yes. Maybe. You're very clever, yes. I'm going to work on that. Don't speak about. You place it within a preservation jar in back in the bag of holding.

And I'm going to try and fix this mess for a minute. All right, go ahead and make your check. 18. Okay. It does cost you half the... It wasn't a dual fail. Oh, right, which is a single fail. The duel fail, but it was separate. Yes.

So yeah, you take some time with it during the short rest to tinker with it. You manage to bend the metal back in a place, test it for a bit, make it to the aspects of it that move smoothly as they should, and eventually you get pretty confident that it's back to a functional piece of weaponry. All right, so as you guys finish this rest,

I'm going to like one more, it does. Go for it. The sky is starting to get a little bit into the orangeish color. Though you cannot see the sun from its current location, you gather you have probably about an hour and a half or so before full sundown. Let's get out of this little taco in case that was the daughter of something else.

Wait, you guys stayed the night, never mind in the cavern. So no, actually, no, I take that back. Oh. I just realized you guys had stayed the night last time over on the seaside cavern and walked there. It only took you a few hours to get here. No, actually it'd be about midday noon. Okay.

So I take that back. Never mind. You should still go. Can't look this time. It's straight above. But there is some cloud cover coming in. Definitely should still go. From the north side.

Doesn't like anything too dense, but. Hersey. Yes. Do you know how much longer we need to continue on this path? Honestly, I've never taken this road before. This is further east than I've ever come. Can we see how far ahead? Kind of what does it look?

does it look like this goes on for a while? It kind of moves around, so it's hard to get too much of a visual. The geology is starting to look familiar. Is my tracking tell me anything? You can go ahead and make a nature check. Also, for all of this, I'd like to with advantage. Walk about 40 feet in front of everyone

and just sort of creep along. 17. He's a weird longer that guy. It's my job. It's a big stealth check. I mean, yeah, the mountains here are, it got its name for the Whitestone Mountains. It's starting to look like home, though.

Yeah, I mean, the mountain range here is a large part of the material that is mined, or what is mine beneath them, is the very, very rare kind of white horse-like rock that is used for many, many purposes, and it's generally only found in this mountain range. It's kind of what a lot of the, a lot of white stone's original economy was based on. 22. 22, good or no. All right, so. 17 on nature.

Okay. I mean, you get it the same thing. The rock formations here match the same as the coastal mountain. The mountain here is all made of the same material. A few deposits here and there are just normal bits of granite and other forms of simple stone. Granite. Simple stone.

That was so much better than shopping. As you guys are pressing forward at this point, I'd... flown it into town. You guys are taking your time waiting, and Tiberius is getting impatient, and is kind of crossing his arms. And I feel like I should have gotten more materials. I don't think I quite prepared enough for this.

Tiberius, you prepared a lot. Tibbs. Not enough. Never done like a sack of mirrors. I think you've got enough. What do you need? I have an idea. Get back in a few days.

What? No. No, don't leave. He sits down and starts making his Teleportations. No, no, we need that. We need that. Tyberius.

You are a heavy hitter. We don't know where we're going, what we're doing. He's strong, you're strong, in a way. Maybe hang out with us a little bit longer. Really? There you go. More than I do. You're stronger in frame than I am.

Sure you want to go. Tiberius leans in and whispers to you in a strange tongue and it sparks in your ears somewhere. The player's not here in the DM's trying to not make it too complicated for him to keep track of an additional character for the session. I know, I'm just trying to give you a hard time. I'll remember that.

Oh, no. I grabbed Lockheed and we hold him hostage. You can't leave. We need to. Don't worry, I'll be back soon. And now I know how to find you. Send an iPad with Pike on it. He finishes his teleportation circle, and then,

with a flash. It vanishes. Shit. Really? Tiberius. Really? He does that a lot. It's very much in his character.

Where Tiberius go? He went to get an army, I think. That's fine. Or more mears. Might be more moors. All right. So you should have kept the mirrors. An army with mirrors.

I can do magic. I do this great coin trick thing where I flip it on my thumb and then it lands my hand. And then pull it out of somebody's here. That's the, it's right here, except by We don't walk in. Not to fun. No, I'm walking.

Progressing forward, you begin to jauntily stealthy head. 40 feet out, yeah. Like a beagle. I keep her perception out to see anything. I'm keeping an eye open for anything familiar. Can I see, oh, what we want to? Can I just bump into Vex and ask her to maybe scan ahead for dragons?

What do you think I'm doing? dragons, though. Six miles. Don't you have six miles of dragons or something? Thank you. Do you have to do the hands? Good album, album name. Think, six miles of dragons. Six miles. If I've seen any dragons. Do you see any dragons? You take a moment and you kind of anticipate the circumstance and there is within, what's the distance on it? Six miles. Six miles. You ascertain that there are quite a few sources of life in this vicinity. of some sort of dragon kin or dragon-like entity. What?

I don't like that. Is the Bahir, was the Bahir a dragon-y sort of thing? No. No, technically not from what you can gather. But you do gather there are a few lips that are three miles off north, like in the center of the mountain range. You don't know how big or how dangerous, but you sense there are some dragon or dragon kin life.

Is dragon something? Is dragon something not? Could it be dragon eggs? Could it be dragon-d-d-d- dragon? Dragon-born? Dragon bacon. You're not picking up Tiberia at like six-mile-y-wall. There's dragony things, though.

Listen, when I poo somewhere, I can see everything. You doesn't see. I'm sensing with my mind. Listen, if we do run across a dragon, remember we have the Dragon Slayer Longsword, which is a plus one to attack a damage rolls, and if you hit a dragon or a dragon creature, it gets next to three D6 of damage.

What are you reading? How did you even know that? That's the most complicated sentence I think I've ever heard you speak. Sorry, I blacked out a little bit. Nothing, nothing. Nothing, it's good growth. What requires a, what do you used to do?

Attunement. You just take a short rest with the weapon, kind of learning its properties and eventually kind of Like caressing it? Essentially, like we're just stroking it, making sure it feels comfortable. Buying it dinner. Nice spread so it feels welcome.

That's more than I usually do. Maybe a steak, some salad. Strip cocktail. Just in case you need a sword. As we progress, I am. The swordsman. It's my earring. Scanlan.

I've seen some of the logs she's left behind. They're not small. Does Vex? You are, seriously, what? Wow. Wow. I missed it. It must be good, though.

She usually buries them quite well. Really, really gross, both of you. So just enough. They don't sense anything. Well, we're not heading north, so it's... We're not. You guys are heading east-ish, like cresting down in towards the west-ish. We're heading west-ish.

Nothing that I can sense. You guys came up on the... eastern side of, oh sorry, the western side of the mountains, you're now heading east. Oh, we came up with the western side of the mountains. Just flip that. Western side of the mountains? Western side of the mountains. So white stones to the east? White stone would be to the east of you guys.

Oh, okay. I thought we went up the eastern side of the mountains. No. I'm so confused. You wouldn't think I'd lived here before. That would have brought you through the forest and you were trying to avoid that. That's very, that's very true. Westside is the shore side, right? Westside. They're both of a giant pencil.

Either side would have been coast. So we're not gonna run into any dragons. At least we're not going north. You're aware that they're not anywhere near close to you to currently be an issue now. Okay, well fine. In like two or three miles, we'll take another check. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You waked at me. Right, so. It's like being blessed. We're gonna just keep going towards the town. You guys press on following this winding path, narrows at certain points, and then widens for a bit. You come across partway through,

You guys, both the twins at the front, notice around the edges as it begins to descend down into kind of the beginning of the valley descent. You see an edge of the mountain that looks more angular than the usual natural formations of it. It almost looks like it comes to a point, like an edge, a very sharp edge and a smooth side. I'm not sure I understand yet. We see a drop-off? It begins to descend in towards a valley and on the side of one of the giant kind of, uh, chasm you guys are in the bottom up, you see an outcropping a head that's angular and pointed. Like it was done. Like it was sculpted, constructed.

That might have centuries. Some sort of outlook or something, something that was not formed by nature here. Do I know what this is? It's above a... History check? I'd say go to make an intelligence check. Just roll your intelligence modifier. I can do it with you if you want. You made a history check. You know many things that exist here in the mountains,

but at this distance, you don't see enough of it to actually. I just have a, he's not going to let me do it. He rolled an actual 20 for an intelligence check because I'm an idiot, but I don't know that. I want, I kind of want Grog to speak truth right there. He's an expert on mountains. Actually, this works out kind of interestingly. As you guys are walking forward and you seeing this

and you're kind of keeping back, Grog, you instinctively look over and go, oh, that's a, but that's a stone giant fortress. Oh! Shut up! I've been something smart! You know, with your bloodline and knowing where you come from,

and you've had a few close encounters in the Cliff Keep Mountains with a few of this kind, you've seen a few fortresses, and from just the details of it, the roof, and the scope of it, if its design, and, you know, the way the mountain range

kind of lends itself to that type of topography, yeah, this is obviously... Oh, and I drank some of that nasty dank. And the fight with the hammer, round two. Wait, should we, those are bad guys, right? Yeah, that's bad. We should not go that way. We should definitely stay away from that.

Maybe go up on the other side of the chasm, opposite of it. Or you can move around the side. You're all can. Maybe hidey, hidey. We can stelf through it. We can invisible through it. Pass without a trace.

I have passed without a trace. And climb along the opposite side. And do we have invisible. Oh no. No, we don't have. You have invisible. I have some invisibility. I have the dust of tracelessness.

Maybe we'll stealth it. Can I hide some. Scanlon under my cloak and he uses invisibility on someone else? Uh, well, well, you, he'll, if he was a cast invisibility on you? No. No, on somebody else. What about one of those things that always works on me, a diversion? You would move very slow and you had a disadvantage on your stuff checks because you guys are having to move quarter-up I don't want to bring any attention.

I could create a diversion fairly easy. Like what? Like where? I mean, I could. Um, what's nearby? What's nearby? Is there anything nearby? Any animals? Have we seen any wildlife? There have been birds that fly through, an occasional harpy in the distance you hear screeching, and you guys kind of just keep quiet until it vanishes or disappears in the distance. That was perfect something.

How does that freaking happen? His ways are mysterious, my love. You, magic. I am lucky. Holy cow. What were some seafaring, like seagulls and various coastal birds have slowly been disappearing and turning into more eagles and hawks, things that eat small rodents, more of a lush side of the hill. You see as you get closer to the valley itself with the actual forest that surrounds Whitestone

is more and more of these birds of prayer beginning to show up. Other than that, you see very few small things other than occasional lizards about that big in your hand that live on the hot rocks. Should we observe this encampment for a bit just to see what's happening? Can we slowly make a way around it? It's really far away. It's still ways away right now. You're just catching the edge of it. Are we a mile away? A thousand feet away? I'd say you're about a good 600, 700 feet from it.

Not that far. You know, we could try to work our way up the opposite side of the chasm. That would also allow us a good view of it as well. I can, I, I happen to have hallucinatory terrain right now. What does that even mean? It means exactly what it sounds like. I don't speak your language.

I can make a terrain. that's not real. Do you remember when we siked out the doergar? It would block their view of us, maybe, perhaps? Is it movable? Could. Yeah, I can't move with us. Could you make some shrubs come along with us?

You guys actually used it previously to camp for a night along a cliff side. It made the cliff extend further than it was, and you guys just kept an inside of the bagar into a chasm. Yeah. It's really awesome. I think let's try to climb up the other side

and then see what we can see. I mean, I can do a lot of things. I can make a thunderstorm. I can make a sleet storm. Ooh. Keep them in their fortress? Could you make it fun? Or very cold if they came out.

They could. They like cold. I could make a big storm on the lions. They're also on a chasm. So if it gets wet and slippery and muddy, we might all go down. That's true. Maybe get up at the top of it and then do that.

Let's, let's, I like the plan of going up the other side of the chasm. Can we try to climb the other side? Certainly. Giants like to throw fucking boulders. Yeah, I don't want to be down on the bottom. Yeah. As you guys make your way up the other side,

you're kind of helping each other. I want everyone to go and make an athletics check. I put on my climbing gear, which I definitely own. I actually own climbing gear too. Does that help? I would help you, yes. I have mine too, so I'll put that on as well. I don't know if I have climbing gear.

It's attached to a rope and a grappling in my hand. And it was the same. All right. So. What if I do? What? You have advantage of you add your strength modifier,

or your athletics is what it would be. Do we add anything because of this climbing gear? Advantage because of the climbing gear. Oh. 26. 26. We're all using climbing gear or just those who haven't. I give you my climbing gear because I already get advantage.

How about that? Does that count? Does that count? No. All right. Well, I'll let you do that. All right. 18.

Yes, I do. 11. 26. Vex, what did you get? I got 15. 11. 19. 19.

Okay. A couple of missteps and almost sliding, Kieleth at one point. You grasped by the hand and the grog pulls her back up onto the platform. Over time, you guys, make your way along this kind of very rocky and precarious, you know, anywhere from five to three to two feet in width, sometimes even lesser than that, and you guys have to shimmy across. You make your way around, and you can see this large fortress that is built out of extremely, you know, large and placed stones and stonework. It looks ancient. For size-wise, it's two stories for a giant, which means it's probably close to six or seven stories of height, built into the side of a mountain. and it goes down almost like two giant steps. Wow. It's built on the in, essentially where the giant bowl,

the caldera, if you will, of this valley, this mountain range would be. It's built on the inside of it, so it actually is constructed as you continue to descend into the valley. Looking at it, you can see openings, windows. There are areas up top of you see giant piles of rocks and boulders that are used for, you know, anti-sege for just throwing off the top and stockpiles of that. You do see boulders around the ground. around the ground near it that may have been thrown and not picked up.

They won't make perception check. I feel. That's an intimidation check. That's what I said. Yes. I'm not going to tell you. How did Trinket get up, though? Trinket climb. There's fine.

Bears are good clothes. Getting it up a tree. Roll and I thought like's check with disadvantage. I'm sorry, but it felt wrong to like lies. This is an honor system. Could I have given the climbing gear to trinket?

No. You could have just, would have been adorable. But we could tie the rope around Trinkets waist. Roll your dice. Within at Flebix, sir? Yes. Does he get advantage because of now? Look, how he said, roll your dice.

Nope. He gets disadvantaged because he's a big bear. I told her not to say it. Why'd you say it? I'm just trying to be honest. Which is appreciated. Strength modifier? Yep. He got 15, too.

Okay. It's been difficult and it slowed your guys progression, but you managed to keep Trinket along with you. This large bear is now like pushing against the side and has managed to keep up, but it's been a harrowing experience. I've been behind him the whole time pushing on his buttocks. You got this, buddy, you got this.

So, sorry, let's again, perception rolls. Sorry, yes. 20. 19. 17. Can I use passive perception? This is active, like actually looking for something. Passive is more than I got 26. Okay. 15.

19. All right. You got 26, you said? Yep. Looking from this distance and keeping the best visual you can see, there is no movement at all from the interior of the fortress. And the two front doors, you see these two large stone doors that are the entrance to it, one of the doors is actually broken in half and left kind of partially a jar and open. We gotta go in now. No, no, no.

If something could have taken out giant giants, what could it be that could have done that? Vampire giants. It could be the Briar Woods. We should see everything that's up here. We need to look at a little. Owlhawson would that be. Tall terrible giants in the sky. Can we please go see? Can someone put... Do you want me to go in?

Back to... I can't believe I'm about to say this. Do you a recon mission real quick? You're going to bird in? They're going to see you. Fly in. No, but she's a bird. I'm a birding dude.

I'm still going to see you. Recon it. I'll go bat. Yeah. They're so small. But now you're not going to be able to see anything because they have terrible eyesight. Not in a small...

I'm just kidding. They really just kidding. That's a myth. That is actually a bit. They have echo vision. They have actually very reasonable eyesight. That's a myth. You can look it up on Wikipedia, it's true.

Very reasonable eyesight. It's a sparrows. So, in about like the two in the afternoon day sun, you become, because that's what it is. But you're fine. You go inside. Bats come out during the day. I know.

She makes her way down through. You swoop up to one of the windows and you glance inside and looking around, and you can see most of the furniture inside is in tantal. is in tatters. There are large, giant-sized tables and chairs that have been broken in half and strewn across the room. Make a perception check. Oh, come on, come on. Oh yeah.

28. Glancing inside, you also see there are splatters and puddles of blood large bits of blood across the ground that is dried. But from your current vision from this, there is no sign of any living or individuals or bodies. It's just like this area, there was a battle took place here, and there's nothing currently present to signify who or what. How big is this room? This room is about 25 feet tall.

Does it look like there? It goes deeper? It goes a little deeper, and there is a slight, this is the upper floor. There is a grade, almost like a slow, I don't mind word this case for a second, a, a, a, a, a deep, a downgrade? A ramp. A slope. A ramp. A ramp that disappears below into the lower floor. A sigel.

I'm gonna go into that. Careful. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! We turn on him. Fear of God. Grog sacrifices the nerve. Worse! So yeah, you do see the ramp,

hits down. I'm gonna go into the room that I see is for sure empty and kind of go towards the threshold of the ramp. Okay. Make your way down to the threshold of the ramp, looking down. Downstairs as well, it is, there is just, looks like there was some fur rugs set aside

that have been just kicked aside and bunched up on the edge of the room. Like it's been ransacked or just like a really nasty fight? Like some sort of a major fight went down. No sign of many bodies or body parts, no sign of leftover weapons or armor from whatever giants lived in here. You just see what looks like large amounts of dried blood

across the stone floors. Like something came in and slaughtered and completely stripped the place? Or the giant slaughtered something horribly here and are currently out and about. You don't know, but. Does, can I tell what the blood looks? Like how dusty is is shit?

Did you want to land and make an investigation check? Call us in. Do it. Do it, Batwoman. You are the night. How much dust? goes, puf, you are. Quite a bit, though, pf.

Oh? Not a huge amount, but enough to the point where it's not fresh. And closer look, the blood's been dry for a while. Make an investigation check. What is the sound of a back coughing? Thank you. Simple things. Okay.

Investigation, what about it? Oh, 12. 12. You can't really make it out, unfortunately. You know it's dried, it's probably been a little bit, but you can't quite gauge how long it's been. All right, I'm going to go ahead and now. Any other rooms?

Is this, or is this it? There's the upper floor and there's the lower floor. There are two just large rooms in their own. It looks like, I mean, you haven't actually gone down the grade yet, so. So you said it's seven stories, so it's like room, downgrade room, downgrade room. Seven stories for your size? It's two stories for a giant size. It's a large top room and a large bottom room.

Does there look, is there another room going off the bottom room? There are just two rooms, the top floor, the bottom floor, the bottom floor. You're currently on the top floor looking down. Split level condo. I'm going to go out to the front door. Okay. Yeah, split level condo. Nice flat, upper east side.

Land, and I'm going to bamf out of my bat form and say, all right, it looks like the coast is clear if you guys want to check this place out. Yeah, let's go check it out. All right, the rest of you make your way back down towards the front of the fortress and enter the inside. As you go through the front door, you can see the door, the impact that destroyed it was from the inside out. Oh. Oh. Really?

So it wasn't beaten in, it was beaten from the inside out. Oh. And there is a streak of dried blood against that portion of the door. Looking inside two, you see there are a large cluster of matted hides and fur like it made for bedding for close to four or five giants that are kind of put in the corner. And there's a musty smell of whatever they were using to make it comfortable and ripe for their own personal needs. Oh, I was kidding before.

Let's stealth. I was kidding. Giants become vampires? I don't know. I hope not. You should use the dust of tracelessness squad just so that footsteps are not seen. So what do you guys want to do in here?

Stealth. I'm going to go downstairs. How dark is it? You are downstairs at the entrance. Oh. I want to look for any... I want to look for any weapons that are lied about. All right, make a perception check.

I want to ransack the giant. Actually, there's investigation. An investigation check for the... Investigate. That's funny. Eight. Okay. Investigate a perception. I find dirt.

You find a giant's fortress. Investigate a perception. Perception is just seeing things at first glance. Investigate is actually going through and rummaging through and finding... I'm going to investigate. All right. Shall I... Shall I, for it downstairs?

Yep. Go for. 17 for my investigation. 23. Okay. As you guys are going through, you... Looking at the blood and the way the splashes are, the blood that was spilled here was very thick and large amounts of it. And it's probably been anywhere from two to three months since this entire fortress was ransacked.

You do notice that some of the blood is dragged through, like something was dragged out of the puddle, but not for a long distance. Whatever was there was that they cleaned off at some point or lifted up and carried out from whatever was originally pulled through those puddle. of blood. You also do notice in the pile of furs and refuse and their bones and other things that were eaten and kind of left their rot in the corner. You find roughly 120 gold pieces. Over time, you find a number of shattered glass vials like they once contained various elixirs. There's one that's unshattered. I think it. All right. And underneath it all covered in quite a bit of filth, but a little bit of metallic sheen strikes through, you see what looks to be a very, very well-crafted longbow.

What is that? What's you find? Nothing. Nothing. What's that? There you go. What is this? What are you going to do with it? What is this?

I'll use it as a hammock. Shoot yourself. Does it look like a tag with me? Can I tell what it is? I mean, taking it, it appears to have some sort of magical radiance to it. It looks like it's very well crafted. You recognize the construction is Elvish in nature. E.

Look at this. And there are bits of mithral scrolling all throughout the bow itself with platinum caps on the edge of the longfall. Is it evil? I don't know. Keyleth, do you know anything about magic-y stuff? Tiberius birthed out. I can try. I'm not as good as he is, but I'll try.

What about you? Scanlan, do you know anything about Arcana? Oh! 20. Natural 20? No, 18, 20 total. Yes, this is definitively a magical item. It is enchanted.

It's definitely magical. If you want to take a short time to kind of work with it and attune yourself to it, you would get a better idea of what it's affected. Okay. Can I think about it? I'm going to think about it real hard. Can I walk out the front door? I'm going to buy it a stake and I'm going to...

Can I walk out the front door and keep post on the porch? Yeah, I'm following Grog and doing the same. And I'm looking in the direction that we want to be walking now. I'm looking around. I'm trying to find out what happened to the bodies. Uh, investigation check for that. Here are the potion and the bow you guys managed to. What is it? I took the potion. I took the potion.

I know, apparently, from this role, that I'm in the mountains. What is it? I got the six. The six. It's hard to tell. It's a very strange scene and you have no inclination as to what may have transpired here. Who's the winner, who is the loser, and what's been done with what a lot. Sorry. What you find? What's you find?

Vex is making happy noises. Sorry. She's trying out the... She's taking the boat for a spin. She's a tuning. Seeing what it can do. Do we see anything outside on the porch? Over time, the only thing you catch is occasionally you see flocks of birds kind of moving through and

kind of swooping through the area. You should watch one flock kind of come up and begin circling a little bit. Should we get out? Should we just leave, Miss Lee, stealth. Stealth it out, stealthy outy? This is for Brog who's getting outside. Make stealthy out.

I'm with him too. I'm there too, and I rolled a natural 20. I did. I might use your inspiration on this. It's probably not in effect anymore. No, you're in the mountains. I am in the mountains. I am in the mountains.

Which means you have knowledge of mountains. You don't get advantage? Let me double check, actually. What the specifics of the Goliaths? I'm pretty sure you get some. You don't take issues with cold climates because of your hype. You don't actually get advantage or anything mountain-wise.

That is a range or ability. So can I add an inspiration? Scallon's inspiration dice. Inspired him quite a while ago. How long does it? It's been a while. It's been a while. 20 minutes?

Yeah, that would have faded by now. That's a one. Oh, it's not sure one of wouldn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't. Doesn't matter. You can't add shit to one. So while you stink off at the side, you see these birds. They're like, there's a lot of birds there.

And you start yelling out to everyone. There's a lot of birds out here, like shouting it loudly back into the fortress. Oh shit. Coying them out. Grog, Grog, those might be like Centurium birds. That's what I said. They're birds. They might be spies.

They might be spies. Yeah, I spy birds. Go. Go. Goh! Inside. Inside. Inside.

The birds immediately start circling the fortress very close. You can hear the screeching. And now you see the birds now, it's, they're crows. They're very, very thick murder of crows, probably close to a hundred of them. I cast paths out of train. Just circling the outside. Wait, wait, wait. I'm still like down there investigating.

And I pull a David Caruso and I say, it looks like these giants had big trouble. You hear in the distance an echoing sound going, yes! Formless, sourceless. You'll stand confused for a moment and then continue to try and stealth. I run back inside. Back inside. Eventually the crows take back to the original path. But before the crows leave?

Before the crows leave? Yeah? Did I do something? We do. We do. I'm going to go like storm and I'm going to sleet storm them. I'm going to start wandering a sleet storm over top of the It's been so long since you've killed something innocent.

Let's bring it. Do it, Keylet concentrates for a second. You see your eyes, the actual color of her irises begin to fade, this cloudy white, and then the entire eye itself becomes this icy blue with a slight kind of a cold mist beginning to drift off the corners of her face. You start hearing this pounding sound on the top of the for, just as sleet and hail begins to rain down.

Go ahead and roll damage for the spell. Oh, geez. Sorry. Slate Storm? D-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Sleet Storm? Uh, oh, this is just, oh, this is just dexterity saving throw. Uh, this...

But, you know, they're... It's heavily obscured. See, it does not actually do any damage. Oh, but it knocks them all down. I know, they're, they're like frozen, though, right? Don't they get frozen with Slate Storm? It's breezy. It's freezing.

It makes the area hard to see. Knocks them prone. They're in the sky. They're in the sky. I am. I want to hear birds hit the floor. And a few do. There are a few birds that get pelted and knocked at the ground, and co-case it in sleet, but most of it just really takes that note to get away from the storm and vanish and disappear back. Do they fall to the porch?

Let's say one. One does land. I run out there, I grab it. No, no, not yet. I rip your head off of my teeth. You run out there, you grab the ones in the ground, it's like struggling and there's ice gathering. There's ice gathering out. You grab it, you pick it up, and you hear a Mexico. grog! And you go, I don't know.

As she's staring at you, silencing the crow. The sound. It is done. You hear the calling of the crows dissipate in the distance. Silence eventually takes the fortress once again, and you are left amongst the smell of death. I think so. Now, stealth and out.

Dust of traces, hide ourselves. Hide ourselves. That's not true. Howdy, I think we're out of the fortress and begin to follow the path down into the outside of the forest. And just as you make towards the base of the mountain to where the forest canopy begins to take your vision, you can see just over the edge a couple of small castle towers and what looks to be a single central spile of the castle of White Stone. They know we're here now. They know we're here. Yeah. There's a century.

Well, they were just birds. Yeah, but we don't know. Don't worry. Yeah, they're crows. Don't worry, we still have the element of surprise. Oh, wait, no, we don't. We don't. And with that, we're gonna go ahead and take a break.

Let us begin where we left off. Okay. Ah! All right. Oh, we're looking at the city. There's the city. There's the city, shall we just storm it? It's a truck board.

Oh, stormed. I was trying to get you. And me, and I'm the city. Well, yes. So I can now recognize where we are. Yes, you know this area very well. This entire forested area, the Parchwood Forest that encompasses the entirety of this valley, towards the center of it. Center north is where White Stone sits. And for your reference as well, since you've been here before, you would know the city relatively well. Maps.

It's just the most exciting map I've ever been handed. So you can... Whoa! So that'll give you a... What the what? A little too closely. Hold it out in your seat over there for people to take a look at, probably.

Just don't. There you go. But it won't fit in my folder. That is a basic rundown of the size design and shape of white stone, with the castle white stone towards the top built on top of a leveled off mountain that marks the southernmost point of the mountain.

This is the town? We're at the southern part of that. We're back here? You guys are actually coming in from what would be the western, a little bit northwestern side of the city. So over here? A little bit further down about that, that angle there. A little bit higher.

Yeah, that's kind of the direction you're coming from currently. That's a detailed map, man. Okay. I don't have any free time anymore. They sell those stock, right? No, yeah, totally. What's this little outcropping? The little outcropping to the east of it was the graveyard to Whitestone.

to Whitestone. That was where most of the regular denizens were interred. It has been expanded over the years as the city itself has been around for quite a few generations. Does this graveyard have catacombs? Tumes? Underground passages? Do you ask this to Percy? Yes. Does it? That graveyard does not. It is a surface graveyard? It is a mausoleum? It is a mausoleum. But that is actually contained beneath the castle. Rivided, so knowledgeable.

Rivety. This is going to be that kind of game. Do you know of any secret passages to get actually into the castle? I was wondering that myself. There is one, the one that you took to escape. Yes, there is one. From. Stop!

Where is it? He hasn't had anyis. Yeah, it is to the very, very western, western edge of the mountain precipice that the castle was built on. It was built to be specifically an escape in case the place was under siege. Unfortunately, the circumstances of the evening happened so rapidly and with creatures that seemingly were unnatural, the family didn't have time to really make it out. And even you weren't fully aware of it.

Cassandra, however, had overheard discussions about the past and took that as your escape route. But yeah, it's like a hidden tunnel at the very base of that mountain. So is it possible, I say we scope out the hidden entrance, see if it's guarded, see if they've discovered it. To the town and to the castle? The hidden entrance to the castle, and instead of using it, I actually think we should possibly spend the night and get a view of the town. and see if there's anything unusual. I agree, can you camp out and hide? Watch from afar, what's that going to tell us?

We could send one in. We'll send a bird in. Or an invisible known. Little person. Or both. Both. An invisible bird gnome. Sorry, no.

Just to see if the town is normal or not. It could be all vampires, or it could be a totally normal town. If it's all vampires, it'll be empty right now. Because it's daytime. It's daytime. We should definitely attack during the day. Yes. We should send one by air and one by land.

How far are we? You guys have been traveling through the forest during the day, and it is a very dense forest, but it is mostly cold weather, trees, pines. And there is, you can see, once you get inside the forest, the ground itself is very thick, There are elements of melting snow on the top of the trees. There was recently a snowfall in this area, but it seems like it's been a while, and most of it's now turned to slush in water. You have about, I'd say, about two hours of travel into the forest, and you all immediately catch up and hear the sound of distant howling.

Oh! Is it nighttime? Mm-mm. Oh, that's scary. Distant howling, does it sound like wolves? Can I do a nature check to see if I... Yeah, make a nature check. Stealth?

Stealth? You can just make a stealth check. Okay, 26. 26. Those are wolves. It sounds like just a pack of wolves probably close to anywhere from five or six. Would I think it would be weird that they are out howling during the daytime? You gather that it is strange that they are out of

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A little bit of, we'll see him in some scout. How long would it take to get into the town from Wehrworth? About two more hours of travel. We'd get there a night. Yeah. We should probably... It's all right, though. It's early evening.

How long it'd it take me to flyover if I was a bird? About an hour. Vax? Yes. Can I ride you into town? You want me to jog? Town? Why don't you ride me into town?

Oh, hello, lady. Every time, Scamlin, every time. Now that just got weird. Can you turn yourself into like, Oh yeah, I guess I could fly. You want to go invisible and then jump on my back and I can eagle up? Whatever you're into, baby.

I've become awesome powers. Ridiculous, ridiculous. If the coach driver was any indication, there are going to be people. The normal people. What about this? I'll make us both invisible. You fly us in.

I like it. Yeah, because get on the ground, not just above. All right. Now, invisibility. How long is it lasted, full duration? Looking up to an hour. Ooh, it takes two hours just to get there?

Well, flying it takes you an hour round trip. So it's one of the things you could do as you approach it and last you a while. They're supposed to doing it now. How long can you be polymorphed for? Forever concentration? For like half of my druid level we discovered or something like that. Somewhere like six hours, six hours.

So you fly us in and all invisibility us right as we get to the gates. And as they're going out, we are. Do you bring a near piece as well? He's got a near piece. Do we all go up, the four of us go up into trees? Everyone gets your own tree. Everyone get your own tree. All right.

Everyone who's in a tree, please roll. Except for Trinket, who can climb up tree. Trinquet can climb up tree. There's a tree. There's a tree. You have to roll. I'm passing without a trace. How long does it last?

You have to cast it. You have to roll for Trinket. Oh, I guess I'll cast it tonight, never mind. Okay. Sam. So it's plus dead. Why are you being a dick? Scallon. He's not casting two, seven.

I'm not casting just yet. 14. What are we rolling? Steve. Stove. Stove, I already did. Those are good rolls. Yeah.

21 for me. And. 22. And what do we have? Just nothing. 19 for Trinket. Okay. That's great.

19. Well, let's see you guys all manage to slowly get yourself up and do the tree. best you can. As you guys take off, while you guys are away, making your way towards White Stone, the rest of you look down and just from a passive perception standpoint, you pick up the most detail. You can see there is indeed a pack of about five wolves and or dogs a little ways away, but they're being followed by one humanoid. There's a pack out here for some, whether it be a hunting party or whatever they're there.

the reasons there may be, they are, isn't a wild. And they're close to us now? I've been doing the pad, the dust of treaselessness. Yeah. And, okay, so I'll cast it on us now that they're closer. I wonder if that's the ground search party. Maybe. So should we add 10 to all of our stealth rules that had been, or we have to roll again?

You have to roll again. So we're stealthing again in the tree? Because she's casting past, or you won't get the benefit. I'm already at a 32, man. Well, now you got to roll again. You don't have to. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's roll again. What do you add?

10 or whatever we get? 10 to whatever we roll. Go ahead and just add 10 to the previous. Yay! Fine. Good. So. What do we keep on rolls?

So, about five breathless moments pass as the dogs, wolves all get relatively close. One of them kind of comes out and returns back to the pack. You don't get a good view of the individual that is. that is currently guiding the pack, and you see them kind of disappear between the thick trees and the distance. Make an active perception check for you, Max, if you don't mind.

Not advantage. Is Forest? No, you're in Forest now. Oh, wait. That's another. You choose that one of your train? Then go ahead and roll another game. You get advantage. That was worse than the first one. That's great.

So you total is. Okay, well, you didn't say you were doing it, 18. 18. Okay, it's hard to make up the details at this distance. You check out, it does appear to be a female form. Oh, it's a chick. Best you can tell, you can't tell specific rays or any details, and then about another minute passes before the barking and howls

fade, and the hunting party seems to have been eluded. There was no way to get a good view of who was. Do you mind to make an active perception check? Actually, I would love to, if possible. You say, kill them and eat the dogs? A lot of issues. Normally if they passed by now? Natural 20.

What? Really? Really? I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it. This isn't I love you for those awful rolls earlier. The golden snitch wins again.

Maybe it's name now. You see the female form. It's not so much. someone you particularly recognize, but the woman does appear to be older, probably in her late 40s, early 50s. She has some hunting gear over her shoulder, and like a short bow that's kind of strapped over her, a quiver of arrows. She looks like she's hunting for food. Older Tiberius would kill her. Give it 10 years.

Give it 10 years. I don't recognize something. No. I'm immediately of visual recognition. In the meantime, you guys make your way, sweeping down. You can see that cluster, that murder of crows being circling out and is making a large pass over this entire valley.

You take this cue as you get to the, almost a visual range of the city, to cast invisibility on both of you, on both of you. As a third level spell? Yes. Okay. Both of you just vanish from view, which is a strange feeling for you because now you cannot see Keeleth. You're just grasping on this one of you can see, and you just look like you're gliding through the air.

Can I do one of these? Yeah, you grab on very tightly. Without choking, it's the eagle does not have human physiology. You get a two fists full of feathers. And you really don't want an eagle to buck you angrily at the sight. I don't think you a featherfall. So that would go poorly. Looking over White Stone, you can see outside of the city,

there are some areas where the trees are carved out. And there is farmland set up, specifically to grow food and to till it to maintain sustenance for the people that live there. You can see there is a small area that's also being cut for timber. Not a perpetual thing, but the wood here is, and you've heard previously, one of the major exports here

is very high-quality timber of this type of tree that is used for very, very exquisite woodcraft and furniture. So that's one of the major exports of White Stone, as well as the quartz from the mines itself. There are people in the city, but it's sparse. Make a perception check? Can I also make a perception check? You may, as well, yeah.

With my eagle vision. You may. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Four. 24 and I have keen sight, which means I have advantage on all purposes. Yes, you do. I'll take that 14, as opposed to that one.

Total of 14? 24. 24. Okay. As you get down close enough to start scanning our details, you can see, a lot of the buildings appear to be closed or empty. There are people working the fields. As you make your way to the center of the town, there was a town square, and there was the tree there, a very large, old tree that is kind of twisted with all these various gnarled branches that reach out. You recall, Desmond mentioning something called the sun tree that is the centerpiece of this area, and you get a view enough of the tree to see that there are

eight humanoid bodies of varying ages swinging from it. Oh, no. Also notice that trolling through the city, in very slow paces, there are a few larger than normal humanoids. Oh, fun. You see what appear to be approximately six giants that are just patrolling through the town, but you can see some of them are like kind of wrecked and broken. One of them is missing an arm and it's kind of dragging a foot behind it.

And you can see... There's zombie giants. And apparently, whenever one's moving through, most of the denizens of the town keep a very wide berth and generally avoid them entirely and go about their business in a distance. I miss Pike. Six up there. No problem. Like overall over the entire city, they're pretty well scattered about.

After you do a full pass over the city, those are most the details you can make out at this height. Anything further, any specifics you want to go for before heading back? Want to set me down so I talk to some people? You want to talk to people? Talk to people? Well, or at least eavesdrop. I mean, you don't know if they're all vampires or not. Does it look like there's a central part

where there's a lot of people kind of gathered? The farmlands would be the largest cluster of people. There, you can see there, since it's getting the end of the day, there are a lot of folks that are finishing up, gathering the crops that are available to them or planting as they go through. And there's probably about five or six people that are all in one group.

Most everyone else seems to be relatively solitary, and trying to go about their business as fast as possible. The town square is emptying out? The town square, nobody's in the town square. The town square is, people are avoiding like the plague. They're just eight bodies hanging from the tree and nobody wants to be there. All right, I'm gonna kind of swoop down

and find a tree where the like five or six farmers are and kind of just perch, see if Scanlan can get a good. There actually are no trees right by the farm. All the trees have been cleared out to make the farmland. So there's actually a bit of the forest that has been cleared for that purpose. It's just open and empty? Yeah, I mean, you can go to a tree

that's nearby, but that's like 300 feet away. Anything I can per- There is the wall. There's a wall on the outskirts of white stone. Okay, so you swoop down and you perch on the edge of the wall there. It's about 25 feet up. I'm just gonna go walk down there. I won't be able to see you.

So I'm just gonna leave a little. I'll keep, oh, wait, now I can't see you. You can't talk right now or an eagle. I'm gonna just leave a little Like a canteen or something right where she's perched, just so I know where to find her. Okay. Smart. Okay.

Leave your mug. Yeah, nice thought. And then I'm just going to walk down and see if I can stealthily eavesdrop on some conversations. Okay. You make your way down the 25-foot wall. She's perched on. Oh, shit. Am I going to fall? Go ahead and make an athletics check. Okay. Say that out loud.

Athletics? 17. 17. The stonework here is old, and you manage to not lose your footing entirely. You bring your way down. Thankfully, you're light enough, and the stones are not too large, so where you can get some good handholds. You do, over the next 12 minutes or so, make your way to the base of the wall.

Did you make me 12 minutes to climb 25 feet? Yep. Nice. Nice. Very secure. A lot of moments of like, like, A lot of moments of like, but you catch yourself.

I mean, you can just jump if you wanted to make it less. But your duration of your invisibility is about 20 more minutes before it dissipates. You go over to the edge, and you can see they have carts up and they have what vegetables they have there. And a lot of the vegetables, even in its close look, a lot of them look kind of withered. It looks like there's a general sense of frustration that the land itself is not producing,

quality crops. And even the people look kind of unhealthy and gone by nature, whether it be the cold winter recently or just their general spirit is broken, but there is a feeling about these people that life here is not what it used to be. There isn't a whole lot of conversation. There's mutterings here and there, and like, we have to make sure we get these back in time. Fill the card. We have two cards. We have to get in this one. It's like, I know, I know, I'm trying. And they're putting over there. There's a little bit of frustration amongst them and the ones counting. It's...

You do get... One of them ends up... They get the last bit of the crops. Like, that's it. That's all we have. That is the entire pole for the day. And the older gentleman is over singing, kind of grinds his hands, goes,

Oh, so Karin's gonna have my hide. Well... Yeah, wasn't it? At the very least, just gather it together. Hopefully, that will protect us. And the people kind of take the people kind of take carts and making it their way towards the outer gate on the southeast side of Whitestone where you guys are currently. I'm going to hustle back to the roof.

All right. Make an athletics check. You'll hear a thump. Hopefully he lands on his loot. No, it's not nine. Okay, 15 minutes. Five minutes of eaves dropping, you realize that you're not going to make it up that wall and you feel the magic of your invisibility illusion about to fade. At this point, by the way, the sun has just hit the edge of the mountains. The sky itself is a vibrant, reddish, orange, slowly turning to purple, and sunset is upon you. I'll just spend the night here.

No. Can I see them? I sneak around the corner. It's invisible, no. I sneak around the corner a little bit, wait for an opening, and I lose invisibility, which will drop it on her as well. And I will dimension door back up to the roof. Okay. As you pass out of the side, the illusion fades.

You step into a small opening of dark purplish energy, and then reemerge on the top of the wall. Grab your canteen and hop back onto the back of her. Oh shit. Invisibility again. Okay. Okay. You guys vanish. I know. If you take off back in the direction you guys traveled from.

In the meantime, guys, what if you want to have been doing? Are you just waiting? Are you traveling further in? Are you staying where you waiting? We have to wait until I'm losing. Yeah, keeping an ear out for the wolves and just chilling in a tree. I fall out of the tree.

And also, I'm re-stringing my new awesome bow. With the blazing bow string. Okay. I'm putting on my- Which, by the way, is a long bow of Sky Sentinel. Sky Sentinel. What is that? It's okay.

It's once per long rest, I can use a storm arrow, which means that the next arrow I fire splits into three arrows, roll and attack for each of them. They all get 1D6 extra for each one that hits. Whoa, power. It's amazing. Every time you use it or is it a one time? It's one time for long rest.

That's awesome. Once per day, she fires an arrow and the arrow splits into three and each one bursts into like a thunder damage, like bursts on them. Say what? So is it lightning damage or is it? Thunder damage, it should say on there. It says lightning damage.

It's a taser arrow. It's a taser arrow. It's basically a taser. It's pretty fun. All right. Thunder. Thunder. Thunder.

What's that from? I don't know. So the night falls and the crickets begin to emerge. Slow mist begins to filter. Are frames on it back yet? It's already night and they're not back? I just want to say that I pulled my hood down for a moment

and put on my Kalamari hat. And I pull the hood back over. Okay. Okay, so you take the kind of partially rusted over, but functional metallic skull cap that Clorota was wearing when you guys had met at the end of dark. That Clorotia no longer needs. You place it upon your head, and it's a loose.

As you place it on, it kind of rattles for a moment, and then it forms fits to your skull. Your hair being pinched beneath it and kind of just emerging from underneath, almost Loki helmet style. Looking snazy facts. Nice bonnet. You put the head back up. I'm on your head.

There's a weird buzzing vibrational feel as it's magic attunes to you over the next hour or so as you're waiting, but you get the sensation that it will offer some decent protection from impeding charm effects. Tingle. It looks like you have a mollet. Yes. A loki moly moly.

Yeah. All right. All right. You start getting really nervous about the arrival of your friends, so eventually you hear the flapping of wings. You look up and you can see, since it is taken an hour to get there, the illusion just fades. Both a giant eagle and Scanlan appear in the moonlight

right above the canopy of the forest we guys are close to and return to the place you were. Kaelan, question, can you make it look like, you know, that we're not here with your, you're falling I drew up my B shape. Foof! Yeah, yeah. You know, your allusions.

Yeah, yeah. Good, good. Can we camp up in the tree? Yes, everybody comfortable with this? I'm perfectly comfortable. Here I druid craft some spider web hammocks. Oh, wow. Sticky.

That's a sad stage. That's a lot. And as usual, light some sage. It takes about an hour or so, but she managed to pull from the surrounding these really nice, thick spider silk hammocks that should be able to support your respective weights. Grog is the only one that might be questionable with the sheer amount of weight that is this form. I like it. Maybe take a rope and tie it in your sense.

This is a trust exercise. I'm using hide-in-plain sight to make me and drink it extra, extra hiding. I have a question. The only reason I have this question is because I posted that video from a couple of years ago. Do I still have the unending rope? I have the unending rope. Why don't we reinforce with the rope?

We don't like the trust exercise. That's where all the rope comes from that we ever use. I'm sorry, I brought it up. I'd love for you to fall on your head. Let's reinforce the spider. No, I'm good. Thank you. All right.

Whoa, Max. Before we slumber. Donkey Hote he called. Aerodynamic, isn't it? Once his bullback. Before we slumber, we did a little intel, a little recon. Oh yeah, what's up? Turns out the town is full of humans, you know,

except for these six vampire giants, or zombie giants. All appear to be fairly miserable people. However, this could be useful. Everyone in the town, all the farmers anyway, seem to be gathering produce to deliver to the briar We could pose as some sort of farmer troop with a basket of goodies and maybe get through the front gate. Don't you think they would know all the farmers around them at this point?

They've been there for a long time. They did reference Sir Carion by name. Oh, they referenced Sir Carian, Percy. Thank you. We could make ourselves look like some of them. One of us has a hat of disguise. Also, there was something other... really important.

The town was pretty much empty. Oh, yes, this. Okay. And that sun tree, that what's his name? Who said that? Who was Jared? Who was talking about the sun tree? Desmond.

There were, there were, looks like there were some executions that took place. There were about eight bodies hanging from that tree. Why is it called the sun tree? It's really lovely. I don't know, maybe it gets sun. No, why do they call it the Sunter? You're the... Can I go with this?

Unless you have a particular reason to... I mean, you can go with... There are maybe many reasons to call the Century. There's reasons. Maybe we need to battle them at the Sunbury. Legends say that before the castle was built, that the journey into the valley was treacherous and stormy, and the original builders of White Castle feared they'd die.

And this one great tree stood in the valley, and it was underneath the... it that they took shelter, and as they began to take shelter, the storm broke, and the storm did not return until the castle was completed. That's a lovely story. It's, we hold our festivals there every year. Now it's being used as a... As a gallow, yes.

Does it get a lot of sun? You do know that this, and this ties in with your story as well, because the guidance of into forging the city of White Stone here. That tree was representative to them as a guardian of Pellor, the god of the sun. And protector of light, holiness, is considered one of the more, you know. A very serious god.

Yeah. That could help all the world. That could help us because vampires hate the sun. Why would they make camp in the place for the god of the sun? Maybe that's why they're hanging bodies from it and like taint it. Maybe that's why it's protected.

Maybe. Can any of us, are any of us religious with that god or? Can we call Pike on through your magic school? Who should she be able to hear us? Camphlets of apple. I can at least see what she's up to. Would you be able to revive the tree? Oh. Bring it back.

Druid, motherfucking that. Yeah, yeah. I can actually, yeah. I don't know. Bring up the god of the sun again. I don't know. Religious people? We can't summon gods willy-nilly.

We could please... Go tell us what we can and can't do Scanlan. I'm sorry. We could do all of those things. Yes, let's go into the middle of the vampire infested town and do some arboree to try to heal the tree. And then we'll just say, oh, sun god, please rain down sun. I like it. Let's do it. It's a good plan.

Well, can we at least try cutting down the bodies and running and see what happens? We could. I say in the morning we take a look at the passage, see how well guarded it is, and if it looks dangerous, sneak our way into the town. If people are not enthralled, if they are being forced to work, then maybe we can find some allies.

Find allies in the town? I don't think they're happy. I think they're terrified. I don't want to let them know we're here. I don't hear. I don't hear. in hopes of saving their own. That's what I'm thinking.

Yes, they are terrified, but this whole town is being ruled by fear. I have a feeling can revive that tree somehow. It may weaken the Briar Woods hold on the psyche of the villages here. This is true. They could help out, let them know that the god of the sun is on their side.

I heard you're supposed to pee on a lemon tree, so. This probably would do it. You are a scandal in that I have a feeling. Can I make a nature check to see if that's true? I really wanted to ask. I was like, what is peeing on the lemon tree have to do with anything?

Sure. 19. 17. In your experiences, in your roving band of barbarians, you guys enjoyed very much peeing on very colorful trees of all sorts of plant life. All them generally didn't seem to over time react well. to the process, whether it be the fact that you all drink a lot of times with the content of your

and was probably not very hospitable. Lemon party. Lemon party. That's a whole different kind of festival. Kill Percy. Kill Percy. Thank you for bringing the text chat all the way back around. Operation Tree Rescue.

Lemon party is held on the far southern continent of Tabgurl. Oh, no. We should have got to say. This is a giant interrupt happening right now. I have an idea. Should we wait until the sun comes up, create a distraction, so all the undead giants come looking. And then we have someone go, cut the bodies off the tree,

and let Keyleth give it a little love. And then what happens after that? I don't know, it's an experiment, all right? Then we get the fuck out. Won't they know we're here? Won't the people see us doing it? I think they are. I kind of feel like that's the equivalent of putting dish soap in the fountain on from it.

Didn't you say that all around the country? Like nobody's there? Yeah, we did that. What? Didn't you say nobody's around the country? That's true. No, no. But we still have to get in. Fly up and over. Did you just do the same thing? I know, I know. Fly up and over land. Bring a tree back to life. You're sure you don't want me to be a carriage driver and you all hide in the hay of my carriage.

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No. No, no. I was, but I was heavily stealth. Oh, wow. No, but the invisibility faded. When I fiend the guard. They should not have been able to see me. I'm not talking about getting past the Briar Woods.

I'm talking about getting past the guard their castle. Here's another issue. It's going to take me a minute to do the... Like how long? It might take a bit. Like how long a bit? Like how long? Well, I mean, it's one of those things where the longer I do it, the better it'll be.

I can do it for up to eight hours. Oh, shit. If I do it for up to eight hours, I enriched the land over a half mile radius, centered on a single point, and the land becomes enriched for a solid year. I don't want to enrich all of the... Question. What time was it when they were doing their little scouting thing that they just told us about? Five, six. The sun was going down?

Yeah, they would have gotten, probably gotten two white stone around seven o'clock and leaving right as the sun had fully set. Right when the sun goes on. hour yeah, we get there at sunrise. Take those fucking beasts out and you start at 8 a.m. But then what? We just sneak in, you do it, but here's the thing. I don't know if you want to like get all the crops off fancy because it'll just feed the briar woods. Maybe just do the tree area which would be like two hours maybe. Yeah. I think if I have a solid hour, two hours was it? Once the tree is healed we have no one of religious

power to summon any god. We don't know anything about this God. None of us do. I do. In theory, if I'm from... Go ahead and roll a religion check. A witch? A religion check. A witch? A witch. A witch? 16.

16. Okay. Pellor is the god of the sun in agriculture. As a good deity, and it's generally worshipped by farmers and simple folk and people that live off the land and generally it's the most nature-based deity of the main spectrum outside of Malora, which is the deity of nature. Oh. Well, dope. Would I know stuff like that too then?

You know of Pellor. There are elements of Pellor's following that bleeds into your druid nature, though you don't necessarily follow a deity. Right. You believe that the essence of nature in itself is your patron. Totally. You aren't a religious man by nature, and you know there was a strong following of Pellor in the town. The entire graveyard that you talked about earlier, that one is largely built around the imagery of Pellor.

And of all the gods that are worshipped here, Pellor is probably 75% of the population of Wye Stone were. And somebody should perform, if not, full devout worshippers at least were like, yeah, Pellor is cool. Here's my question. Yep. I'm just, I feel Pike's energy. Tonight, maybe while I'm meditating, I can somehow reach out to her and maybe just ask her to get in touch with Sarah and Ray,

and maybe Sarah and Ray can call up her homeboy Pelor. I think that works? I don't know. I don't know, I don't. They're not organized religion people, Viashari. I think the tree is called the sun tree. It's Pelor's tree. I'm not a cleric of Sarin.

Ray, but these shitbags could not have set up camp in a temple of Sarenrae because there is too much goodness there as there was around this tree in this town. And it's why it is dead. It's why it is being surrounded by a bunch of giant undead things, as you described. I... You need faith, Scammon Shawolds. Me. I am the antithesis of faith. You got to have faith... Then you need to shut up and let us fix that tree.

And then what? We're gonna fight off a million monsters to heal a tree, and then we're gonna say, okay, break out the sun or something. Hang on, hang on, hang on. What did you just say? Which what? That thing you just said that no one heard

because we were all shouting and arguing. Rally the townsfolk? Rally the townsfolk. This is something I think, I don't think that sneaking is necessarily the answer. I'm not saying go in, go in. guns blazing, but I say we will let them know. You want to build a militia?

I want to build a rebellion. I like it. Well, they would recognize you, wouldn't they, per se? You've been around them. I'm not, I'm kind of into this. Does it involve healing the tree? It does. I don't think there is any sneaking in thanks to those birds. I don't, I don't, I.

I don't, I. Tell us your plan. Bring them out to the Sun Tree to fuck us. My plan is we do our best to sneak in. We find cover, obviously, you said there's abandoned buildings. We find cover. We heal the tree. I have some other ideas.

We take those zombie giants out one by one quietly. We're going to be insurgents? Let him finish the plan. I kind of love this. It's kind of like attack on Taton. We start finding our friends and we start

we start making friends. We let them know we're back. I like it. I like having the people It feels less like we're the United States. Okay, why do we- Can I- I have some parchment left out? I have the thing I want to build while I'm in the tree.

It's very simple and I want to show you what it is and it's, and- What is? I want to take some gunpowder and basically Like a pipe wall. Basically attach it to a piece of parchment. I want to wet it into a piece of parchment and let it dry so that when I set fire to that piece of parchment,

I get a burn scar. So like to create a burn scar. Yeah, that's totally doable. Thank you. Awesome. Like, go ahead and roll, tinkering check, just for the sake of the possible. A burn scar on yourself?

No, it'll scar anything. It just creates a very, very high heat. Like a mark. Like a mark, like our mark. Like a mark. Like our mark. Not our mark. The resistance.

The resistance. I need a beret. I rolled a 23. You, well, the rest of you end up taking your evening's rest, grog of which immediately you snap your hand, I can fall 15 feet at the ground. But you managed to make your way up there and just kind of bare hugged the tree trunk for rest.

You're used to sleeping in uncomfortable situations. I throw five or six pine cones and set his head. Over time or at once. Over time or at once? At once. Okay. P-H-H-Fucking gravity. You managed to complete three pieces of parchment, roughly page size, with your black powder

treatment successfully. The mist rolls in, gets thicker and thicker to the point where you cannot see the floor of the forest. The little bit of moonlight that manages to make its way through the boughs of the trees, trickles through, and then vanishes into these, and slowly, shifting bits of fog. Your breath, every time you exhale, is visible as the cold night air begins to take, and you find yourself instinctively shivering as you cannot grow close to each other for heat nor build a fire for it. And the night, while uncomfortable, you do

manage to get an evening's bit of mostly uncomfortable rest, but rest nonetheless. Eventually, coming to, as the morning sun comes up and heats it up, the fog begins to fade away and burn away. You're at about an hour past sunrise as you all unrestfully come to consciousness as the temperature shift hits. You manage to relieve yourselves of your spider silk-based hammocks and or tree grasping. Both you and Shrinket both have found these kind of way of clutching onto the trees as you. I'm pretty old. It could. Trigket seems in a while. I'm into it. I'm into it. So this is like sun up, right? It is about 7.7.30 in the morning.

Can I do a quick scry back to the poo jar that I left in our kitchen just to make sure our home base is okay? You take a moment and just concentrate in the kitchen. At this point in time, you can see early morning. Lena is currently just going there, yawning. And is cleaning about and starting to make a small breakfast for all the guards you can see and hear in the distance. Some conversation in the distant room appears to be a couple of your various employed mercenaries having a conversation. She's been making breakfast. So they're fine. At least me fine.

So I knock that one off and I'll try for Pike. Okay. Concentrating on Pike, about two minutes of hard concentration. There's no connection. They wiped my poo away. You gather, due to the relatively fresh and unstable nature of this potion you had concocted, you can only have one source connection up at a time.

So when you left it in your key, It seems that the one you had at the Temple of Saran Ray was alleviated of his magical presence. So what was once a magical scripoo is literally just scan-scat. Which some could argue is magical in its own right. Sure enough, with a high-up persuasion roll. Teacher, teacher. Does it change color when it loses its power? You don't know?

Damn it! I want to know! Only one way to find out. God damn it. Ask Pike when you see her again. We can actually, your poo power may come in very handy on the way. the next, like, this is good to know. Let's go find an abandoned building.

Could we throw in a Scallon grenade and be able to see through it? Sure. A SCAT grenade. Sure, I could get in. Scatlin. I could get in, I could get in, shit in their bedroom and leave. You shit in your hand and you toss it. Oh, yeah, that too. Pull the

pin. This is what that. This is what has. You could fly over head with Keyleth. Yes? Drop it like a bomb. And then we'd have an eyes. Oh man. I like this a lot.

Give me something to eat. What? Holy crap. I need some fuel. I need some fuel. I need some food. Sweet potato. Sweet potatoes, that's good.

Yes. Some prunes. Yeah, something hardy. All right, we're off the rail. So you guys are making of this. You make a way down into the the forest, about another hour and a half of travel before you start getting to where the trees begin to clear up a little bit and you can see the base of the cleared off

mountain where White Stone Castle is built upon and the pathway that descends into the outer wall of the city of Whitestone. How far of a travel is it down into the city? It's maybe a quarter mile. So like we could do that in a little amount of things. Spatialation-wise, you guys are just getting to like this side of the forest right there. Right there. And this is the mountain. So if we're gonna try to stealth this shit in.

Do we take the stealthy one or the invisible one? Wait. Wait. Wait. Which plan are we doing first? First part is getting an abandoned building post-up. So that we can be near the tree to protect you. So that we can be townspeople. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Right?

So you can get a beret. Abandoned building, part one. Part one. We're setting up shop. Get into the town. So who goes and finds the abandoned building? Percy is known here. Yeah, but... Which is why I'm going to be wearing,

I haven't been seen in years, and when I was seen, I was much younger, and honestly, I had different hair. The briarwoods recognized you instantly. They did, which was disordinated. But they're not on sentry duty. We need a forward operating base, so who wants to be stealthier, invisible,

and find an empty building? Question. Question. For the assassin path of rogue, at ninth level, I can, if I have seven days, which is way too much time, I can impersonate anyone I want. Correct. In half a day, could I just be a dirty nobody? Yeah, you'd be able to disguise yourself. You also have the hat.

The disguise? That's good. So Percy knows this town. Perhaps Percy should wear the hat. Does it require attunement? Just a few minutes, I think. I already have the hat. Yes, you have it from the dinner party. Would I also, I would like to, I've been trying to think of what sorts of buildings would be the most defensible and the least likely to around suspicion?

Well, things with basements? I mean, a lot of the houses have basements. They're varying degrees of it. There are larger homesteads that were reserved for the actual nobles that ran the day-to-day life of Whitestone when you found it was in power. Or as you heard from Desmond, apparently, probably the places where the new nobles live. Those are the ones that have the gates around them, that are the larger homesteads kind of scattered throughout the town. It's too obvious.

It's far too obvious. There are many, many small abodes and even some farm-based hovels. The poor end of town is the farming side, which is the southwest, which is the closest area to where you guys actually made your stop earlier. I would almost say a shopping district, if there's a way, if there's an abandoned... The shopping district is the center of town around the... the town square. Around the century? Yeah. Right there. It might be too close. Before we go marching in there,

finding an abode to live in is not going to be too difficult. We'll need food. And... Are we living in there? We have... We have not going to be there. We have dry food rations. We have some food rations. We have options. We've got food for days. We might be there for days and days. We've got food for days. We've got dry food rations.

We have to... Go around town and forgive me if I'm going too far with your plan here, but aren't we trying to win allies among the people? I have a plan. But we'll need to communicate with them. How? He has a plan. Come on, drop your pads and get with the plan. What time is it? Have we gone to sleep? We're waking up.

You guys are awake. It's probably after this discussion, I'd say it's about 8 o'clock in the morning, 8.30. Let's make our way. This is the time right now. We should stealth in. Are we doing the tree thing right now? Actually, you're traveled to the city, and you're out of the outskirts of it.

Now you'd be closer to 9.30. Okay. Yeah. We're trying to get in. We find a place to be set up operations. Well, that's what I was going to say. Do we want to find operations try and re-cru? We don't really know what we're going to find this morning. Those big guys could still be there.

We don't know. We don't know if there are people in the pocket of the Briarwoods here. Because I'm thinking maybe take a day to get in, get settled. I tend to a hero's feast. and then I start crack a dawn in the morning. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. It's already 9.30. It's going to be 10, 11 o'clock by the time we get there at that point.

Let's find a place. All right. So wait, we're just going to walk into the city? No, we're going to stealth into the city. We're going to pass that. Trace on everybody. Okay. Beard check?

That was an eight. So? Beard check. Oh. Your beard is pretty much at the fullest little ever. You gather, you probably get a little more thickness to it, but your beard's at maximum grogage. The fact that you even have it, or Glyphal the beard

is a feat of magic in its own. Amazing. You would be a freak. Like a VDAL-Sah soon commercial. Whip it. Isn't that dope? That's dope. That's dope.

Dog, I've heard that no one in this town wears a beard. Natural 20 on stealth. You can forget it. I won't go in. So if you guys are traveling as a group, you self-checked from everybody. Do we have Pasoana chase? Yes.

As I'll say, can we each take a little bit of time to look more like commoners? Oh yeah. I'm wearing my hat too. Look like commoners. I rubbed dirt all over my face. I'm a Goliath. Plus we have a bear.

I try to look less handsome. Yeah, we do look like quite the motley crew. I'm wearing a natural 20. You? You, you do you roll national 20 as well? Yeah, that's good. Both of you guys run natural 20s and stealth? I had a little helping luck, but I got it.

There you go. That's really good because I rolled a one. Oh, no. Pass without a trace. Oh, so it's 11. It's still a fail. We're all going together. We're not sending one person in to go find an empty building.

We're all going together. You're all going together. When you dirty yourself up a bit, you're still a large Goliath. You're still a few half-melf, a gnome. There's still a bear. Outside of illusion magic, you're still going to stick out like a three. Should we cast illusion magic?

Do we have it to make it? It's illusion magic. You mean like I'm walking 50 feet in front of everybody else? frog and trinket look like commoners. I'm 50 feet in front of everyone else. Yeah, do that. Do that? Oh, yeah, are you seeming us?

Sure, all right. I will cast seeming on us. Oh, this is a legit use of seeming too. Okay. Where we will all look like this. As opposed to the cows. Come on. Dirty, ragged peasants.

Trinket is as well? Yes. Trinket looks like a donkey. He'll just be a really drunk pet. A donkey. Can I just say this? A mule. A mule.

Can we just leave Trinke behind? I don't want to walk in. in there with a bear. He'll look like a fucking donkey or he'll look like another commoner. I think I can only make us all look the same. Then he'll look like a fucking commoner. You get something of similar size. I believe as far as

Simian's concerned and I'll... He'll look like a commoner. He'll look like a commoner. Weird commoner. A milk cow. A fucking bear on the outside of town with his hounds around. He come up like a fucking vampires and birds flying. Oh wait, no. You can give each target a new appearance.

Yep. So I can make everyone look a little different. Each creature can seem a foot shorter or taller or appear thin, fat, or in between. Make it look like a milk cow. Can't change their body type. So Trinquet will still be like a four-legged creature, but you can make it look like a different four-licked creature.

There you go. Okay. He's a milk cow. Real talk. Do you want to be a donkey? My sister will cut you. The bell. Bring the bear.

Donkeys can move more quickly. All right, donkey. All right. He's an ass. All right, so Tringitiget. So you know, so you. The rest of you are a smattering of various human I make myself look like a weird hunchback sort of not all there.

Okay, so you guys look like pretty rough peasants, dirty faces, you know, hair a little razzle, looks like you've been living the harsh life on the outskirts of the slums of white stone from whites of time. With a donkey. So you guys utilizing your stealth checks and seeming you make your way up to the... Which side of white stone are you coming in from? Thank you for the double-tile. 20.

Where are we coming up? Coming in from the west. Okay, so you come into this entrance here. You make your way into the center of town, blending in best you can. There are a few folks who see you enter. Kind of just give a strange look. You all are unfamiliar to the denizens of White Stone.

No shit. But you don't look like a threat per se. So you are noticed, and some people do seem to just stop. and watch you pass, but no one seems to make any active mention note or change in behavior. When checking buildings while we're walking through. I have active, I have passive perception. I walk over just to one random person in the street and say, anyone iron hands on farms?

A farm burn now. Oh, God. Jesus. Make a deception roll. You? You? I'll give you advantage on it because the seeming does put you in a visual perspective of close to the time.

That is a full, full, oh no, hold on. Oh, no, no. I'm going to use luck. The first number is going to be a 40? No, it's not 40. All right, so it's 14. 14. It's two luck rolls, by that I guess.

Yeah, I know. The woman you approach, who's probably in her early 30s, pale blonde hair, looks like she's might be actually kind of losing it in places. Kind of gives it look, goes, You poor people shouldn't be here. Just need some work. Well, fine, Pippin. Not going anywhere else.

Welcome to Whitestone. She turns around and walks back, joining kind of arm with, apparently a man that she's paired with, and the two of them just kind of walk away. A bit dumbfounded that people walked into White Stone. As this happens, you glance at your shoulder and you see, coming from the,

the northern edge of this side wall. We should avoid that shit. A very tall, noticeably undead giant with its jaw broken off and hanging in the hinge, dried, caked blood across its chest, and it's just dragging this large club behind it. Where are we? Like, what are our surroundings?

You guys, right now, you're in a T. To the right and left are roads that go along the inside of the wall that surrounds White Stone. To the front of you is the path that leads further into the city. Let's go into the city. We casually be good. I want to head through the city, possibly in the direction of the cemetery. Leisure corner.

Cemetery is over here. Yeah, I want to head in that direction. All right, so you guys make your way through. Keeping an eye out for, you know, buildings that look like clustered and abandoned, like we could hide in. What's changed? What you've noticed has changed one. Largely, the population is far more sparse than what you recall. What was once a bustling city?

you're now seeing about half as many people as you would see at this time of day. Going through, everyone seems to be in relatively poor health. There are a few buildings that look like long-term abandoned immediately in this kind of area here on the outskirts that catches your guy's eye. You do notice that the corner lamps that you have are set up at the different corners of the streets

have appeared to be shattered. Interesting. There would be like glass oil lanterns that at night someone would go around and light them after the sunset. The posts that would hold them now are all either broken or the glass itself has been shattered. I'm also thinking about that cemetery. We're not going to live in a cemetery. That's super creepy.

As opposed to all of the other things we've found? Everything here is super creepy. Is there other abandoned buildings around? There are plenty of buildings that live. look dark and mostly untouched in this section here as you begin to move closer in towards this. Let's get east of the center square and set up camp there. Okay, where's the castle? Is it on the top of this? Oh, is that thing? Okay. All right. We're trying to shoot for here. Okay. You guys move this way as you push towards

the center of this here. You, uh... Do you speak giant, Crock? Do you move past the, uh, listen to here, into the left. you can see towards the town square, and there it is the sun tree, a very, very large. You imagine beautiful tree at one time. Full height is probably about 40 feet tall. The branches twist out and almost look like they're hanging loosely at the ends. Everything looks droopy and desolate. There's not a leaf on it. Can I do some sort of check from a distance to see if I can recognize what kind of tree it is?

I'll make an nature check. 18. Okay. It's hard to tell from this distance. There are number of types of trees it could be. It's not indigenous to this land. The fact that it grew here means that either it was transplanted or it was some sort of magical creation for its presence.

And you do see the silhouette of the eight figures slowly swaying from beneath the branches. Do we continue on? Don't pay too much attention to it. much attention to it, find a place to post up. No, don't get a mushroom. Not yet. If you do your naturey spell from inside a building, does it still do the same thing, or do you have to be next to the tree while you're doing it?

No, it's a large radius, right? Uh, so the way the spell works, I can do it one or two ways. I can do it instantaneously, necessarily grow up a whole bunch of plants and brush and shrubbery around me, or I can wait and I can concentrate for a while, and then it's still, you know, and I can just to grow up a whole bunch of and then still a plant with vibrant life and energy and heal the farmlands and it would stretch out for a really far radius. Let's keep moving.

I'm gonna probably wanna do more the second one. Okay, let's move. Did you guys wanna keep moving on this path? Did you wanna go through the square, closer to the tree, do you wanna move southward? Avoid the tree a little bit and just keep going straight. Should you keep going this way? Yeah?

Do we see, there's like a larger building, isn't there? Actually, I would say, let's see if, let's get a good look at the tree, let's walk by it. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna walk by the tree? Okay. Just don't, don't look like it's no big deal. I know.

You guys turn left and you make your way towards the town square. And as you enter the square, looking around, you can see there are what would have been carts and small booths set up for selling of meats and other goods. What was a small, you know, butter and sale-based hub of this town, nowhere near on the scale. of Imann's Bazar, but you know, enough to support this town. Dessalate. All look to be closed down and untouched for quite some time. As you get a closer look to the, actually I'm going to have you guys roll perception checks if you're kind of not getting too close to the tree.

Five. Nine, twenty-six. Nineteen. Fourteen. Twenty-three. As you guys are keeping on the outskirts of the square, it's hard to make up the details and weathering has kind of muddled the figures that are hanging there. Percy and Vax, you guys notice the figure on the far left. The body. On the body in the far left has a red paint

smattered across its face and its arms. It's wearing a dirtied green vest-like robe that dangles below it as it hangs there loosely. Immediately to the left of it, you see what looks to be the body of a child. The child is dressed up in a purple-ish, billowing shirt, a very fine silk shirt and pantaloons, and it's dangling there next to it. To the left of that, you see it appears to be a female, adorned in greens and browns, Looks like red paint has been driven through the hair, and dangles to the left of that figure. Next to that, you see what appears to be, I'm walking the fuck away. You see what appears to be another woman

dressed in dark blacks and browns, leathers, some furs across the top, dark hair, dangling. To the left that you see another man, dressed similarly, dark grays and blacks, long dark hair, dangling. To the left of that, you see a rather large man, older, rotund, probably in his 40s. Clothing padded, but mostly open chest.

Hair, completely shaved bald. Looks like there are dark scars or placed across the face. Hanging. To the left of that, you see. This figure is actually not humanoid. It appears to have been a recently hunted bear that is dangling next to the group. No, no, no, no, no.

Wait, what? Is that us? It looks like us. What? It's us. It's us. They killed people they thought were us. Or they killed.

Or it's a message. Or it's a message to us. Do they look like us, or are they just dressed like us? Are they made to look like us? Do you want to get closer in look? I'm a little curious. Is there anything around the tree other than that? You're probably watching the tree.

Is there anything at the base of the trees? Is there anything? From what you can see now, You can see now nothing but just rocks and stones and piles of loose clothed just been running below it. Approaching, it looks like each one of these bodies has been dressed up. It looks like the color in the redhead's hair has been smeared through with paint. The person who's been painted red has been slapdash. You gather with a moment of looking at it. These were not individuals, that were caught this way, this was set up as a message. My God.

Keep walking, keep your head down and keep walking. I don't think they're here. Oh, God. I don't think they're here. You mean in town? Of course they are. No. Remember, they have to be where the soil they came from is? No, they have like hideouts. They don't have to be where the soil they came from.

I don't think they're here. They knew we were counting. They're in their key very deep. Okay. You guys continue past down this place. down this pathway. There's other buildings you see in the vicinity that look abandoned or, for the most part, unoccupied.

I'd say about one and every three buildings looks like it's in disuse. Did we see this big building right here as you walk by? Yeah, that big one. You guys came, made this path you can see a little bit. You can see as... I should know what it is anymore. Iron fence. It used to belong to one of the noble families of Whitestone. Each one of these large buildings here, these three,

and you remember this word, the three families that ran the town. Can't go anywhere near those buildings. We must to stay as far away from them as humanly possible. Question. You said there were eight bodies? Eight bodies. Is there one that looks like a gnome cleric and one that looks like a

Dragonborn Sorcerer? One that wasn't a known sorcery. There wasn't a known cleric one though. No. Dragonball's all red. There was a bear. There was no cleric. There was no clear.

When we faced them. They don't know about the cleric. All of us who stood against them in Imam. The body of my guy. Is he sort of handsome? But that does mean that it was a kid, you have faith in Amman. Because Typerius wasn't here with the crows.

Also, no, it was because of Amman. It was because of Amon. So can we get like a vague idea of how long these people look like they might have been here? Make an investigation check. Can I help? Sure. It would be advantage on that check for you.

Oh, no, that wasn't bad. Ooh! Never mind. I'll take that 21. 21? Yeah. You gather these bodies have probably been here for the better part of a week, week and a half.

There is, you know, mild decomposition starting to settle in. There is a bit of bloating to some of them. Couldn't have been much longer than that. A week. That's before we set up. Why would they put a warning for us here in the city? They assumed we would come, but they don't know that we're here. They invited us.

Those birds might have told them that we're here. This was a week ago. This is before we were even close. Let's stick with the plan. Sticking with the plan. Let's go find a building. We're going to go find something that's a decent distance away from the three noble households that has a reasonable view of the tree.

Yeah, 150 feet from the tree. That would probably be somewhere in this vicinity here as the three main houses are right there. Something with a second floor view, but with some distance. Preferably, three bedroom, three bath. I'd say, make the message check. This is just keeping out. I'm just sitting there.

Yeah, sex. Can I look too? I've been on the lookout for a building the whole time. I'll say it takes the better part of the next hour or so, and you do a little bit of meandering to find it. You guys are being stealthy the best you can through alleys and such, but even so you're out in the open midday, but you are also, So, you know, under. Does it look like there's like a covering kind of nearby,

roughly, and 30 feet or so from the tree? 30 feet. 30 feet? No, the tree is out in the center, and essentially, the nearest building is probably from 100, 200 feet away from it. Like it's just the tree on the middle of the square. And the square of it used to have probably more things

towards the center, more temporary establishments have all been put to the sides and put in disuse. You do manage to see what appears to be a, what was once a tavern or an end of some kind that is silent, closed, the door is locked and chained. The windows look dusty. In the window so it keeps chained. Okay. You go on the side of it through the alley. Dust of tracelessness.

You go ahead and... You guys going in? Yeah. Yeah. This is where we're going to get held up. I kind of want to talk to the tree. We'll then go talk to the tree. The window is locked out now.

No, no, no. Not yet. It's a post-up, put. What am I, stealthing right now? Can I talk to the chest? It's okay. Continuing, you guys, stealth is going. So this would be your attempting to unlock the window.

Oh, unlock, okay. So that's a 22. It takes a little bit to kind of jostlet and awakes the locks on the inside, but there are ways that you can, you can just me the glass and get something underneath to push it aside. I managed to get the window open, and as you pull it up, the dustbin, kind of billows up around, and you kind of set it aside. You step in and the place smells stale, musty, um, uh, dark. dark, there are, you'd see candle sticks set around that have not been lit for a while.

And the oil lanterns that normally light the interior of the main tavern, social area have been long and long in disuse. Is there a cellar here? If you guys want to look around, are you all going in? Yeah, we're all going. No, we're all going. Are you talking to a tree?

Yes. Come inside. You don't want to come talk to a tree with me? Not yet. Don't ring that thing. Come with us. Come with us. All right, all right.

I'm going to bitter mill. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm going to look for a brabble. You'll all make your way in. It's going to be the saddest brawold. You find your way inside the abandoned tavern.

And it is what was this giant L-shaped building right here in the corner of the town square. There's a second floor. Approximately runs 20 rooms. They are all currently unlocked. Some of them left open. The bedding. covered and doth, some of it. Looks like it was left in a hurry.

Yeah, we'll take it. There is a cellar. Yeah. You find the cellar, and down there, there are a number of empty barrels, and a couple of ones that are still full. One that appears to be almost like a heavy whiskey barrel. Probably about 20 untouched wine bottles.

Nice. And a little bit of ale, but it looks like a lot of the ale was either completely used or taken with whoever left and abandoned the premises. I think we could definitely use these for explosions if we need them. Or to drink. Muscle relaxes.

Is there a view of the tree from the same? From a number of the rooms up top. Not every room has a window, but it's like every third room on that side of the building does have a view of the entire square. Can I get an eye as to how far away it is? It's, I'd say, probably about 200 feet, 150 feet. Can you go invisible and still talk to the tree? Hmm?

I can make her invisible. Can you talk to the tree if you're invisible? Only for an hour. If you cast a spell while invisible, unless it's greater invisibility, it will drop the illusion. I can make her invisible. I got an idea.

We can burrow under, we can find something closer. Yeah. Actually, what are we up to right now? We do anything? Are we busy? Well, there are windows on. the first floor, right? You're in the basement.

You're in the basement. We're in the cellar. That's why I went to the cellar. I just find some old rags or anything I can find tablecloths and just cover the windows. Okay. But make it not obvious because it doesn't want to look like we cover the windows. True. I've watched you pass through solid stone and earth.

How long can you do that for? I mean, I can borrow us a tunnel right now. Do it. Can you get us close to the... Underneath the tree. That's what she's going to do. Let's do it. I'm going to do it right now.

I'm going to cast my move earth. From the cellar. Okay. I'm going to go down. We're going to start carving a tunnel to the bottom. To the direction of the tree. And I want to be careful. I don't want to damage the roots of the tree at all.

So as I start getting closer, I want to start looking for the roots of the tree. Okay. Easy enough to find old rags. All of them kind of have that stale, musty towel sent to them. You get them a little wet. There's no water here. All the water here has dried out. Some of the wine.

You have to use the wine, which probably actually kills some of the bacteria. There are wells throughout the town you see, like ground wells that are set in the city. There's no nearby river. The closest river, the one that you know, if it's about a 30-minute walks out. It's a bit of a ways.

Yeah. But yeah, you use that and kind of focus on it. It's easy enough for you to go around and put cloth over the windows. It's a dark interior, so it's not like an immediate. Just so light doesn't leak out. But just in case, I think I'll hang back. I'm not going down a pre-made tunnel.

I'll just keep an eye on above ground. I have a little. I'm going to go with you in the top tower. I'm going to tinker a little thing. Can I borrow an arrow? Yes. Thank you. I'm going to tinker a very little easy thing. You want the top floor? I'll take the bottom.

I want to be able to fire and ignite one of the parchments that on an arrow so that I can, I can, I can, do you want me to shoot the arrow for you? Set it, set a burn mark at a distance. Okay. It's not enough, it would, it would be a spark as opposed to actual flame, it would just, it would just be concussive force of, of,

right, it's more getting the parchment there without it tearing or the arrow leaving it behind because it is a very thin flimsy piece. It would be, it would be coiled. Oh, coiled and then hit release and, yeah. Okay, that's gonna be a really intricate, Go ahead and roll a 19-grish check. See what happens.

20, 20, 20. 16. Okay. You tore with it for a while. You think you have something that may work. You're uncertain on its release if it will function or not. So write down a parchment delivery arrow question mark next to it.

Yeah. Maybe there's a simple one. There might be, but just in case there's not, I want to make sure that this works. Can I just like slap it up there and and I think it was a little. Well, I've got options. I've got three of them, so I've got options,

but I just want to make sure I had a distance awesome. How's my burrow it going? 200 feet. All right. You continue to burrow through the ground, kind of moving the earth aside, and the tunnel just kind of opens before you, like the clay slowly melting away.

And it is, you know, wet earth. Eventually you start getting to a few thick roots under the tree. Can you talk to it from here, Keel? And the roots that you see, they continue past the tunnel. Like, they go very, very deep into the ground. Awesome. I'm going to kind of clear out a little bit more area. I want to touch the roots and cast Speak with plants.

Speak with plants. Only super power more pathetic than Aquaman's. Yeah. Sorry. Hey, whiz, I wish I had some water. The sun is so bright today. Right today. Too bad we don't have Tiberius with us with this endless water fucking... It's ent voice.

Hi, Aquaman. Sure, sure, sure. I can go to one of the wells and get us some water. Hi Aquaman. Hey, Hukes cool sometimes. Hi Aquaman. Sometimes. That's what fish say.

Hi, Aquaman. That's what fish say. All right. So, all they, hey. Hi, Aquaman. You finish the, you reach out and you touch the root and you instill the force of your nature-based divine energies into the root. energies into the route.

No! Dead! You bring it back? Should I... You can do that? I'm a druid. That's my... Yeah, man. You can bring dead things back?

Yeah. It's called plant growth. What? What? This I gotta see. Should I... Okay, but it's dead. What time is it right now?

Is it Wick? Right now, all the traveling has been in the town I'd say it's past noon, probably, including the time you've spent inside the tavern, kind of searching it through, and preparing it your base of operations. Do it. Should I start it up now?

Yeah, I'll do it. Go for it. I'm going to start my plant growth. I'm going to, okay, so I'm going to drop. Can I try to almost clear out an area to where I can just, like, I should be fine. Reach up in, it's like, it's junk kind of area. Put your hand in.

Yeah, I'm going to strap on my blocks. Okay. Turning call. Hope you guys are ready for this. Is it gonna be loud? No, it's just gonna take a long time. Max and I are guard in the tavern, so if anything, I'm gonna get some provisions ready to like

spoon feed her. Actually, yeah, before I do that, can we all have one last meal together and eat a Heroes Feast? I like it. Yes, certainly. Yeah. Yeah. Let's eat.

So you've made the purchase within IMAN for how many of the requisite chalice for the Heroes Feast? How many did I buy? I thought you have at least one. Well, I think it gets used. It's expensive. It's a thousand dollars. Yeah, it's a gem-encrusted bowl worth at least a thousand gold pieces, which the spell consumes.

So we'll say how many of those did you purchase in EMA knowing you'd be casting this in the future? How much gold do we have? Not a lot. We had, you can have purchased, is that just for each person or a thousand gold for the carding? No, that will feast. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How about you did three bowls? Three bowls. Mark 3,000 gold from the group's queue. Yeah. Kind of damn. And you have three gem bowls, using one now, so you have two bowls left at your disposal, and you prepare a hero's feast for the group to consume. I take some of that leftover wine, use that to make it fancy wine.

This is great. It's awesome. Are we eating in the cellar? So you get, I believe, 2D12 additional hit points on top of your maximum hit points. Wait, what, forever? No. For how long? 24 hours.

Less for 24 hours. 2D12? So until about, uh, tomorrow, 2 p.m. That's it. So mark that down. Somebody note that it lasts until 2.m. An additional 2D12?

2D12. 2D 10. Oh, I'm sorry, 2D10. Damn it. Or overall hit points. Oh, that brings me into one. And you should have, ooh, I got two tins. Oh, badass.

Trinket can also eat from this, by the way, too. Oh, yay. Yes. You also get other bonuses. Yep, you are immune to poison and diseases and being frightened, and all wisdom saving throws are made with advantage. Feast is lost. Why don't we do that right before we go see the Briarwoods also?

We have another bowl. We have two more rules. Because that is fucking awesome. I'm doing that right now, just in case the Briarwoods decided to come say hello. Okay. Or any of the other terrible people who live in this town. There are terrible people in this town. That was a delicious feast.

The tequila was tanning. I knew that's for you. So we're immune to poison and disease and frighten. Frighten. That's good. Poison disease. So feast consumed.

You now take your next eight hours. I'm gonna go meditate. I'll be back in eight hours. To work on this as she sits down to begin the ritual of cleansing or of bringing plant vitality enhancement to the vicinity of white stone, We're going to go ahead and end today's session there. Oh, please, not that music.

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Wait, what? All will be revealed in. Sonic the Hedgehog presents the Chaotics Case Fires. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. When the Chaotics are on the case. It's ticklish business anyway. You look at it. Come on, we'll stick together. Love movies.

Love, classic. movies, so do we. Tick Bush Business is the podcast where classic film is discussed in modern times. Hosted by me, film journalist Kristen Lopez, and my co-host, author Emily Edwards, we dive into the golden age of cinema with fun, heart, and serious expertise. As published film historians and lifelong classic movie buffs, we bring insider insights, deep research, and lively debates with a variety of special guests, ranging from celebrities like Holly Madison, to T-C-M luminaries Dave Carger and Eddie Muller, and even family members of old Hollywood legends. Subscribe now to ticklish business on your favorite podcast app, and let's talk about old Hollywood today.