Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 42 - Dangerous Dealings

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

In the wake of the devastation of Emon, Vox Machina begin making their long term plans to take back the city. But first, they must decide whether or not to make a devil's bargain with the Clasp: a dangerous underground criminal organization.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So to get you up to speed, Vax Machina, the intrepid band of adventurers you see before you, after a series of adventures had found their way back to their central city of Imann in the center of the region of Taldore. After a ceremony in which the leader of their city, Sovereign Uriel Tadore, was announcing him stepping down. The town was suddenly under siege by a group of extremely powerful and dangerous ancient dragons. that call themselves the Chroma Conclave. After tearing the city asunder in many places,

three of them flew off into the east under the instruction of the fourth and possibly largest in leader of the group. It has recently been found to be called Thoradak, the Cinder King, who currently resides in the center of the city of Amman, claiming that his mercy is only to those who worship him and essentially feed his greed and hunger.

As such, Voxmachina narrowly escaping the battle. A couple of encounters with these dragons, including one above their keep, are housing a number of survivors who made their way out of the city and are currently residing in Grey Skull, Keep for protection. You guys went into the city to see if you could find

any other allies and friends that may have survived this encounter. You befriended a member of the clasp named Garthok who walked amongst the rubble and proceeded to show you the secret entrance he knows to the clasp, of which you may be trying to inquire about information. On your way to that area you've passed by Gilmore's shop, Gilmore being a good friend of the group and a powerful magic practitioner and creator of magical items and artifacts and a number of glorious goods. His abode, however, smashed and currently a pile of burnt

wood and rock. Luters were currently pouring through, and you attempted to get them to leave the area alone, it came to blows and with many of the looters falling in battle, two of which were kept locked away. You discovered the location of where they were hoarding the massive amounts of gold and artifacts that they had acquired from the rubble. You then found the secret compartment in which Gilmore's teleportation sigil was locked beneath his shop where the remaining family of Tal'Dore, Saldah and the three children, as well as Gilmore himself wounded and barely alive, having saved them. You found that Euryel, the sovereign, did not seemingly survive the encounter with the dragons, and Gilmore nearly fell going

back to try and make sure that you guys were okay, barely escaping with his life. You managed to save his and taking the children, Salda, Sherry, and Gilmore back to Grey Skull Keep. Some of you splintered off to try and acquire the goods that were taken from his store. However, They apparently had already been stolen from the location they were being stored in or been delivered already, you're uncertain as to what became of them. But you get the sense that it was probably best that you chose Gilmore over the gold at first glance. Making your way back to the keep, you've sent Gilmore up to rest for the evening. Some of you have then found your way down into the Temple of Sarenrae, where a number of the escaped refugees from

Mimon currently try desperately to cling to their memories, to try to try to and keep the shakes at bay and contemplate what the next step is in survival in this now partially ruined city. And that was where we left off. So what would you like to do? Kill all the dragons and save the day. Good. Roll for it. Oh, that's a good roll, see? Natural 20s. No. No. No. You wake up. I love it. I love it. I ruled five natural 20s before. the show even started. So it's all going to be...

It's an important lesson. Terrible. Why are you rolling before the show? She feels like she's got to warm up her endless army of dice. No, I just have to figure out which ones I want to use that night. You have five D-20s right now.

I know, and they're all useful. No, I've got six out here, so... Yeah, definitely all useful. This is, by the way, for anybody tuning in for the first time at home. This is how we express. We have no idea what to do. Thursday night is critical.

Oh, night. Where are we? We're at home. We're in Gray Skull Keep. And Gilmore's with us? Gilmore's with you. He's brought upstairs. And did Pike's holy visitor fix the keep, or is the keep still eft up?

Actually, in the short time in which her visitor, this angelic diva-like entity that was brought forth from Sarah and Ray's sphere of influence, did manage to repair entirely the damage that was sustained to the keep from the Battle of the Vulug out in your courtyard. So yes, the gray skull keep is now back to being intact and rather fairly polished. Excellent. The stained glasses are fixed and incorrected. Wow. It must look so strange next to the ruined city of Imam. It's far enough away, but... It's strange. Yeah. So what time is it? It was night time, right? Just throw a tarp over it or something. Or not like midday? It's about mid-afternoon at this point maybe pushing into the evening. Is Kima still around?

Is Lady Kima still around or? Lady Kima has been in Vasselheim. No, not Basileheim, I'm so sorry. Allura. No, Laura went to Westro. Yeah, she went to Westro. Yeah, she and Drake went. I moved my nope.

Remember, they turn into shooting stars and they flew away. Is Clorota still here with us? We're all too good stars tonight, guys. In your hearts. I'm proud of it. In your heart of hearts. No, not even there. A piece of shit.

I sure he is. The majority of the, are they in the dining hall and in the... They're scattered between the dining hall and the temple, the temple room to Sarah and Ray, partially because, one, there's enough space there, too. It's a place of sanctity. It's a place of hope. And Pike is currently bringing people, not preaching to them per se, but offering comfort in their current area of misery and worry. So those are pretty much the localized areas. Occasionally one of the kids might begin wandering the halls and the parent might chase after them trying to draw them back in. But, you know, respectfully, no one's wandering the house filling their pockets. They're all still happy to be alive at this point.

Well, that's because we don't have anything because Scanlan's troop stole everything anyway. We bought new silverware. We're sure we didn't. Maybe they can eat it. Maybe it wasn't my troop. Maybe it was our new guests, the people fleeing for them. I was going to say, are there any new people that have come into the keep while we've been away? Could I ask one of our gods at? Sure, yeah. Shane, who's out front currently just kind of strolling through the courtyard comes up to you,

and as you ask her, she goes, well, but we've had a few other refugees come in and ask for entry, and we patted them down, make sure there were no weapons, and tried our best to keep an on since they've arrived. But, you know, seems like most everyone's keeping either into the city or keeping fairly underground. Nobody's sticking out to you, though. No shady individuals. Nobody sweating more than is, you know, necessary when being threatened by a big fuck-off dragon. Not yet, but I believe Jared's keeping a close eye. Jared. That guy.

All right. Man crush? No. No. I wonder... I don't believe that. I wonder in all prudence, should we... Should we go around to the Fugees?

and the refugees and just do a quick, like, scan of the alignment check or something. Oh no. Yeah. Lauren Hill is chicken. Do we have anything that you like sense people's alignment? Do you? Pike might.

And you might. Yeah, I can. I can. Can you mass sense alignment? Mass sense alignment? Is that a thing? No, I'm saying I can do some like inside checks on people. I don't know if I'm talking about magic, huh? No, I'm not, I'm not Pike. All right. Pike.

Pike's with us though, right? She could do an insight check. Is she with us? Pike is with you. She is currently helping folks inside the temple, but you can go after her too. We can go ask her. We use the skull to wish to know everyone's alignment. Problem solved. I'll kill everyone. Maybe we should just kill one of them to make an example. This is terrible. What is the tone. This is the real. This is the real. This isn't the real game. The game hasn't actually started yet. So, glancing about the populace of scattered refugees throughout the general vicinity of Grey Scull Keep,

I will pick two of you who wish to be the main surveyors of the crew. Is this insight? This would be insight. Not me. I'm on it. Okay, so Vex and Keeliff, with you guys, roll insight checks, please. Okay. See, this is why I shouldn't have as many dice. I don't know what to choose.

Okay. 20, what is that? 21? 21. Inside? 22. 21. Both of you guys spend about 10, 50 minutes or so just scanning through the crew, asking a few questions,

helping a few folks out while keeping an eye on reactions around the general vicinity. No one sticks out to you as being either hiding their intent, shifty. There are a few folks that are just a little. from the whole experience. It seemed to be either in a state of shock or just discomfort based on their current surroundings, but nothing in a way that strikes you as nefarious or worrisome. And are they all strangers other than the people we brought back with us recently?

They are all strangers. Yeah. A lot of people live in Imon and none of them seem to catch your eye. Is anyone still badly hurt? Most of them have had their wounds tended to. There are a few that have general scars, Some from elements of kind of frostbite on their skin who got caught in the blast, who were salvaged before, you know, if they were Borgal left. There are a few that just have scrapes and bruises from fleeing from the town, from collapsing debris from different buildings and such, but no serious, serious injuries. A few bone fractures here in there that have been set and bandaged.

I'm going to spend the first bit of time at home just helping Pike, just doing whatever she tells me to do, really, to help the people here. Okay. Is there any deceased that need to be tended to? Well, there are a number of deceased in the front courtyard, people that were frozen and shattered as part of World War Galt's attack, which at this point most of them have been taken care of by the guards and given proper burial on the outside of the keep a few yards away towards like on the inside of one of the hills. They haven't been left to thaw if that was what you're worried about. That's what I was worried about. No. In the time.

I thought that's what we were doing today. It's cost-effective. A number of the refugees have also helped the guards as well as transporting the bodies of the deceased and making sure they're properly interred in the nearby countryside. Okay. What are our options here? First of all, should we... Do we know this Gilmore status? Yeah, we need to get him settled in and make sure he's alright. Well, he's gone up, he's resting.

Yeah, we put him in bed to bed already. He's in Percival's room, I think, because you said you would sleep in your laboratory. And when we last left things, there was one plan to go into the tunnels of the Thieves Guild and try to see if there's any more. Actually, Garthawk is, Garthawk is waiting for us down in those. I would like to talk to the clasp.

So we can go look at the clasp and talk to them and everything, he's told them we're on our way. And to what end again? We're just, we're gonna see if there's any random diplomats left over? They're the only functioning organizations left in this city at this point. It's true, they're sort of a double-edged sword though. I mean, they should not be trusted.

We cannot trust them, but they are an infrastructure under the city. They may have more of an idea what's going on than we do. I'm the best to speak to them, but I'm not on good terms with them. And I've never really talked to you about this, but you were marked. one point a long time ago. What?

And... For death? The re... Actually, yes. Why? Well... What did I do? I'm sure I don't know.

The reason there is a brand on my back is because I interceded. Some other schmo died instead of you. And you might be a bit of a sore point with them. I don't know. They might not remember, but I don't think that's true. I think they'll... remember. How long ago was this? What did you do? Before we knew you. So many things.

Before we met, when Vex and I were on our own. Was it because you farted that time? You didn't think you could mention this? All the times we've dealt with a clasp. You didn't think it was worth mentioning. No, she's already been down there. Why? She's already been down there. You think they're going to recognize her now? We're going down to talk. We've been down there to talk. All right. All right. This is why you don't keep secrets.

Well, I say that we organize a group. Let's not get over-excited about the sudden realization that, you know, some of us can be a bit iffy. We've all had a moment. We've all had a moment probably within the last three weeks. I'm not saying I don't. I'm not saying I don't. Yes, oddly, you in Pike seem to be immune. And is a virtue. But let's organize a group and let's at least open relations with them at this point.

Oh, hang on, hang on. What are we going to say to them when we get down there? What's the, what are we going to offer them? We are going to offer them our services in getting the city back into a functioning level. They don't want a city ruled by a dragon. We don't want a city ruled by a dragon. It's in their interest to help us clear the city. They're going to look out for the city.

They're going to look out for themselves, and you're probably, I'm sure you're right, they want these dragons out, but they will do, they will preserve their own existence, and there's a possibility that bowing before these beasts will preserve their existence. Not long term, and these are groups that think long term. Wait, are you talking about us bowing to the class? No, the class, but the class was down to the dragons. I sincerely doubt it. There are levels.

And yes, we've been down there, we've argued with them, but we're talking about going down there making an alliance, an ongoing alliance, and shit might come up. That's what I'm saying. Let's make it a business deal. We're talking about making a political decision. This is politics. What if they leave?

What if they leave the city? Or what if they turn us into the dragon to save their own arses? They could. I doubt they'd leave. That's a terrible waste of an investment. You're essentially relying on the underbelly of Amman to restore it.

I am, I'm relying on greed. It tends to. to be exceedingly reliable. In your experience. Yes. All experience, let's be honest. Thank you. Said the greedy one to the greedy one.

Well, this is one option. Are we sure we don't want to see help in? Yes, what are other options? I'm curious as to other options. We know why the dragons are here, right? I think we do. I really feel like it might be necessary for me to also reach out to the air and earth and possibly even

the water ashari, it might be difficult because I haven't been there yet to see if they've had any other tears through the other elemental planes. That would be quite wise? Yeah. We can also seek to employ their services. I am... What about you becoming a spy? I've been thinking about that long and hard. Have you?

Yes. What are your thoughts? Most of what I do is long and hard. And my thoughts are still, fuck you, no way, papa. So what you're saying is? Maybe. You're thinking of that. You're saying there's a chance.

Your shining moment. Nothing is ever going to top the Treseratops, really. Maybe the Treseratops could kill all the dragons. All right, so we reach out to the Ashari. Absolutely. How's your home? I don't know. Do we need to find out? I would love to. You can transport there instantly. I can. I just can't get back instantly.

You need Keenith. And I figured that they would have sent somebody at this point if things had gone. They have an instant transport to us if they need to find us. That's true. The fact that they haven't. Unless they don't know about the stone and the only one with the stone. The council knows about this stone. Oh, there's no one left to send. Yes, if things went south instantly. You would have heard.

I can scry twice today. That would be lovely. I can do it two times, so we need a pick. Where's most important to check in versus where we might want to just pop in and say hello. White Stone is also somewhere where we could arm ourselves more completely against something like this. We're going to have to start with what? As note, too, Pike can also ascribe as well. Oh, good.

Because I would like to check into Vasselheim as well. How do you kill a dragon? Do we need a dragon? Can we get a dragon that hates these dragons? Is that a thing? You know, there is the Slayer's take. Wait, wait. What are we saying? Oh. Do those are dragons and hate dragons? Yeah, can we find a dragon who can fight for us? Well, there's metallic dragons.

Don't get along with Chromatic. Do we know any metallic dragons? Yeah, where are they? We'll have to go to Vasselheim and maybe... My aunt Edna. What? She's a dragon lady, I don't know if it's the same things. Like, oh, right.

Like she, she, as in little ceramic dragons, she likes collecting them? I was mocking him yet. Right. So wait, the Slayers take, what? Well, it's an organization made to hunt massive creatures, isn't it? It's a horde of fucking ass kickers is what it is. We fought a dragon. We killed a dragon for them.

They are also rooted in vassal hunters. rooted in Vasselheim, which is... It's safe. Safe. Yes, but... We think. If everything else is under attack, Vasselheim is inevitable. Yes, but they're protected.

However... For a time. Allow me to play Teethling's advocate. And if we leave now and allow the clasp to take hold and form some sort of new shadow government, without us having any part in it, it's out of our control completely. out of our control completely. It won't be in our control at all, but maybe if we speak to them now we'll have a better idea of what's going on. I'm not sold on any idea yet, but

if we leave now and let things play out, it's entirely out of our hands. All right, well, how about this? We can scribe between Pike and I four times, so we can make four phone calls today. Not phone calls, just a look. Phone. Yes. Look, look at home. Look. We can talk back.

No, we can peek through a window. Phone? And we can then try and go visit the class. Okay, well let's scry it up then. Who are we calling? White Stone? Vasselheim? The center of Iman?

Whitestone in Vasselheim, I think, definitely. And I want to check in with... Could I object to check in the center of him on, right? Because that's where the Cinder King is? Let's... Yes. Did he like real magic? And when we did that to the beholder, didn't it like see a...

like see us and laugh and then we were like, eh, it hurt my brain. He's got a point. We don't need to describe it to a one. We don't need to describe it to one. I remember. So how many... We're talking Vasselheim, yeah?

White Stone. Whitestone. And you can do it another two. You know what, let's go talk to Pike, because Pike might possibly have some sort of spiritual connection with Vasselheim as well. It might save us a scry. But it's possible that you're possible

that Vasselheim might be our next stop after we secure everything here. Okay. I can also tell the port us once today if we decide to go anywhere. Thanks. Pike. Pike? Pikey. Comes out. A little bit of dirt in her brow.

Looks like she's been busy kind of handling some of the folks. I reach out and just sort of brush the dirt from about her forehead. She goes and pushes your hand away. Yes. What? Yes? Pike, do you have any sort of spiritual connection with Vasselheim? Do you feel, you know how... I do. I do.

Why? Okay. Can you check? Can you just kind of... Can you see if they're okay? We want to scry. Oh. And check in with a few places, but... Of course, of course, no worry. She kind of ushers you guys back into the temple. Okay. I think it's a little nervous when she starts thinking about it and walks up to the...

the central platform of prayer and takes out her holy symbol. Her armor is off right now, by the way. She's just in her kind of ceremonial robes. It's kind of hard to clink around her armor amongst a bunch of refugees. It sits down and focuses for a second and pulls out some salt and begins spreading it into a small kind of triangular shape around her, and then pulls her holy single up and closes her eyes. And for that moment, you can see a beam of sunlight come through the roof, the glass roof of the temple, which is a little then refracts into multiple colors that slowly dissipate around her. You can see everyone else who's gathered in the room falls quiet and just kind of watches on as there's this tiny

little visual miracle. She stays there for a moment, a few more moments, probably about 30, 40 seconds past before the light slowly retracts back up through the glass. And she stands up and turns around and goes, Um, Masaheim seems fine for now. What have touched from the Dragon Scourge at the very least. What of Whitestone? Oh, yes. She goes right back down in position, kind of within an air of begrudging acceptance.

It focuses for a second. Spends a few more moments in her scrying ritual before stepping back and turns slowly to you, Percy, and says, White Stone seems fairly overlooked by these dragons as well. The town rebuilds. People seem to be going about their lives, possibly none the wiser as to what's transpired this side of Falore. Oh, weird. Okay.

We'll send word at the very least. It's all over the water, maybe the dragons haven't gone that far. It's far north. I'll make sure to send word. One of the kids starts crying, and she goes, oh, hold on, and goes over and starts tending to one of the children who has like a knee brace on, it's currently aching and she goes to help calm them down. Do you think you could look in on Singorn? Most exceed you step up to the table and begin by scrying which one, check it on singhorn. Okay.

Oh, come on. We need like cups and strings. We do. We need a string. Or a walkie-talkie? He's saying, Singorn is gone. Don't say that. Millions, dad. Millions. Millions.

It's very large. Remember to shop at Gilmore's ruined rubble. Oh, no. He didn't even get a new franchise before it was. For all your reclaimed wood needs. Oh. Well done. Well done.

Oh. It was nice. The best was watching Laura go, oh, what a great idea. Oh. An endless supply of pavers and gravel. Bill Moore's buildings. It's like. Oh, your home improvement.

All your home improvement. What did you see, Keyleth? Singorn is gone. Nope. And I don't mean destroyed. I don't mean burned. I don't mean that. I mean, that it gets in rebel.

I mean, it's gone. The city's gone. There's like a huge chasm, a huge, empty spot in the middle of the forest where St.gloon once lied. Lai, lay. Was it, did it look like it was destroyed to nothing, or transported somewhere? Like that, like transported, like the city.

was lifted out of its place and is... ...was teleported elsewhere. Could it have been... I don't know how your scrying works. Could it have been some sort of a magical block, not real, an illusion of some sort? I would like Vax and Vex to both roll a history check. Any kind of advantage on that? Nope.

We're growing up there. Nope. You get to roll this because of that. History? Shit. Should have stayed in school. Eight. 15.

Okay. Can I take a rule just for being a nerd? All out of luck. Are you proficient in history? I am proficient in history. Sure, I'll let you roll. I want a nerd roll. 24.

Okay. Book reading! Okay. Being the astute researcher, the indoor kid growing up. No friends. Yeah. There aren't a lot of books. There's a lot of books that made their way north about pure elven culture, especially wooded elves that comprised the entirety of the single nation.

I speak elven, so that's good. It is rarely come into play, but because of previous wars, terrible devastation and the need for the elvish culture to protect itself and to maintain its existence. resistance, you do know that there have been instances of large enchantments on places of cultural importance that would bridge between here and the Faywild. And as a defense mechanism essentially would cloak and or shift those locations. They've gone into hiding. How can you be sure? I can't, but there's reason to believe so. It's what it points to. What points to what? What are you talking about?

Historically, elves have, in times of great stress, taken important sites, important places, people, and either cloak them, hidden them, or move them into the Fay Wild until such time as the danger has passed. There is precedence for this. They've gone into hiding. Great. That's one more thing our father failed to impart to us. At least he's safe. Okay.

Most likely. I need to check in on the air, Shari. It's been my last crying. Okay. As your vision separates from your current place of origin, you find yourself drifting up into the clouds and speeding through the air. The location itself is blurred, though recalling the origin of where you originally came from. You pass by columns of black smoke. To your left,

you assume somewhere related to Western's current location. Right. Eventually the clouds part and you find yourself thrust down upon the earth amongst the center of the Ereshari tribe. You can see the thin leather constructs that make up a portion of your people's hoffles and buildings. You can see the nearby kind of chasm-based windfall that pours through constantly with a gentle whistling sound that forever is marked as the chorus that guides you all to sleep every evening. There you can see your people amongst various conversations going to amongst their various daily duties, seemingly untouched, unscathed, and unaware of what recent

events have transpired. That is the last of your scarring capability for the day. It girls don't sky. Sorry, I sat on that, but. Wow. Wow, just get after a bit today, Talison. You know, just because you can doesn't mean you should. I know, I know. Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Right, they're okay. They seem unaware, which is very disheartening on a few levels. Well, they'll know soon enough. Exactly. We are going to need transport.

To where? I don't think we're going to win this fight staying here. I think we're going to have to rally power. I think we're going to have to rally allies. I don't think there's enough. We don't think there's enough here for us to win. Can we relocate all of the refugees staying in our walls? Can we bring everyone through the sun tree, Keelith. How long does it stay open? Six seconds.

Nope. We can go in shifts. This is not something that's going to be solved tomorrow. We can take a week and move people. That's true. And there's 50 to 100 refugees, you said. Something like that, right? At this point now, in your keep surviving, you're looking in the 30s. 30s? Yeah. But there's hundreds more inside the city walls, thousands. The time being. We're not going to be able to empty the city. But we can at least get these people out.

We can get these people out. And we're going to need, and I apologize for the brightness in my voice, I think we're going to need an airship. We're going to be all destroyed it. You mean like the one that crashed? Like the one that crashed. Like the one that crashed. There's one dragon attacking it and it's down.

We're going to need to move quickly though from city to city and we're going to need to get word. Well, moving quickly from city to city, I don't know. We may have to steal an airship at some time. What? You're gonna steal a plane? I'm making a plan. I'm thinking of a plan.

You keep thinking there. It's working. Well, I mean, I've recently discovered that that misty windwalk spell that I cast on a... all of us. It's not great for battle, but it is great for travel. And that lasts for eight hours. What does, who?

What's this? Remember how I almost killed us all? Yes, yes. He turned us into mist. Yeah. Thanks, Grog. What I learned out of that was it's not great for battle, but it is great for travel.

It lasts for eight hours we can move 300 feet for seconds. We get the refugees out. We get the refugees out, we go to White Stone, we talk to them there, we use the Misty Walk thingy and go to Varsalheim, talk to the Slayer's Take. This is perfect. Are we going to check in with the clasp? I really like Percy's idea about stealing a plane. I'm just throwing that out there. There is an empty air dock that's currently not being used in the city. But do we need a ship right now, darling?

It would be so cool. I understand the joy in it. We don't need it now, but we're going to be... We could take all of these refugees with us. That's actually a very fair point. We would be helping humanity. You all, I'm with Vex. And having a caper. A dragon wouldn't notice a giant airship flying out of the city.

If we hide it with some smoke screen action of some sort? Guys, this is an RPG, not a JRP. I want to live like Teddy Ruxbin. This is all I've ever wanted. We need to talk to the claspers. All right, let's go talk to the class first. We'll ask them what they think about. Pasadlora and Drake are coming back.

We need to talk to them as well. Find out what's going on in Western. And then we need to get everyone out. I can do, I can transport some of us via plants. Today, I will have to sleep if we want in like study to do the Misty stuff again. I've got a plan. We have time. This is not a one day plan.

Here's a good plan, though. Here it comes, everybody. Open up the tree, send a bunch of things. Send a bunch of refugees through. Just shove them through as fast as possible. Sure. Percy, you go with them, with, we keep the stone. You go through, you talk to your sister,

you bamf back with the stone. Ooh. Let White Stone know what's going on. And then we talk to the class together. I think that's a good plan. They will freak out of 20 refugees, pour out of the Sun Tree. Thank you. And they have no context.

Do that first. Arithmetic. Yes. Okay. So wait. Are you going to go on your mission while we go talk to the clouds? No, I'm. No, we're going to wait for this now.

All right. So can we get the refugees together? Here. All right, so as you go into the temple and get Pike's attention, you begin to round up the refugees, which, as a statement, historically, is already unnerving. You begin to push them all together in a group and tell them what.

Oh, well, we comfort them and tell them, all right. What's going on? Obviously, Amon is not a safe place to be right now. No, that's true, that's true. It's terrible here. It's dangerous. And we want to keep all of you as safe as possible. Yes, and thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. So it's like cheering.

So we have a plan. Probably can only take a few. They should be willing to children. Today. We're going to take those of you who need the most attention first. And we're going to bring you to White Stone, which is a city that has not been affected by dragons at all. It has much need of people who can do an honest day

And you can earn a wage and find a living there for the time being. And if at some point in time you want to come back to Amon when all of this is done, of course you're more than welcome to. There is opportunity there. And no dragons. Make a perception check today. Today. For now we're rolling the gold one.

Stay on the Agenday. 20? Hey, that's good. A couple of folks kind of... I've never been to Whitestone. Is it cold? Yes. In the winter. It's winter.

Then it could be a little chilly. Bundle up. We'll give you some wool blankets for the trip. Okay. There's definitely no vampires there. Not. A couple of kids go, Vampires, sir.

I like that we're sending to them to the place that's got the orb of dev. They don't know that. It's going through. What was that? No, nothing. She didn't say anything. I said, you might be able to see your breath. Winter, right. Okay, let's grab up our things, and some of the folks

are getting their things together, what they had on their back essentially as they rushed here, kind of shake a few out of their shell shock, and they all kind of gather up towards the center of the central Sarin-ray. How many do you think we can fit through in six seconds? Don't. I already gave it to Keith.

Okay. D.M. Question? How many do you think I can fit through in six seconds? We'll find out. If I put them in like a line and we're like, oh, go, go, go. How do you want to do this? They can't get, no one can get cut in half, can they?

They can't get hurt. Oh, shit. Well, as soon as we see it's hard to shrink, we stop, we cut off the line. Well, what we should do, here's the thing that I'm worried about. We don't want like a kid to go through and then they can't get separated from their mom. No, no, no, only, only. Oh, only families. Well, everybody's got to grow up at some point.

How many children are here? I'd say you have seven children. Children with their moms go, and families go first. We were saying that they're terribly injured. The people of the worst injuries. All right, those people first. Yeah, because they'll go through real fast. And then with kids, but they need attention now.

They need attention now. Let's, hey, we're gonna be doing this every day for several days. I've got a weird theory. Let's not send people with injuries. Can we put them on that guy? yet so that they can perhaps Pike can stay here and take care of them for a little bit. We'll get some... We can't like put them on a wagon.

We can't like put him on a wagon. We don't want to lose a wagon to white stone. This is just how Schindler did it, by the way. What? No, he just debated it for a while and then... No words! And the room goes... No words!

Silence and the mug comes up. Okay. So. To not the injured. Families first. How about that? Families first. That can move. We'll count to six and then we'll put a rope down. And when we hit six, we pull the rope and it will just hold everybody.

Wait, there's a rope? Okay, maybe. As soon as we see it's hard to shrink, I'll hold the people back. Yes, just hold the people back. So, Percy, you're first, everybody pulled through. So any families here? Families? Some of the kids raise their hands.

Some adults go over and grab kids' hands and they next to them. Yes. I'm really a response. I can tell when you're lying, so. I'm lying, sir. Are you responsible for that child? Make an inside check. Oh, jeez. Yeah. Uh, 26.

Two of those people are definitely just taking a kid's hand in hopes of getting through first. I walk in and start cracking my knuckles behind, Vex. But I mean, I can wait, no worries. Child, where's your parents? Do you have one? They haven't shown up yet. Oh, dear. What should we deal? What should we do?

Keep in here in case the parents come. Okay. Then you would stay and wait for your family, potentially. You'll stay with Pike for now. Yes. Pike kind of comes over and like pat some on the shoulder. They're the same height, so it's easy. Yeah, let's do completed full families

who are comfortable. They can move. Here we go. Altogether, completed full families, there are two. How many people? Be a total of eight people. That's good, that's a good amount. Yeah, think about it.

One 1,000. And then any other single people that can move fast? Yeah, a couple single people to bring up the rear. Volunteer. Just in case. You have about 10 more people that raise their hands. We can get that many through in six seconds. What are you talking about?

You're ready to run, people. All right. Let's go to the three. Percy, you're going to lead. All right. Percy, you're going to lead. We're going to put the eight up front. Yep.

With the 10, 15 stragglers behind. We're going to tell them, I tell them all. All right. As soon as you see that tree starts apart, run. Run your face off. I tell that to the crowd. And keep running so that you make room for everyone behind you, we don't want,

like it's not the bottom of an escalator. Whatever that is. It's the thing I've been working on, it's gonna be great. Don't stop in the tree, you will create terrible congestion in the tree. Can I inspire key lift for this? Sure.

Okay, I will perform a limerick. A limer. Luke Solo. To inspire her. I know an air-headed young Druid, whose plans are more gassy than fluid. When the battle starts, she turns her pals into farts. They see danger and pass right through it.

Thank you, Scanlon. I love it. It's so like me. Take a 1D, 10 inspiration. You really nail me. Right there. Thank you. I'd be like the detail-oriented one about this whole thing, but should somebody be counting as soon as he starts so that we like put down an arm at six?

You count in your head, Rob. You really don't want me to. And I'm in your inspiration. I can get a few more seconds in there. Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. I'll say for the sake of this, go ahead and roll a wisdom check. Oh boy.

Count the goal. So just roll a D-6 and add your wisdom modifier to be six. That's that. Oh, that's not good. You got inspiration if you need it. I do, can I add my inspiration to this? That helps. That helps a lot.

Okay, so that's 13 total. Wait, what am I just adding? Just my straight wisdom. Yep. With a modifier. Straight wisdom. My modifier, 19 total. 19 total.

Okay. So as you all gather around in the center of the temple, Keel, if you step up to the outside of one of the two front trees to the temple, one of the ones you guys are usually used the transport to and from here, as you focus in and reach your hand out and touch. the outside of the tree's bark with a rough tearing sound. The tree bark just widens into an oval-shaped doorway that is immediately visible on the opposite side. You can see, before you, a lightly snow-dappled landscape that is the central market of White Stone. We put blankets on everybody, right? Because we said we did.

For what you had. You don't have a cast of blankets. Go! Go! Go! No! Run! Go! Go! All right. Go, Percy! Who's pushing? Who's pushing? Percy. I'm already through. Yeah, Percy's through. All right. So, are you guys just letting them go with their own rate? Right, right. Move your fucking asses!

Roll an intimidation check. It's like a football line. 17. 17. With that, everyone goes, and just starts charging through wildly. The crowd starts pushing through. I'm trying to pull it. No severed limbs, no whammies, no whammies. Okay.

All the rest of the family people go through, the young folks push through, you managed to get a total of 23 people. A few folks, we're already planning to go on this. We're so driven by the sudden shouting grog voice echoing from behind. They just charged for it, Black Friday style. And just managed to escape the tail end of the spell, tapering the doorway off. I regret nothing. Well, I hope Percy comes back soon.

I've got the gate stone. All right. What's that? That thing, thank you. I'm going to get everybody organized. Everyone, please follow me. We're heading towards the main castle. They're all kind of looking around as a little.

Welcome to White Stone. A gentle snowfall coming through the sky itself you can see is covered in relatively light white clouds, just enough moisture to carry the little snowfall that's happening. There are folks in the center of the town that are all kind of surprised to see this arrival but recognize you and just kind of cheer a little bit. Hey, Pursable! Thank you for that smattering of applause. Golf claps, golf claps. Ladies, golf claps.

Nerfijis all gather up behind you, and you guys walk towards Castle Whitestone. We make our way to the castle. The guards greet you and lead you inside, and within a few minutes, Cassandra comes down from the upper floor and goes, Percival, you return. Things are not going well.

Have you heard any news of Iman and what has been transpiring there? No. We've been rather focused in restoring our city. Why? Yesterday, we were attacked by a group of chromatic dragons. The city is destroyed. There's just no simple way to say this,

but we're under siege. We were afraid that Whitestone would be destroyed as well, but it seems that they have passed over you so far, but we fear for many city's safety. I was hoping that it would be all right if we moved a small number of refugees through to Whitestone for the time being less than a hundred, I imagine. Oh, no, that would be defined. These are the first 20-some odd that we've pulled through.

And she kind of looks behind you and looks at the crown and kind of snaps her fingers and some of the guards stepped forward and she goes, please, if you would make sure to find any of the various unoccupied buildings are provided to these refugees. Thank you. And the guards nod and begin gathering the group and sitting them back into town, and she kind of gives you a look back and says, for better for worse, we happen to have a number of vacancies in the city due to recent events, but... Oh, well, yes.

Nothing I... anything I should know about. No, just... Just what it has been. We've lost many in the struggle against the Briarwoods. But yes, they will be provided for, I assure you. So I will let you know to stop all business with Imman for now. Be very wary. prepare the city for a possible dragon attack.

Things are looking dark. Yes, yes. And if it's possible, any research, any energy that can be put forward towards mounting some sort of defense against these creatures would be greatly appreciated. Right, right. Well, we had a few individuals

that were researching the ziggurat beneath the city, Two left a while back, and we had one arrive just the other day. Who arrived the other day? I cannot recall his name. Realm seeker, realm seeer. Let's go right here. You're not bare there. I can...

Please bring me to you. All right. Cassandra leads you down into the city again, and one of the houses has been provided. She knocks on the door, and the door opens, and you see stepping out, an older gentleman who you've heard of but not really had an encounter with since. No, no, actually you encountered him for the final ritual that took the phylactory from Grog's chest. Oh my. But this is Realm Seer Escarine Darien, the Archmage that basically was one of the folks who lived within Westruin and was called to White Stone as part of the research.

That's some pre-stream. As the door opens, he kind of comes out, his eyes kind of adjusting the light. and you can see the interior is very dark. He's one of those, kind of lives in light, lightless territory type person, comes out with his round spectacles around his nose, and his robe is kind of disheveled and kind of bundle up over his shoulders.

Yes, if I may be of service. We've met. You look very familiar. Quite, yes, we have. You're the, um, you're those shits, weren't you? Ah, ha ha ha ha ha. Unfortunate title you've chosen. Long gone, thankfully, long gone.

Boxmarking. I'm glad you took my suggestion. Yes, thank you for that. What can I do for you? First of all, how goes the research into the... Frustrating, to say the least. It appears that this entire... And he kind of walks back into the house expecting you guys to follow, and as you enter, immediately you're hit with the smell of sage

and other burning herbs, and you can see there's a vast number of books that are strewn about the table in front, and the fireplace in the back, place in the back is like pouring smoke up into the roof area and starting together on the stonework on the outside. It looks like there's two or three different kettles going off with different types of tea, and it's complete chaos in here, but he seems to be in control of most of it, at least. He goes, ah, from best we can ascertain this is some sort of a a magical siphon device. It has prevented us from utilizing any sort of ritualistic

endeavors in ascertaining its nature. It's quite perplexing. I'm hoping to either head over to Wild Mount or perhaps return to the Cobalt Reserve and perhaps find some historical information about such an object. Well, nothing in my current... Sir, I have some bad news for you. I hail from Imam which has been attacked by chromatic dragons. I'm sorry, what? Dragons have declared war on civilization. A group of dragons have destroyed our city

and they have destroyed other cities as well. We are in desperate need of powers to defend ourselves with. So I would be very careful in send forward, send word ahead of yourself before you travel anywhere. It may not be there by the time you get there. Well, I guess it's good that I moved my tower before I left. Things are looking grim, and I would ask that, if you intend to remain in work on your research on this anomaly beneath our city,

perhaps thinking as to how it may be turned into a weapon for our use against these creatures would not be out of the realm of question. Mm-hmm. And any information that you do have of the Chromatic Dragons would be invaluable, Any research that can be done, we are at war. Ah, this is very disconcerting news. I will do what I can. Unfortunately, I'd have to get back to the Cobalt Reserve.

I don't know most of my research is completed. It's Western. Let me see. Jack, he snaps his fingers, and you can see his man's servant, Jack, who you've met before. Slickback, kind of darkish, red hair, mustache, This was a very prim improper type man-servant, well-dressed, steps out of the shadows. Yes, my lord. If you would be so kind, prepare me for trouble.

So, Western is no more, sir. Well, that's really frustrating. Yes. Really? Extremely aggravated. Yes, I am unhappy with this circumstance. How am I supposed to do my research? Without a place to do my research.

Well, we hope that you'll find our winters here quite solitary. And convenient on that level. Things are looking grim. Oh, you can say that again. I must go. I have other work to do to start preparing. Peace. To start preparing for...

Yes, yes, go, do your thing. For good day, sir. And good luck to you. Should I find anything? How are I, where about, where are you? We don't know yet, but we will be returning here. That does not help me. We'll do my best.

Cassandra will be able to get a hold of me if necessary. Ah, Cassandra, all right. Someone of use around here. I'm going to go find my sister and make my way to the stone. He doesn't even say goodbye to you. He's like completely flustered and, it's funny. For everyone who's like taken completely by the four of the... a foreign situation. He just seems really perturbed about the...

Inconvenience of all. Yeah, it's so inconvenient. That library was very helpful. Why isn't the internet working? Oh! Basically. All right, you find your way to Cassandra again. She's waiting outside of that room. I hope he's been helpful, brother.

He, he... No, he wasn't helpful, but it was very helpful in the way he wasn't helpful. Yes. It's a strange, strange... He's a very strange man. Everything's going to be all right. I hope so. Thank you.

I will return. very soon. We will again with your permission hopefully be using White Stone as a place to regroup and prepare ourselves. Is there a worry that these dragons might come here? Yes. How will we stop them? You'll hide. Or I have thoughts. Perhaps of a weapon, I don't know, but we're going to find a way to start. We're going to find a way to Stop them. We have to. I'm not good at being the bearer of any bad news, but this is very dangerous, and I don't

know what we're going to do. Steal an airplane. Neither do I. They don't have an airplane. Stay safe, Percival. I shall return soon. I hope so. We'll do what we can in the meantime, to see to your refugees, and hopefully try and prepare ourselves.

There'll be a few more through, possibly, tomorrow. With word. We'll be prepared. Thank you. Seems. Kind of reaches out and puts her hand on yours again and looks at you, Sterling the face, and goes, be careful. I will.

All I have left. And Cassandra, I'm proud of you. You're doing very well here. So the ways to go, brother. We'll get there. She hands you the gate stone. And with that, so slight. Greetings, adventurer.

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I think our reservation's ready. I'm telling the, what, seven remaining refugees? I have about eight or nine. Sorry you didn't make it through. It doesn't mean that you'll be here forever. We'll get you there tomorrow. No big. Don't worry about it. More food for you guys, which is A plus.

At which point now, Top of the wait list. There's a slight smell of like burnt cedar before the air itself begins to sound like a light hum or vibration as suddenly Percy's form appears in the center of the room next to your gate stones. And both of the stones you guys are holding, all of a sudden become white-hot and you instinctively drop them before they tumble the ground. Hey! They work! They hurt.

Good to know. That's great. Did you see your sister? I did. Everything is fine up there. The research continues. They're happy to take. people. It's wonderful. So, and they're prepared for more. They're also happy to be a base of operations as we put things together. And he told them to make preparations in case something happens. Whatever preparations one can make for something like this, to be prepared to hide for now. Worse case scenario they can go underground. Yes. Worst case scenario they can go underground. Yes. They need to start hiding food. They have to grow They haven't really recovered that yet.

There's also, uh. Hopefully I hook them up there. There's also what? I have one of those terrible ideas I get on occasion. What is it? I love it. That thing beneath White Stone could be a weapon. How? Ooh, that's true.

Anything touching it disintegrates. Yeah, like a dragon. Shoot it at something? No, I'm not. I might be able to turn it into a projectile. How would you turn it to a projector? Are you a key? That is a fun idea.

That's a great idea. A long-term idea. Just choking on Percy's idea. I could make an anti-magic missile. A magic missile? A magic missile? An anti-magic missile? An anti-magic missile?

An anti-magic missile? One plus two plus one. One plus two plus one plus one. I had a good one-to-one-plus-one. That's a great idea. I've been mulling it over. Could we fire it from an airship of some sort? Yes, it's actually part of the idea.

Percy, when I tried to touch it, that thing, it was like it was sucking me in. I don't think that thing can be touched. How are you going to turn it into a projectile? I have thoughts. I'm going to follow them through and it may require some experimentation in the future, but I think perhaps- At the cost of possibly your life? I take my life into my hands any time I build something. I think that a non-magical approach to containing it. might actually work. I think the problem is-

Well, that's good because it cancels out any magic. I think the problem is that we keep trying to magic our way out of something that denies magic and maybe I can engineer our way out of it. Have they found anything out? Did you get any updates? A little bit of information, there'll be more later. I'm going to take a look at all the data

and see if it's possible. Should we go visit the class, please? Oh, please. I'm trying to be more open. Yeah, let's go. What time is it? This time it's pretty close to dusk. The sun is getting close to the mountain line. You probably have another hour of daylight. To the class. Yeah, they're probably nocturnal anyway. That means they're around at night.

Yes. They're not turnals. No. They're not turn. Did you learn something new, Groch? What? All right. That more than a day calendar really worked out. Heading back into them on? Is that what we're doing? We're really going to go. Everyone?

Some? All? I think Pike should stay behind. Do you seem to have reservations? Are you okay going down there? You're marked for death by these people? I've been down there several times without knowing that. I know.

I just feel like it might put you on edge. She's not marked for death. She was marked for death. It's just awkward. I'm not a full-fledged member. They don't like me. I don't like them. Maybe I can become a member.

Maybe you can. This is politics. You're not supposed to like them. Well, let's go then. Yeah, what are you saying? You can actually keep one. You got to take the tunnel or are you walking in? Do you want to take the tunnel?

We're taking the secret entrance. Oh, come on. We've never even, we haven't walked in yet. Garthardt- Show us a secret entrance. He's waiting for us and having them prepare our way. This could get bad. Where is the airship? Are you guys walking through your tunnel into the city? Is what I'm saying?

Oh, that, yes. Yeah. We're not going to walk in the outside. Isn't it a great idea? Tunnel? They're going to make cannons. What are we doing? Sorry.

We're taking our secret tunnel into the city. Okay. It sort of puts us in the wrong side of the city, but it's okay. All right. What else are we going to do? Go through the main boat. Oh. How you doing there?

You okay? I'm good. Sorry, I got a piece of chip stuck. No, I'm going to leave one with Vax. What is it? The gate stones. I'm giving Vax my gate stone. That's a good idea.

Or we can leave the other one. Or you're keeping you or the other one. For now, it's a good idea. I won't hold on to it forever. He's the one who's going to get stuck in a room alone if they decide they don't like him. We just call this the Jenga Stone. And moments of need.

The Jenga Stone. Remember it takes about a minute to work. Is this, do I need to spend a little time with this? No. No. However, it does work only once a day. Once a day. So after another long rest, you'd be able to use it again.

All right, good to know, got it. Yeah. Into the city. In your pants. Put it in his pants. Get it, like you do. Half-elven storage space. You guys find your way back into

Imun utilizing your secret tunnel entrance coming up through the false outhouse once again. You leave the chain behind, locking it up, and make your way into the city. Cast pass without a trace on us. All righty. You guys, I'd like you all to make a stuff check. Shit.

Yeah. Come on, giant blue nut. Roll dice. You roll 20. It fell out of my hand. I don't think it should count if it fell. Nope, too bad. Oh, that's means.

Oh, I get advantage. Oh, and we get a plus 10, right? Yep. Yep. 33. 15. 35. 35.

Did you really roll that, by the way? Yes. Wow. All right. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. With your pliston? With no judgment is Trinka-Cohman.

Trinket coming. Trinket is staying with pipes. That's a fine decision. Okay. Hell hath froze the middle of it. Placing trinket over here. He is crying. You're making your bear cry. So as you guys start dodging between the alleyways, making your way towards the north side of I'm

aroundside, the ruined interior of the cloud top district, you instinctually begin to, and I'd say who else has proficiency in perception? All right. You guys all start noticing there are what looked to be initially flocks of birds moving to the sky. Some of them are heading down into parts of the town in the distance. As you continue to push forward, one set of four in particular start heading on overhead. You look up and you can see what appears to be a small cluster of about five or six flying creatures, not dragon size, but any means, but either a very, very large bird or something of that degree. You can't make out the details as right now, so the sun's beginning to set. A lot of it's just dark against a kind of red-orange sky. You kind of keep yourself at bay, wait for them to pass.

Yeah. Oh, waiting for them to pass. Can we... Unless you want to do some around? As a dragon-favored enemy, could I guess estimate what those wig-in creatures are that would hang out around dragon? Could you determine if they're Wyverns? Yes, they are actually indeed Wyverns. Wyverns? Wyverns, however you want to pronounce it?

Wiverns, both who work in my world, it's fine. He pronounced Jiff. Yes. I'll fight you. No, no. Go. Go. But yeah.

They're diving into the city. You can see a few that dove into the city and you stayed there. And one group goes overhead and continues onward. Okay. Pushing forward, deeper into the city, you make your way through the Temple District and start pushing through Abadar's promenade, once again, retracing your steps from the day before. Dodging through open areas as fast as possible to stay within the shadows. All of you, all of you, darting in one of the alleyways, as you turn behind you and you can see,

your tiny-legged gnomish bard friend keeping his best as you can before his foot hitting a divvint on the ground and falling face first into the ground, making just enough noise. Oh, sorry, sorry. You hear a little screech in the distance up. And coming up on the rooftop, you can see kind of perched up there appears to be one Wyvern that is kind of looking over down at the currently toppled gnome. On top of the the whiver and you see what looks to be something riding it, something that is holding what looks like reins on the edge, something humanoid is glancing over, just a little

enough of a shadow to see. He sees me, I see him? Looks down at you, yeah. Okay, I will cast hold person on him. Okay. I don't know what he is, but I want him to stop. Scanlan's the only one, we all see it. You all just barely see it looking over the edge of Scanlan's there left in the middle of the main walkway. That is going to be a natural 17 on the will save. They'll be an 18. What's your DC? Well it's 17 but the hand cone makes it 19. Do you think I had the wherewithal to use it? With having you fallen on your face, I'm going to say probably not. And since it wasn't specified, that would be a DC of 17. So the creature seems to kind of rear back for a

second, kind of shake its head. And you get a little bit of look at the feature at this point too. But it is humanoid, but you can see. see its outer body is not fleshy or smooth. It is scaled and bumpy. You can see ridges across the back of the head, and in one of the hands looks like some sort of a spear. And immediately as it rears back, it puts his head up and goes, ha! Oh shit. The feature? Yeah, riding on the back of the Wyburn.

The other things that attack the airship. Awesome. I would like you all to roll initiative. Yes. This is going to be fun. I think you should turn it into a bunny, Keylet. Turn it into a bunny. I can do that today.

Boom, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, Bum, bong. Bum, bough. Oh boy. Not too good. Dilloo. Dilloo. That's okay, they're a pie.

Not too good. Dittlou, this is the music. Up on the beer. Think about it. Fight. Fight, fight, fight, bite, bite. Two, two. All right, so.

Scanlan, as you were running across the thoroughfare, you tripped and fell that way. That's me. The rest of you had, coming into this alley over here. Currently, looking over the top of this rooftop, is this Wyvern and its rider. I love that the writer's like, go. It's fine.

All right, so. All righty, that's going to be 25 to 20? 26. 26. Oh. 20. 20? 20 to 20 to 15.

18. Let's see. 15 to 10. 5? 8. Oh, no. 7. 5.

5. Okay. Wow. Five. Oh. Uno. Whoa! How did you? Oh, six, thanks for that. So you would be actually Ted to Pinkyloafers last day.

Oh, it's so crushing just to see the number on the die. Oh, I'm sorry, buddy. It happens to the best of us. All righty. So, currently with this guy up on top of the rooftop, Percy, you are first. So quick question, is he in flight or just sitting on the rooftop? Just sitting on the roof perched on the edge. You can't even actually see everyone else

who's near the front can see, the few that in the check. You've got a little bit of movement up there, but you're just kind of out of view with the building. You're right in an alleyway. There's no easy way up into the roof, is there? Aside from a well-placed acrobatics check, you could try. That would be my whole movement, too, wouldn't it, though? Most likely. Yeah, let's see. And how high is the roof? I'd say it's about anywhere from 16 and 20 feet tall.

It's two-story, but it's not, you know, an extreme... I'm gonna try and get a vantage where I can at least get where he's only three-quarter cover. So like, I suppose I'm gonna head south down the alley to see if I can get a... Pushing to these guys? Yeah. Okay, so one... You can get to about there if you want. I can get a good look at him there.

You can see, yeah, he'd have half cover from there. Half cover's fine. So if I were to knock him prom, Would he fall off the roof, or could I try and push him off the roof? These are my... For the Wyvern or for the writer? The Wyvern. You can try.

It's hard pressed. He's sturdy on the side. Knocking and prone might just fall over onto the rooftop. Who knows if it'll slide or not? It's your call. What do you want to try? I'll try knocking and prone and see if that doesn't. Okay.

Actually... Hmm. Do it. Yeah, it's either that or try and push him off the roof, roof, which could be pretty funny. I'll try to knock him from. Okay. All right, so I'm going to use bad news because that's funnier. Okay, so you whip out. Take a shot. That's 28 to hit. That'll hit. And that's a wing shot, so you have to make a Constitution saving throw against 18. Well, this is the wing or leg shot, right? Wing or leg shot.

I'm sorry. Actually, I'm sorry, I have the new sheet. Yeah, new sheet of the one. Updated that. Strength saving, so. Sorry, strength saving throw against 18. That's a natural 19 plus 4 for strength, so that's a 23. I'm still take some damage. Still takes damage, though. Go ahead and roll. I'm going to take another shot at him too, just eff that. That's, I was not quite prepared for this.

2D12 plus 6. 14 points of damage. 14 points of damage, nice. All right. And I'm going to take a 3.3. reload, take another shot and try and knock them off the roof. Go for it. The same shot? Same shot. Okay.

Oh. That's a three. That's a three, so that means I... It's a misfire. So, first shot, bad news, echoes the sound of the blast just rippling through the nearby alleyways. The blast hits the Wyvernan part of its arm, sending a spray of blood as it shoo, shrieks and paint. As you can see, this writer kind of has moved to the side, and you see what looks like a second head behind the rider from the reaction and movement. Looks like

there's actually two of these creatures riding on the back of this creature. As you go to reload, bring bad news up again to fire a second time, you pull the trigger and there's a thump-p sound, and you can see now a stream of smoke pouring out the back of the gun itself, and you're a little worried what this is going to do if you don't fix it soon. Look down the barrel. Yeah, that'll work. I can use my, I actually can't do, ah, am I gonna panic and try and fix this? Next turn? That's your movement, it's your three attacks. Do you have a bonus? Anything?

I can, I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw an action surge and see if I can, so I can fix this. Go for it. Go ahead and make your tinker check? Yes. Okay, yeah, so you spend your action, how quickly you're trying to Fix the gun and get bad news back. You manage to clear the barrel, get the pellet out as the rest of the team starts coming up with their turns. That'll be the rest of your action. Okay. Finish the Percy's turn. Grog, you're up. I'd like to hold my turn until it gets off the roof and maybe comes down to the ground. Okay, good to know. Good to know. Let's see here. It appears that my...

Towsing, should be a favor and hand me that box next to the fridge there? Thank you. All right, so Grog, as you're doing that, the blasting sound of bad news that echoed through you all of a sudden start hearing other shrieks in the distance, like a call to arms of a number of other entities, as you see a multitude of other winged creatures begin to arise in the distance. I shouldn't have gotten in that box, should I? Yeah, we could just, we could always run too. Could. How far are we from the tunnel system? Uh, far.

Here ways. There are way. Probably a good, a good 25-minute run. There's another one on the roof over here. 25-minute run. We could always go in the air. And there's one on this roof here, each one of them with their own riders as well. Shit. Now, these, all right, so for this turn, this one leaps off

and swoops down here to where Percy is, well, both of its riders leap off to the side, one that leaps off and rushes over to Scanlon on the ground, and this other one that gets right up next next to. that gets right up next to Percy. This one goes flying forward and lands in the center to about there where two of its riders leap off. This one kind of stays up in the air over this way in a flanking position or just a visual perspective with two of its riders in its back. Put them there. For clarification, does this count as turns or are they, since they're

coming late to the party or this is just them in position? This is them now entering the fray. Are they into the initiative order, just gameplay talk? Yeah, well this is the initiative I rolled for them after being called by the guy who was already shouting out into the air. You just didn't see them before, given your perspective. Like a... Raptor.

These guys... These guys... ...theirpike... Okay. So we have... First, the Wyvern that swoop down on you, Percy, is going to go ahead and make an attack with its bite and an attack with its stinger is a multi-attacks. The first strike.

That is going to be a, the bite's 13. That does not hit. The stinger, however, is a 19. I'm going to use my emulet of the shield and up my AC for that attack to 23. Yeah, so that will miss. So that uses an amulet. Good to know.

So the stinger goes to strike you after the bite misses, and as you glass of your chest, you can see an arcane barrier. just shines in front of you and completely ricochets the stinger out into the air to the side, as it kind of reacts angrily. The other giant humanoid lizard creature that's coming towards you with a giant heavy club is going to attempt to slam you with it. There's so many things. Twice. I was taggy with a club. That's going to be a 17. Nope. And then it's going to try and slam you with a spike shield. That is 15. Yep. So that I just start swinging at you, let's see.

I'm sword out, I'm just, yeah. All right, attacking you, Scanlan. Oh, shit. The one that's on the ground there. All right. So it has two attacks against you with advantage? With advantage. Because you're prone, you're on the ground.

Jesus God. That'll be a 24 to hit. Yeah, yeah, okay. And the spike shield is going to be 24 again, actually. Oh, no. So as you're on the ground, And it slams you with the shield for 12 points of bludgeoning damage. Okay.

Why didn't I bring Trinket? I know. What's wrong with you? The shield slams you for eight points of piercing damage. So a total of 20 points of damage. It just slams you in the ground twice. It wasn't until he rolled a 15 stout. Blame me. Blame me.

Those are too far away for combat. The other guys are just kind of assessing the scenario here. There is one fellow over here that is a bit far away who steps off. Instead of holding the same clubs and shields or other various hack weapons, carrying a gnarled staff, steps forward and sees the weapon that you fired twice and have been fixing this large, metallic, dangerous entity. Looks forward, and begins hissing under his breath. Oskar is not going to eat me. Do I see this?

You do. I'm going to really. Though you are being slammed on the ground, I'll say, make a perception check, actually, because you see this. Because you are currently... 19. Yes, actually. I will say you do see this. I will release my counter spell. Okay.

I assume he's casting something. He is actually, uh... Good man. I will sing at him. And you still haven't hit what you're aiming for. It's a second level spell. It is dispelled immediately. As an attempt to heat metal on your weapon, you can You can see as the metal begins to glow for a moment and you can feel the heat welling

in your hand, all of a sudden the spell shattered like the sound of thin glass in the distance as Scanlan shouts to intercept its arcane ability. That is going to end their opening turn. That brings us down to the initiative order. Vex, you're out. Oh, I think Grog was brought on. Oh, yeah, Grog, you're holding your action from it. Can I barrel down through the alley now that someone's on the ground and race towards the one that's nearest Percy? I'll say sure. Usually going forward, if you hold your action,

That's just your action, not your movement. You still move to the situation, but I'll let stand for this. It's fine. I'll remember that. Go to point. So you're just going to tear down to this guy there? Yeah. All right. We're not to swing twice with Craven. Go for it. Yeah. Still maintaining your bonuses from last game, by the way. Oh my gosh. Yes, indeed. He's so strong from the last game. That's 26.

26 sits. And 14 on the second one. 14 does not hit. Okay, cool. This is the great weapon master? No, these are just rae. Are you in rage yet? I raged.

Oh, yeah. Did you rage? Yeah. Oh, no, I did not. Do you want to rage as part of your bonus action to this? Oh, I would like to rage. Thank you. All right. So, as a bonus action, you go into a rage for a four strike. Let's go for it. 22. Oh, wait. Yep, 22.

Yep, 22. 22 damage, all right. And... Your second strike missed. Oh, that's right. That's it. 22. So you rush forward, slam, slam the sword into the side of the lizard creature.

It puts a shield up and it manages to block most of the blow, but it slides off and slams into part of its neck area. Shubs the blade out. However, it fails its save. Yes! Take a strength point off of it. Add that to what you have now. What's strength currently? Exactly?

Yeah. 22. So it goes up another plus one to attack a damage. Good job. If it just became 22, it does. Yes, it did. All right, Grog, ends your turn. Vex, you're up.

Ridiculous? I hope they have some kryptonite. Is there anywhere I can stand that I get a good cone shape on some of these? Are I all blocked in? You can try and move through. You might get an attack opportunity from the guy that's attacking Grog. Okay, how higher the roof is the roof next to me? It's about 16 to 20 feet.

Could I acrobatics that shit up? You could try to. Go for it. Okay. Park court. I want to see that. Bing, Bing. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Oh, 31? Yeah, Roe. With that, you look over and see the rooftop up there. You leap off each side, Ninja Guide and style. American Ninja. Up onto the rooftop with a very, very solid view of the entire battlefield before you, including the one flying creature up there. Oh.

Okay. Then I'm going to Hunter's Mark the magic user. magic user. Ready? Oh. Badum. And I'm going to conjure barrage in a cone to get as many of those fucks as I can. Okay, it's a 60-foot cone.

Right there? Yeah, sure. Sorry, Scanlan. It will be Scanlan as well. Oh, balls. I'm a little man. All right, so go ahead and roll for that. That's a saving. 3D8.

Yep, roll 3D8 damage. Okay. 3d-8 damage. Yeah. Not that much. What I'm me? 11, 16. And then an extra six on that guy?

Right, right. An extra six. Okay, so he makes a save. Does not. Do I have to make a save? Yeah. Yes, you do. What kind of save?

This would be a dexterity saving throw. I'm on the ground. Nope, that's a worm. That's a nine. You failed. You take 16 points of... of, seeing points of damage from that to fail and success. 16. All great. Wyvern makes it. Tap that for eight. Fails. All right. Cool.

Got it. So as you go forward leaping on top, you mark the one guy, turn around, and then release a torrent of arrows that just sprays into the center of this open pathway in the city. I believe that ends your turn. Yes, it does. All right. That brings us to Scanlan. Oh, me? Yep. Balls, shit. I'm on the ground.

If I stand up, that's my action? Half your movement. That's half my movement. Okay, I will stand up. He doesn't get to hit me, right? Not unless you move away from him. Okay. Which riders are still on their beasts?

These two are the only two that are still on the beast. All right. Then I will... I will hand cone it on. I will ignore the guy right next to me, and I will hand cone it up and I will... He's got two riders? Yeah, they're both kind of like... They have these kind of ramshackle. You can see now, as close to look, these leather kind of saddles, but they're mostly just like thrown

leathers that are strapped to its back and there's two of them currently holding onto these knobs in front to stay on. Two riders! Come on Scanlan. I guess I'll just dominate one of them. I hope he's the main guy. Can you dominate the Beast? He's not a person. He's a person, dominate the monster. There's a different things. I'm gonna dominate the guy in front.

Okay. Maverick, not Hollywood. Maverick and Goose. Well, in the end it was Hollywood. Wasn't that as... No, that was Merlin. Merlin? Yeah, but Tim Robbins.

No, Merlin was the teacher that they got in trouble when he spun out. Hollywood was the guy that he was his... You don't want to do this with me. This is the first conversation I've ever been in in this group where I feel young. A rider screeching down while it's holding on, all of a sudden it kind of shakes its head for a minute. Goose is dead. And looks down at you, eyes connected, and you know that this entity is waiting for its command. Okay. Can I only give it one command per turn?

You mean you can give it a basic command and it'll follow through unless you want it to direct the control it? Well, I've got two things to do. He's going to get rid of that fucker on his back and also other things. Let's just go for the Big Kahuna. I command him to ride his beast to attack. the one below him, the Wyvern below him. Okay. All right, good to know. All right. And do you want to stay where you are? You want to move? No, I don't want to move because he'll hit me. That would be bad. Who hasn't gone? You haven't gone?

I haven't. Vax hasn't gone. Oh, my God. Because he rolled a one, remember? Nope. Nope. Okay. I will inspire Vax with my inspiration. And I will say, this is ground control to major Vax. You've really made the blade. And the papers want to know

whose cloaks you in. Whose blood you spill. All right, you can take a D10 inspiration divax. A vaccine. Rest in peace. You just was. All right. And Scanlan's turn, Vax, you're up. So I'm having trouble seeing the battle map.

Brog is right against a Wivern, right? Ragh is against a lizard-like creature. So not against the Wivern? No, that's a little further away there. Percy is next to a Wiverr. And so Percy is right there? Correct, yes. And Scandlons next to the magic user, right?

No, magic user's over here. That's been Hunter's Mark. But Scandlin's up against a dude, right? All right, so what I want to do is slink up behind Percy, Reach over, oh, no, I want to click my boots of haste is what I want to do. Did you use them during the battle against the looters? I don't think so. I don't know where I'm doing that.

No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I definitely didn't. Because I remember kicking myself for, I definitely didn't. Okay, so click. Everybody starts moving slow around me. I want to, so Percy's against the Wiverin, I want to reach over Percy's shoulder and stab the Wiverin, and then I want to to throw another dagger at the dude standing next to Scanlan.

On this side there, you mean? Yeah, well, I can't tell, I can't see shit. Is that over Percy's shoulder? In order to, because right now you're being blocked, you can't quite get to the Wiverin unless you move around the building that you were at. But I could go around it, yes. Let's do that.

Okay. I'm gonna stab the Wiverin in the butt, and then I'm gonna throw a dagger from my other hand at the guy standing next to Scanlan. And so I have a question for you. Yes. Because both of them have somebody who's running interference. Do I get sneak attack damage on both?

damage on both? You only get one stink attack damage per turn. Just per turn. Once per turn. All right, so I'm going to use sneak attack damage on the Wiverin if I get it. Go for it. So first strike against it, as you whip around the side of the building, blades out. 25.

That hits. And then for the dude by Scanlan gets 19. Yep. Okay. If you have both blades out, you get a third attack too, don't forget. I do. Yes. So the third stab will go back into the Wiveron.

Okay, so the sneak attack against the Weaveran first strike. Yeah, okay. And the last one was a 24 total, so that hits as well. Okay. Okay. So that's two, first nine, plus 14, 17, 22, 23, 25, 25, 7, 29 into the Wivern. All right. And then the jerk over by Scanlon gets seven. Yes. And then the Wevern takes another, and the King dagger takes another nine. Alrighty.

So as you rush around, you stab the Wevern in the back of its haunches, and you see it streaks and pain, looks over its shoulder, and starts like, kind of biting its tail and stinger swinging about, but you avoid it, fling the other dagger to the side, and then jam the other side of its haunches with your other hand. It's definitely aware of your presence now. Did I use up all my movement? Nope. Knowing that it can swat at me, I'm going to try to go right back around where I came from. All right. And I'm wearing the cloak of displacement.

Okay. I'm going to swing at you with disadvantage. Just call it cloak number seven. That's a two on the first roll, so yeah, that misses you. It's Stinger swings out towards you and you just duck underneath. It slams into the side of the building, breaking part of the wood, and you can see splinters kind of fly out in the middle of the road. That ends your turn? Yeah. All right. Kieleth, you're up.

Okay. Oh boy. What is? How far away am I from this guy? Like, roughly, how many feet? Roughly, which guy? The guy who's in the air flying. I'd say about 60, 65 feet.

Beautiful. I want to move just up and around. Shit, like kind of here-ish. Sorry, I've got this thing in the way. Back a little bit, scoot back. What? Is that still in your past? No, he's my guy.

He's your, oh. Well, I'm not gonna fuck with him. I'm gonna, you dominated the guy. You dominated the guy. Should I turn the wevern into something else? I don't know. I guess he's dominating that guy. Is there anything else that's flying?

He's the only one that's up in the air left, right? All the other weverins have landed and let their riders off onto the sides. So you just commanded him to attack the one below you. attack the one below you, right? I'm going to turn that Weyvern into a chicken. This one? Yes. Okay.

What's the save on that? He has to make a wisdom save. That is a seven. Vail. And with that, twice now. Egg, egg, egg. This is my favorite game, you guys.

The vein of Weirons everywhere as both the writers kind of tumble off. stumble off, slamming into the ground. That would be, yeah. It's like it's a chicken. All right, 10 points of damage to the Wyburn, which kills the chicken form entirely. It turns back into a wyvern on the ground,

taking the access three damage. Yeah. I keep it. Fuck. Shit. What? Do I keep hold of my guy? A bird or a bat or something.

or bad or something, so you just fly away. Fuck. They both take an additional from the fall. God damn it. Had trauma. 14 points of damage to each of them from the fall. Good. Yeah.

Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Oh, it took damage. And they're on the ground now. Let's see if the takes damage and makes a new saving throw against the spell. It does not make it. So it's still dominated.

Okay. They're good. I didn't fuck everything up this time. But they are all three of them are considered They're all knocked prone. Cool. That's my turn. At the top, Percy, you're up.

Okay, where am I? I can't see. You're right here. You're kind of blocked in between the two buildings at the mouth of the alleyway with Wyvern and a lizard creature like right there standing before you. Okay, I don't have, I have no advantage on any of these bastards at the mom if I were to attack. Okay, that's fine.

And how would you describe these, these are like scaly people? This is up close and personal. They're humanoid in build. They have, you know, stand up upright. They have long tails, ridges across the head. They're bigger than an actual human, and they're very muscular. And the more you look at it, you can see that their clothing, they have tattered cloth and leathers that have been haphazardly dyed in blood and gore to all be a very, very deep red color. And they're pretty uniform across what they're wearing.

They're in all me. Teen colors. I think you've kind of got that one guy covered at the moment. So I'll concentrate on the... Hmm. Tough call. Tough call. You know what? I'll have a little fun. I'm going to pull out my sword and I'm going to take a slash at the guy who's involved with a... All right. Go for it. That's 21. 21 hits? Oh, shit. I forgot to use my bonus action. Can I pop in a quick bonus before that? Who what?

Hex him. You've already hexed today. You used it in the battle versus the looters. Oh, it's same day. That's right. It's still the same hour. It can only do it once a day, right? Only do it once a day, it's part of it would be, unfortunately. That's fine. I can just do a little thing. So just to add to this, would he be described in anywhere on his little D&D card as something with a dragon keyword? Nope.

So I'm just going to do normal damage to him. Yes. Okay. So. Wyverns, however. All right, just checking. I'm going to do nine points of damage, slashing damage to him. Alrighty.

And I'm going to turn to the Wyvern and take two slashes at the Wyvern. Go for it. First is, uh, 14? 14 hits. Wow. There are second hit points, but they don't have a whole lot of armor to them. That's plus 26 points of damage. Nice.

And second shot. Of course, a second attack hit. 13, 24, that hits. 10, 17, 18, 19, 19, 26 points of damage. Six twice in row. So with this, you pull the sword out, as soon as you see it in the proximity of the Wyvern, The blade itself almost seems to shimmer with this gleam of green on it, and the metal almost seems to bend in the way with your movements. And as you turn back around to slash

at the wyver, and the blade just cuts through it like butter, there's not even resistance. It just goes right through its flesh with each slash of the long sword. You can see large chunks of its muscle kind of coming visible as parts of its body are now being pulled from the muscle and sinew. It shrieks in pain, and you can see it angrily now starting to get ready to rake it you pretty heavily. Then in your turn? That's my turn. All righty. Grog, you're up. Yeah, I'm gonna continue what I started on shit fuck right in front of me. Okay. But I would like to go great weapon master and I would like to use reckless attack. Whoa. What? Reckless.

So your first attack against him? That's a 31. Roll damage on that. 25? 25. He fails his save. So you get another plus one year straight. And that swing just cleaves it in two. It goes right through its midsection. It kind of... It tumbles off. Another guy next to the ground.

Grog. Oh my god. Grog. Grog is full juicing. Oh, no. I told you he'd open up to me. Oh. Arnold.

You could move in now with your movement and do your next attack if you'd like. I'll go ahead and take care of that Wyvern that's next. Go for it. All right. So now you get your next attack. Natural 20. Have you . Go ahead and roll damage. Nice.

Does his strength go up to 100 eventually? So it's double your first dice roll. Oh, so the 2D6 was 9 plus 5 is... So 18. 14. Plus 11. So 29 plus two additional die rolls. 10.

Okay. So we're at 39. And then one more? Because you roll 2D, it's twice because brutal critical. That's right. Geez, you've got like Tetsuo arm. It's just like five times bigger than it should be. Four for those two. Do I have plus five to that as well for them? Well, plus ten for your, you already added that for your... Yeah, it's 2d6 plus five on each one and then the...

It's just the additional 2D6 each time. So yeah. With that, you turn around after hacking its friend, leaping forward, the foam at the corner of your mouth, your eyes kind of... kind of bloodshot and anger, you take the blade and sweep it down and it plunges itself right into the wound that Percy had left open with his sword swing, finding no resistance before it comes all the way to the hilt in the body of the Wyvern which shrieks for a moment before its breath stops and its body falls the limp. Yeah, one down.

Does that make it save though? What? What save? He doesn't suck the strength out of it. Oh yeah, and on great weapon master on a critter kill, I get an extra hit, but I guess that way. As a bonus action. And yeah, which for the record went forward, if you know, if you're frenzy raging, it doesn't really give you a benefit. Right. But if you're not, it does help. So the theory you could if you wanted to try and chuck it.

If I wanted to just throw it, just do you. Don't throw it. Oh wait, oh wait. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. All right. Now, these guys both get up. Currently, no longer on the Wyvern, you want to give it another kind of a thought. If you see it land. Get on the Wyvern and kill the other one. This guy gets up on the Wyvern, grabs its reins, pulls it forward, and jams it with its spear

as it leads it inward. It kind of runs forward and is going to take a swing. It's going to take a swing with its stinger at the one behind it. It's confused and figuring out why is it doing this, and it's more of like, this might work once. That is going to be a 17. It hits. That's going to be 11 points of damage. Does it make it save? It does not make it save. That's additional 24 points of poison damage on that one.

So that's 35 points of damage from one Wyburn to another. As this guy immediately whips around angrily. You have pleased me. Both of these guys go charging forward. Oh, Jesus. Oh, no. Was Gellon. Oh, Jesus. Four is going to pull up its javelin and chuck it at you.

Vex? Me? Yeah. That is going to miss you at a 12. It throws a javelin. It just arcs past you. This one over here is going to come forward. And it's going to take a javelin as well out and chuck it right at you, Grog.

You to death. That is a 20 to hit. Hits. You take 10 points of piercing damage reduced to five, as you basically just just snap it off and grin. in its face. Let me return that favor in a second. And then, let's see.

Cross. God mode. Yeah. Yeah. Save game plus. Is going to, now it sees the danger that you're in. Looks at you, sees you just hack through the center of one of those wyverns, intensely looks to you and begins casting another spell.

Oh shit. Oh. Oh. like it is want to do. Is it? Come on, smart grog. All right. So the Craven Edge is you're holding it,

all of a sudden the handle becomes white-hot, and you immediately take six points of fire damage, just holding it. Grip it harder. You're like, ugh, the fire's biting through. Three attacks against you, Scanlon. Attacks against you, Scanlan? Oh, God.

No. Currently, two of them, of which are flanking you, so they're gonna get advantage on the attacks. So that's a natural 20 on one of them. Whoa. This guy is 18. That hits, and then this guy here with out of the advantage, still hits with the 17.

I'm gonna use cutting words on the last guy. Okay. I'm gonna just to distract him. Okay, go ahead and roll a D10. D10. D10. Which one's ten? I never remember this one. Nine. Okay, so he rolled, it was 17 plus seven, that would have been in 24. It brings into 15, which I believe misses you.

Does not hit me. So the last strike as it swings towards you, the shrilling tones, it causes him to, like, reach up and grab one of his kind of lizard-like ear holes. The swing just goes wild, completely over your head. However, as you duck down, you look up as you see the shadow come down of two large clubs that woof-vov-hoove over the head of your tiny no-mish form. That's going to be... Oh, that's not a good sound. Oh, and they also get bites after this, too. It don't look good.

All right, so you take 12, which is double to 20, or no, sorry, 12, 20 points of bludgeoning damage from one. You take 12 points of damage from the other, so 32 points damage total. And they're both going to bite you as well with advantage. Bite with advantage. That is 20 on the first one. That's the damage it does?

No, it's the hit. Okay. And that one's going to double 19, so they both hit. So you take another 20 points of damage total of piercing damage as they both just start tearing into your body. 52 points of damage is then? No, I was scared. No, no. I thought you said, I thought you had 55.

I did. 52. 52 total. You got three points left. Ah. I was close, guys. I saw my mother. Then I saw myself at math class failing.

I need you to make a bunch of concentration checks here. Oh yeah. Okay, okay. Maintain control over it, yeah. Advantage on concentration checks. Yes, so just roll two at a time. Oh, two what's? Two D-20s.

Okay, I only have one D20. Adding your constitution modifier to it. How many, wait, oh, for each thing that, Constitution modifier, holy god. Okay, I'm counting both those. The first one's only 12. 12, that'll work, because none of them's done, only one of them did 20 damage and it's a minimum of 10.

So as long as you get above a 10 with each one, you're fine. Okay, so I gotta do two more. Yeah, that's 16 plus 2. Okay, another one. 17 plus two. And another one. Two plus two. Wait, you have an advantage?

Did you have a two? Oh. A advantage of these. Seven plus two, nine. No. No. No. With that, you lose your concentration on the domination spell as that fades.

So close. Hey, I'm alive, guys. Hey, the other weaver and is still mad at the first one, so that's good. Yeah. All right. So that ends their turn. Vex, you're up.

Oh, man. Okay. You see Scanlan just being. tossed around on the ground and you see streaks of blood in the air as one of them like tears a big chunk out of his shoulder and he looks up at you briefly as I kind of tap open. Scanlan, I got you. No, no, I know you did. You shot me on the last turn. I remember.

You got me good. You got me good. It's just for my bow, the Sky Sentinel. Sky Sentinel, I believe, did you leave that last battle? I'm pretty sure you do. But I only use my burning thingy once. Correct. You have one more use of your burning bowstring. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

So I'm gonna move my hunter's mark to one of the guys around Scanlan. Okay. You want to say the most wounded of them? Yeah, sure. That would be... Or the least wounded of them, actually. The least wounded would be this one. Okay.

And then I'm gonna shoot. I'm going to shoot arrows. All right. All right. I'm going to shoot through my blazing bow string on that guy and the guy in front of him. Okay, right there and there. Yeah. So, the blazing bow string and then regular.

Yeah. Go for it. Okay, so I forget how to do that. I rolled the attack. Yes. Why is this so hard? Okay. 18.

18 hits? Okay, I'm going to roll damage on that one, which is 10, plus my normal. was my normal eight, 14 plus six for Hunter's Mark, 20 plus six for sneak attack, bitch. Did you just call the DM of bitch? No, I was calling that guy a bitch. Matt is not deserve that. Six D6, so that's 25 damage against the first guy. If we have damage, that's just enough.

That sneak attack was just what you needed, that was the last three damage. Yay! Okay, so the second guy is another 18. Another 18? That hits? Actually, no, that's 20, whatever. That hits. Okay.

Do I get sneak attack on him too? I'm only sneak attack once per turn. Dang it. So 16 damage against that guy. Okay. So this arrow, the first one just hits it in the neck and it kind of gurgles as it falls to the ground and bleeds out from the floor next to the scale. The other one, the arrow strikes it in the middle of the shoulder blades and it kind of arcs up in pain, but it's still standing, though it's like having to really move around with much pain and it's, much pain in its face.

Okay. That end your turn, you're going to stay up there? I'm gonna, yeah. All right, staying up on the rooftop, just snifing down. Good call. That brings us to Scanlan. It's my turn. Take a potion.

Kill yourself. Oh yeah. If I had a potion, that would be great. I will do Thunderwave. Wow! Thunderwave at third level. Thunderwave at third level, all right. I sent you in the rights.

Okay, so that is 4D8 thunder damage to all the ones on a failed save. So their constitution saves here. Is this through a hand cone? Sure, man. I figured it's both fail. What is it? 4D8? It's 4D8 thunder damage.

They have pushed 10 feet away from you. Did they all fail? Yes. Did they both fail? This push this way. Just push that way. 10. 17.

17 points of damage to each. Okay. They're blasted back. We're barely catching themselves on their feet. And from the impact, you can see a little bit of red-colored leather armor they have on is just tattered and destroyed. You can see blood pouring out of the sides of their ear holes where the thunderous blast, possibly burst their eardrums. And they're both kind of like shaking their head.

Oh. All right. Bonus action. I will healing word myself. word myself. Okay. I can do that at higher levels, yes? Yeah.

I'll do it at a level four. Okay. And I will sing to myself sort of sadly, pathetically, I get knocked down, and I get up again. I never going to keep me down. I get knocked down. Jesus. I get knocked down.

Okay, because never sounds like that. Keep me down. I get knocked down. All right, so that is 4D4 plus five. Okay. 44 plus 5. Ooh. That's 14 plus 5, 19.

19, so you hear yourself 19 hit points. Okay, thank God. That ends your turn. I'm next fax. Alright, so I'm going to scramble up to the top of the building that I'm right next to. Acrobatics, shake. Sure. Parkour, park, park, no problem. Yeah, way high.

20-ZZZBZBZBZO-30. Yeah, you parkour up the side, land on top of the rooftop, kind of leap across, and you're now at the edge. Okay, is that Percy right there? That's Percy right there. Right there. Okay, I'm actually, oh, who's right directly in a row away from me? Yeah, I can't tell. That's a bad guy.

That's bad guy, bad guy, bad guy. So I want to run actually and I want to jump off and land next to Percy. Okay. Yeah? I want to run straight by and I want to stab the dude. I'm going to run forward, yeah, bup, stab that guy. All right. Right now.

Yeah. Exactly. That is 20. That hits. Good old. Run, run, stab. Those are the two buttons on the Vax video game. Run and stab.

It's mine. Nine damage? Yeah. I thought so. Run towards Scanlan and I want to grapple him. Hopefully he just takes it. Not that far one square back. Right there.

Grab him. And I'm using my bonus action to dash and then drag him backward behind grog. Do you want that one? It's an action to grapple? Oh, yeah. Someone who would be against it, are you letting him grapple you? Oh, hell yes. Okay, I'll say for the sake of the rest,

there's two actions and a bonus action, just mix him around, man. It's fine, because he wants to, you just rush forward, you grab him and you're dragging him back this one. Right behind Grog, I'm going to drag him between Vex and Grog, back by Keeleth. Okay, I'll say that's about as far as you get because you have a little bit of movement taken away, even though you are hasted, because he's not too heavy,

but he's still... Right, dash, hasted, I can go... Very, very far. Yeah, so you're fine. Your hands are so rough and masculine. That ends your turn. Spank him on the ass and say, you're welcome, Shorty. Okay, I'm going to kind of push my way through the crowd a little bit.

Can I have that a laser point? Yes, you're right. Thank you. Okay. And now with all of the rage, talking about all. I turn someone into a chicken. Hi.

Boop, poof, poof. I want some feather-down pillows. far aloft. I channel all of my fire ashari ancestors. And I cast my seventh level firestorm. Oh, God, we're all gonna die. So as I concentrate enraged at the side of dragons, I have ten. Did you get me away?

Yes, you're fine. You're fine. No, he didn't get you away because he knew this is happening. this is happening, it just happened to work out. So I have 10, 10 foot cubes. That all have to be connected. That all have to be connected. So you can go like, one, exactly.

I'm going to start here, and I'll work my way over. Three. They're 10 foot, four, yep, five. Okay, that's right. But they're attached. So that you're bigger than that. Three. Well, they're 10 foot by 10 foot, which is about this size.

Okay, okay. So it's like it's one, one, two, it's happening instantaneously. Three, four, four, four. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine, ten. Okay, yeah, get the Wyvern. You can get all of them there. Yes!

This guy. Oh my god, that guy is gonna just be so... Brogg's gonna bite his head off. So I'm just in a fiery rate. Destroy them, Ketus! Do you see in this? They have to make a deck saving throw or they take... Right, but what's your DC on it?

LDC. Oh, my spell DC, 19. Fail. Fail. Fail. Not very dexterous. Fail. Fail. Fail.

They all fail. Yay! It's 7D10 fire damage to each of them. Why don't you use that all the time? I just got it. You want some D10? I just got it when I leveled. And you got to be careful with friendly fire.

And they got a friendly fire. So a giant fiery chasm splits open. Ground just bursts open, rocks, because I get the track is a hand. As giant columns of flame just I don't know what. out of the ground, just completely engulfing each one of them in this sudden conflagration of red and orange and yellow flames and molten magma.

24. 28. Oh. Is this winter? No, no. Northrop Grumman we'll be calling. 24. That was four.

Race. 24. That's good. So 27. 36. 30, 42. 42. Points of fire damage.

Ginger's, man. Ginger's. Word. My hands light up. Yes! Each one of the lizard folk-type creatures in the flames, you just see them just shriek for a second, before their forms are turned to ash and these blasts of fire.

Each subwoofer-like guttural impact as the ground cracks up and just scattered amongst. Like it just explode? Popcorn? Yeah. Each one of the wyvers themselves, you can see the flames emerge around them and as it recedes, they have burned scars and their flesh is cracked and peeled against the fire wounds that now tear across the front of their body. They're all looking, you know, fairly hurt by that. And then I... Take a bow.

I take a bow. And I just kind of exhausted a little bit. Little single tier, like my ancestors. And that's it. All right, end of your turn. Percy, you're up. All right, I'm going to start walking towards that Wyvern at the bottom there.

This way? Yeah, that way. I'm not going to get quite close enough to get into the reach of that jerk over there. So you can go here. Yeah. While I'm walking by him, though, I'm just going to just nail. I don't even know if I'm really going to,

I'm just going to shoot him three times while I'm walking by, because that's funny. Wish sharpshooter. Okay. So the first shot against them is it would be seven, 19. 19 hits, go and roll damage on him. That's 1d10.

What did I do with my 1D10s? Because I wasn't thinking. That's 26 points of damage. You just take his head right off as you walk by, not even looking. I'm not even looking. And you can see the lower dodgy that's blown off and it falls at the back of the ground. Since I got two more shots, I'm going to start shooting at that one dragon, that Weberness. There?

Go for it. Two shots on the Weber. Sharp shooter again. All right. That's a nine, yay. So that's 16. 16 hits. And I'll just roll the second one.

That's nine. Nine. Nine will miss, unfortunately. Not a not. Thankfully, it will not. So that's fine. So that's great. 26 points of damage. Alrighty. This one, the bullet hits instead of its body. You can see a little of blood kind of squirt out. And I'll get as close as I can get to him in this round, also. I'm going to spend my movement walking straight towards him. Just, just, yeah, let's get the rest of it there. Okay. Thank you. That's your turn. Grog, you're up.

Yeah. I'll leave one of those to you guys, and I'll run it, the two more than to the left. Just getting in the middle of the fray. Against them both? Yeah, against the bomb! There you go. Rod just charges in there both. There you go.

Let's open these puppies up. Because I killed the guy. That's 24. 24 on the one more wounded one? Yeah. All right, that hits him. Can I swing it the other guy? If you want to.

Yeah, let's divvy it up. I don't want to give anybody too much love. 26. It's a roll damage on each. 11. 22, 32. 32. These are both great weapon master?

Mm-hmm. Okay, 32 damage? 32 of the first. First one, you just carve through them with the blade. Nice. Makes it safe. 31. 31.

31 damage, okay. This one you streak across with Craven Edge. Makes it save. You leave a large wound across the front of its jaw, and kind of, however, you did kill one, so you do get to use your bone. so you do get to use your bonus action for an attack because of your masterfeet. You have to roll for the hit? Yes.

Awesome. 19. That's 31. With the minus 5? Oh, sorry. No, no, minus 5. What's 31 minus 5? 26. Yeah, you're good.

Okay. Heaven, 12. Math is . 32. 32. He's covered an icker. 32. Couldn't be quicker.

It'll be quicker. You swipe through the second time with the blade, this time carving off part of its wing. I don't know. When a wing is kind of like half curled and keeping up to the side, it's kind of hobbling around its legs, it's looking like it's on death store, but it's still keeping itself. All right, is that in your turn? That's it. All right.

In there, and this one just stays there, and it's going to unleash upon U-Grog. It's going to bite and tail attack against each of you with a stinger against U-Grog. That is a 21 to hit. 21 to hit. Hits. And natural 20 on the stinger. Okay. Well, I'll have resistance against poison, so that helps.

That's nice. That does help, actually. So it'll just do regular poison damage against you. Dwarfelt. So you take 11 points of piercing damage, reduced to six from the bite. And the stinger, it's going to be like Pete's dragon. It's going to be like, Pete's dragon. Okay.

12 points of piercing damage, reduced to six as well. Okay. The stinger, however, we need you to make a constitution saving throw. 12? 12. That's a failure. Actually, it would have been an additional 12, because it was a critical hit on the pierce. So you take 12, total of 18 damage so far.

And then as part of the poison, you take 48 points of poison damage. Okay. Because you have resistance that is reduced to 24. Okay. That's good. That's nice. Right, you have poison resistance from the belt, right? Belt of Dole of and kind.

All right. So there you go. The other one coming up against you, Strike with its bite. That is going to be a 16. 16 misses. That is going to be a 22 for the Stinger. Stinger hits. Okay, Stinger hits you for six plus four. Ten points of piercing damage. I need you to make a Constitution saving throw. Constitution saving throw? 20. 20. You succeed. No poison. So I took 10 points of piercing damage? Piercing damage. Correct. All right.

Yeah, it's just looking kind of rough on both their ends. They're just fighting to the end at this point. All right, that ends their turn. Vex you're up. I'm going to cast Hunter's mark on the one fighting... Moving it over? Yeah, Percy. All right.

And I'm going to first attack the one fighting grog. Okay. 16? 16. Does it? Yes. Okay. Don't have a whole lot of armor. They just got a little hit points.

17 plus sneak attack. Oh, 18? 18. So Grog, as you're thrashing about with the blade at this creature eager to get that final hit, you reach back with Craven Edge before an arrow just shoof into its face and it pops us to the ground. And I shift my attention over to the one fighting Percy. All right.

And that is 30, no, 28. 28 hits, go ahead and roll damage with the extra D6 for Hunter's mark. Where's my thing? 17. Gotcha, 70 points of damage. You pull up the second arrow, release it, and it strikes the side of its body. Still seems to be standing. It hurt it, but didn't leave it in his sort of dire straits yet.

That ends your turn, or you stay where you are. I'm staying where I'm. Scanlan, you're up. Oh. Actually, I'm going to jump off the roof and rush over to Scanlan. Okay. So leading off, making acrobatics check. 24.

24. 24. Scanlan, at the start of your turn, as you're getting ready, all of a sudden, in front of you, spooking you momentarily, you see Vex lands on her feet and looks down at you with a little concern and wanting to make sure you're okay. Oh, hi, thanks for checking on me. Could you move for a second? I'm going to kill this thing.

So I'll, I can't do much because I'm far away and I don't want to kill person. It's not going to live through me anyway. me anyway. That's true. I will wand of magic missiles him. Okay, using how many? I'll use six of my seven. Woof.

Alrighty. So go ahead and roll proper damage on that. Okay, the first, okay, so is that 64 plus one? This would be a magic missile cast at level six, technically. I'm pretty sure. Well, it's weird because my... You don't have to go nuts to kill this. It would be 6D6 plus 6.

6d6 plus 4. I'm sorry, 64 plus 6. Okay. Yeah, great. Hey. One more? Oh, boy. 12 plus what?

6? 12 plus 6. 18. 18? Mm-hmm. Okay. The missiles slamming into the side, arcing off and kind of swirling around Percy to hit it, kind of anime missile streak-streek style. Hitting it from all sides, you can see chunks of its body being flown off from the force of the arcane casting.

It still stands, though it is dripping from multiple wounds and is having a hard time. Ending your turn, Scanlon? I think so. All right. You dust off the smoke with India one. I'll heal myself a little bit more with another level one healing word. Go for it. Take your D4 plus five.

Seven more points. There you go. I'm just going to start walking towards it and dagger and dagger and dagger. Go for it. First is 20. 20 hits. Second is 23. It's. Third is a 23. Hits. So we got to do-da-do. 10 for the first. Sneak attack. Is it in you something?

Percy is in. Okay. So the first is 10 plus. Oh no, nice down. 10 plus 16, 23, 29. 32, 32, 36. The 41 for the first dagger. How do you want to do this? Yes!

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It takes a few steps, Percy steps out of the way as it kind of heads towards you before it rears back and... It just collapses under the ground. You can see the blade still sticking out the back of its head and kind of the back of the throat before it appears at your side of your belt. Sorry I made a noise, guys. Sorry. Next time, stealth. We should get inside.

We should hide. We should hide. We should take what we can and we should also hide the bodies. Good call. That's a good idea. Let's bring everything inside. I go to the Wyverns and I start going for those stingers. Okay.

You can do this quickly, Keeleith, because we need to hide these bodies. It's going to take you a while to do it. Let's take them inside them. When I assist with my keen dagger to help her under her instruction. Let's get them inside. and then we'll have to move. We're going to drag the Wivans indoors? Drag everything indoors.

Really, wait, wait. These stingers are on the end of tails. Yeah. Grog, can you just chop off their tails and we'll take the tails with us? No, we gotta get the women's inside. If anything flying overhead sees these bodies, they know something's been attacked.

Half of them burned to a crisp anyway? Not crisp, just scotch. There's some ash. I go ahead and I do my, just a cantrip gust and start spreading out the ash. Okay. So there's no ash piles. It still looks like there are a number of,

like someone just emptied a bunch of firepoles. place, ash pits into the center of the walkway where there once were lizard folk. What fall? Just the dust of tracelessness. I'll give us cover. I'll blow my horn of fog. I start putting the dust of tracelessness down on the ground, so it looks like nobody's been here. Low fog sound, as Scalyon blows the fog, blows the horn fog, fills the vicinity, and you guys begin tossing the dust of traceness around. I go grab the humanoid figures, and I like throw two on my shoulders, and then I get one in each hand, and I start dragging them towards a door.

Any inside. Inside. To an any inside. I'll get the door for you. All right, you guys supervise. Pretty quickly managed to move what you can out of the way. We'll say over the next few minutes, as the fog is there, under that cover, you begin to drag the Weverm bodies into the alleyway,

into the shadows. If you want to go ahead and make some checks here to go ahead and see if you can harvest. Let's do the green ones. Okay, so first one, I'll definitely take a very much. since I have advantage. Not that much better. 14. 14. Okay. Would it help if I gave her my keen dagger for the rest of it? I would say, given the circumstance, all of the do would offer her advantage, which she already has.

So it wouldn't make a much difference. So the first one, it's been a little too damaged in battle, and you're unable to really draw any poison from the stinger for the first one. That's the second one? The second one. Fifteen total. Fifteen is what you need to. You manage to extract just enough of the Wyvern sting or poison for possibly a single dose. So you can mark down a dose of Wyvern poison.

Okay. I'll give it to Vex. Right. Wait, Vax put down in your... Do you have poison? Or do it Vax or Vax? I give it to one of the twins. You fight over it. They're both the same. All right.

Is it for you. Two women, two more. Vax could put it on an arrow. Right. Okay, well, the second one I rolled a 25. Okay, so that's the second dose of Wyvern poison. That I give to Vex. Last one, I'll take that 15, with a 26.

All right, so you have three doses of wyvern poison that you've managed to harvest from these creatures. You guys can distribute as you see it. Anything else to loot from these? What is this? They don't carry much gold, and what they have you envision, probably went to the entity that rules imam. And as you're looking over the bodies of the few of the lizardmen here, you see they didn't just wander their way in here. And you remember mentioned from Allura before that there

were, like, lizard folk worshippers of Thoradak years ago. It apparently, once the city's been taken, Thoradok is, or at least the worshippers of Thorac are also moving in. So taking this time to harvest the poisons, looking over the bodies, you can see the consistency. between their red, crimson dyed, leather materials. And you get the sensation that while this was a small skirmish group, this is probably the new policing state of Amman. So with that, we'll take a quick break for the restroom. We'll pick up here in just a few minutes, guys, if you want to hang tight.

And we'll see you here short. Jumping back in, as the party regathers themselves after the battle with these lizard folk and wipers in this center of the city of Haman. You slowly make your way back through the streets towards the north, passing through Ebadar's Promenade, finding the building that was previously brought to your attention thanks to Garthok.

Should we have taken a short rest though before we head down in the class because some of us have taken some heads? We'll take a breath in the... Okay. Before we head down? Yeah, in the basement. So you guys find the building that was brought to your attention. you head down into the same cellar, keeping tabs on the external trap that was brought to your attention by Carfay the last time. Make your way inside. There's the same barrel in the far

corner. You pull the top off, and there indeed is a stair, or a ladder that leads down underground. This is why I left Trinket, because he wouldn't have been able to come down here anyway, just so you know. Search that shit, Baxian. It's very claustopobic. So we just got ladder down, that's it. Going on, let's heal up. Can I hit, let's just sit down from that? I need to hit dice it up as well.

I'm fine, so all everybody is... I would not like to take a short rest. Oops. Oh. I lose all my fancy face to my... Do you need any healing then? Just do some push-ups. Just do some push-ups while I check this ladder up.

I have a potion, I'll take it. Okay. So I'm gonna check for any traps on this ladder or anything. Yeah, go for it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, could she heal me instead? Yeah. I'm gonna heal you.

23. Okay. Looking at the barrel, there are no traps currently set and it's not locked. The only traps were in the outside of the cellar from what you knew previously, and that mechanism had already been shown to you by Darthok, so that was easily disabled.

Okay. I'm not gonna go crazy, I'm just gonna go to the bottom of the ladder, and I go. Okay. So why are you guys taking rest? 30, still. Okay. You drop down the ladder, as you head down what probably comes to about 15, 20 or so feet into pitch black.

It's completely dark down there. Pitch black, okay. Do you have any light source, or do you want to? I put a flametonged dagger. Okay, so if you're flamethrone dagger, put something like very, very low candle light and kind of opens up the vicinity to you, as your feet splashed down into very, very shallow, a couple inches, shallow water. Working around you, you are in a subterranean sewer system. The smell hits you as you hit the bottom of it. This is the entire underbelly of Iman. And there is just a slight sound of

trickling water that's rushing through this tunnel that you're currently standing, and the ladder drops close to about a foot above the floor before it comes to a complete stop. Looking to your right, it descends a little further down, and that side you can hear, I should make perception check. 22. Okay. To the right of view, it should be the eastern tunnel. You can hear the sound of trickling water growing louder, almost like the stream meets another. As you listen to the left, and the stenches. Pretty rough in this part. To the left, you can see the tunnel is a very, very faint, dim, yellow light that is just shifting ever so slightly in the distance as it curves

around out of view. It is level. to where you are right now, with this is actually slight inclined for a little bit. Vexali, there is a long tunnel down here and there is a bit of faint light. I have Percy's Fancy Rock. I am not planning on doing anything crazy, but I think I should... You don't have the... The rock doesn't work until we sleep. You don't have anything. Well, technically I do still have it. Regardless, I should go. ahead and if there's anyone to talk to, I should talk. I'm not going to go yet. I'm

going to wait till you guys have rested and come down to this pitch black down here. I'm not running ahead. I'm better at this shit than you and the rest are. So take a rest. I'm going to sit here. You're better at talking than the rest of us are? Sometimes, stubby, yes. How will I know if you get into trouble and your hands are tied? Do you need me to come? We can all hear you. These things are not singular. Yeah, no, everyone can hear you.

Hold on just a moment. Wait, who'd you call for? Just a moment. You spliced down in the sewer system. Fuck, it smells down here. So I have to step in the water. Probably. Come here.

All right, so for all these guys. for all these guys. Um, you were being stopped by someone. I don't know for what reason. I don't know what... I don't know who the person was. I don't know what they wanted with you.

Stopped. Someone wanted you, and I don't know who. Uh, the clasp was going to get you for them. Okay. And I stopped that from happening. Okay. I followed you one night, or rather followed this person following you, and met the clasp. And I made an exchange with your life.

I went and got someone else. And said it was me? No. Not immediately. You're almost on it. They told me to get a body. I got a body, a living body, a... a child rapist. Oh. And brought him to the clasp.

And they brought out a stick. It was made of human tongues. A stick of human tongues. Yes. They touched it. They touched the fuck nut. Okay. And he turned in a U.

What the fuck? And they took that guy for whatever. And in exchange, And in exchange for your life, I have this. They are allowed to call on me when they want. Okay. So I know that we've run in and out a couple of times,

but we're going in, you can talk my fucking ear off in a moment, all right? Just shut out for a second. We're going to go in and try to form some sort of alliance or working partnership. This is different than running in, smassing some shit, and running. from shit and running out, all right? So, keep the cloak up, hang back, don't say a lot. You can top my ear off later. Okay, I will do that.

I just want to know the tongue guy that looks like me, is he dead or is he alive now? They gave him to some stalker, some stalker. I don't know why you were wanted. I don't know what it was about. All I knew is that they were going to take you away, and I wasn't going to let that happen, and I took some fucking piece of shit,

traded him in. So there could be, at this moment in time, another person looks just like me parading around world. Well, if I had to wager around it, I'd say he's in a, in a, in a, in a dungeon, in a rubber suit, but I don't know where, no. Well, thank you for, you know, doing that. Um... I never told you because it's creepy as fuck.

Was it the clasp here? Was it the clasp here? Was it the clasp in Westram? It was in Westram. Western. Well, these guys probably don't know me. Probably. I'll put my hood up.

Stay at the back. I would like to find out who the guy was that wanted me, though. That's kind of weird. Thank you. For everything. Uh, oh. Thank you. You always have my back and I know that.

Yeah. For that, I won't say very much. You do you, Betzali. Everyone can come down. As you finish your short rest, you all. short rest, you'll progressively find your way down the ladder into the subterranean sewer system with the choices to travel to the east or western sides of the tunnel. Sounds like there's, I don't know, drainage or something coming from slightly up in that direction.

I'm guessing towards the light. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Scanlan. Oi. Do you have something that can make disguises? Don't you have like, not the mustache, but like something that can really change my looks. How do you know I'm Scanlon? He's got a hat. Yes he does. Yes I do.

Could I use that? You'd have to attune it to yourself, that's right? It takes like a little bit. A half hour. It requires attunement. About a half hour. What do you think? Well, that's not a bad idea, but it means we just got to sit in this stank. Don't you think? I can instantly make us with seeming. I can instantly make us with seeming.

I can instantly make us all look different. Or just you. How about just me? I could do that. I've got a question though. Here's the thing. If you think that they know what I look like, don't you think they know what you look like?

Because you look just like me. So what difference does it make if I'm there or not? I don't know if the person who wanted you was part of the class. I don't know who it was. It's parading you around in front of the people who made an illicit deal with you. All right, all right, see me.

How about that? It could be fine. I don't know. Okay. Shaming? Yeah, no. It's pretty high level stuff. And then what if I heal you?

What if I... Ooh, I cast minor illusion and give her a mustache. What about that? Is that pretty good? A fancy, fancy mustache that you cannot wipe off your face. Hey, that's very handsome. I don't think that's gonna be enough. It's not quite enough for our purposes. All right, I dispel it. How about a limerick as payment, Scanlan?

A limerick is payment, Scanlan. for you. For you? You're going to give me a limerick? Oh. Ahem. Oh! Ahem!

Hold on. I've been preparing it. She's multi-classing a third time. Have you heard tale of Scanlon the Bard? Or Bert Reynolds, if you look at his card? Always tries to get laid. Sometimes with ladies he made. But I still respect him, because rhyming is hard.

Whoa! Oh! That was... Oh! Excellent! Oh! Wow! Second fire storm of the night!

Where's the extinguisher? I will give you a D6 inspiration dice for this. Hey! Wait, me or her? Her. What? Wow. Wow.

That's impressive. Here's my... Here's the hat. You can use it in about 20 minutes. 20 minutes, you'll be able to use it. I take off my circlet, I guess, and I put on it. Okay. How about that smell, everyone?

Did she just live in this? I never lived here. Did you deal with this? Oh, that's good. I'm like, uh, I take off my husband. Distant cousin's tall. In the time it takes for you to take the hat of the disguise and go ahead and attuned to that.

You guys are not prepared. What path would you like to take? Towards the sounds, yes? Yes. Yes. You have the sound of water rushing to the right and the darkness. To the left. The left to the left.

But did you say on the right is going down or is it coming down? The water is trickling downward. The water continues sloping downward this way. The opposite direction is where the light is. A little bit of light you see in the distance. I say we follow the water down or follow the light? Follow the water towards the light, right? Jesus, what the fuck are we talking about it?

This is like the under dark again. I abstain. I do like that. Let's go towards the light. I'll do whatever they say. Are we going towards the light or towards the Russian water? Light. Light.

All who vote light say aye. Aye. All who vote water say aye. Aye. Oh, whatever. To the light. All right. So you guys had left.

I'm sorry, one last question. Is there any thieves count on the wall? Thieves can't on the walls at all? Oh, good call! Make a deception check. Can I look two? Do you know what you do you see them? With inspiration.

Is there only poo on the floor? Oh, there's... 31. Wait a bit. Oh, he doesn't need my help. Looking along the wall as you start hitting that direction, you do see a few markings that basically say sanctuary in the Thieves Kent in the direction of the light.

All right. Confirmed. You guys continue on with? I'll leave the way. I started tuning that hat. I did, I did. No, we sat here for 20 minutes in the stank. Yes.

So you guys continue forward up that tunnel. Eventually, as it curves around, the light you can see, it's shifting because it appears to be a distant firelight that is the source in this vicinity. As you turn the corners, the tunnel slowly curves around. It opens up into a large central sewer chamber. Though most of it is dry, and you can see there's a large amount of dirt in the center that it seems to to rise above most of the water that's collected along the ceiling. And there are also a series of platforms constructed of it looks like wooden scaffolding at different levels

all throughout this chamber. Some of it looks a little rickety, some of it looks very old, but various states of just moisture rot. You hear a sneeze from the distance from one of the other. As you look and see a series of small bonfires throughout the room. Bonfires. That are currently lit and surrounded by figures.

In a sewer? You see what looks like a ramshackled tent city and or a series of small wooden hovels that have constructed here. You see a number of figures that are huddled around these bonifiers, cloaks, hoods up, generally just keeping warm in what is relatively cold subterranean area. You guys glancing over here as you kind of the first look, you can see a few of them appear to be laid up and hurt, and there appear to be at least a few individuals that are heavily bandaged or have slings on. As you guys kind of step into the room, not being very stealthy in your arrival. We could have been, but I use a bit of sign language from the count and let them know that I'm part of the class.

Okay. A few of them stand up, hands on the side of their hilt, and they kind of stop there for a second before one individual steps out of the shadows and puts his hand up, putting it down. You recognize this to be Garthock. Garthawk. He says, Don't worry. They're with me. I'm glad you made it.

It had been a while. I was afraid maybe you wouldn't. I got held up by some Wyvern. I almost died it was crazy. We're here now. That sounds like, I'm sorry to hear you. I'm glad you stayed alive. And as he starts to talk, there's a group of individuals standing about 10 people behind him, kind of separate as another figure.

as another figure pushes past them. Pull in the hood back, you can see what looks to be a man about six feet in height, average human height, long blonde hair that trails past to the middle of his back over a dark gray cloak. Fine features at one time, he looks older. You can see the weathering in his face and the various wrinkles and lines from just years and years of living in this atmosphere. You said human, right? Human, yes. He has a red-tinted monocle over one eye.

Oh, cool. I like him already. As he steps forward, the rest of the clasps kind of put their hands off the side of the weapons. He pushes aside, Garthock to the rest of you, and says, So you are the ones called Voxmachina. Am I correct in this assumption? Yes, you are. Yes.

Dressed of Uriel, executors of Modeth the traitor. One among you is a member as well, I'm told. Step forward. You are welcome here. I am Spireling Shen. Spirling Shen? This is spiraling. Master of networks and information.

Oh. In the clasp of Ymon. Excuse the mess. We lost a portion of our territory, and I'm currently caught in mid-adaptation. So, what can I do for you? Well, you know who we are. You know who we are. And you know who I am now.

Yes. And you know my spotty track record with a clasp. But that's all past now. The city's in ruins. You're looking at the right hand of Uriel. Uriel is no longer with us. We know. You are a hand to nothing.

Of course. We're looking. for what to do next with the city. I don't think any of us wish to be the pets of the beasts now roosting in the heart of Iman. No, that does not do any of us any good. Business is ground to our halt. And we've lost a few good patrons in this unfortunate circumstance. We've lost our entire northern tunnel structure as soon as a creature attack the Cloudtop district. Well, I'll be honest, our first thought was to flee the city. But before we make that decision, yes, it is. We know that you're the next best thing to a government in Iman.

And we want to know what's left behind. Well, we're seeing to our own. We're going to see how many of our allies still lie within the city. We're going to reach out to our friends across Tal'Doree and see how much of our friends Dore and see how much of a network we still stand to keep. Then, we'll be calling a few debts, reach out to some friends, and see if we can find some way to supplant this red thing. Can I insert check? Go for it.

No. Nine. Nine, you said? Nine. The plan now is to lay low and hide. Well, for now, I have a number of operatives topside, who are currently trying to get as much information on the the red one as possible. The piles of wealth are growing, and it looks like the beast is building a damn home out of the district. The city is going to need a black market. Oh, I'm aware, and we are preparing for that. However, it's still fairly fresh, and individuals aren't willing to release any coin when all of it goes to the pouches of the thing that sits

on us. The word just got back that Westron was also hit rather hard in the night, and These creatures have continued Eastwood ever since. No further word on the whereabouts. So, we're put in a reactionary position, which I loathe. We used to being ahead of the rest of the curve. Well, here's where we could help each other. It appears that could be a possibility. We need this city to stay alive. We need the citizenry to be fed. We need people to know where they're going to get their medicine, where they're going to get their medicine, where they're going to get their at their food. We understand it's going to be tricky. We need information. We need spies. We need to know what's happening in the city, and you need people like us to stay out of your way.

That seems like a fairly top-heavy trade in our direction, if you ask me. There are many ways to get people out of our way. There are ways that we can benefit each other. I would love to hear it. We have safe haven, and please, by by the way, stop me if you feel I'm being too broad. No, go for it. We have our keep that is untouched by the dragon's attack. We have a safe haven. How is this keep agassist?

We can get to that. There are options. We also have strong connections to Whitestone. And to the Slayer's take, that's what they called, right? Yes. It could be a formidable force that could come to protect the city or drive drive out the dragons.

We're proposing a short-term solution. You want to get back to a position where you can grease the wheels and make money. That's not going to happen any time soon. But you can't take care of these beasts on your own. We are. Neither can White Stone, neither can we. But it is very likely that we will be the thing that has dropped upon it from a great height. And the most cooperation we can get getting into a position of power over this beast, the

happier we'll all be. Let's say we do this. Let's say we go forward with this alliance. Get out of our way. You promise resources from Whitestone, perhaps. They have quite a few unique contributions they could make. Say his take. I have not had many dealings across the Osmit Sea, but are you referring to Vasilye? Indeed. That is a tough night. to crack that city. If you're connected in Vasselheim, perhaps we can talk. There's no guarantees you'll be able to get it in anywhere. There's no guarantees we'll be able to provide fool of medicines to

dangerous times, my dear. It is. But the sooner these dragons are defeated, the sooner business can get back to usual. Of course. Ow! I mean... I know I'm getting a bit of head of ourselves, but once the dragons are gone and the city's return, and to normalcy. What is your ultimate goal? To hold power or to remain in the underbelly?

All the real power lies in the underbelly, my friend. I have a proposition for you then. We will do this. We have many channels and secret tunnels throughout the city. We could very easily deliver food, medicine, shelter even, to the wired and poor and downtrodron modern folk of this town be the sub-training heroes of Yaman, out of the goodness of our hearts, of course. However, once this creature is toppled and the city is brought to it, I gather

you would have the ear of whoever comes to power in this city. We may very well be the person that comes to power in this city. That is helpful. And I imagine you also have some presumably powerful connections in Vasselheim. We would be interested in beginning a sect of our fair trade in that distant, all too, how do I put it? Xenophobic city-scape. If you agree to be our seed in that stubborn garden of a town, you have our aid. Give us a moment, please. Patience grows thin. I think he's stupid. It adjusts the monocle in his eye. Do we really, with enough to make this worth our while,

to where we essentially want to open up the Pandora's box of crime in Vasselheim? Do we want to be responsible for that? Well, I'm all about Pandora in a box, but I don't think we really need this. It's not worth all of that, especially if we're going to Vasselheim. I feel like we just took one pretty top-heavy deal and traded it for an even more top-heavy deal,

not in our favor. Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not. I feel the urge to further discuss this. Also, to be fair, we're not representatives of the clasp. We couldn't, technically speaking, open. All we can do is, I think, the most fair thing to do to offer in exchange for this is perhaps some trade

with the materials that are available in Whitestone and maybe a promise of keeping a blind eye towards their business until the finished reconstruction of the city. Let them reestablish themselves until the city is, I don't know. Properly completed. Don't say that. You need an underbelly.

Underbellies are functioned. Underbellies are function for this very need. The fact that we can actually get food and medical supplies into the city right now if we need to. Less than 72 hours after such a devastating attack. There's no other system. If the claspber to vanish, something else would take its place. They're inevitable. But at what cost?

But at what cost? At the cost of people starving or not starving. All right. All right, I'm already here, Keelah. I'm down for joining them and letting them take our, join our cause and using their infrastructure. But beyond that. Can I use perception to make sure that we're really private right now?

Make a perception check. Can I join in? 22. You may. Oh, 22 plus can I use my inspiration on this? Uh, wouldn't you get that inspiration die? I got it from in the Wiverin fight. It would have faded by now, unfortunately.

Okay, so 22. 33. 33? Jesus. You're far away from the crowd. However, spiraling Shen has been very concentrated in shifting his attention from each person that is currently speaking in this conversation. I turn my back to him and I say he can meet his... Of course he can.

Which is why I'm not saying anything, but I wouldn't want him to hear anywhere. I wouldn't want him to hear anyway. I just don't want to promise anything we can't deliver. I don't think we could deliver Vassaheim. We're gonna be busy. We have too much on our plate as it is. I don't think they listen to us anyway, honestly. I'm gonna offer what we can give.

We have to have something to sweeten the pot. Yes. What are you offering money? Nothering to sweeten the pot. We're defeating the fucking dragon. Let them get back to normal. We can't promise that. The dragon can very easily kill us.

They certainly can't do it without us. We can't do it without them, but we'll be bringing in other armies with us. I agree. It's joint forces at this point. That's all we can offer them. You're still assuming he's going to keep his word too. Yeah. Let me go back to him.

Oh. Shen? Yes. I propose a counteroffer. I just don't feel comfortable offering Vasselheim. I don't think that we could necessarily deliver, and we honestly have a lot to do. All I'm am. Asking is an introduction to a handful of key figures in this city, no more than that.

Well, I will not promise that now. What I can promise right now is some access to materials from Whitestone, which, and I show him my gun hilt, which is embedded with the gems. I can see what's still lying around and we can make a deal. I can also promise that for the reconstruction once this has been dealt with, which is in everybody's best interest. Until such time as there's a functioning government in this city, you will be treated with the respect appropriate of a group of people

who are helping keeping the city function. You act like that hasn't been our treatment for the entirety of the city's existence. You think your council didn't have dealings with the class for many years before this happened. I am not simple. We helped make this city function. All we're offering is this service to other places that maybe don't have the right guidance to achieve their true greatness.

All I ask is an introduction beyond this other. Far after the fact, don't even need to worry about it now. Who's to say what changes from now to then? We even introduce you to. We don't even know anyone. Yes, we do. Oh. Oh. We know some high-ranking clerics.

We're making clerics. We know Slayers take. We met a bunch of people up there. In a Zeolet City? You want to go to a cleric and be like, hey, I thought you might want to meet the underground mobbop. Some of them ticks, we don't have to worry about that now. Here's what I'll put forward. Simple handshake.

And it's all done. I'll put something forward to the group. If they prove themselves honorable, if they prove themselves faithful and capable of keeping this city afloat, afloat, then we will speak to whomever they wish us to speak to precisely of what they did, no more, no less. This is an issue of morality. I would like to remind you that, one, we've let you escape after murdering one of our leaders, only upon learning that he himself was an immoral individual.

Also, we went against our word as an organization by letting you take a a war criminal that had already paid his way out of the city. And for that we are grateful. And we gave you something very powerful in exchange. And you got to keep that man's money. That was business. It was business. But business that was persuaded by the actions of good people

and bringing justice. We want society to thrive. I'm willing to kick this ball down the field. So, that was wasting any more time? Time, shall we make this a fine, healthy city once again? This feels a fair deal to me. And it means that we can leave knowing that the city will in fact still have a populace

while we're gone. You seem used to selling your soul, Percy. It is the job of ruling. If we come back and learn that you have made a deal with the dragons, you'll be the first. to die, not them. Oh. Is it the job of feeling?

I would only hope that would be the case. Absolutely. I wouldn't be caught dead dealing with such a selfish entity. All right, then let's do this. Keyleth shake the man's hand. I'll, you don't have it. You've got nice soft hands. Bax.

It should be Bax. This is not the worst deal I've ever heard. You just don't know that yet. I have things to do. I've met the devil. Not him. Percy, you make me so nervous. Thank you.

I haven't all day, and my arm grows weary with patience. Vax. Would you like me to sing to give you some extra strength for that arm? Vax, I will make the deal with you're not up to it, but I will want your blessing. You know what keep you do. That avoid. We're going to leave the city abandoned. Yes.

With no one to protect the people. We are not abandoning it. We already discussed there are more than one ways to cut through this knot. I don't think you're going to let the city fall anyway if this city die. you've nothing. I agree. If the parasite hasn't a host to feed on, the parasite dies. And Percy, I'm sorry, but I think our methods of being rulers might differ.

I don't think I need to sell myself for the greater goods. Very well. Unfortunate as it is. Step forward. Is this a whisper or I don't know? No, this is him asking you to step forward. He steps really close to you, and he takes you by the shoulders and turns you around to face away from him. Do you resist?

I'm going to roll out of his hands forward to my friends. Okay, go ahead and make an acrobatics check. 28. 28. You tumble away from his grasp, and you kind of... Very well. I know your face now at least. and the rest of the class will know that you are a false member now.

You're not welcome in these tunnels ever again, and if we see your face amongst our kind, it'll be our word that you are to be taken on sight. It's a shame you've marked yourselves our enemy this day. I wish it wasn't this way. But to step up and front us with such disrespect for all the patience we've shown you in previous years is just that irks me.

Stinks of a lack of civilization. So please be on your way. We'll do as we do. You do as you. I'll be gone. He turns around, flicks his cloak, and steps back into the group as the rest of them keep their hands on their belts and just wait for you to leave. I look at Garthawk and say, even you? Garthock actually gives you a very stern look and pulls his blade an inch from the side of his scabbard. I wouldn't do that. at which point you can now see 25 more class members step out, even wounded ones as they are, all stepping up and gather. You are now probably about 35 to 40 of them starting to form out

of the shadows, kind of forming a semicircle around you entirely. Don't do it, Greg. Absolutely not. No, let's go. Come on. Well, I feel like a smile every once in a while. We'll just back up. I take a bow and I turn my back to them and walk out. I do not turn my back. I walk backwards the entire way.

out with an arrow notched. I stay back to Vax. I say party on Garthock, then we leave. Pieliff, darling. Could you maybe make a wall of stone and close off this tunnel? Unfortunately, no. Save a thought for the people of the Mon.

If you have any room left in your narrow minds. I'm back out. I have ended with. Hopefully, you will realize that there is a far greater enemy at hand than the personal squabble between us, small people. And I also step away. The spiraling is not even in view at this point. He's disappeared amongst the crew of the rest of them, and then you just have a go.

Sure, you can hear me. Possibly. As you guys exit and find a way back up to the surface, as the last the last of you makes it outside of the entranceway, you immediately start hearing the slamming and breaking of stone from underneath you. And you gather pretty rapidly that this entrance is being entirely removed from possible entry. This is, I would just would like to point out since you had such noble intentions towards my position on things, this is your ego at work here. I may be many things, and I may be many things,

I may be a dealmaker, but I never forget that when I rule, I rule these people as well. I'm not better than them. And you may think you're better than them, but this is what it creates. It creates enemies. No, Percy. The difference is that I don't think I'm better than them.

Well, they certainly think you do, and they are not pleased. It's Mark. Is it magic? Can they trace you through this mark? Good question. I don't answer. I walk over to Keylet, do the thing with your hands.

That thing? Rip my shirt down. I want you to burn it away. Ewe. Now. Vax, do you have an arrow? Of course. I can...

Hand it to him. Put this in between your teeth. Searing white pain through the back of your eyes, Vax. As Keeleth presses her palm into the center of your shoulder blades, you can hear. the sizzling and cracking of skin and smell the burning of Vax flesh in the air in the cellar. Go make a constitution check. Seven.

Seven. You break through the arrow with your grip and actually give out a very loud, painful scream out of reaction. Like you do. Similar to when you hit me in my arm. Kind of. But a moment passes. Keele, if you pull your hand back and where the first is, where the class symbol once was, there is a handmark burned into the back of the shoulders.

It was you. The whole time. Kill her now. What did you guys like to do? Oh, that was bust. That could have gone so much better. Bax, I think you made the right call. And I don't think very often.

Or very well. well. Oh, yeah. Thank you, Groome. I think we could have gotten out of there with a better, with at least the hintings of an alliance as opposed to just just... Straight up. ...bitter enemies.

This was a disaster. Sometimes you have to walk away from a bad deal to find a good one. That's not a thing. That's not a thing. That's when you didn't read that. I got what you were saying, Grove. When it rains. means the sun is shining.

Steep grog. I like it. Just do on that. I cast cure wounds on back. I already did it. Too late, I fucking touched you, fucker. Does that take the scar?

Does that take everything away? I just taste the pain away. Just the pain, yeah. Is it morphed? Just to cure wounds, what it does is it basically prevents infection. It does heal you for the hip points you would have lost for that. I'll say it nullifies the damage you would have taken from the burn mark. It does not alleviate you from the sunburn mark.

from the scarring. It's not as graphic as it would have been had it been left to heal on its own, but it does muddle the class symbol somewhat. Hey. Should we go back to Keep? We could just kill them all now. There's hundreds of them gone. No, we can't. I saw it like 40 or 50. Yeah, there's another 160 in the rafters. And it would do no good. And then who would be bringing food in the city in the first place?

They're gonna go on doing the same thing they would have done with us or without us. They're doing it without us though. We need to go back to our keep. Do you honestly think that after all of this was done, do you want to be beholden to those people? And I don't believe they are going to bend the knee to Thorac. I don't believe it. They're not going to. No, of course not. And that was all I personally was worried about. I wanted people on the inside keeping us informed.

And we just lost a very powerful spy network. I think the only people on the inside right now have scales. That's everybody needs something. We come back to the keep our own people. We are not going to bother. We're going to go and we're going to find a way of killing these things. And we're going to just hope for the best in this city. It's what we're going to do.

You guys are heading back and he's stealth checks from everybody? Stealth check. Yes. Not good. To your God. Natural one. Oh my god, really? What?

No. Just add one. Natural one. That's pointless. Then what's the point of anybody? 27. 19? 37.

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authors, and experts and I keep it practical, surprising, and fun to listen to. If you've got a curious brain, come try one episode of something you should know on the podcast app you're listening to right now. All right. You guys push southward through the city, finding your way through at this point the sun has set. Night has come in and occasionally you hear you. hear the flapping of leathery wings overhead as a number of century groups of Wyvern riders go tearing through the city. At one point, you hear a similar kind of sound, and you hear other ones begin rising up off the rooftops heading in your direction, He lives. What do you guys do?

I'm going to push her against the wall, like the minute we see that, I'm going to push her against the wall and I'm going to minor illusion a shadow right over her. Okay. Make a new stealth check with disadvantage. Add ten. It's a natural one on their end. Oh, good. As long as you didn't roll a natural ones. No, I didn't. I rolled an eight plus a seven, so...

Okay. So at that point, one swoops down and lands on the edge of the roof, and you see it kind of curling down. And it takes off again, and they continue on out of the way. You wait a few moments before silence takes the night once more, and you press on heading southward. Nice. Good job, Percy. Thank you, Percy. One day you're going to stop being afraid of me, by the way, and I hope that they come soon. Before we go to the keep, do you want to swing by the place? The place. The place with the airships.

There's no swinging by. That's... by, that's a caper. That's an entire thing. Just to go there and look? It's... It's... The showroom is fucked. It's broken. This is one of those things that we're going to have to get everybody on board

before we even start talking about it. So probably a good night's sleep. We need to sleep. We need to get up in the morning. And then we'll talk about an airship. I'm really on board with the airship. I think we need to go to Vasselheim a white stone. White Stone.

Baselard. We don't need an airship to do that. No, we don't. We don't. But we also need to find out what's happening with Alura in White Room. Western. All those cities. Stonehenge.

This may be an easy way to get to be moving. Back to the Keep then, I guess. Be our secret tunnel. When we get there, can we just check in on Gilmore and the Queen? Yes. And as you return to the Keep, Plike has been taking care of the rest of the individuals He's been seeing to Gilmore's side, Gilmore's fast asleep, dealing with the tail end of a fever

that is broken after the healing from the day before, earlier in the day, I should say. Also appears that Salda and the children have been in and out keeping an eye as well. Pike, as you enter, looks up to you with a smile and says, he'll be all right. He's going to pull through. That's wonderful. I should probably stay with him for a bit, make sure he's okay. Is he unconscious still? He is asleep, currently, yeah.

He's been conscious throughout the day while you were gone, but he's got to rest a bit more. He still had a rough, rough few days. It's dead on. Just nice headphones. I just need headphones and a brush against the mic occasionally. Especially during really, really impact on story moments. What?

What? So you guys find yourselves resting for the evening. You take to a night's sleep. You're gonna sleep, Grok? Yeah. Yeah, you gotta sleep. I got to sleep. If you don't sleep, you're gonna start getting levels of exhaustion for the next day.

Okay. All right, so you lose the strength bonus. Everyone, you can get about half of your hit dice back. That's a lot. As the sun goes down. Sun's been down. It's been down and everyone's going to their rooms. I go to Keelitz's door.

and knock on it. I open door. Hi, I don't want to be alone tonight. Do you? I haven't been wanting to be alone most nights. And I let him in? Okay. So, we...

We'll chick-a-wow-pow! Jump forward to the next morning. That wasn't the kind of the kind of ship I was hoping to get. I don't think we can all fit on that ship. So, next morning, I'll wake up. Full hit points. full hit points, get back half of your spent, half of your maxed dice that you spent. All your spells back.

Hmm. I give Scanlan the hat of disguise back. Okay. You sure you don't need it? Yeah, fuck them. All right. Keep up those rhymes. Not bad for a first time out. All right, so, what's the plan? You know, Vex, I don't wanna be alone right now. I just take his face and I push him down. All right, so what's the plan? Do we have a plan?

I suppose our plan is to, is the slayers take next? Vassalheim. How do we get there? Wait, we have to get rid of all the Fugees. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll send them. We need to go to White Tateau. Well, here's the question is do we want to head towards Vasselheim from White Stone?

Yeah, let's do that. Yes. So we'll all go, we'll take the last of the, I can't believe I'm gonna say this, the last of the Fugees. Yes? Ooh la la la, wait. All of our guards and our servants as well,

I don't want to leave everyone here. We're abandoning the keep? I don't know what else to do. If dragons attack, our five guards not going to be able to do anything. One dragon crashed in the roof of the building. Accidentally shushed it. What are the cook and a maid going to do?

Make it breakfast. Jared's pretty badass, but I don't think he can handle it. Dragons get hungry. A white dragon. When we come back, our keep will be gone. And we'll be able to build it back up. Destroy. It'll match the rest of the city's Cameron.

Percival's the Lord of Whitestone. He's got a castle. We find a new keep. But my room is just the way I want it. I'm sure that some lucky dragon's going to come and shit in your bed. It will be fine. I'll just. All right, if we're gonna leave and leave the keep,

I'll need a moment in my room. Another room bathed in self-loathing. It doesn't need to be here. It takes a good month to bathe the room in that much, self-moving. You look like you're glowing this morning, guys. That's ridiculous. They're seeing quite so chipper.

Let's gather what we need. That must be it. Make sure that Gilmore is ready to move as well. bring everybody through to White Stone. All right. All right. I guess we should go tell, you know, the guards that they probably will have to leave if they want.

And that they can come work in White Stone for them. Well, I don't want to force them to, but of course they're welcome to. Why don't you go ask the guards? I'll go top of the kitchen staff. I know she's going to talk to. I was the captain of the guards anyway. We'll save for the sake of brevity. You speak with the rest of the Keeps staff, including the guards as well.

Jared, for most part, as long as I'm still getting paid, I mean, we're more than happy to go where you need this to be. If it's further away from Dragons, I am okay with that. Don't you need your tools? I can pack up my kit. And I've also technically got a work. I've got a reasonable workshop back in Whitestone as well. Whitestone, yeah. Okay.

So you gather your materials. You prepare at the tree in the center of the keep. You say her goodbye. Before we go out there, I go to my room. I take a dump on my bed. You've used it at the Temple of Sarenrae? No, it's not a potion. Just a straight up poo.

Just a straight up poo? Okay. Marking your territory. I respect that. I hang a note on the gate of the keep. You should hang on your own bed. I don't want anyone else to use it. I'm just checking.

With like a butter knife, I put a note on the... put a note on the gate to the keep that says, if Kaylee comes, go to White Stone. P.S. if my painting is delivered, please forward to Scanlan Short Hall to care of White Stone. All righty. Mine the poo. I leave a note for allura and tell her

that we've headed to White Stone as well. Okay. Oh, I don't say White Stone. I say the place where we sent you originally, so that she knows where it is, but... Yes. Okay. Notes are placed. I'm like scammels prepared.

Packed everything that could possibly be used to make anything dangerous out of my... Okay. Save your supplies at the ready. You all gather in the center of the temple of Sarenrae? Kiel. Not yet. Keelev. We'll be back.

What's wrong? Are you ready, Vax? I mean, this is the first time we've had a home and forever. I know. Can you make it disappear or something? We can go, it's nothing. I can put a hallucinatory terrain over it that'll last a little bit, but not long enough to make it a little while. It's just stone.

We've done it once before, we can do it again. It will be built back better than before. That's what we do. Let's go. The portal opens outside of the tree. tree and all the refugees start rushing through. You guys give chase following over to the opposite side where white stone waits. You all emerge from the sun tree in the center of the familiar town.

Fucking cold. It is chilly. Not as snow-dappled as it was when you first arrived, a little bit of that melted, and the clouds are a little bit more open. You can see some of the blue sky above you. It's actually a beautiful day if a bit chilly. As you emerge, you can see there's a few individuals in the center of the town, including a couple of the original refugees that We're seeing almost be waiting for the rest to come through. And they greet you as soon as you arrive and rush up and grab a couple of people that they had met at your guys' keep. Some come forward, saying, thank you, I'm so glad you made it.

And you shake your hands and everything. And you've arrived back in Whitestone. So do you guys want to just wait here for the day and then make your way to Vasselheim? Do you need to talk to anybody here? Just to set up to make sure that Queen and her children are taken in the castle. I can actually fill your sister in.

I will fill my sister in on how they're to be taken care of, make sure that Gilmore is taken care of. We may want to stock up on potions and stuff before we do. Yeah, apply as much as we can. There's a shop. There is, but you guys have cleaned it out. Definitely did. Well, we'll buy stuff in Versa.

They have not had an opportunity to really restart. Their main providers have been killed. Do you think that with the time that's past, Cassandra has found any of the belongings of the Briar Woods? They were pretty shnazy. We can ask about that. Okay, you go ahead and approach Cassandra, who's happy to greet you once you return.

Did he had a question? Vax? Well, we need to kill some dragons, and we are out of everything. You've been here a while. Have you found anything of the Briar Woods? Any store of treasure or potion, or anything of use.

Well, the personal facts, you, we all retrieved when they were defeated. Yes. What remnants of income or gold of which they had kept was put in with the rest of the white stone treasury when they took over. Not so much interested in gold

as in means of protection or healing. They weren't really specialized in healing, I'm afraid, and what bits of protection they had you've already taken. But if gold is what you need, We can probably spare you some. I mean, I'm not gonna say no to cold. Obviously, we'll cough her a little bit just for the, because we're going to need it for the mission.

So very generous of you. Also, let's re-employ our castle guards as the Imman royal guards for the meantime, and they can serve the queen and her children. I like it. That can be very easily presented. Oh, and here we are. and she takes, there's a small chest with a lid that she hands over to you.

She puts it out and your hands are already out already. Just kind of, all right, see. 2,000 gold from MacArthur's. It's not much, but we have to keep the city running. Of course, of course. And a small amount of the green gem, if that would be possible, that's left over from the mining operation. Of the glass?

Of the glass, if possible. Yeah, yes, yes, certainly. Thank you. I'm working on something. Very well. It takes a few minutes to that it be retrieved from down south of the tomb of the mausoleum, but nevertheless, they get a, let's say, four half-dollar-sized pieces of residual glass. Perfect.

I want to mark that down. Four shards of residual glass, you'd say. I hope that's of aid to you. Apology for the confusion. We have quite a bit individuals to find homes for and get them running. Gilmore will be of great help. Yes. As you told me.

I'm sorry to drop this all on you, and I'm thankful. I'm thankful that we even have an opportunity to offer a to somebody that thinks to you, so it's nothing in a lot. It will not be the end of it, sadly. That's all right, whatever we can do. Anyway, good luck. We'll be off in the morning. Are we getting to Vasselheim? We can either teleport.

Yeah, teleport. Is that true? Just pop on over, yeah. We sleep for the night, and then we go up to Vasselheim. Let's have dinner and... Hang out in White Stone for the day. I'm going to work on that little project. White Stone and Chil.

The, the, I usually want to surprise the thing I was trying to attach to my gun, but wasn't working. I'm going to try and attach to my boot instead. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. I can draw you. All right, while the rest of you guys are attempting to rest, I need you to go ahead and make a tinker tools check. Tinker tools.

Ew. This goes in here. That's better. 22. You've affixed it to your boot. We'll see if it works. And I've got like one working piece. I know I have to, individual build.

I have to build the the nubbin. The actual device itself has to be built for individual usage. It's not auto. So I'm going to try and build one and see how it goes. Okay. So total cost. for the materials and that will put you at about 300 gold.

What? 300 gold. Oh. I'm working on something. Okay. Thank you. Are you borrowing? Three hundred of your gold from the money loan?

Since the day I've met her, I've given her every bloody time I've made. So yes. I just no longer even think about it anymore. She's practically the royal treasurer. I don't get her any of it. She's just happier that way, so I just, yes. She's just happy. All right, you find an evening's rest. The next morning comes uneventfully. You find

yourselves refreshed. You gain, I'd say at this point you're all at full hit dice after two nights of rest. You're fine. So, onto Whitestone, Keyleth? Yeah. Or Vasselheim. Veselyne. Sorry. You're in White Stone. We were just here. You recall you've seen a number of trees, the largest you've seen in Vasselheim. I've probably been on the outskirts of... I was going to say we camped out in the future. You can, if you want to stop outside of the city or within the city, is the question. Whatever's closest. No, no magic in the city.

No magic in the city, remember? That's right. Outside the city. Well, no, no arcane magic. Divine magic is a different thing. Don't we have a temper? We can lie into. Oh, is there a teleportation circle? Do we have one in Whitestone? There wasn't a teleportation to Sturgeon. There are no sigils to Vasselheim.

That's part of the defense process is preventing any sort of, like, secret intrusion in that regard. in that regard. Okay. So we'll teleport to the outside of the city and then we'll perhaps sleep at the temple of second. There's the abundant terrace. Oh, we always have rooms at Slayers take, remember. We do always have rooms at Slayers take.

What's the abundant terrace or I don't remember that. That's the section that's Malora. The deity looks over. That is where primarily most of the farming, food and goods is kept there. That's where you know there are a number of orchards and things that are kept in that vicinity that you should if you wanted to. That's in, that's right outside the city. It's within the city.

Oh, it's one of the five quarters. I don't say quarters. It's one of the five areas. Sure. Quarters. All right, so. Is it, okay, is it just all, is it, is it Gilmore staying here in Whitestone? Yes.

Yes. Yeah, unless you want to try and bring them with you. No, no, no, it makes sense to live in here, right? I mean, where do you want to stay Gilmore? You're pushing Gilmore about this. He goes, well, to be perfectly honest, uh, I'm quite feeling 100% and, uh, let's just say, I'm not a huge fan of the Zellet type. Understandable. Vasselheim doesn't really, doesn't jangle my dingles. I would... He's got a whole bookstore devoted to you here. This is true. I would

appreciate your help restarting the economy of White Stone to be fair. I guess it's not too late to open a new branch of your most glorious goods since my other possibly two no longer exist. I was so close to opening. I started from nothing, I can do it again. Good luck you all. You as well. So we're going to a tree outside of the city? Yep. Well, it's in like the farming district of the city.

Yeah, it's within the actual city. All right, I'm going to go with the tree. All right, using this once again off the sentry, you guys, step through. As you emerge, out the other side, you are in the thick of a heavy orchard in the abundance terrace. in the Abundance Terrace. There is heavy snowfall has fallen recently here, and where it was cold and white stone, it's cold here in Vasselheim. You can see looks like built up ice and sleet that has recently been kind of pushed off the

sides of the orchard. And even amongst this very, very cold weather, all the plant life in this area is vibrant in springtime green. As you all kind of emerge in the center of this orchard, you can see one of the nearby workers I'm telling the land looks over. Hey, hey, what are you doing here? You're not supposed to be in the middle of the orchard. Slayers take business, we'll keep moving.

You're just leaving. Fucking slayers take do whatever they fuck they want. After instead of his canteen. Fun, just get out. You guys. You glad that manticle's not in your orchard. That's all I can say. Manticool.

That's just cruel. Don't worry. We took care of it. Thanks. Starts looking nervously over his shoulders as he goes back to his work. Eventually you guys step outside of the terrace finding rate of the quad roads, which is the central kind of network that the four main portions of Vasselheim attached to. This is the erathist-based center of the town. You have before you, to remind you, at the very, very northern part of the town

is the extremely tall pointed mountain known as Heaven Stair. Attached to that mountain on one side is the Silver Town's Reach. That is the main temple to Bahamut. To the left of it, not against the mountain, not actually into it, is the braving grounds. And this is the area that is geared towards Cord, the deity of war, where you had previously had a conversation with the Dawnmaster, the Earthbreaker, Groon. There's a platinum sanctuary in the Silver Talon's Reach, which is where the high bearer of war at the Silver Touched, the High Priest of Behind. comet is. You also just left the abundant terrace, and there is the Quad Roads, which

where the Slayer's Take currently is, and there is the Dusk Meadow, which is the Raven Queen's domain. Where do you guys want to go? What was the Dusk Metherkin? Was that where we chase the Rock Shasa? That is where the Amaranthine Ubliette resides, which is the prison of the city. What was the name of the section of the city that has the Slayers take? It's the Quad Roads. That's the Arathus Deerty of Civilization. So, like, I really want to go talk to the Kung Fu Panda Master.

I don't think we're going to get in a lot of fights here. The guy, he was, I think he was the teacher of Kern. All right. Oh, that guy. That ripped, chiseled old man. Yeah. Yeah. The guy who beat you twice?

No, no, no, no. No, no, no. And nobody beat me twice. We got a lucky once. Get it straight, but I want to go talk to him because maybe we need some more fighters and strong folks, and I think you might know where there might be. We should talk to the Slayer's take as well. We should get our rooms. Yeah, let's go post up.

We have things to put down. I'm also only about a day's travel from Pira. What's that? Pyra? That will be... A home. Oh. What's left of it. That will be a trip. That will be... necessary soon, but not yet.

All right, so you guys have the Slayer's Take first, or were you having? Yeah, Slayer's Take. All right. Just to let them know we're here, we need some rooms. Okay. You make your way to the outside of the main Slayers Take Guild Hall. The, you know, dark wood exterior greets you happily. You can see they still have a few of the, they have like these gathering of various antlers

and creatures that are kind of taken into each other that form this kind of rustic-looking entrance. and there on the front doors you see emblazoned, the Slayers take, I'm a better term, their symbol with the words of their actual guild spread across it, as you saw before. Opening the front door, you can see within the main foyer area, there is the dark iron chandeliers that run across the entire length of the main, kind of almost like a moot hall, if you will. And across the front, Here we go. Across the front area, you find the clerk desk sitting behind it, a familiar red-haired,

kind of tousled, chin-bearded, scarred up, tiny man with his feet up on the desk, kind of fall asleep in his chair. Hey! Tadda! What is this craziness? It's been some time! Yes, it has. So?

Hello? Hi. What's your business? What's you looking for? Who's it? I'm right to make you this one. Dragons? Have you heard about anything?

Men, often having that you killed one, that is, most recent. But, you know, nothing on that really, no. We're going to need rooms. And we're probably going to need to speak to your lady lord. Lord. Well, your wife, but I'm talking about the boss here. That's his wife. Higher still. Spinks. Oh.

Ness, she is currently out on a hunt. Should be back in the next day or so. We've urgent business to discuss with her. For now, we need a place to stay. Well, you're always welcome here. This is your home away from home. Please, take a load off. Pick a room. It's up to you. It's good to see you all so healthy. Healthy. Thank you. Merton.

Right? Nice. Oh. Whoa. So glad to hear you. The only reason I remember that is because it sounds like Merkel. Is Sarah around? She's actually currently out with Vanessa on her hunt as we speak.

That's wonderful. That's wonderful. We can see her. Okay. Sorry, we're tired. We've been hopping all over. Me too, I was sleeping when you came in. I don't mind if I get back to the back. Sorry. So any room? Yes, any room? If it's somebody else's room, they'll let you know.

So please take your time. Okay. Well, you're settling in? I'm settling in. Yeah, I guess we all sit in. Okay. There's a number of empty rooms. Doesn't look like there's a lot of individuals around. As you walked down one of the hallways there, you do see there was a card table. And the two individuals in there, you see a...

very, very scarred, burly, and frustrated dwarf who's throwing down cards in a table, black, long, series of beards in his hair over his beard. You see, Torbier is sitting there at the card table with another man wearing really, really beautiful ornate armor that is well polished, very short kind of dirty blonde hair, who is currently, apparently owning him at cards, going, ha ha, it's edible luck, friend. I'm sorry to hear this. Aldor. Taking us. It's Aldor.

Whoa! Torbier's sitting there throws the cars on the table. They tell me I'm supposed to have the luck of the dwarfs. Oh, I guess it's about time you all show up. I'm going to get a drink and he gets up away from the table and just kind of walks away from the rest of you. Like kind of a half-hearted high, but he's just in a huffed mood and walks up. Alder takes his winnings and kind of scoops the change into a power. Ouch.

How's Lyra? Have you seen her? Why? Have you seen her? Not in a while, but we thought you guys were engaged to be married, no? It's the last we heard. He reaches forward and grabs your shirt and pulls in. Where'd you hear that?

Not from a reliable source, I'm promising. Very sketchy, sirs. Good. You haven't seen it, have you? Not in a long time. She's still a member of the Slayers. take, of course, though, isn't she? I assume.

I just run if I see her. She's a bit. Yeah. No, she seems nice to me. Good. You know what, actually, if you want to do me a favor, and I mean, she's a nice girl. I'll be pretty easy if you ask her. Don't you take her off my hands and you have a go on a date?

Take her out for dinner, you know? You saw her first. You saw her first I'm a man of honor. Oh, no. I should go. He grabs the stuff and leaves in a hut. Good to see him. Yeah.

It's looking well. True love. It's weird being back, you guys. Well, I guess we should ask them all if they want to come with us to fight a dragon. Yeah, do we do that now or do we do it in the morning? I don't know. In the morning. in the morning.

Talk to Nessa. It feels like we were just running, screaming from dragons and sky. Yeah. It's to be traveled. We'll sleep on it. We'll talk to Nessa in the morning. We'll get up in the morning, we'll take some of that goal, we'll put it to good use, we'll wait till Nessa gets back, and then we'll carve out a plan.

Okay, sounds good. That sounds just fine. Cod's strength to us all. Yeah. I wonder if Cah is still here. Probably he works here, hasn't he? Who? That was the one that they went out on a...

Oh, right, Keelech, the guy that kissed you. Brooding, handsome, troubled. He was so troubled. He was. Yeah. He was very handsome. I felt to... So we should probably go sleep, you guys.

It's like morning still. It's like maybe 10 a.m. You can take a nap. I mean, it's across the world, so it's actually technically earlier. You know, it's jet lag. You know, teleport lag. Tellport lag. Maybe Nessa and Zara have seen him.

We can find out. I mean, we could use another healer always. It would be 10.30 in White Stone. Kind of a lone wolf. About 6.30, 7 in the morning, like really early morning in basketball. Speaking of parents, do you want to check in with your temple? Spike has actually stayed back in Whitestone

to help the refugees. Oh, she didn't even come to fast-line. No. But she did say she's hoping if she's going to keep an eye best she can through Sarah and Ray when she can pop in. She'll try and see if she can reject her form going forward. She's led by her conscience. She's led by her schedule in New York. Yes. We didn't think to leave her a stone, did we?

If you'd like to, you could have... Would we have done that? I would have definitely suggested leaving her with one of the stones so that she could... We probably should leave a stone with her so she could... with her so she can pop in with us. Okay, we'll say that she does that. She keeps against stone with herself, just in case. Trinkett stays in a morn, right?

Shut up! Trinket's going to guard the castle. It's right here, right now. He has been quiet, because he's really well-behaved. I'm still at the key. She gets from practicing his stealth. Yeah. So stealthy done.

All right, so you've set up your rooms, your stuff about you. You have a full day before seemingly anywhere from the Slayer's Tate's is going to come back. Where do you want to have? Individuals? Oh, shit. Individuals. Individuals in this city?

I don't know. Shit, you can't, can you? I'm afraid to start anything. It's 11 o'clock. I just don't want to start anything. All right. Then we will end it there. Thank you.

I just want to get an idea of where you guys were going for next week. Oh, yeah. Oh, I plan to go see Earthbreak and Groo. Okay. I want to wait and talk to Zara. Okay. to have a conversation at the Temple of the Raven Queen. Got some stuff.

All right. Zara sounds fun. Right? But I do want to, you know, buy potions as well in stock up. All right. Yeah, that too. Nothing, I probably tag along with Percival. Okay.

He's got a good idea. What about, what? Old punchy man you don't want to come with? Oh, yeah, I'll come watch you if you're going to have a fight. No, no, no, I'll have a conversation. No, no, you're right. I do want to see old punchy man. Yeah.

We can do both. Come on hand to hand. Okay. Watch you lose again? I'm not fighting him. All right, so Vagg and Scanlan are going with Grog to the Trial Forge. Okay. All right.

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