Critical Role - C3E106 Unseelie Interrupted

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

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So, let's go ahead and jump into tonight's episode of Critical Role. Critical. Critical. After it's Thursday night One by one we climb Until we reach the top Two by two we fall

Will we meet our end Or meet our destiny Hold your breath and roll How do you want to do this? It's Thursday night All ye critters come join us It's time to continue our flight How do you want to do this? for sure we never give up on the fight from the healer to the renegade we all share the same goal adding more allies taking more chances hold your breath and roll you can certainly try. It's Thursday night. All ye critters, come join us. It's time to continue our fight.

It's Thursday night. There is magic and mystery from darkness. Our friendship will rise. But one thing's for sure. We never give up on the fight. Oh, get ready It's Thursday night And welcome back. So, last we left off, And welcome back.

So, last we left off, Bells Hells, after returning to finding your west encampment in the middle of the Hellcatch Valley destroyed, you escaped to Vasselheim, where you encountered not just Keyleth, but many of the higher up movers and shakers of Exandria had gathered to discuss how to deal with the coming threat and the looming chaotic pinnacle of the Vanguard's plot. As part of this discussion, you yourself spoke with some of the familiar faces

of which you had built a rapport with since this journey began and figured out a plan in hopes that it would be the one. Everyone could put themselves behind. You pitched this plan, this multi-pronged attack, utilizing the backdoor secret portal, the passage to Rudas that you had discovered. Sorry.

I didn't say anything. That was my bad. You don't have to say anything. It's a magical force. I felt it. Go back to it. Yeah. Where was I?

You were hitting it from the back. Proceed. Thank you, great. We love you. Just add hit points every time. Upon beseeching all that had gathered within the Platinum Sanctuary to help you, Keyleth, the council, and the numerous other allies you had made to make this mission function,

you sold your case and most were convinced. As such, what you had decided upon is now being hatched as the initial plot against Ludinus and the Vanguard, which involves multiple groups of heroes from all across Exandria, some being pulled from retirement, some being pulled from their current decrease, others being just sought after

who've been missing for a while until everything is aligned, and within a week, which is hopefully enough time, you are to all descend upon the Malleus Key, the Weavemind, and the very core of Ruidus at the same time with Bells Hells to be the key linchpin to head towards the center of that moon.

After some chance encounters with some other interesting, powerful entities and a reunion with Dorian's father, you went to rest for the evening and consider what was to be had. After a discussion not too long before that, Imogen, with your mother, you had heard tale that Simulacrum of Ludinus

was traveling with Lord Zathura, the Sorrowlord Zathura, to meet up with the Unseelie, who had been conspicuously absent since the destruction of the Second Malleus Key. However, you also run into a superfan of Chetneypocopy over here and discovered, or I would say unraveled

what appeared to be a community of superfans who have been collecting, cataloging, and essentially worshiping the grandiose, wonderful Craftman legend that has walked alongside you. Oh, stop. After receiving a tour of his modest collection, you are allowed a room to sleep for the evening. As the rest of you gather your things

and hole up within the guest chambers of the home of Scalebearer, Weyland, and Marietta, the night's rest is yours. So unless anybody needs to achieve anything over the night's rest, we continue the morning. Everyone good? You need to send any messages to anyone? I'm going to change my tune, Matt.

Go for it. We mentioned maybe reaching out to Ira. Yeah. If we're going to go fuck with some Seelie. Ira would be the one to talk. But if it's you, bless you both. Shh! Stop it.

I forget I should know how this spell works. Certainly used it enough. If it jumps beyond planes. Yeah. You can send the message across any distance, even to other planes of existence. Whoa, nice. I'm also going to attune to Pop's blade.

You're going to switch mine over, too. Okay. All right, then I should try to send a message to Ira before we go to sleep. And say what? That we're on our way over? Help us fight the Unseelie? I think you should tell him about me.

He's never met me. Oh, yeah, I'll be sure to do that. Start with that. Yeah. Tell him that the Unseelie might be aligning with his favorite person. Okay. True. And that we're heading there to disrupt things and

help. Could use his help. All right. There's no chance this person will betray us or turn sideways. They're trustworthy. I don't know them. You know, they're your friends, so. Yeah, he's not really a friend. Oh.

He's like the worst person, basically. He's not the worst. Okay, everybody that doesn't want to sleep with the Nightmare King can weigh in, okay? Is he trustworthy, though? Absolutely not trustworthy. I mean, he's fey. I don't know if you met a lot of fey.

Yeah, just like, he's great. He's just a little hard to pin down. He's a power player in the fey, and he likes us for the most part. He does, he likes you. Yeah. Okay, but you don't like him, he sucks. Yeah, well, the last time we saw him, everything blew up.

Oh, that's right. But he helped you. He did. He did. He has wants and desires, and that makes him very easy to track, as long as we're doing things that coincide with his needs and desires, everything works out well. So we're calling the one friend we have in the neighborhood.

Well, he might be on the moon. Okay, y'all have one name in this episode. He might be on the moon, y'all. He might, might. Yeah, he might not even be on the moon. I might not even be able to get this. All right, I'm going to try to send it to him. All right. He's going to help me.

In a fun way. Who's helping me? Are we assisting you? Assisting you. I can help. With counting? With counting? With counting words? Oh, I got you. Someone else is going to do it.

Oh, you got it. All right. This is an old hat. Guidance? Strangely familiar. Guidance. Long time no see. Heading to the Unseelie Court. They may be working with your favorite person. Care to join us?

It'll be fun. Ooh. Okay. That's good. That's real good. Promising a good time. That's the hook. Yes. We can already tell there's a response

because Matt's making a face. Chetney. Are you pooping? Oh, it's so hard. You having a movement? Are you pooping? You pooping? No.

That's 25 for a turn. Yeah. It doesn't take long for that dark, odd, fey voice to slightly slither back into your mind. Ah. Glad to see you're still alive. I've been keeping a low profile on Kraviris. But if you want me to join,

let me know where I'm most useful. All right. He's down to play. Where is he, right now? Kravir's? Oh yeah. I know that name. I mean, Ira's really fun. Why do we know that name? Kravir is the central city of ruins.

But he's super powerful. And he really dislikes her dad. Athedashion has wiped out a bunch of names in my head. Okay. That's good. Those are both good. That's probably the only person we know who actually has experience with the Unseelie. So that's why the name came up.

Although we should probably check that he's not going to be a problem dealing with them, that he's not going to draw undue attention to us. He's got some sort of, I don't know. We should try and meet up outside of the target, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. So not at the Shrine of the Gilded Gifts, but in the town outside of the target, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. So not at the Shrine of the Guild of Gifts, but in the town outside of it,

or has it overtaken that old town of Dan Provenmire? The shrine exists within the city of Pravyanir. It's kind of within the perimeter of it. Keep up. All right. Maybe we should see if he wants to meet up at Mori's. Couldn't, wouldn't say no. Does that go down okay with Grandma?

They like each other. Weren't they an old fling? So would it go down? Oh. I think they were. I think they were, I don't know for sure. I mean, there were a couple times when I would be in my room and sometimes hear things. Oh.

Oh, Jesus. What'd it sound like? Would it be like a threesome at that point? Two and a halfsome at the very least. I mean, I can get into it if you want me to get into it. No, I'm having too much fun just imagining. Yeah. Anemories are good time.

It's like watching a spider wrap up its prey. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. I like only seeing that much. I don't want to see the zipper on the monster suit. I feel like that's too much. All right. Yeah. So tell them Nana Mori's? Yeah. Should we go to Nana's?

Did you go to Nana's? I do not know who Nana is. Oh, we got to go to Nana's. Honestly, we have to go to Nana's just so that Dorian can see. And Brayus. And Brayus. Oh, that's right, you're here, too. Yes, you've never met them before.

No, I haven't. Brayus, have you been to the Fey Realm? I can't say that I have, actually, no. Insight check. And Dorian, any time? We came close, but never went in. All right, so you roll Deception or Persuasion. This is an auto-win for Brian. That's a good one.

Yeah, you've got a billion auto-pun. Okay. 29. 23. Ooh! Low for you. Have you been to the fur rattle? I have not been to the fur rattle. Okay, okay. No.

Listen, I'm going to tell you guys straight, because these other dames are dizzy. For the Nightmare King, Nana Mory's is fucked. It's a nightmare. It's absolutely psychotic. So just prep yourself, all right? I mean, she's lovely and it's home in the warm hearth and yeah, yeah.

There's people gardens and shit. It's going to be bonkers. It's a self-expression. I'm getting such different answers from both sides. I'm trying to tell you the truth. You say he's bad, you say he's cool. Think about Fearne here. And you make up your own mind about it. All of the best and also scariest things about Fearne.

Yes. Like a lovely dichotomy. It's beautiful. It doesn't help anybody. It's fucking up. We're going to have amazing drinks. We're going to have amazing beds. New kidnaps taste. Yeah. Yes, it'll be great. It doesn't help anybody. Thank you, thank you. It's fucking up. We're going to have amazing drinks. We're going to have amazing beds. You're getting this taste.

Yeah. Yes. Like some people. It'll be great. A wonderful home cooking meal. Between Ira and Nannamori, we're going to have as good a shot as we can. I think so. I believe so. I'll fill you in later. I believe so.

All right. I'm going to send another message to Ira. All right. And say... So excited. Put this mirror. All right, we're heading to Nana Mori's. See you there after we wake up.

Bitch. Bitch. Lick-a-mint manor. Ligament manner. It has been some time. That's all. Oh! It sounds like a match. Ligament matter. Ligament matter. We're clear.

Ligament. Yeah, ligament. Not like ligature, like on a woodwind. Ligament, like in your knees? Like spearmint? Like things you cut when you need to disable an enemy. So then... We sleep. We sleep, we wake up, we go.

Wake up! We're there. All right. Wait, but before we go to bed, I want to sneak to, this is going to be very quick. Yeah, go for it. I want to go over to Wayland for a moment. Okay, Wayland's in his own room. You guys are all in the guest room.

I'll knock on his door. Okay. Hi. I am so sorry to bother you. That's okay, it's really early. Yes, it is. So I just really wanted to know, I really want to buy the egg, Jett's egg.

Oh. What would you sell it for? I was considering stealing it, but I'm not going to. It's not for sale. I mean, theoretically, it has a price, but for me, it's not for sale. I mean, theoretically, it has a price, but for me, it's priceless. Really? Yeah.

Okay, well, literally the only gold that I have in my pocket, I have 69 gold pieces. Nice. Would you consider? Bravo! Would you consider, and I would, I'm going to try to find the fifth egg. So bad. Look, I...

Please, is there anything I can give you in return? I made out with him, okay? I didn't tell him! What? Yes! Are you like a... I'm, yeah. Sort of, sort of, sort of like a...

Sort of in a relationship. Wow. Possibly marriage, I don't know. Really? Yeah. Chetney Pockipy is classically a man of the wind. He has been untethered for ages. That's why I was thinking if this could possibly be a really nice present to give him one. The tales and stories

of his conquests are spread to all, within our circles, at least. All over, all over. The line of the body count is insane. Wow. Sorry, I just, do you make things, too? Yes, I do. That makes a lot of sense, then. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's an artistic synergy that we have together. It would have to be. I can't imagine anybody could tie him down unless they themselves were a force of- Can I have the egg? I'm so tired. I just want the egg and I want to go to bed. I can't sell it,

but if you're this close with him, I might be willing to trade it for anything that's a Chetney Pocky original that no one knows about. Ooh. Well. If you're this close to him, I mean. Listen. Listen, okay? He gave me a wolf.

I'm not going to give you that. But he did make me some members of my family. I would give you... I could give you the one that he made of me. You know, that's one of a kind. Make a persuasion check. Okay. This is a pretty high DC.

Okay, okay, okay. That's a two. Okay, wait, wait. Oh, plus a 15. 15, you guys. I appreciate your interest, I really do. No, it's okay. But this piece is sentimental beyond

the known languages of Exandria. I mean, it's the centerpiece, it's the core that holds the rest of the collection together. It's the end of my presentation. It's everyone I bring through, it's what I finish on. That's what you finish on. The whole story I've crafted is based on this piece.

Okay. I do think that we finished. All right. I'm sorry. No, really, I understand what it means to be a collector and have the main piece. Well, that's okay. Well, thank you, I appreciate that. I understand.

Have a wonderful night. Thank you, you too. Okay, thank you. I appreciate that. I understand. Have a wonderful night. Thank you, you too. Okay, good night. I'm going to try to go take the end. Make a sleight of hand check. Okay. Alarm's going to go off. I mean, if I don't, I don't.

They just close the door? They just close the door, yeah. I'm going to guide myself. Oh no. That's cock know. It's cocked. It's cocked, I'm really sorry. That's a natural 22. Okay, but look how good they're almost. That was.

Look how good they're almost. That was so weird. Okay, so. Damn, why haven't I used that? That's hurting. It has to be getting true. Guidance is decent. Yeah, but look how close I was almost not speaking. Damn, why haven't I used that? That's hurting, it has to be getting true. Guidance is d6. No, d4. 17.

What alcohol content is almost? Okay. Oh boy. So as you approach the cabinet vessel that holds this egg within, you head towards the doors that open it, and they're closed, they're not locked. There is a lock on it, but you see the lock hasn't been placed.

He may have forgotten to do so in the intensity of being overwhelmed at the presence of such a legend. You open it up inside and you can see there's the pedestal that the wooden egg sits upon is right there in front of you. So I'm going to try to just take the gold, the 69 golds, and try to swap it out really quick. Okay, you weigh it. Kind of see the best you can.

You don't know what a wooden egg weighs. The platform suddenly, the minute you begin to move the egg from it, these large metal latches just arc around and affix your wrist to the top. You're holding the egg, but your wrist is now locked to the cabinet. Wayland!

Yeah? I am so sorry. I was going to try to just take it, but I'm not. I just, it didn't work. I was going to leave a note, but I'm going to step away. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I just was so excited about it. I'm telling you, though, look how,

I'm being so honest with you. Okay, well, now you're kind of freaking me out. He begins to step towards you here in the still, nearly lightless base chamber of his collection. His pompadour just barely lit by the low embers of the nearby magical lantern light. You hear him beneath his breath.

It is through his light, forgiveness and justice is maintained. It is through his light, forgiveness and justice is maintained. He just threw his light of forgiveness and justice is maintained. He steps forward, the shadow obscuring the top of his face as he looks up. Not a problem, I can get you out of that. Lickety-split.

And his hand reaches just beyond view, underneath some sort of wooden lip on the side. It unleashes your wrist. You pull your hand back, and he immediately catches the egg from your grip and places it gingerly back down. Fair enough. I just got a little overzealous.

I'm so sorry, I'm so tired. I'm going to go to bed. Thank you so much, good night. Rest well. He's always watching. Not sure who you're talking about, but yes. Closes the cabinet, touches his symbol of the platinum dragon on his neck,

and then heads back to bed. Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. Just got to sneak in and go to bed. Okay. Which is... That's true. He wears beautiful skin. Oh, oh. All right. That's true. He wears people skin. Uh-huh. All right.

The morning greets you all as you awaken. Are you dead? Oh, I'm sure it's fine. I need to know right now. I need to know right now if you're dead in this house. No. Oh, but I'm telling you, it's getting closer. If I had made that change, that would have been it.

What was it? It's getting closer and closer I had made that change, that would have been it. What was it? It's getting closer and closer. I was off by four. Oh! I don't like it, I don't like it. I think I'm entertaining making it in between 100 and my level, so like, 114.

When are you gonna make that switch, though? That's more than one in ten chance, by the way. Yeah, that is. That is more than one in ten chance every day. 100%! Inevitability. He's old. Yeah, he's old. This is taxing stuff.

And think how valuable the collection will be after. No. That's true. We just have to make a bunch of stuff right now to keep supporting him. Do you think any of us will ever find the egg in your butt? I don't know what you're talking about. I want to know when we finally loot the body, how much of our gold is currently sitting

in those pockets. Yeah. As you gather your things, you can smell the wafting scent of fresh bacon. It smells like steamed and maybe lightly fried vegetables. It's a nice, hearty breakfast that's being prepared in the other chamber. You hear Vilelin's voice around the side.

Be right there, almost ready, don't worry. Immediately comes around a minute later with a number of plates and has a little apron on that has the button dragon on the front as well. It's like. Okay. You can see one of his display tables has had its display moved off to the corner and now has a tablecloth over it. He sets down a number of

dishes to each of you as you sit around it. You can see the meals are pretty nice, standard, hearty. When it comes to Chetneys, it is a grandiose collection of a Michelin star breakfast meal. I have a friend of mine over in the Abundant Terrace who manages to acquire these blessed vegetables and fruits within a very special grove blessed by the Wild Mother. It's very expensive, but I pulled a favor last night

and I hope you like it. I'll use my wolf nose to... Exquisite. Enjoy, enjoy. I'm so sorry, we're out. And handed you a plate that has an old biscuit on it. Oh. I love biscuits.

Great. It's my favorite, actually, so. Would you like some, Fearne? I would love some. No. You know, they used to tell a story in Bossaurus that the oldest person who ever lived in Bossaurus, it was an elf,

my God, they saved like 400, ate every meal was nothing but starchy potatoes, nothing else. Eventually had a little bit of rich food, that's what killed him. One meal, one meal of rich food. Dropped right dead. How likely is that, though?

Well. As far as last meals go, though, hard to beat it. That's a good point, you know. You should check for poison. What? I would've... I smelled my nose.

Absolutely not. Just saying. As you said last night, more valuable once you're dead. Listen, Senor Amaretto understands how important my continued works are. Indeed, not a worry. He grabs his holy symbol out from underneath his apron and goes like, Yeah, I'm glad I'm dragon-cleansed

of its possible impurities. And this energy bursts and pulses out from the meal. It glows with a strange, beautiful golden light for a second before it slowly fades away. The sound of chimes in the distance. Like,. Did you just cast Magical Judgment on breakfast?

I ensured that it was purified and free of any sort of toxins, poisons, to make sure that... I know my friend in the terrace is trustworthy, but just to be sure, to make you feel comfortable in my house. Just to be sure. You're doing an excellent job of spreading the word.

Thank you so much. Gelbearer, keep it up. I want to hear that the Seapoppers community has doubled by the next time that we meet. Okay, yes. You know what? I'll go ahead and I'll put together a special version of our zine that may be a double feature.

Can I have an interview to put in there? I think that would really draw people to your costume. I think I can find some time in my schedule. We really have to get in there. I'll make some custom pieces. It'll be fun. We can call it Top of the Pops. Top of the Pops. Top of the Pops.

This biscuit's really good. Is the zine handwritten or do you have a press? Oh, I have a friend with a press who's down in the quadrupeds. I feel like this would be useful later. I have a friend with a press who's down on the quad roads. I feel like this would be a useful leader. I'm going to make a cult. I think it already exists. That's not us. That's wonderful.

I'm doing it. I'm growing my hair out. I really thought I'd meet with the cult first. Start wearing white. You thought I'd have the cult first? Of all of us, yeah. No one wants to follow me. They're all scared of me.

No, fear. Fear is a great motivator. That's true, that's true. It feels a little bit more like a multi-level marketing No, fear. Fear is a great motivator. That's true, that's true. It feels a little bit more like a multi-level marketing scheme, honestly, but we can go with Colt. From hero to hero. You finish up your meal. Wayland picks up after all of you, cleans up space,

and excitedly, if you have time in the morning to do a quick interview with him, he begins to ask question after question after question. It runs a little long and you all have to I oblige. catch it a little bit. At one point, he pulls you aside and goes, By the way, I think your partner, your lady friend, there's something about her I don't trust.

Just be careful. Which one, the dead one? No, no, the one that you're with, the tall one, Hooves. Oh, oh. Hooves. Give you a funny vibe? Yeah. I don't know if she has your best interests in mind. Good to know.

Your loyalty will be rewarded. Thank you, my liege. I got lieged. We will take our leave now. Thank you. Of course, of course. You are ever welcome here in the abode of Amaretta. And of course, should any of you be graced

with any further individually crafted gifts by the hands of this great man, there is always a home for them here. So if you ever heart up for change, just let me know. Anyway. If I die on the moon, my horse is going to you, Weyland. Sure. Scalebearer, I take out a very small,

avian-looking wooden sculpture, and with my thumbs, I fan out peacock feathers from the back. This is for you. That's actually really cool. I kind of want that. It's so light and fragile, but the structure feels sound, like it could almost fly. How do you bend?

No more. We must go. He's got way too sensual. I need to get out of here. You see a single tear trickle down his cheek. He doesn't even notice you all step out as he's just staring at the piece before, good luck, stay safe.

The rest of you also. Closes the door behind. As you step out into the morning light, there's a bit of the warmth from the sunlight hitting you, but it's still step out into the morning light, there's a bit of the warmth from the sunlight hitting you, but it's still a chill in the morning, a gentle snow still following here in the mid-morning. Sun, just a little bit of break,

broken through from the gray patches of cloud above, but the snow-dappled city of Vasselheim sits around you. The day is yours. Let's head to the Fey Realm somewhere normal. That was a lot. Oh yeah. You need to find Keyleth. I'm so full.

I wonder if we could maybe just take our time getting there, let this food work its way through my exquisite intestines. I suppose we could go shopping. Let's just get on with it and do it. Chet, where do you think that fifth egg is? What's that? Where do you think the fifth egg is? Fifth egg.

Fifth egg. Are you sure that's what you heard? Yeah. Stupid. That is so stupid. I'm going to find it and I'm not going to give it to him or sell it to him ever. Even if...

Great idea. You should do that. Yeah. If all of them find it. Well, despite, suddenly I'm not against it, but where did it come from? Yeah, what happened? Yeah, well, I asked him very politely and offered him a very decent amount of money for the egg.

You tried to steal it, didn't you? I did. Okay, and it apparently didn't- And it did. Okay, and it apparently didn't work. Which I understand, I told him that I told him. Whatever, it's fine. Where are we going? Super possessive from the get-go. I don't think you were wrong to be suspicious.

I once read a book called Misery by Dreamian King. The best piece for his collection is the artist. No, for sure. I mean, best piece for his collection is the artist. No, for sure. I mean, in fan, you should honestly be careful. I've heard if a fandom ever turns on you, it could ruin your life. It could ruin your life. Yes. I've heard about this, too.

They have agents everywhere. Well, I trusted them completely. Oh, good. Yes. They're good. They seemed very nice. 100%. What you see is what you get. We made you a really good breakfast, eyetroppers. I busted them completely. Oh good, yes. They're good. They seemed very nice. 100%. What you see is what you get. Here, we made you a really good breakfast, Chet. He did, he did. And he's got an excellent eye for quality.

Anyway. Yeah. All right. With all of your things gathered, you recall her noting that she would probably be over in the Abundant Terrace, not far from the exterior surrounding groves of the Birthheart.

Upon arriving on the outside of the beautiful, lush forest interior of the terrace itself, and asking around for some of the various handlers and aides in that area. Eventually, Keyleth does emerge from the forest. Her lush, multicolored, dragging mantle behind her. She's in the process of talking to a person to the right before sending them off, and then turns back to the rest of you.

Good morning, friends. I take it your presence here means you before sending them off, and then turns back to the rest of you. Good morning, friends. I take it your presence here means you have places to be. I myself do as well, shortly. Do you still intend to make this trek? Yeah, I think so. I want to be useful in the downtime. Good. Well, whatever you can find, whatever we're concerned about, or whatever can be,

well, whatever part the Unseelius had to play or will, please bring that information back. Stop at whatever seems to be of interest towards achieving our goals. That is one blind spot that makes me anxious. Anyway, I have to be off, so if you have a place. One logistical question. We're getting there. Okay, getting back.

Nannamori. Well, Nanna sent us to that one friend or associate, remember? Yeah. I might also be able to get us in the right direction. Also, worst case scenario, Califf, if we get stranded there, can I send you a message? Reach out to me, and unless I'm in the middle of being attacked or escaping some terrible thing,

then yeah, I will be happy to come help you. I suppose, last question, I don't happy to come help you. I suppose, last question, I don't suppose there's any potions or anything, I don't know, that we can stock up on before we go into the middle of whatever the fuck we're going to be going into. Also, I sort of hurt myself doing that transformation yesterday,

and if it's possible to... Oh yeah. yeah, yeah. Oh, certainly. I can help you with that. As far as any sort of potions or healing balm, salves and such, there are some sellers in the Quadroads. So you can keep an eye out there

and see who has what stock is available. If you need any sort of monetary aid in that as well, let me know. I may have a little bit of change on me. I can toss you away as one of my, our compatriots. I said we could do that real quick. I would not say no to any of that.

That might be kind of nice. Do it. Yeah. Yeah. Very well. She reaches back into her pouch and rummages for a second before pulling out a sack of what looks to be a fair amount of coins, a solid, larger than a handful of coins,

and just tosses it to you, Orym. Thank you, Tempest. I put it to good use. Zephyr war funds, it's not a lot, but now's the time to use them if we can. Where are you headed? Well, I'm going to try and gather the rest of my friends. Oh shit.

There's a few, there's one in particular that's been kind of hard to reach. Wish me luck. Nevertheless, I'll be here for the next hour, hour or so, and then I should definitely be off. Quick. All right. How much does it weigh?

There's a mixture of gold and platinum, but it's about 550 gold all said and done. Give me a hold onto it. How many healing potions will we be able to get with that around town, do you think? Oh, all right. Should we truncate that, or do you want to go shopping? I was a healing grader, and unless they're,

yeah, I was going to say, I mean, while I'm always amused by it. You came to a fair 4.4% yield on your healing potions. I'm always amused by where the magic items might be rolling around, but I will admit, I'm very suspicious of the exchange rate. I don't think we have, I mean, I don't have a ton of gold. I don't know if we'dended CT cards. I will admit, very suspicious of the exchange rate. I know, I don't think we have, I mean, I don't have a ton of gold.

I don't know if we'd be able to really get any magic items. Let's just go to the Feyrold. We can use it when we get back. We got to look at all these potions. We'll get a couple potions and, well. I got a couple. A couple? We just got a bunch.

So they carry this around, everybody, this Potion of Invulnerability, did somebody want this? What does that do? For one minute after you drink this potion, you have resistance to all damage. Damn! We should use that as a life jacket. Yeah.

But who would? I feel like a squishy would need it. Well, I feel like the upfronts should use it. Somebody tanky. A tiny warrior. A tanky. Save it for a tauren. Yeah, the tiny warrior. A tanky. But save it for a tank. Yeah, a g-tender. That's maybe something to hold onto for Luda.

Yeah. I agree. I won't need it, I have it. Luda! My god to protect me. And armor, which also. Your god is. That's a good question. I feel like you're weighing between right now. Picking your best option.

You're so glam and glitzy now. Perhaps the next time we go into battle, I'll reach out to one or the other and see who offers me the most protection. Ooh, a bed of lords. Why not both? Make them work for me. Yeah, why not both? Yes, this is a question for the religious ones.

Why do you only have to choose one? That's weird. I never thought about that before. That's interesting. I think most of the gods prefer it that way. They're sort of selfish. Vain. Yeah, but they all offer different things. Your Prime Day is, I mean, ours don't, you know, the... Yeah, yeah, definitely not selfish at all.

No, the bad ones, they don't care. They don't care. Oh, so Asmodeus will care that you also worship the platinum? Yeah, yeah. I think they get along, so Asmodeus will care that you also worship the platinum? Yeah, yeah. I think they get along, so Asmodeus will probably have no problems at all. He just wants his family back.

So maybe he won't have a problem with it. But this is a good point, you know, if you have the Primes on one side and then the Betrayers on the other, do they even communicate? Like, could you walk the line and they would never know? That's a really good question. I don't know how that works.

It's not like they're talking. It's not like they have a shared thread. I will prey on this. Yes, of scrying. I will prey on this. It's a web of communication. It stretches the world. Yeah.

If there's ever a time, now's the time, because they all have divine skin in the game, right? They're all in the same boat. For my religious training DM, do I know if they would know? If you started talking to the other side? Yeah, if a worshiper of the Betrayers also started worshiping a prime,

would they even know? Roll a religion check. Come on. I am so excited. Are you looking to multi-god? Maybe. Guidance, I say on behalf of Ash. I like it. Guidance!

It looks like you're trying to contact another god. I don't know, it's religion, though. 14. Guidance. Okay, Guidance, 14. Guidance. Okay, guidance, okay, guidance. Oh! That was almost really bad. 15. Yeah! 15. That's just what we needed.

The best that you can imagine is it depends on how deep that goes. A conversation, a curiosity, likely will not find attention. But a divided faith across that line can eventually begin to raise questions of your commitment and your faith. It also depends on how faithful you are. That's true.

Split commitments are fine for those who haven't, you know, given themselves wholly to the cause. But also, these are strange times, so who knows? Open relationships are really in right now. Polytheism is a thing. Wow. And I hear they almost never go wrong. I could be a tenor.

What am I going to do. I could be a tenner. What am I going to do? I could be Polly. As long as your god gives you consent. Yeah. I should be open. Mm-hmm. Yes, you should.

Pollytheism has ten points there. That's really good. So make sure you discuss all the tenets in advance. Sure, sure. If anyone feels uncomfortable. We'll talk about it. Huh. If anyone feels uncomfortable. Talk about it. Huh. A lot of prayer.

Is there any questions to gods or Polly? Come on. They came out of that Palace of Light. We're doing it now. Tengar is a crazy place, y'all. There's a glowing warp. So we're just going straight to the Fey Realm, y'all? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh wait, are we fast-forwarding through us buying potions? No, apparently we're not buying potions and we just took Caleb's money. We just took Caleb's money, which is better. Wow. Immediately. Is that what you guys are doing? We'll get him!

Okay. I'm glad to greet you. Or we could just fast-forward buying some potions. No, no, if we already have enough and we feel comfy, then we can save our money for the Fey Realm. I'm sure there's not an expiration date on this. We can go take care of the Fey, come home. All right. You want to give it back to her?

Do you want to give her back the money? I'm trustworthy. Did getting caught do something to you? No. Yeah, okay. Okay. All right, just kidding. We're going to just take this.

I'm Orym. We're not going to just go buy it right now. We're going to buy it when we get back from the Fey Realm. Okay. All right, just kidding. We're going to just take this. I'm Orym. We're not going to just go buy it right now. We're going to buy it when we get back from the Fey Realm. Okay. Okay. We're very decisive. That's completely fine, yeah. Okay, well then,

you're headed towards whereabouts in the Fey Realm? Well, we're going to go to Mynana's Ligament Manor. Ligament Manor. Right. Do you know where that is? It's in the... Yes. She came with us last time. I've not been there. Oh, that's right. No, Allura did.

No, Allura did. Allura spoke of it. Allura! Said it was a kind of fun place. Uh-huh. My interpretation, she thought it was strange, but what she thinks is strange, I often find a lot of fun. I feel like you.

Anyway. He looks more fun than Allura, so. Yep. She got a tattoo. Yeah. Allura has strong spinster professor vibes. Laura's not numbing her tongue in bars across the planet.

Yeah, she does. Well, Kima drags her into some shit. Anyway, that's a buffering. She once smoked something in Girl Scouts. She doesn't know what it was. Right, right. Could have been just tea. They told her it was something.

It really wasn't. It was just, yeah. Wild out. Well, I guess we're in the right place for this. Follow me. She brushes the snow off her shoulders, goes to the nearest heavy enough tree with a wide enough trunk,

puts her staff in front, and as she sets it, she turns it to the side and runs her finger across and down. And then as she zips it upward, the tree, like, in a portal, just erupts in the middle of the tree as the bark tears open. As it does, you can see there's a slight path beyond

that leads to a shadow-filled, heavily wooded space on the opposite side. Such a cool way to travel. Quickly, it only remains a moment. Running through. Skipping my way. Stay safe, I'll see you on the other side. It closes behind.

Now, the temperature gets a bit warmer, though not by much. It's no longer the snowy cold of Vasselheim, but more of an oddly chilled, frost-coated swamp. The darkened clusters of ash, blue and purple leaves mixed with the dark greens, the vines themselves wind and twist between each other.

You can see the massive, oversized mangrove-like trunks that seem to arc up and connect to elevated branches, the trees themselves crossing and nodding into each other of oversized mangrove-like trunks that seem to arc up and connect to elevated branches, the trees themselves crossing and nodding into each other as it creates this strange alien canopy. A familiar space to some of you, but definitely a new experience to both you, Dorian and Brayus.

You can hear the surrounding sound of odd insects creaking and clicking, and the soft, chilled mist that drifts over what looks to be the occasional muck-sunken walkway. You are in the middle of a strange, swampy space. Can I look back at the tree that we just came out of? Can I touch it with my fingers?

Feels like bark. Yeah, it's a hardened bark. And the bark of these particular trees, because what opened up for you is almost like the trunks divide about 20 feet up and into these massive, long roots that are exposed and elevated that then pierce into the ground

and then burrow further beneath. They're almost like natural archways that are 10, 15, 20 feet above, like four, five, or more of these arching roots that reach up to combine above. Are there any broken or discarded branches from this fey tree? I'll grab one, and if not, I that reach up to combine above. Are there any broken or discarded branches from this fey tree? I'll grab one, and if not, I might reach up

and just snap a small branch to take. Okay, yeah. What you find are not branches to this particular part. This is just a smooth gliding piece, but there are fallen branches from higher up in the tree that you can find around the area. Of course. The smell around here itself is very,

it's like a gentle pungence of decaying earthen matter, plant matter. The little faint smells of sulfurous gas from that scattered compost that makes up a lot of this vicinity. And Fearne, you see the familiar enclosed mass of vine and leaf that leads to where Ligament Manor resides.

Leading the troop, you begin to push and follow Dorian. The sense of unease creeping up your back, your shoulders tensing instinctually, and you feel the hairs in the back of your neck never letting up, at attention, perpetually. A few steps and you hear the up in the air and you glance up and see two glowing yellow eyes and another set right beneath them.

Stepping forward, you see what looks to be a strange owl with two sets of eyes, a smaller sub-pair than the two large ones. They blink out of pattern. And then as it takes off, you see where beneath its wings, there are four long hanging tendrils, as opposed to talons, that just dangle

like a counting octopus. Are they all going to be like that? So weird, that's honestly mild. Isn't it so wonderful? Oh, it's delightful. I skip next to Fearne. Raised. Isn't it so wonderful? Oh, it's delightful. I skip next to Fearne. Raised. As a pest.

I'm so excited to be back. We just skip. Is it squishy when they skip? Is it marshy? A little bit. Sometimes it hits a stone. There's some harder earth at certain points, but it's that area of the marsh where,

as it rolls, it goes from a hardened, cold, packed earth to dampened moss to swamp muck and then back again. Oh Dorian, be careful of the flora. Sometimes the blooms will scream at you. What? So just be careful. I'm going to... Oh. Bless you. I'm going to help. Bless you.

I'm going to hook my arm through yours and just pat your arm as we walk together. Do we have to skip here? We don't have to skip. No, I'm just here for comfort. It can happen, though, that skipping, it can be mandatory on occasion. Yes, it's mandatory.

You need to do it, Dorian. So we're compulsory? Compulsory. I'm not going to skip. Okay. Okay. As you approach the massive cluster of twisted, tangled vines, growth, you watch as these little buds all across the exterior, as Fearne begins to approach, begin to open up.

In a matter of moments, dozens, hundreds of multicolored flowers begin to open in this archway that seems to open up at her arrival, like a tunnel just stretches and extends, like whatever this massive section of the forest is is inhaling at your arrival. As you all begin to step through, you watch these flowers seem to follow you

as you step beneath this archway, and you swear you can see them breathing. They like pretty music. Oh, yeah, you should play for them. They really do. Oh, you're more of a painter? Yes, I paint. Okay. They're also aggressive towards monochromatic palettes.

You might have barely noticed, but with each of my footsteps, the green around my feet, the green grass turns gray and black as I step through it. Just around six inches around my feet. Just around. What?

Is there a Stuart Grant? I don't know. Mm. You? I don't know. I'll play a tune to the plants. Oh, they're going to love it. That'll be a good one.

Don't fuck it up, they'll trap you here forever. Fuck, now my mouth is dry. Are you playing taps? What is that? I'm just playing a song. It's the first thing that came to my head. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

Oh, that sounds familiar. I like that. We can't clear that. I feel it. Roll a performance check for me. Oh no! Okay. Yeah, 28. 28.

As improvised as this jazz flute solo may have started, it becomes a beautiful offbeat flow. It becomes a beautiful offbeat flow. As your magic whisks through your instrument, you begin to conjure haunting harmonies to match your initial tone. There are three instruments coming from one. You lean into it.

As you do, you watch the color of these flowers pulse and shift with the music, and that breathing sound from them begins to change to humming. You can hear dozens and dozens of these little flowers humming along with it, like they're all following the tune just one beat off of it, giving this echo to sense that trickles behind you. As ominous as this place was, suddenly it feels a little more welcoming. I've always wanted backup singers. Sicko. Yeah. As many as you want here.

This place isn't so bad. It's not. It's really not. I get it now. It's scary. Yes. The vines open before you, and now you see yourself emerging into the interior of this massive forest-like cocoon. There in the center is this impossibly tall tree,

almost similar to the scale of the birth heart, the massive tree you saw in Vasselheim. Not quite that large, but definitely thinner. And the foliage of it is dense and dangling and extended and twisted, almost like an oil-sheened weeping willow that in itself has gotten tangled within itself over centuries.

Glancing at it, you can see little bits of it that seem to emit these faint, barely hidden orange glows, like massive fire lights flicker stationary beyond the curtain of the leaves in dark. As you follow Fearne into what looks to be an entryway curtain, you step within that canopy and glance upward to an incredibly tall

and multi-tiered tree house. You see the trunk of this tree knot and spiral upward into multiple, dozens of floors that rise up as branches extend outward, each one seeming to cradle a chamber that is decorated and lit with its own coloration and theme. A faint sound of music, sourceless, different from your own that you've been playing, seems to mingle and drift throughout the interior. You can see numerous pairs of glowing eyes from creatures that sit just beyond the visible light watching you all as you enter.

Welcome to Ligament Manor. Oh. This is where I grew up. Come, let's get in. Makes a lot of sense. No. Should we send a message ahead, or? This is where I grew up. Wow. Come, let's get it. Makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Should we send a message ahead, or? Nah, it's okay.

Nanna! A bunch of these birds scatter off as you scream, darting through the small ecosystem that exists within this tree. As you hear a creaking sound come to a halt, the voice goes, Is that my furs? Yes, it is.

Let me put away my machine. Machine, machine, machine. Who knows? She's always building something. You do recall that she has, in particular, this massive iron sewing machine that she keeps every now and then, and somehow she passes some of her time. Oh, and she makes things out of human hair.

How exciting. Yes. Yes, that's right. She's great. So I went go to waste. A short time later, you can watch as you hear the heavy footfalls begin to head down from above, and you see this looming shadow

streak past the lanterns that sit on the outside of the spiral staircase, casting this stretched, dark shape across the wood, the source just out of sight. As it descends, you notice a number of small creatures skimper about, rushing down the steps, little squirrel-like creatures with a singular eye in the center of its head

skittering and disappearing to the nearby brush. As the shape begins to loom at the top, you see this massive, hill-like humanoid shape begin to step to the top of the landing of these natural winding stairs. You see a female shape, shoulders wide and extended, a barrel-like torso itself wrapped in a thick shawl of what looks like a purple-dyed sackcloth-like thick material,

tied and drifting off with tassels that seem to drag on the ground and have darkened with gathered muck through travel. Where you see the shawl and coat held in these thin, long arms that extend from the shoulder joints that are longer than they should be and don't match the proportions of the thick, wide torso.

From the shoulders, this head looks towards you, and it is extended beyond the shoulders and neck by a good solid two, three feet, like a giraffe head that itself has a horse mane of whitish hair that drifts off to one side. And the face, you see a female, noseless grin, extended, pointed chin filled with teeth,

sparse amongst blackened gums, and a big, toothy smile. These vacuous holes where eyes seem to be receded into darkness, except for two little points of light that find you. As she smiles, welcome friends of my sweet friend. Kisses, kisses, kisses. Kisses to you, my dear. I have new friends for you to meet.

This is Dorian. Oh my heart. Incredible musician. Your hands. Oh, heart. You, you are handsome. Who are you? You are beautiful. Please, let us give you kisses, sweet one. She pulls the hand forward to her. Oh god.

You feel something beneath go as another mouth emerges from the inside of the coat and kisses the hand that's brought forward, and the extended hand kisses your forehead simultaneously. Ooh, grandma kisses are always wet. Welcome to my domain. Sorry, but I'm so glad to be here. We've actually, Orym and I traveled with Dorian

for a very long time. So very, very excited for you to meet Dorian. And this is a very new friend of ours, Bwes. Yes, this is a very new friend of ours as well. Now, this was, you know, when Dorian arrived, it was the, like, oh, who's this cute boy you brought over? This is the, who's this man? Nannamori almost stumbles onto her back,

massive elephant-like foot, and is like. This is your moment. Get it, get it. It's a pleasure to meet you, ma'am. Goodness. What is this creature you brought to my home? I know, I know. Your grandchild said that you were ravishing,

but she did not accurately describe how beautiful indeed you are. No. Can I just cast Gust to make his hair blow in? Oh yeah. Yes. Just a quick hand check. Can I just cast Gust to make his hair blow in the wind? Oh yeah. Yes. Just a quick hand check. Yes.

And that smell, what is that smell? Is that a perfume I'm detecting, or is that... Oh. Chip and Goud. Or is it just a swamp rot of some sort? No, I've been on my fourth cocktail in the morning. Do you like amaretto? What?

I will never say no to you. Let me make you something. She makes the best cocktails, just the greatest. Only in the morning, or? Any time, any time you want it. Just all the time growing up, I always had cocktails in my fingertips. If I wanted them.

Well. I'm so glad. I don't know if you know this about Fearne, but she tends to exaggerate. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. You're so cute.

Oh, well. thank you, man. Where are you from? You smell like shadow and bad choices. Yes, that's where I'm from. Double dipping in the Hells, are we, dear? Well, what are you going to do? It just keeps happening. It seems the Hells are very attracted to her.

Careful. I don't know which would undo first, you or them. Friends, come inside, please. Your parents, I'm sure, would love to see you. Are they here? They haven't left. It's the safest place for them to be. Oh. We totally remember that. for them to be. Oh!

We were totally remembering that. Yes, I do. I do remember. That's what I remembered. Your father's resting while your mother is tending garden. Come, come, please. Stay as long as you like. You're always welcome here in Anamore, please. Ned, can I request one of those cocktails as well?

Of course. Oh, I'll get one on that as well. I'll make a round for all of you sweet children. Oh, and how's the legend doing? Oh. You should tell her! Yes, of course I should. You should know that

my renown has grown and in our world, people are starting to know about my great works. It's amazing how summons, practice craft can have an impact with just a bit of passion and perseverance. Just that. Just that and that alone. I actually brought you something.

Not intact, but slightly broken. And I'll take out of the bag of holding the blue crystal axe from Ruidus that broke, that shattered. A little shard of it. Just a memento. Nothing much. Just an expression of my thanks for the last time.

Her hand reaches and seems to reach longer than the limbs have ever allowed previously, almost stretching before plucking it from your grip. She makes a sniffing sound, and where there is no nose, you see the slits open. Somebody bark. Ugh. you see the slits open. Somebody barked at that. Ah. Rowidian glass.

It seems to be psychically resonant. Have you more of this? More to come. It was only our first trip, but I wanted to make sure that there was something just for you. Yeah, he said that one of you guys was actually a part of Predathos at one point.

Curious, curious indeed. I shall find a use for this. Thank you, Chetney. Of course, thank you. Friend. It's so cool up there. Tell me everything, please. It was so incredible. Then make it to those dreams.

Begins to step up. Yes. Is she like your biological grandmother, or is Nana like a term of endearment, or? I mean, that's kind of hard. Well, I was left with her when I was little for her to take care of me.

Oh. And protect me. But I don't, I mean, she feels more like family than anyone else I know. Oh, yes. You know? She doesn't have an extra face down in her couch. If you're wondering. As far as you know, you have no idea what's in this marsupial pouch.

I don't have any experience. Anna is also known as the Fate Stitcher. The Fate Stitcher? Yeah. They should make little tradesies. Super powerful. But her whole family is here because that's Nott. You met Nott, but her mom and dad, her mom and pop are here, too.

Biological mother and father. My mother. I thought your dad was a big bad man on a dragon. He is. I think... It's really complicated. Olly is not my actual father, but he was for a moment in time, kind of like a stepdad, but very brief moment in time.

I don't really know him super well. Your real dad's a demon? No. No, no. He's a fey. He's a fey. He's a fey. He's a sorrow lord. He's a sorrow lord. He's a Thudda. Okay, okay. But layers of found family.

Layers of found family. No, it's just interesting. I come from a very core family, so I'm always interested in other people's experiences. Your gran doesn't look like that. No. Oh, yeah. Oh. Yeah.

Cool. Just curious. Yeah, of course. As you stepped up. Siblings? Do I have siblings? I don't think so. Do you have siblings? I hadn't thought about that.

Everybody else has. you're okay. I'd say no. You don't know the names. They could have died in a tragic accident. They're all doing very well and happy. They all died in the tragic backstory reveal of the live show at the Grim. Stepping up within the central greeting study chamber of the Ligament Manor,

it's changed even since last time you all were here. You can see the decor itself are shades of carved wood and stone shelving. It's very comfortable, and you can see all sorts of hanging baubles and strange little keepsakes, of carved wood and stone shelving. It's very comfortable. You can see all sorts of hanging baubles and strange little keepsakes, some that look like they beautifully accentuate the decor.

Some contrast with it and feel like maybe it's some sort of a charm or protective relic. Others seem like they are ghastly reminders of some past story you care not to ask about. But as the music gets louder as you approach, you see her humming to herself. You can see there is, many of you have already witnessed the experience,

an intricate tiki bar built into the back of this area where she's dancing throughout, humming to herself, and mixing into a shaker with one hand while she grabs a drink from the other and sets up the series of cups and mugs around and begins to shake and pour. You all don't mind things that taste a bit nutty, do you? No. Nope.

Not me. Nuts in my mouth. She prepares all the drinks. Nothing escapes unscathed. I was stressed out quickly. Was you? Yeah. She approaches and sets all these drinks around for you all and sits down within this beautiful,

massive ramshackle recliner that looks like it was a series of woven, stripped bark and leather. And the more you look at it, the more you swear there are wrinkles in it. Oh man. She sits into the chair. It's a newer chair?

It's a new skin chair. I love it. Well done. You're making bad decisions. Uh, Ira might be stopping by. I was going to say, that is a possible. In fact, very likely. Yeah.

What? Ira Windegarth. Yeah, he might be swinging on by. We're on our way to the Unseelie. He said we all right. You see her eyes go wide for a second. He asked about you last time we saw him. What did he say?

Oh jeez! He? What did he say? Always a good tongue. Yeah, he spoke very admirably. Very, very highly. I think he still has a little bit of a crush. He was very interested when I asked if,

well, see, we're on a mission. And he could be of great help there, and so we need him, and this seemed like the most logical place to meet. Fearne said. It did. I was the one who suggested it. And I just feel like it's an unrequited love situation with him.

I feel like he wants to see you. That ship sailed. Well, you don't know that. Insight check. Ooh. The Fate Stitcher? Yeah, it's love. It's love.

It's love. Yeah, you're not even sure what face to look at. She goes like, That ship has sailed. Morrigan is always looking for the next opportunity. Let him come. It'll be good to see a familiar face. It's been some time. Speaking of faces, do we see one on the chair?

Make a perception check. Or an ear, or a nostril. Face, really, there's probably a lot of options. Flavor saver. Perception? Yeah. Aw, I have shit perception. What if I assist? What if you do it?

You, shit. Who thought of it? Oh no, he didn't hope at all. Is that a one? Yeah, that's a one. Well, because I'm standing next to you and I have such a positive outlook, and because I chose Bountiful Luck as a feat,

you reroll ones. I reroll ones? Mm-hmm.. I reroll once? Mm-hmm. If I'm near you? Mm-hmm. Damn. It's that. That's amazing. Oh, that's the same thing I rolled before. Wow.

Just eradicates one. It's just bad. It's hard to tell. A lot of the leathery part of it, it's like the woven elements she's leaned into. So by the time you even start to look, she's leaned back into it further, so you can't really tell.

My heart. So, I would love to think this is just a friendly visit, but you all are carrying an air of purpose around you. I can't stay long. Also, we do come with a bit of unfortunate news. Our time on Roodus, though very fascinating, very incredible in some ways, we did lose our little.

Your metallic friend, yes. I sensed his departure from here. I watch from a distance, best that I can. In the ways that I can. Our threads have tangled, or at least I've tangled my fingers in your threads a bit. It's good to be aware of when they are tugged. I felt that one break.

I'm sorry to hear. In your head, you hear, you think she was watching when you made out with her granddaughter? I don't. If you could feel the tug, do you happen to know if they're okay, or if they went to a better place?

We've been quite conflicted with this debate of what happens where one goes once they depart this realm. That is beyond my purview, unless I have them written into my specific periphery, whether it be by word or by end. They'll be on my side when they pass. I'm sorry.

I got this little alien, though. Whoa. Grabs it and pulls it in. For me? Oh! No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, Lael, she's going to share you. That's a nice housewarming gift.

I know, isn't it so cute? Right on the mantle. We did invite a guest to their house. She flicks the out of the glass and it twitches and moves inside, and she's like, Oh, but you'd be so fun to experiment with. Well, let's just wait. Let's just wait.

You get a little attached. Do you have a little alien I would trade you? Ooh, I have many things I can trade you. I've got this behemoth finger. Do you want that? Nah, I like tiny twitching things in jars. Well, when you're done with your excursions, could I have it after?

Yes. Have we told her what we're going after in here? That was a question, actually. We are headed into the Unseelie Court. Doesn't surprise me. Do you have any... I mean, I know how to get there, but I don't think we're I keep watch on their movements, just in case.

Well, you do know they are still bound in some way to your fate, and your fate I pay close attention to. Seems your father is still, your biological father is still mucking about, yes? Yes. Yes, I've had moments with him, but I haven't really talked to him yet.

Well, you seem to be on a collision course with his thread soon enough, yes? Yes, I think so. Yeah, he's on his way to the same court. Arrived not but two hours ago. Oh shit, they're already there? Oh. They're trekking towards.

Oh. Well. We came here to piss in Zathruda and Ludinus' pool. They're trying to reestablish a connection with the Unseelie. We really don't want that to happen. We were hoping. They've kept their forces ready,

but docile, waiting. Perhaps their presence here is to stir up whatever lies in wait? Dangerous indeed to what you seek to do. Yes, yes, I see. Well, we can't have that, can we? Nana. Oh, wait, what is it?

Where have I thought that was? In the distance. Right up the steps, you see hands curl up the top. As Ira Wendigoth curls to the top of the stairs. The tall, lanky, dark, fey figure of Ira, smooth, bald of head with long, pointed ears that seem to curl off into nothing. Blackened eyes beneath a browless forehead.

A tooth-filled grin that's curled into a twisting smile and his long spider-like body itself wrapped in his well-tailored, ragged, long-tailed coat. Yikes. Now it's pretty. wrapped in his well-tailored, ragged, long-tailed coat. Thanks. Now it's pretty. And there's, Hello, Mori and friends.

It's been some time. My apologies. It's been a bit of a journey to get here. As he dusts himself, you see red rhodium dust like, cloud around and drift onto the ground. He pulls his scarf off and hangs it on this knotted bit of wood that's hanging off to the side

and lifts his goggles that were hanging off of his epaulette and unhooks it and puts it up as well. Moraggan. He smiles and then she goes, Hm. Hello, Hmm. Hello, Ira. He seems a bit taken aback. He's like, We're friends, new and old.

You I know. We tried to kill each other the last time we met. Yes. Shall we have another go? I don't think so. How about a handshake, then? Bitch. His fingers wrap around

your comparably small hand to where the fingers seem to almost go around twice as it encircles you. Just one stern shake before pulls back. This is good practice. It's an entire realm of people who always sound sarcastic, but really aren't.

So just start getting that into your head. Regardless, glad to be on better terms. And you. Ah, yes, I'm be on better terms. And you. Ah, yes, I'm a new friend also. I'm friends with Morrigan, actually. She's quite lovely. She looks over towards her and she goes, They told me you were coming here.

I'm glad to see you're doing well. She scoots her heavy chair about two feet closer to you. They go, Ah! We crafted this ancient man into a reusable chair. Have a easy morning. Ah! Ah!

Do you feel it? Well, if I might. He puts his hand out to Morrigan. She extends her hand and takes it and goes to kiss it, and she pulls back. But there is too much to do and so little time. Sip my drink. Now, sweet, wonderful, supple friend,

you are here to stop, halt, or demolish this meeting of the vanguard in the Unseelie. Whereabouts? Oh, Pravianir. Pravianir. Damn, Pavanmai. Pravianir. Pravianir.

Pravianir. Sierra's. Pravianir. Pravynir. Goch. Sierras. Pravynir, the purple range of mountain. The Colladoscopic Tapestry. The Collidus. Indeed. Goch. Amethyst, Goldstier.

Tapestry. We all say flower, the yellow, green. She, her arm goes out and touches some of the nearby vines and they wrap around her fingers rapidly. Her eyes gloss over like a cloudy gray for a minute before they drift back to the dark absence and she pulls her fingers back. They trek there now themselves. Then you must make haste, all of you. She looks to Ira and is like, But of course, that's why I'm here.

To help your sweet niece and your compatriots. We've already done quite some wonderful things together, haven't we? I'm her granddaughter, Ira. It's familiar. Hi. Ira, you kind of, you know, It's familiar. Hi. Hi, Rav. You kind of, you know, ghosted us a little bit on the moon.

Ghosted? Mm. I'm sorry I had to protect myself and all hell broke loose. Mm. You kind of left a mess, a delicious, delightful mess. Oh, it was glorious to behold,

to watch them all scramble and run. Oh, I do love plans of arrogant bricks tumbling at their feet. Let's do it again. You're in the right place. We need to make another mess. Maybe this time, Sorrowlord will actually go boom boom, because it didn't really work last time.

I like boom boom. Yes. Well, if time is of the essence, he reaches back, his arm grasping his scarf and goggles once more, and he stands up. And now that he's walked up like a hunched spider, now he stands at full height, back arched, and he's probably 12, 13 feet tall.

Whoa, shit. Oh. Just a mixed short-ended. Really? And he looks down at you. Uh-huh. Then I guess we must be on our way. If we must, I'll turn around and face Nana Mori and get down on my knee, extend my hand.

Ma'am, it's been a pleasure. Oh, I do hope it's not the last. I will gently kiss her hand while making eye contact with Abyr. Attack the Tire. Oh, fuck! Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like kissing a thrifted leather jacket that's gotten wet. Oh!

Well answered. That is rough. And as your lips grace her knuckles, she goes, and immediately, Ira kneels down and says, And the honor is mine as well, dear. And she goes, and gives him the other hand,

and he kisses it, making eye contact with you. And she goes, and just looks over at you, Fearne, and goes. I can't even tell you how many times this used to happen. The men, the women, everybody who would just be down the stairs wanting Nanna's love. Pate flies off and gets on a knee. Miss, if you don't mind, I'd very much appreciate to kiss something of yours as well.

Yes. Good boy, good boy. She goes, Mm, mostly occupied at the moment. But extends her foot and goes, No, no, no, no. How does the tongue even sit in that? Never mind, never mind.

Never mind. It's a campaign of tongue-twisters. You're not going to know. It's a campaign of tongue-twisters. She grossed out a hollow skull. Yep, yep. That was such a fast reaction. No, no, no, no, no.

As both of them still, Ira's still holding her hand and looking at you. I'm not going to let go. Like the people who are afraid to stop clapping at Stalin's gallery. So eventually, she withdraws both hands, goes, Well, I do love having gentlemen visitors and family and friends,

let us celebrate when all this is done. It's been quite some time since we've had a true celebration here in the manor, is that right? You watch as she runs her fingers through her long, extended neck, and you watch as her mane of gray hair seems to almost grow longer and more lush, as her fingers do.

This glamor magic seems to spread across her. You watch as she seems to not change her form, but the skin tightens in places. A color seems to rush to her cheeks. In the way that Nana Mori can doll herself up with a brief bit of illusion magic, she exhibits an air of availability. How's Tummyface like?

Oh, Tummyface, you can see the... Tummy Nance! Sometimes. The usual large, gritted jaw Oh, tummy face, you can see the... Tummy dance! The usual large, gritted jaw has pursed up into little duck lips. She got those injections. Yeah. Ira backs up, a spider skittering backwards slightly,

still not breaking eye contact from you, and goes. He's got a lip flip. Little BPM. We must be on our way. Her ass is just looking real, real good. High five, children. Let us go. Even the chair is going, hmm.

I'm here for the best. As you're all gathering your things, she turns around to you, Orym. Hello. Nana? Boy, the wind is tarsest. Your aid was appreciated on Ruidus. I'm only sorry it wasn't enough,

but I have my influences and purviews, but I'm not all powerful. Probably helped us lose less than we otherwise would have. Well, your journey is not yet done. She grins and turns back around. You hear footsteps begin to descend and a voice go, Oh, Fearne? Fearne, is that you? Hey! And Birdie emerges.

You see she's got big, heavy leather gloves on and some shears in one hand. And you can see she's got big, heavy leather gloves on and some shears in one hand. You can see she's got some dirt under her cheeks a bit and her hair is wild. She goes, Hi. Hi! Puts it down and runs up and gives you a big hug and spins you for a minute.

Looks over to Nana with an excited expression and Moria goes, I'm sorry, child. They're off. Have a moment, but they have business to attend. You understand your daughter is, in fact, quite an important piece in this chess game. She looks back and says, I understand.

Well, don't be afraid to come back, please. Yes, I'm hoping that if things go well there, we can come back and maybe celebrate a little bit before we go. Of course. Oh, there's a whole chest of decorations back here that Nana hasn't put up in well over a century. I'd love to justruce the place up a bit." Nanna goes like, I will discuss sprucing anything up. That would be fun. But yes. She's still holding you, she says,

Well, I'd go wake up your father, but you look like you're on your way out. It's okay. Come back safe. I will. Yeah, she's like, I'm. Come back safe. I will. Yeah. I'll be glad you're safe. Me too. It's nice to be home. Can I do an insight check?

Yeah. Sure. What are you looking for? Does Nana Mori seem like she's, I don't know, trying to move things along? Over birdie? Yeah, over, yeah. Like, not trying to keep them separated. That's not great.

12. 12. Hard to tell. She seems like she's just trying to move things along, given the stakes and the timeline that are at hand, but that's as much as you can make out. Birdie finishes hugging you and holds your hands. She curls your fingers open and puts something in your palm

and holds it close and says, Just if ever you need to refocus yourself at all or just recenter yourself in all this crazy, we'll always be here thinking of you here in the manor. So next time you come back, we can maybe catch up proper, you know? I would love that. Me too.

I'll give her a kiss on her cheek. She rustles your hair a bit. I'm going to look in my hand. Okay. You look in your hand and it's a necklace that's been made from part of the broken green lens that was shattered back when you first found them. Thank you.

Of course. Moria goes, Well, then. Poseis it is. She brings her hands up, and as she does, wind begins to kick up inside all the branches. You can shift and change. You can hear the entire interior of this tree

beginning to move and shift with this faint cyclone that's beginning to billow up and turn. As she does so, mist, this pale green-purple mist begins to drift up between the wood and

tangled bits of branch. And as it begins to pick up into the wind and tangled bits of branch, and as it begins to pick up into the wind, begins to take on shapes, take on the shape of these various spectral horses. They all begin to apparate these clouded shapes, six hooves each, and a strange, elongated neck, clouded shapes, six hooves each, and a strange, elongated neck, but these are spectral steeds,

and there are nine of them conjured before you. Just as that happens, the wind dies down. It grows slightly more quiet, and they all drift there, floating a few inches off the ground, making no sound. These should carry you to your destinations rapidly. Look at these people.

Please. Just be warned. Flying high may offer you speed, but you're quite visible beyond the trees. Stay safe. And come back. You know you're always welcome. Always. Mm. All right.

I'll go up and give her a kiss. Right in it. Accepts it and we just have her grabs your head and her long neck arcs for her to kiss the top of your head. It's grotesque in the way that it bends unnaturally. I'll be watching from here. Okay. Wait, I had a question. When you see a thread, can you see the end of it?

The funny thing about fate is the end of the threads are unfocused, cloudy. You can see possibilities, but that's where the weave of the Fates Threads is important. I don't weave them. That lies in the matron's domain. I just tend to sneak in and tug a little here and there.

That must drive her crazy. I'm sure it does. Interesting. Okay. This might be inappropriate. How long have you been alive, Nannamori? I cannot really remember. Time has a funny, weird soup-like quality in this realm.

Go. But this realm was around before the gods arrived. Supposedly. In some way. I don't recall a time before then, but the magics, magics are quite old. So what happens to the Feyrealm

if things go wrong in our world? Are we connected? We are in some ways, yes. Some come here to escape the dangers of your world, and some escape here to create dangers in yours. They are tied, tethered, and there are reverberations that occur between the two, but we are not bound by, well, not bound by the gods as much as you are,

but their presence is here indeed. The court's more than I. I was going to say, does the matron, can she actually make her way here? Can she pluck people here? The Matron's Sway exists across the realms, yes. Though this domain lies more under the Moonweaver and the Archheart.

This is the Archheart's domain, after all. But our relationship with divinity's a bit more like roommates. You said the Unseelie, I'm sorry. We're close to the gods. Which ones do they serve? They serve them both, Moonweaver and Archard. Oh, all right.

The courts themselves have made vows and dealings in the past. They are more bound to the rules of their tenets and their divine relationships than us more free, Fae. What were you going to say? It was pretty much it. Okay.

Then we are. All right. These deeds will only last you an hour. Let's go. Let's go. I run up behind Maya and I jump, put both hands on the ash. Yes.

On a cowboy belt? Make an athletics check. Down my dream. Powerful eyes. Spray can. Are they all sized to us? They're all sized like the same sort of steed. So horse size? General horse size.

Make a merry-go-round. Did you want a pony? Easy enough to do. Were you hoping for a spectral pony? Where I can jump 20 feet in the air. Do you need help getting on yours? Is that a... It definitely doesn't matter.

I leap and parkour off a nearby tree and land. Yeah, yeah. Does it look like when you guys put Ronan on a horse? Yeah, probably. And it's like,. The tree goes,. Stomp my heel into it and surf away. Stomp your heel on the horse?

Let's just do a little bump here. Be kind to animals, Orym. I'm already gone. Let's go bed knobs and broomsticks this shit. All right. So what did you roll? Quad strength. 22. Oh yeah, I'm just fucking with you.

We're just... You don't have to roll to jump on a horse. Don't tell me, though. What are we doing? Spectral steam. All right, I kind of know where to go. and jump on a horse. Tell me, though. What are we doing? Spectral steed. All right, I know where to go. And lead the way. All right. Unless Ira knows better. I love how you say it with a question mark at the end.

Yeah. I know where to go. Go? It's not every farm I watch. Ira glides up. I probably know how to do this. These spectral steeds, as they run their hooves, their all-six-hooves turn, but they have no impact. You just hear. Six hooves. They have six legs.

Six legs. They're like weird, thin, ghostly horses. They've been stretched, and they look a little off. I'm just going to lean down to my horse and just say, Hey, go to the Unseelie Court, okay? No, not, wait. No, we're not going to the Unseelie Court. We're going to the Seelie Court. No, we, wait. No, we're not going to the Unseelie Court. We're going to the Seelie Court.

No, we're going to another city. We're going to the other city. Where does Fearne stop? We are fucked. We are screwed. No, no, no. That's not where we're going, I'm really sorry. We're going to Previenir. My bad, just scratched what I said first.

I already said, I've been there. Come. Oh, that's right, we've got Ira. So they get a little excited. Yeah. As you all begin to gather your group up together and begin to glide a bit in that direction, Ira goes,

Perhaps I'll come back and visit when all this is said and done. And she goes, Maybe if I'm available. She slaps Brayus in the ass right as they're going to take off. Yeah! So Brayus is riding the whole horse? The cow on the horse.

Oh yeah. King! How do your knees work? It does look like a pony. My knees hurt. No, no, no. Nope, that's really hurting my head the more I think about that. That's a lot.

Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. You're a minotaur. What does Freyas' lower half look like? Like a minotaur, like a bull. So you don't wear any pants? No, I have... Let me look at my arcs.

He's got full plate armor now. He's got the full plate armor. I do like the idea of him Donald Ducking it. Yeah. Full plate up top. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Full plate up top and then just like... Furry legs, it's sort of like fur.

So you have four legs over the horse? She's so... No, two. No, I only have two legs. I'm of like fur. So you have four legs over the horse? She's so. No, two. No, I only have two legs. I'm just like you. He's not an actual cow. No, I'm thinking a centaur. Oh, sorry, my bad, my bad. I just moved, though. That's cool. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Those cocktails, I swear. The spectral steeds whisk you all through and up, running through the interior of Ligament Manor's canopy, almost darting from branch to branch, just flying higher and higher and higher, your group spiraling up until eventually you begin to see the top of the canopy where the branches breach open

and you go flying out through and above the garden. You can see the masses of beautifully cultivated hedges and sculptures. I made those. As you drift up and now above the entirety of the surrounding forests in Swampland, you can see around you the strange, alien-looking mountainscapes of purples and oranges and greens, the continuous dusk coloration

that strikes the entirety of the horizon. The skies themselves clouded over with darkened blues and purples. The landscape has this dreamlike quality to it, unchanging, perpetual. As you all rise up and gather, you take your reins and the spectral steeds rocket off towards your chosen destination.

Please rise up. And that's where we'll take a break. Oh! Oh shit! That's so cool. Yeehaw! We'll come back to that here in a minute and pick up upon your trek towards this

Amethyst Gulch Sierras and what lions resent. So yeah, rest up in just a minute. We'll be back here in a few minutes. We'll see you guys soon. Yay! Howdy, Edward! How did you meet me? And welcome back. All righty.

So Bell's Hell is cresting off into the Fey Horizon, guided by the memory of Fearne Calloway, once absconding off into the various realms of the Dark Fey and beyond. Ira Wendigoth, who you've called from his hiding spot on Ruidus to join you, this side of the realms. You all right?

Yeah, there's an egg, sorry. Don't do that. Sorry, I'm just going to drop that one day. Yeah. That's not tough. All right, love. And guided by the spectral steeds that were conjured by Nene Mori to send you on your way.

You crest through the clouds, but whereabouts do you want to spend this journey? They're moving at a rapid speed. You are cresting through. You're uncertain how soon you'll get there, but you're moving at quite a high speed. You want to stay above everything? Do you want to stay below in the tree line?

What's your plot? Do we have any way to help conceal our high-speed journey? I mean. I mean, we could pass without a trace. Would that actually work? I don't know. Yeah.

How bright are the flying horses? They're like glowing, celestial. Oh, look at that. Neon Pegasus. They are glowing. That was so fabulous. We should have that at the break. No, this was on from the beginning of the show. Really? Is that true? Wow.

That's the meme horse from the, yeah. Critical role scripted. Yes, are they glowy, celestial, the steels, or are they ghosty? They're more spectral. They give a very, very faint light, but they're not like bright beacons of glowing light in the sky. I could try to pass without a trace.

Do you think that would work? Give it a shot. There's part of me that just wants to do the dodging, like dodging the trees sounds like a lot of fun. Like a speeder? Yeah, like a speeder. I want to see the turning radius on these things. Don't go above the tree line.

Yeah. Well, she said we could go above the tree line, but it would be riskier, but faster. I also don't want them to see us when we're approaching. Right, what if we spend the first 20 minutes at a full pace on the tippy tops and then dive in for a speeder? I'm fine with that.

All right. Sure. My horse is called Mochi. Are we naming them now? Of course we are. We usually do, and we also usually kill them, but we can't kill these. They're already gone. Challenge accepted. Can we stack them?

Yes. What else do you do with horses? Mine will be Wagyu. Wagyu. Are they all food? Mochi. I tend to name my shit off wrong. They're all Japanese foods? Yeah.

Mine don't be udon. What is this land you speak of? I did mochi because it's squishy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And a mame. Mine's Haki. Haki, okay. That's a good one.

Grab the names before they're gone. I'll be Shishito. Okay. Mine's Haki. Haki, okay. Mine's a good one. Grab the names before they're gone. I'll be Shishito. Shishito, all right. It's a little spicy. Anyone want to grab Nott-o? I'm tempted. I'm going to be...

Panda. Panda Express? No, a little chocolate. Let me think on it, and it'll come. Just give me a second. Robin egg? The stakes couldn't be lower. Wait, what did you say?

They're going to die in an hour. Yeah, I know. Taco yucky. Taco yucky. Oh, that is good, too. Let me think on it, let me think on it. All right. California.

I was thinking marzipan, but that's going to throw everything off. And perfect. Marzipan is kind of cute, though. I love the, break the theme, be yourself. Well, I kind of want to be in the theme. Whatever, it's Marzipan for now, and then I'll think of another name.

Great, perfect. Let's move along, because this is not important. Writing this all down. No, I'm not. Did you say Angela Lansbury? Well, I was thinking Bedknobs and Broomsticks, because the flying horses without feet are from Bedknobs and Broomsticks because they're the flying horses without feet or from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

It's when the knights go kill the Nazis. All the great flavors of the world. Yes. The umami, if you will. You have the marzipan, you have the- The Angela Lansbury. Fearne, you and Ira begin to see the hue of the landscape begin to shift quickly

in this journey, and you begin to recognize some of the surrounding rolling mountainscape to remind you of that time in your youth that you snuck off and explored for a good solid week, week and a half before you were recovered by Nana Mori, while you were out and about, trying to just spread your legs a little bit.

Spread your wings. I didn't even try to spread my wings. I was spreading my legs all over town. What? I was trying to say. I didn't want to say that out of context. I was trying to say. I was trying to say.

It can't be done. It can't be done. It can't be done. Stretch! Stretch your legs! Spread your wings! They both collided. Yeah, man!

They both collided. You just have a scissoring of wings and legs just going out there and sewing your wild poutine. Ow! Goddamn it. Oh man. Goddamn it. You know it.

You know me. Get your legs in fly. Just spread my legs in fly. That's all. Finally got a week away, and I just had to spread them over. I have my own doom. Put it on a shirt.

Yo, guys, we're here! Why do I come here? I'm trying to observe my sugar equipment. Ugh. Put it on the edge of a pair of sweatpants. There you go. Holy shit. Okay, okay.

Aw. It's a big pot. We forgive Matt, we love Matt. We love Matt. Just sitting here waiting with my legs open. A kimbo. He has to say so many words. My leg's just a kimbo. So many words.

You're putting him in a parachute at this speed. Yeah! You're good, you're good. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I had a week and a half where I just was out and about. Spread my hooves. With hooves wide open.

You begin to recognize this strange region as you approach the rolling patterns of cliffs and crevices that look like waves of rock and timberland frozen mid-crash, just arcing and locked in place. This tumultuous snapshot of an entire region in Cataclysm Frozen. The colors of the twilight sun here

catch what looks like gemstone hues of purple and blue against the chaotic woodland that calls you in, wrapping throughout the very peaks and valleys that wind through it. Numerous of the cliffs here spill sourceless waterfalls that tumble hundreds of feet into the brush or chasm around them, gently cascading before vanishing into the winds. If you stare long enough, you swear you can see parts of the carpet-like treetops beneath you shift at the edges like a giant's mossy arm reaching for purchase.

You know you're near. In a short way into this, you can just barely see atop one of the nearest mountain peaks of the Sierras, maybe a brief ride away, a visible outline of structures and towers, and you're fairly certain that this is likely your destination.

So you all coast down into the top of the tree line. Now, are you just skirting the top or are you going into the trees? I think we should go down. Shoo, shoo. Like speeder style? Yeah, speeder style. You got it.

All righty. With that, you all begin to descend. You're going quickly on these horses. It isn't until you get beneath the tree line that it's immediately. It is whipping past. These horses, you try to pull the reins to go slow. They're going.

You're steering them, but they're moving to the destination. You didn't conjure these. They were conjured for a purpose, and they are a bit beyond your control. So each of you, I need a group, either athletics or acrobatics check. Your choice.

Animal handling. Well, they're not really animals. I'll allow animal handling if you prefer that over the other two. Oh, thank you. Wait, do we all have to choose the same stat? No. No. Okay.

Easy enough. This one. Oh, damn. Sorry, sorry. Don't take it. Don't take it. All righty, swing on this end. Dirty 20.

Dirty 20. As you're coasting through the space here, moving by, one catches the side of your face and you feel one of the branches scratch the side of your cheek, and you can feel that faint bit of warmth begin to hit. No damage taken. Oh shit. But these branches are, you barely miss one.

It's already cut right past your face. Yeah, one guy. These branches are sharp. 18. 18. You're following in Chetney's wake as that branch that moves past strikes you right across the jaw and shoulder

and just carves right past a blade you take. Four points of slashing damage. It cuts the side of my mouth and exposes a bit of my back gum. I want to know how you got these scars. Yeah. Dorian. 24. Wow. 24. Because know how you got these scars? Yeah. Dorian. 24. Wow.

24. Because you have ghosty horses, right? I'm very strong. I've been riding side-saddle the whole time, by the way. Just so you know. I only assume. Yeah, yeah. You, as most of them are hitting the top of the canopy where it's densest,

you, who've done some writing in your time, coast just below where they are and begin to avoid the most dense portion of it, and whip between, feeling fairly confident in this space. Reyes. My hoof keeps falling out of the stirrup. I rolled a 14.

A 14. Trying to keep up with the others, your spectral steed seems to almost be pulling at the reins as you tug on one side, bucking your intent. And in that frustration, your hoof slipping out of the spectral stirrup as it does. One branch knocks you in the shoulder,

hitting your armor, no damage, but the impact sends you careening and beginning to angle off the top of the steed to correct yourself. The steed corrects with a back turn, its ass end skidding a little bit. Wham! Into one of the nearby trees. The impact sends ringing through your ears

as you take nine points of bludgeoning damage. Ow, ow, ow, ow. For who? 16. 16. You see Brayas take this impact. Oh, that sucks. And as he picks up speed and spins away, this heavy branch catches the edge of his steed

and his leg and pulls away. As you fall behind, it gets released and slaps you for two points of slashing damage. Imogen. 20. 20. Coasting down, carefully following behind. You watch as Fearne gets struck

and you follow into that position behind, avoiding that branch. Horse girl. Horse girl. Horse girl. You're comfy in this. I'm like, yeah. 24. I'm smaller than the back of the horse's head.

You are. You jockey, set yourself up behind, just keeping a very narrow profile. Almost running the space simulator grid of the interior of this forest upper area, dodging through them all. Ashton? 16. 16. You, as the one following up on the tail,

end up coming just above the canopy for a moment, because you have to, a series of branches and thorns catch your way, and you duck up just in time to catch a strange fey bird in flight. Its two necks encircled like a corkscrew spiral as it picks up as well. In just a split second, you see it go as you and barrel into it.

Its feathers. Oh no. How dare you, Fabio, me? Okay. Yep. You take five Fabio me? Okay, okay. Yep. You take five points of bludgeoning damage. Five points. And the Feybird is no more,

as you have to wipe the remnants of it off of your shoulder. But with that, you begin to slow down as Ira and Fearne, you begin to reach the edge of the thinning tree line. It doesn't go away. This whole place is fairly overgrown, but it begins to give way slightly to a number of small,

fairly left paths to be overgrown and left to disuse. They begin to move and shift beneath you and you begin to follow those as a sign to gradually lead you towards your destination. As you skid to a slower point, eventually the branches, at a safer speed, you coast down, lower, lower, lower, to reach the base of the trees,

just gently drifting through them, until eventually you can see, approaching rapidly, what looks like a stone wall, standing about 15 feet high. Slow down, slow down, slow down. Orym's threat radar is a throat radar? Threat. Oh. Throat, throat. Throat radar is a... Throat radar? Threat. Oh.

Throat, throat. Throat radar. That is a 20, 29. 29, okay. As you all slowly come to a stop, the steeds drifting there before they, one by one, dissipate. The destination reached, the spell comes to a close.

You all are dropped down onto your own two legs. Maybe Shabu Shabu would have been a good name. Shabu Shabu would have been great. I'm going to name him Shabu Shabu. And he disappears. I dub thee Sha-ho-ho. Didn't like that name. Where is this? What is this?

This here, friends, was once a well-celebrated center for all means of artistic expression, there is a whole community of Free Fey that found home, found purpose, and found community until a dark and terrible fate befell them. Some likely still rest within, as those that remained fled, never to return.

They say the very grounds of this town is cursed, haunted by those who despise the guidance of the Archheart from within his temple. They don't like the Archheart? To have poisoned those who crafted in his image. I imagine they likely weren't ferns. It's fair. You said an arts community?

Generally, all communication, all forms of expression, given physical form, whether that be performing arts, crafts, sculpture, music, all the things that make Free Fey. Strange. Boring. Theater.

Do you think the Arch-heart still watches over this place or that he's forsaken it? I wouldn't know. I don't die in divine circles. Let's go in. Best to stay quiet. And he disappears from view. How high is the wall in front of us? About 15 or so feet. You don't see a particular entrance in this point, but you can see it's

cracked and it's heavily overgrown. There are thick bits of ivy and vine that have taken root and essentially overtaken much of the wall. It has that abandoned urban decay feel to it, where nature has definitely reclaimed the stonework and the structure. Covered in vine, climbable? Could be. Want to give it a shot? Yes, I do. Make an athletics check.

Okay, fine. I'll take a look. Athletics? Yes. Okay. Oh no, that's acrobatics, which would just be one. Natural 20. Ooh! So that is 25 one. Natural 20. Ooh! So that is a 25 total. 25 total.

Oh wow. Like a monkey climbing its favorite tree, Orym, without issue, a grace to his movement seems to trapeze Ardis' leap along the wall until you crest to its top. As you reach the precipice and glance over, you can see within this almost like a peanut-shaped wall that surrounds the city.

It's a smaller interior that then curves out to a much larger space of it. Within is a sprawling village of beautiful buildings of elvish and fey design. These little spiraling tower-peaked buildings, these abandoned tents that have fallen in on themselves. You can see all manner of stone-carved structures and reliefs and statues and beautiful freestanding archways that accompany every major road intersection,

themselves also overgrown. Everything here is overgrown. Just green and blue and gray, leaf and vine and bush that seems to have infiltrated and overtaken much of the visible structure. You can just see peeking through

around some of the bases and the edges, the glimmer of old stone. Are there any signs with that 29 perception of fey or Cerberus life? I'll get to that in just a second. What you also notice is in the center of that larger curved outer wall on the opposite end of where you're standing,

there are a number of towers that rise up. They themselves also appear to be mostly retaken. The vines are still climbing to reach the peak or apex of it, but in time, still haven't completed their journey. There is one stone structure that stands taller than the others, built intentionally to be the visual pinnacle of all the surrounding city itself.

This beautiful, wide-roof, temple-like structure, as the multiple squat hut-like roofs made of cerulean stone with purple crystal lining the outside. As those expand outward into multiple sections, you can see there's rising towers

that eventually come into a dual peak that is connected by numerous small walkways in between. It is beautiful. There are what looks like almost emerald or jade inlaid designs that meet and spiral into each other along the length of these rising towers. You can see banners that still flicker, though now they are tattered and weathered over time.

It looks to definitely be the centerpiece of this village, this town. Forgive me, was that at the centerpiece of this village, this town. Forgive me, was that at the center of it all or at the opposite wall? The center, like I said, the outer wall forms almost like a peanut-shaped, like an eight, I'm going to say now an eight. It's in the center of the larger rounded wall area,

where you're up on the smaller section. Thank you. Glancing around, a lot of the town, you see carts just in the middle of the road. You see what look to be banners and a whole marketplace, just frozen and forgotten. It looks like everyone just vanished.

You look closer and you see shreds of old cloth. You see shapes that are humanoid, lying down, overgrown. You can now see that much of the vine and bush that you at first glance saw was just a retaken township are bodies that have been cocooned, more or less, by the expansion of fey nature. Is there a way to tell by the overgrowth how long ago this all took place?

The rest of you want to try and climb up and join him? I'm going to join him. I'm going to use a sorcery point and just fly on it. Ooh. Drift with the top note issue. I'll spider climb. I'll hop up. All right.

Those who are climbing, athletics checks, please. Oh boy. I'm also going to spend another sorcery point, and my eyes are going to turn white with a little bit of a glowing flesh red every once in a while. Just kind of, and I'm going to be able to see invisibility. So I want to be able to see Ira wherever he is.

Indeed, and as that flickers on, as you fly up, you see already at the top of the wall, maybe three feet from Orym, perched up there, his knees and elbows bent and upward to the point where he looks like a spider that has come to rest on its prey. It's perched at the top, overlooking and scanning the cityscape, that weird drifting magic

that obscures him from most vision and glimmering around him. 16. 16. You hit the spider climb. What? We draw for athletics. Oh, 22. 22. 12. 12.

Three. Ooh. Three. Ashley? 19. 19, okay. So, most of you are all pretty good. It's going to take you a little bit to get up there, but you do manage to finally get Fearne up to the top of the hill. Grab my tail!

Thank you. While this is happening, because of the time it takes, you catch some movement deeper in the town, and you get a glimpse of what would've been the main street that snakes through the central part of this village. It leads from what would have been the main street that snakes through the central part of this village. It leads from what would have been currently the closed and locked gate that you see. It's just out of your view from where you arrived.

Snakes through the town and heads towards that central building, and you see a group of armored figures, dark armored figures that are now walking through the desolate, still and abandoned. So the larger part of the hourglass around that structure. Yeah, they're heading in that direction.

What about her dad's dragon? Any sign of that in the sky? Don't see her dragon, you don't see anything else beyond this cluster of figures. As I try to get to the top, can I use Hunter's Bane to sense for, certainly going to be a bunch of fey, but any fiends or undead in the area,

since this is a cursed town? Sure. Go ahead and just make a general perception check to see if you can pick out in the wind something that... 17. 17. What's the naz? Sniffing on the wind, you sense a... There is an aged, dire air to this town.

Definitely that lingering scent of historical loss and tragedy. But where you stand now, nothing undead, nothing fiend, nothing fey, aside from some of your compatriots catches your attention. Very deserted, stank-ass people. Okay. Is this wall that we're on,

does it have a parapet that we can walk around? It does. There's probably a good five, six feet of width between the two edges where you can step in between. There's about a two-foot rise on each side, like a lip, where you could maybe crouch down and move, depending on your size, comfortably. But it does seem to walk along the perimeter.

Do we want a little pass without a trace going on? Mm. Yep. I'm casting pass without a trace? You got it. So is this stay close to you kind of thing, or I can't remember. Somewhat close. Where is it? 30 feet, I think.

I think so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, we inch closer. Yeah, each creature within 30 feet of him gets that bonus. Did you tell us how there's people there in the distance? Closer. Yeah, each creature within 30 feet of him gets that bonus. Did you tell us how there's people there in the distance? Do we know how many?

How many did I see? At a rapid glance, you would have seen maybe eight. Okay, so the armor would not be very high. Eight or nine figures. It's too far. It's not the platoon. It's too far to make out any specific details. From what we've seen so far,

we have to assume that Glumglut. Glumglut. Glumglut. Glumglut. Glumglut, I like the ambition. Bless the mage's. Iseron, right? What are we doing? I don't know.

Are we waiting for something to happen? Or are we actually attacking? Are we? What's going on? Are we going to attack? The whole point is to sour the Unseelie on Luda. What's going to sour them on Luda? Us attacking them?

No. No. Need more information. Of course, on the wall, so? Yeah, we should go down. Yeah, let's go down and steal the room. No. No. Need more information. Of course, we need to get down the wall. Let's go down the wall. Yeah, we should go down. Yeah, let's go down and still see what's actually happening here.

We're going to go down. We can skitter around. On the wall? Yeah, there's a slight little door. Let's skitter till we find a nice, easy, there's got to be a way up and down here. I agree with Ashton. Let's get close.

Make note, I am agreed with. To be just walking along the top of a wall. No, it's a parapet, so there's like, we can crouch. Oh, okay, okay, okay. There's a two-foot lip. Got it. From below, that's Skitter. It's not a lot of space to... You got some post-mortem?

Aw, okay. We're all Tracy. I'm going to use another source for your point. No, I can't do that. I'm going to cast Invisibility. Wow. Don't trust the past, all right. No, I do, I do. Just don't trust me.

No, that's all right. Okay, so are you heading along the wall perimeter, or are you descending into the town? I vote perimeter, at least for a little bit. Yeah, I would, too. You can fly and get down quick, yeah. That's fine. Okay. I'll go down on that.

Well. Just because we'll be there. I'll go down on that. Well. Just because we'll be- I threw myself on the ground. So you're clamoring into the town? Yeah. Okay. Is there anybody else joining Chetney? I'll fly down and hover next to him.

I don't want to touch the ground in here. You don't have us brain linked, do you? I could do that before I turn invisible. I don't know how your shit works, but be helpful. Okay, I'm going to have done that. If we're splitting up and I knew that was going to happen, I telepathically link us before. All right, so I link us all.

Okay. So we have you flowing, you coasting down below, and who else on the floor, if anybody? The rest of you on the parapet? Okay. I'm going to spider climb. So if there's that two-foot lip, I'm going to spider climb on the inside of the two-foot lip.

Sounds good. What are you going to say? I don't know. I'm just going to, my guts, I want to go down with Chetney for some reason. Go down? I'm going to see. I don't know. I'm just going to, my guts, I want to go down with Chetney for some reason. I'm going to go, yeah. I don't know why I'm censoring myself. Do well, Dan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Be brave. You have my inspiration. Oh, thank you. Dan, you notice invisibly, Irid follows you down into the town as well. I need everyone to make a stealth check for me, please. Plus 10? They're upstairs. Plus 10. Oh, yeah.

Those who are on the parapet with Ashton, get plus 10. Those who are down below. Do we get advantage if we're invisible? If you're invisible, you have advantage, yes. Thank god, because I don't get shit rolled. All right, we'll start over here with Ashton. 20. 20, okay.

19. One. All right. we'll start over here with Ashton. 20. 20, okay. 19. One, all right. 20, 24. 24, okay. 16. 16 with the plus 10? Mm-hmm. Okay. 32.

All righty. With disadvantage. Wow, cool. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. Wait, I thought you were going down with them. Oh, oh yes, yes, yes. 19. 19. 25. 25 thought you were going down with them. Oh, oh yes, yes, yes. 19.

19. 25. 25. You're really good about that. Pass without a trace now, because oh my god. Yeah. We would have been. As you guide in separate directions, most of you moving along the wall,

you get right around the edge before you see an element of that parapet has fallen inward. There's about a six-foot gap and about an eight-foot chunk of that walkway that has fallen in and tumbled down into a pile of stone and rubble below. There are vines and various other bits of growth that have clambered up through that bit and holding it there that could be leapt across, but it's a bit touch and go. It doesn't seem impossible. Maybe it's time to roll down at this point.

Meaning it's just exposed. It's exposed, and to get across, you have to carefully go down and follow to the opposite side. It just bows down slightly. Maybe this is the point to start heading down. I'm staying up here. You can join them if you want.

I'm made of paper. I think we can still stay up here for a while longer. All right. Okay. You all carefully maneuver across this gap. Fearne, your hoof catches one of the knots in this branch, and it snaps under your hoof, and you lose your footing for a second. Ashton, you reach back quickly and catch her arm and keep her from tumbling the full 20 feet down into it and pull her up, but the root and a section of the cracked

stone. a section of the cracked stone. Like. Clock, clock, clock. No. Just hold for a second. Those of you on the ground hear it, and everyone keeps quiet and still. Full pro. Yeah. A moment later, you watch this hawk

encircle overhead, and it circles twice. Shit. Before it vanishes back in the direction of that central structure. That was no Hulk. That was no Hulk. Did it make any noise? It just passed over and then did it.

Just quietly passed overhead. I send Pate. How far is it? 100 feet up? About 100, 150 feet up. We all saw it. Yeah, itâté. About 100 feet up. We all saw it. Yeah. It was 100 feet up. I make Pâté invisible, and I send him after the hawk. Okay.

Follow him. What, the bird? Yes. The fucking bird. Okay. He's not as fast as the hawk, but he is doing his best. Good. Okay. Okay. He's not as fast as the hawk, but he is doing his best.

Yeah. He's got a little. Okay, now are you just letting him go? Or are you looking through his eyes? No, I'm just, I'm not going to look. I'm going to keep going. Okay. But he's going. All right.

You all, feeling the hock out of your current vision and carefully situated yourself as unseen at the moment, continue to step along the edge of the wall and through the town. Those of you on the ground, you're skittering from building, like shaded alleyway to shaded alleyway, through and between these beautiful towns.

These are homes that are built not just for function, but for presentation. Every house seems to have custom carved wood framing alongside each window sill that catches your attention. As old and as weathered as it may be, a lot of beautiful craftsmanship surrounds every nook and cranny here. Every door frame seems to be its own unique shape.

Every doorknob seems to be its own beautifully cast iron design to it. Some look like it's a rooted tree that digs into and spreads out into the door. Others have a beautiful geometric design to its intersection, almost like the knob itself is a key in a lock. There is some uniform idea of architecture

throughout parts of the city, but it seems like every building is trying There is some uniform idea of architecture throughout parts of the city, but it seems like every building is trying to carve its own identity and tell you a little bit of whoever may have lived inside, at least from what you can see, because much of the town still remains completely swallowed by what the Fey Realm has taken back. Eventually, you skirt the exterior

of this main roadway. The trees, one's beautiful parks, and central cultivated natural spaces in this town begin to greet you as you move from that smaller ring into the larger one. And keeping your eyes peeled, the hawk does not seem to return. I now peek into Pate's eyes, following the hawk.

You now peek into Pate's eyes, and Pate is just carefully floating above a group of trees that surrounds and encircles that central structure, that massive stone dual tower building. And he's flying there, glancing around, like he's looking for the hawk, but doesn't see it. As we're moving slowly through the streets, do I spot any of the humanoid shapes

that have been fallen to the ground and overtaken by some of the growthoid shapes that have fallen to the ground and overtaken by some of the growth? You've seen many of them. Within any close that I could go up and try and inspect? Yeah, make an investigation check. Instead of investigation, I will touch it and use dark augmentations. All right.

Yeah. I'm sorry. Grim psychometry? Grim psychometry. What did I say? Dark augmentation? Different. Go ahead and roll a history check. Oh, it's dark augmentation. Oh yes, we're going to eat.

22. 22. So you reach down carefully and pull back some of the softer bits of the ivy and various other leaves that have covered the majority of this corpse. As you pull it back, you can see these beautiful

Cerulean robes now grayed with dust and age. You can see the skeletal shape of a face, skin pulled tight and almost mummified against the elvish bone features, the vacant, empty sockets, and the lips curled back tight, exposing the teeth. As you reach over to touch it, you see them on the ground,

their eyes glazed over with blood pouring from their mouth and nose and ears and the middle of their eyes as it all begins to seep back in. As it all pulls in, they convulse, the foam pulling back in until they stand back up, catch themselves looking around and others around are coughing, too,

and reaching for each other. Then they start walking back and smiling. It's an okay gopher, yo, man. They take the hand of a little boy and brush something into his hair. They both walk back and they take an apple from the kid and put it back on a nearby tree. You see them walk backward as you pull back

into what looks like a, it would seem almost like a gentle festival, or maybe every day is like this, you don't know. But there is a vibrance and a life to the people here. And even the color of this landscape is different in this dream. Even the perpetual twilight of the Fey Realm that sits in this region hits more in the amber hues.

This mountaintop village was once a safe and protected space. And as you watch them return back to the inside their abode and setting their satchel down, as if they were ready to go out and head to the market, they come back to the kitchen and finish spitting their tea into their cup. Set the water back into the kettle.

And you stay focused on that kettle, and you feel that simmering, ominous sense and you stay focused on that kettle, and you feel that simmering, ominous sense of something settled within that liquid. Within all the liquid, you feel the groundwater itself, the various rivers and streams and waterfalls and the surrounding chasms and valley. Something settled within the life's blood of this culture and snuffed it.

You pull back to touching the edge of that skull. And as you pull your hand back, the brush falls back over to obfuscate it. What'd you see? There was something in the water. Something that poisoned this entire place. Permeated everything. Did it feel like an actual being that poisoned it,

or the water itself was part of the entity? Couldn't tell. This is a psychic conversation. Yeah, obviously. It's a psychic conversation. Okay. Pate picks up now that cluster of armored figures

beginning to step up towards the door towards the opening to this temple. You can see around the exterior of it, there are beautiful archways partially crumble on each side of the main opening. You can see there are windows on the edges that themselves are overgrown as well. Banners that lay tattered slowly, drifting with the breeze from the outside of the stone structure itself as it rises up beyond view. The rocky landscape around here

has multiple levels and layers, too, with trees that have grown up out of it. And you watch as three of the figures enter the temple, and the rest of them fan out to protect and keep watch. Two figures, one with a heavy shield and one with a massive, dual-handed ax, stand side by side, almost shoulder to shoulder,

about five feet apart, protecting the entrance to this temple. There's those two. Three others you see scatter amongst the nearby brush, staying low and vanishing from Pate's sight. I should roll a perception check for Pate, if you don't mind. Oh no, boy. This is not his strong suit.

You can do it. You can do it. Really attached to the highest, if you don't mind. Oh no, boy. This is not his strong suit. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. 20. 20. It's wisdom, right? Let's go. Come on, Pâté.

Come on, Pâté. Come on, Pâté. Seven. Three of these figures that are in lighter armor. And you've encountered this type of armor design before when you first assaulted the- Passive perception's 11, so his passive is higher than that.

Well, it's the act of searching. Keep going. Familiar. Yeah. It can only be so helpful. Yeah, he's a good rat. The unseelie armor that you recognize from your last assault on the secondary Malleus key here, The unseelie armor that you recognize from your last assault on the secondary Malleus key here

allows you to see the design of these folks definitely ties them to the same faction. Tangentially or directly, you're uncertain. But the heavily armored two stand at the front, while the less armored three separate and then disappear into the nearby brush and trees. The thing you also pick up, it looks like a dark hound, like a dog of some kind of jet black fur

that also begins to walk and patrol around. Pate only catches a glimpse of its head as it turns its long, wolf-like ears that point backwards, and where it's snapped is you just see a human face. Oh! It turns and goes, Cool!

Little red burning coals for eyes, and it stands about shoulder high to one of the armored figures. It's like little red burning coals for eyes, and it stands about shoulder high to one of the armored figures. It's like. As the three of them vanish, that hound begins to just walk around and keep a patrol out front. So they seem to have set up a watch position here outside.

Is any of the figures heading into this temple? Three of them entered originally. Three of them entered. Two heavily armored, one not so much? Or no? From what you entered, the ones that you saw enter, you didn't get quite a good look at them at first. But there are two very heavily armed guards

guarding the door. Correct. There are five figures outside, three of which have vanished from view into the nearby brush, and two that guard the immediate entrance. Three heavily armored. And that helm that's in the perimeter. And three that vanished inside the temple.

This is a spot that only Pate can see at the moment. At the moment, yeah. And the manticore, is that what it is? It's not a manticore. No, it's not. It's just manticore. Faceless things that we ran into. It's not those. It's not that. It's something new.

This is a large black hound creature. There's no fan? But it just has a human face there. It's a human face. That's so cool. We love that. This is a large black hound creature. But it just has a human face there. Pets. That's so cool. We love that. Now, here's the thing. Because Pat Day has a view on this, and this might help for spatial awareness,

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Yo, that's out of ground. Oh! What are you talking about? That's crazy. So this is the entrance to this massive temple structure here. Somewhere in the nearby brush are these three figures. And this hound is currently

watching the perimeter on that side. He's like, you, grass. In reverse? You say out loud to your friend. Human-faced hounds. They're just like us. Isn't that beautiful? They're just like us.

This guy's temple. Wow. And where are we on the wall? Huh? You are all on the outside there. The cityscape surrounds it. Just around this temple, it's more of a, what was once a cultivated garden and a forest of trees

that has since been left to become overgrown. In which direction is Team Ground coming from? You're all coming from this direction. Okay. The wall's probably a little closer to that direction. That's a great question. Like, they want to be surrounded. Do we create a distraction? Do we go in, send in some stealthies?

There's six people outside and three inside. We don't have any conversations happening here, do we? Or do we? It could be happening inside. We don't know. Should we send in the invisibles to? What if we just watched for a few minutes? Sure.

So yeah, Laudna says all of that over comms. All right. Does Pate see Glamglot anywhere? Does Pate see Glamglot? Pate does not see Glamglot anywhere. I mean, do you see Glamglot anywhere? You have to see invisvisibility, right? I do, but I don't see him.

Can Pate get to one of the windows? So that's exactly what I was going to say, because Pate is invisible. I'm going to have him swoop down and peek into one of these little top windows. Sure. Pate make a stealth check with advantage. With advantage.

And he actually has very high stealth. Arrow. Oh shit, let's go. Bubby, you got this, buddy. I believe in our 80% threat. Carry some buzzables. Oh my god, that's not real. That is not real! A two and a one. Wait, you're right by aura. Never mind, that's not real. That is not real!

A two and a one. Wait, you're right, by aura. Never mind, Pate's not. No, Pate's not. Am I by aura? Does my, no. No, no. Okay, cool. So that's... It's a good try.

Wow. Yeah, that was rough. That was rough. Seven. Shit. Oh wow. He has plus five stealth. He's actually pretty good. You keep saying that. His perception blew ass and so did his stealth. Well, his perception sucks. He, wow. He has plus five stealth. He's actually pretty good. You keep saying that.

His perception blew ass and so did his stealth. Well, his perception sucks. He's fired. But I rolled a two! Okay. So he flies and lands on the edge of the windowsill and his feet miscatching and perching on it,

slips and skitters down. The sound of heavy bone and preserved rat carcass slap against the stone below, picks up and flickers its invisibility for a second. Kind of, oh, sorry. Shut up. Your connection's lost.

Ah! Shit. We're made. We're made. We're made. We're made. Well, Pâté is made. Pâté is made. Well, all of us are made now. They know that somebody's here.

I mean, we're not. You're at least on edge. There's lots of little weird... Creatures. Creatures. In the Fae. In the Fae. You do also know that when your familiar is destroyed, they vanish. Yeah. There's no remnants.

Remnants. Yeah, so one powdered like a moth. Yeah. So we could still be undercover. I could just go up here and be like, Hi, Dad. Professor, I mean. I can get a look. That's why I was going to say, Chetney has a little eye up. Chet, go do it.

And he's got you floating. You're invisible, really. I'm invisible. So you don't have to. I think you guys should go. My stealth is okay, though. Watching for a minute while this conversation happens in everyone's heads, is there any visible change in the visible guards?

Conversation between them? Reactions of any kind? Because you're still up on the wall, right? You cannot tell from this distance. Right now, from your view, you can just barely see the temple now. So you can't make out any of this. The only reason you're able to know any of this

is because of Pate's vision and what Laudna can do. Sort of describing it. Yeah, the trees are too thick around here from your wall-side perspective. Gotcha, gotcha. Why don't we tandem it? You from above, me from below. All right. We say in our heads.

Okay. What about Dorian? What are you going to do? I can't. I'll go over here. Tell me to. I don't know. What should I do? I don't know. Do you need help? No. You're going to stay here? No, I don't want to stay here.

I want to be helpful. Okay, well, you're not invisible. Okay. Then I'll go invisible. There you go. All right, and so Ira, okay, so great. Now we can all go back. So ground team is completely invisible.

Ground team is invisible. Great, cool. The rest of you are still, you're about, I'd say, 300, 400 feet on the wall that way. We should start making our way. It's time for us to start making our way. Make it open. Thank you. I'm going to continue to, I'm still spider climbing, so I'm staying low and skittering.

Stay within 30 feet of us, yeah. Night and we're going to try to go in. I'm going to go high, he's going to go low, and we're going to try to get an eye in on the building. I'm going to put on my Monocle of True Essence and cast Arcane Eye. Hell yes. Lots of fun. Okay.

Could you guys... So you see invisibility too now, both of us? Great. Hold for 30 to 60 so that we can be close to help you instead of having to run eight city blocks. No, not true. It's normal vision, but the eye is invisible and it can go as far as it wants to.

So I can stay back. Yeah, give us 60 seconds to get her close. All right. So the wall team begins to wait for the next portion of the wall where the vine overgrowth has clambered over the edge and descends into the city to carefully climb down. As you're doing so, you're gliding up over whereabouts?

Definitely not where Pate went, but I don't know where he was. So I'm just going to look for an open window on a higher level. Is there any? Okay. Kind of up, the towers rise up from here. So you could try and look up at the tower on this point if you want to, or you could look up any of this area Okay. The towers rise up from here,

so you could try and look up at the tower on this point if you want to, or you could look up any of this area or anything. Yeah, I'll go high tower and just fly up alongside the side of it and see if I can see in the window. Okay, we'll say that you're up here in the high tower gliding up.

You are... Do you take a shower? Settling pretty far back. Way over here, we'll say. Yes. Creating an arcane eye to drift over. You are invisible during it? Are you staying with Chet? Or are you moving in?

If they're all splitting up, and you worked your way up behind the house? Yeah, but Chet is still down below. He's flying his eyeball in? Yeah. Can I, how far away are we? You're all coming in from this direction. So Chet's way off in the bush.

Yeah, he is. Over here. I haven't tried. You're up behind the building. Just going to go right now. I want to try to work my way back. Work my way back? I know, but behind that guard

that's outside of the periphery of the two guards in the front. Nice. That's 10 o'clock guard. I want to try to get as close behind him as I can. Okay. On this one over the back? Yeah, this straggler, yeah.

Yep. Okay. So you choose one. I would need both Dorian and Imogen to make stealth checks with advantage, please. With advantage, nice, nice, nice. Good. Great, great, great. Good, good again.

That is good. Okay, okay. 24. 24, great. 22. 22, all right. Wait, that. 24. 24, great. 22. 22, all right. You begin to skirt around to the side, and Imogen, you drift down to the nearest window there. No one seems to take notice in the surrounding space.

Your arcane eye appears and begins to drift over in that region, this small little bobble of arcane power that floats between realms. You follow it as you do, keeping low to a place where you won't be noticed. Where are you sending that little eye? I'll send it wide, obviously not chancing near the guards, and I'll try and find a window or any sort of opening one inch in diameter, preferably on the sides away from the guards if I can. Okay, from which side?

I'll come right down the middle and then send it wide left. Yeah, towards you, yeah. Okay. And then in through a window or a door. Okay, there is a window on this side that you drift into. So Dorian, you glance over there

and make a perception check for me. Yeah. Oh! Nat 20. Yes! As you come around the edge, you see that guard who's just standing there, his fey elf form in jagged, dark armor,

two blades at each side, keeping watch, not as heavily armored as the other two. As you peer past him, you immediately make out each of the other hidden stealth figures that are keeping unseen and keeping watch. One is up in the top of this tree. These are all more lightly armored

with heavy crossbows, big longbows, and they're all watching the vicinity. Yeah, you can tell everybody everything because we're all cohesively. Can you hear me? We can all hear you. Okay, we have ranged enemies hiding everywhere. It's Dorian.

Why are you thinking in a whisper? It just feels right. Okay. There's way more than what you can see. At least three? How many do I see? There's three that were hidden here. One here, one here, one there.

There's the one by you, and the two up front, as well as the hound. Yeah. Three, maybe half a dozen other enemies that you can't see right now. Where? In the trees. They're in the trees! I hate those trees. I don't like it. Maybe just think real hard about where they are,

Darby. All right. You fly up to the window and looking inside, there are a number of circular halls that follow the interior perimeter of this upper area before it breaks into the two separate spires. And you can smell the musty scent

of just forgotten academia. Like the smell of maybe mildewed old paper somewhere in the halls. Some of the growth is still spreading throughout. As you're inside, you do feel the building like some sort of shift to it around you. Like dust settles. Something just happened in here. Slightly.

I have a terrible notion of what that might've been. Carry on. Can you just teleport in? No, I think something just landed on the roof. Oh. You can't see. You're still outside or you can't see it? Yeah, I see invisibility. You're on the roof. Oh. You can't see. You're still outside or in the gym? Yeah, I see invisibility. You're inside the window, though.

You don't see anything on the inside. If I peek my head out, do I see? You drift out, and you see... You should make a perception check for me. Okay, I'm really good at this. Oh, 17. No, wait, 19. 19 total? Yeah.

Okay. Okay, so you drift out to look around the structure itself, and you're not sure if it's the sea and visibility or what it is, but a shape has clambered onto the side of the building. You watch as the coloration of this entity's skin, its scales, shifts like a chameleon,

and now seems to take a natural shape of vibrant purples and oranges. Its extremely bright wings wrapped around the outside as its long neck and its cloudy, wide eyes. Shit, I duck back inside before it turns its head. The familiar sight of Glomglut, having arrived and shifted its chameleon-like exterior, almost sweeps its vision towards you

as you duck inside the building. Glomglut's here. You feel. Where? On the bed, on the top. The rest of you who have come down the home, you can now, she says as you look over, and you can now see the bright color of Glomglut,

massive and terrifying, climb down and seem to almost like its body, its bones almost seem flexible or its joints switch where it almost slithers and pours into the opening of this temple. Like a little hamster. Does a little butt get stuck in the door and then he wiggles his little legs.

He does damage it. It's a fucking dragon, it's not a hamster. Does a little butt get stuck in the door and then he wiggles his little legs? He does damage it. It's a fucking dragon. It's not a hamster. You know what I mean. It's a deadly killing machine. It does damage the stone as it forces its way through. It is a massive creature when it's expanded, but it also has very thin, lithe form

that almost like serpent slithers into the building. As it does, you, with your high perception roll and your arcane eye that's gone inside the structure, it's following in, and then she says that, and the arcane eye spins around, just as you see the head of Glumgut begin to come in towards where your arcane eye is. You dart off to the side, and it slithers in.

You see this, Dorian, as it clam off to the side. So Zyn, you see this Dorian. As it clambers down the side, two beings leap off of the large harness on its back. two beings leap off of the large harness on its back. One of them is a heavily armored, tall, dark fey being with a long, billowing cloak, a nasty-looking dark metal helmet that hooks upward into horns,

and a massive blade sheathed inside. And the other, an elven figure with long, silver hair, blue robes, Ludinus Delef. Both of them emerge. Make a deal. And they step inside the temple structure after Glomglut. How do we stop this? How do we stop this? What are we going to do? Point of order.

We really should have had a plan. That was one to two minutes of time elapsed. The rest of you have been carefully. The wall team have dropped. You've definitely dropped, and you're starting to try and carefully clamber close. Well, how far is the wall from this building? Yeah, about, yeah.

We don't want to be 300 feet away. If we could make it look like the Unseelie are being attacked by Ludmus. Yeah, if we could make it seem like these talks are not peaceful or something, if we could sabotage them, that would help. It's not about attacking those two. We don't want that fight, right?

And we're still undetected, right? At this point? So far that we know. Yeah. What do we do? It's the Unseelie we got to find. Unless they're in there already. They're in there. They've got to be. Well, we don't know.

Does the arcane eye see anything inside? Do you follow in if they walk past? As you come to the moon, he's going to see that. Wouldn't the dragon see them? They have true sight, don't they? Some do. Not all of them.

I feel like he does. Didn't he see you guys when you were invisible on the moon? Yep. It might be a thing where you have to actively search. Oh, maybe. Maybe I'll put the eye up on the ceiling. Like, go up real high. Just a little inch. Yeah.

Hide it underneath the eye of magic. Yeah, looking for anybody besides Glomglut and those two individuals, even just a glimpse. Yep. Make a perception check. Okay. Come on. Just regular roll. Yep, straight roll.

Regular roll. Regular roll. Regular roll, natural 20. Yes! Oh! Yes! Let's go. Irregular roll. Okay.

The Eye of Uk'otoa doesn't lie. Uk'otoa. Oh, that's right. Uk'otoa and I? Yeah. Okay, you only take visual information from this eye as it turns, and indeed, you see the three figures that walked in are waiting in the center of this chamber.

You see past this hall, there's a large, open chamber that's further back that encompasses the core interior, the base floor of this massive temple-like structure, this shrine of gilded gifts, if you will. Passing by, even just the interior glance of the halls around here from the arcane eye's view, this shrine of gilded gifts, if you will. Passing by, even just the interior glance of the halls around here from the arcane eye's view, you can see between the ivy overgrown walls

beautiful carvings of what looks like or murals that are painted and faded with time, framed in intricate stone, chiseled carvings of rising flowers and fairies framing and spiraling around each one. There are pillars that are standing still with busts and statues. It's like a museum as much as it is also a temple.

Glancing past this to the inside, you can see there is a massive raised, it looks almost like a well, but it's a diad. It's maybe 15, 20 feet across, this upper platform with some crumbled stone on it. There are raised steps in the side and massive central pillars that are load-bearing of this wide, curved dome on the inside.

There is a statue across the way of what looks to be a representation of the Archheart, and the climbing walls have beautiful murals painted and scrawled up along all the ways. There are two fountains that sit on the opposite ends of the central dais. You watch as Glomglut has torn through and then climbed up and out of sight

near the roof of this interior as the two other figures that you recognize to be the Sorrowlord, Sothudda and Ludinus, to step within the chamber beyond them. With that roll, would we know if it's a real Ludinus or a? It's a simulacrum. It's a simulacrum.

Yeah, I'd say the glimmer you can see, there is the central gem in its forehead as it walks within and forward. Any other Unseelie representatives in the room or just Glomglut and these two? There's the Glomglut and the Sorrowlord and Ludinus on their end. Right.

And there are three other Unseelie. The two that are heavily armored, shields and a hooked blade, they just have sheathed and at the ready. Then the central figure wears more armor that looks both ornamental as well as it is effective. No helmet, what looks to be a long silver hair with black streaks that run through it.

They look to have a pointed chin goatee that comes down into an upward curve at the end. They just stand there. They don't look familiar, no? As soon as I see the Three Unseelie, I'll drop the arcane eye and get on the Mindhorn and say, it's Three Unseelie, Ludinus, and Lord Zathuda. We have to stop the conversation they're having.

And you described what you saw inside? Mm-hmm. Can we do this by attacking? Can we do this by... I would love to collapse the building or make the conversation unsafe or something, right? Because this has got to be a tenuous relationship. And if they both agreed to meet on terms of peace

and it's not, yeah. How many pillars did you see? Well, there are two pillars that rise up in the center. But the temple itself, you're uncertain if they're load-bearing or ornamental. You said load-bearing when you described it. My apologies. It was a descriptor.

It could be load-bearing, but no one here seems to be masters of architecture, either. You have to just be. All the guarding? I'm minor in architecture. And all the guarding factions are unseelie? They all appear to be of an,

they all seem to have a unified look to their armor, both coloration and design. I can maybe fuck with their heads. Yeah, that's, yeah. Maybe you can fuck with their heads? I could have done, too. The other thing, this is really dumb, above the table. We all have, we'd have to do a costume change,

but we all have our Ruby Vanguard uniform. Oh yeah. If we make it look like the Ruby Vanguard is holding them hostage. But I don't know. I can. The hound kind of into its own little snuffing.

Uh-oh. Getting closer to you. Yeah. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Snuffing? Uh-oh. Just like. And it still just kind of, doesn't look like it's caught anything yet, but it's just moving around.

Everyone else is stationary, but the hound is the one that's patrolling. Can we assess where our wall team is before this ghost heads up? You've all been coming from this direction, and so we'll say you're probably maybe 40 feet off in a tree line and the very end of the nearby village. Oh, okay.

I don't have any spells that can knock down buildings. Yeah, nobody has an earthquake or anything, right? No. If I get right up close and personal, I can knock it down, but that's a- You've got Stonky's Ring, and I've got Telekinesis, which both have the ability to try to do stuff

to things that are heavy. It still feels like that would take multiple rounds. The only thing I can attempt is a phantasmal force situation and try and get into Sothudas' head to think that this is a trap. We could also just yell from outside, ah, it's an ambush.

Dorian, you watch as the guy up in the tree who's sitting there. Uh-oh. Ira. Ira. Oh! Yes! And is torn down. Yes!

You don't see what did it. Did I see what did it? You glance out and see, indeed, up here in the tree now, perched, is Ira Wendigoff. Oh my god! So cool! Who has just magically silenced the top of that tree and essentially tore this figure apart.

Amazing. Set them down carefully into the nearby brush. I love him. He sits there looking and waiting for it in the rest of the queues here. So should we try silent and take out these dudes? We can take out the...

Above table, though, we don't need to convince Zathuda that something's wrong. He's already on Ludinus' side. It's the nameless dude in the trio. Yeah, the Unseelie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If we could get them to infight somehow.

Yeah. We were never here. We got to kill these guys to get close. We got to get closer. Do it. Okay, let's stealthily take out the jungle team. Who's closest to us? The guy over there?

Yep, we got one guy there. One guy here, one guy here, one guy here, and the two up front, as well as the hound. Once again, how far away is the wall team? The wall team is about maybe 40 feet, 50 feet out from the edge of this map. We've been trying to creep closer. Yeah, we talked about that. You guys are just beyond the edge of this map. Because we've been trying to creep closer. Yeah, we talked about that.

So you guys are just beyond the opening of this one little area here before you feel comfortable being seen. So I feel like we can come around this way and take out that guy and then take out that guy. Let's just try and do it quietly. I don't believe Haspelau's trace is still up. I love how we're all just shallow thought

thinking about this, because as soon as Ludinus and Lord Zathuda and Glomgut come out, that's the worst fight we've ever had. Oh yeah. I know. Yeah, but let's cross that bridge when we get to it. I know! It's Snowdness.

It's Snowdness. He did rock, Snowdness rocked us last time. Yeah. That's before you had me. Full-level wizard missing their highest level of slot. Yeah, that's what I like to hear. That's it. They're just missing their... Also have hit points. Sure. We have a brace.

But the arsenal is very strong. We haven't fought Lord Zathuda, though. We just ran from Lord Zathuda the last time. Let's talk more action. I'm going to silently transform into a werewolf and then cast Invisibility on myself. Okay. I reach behind my back and grab my zipper

and slowly pull down as I unfurl my evening dress of flesh into the fluffy fuckboy beneath. Okay. And DM, using Orym's Know Your Enemy, after watching these guys for multiple minutes, their total class levels and their HP are all lower than mine?

Yes. Okay. Good to know. I've re-upped my sea and visibility and my flying. Okay. Why don't you go kill this guy, Chet? Technically, yeah, I was going to say, do we want to try and silence him? Which guy?

The guy in front of you. The guy closest to you. Sure. Did you connect with Ira as well, mentally, or not? Yeah. I don't think he was listening into all this. There's two in the woods and two at the door. I can also make them quiet. Why don't you do that, then?

So between the two of us. Okay. Which one do you want to do? Ira, you should do the one farthest away from the group. So one, two, three. That's also farthest away from the group. So one, two, three. It's also the closest one to Chet. With a bonus action, I'm going to take my claws and just drag them alongside my calves and get a little thing.

All right. Ira curls over the edge here. Gets really low, like really low into the brush to where he almost becomes part of the branches of the tree and flicks his finger this way. His invisibility drops, but he remains stealthy within the branch as he casts Silence down

in the space around this guy here. Great. Now's the time. Okay, is Chetney doing this solo, or are we helping? Anybody have a concrete block? Are we close to him, or where are we? We're all over in this area. Okay, so I thought we were coming around this way.

Man, we got to do this all at once, otherwise it's pointless. No, we can take out that guy. Ease of use, you all over. Quietly, the guy's in the woods. Are we that close to Chetney? I'd say if you want to, you can move over that direction or move this way, it's up to you.

Laudna will start shifting this way towards where Dorian is. Okay. Everyone who's moving this direction, please make a stealth check. Plus 10. Who's moving this direction? Yeah, everyone who's moving closer, roll a stealth check. Plus 10.

That's a one, I'm rolling. Plus 10, thanks, guys. Do we have the plus 10 stealth? I rolled a second one. I'm going to use Indomitable. Nope, that's for saves. One. Plus 10.

Oh, fuck. It's still a one. I know it's still one. Okay. Okay. 25. 25. Okay. 25. 25. 18. 18.

So that is about your mark. 24. 24. Try to say it with hope. Yeah. 18. 27. 27.

37. Ooh. All right. So as you all begin to move forward, Orym, all these things are coming together and the anxiety of all these different pieces arriving at once. It doesn't seem like it can work.

You take a step and your foot catches one of the roots in the ground and you're about to tumble before Ashton catches you. Ashton, get up. Ashton, get up. Ashton, get up. Come on. Yeah.

Catching everybody today. I got to get up. All right. So this entity here has been silenced. What do you want to do? Which one? Over here. Wasn't that Chet was going to take you out, wasn't he?

I'm going to chow. You're going to go for it? Yeah. All right. Shift forward to this one here off in the brush. Stealthy with a little sneak attack. Okay, I'm going to roll. I'm going to take three claw attacks against him. Go for it.

Oh, I mean, that's a billion. 20, 29. You have advantage on each of these because you're invisible. Yeah, 29 for the first one. 29 hits. Oh, if I was wearing that butcher's bib, that would have been a crit. 20 and one on the second one.

That hits. Two natural 20s. Whoa! Let's fucking go. Okay, all right. Oh, wow. That's nice, that's nice. Sometimes things. Okay, all right. Oh, wow. That's nice, that's nice. Sometimes things balance out, I guess.

Okay, okay, so we'll do this. Two, eight, seven, 15, plus five is 23 for the first one. Okay. And that's the sneak attack only on one of them, right? Correct. Okay, so that's the sneak attack only on one of them, right? Correct. Okay, so that's the sneak attack one. Second one is...

Ding! It's 12. Huzzah! 19 points on the second one. Okay. And then the crit. Amazing. Eight. That's 29 points on the third one.

Still a little curled up. How do you want to do that? In absolute silence. Sweet, I'll creep up, and then, with my claws extended, I'll reach up and put two clawfuls, two paws into his kidneys, just under the ribs on each side. Pick him up a little bit. Seeing that he's quiet, I'll take one hand out and just reach around and ear to ear, I'll reach around and grab his chin and just pull his head off. Let's go!

You just got to loosen this part, and then everything just Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah! You just got to loosen this part and then everything just like a business. A grisly sight only seen by your friends behind you, but not a sound is made as you then pull the remains into the nearby brush. Clap your hands if you believe in fairies. Okay. This is why all of our shit's bound.

Two down's bad. Two down. Okay, okay. How many more silences do we have? Do a silence. Uh-oh. Do you see this dog coming? Oh yeah, you see the dog bruising about, just walking around.

As it breaks away from me being invisible, I'm actually going to follow it in the air, if I can. I'll engage my wing boots, but just stay really close to the ground. Just, I don't want to make noise. Right, they don't make you cast the spell flight. You just can fly for it. Right, right, right, right.

Great, yeah, you can do that. Okay, and I'll go after him and get within range of 30 feet, and I'm going to try to cast. You won't be invisible anymore once you do that. I hope I'm in the bush, enough in the bush to be out of sight line. Do you want to try and hide to do this?

Yeah, kind of, yeah. Okay, so you will have to get prone in the brush here as you glide down. That's so sad. I know. Make a stealth check for me. Stealth check, yeah. With advantage. All right.

That's all right. That's worse. 16. 16. 16. On the edge. I'm on the edge. Have you cast anything yet? No, you haven't. You think you're pretty hidden.

Uh-oh. What do you want to do? Okay, this will drop my invisibility. I'm going to try and cast Charm Monster on the dog. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So it's a 16 wisdom. 16 wisdom save.

That is going to be a 13. Yes. Okay. That's your dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing. And so from the bushes in the, and it's scratched, I'm scratched.

Psst. Psst, psst, psst. Good boy, come here. Yeah, it's me. Hey, come here. Psst. Psst, psst, psst. Yeah, hey. Good boy. Come here. Yeah, it's me. Hey, come here. Come here. You're so good.

He has these thick jowls, like, . Oh, what? It's like its eyes burning red at the pupils. I don't like it. Aren't you so handsome? You're so handsome. Yeah.

Are you a good boy? Are you a good boy? You can see him, it's interesting. His body, as he gets closer, you can see it looks like dark fur, but it also has a faint translucent quality to it. It's made of shadow or isn't fully material. It looks present and physical,

and you can see the ground moving and shifting with its claw steps, but yeah, it's not even fully corporeal in some way. Whoa. Okay. So we're hearing you think this. All right, go on now. Go on, get. Get out of here.

You're free now. You're free. You're free. You can't. I don't want you anymore. He looks at you and was like, was like, Oh, it's okay. No, no, no.

No, it's better out there, I promise. I promise. They were so mean to you, weren't they? Weren't they mean to you? Yeah, yeah, you go on, you get out of here. You go on, you get. And just starts walking off. Oh, not this way! Oh god!

No, no, wait, not that way! Not, not, not that way! You go get the other way! He turns back like, Yeah, no, no, this way. But yeah, that way, that way. And you watch as it moves and begins to dock off. Its feet leave the ground

and it glides off. It's a flying hound that begins to take off in that direction. This guy here, as the trolling sees it, go off and goes like, Uh-oh. That's okay. He's walking this way.

Oh no, no! No, no. Oh no! Oh no, no! No, no, no! Shit. We're curious as to where the hound is going. We should split up and- Nobody needs to kill that guy. There's another guy over there, and then we should go over and help Dora.

And it turns and goes, and looks down and sees you down in the ground. Can you silence him? I don't have silence! I do. Do I see this happening? I mean, technically speaking, there's line of sight on this shit. In my opinion.

In my opinion, there's line of sight. If I see it happening. You would've seen Dorian. Oh, I'm watching Dorian, for sure. He's hot. Based on how far away we are? You guys can be shifting this way a little bit. There's no initiative order in this.

It's just in the moment. Can you silence it? Do I see this happening? Oh yeah, you all are watching this from the brush as you're coasting through. Then I will cast Silence. Okay, you want to move that over here for me? Thank you.

You shift over. It just seems to be 120 that over here for me? Thank you. You can shift over. It just seems to be 120 feet, so. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay, great. Oh my god. You're going to want to stay out of sight from the rest of these as you shift over. Make a stealth check for me, if you don't mind, for this. You're leaving your radius,

but you still get the bonus as you're taking this. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Okay. 27. Okay, so that's 80. Actually, you could have gotten it from back then. But if you want to move closer, you can, but you're... Maybe we'll be at the edge of the volume.

There you go. T-puff, please. Staying low, and so the 120-foot range on the silence. Indeed, you can throw silence over as the guy goes like... It won't last for long. Dorian, get up! Pulls out two blades and seems confused. What are the rest of you doing?

Okay, okay. This is wide open, right? I can't see anything, right? I'm not seeing any of this happen. You're over here by the window, if you wanted to fly over and You know him, our heads. Oh, that's true. Everybody get out. Yeah, you're talking.

You're hearing all this stuff happening, yeah. Okay, then I'm going to peek out the other side. If I peek out the other side, can I see? Yeah, you definitely see him up there. Okay. Yeah, if anyone's got some ranged stuff and Dorian, you'll hear in your head, you got a second. Wait, are you doing something?

I mean, I can, or we can do it at the same time. I'm going to lower down to where I'm not going to be sticking out above, so I'll just drop. Uh-huh. I have an idea, too. Go for it. And I'm going to psychic lance him. idea, too. Go for it. And I'm going to Psychic Lance him.

Okay. So you Psychic Lance him. What's his save? Intelligence? That's a 19. 19 intelligence. Ooh, that is a 12. Okay, great. Okay. One, two, three, four, five. Oh god. Oh god. Sorry.

This is one off, by the way. Yeah. Okay. Is there any cover off the map here, or is this wide open as well? I think there's a little bit of, I'll say a continuation of this kind of cover, where it's little bits of rock and stone,

maybe a few trees. So there is brush, but there are periods of darting out in the open to get to the next bit, which is where the stealth check is required. 10 minutes. Okay, okay, okay. But it's a 20-foot sphere. Okay, so as long as he doesn't move.

I'm going to say that Orym creeps up. You also keep cast spells. 25 points of psychic damage. Five points? 25 points. Good to. You also keep cast spells. 25 points of psychic damage. Five points? 25 points. So good to remember, you cannot cast spells. Okay, so he goes and pulls his blades out, these two hooked short swords, and then does this massive scream that just makes no sound as he's clutching his head, stumbles onto one leg,

but is still standing. And he's incapacitated. Incapacitated, yeah. So he's just going. So I see what, I don't see, but I see him clutch his head, and then from where I am, I'm going to sink my fingers into the dirt and tap into all of the dead bodies that are here. And just from 240 feet away, I'm going to do a Chill Touch.

So it's like an elven skeletal hand just comes up from under the ground. Okay. You roll for attack on this? And starts to yank him down. Okay, he's incapacitated, so you have advantage on the attack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Natural 20. Yes! And a one. And a one. You guys were just swinging. No, you did swing. Wait, wait, wait, you're by me.

Reroll the one. Well, I rolled a natural 20. Just do it, do it! Fine! Wait, can I save this for later? Or just whenever? 30! Okay, okay. We'll go with the natural 20. All right, so go ahead and roll the dice on that. I'm going with the 13. Fine! Wait, can I save this for later? Or just whenever? 30! No, that's still fine.

We'll go with the natural as well. All right, so go ahead and roll the dice on that. Go with the 13! That's 3d8. And you double the roll. I double the roll. Hell yes. Regain hit points for whatever that means.

Is there something else? What's it? I don't know. Something. Like a death rattle. He has disadvantage on attack rolls. It's just a demure little 18. Come on, be big, be big.

I'm going to just kill this fucker. Burn! I'm going to kill him. I will take that. Seven, seven, five, so that's 14 times two. Wait, 14 plus five, 19 times two. What's times two then plus five? So it'd be 28, 30. Wait, no, no, no. I rolled seven, seven, and five,

and I double all the dice. Oh, sorry, I thought you were adding your bonus. No, no, no, no. I rolled seven, seven, and five, and I double all the dice. Oh, sorry, I thought you were adding your bonus. No, sorry, I was trying. I was doing dumb math. No, you're totally right. You're right, you're right. I was doing backwards math. My bad. You're good. 19 doubled. 19 doubled.

38. So 38. How do you want to do it? Yes! Yes! Quietly. Quietly. Kind of seeing him, I almost want to combo attack this with Imogen. It happened at the same time.

So yeah, as he arches back, almost in a broken way, you see this hand come up and suck him underground. So evil that it's gone. The ground itself seems to swallow him up. You swear you see the loose earth go. Yeah. As soon as that happens, I pop out of the moss

and I like,. Stay hidden, Mozart. We're feeling good. The terrible shit's inside. All right. Do you want to stay put or do you want to move closer? Well, I do want to start to inch my way around. Make a stealth check.

Well, I made that stealth check before. Do I still have? You made the one as you were approaching me in this round, or? Well, I guess I'll do it again. I don't know. We all rolled the ones, and I thought it was to inch this way. I think we're going to take care

of this last motherfucker over here. Can we hear any converse? Yeah, there's two guys. I'm talking about the outskirts people who are going to be firing bolts at us from the distance. Yeah, I just want to start. I guess I'll be where Orym is, so I think that's fine. Okay. So we have one more

of these hiding in the woods motherfuckers. Okay. How many of those silences do you have? I'll say, we'll keep yourselves checked before, that's fine. Huh, what? How many of those silences do you have? Because you're not in the, you're not in the, uh. Again and again. So this guy over here in the woods?

You're not in the field of view as you move in there from either of these guys, so I think you're okay. If we keep wandering around, you will be able to. I'll move in. I've got a bunch. Ashton, Fearne, Bray, it's what we're trying to do. I'd say if we can collect at least some of the group and start making our way around

so that we can deal with this motherfucker. I have an idea, but I might want to wait till we get the guys. Are you all moving this way? I think we should start splitting up. I'm going to go with Laudna and Orym. Okay, so three of you. Inside the building, right?

Inside the building. So there's just one more guy over in this. There's one guy over here. And the two at the front. Yeah, and then so the three of us, so it's, yeah, it's the three of us, Fearne Chetan and myself, and we currently have Pass Without a Trace.

You also have Ira, who can silence that guy, too. How much material can you transmute? A 40-foot cube. Oh. That's pretty big for what? For what? You could transmute stone? Yeah, transmute rock. You could transmute one of those pillars inside?

I was thinking of maybe trying. I mean, everything would just melt, and then they also... I can combo with telekinesis and pull on it when you do. The ground in the spells area becomes muddy enough that the creature can sink into it. Each foot that a creature moves through the mud costs four feet of movement.

So do that inside the building? I have an idea as well. I think I can help, but I think we just need to get closer. That's why I kind of want to wait. Yeah. I think let's get these guys. Save that for once these other guys are taken out.

I feel like we should get everybody silently killed outside. All right, then can I tell Ira, can I ask him to silence that last remaining bush guy? Sure, let's get a little closer. Yeah. Let's start to chat you with us. Yeah. All right. Drift through the space here.

Shift over to this edge of the brush. 20-foot range. Ira takes your cue and spends a third second on a slot to go ahead and curl over the edges. Hands drift over the edge and just wiggle a little bit. As all this silence is happening out here,

can we hear any talking coming from inside of the building? Make a perception check. Okay. Great. Chet, you want this one since you're still invisible or not? I'm so good at it. 14. 14. I'm not invisible anymore.

You hear the faintest bit of an echo of conversation, but you're outside focused on all this. You can't make out any of the words. You'd have to be probably inside to even hear anything. Okay. Oh, you know what, Matt? I wanted to stay with this group, sorry. Oh, you did? Yeah.

Oh, okay. So you'd be drifting over with this group. Okay. So I think Chet and I would've gotten a little further before we pulled the silence spell trick. And we assume that this guy's looking the other direction right now.

He is currently... He was sitting there keeping watch, and he's now looking over and seeing that some of his compatriots are currently missing. Starting to stand up from his perch. Yeah, the two of us are coming in. Both of you make stealth checks for me. Plus 10. Chet wasn't there when you cast it,

so he wouldn't get plus 10. No, I can, is it that, or is I wouldn't be able to choose anybody within 30 feet at any time? He doesn't need it. Okay, that's fine. It's when you cast the spell, it's anybody that's within 30 feet of you.

For the duration, each creature you choose within 30 feet of you. For the duration, each creature you choose within 30 feet of you. Oh, okay. So he can, I think, my interpretation of it is somebody enters it, you can give it to them, but they just have to leave your radius and you can't do it. I did that wrong the entire first campaign.

Be fair. It's a little vague in its circumstances. Like 36. 36. Yeah. You both dive down below into the brush. Right as this figure is standing up with his crossbow and is starting to yell in the direction of the two over that way,

you both come up from behind. I just go tap, tap. Spins around. All right, and you're attacking as well? Yeah. Both of you do your round of attacks. Reckless. Well, let's do, I'll do tandem, here we go. I don't need reckless, we have advantage.

Get a ridiculous number. Natural 20. Whoa! Oh no! Let's fucking go! I'm not even raging, man. Hot table, hot table. Oh my god, that's going to hit. Yeah, it does, yeah, it does.

I know. I almost died. I'm sorry, you did too. Nothing under, all three attacks, nothing under a 26. 16 points of damage. 19 points of damage for my two attacks. Okay. 15, six over here. That's nice.

Stretching my hands. So yeah, 16 points, 19 points. You got it. And then we're... 28 on the first one, because that's the correct. How do you guys want to do this? I'm going to smash him and try and spin him around

towards you. Oh, beautiful. I'll try and cover his mouth to keep him quiet, but my claws just go straight through his nose and soft parts of his face. I then take the other bunt of the hammer and I nail it further into your face. Ah!

Then I'll just put my hand into his gut and up under his rib cage and just make a little... Little puppet? Oh! Oh! This little gnome has seen some shit. Oh no.

It's a gnome? It was a little gnome? No, I mean this guy. Oh. The fact that you were like, yeah, I'll just do this. All righty. That's over with.

Then we're going to slink back into the shadow a little bit. He hears nothing. Oh, you're doing it mentally. I guess you could. Yeah. You move, duck down, removed from the space, and you are no longer invisible. Get these guys fast.

Yeah. They start to notice. Hit them with a silence, and then yank them away from the door and end them in the silence if it's 20-foot radius out, right? Yeah. So pull them. Pull, kill., right? Yeah. So pull them. Pull, kill.

Over here? Yeah. I will do this. Do you, okay, so wait, where do you want to? I'm going to cast Telekinesis on myself right now. Do we want to bring them over here to you guys? Like bring them into the woods? Bring them?

The big boys. I was thinking the big boys. Or like one, like a two. Be able to pull this guy that way, that guy that way, in a silence circle. Ira turns invisible. Insta-kill them. Well, here comes Ira. Insta-kill them. Down the tree.

Uh-oh. On the spot. Stand, stand. Once they're silenced. Both the two of you stay low, and all of a sudden, the voice of nowhere in your minds goes, These are the final two, yeah? Except for the three inside. And the dragon and the problem people.

He snaps his fingers. Yeah. Both of them go. And they're both held for the time being. He says, Now's the time to make your move. So I have one crazy idea. If you're going to do your transmute thing

that might topple the building, if I can turn myself invisible one more time, which I have, I could sneak in and use the Brand of Castigation, and with its upgrade, it would prohibit somebody from teleporting or misty stepping or leaving. Yes, do that. So if we do that to either Zathuda or Luden, I don't think we care about Luden

because he's a snow cone. Yeah. Yeah, it could maybe make it hurt more. I mean, the dragon might still be okay and might actually protect his owner, but it might keep him from bamfing out if that's something he could do. It would be risky to me, but that's the whole point.

Yeah, we got to kill these guys first, though. How long are they held? When you do a hold? Are we dispatching them first? Before we try to get them? They are held for a round. Yeah. And they get to save each round until they get rid of them.

Orym starts, I'm just going to go for it. Yeah, I'm going to head down. 30 feet and Misty Step to the first one. And start, yeah. I'm going to sneak my way to the first one, keeping my, keeping my, um. Pull him away from the door before you. Yeah.

Now, sneaking is half speed? You don't have to, oh, well, I guess, you don't want the inside people to hear you. I still have, Pass Without a Trace will work if I'm moving at, will it help if I'm, if I'm moving at full speed or no? You're not choosing to be stealthy if you're going full speed. Okay, so then 20 feet.

I would just do it. 20 gets you up there. You just think I would just go for it? He's held. Yeah, because he's held. All right, let's go 40 feet then. That's going to go away in a round. And then? I'm going to do what Liam did in Sprint and Misty Step. Nice.

He's held, so I have a... I have a... You get about there. Close enough to attack or no? 20, 25, 30. Misty Step is worth it. This is worth a rage. Fuck it. One, two, three, four, five. See, yeah, you can get right there.

Great. Can I just peek around the corner so they're in my view? Sure. We should still silence those areas, though, if we can. Can you do that, Reyes? Just so they don't hear it on the inside, the fight that happens? I was holding him, so he's not silencing them. Yeah, I know.

So can Reyes silence it? Okay. Then I won't attack. I will silence. I can run up and attack if you want to silence. Yeah. Yeah, I'll silence. All right.

I got this dude. Oh, perfect. That's actually absolutely perfect. I am going to do something a little weird that I've never done before. I'm so excited. Wait, I can't silence if I have Misty Stepped. That's two spells, so.

That's true, you cannot. But you don't have to Misty Step in because you can silence from 120 feet. Are you willing to let me undo that move? Yeah, if you guys are wanting to tactically do this differently. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Here, I'll tell you what.

We'll do 20 for me. Yay! On a one to 10, you, unfortunately, made that impulse move and it fucks you up. On a 11 plus? It's an 11. It's an 11? Yes! Okay.

Oh, yes! As you're about to rush, you have this conversation about silence and Ira holding them and you're like, shit, all right, I'm going to go ahead and focus on this. You still stay back here then? I would move forward, but not Misty Step, yeah. Okay, so about there, likely.

Silence on there. Orym and Ashton appear. I've got a crazy-ass thing I'm going to do, so. You can dart down there as well. You don't have to dart down quite as far, because I'm going to move him away from the door really quickly. So I'm going to take 25 feet worth of steps forward,

and then I'm going to use... You don't want to move him out of the silence cone, though. Oh, that's right, the silence cone got made. Never mind, I'm just going to go straight up. I'm going to shank this motherfucker and pull him away. All right, so Orym, you're up first. Now they are paralyzed. Okay. Right? So that's advantage on all rolls?

So paralyzed, just to go back to the condition here for that, so we know all the specifics here. Paralyzed. Attack rolls against that have advantage. And any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if you're within five feet of it. Oh! Amazing.

Okay. So this is just going to be vicious. All right, well, I got a total of 30 to hit. That hits, and then so roll critical damage on that first hit. And I'm going to make it a push. I'm actually going to take him from here. Okay, so you do a push and attack. Knock him and follow him.

Okay. So that is. Will that take him out of the cone? It's 15 feet, and silence is a 20-foot radius. Mm-hmm. So no, he would stay. Did you go in front of the door when you did that? He did.

To push him there? I consider, okay. Quickly. Yeah. I'm going to have a little fun then once you're done. Okay. So... Tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki. Six plus eight, so that is one plus eight.

At least it was quiet. Nine with a... Yeah, smaller range, smaller range. 19, so it's a crit? Mm-hmm. Oh shit, so 11 doubles 22. 30 for the first. All righty.

And it's a pushing attack, gets to make a strength save. Strength save. Ooh, it's a 20. Oh, 20, okay. Saves, next attack. I'm going to move around. I'm going to move up.

I got 35 feet, so I'll just come out. Yeah. Not in front of the door. Not in front of the door, like, kind of towards Brias, yeah. 24, and it's an auto-crit still? Correct. Toas, yeah. You got it. 24, and it's an auto-crit still? Correct. To hit? Okay. So there is six. It's another pushing attack, so 18 plus six is 24,

plus eight, 32 points of damage. 32 points of damage. At the first strike, you carve through the second one. How do you want to do this with a pushing attack? Okay, so I slash right up along his front and up along the neck and watch him go in place, rigid, and then the second, I just jam the sword as hard as I can in and he flies

and it hits and impacts and there's a miniature shockwave and he flies back off the blade, rolling on the floor. 15 feet, which would keep him within, well, he's dead. No, his landing, at least, would be no sound. That's 20 foot radius. His landing would be nothing. Yeah, 20 foot radius from the center here, which would be 20 feet, it's everything here.

So 15 feet would put him right at the radius. Regardless, I'm watching it. So I would have caught him with my telekinesis and pulled him off silently. Okay. Yes, that's sick. Cool. And if I have any movement left, I will step five feet that way.

Pretend as much as is allowed. You went 30 feet this way and then Misty stepped here? Yeah. To get to that point? So I don't think you have any more movement. If I have to, then I will Action Surge and get the fuck out of the way. Okay. I think I probably got this.

All right. This'll be fun. Don't pull this off. It'd be hard to do. Natural 20, which doesn't matter because it was going to be a crit anyway. Which means that I'm, and since I'm also cleaning up right now. So.

I know. Yeah. It makes me nervous all at once. I get that the head goes cosmic. The hammer gets that nice little red-blue, it gets that little weird cosmic thing, too. It doesn't do, I'm so sorry, it does the weird cosmic space thing.

And watch this amount of damage I'm about to do. It's going to be gross. What? Four. I don't actually think it's humanly possible. I'm going to, okay, this is going to take a second. Don't talk this up too much, Taliesin. I know.

Check this out. I'm into it, I'm into it! This is going to be so dope. This ollie is going to be sick. Whoa! Oh fuck! 54 points of damage on the first hit. Damn! On the first hit.

Poured. How do you want to do this? Poured! I'm going to take the hammer. I'm going to swing it up and crack him right in the back of the neck and see if I can just snap it. I'm then going to grab his body and I'm going to drop through a wormhole

down into the ground and come out, dropping him about 30, behind that little, you see that little arch over there? Over here? Yeah, back there. I'm just going to drop his body down there coming out of the, that's very, oh yeah, we just step out and put it there. That was cool. That was cool. Oh yeah, we just step out. And put it there.

That was cool. That was cool. Yay. Worth the hype. Worth the hype. Solid snake body disposal. I believe all along. All right, so the exterior guard, Argonne,

and the Hound is off finding its new adventure for the next hour. We keep making great new sequels to Milo and Otis. We eventually just have to go with it. Okay, I'm going to start to make my way. I want to swing wide onto this side. Can we? Are there windows? There are windows, yeah.

Maybe even here. Yes, the coast's clear. I'm still face down the fucking grass. Yeah, you are. Get up, Torian. Everyone's dead. Okay, okay. Don't get up. You all can move in this direction. Okay, but be very quiet,

because they're right inside doing their little talky-walky. Correct. All right. We won. It's done, yeah. So, Ira clambers up the side and just sits on the top, looking at all of you.

There's a big fuck-all dragon in here. What do we see? What do you see? Are you all glancing in? I'm not glancing in, but I'm looking. Through the windows lead into the interior hallways, but the central chamber is only visible from The front door? The front door. It's almost like there's an open area here.

God. It cycles around, and then the larger central chamber is beyond that. So there's a hall that coasts around. The windows look into that hall, but the entryway to that central chamber, the only way in is from the front, and you can only see that from the inside. Great. You can hear

the sounds of voices talking, echoing from within. All right, well, that would be big. Unless we have crazy area of effect things planned, it would be awesome if there's only one entrance in and that's the front into that center area. That you can see. That's the only way from where you're standing

that you can see a way in. Right. That's the way they walked in? Mm-hmm. So you either flush them out and you cover all the exits and hit them when they come out, or we try and drop the thing, which is gonna flush them out or bury them either way.

If we rush in, then we expose ourselves more than the other way. Fatal funnels. All three of those are a fight, though. Can you see the interior chamber from the higher windows at all? Or is it? From what you can tell, there's other floors around it,

but they're all circular hallways and other side chambers that are built around this large, domed central chamber that looks like it. As a temple, especially a temple to the Arch Heart, it would be the central place of worship and teaching. If anybody has like, can we see it? No, from what you can see, you see the hallways, but there's no real visual entry to it.

How far of a distance can you cast your mutt? 120 feet. 120 feet, okay. I can use a sorcery point to up my telekinesis to 120 feet as well. So we would have enough distance. So if you mushed the ground, I could try to telekinesis out the pillar because it wouldn't have the stability.

I can also start beating, if we really are going to go with this, I can just start beating the fuck out of the exterior. Do you want to try and do this quietly, or it doesn't matter? I think we do those first two moves fast and then it goes to hell. We're picking the fight, then. For sure. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Can I scurry to the roof? Is there a non-fight we're here to do? Is there a non-fight? I still have Spiral Climbing, but I scurry to the roof. We have the three people we're supposed to pit against each other. The voices are getting a little louder. You can compel people to do stuff.

Voices are getting a little. I know, I feel like we need to at least see doubt. The voices are getting a little louder. You can compel people to do stuff. Voices are getting louder. I know, I feel like we need to at least see doubt in their heads, right? I know. Wouldn't it be? Instead of just trying to take them out? Dropping the roof on them? I mean, that's a crazy fight, right? That is a crazy fucking fight in there.

It's a lot less of a crazy fight now. Just in the Seelie Court head, the Seelie Court guy's head, right? Don't we want to be like, We can always just walk in like, this is fucked? The voices are certainly raising a little bit. Like it's heated? Should we be rude?

Is there anything wrong with what they're saying? If you want to roll a perception check, we'll listen in. Yeah, yeah, I'll roll a perception. Sure. We could just kill and leave. Just try to hear? Yeah, try to hear. You know what, do you have anything you'd like to go? All right, go for it. Guidance. You're close to the entranceway anyway,

so roll a perception check, guys. That is 27 plus the guidance. That's a 28? You guys are smart. A 28. Oh, I can't see that. All right. So Orym, where you pick up in this conversation, which would be the time that's gone by here.

Okay, so where you pick up in the conversation, which would be the time that's gone by here. Okay. So where you pick up in the conversation, you hear, first you pick up Ludinus' voice, saying, Your absence during these crucial milestones of our Great Plan is both disquieting and telling. Time, while a flexible commodity here, does require some respect regarding our endeavors. And another voice you don't recognize inside goes,

We watch with bated breath as you and your vanguard continue to climb towards your goal unaided. Centuries of mindful plot crashing into reality with continued success. Our strength lies with staying in the shadows until the moment is right. Ludinus kicks in. I do not need your platitudes nor your dubious explanations. I bear the weight of our dealings

and the support of the court has been noticeably absent. Our involvement demands discretion after the fall of the secondary key. You allowed that to fall. All of you. You and your lords hide behind poor excuses and feigned ignorance. I know Samanar to be far too clever

to withhold without several good, selfish reasons. We believe in your dream, Ludinus, and share in your vision. Do not mistake our caution for negligence. I mistake nothing, especially your nature. If you will no longer aid us, should we fail because your master's discretion left you an absent ally, then this realm remains under their protection

and you remain kept under their balance. I shall relay this to my keeper and the court. How best might I prepare them to aid in your endeavors? Tell them I expect an assault soon. The nation's rallying will plot an advance on the quay. I will need your armies ready to deliver their uncanny ambush. Your keeper should know of what I speak. Go and be quick about it. The window closes and the cage is nearly at hand. Oh, fuck it. Let's just sit down. I would have scattered shop

and they're angry at each other. Ludinus is calling them cowards. You also hear a voice say, How I despise how challenging to communicate with the Fae. And you! Nary a word to bolster our cause with your own people. Are you truly bereft of any worth to our cause, Aethian? Daft as you are disappointing.

Does he recognize that voice at all? Is that Zathudis? That's Ludinus. That's Ludinus. Talking shit to Lord Zathuda. Zathuda. Mm-hmm. Can I peek in this top window? Just very stealthily peek in one of the upper floor windows?

Sure, you climb into the window. I've got Soda Spider Climb. I just want to peek through. I'm going to tell her that Glomglad is on the ceiling. You go in and you can see there's slits. Most of it's just a stone wall, but there's almost arrow slits every 10 feet around this hallway

that glances down and into the chamber. You can see there's smoke stains in the stone. It looks like when they used to maybe have internal flames and braziers. These were smoke reliefs that would release out, or they'd also have an incense smell to the inside here almost as you get close. So it seems like ceremonial burning of herbs

or different types of smoke would billow out, but you can glance down inside, make a perception check for me. I maybe want to know if I see this Arch Heart statue. Okay, 17. 17. Looking inside, you can see in the middle of this chamber, there are the two fountains that flank the large central pillar. 17. Looking inside, you can see in the middle of this chamber,

there are the two fountains that flank the large central pillar. You see there is, amongst all the beauty and the overgrown, partially crumbled interior of this central temple, towards the very back near the far wall, there is a single statue of the Arch Heart that just sits unassuming

against all the art that surrounds it. It's almost like of everything that's in here, there is a singular statue that's maybe 10 feet tall that feels almost dwarfed by the surroundings. I got an idea. If no one else has got one. Are we taking this down? I got a crazy idea, actually.

We all got ideas. If we taking this down? I got a crazy idea, actually. Well, we all got ideas. What's yours? Yeah. If we wait for all of them to leave, we can kill the Fae, and then it looks like they did it. It looks like the Argument happened. The message to join the attack never gets there. Seems like we just have to stop this message from being.

Exactly, so if we just wait for the dragon and Ludinus and all of them to get the fuck out of here, then we can just make this look like an ambush. As long as they don't teleport out of here. As long as they don't teleport out of here. So we just have to keep our eye out. But they did march in. The Anseelie, at least, marched in.

Exactly. You hear the ever-growing footfalls of footsteps heading towards the entrance. Our red cloaks. We don't have time for that. They're heading out and we're going to be... We can get in a fight amongst themselves. It's coming to the door. Get ready.

I'm going to cast Animate Object on the statue. Oh shit. Well, shit's going on. Okay. I'm going to cast Bless on the people next to me, which is Dorian. Oh no, no, no, it's going on. Okay. I'm going to cast Bless on the people next to me, which is Dorian. Oh no, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm going to move Orym. Orym and I guess Laudna's close.

And I can run? Oh my god. Laudna's inside, you can't see her. I'm not inside, I'm on the roof looking in. Can I get Werewolf Boy across the way? You can, yeah. Okay. Bless. What did you get us with? Bless. Bless.

And also me, why not? Can I do myself, or is it three people? For three, or unless you cast it at second level, in which case. Yeah, I can do it at second level. I also wanted to get by that, am I close to a window-ish? But from the window, you can't see the interior chamber. You can only see a hallway. If they're walking out

the front door, you should just drop the building now. You should just do the thing. Yeah. Should we do it? The lights are currently concentrating on there. You now, as you cast any object, the statue of the archer that stands there, the form of it steps off of its pedestal, and you hear,

Are you kidding me? Then there's a loud whistle, and what you don't notice is just out of sight of you, wings go moving as Glomglut was attached on one of the higher parts of the dome, lands on the ground. All of you feel this impact from inside, and the three dark fey figures

that were walking towards the entrance stop and turn. Glomglot's on the ground now? Draw their weapons and go rushing into the central chamber. Drop it. Glomglot's on the ground? Correct. Great. Okay, so. Do your thing.

I'm going to cast Transmute Rock. Just try to peek in there. Aim it through the central. Aim it through the central so it lands in the middle on the ground where there are pillars. So in order to do that, you have to get towards the entrance to see where it is. Okay.

And they're rushing back to fight the statue. They're rushing back into the central chamber, yes. Okay, great. I'm going to fly around and be right behind Fearne. Is it time to knock this fucker down? As soon as she casts the thing. All right. I'm using the shard because that's hilarious.

I'm dropping down so I can see into the chamber, too. Okay. Can you see the pillars from where we, from the central opening? Us fucking go. No. You bitches. Not from down the hall. So as you step in there,

and from where you're standing in the main entryway, you can see the central dais, you can see the two fountains. From what you saw earlier, the pillars are on the, just beyond. You have to step towards the entryway to that open chamber to see the two because they're on the inside.

Let's do it. What are you doing? Are you casting? I'm holding it until she does her thing. Yeah. I'll look up. Yeah. You hear the sounds of combat. I'm going, oh shitballs, motherfucker.

You do it. Don't do it. I'm going to go up to the roof and I'm going to cast Pass Wall. And I'm walking just, oh no, I'm exactly where I want to be. You're going to let him out? How big? No, just small. It's like this big,

just so I can see through what's happening. Okay. You do so and how wide can you make it? I can make it wide, but I'm only going to make it three feet wide, so I can see. Okay. So what you'd want to do is you'd probably want to fly into the window and do it,

because the overall ceiling has towers above it. Okay. So in order to get to the dome there, you'd have to, you could actually probably fly into where she is to look inside. You have a pin, a bit of view there. Great, then me and Laudna can both see. Okay, so you fly in where Laudna is,

glancing in that window, and you open a space there in the middle of the stone. Now you have a good view of the interior. Okay, as soon as Fearne hits. So Fearne, you're rushing inside to see where these pillars are? Or you're just hitting the ground? I'm just going to hit the ground

because it's a 40-foot cube. But I do want to get, I want it to mush the ground where there are pillars because I want to be able to topple. Right. You haven't seen the interior where the pillars are. You just know what you've been told. And from where you're standing at the doorway,

the tunnel doesn't show you where the pillars are. Okay, I'll go in. Oh. No? I fall down, though. That's the plan. That's the plan. So you get out. Pay no gain. You step down, you rush in 20, 25 feet

to get towards the entrance to this inner chamber. As you rush in, you can see here, in the center of there, you can finally have to- I'm trying to stealthily go in. Right. Yeah. Sure. Sure. You stealthily move in with nothing to hide you.

But everyone in there is momentarily distracted as in the middle of the space, there is the massive Glomglut dragon, brightened war colors on its skin is slashing at this animated stone statue of the Archheart that is currently swinging at it. How powerful is this animated stone? I'm assuming this is a...

Is this large or huge? This would be considered a large entity. Okay, 2d10 plus two damage. If it helps you to have a perspective on what you're looking at. Oh, yes. Oh shit. I don't know if you're going in or not, but at the very least,

to see what you're seeing inside. Okay, because the minute you cast this, I'm going to start knocking this shit down, so as long as you're ready to run the fuck out of there. Yeah. I'll get out of there. It's going to come down all around you. You have siege abilities, right?

Oh yeah. Great. And yeah. Oh my god. This is still brought to you by WizKids. So good. Wow. What? Oh my god. Nice.

Oh! Oh! Yep. Yep. Oh! Oh! That's all good. Yes, that's the plan! We're bringing it down! We got it, we got it.

So we're aiming for the stuff in there, or we're aiming for the stuff outside? What are we knocking down? The pillars outside? We got to bring down the ceiling in this room. We all got to go in there. No, I'm going from the outside. I'm going to start knocking this shit down.

We're not in this chamber, are we? This is an entry hall and past this is that. Yeah, bringing down the entry hall doesn't make any difference. I thought everybody was in this structure here that they're standing on. This, I thought everybody was in this structure here. This structure is the beginning of a massive structure that gets bigger from this point.

So are we coming this way? Or if I'm running in, which way am I coming in? You're coming in from this direction. Okay, great. Okay, so. To give you some perspective, this is the statue that is currently battling. Yeah, thought it was a little bit bigger than that, but.

We'll say Ludinus is back here. Shit. Oh god. This is not what I was expecting. This is a little bit of a toolkit. I'm not knocking anything down. We can bring the ceiling down, maybe. On top of us.

That's a big structure. On top of us. The entities there, those are the three dark fey that have rushed back in. Here. Three dark fey. Yeah. Oh! I really don't like any of them. I don't like any of them.

Any of them. Please just don't like any of this. Wow! Please, don't hurt me! Our perception of the scenario was a little off here. Holy shit. We got this. It's fine, everything's fine. Holy shit.

Look at him, he's so cute. So Fearne, as you step into the chamber and look down, you see this chaos happening around you as everyone is now descending on this animated statue. The statue has how many hit points? 50. 50? Yeah. The minute you glance there,

the statue gets shattered off to the side. Okay, okay, great, okay, great. Well, it kept them inside. That was my goal. I turned Well, I kept them inside. That was my goal. Yeah, I turned around. Kept them inside. So, so, so, once I, so this is like a 25-foot hallway. Yeah.

So I'm like. Okay, so. You only need to get about there before you can get there. But they still don't know it's us, right? They still don't know it's us. They don't still know it's us. The thing is, you do the mud thing, go running back.

Yes. We do the try to take down the pillars or something, and then we break it down from the outside because there's only one exit. Yeah. Once you're outside the exit, I'm going to start knocking this shit down. Just pull around.

This room is what Laudna and Imogen have eyes on, right? A hole in the ceiling. So I'm only going to try to go in a little bit and I want to shoot it to where at least one of the pillars are and towards the entrance of this front hallway. So wait. Okay.

We were thinking it was a much smaller room. We blew it. We blew it. I was explaining how this is the front way and the towers rise up here and it spreads out from there. That's okay, that's okay. We're going to figure it out. Maybe via the ground, you got to get inside.

Outside's not going to work. I can't get through that ground because it's worked stone. Oh, is that right? All the three factions think right now is that they're under attack. They don't know by who. It could still be each other, but the minute they see one of us,

we give away the goose. We have a chance to still fucking set them at odds somehow if we use our thinkers, but I don't know. Right now, if they see Fearne, they might think that it's some sort of Zathuuda fuckery. Yeah. Darth Vader and offspring.

Maybe she should just run in there and be like, Dad, I'm here! Dad, I've got your back! What are we doing, Fearne? You step up there. You're now standing in the middle of the hallway. You're about maybe 15 feet from the entrance of this chamber.

You just watch the statue of the Arch-heart get shattered into dozens of pieces against the wall from one massive tail swipe from Glomglut. There's that brief moment where everyone's still not looking in your direction. What are you doing? Okay, so in that brief moment, I'm going to shoot a transmute rock over to here because I want to at least try to get

a couple of these guys and the pillar. Our dragon has been hitting the gym since we last saw him. Yeah, that dragon is bigger, right? Yeah, it's a big one. Maybe that's his full, when he's in the fey, he's in his full form. All right, Valk. He was in the feae, he's in his full form. All right. He was in the Fae the last time.

Okay, so since it's 120 feet, if I'm in the hallway, I probably could get an eye on it. To get close enough to see where the pillars are, because the entryway is about that wide. I didn't have the full arch there. Yeah. So you'd have to get about there is where you'd be able to see the pillars.

All right. I'm going to try to run. Okay,'d be able to see the pillars. All right. I'm going to try to and then run. Okay, what's the radius on the spell? 120. Oh, for 40 feet. 40-foot radius? 40-foot cube.

Cube, okay. Sorry. So that's about that side. So it's about this distance, by this distance, by this distance. Pillars, right? Yeah, so I'd want to take out at least one of the pillars. But sort of on the side that Imogen and Laudna.

We'd be on this side, but I'd be able to see that. You'd be able to see it. I could see what you're doing and know what you're doing. Okay, so I want to try to get it around that area. Yeah. That pillar and those two. If you do that support pillar and yeah, the walls, then. Yeah. Maybe. All right.

And try to get these guys, because they'll be stuck. And if they don't pass the dexterity save, they'll be... All right, so 40-foot there, by 40-foot there, you could get those two and that support pillar in there, if you'd like. Okay. All right. Okay, okay, okay.

So in a failed save, the creatures will sink into the mud and be restrained. All righty, so you unleash the spell. All of the stone in that area suddenly and you're getting the pillar in that as well? Yes. The center, the base of that pillar, about 40 feet up, suddenly goes.

And I'm going to book it back outside. You go to turn to run. Okay. So you turn around and begin to run. Now, you've done your action and party movement to get there, so you turn around and begin to run. Right as you hear, there is a shift on the foundation of the chamber. Right as she was going.

So that pillar's broken. That one, that now is not going to, its stone is hanging in about the last 40 feet of it, or just going to. Then I'm going to try to telekinesis grip the other pillar and pull to shift it to where it makes that unstable as well. I'm also, at this point, diving underground

and heading towards underneath this chamber. Okay, you're going underneath the stone. You got it. Moving that way. Both of them are making their saving throw. Natural four is not going to do it for that one. And for the emissary that's there, natural five.

Uh-oh. Okay. Okay, okay. Both of them are restrained. Nice. All right, so Fearne, you're now turning around and running in that direction. As they both sink into the mud, looking confused,

the other fey looks around and turns, look at your direction. Are we? Oh, sorry. And shouts in Sylvan, Hey! What? And starts yelling in that direction. Glomglut, that is currently cur curled up turns back in your direction. Does he see me?

Yes. Oh yeah. Can I meet? Why yes. And that's where we're going to pick up. Oh! No! We're made.

Sheesh! It was a perfect plan. Gotta take a picture. It was a perfect plan. He's now turned around to face you. It's attacking a small mouse. I knew that it was. That's a bad dress. I also thought you were talking about

a chamber inside a chamber. Yeah. It is. I don't know. I wasn't picturing. I knew it was a secondary thing, but I wasn't picturing it that much bigger than the first one. Look at his mouth!

Yeah. Oh man. If you want to call that my bad for not being able to. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. It's absolutely not. We're hooded, you know what I mean?

Me too. Look at that dragon. Longblood's jaw. Where did that dragon mini come from? Mini. It's amazing. We had it custom made, yeah. Wow. I love him.

He's fucking so pretty. I'll make sure to post the deets of the amazing team that put that together. If we can kill Glomglot, we don't have to deal with him later. No, no, no, no, no. He's going to be my baby. We're still bringing it down.

Holy shit. I think we could still bring it down and maybe shave a little bit off. Emissary, Emissary's got to down. Holy shit. I think we could still bring it down and maybe shave a little bit off. Emissary. Emissary's got to go. We showered. First thing. With Emissary? Yeah. The Emissary.

No, I think he's got to stay. I think he's the key. The Emissary's got to survive and like. We got to get him out and we got to. And act like, yeah. We'll talk about this. We'll talk about this. We're going to fire him.

That's right, we're going to fire him. Okay, okay. Shut up. We'll plot this till next time, but we'll pick it up then. Thank you so much for joining us. We're going to fire up this ride. We're going to fire up this ride. Indeed. Okay, okay. Chat. We'll plot this until next time, but we'll pick it up then. Thank you so much for joining us. We love you very much, and is it Thursday yet? Good night.