Critical Role - C3E108 Looming

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

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Welcome back. So, last we left off, Bells Hells, after being granted one of the highest responsibilities in the days to come, had intercepted via your mother, psychically telling you of a meeting between Ludinus De Leth or his simulacrum, the Sorrowlord Zathura, and the Unseelie Court in the Fey Realm

to shore up and discuss the coming conflicts. You then traveled to the Fey Realm to intercept this communication. You slowly destroyed all the guardians on the outside of the abandoned Archheart Temple where they were having this meeting and then stepped in to talk and then ambush them.

A massive conflict ensued in which the structure of the temple was heavily fractured and then eventually set to collapse. With the Sorrowlord brought to near death, the emissary left unconscious as well. Ludinus' simulacrum destroyed and Glomglut, the fey dragon, escaped through the temple roof as it collapsed.

You all rushed to the exterior, with only most of you making it out. However, Imogen and Brayas, who were left in the rubble, found themselves protected by some unseen force and the Crumbled Temple reassembled itself and called you all into its sanctum. There, the now restored statue of the Archheart spoke to you as you were plucked from your current awareness

and brought to the Archheart's realm into communion with one of the gods of Exandria, the one that you saw in your vision of the fall of Aeor. Here you conversed. Here you were asking questions of each other, debating, and then eventually given a surprising message of intent from the Archheart. That the god of beauty, art, arcana, and the Fey seems to believe the time of the gods is done,

and wishes you all to be the harbingers of Pardothos' release, to chase the Pantheon away and begin a new age where mortals reign over their future. As that vision came to a close, you all found yourself set back into the sanctum of this temple, this shrine of gilded gifts. As you still process the moments that have just transpired,

you glance around at this quiet space, at each other, and the two unconscious prisoners that you keep here. So, what would you like to do? I forgot to take damage from that staff. Should I do that? You cast Pass Wall from the staff?

I cast Pass Wall from the staff. Then that would be 1d4 damage per? Charge. Charge, yeah. So that was four charges. Four charges. Roll 4d4 for me. What's your HP? 17. It's going to be weird.

It's fine. I can't die from it. It's impossible. Wow, what an amazing, ah! Oh my god. Oh no! Oh wow. Pretty high. Wow, what an amazing. Oh my god. Oh no! Oh wow. Pretty high. Wow, I saw half of that and that was bad.

15. I rolled 15. That's almost all fours. Why can't you do that when you're attacking? I know, why? Okay, so I'm down to two hit points, yo. Stop hitting yourself. How does everyone look as a group right now?

Are we roughed up pretty bad? Great, she did have a temple fall on her head. Also, we're in the Fey Realm, so a blade of grass could just look at you angrily and kill you. Yeah. Yeah. How's everyone feeling, all right? I feel pretty shitty, if I'm being honest.

I feel so great myself. Would you like some healing? Oh, sure. I mean, I was going to, but if you want to. We should probably share those two dates. I think we should. Yeah, of course. Maybe start there, maybe, and then we're here. How about we, you know, double team a little bit? A little tag team?

Yeah. Do you mean that the way I feel? I just mean that we're going to heal her. We know exactly what you mean. On both sides of her. No, Bryce, no. I just want... No. When we played Spin the Bottles, I just felt like there was maybe something.

There was nothing. You mean just like... No, no, I mean, I felt a little cow tongue, but that's not, it didn't... Well, sometimes it takes a while to get used to somebody. All right, I'll let him hear you. Orym? I'll take it.

It's about now that you notice the two shadows of the armored, unseelie guardians begin to step into the light of the distant hallway entrance across from the Temple Stark. Is it hypnotized? Yes, but they were only held for about a minute. the guardians begin to step into the light of the distant hallway entrance across from the temple start. At least they're hypnotized. Yes, but they were only held for about a minute.

For a bit, right. Oh shit. Yeah, for one minute. They're stepping into the tunnel, and they both stop and just stay there. Careful, it's not safe in here. Can we all gather up for a second? Just a little huddle up, a little team huddle,

and then I'll cast Mass Cure Wounds. Let's go, let's go. Slick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. That's a 30-foot radius, so I'll try to hit, I guess, everybody? Yeah. And where, Theater of the Mind,

where are we? We're outside at this point? No, you're all still inside the temple. The front hallway portion where we ran? Correct. Okay. And they're outside at this point? No, you're all still inside the temple. The front hallway portion where we ran? Correct. Okay. And they're right at the door? Yeah, they're standing right at the entryway. Everybody gets 16 hit points each.

Welcome. I'm going to, can they see all of us right now? You don't know. All you can see is the outline of them silhouetted by the exterior. I'm going to drop underground and I'm going to head to the front door and just post myself quietly

just in case they try and book it. Okay. I want to know how aware they are of the situation and if they're talking at all, even if they're at a distance, I want to read their lips. Make a perception check. Imogen, I'll give you an extra 30 points. Thank you.

That's 27. 27. They're standing still, kind of perfectly still. They'll be swaying gently, no conversation. Swaying? Like. Oh, they look a little still hypnotized. Well, this might, okay. Could be.

They seem to be just idling there. What do you mean, could be? Is it something else? Something's going on with them. We'll be right with you. Hunter's Bane, do I notice anything different about them? No, but you are surrounded by fey and fey powers and fey energies,

and there is one fey of your troop that you do not have eyes on right now. Irohint, Widowcast? Oh. Oh, can I use one of my sorcery points to give myself Sea Invisibility? Sure. All right.

By the way, while I was healing you, I just said a quick prayer. Please let the spirit of the Hells enter this one's heart. Thank you, Brains. I cast Force Cage and block the entrance. No, I'm kidding, I don't, I don't, I don't. I definitely don't. Do I see anybody? Oh, the opening chords

of Knee Deep in the Dead start kicking in from Doom 2. Do I see anything? Now that I see invisibility, can I see Ira anywhere? You do not see Ira. We're still telepathically bonded, so I would have already popped my head out outside. Do I see anything? So you glance around,

slowly emerging from the earth there, and as you look, they're both just stepping into the doorway and stopped and perched on top of the archway on the outside of the temple, just like Spider-Man edge of building, holding himself there with his elbows and knees up, glancing down and just going, and is just watching them.

They just seem to be stunned, not dissimilar to what Dorian had done to them earlier. I'll just quietly... I'm going to roll a die. I'll just come out of the earth and just sit and keep an eye on them. Okay. I'm going to approach. I'm going to stand with them.

Okay. So I can get a full look. Yeah, you walk towards that and you see this faint bit of magic that's just sparking and slightly drifting colors that are mostly immaterial in the air, and they're both just staring straight at it. And they're just inside the door? They are just at the entryway, yeah.

Cool, I'm going to slide under one of their legs and stand just outside the door. Okay. Hey. What do the rest of you do? We got to get outside, right? Yeah, I mean. Our people are out there. They can't walk away from this. Wet with the outside, right? Yeah, I mean. Our people are out there. They can't walk away from this. Wet with you.

Right? Not saying. I think we should go back to Danas. But these two, they can't be. What do they know? Can we modify their memories somehow? I can't, but. Can Ira?

Has he already? He's outside. Well, we still have telepathic bond, though. That's true, yeah. Ira, are you doing this? I'm doing a few things. Can you make these two lovely soldiers believe that lewdness turned against them?

I can do that. That would be great. He had some. Limited in my abilities. I can do it a few more times. Depends on what the utility is to you and your endeavor. Pick and choose. Should we do it to these two

and then bring the others to Nana? How many are there? Because we can buy time at Nana's. Right now, we should handle these two. Two guards and then the emissary and Dad. Emissary's more important than these guys. Can you give these both the same memory? That Ludinus betrayed them and tried to kill everyone? I can certainly try. He didn't respect the Unseelie.

I can imagine that. He had soldiers with him. Ruby Vanguard, I'm going to go in and pull a little bit of one of the capes. We'll put it in one of their hands. Should we do the emissary as well? Yeah. Yeah. That would be smart if we do.

I'm going to walk up to him, hoist him, and throw him over my shoulder, and as I walk him toward the other guards, if I cast Cure Wounds on him, it'll wake him up, right? Yep. Yeah. Okay, yeah. We'll wait to do that until I was ready. Sure. Right?

You don't want him to wake up and start struggling. Ira, do you prefer Nightmare King? Which one is it? For friends. Nightmare King. I thought so. It's a dope-ass title. It's so cool.

Did you happen to see our guest just now? Is this Kul'ka's Islands? Meaning the Sorrowlord? Yes, him. You know me, whole chit speaks and riddles that guest. I was just curious.

Nope, yep, we're good. Laudna, I don't know if you're in the mood, but tying up Daddy and gagging him might not be a bad idea. Make a deception check for me. Ooh! I suck at these. Historically.

You seem like, yeah. 18. Yeah. Okay. Not horrible. Can you do it three times? I can attempt it three times. As to whether or not it'll actually affect my targets, well, I swear, I tend to be a little resilient against magic, so.

Maybe we should start with him. I'll flop him down in the archway, sit him up next to the two guards. Good call. Yeah. Oh shit! My bad! Fuck!

I took that needle back in there. We're supposed to be a pedestrian action. Pedestrian. Do we know, above table, do we know anything about the emissary? Like what class he is or? Or might. Um.

Yeah. I mean, I know that they're. Don't even know his name. Hold, hold, hold, hold. Ivor might know the Emissary. You heard a name in their conversations, those who were closest there, Kashador. No, I can't learn class.

It's more like how they stack up in comparison to me. Just have it. Yeah. Not everyone can be as cool as you. He is bound right now. I tied him up while he was outside. Yeah. As long as Tidingag tosses so they can't cast spells.

Who's Sominard? That's the, uh. Sominar is the head, they're the leader of the Unseelig Court. It's when you want to order wine at a fancy restaurant. I want to talk to your Sominad. Sominar, and then Kashador is the? Kashador. Kashador.

Kashador? Do you mean Kashadori? I think it might help if we give a little benefit to Ira if he's going to do this spell, right? No, it's a save. It's a save. So what is it that works to destroy saving throws? Who's got Bane?

I'll Bane him. Bane all three of them. That's a check, isn't it? Are Banes against checks or saving throws? Banes are against saving throws. Yeah, Bane and Bless affect saving throws. Okay, great. I walk over, pull up my nonexistent sleeves. Bane!

Bane! I walk up, pull out my clock. You Bane them? Yes, I Bane them. With your feat? With my, yeah, it's a feat. I got Bane and Misty Step. All right.

With my feet, touched feet. It is a wisdom save against Bane? It is charisma for me. Charisma, all righty. Charisma. I'll bring this here. Charisma! What's the DC?

17. 17, all right, so. Cash door. Cash door, natural 19, resists it. Oh yeah. So they have advantage on all of these. And the two guardians. Oh, right.

That's going to be 16. One of them is affected. And the other, both of the regular guardians are affected, but the emissaries, unaffected by Bane. Okay. It'llane. Okay. That'll help. Yeah.

All right. Go ahead with the band pad. The colorful pattern begins to fade, and they both blink their eyes for a second. And Iris is, now. It's time to start fighting. Yeah.

Which first? Well, the soldiers failed it, so I think start with them. Sure. And the emissary's still unconscious. They're still out. Yeah. Which first? Well, the soldiers failed it, so I think start with them. Sure. And the answer is still on the compass. So he goes ahead and casts Modify Memory on one of them rapidly, while they're still coming out of their haze.

Somebody go ahead and roll 2d20 for me with advantage. I'm going to let you do this. With advantage? Yes. For Ira? I've been rolling 2d20. No, because they're fey. Because they're fey, they have advantage against spell effects.

So. And then a d4. Seven with advantage. Seven with advantage, okay. Nice. And then a d4. Okay, yeah, just a bane. Yep.

Minus four. Minus two. Okay, so five, and roll with advantage for the other one. Oh, the other one rolled high. 14. 14 plus... Yay, Bane!

18. Bane and Blast are just... Okay, that one just passes. Ugh. That's what it's... He's got a die. It's bonus on that one. All right, so Ira crawls across the ceiling,

like, and then drops down in front of the two of them and stands up as one rubs its eyes and looks at it. He goes, shh, it's been a long day. And puts his hand over their face for a second. Their eyes flicker and roll back for a second. Where'd they go? Where's the vanguard? Turns to the other one and goes,

What are you talking about? Where's the emissary? Okay, I suppose we should just take care of this now. Yeah. I'm going to... What does. Yeah. I'm going to... What does that mean? I'm going to psychic glance the one that passed to ask where the emissary is.

Okay. We'll wait, no, because plot-by-memory. Do we know that one of them passed? Well, if you asked where the emissary was. Yeah. We just put the portable hold outside of the hallway and just make a land. I know. I've been thinking about that. He's sent to guard the emissary was. Yeah. We just put the portable hole outside in the hallway and just make him laugh. I know. He's sent to guard the emissary,

whether he thinks it was attacked or not. I genuinely don't know which one is which at this point. Well, one said Vanguard. Which one was that? And the other one said, what are you talking about? Where's the Ames here? Well, let's kill that guy.

Yeah. I want to say, well, it's just a psychic lance. Oh. So you can't, there's no physical damage. Sure. What are you talking about? Where's the Ames here? That one. Okay.

That's a, I only have a seventh level. It's a verbal casting, okay. So it does have a verbal component. So you say something to do the lance. Yeah. No, if the named... Oh, wait. On a creature you can see within range.

Alternatively, you can utter a creature's name. If it's within range, yeah. Yeah. But you can see this one. Yeah. All right. So I can only do it at a 7th-level, because that's what I have. So that's 10d6 psychic damage. Okay.

Okay. And it's a charisma? It's an intelligence save. Intelligence. Oh, that's a 15. That fails. Okay, so go ahead and roll damage for a 7th-level psychic lance.

Oh boy. On this fucking guard! That's what I have, y'all! Might as well end it. Take care of the problem. Roll for it, roll for it. One, six, seven, eight, nine. I have so many dice, you guys.

His eyes are going to pop a million in different directions. Okay. 10. Remember Mission Impossible 3? Oh, thank you, Ethan. Yeah. Little bomb goes off in our head.

30, 34, that's not high. 34 points of psychic damage. Okay. One of these two had taken damage before, and the other had not. I'm not sure which one is which, so go ahead and roll a d20 for me. On an 11 higher.

13. 13? Okay. The one that you cast this on, it's like, where's the emissary? What are you? And just down there, and then just crumble to the ground, and the other one goes, Oh no, he had an aneurysm. It did belong!

Oh no, what happened to him? It's an aneurysm, I've seen this before. I can take care of him here. I'll drag the body. Make a deception check. Sure. Ooh, not great deception. Okay, 22.

That's pretty good. 22. They put their shield and blade up and be like, what's going on? Uh-oh. Where's the emissary? He's right here. We're taking care of him. We were trying to save him. The vanguard tied him up.

Are you okay? In Ira's head, I'm going to go, can you fucking mind more of the emissary? So he thinks he was tied up by the vanguard? I-Ira, who's standing in the hallway, just watching this transpire, fingers folded and watches the soldier walk by and shivers as it walks by Ira

to head towards the tied up emissary that's been dragged across the ground and gives you a nod. Oh, okay. Someone roll 2d20 for me. Oh, we got to wake up the on-screen first. With advantage. Well, no, is he doing it, went for them unconscious?

Is it possible to do it unconscious? Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, do you want me to roll for this again or does somebody else want to roll? Or I'm looking at you. Whoever wants to. No, if it works while he's out, then. again or does somebody else want to roll? Or I'm looking at you. Whoever wants to. No, if it works while he's out, then.

Wait, what am I trying to hit? You're trying to roll really low. With advantage or disadvantage? With advantage. With advantage? 12, pretty low. Is he baned? No, he succeeded against the ban. Yeah.

12 rolls. Hmm. Does he succeed? I said low, Marisha. I know, that what that is. Does he succeed? You said low, Marisha. Fuck. I know, that's pretty bad. That's pretty mid. That was a 19. Okay, so.

The guardian walks up towards the emissary and has his blade out and starts going in to start cutting the ropes for you. And is keeping eyes close on all of you. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Oh my goodness. Cash a door. Do you need help?

Do we not know if this worked or not? No, we don't. Do I bring it back around? Are you okay, sir? What's your name? Oh. He glares at you. This individual seems deeply untrusting of all of you Are you okay, sir? What's your name? He just glares at you. This individual seems deeply untrusting of all of you

and is now panicking to try and get out of here as soon as possible. Reaches into a pouch and pulls out some moss and jams it around their palm and crinkles something in it, sets it down and places it upon the wounds in the corner of Kashador's mouth. Kashador flicks her eyes open. Is there anything we can do to help?

The vanguard, they've heard us to. We drove them off. Goes ahead and sits the emissary up, and the emissary up, the emissary. Whisper something to the guard. Can I read it? Make a perception check. Well, I can read lips. I'm observing feet. It's a 31. He says, 31. Says,

on a three count, push and run. Push and run? Yes. Didn't work. Didn't work. Go for it, go for it. The guard stiffens up for a minute. Where's Gage? It's okay. You're clicking on the stone in the ground.

No, it takes a minute for me to get in. Oh. I'm going to immediately, the guardian spins around with the shield and does a loud push. I'll Thorn Whip him. Okay. So the one that was closest was you, since you walked up and said you wanted to help heal.

Yeah. Right? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. All right, he's going to try and shield bash you back. You go ahead and try and hit him with a Thorn Whip. Go for it. Okay. I'm trying to get his legs and trip him. Mm-hmm. I'm going to do this one.

Oh, 27. 27, definitely thorn whips him. Okay. He rolled a three. So he goes, try and bash you with the shield, and you just whip him around the ankle and pull his feet off of him. Hits the ground and gets dragged a little bit towards you.

Gets back up under his feet. I was going to already ready to charge. Okay, so you go ahead and. Fuck. Did this just completely backfire? Yeah. Yeah. I think it did. You might also not know where he is.

Yeah, we'll try and hurt him. Should we try and talk to him? No. No. Is he prone? The emissary. Yeah, she's the only one? No, no, she pulled him towards him and he got back. I just got back from his feet.

Is he still tied up? I'm going to let them go. No. I'm going to hit him and I'm going to try and knock him down also. Guard or? The guard, the one who just healed Bastiaire. Okay.

Because we haven't, yeah. So that's a... Somewhere. Oh boy, that's a nat 20. So yeah, so that's a... Somewhere. Oh boy, that's a nat 20. So yeah, that's... This is going to really hurt. This may knock him out. I don't know where he's at.

I have an extra 2d6. Oh boy. And then also doing a Chaos Burst, so hold on. We're attacking the guards so far, right? Yeah. The Emissary's just sitting there? Is he still trying to? The guards and the Emissary. Where is Athudah?

Where is Athudah? On the map. 30. On the map. Where did we leave him? You all haven't left the temple yet. Yeah, he's in the temple. So Athudah would be in the temple, right?

Unless you guys pulled him out for whatever reason. No, he's still in there. 44 points of damage on the first attack. Do we see him? 44 points of damage. And I'm also, he has to make a strength save. Really quick. That would be a 19?

No, sorry, 20. All right, he's fine. And then another hit if he's still standing. Barely. Okay. I'm going to try, if he looks real bad, I'm going to go for knockout damage. Well, no. You're emissary or guard?

The guard. What are you doing? I'm going for fucking... What are you doing? I'm going to kill the guy. Go for it. Roll damage. I'm going to play a revenge Widow. What are you doing? I'm going to kill the guy. Go for it. Roll damage.

I'm going to play a revenge. I'm going to play a revenge. I mean, honestly, it doesn't matter. He's going to go unconscious anyway. Knock him out. Just knock him out. I'm going to zip in there, and I'm going to whap the emissary in the head with the Caleb Widow Gas Sending Stone

and knock him back out. Okay. 17. Yeah, that hits. I will say at the last minute, fuck it, I'll go for knockout. We can decide that later. If this goes down. That's 24 points of damage just then.

I was like, fuck, and I'm just going to knock him on the head. Yeah, this guy, crack! You hit the other guard. As soon as he gets up off the ground from Fearne, throwing him forward, as soon as he gets back up, the first hit cracks in the back of the armor.

He's like, the spray of blood and the inability to inhale from just the sheer shock to the back of the shoulders. And the second hit knocks him heavily onto the ground and he's just out. Yep. Can Chet and I tie up Zathu'dar? Sure, well, because now we're back in conflict,

let's go ahead and roll initiative. Oh god! This is not a massive scale thing, Yep, Zathu Daal. Sure, well, because now we're back in conflict, let's go ahead and relinquish it. Oh my god! This is not a massive scale thing, so we're just going to do theater of mind, but. Oh! This combat is brought to you by WizKids. Bell's Hell's box set, available now.

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Where has this been? I know. So what, Dorian, Ashton, what? Dorian? Orym Ashton? Dorian, Orym, Ashton. Laudna. Laudna. Here, I'll tell you what. Dorian, what are you doing?

This rest of the mission might not even matter. Dorian, Ashton. Yeah, yeah. I'll... You guys are really high on that. Rope's cut. I will just watch you donk him out. No, I didn't get to do that. That didn't happen.

Ashton just knocked the hell out of me. I knocked the other one out. Oh, okay. Well, I was right next to him, like, ready to heal him before his guy did, so I'm just kind of, like, going to slither up behind him and just try to put him in a rear naked choke

and just grapple him. Yes. Okay, so you're just, all right, you're going to go ahead and grapple. Straighten the strength just to grapple. Go ahead and make an athletics check. This is going to be against Cachador's acrobatics. That would be athletics, 25.

Oh, you definitely succeed. So as the emissary, Cachador, sees this charge happen, gets up to go for a sprint, sees his friend get knocked the fuck out, tries to juke to the side a little bit while looking at this, doesn't see you come up from behind and just. And you've caught them now in a full grapple.

Yes. Shh, shh, shh. Yeah. All right. It's okay. Orym, you're up. Because you slid behind him, and if I run direct, that means I'm flanking. When I get there, I flea jump at him

with the Cael Brutal Guest Sending Stone in hand and beam him in the head for a 30. 30 to hit with a rock. With a rock. Goes limp in your grasp immediately. Combat's over. Oh! That went well.

Zathuda. So me and Chet are back-to-back in initiative, so we're going to run over and start tying up Zathuda. All righty. I'm going to keep an eye on Daddy again. And Mouth. Dad's awake. Is Dad still unconscious?

Dad's still unconscious. All right. Hands, feet, head. It's only been a few minutes. I'm thinking we move this get-together to Nana's sooner rather than later. Yeah, as fast as we can. Because it's her turf. They're not going to go anywhere once we're there. And she has the means. Who are we dragging? The means. She has the means. The means.

Now, don't forget, y'all. We took spiritual horses here. It's a bit of a trek back to Nannas. That's a good point. Oh. Do we not have another way over there? We could try and teleport? Mm-hmm. With a staff? Yeah. It's time to be your planer.

It's out of charges. It has four charges left. Teleporting takes eight. Oh. Seven. That's hard. Ira? Yeah? What's the best way back to Nannis? That way.

Don't suppose you'd want to give us a lift or a shortcut or a... Phone a friend? Yep. Well, if I hadn't spent all of my abilities manipulating the minds of those you just killed and knocked out, then maybe I'd have a little more at my disposal.

That's very fair. Am I close to the outside? Can I just peek outside real quick? Sure. Can I see if I can see Gloomglad? Make a perception check. Okay. Yeah, where are we going with our hair?

Sounds like two problems. Anyone have a polymorph? We're not going to get a druid? 29. So I'm going to hoist him on my shoulder. I'm going to. If you tell me exactly what to do, because I'm not so certain.

No sign anywhere. No sign anywhere. I can take him by myself. Both Zathuta and the Emissary? No, most likely just myself and one more. Just fireman carry for miles? No, he's got his horse. Ah, yeah.

But you can turn into a magical flying creature. Yeah, I can. And take a flying creature. Yeah, I can. And take a couple people. Yeah, I can. Yeah, yeah. For how long? Like a shoebill. Do you think Nanna would be able to help us if we reached out to her?

Maybe. I could try. She could probably come and get us. I can try talking to her. She might have a quicker method for us to get back. Yeah, that's true. I'm going to send a message to Nanna Mori. Okay.

Split the party. Yeah, you could have a goaine. Okay. In the favor, yeah. Who's counting? I'll count. I got you. Okay. We may need some help getting back to you with a couple of prisoners? Hostages?

Friends. For you to have some fun with. 11 total. Including us. 12, yeah, 12. Yes. 12 people total. 12? I don't know, did we do it? Eight of us, Ira. Eight of us, Ira. Emissary and the other soldier.

Emissary soldier and the other soldier. That's 11. That's 11. That's 12. Wait, what's our math? That's 11. 11. Well, pretend I said 11. No. Okay. 11 to 12.

And the dungeon master. One friend might show up. I don't want to tell you that. It's good of you. Ira's nine, and then the emissary in Zathuda is 11. One plus two to this one. First dad. Who? Right, first dad is Zathuda.

Oh, Zathuda. Are you taking one of the guards as well? The one living guard, or what are we doing with the living? No, not living. Oh, the living guard. Yeah, we got one guard that we have not killed yet. I'll just kill him. The living guard. We don't have to take him with us,

but he doesn't have to die. It would be more convincing if there were two of them alive instead of a sole survivor. Oh, we know. I agree, actually. Let's take him if we can. So 12. 12. So the number was right.

Bring them all to Nana. Unless somebody has, yeah. If she can do it. I mean, I could get there on the horse. It would just be slower. Oh, that number was right. Bring them all to Nana. Unless somebody has, yeah. If she can do it. I mean, I could get there on the horse, it would just be slow. Oh, that's true. I could throw a body on the haunch and fly and just be behind you.

But you'd be fighting Glomglot because he might come after you. Let's see what Nana says. I could climb up and down. That's right. Call Grandma, she'll save us. He wasn't. Yeah.

Well, dear. That's quite a few people to remotely bring home. I could try flying that way and grabbing a few, but even I have my limitations. That's fair. That's fair. I can fly. I can fly for five hours. I wish one of us had that ability to do what Keyleth does

and open up a tree, damn it. I know. That would be so great. That would be so cool. I can open up a tree, but we can't walk through it. Not without a couple of hours. Why don't we send? Yeah, why don't we send a few with Nanamori and maybe Dorian, and then the rest of us can meet you there.

I can fly some people. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, so maybe fly. We'll split some people. Yeah. Yeah, sure. So maybe fly. We'll split the party. You guys go and we'll meet up. So Dorian and the emissary, Fearne and Daddy. Take the prisoners. Yes.

And then is Nanna going to come? We should have her come, right? Well, not if we're trying to fly to meet her. No, and then you guys will just fly. I mean, Nanna could probably... Another idea on Fearne and Daddy. If Daddy is attached to Glomglad or vice versa, Glomglad's going to be looking for Daddy,

unconscious or otherwise, so if Nana can take, Daddy should go with. Okay. Yeah, let's. Okay. Okay, I'll send another message then. I'll be mildly useless in a few minutes, in a 30-. High value target.

We're willing to split up. As many as you can take would be helpful. How long would it take you to get here? Man, I'm here for you to get here. Man, I'm over here. Donut! Love you. Love you.

It's all right, big dog. Just seeing if I can hear her. If I leave now about an hour, I can carry about three comfortably. Oh, that's good. Four at a burden. Apologies for the smell. Oh, gross.

So we take a little rest. Yeah. Heal up, wait for Nanna. Let's trust these fellas up real good. And then we stay in the temple. That seems like a smart idea. Yeah. Does there actually, before we stay in the temple, does it look like, are there any other buildings nearby

that look, just in case Glomglut comes back to the scene of crime? Yeah, you know what? I'll flea jump my way up to the top of the Archheart's Temple and get as high a view as I can of the surrounding territory and see if I can see Glomglatt,

if I can see any other threats that we're unaware of, any other buildings. Sure. Make an acrobatics check for me. Sure. That is a 28. 28. 28. Leaping from roof point to roof point. And it's odd because each landing,

you're landing on crumbled rock and sections of broken roof that have been reforged and reformed by the Archheart's power, you presume. So with each landing, you're almost expecting visually for it to crumble beneath you as you hit, but it's sturdy as it's ever been. You get to the very, very top and clutch

one of the two spires that marks the top of the temple. As you glance down, you can see the full scope of the abandoned and overgrown village around you. Make a perception check. I run my thumb along another crack in that spire that I'm holding onto, remembering just how unsettled and unsettling that encounter was.

That is a 25. Yeah? Yeah. 25. 25? No sign of Glow and Glut. There are some other clusters of fey birds that are doing perimeter in the distance and a few other shapes in the distance,

but nothing that matches your memory of the massive fey birds that are doing perimeter in the distance and a few other shapes in the distance, but nothing that matches your memory of the massive fey dragon. I think back to the group. I'm going to stay up here for a bit in case anything appears on the horizon. Call me if you need me. Gotcha, gotcha. We might as well go down here, then.

Yep. Yeah. Okay. So you all begin taking a short rest here as you wait. Yes, please. About 10 minutes into the short rest, you see a bit of movement coming from Atheon Zathutah. And glancing over, you see an eye open. He turns his head over.

Knock him out? I think so. Okay. He's very powerful. I'm going to knock him out. Knock him out? Go ahead and make an initiative roll for me. Oobly. Oh god.

I'm going to back up behind Bray as well. 13. 13, okay. And go ahead and make an attack roll to knock him out. I don't either. I don't either. What is that? That's an 18. He is prone, so you have advantage

because he is on the ground. Oh yeah, yeah. Do you have advantage? I have advantage? He is prone and tied up. He is restrained. There are multiple reasons why you have advantage. 13, 13.

Oh, okay. I really can't read these. There are multiple reasons why you have advantage. 13, 13. Oh, okay. I really can't read these. Those are tough to read. 25. 25, yeah. So as he comes to consciousness and looks over in the direction towards the rest of you, there's a, oh no!

He's out. He's got to get out of that. There's just a stick cut here. Green damage. Yeah. Yeah, that looked like it. Then I'll stabilize him just to make sure that he doesn't die.

Shit. Just so much brain damage being caused. While we rest, I will take a moment to summon Spirit of Death. Okay. It says it's somebody that I've killed before. I don't know. I'm sure I've killed somebody that she killed.

I'll make it Bordor. That's so dark. Mm-hmm. Whoa. Okay. But also, I love Utkash and I miss him. True. So what are you, it is a... Spirit of the Dead, do you say?

Spirit of, Spirit of Death. Oh, of Death, okay. My last fifth-level spell. I'm just going to have him pop out. I'm going to be like, Hey, how's it going? Will you haunt this guy? Sofudda?

Then I'm going to have him haunt Sofudda. Just, that's amazing. I need you to babysit him. All right. So as Bordor's spirit emerges and looks over you and goes, I need you to babysit him. All right. So as Bordor's spirit emerges and looks over you and goes, Really? Oh my god.

It's so good to see you. Is this the? Can we see this? Yeah, you see this spirit apparate. Oh my god! This is the guy! This is the guy! This is the guy! What are you doing? This is what made you go home.

Yes. He kind of tipped me over the edge a little bit. Yes. Somebody roll a saving throw for Zathura. He has advantage. This is a... At advantage, 16 I rolled. You always roll so high.

No, I don't. I fail all the time. What kind of save is this? Well, my spell's three. I feel like your average for failing is much lower than my average for failing. Especially with that die. That die seems to be good. Oh, I see.

No, you just summon the spirit. There isn't a save it makes. No, I summon the spirit and I can tell it to haunt a creature. While the target is haunted, me and the spirit sense the direction and distance to the target, if it is on the same plane of existence. The target remains haunted until it dies,

the spirit disappears, or the spirit uses this action again. Weirdly, the one getting on the End of Beyond is entirely different. Weird. Spirit of Death, you said? Spirit of Death. Fourth level? Fourth level.

Did it change in the? Spirit Halloween. Update. Restructuring. Spirit Halloween. You might have. I'll go by yours, because it's much more, it has more utility and it's more interesting to me. So all right, so the spirit drifts over Zathura

and you walk for a moment as Zathura's breath becomes visible, just the very temperature around him begins to drop and the spirit embraces his unconscious body and then vanishes within. You see the teeth beginning to chatter on the unconscious Sauri Lord. You finally managed to creep me out. Don't do this.

Just to pitch here, just to pitch. You know me, I love lying. If Nannamori can't do this mind-bending trick because Ira couldn't do it, no offense, Ira, what if we staged a little bit of a play? Like we wake up Zathuida for a second and he sees the vanguard attacking and then we knock him out again.

Then we wake him up again and then he sees another glimpse of more stuff happening in front of him. We knock him out again. Just a few glimpses of a play that we put on, and then the third time we wake him up, he's like, oh my god, I saw everything. It was crazy. The Vanguard were here.

He believes it. That'll work with the Emissary. I think Zathuda. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant the Emissary. Yeah, I'm fucking all for it. Maybe the god, too? Give him multiple concussions in a single hour? It seems like. How do we factor into the story?

That might make it more believable, you know? Some of us would be fighting with the vanguard! We could put on the key, the robes. But some of us slapped them in the face with a hammer and hit them with a rod. Sure, we can disguise ourselves, right? There's hoods and robes. I can disguise myself, magic. Those are the future things they'll witness,

but they've witnessed past things that involve some of us. Then maybe the ones that attacked him put the fucking cloaks on. But they'll still remember. I guess I popped out from the roof. I guess so, yeah. They'll still remember the... We could show us killing you.

You could die. Yeah. I don't know. I feel a little nervous setting them loose to potentially blab. I'm a terrible actor, too. I can use Geish twice total. Remind me again what Geish does. It is a commanding. Isn't it Great Smite?

Geish? No, it's not Geish. I got hammered for that one. I got lit up for that. You got hammered for Geish? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well. They said it was gej. It's a com, I can.

Whom said it was gej? The internet. Well, they're always right. I mean, the thing is, it really should be spelled a little differently. Gej, right. You can spell it a little differently. I can issue a command to a creature who can hear me,

and they have to do it. If they fight against it, they take a massive amount of damage, but it would be better if we had a softening story ahead of it to make it more believable. So, but I could do it to the emissary and the guard. Okay. Okay. Okay.

But that doesn't change their mind. It just compels them to do something. They just have to tell. They're just being forced. And then as soon as they do it, though, can't they, aren't they free of it? Wait, but if his command to the guard, for instance, if his command was,

try to get to the material plane, and that's all he can do for the rest of his life. He can't go tell other people anything. I don't know. It can't take that long to get to the Material Plane. It does last for 30 days. 30 days. So I take care of him for a while.

My command to the emissary would be something along the lines of, convince the Unseelie to lay down their arms. Every single one. By 30 days, it'll hardly matter. What is it? What's the same amount? We'll all be dead by then, and we'll be living in the third circle of hell.

Negative. No, that's positive. That's where I want to go. Oh, oh, oh, there we go. Shoot higher. Go for the first circle of hell. Really, you deserve it. Rents are crazy. Wisdom 16. Demonic.

Wisdom 16, and we still don't have a bane on this. So it may not work. I mean, I could bane him. I could help with one save. I could help. Let's try and bane all three of them. Okay, I bane all three. All three? I thought we killed one.

Do we want to do the story thing first? All right. So for the emissary, natural 20, they succeed. Fuck! Is it a charisma save on you as well? The guard. Charisma save.

That's going to be a 17 on the other guardian. Fail. And then on Zathuda, a 14. Fail. I'll go to you. I guess I could try again on the emissary, because the emissary is the one we want, right? It has to be the emissary. I'll go to you. I guess I could try again, because the emissary is the one we want, right? It has to be the emissary. I don't think you can.

Double check, I think you can only try and bane a creature. It's a concentration, so I would have to drop this and try again, but the emissary is the one we want. Oh yeah, because it's a concentration. You can keep trying to bane something until it works. You can keep trying to bane something.

I will bane again. Okay. Emissary fails! Yay! Four and a one with advantage. Sorrowlord, natural 20 with advantage. That's fine. The other guardian, that's going to be a 19.

But the emissary is bane. We got the one. We got the one. All right. We can try and convince. That's a really good command. Yeah, I like it. If we only care about the emissary, I can try it twice.

Maybe we do the knock him out, wake him up, knock him out, wake him up, and then when we wake him up on the last one, then you do geish. Actually, I don't think we need to, I think we can just tell him do whatever it takes to keep them out and he'll make up his own convincing story.

The only thing is, whatever we do can have no chance of failure because we are trying to stop an army from showing up at the moment. He might sacrifice himself to get the honest truth across, which is... Yeah? Like, we're relying hard on his self-preservation.

He'll have to do whatever it takes. They also have, they may have mages among them that could dispel such things. They would have to know, though. If they knew? If they knew, if they knew. And he would... How long has it been? How long until Nanamoia gets here? He would have to be very, very clever. We're in the middle of a short rest, if they knew. He would. How long has it been?

How long until Nanamoor gets here? He would have to be very, very clear. We're in the middle of a short rest, right? Correct. I'd say it's been probably nice. 40 minutes. Okay. The perfect combo is Modify Memory. That's the perfect combo, to where he believes it,

and he's not fighting against the command. And Ira doesn't have another Modify Mem, right? No, Ira's tapped. I'm not a tasker. I mean, we could put a memory in his head, but not have him do what we want. It's 10 minutes. So there's the time when the fight was going on,

and there's the moment when we beamed people in the head, and those are split apart. Oh, yeah. More than 10 minutes. Yeah. Unless you do it at a really high level. Yeah. The higher level you do it at a really high level. Yeah. The higher level you do it, the farther back you can take it.

I... I shrink down to normal size at this point, if we're 40 minutes at all shrinkage. Fuck. Hate it. So I can do Phantasmal Force on him. Okay. Okay. And make him see.

Which makes him, it lasts for up to a minute, craft an illusion, takes root in the mind of a creature you can see within range. They have to make an intelligence saving throw. But on a failed save, they see a object, creature, phenomenon, whatever, and they believe it. Okay.

So he would, for a minute. For a minute. Backstory. They only believe, for a minute. Backstory? They only believe it for a minute or forever. Well, well, the target is affected by the spell of the target. It treats the phantasm as if it was real. It rationalizes and blah, blah, blah. An affected target is so convinced,

it can even take damage. What does the Emissary look like? The Emissary is a pale, gray-skinned fey elf, long, exaggerated ears, sallow cheekbones. The eyes themselves have almost like a, an almost sky blue to white color to the irises.

I know. The teeth are somewhat sharpened into points. What about Laudnair? What if you put on the emissary's clothes and just be the emissary for the rest of your life? Just go back and pretend to be him for a while. And we'll kill the real one. That feels like a gross underuse of my time.

The emissary is beginning to stir. Oh, Jesus. Quick, put it on a flame! Somebody put it on a flame! Above the table, above the table. I'm not sure it is longer than 10 minutes. And if that's true, it's above table and not Orym,

that means that the emissary's expiration is past. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Like a bad can of soup. But the guard was hypnotized and missed everything and came back, so he's only had a few moments. So you could make any memory that he's the one to focus on. Okay, I'm Orym again.

Wait, who's the one to focus on? The guard is the one who had a point of memory. The guard the one to focus on. Okay, I'm Orm again. Wait, who? The guard is the one who really make him believe? Who did? We should focus on that guy and just kill the emissary. Well, those two could be nanas or, but we can't, unless you hit the emissary for two. If the guard goes back and tells this story, that's just as good as the emissary

going back and tell this story. Yes. All right, I'll kill him. No! Before the emissary going back and tell the story. Yes. All right, I'll kill him. No! No! Before the emissary stirred, I did want to give him a little pat down, see what's going on. Sure, make an investigation check. See if he has anything in his pockets,

some orders. I have put on a ruby vanguard cloak. You got it. We're going to do the play. Shit. Oh, I'll disguise self and become Ludinus. Ludinus. Yeah, good call.

And then while everybody's doing a costume change, I'm just nervously tooting my flute, and everybody, you can have them do Song of Rest. So since we did a short rest. Give me the staff. Oh yeah, I'm going to give the staff of Dark Odyssey to check. So you can actually use it, right? I'll tune to it. Thanks.

With Phantasmal Force, it doesn't necessarily say that once the spell stops, that they just stop believing what they saw. Right, just the illusion is no longer present. The illusion's no longer there. Okay. So we could try it, and it could have Ludinus be like,

fuck this. He's already there. Oh, I could be somebody else. I can be Ruby Vanguard. Ruby Vanguard, you could make me. But we wouldn't be able to hear Ludenist. We'd only be able to see Ludenist. It would be motion capture. Yeah, like a CGI movie.

So wait, where's Ludenist? Use those tennis balls. This seems like it's upping the difficulty. How about we just? Too many moving parts. You be Ludinus, I'll be Ruby Vanguard, and we'll just have a conversation about everything's gone to hell,

the Unseelies are going to know your plan, and we got to kill them. Yes. It shows in 15 minutes. No one's off book. I agree. Song of Rest, if you want it, if you have one or more hit dice, you can get an extra d10 hit points back.

I know we're all ding-donged. Yeah, well, we haven't gotten our short rest yet. So I haven't. We're part way through. Oh, okay. I'm going to do it in case. If you took it, it's fine. What's your investigation check? Investigation, okay. 12.

12. Okay, yeah, you find quite some bits of really nice jewelry that the emissary is wearing. Two gold rings set with some beautiful gemstones. Each one's worth about 150 gold. The other's worth about 300 gold. I'm not going to take anything. I was specifically looking for things in his pockets.

Orders from above. Unfortunately, you don't find anything. I'm going to leave the jewels. I'm going to leave the jewels and the gems. You've adorned the robe. Are you transforming into something? I'm transforming into Ludna Stileth and getting into character.

All right. Should I throw on a robe? Yes, throw on a robe. If you're envisioning to throw on a robe. I'm going to robe, I'm going to robe. I don't believe in any of this, throw on a robe. If you're envisioning to throw on a robe. I'm going to robe, I'm going to robe. I don't believe in any of this, but. He knows that you're Zathutis' daughter.

You can't be in this play. Well, I'm going to cover my head. No, get out of here. Okay, okay, I'm going to step out. I'm going to stay behind. I'm going to rip off the clothes again. You can't be in this play. What about you? You're a good actor.

Hmm? Yeah, you're an actor. Who said I was a good actor? Because we played, we did an episode. I've been riding on charisma for years. I already walked out of this scene. I am out of this shit. We're the performers of the group. Yay. Nope.

Yeah, deception. I'll be an extra. What are we saying? You're saying that you wanted everyone to die. You hate the Unseelie. But we've left him alive for seven years. Everything's gone to shit. This is so stupid.

Too many of the guards were surviving. I had to take them out. Just watching from the corner. All right, tell me when he's awake. He's going to get knocked out, that's the plan? In a second, after he sees a little bit. Get ready to knock him out. But wait, hold on, I hate this plan,

but what if you monologue for five seconds and then I jump you and then he gets knocked out? Okay. Who's knocking him out? Who's knocking him out? Ashton's the knockout. But then one of us should die to make it look like we've lost someone. Yeah, sure. And we're fighting against.

Wait, oh dang. Not me to die. Okay, I'm so confused now, it's a lot. The emissary is slowly coming to consciousness once more. Let's do it, let's do it. So, eyes open up. Everything's gone according to plan, Ludinus. You mean all of the unseelie guards have been taken out? Yes, we took them all out.

There was a little bit of chaos at the end there, but... And you left the emissary alive. So far. I'll take care of him. It will be my great pleasure. I just told him to stop. Your schemes are at an end! Wait, no! As soon as Orym enters for his scene,

the emissary is unconscious. I was literally standing behind him ready to knock him out. Why was the fuck was I there? This is because it's called the Lodin. Hold on, hold on, continue your scene, please. You were cut off. Wait, did we knock him out?

No, hold on, no, no, no, continue your scene. Your schemes are an end, Dalet. It ends now. No, not Bell's Hell, Dalet! Not in this realm or any other. No! I try to bean Brayus I stir the illusion in the head. I really think you should have knocked him out.

This is getting weird. Okay. Oh, you knocked him out. Yeah. I just want them to do the scene. Because you don't know. I feign getting hit. He's out, he's out! No, I stab you. Oh!

Okay, okay. You're illusionist. Now I peek. Did he buy it? You look over and he's just unconscious and Dorian's back. Damn it, Dorian! I'm sorry, I think I jumped my cue.

I thought mu-ha-ha-ha was the end of the scene. No, that felt like a good end. It was okay. I think he might've gotten illusionist. And then that was it. That's fine. It's chaos. Fog of War.

He can wake up again and see you on top of me choking me. Or something. Should we roll a deception check? We're all just defeated by a rehearsal. I'm just pointing out, you are all defeated by a rehearsal. If we just try to rehearsal, it means the real thing's going to be amazing. Just give me the cue to when to bring the lights back on.

So I would like both Imogen and Brayas to make deception checks for me, please. Of course, we inspired ourselves before this. No, we did not. Obviously, and she guided me. Yes, Guidance. Is this for the fooling of the permanent fooling? I'm going to say, because you threw off your robe and ran out of the room before any of this started,

Guidance will not apply to this. Sure, of course not. Oh shit, sorry, that's true. Can I give Brayas advantage because I definitely stabbed you? You know if you stabbed him, I would've gone through the disguise. Yeah, but it's still blood.

Okay. That's part of the deception, so it does not give him advantage. Okay. What did you roll? I rolled a 20. A total 20? Total. Okay.

I'm going to roll a three. I know, I rolled a really low three. I rolled 17. Okay. We just keep trying and whiffing here. Oh, and that's a 19, of course. Okay. So Emissary's unconscious.

What's act two going to be? Chet, how you doing? Yeah, choking me out. Chet's taking a nap. Drag Chet over, he'll look dead. Oh yes! Oh yeah, that's good, that's good. Does anybody have a little,

can I take blood off of something else and smear it on him? Take some of my blood, just stab him. Yes, yes, thank you. You're usually covered in it anyway. I think you're probably fine. I'll hold Chet's sleeping, unconscious body. He'll just be like,

come back to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this one's good. I'll be deep in the background, though, so it's background action. Nobody knocks out the emissary but me. Are we clear? I'll be lights up, you be lights down. Okay, what is the end of the scene, motherfuckers?

Choke, choke, choke for five seconds and then I'll come out. Yeah, it's just real fast. It just needs to be a blip. He needs to not. This is a vignette. It's confusing. It should be confusing. I want to see someone drop unconscious. I'll do that. I'll drop unconscious.

Just a blink. Inspire me, please. Sure. And I'll inspire you. Okay, thank you. You're doing great. We should have been inspired, really. There's really direction around here, my god.

Actually, you inspire her. I'll doing great. We should have been inspired, really. We should really direction around here, my god. Actually, you inspire her. I'll inspire me. Okay. Places? You can't inspire yourself. I'll inspire you. Give me that. Okay. I'm doing a six.

You both are doing great. Places! Wait, it's a six? Yeah. Okay. Oh god. What are you doing? I have to go. Ready?

Yes. Hold on, I'm going to sense memory. Oh, all right, disguise self again. Okay. What do you see? What do you smell Hold on, I'm going to sense memory. Oh, I disguised myself again. Okay. What do you see? What do you smell? Oh, I'm going to, ah. Oh shit, can I do this way? Yeah, I have not said, I have not said, I have not said.

I'm going to fly up, just so I look like I'm doing bad-ass things. It'll be action for you, and then I'll say now for everybody else. Ready? Okay. Action. Cure wounds, now. Damn you, Daleth. Oh, I would have gone with it. Ready? Okay. Action. Cure wounds. Now. Damn you, Daleth!

I would've gone away with it! I'm sorry! I would've killed all the other Seelings! And got the heroic! Oh. My grandchildren. Cut! I slap Reyes. Ow! Scott, I'll let that slide.

All right, last chance. I only have one cureure Wounds left. Are we really? How did that one go? It seemed to go okay. Wait, I still don't understand why. He has all of the other information already. I'm curious about what's happening.

We're softening him up to give him the command. Because this is ridiculous? Yeah. This is why people to give him the command. Because this is ridiculous? Yeah. This is why people are afraid of the theater. What, is he rolling Deception now? No, he's rolling Perception. Oh, Perception? Correct. You have to roll Deception. Oh, so a straight?

Clearly not the first one. Because you are in the process of trying to perform. Thank god, I thought he was asking me to do Deception. 23. 23, okay. Mine was 29. Oh. Better. For deception? Sure, go for it.

You've got? Shut up, I know. That would be, okay, that's good. 11 plus 15. Okay. 11 plus 10, that's a lie, 21. Okay. My persuasion's higher.

All right. He is unconscious once more. What do we do? Yeah, that's a lie, 21. Okay. My persuasion's high. All right, he is unconscious once more. What do we do? Yeah, what's Act Three? We got to tie up the- Just Gaius! Just Gaius! I think it's Gaius. Gaius at this point. But Ludinus has to get away. You have to get away. You can't be dead in this. No, we want the third act hanging.

What happened? He doesn't know. How about- It could be an edgy. Keep the mystery. What if Ludinus, you attack all of us and we fall down? I'm with you. I should also fall down. This is how you ruin Donnie Dark.

I think you should really make it clear what your objective is. What if I get killed and I just lay there? It's like a field of destruction. I've killed Orym. Yes. I've killed my own guard? Say it. No, Bell's Hells would have killed me.

You hear a little sound of a and you glance over and the ropes that held Lord Zathura on the ground are now empty. What?! What?! No, I've been standing with him! Shit, but I didn't tell you that. I've been standing with him!

I just got too involved in the show and I didn't see it. And a burst of shadow. Son of a fucking. See invisibility? Anybody got it? I am just going to be doing my best to like. No, I'm sure he just bamfs. Chetney, you took his blade last time. Oh!

You've seen him do that before. We know where he went. We saw him before. He is haunted. Yep. Wait, so if he's haunted, you always know where he is? I do know where he is. He's just outside of the temple. He's it. He is haunted. Yep. Wait, so if he's haunted, you always know where he is? I do know where he is. He's just outside of the temple.

He's just outside of the temple. So do you want to follow him? What are we going to do? Okay. I Misty Step out to him. Do you point out which direction? Do I need to follow you? Yeah, I'll follow.

I'll go. Same, same. I lead. Who knows? That's what I meant. I'm staying in the temple. I follow this initiative by leading. All right, so which direction are you Misty Stepping?

Towards where he went. You tell her where he went. Yes. Okay. So you, Misty Step out. You appear. I'm flying still. Right. So I'm going to. So you glide. Let's all take a five on the performance.

I'm a little frightened. Out into this space, and you see him We'll all take a five on the performance. That's how we do it. That's real strange. Out into this space, and you see him just charging this direction out into the forest once more. I'm going to run out as well. Sprinting. Yeah, running. Run, run, run, run. Lightning bolt him. Okay.

Well, you Misty Stepped, so that's your action. So now that we're in a chase sequence, we will need initiative. Can you quickkin spell? Ooh! Okay, I can. Fuck! Who has my d6? My black and white d6.

Ooh. It's gone. Did you inspire her? Damn it. Such a low. So low! Okay, friends, so 25 to 20. 21. 21. We're all doing this?

Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. 21. I'm a well-oiled machine tonight. All right, and 21 for you, all doing this? Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. 21. I'm a well-oiled machine tonight. All right, and 21 for you, Brayas? Mm-hmm. All right. Wait, who was up first? Who was up first? What's your dex, Brayas?

You can start. Okay. All right, 20 to 15? 18. 18. Okay, and then we have... All right, 15 to 10? 14. 12. 12.

All right. Which dex is higher? 16. I'm not part of this, honey. I think I'm going to get you an dex. Dorian, Laudna? Dorian, Laudna. Really low? Yeah, I rolled a five total. We have to stay with these. Dorian, Laudna. Dorian, Laudna. Really low? Yeah, I rolled a five total. Okay. What about you, Ashton?

I'm staying in the temple because we have two unconscious people. Oh, good call. And I'm also exhausted, so I can't do that. All righty, so Chetney, you're up first. You watch him go. Laudna points out a direction where he went, then Imogen vanishes.

Cool, I'll run out the direction that Laudna's pointing. direction where he went. Then Imogen vanishes. Cool. I'll run out the direction that Laudna's pointing. You have the staff, too. You missed your step. He can miss his step anyway. What do you do? I run out the temple. Okay, so it's 35?

40. 40, all right. That's 40 feet to get from where you were in the center of the temple to the mid hallway, dash to get just outside. Oh, nice. So you emerge the temple from the front, unless you had other plans. That'll put you just up front.

Bonus action you can still take. Can I see him? Yeah, you can see him. How far away is he? He's about 25, 30 feet. I'm going to throw... Yeah, I'm going to throw my Chesley at him. All right, go ahead and roll an attack. Come on.

I want this to be a one to one or so add. One shot. I'm plus 10. 19 to hit. 19? That just hit. Yes! Come on! Yes! Come on!

Man. I'm going to use the... I damaged him, so I'm going to do it. And I just took a short rest. I'm going to use the Brand of Castigation on him. Yes. But I'm going to roll just for the stupid thing, so it's,

oh, it's 1d8 now. Seven plus, where's the chisel? There it is. I'm sorry, chisels are d6. Six. 15 points of damage. 15 points of damage. Yes. And just full on spin dive

into roots and dirt on the outside of the temple. As he face plants and slides, underneath his back garments on his ass, you hear as a little brand of castigation forms on his butt cheek. Got it, cool. What's it look like? What's the brand look like? It says CPOP.

CPOP! Hell yeah. Little heart. So now if he does disappear and get away, we know where he is. And yours vanished. Ran to his address. No more watching, Tara? I just look over at Chet.

How impressive. It was so good. You were just asleep. How did you? What do we? Oh. I'm just going to fly over to him. Okay. And stand next to him. Yeah. We should also take all of his.

Yeah, I'll help, I'll help. I'll drag him. No! Watch out for the friggin' Goddamn it, we suck at this! As you land over top, all of a sudden, this shadow appears and, darting out of the tree line, landing extremely heavily onto the ground.

Invisible, of course, when you looked outside, we didn't see anything. It was invisible. I rolled a natural 20 with this stealth. Best short rest ever. Did we actually get a short rest, though? Because I didn't take it. Technically, I'll say you guys just received a short rest.

Okay, good. I know, I didn't. Wait, and you did your spell? I did the spell, if you want your points. So are we in the same initiative order with the dragon added now? Correct. Okay.

Oh my god. So. Can't let him get out here. All right. Can't let him get out here. All right. All righty. Can't let the dragon have him. So with that. Goddamn it. Glumga lands.

Shit. Is going to take one strike at you, Imogen, as you're standing over him at the moment. And that's real bad. That's going to be a 13 to hit. Oh, that doesn't hit? Yep, goes wide. He's going to use his other attack

to pick him up in its claws. He's going to take him with his other hand. Strikes you and picks him up with its other claw. Can I? It's getting down below to start to leap. Can I do anything? When it comes to your initiative. Oh, right.

He doesn't leap, right? No, he's used his action to dash in there to even grab him. So that was Chet, and then Glomglot comes after Chet? Correct. Reyes, you're up. Movement, I'm still inside, so movement to 30 feet. 30 feet will get you just in the inside of the door.

Like, about there. Oh. So that's move and dash. Like, full hold we get there. So that's your action and your movement. Oh, I would move and then bonus action. Can I have bonus action Misty Step? Is that how that works? You can cast the spell of Misty Step

if you still have a spell slot to do it. Of course, but is it a, it's a bonus action Misty Step? Is that how that works? You can cast the spell of Misty Step if you still have a spell slot to do it. Of course, but it's a bonus action. Yeah. Yes, I will, instead of dashing, and then as my action, I will use, what's it called? Divine Sense? No. Divine Smite? No.

Channel Divinity. Okay. Nature's Wrath, because he's on the ground right now, right? Currently, yes. Nature's Wrath, I can ensnare a foe. Ah, okay. As an action, you can cause spectral vines

to spring up and reach for a creature within 10 feet of you. Actually, yeah, within 10 feet. Creature must succeed on a strength or dex throw, its choice, or be restrained. It's going to try strength. As it tries strength, I can use my reaction, I believe,

to use Oh, I just fucking saw your shirt. Goddamn it. Oh yeah. It's an easy one for him. I'm a cowboy, baby. Classic. I have another thing where I can change his save to a charisma. To a charisma save? Okay.

Sorrowful Fate, is that it? Is it a spell? Once per short rest, when you or an ally can see a creature making a saving throw, you can expend one of your bardic inspirations to change the type of saving throw to charisma save instead. All righty, let's go.

I will do that. Okay. So that's going to Charisma Save instead. All righty, let's go. I will do that. Okay. So that's going to be a plus five. Oh, okay. Better than strength, I assume. Natural 20. Stop it! Yes! Come on!

Amazing. Wait, what was that? Amazing. To save against my ensnare. Damn, that was good. Silvery Barbs. Ooh! Who's favorite? What is his favorite?

That's going to be a 19. I don't even know what this is. What's your DZ? It's 18. It's 18. Damn! So as the vines reach out to try and wrap around it,

they reach and grapple onto the legs of Glomgod, who gets pulled down for a second. Yeah, don't go. Awesome. grapple onto the legs of Glomgod, who gets pulled down for a second. Yeah, Glomgod's awesome. Like tears, it's like front arms free. So it's not restrained, unfortunately. That was a good try, that was a good try. Yay, that was a good try.

All righty, so that's going to get Brayus' turn. Orym, you're up. So we're all inside running out, that's the deal? Correct. All right, so I'm going to run up and I'll get right underneath Brayus' legs, more or less, in the same space, because I can do that as a halfling.

I can't... I'm not within 15 feet, right? You are within 15 feet. I am? Yeah. I'm going to attack Sorrowlord. So Thudda. Yeah. Okay. It's a ranged attack. He is unconscious.

So I'd say it's disadvantage. I mean, better dead than get away. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We can't let him get away. I'm at advantage? You're at disadvantage because he's currently considered prone and wrapped by the claw.

All right, so that's a miss. Okay. That is a 28 to hit. 28 to hit, that definitely hits. Okay. Even rolling damage, as long as you're doing one point of damage, that's one failed save on him.

And... Fuck you. Oh. If it's a crit, in melee it is. That's right. Someone hide Fearne's eyes. Can I, and um. No, I'm going to watch.

No, no, like, can be a push, and it's a pushing attack. I don't know what that will do with this thing in its hands. I'll say that's against Glomgut's strength, since he's the one holding it. Okay. Natural 19.

Yeah, it's going to be a 24. That succeeds. Okay. That's two strikes. He rolled a 19 and he got a 24? Correct. As his total on his strength? It was a strength save? It's a DC.

Right, so it would've been saving throw. Sorry, that would've been a 30. 30. 30. Okay, so you just said he failed one death save from that hit, right? Correct. Not two? Only fails two on a crit. That's a 30 to hit.

I'll make it a pushing attack again. Okay, that's a second death save. This is a good call. That's true. This is a good call. She's going to be here any minute. 21. 21 succeed. So still has a grip, and then I'm out of juice, and that's it.

Okay. And that's it. All righty. That's true. Can you still Dimension Door? Do you have it anymore? I've burned a lot for our play. I know. Zathuda's go. It was a good fight.

It's Zathuda's turn after work. Roll a death save. It's a workshop. It expires in the grasp. He just died? Zathura just died? Saur-Lord Zathura, currently in the grip of the claw, just goes limp and exhales his final fey-given breath.

The blood father of Fearne Calloway, expires in the grip of his bonded fey dragon. His bonded fey dragon. The minute he falls limp, the dragon pulls up and shakes him for a minute. And there's this horrible, baleful screech of pain and fury. All right, Ashton, you're up with Imogen on deck.

I'm still inside. I do not know what the fuck is going on in there. He's with the emissary. You're no longer in your form, by the way. Oh yeah, no, I dropped. So it would take me three rounds to get out there anyway. I'm just going to yell at everyone, the fuck is going on out there in the heads?

I'm honestly just keeping a fucking eye on the two of them. Yeah, on the emissary and the guard. All right, finishing actions go. I'm useless right now. Imogen, you're up. Dory, on your deck. Very useful, actually. Shit. I don't know what to do.

Dragon fight happening. Oh god, I'm in the air. Banish anyone? Banish? Right? Yeah, you can't fly. You dropped right below him before dodging. Oh, that's right. So you're like, you can fly. But if I was flying, would I be able to get to the saddle

on Glomglot, or would it be far enough? Huh? What's your flying speed? Let me look, I'm sorry. 60 feet? 60 feet's your flight speed? Yeah, you could definitely get onto it. Okay, I'm going to try to get on the saddle. You grasp onto its saddle there.

All righty. I am going to... Calm Emotions does not work on it. What's a sheep? No! Don't throw that down yet. Okay. He could still be revivified.

You could still come back. He could. He could. Calm Emotions doesn't work on an animal. I'm going to. I'm going to. Can I try, as my my action to use animal handling to calm Glomglot? I know it's like a crazy.

You can certainly try. I'm going to try to. This is a very high DC, given the emotional state of this entity. I figured. But you can certainly try. Can I try to use a psychic connection with him to amplify it, to help calm him down in any way?

Can I reach out psychically? Because of your psychic connection, I'm giving you a chance to do this. Okay, okay. What is your bonus to animal handling? Six. Six, okay. You will need a 19 or 20 to succeed on this. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

It's a 10% chance. Luin. You got this, easy. Six. I'm just going to roll a different dice to see if it would have mattered. Sure. Nope, it wouldn't have mattered.

As you hold onto the reins, it begins to shift and move. You try and slightly connect with it, and you feel feel this sadness and anger and fury, the loss of blood connection and bond. It's a lot. You just can't seem to break through.

All right, that finishes your go. Imogen, you still have a bonus action, if you want it. I need the sheet, because I put the initiative order on it. That's on me. I don't know. I could just tear off the, no. All right, I'm going to, just as a bonus action,

it's not going to matter, I'm going to speak to Glomglot telepathically. Okay. And I'm going to speak to Glomglot telepathically. Okay. And I'm going to say, we can still bring him back, but I need you to stop fighting us. Okay. That finishes your go.

Dorian, you're up with Laudna on deck. Right. You hear these shrieks, dust falls from above. Actually, no, it would be no dust, because the whole thing's reformed itself. So no, but you feel the interior quake and it echoes within what sound travels through. You see the thrashing of the dragon beyond the exit of the hallway about 60 feet from you. Okay. I'll look down at the emissary and... I got him.

Are you sure? I'm watching them. All right. And I'm going to sprint for the front. Okay. See what's going on up there. You get just to the front door next to Orym and Bray, it's about an eight to ten foot wide. It's bad up here.

What happened? He turned into a dragon. What? No, I'm just kidding. I knew it. But it's a movement and action to get there, so you still have a bonus action. He's still holding Zathuda in his claw? Still clutching Zathuda in the claw. I literally have nothing I can do, yeah.

Okay. Run back in. I mean, I only have one left, and I want to save it if I have to. Okay, that finishes your go. Then that brings us to Laudna with Fearne on deck. Okay. Okay.

Son of a bitch. It's a bonus action. Yeah, that's what it is. Okay. I don't know what to do. Slippery Fae, man. Do we, are we trying to kill the dragon now? I just don't want the dragon to fly off of this body.

We're wasted. Yeah, there's no... I don't think there's a win scenario here unless you got something real wild. Unless Nana shows up. I mean, I'm holding onto the saddle. You're on the saddle. You're on the saddle.

I'm on the saddle. Okay. We got Nana Mori, man. I am going. Could take another 10 minutes. Time. Son of a bitch. I'm so sorry. I'm so confused with what to do.

Are we burning down the dragon? What are you doing? I... Why did we fail so hard? Just try to calm it down. Will. We were better playwrights. Yeah. The reviews have been wrong. I take exception to that. This was just a backer audition.

This was just a staged reading. We were just trying. Trying it out. I'm so confused with what to do. I will, in case it tries to fly, I guess, this is stupid. I'm going to just do a Ray of Frost at it. Okay. Go ahead and roll for an attack.

Okay. Since you're inside the building, it will have half cover, but you ignore that with Spell Sniper, so you're fine. I do ignore that with Spell Sniper. I would also start to move out a bit. I was already running out.

Okay. Ugh, that's fucking awful. Partway up the tunnel, you're probably about there on the inside. 17 to hit. 17 to hit? Just misses. Ray Frost goes wide, unfortunately. Great. Bonus action?

I will... Bonus action, quicken a spell, and do it again. Okay, go for it. Worse. Ugh. Worse. Sorry, felt it. Even as I heard the die, I heard the die. Okay, finishes Imogen's go,

or sorry, Laudna's go. Fearne, you're up. All right. I'm going to come outside, which I think I was almost a little bit in the hallway. Your movement is 35? 35. Okay, yeah, because you were a little back.

You would get just out here, just near where Chetney is. You'd be able to, that's a rush and a run. It's bad out here. Okay. I'm going to see, taking the scene. Yeah, the limp body of your blood father, not an actual father, necessarily,

in the grip of the dragon that's in the process of thrashing with Imogen on its back, holding onto the reins, but about to be bucked off. It's bad. All right. in the grip of the dragon that's in the process of thrashing with Imogen on its back, holding onto the reins, but about to be bucked off. Like, it's bad. I'm going to get up close to. Oh, here's that. His stomach roils. I'm going to get up close to where I can see Zathuda

and look up at Glow and Glut, and I'm going to run my hand along my moonsickle so I start bleeding. Okay. And I'm going to hold it up to Glomglut. I'm family! Please calm down. Big move, big move, I love it.

Make a persuasion check for me. Oh. Okay, okay, okay. Really cool, Ash. Oh. What do I roll, Laura? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. This one's the hardest for me.

I'm going to do this one. You can't, you're in combat. I always forget you can't guide. You can't guide when you're in combat? No, it just takes an action to guide somebody. Yeah. Okay. It's all right. We've only been doing this for a hundred episodes.

I know, it's fine. Persuasion, you said? Persuasion. Okay, sorry. You sure? Sorry, I've been watching a lot of chump stuff. Okay. 31.

31. 31, 31, 31. I rolled an 18 and I gave him a plus 13. That's 31, right? Yep. Okay. Okay. Chump stuff. As you hold up your hand there, the fey blood running from the wound dripping down your arm, the thrashing fey blood running from the wound dripping down your arm.

The thrashing fey dragon, neck is flailing about, screaming, slows and looks at you intensely. You see its two mouths open up and that energy begins to boil up within it. Try to rub the spot that I know is what he really likes. It smells your blood.

It's still tense, its shoulders still held and tight, but its head comes down close to you. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Do the How to Train Your Dragon. It's smelling your blood and you have its attention. We'll consider that your round. Okay, okay, okay.

While it's currently focused on you, Chetney, what do you do? I stab it in the chest! Are you sleeping? I was. Ah! Wait, wait, wait. Where's Nana? Where's Nana?

I'll see this display, which is interesting, and I will hold... I will... How far away would you say I am?... I will... How far away would you say I am? Am I in his melee? Oh, you're in his melee now, yeah. Okay, I'll just stay where I am in my melee. It landed right next to you when it hit the ground.

And I'll hold Inflict Wounds as a spell if he tries to fly away. You got it. But I'm going to let Fearne do whatever she's doing. Okay. So you just keep it at the ready, waiting for any sort of movement outside of what you want. Yeah. You got it. All right, Chani's holding that.

It's now Glomglut's go. Glomglut, who is currently staring down at you, smelling the blood across your wound. Looks down at the body of Sorrowlord Zathuda. It bumps its head into your hand. Oh no. No! And it doesn't do anything else for its turn. Currently just locked in with you.

I just try to give him a scratch where he likes it. Brace, you're up with Orym on deck. Do you want me to? Can we keep him? Bring your father back to life or no? No, I don't think we should bring him back yet. Okay, then I will just cast as a bonus action, Ensnaring Strike. Okay.

But I'm not going to strike. Just going to have it ready. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then can I hold an action or is that? Yeah, that's a bonus action. So you can have the spell ready and then hold an attack. Okay, so now we have both Chetney and Bray. So you can move up carefully a little closer if you'd like.

Oh yes, that sounds good. So you just shift around slightly, spreading carefully a little closer if you'd like. Oh yes, that sounds good. Come. So you just shift around slightly, spreading out a little bit, holding yourself there. We could also say, if there's anybody that doesn't have eyes on what Fearne is trying to do on our turns, we would mentally try and go, Fearne is attempting to tame you.

Just making sure. Oh yeah, we're sold. Orym, you're up. I'm holding attack, too. She's our only way out of this at the moment, so hold an attack if the other fellas pop off. Okay. So you all slowly move around

and separate a little bit, keeping your blades at the ready. So yeah, when Nanna gets here. That tension. Okay. Ashton, with Imogen on deck? I am going to...

Yeah, I'm going to... Are two unconscious friends, are the bodies close together before they're sleeping? I think you probably kept them, you've moved them next to each other. All right, I'm just going to put the hammer down and click it so that they can't stand up. Okay. And, I'm just going to put the hammer down and click it so that they can't stand up. Okay. And then I'm just going to sit

and be ready to knock out again where they can't see if I see them. Okay. Imogen, Dorian, untag. Okay. The thrashing has come to rest. It did not buck you from its back in an attempt to. You're just holding the reins in the moment.

No bucks given. What are you doing? All right. to rest. It did not buck you from its back, nor attempt to. You're just holding the reins in the moment. No bucks given. What are you doing? All right. I'm just going to make sure I'm secure on this saddle, so I don't go flying off it if there's a way I can really get my arms. Feeling that settling underneath, I'm going to use my Mage Hands to calm him and copy what Fearne's doing and calm down his side so he feels that calming presence over him.

Okay. I'm just looking at the tree. Make another animal handling check for me. Okay. Can I get a game check? I'm going to give you a turn first. 13. Okay.

Okay, hold on. It doesn't hinder his current mindset, but it doesn't necessarily calm it further. But a worthy endeavor. All right, Amar. He's a good boy. I'm just going to slink back into the temple, maybe 15 feet to get to the nearest opening or whatever. I'm using my intersection to convert sorcery points,

too, by the way. You got it. Can you goose her in any way? I could. I guess I could. It could be my last bardic inspiration, yeah. As I slink back into the thing, I'm just going to go, You're doing great.

You're so strong and powerful. To her. Well, no, wait, who's the one? Fearne is. You've got the holding one, right? Fearne is persuading, and I'm just trying to do Then I'll do it for Fearne. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so Fearne, you take a d10 inspiration die.

Okay. All, yeah. Okay, so Fearne, you take a d10 inspiration die. Okay. All righty, finishing Dorian's go. Laudna, you're up with Fearne on deck. Okay. Okay. I'm going to cast Message, even though I know it's not that far. But Imogen's, everyone's very preoccupied,

and I'm going to just pray that it sends out further, and I'm going to go, Nanamori, we're in kind of a situation. We have a dead Sorrowlord in the dragon that is currently tamed. Please get here quick and don't spook the dragon. Okay, you send your message out into the ether in hopes that it found a home somewhere within 120 feet.

There's no way she's that close, but I didn't know what else to do. Hey, yeah, no worries. Maybe she can get a fucking radio wave on the wing or something. You got it. A little Voyager transmission out past the slalom system. Yeah, exactly.

Hell yeah. Yeah. Pigeon somewhere hears it and then flies. Yeah, I mean, yeah, honestly. All right, so finish your turn. Yeah, and I'm just going to stay ready to cast. Okay. Fearne, it's your turn. You have Glomglot's attention now focused on you.

It is calmed, it is whimpering with those flashes of anger and emotion behind its eyes, but it has definitely responded to the exposing of your blood, your family blood, and at the moment, you have its attention. What do you wish to do? Oh.

I'm just going to keep giving him scratches. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Um. Um, um. Can I get up there? Do you want to try and climb up into the saddle with Imogen?

Well, I want to ask him. Okay, so you're requesting to mount the beast? Yes. All right. Maybe we say we're taking Daddy to Nana's to make him feel a little better. Yes. Okay, make another persuasion check for me.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. This is bonkers. Oh. Ooh, that was almost a one. Sorry, you would've been able to roll. Okay, oh, yeah, that's right. Um, uh, uh. What are you?

Um, 27. 27, okay. Good job. That was with the die? That was with the die? That was with the die. Okay. Glomglot leans into your hand a little bit, lowers its head, and cranes the neck around to allow you to climb on. Okay, before getting up, I take in his whole, all of his features

and give him a nice scritch along the top of his little mane up there. You can see the frills that emerge from the sides of its head as it breathes, little holes open in the sides. You can see it has multiple breathing openings across its head. Oh, what a good boy. Okay, I'm going to step up on there,

and I'm going to sit behind Imogen. Okay. And hold onto Imogen's arms. So Fearne has climbed up behind you, Imogen. Yeah, she has. I have my arms around your waist. Okay. Because I've never ridden a horse. Oh.

So I feel like you're going to be better at this. I've never ridden a horse. Well, yes, I have. What am I talking about? What was his name? Literally, I was like, yeah, you rode a horse this year. Yeah, he was a brash hair. Yeah, but those feel a little different. It's fine.

So, as you climb up behind, it gets back up into position, shakes its tail, flickers behind it, and it just glares down at Chetney. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, back. I'm going to reach out, when you're on a horse and are rubbing their mane. Can you carry the rest of our friends? We're not here to hurt you,

but keep holding onto daddy, okay? Yeah, you're such a good big boy. It gets, one of its claws is holding the Sorrowlord. The secondary claw reaches towards Brayus. Oh, oh, am I? Yeah, you're doing it. Let it happen. Now it has both you and the limp corpse of the Sorrowlord.

Kind of like. It's two winged hands that have these massive claws at the top. Kind of gets down and snatches Orym and would snatch, reluctantly, Chetney. There's the smaller ones nearby. That's all the limbs it has. Will Nana be here soon?

I'm going to send a message to Nana. Has she reached out yet? No. All right, I'm going to send another message to Nana. Ooh. Do I have any spells left? I'll cast it at 4th-level, because that's all I got left.

So Glonglod is under control. We have a few people left for you to carry, though, still. Got room for a dragon at your place? Response cackles. How very interesting. It'll make the flight a bit easier, I believe. Almost there. It's at this moment, the dragon begins to pick up into the air with both Chetney and Orym,

with each big wing beat. You're being thrust around. As it cruises off into the air, snaking through the winds like a serpent, its bright colors reflecting the never-changing dusk light of this region, with both Fearne and Imogen riding behind it as it takes off towards the horizon.

I just send in a message to Imogen. I just say, we're right behind you. Just keep going. We'll meet you at Nanna's. Just as the winged shape of another large entity begins to appear on the horizon. Run over Ashton! All right. Ashton, time to go.

Double checking to our two friends. Are they out out? I'm double checking. They seem out. For the moment, they appear to be. All right. You click. I'll borrow this one.

Yeah, you take one, I'll take the other. I'm going to grab the emissary again and throw him over my shoulder. And then I'm just going to send a little whistle up. Cute. And Coriolis will appear out of the sky. Out of that, wasn't there a hole in the,

oh no, it mended itself, huh? No. We're going to be walking out of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too many pets in this fucking room. He's going to come in and land at the entrance, and I'm going to load him up like the unconscious sack. So it's just the three of us that's left, right?

Yeah, because we have to take five. She couldn't take five, so I'll take two. I'll take myself and the emissary on the back of the horse. And the three of us with Noreen. Yeah. Okay. As the... Oh, and Ira. As the shape begins to drift past. I press the T-shirt and throw up a little flare

to indicate where we are. Easy enough to see. The winged bird body of Nana Mori, in her odd, transformed form, begins to drift past Glomglut. As it does,. Can I pull his reins to give him distance from Nana Mori? Mm-hmm.

You see he tugs against it, recognizing her. I know how to drive a horse. And you do pull him away from her. That's what I said. The urge for round two, since the last time they tussled in the air over the Fey Realm, you manage to pull him a little bit wide. Make an animal handling check for me

to see if you can draw him away from the need to fight. Friends, friends, and I'm guiding her. Yes, you can guide her. Come on, horse girl. You see her coming. Come on, horse girl. Please let me roll. Good, finally, Anas. Yes. Yes!

Yes! Thank you. Very good. And then Guidance. Okay, so 19 plus six, 25. 25. In spite of the want and need to engage with what Glumglup probably recognizes as a rival foe, you drift him off to the right,

and she coasts by, giving a screech that turns into a cackle. Yeah! Jesus. I love it. Before swooping down as Coriolis goes and leaps off just as you pass this massive, black, feathered entity with an old woman's face in the front that you recognize as Nannamori,

just for a split second. The two of you that remain outside still, she doesn't even land, just grabs you in one diving swoop and picks you up as the three of you, the three entities flying off in a trail, each following the other, begin to vanish in the direction of Ligament Man. How about Ira?

We've got him, too. I got Ira. We've got Ira. He's got his own. Ira was not there for the grab. Oh! Ira! He'll be okay. I don't know if anyone noticed it as they were leaving, but if they had glanced down as they were leaving the inside of the chamber,

they would have seen that the image of the Arch Heart on the floor now has a mustache drawn on its face. As we pull back from the mustache, we're going to go to break. Oh! Yeah, you got one of them moving down to here all by itself. Dang!

You got a dragon! You got a fucking dragon! You got a blood-bonded dragon. Had to kill your dad for it, but you got a dragon. I got a dragon. Pat yourself. Honestly, I feel like you got the better end of that deal. I feel like I got the better end of the deal.

You certainly have a dragon listening to you at the moment, yes. Listening to you at the moment. How do you fully bond to a dragon? Maybe Nana Mori will know. Is he still holding the box? Zathu, his body? You have to have sex with the dragon.

By the way, I think we only have 30 seconds or something to heal Zathuuda if we want to bring him back. No, there's a couple. Do you have a, there's a spell note. We should go on a break. Okay, go. We'll come back in a few minutes, see you in a second. And welcome back.

So, coasting across the Fey Horizon, you guide your currently mounted Fey dragon, clutching half of your team and the dead corpse of the Sorrowlord Zathuta in the direction of Ligament Manor. Behind that, Dorian carrying, do you have, were the guard or do you have? I have the emissary.

You have the emissary atop your dragon horse. And the third troop is being held by the bird form of Nannamori Morrigan, the Fate Stitcher. Not quite knowing where to go, you pull back a little bit until Mori can lead the charge. And the hour that would transpire

getting you to the Harrowcall Fens, the Fey Marshland, where Ligament Manor sits. Is there anything anyone needs to do or make happen while we're in the air? I just have a question. Does Nana have a bird face or something else? No, human face. Human face. That's what I was going to say.

Or a mori face. On a giant winged horror show. Yeah. Is there anything that needs to happen in the hour that we're flying? Do you want your father to be alive? You say in our head. Do you? Oh yeah.

Actually, it's not. It's probably not. It would fade after a little bit. Oh, it would've faded anyway, because we took a break. Do you want your father to be alive? What was that? Did you hear something? I didn't hear anything. I want your father to be alive! What was that? Did you hear something?

I didn't hear anything. God, it's beautiful here. Your father! I hear a. Do you want him to be alive? It's like somebody's singing down there. I don't know. Floating across. It's probably like, I can't tell what it is.

Dude! Can you hear me? Is someone singing? I don't know what I'm saying. Come on! Okay, well, it's probably past a minute now. It is now, yeah. It's past a minute.

Well, we can't wake him up. We can't wake him up. Come back, we can't. If we wake him up, the whole thing could go kaput. It's already went. Let's be real. But you want the dragon, not me. I don't know if we need the dragon, but it's going to get us to Nannas. Then, following the stretched,

black-feathered wings of the Morrigan, as she circles down atop a large, reaching portion of the Harrowcall Fence canopy, you pull the dragon to follow, and you, shortly thereafter, towards the treetop garden topiary that she has cultivated for quite some time. As you begin to circle and come to land amongst it,

you can notice, the two of you for the first time, the extensive, almost hedge maze-like experience here. Numerous overgrown hedge tops reach up to eight, 10, 12 feet tall, fountains throughout the entirety of this beautiful, if slightly Tim Burton-esque garden. Numerous colorful flowers all turn and greet you as you begin to arrive. You can see little firebug-type glowing bits, Or are they will-o'-wisps? Too far to tell. And numerous stone statues

and massive green sculptures of carved bushes and the shapes of people, whether they be dancing, reaching, just a beautiful expression of art in this somewhat dark and lively space. A number of critters and creatures begin to skitter out from the nearby roots, brush, and branches to watch the arrival as Nana Mori scoots down

and then plops her clutched payload down into the center of this central garden region before she flaps her wings twice. They shrink in quickly, and she returns to her hunched, hulking hag form. She steps off the side from the center, stone-plinth-like raised platform in the middle of the garden where you had previously had your awakening ritual

of your titan shards within you. There, you go ahead and land with your mount, clutching the emissary over your shoulder, and the dragon glances down. You can feel tension in it. The vicinity of this space, you get a quick sense, especially with your psychic connection towards it, this is what has been previously considered to be a do-not here type location within the Fae. An off-limits locale. And Glomglot just hovers. Can I see Nana Mori?

You can. You're about 100 feet up from where she is right now. I think I can talk to her, as long as I can see her. Are we safe to land here? Of course. I bet you know we will. All right. I'm going to try to get Glomglot to land. Okay, just go back, just go in there.

Slowly Just go back, just go in there. It slowly begins to land. Its two claws clutching, which I believe were in the larger hands. Brayus. Brayus in the body. Yep, in Zathuda. And then kind of tosses Brayus 10 feet up. And then gently rests the body of Zathuda, and then tosses Bray as he's got 10 feet up.

Then gently rests the body of Zathura down in the center before it goes about 15, 20 feet off to the side and catches itself, releases both Orym and Chetney before it gets low and allows the two of you to step from the saddle. Do of you to step from the saddle. Do you want to step from the saddle? Yeah. All right. It shakes a bit. As it shakes its body, as you rest off of it,

all the critters nearby skitter off and vanish into the nearby shadows. And just continue to just massage his little spot. Just try to keep him calm. Thank you for the rescue, Nanna. Of course. Thank you for your patience. You wouldn't have called if it wasn't a big deal.

I don't want you to think that we're really dependent on you. We want to be self-sufficient. I embrace my matronly position with Fearne and her sweet friends. Besides, you come bearing gifts. Yes, of course. Yes, yes. So, so, do I sense her looking at him like,

Looking at the corpse of Zephida. Like, Make an insight check. Orym's already standing over the body, too. He's just thinking about Fearne and he's thinking about fathers. Man, sucking it up tonight. What am I, an insight check?

Yes. No, nothing. Four. Four, yeah. Anemora should be in her creepy self. Right, she's so fabulous. So, yes, he kind of died. We have this emissary over here, and then also one of the guards. And we have this plan, and we tried to do it,

and then we got interrupted, where we tried to do it and then we got interrupted where we wanted to plant a new memory in their head that Ludinus was betraying the Unseelie. Because he is. Because he is. So that they go back to the Unseelie and be like, ah, Ludinus, he's such a bastard. But things went a little topsy-turvy.

Tits up. Little tits up. Understood. Well, this beast. What's to be done? Third. Well, that's why we came here, What's to be done? That's why we came here, because he's not going to listen to me for much longer, I don't think. What do you think? Well, until we decide.

Welcome to my domain. She moves her fingers up like this and then curls her finger. A series of massive, twisting roots and vines burst out of the center of the stone, it cracking and splintering everywhere, glum-glum, kind of rears back, but immediately gets entangled with this mass of wild vine.

Don't hurt him. Not yet. And it pins it to the ground, wraps over its wings and holds it there as it strains against the strength. It's okay, it's okay. Nott, I don't like this. It's all right, I'm not hurting it.

I'm just making sure it doesn't hurt any of you either. And besides, I owe it one. Oh yes, Jue. Oh boy. Okay, okay. Still quietly muffled, thrashing against it. Vines covering its mouth so its noise sounds muffled, muzzling it slightly. What do we do with him?

With who? With Sothuda. Oh, I have plans. Perhaps I'll put him through the loom. What, the loom? Oh boy. Yeah. Could use a new tree in the topiary. The loom is more interesting.

That's true. I like to tease the essence over a few generations. Do we need to ask him any questions first? Or do we just let Nenna have her way? Well, let's unpack this a little bit. Yeah, that's okay. We can ask him after the loon, if you'd like. I have it.

That's true. Are these things not mutually exclusive? We could talk to him after the loon. To speak with the dead, in case there was anything. But we pretty much have the information we need. I mean, what do we need from him? I don't know if we were going to speak with the dead. I don't know.

What does he know about the upcoming... Plan of attack, that's true. What kind of defenses there are. Does he know that? Will he know that stuff? He probably would. Or is all of his knowledge confined to the Fae? He would know the defenses at the Malleus Key, for sure. Would he share them with us?

He would share them. He might share them with you, Fearne, if you spoke with him. I have this coin. Nannamori, do you have any powers or capabilities of potentially bringing him back? What form do you require? Well, you know, I was actually talking with Dorian, and I shoved Dorian a little bit.

You know, we were just whispering. She was in a hush, and she does this, and the, not you, you think it's towards you, but then the emissary and the guardian, who had started to rouse from their unconscious state, like and just pass right back out. Thank you. Amazing.

Fearne, what do you want to do about this? Ired. Oh. Where's Ired? Yeah. You know, we saw him on the roof, and then he wasn't there anymore. He Ired.

Oh. Disappointing. Always playing hard to get, isn't he? Yes. We were just, you know, is there some sort of other grander role that Soothuuda can play in this, or do we really feel like we're past that point at this

point? I don't trust him. If we bring him back. Let me see that token. What, this pig with the dead? Well, don't take it. Give it back to her, though, Nano, when you're done. She clasps it in her hand for a second. She'll give it back. Show you the things. Simple tricks. You can only really compel the body to speak to those it wishes.

My means are more forceful. We could also maybe get some insight on what to do with our dragon friend. So ask him about defenses and also how to train your dragon? How to train your dragon? I think we should wake him up, Nana, just to ask him a couple things.

Orym, it's okay. Are you sure? Yeah. I mean, you set the tone for this. This was your father. How do you want to do this? Father's a heavy term. It is a heavy term.

I have some ideas. I think I just want to talk to him real quick. Man, I... Yeah. Can you wake him up? Like a conversation or an interrogation? You can do both. It's up to you, Fearne. Nanna's methods are an interrogation. If you do the Speak With the Dead,

he has a choice whether or not to talk with you. But then we only get five things to ask him. Five questions. Yeah. Five questions. And he doesn't have to tell us the truth. What exactly is the loom? Ooh. It's one of my many crafts. What exactly is the loom? Oh. It's one of my many crafts.

It's how I occasionally spruce up the space. Would you like to see? That sounds loaded to me. You want to see. Best to know these things. What do you guys think? This is up to you, Fearne.

It's your father. I hate that word. I will see, but I can't make the choice. He ain't her daddy. No. He's her father. You're getting information for the task at hand. It's also maybe your last chance to ask him anything you wanted to. I feel like we need to interrogate him.

Because we need to make sure that we get the answers that we need. The Lumity. With an unnatural speed, she lunges forward, almost like a pouncing predator. Okay. One arm picks him up and lumbers his body over her shoulder.

You hear the whimper and fruitless tension against the vines as Glomglatt watches its master plucked from the ground as her elongated hand pats it, looking into Glomglatt's eyes. Life giveth and life taketh away. Harsh lessons for you, young one. And steps past you all to the stairs that descend deeper into the ligament manor. Who's going with her?

I'll go. Everybody? If you want that very much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's all be in there. Yeah, why not? Unless, do we feel like anyone needs to stay with Glomgut? I don't think he's breathing well. He'll be all right, right?

Yeah, we'll trickle in it. Okay. You all descend deeper into the tree, following down some familiar spaces past your old room, past her numerous collection chambers, past the number of platforms with the dull, glowing, magical lantern light that flickers and illuminates it in beautiful and nightmarish ways.

The shadows seeming to shift and move like they themselves are living entities that take root here in the home that she keeps. She leads you down to the base of the tree to where you had met her with her tiki bar and her furniture and continues to descend on a far back staircase that goes beneath the very roots of the tree. This is a chamber that you've only been shown once before

and never seen it in functionality. As she leads you down, no doorway greets you, but a thick curtain of fallen roots that pull out of the way as she curls in. What you see inside, inside this cage-like chamber of roots and metal, there is, it looks like a chair in the middle of the room. Inside chair. Finally.

I'm waiting for this. It is made of what looks like wood and natural matter in places, but then bits of stone seem to cup up to grab limbs. You see a number of chains that are attached to it in places that pull through and dangle in other areas. There are strange-looking, almost tube-like extrusions that connect to it, and there are multiple metal rings that are laid open within. She rushes up and places the body onto it and

latches it in about 12 different places. She grabs a couple of chains and begins to tug them, and as she does, these large metallic arms come down with all manner of strange blades and loops and scoops, and she stops and turns the back the rest of you. You probably don't want to see this. Step outside, I'll come get you when I'm done. I just stand there, eyes wide open.

You can't make me leave. I want to see this. I'll stay. Me too. I'll stay. Fair enough. Your last chance if you wish to leave. I look down. Soak it in.

She grabs these chains and pulls them down and begins to mutter under her breath. You watch as all these different glowing runic carbons begin to alight around, and these metallic arms that you thought was maybe four turns into eight, turns into 12, and they start just whipping around. It takes you a moment to realize what's happening. The body of Zathuda, the armor is cut free, and his body is being flayed in strips rapidly. You see glimmers of muscle, then bone, and you see this faint essence,

like his spiritual energy is starting to drift from the corpse, and then you watch his other external arms grab those strange tubes and begin to almost siphon and suck up his lingering spiritual anchor. And you watch as these strips of flesh are pulled out, they're then grabbed by other arms and begin to weave them into a tapestry-like

singular piece of fabric, and stretching them and pulling them off to different hooks at the sides. You watch as what looks to be like a frame, like a hexagonal frame, is built, lowered, and then what's built from his matter is stretched across it. What remains of the pale skin of Sorrowlord Zathuda

I throw up. You're here in the corner. Has been now turned into a three by three foot hexagonal art piece with his face in the center of it stretched. Oh no. Eyelids. And as the machine whirs to stillness, she plucks it from its hooks and turns it around.

It's good to have hobbies. Isn't that right? And the lips go, That's right. Oh man! Cool. No! Where should it go, Fearne?

Hmm. Maybe let's put it in the tiki bar. Delightful choice. Come, come. Let's make sure I put the nail in the right position. And she heads back up the steps and leaves you. Come on, come on! How do you even pop his previous eerie shit?

Yeah. It's so good. What's wrong with it? You're okay. Yeah, I mean... Yeah. It's good. What's wrong with you? You're okay. Yeah, I mean... Yeah. Insight check. Yeah, insight fucking check. You can make a persuasion or deception check.

Your choice, you don't have to say. Just roll the number and then say your... 13. 15. 15. Nine. Freaking out, freaking out a little bit, freaking out a little bit, freaking out. Freaking out a little bit.

I mean, I've seen some of this shit. There's a few decor. I know what happens. But you said you're fine and you're not fine. You're not fine. Is the insight. Yeah. Yeah, I'm teetering. This is intense. You're not fine. You're not fine. Is the insight. Yeah. Yeah, I'm teetering.

Thank you. You're fine. She's fine. Yeah. Are we going with Nanna? That's up to you. Yeah, yeah. I'm following up. You follow suit, and now as you approach,

you can hear the interior of that portion of her abode is starting to produce beautiful music. Her interior sanctuary orb begins to emit this soft, playful, joyful music and plucking around. Instruments begin to swirl in the air, and she's humming gently to herself as she is like, I pull a nail out of my ear and hand it, and I do not stop looking at this fucking painting. Can you have a second one? A nail out of your ear? Remember, I also made this that you could hang as well.

Oh, next to it? Well, I don't know, it's... I really love it so much, Grace. Is it okay? Do you want to leave it here? Yes, look don't know, it's... I really love it so much, Grace. Is it okay? Do you want to leave it here? Yes, look, do you get to read this? That's incredible. It's not as nice as yours, but this...

It's really so lovely. But I thought it was a... It's almost like it's becoming a nice gallery wall situation. Might have to remodel a bit in here. Yeah, maybe. She snaps her fingers and she watches the wood shifts and changes. The tiki bar stretches and spreads and shifts over

the interior of the manor, making room and adjusting for, now it looks to be enough room for an art wall. Yeah, let's put this up. I'm going to leave this here. I'm going to walk up to, so now because I'm in the Fae, I'm also looking extra Fae when we arrived here. Yeah, her features are more exaggerated and strange.

But also, just for flavor, I'm going to also cast Primal Savagery on myself, so I'm just a little bit extra. Okay. Pointer Teeth, a little taller, a little longer everywhere. Ah! So cool. Okay. Pointer teeth, a little taller, a little longer everywhere. Ah! So cool. Sorry. And I'm going to just go up to the frame

and just really get a closer up look at his face to see what's similar and what's not, to me. Yeah. There is some similar features around the cheekbones. There is some similar features around the cheekbones. You imagine from the glimpses you got of the eyes, maybe, though they're not present anymore,

just vacuous holes where they once were. You can... That's where the resemblance ends, given the process that he's undergone. And just hangs there, stretched and pulled. The expressions limp. I quietly make my way next to you,

and I do not stop looking at that painting. They carve a hole in you. They just dig. They just leave this pit, and you spend years wandering below in the dark, looking for them, searching for any sign of them. If you're lucky, you eventually figure out they're not down there. They're the ones who threw you in in the first place. I'm very sorry. Anamori is currently shaking up a cocktail.

I assume it's like a tapestry of some kind. In the negative space around his face, are there any markings or a lot of tapestries have a story or pictographs on it? Is there any visual art on it? Or is there just a face in the middle? No visual art. What you see is the face itself is maintained

with elements of the scalp and some of the hair still framing it. And then just beyond that, it is numerous strips of the skin that's been pulled out and then woven through itself in different places, in almost a beautifully intricate weave of skin. You okay, man? Fine.

Hey, man, this is the other side of the Fae, bud. That was my favorite. I've been taking this basket weaving class. I'm really into it. Yeah, really good. Underskin basket weaving. Just going to get in there while she's making drinks. Yeah.

Hey. Hi. You don't know me very well, but I'm Fearne. I know. Oh. You don't, though. You don't know me at all. And now you're not gonna get a chance to.

I know what you are. You are just another person looking for power. Even if you had to step on your family to get there. I don't like that very much. You don't know what I've done to get you here. Well, you should've told me. I tried.

It's a little late now. Yes. It's odd, the more you talk to it, the more personality seems to slowly drift into it. And that faint spiritual glow The more personality seems to slowly drift into it. And that faint spiritual glow that you saw siphoned in the loom's process of extracting him seems to give the faintest light around the features. The cheekbones begin to fill in ever so slightly,

and while the eyes remain open and vacant, Estab, you can almost see the face ever so slightly, and while the eyes remain open and vacant, Estab, you can almost see the face beginning to push out from the weave. There he is. There he is. That's so fun. I mean, you also crossed Nanna, so there's a couple reasons I mean, you also crossed Nanna,

so there's a couple reasons of why you ended up here. I'm not the first, and I won't be the last. That's very true. That's very true. I'm sorry. I just... You're not a father to me. I don't even know you. I was a pawn for you. Hey. I was a pawn for you. Right.

Not that I ever really knew how to show love, either. Well, since you're going to be here for a while, maybe you can learn how to show it. That time has passed. No. There's still time. It may not feel like it in your current condition, but there's still time.

I spent my life trying to prove myself, trying to matter, trying to take whatever I could to show that I could. And now you have truly become that, what I wish to be. So keep taking. Carry on my memory with your need,

your want. Do you know what my needs are? And what my wants are? No. are and what my wants are. No. But whatever they are, I know you'll do what you must to have them. That's in your blood.

It's in your Nana's blood, and the head twists and creaks against its boundaries in the direction of Morrigan, who is currently pouring. I had any sense of connection beat from me long ago. What do you mean? Our people are not the most... empathetic. What? No. I'm not your father.

Not in the way that you need it. But I am your father. And I've given you my curse as well. What does that mean? You'll know in time. Fuck. Well. Burn what thou wilt, and take thy wishes from the ash. What you bear is the curse of ambition. Well, that doesn't sound that bad.

Listen, did you all have any plans? Like, what do you... What's the deal? Like... What were you planning? Me? We were gonna come with you. You were gonna take the Ruidusborn. We were gonna be a vessel.

Like, what's the whole, like, plan? What does it what's the whole plan? What does it mean to be a vessel? What does it mean to be a vessel? Okay. From what I understand, the final boundary that holds the God Eater, it's built of similar material as the Divine Gate. And what you carry within you, Ruud is born, is the key to opening that door.

But there's many Ruud is born. Aye. Can more, I'm just going to cover her shoulder. Can more than one person be a vessel at the same time? What if two people tried to take them? I know not. What I know is all the exultant gathered, very few will have the strength

to do what's necessary. What do you think is necessary? What do I think? Yeah. I think Lunas is a fool. And while we might agree on the endgame, I just want you to make him cry. And as you squeeze the life out of him,

I want the last thing he knows is your face taking his dream from him and making it your own. That's all I want. I cannot do it. I couldn't have done it. But I've always known you could. I would have taken you there.

I would have opened every back door and guided you right to his throat. But... now I'm furniture. Oops. I'm sorry, I wish I had more empathy. I do. You are my daughter. I just... Just...

Do any of you all have any questions for him? Are there any back entrances to the Malleus Key? Whatever there was has been overwritten by what the Weavemind did. They razed the Tishton Ruins as a fortress. Have you visited the ruins since they've gone up? Briefly. But I was sent here to my doom. Nana, how long does he stay here like this? She comes back with a tray of drinks. Oh, he's mine now.

As long as I wish. On holidays, I'll let him talk to the others. Well. What the holidays, I'll let him talk to the others. Well. The others? Like, the other furniture? Oh, I have two galleries here in Ligament Manor. And on the holidays, you let them all have a little party?

Or let them face each other and make it to have conversations. Well, that's nice. She's really great at repurposing things. What if you get faced across somebody you hate? That sounds worse than what that's all about. Sure, sure. You ever get stuck at a party

talking to someone you don't want to talk to? It's the absolute fucking worst. What do we do about the dragon? They seem to take a liking to your daughter. If you do have any empathy, or whatever passes for it, it would be kindness to put the two of them together, at least a little bit.

I'll take really good care of him. It would make her so much more powerful. Did you love Gloomglot more than her? Clearly. I mean, you spent more time with him. It's okay. I love the painting answer. It's okay. What a painting answer!

Oh my god. Gloomglot is a good companion. Young for his size, and variable based on mood. Perhaps, perhaps it needs to be free, or bound to a new master. How do you bind a dragon to a master? Blood ritual. Blood ritual.

But I haven't that magic. Hemocraft is a rare gift this side of the realm. Oh! Oh! That's so funny, because one of my family members actually is really good with that. Just be warned. Success brings you companion. Failure brings you an eternal enemy. That's exciting. Significantly long restful drive. Yeah, yeah, sounds fun. Literally.

Just get another boyfriend. Add it to the list. We got brands, we got rings, we got dragons. Where does he go if he's free? Ghost pirates are a sight. Well, she is. She had blazes. She cuddled a ghost pirate.

This is its home, and it hates being elsewhere. If we let it go, will it seek vengeance against us? What's going on with his face? He's just straining against it. Stressing it. He's testing his new boundaries. He's got an itch. If you could just, if you don't mind, it's all right. I'm trying to set up face recognition.

Face recognition. If you talk to him, maybe not. But I think you're the only one who can. Okay. Is there anything else that we need to know? You asked about defenses? Asked about dragon? We got an answer about defenses?

If the Unseelie doesn't come to fight for Ludinus, how many forces does he have on his side that mount his king? Hmm. The vanguard has some trained warriors at Tartus Pocho, but many of them have been. Many have fallen in the defense of our endeavors, but now bolstered with the entirety of Ruedian army forces.

The Dolce's larger than you can imagine. Oh god, those things. Osocruth, a warrior unlike anything Exandria's seen. Atop, he's personally bound and binded. The Dolch Beast. A terrifying, manipulated creature by the Weavemind's understanding

of Arcana and Genevix. Manipulated. We saw one on Rudess. Oh, there are many. So many. Bred and trained since youth. Ryloren, combatants, assassins, thought eaters. It's an extermination squad.

It's an invasion. So, the question is, who's going to strike first? And why are all the exultants disappearing? You've spent a lot of time at Ludinus's side. What would you say his biggest weaknesses are, aside from hubris? Hubris is the one. But Ubaris can be utilized. The being of his ability, his knowledge, is dangerous in so many ways. Don't think I haven't spent many hours and many nights trying to think of how to cut his throat

when he wasn't watching. But he's crafty. If you're even certain it's him, when you do find him. That's why I want you to do it. You and your family. Oh man, god. Speaking of hubris, since we're on the subject. Who else do you think is going to turn on him?

Who else is plotting? I'm not sure. It's too dangerous to inquire within, to show my hand. I'd say what fat lot of luck it did me, but you're still here and you're still on your path. How can we ensure that the Unseelie don't join the fight? Yeah, what would you tell your kin in the court? That or you'll fail.

They've had a tenuous belief in his ability at best. They've had a tenuous belief in his ability at best. And the Unseelie are prone to seeing which way the wind blows before hitching themselves to anything beyond their realms of expertise. So, doubt. What do you mean the exaltants have been disappearing? He's been sending them off. I'm pretty sure that we knew that. I'm just...

Word is, he's been sending them off. But they don't come back. To what ends, I don't know. But I don't trust him. They're out right now. They're throwing logs on the fire. Weakening it. Have you ever gotten a glimpse of what you think

Predathos is? You never let me get close. I hate him. We do, too. Good. Use that. Why do I like him as a tapestry? I know. I have one question. He's handling this remarkably well.

If I may. Yeah, yeah, yes, of course. Why the long face? Just kidding. Oh. Tries to spit in your direction, but there's no saliva, really. It's just like. Oh, man.

Oh, I hate this. If I may. Yes, of course. And if you don't want to know the answer to this, feel free to just nix it. Okay. I know that you're not really her father, her dad. You guys aren't family, but biologically speaking, should she be aware of any siblings out there in the world?

Question. I put all my faith in the one. Oh. One shot. One shot. One opportunity. In his whole life. In his whole life, it was just as a one. He just answers it one time. That's so sweet.

It is, it's a lot sweeter than it is right now. Sometimes one's like this. Were you? I've been careful. He ratchets the six. There are fey techniques to ensure. You the method? Reached out with my finger in his mouth. We call it the Misty Step.

Oh no. Oh! I hate it. Oh! Did you love her? So many jokes. Did you love her? Birdie.

Oh god, Birdie's here! Oh shit, she's going to see him. That's okay, she may not... Realize, recognize? No, an animal. I don't. I think I might have. You just don't remember? He doesn't know what love is.

Do you want someone to show you? Sorry. Wanted to show me. Sorry. I would never love you. Well, this has been fun. Yeah. Well, this has been fun. Yeah. A little light bulb goes off in Dorian's head

and he just stops what he's doing and just yogs outside really quick to back where we were, trying to navigate myself up to the platform. Okay. As you head up there, you can see. The whole time. Well, we left them, I don't know.

I'm going to go get them. No, I didn't ever say it. You see two figures ascending the stairs in your direction, passing you by. One is the faun with curly, sun-kissed blonde hair that you recognize as Fearne's mother. And another gentleman looks to be a male elf,

a shaggy mop of brown hair, golden brown eyes. They're both heading down the steps and she goes, Oh, hi there. We just heard that some folks had arrived. Is Fearne here? Oh, yes. Ooh, Fearne's downstairs,

having a drink right now, but maybe I'll just let them know that you're about to come into the room before you come into the room. I'll be right back. Okay, no worries. This is, okay. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Your voice goes, Nice to meet you. You continue up.

All right, so you scatter yourself up the stairs, going all the way to the peak of Ligament Manor, out back to the open-faced skies of the garden. Are two captives still unconscious on the ground? They are. Or uncertain if they're unconscious, but they are wrapped heavily in the same roots and vines that the fey dragon is.

Oh, they're still wrapped up and confined. They're trapped. Okay. Okay. And then I run back down the stairs. Okay, they're somewhere. As you hear the footsteps descend, and a voice goes,

Fearne? Fearne, honey? Hey! And you watch as Nenamori goes, does this with her hand, and the image just turns invisible on the wall. She turns around. I made a drink for both of you, just in case they've returned here.

Hands out a few drinks before sitting back in her lazy boy chair, also made of tanned hide of something. Is this a beach umbrella made from frog skin? How very observant of you. No, it makes total sense. It's like you can web it. There's a lot of frogs here.

Brilliant. The texture is amazing. But Olly and Birdie come up and approach, and Olly's like, Fearne, love, it's good to see you. I heard you've been off north a bit. Your mother said you just came back from a journey not long ago.

Yeah. All's well, then? All is pretty fine. Roll a d20 for me. Me? Yeah. Uh-oh. Am I trying to roll high or low? How does that?

18. 18, okay. All right. Good stuff. Oh boy, not in this place. Look at the twinkle in his eye. Nana, we also have someone else that we might have to speak to.

Mm-hmm. More furniture. Well, well, this might be a little different situation. Very well. Come, birdie love, if you'd like to maybe prepare a meal for our guests. How long do you intend to stay? We won't be able to stay too long, Nana.

Just because there's a lot of stuff happening back on Exambria. Understood. Too long, Nanna. Just because there's a lot of stuff happening back on Exambria. Understood. We'll miss you. Oh jeez. I do look forward to a proper vacation when all this is done.

Maybe we can stay a little longer. Anytime. I'll grow you some more guest rooms. Thank you. Honestly, I would love to pick your brain at some point about your artistic abilities. It's just, it's... Oh, it would be an honor.

I like your aesthetic quite a bit. Hey, show me your little cage. Show me your little, with Pate's. Ooh, I think, has she met Pate? Actually, you know what? Pate went poof poof. I would have to summon Pâté again. That's right, that's right. Yeah, he was just kind of distraught.

Is that what we're calling it now? Is it poof poof? He got haunted. No, I was just trying to catch up on the new lingo. I think you can head back up to the garden as you all head out there, and you can see that. I just fucking died. Come on, we're just going upstairs.

You all step back out at the top, emerging where you are, you can see all the vines wrapped around you, Glomglut just goes, and just sighs deeply, still head to the stone. He's young. You're letting him go. He's a baby. He's a baby going.

Yeah. You give him the old yeller. He's young, despite his size. He's a baby, he his size, his dad's a big boy. I wonder what young means in fey dragon terms. Yeah. Time is a massive anyway. It's very soupy.

As we walk up, I just fall in pace with Orym. I'm just on the side of my mouth, You all right? Nah, but does it matter? You made a choice. You once supported me for making a very bold choice, and I support you for doing the same. I don't doubt that I did the right thing.

We came here to do something, and we're going to do it. Oh, you dropped this. Thanks. But we're lucky to make it through. We'll just keep carrying the weight. You know Fearne knows that, right? Knows what? We came here to make hard choices. We will continue to have to make hard choices. We will continue to have to make hard choices. From the beginning till now.

And talking to the gods hasn't made that any easier. No, we still have to unpack all that, but it's been intense. Like 24 hours. Two hours, three hours. Yes, it's been a lot, so we'll get to that. You feel his tiny hand, which is warm, wrap around your cool one

as we reach the top of the stairs, crest up. I'm going to walk with Fearne as we're going up. Hi. Hey. Jesus. Full disassociative episode. What do you mean? How's it coming?

Great. Everything hurts. I've got a migraine and, I don't know, I'm having a wonderful flashback to a series of abandonment issues. Have you thought about what you're going to do about the dragon out there? I have some ideas. You should sleep out there tonight. Okay. More company. Sure.

I promise I will not ask how you're doing. Thank you. This shit, right? Yeah. I'm going to give him a slap on the back and cast Greater Restoration on him. Okay, nice. Oh wait.

There's some materials. No, you're not. You don't have materials. Diamond dust with at least 100 gold. I don't need it now. I'll take the slap. I just slap his back. I'm going to side-lub next to Dorian

while we're walking up. And in his head, I'm going to side-lub next to Dorian while we're walking up. In his head, I'm going to go, I barfed down there, I threw up. Oh, I absolutely saw it. I just wasn't going to make a big deal about it. Dorian, that shit was nasty. It was pretty horrible. I mean, I asked to see the loom,

but I thought it would be something different. Like a loom. Yeah, like a loom loom. Yeah, maybe a nice blanket or a... Where the fuck are, what is happening? I have no idea, but I'm just rolling with it. I'm sorry if I seemed a little bit hyper-focused back there and ran away.

No, yeah, you were going to check on the prisoners, right? Wait, it's just that, you know, I just realized something while everyone was talking about their family feelings. I realized all this time adventuring, I've never actually had a mission before, and I've been really, really focused on it. So I feel like I've been distracted otherwise,

but we still have a mission, right? Oh, yeah. And I'm... Oh, yeah, there's definitely still a mission. Come here to stop the Unseelie from joining Ludinus. And mostly we've sort of succeeded so far, but we do have to wrap up that mission. So much has happened, and I just,

I feel like I'm tunnel vision right now, but I'm sorry. Dorian? Yes? You're doing great. Then I throw up a little bit in my mouth. At the compliment. I'll swallow it. Thank you. Emerging on the roof, the treetop gardens here,

with Gwongwook up there, the two entities still bound and Nannamori looming over them, grinning downward. Oh, your disappearing magics aren't going to work here in my domain, little, little bees, little fey treats. Now what do we need of them? We need to get them back to the Unseelie court,

and they have to deliver a message that Ludinus is going to lose, that the Ansele can't join him. It is ritual that he thinks he has the answer, and he's missing the final steps. He's bluffing. It assholes just took down everything that was going on there in front of them. That's embarrassing.

They were fodder. They were fodder. They were always meant to be thrown into the meat grinder for whatever Ludinus has planned. We might have tried to organically put some memories into their head. Yeah, most of your work is done. But maybe if there's some sort of magical means

of softening the backstory. Those memories will probably still be there. It'll flash in. Varian thinks we're really smart. You guys were great, by the way, in the acting realm. Have you ever done a play or made a movie or something together before? This was very good.

Oh. We tried once. Yeah, we did. We did, yeah, we did. We did really tell. Came close. Yeah. We did really tell. Came really, yeah, did. We did really tell. Came close. Yeah. Really tell. Came real, yeah.

We'll tell you later. Very well. Yes. Very well. She leans down over one of them, who's like, its brow is flickering a bit, like it's trying to pretend to be to sleep.

She leans in and goes, Shhh. Nanna will take care of it. She runs her finger across their forehead and this little red line appears that drips blood a little bit. Its eyes go wide for a second before they cloud over. Come on, bro. What?

10 out of two. Ooh. Okay, okay. Their eyes roll back, and you watch her fingers move around with an increasing pace, like she's in the process of stitching together a whole cluster of yarn at an impossible speed,

but there's nothing there. And as she does, she draws her finger in the opposite direction, and the red line closes up, and the blood pulls back up inside like there was no room to begin with. She's stitching the brain. Oh. I think I've set this one on your path of preference.

Now you. And you hear the other one go, Woo-hoo! Wait, you now see the emissary down below. Oh god. She's attracted. This is the important one. It's dressed in more important clothing.

Good. And every joint, even joints that shouldn't be there, pop as she gets down. Oh yeah. Everybody want a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba? I can just break her up and I can just go, even joints that shouldn't be there pop as she gets down. Oh yeah. Anybody want to bane him? Do me, me, me, me, me. I can just break him up and I can just go, it'll be all right, and I bane him. Okay.

It does succeed against the bane, unfortunately. A natural 18. I'll do it again! It'll be all right! That's a 16 plus, it's a wisdom? Yes. It's going to be a 24. Ha! Damn!

That's a lot. No, it's a charisma, it's a charisma, it's a charisma. Charisma, it's charisma. Oh, it's the same. Same. Yeah. Do it again. Do it, do it, do it. Do it again. Do it again. Burn it, burn it. Do it again! Do it again!

Do it again, we're going to bed after this. One and three. Yeah! Fourth egg! Yes! And Amore goes, If at first you don't succeed. I know this one! Wait, I know this one!

Wait, shut up, wait! Push until they stop moving. Push until they stop moving! I knew it! Oh! She's going to draw her finger across the emissary's head. Got a natural 20.

Whoa! Wait, is that for her or for him? That's for save. Oh! But minus it. It doesn't for him? That's for save. Oh. But minus it is just a frame. It doesn't matter where it is. It doesn't matter. Oh, man. Silver and barbs!

Do you have a spell slot? Yeah, we took a short rest, so I got all my warlock spells back. Okay. Yes. Yeah, you can wait. Let me actually make sure. Let me make sure. Wow.

Yes, I do. Yes, creepy crawler. Yes, little bit. Yes! Because I can cast it at a higher level. Yeah. Yeah, I'm burning. Yes. I do. Yes, Creepy Crawl. Yes, Lil' B. Yes! Of course! Because I can cast it at a higher level. Yeah. Yeah. I'm burning. Get it.

Bam, bam. Burn it all. Burn it all. Woo! Spring break. For his benefit. Seeing him twitch and taking Nana Mori's advice, Laudna just presses her thumbs a little into his eye sockets just around.

All right, so I reroll-roll one of the 20s and take the lower one. So I'm going to re-roll this one. I'm using the rudest dice for this, because it's apropos. Oh! What was it? 19! What?!

Wow! Wow. But it's not a 20. No. It wasn't a natural 20, so now he can't be baned, so it's like, does he get- He's baned, so it's minus something. Still baned.

Nannamori takes her other hand and carves another groove in an X formation. She's burning quite a few spell slots here, but she's a hack. She's been around a while. She could do the spell a few times. She can only do this a few more times. Yeah. Come on, you dork.

That's going to be a 24. What?! Silvery Barks! Silvery Barks! Do you have another one? Yes, I still have, this is my last second level spell slot. Bludeness shows up. Okay. That's lower.

That's going to be a 21. With d4. With bane. With bane. Nice d4. Someone rolled a d4. Wait, wait, wait, with bane. You should roll a d4. You got to roll a d4. You rolled it. You baned him. You baned him. Come on, bank money, bank money, bank money. Roll a d4. Roll a dane. Nice to d4. Someone rolled a d4. Wait, wait, wait, wait. With Bane. You got to roll. You rolled it. You Bane'd him. You Bane'd him. Come on. You rolled a d4. Come on, come on, come on.

Let's go. Okay, so 20. Nana Mori, she's got a really high AC, right? Her DC is 20. So that is exactly what they need. Her DC is 20? Her DC is 20? I have 2 3rd levels. I have 2 3rd levels.

I have 2 3rds. DC 20 is really high. I have 2 3rds and 1 4th, and that's all I have left. All right, she's going to take another shot. All right. Oh my god, Nott, come on. This poor emissary. Just like,. What? Okay. Okay, okay. So with that, so I mean, it has an advantage on it. Minus a d4. Minus a d4. Okay, okay, okay. With that, I mean, it has an advantage on it.

Minus a d4. Minus a d4. Okay, okay, come on, come on. Hi. Okay. Just do it! A three or higher will lower it to a 19. Do it. So you need a three or four. Let's go!

Come on, come on, come on, come on. Should I silvery barbs that before I bane it? Do you have enough? Yeah, you can silvery barbs it again. Up to you. Silvery barbs. Lower of the enough? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Silver barb. Lower of the two? Yeah.

No? Okay, three or four. He needs to stop rolling that die. Come on. Come on. Three, three, three. Ah! Ah!

Oh! Dammit! I'm trying to let him live. All right, you dumb emissary. Wait, how can she do it again? Wait a minute. How can she? Wait, I can she do it again? What do you mean? Wait, I can also buy back spells! I can buy it back!

I can stop any time, oh wow! Put her off. Red 35! This emissary is the toughest guy in the campaign. Yes! Man, mental shit on fey creatures is really tough. It's really tough. It's really bad. It's really tough. This emissary is specifically saving those who are trained

in wisdom and charisma, so it's tough. Hold on, wait a second. Maybe we just keep him here. Hold on, wait a second. Wait. I can, what can I do? What will this do? I can use Channel Divinity to turn Fae.

Will that creature will be turned? He just doesn't move away from me. That's all Fae around you, though. It doesn't affect his saves. Never mind. Okay, no worries. You doing something, or? Well, what is she doing? She's going to try it one more time.

Okay, I'm going to buy back Hold, hold, hold. a couple of first-level spell slots. A one and a 13. It's going to put her at 21. Yep. Roll a d4. Roll a d4. Okay.

Come on, roll high. Need a two or higher. Come on. Come on, baby. You've only rolled ones on this? Okay. Well, I switched it. I switched it. You got this. I on. Come on, baby. You've only rolled ones on this? Okay. Well, I switched it. Oh my god. I switched it. You got this.

I swear. This is it. Oh my god! Oh my god! No, you're so cute! Okay. You should just leave. Did you ban yourself? Oh no. I take out my flail.

I'm going to kill this guy. We have no other choice, right? Nannamore goes. Just on principle. I can see why they are the Emissary. Quite a resourceful and mentally resilient entity. I can keep going if you can. Do they both need to make their way back?

Actually, technically, Silvery Barbs will still work because the bane happens before you would Silvery Barbs that anyway. I could try and Silvery Barbs it one more time if you would allow me that. The one. His roll? His roll. Might as well, might as well.

Let's try it. This is truly the last last chance. He rolled a 13, right? So he's got to roll under a 13. Under 13. I'm rolling 19. What was it? Fuck! You're rolling so high for him. I'm showing you!

Let's go, big boy. Okay. So she goes, Hmm. Well. And goes ahead and puts her hand over the face of the emissary whose eyes just go and then roll back a bit like it's in a stupor. The vines pull away and she lifts it up in her hand,

just limp in her grasp, goes, Where to there? And she walks over towards an open part of the garden and just sets the emissary on its feet. The emissary stands and then and you watch as greenery, leaves, just out of its mouth, out of its ears, out of its eyes. The eyes pop out as leaves begin to grow

until eventually the emissary's body is completely surrounded and has become a bush. Question. The other guy didn't see that happen, right? No, the other guy's bound in the ground and is looking away in the other direction. Okay. Yeah, we would have made sure of.

All right, okay. And he's... That was the Alter Memories one? Yeah, he's okay. He's the one that... We got a guard. Honestly, it's okay. He's the one that... We got a guard. Honestly, it's okay. He's the one that we succeeded on the original modified memory,

and then had the attack fest, and then he's been modified again. So this guy, he's all sorts of tripped out. He's like the worst in the Ancily core. Memory is modified, so if you want to gayish with him. It works. Ish. Slip in the gayish.

Another roll. Surely we're due a good one, right? Laudna, do you want to be the emissary for the rest of your life? That's still an option. Why do you keep suggesting this? I mean, it just feels fun. Just to play a part.

I really commit to a long campaign of what? Do you want to be the emissary? I don't think I'm the right body type. I mean, I could try, but I'm not very good at accents. Brayus, I feel like you're the best among us at deception. And if our goal is to get him to deceive his compatriots and I have to issue him one command, what would be the perfect thing to say?

Well, what does he think happened now with his modified memory? Well, I peered back into earlier this day where you and all of your friends came and murdered his. And so I changed that to several lewdnesses slapping him for a good five, six minutes and calling him names. Oh!

Ludin! Wait, wait, wait. When you were looking back through his memories, did you see the play that we put on? Never mind, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. If you can't remember, it could be good. Sorry, I was a bit distracted.

But in all sincerity, I left them with a terrifying exchange with Ludanness and the, I think, enough information to set them on the path you require. How does your trick work? Is it a one-word deal, or you just have to? It's a command.

It's not one word. It's not one word? We can be specific, but we have to be specific. He needs to convince the court of lewdness's... Ineptitude. Defection. Trap for them. If they believe that Ludinus has got a trap ready to spring on them.

Setting them up to fail. And they're going to believe this guard? I mean, he'll survive. He's the only survivor. All right. If they look into his memory, they'll see. Those memories will be there? Convince the court that Ludmis will betray them.

They have a trap in place for the Unseelie Court's forces. If they show up that day, they're all going to die. Say it again, but slower. What do I tell them? Ludmis is setting them up to fail. They are fodder for the fight. Should we implant any memories of the journal? Lay down your weapons. Don't show up.

Don't come. Don't join with Ludenys. I think I've got it. It's a trap. All right. It's a trap! Do I release him? He likes us, right? He should.

Not necessarily. We saved him. Maybe you can give him the command. He's awake. I mean, look, he's right there. He's plastered against the ground. I'm going to lay down on my tummy and get face to face with him. Hello. Oh, could you, Nannamori, could you?

Oh, yes, of course. How did I get here? What, the dragon brought me here? We saved him, remember? Good question. Yes, yes, search your memories, your very new and real memories. Right, how?

Who are you? We had to get you out of there. We can't. Lewdness is a danger. We're friends. He wouldn't stop slapping me. Yeah, he slapped us, too. Killed all the rest, but just slapped me. That was awful.

I'm going to let him. Awfully soft. No one knows why. As he's freaking out, I'm going to stroke his hair and I'm going to hum a little tune. You have one minute to chit chat with him before I finish this spell. It was a crazy day.

It was a crazy experience. Do you, by any chance, do you remember, because it's foggy for me, do you remember the part where someone was attacking Ludinus, and he was like, oh no, get off me. And then someone stabbed him. Do you remember that part at all? Yes, there was.

Do you remember him conspiring with one of his red-robed miscreants about destroying? That was you. Who barely got to the door. No, no, no, no, that was, that was. I've never even liked that voice anywhere. No, I think I was doing a higher pitch thing.

I'm just fucking with you. I'm just fucking with you. He's getting deceived now. I don't know where that goes. It's like, higher pitch thing. So he's like, I do... What is happening? It was convincing though, right?

Where am I? Oh, yes. And there's proof that Ludinus is doing bad things. Remember they were talking about proof? Right. Tell us your name. Kamal. Okay. We barely got you away from him.

We've all fled here. Ludinus and his people are going to take out anyone there. He's a danger to everyone around him, especially the court. And right as Urim says that, the spell is finished being cast, and I just lean down to his ear and I whisper, Shh, shh, shh.

You must convince the Unseelie not to fight. No matter what you do, they must not join Ludinus. You've been geished. Or have you? I don't know. So you're doing a wisdom saving throw against us. Is he still Bane? No, because you've recast Bane. I can't be him.

I can Bane him with a throw. I can cast Bane, yeah. That's fine. I've bought packs of spells. You recast Bane. I can't do that. I can Bane over the roll. I can cast Bane. That's fine. I bot pack spells. You want to Bane him? Bane. Bane. Bane. Bane.

Bane succeeds. Oh my goodness. Can we give you different dice, Farrokh? Against Bane. Sure, I'll take different dice. He's Bane. That was against Bane. That was against Bane? He succeeded against Bane. So now he still has to roll against the spell. Yeah, against the That was against Bane. That was against Bane? He succeeded against Bane. He's baned.

So now he still has to roll against his spell. Yeah, against his spell. Be baned! This possibly never happens to me. I was gentle with my touch. Surely this will work. I could try and bane him with my last third-level spell. He's fine.

He's not baned. Natural 20 and 18. What is this baloney? Silvery barbs! Silvery barbs! Silvery barbs, silvery barbs. Silvery barbs. Oh boy. 18, though? Three!

That does it? Yes! You deserve it. I can't believe I rolled that well that whole time. That was like Ashton's trial. Oh, it was so rough. I'm glad I did that for you guys, or I would've been stabbed in the parking lot.

I'd be like, no, you suck. Wow. I don't fuck shit. I don't fuck shit. That was amazing, though. Laudna just has a little black bead coming out of her nose, and she's just like,

I'm rubbing it back. Laudna, you've got ichor on you. a little black bead coming out of her nose. She's just like, I'm rubbing it back. You've got, Vodna, you've got ichor on you. As you're saying this, Anamori's head stretches into view. No. Yeah, now we can let him go. Yeah.

Lifts her hand, all the vines and heavy, thick roots go, and reveal, and the guardian sits up fast, turns around, reaches for its weapon. There's no weapon there. Go. Now. Save us. Save the world. You know your mission. Save the cheerleader.

Save the world. But damn the man, save the Empire. Gage it. All right. Sam the man saved the Empire. Gay shit. Scott? All right. So as part of this, I'll give one final deception check. Who wants to make the roll? Maybe Sam does. Sam or Sam. Wait, for him, right?

Yeah. To pass the deception check. Can I guide any? Wait, sorry, who? You're rolling a deception check. Oh. Yep, against him. Oh, right. Yep. All right. I'm going to say that Against him. Oh, right. Sorry. I'm going to say that's 29.

Okay, he's like, and he runs off further into the garden, and then runs back, how do I get out of here? And I'm like, where is that? I'm going to grab this. I'm going to take him with me, and it's like, you have to go back as quickly as possible, and I'm going to put this. I'm going to take him with me and it's like, you have to go back as quickly as possible. I'm going to put him on Coriolis,

give him the ass slap and just whisper to Coriolis, take him to the Unseelie. Smack. Nice. That's fucking great. Coriolis comes back. How do I get that? Fuck!

You can talk! You can talk! I swear to you, you're using it. It's so funny, Mr. N. K. Horace! Mr. N. Oh my god. Please don't. As they vanish in the distance, Glomglut stays, is still there, giving in to this. Nianna Mory looks's the rest of you? Well, it seems you've succeeded

in setting your Seeds of Doubt. Yeah. That's great, that's great. Mission complete. Mission complete. Level one. Are you on your way, then? I think we need a night of rest, actually, would be real. I mean, as long as.

In San Libardo, there's spots, but I know time is weird. Of the essence, but we've got to sleep. We've got to sleep. Would we be able to make sure that time doesn't pass too quickly over there again? Leaving from my domain, I should be able to guide you back.

But only in my domain. Well, then I'll stay here. Yeah, you'll stay here. Very well. Then come. I'll make sure the rooms are clean. They're clean. Awesome! I'm so jealous of her.

She sips from her tiki drink. I'm going to go grab a blanket and a pillow and I'm going to head down to the meadow. That blanket was a senator. Jaina has a smell. Do you think you'd be able to peek in in your dreams or something tonight? To what, to who, to what? I don't to, like, peek in in your dreams or something tonight? To what? To who? To what?

I don't know, like, try to tap in somewhere? I could try. I could try. Um, to who, though? Predathos? Oh, jeez. That's a little crazy. I could try. I mean, I'm not on the moon, so maybe it wouldn't be quite as bad. Maybe I could try to see what's going on up there.

We do, I feel like, have a mild dilemma as well. We successfully crashed this little meeting, this little party between Ludinus and Sothudo. Ludinus is going to know that someone tipped us off, and now Zathuda is dead. Well, he doesn't know that. As far as he knows, Zathuda just abandoned him. That's true.

Came at a cost, but I... It's hard to say this, but I think we can chalk this up as a win. I definitely think we can chalk this up as a win. Plus, we've totally executed on our part of the deal. That's one of three missions as a success. We'll report back. They'll hail us as heroes. We'll probably get a feast.

Maybe not that last part, but. This wasn't one of the three missions, though. This was a side quest. No, but at least now we know what Keyleth's friends will be facing when they go to the Key. Mm-hmm. Hopefully minus one extra army. Hopefully.

But oh my gosh, if that's true, those Vidalches, y'all remember what that Vidalche looked like? If there's a ton of them on the surface now. He said it was an invasion army. That's not... He kept saying it was peaceful, that the Ruidus just wanted to... It's an invasion.

Armies are armies. I'm sure if they had the choice, they wouldn't stay up there. Yeah. Don't they dream of the... I'm sure if they had the choice, they wouldn't stay up there. Yeah. Don't they dream of the? I'm sure if they had the choice, they would choose as opposed to invade.

That's what we're going to need to hammer home, so to speak. We saw the Weavemind. We knew it was like this. Remember that time when we talked to the Archheart? That was nuts. Two hours ago? Yeah, that was great.

No, but how did y'all feel about what he was saying? They made some really amazing points. It's a deal I can get behind. I really liked him. I really didn't, but I liked the points. It's a deal I can get behind. Do we really want to follow through? The deal is that we would still wake up Predathos.

That's the deal they want, wake up Predathos. And be Predathos. Potentially. Everyone gets what they want. Well, except for the people who believe in the gods, like the most of the world. Well, not most, a lot. The other scary thing is if he's sending Rudisborn

to their deaths, is he testing the boundary? Or are they testing who's powerful enough to possibly take Predathos into them? I wish there was a way to peek in. That'd be nice. We've yet to see one thing that proves to us what will happen after that thing is let loose. We've had people tell us it will be fine. People tell us it would be destructive. We've had people tell us it will be fine. We've had people tell us it would be destructive. We've had a god tell us to fight. We've had a god tell us to burn it all to the ground.

What makes you think that anyone, including Ludinus, knows what will happen when Pardothos is let free? I don't think anyone does, which is why I wouldn't light that match. I think it's coming one way or the other, and I'd rather be there when it does. I agree. I do not. The Arch-Heart made it pretty clear that

taking Perdothos on would be... Deadly? Yeah. That's why we're making a play for the Ludinus. What about the other gods? What if they have different ideas? I mean, we're going on... They do. They get to live. We have one god telling us fight,

and should we give more opinions? There was one other god that the Arch-Hearts had shared a similar opinion. I wonder. Oh, that's wrong. Yeah. He sort of alluded that it was the Matron of Ravens. Did he? Is that right?

I find that hard to believe. Oh, I guess. Well, he looked at me and said, spooky lady wants to talk to you. Oh, he did? Remember? Right, that did happen, I'm not crazy. Did any of us hear that? Describe the vision of a porcelain mass.

Oh, we didn't see that. That was just you. That was just me. So you just? Matt said it out loud. But, yes. Maybe you should talk to him. I'm going to highlight a lot of it. I do not want to know.

What if you tried talking to him a lot? You know, it's really funny, because I just always assumed that she, of all people, gods, would really hate me, because I think she'd get a little with the whole undeath thing. But her priestesses, they stood up. I know!

So strange. It was kind of... I will say he's the one I trust so far. Yeah, I tried. In what we saw, he was the only one who had clear misgivings. Everybody else was hand-wringing. He was the only one who was actually with a big picture. You seem tired. He seemed tired.

He's also a coward. Cowards are often honest. I'm very honest. I trust a coward. It's a big coin toss, guys. Big coin. Well, the other big factor that might push our hand is if Ludinus is successful in broadcasting

everything that we saw in Aeor. If that does happen. They might be doing that right now. Correct. I feel like we would know. Is there a chance if he does, the gods strike back? As they feel their power waning? Maybe.

I think to your point, Dorian, if that happens... Something. The inevitable, either someone will release Prodothos. Or before they get to it, the gods will open the gates and everything goes to chaos. Well, that's interesting. Didn't they say the substance, the last bit of the lock on Pardothos

shared a similarity with the Divine Gate? Yeah, that's right. So if they break down the gate, does it pull the pin on Pardothos, keeping them maybe back for a little bit? Maybe. Maybe. Because if they do, then it could be fair game. Maybe, Oh god. I do think that most scenarios in this current situation lead to the worst that we can imagine.

Sure. He said himself a second calamity. But I trust these two. Who? Yeah, we're super trusting. I trust you and the monkey. Yeah. And you're pretty good, too. There's no one I trust more than us.

Sure. That I can agree with. It should be us. But lewdness is at the end of the road, no matter what. Yep. And I don't know that we need to decide that we have to throw the switch instead of him when we at least have a chance

to cut off his hand before he pulls it. Yeah. Job one. He doesn't touch the switch. It can end with job one if you do it successfully. There's nothing saying that you have to flip the switch and turn reality upside down. None of you can tell me what will happen

if one of our friends does what lewdness wants to do. None of you have any evidence proof. Intuition doesn't cut it. Your gut does not cut it. You are putting the population of this world at risk. So I hope you are all fucking sure at the end of that road. I'll be there to get you there. I'll stand by your side.

I will do my damnness to keep you all alive. But don't let it be a coin toss. Or let's see what happens, because you just don't know. Well, then we're very lucky that we no longer have anyone who believes and puts their faith in a coin toss. I'm going outside.

Nugent, burn. I'm not Ruedisborn, so it's not really up to me. How do you feel about the notion that one or both of you could be asked to be a vessel? Where are you, how are you feeling about that? I don't... I haven't really thought about it yet, Chet. Like, I've been of the notion

that I don't want to let Predathos free. I know so many people disagree with what the gods do, and so many in our group do, but a lot of people on this world depend on them. To throw that all away seems... careless. To throw that all away seems......careless. Faith's a hard thing to let go of. It is. And it's not like... ...you know, their faith would be shattered...

...because they don't know. Their faith would be shattered because their gods abandoned them. Their gods would have run away from them in their time of need. When all of the Ruidians or Rylorans by Lorenz are destroying their lands and demons from the depths are

breaking through portals. I don't know what will happen to Orm's Point, so I don't know how I happen to Orm's point. So I don't know how I feel about backing that play up. But I think if it's gonna happen, if it has to happen, if there's no stopping it, if it comes down to it and he's coming out,

then I would gladly step up. And at least try. then I would gladly step up. And at least try. But there's no way I'm more powerful than some of the exultants up there already. I don't know. You're very capable. We saw you level the city block. Some, I believe most, and this is not me being dismissive or demeaning, Ruidusborn just happened to be born under a red moon. I don't think it necessarily godlike or god-eater powers. If it's not your mother, it's probably one of the two of you,

let's be honest. And that makes my stomach turn. I think us combined... There might be some hope. Yeah, I mean, listen. If it's something that's got to be done, it's got to be done. Personally, I think... I don't know, I think if something is captured up there, this Predaphos... Does it make us any better that we're just keeping him caged up? Just to save other people and other things?

What if he's like Glowglot? Yeah, what if he just wants to go back and be with his family? Well, I kind of sensed him. He wants to eat. I know, but. Fern, you're so sweet. It's hard to believe, but there is real evil in the world. Yeah.

I've seen it. Not everything deserves a second chance. Yeah. But maybe you're right. I wish you were. I wish the world were the way you saw it. But, well, that's not a chance I'm willing to take either. I think Predathos is a weapon. Do we want to have the power to wield it? I don't know. But I trust us more than anyone.

Maybe we need to talk to the, um, Major of Ravens. See what she has to say. Yes, if there's one thing that we've learned. The gods certainly aren't a monolith. How do we do that? Do we go back to Vasselheim and topple a temple and hope she shows up?

I don't think we have to topple a temple. Maybe just go to her temple? Oh. Or. I mean, there's three spooky ladies stood up and went like, ooh, we trust the spooky one, so maybe I could start with them. Yeah.

Nannik could reach out. To the Matron of Ravens? They have a thing. I mean, listen, Nana, they both are kind of bitchy to each other. And they kind of have a thing. What, like on the rag? I don't know.

No, not on the rag, but I think she gets irritated with Nana because she gets on her way, futzing with strings and things. Oh yeah. I don't know. I know there's some beef there between the two of them and maybe she could be like, hey. Could reach out.

I don't know. Does it, maybe I don't want to have more evolutions on me. Yeah, maybe her priestess is should. Maybe we bypass Nanna. That might make her actually angry. I don't want it to start. No, no, no.

You know, in a contentious, you know, like, ooh, this angry. I don't want it to start. No, no, no, you don't want it to start. You know, in a contentious, you know, like, ooh, this is. I mean, in all honesty, though, I don't know if it matters. If you make contact, she's going to know who you are. That's true. Oh my god. She'll see our threads regardless. Yeah. You can certainly ask.

That's true. I also just, over the last months, have the feeling that we're walking some line and that's why so many of them are paying attention to us. Maybe they see us as a last-ditch effort. That's crazy. Us? It is, but it's uncanny.

Did we go too far today? No. Never. We're on a mission to save the world. Some stuff's going to happen. It's all in service of a greater good. No one said it was going to be easy. We're... the worst.

Like, just kind of in general. Like, we're a bunch of fuck-ups. We're kind of the worst. Like, just in general, like we're a bunch of fuck-ups, we're the worst. And strangely, I think, I think that's the quality that everyone sees in us that makes us the best for this job. It was so ugly the way we did it, but we did do what we came here for.

Yeah. At the end of the day, whoever succeeds, whoever has power, whoever accomplishes their goals, they can make things right. We have to win first. Right. Chet, what's going on over there? It's just the weird part is all these different parties have the same goal. To push the reset button, to grab the reins. We all have different perspectives.

The Unseelie want the chance to do it and wipe the slate, but they want to be in charge. Ludinus, same thing, but he wants to be in charge. I'm not saying we're wrong. I think we're better, but we're really no different. What the Arch Heart is trying to convince us to do is the exact same thing that everybody else is trying to do. Yes. I was asking if he had talked to Ludinus or done this before, like a catalyst, like a voice in your ear.

I don't know. You think we're getting our strings pulled? Feels like it, doesn't it? Well, then maybe talking to the Machen is the wrong idea. If anyone can pull strings. She was. We should do it. Conversations are important.

Everything breaks down when people don't talk. We learn more every day. We're still on this journey. No decisions have been made. We're not speaking in absolutions. Can she see the future, you think? The Matron? If I had to guess,

she sees versions. Well, do you think she knew that her champion would become the catalyst for the key? I mean. That's a good question to ask. Yes, I mean, if anything, she's, has a reason to take all of this very personally, more so than any of the others. I bet she's motivated by fear as well.

I would imagine if you could see the future, the one future you couldn't see is the future where the gods come to an end. No. That makes sense. So the plan is we sleep. We go back to Vasselheim. We go to the temple.

And then... Then we start figuring out how to stop lewdness. And then fuck shit up. Yeah. Just one thing before that. We're going to wake up tomorrow and tame a dragon? Oh. Well, that's up to you, Fearne.

I feel like we need to let him go a little bit, but that's just me. He's your dragon. He's not my dragon. He will be after you tame him tomorrow. That doesn't mean he's my dragon. Yeah, but wouldn't it be cool to have a dragon that you're back and called? It would be so fucking cool. I don't think it'll take extra time. Then Amore seems like she didn't send us back

the same minute we left. I don't know. I don't know. I think we'll cross that bridge when we get there tomorrow, but. Sleep on it? I'm going to sleep on it. I'm literally going to sleep on it.

You're going to sleep on the dragon? Maybe, I don't know. It's the only time I'll be able to probably do that. Then, all right. You know, I just want to snuggle in and take it in because it might be the only time. Yeah. Despite how above table, how fractured this group is,

especially how hardheaded Orym is about what he thinks they have to do, and we have so many different opinions. Orym still very quietly floats through the group and ends up next to Dorian and leans on his hip. I put my arm around him, and my little half-cape is like a little bird wing. Got him tucked in tight. Just like I did with the guard,

I was going to stroke his hair and hum a little tune. I was like, don't, shh, shh, shh, shh. He's like, and I just whispered, don't worry, I'm not casting a spell on you. The most unsettling thing to hear. I swear I'm not scared. Deception check. Yeah. Mm-gah.

Okay. Do you guys wish to rest for the evening, then? Does anyone else want a nightcap? I think I might go get one more little sop off. I'll sit down there and drink with you. Or a bath. I could use a bath. God, yeah. I think there's baths in the bedrooms.

Baths, saunas. Fearne, are there the equivalent of a hot springs here? There is. Where we could all take a dunk? Yeah, there is. If you want to go for just a little dunkies could all take a dunk. Yeah, there is. If you want to go broke. Just a little dunkies before we go to sleep. Yeah.

So relax. That sounds great. I take a tray of the creepy froggy Mai Tais. Oh. If you hit the bar, you would've caught me in the bar having a drink as well. Oh, you would've been at the bar. I would've been at the bar.

Is Daddy Portrait visible at this point? Back to visible, or? Still invisible. If I had touched it, would I have felt it? You go and poke in the space where it is. Yeah, there's a dried, tanned hide. As I just take a little bit of, not even a Mai Tai, I'm just drinking straight,

and I find a a little bit of, not even a Mai Tai, I'm just drinking straight, and I find a little shrimp cocktail sauce, and I quietly draw an invisible smile behind the invisibility. Gross. You're so lucky you finally get to know your daughter. Excuse me. And I'm going to...

I bump into Ashton. I apologize, I just knew I was going to start a fight, so I thought I would walk away before I started a fight. No, I think that's very smart. You're learning to control your emotions. I think that's good. At least put them in a box and bury them. I think that's great. No, that's good.

It's good to take a little walk sometimes. All the super existential talk is done. We're going to take a little dip in a hot spring, if you would like to join us. I promise that no one's going to talk about the nature of the universe, our place in it, and whether or not what we do matters, if it's important, if it's too important,

if we're ending the world, if we're ending the world because other people are telling us to do it. If we drink enough. Fucking into it. All right, I'm going to grab another trill. Fucking god. Ooh, these frog cups float. That's very nice.

Ribbon. Of course they have to have. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody else doing anything for the evening before you bend down? I'm going to spend the night out with Glomglot. I was going to join you in that, too. I will use my last spell splot to bring back pate while we're soaking.

Yes. Oh! Oh, aye, sorry about that. Got a little crazy over the temple in Nauro getting killed and stuff. I, well, um. You float like the frog cops, and I just spin him. Whee!

Oh! I'm off to bed, let's go. Okay. I'm so red vomity-fied, Hogan's. Oh. I'm going to go off on my own and pray. I'm a man of faith. I must pray.

So yeah, I'm going to just splatter some paint on the wall and kneel before it and just ask if my mission is to destroy lewdness, but that results in the gods being chased away. Is that my mission? Or do I need to prevent that from happening? To which god do you direct your prayer? Good question.

Good question. Jett. Just Jett. Yes, I'm Jett. Question. Jet. Just jet. Yes, I'm jet. I'm just going to open my mind and whatever god responds, I might not even know what god responds, or if any god responds,

I'm just going to open my mind to both and hope that some answer comes back. If killing lewdness chases the gods away, is it worth doing? You stare at the splatters in the wall and the dripping ink-like paint seems to glide down slowly, an arc,

and return an arc again. The ink expands, no longer just scattered lines, but spilling out into an inky void where flames erupt. His horns rise, framed in shadow, within the dark. What faint bit of interior light glitters across an iron crown? If what is to come is inevitable,

then chase the rest away. And we remain. You blink and your splatters are as they were. Don't let Jett up. . I'll reach out and grab the, or spread my hand across the wet paint and rub it on my eyes and face.

Beautiful work you do. Oh! Sorry, man, I didn't mean to get the walls dirty. I'm not as talented as an artist as you. Oh, I made room for this purpose. I like it. It's passionate, inspired, and dripping. Can I admit something to you?

Of course, many do. Everyone is... Everyone seems so happy out there. Dorian and Orym are happy together. Fearne and her dragon, and maybe Ashton. The two that I can't image in, one's Imogen. I know that. The other one, I get confused about.

I don't want to be alone tonight. Sets the drink down. The secret is everyone's miserable. They're just looking for the chance to forget it, even if for a moment. And she slaps you square on the ass. Then begins walking up the stairs. I'm in the cherry blossom suite.

Oh my god. I will clip-clop after her. Fucking legend. Clip-clop. Melf Manor. Moria'd like to buy it. Yes! Oh no. Wow. Don't keep it away, Jaden.

Everything is dateable. Everything is dateable. Yay! You can date the paintings. You can. Best DLC. We'll talk later. Sure. Surely not this cursed painting.

Oh my god. You can date the bushes. One other thing. I also want to join the spa, but I can't stop reading this card. Can I try and take off the Demon Shell Armor along with everything except my skivvies just to get in the pool?

Sure. You take off all the rest of your equipment and you look down at the demon shell armor and you will it off of you. Me. And it slowly seems to move. Make a wisdom check for me. You can't ever get clean.

That's not what the card says. A wisdom check straight up. Yeah. 13. Okay. It slides off of you and returns to its cape form, like kind of dropped on the ground. It was just a brief,

a brief little unsettling moment of like... It took a second, but it got there. This is old. Yeah. You updated it. This is a little pliant. That's right. These joints need a little love in the morning. Jack, get in here.

Okay. Jackknife! As you get up in the water, you see the shadow begin to appear at the edge as this hulking form with fur and scale emerges. You look up to see, are you joining them in this, Hottie? Well, I jumped out, but I get, I feel like my baby is coming out. Okay, you're gone. The rest of you had seen this once before as Bompers,

the massive, weird, furred, oily, fur-matted alligator creature goes into the water behind you. No! He'll give you a little banana boat. behind you. No! Just trying to wake up. No. Oh fuck! He'll give you a little banana boat. We're washing his feet out. He comes up again.

Hey, buddy. He's a nice boy. Ah! Is he friendly? And just slowly leaves the water and just goes on its own. Oh my gosh. I love it.

A lot cleaner. And leaving the water a lot dirtier. Ugh. That's it. That was nice when it got good. Up and out. I'm going to go over to Glomglit. Still just resting there, bound,

kind of eyes half closed. As you approach, you're going to hear breathing. I'll just approach easy so I don't wake him up or startle him. Hello. This is Ashton. Hey. I want to, there's something snapping his neck down?

There's multiple roots and vines that are wrapped around it, holding its wings and its legs and its head and neck to the ground. Okay, I want to undo the ones around his neck. Okay, you have some control over nearby plant life and such, so you undo the ones around the neck and it stretches.

Its jaw stretches itself. I'm going to let you go. Hey. But I think you're very cute, and I would like to just rest here with you tonight. Just curled up around your little nook. It's a dream I've always had, just sleeping in the little dragon.

Gets close to you. Oh. Bumps its head against yours and rubs its face against yours. I do the same. I just start nuzzling it. It curves its head around, now that it can flex it, and wraps around you a little bit to form a little nook. Oh my god. His head looks like the size of a Mini Cooper, right? Yeah, it's massive.

He's a big boy. Yeah, it's massive. Though interestingly enough, in its diminished state here, held down, its size seems to have adjusted to be smaller than you recall it. Oh! Almost like its current physical state is informed by its emotional state.

Oh! And in the... It's. And in a space, the rift of confidence, it seems to have taken a smaller form. Still big. And since I'm wearing pieces of either jewelry or clothing or something from everybody, I want him to get used to those smells.

Okay. We're your friends. We're not going to hurt you. And then the next hour, I just want to sharpen his nails. Clean his teefees. Clean his ears. And then once I've done all that, I'm going to undo the rest of his...

The shackles. Okay. You can go if you want. But you can also rest here for a little bit. It stretches and flaps its wings a bit, the nearby bushes shift from the gusts, the sound of all the nearby leaves and branches. I don't want you to leave your armor and picks you up. Circles once. Goes and rests in

this tight, curled circle and places you right in the center of its coiled body, its tail wrapping around. This is my dream. He's so scritchy. I want to scritch him so bad. All right, and I just rest there and look at Ashton. This is so cool. I don't know if I'm invited.

May my friend come in? I don't have to. I can just keep guard out here. His tail pats you from behind. Everyone keeps doing that today. Not my right hand, because that one is rough, but I very gently run the smooth stone on the left hand as I walk through. Everyone deserves to choose everything. Amen. I love him. Just for the rest of the night, until we fall asleep.

It's like a lizard nest. Yeah, it's really lovely, huh? We get to see the best stuff. Yes, we do. Does anybody? It's like the others don't think. This is so cool. No one else has ever done this. No.

Worth every moment. Worth every moment. You are the fucking best. I know. Good. We'll just continue to take him in, because I know that this is a fleeting moment of being so close to such a beautiful creature. Its breath becomes gentler as it grows comfortable.

The little peaks amongst the cloud-covered skies over the Herakalfens breaks with a bit of the Cath Catha moonlight that haunts beyond the clouds of the Fey Realm at times, the Moonweaver's presence still lingering on the outskirts, looking down upon those who seek the shadows for secrets. Its head curls up at one point to look up towards the light, before giving one final, and it curls up once more. The two of you lay curled, cuddled up in the wrapped spiral of the dragon here at the top of the Ligament Manor. The beautiful little glowing flickers of thousands of fey fire lights drifting through the nearby branches of this treetop garden. A night of well-earned rest comes to all of you.

And what is to come in the day or days before, briefly forgotten. And that's where we'll go ahead and finish tonight's episode. Okay. So good., good. Oh, good. Oh, good. Ooh! Damn.

I want a dragon bed. I know. I know. I want a dragon bed. Something about animals mourning their owners gets me every time. Me, too. And even imaginary dragons.

How'd you make Ligament Manor feel cozy? Yeah. Because it is. It is. It's horror cozy. Yes. And it's like, at night comes the light. My cat's going to mourn me

by slowly starting to chew my face within actually 20 minutes before I've died. Yeah. I sense it coming, I'm getting in while it's fresh. Fair. Be crying. We'll be crying. We'll pick up from there next time. Thank you all so much for joining us.

Love you very much, and is it Thursday yet? Good night.