Critical Role - C3E58 Escape From The Past

Episode Date: May 18, 2023

Bells Hells' Team Wildemount are assailed by the corrupted creatures of Molaesmyr as they attempt to flee with the secrets they've obtained from the ruins... Due to the improv nature of Critical Role and other RPG content on our channels, some themes and situations that occur in-game may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode.Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources Watch Critical Role Campaign 3 live Thursdays at 7pm PT on https://twitch.tv/criticalrole and https://youtube.com/criticalrole. To join our live and moderated community chat, watch the broadcast on our Twitch channel. Twitch subscribers gain instant access to VODs of our shows like Critical Role, Exandria Unlimited, and 4-Sided Dive. But don't worry: Twitch broadcasts will be uploaded to YouTube about 36 hours after airing live, with audio-only podcast versions of select shows on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Google Podcasts following a week after the initial air date. Twitch subscribers also gain access to our official custom emote set and subscriber badges and the ability to post links in Twitch chat! "It's Thursday Night (Critical Role Theme Song)" by Peter Habib and Sam RiegelOriginal Music by Omar Fadel and Hexany Audio"Welcome to Marquet" Art Theme by Colm McGuinnessAdditional Music by Universal Production Music, Epidemic Sounds, and 5 AlarmCharacter Art by Hannah Friederichs

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Critical. Critical. It's Thursday night! One by one we climb until we reach the top Two by two we fall Will we meet our end or meet our destiny? Hold your breath and roll How do you want to do this?

It's Thursday night All ye critters come join us It's time to continue our flight There is magic and mystery Who knows what will happen He might But one thing's for sure We never give up on the fight

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It's Thursday There is magic and mystery from darkness, our friendship will rise But one thing's for sure, we never give up on the fight Oh, get ready, it's Thursday night Oh, get ready, it's Thursday night And welcome back. So as we left off, this troop had wandered from the city of Uthodurn deep into the Savalirwood to the ruins of Molaesmyr

in hopes of uncovering some of the lost history surrounding Ludinus D'leth. After encountering some of the terrifying altered creatures that call it home, hiding through the ruins in shadow, only briefly managing to avoid being globally possessed by many of the spirits that linger here, running from the terrifying Wolf King entity and eventually climbing within the remains

of the Guild Hollow Tower. So well-taken. You clamber within the Shaded Ruins that once was the abode of Ludinus Delef. And within here, you begin to uncover some notes, some themes, and apparently some sort of odd enchanted section of a wall. But before you're able to dig too deep

into what that is and what it may contain, Chetney climbs the ceiling to check for other- For everyone's safety! Of course. What the fuck? No, but if you took your foot, it's in your pocket. And in doing so, seems to call forward or awaken some sort of strange, amorphous creature

that emerges and slops down into the center of the chamber. Its weird shifting skin and tendon-like flesh with mouths and teeth occasionally emerging and crying and baying like all number of various predatory creatures and animals. All of you begin to back up against the wall as it lands and emerges, its tendrils slopping around. No, stop saying slopping.

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Are you still a wolf, Chet? Yes, you are. Can we just buy up real estate in Molaesmere? It's real pretty here. Yeah, it's probably really cheap. The neighborhood's not very cheap. Look at the toadstools on the tree. Having trouble finding someone to show on the property. The trees have bones.

Four. Those are good. Trees have bones. We had a real estate agent, but they ghosted us. Oh, wow. Dang. High mark. So as you're climbing the ceiling. There we go.

Shpoof. Oh! It's so big! Why is it glistening like that? Nah, nah, it's actually going to stay there. You should have fucking faces. I think you grabbed the one that was too big. No, I think it's pretty dead on, actually.

All right, 25 to 20. Oh, 27. 22. What, 27? Holy schmoly. It's the first time I've done it. I rolled a natural 20, but I'm going third. That's very funny. I rolled a 20.

I also did. Freedom. What? You did, you had a natural 20. Yeah. So, yeah. I rolled a FCG. Too bad. Imogen. But you can hold your action if you want to. Oh my god. Yeah. So, yeah. I don't like it. FCG. Too bad. Imogen. You can hold your action if you want to. Oh, absolutely.

Oh my god. Okay. This feels like the big boss, right? We're not saving spells for anything? No, no, we only have music like this for movies. Who is saving? I don't got them. 20 to 15. All right, we're going to have those 20s there.

If everybody rolls above a 10, we'll win. All right. 15 to 10. Oh, 14. 14, all right. Baby! Come on! Come on! Let's go outside. Fearne, what's yours?

Six. Okay. What did you do, Ray? All righty. So as this weird entity is starting to slop around the interior of this chamber. Slop. Slop. Well, if you keep fighting it,

it will eventually slough off. But Frida, you're up first. Go ahead. As this thing lands on the ground, you have the chamber here. This is the staircase that descends below, right off to this side there. Oh, there we all are, okay.

And where's the circle on the wall? Jesus. The circle on the wall was over on this side that you guys were inspecting. You going to hit it? I don't know yet. Oh. Speak with animals.

Can I get around in that to that staircase? Do I have enough space to get around into the stickers? I'm assuming I'm within its range. You are within, mainly of it, it's landed in the middle of all of you and we'll step out of the way to avoid it. You can move down the stairs, but if you go beyond that,

it might get an attack property. I just want to get maybe to the top of the stairs. Okay. So you shift over here to the very top of the stairs before they descend down below. Yeah, and I will... I'll just take two shots at it. Go for it.

Roll for attack. For the record, at the top of your turn, its weird growling and baying and crying sounds that are coming from the multiple mouths are filtering into your brain and starting to hurt your consciousness. You take seven points of psychic damage. Oh, just like that? No save? No knock-down?

Yep, just at the top of your turn. Whoa, that's so cool. What if we close our ears with our eardrums? With your eardrums? Yeah, you don't want to close your eardrums? Yeah, like this? Is that a werewolf thing? That is a nine plus 10.

What are you playing? 19, 22. Pluck as your butt and your eardrums. Yes, 22 hits. 22 hits, go ahead and roll damage. No damage. Eight plus six. Got to close the vault.

You're better. Okay, guys. Chetney's watertight right now. Oh god. 14 points of damage on the first one. Do I get 14 points of damage? Do I get, is there anyone? Do I get sneak attack? Yeah, if you want to.

We're going to die. What does my sneak attack do? So that was 14 for that, and then sneak attack is to 1d8? What was sneak attack? Is that how many levels of rogue you have in there? Just the one. Yes, it'd be 1d8. 1d6, sorry.

1d6. Oh, there. Six points. Look at that. Yep. And I'll take the second shot. Go for it. Reload. So bonus reload, and then second fire. Oh, that's got to help.

That hits, that's 11 plus 12. That definitely hits, roll damage a second time. 2d8 is a six. But you don't get sneak attack a second time, though. Yeah. That is six plus eight, 14 points again. 14 points of damage. Great.

So as you rush around. Plus six, 14 plus six, right? So 20 points of damage. Well, plus six from your dexterity. Yeah, 2d8 plus six. Yep, you're on. 14 plus six, right? So 20 points of damage. Well, plus six from your dexterity. Yeah, you got it. Dang, 20 and 20. 40 points damage, one round. It's like in Blast. You can see chunks of it flying off,

and with each hit, you can see parts of its flesh sliding off and darkening into a gray-brown coloration as it falls off. It just stands there. Its eyeless teeth and mouths swirling in the space. Occasionally, you see shifting limbs trying to push out, like it's trying to find form, but failing. Does it look like it has a core?

As I'm seeing it, does it look like it has a core? As you fire, go ahead and make a perception check for me. That's a six plus... So 17. 17. As you fire, you can see you blast a column, like a cavern in the side of it, where the damage from your gun actually slams into its side and tears an opening hole. You do not see a change in texture or flesh.

Wow, okay. No exposed core or anything. Does that finish your turn? That finishes my turn. All righty, Chetney, you're up with FCG on deck. With my bonus action, I am going to use a Blood Curse of Bloated Agony. Okay. Preacher.

30 feet for the duration. He has disadvantage on strength and dex checks. Yeah, that's it. And with my action, I'm going to be, are you amplifying it or are you? No, regga, regga regga. You got it. And then I'll use a torment, which is already out.

Turmoil. It's close, brother. Turmoil. I'll leap off the platform that I'm at and take two swipes. Go for it. Go ahead and make your attacks. That is a 27 to hit. That hits. Second one is a 23 to hit.

All right, both hit? Both hit, okay, cool. Two, two, six. What do I do? Six. I'm just a robot. Hope it's funny. Four. That is 13 points of slashing damage.

Okay. Four points of Crimson Rite damage. Of which type? The ice. Ice, got it. And... Six plus 11, 11 plus four. 15 on the second one Ice, got it. And a six plus 11 plus four. 15 on the second one. You got it.

Two strikes on that, the ice gathers and sticks out in shards before it immediately melts and seems to almost be swallowed by its physical form before the ice vanishes within. Three points of thunder damage when it hits. Nice. All righty. Does that finish your turn? Yes, it does. End of your turn, it's going to go ahead

and use a legendary action to chew. Oh no. Legendary action! Yes. To chew? Yes. And that's going to be a 24 to hit you, Chetney. Yes, it certainly hits, 100%. Oh yeah.

And he gets resistances, too, if he gets actions. Yes. It's okay, I'll put you through. All right, with that, that is going to be... There's teeth. It has teeth. I'll put you through. All right, with that, that is going to be... There's teeth. It has teeth. 19 points of piercing damage. As you strike twice and watch as part of it separates and opens and it seems to grow teeth

for a moment that slam down onto your body and try and pull you in, but the teeth move. They're serrated in different edges and glide and tear through before you pull yourself free. Is that considered slashing or piercing damage? That'd be piercing. So it's halved by my wolfy form. It is indeed. Okay.

Wolf half-heart. All right, finishing Chetney's go, I believe. FCG, you're up with Imogen on deck. I don't do lots of damage and there's no one to heal yet, so... I'll just sympathetically bond with everybody. This time I will include Chetney. Thanks, bitch.

But I will uninclude Fearne. It's fine, it's fine. Sorry. What the fuck? I want to feel bad for you, but it's so nice to be included. I don't want to move, because that'll be bad. I got a bonus action, which I can use to- You can move, but as long as you don't leave, it's melee.

Because that's when you take the- This doesn't feel like a thing that's going to shoot beams. I don't know. Please stop giving him ideas. It seems like this kind of a thing. But that's metagaming! I'll go a couple feet that way. Okay, now this is all considered rough terrain,

so you can move 510. That's fine. That's 20 feet of movement just to get around. You scoot right past Deanna and the rocks and rubble. It's like. It's a rough ride getting there. What are you doing? Sorry, sorry, I'm just getting over here.

I wanted to see if he has a butt. Interesting. He doesn't. Okay. Noted. Or he has several. There are butts everywhere, it is. He's actually half-butts. I will, I'm just swirling every once in a while,

I'll just little hop back, in a while. I'm just a little humpback whale. Yep. He's a little starfish. You're going to do something that requires a second. Don't make me laugh. It's going to kill me. It's the best, though. Okay. Then I'll do bonus action.

I'll cast Spiritual Weapon, just to have it up. Basic second level? Basic second level. And what is the form of your Spiritual Weapon? You said he's moist. Glistening. I'll do something that he hates. He slops his moist towel.

A nice, thick terrycloth towel. Okay, and where do you want it to be? Where you were or on the opposite side? On the opposite side. Okay. Just a giant terrycloth tower appears pretty much right in the middle of Imogen and Fearne and.

And it's going to try to dab. So wild. I rolled a two. I don't think it dabs. It doesn't, it doesn't. It's just rolling itself up, getting ready to whip. There you go. I like that. All right. So that's your bonus action, your movement, and your action because of the bonding. Good. All right, getting ready to whip. There you go. I like that. All right.

So that's your bonus action, your movement, and your action. That's it. Good. All right, finishing up that go. Imogen, you're up. Okay. The circular thing is right on the wall behind Fearne? Correct. Okay.

With my movement, how far around this creature could I get? Over around over here, you mean? Yeah. Could I get to the other side of it? All right. Only if you say more. 25, 30, you can get. Over here, you mean? Yeah. Could I get to the other side of it? All right. Only if you say what. 25, 30, you can get. Unfortunately, everything in here is considered difficult terrain because of just the sheer volume of rock

and broken material and roots that have taken up here. So you wouldn't be able to get to the total opposite side. You would get to about there, between Chetney and Frida. Okay. On the foot. Okay. On foot. Right. I will. Let's go and try some crazy shit.

Like an up and over sort of shit? Always down for crazy shit. I mean, acrobatics checks. Big risk, big reward, big fuckery if you fail. Big fuckery if I fail. That's my rap. But you're amongst friends. So we have you. Let's try for the big fuckery!

Yay! So what are you going to do? I want to use my telekinetic shove and shove Fearne five feet that direction. At the same time, I'm going to try to jump. Not jump, I can't jump for shit. I'm just going to try to run past, maybe jump off of, I want to get to the other side of it.

Bye. Bye. Fly. Go through it. Yeah, just push through the slaw. That sounds really cool. I want to see how brusque he is, get in there. Open his meat. Can I use Frida as a little jumping,

can I bounce off his leg and go over? You can certainly try. Go past and land next to Chet? Because I have one leg down and my knee is bent. Between Chet and, or on the other side of Chet? On the other side of Chet? Because I have one leg down and my knee is bent. Between Chet and there, or on the other side of Chet? On the other side of Chet. You can certainly try. All right, so go ahead

and make an acrobatics check for me. It's a really high DC, isn't it? It's a pretty decent DC. It's not impossible. I'm putting it at a 22 to try and make this. It's impossible. You can do it. You got to try. You're committed.

Even a natural 20 won't do it. A natural 20, I might allow it. Why? Come on! That's the odds of that. You're in it now. You're in it. Manifest your destiny. Come on, Maverick it. I believe in you, Lord Maverick.

Maverick it. Maverick it. I think I still got a crystal. You want it? Holy shit. I got one of the numbers, so I rolled a two. Okay. I love how I went, how'd she roll a zero? So it's a four.

Okay. So you run and leap onto Frida's knee. Frida, you don't realize this is happening until suddenly you see this purple blur. You instinctually shift out of the way. Your foot just has nothing to land on. You hit the top of the stair and begin to fall down from where you came up.

Oh god! Oh no, she's going down the stairs! Oh no! No, no, no! I don't do that. You're the one that's going to live through this. No, I don't do that. I'm Misty Step myself.

No, I don't. Because I want to be able to use it to get out. Can I shoot a spell off then while I'm falling? As you're bouncing. What are you trying to do? Fade away, fade away jumper. I'm fade away. I'm trying to lightning bolt him.

As you're falling back? You leave your hand up at the end. I'll allow it. Yeah, I'll leave it right here. I'll allow it. I'm committing. Okay, so as you fall back the steps, you just full-on lightning bolt.

Yeah. Like Ghostbusters, you know, streak across the room, bolt. I figured it would go hit it and go up, if anything. Well, we'll see, because it has advantage on the saving throw, because if you're tumbling. So flowers are still standing. Oh, it has advantage on the saving throw.

It's not great for the first roll. You're doing so good, you guys. It fails, but I'm still going to use Legendary Resistance to save. All right, all right. So it takes half damage, but go ahead and roll for your lightning bolt. Okay.

Half damage on 8d6, so. Oh shit. Great. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Somebody should try to talk to this thing. Stop it. What if it's got a consciousness? What if it's got thoughts?

Oh, that's a four. Hold on, that's a four. It's not one of its mouths. Okay, cool, that's great. 10, 12, 15, no, 14. Oh, that's disturbing. Seven points of damage. Seven points of damage, no, 14. Oh, that's disturbing. Seven points of damage.

Seven points of damage to it, great. Because it taps! Yep. No! You're doing great! You know what? It's for the best. It tears through part of it on the side,

and then you hear. You do take a point of bludgeoning damage. But you do, and finish sliding the last few stairs towards the bottom, like. She breaks the tailbone, you guys! The dress is over. Oh, that was my head. Her emerald skirt just fell over her face.

Fuck. That's sad, see? It's all stuck to my head. Best turn, best turn. All right, does that finish your turn? Yeah. Okay all stuck to my head. Best turn. All right, does that finish your turn? Yeah. Okay, now it's the creatures turn. No. At least you're not in home's way.

You know, I think it helped me more than anything. Hmm. Did we all take damage at the top of the turn? The top of your turn. Or was that just for Frida that took it? That would've been Frida who started. You did start within your radius of it, so yes, you would've taken it.

Is it psychic damage? It is. So you take three points of psychic damage. Oh. Okay, and that's how, is that? All of us? At the top of any one turn who is within five feet of it. So you also would've taken four. No, you jumped in there.

So that's three points of psychic damage, four points of psychic. Is that halved? If you're resistant to psychic damage, then yeah. Then you take one. Okay. Would it do anything with my... Yeah. Okay. This is to try and delve into your brain.

It's just trying to hurt your brain. Okay. Good ask, good question. All right, now for the creature's turn. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, here we go, here we go. Actually, at the end of your turn, as you stumble down there, it's going to use Chew Again. Chew Again.

Once more against... It's going to go for FCG. When it chews, it's just, as Aabria put it, what is it? Bite it and quit it? Bit and quit it. Bit and quit it, yeah. It's not grappled. 23 to hit. Golly! Yes, sir! All right. What is it? Bit it and quit it? Bit and quit it? Bit and quit it, yeah. It's not grappled. 23 to hit. Golly! Yes, sir!

All right. Yes, sir. You take... 21 points of piercing damage. How many? 21 points of piercing damage. Oh, lord. Lord. Okay. That was a list. That was on the list. Lord! Yep, legendary action.

Finish there. Now on its turn. Oh no. It's going to go ahead and do a bite and a constrict attack. It's going to do a constrict attack on you, Fearne. No! Hey! She's just a little cutie. She's just a little cutie.

I'm just a little bit nice. She's talking to the mice over there in the corner. It's going to be a 19 to hit? Yes. Okay. So one of the tendrils whips out and hits you for double ones. Eight points of bludgeoning damage,

plus, that's better, 17 points of slashing damage. As the tendril wraps around you and as it begins to pull you towards its body, on the inside of that tendril, you can feel almost like fingernails and teeth grinding through the interior of a buzzsaw, beginning to dig into your body.

You are currently grappled. May I take half of that? Wait, we're not binded. I can still take damage. You can still do it? You can indeed. So total damage on that was? 25, I believe, is eight plus 17. So you take 12, you take 13. I can give you some extra stuff,

which I will be doing soon. Herb, you go. All right. That's the Constrict. Then the other bite attack is going to go, again, for you, FCG. Oh me? Yep. That's going to be 17 to hit. It doesn't hit! I'm at 18 AC!

There you go. It tries to, the mouth actually opens and closes on you, but the new armor that you've had fitted to your body, it can't pierce before you wrestle out of its grip and you feel teeth breaking and hitting the ground, scattering before you. Don't worry, Frida, I'm okay. It took more than one attack on its turn.

It takes 1d8 necrotic damage. It does indeed. So go ahead and roll for that. Also, when I did my lightning bolt, it would have caught anything on fire that was ignitable in its path. Okay, good to know. Three points of necrotic damage. Let's go.

The other side of the room is now also beginning to burn. Hey! It's beginning to burn? That's so interesting. From where the lightning bolt struck. The dried roots and vegetation is now starting to catch. Oh, wow. Hi, guys. Glad you're here to help with this fight.

Just the ankles. You want to jump back in, ankles? Just booty. Let us know. Imagine she doesn't wear underwear. I'm perfect after she fell off in ankles. Just booty. Let us know. Imogen doesn't wear underwear. I'm purchased after she fell off the bench. Feet. The creature.

Oh! It can move? It shifts over and begins to slither and squeeze somewhat into the space down, cutting off your exit. When do you say shift? And dividing you from the rest of the party. Oh boy!

But both of you, actually all three of you, get a attack of opportunity. Fearne gets dragged along with it behind as it pulls you together. Attack the next with wounds. Great. Natural one. Natural one, that's a miss. All right.

22 to hit. 22 hits, go ahead and roll damage. I rolled another two. Aw, FCG. Oh man. 15 points of necrotic damage. 15 points of necrotic damage. 15 points of necrotic damage, you got it. As it slithers down,

after you finish carving through a bit, as soon as the necrotic energy bursts away, you can see parts of the weird shifting flesh in its body darkens black and ashes off into a pile of dark dust. You see part of its physical form has now diminished slightly from the few impacts that it's taken. Okay.

So it's dead. But it moves over there. Looking real rough? Huh? It's not looking rough. Stop, don't say it like that! Generally, it looks rough. I mean, yeah, it's hard to gauge. Can you say how many of its butts fell off? Like four.

Okay. He's doing fine. There's only two of them. Well, four. It's less four butts. Finishing its go, Deanna, you're up. My butt's just rolled down the stairs. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. All right. Deanna, you're up. Fearne, you're on deck.

Okay, now they hit me in the ankle. Shoot, I don't want to get closer to it, so I'm not going to. Let's just Guiding Bolt it. Go for it. Fearne here, we'll go second level Guiding Bolt. Up its butt. Up its butt.

Right up her butt. 17 to hit. 17 does hit. Whew, thank goodness. It doesn't have a massive AC. But it has a massive ass. Oh yeah. This bitch is thin. Ooh, there's some good numbers there.

What's nine plus 10? 19. That is right. We did it, we got there. Nobody saw it. Nobody saw it. 19 points. 19. That is right. We did it, we got there. Nobody saw it. Nobody saw it. 19 points. 19 points of radiant damage. And it is now glowing a bright, vibrant color

for the next one who tries to strike it has advantage. Yay! Can I move away from the fire? Look, I've got 15. My movement's 15, and with difficult terrain, I think I can move a quarter of an inch. So you can scooch me slightly. Towards it or away from it?

I just don't want to be next to Letters because he's getting fucked up by this thing. Okay, so you want to move closer to Fearne? Yeah, let's do that. Fearne, help! So you shift over and stumble over some of the rocks. The flame heat behind you is starting to make you sweat. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

It's hot and bad here, it's hot and bad here. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. End of your turn. This is intense. It's going to use two legendary actions to consume. Who? No, thank you. Who's it consuming? Fearne is currently the one that is constricted by it. Wait, I went to the bad way.

That's a natural 20. Oh! Can you do something? I didn't the bad way. That's an extra 20. Oh! Can you do something? I didn't bind with her. If you don't bind, that's always a bad sign. The person that gets... It's almost perfect. Wow.

He keeps rolling. That's perfect. I've already taken half damage on this one. That is going to be 30 points of bludgeoning damage. I can't take it. I can't take it. And 24 points of slashing damage. What? Because it was a natural 20.

Are you still up? 54? What was the second number? 24. I'm down. I'm down. You watch as Fearne just gets eaten by the creature. Oh! Fearne is back's time! No!

Oh no, you guys. Okay, interesting, interesting, interesting. We have no Revivify. I rolled a natural 20. That wasn't my fault, that was the dice. Matt, how dare you roll a natural 20? No Revivify. Motherfucker.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. The gods are for real. We got two clerics here. We got to cure her really fast. Yeah, we got to get her out. She's inside the meat donut! Stop it! Well, Fearne, it's your turn.

Oh shit, death save. Um. Ho ho ho, ho ho ho! No, you don't take acid damage until the creature's turn. And she doesn't take psychic damage because she has no brain right now. Correct. Okay.

But at the end of your turn, I need you to make a death save. What am I doing? Make a death save. I'm making a death save right now? Yes. Okay. I'm in the 50s. Just a natural, or just roll a d20. Roll a d20?

North of 10. North of 10? Yep. 10 or higher, yeah. The only word you have to see. Nine. Okay, that's one failed death save. Jesus Christ. That was amazing.

You would have the Elsa bug. You're like. Okay, okay, okay, okay. You would have the Elsa bug. You're like. Woof. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay, and that's what I do on my turn. I just do a death saving throw? That's your turn, yes. Last thing you saw was darkness swallowing you

as pain engulfed your body and you went unconscious. I'm getting hot! Hello, darkness, my old friend. Top of the round. Frida, you're up. You just watched Fearne disappear. Matt, where is your chill, dude? I'm going to stick my hand inside of it

and try and grab onto her. Try and feel for her? Yes. All right, I need you to make an athletics check. Oh my gosh. It's contested, which it has disadvantage on because of your thing, all right. Okay, okay, okay. Guidance. 15. No, okay, okay. Guidance.

15, are you really going to? 15. Guidance. Natural 20, but with a disadvantage, brings it to a 13. Ooh! So you push into its body and it hurts. I'll say the process of doing this. He got it. Oh, you did, sorry, sorry.

With this, I would say, you take two points of piercing damage, just pushing through the body. You reach in for something that feels different from this terrible blender you're essentially trying to squeeze past until eventually you find something that feels soft and furrier.

As you pull back, you have a hoof, and you just yank until eventually you watch this creature, Ace Ventura, give birth to Fearne. Yes! Oh god. Wait, she's out? I've always wanted an Ace Ventura. And she's alive? She's unconscious, but stable. What does that do again?

I know, because we were there. No more death saves. Oh my god. Spare the dying. If I Action Surge right now, do I have my attacks? If you Action Surge, then yes. I'm going to Action Surge, so I'll pull her out,

spare the dying, action surge, and I get one shot. You get one shot, so it's reload, shoot, and then, yeah. I'm going to Sharpshooter this. Okay. And I'm going to use a grip point to give myself advantage. Go for it, yeah. Do it.

I'm whipping my head around, so my horns. No, I'm dead. Never mind. You're unconscious. I'm whipping my head around, so my horns. No, I'm dead. Never mind. You're unconscious. I'm unconscious. That's a 12, right? You know you're rolling a 12. Okay, yes. Yeah, and that's a... It's just me.

Nine plus... 10 is 19. 21. 22. 22 minus five? Minus five. Brings it to a seven shooter? Yes. That does hit.

Let's go! Excellent. Get him. 2d8 plus six. I have a Stalker. Oh, that's awful. Three plus six is nine, plus 10 is 19 points of damage. You got it, another 19.

Okay, that's pretty good. My movement, where am I? I guess if I move, I'm going to take, I'm going to move in front of Fearne. I'm going to position myself in front of Fearne. Okay, so you're going to push into the space and loosely protect Fearne's body with yourself getting in front of the way.

And I'll yell back, FCG, I think she needs some help. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah? Yes, yeah. I'm coming. Okay, end of your turn. I'm just going to use another legendary action to go ahead and bite at you, since you just reached into it, pulled forth whatever it was trying to devour.

That's going to put it at a 16 to hit. That does not hit. That does not hit. It tries to snap towards you. One of the jaws extends and and you just pull out of the center of its focus just in time. Finishing your turn then, Frida. Chetney, you're up with FCG on deck.

FCG, do you need to be able to see her to heal? She's out. Yeah, I know, but do you need to be able to see her? I can do something else to heal her if she's unseen. Cool. I'm going to reach out with my sexy claws and be like, I can't see this, and I'm going to touch Fearne and cast Invisibility on her.

Yes! All right. La-da-da-da-da-da. I want to John Cena. I got it. I got it. You got it. So. I got it. Oof.

There we have an invisible Fearne on the battlefield right there. And with my bonus action, I'm going to again cast Bloated Agony, because I have some moa these, and I will amplify it this time. Okay. That's a d6. Four points of damage to me.

Don't wrap them. And that is up for a minute now. Okay. And you can make a con save on the end. On its turn to get rid of it. You got it. Okay. Take four. And that's my...

That's your bonus action, it's your action to cast it. So yeah. And I could move... Am I within its melee currently, or did it move away? I mean, it's about five, sorry, it's 10 feet from you. I'm going to back up against the wall and just get some space. This way or this way?

Back up toward that rock pile. Yeah, right, yeah, it's great. Okay. As you leave its 10-foot reach, you motherfucker, you invaded great. Okay. As you leave its 10-foot reach, you're in the tendrils. You motherfucker, you invaded me! You got me!

Are you okay? Son of a bitch! For 25 to hit. That hits, you bastard! That hits! You knew what you were doing. I'm just offering information. I'm not you! I'm just offering information.

You take 15 points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. And 11 points of slashing damage. Got it. All righty. Cool. That finishes your go? Yes.

All righty, that brings us to FCG with Imogen on deck. Go get him, baby. I will not heal Fearne. I got you. Because I'm going to give that honor. Trust the process. Let her cook. Instead.

You already went. Yep. Okay. Instead, I'll just attack. I have all these extra hit points I got to dump. So I will attack with my little, oh, you know what? Yeah, let's say that, what's-his-butt modified me. What was his name?

Jacoby? Jacoby modified me. I used to shoot, my bolt thrower would come out of a little hole right here, but now it's changed. Now it looks like your gun. Hell yeah. So it opens up right there and I'll shoot my bolt thrower at the thing.

Hell yeah, I love it. No, it's cocked. It's all cocked. Okay. 14. Oh! Yikes. 14 and 14 does not hit. Yikes!

But it was cool when you described it. It was pretty cool. All right. Ping, ping, ping. Jacoby, goddammit! Springs a little off. Why'd he put a Nerf gun in you, dudes? I got to charge it up for the next round.

It's like a super soaker. I get the joke, but please skip that. Okay. That was the jam of the summer. Finish your turn, you want to move? Starting to get a little warm over there. Wait, there's fire over there? It's on fire. Oh, because you set it on fire? You know, I was just trying to hit it.

Kill everybody. I just had to. I will rock away from it, not getting any further away. Okay. Like in front of Chetney? Yeah, sure. It's about as far as you can get there, so. Bonus action.

If I forget. You still have your spiritual weapon up, if you want. I know, that's what I'm saying. If I hit with a spiritual weapon, I can dump my hit points, my temporary hit points through that, or it has to be through a melee weapon? I'll allow it.

Yeah? It's a magical effect. Okay. It's part of your divinity. Okay, I will hit, if my spiritual weapon can get close enough. Yeah, it hasn't left its range, so. Then it's finished rolling up and it will, it will locker room whip it.

Go for it. Natural one. Oh god. Are you rolling the same dice every time or is it a different dice? We're trying not to die. What? I take 12 hit points.

Yes, you do. Oh man. Okay. Tal's a little soggy. Jacoby. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going great. Jacoby, does a great job. Fuck!

Yike. I'd like to lodge a complaint. Better bid him to be wrote. That's it. All right, oh, and to also bring it back, you did, because you were in melee with it beginning of your turn, you did take two points of psychic damage.

Cool. Shit. All right, so bringing us back to Imogen. You're at the bottom of the stairs. Stand up and help us, goddamn it! A little sore. Ow, ow. You can only improve.

Wait, is the volume of his body covering the entire threshold from? Most of it, yeah. Yeah, so I can't come back up. Just shoot him in the nuts. Unless you try and squeeze through. How about I don't try to get close to it again after what happens?

All right, I'm going to get up and look up at its butt. Yep, it's starting to. Like slop down. It's starting to slop down? It's pooping through. It's starting to slop down? It's pooping through. Yep, yep, it's pooping through. Okay, I am going to spend one of my sorcery points

to double my distance. Okay. And I'm going to, at 4th-level, get really pissed that I fell down the stairs, and then I'm going to try to inflict wounds on it from a distance. Both of us. going to try to inflict wounds on it. On the poop? From a distance. Both warts. Go ahead and roll your attack on that.

Okay. From a distance. Oh, I'm a bad football player. That's a four. We'll have confidence, laptop, and a friend. Is that the total of one? What happened? 14. 14, and a 14's going to miss.

Oh, bitch! Fuck. I just wasted a fourth level on a miss. Are you using the same dice? Oh no. Huh? That's hurtful. I know. I mean, what? Are you using the same dice?

No, I wasn't, actually. Why'd you say it twice? Yeah, you get what you get. Did you feel the fire beams? Yep, yeah. In the corner of my body? Charm! Just say Parmesan if you want me to hit it.

Parmesan. Oklahoma, I saved you, word of mouth. Do you want to move? You have 15 feet of movement still from the... What am I going to do? Where am I going to go? That's a good question. That is mean today.

I know! And I like it. I'm just going to take my telekinetic force and I'm going to yank him down five feet just to really lock him in place. You grab him with the little testes that are driven take my telekinetic force and I'm going to yank him down five feet just to really lock him in place. You grab him with the little testes that are driven by him. Yeah, telekinetically pull his little butt. It's not going to do anything, but I'm just going to do it because I'm angry.

So roll the 16. What's the DC? 17. 17. Ha ha ha! It does get partly plungered partway down. Right. That's all I can do. All right, sorry. It does get partly plungered partway down. Right. That's all I can do. All right, sorry. I'm going to back up to the bottom of the stairs.

I don't want to be within reach of a tentacle or something. So you get to the bottom of the steps there. Yeah. All right, you got it. Finishing your turn. It's now back. Sorry, y'all! What? We don't hear anything. You might. Hatemonger's turn is back.

All right, so. Gets his legendary actions back. At the top of the turn, it's going to... I think I have it. It's in the right. Yeah. In the center of its body, you watch as one of the mouths cracks

wider on one side, then tears up on the other. This large mouth, 15 feet from side to side, almost like a Pac-Man's open on one side. But it's not filled with teeth. It's almost just a giant gummed entrance with a swirling throat behind it. You hear this sound. This awful sucking noise before black miasma from the corruption of the Force just spills out of it in a front direction. Uh-oh. You sure we don't want to talk to it?

I don't want to be barf-de-ponced. You sure we don't want to talk to it? I don't know. Uh-oh. To Frida. Uh-oh. To Frida. Uh-oh. Yeah, I could get all four of you there. Who's all four?

So I'm going to need Frida, Fearne, FCG, and Chetney to all roll a constitution saving throws for me, please. Do I? Fearne. Wait, so I can roll a constitution saving throw? You can, because Fearne. Damn, me, please. Do I? Fearne. Wait, so I can roll a constitution saving throw? You can, because Fearne. Damn, yeah, okay. He doesn't know you're there, but you just happen to be in that space.

But I happen to be in the space of the thing. I don't know if this matters, but I am standing in front of her. When I do that, it's a cloud that suffuses the space. Fearne did, but she was unconscious. Did, did, did. Is this? I don't understand.

So if she fails a constitution saving throw, is that two more fail death saves or a reset? No, it's just a single. Okay. Because Spare the Dying should reset that. So you haven't taken any fails yet? Just one fail. Just one fail.

Because I thought a melee strike on somebody who's unconscious is an auto two, but this isn't a melee strike. This is just a... But Spare the Dying doesn't reset the death saves? It just... It prevents further ones from happening. Got it. Unless they strike it again.

I'll double check it again. But regardless. Advantage against spells and other magical effects? Is this what that is? This is not. Okay. The miasma is technically magical in nature, so I will say it. Okay, okay. So. 18. 18, so I will say. Okay, okay. So? 18.

18, that is a success. You take six points of necrotic damage, and you're good there, all right? I did it. Yeah. 17. 17, you take six points of necrotic damage. 19. 19, six points of necrotic damage.

Nine. You take 12 points of necrotic damage, and your maximum hit points are reduced by five. Son of a bitch. Dang! Wait, so what do I do? You just back in death save. I'm back in death? You just take, yeah.

I just do, I just. So you took one death save. I took one. Stabilized. Who casts? I. Spirits of Dying. So then I get rid of that?

Now you take another death save. So you're going to die. So I have two death saves. Holy shit! Holy shit. But then you're going next, you're next. Yes. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm not going to use that one dice anymore. And your total hit point maximum comes down five.

Copy that. Jesus. For forever? For until I'm cured. Until you're cured. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, that's going to be its... It's going to be its breath. It's now going to continue to slither down. Oh no!

It can fit down? It can fit? It's like an octopus. Begins to fit down. So if you cannot, you get a melee attack of opportunity, unless you have... Warcaster. Well, not...

I have a Simitum. Yeah, you can go ahead and whip it out. Doesn't it? I'm going to shut up. Fuck. It's still technically occupying the space. The top of this is poking through invisible. So yeah, but it does move, I'd say, technically out of your melee range,

so you go ahead and strike at it. You don't manage to make an impact, unfortunately. Or is it just trying to leave? Where is it going? Maybe it's scared of fire. Like that image, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All righty.

That finishing its go. Deanna, you're up with Fearne on deck. Okay, who's under half their total HP? Everyone. No, not me. No? No? Are you? I am. Are you? Okay.

So just you two. So I'm going to, as an action, channel Divinity, preserve life. You get up to half your HP back. Nice. Okay. Do you have to see them? No. Great. Just within 30 feet of me.

That's great. So that means? Death saves are gone. Death saves are gone. Correct. Okay, okay. Or you're conscious, at least. I'm conscious.

Still invisible. How do I do this? Still invisible, which is good. Just heal yourself for half of what you're doing. You need to make a constitution saving throw because you do take damage from that. Yep. How do I do this? How do I do this? Still invisible, which is good. Just heal yourself for half of what you're doing. You shouldn't make a constitution saving throw because you do take damage from that. Yep. How many is that? Was I up at 53?

26. 11. 11? Yeah, you're fine. It's higher than 10. Shit, I still have so much left. Can I just use it all? Can I just use my thing differently than how it's written? No? Cool. I know. You can go back up to half.

You should make a god save to see if you can get rid of the... Oh yeah. It's kind of a last. That is going to be 21, so yeah. Yeah. Yay, guys! No longer. Oh my god. Good looking out.

Amplify those things. That's amazing. Fuck. Thank you. And then bonus action, let's... I have a decent concentration. Thanks. Good enough.

Spiritual weapon. All right. What's this one look like? A fucking diva cup for this weird period. Yes! Yes! Let's go, diva cup! I'm just going to block the top of it. Just do it. I love it. Yep.

It's got a towel and a diva cup coming at this. This is a wonderful lesson in hygiene for all of our viewers. And I don't hit, so it doesn't matter. Okay. Two ineffectual toiletries just slapping against this thing. Be warned, you don't got to look it up.

That's awesome. That's my turn. You're going to stay put? It's getting warm. I'll start moving towards the staircase. I'm getting a little nervous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's as far as I can get. Cool, that's me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Fearne, you are now conscious on the ground, a little rejuvenated from a severely beat position, and you are all, I can't see my hands, I can't see my hands! You're welcome. Oh, I'm invisible, okay. Where did Aunt Flo go? She's going downstairs.

You can see it up at the top. Starting to show a little damage. All right, so I can see a little bit of the tip of it? Yeah. All right, so what I'll do is, because I was just close to death. Real close. Real close. I'm looking a little wild,

and I'm going to cast Blight. Okay. Best spell. Constitution saving throw? Yes, 18. 18, that is a failure, but it's going to use Legendary Resistance. Ah! Okay, okay. So it takes half damage.

So 8d8 of product damage. That was the second. Does this thing have eyes, by the way? Occasionally, you see what might look like an eye. You can't say occasionally! You know the answer! It just rolls and is constantly swirling. Kind of. It's trying to find a form

and it's failing to do so. Rough, rough, rough. Does it look like any of us a little bit to find a form and it's failing to do so. Rough, bro, rough. Does it look like any of us a little bit? Make a perception check. Cool. Ew. 17. 17. Occasionally, some of the skin,

you can see a face push through that looks like Frida's face, or an Imogen face, screaming. It's pushing against the skin like it's behind a curtain before it emerges back in. A roll I wish I had failed. No bueno. Dude.

Okay, 44 points of damage. That's great. So reduce 22, which is still a big old chunk. Let's go. Okay, all right. Chakras. So as you focus your nature's fury into this creature, it is by its own physical existence, a corrupt entity, but this is a different type of corruption.

This is pure decay on the arc of nature. As you strike it with the spell, the blackness spreads across its body and you watch as large chunks of its form begin to crumble into ash and tumble off. Fearne, you see, sorry, Imogen, you look over and see down the stairs, bits of it are like, and then it hits three or four stairs down before,

it just scatters into ash. All right, all right, all right. We're doing something. Go, go, go, go, go. Do you want to get up? Nah. Yeah, I'll get up, I'll get up. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Do you want to get up? Nah. Yeah, I'll get up, I'll get up. Okay, you get up.

You are now visible because you cast a spell. Okay, okay. Oh yes, that's right, okay. Hi. Hi, thank you. Yeah, don't die, please. It felt like your essence and it was wonderful. Thank you.

Oh, my god. Okay. That finishes your turn, Fearne? What is happening? Thank you. Okay. That finishes your turn, Fearne? What is happening? They're doing six-second charades. I like short-form improv. Get the fuck out of here. Does that finish your turn?

Do you want to move anywhere? I will move up against the circle that is... Yes, yes! Yeah. Yes, yes. I will move up against the circle that is. Yes, yes! Yeah. Yes, yes! You're like five feet from it right now. It's right there in the wall.

Okay, okay, and that's my turn. Okay. Finishing your turn, it's going to go ahead and take legendary action to chew you, Frida. No! As you're the one that's closest to it at the moment. Oh, that's going to be a 27 to hit. No, not his face!

All right, for that you take... His face is perfect no matter what. That's a really shitty roll, though. That'll buff out. 12 points of piercing damage. How you doing over there, Frida? Sitting pretty, baby. Are you lying?

No. No, I'm not. Top of the round. It's not in my program, come on. The flames. Yes. Flames. Is going to spread. Uh-oh. It's flames. Ah, shit.

This dried tree that's grown on the inside of the tower is now beginning to catch. Oop. Was there anything underneath the roots of the branches of the tree? A valuable sword, a palladium, death killing, blah, blah, blah. Who knows? But nevertheless, that brings us to the top.

Frida, you're up with Chetney on deck. I will look at that fire. Look at that fire. Isn't it neat? I'm going to very calmly walk towards the fire. Stop all this heat. You've got to get Wyatt and Kate, everyone shut the fuck up. Stop all this meat.

I'm going to pull out my crossbow. I'm going to light one of the arrows on fire. Okay. And shoot. So you're going to go ahead and walk over this way'm going to light one of the arrows on fire. Okay. And shoot. So you're going to go ahead and walk over this way? Cool. Yeah, I'll walk over there. Three. You can feel the intensity of the heat. You go ahead and take the crossbow,

hold it in there. You feel your whole arm begin to heat up just in the proximity. The flame catches, you turn around and fire the bolt. Go ahead and roll for the check. See, you're so cool. Okay. I don't know if this will work. It'll work.

18 to hit. 18 to hit. 18 to hit? Minus five. Guidance. 13. Guidance? Can I guide him? Unfortunately, he's not next to you. Shit. So 13 does miss, unfortunately. I'll do it again.

Okay. Yep. Stripe Shooter again. Roll higher. That's great. 18 plus 10, 28 minus five is 23. Boom! 23. It does have half cover because it's partially between the floors, but that still hits. Do I do that with Sharpshooter?

You do, actually, not with Sharpshooter. Yeah, nonetheless, you still hit. So go ahead and roll your damage with that. 1d8 plus four, plus 10. So that's five plus four is nine, plus 10 is 19 points of damage. Great, go ahead and add a d6 of fire on that. Yeah!

Whoa, whoa! Okay, okay! D6. Hot table. Calm down. Two points. All right, so 21 points of damage to it. Nice.

Okay, and then. Does it look like it reacts poorly to the fire? It doesn't seem to like it. As the flames strike inside of it and you hear a bunch of the baying mouths that are occasionally emerging, now pushing out at once and all screaming together, like a bunch of high-pitched wolf screams.

Like, all different places. It doesn't seem to like the fire. Get out. Okay. Get out. Bonus action healing word. Mom!'t seem to like the fire. Okay. Okay, bonus action. Bonus action healing word. Mom! If you'd like to. Well, you used some protection to reload.

Well, this is your crossbow, right? Yes, this is my crossbow, yes. So yes, you still have the bonus action. I will bonus action healing word Faithful Caregiver. Oh, hey. For 1d4 plus six, so. That's just sweet. Where's my d4? d4 plus six, so. That's just sweet.

Where's my d4? d4 plus your wisdom modifier. One plus six is seven points of healing. Oh, great. I'll take it. I love it. It says here 1d4 plus six hit points, yeah. Great, yeah.

All righty. So you take that. Does that finish your turn? That does finish. I'll move a little bit away from the flame because my metal's getting a little hot. Okay. I forgot to say when I cast Blight.

As soon as five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 feet to get there, what's your total movement? That's it, so I'll stay there, yeah. So you'll stay there, okay. Beginning your next turn, you might take some fire damage. The proximity is going to hurt. I always take fire damage

when I'm next to faithful characters. Oh! Oh no! Woo! Not what you said, I was trying to fix my hand. It's not good damage. I liked it. All right. Finishing Frida's go, Chetney, you're up with FCG on deck.

Yeah, I'll stay where I am, and I'm going to swing the scythe and cast Shatter just above where it's slopped down into the hole. You've got it. What's the radius on that? It's 60 feet. Oh, I'm sorry, range is 60 feet, but a 10-foot sphere. 10-foot sphere, so you can definitely hit it

in a way that does not hit your friends, which is great. Yes, please. Okay. So constitution save? Con save of 14. 14 has a high con save on it, but it only rolled a seven, so that puts it at a 13, so. 22 points of thunder damage. Nice.

You watch a whole upper section of it just splatter against the stone wall and roots around it, and carving about three feet off of its height. Nice. That's my turn. All right. Actually, yeah, but not because I'm stuck all the way back here and it's going downstairs. I'll come into the off of its height. Nice. That's my turn. All right. Actually, yeah, because I'm stuck all the way back here and it's going downstairs,

I'll come into the middle of the room. And that's probably all of my 35 feet. That's fine. I'll go near Fearne, just in case she gets sucked into another offalus. Say, so it's 5, 35, 40. Get about there is about your movement on the difficult terrain. That's great.

Perfect. All right, end of your turn. It's going to go ahead and... No, it's just going to hold in there. All right, finishing Chetsuko, FCG, you're up with Imogen on deck. Do I get the sense, watching its movement with my keen eyes,

do I get the sense that it is moving downstairs or that it is staying in this halfway place? Make an insight check for me. Okay. Read the meat. Hold that in a shirt so bad. 23. 23. It looks like it is moving down the stairs,

but also trying to occupy the top. It's essentially trying to both escape the fire, but also plug them in there. So it's not going to go fully down the stairs. You're uncertain. It's definitely preventing people from going down where we currently stand. Got it.

Read the meat! How much of it is sort of turtling up from the? I mean, not as much as there was. I'd say there's about six feet visible before, but about three, four feet of that got blown off from the shatter, and so now it's just this squat little tree trunk of skin. Tree trunk of skin, Matthew.

Yes, my band name in high school. Okay, then I don't think I can do what I was going to do. So instead. It's a good show at the Playroom. Okay, I will then, I'll just do standard stuff. Bonus action, I will give a blessed bonding, bonded blessing, sorry, to Frida. You get a d6 that you can use on any roll.

Coming up. I noted that, great. And then as a action, there's just not much I can do. I'll just try to go up and try to saw off some of its bits. Okay, so you move up here, go up and try to saw off some of its bits. Okay, so you move up here, try and get up to the edge and roll an attack. I'm trying to get it all the way downstairs, if possible. Okay, come on, come on!

12. Oh, buddy. You manage to ram your saw into the strange, amorphous form of the creature. Vroom! And your saw just stuck. It gets like, you feel it tugging on your arm a bit

before you have to pull free. This has never happened to me before. It's just usually I last a lot longer in fights. It's not. I witnessed it firsthand. You want to finish your turn? Yeah, that's it. I'm sorry. Your turn is going to use another legendary action

to attempt to bite you. A lot on my mind. It's a chew attack. Ooh, that's going to be a 30 to hit. 30? April of the National 19, yeah. Ooh, against you. That hits.

Damn it. He's trying to chew you or consume you. We'll find out. This is the chew. Bid hits. Damn it. He's trying to chew you or consume you. We'll find out. This is the chew. Better than quit it. That's going to be a 25 points of piercing damage. Okay. It's bad here.

All righty. It's bad, we're running. We're trying. Imogen, you're up. But he's looking rough. I feel like anything I do, he's going to resist it. Caleb's butthole is bad up here. Which one? Unleash the butthole cut.

So with resistances, they can resist things that there's a saving throw against, but they can't resist attacks? Is that how it goes? Or is it? I'm Caleb. It's West. Sorry, what was it? Like they resist, they can resist things that have saving throws, right?

Yes, they can choose to resist something with a saving throw. I'm Jaden James. Dame. Dame. Dame, you put some respect on the name. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Enough, Jaden.

I'm going to... I don't even know that I set fire to the area upstairs because I didn't even see it catching fire. They had no idea. Okay. They had no idea. In that case, I am going to look at it, grab the sides of my hands and just scream, and I'm going to try to psychic lance it

straight up the butt. Okay, okay. Is that a psychic lance it straight up. The bug! Okay, okay. Is that a roll for it? That's a save. Okay, so intelligence save? Yes. Woo! Ain't no smart, right? Nuh-uh, nuh-uh, that's a four. Okay.

It's going to use Slash and Irresistible. Oh, fuck. That's a four, right? Okay, that hopefully is the last one that it can use, maybe? I don't know how these work. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

I'm so bad. I'm going to stop rolling them all at once. Nine, 10, 15, 17, 20 points of damage. You have 10 points of psychic damage to it. All right, so you scream into it and you watch as its weird slithering form that's rolling down the steps as it's occupying the space a little bit wider as it does,

all spreads out into 17 or 18 different spikes of skin as it seems to try and pull itself apart at the psychic glass and then pulls itself back in. Okay, I don't know that it's trying to stop in the stairs, so I'm going to back up as far as I can away from it. Okay. That's 30 feet there. Okay.

Stumbling over shit. Can I try, actually, can I try to use my telekinetic pull and pull it down further? Let's give it a shot. Oops. That's going to be a 15 on its DC. So I pull it five feet down.

Yes. All right. Get some of that smoke out of the room. Ooh, shit, really? With that, there we go! Yes! And you're dead. Goodbye! So with that there,

you pull, now there's now a slight gap now as she pulls it down. A little bit of opening there. No, I didn't know you could do that. That's amazing. Maybe next round, next round. That does also remove it from being within melee view. So I get a swipe?

No, because it has a living size. Because it was compelled. Correct. But finishing your turn, it cannot use its last legendary action. It cannot? Because there's nobody within melee. Ooh! Guys, I have a legend!

All right, that brings it to its turn, though. It's going to try to climb back up, isn't it? Yeah, but it's not within melee, so. But it will be once it slithers. Immediately, it goes from the slow crawl to and you all watch it just vanish from sight as it comes barreling towards you. Like pseudopods pulling it forward.

Picking up whatever debris is nearby. Cut to Maritimes. He's getting bigger. It's going to go ahead and bite and constrict you. Oh no! So the bite attack is going to be 13. Oh, that fails! Okay, that's pretty good.

I've got my Mage Armor up, baby. Yay! Roll a two. Then with that, it's going to attempt to constrict you with one of its tendrils. That is going to be, that's a cock. That's going to be a two. Then with that, it's going to attempt to constrict you with one of its tendrils. That is going to be, that's a cock. That's going to be a 19. Fuck yeah. All right, and so with that, you take

19 points of bludgeoning damage plus 10 points of slashing damage. Ooh! How you doing? How you doing? You are grappled. Man, this thing fucking wallops. Can you still, while you're grappled? Wallops. Probably.

Yeah, I'm fine. Everything's fine. Don't go down there, guys. We're going down there. No, don't go down there! No, don't go down there! Deanna, you're up with Fernandek. Cool. Deanna, reaching forward to Guiding Bolt,

realizes that Chetney's next to her, and is just so fucking panicked about people dropping, because Fearne has already dropped and everyone's looking really rough. So for the first time, I'm going to reach out and try to cast a second Death Ward on Chetney as he runs by. Okay. So cast a second Death Ward on Chetney as he runs by. Okay.

So you've got Death Ward on you, and that's my last 4th-level spell slot. Last big slot. All for you, Boo. And then bonus action, chasing it down the stairs with my spiritual weapon. Divica. He's trying to scoop his ass up.

When you do that, do you touch and don't even say anything, but it feels like he doesn't know what it is? I think you just feel a burst of warmth if you sat in a window. Nice. Just got a little ray of sun, and she doesn't say anything.

Because it's a larger creature, you are able to move it down adjacent and at an angle to get that 20-foot movement and still get within melee. I think you. Like Ronan Barf on your. Yeah, just a little sweet little baby barf. 17 to hit.

17 does hit. Oh. No. No, this is not going to happen. Nine points. Nine points of damage. It strikes it, clobbers into the side of it, the diva cup, with divine sparkling radiance. It's scooping it. Stop it!

It's not like that. What do you think it's like? It's not the Holy Grail. Kind of. If you write enough down wrong, kind of though. Yeah. Jealous. That's my turn down around, kind of though. Yeah! Janice. That's my turn, you got to move on.

It's looking real rough. I'm not even going to go into the description of how it's going to get. It's looking real rough. All right. Do you want to move or you want to stay where you are? It's bad. Can I move? How hot is it?

It's pretty hot. Pretty hot? Like, your hair will start burning and curling back if you stay here another round, probably. Not my curl pattern. I start to head downstairs. Okay. You can get to that far. Yeah.

God, what a bit! I'm so punished for this fucking bit! It's the best kind. All right, end of your turn. Yeah. It's going to spend two legendary actions to consume you, since you are currently held. No, no.

Could you not roll good? That's going to be a 22 to hit. Not you. Okay. For that, you take a pretty gold. Oh no, there's no damage on this, but you are swallowed. Oh, I'm just alive and inside it? Well, no, actually, this is still rolled on that one.

That is going to, I already rolled to hit. This is not a crit, so it's not going to do as well. Nine adds four. It's going to be 24 points of piercing damage. Are you alive? I'm alive. Believe the jury. I'm alive!

But not very much. Did I see that happen? Can I take half of it? Nobody saw. Nobody saw this. Fearne, you're up. The creature just vanished down the road. You're on the opposite side towards the wall. What are you doing?

All right. Can I see it? Because I'm at the edge of the stairs? Technically, where you're standing, it's below and under, so no. Shit. Not right now. You probably hear, what do they hear, Fearne? Yeah. Or Imogen, sorry. Get all the names fucked up now.

Goddamn it. I have no identity. You just hear, oh no, oh god, oh! fucked up now. Goddamn it. I have no identity. You just hear a, oh no, oh god, oh! There you go, you hear that. I think Imogen barfed. Oh no. All right, I'm going to run down there. Okay, so you're moving away from the door.

I move away from the door. Just like that. You can head down and get to the top of the steps, which are over here. All right. Shit, I can't hurt it, because it'll hurt Imogen. No. Right? Hit the outside.

Yeah. Sometimes when you hit things on the outside, they. Okay. Just hit it so hard it doesn't drop in? Yeah, bring a thunder man. All right, I'm going to burn in hands. Okay. Smart.

Burn in hands, 15 foot. We'll see if you're close enough for it to be affected. Ah, shit. Wait, wait, I have 35 feet of movement. We got this difficult turn. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 to get there. And even adjacent, we'll say you can get about there. Okay. All right.

Oh god. Fuck your diva cup. Don't want that shit. Wait, could I do a bonus action and get a little further? Is that a thing? What's your build, dog? It's a thing for rogues. Aren't you a rogue? I am a rogue. I'm a rogue.

I have one level in rogue. Can I do it? Is that true? Well, I mean, I have a level. I have one level of rogue, can I do it? Is that true? Well, I mean, I have a level of rogue. You have a level of rogue? Look at your sheets. Look at your sheets. I absolutely did! Check your shit. I'm so sorry. Check your shit. You have a level of rogue?

Yeah, she took it a while back, yeah. Okay, wait, hold on, hold on. Which means, yeah, as a bonus action, you do have the ability to dash if you want to. So you can get closer. Okay, I'm going to get closer. I'm going to use it. Wait, let me use. You go to your bonus actions.

Yep. If you're low, you have it. Action, action, double action, bonus action, dash, dash. Attack, attack. It's not that. And my bonus actions. Does it kick in on level two? It might kick in on level two. Let me double check.

Because I only have first level. It's a fun game. Aw, I love it. Let's play it. Cunning Action is second level. Second level, okay, okay. It's okay, though. You're going to go ahead and try and cast there. I'm going to try to cast it.

It happens instantaneously. You are just within range for it to be affected by Burning Hands. Okay. Amazing. Okay. Just barely. So it's at level four. A fourth-level Burning Hands. So it's, it's, it's.

Get it. Okay, okay, okay. All right, it's a dexterity saving throw? Yes. That's going to be a 10. Okay, failed. Light love. Okay, eight. Okay.

Seven. Seven. 15. Another seven. 22. 22. 22 points. How do you want to do this? Oh! Oh my god. Amazing.

All right. I hear Imogen screaming in there. In your head, you hear, I've been swallowed! Okay, that makes me very angry. So I am going to try to look for some movement to where the top of Imogen's head is and try to just the top of it

to just, so she's just standing. Just lays her hands through it? Just laser-handed. standing. Just lays her hands through it. Just has her hand in. Sure. Incredible. You go ahead and the burning hands is less of a calm of fire out there, more like a focused beam that just carves through.

The flesh burns away and curls back, almost like a hood. Like a little banana peel. Yes. I let her go! As a free action, can I yell, give her bangs! No bangs. Just got the art, we got you. Let her go! As a free action, can I yell, Give her bangs! No, fringe! Just got the art, we got to change it. As you do so, it slowly curls

into a slightly singed puddle and just hardens into the ground. And I'll emerge from the bloody meat. Oh. Oh gosh. Like I've been birthed. The Venus. The birth of Venus.

And the towel jabs you off. Go Quirks. So the tree is still on fire, and it is slowly spreading. Can we put the fire out? I would love to mess with the hole. Because we still need to see that. Circle. I'm going to Guiding Bolt?

I'm going to Guiding Bolt that space. I've got control water, someone can make it. That circle? My eyes will light up and I'll shoot a Guiding Bolt at that circle, at that space. Go ahead and focus. You cast Guiding Bolt. It hits the area where it is,

and as it hits, it's almost like a ripple ricochets from where it impacts. As it does, that little circle portion of the wall glows faintly before returning to itself. What level was that? We got to keep lighting it up. One. Oh, yeah. It might need just a bigger spell for that.

Can I roll something to see if this is a fa- Does it look like we're wearing it down or that we're not meeting the threshold? Make an arcana check. I'll step away from that. I think it's a level thing. Seven? Seven? No idea.

I'm going to cast a third-level command at it. Okay. And I'll say, open! Say it in Elvish. Okay. You say, open! And as you release the force of your arcana, the glyph that normally appears on the forehead of somebody

when you command them, appears in the space in the wall, and as it does, that circle area ripples once more, but this time brighter with more ripples before closing in on itself, and there's now an open hole, a cubby in the wall. What? A cubby? What's in the cubby?

We're on fire also. So just put your hand in it. Can anyone? I'll go in there. Don't you do fire magic? Can you make this dot? I do. Can you push my arm? She's got to come upstairs first. Do you have control flames? I'll reach into the. Don't you do fire magic? Can you make this stop? I do. Can you push my rock? She's got to come upstairs first.

Do you have control flames? I'll reach into the cubby. I don't. I don't think I do. Yeah, reach into the cubby. I don't think I have it packed. I'm reaching into the cubby. Okay. It's not very big, but there is an old leather satchel that's clipped over.

Oh, loose. Grab it and go. We got to get out of here. Grab it. I will lift it. Yeah. Okay, you have it. Okay. Didn't blow up. I don't know. Should I inspect it to get out of here! Grab it. I will lift it. Yeah. Okay, you have it. Okay. Didn't blow up. All right, should I inspect it or get out of here?

Let's just get out of here. Was there anything else in the room? Anything else, nothing? Just the last one? We searched it pretty good. You've got a plus six on something. Yes, I'll just give it once over as it's on fire. Yeah, I'll help, too. We'll both roll investigation checks.

Okay. Okay. I'll help for you. That's amazing. 19. So that's a guiding? No, I'm keeping the hell back, Jenna. 12 plus my d6. Someone else can guide it. Yes, 12 plus six, 18. Right. Okay.

The DC on this is pretty high because the room is being engulfed in flames and you're in a mild panic and trying to gather what you can in a room that you've already looked over with time and now you're rushing within a small period of time. Unfortunately, at a quick glance, with the brief moment that you have to try and look about,

you do not see anything of importance that you hadn't already gauged before the flames in this room become too dangerous for you to probably continue. Unless you want to endure and try again, but you'll start taking fire damage. I'll go. I'll go. I'll go again. Yeah, I'll go in the room.

Yeah. The cubby, it's not a room, it's a cubby. Yeah, but I want to fit in that bitch like a cat in a box. I don't know if it's... The cubby is just... It's real shallow. It's just a foot and a half in.

Yeah, so I think it's the rest of the room, though, that we need to investigate, not the cubby. Yeah, we're not, we, he already grabbed the satchel from the cubby. I'll take some fire damage and... It was like a medicine cabinet. There's something here that I don't know.atchel from the cubby. Oh. I'll take some side damage and. It was like a medicine cabinet. There's something here that I don't know. Go for it, roll another investigation check.

I'll stay with him. Them. Advantage. I'm helping, I'm helping. Oh, with advantage, okay. 12. 12. Shit. I'll do one, too, and I'll take any damage you give me.

Okay. You both take six points of fire damage from the escalating heat in the chamber. Unfortunately, that was a failure. Oh, I meant, Guidance. I'm staying. I'm next to you. I'm staying, too. You're staying, too?

No, we're all just staying and taking damage. Good for us. 19. Plus Guidance? Yeah, plus Guidance. Unfortunately, looking around in the areas where you haven't looked already, looks like either they've already been looted and are clear,

or anything's been consumed by the flames. Didn't we give it a good once over, though, before? We rolled like shit. Oh, really? We were rolling like shit the whole time? No, because we found the papers! We found all those papers. Okay. So why don't you jump in the cubby? No, because we found the papers! We found all those papers. Okay. So why don't you jump in the cubby?

And you have the cubby. I mean. Oh, whatever's in the satchel. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck it, I'm out of here. Yeah, okay. I think that satchel is important. Looking up at the ceiling,

is it starting to catch flames, too? Or is there anything? Oh, the fire has crawled up in the roots up top there, and you can see what was the, it looked almost like a cocoon nest on the ceiling where this entity was sitting. It's starting to burn. You can see the ash and paper is all catching.

That weird paper cocoon-like material that you saw dried and stretched in places is now also catching quickly. That seems to be fairly flammable. Nothing's scattering out of there. No openings being revealed by the material burning away. Sky lights are off. Not at the moment.

You can hang around and check if you want. That face. Yeah. Dude, death warriors. I stand and take the flames in the name of love! Wow! Get it. Do you? That's character. No, no, no. Damn, we were praising you for that.

Great. Frida, can I up ease? Help, help. I will wait till the last minute. Goddamn it! Because something came from the ceiling, so I'm going to wait as everyone is going downstairs. Sorry, Deanna. I'll stay with you. And I'll just see if anything burns away,

if there's anything on the ceiling. Okay, so the rest of you head down to the bottom floor, essentially preparing, and you all entered from this corner wall over here, squeezing past the roots. You all held down to this space while waiting for you at the top of the stairs, waiting for the last moment for this whole room, which is now catching a hotter and hotter. In your head. We'll stay right by the exit,

so we can just fall and roll down like Imogen did. Mm-hmm. A little death drop. I'll take one more. Chet, in your head, you're going to hear it. I'll do it as well. That Wolf King is outside still. Don't forget.

That's right. I ain't worried about it. Yes, much better. 23. 23? 23. Okay. Looking about at the top of this, first of all. Yep, both of you taking seven points of fire damage

to each of you. Okay. It gets progressively more every round. Yeah. As the flames begin to now curl into the space, you see most of the furniture now is catching. You feel confident that there is nothing visible that isn't within the flames, necessarily,

that you haven't already checked. I think we're good. Let's get out of here. With that high enough sound, though, you also hear a cracking sound. Uh-oh. It's going to come down. As you all are looking up at them,

you hear that noise. The rest of you who are in the bottom, Imogen, since you were the one in proximity, you glance over in the center of the room where that hard shell of where the creature you had just destroyed hardened when it dissipated cracks. You watch as it breaks past as a limb pulls out of it. No, no.

Oh god. Oh no. We got to get the fuck out of here. As something is now emerging from the remnants of what you had just destroyed. Fuck, is he running? So as we run down the stairs. This is like a mobile house.

I lit that whole place up with oil and I stuffed it all up, so I'm going to light the bottom on fire as we exit. You're going to just keep burning us? Well, no, no, no, as we're all going, I'm going to light the bottom on fire as we exit. You're going to just keep burning us? Well, no, no, no, as we're all going, I'm going to burn up. As we're heading out of the tower. Are we running out of the tower with that thing?

Okay. Let's just kill that thing on the way. Okay, so you're running down with Chet, and you were up there with him. Yep. So you both are coming down the steps while the rest of you are over by the exit. Is that correct?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. Right as you're running down, the hard shell cracks open and you watch as a smaller, but vaguely humanoid body emerges. Where there was once weird glistening skin, it's almost like a hardened, thorny bark with a mimicry of the human bipedal form.

The limbs elongated with hooked thorn-like teeth or teeth-like thorns. You're uncertain where it begins and where it ends in that intent, but it begins to climb its way out with the big hooked ends on it. And as a head begins to emerge, you just see a mouth, no eyes,

and these like a crown of tendrils that themselves have a moss and thorns growing out of them. Can I? Oh god, nope, nope. I don't even think I need to do this. Can I detect the, oh, that's huge. It's way bigger than I thought. That is not humanoid.

That is a monster. What are you doing? So interesting. Can I cast Telekinesis on it as it's coming up? Sure, if you want to. I wouldn't have burned up there if I knew that was going to be down there. You're not going to do that, are you? No, no, no.

Okay, so you're casting Telekinesis to move it? Yeah, to pick it up and lift it up in the air. Okay. Contested roll. Go ahead and roll your spell ability. Guidance? Can I guide her? That's my telekinesis, oh god. Yeah, actually, because this is an ability check, yes.

Okay, so wait. Wait, do I have a chance to get a blast off? Contested ability, so I roll. You roll and then add your spellcasting modifier because you're charisma bonus. Okay. Okay. Okay. Plus Guidance.

Where's my... Oh, fuck. 12 plus 11 is 23. Whoa, 23. You beat a 20. Yes! Let's go! Yes! As it begins, gets partially emerged from it,

and all of a sudden, it gets lifted up in the air and it's like, it's trying to reach for any sort of purchase around as you see ash and flame beginning to light up the top of the staircase as you're holding it aloft. Get out! Cool. Yeah, we run. We run! Is my spiritual weapon still up?

Can I just get a little while it's there? If you want to, yeah. Yeah, tight. Deepak! Did you shove it back on the stairs? I was defling onto the map. Oh shit! I just was waiting for you guys to get off the stairwell first, yes. Yeah, tight. D.Va Cup. You shove it back on the stairs? I was planning on doing that. Oh shit! I just was waiting for you guys to get off the stairwell first, yes. Yeah, we're out, we're running. Another eight points.

Another eight points of damage to it, you got it. You get smacked with a D.Va Cup. Cool, running. I'm going to cast Aura of Vitality and give her some healing before I head out. Okay, you got it. Her spiritual weapon is still up. Sure, sure, sure.

I actually need the bonus action for this. Oh, never mind. Eight points to out. Okay, you got it. My spiritual weapon is still up. Sure, sure, sure. I actually need the bonus action for this. Oh, never mind. Eight points to you. Okay. All righty. Okay. Thank you. I can do it again. All right, now I'm out.

All right. The rest of you go pushing out of the roots. Outside now, it's dark. There's very little light in the sky beyond just the faint bit of fading sunset and the occasional little wisps of blue that you can see dotted all throughout the fog and mist that has coated the streets of Molaesmere.

From this upper point of view, you can see all the various treetops and just the glowing little masses of the spirits that haunt the space. But you are there holding it in place. So yeah, you can move 30 feet in any direction, including upward, but not beyond the range of the spell. Great, then as soon as they are out of the stairwell,

I'm going to try to push it back up into the fire room. Amazing! Okay, this will be another contested roll. Try and move it another 30 feet as you all begin to push up. I'm keeping the roots open for Imogen so she can fly out. Okay. Go ahead and make another roll for me.

Guide, is anybody here? Anybody's there to guide me? I'm watching you. Wait, can I cast Bless on her before? As we're running out? Yeah, you can allow it. Bless! Bless on her and D4. Give me a plus.

Okay, great, that gives me a d4. Plus who else? Three people you choose to bless. Me. Ladies. It's ladies night. You got it. It's ladies night. Bless. You got two.

Bless and hashtag blessed. Yay! There we go. If I lay a smear, we're going to die. Oh! Barely got to know these fine guys. All righty. Yes! What a day.

31. 31? Yeah, no. You go ahead and shove it back up into the room. You hear this horrible screeching of multiple vacuous spaces where mouths are trying to form on its still solidifying body. And it does take 2d8 fire damage

from being pushed up in there for an 11 points of fire damage. All right, you shove it up there, and you go meeting the rest of the troupe. Keeping the hole open! All right, so you all now. Malaise mirror, don't keep the hole open. You all emerge out onto the root structure

and the masses of twisted vines that wrap up around the outside of the tower. You can now see the top of the tower is giving off a little bit of light as the flames have begun to curl through the stones and the tops of the tree that the tower sits on are also catching for the time being. So there's a little bit of a flame beacon

that is casting a little bit of a flickering light on the surrounding space. Are you all now doing? Try and stealth away from this building and finding some visual cover without making too much audible noise. Since I'm sure things will be coming. There was that other tower that we were in.

Is the wolf anywhere out here? Make a perception check with disadvantage. Disadvantage. What are you looking for, Fresh Cut Grass? The four-sided wolf. Can I look for that? Five-sided. Five-sided.

Five, if you want to as well, sure. 11. 11? Don't see it anywhere. I, it's 19 plus. Disadvantage. With disadvantage. Still okay. 12 plus 10 is 23.

23. You don't see it visually anywhere within the immediate vicinity. Okay, okay. We got to go. Hide, hide, hide, hide. Wait, hide? Do you have to cast Without a Trace? Pass Without a Trace!

Wait, no, wait. You got it? Let me see if I can do it. How are you feeling, Angel? Oh, pretty shitty. I'll use my spell, I'll cast a- Hold on, hold Wait, no, wait. You got it? Let me see if I can do it. How are you feeling, Angel? Oh, pretty shitty. I'll use my spell, I'll cast a- Hold on, hold on, keep your spells, keep your spells. Okay. I have a whole staff about this.

We'll give you the level three Cure Wounds. So. All right. I am also a cleric. Yeah, okay. Light cleric. You do a little of everything, calm down. I'm out of? Second-level spells. Pass Without a Trace is a second level.

So can I- I get healing. Can I? What is the word I'm looking for? Yes, on the third level, a Trace is a second level. So can I? I get healing back. Can I? Okay. What is the word I'm looking for? Yes, at a third level, yes. Okay. You can, yeah. Pass Without a Trace. It doesn't do anything extra, but you can still use it.

You can spend it. 22 points. Wow. Nice. All right, 22 points of healing. All of you now have Pass Without a Trace. Just as you hear the cracking sound of the creature that you slammed upstairs getting louder as it's following where you exited. Can you, do you still have stone wall?

Can you have stone shape? I can, but what am I covering? Just the door? We're going to cover the doorway so it can't be. Isn't there a way out up top? Nope, there were no windows up top. Okay. Right? Yeah, we didn't see any. That's why it got so damn hot in there.

Yeah. I mean, it'll burn the roof out, but it'll take it a minute to get out of the tower. If that's the only entrance, sure. That was the only entrance. Was that one window, right? Just the one you know about, yeah. Then I will cast 4th-level Stone Shape and I will close the door.

Okay, as you hear the suddenly where just a thick layer of roots are all pushing inward, like a heavily grown-over tunnel, suddenly all the roots break away as a fresh stone wall occupies that space. Just as you hear on the other side, from the other side, muffled and scraping noises against the opposite side of the stone.

Hey guys, I changed my answer. That wasn't a level three to you. I was a level, I'm going to use five charges for a mass cure wounds. Everyone takes 24. Hey! I was like, why am I burning more charges? Deanna! You!

Okay. Oh my god. I'm almost out of stuff. You do hear. I'm just trying to break through. We got to go. Let's move it. Can I have uppies, Frida, please? Could I have uppies?

Yes. I'll help you. Uppies! All right, so you pick up Deanna, put her on your back. All of you are running away or stealthing away? Stealthing away. Stealthing away. I need a group stealth check

as you all begin to descend the tower into the center of the tower. Is anybody guided? Is anybody guided? I'll guide Frida, because I'm on Frida. Instead of guiding, I'm going to, on bonus actions, I'm going to be using this. I've still got Aura of Vitality up. So for the next minute, every round,

I can just heal 2d6 to somebody. I'm just going to keep,'m just going to hit her. Are you okay? I'm actually doing okay. I'll just hit her a few times, hit him a few times. Okay, so it lasts for a minute? It does, but I used at least one round just to do stone shapes.

Correct, so you have nine casts of it. And I already used one cast, so there's eight, probably eight left. Okay, so we'll keep tabs on that as we go. So go ahead and roll the healing for her, if you want to. Another five points. Okay. Oh, five points, that's cute. I'm doing it seven more times.

All right, so stealth checks are on the table here. Chetney. Do we have plus ed? Yes. 31. Oh, thank god. Dang. 18. All right, 18. 24. 24.

20. 20. I rolled a one, butanna, 18. 24. 24. 20. 20. I rolled a one, but it comes out to 23. Still a one, though. Okay. Jesus. Still a one, though. Unfortunate. Imogen.

14. Okay. Sorry. You all curl down the base of this. As you're heading down the side, Frida, you're holding Deanna on your back and you reach out onto one of the roots to hold you as you're helping other people

down to the floor before the root snaps. And you fall back, and in protecting Deanna from impact, you tumble about 12 or so feet down, hitting a hard rock with your shoulder and tumbling. It doesn't do too much damage to you, necessarily. It'll only take two points of bludgeoning damage. But it does make a loud crack. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I wasn't looking. I was gone. Ooh! Shit. Fuck! Ooh! Ooh! I know. What are we doing? What are we doing?

What are we doing? We got to get out of here. We got to go. Keep going. We got to keep going. Do we go into the forest? I've got, I can cast Fly on one person. That's it now. Well, two of us will live. You hear this impacting from the stone

on the inside of the tower, which now the top of it's still blazing with flame. Double dashing, right? Double dashing. Double dash. We're not stealthing, we're running. I can't heal if I'm double dashing, that's okay. That's okay. Where are you going?

Which direction? Towards what? Who's leading? What are you doing? You're in the middle of the darkness of the space, surrounded by a shadow. Other than the ghost surrounding you. I'm outside of Sunset or anything? It's the very, very tail end of Sunset,

so there's just a little bit of glow in the sky. Is it dumb to use my lights to give us a little bit of guidance of where we're going? Yes. Don't be a charge. We can't see anything yet. Is there another tower close by? Or do we run into the forest?

Is there another nearby tower besides this one? We're on the edge, right? Yeah, we're on the edge. We could head out north. If you want to. The tower's on the northwestern side of the town. You're not sure if the town ends there or if there's more into it.

You haven't traveled beyond it, but you can go ahead and try. I feel like we should go where we've been. But that's through the entire town again. And then upstream, right? Yeah. How do we get out of here? We should go into the woods,

at least, where there's more cover. It's also more dangerous there, because there's miasmas. I think open terrain is best for it. Yeah, no, no, but woods, because if we're running and then the tree will like... Exactly, exactly, exactly. Woods? You get it.

Woods. Woods. We can also go up a tree, too. Yeah. Yeah, let's find the trees that aren't people. We can climb those. Why aren't they all people? Oh god. You want to do that? That's a risk.

Bad here, it's bad here. What's going on? Hey, what are we doing? I'm going to cast a bonus action healing thing on Imogen again. Just patting Frida. Yep, yep, we got to go. You need to stay with me, come on, Tendai. What were you saying? What are you going to do?

I was saying, Frida was saying I could cast Fly on him and they could cause a distraction. But there's also a flying creature to contend with. Yeah. Ugh. Are these? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So why don't they all stay together? Kyle, let's just stealth, because once we do that,

I am going to, after that loud crack, though, I'm going to cast Invisibility on myself. I'm just going to. Okay, so you vanish from sight. So hopefully my low roll on stealth doesn't affect the group, because I was the lowest outside of the natural one. I don't know if it does that.

Unfortunately, the group stealth roll does still have an effect. That was not a precursor to that. However, going forward, it is noted that you are invisible. But the howling, growling, and baying of the approaching, what you assume to be the Wolf King, based on your previous encounter,

is getting closer and louder. Are you heading which direction? Into the woods, because you assume to be the Wolf King, based on your previous encounter, is getting closer and louder. Are you heading which direction? Into the woods, because we don't have a map of the city. Right? Into the woods. We're on the edge of the forest. We don't have a map of the city. We wouldn't know where we're going. Anywhere south beneath the city is the river anyway.

So at least there's woods and elevation in the woods. The woods are just trees. We're going into the woods and maybe up a tree. The trees are just trees. We're going into the woods and maybe up a tree. The trees are just people. Little pebbles are falling and you can hear the heavy impacts and screeching of the creature that you just locked in the tower still trying to bash its way out.

Toward the woods! Maybe they'll fight each other. Maybe the wolf will attack the creature. Yeah. There's the woods. Okay, so you all go, not stealthily. No, I thought we were stealthing. We're stealthing? I'm not stealthing. I think we should go for it fast. Okay, fast? all go, not stealthily. No, I thought we were stealthing. We're stealthing? I'm not stealthing. I think we should opt for fast.

Okay, fast? Yeah, sure. Fast towards the woods. If we can just go around the tower and leave the... If the Wolf King's headed towards the tower, he'll hear the noise inside and fight the thing inside, and we're on the other side, so we're interposing the tower. So if we're not stealthing,

then I should use the lights so we can run faster and not trip. Okay. All right, I'll send out my little dancing orbs of purple light. This will break your invisibility. Goddamn it. I've got light. I've got light too. Forget it, okay.

All right, so you go ahead and. No, it's fine, you don't even see shit. So you go ahead and cast Light. Your eyes glow. Lights turn on. Leading headlights in the space in front. The heavy fog, it's like putting on regular lights in the middle of a fogscape,

so it does obfuscate it slightly, but you bring it down a little bit. You just squint? Yeah. Perfect. Still faded out here, bruh. The last bear is led. You all go charging into the thickness of the surrounding forest on the north side of this tower,

seeing the orange glow above and still hearing the impacts. The howl is getting louder and louder. You step beyond the main street that you've been walking on, meeting the exterior wall. The exterior wall is about 15 or so feet up, but it is crumbled and broken in places. Are you all going to attempt to climb over it?

Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I'm going to lift Deanna up first. Okay. Group athletics check, please. Group athletics. Can't be worse than a natural woman. LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA I have to guide myself.

I should have. I should have. Because I'm still exhausted. That's true. Motherfucker. Okay. 18. 18, okay. Deanna? Seven. Seven. Five. 18, okay. Danon? Seven. Seven.

Five. But I've got a grapple hook. I'll give you advantage of the grapple hook then. Nine. Okay. 15. 15, okay. 21.

21. Did anybody guide anybody? I guided myself. Okay, then a nine. Nine, okay. We didn't make it. Nope. I guess it's my self-assertive medicine. Did a nine. Nine, okay. We didn't make it. Nope.

It's less about the fact that you didn't make it, it just took longer than you were hoping. It's a bit of a chore to get everyone over this heavy wall, but partially because it's so heavily overgrown, you would think there'd be more handholds, but most of them are covered in thorns, and it's more about safely trying to get up there, and then some places you step on

break away on the way to the person who's spearheading that path and you have to adjust then some places you step on break away on the way to the person who's spearheading that path, and you have to adjust. So you do manage to make it over the wall, but not before the of the approaching wolves seems to be coming around the corner, and out of a little bit of the burning firelight above

that you can see from the glowing tower, you can see the shape of these massive dire wolf torsos like moving and shifting around each other. But you've cleared the wall. Oh god. And it didn't yet? Not yet. Did it see us going over the wall that we could see?

Mm-mm. Mm-mm-mm. I didn't see you. I love, did it see? There's also a tower, like a burning inferno of a tower that's going to be pretty loud. Yeah. Is there one open brick on the bottom that I can look through and see if it sees us?

Make an investigation check. Why investigation? Because it's fun to glance real fast. Disadvantage? Eight. Eight, nah. Okay. I'm just looking into a very dark brick. I don't know if it's a black brick.

A little spider comes out and tells you, What's so dark in there? He's not missing a tooth, it's just painted black. I'd go back to Ninja Turtle. Yep. You've passed the wall, but in doing so, you've also hit the thickness of Savalirwood. It is just a tangled mass of brush, tree, bush, and bramble.

It is going to be a challenging road forward. Who is leading this? just a tangled mass of brush, tree, bush, and bramble. And it is going to be a challenging road forward. Who is leading this? Oh man. I've got a pretty good survival. Who's got good survival? I've got good survival. Oh, okay. I've got pretty good survival. It's a survival.

So it should, yeah, you do it. I've got a decent survival. We shouldn't do it, because aren't you still exhausted like me? Uh-huh. I'll try. I feel like I sniffed on you, that's what I'm fucking about. No, no, no, you're right. Oh, should I have rolled things?

Imogen, you and your invisible self are coming to lead this troop here. With the sound of your voice, but with your knowledge of traversing natural spaces, go ahead and roll Survival. With your mind. With my mind powers. Who's going to guide me? I guide you.

I don't know what we're doing, but I guide you. Who's guiding me? I just reached. I just touched the button. Natural 20. Yay! Yay, there we go. Do you want to add anything? Yeah, you add your total. Okay, great.

So that's 26. 26, all right. So rapidly, you begin to, with all of your mind still connected, guiding everyone deeper and lasts for... What? Your telepathic bond. Oh, guiding everyone deeper. It lasts for... What? Your telepathic bond? Oh, that's gone.

Right, I know. This is literally me just going, one by one, going, watch this log. There's thorns on this tree. Except we can't see what you're pointing to. Yeah. It's okay. You're rather quick and easy to place mental images in people's minds as well.

You're very well practiced at this telepathic communication. And rapidly, you all begin to delve deeper and deeper into this dangerous thicket known as the Settlerwood. It is not easy. You've come through here once and it was a pain in the ass, and now you're trudging into it without daylight,

with something on your tail. And in doing so, all of you manage to progress for a bit, but the danger of pushing through this place still has a toll. Everyone takes six points of piercing damage as you get scuffed up, having to maneuver in the dark through heavy thorns and the bladed edges of plants that seem to almost feed on the blood left

in the wake of your cut. The scent of the space seems to turn from that wet, earthy rot into almost an iron-like blood scent that seems to mingle with the rest of the wood's smell. But you continue to guide them on. You still hear out in the distance, .

But it does not seem to get closer and closer. It still freaks you out. You press on about another 30, 40 minutes of carefully pushing through until eventually the howls get distant and faded, until eventually the howls get distant and faded, until all that remains now is the thick mists, the sound of discordant crickets,

odd predatory birds that stalk the upper boughs of these trees. Mm-hmm. And that's where we're going to take a break. Oh! Oh my gosh. Holy shit. Holy moly. What a heist. We haven't even looked at what we got yet. No. Oh, I left it,

because we needed to just get it. Yeah, perfect. I didn't quite get to use my home-crafted mini. Whoa! Oh my god! Fuck that, we go back. No! I'm going to go back. Oh my god. I'm going to high five that guy.

That's Krull. Damn. Wait, what? Let me see it again. Let me see it again. If you kill the Wolf King, can you be the Wolf King, you become the Wolf King. That's how it works, I think. Nevertheless, we'll be back here in a few minutes.

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Having escaped from the dangers catches your eye. Okay, back to the show. And welcome back. Having escaped from the dangers that stalked you here as the evening came to take the skies over Molaes Myr, you now feel yourselves a bit scattered to the northern side of the forest from the city. The journey home still sits before you. As the adrenaline begins to eventually fade from your veins, the soreness and the reality of your escape and what is necessary to return

begins to set in. What would you like to do? Ow. How's everyone doing? Oh, I'm not in, it's been an hour. Has it been an hour? It's about there, I'll say sure. Hi.

Oh, it's good to see you. Hi! I'm back in my sexy form. That was a trip. Is everyone okay? Does anyone need anything? You made it? Yeah, we made it.

You okay? Yes. I'm okay. I'm okay. Hey. You doing anything? You made it? Yeah, we made it. You OK? Yes. I'm OK. I'm OK. Were you just saying that? I feel a little hinky, but I- You were hinky before the fight.

Uh-huh. I'm OK, though. Right now, I'm a little hinky, but I'm OK. I got you, I got you. I'll use a second-level cure once. I don't think that's going to help. Okay. Oh, it's your different kind of hinky. Oh my god, but I'm okay. I got you, I got you. I'll use a second-level cure. Well, I don't think that's going to help. Okay. Oh, you're a different kind of hinky.

Oh my god, I rolled so bad. Is there anything I can do? That hurts. Maybe. 12 points. Thank you. Something like that. It's new to me, but I can try. It's a level one magic move.

I like healing. That helps me. Oh yeah? Yeah. That's cool. So it's dark now. Should I try to find a... Is there anywhere we can camp? Is that weird to camp in here? We could try the floor. We could try to climb a tree,

although they said tend to be people. And we got that... You got that satchel. Yeah, I got a satchel. We got to look at it. Oh, we got to look at that. Is there any cover in the area? Just where we are, is there anything that looks sort of safe?

Roll a perception or a survival check. It's going to be perception. Guidance. That is a 12. Plus a d4. Plus 12. No, plus 11, so 23. Could be guidance. Worth. Yes.

Add it. 23 plus four. I mean, plus a, well, sorry. Three, so 26. 26, pretty solid. Pretty solid 26. There are two options. You do see one raised section of a cluster of trees in the bowels

that has almost what you hope to be an abandoned nest of a cluster of trees in the boughs that has almost what you hope to be an abandoned nest of a large creature that now sits as a somewhat sunken, half-domed constructed space that is about 15 or so feet off the floor of the forest. That's my elevation. You also see within one of the nearby bramble tangles almost an area that has created a small 10 by 15 foot dome space

that looks like it's just an enclosure within where a bunch of these vines and roots have knotted and created this tiny fort. I present both options to the group. I don't know what you guys would think is a better idea. I don't know what's safer, honestly. The nest sounds fucked. So the dome it is.

Dome it is. A fort. All right. Tree fort. All right. So you gather yourself within your ramble fort. The good news about the ramble fort is because it's mostly enclosed, aside from a couple of small crawl spaces, you get the sense that you can safely create a fire

if you want to, and it probably won't be visible from most sources in the future. Amazing. That's good. Let's do that. More fire. Thanks. Drama. That's fair. Yeah, sorry I caught that room on fire, y'all.

No, it's okay. You were doing your thing. You fell down the stairs. Are you okay? How's your tailbone? Yeah, maybe next time don't drink before we go into the ancient city of Melaesmer. Yeah, sorry about that. Wait, girl, are you holding? No, unfortunately. Let's open up this satchel. Yeah, let's look at that satchel.

Can someone make a fire? I'll make a fire. Yeah, Fearne can. Yeah, I can, too. I'll help you. Thanks. We produce heat, you know. Ooh! From friction.

God, I want to be horny about this. I'm so tired. Can I communicate with you? If you can pass it, can I communicate with you, Alice? Yeah, what's up? I just want, there was something scratching at my head back there, and we had an idea about you pushing in a little further.

Maybe later on we can do that. Oh my gosh, yes, 100%. It's not priority, but maybe later on. Yeah, we could definitely do that. Thank you, I appreciate it. Satchel. We can definitely do that. I open the satchel.

Okay. We all die. No! Not all of you. I don't want you to get retracted, no! No, but the rest of you do watch as the FCG verts through and goes to open it. As you begin to pull on it, there is a blue flash. You watch as the FCG is slammed

immense and with incredible force into the top of this inner space before onto the ground. You do take... Oh my god. Wait, what have you never played this game before? What have you never played this game? A satchel.

38 points of damage. Say it. I'm okay. Only because of you. You're fucking welcome. Oh my god. How's your meter, though? It's okay.

Hey, bud. Oh! Oh! Oh, no. Oh, shh, shh, shh. It's okay, bud. I have to look to him no. Shh, shh, shh. It's okay, bud. I come up to him and I hold his head. Are you okay?

There's a stick in me. Oh my god, I got it. Oh! Oh, you pulled out. Oh. Oh my goodness. That is dumbass at the end of that. You're perfect.

What if we're going to look so big? You were, it was so big in there. Here, we have a knife. Thank you. 19 points of healing. I just need to apologize for that drone. Out of second-level slots. Oh no. You made him lay back.

I chased Christian off the show. Oh! Well. Yeah. Oh well. It'd be that way. That's another one of his paramours. Anything else in the satchel? Well, now you can open it.

Okay, good. Having set what sort of arcane lock slash trap that was on it off, you reach in and it's empty. Empty? Oh. Feels like there's something. It's a bag of, you got to call for something. Ask for Ludinus's Notes.

I ask for Ludinus's Notes. You feel a bunch of papers in there. Whoa! It's a bag of hold'em. Oh, that's fine. You bring out a cluster of somewhat crinkled vellum and parchment, as well as some sections of half-bound journals that are torn in places, like parts of it have been removed or separated.

Yeah. Can I, do I know enough about magical bags to know that you can? Make an arcana check. Okay. I do. Guidance. Yeah, that's true. You've been around the bush a few times, Chet.

I worked for the post office for a couple years. So you can make it with advantage. It was after I got fired being the milkman. A two. With advantage? The other one was a nine. Plus one for Guidance. 10. 10. Plus one for Guidance. 10.

10. Plus negative one. Nine. Nine. You do nine. Incredible. But you could grab it from him and do it. Yeah, I've been around. Don't you take this from me.

This is mine. Be careful, Mr. Pockety. I mean, we started utilizing things like this when we would make toy transfers out of Rexxentrum. Oh, is that true? Oh, my shit was high in demand. I had to move around, like cover a knight. We'd use body doubles.

Did your former boss have a sack that he threw over his back and carry things around? Well, I got it from a credible source within Rexxentrum. I got it from the Authority. All right. from a credible source within Rexxentrum. How about from the Authority? All right. What do you do? Sounds bad.

Take it. You take it, turn it upside down, and you shake it. Motherfucker. I thought it was going to be different. Yeah. You do that? Mm-hmm. Okay. Not near the fire!

Just over the fire. A bunch of coins come spilling out and hitting the ground. Some gems hit. Food! A couple of small objects land. A staff falls out of it, hits the ground. And a bunch more papers and notes. Some sort of an odd,

looks like a half piece of a leather piece of armor or something hits the ground. That's it. Hey, would he know that we touched this? Probably. Who? Your arch enemy that you made? Ludinus? That guy. He might know.

When the glyph went off, he wouldn't be aware? That's not how ours worked. It just allowed you to keep a lot of stuff in there. No, but the trap. The trap glyph went off, he wouldn't be in there? That's not how ours worked. It just allowed you to keep a lot of stuff in there. No, but the trap. The trap might've gone off, but it wouldn't have. He's powerful. I don't know. This could have been here for 500 years, right? Yeah, that's true.

Did he just forget about it? He just forgot he had all this? How much coin is that? Can I ritually cast Detect Magic? Because I only have one spell slot left. Yeah, it's a ritual, you can. I'm going to wait for 10 minutes to be like, I'll tell you if stuff is magical in a little bit.

While she's focusing, do we see a variety of languages or is it all elven? If you look at all the papers, they're blank. Fucking of course they are. We need lemons. Literally across the board. What about that thing you did back in the room,

Mr. Pockabee, where you saw what was written on it? I'll take a single piece of paper and I'll take a little handful of soil, get my mitts, my paws all dirty. I have to restart Detect Magic. What if the... I just rub it to see if there's any indentations in the paper.

That's fine. Like a chalk, really. Go make an investigation check for me. Guidance. One job. That's stupid. I'm not pushing the raft, I'm casting Guidance. That was a four for the Guidance, so 22.

Hey! Look at you. You see a very, very faint layer of scratch marks that you could probably assume to be writing across it, but you cannot quite make out a language on them. But you do see that, at least this confirms, that these papers do have something that was once written upon them.

I will cast Command on it at first level and say, Reveal! Maybe it's activated by magic. Oh, that's a great idea. Paper, not being a humanoid, because it's a piece of paper, does not seem to react. First glance!

What if we draw a neck on it? You know your trick. What if we shape the paper into a human? You got polymorphs? Lay it out with legs in it. Yeah. If we put all the sheets out and give it legs and a neck.

The gems. Comes to life. What am I? Why am I here? You have butter. Kill me! I shouldn't be! Gem. The gems, we could pocket those. Are they crazy substantial?

Or they just look like gems, anything unique? It looks like part of this may have been kind of just a... Bugout fund? Are there a bugout fund fund or just things that were gathered in a place that was not meant to be found while everything else was gathered in a rush, maybe. The gems are worth about 250 gold at a quick glance. As far as the coinage, about 653 gold coins,

about 250 platinum pieces. Wow. Oh, that's a lot. Two passports and a gun. 653 gold and 250 platinum in addition to it? Correct. Yeah. There's also an odd four-inch rod of polished pale burgundy wood. That's just a solid piece of wood

that's smoothed, polished, clean. It's a joke. No! a solid piece of wood that's smoothed, polished, clean. It's a joke. No! This is a joke. No! Wrong answer. It's too smooth! It's too smooth? That's some boring shit. Eight years of this.

It's smooth, polished wood, but also, did you say it was purple? Burgundy. Burgundy? That's right. Burgundy, smooth wood. Yeah, it's a... It's got the Duke's paw. It's like the thickness of a dime.

So it's a pretty useless dime. It's not a dildo! Could it be? Like I like. If you've been doing your kegels a long time, maybe. It's a swizzle stick of a dime. You can insert any drops. You can insert any drops. You can insert?

Roll athletics. This seems to be pretty innocuous. It's some money gems, some blank paper, and a walking stick. And then that piece of armor? And then some armor, leather armor. Piece of armor. You look, it looks

like a harness of some kind, like a torso harness. Big chest buckle. Sorry. Sorry, Matt. Matt, I'm so sorry. No, it's fine. Sure. No, no, no, we're done.

Okay, okay. It is mostly of a darker stained leather, almost like a vest harness that goes around the torso. There are parts of it that are brass metallic. You're not quite sure the material, but it has that brass gold tinge to it. It has... Hmm.

You gather, it's not a solid piece, and on one part of it, you're not sure if it's the front or the back, it looks like where the heavy brass elements are, they continue into an emerging, a risen portion, almost like a... How do I describe it? It rises almost like a metallic volcano. Laura, fuck you. A metallic volcano coming out of the chest or the back? Yeah. Almost like a funnel or a skull?

Like an open funnel, but there's just an empty space there. Like an open funnel like this or a... Like it emerges there. Like an open funnel like this, or a? Like it emerges outward. You're not sure if it's the front or the back. Okay. Something that you could fit a canister into? Like a gem or a? A gem, an object.

Cool. A beacon? I can identify one of these items. Should I do the little rod thing or this vest thing? I think the vest needs a second part, unless one of these items. Should I do the little rod thing or this vest thing? I think the vest needs a second part, unless one of these gems. What's the wear pattern on the little volcano? It doesn't look like it's heavily worn.

It looks like it's been barely used. It's very well made. It's extremely well crafted. Oh, and then there was a staff, too. This one took magic finished. We'll say, as you are all looking over this Oh, and then there was a staff. Is what Tech Magic finished? We'll say, as you are all looking over this and discussing it, you finish your ritual casting of the Tech Magic. Yeah. And as you do,

the chest piece gives off a faint magical essence to it. There's an enchantment based in it. The staff gives a very strong magical essence. And across all the papers you see is a script that is un... Nobody else has been able to see it except for you. You can see the script and read it? Cool. I go, that's magic, that's magic.

Give me the papers. So the staff was very magic? What about the little cylinder rod thing? What about the little burgundy wood? Is the burgundy wood the same thing as the staff or very magic? What about the little cylinder- What about the little burgundy wood? Is the burgundy wood the same thing as the staff? Or are those different things? No, different things. A faint magic from the piece of burgundy wood, I would say.

Faint magic, staff is very magic, strap-on harness, pretty magic. All the papers I'm going to read. Okay. And Frida can take it down, right? Record it? Yeah, yes. Oh yeah, take a note. Oh, good idea.

Note here. Frida, write this down. Yes. Deanna. Is it a language you can read? Is it Elvish? It is Elvish. I can read them over.

All right. As you read it out loud. I can read them over. All right. As you read it out loud, I'll go over it. Perfect. The notes of Ludin. Sorry, I'll make a note. No, I got plenty of notes here for you, and it's quite a bit. Cool! While she starts, I'm actually going to go sit

at the mouth of where we're at and just keep ears and nose and eyes out, so we're not just ignoring our surroundings. Perception check for me. Okay. I'm going to identify the staff. Okay. In the morning, you can identify something else. Yeah.

In the morning, you'll be identifying my staff. Oh, hello. Why you got to wait till the morning for that? Wow. Just a really loud hey-yo from the top of the nose. That's my guy. Good lord. That's my robot. Ooh!

A big, thick staff. Hate it. There's a lot there. The Staff of Dark Odyssey. You gain them plus one. It does stuff. It has eight charges. It's good for magic-y people. Whoa, it has all kinds of really cool stuff. Hell yeah.

That's what it has. Does it have a class requirement? Spellcaster. Spellcaster. So that could be. Oh, it does a bunch of shit. Oh, you're looking too? It does a lot. That's a lot of us. I, you're looking too? It does a lot of stuff. That's a lot of us. I mean, a lot of us are spellcasters.

I'll take it. All right. Take it. That is nice. Nice! Hey, silver knee, goodbye! And then I burn the notes and leave. Wait, did we find out?

Wait. What? Teleport works, right? No. Teleport. Doesn't? No. Teleport... Doesn't seem to be. Teleportation circles seem to be working. Teleportation circles have stopped working. But teleport. People have teleported away,

but no one's returned yet. So it could work. Teleport works. Let me see, let me see. We've got teleport. Really? Yes. We can get home. Maybe, maybe. We can get wherever. Maybe. Maybe. We can get wherever. Maybe. Or maybe you die. Or it could bamf us into the middle of the sea.

No, they said that people, well. They never came back. We don't need them. I can ask the change bringer. Okay. Oh my god. It's a lot. It's amazing. These are very good. That's hot.

That's really cool. Oh, it's very good. In looking through the beginning of these notes. Good to know. It'd be scary that he left this. That's scary to me. Yeah, that's extra. Didn't even need it. Yeah.

The first batch of notes seem to be revolving around experiments on divine magic essence. Attempts to distill down the base nature of divinity as an energy that can maybe be replicated or destroyed. A lot of theoretical discussions on it. And the notes are a bit scattered. They're not meant to be presented to others.

They're kind of shorthand and a lot of questions and contemplations and ideas that are partially written and then forgotten or abandoned for other ideas. That's the first major series of thoughts that seem to come out of these notes. You also see some notes that have designs, sketches, and almost like an engineered blueprint, if you will, for that strange harness that you saw.

This is not an elven. The text here is specifically arcane glyphs. Like it's in instructions for enchantments that are there. Roll an arcana check for me. Guidance? Thanks! Oh, it doesn't matter. It's going to be a bad seven. You have no idea what any of the script runes

or notes around the sketch of this harness mean. I will replicate them with Minor Illusion so that any other arcane people might have a better shot at deciphering it. Slick. Just put it up on the wall. Overhead projector, baby. Does this mean anything to you? You start sketching them down.

Put it on the mural board? We'll come to that shortly. 17. 17 arcana? Yeah. No idea what they mean. Cool. But there are some notes in Elven

that follow those initial blueprints or the conceptual design of it that speak of a physical regiment of magical infusion. And as you continue on, they note on a synthetic recreation of the powerful natural magics that sustain the venerable Wardens of the Wilds. Wardens of the Wilds? Then beyond that, there are additional notes

on dryads in Fae and different Fae entities that have locations throughout Wildemount. You can see in these notes, hand-drawn maps of the regions, eight of them have been crossed off. There are notes about Feeding the Root. Feeding the Root? Does that mean anything to anyone?

Feeding the Root? Does that mean anything to you, Fearne? Feeding the Root. Feeding the Root. You can make a nature or investigation check, if you like. Guidance! Guidance. I have a really stupid idea. Six.

No idea. I don't know what the fuck that means. If Ludinus was writing these notes for himself, is there any way I can insight check to try to follow the steps? If this is contractions written for yourself, is there a way to guess the logic he was jumping over? There is, but that would be investigation over an insight thing.

Why can't it be in one-on-one? Because insight is about reading an individual's person. Yeah. Investigation is to follow the threads and information. But I think we've already established that paper is people? Well attempted.

Yeah, got to try. But if you'd like to make an attempt. As you read these notes, I'm going to cast Enhance Ability on you for intelligence, I guess. Thanks. What does that mean? You have advantage. It gives you advantage on, I guess. Thanks. What does that mean? You have advantage.

It gives you advantage on all these rolls. All these invitations. Pat you on the head and be like, just be a little smarter, okay? I'll do my best. Guidance. Natural 20 on the first one. Okay. Wait, what were you trying to do?

An investigation check, right? Yep. Yeah. To try and follow the path of his notes. Good, that negates the negative one I had for a 20. For a 20, okay. And you were asking to follow the... Just the leaps in logic, as you start to leave shorthand for yourself,

what are the things he's skipping over? What you can gather is that these notes are definitely, this batch of notes particularly that you're looking at right now, are batched with this harness. Notes are definitely, this batch of notes particularly that you're looking at right now are batched with this harness. They are the next stage past its design. These are the resources needed for it to function.

Oh. So the Dryad and Fey entities and the locations that have been crossed out, you ascertain are probably powerful dryad or fey entities that have in the past, 300 plus years past maybe, been discovered and utilized to power whatever this harness was supposed to do.

Does this harness feel inherently consumptive in its use or just in its creation? With a 20 investigation, the way it's designed, everything seems to funnel inward. So you imagine whatever resource is being presented into that portion of the device is likely consumed or funneled into whoever is wearing it. So that's how he got so powerful.

He has lived as long. So here's the thing. It's like eating people? If you want to live forever, maybe wear it? I don't know, this is bad. This thing is bad. Okay, so you're feeding it. Mm-hmm. You're feeding the root. Feeding yourself.

So you're feeding yourself. I think we all already picked up on that. Just to be stupid, the elven word for root is like a plant root and not a root to something. Correct. Ooh. Nice. And it was feed the root? Was that the phrase?

Feeding the root was a term that was used a few times surrounding these various locations. And there are dates situated where it's like, have to make sure to return to gather every number of years to feed the root. Oh my god, this Gargamel motherfucker is just grabbing smurfs. He's just sucking them up. Grabbing smurfs.

Oh my, did the bag dump out a bunch of little red booties and a white beard? And one pink hat? One pink hat, yeah. No, he made her. Does anywhere in Deer Diary say how old he is in those notes? None.

He didn't label the top. He doesn't have to remind himself how old he is. Old as shit. The last bit of notes in that one batch speak of expanding his restoration sources into the Fey Realm. Yike. He was going to hop over into your realm.

Was going to, probably did. Maybe he did. I don't know. It feels like it got bad here, so maybe he didn't get a chance to do it, or maybe he did. Did Nana Mori ever talk about anywhere in the Feywild that resembled the Savalir wood

that was sucked of its energy? You don't recall any conversation like that, necessarily, but you've never been to the Savalir Wood. That would put the... I don't think so. That would put Nandamori in danger. That would put the court in danger. The court. Yeah, 300 years ago when he wrote this.

Unless, I mean, sure. There's one X that, or there's one spot that hasn't been X'd off? There's a couple of them that are scattered. There's one that's deep, deep in the northeastern side of the Flotket Alps. There's one in the center of the lake that sits in the middle of the Rhine Plains.

It looks like there were three within the Savalirwood, though on the sketches you see here, it's referred to as the Velothil. Mm-hmm. Aw. You can see there's one within the Ashkeeper Peaks, and there is another one that exists in an island out to the northwest, past the waters.

And so they're all marked little miniature fey fanes, and a number of them have been crossed off. How long does Enhance Ability last? I think it's an hour. An hour? Can I make a history check to see if there's any important historical events that happened? Is there a historical record of him wreaking havoc in any of these other locations?

Make a history check. Because both of you were alive, right? 300 years ago. Yeah, no problem. Do I have guidance? No. You might have guidance. Okay.

Oh boy, that's bad. Wait, why are you rolling? You should only be rolling once anyway, because you had disadvantage and then he gave it to you, so you're at normal. All right, all right. The first one was a 10. 12.

No clue. Damn it. I've never read a book. I'm actually older than books. Back in our day, we would just talk. Carved into wood. Ain't it on cave walls? Should someone just put it on? The harness? Yeah.

Okay, but. Maybe you'll kill someone. Or it might suck you in. Or it needs other things to work. Yeah, it probably just doesn't do anything. I think if you just identify it, maybe before... Tomorrow? Yeah. I could try to identify it right now.

If you kill it. And the gems, they don't seem to fit the funnel for this thing, right? No. Okay. I won't let you die. No, you think. No, fit the funnel for this thing, right? No. Okay. No, it does that. I won't let you die. No, it's not. It's big, okay.

Do it. Is the funnel, is it a circle? Is it a square? Is it a shape? Is it a roughly hewn? Best that you can tell, the portion of, because it emerges outward about two and a half inches or so

before it comes to an end, the opening gap there has almost a diamond-shaped gap. That's the best you can ascertain from it. What if you put it on and it feeds the Rylor in? Or something? Maybe. Maybe you put it on and anything living around you, you can suck their essence up.

Can I put it on? Yeah. Sure. Should I put it on or is that dumb? What if you suck our essence up? Probably not. Should I just go outside? You probably have to intentionally do it. What if you sit outside the door

and then if anything scary comes, you just eat its essence before you go? You could also identify it first and then you can put it in. I can identify it first. That's a really good idea. I forgot we didn't do that. Let's just wait. Let's just wait. We're going to wait. Just like.

You come to the end of that batch of notes and feel like that's about as much as the information you can gather from those. The next cluster that seems to be, and there's three of these batches together, the second cluster has a bunch of notes about Ruidus. Oh.

The Red Moon. Oh shit. Studying its curious superstitions and religious scripture imploring avoidance of its dark curse and corrupt power over Exandrian fanes and magical alignments, he makes a lot of notes and assumptions that the Great Temples fear this moon for some reason.

And he wishes to know why. He theorizes that the gods continue to push through all their worship to not even question or look in its direction. And you can see where the study is an obsession. You can see the perpetual questions of, what is it about this that turns them away? Why is it that for all the curiosity and clarity

on all the things that are... Ooh, another one. Mm-hmm. Did you find them? Oh, wow. I hate it. For all of the great shadows and villains that have been written about through the scriptures of history,

there are deep understandings that are both within tomes and books, as well as sermons given, to inform the populace of faith that what exists in evil should be understood so it can be avoided in thought. But this is the one thing that exists in the skies of Exandria that the gods just say,

look away. And that has been something in his mind since the era here in Molaesmyr. He notes the odd flares. And you also notice some odd notes in mentioning that he, in learning of the historical route he's born, quietly curses and wishes that he was not born under,

longing for the mark of the godsbane out of spite. Wishes that he was not born under? So he was born under the red moon. He was not born under. Uh-huh. Okay. He was not born under. Uh-huh. Okay. He hopes to employ an enhanced communion ritual timed during a flare,

an attempt to understand what may lie within this strange crimson body. He talks about forgotten gods. He talks about a divine unraveling. He talks of an ancient primordial that wasn't sundered after the founding. All these various theories of the Red Moon, and he's trying to ascertain what the nature of it is.

In another entry, complains of mischief from the Emerald Cross priests undermining his research, but he still managed to contact something. complains of mischief from the Emerald Cross priests undermining his research. But he still managed to contact something, like reaching into an alien dream. It's too far from his abilities, but it exists on a periphery of magic's weave sealed away. He needs something stronger to break through. That's where that batch of notes comes to completion.

Holy shit. Okay, okay, okay. The third batch? While I'm reading this, would it make any sense to try to trace over the words I'm reading in ink so everyone else can keep the notes and read them, too? If you want to.

We can't read Elvish. You said you were doing the illusion. I can't read fucking Elvish. Idiots. They can't, but all the notes you're taking and stuff are the Elvish kind of shapes. He's got a recording, man. He could probably. We'll have an audio recording.

He is a printer. Yeah. Yeah. Boop, boop, boop. You guys don't want to know how expensive that ink is, though. They didn't uptake that shit, they are. It's already out of cyan. You can't hurt anything else, unfortunately.

He's out of the stone. Dig, dig. I'm going to go with Bob. You're going to pull off of cyan. You can't hurt anything else, unfortunately. He's out of the stone. You're like,. I'm an old mom. You're going to pull off the little tabs on his chest. Yeah! Dot matrix printers. That was bad.

Ooh, that brought me back. Yeah, yeah. For all you young kids out there. Children. Pulling neighbors apart. Yeah. The third match, which is the one that has the leather binding to it, but has parts of it torn out.

It notes on the slowly expanding chaotic nature of the arcane crystals that form the power well beneath the city. What city? This city? This one? That one? Molaesmyr. It notes of Eremond. The symbol had the tree and then the thing under it. Those are the crystals. Eremond, The symbol had the tree and then the thing under it. Those are the crystals.

Eremond, which you heard referred to from the King of Uthodur. There's the one who was... Eremond theorizes, in his notes he says, Eremond theorizes the well is a gift from the Arch-Art that was lost in the Calamity and rediscovered here when they founded Molaesmyr within the Velothil Forest.

While others like Esredan firmly believed it to be Arcanum in nature, likely fallen from one of the ancient floating cities. Notes on focusing this crystal well below and making minor adjustments to the engineering specs under Eremon's burrows and harnessing this long buried power source interests. This endeavor that Daleth is focused on.

This endeavor that Daleth is focused on. Ooh. And you see in his final bit of notes here, he's theorizing that if this crystal well is focused through his design, without them knowing, while Ruidus is above during the solstice, he hopes a channel of consciousness could be opened

and perhaps whatever is seeking his attention from the red moon can bring clarity and purpose. So he literally, he didn't even know what he was fucking waking up. Yeah. He just had a hunch? He just thought he was going to be able to control it? Wizards are idiots. Don't worry about that.

I don't know if he was trying to control it or just unleash it. It's lewdness. He wanted to control it. He's just narcissistic enough. He probably has some good qualities, too. There's good in everybody. Is there? I'd like to think so.

Crystal well beneath the city? Yeah, if you remember, and I'm just going to minor allusion the sigil of the city, because it's got the tree above and the little sun below, right? This part. That was probably that thing that was in the key.

You remember? Sure, yeah. Who would forget? Huh? What's happening? When he was talking, this, I'm sorry. It's okay. Frida, I called you FCG. It happens when you spend enough time with me.

This thing opened up and there was this big, crystal-y looking thing that he was using. Yeah, there was a crystal in there or something, Shani. Yeah. You think that's from the well? Yeah, I think a crystal in there or something, Shani. Yeah. You think that's from the well? Yeah, I think that's the powerful crystal. Okay. Is this well nearby?

Maybe we just go down there and... Oh, it's here. It's here? Maybe he took it. It's not here anymore. He probably took it. That's probably what caused the corruption. Like, no more crystal and then yuck moon? I don't know magic. I feel like the Dawnfather under equipped me for this.

Who can we give these notes to? She doesn't know shit, either. She told both of us to don't worry about the moon. She is great. Do I feel like Ludinus made some points in the religious part? Uh-oh. Not going to think about that too hard. Is this helpful?

I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But are we supposed to bring this back to wherever we were before and tell them? Yeah, Uthodur. Is that who we should trust with this? They told us to come here. Yeah.

I don't want to say the bad thing they don't like very much. You have the ability to teleport now, maybe with that staff, right? Yeah. We could do it a few times. Can we? Count it up.

Six charges. Six charges of teleport. Is what it takes to cast it once. Oh. How many charges? It has eight charges. So we can cast it once. So we can cast it once, and then maybe again tomorrow.

So we can at least get back to Uthodurn. And then in the morning, we could- Maybe you shouldn't go back to Uthodurn. Maybe you guys should go find your friends. That's what I mean, yeah. We don't know where they are. We don't know where they are. We could go to Jusar.

At least it'd be closer. If it works. I mean, maybe we should go to Uthodurn first because it's closer. I don't know if it makes a difference, but when I was sending a message to you, it worked because we were close. Mm. I don't know what you guys should do. Well, we got to get you guys home.

I mean, unless you guys want to come with us. I don't think you should give these notes to the king and queen. Why? What? Because you don't know who you can trust. But they told us to come here and they don't like eluding us either. It's affecting their people and their kingdom as well.

This is affecting the whole world. And y'all might be doing the most important thing on Exandria right now, but, you know, maybe a couple more heads leaning in could help. So I've been trying to think. Okay, so further south of here in this continent is a place called Rexxentrum. It's where Ludin is eventually ending up

as a part of something called the Cerberus Assembly. It's a bunch of mages, wizards, they all rule. There's a king, but we know who's really in charge of shit. Anyway, I made some shit for them. It's not a big deal. I don't know if they would be totally chill with him trying to unleash all this stuff so we could tattle to them

and maybe see if there was some people there that could try and stop some of that. At least they'd be close to him. Or the other group that was really hot on his ass was Vasselheim. You know, they sent ships and the fucking, what were those things called? There were these big suits of armor.

They were crazy. Oh, that's very cool. What the fuck were they called? Yeah. I know what you're talking about. Judicator. Yeah. Oh, a Judicator. No, just Judicator, right? I think it's a Jud talking about. Adjudicator. Yeah. Oh, adjudicator. No, just judicator, right?

I think it's adjudicator. It's just judicator. Adjudicator. Thanks, memory. Uthodurn doesn't really have anything for us, I don't think, except the people who sent us on this mission. So?

And if teleportation magic works, you can send word back to them eventually. Yeah, I don't know what they would have. Like, what do we do when we take it back there? It just goes there to die, right? I mean, they don't have any powerful mages. The king and queen are handcuffed like everybody else. The temples seem to be closed and locked up.

But they also have, it's not just them there. There's a whole group there. What were they called? That all they do is like... The Vellum Steeple? Yeah, they solve intellectual problems. They're like a think tank. What about that group that that girl was part of? Beau.

Who? Oh, the one that was with the Dirty Wizard? I did not. Ew, he wasn't that dirty. No, he was pretty clean. Fearne and I don't know who you're talking about. I only saw lips from the back, but my god. She had abs for days. Oh god, I just saw from the back. I was like, whoa.

She was part of the Cobolt Soul. Cobo-so? Cobo-so? Oh! What's Cobo-so? Well, Cobo-so is from what it sounded like. She said it was a group of people that... Librarians, I think. I think it's like a library.

But she was a fighter. Librarians with abs? Every new thing I learn sounds crazy. Those abs. I don't know why librarians would have abs. It does feel weird. Then there was a wizard from the Assembly, right? Oh, was he from the Assembly? That's what he said.

I don't know if he had that. But he's good or that. I think he said that. They were on our side. Was he the guy who turned into a lens? No, I don't know who that was. I wrote something down. I don't know if this has to do with anything.

Someone turned into a lens. He was a with anything. Someone turned it into a lens. He was a handsome sort. He turned into a little ball. Fearne, you said you wrote something down. He was very sad. He died, clearly. Oh. Baestra? People there may know lewdness?

Does that mean it? Baestil? Sure. Good job, Fearne. Good notes. Listen. No. When I'm hearing things, it changes when it gets in my head to paper. That was all I was going to say, but...

I'm also looking at something. Guidance! Savalir Shadycreek Run, is that a thing? That's a place. Yeah, it's out there here. It's on the map. That's towards Wrexler's Run. I'm just saying, Uthodurn has a think tank.

They live there, and we know the king and queen. You're talking about going to Vasselheim? Who would we talk to? It's true. We don't know anybody there. We don't know where to go. We'd land and be like, Hello? Vasselheim's full of divine casters, right?

So they must be completely losing their minds right now. It is on the continent of Vasilra, though. What does that mean? I mean, it's far. Yeah, it's far away. I mean, it's untouched, and they were the only ones that brought the thunder. Uthodurn is just sitting there.

They didn't bring the thunder. Uthodurn is just sitting there. They didn't bring the thunder. They brought a ship that was crashed. Plural. In the desert. It did nothing. Judicated, but at least they were trying. One of them crashed. You've been on a skyship?

They also were- We owned one briefly until we crashed it intentionally. Yeah, we destroyed it. That's so cool. I've always wanted to go on one. Fearne, do you mean Ivadel? Yes. Well, I actually was just going to say that because I saw that, but that's the city he lives in in Molas.

Is that where we are right now? No, Ivadel is the city of his origin on the Silrad. It was mentioned by the King of Uthodad. Don't act like you know. You didn't remember that place. I believe you. Evadela? What's it called? Evadel.

Evadel. It's a different city that we also don't know anything about. Maybe we just rest tonight. We need someone to tell us where to go. My last pitch before we sleep. Who saved Uthodurn? Us. Us!

A bunch of fucking scrubs. They don't have anything that'll help us. We got to trade up. They have a think tank. We don't know where we're going. Think tank, schmink tank. They didn't have anything. I broke in there.

I actually went inside. I listen. There's a bunch of bitches in there. They were talking about they were gonna hit their timeshare. Let me tell you. They were gonna cut and run. Some people were in the back room and they're like, oh, we're bitches.

And I was like, listen. What about the timeshare? Like they all share a condo or something? Oh, it's a great concept, yeah. Yeah. Menagerie Coast is full of them. You've got to take this little tour, though. One day. One day tour.

I think that there are six of us, and we've come to a bit of analysis paralysis. I can't imagine giving this information to an entire city. Wait. I agree. Aren't you a little bit of... What's your color scheme? What's your color scheme?

Rose, gold, and green. Do you have a little bit of emerald on you? Rose, gold, and green. Rose, gold, and emerald color. Are you an Emerald Cross priest, maybe? What is that? I don't know, that was something in the notes. Oh, that was something.

Emerald Cross priest. Mr. Messing up his research? That's right. Can we know what Emerald Cross priest means? It can make a religion check for me. Sure. Make one also. Sure. Never felt like a priest. Bye. Religion.

Oh shit. Guidance. Oh, I got my, it doesn't matter. I rolled a natural one because I still am tired. Ooh. 16. 19. Ooh! Okay. Fuller's. Oh, plus Guidance, I forgot.

21. Four! Oh, plus Guidance, I forgot. 21. Ooh! Emerald Cross Priest, specifically, doesn't catch a specific note, but you do know that the Archheart, one of the deities that looks over some natural spaces, elven spaces, magical spaces, some of the symbology tends to lean on cross-like material, like the intersection of two different designed lines.

And the verdant nature of many worshipers of the Archheart leads you to believe that perhaps there may have been a faction within Millaeus Myr that worshiped the Archheart, may have been referred to either intentionally or colloquially as Emerald Cross priests. That might be a bit of a stretch, I'm sorry. That's a cool idea, though.

Yeah, something. We got to figure it out. Yeah, I feel like we need muscle. We got to recruit. But don't, maybe we can go back to Jrusar and then find Laudna and Ashton and Orym and then we can all go together to deliver this information.

No offense, I would love for them to be there, but that whole event sent us halfway across the globe. Yeah, but we're finding a way back. We're finding a way back, Chet. Maybe they could find a way back, too. Maybe they weren't sent as far. Maybe, maybe... I put my hand on your shoulder.

It's just so close. It doesn't make sense to not go and at least try. Or at least tell them what we know. Maybe they know someone in Issylra. Maybe they know someone in Vass'lon. Maybe we can reach out to that Keyleth person. Oh wait, is she dead? She might be.

Whoa. A lot of people that we know are probably dead. Or we could go to Whitestone. Wait, did we go to Whitestone? We did. Yeah, we did. I don't know. I just know that we know some people in high places. It seems like we should ask them

before we just blindly go into another city without knowing anyone. That's fair. But assume that everyone, like Uthodurn, is sending people out and trying to gather information. If you go somewhere new, maybe they've heard something new. That's true. If only the Changebringer could answer this for us. I don't mind going back to Uthodurn. It feels like we won't get anything while we're there,

but I admit, at least going back to where this all went down, at least is taking steps towards a solution. We got a staff now. at least is taking steps towards a solution. We got a staff now, we got this harness. I don't know what that was. The chest piece. What's the Archmage of Domestic Protection? That's nothing, right?

I'm just trying to see things that are floating around in my brain. Hey, can I read Ashley's notes while I've got this up? Yeah, sure, yeah, totally. Yeah, that is Ludeniss's position within the, the official position of Ludeniss within the Cerberus Assembly. It's the Archmajor of Domestic Production.

That's right, I tell everybody that. What's the O'Dearan Wilds? I'm just asking stuff now? Damn, spitballing like a motherfucker. Just random words. Okay. We should teleport now, though. I know.

Why sleep in these terrible woods if we don't have to? Yeah. I think we should also, maybe, if you're up for it, get in there a little bit. Oh, there might be something in there that- Yeah. That's true, that could reveal... Everything.

Yeah, we should try it. First? Before we teleport. Once we do- Are you guys keen on teleporting tonight? My only worry is if you teleport where you're going and the shit is on there, you're all battle-worn.

Your magic has been used, most of you. Flip side of that coin, we teleport somewhere we're not trying to go, shit is on there. So we sleep here, teleport in the morning? If we sleep, if we teleport once now, then tomorrow we can also teleport again, probably. Sure. Right? Wait.

What's the roll? What do you roll? It depends. You have to try to regain the charges. With a d6 or a d4? A d4. Ooh! Yeah. I might have to wait a couple days. Yeah.

Sit down. Am I going to be okay after this? Yeah. I'm going to insight check Imogen. Make an insight check. She's not confident. Make a persuasion or deception check. Your choice without telling.

I cast Guidance on myself, fuck it. 23. I am unsure. I'll go over to you and pull out that blanket I gave you on the first day and just wrap you up. I trust you. You've got this.

And we're all here for you. Thank you. Hey. If anything seems strange, it probably won't. But if it does, just get me out of it. Whatever it takes. Okay, lay down. And I just want to kiss her on the forehead and cascades.

You going into FCG? Isn't that the plan? We're both like... Double duties? Double dipping. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what you'll unlock or if anything. I had something. I was gonna wait until you left, but I had something made for you. For us, really. And in case I come back different or something happens while you're in there,

I just want you to remember me and this and us for what it is, okay? What? You got something real made? You got something real made? Wait, what? What's happening? And I swear. By the moon and the stars in the sky.

Yes! Yes! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh my god! That's your color! That's the cutest! Oh!

That's the cutest! That's so fucking cute. Oh my god. How did you? Wait, did you knit these? Yes. Oh my god. Yes. Oh, it's so lovely.

Polyblend, Deanna, your skills are... Look at how cutie cutie. I invented polyester. Oh my god. It's so cute. Oh my god. Look at you, cutie. Oh wow. That's adorable.

Let's do this. Okay. Thank you, Frida. It's going to be okay. Yeah, yeah, we're just going to see some memories, that's all, and then we'll make more. Do you, can you enhance abilities? Is that a concentration? Can you do it at the same time?

What would I be enhancing? Are we making ability checks in there? We might, perception, stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't really know what to enhance aforehand. Wisdom. I'll burn my last lot. I'll cast Guidance on the three of you. You know what? They're both concentration.

Oh, they are? Okay, never mind then. Yeah, get that on. Get it on. Let's go. All right, Imogen, FCG, Frida, all have Bless. Bless. Bless, okay. I'll try to do it at the last possible second so you guys have the full minute.

Okay, great. Come on. So cute. Okay. All right. I love you, guys. I love you. We're going to connect hands.

Mm-hmm. And touch his temples, their temples, and both casts Detect Thought thoughts at the same time. And Frida, just try to open your mind and open your receptors and sensors and just let your guard down. Okay. I just grabbed Chetty and I'm crying.

It's okay. What if they heard it? Let's see what we can see. What if they have found it? It's not going to, it's fine. Okay. It's okay. What if they heard it? See what we can see. What if they heard them? It's not going to, it's fine. Okay. It's fine. As the spell takes hold,

both of you feel yourselves drawn into, for you, a familiar liminal consciousness space. For you, it's odd. When you look into minds, it's usually a collection of odd images and memories that form this scattered tapestry. This feels like a waiting room. It's different, it's organized,

it's segmented, it's separate. You've even spent some time in FCG's organized, it's segmented, it's separate. You've even spent some time in FCG's mind, but even that leans a little more on the chaotic space of other people. You're a mess. Frida's has a clarity to it. But within this chamber where you both come to rest alongside this consciousness that is Frida,

standing there, a being of light and mist, similar shape, you stand before an archway with two doors waiting to be opened. What do you do? Two doors. A double door? Uh-huh. You want the coin?

Yeah. Aww. I'll open the door. Okay. Push the door open. Go ahead and roll a wisdom check for me, if you don't mind. Me? Yeah. Added d4.

11. 11, okay. As you push through the door, you find the three of yourselves pull. 14, plus three, 14. Okay, 14. Pulled forward with a gentle, warm energy. And as you cascade beyond these opening doors,

it's almost like you're being pulled down a lazy river. There is an energy river of some kind that you are all gliding along. It's dreamscape. It's comfortable. This is a trek through a consciousness where you pick up memories, you pick up a waking moment. You see a hooded figure, metallic mask,

rousing them from a dark, closed space of an indeterminate period of time. Did it look like V, who we saw before? rousing them from a dark, closed space of an indeterminate period of time. Does it look like V, who we saw before? D? D, yeah. You see memory of D pulling you from an extended stasis. You see struggle. You see survival in a harsh wilderness. You see wandering through unfamiliar streets

and fear in the eyes of people as the consciousness of Frida steps, seeking connection, and being held at bay or fled from. You see children playing and that protective energy swelling from within and that fear fades. You see the laughter and smile on Dan's face over a cooking fire.

You see the polishing of armor. It is a smattering of memories, but for those minds you've delved into, much like FCGs up to a point, it's a fresh existence. It's like peering into the memory of a child, though there is a much more extended, sourceless confidence and maturity.

Can I focus on a few words or images? If you'd like to, yeah. Yeah, Frida, that child made you feel safe. And I will first think of the names that I heard in the tower that started that itch. Larin and a few other words, a few other names. And when I see the children, I will focus on the dream that FCG walked in with me, and the child that he saw,

and see if that brings anything new to the surface. Sure. Just roll a d20 for me. Can't bless hell. Five. You get lost a bit in the current of these memories. You see flashes and glimpses. The faces of the children that accepted you when you're wandering on the outskirts of Uthodurn begin to bleed into flashes of the child from before.

Both the laughter, the smile, and the fear. You have images that completely envelop the horizon for just a moment that all of you experience of warfare, of weapons, of people being cut down, and then back to the river pulling you along. You have had these dreams, you thought, rarely,

but they couldn't have been you, right? Right? I look down. What do I see when I look down? When you look down, you see, right now, the river of energy that's pulling you through these memories is obscuring the lower part of your body, but you see your... Your spiritual self is what you would hope to consider it, but you're just a bipedal entity of energy

drifting along this odd dream-like memory space. We need to go deeper. I think so. Can we try to push deeper into these memories? Can we try to push deeper into these memories? We'd like to. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Go ahead and, whoever's helming this, roll a d20 and add your spellcasting modifier. Can you guide me? It's an attack roll, add your spellcasting modifier. Can you guys see? It's an attack roll, you get a d4. Can I die to her? Not this. I've let you guys stretch the extent of a cantrip

to the very edge. Natural 20. Yes! Yes. Now can we use guidance? Yeah. For a 17. Oh man.

Ooh. Ooh. Oh man. There's a look. Some sort of contested. Frida. You feel this bright pain in your mind, like a headache. You've never had a headache really before, but this is what it must feel like.

As that pain begins to build, you watch as the spiritual form of Frida begins to tense up and fold, and this white light begins to emerge from them as you push deeper into their consciousness. And as you do, that flash of warfare seems to emerge once again. But now you look around and it's less a battlefield.

It's stone hallways. There's bodies in the ground. You see robed figures, armored. Somebody rushes out of a room and you now look forward and watch as they fall to the ground, bloodied, collapsed. And there, standing before them, is the spiritual form of Frida.

You are just witnessing this firsthand, but the rest of you watch these motions. A warrior cutting through enemies in some sort of a structure, a very beautiful, unrecognizable structure. Where are you, Frida? Does anyone look familiar? Not in this room, no.

You just know they're the enemy. Who is the enemy? I push forward. I keep moving. I don't know who. What are the people that are falling, what do they look like? Are they dressed like? Some of them you can see have brown and gold set robes

with gentle leather, kutumar armor over it, or chest plates. Some are preparing to begin to cast spells before a blade catches the side of their throat. Another individual ends up casting a spell that lifts another figure nearby that you can just see out of the periphery of your vision that gets thrust out of memory.

You watch as a soldier runs up with a spear and shield up towards Frida in this moment. And Frida takes a hit to the shoulder before grabbing the spear and the shield, peeling it away, and then breaking the individual's neck and dropping it on the ground, and continues pushing forward. You're still witnessing this, and it feels alien.

It's like you're writing somebody else's experience. This isn't you, but you're experiencing it. It's an odd third-person perspective, but still within that space. Frida, who commanded you to do this? Who's your superior? Who's? He feels right,

so I lean in all the way, and I follow. Okay. I don't know who's commanding me, but I know an objective when I see one, so I'm going to keep going. Go ahead and roll a d20 for me. Go, go, go, go. That. Go on, go on, go on. That's a 20?

Go on. Roll. 10. 10. That's a scary roll. Oh god. The details are still fuzzy, but many of the people around you that you're attacking, you begin to realize it's not you pushing into a stronghold.

You're defending. But the people that are fighting to your sides and the people that you're fighting against aren't dressed that differently. And you sense a sadness in what must be done. You're not fighting an enemy on the outside. These are friends. You're fighting an enemy from within.

I think these were comrades, friends, or... I turn behind me. What can I see behind me? What are we defending? You turn around, and as his consciousness shifts,

the rest of you can begin to see some clarity and focus on the opposite side. This beautiful structure that you're within, long halls, tall, somewhat arched ceilings with large runnings of pipes or metallic tubes that run throughout. The floors are metallic. The walls have a metallic sheen to them, polished with details.

I don't know if it's language or just scrolling, but it's beautiful. That's all you see currently. Can I read the language? It's not a language. Okay. Can I read the language? It's not a language.

Can I read the language? Yes, you can. Yes, yes, of course. Sure, let's just go. Do you continue forward with how you were commanded, or do you push back? It's clear to me that we're defending whatever's behind me. Yes.

We turn back. Okay. You follow the impulse of Frida. As you turn back, others begin to move past you. They give you looks of confusion. What are you doing? And they continue on. You hear the sounds of battle behind you now,

from the direction you were walking. The hallway seems to go on and on and on as individuals walk past you, and as they go 10, 15 feet behind you, they tend to dematerialize. Their memory fades as they're lost to time, to memory, to war. The hall begins to widen,

and then here you see a central, massive cylindrical chamber. Within this space, there is a contraption of such immensity you've never, ever considered or seen something on this scale. All manner of glowing crystalline devices and whirring mechanical contraptions, funnels and tubes and glass domes and sparks

and dozens upon dozens of architects and engineers and magical practitioners all focused in this space. A voice shouts out, Tricona Factorum! Do you recognize that? Do I understand it? You recognize it. And you recognize it.

You do not. What the fuck? Protect the Factorum. Protect the Factorum. Can I see who it was that shouted that? Do I see you personally? No. You just hear a voice. We understand it.

Do we know what the Factorum is? Make a history check. Because you rolled a natural 20, I get an advantage on that. You do, you do. Because of your symptoms. History? Come on, buddy.

Where's history? Oh, there it is. 10. You're uncertain. You're uncertain. But the room itself carries an energetic buzz. There is a hum that grows to a growl. There is an engine of such immensity within this space,

sourceless, that the entirety of the chamber itself vibrates. The ground beneath you shakes, and stones and fallen instruments just move and jiggle and cascade across the ground by the immensity of what is growing within. The crystals are alighting. The space itself is preparing for something incredible. Then there's just white. is preparing for something incredible.

Then there's just white. All three of you take eight points of psychic damage and immediately are shunted out of the memory. I'm resistant, so I take it. You take four. Whoa! Is everyone okay? Is everyone okay? Is everyone okay? What was that? What was what?

It was a factorum. Was it what? Has anyone here heard of a factorum? You've heard of a factorum? Yes, I have. I'm just kidding. You've heard of it, Chet? We all have. What is it?

Malleus factorum? Something What is it? Malleus Factorum? Something? Factorum Malleus. Factorum Malleus. Mm. Come on down. You remember that we found out that the telescope was actually some repurposed thing from one of the old cities?

That was the original. I think it was the weapon that they were trying to... Take down the gods with? Why? How did you hear it? They were there. I was defending it. But I wasn't.

Where was the Malleus Factorum? Yeah. One of the ancient, early ancient cities. We know that you're from Aeor, maybe, right? Originally. So it was on Aeor. This conversation unlocks one little tidbit of your memory.

When you were discovered by Dee, you were ruined. Metallic or human? Corporeal, humanoid? You are metallic. But destroyed. Dee didn't just resuscitate you. Dee repaired you.

Dee brought you back from the brink of annihilation and then set you free. Oh, excuse me. So you blew up with the thing. Yeah. So... And that's why you wanted to go back to Eeyore. Because you knew...

wasn't that city destroyed? It was. But it drew you back. Did you learn anything? Just that this weapon has some sort of a connection to a thousand years ago. They called it a creator hammer. Did it look like, did it resemble

the Malleus case that we saw? Now that this conversation, you can see some similarities in the funneling of structure, the power and energy signature of what you witnessed in Marquet not a few days back, but on a much larger scale.

If Ludin has ever gained access to your brain... He would know. He could recreate it completely. Well, he already sort of did, right? I mean, what we saw was nothing like what existed then. But doesn't it sound like Leudanus is taking all the scraps from big places

and trying to make something? Yeah, he's trying. He's just guessing. Assuming you told us all the details of the dream, the glowing crystals, did they look like crystals that we saw in the one that Le Ludinus was operating? Different. Okay.

They were different. So he's building it from a box of scrambles. And nothing that we saw in those visions was familiar to me at all. The places, the people, none of that. I mean, there were facets of the clothing that struck some similar chords, but you did not recognize the location.

You didn't recognize the machinery. You were Order 66. You were out. You were on Avalir, piece of shit. You were out. You were a satellite, homie. Damn. Wow. Conversely, that seems like very powerful magic,

so there might be remains of it. Oh, I'm sure. And there was a lot of military or presence there. So maybe they're already ahead of us. I mean, do you think that's lewdness, using Jorhassian agents to do that? Or just, you know, either trying to get it before he can get it?

I don't know what the scale of this is. It feels very big. Yeah. Do we know where Eor... Grash? Yeah. That's where we came from. Yeah, that is, of course. Oh, way up north? That's where we came from. Yeah, Eiselcross. Oh, way up north?

That's where we were on our way back from. What were you all doing there again? I wanted to see where I maybe came from. I felt drawn to it. I didn't know exactly why. I feel a little bit more clear on that now. Wow. It's been around a thousand years.

You could have been picking it clean. Yeah. Sounds like they already did. So are we sleeping here? Or are we gone? Well, we still don't know where that didn't, I mean, that was amazing. Do you feel okay, Frida?

Yeah, that's a lot to reveal. Better, worse? Do you feel the child? There's something clawing at the back of your mind that you missed. Is there a kid? Yeah, no, I don't feel better. I feel... I don't. Ominous. It feels ominous.

There was something with children, for sure. Yeah. You said you had an itch from the names that you heard when we were in the tower? Yes. But none of those came up in this memory. We didn't see any of them. There were three names mentioned.

Laerryn, Vistaraan, and Vatoran. Yeah. Vistaraan and Vatoran. Laerryn. Vatoran. Laerryn. Vatoran, Laerryn. Vistaraan. The Torn Lair. The Torn Lair. The Lair in one just sounds like real boring. What's so interesting? I saw a room full of people doing what one person did.

At least from the dream, it sounded like you were defending, you were protecting, right? You weren't attacking or subverting or betraying. You were trying to stop something. I was trying to stop. My brothers and sisters, it felt like. They were me.

They were of us. It was infighting. You were trying to protect the thing? Yes. That would take down the gods. Yes. So you wanted the Creator Hammer to work? Yes.

Or you were protecting it from falling into the wrong hands. Yeah. I mean, you've been nothing but protective with us. We have a pretty strong anti-God thing, so it makes sense. Yeah, that's true. Maybe that comes from... It's okay. I killed a lot of people.

We all do. I'm just going to go over and hug Frida. It's okay. No, it's fine. And this is the first time I've ever refused a hug from you. Frida, if I may, that wood that you gave me, I've been working on it. I want you to know those protective qualities are so special. Can you hug me? It's something not to be ashamed of. You should be proud of who you are and where you come from.

I don't know if you see yourself the way that we see you. I think you should have this. It's a sweatshirt made out of wood. It's so good! That's so cute! It looks just like you. It's hard. I don't fuck around with the fabrics, because fashions change, but the form is there.

That's a pillar of protection. You talked about a child, and I feel a connection with you because you protect children, and I feel a connection with you because you protect children and I like to entertain them and bring them joy with ease. Don't doubt yourself. We'll figure out whatever it is that's in the back of your head, but you're aces. Yeah. And just think, you know, you were being commanded then. You had something that you had to do, but now you're free to do what you want.

Free to do. You're free to do. Maybe the past doesn't matter as much as I think it does. I think what matters more is what you do next. Yeah. What is this liquid substance? Oh god, he's dying. They're dying.

They need to be fixed. Rook-rook, rook-rook, rook-rook. I think those are tears. Take a little handkerchief out. You can wipe them away if you want. Thank you. Well, I think we know something Ludinus doesn't know. That's good.

Yeah. Yeah. It feels like if we studied the vest more and one of us put it on, we could go suck in Fearne's grandmother and get more powerful. Oh my god, what if he did? What if he would've sucked in Nori? I keep calling her Nori. That's all right, it's pretty close.

Yeah, my grandma's pretty great. Become like a fey Megazord. Ooh. What is that? I'm not sure. I don't know. But I could become that. Thank you all.

What do we think, Marquet? Back to where it's going down? I think so. I mean. You're right. Vasselheims, they don't know who we are and we don't really have anything but old research papers that you decoded. Who would believe us anyway?

Time to get back to the fight. But whoever, wherever we go, what about you two? Are you going north to the ice? Or back to Uthodurn? I don't know, what do you want to do? I think this is our fight now, too. I do, too. You should just come with us. Okay.

I think Deanna sidles along onto the other side of Imogen. And is avoiding eye contact a little bit. Pulling you against my hip. Yeah. Well, Mr. Pockabee, I think you're right. I think we need backup, more friends. And we need to find your friends.

Yeah. And I really don't want to leave you. I don't know if I could. I don't know if I could. I don't know if I could. Far-ranging, integrated defense, Yormaton, at your service. What's your name stand for? I don't know. That ATN kind kinda just moves away.

I'll go check on her. Yeah, maybe we stay here tonight, wake up in the morning and teleport out. Okay. Just in case you're right, Freydan, all hell's broken loose over there, too. I'll take first watch. Okay.

I'll stay up with you. All four of you are apparently prepping a camp. You all right? Yeah. I don't know. I feel like this is it. It's nothing. Just being emotional.

I feel like Frida's moving on. And I don't know, I just get kind of nervous I'm being left behind again. Oh, no, no, no. I don't think you should feel that way at all. But they've got FCG now, and all of you have a mission, and FCG's a really good healer,

and maybe I should just go back to Uthodurn and I can tell them we learned, and you guys can keep going. No, we would have been wrecked without you. Oh fuck, we would have been swish cheese, laid out, mowed over. One more? A few times.

Kaput! If we didn't have your spells, I don't know, I think we would have joined that meatball. Can I just ask, I felt when you moved past, you touched my shoulder, but it had this little warmth to it. I couldn't really feel myself. It felt different. Yeah. What was that?

That was my death ward. I mean... Death ward. Jenny, I really just don't want anything bad to happen to you. You're really important to me, and I don't want to make it weird, because I know you have to go and save the world or whatever, and I don't want to be a burden. I just don't want anything bad to happen to you. I made something for you, too. I just don't want anything bad to happen to you. I made something for you, too. Oh, come on.

Oh! Oh! So, I'd pull this out of my ass. It's been a real uncomfortable moment. Yeah. But I don't know if you remember our nights on the beach in the Menagerie Coast. Thank you.

This was the one that we drank from, we kept, decorated, but I never forgot it. It's a bitch to carve! Because the lines are all crazy, and really, to get it that smooth is tough. Beautiful. I've never forgotten about you, and I'm really old.

I forget shit all the time. But there are a few bright spots, and you were one of them. I love that you found a family and moved on and had kids. That's crazy. And you died and you came back to life. You literally jumped through time. Yeah.

But you have a place with us and with me. Your future is very bright. You can do anything you want to. And I found these fuckwits and everything changed. I went from making toys to maybe helping prevent catastrophe. Hey. Is it okay if I hug you? Yeah. Come here. Come here.

It's really good seeing you again. I don't want to make it weird, but the werewolf bar was really hot. I'm just okay. I'm nervous, but the werewolf bar was really hot. I'm just okay. I'm nervous, so I'm trying to deflect to Zax. Just a real quick question. Is the werewolf thing only for fighting? You know... Oh my god. There's only one way to find out.

But I might recommend not in the Savalirwood. Plus, listen, you already jumped through time, so this is all just icing on the top, right? So if you want to increase your freak, I say we just go for it. I'll train you up. Hell yeah! I feel much better, thank you. Oh, but I have to be, you know what? I have to you up. Hell yeah. Oh, I feel much better, thank you.

Oh, but I have to be, you know what? I have to rest first, so. But listen. All the options are on the table. You've already taken a short rest, technically. Okay. Well. Well. Well. Uh. Hope? Well.

Hope? Ah. You feeling, how you feeling? I'm just gonna gently put down the shell and go, help, help, Chetney's gone crazy. Someone, anyone, preferably Fern if you're down for that. Help! Oh my god.

What's going on out here? Run, Chetney's gone crazy, and the safe word is parmesan! I'm going to run out before it. Soveler boy! Dan! That's okay. I'm very familiar with these woods. Oh my god.

Arrrr! Arrrr! What just happened? Just let it happen. Arrrr! I'm going to go over. Remar door. I'm going to slap you in the face.

Oh my god. Go get her now! Yes, ma'am. Yes. We do. Oh god. We've crossed the threshold here. Amazing. It's lovely.

Sweet. It's role-playing, role-playing. Oh my god. Very too. Amazing. It's lovely. Sweet. It's role-playing, role-playing. Oh my god. Very well. Amazing. While the rest of you. Perfect. I miss Savile and you. Yeah!

Dude! I need any help! I do! I told you! The Saber is Parmesan! Come help! I'm coming! You can make it. Oh, are you?

I only have 15 feet of my own face. Are you catching up with them? Come on! Yeah! Are you going to go watch, or are you just going to? Be a part of it. I don't know. We'll see what happens. Okay. Okay.

Put it on the board. That's a three-way, baby. Hand to the moon. Yeah. To Jester Catha. Listen, DM, we don't know how long we have. I respect that, no, I respect that. No one's been making out of this. I respect that.

You can't let certain pals go untested. We could teleport into the moon or whatever. It's true. Get some fucking love again is good. I play thumb wrestling with myself. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard in my whole entire life. The three of you rest up and keep watch.

Keep watch for? There are many frightening creatures that wander the Savalirwood, and there are many sounds that put you in a defensive state. You're uncertain which are your friends and which are not. These words are so dangerous. Oh god, the artwork.

Oh boy. But eventually, an evening's rest is found for some of you. And eventually for the rest. As what little bit of sunlight begins to breach the shadow of the Sottelier Wood, and a new day comes anon. Those of you who had exhaustion, and a new day comes anon.

Those of you who had exhaustion, you can decide whether or not you recover it. I feel so good. I feel just aglow. I feel great. Yeah. Sometimes there are secrets to staying alive for 400 years and I'm happy to witness! Tiana, what are those scratches? Don't worry about me.

Worry about yourself. Sure. You survived the night? Of course! I would say I really put it on the night rather than survived it. It survived me. Us, the royal we. Did you guys get bit?

Huh? Did you guys get bit? By mosquitoes, you mean? Mm-hmm. I think I made them. I think you bit them. Oh, okay. Am I going to turn into a were-phon? You just might, we'll see.

You got your feet. Oh shit. My favorite part of it. Are you developing a pouch? Oh my god, yeah! A little Joey pops out, it's yours! That should accelerate into the subway one. Nobody got to put a search general warning at this point.

What a horny episode. Yeah. Didn't think it was going to happen, but then. How was your night? Oh, it was just, you know, fabulous. I just, why, why, why? How was yours? Pretty good. Yeah.

We watched the moon. Yeah. We held each other. Oh, that's wonderful. Wait, it's been a night, right? Yeah. Oh fuck. Oh my god, if this is your last night, this is perfect. Yeah, please let me in!

Come on, please! Come on, come on. I'm alive, baby. Better than ever. That would've been so dope! That would've been great. Fucking bizarre. Good night! There are a few less wrinkles this morning.

My back's a little straighter. Hey! Don't look at the other 500. Oh my god. So we're going back to Jusar. Do we get our hit point maximum back, by the way? Those of you who lost hit point maximum, yes, you do get it back after a long rest. Okay. Oh boy.

And your exhaustion is gone? Is that true? Yes. Unless they readjusted to it. Unless they decide otherwise. And where do we go? Are we going to Jusar? Are we going to Whitestone? And y'all are coming with us, at least for now? I don't think there's anything back for us in Uthodurn.

Okay. I did leave all of those drawings in my room. But that's okay. We can go back. Someday. Whenever you want. We're with you. Amazing.

All right. To? Jrusar or Whitestone? The only other thing I can think of is to tell the lord and lady there about what happened. But. Are they friends of Jrusar? Of Jrusar or Whitestone? Whitestone, we know some folks who are very powerful.

You all know everybody. We're friends with Keyleth and Keyleth. Yeah. Keyleth is the head of the Asshari. Keyleth's the one that got thrown into a lens. No, her, no, she is probably dead. Oh, okay. Knowing what I know about Orym, I feel like he would also.

No, it was a different person we saw die. He would also want to get word back. Who would? Orym. So I feel like Whitestone would be a place that he would go to. Or where he's from. What if we go to where he's from? I don't know where that is.

Zephra? Yeah, but I don't know how to teleport to a place that we haven't been. I've been there. Oh? I've been there. I've been there. Been to? Zephra? Didn't you go to Zephra with Orym?

You would have, yeah, you've been there. Do we want to go there? I don't know. Might be real sad. That seems a little anti, yeah. Real sad place now. Probably, I mean, they might not even know that Keyleth isn't. You could tell them.

Let's play a little mind game. You get teleport, they get teleport. Where would y'all think to meet? Jrusar. Oh, like the other group? Yes. Jrusar or Whetstone. Those are the only two places that I think they would think to go. And then maybe they would leave word

if they were there and then left, or something like that? Yeah. Or you could leave word. Is Jrusar where you guys teleported from? That's where we all met first. We all met the first time. And just to be clear, you're talking about Jrusar and not Boshoros, right?

Like close to where the key was? I're talking about Jrusar and not Basuras, right? Like close to where the key was? I was talking about Jrusar. Okay. Basuras is just a little scarier, and Jrusar at least has, you know, we have connections there, people that we're going after. What if you try to reach out? Wait.

I know. I said this? Wait. I know. I said this last night. I said this last night. I'll just ask the change bringer. All right, between the two, Jrusar or Whitestone. Okay. Because she can answer yes or no's, or give a one-word answer sort of thing.

Where should we go? Well, she can answer. Well, if I ask her correctly, let's see here. Which is it? There's divination and then there's something else. Divination is for you. Because if we've learned anything through all of this, it's that we should definitely rely on the gods

for our answers. She has been nothing but helpful. It seems like they've got the most skin in the game. That's true. Skin. Should I? I bet you I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry about that.

Yeah, I've got some pets. All right, I can ask three questions then. What do I, just before I do this? You just decide yourself, FCG. Should we go to Jusar? Should we go to Whitestone? Should we go, is that, I get a third question. That's right. Should we go to the source of the key,

the Malleus Key? Vassars. Yeah. As a general note. It's not just should. Is that what should we do? It's different than like, what should we do to accomplish a thing?

Yes, yes, yes. You want to be a little clear, because it's like, sure. These aren't yes or no questions, right? Hold on, how does this work? Should we go to find? We could find. We could try and find.

They can be answered with a yes or no, yes. Where's the best place we can go to find support? But that's not a yes or no question. We want to ask where our friends are, what continent they're on? Yeah, I think our friends. Yes. Yeah. All right, so I will cast Commune.

I will cast Commune and I will just grip my coin and call out to the heavens and see if she responds. Okay. As you do so, Changebringer. You clutch the coin within your hand. I'm trying to do that at some point.

Close your eyes and complete the ritual to commune with this deity that you've recently come to take on as your own. And you recall the last and only time you've really met was at a breathtaking distance. Here, you feel your consciousness rise to a space between all horizons. You stand at a crossroads,

almost like an infinite number of paths all spread out from you in all directions. One, two, three, four roads. Everywhere you turn, it's just continuous, all roads that converge here. There's a signpost on the side and you look at it and it's blank, the mountains you see in the distance. And as you glance around, you look off one way,

and out of the side of your vision, you see strands of hair just drifting with the wind as the wind picks up. You turn back around and there you see once more this feminine form upon that same horizon at a distance where you're uncertain. She looks two inches tall, two miles tall. You can't tell how far away she is,

which is even stranger that her hair stretches out so far as to meet you on both sides, which means she can't be that far, but she's on that mountain. It's strange, but she's present. Hi. First of all, thank you Hi. First of all, thank you for all your guidance and getting us through that little pickle back there.

Thank you for sending me Frida. I know it was you. Mm-hmm. We're trying to find our other friends, and we're wondering if we go to the place where we first met them, Jrusar, if we would have a chance to find them there. Maybe not today, but at some point. While previously there was sort of

an inference of an answer, this time you hear a voice in the wind. Yes. Oh, wow. Wow. Okay. That already helps a lot. I have two other questions.

What do I do with them? Can you ask if they're okay? If they're alive? Well, yeah, but they're alive. Are they alive, Changebringer? Are they alive, Changebringer? Are they okay? Yes.

She said we could meet up with them, obviously. Oh yeah, that'd be nice. But they're all alive, I don't think. I mean, so far. We could've met with their dead bodies, we don't know. Like it? One more question. Yes!

You technically asked two questions in the last one, but I'm not going to. Yeah, I'm not. For my last question, my third question. Ask about freedom. Yeah. Ask freedom. Check this box.

Maybe. Even if I never know about my past, even if I never find out who made me or why I'm here, will I know Frida for a long time? Oh. The wind picks up and blows past. The answer challenging to write when the future has not been. He's a dead man. All right.

In an immediate rush, the form of this woman on the horizon arrives right before you in a blink of an eye. This towering woman, you glance up at her, you see her dark skin, her light brown hair that now whips around and entangles around you with the wind. Her presence is bold and somewhat terrifying in proximity.

Her eyes are just these open, golden spaces. There's an intensity about her presentation, her clothing itself whipping like the hair in the wind around as she looks down upon you. A terrible fate looms for all of Exandria. An alien malice menaces the skies of the Marquesian Sands. If you indeed wish to show your faith, This menaces the skies of the Marquesian Sands. If you indeed wish to show your faith to walk my endless paths beyond,

then rise to our call. The winds of change blow cold against us all, yet hope remains unmoving in you. Our grace carries those who carry our banner. Hold it high and traverse the path I alight with purpose and fated destination. Do not turn from this road, for only shadow and solitude awaits behind.

All the light on the horizon grows cold and she grows even more immense, and you feel even more insignificant and chilled in the rising wind. The red end stirs in its slumber. Do not let it wake. And she looks over her shoulder and you see the distant gleam of the red moon. Before you are brought back to the middle of the wood. Oh.

At the same time that this is happening, the rest of you watch as a sudden, almost like a sleepiness comes over Deanna. Deanna, you sit for a second before suddenly this bright light fills your consciousness. The immensity of a star burning before you, something you've not experienced at this proximity in some time,

and comes with it a strength and a frustration long felt at times. You try your best to avert your gaze until you look back directly into the source of this light burning your retinas. And there you see before you in the bright golden shining armor, head burning like the heart

of the brightest star, the Dawnfather stands, encompassing the sky, nothing but his light and his presence burning before you. Mortal arrogance makes unions with the Forbidden Scourge. The ruddy moon beckons over the lands of Marquet. Child reborn of my grace and will, I command you, strike out against those that seek to snuff our light.

These gifts I grant you are your sword and shield against the growing darkness. Forsake these gifts, ignore our charge, and be abandoned. You are fucking intense. Okay. Yeah. I was already going to do... I'm not going to argue with you.

How can I help? Faith needs not logic, nor truth, but unerring conviction. Conviction. Conviction, conviction, conviction. You hear the burning sound rising behind him in his presence.

The sound of immense flames, an ocean of fire crackling. The red end stirs in its slumber. Do not let it wake. The flames burn bright and surround you in warmth and hot. Before it turns to pain, you awaken. Ah! You okay? Hot flash?

Breathe. Not inaccurate. Dawnfather, Vision, Red End. Holy shit. The Red End? The Red End, that's what she said to me, too. Yeah, that's true. is. That's what she said to me, too. Yeah, that's where it is. Hey, they're calling in all their little favors in the world.

We have to solve this. They're desperate. All right. You both saw your deities? Yeah. And they, well, I don't know what Yura said, but the change bringer's all about choosing your own path and making your own way.

But she did not imply that choosing my own path was an option. It was do this for me or else. Yeah, big on that, too. What do you mean, or else? I don't know. There's not a fight the Proudathos, fight the Red End. What about your friends? What about everyone who doesn't serve a god?

I don't know. The Dawnfather did threaten to take back my gifts, of which I think life is one, so I'm pretty in. I was already going to do it. Didn't have to threaten. Yeah, I'm happy to serve her. She's done nothing but help. But I don't know.

You don't make demands of someone unless you're insecure about something in your own life. That's at least my experience with, you know, Well, they're probably insecure. They're about to get eaten. Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. Like, that comes from a place of fear, I think. Never talked to you with that desperation before?

Never. I've only talked to her once before this, so I don't really have a good baseline. This was our first session, really. Got a 50-50. A coin flip of interactions. Whoa. One gentle, one fucking intent. So it's not fully awake yet.

That's good to know. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Don't let it wake up. I assume you tell us. Yes. Told you everything, so you all heard it, too. Great. There is a warmth to the coin in your you tell us. Yes. Told you everything, so you all heard it, too. Great. There is a warmth to the coin in your hand as well.

Does it look different? Looks shinier. It looks shinier? Ooh, what does that mean? Maybe she's in there now. I've heard of gods becoming things that can join you on your journeys. I don't know.

Shinier coin. Should I identify it? I still have to identify that stupid rod from yesterday. Yeah. Identify it. With this or the rod? The coin! Maybe she's leaning in and saying, like, hey. Maybe it gives you a boon.

I've heard of gods giving boons. Okay, well, the rod can wait another day. I'll identify the coin. I'm a boon. I've heard of gods giving boons. Okay. The rod can wait another day. I'll identify the coin. I'm a boon. Okay. You're not going to identify the rod? The fucking thing is false! Wait, what?

The coin doesn't do a thing! The Coin of the Changebringer. Humble looking coin of copper bears, the visage of the Changebringer. That's it. No. You don't have to read it off. Whoa, it's got a lot of stuff on it.

It does stuff. It's a stuff-doing coin. It's a stuff-doing coin. I bet all the other things do stuff, too. Does anyone want this? Shut up. We always like to try to. We share these things, so.

Wow. Well, this is great. We know where we're going. We've been given divine direction. Yes. Yeah. Yes. We know where we're going. We know where we're going. And she's. Yeah, we're going to Jrusar.

And she said, we're going to Jrusar. She said that they're at least alive currently. And she said that you and I would be together for a long time. Oh, you asked? Yeah. That's cute. That is cute. This fight is really starting to roll.

Woo! Oh shit. You just have to have sex. Fuck! Yeah, I get it, I get it, I get it. I mean, the world is ending, so might as well have fun. Well, one, Jenny had a talk. Does anybody need, because honestly,

this is awesome, but I'm just. An incredible staff of power. Yeah. I mean, Fearne holds a stick. I know. In general. Can I read it? Mm-hmm. I feel like, I mean, it's great. Let's think about it.

Let's hold onto it when we think about it. Especially if anybody has something they want to attune to. It's an attune lineup. But we can say that you did it overnight. I've got some of those things already, but. And you being in charge of our teleport is pretty fun. Yes.

I mean, I know your staff is awesome, but. Oh, it's so funny. While you guys are discussing the staff, I'm going to go over to Chetney and pull a ring off of my finger and just give it. So I'm going to say, this isn't like that. I couldn't. I couldn't possibly. It's not like that.

It'll fucking fit on your pinky. Oh. But just in case the worst happens, I want you to have a second chance. And I'm going to give him, I don't know if it's going to work, but you've got my Ring of Temporal Salvation. The fuck is that? Does it fit on my pinky ring?

On my pinky ring? It is a little loose, and then once you place it upon the finger, it seems to adjust to the size. Okay, I was afraid I was going to have to dislocate and get some swelling in there. Oh, jeez. Thank you.

We're going to be fine. Sure. I mean, we're killing it. Well, my god just threatened to kill me again, I think, if I don't do this, so fuck you. Whoa. I'm going to do it, calm down. Okay, I'm standing right next to you.

Maybe wait until I'm a little bit further away. Thank you for this. Yeah. We got each other's backs. Yeah. Hope it works. I think if I know anything about divine magic, it's that if belief is a currency that the gods use,

I think mortals can use it too. I've poured all my belief and hope that if something bad happens, you'll be okay. Who's got the staff? Yeah, we should go. Let's do this. It's up to you, Fearne, if you want to do it or if you want me to.

I don't have a staff. I feel like this could be real cool for a game. Gotcha, bud. Why weren't you talking about it? She's got all kinds of shit. It's up to you. It's great, but. I feel like you should take it.

Are you kidding me? Well, I mean. I think she's a powerful. All right. Make her more powerful. Is it useful? Well, use it for now and then we'll see. Okay, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to take off my gloves that we got and hold onto those and then attune to the staff. Okay. So that we can, and I assume I would have done that, you know, so we don't have to just sit around for an hour. No, that is easy enough to do with the morning's plan.

What's this little stick? I'm just going to attune to it. All right, go for it. You just attune to the stick. What, the little Slim Jim dildo thing? You're going to just attune to it. Yeah. I can't die yet. You can take time to learn it.

It is a... It is a rod used in transferring to other realms. This one in particular is attuned to the Fey Realm. Oh! So with a spell of significant power that can do this, it normally requires a focus to go to that location. Oh, I found it.

Whoa. Oh, but you still need a spell that just helps you go there. Correct. Yeah. You're a plane hider? Yes. That makes two of us. That's not teleport, that's plane jump or whatever. Plane shift. Plane shift.

But it requires a focus. Cool, cool, cool. For each location it wishes to go to. For some people. I don't really need to keep this, but it's what it does. Okay. Cool. Is it weird that I'm offering it to you because you're a babe?

I'm sorry. Oh no, no, it's fine. Was that rude? Oh my god. No, don't even worry about it. It's so embarrassing. I think, do you want, it could get you started back into your plane, shifting, plane riding.

I mean, if I want to wake that part of me up again, I guess. Ooh. Yeah. It's got layers. Y'all ever done it in different places? I'm going to calm it down. Do you mind if I hold onto the bag? The bag of holding? All the stuff?

That's right. Oh, the bag of holding. We have a bag of holding. Just the satchel. Yeah, we have a bag of holding. Yeah, take it. You carry all that wood. I'm used to these, yeah. Legit, I had to wear one. I mean, the assembly was very, very particular

about the things they ordered. Sometimes it was toys, sometimes it was things for their, hey, these fucking towers. I had to make a whole series of chairs that they were going to later enchant. They were real deadly. Wait, what?

Ooh. What? You made enchanted furniture? Well, you know, when I went into the throne in Uthodur and I carved my initials under the back left leg? I used to make these little wooden chairs and I carved my initials under there, enchant them, and they'd kill everybody in the room and then all of a sudden move to the middle of the room.

Are you shitting us right now? That's amazing. That's why I got off of furniture, though, because I didn't want to be affiliated with that, so I went back to toys. That makes sense. Huh. I got kicked out of the authority,

the Rexxentrum Toy Authority. All right. The RTA? Is that what? The RTA? Is that what that means? No, this is recognize the alpha! That's just a Rexxentrum. No, no! Look, it's...

They're very strict about their union policies, okay? I was trying to show loyalty! How many other people have that tattoo? How many other people have that tattoo? A couple dozen. It's a union! Very elite! It's elite! It's a union!

The dues are so you have to report quarterly. I couldn't stand it, They were suffocating us. I chiseled something for you that had that in there because I thought it was your thing. It is my thing. You can re-appropriate a thing. Rebranding is real. Yeah, that's real. Look, you used to be a faithful caregiver and now you're fresh cut grass.

You're right. A rebrand is valid. Get off his back. Listen, listen, listen. Nobody has to know, okay? We're in the Salvalirwood. Nobody heard that. All right. Just remember, there's an alpha within all of you.

By power of the Rexxentrum Toy Authority. You little stinker. Most of them were fine, but Ludinus was an ass. He didn't order shit. Came in, showed him stuff. He's a window shopper? Yeah. Gross. Doolin' Tversky, he was my best customer.

Never heard of him. I don't know who that is. Eh, too young. Y'all ready to go to Jusar? Yeah. Sure, yeah. You got the bag? Yep. You're our wearer. All right. Yay.

Everyone gather up. That was funnier than you gave it credit for. Okay, I'm going to... Do you have to pick a place or just a city? Like a place in the city? Like a place in the city? Like a place? Guidance? That's probably smart.

How does that work? Let's just wing it on the first try. Let's cross oceans while we do it. Especially leaving a haunted fucking forest. This is as good as it's going to get. It's probably fine. Hole in one. If I never see the Wolf King again, it'll be too soon.

No. Oh, I know. I don't like this one. It's one of sign. All in one. If I never see the Wolf King again, it'll be too soon. No. Oh, I know. I might just roll an extra 12. No! You keep it. Matt says you can keep it. A choice. Thank you. Single object or a destination you select.

So I'm just going to, the destination you choose must be known to you, and it must be on the same plane of existence. Your familiarity with the destination determines whether you arrive there successfully. Ashtoreth's house or one of the inns? A very familiar place. Spire by Fire?

Yeah, let's go to the Spire by Fire. That's a very familiar place. Oh god, are we just going to peer through the barn? Or, you know what's even more familiar to me is our house, me and Laudna's house. The old lady? Yes. Old lady, what was her name again? Shadana. You don't remember the name?

Shadana. Shadana. Shadana. Shadana remembers. Yeah. One shot, one kill. Just peeking in. Oh, man. Boom! That's what the R in Frida's for.

Yeah, Shadana's place. I mean. Sparrow by fire, fine, whatever. Jeez, FCG, you fucking chews. Maybe you should take the fucking staff. But if we bamf in, won't they be like, whoa, whoa, whoa? Org, have a heart attack. I feel like Shadana's

is a little less seen. I can bamf us into, I don't know, she might be running into somebody else. What if we get there, she's dead. What? Just go, yeah, go to Shadana. It doesn't matter. Shadana's, all right. Hold on.

Ow. Of course I roll all right. Hold on. Ow. Of course I roll all the fours now. Eight. Wait, why are you rolling all these things? Nine. Because you have to roll them. 11. For teleport? You have to roll a bunch of d4s?

12. For this particular item. 14 points of damage. Damn, what? To yourself? Yeah. To all of us? No, just me. Whenever you spend a charge within the item, it does a d4 point of psychic damage to the user. Oh, to psychic damage?

Let me check real fast what is in the house here. Hey, I think this stuff is for you. Nope, it's just damage. Oh damn it, it's too bad. How was that psychic? All right, that was exciting. That makes sense, right? That's a lot of power.

Yeah. Okay. That way, it's not meant to be resisted. Yeah. All right That way, it's not meant to be resisted. Yeah. All right, so you feel the charge of the staff come through here as the energy expends. You can feel it definitely takes its toll on you. Not terribly, but enough to leave a mark. But as you do, you focus on your troop of friends

around you, concentrate on Shadana's house? Why does he say it like that? I don't know. Yeah. The rest of you look at each other and you're waiting for something to happen. I hold your hand. Oh no. I hold yours harder.

We start grabbing hands. Yeah, gather up. Everybody put your hands on the staff. I don't know. The staff begins to glow brighter and brighter, and you all feel these little threads of sparkling purple-blue energy begin to form out of the staff to reach to each of you.

As it does, it connects. You are all pulled into a different space. And will pick up there next time. Oh! Next. Oh! Next. Oh my god! I hope we made it. Right?

We'll do all the rolling for all that at the top of next time. We don't even know if we made it, right? No. Oh, we did. We might be. Could be. We're in New Jersey. Could be.

What's New Jersey? Hoboken. Hoboken. Oh my god. Everything's legal in New Jersey? What's New Jersey? Hoboken. Oh my god. Everything's legal in New Jersey. The royal toilet party? Yeah, let's see. The Wrexhamtrum toilet party.

That's so funny. A very... What a deep cut. How many episodes? A four in 100 chance of us going some real terrible, having a very bad mishap. Okay. 4% chance.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have to roll for that? No, Matt does. Mm-hmm. In fact, I'm going to do that right now. Well, no, I have you roll for it. That's more fun. Yeah, go ahead and roll a d100 for me.

Do we know what number is bad? Yeah, one to five is super bad. Here, you go ahead and roll, and I'll watch over your shoulder, and we won't tell anybody else. Wait, and I'll get it for TikTok. No, but nobody else will know! I'll just videotape it, I won't.

We're still live! I know! Okay, ready, folks? What's happening? Okay. Oh my god! What? No! Come on,. What? No! Come on, man!

Come on! No, we're fine. We're good. Stop. All right. And we'll leave it there. Is she doing a thing? I can tell she's doing a bit. Is she doing a thing? We'll leave it there. She's doing a bit.

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