Critical Role - Opening Night | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 29 Part 2

Episode Date: June 23, 2026

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Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and you're listening to Part 2 of this episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this adventure and the world of Aramon. In the crypt of Obrimus Manor. Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy. In the crypt of Obermiss Manor, light extinguishes magical darkness. you all.

Which, by the way, means even those with dark fission. So, Octus, even as you peer through shadows more normally, you find yourself still as the true teneprile gloom rushes in. Meaning, unless someone here has like warlock. We got those fatty candles, right? We got some fatty candles, but that is going to be a, to light a fatty candle is a bonus action. Oh.

So you gotta get those lit. That will take your initiative to do. to do. So for right now, you are in complete darkness as you hear the hissing and gasping of spirits of the dead. Fimble, it is your turn. First of all, this is the altar in which Guy Sarah Mai was laid. Does everyone here agree with where their minis are? I don't see where I... This is thimble right here. Thimble right here, but you guys put yourself wherever you would be. I have Julian here. I think I'm up by the altar having just laid Saramai on it. You are here, pen by

by your side. Great. Oh yeah. Cool. A dog. Great. My fox dog. My fox dog. My cat's following me. Amazing.

So thimble, darkness abounds. You also feel in this moment a protection from Octus around you, granting you a resistance to necrotic damage. But I will remind you that the resistance to necrotic damage is great on its own, but what it's really doing is preventing you from being vulnerable to necrotic damage,

which unfortunately, Tayor, Julian, and Sid, all are. Question. Yes. Ferry fire. If I light it up, how does it affect magical darkness, or how is magical?

Would I still see the outline of the fairy dust within the magical darkness? Unfortunately, I believe the wording of darkness, and I could be wrong here. which is sort of the template that we're going off from the magical darkness is the darkness spell. For the duration, magical darkness spreads from a point,

dark vision can't see through it, and non-magical light can't illuminate it. But these candles are formed of magical light. Alternately, you can cast a spell at the ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. If any of the spells area overlaps with an area of bright-letter dimlight created by a spell level of second level or lower, that other spell is dispelled. Your fairy fire will get swallowed up.

Got it. Okay, then I'm not gonna do that. Oh, gosh, I can't see shit. Duh! I'm gonna fly up. You fly up, you are in a crypt, so the ceiling is only about low. It's about a eight foot, you know, seven foot ceiling. Yeah, I just want to be not next to.

Eight foot, seven foot. Um, can I hold my attack until I can see? Yes, you can hold your attack until you can see. or until you can see. Or until something attacks me? Yes, you can't. Yes, absolutely. So you are going to ready an action to attack anything that takes a swipe action.

Yeah. Okay, moving forward in the initiative, Julian, that's you. All right, so I'm holding the candle in my hand as everything just goes into full on darkness. I think Julian is a bonus action, is gonna reach back, is gonna tosses rapier to the ground for a second, reach back. back right here. Right there. And pull out some flint and tender real quick, like, cross his gauntlet to try and get that candle to light.

Is it a bonus action? Bonus action, yeah. Ignite it if you can. You ignite it and are surrounded by five feet of dim light. Five feet. It's a candle. So just, it's as horror movie as it can be. Your own shadow looms on the wall behind you.

By the way, as Julian's shenan's shableness. Julian's shadow looms. All of you watched Julian's shadow look down, and a smile slips across it as Julian illuminates himself, and you hear elsewhere in the manner, things begin to shriek. As soon as the shriek hits and the candle light begins to burn, the rapier that I dropped kind of off the side

of the steps in front of me, I kick down on the side of it, sending it flying up in the air as I catch it with the hand, and start shifting forward to move close over to the edge of that hallway right in between between, I'll say between Fimble and your brother. 10, 15, 20 gets you right here. Yeah, and just kind of stay at the ready there and I'm gonna hold my action as well

for something to come within visual range. As you move, what's that? No, yeah, go ahead. As you move, you leap forward going past Sid as Sid suddenly is illuminated in the darkness. You see him turn around. He goes, He'll go, and point over,

your shoulder as a skeleton is right within your field of dim light. When a ghost popped out. So as soon as he points, I like duck low and spin, like my knees almost like scraping the stone beneath me as I whip around with the rapier to try and shove upward, kind of into the skull of the skeleton as it appears. Hell yeah, go for it. Give me an attack roll. You see these skeletons, unlike the ones you were fighting

in Tanisar, are armored. Everyone here was a knight or some kind of armored warrior. That's a dirty 20. Dirty 20 is a hit, baby. All righty. Go ahead and do this story. It's a five. Yeah, I'm gonna let it ride there.

I'm not gonna use my savage. Okay. That's gonna be nine points of piercing damage. Your rapier flashes out through the armor, through the ribs, yank, some of the ribs clatter loose, and this thing is still standing. You see it stands there, scorpions on either side of its breastplate,

leaning forward. All right, I just kind of shout out. Let him if you got them. That's you. Sid is going to move into your five feet of light and attack the other guy who's within, who's right there for you. He's gonna make his attacks.

Two hits, way to go, Sid. Sid comes along and he goes, Light of my ancestors, let's call it! And lowers his axe down and shatters this skeleton. Yeah. That's good. I'm going to borrow that. Julian mutters have credit.

And that's going to be Octus. All right, I'll roll my hit points for my level up. Yeah, go for it. All right, yeah. That skeleton go out or just back. Done, done, bones. Done's got better than two. What did you roll?

Three. A three. Hell yes. I will go to. I'm up to. I'm up to. to 37 hit points now. Wizard. Wizard.

Wizard. All right. Being there, seeing all this happen and kind of get back into it. Yeah. Yes, you have extended protection to Thimble, connected with the tennebrile gloom of this place. Essentially, the vast mantle of the underworld.

The underworld is a blanket around this world. The underworld could not make sense unless it attached to a little. living world. It is a mantle of darkness, but also serving some vital, what's this, me holding my hands like this? No, no, no, no. No. That's a joke. A joke. I don't know if he knows what jokes. About you. I don't know anything about jokes. Looking at you have never been more certain that the underworld has a vital purpose. It is there for a reason, and it is being abused by those who would use it for power, and you've grabbed two fistfuls of the fabric of the underworld

and finally have a hand in the game your family has been playing for generations. Let's see if this works, and I'm going to reach out my hand towards Dame Ceramai's body, and I say, I do appreciate the protection you once offered me, and as though your, and although your spirit has left, your body can still be of use, and I'm going to use a third-level spell slot to to bring the body back to fight for me. Hell yes. Give me an Arcana check. Sick, dude.

That's great. I'm gonna bring you all this way to lay you to rest. To lay it down and... Actually, you know what? Get your ass, yeah. Get it one, fight. 21. Arcana.

What would you do if you became aware that Dame Gaiasaramy's spirit had not left? Nobody has offered funeral rights to her. No one's. cast speak with dead on her. Right. That was Tertia. And we used to talk. So then I, in that moment of realizing the spirit is still there,

I say, I changed my thought process and my intention of the spell to request that I can, that Dame Saramai protect me one more time. Reaching out, you see, a voice calls to you. mistake. What did honor by me? And you see her corpse convulses and snake venom pours out of her throat over her shattered jaw onto her body as she rise on the table. What did it fucking buy me? Survive this and I will show you a different path to walk. Animates her and says all of you, even here in the dark, hear a here, no, you know, that all happens.

instantaneously. And you hear of a dead arm moving in a corpse-like twitch of tendons towards a magical long sword, the one you guys carried all the way from Timeney, the sword that almost killed you. Dame Sarah Mai's body, a massive gaping hole in her chest that just oozes poison as she, The veil clings to the wet mess of her shattered jaw as her eyes glow lime green in the dark. Even in the magical darkness, there's only one thing you can see. There's two things you guys can see.

Julian's candle and two glowing snake eyes in the dark. Dame Saramai is animated. Wonderful. Let me double check. The fuck. Everyone's cute little kid! Off in the magic school! So then I will use my bonus action to... I don't have a candle in my hand, I didn't grab one.

So I'm going to then use... I'm just going to command pin to go and give the help action to Teor. Okay. When it's Teore's turn. Cool. I will then... That'll be the end of my turn. Sarah Mai will act right after me,

and we'll get up and... How many? We got the one over there. Is there any more that have appeared at the moment? None within sight. I mean, you hear noise. You guys are surrounded by undead. You just can't see them.

So, Sarah Mai will get up and start walking towards where we did see the one with Julian and the sit. Getting off the table now. Sarah Mai is going to get off the table and head towards the one with Sid joining them over here. Okay, you want, okay, she is going to I'm gonna walk over there. Just walking that way, yeah.

Cool. Walking out of the darkness, Julian, you see your former adventuring companion, Dame Gai, Sarah, my blood-soaked veil over a shattered jaw, glowing green eyes. Sarah, my brain your hand. I do shout out, realizing I didn't say anything to the rest of the group.

Just go, oh, shit, I made a friend. Don't, Julian, don't kill Sarah Mai. My blade is about an inch and a half into the clothing. You could have said something a little sooner. Sorry, I never done this before. Your sword is through the wound, one of the two wounds she got in her chest.

I think I look up to her and say, welcome back. That is going to be, that's Octus' turn. Yeah, great. Okay. You guys hear a voice, a voice from the steps say, say, sorry, you guys hear a voice from back here

towards the entrance deeper into the Undercroft. That voice goes, courtyard, war now masters, and you guys hear a clattering of bones. Okay. However, Julian, you instead hear another skeleton descends on you. sends on you. One right through here will ignore that command. Teor, you cannot take a tax opportunity because you don't have visibility, but you hear shapes rushing past you towards the stairs. Laura, you're raising your hand? Oh no, just freaking out. Oh no. Just panic hand. Just that's a panic hand.

The hand at the level of your eyes. Before everything went dark, can you remind me where those candles were in the room? The candles are on this shelf right here. And we entered. from up top. You entered from up here. That's the entrance to the entrance. And the secret entrance was over here on this side. And that's where we heard the voices from that said to the courtyard. Yes, correct. To the courtyard. To the courtyard. And how do we win the encounter?

Please. Okay. These skeletons are not going to get advantage on you, Julian, but they are going to take swings on you. I like to see three try. That is a 21 and a 22. They did so. They tried. I would like to sing them do it. Julian, you take,

oh God, and you're vulnerable. Not to this thing. Just a necrotic. Oh, oh, you. So that's going to be 17 points of damage as both skeletons hit, as these swords slash across you. And yeah, you hear skeletons racing up the stairway.

Teor, that is going to be your turn. I see Julian's candle go up, and I want to do the same thing. Can I hold out the candle and just hearing movement or general sounds in the darkness in front of me? Can I just hold up a hand and I'm going to, I'm just going to launch a guiding bolt like into the distance in front of me and try and ignite the tip of the candle at the same time. Give me, bonus action, you are surrounded in dim light. Go ahead and give me, do, do, go ahead if you be so kind and give me perception. Perception.

Give me a perception check. 18, 20. 20 means you can choose the right square and fire with disadvantage. So you are listening for the skeletons and just firing in their direction as they charge up the staircase. Great, yeah, whichever.

And do you want to follow them up or are you staying where you are? We came in from this way. You came in from this way, but you hear bony armored feet clattering up commanded by something back here. I think we want to go towards the voice, right? Yeah.

But they're also going to warn people upstairs. Oh, so we got to get those. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I see. Oh, so we need to fetch them too. We need to bar that, like stop, block that door so they can't get out. Then I will, oh, and there's a lever right here or something. But I can't see that.

But you pass it on your way in. Oh, there's a fucking lever. I'll fire towards those skeletons on the staircase. Give me an attack roll with disadvantage. Okay. That's a 15 to hit. 15 does not hit, sadly. Does it light the candle at least?

Your candle is lit with a bonus action, so you're good to go. You are surrounded by dim light. You have your dim light. Pin is there. He was giving him the help action. Oh, we have to re-roll that attack roll. I'm so sorry, Travis.

Okay. Because you have the help action, so it's disadvantage and advantage cancel out. It's a straight roll. Oh. That bet 19. 19 is a hit. Let's go, Fox Force, five.

Roll your damage for guiding bolt to be so good. 16, 11, 19 points of radiant damage. KORP reaching out a paw, one of the skeletons at the front of the pack. And I'll say as that light hits it, it illuminates one on either side. So you see three skeletons. They appear briefly here on the stairs.

Middle one shatters and shatters. bone, but you know there are two left in the dark headed for that gate. Got it. Okay. Can I use my movement? Yes, you can. I guess we're chasing them up the stairs, right? We're taking care of it.

So I head off in the direction that I... FI fired. Cool. Rushing up the stairs. Do you want to interpose yourself in front of them at the top? Yes. Make me wall of fur and fury. Cool.

You rush up here. You got these two skeletons coming up. You're able to basically brush past one, but the one at the bottom is going to get a sort of swing on you for a tag of opportunity. Should I try and pull that handle and shut the door? Yeah. Was that gonna close us in here?

I don't know, maybe. Everybody except then, hey! I don't have a bonus action anymore. So, this one, this one takes a swing at you and clangs off of your armor as you rush up. I'll also point out, by the way, that your armor class of 17 is, if you're wielding the axe, is now 15.

Oh, my goodness. So if you would do me the kindness of unequipping your shield, right? Because if you're using a double-handed axe, your AC comes down. This is, yes. So, after that. I saw naked. 16, why would it be 16?

I don't know. Let's play. Okay. That's the axe. Oh, maybe? I don't think so. No. D&D beyond, don't lie though.

Julian, crowded here in the the dark, your candle is quite close to the wall. Would you say you're still facing, where are you facing right now? Are you facing Dame Ceramai still? Are you facing one of the other skeletons? I think I am kind of shoulder to that corner. I'm currently kind of keeping,

just glancing over behind me to the one that's kind of partially engaged with Sid and now also getting the concept of maybe rushing up towards the door to try and interpose them from letting the rest of the So you're facing out this way. Yes. Okay, so you present a very near, because the candle you're holding is in your hand,

your shadow on the wall behind you is quite small, which matters for this moment because, which matters for this moment, because only two shadows spontaneously burst from the shadow behind you. This one vanishes beyond. Teor, behind you, your candle casts your shadow on the wall behind you, and you hear,

as those who have lit candles peeling off from the walls behind you, you fought these before at the Palazzo Divinos. The same spectral shadow entities burst forward, and four of them are going to surround Tejore. In the shadows, how back it could be? Uh-huh. I'm not sure of myself.

I remember how I mentioned vulnerabilities to necrotic damage? These are necrotic, these are necrotic? I took a few good things in the past. If I recall, this is gonna get bad. Oh, ho, ho! Are they close to me that I can use the thing I've been waiting for? Yes, you can use the thing you've been waiting for.

And that is within five feet of Julian, which means it's in light, which means you don't attack with disadvantage. And you are in darkness, which means that it potentially has a disadvantage on attacking you. Oh, great. So, so just to regular. Wait, is a sneak attack too.

Yeah, so you'll roll with advantage, which means the sneak attack. Okay. Oh, that's great. 16 plus a bunch. 16 plus eight. 16 plus eight? Okay, are you attacking this spectral thing?

Yeah. Okay, 16 plus eight, yeah, that is a, you absolutely demolish this thing. Okay, so that's 2D6, okay. So let's see. Yeah, so, so, Your damage for, yeah, let me know what you're rolling for damage. I'm rolling 1D6.

So 4, plus 6 is 10, plus 2D6 for Sneak. It's an additional 6, and then plus 2D6 for the toy sword. These are incorporeal. Oh, shit, that's right. Drawing your little tinsel toy sword, this thing is made to kill nightmares. It was made for the young gnomish daughters of Alderman.

A little bit of color lights this dark, depressing room. You're pretty good at this D&D thing. So 23 points of damage to that thingy. Hell yes. You deal 23 points of damage. And then I can attack it again with, because it... The Nick property...

Gives me a second attack that's not a bonus action. Let me just see if that is a lot... Because this is such a scary dungeon, I'm going to be mean. Can you use Nick weapon mastery on opportunity attack? Or I guess on a ready-to-action, right?

Yeah. Uh... Uh... Okay. I think that... Let me just read this on your character sheet real quick. I want to know the origin of da-da-da. I want to know the origin of that, da-da-da.

That's like the loading screen. That's my loading screen noise. I have a lot of ticks. I don't know if you know, I've been DMing since I was 10 years old, so my entire, how I sound is based on DMing, so you can play in the game for it. Like some young computer program from his childhood. It's like, da-da-da-da.

I love it, hold on. Dave is speaking, teaches type it. Okay. I'm going to rule that you can do it in this moment. Oh, I can't. You can? Yes. Okay. So that would be a roll to attack.

At advantage still or not at advantage? Still at advantage because. Still at advantage. So that's 19 plus seven. And then, so that hits. And then when the eight is eight. So eight points of additional damage from the offhand. Great. Eight points of additional damage

from the offhand. Awesome. Hold on one second. T-da-da-da. So sorry, guys, one second. Sorry, I was running it down. You don't. The light property, when you take the attack action on your turn and attack with a light weapon,

you can make one extra attack as a bonus action. Later on the same turn. And then what Nick says is when you make the extra attack of the light property, it's part of the action. You make part of the attack action instead of as a bonus action. But the light, it's working off of the light property and the light property only happens on your turn,

so we are going to rule that has to happen on your turn. That extra eight did not happen. Nice right. I love it. However, you have pulled the attention of this creature off of Sid onto you. Teore, you are flanked. I mean, I don't know.

I think with that many of an odd number of attackers, flank cannot be a turn. A, C, is 15, correct? 16 according to D&D beyond. 16 according to D&D beyond? Yeah. Big, big different. That is a hit.

You can't make a difference. You can't. Go knock it. That is a hit. As a fellow 16. So far, that marks a difference. That's a hit. And this is all the, this is all the shit.

Shades, shadows. Yeah, but I also have a cloak. It makes me hard to hear. Eight plus, an eight plus, Hold on. No, that's a miss. Okay. That is a miss. Because they are flanking you, they have advantage on the attack, and we're going to roll damage. God, nobody critted. Nobody critted. Six necrotic damage becomes 12. No. No. 12 total? 12 total. Got you. From all of them?

Three, necrotic damage becomes six. No, no, no. So that's 12. plus six, 18. 18. 15. 5 plus 2 is 7 times 2 is 14. On top of the 14? On top of the 14? On top of the 18. So 18 plus 14? 18 plus 14. 18 plus 14.

Tayor, how are you looking? Hey man, you know? Like I'm in a fucking dark-ass basement with only a fatty candle to light my way and get attacked by five skeletons. You're attacked by five skeletons. Additionally, additionally to that as they reach out, And this is of marked concern because thimble is in combat, not because this is happening to you,

but because as they lash out at you, as they lash out at you, they are also going to reduce your strength score. Fimbles? That's really mean. No, no, that's a yours. But what I mean is, it's only a D4, so I'm gonna roll this in front of the board. One, two,

Wait, those are all the reduction. Each one? One. Tehr, your strength is reduced by four. If they reduce me by... To zero, you are dead. If your strength score is reduced to zero, you are dead. It's okay, or is this Fenton...

Oh, wait. What's your strength score? It's three. A single swipe from one of these shadows... Could take me to death. To death without interacting with your hit points at all. This is the first. force that eight years ago made Fairy close their doors to this world because it was so poison.

And you watch that occur. Now, Julian, you are flanked. Shadow is coming for you. Let's go. Maybe we run. Yeah, we run. You can see it to the door. You take five points of, five points to ten necrotic damage. and your strength is reduced. Here, I'll roll in front of the board. This is getting. Two.

Two. Strength force is reduced by two. Thimble, you are going to be attacked by one of the shadows. I could just die right now? Here in this space, the lesser shades at the Palazzo Divinos were images of this, but they were being summoned on hallowed,

fairy de Vino's round. These are true shadows. Really a disadvantage, right? A disadvantage? Disadvantage. A Nat, 20. And a five. Wow.

Wow. Wow. It's a gift as a DM to watch PCs, and I mean this in the best way, because you guys are using all your clues. You're brilliant. If you're being like, shit's about to go down to this theater. Anyway, you guys go ahead and rob the Taconas, and I went, I don't know that risk has been assessed as I would have assessed it.

I got problems with the big book. with the big brains off camera. Somebody fucked up over there! I just mean, or fucking think tank, just try us! Unless you're Mr. Lincoln, I don't think a night of the theater is. It's just good that a lot of the heavy hitters

stayed behind in the theater to protect it from the big battle. Hey, well, can you know, everyone's making the best guess as they can. Absolutely. I'm looking at my notes like, I can't say shit. I cannot say shit. Yeah. I'm going to kill them all. So, okay. That is the Shadow's turn.

Oh, boy. That is going to go back to the top of the order with Fimble. That is your turn. Motherfucker. I'm going to attack it again. Go for it. Action. Natural 20!

Yes! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Okay. So that's a lot of D-6s I get to roll for doubles, right? Yes. Here we go.

Where's my other... There we go. No, that's not as... Where are my sixes? These are all weird shapes. I can't find out here. I'll say this. I'm gonna say this too, Laura, in this moment.

Yeah. I just wanna throw, you just hit an at 20. There's a shade in front of you. It's badly, badly injured. You've already injured. There another one is close. Well, Teor is surrounded. Julian is surrounded.

And those spectres are at full health. But of course, you would have to leave combat with that shadow right in front of you. Can't vote a section disengage, right? I can, and I'm gonna do that. Oh, fuck! You guys robbed me! Yeah!

Oh, fuck! Oh, fuck! I was trying to be scary. And you were for like four seconds. Until you guys remember the rules. I got real quiet, man. I wasn't saying. I'm sorry. But Laura, yes, it is your turn.

I don't think I can see through the darkness to get, I'm worried I won't get to Teor, so I'm gonna do one of the ones that are Julian. Okay, so you're gonna bonus action disengage and- Get over to Julian and use that 20 for- Cool. Fresh, fresh shadow is right here. Fresh meat.

Can these be poisoned? Because technically, Dame Saramai has a five-foot miasma of poison around. These are, they are immune to poison. Okay, just one jump-shed. Yeah. Does the five foot myasma affect allies too? No, I don't believe so.

I think it's enemies. So 26, no, 46 points of damage. On a Nat 20 thimble. Good whore. These things to spell death for you. You should flee. You should absolutely flee. One swipe of these will kill you.

And you're choosing to save the life of Julian de Venus? Why? That's a good question. I know my friends. You deal. 44 points of damage? 6. 46 points of damage.

And on a Nat 20 critical hit with the toy sword dealing the most damage you can, you level up to level five. Yes! This shadow is destroyed. Incredible. That is action and bonus action, but your action, you have another-

I get another attack, yeah. Is there another one? There's a skeleton right here. Okay, I'll do that, skeleton. Mm-hmm. And that's just, that's just a, that's just a roll. Double 18s. That's a hit.

Okay. And then that's just a D8. Just a D8. That is two points of damage. As you, you guys see, this little tinsel sword is cleaving through shadows and then against a skull. You know, but I am going to use my swashbuckler. fancy feet move and fly the fuck away.

Okay. Towards. Where do you want to go? I'm going to go towards where I heard Octus. Okay. So that was 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 feet of movement. How many feet of movement do you have? Well, my D&D vion isn't right.

It has walking speed. I believe walking speed is your flying speed, though. Well, that's that. It can't. It says 10 feet. And I know that's not right. That's not true. I think it's 30 feet.

I think you have another five feet of move. So you'll fancy footwork out of there and get out of melee range. Okay, great. Julian, that is going to be your turn. Okay. I'll say at this point, feeling everything closing around,

these wraiths that immediately strike back imagery of watching his father fall and members of his family and community drain of their life force. His eyes go wide with equal terror and adrenaline. And as he assesses it, the one in front of him begins to reach towards him before it completely evaporates and this glowing streak of Pixie Energy,

the first time he's really seen Thimble do what she does and kind of gives a look of an nod of acknowledgement before he spins to see the already damaged wraith behind him. Julian's gonna go ahead and attempt to strike back like throw his cloak up to try and obfuscate the space and through the cloak, stabbed towards where that wraith is. Hell yeah. That's going to be 16 hit?

16 hits exactly. Okay. Or so the wraith. No, yeah, no, 16 definitely hits. Okay, yeah, yeah. All right. That is going to be an 8 plus 4. It's going to be 12 points of piercing damage on that already damaged rate.

Your sword flashes at and the shadow vanishes. Fantastic. So with that gone, there's just one skeleton right now that is within melee to me? Yeah. Two, actually. Oh, the one that's crossed the way is technically. Yeah. This one's partially damaged by Thinbolt. That one's undamaged.

All right. I'm going to bonus action use one of my class, subclass features. I'm going to use writing the threshold, which is when I'm bloodied, which I definitely am right now. I'm going to use my second one feature to grant temporary hit points instead of restoring it. So I will gain.

Could we fly in desperate measures, by the way? I got it, right here. Oh, you already have it. You can fucking have, I'm reading that shit already. It's a party up where I am. We got a dance party going on. All right. That's going to be only six temporary hit points,

but hey, it all helps. I'll use that second wind there for that. And then I'm knowing that going to go up the way, I'm going to go ahead and take, I'm going to move up and around the stairs, taking the attack of opportunity from the one behind me. Yeah. And try and hold off the top of the stairs there

to prevent any further from rushing up to the top. Great. That is a miss on that attack of opportunity. Who's breaking for the secret entrance? I can open it as soon as it's my turn. Is it the two of y'all are going for it? Yeah, but I can also have Saramai run up and bar the door and we can rush.

Oh, yeah. Where is Sarah Mi? She's right down where she's in the initiative? She's right after me. Okay. Okay. Julian, you move up there and bar the way. You've slashed at that, Raith, any bonus action.

You're all good. Oh, your second one did, great. Yeah, that's my turn. Sid is going to go, brother! And is going to rush out the stairs. That's 5, 10, 15, 20. He's gonna take the attack from the other one. And that's in the dark.

Normal or with advantage? Just say normal. Regular. No, with advantage. Fuck. And he's gonna go ahead and take seven points of damage. 20, 25, 30.

And he is going to, that's all his moving, but I think that, no, he's going to close. He's going to use a double move and close, and he's going to light one of his own corpse candles and get in between, he uses his action to dash just so that they have other terms.

than you. Right. Is he, is he next to me, like back to back? Fucking awesome. Okay. Awesome. All right, cool. So the candle's lit. Can we all now see what surrounds Teor and his brother? Yes, both of them. Because again, the way dim light works is the area around it is illuminated, but just because you can't see the space in between doesn't, it's like seeing a campfire in the distance. Oh, cool. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you can see. It's like, if there's like, if there's a got a campfire over there, I can see it. But like, looking at a fire through dark woods, you're like, I don't know who's in the woods. but I see the fire over there, right?

So, yeah, Tayor and Seder are both visible. Brother, fuck. Shout out, say. Shit, Taylor's surrounded. Octus, that's you. All right. Standing, I'm gonna kind of use my movement to get onto the altar there to stand on it

to get a better kind of try and get a better view of what's happening up there. I'm gonna look behind me at where I know the secret door is. and I'm gonna command it to open. Quince. You guys hear a door open in the hallway back here. It looks up at you two on the thing, just, I think we should run, and is going to,

how, what, you're really badly hurt, right? I'm not great. I shout back as you say this if I can and be like, quarter my head points. And how do we get back? I have no idea. If they alert the house, we have no way out. either wise.

We don't know. I'd rather make another exit through that shit. It's fucked. It's usually kind of place it would have a second day. I mean, God. Julius words do ring true that diving deeper into the house while these guys leave to warn. We got to kill these guys.

Yeah. Okay, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to be up there and said, can I, with the event, being on top of the altar there, there, can I see kind of across to? Crumbling runescape right here, yes. Okay, great. So I opened the door behind us, which may have been a terrible idea,

and now I'm going to... You can even leap up onto the altar here. Yeah, I would like leap up onto the altar. There was a body there. You got rid of the body. I kicked it up. I didn't move it. How did it?

Wow. I thought it was part of the dressing. Okay, so I know I just leveled up and I don't technically have, in this moment of having, like, filled with this energy from the Necormantic, Do I have access to any other things I might be able to kind of use in this moment?

I think so. You've used summon undead. And I think if you have that other spell slot, yeah, go for it. I'm going to, I look at Teor and I see all of the wounds and the things that have happened to you already and just see those pulling the strength out of you. Okay, Octus pulls the dagger out from his belt. James, it is his forearm, slices all the way up his forearm.

the blood starts to float out of his arm, and I'm gonna cast life transference. On tail. What? Shit. Okay. Oh, my God. I could kill myself what this is.

It very possible. I bring myself in zero. What are you doing? Do you're all? Wait. We're together. That is, okay? That's good.

That's good. I take 15 points of damage, and I heal you 30. Oh, that's great. That's so much. But no, don't do that again. It's fine. It's fine. I won't do, I can't do it again.

Thank you. In. So the blood floats out of my arm, and it flies across the room and circles around you, and you see this length of blood sort of become a thread and start to stitch your wounds up and pull them clothes together. It's unsanitary, but I am very grateful. And you heal 30 hip-ins.

Wow, yeah, that brought me all the way back up, almost. That's funny, that's my action. Mass. It's massive. It just gets more. More interesting. Jeez. Okay, being in there, I don't have a bonus section to use.

So that'll be the end of my turn, and now it'll be Dame Ceramai's turn. Dame Ceramai is going to run up to get into that melee up there. Great. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. She's in melee. Okay, great. Is going to make an attack here,

which is equal to, okay. Do you roll for her too? I do. Nice. There's a melee attack, bonus, the attack, okay. Okay, which is my, okay, it's plus a seven. Oh, that's a 22 to hit.

22 hits. Okay, and that's 26. No poison damage. No poison damage, yeah. Ooh, okay, so that's 11 points of slashing damage. Against one of the race? Against whoever they are in contact with, yeah. You see Dame Saramai, who in moments,

it's not that her spirit is not present, It's that the animation of her body needs magic. It's like she needs Octus to fuel the animation of her body with power. So you concentrate giving her more of that necromanic weave to work off of and she leaps forward as these fangs sort of flash through the veil of her,

these sort of like top heavy snake fangs just descend from her, again, jawless lower. She reaches out slash for 11 points. damage. That is her turn. Great. Does a skeleton fall at all or a shadow or anybody? No, shadow does not fall? Does anything fall? Does anything fall? Is anything happen? Come on. Come on. Come on. But in that state though, if they can, if they start attacking her, she is immune to necrotic and poisoning, there's Austin frightened at all of these things so she can take

hits from this. Okay. That's good. That's good. Um, skeletons. These ones rush up. They're going to swing at Tayor. They get the fuck out of there. Yeah. This is a bad place. That's a crit. What do you mean? At least it's a skeleton. Hold on.

It's a crit from a skeleton. I involved. Fuck that. Does a 15 hit? It does not, according to DeviantDBion. Yes, you have 15 down. Mine says 16. I'm not sure why.

What's your dexterity? Dexterity is 15. All right, so plus two, and you have the breastplate. Yeah. I have a breastplate. No shield. That checks out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's a miss. So it's one crit and a miss. Uh, ta-ta-da. You're doing good kid. You should be. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, my friend. You do not have a plus two dexterity bonus.

You have a plus one dexterity bonus. Oh, do I? Yeah. Why does it say plus two on his? Oh, it says it on. Oh, maybe that didn't copy over. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The cut, not all the copy.

When we, yeah. Gotcha, okay. Never mind. That's some digital stuff. Don't even worry about that. Literally don't. Don't even worry about it. Great.

That is just one crit. You take seven points of damage from a slashing blade. Does that make it 14 or it's seven total? No, these are not necrotic. The skeletons are just hitting you with rusty old swords. Okay, okay.

Just hitting you with rusty old swords. It's great. Go from the skeletons. Let them break upon your shores, Travis. Jesus. My shores. I know I like my shores. Crush upon your shores. I need a coast

Okay. I'm so stressed. The adrenaline talk, I'm sorry. I like this metaphor. These skeletons are gonna come for Fimble. I'm not sure. It's a horrid sentence. I'm in the dark.

You're in the dark, but so are they, so it cancels out. It cancels it, okay. So it's just two normal attacks. Does a 23 hit? Yeah. You take eight points of damage, eight points of slashing ditch.

That's the face. It's the don't ask, you know. You know it hits. You know it hits. Can I roll for my hit points? Yes, you can. Go for your hit points, please. Six.

Six. Great. Six plus your con mod. Tayor, that is your turn. Yeah. We gotta get the fuck out of here. I'm going to turn to Sid and say, thank you, brother.

We must run. Follow me. And I'm going to use. use a desperate measure. Okay, you're still bloodied after that healing? Yeah, I mean, but I'm fucking, I'm about to run and I don't know what this shit I'm gonna hit on the way down there. So I'm gonna use one failure marked and immediately take the dash and disengage axons as extra actions. Your actions? Actions, just so I can get out of there.

Should I try and crush one of these things on the way out? If we flee? They're still gonna be here. They're gonna go and they're going to announce the rest of the house. We can't. I thought there was a lever. There was a lever there. That's right. Did somebody get the lever? Go over and try to get the-

But I don't know what the lever's gonna do. It's gonna shut the door. I mean? I think I'm gonna go over and shut the door. Are they just gonna wander through the brick and be like, oh, I'm a ghost. They're in Maylay with this guy. And I'll run in knowing I'm gonna take an opportunity

attack by moving away from that guy. Yeah. So you're gonna move five feet towards the lever. Yep. Okay. And I'll take a hit probably, right? You will take, you will take three hits. We'll take three hits.

Two from rates. But you, they'll hit, they'll do it anyway. If you, if you, if you. PIN had movement. God damn it. What? PIN had movement. I could have sent it. Well, then you do it.

I got disengage. You want to do it. Okay, so I will. I'm not trying to be a jerk, you know. I will send PIN up there. Yeah. Could PIN have pulled the lever? No.

Okay. Then PIN is up there to give you the help action. Great. You can't do shit. I'm gonna pull the lever. I'm gonna take the hits. Great, give me an athletics check. Okay. Difficulty is 15.

I'm not worried about it, you guys. I'm worried about it now. But Penn could have, but Penn helped you. Advantage. Oh. Pin helped you. That's way better. 25, the first one was a night.

25, okay. All the paws, just push on the back. This fucking fucks. 25. You hurl the lever down. Not only does this portcullis slam, you hear more importantly the marble slab behind you slides back into place.

Which you would be aware, shadows are incorporeal, but they do actually need, they cannot pass through, they're not, they're incorporeal and dead, but they're not as strong as ghosts, they're not as strong as spectres, and things like that, they need to be able to pass through an opening. And with that slab being closed,

there is no way for the shadows to get out. Now we run. Now we, now we run. Now I'll use the desk for measure to disengage and dash running by Sid and I'll tear down the steps as I pass the fang mouth venom dripping. This is going to be, this is going to be

five, 10, 15, because you're moving through allies. There's no way through these enemies. So it's difficult terrain through Sid and difficult terrain through Gaia. Can you leap up and over the crumbling ruins? What if he dives over the room? Unfortunately, the rules has written, like these enemies have to be removed

from their squares one way or another. Shot attacks, things like that. Got it. Okay. So that's gonna be, you can go, you've moved, five here to get that. You've moved five feet of movement. Do you want to go,

do you want to use the difficult terrain that will be, it'll cost you 10 feet of movement to go through Sid and Dame ceremony? Yes. Okay, so we went 5, 10, 20, 30. You have your movement now. So you're going to go 30 feet of movement? 35.

35. So five gets you here, and then what direction are you moving? I'm hauling ass down. towards the other candle, because we're gonna go that way, right? Great. Do you wanna go this way past these skeletons? If I see skeletons, I'll run up

and just fucking jump right in front of them, right? Cause we're gonna try and go through that way. Great. And you use dash and disengage, so how many death save fails is that? One. One, great. So, one failure marked. So that's going to be, ta-t-ta-ta-ta-ta.

You got here with 35, you go five, 10. And you can go right past these guys because you still disengage, right? Oh, killer. Ten. Just, did you just like, like kind of leave Sid to die up there? He's gonna follow me.

We said those words. 15, 25, 30, 35 gets you here. So that's your movement. Don't worry, pin's still up there. That is your, that is your movement. Now they're all gonna attack Sid, aren't there? Well, Dame Ceramai's up there with him. Okay.

I've got one other. And a fox. And a fox. Who's gonna just blow up? So that's going to be, six seconds, six seconds. So you got your, so that's 35 feet of movement. So that's your dash and disengage.

And does that, on the, on desperate, let me see desperate measures again real quick. Because you, you, I'll say this, you, extra actions, great. So you've had used your movement and extra actions. You have, I believe, you used a bonus action to throw the lever, so you have an action. Oh, it's just a bonus action?

Amazing. Yeah, yeah, then I'll, actually, I'll run up and smash on this. You want to smash on your way? Yeah, unless I see a skeleton. in front of me in the direction that we're gonna be going. Are there any shades over here? Or are they all just skeleton? No shades over there, but you can take it,

you can take and attack right now. Yeah, I'll rock on that guy. Oh, blah. 11. Okay. You swing past. Wow. But you continue on, so you've moved here.

Yeah. Great, okay. That is going to be, Tadda, Taya, that's your turn, is going to be the Shadow's turn now. Can I ask one? question actually? Lay on hands.

Yeah. Is that a, that's not an action or a bus action? Or is it a, it's a, it's one bonus action. It's a bonus action, yeah.

Could I, no, I already swung at him. Okay, I was going to say, I should pump some healing into Sid as I ran by. I'm a bad brother. I'm a bad brother.

The, you rush, Sid, as you go, like you move through Sid Square, he sees how injured you are. He's relatively uninjured. The shades haven't hit him yet. So he goes,

As you rush back seven points of damage, right? Seven slashing from a sword, but he's tough, he's beefy. There you is. So you see, he looks at you, as you are, he can see that the strength damage has occurred to you. You see, he turns to you and goes, run, go! And hurls you down the steps and says, get to the door, no! He looks out and going, turn me to stone.

I'll send you back to the shadows you came from. Oh, your brother! Ah! The shadows are you. The shadows are going to go. Um, finish. These ones recognize Saramai as being one of theirs. And they do not swing on her.

Fuck! I heard a full gasp back there. This one cannot get through melee. Is gonna take a swipe on Pin. Yeah. Does a 17 hit. Um, almost, yes, AC of 13. Now you did the candle with you.

so we don't see any of this. He has his own candles. Oh, he says, oh, he says, yeah. Say it has his own candle. Yeah, ACF 13. Just darkness and... That's what I was worried about. Penn takes eight.

Yeah, yeah, dead. Dead. So falls apart to pieces and then just into like green smoke. I just go. Okay. Um, we are going to roll these attacks on Sid. Sid, is flanked.

Oh God, poor Sid. Oh, okay. I don't feel. I feel terrible. Is he flame from all sides or just two of them? He's not flint here and here. Those there, yeah, yeah, yeah. They are going to take their attacks. I will let us know right here.

Sid. Could Sid take some desperate messrs? Get the fuck out of there? Said is not a player character. God! It's my brother! He's not a protagonist character. He's not a protagonist character.

That's true, Brennan! This motherfucker never got a flashback. Um... Okay. Cid's armor class is a really beefy 18. That a boy, I knew it. Come on, come on. Which means that these guys hit him on a 14 or higher,

but because they're flange are rolling with advantage, they each only get one attack. So we're looking for 13s and lower on both dies on both dice. 19.7 has a miss. Yay! Okay. 19. One hit.

And seven to seven. Okay. He takes six to 12, 12 necrotic. Sid takes 12 necrotic damage. Sid takes 12 necrotic damage. And it reduces his strength. Dills and bits, let's go. Redes his strength by,

Two. You see out there with a candle in his hand, he is running as fast as he, looking out, I won't go back into the dark. And that is now, that's their turn. This is how trauma is made. Mm-hmm. Hey kids, do you want to see trauma?

Yeah. Thimble, that's gonna be your turn. Oh, ah. Um, oh, Sid. Are we going? Yeah, I think so. Um, okay, I will attack these, these, I'm gonna just do shit against these skeletons,

but I'm gonna try to attack these skeletons in front of me and then I'm gonna try to get out. Cool, go for you. Uh, no, no, no, this is just a regular. Straight attack. Um, that doesn't hit, uh, 14. 14 hits. Oh, sorry, no, they're armored, sorry, 16.

Okay, that's it, yeah. So I'm just gonna go, fuck, and just fly away. I did an attack, so he can't get an opportunity attack. But the other one can. But it's just a skeleton. It's just a skeleton. It's not your gonna. But I am going to use one of my cunning.

You wanna disengage? Just got. Oh, I could just disengage. Yeah, I'll just disengage. Okay. I'll just disengage. I love it. Where do you fly to?

I'm gonna fly. Are we just abandoning? Get the fuck out! Okay, okay, I'm just gonna go towards where Teor is. Make my life mean something. We're like to the door, to the door. To the door back here? Yeah.

Five, ten. Are we gonna get out? 30. There's so many people we could help. You tell me what you're doing. I'm gonna go, we're all running this way. Yeah, we're trying to achieve a mission. I have an idea of how they can't just rubber van back and forth.

That wall that they're going through, is that like a corridor with that you can see There's an open, a secret door. The wall itself has just swung open back here. But the wall in front of it, you can see over that wall? Or is that to the ceiling? No, that goes up to the ceiling. That's what I was wondering. Yeah, yeah. This one goes up, yeah. Okay. Yeah. That sounds like, hell yeah. Thimble, attack, action, bonus action. That's going to be Julian's turn. Julian, that's you. All right. So nothing's currently in combat with me. I look over my shoulder towards Sid.

I don't know of that well. Son of a bitch! He seems like a nice guy. Hit your one hug! But that's how it goes. I go, Sid, you better get your shit together in follow! I'm gonna go and use my bonus action to use my hair's charm to cast jump on myself.

Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell. And I'm gonna go ahead and leap 30 feet this way over the skeletons, over landing next to where Octus is. Just shush! landing, Gotlet on the ground, three point Marvel landing and look up, and you say, let's fucking move. Yeah.

You land next to Octus, great, okay, bam. It's 10 feet of movement there, and I'm gonna use the other 20 feet to move around the other side to the hallway to meet on that side. Hell yes. You're gonna go five, 10, 15, 20, right? Is there anything in that hall?

Not that you can see with only five feet of illumination. I'm gonna use my, I'm gonna step back to leave enough room for Octus get through and I'm gonna hold my action to cover his ass. Cool. You step back, waiting for Octus to run. That's my turn. Julian, that's her turn.

That is going to be Sid. Sid is going to turn to flee. I think he's gonna just fully take the disengage action. Does he have daunting roar? Is he like a paladin build? He does not have don't do. Okay. Fuck.

He is going to He's gonna disengage as his action, and he's gonna use his movement, and that's what he's gonna do. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, that's great, that's great. So he's gonna go 510, 15, 20, 25, 30. And he gets the fuck out of there,

and that's his turn. Octus. Okay, Octus is going to, he's up there, he looks now, he sees Sid running down the thing, nose Ceramai is up there, they're going there. Okay. He's standing on top of here and he's going to, before jumping off, he's just gonna throw a firebolt at them just to kind of hit one of them on the way out.

Cool. Give me a tackle. Oh, terrible. That's going to be- Where the hell, okay, that's 11. That is a miss. Yeah, it just throws it, shit. And jumps off and heads towards Julian.

And that's going to be his turn. But, 15, 20, great. Switching. Do you have a candle or no? I don't have a can. No, he's going towards the book. That was right. That's what I need to.

Go towards the bookcase to grab a candle. Okay, gotcha. You fumble around here in the dark for a candle. Go ahead and give me a DC10 sleight of hand. Okay. Okay. Reaching fumbling, like canisters of like sacred oils and things fall off.

Yeah, and you grab a candle. And I'll use my, if I can use my bonus action just to kind of like press the vegetation, light it. Yeah. Okay. light the candle, go running towards Julian. That's my turn. Sarah's turn is going to just run up and just get in the middle

of all of them and just start swing. Cool. Just to kind of try and grab as much attention as possible. And have her start screaming, I'm alive. I'm a living being. All right. That is Octus. Okay, I'm going to need you to give me a, give me an intimidate check from her.

You'll add a plus two to this rule. The difficulty given that she is, fellow undead of the house Taconas is going to be a 20. These are not persuadable entities, but I'll say if you can hit an 18 or higher on the die, she will draw the focus off herself. Plus two you said? Plus two, so 18 is what you need because you're going for DC 20.

Natural 20. You have got to be fucking fun! That's so good! To be fucking kidding me. She's right there in the corner. You look at them as she, you. On a nap 20, Dame Saramai steps into the middle

of this group, newly raised undead. And you see that she reaches up, lowers her veil, and just shattered jaw, and the blood that had stained that is now just poison, just seeping and steaming snake venom, running down her chest as she looks right at all of them and goes, and you see that these shepherds, shadows, the symbol of House Ceramai in the Vassal Cript House gleams upon the shadows up there.

Sick. Nice. Right. Jesus fucking Christ, Alex. That's fucking crazy. All right, these skeletons go. Looking at the closed gate, 510, 15, 20. They don't know it's closed.

They should definitely go up and smash themselves against the gate. Go ahead, open it. Uh, da-da, da, da, okay. They're gonna take some swings on Julian here. That is a, does a 16 hit? Or sorry, an 18 hit. A 16, an 18 does it. I was holding my action to cover where they were there.

Can I get a strike as the first one steps in? You can, go for it. Let's go. That's going to be a 16 to hit. 16 hits, exactly. Alrighty. Oh, straight up eight plus four, 12 points of piercing damage as it comes up to me.

12 points of. The piercing damage. 12 points. This thing is on death's door as this thing. That's almost like a trading blower. It comes up and go and strike it and try and pull away as it scrapes into me. Incredible. You take four points of damage slashing.

The other one is going to swing. That is a hit as well. It's a 23. And you take five points of slashing damage on them next one. Just realize there's cool shit with the backgrounds now. There's a thing behind Brennan that's scary. That's so cool. What are you? He's bad here.

It's bad. These two are going to, I think, seeing Sid in front of them. Leave my brother alone. I'm here, you bitch. They're gonna wheel around. I swung and I miss. That is a hit. That is a hit.

Cid is badly blooded, but still as the skeletons reach out and slash away. Tay, Art, if your turn. My turn. I can't let my brother go down like this. I'm gonna use some of my speed to go up to him, and I'm gonna put 20 points of Leon hands into Sid. Cool. 20 points of... 20 points of Leon to Sid. Amazing. 20 points of lay on to Sid.

Boom, he is no longer bloody. It's still injured. Yeah. But he goes, as you heal him, let's get the fuck out of here. I know, and I'll take a swing at this guy. Hell yeah. With this big fucking axe from House Einfossen, you son of a bitch, you better fucking hit. You are now flanking with your brothers to roll with advantage. Oh, okay, good.

That's good. Anyway, okay, great. Uh, that's 25. 25 will do it. Roll damage. Hell yeah. Go ahead on me. 13, 14 points of slashing damage. Shattered bones destroyed.

Nice. Amazing. Incredible. And now we flee. And now we flee. Which means I basically get back to about where I was with them, but that's okay. Yeah, back to where you were. Or maybe I won't clog the hallway.

If I'm really right here, I'll just stand. There you go. What is Dame Ceremi's armor? 15. How many hip boys you got? Ooh. Good question. She has, probably.

The hell, oh here, that is 30. 30. You turn and see, and she doesn't, did she have resistance to necrotic or not? She has immunity to necrotic. Oh, she is, the shadows look at her, reach, go forward to strike and seeing that she is undead like them and in fact their kin,

They simply embrace her, envelop her. They see the blade at her side. On that Nat 20, they welcome her home. And you see that one of them turns to you, Akus in the dark, points to the wall and flashes a sigil of how Sarah am I to you through the air as you see Gaia, begins to go incorporeal,

welcomed home by those ancient members of her family that see her task of punishing her living family as worthy. I'm not alive. Let me clarify, I'm not alive. That is insane. That is such a clutch move, Alex. Unbelievable. We go back, we are going to go back to the top with Fimble. Um, great. I'm gonna go to the secret door.

You rush into the secret door and are off the map. Oh, wait, it's dark in there. It's dark. I'm gonna wait, because I don't got no candle. You have no candle at all. Because I can't see shit. Great, you, you, you, you, you, you wait there. If you'd like, you see that they will be able to chase you through this open door. Okay, I'll go through the door and wait, I guess.

Cool, you go through the door and wait. We'll be right behind you. We'll be right behind you. Great. I might die on the other side. I'm gonna die on the other side. Julian, that is you. Actually, it's just all necromantic energy over there

and you just . I know, I might, that's the thing. Guys, I found it, brach. The one that hasn't been. Like, it might just kill me. Yeah, the one that I damaged last turn, I'm gonna go ahead and try and swing the rapier around, and instead of striking, stabbing it,

I'm gonna take the butt of it down onto its already damaged skull and see if I can break it where it hits the back of the spine. Yeah. Go for it. It's over. That's half. That's gonna be a nice. Nine does not do it. I will use my bonus action to come back around

with my demigotlet as I swing past with this point. I push into it with the shoulder, kind of knock it backwards, and as I do, I bring the gotlet up into its rib cage and towards its skull. That's gonna be better. It's a 17 to hit. With that, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do Savage attacker to roll that.

There we go, it's better. Seven points of bludgeoning damage. The one you already injured? Yes. Shatters apart. All right, looking back towards, You, I'm like, we gotta go. I'm gonna, this guy's right here.

I keep telling me to go. You know this, you know that. Because you're hurt. I'm fine. I'm fine too. I'm just gonna turn. You worry about me. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and you don't know what's in the next room.

Just walk in, there's like 20 race. It could be. I don't put it past them. I feel like it's gonna be bad because he encouraged me to go through it alone. I'm sure. I had to balance this for maybe 13 people being in this tent. Can this this is what you done to us?

So I have 30 feet of movement. Maybe 13 feet. I'm like, there can be 13 people in here. We have no way to know. Yeah. I have 30 feet of movement left still. I'm just balancing the high end. Can I use that to try and,

even if it's a half movement, to try and back up and push Octus further in the hall behind me? Do you want to just pick up Octus? What are you saying? I'm such a slight little boy. It's true. Yeah. I go ahead and fire him and carry him over the shoulder and just try and start running back that way as best I can. I will say, yeah, go ahead and just give me athletics.

You got it. That is not good. I hear than I look. You get his head on the column as you go back. I will spend one of my hit dice to do a second win. Spenditure for Taptical Mind. Go for it. which means I can add.

Did you just say? There we go. So with that, that's gonna be 14. 14. Octus is over your shoulder and you guys move through the door with them. Please, I had so much take to me. What the fuck's happening?

That's you. Sid is going to take a, Sid looks at you and says, should I smash this dude or should we keep run? Smash the dude, Dindra. He's gonna smash the dude. 19 on the die. Here we go.

He shatters this skeleton apart. That's my brother. And goes, let's go. One, three, four, five, six. Okay, great. Rush is down here, and that is going to be Octus. You were carried through by joining on his turn. Technically my turn, when we're on the,

I mean, well, okay, I'll wait for here. By the way, attack of opportunity on you from that skeleton, correct? That is a hit of 23. three points of slashing damage to you. I mean, my turn is my turn, but I'm gone out of the scene, so. Yeah, gotcha. Um, uh, skeleton.

Do I still have command of Ceramai? Yes, you do. Okay. Uh, Ceramai's up there just making a ruckus, and then trying to still draw as much attention as possible in that moment. Like, yeah, but if you, do you want her to follow you into the rest of the dungeon? They can't harm her. Yeah, I think she'll start making her way towards me.

Cool. So no need for a disengage. They can swipe all they like. Five, ten, 15. She takes two points of falling damage just to get extra movement. Tum-a-tom-ass.

20, 25, 30. Fucking zombies. Okay, and Sarah Mize in the hallway with you. Damn, she got some speed. On a dash? Yeah, move and dash and chose to take two damage to not go down the stairs. The corpse fall.

That is going to be spooky scary skeleton. This guy's gonna go, one, two, three, four. How does he know about the secret door? He gets it right next to the door with an opportunity attack on whoever he can. But he's used his movement. Teor, that's you. Okay, I'm gonna run by my brother Sid.

To do-ch-to-to-to-to-to see the skeleton by the door. I'm gonna see and swing away. Yes, that is a 25 to hit. That is a hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Six. 14, 14 points of slashing damage. Destroyed. Skelitons, done.

Shadows are going to go. Sid. Are you? Rushing to Sid here. I'll say to enter the doorway and are going to swing. on Tade. They are standing in the doorway. Sid has two behind him.

They have 40 feet of movement. So these two, I think, let me see, where they were. Yeah, that's 60 feet away because Sarah and I just made it. So they have to use a move and an action to be in the doorway. You guys are filling the door and they can't get past you.

These two are going to take swings on Sid. That is a hit. Sid's strength is reduced by another one. Jeez. And he takes 10. points of damage. And that is going to be,

that's the shadows. We move all the way back to the top, and that's going to be Thimble Julie. It's like all four of you go in a row. And so Sid is going to get one, he's going to disengage, dive through the door. And then once I see Sid, if I can see Sid come through with the candle, I command the door to close.

But, come, come. Okay, and you're through. The door shuts. And you guys look at a long, dark hall, way, you've made it past the doorstep of Oberimus Manor. The doorstep. And that's where we're going to move to our other table. Stand with your grandmother, the Fotark,

at the head of a massive table. She sits in her seat and squeezes your hand reassuringly. You and tyranny to one side of her, your sister Zabani, and your father goddard to the other, blindfolded enormous shoulders. Your father, seeing you enter, turns to you again. Eyes covered. It is good that you have returned, son.

It is wonderful to see you again, Father. I hope I didn't worry you too much. My faith in your return was as steadfast as the ever-gleaming light that animates all. Good talk. Good talk. He stands at attention. Again, look, Zuban the other side of you.

You see that the photarch begins to welcome people in and over the next couple of minutes, and there are many other, the room is filled with probably like a good 30 people or something like that. There's attendant, like high ministers, like high-ranking clergy of the Candescent Creed, are here, and the other houses begin to enter as well. Walking in, you see Lord Otto Einfassen,

his nephew, Sir Harandes Einfossen, his wife, the Lady Cordelia, his sons, Yosephir, and Rune Bram. I'm not going to know all these. And family. Lord Otto turns to you and says, young Lord Helofa, I am happy to see that you have returned, I know that your grandmother was deeply worried. The light greets you in our home, and I'm honored to make your acquaintance.

You hear wind rushing outside and the crackling of fire as purple and red light filled the courtyard, as a meteor seems to streak through the sky. And as it lands, you see the Lord Atacani Cornwall. This is the head of House Cormoray. He is a handsome old man. Rings instead of gems throughout his locks. A deep, dark skin with a tint of red. He has sort of fire at his fingertips.

He has sort of deep orange and then red robes around him, a golden belt. And as he walks forward, you see sort of smiling, sort of smiling. His eyes seem almost tired and serene and happy, as though he has led a wise and contented life. You see that his facial hair, a stately well-groom beard, is filled with far more salt than pepper. As he enters the space you see beside him is a nervous-looking man who's a part of the Cormoray cohort as well. He walks in.

Ah, this is young Wicander, yes. Yes, it is. Hello. Good to see you. A happy belated candle feast. Thank you so much. And of course, we celebrate the holiday of some two days ago as well, which has yet to be named. But I have to imagine, you see, he takes Yinesse's hand and kisses it. I have to imagine that there will be some holy day given the resurrection of the blessed

Fautark. Yes, it is a miracle, really. Mm-hmm. And I'm proud to be a small part of this family. You see that he smiles, takes his seat, and the doors open as Lord Primus Toconis. His two ever so tall twin daughters, Petra and Raya, and his severe, petulant, angry, and muscular son, Ethrin,

enter into the space behind him. You see, a chill moves throughout the space. Looking around, Lord Primus, sees the Einfossin, the Kormoray, the Halavar, the Candescent Creed, and looks to an empty area of the table, putting the ass in Asimar. Looks to an empty, area where a small mat has been placed over the symbol of House Royce.

I believe... Just before it all starts. Is there a tree across the... Is there a tree across the room? Yeah. And can I just see if there's like a snake or a dead body or anything on top of it? You see there is a hail of our gardener saying, some kind of heavy animal slept in this tree.

Okay, but nothing out of the ordinary. My lord, do you want to come take a look? Not now? Should I come back? It's a bad time. All right. Heads off. You see that Lord Primer says,

I believe congratulations are in order to the lady Halevar, her radiance. On her recent resurrection, a magic for the first time belongs to mortals, and mortals alone. And you see that your grandmother, Furtak, says, to those assembled here, please do not applaud. It is not an act of theater to receive a miracle from the light.

If you are moved in spirit and heart, simply meditate on this act in reverence. and I wish for all of you to know why we have gathered here tonight for indeed, you're radiance! You're radiance! And three demons rush into the room with two massive sacks

over their shoulders. And when he says, your radiance, we have captured. Hold on, what's it? But if he's here, see, Agony goes, If he's here, why did we capture this? Oh, and she takes a slip. You see that the photocs says,

aspirants, please assemble behind me. We will get to your business after this important meeting is concluded. And they drop two heavy sacks behind them, one of which drops with a, and the other drops with a, Robbie, what noise would you make when you get dropped? Robbie, come out and join the table, please. I know that, groan.

Do we know that groan? You both recognize that groan. Of course we know that grown. Right away, baby. Just a man in a sack? Ha! I'm just a man in a sack! True minion shit.

We got him. Should have taken that. All right, that's okay. You see that Primus looks out at everyone. So you see Enmity. cruelty and agony, I'll look at you as the Lord sort of hush and talk for a moment, and you see the cruelty goes, wow, we made it back.

Yeah, no thanks to you. Listen, clothes mouths don't get fed. I'm just gonna ask this. Okay. I'm gonna turn to a candor and say, it sounds like some very important businesses going down. Would it be a good idea if I helped my sisters with their sacks.

May I be excused to go help my sisters? You see, they say, this is probably the 20th time I've had to say this. Keep your hands off sacks that aren't yours. You're so rude. We are going to get the credit for this. And you see that, Katagan, you hear everything perfectly.

You're just in, they just got you in that character they put you in a sack. They got you here. You hear Primus Taconas begin to speak, as he says. This meeting has been called at the request of Lord Otto Einfossin, assembling the sundered houses, with an exception, to speak of the events that took place at the Palazzo de Venus, more than a week prior from today.

This meeting has been called by Lord Otto, but I second its calling, for indeed I have questions for the assembled houses here, as to the whereabouts of my son, Octus, missing. Something terrible may have befallen him, and we look for him with all of our fury, trying to answer the same questions you have here. Your little letter, notwithstanding,

you see that Primus gestures to Otto. You see Otto holds up a letter that you see scratched very quickly and says, this letter written by your son, Octus. And you see he says, Primus says, an obvious forgery or Royce fairy trickery of some kind. My son may well be in danger at this very moment. You see Lord Cormoray says,

And he may not be alone, for indeed, Can anyone here explain to me Where my daughter, the Lady Amaria, is? I have sent her to represent our interest in this city, and she has been missing for days. Can you, Primus, explain where she is? You see, Primus looks and says,

I have no business with your daughter, the Lady Cormoray. And you see that Lord Cormoray says, no, then explain this. And you see he shoves a signet ring with a Taconas symbol across the table. And you see that Lord Toconos says, May I inspect this?

You see, the Lord Cornwallay says, we already have a mold of it. We have already cast our spells on it. It is a Tacona's signet ring. And you see that Lord Primus takes it, looks at it, and furrows his brow, and says, I'm at loss, Lord Comray. I recognize this as a Tacona's signet ring,

and I think I know who it belongs to, but I, uh, Belair. Across from you walking through the doors is the lady Amaria Dason Cormoray. Oh. She walks in and you see that your grandmother looks out and goes, Lady Comeret, she says,

apologies, apologies, all, apologies for my delay. Father, hello, he goes, Amaria, where have you, how did you not say it to? She says, it is a long story, father. But, suffice it to say, my arcane endeavors embroiled me in a place between worlds. I'll explain more later. Yeah, go ahead.

As a student of the light, yes. Can I note, do I notice if there's any flickers of illusory magic around her? I'm very specifically looking for exactly what I would expect to find. You look at her Bulleer. Give me an insight check if you'd be so kind. I am doing my best to only make the faces at her that everyone else is making,

especially lower down the totem bowl, so to speak. I hate that phrase. Insight check? I'm freaking the fuck out. Okay. She was in a box! I rolled Nate. You rolled Nate. She was in a box.

On an eight insight, Give me deception with disadvantage. Oh, no. What? Okay. Can I, if I'm close enough, I don't know how this works story-wise, but I would love to get rid of that disadvantage.

Okay, yes, you do. Okay. Give me deception. 23. 23. You see that she does not observe you looking at her. You look at her and you see a woman who should be in a box.

she's not in the box. She's here at the table. She's not in the box, Boler. Cool. That's really bad. That's so bad. It's really bad. I really, really put her in the box.

I'm going to sack. No, sorry. I'm not going to say it. I think Polaro, going back through your mind, there have been times where the box was unattended. And I think that your mind goes to that as just, okay, okay, something, you can get to the bottom of this. She's not looking at you.

She doesn't know that. You are who you are. No. Why would she? You see that Otto looks at Primus and says, so you are saying that this letter is forgery. You are claiming it as such. And you see that Primus says,

I believe it to be so. Einfarzen says, well, it is a forgery. I have deduced it myself, not to mention it was confirmed as such. Erinessa Royce, who was a guest in my castle, and Sir Julian Davinos, and the lady Taisha Loy. You see, your grandmother turns to you, Wick, and goes, Wicke, Tyshaloy, that's your friend Hal Fang's partner, yes? I believe so, yes. She was with a Davinos night in, in Reilly. recent girdle? Oh, in recent girdle? I don't know her whereabouts in the past week. I was with...

That's all right. Make a mark of that. I wish to discuss it with you afterwards. That is very... We should keep an eye on Miss Loy. Of course. She seemed super shady. You see, so Otto says, it is already a man. of fact that House Royce did not vanish into fairy, Lord Primus. So who is responsible for that ghostly gala at the Palazza de Vinos? You see, the Primus is looking off balance. He says, well, perhaps they were, perhaps at the inside

there was an assassination attempt. Perhaps they were a part of it. A part of it. You see, he goes, you are not going to convince me that Aronessa Royce kidnapped herself and destroyed one of her vassal houses. There was an empty gala

the night after what is alleged to be a massacre at the Palazzo de Vinos. Who created the false gala, Primus? It is known. Primus looks out. The gnome.

And you see that Otto looks out and says, I beg your pardon, Lord Primus, I am not being questioned here. This attempted deception, this false gala, which you are responsible for, and I remind you, we are not in a court of law. I do not need to convince a judge or jury. Your biggest problem, Lord Primus, is that I am convinced. So, perhaps we can refurb. from rejoining with interrogations of your interrogators,

Lord Primus. This deception, Roy's venturing back to Ferry, is a betrayal of the alliance of the Sundered Houses. Primus speaks. This is the, I will, doing scenes where I talk as a million people, makes my brains go. It's great. It's great.

Do you want a different hat for each character? Different hats. Lord Primus turns out, anyone who wants to give me an insight to check? Can't believe. Sure. 14. 21.

Oh. Primus is furious. The jig is up. You guys can read that the jig is up. But on 21, Wick, he's still smirking like a cat. You see, he goes, Every member of this council has spoken, whispered in shadows to one another

that Royce's time has long been up. Are we here to pretend that the diminishment of their magic, their inability to hold up their corner of this alliance, they're withering on the vine of their blighted orchard, We have been speaking for years, my lords and Lady Halevar, of the need to cut the Royce fruit from the tree of our alliance. We had been delaying and delaying. They were a miserable shadow, wretched in their absence of magic.

Aranesa, that fool, married a man who slaughtered members of all our families, and had neither the sense nor decency to have him killed when she could. House Taconas simply did what you were all too weak to do, and we knew we could not rely on your aid, so we took matters into our own hands. You should be grateful that yet again your precious storied heritages

rest on the bedrock wrought for you by House Taconas, or indeed only one house of our alliance continues to see its power grow and grow in his shadows lengthened behind him. We are stronger. We took the initiative. We will do whatever it takes that our alliance thrive.

Otto looks at him and says, is that why you murdered your son? Anyone who wants to give me insight? Practically constantly. That's cocked. Not good. Not good. Not 20.

Not 20. Ethrin looks out as they accuse Primus of murdering Octus, and you can see the guilt on his face, and you see the lady Amaria whip her eyes over to Etherand, and you know that she knows. Primus looks at Otto. You put much faith in a scrolled letter and the babbling testimony. of some what, and you see that Primus takes out some sheets of paper to review this, this, what, this testimony of some revolutionary guardsman who experienced a hallucination investigating the Palazzo,

probably a drunkard, my son is still out there. Otto says, only the testimony of one of the city's finest arcane inspectors, the letter of your son written in his hand, perhaps it is a forgery. So the matter could be concluded here. You destroyed Royce out of impatience with this alliance, the fact that we like to do things in a way that is,

I don't know, careful and reasonable. This letter from your son of forgery, just like the one you sent to us in recent girtle to arrest the Divinos caravan. It's all fine. Is that all? Primus, is that all? Primus looks a long, long time.

Yes, my Lord Ein Fasen. She, the lady, Halevarlavar looks over you. Yannas looks at you, Wick, and goes, This is a good one. You see that Lord Einfossen goes, then that is all. Behind him, the Archmage Colstern, the woman in black robes with red pardron,

steps forward, reaches into a satchel, and puts the most beautiful black candle you've ever seen right on the center of the table, covered in silver. Oh, shit. Everybody, roll me insight with advantage. Not 20. Tyranny, some people. Tyranny, you see Primus is about to vomit.

He's terrified. On that 20, he is, everything is falling apart around him as he looks at the candle. My Lord Taconis, do you recognize this? You see, Lord Cormoray says, Primus, you seem very ill. What is it you see here? Otto stands up.

I have long felt the withering gaze of House Toconis, the house of death. But you are not the house of death. You are the house of the dead. I wish for you to know that. in the long history of this world, your aesthetic enthusiasm for dead things

does not make you the most dangerous man in this room and the foundations of the earth shake underneath him. Strength, my Lord Tacones, has killed many more than whimpering around

a graveyard. He said just because your got doesn't mean you're tough. You can't get it. You see, cut down. You see he goes, you murdered your son to turn him into a celestial abomination. I invite those proficient castors of the house of Cormoray

to investigate this spell component. Its magic is used up. but it has been reconstituted. Tell us if we are wrong. Insight check just to make sure that this is true. Give it, yeah, go for it. Yeah, please, just, I know. No, I know it is.

I had a moment of panic. Never mind, that's a 12. 12. You see it, it's all happening. Yep, okay. He goes, you would have raised one of your family in the fallen absence of the God of the Son. To do what?

To fail the golden orchard? Divy up its prizes for you. give you up its prizes for yourself. And I suppose when you had this ultimate weapon, you would have stopped there, yes? Would you like to lie again in front of me? You see that Primus goes, sincere to the assembled lords and lady of this table.

My lady, Halifar, I wish to submit to a spell of truth. Grandma looks at you, Wick, shrugs, and casts a zone of truth over Primus that he willingly submits to. Okay. It was never my intention to slaughter any who sit now at this table. He says, the creation of this weapon, the Deva Vindicta.

The window has closed. We were running out of time. We completed the ritual and perhaps the last day we could have. It is no longer a threat. What was our plan? Seventy years ago, everyone at this table kneeled to the royal house of Obradai. All of us, vassal houses, myself and Halevar descend from the priests of that empire. And all of you, though you fought against the gods and the shapers warrior,

Your ancestors all knelt. Many of you only have your lands because your ancestors did kneel to the kings of Obridemia. For 70 years, we have been without empire. And in those 70 years, we bicker and quarrel, react, overreact, make mistakes, Royce, quarrels with Einfassen, Einfassen with Cormoray. Seventy years ago, we had an emperor.

I speak truth to you now. My plan with the Deva Vindicta was the same as always. You see that he reaches into his cloak and manifests something from a small pocket of shadow dimension and drops a series of plans on the table. Grenade. Can protect you. Western Telmora, he fans the pages out.

Western Telmora to the Einfosson, Eastern Telmora to the Cormoray. The Golden Orchard moved from its price, proximity to the closed doors of Ferry, into the Tenebral reaches for use by my family, and Yenessa, the raising of Talmora's Druid groves, plenty of real estate to build cathedrals. We are true allies to all of you here. The Deva Vindicta was not meant to slaughter you. It was meant to make you kneel. And you see that the Lord's look around at each other at this, Admission, he says,

Taconas is not strong enough on its own, not without Einfassen, not without Cormoray, nor Halevon. We were to make you kneel. The vindictor would have been our winning gambit in the game that we all play in here. Lord Ironfosson, how goes the search for the Yotinox? And you see that, Otto's eyebrows shoot up. My lord Cormoray, I understand that your grant

the Penteverell has gone through. Congratulations. I heard there was some celebration at the old Callistra Quarries. And you see Lord Cormoray drums, his finger on the table, and you see that he looks right at Yanesa and says,

and I'm glad you're well, Lady Halavar. Terrible case of Bellow's fever going around, wouldn't you say? He looks over at you, Tyranny, and says, and of course, your wonderful aspirants, how exceptional that these demons are here because they have been saved. The Dave of Vindictor was a winning move. A winning move in a game that you will not deceive me.

We are all playing. You might be angry that we almost won, but we did not. You have my apologies for the direct lie of the Royce Gala. But let us not pretend that the old throne of Obrademia does not call to each and to you. every lord and lady in this room. We work best together, for there are two games being played here. The game in this room, and he points, and the game out there. They're playing too. All of them are playing out there. If we had won and made you kneel as vassal houses of the new royal house of Taconas,

you would have ruled over every single mortal in creation, save a single family that you would kneel to. Vast millions at your feet, and but a handful to whom you would be answerable. If they win, meanest oaf, the lowest beggar, the most mud-caped simpleton will be your equal. you will be above no one. They will bury you in their dirt and call it freedom.

If I am bested in our little game here by someone in this room, you have my word, I will applaud you. And serve as House Taconas did serve for centuries. We cannot take our eyes of them out there. Or did you not hear the Lady Royce's late husband and what he can still hear. You see, the Fotark looks up and says, Theazi Fang,

you pushed so hard for his death, my Lord Tuchonis. The candle requires still a great degree of noble blood to be spilled. We knew that if the Ozzy was to die, the Lady Aranesa would come running to save him. We needed it to not be a death in private, but one with a trial and a hanging, such that she would have time to make her way to Dolmachia.

We fed the information to the Royce that we were looking for Octus, thinking they might find him where we could not. And they took him to their home. Duvino's was an improvisation, but wherever the Lady Royce and Oct. just first met I would have been waiting in the shadows, or enough of Aranesa's retainers to speed the Deva's journey to the underworld. That is the sum total of it. I've told you all I can.

Your wrath is just, consider as always, my lords and lady, not what your heart might tell you in its consternation and fury. advances the interests of your house. Petra and Ryas stand up behind him. We have much to discuss, my lords and lady, of the Revolutionary Council and its weakness following the assassination attempt on the Timinish King.

There have been heated words exchanged, not make a decision tonight. Let us calm ourselves and let a feast for you as a token of our apologies. and you see that Petra and Raya begin to lead some of the lords and ladies out of the room. Primus and Yanesa are staying here.

You see that Primus is staying. He's just looking grossing Yinesa and Yenessa looks up at you. What do you think of that? Well, I think he made some excellent points. You know, working together does have a nice ring to it. spirit of brotherhood and what have you?

Um, Bollaire. You see the lady Cormoray gets up from the table with her father and they exit from here together. There is, we are not alone enough for me to cast any kind of spell in here safely. Not in here, very crowded.

But she is leaving. I, you were just sort of sitting there, aren't you? I'm just talking to Grandma. I am going to to very quietly make my way across the room just a bit while you're talking to Grandma, and I'm going to see where they're going, and try and just listen in to see if anything is said

between the two of them as I walk behind them. You see that, give me a perception check. No, 11. 11. You just hear her saying like halfway somewhere the tenebral reaches, but perhaps fairy or something like that. I was able to meet several enchanters, of a house that I did not recognize, but,

and that's all you get. I have no idea if this is going to work. There's no reason for me to think it would. This is shot in the dark. I'm going to back down, close my eyes, and I'm just going to go into that weird liminal void inside myself and just ignore whatever that terrible woman's doing. Are you there?

I was about to get my break. My big break! I make a terrible blinding spotlight drop upon her in the void. The light tells you to be silent, and I make it go away again. Is it you? Are you there? Are you using telepathy in this moment? Inside me? Inside you. Who are you trying to speak to?

I'm trying to speak to my sister to see if maybe, I don't know if this is private, I don't know if this is a public place, this is a thing I found way later. The lady Amaria is speaking to her father here. You cast out. Are you using some magic to cast out and say that? Or no? Not yet. You're just saying it with your voice?

I'm saying it inside. I went into the point inside my head, and I'm saying it into the void inside my head because I'm just in the vain hope that we share it. I don't know if we would. I don't understand how it works. You see the lady Amaria cock and eyebrow. Reach around.

And you see that she suddenly looks up, Lady Amaria makes direct eye contact with you. Oh, boy. I bow and head. She holds up a finger like this and says, and says, Father, I think that you're, I think you're wanted over there. She turns to look at you as you're exiting and goes,

shit. Says, excuse me, and trails after you. I have no reason to believe she's talking to me yet, I assume. No, she's calling for you. Oh, you would definitely know. I would definitely know. She's like, she's like, excuse me, young lady. Yeah, young ladies?

Hi, I was wondering if I could ask you for a small decanter of tea or, and you see that she whips around a column, grabs you and pulls you with her and goes, I'm having such a good time. And she kisses you on the mouth and says, they don't know what I know and I know the things that can we talk and how are you alive? What is this?

Brother. And she snaps her head so it's hanging upside down off her torso and she goes, and we're making each other more powerful. This is new. Termino, this is wonderful news. But it's been a very long time and we have to discuss where we are

and our mission, you do remember the mission, don't you? Yes, yes, yes, yes. And what happens when they're immortal? I was the last one. You were, you did so well. Is she dead? Is the goddess? I don't get to do it anymore.

Well, that's not necessarily true. I fear that there are a few of these mortals that are reaching for godhood themselves. And she misty steps out of there. What the hell? She was never very good at listening. What the thing? Termina. Termina. Termina, the vessel of nothing, of no thing.

Termina. It's way better than . Belair, you're staring at a column, and somewhere in the distance, you hear Hatakhani go, where is my daughter gone? And we are gonna move back into the chamber with you guys. Sure. Fotark, Fotark, tyranny. You see this, Fotarch, says, I should stay here and speak with, Deconis.

With your father and Zabani, I'm going to speak to the Lord Primus alone. Are you sure he seems not trustworthy? She says, Lavi, I'm not afraid of Primus Togales. You want us to go talk to Father and Sabani? Yeah, it's all right. You see that your sisters go, if the meeting's over, we got this guy in a bag. Fucking leit! Look at me!

You fuck! Perhaps we should go just get whatever that is out of here. I did say I seek counsel with my sisters. I can go help them with whatever errand they were on. It seems significant to them. You see that she looks out over at them, and you see that the other demons here, the other aspirants look over and say,

what is it, tyranny? What do you want? I can help you. We don't need your fucking help. Yeah, you clearly do. No, actually, you really, really. No, we actually did our job. We actually did it really good this time.

Yeah, this time, what about the other time when you were supposed to come and get me after we were kidnapped? Think that maybe you need my help. If I may, it is one of our tenants to work together in unity and spirit. Family comes first. Give me a persuasion check. Easy. That's caught.

Well. Easy. Easy. 12. You see your sisters gather around Cadigan and Wolfrick and snarlet you, the Fotart turns around and says, this must stop right now.

You three wait here silently in the corner. Wakanda, would you like to remain for this conversation between I and the little or do you wish to take yourself in tyranny and speak to your father and Zivani? If I'm to be a representative of this family, I need to know all the ins and outs of what's going on here and I would prefer to stay.

Very well. Aspirant tyranny, please keep an eye on your sisters. This is their first success and it's gone to their heads. Yes, so dark. You see that she turns to Primus, Primus sort of waiting and glowering the corner. Primus says, my, my, if you could can wrap this up with the demons.

I prefer for them not to be present while we're speaking. You see that she says, show me what you've got, and Kattegan, you and Wolfrick are dumped out of the bags here. Let me know how long it would take us or for me to eventually between this conversation. I know I was doing shit. Yeah, I think you'll come back in a second.

Perfect. You and Wolfrick are dumped out. Cadigan. Cadigan, withander, tyranny, her three sisters. The sisters, you're like thrown on the ground, and cruelty goes, oh, dirty man, we got you in the carriage. Yeah, yeah, real fucking clever. Stuff me in a sack, get me while I'm vulnerable.

Am I bound? You're probably manacled, yeah. You see the photarch says, Mr. Vale, you need not lie any further. Fuck, man, I'm just trying. She turns and says, This man came and lied to me in audience the other day, along with Hal and Yilfang, Taisha Loy.

Is he an associate of Teor Pride Sire? The fact that he lied to you is not surprising to me. He is a vermin. He's done nothing but lie since I came in contact with him. It disappoints me, though, that he is with Hal and Taisha. Belair, you reenter along with Petra and Rai. Dacoconos who walk in. You see that...

He fought alongside Teor in the torn banner. As a matter of fact. I understand. You were part of the attempt to lead astray my grandson. Never do this. Can I insight check? Yeah. No, for me. Insight him, and you can give me deception or persuasion.

I'm trying to persuade him with my eyes to just kind of go with this man. I don't know if I'm picking up on your signals or not. I got a 26 persuasion. 20s persuasion. Mathematically impossible. That's a foie. Yeah.

So Cadigan can feel whatever he wants to feel. You see that the photarch says, a wicked and dimmed man, I understand my grandson. Very well. Aspirants. Please take Mr. Vale and his wolf to to my son, Sir Haylevar, and take him to the tailor shop. And, what's that?

You see they pick him up and begin to lead him out of the room. With tyranny or? Am I a part of this? Would you like, you had an 11 persuasion so your sisters are pissed at you, they don't want you to come, but the photo, and the Fotarch said you should remain with Wakander,

but it's up to you, you can attempt to follow them if you'd like. She did say to look after my sisters, so, Oh, she did. I'm gonna go with them. You go with them. Hey, what's a tailor shop? That's some kind of joke?

Because I got shitty clothes. Fuck you, what's a tailor shop? As the demons drag a manacled catigan and a bound Wolfrick out of the room, wrath judgment to enormous hounds snarl at Wolfrick. Volonius Halivar looks down and says, A little falcon for the tailor shop. Good, good.

And they pull you out of the room. Cadigan, you look across the room. It's just Wick and his grandmother left in here, along with his attendant Lux. Cross the table, Petra and Raya, and their father, their father, their father screams in the cabin.

You see the face of the sorcerer. He gazes at you with no knowledge of who you are or the long years of your life. You spent searching for this shadow. You level up. And that's the end of this episode. Oh! I feel like that's going way worse.

Oh my gosh. It still can. It still can. It still can. I'm positive. I'm positive. very positive. This was really just the emotionally beat the shit out of Cadigan episode.

I know where we're going. Oh, come on, man. We're looking guys. We'll get into it in the cool down, folks. If you're not heading over to the cool down, you're only getting half the story. What does it say on Bravo? Folks, the important thing is this, is it Thursday yet? Yes, we do.

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