High Rollers DnD - Breakers of the Curse | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #118 (Part 2)

Episode Date: September 17, 2026

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but they carefully maneuvered around that issue, having conversations with Lord Obsidious and Sister Malady, and then private conversations. Zanthius and Faria, gruff, and Ophelia, heartfelt conversations, revelations of the past. But now we awake, a new morning, midday, in fact. I think that there would be at some point a few hours before you all awaken from your rest. Assuming Alejandro probably would have stayed in, like, Rowan's room,

or saying as Rowan seems to be looking after him. But also Farrier, I don't suppose he really has. has, he would just have to like rush up to the room, but a frantic sort of knocking and, uh, on your door, Xanthias. Oh, I, God, I slept in, I slipped in. We need to go, I can't say it triggered. It did?

Yes, I felt it. Well, I felt something happened. Like the, the war that the sister put on me, it's gone. Oh, okay. It protects you from the pain as well. That's so good. It seemed to negate the trigger, but I don't know how much time we have that. Okay, okay.

Cobolds, bring some bells. Get everyone awake. Ring, ring, ring, ring. So, yeah, there is an alarm sent. Yeah, basically, you're all woken up. Alejandro doesn't seem more with it this morning. You don't think he's slept. Alejandro, are you awake?

Yeah, yeah. Yes, awake, yes. Yes, awake. Great. We're going to solve this tattoo problem right now. A tattoo, a tattoo, please. Oh, sorry, no. Not again, no, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no, no. Begins, like, just shaking back and forth. I'll just be caretaking. Yeah, you kind of guide him downstairs. Where are you doing this? How is it taking place? It's going to the fucking plaza, yeah.

Lady Amberst's bedroom. Boudoir. Where that big bath is? Let's do it in Aljax room. Yeah. Well, I guess the main, where did they see us last night? In like a lounge. It's kind of like a lounge room, basically.

I probably, sure. Okay. Yes. Benedicta basically drag sofas out the way to make room because this is going to require some space. Verithira, Lady Verithera will also appear. I do not know what is happening, but I gather from last night's events that something occurred and at least one of your friends here

carries Crownsteer. Who's in the room? You guys, basically, systemality, Benedicta. That's it? Yes. I gathered as much from Eldraq's reaction. You really should not have brought him here. It is, with my sincerest apologies, Lady Verithere.

He was very quick to act, and that has helped a lot, but it could have been very bad. It was a great oversight on my heart. I understand, but... On all of our parts, Griffith. Yes, but... You did also react quickly. I'm glad that you recognized what was happening.

If you had not, I think if that, if you there, sir, looks at Faria, had drawn closer to Sir Eldrach, it would have been very bad. What are you doing this morning? What is this? We are hoping to remove a tattoo from Faria. Tattoo?

Simple enough process, but magically charged. Cursed. Cust. Cue you like a flick-for-switch kind of tattoo, unfortunately. Ah, I see. Is there something I can do to assist you? I am going to need to cast greater restoration. I would feel a lot happier about it if you're about to at least watch.

And if I make a mistake, assist or step in. Yes, I can help with that, yes. Yes, I think that our magics are quite aligned. So I should be able to assist you. Lady Verithier, given your experience with Sir El Drac, are you able to remove Crownsteer? Remove the corruption, or remove, like, with... I know that Zantia's it embedded?

Physical pieces of Crownsteer, yes. Is it protected like yours? No. No. It is just physically embedded. This is possible, yes. May I see? Farrier looks to you, like, can I trust...

Is this okay? You can trust them. Pulls off the gaunt and shows his forearm with the shards. Ah, yes. Give me a moment. She seems like to be stealing her mind. Yes. This is possible.

I can help extract these pieces, but the corruption, much like Sir Eldrach, it will be very difficult. Once the crown steel is extracted and you begin to suffer the withdrawal, the corruption must be purged from you. This is a... painful and difficult process.

But it is possible, like with Sir Eldrach. But your friend would need to be in isolation, solitude, would need much time to heal and recover, like Sir Eldrak has. I'm like... It would not be as extreme, but... Pulling myself away from Farrier as well to not look at his arm or anything like that,

as much I can. Weirdly, don't feel particularly. by that crown still. You don't feel the same compulsions that you've had in the past. Hmm, okay. In that case, I want to lick his arm. No.

Um, it's, uh, well, Tharie was hoping to leave as quickly as possible, unfortunately, but you know what's best? If you wish to leave, I can take you somewhere to recover, if that is what you wish. It is important that we cleanse you of this sickness, and we remove it.

this metal from you. It should not, we should, you know, this should be done. It is in your best interests, young men, to have this done and have this removed. But the recovery, I will not sugarcoat it. It will be difficult. Whatever it takes, I just want to get rid of this stuff. I don't want any part of this anymore. If you get rid of this tattoo, I want the crown still gone, destroyed, whatever. I don't care what happens to it after that. Just get it away from me. Is there anything you might need or require for that process from us? No, no. It will be much like Sir El Drac.

It would take time and my healing magics. But the most important thing is to the removal of the crown steel will be like a surgery. It will not be as life-threatening as with you as it is only in the arms, but it will need to be careful to make sure that we maintain as much of the use of them as possible. But yes, I think just time and recovery. Okay, and as for this tattoo room, I will follow your, what you are doing, Grafeth. And if I can help, I will help. Thank you.

Okay. Malady has laid out, Benedict has moved the sofas out. You see, Malady has placed ritual candles, has, you know, begun the preparations, like, almost like a magic circle. This is not entirely necessary, but I do find but it helps to control the errant manner and essence that may be in the environs.

I think that everything is ready. Graff, obviously, in the night, the cobbles have given you the stuff that you ordered, so you have the diamond dust. Was it 500? 500. 500, okay. Yeah.

So this will basically take all of the diamond dust you currently have. Oh! Because you had 200 diamond dust previously. You asked for 300 more, I believe. Okay, yeah, so 500 total. Yes. So this will use all of it. So it's just one.

Alejandro or Ferrier, so it's Farrier. Allow me to double check. It is 100 for greater restoration. Yes, this is a special version of Greater Restoration. It's like I said. It's why it's being cast as a ritual as well. You're basically empowering a Greater Restoration to greater heights to break through.

Because greater restoration can normally break a curse. This is more than just a regular curse. This is a quite complex, engineered curse, and therefore it requires more power. So the diamond dust is to cover that. Did they also get me my 1,000 GP scrying thing? You have your scrying device. Nice.

That's not consumable. No, that's not. Every single fact. But it can be destroyed or lost, for example. It's important that we keep track of it and where it is and how it's being looked after and stuff. Forgive me for asking, is there a chance that they may need to be restrained at any point during this? From what I have gathered in my conversations, I did briefly speak with Lord Obsidius as he seemed to have knowledge of this ritual.

I don't believe that they will need to be restrained, but anything could happen, Sister Ophigio, perhaps having you and Benedict here will be useful should that become necessary. But there are ways that others can assess, but ultimately it is... In this case, I would use the term primary spellcaster, which I believe would be Gruffeth, who will be responsible for controlling the ritual. We can assist with it, we can help progress the ritual, but also we can assist with knowledge and expertise to help guide it, to make it easier to progress with.

But as I understand it, failure has great consequence. We will not have many chances to make errors. No, absolutely. But I can ward them against that again, if needed. I fear Xanthius, whilst the ritual is in place, casting death ward upon them will disrupt the ritual. As it is interfering with the flow of the magics, I would advise against casting death what once it has begun.

Right. This is a great risk. Yes, absolutely. There are no safety nets or measures. You wish to undo this incredibly complex curse. It is not without its dangers. Okay, what do you need us to do? Well, Gruffeth, you know this ritual.

You know the spell. Yes. Imagine you will elongate it. rather than it being a single burst of healing magic and unraveling of curses and foul magics, you will have to stretch it out. It will take several attempts to do this. Gather around.

Even Daisy Xanthius, I believe that you will be able to assist in some way, even if it is merely helping your companions with their efforts. For Xanthias, I should advise you, as this is gruffeth, as the person, primary spellcaster, this will draw on primal magics, magics of the land, magics of the spirits. I will be able to assist with this thanks to my, well, as I've told you, my fay nature, the pact my parents made long ago. And I believe Lady Verathera's magic is also very primal in nature. But yourself, Ophelia, you will not be able to assist magically with this. Or if you do,

you will find it challenging. Yes. Rowan, you are an interesting one. Your magic is both Marquane and Primal at the same time. You may be able to assist, but it may not be to your strengths. I can at least make emboldened you. Yes, yes. With inspiration.

You absolutely can, yes. You can help in many ways. I mean just looking upon you as an inspiration and it's awful. Oh. Rowan blushes. Right. So, once you begin the ritual, all right, this is O-C mechanics. Okay.

Let's go. Once you begin this ritual, if you stop it, the ritual is wasted, you lose the diamond dust, the spell ends. Okay. Right? So once you begin it, that's it. Either complete it or you lose it entirely. You cannot cast, if you cast any other spells on the subject,

it disrupts the ritual and you lose it. Yeah. Right? The way this is going to work is Gruff will be the primary spellcaster. You will need to achieve eight successes. Oh my God. of spellcasting checks. So this would be a straight wisdom for Gruff.

Now, because that's your spellcasting ability. The DC will start low. Every time you succeed, the DC increases. Other people can attempt to progress the ritual by making the same check as Gruff, a wisdom spellcasting check. You do not want me. They can progress it.

They use the original DC and have their own personal increases. So for every person, it gets harder and harder than more they do it. Others, allies, can help progress the ritual, like Gruff. Gruff. You'll need to do this basically every time. Like, you need to do this once every round of everybody doing something, right? The rest of you can aid another, which is you tell me how you're going to help. Maybe you'll need to make a role for it, and then you'll give a boost to the person, right?

can be creative with it. For example, like, you could say, like, can I use perception to notice any changes in, like, the manner or the spell itself and warn them that it might be going wrong? Something like that. Spells and other features can be used as normal, so Bartak Inspiration, stuff like that. You just do that on your turn as normal. So that's not disruptive? If it's not used on the subject. As long as you don't use anything on Farrier, it's fine, but you can't cast stuff on Farrier. Or include him and AEOEs. Spells? I would say anything, any kind of magical effect.

Don't cast a sword. You can use physical. Yeah, so like your runes, for example. That's right, yeah. Okay. Won't help. So that's kind of like the basic it. If you get too many failures,

you will trigger the tattoo's response. It's not one failure and you're done, but it is less than the amount of successes you need. I'm not going to tell you how many. I mean, it used to be two. Well, I'm not going to tell you what this. Um, fate. Tattoo.

Fate. Mm-hmm. You guys can grant fate to an MPC. Okay. You can only do it once per MPC. So if you'd like, you can say, like, we want Lady Verithere to use a point of fate, and she'll add a point of fate.

She can only do that once. Cool. That's it. I can spend fate to add complications. Oh, cool. Nice. You get successes. Yeah.

So might not necessarily make it harder. It might be that, like, you know, there might be something that happened. Awesome. All right. Okay. So, when you are ready, it begins with Gruff making a wisdom spellcasting role.

Wisdom spell casting. So... It'll be just D20 plus your wisdom modifier. Not saving throw, just straight modifier. Straight modifier, so plus five. I'm going to give you Bardick now. Yeah? That's one and done, isn't it?

I will. Yeah, when you spend it, it is. I can recast it, though, every round. And how many uses of it? do you have? 200,000? Nope. Nope. Keep scroll, I think it's like four. Okay, well just keep that in mind. That's how many you've got?

I believe it's your proficiency. I've got some boxes somewhere I can tick. Sure. So it's just my straight out, it's not like spell attack. It's like put your four. No, just D20 plus what the ability use for spellcasting, which for you case is wisdom. So it's just D20 plus spellcasting, modified. And a D.

You got five plus five. That's. Good thing. I boosted my whizzy. Yeah, and a little shovel up, yeah. Okay, I will do this first roll straight up. Okay, so, Rowan, is this like Rowan playing music? What is this blind of inspiration?

What's the form of it? Rowan goes over Gruff, because his hands on Gruff's shoulders. Okay. And he's already crying. Gruff, you are the best of us, and I know I have every faith in you, but just in case, I'm going to play a little ditty on the side

to embolden you and hopefully it reminds you of ice heart. Right, something relaxing please. Oh, okay. I was going to do a battle theme. Oh, please no. I'll do a fishing theme. Okay, I'm intrigued us to know what...

Ambiance. Call it low thigh. Just run with a rod. Yeah. 24 hour. Area stands in the center of the circle. You see Malady.

close her eyes, the circle begins to glow gently. She begins to just channel ambient essence and manner into the room. Lady Verathera, her tall, sort of eight and a half foot tall dragon form with her antlers, antler-like horns, she breathes out and you notice that like everything begins to grow, it's like verdance to it, like flowers and things begin to bloom around her in a small circle, and she begins to channel her own magic. Would you like to cast greater restoration is this part of this ritual. He looks at Farrier. I will do the very best I can do by you, boyo.

Thank you. I'm dead either way. But thank you. Natural 20. Oh shit. Yes, mate. That's the one though, that's the one. I'm looking forward to the other seven. 25 if you can. What, a start.

Fuck, yeah. The ritual begins. This is a spell that you know well, and with a brief instruction for Melody, you begin to get an essence, a sense of what she was talking about. Yes, because this isn't, if you just blast this tattoo and try and strip away the cars, you know it will trigger it. So this has to be subtle. This is water eroding away at the stone slowly, drip by drip. Taking apart, you can see, almost see, for you it would almost look like vines, dozens, hundreds, thousands, thousands, thousands, thousands of them all interwoven into a lattice around this symbol on Farriers in the middle of its back.

And you have to be very careful about which vines you clip away. Because if you clip the wrong ones or clip too many at once, or it could completely unravel this thing. And so you have to do this slowly. And as you do so, those vines begin to bloom. And you know that those are other parts of this spell, this enchantment, this curse. that are beginning to sense that it's being altered and you have to kind of deal with those,

prune them, shrink them. And so it becomes this ongoing thing. I'm going to spend a point of fate on that success. I will say I'm granting you two successes for a natural 20. I am going to spend a point of fear on a complication. And that complication is going to be the next progress role must be made by someone else as you are having to focus on almost

counterbalancing all these extra parts of this vine, this bloom, if you don't deal with them right now, this is going to unravel. But that means you don't have the time and the magical energy to actually work unraveling that maze of vines. So, don't worry, I got it. Is it random or is it? It is simply somebody else must make the next progress role.

So to progress the ritual. Be Lady Veri Veriathera. You could ask Lady Veri Thera, or you can ask systemality to do it. I will need you to specifically ask them or let me know that you want them to try. I'm going to say that Groff is too focused on this right now. No, and I think that that's fair.

The rest of you can, as I said, you can try and offer aid, you can try and offer help. You can attempt to make the progress roles yourself. Remember, every person who tries it, the DC is at the lowest point on your first attempt. I mean, if we're to mitigate this, I've got a plus two whizzy wars. I've got minuses.

I'm not wise. Out of us. You do have Malady and Beretheir? Malady, what's your wisdom stat? I mean, Verretheir is probably the... They're both going to be very good. Yeah. Once we've used them, that could be it.

It could be, depends on if I... We could grant them fate as well, though. I think we use them when it's harder. Just in case we can't use them again. Does that make sense? True. So are you saying that you want Rowan to make one? while it's lower.

Yeah, and it's going to be an out 20, so we don't have to worry about it. No, we don't have to worry. No. You have three points of fate as well. How is Faria looking? He seems fine for now. There's not much change.

You can see that the air is beginning to fill with little kind of like dust motes of light of manner as gruff is concentrating. You can see Graff is concentrating very, very hard. The flowers that are starting to bloom up, are they... This is not physical. No. You can't see these flowers.

This is purely like in gruff as he's... working the spell. Okay. And anybody who is, anybody who starts working on the spell, they will see the same thing. Right, okay. But physically there's no flowers, no, there's no, anything like that. Alright.

This is all, this is to represent the type of magic that Gruff is using to unravel it. Okay. If this were being done in an arcane way, it would look completely different. Okay. Could polymorph you into a bee? No.

As again, these are not physical flowers. I'm joking. So, what's the plan? Is anybody doing anything before, Rowan? before Rowan? I'm willing to step up. I think you're the most whiz-was friendly option. I'm...

Mr. Average Whizzy. A slightly above average, actually. It's a 15. It's a plus two, so. Do you want to use fate? We have faith. Again, I feel like we're eight stages, right? Yeah, you're right, you're right.

We don't know what... You can also try and use our skills to eight, Rowan, as allies around. Are the windows and the curtains still open? I think Malady would have shut them. She'd shut them, okay. I think she's probably shut them.

Cool. Okay, Farah, if anything changes, you let us know immediately. Just try and stay still. It looks like everything is going well so far though. Seven. I don't know if the DC's that low. Oh, oh. Rowan, you begin to tune in, that primal connection

that you've sensed through your magic. You begin to adjust the song that you're playing, and you try and tune in, and you can now see, but it's hazy, it's faint, it's flickering, you can't see it in the clear way that Gruff can, and you reach out to try and help, but you can see Gruff is so concentrated

on trying to do what he can, and you snip, and a whole bunch of this vine unravels, and it turns into writhing snakes that kind of lash out. Farras, like, I felt something. Sorry, sorry.

It's the second time I felt this party in a day. And Ron steps back. Uh, is there any other effect of that? You didn't succeed, so I'm not gonna spend a complication on it. Okay. That's me. One of the failures? It can be, unless anybody else would like to do.

This is like, it is open, right? Like, if you guys think of something that you can think to help, I can, you know... Can I give Gruff my... one of my luck? I think you'd have to spend a point of fact. fate to do that because it's like you is giving someone your luck. You can make a skill role, like you could do a, you know, an ability check on yourself. But I think giving someone luck is, I don't know how you would do that. A rabbit's fool. Is that so little? I mean, yeah.

Yeah, but... Look, all four paws. Also, don't overthink it. Find a skill that you're good in and think of a, like, could I use this to do a bit? I'm gonna sneak around this room so much. and it's gonna wait. You've got other skills beyond still. But if there's nothing, then yeah, Kim, you're free to make another role for Graf if you would like.

Shall I use a fate? Yeah. I need a wait. Did you use the Barnic yet? Not yet. You do, yeah. You add Bardick afterwards, but fate you have to spend before you roll.

That's true, yeah. I was just wondering if Barthic for higher. I mean, yeah. Sure, I mean, that sounds smart. I mean, you could also stack it with a fate if you need to. I can also cast it again. Yeah, you can, yeah. Okay.

11. I'm gonna spend the bardic. So with my mode of potential, you can re-roll it, but you have to take the second roll. Okay. So if it's a one, roll it again. Can you don't add the D-10 afterwards or? No, no, no, it's the D-10. It's the D-10 you re-roll. You're currently at 11.

Oh, right. It's my Bartik E-Roll. Just roll it and you can re-roll it if it's low. That's a one. Yeah, re-roll it. You have to keep the second roll now. It can't be any worse. Four.

Okay. So six, seven, eight, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15. Okay, there's a moment gruff where you feel like you've dealt with most of these blooms, but this writhing tangle of snakes that, you know, Rowan has done something and you try and get into that. Using your primal magic, you try and calm them, you try and ease them, but they're not listening. And then that bardic inspiration, that little moat begins to play almost like a little snake charmer kind of tune, they begin to quiet and they begin to steal and they become vines again and now this time you snip in the right place and it unravels just that little tiny bit more.

That's a third success. I'm going to spend a point of fate to add a complication. As you do this gruff, you feel something in this spell and this curse again kind of push back against you and almost like a squid or something, like this darkness just spreads, and you can no longer see the spell what you're working on. You can sense it, but you're going to have disadvantage on the next role.

The next one, fuck. It's like a mare cart when you get. Unless an ally can find a way to help dispel this strange darkness that seems to be surrounding. Maybe it's just your vision. It's not coming out of, Yeah, if someone else does take over the role, do they have blindness as well?

I can see in the dark. Would, yeah, would I, would casting, I don't know why I'm thinking this, but I'm thinking of connecting the daisy chain to just to gruff and like casting light, but in my head to gruff. I don't know. That's a bit...

You could certainly try. I would like to try and do that. Why don't you give me a perception check to represent, like, not just the creation of the light, but then guiding Gruff's sight through it, basically? 23. 23. That will give Gruff advantage, which will dispel the disadvantage.

Gruff, you feel Daisy, but more importantly, you feel nym in your mind. and like a seasoned hunter, this is a person who knows how to strike in the night. And suddenly that inky blackness that's been conjured becomes dimmer as the light in your mind begins to fill it. And it's still there, but it's more see-through. It's more, you know, passable.

And with that, you no longer have the disadvantage. Okay. I'll use a fate on this next role. Okay. Just game one, so... 19. Oh. Fourth success. Halfway learned.

This time I'm not going to add a complication. You feel the spell beginning to unravel. You can feel about half of this lattice, this thorn wall that's kind of surrounding farrier. But you are beginning to grow tired. Something that is not entirely obvious when you started. The more successes you make, the more this begins to drain you.

And you begin to, this is the DC getting higher and higher. and higher and you all can see that gruff is you know well i guess not sweating but you can see like the strain on his face his like veins almost showing through some of his fur like he is deep in concentration and this is becoming a very difficult spell for him to maintain as that DC grows higher and higher i like to imagine this song because sarin is kind of part of my magic like she at the beginning of this appeared maybe on his shoulder or something and almost like she represents kind of the tired, like her flapping is getting slower,

her head's starting to droop. Like, she's like falling asleep. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to, should we maybe ask one, Melody or Lady Vera here for the next one?

Yeah. Do you think? We got two big ones, so. Do you want to use a fate as well? We can grant them a fate. How many checks are we up to? Four. You've succeeded four times.

Succeeded four times. We've failed one. But I did four. How many times are we? times we rolled? We've rolled one, two, three, four times. We've rolled four times, we've succeeded four times. Five? No, you've rolled four times. And then Rowans roll once and failed. Sorry, I mean, the group is one. You're at four successes, one failing. Yeah, let's give, let's say malady. I reckon there is really tuned in to Gruff and is probably the, our big one.

She is a dragon. Yeah. And is a dragon. So maybe... You would like Malady to help? with a fate. And she's going to spend a point of fate as well. This is Malady's one fate that she gets. Yep. I will tell you that Mallee has a plus three to this. It's not her highest one. Her intelligence is more high, but she's a plus three.

22. Oh. We still don't even know what the current DC is. I don't know how close that is to a failure. It's ever changing. That is a fifth success, but I am. going to spend my point of fate, to add to add a complication. Mality begins joining in. You can see that she kind of steps. She's been sort of helping gather the sort of manner and essence, almost

pulling it into the room, focusing on life manner, you know, manner of the fair world, like healing and sort of primal energy, that kind of thing. And as she steps forward, she just places a hand like, allow me to ease your burden gruff and begins to kind of look away. And And you see with the kind of precision of a gardener, an elderly gardener, snipping away at the weeds and, you know, taking away the sort of rotten roots. But this is complex magic and it senses something in Malady, something that it can latch onto. This fay-packed, whatever curse is upon her, reacts badly to this curse.

And as she is working, Gruff, you see in the last second. and she goes, something pricks her like a thorn, and she's like, ah, that is a problem. And you just see her, like, grow suddenly very weak, and she just slumps to her knees. Benedict, her, like, rushes, like, sister, she's like, it's all right, just, it's not reacting well to our bond, our curse. I don't know if I can help any further.

And that is going to be Malibis one that she is able to offer you. All right. It's okay, Faria. Everything is going fantastically. Just look at me, and I'll look at you. Yeah, I just saw. the sister collapse, but I'm not feeling like I'm in immense pain, so I'm assuming it's going well. So far, so good. Just stay calm. Keep fighting. You're doing great.

Five successes. Three more to go. Can you do Bordekinsper? Yes. I was just about to. I inspire Gruffith again. We're past halfway now, Gruffeth. It is exhausting, Gruff. Like, maintaining this spell, focusing so hard. You can sense that as you, as you get closer and closer, the knots of these vines, the thorns, the suppers, it's all becoming, it's resisting. You are getting into the hardest, most complex parts of this car. Headphone cables out of a suitcase.

Can I, um... Yes. Because gruff is getting, look, is rough looking really visibly exhausted. As much as, yeah, like, you know, a wildheart can. Like, you can't seem sweat, but if you could, he would be. And Sarin's been. And Sarin looking very tired and worn. So can I take veracity and slice my palm

and offer up some of my blood to the Grapefather as a way of imbueing gruff with energy from me, for my vitality? I believe that this would be a religion to do a prayer to the Great Father. So give me a religion role. Seven. You cut your palm. The blood pours out. The prayer is either unheard or perhaps.

because Gruff is not one of the faithful. The great father does not deem him worthy of his help. But unfortunately, yeah, that is, you do not aid Gruff with that. Anything from anyone else? Otherwise it's up to Graf? You got anything? I mean, yeah, it's already...

I can't really... Arcananically help. You could. You could. You could use Alcana to help. of course you could. Oh, I thought it was because it was... It's primal magic, but you...

Primal magic. Yeah, you can't contribute to the ritual. You can still offer help. You can still use the skill to help. You can focus on, like, the ambient manner in the room and, like, help guide that and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

You know how we've been doing that the whole time, yeah? Yeah, no, I know, but, like... No, I understand what Tom's saying. Because I made it very clear that, like, it was primal magic and you think, oh, I can't use Arcana. But, no, you can use Arcana, not to help directly in the ritual, but there is all this essence, you can sense

that there is this incredible, powerful, you know, build up of magic going on. You could keep an eye out for fluctuations and be like, oh, gruff, watch out, like, you know, there's fluctuations in this area, there's fluctuations in that area. You can't help necessarily, but you can definitely try and give advantage.

Well, in that case. So give me an archana check. It's time for a fireball. No, fireball. Sure. I want to archinically help. Sure, give me an archa check. What's your actual word for that?

As a point, wait. An archa check. Archananically. As a point as well, once you use the skills, so you can't use religion again for you. Somebody else could. Same like you could use perception, but Daisy's used perception, right?

Now, Xanthias can't use Alcana after this, so give me an archonar. Okay, I will focus on the essences, pulling away all the fire. And yes, archanical assistance. Yeah, that's huge. Holy shit. Get ready, ten.

Ten is not enough. to offer advantage. I do not understand this stuff. It is, yeah, this is, there is no fire essence here. This is all life essence, it's raw, kind of just, all sorts of different elements. It's very different to what you're used to. But also, there are so many fluctuations,

it's hard to keep track of them, and unfortunately you are not able to give any assistance. Nope, can't control that. You only know how to make a mess, not how to clean it up. Yeah. No, sorry. I will use a fate. Okay, that's going to say as well,

delaying, making the progress roles, could have consequences as well if you take too long to make that. 20, 25. Nice. Very well. Another success. Two fate left as well. Yes. I think I'm going to give you one.

I'm going to give you one. Actually, I didn't add one. So I will spend the one that I didn't add. Got it to bring it back. I am going to, for the next progress role, temporarily. increase the DC again. So Gruff, you are, for Graff specifically, you are exhausted. Yeah. Your own personal, you've not spent your own like spell slots, but this is taking

something from you, like this sheer concentration, the careful manipulation of magic. But also, because this is primal, it's about your connection to this, and you can feel this poison almost coming into your system. It's making you feel weak. It's making you feel more tired than you even. and feel right now. I've increased the DC for the next progress role. I suggest we either use Lady Verithero or-

I think it's the Veritura. Can I make a check to see if I can, with Arcane, Orkana? Arcana. To find out what that DC is. Ooh. Yeah? Sure.

Yeah, I'll let you do that. Let's find out how tough it is. Sure. tapped into seeing what Gruff saw before I failed. So maybe tapping into that again and seeing what Gruff is up against. It's only a plus one, but I'm going to get in that 20. I rolled a two. Once a three.

Is there a zero at the end of it? You have no idea. This is so, this spell is so unlike anything else you've ever encountered. You know, this is a really complex ritual, complex curse. This is, unfortunately. too hard for you too with your meager understanding of arcane magic

Arcana not enough magic for you is always natural it's always just come with your music this is not that and it's hard to understand is not anything I can do apart from obviously make these roles

I was just wondering if like because you mentioned poison I know it's flavour but obviously I have the amulet of Saint Talan I'm going to assume that that's always like you're doing everything you can to overcome it, I'm going to say there's nothing you can do to help.

This is the consequence of it. You're going to do that to help yourself get through this. You can do, but it's not. It is what it is, I'm going to say. Part of the mechanics of it. We had another person do it, then you could assist. Sure, if somebody else cast a spell to remove. But it's also, it's flavor as well.

It's not just poison. It's the actual magic itself. Can I assist Lady Varithira? No. No. You can't. No. You are the primary caster.

you can do nothing except make these progress rolls currently. You are the primary one that all of this hinges on. So it's either I roll now with Fate and Bardick or, and I have a higher DC, or we ask Lady Verithera, but obviously we don't know what her wizzy is, but I'm guessing it's pretty high. She's a green way.

It's pretty good. And she can roll with fate as well. I've got every faith in all this roll right here. How many failures do we have at the moment? Just the one. Just one. And there's... We don't know how many failures will trigger.

the first effect. You can also, so you can roll it with Faye and then maybe add the D-10 still hold onto it if you feel it you need to as well. So that's pretty strong. Yeah, I think you'd go for it as is. Or is this just temporarily

higher for this turn for Gruff? For Gruff's next progress role. So whatever, if I roll next. So I'm just thinking, do we use Verithira because it's not, she doesn't have that. It doesn't mean the final role. It'll be Gruff. Graff's next role will be harder again.

No. It only increases if Graff succeeds. Yeah, so it's whatever I do, it's going to be kind of. Like, even if you swapped Verithera, an eye roll next, my role is harder. Yeah. So do it while the DC is slightly lower, I guess. How many successes we are?

Six. And we need eight. Correct. Yeah. You're close. If you say watch this drive. It's a guarantee 20. That's a guarantee 20.

This is your best friend. I know. This is. Yeah. Because the thing is Tom believes in. Watch this drive. I believe it. Where does Tom start and Zanthia's end?

I don't really. Wow. I don't think of the Crowns deal. I mean, he'd sell us all for Crownsdale. I know, I know. I know. I know. If I could cast spells, hell yeah, you're done for.

I don't know if there's anything else that I can think of right now. You'll need to be quick if you delay. Oh, there you go. Did you use fate? Yep. Um, six plus 12 is 18. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 23 is pretty good.

I don't know if you need the bardic for that. Is that without bardic? That's without bardic. It's without the bardic. Did you roll a six? Yeah, I wrote a six. On the, on the fate. On the fate.

I see. I read it backwards, I was going to say, because I was like, you got six on the G20? How did you do that? You, you... You... You...

This is becoming complex, and even though that poison... What feels like poison, it's not, it's magic. But what feels like poison burning in your veins, you still focus that promise your oath, your tenets of your order, and you are going to help this young man, and you manage to snip away, and that is your seventh.

Yes! Okay, okay. And that means the DC is now higher, but it's also you don't have that complication. Well, it's still going to increase. It's still going to be higher because every success I have, it gets higher from me. But the complications don't longer there, is what I mean. Do you want Lady Berrera to do one? I think we probably should get Lady Fat yet to be.

There's two fate. Dragon. Yeah. I'm going to Barlic Inspire Lady Barthra. Yeah, you can. Yeah, you can. Yeah, you can. Yeah, Bartik Inspire, she can use a fate. Yeah, that's a detail. Especially if Groff is now looking like super fucking weary.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, Gruff's done a little. I mean, Gruff's done well to roll well. Gruff has really well. but plus one of your fates. This is Lady Bear of Theories and Fate. So fate first and a D-10 after if needed. She also has a plus five.

Oh shit, okay. I thought she would. Oh no. I also just rolled the bardic because there's no point of her holding onto it. It's not very good, I'm afraid. She can re-roll the bardic if she wants to. I mean, I can't get worse.

It's currently a failure. Right. I did not roll very high. Can it swing a win? That's why I'm just working out. Even if I roll Max on the Bardic. I rolled a two. Oh, fuck.

Oh shit, okay. Was there a zero at the end? Huh? No. Second time, it's good. Okay, anyone? Lady Verithera sort of steps in and you see her like exhale.

Rather than casting magic, she breathed out some life-giving energy from her green dragon breath. And she steps forward, forward, no, no, this is all wrong. This is what poison they put into this. And she, you can see that she's such a kind, nurturing soul, that when she goes to reach for it, at this stage graph, you see it at the last minute, what she, she thinks that she's going for the right vine, but this plant curse, whatever, you know, this is, and this is all just visual, it's not actually a plant, this is what your mind's interpreting it as. It has, at the last minute, sort of

of like woven, it's a fault, it's a trap basically. It's a pitfall and she falls for it, unfortunately. Too kind, too nurturing, too willing to believe and not cautious enough. And that is a failure. You see the little diadem tattoo, like the circlet, a pulse and Farah's like, I felt something again. Not trigger yet.

Okay. Okay, okay. That is also going to be Verithyrus. And then what she could do. Well. Anyone got anything before I make my role? Is Rowan still playing the sea shanty? Yeah, lo-fi. The lo-fi 24-hour ambience.

I think Ophelia would probably join in with Rowan and have Percy, like, stomp a beat, and then Ophelia will start, like, humming along, like in that same low pitch that Gruff uses when she's heard him humming while he's. out fishing and try and conjure up a rousing beat. Give me a performance role. Can I take it a disadvantage?

Because we're not sobbing. Well, this is Ophelia, me? Yeah, yeah. Unnatural 20. Oh. Hell yeah. Hearing Ophelia join in, singing this sea shanty of home, reminding you of home and of family.

It anchors you a little bit, and it gives you that little bit of strength gruff, despite this desperate weariness that it's through your body, you know that this is now exceedingly complicated to unravel. This is the last step, and this curse does not want to be broken. It is the most complex it will ever be. But you feel that energy and you spike,

and you gain advantage on your next attempt. Thanks to Ophelia. Cool. This is my last attempt? Well, as in if you fail, it won't be no. If you succeed, it will be. And we don't know if two failures is. Yeah.

You're currently a two failures. We're at two failures. We don't have three failures is. It's full, yeah. Can you bardic inspire anymore? You've still got it, I mean, you've still got it from my own. Oh, you still got it. I'm just if I use it on this one and then if I do another one.

I got one more to give. Do you want to use a fate? Oh, I'm absolutely got a fate in my hand for now. Yeah. Good. Okay. Fate and Barthic. and Bardick.

With a re-roll on the body. And the Barnick can be used after. Yeah. You got this. 13. 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. Use it just thrown in. May as well.

25, 26, 27. Could rerroll it. Could rerroll it. You have to take the new number. Can't go lower than a three. It could. It was a three again. Okay.

Okay. Okay. The total was... 27. Again, that little moat of ruins, bursts, showers, and it feels like salt spray in the ocean, taking you home. And you realize, oh, this isn't a nest of vines

and flowers and blooms. It's a net. And if there's one thing a fisherman knows, it's how to untangle a net. The last cut. The rest of you see the circlet tattoo break. The actual image of the tattoo almost like something snipped it, like a pair of wire cutters have broken a ring.

And as it does, it burns and turns to nothing. The DC was 26 on the floor. Oh, God. How much, mate, creaky. I'm not gonna tell you. Oh. A significant amount. A significant amount.

Shit. I think gruff will look up at Farrier, give him a nod, pass out. Oh, Roman will try and catch, but I'll probably miss. And with that, Faris, is it over? Is it done? I can't see it. I can't see it. It's gone, it's gone. It's visibly gone. It's gone. Is the ritual over? Forgive me, I'm afraid that I was not much use.

Cursed magic. I should have guessed that it would have interfered with mine. Yes, the ritual is complete. Gruffeth did excellent work, and despite the mounting complications, was able to unravel it, it seems. Okay, thanks to all of your assistants. It seems the Bardic performance, I think, was very beneficial.

Now I know we've got a band. Yes, I believe, young man, but whatever hold this diadem had over you, you are free of it. I would like to cast Detect Magic on my glasses and really scan, just to make sure there is nothing there that was there before. Yep, it's gone. Farrier is gone.

You are, I told you. Ooh, I told you. Gruff, thank you, gruff. Oh, gruff later. I think, like, Farrier will come back. Are you, like, conscious, like just barely? I think it was just like, yeah, just. Yeah, just, you've slumped.

Yeah. Okay, not asleep. Farrier, like, comes up, sort of, like, puts a hand, sort of crutches down. next to you. You don't know what this means. I'm free. Groffle just kind of, with a big paw behind his head, kind of just grab his head and kind of touch four heads together. It's such a relief. It's like a weight. I didn't know was waiting me down. I'm free. You deserve to be. I don't know about that. Look at me. You deserve to be.

Live well, Faria. I'll try. I'll try. I think you're a good man. I think you're a good man and you see a lot of good in people. And I will take your words to heart. But you need to know that I am not a good man. I wasn't a good man.

I did things for them before this tattoo, before anything else. But I can see. I can see now. I was blind. I was young. I was stupid, callous and arrogant. And I could see now. Having this weight dragging me down all these years.

But yeah, I'm free. And I'm not going to waste it. Mr. Stragon, I know that what happened there just isn't very good, but please, can you help? I want to be free of this. Yes, I can help. I will need to take you away from here. I cannot risk you being near Sir Eldrach.

But I can take you to Mistwald, my home. And there you will find peace and quiet and healing pools, and we will get that taken from you and destroyed. I think that there are people here. She glances towards that is. And then she also looks towards the door. There are people that should not be around this poison. And we need to get it out of you and see it purged and burned.

But yes, I can take you home. I take you back to my home. And then we will heal you. That is what we do. Great. Right. Round two. I don't have any more diamond dust.

What? It used more than I thought. We can't save Alejandro? Unless I can get more. How long do we have? If they are trying to trigger the tattoos already, I don't know if Alejandro's has gone off yet, but actually I've got to take magic.

Can I see the deathboard on them? I would have run out by now, right? I mean, you have a feeling that if Farias was triggered, makes sense that Alejandro's was as well. We also don't know if they'll try to use. We act. You don't know? Yeah.

Do we have time? We would have to death ward again. I can attempt it. I'm weakened, but not entirely. I can cast the death ward. As Malady says that, you see a brief flash of magic from Alejandro, and his body just crumbles to the floor. Ronald catch him.

Right. Alejandro. Snow. With seconds to spare, and Farrier's potential fate. It seems that Mr. Emerald has triggered it again. Not everyone can be saved, Rowan. We could have done something. We did or we could with the time we had.

I'm sorry. It's foolish of me not to have death-watered him as soon as he came. I should have done it once we woke. I did not think. I did not realize we only had enough regions for the one ritual. I didn't realize who would take that much. I don't think that was any way that you could have gruff. As far as I understand it, that spell has never been used in that way before.

This was an incredibly unique and complex thing that you have done. I'll just crawl over to Alejandro and just... And there is no hope of returning him. Part of this spell, he cannot be returned. Completely removes any opportunity for that, unfortunately. We know that for sure? See, I mean... From what I heard about it,

teleporting your insides. It destroys your heart, it destroys your internal organs, teleports them, you know, it's bad. You would basically need a true resurrection spell, which is a ninth level spell. Aphelia, there's no chance. There's no soul for him to return to.

Everything's gone. As you say that, Ophelia, for you, it's like time stops. You've witnessed this once before. when you died. It reminds you of that moment because your friends in their grief, Rowan, stricken,

paused, frozen. You see Alejandro sort of almost steps up. I wasn't expecting you. He doesn't seem to hear you or see you. And you see that through his chest is a golden ribbon that connects to the ground.

He sort of looks. And he looks at empty space, sort of seems to converse and nod and chat. And then his body floats up to become suspended by the ribbon, he sleeps peacefully. And then from sort of mist that sort of surrounds this room, you see who he was talking to. A skeletal figure, a woman, in a dress with long hair and a skeletal face. and in her hands a longbow. She walks. Not ignoring you, but she first inspects her work.

She checks the ribbon, tugs it. She seems blind because she uses the longbow to sort of guide her to the tether and then she checks it. Yes, that should be strong enough. Hello again. Saint Dothia. That is correct. What is happening?

Why can I see you? I haven't done. I've died, have I? I'm not ready. I'm not, I'm too busy. No, but you are closer to death than you once were. Yes, that's true. Being close to death allows me to speak with you.

You are not to dead, but you are close enough, much in the same way that your grave father can. Your undead nature bridges a gap between him in the same way that your grave father can. between him in the grey lands and here. But now you have drawn closer to death. I govern some of that space too. I wanted to speak with you. Does that upset you?

You do not have to speak with me if you do not wish. Doesn't upset me. I'm interested in why you'd want to speak to me. Why do you serve the grave father? Because he saved me. Did he? Yes. I was going to die anywhere.

Was it the Gravefather who saved you? Yes, he took me to Osseus. The house of blood took me in. The Gravefather gave them the ability to save me through their magic. Hmm. I think that's what you've been taught. It's not strictly true. I must remember, Ophelia, I...

I am close to all those who die on Elfaya. Even sickly children in their bed who draw very close. I saw you many times when you were on the verge. And as I understand it, it was not the grave father who undid that work. It was your parents. They gave great cost to your countess.

They paid a great price for her to give you the vampiric blood that now runs. through your veins. And the Countess, that power doesn't come from the Gravefather. It was her power. She can do with it as she pleases. But she would not have done anything, if not for that pleas and the bargain and the payment of your parents.

So if it were me, remember I was once mortal. I would not lay such a generous gift at the feet of the Grave father. of the grave father, but at the ones who paid the price for it. You don't owe him. I know much about death. I see it, I feel it, and I cannot save everyone. But one thing I do know, death does not care for anyone.

Death, the Greyfather, the very essence of the Greylands. It doesn't care. It's inevitable. It's timeless. So when it looks upon you, it doesn't see a child or a daughter that it can help, that it can benefit, just sees a body, a corpse, waiting. Do I do? That's up to you. Tell me what to do. I can't.

God's aren't there to tell you what to do. And I am not quite a full God. God. I have power. And if you wanted, if you could no longer serve him, I believe that you have a great respect for death, and that is one that I would gladly seek. Perhaps we could work together. But gods shouldn't tell you what to do. Certainly Pyrus and Mele didn't tell me what to do when I ascended. I just did what I thought was right. You have good people amongst you. That I know. I worry for Xanthias.

He is drawn close to me, and I have aimed my bow at him. But the others have also drawn close enough that I know of them. I am there when you take lives, when you kill bandits or cultists. I was there when Rexeneth died. You have good people amongst you. Did Rexenov get to go back? He is bound. He will be reborn.

That was one shot that I did not wish to miss. Good. Those who suffer great in life. Well, I don't wish them to become tools in the hands of the planes who would take that trauma and take that... Take that suffering and use it for their own whims. He deserves a chance to be reborn and choose a new life for himself. That he does.

It is that he does. that kind of thought, is that thinking that means that I know that you and I are quite aligned. And the grave father, he doesn't deserve you. Goodbye, sister, Ophelia. Perhaps we will meet again when next death draws close. Maybe we will. Perhaps it will be soon. She looks off in the distance, draws from her belt, belt quiver. The work does not end. This city riddled with my arrows. She vanishes, and time kind of snaps back in. The rest of you, looking at poor Alejandro,

at least now at peace, perhaps. Sions, hopefully, St. De Thier has hit her mark, and he will have a peaceful next life. But you stand ready. Gruff of, I don't wish to trouble you. I know that this is a difficult time, but as I understand it, You have a nightly test and last time has not stopped. As today. Leave Alejandra with us.

My sister and I will make sure he is buried properly and given the proper rights by the Scions. You may have been a criminal but in death he can be something more. Leave him with us. If you were all row and you are welcome to accompany us too if you do not wish to go with Graf. But as I understand it, this is important. You've done great things. Try and rest, get your strength back. Children are difficult.

I'll just, one Paul. I'm so sorry to Alejandro, and then I'll shut his eyes. You see, Malady goes over, prepares a little right, says a prayer. And then that is where we're going to leave today's episode. Nice. Oh, big successes. Yeah. Through that.

That was good. Very good. That's stressful. That was 27 as well. Yeah. But also smart use of like using when they used them. Yeah, we worked it out well. Yeah. Also, Ophelia's been scouted by another god of death.

Well, kind of like, listen, it's the idea of St. Death of being like, there are other options. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also, I've been thinking about it for a long time. It makes sense that she would know very much about what happened. with Ophelia and has had her eye on Ophelia for some time. That was really cool. Yeah. That's awesome.

Go on episode. That was insane. That was insane. I've got a stress headache. So much happened. Just so you know, by the way, after the death ward triggered, I rolled another D-10. Oh, for how long until they use it again?

Yeah. And because you were doing the ritual, I was like, I'm not going to have it trigger, but like the hour, I rolled a two. Yeah. No, sorry, not to a three. So it was like literally at the end of the eight hours was when he was going to trigger it again.

And I was like, I would let them do the ritual because that would suck, like. But it meant that I knew that. It was a cool moment. That was like, I rolled a D10 to be like, okay, how many hours until he basically triggers it again, basically. That was dope. Yeah.

Makes sense. Because it's, and just to give context as well, it's because Emerald would have had word that you all went to the estate. and then when nobody comes out of it, it's like, he's like, okay, we'll try it again. Yeah. Also, good news. Diadem tattoo, they still keep their soul.

So, salt cage thing, technically more evil than the diadem. If you think about it that way. Correct. If you think about it that way. I never said that the diadem tattoo destroys the soul. Yeah, yeah. It's never established. Don't worry.

Sidious is super cool dude. I think it's also the Doni Dem don't have necessarily that knowledge of like how to do that. They would if they could. Yeah, they absolutely. They would, they would, they would, they would stop like speak with dead and like things like resurrection and stuff. They need to speak to obsidious. But also they need to be able to be like, well, they want to be able to resurrect their agents, right? So like they don't want it to immediately, they'll be like, yeah, we brought you back.

Fucking we own you now basically. So, but yeah. Mencel. I think that's why when we had the obsidious interrogation, I was very quick as gruff to be like he doesn't know anything, I know it. Because gruff, knowing with sound like, I was like, I know what he's fishing for. If he thought that Alejandro had anything, he'd be like, give me that boy. Yum.

Give me, give me, give me, give me. It sounds like that. It's so interesting. Anyway, that's the end of the episode. Yeah, it is. It is. Woo! God damn.

So good. Bye. Bye.