High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois | #4 - 2.5 Days to Die (Part 2)

Episode Date: July 26, 2018

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barbarian. I am Chris Trott, I'm playing Lucius Viren, Elowin Elanastro and I am a high elf sorcerer. And I'm Kim, I'm playing Nova who is an air ganassi and she is a hexblade warlock. Rhiannon is still on holiday so that means that century is being played by mark for the duration of this session once again a big

thank you to our sponsors dnd beyond and brilliant.org stick around for the end of the podcast to hear more about those let's jump straight back into the episode where we make plans to leave the bitterwood and finally find some civilization all of you adventurers have just defeated the wild elves that you had attempted to break into their camp and take your items back. You've killed their leader. Success. Great success. You have basically killed most of the camp, excluding one

wild elf, kind of scout looking fellow, who managed to run away. Aayla captured him, brought him back alive, tied him up to a tree. Valor, the young girl that had basically, under Lucius's encouragement, had snuck off to basically help steal the sword and the arcane focus and that back, delivered the killing blow to the druid woman, the kind of leader, this Kala woman, this Kala woman. And yeah, you've basically returned at this stage where you guys are just about to leave this camp,

this wild elf camp. Corrin. Corrin, was it not Yusuf? I've come out of this shelter now and I've just started wandering around. Yeah, Corrin was left with Arvel. And at the mention of his name, Yusuf looks and looks at Valor and is like,

Corrin, did you... And she's like, I snuck off. And yeah. How about we reconvene as a big party away from this place? Yes, we should, yes. And the two of them kind of pick themselves up and Valor kind of just looks at the ground and kind of shuffles her feet a little bit

and just seems to follow. Yeah, you guys just want to head back? I think so. So we're going to head back to them and I think our plan was to then head off to the east so we can get to the river and then follow that down to some form of civilisation, I suppose. Okay.

Civilisation. North is where we're generally headed, right? Yeah, north was to come from. Tom, Mike, is it plugged in? No. This guy. How does he do it? How? We've been doing this for years.

Literally years. He takes over our shots. Every shot we take a break. Sits in our shot, doesn't plug in his mic. Hi everyone, I'm back. So our plan was... Do you need to go for a wee? No, I'm good, I'm good, I'm clear.

Okay. I'm clear of... I will turn this car around! No, wait, so our plan was to head back to them guys and then we were going to go east to the river and I think follow the river

follow the river to the north ways towards Goldthrone okay so you can easily with Aayla's help you can easily track your way back

to Arvel and Corrin who when you return you see Arvel kind of like propped up and he's kind of like not Arvel kind of, like, propped up, and he's kind of, like, not sleeping, but kind of, like, resting his eyes, and he's just like, and he sees you guys coming.

But Corrin isn't really around. When Arvel sees Valor, he's like, You damn girl! That fella's gone looking for you off in the damn woods. But it doesn't... Luckily, he doesn't seem to have gone far because upon hearing sign of the commotion corinne eventually kind of comes out of the bush work and it's just like don't run off and just like looks he's like it's dark i couldn't see a thing i don't know i didn't

know where you'd gone and he's just you can see he's like doesn't know what to make of himself like and he's covered in like dirt and twigs from like kind of pulling through bushes and you know obviously being unable to see I'm gonna let Yusuf

deal with Korn I think yeah so she goes over and talks to him and kind of drags Valor with her as well and there is kind of like a kind of like

head bowed teenager apology of like I'm sorry I just wanted to help what a quirky bunch yeah I'm sorry, I just wanted to help. What a quirky bunch. I'm just going to go up to Lucius and be like, do you think she's grounded?

Oh, absolutely. That sounds like a grounded voice. We're all grounded. So what I mean, I did a little funny there. Oh, the funny. Yes, because I come from the islands above. Yes, we're very aware. We're never going to forget that. I feel like you made that joke

yesterday. Yeah. What day is it? It might have been a few hours ago actually. I'll pull it over. So, judging by your roll, well, you ain't looking like the peakiest bunch. Didn't go so well.

Went fantastic. Well, probably worse for you, yeah. To look at the positives, I have my focus back. We have rations, and you have your sword. Well, we killed a lot of people, though. Yeah, that's never an easy thing to live with, boy, but that's just the way of things sometimes around here. I acid-splashed a person to death.

It was great. It was great. It was awful. First time you've had to kill someone, Lucius? Yes. It's a hard thing to live with. I mean, you've just got to know that those people probably would have, well, if they caught you in a similar situation, they probably would have killed you too. I don't know. I had a lot of gold.

Oh. That's the problem I had a lot of gold. Oh. That's the problem I'm kind of dealing with right now. They didn't want gold. They wanted magic. They wanted power. And we got this and that for about six or seven lives. Is that worth it? Yes. That's what I'm dealing with.

Yeah, but to be honest, you're quite lucky that you're still alive because they absolutely would have killed you. So think about it this way. The focus, the sword, and your lives. They left us to die. Well, they left us to survive on our own, which is what they're capable of doing. Yusuf looks over and is like,

I must agree with Master Elanasto at this point. It did feel that perhaps extreme measures were taken. They left us, they left you alive by taking your things. You have robbed them of something far more permanent. But I understand that it was a difficult choice. And you can see that Valar has gone very deathly quiet amongst this whole conversation.

She's just kind of like, kind of lurking near Yusuf and Corrin. I tried to reason with them though. I asked. I said. They took Tiangong from me. I'm sure that whatever that sword means to you is very important, but... It would be as if they took valour from you.

And I can understand why you took your actions, but that still does not completely erase the issue in my mind. But that is beyond the point. We have crossed onto this path now and we must simply do our best to return to civilization and put this behind us where we can. Let's not end up like them.

No offense. Arvel looks over and is like, you can't just say no offense when you're saying something offensive, boy. What do you mean? Yes, that. You're not quite like them, though. Not quite as many. That's still pretty offensive.

What do you mean? You're being really offensive. Am I? Oh, I'm sorry. I genuinely didn't mean to. You're not like them at all. I just don't care. Oh, good.

She's not offended. Other people might be, though, and that could result in your face getting smashed in. Yeah, that is a good point. If we come across people like this, they're not going to take too kindly to you. Even if you say no offence, they're probably still going to. Oh, I'll just offer them coin.

That's what I'd do. Yeah, no. I wouldn't say anything. I worry about you. What happens if your coin runs out? What? Coin? Run out?

What a novel concept. What happens if you were out? What? Coin? Run out? What a novel concept. That is not here to do anymore. What happened if you were stuck in the lowlands? Let's conduct a scientific thought experiment right now. Say you were stuck in the wilderness, in the lowlands, for the next hundred days, and you lost all your money on day three. How long would you survive?

Well, this is a science brain experiment. A hundred days is ridiculous. Daddy would find me by then. What if he doesn't find you?, this is a science brain experiment. 100 days is ridiculous. Daddy would find me by then. You'd probably find me in a minute. What if he doesn't find you? That's the parameters of the experiment. He doesn't find you. And you have no money.

Well, this is such an absurd circumstance. I can't possibly think logically beyond Daddy not saving me in a few days. I calculate the probabilities would be you'd be dead within 2.5 days. 2.5? Nah, that's a bit much. I wouldn't give him that. Hmm? Less. Dead within 2.5 days. 2.5? That's a bit much. I wouldn't give him that. Less.

Lucius, when we crashed, how long did you think it would take for Daddy to find you? Well, it's only been a day, right? But when we crashed, how long did you think it was going to be? Well, immediately, but he's probably quite busy with meetings and such. Busy enough to... Well, buddies like you are probably just whisking away right now, flitting to Gusthaven to tell Daddy that Dinesh's ship's gone down and his little sonny is stranded with a strange bunch of people. Again, that thing where you keep saying things,

I don't think you realise that you're saying things that might cause offence. What like? I don't know, i'm kind of strange i was talking about the the wild elves we just butchered yes yes yes speaking of those speaking of those we should probably move because although we did really scare that guy and you know kill his whole all of his friends his leader and he did say that he wouldn't come after us. I don't believe that, so we should probably keep moving. I don't think we have safe paths. Sounds pretty smart idea to me. Let's go to that town that Arvin came from.

Well, I mean, yeah, it depends where we are, but if we're in Savona and we're in the Bitterwood, then, yeah, if we head north, the problem is I need to find I need some sort of landmarks things that I can get a barren where we might be goblins to the west

that's not a big help is that helpful farmland in the north farmland towards the north a river to the east river and farmland to the that could be

the white breeze the river white breeze we're going to follow that north if we follow that north then it's been a long time since I was this far south but river. White Breeze? We're going to follow that north. If we follow that north, then it's been a long time since I was

this far south, but I think there's a town called Rose Hall to the north. If we follow the White Breeze, it reaches the Rosewater Lake. Rose Hall's a few days, about a day's travel south of there. There'll probably be farm towns, small,

real small, couple of plantations, outcroppings, that sort of there. There'll probably be farm towns, small, real small, couple of plantations, outcroppings, that sort of thing. Probably be a few of those, but the first major settlement would be Rosehall, I think. Do they make trade with the islands above? Rosehall's just a little bit off the main path. They'd probably send their goods

up to Goldthrone and sell them all there. But it's a good trade town. It's on the edge. It'll be a decent place. We'll probably find a good bed. And if there's trade routes, they must be safe? As safe as the lowlands can be. I mean, they'll have the

harvest guard. The harvest guard, if they're patrolling the roads, they'll keep monsters and goblins and wild elves from attacking. So if we get to Rosehall, we'll have shore passage to Goldthrone. Excellent. Sounds reasonable to me. If that's where we are...

If that's where we are. That sounds wonderful. All right, let's get moving. Yep, let's keep going. Okay, so you check through your wellness. Go on. Just a little player question. You said that I got 84 days' worth of rations?

No. Single days. There were 74, but there's no way you could carry all of them. Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out how to divide them up. So, yeah, everybody, each individual that was there could probably carry three or four. Oh, okay. Each. So there was one, two, three, four.

Four of you plus Sentry plus Yusef plus Vala. There's eight in the party that eat. Yes, because Sentry doesn't yeah so yeah everybody gets three four days yeah i'd say three or four days yeah okay sweet which is enough to get to where are we going yeah you um yeah you think uh based on what um arval tells you it's probably about three or four days travel it's probably about about closer to four days than it is three. But by which time will... To head up north.

It would also depend on... You want to go towards the river, right? So Aela and Quill, you guys would probably know this. I mean, obviously, one of the things

that slows you down is travel is needing to rest and becoming tired. If you could find or if you could make some sort of raft or do boats or something like that, you could use the river to travel faster.

Like you wouldn't need to rest as much, but you would obviously need to either build something or find something. Yeah. And I guess the river would be, if there's a named river, it's going to be big enough. Yeah. I mean, you saw it from above. It's pretty massive. It's like a big sort of like, you know, huge river coming down from the mountains and flowing out to the sea. So it's going to be pretty big. Here we can have a little bath here. Yes, in the river, in the big, big, fast-flowing river.

Will it be fast-flowing? I imagine so. It's coming down from the mountain. So who is leading the party through the wilderness? It's nighttime. I can't see. So that would be Ayla then. So Ayla, you can give me a survival

check. Would anybody like to assist? I can as an elf. Sure. So survival check from Lucius to see if you can give a bonus to Ayla. Could I assist with my passive hearing? Not really. Okay. That makes sense. That's more for like keeping

out of the way of monsters, not really stopping you from getting lost. I mean, I assist with science. Ten. Ten? Five. Even with the bonus. You're not quite sure what it is.

It's maybe a little bit of these being unfamiliar lands, perhaps a little bit of disorientation from the fight um but you kind of lose track of your way a little bit um and it actually takes you a few more hours than you expect um can you roll a d100 for me please katie what about my compass the compass helps you like go like we're going east, but the paths that you take, Aayla leads you into a really thickly covered, with bush and stuff like that, and you have to backtrack and make your way around.

14. 14, okay. So as you're making your way through the wilderness, it's really late at night. You guys took a long rest so that you went into the camp at midnight, and then you had the fight, and by the time that all finished,

it was probably about 2 a.m so you're trekking your way through these woods a pitch black night yusuf can provide a little bit of magical light um with this kind of starlit holy symbol um and dancing lights can kind of cover it and as you're making your way through the woods you definitely hear a lot of activity um especially quill you hear the howling of wolves off in the far distance you hear animals like scurrying around like just outside of the light's radius you can hear things like rustling in the bushes and moving around okay um i can see red eyes. Yeah. And pretty much all of you see this, but you notice you are being watched and being followed. A small creature, probably no taller than about three foot,

long, ragged ears, kind of scrapped fur and leather clothing, little knives kind of tucked on its belt, and it's crawling through, and it's following you as you move through, and it's just kind of watching you. You all notice this? Big yellow eyes. You can see, like, you occasionally catch,

as the light catches it, like, peering from out of, like, these bushes, like this. And then as you see it, like... So he's not even super stealthy, it's, like, relatively obvious. Whatever this creature is is it's trying to be stealthy and failing how does he look particularly like you said he had knives but like

sharp ones i guess not super dangerous you haven't seen him exactly in detail you don't know if it's him or her um it's just yeah like this little three foot tall figure ragged kind of clothing but we know there's goblins around. I mean, it looks like a goblin, right? Like, it's got big yellow eyes. You can kind of see, like, little kind of scruff hair, like kind of really dreadlocked and matted, but it's kind of got almost like black kind of like soot or coal all over its face

to try and help it blend in. But it's just really bad at moving around quietly. You hear it like... Is it just quills? No, everybody sees this thing. That's how bad it is. You'll occasionally look over, and it'll just be staring at you from in a bush,

and it's like... I assume you've all seen that creature Yes I'm already sketching it What do we do? There's probably more of them What's the protocol? I don't really know

Would I have ever dealt with goblins? Probably not Probably not Depends right The problem with goblins is What you know about goblins is Is that they are, they're kind of, they're not quite a remnant.

Like, they were, when they first arrived on Erois, they were part of the armies for, like, Calus Starbane and, like, this great kind of, like, invasionary force. And then after the Sundering and, like, Calus got driven back, they kind of just got, like, fragmented and, like, nobody really knew, like, none of the remnant really wanted them around because they're kind of useless um so a lot of goblins and bugbears kind of just went off into the mountains and like formed these little tribes and became like little they're kind

of like a nuisance they're like you know they kind of live in places they're like bandits they're just like these little shitty nuisances that kind of come down and they steal pigs and they like ruin things Raccoons? They're like more intelligent like raccoons They're like trash pandas that will

literally kidnap kids murder you and steal your stuff That's some pretty bad trash pandas They're pretty bad trash pandas And we, they're pretty bad trash pandas. And we all know this. Yeah, they are a threat as well. Like, a lot of people make jokes about them and they're kind of seen as a joke,

but you've also probably heard of stories of like, no, these fuckers will like shiv you and leave you for dead if they catch you unawares. Like, if you know that you're... If you know they're there, you can deal with them, because they're known for being cowardly, and they're known for being a bit incompetent. But if they do catch you, they can be pretty nasty.

Ila, why don't you just scare it off? Well, I just hope it doesn't jump out and attack us, because then we'd have to give up the information about the treasure that we found to the north. What treasure? The one we found where we came from. Lots of gold, lots and lots of gold. There were sheep and cows there too, I believe.

I just really hope it doesn't jump out. To the north? What are you talking about, Quinn? There were big, big fat cows and pig and loads of children there too. It was odd. For the podcast listener, Mark, Big, big fat cows and pig and loads of children there too. It was odd. For the podcast listener, Mark, as the goblin, is making a face of intrigue. I love it. But also mild lack of intelligence.

I mean, you glance over and you can see, you don't see it properly, but you maybe see like its foot, like a boot, like a kind of like worn, kind of oversized like adult boot, like sticking out of like a boot like a kind of like worn kind of oversized like adult boot like sticking out of like a bush and it you just hear like these confused noises of like i mean that's what would happen if it came out and it's the closet yeah that's my that's my small creature noise i honestly don't understand if it came out did you just roll an intelligence check then we would can I do that

yeah sure or you could just decide that Lucius doesn't get what Quill's doing if it came out I've not seen a single cow or piggy there was loads

you were there you saw all the children forking around those fat children you sure it's not all the gold that's just on me Arlen just starts loading his crossbow or all the children forking around. You sure it's not all the gold that's just on me? Arlo just starts loading his crossbow. Yeah, I just throw the hammer.

Like, he stops, like, kind of props his splinted leg up on the side, starts winding the crossbow light leaves back. Okay, so how many are there? There's one. Like, literally, there's just one is just following you. It's just like, it just following you it's just like it's just it just looks like

it's following you like I mean with your passive you're not even sure it can understand these things you're saying it's just like following you

it looks like it's listening but like it doesn't show any sign that it's understood anything you've said it's like Lucius

I guess I mean if it's anything you've said. It's like Lucius. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Mini-me. Wah! I guess, I mean, should we just carry on? This thing does not seem like it's, it looks like it's just following us. Perhaps it's lost.

Maybe it's living. Can I walk over closer to it? Yeah, okay. Give me a stealth check. Are you trying to be sneaky? No. Okay, so you probably get, like, within about 10 feet before it realises.

And then you just hear... And then scrambling off into, like, the night, just like... Bye! Very easy. Cool. Continue? Yes.

I mean, do we know... Do I keep an eye out sure yeah give me a perception check 12 okay yeah you kind of like you wait for a second

you kind of listen out you don't hear anything and then you start making your way again and no there's ten of them. They're not Tribbles.

Yeah, okay. So you make your way and yeah, you don't quill, you don't see it or hear it. The rest of you don't see it or hear it again. It just seems to have either Aayla scared it off or it's vanished and you carry on on um it does take you that wasn't notable in any way let's carry on it's probably the the sun is probably rising by the time you begin to hear the sounds

of the river and you know that you've been you've gotten yourselves turned around even using the compass and things like that like you've had to backtrack through like areas where the forest kind of dips down too low and you'd either have to climb up or you have to backtrack around through thick brush and things like that um you also probably try and avoid like animals like bears and stuff like that so you kind of when you get a sense that they're nearby you backtrack again um and yeah it probably takes you like most of them like morning um so the sun is just beginning to rise when you hear the sound of this this very large river and you can hear the kind of like the the flow of the water kind of crashing down you can see some like waterfalls like far off in the distance back up into the mountains and this very wide river flows out and to the north and you can see that it's very crystal

clear water um it's occasionally interspersed with rocks and like kind of steep banks. But it kind of winds its way through the forest and then heads out to the north. On the way, I'm going to go to Sentry. It's like, oh, look at you. It's such a mess. I'll do what I can on the way to just do little mendings. Yeah, I mean, most of her armor is fine. Her injuries have healed for the most part, but there's like a few scuffs and scrapes.

And she's like, thank you, Lucius. Can't have you looking like that. Not in my company. I thank you very much. I normally would have to rely on wizards or artificers to repair me, and I'm grateful that you are here. That's right. I can only do the beautiful aspects of it.

No, I am very appreciative. It was in my... I needed to present myself well in my previous duties. So I am very grateful for your help. Previous duties? She's like, yes. I'm sure you'll explain to me some other time.

I believe that we have more important things to focus on. Quiet. I like the sound of that water up ahead. Yeah, and you're just going to follow the river off. You can see that it does wind its way through the forest for most of it, and then it seems to... So what time is it now? I guess it's early morning,

like 8am. But yeah, you've already kind of... Basically, you've done a big load of travelling, so you're probably starting to feel a bit hungry. You're probably starting to need things like breakfast and stuff like that. And you are tired. Like there is physically tiring kind of trekking through the woods. Yeah.

And I suppose it's relatively tranquil here. Seems to be. Well, now that we're near the river, Bertie, you could catch us all some fishies. No, that's... No. Actually, this beak is not the right for it, really. It's the wrong species. It's the wrong species. Sorry. Oh, maybe you could. You've got tools and things.

I could probably catch some fish. Excellent. That's who you meant, right, Birdie? I just meant you do something. Incidentally, I'm just going to hold up my notebook. Just for my notes here for my travels and all that, what is your name? Oh, my name? Yeah.

Oh, yes. Have I not said my name? Birdie. Birdie? Well, I'm Kilo Kad Kalah. What? Has no one asked? Have I not introduced myself? No.

Corrin looks over. He's like, I asked. Thank you. He asked. In fact, I'm not sure if we've all shared our names. Some of us have, I believe. How rude. That's all two introductions.

You start. Okay. Well, I'm Kelek Adkalar. I am an Arakokra. Can you believe it? Birdie. Yes. My friends call me Quill.

And at this point, I like glance at Ayla and I imagine it's like a death stare. No, I'm just... She's just intense all the time. It's not a death stare, it's just intensity. It's not a death stare. It's not as well-crafted as a death stare. Well, Sentry calls me Quill.

Hi, Quill. Hi Quill! Hi Nova. I remember that much. You next I suppose. I'm Nova, hi! Nova, you've got a surname? Veejer. Veejer. Fascinating. That's a lovely name. ForeignLookSovery's like, that's a Vortensar name I believe, yes? Mmhm. A what? Vortensar. What's a lovely name. Corrin looks over and is like, that's a Vortensar name, I believe, yes? Mm-hmm.

A what? Vortensar. What's that mean? It's a city. Oh, lovely. It's my city. Whereabouts? In the...

Does it float? No. It doesn't float. It used to. What? Mm. And then your buddies, old buddies, really old buddies, brought it here, and it doesn't float.

What on earth are you talking about? old buddies, really old buddies brought it here and it doesn't float What? On earth are you talking about? Did you never hear of the Jasovir experiment? The what? The Jasovir experiment. You're educated, you should have been taught this Yes, by factual things this sounds bizarre It So you had a floating island

Do they maybe not teach you guys about this? Okay, maybe it's... Do you have an education? No. Okay. I have to make something. Give me a survival check. Just walked off.

Five. Five. So Aayla just walks off while you're having this conversation. Six. You try and go through your pack and find things, but you don't really have a line. You have rope, but nothing to actually make... I have a hunting trap.

I mean, that's like a bear trap. Yeah. That's like a pedal bear trap have rope but nothing to actually make like i have a hunting trap i mean that's like a bear yeah that's like a pedal bed i got a javelin yeah so apparently you would probably try and fish with a javelin like you're literally trying to spearfish so you go to the edge of the riverbank and um you can see that it's yeah this very wide looking river and there is there are fish there's like There's, like, salmons or, like, you know, some sort of, like, mountain... Like, fish swimming through. Do you want to try and wade out and just try and, like, spearfish a few things? Kind of.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So while Ayla's doing that... Yeah. So, Lucius, with you, you can make a history check, but I...

If you... You can choose that Lucius just wasn't taught this stuff you know what he learned. We'll go with the roll. So, 16. 16. When Nova talks about it, like the Jasper experiment, it does kind of ring bells. It's very ancient elven history

because it's basically one of the original elven cities from the founding age went missing and in its place it kind of vanished it teleported the whole city away and in its place in the sundering no this was before yeah this was before the sundering this was um many many you know centuries before this city was experimenting with planar magic and it vanished and in its place this whole other city full of these elemental beings the ganassi, appeared.

And there was a bit of, like, tension of potentially there was, like, little battles and sieges and wars as they thought that they were, like, you know, being kidnapped. But eventually it was kind of worked out. But yeah, it kind of rings some bells that it was an ancient elven city. And it's kind of become one of these kind of legends of, like, this ancient elven city that was extremely magical and had lots of knowledge of playing our magic just vanished. And it's never, nobody knows where it's gone. How fascinating.

You must tell me everything you know. So while you guys are doing that, yeah. Can I still be within range so I can kind of hear their conversation? Yeah, you're kind of off the side. I'm guessing that these guys are resting on the bank of the river. Give me an athletics check. Oh no. Why do I keep

drawing twos? Eight. Eight. So you wade out and you're like and you're kind of like annoyed at those guys and you're wading out and with the javelin you're kind of trying to wade and this is a really strong river like the current is actually pretty strong and like you can't wade out too far because it gets pretty deep um and you're you spear probably like a couple you try

and catch a couple of fish you miss the first few times you maybe catch like one um but then you kind of slip a little bit and you plunge into the water like you kind of get dragged into this kind of current um give me a strength saving throw. I feel like I've looked away, like I'm expecting her. She'll be fine. She's like a child. 24. Okay, so you manage to

pull yourself up, you gasp for breath, and you just literally grab onto the nearest rock and haul yourself up, but you are currently completely drenched with water. Meanwhile, I'm just babbling away. You're just pulling yourself up but you are currently completely drenched uh with water meanwhile i'm just like pulling yourself like up onto the bank like i'm still going on about high l but i got a fish though one fish that's my breakfast so a very soppy uh very soggy looking ayla comes back over um uh corinrin has probably got a fire going

like he's probably got like a basic fire going and he's kind of like working on that I feel like I do actually, Quill actually laughs when he sees her, just like this like the hair, like the red hair is like blasted like this little bird laughs um, and there's a

moment where you kind of look over and you can see Yusef kind of smirks a little bit. And it's the first time she's actually kind of like looked moderately amused in a while, like since the Battle of the Wild Elves. And you can see like Valor kind of like looks up and is like wiping like her eyes and stuff. And you can see that she's kind of like she smiles as well. But you kind of like stop over and then they but they don't say anything. They quickly kind of like turn back. Yusuf probably like pulls out a blanket and is

like, would you care for this, Miss Aayla? Help her draw off. Thank you. She hands over this blanket and you kind of be impacting yourself down as you cook this fish. It's a strong river. Don't go in there. It looks like it. No, that sounds very wise. Thank you for letting us know. I tested that.

It's fine. It's all good. Excellent. So what about the rest of you? Are you guys just going to have your rations? I am Lucius Viren, Illumina Elasto. Slower. We're still here. Are we still in this conversation? Apparently so, yes. You're next.

Ayla. Thanks. Let's move on. It's fine. Introduce yourselves. What clan are you from? The Eredai. The what now? That's a very long story. Technically not that clan.

I don't actually know. Let's leave it at that. I'm not sure. Okay. I'll make a note of that. Yeah. You seem to take a note of that. Yeah. You seem to take a lot of notes, Miss Vigier. Are you a scholar of some kind?

Vigier. Ah, my apologies. Vigier. Vigier. Yeah, I'm a scientist. Hi. A scientist? I'm not familiar with the term. Is that a Ganassi term? I look at the stars.

Ah. I look at where we are. An astrologist? Yes. Ah. I look at where we are. An astrologist? Yes. Ah, fascinating. Oh, well, I am Sister Yusuf of the Church of Siaska. I'm originally from El Seraf, but

most recently I was in Horizon, the Sky City. This is Brother Corin. He's like, he waves. You can see he's like cooking up like, he's probably like got some mushrooms from like the foraging, from the, the wild elf camp. And he's kind of like got a small pot out and he's kind of cooking the mushrooms.

Are they all Isles? No, no, no, they're humans. Brother, sister, brother Corrin and sister Yusuf are human. Valar is also human. And what age? So sister Yusuf is probably about in her mid twenties, maybe late twentiestwenties.

Dark skin, dark black hair. She wears, like, a headscarf. Um, and she wears star-mourner robes, so siasca priestess robes. Corin has the same robes, but he has cropped blonde hair and, like, a small beard, like a short beard. Yeah, about the same age. Mid-twenties. Yeah. And, uh, he kind of, like, awkwardly waves as he's kind of, like, cooking these mushrooms.

He's like, hello, yes, I'm Corin from Horizon. I grew up there my whole life. I was an orphan, but the church took me in. He just kind of awkwardly, hello, I'm literally just a priest. And then goes back to cooking. Just a priest. You've read a lot of books, right? Mm-hmm.

Brought up on them. My professor always says that if you've got time to complain, you've got time to read. That is a rather remarkable way of life, I believe, actually. Oh, I complain a lot. I should have done a lot of reading. Hmm. Yes. Yeah.

Yes. You read about wild elf fans a lot? Probably. I lost a lot off fans a lot? Probably. I lost a lot of my books in the last town. What town? Wherever we were before. Ew!

Imexan. Imexan. I had to trade in some. I had to send them back home because I just... I don't know what you guys are like but you know when you just stay somewhere

and there's books you just buy them and then read them and then you're trying to travel but you have too many books, you just buy them and then read them. And then you're trying to travel, but you have too many books. So I send them home. Yes. No. No?

No. Just me. Okay. That makes you very special and unique. I may be naive, but I'm not dumb. What? You read so much. How would you be dumb?

It doesn't make sense. I feel like you're taking the Mickey out of me. Taking the what? The Mickey. Taking the piss. Yeah. Oh, no, no.

Not at all. No, it's... Does it come across that way? Yes. Century looks at you and is like, it did not to me. I think it says

Century gets it. But I do find most of you difficult to read. You do not have the same responses as other guardians and people I knew. That's fair. Have you seen this tartan in any of your books? I'm going to show her the tartan I have on my belt. You can make a history with disadvantage.

Lucky for you, I am plus four in history. Bad luck for you. I rolled a nine history bad luck for you i rolled a nine 10 11 12 13 uh it's one of those things of like yeah like you're racking your brains um yeah i mean you've seen you know that tartan this kind of like cloth is very important to wild elves designates clans and things like that you couldn't identify it as a particular thing. Like you just know that that is a symbol of a clan. I'm really sorry. I'm better with stars and physics and astral bodies. It's fine, it's fine.

But I'll definitely keep looking though. Thank you. If we ever get back to Vortensar, I definitely have a book though that I could look up on. Well, I'm hoping that some of these fancy sky cities have some kind of answer. Ooh, I've never been there. Actually, I'll just, I'll rifle around in my pack

and I hold up what looks like essentially a library card. I have access to libraries everywhere. If we get to another city, I could go and look, and I'm allowed in. That's amazing. People aren't allowed into libraries? What? No, I'm allowed into the special areas. There's special areas in that?

Yes, in some places that there are books of particular subjects that some of the Sky Cities do not believe should be accessed by others. Well, that seems stupid. Why do they keep them? Because some knowledge is perhaps not best suited to all people, I believe. In the wrong hands. Yes. Goblins. Mainly concerning things like magic or...

Planar magic. Yes. Or magic involving some of the powers of Starbeam and such. Seems like if you don't want people to know that you should just burn the books. Oh, it's still good to know. I mean, is it though?

You can't burn books! I mean, you can. That's criminal! All of the knowledge you'd lose! That's true. But you'd make a really nice toasty fire. But the fire would only last for as long as there is fuel in it, whereas knowledge can light your brain forever. Okay. Othel's like, yep, see how far knowledge gets you

when you're freezing to death Out in the woods He gets it It's gotten me this far Yep Cause you've had other people To make a fire for you Darling I mean I don't mean

No disrespect Shall I take that blanket back then Listen It's not that guy That's got the blanket I give everyone blankets You don't have that many blankets I thought I would've

Dole them out Fine there's rations then I mean yeah He's just like, by all means, if you want to take it from the man who broke his leg by falling out of an airship, go ahead. Good idea not to say that. But all I'm saying is that different people

have different priorities depending on their situation. I've been around a long time. Knowledge is fine and dandy, and it's nice when you've got a nice cushy city to live in, but folks like Miss Aayla over here, she don't... That ain't how things operate in the lowlands, not all the time. But I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying

I'm going to help her find her tartan. And I appreciate that. Thank you. That's all I have to say on that matter. Two days. Just before I die, apparently, according to your experiment. Daddy will swoop in. He can all come to Gustaven for dinnies.

That sounds great. Why? It's never going to happen. Why? Why are you joining us if you could have just stayed in one place? What do you mean? You could have stayed where you landed. We didn't exactly land. What if Daddy went to the airship?

He is very clever And he would have his scout ears with him and they would notice our tracks and that the wild elves came and tried to take Us away and kidnap us he'd figure that all out and he'd know that we'd be heading towards the town Would we know if you're... Is your family name famous? LMS2? Cool note, like, yeah. I don't think...

I think we did this in, like, a previous episode. Yeah, I think we will. But we're walking further away from where Daddy will save you. Did I not just make myself clear? Did I startle? Did I startle? Has this possibility crossed your mind? I don't want to face reality. So let's just smile, catch some fishies.

That's fine. Mr. Kolar, I believe that it might be best if Mr. Elinasto comes with us to Goldthrone. At Goldthrone, he will be able to send a message to his father. Oh, of course. Maybe he'll be waiting for you at Rosehall. Maybe. Maybe.

Maybe. Almost definitely. Arvel is shaking his head like, as long as I build his hopes to the best, I can hear you every time we come to the city and daddy is not there

we're gonna have to deal with it as long as he loses hope in a city rather than losing hope out here I mean that's fair I mean it's

it might be literally like yeah he's he's looking at you he'll be there he might be he'll definitely be there I'm losing faith

in our cohesion as a group and I'm worried. I think Sentry is the only one with any sort of optimism. He's very, like, just robot face, just like, I am very confident that we will arrive where we need to go. Thank you, Sentry. This is the kind of attitude we need, this kind of expression. Brother Corrin is just like, well, I've fried up a bit of some of that bread of attitude we need, this kind of expression. Brother Corrin is just like,

well, I've fried up a bit of some of that bread and mushrooms we found. Had to go with any of that dried meat. Excellent. See? Any other... Everyone say a little positive thingy, and then together we have lots of positives. Okay.

Well... I have fish. You have a fish. And you've had a bath. Some kind. Yes, quite refreshing. Birdie? Well, we're out of the woods and we're on the way to civilisation. Yes, excellent.

Nova? As my professor always said to me, for me it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring. That was a lot of words. I don't actually know if that was positive or negative. I stopped listening almost instantly. Knowledge is a

positive thing and she was taught something that means she's educated which means she has learned something and it's enhanced her life. Which means we are all smarter at having Nova here. Exactly. She's got knowledge.

Aw, you guys. Yes. And you're always me and I've got money. Daddy's coming. Go team! Wait, your positive is that daddy is coming?

Yes. Okay. Yes. I've got his briefcase. Please, Mr. Kalar. Please. No, no. Let's just have this food. What's your

positive thing? I'm not dead, but thanks to y'all, I've just got a broken leg and a bleeding something. Stop bleeding. I'm not bleeding anymore. Let's put it that way. Something's leaking.

I mean, we get back to Goldthrone. You come by my estate. I'll make sure you get a lovely dinner. You have an estate. Well, I've worked very hard in my life to afford a good life in Goldthrone. Excellent. Me too. I will make sure that if y'all can help me get back home,

I will make sure you are handsomely rewarded for it. Well, I do. That's the least I can do for y'all helping me. I would have been dead in those woods if it weren't for all of you, so... Well, we would have been dead in the sky if it wasn't for you. I'm not sure that's true, but I will accept it wholeheartedly.

I did, well, and he pats his cross, but like, that is all thanks to Evangeline. Evangeline, I love that name. My sweet darling. Yes, your relationship. How long have you to Evangeline. I love that name. My sweet darling. Yes, your relationship. How long have you had Evangeline? Oh, Evangeline and I have been together since my days in the Harvest Guard.

She's killed many goblins, a few creatures, a few critters, trying to sneak on the farms. She's been with me my whole life. Never replace her. He just like pats her and like holds a very, very, like he fucking loves this girl. He's just like, yeah. Does she talk to you as well? Don't be ridiculous, she's a crossbow.

No, I just thought the way you talk about her, maybe she's sentient, like Tiangong. What? Hold on. He kind of eyes you very strange. You saying you talk about her, maybe she's sentient, like Tiangong. Do it. Hold on. He kind of eyes you very strange. You saying you talk to your sword and it talks back? Sometimes.

It's not really words. Right, well, that's, no, I don't know. Evangeline doesn't talk back to me. It's more a feeling. Why does one need a hammer? I don't know. My hammer is covered in mud and blood and stuff. You gotta take better care of that, darling.

That ain't no way to be treating a weapon. I'll get to it eventually. Well, you know there's plenty of great smiths up in Goldthrone. I'm sure there'll be plenty of nice dwarven artisans to be pleased, or ember elves maybe. They do fine work. Or you could carry it into the river and fall over again.

You want a closer look at the hammer. It's big. Yeah. Bigger than your head. It's very big, actually. It does really well at crushing heads, actually. Vala just kind of... Vala quietly comes up, takes a bunch of food out of the bowl, and just slinks back and sits down. Hi. Vala kind of quietly comes up and takes a bunch of food out of the bowl and then just kind of slinks back and kind of sits down. Hi, Vala. Oh, in the meantime,

I was trying to say hello to my arcane focus. Hello. It doesn't say anything back. Computer? Hello, computer. Very good sounds. Vala.

Yeah, hi. You didn't say a positive thingy. I'm not reallyy I don't know I'm not really I don't really I don't really want to play

any games right now it's not a it's not a game it seems kind of silly it's a psychological

uplift um yes she kind of like looks around uh you've met some new friends

who gave you a knife she kind of like looks over at him and she's like. Who gave you a knife? She kind of, like, looks over at him and she's like, I didn't get a knife. Two knives. Yeah, well, no, she gave one back to someone. No, I didn't need it. That's it, yeah.

She kind of, like, and Yusef is like, what is this? What do you mean that you have a knife? And then Vala just kind of looks. Had, had. What do you mean she she found a knife on the ground and we took it off

her immediately oh no I gave her a knife oh no don't worry don't worry about rolling Tom what do you mean yes she was she needed defending

Vala like looks at you like shut up shut up shut up like it's quite the knife shut up, shut up, shut up, like. It's quite the knife. Shut up. And then she, like, looks, and then Yusuf looks at her,

and she just holds out a hand, and Vala's like, we might, I might need it. If we get attacked again, I might, and she's just like, Vala, that is not a good idea. I don't think that you should have something like that. Self-defense. That. We are in the wilderness.

She could use it to cut up her food. Yes. You may keep it until we reach the next town. Yes, keep your one knife. Yes. Didn't you have another one? Oh, for fuck's sake. Valor's just like, no, I gave that to Nova. Yes.

Oh, my apologies. Nova's just making a face of like, oh no, no, no! Deception check. You're not charisma, you're a warlock, you should be fine. No! I rolled a two! That makes five. I rolled a two That makes five

He just looks at you and isn't sure Anyway Shall we continue on our journey? Absolutely We can eat on the move I'm getting quite tired Arvel's like

I mean I'm the one that's probably gonna We probably should keep going until night I know that we're all tired from being up, but we should keep going until this evening and camp properly this time. It makes sense. I don't want to camp out here again. I mean, walking through the woods when it's dark is not,

I know some of y'all elves can see, and I've got no problem, but our human friends here are gonna struggle, so. The thing is, there's wild elves in that wood who can also see very well at night, and they would have an advantage. Well... Keep going. Yes. Yeah, there's wild elves in that wood who can also see very well at night, and they would have an advantage. Well... Keep going.

Yes. Yeah, let's keep moving. Would they not be sleeping right now? That depends. They'd probably stagger who they have on watch and things. Well, let's keep moving then. All right, let's keep going. Okay.

So, Ayla, you covered this morning, leading them through. I need somebody else to take the lead on the second journey. I suppose I'd be mapping as I go. Okay, so you can make a check. Mapping, mapping. Survival check, please. Survival. That's ten. Ten? Which isn't great. Okay.

It's fine. It's daylight and you're following the river, which makes it considerably easier. So you just begin following the bank of the river. And occasionally you have to dive off the path, head deeper into the woods, and then you kind of circle back to the river. But you can always hear it. You roughly know where it is and where the compass is very easy to find again.

And you make good progress throughout this first day. You manage to follow along the river and you don't encounter any difficulties. You eventually come to near the end as the sun is beginning to set. You see up ahead what appears to be like an old log cabin built just off the side of the river. It maybe looked like a kind of like a fisherman's hut or something like that. It looks probably it looks quite large, like a kind of like a fisherman's hut or something like that it looks probably it looks quite large like a small family could fit inside um and it seems to have been abandoned but it provides you know walls and a roof um looking inside it has clearly been ransacked there's very little left apart from the walls themselves um you probably find like just yeah

some iron hooks on the walls where lanterns might have once hung and things like that but it provides you like a good stable base for you to take a moment of respite in um when you go to sleep that night who is taking watch you'll need three different watches if you want to make sure that spellcasters can get their rest um and everybody can get a full long rest in century can take one of them because she only needs four hours. I can take one. Because you trance for four hours and then... I can do the last one. You want to do the last one? Okay. I will definitely do the first. So you do

the first one. I'll do a trance for the first bit. Okay. Because I'll be next. So in that case it will probably be Ayla takes first watch, then Lucius, then Century. Okay. Is this a long rest? This is a long rest, yeah. Ayla, can you make a perception check for me? Swatch, then Lucius, then Sentry. Okay. Okay. So this is a long rest? This is a long rest, yeah. I'm going to say long rest. So Ayla, can you make a perception check for me?

21. 21. Okay. And then Lucius, can you make a perception check for me? 10. 10. Okay. Okay. So you take a rest for that night.

The stars overhead. You can hear the sounds of the woods out there. You can hear animals shuffling around. You can hear insects. The sound of the river is also constantly present. There's kind of constant crashing and flowing of water. But for the most part, your rest is uninterrupted. It passes by.

There are no problems. You aren't attacked or you don't sense anything trying to sneak up on you in the middle of the night. Just the evening passes considerably with ease. In the morning, you begin heading out and heading north, following along the river again. This time, the weather begins to change and it begins to rain. Around midday, the rain is quite heavy And thick, it's quite cold And any of you

That don't really have things like Cloaks or warm clothing Probably do begin to suffer from the cold A little bit, you get completely Drenched, soaked through I have some furs Yeah, do the furs Yeah, if you did, yeah, take should take furs or things like that.

Anybody who doesn't, certainly Yusuf, Corrin, Arvel and Valor, none of them have anything, so they just kind of get quite wet and miserable. Okay. And it kind of just puts like an air of like demoralization around everybody. As you reach what you think

is probably the edge of the Bitterwood on the second day, the trees begin thinning out, and you begin to notice kind of warning signs. And, Ayla, you'd probably recognize these. You see things like strips of, like, leather hung from trees with things like ears or fingers attached to them. ears or fingers attached to them. Writing carved into trees in Elvish reads, you know,

our land, get out, and stuff like that, or like trespassers will be killed, that sort of thing. And it's basically, yeah, these appear to be kind of like warning signs for people not to come into these woods. But you don't see much more than that. You just kind of see these

kind of things scattered around as like warnings to anybody that comes around. And yeah, the rest of that day goes uneventful. For the next night, who is taking watch? Are you going to do the same watch again? Sure. Okay. Thanks. Perception checks, please.

By the way, before everyone goes to sleep, I'm past 2.5 days. So let's hypothetically change the parameters then. I've analysed how you managed to survive so far. Yes. Daddy's still not here. No. You have this amount of rations and this amount of shelter. I reckon 5.9 days.

From here or from 2.5 days ago? Mmm, from here. Oh. That's optimistic. Good night. Perception check. 11. 11. Come on, Chris Trott. Yay!

17. OK. Oh, Christophe. Yay! 17. Okay. So, you take your watch, Ayla, and you can see the night sky above, the stars kind of rain down this gentle starlight.

As mentioned on the previous episode, there is no moon on Erois. The stars provide all of the light at night. And the cradle is this kind of aurora borealis, this kind of multicolored ring halo around the planet, wards it from planar travel and magic. And it kind of casts this kind of ever-present glow across the world. On your watch, you're sat around, the fire is kind of crackling, kind of dwindling, the embers just beginning to fade out as you add a bit more firewood to kind of keep yourself warm more than anything. The others all seem to be sleeping, but Sentry is kind of coming out of this kind of like,

sorry, Lucius is coming out of his trance, but he's kind of just about to come out of it. When you see on the very edge of like the woods i'm looking towards you like into the fire you see those same big yellow eyes the little kind of raggedy goblin and you watch it and you kind of have this moment of like oh this fucking guy again this prick and then another pair of yellow eyes and then another pair of yellow eyes appears. And then another pair of yellow eyes appears. And another. And another. Guys, company! It's a wonderful dream.

You watch as this kind of like, this kind of like, as these six goblins begin to rush out. So let's just do a quick initiative here. Oh Gooblins Yeah Maybe don't sparkly dice gave me two which brings me up to five

I'd like to think that Nova's just soundly asleep clutching her sword NPCs six gobs goblins are very quick are they? nippy little surprise round well not surprised because um ayla spotted them but

more that i just rolled very high on their um initiative uh ayla 16 quill unnatural 20 nova five lucius eight 20. Nova. 5. Lucius. 8. Team sleeping over here. He was technically waking up. So, Ayla, you're... Ayla and Lucius are the only ones who are awake at this point. Everybody else, you are still asleep,

so you don't get to act. Lucius, you have not had the benefits of a full rest, so you don't have your spell slots. Oh, actually, you had a full rest. I'm being an idiot. Ayla, you watch as these six goblins just rush forward in a kind of incest kind of thing. They rush into

the... They're incest with this energy. Oh, incest. I thought you said incest. No, they don't incest. They are incest with energy. That's awkward. They rush into the camp,

and two of them are going to rush up towards you, two rush over towards Lucius, but the other two just set upon the bags, and they're just ripping into the bags, pulling out stuff that they can grab as much as they can. They're pulling out stuff that they can grab as much as they can um they're pulling out like food and like water skins um and they're just like literally gunning for whatever they can grab little shits um so one is gonna try and shank you uh one or two of them are one kind of steps up and

clumsily trips over his own feet and you kind of like look to the side almost like what are they doing and then the other one like very surprisingly darts forward and just tries to ram the blade into your knee that was like a 19 that's 23 to hit does that hit you yeah so that's going to be five points of damage as this kind of like blade just like uh like swoops in you have to twist your ankle to get out of the way and it kind of drains some of your stamina. Lucius, you're kind of like, just coming to and then you see these creatures

with like grey and green mottled skin and like ragged little furs and loincloths with these kind of like serrated shivs. Like... And they try and shiv you. Well. So that's going to be a 20 to hit and then a 13 to hit.

Both hit. Ooh. Are they speaking war on you? Eight. That's going to be 13 points of damage. I'm down. You're down? What?

So Lucius kind of, like, looks up as these goblins, two of them just jump on him, and they just start pummeling him with fists and knives. And you're just like, as these goblins are like... I'm already dead. Yeah, like two of them hit him and they rolled high on damage. What's going to happen with goblins? Gee whiz.

Quill, you wake up, but at the end of your turn you are like, Ayla's cry kind of reaches you and you see this going on basically Sister Yusuf does the same I'm going to sleep, he's already down Century does the same

Ayla I would like to rage So you're like, you little fucks So there's two on me Two on you and then two on Lucius and then two going through your bags. And they kind of bark. Do you speak goblin? I'm assuming not.

No. So, yeah, they're barking at each other in like this kind of guttural like. Okay. I will just hit one that's on me. 16. 16 hits, yeah. They're wearing like little kind of scrappy leather and they've kind of got these like little wooden bucklers.

Nine points, no, 11 points are down. You crush one. Like, you literally like kick him in the stomach and then bring the hammer down and you just hear this wet kind of like noise as he just gets pummeled into the ground and like things break. Uh, his friend

looks like his eyes go super wide bearing in mind that the lightning is starting to crack up and then he just sort of like starts backing away like after that so Valor so basically everybody wakes up but it takes a time

except Nova who's not awake yet Lucius I need you to make a death saving throw, please. I'm probably at the last of the... That was nearly a one. How am I not awake? Because you're lowest in the initiative. I don't want to jump in, but you've gone down. There's an injury table.

Thank you, Tom Hazel. Can you make a contribution? You're such a suck-up! No, he's not a suck-up. He's being a legit player. 14. 14? That's enough a suck-up. He's being a legit player. 14. 14? That's enough. Hey, he's taken injury from me.

And now we're playing fair. Yeah. So, and you got, what was it on your death saving throw? 14. No, that was the injury table. You got 17 on the death saving throw. What did you roll on the death saving throw? I succeeded.

Yeah, you succeeded. So you get one success. Yeah. Okay. And then Nova, eventually, you kind of, like, and, like, somebody's, like, shaking you, and you're like, and you kind of wake up, and

you see, like, in front of you, going through your bags, like, with one of your books in its mouth, is this goblin, and he's like, and, like, looks directly at you, and it's like, and then he, like, opens its mouth, and it's just rows of, like of needle-like teeth. The book hits the ground.

Ah! It just runs at you. I was going to be like, how dare you! So one runs at you, one runs at Quill, one runs at Arvel, and one runs at Sister Yusuf. They kind of just leave you because they think they've killed you. So Nova against you. That's going to be a 17 to hit.

I would like to use shield, please. Okay, so you just, you kind of like, and this kind of magical force field erupts. So this goblin guy like goes to stab down and you hear him kind of go like, and just nothing goes through. And you're like That book was expensive

Quill Doesn't matter It's a natural one to hit you So it goes to hit you And then you kind of like And you kind of like Sweep your wing Kicking up like all this dirt

Into its eyes And it's like Stumbles backwards I guess with that Movement of the wing Three feathers fly out and pinpoint... It's not your turn. Is it not?

No. I'm attacking you. I thought you said quill. You did say quill. One of them... I said quill. One is attacking you. That makes sense.

One arvel kind of struggles awake and this goblin has got a hand on Evangeline. And then the goblin just punches Arvel in the face. So you can see blood kind of spewing out of his nose a little bit. And then one against Sister Yusuf. She manages to leap out of the way as this thing kind of lunges towards her and probably pins part of her robe to a log. And she just tears it away.

Then the last one is going to disengage as a bonus action from Aayla and just run over and probably go for Corrin because it looks like a weaker thing. Is he a rogue? Rogue goblin? Goblins are naturally quite evasive like that. One runs up to Corrin, stabs him through the stomach, and you watch as he just looks down and then collapses and goes down as well.

Well, this is not going well. Gooblins. Gooblins. Quill, you're awake, finally. I'm awake. So how many are there, sorry? There's now five. Five.

You let the squished one. Okay, I'm going to, I guess with that movement of the wing where I sprayed some dust into him, three feathers will fly out and pinpoint just ting-ting-ting at each individual one and that's a magic missile. Okay, so you're going to hit three goblins with one missile each. Okay, so roll just roll them for me. 1d4 plus 1 each.

Bam. That is a 1d4 plus 1. Oh yeah. 5 for one of them. 3 for another. 2 for another. Okay, so the first one hit seems to like really gets blown off of his feet and like kind of sent into the dirt and is like barely holding on like clutching his chest the other two are like hit but they kind of spin with it and they seem to don't

yeah the damage isn't quite lethal or anything like that all three are still alive but they're one of them looks quite injured um and yeah they're just kind of swarming around the camp like these are all within range that you either you have to disengage from them or you or you melee attack them on whatever they're all basically in your grill uh sister yusuf will attempt to she'll see corin go down and rush over to him um and she will get him word him because she cares about him so that's gonna be it's her friend so she kind of plants her hands on his chest, and is like, no, no, stay with me, stay with Codrin, stay with me, and you can see his eyes

kind of begin to flutter awake. That's her turn. Sentry will stand up, see the ones that kind of attack Lucius and immediately set to attacking one. She's going to hit one, killing one as well. So she brings the battle axe down

cleaves into its neck and then the force just sends him sprawling to the ground as she picks herself up and readies herself to fight more so that will be that one after sentry Aayla the rage

is there one still near Lucius or have they left no they've all left Lucius So there's now one 25 I'll have you hit the uninjured one Same 11 points I crushed it off before you rolled damage Because I figured that it'd probably be dead

So again you just come in with a side swipe You hit it so hard it flies off into the side, hits a tree, and you just see this wet kind of like... Yeah, slide down. I'm just making up for being completely paralyzed in the last one. Got a little weight to work out. Valor kind of like comes awake,

sees like the one that just stamped Corrin is now kind of threatening Yusuf, and she's going to throw the dagger. She kind of pulls out the dagger and throws it towards it. See? See? Useful. Useful. It's useful. She hits, because that's going to be a 19. And she will do five. Enough to kill it.

This one, like, the dagger thunk into the chest, and just like... And just kind of flops down, and then she is quickly trying to pull the other one out from her belt pouch Arvel will punch the one trying to fight Evangeline you watch

so he just got punched and he just returns with another punch. He just gets punched and he's like get your hands off of Evangeline drops his hands, grabs the goblin's head, and then just like... Wow. Cute.

And then... Lucius. Death saving throw, please. That's another success. Another success. Nova. There's one left. And he looks...

He was the one that the magic missile blasted off to the side okay and he's like he's barely just getting up he's like was he okay no that one was that was probably century killed that one the book chewer no um i would like to cast toll the dead please okay um and he's already missing hp right is it saving through wisdom saving through oh wisdom on a goblin. DC 13. Oh, I rolled a five and that's minus one. So, yes.

So you kind of raise the sword and you hear this... His head explodes. I caused 10 points of damage. Cool. Yeah. No, it's dead. That's all six goblins. I like to think that if he was the book chewer,

he'd absorbed all that knowledge and his brain exploded. That's what's going on in my head. So we go Quill because the goblins are dead, but Lucius is still down. I will run over and use Healing Word on him. Well, you don't need to run over. Healing Word is... Oh, you mean Cure Wounds.

Cure Wounds, yeah. So D8 plus Wisdom. D8, D8, d8. Okay. So you recover 4 HP. I rolled a 1. That's enough to stop him being dead. Yeah.

Welcome back. And yeah, you will end this session with these six goblin bodies as Lucius' eyes like What a nice dream! That was a nightmare. Lucius, daddy flew by and got them all. Daddy! And that's probably where we'll end today's episode.

How many days was that technically? There was one. End of second day. Literally after he said like I've made it 2.5 days I shouldn't have readjusted my calculation

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