Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 20 | The Sound of Thunder: Part 2

Episode Date: October 23, 2024

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Welcome to Legends of Evantris. I'm Iris, and you're listening to Beneath Dark Wings. Here's what happened last time. We have found an individual to meet us on the front lines who's a member of the resistance against the Ocaxian court. These six of you act as undercover agents of Korovacia to disrupt the tyrannical government of Irios, to find the wind dukes.

And that could save us all from the chain guard. My men will escort you while you approach Irios. May the Raven Queen watch over you. This mission is critical. Pleasure to meet you. My name is Felix, and I'll hold up my hand. Well, Felix. I'm a wizard. Can you make fire come from your hand?

Yeah, I can. That is impressive. I think we're going in the right direction, at least as far as the wind spirits are concerned, but I also get this sense in the pit of my stomach that there's some kind of grave danger that awaits us. Tama! Is that you, MacGito? What are you doing here?

I should ask you the same question. What are you doing here? It's very dangerous here, Tewa. I'm the true warrior. You are weak, you failed in combat. You're going to bring shame to our tribe. And his skin begins to shift, and you start to see that where there was once flesh

is crackling volcanic rock and magma pouring out of the same pattern of the tattoos. You are supposed to protect the spirits, not destroy them. It is too late for this. Spirits, you've done nothing. I will still kill you here. It is too light, however. The windbenders already have them.

The Erecococra will make nice use of them. I have fire and earth, and then I will have water and air. They know you're here. Who? Where? They are will be coming. What is Limead? You didn't have Limeade? They didn't offer it at that spa?

It seems like the kind of thing. Is Limead like there? It was a big benefit concert. Like back in the 80s. Lime Aid? What are the 80s? Like the, there's like a decade or something called the 80s. What is a decade?

Or maybe it was the early 90s. Lime Aid, right? No. No, no. Souther was like the age of which we all aid people by having the Lyme Aid. Well, anybody that gets the live aid reference, thank you. I appreciate that. I believe there was a wonderful queen who attended something.

Oh, I heard that. It was someone very regal, at least. Yes. I feel like we're really moving away from the plot here. You just confronted a coup, and that's meaningfully important. What happened when you first confronted him? How did you guys first go into battle? Well, I suppose now is the time to tell the whole story. Hold on, hold on. I'm very interested to hear this, but I know a lot of us are really exhausted.

I know I could use a nap. Should we make camp somewhere and take a brief rest? A brief rest or one of the longer varieties? Probably one of the shorter varieties. I feel shorter. Let us get into the underbrush and then we can have a short rest briefly. Yeah. Thank you, God.

And maybe Capricci, you could sing us that song that you sang to General Furman earlier that I don't think our friend has heard yet. Oh, yeah, and that would be my pleasure. There's this great shop that makes little miniature tokens. Well, let us make Kemp. And you all get into the underbrush, and he's keeping an eye towards the sky, and it seems as if that battle had not drawn the attention

of any air of Kocra, and you managed to get far enough away from the scene of the battle, and honestly, it doesn't look like much has happened because all of the lava had just crusted over into a black rock, and it seems as if It seems as if it would be very difficult to spot that from the air above.

And so you enjoy, yeah, you're camping out. We enjoy a short rest? Yeah, I'll say that. Okay. I'll sing a song of rest. Everyone can have an additional 1D6 HP if they spend a hit dice. I will do that. And remember that when you spend a hit dice, you also add your Constitution.

Yes, let's not forget that. It seems to be a common... Okay, let me... It does you write in DDB. It does. Is that 1D6 plus like per dice that we use or just one time?

No. Oh, really? It's not plus it's not 1D6 plus 2 every time you use the No, no, it's just No, it's on a rest. It's for every No.

This is with the song of red. It's just an additional 1d6 on top of whatever you do. If you use one. If you use gun hit dice. Oh, okay. Oh geez, I just did 50 damage to myself.

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and check out their Kickstarter for cool custom minis from Eldridge Foundry. All rights reserved. Got to give it up. Great job. So I sing that briefly for our friend, Umlanda. But, hey, no, I'm really more curious to hear about your first confrontation with Makutu. Did you grow up with him in your tribe?

Did you always take each other? Were you one's best friends and then he stole your lady? Or what was the deal then? Yes. Yes. There is one thing I would like to say to you before you delve into this. He mentioned a lot about strength. Strength is not always in the muscles.

You have a strength of heart, unlike any I've ever seen. So do not ever think that because his punches might land a little bit harder, that he is stronger than you. But you are far more sturdy, and your constitution is much higher. Thank you. I do appreciate that. I do believe that this is my purpose in life. And so it all started when... So my homeland, the McCarney Islands, is a chain of...

of islands to very far southwest, I'll say. And we're protected from an ancient evil volcano spirit named Tiki Rawa. And many, many millennia ago, the volcano erupted and

decimated nearly all the Goliaths living on the islands. I'm using minor illusion behind you to sort of like animate the scene as the Nord. The ancient elders and and shaman of my tribe. They called on the four great wind spirits that called these

island chains home. There was Raki, the Red Boar of the North Wind, Hekina the white moa of the east wind, Tonga, the Blue Turtle of the South Wind, and Komohana the Black Shark of the west wind. With the power of those four spirits, they trapped Tiki Roa in the great volcano in the middle of the island chain and protected the island as long as I've been alive and many centuries prior however one day the spirits seemed to vanish the shaman seemed to not sense their presence anymore and there were rumblings in the earth and our crops started dying the trees started withering the fish seemed to disappear and and there were just all of these

omens that the wind spirits were no longer granting these these boons to the islands and so the the tribe elders held a competition to figure out who would go out into the world and and find these wind spirits and given that we're a Goliath tribe we value strength very highly so there was a trial by combat and they pitted Goliath this is Goliath and I did all right I got to the very end to the last round um as did macutu and uh he beat the shit out of me um it wasn't even close he's a coward he's the one that ran away from him yeah but no he really wasn't even close

let me tell you i don't know i'll never know but i'm being honest because i really don't want to lie he really just beat the living shit out of me he's very strong as you see and now i wonder if he'd already been communing with Tiki Roa and gained additional strength anyway he gained the favor of the tribe elders and he set out to to go on this journey and find these wind spirits and it just didn't feel right to me I just got this this bad feeling similar to the feeling that I got and so I went to the top of the the the volcano and I set out my my fetishes which I little called figurines and nothing sexual.

Damn it! Did the elders know that you left? They frown upon it. It seems like it was his journey and you just went off after it. So they didn't know that I went to go and try to commune with these wind spirits and get a sense of what had happened. And when I prayed, I felt the wind whip around me and I got visions of strigger of this dark land.

And I had a feeling that something bad had happened, that that they were either absconded or imprisoned or maybe worse killed somewhere here. And I got the sense that I could save my home islands in this land. And I basically left in the middle of the night. I got on my boat and I sailed here. And I didn't know if he knew to come here or not. But when we first heard, word of him being here that's when I knew that he was on the same path that I was. And I thought that maybe he was more spiritual than I realized, thinking that he was just this dick meat head, was a fucking dick. Did you say the words dick meat?

A dick, dick meat, head. Yes. Dick meat and head. Lovely. In context, it means that he's a dick and he's a meat head. Yes, I know. It's just the way you pause. I thought maybe that he was spiritual, more spiritual than I'd realized.

but it turns out now I realize that not only was he trying to, not only was he just misguided and not truly spiritual in this quest, he seems to be complicit in the disappearance and the potential rise of Tiki Roa and the Great Volcano. And so if I don't succeed, it's very likely that the Great Volcano know, we'll erupt and potentially destroy the Makani Islands. Well, what I will say is I don't know much about your spirits, just a woman who works for gods.

It is not the likes of mortals to choose their champions, and it sounds to me that the spirits chose you. Your island believes that strength is the key, and I think that Makutu is wrong. He believes strength of arms, that is the strength of the heart that they are looking for. And you, Toa, have that in spirit. So if anyone is going to fell this volcano or whatever it is, which is a volcano, we can talk about it later.

If you're going to fell whatever this strange walking abomination is, this volcano creature, if you're going to fell it, you will have a new bus at your back. Well, thank you, and I couldn't have done it all without you. And I think that with the power of the wind spirits and friendship on my side, I would be successful in heart and all of the other elements. and whatever, I think that... The yellow... ...whatever you were referencing,

I think that we have a real chance to save my home. I thank you all for your help in your invaluable friendship. Hey, and look, you know, the way things went, I mean, he was walloping on you. I mean, he was... he was really walloping on you. But he didn't get you this time. It was... You held your own. He almost did.

Yeah, all I've been here, he would have been the sheer of me again. Yeah, he definitely used straight. He was wild being, but you did okay. He did it, like a big lava guy. So didn't he was insane. He watched it from the sidelines for the most part. He was beating you black and blue.

You were basically pounded into the ground, but you did not run. You stood up. He would beat you down again, but you would stand up. He would beat you down again, and then you'd stand up. He would beat you down yet again.

And he's the one that frown. Yeah. Exactly what I heard. person. Next time I'm going to turn him into an awful lot and we'll be a and then it'll be a fair fight. I can't wait to see that. That's a great idea. Well, thank you. I'm sure we'll see him again, but I think we beat the shit out of him this time. Did you see that that jaw thing that happened at the end? Yeah, it was pretty cool though. He fucking deserves it. The dick? Yeah, next time I find him, I'm not going to beat him up for, uh, for what he tried to pull here,

but for what the shitty things he said to you. That's not nice at all. What, like, what kind of barn was he raised it where does he get off that's crazy man not very nice atoll he's indeed very mean i'm gonna look around as we're starting to talk and i'm gonna turn to him landa um do you think we made enough uh noise to like attract attention are we okay if you remember what he said he specifically said they knew we were coming they knew of our presence so it's also the middle of the day you've got dakota too they i've been keeping my eyes to the sky I don't see anyone coming.

All right, just making sure. This whole nightday thing had been really messed up, I'm going to be honest. It is when you're ruled by nocturnal beings, it is very exhausting. You've just finished, you're resting after your battle

with Makutu, also known as flamebender, Taahi. And he had been the one that Toa had been searching for. And he allegedly said that, you know, while he was, he said he was going off to search for the wind spirits, he said he allegedly delivered them to be windbenders of the Ocaxian court and that there may be more nefarious things at play. He managed to escape,

but not without his jaw being smashed off. Do you even do after that? He's horribly, horribly wounded. But he blavvied into the ground and barely escaped. We'll say. And you're all now, and Toa has just finished his telling a story, and so you're all sitting there. You're all sitting down on either some logs, patches of grass, and the like, keeping an eye out on the dangerous owl. Also, someone asked the question, are these really smart owls or are the humanoid? They are owl-air-a-cocra.

Owl-headed ericocra. In avatrous, ericoccaca can basically have the head of any kind of bird, because why not? And so these are owl-variety air-carra. I wish they were parrots. I wish they were two cans. Yeah, two cans. Yeah? We could make all kinds of cereal jokes.

Man, that was a really hard fight. That sucked harder than suckballs Mountain. Suckballs Mountain. Don't you have a song about Suck Bowles Mountain? I mean, I've sung it once or twice, but never... Why don't you regale us? I mean, now it's not the time. I'm just saying a song.

No, I'm feeling wounded. I think it's the perfect time to hear about Suck Bowles Mountain. No. I don't think you should have brought up What are you Suckball Mountains? Would you like to hear the song about Suckball's Mountain? Your songs aren't very good. Oh!

Maybe you could have a good one. Maybe you haven't heard the right one, friend. Maybe this one about Suckball Mountains would be good. Well, you can't put him on the spot. He's the true how does... You can't put a musician on the spot that can perform a song. I mean, that's sort of what, you know, else to do.

Are you going to take that sitting down, Capri? going to school suckball's mountain i'll stand up even i'll stand up and i'll sing about suckball's mountain i don't look over here i'm not going to decide if we're going to mute the the screen yes it's fine i thought we listened to him we thought we did this is a mature stream everyone agrees that it's okay all right okay i'm sorry chat for what i'm about to do we've all proved it so it's all part this is my first time hearing it so i'm oh okay one evening as the sun went down and the tavern lights were burning through the door came a horny human he said man i've got a yearning i'm heading for a

house of ill repute if you're looking for an outin just come with me and we'll go and see the brothels suck balls mountain when you visit suck balls mountain don't pay for pretty legs they only have one offering and they call it soft boils eggs you're gonna fuck me up uh you're gonna eyes and race don't matter there only the heft of your coin purse just find a pretty face and a private place so the birds and the bees both get on their knees in the brothel suck balls mountain when you visit suck balls mountain all you need to wear our socks you'll learn how inventive nomish are while they get to know your rocks there ain't no other service there no tricks other than the one But if your balls are blue and you've got coin two

And you're wanting something different than your standard screw Make your way to suck balls mountain This stands down my favorite song And you've got coin too Classiest of the darling It's in Galtica, I don't know what to tell you It's for the children And with a 18 performance

How does Umlanda take this song Oh, oh, gnomes, okay, I get it now. God, I love this game. So, how close are we to being added at where we're going? Well, if we hurry, we may be able to make it before sundown, get an early night. Yeah, let's make our way. Now we'd be fantasticly brought away. It seems as if your spirits, though, are with the windbenders.

Are you alarmed by this? I mean, I don't know too much about the windbenders. Is there anything else you can tell me beyond the fact that they're owl people that can control the wind? Well, they can shape the wind to their own will, so that might be a bad thing for them if they are made of wind. So they can, like, destroy them or maybe control them, perhaps? Do you think maybe that they're using them to bolster their own powers? It could be. Maybe they're going to use it in a war against Gorovacia.

We have to free them. Yes. absolutely we need to free them as quickly as possible well I mean the storms have been getting far worse over the past months they are up to something it seems when if the aid of the wind spirits

even against their will are responsible it's my responsibility to make sure that it's stopped I guess we'll go everyone stay with me and he's gonna cast pass without a trace again for the rest of the day Let's get one more stealth check because everyone just broke it with their

Suckballs Nub. Hey, natural 20. Oh, wow. I got to get it up. I got to get it. I got to get it. 23 total. 22.

33. 35. Get your 20. And begin to sneak through the brush as and you keep an eye up. up and as you're making your way through this whole time you've occasionally seen far off in the distance or maybe a little bit closer you have a close call as you duck down and you'll see you'll hear screaming as a gnome is being carried off by an hour al-era cocra or or two as well as

perhaps a fear bulb or a lizard folk or a tabaxi occasionally being dragged up to who knows where and you have to make sure you're staying out of sight and it's really thanks to this druidic magic that is being provided that allows you to stay undetected and you see that there are small paths and roads and villages and people are walking around but there's a look of trepidation and fear in everyone that you pass that you see. I'll whisper to you out.

Landa, is there any kind of pattern as to who gets taken or is it just who they happen to spot? Not just who they happen to spot, but if they suspect that you're against the court, zero tolerance policy. And they just go to die? They go up to the tree chops, never come back. Hmm. All right. Do they pick them up and then drop them down and get killed by the fall? Or do they kill them up there?

I guess they kill them up there. I've never been. How do you know that it's a killing them? Well, they don't come back. That's for sure. It's fine. Do you... Maybe I'm just an optimist.

Are there any Al-Air, well, Al-A-Cola or those of your attacks? I can't say that word. But are there any... O-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-T-K-K-K-T-K-K-K. Drag-K-K-K-K-D-T. Sorry. So you can't say Gack, can except Maya and I'm not doing it.

Well, isn't there, like, one or two outliers, maybe, that don't believe in any of that nonsense, and they're just good owl people? Any good in their hearts? We haven't tried. There was a period many years ago where, allegedly, an era of course,

Kokora defected and joined in the resistance, and he ratted everyone out and everyone was executed. Oh, no. Sounds pretty serious. I mean, I think we would know if they were just dropping people down to the forest floor. They would just smash down in front of us, like a burlap sack full of vegetables. It would be bodies everywhere. And it wouldn't be surprised if they were throwing them off some kind of cliff somewhere and there was just a pile of them. Because, you know, there's a little bit of padding and tree tops maybe.

the chance they wouldn't die. It's a very far drop. They're like ridiculously tall trees. Yeah, absurdly tall trees. It's like fucking attack on Titan, giant forest business. Well, let's keep going. All right. And you continue on your way.

And the tells you that, you know, that he's certain that their leader will know what to do. He says, our leader heart, she says that she's been up to the treetops into the heart of Kaleri itself, their capital city, and came back to live to tell the tale.

And I believe that she will know what to do. So hopefully you'll meet her may make it to Foxwood. And it's not much further. and he guides you through under huge roots and logs and through the forest floor on the underbrush. You duck out of the way the activity during the daytime being far, far, far, far, far less than the night. And eventually you make it through the underbrush

and you see a very small and modest village. As you kind of look around, you see the occasional fox scampering around, the bright orange fur. diving into a den or beneath a route. And you see a number of small, modest houses round in shape made of very basic clay and wood. And it seems to be a very basic town with a handful of buildings,

with basically a crossroads through it. And you see, similar to how you've seen in the previous towns we've encountered, watchposts built into the trees above this town. As you approach, you look up and you see a number of stern-faced Erakokra peering down with their huge yellow eyes. There's almost a glint on them through the shimmering sunlight, right as sunset begins to come, as the storm clouds this whole time have been, really coming in and out, but when the storms had been bad, they'd been terrible, the wind

howling and whipping through. And right now it's relatively calm as the sun is shimmering through the canopy. And as you arrive right towards the outskirts of town, you're all ducking in the shrubbery looking out, you see a number of individuals walking around illuminated very softly by firelight. you see some gnomes to back see lizard folk in fearbole seem to be the predominant races

of this forest floor as they go about their business with that same level of drudgery and tenseness and a bit of fear that all of these other humanoids have been suffering as well that you've seen and as soon as you approach

this town Umlaanda stops you the one says, this is Foxwood. It's not much, but this is where the base of our, of at least our operation is. It's in the

tavern over there. What was the name of their leader, by the way? Heart. A, H-A-R-T. H-A-R-T. Oh. What is it with leaders in getting named Hart? And there's a name of a village?

Foxwood. Foxwood. Foxwood. What's the name of the tavern? Bunniesboro. Bunniesboro. Burrow? Burrow.

Oh. What an adorable name for a tabard thing. It really is. Is that with an O-O-Brow? O-W? Or like a burrow. You are R-O-W? Like a bunny burrows?

Uh-huh. And a fox is in a wood. So like a B-U-O-W. Oh, I got it right. R-R-R-O-W. I got three 19s for a lot. Oh. Loaded dice.

Loaded dice. I have a friend named Enzo. Because you said that. I'd just like to draw your attention to my notes from last session. Derek says he has a friend named Enzo. The most important point out. So met up. So are there, are they, are they like Ericocro gods and stuff around this town?

Or is this town relatively unguarded? There are gods up there. But we're all very much incognito. all of you will have to sneak you in but I have an idea is I'll Shrogan they don't know that I am part of the resistance I can find someone who can bring out a cart

we'll say we were hunting we'll get some foxes and drink the furge over you and we'll get you into the tavern we need to go hunt foxes we have foxes we oh we don't have to kill actually hunt foxes You have... We'll put you on a sled.

And we're going to pretend that we just hunted some foxes. Yeah, and are going to put a dead fox on me. Yes. I'm... I don't think that... Lots of dead foxes. It's just a fur, really. What if Irish just lays on top of me really still?

No. She doesn't look like a fox to me? Do you want us to just wait here for you? Yes. All right. Postcard here and then just we need to make sure we get our story straight Because I'm not very good at lying so I just need to make sure that I know what to say Well, it's fine, it's fine.

Do you want me to summon Peyton and she could like pull the wagon? Why are we lying to them? To who? In case somebody comes while he's away and they're getting the cart, he's wondering if like somebody should stroll up to us what we should do in that situation. Tell them the truth? I mean, if an Eric O'Coker flies down right now, we're not going to want to tell them the truth, so what story would we tell?

Oh, you're talking about the Eryokra. I thought you were talking about the resistance. Oh, no. They know that someone's coming. Okay. But you all are obviously, clearly, not from around here. So we hunters and we just have some fox pellets. So do you want the axe or not?

No, you'll be the fox pelots. I'm a hunter. How about we do this? Let me see here. Make sure I prepare. Unless you can go and move. I don't think that's possible. We could allusion some stuff.

I've seen Caprici do it before. It's pretty cool. Yeah, I've got some minor illusions, and I can also go invisible twice a day now. I'm fine. No. Just, let's just remain hidden until our friend here gets back with the car,

and then we'll all pile in and get in safely. Does that sound fine? Yeah, make sure you get the keys to the Toyota. I'm not driving away. The other guy. The other guy. He jumps in his force. And just stay here.

I know where you are. And he... So we're like hidden under... Yeah, you're hiding in the underbrush. And you stand at the outskirts of town as you see Umanda step forward. And as he's walking into the town immediately two of the centuries, fly up from their perch and swoop down directly in front of him and landing. You see that there are swords at each other side and that they have their taloned hands ready to draw.

And you see that Umanda pulls out, raises his hand and he reaches into a large sack that he has and he pulls out two fox pelts and he's talking. We can't hear any of this, right? You can't hear any of this. I should have been inspired. I'm going to do it. The Eryokokra draw their swords and Wanda's head hits the ground. No! That was some rude expectations.

Always Erykotra. And he's talking and he holds up two fox peltz and he is pointing over his shoulder in the opposite direction of where you guys are. And he's just gesturing and you see the eyes of the Eirikokra scan over the woods. and eventually they kind of narrow and try to discern if he's telling the truth, and eventually they both nod at each other and fly back up landing on their perch that overwatches the foxwood. Can we see their perches? Yes.

You can see that it's basically that there's a number of trees that this is in between four huge tree trunks, and in two of the trees on either side there are these sentry posts, and with a number of patrolling air cogra. So there's the two of them. Do I see any more? Making perception check. 18. 18.

You look up and you look around and it seems as from what you can tell there don't seem to be any more than the two. And it seems one was on either sentry post and they both swooped down, landed, interrogated him, and then went back up to their perch. I wave practically to everybody and I go.

Yes. What on earth is she doing? I'm not sure. I think she's just repeating what we're seeing. right now. Pisha, are you feeling all right? Is there you have additional information? Are you choking?

No. Oh, I just wanted to think. What? Exclamation point charity. This goes off and after about 45 minutes. After about 45 minutes, the

brush Russell and you see Umand... Brussels? Brussels. They get returned to Brussels and

he emerges through the brush and you see a large sled with built of this sturdy wood and there is

a large pile of fox pelt on it and he he as he emerged he's dragging

it through Well, who's first? Do you want the axe or not? I think they'll be very suspicious if a random musk ox appears out of nowhere. Is that random around you? Yes, we don't have a musk ox in here. I didn't know what that was when you first said it. Oh, okay.

He probably still does know what it is. I actually still don't know what it is. You explain it to me, but I can't really picture it without the context. So are you taking us in one by one? We can probably fit a couple of you. No, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. I'm getting a suit. I'll just climb in and like...

Can you pull us? And like burrow in under the foxes as deep down under as I can. What if you go, I'll go invisible and then I'll just follow along aside you guys. You know, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know if Iris is going to tolerate

being under all these foxes. You might have to use invisibility on her. We should stage whisper and talk louder just so they might talk about. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry. Not actually whisper, thank you. You should use invisibility on Iris because her tolerance for dead foxes is low.

From underneath the fox pelts you hear Felix say, he's not there. You don't have to speak slowly. You want to go invisible? I want to be invisible. No, not at all. Well, shit. How will I be able to look at my jewels?

But just temporarily until we get into the tavern. Yeah, I'm just concerned. Otherwise, you have to go underneath these fox belts and they smell like fox belts. And they're going to smudge your shamy stuff with their deadness. Are they bloody? No, they're fine. They look very soft. They're very soft.

No, I don't want to. It's pretty cozy in here. Fine. Make me that invisible thing. Are you sure? No, but do it anyway. I'll hold my unending breath, hold my breath and climb into the fox pile.

Oh. Can you see, what's up? If you can make him invisible too, then we can make it in one trip? No, I can only do it. I think, uh, just let me just double check. check, I can do it one at a time.

Fine, I will get under the foxes and you make toe invisible. All right. And I'm climbing under the foxes. No, I can only make one person invisible at a time. Is it concentration or something? It's, yeah, it's concentration. So a higher spell slot, you can do it.

Unless, when I use the bow to cast something, I still have to maintain concentration on the thing that I cast using the bow, right? Yes. So yeah, I can cast invisibility once using my own self-boopiness because I'm a T-fling, and then I can cast invisibility using the bow, which means I can cast it twice per. day but they don't stack. So you don't actually have the spell invisibility.

Right. Okay, so yeah, that's why you can only do it at one person. Right. So... Do not realize? We're going to have to do this in two trips if we're going to use invisibility or we can just do it in multiple trips like the original plan. What do you guys want to do? I'm fine with anything. I'd just like you to make a decision.

Toa, I boop him, and I'll take the second round, come back for the rest of the belts. Tua, we're not going to be able to see you, so you're going to just have to follow really close behind us. Don't be very quiet as I can. Okay. There's absolutely no way that this can go wrong. I agree.

I agree. Do I wait back here or do I get in the wagon now? I will stay with Caprice. It's up to you. You can stay here. Does it look like there's room in the wagon to fit... There's probably about room for three of you guys if Tua's going. I'm invisibly.

Oh, you're invisibly. Yeah, he's on. He's in behind. So then it would be the three of them, and then Caprice and I would wait and go with the second. Okay, yeah. Well, that makes sense to me. Everyone else get in.

Clammer in. Takes me a while. A lot of sound of shuffling armor. Maybe a quick fart. Oh, thanks for joining us, Georgia. Why did you do that? Man, a fox pelt. That shuffin sounds awful.

I can't talk. I'm going to hear. You can exhale. You can exhale. Yeah. Once you went out of breath in your. air in your lungs. You'd have to rebreathe. You can talk, but you have to talk through your cheeks, like Kenny from South Park.

Oh, boy. I'm going to have to pop right off. Should I steal away? If you guys are, you're in invisibility. Yes. I'm invisible. You're invisible, so you should stealth an advantage. Well, that's a 19. That's 13, so. Well, the higher number is 13, so. It takes out. It takes out. 22.

22, okay. So you are slinking through invisibly behind as like, well, try to much move. And with a, oh hey, I want to give me a hand here because you're invisible? As long as they won't know what I'm doing, sure. Whatever feels the most natural with kind of my strength, I can get behind and push? Yeah, yeah, you can definitely get behind in push with that stealth check. He's struggling as he pulls and he's getting it, but then all of a sudden with Toa just, it just, oh, this is a lot of easy. Okay.

All of you, all you can see is darkness, and little bits of fur as you're just, you feel the bits of the tan leather and then the soft plush fox fur as you're just completely covered in this. And you're jostling around as the sled gets pulled, Toa, you're pushing, you're able to see as, as, as, as, as, as, as, you're just, you're, you're, as, as, as, as, you're. Umlanda waves up at the guards as they peer down at him. I'm like sweating profusory. They lean in a little bit. And this is the closest that you've gotten to any of these. Both of these Erykocra, they are both owl ericocra. But one seems to be like this dark brown with tufts.

And the other seems to be a little bit larger with this gray plumage and these huge circles around in his already large eyes. How tall are they? They're about human height, so probably around six feet, yeah. And maybe a little bit shorter. And they are peering in as they watch him, and he waves, and he succeeds in his deception check. Yeah. That's good.

As he pulls the sled, and you see this small, modest looking tavern ahead of you with a little wooden sign with a sign that says the bunnies burrow and it's a little hole with a hill with a hole dug out as the symbol on the sign as he drags you around

and pulls the sled to a side of the building that's out of sight from the from the Erakokokra and Toa you see a seller door. It seems to be a root cellar with a double door and he stops and he goes over and he's open both of the doors to this root cellar and he whispers in, okay, I'm going to pull you in the direction and just make a run for as soon as you can and you're going to go into a root cellar into the basement of

the inn. No one's down there yet. but I'll meet you as soon as I get the others right as you get out of the car there are steps so please be mindful of of you the first step I wouldn't want you to trip and hit yourselves

what's the goat mark what are we going oh it's it's so Seller Settler I start to scramble out and like basically like roll out of the cart

and like hit the first step and like roll down the steps like as I'm doing too quickly so you do that as you run out, are you guys doing... I'm grabbing Lufty's hand and running down after Felix. I'm just going to look down at my bunny or my fox

fox soiled outfit and follow. Here's it. Okay. I'll wait until everybody else is out, make sure that no one saw us, and then I'll go down. Okay. So you, all three of you, dark, and you run down the stairs into the darkness below.

and Toa, make a perception check for me. Should I use one? Feel free. I'm going to use a twist. I'm going to use a twist. Okay. It's worse. So that's 11.

11. Okay. So you peer around and you look and you listen and you hear the faint flapping of feathers, but it just seems to be a woodpecker flying over your head. It lands on a tree next to you and starts hammering away. at the tree. Derek, what does that sound like? I can't do a woodpecker. That's exactly right. That's exactly right.

So you all run into the cellar, both of you. Probably 20 minutes pass as you hear the rustling again. I've been teaching her how to do the fucking... I don't, I don't understand. You just go like this and then you come up? No. No, up. You have to...

You do up? Yep, and then down. Oh, shit. And then... We'll start over. Yeah, okay, okay. So together and then up... Oh, shit, no, start over.

That's not how. And then 20 minutes of the end. No, one more time. Just one more time. One more time. All right. All right. Right.

Oh, no. I thought we were supposed to go down. God damn. The Eric Hooker sued out of the slice. The floor. The Ocatsian court sends their regard. Yeah. We...

One to who. I'm 100% stealing that You can't stop me You can't stop me Thank you, Naio Thank you, thank you, thank you Oh my God Oh my gosh

This is stupid Meanwhile Meanwhile, Meanwhile, finally Lomanda shows up You haven't been beheaded by owls At send their regards And he

He says, okay, this is the last bit. Get in. Sure. You first, Caprice. It's not too bad. I dig in. I'm not going to make myself invisible. I'll just hang out. Okay. You dive in and you're diving in, so you both... I will only go if you promise that you will teach me whatever this weird hand-magic is. It's a later date. We'll practice every night, no problem. Do you promise?

Absolutely, I promise. I will be the best at it. I believe you, yeah. You'll win. Perfect. Then I'll get under the foxes. Okay. You dive in. It doesn't smell great, but it doesn't smell as bad as you're expecting.

It smells gamey, but like when you ever walk into a fur shop at the Renaissance fair, it's about that turned up a little bit. As you dig in and both of you just wait and then you say, okay, you're lighter than the other group, and he steps forward and pulls the... pulls the sled. There's a lot of dead foxes on top of us. This is weird. Have you ever heard them having sex?

These scream like humans. It's mind-blowing. Jesus. I think we need to be quiet. Sh! You hear a shh. But I didn't know that. Shh.

You've never lived in the woods of Virginia. You scream like humans, and it's a nightmare. You'll have to, you'll have to. Show me what it sounds like later. I would use minor illusion to make the sound now, but we will get caught. You hear the rattling of the sled beneath you and the rustling of the peltz as you're dragged across. And once again, once he gets a little bit closer, he stops. And you get the sense that he's probably waving up to the two centuries.

And then moment passes. And then you start rattling as you are dragged forward. Eventually, he stops, the sled stops. And then he leans down and says, Okay, there's a root cellar about five feet to my right. Just make a run for it when I say, oh, I can't remember the code word. I think it was cellar. Cellar. What seller?

Brought into the root cellar. A root cellar. You feel a large hand. Shoot into the belt and drag it and pull you out. All right, I'm going, I'm going. I've already like, I use that moment to dart out, feline agility, and run straight up. You leap down, you see the cellar, and you both sprint down into the cellar. And you, both of you, or all four of you, rather, emptied out into a cellar filled with root

vegetables, casks of liquid, you assume probably ale or wine, and large sacks of flour and other dried goods. And it's, there's still a good amount of space, despite the cellar being totally packed. It's spacious. You can get the sense that the cellar's probably about the same size as the inn that's above it. Was it, like, you said it was like pitch black

there? Yeah, totally dark. I'm going to have while the four of us were down there, have pulled out the lantern that tow had given me just for a little bit of light, place it on the floor. Caprice, in a cellar full of large sacks, do you ever feel the need to sing bowl sack candy mountain? No.

Why? Why? Well, I just thought it was apropos. No, I thought I might steal a bag of flour, but that did not occur to me, what you just as suggested. Wait, did you just say Balsack Candy Mountain? Isn't that the name of his little ditty? Is it any relation to the fabled Candied Mountain? I'm not sure.

Candy Island, I mean. I don't know any. All I know is Suck Ball's Mountain is a brothel. Oh, I apologize. I thought Suck Ball's Mountain was Boles Candy Mountain. I can see how that would be confusible. Is that a neckback thing? I'm not sure what

Neckbeck is, but in Neckbet No, it is not a thing You know I'm pretty sure that Candid Island is real I'll find it one day, Candid Island Candid Island It's an island made entirely of candy

Is that like a story that you're a people tell? Yeah, it's as children they tell us about this fable place called Candid Island And it's an island made of candy Entirely of candy, yes Wouldn't it just dissolve into the ocean? No, no It's it's waterproof

candy. Waterproof get some edible? Yes, that sounds like none digestible. Can I roll an

insight check on the wireproof candy? It's definitely edible. I don't know. I haven't thought about it.

I don't know how it would. It's just an island. It's all right. It's okay. It's magical candy. I realize I should have known.

Saliva has a different property than water does. I have so much to learn. Obviously. I don't know this thing.

I just say, I believe it exists. People say, oh, tell what, you still believe in candy darling?

That's ridiculous. Do you believe in the... Well, Toa, darling, I believe in Candid Island. You believe in Candy Island? I do. Now that you've told me about it, I definitely believe it. Oh, well, I wonder. After this is all sitting down on the island.

We will take Daddy's barge and we will sail around the entirety of Adventress and we will look for candy daddy. Right. We're going to go to Galtica. We're going to go to Netbet. We're going to go visit Candy Island. And then you can take some candy back with you and you could say, well, all you non-believers, I have been there.

Also, the tooth fairy is totally real. What on earth is a tooth fairy? That sounds horrifying. She's a fairy of teeth. Oh my God, I don't ever want to see what it ever. She's an archfay. You don't mean like a hay creature that steals your teeth? Yeah. Holy God's almighty.

That is absolutely horrific, Caprice. Why would you say that? Toa is going to have nightmares. I'm going to have nightmares. Let's all have some nightmares. Wait, she exists? I didn't believe in it until now. It's true.

Well, now I believe it. All right. Oh, no. darling we will never let her get you alright she won't take my tea she will not take your tea I'll quite like my tea

which will eat motelot and she only comes after you if you lose it to a fake creature that steals teeth is not going to do anything how am I going to eat the candy on candied island if I don't have my tea I don't think you should go after this candy island I mean I need to have a story where there was a house made of candy in the woods but when you get there a big horrible hag just eats you

the hag as in like a fairy creature is in the tooth fairy. Does the tooth fairy are on Canned it's a fake? Oh no, what if the haggish tooth fairy lives on Candid Island

and she eats anyone that makes it there? What a truly terrible place. We must kill her and take back Candid Island. No, we must just never go there. I can't even risk it. I can't risk my teeth.

That's true. Not even for a room. Tune in on Toothair when we've been running a one shot called Candid Island. All I'm saying is that this might be be a fuel for the Faye Fire.

Oh yeah, I hope so. I'm just. Anyway, sorry to derail the conversation. So we're in a root cell, is that right? Are there any roots? There are many. I'm trying to look for roots. Vegetables is what you describe, right? Yeah. No, no, no, no. Like, Toa is looking

for, like, roots. Tree roots. Like, like, tree roots. Oh, you actually are looking around, and it seems as if there are some areas in the wall, where the floorboards have been pushed out and there are some roots growing in and out kind of sneaking in.

So that is why they called a root cellar. Part of it. All right. That makes sense. There are a lot of trees. So, do we just wait down here until Unlomba? Oh, are you here? I've been here.

I've followed after them. I thought you were going to take this way. I was very concerned about the tooth fairy. I got scared. I didn't want to speak. No, back home, I used to leave my teeth under my pillows, and I'd wake up in the morning, and there would be a tater tots under there.

That seems like the opposite. My teeth would be missing. The Tater Tots would be there. The two very free different cultures differently. Maybe Tater Tots is her way of threatening or warning. I was going to say that that sounds the opposite of stealing Tate. It's more like open commerce. What are Tater tots?

Tater tots? They're like potatoes that taper to a point. Are they used as weapons? I think you just eat them. They're food. Well, anyway, so what's the goal? What's the goal? Potatoes.

With a name like tots, I imagine it was a small child. No, we would never talk about eating children. Are they potato children? Yes. We'll wait until we have a meeting tonight, and then we can get some rest. Are we just going to stay here in the cellar? of course yeah the seller's not so bad

I'm gonna look around is there any casks yeah they're a good number of casks I'm gonna look well okay if you say so and I'm just gonna and you gotta tap a cag

well I'm sure I'm sure heart won't mind if you do that and if not I'll I'll pay for you because I'm the one who brought you here How much does a brood normally go here? It's three copper pieces.

Oh, yeah, no. We'll cover the cost then if she incurs it. Yeah, we'll drop some gold. We got it. Oh, well, thank you very much. Are you very wealthy? Not terribly. No, but we certainly don't want to impose upon you and your people.

You're doing us a huge favor by even risking your lives sneaking us down here. Well, I mean, yes, we are risking our lives, but we do that every day anyway. Every single day where we are working against the... The court is a day where we risk disappearing and never returning. Speaking of which, I was going to say, you deal with this kind of disruption every day just walking down the street like that? Yes. You should see the tax collectors. How much are they taking from you? Almost all of it.

Almost all of it? Everything you earn. Yes, and grow and hunt and the catch. I like to tell and of course the rest of the group, but I'm looking at to tell when I say, If Captain Freeborn were here, he would never allow this. Well, that's why we're here, is to no longer allow it. Isn't that right? I just feel like he would want to be here. I think so, too, but he has a sacred vow at the Lockfeather Lodge,

and I think that, you know, him, I feel much more comfortable that he's there protecting that seal. Of course, of course. We can still make his eagle scream any time we want you, though, right? We probably shouldn't do that now, though. No, but he's kind of funny. I don't know. It would only be as funny as it was that we thought that he thought we were all dying. I mean, that wouldn't be great.

I'll have some of that, too, and I'll, like, temporarily put, like, a Stein underneath the flow of alcohol to, like, pause the what Lutti is drinking, and then when it's full, I'll pull it back, so the screen continues. I lay down on the floor next to Loofty, and I just stare at her sideways like this, and then when she goes for a breath, I'm like... She's happy to be drunk forever. Regardless, I look forward to hearing what your leader has planned. Oh, well, so do I. She hasn't told us her plan, but I promised the secret weapon that it would be, oh, that you six, you're sent by, you're endorsed by the, by the magic, the Raven man. We're, oh, we, oh, yes, you were, we're, oh, yes, you were, we were, oh, yes, we were promised that, we were promised that, we were promised by the Korovakian military that you'd be able to, to help us.

Help us, we have access to the whole Talent Guard and they just sent us. We're very powerful. No, that sounds right. We're very... We have the power of friendship on us. Paula is wife. That's our secret weapon, is friendship. You have nothing to worry about at all. They could have sent like seven or eight, you know, elder members of the Talangard.

They don't need the Talents. I am all the muscle you need. I promise. I got it covered. Yeah, we're better than those talent guard folk. I said folk now. I've like stuck a thumb up in the cask above me while I'm talking. It plugs it for a little bit.

It was like putting a spoon under a faucet. It's just like a spring. So we'll wait until the heart gets here. No one's smarter, braver, or fiercer, ferocious than she is. So I think we'll be fine and we'll wait until the meeting and should I guess it'll be in less than an hour. So... Is she a verbal like you?

No, no, no, no. She's a Tabexi. Oh. I always see you may have a little friend. No. No? Oh. She looks a lot different from you, though.

Yes, you've already told me. You insulted me a bit when you made it known. Noon that what? That she is an orange tabaxi. Yes, she is. Yes. Well, she's very fierce. She's a warrior's heart.

That's why her name is warrior's heart. Oh. And yet she spells heart incorrectly. I think it's spelled correctly. Maybe in Koravakia, it's H-A-R-T or maybe H-A-E-R-T. Is that it of E-R-T? Hey, Caprice, you want a gym? Sure, where do you want to play?

Do you lead the way, per usual? I take out my ukulele and I'll just gently quietly. be playing music down here? I don't I mean, I really like it when you guys jam, but these are going to cause a lot of commotion? Underneath the tavern, music seems like the most appropriate types of sounds. Unless they're taxing that too.

Are they taxing the music? I mean, what bands make, yeah, they text. Are we hearing commotion upstairs? Yeah, so as you sit and wait, you hear the footsteps on the floorboards. It's not super ruckus like the taverns that you're used to, but there are a number of individuals that are moving around, you're the sliding and scraping of chairs, the moving of like of silverware and

cutlery and mugs and plates and the like. What time would it be around? It's probably about like 536. It's like right getting to sunset. 536 is a very specific time. 537. technically like 538 since like exactly four hours behind where we're at right now oh yeah there you go there you go 538 um sure yeah let's let's play uh here here do you know this one dashing and daring courageous and daring faithful and friendly with stories the shares all through the forest they sing out in chorus marching along as their song fills the air oak and a lion Bouncing people there And every

Elion That way I need some work I'm just I'm just looking my spellbook That was lovely We work on that

one Eventually it worked Eventually it worked Oh that Was that about us? Yeah That's great You should play that for heart

Oh that would be my pleasure Okay Well I'll see I'll see when people are coming down Wait right here And he leaves the up, you see this rickety wooden staircase that goes up to a small door. And he, as the door swings open, you see some light of the glow of the firelight emanating down and illuminating the staircase and then once again goes dark. You all wait a little bit.

And then after probably about 20 minutes, it opens again. And you see a number of footsteps. a number of feet, start walking down the staircase. One is, one, at the lead, you recognize to be Umlanda. And then you see another pair of legs that are stepping out from beneath a robe of some sort. The feet seem to be scaled and green. And you see a lizard folk in a hooded and cloak step down following behind the fear And then behind him you see you see a small pair of feet and you see a forest known follow behind and then it closes

and the as you're all left alone or as you're here with these three new with these three individuals the lizard folk looks at all of you and says this is the secret weapon Yeah, what do you think? Weapons? No, the secret weapon is friendship. All of us combine. We are the secret weapon, yes. Or so we're told. Yeah.

And what do you propose to do? What is your power? We're all pretty strong. I mean, we're strong and smart and courageous and and royal and beautiful and talented and all of those things. Oh, thank you. did not keep one. Oh, she's drunk. But she's very good at it.

She parties very hard. And you see the lizard's eyes narrow as he surveys you, and he looks up at Umlanda. I was just not going to be happy about this. And he's like, no, no, be nice, Farnox. They're fine. I've seen them fight. There was a magma warrior.

The delivery on that was perfect. It was a complete accident. You say Farnox? Farnox. F-A-R-N-O-X. Farn-n-E-O-X. Farn-nock. Sorry, you have anything that sounds like farts.

What are you doing my name is no longer Farnox. No, because it's no fart box. Well, you know what? Fine. This is your secret weapon. Wait, the lizard. This is your secret weapon? I don't leave this farts growl from the corner of the dark cellar.

Please, fart bucks. We're in a cellar. When we say mature shrieve, we need immature shrie. No, you're mad for you. Mikey, please come back and DM. We need to know more about fart cards. I just have to know, is fart box related to anus? They're cousins.

Awesome. Other. Oh, God. Wow. Did you ever see this? You never can when you can. You pick a name and you're like, that's perfect. Next thing, you know, fart box.

Yikes. Sorry, Mike. I've controlled myself. I'm getting myself. I apologize. God, that was good. Thanks, Mike. I needed that.

The Farnock seems to be pressuring us for Okay, creases. It's still. I mean, I just think of it. I almost take a minute. Let's laugh it out. Let's laugh it out. I like your Farnox.

Fart, knox. That's serious. I'm here. I'm scared to know what the other one's name is. And what's your name, little Forrest now? My name's Peter! I still haunts my dreams. I laughed so hard at the back of my head hurts.

Uh-oh. That's when you know it's good. I know. It was so good. Let you're all good. Please continue. Yes. We didn't mean to catch you all.

We didn't mean to tell us having none of our childish antics. We didn't mean to tell you that our power was friendship and then just laugh for 60 seconds in your feet. It's really great imagining the ridiculous situation. The Polish friendship. These people are fucking insane. Are you not insane? The reality of the situation, all of our characters are like, yes, Farnox. If only we had hive mind.

We all be laugh screaming at each other's heads. Oh, boy. Yep. I'll look back on my head. Yeah. Sorry. I'm ready. Yep.

Okay. Everyone good? Sure. We'll see. I think you better just plow through or we're going to keep going. I'm going to linger on this moment. Hang it on a moment. You see the forest nooms speak up as farmox.

I clapped in. Looks and shakes his head and just. Things ringing out. You know, I mean, hold on. Friendship has proven very powerful. I've seen them in action. And if they're leader, if, if, if, if we're even man, if he, if he says that they are the, that they are the ones to, to, to help us and to bring us victory, I think that we should believe him. And he steps back and, uh, he, he, uh, shakes his head and mutters under his breath. like they are not... I don't know.

His character. They're not discussing. They speak like Uber rule. I know that you, and I'm speaking to whoever's in the whole room here, I know that you might doubt us, but if you're referenced the Raven Man, if you're talking about the High General Zern,

then the things that we've seen seen him do, I mean, he's incredibly powerful. And if he believes in us, then I can't help believe in ourselves a little bit, too. That's exactly right. He thinks we're so powerful that he made us his elite struggle is called

the Wings of the Raven. That's true. We are his, he's, he's, he's sworn warriors to bring peace to the land, through the power of friendship. So if he believes in us, I think that that speaks for us. The,

sorry, Max, uh, Farnax, uh, Far Nox. Uh, it's gonna be hard. I'm good. Mm-hmm. Shakes his head.

and pulls his hood up and just stares and you see Olanda extended his hand and nod as the forest gnome the forest gnome looks

at all of you and whoever make a persuasion check whoever would like to I'll make a persuasion check why not that'll be a 23 looks and says well I'm so

welcome to the resistance. This is the gnome. My name is Felix Ackerman. You see the gnomish gentleman. He has this dark black hair that's cut short

and a thick, bushy black mustache and large eyes as he steps forward and says, name's Judd. Nice to meet all you. This place to meet you, Jud. I'm Tawa. Khamunui. You don't know what you're up against?

No. No. Some kind of Erakokra, I believe that they're in a court. Yeah, that's about it. And it seems like they're taxing you guys pretty heavily and occasionally swooping down and sniping the lives of the various commoners around here. We'd like to put a stop to that right away. Yeah, it sounded terrible, going through the forest and, ah!

And, you know, so forth. Would I know how long this Ocaction Court has existed? I mean, like throughout the history of the history of... of Striga? Hundreds of years. As long as you've been alive and as historically, that's just... They've always been this way. Yeah.

And probably longer than the human population. I would say that you know that the... They actually dominated a lot more of striga and that have been pushed back due to squabble and there are a lot of cities falling and the like. And then a lot of civilization stretching out and cutting down the huge trees and basically pushing the forest back to where the land they currently have. I know Umlanda said that

this obviously isn't the first attempt of this, and from what I understand about these, this civilization here throughout Striga, we don't really have an easy task ahead of us

and it's probably highly likely that will fail, but we're going to try. Don't say that, we're not going to fail. They've been doing this for hundreds and hundreds of years and they're just,

they're just slaughtering anybody who I, we're going to try. We're going to do everything that we can to help you. And the resistance hasn't had the wings of the raven on their side until now. Or the wings of liberty. That's so cool. I'm telling you, Ravali's missing out on something good here. Well, we can do it for Rivali.

Agreed for Ravali. For Captain Freeway. The captain freeway. God, he's so cool. Anyway. So, do you know anything about them that will be helpful? Well. It's a very secretive from what I have.

They are. Hart has been there. She said she's seen him. And I think that we may be able to sneak in and try to strike them where it hurts. We're mustering forces and the town's all over. And we're just, this is just our base, but the alliance is all over.

So even if they strike us down here or in another town, more will rise up. We're recruiting every day and every night. And I think that we'll muster enough forward. that maybe we can overthrow them when the time is right, when we have a rallying cry. This would be a truly, truly

historic moment for the land of Stricka. I agree. And if Hart thinks you're all up to it, I'll support her. I'll support her decision. As soon as you hear that, you hear footsteps above you. As they seem to be softer,

but they stop directly before the door. And then it's like, oh, that's her now. and you see the door open, and a shadow get cast, this large, looming shadow of this figure in heavy armor. It just cast down, illuminated in the cellar from the stairwell above, and a figure steps down as the door shuts, darkness returning except for the lanternlight. And as a Tabassi steps down,

you realize that the shadow projecting was actually far, larger. And what you see before you is an orange tabaxy with bright green eyes that's no taller than Herja or Lifting. And she seems to be wearing

heavy armor, however, and a large sword at her hip. As she steps down, her tail flicking back and forth, and she I, you must be hard. You were sent by Corvall. Barque and military agents.

Yeah. Yes. And who sent you a little one? And everyone gasps and shakes their head and and and you see the other two shake their head and put up their arms and like immediately like and her eyes narrowed. Like who are you calling little? You're not so big yourself. Well, that's true.

Child, we're about the same height, right? Yeah, she's a little shorter than you are. Okay. I'm gonna like up on my tippy toes a little bit and be like, excuse me, I just meant to say, where are you from? You don't have to get so offended. I was born and raised here like everyone else. And you've been sent by the Ravenman. By the High General, yes.

And her eyes scan over, and she turns and looks at you, Iris, and she finally kind of registers as her eyes grow wide. And she looks up at you and says, Oh my gosh, a Tabassi. Yes, darling. I've never seen a black Tabassi. Where are you from? That is like the second time I've heard that today. I'm from Neckbet.

All the way from Neckbet? Yes, darling. You, where are you all from all over the world? More or less, yes. I'm from Galthica. We're from Yonah. I'm from Kierstein, so not so far. I'm born and raised here in Strigger.

That's so cool. Is everyone as tall as you are? you are in Nickbet? Most are taller, to be quite honest. I'm the shortest of my family. That's amazing. I think that we'd probably be taller if most of our food didn't get taxed by the court.

And that's why we're gonna cut them down. So do you have the horrible raven powers like the raven man does? We have our own selection of powers. Some of them are raveny. The Raven Queen certainly looks over us, as do other gods, and people who have helped us throughout our journey.

I guess that's okay. Are these guys good in a scrap? She turns to Unlanda, and he nods and smiles with like a big thumbs. Yeah, they were great. There was a huge man, bigger than me, and this one here. And he turned into a lava man, and we beat him, and they knocked off his jaw. It was very intimidating. Even though they were on my side, I was very grateful.

And as he finishes talking, you see a heart look around. And you know what? I think I have a good feeling about you guys. You guys seem like you're pretty cool. Like you've seen some things. Yeah, I've seen many things. Yeah, we've seen some stuff. Yeah, we've seen some shit.

Yeah. So, you weren't seeing coming here, were you? We don't think so. But you never know what you don't know, you know. Umlanta took very good care to try to get us down here in the cellar as, as quiet as possible. Yeah. Smell me. Well, you smell like foxes. Yeah, see. We came in in a big pile of dead fox.

Well, what we'll do is we'll discuss the resources that we have and our plans. Tomorrow, you look very rough. And, uh, because this is, you have not enjoyed a long rest and you're, so you're pretty being, so. I feel like, I can tell. Whatever, whatever you encountered was, was, was really tough. So it's really cool that you guys killed it and if he was a big lava man, that's, I, I never seen a big lava man.

We didn't kill it because he got away. But we, we beat him up pretty bad. Yeah, he doesn't have a lower jaw now and that means he can't really enjoy most food stuff. which is great. We probably starve to death. If you see another Goliath with red tattoos walking around, let us know that we've got a debt to settle.

We'll keep an eye out. Yes, it's true. It's not to school. I'll talk to my sources in the other towns to make sure that they keep an eye out for any Goliath. That isn't this guy. I'm probably any Goliath, because if someone sees you and I don't know about it at this point, it's probably a bad sign, right?

Yes. So how can we help? What can we do in the immediate future to further your plans? We got to find a way to get into Kaleri, which is their capital city. And if we can go in and under the cover of darkness, we have the cult of Garrick's on our side. And if we can light a fire big enough that the whole forest can see, all of the small folk will rise up. And also cutting down and clipping the wings of the owls. I can help with that.

I'm pretty good with fire. What's the name of the capital city again? K-A-L-I-R-I. K-L-L-I-R-I. K-L-E-R-I. So I'm not familiar with Garrick's, or maybe I am, I don't know. But do you guys worship him? Or is this like an alliance?

Many of the servants of Garricks are in the Woodland Alliance and Farnax here is the representative in this town. And he'll try to convert you, but you don't have to worship. And Farnax looks and his eyes narrow and he kind of huffs a little bit. And he says, I don't think that Garrick's would much care for them anyway. And she waves her paw at him. I says, shut up. Well, what I will say is that Meridian is very all-encompassing

and that if you ever had any doubts with your god I'm sure he'd be more than happy to bless you. And Farnach's steps forward and says, Does your dwarf god intend to help us bring fire to burn down the great eries of the Achaxian court? I don't use fire

but Dakota's blessed by Muradden was forged mine by dad who was a forged cleric of Muradden and she has been very handy in alerting us to enemies that are nearby and kicking some serious ass well while you are kicking ass

with your dwarf god the blessing of my God to bring down the great Eres of the court burn their trees we will burn them all I was going to pose the question and I didn't want to seem insensitive. Why don't we just burn it all down? I mean, except for the fact that we value life and we don't want to hurt innocent people, there's no way

to get all of the innocence out in time. But, but I mean, they've got to be pretty vulnerable up in a bunch of, they're living in kindling. But starting fire at the base of the trees does no good. We'll be slaughtered and the fires will be put out before it ever gets to any of them. It needs to be started from the heart of their cities. Well, if that's the plan, I'm, I'm your guy. Do we will show them the power of fire the power of the fire Lord The power of destruction Well, I don't think we have to destroy everything that sounds like super evil

Is there a way that we can pull them out of the trees and not burn everything to the ground? There's probably other things and People just like you that live in the forest, no? Cringes and you see hatred come over him. He grits his teeth and he both to be an innocent or a civilian is mistaken. They stand by and do nothing as we on the forest floor suffer. They are as guilty as the ones with the swords and the spears and the bows. It is not for mortals to judge the guilt of others. It is for the gods.

And my God's fire will burn all the same. Just so I understand, though, this is a tactical strike and we're lighting a signal fire. How do you feel about this? I've seen the power and the fire lord. The air that we need will be the rallying crime of the common folk on the fourth floor to take up arms if we weren't beaten into submission. We could easily take them rule us. All rows up at the execs at the exact same time.

They wouldn't be able to handle our numbers. There's way more of us than there are of them. But people live in fear. And a signal fire from Garrick's will be the sign. that we won't be subjected anymore. So, from an outsider's perspective, it sounds like you're giving us two options. You speak of a signal fire.

Your friend, Fornox, whatever, speaks of burning the entire forest to the ground. Which is the solution you are proposing to us? I will not burn the tree-top cities, and they're great eries. That is all I seek to do. This forest is my home.

This is the rest. My ancestors have been subjugated as well as everyone else in this room for generations. Is that revenge not worthwhile? Is that not justice? If we are suspected of treason, why should they? Is there any hierarchy that we should know about from the main city? Maybe rather than so many potentially being at risk of dying, we could just target the person or people in charge?

in charge. And heart steps forward and nods. There is always a new leader in charge. Every, it seems like every couple of years. When one group betrays the other, or maybe one falls out of favor and is deposed, another leader just steps up. There are dozens, dozens of houses, dozens of nobles waiting to be in charge, to be the ones to bring even more. And then, glory to the court to tax even more. Well, I think regardless, we're on a mission from the High General. So you just point us where to go and we'll do whatever we need to do to help you out. Can I trust you?

Yes, of course. She looks at all of you. Can we make a group persuasion check, please? Uh, natural 20. Got it, give it up. Goa. Blu-it. Oh, you said, persuasion?

Persuasion. He's still only 21. I got a 13. A 13, got it? 23. 15. 24, 28. 28.

20. Okay. So she, she nods at all of you and says, well, I know that Landa has been working with the humans for a long time, and he trusts them,

tells us that their military has our best interest in at heart. and that they really care about our struggles here. And the fact that you all have been sent from so far away from all over the world. It tells me that I can trust all of you. And I really want to, I really want to say thank you for coming all the way here. Thank you for having us. Of course. We're going to help you in any way that we can.

I guess we should all get some rest. Yes. And I'll send word to some of the other towns that the heroes, the saviors have arrived. I would not give them our names, maybe just so that we remain anonymous. You want to give them mine. What are your names? Well, I, uh, sorry, I introduced myself to the others. I'm Felix Achaquemone.

Felix. I'm Toa Kamenui. It's a pleasure to meet you. Capriciota Sesto, you can call me Caprice. Caprice, wow, that's an interesting name. Thanks. Caprice? Yeah. Is that a girl's name?

Uh, yeah. No, right now it's the guy's name. Okay. Right, I guess so. That's fine. It's a good answer. Hello, I'm Lufty. Hi. I'm Hersia, Ambelhardt. Nice to meet you.

Hersia, Lifty. Iris of the Sands. Ayers of the Sands. You may call me Iris. Iris. Of the fans. Of the Sands. What are some of your...

He's from the Sands clan? Yes. Mine is the hero's heart. You can call me heart, though. I'm assuming that we're going to be sleeping here for the night. Are you and your Gru and Umlanda going away and leaving us here, or is anyone staying with us? Well, you're here.

I live here. I run this in. So I'll be right upstairs. You're safe here. But I guess my question is, will the six of us alone be sleeping down here? We have ways to protect and guard ourselves. I just didn't know if anyone would be coming or going. Well, Randa said for certain that, so, I think you're fine down here for the night.

That's fine. That's fine. I just didn't know if anyone would be joining us, if it was just this... It's fine. Thank you. We appreciate your hospitality. Thank you so much. Yeah. We'll get some rest and we'll be ready in the morning. And I'd like to compliment you on your lovely selection of ales. We'll pay for that if you notice it's a little lower than usual. It's fine. You guys are the heroes from the Raven Man. We're not going to be taking things for free. We'll pay you.

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And don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. They're done. I was going to, like, alarm, you know, the areas and stuff when we're alone. I'm waiting to see if the six of us are going down alone in the basement. I'm going to take a loop around and just make sure it's just the two doors. The one that they came down and the one that we came down from the outside. make an investigation check.

Okay. And as, as, as the group turns to leave, the gnome, was that? 12th. Okay. The gnome turns and says, well, it's good to have the heroes from Korvaki come help us out. Hey, we've been, we've been here without a leg to stand on for so long. Finally have a little bit of hope in my heart. Good night.

He steps out. Good night. and leaves, and then Farnock turns and fears at all of you and says, You all will see the power of Gaelix and the power of fire, and we'll understand what we have had to deal with for centuries. And you are's. I do not ask for conversions. And neither do I, but respect, I do ask for.

I respect the power of gods. To aid in the destruction of the corpse. We'll do what we can. And just for the record, I do respect your God very much. And he turns and walks up and leaves. And then, uh, uh, umla says, well, uh, it's been fun. I'll be back. I need to go check on my wares.

See, uh, see if I can, can start off, uh, trapping and hunting again, at least a little bit in the morning. Good night. Good night. And he... be in our escort. It's been good. It'll be weird to get back to work. And he nods his, well, sleep well.

It's not as bad down here as it seems. It's dry. I've slept down here a few times. It's lovely. We appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, well, goodbye. Thank you.

And he steps up and leaves, leaving just E6 and heart. And you see the little orange tabxy. who seems to be not much older than, you know, maybe early 20s or late teens in human years at the very least. And she does kind of a once-over and says, It's good to have a secret weapon. I'm feeling good about this. Welcome to my hand.

Thanks. Good night. Maybe when this is all done, I can play a set. Yeah, that'd be great. Great. Yeah, well, after we... We take them down and we're free again. Would you like to sing that song about the miniatures?

As a little... I mean, I can... Prelude to what you can do. Would you like to hear something for you to do? I don't know. She was kind of offended when I called her little, so maybe don't know as the miniatures. Oh, that's fair point.

Minter's not about tobacco, right? No, no, it's about small... Not about me, right? Custom carved models that are... I used in the, on tabletops, that kind of thing. I don't know what those are. Well, I bought a set. We can tell you in the morning.

Yeah. Have a good night. Have a good night. Good night. And she nods it all of you. Gives you one more thumbs up. And she walks back up. You're like the clanging of her arm.

It's a little bit too big for her. As she steps up and the door opens and closes. You're left alone. Well, we need to discuss, but I'm going to start by alarming the doors, and that includes anybody that isn't the six of us. Not to say that I don't trust them, but we need to be aware if anybody's coming down here in the middle of the night while we're sleeping. Are you going to send an alarm by the doors, or are you actually going to startle the doors? The former. Okay.

But go ahead and start talking, and I'll do my thing, and I'll chime in when I can. And I'm going to find both entrances and cast alarm on them, and it will just be a silent alarm through our heads if anybody will... breaches it that's not the six of us. So, yeah, you go to the small door that leads up to a back room in the inn, you grip your dagger, and you run a line as your finger glows, and the door is alarmed.

It's going to take 20 minutes for each one, or 10 minutes total, or 10 for each door. And then the cellar door, you walk up the stairs, and you reach up to the large door and one more finger all along it, and you feel that these doors have been fully secured. She got a toll for investigation.

Investigation. You poke around and a lot of the, um, a lot, there's a lot of, like, boxes and crates and barrels, but from what you can tell from your investigation, that doesn't seem to be any immediate other entrances. Okay. So we can move in and out of these alarms, Felix, if we need to go to the bathroom? We can, yes, but no one else. We'll all be alerted, whether awake or sleep. I still know what the best way would be for me to go number one or number two without being cut or interoperable. by one of those owl creatures. It might be fine to just use the inn upstairs. It might be fine.

I don't know. I'm going to hold it till the morning. Set out my figurines and pray. Just get a sense to feel like, is anything different from what I felt this morning? Okay. Make a religion check on nature check. You can probably just number one and number two

and some of this flower here. It's self-clim. Wow. 19s on both. Okay. That's a one in 400 chance. and you place out your figurines and you commune with the wind spirits as it whips around

and as you commune the whirling around you gets strung and you feel a sense of you feel the sense of dread that you had once felt is still there but dulled compared to the previous morning. I'll make my little bed and I'll settle down. I...

I... If you want to sleep, that's fine. I just had some thoughts. Are we not worried about what we... I don't want to stop you. I just... I mean, I think that it's about... I think that we have a mission.

And we've learned all we can. And I think that, you know, I'm convinced that when we wake up tomorrow, we just go on our mission and we do as we're told. we told and we have the mat. So that's kind of my problem, is that and please, anybody, stop me if you feel otherwise, but

I've taken orders my whole life and I understand what it means to follow orders and just do what you're told. But this Farnox guy he concerns me. I want to help these people. They're very clearly living horrible lives under the oppression of these

of these of Erakokokov. But what he's talking about is is nothing but wanton slaughter, a genocide. And I won't be a part of it again. No, I agree. I didn't have a good feeling about it. And I think we could probably learn more about these air-croken

and how they run their society. And I don't think that we have to just smoke them out this way. The problem stems from what Hart said about how it doesn't matter what we do to one individual head of state. Another one just pops up. That causes massive problems for what we're trying to do. And it's very complex and I don't like it and I'm worried. I'm very concerned. And I know what I said earlier was not necessarily the most uplifting thing that we might just fail, but it's true.

It's realistic. These people have survived for hundreds and hundreds of years and there's nothing to say that we're going to make any difference. I think we have to break the wheel. They're assigning a new person every time some other one gets killed or dies. I think we need to learn more about what that process looks like. Maybe they're forced into doing it. Maybe there's some sort of sacrifice. Maybe they don't have a choice.

And they're just thrust forward as some sort of sacrifice and taking on this role so that they keep up this image for the rest of their people. That this is something honorable and it's not. And I think if we talk to the right people, we may be able to make peace with this, not have to result in an all-out war. Maybe some flesh blood up there, I would, you know, shape things up there a little. I want to help them tell I do.

I just don't know what the right answer is. Well, I know that we are on a mission from our General Zern and these people that we plan are topple, they seem very evil indeed and they execute people without any kind of trial. That alone is enough justification to help these people. That's a line in. I'm a peace with it. And if the little lizard gets, you know, carried away, we'll stop him.

It's just one guy. And says, you know, six of us. What if one of us takes ownership? We assume the role of this person in power. Somehow we trick them into it. Then we tell them enough of this bullshit, no more of this nonsense. We institute our own taxes now. Yeah?

We're in charge. Maybe we don't, we can avoid all the killing. We're not birds. We're not a rococra. We have a really talented bard. God damn it, we could make ourselves look like one. Talented for an hour at a time or so. Yeah, I could look like an Arakochra, and I could, you know, assert myself in a pretty way.

And the moment that you have to leave, you think they're going to abide by your laws? Do you know what it, any of you know what it takes to rule, to lead? You can step off of the throne and expect everything you change to stay the way it is. Another one of them will immediately take its place. You could assign it to another one. And you think that you would be able to figure out their moral merit in about a day or two or a week? It's worth a shot. It sounds better than killing them all.

And then they choose, well, we will kill this one that they instated, and then it's right back to the same thing. If your hope is to leave these people to deal with this forever, then that's a grand idea. Cities are not born from kindness. They're born from fire. They're born from war. And sometimes blood has to be shed to save the innocent. And that is an unfortunate thing. Lufti, you know this.

You've seen Daddy ride off to war and fight to the lands of Siket. He's a kind and just leader. We haven't always had one as such. And sometimes lands do not have someone. like daddy to take care of them and they need someone like us I just want to know what happens that people get taken up there before we make

any major moves. There's a second half to this story and if this has been a situation for hundreds of years as terrible as the taxes have been and as the depression is down here on the forest floor has been felt I feel like I feel like I want to find out a little

bit more about what's going on up there before we make any major political chess moves even if it isn't name of Zern. Yeah, we don't know enough and they haven't told us enough either. We just got here. So I say we ask them more questions and I would agree to a trek up to the treetops. Hart said that they said that Hart went up there. Did she not? Yeah, I wondered how they got up there. They'll have to ask her. I've always been climbed. Tabaxi can climb. Now my question, however, is when Zern told us as we were making this trip, I do not remember him saying anything about how we were

going to fight in a political coup. I believe that our task was actually to protect one of the seals and I do not believe that that has anything to do with what is happening here. So my entire point about war was not that I want to fight in one. No. It was that if we are going to get involved and we want to save these people, that it has to be fought. My point now, is that is it our place to be getting involved in their political feud to begin with, when we have a much larger matter at hand? Is getting involved in the feud not exactly why we were sent to the front lines and hereby Zern? My understanding was that we were coming this way to protect the seal,

that there were 13 seals and that one of them was already potentially, we already know one was attacked where Ravioli is from. at the lodge and that this was another one we needed to protect and I don't see how protecting it goes hand in hand with us potentially dying trying to save the people of this forest when to be quite honest

if I were, though I'm not a good person to be saying this as I am royalty but if I were living in a situation like this and people were being picked out of the sky I would simply leave if they're not here to pick out of the forest floor and to pay these taxes

then what do the Al-Aro-Koker have? Just leave. And go where? I think the information is that they'll be killed if they try to leave. This government seems terrible. It does, but is it our fight? We were told by General Thurman that our mission here was here to keep after the seal, but also... But did he mention anything about the seal?

Because I don't remember him doing so. So I'm getting conflicting information. Zern mentioned the seal, but part of our mission is... It's two-fault. It's to protect the seal, but also to... To help the resistance. To help the resistance. And potentially topple this government

because the O'Kexian court is a direct threat to the Korovakian military. You saw the evidence of the endless war? The careless lives being lost. If we can install a resistance, hopefully we can end war, on this border at least. You'll never end war.

I know we won't end war. But if we can save the lives of countless soldiers on both sides, why wouldn't we? And I don't think it's just that. They said that the owls are after something weird. There's more that we don't know. These owl windbenders, they're using the wind spirits. These sacred wind spirits of my island's to their own world. They need to be deposed.

I hope you don't think for a moment that I was saying that I wouldn't help you get the wind spirits back. And I don't think so, but my point is these are evil, evil, evil creatures. They execute people. They text people relentlessly. And they've been warring with their neighboring countries for millennials, apparently. Even the people who we've talked to down here haven't seen anyone get executed, they're themselves making an assumption. I think it's a correct assumption, but I'm just saying I want to find.

out the other side of the story before we jumped to any conclusions as to what our actions should be. I'm ugly. I think that's valuable. I think everybody just cool out. I'm going to sleep. That's a good idea. I walk over to the cake that you originally tapped and I uncork it and pour myself another Stein. I told you I owed you a Stein and here you go. Oh, thanks Caprice. I'm feeling kind of full but I'll drink this anyway. There's always one for one more. Like yellow. There's always room for jello and eel.

I'm going to take a little time and put some flower bags together and like just kind of drape a canopy of like cheese cloth over the top of it and like roll the bedroll on top. And Ilus, I made this for you. And like, show you. It needs to be a little fluffier. Can you put hosier beneath it? beneath it? Like, put the flower on me and then I'm lying beneath the flower beds?

What do you could put her on? I'm going to leave the flower. Squish her a little bit and squish the flower bag. And I see maybe you, no. Flowers, then you. Hersha, then bedroom. Then you and then me. Oh.

Yes. I don't want to get like a, you know, Princess in the P situation. What is this? You might get a lump. Oh, you think Hersia is going to urinate in the bed. You're probably right. Oh, not that.

Let's not put her on there. You go ahead and lay down on the bed mat and then I would get on top. It's okay if she keep flower and then we'll tumble over. I might because I drank a lot of it. I'm going to sleep over here. I go to the corner and I spin around a couple of times and then go to sleep. Well, Princess Hersia. Oh, thanks.

I'm still down for the plan. I'll lay down on the flower and be like, okay, first me, then you got it. I flop on the flower pile. And we go to bed? Is it? And we go to bed? Yeah. I'm just going to fall asleep on top of the barrel, like, kind of hugging it. You wake up and you're rolling on a cart, your hands bound.

Damn you! Is this Skyrim, too? You are awake. You're awake. Is this a new campaign? Can I play a Skyrim? Your face! Why do you look so terrible?

You're so busted. Why? One Skyrim. I want to play one Skyrim. Holy shit. Shabla-goo. So Mike, he went to bed. We finished by playing.

Yeah, we went to bed. Is there any watch? No. Nope. We have alarm. We have alarm. We have alarmed. No, we're about to be betrayed horribly.

And you guys... And you did both in the doors. Both the doors. We 100% are about to get betrayed super hard. I just want you to know that. That's okay. I'm pulling it fucking now as a player, but not as Caprice. Okay.

As you all settle in for the night, it's really just sunset. And so you still hear footsteps and movement and actually starts to get a little bit more rowdy and rambunctious. As you settle in, but it's been a long, long, long day for you. And so it's just, like, not even quite past sunset at this point. But you settle in. and as you all drift off to sleep you enjoy the benefits of a long rest yes

with D&D beyond taking a long rest is a sitch until you get an error code when our max HP drops back down to the irregular number yes you all awaken

not well in the morning yes but it's still at night the sun has not risen and probably won't for several more hours. And you awaken, and it seems as if the, as if the, all of the commotion from upstairs of the patrons has all drifted out and it's relatively quiet on the floorboards above you. Does anyone try to come downstairs?

Well, the alarm lasts for a long-ass time. Let me check here. It lasts for eight hours. wake us up. Yes, very much. It's a silent alarm in all of your heads. Okay. So basically, like, you're sitting there,

and a sudden you're, E! Just like that. Like just in your head. So like, but like ten times louder and even more like, like,

nails on my truck. Mark. Yeah. In. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Mock in bird. Don't everybody. Have you heard? Have you heard? Yeah. So that's what you hear. in your head.

If somebody does all. Or the most annoying way to wait anybody up. Up and Adam, up and Adam, up and Adam, up and Adam, up and Adam, up and Adam. Damn, I am on a roll with the heist. Yeah, well, I'm not. I've lost all of my money. I'm at one gold.

Are you? Yeah. You should not do that. I've not been able to get over 100 gold in like two months. I'm going to spend the first hour while we're getting ready preparing my spells. Okay. Ice knife.

I can't believe I didn't have stupid ice night. I'm just like you idiot. I'm just like you idiot. Yeah, you see Felix spending, you know, an hour preparing his spells, reading through his spellbook. I dragged the pile of flower bags back to the corners and collapsed the futon, fold up the... I'm going to wake up kind of a little groggy. I'm going to fill another cup with ale and...

Thou shalt shall not have any regrets in the morning. Take a drink. Hair of the dog there, Lutti. Hair of the dog. I'm hitting my tuning fork and... And sort of tuning my viola. And I'm... Yeah, yeah.

Just practicing, you know, future tunes, potentially. This is a dumb question, but is a tuning fork actually for that? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's literally two lengths of metal, and when you've hit it, it's a natural sea. It's like the dead middle of the octave, right? And so when you tune it, you should be, if you have perfect pitch, you should be able to

hit any of the other. They do make them in all different notes. Thinking of a divining rod, which is also two things, but you hold on to them, and that's also, I think, technically just old wives' tail. I don't think it's such a stick that'll take your water. But they're very similar in shape. I will give you. Okay.

And then I am going to set up my space for worship. I'm going to get out my lamp, and I'm going to cast augury. Okay. And so as I'm down praying, Lord of judgment, please tell me if I'm on the right path, should we interfere and show judgment to the Oaxian court? See Iris awaken and place out the oil lamp and a flame lights. And Iris, you lean down and do your usual prayer rituals and you stare into the flame as you always do.

And you wheels the good, woes the bad. Yes. You... So I'm basically asking if I should unleash his judgment on the Oaxon court. And actually with that, could you also give me a religion check? It's basically wheelie or won't wait. He said religion? Yeah.

I like that. 18. 18. So as you stare, you feel in your heart of hearts here in the back of your head, wheel. However, you stare. And you see something in the flame. Storm clouds.

Fluttering of wings. Lightning bolt, zap down. And you feel an incredible sense of danger. Danger is imminent. Danger wheel. I'm going to blow out my lamp. Danger wheel. We need to speak this morning before we communicate with those above.

Oh, sure. Okay. Sure. What do you want to talk about? I have queried Anubis. He is the lord of the underworld in certain ways and the god of judgment. And he normally does not speak so firmly with me, but I asked him if we should rein down his judgment on the Ocaxian court, and I have never felt more stronger affirmation than that which he gave me this morning.

but he did not stop there he showed me the storms lightning danger insurmountable danger this will not be easy whatever they are doing it is evil it is pure evil if not the people

beneath the boughs of those trees for all of the vandris I believe that those Erakokokra need to be stopped I think that the symbols the storm and the lightning might tide to your wind spirits to her.

And I wonder, Loftly, if it has something to do with you being a genoise. You'll think so? I'm not sure. I don't believe that we all found ourselves together for no reason.

I do believe in fate. I believe that the gods play their hand and they lead us where, like your little miniatures, chess pieces, on a large board of life. And I don't think that you found your way

to Siquet by chance. and I don't think we found our way here by chance. No, Caprice only pawn. Are you speaking of yourself in the third person? Yeah, well, I'm trying to make a reference to the film Lazing Saddles, but please continue. No, no, no, I was just confused. Please, continue, I don't think you've ever done that before. I've already done it as fast.

Well, Iris would have loved your reference. Oh, Caprice only pawn in Game of Life is what I was trying to say. Lovely. I apologize for... Iris apologizes for interrupting Capri. So you say danger's imminent. I do believe so. We need to warn them right away. The feeling I have in the pit of my stomach is one I do not like.

Your God has never let you astray. He is not. We need to go right now. And I start to run up the stairs. No, no, no, no. Being hasty will only lead us more quickly into trouble. Have you forgotten that if you stepped out there, that they might just swoop down and kill you?

Not outside. This isn't to the... You don't... You do not know who sits at that inn. Thank you, Iris. Whose eyes may see you? Because you're right, right? Come on.

Is there an entrance straight up to the end? Do you have to go out and around? No. Stop straight up to the end. There's two. Can we contact them somehow? They will be down here as soon as they can. We're all right.

Just, we have to be patient. Okay? Now, I know that Anubis is not your God. And I don't expect you to trust him the way that I do. But I hope that you trust me. And you know that to this point, I've done all that I have. I can to keep you all alive.

And though I may be brash and I might have feelings about the way some of you live your life, I do care about all of you immensely. I did not believe that what Anubis is telling me is the truth. I would not even bring it out. Caprice thanks you for your input. Irish appreciates the thanking that you have provided her. Indeed. Indeed.

I don't know what either of you are doing, but you saved my life. Neither do I. And I trust you, and I trust your judgment as I trust Toa's judgment, and I trust all of your judgment. I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page here. So we're all right with fighting these people and potentially just burning them all. I'm still going to learn more. I'm not going to take any hostile action, even with Anubis' blessing, until we find out exactly what they're up to up there. I'm not asking you to.

I guess I'm at. I know where Toa stands. I'm asking where you're still. All lives end in death, all of them. If we need to be the bringer of death to these people, it is up to Anubis to judge their lives and not me. Do you define a life as mortal? Because there's some lives that certainly don't end.

No, of course. I'm speaking, yes, I'm speaking for mortals. Oh, I'll... As that is what we're dealing with. I just wanted to clarify, sorry. But if Anubis has tasked us with being his reaper of souls, then I will don that hood. What if we're not dealing with mortals?

I hope when we get to the top of those canopies that we find Candy Mountains. Oh, we won't, darling. But I hope that it is not as gruesome as horrific and horrific as I imagine it will be. No matter what happens, I promise to have all of your backs. That's all I can say at this point. Now, I do agree with Caprice

that I do not believe that this is something that we rush into willy-nilly. We need to acquire information, we need to do some scouting, we need to discern for ourselves the machinations that these foul creatures have gotten themselves into. You know willy-nilly? I'm sorry, what? You know Willie. Who's Willie?

You just said Willie-Nilly. That's the name of the guy who told me about Suck Ball's Mountain. As I was saying, I believe that we should talk about this further. Well, I want to look around a little bit up there. I don't want to just get up there and burn it down. This is one of the few places I haven't seen in my travels, and I've kind of been looking forward to it. It's a little bit of a bummer that everybody kind of sucks up there, but...

Well, let's get up there. As soon as they come down here, we'll make our way up, and hopefully we'll be able to see what we see. Yeah, it sounds pretty badass if it wasn't for the horrible oppression, yeah. Well, yeah, that is that a say. 100%. Okay.

I'll continue tuning my view. You wait a little bit. Let's get a group reception check, Gorman. I don't want to. Oh, no. 16. Oh, no. 16.

I can suck, thanks. 14. 17. Oh, I lied. I got a 12. 13. 13. I'm just sitting, feeling very uneasy, and just with that pit of, that pit of danger in my

stomach and sort of just my danger sense is super high alert. Like, visibly obvious that you are nervous? Yes. I will come sit beside you and rub your back. Toa. I'm not necessarily nervous, but just sort of like, I guess kind of anxious, but sort of like, like, ready to go and like really kind of itching

to sort of like figure out wanting some kind of resolution of the danger that's coming. And I'm just sitting and tuning my instrument and thinking, man, it smells really like a fart box in here. Toa, I can't imagine what you must be going through, having dealt with that situation yesterday in Makutu. But know that I felt the same woe that you were feeling this morning and that you are not alone.

You have us with you. Well, I appreciate that and I know we can handle whatever comes our way. I'm just... I just have this horrible feeling and after you confirmed it, I just feel like something terrible's about to happen. But you know, the thing that made the light shine in the darkness of the storm that you ever showed him, me. It was that he is on the side of your spirits. And with that we can be aligned. I will watch over you.

That's very comforting to hear. Thank you. And I would do what I can to protect you. And I do believe that Anubis has judged your heart the way that I have. That it is good. Thank you. Now let's save as many people as we possibly can. Yes. Including those wind spirits of yours and show that Matutu. where he can shove it. It's an ass joke.

He can shove it in his ass. Yeah, because he toots. He twos. Yes, matututu. Yeah, he's got a cute too. Is this when we high-five each other? Yes. Yes.

We need to get a fart joke. When you're going to go out of you. Oh, no, you didn't show me last night, Caprice. We didn't have been time. Okay, let's go. Let's do this. Like so, and then up, and then under. No, so the last time we did this, you smacked,

when I did not. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's go. All right. Here. Up, and then here.

Here. And then down. And then again. How down and then one more? No, and then flip the other hand down. Yep. Okay. Yes.

And then hip. And then hip. And then snap. Oh, with the same one. Yeah. Snap like that. And then back again. Yes.

And then we do it all over again. No. The one is good enough. And I think that I was spectacular. I think you, yeah, You can enable us. You were the best.

I watched. You get a gold star, and I do this with my thumb and minor illusion a gold star. Oh, Mommy would be super. She always said that I was born to be a performer. You should hear me sing? I mean, I couldn't.

I would love to hear you sing. You know any songs? I know. I like hide my tuning for it from me. Yeah. That's great. Mommy always said I had a natural bond. But, you know, I don't want to steal the show from you.

Oh, that was really good. Thank you, darling. I know. It's with that, you hear several footsteps from upstairs, and they stop in front of the door, and it opens, and head pokes in, and you see the furry orange cat head of hard. It's like, is everything okay down here? Is there for someone dying? What's new?

No, is everything right up there? We have information. Can you come down? Please come up. Or can you come down down? Down her up. I'll come down here. I haven't closed on the...

Which way will you go? I haven't shuttered the windows yet. Yeah, I'll come down. Which way do you want to go? She closed the door behind her as she steps down. She goes down. Clattering as she steps down and says, and you can see that as she makes her way downstairs, that she's moving a little bit slower.

she seems very tired. And she steps forward a little bit. Okay, what's up? Are you okay? I couldn't sleep last night. Oh, no, don't they worry. What's Amanda? I have a bad feeling.

Me too. Why? That is exactly what we were going to talk to you about. I queried Anubis and he told me the terrific things were coming our way. Isn't that great news? No. Oh, I just mean that it confirms everything that you were saying. You should make a move on the Oaxon court.

Is this someone that, some way we can look out just to make sure nothing terrible has already happened or about to happen? Or it means that we know that the horrible things are coming, and we can get a jump on it. So instead of waiting until whenever you are going to wait to let us know what to do, you should tell us now so that we can hurry about the business. Well, from my contacted Badger Dad. Do you think they've been killed on the road? I don't know. And not long after you guys went to sleep, rumbling. Well, around the inn.

Horrible storms are coming, for sure. I went to check it out, and I couldn't find anything, but it just... I never felt anything like that. Did you say it was around the inn? Yeah. Well, Hersia had gas last night. Yeah, it could have been me snoring. Do you think it was a natural phenomenon like an earthquake or a creature?

What if it was? Mak-toot-toot. Makutu. Yes. Remember how he rumbled the earth when he left? Yes, he could be able to be able. What did he put a honing beacon on you, Joa? I immediately get on all fours, and I put my ear to the ground to see if I hear any rumbling.

Everyone stops as they watch Herja, lean down, phase down, ass up. That's the way she likes to hug. Make a attention check. Do you hear anything? Nope, nope, keep listening Little longer. Twelve.

Can you listen a little more vertical? And, and, uh, heart steps back a little bit as everyone is quiet. And Hersia places her ear to the floor of the cellar. And you wait.

And you listen. And suddenly, a massive crash of thunder appeared, uh, echoes out above the inn. It sounds like it's directly above the town

and suddenly here is... And some sort of explosion directly above you. And a heart looks around. The inn starts to shake as heart looks around. What's happening? What's happening?

Toa. It was worth made for us? No. Well, yes, but also no. If they were, we would have all been blown away so I believe you. Okay, okay. And the shaking, as soon as it stops and you hear another

there's another thunder clap almost shakes the building all around you. Heart is looking around. She draws her sword and she says, I need to get my shield. Which is your shield? It's upstairs. I'll go get it. I'll be fine. Use that feline agility, darling. Run. Don't let her go alone.

I'm coming with you. I take my totem, and I'm right behind her. And as soon as she starts to go up, you start hearing screams from above, seeing in the outside of the inn. As the door opens, and you remember the glow of fire illuminating. You see a much brighter roaring blaze illuminating.

Oh, no. As she... As she... I'm going to get my shield. And... I'm going to follow Toa. I'm gonna follow Felix. Okay, she uses, she takes hyrises a device

and she sprints off, a little bit slowed down by her heavy armor, and she runs up. You all emerge from the cellar, and you open the door and you see a very quaint in and at the windows, you see the, once again, a bright flash of lightning as it zaps down and hits a pile of wood, and you see a number of humanoid all running around screaming as the,

as every single lightning strike. Here we go. As the, no, that's not right. I'm sorry. Music call. Cheers. But the music songs. Here we go. And the, the, there is a horrible chaos outside.

You see, in human, it's running around and as another lightning, strike hits and flashes you see the dark silhouettes illuminated winged humanoid's swords drawn spears as you see owl ericobra swooping down as a a fear bowl is running huge lumbering seven-foot tall creature trying to escape and in the firelight you see it and swoop down and get cut down but it's it's very far away it's directly outside the window, and then as soon as you finally register what's happening, the heart returns, and she puffs herself up and she can see that there is a shield with a symbol that is basically a series of knotted roots into a shield pattern.

And she says, they're here. But why? Does the knotted roots, does it create a shape like a symbol of a god or something worships or is it just not a reason to make up this shield? It seems to make the shape of a shield. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, on her shield.

So it's not like there's a shape that I can associate in religion. No. We think of go. People have been killed. What happened? What happened? And hey, I don't know how they never were here. And she runs out and just puts a shoulder and smashes the door off the hinges as she runs out.

And as you follow her, you see a town completely, uh, in chaos as human noise are running every which direction going north, south, east, west, trying to get out of the town, rumbling thunder clouds actually beneath the canopy of the tree. As lightning, once again, strikes down. Are you the source of this lightning? The massive clouds above you. It's just from the cloud. It's not coming from any specific creature.

It's just the clouds crashing down. Specifically lightning in this... Aronaborealis, at this time of year. In this, yeah, okay. There are clouds beneath the canopy of the tree. It's clearly unnatural. As it's shooting down, and you see a number of owl Ericocra.

Swords drawn, as they fly around scanning. Some are going after us cutting down civilians in the town. As the fire from the lightning strikes are to consume some of the buildings, illuminating everything. Along with, flying alongside these Erakokra, there are creatures, large, that seem to be in the shape of an owl, but formed from storm clouds

as they fly around and boom with each wing beat as lightning crackles through them, these wide lightning eyes appear, and a heart looks at everything's happening. No, how can this happen? And she hears a scream from the side. You guys handle the square. I'm going to go save as many people as they can.

And she uses her feline agility to just sprint off in the other direction. And as you enter the center of the town, you see six winged soldiers swoop down on top of you with these large storm elemental owls swooping down and never went over initiative. Oh, fuck. Get rid of the fog war. of it. Yep. There we're gonna fuck. Battle map 10? Yep. Yep. Yep. Beetle map. It's a beetle map.

It's a beetle map. Thank you. Yep. And so, I'll say, yeah, you guys just place yourself wherever in the center. I would have been in close, I would have been in front so closest to the danger. How high? The clouds are probably a good, like, 300 feet up. So they're, okay. How high is the canopy? The canopy is like a thousand feet They're massive, massive trees Is Umlanda with us? No, you don't know 21 for me

2021 I had 22 22 for Iris 21 for Toa Okay 15 to 20 19 15 15 for Caprice 15 for Felix Herda and Lofti What do you get? 14 10

10 for Herda and Lofti Okay let me roll for our Owley friends we're going to get the Enforcero. They're going to be, what's their ducks, what's their ducks? Look, you got 15. 14, 14. 14, yep.

So they'll count monsters one. These are a fucking owl. There's no thunder owl art, so just imagine me. That's what they are now. That's what they are now. We can power. Thunder owls. So basically this is like a stormy bird.

But these are owls. But it's a thunder owl. Pardon my reason. Sundrow. Oh, sorry, where was it? Right there? Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds.

Or thunder rocks. Dundit's. Like this. And then finally, yeah. As they are surrounding you. Are they on the ground or flying? Well, the owls are flying, but they are swooping down to attack you. They seem to have no worry about getting into melee range.

But they are probably about five feet off the ground. Word. Okay, with that, it's Iris' turn. I am going to cast Spirit Guardiope. spirit guardians all around me. Okay. Oh, wow. That's pretty good.

I like that about you. What do they look like? Remember they're like mummies, skeleton-y things. Skeletons, dude. Oh, yeah, the Anubian Jack. They're like, warriors. Yes, and they just kind of whip out for me with their sides or whatever.

Yeah, they have large side spears as they, as these shimmering golden and turquoise warriors appear around and begin to swirl around Iris. and what happens? If they come into 15 feet, they will take damage. Oh, 15 feet, got it, so they're not quite yet. No. You're looking all around.

All these Anubian warriors are swirling around and getting ready to attack. Toa, you're up. I am going to immediately drop down and sort of say a chan, drop into my battle trance, and just fucking bum rush this motherfucker. Yep. Wash them right in the bottom. We're gonna...

You know some stuff. I'm going to just fucking go for it and then attack twice. I'm doing some flavor this is. Yeah, Renvarn is a good question. Would a lightning to Baxie be a Thundercat? I think it would. Yeah. Bounder cats.

Hounda. Vanda. 8 plus 7 is 15, right? Yep. And then a 24. 24. 24. is 15. Okay, so they both hit.

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 23, 27 damage. 27 damage. 27 there's number one. Number three. The big... The creamer mom. I didn't know they were.

Oh. You are one and you smash in and although it seems to be made of thunder, it is not resistant or immune or anything. There seem to be some sort of corporeal form and it seemed to take damage. You need to take damage as your mall swings through this formed mass, this elemental creature. 27 points of damage and then I'm just going to do... Okay, with that, it is Capit's turn. They're all on the ground?

Yeah. Oh, well, they're about five feet up in the air. They're five feet up in the air. Um, that'll bring me to... A 10-foot radius, or a 10-foot radius sphere. That means that I wouldn't be able to put it here and hit both of these. If it was radius, it's 10 feet. 10 foot radius.

So it's 20 feet across. Oh, that's more than that. All right. I'll point and I'll play a super high-pitched note on my viola. And I'll use chatter again because I really enjoy this. Okay. It's great fun. How does that work?

One of the both number one of the Eric Cokeshrens and number two of the Thunder Owl. One fails. The other. Constitution saving throw. Does the substitution saving throw? 13 is the highest. Okay, so both fail. So they both take all of 12 thunder damage,

and any non-magical object being worn also takes the same amount. What number is the owl? Number one and number two. Two is the owl. Oh, sorry, yes. Two is the elemental. We'll say elemental and we'll say.

One is the elemental. Yeah. So two, yes, so two. And so, like a priest, you once again do that chord and it rings out and the shattering noise burst out in between them as the swooping owl-a-cocra, sword drawn, seems to get blasted a little bit

and takes some damage. This flapping elemental owl seems to be not affected at all by the thunderous damage. And as this tradition, I'm singing the entire time I'm fighting and I'm diving into Oh, row the ratlin plane, the plane down in the multiverse. Horo the ratlin plane down in the multiverse. Well, in that land there was a state, a rare state, a ratlin state, the state and the land and the land and the...

And the state and the land and the land and the plane and the plane down in the multiverse. Horo the ratlin plane, the plane down in the multiverse. Oh, ro the ratlin plane, the plane down in the multiverse. And I'll inspire her, Jeff, why not? Oh, yeah. Okay. Quit twins. You feel inspired.

Felix, you're up. I'm just going to cast a mirror image on myself and basically give him the come at me, bro. Okay. So the diagram glows white and silver and three copies of Felix appeared. In my coat. Yeah, in your cup, yeah, obviously. There's a little bit of light emanating from his coat. With that, it is the soldier's turn.

they all swoop in. We're going to get two on Toa. Or actually, no. One's going to go on Toa. That one, and one's going to fly it up directly to you, Felix. Then the other one to Lufti. That one, that one's not moving. That one's going to Caprice.

That one's going to Herja. And the other one's going to Iris. Okay, so one, six, and four need to make a save against my Spirit Guardians, wisdom. One is getting a 21. Okay. Two is getting an 18. And what's the other one?

Eight. One, six, and four. One, six, and four. So, four, so four fails. One and six succeed. So they will at least take half of the damage. Four fails and one and six succeed, yeah. Nine points of damage.

Nine points, so four to one and six. Radiant. And then nine to number four. As they fly in, they see you. these swirling soldiers and they seem to feel the resistance they fly into your radius as they get cut down. Two of them seem to dodge some of the attacks. However, they're all getting disrupted and hit by these Anubian soldiers. As they're all going to do what they do, and let's see what they do here. One is going to let out, and suddenly all of, as if they're being

commanded, and all of them... Turn into monkeys? Is it Speaking a language No, just let it out a hoot for that one Okay As they are then going to Go in and make their Make three attacks on each of you

As I may have Made a mistake Once again Oh god Beringstall's is the worst part of your job So on Toa we're just going to get all of these Oh

You know or else they just get a boarderated like like literally just get my arms turning off yeah you should just get a roll-up two of these are going to hit as to hit you toa as a slice in and going to deal so this is all slashing damage 15 points of slashing damage as one uh it tries to cut you down with their swords and then we're going to get uh on iris Jesus Christ 16, does that hit? Nope. Okay, all of them miss on you.

As we're going to get Persia, two are going to miss, one is definitely going to hit, and that is going to be nine points of slashing damage. And then on Lifty, first one is disadvantaged. You're right, so I'm just going to do this one. Disadvantage, that one misses, okay, second one. That I believe is going to hit. That's going to be 17. 22 to hit.

Yeah. 22 to hit one. Manages to make its way through. That is going to be a hot five points of slashing. Ooh. And then the last one, that's going to miss. Okay. Lifty, we have Felix left.

And what do I got to rule for that? No, so every time you're targeting the attack, I'll roll first. Okay, so first attack from the sword. They each have three. Target's a one of my clothes. Okay. AC of 13. We're just going to do this.

That is going to, yeah, it hits like a, So, clone pops. Okay, yep, that one pops. It's going to end going for a second again. C-C-13. Okay. AC-13. That hits.

Yes, unless you use shield. No, I don't know. And then, oh wow, there's gonna be four points of slashing damage. Oh, yeah, we're golden, that's nothing. And then one more time. Attacks clone, AC-13. Okay. 13, 8 plus 3 is...

Not enough. Yeah, not enough. It misses the clone. And then that's everyone, right? No, you didn't hit me. Oh, Caprice. All impose disadvantage on the first half, yeah. Nice.

Disadvantage is still going to be a 16? Yeah. 16 hits. That is five points of slashing damage. And the other two I'm just going to roll right now. Both of those are going to hit? 15 points of slashing damage. In addition to the first five?

Yes, as all three hit you Caprice. Ah, fuck! They're cutting you down. And then, okay, with that, it's their turn, and they're right up in combat with you, and then with that it's going to be Lifty's turn. Okay. I'm going to turn to number one

and just kind of, who do you think you are? Who? And, uh... I'll get it. I'll get it. You don't fire it. ladies, gentlemen. I'm going to just thwack at it like you would if a bird flew in your house and you were a heartless monster.

And then, so two-spoon flacks and then I'll just kind of a series of high kicks because why. Okay. Spiceable kick. Yes. Natural 20. Yes. Got that.

I'm going to deny that natural 20. At 12 from the second, that would not hit? No. the other one. The Ericotogos 14, the elemental is 15. So that is another fail and another hit, and a nine, so that's 16. 16 hits? Okay. So we've got three hits, one crit. Okay. So 2d6 is here. Very good. Eight, two more hits. And 18, sorry, 22, 20. Yeah, 18, 22. and then 26 total. 26 total damage to number what?

To number one. 26. Eric. As you you managed to strike all of them, after slicing into you, it was raising its sword back again as it stares at you glaring

and you smack it with your spoon and then a flurry of blows hits all of it. And with that, it is. Surve's turn. I will use my channel living me to cast sacred button as my action. I will keep standing where I am.

And as a bonus action, as a bonus action, I will attempt to to 30-foot range. I'm going to try to cast compel compelled duel on number two. The elemental. The elemental on the far back. It is a wisdom saving throw. Natural one, yeah, it never fails. It fails. Okay.

One creature that you see within range must make a whiz save on a failed say creatures drawn to you compelled by your divine demand for the duration of disadvantage on a tackles against creatures other than you and must make a wisdom saving throw each time it attempts to move to a space that's more than 30 feet away from you. So the spell ends if you attack any other creature, if you cast a spell that target is a hostile creature other than the target. The creature, if a creature friendly to you damages the target or casts a harmful spell on it or if you end your turn more than 30 feet away from the target.

I love that spell. So I will then start sidestepping around this little guy and try to get closer to him without invoking an attack of opportunity. you can sit them diagonally towards you yeah right there and I'll just taunt it and take all right come for me you big

buffoon and that'll be my turn okay so the clang of hammer on handle echoes out through the thunder as suddenly rains starts to pelt you as you're in the middle of the storm and this elemental seems to be drawn onto you

and it's their turn And so first, it seems like it was going to do something, but however, once you compelled the duel, it seems to fly up, and then with a crackling shock of thunder, it swoops down to attack you, Heria. And... It's within 15 feet, so it's gonna take damage. It needs...

Save it, girl? Yep. 16 wisdom. I forgot about... I forgot about that. Shit. That's gonna drop it. 11 points of damage.

11 wins of damage to... If anything damage number two. If it's not me, it's gonna drop the Hell duel. Is it anything? No. If you attack anything but it? Yeah. No, no, no.

The wording is that it has to be pretty specific. But it's a question of whether it's an ally or if it's anything that damaged it. Spell ends if you attack any other than a creature, but if you cast a spell that targets a hostile creature other than the target, and if a creature friendly to you damages the target or casts a harcle spell on. But are... Is her spiritual guardian considered her friendly?

Yes. Yes. Yes. It doesn't harm us. I guess. It's transient. It's one of my spells. It takes the damage, but it's still going to do what it was going to do anyway.

Taken from its course, it swoops down and is going to make an attack on Herja as this commanding who seems to be empowering it. And that is going to be a 21 to hit. The hits. as it cracks out and does additional damage from swooping so far into you. Boink. Boink. Boink.

Eight. Eight, twelve, 14. 14 points of damage as you are knocked back by the two of crash of thunder 10 feet. Oh, there's no save for it? Nope. If it hits, yep, 10 foot knocked back.

And then the other one... That's nice. One is going to fly into the center of all of you. And, yep. And beat its wings. And with such 40, it's an incredible sonic boom. Blast out. And I need everyone to make a con saving throw.

I'm within 10 feet of you. Do I get an above? Yep, you get plus two. 16. Do I? I know. DC is, what is the DC? 12.

Con saving throughout EC12. 14. I got nine. Should I use a twist? Yeah, we have them. Heck yeah. Can I use one? Can I use one?

What do we do the DC? 12. There we go. I passed a little 15. Two natural ones. Nice. So I guess it was always meant to be. So we used two.

Yes, we used two. We should be down to 18. Everyone that fails these 26 points of thunder damage and you take half of you pass. What was the total? Wow. What was it? 26. Holy shit. 13. 13. This is a concept, so I think it's a shield.

Holy shit. Wow, okay. Well, I'm going nuclear option, guys. Hang on your butts. And this one, this one flaps around. Who failed? Who failed? Do I get a set? Can I? Can I? tell that he failed, like, yeah, totally fucked. Oh, row, the rattling.

Ancest is protected. I'm going to use my, send one of my ancestors over there, and reduce it by five. And with that, after it collapsed back up, with that sheer force, it flies up 20 feet into the air directly above you. Five. My spirit guardians are still up.

Yep, okay, cool. The one in between you guys is getting ready to swoop down on you. Oh, fuck. 20 feet in the air? Doesn't it take two opportunity in a half? It has fly by.

So it flies by and as you try to swipe it, if you try to swipe by it it, it's too fast. Just resting on top of us. I'm just thinking. He's 20 feet in here. I'm just thinking.

And then this one is going to... Wait, is not where he was, because if that's where he was, he's within 15 feet of me, and he would take my damage. Yeah, he was there. He was there. He was there. Then no, he wouldn't be. So he fly up in 20 feet.

this one is going to swoop around to the other side of Toa sorry, this guy? Yeah right there So he is going to do a saving throw? Oh god Oh wow that fails Ooh

Free 19 points of radiant damage Holy fuck I should have done that That's fine, they don't know They don't know Okay As the Nubians are Slacing into this burrish

to this bird seems to be taking them out a good amount of damage as it looks at you toa and clapped its wings together and blasts at you and I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Pretty fucking good. 25. 25. You take half of cheese. 20 points of thunder damage as

half of that? So you take 10 points of thunder damage as it's trying to knock you off your feet and send you smashing into the building but it is unable to do that. And with that, it is going to, once again, that's going to fly up 20 feet as well. Okay. Yeah.

Nah, that kind of messes up. The note that it's 20 feet. Okay. With a candle, that's a good idea. Yeah, let's put the candles on them or something. But we can hear, why don't we use these? Yeah, that works. 20 feet.

With that, it is, I just turn, top of the round. I am going to cast a masculine word at a fourth level. Okay. Thank God. So you see a prayer to Anubis. And, and you also, you also. feel as warm sandy glow come over you and you all feel it for some business. Eight, no, uh, nine points of healing.

Hey, Tyrese. How much, sorry? Yeah, nine points of healing. Nine. Toa, you're up. Let's do this bonus action or anything. That was a bonus action. No, it wasn't because it was mass healing wear.

Yeah, no, it's still a bonus action. Um, so then I am going to a word of radiance. So the two that are next to me have to make a con saving throws. Number four is going to fail. Number five is going to also fail. It's four and six. Four and six. They both fail.

Okay. So they are going to take 11 points of damage. Jesus Christ. As you channeled a prayer to an unibus and a blasting light shoots out of you and it cinges them. does some good damage here. With that it's Toa's turn. I'm gonna run up right between Iris and Felix. It's gonna take an attack of opportunity against you? No, right, no, right, nope. There. Yep. And I'm going to turn to the one that's on Iris and I will attack it twice. Uh, 18 to hit you. That hits. Okay, it's gonna roll, it's gonna be some

slashing. It's gonna be seven points of slashing damage. So, for me. Okay. I'm gonna make these reckless. I don't know why I keep forgetting about that. So that, the first one's a hit. What was it? What was that? What did it get? What do you get? 20. Okay. Okay. So I will do 10, 17, 27, 27, 31 damage to number six. The air cover. 31 damage.

And you swing in, crashing it to the side, and its wings snaps and it falls to the ground. You get the opportunity, you bring your mold down, its head explodes, and it's dead. Number six? Yep. Number six is fucking toast. With that, it is... Creece. I'm hurt. So, I'm...

Ho-ro the... I'll try to a healing potion for my bonus action, and we'll do that after the turn. And I'll ho-ro the ratlin plane, the plane down in the multiverse. Ho-row the ratlin plane, the plane down in the multiverse. Well, in that land, there was a town, the state, and a state, and the land, and the land, and the plane, and the plane down in the multiverse.

And I'll cast slow. So they're hearing it, roll the rattling play the plane down in the wall feet how many the tooth fairy will come for you

all of the Erycocra and this elemental and I think it's it goes up right yeah it's a sphere yes it's 45 cure calculating so it's a few So it was a follow.

One, two, three, four, five. That should be able to get a whole of them. Everyone except for these two will now be slowed, mostly for that night. I need to roll saving throw. Nah, why not? You can do a wisdom saving throw. Elemental two fails.

Do we want to get some? So the ones that fail have, they have disadvantage on dexterity savings, is correct? Some slower out there. Stop, stop. So two fails? Elemental 2 fails. DC16.

We'll do Elemental 1 fails. Abba, blah, blah. Eryokokra succeeds. Erika 4 succeeds. Erecochra 2 fails. Erecochra 1 succeeds. And then... Erecoca 5 fails.

So they're all flowed down. Mostly for that. Or two. Okay, thank you. Thank you. But as you sing very slowly and that just washes over and it seems to affect them. They all looking around and they're... So just give them like disadvantage?

No, it does a bunch of shit. Okay. Negative 2 AC, negative 2 to X-30 saving crows. They can't use reactions. They can only use an action or a bonus action on their turn. It's a bunch of shit. That's right. They have multi-checked.

Okay. Okay. With that, it is, for you just turn. So I just want to take a quick look around at everybody and see who looks the most beating. Most beat up. All right, I gotta make a tough choice here. Um, so what I'm going to do is, uh, look up about 10 feet in the air and catch fireball. Okay.

You do that. It's a 20 foot sphere or 20, 20 foot radius sphere. So based on my math from here, I should be good. I can actually tell by grabbing that bad boy, the rabbit guy, sitting on its end. Oh, wow. And then... So I think it's everybody with these guys. Yeah.

Totally. Yeah. Wow. The problem is that I can only save four of us. Don't save me. You and I would have discussed that. So I can choose four people to automatically pass the deck savings. So I wouldn't have chose... I think I have to sack our tanks here. So you guys will have to make the deck saving throws. That's fine. I have my shield master too.

Okay. Isn't that just for single partner? I can still use it for... So the rest of us don't take anything? You take nothing. automatically save your saving throw. You automatically pass the saving throw if there is one and if you would take half damage from you take no damage instead.

Oh, awesome. And everybody who is slowed has disadvantage on deck save throws. No, they just take a negative. Oh, that's fine too. It's going to be 5, 10, 16, 19, plus 7 is going to be 26 points of damage to everyone but the two elemental and the three era co-corps.

Okay, we're gonna, so two of the, are the only one elementals in it. These two elementals are in it. This guy's not and this guy is not. Got it. Everybody else is. I'm going to do... What's the DC? 16. 16. Both of the elementals in it fail. Okay?

And then take the full... They're going to take the full. And then we're going to go to Eric Kro 4. He fails. Eric Koukro with the dice on it. 23. He passes. He passes. That's a 20 for... Oh wait. 20 minus.

minus two. Two. Okay, that's a pass. Okay, that's a pass. Number one is gonna fail, and that's it? Yep. So... And then we have to make our saves?

Yeah. So I passed. And you take, it was 23 divided by, 26, 5, at 2 is 13. You mind me which ones failed real quick? You said these guys failed? Yeah. And then...

Elementals, one and three failed. Okay. And then I think half of the Erika failed. Like two of them passed and two failed. So four... I'm pretty sure one and four defeated. The two slower ones, I think, pass, the other two failed.

Wow. Yeah. Okay, so 26... Sorry, 26. There's a lot of math. Felix points up and explodes. Number four is completely incinerated. Okay, and then number two is the one. That's gonna be half of 26, which is 13.

He gets singed. Okay. And then we're going to do, what's the other one that has the die on it? What number is he? This guy is five over here. He's five. Five is going to take 13 points of damage. He's going to get blasted.

Number one is also the flame singed his feathers and he collapsed to the ground. Poopie doopy. Poopie doopy. This is a mature stream where we say poopy dopy. And number one and number three both take 26. There we go. They both get. singe, number three is looking incredibly weak,

and number, what number is that guy with the slow? One? Number one. Okay. So he was totally unharmed, but now he's got blasted. As there's crackling of lightning and as the Thunder owl, one of them starts to lose its form. Thunder owl, you might say? Thunder owl, exactly right.

Okay. So I pass my save now thanks to the inspiration given to my bard and... I don't take anything because I can impose a shield between myself and the source of the effect if I make my saving for us, so I take no way to do. Okay, so, Taua withstands and Herja

ducts down and you put your shield up and fire them rages over you and you hide behind your shield. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, yeah, that's what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As the owls, the owls are all looking around and they, uh, They call out and they start speaking in this language.

And who can speak orin? What is Orin? Primordial. I can speak primordial. Okay. So you guys hear out, it's like, What's like, Ourses? And as they're looking around, why they've been slain? And it's like, this was not supposed to be this difficult.

He's like, we've been given orders to slay the traitors. And they look like they're about to leave. And they like, and they said, reinforce them. are coming and keep fighting and they're gonna say and keep fighting and keep fighting and that was on the Monsters 1's turn monsters 1 yes on they're talking you have to tell everyone and they are going to that's true I don't know number three and they're going to see what happened from the fireball and they're going to whip around and both attack Felix three and the one with slow on

them okay so how many attacks is that it's gonna be Three attacks. All right, so for the first, sorry. Wait, you're moving in the Ericocro? Yes. Okay. So we have an Ericoker here, an Erochoker here. You want them to fly in like that?

So one's going to stay on Lufti, the other one's going to fly beneath. That one's going to fly up to, I know it's awkward, but he's beneath the elemental. Oh, like. Oh, I see. Kind of like in that little pocket. Yeah, I have the dexterity. I'm going to get in there. There you got.

And I'm going to get in there like. Wonderfully done. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Get in there, you little slow guy. And then this guy's going to fly over here. Yep. And now they can both.

So both of those need to make saves, please. First one fails. However, number three succeeds. Nine points of damage. Nine points of damage number, what numbers are they? Whichever one failed, took nine. Two failed, three succeeded. And three took half.

The newbies are slicing in. They're taking some damage. Okay. So now, you said three attacks on me? Yep. Oh, six attacks, so I'll pull it. First attack, oh, Jesus. Alright, well, first attack targets me, AC 13.

Okay. That is going to hit. Okay. And it's gonna deal four points of slashing damage. No problem, I'm a tank. Okay, another one. Targets one of my clones, AC13. Okay.

Jesus Christ, that's gonna mess horribly. Beautiful. Next to attack. Next attack. Targets me. Okay. That is definitely gonna hit. Okay, that is gonna be seven points of slashing damage.

Okay. Next to tag, this is tag number four. Yep. Targets me. Okay. Misses. Oh, misses me? It's fantastic.

Tag number five, targets me. Don't forget that the one that's slowed can only attack once. That's it, then. Then I'm free! That's it. Wow.

As they slice it in and one is... That's it. For now. Yeah, that's their business. Okay. They're going to stay in... Oh, one is still going to attack Luffy. and it's going to do it once.

Disadvantaged. Disadvantaged. It's going to be a 16. Fuck me. Yeah. Really? It beats it. Yeah.

Slices in doing nine points of slashing damage. And as it is trying to slice, their wing beats, all their movements are magically slow. They look very frustrated. But they are commanded to stay

and fight to the death. And with that, it is looked his turn. Master's giving Felix's sock Felix is now free. For now. So I'm going to look at five and now you're speaking my language.

And I'm going to continue to just whack it with the spoon. How's it looking, by the way? Number one. Number five. Number five of the Aricotro? He's taken to one hit. Okay. The fireball.

I'm going to hit him twice with a spoon, one arm, unarmed and then I'll spend a key point to continue the fear of blows. Okay. Okay. Natural one. That one will hit you.

It's 15 to hit? Yep. Okay. So, one hit, one fail. Two more hits. Okay, so four hits. Mm-hmm. Those four times four.

16. Mm-hmm. So 16, that's 22, 28, 29. 32 damage. 32 damage. Number five? Yeah. Just enough.

As you smack, knocking it down with your spoon, and then just with a quick, the eye is roll back and the head spins around and it looks like it doesn't kill them, but then it forces so much like an owl, it's able to spin around, and you just knock it even further, and it snaps the neck and it collapses to the ground. Nice. Wild. Hurtier, you're up. Does it do that thing where the head raises up and it's just like a skinny, like, feather-like thing?

Yeah, it's like, whee. It's wild. Owls are gross. Persia, you are up. I'm going to run forward and stand diagonally to Derrick next to Iris. Oh. To get up to number two, the big guy, a little mental big guy. So you want to stand like here?

Right there. Yep. Yeah. And then I will use my bonus action to attempt to shove that creature because it's on the, is it on the ground? It's flying five feet above you. Can I, is that melee range? Yeah.

To try and not get prone. Okay. 17 for athletics. Natural 19, so yeah. Okay, I'll take two wax at it. Okay, you try that hop off with your shield but it's just flying above you. Too good, too good. Uh, 26 to hit.

And then, uh, natural 20! Good, good, good, yeah. This one's gonna be, uh, seven points of bludgeoning. To number whom? whom? Elemental two. Okay, seven points. You smack in. It's not a whole bunch. It's a magical bludgeoning and then this is nice, max damage twice. So that's 18 points of bludgeoning on the second hit and I will dump a second level divine smite into it. Okay. So it's 18 points of magical bludgeoning.

And then... The firing molten power, Moradens, empowers your weapon if you tear through this thing. You hit both times, right? Yep. Okay. And then another 19 points of radiant damage. Okay. Actually, I didn't say this, but can I, as part of my period blows, take the disengage action and move out here?

You smack in and then hit once again. It's looking rough and is struggling to maintain its form. Okay, with that, it is Monsters 2 turn. turn. Number two needs to make it save. Number two is going to make it save. Thank you. It's going to fail. And it's going to be 20 points of damage. Exactly enough. As the anubian were slicing in and out and in and out and they just tear it to shreds. As it was about to do something nasty, what the other one was going to do. As once again, one fly flies directly above, flies directly over you and beats its wing, setting out a horrific shockwave.

Everyone needs to make the Constitution saving through DT12. Oh, oh, I got a natural one. I'm going to use a twist of face. I think I'll use one as well. Cool. Let's make out. You keep a track, right? Yeah, I'll use one too.

That's minus three. What is it, DC12? Yeah, everyone. That should put us at 15, Rich. 13. What? 13. What?

That's just put it's at 15, right? That we have left. Natural 20. Very nice. Very nice. Got you want you. 20 17. Right now. We need it.

We've got a bunch of them. All right. So now we're at 16. What did you feel like? Again, I rolled exactly the same fucking thing. 26 points of Thunder Day. Getting what you're supposed to. You take half.

You take half. And Caprice, you are a, you're pushed 10 feet towards the building. That, yep, there you go. I want to... Have I gone yet? Well, it's Monsters 2 turn, and it'll be Iris's turn. So did everybody else take, do we take damage?

You did half. So what was the damage? 13. 13. You take 13. 20. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't understand what you were asking.

I'm wondering if I had my reaction. You're talking about when you protected Derek last time? Yes. No. That was like... That was prior. Okay. I kept my concentration.

So, subtract that 8 from that. Give yourself back gate help, I guess. As the other one, the one that was slowed, and number two is going to flap down directly in front of you, Toa, and once again, beat its wings and thunderweight. How far up in the air? It's going to be in range of your business. Perfect, yeah.

You know what I'm doing that first? 19. Slow one is going to move down here. No, number two, the one who isn't slowed. Number three. Number three is going to move. about 10 feet up in the air. Can he make a save?

19, yeah. So he will take half of 7, so he'll take 3 damage. Okay, 3 damage. Looking very weak, but not quite enough. It's going to fly in and beat it with your help

thunder clap. Everyone needs to make costume saving through again, DC 12. That's not good. That is not good. There's nothing I can do, Ken. I barely 15. 15.

I got the save 13. This is going fucking kill me though. Pass. I think that's Constitution.

The Constitution. 15 points of thunder damage. Oh my goshus. And half of you succeeded and you're not 10 if you...

What? Total is 15. Total is 15. It takes seven. Seven. You're half. And if you failed you will not back 10

10 feet. 15 was the total. Oh, wow. So seven if you succeed. You were merciless or you were mercifulless. or you were merciful. Oh, was I?

I don't remember. You were. And 10 feet if you failed. Back. Oh, so we don't go. We don't move if we succeed. Correct. Yeah. So anyone failed.

Okay. And then once again, so it's moved down. It's going to fly back. It only has half its speed. It's 60 foot movement. It's still able to get about 20 feet, right? But that one's not slow.

Oh, that one's not slow. Oh, but it's within the... It's within the... It's in what you call it. Oh, but it made it safe. It's going to go up. It's going to go up. 10 feet above.

You're going to go up 10 more feet. Okay, so yeah, it's a 20 feet above you. 20 feet above you. Yep. Okay, with that, it is Irish's turn. I am going to... I'm going to... I'm going to...

It's hard to see through those bottles, but I can look there and see. Now I'm in a good spot. I'm going to... Oh, are you not unconscious? No, no, I thought he was... I miss understood. I thought 15 was the halved. Yeah, because I took like 13 and then 12 and then, you know, she was a 15, I was like, yeah,

one. Cure wounds on Felix. Yay! Yay! Nice, so. You feel the warmth, fill your soul as Iris puts a paw on you and your wounds close up. As the gritty sand fills my breath. 22 points of feeling.

Oh, damn. That's enormous. And as you're looking around, it seems as you distracted most of the guards and you see a blood-covered heart with blood on her sword, ushering and ushering in civilians as they're running through, they're all heading into her end. And she's beckoning everyone to get in. Do I see Umlanda, Jud, or Farnat? Perception, Jake.

Yeah, my pleasure. That'll be a 15. 15. You look around, and with a 15, you are, you're picking out, there's crowd, there's chaos going, there's chaos all around you. And although the roof of the, of the, you. the Buddy Burrow is starting to burn and start to get more and more intense.

You start to see the very back of Umlanda make his way over. He seems to be walking with the limp, very slowly. Blood traveling down his leg. As my bonus action, I'm gonna take a greater healing potion. Chug the potion. Can you pass the one under that guy? I'll give it back.

That's all good. How wounded is this? Slowed one low. Slode one? Number three? No, number one. Number one, he does not even look bloody. Number three looks like it's literally just very much struggling to keep its back.

Okay, you go. When I'm striking it, it's literally, it cannot do that. Um, I am going to... Have these guys made a single, like, attack? Attack? One did. Against version. One did?

I dropped. They're no longer sled. Okay. I am going to, I think I need to do it. I'm going to do it. turn I'm gonna hold my totem in my left hand pull out my boomerang yeah baby and flip it up and I want to hit this one okay the one that's not damaged you let is not damage okay interesting yes you got a plan there though natural 20 but it's

advantage anyway oh oh very nice it's more than 20 feet is this advantage now you're good then you're good then you're good then you're so it's advantage no I'm advantage oh oh yeah I'm using a record so it's a natural target it's a natural I thought you were saying it wasn't. Apologies. So, five, so eight damage. Eight damage? Yeah.

To number one. Okay. It flies in and it cuts through, it seems to destabilize it as it flints back to you, I guess? So it falls, no, it's gonna, so it falls. It doesn't go back. It doesn't go back. But now he is marked and disadvantaged

if he attacks anybody but me. Oh nice. So now I will turn and attack whichever guys in melee range with me. Okay. Three. Uh, three. Does he take 20 feet of falling damage?

What? I didn't stand him or anything. Oh, I thought you said he didn't. The boomerang fell. Oh. Not the birdie. You need to be boomerang fell. Yes.

I'm paying attention. Um, I am going to attack. Okay, yeah, six. Well, the black, that, flat to panic. The Eiracococra? The Eiracococra, 14. Number two or number three? It looks like it's about to hit.

And as it's hit, it used reaction and pull up a sword and parries you. Uh, parries them all out of the way. Okay. I am done Caprice you're up I'm gonna chug a potion for

okay you chug it I'll like pause my thinking just for a moment and be like man that guy's a fucking dick and with the word dick I'll healing word myself at first level that's fine and then I'll push out

with my gauntlet and I'll continue to sing Oh row the ratlin plane The plane down in the multiverse Oh row the ratlin plane The plane down in the multiverse Well in that town there was a pub, a rare pub, a ratlin pub, in the palm of the town, the town, in the state, in the state, and the land, in the land,

and the plane, and the plane down in the multiverse. Oh, row, the ratlin plane down. It's all scorching ray, with my gauntlet of the ashen furnace, or whatever it's called, and that's gonna be three attacks. I'm gonna start my first attack on number one over here, and that's going to be a plus five to hit, that's a nine, second attack, natural one, third attack,

That'll hit 19, 2D6 fire damage for that one. And that'll be 10 points of fire damage to number one. Both of them arc out and hit two of the buildings that are already on fire. And the other one blasts out in there, it hits into them. Okay. With that, it is Felix's turn. Yeah, fuck this guy. I'm going to ice knife the shit out of number three here.

Okay. So it's just an attack roll. Yep. The elemental? Yeah, 12? 12. Uh, misses. So, uh, hit or miss, it will, I guess they never miss, huh? Uh, it'll take 2D6 cold damage, uh, you have to exceed a deck saving throw.

Then we'll take half of it? If there's any damage at all? No, no, no, so here's the idea, right? It's, it's, I try to hit you. On a hit you take 1D10 piercing damage. Hit or miss, the shard explodes. And then you have to make a deck saving load. A letter.

Miss. And now it'll take 2D6. It, uh, immediately be the knife exploded at one hit point last. hit point left as it explodes into shards and cut through the the the thunder's cloud and it just dissipates both of them are just going to look around for the review and the bonus action just take a oh yeah that's can I use my free object interaction whatever I'm going to turn what's the language called oran I'm going to turn to let's see I didn't know you speak gordon oh never mind three more reinforcements oh I should have said that silly me and then I'm going to take motion okay so three attacks on six attacks on you again felix

Both of them are within 15 feet of me, so they need to do their thing. And then I'll roll and cry. Which is it? Wisdom for two and three. Two succeeds, three fails. 17 points of damage. Woo! Half of 17 is...

Do that all the time forever. It's eight. Never don't do that. Every point guess. As they fly in, number two is looking like it's going to hit Phyllis and then suddenly an an Nubian jackal-headed warrior gets in front and slices cutting him down dead there's which one three three oh you said two two sorry two two dies and then with that it is three attacks

three attacks targets me man that day AC 13 you haven't rolled higher than a five on that dice for 13 exactly okay I get it five points of slashing nothing Targets one of my clones. AC13. It's going to be a 21. One clone left. Poofs. Okay.

Targets me. Wow. AC 13. 6. Miss. Okay, those are all three of his attacks. Wow. Slices in, okay.

With that, a Luffy turn. I'm going to take out a health potion and pop it as a bonus action. The moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. And I'll run in and... Oh, whoa, whoa. Drunkenly swine swander over. Just swaner over. Isn't that's a word.

And I'm going to do two spoon attacks and then like an elbow. Okay. So 16 hits. Wait, hold on. 16, yes, it hits. Three attacks. Yikes. Um, so that is 12, 16, 17, 18,

18 damage. To number three? Yeah. The Eiricocra. Yeah. It's only one left. Oh no, there's a tall guy. He died.

I swear to God he died. Okay. You smack it with the spoon and it's looking very weak as you beat it. It is still holding on. With that, it is hurt his turn. And this dude is still flying? 20 feet in the air. Yep.

But there's an Eir-Coker on the ground there. I know. I just wasn't sure. That was a good option. a good option. I'll go up and beat on the air quick craft. I'm gonna have bonus action try to knock it prone. Okay. Okay. With an 18 for athletics.

You raise your shield and try to knock it down. It's a little too high. You keep trying to leap up and it's just not working. Okay, so 19 for my first hit. Hits? I'll just roll damage right now with four points of bludgeoning. Four points of bludgeoning is looking very weak. As you smack into him. I look around at my friend.

Are we taking any for Hastage for questioning? Kill them. Kill them. That you destroy them. Speaking of which, exclamation point, charity, if you want to donate to our charity. It's 26 to hit, and this one is another four points of legend again. Barely, you smash into it.

Its skull caves in, and it's a poof of feathers. Yes! Explodes. I can't quite get so. I did the thing. He did. Yeah, there we are. Monsters 2 is going to fly above,

just move directly above you and... It's going to actually need to roll his thing. Oh, okay. He's above us. That's going to fail. Go home. The Nubian warriors go. Tent points of damage.

Assemble. As it looks like it's going to beat its rules. wings, how would you like to do this? I would like all three of them to kind of roll around me and stab true at the same time, like directly. Okay. So as it's flying over you, it's still in the radius. I actually know.

One of them's going to stab into his heart. The other two are going to chop off either one of its wings. Okay. So as it flies over you, both of your spiritual Linovian wars fly and synchronize both at the same time, the thunder swings shoot off and then completely dissonance. and suddenly it's just a falling owl torso. And then with a single thrust, the spear pierces directly through the chest

and with a, you hear the roar of thunder as it completely dissipates. You all look around you and you and you see blood, the corpses of civilians, of lizard folk, of fear bulbs, of tabaxi, and gnomes, as well as a good number of Eryokokro warriors slain about and you look around for movement and I need everyone make a perception check

real quick I love hey 23 23 okay 14 okay nine okay as you look around it seems as if the only movement is from the door of the Bunniesboro however you look up in the sky and you see the movement of wing just very barely through the moonlight as it shines in dozens and dozens and dozens of wings figures heading in as you see a blood-soaked heart step out and say, come on, come on! Let's go. Is it safe? The roof is collapsing.

We got up in the town! I'll start to run. I have a tunnel! Okay. The tunnel, of course, of course. Well, you've got a tunnel. Let's go. Why didn't you say so?

Come on, let's go! You see that she's, that heart has been wounded a little bit, but she's completely, uh, covered in feathers that's soaking into her blood-soaked fur. And she guided you down into the cellar, and where the largest keg of all was has been moved aside and a very small door is open. So good thing I emptied that for you.

It was a lot easier. Come on, let's go, we gotta go, we gotta go. And she ushers all of you through and she looks around. Once you're all through, you see her grab the keg and pull it. it closed and the door slams shut as you are in a tunnel in complete darkness. And that's what on the session.

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