Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 28: Pulling Strings (The Dragon Elf Chronicles)

Episode Date: January 13, 2023

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It's good. It's like you're in like a library or something. It's atmospheric sad. There you go. Right, right, right. It's not directly happening to you. Nobody's dead, but there are cobwebs here. Yeah, just cobwebs.

Yeah. But there are some characters that are dead. We have to do a little recap. Right. So let's find out about them. So last time you strategized with Big Bev and Trumrot about how you were going to fight the king. Big Bev lamented that you did not have a third adult dragon

and you came up with a solution. He asked us to find a third. Yep. Using sending scrolls from the shocking quizzators' office to reach out to Princess Shiverblight. First, you tried two lies about Shroomrot and Big Bev having crushes on her and being, quote, so drunk, Aron. Wow.

Finally, after she revealed that her followers had joined up with Glenn and she was leaving the forest, you cut her at deal. If she helped kill the king, she'd get his castle. Hours later, Big Bev retrieved her through a quick gate and returned to the dungeon. He brought back some fellow-crick-rangers for support, but did reveal that Galen had escaped. You shelved that problem, as the quick and deep elf-rangers were sent to take the dungeon level and attack the castle while the rest of you fought the king. And with that, you proceeded on Dragon back to the king's lair.

There, the king emerged from a sinkhole and wielded an underground storm into existence. The battle began reasonably well with the exception of Calder and Shiverblight. But eventually, the smaller dragons were worn down, and Schwimrot was struck with a mortal blow. From there, Big Bev, Kali and Saul were knocked out and revived, then knocked out again. You came at the king with smiting crits, flying grenade drops, and the strength of Ultras. Eventually, the wounded king attempted to flee while Calder was alone in the sinkhole amongst his sinking friends. Calder ignored the advice of Ultras and attempted a freezing ray, only one of the rays hit,

and it was not enough to take down the king. However, against all odds, Princess Shiverblade got her breath weapon back and was able to freeze the king just as he broke through into his throne room where deep and Crick Elves alike were taking it from the blues, the Elven arrows pierced, the frozen king shattering him and the mission was a success. Victory! Yay! However, the struggle was not done and the rest of you went about saving each other in the sinkhole.

Calder retrieved Callie, who revived Big Bev, who then scooped Saul after Callie located him with a detect thoughts. As Saul drifted off to dreams of swimming with other bullywugs in the moonstone swamp. He was rescued from the mud and flown with the rest of his friends to one of the crumbling bridges, as the elves celebrated above you, Big Bev turned back into a Crick-Earth and revived Saul, and that's where we are now. That was almost a goner in that royal sinkhole. What a terrible phrase. So, you all are in the wreckage of the King's Lair. The ceiling has mostly collapsed above you

from the conjured storm, and you can hear the shearing of the deep and void elves as Shiverblight has just burst through to finish the king. The battle has completely turned in their favor. You still hear some clashing, but you can see that there are like blue dragon elves Retreating you are on one of these broken platforms that is somehow still standing over the sub-bis Below is the sinkhole the storm begins to

subside Overhead the morning sun begins to break through the clouds the first time in a very long time that it stopped raining around the King's fort. And you feel the magic kind of dismisses around here that was causing all of the layer actions that was causing the storm. Do we see Schrooomrot's body? Go ahead and give me a perception check. 14. Six. 21. Yeah, you look over the edge. Shroomrot's body was mostly consumed, but it's almost spit back up.

It's surfaces and is lying there at the bottom of the layer. I take a knee. Is there anything we can do for him? Big Bev just looks down and shakes his head and goes, I mean, we can help the deep elves get him out of here, but he's gone. Do you think it would be okay if I took one of his mushrooms? I know that the deep elves are all about the fungal network

and I'd love to spread it somewhere else. Of course, and that's honestly all part of mourning a deep dragon, and I think the deep elves are probably going to end up doing something quite similar. Yeah, I'm going to rush down and kind of like say my final thanks to Shroomrot. Yeah, Big Bev turns into a black dragon once again, scoops all of you guys and it brings you guys down to Shroomrot. You see the light from the sun has just broken

through the clouds and miraculously begins to shift and it hits Shroomrot down here. And you see the duke of the deep, this gray and blue scale to dragon lying, unmoving, but he is still teaming with life just covered in this bioluminescent fungi which now weirdly seems more alive than it was when he himself was alive. It returns to the network. Yeah.

You see, Big Bev nods. Deep, deep dragons can't die. You just go back to the network. Yeah. So, should we leave him peacefully here? I think we can wait. We're not going to have to break the news to anybody. The deep elves are...

They feel. Yeah. Yeah, they're very well connected. Like how you'd know if something was wrong, if if someone was wrong with Foster, and Foster hops up under your arm. Wham! I don't think anything's ever been wrong with you. You're so chill. You're so chill.

You have that gun in his eye that one time. I think you absorb negative energy. Wham! Yeah, you see, he goes and plops down, We have that gunk in his eye that one time. I think you absorb negative energy. Wherrr. Yeah, you see he goes and plops down and he's weirdly content sitting next to Schumrat. It seems like he kind of knows that the Trumat lives on. Yes, a duck and mud. Duck and mud.

And after a bit, deep dragons and deep dragon riders begin flying down from above. All of the dragons and all of the dragon riders surround Shroomrots and lower their heads. You see the riders dismount, and there's a moment of quiet contemplation, and they invite you guys to kind of come and enjoy them. I'm doing a lot of like hand on the the shoulders, leg loss and a record style. Why not? Why not?

Yeah, you go over. It's exchanged. Put your hands on their backs, and Val, who is next to her dragon, Boulder, a tear coming out from under her visor, approaches Shroom Rott and places her hand on him, and goes, you carried us as hatchlings. And now we carry you, Father. I will be your wings." She holds her hands over Shormrath's back and you see that a bunch of the fungi begin without her

even picking them off, begin detaching themselves and attaching to her. And she carries them over to Boulder and begins placing them on the young, deep dragon. These bioluminescent mushrooms, reds and purples and blues literally begin connecting to his spine, sending a visible fungal network through his body, like pulsing veins, and Boulder gets a little bit more like funky-looking. Wow. Like the way Shrew brought was... The literal glow-up. Yep, a literal glow-up.

And the other Rangers begin taking a moment. They approach Shrewm Rotten to the same, migrating his mushrooms to the other dragons, who seem to be getting empowered by it. You see the rangers go up and the dragons are repeating, I will be your wings, I will be your wings as they do it. Finally, you see Fowl does bring a mushroom over to you, Saul. A little green cap mushroom and she goes, Father would like for you to have this, as his last rider, he, he says he could not have gone into battle with a finer frog.

Saul's eyes start to water and then he lets loose a primal croak of anguish and joy and he rips open his track jacket and puts the mushroom right in the place where his monestone was. Oh yeah, you still have a little bit of like an indentation where the monestone was, and as you let out like a frog like Gurgle, you hear them begin to like,

essentially howl and let out these schrum rot like sounds in unison. Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Oh! Uh, they let them out, and Saul, uh, you... Let it out, everybody. Let it out! Why is he the saddest? Yeah! I've been trained enough to cry at other people's face. Yeah!

I don't think... It's the first time someone I've been connected to has really passed. This is rough. So as you press this mushroom into your chest, you feel a surge of energy go through you and you have gained a new ability. Once per turn, once per round essentially, you can add one-de-eight of poison damage to your attack. You just became a poisonist, man.

Yeah, I like flex my fist, and I feel like you see like a little bit of that like bioluminescence like gathering at the end of it. Very dangerous. Yeah, I five. Colored licks all really quick. You pass out. You wake up five minutes later and you forget everything that just happened. I didn't lick you.

Old dress that didn't count. You went up and tried to lick Shroomra, man. We all had to hold you back. Shit, was that weird? Val didn't see you, thank God. And after giving this to you, you see Val gets this look on her face of like brave stoicism and goes, Shroomra is with all of us now. We must not delay. We must secure the safety of the living wood let's go yes she joins the other deep

dragons and flies up yeah and big bev scoops up you guys and brings you up to this throne room through this crack in the floor inside the throne room you see that there are void elves and deep elves here kind of licking their wounds, healing each other up and recovering. Meanwhile there are dragons circling overhead as scouts making sure there is no immediate counterattack because you can imagine. Word will probably get out pretty soon to the other princes. There are dozens of blues that have surrendered and are being held by your allies, Debalt Pikeman, making them surrender their weapons, and they're yielding.

They want no part of this now that the king is dead. The last- Kind of stun at them a little bit. Yeah. What? Okay. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, you-

What? I just keep dropping things and saying, like, can you pick that up? Fine, yes, there you go. I can't get out of Kelly's hand again. Okay, yes, can you pick that up? Fine, yes, there you go. I hit it out of Kelly's hand again. Okay, yes, I'll pick it up again. This isn't on the top 20 list of bad things that's happening to me today. Do you guys have a Cheswick?

Do we know Cheswick? Do you the fuck is Cheswick? Just ask. I know 10 Cheswicks. My name is Cheswick. Why? All right, raise your hand if your name is Cheswick. A five dude nearby.

You all gotta go. Why? They walk off. They start to walk off a boy-elf grab something. Hey, what the fuck, say here. No running off a tellin' people. Where is the corpse of Dura-Tar? So, oh, it's shattered in here.

Yeah, you see, there's literally dragon parts all over the place. Essentially, what happened is the king flew up here, was frozen by Princess Shiverblight, like frozen solid, and then arrows pierced him. So there's just dragon chunks everywhere. And now we're in the Shiverblight. Yeah, so the last time you guys were in this room,

there were tall windows that showed nothing, but a raging storm outside. Now you see the morning sun cascading orange and yellow. You see that there is a short staircase going up to a huge roost to like throne. This looks to have previously just been for show. It's big but probably not big enough for the king. It is however big enough for Princess Shiverblight who sits atop it and barks out orders. Okay, we won, right? So why don't we go ahead and start taking the banners down?

If we're gonna flip this castle, we might as well do it now, right? Oh, what? Oh, actually, if she's gonna flip it. Okay, I think I go and I take a very sincere knee before her. I follow that. Yeah. Absolutely.

I don't know that. It. Absolutely. I follow that. And says, today's victory is on your wings. I totally agree, but thank you for saying that. That's awesome of you to say, solder, good to see you. You as well. I laid my sword at her feet. Like, shakeily take a knee beside them.

I'm here to solder junior. Good to see you. I'm here too. Soldier, junior. Good to see you. Yes, I'm his son. I'm proud of my daddy. That makes a lot of sense. Princess Shiver, like, I don't want to tell you someone who was in charge, like what you should do because this is-

Totally, and that's why I love you. Yeah, but I do, I love you too. I think it's so more naiv-close friends. I love you, that. I love you too. Um, I'm okay. I think it's so more nap-close friends. I love you, that. I love you, all, yeah. Yeah. Uh, I am a bit worried.

Have you thought about the blue princess coming to retrieve the father's manner? Oh my god, this is such a fucking headache. I already fought like the biggest fucking dragon today Can anyone do something about these high princes? Yes, tell us We are yours, yeah, yeah, you're sick man. What? Like you see done it seems like the drapes and the banners are already being changed Yeah, you see that's come your fire blue dragon else are just like we're down to go change the banners

If you guys want don't just talk about it Chezwick Blue Dragon also just like we're down to go change the banner Don't just talk about it Chezwick All right run off. Yeah, Chezwinks. Okay, okay, we get some Chezwinks over here On this better specifically and there's some carvings on the throne. Let's get rid of the carvings Okay, let's smooth those out. That's gotta be priority one. Yeah, let's get some weird grave floors in here Some like gray wood those carving, those carvings are ancient princess. Princess, yeah, maybe they don't like really flip the house. What if you just like lived here, stayed here and like. I just really feel like I need to make it my own.

With gray floors. Yeah, of course. Okay, I'm like ice floors, gray. Okay, yeah. Yeah, like ice gray floors, yeah. Okay. She's got me there. Okay, I guess like I'm trying to say like if you want we could try and defend if if the blue princess come but we could also like go on a diplomatic mission because I feel like you were looking for a prince. Yes.

Now would be interesting to settle down to a relationship like this quick into my reign. It just feels like I'm really discovering myself as like a ruler. I think a lot of people think of it like a political marriage and they can like do stuff on the side. Yeah. Why don't we, why don't we at least go solicit offers? Interesting. You don't have to say yes to anyone.

Yeah, even we could just like spy and see if anyone is planning to coup you. Okay, I don't hate this. Yeah, you see Big Bev comes over and kind of signals over for Val and Boulder, sort of the head representatives of the deep elves here. Kind of motions for you guys to follow him and goes, your highness, perhaps we should chat somewhere else about kind of our steps moving forward. Okay. You guys exit the main hall and enter a giant doorway

to another room. This enormous library that looks to have been the King's War Room, and in the middle of the room there is a giant beautifully carved wooden table that lays out all of the sections of the living wood with big colored dragon figurines that look like they denote who has what territory. Sweet, let's not move over any of the carving here.

Yeah, I know. Are you sure I feel like we could turn this into a ping pong table? That's kind of sad, it's not. Kind of fun. What are you? Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, yeah, one time. Yeah, I leave mine in my protective pouch. That's it. I knew it's a paint bomb player, so I had no idea. I had no idea.

You got to unwind somehow. That was all the mothership had. I guess so. You guys, yeah, walk over to this table. And looking at the map, you see that the northern half of the living wood has a bunch of blue-elf-true movement. These smaller blue pieces, they have surrounded Umber Spore's undercity.

You see like a gray dragon representing Umber Spore, she stuck there and they've chased out Shiverblight. Do you see Shiverblight's piece is moved out of her lair and there's a bunch of blue pieces there. This is not updated. Is anyone going to freaking update this? Um, I use my ping pong paddle to knock hers onto the... You bang it, it knocks her piece forward and breaks her nose off. Oh my god, do I look like that? Do I look like that?

Jeswig! What did you do? Come on, Jeswig! This is... I didn't do this. I... Carve a way. I was hiding behind the books back here. You don't know how you could have found go carve away Immediately I was a bike man Oh, wait a little yeah, go and use your bike to It's just a long dagger dude goes a little less. Runs over to one of the deep elf guards and asks for a knife and they just push him.

Yeah. Ah! After this, we're playing doubles. Just, is trying to win a one stick with another stick. I hit one ping-bong ball. Yeah. Ah! Damn, where'd you learn to spin, sir?

He goes down. He was at 1hb. I think that's in English. Yeah, so BigBav knocks off the king in his castle, move Shiverblight there. And that is on the southern half of the map. Here you see the seven fortresses of the Blue Elves and the Blue Dragon,

three on each side of the massive Kings Fort. So you've got Shiverblight here in the middle, she's, you guys have taken the King's castle. Big bev also removes cobalt and periwinkle's pieces. These were two of the high princes who were killed one by Glenn's crew and one by you guys at the summit. That leaves four high princes left for eligible bachelors. Not all of them are eligible bachelor's is the thing. So, some are spoken for. Let's get their bios. Yeah, yeah, yeah, please download us. Walk me through the dragon bachelor's. I started hitting a ping pong ball. All right. I feel like the ping pong balls are super loud.

I started doing one out of sync with call there. I'm so worried that you guys are going to take this beautiful wood table and turn it into a ping pong table. It's been my rack of drop it. We can't even fight, fuck. It's every fight. It's my freaking castle. Rad, okay. Big, big, big, big, big confiscates the ping pong battles.

Just until after I'm done talking, then everyone can have them back. I start tying my rope into a net. Okay. All right. All right. So just quiet at least. So our sides got three adult dragons. We've got me, we've got queen, chiver, blad,

queen of this castle, not queen of the woods, just to clarify. Right, perfect. And then also we've got queen onberspore. And they've got four. Oldest to youngest, we got Prince Indigo, then Cerulean, Azure, and of course Cornflower. If we can cut a deal with one of them, we can avoid a long drawn out fight.

As it stands, they'll be rattled knowing we killed the King. Once we have more dragons than them, I think they'll be more than willing to cut a deal. Right. Okay. I look at the carvings or any of these dragons hotter than the others. Yeah. I want to hold them up and see Shiverblight's take because I would love to find her a love match. I'll hold Shiverblight. I'll hold her piece, and you just bring up the other one's next. Here comes Indigo. I will. So, you know, we'll do charisma checks for all of them.

Let's see. Oh wow. We'll naturally decide who's the hottest right now. Can I roll them? Yeah, hang on. Nothing hotter than your wife killing your dad. It's different. He was a bad king.

No, I do. And they would have killed him anyway. All right. Okay, they're saving throws. These dragons are pretty odd. They're saving throws are plus nine to charisma. So we'll see. Okay, so let's go with indigo plus nine. 13. 13. Big fierce looking dragon. Not as big as the king king but bigger than all of the other brothers I like that. He's like a commanding force, but he's not really my type. Okay, okay, you know what? Let's move on to Cerulean Cerulean. I have a good feeling about Cerulean Oh, is it a flea tea 20? Yeah, those are kind eyes. Okay, Cerulean definitely has some fucking kind eyes You know what I love, kind eyes.

Shit. His wings are fucking fierce looking, but it's fucking eyes. Yeah, chess with one all out on those eyes. Right. Okay, okay, but we can't close our minds because we still have eyes show. That's also a dirty 20.

Shit. Whoa. Of course, they're twins. Oh. Interesting. That's also a dirty 20 shit. Whoa of course their twins Interesting No, that's actually pretty hot. It's rounded out with corn flour Corn flour got a 23 whoa you see face on name alone. I was pulling for corn flour smile corn flour is kind of more of a blue purple color. And you do see that he does have big kind eyes.

Okay, he's kind of interesting. Wait, he looks just like Cerulean, but with just bigger kind eyes. Bigger kind eyes, but he is smaller. He doesn't look as strong. That means he's got more to offer. He's a grower. I whisper to you guys.

Actually, we do need someone who's gonna help protect the fort. Yeah, maybe behead some of the other dragons. Yeah. You see Big Bev leans in with you guys. So while Shiverblight's just looking at how hot all the figures are, and Big Bev goes, we don't necessarily need the strongest dragon, we just need one to bring their army,

and with that, I think they'll definitely be rattled enough to not want to do a fight. And I guess, like, the smallest of the dragons might be the most willing to make this deal. Ooh, I think that's smart. You see, I think I'm smart too. I think that's all hits a ping pong ball. All'm smart too. You think that's a ping pong ball. All right, I told you.

My hands are potholes. I told you all if you have paddles to hand them to me, I was gonna have to have them until I'm done. All right, take Saul's hand and hold them with his cloth. You see, yeah, Val pokes her head in and goes, the two dragons that are the strongest themselves and have the strongest forces are Indigo and Serulean. We can keep them tied up while you try to negotiate

with the others. We'll fly our ranger south, free Umbersport, then march our force up to Indigo's gates and we can siege him just like he did us. Okay, we'll go to Cornflower and see what's up. Yeah, let's definitely do that. Princess, do you have a picture of yourself that we could kind of bring?

Or carving. Yeah, I have this weird dragon piece. Yeah, but it's broken. All right, but you broke it so fix it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'll give this to my ex. This is for a while. I got it.

Callie, give me a minute. Callie, you draw portraits. I see you make star maps. Oh, let's give. Let's give. I can paint you in star maps. Your Highness, yes, okay. Would you sit for me?

For a picture, yeah. I slowly and laboriously puncture, make a little like a pointless draw. Yeah, yeah. Like little punctures into the thing. You make us. Like a Wall Street Times draw? Yeah, yeah. Like little punctures into the thing. You make us. Like the Wall Street Times portrait? Yeah.

A star map for a person. So good. Yeah. You make this little star map of Shiverblight's face. Go ahead and give me a, I guess, sleight of hand check. It's like that, it's OK. I'm going to give her guidance. It's like that, it's okay. I'm gonna give her guidance. 18. 18, okay.

It looks really good, but it looks like Shiverbite through multiple filters. So Shiverbite freaking loves it. Oh my God, you didn't tell me you could do this. I didn't know I could. Really, I just needed a muse. And I've met her. Holy shit.

Yeah, there's a great idea of giving her a lips. That's perfect. He's going to be mad when he sees me. This is perfect. Let's go catfish dragon. Princess, before we leave, feel like there's a possibility that the guy that stole your people might hear of your success and try to come here. So I just wanted to float the idea that if Glenn and your various white knights and white

dragons came, you could maybe just play along. Oh my god. And then totally screw him on. How am I supposed to be normal around my freaking ex followers? Do you know what my freaking exes those are? I know. I see Gal card, I'm going to freak out. I ain't Gal card, right?

Yeah, I do too. He's a freaking prick. I think he's so too faced. Yeah, he's so too faced. I've had shit from on him since day one. Yeah, I knew he was too faced. I was so nice to him whenever I saw him, but I would talk so much shit about him.

He's so fucking awesome. Yeah, as you had something to run him. He is the problem, I agree. So frankly, I think that is kind of like if they come to you and they're like, oh my god, we're so happy for you. Like let's get back together. Like maybe you can drag them along a bit until you get them to the perfect position.

I hope you guys know I hate being too faced, but I can absolutely do that. I know. I'm surprised. I don't even know how you would try. I'll be super best. I think you could do it because you're such a good actor. Oh, God, thank you. It doesn't come natural. I thought about that. I actually thought about that. When I was going to leave the living wood, I was like, maybe I should become an actor. That would have been awesome. Or write my own kind of story. Yeah.

I'm just like make someone else write my story. Yeah. You've got an army of chess wicks to accomplish that. You should definitely get a chess wick on memoir writing. I'm getting right to it ma'am. I'm having trouble making a piece with a whittling wood with wood. It's not working out great But I could if someone would lend me a pen I could begin writing No, another chess wick on it. You're on whittling dude. Right. Just dip your pipe and ink Okay, they took my pipe is the problem. Okay. I see. Yeah, we just we're killing each other So they stopped me and then I tried to run away and they pushed me over I don't know just remember the whole story man. All right. Can we take a chess wick with us?

You can. Line up all the chess wicks and make them do Christmas checks. Yeah. You can take a chess wick with you. Christmas chess wicks. I looked in the group, should we take a chess wick? How do you might as well? A rowdy chess?

The only chess wick will theoretically have any aid wicks. OK, the only problem with bringing somebody who sucks with you. I just think you might take my back the impression Okay, yeah, it's fair But if we bring you test wig they're gonna be able to help us navigate they get all suck They're gonna know a lot of Contents that we don't have look guys. I've wandered away and I'm looking at the chas wicks

I'm gonna just talk to you. I started tying the net I'm bouncing the table Okay, I guess if you're gonna do a pink bond table, at least maintain the integrity of the table that is and just put up a net on some glass on top of this. Yeah, put some glass on top of this, this beautiful table. Okay, corn flour is a little bit of a tough sell. I still think you all should go there

because it's probably the safest. He's probably the least likely to try to kill you and you all are pretty fucked up right now. Uh-huh. But I will say that he's the youngest son and sort of lives a life of leisure. He just kind of lacks to fuck around. So the idea of perfect for each other.

They're kind of perfect for each other. Yeah. However, the idea of perfect for each other. They're kind of perfect for each other. Yeah. However, the idea of moving him from his comfortable situation and trying to get him to join essentially our rebellion might be a little bit of a tough sale. So we need to book movers. If you were to offer to help him move his stuff, it might be helpful. Okay. Okay. Yeah. We have a bunch of chaswicks like to do the moving. We could probably toss it all in the fungal network and just shoot it that way. That's awesome, guys.

Alright. Let's see you guys. You guys, don't forget corn flour. Val's going to handle the two biggest ones with Umberspore. Yeah. I'll go, I'll grab a couple void elves. I'll try to go to Azure's place and he and I actually had a fight back in the day. So hopefully he remembers who his daddy is.

It was super close though to be honest. I hope we don't fight again because I'm tired. I'm really tired. Be careful. Yeah, I might go ahead and take a quick short wrist. Short wrist. We could all grab one of those, but why don't we go out and do great? I am going to do an insight check on the chess wigs.

Great. Shout out to two crew. Seem like really trustworthy good dudes. Honestly, they're all so good, I can't pay. Which one's best at pawn? I set up a bracket for an amendment. I hit the chess wigs. Let's do it round robbing not knockout style.

That's the only way to find out who's really nice. I see you guys take your short last turn of it. You make the blue dragon elves do a Bing Bong tournament. You see they at first, they're kind of just like, oh my god, fine. But as it goes on, they start to get competitive. Let's go, go chess. Take that chess, take that chess, and one chess But as it goes on they start to get competitive

Take that Jeswick and one Jeswick does train supreme. Oh my god was it Jeswick for I have five gold on Jeswick for Pay off All right operation horn up corn flour has begun. All right. Let's go see for see for are you actually bringing Jeswick with you? No, so do you guys Let's go see for. See for? Are you actually bringing Cheswick with you? No. So what do you guys think? Hmm. She's really ill and tired. She's really ill and tired. Yeah.

But I do want to give him a special job because he won. Could I be the head banner boy? Oh. Yeah, that'd be good. That's. I don't know. Cheswick 3 is really good at hanging banners. Sorry, you were the tournament, but the decision is up to the queen.

Shit. Sort of like prize to you on winning the ping pong tournament. I guess it'd be awesome if someone could resurrect the king and just bring order back to the kingdom. Okay. Yeah, so everyone else here could just kind of go away. You get to lose. You get to be last better boys

Shit, yeah put my ping pong skills on rivaled You said dexterity to hang tiny little banners everywhere fine Your hand you're the last banner boy. How about that? Get to hang all the freaking low banners. You don't even get to use a ladder Not even a step stool for Drag him Cheswick 6 You don't even get to use a ladder. That's right. Not even a step stool for six. Yeah. Dragon, Cheswick, six. All right, so no Cheswick journey. Let's do this.

All right, let's do it. We're Chesless. Okay, how are we getting there? Should we walk? Let's walk. I've been riding a lot of dragons lately and I could use the sureteness of my feet on the ground. I want to hear the crunch of snow under my boot.

Yeah. It's not a bad idea. I think anybody flying around right now could just get attacked by another dragon. Things are pretty tense. I'm going to fly off low when I go to adjures. Yeah. All right.

Cool. Nice to do it. Sweet. So you all exit the keep and you see, yeah, deep elves and void elves are fortifying this place, getting ready in case there is any kind of counter attack. You travel using the directions given to you by Big Bev

and within a couple hours you find yourselves at cornflowers keep. It is much smaller than the kings, even smaller than some of the other forts you've seen. Cobalt was the last one you guys saw before you went to Leverix's Lair for the summit. This is noticeably smaller than that. You see a simple stone wall with a cape beyond it, but it does appear to be on lockdown. You don't see many dragons flying freely overhead, and there are a bunch of rangers perched at the towers with bows at the ready.

They're wearing their blue masks, and as you approach before you get even near the gates. What pisses you have here? Oh fuck. We come to wager or broker a political marriage. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check. 23. 23. The shaky elf on top of the tower yells out

Marriage sounds good better than all the war A marriage to end the wall let me check real quick cuz I'm not that in charge Yeah, I was thinking about asking for a raise stop shaking while you're, well you have the boat. We need help with that. That seems... Oh my god. It goes really close to you. Please don't attack us. I'm sorry. Dude, sorry. No, cool. I'm sorry. I wish we brought a cheswig that we could just like put in the way.

I think that was a cheswig up there. After a little bit, the gates at the wall, crack open and beyond it, you see an advisor, this elf in Nobles' clothes, is wearing a bluish purple mask, kind of the same color as cornflower that you saw on the figurine, walks out of the gate as it opens

and holds his hand out and goes, well, more suitors for high-prince corn flour, I suppose. I'm gonna do the inside check. Yeah, I know. Inside check of it really is more suitors. I'm gonna activate my magical eye membrane and do it with insight with advantage. Nice.

Ooh, hell yeah. Gorgeous. That's gonna be a 24. Okay. Yeah, salt just stands in front of this health with extremely gooey eyes looking up at him. Oh yeah, I'm content. Feel like you're looking into my soul.

And he is not lying about other people being here, but he said the term suitors kind of sarcastically. Okay. Not suitors necessarily, but people are here on Indigo's behalf. And who do you represent? Oh, we represent the ascendant princess Shiverblade. And you make all her queen Shiverblade. But who are the ones who are causing all this trouble? Are you?

No, we are the ones who are creating opportunities. Yes. We're the ones that are finishing what someone else started. The main trouble has been caused, and now, you know, we're sweeping that all under the rug and a new chapter of the Living Wood has begun. We're all about sweeping things under the rug here. Follow me.

As we're walking, can I clock like the decor style of this track? Yeah. Go ahead and give me perception checks as you walk in. 19. Dead T20. okay, just a eight First off. Yeah, this courtyard is full of people getting these defensive weapons ready Just in case one of his brothers comes and tries to conquer him or there's a revolution and the deep elves are coming for them

Or something this is a place of like high paranoia. A bunch of really nervous cheswicks are just running around getting to their different weapons. See like, big blistas and stuff. You see mages casting spells to fortify some of their buildings in here. You also see that this does look like the fort of a non-fighting ruler. You see a lot of flowers around and gardens

and things like that, but then also a lot of like ceremonial military stuff, as big swords and stuff on the wall seems like kind of a sword guy, tributes and things like that, statues and whatnot. A lot of warrior pump,. Yeah a lot of warrior pump But not a lot of capable warriors around Oh, yeah, and this attendance leads you guys into the great hall and you see that there are these purple-ish blue banners the color of cornflower the high-princes royal guards also where

Masks that match that color. they're wielding pole arms and shields. There is a throne here that's up on a little stage with purple flowers along the edges, but it is currently empty. Besides the guards and servants wandering around this great hall, you see another group of people waiting to speak to the prince. You see there are two blue cobalts waiting to speak to the prince. You see there are two blue cobalds carrying banners of indigo. This dark dark blue got a picture of a dragon on it kind of similar to the king with lightning arcing in a different shape. And you see that these two cobalts also have a trunk at their feet like they brought gifts. You see they are wearing performers clothes. These blue and white body suits and with them

Standing at the front is a dragon elf and fine blue silks But his hair is a bit frayed and he seems very nervous and you recognize the original chest Dragon elf that you once captured and trapped in a cave That you once captured and trapped in a cave You see he turns and looks at you guys. What are you all doing here? We came to check up on you, Chazwek. What's why why I'm an air tag on you What what is that why just come back to the cave? Don't kill me What they have you fairing fancy weapons as gifts here?

You guys fucked me, okay. You took out, you took out Cobalt, okay. And then I just got moved down to the next guy, and Indigo took our castle, alright? And he's even worse than Cobalt, okay? And you know what? He said that I was no good with a sword, so he had to find something more useful for me. So he's using me as an envoy. He says, I'm so scared. It makes him scarier by comparison. When people talk to me, they get scared of Indigo. Okay, tell you what, you're obviously afraid of Indigo.

How'd you like to come somewhere safe with us? You can't. There's no way to save. The last time I went with you You put me in a cave with bears and you gave me seeds did anything happen to you in the cave. Yes What you bury my seed Just buried my seat doesn't seem like the worst outcome. Yeah, that's not hungry I And the very two snack that's just about the worst thing that could happen

And the very two snack that's just about the worst thing that could happen. Okay, this has been the worst three days of my life. It's only been a few days. Maybe it's four, I don't even know. Look at the bright side, that bear could have killed you. That's true. Alright, we know a place full of chess wicks that I think you could be very useful at, but you're gonna need to cooperate with it. I'm not cooperating with you.

You all need to get with the program. Indigo is very scary and you're all very scary, but you're not as scary as Indigo. Tess Wagen, you hit your wagon onto Indigo. I don't have a wagon. How are you brave and scared at the same time? I can't. You're standing up to this. That's why I'm pretty brave.

A conversation with you if you need to get... I'm not okay. I can't. You're standing up to this. That's why I'm feeling it. You're standing up to this. That's why I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it. A conversation with you if you're gonna get it. I'm not okay. I'll hear you out. Yeah, look, you're not gonna be able to convince Corphorah to join your cause. You're not a very convincing person.

You couldn't convince us not to lock you up in the cave. After talking to me, aren't you more scared of being to go? No. No, no, no, no. We killed his dad. You were afraid of a bear that ate seeds. I'm kind of whispered to them like,

sorry, just like, what do we think we're gonna get from him? Cause I'm not seeing. I want him to not be able to deliver Indigo's message. But I mean, Indigo's message coming out of this voice is kind of a good thing for us. Yeah, that's true, that's gonna make us look really good in comparison. That's what I wonder.

If he's gonna like hear both of our proposals, like at the same time, he's gonna like hold court and we're both gonna have to like present our plans then yeah, like we've got Cheswick beat. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you're saying Cheswick. Okay, actually Cheswick, like we're feeling pretty intimidated by you, but.

So like, that's good. We're gonna go reformulate, because like we're freaked out. We're freaked out by like the by you, bud. So we're like, we're gonna go reformulate. Because we're freaked out. We're freaked out by like the heat you're bringing. You're intimidated by me, you think we're gonna be late. Yeah, I'm supposed to, you survived a bear. I'm supposed to be very put upon to make you indigo look scary.

You should go, you should go first. Wait, you should go first. Oh my goodness, no, you guys go first. No, no, no, no. Recalibrate if I need to. Okay, yeah, actually. True, no wait, I'll go first, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, surface anywhere in this palace. Yeah, go ahead and give me a perception check. Okay. Do you have a PowerPoint saw? I've got an idea.

Pretty stupid. Ah, 16? 16. Yeah, you look around and you see that there is a long table in this main hall here. It's kind of put off to the side. It looks like they've kind of cleared an area for people to kind of make their proposals to the prints, but there is a table over to the side that looks like it's probably brought over when there are feasts, and there's a long like table runner on there. Okay

Callie just hold up that dotted picture you made at the right moment when I tell you great I'm ready after a little bits you see the attendant that brought you guys in with the purple mask on Walks down the stairs from from behind the sort of like stage area and goes, make way for the high prince corn flower. And you see with a few dragon knights next to him, there's a big dragon with blueish purple scales. He's got horns, but they're kind of rounded, much kind of more round features than you'd see on a lot of dragons.

He looks kind of non-threatening for his size. He enters in kind of size and gets on the throne and he goes, yeah. I think Jeswick was going to go for it. Yes. I think Jesuit was going to go for it. Yes, hi. I am, Jesuit, from King Indigo, your grace, my Lord. King Indigo requests that you submit instantly, or he will, and I quote, lightning your ass to dust. I'm begging you, please, he said he's going to eat me feet first.

I applaud Cheswick. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. And Cheswick is going to do a persuasion check. He gets what Indigo adds to intimidation as his check. So he's going to get a plus nine to his way. He gets an eight.

So he's starting with a base of 17. You see corn flour nods and goes, okay, yeah, that sounds like my brother, super freaking terrifying. Thank you, thank you, Chizwick. We all lightly clap. Bravo. And then I, I sashay forward,

produce a corn flour from my hand. General corn flower. I come to you not with a prospect of fear, but one of love. And I put it behind his ear. Oh my goodness. Lord Cornflower, what if I told you that the way forward was to do nothing at all. All you have to do is align yourself with the current ruler of the living wood. And I'm going to jump up into the air and hang the tablecloth from the ceiling,

and then use a light to project the drawing through the tiny holes onto it. Shit. I don't. And I'll applaud even harder for this one, almost like a plant. So light applause for Chesswick, but then really big. Ron is one. Sweet. And I'm gonna press the digitation dragon ferramones.

That's part of the spell. Anyone else horny, man? Yeah, indeed. Go ahead and give me an acrobatics check as you attempt this. And we'll do a persuasion check at the end of the presentation, but this will determine how much it helps the persuasion check at the end. Shout out to the three accrees,

but my acrobatics is pretty good. That's in 11. Okay, you see Saul goes and does the magicians trick where he goes to pull the table. But there's a bunch of stuff there. So everything just clangs and flings off the table. He does a huge flip that hangs the table cloth as a banner, but then crashes really hard

into the ground, gets up and is very clearly can cost but makes it look kind of cool. Do you rock your ankle? That's right, don't worry about the stuff on the table. You're moving anyway. Are you alright? Ah! He's fine.

He just has been fighting alongside the new queen. Shiverbite. That's right. Ow. Shiverbite. She the one who killed my dad. You're damn right she did. Yes she did. Yes, she did.

And in his place is a vacancy. Oh man, my dad was always super fucking dick to me. It was a huge dick to us too. Yeah, really? What did you do to you guys? He killed one of our friends. Whoa. Almost killed all of us.

He killed my friends before too. Yeah, I tried to bury me in sand. I I feel like this castle so I've like complicated feelings my I'd like to have a bigger castle Interesting. I get what you mean my dad is also me Not to mention how would you like having the dragon who killed your father protecting you from your brother? Yeah, cuz your brother kind of just started calling himself king indigo, right? Right? Well, it didn't actually kill anything. Yeah, because like, he's not occupying the castle. So if she can be my dad, then that, well, that she could be indigo. I love how complicated that relationship is. Yeah, she can be your dad. Beat my dad.

Oh, I want to beat my dad. I want to beat my dad. I also delicious whatever you need. I had a roleplay idea. Jesuit pops up, that's weird, right? It's quiet Jesuit. You know who? Shed it, shut up. We didn't drop your speech, Jesuit. Yeah, Jesuit.

The math doesn't add up, so you have a bright challenge. We would first get in. And to go with kick, superbites ass. And you know it. I punch him in the belly button. That is a small sample of the might of Shifferbite. Guys, go ahead and give me a persuasion check.

I'm going to activate my emissary of peace because I am quite literally trying to broker some peace. Nice. I'm gonna get off the floor and do a dance as all of my joints pop. I wouldn't walk off. Don't walk it after you. To give Kelly guidance.

23. 23. Nice. You see corn flower nods and seems to be looking more over in your guy's direction that he is in Cheswick's and goes, yeah I guess it seems at first like joining your guy's rebellion would be more work but if anything it would be less work. Yeah why live in fear of your brother when you'll basically be completely ignored. Uh-huh. If anything you'll be as boss. Holy shit I could be the big brother.

Uh-huh. If anything, you'll be as boss. Holy shit, I could be the big brother. Yes, you could be the big brother of the entire land. I mean, you'll be the king. You suddenly hear the two blue cobalts pipe up in perfect unison. If we may, the case for high prince Indigo is not finished. Cheswick, is it okay if they talk? Yeah, anyone else talk. You guys go. They just, they said nothing. They just carried a trunk all the time. I thought I was the guy. See, they walk past Cheswick and bow.

Greetings, you grace. We are Zill and Zell Papa. We are the Papa Twins, performer sent by King Indigo. He said you are a fan of spectacle. So please, except this gift on our behalf. You see, they pull out several puppets from the trunk. Aw, fuck puppets, sick.

Dude. Wait, you don't like puppets? I love puppets, I just think this show sucks. Give me a chance. You see, he's really put off, either. Just give me a persuade. I couldn't say that. Anyone can see they're really well made, Calder.

Didn't need disadvantage to roll though. That's a five. Cal, you see Calder's a little bit of a problem here. Calder, I'm gonna need you to get the fuck on board. The fuck in puppets. In fact, I'm gonna need you to whip up the fucking frosty puppet right now. Okay. Call the putz on the sock that Saul Kniff went on his hand.

You see, Zillenzell pulls several puppets from the trunk as well as a small booth. You see, one twin controls the puppets that control the landscape and the other produces a puppet that looks like a human cleric with blonde hair and shimmering plate armor. These are pros. They begin speaking in unison. Long ago, the goddess, the Allah, cast ruin on the land. And it would have stayed ruin. If not for one, scramble man. You see, the the Allah puppet casts a fiery light down onto the

town below, which explodes, but out of the wreckage comes a possum puppet flopping around. Should I actually do like this show? Though the goddess cast a terrible light, pop-hop scrambled to bring the fight. You see the possum leaps up into the sky. All four feet moving just incredible puppet work and through extreme Dexterity the puppeteers make the two dual back and forth they went close to her swords to him But in the end only one could win with a brave bite from the scramble lad He took down the big bad the day a possum saved the room

Call her cries Shit guys, that was really good. You see corn flour looks pretty moved and they're going to do a performance check. Corn flour does indeed look quite impressed and you see the twins put the stuff away in the trunk. Inside you will find a variety of hand carved puppets and figurines, a gift from your brother. Okay, who needs fake puppets when you could have your own puppet that lives and breathes and does as you say? So, flips forward and bins a knee. You want to be my court Yes, my lord. Give me a deception check.

13. You rock a little bit from the concussion that you just gave yourself from the thing. He looks over at the two cobalt so just put on this great show and goes, I'm good. Oh shit. Okay, I just have to call it out

because you're deciding between a puppet show and something that's actually good for you politically. You realize the metaphor here, your brother sending a bunch of puppets to distract you, turning you into a bit of a puppet. Oh, yeah. I was just noticing these, the swords on the wall. They're almost as big as the ones in the Great Hall

of Shifu Blitz. Yeah, almost, yeah. I feel like there's a whole bunch of things. I didn't even notice them on the wall. They're almost as big as the ones in the great all of Shifer Blitz. Yeah almost. Yeah. I feel like there's a whole bunch of things. I didn't even notice them on the wall. They're so small compared to those. Oh well, I've got a bigger collection downstairs. Oh really? Yeah. I've got a huge collection and you see the two cobalts hold their hands up in unison and go actually it's not just puppets in here. We also have a variety of figurines and ornamental weapons. Oh figurines, we have real weapons that were... We have an army of Chezwicks that are dedicated to producing as many weapons and puppets as you want. We have relics and teaks.

Alright, I'll say give me a new persuasion check. Me? Definitely you do. You do absolutely. That's he won. Oh! He's he won. Oh, he's my Sally. You see cornflowers really into the mounted weapons and stuff and all of the kind of ceremony

of it but isn't much of a fighter. But as you guys bring this stuff up, he does react to it and seem like he would like to be that type of person, and he kind of turns to you guys and goes, all right, well, seems like no matter what I do, there's gonna be a bunch of people so pissed off at me. So why don't you guys give me a minute. You guys are staying for dinner, right? We're having goat.

Of course, I love goat. Uh huh, I think we're not gonna hurry. The goat. That's awesome. I told you, Uh-huh. I think we're not gonna hurry the goat That's hot Where was that during the performance dude? I was distracted by Yeah, I see really fucked up. You never got off low back Sorry turns to call there you should really give puppets a chance though Apologize deeply

Let me sit next to you at dinner Bold all right I apologize deeply. Let me sit next to you at dinner. Bold. All right. You see Cornflower joined some of his nights and walks off. The attendant grabs the trunk of treasures and stuff and looks out at over you guys, the two cobalts and Cheswick and goes. The high prince requests that I give you a tour of his trophy room Yeah, can we have a minute though?

Very well, but the trophy room's not going to wait forever. Okay, we just need to do like a room Where's it going? All right, I'll do two tours But I'm not you guys aren't gonna get the organic anecdotes. I think Yeah, we just need a post-mortem after our performance. Great. You see, yeah, goes downstairs with the chest and with the two blue cobalts and cheswick. Just so you guys in this great hall, with there are like nights around and stuff,

but none of your like competing factions. Don't private tour after this, that's awesome. I'm a little concerned. Cause this guy's just like going to be attracted to the shiniest thing. I feel like we need someone who's hungry for power rather than someone that we dop into being there until someone else doops him to leave it.

I think he's perfect because he's not gonna threaten Shiverblet's power. He doesn't care about the power. He just wants the illusion of it. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess I'm worried that if we broke this marriage and then someone else comes along with a puppet show that he likes, then he'll just bail on her.

We only need him for a brief amount of time. So the other dragons submit, right? Okay. There's one more thing I'm worried about though. What? Just a chest inset right with me. I'm all over it. Yeah, no.

I think that there could be something nefarious. Yeah. Should we maybe go inspect that and then circle back at dinner? Yeah, that was for me. Okay. All right. Well, first we have to get this tour, right? Great.

Yeah. You guys see after a little bit, the attendant comes back up with the two blue cobalts and Chezwick and Chezwick goes, it was pretty funny, you should've gotten the organic anecdotes. They'll be organic for us. These Eddie wasn't gonna do them, but I think they will be.

We got the walk alone version with the headphones. What, they had that? I would've not had to talk to anyone. I tried to fill some awkward silence at one point and talked to Laura about the bear stealing my nuts. See, the bear took the testicles. No, see, this is what he said. It was really funny.

The cobalt started was fun. Sweet yeah, the attendant takes you guys and you enter the high-princes trophy room and see a wall lined with gleaming ornamental weapons and Finally carved statues. Um everybody go ahead and give me perception checks Another three I got Nate nine. Okay, you guys see Warhammers long swords great swords maces and, and morning stars, statues of monsters, statues of heroic figures in heroic poses, and the attendant who's acting as the tour guide gestures around and goes, Our Prince is a fan of the myths and legends of our world.

His prized possession is of course a replica lance based on the one wielded by the legendary dragon rider Tulane During the dragon wars of old when they battled the giants. Wow get out of town. That's something here Let me let me see that thing don't touch it. Oh don't Touch a real life replica I just want to do a real life replica a lot life replica. A lot of these things are sharp. I'm doing that as much for you as I am for me. Okay. Okay. Has it seen battle?

Replicably. It has seen replica battle. Yes. There have been some cosplay reenactments. Okay, that's awesome. I was trying to set you up for that. Yes. Replicatested.

I really like the shelf of Funko Pops and Ninderoids over here. Those you may touch as much as you'd like as long as they're out of the box. And you see he gestures to a mounted lance of gleaming metal gold-tipped with a black grip and ornate engravings. It's very short, it's smaller than even a short sword. But you see he dons a pair of gloves and in a very forced way goes, don't want to leave any evidence. You guys should have been on the first tour. Oh, I was organic. I came up with this this morning. It was smiling.

It just wasn't really fun. This is why people say to go on the first tour. I thought it was great. Are you gonna murder some way? I just don't really like coming. Okay. Yeah, we're more into dramatic acting. I was forced to do the bits. It's not on me, it's all part of the tour. You see, he grabbed it. I'm in prof.

He grabs the lance down from the case that it's in. And as soon as he grabs it, he flicks his wrist, and you see the lance extends to be this enormous 12 foot weapon. Whoa. What do you think about that? It's amazing. Is this replica true to size?

This one is. Yes. While on Dragonback, Talane was said to use the lance at full length, but it would retract for close combat. Or would I like to call getting up close and personal? I have. I got you in the first time. I thought it was great.

Calder, you feel, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw. What? What? Ah, that is a seven. A seven. You feel an anger at all. I'm seeing this. We know who went off against it.

Yeah. What's your right up there? No. It's just a replica, buddy. A beast. Yeah, but it's reminding me of some shit. What happened? You lost I didn't lose against the dragons. I didn't even fight them against that many dragons I came a little bit later. I said, but you know what they did with this lance they'd fly low and

Take off our ancestors it and take off our ancestors' heads. I guess not take them off of the lands. That would be kind of hard with a person like you. But like if you poke it super hard. Yeah, you poke it super hard. But not with this lands. This is just replica. This is just the replica, but I'm mad.

Cauldry gets a migrant. My whisper to the tour guide, he's having a phone call right now. OK? He's on hold. Strange. Yeah, and you see, he puts the lance back up on the wall here, back on the display.

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...undereducated in our own military history. Yes, actually, Tulane was an Aladdin. She was part of an adventuring party with two other Aladdin. One became the goddess Melora, and the other was an Aladdin named Aureox. We do have some recreations of spell books from Druids of Melora here, but she herself didn't have a heavy hand on the material plane, so we don't have much here that's sort of representative of her of her combat or anything like that, but... Do you know what kind of alladron we were? Like, I'm clearly a rainy day alladron.

Sorry about the puddle. Yeah, sorry about that. Please, away from the funco pop. I've been setting up pop boxes. We've cautioned Slip-free when wet time. Right, let's not get the boxes soggy. All right, let's stay away from the funkel pop boxes. We've cautioned, Slip-free one, wet sides. Right, let's not get the boxes soggy. All right, let's stay away from the boxes. It's all puts a box down, but it stuck to his hand.

Yes, okay. Stop, stop, stop. You're going to need to leave with that, and we're going to pretend. I turn a sweep of your wet. Everyone, stop touching. I'll tell you what, Kelly. Everyone stop touching everything.

We're creating a mucus. As you guys are kind of looking around at all the stuff, I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up. I can clean it up, I can clean it up.

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was brought down here and stored down here and they have not been put on display yet, but they are under a shelf. Okay. While Callie and I are fiddling with the Funko Pops, I'm gonna whisper her and say, I'll create a distraction if you wanna look at the puppet box. Okay, cool, great.

I don't know how you're gonna do it if I can't wait to see. And I slink away. I think I like silently glide on all the water we've created over top to the puppets. Sal goes over to a pile of display gloves. And says, are these free? Can I put these on?

Can. Put the display gloves on. That would be a good step. Are these the gloves? If you want to pick up the other gloves. Yes, these are the gloves that you use to pick up the replica adventurers' gloves. OK?

OK, so I put on these gloves and pick up these gloves. Okay, go ahead and give me, Kali, you can make sleight of hand with advantage while Saul is arguing about gloves. I watch the master at play and my heart swells with pride. At 26. Jesus.

Boo. Yeah, you click this open seamlessly. You time it perfectly with the salt like banging into one of the shelves, trying to wrap. Salas put on a glove of giant strength so we can pick up one of the display gloves. That is not fort. Am I doing that?

That is not a protective glove. That is a glove to be protected. There are protective gloves and protected gloves, okay? Learn the difference. It's in my mouth. Yeah. None, okay? Learn the difference. It's in my mouth. Yeah, it is. None of them go in the mouth. None of them go in the mouth.

Because I hope you watch is wondering how much salt actually is trying to do the distraction. And one doesn't have the distraction hasn't even started yet. Kali, you see inside the trunk as you click this open sign, you find that there are some other smaller figurines and stuff, just kind of collectible things that Cornflower might want for his horde down here, his trophy room. But the biggest thing you find are four puppets. You see one of theala, the cleric from the show.

You see one is an elf wizard, there's a dwarf warrior in there, and one is the possum puppet. Okay. Can I activate my divine sense to try to detect good and evil? You don't? Or actually, oh, I'll do detect magic. Detect magic, okay, yes. Your divine sense does not detect anything,

but go ahead and I'll say you were so quiet with more than 25 sleight of hand check and Saul being so disruptive with gloves. I slip out my deductor faster. I need to just analyze the situation. Doctor, that's good. Just the tiniest little quacks. Just lost in the screaming over the gloves. I'm sorry, I got hungry. I reached my pack for a snack and forgot I was wearing the gloves. Protective gloves.

Neither of them edible gloves. The labels are very similar. Don't yell, don't yell, please. There aren't labels because there's a tour guide here. You ask questions. It's an ocular migraineraine and it's not going away. Calli, you... The duck goes over your performance and it just says flawless. Calli, you cast detect magic and you sense transmutation magic on the puppets.

And transmutation would be like turning something into something else, right? Obviously transmuting. Yes. Okay, so this is either something that's been concealed as a puppet or a puppet that's going to become something else. I think in behind, I think can I try and catch callters eye through this ruckus? I have my hands on one of them, but yeah, I look at Kelly with my left hand. Can I just hold up the pop-up puppet and do thumbs up, thumbs down?

I don't know what she's talking about so I go thumbs up. Okay, I'm gonna pop it, the pop-up. You're gonna pop it, the pop-up? Oh, oh, that's what it was. So the pop, it's a pretty big puppet. Oh, okay, if it's too big, then I'll just put it back in the...

Okay, can I block Kellyie with my body and... And you guys do... And let her stuff it in a rucksack or something? Go ahead and give me a new slide of hand check. 12. As you go to pick up the puppet, the attendant here turns and goes, and you, over here, touching the princess new toys? I mean, replicas?

I thought this was an exhibit. I'm so sorry. None of this is an exhibit. Put that back. They're not even on display. Yeah, Kelly, you need to put these gloves on if you wanna touch that. Oh, okay.

I go to put the gloves on, but I think I'm gonna try and play dumb and be like, I just thought it seems like there's like something magical going on. So I thought I was like part of the replicas. Something magical going on? Yeah, it's like these puppets are like magical in some way, like some sort of like,

come on guys, it wasn't that good of a show. I'm captivating, sure. You see he goes over, he'll go ahead and do. I'm so sorry. Interesting. Yes, there does seem to be something special about these puppets other than the fact that they're finally carved and part of an incredible puppet show. Yeah, it was really good.

Yeah, so that's, I'm sorry, that's why I thought it was like part of the rector. No, all right, perhaps I'll get some of our... Because the rest of the weapons here are so magical. I'll go retrieve some of our mages and see if they can investigate this. But don't be touching anything, everyone stop touching stuff. Okay, I have touched everything. You just didn't make it clear up top. It's all I'm saying.

Calder, I will say that your eyes are drawn to a giant gleaming bow with sort of blue and white touches. Mm. What's that? What's that? Oh, I speak of the devil. I was telling you before about one of Tulane's old adventuring partners.

This is a replica of a bow that was wielded by Aureox, who was another Alladron, who would actually eventually battle against Tulane. He sided with theants in their wars. Oh, my headache just went away. Yeah, small folk, but giant heart. Unlike some people I know. They're talking about Saul talking about it. I'm talking about you,

me, letting Shiva Blight take the glory that should have been ours. Yeah, but I mean, we all won. That's the point. We did. She won. She's on our team. Dude. History does not remember themes. Sure it does. Remember the 26 New York Yankees? The liquidity team? That's right.

No, not really. But you knew a little where of their, yes, whatever. Point proven. You're talking about liquidity over there? You're talking about the Mage Hand Yankees? You want to tell someone you're sorry for what you said about it? Absolutely fucking not. I like that. Can I look at this bow of AriEx's and see if it has any symbols of Oberyn? I'm like, I'm curious if there's any connection there.

Yeah, go ahead and give me a history check as you look at it. 18, with only a plus one to it. Kelly, as you look at this bow, you don't see any markings that suggest anything about Oberon, but you do see this does seem to have been wielded by a winter eladron, but it is very big, and I'll say the attendant even clarifies and goes, Ariox used his magical powers to grow to giant size and would use his godly archer skills to shoot dragons out of the sky.

Well. How strange I've just been working on some magic that's similar to that. So you look at this bow and again, you don't see anything from Oberon, but you do see a symbol on it that is a snowflake and the design of it reminds you of your mother's old like family crest, like her side of the family.

So it would appear that Ariox was a winter eladron at one time. I am going to copy down that. Great. Is this a replica or the real deal? This, of course, is a real deal replica. That's what I meant to say. I didn't want to minimize that. A certified mint condition replica.

Yeah, the recreation here, almost better than the original. How better than the original ones? I would say so. All right, why don't I will go talk to some ages about the puppets and I'll get you back up to the great hall here. Of course. Yes. All right, let's go back up. Thank you for the tour. What was your name, by the way? Carls. Carls. Great. Thank you so much for the tour carls. Sorry again for all of the various secretions.

Nothing a handshake couldn't fix. Don't touch me unless you put on a protective glove. Not a protected one. Are you a replica? Sulfol's out of knitted glove that he had the entire time and puts it on. In a way, aren't we all replicas? Sulfol's out of knitted glove that he had the entire time and puts it on. In a way, aren't we all replicas? That's actually, that's beautiful, Carl. I look at my mother's crest and I'm like, yeah, I think we all. It's all weeps. Don't remind me!

Some of us are more replicas than others. Yeah, that's true. I can see I've struck some type of nerve. Who am I? Sulfol looks in the reflection of a mirror shield. And you see way too many of yourself. Yeah, it reflects off another mirror, just infinite souls. Oh, where do I stand?

That strange. Lost in the swamp of my own life. All right, let's go eat some food. Yes, I'll get you back up to the main hall. So Carl's takes you guys back up to the main hall. And he leaves. You see, he tells some other nights and stuff there that he's going to like a nearby, like me, just how to try to get some people to go check out

to the puppets. And back in the main hall, the servants have begun putting some food out, they're pouring wine for the guests. You see Chezwick and the cobalt are sitting at the table awaiting the prince's return. And as you guys walk back in, you see Chezwick and the cobalt are sitting at the table awaiting the princes' return. And as you guys walk back in, you see Chezwick looks at you guys frantically. So, did you have fun trying to ruin me again? What did you say about me? What do you think happened down there? You're paranoid, man. Yes, of course I'm paranoid. Why wouldn't I be paranoid?

You know the craziest thing is like you're so busy being worried what other people are saying about you when the reality is they just aren't even thinking about you to pick it with. I've got a head in between an intimidation check with advantage. I said 23. Oh wow. You see? But I want to say that I definitely want a backpedal and be like, sorry, it's just like in therapy one time that was like helpful for me.

You see, yeah, you just- But then I also flacc- He doesn't even, he doesn't even speak, he just turns and looks forward. And just downs his wine and begins pouring some more. Did you use a spell? He looks absolutely haunted. I think he just came out wrong. There was a tie when that was like a self of me.

Was that cutting words? I look at my spell slots. I don't think so. I act as Calder's squire and say, make way, make way for Soulder Builder, seated at the hand of the Prince. Awesome. Cool.

See, ultrasonic's cool. You're the only one. I also go into Squire mode. Out of the way, scum! But a true hero comes this way. Stop using your spell slots. See, Calder isn't trust Kelly though. See, the cobalt's kind of stand to their ground

and the cobalt twins just sit there and stay in their spot. And Jeswick moves to the other side of the table and is just looking out the window. How did you get yourself in this Jeswick? Jeswick neutralized. So you guys are waiting at the head of the table here or not at the actual head of the table waiting to sit next to cornflour. And eventually you see that the high prince cornflour does walk back down the stairs to rejoin you all.

And he is flanked by a couple more of his attendants like his advisors. You see people in purple robes with purple masks. These are people that are probably quite close to the prints. And guys, go ahead and eat me inside, Chex. Hmm. That's five. It's five. I got a five. OK.

17. 17. 21. I'm feeling insightful. Yeah, you guys look at the high prints corn flour and seeing him with all of his advisors and stuff and having just been to his trophy room, he's definitely by no means any kind of heroic figure,

but there is something about the fact that he does make sure that the people around him feel special and stuff. They've got this like a special Finery and like they're wearing like his color specifically and even his trophy room like his hoard Instead of being all these like stolen treasures and stuff on the one hand It's like well, he's not going into the battle and taking this stuff But on the other hand, it's like he's not going into the battle and taking this stuff. It's all just like he's Not the worst dragon

you've ever met running by a long shot. I think it seems to have like a bit of pride in his job. Yeah, I'm a Gervis people. Which is true. It's good for Shiverbite to have like some staff beyond the chess wicks. Yeah, it seems to know their history, which seems like a good way to avoid repeating it.

Yeah, it seems like his biggest sin is kind of like being lazy and not necessarily caring as much, but he's not, he doesn't seem to have like the mega lomania that you've found with a lot of his brothers. Yeah. Do you think we could maybe exploit his desire for military glory? Yeah. Or paraphernalia. More so that, shiny metals. So yeah, so you do see Corn Flour comes down with these attendants at his side and he looks out at all of you guys and he goes, I thought long and hard

about this over the past 45 minutes. Oh, you're making a decision now. Wow. We have to eat. Okay. Yeah. I love it. I'm still eating my salad. Yes. Okay.

Not to you. You guys saw how to just have like a weird dinner? Honestly, it really speaks to your integrity that you're not making us sit through with dinner. Yeah, tell us how you're feeling. And then we'll sit through the weird dinner after. Okay. Yeah, we can just have a weird dinner. Oh. Oh fuck you're supposed to do these after the dinner

Just I'll eat myself real quick and then you know talking about it. We have to do it now. I'm actually famished I wouldn't mind getting thought Why don't we do the main course and then I'll tell you guys my decision and then we'll do dessert That's not after it. Yeah, we're dessert. We're dessert. Awkward dessert. Yeah. So, did you dinner?

We're dessert. We begin bringing out like horns of ale and steaming hot food. These big platters of food and everything is corn flour sits at the head of the table. If you guys all eat together, you see the little cobalt are just staring at you guys head of the table. If you guys all eat together, you see the little cobalt they're just staring at you guys from across the table.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna look at Coder and Saul and be like, you guys got this, give him each a bardic. And then I think I'm gonna go sit with the cobalt. Yeah, you go over to the cobalt and I'll say we even like kinda saddle up between them and Turns out there's only room for one squire so It's like Could I it be or a soul?

Right away my lord I spill a lot on your feet. Hey, these are knit boots I know Yeah, as the foods being passed around and everything, these cobalts look up at you, Kali, and both at the same time go, do you wish for the living wood to descend into chaos? Oh, do I wish for the living wood to descend into chaos? No, I don't. Great. Then the high prince Cornflower should follow the line of succession and acknowledge King Indigo. Pitch me on Indigo. He's the strongest. Okay, what else? Because being oldest and strongest doesn't always set people right.

And the oldest. Okay, but you're not saying anything that actually like. He's strong. He's mighty. Powerful. Yeah, is he smart? Is he? Empathetic. Is he kind?

No. He's smart in a calculating way. Okay, I really, I really, I'm just here as an emissary. You seem very passionate though, and I love that full both of you. Can I ask for a tunnel? Identical. Okay, okay, I'm just curious, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I hate you.

This is the awkward dinner continues. I feel like, yeah, the hyper and speaks up, I feel like I can't think about anything except my decision. Yeah, well, I can't think about anything besides this rack of lamb. It's the Electable. I mean, we really liked your Funko pops. They were pristine.

Did you see them in the box? Yeah. We love the boxes as well. And you use the protective gloves. Of course, we do. We use gloves. Gloves. Good.

Very good. I think I watched this interaction and I think I go to the cobalts. I don't know, I'm kind of feeling corn flour over Indigo. There is no corn flour over Indigo. Yeah, you see, as you guys are having this dinner, the cobalts look up at high-prints corn flour and go, I say we end the sham of a meal and you make a decision. Wow, you're right.

It's not even really easy. and you make a decision. Wow, you're right. It's not even really a shame. It is not a decision, it is you acknowledging the line of succession. Ben the knee to indigo, and we will restore peace and order to the living wood. Sorry, just if we're following the line of succession, there's not even a blue dragon in the castle, so. Yeah, I don't know if you can succeed someone that's been

to hold. Not pretenders, the true line of succession. And they are going to make an intimidation check against Cornflower. Cornflower looks nervous. Ultimately, I think that the way that the king was besieged for a reason, because he carried out a certain type of rule that is unstable in the fact that it riles people up to go against him. I have a feeling that Indigo would continue his father's rule, which turned out to not be

either kind or even effective. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check and you can do it with a manage. 24. Nice. Cornflower was kind of shaken by what the coldball said and you can tell that he's afraid of his, definitely afraid of Indigo and probably afraid of his other older brothers, but he looks a cally and as she says that gets a little bit more of a spine and goes, okay yeah maybe I should make a decision right now.

And so I will say, though, the puppeteers displayed great showmanship. They did, they absolutely did. They did display great showmanship and then they gave you a very thinly veiled thread. It was intense. And though I am highly offended by some of the opposing envoys lack of appreciation for said puppets,

I said that before the show. He's a changed man, Lord. All right. Well, despite anyone's dislike of puppets, I cannot abide. My brothers and my dad's continual quest for war. If a union between the Princess Shiverblight and myself would bring peace to the kingdom,

and I wouldn't have to do anything, I must at least. Sorry, can you just repeat that again? I heard the first part. Okay. If a union between the Princess Shiverblight and myself would bring peace to the kingdom, and I wouldn't have to do anything They truly are perfect for each other. I must at least try an engagement and see if it works out Let us see if love is truly blind

Called her called her weeps Heehee! Bravo! Ooh! Bravo fucking hell! Hey, chose love over wall! He chose love over family! He chose love over everything! Literally anything!

And now it's time for the grand reveal. Cornflower look, dessert, super proud of himself. And you see the cobalt slam their fists down, and they go, that is not going to work for King Indigo. And a moment later, you see Carl's rushes into the room. The trophy room! It's been raided! It's gone!

Oh no! What's going on? The replicas! The fungos! And the cobalds speak up. That is right. And if you ever want to see your horde again, you'll follow the line of succession. There will be accommodations made for your horde at Indigo's

new fortress once he takes it back. So it's not really his new fortress. It's kind of just a possible fortress that he's going to try. I have the princess horde. Where? Tell us. No! Gotta try. Okay, will... Can I look and see what Cornfile's reaction is to this? Cornfile was shocked and horrified and doesn't know how to react. It's like a hostage situation. Like his horde is very important to him. You see he goes to attack and the cobalt just hold their hands up and go you wouldn't want anything to happen to your precious artifacts would you?

Conflower this is completely manipulative. Do you really want to enter into this kind of relationship? Do you think that this kind of relationship ever ends peacefully? It only just keeps it in fact. They have all my shit. They have all my shit. They're replicas. They're replicas. That's not a duck. That's not the duck. I have all my shit, but they have all my shit guys. They're replicas. That's not the deck.

That's not the deck. That's not the tax. That's not the tax. Now wait, the Horde, it can't have gone far. We just saw it. I'm not gonna get it back for you. Let us go ahead and roll initiative. Map one.

Seven. So I got an eight. 22. At the top of the round, right away is the throne room kind of descends into chaos. Corals is yelling out. They clued it out quickly. They must have used the bag of holding.

We have a replica of a time traveling halflings bag and they're gonna stuff everything in there and right away. Of course, that's the one real thing. I'm working replica, amazing. And Saul, that is your turn. So I think what I'm gonna do is look for an open window or a window I can open, jump out it,

and then use my new monk ability to run up the wall to the top of the roof. Great, okay, so Saul, first things first, you jump out this window, you begin running vertically up the, using your sticky feet to run up the castle. Put on some boots, dammit. It's fast like someone's firing a nut going up the castle. Yeah, you run up the side of the castle and you get to the roof.

You've got 45 feet of, you get to the top up here. Yeah, you see all these spires up here on top of the keep. Go ahead and give me a perception check as you look around. I am purging off of the side of a spire, like Toby McGuire at the end of Spider-Man 1, a spire like McGuire. I aspire to Spire like McGuire. Jake, you're on fire. That's a 21.

21. You look out, you see that this place is on lockdown that even before the word got out that the high print's is hoard has been stolen. They were preparing in case anybody came and tried to attack them or overtake them. So there are all of these ballistas, all this like anti-dragons stuff kind of coming out.

They are closing the gates and everything. You look around and with your perception check, you do not see anyone running with the bag at this moment. Do you have a bardic? Ooh. You can add that to the perception check. Interesting.

Is it an eight? All right. Yeah, why not? So 21, let's crank that. Oh, that's an eight. Ah, that's a 29. Well, yeah, bro. Great call. Thank you, Gully.

With a 28 stealth 29. Oh, you got a 29. Oh, this guy got a 28. Ah, ah, ah. Oh, you got a 29. Oh, this guy got a 28. Oh! Oh! Wow! What a clutch walking bar. Absolutely so clutch for the bar. Oh, shit.

You have these really intense monk senses, and I'll say you even go into sort of a meditative state as you look around, and Callie gives you this bardic inspiration. You are unable to see this thing. It is moving so fast and it is using its action to hide. But you see a little bit of trace of the magic from the detect magic.

You see a little swirl of yellow magic go by as you see the pop pop puppet is hiding behind people and scrambling by dragging a bag behind him. You see the pop pop puppet is hiding behind people and scrambling by dragging a bag behind him. He is currently 90 feet away from the keep going towards the castle wall, probably going to scale it or go underneath it somehow. It's the scramble man. 90 feet, I'm going to use my action to run 45 more feet

And then I'm going to use a bonus action to dash the next 45 feet to get there I work this all out of my head. I was like I'll take them 30 feet to get out of the castle another he'll go another 90 feet So yeah, wow saw you jump off the roof and you scramble after this possum and you close the distance. Rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang. Making all this noise as this transmutated little puppet is carrying this stuff away. You close the distance, but you do not have an actions, but you are, you found it and you are chasing it.

If I have a free action, I'll just shout. Okay, found it. Great, you shout out. You see these other guys around you are so much slower than you. You are in an absolute flow state as you find this thing. You basically see fucking magic and then like the flash, you've already run up a building. You jump off the building Assassin's Creed style and just close on this thing. These other guys in slow motion are just, wait, what happened? Scramble man, meet the hopper ganger.

So you are chasing this possum, you are on his freaking tail. Yeah. After Saul's turn in the main hall, three more puppets emerge from the stairs, coming from like the trophy room, like they were hiding down there they unlatch their puppet jaws and begin laughing This is why this is why I don't like puppets. I think I yeah, I was gonna say I don't like these fucking puppets

They can all do this you see that each one of the three are going to start targeting people to try to send them into a magical fit of laughter. So the guards are going to make safe. God, that's so good. First puppet is the human cleric you saw. You see she gets one of the guards to collapse in a fit of laughter. He just starts matching their weird. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha This last one is gonna they can do two at a time It's gonna try to get both of them and they take out the guards the guards are

Can redo saves on their turns, but you see his sort of royal guard Immediately collapse and are all laughing along with these puppets. There's nothing funny about this It's it's terrifying. I love it and then Papa acts on the same turn. He's gonna do a bonus action, paw some laugh and look says, I prefer documentaries. It's not a terribly high DC. These guys are more sneaky and fast than they are powerful.

Wisdom save, here we go. Yeah. 16. 16 passes. Woo! Okay, that was his bonus action. He's going to use an action to disengage and then use his speed of 120.

What? What? Keep fucking running. Yes. I mean, I understand why the joke's funny. I just don't find it funny. He scrambles to the wall. He's like at the base of the wall. Come back.

And you see the elves nearby are so slow in comparison. You see a few guards take shots and they just, you're the only one that has a fucking hope of catching. How far away did he get? 120 feet. After Pop-O's turn, that is the high-prints cornflowers turn. Cornflower is going to use his, he has to use like an action essentially

to bust through the wall. He's gonna make an attack because he can't fit through one of the little windows. He successfully just crashes through a window, takes like a stone pillar down with him as he bursts through the castle wall and goes 80 feet You see he's 10 feet behind you saw where he go did you see him? Yeah, I just ran 100 feet that way That's fucking crazy How are these puppets so fat? No, but they're beautifully made you got that trick it

It's a dragon shaped hole in the wall, that's comedy. After the ground laughing. After the high-prints cornflowers turn, that is the two cobalts, Zill and Zell, the puppet twins. They are going to attempt to attach puppet strings to you guys. You see the one cobalt throws up her claws and you see magical strings to you guys. You see the one cobald, throws up her claws, and you see magical strings emerge from them and attach to Calder.

Calder shrieks the highest pitch shriek you've ever heard. Now you are in the cup. Your biggest fear is becoming a puppet. Your scream almost distracts me from protection pal with him. Go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw, call this. wisdom fuck me. 10. Oh, I have a bardic.

Oh, okay. I'll tell you, you got a little of five or higher. Okay, it's DC 15. Six. Yeah! Thank you, Galley. Yeah, call there. You can, with the bardic inspiration, much like Saul, you can kind of see the magic,

these invisible strings suddenly become apparent to you at the very last second, sparkling with arcane energy and you dive out of the way. It's not real, it's not real. But the other puppeteer is going to try to do the same thing. Reaches up his strings and is going to try to get you, go ahead and give you a wisdom saving throw. And that one.

Okay. You see that the strings successfully attach to Coulter. No. No. And Coulter, you immediately feel yourself lose control of your body, you're still there. Cally, you see that he has like herky, jerky movements.

Coulter, we've never done this routine before. Fuck you, Pinocchio now. Oh man, did you see a giant puppet show as a kid? That would be so terrifying. movement. Koldo, we've never done this routine before. Fucky Pinocchio now. Oh man, did you see a giant puppet show as a kid? That would be so terrifying. The puppets would be so big. Gold or third dancing. Okay.

Koldo, I'll try to follow your movement. After their turn, that is Cheswick's turn, Cheswick, full dash. Freebie Cheswick's turn, Cheswick, full dash. Freebie Cheswick. Runs out of the window and runs in the opposite direction of everyone. And it's just going to try to start a new life. Cool. Runs directly into a cave. Honestly, that's the most beautiful thing you can just

keep gristotting. Callie, that is your turn. So it's another cave. So I'm looking at Calder. Do the strings look like something I can slice with my sword? Or does it look like I can use an action to shake him out of it? You cannot use an action to shake him out of it. I will say you do see the strings.

If you had something that could attack magic, like a dispelal magic or something, that could do it. Don't have that. Okay, is it something that looks like concentration? That I can... It looks like if you were to mess up the cobalt that could do it? I don't have that. Okay, is it something that looks like concentration that I can... It looks like if you were to mess up the cobalt that is controlling it, that it could in, it would indeed fuck it up.

Kick his ass, Gally. Okay. Since we leveled up, I know we didn't like get anything back, but I did get a fourth level spell, can I use it? That is correct. We have not announced it on the show yet, but the characters have leveled up from killing the game.

I can reach and drag and believe it or not. Okay, our statement has just been released. characters have leveled up from killing the game. I think I can reach and drag and believe it or not. Okay, our statement has just been released. We have leveled up. Yes. I think that when it gets to, when it gets to call their turn, he can have so much movement. So I'm going to try to just rub this puppeteer's concentration. Great, nice. 25.

25 does hit. Wait, no, watch the show. I'm going to do a Bardic to a defensive flourish and also a fourth-level smile No, wait for the puppet to go yeah Man is not done yet. I Don't mean to be this brutal, but this is how I have to do this. Sweet. Why do we keep killing twins?

The real show is over there. 44 damage. Okay, yeah. You smite the absolute shit out of one of these cobalt still alive. If I had a low level spell, I would use it, but... Bam! Explosion of energy, just sparkling stars, and you see a serpent being formed by all the magic of her sword as she swings down.

We're just puppeteers! You see, just bash him into the ground. He immediately loses a bunch of teeth and is bleeding and just barely hanging on to the marionette strings. And then I think I don't want this fight. bleeding and just barely hanging on to the marionette strings. And then I think I don't want this fight. So I think I'm just gonna get on Calder's back. And then be like,

do that magic thing where you give yourself ice skates, please. So Calder is still attached. It does not, it seems like this ability is not a concentration thing, but this cobalt is quite hurt. It seems like if you killed him, it would end the beariness. Well, I do have two more attacks.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Because now I have two attacks, and I have a bonus action. Wait, wait. Wait. I was trying to spare you, but you bring it up some really fucking good poems.

Watch the show. The show is over. 20 to hit. That hits. OK, you watched the show. Oh, the show is over. 20 to hit. That hits. Okay, my final performance. Another 11 damage. On Death's Door, on Death's Stoop. There once was a little giant who thought he was a 22 for the off-hands.

That hits. Okay. But what he needed was a very nice So sucks is on Absolute fine. I'll use my final fucking spell to do us my on him. Okay. It was roll a two or higher and he's dead Literally can't roll the two Yeah, you finish off one of these cobalt twins Immediately the other show was an absolute flop.

Very nervous. After Callie's turn, that is Calder's turn, Calder has the magical strings break. I think that as I do that, I kind of like, I'm on Calder's shoulders and I'm like, I just want you to know that I had to use my last spell, the one I was saving for bless. Gotcha, Thank you.

So, um, you know what? Let's not think about that right now. Let's push that off. Push that off. I don't have to sleep. That's fine. I wouldn't made that same deal. Okay, all right. Calder grows ice skates on the bottom of his feet. I cast expeditious retreat, and I'm going to use all of my movement to get as close to pop-offs I can. Sick. Okay, so you can move 90 feet, because you can do 30 feet of movement, 30 foot dash, and 30 foot bonus dash.

Great. Sick. So you run through this giant hole in the castle wall, and you go 90 feet, and you catch up to Saul and Cornflower. Oh, hey! And Callie is on your back, your carrying Callie. And now I will action surge.

Whoa! Okay. That we're talking. And I think I'll just try to grapple this little scramble, man. So with action surge, you can only go another 30 feet. Oh fuck. I'll say Saul points him out.

Yeah. If you have any way of doing a range attack. Ooh, yeah. That's okay. So now I will cast freezing ray, which is 120 feet. Exactly. Wow. Saul points him out to you.

You hold your hand out and you begin blasting, freezing rays. Sweet. I want to pretend like it's, I'm a grappling gun in Cali can aim my hand. All right. I'm just like holding the horns of your, of your helmet. Direct me, Cali.

Go ahead and make three attacks. A 21 hits and 18 hits and a 14. 14 misses. Okay. Scramble man is so fast, got no armor on, obviously, but has high dexterity. 20 damage. The beam that failed to take down the king

does indeed take down the king. Wow. Does indeed take down the pop pop pop? Yes, he did not have a lot of his nataltress. You piece of shit. Oh, orbatheth. I can kill any marionette in this fucking world. I'm the king! Caulter's overcome his fear of puppets and it feels powerful for the first time. I'm enormous.

Yeah, you are. Yeah, that's my lord and I am a squire. I start pounding my chest. Yeah, caller, you shoot out this beam of ice. It freezes the pop-hop puppet who de-animates and flops over, dropping the bag, and out of it you can see endless treasures bursting from. No, the possum ruined some of your funcule pops, it must have licked them. Oh shit, gloves. Yeah, it must have been moist. Somebody clearly touched these without gloves. Definitely the puppet. This is the work of Indigo. The protected gloves are covered in frog gung.

This is the work of IndyGod. So the protected clubs are covered in frog gums. I don't know how puppy would do that, but he must have. Absolutely. The various magic. Yeah, really, really bad stuff. The lack of respect. He flies over, joins you guys, begins looking through the bag, making sure that everything's still there,

and he goes, oh, thank goodness. I know it seems dumb, but I like this stuff, and I like collecting it. It's not a bum. Hey, yeah. Everyone has hobbies. Yeah. Yeah, this is a hobby.

I think it's really cool, especially because like, I mean, we learned some really interesting stories from them. So I was appreciative for your collection. It's a hard worth being protected. Yeah. Guys, go ahead and give me a persuasion check with a vintage. Well, it means Kelly. Yeah.

All souls got this one. It's gonna be his one, T7. Oh. And I didn't even use my emissary of these. Thank you. She does the talking. Yeah, you see corn flour nods his head and goes, thanks guys, thanks. You know what'd be really cool actually,

if you like, because it was so cool to get this little tour, it might be really cool for people in the living world. If you just set this stuff up and people could come through and cows would like to show them around, it might give people a sense of connection to where they're from. There's a castle that's big enough to hold all this stuff in. Yeah. And now the doors come through.

That'd be sick. God, you guys just like fucking came in here. I'm so used to like my brother, my brother's trying to push me around and stuff, but you guys just like came in and you just gave those cobalt's what for. That was awesome. I don't usually do this, but do you guys have like came in and you just gave those cobalt's what for that was awesome. I don't usually do this, but do you guys have like any non replica stuff that I could have so I can add some of your stuff to my hard?

Yeah, actually we do. I think I take off my Sea Glass Sunnies. Oh shit. And I take out my old Adler Helm, the Nanon actress. Whoa, this is fucking badass! It's my first time. Saul looks at the little black wristbands he made for everybody during the King Fight. He says, like, these are relics of a pact made to defeat a king. Is that interesting to you? It's fucking badass. My dad is a dick! is like, these are relics of a pact made to defeat a king. Is that interesting to you?

It's fucking badass. My dad is a dick. Yeah, he, with great reverence, takes these things from you. I'm gonna give you guys your own shelf. Whoa, thank you. Yeah. Let's hope we keep adding to it.

Yeah, and we get like a dividend of the donations or. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, I'm not. You have an oxal in the way. that's how we keep adding to it. Yeah, and we get like a dividend of the donations or... Solch, solch. Sorry, no, you're having an awful lot of the way. All right, everybody. You see, corn flour announces to all the people around the fort. We're moving.

Okay, we're going to the big fort. The corn flour is removing us. We'll help you pack. Corn, corn, corn, corn. And the corn flowers are moving up. Wow. We'll help you pack. Corn, corn, corn, corn. Corn, corn. You see how much people start chanting. We're corn. Corn, corn, corn, corn.

Yeah, you guys see that corn flowers, people and soldiers and everything start gathering up their stuff, preparing to move along to the castle. And Cornflower joins you guys as you return to the old King's fort, currently being occupied by Shiverblight. And I'll say that, yeah, essentially as soon as you guys get that pop-up puppet, the jig is up,

they're able to quickly capture the other cobalt and the puppets all they were doing was making people laugh on their turns, they quickly defeat them as soon as as as they get a chance and chance wicks in the wind Cheswick go ahead and give me a perception check Maybe a perception Ches. Saul looks over his shoulder one last time Cheswick you will die. Freakin Michael Michael Cain in the In-a-Batman. Ah, 14. 14.

You see an elf in a blue mask. Could it be Chezwick? Could it be some other wandering adventurer? Also named Chezwick? Also named Chezwick? You don't know, but you could have sworn. You saw one elf running away from the other one's deeper into the woods with piss running down his land. And that's where it went.

So we kind of have to. You return to the old king's fort that is currently being occupied by Shiverblight. You see that the void elves and the Deep Elves have secured it. There are already mages here going about repairing the damaged walls and whatnot and the gates open for Cornflower and his forces. He doesn't have everybody here with him yet but he left behind some other younger dragons and stuff to protect the the people who are still gathering their stuff But he's got a bunch of like knights here and stuff to show that his forces are down to join Shiver Blights. And you guys all enter and see the elves

and the young dragons hard at work in the courtyard. And you see Shiver Blight emerges from the castle. Wow, you replaced these banners so fast. Yeah, that was kind of number one. It was banners ping pong table water. You did the ping pong It was banners, ping pong table, water. You did the ping pong table. You did the ping pong table. Oh, so sick.

As soon as Big Ben laughs, we got to work on the ping pong table. Yeah, you see corn flour looks up. You guys have a ping pong table here. Oh, this is going to work out one. It's not regulation because it's shaped like a continent, but awesome. Yeah, you see shiver blight and corn flour Have kind of a a kind of shy meeting at first just like kind of polite and corn flour goes

Yeah, I guess okay, I'll go and put my stuff down and maybe try to get settled she goes Yeah, I guess I'd be fucking fine. We'll see you at dinner. We'll chat. Whatever. Cool. Are you guys seeing this? I'm fucking shopping. I'm fucking shopping. Frozen Tier roles, don't call this thing. It's fucking beautiful. It smells like it comes out of my eye. Corn flour goes into the castle and chiverb like goes up to you guys and goes,

great work guys, this fucking awesome. Yeah, hey, yeah. We were just inspired by your greatness. Yeah, yeah. I know, but thanks. Yeah, it's like really sick stuff too. And we got that maybe we could have like a cool stuff room that like people around the living world could like come and see like how much cool stuff you guys have.

It's a lot of great stuff. He knows how to dress, take care of himself. Yeah. Super nonviolent. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if this doesn't work out and I can just like string them along or we can have a sham marriage or something It's fun. It's awesome. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Whatever most important thing is I have a castle and your position is secure. Yeah. So thank you guys from bottom of my heart.

You're on your way. All I ever wanted was a fucking castle. Is that so much the ass? That's so much the ass. Some freaking respect in a castle. Yeah, it looks so great. And I'm just like, I am gonna try and slide of hand to prevent some of these gray flooring's from coming down. And that's just a beautiful gray. It's just a lot of linoleum.

It's just like, not every bathroom needs to be rooted. But it looks okay. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's just a lot of linoleum. It's just like not every backer needs to be re-doned. But it looks okay. You know what I mean? It's just a form. Yeah, that's good. That's just the thing about it. Yeah, it's that it doesn't cost a lot.

Yeah. So that's all. Yeah, um, Shiverblade kind of goes back into, um, get to kind of know Cornflower. And it seems like this is by no means going to be be like, oh these two guys like have to get married. It's more just like they're aligned now if things work out cool. Sweet.

Yeah. And you know, dragons are used to jam marriage. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. No pressure, no strings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's all falls overlapping. You see that one of the puppets. You know, you don't haveets? You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to.

You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to.

You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. and amongst them, you see Bumpy, who starts looking around kind of frantically.

Oh hey guys, good to see you. Where's Big Bev? Oh, he went on a mission to talk to Ashley. Okay, all right. Okay, what do you need to help with? What's going on? So good news and weird news. Good news is we chased out Glenn's army.

Yeah. All right, great, great, good stuff, that's a good army. Yeah. All right, great. All right, good stuff. That's a good stuff. They tried like a frontal assault. We just descended on them. They seemed shocked. They started just like retreating almost instantly.

Oh, my God. Barely any casualties on either side. We just picked their asses. That's something behavior. That's the thing. That's the good news again. OK, here's the weird news. OK, OK. It was easy.

Kind of, kind of too easy. Oh, and as if it was a fate. It was a fate. That's kind of what we're thinking now. When we went back to town, a bunch of people were missing. The old folks are gone. What? Including that dream druid who was supposed to help you guys,

Eloise. Oh man. We really need to make us a hat. Yeah, I was tired, but now I'm actually pretty awake. I think Glen did something to him and used his army as a distraction. I don't think they know it because they seem pretty surprised, but I think Glen's up to something. And did he kidnap them? I don't know.

We just got back after the fight and a bunch of people are missing. Meme off flew off to find him, but that was hours ago and we haven't heard back from her either. Okay well should we run if it was big bed? Yeah we can't go to the creek. It's yeah I think we should. I think we have to at least try and go to the stream druids house. Yeah it seems like maybe they got captured and we have reasons to go that otherwise. Okay, right, let's go. Yes, just something to miss. Can we step through this gate with you? Yeah, I'll say that you guys don't necessarily have to wait for Big Bev because you know he can get through on his own once he gets back from Azure's place, the

other Prince. So if you just leave a message for him. So yeah, you guys just can talk to like a nearby deep elf or void elf. You give the message that big bev is to return to the creek immediately when he gets back from his on-voy. But Bumpy goes, yeah, before the sink closes, let's jump back in. Okay, okay. Yeah, you see Bumpy jumps through this beam.

And you guys jump in behind him as you guys appear back in the creek. And that's where we'll end our session. Oh, baby. Oh, I am an amped to go run around the creek again. I'm just so upset we're not gonna get to see this beautiful romance unfold. Oh, yeah.

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