Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 29: Crown of Dreams (The Dragon Elf Chronicles)
Episode Date: February 3, 2023Duck Team joins Bumpy in a search for the missing Old Folks! Callie kicks down some doors, Sol gets slippery, and Calder has a bad dream. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get ac...cess to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Music/Sound Effects Include:"A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford."Lilith LaTrix" by Emily Axford."The Baroness" by Emily Axford."Hospitably Hostile" by Emily Axford."The Pact" by Emily Axford."Balnor the Brave" by Emily Axford."A Memory" by Emily Axford."Langston" by Emily Axford."A Fate Refused" by Emily Axford."Unknown Tome" by Emily Axford."The Purge" by Emily Axford."Apotheosis" by Emily Axford."Winter Sprite" by Emily Axford."The Valiant Ol' Cobb" by Emily Axford."Mee Maw's Burden" by Emily Axford."Demi-God" by Emily Axford."Forsaken" by Emily Axford."The Gunslinger's Girl" by Emily Axford."Winter Sprite" by Emily Axford."The Prodigal Sister" by Emily Axford.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Goodbye, Sweeties.
Welcome to the campaign after the campaign.
This is not another D&D podcast.
Welcome back to Bahumi, everybody.
Bahumi.
Yeah.
I am your dungeon master joined by J. Kerr.
Wait, sorry.
I didn't say my favorite names.
You didn't introduce yourself.
I just said I'm your dungeon master.
As if I ever want you to know who I am.
Do I have a career rather than your name?
Yeah, I do define myself, I guess mostly by my work.
So yeah, I'm just your dungeon master.
I have no other name.
I forgot your name, Braden.
Tell me, remind me, Braden tell me remind me Braden more for
And I am joined by Jake her name. Don't say my name either. Not we all get to the name. Yeah, okay, I'm conquits
Risk taker dragon match maker colder kill day a K a J conquits
And then of course,
Gemely Ashford.
What?
I don't like that, I'm sorry.
You didn't like it!
Ah!
That was all.
Gemely Ashforth, that's pretty good.
I like Ashforth, I feel like that's pretty good.
You don't like Gemely?
You're kind of a reference to the A-Cut-Up-Ask-Fourthing.
I'm half-Ask-Ffour thing and I'm sorry.
Asworth is a really good one.
I need me to do it again.
I just want, yeah, I say do want,
I'll cut on that.
Dimply asked for.
Yeah!
Okay, that's awesome.
We got there.
I'm glad everyone's excited.
Starting to cover her own pop-hop puppet,
Kaliya P. Petra Kalaya P petrick. Oh
Did we keep the puppet?
No, I don't think so dang it. Yeah. I don't know if you really want to pop it. You want to pop it? I do take a puppet
Yeah, you gotta do it my come up. I then of course of course cord bad
Come on turn a kid
Cored bad Turn it
Turn it gets good catcher of possums whose DM is freaking awesome my man
Man
Wow, you're welcome guys hey
Brayton in the gang are back sucking up to braiden. Yeah, dude. They're weird to braiden
Sorry, just that that's the turn it get style
Mr. Turniket himself. I'm squeezing him with compliments.
No, my hugs are dangerous.
All right, everybody, we hope you remember who we are
because we didn't tell you our names.
But in case you didn't remember some other stuff,
let's go ahead and do a little recap.
Yes, please.
So last time you held a funeral for Schroomrod
with the deep elves, then set to stabilizing things in the living wood.
You proposed the idea of a political marriage between Shiverblight and one of the remaining
high princes and she agreed that it was a good idea.
You embarked to Parley with High Prince Cornflower at his keep where another envoy was present,
your old pal Chezwick, along with two puppeteers on behalf of high
prince Indigo the three of you put on a killer presentation but the puppeteers
performed a dazzling show and showered cornflower
having to sit through a puppet show the day after you fight a king dragon
you know it's highs and lows
the puppet show is the high that's true that's true and lows. The puppet show was the high. The low.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
Nobody died at the puppet show.
Well, that's true.
Yeah, Sherman outlived through the puppet show.
Or no, he didn't.
He was already dead.
You know what I mean?
While Cornflower left with his advisors to discuss their options, you were given a tour
of his trophy room.
During it, you were shown replica weapons from Tuoladron, Talaine and Ariyox, who fought
on opposing sides of the dragon giant wars.
Ariyox has a wintry crest on his bow.
Familiar, interesting and familiar.
As you returned to the Great Hall for dinner, Cornflower announced that he would accept
your proposal.
However, the puppeteers attempted to ransom Cornflower's horde by stealing it with their
puppets.
You jumped into action with Saul spotting a possum doll
rushing off with the loot.
After Callie saved Calder from becoming a puppet himself,
Calder was able to stop.
Yeah, that's confirmed Calder's worst nightmare, Canon.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Calder was able to stop the possum with a freezing ray.
Cornflower agreed to your proposal,
and you returned with him to Shiverblight's new castle,
where the initial interaction seemed promising.
I can't stop hearing freezing rays as like a breakfast cereal.
Oh yeah.
Ooh.
Try freezing rays.
I'm freezing ray, a cold guy, and I'm the mascot.
Burr, try a war.
What?
Sugar ray with white hair.
Oh, that's awesome.
That's really good. I'm really frosted too. That's literally frosted too. What? It should go right with white hair. Oh, that's awesome.
That's really good.
That's really prostitutes.
Literally prostitutes.
Shit, that's what Kolda killed they looks like.
No, instead.
That's the best.
Confirmed Mark McGrath.
Mark McGrath, but cold, and afraid of puppets.
That's perfect.
We've got it.
Character design 101.
What?
That's character.
Yeah. But before things to get too happy, Bumpy showed up with some troubling news.
Glenn's army retreated after a failed invasion.
But the old folks and Mima were missing.
You jumped the portal to follow him to the creek, and that's where we are now.
So when a flash of green magic, you return to the creek with Bumpy and a couple of
creek rangers.
They're the ones who open the portal.
You guys find yourselves on the edge of the forest
near the reflection of the old King's keep.
You see grass and moss covering the ruins here.
It is night now.
One day, since you've killed the King,
the sun has just set and you guys have not
gotten a rest yet, unfortunately.
Fortunately for the...
Fortunately for God. Fortunately for Colt.
Who could sleep after that puppet show?
That's true.
You guys are wired, you keep thinking about the puppet show.
Wired more ways than one.
Oh.
I do a little ventriloquism for Colt.
Hey, Colt, there's me.
Get away from me.
Devil.
Without your guys monastones, you guys no longer have the power to just rest essentially
when you level up.
So you guys are beaten up and exhausted.
But you guys have gotten some short rests in.
So you do have some abilities and stuff, but I think Callie's out of spells and Culders
is probably pretty low.
But you guys see in a frenzy, Bumpy turns into a horse with a bull cut and starts looking around.
Anybody need a ride, we need a move.
I probably can run on my own,
but you should probably carry Calder.
He's really shocked from the puppet show.
Right on ya, he looks, he looks smoked,
he's really big.
Maybe me as well.
I'm still really.
Yeah, I could probably get bolded you.
You see Calder and Cali jump onto Bumpy's back.
There's a loud crack. Oh, put me down. You see, I've Calder and Cali jump onto Muppie's back. There's a loud crack.
Oh, put me down.
You see, I fall over on his side,
but then gets up, begins rushing you guys through the woods.
Pretty slow, Saul, you have to keep turning back
to wait for the score, carrying way too much weight.
I'm running in place a little bit.
Yeah.
You good?
I'm at the back and I'm trying to use my feet to help move.
Oh, that is actually open a lot. I'm like at the back and I'm trying to use my feet to help move That is that time to be open a lot. I appreciate you
Call there's sitting side settle
That's worse why yeah crunches the ribs on one side
Um, but you guys this is how I learned you guys rush through the woods
I'm not gonna follow up on that I can't believe I didn't notice this when you run
We'll talk about this later.
That's so weird.
You guys rushed through the woods.
You pass Crick Rangers bearing torches, searching for their elders,
combing through the forest.
And before long, you guys reach the edge of the Crick itself
and see the timeout tree comes into view.
This old leafless willow tree, this was Glenn's prison for a time when you guys saw him last,
and you see that it has been abandoned by the guards who were on duty there,
and you also see the wreckage of split wood around. And Bumpy goes,
this is where all the trouble started. How did he escape? Bumpy,
um, motions for you to follow him and goes around the back of this enormous tree and you see an
enormous hole. Someone blew out the back of this thing.
With a bomb.
Go ahead and give me an investigation, Gem.
It was fucking good. This is the fucking bomb we gave.
We gave him a grenade.
The consolidation.
So that's the two crew.
You can do it with advantage.
You know what you're looking for.
I know the plus one, but a 14 becomes a 15.
I like 22.
Okay.
Yes, then 11.
You guys look around and you do see that this does look like something that would be done
by a weapon.
It could have been done by a spell, but the more you look eventually called it, you find
on the ground, there is shrapnel from a fragmentation grenade.
Look at this, here's the pin. I mean we told him to work out his feelings and this is how he chose
to do it. I can't fault him for that. No. Yeah, maybe healthy for him but bad for us.
I think it's definitely deeply unhealthy for him. You guys think coders that want to
broke them out? Unless somebody else had a grenade. Is there like a grenade store around here?
There's definitely not a grenade store. There used to be a grenade store, but it blew up. Believe it or not.
Right, I've seen the young ones.
Is cooters still here?
I have not seen cooters. Cooters, one of the folks who are missing. It's the old folks and cooters.
Oh, okay.
What?
Nobody seen them since last night.
Were they abducted from their houses?
We sent some people out to cootersump. We haven't heard back from them. Kudar kind of lives on the edge of town and then the other old folks mostly
live around the the Krik town square and people are investigating looking around. Okay, we have
the most pressing business with Eloise. Yeah. So why don't we go look for her? All right. Okay. Yeah.
Sweet. Um, yeah. Geo's got some hats. Right on. Yeah, we put in a deposit for hats,
and I'm not ready to let go of that.
Oh, that's great, yeah.
We put it, we put it deposited, right?
Yeah, we did.
We did.
Yeah, okay.
So she said, she said like two to three weeks,
and it's been two weeks, I think.
So like, we just got to like check
like to make sure that like progress is moving.
Yeah, yeah.
Not trying to rush anybody.
Sweet, yeah, you guys rush into the Crick Town Square and see concerned
Crick elves all over the place. You see Rangers with torches are scouring the place
Everybody go ahead and give me perception checks
Okay, that's a dirty 24 colder
12
Stinky 21. Okay, oh you guys. I'm really distracted because I'm like,
oh my god, if we don't get these hats
and I don't have a bless,
what are we gonna do if you called to coast asleep?
I'll just stay awake forever.
I don't have to sleep.
We have no hats, we gave an arsonist a bomb.
Things are not looking up.
You guys see the Rangers are paying particular attention
to Eloise's stump and a few of the other ones
nearby, bumpy conveys that those are the homes of the other old folks.
I'm going to go ahead and activate my magic membrane.
You see my nictatating membrane slides over my eyes and starts glowing a little bit, and
I'm going to just roll with advantage on insight and intimidation now.
Oh, sick.
Sal gets real gross.
I'm going to be getting used to that. Sal be careful. Saul gets real gross. I'm gonna give you some to that.
So be careful, it's working on me.
The game is a foot.
Frogs and it's on the case.
He's like, people take a wide birth.
It just looks like I have pink eyes.
Yeah, you're just a stinky little frog.
He's not contagious.
I don't think I've reached.
Random people come over and wipe ointment in your eyes.
I just slam my face on the ground and start bloodhounding around with my eyes.
Yeah, so can we go into Eloise's stuff?
Yeah, great.
You guys walk past some Crick-Ealth Rangers who are in here investigating.
Wait, we need to do something like detectives, dude.
Make sure there's not a snare.
Oh, right.
So I'm just going to kick the door.
I make a shush finger on my mouth, and then I go, I got this.
And then I just really loud like, kick the door down.
You kick the door open.
You see there was a ranger in there already investigating?
Ah, I think he broke my nose.
Sorry.
You see, just blood rocketing out of his nose.
Why the hell do you kick it open?
I'm sorry, I'm trying to be a detective.
The windows are open. We have torches in here.
You see the little fire's moving around.
Sorry, I've got to drop my torch out.
Oh, okay, just catch your fire out.
I'm not sitting here.
Put it out.
I've died when looking for half.
Yeah, you've died, man.
The absolute minus crime scene.
I'm trying to get a running into each other.
It's all flushing is Manestone saying,
the duck tech tips are near.
I consider turning it into a me cue and give him a little,
we have to stop meeting like this.
Just have to.
Yeah, Foster gets out and starts plotting around.
You can't tell if there's actually been a struggle here
because there was just a struggle.
But you guys can get me
investigation checks as you guys look around. A nice average 10. 23. I got a 10. Okay, you guys
look around and you see besides this kerfuffle that Kallie just got in. You see that there
was another struggle maybe. Wait, we actually, I kicked in the door before
and I bumped into somebody else,
we had a wrestling match in here.
But yeah, you see, there is a work table
that has been knocked over.
She's got a bunch of shelves and bookcases,
but one of them has been broken and knocked over.
You see the rug beneath your feet has been moved
and ruffled in such a way that it looks like somebody could have been
Dragged out of here and as you searched through her stuff you noticed that a lot of it is
Undisturbed like they didn't really like come in and shatter all her potions or anything
There's a lot of like tinctures and stuff left over
But you do not find the hats that she was working on for you
Mmm. I wonder if she ever even started them but you do not find the hats that she was working on for you.
I wonder if she ever even started them.
Yeah, do we remember seeing like,
when you came in and you gave her the mullsins,
she was working on some kind of circlits.
She was working with them.
Okay, so it is interesting.
Or when you took the mullsins from her,
you didn't give her mullsins.
Yeah.
Do we see those circlits anywhere?
No, you do not see the hats.
Okay.
Oh my God, what if we got her into this? Does, you do not see the hats. Okay. Okay. Oh my god
What if we got her into this does she have any more mulsons because they were here all up you look in the fridge and
She did
Looks like she did replenish the mulsons
Maybe whoever came in here took a mulson for themselves because there's a one less in the six back. It's there's five mumbles
I'm gonna just call her some rose up. Yeah, that's that's trashy
That's really trashy. I'm like I need a little medicine. I take one
I like to do that thing where you slam the cap off. Oh, that's cool. Oh, inside of a table
Yeah, yeah, it shatters everywhere. Oh, I'd drink it out of a jagged ball
Getting the evidence really wet.
Careful of your lips.
I mean, if it looks like someone got dragged,
do we see a path where they got dragged?
Go ahead and give me a new investigation check.
As you go outside of the stump and you kind of look
around here.
That's a 21.
Calder.
As you look around in the tall grass outside
of Eloise's stump, you do notice
condensation, frozen condensation. Like somebody with some kind of frost powers has like frozen
the dew here by walking past it.
Can I do an insight check on if caulder is evil?
Yeah, wait, why are you looking at me?
Jolly, what are you looking at?
Colter take a shit over there?
I got a 13.
Can I give her the health action?
Yeah, I got a 15.
Yeah, you think Colter's probably not evil.
What's going on?
Nothing for now.
Jack is back for the missing mulsons.
The other hitches up is Jack and walks towards the cold,
the cold grass.
Yeah, you see a little bit of a trail going into the woods here,
but you also notice that as you go back into Eloise's stump
after having seen these little like frozen footsteps,
this little like path in the grass here,
you see some more condensation and little bits of ice inside of Eloise's stump.
The gold elves that have been here.
Do you think this was gal card?
Right because of what can we have Glenn?
Glenn's doll shiver blades men.
Uh huh.
And then they stole Eloise.
So that's what they were up to. Yeah, I was thinking they were gonna go to Shipper Blight's men. Uh-huh. And then they stole Eloise. So that's what they were up to.
Yeah, I was thinking they were gonna go to Shipper Blight.
So as you're putting this all together,
you see inside, there looks like there was a struggle,
but once they're in the grass, there's no drag marks.
Are they carrieder?
Or they convinced her to go?
Okay, well, I guess so we get to the point
where the drag marks.
Great, yeah, you guys begin following the bits of snow through the grass and pardon the
pun, but the trail begins to go cold.
Sorry, I'm not really that into committing.
Sorry, sorry.
But I think the trail's gone cold.
This is going in the direction past like Kooter stump.
Okay, so let's go to Kooter stump.
Sweet, so you guys head to Kooter stump on the edge of town
where the crowded area around the grandma tree
gives way to dense forest.
This is a bit more secluded than some of the other stumps
you've seen, and the other
homes are all kind of warm with glowing magic lanterns and stuff, but this one is, again,
kind of apart from everyone, and it looks dark and cold, and you see that the door is open,
but kind of off its hinges, and it is clattering against the frame with the wind.
Before we enter, there's something I want to ask you about.
I know that Kali is out of spells.
All right.
It's possible for me to instill some key into her
to give her some spell slots back.
Almost like a CPR, but for spell slots.
Oh, that's, that is interesting.
And I have a key name, Stan.
Ready for anything.
I did say T.L.
You know what?
I'll say two key for first level spell slot.
And you don't have to decide to do it right now.
This is like essentially like an action you can take to transfer power in the future.
Wow.
That is. T is 2D8 radiant damage.
I'm just gonna do it right now.
I'm so empty, arcane-wise.
You see Saul raised both of his fists above his head.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Trust is what friendships are forged in.
Hello, bam!
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Who will buy them? Who will buy them? Who will buy them? Who will buy them? Who will buy them? like damn Kelly you look jacked. I've been training with Saul. Yeah let me see that throat.
I bolded out my throat. I think whatever he has is contagious. He said it. He said it wasn't
but I look at Saul and his huge muscles and I say whatever he has I hope I catch it. Thank you
Saul. Of course. I think I'll put it to good use.
I will.
I promise to.
As long as no wizard casts a spell on me, makes me attack you, or anything like that.
Why would you even think about that?
Because it happened really recently, and I'm still dealing with the guilt.
I have it.
It happens in my dream sometimes.
Yeah, I'm going.
Okay.
Okay.
Charlie, go kick that door down.
Okay. Can I smite on the door?
Absolutely not.
No.
I think I go to kick the door in, but I can't time it, and the wind keeps blowing it away.
You completely whiff on the door.
Oh my god.
Yeah, you feel your knee pop as you overextended?
Me!
Hey, you got to inflate your leg, inflate.
Dude, she needs more key.
Use all your stuff, man.
She's got to get the door down.
Hang on.
It's just the flintsy store it's hanging on by the way.
I could hang all the stuff in the door.
Yeah, it's blowing so fast and I can't even hit it.
The keys close, they got me. Ow!'t even hit it. It keeps closing on me.
Ow!
The door is winning.
It's all done through the window.
It's all you jump in.
And you guys are inside of Kooter's home, inside Kooter's stump.
And you guys find a messy circular room
with a shaggy red rug in the middle.
There is a mess of letters, notes,
and journal strewn about.
You see empty food containers and bottles.
You see a desk covered in papers and an unmade bed.
Everybody go ahead and give me a new investigation
or perception checks.
Natural one.
Okay.
I'm still caught with it.
Cal, you're wrestling with it.
I'm still caught with it.
I'm still caught with it. It's a nine. Okay,
called there. Got a 17. Tell me what you're looking for, or how you're interacting with the room.
I mean, I got a net one, but I am going to say, like, maybe if we can find this grenade,
we gave him we can absolve him. Yeah. And also this shaggy red rug is begging me to pull it aside
and see if anything's under it.
I guess I would love to check out some of the papers
that I saw.
I almost want to inspect like the door that was left open
and just see if he left in a rush
if there was a struggle of like,
yeah, okay.
So I feel like what we're looking at
is internal struggle rather than physical struggle.
So, called her with a 17, you once again notice some condensation.
It is possible that the cold elves were in here,
but you don't see a struggle in here.
And when you look at the door, this does not look like recent damage.
It looks like things were rusted over,
and this is kind of him just letting things go
Okay, I report that back and Saul yeah
You're looking at all these papers you find a lot of notes on his desk and in his bed
There's a lot of letters and stuff from from friends and family checking up on him a lot of things that
Look like they were maybe left on his door or something as people were passing by. Maybe they couldn't find him. You find an overwhelming amount of things like
you should move out of that old stump. Come on, get out of the dang woods man. And there are also
a few letters from Eloise referencing his sleep problems and things that she has given him for that to help him sleep.
And you also see another letter that says,
you gotta clean up that old room, man.
It's time to rebuild, buddy.
And Callie, you go to remove that rug.
And as you pull it, you do see that there is a floorboard
that is a slightly different color and there's like
a little hatch, like a little handle.
All right.
I, uh, I, I, I kick it in.
I'll kick it in using my first level smile.
But it's glowing.
Yeah.
I'm so proud of you.
I, I think that opens out.
Uh, yeah, you kick it in.
Uh, you hear the hinges come off of it.
And you see that there are stairs going down to
some kind of basement here. Okay, take a deep breath because I can't imagine
what's in the basement of someone who's grieving and I descend. Okay, I'll follow. You guys begin
walking down the steps here. Does seem to have been magically conjured. There's roots that are acting as steps and you guys walk down and enter a basement bedroom of the stump and see roots hanging above you.
Flowers grow out of the base here and you do see that there are cracks and holes in the dirt that allow streaks of light to come through. You see starlight now, but during the day you would imagine that it would be sunlight.
What kind of flowers? What kind of flowers did Glen like? Glen liked them dangerous so he liked the
Beladonna, the Deadly Nightshade. Okay. Which is sort of like a little purple trumpet of a flower.
Oh my god. You see little purple trumpets growing all along these, and Kali, you immediately realized that you are in Glen's old room.
I grabbed some of the flowers. You pull down some of the flowers, pluck them from the roots here,
and you see, unlike the upstairs, this room seems more well preserved. There's a made bed,
various weapons, and training bows on the walls, and on racks. And yeah, you see,
there are smaller ones from when he was a kid, and then bigger ones for when he was an adult.
It looks like, because, you know, elves live for hundreds of years, so it's not like he's
moving out when he's 18 or something like that. Glenn was probably here until he was like 40 or 50.
Wow, so good. I say, but actually, I just want to get into his bed
and slip up his phone.
But this is like so pathetic and not a cool place
that I actually would have freely liked hanging out.
That could be evidence or something, right?
Kelly just rolls around.
This is like a super, actually,
rad basement apartment and I'm like,
kind of jealous.
I was like, I could get my own basement apartment, right?
Like, why don't I?
Yeah, how do you know?
The wait set is sick.
We can all agree.
Yeah, yeah.
Check out these freaking candles down here.
Okay, it's a fucking sick apartment.
We can all fucking admit it.
It's pretty sick.
He's got flowers growing on trees underground.
It's fucking insane.
Beauty and Braun.
Yeah.
Yeah, you see bookshelves teaming with old tombs, books on the Feywild,
the Celian, the Unceely Courts, books on mythical beasts.
You see books on serpents, books on dragons, things
like that, books about moonshine sibon, one
of the legendary Crick Elves.
I had a bad feeling.
Yeah. Oh shit.
As well as Mima's sister, the Maribel siben.
And you see there's also bookshelves
that are unmarked that look like
there are more journals and notes.
Oh my god, this is such a fucking kick to my heart.
Going to my fucking ex's house and be able to read
his private thoughts.
I absolutely resist that urge.
Well, I think, I mean, it's not quite the same as like going through somebody's journal.
He's kind of trying to like kill us and stuff and you can't ask too much about it.
No, I know, I know, but I'm saying, I'm saying it would be on, I'm not talking about ethics.
I'm talking about it would be so unhealthy for me to just skim through and look for evidence
that he secretly could have worked out.
I'll read the journal, I'll read the journal.
Callie on it, Callie, you stay in bed,
don't get up from Glitz bed.
Yeah, Callie, you see what's in the shoe box
I found under the bed.
Yeah, Callie's just planking in bed, face down.
Go to sleep.
I go to sleep.
And call her, yeah, you go, you start going through I'm going to sleep. I'm going to sleep. And Calder.
You start going through some of these journals and notebooks and stuff.
And what do you think you would go through first?
I'll read the Moon Shines I've been book, cover to cover first.
I guess I think I'd probably, I feel like I know what Glenn looks like
when he's buttoned up and being professional
and it's cool come and collected as he can be.
So I wanna go for the personal journal.
I wanna see as cool as authentic, Glenn.
Yeah.
You go through some of Glenn's personal writings.
You immediately clock kind of the more professional stuff
because there's like time, tables, and things like that.
But when you just look at his journals
and things he's writing about and everything,
you see that Glenn writes at length
about a number of heroes of his.
And amongst them are moonshine and Maribel Siben
to powerful sport druids who revolutionized
the way magic is used in the living wood.
And I'll even say bumpy,
confirm some of this stuff anytime Anytime you have questions about it,
but you would probably know who these people are.
And he looks up to them as proud representatives
of the Crick,
but he also has a little bit of a hard time
relating to them because he's not a druid himself.
And for this reason,
he also has a fascination with Aureox, the great archer and former ally of Melora,
who is the deity that is said to protect the Crick. And you also see that he does, he talks about his father a bit,
but mostly refers to him as like a good simple man. Like he's condescending about it. He looks up to him in his own way, but it's
mostly because of his brushes with greatness. Kudur was present during a fight with with a
terrask at this giant monster. He went into battle alongside hard one shorefoot and Beverly
Togold and moonshine Sibon. He spent time in Gladehome with a famous sorcerer, Mavris the unschooled.
Hell yeah. So so Glenn is Glenn is very impressed by all of this,
but maybe not of his father himself.
And he writes of Couter.
My father saw a lot, but I will do a lot.
So tragic.
Yeah.
Because obviously from reading this Couter rules,
and is an absolute ledge,
and we need to like get him back immediately
so we can high five him for all this stuff he's done.
Yeah.
But like, this seems like a guy that's been
too much time in the basement.
Yeah, I have to agree.
Can I like rip out any page where he's like written about
R.I.U.X.?
Yeah.
I just want to pocket that.
Yeah, and I'll say you can even comb through the bookshelf and you do find books on
Melora's adventuring party which include Ariax and some smaller tomes on him
He's not as famous as Melora herself. Yeah, I want to take everything on our great
Yeah, I just saw this thing in this connection to the winter allowed you pull a bunch of stuff on Ariax and you pull some stuff of
Gland's writings about him.
Okay.
Are there any like secret backs to this bookshelf?
Go ahead and give me an investigation check with advantage.
And I'll say all of you can do it
as you guys comb through all the stuff.
I did crit.
Wow.
Oh.
I crit in Glenn's room.
I did too, but in a different way. She's crazy. Just a 19. Wow. I crit in Glenn's room. I did two but in a different way.
She's crazy.
Just a 19.
Okay.
Yeah.
Saul winks at Calder with his infected eye.
Yeah.
You guys go through and I'll say Saul brings that up and Calder, you begin digging through
his training practice and things like that.
You find at the bottom of that there is a compartment
You're able to lift out the bottom of it. Oh, and you find a who am I journal
I die
I need to do a contested athletics
I need to do a contested athletics. Great.
You guys wrestle.
Go ahead and do athletics, right?
No, it's not worth it.
12.
I will keep doing it.
I got a 24.
Okay.
I'll say, yeah, Calder's just big brothering it, doing my hand on forehead holding you back
as he calmly tries to read.
I'm holding it as high as I can.
Yeah, we've destroyed enough evidence today.
Calder, you go through it and for something that seems like it's going to be very personal
and stuff, you find somebody who is just doggedly pursuing greatness.
He has his goals written out
and when he plans to achieve them
and has them marked off whether or not
he's the achieve them or not.
So like graduating the cricketeers
with best markmanship when he's 15,
enrolling as a crick scout as soon as he's allowed
when he's 18, age 25,
he's promoted to a scout garrison camp.
By age 30, he wanted to make Ranger and he did it.
And then he has other things that he wanted to do, like he wanted to be made Ranger Captain. By age 50,
he is... Well, other things he hasn't done yet. He hasn't made Ranger Captain, and by age 100,
he wanted to be the people. Wow. Which is bold and a red flag because elves live a very long time and so he clearly had
some kind of plan to depose Mima for a long time or perhaps he wrote this when
he was like very young. I know that these like ideas and goals are so grandiose
but looking at it reading this I feel like he just becomes smaller and smaller
in my estimation.
Yeah, he's a petty man with delusions of grandeur.
That's what he is.
Yeah.
Yeah, these are basement dreams.
Right?
Yeah, I will say, yeah, Calder, as you're looking at this,
I think you may even be a little taken aback
by just being like, these are your deepest thoughts
is just to doggedly pursue these goals
that you set out for yourself.
This does not seem like this is the purpose of the crick.
This does not seem like the ethos here at all.
The goals aren't towards an end.
Right.
Other than just greatness.
It really seems like, Kali, I know you said,
you thought the Glenn lie to you,
but I think that you saw the real Glenn the whole time. I think this is a hollow man.
There's nothing in there. What are you showing you? It's naked. It's just ambition. Nothing else.
Yeah. And yeah, Calder, in this
compartment, this journal was on top of a
compartment. This journal was on top of a ledger that had a bunch of documents in it and amongst it you find detailed maps from his time as a scout at a particular scout tower. ratings and maps, he's drawn up plans for how they could hijack mothership airships, but his requests are denied by the senior rangers.
And he's getting a lot of responses back and forth, and it almost seems like Glenn is either
keeping this stuff out of spite, or he's like building some kind of case.
You see that he's getting responses reminding him that the purpose of these towers,
like the scout towers that he's positioned at,
is to warn of incoming attacks
and to spot people who are in need.
And the number one rule is to be hospitable.
You see Glenn has written little notes
and like commented on this,
like how can you be hospitable
when you're trying to protect the crick?
And Glen has all these written ledgers
and making notes about the spreading blue elf faction,
the Sapphire scale.
This looks like this was all taken well before the crick
moved to this demi plane when they were actually
in the living wood.
And Glen suggests that they begin raiding nearby forts and doing preemptive attacks.
And again he is denied.
And then tragedy strikes.
You see the next thing in the pile of papers is an article about an attack on his scout
tower. Glen is the only survivor and his fellow scouts are killed
by encroaching Blue Elf Rangers from High Prince Perry Winkle's fort. Glen has several scathing
letters back and forth with the senior Rangers about how blood is on their hands. From here,
his suggestions begin getting more and more extreme. He begins
petitioning for war to wipe out the other factions. He even suggests capturing
or killing people that they find trespassing in the woods. And you as you're going
through all these you find a kind but firm response from Mima. That sort of
in Furs that they've talked in real life
and that she feels for him and his loss and everything,
but the last line reads,
we will not rain arrows down from our towers.
We will always shine a light.
And you see that this letter has was saved here,
but looks like it was like crumpled up and thrown out at some point,
but then put back here. As you flip through, you see like it was like crumpled up and thrown out at some point, but then put back here.
As you flip through, you see, it does become clear that strategies are being implemented
to protect the Cric, but more extreme measures are being required.
And the Cric Elves are divided.
There are two sides of the argument.
You've heard of this.
Some want to go to war with the other factions, and others want to find a way to protect
the Cric peacefully. Someone to go to war with the other factions and others want to find a way to protect the
Crick peacefully.
And it all comes down to a vote amongst the old folks.
And there are seven elders and through Glenn's notes, you see that he knows two of them
are going to vote for the war.
And he trusts that his father Cudder will vote his way.
So in his mind, he only needs one more vote to get a majority and to get his war.
And he begins
petitioning the Dream Druid Eloise.
She responds at first with interest, but she's kind of troubled.
She speaks of nightmares and visions of violence against the Crick Elves.
I have dreamed that the Crick will flow with blood.
And he writes back, is it our blood or our enemies?
Perhaps you dream of victory?
She writes back, ah, an interesting interpretation.
I'll sleep on this.
The letters go back and forth, her with cryptic dreams and visions that begin
to sound more and more like her conviction for Glenn's cause is strengthening, and finally
she writes,
I had a vision last night. This one is not up for interpretation. We were no longer divided. You were wearing a crown and leading the elves,
all of them. You will unite us. No more debate, no more factions. You will restore the creek.
Eloise walks from her and stop dancing. This is really bad when like a megalomaniacal man gets a fucking
a happy ass, trippy ass hippie woman on his side. This is a recipe for disaster. We know who's
gonna make that crown. And you see Glenn writes back and he confirms that he has her vote.
He now believes this war is inevitable,
but you know how this pans out
when it comes down to the actual vote.
He only gets three in favor of the war
because his father votes for peace
and the Cric tucks itself away in a demi plane
and the writing ends here.
And you know from here Glenn leaves the Cric
and begins operating under a different identity,
sewing discord in the living wood, hoping to force the war that he couldn't make happen.
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So if Eloise went willingly, does that mean that Cuderd did as well?
That doesn't seem like the Cuderd we know. Bumpy thinks about it.
It's having a hard time believing it. He just shakes his head and goes, I remember back
in the day, Eloise voting for the war, but that wasn't necessarily not everybody was
like Glenn. You know what I mean? Like not everybody just wanted to wipe out all the
factions. Some people wanted to, you know, didn't want it necessarily the way that he wanted it.
They just wanted to carve out our piece of the living wood.
I always pegged her as being that kind of person, but
and as far as Cudr, I mean, he's been devastated that he disappointed his son and their family was never the same.
It caused a rift there, but maybe the one way Cudor thought his son would forgive him is to break him out of jail.
Maybe Cudor did this on his own.
This is Glenn we're talking about. He's a master manipulator.
I also just experienced magical manipulation at the hands of the shocking inquisitor.
It's true.
There's multiple ways to go about this.
There's more than one way to brainwash a cooter.
Yeah.
Well, we gotta stop sitting around and talking about it.
What do you think they went?
Everybody go ahead and give me perception checks.
Net 20.
Yeah.
Wow.
These are out.
Net one.
I did get a 19, which becomes a 23.
23, Saul, goo from your eyes has gotten into your ear holes.
It's definitely a thing.
You're having a hard time hearing anything.
But, Callie and Calder, you guys hear a distant voice
yelling, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry.
You say, I mean, I do an insight into someone.
With a nap 20, it sounds like Kooter's voice
from the time you met him.
But does it feel like a trap?
It doesn't sound like a fake voice.
Okay, I mean, let's do it.
Okay, you all catch up with Kooter,
I'll run back to town and get help.
I quickly look to see if he has any like embarrassing stuff under his bed
Like some like old porno's or like a you know like CDs. Yes. I'm here some unimbarasing porno's
Art dudes
So fucking taste really it's coffee table
Coffee table books Honestly, it's coffee table worthy. Yeah. We've got some pornography. Did a coffee table book keep bringing it? Yes, we should.
We should.
We should.
We're going to have to stop moving.
Why would we leave it?
I tube it up and shove it in foster.
We can frame this.
I want some like silhouettes with nipples.
Yeah.
A lot of silhouettes with nipples.
How is it hot and meaningful and safe? Nipples with nipples. Yeah. A lot of silhouettes with nipples. How was it not in meaningful at the same time?
Nipples.
Nipples.
You guys rush out of the stump in the distance,
a little bit deeper into the woods.
You see Kooter, this old Crick-Earth with long white hair,
bags under his eyes, does not look like he's been sleeping
or trancing much recently.
You hear him just keep saying over and over again,
like he's in a trance going,
I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry.
Is it like a magic mouse bow?
No, he's just kind of saying it to himself.
Kudah.
Yeah.
Hi, it's us, we gave you a bomb.
You gave me the bomb.
Yeah, the bomb.
I'm sorry.
I'm not you.
I'm not you.
Just tell us everything you did.
It's all, it's okay.
Everything's good between us.
It's okay.
It was your bomb.
It was your bomb.
You did with it as you saw fit.
Yeah, I had to help him escape because.
Because?
I'm a traitor to my people and I'm a traitor to my son.
Oh, why are you a traitor to both?
You see his eyes close and begin to flutter.
As his entire body tenses up and blood begins leaking
from his nose and eyes.
Oh, oh, oh.
Thank you.
Hey, I think you're losing some ascension.
Joseph, he drops.
Can I lay on handsome?
As you guys run over to him, you fall through the hallucinatory terrain
into a 30-foot pit. Everybody go ahead and roll initiative.
Oh, what's the...
25 to my initiative.
My initiative is 23. I got a dirty 20.
Good work, guys. Unfortunately,
all of you are surprised except for Saul who cannot be surprised. He is alert.
Dude, nice! That's my frog!
That's my frog!
Yeah, so Saul is super alert as he falls through a false floor into a pit.
I take one look at the porno and I snap out of it.
You guys fall into this pit, you take 18 damage as you land. You see there are tall, sharp spikes carved from wood that slice you before you hit the
dirt below.
I believe, Saul, you don't take falling damage, right?
Yeah, it's low fall.
Okay, so you take seven damage off of that.
You just take 11 damage from the spikes.
The spikes drip with some kind of thick poison oozing and steaming like tar.
Everybody give me consaving throws. God damn. That's a net one of my cons in. Wow. This is 16. Okay.
Ah 17. Callian Saul, you guys stay up. You guys see Calder passes out. Calder.
Calder. Around you in the pit, You see elves in dragon masks covered in brown leaves.
They wear druidic robes except one who wears leather armor and wields a long crooked knife.
You see cold air fogs out from behind his teeth.
The first druid locks eyes with you, Saul and Callie and prepares to do something.
But Saul you actually act before her.
Okay, I think I'm gonna turn to Calder
and try and snap him out of this and get him up.
Saul for that, you don't even have to roll.
If you use your action, you shake him.
The way this poison works is they do wake up
if they take damage.
So yeah, you start shaking Calder.
I think what I do is I get the possum puppet
and I fill it with smelling salts.
Great.
Wait, don't, wait, don't.
Ah!
Ah!
Caulder, you wake up screaming.
Saul, you do still have a bonus action.
A bonus action.
All right, great.
These druids are all grouped together.
Yes.
I'm going to activate my gauntlet
and try and blast him with some force damage.
Great.
Go ahead. They're going to need to make DC 17 deck saves. Yes. I'm going to activate my gauntlet and try and blast him with some force damage. Great. They're going to need to make DC 17 deck saves.
Okay.
You jump forward.
You've got these four guys here.
One of them looks like an assassin with a knife has cold breath coming out of his mouth.
The other three are druids.
One of the druids and one of the assassins passes and the other two druids fail.
So the ones that fail take three four damage.
Okay.
Yeah, you blast back as you just reflexively go to save
your friend and then jump forward and go on the attack.
Okay, and yeah, I'm like ready for my next round.
My fists are inflated and I'm standing by Calder.
Great, okay.
After your turn, the main druid, long white hair, you immediately recognize her as
Eloise. You see her eyes begin swirling, strange swirling colors, and you begin to feel yourself float.
Wow. Like you're in a waking dream, everybody give me charisma saving throws. Oh fuck me. 13.
11.
Also 13.
That's three fails.
You guys enter a waking dream and are confused.
So you guys are under the confused condition.
You guys look all around you.
You're seeing the hallucinatory terrain.
You're back with Couter one moment and everything seems fine.
You're suddenly back in the stump.
You look around, Kali, you look up at these masks. You suddenly see green dragon masks and think you see Glenn.
Glenn, is he a friend? Is he still your boyfriend? No, you hate Glenn. I have so many conflicting memories of this man.
Yeah, so you're all over the place. You guys feel yourself stagger and feel yourself floating and wobbling before you come crashing back to Earth every once in a while.
That goes to one of the druids,
who is this big bully wug.
This massive dark green bully wug begins to secrete
a sticky substance from her pores,
then is it going to try to grapple salt?
You see massive arms go to crab around you.
Okay, that is a 19 to hit. When it comes to excreting stuff, You see massive arms go to crab around you.
Okay, that is a 19 to hit.
When it comes to excreting stuff, two can play at this game.
I'm going to use my slimy skin ability, which gives me advantage on strength or dexterity checks to escape or resist a grapple.
Okay, so you do not get to resist this, but you can try to escape it on your turn.
Gotcha.
This is an ability called a crushing hug.
So she grabs you and she crunches you in
and you feel your back like crunch and snap
as she pulls you in.
You take 36 damage.
As she grapples me, I am going to just bite down
on her and Hill's Rebuke.
Great.
We'll go ahead and make a save.
Is it a duck 17? Dexit. Okay. Great, okay. We'll go ahead and make a save. Is it a...
Dark 17.
That's it, okay.
She does pass.
Okay.
So she'll take half, I think it's 2d10.
So she takes five fire damage.
Okay.
She takes five fire damage as she crunches you in.
You feel your bones snapping as she pulls you into this bear hug.
Can I use my reaction to like blow star fire to inflame that
hellish rebuke to become a protective fire young brother
around him and do rebuke the violent.
Whoa.
On this bug?
Yeah.
I want to I want to.
I want to.
There's explosion of energy.
Yes.
Saul bites into her.
Callie, as you use your magical ability,
you see he grows serpent fangs and bites into her harder.
She takes what half of the damage that she did.
She does a wisdom save.
Oh god, okay.
We're all doing saves.
Wow, she actually fails.
Yes.
Okay, she takes the radiant damage equal to the damage
she just dealt.
Wow, yeah, you can hear her body snap in her bones.
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
I think of it as like hellfire and starfire merging too.
Yeah, I just think she bit her really hard.
I don't let him know what I did.
She looks quite injured from that. That is the assassin's turn who's going to go forward
and take an attack on Calder.
Sweet.
That's a 25 to hit.
You have just gotten out of the surprise condition.
You have not taken a turn yet.
You kind of shake out from this poison.
You wake up, you start to stand up.
You're in the strange confused state
and you feel someone come up and just knife you
in the ribs, you take 30 damage.
So I'm surprised, confused, poisoned, and stabbed.
Yes.
Yes.
Your status bar is blinking so much.
Actually, you might only take half of that
on the poison damage.
Go ahead and you may cost stutions, having throw.
Oh. And you feel this is, this actually that on the poison damage. Go ahead and you may cost a lot of your damage.
And you feel this actually isn't regular poison damage.
You feel like ice in your veins.
Like this is cold damage.
Like more than usual.
Like more than usual.
26 on the concept.
Woo!
Okay, so you only take 18 damage.
You take six piercing and 12 cold damage.
Okay.
He's going to take a second attack.
Okay.
That's a 22 to hit.
I'll use, can I use shield?
You actually can, you shield now.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, you are out of the surprise condition.
You throw up a shield and you see as he goes into stab
with the second strike, it pinks off of the magical barrier
that comes up.
I have ice too.
After you, that is the last druid, you see this scrawny old man with long gray hair is
going to reach out and cast I-Bite on Calder.
Calder, I need a wisdom saving throw.
I-but now I'm getting bitten.
I'm gonna bite your ass.
Don't bite me.
What's I bite?
It's ass.
Calder puts on sunglasses,
but he did roll a NAT1 on the wisdom set.
Good Lord, dude.
You guys see Calder drops and falls asleep.
Good Lord.
Good Lord.
Calder. Oh, damn.
Let me rest.
I just...
I took it a lot of time at this time.
Confused, knocked out, sleeping, been stabbed a bunch of times.
I obviously want to lay down.
He's clearly tired.
As the dust clears from the surprise round, Callie is confused, Saul is confused, but every once in a while you
feel yourself focused back up and come back into focus and all along the walls
you see tied to posts are four old folks including Mimo. They are they are
passed out and their eyes are flickering behind the lids. You see they are
wearing surglitz,
the ones that were apparently intended
for you guys to help you dream walk together.
Ah.
So are they dream walking, or was it like just a lie?
It looks like it was probably a lie.
You see the lead druid, Eloise,
yells up to the top of the hole.
Well done, cooter. Now go see to it that the rest of the loose ends are tied up.
You see, he looks over the side. He's got like blood dripping out of his nose.
His eyes are flickering behind his eyelids and he runs off.
What did you do to him?
It's a simple chaos spill, are you familiar with it?
If he doesn't do exactly what we tell him to do, he dies.
As far as the rest of them, you see she gestures back to the old folks who are in some kind
of strange dream state.
Interesting bit of magic, to be able to trap somebody in a dream.
You've all inspired me. We thought we'd have to restructure the old folk circle after the dust settles,
but you forced us to act quickly.
Those hats belong to us!
No no no, you didn't pay your deposit.
We paid your deposit. We did.
We paid the deposit.
You're asleep.
You're asleep.
Hi.
We confused.
Galley's so confused.
I just like everyone's talking,
and I was like, not the words, don't really want that.
Yeah, you hear it.
Over and over again, it sounds like you're underwater.
Sometimes it comes in and out.
We were shows back in that basement bedroom.
Callie, why do you have a frog's head?
Why does everyone have a frog's head?
Why do everyone look like me?
She continues and goes,
dreams and visions are hard to interpret.
I could not have foreseen that you would be so instrumental in saving the crick. But one thing is clear is that
soyer will unite the elves. And you see Glenn, Maskless appears atop the pit and slides down.
Saul and Cali go ahead and give me perception checks with disadvantage because you're confused right now. So everything's in this weird team.
I'm confused.
I'm confused.
I rolled two fives.
I'm with disadvantage.
Ooh, 18.
Oh, shit.
Glad you're coming to save me.
I'm going to save all of us, Kelly.
Really?
Yes.
I guess I cast just the villain too quickly.
Yeah, he touches your cheek and he nods and saw, you see, even in your confused state,
you, you, you break out of it, you see as Glenn gets down here, he looks uncharacteristically
disheveled and sweaty and he looks nervous. He does not look like his normal self.
And he is nodding and kind of just going along
with Kali's delusion.
You know, we have so much in common, Glen.
I agree.
It's crazy when we were together.
I didn't even realize that I was so, so incredibly similar.
But now you've come to save us.
I've come to save us all.
Kali, that one lock of hair that's casually out of place on his head is actually out of place now.
It's hard to tell the difference, but he is looking messed up.
I finally got the gun out of my eyes.
Yeah, just like I really like the messy look.
Yeah, you see, he starts walking towards Calder.
The Crick is safe for now, but peace is tenuous until the elves are united under one banner,
and I need power to do it.
It is time I stopped using other people and became the hero that this place needs.
Lord Altris, I believe we can help each other.
Glenn. Glenn.
The great Ariax once fought alongside Giants.
I have no love for the dragons of this place. If you will help unite my people
I will help you not yours. You see him grab the horns of Calder's helm and begin trying to pull it off. No
Calder
We cut to you on the frozen plane
In the dream states it seems like they really, really wanted to knock you out.
And you might be realizing why. You are on this blizzardy plane with Ultras.
And you hear Glenn's words echoing across the landscape booming from above.
And you see Ultras standing about 10 feet away from you, was striding towards
you, but begins listening to Glenn.
If you will help unite my people, I will help you, and I yours.
Oh, an interesting proposition.
For sure, but I wouldn't trust that guy.
He's kind of a dick. Hmm.
You might need to be a bit of a dick too.
You night the giants and kill all the dragons, would you not?
Yeah, but I feel like you, you really only need one giant dick and that's you.
Oh, I read, I read this guy's journals.
All he cares about is greatness and that's all you care about, but I think
you two work together, it's gonna put one of you at odds.
Hmm, eventually, you have to have another option.
Work with Glenn, or defeat me, right?
You know, Calder, I did think you would be easier to conquer, but these friends of yours have
Build you out time and time again. I cannot sit around waiting for the Cali cocktail to fail
Today could have been your day
You made your choice when you let that dragon steal our glory
Ultras pulls out his axe and slashes into the snow, creating a line in it. You see it
breaks off creating a floating island of snow that begins drifting back and called her
in this moment. I will let you decide if you'd like to try to keep Ultras here with you or if you'd like to let him go and be rid of this. And if you are going to try to keep him here, this is now a different type of fight. You're gonna have to use wisdom.
Okay. I'm no fan of Ultras and I don't want a cursed item, but there's no way in hell that I'm
gonna let Glenn get any stoker.
So I want my helmet back.
Great.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw.
We're gonna use the DC that it would have been
after the charges from the King.
It is a DC 16 right now.
I add zero to wisdom, but I did just level up
and I now have access to indomitable.
Oh, baby.
So I can reroll.
Good, I'm getting yours.
It's my damn hat.
That's an 18.
F*** you.
You see the floating island stops?
What are you doing, golder?
Will you give up your own body then?
Is that what you want?
He begins walking on the snowy plane and pulls out his axe.
You can come and try.
Okay, we are going to continue in the initiative.
Saul, you see on the outside, Glen can't get this thing off.
Come to me, Lord Ultras, come to me.
Even he doesn't want you.
Kali, that is your turn.
Kali, you are.
What's the main thing I'm confused?
An affected target can't take reactions.
We didn't realize that at the time, but we got the one.
And must roll a D10 at the start of each of its turns
to determine its behavior for that turn.
Whoa.
Okay.
Three.
Three.
The creature doesn't move or take actions this turn.
Yes.
So Callie just.
You know what?
I think Glenn's got this.
Yeah, Callie put the dress in in.
I've got this.
Give me the helmet. I need my crown. I need a crown.
Yeah, you do need a crown, Kay.
God, why do I have a micro-cali?
Callie, he's so low right now.
You could tip him over. Don't give me any of this.
He's absolutely so sweaty.
He's slipping off of the horns at the end of Calder's helm.
Of course, this is the one time Callie can't see him too.
And since I'm confused I think I'm like, oh my god, I know what's happening.
He's fighting Ultras because Ultras and I have been fled.
Callie, you see a vision of-
Callie, I have been a Chico, you've done it again.
Callie, you see a vision of Glenn in a Letterman's jacket. Just poking all Tris going,
you stay away from my girl, man.
You've been bullying her and that's not okay.
You've got a respecter.
Hi, Si, contentedly.
This is what I've been waiting for.
Why did I become a soldier and go out adventuring?
At the end of your turn, give me a wisdom saving throw.
15.
Unfortunately, you stay confused.
After Cali's turn, that's Saul's turn.
Saul, you are also confused.
Romeo D10.
Yeah, okay.
Saul got a nine.
Saul, you can act and move normally.
Yeah, baby!
Woo!
We'll play that, dude.
I'm not an act. You are currently grappled. dude. I don't know how to act.
You are currently grappled.
Okay, I guess I'll try and get out of this grapple
for some foremost.
Yeah, you can essentially attempt like a shove attack
or something with an athletics check.
DC 15 to get out.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, I think Saul's confusion manifests
in that he thinks this bully-wug hugging him is his dad.
Okay.
Dad, you're hugging me really tight.
What's going on?
What?
Ah!
I finally turn in face.
Ah, you're my mom, not your dad.
With my fist activated, that's going to be a dirty 20.
You break free.
Ah.
Just kind of like slide out.
Like I'm just covered in mayonnaise.
It's just secretions everywhere.
And then I do like a three point land.
Then I guess I'm gonna try and attack Glenn
if he's going for this helmet.
Great.
Okay.
What are you doing?
Do you really want this burden?
I would take it from you.
You couldn't shoulder the weight.
You don't know what I'm capable of.
No one knows what I'm capable of.
You'd be crushed.
You don't even smell like sandalwood anymore.
You smell like feet.
Look at them fighting over me.
Yeah, you see Saul is also an alliterant jacket.
Back off.
There's only room for one hot frog in this town.
I'm going to tuck Glinn 14.
14 does not hit.
OK, then you know what?
Albonus action do a flurry of blows. Great. I'm doomed. I miss both of hit. Okay, then you know what? Albonus action, do a flurry of blows.
Great.
I miss both of those.
Okay, yeah, you're just bashing into Glenn
and he's just wiggling out of the way.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Mom, why is this happening?
I told them not to kill you.
Ha ha ha ha.
After Saul's turn, Eloise is going to cast I-Bite on Saul.
Saul, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw. Saul's turn, Eloise is going to cast I-Bite on Saul.
Saul, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw. Okay.
As Eloise joins the frame, I'm like,
Eloise, I didn't even know you had a talk in the fight here.
She doesn't need anyone to stand up for her.
She could stand up for herself.
See, Eloise tried to do it.
Where did you get that lemon jacket?
This is 20 on my wisdom save.
You pass, you are not affected by the spell.
I eat the i-bike.
You swallow a floating eye.
That is Calder's turn.
Calder, you are asleep and unconscious.
You will do a save if Glenn is trying to rip
this thing away again on his turn.
But I'll say you can take action or something if you'd like to against Ultras,
but this is mostly just battle against the magic of the curse.
I guess just for my own personal growth, I'll try to hit him with my sword.
Great.
I'm tired of giants pushing me around.
And I swing at Ultras.
I roll the four
I'll take my second attack. You see he just big brothers
You just grabs your head and pushes you into the ground my second attack is a net 20 nice
As you fall you slash into the back of his calf and just like rip his fucking heel
Just like a big brother fight Oh god damn it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to fuck you. It's a problem
My bad
Oh nuts, uh go ahead and do your damage nuts. Oh fuck. I'm sorry
23 damage, okay. I'm fucking sorry. Oh, you'll be sorry. I'll say ultra-soul crack right back at you
Ultra swings down with his axe.
He gets a 33 to hit.
That's okay.
That's 26 damage on the first attack.
Slashes into you.
You get a brutal injury in your shoulder.
He's going to go ahead and take a second attack.
19 to hit on the second attack.
Oh, that is my AC.
Okay. Sheldon's gone. Okay, that is 29 damage on the second attack? Oh, that is my AC. Okay, she's gone.
Okay, that is 29 damage on the second one.
Okay.
And he's also going to bonus action, go into a rage.
Oh my god, come on, dude.
This is what you wanted.
You want to be a giant now, small heart.
Is that what you want?
No, no, no, I just want to be a regular.
I'll never sleep again, I'll never sleep again.
Okay, I just want to be a regular. I'll never sleep again, I'll never sleep again. Okay, I'm sorry.
Fuck man, because you're fighting back and forth,
that is the frog druid's turn.
She is going to go ahead and touch Saul, cast bestow curse.
Give me another wisdom, say,
Mom, what the hell?
I'm not your mom.
Okay.
I don't know.
Maybe.
She's just denying.
Okay.
She's going to use choose one ability score.
While curse the target has disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws made with
that ability score, she's going to choose wisdom.
Saul feels stupider than he already was.
Oh, actually, Saul, go ahead and this wouldn't have affected your turn, but give me a wisdom saving throw at the end of your turn
to see if you get out of the confused condition.
Okay, cool.
15?
15 fails, you stay confused.
All right.
Ah.
Oh.
Stay confused, my guess.
Stay confused.
Stay confused.
Are you out there?
That is the assassin's turn, The Assassin sees Saul jumping around.
I'm just gonna take some fucking cracks on him.
What?
Stay it down, God damn it.
I look at the Assassin and I'm like, you too.
Really?
I'm standing up.
She doesn't need anyone to stand up for her.
I know you were already saying that,
but there's so many of us,
so almost they're gonna be on the same side.
Brother, why are you and mom so mad at me?
The thing that I'm so confusing is how everyone has the same metamajacking.
So I'll go ahead and give me a constitution saving throw.
It's gonna be a dirty 20.
For once, you just absolutely cannot roll low.
You still take 16 damage.
Okay.
And then for the second attack, I need you to give me another
constitution saving throw.
There's that low roll.
Shout out to three BGs.
Okay.
Saul, as he stabs into the second time, you feel ice in your veins.
A chill runs up your spine and you take 31 damage.
Oh, I'm fucking down.
Sal drops.
Oh, Sal, that was pulling for a year.
I think this is all just friendlies.
So I'm assuming that you're not even down.
She is.
Sorry babe, I gotta drop out.
There's too much heat here.
Then that is the skinny Druid's turn.
He still has concentration up on I-Bite.
On each of your turns until the spell ends,
you can use your action to target another creature.
So it's going to try to cast it on Cali.
Cali, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw.
That's oney, baby.
Jews Christ.
Callie, you know what's getting I bitten but me.
I'm not fucking going to sleep.
I'm gonna watch everyone fight over me.
Yeah, Callie, you come out of your confusion for a moment
and see clear as day, saw out bleeding out.
You see Calder under some kind of sleep spell
and you see Glenn is trying to yank the helm from Calder's head,
but it is being held on by like frosty magic.
Oh, Glenn, what are you doing?
Because you're not like saving us.
I'm going to save a Saul.
I need the helm.
Well, you can't have a big, belongs to Calder.
It doesn't belong to Calder.
He didn't even want it.
Yes, he, well, he's got a complicated relationship with it, but so does everyone.
And so would you if you had it on?
Calypie, I need this.
I need to take the power into my own hands.
You could cross off every single milestone in your who and my journal and you wouldn't
be happy.
Go ahead and give me a intimidation check or a persuasion
check. Nice. Okay, my persuasion is better but I think I want persuasion. I don't think
I wouldn't want to intimidate. I'm going to do persuasion.
Natty again! Yes! I'm a servant dies, you gave me for Christmas, honey.
Thanks, Braden.
Shit.
Um, Kali, you see he's taken a back by that and his turn is next.
He goes to pull it off again, but he is not nearly as self-assured. And we will cut back to Calder and Ultras on this frosty
plane. And Calder, you see once again, Ultras takes his axe, slams it into the ice, and begins
being pulled away again. You will get to make this roll with advantage. But I will let you,
I will let you make this choice. You can fight with wisdom, saves to essentially keep Ultras trapped, or you can use Constitution
saves.
However, if you fail the Constitution save, he takes your body.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Okay.
Whoa.
Glenn takes my body.
No, no, no, Ultras takes your body.
Oh, I see. So the, so I have a better chance of passing, but the risk is higher. Whoa. Glent takes my body? No, no, no, Ultras takes your body. Oh, I see.
So I have a better chance of passing,
but the risk is higher.
Correct.
Wisdom save, all that happens is Glen gets the helm.
All right, I'm gonna try to keep Ultras here.
Okay.
I'll make the Wisdom save with advantage.
Got it.
Go.
Shout out to the two crew and a 17.
Nice.
Hey, buddy.
Once again, everything resets.
The crack, some snow comes down and just frosts over it.
You see, Ultras, runs at you again with his axe,
going to slash at you.
I'm not getting my other hat,
so we're stuck with each other.
At the top of the round, that is Callie's turn.
Okay, so I roll to try and come up.
Do you pretend to see if you're confused?
Okay.
It's an eight. Okay, with I roll to try and come up with it. Do you pretend to see if you're confused? Okay. It's an eight.
Okay, within eight, the creature uses its action
to make a melee attack against a randomly determined
creature within its reach.
If there's no creature within its reach,
the creature does nothing this turn.
There are definitely creatures within your reach.
All of the druids, the assassin and Glenn.
Everybody else is knocked out,
so you're not gonna attack your allies.
Okay, so how do I decide?
What do we got down here? We got this fight has been so fucking frustrating because I have a way to get called her out
Go ahead and roll a D6 five will be Glenn Um, and then I'll go down the insurer four. Okay, that'll be the assassin. Okay
All right
I just crit again. Jesus, like, why?
I'm not gonna use my first level spell, but maybe I'll use a bardic just to get the AC.
Great.
Yeah, Kali, you come out of your confusion real quick.
You see that this assassin is not in a letterman jacket, but instead is holding
a bloody knife over-salt.
You're making my day about you.
What?
What are you talking about?
Wait, sorry, actually, I'm kind of shaking the fog off a little bit.
I'm going to attack you.
Should we get letterman's jackets?
Like in real life?
We will.
We will, sweetie.
30 damage.
Choice.
And then do I take my second attack? You do not take your second attack. We will, we will, sweetie. 30 damage.
And then do I take my second attack?
You do not take your second attack. You just do a melee attack against a random person, but you fuck them up good.
You see, this dude looks over who you now recognize as being Gal-Card, one of Shiverblight's guys.
Fucking Gal-Card. Do you know your princess is a fucking queen now?
What?
That you wish you stuck around, huh?
She would be living in a castle instead of sitting
in a sad little fucking trap.
We have bigger plans.
Yeah?
Well, good luck on getting a castle
because you could have had one.
He looks rattled by that and he's very rattled
by the fact that he's been stabbed.
Tell him about the ping pong table, Kelly.
After Kelly.
I go to tell him about the ping pong table, but then I revert to my confused state.
But why are you bleeding now?
You're bleeding through your lemon jacket.
It's all going to give me a death saving.
We're all to bonfire on hay bales.
Oh, death saving. Oh, yeah, sure. Deathsaving we're all to bonfire on hay bails
That's an at one that is
I need a fucking kid this confusion that is two fails for Saul
Saul is on death's door bleeding out and Glenn is holding onto the helm. Give me the helm and we'll let him live.
You'll let him live?
Saul, yes.
Ow.
Okay, let me go fucking heal him and you can have the crown.
I don't trust you after what happened last time.
But I don't trust you.
Let me heal him.
I don't give you the helm.
Helm first. Let me hear him, and I'll give you the helm.
Helm first.
So I'm just gonna go over, and I want to put hands on my people.
This isn't the path to greatness.
This isn't the path to people. This isn't the path to being the captain of the Rangers. Kelly, I need this.
I need this help.
I know you think you do.
I know it's got a bewitching call to you.
I know it's offering and promising things to you.
Nothing else has worked.
I tried to do it from the inside. I tried to do it from the outside,
and now I need to do things myself. I can't be relying on other people. I need the power.
I need this help.
Do you think this is how Ariyux got his powers?
Do you think this is how Ariyux got strong?
Ariyux did what he needed to do.
He fought against his own friends.
He fought for what he believed in.
He shot dragons out of the sky.
I'm willing to do the same.
I guess I just wish he believed in something more
than just yourself.
Hally give me a persuasion check, but I'll say this is not, he's not necessarily going to
allow you to heal, but this might rattle him again so Calder continues to get advantage
on his saves.
Unfortunately, just a 14.
Okay.
You see, he steals himself.
If you try to heal them, we will kill him.
That is Eloise's turn.
She is going to cast Polly Morph on Callie.
Callie, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw.
15.
15 fails.
Callie, you...
Pfft!
Turn into a Nannerfly.
Oh!
Just a confused, horny, natter fly.
Ha, ha, ha.
Everything's so simple from this perspective.
All I want to do is just eat banana.
How simple it could be.
Hey, go out with me.
Go out with me.
Check out my blood.
After Eloise are the other druids and the assassin,
the assassin stands over Saul.
You see Glenn looks at him and goes,
they help the crick, they're part of this.
Stick to the plan, don't kill them.
We'll do this the right way.
Gal-Card hold his action, and Glenn is going to try
to pull the helm again from Calder.
Do I have any sense of what's going on outside of,
you know, my little ice world?
Calder, as you are battling with Ultras here,
it feels like the world is being pulled apart
as Glenn is trying to remove this helm from your head.
You see like cracks.
As you look up into the sky, you see the battlefield projected. You see that
Kali is missing. You have no idea where she is and you see that Saul is
bleeding out on the ground.
Okay.
Ultras, make a deal with me.
I will let you go.
I'll let you choose your side in this war.
Just don't let Glenn hurt my friends.
You would give up yourself.
If that's the choice you ask me to make.
Perhaps you have a giant's heart after all called their guilty.
I have no wish to walk around as enough if you would be my vessel, I would take it.
And if I'm your vessel, you can never use me to lay a hand on Cali or Saul.
Hmm.
I do not see a reason to kill them.
I never cared about being a giant.
I never cared about greatness.
I just cared about making myself useful one day.
And maybe, maybe it's now, maybe that day is finally come. Do it.
You have been useful called their kill day.
You see, he reaches out to his hand to shake yours.
I
Give him that icy iron grip. I shake his hand.
You see the
Magical barrier goes up, you an Ultras switch places and Ultras disappears and you are left alone on this frozen plane.
Calder sits down, crosses his legs and starts to whistle an old familiar tune.
As Calder whistles in the wind, you can just make out on the projection
Ultras entering the battlefield.
Kali, you as a confused nannerfly.
I'm a nannerfly, don't do any.
Yeah.
I'm confused.
You're very confused.
You see, Calder suddenly expands and takes the form
of Ultras. His muscles bulge, his skin turns completely blue, long white beard.
You see heads at his side.
He grows so quickly that Glen hanging onto this helm begins going up with him.
Wait, wait, no, no, we had a deal!
No deal. And Ultras is going to take some attacks on Glenn.
You see, just begin smashing him into the world here.
Oh, wow, whoa, fuck.
Hits twice, does 65 damage to Glenn.
You see Glenn is on Death's Door.
You see collapses down and just starts shivering
on the ground covered in blood.
The other druids look fucking horrified. They have like a
self-plane shift. You see all three of them disappear and Calli concentration breaks on the
polymorph spell and on the confusion spell. And you are left in this pit with a greatly injured Glen,
a greatly injured Saul, and Ultras is there
in Calder's place.
I fall out of the sky with a taste of bananas in my mouth.
I think I'm not going to register like anything
that's going on other than I'm gonna go lay on hands.
So you reach over lay hands on Saul and Saul you come back to life.
You see you're in this pit with with Kali.
All of the druids are gone except for the old folks who still have their eyes twitching
and have been left behind. Whatever curses on them seems to remain.
Ultras is in this pit walking towards Glen
who is shuffling back into the corner.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, I don't want this either.
Ultras, where is colder?
Ultras, where?
What the fuck happened?
Where's colder? Same he's been keeping me.
You see, he...
Points to his head.
No.
He wouldn't have lost.
Something had to happen.
What did he do?
It's your fault.
What do you mean?
You were going to die because you're small and weak.
So he gave himself.
So that I could save you.
He said that small and weak, so he gave himself so that I could save you.
He said he said that small and weak. No, he said it in a nice small folk way.
Um, how the fuck do we get him back? Because I'll be honest, I don't think it's a fucking fair trade.
What do you think? Insights to see if like we could convince Glenn to team up with us and just finish this here.
I'll say I look at Glenn and I say, you fucking owe me and I'll cast Compel Dual on Ultras
so that he has to fight me instead of Glenn.
Oh wow.
He's gonna do me some saving throw.
He fails.
He locks eyes with you and begins marching towards you
as Glenn is scampering away into the corner,
greatly injured, but getting ready to climb up
the side of the rock face here on his turn.
We had a deal.
Call there's this pounding on his ice chair.
Yeah, my eyes flickered towards Saul.
How is the chance?
You see that Ultras?
To what?
You see that Ultras grabs his head
and looks to be taking some kind of psychic damage
as he goes to engage in battle with you
because he has just made in battle with you, because
he has just made this deal with Calder.
What's the matter?
He's getting lost from everything you've seen already?
This is not what he wanted, when we made the deal.
What's the matter?
Are you care what he wants?
I do not care what he wants, but the curse is the curse.
Yeah, I know I've witnessed someone dealing with it for quite a while.
I can't hurt you, and now you've made it so I can't hurt them.
He gestures back to Glenn.
I have no business here.
Calder will tell you himself.
Do you wish to speak to him?
Yeah, I would like to speak with him.
Yes.
You see, he stays in his giant form,
but his face becomes callers,
and call there, you see in the projection of the sky,
you see your friends, you see through Ultras' eyes.
Caller?
Caller, caller.
Caller, caller.
Caller, there's a small wave.
Take us.
Caller, what the fuck is going on?
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, he's right. I am weak. I am pathetic.
This shouldn't have happened. This is my fault.
Absolutely not true.
He's fucking code of ethics is backwards.
So I wouldn't have traded my body
for someone who was weak in pathetic.
You're strong and you're hot.
You are really hot.
Thanks guys.
Salt does a mournful dance.
Yeah.
I didn't know you could make that sorrowful.
That's how it is.
It was the tears dripping down it.
That made it sorrowful.
Culls it.
We're gonna find a way to get you out of there.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know what else to say besides, I guess I'm counting on you guys. Alright. Yeah. Okay. I don't know what else to say besides I guess I'm I'm
counting on you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well we'll get you out of here. I don't
know how. I guess I don't even know what to say here. Do you have any clue on how
we can get you out? I really. I really don't. But maybe you might have to do the
one thing I could never do and fight Ultras.
I wish I could be there to help.
Well, if he can't fight us,
could we just
reach the shit out of him here?
I mean, he's pretty strong, but like,
he can't fight back.
We might as well try.
As soon as they touch me, the curse is broken.
Oh, okay.
Okay, right. He's all out there now curse is broken. Oh, okay. Okay, right.
Yeah.
He's all out there now.
He's all terrified.
Okay.
I forgot the small print.
Yeah.
Ugh.
Salt.
Punges of rock.
All right.
I know you guys, I believe that you'll find a way to figure this out someday.
But for now, look after yourselves, get yourselves
out of this mess that Glenn's dragged you down into.
Yeah.
Kelly is right.
We should at least make sure that Glenn is abdued.
Yeah, I guess I looked at Glenn.
Yeah, as you look over to Glen, you see Ultras,
goes back to being himself,
Calder's face disappears, Calder,
you see the sky turns back to the cold blue winter sky.
Ultras can attack you, can attack Glen,
is going to climb out of the pit and walk off into the woods. I see he's leaving, I just grab a piece of hair.
Great. Go ahead and give me a slide of hand check.
Kali, I know you had a thing for him, but what the heck?
16. Okay. Kali, you grab a hair off of him as he climbs off,
and you see Ultras walks off into the woods with Calder.
and you see Ultras walks off into the woods with Calder. And you see, Galen is just in the corner
staring forward, looking horrified.
You.
They left me.
Why, what the fuck is this about you?
I was supposed to lead the crick and the elves.
This was all for good things. There are too many factions
We should know you didn't want to do good things. You wanted to be the fucking good
You think you deserve this because you wrote it on a piece of fucking paper
Our friend is gone
Because of you and all your back the nations. I can't really get still and shut up for once
Can't believe I wanted you to save me because I just fucking got saved and it doesn't fucking feel good fucking get him Cali
No
Go off do whatever you want oh fucking be there or your next fucking machination to ruin it yet again
I fucking face step out of there
Cali you do see that the old folks are down here and they are still in there
We are to dream prison. Weird dream, a prison.
I think I just go and I'm so fucking livid and I think maybe in this moment I think of
like my mother's wintry crest on Ariax's bow And I think I like still the waters of my face to like a calm
impassivity and kind of take on her stoic nature and just like neutralize it all
and just go and gently lovingly materally, wake up all the old folks.
Cally, you go over to a just stone-cold walk right past Glen, who is extremely shaken,
and you go to remove the crowns, and they don't budge. Glenn pipes up, and without looking at you goes, it's a two-part curse.
The crowns make it so that the original curse can't be broken.
The original curse is them being trapped in this dreamscape.
The crowns can't be removed until Eloise is dead.
Theoretically, someone could get through to Mima if they could get through her animal
familiar, but we sent people to kill her.
That's where my father went.
I grab Glyn with my giant hands and slam him up against the wall. Uh, yeah, you, uh, he just crumbles in your hands. Uh, you slam him. Uh, you, you've got this
little archer guy he's never looked smaller. You're lucky that Callie's refused to lay hands on you
because, because if she did, you wouldn't walk away from here. But you need to tell us everything you know right now.
All right, if you can get through to,
we need to find Eloise.
We were supposed to escape together to the living wood.
I don't know where she will go to now.
Like I said, maybe he's now like a, like a child,
now suddenly he wants Mima.
He's like, Mima could, if Mama is okay,
then you might be able to wake her up.
Where is Mama?
Where did they take her?
I'll show you.
All right, I'm just gonna grapple him.
Yeah, you grab him.
I don't touch him.
I let Saul do all the work,
but Saul knows from my body language that I I'm like do whatever the fuck you on
I'm really rough with them
I like see that I'm approaching a room and I bonk his head against it
Okay, actually I'm having fun again. So you've changed my spirits. I've gotten pretty good at puppetry
Do you want me to try and do something with Glenn? You know for a hot frog?
You're also like really funny, which is kind of a rare combination.
Ah, thanks. Yeah.
Glad I'm not dead.
You guys are brought through the woods by Glenn, and you guys find a massacre not far away
from where this pit was. But you see dead cold elves everywhere.
It looks like they were mauled by a giant beast.
And you see Mama, the dire possum, is unconscious but still breathing.
And you see Kruter is lying next to her unmoving with a bag of goodberry spilled out.
It looks like he healed Mama, and it may have cost him his life.
He has resisted the chaos and taken the psychic damage.
You see blood leaking from his nose, eyes, and ears.
Can we put...
Okay, do we have any healing potions left?
Solfishes around in foster.
Um, where?
So we get more, we left.
Yeah, okay, let's give one to Mama, one two.
Use the potion on Mama, and she slowly begins to creek back to life.
She seems okay.
Here's what we're gonna do for Kudur, because he's been down for a little bit.
I'm gonna roll Deathsaves for him, and we will do the last one with advantage, because
you're feeding him like a potion, as he's fading.
Uh, and you see, as Glen sees his-his father there, he looks baffled.
Why would he? Why would he not just do what the spell told him to do?
Why do you care?
You cast-you cast the spell on him, you wanna try and fucking shirt this bymon to him?
God, what a fucking mess you've made!
Uh, so we will, uh, go ahead and roll in front of the table
to see what Kudr's death saves are.
Ffff.
Shout out to the Tukr, that's a fail.
Ffff.
That is an eleven.
Uh, that's a pass.
Shout out to the Tukr, that's a fail. That is a twelve, that's a pass. Shout out to the two crew, that's a fail. That is a 12, that's a pass.
And we will do the last one with advantage. You cradle-cooter, you feed him a potion, he begins coughing and comes back to life. Ah, ah, ah.
Thank you for being alive.
I've got too much fucking guilt right now.
I don't think I can shoulder another one.
No, cooter.
Thank you.
I'm sorry.
I couldn't completely tell what was going on when I was...
Honestly, you did more than most people could do yeah
You got away with berries my friend. Thank you. Yeah, you really do. Thank you for saving mama
He looks uh
He looks proud any knots and you see
Mama
Props herself up this huge possum looks injured, but you've just fed her this potion.
She looks weak at first,
but then suddenly looks determined.
Thank you all.
I shall take it from here.
You see, she closes her eyes.
Her eyes are flittering,
and you just hear her speaking,
mother, mother.
It is only a dream.
It is only a dream.
Follow me.
Follow me.
Follow me, mother.
And you see, mama me. Follow me, mother. And you see mama begins
calling to
Me ma presumably to wake her up. I hold salt hands
You're the only one. I'm not mad at right now
I mean, I'm not actually mad at colder. I just feel so guilty. I'm a little mad at myself. So really don't
Don't please don't be mad at yourself. Sorry. I can't help it. I can't help it. I'm a little mad at myself. So really cool. No, don't, please don't be mad at yourself.
Sorry, she can't help it.
I think I can help it.
I squeezed her hand back.
And as you guys hold hands and see mama
begin the process of saving me, ma, of waking her up
so that she can try to help the other old folks,
you see Glenn is just kind of keeping his distance from
Kudder. You see Kudder looks up and goes,
Sawyer? And Glenn just just just backs off and and runs into the woods.
Can I stop him?
If you'd like.
You can do whatever you want.
I don't like the idea of this guy running away.
Okay.
I think that's very bad. With his own thoughts for long enough to recuperate
and come up with another plan. Great. Yeah. I'm going to use opportunity attack or whatever
it takes. Great. Yeah. I'll say opportunity attack to grapple him. You were right next
storm. 14. 14 grabs him. Great. You hang on to Glenn, you don't let him leave, but he looks away.
And you guys see in the distance,
frost on the trees and giant footsteps,
leading out of the creek.
And that's where we'll end our session.
Oh, good.
Do we fucking have to?
Can we start a new campaign? Yeah
We're nothing bad ever happened. Yeah
So yeah tune into Trinneville
There we go
Oh my god, hey guys
I thought this was just gonna be an episode where Glenn comes in and he gets his
McGuffin for the next arc, but
Cultor's God. That's just the way it goes.
He lost our Calder.
He lost your Calder.
Oh my God, that's the way it is.
Thank you all so much for listening.
We are going to be over on our Patreon.com slash
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Yeah, it's fine.
Might feel a low energy short rest.
Yeah, we're going to do the short rest. That's the button for this one.
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Sweeties. That was a hit gun podcast.