Not Another D&D Podcast - Eldermourne - Ep. 11: Killshot (w/ Lou Wilson)

Episode Date: January 22, 2021

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will be regular campaign episodes. That's it, on with the show. ... Welcome to the campaign after the campaign after the campaign. This is not another D&D podcast. ... This is not another D&D podcast. Welcome back to Elder Morn, everybody. Elder Morn! I'm your Dutch Ambassador Brian Murphy joined by Jake Hurwitz.

Corbo Babino, the man with the beak who knows how to motivationally speak. Nice! Do you guys write these before him? How do I roast this five days? I do, he's throwing me up! I'm really is upset. He really exists, just fight me! You gotta text me beforehand.

Judging by her reaction, I can tell Emily has a great rhyme plan. Next up, of course, is Emily Axford. Oh, a tear gun snake root keeper of the dragon rose, who's all the good decisions she has chose. Yeah, that's okay. I think if you said it more confidently, really would have worked. Yeah, you know, I didn't know it. I was a good one. I was putting, I was laying track

as the fucking train went fairly. You landed. Carrie Strogsthal, you know, I didn't know it. I was don't like I was put I was laying track as the fucking train went Farrowing carry-strung style you land I see Lou is twisting his face clearly trying to concoct a poem as everyone else is speaking So before he could think of anything. Let's welcome our guest Lou Wilson. He is jibari the safari He can box like an ox. he's as dumb as an ox, but it's hairy. I'm planning to marry. You have a robot open that is waiting. I have to be honest. I'm plagiarizing. That's from I'm hairy. I'm planning to marry from calamity Jane I'm so sorry I freaked out just I might be saying so like God your versatile. I really think that's

The best intro we've ever had the least crying wow When you arrived with ox with ox, it was so sold. Box is like an ox and is also dumb as an ox. Yeah. Well, it is too oxing up for you. Safari with Mary, which I was like, no, like I was looking at it. These are all, it's all like lyrics and I, I'm now realizing it's just lyrics and poems that involve the word safari, not that it rhymes with. Um.

The tricky thing about poems is that they don't all rhyme. I'll be ready next week. You'll better watch out. I'm a really beautiful. I'm gonna hire a workshop. Yeah, you'll be ready next week and then Jake will be like, Jake, the Crow, Cabinot. And then you'll be like, what, we're not doing rhymes this week.

Okay, everybody, let's go ahead and do a little recap. So last week, the hexbloods led the Petty King's troops towards Pearl Hill on orders to kill the King's half-brother Wimer and his traitorous army. Along the way, you can cocked a plan to sneak ahead and do a pre-parley with Wimer and his traitorous army. Along the way, you concocted a plan to sneak ahead and do a pre-parley with Wimer, hoping to avoid a battle altogether. Great idea. After convincing the Prophet Gideon that your toads needed a rest, the bloody King's troops camped out for the night while you snuck off. You approached Wimer's massive

war camp at Pearl Hill, managing to knock out several patrolling guards you snuck off. You approached Wimer's massive war camp at Pearl Hill, managing to knock out several patrolling guards to steal their armor. Using your new disguises, you were able to infiltrate the camp, but shit hit the fan with a failed sleight of hand check at the side flap. Shit hit the fan. Once you were attacked by Wimer and his knights,

it became quite clear that a parlay wasn't going to work, so you decided to try to cut the head off the beast by killing the would be king. However, Wimer managed to barely survive your onslaught and was dragged away by one of his knights. Still, he is not out of the woods yet. And the same can be said for the hex buds who are surrounded on all sides by extreme. It could be said who who's saying it though. Who's saying that's a matter of opinion? I'm saying it. I'm objectively saying it

that it's a bad situation. I'm looking at the papers here. I've got the paperwork objectively a bad situation. Okay, okay. And that is where we are now. So you are all in the middle of this battle, blaring war horns going off, alerting the other areas of the camp,

shouts of, the king is injured, save the king! Or just shooting up through the camp. And we're going to hop right back into initiative, near the top of the order. So there were three knights, one of them has gone and started to pull the king away. The king is about like 25 feet off. The other two that were on Jabari are gonna keep taking shots at Jabari.

These two guys take two swings each with their great swords. 19 to hit on the first attack is gonna do it. 9 damage Jabari. The other one takes two attacks. That dude misses both times. That is the four guards turns. The four guards are going to swarm Tehrgon and take strikes on Tehrgon. Okay. Good God. Only one of them hits. They look pretty freaking A total of two Teragon. That is Wimers turn. You see full dash action. Pushes himself away from this night and rushes further into the camp.

As you see other guards piling in, it's just you see other knights closing around him. The king, the king! Protect the king! That is the three archers turns they are going to keep firing on Corbo Oh my god a crit in a hit for the first one. Oh dear one hit for the second guy. No hits for the third guy 30 damage all right More arrows stick into Corbo tearagon that is your turn. Uh, Jabari Corbo, what are we doing here?

Jabari thinks. I thought we were here to pre-parlay. And it feels like- Oh, we tried to pre-parlay. You don't parlay through the sideflip. If Eric biceps, like the pre-parlay did not work, the murder has not worked as well as we planned. Jabari would probably take some shots on this guy.

Just, if he's within rage. But overall, it doesn't feel like chasing him down is going to, uh... That's true, I mean, I could guiding Bolt him and then fly away. See that's just what I'm thinking. I'm thinking I take a couple of shots and then, one session, disengage and get out of here. Okay, I'm gonna guide him bolt him. Go ahead, give me a pure luck check to see if you have line of sight on this guy right now.

I'm gonna have to say you're gonna roll really well. If you wanna run up and put yourself more in harm's way because this dude guards jumping all over him, like trying to get to him, trying to save him. Jabari Kurobo, should I just not attack him? No, Jabari's full on attack and we'll get out of here. Let's leave him with something to remember. Okay, so one last attack if I can.

Okay. One last attack. One last attack. Okay, there we go. I just crit on my fucking thing to get the line of sight. Terragon, you run through the side slit in the tent that's been cut, and you look out through where the war tent is open.

You see around this bonfire, the would be king has just run through the fire. You see guards and knights going all around him, but you see in this moment he like looks back at you and you look him right in the eyes. Go ahead and make your attack roll. Okay, okay. 24. That hits. I'm going to do a second level guiding bolt. That's 20 radiant damage and Jabari's next attack will have advantage. And then I'm going to step of the wind and sprout my dragon wings and escape.

Your bolt of holy energy flies out, strikes, whimer. You see he instantly becomes pale as like a shock of energy goes through his body, and you see he collapses. Wow. Jibari, you could get a death saber too, huh? You know that's my plan. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha And just fly us far away. I can see you there, Terragas. What are the flying rules with your wings? It's until the end of my next turn. So it's a dash action though.

So it would be, I can fly 80 feet. Okay, so you take a bonus action and just flies off. She knocks the would be king out and flies off into the fucking night. Chibari, that is your turn. Great. The would be king has been knocked out. I give the biggest smile as I watch the dragon that I once fucked beside a merge yet again.

I think I say you're a bad influence and I wink at Jabari, yes. I will say this, Jabari. Go ahead and roll a luck check to see if you have line of sight on him or else you can move to get line of sight on him. You can either use your advantage the Tehragon gave you on this luck check or you can use it on your attack up to you. I'll use it on my attack because I'm happy to move if I need to.

Great. I definitely need to move. Okay. So I'll move I'll take whatever opportunity attack. Sweet. I need move to get into position. Great, you're gonna take two opportunity attacks. First guy hits, second guy misses, 10 damage. And then with the biggest smile on his face, Jibari looks at this pale body life on the ground and prepares to take a tack. Take your shots.

Okay, first attack. 11 plus seven, so 18. 18 just hits. So you get under the armor, the rules of death saves are that melee attacks cause two fails or autocrates, but this is an arrow, So that's one death save fail Go ahead and make your second attack. You need to hit three times to barry

Not with advantage, right? I've a lot of the guiding bolt advantage is gone Actually, wait. Well, he's prone. Okay. Oh, you're right. You didn't even need it Let me look at the rule real quick. Taker will guess it could have advantage if the attacker is within five feet of the creature Otherwise the attack roll has disadvantage Because he's like down so we'll say you've used your advantage on this one You have to take disadvantage on the other ones Well, I then I won't because I'm not trying to do damage I'm just trying to hit him. I won't use the sharpshooter feet. So these will be These will all be plus 12 attacks. Okay, instead of plus seven. Okay. Let's do the first one. Let's let's do it one at a time

So second shot here we go That's gonna be a 15 plus a the D4 from the abolding bond. Oh my god. Oh The D4 from the aboldening bond. Oh my god. It all depends on this. Oh, come on. So you gotta get a three or higher on the D4. That is a three.

Oh my god. Now, another arrow. I'll use key on that as like a de- to do the deft thing, which allows for the Tasha's Cauldron key fueled strike, which allows me to use my bonus action to make one more attack. I'll make another attack with disadvantage? That is going to be 8 plus 12 for a mod 20.

Wow. Jabari, finish him. Oh my god. I full on knowing and feeling what this could do. Pull my arrow back to the point where I'm literally like splintering the wood of my bow. And then I looked out at my chest piece and I say, I will add you when I return to my king

and I let it fly. Let it fly. Pierce's his heart. His breastplate had moved slightly as he collapsed. As guards and knights rush to go grab him, you see an arrow strike his heart and you see with your hex blood and night vision eyes, whimer bright leap, stops breathing. He is no more

You have used your attacks. You've used your bonus action. I believe. Yeah, so I just I just I just start I think it's less I go get the motor in I just start move I move my full move it back and all the while going your king is dead Feel your king is dead Your king is dead feel So we had you so you had to run forward a little bit deeper into the camp So let's say we had you run we'll say maybe it was only like 10 or 15 feet in So you're able to get not only back to where you were But you're about to get another like 15 feet running out away from the fucking camp. Yes

That is Corbo's turn. Oh man, this is not the pre-parley that I planned for. It really is not. It is not Corbo. Jabari, we're going to talk about this when we get back to camp, provided everyone's still alive. I, Jabari cannot wait. It's going to be awesome to talk about all the amazing things Jabari and his friends did today.

I, Carbo puts the hood up and just head down Jets full dash away from everybody. How far are you going to get? So that'll be a hundred feet. After Carbo is the Warpriest, you guys see the Warpriest you guys actually kind of don't see anything the Warpriest does not follow you could have he a Warpriest is gonna be able to revive I am it is it is not easy to you can't bring people back in this world with a revive this dude is this dude is smoked he's gone okay but I'm gonna say realistically this this Warpriest is is a cleric. He's a medic. He's going to try to heal

the king. He's not going to try to go after you guys. So he goes back. However, the top of the round, Corbo, you are rushing out of the camp. You see writing like lightning is Serenade Wendell, resplendent Helm on writing at you, full dash on his war horse as you rush through the back of the camp and is going to slash down on you

from a top his from a top his steed. Damn, you got a dismount making an even fight, man. Assassin, where is the honor and what you've done? I respect the DG Corbo. I respect the assassin. You're talking about more like flap lipper, lifter.

I was just, I just came, you all freaked out. I would do was lift a flammar. There is no honor in the side flap. Hits on the first attack. That is 21 damage to you, Corbo. Jesus Christ. Makes his second attack swing down. Jabari, you see this in front of you

like in the fire of the camp. That's a crit on the second attack. Oh no. Oh dear. 37 damage on the second attack. That'll do it. I had 31 hitpoints. This Corbo down. Corbo down. You guys see with his third attack, he hesitates. He looks conflicted. then he looks up, sees his dead king, and stabs down from his horse into Corbo. He hits, it's a 20 to hit. You see, Lake starts barking and freaking out.

Two Deathsafe fails for Corbo. The other two knights who were by Jabari, one is gonna run up and try to grapple Jabari. Jabari go ahead and give me an opposed athletics check. 13 over here. That's gonna be a 15 over here. Okay. My heart is racing.

You're able to break free. You keep going. The second one is just going to take two regular little attacks on you. One crits and one miss. Oh boy. 17 damage to you, Jabari. That is the four guards turns. They are going to just take swings on Jabari. First one, Nat one misses, second one, 17 misses, third one, 20 hits, fourth one, 20 hits. We're fully in. This is all terrifying. It's the one from the high of killing him to the low of terror. What's up? 16 damage Jabari. Killing him was also a low for me. That is the archer's turns.

They've got Tarragon up in the sky and they've got Jabari running away. The first two are going to take four shots at Jabari. That is only one hit. That is seven damage, Jabari. This is not okay. And now the last archer is going to take two shots of Terragon.

Terragon, are you still in the sky? So no, I technically landed. Essentially, I cast Skyding Bolt, took the King down a sprouted dragon wings and then flew 40 feet away. You just hear, yeah, you just hear all throughout the camp. She's magical, she's flying, she's flying away.

Oh, she's back. She's down there by that tent. And then this dude just tries to shoot you with a bow. This always happens. I try to make a dramatic exit and then people spot me 40 feet away. Flying, she's a god, she's a god. No, she's just a little bit faster than a regular person. So two shots.

First one is a 23 to hit and second one is a miss. I'll get the damage for the first hit. First hit is for seven damage. Terrorgun. Okay. Oh, oh, yeah. Damage is not fun anymore. Damage. Damage is playing around. Damage is doing my guys is Drazenroll. Not that I even need to fucking nail it, I rule. Okay. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Let's hope that you rule, Terragon. Terragon, you are next.

Very, very bad situation. You've got this champion, Knight, this commander, Serenard, swinging down on an unconscious Corbo who has two dead saving fails You've got Jabari still up all up in the mix with a bunch of dudes around him. That is your turn Okay, I want to use my channel divinity Bum of peace. That's B-A-L-M, but for fun in battle. It's gonna be B-O-M-B

Oh, yeah, it's going to be B-O-M-E. Oh yeah. It's a bomb. Hell yeah. As an action, you can move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks. When you move within five feet of any other creature during this action, you can restore 2D6 plus 4 hit points to that creature. What I want to do is I want to run a little bit backwards so that I get. You're confusing the hell out of these soldiers. She's running

backwards. She's running forward. She's magical. She's not. She's regular. I want to run a little bit backwards and where I ran so that I get within range of Jabari. And I'm going to say, Jabari, I'm going to cast a spell on you. That means that you can't attack anyone. Can we be okay with that? Uh, Jabari looks over at a Corbo on the ground. It says, this one time, Jabari is okay with that. Okay. I'm gonna cast Sanctuary on him.

Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a wisdom saving throw on a failed save. The creature must choose a new target or lose the attack or spell. Okay. And then I'm going to use my channel divinity, bomb of peace, use the rest of my action and use the movement that I get from the bomb of peace to get within five feet of Corbo and heal him for 2d6 plus 4. Oh yeah, drop the bomb. Drop a bomb.

So, um, Terraghan, yeah, sprouts these dragon wings, flies up into the air after helping down the king, jumps back down like the flash, just like beams of white light around her as she runs towards Jabari, shoots this beam of white light at Jabari, he's got this aura around him now, sprints over to Corbo, before Reinhardt can swing down again, touches Corbo with this healing light and Corbo you pop back up. And I healed him for seven plus four 11. But then I'm gonna shout to both of you and say disengage,

but if one of you could grab me on the way out, it'd be super appreciated. Hell yeah. You see Sir Ray rainard wendell Looks down at you Terragon and goes see you will run your cravings. I finished my job. I am not craving. I am calculated You see he steals himself and then Jabari that is your turn you see Corbos just popped up, Terragons over by Rainard Windle.

Okay. This is... You can't attack anyone, Jabari. I'm not gonna attack anybody. I know I'm gonna attack anybody. No, no, no, no. It's just one of my kill one in this hole. You said this one time, I was kind of dead,

but I heard that. You see the two nights are standing there Have you no honor stay and face the two of us at once? Two on one Jabari wants to very badly, but not today I think Jabari is going to do Just a full hundred feet of 150 feet of movement. Holy fuck. Disengage 50 grab of 150 feet of movement. 50, disengage, 50, grab, grab Terragon,

and then just like the wind, looking at Corbo and seeing, we will see you on the other side, and just carrying, just go, go, go. So you are dashing off. I'm going to say Terragon is a wee little lady. So you can grab her, but it very well will slow you down. So here's what I'm going to say. I'm going to say, go ahead and give me a athletics check. Okay. And I will use that to do some math to take some footage away

from your run. Okay. Because right now you're moving 150 feet, but grabbing somebody, you know, you have superhuman strength You are a hex blood. You are Jabari the small Jabari the safari That's gonna be an 18 That's the dice roll we need no more side flap incidents no no no Okay, so what I'm gonna say is it was DC-20 to do it just like perfectly, just scoop her and run. So we'll save for each one below 20.

That'll be 10 off, so 20 feet slower, so 130 feet you get. Great. Once we get out of here, you can probably drop me. I just basically couldn't handle a turn out. Oh, your body fully understands. Strategy. This is all strategy.

Sweet. Yes, scoops, tarragon, runs off, Corbo, that is your turn. All right, I stand up. I get one knee off the ground. I struggle to my feet. I point my beak up at Sir Raynard,

and I take off my plate, Dr. Mask, and I say, we're not Craven. This is actually really smart. And then I fully disengage and it's going to laugh. Craven! No, that's not a Raven Mask, that's a Craven Mask. Oh, fuck, that was good. Itmask, that's a Cravenmask. Oh, fuck, that was good.

It's the only that catch on. I had that in my hand, I was like, please don't say that, that's really good. Oh. I will fully sprint, I move 150 feet with the use of a key point. Sweet. Okay, so you guys see, a Corbo takes off,

so spry spray so fast there are guards that have also whistling for Lake to keep up. Lake is outpacing me. Yeah, lakes going fast as fuck. Does Lake have plane shift? Yeah, Lake looks like a blink dog almost like is like teleporting in and out of existence. Oh, that's so cool.

It goes to you learn that on LSD, didn't you, like? Yeah. What? What? Yeah, you see that there are people being roused by the war horns and everything. This has only been a few rounds. So this whole fight was only a few seconds,

and now the king is done, the king is done, save the king. Just conflicting reports, just all of this confusion. So there are people coming out of tents not even knowing what's going on like a guard will like go to pull his sword out and you guys are so fast that like Corbo just like fully bulls-a-dood over as he runs past. Oh yeah. Oh I can check. Here's what I'm going to say. Then at after Corbo warest is trying to help the king is so far away, is not going to do anything. Sir Raynard is going to use a dash action with his war horse. He goes 120 feet.

He cannot catch you guys. Gallantuff on to honor Gallantuff. Gallantuff. Galen Huff. She call that horse slow hoof. Yes, court boy. Yes. Yeah, I call him goofy hoof. That's good. How dare you?

He's going to go ahead and whip out a light crossbow from Galen Huff's back and is going to. He needs to do a wisdom saving throw if he wants to shoot Jabari. Yes. OK. Yes. That's only a 12. So he misses or he can pick a new target. Okay. Got it. Okay. So he'll he'll shoot Terragon instead. Goes to shoot Jabari just is magically compelled not to go after him. I'm more mad at her for some reason. And it's gonna take a three. It's because of my line about, it's not Craven, it's calculated, it really got you.

Three shots at Tarragon. Misses on the first attack. Hits on the second attack. Hits on the third attack. Nice. So 21 damage total. And then that is back up to the Knights. The Knights are not on horseback.

Have no fucking hope of getting to you. I'll say that also any of these other guys that are at these other tents are not gonna have time to like draw their bows or anything like that. They were not expecting a mid-camp infiltration with like a few people. But I will say that these three archers,

we will just count them as kind of being like archers in the camp who are ready. So they are going to keep going until you guys are out of range. So back at the top of the order, the first people that are going to be able to go are the archers. One of them will go for each of you. First one will do a wisdom check to try to hit Jabari. God damn, that's a five. He's gonna shoot Terragon instead. Go to shoot, Jabari, but has to shoot Terragon. One hits from the first dude. 11 damage Terragon.

Second one takes two shots on Terragon. 20 to hit on one attack, misses on the other one. Jabari feels terrible as he just is carrying this slow with his person who's slowly becoming, I guess a pin cushion. Yeah. It's 12 damage, Tarragon. This is so awesome.

I'm down to one hit. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah, Chibari, as you, this is all happening in seconds. So as soon as you scoop, Tarragon, you see, whew, whew, a bunch of arrows just like sink into her chest and she's like barely breathing,

but she's staying conscious. Oh no. Mr. Hedges, Jabari, I think I had more hit points than you. This feels good, and see, Jabari is not the smart one. You are the smart one, come on. Next one is gonna go after Corbo twice hits twice We'll probably take Corbo down and then jibari might have to choose which of his friends he fucking saves Oh fuck that is a natural three and a natural six that is

Shoot spy you see one is like about to hit lake. She blinks in and out of, uh, uh, reality as she continues following the fire. Nice try, Hawkeye. Ha! Ha! Ha! You see, Jeremy Renner himself. Uh, steady.

Steadies. Steadies is shaky hand and, uh, from the airs in the air. I'm a such chap. You were a bad born, sir. Daddy's steady, so shaky hand and and the fire is in the shop. You were a bad born, sir. Oh God. That is back to Terragom. Okay. Oh, I'm going to bonus action is what's up ahead of us?

We're out of enemy territory, right? It's just what's behind us, right? Role Hill is surrounded by forest, except for like the main roads. So we're retreating into the forest that we do not believe there to be enemy presence in. Correct. OK.

I'm going to do a bonus action healing word to Corbo and heal him for nine more. OK, nice. We should take you. And then I'm just going to fold that. And then with my action, I'm just going gonna fold that and then with my action I'm just gonna fold that into the woods. Okay, sweets.

So you go ahead and dash how far? 80 feet. So Teragon not going as fast as she can kind of slows down a sec to heal Corbo. That is going to be Jabari's turn. Jabari is seeing a lot of guys that he wants to take on a ride. But this whole sanctuary, the plan, Jabari stays focused. It's going to be, I'll do, I'll blow the last key point as well as take a dash action for a full 200 feet of movement.

Holy fuck. Hey, you know what, I'm gonna go ahead and put my hands out again to try to be scooped up yet again. Sweet, Jabari, go ahead and give me another athletics check. I would love, let's go for another scoop. That's only gonna be a 12 on this scoop. That's 12, okay. We'll say maximum it slows you down is 50 feet,

so we'll say get 150 feet with, great, with Tarragon. So you guys both run, you scoop Tarragon again, as she's like slowing down, like you guys are basically running. She turns back real quick to heal Corbo, lakes running along the side dodging arrows. You scoop her up and run forward. Corbo that is your turn.

All right, I'll keep on running. I'm gonna spend another key point, go 150 feet. So I'm side by side. 150. Okay, I will say at this point, you guys have all run and you guys have just like breached the woods. So I'll say that the archers are gonna get one more round on you. And Serenaard is going to get one more round on you because Serenaard is going to get one more round on you. Because Serenaard is on this horse. So you guys are going 150 feet. Galadon Tof is going 120 feet, has dashes. And Tyra, you have one hit point left. I have one hit point.

I'm likely going to go out, but I'll do it in style. You'll bring me back. You'll find a way to bring me back. I can heal you. Oh, perfect. OK, Jibari is not worried. Yes, luckily, Terragon is in Jibari's arms as you guys go off into the forest.

OK, so Serenaard is going to take another shot as he tracks you into the woods. I guess he'll try to take a shot at your barry. Wisdom save fails. Takes a shot at Teragon. Misses, shout out to the two crew. And then is going to take a second shot. Natural eight that's gonna miss. Takes last shot with the crossbow.

Natural eight shit, more like it. Easy, Galatouf. Easy. I have one hit point, I want that to be the last thing I say before I go unconscious. The last shot is a 23 to hit. That does hit. Okay, you see this last crossbow bolt hits Teragon in the chest and she passes out in your arms. Jabari. I'm not worried.

Jabari is not worried. Although that does then remove sanctuary from Jabari. Okay, great. Okay, oh shit. Yeah, you guys are literally not out of the woods. Yeah, you just got into the woods. We just got into them. These crossbows could easily take us out. These crossbows could easily take us out.

Yeah, they could easily take us out. These guys, these archers are going to take shots with disadvantage into the woods. So sanctuary's down. First two are going to take two shots each at Jabari. First two's gonna hit, two natural 15s. Okay. Even with disadvantage, that's eight damage. Yeah, I can gonna hit two natural 15s. Okay. Even with disadvantage.

Oh, that's eight damage? Yeah, I can use my reaction to deflect one. So I guess I'll deflect the first one. Okay. So much damage, can you block? It's a D10 plus- What's a D10 plus- A D10 plus-

Jesus Christ. Yeah. You destroy it. Yeah. Just like fully- Baw, just like an elbow. Just like, karate chop it.

Yes. Somehow your elbow is just like made of titanium. And you just like shatter this arrow. So you don't take that eight damage. Second attack would have been a fucking that 20, but since it was disadvantage, also got an at four. So misses.

Ooh. The second guy takes two shots, not one misses. Second shot is in that six misses. I love to disadvantage when it's coming from my DM. Last archer takes two shots at Corbo with disadvantage. Misses on the first attack. Misses on second attack.

All right. Whoa. That is back to Terragons turn Terragons. Go ahead and give me a death saving throw. You see Terragons coughing in your arms, Jabari. Jabari does nod like this. Can I as a half-ling reroll a one? Just kidding, I got a 16!

Oh! You're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to do that. You can't do that. That was mean. Not at this point. Not at this point. Oh man.

Oh, that was not okay. It's been a hard time, man. It's so bad. Oh man! Oh, that was not okay. It was not okay, my heart was burning. It was so bad! Oh man! Oh man! Okay. That was like a rough three seconds. Uh, jebari. That is your turn.

On this round, as you guys enter the woods, go ahead and give me a perception check. No. No. No. All right, shout out to the two crew. That's going to be a six. Fingers crossed, we find a sacred grove where I can recover my spells, lots, and hip work.

It was a DC5 to find a magical pool of holy. Lake, take us to another plane. With a six, I think you're a little too distracted and you kind of can't tell what is going on. And why wouldn't you be? Yeah. Yeah, your credit is dying. What is my arms? Believe it or not, you're not noticing much else.

It's almost like you propped her up to get shot by arrows. Jabari, that is your turn. Well, I know that Corbo has heels and the saying is given the amount of, given that 16 and I guess the amount of blood that's being coughed to out I think Jabari is gonna like Not roll the dice, but trust Trust the process. Yeah, that aid will come

And that we should get deeper into the woods before we truly settle you do here gallon huffs Gallant hubs Hot on your trail. Yeah, I think with that, Jabari's gonna do, I'll take, I don't have any key points left, so I'll just, I'll take the dash action and move 100 feet deeper into the woods. Okay, 100 feet.

Galen huff is moving faster than you guys at this point. So is going to catch you guys eventually this point. So is going to catch you guys eventually. But right now is still behind you guys. That is Corbo's turn. Corbo on your turn. Go ahead and give me a perception check as you enter the woods. All right. It's a 14. Corbo. What do I see? You see one thing and you hear another thing. You hear the sound of a horse, like fucking horseshoes hitting the ground coming from the other direction through the woods. Oh. Oh boy. You hear that and then you also catch a glimpse of a sprite. These are rare up here near Heronford.

But what is even stranger about it? Actually, you know what? This is something you guys would have a little history with. Go ahead and give me an insight check with Advantage Corbo. 26. Okay, Jesus. Corbo, you remember this well. This is a winter sprite.

This is like a bright, white sprite that you've only seen before in the North, like beyond the Empire when you guys were fighting in the war. They blend in with the snow up there. They're basically, they're almost indistinguishable from a snowflake, unless you see they see their flying patterns. During your time fighting in the Great War for the North,

you were at one point captured by a clan of giant barbarians. And to your surprise, because you guys had had all of this empire, you know, Empire propaganda and everything like sending you up there to like fight the evil North folk. But once you were up there, you saw that there was a complex political situation going up amongst them amongst different factions. Like other prisoners that were captured by these giant barbarians were other giants, were other giants from other factions. And in fact, you guys were eventually freed from your captivity by allies of your fellow prisoners, and you guys actually spent some time amongst giants in a village called Rueglivic. Rueglivic. Rueglivic.

And this village was surrounded by the snowflake-like sprites that you did not see when you were in Heronford. You had heard that Rueglivic was destroyed during the war after your time there, and you haven't seen a winter sprite since. So you see this little winter sprite heading like west into the woods. And from the south, you hear hoobes coming towards you. That is your turn. All right. Um, I'm going to call to Jabari and say, follow that little winter sprite. We're going this way. What? Um, a winter sprite?

Yeah, you heard me right. From the ruins of Ruuegelavik. Jibani Teregan is dying in Jibani's hands. I'll just, I'll follow you. You follow me. So if I take, if I dash, that's an action, that's me moving, double my speed, so it's a hundred feet. And then I think I'm'm gonna use a key point and

Do flurry of blows and I can use my hand of mercy as one of my strikes and I'm going to heal Tehrgon, okay 11 Yes Tehrgon pops back up in your arms to barry You do like a ceiling Flurry of healing palm as you put your hand out and yeah, like a wake up slap. Come on. Hello. Hey, are we safe? Not even close. That's where I like it. That is Ser oh, oh. Serenard is going to go ahead and take three shots at Jabari.

Still rushes along on Gallanthoof, catching up to you guys about 30 feet behind you. First one is going to miss. Second shot. Second shot is a 22, that's gonna hit. I'll use my reaction to deflect miss huh? Ooh, okay, I think no matter what you're gonna be able to stop him. I mean now that I got my elbows to destroy the arrow takes a last shot.

Misses on the last shot. Oh, I love this run into the woods. Mrs. On the last shot That is back up to Jabari's turn Jabari now that Corbo has pointed it out to you you see This this little winter sprite that looks like this like it was it's really hard to see because it looks like because it It snows out here. It's not snowing right now So it is a little bit suspect that there's just a piece of snow refloting in the air like it's fucking weird. But on first like teeny tiny.

Yes, on first glance you wouldn't really see anything. It's like a puff of snow, so it's like a little bigger than an actual like teeny snowflake. It's like a fucking cartoon snowflake, it's a little bigger. But you can see it now the Corbus pointed it out to you, and you see this thing is like flying like leading you somewhere. Well, I think Jabari is going to put Terra gone down and you know, follow this thing that he hasn't seen since some of the best days of his life. Suits. Jabari, you rush off chasing this winter sprite. How far can you get?

I mean, if I'm using the dash again, it will go a full hundred. Hundred, okay. You keep going a hundred feet, gallant hoof, gaining on you. That is Corbos turn. I guess I'm gonna keep on running too, but can I do a perception check

to see if I can deduce where those the alternative hooves were coming from I can deduce where those the alternative hoops were coming from? Yeah, you can hear the alternative hoops go ahead and give me a perception check. Alternative hoops. Alternative hoops. 16. Corbo, you see in the distance riding towards you guys, riding towards you guys, riding towards Sireinard, is the Prophet Gideon. You see, his big black stallion just shooting through the woods, still like a hundred feet away, but like coming through the woods in the other direction. I-

You fool, strut it to die, me the thrill of battle! It's all yours, man. Is Jabbani's more than we will? The Prophet, give me a mask. That is battle for you. Yes, we brought the doggy bag of battle for you into the woods. Yeah, I think I have some popcorn in my backpack.

We can pull up and just kind of take this one in. Go ahead and give me whoever wants to give me a persuasion check with advantage. Okay. My persuasion check with advantage. Okay. My persuasion is... ...and check with advantage. That is going to be a 24. Yes.

Go all day! You see that while he is pissed at you and he's yelling at you, this is a dude that just follows the exact orders that he's given by his like evil sorceress So he is yelling at you while charging at Serenard Okay, and then I'm just realizing that we accidentally skipped Terragons so Terragon let's have you go now after Corbo. Okay So it looks like these two guys are just going towards each other, right?

It looks like Ser two guys are just going towards each other, right? It looks like Serenaart is still going after you guys. In fact, I'll say he is starting to catch up as you guys are running out of abilities that let you dash super fast. You are not as fast as Gallon hoof and he started to gain on you. And as he starts to get close to you, like as it starts to get close to his turn He yells there is still time there is still time for you to defend your honor stay with me and fight this beast Can I do an insight check on I don't know anything about this reenard guy Mm-hmm because I want a to fight the prophet Gideon.

Yeah. Can I do... Yeah, go ahead. This insight check will count towards the prophet Gideon and towards Raynard. Only a 10. Only a 10. Sir Raynard is a fucking nerd. He's probably not going to betray you, but you do hear like a little quiver in his voice. Like he is pretending like he's doing this to like help your honor, but really it's kind of to save his own life.

And I'll say even with a 10 insight, the prophet Gideon is fucking bad news. If you guys had all of your abilities, all of your HP, you might be able to beat him, but he's a monster. He's a high level monster. It's a ghost tent, you know? He is a ghost tent, that comes with a territory. He ate a rabbit hole. He ate a jackalope.

Yeah, with the horns. Okay, I'm gonna do something really stupid. Oh yeah, I love it. Oh yeah, this is what the hexbloods are about. I would like to cast thomaturgy on myself to make my voice boom to try to scare the horses. And then that's an action. And then as a bonus action,

I'm gonna cast sanctuaryctuary on Rainard. Oh, and I'm just gonna say, Can you do something smart? Get out of here, you are all acting goofy! So it's like I'm trying to boom to scare the horses and then protect Rainard a little bit. Good God, okay, let me. I just, I don't really want, I don't really want to feed him up to Prophetic Indian,

but I'm not at the point where I feel that I can confidently attack Prophetic Indian. Cause I'm like, this is like my last spell. How far does Thamaterji affect? Cause you could just target Prophetic Indian source. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll direct it just at Prophideon's horse. Okay.

Um, and then gas sanctuary on the ring. So a war horse, um, the wisdom of animals, a war horse as a plus one, uh, we'll, we'll have it do a wisdom save against your, uh, DC. Okay. Shout out to the two crew. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. You hear this loud boom.

Um, Prophet Gideon is fucking heavy as hell. Full armor, standing up, full tilt, riding like a maniac. Um, there's this loud boom as if an explosion goes off next to him. You see, he turns kind of just mildly annoyed, um, but his horse rears up, and as soon as it goes up on his back hoofs, he tumbles fully over the fucking reins

and lands on the ground hard. You cast Sanctuary on Serenard. He just looks incredibly frightened, and he just turns to you and nods and goes, thank you Yeah, on Gallant Huff to honor way to do the calculated thing I don't see other direction gallon and gallon of takes off the other direction towards towards the workamp I can outrun profit gittian you guys continue chasing this winter sprites as you hear the Prophet Gideon

like cursing and screaming behind you as he like gets back up on his horse and starts going. At this point, you guys have been dashing. You have been running a hundred feet per turn going super fast. You guys see as you follow this sprite and as the prophet Gideon gives chase, you have a big head start. Finally you see this sprite shoots through an intersection of branches that creates almost

like a doorway in this path through the woods. You see it disappears as soon as it goes through it. Hmm. Ah, and... Oh, Chibari still runs at it. Yeah. You guys see Chibari disappears. I run at where Chibari disappeared. Terrogon disappears.

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Snowflake amongst all these yellow sprites is waiting for you there. Um, and guys go ahead and give me perception checks as you enter this place 13 19 for Jabari. That's great 13 also for a tarragon. So Jabari with a 19 you hear hooves In the forest here coming towards you. It's not you know the full on fucking gallop That the horses were doing when they were chasing you guys through the woods. You hear, like, deft animals running through the woods. And you guys also know, you have heard of places like this. These are called grobes.

The trickster, who is one of the three gods, the one who brought, like, magic and the sprites to Elder Morn, it is said that she has like hidden some of these places away so that the Reaper can't see them. The Reaper kind of has no power here, but it is very, very, very rare that mortals come here because the common knowledge is that once you are invited to a grove, the invitation cannot be rescinded. Huh. Like once you enter a grove, you can never leave?

No, you can leave, but you can come back and they don't want mortals coming back. Like you can invite more people here. You could bring war here. So it's rare to be extended exactly so you have not been here but you've heard people talk of groves and you see this one winter sprite which seems kind of out of place here and then you also hear hooves definitely moving okay once again terragon tucks in her elder symbol, making sure not to represent something. I know we have a lot to talk about, but perhaps first we need to make a display that we are peaceful. And I guess I maybe unwrap my hands and put my hands up like cylinder.

I holster my studded quarter staff and I like sit, sit, be a good girl. I think I also take out my dragon rose as almost like an offering. You hold out your dragon rose, Jabari, what do you do? Jabari struggles for a second. Jabari doesn't want to put all his weapons down, but Jabari holsters his axe and just takes out his bow and like holds it with two hands against his chest. Still close but clearly not on

offense. Growth, Jabari, that was great. I am, Jabari, you're trying. You're making, you're making a lot of progress. Whole, slowly but surely. Jabari would prefer if he could hold his axe but he would just have one bow and no arrows. Yeah, you're doing great. Just being bulging in his arms Instead all the weapons are just hanging nearby on your body. That's not that bad. Okay, yeah, but it's not that good You guys see after a moment several Centars Centars. Emerge from the trees, like between the bushes, with bows drawn. Many of them have antlers, but their upper body's kind of look elven.

They have long, pointy ears, long hair that drapes over their chests. And you see that a few of them that look more kind of stern and warrior-like, have their arrows pointed at you, have their bows at the ready, and you see one with long, brown hair kind of steps forward as the leader and motions for the other ones to put down their bows. And they go, how did you mortals get to our grove? A winter sprite led us from danger. The only thing that we came to seek was safety. We don't need anything else. And we're going to be cool about the whole invitation thing. We know it's like a one-in-one

out type thing. There's no plus ones. No, yes. Just you. I'm here with literally all my friends. It's all my in one out type thing. There's no plus ones. No, yes. Just you. I'm here with literally all my friends. It's all my friends right here. All three of you were invited or one of you brought a whole squad.

The dog is actually emotional support. OK. That's allowed. We like it. She's allowed anywhere. I have a note. It's always the plan. I can present the note.

OK. OK. You see, one centaur with like little reading glasses comes and like checks, lakes, some of the support dog paperwork. I got this 48 years ago, but it's still good. A nod. This one with brown hair. They've got like long like stag antlers and like flowers in their hair. If you followed the winter sprites, that means that Glada must have invited you.

And you guys recognize this name. Glada was the name of a giant from Rueglivic who was called a whisperer because it was said that she could speak to sprites and she was kind of like a wise woman of the village. So there's a couple there's a there's a bunch of things that are fucking strange about that. One thing is that this was 80 years ago and she was already old then. So that's a little weird. And the other thing is that this was 80 years ago and she was already old then. So that's a little weird. And the other thing is that this is not the middle of the frostbearance. This is some magical grove.

And what context would we have known Glada? Just like in passing or did we ever hear? Yeah, you met her. You were at the village with her. This is where this like giant village that you guys spent some time in I think is where a lot of you guys specifically like Corbo and Tearagon kind of lost your lustre for war Where it was I think it was kind of that moment where you're like well, what else have we overlooked what other you know

Places did we go thinking we were the good guys? I you know, places did we go thinking we were the good guys. I, I will confess to, you know, try to be really transparent in this moment in which we are completely vulnerable and in your hands and that is okay with me, that I have not seen Glita in a long time, but she holds a dear place in my heart. So if she invited me, then that's an invitation that I would accept even beyond out of necessity.

Very well, just the three of you are on the invite list then, plus the emotional support dog. Yeah, she goes where I go. Yeah, yes, no more customers orders. No more customers. When Glada first came here, we said no plus ones, but that got lifted after a bit So if you stay for like a while you can start letting your friends in like I only know these three people

That's it. Okay. Good good. Follow us then. Can I see if Jabari how Jabari is doing Jabari since the moment where the where the centaur is pointed their bows at your body Jibari has just had every muscle in his body flexed so tightly Just forcing jibari is afraid to like open his mouth because he's worried that if he just like releases anything like Motifunctions will just kick in to like defend himself So jibari is just, just a tight ball right now. Can I give him like just a little bit of a, can I reach up as high as I can and give him like a little bit of like a back and arm massage?

Yeah, of course. Hey Jabari, why don't you walk next to Jabari? I think he needs the emotional support right now. Jabari would appreciate that. Uh, uh, uh, as Jibari just is just ringing his hands along the wood of his bow. Yeah. Wherever we go, I promise we'll set up a little dummy for you to do target practice on.

Jibari just does not like to be in a situation where he cannot, you know? Jibari knows that he is, we're not in like, this is special. Jibari needs to, like, but it's just, it would just feel better if Jibari could, you know, Jabari knows that he is, we're not in like, this is special, Jabari needs to, like, but it's just, it would just feel better. If Jabari could, you know, just swing or, you know, I just, I know. We're gonna land somewhere

and you're gonna fucking thrash out some burpees that are really cathartic. Yes, you're gonna go to town. I need, I need aerobics. Jabari needs aerobics now. Okay, we're gonna do that for you. You see this one, Santar, smiles and introduces themselves and goes, my name is Stalios, by the way.

Stalios. Stalios? Stalios. Oh, my name is Terrigan Sneakroot. Corbo. Jibbadi, I tell you. Well, Metz, you can follow me. We'll take you to Glada. She lives not far from here.

Unreal. Great. Yeah, that sounds nice. Sweet. Let's do it. You see Stalio starts to go off into the woods following the stream. And you see one of the centaurs that was pointing above at you, still kind of like sizes you up, Jabari, and rides next to you as you're running, and goes, you know what I think?

I think only one of you are invited, and you brought a plus two. That's what I think. I pressed a dissertation, a little blood coming out. Jabari. Jabari just like gives that guy a slight smile, and it's just like, it that guy a slight smile. It's just like Jibadi thinks you are allowed to believe whatever you want

But what you choose to do with that information is what will choose is what will guide Jibadi's actions. So think carefully Did you did you just eat raw meat? Yes, Roon temperature raw It was old it was old it was old It was honestly a little hot maybe it sat out for 76 degrees. Oh my god I've seen him pass a horn. It's not about it being raw. It's about being old Yeah, you see this dude just kind of backs off and Yes, good good. Oh, just kind of backs off. And, um, yes, good, good. Oh, that felt good. Thank you, friends.

So you guys travel through these shimmering glades, sunlight bouncing off the waving trees in the breeze. You pass wild stags and hairs, foxes. You reach the end of the stream, and you see that there's like a little pond, and you see next to the pond is a giant Cottage. Okay. And you see outside of the cottage is an old frost giant and you see she's got like a patchwork cloak on.

She's got you know like blue skin. She's a frost giant. She's got, you know, like blue skin. She's a frost giant. She's got like white hair, wrinkles, and looks old, but looks exactly as old as the last time she saw you. And you see that the winter sprites, that was leading you along, goes and flitters and lands on her shoulder. And you see she looks out and

she greets you and she goes it is good to see you little ones. Well look at that Glada, how the hell are you doing? You haven't changed a bit. You see she looks around and she goes the glade keeps you young. I will say that Jabari the small Corbo the tiny and of course teragon the teeny Small tiny and teeny at your service you see Stalios gives a wave to Glada.

She kind of waves them off as they're goodbyes. You see the centaurs head off. And you see Glada motions for you guys to join her in her cottage. Come, come in now. So gladly. Yeah, I gotta take this jacket off. It's hot as hell.

She goes, yes, yes, come in plenty of time for every one hour that passes in your world. This five hours here, so you have plenty of time. Ha ha ha. Oh wow, really, I'm gonna take my shoes off in that case. Yeah. What if it must come here more often? Somebody could work out here in this world,

get the five hours of a workout and then go back to the normal world and be that much stronger. That is, you also don't age here, so you could just stay here, get super jacked for like a thousand years and then just go back to the regular world and pick up where you left off.

Ah, but Jib you must protect the rail. It is, this is not going on. But you will have to weigh his option. So you see, she brings you into her cottage. It's a cozy one room cottage, but all at giant scale. So you see, to her, it's a little cramped, but the ceilings are like, they're like 20 feet tall, which would like normally be like pretty fucking big.

But to her, she's kind of like, bend over to get into certain parts of her house. It's got like a rounded clay ceiling. You see walls lined with like giant cups and plates and forks and spoons. She, there's a teapot burning in a fireplace and you see a smaller teapot, also burning in the fireplace, was clearly kind of expecting you guys. And you see like a giant bed of expecting you guys. And you see like a giant bed with fur coverings and she goes, come sit, there's been a long time since I've had such teeny guests. Yeah, you took out all the teeny trappings.

Yeah. Play, I gotta ask, what the hell happened? Not that I'm not absolutely fucking happy about it, but like- You might want to do the same thing. We saw you 80 years ago in a different part of the continent. Yeah, but as you tell us, I'm gonna sit in this giant rock and chair by the fire because it's just so, it's so incongruous.

Like I'm, I'm small in this chair and it's very large, right? It's amusing. I mean, I'm a little boost to help him get up. Oh, ow. Now this is cool. This is real giant humor. Giants love it when the little folks go and sit in giant chairs See you see Glated just absolutely loses her shit. There's been a long time since I have watched my favorite program Small person in big chair tiny guy big chair Since she likes this I go and put my feet in her big shoes and walk around in them.

You are a cut up Terragom. I forgot my hat. Jabari hold one of her tea cups. Hold the tea cups Jabari. I think Jabari goes against one of the tea cups and does. Oh, soup. Oh, to me it is a very normal cup. To you it is a very big cup.

That is. This is what comedy is. This is very funny. She sits down with you guys. You guys are sitting in these kind of comically big chairs. And see she leans in. And she goes, well, I've been here now for long, long time. The sprites warned me our home was not going to survive.

Most of the others would not listen to me or chose to stay and defend the town. Very, very few of us fled. Most of us like the cold too much to settle in a place like this. You see, she kind of gestures around the room. There are groves like this throughout the Elderborn, magical secrets, constantly moving tucked away from the prying eyes of the Reaper. We are at the war with him, you know. I know Reaper. Because when I first began my journey to sort of understand maybe what I had done,

I did fall in with the reprafoc and they talked of the temptation and exploitation of the trickster. I do believe that there are people who use the gods to manipulate people one way or the other. You do not defend me with this because the trickster does not demand worship. But the fact of the matter is that the Reaper wants magic gone from this world and the trickster brought magic to the world. So they are at odds. I'm so strange because we just ran into a group of Reaper folk who used magic. You see she nods and she goes, and that is why our paths cross again. Last I met you, you were fighting in a war that did not quite understand.

But this one, there are forces that work, beyond who wears the petty king's crown. The one who pulls the strings, this Maxora is someone you have met before. Yeah, better before. Maxora is a disobey for the king. She gave him life again. She gave him life. Again, she is very powerful. Is she the mad mage? Glaternods.

She is the mad mage, Meruwen, the creator of the Hexbloods. What? She made us. No, no, Jabari. Jabari needs everyone to slow down. 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, no, no, no, no, no, But that was yes, she speaks in Jabadi's mind how frequently can she do this is why we have to have check-ins This is why we have to talk yeah Okay, well, all right, Jabadi calls for a check-in this feels

I It just feels too we defeated the mad mage. We did it. She nods and she goes, Merowyn is not just a necromancer. She is a master of preserving and creating life. The Merowyn you defeated was an advanced form of one of her constructs, a projection. And you guys know that this was kind of her whole, her whole kind of evolution as sort

of a mad scientist mage was starting with taking normal soldiers, turning them into super soldiers to eventually controlling an army of constructs like eventually going from Supplementing human life to creating it. I think I think hearing this gets like a little bit of a Brimstone going in Terrogans gut. This is just kind of this kind of pisses me off because don't you remember how much we went through to Kill her because it was like killing our like killing our mother. We killed us and we went through all the emotional psychological drama of killing our mother. Yes, that is why jibbadi will not believe what you are saying because jibbadi does not want to do that again. It was a lot when jibbadi did the first time. We had to come back from that really, you know exactly right? We need to double check our sources

Yeah, before we decide that this is I'm gonna need more Yeah, I think I need my double check sources too because I yeah, I don't know if I really want to do that again It kind of sent me off on the current path. I'm on yes. Yes. I understand I understand But the truth of the matter is, is that she controlled that body, while her true form was safely hidden away. So all of our dramatic goodbyes that we said, as we killed her, she was watching from a safe body.

Yes, she was, she was punking you. Wow. Hold on, hold on, hold on, you're telling me. You got punk. You are telling Jabari the single tear that Jabari cried that landed on the tip of his blade He cut down The woman that had been his surrogate mother. It was pretty point. It was it was very poetic Yeah, it was it very poetic look excellent and the to moment. Just not a total end of the movie.

The movie is longer, maybe, than you thought it was going to be. I think let's start thinking of it that way. Instead of thinking of it as a failure, thinking of it as, you know, you put the character up in a tree, at the end of act one, you put the light the tree on fire, end of the movie, you know. So that's where we're at. You're probably doing a perceptive check for a massive

tone version of Save the Cat. Yeah, can I give him the help action? She's been pitching TV shows, you see, you see, yeah, note on a whiteboard story of the hexbloods, check with them. 80 year act three. Yeah. And you see she continues. But while her body doubling is an old trick,

I'm afraid she has learned some new ones. Merowyn has supplemented her earthly limitations by striking a deal with the Reaper. She is now acting as his general in the mortal world. The next time she brings war to Elder Morn, it will not be with constructs. It will be with an army of the dead. She is starting a war. She cannot lose.

Every fallen warrior will join her cause in the end. With the dead as her foot soldiers and the prophets as her knights, she will find the great grove, kill the trickster, and hoard the power of magic for herself. Fag me. What about King? Brightly is lost he is a prophet himself Corbo is just watching Jabari receives a new I know I think Terragon has been Terragon has been meditating on the fact that we're probably going to have to deal with the King and waiting for the right

moment to bring it up with Jabari and this is not how she planned on it coming out. Jabari is just listening to every word, is currently listening to every word that Glada is saying with that, like, if I listen to every single thing that she says, maybe I'll find the answer, but I'll read between the lines and see the answer that's not killed a king. You see, yeah, Glada goes, I'll read between the lines and see the answer that's not killed the king.

You see, yeah, Glater goes, the prophets, the ones besides the king, the ones you know as Gideon and Cain, were once defenders of the trickster. They were part of a group called the Blades. The Blades. They were murdered and raised through a powerful ritual. They are not quite zombies, they are far more clever than that, but they are fully under Merowince influence. The only reason they have so much more sentience and power than a normal zombie is because they were so full of life and

full of the power of the trickster during their time as a mortal. And the reason that the king is able to appear as a normal human is because a member of the blades was sacrificed to create him. Oh, the ashes. The ashes that came brought into the room? Can I ask you a question right now? Is there any redemption for those that have been turned into these con-strucks? She shakes her head and she goes, the king has already passed, and as far as the prophet's gideon and cane, as blades they once were tasked with killing the reaper's horrors,

had they the capacity to ask you they would want you to strike down the horror that they've become. Well that's heavy. That's really heavy stuff. It's not the king. The king is not the king no. They are called the prophets but they may as well be called the puppets. Nice.

Good ones. Thank you. I've been working on that. It was deadpan, I liked it. Thank you so much. Did you practice the delivery to your winter spry? Yes, it really felt good. I've been here for a long time. So I've kind of, my sense of humor has evolved past

small person big chair to also be dry puns. Cool. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to go get your toothbrush after this. It's really going to get your go. Oh, I'm back. I'm back baby. get your toothbrush after this. It's really going to get your go. I'm back. I'm back baby. Give me the little guy big toothbrush.

Well, how do we, how do we help? How can we? Yeah, we can't, honestly, whatever you ask us to do, we really owe you because you got us out of certain death. Not to mention we put a bunch of things in motion back on the other side. What you have done actually goes against Meruwen's plan. What she wanted was for a great battle with lots of death

to take place so that she could raise an army of the death. What you have done is you have the army is likely to flee. They will not have something to rally behind. It is going to be much more difficult now to convince these soldiers to go and just slaughter people. Jabari, I owe you an apology because I've been human in my head. I've been thinking about all these things I was going to apology because i've been human in my head i've been thinking about all these things i was gonna say because i was pretty i've been pretty mad jibbari will jibbari assumes we will have a second soon for a big chicken where i was with a round of big t-cups but jibbari is jibbari understands why you may be mad

understands why you may be mad. And it's just struggling to hold all of what Jopadi is hearing in his head. The King is not the King. Don't you worry about me. We're all just trying to keep it together right now. Yes. But luckily we have more time here. So we will, when we leave Jopadi and his friends

will know what is going on. And we will, when we leave, Jibari and his friends will know what is going on. And we will move forward and quickly, it's briefly now. Okay. So the prophets, yes, Papadian, Cain and now King Brightly, they are very, they're strong and hard to fight. Are they completely under the control of Maksora or do they have their own will? Or is it, are they just, what, I, you know, but it does not understand. I think they're like puppets, right? Like without a hand in them,

they are inert. Correct. They are for all purposes dead, but more powerful than any undead, more clever and capable than most. They've retained all of the powers that they had as, especially Gideon and Cain, have retained all of the powers they had as warriors of the trickster, and now have new ones since being blessed by the Reaper. I just wanna put it out there that Marowen really didn't go for subtlety when she gave one of her undead puppets a ghost head. I'm just saying, that's hiding in plain sight. He was over the top.

He was beheaded, so it was kind of unavoidable. The only action of the game. All right, so who do we fight in a more order? Yeah. All right. You see, she thinks and she goes, Maryland is the most dangerous, of course. Yeah, I'm most upset about that one though.

Yeah, that's, she's the one. Yeah, I'm nursing a grudge right now, I'll be honest. You're nostrils are smoking a little bit. Usually I grow plants, but right now I'm growing some serious bitterness and hostility. Yes, yes. Yes. Jabari, stop getting excited about my anger.

I just can't leave him. Jabari, Jabari, just for one second, like hearing that the pacifist of the group is leaning away from it is just a a little quick little like okay. Yes Yeah, there's actual steam coming out of your ears. That's kind of crazy. Yes Gibody likes this dragon. I am a dragon. Yeah, I mean I'm splice with dragon DNA. So yeah, never forget All right, you see she goes Obviously Merwin is the priority. She is the one pulling the strings.

However, the profits are very important as well, because since the profits were guardians of the grove, they were once invited to these groves. They are able to travel to these places, and they can bring Merowyn into them. It is difficult for them to be able to find these places and they can bring Meruwen into them. It is difficult for them to be able to find these places. We are able to hide from them. However, if they were to have a massive army, if they were to have the resources of the

Empire, they could track us to the ends of the world. And they have already done it once. They have already destroyed one grove in the north. The prophet Gideon has already led Merowyn there. They destroyed it. And that is where Merowyn's true form lies in the scorched grove to the north. That's where her true, so the one that we've been interacting with

is still just another duplicate. Maksora is another rejection. Yeah. More potholes. So it's a terrible. I'm really mad at mom right now. I'm really mad at mom. Jibari needs just a little bit of help.

So the woman who Jibari, the single tear on the blade, as you cut that, not, not nut, my surrogate mother. Copy. Maxora. Crashlyl and in Thunder rolls in, right? The arrow pep. Here's for breastplate. Yeah, it was epic.

It was awesome. Like how? Extended edition, everybody. Extended edition adventure. But then as we leaned over lifeless body and the clouds parted in the sun rose, we all held each other that was yeah, just Good moment. Yeah, very good. It was not a trilogy, but like trilogy good end of second movie

I'll say not even second act second movie. It's a nice. It's a memory that's tainted looking back Yeah, yeah, that's for last movie Yes, it's one of those movies that didn't need a sequel like the first one was perfect Yeah, I thought it ended perfectly. Okay. It's trying to it was a franchise and that's weird You can't do it too, for that's you got you got to do three Cipic rim did two and they were perfectly fine There's no there's no extended edition. I'll say that. I'll be true. Yes, this is true.

So, I'm going after Maksora. Maybe it would be a better use of our time to go after one of these prophets. But are you also saying that at some point, Jabadi and his friends must go to the north to defeat Maksora's true form that these constructs may not be able to operate anymore, yes? Yeah, can we just skip that? Can we just go straight to the Sora, straight to the puppeteer? Someone will still need to kill Maksora, but she will no longer be able to revive herself. What she is right now is essentially she is almost a god, and you need to steal her godliness from her.

I will say that you have friends. I am part of a group called The Guardians of the Grove, and for a long time, we were a disparate group, all followers of the trickster, followed different ways of life. Giants were up in the north doing one thing, blades down here in the empire, doing another thing, but the Reaper has brought a proxy war to this plane and is organizing, and so we must do the same. In the event that one of you is ever killed and turned

which she would likely try, the blades were very similar to you. You could say you were almost beta testing for the blades, the profits. So because of that, I will not betray the identities of my allies, but know that know that you have friends. Glater, I, um, I ask much as it feels like what I want to do is, uh, go up to the scorched earth and just really like kick the earth a bunch. And y'all, I'm really mad at you, Mom. What I know that I owe right now is to say to you, you got me out of a bad situation. You're part of a network that knows better than me. What can I do in exchange for what you did?

You see she thinks it is highly unlikely that you will be able to stop Maksora, the king, and the prophet Cain while they are all at the castle. The prophet Gideon right now will likely try to bring violence to Pearl Hill anyway so he can deliver an army to Maksora. He is separated from the rest. If you wanted to confront him, that would be safer than fighting Maksora and Cain, but also the scorched grove to the north will take a long time for you to get to. That is a high priority, but the trickster is all about freedom and I would like for you to choose.

So you are suggesting that it might be helpful for us to enjoy our five hours here, get spit back out to where the prophet Gideon is no doubt trying to start a fight and take him out. We pick off the puppets, she can't have a puppet show. And she won't have access to the groves. Do you do motivational speeches? Yeah, it's not about, it's not about speech and it's about

listening and talking and, and you know, when you, when you speak people listen, but when they stop listening that's when they really start to understand, you know what I mean? No. No. All right. But I love it. All right. The old way, the old way that it sounds so good.

And then, Jibadi thinks about it for a second and it makes no sense. That's exactly what I'm going for. Glater, would you mind if Jibadi and his friends partook of some of the tea that you had been brewing for us? And chat with a bit about our freedom and how we plan to use it. That is why I make tea with such little pot. Look at this little guy. To worry the small. Can you give us a little bit of little humor so that we can see a huge tea pot in your looking so tiny? Oh, this is a tea pot for a gerbote. No, that's. Deep bath for you. Yeah. That was good.

There you go. That was very good. Yeah, she goes, she pours you guys tea. And you see, she gives you guys a little moment alone. She walks out and she's got like a little garden out there and kind of fudges with her garden. Cool. Does she have like a little hot bath or something

like a foot, like a foot soap, like a just tub? A foot bath that we could all just get into. Cool. Does she have like a little hot bath or something like a foot like a foot soap like a just tub that we could all just get into. Yeah, there's a bit like after a battle like that. You need a soak. Yeah, she's got like a claw foot tub. Yeah. For her is a tub and for you guys is a small swimming pool. That's perfect. I wish he'd that thing up and get in there. Yeah. We woke up this morning and had not seen each other in years. And now we've got this all one day. This is all the way. So we all get in the bath.

And I think Jabari is like, wow, with Jabari did not realize corporate, when you asked for this, how much Jabari needed it? This is good. It's been a slow couple years for Al Corbo, and everything that's been happening today has been happening real fast. Real fast. It's a lot to take in.

It's been a quiet, peaceful couple years for Terragon, but I'm starting to see that I was cultivating a pocket of peace that did not actually create more peace in the world. Right. But still, Jabari, admire that you try. Thank you. And I admire everything you're doing as well.

And honestly, it felt really fucking fun to just like I mean bang out and just like destroy and crush and kill and almost get killed and then get killed and then be brought back to life and really just all parts of battle even the bad parts are fun. Yes you know if for me it I was pretty upset the entire time but it's hard for me to separate what happened the last couple hours with what happened the last five minutes, because my mind has completely shifted. I'm pissed. I know what's going on now.

I feel like we have a purpose. We didn't fuck anything up, and I think we gotta see it through. I think Jabari first thing, because I've been sort of mulling over in my head the fact that what we did with the King was unnatural, held on to hope that we could sort of remove curse or something, but how are you feeling about perhaps the inevitability of the King's demise? And perhaps the fact that it already happened. I believe, I mean, Corbo makes a good point that is in Jabari's mind of the last five minutes

have shifted everything. Yes, Jabari was very, you know, unsure. I mean, Jabari and his friends never had a moment to discuss it when it happened. But yes, Jabari thought we were going to cut or in some way, allow ourselves to bleed. And then Maksoto would take that blood and inject it into the king in some way. And Jabari did not expect the white fire everywhere. He thought it was a casual ritual and then a health fire. A casual ritual. It was a ritual. We went over a baby shower and it was a casual ritual and then a no fire a casual ritual. It went over a baby shower and it was a rave.

Yes, that's right. A classic classic thing that happens often in here in Altaboro. I'm here for the baby shower. This is a fucking rave. Exactly. But Jabari, it is Joe with the unsettling

feelings inside Jabari around that act now have make a lot of sleep with what Glader has said. And Jabari feels that yes, the king is exciting as it would have been to be the king's guard for Jabari to protect the King day in and day out to harm anyone who would think to a MAME or attempt to hurt our King in any way, how Jabari would want it. But it feels as if the nature of protecting the realm, the bodies through purpose, lies in defeating the mad mage again. I mean, if anything, we failed the first time.

It was a false ending. There is more to what we already knew we must do. It feels as though these profits, one of their main threats is access to the groves. So taking them out is awesome. Obviously, personally, for us, we want to go kick dirt at mom. Big time, yes.

Oh, so I guess I'm wondering where you both stand. I've been pretty stressed out today because it felt like I was swinging my fist with my eyes closed. I know what I was trying to hit and know what we were getting ourselves into. I feel like this picture has just been painted for all of us. I know what we got to hit

and we got to go back to the old ways, the hex blood ways, we gotta be. Ah! Yes, football! He's a huge got to be taxed. Oh, yes, go to the gas station. You're splashing water everywhere, Jabari. You're splashing water. Oh, man, I didn't know if we were going to, I didn't know if Jabari was going to here today or maybe tomorrow.

But your pedicons seems to be very kind to in it, but now I'm going to be doing it. I mean, I think it was probably pretty obvious and paddle that I'm back in. Although I did, since we're doing a check in, are is it okay that I cast that spell on on your dude? I mean, I know he's been like kind of hostile towards you, but that was Jabari under. Hey, Jabari lives for war and in war, there are decisions that need to be made. At the moment, snow this and we can't always have

A big old conference where we check in and see how everyone's feeling the checkings are for the tub You take exactly that's what we do here. The body Understands what needed to be done. It's a classic thing when you are in an army There's always you battle and then you retire to the tub. You have the work tub. But Jabari completely understands because if you had not so skillfully and intelligently knocked the profit, get the income from his horse and we have been in a more pro-predicting situation, it does seem that at least to Jabari that that was the move to make. So Jabari, you're okay that I helped out. Perhaps you're adversary.

Jabari will kill him one day and it will be fine. So, okay, so you're okay that I helped out perhaps your adversary. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, There you go. And Jabari just wants to say, whoever we choose to murder, Jabari is just excited to do it with you. So that's all the money.

You know, it warms my heart how quickly you go from kill to murder. You just call it what it is. It's murder. You know, it's a danger. We want to do it. I guess they want to murder us as well. We hate it. And they want to murder a lot of people. So we got a murder them first Yeah, I say we go through we murder the people are trying to murder more people than we're trying to more murder

That's right. Yeah, let's add these the hex blood weight So let's go let's go back out there. We cut the strings off these puppets one by one Starting with Gideon. I mean, I absolutely love the idea. Hi, Jibadi is electric right now. If Jibadi had any gas, Jibadi would be releasing it right now. This hot, this stuff would be just cozy. Yes, there are no jets in this thing. So as the three of you make this plan to go out and to face the

Prophet Gideon on the material plane, you have this rare moment of peace before the inevitable violence that is to come and that's where we'll end our session. Oh, what a tug. Oh, what a tug. What a tug. Oh, baby. Oh, keep on soaking. These heroes get to soak through.

Oh, just a bunch of like battle worn scarred bodies soaking in a hot tub. That's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. Before they go out and do it again. Sweet. Thank you everybody for listening. This was a super fun one. We'll be talking about it over on our short rest, over on our Patreon, patreon.com slash

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I just followed those leading ones. I mean, I tried to do the thing. I'm afraid you did it. The thing which is just sour, it's all too thick and hard to get. Oh, wow! It is time to thank our benevolent Council of Elders. Starting with Julia W. Brad D. Jeffrey S. Halder Frostback, Steelbreaker, and Matt M. Court musicians who have been silently following Jabari this entire time, just in case he wants

to get a quick training session in. Luckily, they are all pretty stealthy and only two have been murdered so far. Nice. Jordan DJ Cutter W. Jive G. Zolo Dolo and Dylan B. Patrons of Terragons Terrarium, whose plants are in desperate need of a professional pruning. If Terri doesn't make it back soon, their begonias will be beyond repair. Oh, dear, what an emergency. Shubrit the mushroom, Danielle the Dastridly Dam, Andrew M, Beardman Dan, and Scott D, King Bright Leap's private jet, private pet, okay, jackalopes. They all have meticulously manicured horns where Brightonian vests and say, Gideon do not eat good.

That is smart. Uh, that pets not Jets sweet. Danny P. Alainacy, Michael, Mick D. The Mixologist, and Victor T. Bounder's Boy, Bounder's Boy, oh my god. Corbos incredibly damp siblings from the bog whenever he comes home for, for holidays, and they make fun of how dry he is. Wow. And you know what, it doesn't even affect him.

Andrew B. Justin, I. T.J. M. The No. Barbarian, Elena M. Traile the Cray-Fey, and Jared E. The Gex Bloods. Whoa. Each of these warriors had their blood fused with that of a thousand lizards, and now they can climb walls and catch flies from a yard away. Unfortunately, Heronford is so cold they're forced to spend all day sunning themselves instead of fighting. You know what, you gotta get by. Christopher B. Austin Bonesa, MR. Damial R. and cyborg version of Josh the Cobald, plus OctoLick. Thurston and Wimers,

other siblings since they don't have any stake to the throne, they fill most of their days with standard rich people pursuits like Borhunting, Drissage, and throwing fruit at the poor. You know what? Fuck you guys. Gage M. Surr, Carl, Richard X Machina, Michael L. and Kelvin Nudles, the Monkeys, a band of warriors-turned-musitions who use their key points to perform incredibly precise unarmed strikes on their instruments. Very cool.

Cretzersia, Sergio Salazar, Solomon Sacarias, Desessioani, Traz the Traveler, Jury as Dana G, Calum L, and Ryan, the makers of Small Person, Big Thing, the most popular longest running show on Giant TV, they recently branched out into Big Person, Small Thing, but for some reason, it's just not to Giant's taste. Yeah, it doesn't cut both ways, you know.

Jack L. Flullis whale, temporal, Sam L. Nicholas C. and Reese and S. The wizards who formulated the sanctuary spell, they made it for Cravens, but never realized how good it is for people who are actually brave and aren't scared and are doing the smart thing in a cool brave way. It's always smart and cool and good to run. Samuel B. Mike H. Matthew E. Colton B. and Adam G. A group of nearby horses that didn't hear what Prophet Gideon's horse was running from and absolutely roast it the shit out of it. Hell yeah, you deserved it, I think. Mateo C. Nebaj or Panamijames and Adrian the Halfling

Bard Prophet Gideon's makeup artist is a real challenge to put makeup on it in corporeal face, but they somehow make it work. You know what? Damn. Gideon's got it. Damn, Nikki W. Grace G. Drew Nasty and C.C. Lulu, Lakes groomers who are going to have their hands full getting the wannabe king's blood out of her fur.

Oh, shucks. Jay, Barnes & Nader, Douglas A and Michelle O. The elder mourn, Green Thumb Society who was looking into taking over custody of the dragon rose due to the fact that Tarragon has barely remembered to water it and seems to be more into assassination than plants these days. But you know what, that's her plant, so you guys better step back. Timmy, our Lucas B, Aaron S, and Kevin M, the post-war soak tub mechanics

who are going to have to pull an all-nighter, trying to unclog one of Jabari's swords from a jet. Oops, yeah, we shouldn't have brought the swords in there. They're gonna rust. Austin C, hogfishes, above average hog, Niork, Stephens C, KJ, and Michael M. A squad of elite toads who follow the ancient toad code. Stay on foot, stay dry, and don't ask questions

when your squad leaders abandon you in the middle of the night. That's the toad way. Rahul and Mike K, Maxwell C, and Nick L, the Knights of Wardressage, their horses do not eject them when they hear a loud noise, but rather begin popping and locking. You gotta get that twerking, steed.

Quaranty, Justin the Raccoon, Nick W and Michael, see a mischievous crew of sprites who also tried to lure the hexbloods, but were too tiny to be noticed. Uh oh, they were going to bypass the grove and leave them straight into a pile of bear shit. And I would have been an epic prank. SMA M. Spark Tagness, Nathan, Kazmir, the all-knowing, and big, bad, bearded, or the mad. The archers who shot the hex buds with dozens of arrows, their accuracy was so legendary it inspired a young Jeremy Renner to become Marvel's Hawkeye, IRL.

Wow. Hawkeye's origin story, can you believe it? Jack, Meehaw, Eric, Em, Berly, T, Axel T, Axel A, Nero Claudius, Caesar Augustus Dermaticus, and Christian A, a bunch of campers who happened to be glamping on Pearl Hill when the war tents pulled up, boy were they bummed when an assassination took place right as they finally got the Bluetooth to connect with the RV's speakers. Damn, that's a glorious moment. J. Dragonborn, Cody B, The Sandray, and Ben A. and Fel Donas. The only mortals who are so

chill they were allowed to bypass the groves number. No plus ones, policies and rolled deep with some centaurs. Yes, yes, you love to hear it. Dave H. Catherine as David K. Christian as Keith K. and Brittany B. Human comedians who toured the frostbaren's doing prop comedy for giant audiences. Their most popular bit K. Christian S. Keith Kay and Brittany B. Human comedians who tour the Frostbearers doing prop comedy for giant audiences. Their most popular bit was Tiny Person Big Chair, but these masters have already evolved it to Tiny Person Huge Chair. Holy crap. The Time Walker, Emilio D. Frankie Koala, Big Bad John, Aston S, and Blair, the Bug Blair,

are Blair Yinn. Writers for the funniest giant TV comedy, and Elder mourn in their latest bit, a regular-sized human eats a giant muffin, it looks like a cake. It's hilarious. Okay, giants love it. Punk chop, nice name. Chenniel M. Argent, Alice, Minette F. Pat L. and Acuthe A. Centres that throw dope pool parties in the grove.

I don't know if you guys have ever seen a horse person do a cannonball, but you should because it's beautiful. Lauren H. Josh D. Janina E. Maddy Y. Alex H. The eldest Barry and Ryan S. Belt makers who are trying really hard to sell Jibari on scabards, loops, holsters, anything to hold his weapons. But Jibari is super insistent on carrying everything in his hand so we can feel the weight of the steel. Nice, not practical, but cool. The bone duster, Joshua H. Robert Crisp, Idrazel, and Brent Lee C. Tiny Housebuilders,

who built the absolute biggest fucking mansion that they have ever dreamed they could, just in order to construct a tiny home for the giant glater. Micah, B. Carly, Anne, Clarke of the the Thunderfuck's Jorge C. and Conor's Savage. Dog groomers who are trying to coax Lake into the war tubs so they can finally give her a bath and a haircut she has not had so much as a trim in 40 years. She is due. Russell, H. Christopher, J.O. Cole, the goldfish, Gremlin, Logan S. and the dread pirate, Jacobi Roberts, captain of the Enchantress.

Soldiers, Prophet Gideon is trying to convince, to ride into battle, even though the opposing army is just kind of milling about and planning a funeral for their king, which is, you know, bad timing. It's just bad timing, that's all. Leviathan, De May, ay, Bioquit 7, Remington CD, Mike R, and Everett P, Frost Giants, who gave the hex bloods their nicknames, the small, the tiny, and the teeny, they also taught the hex bloods the ancient art of ice sculpting. So all in all it was great time.

K so say Lindsay, W. Adam, C, the ASMR, ASMR, Karlin C and Anthony S, the other winter sprites hanging out in the grove. They love the warm weather and have not and they have taken up the new hobby of river rafting. Wow! The novelty of a Vennon frozen river has still not worn off and you know what, maybe it never will. Thank you all. That was a Hategum podcast. you