Not Another D&D Podcast - Eldermourne - Ep. 23: Scrappers

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

The Third Mates square off against a crew of Scrappers in a hidden cellar while a Ghost Dragon rages above! Zirk researches new healing techniques, Henry narrows down the source of his curse, and Fia attempts to locate her long lost friend. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content!Music / Sound Effects Include:"A Wizard's Tournament" by Emily Axford."Irina" by Emily Axford."Haunting Visages" by Emily Axford."Zelbuldar 3" by Emily Axford."Ghost Dragon" by Emily Axford."The Scrappers" by Emily Axford."The Children" by Emily Axford."Winter Sprite" by Emily Axford."Gunvar" by Emily Axford."A Friend for Life" 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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with brush processing. Code P-A-W-P-A-W. Goodbye, Sweeties. Welcome to the campaign after the campaign after the campaign. This is not another D&D podcast. Welcome back to Elder Morn, everybody. Hey, baby, good morning. Welcome back to Elder Morn Everybody. I'm your dungeon master, Brian Murphy joined by Jake Herwitz, a Cursid Feller brawling in a cellar, Henry Hogfish. Oh yeah.

That was so cute. You are a Feller. You're absolutely a Feller. Big Feller energy over here. Emily Axford. A Cursid Feller brawling in a cellar, via B Emily Axford. A Cursid fella, brawling in a cellar, via Bouguinia.

What's happening? Is that just like- And another one, but it was so cute. I just wanted to hear it again. The artistry, wow. Incredible that you both wrote the exact same one. No, I confess, I just thought it was so good. It needed another one.

Oh, okay. And then of course, called a little Tanner. Oh geez, a cursed, fellace, chillin' in a cellus. Wait, wait, wait. That's it! That's the intro! Bravo!

We did it! Wow! We did it! It's gonna say, I was gonna say, I shoulda said, cello, you nailed it. But, we're going with cellus. Oh, okay. I can't believe we peeped on campaign to episode 23. Yep, amazing

That's it Jordan we Jordan did this is the last dance everyone the last episode of NAD pod Game six is it possible to do three slam dunks at once? I don't know if it is But we're gonna have to check the rules on it. Air Tanner. Feels good. Feels good. Feels like the energy is right going into this episode. That's right. Okay, everybody. Let's go ahead and do a little recap. So last time you eyed a ghostly dragon guarding the ruins of Zellboldar 3.

Using your Guardians of the Grove book, you quickly deduced that this monster was not an undead Drake, but rather a collection of hundreds of deep-folk ghosts projecting as a single entity. It was clear from the spirit's angry shouts that it held the scrappers responsible for the destruction of Zelbald R3. You attempted to sneak through the ruins to find Grez before the dragon did, but after no luck locating her, you attempted an attack. Things quickly went south with some insanely bad rolls from Fia. Deep south, very far south. Very far south.

I need to finger people in this, you know. With the finger? Henry being restrained in fear and zerk falling down a fizzor. You all were forced to flee. For the cellos, actually. You were forced to flee and just narrowly escaped by helping each other reach an abandoned house where a few scrappers were hiding out. When you joined them in their basement hiding spots,

the fellers and the sellers, you saw that, yes, I had that written too, insane. Crazy that we all went for that. It's just very good. We just was so nice. We just, so nice we had to hear it twice. You know? So nice we had to hear it 10 times.

We had to hear it twice. Yeah. You guys followed them to their basement hiding spot and saw that they were more or less holding Grez hostage. After hearing what the dragon had to say, Grez had backed out on their deal to kill it, and the scrappers were trying to cause her to help. Caught in the middle, you questioned Ram Helm guy who was clearly lying about his lack of involvement in the destruction of Zelbald R3

Ram Helm then gave you an ultimatum to help them or die and the third mates reached for their weapons as the Scrappers did as well and that's where we are now Everyone go ahead and roll initiative. Gladly ready for hella and a seller How long were you sitting on that one, called 12? Not long enough, I could have used it in my intro. A 18 for fear. I got a 19. My dice, I don't like the roll I got, can I reroll it?

Of course, yeah, that's how D&D works. Yeah, don't you remember how many times I did that last episode? Yeah. That's a 12, a 12 for Zirk. That's what Colonel Shift is. Emily actually has nothing mechanically that lets her do that. He says, please, my husband let me roll again. It's a D&D Mulligan. I say, please, for we make love and in honor of you,

you won't leave me a new role. Insane, that doesn't work when I do it. Yeah, we try. Murf cuts it out, but we do try. And I just, yeah, I just really, I'm really saying, you're not my wife. Murf, we'll give you Felatio and the Salatio. You're not my wife.

All right, so the extremely injured third mates with the help of Grez launch into battle against these three scrappers in this dark, dark basement. You see parts of it have collapsed. There's rubble on either side of you. You guys all go for your weapons as you launch in. Henry, you are first.

Okay, I'm gonna dig one end of my guise arm into the ground and try to stab up into the goat home guy. Guise arm. Guise arm. I will disarm you with my guise arm. The guise arm. The guisearm. Is that a is that a guy's arm? It's a gizarm actually. He's armed have some respect. Absolutely not make that a thing The minute you said it was

It's interesting when we're recording and I already know I'm getting edited out. Making a tack with your pole arm. Shake? Pole arm. Right. Almost just as bad. It's a 19-hit. 19 does hit Ram Helm Guy. Great.

My name's Inge Spidey the way. You keep calling me Ram Helm Guy. I assume, but I didn't want to just say your name. This is literally the time for introductions. You never asked. I'll introduce you to your dead body. That's a 24 to hit the second time. Yeah, both head.

His name is written on the back of his armor, which is kind of cute. It's like a jersey. 17 damage total. And now I'm going to unleash Shank, and I'll try to shank him from the other side. Nice. I was killed.

As you were, 30-20 for shank. 30-20 hits. And shank got a whopping seven damage. Seven damage. The D12 is not being kind to me at the moment, but we'll see what happens. Yeah, you see that as these dudes, these dudes have fierce-looking weapons.

The two guard guys who are holding up Grez with their swords have these broad swords that look like big serrated knives and then Ingus has like this big broad sword fear weapons but they're kind of slow to get going you guys get the drop on them super quick you whip the guys arm around real quick stab into him shank kind of fl him, stabs him on the other side. Flank by Shank. You know what, I don't think I use my action surge actually.

You are not using action surge yet. I'm gonna go ahead and do that on Ramhelm Ingus. You could just, it's just Ingus. Ingus von Ramhelm, got it. I really, Ramhelm Ingus is hard to say. I don't know why you insist we call it that. I'm okay with Ingus von Ramhelm. That's actually sounds pretty cool.

Ingus von Ramhelm. So that is a 22 and an 18. Both hit. Wow. Oh, baby. And that is 21 damage. Good lord. Nice.

Yeah, you take Ingus from looking like a big, healthy dude to a not so healthy dude just instantly surround him shadow on one side, hang on the other side just stabbing into him before Ingas can even get his sword up. He's been slashed a bunch of times. Awesome and just to confuse him a little bit further I'm gonna swap places with Shank. It doesn't really mechanically help but I want him to be missed. Wow it is like line dancing. What a show! You guys switch places. He makes a confused grunt.

Perfect. Exactly what I wanted to happen. Fia, that's your turn. Okay, so I had to jump. I had grappled someone's weapon. So that's in initiative. So if you want to do that as your turn, you can do that. Okay, I have grappled this man's weapon. Weapon so that's in initiative so if you want to do that as your turn you can do that okay? I I Have grapple this man's weapon and I say actually I've sized it up your weapon sucks and I attack

Excuse you 24 to hit 24 hits I'll go for the ram helm okay I guess Von ram helm 13 damage and I will bonus attack him again. Wow. That's also going to hit 25. Jesus. And that is another 12 damage. Good God.

Yeah, you guys absolutely beat the shit out of Ingus. He is. I look at the one whose weapon I grappled and I see. It's like, you know, I'm like kind of like actually mine is better. That is Ingus's turn. Ingus is incredibly hurt, but still hanging on. Ingus is going to shout to the other guys. All right, fail eggs formation.

Oh God. Oh God. This is so embarrassing for them. The two dudes. Careful, there's a lot of rubble. This formation sounds complicated. It's actually not that complicated at all. You see, the two dudes,

it's so light in the footwork. With a chainmail, put their human pyramid shields out to guard, and then Ingus is going to go ahead and take a slash at Fia. 23 to hit Fia. That he had, so I have nothing to shield. Okay, 11 damage on the first hit. I am down to zero. Okay.

As I go to pass out, I say, I did more damage than you. Oh, and then he goes, oh, like it's a rap battle. These two scrapper guards put their shields up and Angus stabs from behind them into Fia. Fia drops. One down. Crescent Moon formation. Shows to them and they do like a stupid move where they start to surround. Hank on one side. They're gonna trip on one of those loose boards there and Ingus is gonna go ahead and take a crack at Henry. It's clear you spent hours practicing this.

26 to it. Yeah, I don't do it. 11 damage to you. Okay. But it's also going to use his martial advantage for the Cricut Moon formation to do an addition. You're not with the formation. To do an additional 12 damage.

It's a 23 total. Yeah, are you okay? No, okay. Are you up? I'm up, but the Crescent Moon Formation is absolutely destroying him. I've got two HP. Okay, Zerk, that is your turn.

Okay, Zerk Shouts, Distant Zerk Formation and Bats Up as far as possible. Right, and actually, can I like gesture or wink at Gras or maybe like try and communicate with Gras just to be like can you help my friends at all? I do you have some capability? Yes, of course. I'm just a little slow on the jump Understood I got a four. I'm sorry We were all impressed by the crescent moon formation. I understand yes I really kind of talked us into this.

But you first saw that for, right? I first saw the for, I first saw the name. The Crescent Moon Formation. Tell me their next formation, please. Because they shouted it. I see, I first saw it too. So yeah, I think Zurc backs up as far as you can. You said that Ingus was looking pretty hurt.

Yeah. Cool, I'm gonna try and shoot at Ingus with a fire bolt. Cool. There we go. That is going to be a 25 to hit. Super hits. Beautiful. 2d10s plus 4, because I'm an alchemist.

12 damage. Shoot him with this fire bolt. This red beam goes through the shields of the Crescent Moon formation. And then explodes as it hits Ingus and he is on Death's Door. You just gotta clips. That is Scrapper Guards.

Zirk is extremely confident when he's far away. You see on the Scrapper Guards turns, the two dudes, you hear Ingus shouts, release Crescent Moon Formation, switch to Chase Faraway Guy Formation. It's got a name for everything. And you see the two scrapper guards in eloquently just rush at you. Fuck, fuck. And they're both gonna do the thing that Kragel did where they go, and turn into giant versions of themselves. Scramptown, you're already. Be careful. Cramped down here already, be careful.

Instantly cracks their heads on a beam. Usually make fun of people for this. First attack on Sirc, God, is a 25 to hit. That will hit unfortunately. Okay, 16 damage to you, Sirc. Oh boy, Sirc is also down. Okay, Sirc keeps on. Why did we do this?

I don't know. For the record, I voted. Circus also down. Okay, sir. Keeps calm. Why did we do this? I don't know for the record I voted I told you this is not fias day I'm really sorry that I got a for everyone everyone relax They only get one attack for see this coming the other guy is going to go ahead and take an attack on Grezz and Does 15 damage to Grezz? Oh fuck, but she's okay great all right on Grez and does 15 damage to Grez. Oh fuck. But she's okay. Great. All right, on Grez's turn, she is going to go ahead and cast Mass Healing Word.

Yeah baby. Woo! And is going to heal everybody for 10 HP. Nice, so we're back up. So you guys all pop back up. That is Henry's turn. Okay, so I am going to one move shank I'll pop back up. That is Henry's turn. Okay. So I am going to one move,

shank, kind of near-zirk, just far away shank position. Okay. Formation. I'll take two attacks on IVRH. Okay. That's Inge's Von Randhome.

Shout out to the two crew, but also in 19. 19 hits. 13 damage. Henry, finish him. Wow. I promise to introduce myself to your dead body, so the name's Henry Hogfish.

Nice to meet ya. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, oh, guys are! Shake the hand on my guise arm. Out of the well, and into the guise arm. You stab this dude with a hook, kind of press him up against the wall there throw him to the side He goes down Fiya that is your turn. Okay. I look at who looks weak out of these big guys These two big guys both look the same. They look like they have their names on their armor as well first off

That's a you thing Do they have the thing that I evade? What? It's all written on the back of their name. Yeah, no. Yeah, they both have Craig Helm written on the back, so you assume that's their last name and that they're twins. Oh, okay, twins.

Well, that's going to be shut out to the two crew. And I will bonus action attack again. Okay, that will hit a hit in four, 12 damage. Seriously, rock this dude. These guys are not as tough as Ingus. That is, would be Ingus. Ingus is twitching on the ground. That is Erk's turn. Cool. I'm just going to for the Craig Helmet Feea hit already great Nat 20 Henry fans himself zerk manages to get even further back somehow 27 damage dude that is exactly how much HP this dude had left

Circle and finish him okay, you see like yeah a little crawl door. Like one of those tiny doors that you see in a basement and you're like, what's up with that creepy door? And you see just Zerke's hand, just pokes out from that thing. And he just blasted a firebolt right at this guy. And he does it so that the twin can see it happening. Oh, God. Yeah, you see this dude, yeah, you like disappear into the rubble. This dude goes to follow you and is just met

with the blast of this powerful cantrip. This dude is toast just instantly blown up by this fireball. There is one dude left on his turn. You see he just drops his sword and he goes, I'm out, I'm done. Okay. Probably the right choice.

Go leave. Okay, great, yeah, Probably the right choice. Go, leave. Okay, great, yeah. Thank you. Wait a second. I really, really need a very promise to make sure you don't do anything. Okay. You're gonna say whatever we say to you. Yeah, absolutely whatever you want. Okay, you have to go back to the scrappers, run for office office and initiate reform in the behavior and the imperialistic behavior of the scrappers. Yeah and call your campaign Crescent Moon reformation.

You want me to run for office, they don't really do that. Yes, you are going to be the reform candidate in your own doing what you have done to all these foreign community. Okay. I mean, if you feel more comfortable calling it a coup that's okay, okay? Can I just okay? So I just have to run for election. I don't have to win Yeah, the promise that you'll never hurt anyone ever again Come on What if I

What if I just emotionally? What if I'm emotionally? What if I'm just having a bad day? You can't emotionally hurt people because in politics you're going to need to do this. Right, yeah! It's a cutthroat. Yeah, no! Yeah, sometimes you have to make the unpopular decision. There you go. It sounds like you're ready.

Can I stabilize his twin? By the way, can I cast Spirit of the Dying on his twin? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You like? Get the twin involved in this too, because we need to make sure that they are not going to be bad. Oh, you could be running mates. Craig, Craig, Helmet, Craig, Helmet.

We're gonna need a campaign manager. Okay. You need a campaign manager. Somebody needs to find the office space. Somebody needs to get organized at door knockers, all right? Because it's actually the boots on the ground. But Michael, please make this an actual fairy promise. We need to make sure that they will never hurt anyone.

Yeah, Sprite all, are you feeling up to it? Sprite all, buzzes around, comes out of Zerks pocket, whips around this dude who promises to try to bring about reform in the crux. Wow. And also never hurt anyone physically again. And also never hurt anyone physically again. And also never heard anyone physically again. Motionally is fine, but not in a manipulative way,

like in an accidental way. Like you can reflect and be like, I guess I heard somebody I was being selfish, but not like go into it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm writing all this down for Sprite-O. I can't believe the crux is about to have its first twin

mayors. You see these dudes make this fairy promise to you. Wait, can we also make sure that they don't tell Hugh Tar anything we don't want them to tell Hugh Tar? That's their campaign slogan. Yeah. Yeah. It can't be.

The campaign slogan tell the tell you Tar. That's our idea and no one else. This is the thing. Nevermind. Fia Bogania, Dr. Serkin, Mr. Henry. It's wordy, but it's got a message. Right on, it's a catchy slogan. I think we're gonna make a lot of change.

I don't think that this is also a death sentence as soon as I start stalking around town. I think we're just gonna be murdered, but that's better than being murdered right now. Thank you, thank you for sparing my twin. He's a little toasty. He and I are just gonna go ahead and get out of here. All right. Okay. You've got my vote.

I'm gonna have to hear every side, but yeah. I'm still waiting my action. Just vote for Hugh Tarr. That's true. You might, there might be a better reform candidate, so you don't actually have our votes. Um, so yeah, you see this dude weigh in over his head. Grabbs his brother who pops up once he's stabilized and the two of them kind of help each other

out of the basement, they get out of there and they're more scared of you than they are of the dragon at this point and you hear them kind of run off, cool. In fact, as they run off, you just hear like deep in the distance. Scrappers, you think you can get away. I don't think your politics have changed for real. Oh, they're running. They're running.

Oh, they're running. They're definitely running. So the dust is cleared. You hear these two guys run off. You've got Ingus here. Henry just finished him off. Gres kind of dusts off her arm, or you see she's got like a breastplate under a cloak, and you see she goes, sorry about that.

Sometimes my mind is quicker than my body. You zone out a little bit, I get it. No, I didn't, I didn't zone out. I did the opposite of zoning out. I was zoned in just, who zoned No, I didn't, I didn't zone out. I did the opposite of zoning out. I was zoned in just, who zoned it? Sorry, I was zoned out. What's going on? Now that's, that is zoned out.

That is your body moving faster than your mind. Zerg is looking at a little bug in the corner now. Right. OK, it is good to meet you all. I foresaw our meeting, though like all of my visions, it was cryptic. I saw three floating blades joining me here in this ruin. At first, I thought it could have symbolized these three scrappers, points to, I guess, as slowly sliding down the wall, but it is clear now that we were all meant to help each other. What do you see in your vision? We have released two of them.

And I want to know if this is the correct move to do. Have we released them to just do more harm to this world? We try to be very particular in our wording, but are we misled to have released them? You hear the sounds of the ghost dragon furiously stomping along, either actively tearing them apart or chasing them. A short-lived bit it was. Yeah, you your grasco. Either they won't make it back, or I believe they don't have enough influence to do any

real lasting damage. Of any of the three here, I believe he was the most dangerous and gestures with her staff to Ingus. Okay, I take the head off his head and put it on my head. So I have two little horns, but I also have two little tasks. It's like a mirror image. That is so, it's perfectly symmetrical. Oh my God. Vee of unranhill. Yeah. As you say that, my posture straightens with pride. She kind of tilts her head and looks at you guys

and goes, how did you know that I would be here? Lusgar sent us to look for you. He said that you were looking for some sort of sentient horror. Is that what the dragon was? It seemed like it was technically sentient, but maybe just, I don some sort of sentient horror is that what the dragon was it seemed like it was Technically sentient, but maybe just I know sentient in the way that like a a bunch of guys at a soccer match were screaming can be I don't know like I made him do a wisdom saving throw on key excelled massively, so it definitely lies She nods and she goes, yes, the ghost dragon is sentience, but I don't know that that was the sentient horror that I had envisioned.

My visions come to me as messages from Sienna the Autumn Fairy of Wisdom. The visions I get are cryptic. I suspect that some, if not all, the great fairies, have some kind of packed that stops them from interfering with the mortal world too much. And as such, many of my visions are open to interpretation. The horror that I saw was less up for interpretation. This was someone who had a human body with rotting skin. It wasn't, it wasn't a spirit. Okay, so scary as that thing was, it wasn't the thing we're looking for. You see, she not.

Describe it to me as best you can and I will look through my books. Well, the horror had some kind of studded leather armor on wearing all black. The face was blurry, but they had long black hair and rotting skin coming off of their hands. Sounds cute. And Fiya, go ahead and give me a history check. 24. Yeah.

You see, you hear she goes into like a little bit more detail about what she saw just describing the physical appearance and the movement of this thing. It sounds like this this horror that she saw had the look of a zombie but she didn't really get a good look at its face. It was sort of obscured, but was wearing armor and did not chamble, like moved like a regular humanoid, but had sort of like zombified skin. And you do see that there is a horror called a white W-I-G-H-T. That is basically like a an advanced zombie, but nothing in this book says anything about it being sentient or Anything or being good or neutral or whatever like these monsters all work for the Reaper and just kind of do His bidding and that's usually just to kill the living or wipe out villages or whatever.

So physically sounds like a white. Almost more like a construct. Yeah, it sounds like it could be a white, but the idea that she would have this vision to come see this random kind of advanced zombie seem strange. Okay. Yeah. I relay this all to her. Yes, it is a great mystery. I don't know where this horror would have come from.

I don't know if Lesnar told you about the lost city of Zelbaldar, the original one, not these outposts. He touched on it briefly, but but, you know, please expand. It was said to have been destroyed a long time ago, but we have never found any ruins. It has been passed down to us in writings and in oral traditions, but no one has ever found it. So I have reason to pursue any mystery in the mountain that could lead us back to Zilbaldar,

and I believe Siena might be leading me there. This ancient city, Lusgar touched on how grand it was, are there arts and practices that were perhaps lost there as well? In addition to the city itself, considering that we haven't been able to find any physical proof of it, I would endowed that we have lost much much knowledge from it. I noticed that you're a bit of a healer yourself and I'm always looking for new methods and ways to heal and help. So if this search leads us closer to this missing city and also just helps us you, keep the deep

folk and the people of Eldermore unsafe than I'm all for it. That's very noble of you, but also, I believe Sienna may have brought us together for other reasons. Is there anything I can help you with? Zarka kind of nudges Henry. Oh, I don't want to make this about me, but I'm afflicted with a light fairy curse Ever so slight actually a fairy blessing. I've been around it for a while I think it might be a blessing

Yeah, it could be why don't I tell you the details and you tell me Carses often become blessings with the right attitude. Okay. Okay. I'll take the boons with the beans All right, so Shane can I Tell Gres the nature of the curse. Yeah, so basically I'll take the boons with the beans. Alright, so Shane and I tell Gres the nature of the curse. Yeah, so basically I do all the work. I get sent out running into dudes. I just get fucking eaten. And then this guy's walking around.

I just introduced you to a very nice shadow that via some end of the night. You just met someone very interesting. I can't be a popcorn. I see who the true cursed one is. I sense sparks, so guys. Sparks between shadows, hun-lu. You relate to Grez all of the information that you guys have, that you know it's a spring fairy, that you keep coming back,

that it is related to the sea in some way. And I'm going to have her do an insight check. We wait for her to bring up Moria. We don't mention Moria. It's the first thing out of you, Smell. Moria, she looks after the little crabs. No, you haven't begun to grow a shell or anything. Have you found a shell? Henry rips off his shirt. I am I covered in particles? Is there a particle back here? I think it's just back to me, man.

Okay, yeah, these are still poppable. It's just the bag of holding. It's not a shell, I don't mean. There's new plate mail. What is it if not a shell? Oh my God. You see, she looks to you up and down, but almost kind of like looking past you

as if just like in deep, deep thoughts, have you read anything about Leonora, the patron fairy of navigators and storytellers? Leonora. She thinks about it and she goes because what I'm hearing is a story without a proper ending, okay? In all of your, you keep repeating the same mistakes. Yeah. Run in a way, giving up. Perhaps you need to find a different ending. Okay.

You're saying that all of Henry's past lives have been like rough drafts? She nods. Yeah. All bound for the waste paper bin. But she goes, that being said someone likely an aura would not just pick on you for no reason It is likely that in some past life you Asked for something perhaps you said that you would change but you haven't yet I made another promise I couldn't keep Maybe that was the first one and And yet you have an opportunity.

You are still here. You don't have to make the same mistakes again. Okay. So I just... So I got to try to stick this one out. The fear is dark. Don't let me run away, okay? Okay. Should we tie you to us or just...

If you couldn't run away from me if you tried, I'm faster than you. That is true. She's also a better swimmer. But only because this dude in excels the teacher. I think you're stuck with us, man. Okay. You see, she goes, I'm sure as blades with the access to the knowledge that you have, you'll be able to summon Leonora if you are near the sea. So if we get to the sea, I can I can ask Leonora about that promise that I made she nuts. I have another question

She turns to Fia and coxer head. We are looking for Cironesis Fia as you go to say that the words do not come out of your mouth. Like, the skin just covers your lips. You try to say it, and you can't. I'm so sorry, I am part. I need something to drink in order for the to lubricate the words out of my mouth. Yes, she was cursed by a very thirsty fairy. Fia goes and hangs her head in shame in a cup of water.

Ha ha ha! You see, uh, Gres goes, you have made a fairy promise to keep a secret, but like Sienna, I'm sure you can tell me whatever it is you'd like to tell me in a different way. Ah, Fiatiks, a big sip of water. Ha ha ha ha! I froze the lemon out. She does not like citrus. And after words she says,

I'm looking for my girlhood best friend. I have not seen her in a long time and we parted ways in, well, perhaps the most favorable outcome possible, but not good terms. Her name is Arena. If you wish I have not books full of doodles of her beautiful face, I can show you. So that's who she's been drawing? Yeah. Fiya, you show her some drawings of Irina. Fiya, go ahead and give me what would give me a slate of hand check. Do you think Fiya practices drawing or do you think she's like unpolished? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Okay so we'll just do it.

Not more a person with words. A flat role. 17! Pretty good. So yeah it's amateurish but it's pretty clear that Fia spends a lot of time like sitting in her train car, doodling. I brought with the ashes from my Tepa. And you see, she looks at it and she goes, with your help, I may be able to help track her down. I can... scribe once a day.

I can see if I can... I can find her. Oh, well, okay. That sounds pretty promising, Ifea. Yes. That would be very helpful to me. I am just a nostalgic young girl thinking of my girlhood, wondering what happened to my arena.

Who doesn't just want to reach out to an old friend, an old frame, health? You know, maybe you could use the scryon as he actually. It's true! You know what? Say what Mr. Henry wants. I walk into a corner. No, no, no, no. It's better than I don't know. It's better than I don't know. Protect me for myself. She takes your hand, Fiya, and goes, if you are close to her, it will be easier with your help.

Okay, I will help in whatever way I can. I can picture her very vividly still. I don't know whether it is true or if I have made up a version of her her but she's still so strong in my mind. Yeah, Fiya, you have this strong, strong memory of this magical girl that you grew up with in this very unmagical place, just this burst of color in this gray world, this young girl with the silver hair. She is like a pressed flower in my mind. And you picture arena and now that you are the protector of Sarenesis, you have a strong connection to her even more so than just being childhood best friends. And Grez does not know exactly why your and Grez does not know exactly why your connection is so strong, and based on kind of what she has told you so far.

She's not a mind reader, she's just highly insightful, and she gets this, she's essentially a champion of a wisdom fairy who like sends her kind of cryptic things that she can use to help her and her people. So if she takes her hand and you see she begins to cast a scry spell. You think I'm like offering things she like, she loved honey cakes, but she would never finish one. She always gave the rest to the birds. She had long silver hair that sometimes I would braid, but she didn't know how to braid her own hair. How funny

is that? Sometimes I wonder, did you want me to braid your hair? And that's why you never learned. And then I just shatter on about little memories. Zerkel laughs too hard, because he's weirdly jealous of Fias one other friend. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha break this spell and look at Zerke and say, I will break your hair if you let me. Do it! Do it right now! Rinse your bus! That actually might help. That might take you to a place where you are closer to Rina.

Zerke, get over here! Henry Hippechek, Zerke out of the way. Do me bars! Fuck it! No! Do me bars! Wait your goddamn turn! I will not! This is the most alpha Zzerk's ever been. Zerak, if you could hum the song,

Jeepers-creepers, we love the Reaper. She would always hum that whenever I braided her hair. Jeepers-creepers, we love the Reapers. He will come when we are sleepers. You gotta watch out. Don't close your peepers. Uh-oh-oh, here comes the Reapers. She said, hum it, not sing it. You ask, give me,'t close your peepers. Uh-oh, uh-oh, here comes the repers. She said, Hummett, not saying it.

You ask, give me, let me get the braids. Stop! I'm so strong. Hey, braids, Mr. Henry. Chapers, papers. So kind of capitalizing on this moment of genuine friendship, Fiya, you do have this kind of overwhelming nostalgia for back when you were with Arena.

And Fiya, go ahead and give me a wisdom check with advantage. 17. Close your eyes. Let's see if we can find her. Fia, really laboriously, like with the sound of a creaking door closes her legs. No. A rare sight. Your eyes close and you feel yourself in a split second, almost like you're

flying over the entire world of Eldomorn, just like flashes of different people. It feels like you're searching through a book. It's like you're searching through a phone book for a name or something like that. Cool. You go through the entire surface world, you go through the frost barons of the North, you feel like the wind whipping through your hair. It's almost like you're flying through super fast. You're going through.

I have only seen this in Atlas. You're going through all of these cities and everything. You're going through the great capital city. You're going through West precinct and it's beautiful manners and it's great lakes. You're going through East precinct and then up into inner borough where you grew up through all these like barren trees and everything up through outer borough and kind of like these more like wild lands. I turned my head away from the inner burrow area. You turn your head from inner burrow and you whip through the mountains that you've just

traveled to like near where you are and you feel yourself like zip through the mountains here and then everything fades from being like very like real and kind of tactile and being like inside the cavern to being foggy all around you. Fia, go ahead and give me a perception check. Just I can break your hair. Well, Fia, I'm saying. It's all I'm saying. Okay, well as long as it's all equal, I'll braid your hair and be a braid's my hair. As you guys argue, you see these two are just like

humming with energy as their eyes roll in the back of their head. 16. You look out through the mist all around you in this cavern and you see it looks kind of in a very similar shape to the ruins of Zelbaldar 3, like a lot of like the rock formations are the same and as far as location wise you very much feel that you are near the same place. But you see

that there is this like mist all around you and it's making everything focky. And instead of ruins, you see buildings in the distance, little like homes and buildings, with little lights on inside. And you see the distant, green glow, an outline of arena. You just feel it. You do not see her close up. You feel that she is alive and yet at the same time she's in a place that you can't quite pinpoint. It feels like it doesn't exist. It feels like it's between here and another place or something. And then you flash back to reality. Henry's hair is in a knot too. So I'll hand

some deck. Henry and Zerke have rat kinged each other. Yeah. I fear he's like she's like kind of trying to like swim through the air. She's like no wait. Irina she's here. I found her. Where is she? Where did you go? Where are the little houses with the little lights on and the little piece of green magic? It's here, it was here, it was here. You see, Gres looks around and she looks rattled, which from the very little time you've known her, you can imagine it's a rare thing that this person who has all these visions,

visions and everything is rattled. She goes, I saw it too. She's here, and yet she's not here. This mist we saw, it was similar in nature to the fog obscuring the face of the horror that I was supposed to meet with in my vision. So who is making the mist? Does she want the mist to be there? I don't know. It would seem that your friend is close and yet out of our reach. But I sense a link between the sentient horror and your missing friend. All right.

What? Like they are cut from the same magic? One controls the other. Not necessarily. I can't be sure, but the mist felt the same. Perhaps they are just from the same place. I do not know. Or what if she could be trapped by this horror?

Yeah, it occurs to you that she could be trapped wherever she is. She's trapped. Someone has found her and trapped her, but not chosen to kill her. This cannot be good at all. Everything you've told us about arena, there's a chance she's found some way to help this horror. Maybe that's why they're tied. This is the first horror that doesn't seem intrinsically tied to the Reaper. There's a chance that she's helping this horror and is shrouding herself away so the Reaper won't find her. We can't assume the worst is what I'm saying. You see, Grez nods and she goes, I specifically felt that this, whatever this was, was not malevolent.

Okay, trapped but not malevolent. Okay, trapped could just be hunkered down just in the fourth trist. Yeah, you can trap yourself. True. People make traps of their own making. Alright, well, I love looking at traps, so I'm happy to go investigate. Yes, I think that we will make haste, but before this, I must take a long sleep. Oh, I go behind fear because it looks like she's about to fall backwards. Oh jeez. Before that even, I have several things to do. I must summon bookfar back. And then I also must arcane the recovery to try to get a more powerful spell.

Alright, well could you first untie me and Henry? I have braided your hairs together. I am sorry, it is a common sleepover mistake. Yeah, you see, she was just like, while she was having the vision tied you guys together. This is why I have always kept my hair short so that I did not accidentally braided into arenas. I understand. Maybe one day we can all braid our hairs together.

Maybe this is our punishment for going at each other like that. Maybe so. This is our get along braid. So, Fiya, you go ahead and you ritual cast to bring bookvar back. You see bookvar flaps back to life. Oh, Miss, what did I, did I miss anything good? Fiya, for a second, tries to wrap her tongue around another lie and says, Oh, nothing, just another fantastic battle from Fia.

You remember what I did to all win? How I saved the day, it was pretty much like that. You know that he does when you need to be comforted and he goes, I'm sure you were a fantastic miss. I'm not alone and it makes Zirk not as well. I really lived up to the name of the blade. Excuse me, I have to go try to learn how to make bigger fire come from my hands. Oh, while Fiya is doing her arcane recovery, can I watch this process?

You want to watch me do arcane recovery? It's just reading. I'm just curious about how you're able to regain some of your magical energy even while you're at the point of exhaustion and I'd love to kind of study the process. Well, magic is creative and books are like collecting a bunch of information with which you can then be creative. So there's the receiving and there's the expressing. When you have expressed too much, you turn to the book and you receive. So it's like a feedback loop. I don't know what that is, no. Say no more. So it goes into a corner and starts tinkering.

You see, yeah, a fiat goes and does this arcane recovery. I am gonna try to get a fireball. Okay. So I got 15. 15 is gonna pass, because it's a DC 13 for it's a third level spell, right? Fireball? Yeah, you're great. So you wrangle fill up and you're able to learn fireball.

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So basically what I'm doing is I'm making an infusion that is able to basically do a quick burst of arcane recovery. It's like an alchemist ability called Spell Refuel Ring. Oh great. Yeah. So I just want to like get Grez to basically check my work. Okay, great. So basically what I did is I put an entire book inside this ring, and then when I press this little button on the outside of the ring,

it stabs me, and it gives me basically a shot of a magical adrenaline. So it's like I'm reading a book really fast with my body. Yeah, you're speed reading. Yeah. I understand many things, but I don't know if I fully got to read on you yet. Picture if you could inject a book into your blood. That's basically what I'm doing here. Yeah, you would be the experts on tinkering and whatnot more than I would be.

Certainly if you were able to enchant this, I have full confidence that you would be able to pull this off. Well, while I've got you, there's something else I wanted to ask about, actually. She looks at you, expectantly. You seem like you know a lot about the history of the lost city of Zubble-Dar, and I was just wondering if you would ever heard any rumors about an all-cure elixir, some sort of potion that could heal or maybe even bring people back from the dead or fix something that had gone wrong. It's just something I'm messing with in my spare time, something I'd like to be able to bring to the world if possible.

She's gonna go ahead and do a quick history check. You see, she thinks about it. I haven't heard of an all-cure elixir, but I can tell you this. I studied divine magic because it's a dying art in the mountain, but it was once a tradition. The clerics of Zelbaldar were said to be the best. It's possible that there are divine secrets still out there. It's also possible that maybe it wasn't divine at all. Perhaps they just had access to some other way to heal people.

Thank you. I think that one of the reasons I was chosen to be a blade is to find this potion. Again, these are old, old writings, stories about stories. So it is possible there are exaggerations, but in a world of magic, it would not be unheard of. I owe it to a lot of people, and maybe just the world at large to follow up on Indian all leads. I have reasons of wanting to find this as well. So perhaps we can help each other. All right.

Sir, does like an awkward like shoulder touch. It just doesn't register and griss just keep staring forward. We zone out looking at them for a while. Thinking on her own. Yeah, you guys both just zone out for a while. Thinking in your own head. Great. Thank you.

You guys zone out looking out the window and see a flame start, fireball start lighting up some of the empty houses. Meanwhile, Henry is still attached to Zerks hair. And Fiya is fighting a book to learn fireball. You guys both use on that. You're, you know, what? I want to learn a freaking water spell. Fiya. We guys both use on doubt. You're you know what that I want to learn a

freaking water spell. Yeah. We guys I like fire. I am like a Phoenix. Well all this chaos is going on. Can I summon shank over to me? Yeah. Hey. All right buddy. I just need you to do something for me. Just to just to remind us to to remind the both of us that we got to stick this one out, all right? Right, all right. I roll up my sleeve and I ask Shank to give me a stick and poke tattoo. Oh, all right. Of an anchor that says, and do like a little ribbon here with the flourish, right? And you can complicate it.

Third mates under here. Okay, okay, it should be good to sign. live in here with the flourish, right? And you have a third of the mates. Oh, third of the mates. Third mates under here. Okay. Okay. Okay. It should be good to sign. And you can use your shadow as the ink, all right? So we'll always, you know, you and I are stuck together no matter what, too. All right.

I'll try my best. The anchor seemed easy, but this is a little nerve-wracking. Henry, go ahead and give me a slight of hand check for Shank. Okay, it's fine line work. Okay, so take your time. Yeah, take your time. Go slow. Oh, yell at me. His hands show so shaky.

Oh shit. I rolled a 19. Hell yeah. That's a 22. 22 damn. It looks quite good. Like he's able to do a good anchor. And then as far as like the lettering,

it's an untrained hand, but he just does a very neat all caps, third mates. And for a sticking poke tattoo, it looks pretty good. All right. Impromptu's sticking poke. I love it. And that probably takes all of my HP away. Yeah.

Yeah, you pass that halfway through it. He says, did someone say stickin' poke? It turns around and accidentally lights up half the house? Yeah, I use shank, we'll go ahead and do tattoos on everybody. If they want it. Fuck yeah. Oh no, I don't. My tattoos are very utilitarian.

I have warding tattoos. I don't want to confuse the magic. Okay, so just a circle, we'll get one. I'm sure it sounds really good. Okay, so just a circle, get one? Oh, it's a service time, it's a little getting one. Okay, hell yeah. Go ahead and give me a slight fan check for Shank. Not bad, that's a 19. Okay.

Another good solid tattoo. Okay, I leave up my bangs and say, put it under here. Whoa, whoa. You see Shank goes like, and I also cast guidance to try to help him Please so dedicated to the banks. Please you see Grezz leans in and goes I will assist you This is highly and advisable

She went from not being sure if she wanted it to want to get on the face Grezz is going to go ahead and give the help action to Shag Okay, and guidance is an extra D4. Yeah. Okay. We need to very promise when you got Sticking Pops. That's a dirty 20. Wow. Okay. Thank God.

Thank God for fucking advantage. Shank, very nervously, but through the power of magic, is able to give you a competent anchor tattoo on your forehead underneath your bangs. Just a little bit to the right, but under my bangs. So you guys all good a bit for the night. Recover all of your stuff back finally. All your spells, all your HP. You make do in some rubble here. You're actually able to find some like dusty blankets and stuff.

Whether or not it's it was you know things that covered tables or whatnot like tablecloths and things like that. There were people who lived here at some point. So you're able to make some kind of make shift sleeping areas. You all go to bed for the night. You wake up the next day and you hear once again the dragon stomping around above head. I'm up, I'm up, fine. And Gresh goes, before we find whatever it is that was looking for me, we will have to deal with this dragon. What do you think is the correct way to deal with it?

Can we present this this ram helm maybe? That'd be okay for you. We don't have to give it to him. Just present. I'm not. Wait, yeah, I'm not taking it. I'm not taking it. It's your helmet. Don't run. Do not run away. You see, Crasco's, you could give that helm, it might be an even greater showing to give the dragon Angus himself, gestures to the body. Oh. Oh. Oh. Perfect.

So we'll take the, you know, the skin helm, the head helm, we can bring the body. Let's not call it a skin helm. Okay, yeah. Sure. The medical term though. Is it though? Yeah. He's a doctor, I'm just, that's what Dr. Let's not call it a skin hell. Okay. Yeah, the medical term though Yeah, he's a doctor. I'm just that's what Dr. Nebel always called it Huh, yeah, do you have enough spell slots for a floating disc so we can roll this thing out? Oh, yes

This is a ritual so I can actually do if I have 10 minutes. I can present it I'll make the floating disc look like a podium at the end of winning a sort of competition and floated up. Okay, great. I wanna put a last prize ribbon on this guy. So I'll tell you guys how this is going to work when it comes to like giving an offering to a ghost or something like this. So essentially what you guys know

from the Guardians of the Grove and from your past dealings with a ghost with Sadie Bellwater, it does help to injure the ghost. It almost like takes away some of its power and then it's more open to whatever the offering is. That being said, it is definitely possible to just succeed outright. So I'm going to tell you just mechanically how it's going to work and you guys decide kind of how you want to just succeed outright. So I'm gonna tell you just mechanically how it's gonna work and you guys decide kind of how you wanna deal with it.

If you make it an offer, it's gonna be a DC-22 Arcana or Religion Check to essentially try to dispel it. I don't know, is my sheet beat? Yeah, so there is a world where you just pump up your first round to have this ritual work. And then there's another version where you start doing damage to it. So it's going to get minus one to the DC for each 10 damage that's done to it. So if you did 50 damage to it, it changes from a DC 22 to a DC 17 and so forth. So you can weaken it to the point

where you can then banish it or help it ascend using kind of the components that you have. Nice, all right. My instinct is that it is not worth using my spells on these moments. Yeah, I think we definitely lead with the ritual and try and just get it to go peacefully if we can

Yes, why not, right? To help the out I would like to cast enhanced ability on her So what I do is I make like a brain boosting smoothie to help her intelligence out I do Go to the corner and try to disguise the amount of grubs I'm putting into it. It's mostly grubs Go to the corner and try to disguise the amount of grubs and putting into it. It's mostly grubs I pick around the show and I say what about you makes you think you need to hide the grubs Sorry, just some of them can talk and it felt weird Oh, I don't know if that one's a grub that one seems like a rodent

That was a lizard maybe Mr. Zirk I'll eat anything you put in a smoothie. Oh great. Zirk scrapes some mushrooms off the wall. Plops them into the smoothie. It's just like neon yellow mushrooms. So poisonous. Yeah, you make this intelligence fortifying drink.

And what does that do for Fiya? I'm going to give Fiya Fox's cunning. The target has advantage on intelligence checks. Nice, sweet. Sick, I am also going to cast Fortune's favor on myself. Great, oh baby. When I make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw before the spell ends,

which is within an hour, I can dismiss the spell on myself to roll an additional D20. So it's beyond advantage. I think we need to be. It's almost like another chrono shift. Wow. OK, so you guys are pretty stacked with your stuff here.

Yeah, I can't really do anything, but I'll give you a brief calf massage to kind of lose some of the. Actually, Mr. Henry, you're such a soothing figure. Do you think that you could give me a little pep talk? Yeah, pep talk. I've never been called soothing before. I almost thought I was grading, but wow. That means a lot. No, you are a wonderful teacher. I am such a good swimmer now.

I think you were a born, you were born a good swimmer like you were a born, born a good runner. You're a natural born athlete. Don't you ever ever forget that? This is the pep talk now. No one has ever been born with more raw talent than you No, they have not you could out throw Josh Allen, okay? Oh God don't take his name in that's right Josh Allen I could have throw Josh Allen. You could out chuck Josh Allen. All right. You got a cannon for our arm And you're so you're so damn fast. You can catch it yourself. That's right, Shayne. Beat her chest. Let's go get them kids.

And then, Oh, he's failed! He's failed! Let's go, Go, This is not a year! This is not year! This is fizz, yeah!

Okay, be the help of my doctor and my coach. I take on this beast. She's just like an MMA fighter, but for books. Yeah, you summon a, and then you summon a disc, and you plop this dead body in it. And you guys can get- Then I run out. Way ahead of all of us.

Oh, there she goes. You guys, you begin to float out of the cellar. Oh, before this happened, I did put some paper across the threshold of the house. So, Fia breaks through it like a football player running out onto the fridge. You guys run through the paper. You're now in this abandoned house. One thing to keep in mind is if you guys don't sneak up on this thing, you're just going to have to roll initiative. So it could potentially fear you or fuck you up in some way that could stop you from doing the thing. So you might want some kind

of contingency plan or figure out some way to stealth That basically allows Fiya to go Before this thing so you guys get up in this abandoned house. You know what I can do. You know what I can do I think I don't have a concentration spell going so I can use a protection from good and evil Oh Nice you see Grez is going to go ahead and cast a protection from good and evil on myself so that he can't frighten me. You see, Grez is going to go ahead and cast Death Ward on Fia. Damn, wow.

We are going into this peaceful option with a fucking artillery. I love buffing my friends. With good reason, you hear this dragon shouting Your bed is over. I did not trust that you would have made any real change even with your catchy slogans Don't tell you tar don't tell you tar you should tell you tar Tell him that he's guilty So with that a grass kind of looks to you guys and she goes well, you're the horror hunters. How do we approach this? I think I'm good to just run out there sweet. Oh before we go out

Zirk presses the button on his ring Zerke presses the button on his ring. Whoa! reads an entire book in two minutes and then gets a spell slot back. Wow. You see, Zerke just begins twitching, seems like he's like on insane adrenaline. He's on speed reading.

Fee, I get it. I get the rush. It's actually quiet and contemplated for me. But okay. Knowledge is inside me. Yeah, you see a book for flapping again. I was with you guys. Has it been with you guys in a minute?

It goes like, yeah, I suppose reading is, you know, a bit of a rush. I'm pregnant with lore. Easy does it, but I wish better to book for I would never read you like that, just so you know. Thank you so much, Miss. It looks uncomfortable for you. I would never.

Sweet, guys, everybody go ahead and roll initiative as you rush out into the ruins here with this dragon. 12 for Fiend. 8. I did not foresee this role because I got a 4, but that's gonna be a seven total. So you guys go out into the ruins, bringing the body of Ingus with you as an offering to the dragon. Actually, I changed tensors floating disc

to be a little platter. A little platter. You bring it out, you exit this crumbling building, and you see in a flash this dragon, pokes its head around the side of the house and goes trying to escape with your friend are you everybody go ahead and give me wisdom saving throws as it breathes its horrifying breath into like the mouth of this house as you guys are exiting it 16 18 Ooh 19 plus three 22 damn everybody passes you guys still take half damage you take okay one e2 damage

So this thing once again god it starts turns into Individual deep folk ghosts that fly into you and they do damage to you but you are not frightened by them, you are sealed by knowing that you are doing the right thing here and then that is fias turn. Okay, I let this little disc hover up into the eyes of the dragon and I say revenge is a dish best served cold however what will actually make you happy just not being angry anymore so maybe you don't need revenge and I do a dance oh our calves are so limber! Great work Henry! Thank you. A dance as you cast the spell.

Essentially, what you guys are able to do as blades that a normal person couldn't do is like a ritual that allows you to banish and to free these monsters instead of having to fight them down to zero hit points. So, Fiya... But after I do my dance, though, I say something more sincere and I say okay That was page 3 but I want you to know that the people who have wronged me in my life

I have chosen to forgive because letting their anger live in me like a tumor is letting them continue to win You have peace beyond this anger. I promise this for you now Henry does a dance Henry's just slightly flossing in the background Fiya go ahead and with all of your guys buffs up actually You do have to go ahead and roll concentration check for that 11 damage that it did on the jump Oh, right. Oh, yeah, she's got the mind sharpener. Oh, yeah, she's got the mind sharpener, so she can stop. And I don't even need to use it, because I rolled really well. Fiya, you keep your concentration.

Go ahead and make your roll. I will use my fortunes, favor. Okay. Do it another one. All right. And then I will crown, or shift my fortunes, my God.

Oh, my God. Yes, baby, 19. It's a good roll, We'll crown all ships my gorgeous Oh my god Oh my god Yes baby 19 Oh my god So what is the total? Oh 19 plus 7 plus 2 Good god 28 Yeah, 28 does it You see this dragon kind of craines its neck

and gets down in your face via and goes, it is true that revenge will not bring back our dead, will not heal our wounds, and still, I hunger for justice. And you see, dragon snakes its head around, goes over to the platter, and swallows the body of Inga's whole. and you see dragon snakes its head around, goes over to the platter, and swallows the body of Inga's hole. Even with the apple that I stuffed in his mouth? Also with apple that you stuffed in his mouth. Okay.

And you see that the dragon begins to glow white, and would you like to banish this or kind of like help it ascend? I would like to help it ascend. I would like to kind of like pet it like a angry animal that I am kind of trying to bring back to a place of peace and if I can see the individuals distinct from each other. Yeah, so as you go and you go to like touch this dragon, it's strange.

You see from the outside, Fiya's almost doing this motion, like she's petting the dragon and Fiya, you feel as if you're like, like embracing somebody by the hand, like you're doing a meaningful predator handshake, like somebody is like grabbing you and kind of pulling you in the bush. I like I go to pet,

and then I'm like just predator handshaking people, one by one out of this dragon. So you're pulled in. If you guys see, this dragon begins to glow white, and while keeping kind of the same shape of the dragon, you see the spirits of hundreds of deep folk begin ascending, begin flying up and turning into flashes of light before disappearing.

And you see the dragon with glowing white eyes, starting to fade, looks around it. You guys look a little bit more present now unless of like a paranoid frenzy and goes, I see now that you might wear their armor but you are different than these scrappers. There is another here who is different, buried beneath the rubble. Long black hair? You see the dragon, not. We discovered them deep within the minds, a small group of undead humanoids who looked like horrors but did not serve the Reaper.

A council of us had met with them to learn more, but one among us was an informant to Hugh Tart Gunnerbolt. The Scrappers rigged our cavern with explosives and caused a false cave in and slaughtered anyone who escaped through the tunnels. I do not know their reasons. Perhaps to bury the secrets of the sentient horrors, perhaps to profit off rating our village, or both. Horrors in the minds are bad for business. Who among you was the mole? Was it that guy you ate?

You see the dragon kind of licks their lips and goes, No, there is another. See, takes a ghostly form, goes from being a ghost to being... ...craggle. Awwww! That fucking coward. And then turns into a ghost again. I guess we shouldn't let Craggle be Craggle. You can never let Craggle be Craggle. You know, lesson learned. Is she still here?

Or did you eat her too? She has escaped justice. What justice would you wish for her? You see, uh, Grez steps up and goes, I will take care of it. The deep folk will see to it. It is our justice to lay out. And you see the dragon nods and looks comforted by this.

And you see, uh,s and looks comforted by this. And you see disappears finishes ascending. All right, good game. That's so fucked up. I cannot believe I said craggle rocks. We didn't know. We didn't know craggle sucks. We didn't know. We didn't know Kragel sucks. Correct. Whenever we find Kragel, I will take your lead. This is your decision to figure out how to handle this. You can imagine that Kragel has probably long since kind of made her escape. Since you guys like had a full rest and everything and she ran in like the other direction.

She's likely back at the crux by now. I need to learn three magic so I can beset her dreams. You said that way too casually. Ha ha ha. You see, Grezgo, don't worry about Crackle. Once the rest of the deep folk find out about this, the crux will truly find out what is bad for business, specifically having their heads on a fucking pike.

Yes! Okay! Good game man. Don't need to foresee that. Good game. Good game. Good game. And you see, she looks around and she goes, well, the ghost said there was someone under the rubble. All right. Let's dig. I can cast Detect Magic to try to find Necromancy, but if you're not, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, nice. Grez is thinking about what she can kind of use, but as soon as you mentioned Detect Magic, she nods, and she kind of does a divination spell that just amplifies kind of what you're doing, this Detect Magic as you try to find necromancy, you sense some, uh, in a nearby pile of rubble where you can imagine at one time there was like a tunnel

and you sense, uh, something in the rubble there. Okay, I point at the rubble. Now it is time to dig. Henry, I think you're the strongest of us. Would it be okay if I made you a little stronger? Fine, hey, fine by me. As he's saying that, I think you're the strongest of us. Would it be okay if I made you a little stronger? Fine, fine by me. As he's saying that, I take the gun and switch it to in large mode and I jab him right in the thyroid with it.

Wait, wait, wait. Yeah, there's a giant like string. You have the gift of crackle, you work with her? I stole all that was good about crackle. The very few things. Henry, bluuh! Uh, it turns big. Wow.

Okay. And yeah, you see, uh, yeah. Stretching my new tattoo. Very Hank. There's this pile of rubble here that looks like it was once a tunnel that was collapsed. Um, go ahead and give me an athletics check and we'll say, with advantage because, uh, these guys are helping you too. Alright, amazing.

Everybody runs over and starts digging. 25. 25. Oh yeah. Thank God for advantage, because I are helping you too. All right, amazing. Everybody runs over and starts digging. 25. 25. Thank God for advantage, because I also rolled the one. You guys see that there were some, you find some like remains, you find some like skeletal remains

because it's been like a couple years since the destruction of Zelbald R3. So you find like some skeletal remains and stuff, nothing like animated, nothing like attacking you. So it's like a bit discouraging at first, but as you continue to go through, and I'll say you spend like a couple hours doing this, like you're trying to essentially like dig out

this entire tunnel here. So you've like displaced all these rocks and everything, Henry's in this like enlarged form and you guys are going through it. Well Henry does this, I take a, I pour myself a lemonade and throw my feet up and take one quick arcane recovery, then rejoin. So she likes lemons sometimes, not in the water. They're their own thing.

What? This is called lemonade. I spit it out. See, it's dirty. You have to stop wasting our lemons. We need those to fight off scurvy, right Hank? That's right. Oil lines.

You guys dig through this rubble for a long, long time and you eventually find a head, not a skull, a head. There are patches of skin missing, revealing us kind of skull and muscle as well as long, stringy, black hair. If this person was just kind of a body sitting in the rubble, they would have deteriorated a long time ago, but this looks more like a zombie than a skeleton. And you see that as the dust and dirt is removed from around them, suddenly this person shakes awake and you see suddenly her eyes open.

Hi, would you mind giving me a hand there, friendos? I've been in here a long time. And that's where we'll end our session. Oh, wow. Can't wait to make a new friend. Oh, my goodness. I like her already. Yeah, this is great. Wow.

And also, she doesn't have a body, so she can't hurt us. This is great. She does have a body, probably. She's buried up there. She's just crushed by the house. Oh, she's buried. Yeah, she's buried. Yeah, you just have Yeah, you just the bud for the next episode is Underthing. Yeah, underthing our new pal

Underthing the rest of this creature. Great. Sweet. Thank you all so much for listening I you can listen to us chat more about this over on our patreon patreon.com slash nad pod that's n-a-d-d-p-o-d Don't sing All right It's a little late. Oh my god. She's so going she's just going. I can all sing we Oh yeah, you're out. Stop everyone. No more no more no no no Oh, yeah, I stop we're saying we oh my god Does anyone have anything they would like to plug? Oh actually I really like that we plugged

Things that we lied to last week and yeah, I really like that we plugged things that we liked last week. And yeah, I'm going to plug the fucking expanse because I love that freaking TV show first season. I liked it second season. Holy shit, I loved it. I just finished third season. I mean, I'm actually in the middle of the first season of it right now. So I've got to get, I've got to, uh, are you watching it? Well, is that your plug too? Yeah, sure.

The only person I know who's watching it. I've only watched, I think I'm, I've watched up to episode three. Just get through the first season because I actually didn't think it was nearly as engaging as the rest of it. All right, I'm on it. Yeah, once they introduce the Mars lady, it gets really good. Great. Yeah, frickin' Bobby Draper. Fckin' lover!

Oh, I'll plug if we're doing plugs for our stuff we liked. I'll plug the Mitchell's vs. the Machines. It's an animated movie on Netflix, and I cried like 12 times during, and it's gorgeous. It's by the spiderverse team, so like the animation is incredible. It's a very sweet little story. It's so, so funny. Go watch it if you want like a nice family flick.

I do have things that make me cry. And also I'll plug my brother and I shop, brothers of Halcyon, we just started making wallets. So check that out, not a show, but a wallet. You absolute hustler. Every week you have a new side hustle. Yeah, I'm a manufacturer. He's all hustle all the time. He's got so many hustles lots. I'm reading press reset

It's about the games industry by Jason Trier. So good. It's really good His first book was awesome blood sweat and pixels. You should check that out as well as a friend of the show Hi Jason if you're if you're listening to this Hey, buddy out as well as a friend of the show. Hi Jason, if you're listening to this. Hi Jason. Hey buddy. I would also love to do a double dip into the plug pile and plug the wheel box. So that's okay.

Yay. Got some fun stuff there. Let's see, Tavisha T sent us hand knit dice bags. It's very nice and soft as well as a tiny little dice bag for my daughter, which is very cute. Just gonna, you know, I going to fill it with dice and give it to her and just see what happens. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. It'll be good.

But everyone do not give your children dice until they're at least six months old. I'll give her a dice that's bigger than her throat. That's the rule. Let's see. Oh, someone, I don't know who sent Murphy and Emily Kitty litter in a big bag of cat food. Whoa. Oh my God, no lie. How helpful that is.

Yeah. My paycheck goes into cat food. I already gave it to all the coyotes in my backyard though. Yeah. Devastating. Brenna L. in Rome sent us a bunch of paintings based on the one big bed song. Oh, they're so pretty. And we're really, really happy we could help you through these turbulent

times. So thank you so much, Grinna. Let's see. Oh, Lance G sent us a nice note. And they also sent Spritele a little terrarium sculpture. Hold on. Whoa. It's a Spritele a little terrarium sculpture.

That's so nice. That's so nice. Now they'll always have a piece of growth wherever they go. It's really nice. We should, you gotta distribute those. Oh yeah, I will send them over. I'll figure out how to make that work. It's really cool. You just like plug in your phone and uses a second camera so you can always see what the dice rolls are It's really rad and Beverly's one is made of a wood called boobinga, which I thought was one Oh Jeff S sent us a bunch of DVDs including water world on blu-ray. Thank you Jeff You're with us. Thank you. You guys keep it. I already have one, but that's awesome to hear

And then Matthew B sent us a trash queen, possum sticker, it's very classy, and we appreciate it, that's going right on my notebook. Thank you so much, Matthew. If you would like to send us stuff, it's 1920 Hillhurst Avenue, number 222, Loose Fleece, California, 90027. Thanks so much, y'all.

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It's the end of the show everyone and you know what that means I am here to shout out our benevolent counsel of elders starting with Brad D, Jeffrey S, Holder Frostback, Steel Breaker and Matt M. Acolytes of Sienna, they spend their days praying and maintaining the temple but their main job is to bang pots and pans near Grezz's face when she starts sewn in out. Jordan DJ, Cutter W, JG, Zolo Dolo and Dylan B. Deep fog goes to kinda liked being a huge reptile and are currently terrorizing the souls of Exodus as a radiant dragon with golden angel wings. Even the Reaper himself was forced to admit that it looks close hell. Shubbered the mushroom, Danielle the Dastardly Dame, Andrew M, Beardman Dan and Scotty, the inventors of the Enhanced Ability Smoothie, it is rumored that these powerful herbalists are the last surviving students of Jamba, the legendary

Juice Alchemist. Danny P, Mixologist Michael McD, Victor D, Boundores Boy, Andrew B, and Kevin S. Members of the Craig Helm Twins election campaign who are desperately trying to get a refund on the huge box of Don't Tell Hutaar hats that they purchased. Justin I, Ragnar Fedderdwind, TGM, the Noem Barbarian, Elena M. and Trilai the Cry-Pay, the Council of Artifisters who first perfected the spell Refueling Ring, their first successful experiment involved injecting Ragnar with an extremely long CVS receipt. Jared E. Austin Bohnsa MR. Damial R. Cyborg version of Josh the Cobold and Octo Lich. Healers from the lost city of Zelbalgar, who perfected the all-curalixir-Zurk is seeking.

Unfortunately, something got lost in translation, and the elixir is actually just pepdopismal, which honestly might be helpful considering how many hot dogs, potato skins skins and worms the gang has eaten recently. Gage M, Richard X Machina, Michael L, Sergio Sallos R, Salaman Sakurai Osteh Sakwani, and Trast Traveller. Chef Wizards who work for Elder Morn's hottest restaurant, Tensers Floating Dish. Every meal the restaurant makes is flown out on a magical plate.

Even the soup. Sir Carl, Jory S. Dana G. Azoth Shadows. Calum L. and Ryan. Children who taught Zirk the words to the haunting Reaper Lola by that fear requested he sing to her. The children later alert him into an open grave and beat the shit out of him. Jack L. flawless well. Temporal. Sam L. Nicholas C. End. Reese NS. The Scratch Bies. Like a

PI, but with scribes. Bring him anything. Piece of fabric, a scrap of paper, a mysterious hair tie you found in the cup holder of your car, and they'll use it to scry on your loved ones who you think are cheating on you. Samuel L. Mike H. Martin P. A. K. Byron Murphy likes to drink curfee. Matthew E. Colton B. And Adam G. A pot of fearsome, most dragons. Unlike the ethereal ghost dragon, they are so physically present, it actually warps space and time wherever they go. Megan S. Mateo C. Nabadger. Panama James. Cummins the Bard. And Adrian the Halfling Bard. Ferries associated with surfing and paddle boarding. You'd think they were chill but actually they

have the most curses per capita of any of the sea ferries. Dane, Nikki W. Grace G. Dronasti, C.C. Lulu and J. Zelboldar, postcard painters, the highest, most noble job in all of Zelboldar. Burns and Aitor, Michelle O. Timmy R. Jonathan W. The Crock, Wearing Warrior and Lucas B. A group of friends at a sleepover who have braided themselves into essentially a rat king but with braids instead of tails. Here's the thing though, they're all watching a movie and none of them has noticed yet. Aaron S. It's Kevin! Hogfishes above average hog, New York, and Steven C. Dream Wizards who can make a person dream anything they want to. Unfortunately, they tend to use this power to workshop their ideas for screenplays, which are always about a young dream wizard going to the big city to find love.

KJ, Michael M, Raoul N, Mike K, Maxwell C, and Karen J. A political ethics commission looking into the morality of politicians with active ferry promises on them running for office, and who have started a movement to keep ferry promises out of our politics. Echathor666, NickW, Taylor A, Matthew R, and Esmi M, a family of shallow folk. They are actually just deep folk who are really into their appearance. Nathan, Kazamir are the all-knowing big beard of the mad Eric McD and Jack Meehawth, sentient horrors who love going to the beach of burying each other in the hand.

It's great practice for when their undead fortitude allows them to survive a cave in only to be unearthed years later. Burleigh T. J. Dragonborn. Joro theana pro pro. Cody B. Liam D. and The Sandrian. A startup company who created technology to let you scry on your phone and keys so you always know where they are. As long as these inanimate objects fail their wisdom saves, you'll never lose them again!

Ben A. Feldonis. Dave H. Kuala Bear. Katherine S. And David K. Gresh's school friends who frequently got beat up after she got them into fights, only to be too slow to help.

Luckily she's a cleric, so no harm, no foul. Plus, she always knew who had a crush on her. Christian S. Dustin S. Keith K. Conorf. Kyle H. The Time Walker. And Emilio D. An undead Acapella group who rose again as a ghost dragon to get revenge on everyone who didn't care about their Acapella group. So everyone. Frankie Koala, Big Bad John, Aston S, Blair the Bug Blair Barbarian, Puck Chop and Chanel Am. Some unfortunate tourists who were in Zelbaldar 3 the day it collapsed. They now wander the cave as ghosts trying to collect all the Zelbaldar postcards.

Alice, Velacy, Raptor, Minette F, Pat L, Achootha A and Lauren H. Sension grubs who will one day evolve to form a massive grub in swallow-zirk as revenge for turning them into smoothies. Elias Hathorn, Maddy Y, Alex H, the eldest Barry, Ryan S, and the Bone Duster. The mages behind the Untangle braid can't trip. It's a very specialized spell for when you accidentally tied two of your friends together by the hair and need to safely unravel them. Joshua H, Roby, Chris, Idrasil, Brently C. Micah, B. and Polloops. The original creators of the all-cure elixir.

Unfortunately, their stomachs hurt from all the late-night energy drinks they needed to finish, so they consumed it before they were able to record the formula. Carly Ann, Laurie P. Spam, Gaming the not-so-sk skilled gamer, Connor Savage, Russell H. and Christopher J.O. Mist Rathes, who were having dinner when Fiya suddenly showed up in the middle of their dining room. She wasn't able to see it, but she was fully standing in their mashed potato bowl. Logan S. Leviathan, Demi A. Bioquart 7, Kenny and Remington CD. The Cellar Fellers,

just acquired an excellent L-shaped sofa and strung up some Christmas lights so the Cellars look and stellar. Amber Kay, Everett P. Trubhop-Dropper, Sydney D. Jesse D. L. R. the element god, and Lindsay W. The Sella Fela's just wrangled a cozy rug and a projector so the Sella is looking Bella. Champ Wilde, Valin, Sprite Pepsi, Carlin Sea, Anthony S, and Sally S. The Sella's Fela's. They don't know what it means to be a fellas of the Celis, but everyone knows they're a team and they will be fellas for life and will represent their Celis proudly. Tristan C the Goose, Jake, Emily S,

the new Petty King of Alter, Sessie, and Matthew J. Crux politicians were being primaried by two upstart scrappers with a really long campaign slogan. The only thing left for y'all to do is meet the third mate, we can revitalize your campaign. Scripps, gripper, Zane C, Michael S, the bone duster, Noah, and Wyatt B. Citizens of Elderborn who actually broke a promise to Moria and are currently growing shells on their back. That said, it looks kind of cool, so no regrets.

Estelle, Rogue, Cree, Daniel, and Baron S. Sewashans, Romance partner from the Baronies, and Mr. Dude's Guy. The crew that runs a 2 parlor were they specialized in removing stick and poaks that won a rye. Estelle was salivating at the thought of all the cash fias botched forehead tattoo could bring in but damn, shinks steady hand held true. Conflicted DM, Justin LB, Connor P, Dandy and Jennifer R. The Buffalo Bills starting line. They won't let anyone touch our hero, Josh Allen, and they celebrate each win by chugging a pint of blue cheese!

Go Bills! Clifton A, Reverend Chatterbones, Richard G, M. Barber, and Marcus P. Writers of the Encyclopedia El de Mornica, 100 volumes of the written word that should be absorbed one word at a time Wozirk just syringed it straight into the main Jesus. Pup Kalish learns the balance through it, Dakota JP, Pagos V, and Tracy P. The crew that runs West precincts Ritziest hair salon and are dealing with an influx of friends who want their hair braided into each others. It's painful and inconvenient,

but damn if Hank and Zirk didn't start a very cute trend. And that wraps it up for our sweet, special salty little council of elders. We love you so much. Good bye, my sweeties. That was a headdum podcast. Special salty little council of elders. We love you so much. Goodbye, my sweeties. That was a hitdown podcast