The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 205 - Throne for a Loop 4: Some New Hope

Episode Date: April 30, 2019

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast. No! With his friends dying all around him. The cloak falls to the ground. Baron must make a crucial decision. I mean, I don't really know what else I could do at this point. Flee. That changes everything.
Starting point is 00:00:15 That does change everything. Oh. Or stay to protect the only comrade he has left. You still got one dwarf left! I'm over here! The adventure continues. You'll got one dwarf left. I'm over here. The adventure continues. You'll be missed. I mean, I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Matthew's dead. Bummer. Now. What is going on, Glass Cannon Nation? Welcome back to the show. It's your good buddy, Joe O'Brien, welcoming you to part four now of Throne for a Loop. What a month it has been in Giant Slayer. It has been stressful, to say the least. And I am very eager for you guys to hear this episode, so I don't want to dilly-dally too long.
Starting point is 00:01:20 But I do have some important news that I want to share. So I'll try to get through it quickly. First, I want to send out a huge thank you to the fantastic members of the niche that joined us at the bell house in Brooklyn this past Saturday. What a crowd it was. It was fun in there. And I got to say, being completely honest, I had a couple of friends, personal friends that were there that don't really listen to the podcast But wanted to come out to support me
Starting point is 00:01:47 Support the guys And just try to figure out What the hell it is we do And they were just I mean across the board Blown away Not only by the incredible energy That our crowd brings to the show
Starting point is 00:02:01 But how genuinely enjoyable The nation is to meet And hang out with during the after party. So thank you guys so much for making us look good and for showing us a great time. We really did have an amazing time and we can't wait till the next one, which is Seattle. Next stop, Seattle. Seattle is sold out, but we have plenty of shows coming up later this year that are not yet sold out. We just announced Boston last week and we'll be at the Paradise Rock Club on Sunday, November 3rd. It's it's to be honest, it's one of our fastest selling shows yet. So if you're going to be in New England in November november if you can make that happen grab a ticket now uh i can only imagine what a crazy good time that show is going to be also don't forget uh if you are going to gen con grab tickets to one of our two shows in indie that's happening during gen con thursday night and saturday afternoon we're playing both of those shows and particularly the first one are dangerously close to selling out.
Starting point is 00:03:08 Also, we will be in Atlanta on August 31st and back at the Bootleg Theater in L.A. on October 5th. You can find out more information about those shows and links to get tickets at our website at glasscanonpodcast.com. I want to do a quick update on Patreon news. Talk about our next goal. We are rapidly closing in now. On our $40,000 goal.
Starting point is 00:03:33 And we're just so close. That it's really imminent. And we're planning exactly how this is going to happen. At $40,000. We are going to start regular Twitch streams. From the office. Featuring Troy and myself. And of of course special guests playing games and most importantly talking games. You know, in 2018, we published nearly triple the amount of actual play content that we published in 2017.
Starting point is 00:04:00 In one year, we tripled the content and that is all thanks to patreon and your guys support that we get through there but there is one downside to that in in my view of it which is that we're basically locked away furiously recording episodes of pathfinder or starfinder gameplay whenever we see each other so we're missing out on the good old days of Troy and Joe just being able to kick back, play some video games and hang out with the niche. We truly miss it. And at 40K, we can set aside that time to regularly get together and hang out with you guys.
Starting point is 00:04:36 We'll be playing video games and talking all things geek with anyone that can show up in chat. Also, as a huge thank you for pushing us over this milestone, we're going to do a one-time live cannon fodder to cover all of the many, many things that are happening on the network these days, including but not limited to episode 200 and all the happenings of Giant Slayer since then.
Starting point is 00:05:01 There is so much behind the scenes juicy goodness that I want to share with you guys. So help us hit that 40K goal and we will be able to do it live. Okay, that's it. I'm done. Thank you for your time and attention. And now we shall return to Skier Guard. Please enjoy episode 205, Thrown for a Loop 4, Some New Hope.
Starting point is 00:05:33 Oh, man. Talk about living up to the hype. Like dying down to the hype. Like dying down to the hype. Dying down to the hype. Oh, man. Just brutal. Brutal. Brutal.
Starting point is 00:05:54 And I truly, truly thought that one way or the other, it would be finished in the last episode. I can't believe it's still going. Yeah. It would be finished in the last episode. I can't believe it's still going. Yeah. And, you know, I certainly could have gone longer, but I don't even know where the combat goes from now. I've been prepping all week and I'm like, I just don't know what's going to happen here.
Starting point is 00:06:14 There's still a million different ways. There's still a million different possibilities. I thought it was bad last week before we started. It's even worse now. Matthew, I have to commend you. It was an amazing idea. It was done, in my my estimation completely by the book and your intentions were perfect noble i'm sitting here and i i brought it up and i was like all right let me see if uh actually let me just read about incorporeal creatures just real quick again
Starting point is 00:06:38 can they walk through stone everything like oh they can just pass through solid objects i forgot about the melee oh i read it i read it and i was like oh but they're fine because they can just pass through solid objects. I forgot about the melee. Oh, I read it, and I was like, oh, but they're fine because they can't pass through because there's nowhere to go. I was like, yeah, they just have blasts. I was like, they just have that blast spell. I completely forgot about the melee. But regardless, I mean, my plan was buy a surround for Baron to escape.
Starting point is 00:06:59 That was all, or if he's dead. Yeah, you had something in mind. What were you really thinking? Lift the curtain here. So, yeah, I had a couple spells I was going to cast. I was going to, once we got in, I imagined they were going to blast to try to break the stone.
Starting point is 00:07:10 It was hardness eight, 45 hit points, you know. Half damage. Obviously, they did 42 to you, so it would be half damage, minus eight. Minus eight, yeah. So that would be, you know, 21 minus eight, 13 points in the first round. Yeah, that was probably at least three rounds.
Starting point is 00:07:24 So I was going to cure critical wounds on Baron baron awesome i was going to do protection from energy fire okay a communal on both of us well then you're fine and then yeah yeah and then uh if we had remaining if they hadn't broken through yet i was going to start summoning creatures that would appear outside the box oh yeah um and then although i don't think i don't think you have to be able to see where they're appearing yeah well i and then i also you know i was gonna if they got in i was gonna send baron out and he was just gonna i was gonna send him running with the ethereal cloak and i was gonna meld into stone and wait it out right like wait it out to escape or to make a run for it or something wait for them to come back which fires use the bathroom to which fires
Starting point is 00:08:04 i mean maybe they're gonna give chase in which case i could get up and transform into a bird or something. Wait for them to come back. The witch fires use the bathroom. The witch fires use the bathroom. I mean, maybe they're going to give chase, in which case I could get up and transform into a bird and get out. Again, to your credit, I didn't even think you had the shot that you had to make that stone wall. I just figured either Baron would shoot or go into the vanishing breastplate.
Starting point is 00:08:20 Either you go ethereal, and then Dalgrith would die. I figured it was just going to be like, okay, devastating blast Takes out two of you or she comes up Axe kills one or I was thinking If he goes into the vanishing breastplate She was just going to come up and start
Starting point is 00:08:33 Hacking at the breastplate until It destroyed it shunted him back To the material plane and then she just Killed him I mean yeah I mean I Was thinking if he went into the breastplate I was thinking I'll just go grab it and then go ethereal but that would have been two move actions yeah i couldn't have gone ethereal which means i would have been dead i remember when we wrapped up two weeks ago you were saying that i heard you saying that to baron and then you realized like
Starting point is 00:08:55 i know i can't activate it move pick up that's two move actually and if you're ethereal if i had been gone ethereal and stayed in the area, oh, I guess they had targeted, but did they have AOL spell? Area of effect spells? Which fires? No. Oh, then we were fine. Because if it was area of effect or blast, you can actually be hit by force or abjuration stuff
Starting point is 00:09:16 when you're in the ethereal plane. Yeah, I don't know if the fire would affect that. I think the devastating blast was fire as well. Either way, you'll be missed. I mean, I'm staying. Matthew's staying. You can't throw me out. Bummer.
Starting point is 00:09:33 There goes my real plan. No, I love you, Matthew. Two down. Two left remaining. You got another one of my characters, Troy. 50% miss chance on top of it. How many are you killed now? I've lost count.
Starting point is 00:09:48 All of them. Not all of them. All of them. Gorms, Della, and Farrah. Yeah, all of them. Well, on this show. This show, that's true. Yeah, I've killed them all.
Starting point is 00:09:58 So watch out, Metro. Surprised you survived 200. Watch out, Metra. Surprised you survived 200. I really don't know what happens here. But I'm going to prolong it a little longer. I'm going to do something. I'm going to do a couple things that I've never quite done before.
Starting point is 00:10:24 It's going to require some trust. Put your pants back on. All right, hold on. Let me do that first. I've done before um it's gonna require some trust put your pants back on all right hold on let me do that i've done that before sweatpants they're so easy to take on and off uh two things i've never done before one i'm gonna hand matthew a uh a piece of paper here let's fold it over i'm gonna hand it to joe to hand to matthew i don't want you to i'm gonna read it i don't want you to read it i don't want you to read it either matthew i just want you to hold on to it but a time may come in this episode when i'm going to point to you and you're going to open it and and do what it says all right okay it's a piece of paper am i gonna want to do what it says uh i think you will okay you might not it might It might be really bad.
Starting point is 00:11:05 No, I will not make out with you. I said don't open it. Don't read it. You're reading it too early. No, I will not make out with you. This guy's talking about horror, Phil. Such a weird way to ask. And the other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take you back.
Starting point is 00:11:22 Back to old true now. Back to Galabras' house, back to that room where he was sleeping in gentle repose for so long and is now gone. Do you mean the mid-episode cliffhanger of last episode? Mid-episode, yes. There's a lot of threads here. The cliffhanger after the cliffhanger, but before the other cliffhanger of last mid yes there's a lot of threads here after the cliffhanger but before the other cliffhanger yes exactly cliffhanger between the two cliffhanger four of six
Starting point is 00:11:52 she says we need to talk I cannot say much though I know you have many questions especially you
Starting point is 00:12:09 Jimmer who came here for the express purpose of retrieving him for his father but Calabrus is tied up in something far greater. I cannot say that I spoke to him directly
Starting point is 00:12:36 for the last time I saw him before he left. He was still, fever-minded, but suffice it to say someone spoke through him. Creepy. What?
Starting point is 00:12:59 And told me, told me to let him go. I once saw visions of this boy in the mist. The life that he lived. Long before he came here to True Now. I've sat by his bedside for what seems like years, even though it's only been a few weeks. bedside for what seems like years even though it's only been
Starting point is 00:13:24 a few weeks and even though we've never spoke I feel an intense connection to him all I know is that he would want you Jimmer
Starting point is 00:13:40 to protect his friends that is what I was told Jimmer. To protect his friends. That is what I was told. But he is gone. You're going to have to tell me more. I need to know where he is. To be honest, I need to know where he is. To be honest, I do not know. I was not privy to such information,
Starting point is 00:14:12 but I looked into the mist and I feel like he is in a good place. Although the mists are not always fully true. All right. I'm going to do a sense motive. Sure.
Starting point is 00:14:42 That's an 18, which is about as well as he can do um she's definitely withholding information yeah um but you don't think she's lying about about like everything she said has been the truth being in a good place right yeah's in hell. He's burning in hell. He's burning in hell. He's burning in hell. Jimmer, may I ask you, what is your background? What brought you into the service of the Finstocks? I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. I was basically a street urchin growing up Isle of Arran north of Absalom,
Starting point is 00:15:32 never having been able to shake the mode of speech. And I was hungry, and I snuck aboard a ship lying in port, trying to take something of value. I was a boy at the time. And I was caught. I was one too bright. I had brought before a gentleman who was concerned, owned the ship. He happened to be there.
Starting point is 00:16:07 And I don't know, I guess he saw something in me and kind of took me under his wing. He had his own son at the time, but he treated me as one of his own, one of his own family. And I've been raised in his service. one of his own family, and I've been raised in his service. I owe him everything, and Galabras was, as a brother to me, has been most of my whole life. I do not know what your experience is with the arcane, but if you would permit me, would you like to look into your mists? well I've been around pretty much this whole
Starting point is 00:17:08 this whole world and I've never done that but if it'll help I will do it let's see what we see about you, Jimma. And she motions to Catrezra, who's, you know, basically blind, but he just knows where all this stuff is, brings over a pot,
Starting point is 00:17:36 starts boiling, and water vapors come up into the air, and Droja, like, forcefully grabs your hands, not to hurt you, but, like like really for strength be lying the way she looks she grabs your hands Jimmer and stands across you as this vapor starts to coalesce into another world that you can look into
Starting point is 00:18:00 and you see yourself fighting and killing giants. Hmm. Hmm. Just striking down creatures four or five times your size.
Starting point is 00:18:22 Surrounded by fire. Ohrounded by fire. Oh no. And you look up into the sky and see a god coming down.
Starting point is 00:18:39 What has to be a god surrounded in white life. White light from the heavens. And it looks so familiar to you. And the god just points at you. And then dematerializes. I do not know what this particular vision
Starting point is 00:19:08 is trying to say and as I said I do not always tell the whole story but it seems like you are destined for more than just being an errand boy Jimmer no offense than just being an errand boy, Jimmer. No offense. From this vision, it seems as if
Starting point is 00:19:30 you are to be a great hero. One that the gods will smile upon. I know you came here to retrieve the boy. Why? I feel as if you have.
Starting point is 00:19:53 Well, I'm no hero. I've done some pretty nasty things in my time damn it god damn it
Starting point is 00:20:14 he just like turns away alright alright alright fuck it alright alright fuck it this is what he needs from me right now I'm gonna do it
Starting point is 00:20:40 I'm gonna do it I believe the friends he needs protecting are far from here. And Silvermane, I believe you know what that means. He just nods. Each of you are here for a reason What that reason is
Starting point is 00:21:09 May not be clear For a long time to come But something is happening In the world And it is up to us to play our part Adriel do you see it? do you feel it? it is seen
Starting point is 00:21:34 it is seen Metra I know you have vengeance in your heart but perhaps you weren't brought back here just for a simple act of... Vengeance. I already used the word I wanted. Troy.exe has stopped functioning.
Starting point is 00:22:04 You were simply brought back just to Avenge your daughter's death I've said nothing about vengeance Only of finding my daughter Yes Alright I think we're done here Get out of my house
Starting point is 00:22:21 It's my house now Wait a minute He left it to me. He said it was mine now. He told me the dream. Look at this whale right here. And it's written in like... It's written in orc.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Fuck this bill of sale. George's house. My room does have a second queen bed and a cot if you'd like to stay there with me. and a cot if you'd like to stay there with me so yeah i think i for jimmer like i think you know he he just he's bought into that like he he is convinced by kind of the nature of what he's been told and he you know he's not happy that he doesn't know where galavris is but he's some like he's found faith to accept that he's okay and this is what he needs to do for him for him for galabra galabras yeah right yeah everything's very mystical and obviously she's not telling you the whole thing but it's easy to get wrapped up in her
Starting point is 00:23:19 it happened long ago in red lake fort with four other heroes. Yeah. I remember them. Remember them? Four characters ago? Thank you, Troy. So, Metro, what do you want to do? I think Metro wants to seek out Baron. I mean, she's talked to Sir Will. You know, Gormley's dead.
Starting point is 00:23:44 And the only other person who's met and and traveled with della is baron so i think she's she would want to find him you know how freaked out baron would be to have della's mother show up i'm the big deputy now oh my god terrifying you're you're i'm the sheriff now oh no look at. Look at me. What about Adriel and Sir Will? They hit it off at the campfire. What do they want to do? I mean, I think that Sir Will is, he's thinking obviously about his mother. I mean, his mother is missing or, you know, she escaped allegedly.
Starting point is 00:24:22 And if she got out, he has some idea where she would probably go she'd probably go to her her family home um but you know he's it doesn't matter that much what he wants to do because he's under the uh he's under the um under orders to serve uh true now you know jagron still technically under right so like literally he was he's waylaid in this dungeon this horrible thing happens to highbury um but he does have to reassess and realize that like he's still on a mission here from baron it was like go attend your um situation highbury and then go to True Now and report to them where we are and what we're doing. And so he's obviously much delayed, but he is fulfilling that part of the mission. I don't even imagine that he's there in that room with Droja. maybe even more than a day debrief right with like the true now council or at least the guard
Starting point is 00:25:26 captain just explaining everything that's been going on what the giants are doing what they're preparing the whole skier guard thing right right he wouldn't know it to great detail but he would know that that this frost giant camp is a training camp for whatever yeah yeah so yeah so he's just like reporting to that and then it's like whatever you, he wants me to do next, I guess. Yeah. Um, but I do, I gotta say like the idea of,
Starting point is 00:25:49 uh, Adriel coming with me, like whatever Sir Will has to do. I think, uh, cause what a badass. I think Adriel is not with Sir Will during this. And after this info dump happens of Jimmer's fate
Starting point is 00:26:06 and everything else going on I think Adriel turns to Drojan and says The little prince Sir Will he is not much in stature but I believe his gossamer to be woven through the very
Starting point is 00:26:21 tapestry of fate that we all live and create every day and And I think without his abidement, the day is lost. What do you say, Troja? I think you speak wise.
Starting point is 00:26:37 The young man is tied into this very, very deeply. How, I do not know. But Silvermane says he is important. Whether that's just to Brander. Or to. The larger picture.
Starting point is 00:26:55 I do not know. I desperately. Wish to meet. The other Ashpeak Baron. As Kilpoth has told me that I needed to do so in order to save her. However,
Starting point is 00:27:13 something nags at me as if a kernel stuck in my teeth about this boy. I feel as if I must accompany him wherever he may go, even if it is far away from Baron. Yes.
Starting point is 00:27:28 I see that as well. You must follow the vision sometimes, even though they may take you the long way to your goal. If you feel a connection with this boy, perhaps it will lead you to Baron in the end.
Starting point is 00:27:48 Well, as you know, the mysteries and revelations have been clouded as of late, and I need it. Your kind counsel to guide me on my way, though I feel as if I'm just a candle floating in the night. Perhaps we'll shed light upon what needs to be shed. Troja, it is seen. I will accompany the little prince. And he leaves. Goodbye. Just walks out. It's like Batman.
Starting point is 00:28:18 Turns around. Whoa, huh? I want to hug you. So Adriel is going after Sir Wilt. They're going to do their own thing for the most part. And then you got Jimmer and Metra who are sort of tied up in Droja's cryptic messaging about Galabras, who is now gone, but she won't tell you why and won't tell you how, but there's something. She's so withholding.
Starting point is 00:28:44 She gets off on it. She does. There's something so convincing about her... the way in which she speaks about things that have come to pass or that will come to pass that you just feel... you feel
Starting point is 00:28:59 swept up in it. And Silvermane has been to Scarecrow. I wonder how much of that he actually remembers. Oh, yeah. He died there.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Died there. Does Silvermane do anything? Mm-mm. He's just... See ya. He's there in the room with Droja and all this happening and he's just see, he's, he's there in the room with Droja and all,
Starting point is 00:29:26 with all this happening. And he's just there. He's just in the background the whole time. And, uh, yeah, he's definitely, you know,
Starting point is 00:29:37 as, as Jimmer starts to come around, he's nodding and she says, you know what this means, you know where they need to go. And he's, he's just she says, you know what this means, where they need to go. And he's just, yes, I know. And he wants to, he's going to summon them there. He's going to summon them there?
Starting point is 00:29:55 No, he's going to summon them to come with him whenever they're ready to go. It's going to be the message. It's going to be like, when you're ready to set out, out come to me and i will put you on that mountaintop because skier guard is very very far away right um and he's like you know prepare for battle because i'm gonna drop you right into it so metro and jim are you do some shopping anything you want to do before you leave town. And then eventually you go to Silvermane's house overlooking the Hope Spring. Knock on his door. He comes out in pajamas.
Starting point is 00:30:36 In Scooby-Doo pajamas. Footie pajamas? Scooby-Doo footie pajamas. He's got a bowl of, like, Frosted Flakes. Spilled all over the place. I didn't know they made them in size hulking beasts. He just grunts at you. I just realized that I, just from thinking about Silvermane
Starting point is 00:31:00 and having to watch Jacen grow up again, and Drew now, knowing he's going to die. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. There's lots of stuff there we haven't touched on. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's seen it all.
Starting point is 00:31:11 Does he know? Does he have memories of... Yeah, I guess maybe we haven't established that. We haven't really talked about that. Yeah, we haven't established it yet. He said something in 200 that was like, those memories are something. I can't remember what he said, but... Yeah, I think it was about i those memories or something i can't remember what you said but yeah i think it
Starting point is 00:31:27 was about galabras it's like i'm not sure how i how i can explain it but i feel like i've known him longer than he's been alive yeah yeah yeah that's what you said um so they knock what do you he takes them down to the Hope Spring and simply, you know, he's mute, so they're not really communicating, but he's just looking them up and down, making sure that they're actually ready to go. And then he silently begins a series of hand motions with his eyes closed and his lips moving but nothing coming out and after just you know a matter of seconds both of you see shadows, like, cast by the sun.
Starting point is 00:32:27 What a stupid way to explain a shadow. You see it gets darker underneath. A certain portion of the sun is blocked by a solid object. This is a shadow. I really want to be in the room with one of your children. A shadow creature. Right, someone from the shadow plane. He says to a shadow creature.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Right, to someone from the shadow plane. No, but you see basically two blots against the sun approaching swiftly against the wind and suddenly growing larger and larger and larger until swooping over the recently reconstructed walls of True Now, you see two giant eagles. What? Oh, what? Swooping into the hope spring and just like... constructed walls of True Now, you see two giant eagles come swooping into the Hope Spring and just like
Starting point is 00:33:08 on the ground in front of them. Just like a helicopter. The wind from their wings is like Everyone's ducking. There's just dirt and dust flying up in the air. And they just like down on the ground next to you
Starting point is 00:33:24 and then just like ease themselves down so that you can easily mount them. Wow. What a way to travel. Yeah. Are you kidding? And can you tell them where to go? Yeah. Or I don't know.
Starting point is 00:33:39 I mean, it's mostly just flavor, Troy. But it does have a limited duration. so it would only be 13 hours. But I think 13 hours by flight should get them there. Can you give them parachutes in case they dispel in midair? Should get them there. And I mean, these are intelligent creatures. Right, right, right. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:33:59 So I think that magically they could know where to go. He could communicate with them yeah um i don't see why not yeah uh you know normally you're supposed to be there too but right right you know it's more of a flavor thing yeah yeah no i like it um and he reaches over to uh metra and just like takes her hand holds her hand for a moment and nods to her, walks over, does the exact same thing to Jimmer, takes his hand for a moment, nods, and then steps back, gives some good clearance
Starting point is 00:34:35 and then just their wings start flapping and they take off and fly these two straight out of Trinidad. Wow. You just see an arrow like barely miss one of them. And a little voice go, I missed. I could have been dinner tonight. That would have fed me for weeks.
Starting point is 00:34:55 And so Jimmer and Metro fly off in the direction of Skiergard on two giant eagles. I'm nicknaming mine Gwai here. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Yeah, so anyway, that is his domain, because Silvermane's domain is the eagle domain, and that's his sixth level domain. Wow, that is really, really neat. It's Eagle Airy, it's called.
Starting point is 00:35:19 You can summon a flight of giant eagles. How useful is that? Yeah, pretty awesome. So badass. I can summon up to four eagles wow just fly a whole party amazing uh well after the end of this combat you might need to summon a couple more because we're back in the tomb oh oh wait can i do one more thing one more little thing come on it's little uh i don't know that they're definitely leaving But I would assume Sir Will and
Starting point is 00:35:45 Adriel are leaving Okay You know what I mean On a secret mission Yeah on a secret mission And I just have this picture In my head Of just
Starting point is 00:35:54 Gandalf In Lord of the Rings When Is it When Aragorn It's Aragorn right That tells him That Sam went with
Starting point is 00:36:04 Frodo And he's like but frodo is still moving the ring toward uh sarah uh toward uh yeah yeah and he's like oh he's not alone sam went with him and he's like did he did he indeed yeah good and smile so i imagine silver man like watching adriel like walking next Sir Will, much larger than him, and just nodding and smiling. Good. I didn't even have to do anything, and what is supposed to happen is happening. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:34 Yeah, I like that. We're back in the tomb. Baron, you are five feet away from her as she gets immolated. Oh, man. from her as she gets immolated. Oh, man. A hand, a green hand just sticks through the wall, touches her.
Starting point is 00:36:50 I see the green hand lighting up the interior of this stone hovel that was built for the two of us and illuminating it all. And before I know what can happen, I see Faraz's eyes maybe look back at me, and this incorporeal hand touches
Starting point is 00:37:05 her and just The cloak falls to the ground. The cloak that you said, here, take my cloak, falls to the ground. It is your action, Baron. Wow, what a wild. No!
Starting point is 00:37:23 And before any more thought can go through his head, he remembers her words of take the cloak, get out. Baron reaches down into just the remains of his friend that he'd been traveling with all this time and whips the cloak around his shoulders. And I guess with his final action of this round activates the ability to enter the
Starting point is 00:37:49 ethereal plane. Enters the ethereal plane. Well, wait a minute. Now let's do this right. Okay. Picking it up as a move action. Alright. Donning it as a standard action. Alright, that was just five minutes. Unless you want to don it hastily.
Starting point is 00:38:06 Hastily don. And what is the activation? It's a standard action. Oh, okay. So I'm in there. You're in there. Oh, jeez. Right.
Starting point is 00:38:16 It has not been activated. Nope. It is Dalgrith's turn. Well, Skid just wants the whole world to burn. I could have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that pesky Skid mark. It wasn't a pesky Skid. I have to answer those emails. Oh, jeez.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Okay. Okay. That changes everything. That does change everything. Oh. Oh, no. Dalgrith. I mean, man, he's got room for one more.
Starting point is 00:38:51 He could do one more image. Try to take attention away. You're just like running laps around the battlefield right now and leaving. That's great. Just pooping out illusions. Oh, man. Now, is the stairs like, is the ceiling lower in the stairs? Because he was like 40 feet up, 35 feet up or whatever. You've got air walk on you.
Starting point is 00:39:14 Right, so he was 35 feet up. Can he still be 35 feet up there or did he have to go down? Okay. The height of the maze ceiling is not as high as the Scarecrow's throne room. Okay. The height of the maze ceiling is not as high as the Scarecrow's throne room. Okay. Okay. Then, oh, man, this is tough. Baron.
Starting point is 00:39:35 This is extremely bad. This is extremely bad. Yeah. I am just so happy that, do you know who wrote this book or that's jim groves jim groves i'm so glad he had these things continue to fight when their leader died just beautiful monster right here thanks so much jim yeah well they wouldn't just go sit and be like all right mission accomplished good luck on the way out guys make sure you get a bag yeah make sure you get her armor well they feel like Oh, now all hope is lost.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Why are we... Maybe they're enslaved or something and they'd be like... Now we're free and then they just run away. Yeah, it's true. That's interesting. Cool little man. I like that. Oh, wow. Dog Wraith is going to move up in such a manner that he's going to move in such a manner that he ends up going,
Starting point is 00:40:34 starting down toward the ground where Pembroke is. Okay. And he's going to move and put in a square just like the last square he passes through, basically. He'll put an illusion and an illusion of himself. And he will then shout at these creatures. You still got one dwarf left. I'm over here. And try to draw maybe ranged
Starting point is 00:41:07 Attacks over that way Wow And you know so they can see the illusion And they hear the voice and it comes from basically The same location But you know they could get a Perception roll to see if the voice came from Five feet to the side of the illusion or whatever
Starting point is 00:41:23 There was one dwarf yet in Scarecrow. Yeah, exactly. Still draws breath. Still draws breath. So he's just trying to, you know, he doesn't know exactly what's going on in the box, but he knows that the idea of taking a cloak and putting it on and everything is going to take a few seconds. So maybe, you know, I mean, he almost stops himself from blurting out, but then
Starting point is 00:41:45 he just blurts blurts it out because he thinks he can still possibly survive it i love that you also like can't stop yourself even when it makes sense from being heroic the great death bringer yeah yeah uh interesting interesting move uh so you left another image of yourself out there yeah yeah i i just can't copy it. Okay. You can, but it's right to his left there. The one that just killed Feyraza is closest to that image.
Starting point is 00:42:13 It fires at the image. Okay. Natural one. Oh, 20-something against touch, so destroys the image. Yes. The other one uh man this is very very interesting here um what do they know that one knows that it killed something it had to have felt that it killed something not necessarily they could they could know damage. Yeah, but I mean, they can communicate with each other.
Starting point is 00:42:47 It also, just because it kills... Shoots a bolt. Right, but just because it kills the illusion doesn't necessarily... Like, it can kill the illusion and still know that somewhere over there, there is an actual dwarf, because maybe the illusions don't make sound. I don't know. I guess that's why there's a 50% mischance. Right. It comes up to touch through the wall.'t make sound. You know? I don't know. I guess that's why there's a 50% mischance. Right.
Starting point is 00:43:08 It comes up to touch through the wall. Oh, God. First, let's see if it touches into Feyraz's square. Oh, you have two 50% mischances here. Oh, my God. Or Baron's square. Oh, my God. So it's just a... Comes up. What were you last week? Odds? I was odds.
Starting point is 00:43:24 You want to stick with evens there, Grant? You decide, bud. I'm not going to throw myself in here. If he has evens, I'll be evens. You are even Steven. Come on, Odds. Then we don't have to worry about it. Yes!
Starting point is 00:43:37 Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? Unbelievable. Oh, my God. I was born on third base. For real. Three. It was a three.
Starting point is 00:43:52 It was a three. It comes up. Wow. It touches through at Feyraz's face. And Baron. You had to kill me again. She really just fries her. And it is now Beren's turn
Starting point is 00:44:05 It's really tight in there So she might not have fallen She could be like leaning up against Beren Just grab it You want to roll reflex? Slumping against her Effectively he did a coup de grace But I was already dead
Starting point is 00:44:19 You were already dead Just chopped your leg off Beren you are up You have the cloak donned. Baron is going to activate the cloak's nature. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:44:33 And then move 20 feet into solid stone behind him. Just into stone. Dalgrath, you are up. You actually moved 10 feet. Amazing. Oh, okay. Oh, could you move half speed? All right, so I'm just inside of this stone. Dalgrath, you are up. You actually moved ten feet. Amazing. Oh, okay. Oh, could you move half speed? Alright, so I'm just inside of this stone. Skid, is there anything
Starting point is 00:44:51 that Pembroke would have had that is that you would say is like, I don't know, significantly Pembroke? Like something that if Dalgrath could grab like, I mean his cane for sure. His cane, right? You know what? There was like, he did have a pendant around his neck, but that's been destroyed, obviously. Right, right, right.
Starting point is 00:45:11 So, yeah, from what he has left, I would probably say his cane. Okay. Dalgrith is going to... He's going to hold. Okay. Okay. Hold. Baron, let me know what your thoughts are here, because you have enough time left on the cloak.
Starting point is 00:45:32 Remember, Pembroke used the cloak to scout the secret area out so that you could teleport there. But I will say that there is enough time left on that cloak to get you outside. We don't have to really worry about you if that's your goal. What is your goal? You can go anywhere you want. It's
Starting point is 00:45:54 Dalgrith we gotta worry about. Oh boy. So I'm not actually interested in any of the treasure in this room, but I am interested on what's on the other side of the doors we didn't go through in there. Well, that is true. That is another room. But I'm just worried about...
Starting point is 00:46:14 Those doors are far, but I mean... I'm also worried about picking up something and then having these witch fires see me and then fire on my space. You actually can't pick up anything. Oh, I can't pick up anything. You can't pick up anything and you can these witch fires see me and then fire on my space. You actually can't pick up anything. Oh, I can't pick up anything. You can't pick up anything and you can't be seen. Really? Unless they were... You can be hit by abjuration or force effects.
Starting point is 00:46:34 Right. So... I mean, I don't really know what else I could do at this point. So I'm just going to... Baron's just going to... Sadly, he does not want to. He's going to keep on moving. I guess I can't even affect myself with healing spells while I'm in this realm.
Starting point is 00:46:50 You can. Okay. Yeah, you can. All of your stuff is on the ethereal plane with you. Okay, great. Do you have resist energy? I wish. Yeah, so, yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:04 Barron's's gonna move another Oh, is this his turn now? Yeah Baron's gonna move another ten feet that way And, you know what, he's gonna get out of the temple Before he tries to heal himself Okay, so that's basically what I'm asking Because we don't have to worry about you
Starting point is 00:47:16 Unless there's something you want to do To buff yourself Or to, like, go back into the fight Or to go explore into another room That could have more creatures. Who knows? Yeah, I think Barren's just going to play it safe. And he knows that the main evil's done and that he wants to try to regroup in any way
Starting point is 00:47:35 he can and come back here and finish off whatever he has unfinished business he has with Brander. He wants to give a proper burial to his friends as well. So he's definitely coming back. But right now is not that time. Jalgrith, what is your plan here? Well, he's wondering if he can... He's devastated at seeing Pembroke's broken body, and he wants to take out of...
Starting point is 00:48:03 He doesn't want Pembroke's whole, everything of him to be left in this tomb. So he wanted to take something, but he's also not going to do anything really stupid. So, you know, if the witch fires, you know, are, and I forgot about these stupid things. The will-o-wisps. The will-o-wisps. I'm not even using them right now because they can only hurt you and you're invisible. Right. So, but I wonder if, like, the, if his staff just, like, vanishing is something they would
Starting point is 00:48:31 pick up on. And if they do, could they just, like, blindly strike out into space? One hit from one of these creatures and I'm permanently dead. Wait, aren't the will-o-wisps gone? They were summoned creatures. Summoned by the witch fires. Oh. Oh.
Starting point is 00:48:45 What an awful creature, the Witchfire. That's an amazing creature. Oh, God, man. So I'm just getting a sense as a player that it might be too dangerous. I don't know. What do you think? Like, what do you think? To what?
Starting point is 00:48:59 To try to grab this staff and have it vanish in front of them. Is it like, it's just too too risky right? I guess the question is do you want to die? I don't want to die but if it's obvious that like nobody's going to see me then I would do it but I don't know if it's obvious are the witch fires scanning the room still or are they giving up like that's kind of why I was holding
Starting point is 00:49:17 looking at the map where those will-o'-wisps are it's very dangerous alright yeah I mean he's he could always come back later. So he's going to he's going to he's going to he's going to double move into the maze. Okay. So he's going to double move out into the into the maze. God.
Starting point is 00:49:40 All right. In terms of creatures you have to worry about right now are these morgues. Yeah. And the Doolahan. And the Doolahan. Oh, right. The maze exit. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:49:52 The maze exits right into the room with the Doolahan. Oh, my God. There's no other way out. There is no other way out that you know of. Do you want to roll some knowledge checks? Yeah. I can do knowledge, religion on the morgues. Okay, try that.
Starting point is 00:50:08 The main thing I want to know is do they have blind sight? Okay. Knowledge, religion on the morgues. Come on. I mean, natural three. It's such garbage. Ten.
Starting point is 00:50:23 You don't know. It's really every single roll. It doesn't matter what I'm rolling for. All right. Roll on the Doolahan. Knowledge, religion on the Doolahan. That is an 18. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:50:39 They do. They do. Have blindsight. The Doolahan has blindsight. Oh, Lord. With a range of 60 feet. They do have blindsight The Dullahan has blindsight Oh lord With a range of 60 feet But you also You don't know where it is in the room
Starting point is 00:50:51 You don't know where it is and there's also those columns Those pillars in the way so I think you could go Tricky enough Full sprint Also you can go up in the air Oh airwalk yeah You can walk above it's head Oh yeah start walking on sunshine buddy
Starting point is 00:51:06 That big ass lance Do the maze walls go to the ceiling In every spot or can you just walk over the maze No they go to the ceiling But you can walk Up At least save yourself those footballs Um
Starting point is 00:51:20 Yeah Jeez this is brutal You're going to have to open the door Is the other problem You're going to have to open the door into the Duel of Hands room I will I will start by making my way to the door So I will try to work around
Starting point is 00:51:38 And avoid these morgues at all costs I mean If they don't have blindsight I have A really really really high stealth score But I'm also moving kind of quickly costs. I mean, if they don't have blindsight, I have, you know, a really, really, really high stealth score, but I'm also moving kind of quickly, so I'm not sure. I wouldn't probably go into full stealth
Starting point is 00:51:51 unless they saw me, but I'm not making any sound, and I'm invisible. Right. Alright, so you begin moving while Baron is just walking through walls to get out of the tomb. You just keep walking through, and eventually you hear like footsteps. And You just keep walking through and eventually You hear like footsteps And around the corner
Starting point is 00:52:09 One of these things walks up And you're standing Across from it And it doesn't appear to see you It just keeps walking right at you though Oh no Right at you Alright he's gonna go up and over it
Starting point is 00:52:24 And stay completely still. As you do that, it just takes a right and starts walking away. Oh, my God. Heart attack. I'm, like, doing it on the map, too. Oh, see ya. Just going this way. If I got this one alive, I promise to pray to Torog every day.
Starting point is 00:52:40 He'll go. He turns around and hears you. What's that? I didn't say it out loud. He'll go Turns around and hears you What was that? I didn't say it out loud He'll go to the doors Alright so you eventually make it to the doors While Baron is still flying through walls Trying to get out
Starting point is 00:52:54 You can walk up and down too Because the ethereal jaunt lets you go up in the air Sweet Ethereal jaunt I love that Ethereal jaunt Doug with you get to the doors here They are locked from the other side,
Starting point is 00:53:06 but you can easily get out. What do you do? So I can just open the door? Yeah, they're locked, but you can unlock it from this side. I can unlock it from this side. I'm going to stealthily try to... Roll a stealth check.
Starting point is 00:53:18 ...unlock the door. Oh, my God. Now, I guess the invisibility doesn't apply here, right? I would imagine. To the handle. To the sound of the handle. To the I guess the invisibility doesn't apply here, right? I would imagine. To the handle. To the sound of the handle. To the sound of the handle. 27.
Starting point is 00:53:31 27. Let me roll a little Doolahan Percept here. Natural six. Still, in four episodes, haven't rolled over 11. Maybe I want to change it. Okay, you... The door. It made that sound?
Starting point is 00:53:44 You see the Dool hand in the room he is the headless you know you hadn't seen this creature before you probably only heard from pembroke and baron of what this thing looked like yeah this is the thing that killed four bears yeah uh you see it. It's about, oh, 70 feet away or so. Hugging right in, like, between the pillars in the middle of the room, but towards the right side of the room, where the right pillars are running down towards the exit. He does not seem to notice that the doors opened. But, yeah, you know, I just moved him
Starting point is 00:54:26 and he's 70 feet away. You know his blind sense is 60 feet. Oh my God. All right. Dog Wraith is going to go just above the floor and then just right, you know, along the wall, basically.
Starting point is 00:54:41 Just trying to stay, because that'll keep him out of 60 feet, right? If he like shimmies along the wall. So he'll shimmy along the far wall from him as quietly as possible. He's like Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid. He doesn't want to hear that. Roll two stealth checks.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Exclamation points everywhere. Roll two stealth checks with the plus 20. And put a cardboard box on your head. Metal Gear? Another 11. Still max at 11. That is a 52. 20. And put a cardboard box on your head. Metal Gear? Another 11. Still maxed at 11. That is a 52. Okay. And then 54.
Starting point is 00:55:11 Okay. Ooh, 31 perception I rolled on the second one. So you're walking along there, and it's kind of like moving around. Oh, no. It's on a patrol? I imagine sometimes he's behind a column, and he just stays behind the column. Yeah, it comes right next to your column. Just like walking by.
Starting point is 00:55:32 But you were able to get by. Oh, my God. Oh, man. I could just picture all of it. I had a plus 16 perception. Like, I could have got you. No joke. With that 34, I didn't even need to roll a natural 20.
Starting point is 00:55:44 And then as he gets to the hallway where the main thing is, he just starts running. Like, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Yeah, by now. Full speed, four times speed. Through the air. Through the air. Through the air. Running to the door of the tomb. Holy crap.
Starting point is 00:56:00 Bursts through the door into the sunlight. Blinding his eyes. And you get outside the tomb. Oh, my God. So insane. What do you guys do? Well, I mean, he heard Feyraza, so he's just praying.
Starting point is 00:56:24 Please, brother, please tell me you made it out. Tell me I'm not the only one. um all right well i mean he heard fair rosa so he's he's just praying please brother please tell me you made it out tell me i'm not the only one tell me i'm not the only one and he's basically looking for baron but not uh going un-invisible yet you know what i mean just just in case uh see if he's gonna show himself first. And Baron takes his cloak off, and you see him enter this plane. Brother, we may have won the fight, but we lost the day. Aye, it's a bad one. I'm afraid it's a bad one, Baron, but we can't linger here. We must get far away as quickly as
Starting point is 00:57:05 possible stay low follow me i will and we're just like through the snow immediately trying to close on one of the buildings just to give us some cover from the open is it daytime nighttime yeah yeah what uh the time now it's probably around like six so the darkness is approaching um yeah so i mean we're just going to try to get to the to the closest wall yeah uh right near the nearest place is the uh the temple you probably don't want to go there uh the mammoth stockade is also nearby uh the silo was burned down uh so the next closest place was the mammoth stockade that Stockade. That's true. That's right. Would be the mess hall. Can we airwalk to where we. Did we burn that down too?
Starting point is 00:57:48 You might have burned that down. Was the airwalk. A lot of damage. Was the airwalk 10 minutes a level? Whatever. I don't have that character sheet open. Let's just say we don't have the airwalk and we're moving through the snow. We have lots of places where we had camped out before.
Starting point is 00:58:03 Right. Can we reach one of those places? But if you want to go to a building... I don't think we'd need to get to a building. Okay. There's one building that you guys never went to that is right... Yeah, we'll go there. Right there.
Starting point is 00:58:15 No, I think... Let's go to the mess hall, because that's... It's 10-minute intervals among the creatures. Touched. So it was like a half hour or something. Yes, you have some time. You have enough time to float over to the mess hall. Alright, so we'll get over to the mess hall and just
Starting point is 00:58:28 like, you know, close the door, seal ourselves in and just, it's like a quiet place. You're just like, keep your voice down. We need to heal up here before we move forward. I mean, he's really hurt. He's bleeding all over.
Starting point is 00:58:44 He's got six HP. What is the name of the leader of the Wolfpack again that we met at the beginning? Ah, Rainfarg. So I think at some point after we heal up a little bit, Baron's going to want to try to reach out to Rainfarg for, like, you know, protecting our asses as we kind of get out of there. Yeah. Because we killed Skirkala.
Starting point is 00:59:03 We finished our end of the deal with her so i'm hoping maybe she can give us cover or help us get down the mountain or something quickly so um let me uh let me pop off some uh it's it's crazy because after all this time where we're just popping in and out of skelton and then out of the cathedral with the teleport suddenly like you're just stranded on top of a mountain. Yeah. Yeah. No, we got a long back brother. And like even just getting back to civilization is going to take such a long time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:31 14 points of healing for you. Oh God. Already feeling better. Huge. 18 points of healing for me. And I'm out of cure lights. Yeah. And I mean,
Starting point is 00:59:41 with these, with Pembroke and Fiorazagon, I mean, do you have the, the wand, do you have the wand? Do you have a wand? I think I have a wand. Let me look at my sheet real quick. I believe you do.
Starting point is 00:59:49 I believe I do. I certainly don't have one. You don't have any potions left? No. I mean, I do, but not healing potions. Yeah, we both have one. Oh, no, actually, I do. I do have a healing potion here.
Starting point is 01:00:02 All right. So, yeah, I mean, we'll take healing potions. I think we're going to hole up for the night at this potion here all right um so yeah i mean we'll take healing potions i think i think we're gonna hold up for the night okay at this point all right so rest and recover i mean you know my armor abilities i used all of them and they recharge each day so oh i also have uh dalgryth i have a i have a broom of flying we can get down the mountain very quickly. It'll take the command word and fly back here, whoever wants to go first. But let's rest up tonight. All right, let's rest tonight.
Starting point is 01:00:36 I don't think they're coming out of that tomb anytime soon looking for us. And can I plant, is there any ground that's not awful? Can I plant the sapling rod outside somewhere or in this room or somewhere? right we can go right outside and play all right cool so we'll plant that and then in the morning we'll grab the fruit harvest i think you actually both could fly on the broom it just would move more slowly uh i'll look it up while we're resting i mean the two of you probably don't weigh 400 pounds together right up to 400 pounds at a speed of 30 feet. Oh, we might with all our gear. Let me just see. I wear, well, my load is 114 pounds. I weigh 170.
Starting point is 01:01:13 So that's 300 pounds just on me. Yeah, yeah. I weigh 185 pounds and then have all my gear. So, yeah, we couldn't do it. Yeah, and I don't have energy. We can do it in the morning, though though but yeah let's rest up heal up and mourn the loss of our friends i don't think we'll sleep well tonight but we have to get some rest before we move forward i we have, I mean, I think just completely exhausted.
Starting point is 01:01:46 Yeah. They sleep. We, like, collapse against the door, even. Like, we get the door closed and just... Just, like, jam a bunch of stuff in front of it and it just pass out. Yeah. So you sleep. You make a place for yourselves to sleep.
Starting point is 01:02:01 You guys still don't really have what it takes to defeat the witch fires right to be able to like search that room clear out your friends belongings clear out their bodies or what's left we haven't talked yet about it we might talk about it in the morning but you know dalgrith is he's not optimistic so you lay down you go to sleep not Certainly you're exhausted, but it's not a restful sleep because there's horrible guilt sort of weighing on you. Baron, you're dreaming, you think, but it feels very, very real. And you're back outside of that two-story house,
Starting point is 01:02:49 but this time you don't hear a baby crying. Oh, no. You walk inside, just sort of out of curiosity, to go back to that room. The door is slightly ajar. On the second floor, you push it open. And Brander is just sitting there. Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:03:16 Can I talk to him in the stream, or am I, like, witnessing it, like, out of body? It's a little bit of both, but you feel like you can speak to him. He would struggle through and say, I couldn't finish the deal, Brander. I lost two more of my friends. They fell on the battlefield and I ran out of there with my own life,
Starting point is 01:03:39 even though I didn't deserve it. You can go in that temple and get her armor yourself. You son of a bitch. I knew nothing of the old man. What his part in all of this is or was. I know not. But the girl. She deserved better. She came from a long line of fools, but I thought she would be the one to break the chain. Apparently not. I don't know why I had a soft spot for her
Starting point is 01:04:28 but I thought that I could keep her around just a little bit longer but it seems like yet again you've let these pieces fall through your hands they're not pieces, Brander. They're people. And they're dying. They're not going anywhere. It's not something I ever dreamed for.
Starting point is 01:04:52 I don't even know what the hell you want them for. Are you returning to the tomb? I don't even know I think I will but I'm sick of playing right into your hand I'll tell you that right now do you remember when I gave you the gift of knowledge
Starting point is 01:05:19 the gift of knowing who to trust and who not to trust. I'm going to give you another gift, Baron. But it's one that I don't know if you will even have the courage to use. Baron spits on the ground. Don't talk to me about courage you coward I did not have much time to waste
Starting point is 01:05:49 As others approach Who are not yet ripe Oh no Here Take this And eat like Hands of potion to you in the dream Here, take this. And he, like, hands a potion to you in the dream. Retrieve the armor, Baron.
Starting point is 01:06:17 And do what you think is right. The dream ends. Eventually you wake up. And sitting on the bedside table next to you is a potion. It glows with a strange clarity. Wow. Baron can't believe that this item crossed the dream world and entered with him, but since he's traveled through planes, you know, just with this cloak
Starting point is 01:06:50 just a little while ago, he can believe it. And he'll detect magic on it. I assume it's magical. Spellcraft check. Natural 20. Oh, wow. Huge.
Starting point is 01:07:03 25. It is a potion of plane shift. Oh, wow. Oh. Wow. Okay. Don't even know what that is. Sounds cool, though.
Starting point is 01:07:16 What does Baron know a potion of plane shift does? It allows you to move yourself or some other creature to another plane of existence or alternate dimension. If several willing persons link hands in a circle, as many as eight could be affected by a plane shift at the same time. Precise accuracy as to a particular arrival location on the intended plane is nigh impossible. From the material plane, you can reach any other plane, though you appear five to five hundred miles from your intended destination it transports creatures instantaneously and then ends the creatures need to find other means if they are to travel back huh and so this is actually a spell on adriel's spell list i was was looking at this in the Oracle spells.
Starting point is 01:08:06 Does this seem to... In fact, it's also something that Metra can do. So is it something... When it is cast by a spellcaster, it goes to your desired plane, basically. Do I get the sense that I get to choose that plane if I were to swallow this? Sure.
Starting point is 01:08:26 Oh, okay. It's not like predetermined by Brander to send me to some fucked up place. No, but you have no idea why he gave it to you. Yeah. Baron will pick it up, look at it. Dalgrith, I had a terrible dream. I saw Brander again He told me that he'd already given me the gift of knowledge
Starting point is 01:08:52 And he wanted to give me one more Now I have this potion The potion of Plane Shift I have no idea He's speaking cryptic riddles at me What do you think? I think the man's a mystery. I wouldn't trust anything he says.
Starting point is 01:09:12 But I did strangely believe him when he said he wasn't our enemy. I mean, I know he is. I'm not crazy, but it feels like he's got something much greater than just defeating us going on. I don't know quite what it is, but I don't want to be... I don't want to be falling into his traps anymore, and I feel like this potion might be one of them. And I realize potions can't be higher than a third-level spell, but it's flavor.
Starting point is 01:09:43 It could have easily been a scroll or a wand. It's a potion like scroll or a scroll like potion. These are very common. It's a liquid scroll. We'll say if you can't, we'll say you have to use magic device on it. So it could be a scroll. That makes sense. So I can't even cast it now.
Starting point is 01:09:59 I know Dalgrith can't either, knowing what this magic is. Very powerful magic. No. Be careful reading that scroll. Keep your eyes away from it. Don't read the text! Baron's blind now. Mishap.
Starting point is 01:10:16 So, I have a healthy I have a healthy suspicion of magical writing. In the land of Osirian, you can simply read things and they can totally change your fate. I try to stay away from it when I can, especially one that's written by a man such
Starting point is 01:10:32 as Brander. Now the question is, Baron, do we go back in? Do we get their bodies and bring them back out? Can we defeat the witchfires? Is there a way? I've been thinking about it all morning. Since 4am I've been awake, but I can't...
Starting point is 01:10:48 I can't figure a way. Ever since back in True Now, I always had a hard time getting a shot off and connecting with creatures that were incorporeal. And I'm still not healed up yet. We're gonna have some tender vittles in a second here off of that tree.
Starting point is 01:11:07 We might be able to heal ourselves up there. But we also might need to head back to Skelton and rest up a little bit more before we head in there. What do you think? That sounds good to me. I don't see them rearming the whole tomb before we come back. And I don't think that with their leader gone and dead, there's not really much of a point to try to end. And I might add that no one else is really going to get through into that room besides us.
Starting point is 01:11:34 I think we have the time we need, especially with the broom. It just doesn't feel right living on this borrowed time that Pembroke and Feyrasa gave us. I want to charge back in, but I've let my emotions get the best of me in the past. I guess I shouldn't this time, even though it feels right. Feels like I should.
Starting point is 01:11:57 I know. There's going to be time for it, Baron. You and I, we're going to do the memories justice. But the time's not now We need to think about tactics now We need to think about getting out of here alive Getting back to healing up
Starting point is 01:12:10 And then coming back Taking their bodies out of here It's gotta be our priority at the moment And then we can properly put them to rest Okay He reaches out Grabs your shoulder Gives it a good squeeze.
Starting point is 01:12:26 He's like, let's keep our wits about us now, and we'll mourn for them when there's time. All right. Well, let's eat and then let's fly. Do you want to go down first? You know how to use one of these flying brooms? No, I'm absolutely terrified. All right. know how to use one of these flying brooms no i'm absolutely terrified uh uh so yeah i mean he'll fly down the mountain or before you fly down the mountain both you roll a perception check okay
Starting point is 01:12:54 here we go 30 21 i'm sorry 34 You both hear the sound of wings. Oh my God. Baron, it sounds to you like dragon's wings. What? It sounds to you exactly like the dragon that Brander turned into in Minderhall's cathedral. Before he flew out those kind of wings, the way it echoed throughout that cathedral. And then the sound disappears. What do you do?
Starting point is 01:13:36 Oh, man. Dalgrith draws his sword. It's like up against the wall. It's like, could be a dragon outside. I know you said you had your dragon friend, but... Baron reaches out, opens the door. Fear in his eyes. Just terrified, knowing that it's just the two of them. Plucks off the six pieces of fruit from the tree.
Starting point is 01:13:53 He's like, hurry! It's like being in a battle in Skyrim, where you just pause and eat everything in your pouch. So we both get three potions of cure mods. That's good. It says Dalgrith. Dalgrith, that's a terrifying dragon. That came down.
Starting point is 01:14:12 That's the dragon that stole Della and gave her body to Brander. Well, just keep a lookout. Don't walk out there yet. The snow is all a mess in the area. You can see most of Skirgaard there's snow everywhere like there was a fresh, like it's
Starting point is 01:14:29 actually snowing. It's all been whipped up into a frenzy and in the distance you see walking through camp a solitary figure in a black robe. What? For a second you're like
Starting point is 01:14:44 is that Brander? But it's a woman. Kind of looks exactly like Della. Walking around and looking. And from behind, a man with a sword in hand. Badass armor, like arm to the teeth.
Starting point is 01:15:09 And an eye patch. And a freaking eye patch. And they look right at you. Matthew, hold on to that paper. We'll see you next week. I didn't even get to the paper. I want to read it. I thought Skin was going to get to do one thing. No, nothing. The Glass Cannon Podcast is a Glass Cannon Network production
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