Ashes of Divinity EP 2 Reflection and Reaction

Episode 2 • August 01, 2025 • 03:01:03
Ashes of Divinity EP 2 Reflection and Reaction
Will of the Dice- A Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play Podcast
Ashes of Divinity EP 2 Reflection and Reaction

Aug 01 2025 | 03:01:03

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Show Notes

The party discovered crystal fragments in a throne room that granted them visions of an approaching malevolent threat seeking their deaths, giving them only twelve hours before it reached Anvil Hold. When supernatural calamities began plaguing the town - forges burning white hot, food spoiling, and darkness deepening - the angry townspeople blamed the party, forcing Warden Althra to take them into protective custody. With the mayor planning to seal the gates permanently at dawn, the party had only eight hours to escape before being trapped forever. Master Koli helped them flee through underground tunnels, leading them to Brother Simeon who gave Oz'zariah a mysterious pre-cataclysm book, then to his blacksmith shop where they gathered weapons and disguises before successfully sneaking through town and past the guards.

The party escaped across the Sea of Solace desert on sand skiffs, but a massive sandstorm blew them off course into the forbidden Singing Sands, where they discovered an ancient temple made of dark crystal. Inside, they encountered a divine avatar who tested each party member individually with challenges of truth and moral choice. Opus chose to preserve precious memories over gaining forbidden knowledge and received the ability to create Elixir of Life, Kagen chose mercy over vengeance and gained truth-revealing scales, while other members faced their own trials and received magical rewards. When Oz'zariah was offered a choice between personal gain or benefiting the entire group, her selfless decision to help everyone resulted in the avatar granting all party members increased strength and bravery, causing each to gain a level as divine energy wrapped around them.

 

CAST

Ka'gen - Loch

Nyx - KC

Opus - Chris

Lenore - Alice

Lumine - Blue

Oz'zariah - Ames

DM - Tyr

 

Music by

Peculiar Patrick

Jeff Farber

Ames

Duergar

Michael Ghelfi

Kevin McLeod

 

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Episode Transcript

WEBVTT 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.560 Greetings, earthbound travelers, and welcome to Sunday Nights. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:04:59.840 Will the Dice Present? 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.040 Ashes of Divinity. 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.560 I am your Dungeon Master for the evening. 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:09.639 I'm Tear the DM, the World's OKS DM. 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:11.240 I have the t-shirt to prove it. 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.759 And I will be guiding my players through my homebrew world of Runus Kesha, 37 years into making. 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:23.000 Before we get to that, we do have some housekeeping and some partnerships to talk about. 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.040 So, first and foremost, we are for mature audiences. 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:28.040 Viewer listener discretion is advised. 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:30.279 Alice, hit us with the disclaimer. 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:31.480 Hi, everyone. 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.879 We at Will of the Dice do not encourage the use of nicotine products such as cigarettes, cigars, and vaping. 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.160 Though some of us may be users of such products, do as we say, not as we do. 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.319 Nicotine is a harmful and addictive substance, and we want all of you out there to be happy and healthy. 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:48.519 If you are looking to quit or trying to quit, there are resources out there, and we support you in that endeavor. 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:50.040 Thank you. 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.759 Loch, hit us with the partnerships and the musicians. 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:56.519 Greetings, gamers. 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:03.319 I'm Loch Clark, and I'm going to take a moment and talk to you first about our musicians, those wonderful and talented people who provide the music for our show. 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:16.199 They give us permission to use their songs, and we take those and we make the highs feel higher and the lows feel lower and bring everyone in in a deep, big, immersive hug to let you feel all that role-playing goodness. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:27.240 Tonight, those musicians are Michael Gilfie, Kevin McLeod, Jeff Farber, Dwergar, our very own Patrick Taylor. 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.560 Thanks, Peculiar Patrick, wherever you are. 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.560 And doing our theme song, our very own Ames Ames. 00:06:34.840 --> 00:06:37.000 I hope I pointed in the right direction. 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:41.800 Anyway, we'd also like to take a moment and thank our partners in this endeavor. 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:45.399 First up is Red Panda Dice and Delights. 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:47.399 Fine makers of quality dice for all your dicing needs. 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:55.720 When you buy Red Panda Dice, they come with a cute little red panda face right there on the natural 20 side of the D20 and the 6 side of the D6. 00:06:55.960 --> 00:07:03.800 So when you roll that critical hit, you get that max damage, you get a cute little red panda staring back up at you going, you get them a rut in the spleen. 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:05.159 Why does the panda sound like that? 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.279 I don't know, but it does, and you like it. 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:13.399 So to get your very own dice or a plushie like this guy, this guy who's wearing a hoodie, that hoodie has a pocket. 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:14.519 You can put shit in that pocket. 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.639 I'm not going to tell you what to put in there because I'm not your mom. 00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:23.960 So to get your very own dice or plushie, head over to redpandadice.com and tell them tear sends you. 00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:29.560 Next up, we have our other partner, Stalwart Makery. 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:38.519 Starwar Makery makes high-quality wooden gaming accessories like the dice trays being Vanna White for you by Ames and Christina. 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:39.399 They're great. 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.840 When you roll in a Stalwart dice tray, you roll with authorita. 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:45.720 I've been rolling in mine since season one. 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.039 We all roll in Stalwart's trays and they are awesome. 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:51.639 I personally endorse this product. 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:57.800 Head over to Stalwart Bakery, get your own dice tray, or maybe get yourself like a custom DM screen like the one Tyr has. 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:04.439 You can see that in person if you're going to a Catacon, get to see it, envy it, be jealous of it, want one of your very own. 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:07.800 Head over to stalwartbakery.com and check them out. 00:08:09.080 --> 00:08:25.480 And while you're click-lacking around the internet, head over to our website, grab yourself a t-shirt or a hoodie of your very own with some of the artwork from our amazing artists who have made art for our campaigns over the years like Cosworks or Insketch or our very own Cat Bat. 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:34.440 Yeah, the buying character art on wearing it out of your chest is a way to say which cast member you love the most. 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:43.399 So go get yourself a nice Karak or a Treus or a Laz or maybe even a Calibran. 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:45.000 Isn't that sexy? 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:45.480 Yeah. 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:48.200 So do that. 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:55.159 And then check out what Catbat's got to say about their stuff because it's cool too. 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:00.600 So me and my husband Chris are part of Catbat. 00:09:00.920 --> 00:09:06.440 We essentially try to create a combination of art and games put together. 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:12.680 Our main product is a kit that is meant to get you into DD Pathfinder, something of that sort. 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:20.920 Comes with a calligraphy pen, a journal, and some ink, dice, everything you would need except your character sheet because we're not going to tie you down. 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:26.039 Also, look forward to some of our new products that'll be coming out soon, which will be a tarot deck. 00:09:26.680 --> 00:09:29.639 And we are also working on a new board game. 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.759 That Kickstarter will be out in the fall. 00:09:33.079 --> 00:09:33.720 So yeah. 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.360 I got to tell you, I'm excited about the Tarot deck. 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.120 I'm so excited. 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:39.960 I'm a huge fan of Tarot. 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:40.920 All right. 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.639 So we've got the business side of things. 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:51.240 Now we will go along with our introduction so you know who these fabulous people are. 00:09:53.319 --> 00:09:54.440 Got you, Christina. 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:55.319 I know. 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:56.759 Hi, everybody. 00:09:57.079 --> 00:09:58.039 I'm Christina. 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.360 She, her, and I'm playing Vayra. 00:10:00.680 --> 00:10:00.840 Also. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:02.799 So is she her? 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:13.360 Ah, Vayra is a elf with lavender skin, silver hair, and opal eyes. 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.600 She's 5'2 ⁇ , thin little thing. 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:26.639 And she's like one of the local bartenders. 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.120 Not really sure, you know. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.559 Got on this lovely selection to do the ritual, right? 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:35.360 So yay. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.480 You can find me on Blue Sky at Deadly Kisses. 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:41.120 Hi, as this is Ames. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:41.759 I'm a she-her. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.960 Tonight I'm playing Oz'zariah, who is a she-they. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:48.879 Oz'zariah is a 6-foot-two astral elf. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:50.559 She is pale, long, and lean. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.960 Her right eye is a very vibrant teal, while the left has the haze of thyme over it, so it's kind of milky white. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:02.720 She's dressed in a very simple black, long-sleeved wrap shirt and harem pants. 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:12.000 Kind of looks like funeral cloth if you look close enough, with a blood-red ribbon at one wrist that shimmers with what looks to be gray pearls. 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:16.559 And you can find me on Twitter, Moonbeam, and Blue Sky as LolligiFipo. 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.039 Hi, I'm Chris. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.840 So my wife talked a little bit earlier. 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:30.320 It's Cat Bat, but I am a he him, as well as my character Opus. 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.600 Opus is a tiny little two-foot kabold. 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.639 He loves chemicals, loves grab and alchemy. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.480 He also has two friends with him, Ropus and Minkus. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:46.879 You'll get to know what the three of them are up to, hopefully, and what else they'll be making. 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.960 You can find me, same place as Catbat, on Facebook. 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.919 Hey guys, as I said, I'm Kasey from Catbat. 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.039 I am playing a three-foot-tall black spicy cat, or Tabaxi. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.519 She is going to be a cleric, so she's focused on healing. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.519 She is just a kid, though. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.279 She's about 15 years old, so her priorities are a little bit different than everybody else's. 00:12:15.920 --> 00:12:17.680 She very much likes cookies. 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:23.279 If you guys did not see from last session, I highly recommend you guys go check that out afterwards. 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:25.360 Yeah. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:27.440 And that is a she-her. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:34.480 And you can find me on Facebook, and we're also going to be at local events like a catacon, and we're doing a minicon coming up soon. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:38.879 Hi, everyone. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:39.759 I'm Blue. 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:40.799 He, she. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.080 I'm going to be playing Lumine tonight, who is a she-they. 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:47.039 She's a human barbarian. 00:12:48.319 --> 00:12:53.120 Fairly athletic frame, kind of short, but, you know, she's a pack-a-punch. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:13:00.319 She's dressed in some casual road leathers, maybe a little bit of faux on them. 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:02.639 You've got a big spot on her back. 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:07.440 Oh, she has bright blue eyes and dark hair with a blue streak going through it. 00:13:08.319 --> 00:13:13.920 And you can find me on Instagram at the DarlingBlue. 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:16.080 Hi, everyone. 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.639 I'm Alice, the voice of Lenore. 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:19.440 I am a she-her. 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:20.960 Lenore is a she-they. 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:31.519 Lenore is a 5'8 herring gun with flippity-floppity ears in the color style of a black fire rabbit. 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:33.519 You should go look that up on Google images. 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:34.399 It's really cool. 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.279 They're very Halloween-y, and I like them a lot. 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:50.319 She's a ranger who, for the most part, has been helping out with caravans or hunting parties or people scavenging for resources, both edible and non-edible. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:55.519 And you can find me on Twitter, Tumblr Blue Sky, and Instagram at Captain Cuppy Cake. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:58.159 Greetings, gamers. 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.080 I yet remain Loch Clark because I wasn't given any other choice. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.159 And tonight I am playing Kagen Thord. 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:11.519 Kagen is a turtle with mottled gray skin. 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:14.319 He's got some red spotting on his limbs. 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:20.559 He wears a, oh, I should say his shell is spiky in nature. 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:27.759 He wears a sort of very almost fancily patterned surcoat with no sleeves. 00:14:28.319 --> 00:14:39.519 He's got serpenty-looking tattoos running down his arms and wears a jingasa, which is a Japanese-style conical hat. 00:14:40.079 --> 00:14:43.920 He's got green eyes when they're not covered with red spectacles. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.720 And he's six foot three. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:50.319 And you can find me all over the social medias at Loch Unruly. 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:51.759 That's Loch with an H. 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:53.680 Awesome. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.680 Now we get to the most important part. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:57.600 Tonight's safe word is Rosebud. 00:14:57.920 --> 00:15:01.840 If for any reason the situation becomes too intense and you need the scene to stop. 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.960 Use the safe word, we will go straight to break, discuss the situation, and return if we can. 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:09.720 If we can't, it's okay. 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:14.919 Because I want my players to be happy and healthy as I make their characters' lives a living hell. 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.840 With that being said, are there any last requests? 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:22.679 Not the face, not the flippity-flappity ears. 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:26.679 You got it, pals. 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:29.559 I never liked it. 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:31.720 No. 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:33.799 No. 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:45.399 Well, when last we left our party, they had a rose from rubble and debris. 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:51.559 No memories of past lives or things in general. 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:53.639 Time went on. 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.600 They each found their place in the world. 00:15:57.080 --> 00:16:09.240 After the cataclysm, they all came together on the celebration of the day of sky and sand, a beautiful celebration of peace between two entities. 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:26.840 They were randomly selected to travel into the tunnels below to the memorial for those that did not make it to lay the memorial offerings on the ground. 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.240 But yet, something strange happened on their way to that. 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:35.960 Each one in turn was told to look behind the roses. 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:49.879 And lo and behold, they were able to find a beautiful tilework mosaic of roses behind the memorial stone. 00:16:50.200 --> 00:17:02.759 Further investigation revealed a secret trigger that opened it up, where they found seven thrones, one glowing, one crushed, and a crystal heart that was beating. 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:10.680 Some of these individuals touched that crystal heart and had very disturbing visions before the heart shattered. 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:21.640 But everyone in the end knew that something maniacal, menacing, and dangerous was headed towards the town of Anvil Hold where they were. 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.039 And that, my friends, is where we continue our story. 00:17:26.360 --> 00:17:32.119 And this is where we determine: have you been forsaken to the will of the dice? 00:17:34.360 --> 00:17:35.960 You all are standing in the. 00:17:36.360 --> 00:17:37.960 Sorry, that's loud. 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:41.400 There we go. 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:43.559 Music bot new who did. 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:52.599 Okay, so you all are standing in this throne room, for lack of a better description, this circular room with the thrones. 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:55.720 The one no longer glowing. 00:17:58.360 --> 00:18:06.119 The shards of crystal on the ground around you, and the feeling of dread slowly building inside of you. 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:08.599 What would you like to do, my players? 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.360 Ropus! 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:12.920 Ropus! 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:14.599 Give me that crystal! 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:16.200 I want to use that! 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:23.640 And then I would like Ropus to try to gather up the pieces of the shattered crystal heart. 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:25.400 Roll the D20. 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:30.680 15. 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:33.640 You're able to get five pieces. 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:36.279 Yep. 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:37.559 Thank you. 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:38.680 Minkus. 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:39.880 Minkus. 00:18:40.360 --> 00:18:41.000 Oh, there you are. 00:18:42.360 --> 00:18:42.920 Open. 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:43.880 We got stuff. 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:44.360 Open. 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:45.960 And I'm going to put it in Minkus. 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:57.079 I'm not really sure, but I think whatever it is is coming this way, and my concern is going to be for everybody else in this place. 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:00.440 Good one, everyone. 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:06.759 The question is: Does it come for us? 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:08.920 Or is it coming for this? 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.160 And I point at where the crystal had been. 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:14.680 Roll an insight, check. 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:21.160 I like a piece of that action as well. 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:23.639 I'm sorry, but you didn't touch the crystal. 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:24.680 Oh, good point. 00:19:24.840 --> 00:19:27.960 But yeah, Oz'zariah would like it as well because, you know. 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:28.519 Yeah. 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:29.639 Go ahead. 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:31.400 You always did touch the crystal. 00:19:32.840 --> 00:19:37.000 That's a 16 plus 6 is to a 22. 00:19:37.639 --> 00:19:38.360 22. 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:39.079 23. 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.599 23 by 19 plus 7, 26. 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:46.119 All right. 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:49.400 You all know for certain it's coming for you. 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:51.880 It's coming for all of you. 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:53.799 And it wants you dead. 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.160 You just don't know why. 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:00.840 I think we need to leave the town. 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:02.840 They're more in nature with us here. 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.319 It would be safer for them if we are not here. 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:13.039 Nyx is going to reach into her bag and stress eat a cookie. 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:14.240 Alrighty. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:22.799 We'll be stronger altogether. 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:24.400 We should stay close. 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:28.559 Old people, generally better. 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:29.680 I agree. 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:30.720 I agree. 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:35.440 Ropus agrees, and so does Mincus. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:49.200 With the realization that this thing is coming for all of us, and you know, one of us dead, is there any idea of, like, how soon, how fast? 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.920 You think you have about 12 hours before it reaches Anvil Hold? 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:06.240 Want to look around and make sure there's not another exit other than the way we came in with Crowdsar. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:08.319 Give me an investigation. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:14.000 Uh, 16. 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:15.920 There is not. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.119 Oh, um, I guess we need to go back up. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.559 How do we leave without scaring everyone? 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:31.119 No, I think we scare them. 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:32.799 Make them ready. 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:35.519 Yes, making them ready is better. 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:44.799 Um, here, um, I'm sorry, remind me the name of the fellow that Oz'zariah was speaking with before this. 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:58.240 Besides, um, I'm sure all of us have things that we need to gather if we're going to leave. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.519 We don't know how long we'll be gone. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:12.160 Um, I don't know about the rest UVs that touch that thing, but we have a little time, but not a lot, but enough that we can gather things before we go. 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:16.880 Time is so arbitrary. 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:21.039 If you think we must, I guess we need to be prepared. 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:24.480 Venture! 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:25.200 Yes! 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:27.839 Uh, I'll be back! 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:30.559 Uh, Minkus, come on, let's go! 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:36.240 And I'm gonna kind of work my way up back the way we came. 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:50.319 Nyx will look at you guys with crumbs still on her face and be like, Okay, uh, that was Brother Simlin, the keeper of the Ashen Archive. 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:51.279 Okay. 00:22:51.839 --> 00:23:19.360 Um, so I guess we go gather things and meet at the gate in quickly as possible, is my suggestion to the next bell toll, so like less than an hour. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:23.279 That seems about right, these should be sufficient. 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:34.160 Yes, uh, Tyr, just to make sure, because you've talked before about, you know, the world we're kind of in, you know, the state of it, time has much less of a meaning. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:41.440 Is there still a, you know, a bell tower that tolls hourly or okay, okay. 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:51.200 So, okay, so there's not necessarily a city-wide standard of time because it, you know, doesn't really flow. 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:52.319 Okay, right. 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:58.880 So, just quickly as possible, everybody gather what you need and meet at the gate. 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:04.799 Oswald starts. 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:06.480 Yeah. 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:07.279 Okay. 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:21.200 Um, as everyone starts to file out, I'm gonna take one last look and see if there are any decent-sized pieces of the heart that Opus missed. 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:25.519 Okay, investigation. 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:34.480 Uh, there's a 14 plus nothing, that's a fourteen. 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:39.440 So, there was only five larger pieces of the heart. 00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:43.920 Everything else was turned into dust when it crashed and shattered. 00:24:44.559 --> 00:25:03.440 Um, as you all go to exit the tomb, the memorial, you will see that the entrance is blocked by a line of guards, and standing in front of them is Warden Althra. 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:07.079 What has happened? 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:12.759 Like size wire? 00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:13.240 Yeah. 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:16.279 That would probably be Kagen. 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:17.480 Okay. 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.359 Nyx is going to follow behind Kagen then. 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:30.039 I think Opus would have been leaving first if I was understanding kind of general gist. 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:35.000 So Opus will kind of go, excuse me. 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:36.599 I need to prepare. 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:37.720 I need to prepare. 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:38.440 Excuse me. 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:39.240 Excuse me. 00:25:40.519 --> 00:25:42.759 What did you all do? 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:45.799 Well, there's stuff. 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:47.079 There's a lot of things. 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:49.799 What do you mean, do? 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:51.559 What do you mean, what did we do? 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:54.839 We opened this vault. 00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:55.640 Not here. 00:25:56.839 --> 00:25:57.319 That's it. 00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:58.359 You opened the vault. 00:25:59.000 --> 00:25:59.559 You see it. 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:05.400 Oz'zariah is literally still standing in the doorway to that vault. 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.359 Yes. 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:14.279 And now you standing here is keeping us from what we must do, which is leave because something is coming. 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:16.119 If you really want to know. 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:22.200 Me standing here is what's keeping a mob of angry people from tearing you limb from limb. 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:25.160 There's a lot of calamity. 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:27.000 There's a lot of calamity. 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:31.720 The forges have turned white hot, melting anvils and tools. 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:36.920 The food has soured and produced flies and maggots. 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:44.359 The world has become even darker than when the cataclysm came, and everyone thinks it's you. 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:47.079 I am going to take you into custody. 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:49.400 She does air quotes. 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:52.440 Get you to the guard house. 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.759 And then we can discuss safe. 00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:02.279 I need to get the stuff back in my laboratory. 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:04.519 Can we stop by? 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:06.119 Please, Minkus? 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:07.160 Oh. 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:11.240 We've got to go straight to the guardhouse. 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:13.880 Can you send guards anything else? 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:16.759 I don't know. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.480 We'll see. 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:19.559 Let's get to the guardhouse first. 00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:22.119 How close is the guardhouse to? 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.000 Do I know where the guard house is? 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:30.599 Yeah, most people that were familiar with the town would know that their guardhouse is on the other side of the city. 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:35.799 It's sort of off to itself. 00:27:36.360 --> 00:27:42.680 It's surrounded by the training grounds of the city for the guard. 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:43.559 So. 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:55.960 I would like to send Minkus to the Opus's lab. 00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:56.920 Okay. 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:11.880 So, Opus will kind of look down to Minkus and be like, Minkus, I need all of the bottles, all of the rejections, anything that can fit. 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:18.920 And you hear a little squeak of the hinges, and he hobbles off. 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:23.079 Or at least that's what he would try to do. 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:28.839 Oz'zariah is just going to sigh. 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.920 She's just like, fine, but we need to go now. 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:48.039 The guards will part, two of them stepping out to begin the detail, allowing you to file in between the others on either side of you. 00:28:48.360 --> 00:28:52.759 The warden taking the position at the back. 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:59.480 Vayra's still in the back room, like in that room with where the heart was. 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:00.360 Okay. 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:04.279 Aren't you trying to hide? 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:10.599 No, she's just standing there as far as anyone can tell until they approach her. 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.680 And then we'll just see her like gently rocking and muttering to herself. 00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:18.680 If Oz'zariah looked back, would she notice? 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:21.559 Make a perception check. 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:24.119 Okay. 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:30.920 New character, not quite sure about my perception. 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:32.119 Yeah, that's a 26. 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:33.799 Yes. 00:29:35.639 --> 00:29:38.360 She's going to just be like, one moment. 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:40.279 She's going to step back. 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:48.440 Like, if she has to, she's going to try to slide around Althra? 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:49.400 Vayra. 00:29:49.639 --> 00:29:50.119 Veha? 00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:53.400 No, the guard's name, because she said she was at the back. 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:54.039 Alphra. 00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:54.599 Alpha. 00:29:54.840 --> 00:29:55.480 Authora. 00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:01.880 If she has to, she's going to kind of basically try to slide around her and step over to Vayra. 00:30:02.840 --> 00:30:03.480 Pop it. 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:04.599 We must go. 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:08.480 He knows where we're at. 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:09.519 He knows where we're at. 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:10.079 We can't. 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.319 We can't escape, but they'll be in danger. 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:13.200 We can't go with them. 00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:13.599 We can't. 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:14.480 It's not safe. 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:15.279 It's not safe. 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:16.400 It's not safe. 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:17.759 It'll be okay. 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.720 She's going to reach down and she's just going to hold her. 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:22.240 She's going to bend down. 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.240 She's going to kind of take a squat down and reach a hand out to you. 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:27.759 Just take my hand, Poppet. 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:29.200 It'll be fine. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:34.319 She'll tentatively take it, and you can feel her like visibly shaking. 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:38.640 Like she's trembling, basically. 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.680 Does it feel too much? 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:44.559 This isn't. 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:46.160 Is it? 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:47.200 I don't think I should be. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:48.640 This isn't safe. 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:49.440 This isn't safe. 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:50.480 This isn't safe. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.680 I understand. 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:54.400 Is this causing suffering? 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:03.680 She's going to look up at you for a second and go, we shall call pain if we're not alone. 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:06.079 And then go back, this isn't safe. 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.799 This isn't safe. 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:08.079 This isn't safe. 00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:25.680 Here, if you'll allow it, Oz'zariah is going to try to use her key to just remove, for theatric purposes, a small bit of the suffering to try to bring Vayra down just a little. 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:27.920 Almost like calm emotions. 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:31.920 You're muted. 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:34.240 Of course I am. 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:35.759 I'll allow it. 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:39.680 Yeah, and Vayra wouldn't stop you, so she would go with it. 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:45.839 So while you have your hand in hers, Oz'zariah is just going to reach forward. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:49.680 She's going to put a hand against one cheek and tilt your face up. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.400 Poppet, would you like me to take a moat of suffering? 00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:59.680 Um maybe. 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.319 I yes. 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:08.960 And as soon as you say yes, both hands that are touching you are going to glow slightly. 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:25.759 And she's going to take a very gentle breath in, and anybody watching is going to see what looks like a grayish, pearl, luminescent light, almost like a smoke passing from Vayra's lips to Oz'zariah's. 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.360 And Oz'zariah is just going to let out a sigh. 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.200 That glow is going to fade. 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:34.720 Is that better? 00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:39.279 Yeah, yes, yes. 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:45.759 And she'll like shake off what was bothering her and calmly walk with you guys. 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:59.200 And in that moment on the left side of Oz'zariah's face, anybody that looks later, they'll see that right side of her face looks about 25, you know, young, fresh, but the left side, the cheek has sunken in a little bit. 00:32:59.360 --> 00:33:03.119 It's a little not quite as glowy with youth. 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:07.119 It's just slightly less glow there. 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.759 And it's sunken in just that little bit. 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:16.640 And she just stand up and walk back into the guard circle. 00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:28.000 So as we're heading out, I'm gonna hug on Kagen's rope or garment, whatever he has, and say, Mr. 00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:33.279 Turtle, Meow, I don't know if you saw what I saw, but I think I'm gonna stick with you, Meow. 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:36.640 This is a wise idea. 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.039 You stick with me, little kid. 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:40.720 We'll be fine. 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.360 And then we'll just continue walking. 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:52.400 The crowds part as the guards come through. 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.480 What was once friendly faces now hold expressions of hatred and anger. 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:05.839 Misunderstanding, whispers travel back and forth amongst the crowd, murmurs that are just murmurs to your ears. 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:07.440 But the tension. 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:11.039 The tension is so heavy, it's oppressive on your shoulders. 00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:18.719 As if any moment the tension could break, causing an outright chaos-driven calamity. 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:26.800 It is a long walk just because of the tension. 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:29.519 You're brought to the guard house. 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.599 You are escorted inside. 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:43.760 The two guards in the front will open up the cells and Althra will motion for you to enter. 00:34:44.720 --> 00:34:46.400 There is no time for this, Althra. 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:53.280 We have to make sure the people do not tear you limb from limb. 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:54.720 We're going to leave. 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:55.920 There is no time for this. 00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.079 The rider is coming. 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:03.599 Please work with me here. 00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:07.480 Nyx will be a little bit more. 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:10.679 We won't walk the cages. 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:12.039 You can escape. 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:21.639 Nyx will look up at her with really wide eyes and be like, Do you really think they would be mad at us, Meow? 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:25.000 They are very mad at you. 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:30.119 Her ears will just go down a little bit and be like, oh, Meow. 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.800 And can I look at Althra and, like, at a glance, see that we can still trust her? 00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:40.199 Make an insight check. 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:40.760 Okay. 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.519 That is 15. 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.639 Yeah, they seem to be trustworthy. 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:52.760 Okay. 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.000 We may quietly file in to the cell. 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:03.400 Can you at least summon Brother Simlin? 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:06.679 Yes, I will summon Brother Simlin. 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:12.920 Oh, before you leave, Althra, here. 00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:18.760 I reach into my satchel and I pull out a bound stack of books. 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:21.320 I found these for you. 00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:28.760 One, the broken and reforged, the links in the chain is an action story. 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:32.360 Revenge, betrayal was pretty good. 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:41.639 Sanguine Blade is a character study about two people who are not good people, but better together. 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.559 Briars and Feathers is a poetry book. 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:50.280 And finally, I found a copy of Death's Kiss 2, The Pulse of the Mountains. 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:51.800 Thought you would like. 00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.280 Do you maybe have any supplies that would help us, Miel? 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:13.320 Make a list of what you need from your various abodes, and I will talk to Master Koli and see what we can do to help. 00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:15.800 Thank you, Miel. 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:21.559 Althra, listen to me. 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:24.039 We all heard the calling. 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:27.079 We heard voice call out to us. 00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.599 Beckon us to look behind the mosaic. 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:35.480 We found thrones and crystal. 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:39.960 We are chosen by something. 00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:45.880 It whatever is happening is important. 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:50.760 It is also dangerous, and we must get out of your town before the rider come. 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:58.360 They'll shake their head in acknowledgement. 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:00.840 I step into the cell. 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:07.320 Yep. 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.400 And the door will also follow suit. 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:17.800 What about the rest of you? 00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:20.760 They will go in and sit in a corner. 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:29.000 Oswald has a little journal out and is trying to write down all the stuff she needs. 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:33.960 If you guys catch any glimpses, if you recognize cookie names, you might know a couple. 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:46.599 Opus would have kind of walked in and just looked kind of like as if he's looking at the door, waiting for something. 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.239 Please, Opus, enter the cell. 00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:02.360 And he just kind of grumbles and mumbles as he goes in. 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:13.559 As you all enter, true to her word, she does not lock the doors, though she closes them. 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:19.400 Things are about to get really intense. 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:28.199 She dismisses the guards so that she's the only one there. 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:36.440 The mayor is calling for very, very strict recourse on this. 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:46.679 We are going to begin the quarantines to separate people to try to find if there's any here that are witchy or causing this. 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:53.800 After that, he plans to declare martial law. 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:58.920 And at dawn, the gates are going to be sealed permanently. 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.880 No one can enter, no one can leave. 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:06.119 You've got eight hours to get out of here without getting killed. 00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:12.079 So we need our supplies quickly so we can leave. 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.840 We have 12 hours before the rider comes. 00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:24.320 And you better hope he comes after us like these like we expect him to. 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.440 She just lowers her head. 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:34.320 I don't know what's going on. 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:36.559 I'm afraid. 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.239 But you all have always been trustworthy. 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:43.679 So I'm trying to keep that in mind. 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:47.760 But you must understand what you say sounds lunacy. 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:53.519 No more lunacy than the cataclysm itself. 00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:57.920 Look, look, look here. 00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:58.639 I show. 00:40:58.800 --> 00:40:59.360 I show. 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:05.360 And I point at my bicep where the serpent tattoo wraps around. 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:09.119 And suddenly the tattoo begins to shift. 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:11.119 And it turns into the mosaic. 00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:12.880 And the mosaic breaks away. 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:18.159 And the heart is beating, made of crystal, and then it shatters. 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:24.000 And then I show her what I saw in the vision in tattoo form. 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:27.440 The rider with the burning line behind him coming. 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.280 This is what we saw. 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.280 This is what is going to happen here. 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:33.760 You have to let us go. 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.480 It'll be dark in about an hour. 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:42.800 Make your move then. 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.599 What if the rider comes into town, Meow, and comes for you guys, Meow? 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:54.079 If we get out in time, that won't be a problem. 00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:59.119 I am certain it is after us, not the town. 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:08.639 Hey, Tier. 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:09.519 Yeah. 00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:15.440 Being as I was just on a trip that went almost all the way to the mountain. 00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:25.760 Do I know of any like good spots to shelter that would accommodate a group this big? 00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:33.599 You do know that there was once a dwarven kingdom named Castendulla under the mountain. 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.519 Nobody knows if the dwarves are still there. 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:42.400 They've not been seen since the cataclysm. 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:50.320 There's also Keep Dauntless on top of the mountain near Frinya, which was once a bloodhunter keep. 00:42:56.960 --> 00:45:05.840 I turn like sort of away from the front of the cell because I don't want I don't want Althra to have information that might get her in trouble later and I whisper to the group if we get out that we head for a mountain there is old dwarven city under mountain good stronghold don't know if anyone lives there now but um 30 protections probably lots of leftover weapons or on top of mountain there is uh the old keep from blood hunters dauntless either way mountain is good strong place to go nyx being from alharafa you know that if you all get to where you all parked you could steal a sand skiff and make good time so where i come from meow there's maybe a vehicle we could use meow but also and i will uh pull out the list that i kind of haphazardly scribbled it's got like four different cookies on it but it also has like healing potions and bandages and if you can read it and i'll hand it to her and be like but this would still be helpful meow he will take the list this was the eighth year of sky and sand i don't understand what's going on godspeed my friends as she opens the door you can see there is a throng of people with different implements of destructions pitchforks rakes axes torches and a semicircle of guards keeping them at bay 00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:18.679 This is, like you said, we notice, like, as in they're leaving the building and we happen to see it past them. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:19.159 Right. 00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:20.440 Okay, okay. 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:21.320 Yeah, yeah. 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:29.559 Um, when the door closes or, you know, starts swinging back and forth. 00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:36.840 Well, I actually should ask, um, was I was Opus able to see Minkus by any chance? 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:38.280 He was not. 00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:43.400 So, uh, so Opus just got a situation. 00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:45.159 Minkus! 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:46.360 Minkus! 00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:53.719 Oh, all my potions and all my leathers and all my tincture! 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.280 We have to find Minkus. 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:01.480 There is a knock beneath your feet, Opus. 00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:06.280 Hello? 00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:09.639 Uh, I kind of back up a little bit. 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:16.519 Um, do I see like a like a handle or something? 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:17.960 This stone. 00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:19.320 Minkus? 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:24.039 The knock comes again. 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:30.280 Opus, find a hold. 00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:37.480 And I'm gonna try to, you know, see if I can find anything strange about the floor, I guess, below me. 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:39.719 Make an investigation check, Opus. 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:43.400 I am backing away from that spot. 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:45.800 Oh my god. 00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:53.239 Okay, well, I got an at one, but with being, you know, investigation, goes up to a six. 00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.159 It's just a stone, as far as you can tell. 00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:02.440 Did any of the rest of us hear the knocking, or we just see Opus reacting? 00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:03.880 You all hear the knock. 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:04.360 Okay. 00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:09.400 Favorite's gonna crawl over there and try to knock back. 00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:10.519 Okay. 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:13.559 Hello. 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:14.519 Hello? 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.719 Lift the stone! 00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:21.719 Do you think I'm a giant? 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:26.280 Let me see. 00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:28.440 She'll back away. 00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:33.880 Lumine walks over to try and find Pochus for her hands on the stone. 00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:36.039 Give me an investigation check. 00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:37.960 Alright, that will be. 00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:41.559 Oh, six. 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.920 Okay, can I look now that I've seen Lumine look? 00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:48.119 Yeah. 00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:52.599 Well, all this nonsense is going on. 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:54.760 Oh, no, no, there's nothing. 00:47:56.599 --> 00:47:57.159 That was six. 00:47:58.039 --> 00:47:59.320 I also got a six. 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:01.159 No. 00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:08.280 Well, while all this nonsense is going on, Lenore's just going to look around the group and go. 00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:15.079 Did any of you happen to catch the smell of the rotting food and the sound of the buzz flying? 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:17.320 Flies buzzing. 00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:18.440 Sorry. 00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:26.840 Unfortunately, yes, we're trying to. 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:31.880 It's pretty familiar and oddly comforting. 00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:41.880 Also, Nyx is going to tug on Kagen's robe again and be like, Excuse me, Mr. 00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:42.679 Turtle Meow. 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:44.599 It looks like they need help, Meow. 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:46.280 I think you and I can help Meow. 00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:52.760 And she'll, like, try to push him over and use guidance if he's willing to help. 00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:53.880 Oh, no, he's willing. 00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:59.800 I'll try and dig my claws in under the stone and see if I can start lifting it. 00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:05.559 We're going to call this athletics because you're just trying to brute force it. 00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:13.559 And Opus is going to be sitting there kind of, you know, supervising and going, come on, lift! 00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:16.840 Lift your back with your shell. 00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:19.159 Help! 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:26.039 And Ropus is going to go on the edge of the stone and help. 00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:30.280 And you have guidance, Kagen, so. 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:35.159 Does Ropus give me advantage by any chance? 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:37.239 It's a rope. 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:43.559 Okay, I thought if Ropus could speak, it would go helping. 00:49:45.720 --> 00:49:49.239 That gives me a grand total of 10. 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:53.400 Jeez. 00:49:57.079 --> 00:50:02.760 If I can manage to get Purchase and start it moving, I'm going to be like, someone get their hand in? 00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:05.720 Can it hold forever? 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:07.239 Okay. 00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:14.559 Oz'zariah will try to help. 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:15.679 All right. 00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:16.320 You may. 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:21.199 Are you trying to find the way to open it, or are you just trying to brute force it? 00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:25.199 I'm just trying to help Kagen lift it. 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:27.519 All right, athletics. 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:32.079 This is going to be great because it's a flat roll. 00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:36.960 If she's close enough, I will also touch her, so I'll have my hands out on both of them. 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:38.400 So, guidance as well. 00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:39.199 Guidance. 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:40.719 So, D plus D4. 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:41.599 Okay. 00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:43.119 Um. 00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:50.559 Alright, so that's a 19. 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:58.559 The monk slides in their lithe hands finding purchase. 00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.920 And with ease, they lift the stone. 00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:05.920 Thank you. 00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:08.079 You, you loosened it, my friend. 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:08.960 You loosened it. 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:11.360 Yes, it's a heroic effort on my part. 00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:12.239 You helped the thing. 00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.199 You found the right leverage spot. 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:15.679 Yes. 00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:24.159 I was going to say, how high, like, does she do they lift it? 00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:29.360 Like, in other words, is it like just a little bit, you know, you're sliding it aside, or are you actually lifting it up at all? 00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:40.800 I mean, I'm guessing since we're trying to obviously, it sounded like a person under there, she would have been trying to basically like lift it up, like trapdoor style. 00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:57.119 Like, one edge is still on the ground, and she's just not picking it up, but she's like flipping it up, flipping it up, or like, you know, basically pushing it back on one side and lifting up the other, like you would, like, a trapdoor. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:12.800 So, uh, uh, you would see Ropus, or I guess feel, Ropus would kind of, you know, reach out from Opus's hand because it's coiled around, but it would just kind of pat you on the back, you know, giving you a nice little good job, Pat. 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:15.280 Thank you. 00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:22.000 Y'all will, uh, Opus, you will see Minkus being held up through the hole. 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:24.880 Where were you? 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:26.480 What is wrong? 00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:27.840 Get up here. 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:29.679 I'm gonna try to. 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:37.679 I'm not going to try to lift him, but I'm going to be like directing him as if I'm like a chest flight controller. 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:40.559 The hands as big as you. 00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:41.360 Yeah. 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:47.840 The hands move so that Minkus can find purchase and climb over. 00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:52.400 And you will see a shaggy-looking dwarf. 00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:56.079 Black burnt eyes. 00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.039 Their beard braided into their hair. 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:00.639 Stick their head up. 00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:02.800 Now that's a punch in the pecker. 00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:09.440 It is Master Koli, the Dwarven Forgemaster. 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:10.159 Right. 00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:12.239 Vayra going to scream, you! 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:14.480 This is all your fault! 00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:16.800 How's this my fault? 00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:18.880 You picked us for the ritual? 00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:20.320 Who wants to be in a ritual? 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.599 I should have punched you in the pecker instead of making you a drink. 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:24.960 The mayor picked. 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:25.920 I didn't. 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:28.159 I don't see the mayor. 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:28.960 I see you. 00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:30.079 You told me. 00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:32.239 Well, then I'll leave and you can stay here. 00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:33.679 No, no, wait, there's a hole. 00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:34.880 Where does it go? 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:36.960 My shop. 00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:41.840 I'm here to get you out of here. 00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:46.000 She's going to try to climb in with him. 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:48.000 Like, she's going to wave. 00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:50.559 Whoa, whoa, Lassie. 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:51.280 Whoa. 00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:54.639 Let me get out of the damn way first. 00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:01.519 I still need to speak with Brother Simeon. 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:07.039 We can try. 00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:16.000 Well, Althra is supposed to be bringing Brother Simeon back along with some provisions for us to use when we get out of town. 00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:21.840 Why don't Althra's not coming back? 00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:24.960 What? 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:25.679 Why? 00:54:30.720 --> 00:54:34.239 He will grow very quiet and very solemn. 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.840 Superstition is a strange thing. 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.960 So she's going to assume that he speaks. 00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.679 Nyx will assume that he speaks Dwarvish, and then Dwarvish will try to talk to him. 00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:54.800 She will say essentially, what do you mean, Meow? 00:54:56.239 --> 00:54:57.840 Can you be more specific, Meow? 00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:09.039 Let's just say that she's alive. 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:09.920 He's answering. 00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:12.280 You in common. 00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.039 But not in the best of shape. 00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:22.039 Has he moved enough for Vayra to get in there? 00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.480 Because she's going to be trying to force herself until he moves out of the way. 00:55:25.719 --> 00:55:27.239 She's not staying in the cell. 00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:28.840 She's not staying in the cell. 00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:31.719 She's doing everything she can to get out of the cell. 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:40.039 He will finally turn a little bit so you're able to wiggle down into the hole. 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:43.079 Look, we've got to get you all out of here. 00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:47.639 Alright, so. 00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:49.400 Sorry, go ahead. 00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:51.079 I was just going to say, all right, let's go. 00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:52.280 Everyone in the hole. 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:55.719 You're the only one keeping me out of the way. 00:55:56.039 --> 00:55:57.320 Do I need a puncher packer? 00:55:57.639 --> 00:55:58.199 Move! 00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:04.119 He will climb up out of the hole so that you all can go in. 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:15.079 So, still in Dwarvish, she's going to still talk to him and say, Excuse me, Meow, can you get a message, Meow, to Al-Hafar, Meow? 00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:17.639 I can try. 00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:18.599 What's the message? 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:19.880 He answers in Dwarven. 00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:23.079 We would need a skiff, Meow. 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:29.239 Well, there's some parked on the edge of the sea. 00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.800 Worst case, steal it. 00:56:33.639 --> 00:56:34.760 That's me, Meow. 00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:37.159 And she'll say that in common. 00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:45.719 Well, your choices are do that, face the desert on foot, or whatever y'all are talking about coming. 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:47.639 Just get everybody. 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.119 Look down and ponder a little bit. 00:56:55.559 --> 00:56:57.400 Anyway, into the hole. 00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:01.320 Into the hole. 00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:06.280 Does the hole go in any more than one direction? 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:07.159 No. 00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:14.760 Okay, because Vayra would have just kept going once she got in the hole until she either reaches a diversion or an end. 00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:16.199 She's just going. 00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:18.519 It opens into a cavern. 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.840 It's not quite huge. 00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:25.480 It's about 30 foot wide. 00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:29.320 The ceiling is about 20 feet tall. 00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:34.119 There is a rope ladder to descend down to the floor. 00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:37.719 Is it lit up? 00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:38.760 The cavern? 00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:41.800 Softly. 00:57:41.880 --> 00:57:49.239 There's a soft blue haze that makes you able to see not perfectly well, but enough to navigate. 00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:57.159 Opus would have not actually jumped in with the rest of the group. 00:57:57.719 --> 00:58:03.800 He would have been, at least not right away, would have been looking at what Minkus got. 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:13.079 Was there anything outside of the laboratory that Minkus grabbed? 00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:16.920 Like, anything other than, you know, the typical stuff that he would have done. 00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:18.760 He grabbed the typical stuff. 00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:19.719 Okay. 00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:24.519 Good job, Minkus. 00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:34.280 And I would like to grab one piece of the heart shards and kind of slide it in a satchel on my belt. 00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:35.239 Okay. 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:37.960 And then close him up and say, into the hole. 00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:41.079 And have Minkus jump in first. 00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:42.280 Alright. 00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:48.119 The dwarf will help Minkus down because it is a little bit of a drop. 00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:51.159 Thank you. 00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:53.239 Excuse me. 00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:57.079 So, dwarf roughly. 00:58:57.559 --> 00:58:59.480 Is it like three or four feet? 00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:01.400 He's like three foot. 00:59:01.719 --> 00:59:02.599 Three foot. 00:59:03.480 --> 00:59:04.280 Okay, then yeah. 00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:08.760 Opus would kind of hop in after. 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:10.199 Actually, no. 00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:20.840 Ropus, or sorry, Opus would ask, would look down and say, can I get some help? 00:59:27.239 --> 00:59:27.559 Of course. 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:28.840 Am I going to help? 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:33.480 I just grab Opus by the scruff. 00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:38.440 Or like, I guess, the spines on the back of the thing. 00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:41.400 And just lift him up and set him down into the hole. 00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:48.760 He would land and just look up, but you'd say, don't do that. 00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:53.559 And would point, but Ropus would also, you know, go a little bit upward too and point. 00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:55.239 What? 00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:56.119 You asked for help. 00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:56.599 I hope. 00:59:56.679 --> 00:59:57.480 This is help. 00:59:57.720 --> 00:59:58.280 Yes. 00:59:58.920 --> 00:59:59.400 Duh. 00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:00.440 He's good help. 01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:02.360 Did I see that? 01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:03.960 Did Nyx see that? 01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:04.679 Yes. 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:07.159 Nyx's would laugh hysterically. 01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:09.800 Opus is going to crumple. 01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:15.840 This is all fun and games, but the stone is getting heavy. 01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:17.840 Can everybody else go, please? 01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:20.559 Oz'zariah is still kind of holding the stone. 01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:29.840 My thought process is: if all of you go first, I'll go last and make sure the stone is basically as in place as it can be. 01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:35.840 Nyx to stop helping and hop in. 01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:39.760 Like, hop in. 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:53.360 Lumine will be a second to last and help lower the stone back into place with their own strength. 01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:56.079 Lighten the button a little bit. 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:01.920 Yep, go through the hole. 01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:06.239 It's a tight squeeze for you, Kagen, but you make it. 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:11.760 They've crawled through tighter spaces before, like my mother. 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:16.800 Interesting. 01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:21.280 Do turtles give life birth or do they leave clutches of eggs? 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:23.920 Who knows? 01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:25.280 I woke up this way. 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:26.639 I have no idea. 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:36.880 Would Opus know if typically turtles have hatched from eggs or not? 01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:38.880 That was a character question. 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:40.559 Oh, no, this is like an in. 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:42.880 Like, I'm trying to figure out if Opus would know this. 01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:47.199 Yes, Opus that turtles are hatched. 01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:47.760 Okay. 01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:49.760 He would just. 01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:52.639 What did you crawl through? 01:01:53.599 --> 01:02:04.559 And I, like, Opus would distinctly try to go a little bit away from him now, remembering that this turtle had just kobold handled him down. 01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:08.400 You don't want to know. 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:11.440 No, no, I don't. 01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:18.079 So, do y'all go down the rope ladder? 01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:21.440 Yes. 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:23.920 I guess it was the only way to go. 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:26.800 How far down is the drop? 01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:29.440 It's about five feet. 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:32.639 Let me rephrase that. 01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:35.199 It appears to be about five feet. 01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:37.440 But there is a rope ladder. 01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:41.840 Yeah, I'd probably use the rope ladder. 01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:43.039 That's a bit much. 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:50.719 Those of you that take the rope ladder will notice that you travel about 30 feet. 01:02:52.320 --> 01:03:00.239 The floor of the cavern that you saw was an illusion that you passed through. 01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:07.199 The underneath is a cavern brightly lit with sunstones. 01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.800 And it is someone's home. 01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:17.920 There's a bed, there's a dining room set up, there's a larder. 01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:19.840 It's someone's home. 01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:22.320 Did Koli go with us? 01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:25.199 Did who? 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:26.320 Koli. 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:29.039 Wasn't that Koli, the dwarf? 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:31.039 Koli? 01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:31.599 Yes. 01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:33.039 Yes, he's with you. 01:03:33.679 --> 01:03:34.800 Do you live here, Meow? 01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:37.679 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. 01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:43.440 You will see from the shadows, Brother Simeon appears. 01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:46.000 This is my abode. 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:52.000 Yeah, Oz'zariah. 01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:53.519 Go ahead. 01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:55.599 No, go on, because you want to talk to him. 01:03:55.920 --> 01:04:03.519 Yeah, Oz'zariah will, you know, come down the rope, hop down, and walk over to Brother Simeon quickly. 01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:11.360 I'm sure you've heard what we saw. 01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:19.119 Yes, I've heard, and I do not believe this was your fault, but the timing. 01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:21.760 Oh, the timing is so bad. 01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:27.519 Well, aren't most events timing bad? 01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:30.800 Think back eight years ago, was the timing great on that? 01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:37.599 Bad tidings never come at a good time. 01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:46.159 Um, are you able to travel through town right now without um them coming for you? 01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:48.320 They have declared martial law. 01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:50.400 No one is traveling through town. 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.199 Do you have a quarter staff? 01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:56.559 I have a walking stick. 01:04:56.800 --> 01:04:57.760 Will that work? 01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:06.559 But if you need it, it's decoration. 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:11.519 Because all of my things are well. 01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:22.280 In my home, you need to record this. 01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:30.039 Make sure you hide, make sure you store whatever scrolls and books that you have safely. 01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:37.320 I have a book that I'm trusting to you. 01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:43.159 We've not figured out how to open it, but we know it is pre-cataclysm. 01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:51.559 And he will hand you a leather-bound book with three intricate latches. 01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:56.440 She'll take it. 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:01.000 What do you mean you can't open it? 01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:07.159 Does it require we haven't figured out how to do the latches? 01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:10.280 She's gonna look at them. 01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:29.880 Um, I guess investigate, see if she can figure out 18 plus 321. 01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:32.679 You have no clue. 01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:37.480 Is there any writing on the outside of it? 01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:38.679 Nope. 01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:39.800 Okay. 01:06:43.880 --> 01:06:46.360 Koli will speak and clear his throat. 01:06:46.519 --> 01:06:50.679 Look, I don't know what y'all stirred up, but it's the kind of thing you don't leave twice from. 01:06:51.559 --> 01:06:55.880 So I thought we were going to your workshop. 01:06:56.039 --> 01:07:02.840 I mean, it's great that Simeon's here and Oz'zariah got to see them, but we need out. 01:07:04.039 --> 01:07:05.639 I know that's where we're going. 01:07:07.239 --> 01:07:11.400 She's going to look at him like, well, duh, and let you move along. 01:07:13.000 --> 01:07:14.599 He can't see your facial expression. 01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:15.320 I know! 01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:20.119 She's aware he's blind, but she's frustrated at this point. 01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:30.840 Simeon will give you a hug, Oz'zariah. 01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:33.239 I will miss our talks. 01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:37.239 Hopefully, we'll see each other again. 01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:40.760 Keep an open mind. 01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:42.280 Keep the situation. 01:07:42.519 --> 01:07:43.719 She will step back. 01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:45.800 I will. 01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:49.480 And he will step back so that you all may leave. 01:07:52.679 --> 01:07:54.199 Alright, everyone. 01:07:55.480 --> 01:08:02.760 Once we are out of tunnel in shop, we are going to make straight for where skiffs are. 01:08:03.400 --> 01:08:06.920 We need to be quiet and we need to move fast. 01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:09.320 Everyone understand? 01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:12.840 Yes. 01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:15.880 Alright, let's go. 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:24.680 Wait, we decided on going skiff instead of mountain. 01:08:26.279 --> 01:08:28.600 You have to go through the desert to get to the mountain. 01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:29.880 Okay. 01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:34.680 That was not elaborated before. 01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:37.000 I'm sorry. 01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:40.199 Was that above table or below or on table? 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:41.880 It's above table. 01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:46.840 I thought I showed you all maps. 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:48.520 If I didn't, I'm sorry. 01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:55.239 But Anvil Hold is next to the Sea of Solace, which is next to the Ragnarokarn Mountains. 01:08:58.760 --> 01:08:59.560 And the Sea of Solace. 01:09:00.199 --> 01:09:01.239 Its name is a desert. 01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:02.439 Yes. 01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:13.560 So I'll just keep walking through the tunnel with everyone. 01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:15.560 I assume we're all walking. 01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:16.279 Yes. 01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:17.159 Yep. 01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:23.880 Before long, you will come to another ladder and an open hatch above. 01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:35.720 I'll go up first and make sure that it's safe and then help everyone up and out. 01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:37.239 Alright. 01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:40.600 You are in the blacksmith's shop. 01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:42.359 It is warm. 01:09:43.319 --> 01:09:51.000 The anvil you see is just misfigured from the white flame that still burns. 01:09:56.039 --> 01:10:01.239 I would like to walk over to the flame and see, basically examine it. 01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:07.079 I want to see if I can figure out what's happening with these coals or whatever fuel source that's being used. 01:10:07.720 --> 01:10:12.520 When you get within 10 feet, you'll take six points of fire damage. 01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:16.079 The heat is so powerful. 01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:23.199 I'm gonna, you know, like, almost as if I feel like I'm on fire, I'm gonna brush it aside. 01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:24.800 You said one D6? 01:10:26.479 --> 01:10:27.680 No, six points. 01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:28.239 Six points. 01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:29.439 Okay, gotcha. 01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:33.439 Do we see any finished weapons about? 01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:34.880 Yeah. 01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:39.600 Can we take some of these to defend ourselves? 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:40.880 Of course. 01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:43.119 What do you need? 01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:47.520 A couple of daggers, a spear, maybe? 01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:51.039 Staff, I guess, if you have it. 01:10:53.279 --> 01:10:54.800 You don't know what you use? 01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:56.319 Any of those! 01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:57.520 Any of those I use. 01:10:57.680 --> 01:10:59.119 I don't know what they use. 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:03.680 He will hand you a couple of daggers from behind the counter. 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:06.720 And motion, there's a spear on the wall. 01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:12.079 She'll start grabbing stuff and suiting up. 01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:18.720 Nyx is going to pull out her sensor, which is in the shape of a cat bell, and say, I just use this, meow. 01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:23.039 That's fine craftsmanship. 01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:26.880 Does the rest of you need anything? 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:30.880 Staff of any kind, finished or none, is fine. 01:11:31.119 --> 01:11:33.359 I have my wood carver's tools. 01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:35.439 I can finish it on the way. 01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:43.600 He will feel around behind the counter and hand you a staff. 01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:54.880 It is beautifully carved with pictures of dwarven runes, hammers, bells. 01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.000 And you've seen this before. 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:04.079 This was the staff he used when he would go out in public. 01:12:07.600 --> 01:12:08.319 Are you certain? 01:12:08.479 --> 01:12:10.159 I know this is somewhat important. 01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:12.960 We don't have time. 01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:14.239 Take it. 01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:16.640 Alright. 01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:20.000 And do you have a bag or a satchel? 01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:23.039 Oz left everything. 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:25.119 They were just going to a ceremony. 01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:29.199 They didn't have their traveling gear on them. 01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:32.560 I don't have anything like that here. 01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:36.079 Nyx's will look at you and say if there's Minkus meow. 01:12:37.920 --> 01:12:39.199 I have a satchel. 01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:41.439 Let's catch you, cat. 01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:44.640 Just need something to put this book in. 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:54.640 I'm imagining, since it's important enough that Simeon didn't want it left here, I am guessing we don't want everybody to see it. 01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:56.239 I'll put it in satchel. 01:12:57.039 --> 01:12:59.199 Where other books were when I got here? 01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:01.359 Thank you. 01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:04.640 That's probably a good idea. 01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:07.760 Nobody's going to think anything about him carrying a book. 01:13:08.720 --> 01:13:10.159 Because you transport them. 01:13:11.119 --> 01:13:11.920 All the time. 01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:15.119 Alright. 01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:18.720 Stay low, move fast. 01:13:19.279 --> 01:13:20.720 Everyone know where we're going? 01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:22.720 Quick and quiet. 01:13:23.039 --> 01:13:34.880 And as I say that, I gesture, and my clothes go from their sort of vibrant pattern to a mottled dark pattern to help me blend in better. 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:40.960 And my tattoos shift to less vibrant to blend me in better as well. 01:13:42.880 --> 01:13:46.720 Well, uh, I'll provide the distraction. 01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:50.479 He pulls up a bottle of meat and pours it on himself. 01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:51.279 Oh, God. 01:13:51.680 --> 01:14:02.159 And goes ambling out dwarvish about how, oh, the fates are mad. 01:14:02.319 --> 01:14:03.439 They've come again. 01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:08.239 Because the heathen people have turned from the true ways of the dwarven kind. 01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:11.039 Just making up bullshit. 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:14.000 Dreaming it at the top of his lungs. 01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:17.279 There's hardly anybody in the street, but the guards. 01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:19.279 He's got the guards' attention. 01:14:23.119 --> 01:14:23.520 Let's go. 01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:34.640 Lenore's gonna quickly, like, tuck her floppy ears into her armor and also, like, pull up her hood. 01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:36.319 Yep. 01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:38.159 Black bunny go. 01:14:39.119 --> 01:14:39.920 Go, go, go. 01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:42.479 Alright. 01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:44.560 One thing. 01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:45.920 And he's gonna. 01:14:46.479 --> 01:15:09.039 Opus is kind of kind of raises his hand and kind of gesture at him because he is wearing a relatively bright yellow kind of trench coat looking leather garment and he has pretty bright emerald skin. 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:13.760 So I was gonna say, I'm like. 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:17.000 Purple with silver hair. 01:15:17.239 --> 01:15:26.359 So Vayra is looking around for anything that she can take to use as a cloak, like a blanket, you know, towels, anything. 01:15:26.600 --> 01:15:29.159 So she looked for one for Opus, too. 01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:33.800 You find a dwarf-sized cloak. 01:15:34.119 --> 01:15:36.119 Okay, she throws it at Opus. 01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:46.119 I imagine this thing's like three, maybe four foot tall, or like long, so distinctly overflowing. 01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:50.199 Looks like a child in their parents' like shirt. 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:52.439 At least it's not yellow. 01:15:55.079 --> 01:16:02.359 And he takes it off and throws it aside and just come here. 01:16:03.000 --> 01:16:04.920 And open. 01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:11.479 He kind of waves his hand to open it, and Opus is going to try to see if he can fit into Minkus. 01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:18.439 With the extra stuff that you gathered, I'm going to say no. 01:16:20.760 --> 01:16:24.119 I could get closes it. 01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:33.079 This time he actually uses his hands to close Minkus, and you hear a little bit of a creak that almost sounds like a little bit of a whimper. 01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:34.520 Sorry. 01:16:36.439 --> 01:16:41.560 Can I use one of the daggers to try to cut the end of the cloak to make it more Opus-size? 01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:43.640 So that's what Vayra's going to do. 01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:46.520 She's going to try to cut it down and use it like a belt. 01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:54.119 Use the excess she cut off on the bottom like a belt and like tie you up like you tie a kid in an oversized Halloween costume. 01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:55.319 This will work. 01:16:56.119 --> 01:17:02.039 Yep, and that's exactly what he looks like, and he looks incredibly grumpy. 01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:09.319 While all this is happening, Nyx is going to pull out the bottle of ink she's got in her bag and be like, you can pour this on yourself, Miow. 01:17:11.960 --> 01:17:12.199 No. 01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:14.600 Vayra will pour it on her hair. 01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:15.880 Oh my god. 01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:20.760 And it will ooze down, covering most of your hair. 01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:21.960 There's still some. 01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:28.760 I will modify the DC of your stealth checks for the homemade cloak idea and the ink hair. 01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:33.319 She's just muttering to herself at Draconic now. 01:17:35.640 --> 01:17:37.960 I don't know if anyone else is draconic, so. 01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:41.159 Oh, wait, I do, actually. 01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:41.960 Opus does. 01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:47.079 Yeah, so she's muttering to herself, don't glow, don't glow, don't glow, don't glow. 01:17:48.920 --> 01:17:49.479 Glow? 01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:53.800 And he's going to say it in common: what glows? 01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:56.920 Nothing, of course. 01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:09.079 And once again, muttering in kind of this, you know, grumpy, disgruntled manner. 01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:18.439 Don't you have stuff in your back in your Minkus, Meow, to maybe make yourself invisible, Meow? 01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:25.479 I would be time. 01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:27.960 We don't have time. 01:18:44.039 --> 01:18:50.119 He's probably going to want to poke a head out a bit and try and get a feel for a good time for them to go. 01:18:51.399 --> 01:18:59.159 You stick your head out and you see these guards are gathered around Coli and they are not happy. 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:03.079 If we're going to go, we better go now. 01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:04.760 We can't keep dawdling. 01:19:08.600 --> 01:19:08.840 Okay. 01:19:10.840 --> 01:19:12.039 Let's go. 01:19:12.680 --> 01:19:14.920 So, first off, I need marching order. 01:19:17.880 --> 01:19:18.760 I'll take helm. 01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:19.479 I'll take bust. 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:22.760 Nyx is going to be right behind Kagen. 01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:26.039 Lenore will take last. 01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:34.279 Sorry, what was that? 01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:37.399 Oh, I was going to say Mayor will follow Lumine then. 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:54.840 Opus would be very slow, and so if you're Lenore's trying to be like trying to be last, then probably right in front of you. 01:19:55.399 --> 01:19:58.760 If you're not trying to be last, but just a little slow, then, yeah, might be the same. 01:19:58.920 --> 01:20:00.760 But I think in front of her. 01:20:03.800 --> 01:20:07.399 I think Kagen will be like middle-ish. 01:20:07.720 --> 01:20:14.520 Like, I want to let the first group be out so I can keep an eye on them and trust the others to follow behind. 01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:23.359 So are you in front of Kagen or behind Kate and Kagen? 01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:29.600 Probably behind because she's going to be watching the smaller of the ones that are behind. 01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:41.520 I mean, the monk can probably move the fastest with the fastest walking distance, but now comes the fun part. 01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:48.800 I need everyone to make stealth checks as this is a group stealth check. 01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:50.239 This is how I do it. 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:57.359 I set my DC, I take all of your roles, average them out, and see if it beats the DC. 01:20:57.600 --> 01:20:58.720 If it does, good. 01:20:58.960 --> 01:21:00.479 If it doesn't, bad. 01:21:01.760 --> 01:21:02.319 All right. 01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:08.800 Let me bring up my handy dandy calculator because I'm bad at math. 01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:17.199 I think Walk and I are going to help a lot based off of his reaction. 01:21:19.039 --> 01:21:20.479 Don't count out the monk. 01:21:21.119 --> 01:21:33.359 Kagen 26 with a natural 20 nice Lenore 20. 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:34.720 Oh my god. 01:21:40.239 --> 01:21:52.640 Lumine 11 Casey or Nyx Opus. 01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:54.720 So I got a question. 01:21:55.039 --> 01:21:57.680 Does do I also roll for Mincus? 01:21:59.039 --> 01:22:00.479 I'm going to say no. 01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:02.720 Okay. 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:05.119 Opus got six. 01:22:07.359 --> 01:22:16.319 Oz'zariah 21 and Vayra 18. 01:22:23.359 --> 01:22:24.399 Oh boy. 01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:29.680 So we're going to take our break and then you'll find out what happens. 01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:40.800 I'm going to take we're going to take 10 minutes, get our beverages of choice hard snickety snacks, and we'll be back. 01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:53.199 And we return from our break. 01:40:53.520 --> 01:41:01.039 Before we left, the party was attempting to sneak out of Master Coli's workshop to try to escape the town. 01:41:01.199 --> 01:41:09.279 Master Coli covering themselves in mead and screaming heathenistic babble to attract the guards. 01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:14.399 The group went out making a group stealth check. 01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:18.640 The highest roll being 26, the lowest roll being 6. 01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:22.079 Average together is a 17. 01:41:22.399 --> 01:41:24.560 If it meets, it beats. 01:41:27.119 --> 01:41:35.520 Y'all are able to quietly make it into the alleyways, making your way through, and we'll hold. 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:39.840 Now you just got to figure out how to get past the gate. 01:41:40.720 --> 01:41:42.800 But I'll leave that up to y'all. 01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:59.359 Opus, like, as soon as you, like, get into that relatively safe or behind bit, like, you know, behind the area before we get to the guards or, you know, the front gate, he's going to just take off the costume. 01:42:00.000 --> 01:42:03.279 No, I'll find another way. 01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:04.479 Riggers! 01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:09.199 And he's going to open Minkus and start digging in, trying to find something. 01:42:12.239 --> 01:42:14.159 What are the gates made of? 01:42:14.800 --> 01:42:15.520 Metal. 01:42:16.479 --> 01:42:20.800 So, like, are they like solid metal or are they like ornate, you know? 01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:22.720 Oh, no, they're solid metal. 01:42:23.039 --> 01:42:23.359 Okay. 01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:26.560 Nothing about the outside of Envil Hold is ornate. 01:42:26.640 --> 01:42:29.039 It's all meant to keep people away. 01:42:32.159 --> 01:42:37.439 Is there a station with people that man the gate? 01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:38.640 Yes. 01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:40.640 Awesome. 01:42:41.279 --> 01:42:44.319 Are there any like cracks in the walls around us? 01:42:45.199 --> 01:42:45.439 No. 01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:52.239 Can I see, like, try to take a look and see what they're doing? 01:42:53.439 --> 01:43:01.600 They are standing beside the doors that the because the gates have normal size doors to let people in and out of. 01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:02.079 Okay. 01:43:02.640 --> 01:43:05.279 They open the big gates for caravans and such. 01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:08.079 And there's two guards on each door. 01:43:08.399 --> 01:43:08.720 Okay. 01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:14.479 So I would like to cast dancing lights. 01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:16.000 Okay. 01:43:17.600 --> 01:43:27.600 So I want four little lights to appear, like two on each side, and have them like try to attack the guard, try to attract the guards' attention. 01:43:28.560 --> 01:43:35.760 And then they shape into like a person and see if they can get the guards to like follow them. 01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:37.840 Well, dancing lights do that. 01:43:38.159 --> 01:43:39.279 Yes, mine does. 01:43:40.000 --> 01:43:44.640 You can combine all four lights into one glowing medium form that's vaguely human-like. 01:43:45.199 --> 01:43:46.479 Oh, nice. 01:43:47.359 --> 01:43:47.920 All right. 01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:53.199 So go ahead and roll persuasion. 01:43:53.520 --> 01:43:53.840 Okay. 01:43:54.800 --> 01:43:59.359 And add your proficiency bonus since your magic is helping you. 01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:00.000 Okay. 01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:02.319 That would be a 16. 01:44:04.159 --> 01:44:08.079 I will roll to see if the guards follow. 01:44:09.359 --> 01:44:10.159 I rolled a one. 01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:11.439 The guards follow. 01:44:12.079 --> 01:44:12.880 Awesome. 01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:14.239 What is that? 01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:21.279 They are tentatively moving forward, very, very concerned about what they're seeing. 01:44:22.560 --> 01:44:22.960 Awesome. 01:44:23.119 --> 01:45:19.920 I figured what's it they said like suspicion and like the you know witchcraft kind of thing and so I'm gonna try because I can control it up to 120 feet but it could try to move them over so that maybe someone in our party can like open the doors here are the skiffs on the inside or the outside outside okay being someone who walked on the wall and everything Lumine is going to go and get the doors open hopefully easily are you trying to be stealthy yes I will need a stealth check okay and this is a solo stealth check it is not a group so it's all on you oh boy here we go that'll be a 18 as quiet as a mouse 01:45:22.439 --> 01:45:24.680 Move over, opening the first door. 01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:29.239 You open it so quietly, the guards standing on the outside don't even notice. 01:45:32.760 --> 01:45:33.720 Oh shit. 01:45:39.880 --> 01:45:41.479 We only need the one door, right? 01:45:43.000 --> 01:45:44.279 Technically, yes. 01:45:44.920 --> 01:45:49.159 But there's still probably multiple guards on the outside. 01:45:50.119 --> 01:45:53.239 Would we know how many guards would be stationed outside generally? 01:45:53.560 --> 01:45:55.560 There's four guards outside. 01:45:58.439 --> 01:46:12.119 Lumine is going to swing like a hinge, plant her back along the inside of the gate, like the bigger gate, and just kind of hang this one moment, like, oh, shit, what do I do? 01:46:12.760 --> 01:46:13.079 All right. 01:46:13.720 --> 01:46:17.640 I will stealthily move up to support Lumine. 01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:20.119 Make a stealth check. 01:46:23.079 --> 01:46:26.760 That is a 14 plus 6 dirty 20. 01:46:27.399 --> 01:46:29.159 Alright, you make it up. 01:46:30.760 --> 01:46:36.920 So, Nyx is going to pull four of the cookies out of her bag, and then she's going to be like, I got this, Meow. 01:46:37.159 --> 01:46:42.680 And then she's going to quietly walk out and go to each of the guards saying, you didn't see us. 01:46:43.000 --> 01:46:46.760 And then hand cookies and try to persuade them that they don't see us. 01:46:49.000 --> 01:46:49.319 Okay. 01:46:55.319 --> 01:46:59.159 How did you look as you passed the group? 01:46:59.800 --> 01:47:04.600 Like, as you were going to do that, like, did you steal stealth stealth? 01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:12.439 Or were we, like, holding out the cookies as if you were like, you know, literally handing it to them the whole way there? 01:47:13.000 --> 01:47:15.960 It would look like I am going to hand them to them. 01:47:16.279 --> 01:47:18.119 The whole time, like, straight out. 01:47:18.439 --> 01:47:19.159 Uh-huh. 01:47:22.439 --> 01:47:23.479 What are you doing? 01:47:23.800 --> 01:47:29.159 And whether you stop, it doesn't matter, but Opus would have said something. 01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:31.319 Yeah, I wouldn't have stopped. 01:47:31.960 --> 01:47:32.520 All right. 01:47:32.760 --> 01:47:37.720 So, Nyx, this is probably the most important role of the game. 01:47:38.039 --> 01:47:38.680 Oh, God. 01:47:39.319 --> 01:47:40.840 Roll persuasion. 01:47:41.479 --> 01:47:41.800 Okay. 01:47:49.479 --> 01:47:51.239 So that would be a 16. 01:47:55.479 --> 01:47:57.560 I got to get less than a 16. 01:47:57.880 --> 01:47:58.760 Oh, gosh. 01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:01.399 It's a flat roll. 01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:06.600 They're not that intelligent, so their insight is not that great. 01:48:12.520 --> 01:48:17.560 You approach these guards with cookies in hand. 01:48:19.399 --> 01:48:21.800 You extend them to the guards. 01:48:21.960 --> 01:48:23.239 You didn't see us. 01:48:25.079 --> 01:48:32.680 The guards look at you for a moment, hands tightening on weapons as their cold gaze works you over. 01:48:34.600 --> 01:48:36.520 One will take the cookie. 01:48:37.159 --> 01:48:38.840 Two will take the cookie. 01:48:40.039 --> 01:48:41.800 Three will take the cookie. 01:48:42.119 --> 01:48:43.479 Four will take the cookie. 01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:46.359 Silly children's games. 01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:48.279 And they will eat the cookies. 01:48:51.079 --> 01:48:51.319 Okay. 01:48:51.880 --> 01:48:55.560 I will wave everyone through and say, all right, Meow. 01:49:02.439 --> 01:49:03.239 Opus is... 01:49:03.960 --> 01:49:04.840 Oh, go ahead. 01:49:05.159 --> 01:49:06.600 Because you were closing, right? 01:49:06.920 --> 01:49:09.720 She's poking her head through the doorway. 01:49:13.960 --> 01:49:19.720 Kagen is staying in the shadows and watching and prepared to strike if they change their mind. 01:49:20.039 --> 01:49:20.359 But is... 01:49:21.239 --> 01:49:29.479 I'm gonna send a message back to Oz'zariah. 01:49:30.760 --> 01:49:32.279 Alright, bring everyone forward. 01:49:32.520 --> 01:49:33.800 Quick and quiet. 01:49:35.399 --> 01:49:37.319 She's just gonna wave everybody. 01:49:38.920 --> 01:49:43.960 Like, Vayra's gonna try to be last because she wants to hold this spell as long as she can. 01:49:44.039 --> 01:49:48.840 She can only hold it up to a minute, so she wants to try to hold it as long as she can before she drops it. 01:49:52.279 --> 01:50:01.239 Opus is, you know, gonna kind of not waddle, but kind of, you know, promptly just walk like, you know, everyday stroll and then go up to Nyx. 01:50:01.479 --> 01:50:02.600 Are you still near the guards right now? 01:50:02.840 --> 01:50:04.199 Have you fully walked by? 01:50:05.079 --> 01:50:13.079 So, depending on how they were, I assume I probably would have walked to each one of them, and then I would have walked back to the center towards the door. 01:50:13.399 --> 01:50:15.000 Because I would have had to call you guys in. 01:50:15.159 --> 01:50:17.079 So I'm towards the door. 01:50:17.720 --> 01:50:18.680 The gate. 01:50:19.640 --> 01:50:19.960 Okay. 01:50:22.000 --> 01:50:26.079 Yeah, Opus would kind of, you know, walk up with Minkus and be like, what? 01:50:26.960 --> 01:50:31.680 What kind of alchemical masteries? 01:50:32.000 --> 01:50:33.520 Can I kind of have a cookie? 01:50:34.319 --> 01:50:35.199 What is in the cookie? 01:50:35.520 --> 01:50:36.239 What's in the cookie? 01:50:36.960 --> 01:50:37.439 Please? 01:50:38.319 --> 01:50:42.800 I told you they were deities, Meow, and I'll go for one and give it to him. 01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:44.000 What? 01:50:45.520 --> 01:50:46.399 Opus, have you ever. 01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:53.439 And I'm going to start talking to Opus about the cookie as I'm walking, you know, a little bit past the group and through the gate. 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:54.159 Yep. 01:50:54.640 --> 01:51:02.399 Seeing you and Nyx interact, the guards are a little curious, but really don't pay any heed at this moment. 01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:06.720 Lumine just passes through head down, just going. 01:51:08.159 --> 01:51:11.279 We can discuss the virtues of cookies later. 01:51:11.600 --> 01:51:12.399 Let's go. 01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:16.319 Lenore's basically doing the same as Lumine. 01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:17.680 She's got her hood up. 01:51:17.760 --> 01:51:23.279 She's just like, go stick to the wall. 01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:24.960 Be quiet and careful. 01:51:25.279 --> 01:51:27.840 Not that they really have to sneak, but she's still gonna. 01:51:28.720 --> 01:51:33.279 The second most important role of the session will be done with judgment. 01:51:34.319 --> 01:51:36.000 My big chunky metal die. 01:51:38.560 --> 01:51:43.119 Were the guards properly informed of the prisoners? 01:51:47.520 --> 01:51:52.319 Now we know that Althos was on your side, but we don't know if anybody else was. 01:51:55.760 --> 01:51:56.960 This is a flat roll. 01:51:57.119 --> 01:51:59.520 It has to be 15 or higher. 01:52:08.399 --> 01:52:16.319 As you all begin exiting through the doors, the guards will curiously watch you. 01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:25.439 But you were allowed to pass the inward guard, so surely everything must be okay. 01:52:29.199 --> 01:52:31.600 One guard will stick his head in. 01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:33.279 Hey, where'd they go? 01:52:33.840 --> 01:52:35.600 And step through the door. 01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:38.960 Passing you, Vayra, as you exit. 01:52:43.680 --> 01:52:44.640 Y'all are outside. 01:52:44.800 --> 01:52:46.239 What would you like to do? 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:47.680 Run for the skiffs. 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:53.600 Are we able to see the skiffs? 01:52:54.239 --> 01:52:54.560 No. 01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:56.800 It's a little bit of a jog. 01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:00.720 Lenore knows where they're parked because she met the caravan there. 01:53:00.800 --> 01:53:03.760 She's just going to book it, follow the bunny. 01:53:05.279 --> 01:53:07.359 Do you say anything or do you just run? 01:53:08.079 --> 01:53:09.760 She's just kind of going. 01:53:11.039 --> 01:53:11.920 Lumine will follow. 01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:13.600 She's going with purpose. 01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:16.479 She looks like she knows where she's going. 01:53:17.119 --> 01:53:24.000 As the guards start to look a little confused, I drop four gold pieces onto the ground. 01:53:24.640 --> 01:53:25.600 We weren't here. 01:53:25.920 --> 01:53:27.119 And I turn and go. 01:53:29.600 --> 01:53:31.039 Man, cookies and gold. 01:53:31.199 --> 01:53:32.399 These guards are spoiled. 01:53:33.039 --> 01:53:34.640 Make a persuasion check. 01:53:35.279 --> 01:53:35.920 Damn it. 01:53:36.640 --> 01:53:38.640 I will make the counter check. 01:53:42.159 --> 01:53:45.119 That is a 10 plus 414. 01:53:50.880 --> 01:53:52.239 That is a 13. 01:53:53.760 --> 01:53:55.439 We'll beat it by one point. 01:53:59.680 --> 01:54:01.840 Do they pick up the gold, I assume? 01:54:02.000 --> 01:54:03.199 Is that the idea? 01:54:03.680 --> 01:54:05.359 You don't know you're running away. 01:54:05.680 --> 01:54:06.960 It's hard to say. 01:54:08.960 --> 01:54:09.760 They don't follow. 01:54:09.840 --> 01:54:11.119 That's all we care about. 01:54:12.079 --> 01:54:13.439 You're not following. 01:54:19.680 --> 01:54:22.079 Y'all make it to the skiffs. 01:54:22.159 --> 01:54:23.439 What do you want to do? 01:54:26.640 --> 01:54:28.000 Lenore will look at. 01:54:28.880 --> 01:54:32.640 Well, we'll crouch down so that she's more eye-level with Nyx. 01:54:33.680 --> 01:54:36.079 You're more familiar with these skiffs. 01:54:36.720 --> 01:54:38.079 Pick a good one. 01:54:39.680 --> 01:54:40.640 Nyx's will go. 01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:44.399 Um, eeny, meeny, meow, that one. 01:54:48.960 --> 01:54:51.279 And she'll just randomly pick one. 01:54:53.760 --> 01:54:55.359 Are they big enough to hold all of us? 01:54:55.520 --> 01:54:56.640 Or are we taking all the people? 01:54:56.720 --> 01:54:58.560 Yeah, they're large. 01:54:58.880 --> 01:54:59.199 Okay. 01:55:00.399 --> 01:55:02.560 Are they on the. 01:55:02.960 --> 01:55:04.800 Like, so I'm full stop. 01:55:05.119 --> 01:55:08.960 As a skiff in my head, I'm picturing, you know, Tatooine. 01:55:09.840 --> 01:55:12.000 But are they. 01:55:12.800 --> 01:55:14.079 That's just within my head, you know? 01:55:14.319 --> 01:55:14.880 Tatooine. 01:55:15.199 --> 01:55:16.640 But is. 01:55:19.840 --> 01:55:21.680 Are they floating on like. 01:55:23.159 --> 01:55:23.560 Above the ground? 01:55:23.640 --> 01:55:24.199 Are they on the ground? 01:55:24.279 --> 01:55:25.319 Do they have treads? 01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:25.640 Like. 01:55:26.520 --> 01:55:29.000 They have skis. 01:55:29.960 --> 01:55:30.760 Skis, okay. 01:55:31.159 --> 01:55:32.279 And cells. 01:55:32.600 --> 01:55:34.680 They glide through the sand. 01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:37.640 Looks like a pontoon boat, but for sand. 01:55:38.359 --> 01:55:38.520 Yeah. 01:55:38.840 --> 01:55:39.800 That's cool. 01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:50.680 At this point, I need Nyx and Kagen to roll insight checks. 01:55:57.720 --> 01:56:00.920 14 plus 6 is a gentleman's 20. 01:56:02.199 --> 01:56:02.760 7. 01:56:05.319 --> 01:56:08.119 You're too excited about cookies. 01:56:09.319 --> 01:56:17.640 But Kagen, you realize that the Sea of Sorrow, Sea of Solace, is a very dangerous place. 01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:24.600 And that there's going to have to be one of three routes decided upon. 01:56:24.920 --> 01:56:34.680 As you have to enter into that travel lane fairly quickly: you have the burned path. 01:56:35.560 --> 01:56:39.079 It's faster but crosses old battlegrounds. 01:56:40.039 --> 01:56:42.359 There's usually more monsters seen. 01:56:43.319 --> 01:56:45.000 You have the dune tunnels. 01:56:45.319 --> 01:56:51.319 It's slow, but good for avoiding sun and bad for navigation. 01:56:51.960 --> 01:56:54.039 And you have the singing sands. 01:56:54.279 --> 01:57:06.039 It's a forbidden place of holiness that people say others vanish when they enter. 01:57:06.359 --> 01:57:09.720 That the spirits there devour the living. 01:57:12.840 --> 01:57:24.680 Would Opus have any information on that, being that he would be venturing out in the surrounding areas, you know, regularly for re-agents and things like that? 01:57:26.279 --> 01:57:28.199 Make a history check. 01:57:31.720 --> 01:57:38.760 Can I also get in on that history check as a person that helped out people moving through areas? 01:57:40.920 --> 01:57:43.079 I'd also like to as well. 01:57:48.840 --> 01:57:50.359 So I got a 12. 01:57:51.000 --> 01:57:51.319 Okay. 01:57:52.680 --> 01:57:53.319 Lenore? 01:57:59.479 --> 01:58:00.920 That would be a 7. 01:58:03.079 --> 01:58:03.880 Lumine? 01:58:04.680 --> 01:58:05.479 11. 01:58:08.199 --> 01:58:12.520 You have heard of the Burning Path, Opus. 01:58:13.479 --> 01:58:18.439 That's the one that's usually avoided. 01:58:18.760 --> 01:58:20.039 And you've heard of the tunnels. 01:58:20.199 --> 01:58:25.319 That's usually the safe route for experienced travelers. 01:58:29.000 --> 02:00:22.439 Would I know any like I'm going to be more focused on resource gathering and potential any kind of trade networks or tiny little you know tucked away people that may have stayed would I know of either one of those having that uh no your main trade comes from the kingdom of Al-Hafarah and that is basically all three paths can take you there or they can take you across the desert so that's where you would be doing your trading is with the people of Al-Hafarah okay gotcha quickly we have three choices uh we can take the burning path which goes through old battlefields um more dangerous but faster lots uh more potential of creatures uh there's the tunnels which are slow but um hard to navigate but uh provides more protection uh or what was the name of the third one here the singing sands or we take the singing sands it is um place of old gods it is holy um people often go missing there but given what is happening to us uh crapshoot i think now Nyx the singing sands would be sacred to you as you are from Al-Hafarah this is a very holy land okay um what do i know about the singing sands in regards to it being holy is it like one of those places people go missing because they're not supposed to be on there or is it like something traveled a lot where people try to get like holy guidance or um 02:00:24.159 --> 02:00:27.520 No, it is a place where when people go in, they don't come out. 02:00:27.840 --> 02:00:36.399 And it is believed that the ghosts of the spirits of the dead devour the living to add to their numbers. 02:00:36.720 --> 02:00:40.399 It is a holy place, but it is a forbidden place. 02:00:42.800 --> 02:00:44.560 We don't go to the sands, meow. 02:00:45.760 --> 02:00:47.199 You don't travel there, meow. 02:00:51.039 --> 02:00:53.439 How much faster is the burning path? 02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:03.199 It's saved you a couple of days. 02:01:03.920 --> 02:01:05.439 Mean one or two days. 02:01:10.479 --> 02:01:14.720 Also, old battlefields are good for finding things, useful things. 02:01:16.880 --> 02:01:18.159 I'm not afraid of monsters. 02:01:19.600 --> 02:01:20.800 Then they're not Minkus. 02:01:21.359 --> 02:01:22.399 Minkus likes things. 02:01:22.640 --> 02:01:22.960 Things. 02:01:28.239 --> 02:01:30.319 Alright, we go by burning path then. 02:01:31.760 --> 02:01:32.720 Let's get underway. 02:01:35.600 --> 02:01:39.680 Now this comes to a very interesting point. 02:01:40.880 --> 02:01:45.600 Among all of you, there's only one person that knows how to operate a sand skiff. 02:01:48.479 --> 02:01:51.920 As they are strictly used by the people of Al-Hafarah. 02:01:56.079 --> 02:02:01.039 So you're saying that the 15-year-old cat, child, knows how to survive. 02:02:02.239 --> 02:02:02.880 Yes. 02:02:04.800 --> 02:02:06.720 Do any of you know how to use this meow? 02:02:10.479 --> 02:02:11.760 I can figure it out. 02:02:12.399 --> 02:02:13.520 I have only been passenger. 02:02:14.399 --> 02:02:20.000 I'm going to say that and start trying to, you know, go to the front and hit buttons, kind of. 02:02:23.520 --> 02:02:26.319 How obvious is it that he doesn't know what he's doing? 02:02:26.640 --> 02:02:28.239 It's very obvious. 02:02:30.399 --> 02:02:32.960 He's in the wrong part of the ship and everything. 02:02:35.600 --> 02:02:39.760 And Nyx will just look and be like, okay, meow. 02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:40.880 I'll just drive. 02:02:41.039 --> 02:02:42.000 Buckle up, meow. 02:02:43.439 --> 02:02:44.399 You tell us what to do. 02:02:44.479 --> 02:02:45.039 We do. 02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:48.239 I did meow. 02:02:48.399 --> 02:02:49.039 Buckle up. 02:02:52.800 --> 02:02:53.359 Yep. 02:02:54.560 --> 02:02:56.880 Vayra's going to look at her shoes. 02:03:01.359 --> 02:03:02.720 But they tie. 02:03:03.199 --> 02:03:04.079 Oh, okay. 02:03:06.479 --> 02:03:11.760 We're just going to grab Vayra by the wrist and drag her onto the skiff. 02:03:14.560 --> 02:03:16.800 She mentioned buckles, though. 02:03:18.000 --> 02:03:20.720 Is a buckle meow different than a normal buckle? 02:03:22.239 --> 02:03:23.039 Would you have said that? 02:03:23.199 --> 02:03:24.560 So you said that out loud. 02:03:24.800 --> 02:03:25.039 Right? 02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:25.840 She's asking. 02:03:26.000 --> 02:03:27.279 She's asking Lenore. 02:03:29.760 --> 02:03:31.520 It's not any different. 02:03:31.680 --> 02:03:34.720 It's a safety device for passengers. 02:03:37.520 --> 02:03:39.199 Would Opus have heard that? 02:03:40.079 --> 02:03:41.199 She's not trying to be quiet. 02:03:41.760 --> 02:03:41.920 Yeah. 02:03:42.239 --> 02:03:42.479 Okay. 02:03:43.119 --> 02:03:43.199 Okay. 02:03:44.079 --> 02:03:45.439 Still perception tier? 02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:46.000 Yeah. 02:03:46.159 --> 02:03:46.640 Yeah, for sure. 02:03:52.720 --> 02:03:54.000 It's at 14. 02:03:54.960 --> 02:03:56.239 I'd say you heard it. 02:03:57.119 --> 02:03:58.800 Did I hear her say that? 02:03:59.680 --> 02:03:59.920 Yeah. 02:04:00.560 --> 02:04:02.399 I'm going to say everybody heard it. 02:04:03.680 --> 02:04:07.439 Opus kind of just goes, oh, that's a good point. 02:04:08.720 --> 02:04:09.600 Buckles. 02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:10.880 Meow. 02:04:11.439 --> 02:04:20.960 And you're going to hear Opus try to say meow, but in like a lot of different ways, like as if he's trying to think of what that word could mean. 02:04:22.479 --> 02:04:26.000 Yeah, Nyx's will look back and be like, what's a buckle meow meow? 02:04:29.520 --> 02:04:32.640 If you need any help with the ship, I will lend assistance. 02:04:32.800 --> 02:04:35.199 And Lumine's just going to go sit somewhere. 02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:41.600 Oh, the normal walls will hold up a hand of like me too and also take a seat. 02:04:42.239 --> 02:04:43.119 Thank you, Meow. 02:04:44.880 --> 02:04:46.479 Yeah, Oz'zariah is already sitting. 02:04:46.640 --> 02:04:50.319 She just walked through all of that and just sat down. 02:04:52.079 --> 02:04:56.880 We really need to get going sooner rather than later. 02:04:58.800 --> 02:05:16.399 Yeah, so once everyone's seated, I will go ahead and start working the skiff, but it will be like a little bit haphazard and a little bit like reckless because I'm a kid and I really like to go near, let's say. 02:05:18.159 --> 02:05:18.960 Survival check. 02:05:19.279 --> 02:05:19.760 Oh, God. 02:05:21.840 --> 02:05:22.640 All of us are. 02:05:22.800 --> 02:05:23.600 Or KG. 02:05:26.279 --> 02:05:28.279 Just Nyx, the driver. 02:05:35.720 --> 02:05:36.119 Oh, no. 02:05:36.439 --> 02:05:37.079 That one? 02:05:40.520 --> 02:05:41.960 So it becomes a seven. 02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:44.760 A seven. 02:05:47.479 --> 02:05:48.680 That's a number. 02:05:50.039 --> 02:05:51.079 That's a number. 02:05:52.920 --> 02:05:53.560 Hey, um... 02:05:54.199 --> 02:05:55.319 Above table. 02:05:55.880 --> 02:05:58.600 Cleric, you can guidance yourself. 02:05:59.880 --> 02:06:00.600 Wait, really? 02:06:01.239 --> 02:06:02.439 Yeah, I can. 02:06:03.720 --> 02:06:06.359 Okay, can we do that, please? 02:06:07.000 --> 02:06:07.239 No. 02:06:07.800 --> 02:06:08.520 Oh, dang it. 02:06:08.920 --> 02:06:09.079 Really? 02:06:10.199 --> 02:06:11.880 I'll keep that in mind. 02:06:13.800 --> 02:06:14.119 You. 02:06:15.079 --> 02:06:16.039 Several things happen. 02:06:18.119 --> 02:06:22.600 You hear bells tolling, the alarm bell. 02:06:22.920 --> 02:06:25.000 People have noticed you're missing. 02:06:26.520 --> 02:06:35.960 You hear screaming and running of angry individuals, the sound of armor tinking as the guards realize you walked past them. 02:06:37.560 --> 02:06:51.640 In this moment, the excitable teenager behind the wheel of a very powerful vehicle will, for our lack of a better term, for it. 02:06:53.720 --> 02:06:58.439 Causing the skiff to literally raise up and fall back. 02:06:58.760 --> 02:07:00.600 I need everyone to make deck saves. 02:07:01.159 --> 02:07:02.039 Oh, my God. 02:07:10.520 --> 02:07:10.840 Okay. 02:07:12.039 --> 02:07:13.159 Kagen. 02:07:14.920 --> 02:07:16.520 Gentleman's 20. 02:07:17.800 --> 02:07:18.600 Lenore. 02:07:21.159 --> 02:07:21.880 18. 02:07:22.199 --> 02:07:26.760 Sorry, my brain couldn't figure out what 6 times 3 was for the second. 02:07:29.560 --> 02:07:30.359 Lumine. 02:07:31.000 --> 02:07:31.800 14. 02:07:34.279 --> 02:07:34.680 Nyx. 02:07:35.560 --> 02:07:37.800 Nat 20 plus 2, so 22. 02:07:39.239 --> 02:07:40.039 Opus. 02:07:41.960 --> 02:07:42.279 So. 02:07:44.119 --> 02:07:45.880 Opus got a 6. 02:07:47.640 --> 02:07:49.800 And I... 02:07:50.359 --> 02:07:52.920 Does Minkus need to make this roll as well? 02:07:53.239 --> 02:07:53.399 Yes. 02:07:53.560 --> 02:07:54.680 This role, Minkus will need to. 02:07:54.920 --> 02:07:55.399 That's what I thought. 02:07:55.560 --> 02:07:57.000 I just wanted to make sure. 02:07:59.880 --> 02:08:00.199 Oh. 02:08:01.239 --> 02:08:01.479 Okay. 02:08:02.199 --> 02:08:02.520 So. 02:08:04.359 --> 02:08:05.560 Minkus got a 10. 02:08:06.119 --> 02:08:15.000 And for side context, the strap-in, Opus was sitting on Minkus, and Opus was the seatbelt. 02:08:15.239 --> 02:08:16.600 Is basically what it was. 02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:17.720 Just saying. 02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:18.600 So. 02:08:21.800 --> 02:08:22.760 Oz'zariah. 02:08:23.560 --> 02:08:24.359 19. 02:08:27.880 --> 02:08:28.520 8. 02:08:38.359 --> 02:08:43.159 Opus, Vayra, you take 11 hit points of damage. 02:08:47.000 --> 02:08:48.680 Not 111. 02:08:49.239 --> 02:08:50.039 There we go. 02:08:51.319 --> 02:08:51.560 Now. 02:08:55.960 --> 02:08:57.479 Y'all have enough time. 02:09:00.600 --> 02:09:01.960 Once more, if you heard. 02:09:04.760 --> 02:09:17.720 Nyx will, I don't know how she necessarily landed, but since it tipped over and stuff, she would hurriedly scurry and be like, sorry, Meow, let's get into the next one. 02:09:17.800 --> 02:09:19.000 I'll be gentler, Meow. 02:09:23.000 --> 02:09:43.000 Dear, just in case this goes really poorly, since we can hear the guards coming, Kagen draws off of his belt what appears to be a hand crossbow with the prod folded back and flicks his wrist forward and the prod snaps out. 02:09:43.319 --> 02:09:47.000 In place of where the bolt should be, there's what looks like a wand. 02:09:47.319 --> 02:09:58.920 And he reaches up and pulls a crystal off of his shoulder harness and sticks it into the side of the... 02:10:00.439 --> 02:10:02.359 And takes aim at the path back behind them. 02:10:02.680 --> 02:10:04.279 Pray I don't have to use these. 02:10:04.600 --> 02:10:05.479 Go, go, go. 02:10:07.000 --> 02:10:12.119 Yep, Lenore's booking it behind Nyx to whatever skiff the cat chooses next. 02:10:13.319 --> 02:10:14.439 It's the very next one. 02:10:14.600 --> 02:10:16.760 Like, whatever's right next to us. 02:10:17.399 --> 02:10:20.119 Yeah, I'm walking that way to jump on as well. 02:10:20.920 --> 02:10:24.920 Okay, so we are getting off of the skiff was the idea, because it's fully got it. 02:10:27.039 --> 02:10:27.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 02:10:29.439 --> 02:10:38.000 Yeah, Vayra's gonna crawl out and just mutter, I would have rather had a punch in the pecker and make her way to the next skiff. 02:10:40.960 --> 02:10:45.039 Lumine's gotta trail behind a bit and make sure no one gets left behind, basically. 02:10:45.279 --> 02:10:47.359 Just keep everyone moving along. 02:10:49.199 --> 02:10:50.720 Oh, Minkus! 02:10:51.520 --> 02:10:54.319 Oh, Minkus, watch out! 02:10:54.479 --> 02:11:04.079 And you know, after looking for Minkus worryingly, we both Opus and Minkus rush on to the second skiff. 02:11:04.800 --> 02:11:06.000 Minkus got flipped over. 02:11:06.079 --> 02:11:08.239 Is he able to actually get up by himself? 02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:16.079 I okay, rewind tiny bit. 02:11:16.399 --> 02:11:16.720 Mincus! 02:11:18.239 --> 02:11:18.720 Minkus! 02:11:19.680 --> 02:11:23.439 And I'm gonna like try to flip him over, dig him out, stuff like that. 02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:24.960 Oh, go! 02:11:25.199 --> 02:11:26.720 Lumine, I'll just tip him over. 02:11:27.359 --> 02:11:27.520 Okay. 02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:31.760 Thank you, pal. 02:11:32.319 --> 02:11:33.279 Pal, old old chap. 02:11:34.079 --> 02:11:34.560 Let's go. 02:11:34.880 --> 02:11:38.399 And I'll kind of, you know, shove Minkus a little bit along. 02:11:43.119 --> 02:11:50.640 So once everyone's on, Nyx will like get ready to drive again and be like, Is everyone ready, Meow? 02:11:51.840 --> 02:11:52.239 Go! 02:11:55.199 --> 02:12:03.279 Okay, and then in like a very delicate way, she'll just and like try to push forward slowly. 02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:05.760 All right, make a survival check. 02:12:06.079 --> 02:12:07.279 Oh my gosh. 02:12:15.920 --> 02:12:19.119 That is a 14. 02:12:20.720 --> 02:12:27.199 Y'all are underway skimming across the sands of the Sea of Solace. 02:12:28.079 --> 02:12:30.319 There comes a volley of arrows. 02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:34.000 I'll be rolling with disadvantage because you are moving. 02:12:34.960 --> 02:12:37.840 But there is a potential for someone to take an arrow. 02:12:38.479 --> 02:12:39.920 Maybe even in the knee. 02:12:40.880 --> 02:12:42.239 No, I rolled two fives. 02:12:42.399 --> 02:12:43.600 Y'all are fine. 02:12:45.840 --> 02:12:50.560 And as you go skimming across the sand, we're going to take our last break. 02:12:50.880 --> 02:12:54.399 Ten minutes, our beverages of choice are safety snacks, and we'll be back. 02:12:54.560 --> 02:12:55.920 Don't go nowhere. 02:21:10.799 --> 02:21:25.040 And we return the sea of solace, a lone skiff making its way deeper into the desert, taking the route of the burning sands. 02:21:27.040 --> 02:21:31.440 It is quiet, it is calm. 02:21:32.399 --> 02:21:42.239 The hubbub and angering rioting people behind you, the voices have faded. 02:21:43.200 --> 02:21:46.799 There is a warm breeze that blows, bringing the scent of Jasper. 02:21:49.200 --> 02:21:50.879 What would you like to do, Vayra? 02:21:51.840 --> 02:22:01.920 I'm gonna reach over and cure Opus for 17. 02:22:10.479 --> 02:22:11.760 What is your name again? 02:22:12.959 --> 02:22:14.879 Um, they call me Vayra. 02:22:18.239 --> 02:22:19.840 They call me Vayra? 02:22:20.879 --> 02:22:33.920 But yeah, I mean, like, you know, we woke up and then I didn't know who I was, and people started calling me Vayra, so I guess my name is Vayra Verus. 02:22:34.799 --> 02:22:35.760 Oh, my Verus! 02:22:35.920 --> 02:22:37.040 Uh, thank you! 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:39.840 And I'm gonna start digging into Minkus. 02:22:44.799 --> 02:22:47.760 Yeah, I'm just gonna like start, you know, concon and yeah, yeah. 02:22:48.959 --> 02:23:03.760 No, um, are we is this a this is above table, a long rest capable time period soon you said soon? 02:23:04.319 --> 02:23:06.399 Soon, yes, soon, okay. 02:23:12.000 --> 02:23:14.959 They'll turn around and be like, is everyone okay, Meow? 02:23:16.159 --> 02:23:24.879 Um, I'm a little beat up, but I, you know, I can take care of it later, it's fine. 02:23:25.200 --> 02:23:28.000 Just don't flip us again, please. 02:23:30.239 --> 02:23:31.600 I'll try not to, Meow. 02:23:34.479 --> 02:23:35.760 Thank you, Meow. 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:42.000 She'll look a little puzzled at Vayra. 02:23:43.280 --> 02:23:46.159 Vayra's trying to figure out if it's a cultural thing or not. 02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:59.600 So, yeah, as far as you can tell, like she does not understand when you guys reference meow. 02:24:05.920 --> 02:24:10.559 All right, Nick's special role. 02:24:10.879 --> 02:24:12.319 You're going to roll a 1d6. 02:24:12.959 --> 02:24:23.920 This is to determine if the weather cooperates, how the travel goes, if you make it to the first safe spot where you can take a long rest. 02:24:25.840 --> 02:24:26.159 Okay. 02:24:28.799 --> 02:24:29.280 Six. 02:24:30.879 --> 02:24:31.200 Oh. 02:24:36.000 --> 02:24:43.280 You hear rumbling, groaning, and gurgling as a sandstorm begins to blow up. 02:24:44.879 --> 02:24:50.399 It is coming right for the skiff, and there is nothing you can do but endure it. 02:24:54.479 --> 02:24:56.079 Sandstorm hits. 02:24:58.879 --> 02:25:02.479 Each person will take four points of damage from the burning sand. 02:25:09.760 --> 02:25:15.040 And Nyx, you must make a survival check to stay on course with disadvantage. 02:25:17.920 --> 02:25:20.639 Is the skiff completely open, or is there like a blowout? 02:25:21.040 --> 02:25:22.559 Yeah, no, the skiff is completely open. 02:25:22.639 --> 02:25:23.360 There's no blowout. 02:25:26.799 --> 02:25:27.920 I'm just picturing this game. 02:25:29.399 --> 02:25:31.719 The sand skiffs from Avatar the Last Airbender. 02:25:32.920 --> 02:25:33.879 I'm going to Nyx. 02:25:37.559 --> 02:25:38.360 What'd you get Nyx? 02:25:54.280 --> 02:25:56.680 Luckily, sandstorms don't last long. 02:25:58.200 --> 02:26:00.680 After about 15 minutes, it's gone. 02:26:01.639 --> 02:26:05.799 But the horizon looks completely different, as it does after a sandstorm. 02:26:07.319 --> 02:26:11.879 You can only assume you're traveling in the right direction on the right lane. 02:26:13.479 --> 02:26:19.639 An assumption that will hold you until proven otherwise. 02:26:20.920 --> 02:26:23.159 What direction were we trying to go? 02:26:24.040 --> 02:26:26.120 You were trying to go northeast. 02:26:27.559 --> 02:26:30.920 Am I able to look up at the stars and see anything or sky? 02:26:31.000 --> 02:26:32.280 Is there stars or anything like that? 02:26:32.600 --> 02:26:35.399 There's no stars since the cataclysm. 02:26:42.600 --> 02:26:43.399 Help that. 02:26:45.719 --> 02:26:47.399 Is everyone okay still, Meow? 02:26:47.799 --> 02:26:53.239 That was a pretty substantial storm, Meow. 02:26:57.639 --> 02:26:58.360 I'm fine. 02:26:59.959 --> 02:27:11.399 Lenore's just going to shake herself out and get as much sand off of her as possible, which is not going to really help too much until she can get a bath because it's now trapped in her fur. 02:27:13.639 --> 02:27:15.879 I'm going to heal myself at this point. 02:27:21.799 --> 02:27:32.440 Opus will cast mending on Minkus. 02:27:33.079 --> 02:27:43.559 It'll essentially appear like I pull out some of the very supply on my belts. 02:27:44.280 --> 02:27:59.399 Never really focused on it before, but surrounding on one of my sides, as well as kind of to the belt, there's bottles and pouches and little flasks that have all different things. 02:27:59.959 --> 02:28:00.920 I pull out one of them. 02:28:01.000 --> 02:28:06.440 It has like a thermometer, a couple other pieces, and I seem to work on Minus's form. 02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:07.479 Okay. 02:28:11.319 --> 02:28:14.040 Kagen, I need a perception check. 02:28:19.079 --> 02:28:23.000 That is also need one from Opus 18. 02:28:23.239 --> 02:28:23.879 Perception. 02:28:24.600 --> 02:28:25.959 18 plus 6. 02:28:26.600 --> 02:28:27.719 So 24. 02:28:28.680 --> 02:28:29.399 24. 02:28:29.639 --> 02:28:30.600 Alright. 02:28:31.559 --> 02:28:33.079 I got a 15. 02:28:35.639 --> 02:28:36.360 Kagen. 02:28:36.600 --> 02:28:37.159 Opus. 02:28:38.680 --> 02:28:42.360 You begin to hear a soft humming. 02:28:45.879 --> 02:28:49.639 Almost akin to that vibratic noise. 02:28:49.959 --> 02:28:51.559 Like a tuning fork. 02:28:53.959 --> 02:28:58.680 It will take you a moment, but you will realize it's coming from each of your pouches. 02:28:58.920 --> 02:29:01.399 From a pouch on your belt, each of you. 02:29:02.040 --> 02:29:03.159 Both of you. 02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:07.559 What? 02:29:09.079 --> 02:29:10.440 Yeah, you're digging in a pouch. 02:29:10.760 --> 02:29:11.879 Yeah, after kind of... 02:29:12.280 --> 02:29:20.520 I mean, because it's settled, I'd start opening the pouch and pull out a piece of the crystal heart. 02:29:24.520 --> 02:29:28.920 God, I want to, like, what am I seeing? 02:29:29.159 --> 02:29:30.680 What do I see with it? 02:29:31.879 --> 02:29:34.360 It is just humming. 02:29:34.680 --> 02:29:36.600 You can feel it vibrating. 02:29:36.920 --> 02:29:39.559 There's no change in color, no change in. 02:29:40.520 --> 02:29:42.280 It's not glowing or anything. 02:29:42.440 --> 02:29:43.959 It is just humming. 02:29:47.399 --> 02:29:47.719 Yes. 02:29:48.280 --> 02:29:49.879 I was going to say, I'm going to try and like... 02:29:50.440 --> 02:29:57.879 I point it ahead of us, and then I start moving it across the horizon to see if the humming changes as I point it in different directions. 02:30:02.360 --> 02:30:09.239 As the rest of you hear the humming and see them looking at the pieces of crystal, Nyx your heart will sink. 02:30:09.559 --> 02:30:11.479 Your blood will run cold. 02:30:12.360 --> 02:30:16.520 Ahead of you, you see what is left of a great temple. 02:30:17.479 --> 02:30:21.000 It is only the single story. 02:30:22.600 --> 02:30:28.840 It is made of dark crystal, and it is the entrance into the forbidden way. 02:30:32.639 --> 02:30:40.799 You were blown off course, and now you are here among the singing sands. 02:30:42.719 --> 02:30:44.879 Meow, we shouldn't be here, Meow. 02:30:50.799 --> 02:30:52.959 There's nothing we can do about that now. 02:30:55.680 --> 02:31:02.799 I'm pretty sure we are here, though, given what's agreed. 02:31:02.959 --> 02:31:07.440 I think the heart disagrees with you, and we should be here. 02:31:08.319 --> 02:31:09.840 It's forbidden, Meow! 02:31:10.000 --> 02:31:11.680 We're not supposed to be here, Meow! 02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:13.760 We're gonna get in so much trouble, Meow! 02:31:14.399 --> 02:31:15.200 With who? 02:31:15.280 --> 02:31:16.639 We're already wanted! 02:31:18.079 --> 02:31:26.000 And with any luck with heavy luck, that trouble will also affect the person or thing that's following us. 02:31:26.959 --> 02:31:28.239 Very true. 02:31:29.920 --> 02:31:33.680 You are forbidden to go behind the wall in Vault. 02:31:34.159 --> 02:31:36.239 We did this, now we do this. 02:31:36.559 --> 02:31:41.280 We go where Crystal says, go next to answering your question. 02:31:41.520 --> 02:31:45.120 It would be the high rulers of Alhafara. 02:31:46.000 --> 02:31:47.760 This is forbidden. 02:31:49.360 --> 02:31:51.520 Never be able to go back home, Meow. 02:31:53.040 --> 02:31:56.879 Well, I can't go back home, and neither can most of us actually. 02:31:59.040 --> 02:32:00.719 I'm sure the cookies will forgive you. 02:32:00.879 --> 02:32:02.000 It's fine. 02:32:04.159 --> 02:32:05.920 Not about the cookies, Meow. 02:32:06.399 --> 02:32:10.959 And she'll just reach in her bag, grab one, and just solemnly, like, bite one. 02:32:13.840 --> 02:32:20.399 I'd like to open up Minkus and see our go to the section with the other four pieces. 02:32:22.719 --> 02:32:24.639 Is it are they vibrating too? 02:32:24.799 --> 02:32:25.280 Or humming? 02:32:25.440 --> 02:32:25.920 They are, rather. 02:32:26.239 --> 02:32:27.520 They are humming. 02:32:31.680 --> 02:32:37.040 Lumine would try and go over and pat Nyx on the shoulder, try and console her a bit. 02:32:38.879 --> 02:32:44.479 She'll just look at you and be like, We're all gonna die, Meow, or disappear, or whatever happens, Meow. 02:32:45.360 --> 02:32:48.719 And her ears will go down too, and she'll just look so sad. 02:32:49.680 --> 02:32:52.000 Whatever happens, we'll meet it on our feet. 02:32:52.319 --> 02:32:58.079 And together just continue eating her cookie looking so sad. 02:32:58.959 --> 02:33:00.879 There are worse things than death. 02:33:02.799 --> 02:33:03.920 Like what, Meow? 02:33:06.159 --> 02:33:15.440 Un death being trapped in your body while it's being controlled by something else. 02:33:15.600 --> 02:33:16.159 I don't know. 02:33:16.479 --> 02:33:19.520 Or slowly consumed by something else. 02:33:24.479 --> 02:33:25.840 That one's much worse. 02:33:26.719 --> 02:33:30.399 And I would be pointing at Vayra when you said yours. 02:33:31.360 --> 02:33:38.879 Every time you guys suggest something or say something, Nyx's eyes are going to get bigger and they'll start watering more and more. 02:33:44.319 --> 02:33:46.159 Running off of cookies. 02:33:50.479 --> 02:33:52.799 Maybe she should ration her deities. 02:33:55.280 --> 02:33:57.520 Well, the way I see it, we have two options. 02:33:57.680 --> 02:34:07.440 Either we go the forbidden way, or we try to backtrack and get back onto the other one. 02:34:10.000 --> 02:34:13.040 The temple looks sturdy. 02:34:13.280 --> 02:34:14.399 Let's go there. 02:34:16.479 --> 02:34:17.280 I agree. 02:34:18.559 --> 02:34:19.520 Press on. 02:34:20.399 --> 02:34:22.159 Sooner we get to mountains, better. 02:34:24.319 --> 02:34:24.959 We can't wait to see. 02:34:25.120 --> 02:34:26.479 I think I could do that, Meow. 02:34:26.799 --> 02:34:28.639 Someone else needs to drive Meow. 02:34:28.879 --> 02:34:33.680 And she'll step away from that and go to a different part of the skiff. 02:34:36.159 --> 02:34:40.559 Actually, us coming here might be a bad idea, actually. 02:34:41.120 --> 02:34:47.120 If anyone's following on the other skiffs, then they're less likely to come here because it's forbidden. 02:34:48.479 --> 02:35:02.079 Unfortunately, Sandstorm blotted out our backtrail, so and if whatever is chasing us to kill us, less collateral damage. 02:35:02.399 --> 02:35:05.040 We don't want a bunch of other people around. 02:35:07.600 --> 02:35:09.600 It's clear it only wants us. 02:35:10.559 --> 02:35:14.079 We should keep the casualties to just ourselves. 02:35:15.280 --> 02:35:18.399 How far away does the temple appear? 02:35:18.719 --> 02:35:29.360 I know in the desert it can be misleading, but does it look like we can walk, or do we actually need to try to figure out how to run this skiff now that Nyx is like, nope, I'm done. 02:35:31.239 --> 02:35:32.280 You could walk. 02:35:32.600 --> 02:35:32.920 Okay. 02:35:34.680 --> 02:35:39.159 Nonetheless, I'm going to try and step forward and mimic what I saw Nyx doing. 02:35:39.639 --> 02:35:41.239 Keep the skiff moving. 02:35:42.520 --> 02:35:42.840 Okay. 02:35:45.159 --> 02:35:48.280 This will be a survival check with disadvantage. 02:35:48.840 --> 02:35:51.079 Can I help to make it a normal role? 02:35:52.040 --> 02:35:53.399 How would you help? 02:35:56.120 --> 02:35:57.399 I don't know, actually. 02:35:58.760 --> 02:35:59.559 Point over shoulder. 02:35:59.639 --> 02:36:00.120 No, that one. 02:36:00.280 --> 02:36:00.680 Dude, that one. 02:36:00.840 --> 02:36:02.760 No, no, I think it was that one over there. 02:36:03.639 --> 02:36:05.079 I doubt. 02:36:06.680 --> 02:36:07.559 Press X. 02:36:11.000 --> 02:36:13.799 Well, I rolled a 17 and an 11. 02:36:14.760 --> 02:36:20.280 So I'll take the 11, and with my survival, it's plus 6, so that makes 17. 02:36:22.040 --> 02:36:27.239 It is awkward, but it is herky jerky, like someone learning to drive a stick shift. 02:36:27.559 --> 02:36:31.319 But you herky jerky the skiff up to the temple. 02:36:31.639 --> 02:36:35.559 Oh, I really think we could have walked for this. 02:36:41.079 --> 02:36:46.360 Yes, but then we have to walk back to get skiff again in morning. 02:36:46.680 --> 02:36:57.799 This way, we can maybe secure it and mask our presence a bit and go inside. 02:37:00.600 --> 02:37:05.079 Tears will be falling down Nyx's face just slowly, but you won't hear anything. 02:37:05.239 --> 02:37:07.639 It'll just be a silent cry. 02:37:08.920 --> 02:37:11.319 Oh, don't be so scared, little one. 02:37:11.959 --> 02:37:13.479 Think about it this way. 02:37:13.799 --> 02:37:21.799 If the temple kills all of us, then whatever is chasing us will stop its relentless thing, and everyone that else that we know should be absolutely fine. 02:37:23.319 --> 02:37:27.399 I'm sure the temple will be less painless than whatever's following us. 02:37:29.879 --> 02:37:37.239 Nyx will just look over at you guys or look up at you guys since you're taller and just be like, but you don't know that, Meow. 02:37:37.959 --> 02:37:39.479 You don't know what I know, Meow. 02:37:41.959 --> 02:37:43.159 He's alright, little kitty. 02:37:43.239 --> 02:37:43.879 I protect. 02:37:44.200 --> 02:37:44.680 You'll be fine. 02:37:45.319 --> 02:37:46.360 What do you know? 02:37:47.799 --> 02:37:48.360 Share! 02:37:50.760 --> 02:37:52.200 You don't want to know, Meow? 02:37:52.520 --> 02:37:53.079 Trust me. 02:37:53.319 --> 02:37:53.719 Meow. 02:37:56.120 --> 02:37:56.600 Opus! 02:37:57.319 --> 02:37:58.200 Opus, help me! 02:37:58.680 --> 02:37:59.319 Help me out! 02:37:59.799 --> 02:38:00.280 Give me a skiff. 02:38:00.440 --> 02:38:00.680 You'll see. 02:38:01.959 --> 02:38:03.479 It might be better to share. 02:38:04.440 --> 02:38:09.159 Opus is going to kind of like pat you on the head. 02:38:09.399 --> 02:38:11.079 Like as if you were like, it's okay. 02:38:12.360 --> 02:38:14.920 Oh, that's what you were telling the rogue to do? 02:38:15.079 --> 02:38:18.040 I thought you were going to restrain her so we could just go. 02:38:20.760 --> 02:38:21.879 You were a pal! 02:38:22.680 --> 02:38:22.920 No! 02:38:25.159 --> 02:38:26.600 I totally misunderstood. 02:38:26.760 --> 02:38:28.120 I'm sorry. 02:38:30.040 --> 02:38:30.440 Suck over. 02:38:35.479 --> 02:38:43.959 Nyx will just be like, I warned you guys, Meow, and then just start going into every story she knows about this area. 02:38:48.120 --> 02:38:48.680 You're muted. 02:38:48.920 --> 02:38:49.319 You're muted. 02:38:51.319 --> 02:38:56.040 Once upon a time, this place was considered to be a dwelling of gods. 02:38:56.680 --> 02:39:07.319 And after the cataclysm, it is considered forbidden and cursed land that the spirits that dwell here are the spirits that devoured the gods and they devour the living that enter. 02:39:08.280 --> 02:39:17.319 The temple is said to be cursed that any that enters becomes undead and forever walks the world as a mummy. 02:39:18.280 --> 02:39:35.399 The old wives tales talk about giant frogs that peel the skin from individuals and nasty scarab creatures that are as big as a house waiting to prey on the weak and the vulnerable. 02:39:37.559 --> 02:39:41.719 It is not at all a pleasant depiction of what lies ahead. 02:39:43.639 --> 02:39:47.399 But the scariest part is it could be true. 02:39:58.520 --> 02:40:03.559 Sorry, Opus kind of goes towards the center-ish of the groups. 02:40:04.200 --> 02:40:04.920 Camp! 02:40:07.479 --> 02:40:08.360 Let's make camp. 02:40:08.440 --> 02:40:09.559 Let's make camp. 02:40:09.879 --> 02:40:11.000 Let's camp. 02:40:13.559 --> 02:40:15.319 We should get inside the walls first. 02:40:17.159 --> 02:40:19.079 In case another sandstorm happens. 02:40:19.399 --> 02:40:21.159 Yeah, we don't want to be out here. 02:40:23.399 --> 02:40:29.799 And Opus is going to start walking towards the center as if, you know, he came up with it. 02:40:32.719 --> 02:40:33.360 Hey, here? 02:40:34.639 --> 02:40:34.879 Yes. 02:40:35.440 --> 02:40:44.639 Looking around the area, is there any place where I can like park the skiff so it's not so conspicuous? 02:40:45.920 --> 02:40:51.520 Maybe on the other side of the temple, but it all depends on what direction people's traveling. 02:40:54.719 --> 02:40:55.520 All right, we'll chance it. 02:40:55.600 --> 02:40:56.719 We'll just leave it with that. 02:40:59.200 --> 02:41:07.440 Opus, as soon as your feet touch the sand, as you still have the crystals on you, the wind dies. 02:41:08.319 --> 02:41:15.840 Where once there was the endless hiss of shifting sands, now silence hangs thick in the air, unnatural and waiting. 02:41:16.479 --> 02:41:30.959 Before you, the sand begins to part, showing more of this too symmetrical to be natural slabs of pale stone that jut from the ground like broken fingers of a buried giant. 02:41:32.559 --> 02:41:36.639 Four in glyphs worn smooth by centuries of wind-blown sand. 02:41:38.159 --> 02:41:41.440 You can see that once this is a grand structure. 02:41:42.079 --> 02:41:47.920 Now, half swallowed by the desert, the structure rises only enough to hint at a much larger complex below. 02:41:48.239 --> 02:42:00.239 What remains visible is a narrow archway flanked by statues of androngus and his figures cloaked in swirling robes, eyes covered, arms outstretched, palms open to the sun. 02:42:00.799 --> 02:42:06.479 Time and heat have melted part of their features, but the sense of peace and sorrow lingers. 02:42:07.600 --> 02:42:16.159 As you step closer, a breeze stirs, though no clouds stir above and no sun has shone since the cataclysm. 02:42:16.479 --> 02:42:21.680 The air is cool, impossibly so, and carries the faint scent of copper and myrrh. 02:42:22.639 --> 02:42:26.799 A carved phrase reveals itself just above the entrance in the tongue. 02:42:26.879 --> 02:42:29.360 Some of you instinctively recognize. 02:42:29.680 --> 02:42:31.520 In fact, all of you do. 02:42:32.399 --> 02:42:37.280 Those who walk the third wind must offer truth without voice. 02:42:38.239 --> 02:42:40.799 Beyond the threshold, darkness yawns. 02:42:41.360 --> 02:42:45.040 Not empty, but listening. 02:42:55.840 --> 02:42:58.559 So, oh, go ahead. 02:42:58.879 --> 02:43:00.719 Just mumbling, what could this mean? 02:43:05.440 --> 02:43:10.479 So as I, as the so the sand under me didn't go. 02:43:10.879 --> 02:43:14.399 No, it was more of like almost like a parting in front. 02:43:14.719 --> 02:43:14.959 Yes. 02:43:15.280 --> 02:43:15.600 Atcha. 02:43:15.840 --> 02:43:16.079 Okay. 02:43:16.559 --> 02:43:16.879 Okay. 02:43:24.239 --> 02:43:27.040 I would like to study the. 02:43:29.040 --> 02:43:30.079 So do I. 02:43:30.319 --> 02:43:30.559 Can I. 02:43:31.280 --> 02:43:32.639 You said we could all read it. 02:43:33.280 --> 02:43:35.040 Do I recognize the language, though? 02:43:35.360 --> 02:43:37.200 Do I know why I can read it? 02:43:37.520 --> 02:43:38.000 You don't. 02:43:38.159 --> 02:43:39.920 You don't recognize the language. 02:43:40.079 --> 02:43:42.959 It's just somehow you know what it says. 02:43:50.639 --> 02:43:52.639 Truce without speaking. 02:43:52.799 --> 02:43:55.440 That's interesting. 02:44:03.200 --> 02:44:04.799 I would like to go. 02:44:05.360 --> 02:44:06.479 So it's an entryway, right? 02:44:06.879 --> 02:44:09.520 How high up are the words? 02:44:10.399 --> 02:44:11.760 About 10 feet. 02:44:12.399 --> 02:44:12.719 Okay. 02:44:16.959 --> 02:44:26.639 I would like to cast Detect Magic, but I would like to cast it through Mincus. 02:44:29.840 --> 02:44:33.600 As have Minkus walk up to the threshold a little bit more. 02:44:34.000 --> 02:44:35.440 Minkus is a familiar? 02:44:36.319 --> 02:44:36.799 Yeah, yeah. 02:44:37.360 --> 02:44:41.760 The homunculus servant, you can essentially cast that through. 02:44:45.600 --> 02:44:50.719 Yeah, the temple itself, the entirety of it, goes blue to Minkus. 02:44:55.440 --> 02:44:57.440 Frinkus, what do you see? 02:44:58.079 --> 02:45:00.079 It is abjuration magic. 02:45:08.879 --> 02:45:10.879 I would start digging into the... 02:45:11.360 --> 02:45:11.760 I would say... 02:45:12.239 --> 02:45:13.200 Mincus, excuse me. 02:45:13.360 --> 02:45:18.799 And I would start, you know, rifling through the stuff that I have in the chest. 02:45:20.319 --> 02:45:20.559 Okay. 02:45:22.639 --> 02:45:24.399 And what are you looking for? 02:45:26.159 --> 02:45:30.399 In all honesty, Opus is just trying to think as he rifles. 02:45:30.959 --> 02:45:31.200 Okay. 02:45:35.719 --> 02:45:44.120 So if he's gonna stop and rifle, Vayra's just gonna look at him and like try to walk beyond. 02:45:44.760 --> 02:45:48.120 Okay, yeah, like it's like stopping in the middle of like an aisleway almost. 02:45:48.280 --> 02:45:49.399 He's like, oh, hold on. 02:45:49.559 --> 02:45:51.079 And he just starts like, no. 02:45:51.399 --> 02:45:51.559 Right. 02:45:51.799 --> 02:45:57.799 She's gonna treat you like that lady at Walmart that's in the middle of the aisle and just kind of like walk around you. 02:45:58.440 --> 02:45:59.239 Exactly. 02:46:00.840 --> 02:46:02.120 Oz'zariah. 02:46:02.760 --> 02:46:03.399 Yes. 02:46:04.040 --> 02:46:07.559 These statues seem familiar. 02:46:07.799 --> 02:46:09.719 There's a strong familiarity with them. 02:46:10.360 --> 02:46:12.360 Something almost akinship. 02:46:12.680 --> 02:46:13.959 But you cannot place it. 02:46:14.280 --> 02:46:20.840 It gnaws at the corners of your mind, but you cannot form thought to connect how you know them. 02:46:21.799 --> 02:46:29.159 You only know that you're doing a small sense of peace. 02:46:33.000 --> 02:46:40.520 She's gonna walk past whoever may be in front of her and go and look at one of the statues. 02:46:45.479 --> 02:46:55.559 I know you said their eyes are covered, their hands are and the features are somewhat gone because of sand and heat and everything. 02:46:57.000 --> 02:47:04.920 Is there anything that do they look anything like her? 02:47:05.159 --> 02:47:06.600 Like what features can be seen? 02:47:06.840 --> 02:47:09.399 Ears, cheeks, face shape. 02:47:10.040 --> 02:47:12.200 Make an investigation check. 02:47:13.159 --> 02:47:17.479 And the other thing she'd be looking for is any writing or anything on them. 02:47:24.040 --> 02:47:26.680 19 plus 3, 22. 02:47:29.479 --> 02:47:33.559 Their features seem familiar, almost elvenish. 02:47:34.440 --> 02:47:40.360 They are somehow calling to you, Oz'zariah. 02:47:40.440 --> 02:47:42.440 They are somehow beckoning you. 02:47:43.079 --> 02:47:46.040 They are somehow akin to you. 02:47:46.680 --> 02:47:54.360 As you move closer, looking for writing, you can see that there was once words, but the sand has since eroded. 02:47:55.319 --> 02:47:59.559 But you get a feeling of camaraderie. 02:48:01.479 --> 02:48:07.239 So much so that there would be a small chuckle in the back of your throat that you could not control. 02:48:08.200 --> 02:48:12.520 As if you are remembering without remembering, knowing without knowing. 02:48:15.159 --> 02:48:17.399 Am I able to hear her chuckle? 02:48:18.040 --> 02:48:19.799 Make a perception check. 02:48:24.600 --> 02:48:25.399 19. 02:48:26.040 --> 02:48:26.600 Yes. 02:48:28.840 --> 02:48:30.200 Why did you chuckle, Miel? 02:48:30.440 --> 02:48:32.920 Are you guys not scared of the stories I said, Miow? 02:48:37.239 --> 02:48:38.040 It's not that. 02:48:38.680 --> 02:48:47.000 There's something about these statues in particular that I recognize them. 02:48:48.920 --> 02:48:52.680 There's something peaceful. 02:48:57.559 --> 02:49:01.000 Kinship might be the right word. 02:49:01.319 --> 02:49:04.280 She's going to reach out and touch the one in front of her. 02:49:05.559 --> 02:49:10.200 As you touch it, you feel a warmth spread over you. 02:49:10.760 --> 02:49:15.399 It is like the embrace of a long-lost parent. 02:49:16.600 --> 02:49:21.959 It is almost enough to make you want to curl into the statue itself. 02:49:23.479 --> 02:49:29.879 And as your eyes close, you find yourself whispering the words, the beautiful suffering. 02:49:40.760 --> 02:49:41.319 Am I right? 02:49:41.479 --> 02:49:44.440 It's like these statues for her are welcoming. 02:49:44.680 --> 02:49:46.600 It's a like deep. 02:49:47.159 --> 02:49:52.760 So, yeah, you guys are going to hear her say the beautiful suffering. 02:49:54.360 --> 02:50:01.959 I don't discredit your stories, Nyx, but I think we'll be safe here. 02:50:04.680 --> 02:50:06.440 Don't know why you think that, Miow. 02:50:07.879 --> 02:50:09.239 Do I believe her? 02:50:12.440 --> 02:50:14.040 Make an insight check, Nyx. 02:50:16.280 --> 02:50:20.840 Lumine would have gone with Vayra closer towards the entrance? 02:50:21.799 --> 02:50:22.520 18. 02:50:23.399 --> 02:50:24.840 Oh, yeah, you believe her. 02:50:25.159 --> 02:50:27.079 If you could feel it, I feel right now. 02:50:27.319 --> 02:50:28.040 Go ahead. 02:50:28.680 --> 02:50:29.319 Sorry. 02:50:29.879 --> 02:50:32.440 I don't know why you think that, Miel, but I. 02:50:34.239 --> 02:50:35.040 Believe you, Meow. 02:50:36.959 --> 02:50:48.079 If you could feel what I feel in this moment, it's like getting a hug from a parent or the one that you love the most. 02:50:57.680 --> 02:51:00.319 Yes, we should be fine here. 02:51:01.280 --> 02:51:02.639 With that, she's going to. 02:51:03.760 --> 02:51:08.799 You're going to see that she, like, her hand is still on the statue, and it takes her a minute. 02:51:08.879 --> 02:51:11.120 She steps away, but it's like very reluctant. 02:51:11.360 --> 02:51:17.920 She doesn't, she doesn't really want to take her hand away, but she does, and she just walks on through. 02:51:21.200 --> 02:51:25.920 As you walk away, she's going to kind of just mutter to herself, What is Hug Meow? 02:51:26.879 --> 02:51:28.559 And then just walk on. 02:51:35.600 --> 02:51:37.600 Are all of you going into the temple? 02:51:38.719 --> 02:51:39.200 Yep. 02:51:39.520 --> 02:51:40.079 Yep. 02:51:41.040 --> 02:51:46.479 As you step across the threshold, the desert left behind, the air changes. 02:51:46.799 --> 02:51:49.600 Cool, dry, unnaturally still. 02:51:50.479 --> 02:51:54.879 Your footsteps fall on smooth stone veined with silver and black glass. 02:51:55.520 --> 02:51:58.399 Worn soft by time, yet untouched by sand. 02:51:58.559 --> 02:52:03.280 The walls curving gently inward, like a vessel. 02:52:03.920 --> 02:52:05.200 They bear no dust. 02:52:05.520 --> 02:52:07.440 Not even insects stir here. 02:52:08.399 --> 02:52:10.479 This place has not been forgotten. 02:52:10.799 --> 02:52:12.159 It's been waiting. 02:52:12.799 --> 02:52:19.360 Dim light trickles down through unseen slits above, casting dappled shadows like ripples of rain. 02:52:20.559 --> 02:52:28.399 Strange wind chimes hang from iron chains overhead, but they do not move. 02:52:28.719 --> 02:52:36.479 And yet the faint sound of music seems to breathe through the chamber, like distant flutes echoing from the bones of the earth. 02:52:37.120 --> 02:52:41.200 The temple stretches deep, its architecture curving in spirals and crescents. 02:52:41.280 --> 02:52:51.360 Stone benches line the outer ring, each one engraved with different symbols, moons in various phases, birds in flight, open mouths and closed eyes. 02:52:52.000 --> 02:52:59.680 At the heart of the temple of this room lies a circular dais, encircled by three large archways. 02:52:59.840 --> 02:53:04.799 Each arch bears a single word in ancient script going faintly. 02:53:05.440 --> 02:53:09.760 Again, you all recognize the language, though you don't know why. 02:53:10.959 --> 02:53:16.159 The arches read silence, memory, and oath. 02:53:17.040 --> 02:53:21.760 Behind the dais raises a massive cracked mural, faded with time but still imposing. 02:53:22.079 --> 02:53:29.920 It depicts a cloaked figure with the wind swirling from their fingertips, one hand raised to the sky, the other cradling a flame in its chest. 02:53:30.559 --> 02:53:35.600 Around it are kneeling silhouettes with their mouths sealed shut by ribbons of light. 02:53:36.559 --> 02:53:44.479 And there, embedded in the center of the floor, is a hollow depression shaped like a heart, waiting for something to be placed or someone to kneel. 02:53:45.120 --> 02:53:50.639 The deeper chambers are sealed with heavy stone doors and hum faintly with ancient wards. 02:53:50.959 --> 02:53:57.520 You feel watched, but not in malice, but in quiet judgment, as if the temple itself is weighing your soul. 02:53:57.840 --> 02:54:01.680 This is not just a room, it is a place of covenant. 02:54:02.000 --> 02:54:07.200 A sanctuary where truth was once spoken without words and may yet be again. 02:54:13.280 --> 02:54:15.360 You still feel the kinship, Meow? 02:54:19.280 --> 02:54:20.159 Does she? 02:54:20.799 --> 02:54:21.440 Yes. 02:54:24.639 --> 02:54:25.280 Yes. 02:54:25.920 --> 02:54:28.559 She's going to go towards the center of the room. 02:54:28.719 --> 02:54:31.920 Is she drawn to anything in particular? 02:54:33.440 --> 02:54:35.920 No, it just all feels very welcome. 02:54:41.840 --> 02:54:45.760 So Nyx will look around and be like, do you guys feel kinship too, Meow? 02:54:49.840 --> 02:54:50.399 Good question. 02:54:50.879 --> 02:54:51.600 Do we? 02:54:52.559 --> 02:54:54.000 No, not like Nyx does. 02:54:54.159 --> 02:55:03.840 You will feel that this is a place of sanctuary and safety, but you will not feel that internal drawing like Ozariah does. 02:55:08.159 --> 02:55:10.399 Favor wants to walk towards where the... 02:55:10.799 --> 02:55:13.680 You said it looks like a heart or something goes there? 02:55:14.319 --> 02:55:14.559 Yeah. 02:55:15.440 --> 02:55:17.760 And to inspect it a little closer. 02:55:18.399 --> 02:55:19.920 You need an investment check. 02:55:21.200 --> 02:55:22.959 Lenore will answer Nyx with a. 02:55:23.200 --> 02:55:26.639 I feel safe, but I'm not sure if I feel kinship. 02:55:28.159 --> 02:55:29.120 It's a divot. 02:55:29.280 --> 02:55:30.399 I got a five. 02:55:32.959 --> 02:55:33.200 It is. 02:55:33.520 --> 02:55:33.680 I think. 02:55:35.159 --> 02:55:36.600 A heart-shaped hole. 02:55:37.559 --> 02:55:39.799 Um, can I put my hand down in it? 02:55:40.120 --> 02:55:41.479 Yeah, nothing happens. 02:55:43.959 --> 02:55:49.559 This almost looks like that crystal heart that broke. 02:55:50.520 --> 02:55:51.559 Don't you think? 02:55:53.399 --> 02:56:08.840 Yeah, Azariah was walking in that direction, so looking at it, does it look like when the crystal heart was whole, it would have fit there, or does it look more like a spotlight you had mentioned, like a spot that somebody would kneel? 02:56:10.200 --> 02:56:35.000 Might an inside check 17 plus 24 both maybe when it was whole, but it also looks like a place someone would kneel or pray. 02:56:42.200 --> 02:56:42.840 Sorry, go ahead. 02:56:44.760 --> 02:56:48.200 Just to verify, the only one that answered Nyx was Lenore, right? 02:56:49.159 --> 02:56:49.639 Yes. 02:56:50.280 --> 02:56:50.600 Okay. 02:56:52.840 --> 02:57:03.719 Since she's already down there because she was touching the hole, Vayra's gonna try to get in position to kneel, to try to figure out what Oz'zariah is talking about. 02:57:05.559 --> 02:57:11.159 Like this, and just try to move her body into a kneeling position into the hole. 02:57:11.479 --> 02:57:15.639 You do something something like this. 02:57:17.559 --> 02:57:18.120 Yes? 02:57:23.479 --> 02:57:24.840 Is it comfortable? 02:57:26.120 --> 02:57:26.760 Is it? 02:57:29.000 --> 02:57:30.680 It's not uncomfortable. 02:57:32.200 --> 02:57:34.280 I don't know if I would do that, Meal. 02:57:35.799 --> 02:57:39.479 I mean, it's as comfortable as kneeling ever is. 02:57:47.000 --> 02:57:48.920 I would say about now. 02:57:50.040 --> 02:57:57.239 So Opus would have been distinctly not even aware that everyone had gone past for a chunk of time. 02:57:57.399 --> 02:58:00.280 You know, maybe not this long, but it would have taken some time. 02:58:00.600 --> 02:58:06.120 And just looked up and realized that everyone's gone and you just totally zoned out. 02:58:08.600 --> 02:58:10.360 Minkus, Minkus, come on, let's go. 02:58:10.440 --> 02:58:11.239 Opus, Opus. 02:58:11.559 --> 02:58:20.920 And so, you know, we kind of hurriedly go inside and then just say, you know, I assume I see the same stuff. 02:58:21.239 --> 02:58:26.200 So, but then, what are you doing? 02:58:28.120 --> 02:58:30.760 Opus, go see what they're doing. 02:58:31.879 --> 02:58:47.319 And he's going to kind of go over to you guys and probably try to, like, it's going to seem as if, you know, like if it was a snake, it's going to seem as if the end of the rope kind of is examining where you're kneeling and why you're kneeling. 02:58:54.280 --> 02:59:02.760 Do you get any kind of feeling of anything like history or arcana or anything that this seems any way familiar? 02:59:03.079 --> 02:59:07.319 No, it does not seem familiar to you, but it does feel safe. 02:59:10.200 --> 02:59:12.200 So she'll look up at Nyx. 02:59:13.719 --> 02:59:17.319 This is weird, but oddly safe. 02:59:17.639 --> 02:59:20.040 And then she'll dust herself off and get up. 02:59:21.559 --> 02:59:24.680 I know you said it's not dusty, but she's going to do that motion. 02:59:25.000 --> 02:59:25.239 Yeah. 02:59:26.520 --> 02:59:30.360 I open my pouch and I take out the piece of heart crystal. 02:59:30.680 --> 02:59:31.000 Okay. 02:59:32.280 --> 02:59:33.799 Is it still humming? 02:59:34.120 --> 02:59:34.600 Yes. 02:59:36.440 --> 02:59:38.600 I'm going to move towards the divot. 02:59:39.399 --> 02:59:39.639 Okay. 02:59:40.600 --> 02:59:41.719 And I think it changes. 02:59:42.520 --> 02:59:54.440 And I think when Verit gets up, Ropus kind of, you know, coils a little bit, comes back to Opus, and Opus goes, oh, oh, oh, Micus, figures, come on. 02:59:54.840 --> 03:00:00.520 And both kind of go in a similar pace towards that heart divot. 03:00:01.319 --> 03:00:01.559 Okay. 03:00:01.799 --> 03:00:03.719 Yeah, no, it doesn't change. 03:00:10.760 --> 03:00:16.520 Do you think perhaps we are supposed to put the heart back in place? 03:00:21.319 --> 03:00:24.440 That's kind of creepy since most of it was dust. 03:00:36.159 --> 03:00:42.000 Gonna kind of reach up towards the like your hand and stuff. 03:00:43.760 --> 03:00:45.600 I place it in your hand. 03:00:46.879 --> 03:00:55.120 I grab that and the other, I think, five pieces I had and cast mend on it or mending. 03:00:55.760 --> 03:00:57.520 All right, roll a D100. 03:01:00.479 --> 03:01:01.840 I just have to find there. 03:01:01.920 --> 03:01:02.239 It is. 03:01:03.520 --> 03:01:05.680 I don't suppose there's any way I can assist with this. 03:01:06.000 --> 03:01:07.040 I was gonna ask him. 03:01:07.680 --> 03:01:13.280 I can help, like, try to do mending too to see if that helps boost it. 03:01:13.920 --> 03:01:16.399 Oh, yeah, I also have mending, which is why I ask. 03:01:16.719 --> 03:01:20.319 Yeah, y'all are more than welcome to try. 03:01:21.840 --> 03:01:23.840 What does it do to the roll? 03:01:24.000 --> 03:01:26.159 I rolled, but I haven't looked at it. 03:01:26.799 --> 03:01:28.479 Oh, they'll have to make a roll, too. 03:01:28.799 --> 03:01:29.360 Oh, okay. 03:01:29.840 --> 03:01:30.159 Okay. 03:01:30.799 --> 03:01:32.399 That's what I was waiting to see. 03:01:34.319 --> 03:01:35.920 Do you want the roll? 03:01:37.120 --> 03:01:39.840 After we'll let them roll and I'll get them in order. 03:01:40.159 --> 03:01:41.120 Gotcha. 03:01:57.520 --> 03:01:58.559 All right, Opus. 03:01:59.840 --> 03:02:00.399 Six. 03:02:04.959 --> 03:02:05.840 92? 03:02:06.159 --> 03:02:06.799 Oh, my God. 03:02:09.280 --> 03:02:09.680 Lock. 03:02:11.120 --> 03:02:11.760 If you say 50. 03:02:12.000 --> 03:02:12.639 77. 03:02:13.200 --> 03:02:13.440 Okay. 03:02:13.920 --> 03:02:16.959 I was like, if these are 50, like, I'm going to lose it. 03:02:21.360 --> 03:02:26.639 The heart crystals vibrate in your hand. 03:02:27.920 --> 03:02:32.000 The mending spell does nothing. 03:02:34.799 --> 03:02:40.639 But the vibrations become stronger to the point of you have to release. 03:02:41.840 --> 03:02:48.079 As the pieces land in the divot, there is a howling. 03:02:48.639 --> 03:03:01.200 Oh, there is a wind that rips through the temple, almost knocking you all to the ground. 03:03:02.079 --> 03:03:13.200 And from the pieces of the heart rises the image of a woman in black armor carrying a set of scales and a wicked-looking trident. 03:03:15.040 --> 03:03:25.600 I am her servant, the keeper of secrets and truths. 03:03:26.879 --> 03:03:29.360 You have called me from my slumber. 03:03:30.000 --> 03:03:33.520 Pass the test, and knowledge is yours. 03:03:38.399 --> 03:03:54.479 Opus is gonna kind of like as much as a two-foot-tall kobold can do it, kind of saunters up like he's confident he has this and says, Opus, and then you know, gestures towards this visage. 03:03:55.600 --> 03:03:56.479 Tia, real quick. 03:03:56.879 --> 03:03:59.440 You said scales and trident. 03:03:59.520 --> 03:04:03.520 Are you meaning scales as in like lizard scales or like weights? 03:04:04.000 --> 03:04:04.799 Weights. 03:04:05.120 --> 03:04:05.440 Okay. 03:04:08.879 --> 03:04:10.479 What kind of test? 03:04:12.639 --> 03:04:14.399 A test of truth. 03:04:21.920 --> 03:04:23.120 I have nothing to hide. 03:04:23.440 --> 03:04:24.719 You can test me. 03:04:25.600 --> 03:04:27.360 Oh, I will test you all. 03:04:40.639 --> 03:04:44.319 Truth is subjective, but I have nothing to lose. 03:04:44.639 --> 03:04:46.479 Truth is absolute. 03:04:49.680 --> 03:04:50.319 I wind you. 03:04:50.479 --> 03:04:51.840 We shouldn't be here, Meow. 03:04:54.799 --> 03:04:56.319 Do not be afraid, little one. 03:04:56.959 --> 03:04:58.799 No harm will come to you. 03:05:00.079 --> 03:05:05.920 I seek those pure of heart to give knowledge, ancient and foreboding. 03:05:10.000 --> 03:05:20.799 I am the avatar of she, the one of peaceful concord and tranquil restoration. 03:05:25.200 --> 03:05:30.799 Would it be okay for us to rest before being tested? 03:05:33.120 --> 03:05:33.360 No. 03:05:35.200 --> 03:05:35.760 The test must. 03:05:37.239 --> 03:05:37.959 Happen now. 03:05:38.920 --> 03:05:43.079 You can forego the test and not receive the prize at the end. 03:05:45.159 --> 03:05:46.280 A prize? 03:05:47.799 --> 03:05:48.200 Minkus! 03:05:48.360 --> 03:05:48.920 Minkus, come on! 03:05:49.159 --> 03:05:49.399 Come! 03:05:49.719 --> 03:05:51.239 Let's take our test! 03:05:54.120 --> 03:05:55.959 I am scared of no test. 03:05:56.520 --> 03:05:58.280 We are chosen the ones. 03:05:58.600 --> 03:05:59.719 We will surely pay. 03:06:02.280 --> 03:06:02.760 Alright. 03:06:03.319 --> 03:06:05.559 So, Opus is going first. 03:06:08.040 --> 03:06:11.319 A massive tome appears before you, Opus. 03:06:13.719 --> 03:06:17.159 Is it massive to him or massive in general? 03:06:17.479 --> 03:06:18.680 It's massive in general. 03:06:19.000 --> 03:06:20.600 It's extra massive to Opus. 03:06:24.360 --> 03:06:37.959 Inside, you see just by the glance that it's secrets to great power, how to unlock alchemical secrets that have been forbidden for the ages, like transmuting lead to gold. 03:06:42.840 --> 03:06:51.879 And I'm going to like, like, like jump on it, like, not jump on it, but like, you know, lean into the book to try to absorb anything I can. 03:06:52.200 --> 03:06:53.239 You know, read through it. 03:06:53.399 --> 03:06:55.079 I am enthralled. 03:06:55.719 --> 03:06:59.639 Every time you turn a page, you lose a memory. 03:06:59.959 --> 03:07:02.040 And you know, you lose a memory. 03:07:02.680 --> 03:07:07.159 The memory of your first alchemical experiment. 03:07:08.440 --> 03:07:11.559 The memory of your mentor's name. 03:07:12.760 --> 03:07:15.639 A song that you once loved. 03:07:18.760 --> 03:07:20.920 I would say I slow. 03:07:23.159 --> 03:07:24.040 What am I? 03:07:27.159 --> 03:07:29.719 What am I understanding? 03:07:30.040 --> 03:07:33.799 Theoretically, I'm gaining something or I'm reading something. 03:07:35.079 --> 03:07:41.479 You understand that the price of this information is the memories that make you who you are. 03:07:47.719 --> 03:07:50.120 I don't like the way you're smiling. 03:07:55.239 --> 03:07:56.040 Hmm. 03:07:58.680 --> 03:08:35.479 Opus slows down, kind of like almost, you know, fervent with a fervor going through the pages, but then as this is happening and losing these memories, kind of slows down and pauses on a page and just kind of sits for a bit and thinks and then looks to the avatar and set and and you said truth. 03:08:36.520 --> 03:08:37.079 Yes. 03:08:40.200 --> 03:08:41.959 How is this truth? 03:08:44.840 --> 03:08:50.120 It is your truth. 03:08:50.440 --> 03:08:55.000 Are you willing to walk away from you to gain more? 03:09:00.920 --> 03:09:01.479 Yes. 03:09:01.959 --> 03:09:04.920 And I'm gonna flip one page. 03:09:07.399 --> 03:09:09.959 Or like, you know, I'm gonna finish the page, you know. 03:09:11.239 --> 03:09:13.079 You no longer remember Minkus. 03:09:21.639 --> 03:09:22.440 Hmm. 03:09:25.000 --> 03:09:25.879 Okay, uh. 03:09:31.559 --> 03:09:34.840 I think is the tome. 03:09:35.399 --> 03:09:37.799 Is the tome like floating or on a pedestal or something? 03:09:38.120 --> 03:09:39.000 It's floating. 03:09:39.559 --> 03:09:40.040 Floating? 03:09:40.280 --> 03:09:40.520 Okay. 03:09:43.959 --> 03:09:45.399 Opus kind of, you know, flips. 03:09:45.719 --> 03:09:48.760 So I don't, you know, I don't realize what I lost. 03:09:48.920 --> 03:09:49.239 I just... 03:09:49.799 --> 03:09:54.600 It's oh no, you realize you see it fading away. 03:09:54.920 --> 03:10:00.120 It's like Minkus's name is right there, and you know it's going to fade. 03:10:04.760 --> 03:10:06.280 Is there any way? 03:10:07.079 --> 03:10:11.239 Am I aware of any way to stop that memory from slipping? 03:10:12.520 --> 03:10:13.079 Yes. 03:10:13.399 --> 03:10:14.840 Close the book. 03:10:19.559 --> 03:10:20.840 I close the book. 03:10:22.120 --> 03:10:22.600 Minkus. 03:10:22.840 --> 03:10:23.239 And he just... 03:10:23.559 --> 03:10:27.559 I kind of go and sit next to Minkus. 03:10:29.799 --> 03:10:36.120 You have selected to remain true to who you are instead of gaining power. 03:10:39.520 --> 03:10:41.360 So I give you power. 03:10:42.959 --> 03:10:46.239 I give you power of restoration. 03:10:47.760 --> 03:10:50.559 You may now make a thing called Elixir of Life. 03:10:50.719 --> 03:10:54.879 It is like a revivify spell. 03:10:55.520 --> 03:10:57.600 You can make one a week. 03:11:04.159 --> 03:11:04.639 Thank you. 03:11:04.959 --> 03:11:05.920 Thank you. 03:11:10.079 --> 03:11:24.879 I turn to Mincus and kind of almost lean on him as if you would kind of lean on a friend. 03:11:25.200 --> 03:11:27.920 Like, you know, kind of arm over a little bit. 03:11:28.079 --> 03:11:31.760 You know, I'm not too much taller or, you know, around the same size. 03:11:31.840 --> 03:11:34.719 So I'm kind of leaned over Mincus. 03:11:35.440 --> 03:11:36.079 And just. 03:11:38.239 --> 03:11:39.120 Thank you. 03:11:44.239 --> 03:11:46.479 The voice will cry out, Who's next? 03:11:49.040 --> 03:11:49.920 I will go. 03:11:53.760 --> 03:11:54.319 It's Kagen. 03:11:54.719 --> 03:11:55.600 Step forward. 03:12:00.719 --> 03:12:03.760 You, as you step forward, the world around you changes. 03:12:03.920 --> 03:12:04.639 It fades. 03:12:04.959 --> 03:12:05.840 It melts. 03:12:06.079 --> 03:12:07.680 It reforms. 03:12:08.559 --> 03:12:14.079 You find yourself in a sand-covered arena with a bound figure kneeling before you. 03:12:15.040 --> 03:12:17.840 It is the rider. 03:12:21.360 --> 03:12:26.000 Specters of fallen comrades circle the arena, urging vengeance. 03:12:26.319 --> 03:12:33.760 They are adamant in their belief that this creature must be killed. 03:12:34.719 --> 03:12:36.479 You're handed a blade. 03:12:39.040 --> 03:12:40.879 You cannot speak. 03:12:42.159 --> 03:12:43.840 You cannot move. 03:12:46.079 --> 03:12:48.239 You have two choices. 03:12:48.879 --> 03:12:56.159 As you look down, the face changes to a goblin, trembling in fear. 03:12:57.440 --> 03:13:00.719 But yet, you know, this goblin has taken lives. 03:13:02.559 --> 03:13:06.879 Yet the only action that you can take is to strike it or release it. 03:13:24.000 --> 03:13:24.559 I, um. 03:13:27.360 --> 03:13:28.959 Where did I write that down at? 03:13:29.360 --> 03:13:33.040 Oh, um. 03:13:43.360 --> 03:13:45.120 I look at the creature. 03:13:48.079 --> 03:13:49.760 Its changing face. 03:13:50.719 --> 03:13:53.200 I squint at it and I scrutinize it. 03:13:57.680 --> 03:13:59.600 I raise the blade up. 03:14:06.559 --> 03:14:10.239 And I let the blade fall harmlessly to the side. 03:14:10.559 --> 03:14:12.159 And I shake my head. 03:14:16.319 --> 03:14:20.399 The world returns to the temple, the avatar there before you. 03:14:22.319 --> 03:14:26.159 Truth lies not in justice, but in understanding. 03:14:27.280 --> 03:14:31.920 And discovering that we are all something outside of war. 03:14:35.040 --> 03:14:39.280 There is no glory in killing a foe you did not defeat yourself. 03:14:39.600 --> 03:14:42.399 Especially one who is unarmed and on their knees. 03:14:43.520 --> 03:14:44.959 There is mercy. 03:14:46.159 --> 03:14:49.280 I do not even know why this individual hunts me. 03:14:50.319 --> 03:14:54.719 Until I have that knowledge, their death is meaningless. 03:15:06.879 --> 03:15:09.360 They will hand you their scales. 03:15:10.559 --> 03:15:13.440 With these, you cannot be deceived. 03:15:14.719 --> 03:15:18.399 Three times a day, you can see the truth in any situation. 03:15:31.840 --> 03:15:36.479 I whisper a blessing and a thank you in deep speech. 03:15:48.360 --> 03:15:49.399 Who's next? 03:15:51.639 --> 03:15:56.040 Nyx will like hesitatingly walk forward and say, I'll go, Meow. 03:15:59.239 --> 03:16:00.680 They will smile. 03:16:01.639 --> 03:16:03.159 I have faith in you. 03:16:05.319 --> 03:16:08.840 And just as the others, the world falls away. 03:16:09.479 --> 03:16:15.959 You find yourself in a makeshift hospital with people in beds, wounded, and receiving treatment. 03:16:16.280 --> 03:16:19.399 Their cries of anguish are almost deafening. 03:16:20.040 --> 03:16:24.120 And as you go to touch your holy power, it is not there. 03:16:26.600 --> 03:16:32.200 One of the individuals will grab your arm, scared, tears in their eyes. 03:16:32.520 --> 03:16:34.760 Why have we been abandoned? 03:16:38.120 --> 03:16:40.200 Makes you think you've been abandoned, Meow. 03:16:41.639 --> 03:16:43.000 You're hurt. 03:16:46.120 --> 03:16:48.200 Well, there's probably a reason, Meow. 03:16:48.440 --> 03:16:50.360 I bet someone's waiting for you, Meow. 03:16:50.760 --> 03:16:52.040 It'll be okay, Meow. 03:16:57.319 --> 03:16:58.840 Only your words. 03:16:59.719 --> 03:17:02.760 You bring a little bit of comfort to the soul. 03:17:04.040 --> 03:17:08.600 You have found that one must lead with conviction and not power. 03:17:14.200 --> 03:17:18.200 And with that, you are given a boon. 03:17:20.680 --> 03:17:26.520 Something that may seem trivial to everyone around you, but to you, you know the truth. 03:17:27.159 --> 03:17:29.399 You have a bag of endless cookies. 03:17:30.040 --> 03:17:30.520 Yup! 03:17:38.360 --> 03:17:41.639 Is it all different type of cookies, or is it a specific type of cookie? 03:17:42.280 --> 03:17:43.319 All different types of cookies. 03:17:43.479 --> 03:17:46.040 You just think what cookie you want, reach your hand in. 03:17:48.440 --> 03:17:50.600 I'll hold it in the indie beyond. 03:17:52.840 --> 03:17:53.479 I guess. 03:17:55.079 --> 03:17:57.239 So Nyx will open it up and... 03:17:57.879 --> 03:18:03.159 Can she see the cookies inside or is it like a bag of holding where you gotta like you can see the cookies? 03:18:03.799 --> 03:18:08.120 So you'll see her ears perk up and be like, oh, thank you, Meow. 03:18:10.360 --> 03:18:15.879 This is the second food item I have created. 03:18:16.200 --> 03:18:19.879 I created a bag of cheese for Miv. 03:18:20.280 --> 03:18:24.680 That's Lenore's mom locks partner. 03:18:25.319 --> 03:18:27.399 My bestest friend. 03:18:30.920 --> 03:18:31.959 Who's next? 03:18:33.399 --> 03:18:35.319 Lenore will step forward. 03:18:38.120 --> 03:18:39.559 Step forward, Lenore. 03:18:41.000 --> 03:18:43.559 You're transported deep into a forest. 03:18:45.159 --> 03:18:46.680 It is dying. 03:18:47.000 --> 03:18:49.079 There is blight everywhere you look. 03:18:49.399 --> 03:18:51.639 Every tree crying out in pain. 03:18:51.959 --> 03:18:54.840 Every animal looking to you for salvation. 03:18:55.399 --> 03:18:58.200 There are not enough resources to save it all. 03:18:58.840 --> 03:19:00.920 You must choose what to save. 03:19:01.239 --> 03:19:04.040 The soil, the creatures, the grove? 03:19:04.360 --> 03:19:07.479 Or do you step away and allow it all to run its course? 03:19:22.200 --> 03:19:25.399 She will opt to step away to let it run its course. 03:19:27.559 --> 03:19:38.040 Bogjicking that saving one thing won't necessarily save it for very long because what'll it be? 03:19:38.200 --> 03:19:41.639 What'll be its resources when it's the only thing left? 03:19:42.600 --> 03:19:48.200 And you embrace that the world will heal itself even without the interference of man. 03:19:50.120 --> 03:19:53.239 You are given a dragon bow. 03:19:58.200 --> 03:19:59.239 Who's next? 03:20:01.719 --> 03:20:02.600 I'll go. 03:20:10.840 --> 03:20:15.319 You're a hall of mirrors where every reflection shows a different version of yourself. 03:20:15.639 --> 03:20:19.000 Some noble, some monstrous, some forgotten. 03:20:19.319 --> 03:20:24.120 As you walk, you hear voices from the past all calling you by different names. 03:20:30.680 --> 03:20:34.680 You look at each mirror, there is a different form of you. 03:20:35.959 --> 03:20:37.959 Go ahead and make a perception check. 03:20:40.479 --> 03:20:40.799 Okay. 03:20:48.559 --> 03:20:51.680 And that one and plus two for three. 03:20:55.200 --> 03:20:56.239 The mirrors. 03:20:59.360 --> 03:21:01.120 Yep, those are mirrors, all right. 03:21:07.520 --> 03:21:16.319 Lumine will look around at the mirrors for a few moments, hearing all the different names that try calling out to her. 03:21:17.520 --> 03:21:21.360 And she will just close her eyes and focus on her name. 03:21:21.680 --> 03:21:24.319 Focus on the present her that is her. 03:21:27.040 --> 03:21:48.959 As you begin walking, focusing only on that sound, as you open your eyes, you see yourself in the mirror and accept the truth that even with your flaws and your imperfections, there is still success in embracing your true self. 03:21:49.920 --> 03:21:53.200 The mirrors fade and the avatar returns. 03:21:55.120 --> 03:21:57.520 They give you a belt of strength. 03:21:58.159 --> 03:22:01.280 You may add plus two to your current strength. 03:22:11.600 --> 03:22:12.159 Next. 03:22:14.079 --> 03:22:16.799 Vayra's gonna look at Oz'zariah. 03:22:18.719 --> 03:22:22.719 I still think truth is subjective. 03:22:23.360 --> 03:22:26.399 But you may feed well for my suffering after this. 03:22:26.719 --> 03:22:28.319 And she'll walk forward. 03:22:35.360 --> 03:22:40.559 You are shown fragments of your forgotten life. 03:22:41.440 --> 03:22:46.879 You see people in ritualistic clothing offering prayers. 03:22:47.760 --> 03:22:53.440 You see devout clerics traveling the land tending the sick. 03:22:56.000 --> 03:23:01.200 You see kindness and cruelty alike, betrayal and love. 03:23:04.239 --> 03:23:14.000 And in the last vision, you see yourself casting down all that light into darkness. 03:23:21.600 --> 03:23:25.280 You are handed a scroll and a quill. 03:23:28.399 --> 03:23:34.959 You may rewrite your past or sign your name and accept it. 03:23:41.920 --> 03:23:44.079 She's going to look at it for a second. 03:23:46.559 --> 03:23:49.600 And a tear is going to drip down her cheek. 03:23:50.879 --> 03:23:55.360 And then she will very fancily write Vayra on the scroll. 03:23:58.559 --> 03:24:02.159 You have owned who you were to become who you are. 03:24:09.120 --> 03:24:21.360 You are given a scroll that when you open it and read it in silence, you can now Misty step three times a day. 03:24:25.120 --> 03:24:31.360 It is symbolic with no longer being where you were as you have moved to where you are. 03:24:38.639 --> 03:24:40.239 That leaves only one. 03:24:45.040 --> 03:24:48.239 Oz'zariah will just kind of take a step forward. 03:24:57.840 --> 03:25:04.639 You are shown this group of people and how you all awoke in the rubble and the dust and the ash. 03:25:06.559 --> 03:25:15.360 You are shown how you all over the last eight cycles have forged lives and friendships among these lives. 03:25:18.479 --> 03:25:24.079 In a soft whisper, cast them down and be restored. 03:25:28.559 --> 03:25:28.799 No. 03:25:32.479 --> 03:25:34.879 Cast them down and be rewarded. 03:25:38.479 --> 03:25:38.799 No. 03:25:46.360 --> 03:25:55.959 Cast them down and learn the true of what hunts you without hesitation for a third time. 03:25:56.120 --> 03:26:25.479 She just know you learn the truth that sometimes the things that you want are not worth what you have. 03:26:28.600 --> 03:26:34.200 The voice will return to you, the voice of the herald. 03:26:37.319 --> 03:26:41.639 Will you take a boon for yourself or a boon for all? 03:26:51.159 --> 03:27:02.440 For all they will strike their trident against the ground and it will begin to vibrate much like the crystals. 03:27:03.079 --> 03:27:19.000 You will see ribbons of energy dancing on unseen fingers, each one wrapping around you, each individually in different ways, not binding, but just as decoration. 03:27:22.200 --> 03:27:29.719 You will feel a warmth wash over you, a warmth of familiarity, a warmth of power. 03:27:30.680 --> 03:27:34.680 They will strike their trident again, and the ribbons will fade into you. 03:27:35.319 --> 03:27:38.120 You each will feel yourself grow stronger. 03:27:38.440 --> 03:27:45.000 You each will feel yourself grow braver and truer to who you are as you each gain a level. 03:27:45.319 --> 03:27:45.799 Woohoo! 03:27:48.440 --> 03:27:51.959 And with that, we end our story for the night. 03:27:52.920 --> 03:27:53.479 Yay! 03:27:54.040 --> 03:27:54.840 Woohoo! 03:27:55.799 --> 03:27:56.760 Thank you, Ames. 03:28:00.600 --> 03:28:01.079 Nice. 03:28:02.840 --> 03:28:03.399 Good storytelling. 03:28:03.879 --> 03:28:04.920 Oh, and a level. 03:28:06.520 --> 03:28:07.559 Tears of bestie. 03:28:08.600 --> 03:28:08.840 Yeah. 03:28:10.920 --> 03:28:11.639 Oh, don't worry, Ames. 03:28:11.719 --> 03:28:13.159 There's a magical item coming for you. 03:28:13.319 --> 03:28:15.239 It just will be revealed next. 03:28:16.920 --> 03:28:17.959 I'll go ahead and tell you. 03:28:18.520 --> 03:28:26.120 I technically already have one, just haven't been able to really show it off yet. 03:28:26.440 --> 03:28:26.680 Yeah. 03:28:27.959 --> 03:28:29.639 You're getting a special scythe. 03:28:29.719 --> 03:28:30.760 That's all I'm going to say. 03:28:34.440 --> 03:28:36.760 I hope you all had fun tonight. 03:28:38.040 --> 03:28:38.440 Oh, yeah. 03:28:38.680 --> 03:28:41.000 I hope our listeners had fun. 03:28:42.600 --> 03:28:46.600 We're going to go ahead and remind people who we are, where they can find us. 03:28:47.079 --> 03:28:49.799 I will ask if you had fun, tell your friends. 03:28:50.680 --> 03:28:54.920 We thrive by word of mouth and would love to have more of you come and hang out with us. 03:28:56.680 --> 03:29:03.159 So let's remind people who they are, where they can find us, and let us take our leave for the evening. 03:29:06.280 --> 03:29:07.319 Oh, that's me. 03:29:07.959 --> 03:29:12.200 I'm Christina, and I was the voice of Vayra tonight. 03:29:12.520 --> 03:29:15.239 And you can find me on Blue Sky at Teddy Kisses. 03:29:17.000 --> 03:29:21.000 Hi, yeah, this is Ames, and I was Oz'zariah tonight. 03:29:21.239 --> 03:29:25.000 And you can find me on Blue Sky Twitter and Moonbeam as LilyGeebo. 03:29:27.159 --> 03:29:28.200 This is Chris. 03:29:28.760 --> 03:29:33.079 I was the voice of Opus and the actions of Minkus and Ropus. 03:29:34.360 --> 03:29:38.680 And you can find me and Catbat on Facebook. 03:29:40.600 --> 03:29:41.239 I'm Casey. 03:29:41.399 --> 03:29:49.959 I played Nyx, and you can find me on our website, catbatmedia.com, or on Facebook as Chris Sun. 03:29:52.520 --> 03:29:53.959 Hello, I'm Blue. 03:29:54.200 --> 03:30:01.319 I was the voice of Lumine, and you can find me at The Darling Blue on Instagram. 03:30:01.959 --> 03:30:02.680 Hi, everyone. 03:30:02.760 --> 03:30:09.559 I'm Alice, the voice of Lenore, and you can find me on Twitter, Tumblr, Blue Sky, and Instagram at Captain Cuppy Cake. 03:30:11.479 --> 03:30:12.280 Greetings, everyone. 03:30:12.440 --> 03:30:16.920 I'm still Loch Clark, because despite passing the test, I couldn't change that. 03:30:17.239 --> 03:30:22.760 And tonight, I was Kagan Thord, and you find me all over the social medias at Locke Unreally. 03:30:23.000 --> 03:30:24.440 That's Loch with an H. 03:30:28.200 --> 03:30:28.760 You're muted. 03:30:28.920 --> 03:30:29.159 Tear. 03:30:30.200 --> 03:30:31.000 Thank you. 03:30:31.559 --> 03:30:34.520 And I have been the OKS Dungeon Master Tear of the DM. 03:30:35.159 --> 03:30:39.239 You can find me on Blue Sky at Tear the DM or on Moonbeam at Tear of the DM. 03:30:39.799 --> 03:30:40.840 Before you go, I just want to. 03:30:42.239 --> 03:30:45.680 Remind you: Be kind to each other, love one another. 03:30:46.319 --> 03:30:50.959 Remember that love and inclusion are the torches that light a path to a better tomorrow. 03:30:51.520 --> 03:30:53.200 Come join us and be torchbearers. 03:30:53.760 --> 03:30:56.719 And until next time, live a life to make yourself proud. 03:30:57.040 --> 03:30:57.760 We love you.
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