--- > [!Danger] Disclaimer > *This transcript was auto-generated by a model and may not be perfectly accurate. In particular, the speaker labels may sometimes overlap with other speakers and cause the model to label one speaker as someone else.* --- 07:19.118 --> 07:40.754 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 07:40.775 --> 07:41.235 [Riv (DM)]: Let's all go. 07:41.556 --> 07:42.257 [Riv (DM)]: Over to you, Lacer. 07:42.727 --> 07:47.281 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, last time on Whispers of a Crimson Dawn. 07:47.321 --> 07:53.299 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Bloody Nails disembarked the Albatross and we parted away with the Mawbreakers. 07:54.362 --> 07:57.411 [Lacer (Kai)]: And from there, we found lodging at the Lion. 07:59.146 --> 08:04.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: Along the way, Erendor spots a child of the Vowed Cubs as well as some suspicious people. 08:05.214 --> 08:07.838 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't take any much note of that. 08:08.839 --> 08:26.082 [Lacer (Kai)]: And at the Lion... actually no, on our way, whilst talking to the Cubs, Valerian lets them know that we're back in town and ready to take up the job that they spoke about many moons ago. 08:27.817 --> 08:37.952 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we arrive at the line for food, mead, lodging and a hot bath and we eat and listen or gossip about the arrival of a large ship. 08:40.616 --> 08:49.369 [Lacer (Kai)]: So during this time Valerian is stoic about his past and is curious how the Red Cloaks know him by another name. 08:50.412 --> 08:58.447 [Lacer (Kai)]: While that's happening Kai chats with the local in Bard in regards to any stories about a red cloak named Corvus. 08:59.048 --> 09:06.863 [Lacer (Kai)]: No news was found and Kai's motive for revenge against Empire has deepened greatly. 09:06.903 --> 09:12.133 [Lacer (Kai)]: So after a drama-free night we head out 09:13.261 --> 09:18.252 [Lacer (Kai)]: The next day, for shopping, and we purchased a whole bunch of stuff. 09:19.836 --> 09:21.981 [Lacer (Kai)]: So after- Three hours of shopping go by. 09:22.643 --> 09:24.587 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, so I sort of blast through that. 09:25.128 --> 09:31.523 [Lacer (Kai)]: After shopping, we decided to head to meet up with the Vowed Cubs, but were followed by three Shadow Serpent gang members. 09:32.178 --> 09:36.148 [Lacer (Kai)]: We ambush them and Valerian and Rio intimidate them and scare them off. 09:37.090 --> 09:38.994 [Lacer (Kai)]: Before we meet up with the Val Cubs. 09:39.476 --> 09:41.019 [Lacer (Kai)]: We weren't spending any time with them. 09:41.079 --> 09:43.004 [Lacer (Kai)]: The true villains of the campaign. 09:44.287 --> 09:44.668 [Riv (DM)]: You'll see. 09:45.222 --> 09:55.724 [Lacer (Kai)]: We accept the job from old Elessar as we finally arrive at their hideouts to safely transport Leah to Val Miriel. 09:56.426 --> 10:04.142 [Lacer (Kai)]: Elessar has heard that security will be tightened in Camaar and Imperial guests will be arriving so 10:05.422 --> 10:09.169 [Lacer (Kai)]: We know that we should get out of Camaar as soon as possible. 10:10.130 --> 10:23.093 [Lacer (Kai)]: So to Sweden Deal, he offers us a set of braces of archery, which unfortunately Dondar rolled low and wasn't able to get the ring of something something. 10:25.520 --> 10:28.945 [Riv (DM)]: I think it was a Pearl of Power or something. 10:28.965 --> 10:29.566 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, something like that. 10:29.786 --> 10:40.522 [Lacer (Kai)]: Dondar trades his original stool that he got from Elessar for an upgraded Cherry Rose wood stool, which he greatly appreciates. 10:41.444 --> 10:42.285 [Lacer (Kai)]: Carved off at the bottom. 10:43.367 --> 10:43.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 10:46.291 --> 10:47.433 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, Aaliyah... 10:47.453 --> 10:50.057 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's now become a weapon. 10:50.177 --> 10:51.038 [Lacer (Kai)]: A short weapon. 10:52.773 --> 10:59.727 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leah, a young girl with raven black hair and green eyes, joins our party to journey north to Val Miriel. 11:01.931 --> 11:08.064 [Lacer (Kai)]: Later that day, we leave the Cubs and we acquire a travelling cart and horse. 11:10.809 --> 11:12.132 [Lacer (Kai)]: Along our journey 11:12.972 --> 11:16.415 [Lacer (Kai)]: Up north I notice a large Imperial ship headed south. 11:17.997 --> 11:21.980 [Lacer (Kai)]: And that's it for the first day on our journey to Val Miriel. 11:22.421 --> 11:31.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: On the second day, magically somehow Erendor receives word that the Feingolds are well. 11:33.792 --> 11:39.737 [Lacer (Kai)]: We get word of the Feingolds and notes that we need to stop by some ruins outside Farhaven. 11:40.218 --> 11:42.760 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think you got that well you're still in the city. 11:43.617 --> 11:44.498 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 11:44.679 --> 11:45.400 [Riv (DM)]: I think so? 11:45.420 --> 11:47.122 [Riv (DM)]: But anyway, that doesn't mean too much. 11:47.563 --> 11:50.708 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's what I recall, anyway. 11:50.728 --> 11:52.230 [Lacer (Kai)]: Somewhere along the way, yeah. 11:52.250 --> 11:59.922 [Lacer (Kai)]: So we need to drop by some ruins later before we, or even... Because I think, yeah, on the third day... 11:59.902 --> 12:05.311 [Lacer (Kai)]: We bump into a legion of a hundred Imperial soldiers led by five hands, Imperial hands. 12:06.353 --> 12:21.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: Very, very sticky situation but Valerian with his golden tongue thoroughly persuades the hands that we're transporting his niece to family up north in Val Miriel and we're hired mercenaries to escort them up. 12:22.227 --> 12:23.228 [Riv (DM)]: You guys were rolling. 12:23.248 --> 12:23.668 [Riv (DM)]: Ballin'. 12:24.249 --> 12:27.613 [Riv (DM)]: You're like a 34 on your Intimidation or something. 12:27.633 --> 12:28.413 [Lacer (Kai)]: Something like that. 12:28.954 --> 12:30.375 [Lacer (Kai)]: They easily let us pass. 12:30.656 --> 12:32.397 [Riv (DM)]: I had like a whole flow sheet for the encounter. 12:32.457 --> 12:37.843 [Riv (DM)]: And it's just like, zoop, so we could be straight to the end. 12:37.983 --> 12:45.110 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, they let us pass after finding out the usual news that they know, or what we roughly know. 12:45.130 --> 12:46.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: They didn't let much 12:48.248 --> 12:48.669 [Lacer (Kai)]: What is it? 12:48.829 --> 12:54.079 [Lacer (Kai)]: Detailed knowledge of what they were doing down there, but we knew things were going down. 12:55.602 --> 13:05.200 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, later that third day, we arrive at Firehaven and that's where we left off. 13:05.220 --> 13:05.561 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 13:06.242 --> 13:06.623 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 13:07.264 --> 13:10.510 [Riv (DM)]: Anyone else have any sort of thoughts or 13:11.992 --> 13:18.159 [Riv (DM)]: Wanted to do anything over that sort of early morning or do you want to just pick up, pick up as we get towards the city? 13:22.784 --> 13:24.165 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, all good. 13:26.508 --> 13:36.178 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just want to remind Erendor, we've got to stop by some ruins when we, before we arrive at Farhaven, you know, you know where? 13:36.198 --> 13:39.822 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Not a clue mate, not a clue. 13:40.342 --> 13:43.586 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: But you got the message! 13:43.606 --> 13:45.468 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Outside Firehaven, that's all I heard. 13:47.250 --> 13:49.973 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I better be blasting some good perception checks, hey? 13:54.759 --> 13:59.144 [Riv (DM)]: So on that, you put just a couple of horses in a wagon slash cart. 14:00.846 --> 14:02.448 [Riv (DM)]: How do you guys imagine this cart looks? 14:02.708 --> 14:04.590 [Riv (DM)]: Is it decently sized? 14:04.651 --> 14:06.012 [Riv (DM)]: Is it covered over the top? 14:06.953 --> 14:09.336 [Riv (DM)]: I'll let you guys sort of imagine it if you like. 14:12.202 --> 14:19.531 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I, in my head it was just like an open top, maybe with a bit of canvas, but not like a soft top. 14:21.393 --> 14:26.360 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're not heading into the Wild West, we're just grabbing a cart to put people in. 14:27.842 --> 14:34.049 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so it's sort of just like an open cart and then maybe like just some sort of like canvas prop over the top of it or something like that if it starts raining. 14:34.069 --> 14:35.471 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: DM Yeah, pretty much. 14:36.092 --> 14:36.252 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 14:37.970 --> 14:38.330 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 14:38.591 --> 14:39.832 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, couple of horses. 14:42.194 --> 14:49.802 [Riv (DM)]: Which will be holstered up to the front of the wagon and then a couple of you guys will be sitting up front and the rest in the back. 14:50.122 --> 14:52.024 [Riv (DM)]: Who would mainly be sitting up the front? 14:58.951 --> 15:01.094 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess I'll be driving. 15:03.596 --> 15:04.517 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 15:05.459 --> 15:08.565 [Riv (DM)]: Vael at the front, anyone else at the front or is everyone in the back? 15:09.567 --> 15:14.196 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will sit up front with Vael since I got really good perception. 15:16.400 --> 15:16.500 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 15:16.520 --> 15:16.720 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 15:18.283 --> 15:20.768 [JC (Ryo)]: In the back with my legs dangling off the back. 15:21.220 --> 15:21.941 [JC (Ryo)]: Watch your hinders. 15:22.442 --> 15:22.882 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, nice. 15:23.823 --> 15:25.345 [Riv (DM)]: And Leah's in there with you. 15:25.365 --> 15:31.593 [Riv (DM)]: She's tucked into the back of the cart, sort of closest to the front, under the canvas, just sort of keeping to herself. 15:32.754 --> 15:38.822 [Riv (DM)]: She has like a little pouch, like a small little carry-over-the-shoulder bag thing. 15:39.923 --> 15:48.814 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, I mean, her clothing, she's got like a singlet that's sort of loose-fitting, but underneath, as you would have seen throughout the day, she's got kind of like a 15:48.794 --> 15:54.741 [Riv (DM)]: Smallish sort of leather, like a leather sort of chest protection thing. 15:56.303 --> 16:01.669 [Riv (DM)]: Obviously, when you're small, armor is difficult because you're going to be growing, so it's going to be going out of shape quite a lot. 16:01.689 --> 16:03.592 [Riv (DM)]: So this one is like, yeah, sleeves off. 16:04.573 --> 16:08.077 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, she looks like she's got something there to try and protect herself if she gets into scuffles. 16:09.058 --> 16:14.825 [Riv (DM)]: And at the moment, as you're sort of rattling on down the road, she's just sort of keeping to herself away with her thoughts. 16:15.866 --> 16:17.248 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, we're going to pick up 16:18.376 --> 16:29.410 [Riv (DM)]: Just as the city of Farhaven itself is coming into view, you're coming down from the top of a gentle slope, the wind is blowing in, freezing from the ocean. 16:30.111 --> 16:34.497 [Riv (DM)]: No rain or anything, no clouds, it's a fairly decent day but it's still bitterly cold. 16:36.460 --> 16:39.303 [Riv (DM)]: There's like the old seabird flying around and squawking. 16:40.285 --> 16:44.350 [Riv (DM)]: And in the distance, yeah, you can see the city of Farhaven itself, so... 16:45.629 --> 16:53.300 [Riv (DM)]: As you start heading closer, what you see is that the city is built out onto a peninsula that sort of juts out into the gulf. 16:55.142 --> 16:59.549 [Riv (DM)]: There is no wall protecting the city itself. 16:59.629 --> 17:06.919 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't seem like it's quite large enough to be considered a major city that's required for defending and defence. 17:08.040 --> 17:13.408 [Riv (DM)]: But the density of the buildings, the way they're packed in together sort of forms a natural sort of border to the city. 17:13.388 --> 17:17.459 [Riv (DM)]: The main road that you're on carries on just past the city itself. 17:18.602 --> 17:20.487 [Riv (DM)]: It just sort of cuts over to the left of the city. 17:21.349 --> 17:28.528 [Riv (DM)]: And it branches at a T intersection where that road will cut off into the main part of the city. 17:29.892 --> 17:36.940 [Riv (DM)]: To the other side of the road, towards the mainland, is just rolling fields of crops and pastures. 17:36.980 --> 17:41.385 [Riv (DM)]: At this time, in the middle of winter, the fields all look quite dead. 17:42.326 --> 17:45.850 [Riv (DM)]: There's, you know, just blank dirt fields. 17:45.910 --> 17:51.396 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them, you can see, there are crops that have just been left to die after having already been harvested. 17:51.496 --> 17:56.862 [Riv (DM)]: And then across the fields, just dotted here and there, you can see little farmhouses, sheds. 17:56.842 --> 17:59.115 [Riv (DM)]: Like little granaries and things like that. 17:59.135 --> 18:01.367 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 18:03.811 --> 18:19.836 [Riv (DM)]: So as you start rolling on down towards the city, unless you choose not to go towards the city, I assume you're carrying on down the road, someone in the back at this point notices Leah has pulled out something from her bag. 18:20.557 --> 18:23.441 [Riv (DM)]: I guess this would be Dondar or Erendor sitting next to her. 18:24.182 --> 18:28.268 [Riv (DM)]: And it's like this small little octagonal brass box. 18:28.970 --> 18:32.535 [Riv (DM)]: And she pulls out a couple of small tools and you can see her just sort of 18:32.515 --> 18:35.017 [Riv (DM)]: Picking away at it, like she's almost trying to unlock it. 18:35.918 --> 18:44.527 [Riv (DM)]: A few moments go by and you hear a little click and she puts her picking tools away and pops it open, just looks into it for a few moments. 18:47.370 --> 18:53.596 [Riv (DM)]: After looking at it for a bit she just kind of drifts off again, stares back out under the canvas towards the coastline. 18:55.858 --> 18:58.641 [Riv (DM)]: Still holding on to this little box though. 19:00.983 --> 19:03.689 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to try and work out what it is. 19:05.252 --> 19:05.853 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 19:05.873 --> 19:06.655 [Lacer (Kai)]: How are you going to do that? 19:07.556 --> 19:10.062 [Lacer (Kai)]: First of all, you recognise what it looks like. 19:10.082 --> 19:11.565 [Lacer (Kai)]: It doesn't look familiar to yourself. 19:13.809 --> 19:19.060 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If I can't tell at a glance what it is, then I would like to. 19:20.288 --> 19:22.954 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ask her what it is that she's got. 19:23.635 --> 19:32.534 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why don't you just roll a quick perception check or something like that, just to see if you can ascertain what it is. 19:35.020 --> 19:35.260 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 19:37.028 --> 19:37.449 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 19:38.310 --> 19:48.664 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, it looks like a slightly larger than normal locket of some kind, like the sort of thing you'd wear around your neck and would probably hold a picture on the inside, because the top of it has popped open. 19:50.406 --> 19:54.031 [Riv (DM)]: With that sort of perception, you would have watched her actually unlocking it. 19:54.572 --> 19:57.656 [Riv (DM)]: She clearly doesn't have a key for it anymore, but she still keeps it. 19:58.037 --> 20:04.926 [Riv (DM)]: It must lock when it latches closed, but maybe she just uses it for practicing her lockpicking skills or something else. 20:21.713 --> 20:24.037 [Riv (DM)]: Did you mention you wanted to ask her? 20:28.384 --> 20:33.172 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I feel like that's enough of a knowledge about it for now, for the moment. 20:33.192 --> 20:33.973 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 20:33.994 --> 20:34.855 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 20:34.875 --> 20:35.817 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she's just sitting there. 20:35.837 --> 20:42.948 [Riv (DM)]: She hasn't really noticed, or at least hasn't shown that she's noticed that you're watching her, but she's chilling. 20:43.790 --> 20:43.890 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 20:44.900 --> 20:47.304 [Riv (DM)]: So the cart carries on rattling its way down the road. 20:47.344 --> 20:54.294 [Riv (DM)]: You, Valeran, and Kai up the front just getting blasted in the face with the odd bit of sea spray, cold wind. 20:54.915 --> 20:58.561 [Riv (DM)]: You know, assume you're huddled together, almost blankets pulled around or something like that. 21:00.143 --> 21:09.878 [Riv (DM)]: As you start getting closer and closer towards the city, you come beside a farmhouse that's quite close to the road actually, and Kai, with your 21:09.858 --> 21:11.600 [Riv (DM)]: Pretty excellent passive perception. 21:11.640 --> 21:29.019 [Riv (DM)]: You notice on the back side of this farmhouse, the one facing you as you're coming towards it, there's this symbol, sort of like, it looks like it's almost been painted with black paint or tar or something that's just been splashed haphazardly on it. 21:30.981 --> 21:34.245 [Riv (DM)]: Would you like to roll a perception check for me to see if you can make out what it is? 21:35.035 --> 21:41.133 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to tap Valerian on the shoulder to halt the cart. 21:41.294 --> 21:44.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to jump down and then do a closer inspection. 21:44.789 --> 21:45.670 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, sure. 21:45.690 --> 21:50.477 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can grind to a slow and hop down and take a look. 21:50.717 --> 21:53.041 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean, I guess no role needed then if you're going to wander over. 21:53.081 --> 21:57.587 [Riv (DM)]: There doesn't appear to be anyone living in the building at the moment. 21:58.488 --> 22:05.939 [Riv (DM)]: There is no smoke coming from the chimney at the top and you don't see anyone else wandering around, but that's not to say there isn't anyone inside. 22:05.959 --> 22:07.641 [Riv (DM)]: As you get closer, 22:08.279 --> 22:09.802 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, wait, wait, I like to motion. 22:11.244 --> 22:15.672 [Lacer (Kai)]: Erendor to Kama go, check for traps for me, I'm paranoid. 22:18.537 --> 22:20.180 [Riv (DM)]: Oh boy, I have scarred you guys. 22:23.726 --> 22:23.946 [Riv (DM)]: Sure. 22:25.649 --> 22:27.011 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 22:27.031 --> 22:33.763 [Riv (DM)]: I guess, yeah, I guess roll a, what would this be, just an investigation to have a look around to see if anything looks dodgy. 22:39.751 --> 22:47.319 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, yeah, barren fields, farmhouse looks roughly abandoned, like there's no one in there at the moment other than that. 22:47.620 --> 22:48.100 [Riv (DM)]: Seems alright. 22:51.044 --> 22:56.830 [Riv (DM)]: You have to probably head off the road 30 feet or so, 30-40 feet, something like that. 22:56.950 --> 22:58.352 [Riv (DM)]: It's not bang up straight against it. 22:59.753 --> 23:01.195 [Riv (DM)]: You gonna wander over, Lacer? 23:02.016 --> 23:03.177 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or come, I should say? 23:04.827 --> 23:11.293 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, no, the symbols on the wall or the... 23:11.353 --> 23:13.174 [Lacer (Kai)]: I like to motion everyone around. 23:13.215 --> 23:15.256 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anyone recognise this symbol? 23:17.739 --> 23:23.584 [Riv (DM)]: Well, as you're kind of getting closer to it, you do actually kind of recognise it in some sense. 23:23.604 --> 23:25.926 [Riv (DM)]: It looks like, actually, why don't I sort of draw it for you? 23:27.948 --> 23:28.768 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see if this works. 23:31.991 --> 23:32.792 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of like this. 23:34.645 --> 23:36.126 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar thinks he knows what it is. 23:38.309 --> 23:39.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: Looks like a funny triangle. 23:41.352 --> 23:42.593 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sort of like a dagger without a help. 23:43.774 --> 23:44.535 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of, yeah. 23:44.975 --> 23:45.416 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of like that. 23:45.476 --> 23:53.244 [Riv (DM)]: Like there's a big splash of paint up here in this sort of like angle and then two like two lines like this drawn that come to a neat point. 23:55.786 --> 23:57.027 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably more like this actually. 23:58.469 --> 24:00.070 [Riv (DM)]: Probably not quite that thick. 24:00.090 --> 24:00.771 [Riv (DM)]: Something like that. 24:02.573 --> 24:05.238 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I swear to god, if we're seeing Nail Graffiti already. 24:06.641 --> 24:08.104 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh, is it Nail Graffiti? 24:08.224 --> 24:08.826 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh my god. 24:10.429 --> 24:11.591 [Riv (DM)]: Very well could be that, yeah. 24:13.014 --> 24:13.796 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar believes so. 24:15.018 --> 24:16.060 [Riv (DM)]: Is that what you're thinking, Dondar? 24:18.244 --> 24:20.108 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That is what I was thinking. 24:20.128 --> 24:23.535 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's not what I was thinking. 24:27.312 --> 24:29.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I touch it and see if it's kind of semi-fresh? 24:30.256 --> 24:31.198 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, go for it. 24:31.358 --> 24:33.681 [Riv (DM)]: You reach out, touch it a little bit. 24:33.701 --> 24:35.424 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like, it probably wasn't done today. 24:36.005 --> 24:37.086 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe in the last day or so. 24:37.427 --> 24:39.009 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite cold out here by the ocean. 24:39.069 --> 24:41.192 [Riv (DM)]: So it's recent, okay. 24:41.212 --> 24:42.434 [Riv (DM)]: It seems pretty fresh, yeah. 24:44.557 --> 24:44.637 [Riv (DM)]: Ooh. 24:45.999 --> 24:48.763 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nails in the Coffin of the Empire have begun to fall. 24:50.228 --> 24:52.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's kind of cool. 24:52.670 --> 25:01.037 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, that means someone knows, like, the word has spread so fast in the boat that word has travelled already. 25:02.258 --> 25:09.805 [Riv (DM)]: So you would have probably discussed on the ship as you were travelling back, all of the fleet sort of spread out to drop people off. 25:09.825 --> 25:14.569 [Riv (DM)]: One of the ships would have dropped off groups of people at different cities inside the Gulf of Miriel itself. 25:15.130 --> 25:18.953 [Riv (DM)]: So likely there have already been people in the city for about a week. 25:22.612 --> 25:24.135 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's cool. 25:25.156 --> 25:36.896 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, I'd like to do a, I guess, investigation check inside the farmhouse for anything interesting. 25:40.261 --> 25:44.248 [Riv (DM)]: So if you go around to the front and try the door, it's locked. 25:47.519 --> 25:47.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 25:48.660 --> 25:50.181 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's locked from the outside. 25:50.442 --> 25:55.386 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I have no skills for this. 25:55.406 --> 25:56.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm mushing out, door is locked. 25:57.468 --> 25:58.929 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anyone wanna give it a crack? 26:03.033 --> 26:05.435 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do we really want to break into a random farmhouse? 26:08.638 --> 26:10.359 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, you know what, I'll knock on the door first. 26:10.439 --> 26:11.420 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll be polite. 26:11.600 --> 26:15.864 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll knock. 26:15.884 --> 26:16.665 [Riv (DM)]: Wait a few moments. 26:18.265 --> 26:19.406 [Riv (DM)]: Don't hear anything on the inside. 26:20.547 --> 26:21.108 [Lacer (Kai)]: A knock again. 26:21.148 --> 26:22.430 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anyone home? 26:24.131 --> 26:25.072 [Riv (DM)]: No, doesn't seem like it. 26:27.235 --> 26:32.721 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: My lord, if only we knew of someone that could pick a lock. 26:32.741 --> 26:32.881 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oof. 26:35.043 --> 26:36.385 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alright, alright. 26:36.405 --> 26:40.930 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think a fireball would do it. 26:40.950 --> 26:45.795 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, I was referring to the small child in the back of the cart. 26:45.915 --> 26:47.817 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh yeah, that's a hella good idea. 26:48.539 --> 26:49.300 [Unmatched Speaker]: Hey, Leah. 26:50.041 --> 26:50.341 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yes? 26:50.361 --> 26:51.663 [Unmatched Speaker]: You want some practice? 26:52.685 --> 26:53.386 [Unmatched Speaker]: Practice with what? 26:54.327 --> 26:55.769 [Unmatched Speaker]: With your lockpicking skills. 26:57.030 --> 26:58.392 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, what are we doing? 27:01.256 --> 27:09.868 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're just gonna have a quick look and see if there's anything wrong with this house. 27:09.888 --> 27:17.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's been marked with a symbol that seems to be related to us somehow, potentially related to us. 27:18.593 --> 27:20.155 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, sure, if you say so. 27:20.195 --> 27:30.709 [Riv (DM)]: She hops down off the cart, runs over, jogs over to the house and sneaks around, pulls out her tools and, alright, I can actually do this because I made her a character sheet. 27:32.411 --> 27:45.609 [Lacer (Kai)]: This will be... Alright, I turn around, I'd like to do a perception check around, like, the area in case this is like a trap or something. 27:45.629 --> 27:47.031 [Riv (DM)]: I think that... 27:50.504 --> 27:53.051 [Riv (DM)]: I can probably just do this because she has the expertise with it. 27:59.047 --> 28:00.471 [Riv (DM)]: She rolls a 17. 28:00.491 --> 28:03.720 [Riv (DM)]: 17 is enough. 28:04.578 --> 28:09.484 [Riv (DM)]: Very, very quickly, in no time at all, just a minute, and the door pops open. 28:10.465 --> 28:16.732 [Riv (DM)]: She sort of starts cracking it open with her hand and starts looking around on the inside and then stops herself and just sort of steps back. 28:16.752 --> 28:23.280 [Riv (DM)]: She's almost instinctively about to wander in, but kind of remembering that she's here with you, she just steps back and waits for you. 28:23.981 --> 28:25.763 [Riv (DM)]: And Kai, you were doing a quick look around with a perception, 26? 28:25.783 --> 28:26.164 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 28:27.105 --> 28:28.206 [Riv (DM)]: What are you looking for? 28:28.186 --> 28:38.503 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm looking for any, like, because we're surrounded by farmlands and stuff, there's gonna be like hay and things, see if there's anyone waiting to ambush, like, around this random building. 28:39.144 --> 28:46.596 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, pretty open field, there's like, this field looks like the sort of one where it's the excess crops that have sort of died off now. 28:46.736 --> 28:52.064 [Riv (DM)]: There's a scarecrow dotted out there in the middle of the field, and a raven is currently sitting on top of it. 28:52.565 --> 28:54.328 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that, you don't see any people around. 28:56.992 --> 28:59.776 [Lacer (Kai)]: Great of the Raven. 29:05.545 --> 29:07.448 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just looking at my spells quickly. 29:07.489 --> 29:11.074 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nope, don't have it prepared. 29:11.275 --> 29:12.857 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, all good, all good. 29:14.390 --> 29:15.613 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just want to hold lookout. 29:16.255 --> 29:18.501 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you guys want to investigate the house? 29:19.103 --> 29:19.805 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just be careful. 29:20.166 --> 29:21.770 [Lacer (Kai)]: It was locked, maybe trapped. 29:22.933 --> 29:23.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just walking in. 29:24.357 --> 29:27.124 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: No hazard at all. 29:27.144 --> 29:29.631 [Riv (DM)]: Earendor wanders on in. 29:29.611 --> 29:34.879 [Riv (DM)]: Leah will wait a moment but then she will just kind of curiosity takes her a bit and she will wander in after you as well. 29:35.159 --> 29:36.641 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just kind of keeping close behind you. 29:37.222 --> 29:42.330 [Riv (DM)]: You barely hear her footsteps but kind of just with your perception just kind of feel her presence almost. 29:42.690 --> 29:50.341 [Riv (DM)]: And looking around on the inside it looks like the place has been sort of tidily packed away in some sense. 29:50.421 --> 29:55.028 [Riv (DM)]: Like imagine a place where you would use it for work and then 29:55.227 --> 29:55.948 [Riv (DM)]: Work is finished. 29:57.269 --> 29:58.351 [Riv (DM)]: Chairs are put to the side. 29:58.431 --> 29:59.732 [Riv (DM)]: All the drawers are closed up. 30:00.373 --> 30:02.336 [Riv (DM)]: There's a set of stairs that go up to a second level. 30:02.516 --> 30:03.978 [Riv (DM)]: That's sort of like a mezzanine floor. 30:04.839 --> 30:10.886 [Riv (DM)]: Up there you can see there's just like a few more tables and chairs and things like that with some windows to look out into the crops. 30:11.587 --> 30:13.269 [Riv (DM)]: It looks very much like a working house. 30:13.289 --> 30:15.612 [Riv (DM)]: There's no bedroom or anything like that. 30:15.952 --> 30:17.674 [Riv (DM)]: There's a small cooking area. 30:17.654 --> 30:24.361 [Riv (DM)]: You know, there's living area and then there are just all sorts of like tool cabinets and work benches and things like that. 30:24.801 --> 30:27.383 [Riv (DM)]: But everything is all being packed away for the winter it seems. 30:28.945 --> 30:32.569 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that, there isn't really anything too interesting. 30:35.091 --> 30:36.272 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's no rug on the floor? 30:37.573 --> 30:38.895 [Riv (DM)]: There's no rug on the floor, no. 30:40.516 --> 30:46.362 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was hoping Erendor would find a trapdoor headed down or something, a cellar door or something. 30:49.025 --> 30:54.232 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'll keep eyes outside while you guys clear the farmhouse. 30:57.697 --> 30:59.540 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alright. 30:59.560 --> 31:03.826 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If there's nothing much of interest in, then I guess I'll head back. 31:05.208 --> 31:08.072 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 31:08.092 --> 31:16.163 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, Erundor comes back out, Leia's following behind, and start making way back towards the cart. 31:18.286 --> 31:18.847 [Riv (DM)]: Fine, you good? 31:18.867 --> 31:19.548 [Riv (DM)]: You following as well? 31:20.790 --> 31:29.942 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I was just thinking, I was wondering if it'd be a good idea if we relock the door just as practice so it seemed like we didn't come, no one came in, you know? 31:32.025 --> 31:36.592 [Riv (DM)]: Leah will just silently go to the door and lock it again after having already worked on it. 31:36.692 --> 31:40.357 [Riv (DM)]: She's familiar with the lock and it's easy enough to click it back into place. 31:42.941 --> 31:43.201 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 31:44.082 --> 31:45.424 [Lacer (Kai)]: Good skills. 31:50.737 --> 31:59.490 [Lacer (Kai)]: So yeah, jump back on the wagon, on the cart, and keep my lookout for ruins, if I see any along the way. 31:59.550 --> 32:07.161 [Lacer (Kai)]: Keeping in mind that we got word that we should check them out before we enter the next city. 32:09.103 --> 32:13.850 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you can see the city now, and looking around the fields, you don't see any ruins where you are. 32:14.030 --> 32:18.617 [Riv (DM)]: It's just sort of open pastures off to the west and the oceans on the east. 32:21.989 --> 32:23.371 [Lacer (Kai)]: Mmm, interesting. 32:23.571 --> 32:23.912 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 32:24.513 --> 32:25.815 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, maybe it's on the other side. 32:26.215 --> 32:26.516 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe. 32:28.659 --> 32:28.979 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 32:30.201 --> 32:32.084 [Riv (DM)]: The cart takes off again. 32:32.124 --> 32:37.291 [Riv (DM)]: The horses get little reins, give them a little flick and they start trotting down. 32:37.932 --> 32:40.656 [Riv (DM)]: Have you guys given your horses names? 32:44.855 --> 32:46.818 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: We give them names then they die. 32:51.524 --> 32:52.025 [Riv (DM)]: That's the thing. 32:53.487 --> 32:55.970 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm going to give you ammunition against them. 32:56.370 --> 32:56.951 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: True. 32:58.954 --> 32:59.394 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 33:01.978 --> 33:07.285 [Riv (DM)]: So, you start making your way down the road towards the main city itself, getting closer and closer. 33:09.070 --> 33:12.675 [Riv (DM)]: Is there any other final thoughts or anything before we make it into the city? 33:12.695 --> 33:13.456 [Riv (DM)]: What's your plan here? 33:13.476 --> 33:15.059 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to just come straight through the road? 33:15.079 --> 33:16.481 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to try and get into the city? 33:17.002 --> 33:18.564 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to make a detour around it? 33:19.605 --> 33:21.368 [Riv (DM)]: Otherwise I'll assume you'll stick to the main road. 33:22.169 --> 33:23.050 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What's the time of day? 33:24.072 --> 33:26.435 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say it's about midday at this point when you're arriving. 33:28.018 --> 33:30.401 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can stop, get some lunch. 33:30.622 --> 33:32.985 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm sure the locals would know about nearby ruins. 33:34.130 --> 33:35.492 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sounds like a good idea. 33:35.552 --> 33:38.156 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The side of the town doesn't look too hot. 33:38.257 --> 33:40.761 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, there's no wall, so I don't think there's going to be much in the way of guards. 33:42.744 --> 33:43.946 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 33:43.966 --> 33:45.087 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe a city watch? 33:45.468 --> 33:45.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: Maybe? 33:45.829 --> 33:50.236 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 33:50.256 --> 33:50.416 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 33:50.756 --> 33:54.783 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's head straight to town, get some food. 33:54.823 --> 33:54.923 Cool. 33:55.696 --> 33:56.918 [Riv (DM)]: So you start getting closer to town. 33:57.198 --> 34:03.747 [Riv (DM)]: As you get closer, the farmhouses, there's a few more that are slightly more densely, you know, packed together. 34:04.528 --> 34:16.465 [Riv (DM)]: Getting closer towards this T-junction, it's almost like there's like a mini sort of, I don't know, like a small little community that sort of just has cropped up around the intersection itself. 34:18.308 --> 34:20.691 [Riv (DM)]: And as you get closer to the intersection, 34:23.540 --> 34:41.385 [Riv (DM)]: Eryndor, you notice Leah sort of hiss as she's leaning out the cart and just sort of resting her head on her elbows and just kind of looking but you hear a hiss and she almost tenses up and like her hand almost goes and like grips into your arm and her fingers like start digging in. 34:42.126 --> 34:46.452 [Riv (DM)]: Kai, from up here on top you notice something as you're getting close to the junction. 34:48.594 --> 34:49.716 [Lacer (Kai)]: Here we go. 34:50.253 --> 34:59.745 [Riv (DM)]: At the junction itself, you notice a bit of a crowd has gathered, maybe a dozen or so people that just have been sort of wandering over and looking at something. 35:00.406 --> 35:04.871 [Riv (DM)]: As you start getting closer, I want you to roll a perception check to see how much you can see. 35:06.053 --> 35:06.653 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 35:06.673 --> 35:11.359 [Riv (DM)]: How close am I away from the cloud, based on my elevation off the cart? 35:12.360 --> 35:16.125 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say you're probably 100 maybe, 100 to 200 feet away. 35:16.763 --> 35:19.706 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, so 30 to 60 meters, all right? 35:20.006 --> 35:21.228 [Lacer (Kai)]: Something like that, yeah. 35:21.288 --> 35:27.034 [Lacer (Kai)]: Once I hit, what is this, 150 feet, I'll do a perception check. 35:27.354 --> 35:28.095 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, take a good look. 35:28.655 --> 35:29.496 [Riv (DM)]: You'll see a bunch of stuff. 35:29.536 --> 35:31.498 [Riv (DM)]: It'll just depend how much you do see. 35:33.460 --> 35:34.762 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I see everything, buddy. 35:36.764 --> 35:45.673 [Riv (DM)]: At the junction, just off it, on the dirt beside the road, you see a hastily and crudely constructed 35:46.801 --> 35:48.304 [Riv (DM)]: Wooden gallows. 35:49.506 --> 36:03.291 [Riv (DM)]: And there are currently four guards standing around in the middle of hoisting a body, a woman's body, up by the neck to hang, to join two other men who are already hanging there. 36:04.958 --> 36:15.989 [Riv (DM)]: With the 27, you can see the first man who's hanging, clearly dead, has got a sign hanging around his neck on a bit of wooden plank that says, rabble rousing. 36:17.370 --> 36:20.894 [Riv (DM)]: The man next to him says, conspiring for treason. 36:21.915 --> 36:27.921 [Riv (DM)]: And the woman that is currently getting hoisted, you can see the guards all like heaving on it as it gets pulled up and up. 36:27.941 --> 36:31.084 [Riv (DM)]: The sign on her neck says, attacking imperial soldiers. 36:32.380 --> 36:35.785 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I recognise the lady by any chance? 36:37.048 --> 36:37.348 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, no. 36:37.869 --> 36:38.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't think you do. 36:42.917 --> 36:45.060 [Lacer (Kai)]: We've already got a bounty on our hands. 36:45.762 --> 36:48.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'd like to tap Valerian on the shoulder. 36:49.207 --> 36:54.215 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're gonna kill somebody, but we're already in pretty deep. 36:54.796 --> 36:55.497 [Lacer (Kai)]: What should we do? 36:57.360 --> 36:58.422 [Riv (DM)]: How big's the crowd? 36:59.077 --> 37:00.079 [Riv (DM)]: A dozen or so people. 37:01.060 --> 37:05.247 [Riv (DM)]: People are sort of starting to come around, you know, in twos or threes every now and then. 37:05.267 --> 37:06.909 [Riv (DM)]: People are starting to join the crowd to get a closer look. 37:08.252 --> 37:11.096 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quick glance at the guards, the uniformed official umpire. 37:12.018 --> 37:13.520 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't you roll a perception check for me as well? 37:16.184 --> 37:16.765 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Why don't I? 37:21.908 --> 37:23.249 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 37:23.269 --> 37:25.131 [Riv (DM)]: They don't look like the soldiers. 37:25.632 --> 37:31.057 [Riv (DM)]: They don't appear to be wearing the same sort of plate that the soldiers were wearing on the road that you'd met a day or so earlier. 37:31.938 --> 37:34.080 [Riv (DM)]: Possibly just standard city guards. 37:35.301 --> 37:37.102 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I notice any hands about? 37:37.142 --> 37:40.626 [Riv (DM)]: No, we'll use your perception check from before. 37:40.686 --> 37:42.227 [Riv (DM)]: No hands seem to be around. 37:43.789 --> 37:43.949 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 37:44.389 --> 37:45.871 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You said you're about 100, 150 out? 37:46.431 --> 37:48.253 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, probably about 100 at this point. 37:50.191 --> 37:52.134 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quickly glance to the party. 37:52.514 --> 37:55.578 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anyone able to keep her hanging for a bit longer? 37:56.399 --> 37:57.581 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Of course she's hoaxed out. 37:57.601 --> 37:58.041 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Have to wait. 37:59.183 --> 38:00.404 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Undo the rope, any sort of thing? 38:02.928 --> 38:03.609 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: In this range. 38:03.749 --> 38:05.051 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let me think, let me think, let me think. 38:06.793 --> 38:07.414 [JC (Ryo)]: What do you want to do? 38:07.434 --> 38:08.175 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry I didn't hear. 38:09.797 --> 38:11.599 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Undo the rope invisibly or lift her up. 38:12.801 --> 38:14.383 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Go instantly. 38:14.723 --> 38:19.810 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're doing it as slow hanging if they're dragging her up and not dropping so we've got a little bit of time to close the distance but not much. 38:20.465 --> 38:23.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: If I can get 60 feet, I can do Hold Person. 38:23.378 --> 38:25.126 [Lacer (Kai)]: Will that Suspender above the ground? 38:25.728 --> 38:27.536 [Riv (DM)]: No, that'll make it worse. 38:28.581 --> 38:29.344 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 38:29.915 --> 38:35.500 [Riv (DM)]: You hear a scream, and a woman pushes through the crowd, and you hear her say, No! 38:35.520 --> 38:35.580 [Riv (DM)]: No! 38:36.060 --> 38:36.821 [Riv (DM)]: Juliana, no! 38:36.881 --> 38:37.501 [Riv (DM)]: She did nothing! 38:37.922 --> 38:38.502 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing! 38:38.963 --> 38:43.667 [Riv (DM)]: And this woman is trying to, like, push her way through this crowd, and she starts lunging towards one of the guards. 38:44.147 --> 38:47.290 [Riv (DM)]: He promptly pushes her back and smashes her in the face with the hilt of his sword. 38:48.271 --> 38:51.133 [Riv (DM)]: And the other one steps forward and says, Ah, lads, look. 38:51.553 --> 38:54.356 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like we've got another one who wants to join the decorations, eh? 38:56.918 --> 38:59.280 [Riv (DM)]: They start converging on her as she's on the ground. 39:00.104 --> 39:00.905 [JC (Ryo)]: We're getting involved. 39:02.407 --> 39:03.729 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's a good question. 39:03.749 --> 39:05.071 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, we are? 39:05.591 --> 39:05.992 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We are. 39:06.993 --> 39:10.198 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe not outright combat, but we are definitely getting involved. 39:11.079 --> 39:11.479 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 39:12.120 --> 39:20.852 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Card would be kept moving once we get to maybe pick up a bit of pace, but not like full speed, so it's not hugely obvious. 39:22.875 --> 39:24.777 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How accurate is my Firebolt? 39:26.139 --> 39:26.640 [Riv (DM)]: Firebolt? 39:28.222 --> 39:28.322 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 39:28.555 --> 39:31.580 [Riv (DM)]: You have to roll an attack roll for it, yeah. 39:31.600 --> 39:34.465 [Riv (DM)]: So it'll be a d20 plus your spellcasting modifier. 39:36.148 --> 39:43.321 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If I wanted to try something like sniping the rope with the firebolt without killing her, is that...? 39:43.341 --> 39:44.022 [Riv (DM)]: You could try, yeah. 39:44.282 --> 39:47.828 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Actually, I just have to make the guard to drop the rope, don't I? 39:48.870 --> 39:49.872 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Since she's not held. 39:51.775 --> 39:52.236 [Riv (DM)]: True. 39:52.256 --> 39:53.096 [Riv (DM)]: You tell me, yeah. 39:54.218 --> 39:57.581 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, that sounds like that's what's been described. 39:58.623 --> 40:05.550 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so she's got a noose around her neck and they are, two guards are currently like pulling, well actually it's just one because she's quite small. 40:05.731 --> 40:15.201 [Riv (DM)]: One is pulling on the rope to like start lifting her up towards the top of the gallows and the other two are now converging on the woman that's been pushed to the ground. 40:16.548 --> 40:26.259 [Riv (DM)]: Leah has come around, sorry, just inside the cart and she's looking horrified and like she's always been quite a stoic sort of grim girl. 40:26.319 --> 40:33.568 [Riv (DM)]: She's kept to herself a lot but now you can see a lot of emotion on her face and she's just turning to you guys inside the cart and saying, we have to do something. 40:34.009 --> 40:34.890 [Riv (DM)]: We have to do anything. 40:34.910 --> 40:36.011 [Riv (DM)]: We have to help her. 40:37.893 --> 40:38.674 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, seems... 40:39.346 --> 40:43.738 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quickly hand the reins to a little dwarven friend who I can see is getting very antsy. 40:47.007 --> 40:47.749 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hold that thought. 40:49.133 --> 40:55.110 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quickly slip off the back of the cart, undo the red cloak that I've got wrapped around my waist. 40:55.698 --> 41:00.763 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Move towards the crowd as quick as I can without being obvious and slip it on once I've broken a little bit of sight. 41:01.483 --> 41:02.204 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 41:02.224 --> 41:09.170 [JC (Ryo)]: Seeing Valoran do that, I cast Disguise Self on myself to match a red cloak and a human appearance. 41:09.190 --> 41:10.131 [Riv (DM)]: Oh hell yeah! 41:11.793 --> 41:14.215 [Riv (DM)]: Mmm, does the Disguise Self change your clothing as well? 41:15.776 --> 41:16.717 [Riv (DM)]: I think it does, right? 41:16.737 --> 41:18.519 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It does, yeah. 41:19.960 --> 41:22.783 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's basically just like an illusionary skin. 41:22.803 --> 41:22.903 Yeah. 41:25.381 --> 41:26.623 [Riv (DM)]: Including clothing, armor, and weapons. 41:26.643 --> 41:27.023 [Riv (DM)]: Including clothing. 41:27.785 --> 41:29.707 [Riv (DM)]: You can look exactly like a hand if you want. 41:30.228 --> 41:30.448 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 41:30.629 --> 41:32.772 [JC (Ryo)]: Holy shit. 41:32.792 --> 41:32.912 [JC (Ryo)]: Right. 41:32.932 --> 41:43.147 [JC (Ryo)]: And with, uh, the most, and I, wait, does it make my... 41:43.167 --> 41:45.631 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, does it, it doesn't change the appearance of my equipment, does it? 41:46.512 --> 41:47.113 [Riv (DM)]: No, it does. 41:47.133 --> 41:49.296 [Riv (DM)]: It says your armor and weapons and other belongings. 41:50.828 --> 41:58.640 [JC (Ryo)]: I want my sword to become the most glowing, like... Actually, no, I wouldn't have seen a glowing sword, would I? 41:58.680 --> 42:01.765 [JC (Ryo)]: Disregard that, just... 42:01.805 --> 42:04.029 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hands don't use magic weapons anyway. 42:04.049 --> 42:07.074 [JC (Ryo)]: Just hand appearance and human face. 42:07.394 --> 42:09.157 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 42:09.197 --> 42:13.724 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So Dondar shouldn't make him fly to appear more imposing. 42:15.747 --> 42:17.410 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, you'd have to touch me to fly, don't you? 42:20.225 --> 42:22.048 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, this is all happening quite quickly now. 42:22.528 --> 42:26.634 [Riv (DM)]: So, the two guards are now converging on the woman on the ground. 42:27.155 --> 42:29.098 [Riv (DM)]: Valeran, have you jumped off the cart and heading towards? 42:29.899 --> 42:30.280 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 42:30.560 --> 42:31.522 [Riv (DM)]: Rio's close behind. 42:32.503 --> 42:36.509 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Close the distance without being super obvious that I'm running to get there. 42:37.871 --> 42:38.712 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mhm. 42:38.732 --> 42:38.953 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay, cool. 42:38.973 --> 42:42.638 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And as I get closer, like I said, not hugely obvious, I'll slip the cloak on. 42:43.139 --> 42:43.279 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 42:43.934 --> 42:49.424 [Riv (DM)]: Just roll a basic stealth check, just to see if anyone notices you coming. 42:49.464 --> 42:56.536 [Lacer (Kai)]: Clink, clink, clink. 42:56.556 --> 42:57.918 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, that was nearly a 20. 42:58.660 --> 42:59.501 [JC (Ryo)]: It wouldn't have mattered. 43:00.323 --> 43:00.944 [JC (Ryo)]: Disadvantage. 43:02.066 --> 43:03.488 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, that's true. 43:03.688 --> 43:07.495 [Riv (DM)]: While Valoran and Ryo are heading through the crowd, what are the rest of you doing? 43:09.196 --> 43:10.037 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 43:10.178 --> 43:14.465 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm going to stand the cart. 43:14.686 --> 43:14.786 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 43:14.806 --> 43:16.809 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, cool. 43:16.829 --> 43:18.452 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Gondar is galloping the horses. 43:21.418 --> 43:25.845 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Inconspicuous fast speed towards the platform. 43:26.767 --> 43:29.953 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, so you're going to take control of the cart and start heading it towards? 43:29.973 --> 43:31.475 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, I have been given the reins. 43:31.836 --> 43:34.140 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I could just let them run, but, you know. 43:35.369 --> 43:36.811 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 43:37.371 --> 43:48.804 [Riv (DM)]: Valeran, with an eight, you are not very quiet, heading through the crowd, you're sort of pushing your way through, and as you're getting through, you're able to slip on the cloak, but the two guards do look up and see you pushing through. 43:48.824 --> 43:49.985 [Riv (DM)]: It's causing a bit of a commotion. 43:50.906 --> 43:59.475 [Riv (DM)]: And as they're just about to get over and put their hands on this woman on the ground, they see you pushing through and they look up at you, and they go, oh, what the fuck? 43:59.676 --> 44:00.396 [Riv (DM)]: What are they doing here? 44:01.638 --> 44:02.559 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Shit their pants. 44:03.420 --> 44:04.701 [Riv (DM)]: What's going on, sir? 44:07.634 --> 44:09.356 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You fucking tell me. 44:10.377 --> 44:13.942 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How the fuck are we meant to get information out of corpses? 44:15.564 --> 44:18.267 [Riv (DM)]: Well, they were disrespecting the guard of the city. 44:18.627 --> 44:19.268 [Riv (DM)]: What are we supposed to do? 44:19.288 --> 44:20.670 [Riv (DM)]: We need to teach these people some lessons. 44:20.870 --> 44:21.571 [Riv (DM)]: That's what we were told. 44:22.392 --> 44:25.876 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If you fucking disrespecting the guard, I'll fucking disrespect the guard. 44:26.497 --> 44:30.081 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Get these people down here right fucking now before I string you up. 44:31.529 --> 44:36.097 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an intimidation check with advantage because you're all cloaked out. 44:36.898 --> 44:43.309 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I'm just waving my sword behind you. 44:43.349 --> 44:44.211 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh yeah. 44:45.072 --> 44:47.817 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I'll add a d8 to that with a commanding presence. 44:47.837 --> 44:48.458 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Go for it. 44:53.298 --> 44:55.922 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, hang on, I just need to quickly check. 44:56.763 --> 45:01.249 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is this the same day that we had the check before? 45:01.810 --> 45:01.930 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mm-mm. 45:01.950 --> 45:02.370 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Different day. 45:03.312 --> 45:05.975 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh yeah, I wanted to know that too, for spell slots. 45:05.995 --> 45:06.776 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, nah, you're good. 45:06.957 --> 45:07.317 [Riv (DM)]: Different day. 45:08.319 --> 45:08.619 [Riv (DM)]: Not great. 45:08.819 --> 45:09.140 [Riv (DM)]: Fifteen. 45:09.180 --> 45:09.560 [Riv (DM)]: Fifteen. 45:10.001 --> 45:11.182 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, I'll roll. 45:11.723 --> 45:13.045 [Riv (DM)]: I'll roll to see this dude's morale. 45:18.965 --> 45:23.950 [Riv (DM)]: Hearing that, he does back up a bit and steps away from the girl. 45:25.652 --> 45:28.635 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't necessarily immediately go to start pushing anyone down, though. 45:28.675 --> 45:30.997 [Riv (DM)]: He's kind of looking at you like, all right, all right. 45:31.017 --> 45:33.280 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, we're just doing what we're told. 45:33.340 --> 45:35.542 [Riv (DM)]: We need to get the crowds under control, right? 45:37.083 --> 45:39.806 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yes, because riots are a good way to fucking calm the people down. 45:39.826 --> 45:40.607 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Jesus Christ. 45:41.808 --> 45:42.589 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're teaching people out here. 45:45.592 --> 45:47.554 [Riv (DM)]: Well, what are we supposed to do then? 45:50.032 --> 45:53.135 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How about for one, you disperse the crowd that you've just created. 45:53.155 --> 45:56.178 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 45:57.379 --> 45:58.620 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll take care of these two. 45:59.821 --> 46:01.062 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: See if we can get some answers. 46:02.444 --> 46:03.725 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the guards sort of come together. 46:04.285 --> 46:05.707 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, the rest of you guys get out. 46:05.847 --> 46:06.467 [Riv (DM)]: Clear out from here. 46:07.008 --> 46:07.568 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing to see. 46:08.329 --> 46:08.609 [Riv (DM)]: Get out. 46:08.769 --> 46:12.413 [Riv (DM)]: They draw their swords and start waving them threateningly in the faces of the people. 46:12.973 --> 46:13.974 [Riv (DM)]: People will start backing away. 46:13.994 --> 46:14.795 [JC (Ryo)]: Put them away, numbnuts. 46:16.477 --> 46:18.098 [Riv (DM)]: How else are you supposed to clear a crowd? 46:19.495 --> 46:21.218 [JC (Ryo)]: Without inciting violence. 46:24.003 --> 46:28.512 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, the crowds have at this point already started to disperse anyway. 46:28.832 --> 46:34.703 [Riv (DM)]: I think the sight of the hands rocking on up to this party has made everyone a touch nervous. 46:36.033 --> 46:37.615 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, and the crowd is thinning. 46:38.356 --> 46:39.838 [Riv (DM)]: We'll just jump back over to the people on the cart. 46:39.878 --> 46:40.679 [Riv (DM)]: What are you guys up to? 46:40.719 --> 46:49.870 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, if you carried on at the same speed, I would say you're probably just coming parallel to this, to the, to the gallows at this point. 46:52.493 --> 46:55.156 [Riv (DM)]: Are you going to carry on past or are you going to come to a hold? 46:55.176 --> 47:03.947 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I reckon we should slow and be curious, but continue and not stop. 47:05.378 --> 47:06.280 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 47:06.300 --> 47:07.002 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds good to me. 47:07.945 --> 47:09.970 [Lacer (Kai)]: I poke Dondar and go. 47:09.990 --> 47:13.459 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll slow look and we'll park around the corner from here. 47:15.925 --> 47:17.329 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Rubbernecking begins. 47:18.440 --> 47:33.056 [Riv (DM)]: The um one of the guards like kind of just keeps an eye on the cart as it's going um and he almost takes a step towards it to as he sees it slowing down to make sure it carries on but as you say you carried on to go around the corner or something behind the building carry on past. 47:34.197 --> 47:35.538 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: While the cart's slowing down. 47:36.339 --> 47:36.419 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 47:36.439 --> 47:40.043 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Did you guys search these two before you hung them up at least? 47:40.063 --> 47:43.947 [Riv (DM)]: There's nothing to search they're just they're just beggars they're just they're nobodies. 47:45.629 --> 47:45.990 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fuck's sake. 47:47.531 --> 47:48.312 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cut them down. 47:49.726 --> 47:51.168 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Dwarf, I need your cart. 47:51.188 --> 47:53.250 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I need to get these bodies out here and have a closer look at them. 47:53.270 --> 47:54.671 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Commandeering you in the name of the Empire. 47:58.115 --> 48:02.520 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not behind the building at this point. 48:02.600 --> 48:04.002 [Riv (DM)]: The cart has just been going past. 48:04.422 --> 48:09.688 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, it's slowly going past it. 48:09.848 --> 48:11.590 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Grab them while they're rubbernecking. 48:11.750 --> 48:12.711 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kick up a stink. 48:13.632 --> 48:19.699 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar stops the cart and gives the hand the filthiest lock he can muster. 48:21.333 --> 48:23.095 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen it all before. 48:24.397 --> 48:25.899 [JC (Ryo)]: You in the back of the cart, make room. 48:27.401 --> 48:28.342 [JC (Ryo)]: Move up to the front of the cart. 48:32.787 --> 48:38.314 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll bundle the two bodies in as well as the unhanged and the half-hanged. 48:39.516 --> 48:40.417 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 48:40.437 --> 48:41.738 [Riv (DM)]: So you're gonna, like, uncut them down? 48:42.700 --> 48:43.020 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 48:43.321 --> 48:49.909 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, the three guards kind of step back and just sort of watch a little bit sheepishly as you start going about your business. 48:50.870 --> 48:55.635 [Riv (DM)]: One of them sort of scratching his head like, it's a bit odd, isn't it? 48:56.476 --> 48:58.599 [Riv (DM)]: But you can cut down to, well, three bodies now at this point. 49:00.101 --> 49:01.683 [Riv (DM)]: The two are long dead. 49:01.903 --> 49:03.525 [Riv (DM)]: They've been hanging for a day. 49:03.565 --> 49:04.606 [Riv (DM)]: They were probably hung this morning. 49:05.307 --> 49:13.176 [Riv (DM)]: The third, you can see she's like sort of at this point kicking her feet and you just get to cut her down and she stumbles and she's sort of like coughing and gagging. 49:14.152 --> 49:25.680 [Riv (DM)]: The other woman who has run off after being knocked to the ground, she's, you can see her, I guess, some distance away, starting to wander closer. 49:25.701 --> 49:28.347 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 49:30.453 --> 49:37.375 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So while they're doing that, I'll distract the guards from thinking too much by pulling them up and giving a full drill sergeant dressing down. 49:37.676 --> 49:37.856 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 49:38.879 --> 49:39.742 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: All good. 49:39.762 --> 49:40.464 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Information. 49:40.504 --> 49:42.952 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Dead bodies don't give information. 49:43.012 --> 49:44.597 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Information is what we need. 49:45.640 --> 49:49.726 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You can't deal with fucking insurgents without information. 49:49.747 --> 49:50.788 [Riv (DM)]: Right, right, right. 49:50.808 --> 49:51.369 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 49:51.389 --> 49:54.855 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I mean, we tried to ask and they didn't know anything and yeah, blah blah blah. 49:54.935 --> 49:55.696 [Riv (DM)]: These guys, they suck. 49:57.659 --> 49:58.340 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 49:58.360 --> 49:59.402 [Riv (DM)]: So what are we doing with the bodies? 49:59.422 --> 50:00.944 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to get all of them into the cart? 50:01.826 --> 50:02.046 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 50:02.853 --> 50:03.174 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 50:03.674 --> 50:11.327 [Riv (DM)]: So you can, um, I guess together, between you, take the two corpses, jump them into the back, ah, sorry, throw them into the back. 50:11.928 --> 50:14.553 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, did you, someone said for the rest of you guys to get up to the front? 50:15.675 --> 50:17.478 [Riv (DM)]: Probably one... Clear up to the front, definitely. 50:18.018 --> 50:20.743 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, told them to move to the front of the cart so we put the bodies in the back. 50:20.892 --> 50:21.613 [Riv (DM)]: Alright cool. 50:21.673 --> 50:23.355 [Riv (DM)]: So Leia's sitting at the front so she doesn't have to see this. 50:25.017 --> 50:34.990 [Riv (DM)]: Two bodies get thrown into the back and the woman who by the sound of something's name was Juliana she's just like clutching at her throat just barely struggling to breathe. 50:35.451 --> 50:38.755 [Riv (DM)]: You can help her up to her feet and help her over to the cart as well. 50:39.276 --> 50:43.862 [Riv (DM)]: As you're doing that you do notice the other woman 50:44.804 --> 50:48.530 [Riv (DM)]: Like, sort of slowly coming towards her, but yeah, she's keeping a distance. 50:48.810 --> 50:52.516 [Riv (DM)]: She's kind of terrified of people in red cloaks, understandably. 50:55.401 --> 50:58.445 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: But this is the crossroads before we go into town? 50:58.465 --> 51:01.350 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you'll be looking like, like this. 51:01.991 --> 51:02.772 [Riv (DM)]: This will be happening here. 51:06.979 --> 51:12.988 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, um, so we get everyone loaded, finish dressing down the guards, send them off to disperse the crowd. 51:13.981 --> 51:21.335 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And then make some distance at a reasonable but not quick pace because running people are guilty. 51:22.557 --> 51:22.638 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 51:23.720 --> 51:25.523 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 51:25.543 --> 51:31.494 [Riv (DM)]: So you've got you've got the woman you saved and the two bodies and you start. 51:32.336 --> 51:32.837 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The other one. 51:32.857 --> 51:36.023 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 51:40.778 --> 51:48.173 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, probably easier to leave than try and chase a person down that isn't going to cooperate. 51:48.193 --> 51:50.878 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 51:50.898 --> 51:51.640 [Riv (DM)]: The cart rolls away. 51:52.281 --> 51:58.714 [Riv (DM)]: I think at this point some of you are probably going to need to wander beside it, because the back will be getting a bit busy now. 51:59.796 --> 52:02.061 [Riv (DM)]: But if you go at a slow sort of pace I think you'll be fine. 52:04.673 --> 52:06.016 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, how far past? 52:06.076 --> 52:08.862 [Riv (DM)]: So you're going to carry on up the road past the thing, right? 52:08.882 --> 52:09.062 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 52:10.144 --> 52:10.305 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 52:10.325 --> 52:11.227 [Riv (DM)]: How far do you want to go? 52:11.247 --> 52:16.077 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Try and break line of sight if possible. 52:16.097 --> 52:18.342 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 52:18.562 --> 52:19.003 [Riv (DM)]: It's not... 52:19.068 --> 52:21.773 [Riv (DM)]: It's not super easy to break line of sight, I would say. 52:22.053 --> 52:28.865 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of a flat roll in sort of a landscape, but you can probably get far enough away along the road that people would stop paying attention. 52:29.146 --> 52:35.317 [Riv (DM)]: There's farmhouses here and there, you could sort of break line of sight behind a few clusters of farmhouses maybe, just pull off the road. 52:37.461 --> 52:41.127 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Make sure the guards aren't watching the strange procession leave. 52:41.596 --> 52:42.237 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 52:42.257 --> 52:44.338 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're probably tough as fuck, but hopefully I scared them enough. 52:44.358 --> 52:54.567 [Riv (DM)]: They watch for a little bit, and they're super fucking confused, but, you know, they... What do you do when you're faced with, like, literal near-death from, you know, the best soldiers on the land? 52:55.028 --> 52:59.511 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of... You're a bit stunned and a bit shocked, so I think they just kind of sheepishly wander away. 53:02.834 --> 53:07.558 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As we break sight, and I'll stow the cloak. 53:07.578 --> 53:09.200 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anyone got a healing spell for this lady? 53:09.380 --> 53:10.641 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Looks like she's had a bit of a time. 53:11.971 --> 53:13.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I'll do a once-over. 53:14.355 --> 53:14.996 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's see... 53:17.400 --> 53:19.844 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will cast... what shall I cast? 53:35.430 --> 53:38.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, I'll cast a healing ward on him. 53:38.595 --> 53:38.755 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 53:41.131 --> 53:44.314 [Riv (DM)]: She's just sort of kneeling or sitting in the back of the cart. 53:44.394 --> 53:44.994 [Riv (DM)]: You can come around. 53:46.335 --> 53:57.885 [Riv (DM)]: She's clutching at her throat and as you mention your word or call upon the god, the goddess, she seems to get a feeling of relief and her expression becomes less pained. 53:59.046 --> 54:03.570 [Riv (DM)]: She coughs a little bit and you hear her breathing start to become a bit easier. 54:07.713 --> 54:07.854 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 54:09.755 --> 54:10.716 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, that was a near one. 54:12.113 --> 54:12.994 [Riv (DM)]: She's looking at the rest of you. 54:13.495 --> 54:15.857 [Riv (DM)]: I'm now kind of just taking in what happened. 54:17.559 --> 54:20.062 [Riv (DM)]: Erindor, sorry, Rio, are you still in your disguise? 54:21.323 --> 54:23.426 [JC (Ryo)]: If he put his ticket to get off, I would have dropped it. 54:24.147 --> 54:24.847 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 54:24.907 --> 54:30.654 [Riv (DM)]: So seeing that, she's kind of looking, she's looking around now and she's cringing away from the bodies as well in the cart. 54:31.595 --> 54:32.336 [Riv (DM)]: Look at you guys. 54:33.617 --> 54:34.698 [Riv (DM)]: Who the hell are you guys? 54:34.939 --> 54:36.360 [Riv (DM)]: What was that back there? 54:37.582 --> 54:38.423 [Riv (DM)]: How did you do that? 54:38.463 --> 54:39.724 [Riv (DM)]: How did you look like one of them? 54:45.661 --> 54:48.986 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know how he did it, but, uh, just did it the old-fashioned way. 54:52.751 --> 54:54.533 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: People see the colour, they don't look at the faces. 54:56.757 --> 54:57.077 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 54:57.297 --> 54:58.799 [Riv (DM)]: She's eyeing you a bit nervously, Rio. 55:01.343 --> 55:04.047 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just making sure everything's tucked away where it's supposed to be tucked away. 55:06.871 --> 55:07.752 [JC (Ryo)]: Ugh. 55:07.772 --> 55:12.158 [JC (Ryo)]: My ears, you arse. 55:13.150 --> 55:20.111 [Riv (DM)]: Well, regardless, I guess, of your motives or how on earth you did that, I guess, thank you for saving me. 55:20.351 --> 55:22.036 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't have long there. 55:24.323 --> 55:25.607 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What was that all about anyway? 55:26.617 --> 55:29.841 [Riv (DM)]: Oh god, it's the last week or so. 55:30.843 --> 55:32.845 [Riv (DM)]: The city's just been clamping down on anything and everything. 55:33.286 --> 55:35.629 [Riv (DM)]: People are being arrested for no reason at all. 55:36.030 --> 55:39.915 [Riv (DM)]: People are being searched and thrown down on the street. 55:40.456 --> 55:41.157 [Riv (DM)]: It's horrible. 55:41.998 --> 55:52.692 [Riv (DM)]: Not long, I'd say half a week, an entire legion of soldiers came and just plonked themselves in the middle of the city and they're just going door to door, checking everyone. 55:54.258 --> 55:55.420 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't do anything wrong. 55:55.700 --> 55:58.304 [Riv (DM)]: I was literally just in my shop, minding my own business. 55:59.025 --> 56:01.428 [Riv (DM)]: I came in, and they just grabbed me. 56:01.548 --> 56:02.409 [Riv (DM)]: They grabbed me and took me out. 56:10.621 --> 56:11.783 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A column, you say? 56:13.425 --> 56:14.106 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Inside check. 56:15.488 --> 56:19.593 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, go for it. 56:19.614 --> 56:23.539 [Riv (DM)]: Is this an inside check to see if she is lying about whether or not she did anything bad? 56:23.941 --> 56:28.589 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whether or not she's completely innocent of the accusations or whether she was doing a bit of rabble-rousing. 56:30.092 --> 56:33.658 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, she seems more or less like she's telling the truth. 56:33.678 --> 56:34.419 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of hard to tell. 56:34.459 --> 56:38.646 [Riv (DM)]: I guess she's a bit shocked, speaking kind of wildly. 56:40.309 --> 56:48.784 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I wouldn't be surprised if the locals were using anything as a chance to clamp down on any unpaid bribes. 56:51.987 --> 56:59.294 [Lacer (Kai)]: At this stage, I look to Leah and I say, Do you know this lady? 57:02.217 --> 57:05.120 [Riv (DM)]: Leah kind of bends over around the side of the car and has a look. 57:06.321 --> 57:06.861 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think so. 57:06.881 --> 57:09.824 [Riv (DM)]: I haven't been this way in years. 57:13.308 --> 57:14.309 [Lacer (Kai)]: Insight check. 57:14.709 --> 57:15.690 [Riv (DM)]: Oh my god, go for it. 57:17.712 --> 57:18.973 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Why did you tell us to help? 57:20.236 --> 57:23.580 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would guess that she knows a certain someone who got hanged. 57:23.820 --> 57:28.586 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A certain someone whose face is in a locket. 57:28.827 --> 57:29.888 [Riv (DM)]: She seems to be telling the truth. 57:36.456 --> 57:43.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I ask, why did you rouse us to help her? 57:45.207 --> 57:45.647 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 57:46.729 --> 57:47.830 [Riv (DM)]: Of course we'd help them, wouldn't we? 57:50.898 --> 57:52.541 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess. 57:53.322 --> 57:56.066 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not too sure right now. 57:56.086 --> 58:00.774 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, but... Yeah, but the Empire, they're scum. 58:01.475 --> 58:02.216 [Riv (DM)]: They should all be killed. 58:02.777 --> 58:07.023 [Riv (DM)]: We've got to do whatever we can to help the people, right? 58:07.043 --> 58:08.085 [Riv (DM)]: This is a bit of an outburst. 58:08.125 --> 58:14.115 [Riv (DM)]: She kind of bites her lip and, you know, she's not used to talking too much, so she lowers her head. 58:16.418 --> 58:17.580 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar pats her on the head. 58:19.619 --> 58:20.980 [Riv (DM)]: She looks up at you. 58:22.542 --> 58:26.005 [Riv (DM)]: Looks down at you. 58:26.506 --> 58:33.772 [Riv (DM)]: She looks at you through her eyelashes and just has a slight smile. 58:33.792 --> 58:35.434 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just nod and go, sometimes. 58:39.418 --> 58:41.139 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, there'll be plenty of killin' before long. 58:46.504 --> 58:46.584 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 58:46.605 --> 58:47.145 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well... 58:48.290 --> 58:52.395 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a sneaking feeling that you probably won't be making it back to that shop any time soon. 58:55.318 --> 58:59.142 [Riv (DM)]: Well... 58:59.443 --> 59:00.264 [Riv (DM)]: I suppose you're right. 59:00.284 --> 59:01.805 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, what am I supposed to do then? 59:01.825 --> 59:03.427 [Riv (DM)]: I can't just leave the city. 59:08.293 --> 59:09.594 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know what other options you have. 59:09.794 --> 59:10.896 [Riv (DM)]: I don't have much choice. 59:10.916 --> 59:12.738 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're going to end up with you back on the end of the rope again. 59:14.319 --> 59:17.503 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess I should probably go back and find Aradale. 59:19.289 --> 59:19.569 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 59:20.751 --> 59:22.615 [Riv (DM)]: We'll have to figure something out. 59:24.518 --> 59:26.040 [Riv (DM)]: Are you just going to let me go? 59:26.060 --> 59:34.174 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: As long as you know who's done this for you. 59:34.735 --> 59:35.396 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well. 59:37.901 --> 59:42.248 [Riv (DM)]: I guess whoever you are, you're my angels today. 59:42.308 --> 59:44.672 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 59:45.125 --> 59:46.587 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, can we get a name? 59:46.867 --> 59:49.571 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't know who you are. 59:49.591 --> 59:49.752 [Riv (DM)]: Me? 59:49.932 --> 59:51.133 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, I'm Juliana. 59:53.276 --> 59:54.658 [Riv (DM)]: I've a shop here in Farhaven. 59:59.145 --> 01:00:06.215 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Do you know anything about the legion of soldiers that arrived? 01:00:06.495 --> 01:00:07.076 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Where they are? 01:00:07.917 --> 01:00:08.618 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What they're doing? 01:00:09.222 --> 01:00:10.283 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, not much. 01:00:10.323 --> 01:00:23.681 [Riv (DM)]: They seem to have kind of, you know, popped up into the garrison here in the city and they just sort of every morning just head out into the streets and just, I don't know, law and order. 01:00:24.542 --> 01:00:26.145 [Riv (DM)]: They do a bit of intimidation. 01:00:26.845 --> 01:00:31.011 [Riv (DM)]: They seem to be trying to lock down the city, put everyone into a state of stress and panic. 01:00:32.476 --> 01:00:37.581 [Riv (DM)]: They're definitely humpering down in the sea, that's for sure. 01:00:37.721 --> 01:00:38.582 [Riv (DM)]: Humpering is not a word. 01:00:39.523 --> 01:00:40.444 [Riv (DM)]: What's the word I was looking for? 01:00:40.784 --> 01:00:41.265 [Riv (DM)]: Hunkering. 01:00:41.285 --> 01:00:42.226 [Riv (DM)]: Hunkering, there we go. 01:00:46.851 --> 01:00:50.334 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You know of the real red hands that were with them? 01:00:51.696 --> 01:00:54.679 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, a couple of red cloaks did come in with them. 01:00:57.281 --> 01:00:57.982 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You know where they are? 01:00:59.123 --> 01:01:01.065 [Riv (DM)]: Same place I imagine, yeah, inside the garrison. 01:01:02.092 --> 01:01:04.254 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Garrison. 01:01:04.274 --> 01:01:04.835 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And where is that? 01:01:06.577 --> 01:01:08.119 [Riv (DM)]: Right in the center of the city. 01:01:10.041 --> 01:01:10.762 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Center of the city. 01:01:11.823 --> 01:01:12.243 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Excellent. 01:01:15.006 --> 01:01:18.550 [Riv (DM)]: You planning on going in on a little killing spree, are you? 01:01:19.331 --> 01:01:20.732 [Riv (DM)]: Clear the soldiers out, free the city? 01:01:23.836 --> 01:01:25.838 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think of myself as a delivering dwarf. 01:01:27.438 --> 01:01:29.702 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I bring fireballs to those who need them most. 01:01:32.507 --> 01:01:33.108 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She laughs at this. 01:01:36.714 --> 01:01:43.305 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, unless there's anything else, unless there's anything I can do for you, uh, I guess I'd better get back to Arad Elsh. 01:01:43.386 --> 01:01:45.589 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine she's, she's worried. 01:01:45.609 --> 01:01:46.611 [Riv (DM)]: What kind of shop do you have? 01:01:47.513 --> 01:01:47.673 [Riv (DM)]: Me? 01:01:47.693 --> 01:01:49.236 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's just a linen shop, yeah. 01:01:49.256 --> 01:01:50.498 [Riv (DM)]: I make clothes, make fabric. 01:01:52.862 --> 01:01:52.922 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh. 01:01:55.332 --> 01:02:00.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, I was thinking the exact same thing. 01:02:01.240 --> 01:02:02.421 [Riv (DM)]: Say that again, sorry? 01:02:03.983 --> 01:02:04.404 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ruins. 01:02:06.647 --> 01:02:07.067 [Riv (DM)]: Ruins? 01:02:07.808 --> 01:02:09.050 [Lacer (Kai)]: Around the city. 01:02:09.651 --> 01:02:13.816 [Riv (DM)]: No, I mean, the city doesn't seem to be ruined, I don't think. 01:02:14.357 --> 01:02:19.764 [Riv (DM)]: Most of the parts... Oh, you mean, you're not talking about the ruins out in the old forest, are you? 01:02:21.166 --> 01:02:21.847 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We might be. 01:02:22.067 --> 01:02:24.951 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We were going to meet up with someone there, apparently. 01:02:26.112 --> 01:02:29.456 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah, well, I mean, not many people go out there anymore. 01:02:31.219 --> 01:02:33.242 [Riv (DM)]: Those woods are a bit dark and scary, to be honest. 01:02:33.322 --> 01:02:35.264 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, I mean, there's some ruins out there. 01:02:35.284 --> 01:02:38.849 [Riv (DM)]: I remember heading out there when I was a kid, playing in amongst the trees. 01:02:40.091 --> 01:02:42.995 [Riv (DM)]: Big old rocks and all sorts. 01:02:43.896 --> 01:02:45.178 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that might be what you're looking for. 01:02:48.342 --> 01:02:51.546 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I will get her to give us clearer directions. 01:02:52.100 --> 01:02:53.162 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll pull up a map. 01:02:53.282 --> 01:02:55.667 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you mark it for us, roughly? 01:02:55.687 --> 01:02:56.488 [Riv (DM)]: Intimidation. 01:02:56.649 --> 01:02:57.470 [Riv (DM)]: No, I'm kidding. 01:02:59.193 --> 01:03:08.691 [Riv (DM)]: She says that if you carry on up the road for just a couple of miles, you'll find a large obelisk over by the shoreline. 01:03:10.325 --> 01:03:16.375 [Riv (DM)]: Just directly in from there, inland, there's a kind of a soft sort of track that heads in towards the forest. 01:03:16.655 --> 01:03:20.462 [Riv (DM)]: It's not a well-worn track, but it's probably good enough just for your cart to make it through. 01:03:20.482 --> 01:03:25.370 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine if you follow that straight into the heart of the forest you'll start finding the ruins, yeah? 01:03:28.575 --> 01:03:34.645 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I just penciled that in on the map, roughly. 01:03:40.143 --> 01:03:43.546 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um, wouldn't happen to know who these two poor saps are, would you? 01:03:44.707 --> 01:03:45.348 [Riv (DM)]: No, I can't say. 01:03:45.588 --> 01:03:46.569 [Riv (DM)]: I can't say too, I'm afraid. 01:03:49.152 --> 01:03:49.732 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's fair enough. 01:03:50.012 --> 01:03:51.274 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, at least we can do it for him. 01:03:51.294 --> 01:03:52.855 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Let's take him out there, give him a good burial. 01:03:54.817 --> 01:03:58.500 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or whatever the burial customs of this country are. 01:03:58.520 --> 01:03:59.722 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, burial's fairly standard. 01:04:00.242 --> 01:04:01.303 [Riv (DM)]: Keep the peace of Linzer Bay. 01:04:04.886 --> 01:04:05.347 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, well. 01:04:06.088 --> 01:04:08.410 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You should definitely avoid the guards. 01:04:08.730 --> 01:04:09.711 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're probably 01:04:12.020 --> 01:04:14.722 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Realising something a bit fucky happened there, but you never know. 01:04:15.283 --> 01:04:17.405 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're still gonna jump you if they see you walking through town. 01:04:18.826 --> 01:04:19.086 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:04:20.628 --> 01:04:22.109 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe the best bit is to leave town, honestly. 01:04:23.410 --> 01:04:24.351 [Riv (DM)]: Where did you all come from? 01:04:25.292 --> 01:04:25.853 [Riv (DM)]: Should we head there? 01:04:26.353 --> 01:04:29.116 [Riv (DM)]: Did you come up from the south? 01:04:29.136 --> 01:04:30.417 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, do not head south. 01:04:30.577 --> 01:04:35.702 [Lacer (Kai)]: We came across a large troop of men headed south. 01:04:36.683 --> 01:04:37.984 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, Imperial soldiers. 01:04:38.004 --> 01:04:38.464 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, for god's sake. 01:04:39.325 --> 01:04:39.665 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Really? 01:04:40.326 --> 01:04:41.487 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:04:43.542 --> 01:04:45.685 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Where do you think they went, Kai? 01:04:47.307 --> 01:04:48.388 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, they don't know. 01:04:48.429 --> 01:04:49.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: They don't know. 01:04:49.089 --> 01:04:53.295 [Lacer (Kai)]: They could have caught and went... southwest, southeast, whatever. 01:04:53.315 --> 01:04:58.081 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'll keep that in mind. 01:04:58.342 --> 01:05:01.726 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're gonna be a bit messy, but um... 01:05:01.746 --> 01:05:04.470 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think as long as you stay away from the locals, you'll be okay. 01:05:04.838 --> 01:05:06.920 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, I'll chat with Aradail. 01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:12.146 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe we can lay low or maybe the safest bet is to head up to Val Miriel, larger city. 01:05:12.367 --> 01:05:14.529 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe it's easier to get by. 01:05:15.650 --> 01:05:15.971 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see. 01:05:16.652 --> 01:05:19.655 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, once again, thank you for everything you did, eh? 01:05:20.196 --> 01:05:21.217 [Riv (DM)]: We won't forget this for sure. 01:05:22.478 --> 01:05:26.983 [Riv (DM)]: If you do ever end up in Farhaven, just make sure you swing by Juliana's Textiles. 01:05:28.185 --> 01:05:29.486 [Riv (DM)]: We'll keep an eye out for you, yeah? 01:05:31.168 --> 01:05:32.770 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 01:05:33.188 --> 01:05:35.916 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Bloody Nails send you on your way. 01:05:36.538 --> 01:05:37.240 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You're a little salute. 01:05:37.822 --> 01:05:38.062 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:05:38.724 --> 01:05:39.406 [Riv (DM)]: And share you with that. 01:05:39.747 --> 01:05:42.335 [Riv (DM)]: Starts wandering off, back towards the junction. 01:05:45.384 --> 01:05:47.350 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, um, cool. 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:52.786 [Riv (DM)]: So, I guess at this point, what are you guys doing? 01:05:52.806 --> 01:05:54.669 [Riv (DM)]: You've got a couple of corpses in the back of your cart. 01:05:55.611 --> 01:05:58.415 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, not very sanitary. 01:05:59.136 --> 01:06:04.565 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're heading to a forest, so we'll pull off when we get there and feed some trees. 01:06:04.925 --> 01:06:05.166 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 01:06:06.007 --> 01:06:06.408 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:06:06.428 --> 01:06:08.211 [Riv (DM)]: Do you guys want to take a 10 minute break? 01:06:08.231 --> 01:06:11.276 [Riv (DM)]: And then we'll come back and see what happens in the forest. 01:06:12.197 --> 01:06:14.080 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 01:06:15.173 --> 01:06:16.335 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 01:06:16.355 --> 01:06:16.996 [Riv (DM)]: Catch us on CK. 01:06:17.016 --> 01:06:18.378 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Bring back Lenny. 01:06:20.181 --> 01:06:21.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: Lenny's in the forest. 01:06:21.322 --> 01:06:40.692 [Lacer (Kai)]: Living it up. 01:06:48.282 --> 01:19:57.816 ================ Session Break ================ 01:22:04.223 --> 01:22:15.345 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:22:15.365 --> 01:22:15.887 [Riv (DM)]: So... 01:22:17.403 --> 01:22:21.608 [Riv (DM)]: I guess let's pick up with the cart and you're all heading on down the road. 01:22:21.628 --> 01:22:23.150 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of you are walking beside it. 01:22:24.071 --> 01:22:30.178 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of corpses in the back and the rest of you scattered amongst the rest of the room in the cart in the front. 01:22:31.120 --> 01:22:41.792 [Riv (DM)]: You can travel onwards along the main road north for a mile or so, two miles maybe, until you see you come up over a little hill and down the other side. 01:22:42.393 --> 01:22:45.537 [Riv (DM)]: And that's when you notice, yeah, up in front there's this kind of 01:22:45.517 --> 01:22:50.146 [Riv (DM)]: Big, weird-looking stone structure sticking up on the coastline. 01:22:50.647 --> 01:22:51.829 [Riv (DM)]: Kinda impossible to miss. 01:22:52.230 --> 01:22:54.655 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe like a hundred feet tall? 01:22:55.196 --> 01:22:56.679 [Riv (DM)]: Like it's a decently tall structure. 01:22:57.140 --> 01:23:00.506 [Riv (DM)]: And as you get closer and closer... 01:23:00.967 --> 01:23:06.057 [Riv (DM)]: This music is way too stressful for what's happening right now. 01:23:08.500 --> 01:23:10.002 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 01:23:10.022 --> 01:23:21.636 [Riv (DM)]: You get closer to it and yeah as you as you get closer towards it you notice and you recognize that it's kind of like it looks like a big tall stone that's been stood up on its side. 01:23:21.676 --> 01:23:31.588 [Riv (DM)]: It's not made of bricks so it doesn't look like it's been hand constructed but the sides are shaped in a way that probably couldn't be possibly natural 01:23:31.568 --> 01:23:33.131 [Riv (DM)]: And it's weathered. 01:23:33.611 --> 01:23:35.234 [Riv (DM)]: It's centuries old probably. 01:23:35.735 --> 01:23:37.478 [Riv (DM)]: And it's just standing there. 01:23:38.320 --> 01:23:40.283 [Riv (DM)]: Imposing, unrelenting in the wind. 01:23:44.270 --> 01:23:46.253 [Riv (DM)]: You can get up close to it. 01:23:47.802 --> 01:23:48.463 [Riv (DM)]: Have a look around. 01:23:49.404 --> 01:24:00.535 [Riv (DM)]: And indeed, after getting the directions from the woman, you can notice that there is a very, very faint track that heads inland from this point. 01:24:02.356 --> 01:24:13.067 [Riv (DM)]: Towards now, after coming down the other side of the hill, you can see far in the distance, some miles ahead, several miles ahead, faint scatterings of the edge of a forest out on the plains beyond. 01:24:17.367 --> 01:24:21.332 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As good a place as any, I guess, to give these guys a tombstone. 01:24:27.099 --> 01:24:27.199 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 01:24:27.219 --> 01:24:33.786 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll pull up the cart, jump off and move away from the road a bit. 01:24:33.807 --> 01:24:34.688 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Dig some shallow grooves. 01:24:36.089 --> 01:24:37.551 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:24:37.831 --> 01:24:39.533 [Riv (DM)]: Um, do people have like a shovel or something? 01:24:42.597 --> 01:24:43.658 [Riv (DM)]: I have a stool. 01:24:44.259 --> 01:24:46.041 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 01:24:47.793 --> 01:24:49.255 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a two-handed claymore. 01:24:53.140 --> 01:24:54.021 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't have a shop. 01:24:54.182 --> 01:24:55.283 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I actually have a torch. 01:24:55.443 --> 01:24:55.784 [Lacer (Kai)]: No shop. 01:24:58.367 --> 01:25:03.915 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know, you know, I hint to Dundar, you know, you like, fireball the ground, blow a hole in the ground. 01:25:05.377 --> 01:25:06.538 [Riv (DM)]: Surely someone's got something. 01:25:06.779 --> 01:25:08.301 [Riv (DM)]: Otherwise you might need to just make a can. 01:25:09.682 --> 01:25:10.624 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a crowbar. 01:25:10.644 --> 01:25:11.725 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I can... 01:25:11.745 --> 01:25:14.649 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I believe I've got a crowbar. 01:25:15.150 --> 01:25:16.011 [JC (Ryo)]: I do have a crowbar. 01:25:16.953 --> 01:25:19.116 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Zondo makes a note to pick up a spade. 01:25:20.497 --> 01:25:20.717 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:25:20.737 --> 01:25:21.538 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He's next in town. 01:25:22.199 --> 01:25:22.980 [Riv (DM)]: Shovels are handy. 01:25:23.581 --> 01:25:24.242 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Stuffing dirt. 01:25:24.622 --> 01:25:25.904 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, it's a shallow grave, so yeah. 01:25:26.965 --> 01:25:28.206 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is there scattered stone around? 01:25:28.887 --> 01:25:31.810 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you could, like, shorefront beach stones and stuff like that, yeah. 01:25:32.491 --> 01:25:32.591 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:25:32.611 --> 01:25:36.556 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Use the crowbar to soften the ground for a couple inches and then drop them in. 01:25:37.077 --> 01:25:37.297 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 01:25:37.337 --> 01:25:38.759 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Pile the dirt back over with a few rocks. 01:25:38.999 --> 01:25:39.840 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, rocks on top. 01:25:41.101 --> 01:25:41.462 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 01:25:42.463 --> 01:25:43.825 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Quick check as we're burying them. 01:25:43.845 --> 01:25:45.406 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nothing identifiable. 01:25:45.527 --> 01:25:45.947 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're just... 01:25:47.108 --> 01:25:48.672 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, just sort of peasant clothing. 01:25:49.254 --> 01:25:51.440 [Riv (DM)]: It looks like they've already probably been stripped of all their possessions. 01:25:53.465 --> 01:26:02.890 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Actually, no leftover marks on them of chains from certain bridge building crew. 01:26:04.507 --> 01:26:13.218 [Riv (DM)]: No, they do not appear to be having like cuffs or feet, feet cuffs or, actually I think they had neck cuffs back at Skyreach, so no. 01:26:14.360 --> 01:26:17.163 [Riv (DM)]: But they are quite bruised in several places all over their body. 01:26:17.304 --> 01:26:22.571 [Riv (DM)]: One of them has like a black eye, another one has like heavy lacerations on their back. 01:26:25.514 --> 01:26:26.816 [JC (Ryo)]: Any tattoos or brandings? 01:26:29.259 --> 01:26:32.944 [Riv (DM)]: No, don't think so. 01:26:33.430 --> 01:26:34.792 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Poor, poor folk, they got caught up. 01:26:37.135 --> 01:26:38.116 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, something like that. 01:26:38.777 --> 01:26:40.940 [Riv (DM)]: Um... Alright, cool. 01:26:41.260 --> 01:26:46.307 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, as, as, so this is happening, um... 01:26:46.327 --> 01:26:48.150 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, Erundor, do you wanna roll me a perception check? 01:26:55.700 --> 01:26:56.341 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, that's quite good. 01:26:56.421 --> 01:26:57.222 [Lacer (Kai)]: Good, good job. 01:26:58.604 --> 01:26:58.704 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay. 01:26:58.724 --> 01:26:59.224 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Damn, son! 01:27:00.486 --> 01:27:01.227 [Riv (DM)]: I'll, um, I'll... 01:27:04.717 --> 01:27:06.060 [Riv (DM)]: I'll roll this on the table. 01:27:06.300 --> 01:27:07.162 [Riv (DM)]: I'll roll this on the table. 01:27:07.743 --> 01:27:10.628 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You need to close those eyes now and again. 01:27:22.350 --> 01:27:23.232 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, one second. 01:27:25.962 --> 01:27:26.403 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yes! 01:27:29.166 --> 01:27:47.008 [Riv (DM)]: As you're kind of standing around and watching the few people starting to dig out the graves and pile up the stones and stuff like that, Erendor, you notice a latch on your bag or on your belt or something like that sort of flicker, sort of flap a little bit. 01:27:50.212 --> 01:27:51.633 [Riv (DM)]: Something's moving. 01:27:53.415 --> 01:27:58.120 [Riv (DM)]: And if you turn around to look, you'll notice that Leah has just sort of been shadowing you again. 01:27:58.620 --> 01:28:00.782 [Riv (DM)]: And she's reaching for your dagger. 01:28:01.423 --> 01:28:03.725 [Riv (DM)]: Your nice dagger that has a raven pommel. 01:28:06.407 --> 01:28:12.653 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'm going to... Just grab her wrist and... 01:28:12.754 --> 01:28:13.214 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Excuse me. 01:28:14.535 --> 01:28:15.897 [Riv (DM)]: She's just like... 01:28:16.477 --> 01:28:18.519 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, I just thought that looked quite pretty. 01:28:18.539 --> 01:28:19.560 [Riv (DM)]: I wanted to have a quick look at it. 01:28:20.924 --> 01:28:22.206 [Riv (DM)]: People don't normally catch me. 01:28:22.226 --> 01:28:23.487 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Ask next time. 01:28:25.029 --> 01:28:25.870 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Alright. 01:28:25.890 --> 01:28:27.091 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And I'll give it to her to have a look. 01:28:28.273 --> 01:28:28.753 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, thank you. 01:28:30.095 --> 01:28:32.338 [Riv (DM)]: You must have very good eyes or something. 01:28:35.121 --> 01:28:36.763 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe I'm just getting clumsy in the cold weather. 01:28:37.885 --> 01:28:41.088 [Riv (DM)]: And she, um... Ah, you're not. 01:28:41.108 --> 01:28:44.873 [Riv (DM)]: She just turns it over a bit, um, unsheathes it a little bit and just looks at it. 01:28:49.021 --> 01:28:49.421 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:28:50.463 --> 01:28:50.983 [Riv (DM)]: Holes are dug. 01:28:51.544 --> 01:28:52.124 [Riv (DM)]: People are buried. 01:28:54.927 --> 01:28:59.112 [Riv (DM)]: And you can jump back on the carts and head off if there's nothing else you guys wanted to do or chat about. 01:29:01.834 --> 01:29:02.395 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's a big rook. 01:29:03.977 --> 01:29:07.901 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know if this is racist, but it's an interesting big rook dwarf. 01:29:09.823 --> 01:29:15.889 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Are there any inscriptions on the rook? 01:29:17.692 --> 01:29:19.535 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is there anything I can observe? 01:29:20.577 --> 01:29:23.001 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, why don't you roll a... what would it be? 01:29:23.622 --> 01:29:24.844 [Riv (DM)]: You could roll a... 01:29:25.405 --> 01:29:27.648 [Riv (DM)]: Arcana check. 01:29:27.688 --> 01:29:31.675 [Riv (DM)]: Give me both an investigation check and a history check and I'll see what I can give you. 01:29:33.017 --> 01:29:34.239 [Riv (DM)]: Oh shit, nearly just knocked over my tea. 01:29:36.002 --> 01:29:40.409 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Isn't there a rule for stonework with dwarves? 01:29:40.770 --> 01:29:43.935 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, he's proficient in rock stuff. 01:29:45.434 --> 01:29:50.142 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think you get advantage on history or something like that? 01:29:50.162 --> 01:29:53.487 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anything made of like stone he gets advantage on, something like that. 01:29:54.509 --> 01:29:54.870 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is it? 01:29:55.270 --> 01:29:57.815 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Dondar? 01:29:57.835 --> 01:30:06.389 [Riv (DM)]: Whenever you make a history check, yeah, history check late intelligent stonework, you are considered proficient and you can double your proficiency bonus. 01:30:07.971 --> 01:30:09.033 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's extra. 01:30:10.255 --> 01:30:11.998 [Lacer (Kai)]: Double proficiency bonus. 01:30:12.586 --> 01:30:16.050 [Riv (DM)]: So with your history, just roll it and we'll add a plus three to it. 01:30:23.458 --> 01:30:25.461 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Plus three would be plus six, because it's double. 01:30:29.365 --> 01:30:36.854 [Riv (DM)]: It would be, because he's already proficient with it, so he gets a plus three and then you get to add proficiency gain on top I think is how I read it. 01:30:36.894 --> 01:30:39.296 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah that makes sense, yeah. 01:30:39.316 --> 01:30:40.838 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, and Investigation? 01:30:44.615 --> 01:30:46.857 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:30:47.237 --> 01:30:49.400 [Riv (DM)]: So you can get up and close and have a look at it. 01:30:49.420 --> 01:31:07.537 [Riv (DM)]: Other than what the others have sort of ascertained as well, you get the feeling that the rock probably isn't naturally formed, which is confusing because it's shaped in a way. 01:31:07.717 --> 01:31:10.960 [Riv (DM)]: It's got squared corners and stuff like that. 01:31:12.830 --> 01:31:41.419 [Riv (DM)]: With the history check probably not quite good enough to give you everything but what I will tell you is that I guess from just stories that have been passed down through your family and through other people that you've worked with in your life you would know that the ancient civilizations who lived on this land had incredible cities which have all now sort of tumbled away to ruins and they had a way of working with stone that 01:31:41.399 --> 01:31:44.764 [Riv (DM)]: Um, has been lost and possibly this is what one of those was. 01:31:44.924 --> 01:31:54.017 [Riv (DM)]: It was some, some larger structure or a singular structure, um, that had been shaped out of pure rock or created on the spot, something like that. 01:31:55.179 --> 01:31:58.925 [Riv (DM)]: But as to the exact purpose of what this was, you're probably not quite sure. 01:32:02.370 --> 01:32:03.912 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What, um, what time of day is it? 01:32:05.294 --> 01:32:06.336 [Riv (DM)]: Probably just after midday. 01:32:06.736 --> 01:32:06.896 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:32:09.060 --> 01:32:10.782 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So the spire isn't casting a shadow? 01:32:12.213 --> 01:32:15.758 [Riv (DM)]: It's winter, so the sun will be low in the sky, so there's a bit of a shadow. 01:32:18.601 --> 01:32:21.966 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is this pointing anywhere conspicuous? 01:32:23.027 --> 01:32:25.370 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Anywhere it could be taken as something? 01:32:25.951 --> 01:32:27.713 [Riv (DM)]: You're gonna have to make me think now. 01:32:28.114 --> 01:32:29.075 [Riv (DM)]: It will be... 01:32:30.357 --> 01:32:35.263 [Riv (DM)]: I think the shadow would be pointing north if it's winter here, because you're in the Northern Hemisphere. 01:32:35.684 --> 01:32:37.747 [Riv (DM)]: So the sun would be below you, right? 01:32:39.269 --> 01:32:39.850 [Riv (DM)]: I think that's right. 01:32:40.510 --> 01:32:40.971 [Riv (DM)]: If like... 01:32:42.217 --> 01:32:42.918 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: In this world? 01:32:43.379 --> 01:32:45.022 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so here's the spire. 01:32:45.703 --> 01:32:48.808 [Riv (DM)]: How many suns in this world? 01:32:48.828 --> 01:32:50.591 [Riv (DM)]: This is east, this is west. 01:32:51.613 --> 01:32:53.816 [Riv (DM)]: I think the sun would be going like this, right? 01:32:54.758 --> 01:32:57.643 [Riv (DM)]: Because you're up here in the northern hemisphere, and it's winter right now. 01:32:58.344 --> 01:33:00.247 [Riv (DM)]: So the shadow would be like this. 01:33:01.730 --> 01:33:02.451 [JC (Ryo)]: I think that's right. 01:33:05.075 --> 01:33:06.638 [JC (Ryo)]: There's suns above you, there's no shadow. 01:33:07.242 --> 01:33:09.405 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, but in the winter, there's, you know... 01:33:09.605 --> 01:33:10.827 [Riv (DM)]: The sun sets earlier. 01:33:11.368 --> 01:33:14.993 [Riv (DM)]: The path of the sun is, like, further off to the side. 01:33:15.013 --> 01:33:16.915 [Riv (DM)]: It's not directly above you, unless it's somewhere... 01:33:16.935 --> 01:33:19.979 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I know, I know, I'm just being cheeky. 01:33:20.320 --> 01:33:20.540 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Messin'. 01:33:21.101 --> 01:33:22.323 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's not a giant sundial. 01:33:23.164 --> 01:33:23.284 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:33:25.227 --> 01:33:26.508 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess it's worth tracking. 01:33:26.709 --> 01:33:27.149 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:33:27.169 --> 01:33:27.830 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, it's a good idea. 01:33:28.771 --> 01:33:32.096 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does Dondar recognise what type of stone it's made and constructed out of? 01:33:32.116 --> 01:33:34.279 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think so, no. 01:33:37.837 --> 01:33:38.839 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like a stone shape. 01:33:39.540 --> 01:33:40.662 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, some sort of stone. 01:33:42.625 --> 01:33:43.246 [Riv (DM)]: I will... 01:33:44.688 --> 01:33:49.936 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I mean, I could... ...cast Identify on it. 01:33:49.956 --> 01:33:51.579 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I don't think it would do anything though. 01:33:53.242 --> 01:33:55.365 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Unless it is magic and we just don't know. 01:33:55.405 --> 01:33:57.489 [Lacer (Kai)]: You can do a... what's it called? 01:33:58.090 --> 01:34:01.355 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um... Not a ceremony, a ritual. 01:34:04.320 --> 01:34:04.620 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: A what? 01:34:06.541 --> 01:34:10.726 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can't you ritual cast, um, detect magic? 01:34:12.128 --> 01:34:13.510 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, I can do that, technically. 01:34:14.711 --> 01:34:17.595 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So can I. Yeah. 01:34:17.875 --> 01:34:19.537 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then you'll see if it's magic. 01:34:19.557 --> 01:34:20.218 [Lacer (Kai)]: Detect magic. 01:34:20.759 --> 01:34:21.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: How about we all do it? 01:34:21.860 --> 01:34:24.524 [Lacer (Kai)]: Everyone do ritual cast detect magic. 01:34:24.864 --> 01:34:26.726 [JC (Ryo)]: That's not how detect magic works, sir. 01:34:27.027 --> 01:34:27.587 [JC (Ryo)]: D&D. 01:34:29.029 --> 01:34:29.730 [JC (Ryo)]: Is it? 01:34:32.326 --> 01:34:35.769 [JC (Ryo)]: We just want a sense if it's magical. 01:34:36.270 --> 01:34:37.591 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, sorry, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 01:34:39.253 --> 01:34:40.634 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought that's how it works, right? 01:34:41.055 --> 01:34:42.877 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sorry, I got mixed up between the two for a second. 01:34:43.457 --> 01:34:45.239 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, so Identify won't do it. 01:34:45.619 --> 01:34:55.670 [Riv (DM)]: Detect Magic might, if it... Identify will tell you any magical property that an object has, and like why and what it is. 01:34:55.710 --> 01:34:57.051 [Riv (DM)]: It'll basically tell you everything about it. 01:34:57.335 --> 01:35:02.300 [Riv (DM)]: Um, Detect Magic will just tell you if there are traces of magic on something or within an area. 01:35:02.320 --> 01:35:08.005 [Riv (DM)]: Like, Detect Magic creates an aura around you and you just kind of, like a sonar, can tell where magic is. 01:35:11.929 --> 01:35:21.478 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know what, I will, I will, I will ritual cast Detect Magic in 30 feet of the thing and see if there's anything magical around it as well. 01:35:22.479 --> 01:35:23.039 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:35:23.059 --> 01:35:25.121 [Riv (DM)]: Um, so you cast it. 01:35:25.842 --> 01:35:27.223 [Riv (DM)]: What does your ritual look like Kai? 01:35:29.279 --> 01:35:30.241 [Lacer (Kai)]: What does it look like? 01:35:30.601 --> 01:35:32.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, how do you do your 10 minute ritual? 01:35:34.308 --> 01:35:37.414 [Lacer (Kai)]: I touch my, what's it called, stone. 01:35:38.055 --> 01:35:44.646 [Lacer (Kai)]: My stone that's on the star map. 01:35:45.869 --> 01:35:48.874 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I close my eyes and I imbue it with power. 01:35:49.782 --> 01:35:50.163 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:35:50.183 --> 01:35:51.245 [Riv (DM)]: You just focus on it for 10 minutes? 01:35:51.926 --> 01:35:52.728 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 01:35:52.748 --> 01:35:52.868 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 01:35:54.331 --> 01:35:57.759 [Riv (DM)]: Feel the aura around you slowly starting to widen over the period of time. 01:35:58.240 --> 01:36:05.915 [Riv (DM)]: And from the get-go, you don't notice anything particularly magic about it, but I will get you to roll me an Arcana check. 01:36:06.958 --> 01:36:08.601 [Unmatched Speaker]: I was waiting for this! 01:36:15.331 --> 01:36:18.435 [Lacer (Kai)]: But it does not roll high. 01:36:18.715 --> 01:36:19.576 [Riv (DM)]: It's not great. 01:36:24.602 --> 01:36:32.992 [Riv (DM)]: You've got no idea what it is, what it even could possibly be or mean, but it's just the faintest trace of magic coming from it. 01:36:33.493 --> 01:36:34.534 [Riv (DM)]: Just the faintest trace. 01:36:36.036 --> 01:36:39.200 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just nod to Dondar. 01:36:39.420 --> 01:36:40.361 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's magical. 01:36:40.922 --> 01:36:41.963 [Lacer (Kai)]: Slightly. 01:36:41.943 --> 01:36:43.665 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, something old. 01:36:44.065 --> 01:36:45.808 [Riv (DM)]: Something old that's kind of been lost to time. 01:36:46.969 --> 01:36:52.055 [Riv (DM)]: It's like when you're walking around in a city and you can smell a bread shop or something like that from seven blocks away. 01:36:52.195 --> 01:36:54.698 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, oh, I just caught a whiff of, yeah, something like that. 01:36:56.740 --> 01:37:00.345 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You think it's worth burning a spell slot to, um, identify it? 01:37:03.769 --> 01:37:07.613 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, nothing ventured, nothing gained, that's all I'm gonna say. 01:37:11.913 --> 01:37:15.196 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, we seem to have been brought here for some reason. 01:37:16.657 --> 01:37:17.858 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So, alright. 01:37:17.878 --> 01:37:19.400 [JC (Ryo)]: Does it say Ritual on the spell? 01:37:19.420 --> 01:37:22.923 [JC (Ryo)]: Because then you don't have to lose a spot. 01:37:22.943 --> 01:37:23.804 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It does say Ritual. 01:37:25.025 --> 01:37:25.145 [Lacer (Kai)]: Awww. 01:37:25.685 --> 01:37:28.668 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or are you talking about Detect Magic or Identify? 01:37:28.688 --> 01:37:30.270 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Identify. 01:37:30.750 --> 01:37:31.931 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's heaps good. 01:37:32.211 --> 01:37:33.813 [Lacer (Kai)]: Identify you can do Ritual, yeah. 01:37:34.654 --> 01:37:35.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: So no spell slot burnt. 01:37:36.916 --> 01:37:37.836 [JC (Ryo)]: Just takes 10 minutes. 01:37:39.578 --> 01:37:39.658 Mhm. 01:37:41.123 --> 01:37:41.624 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 01:37:41.644 --> 01:37:41.864 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Alright. 01:37:42.765 --> 01:37:44.608 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's see how the dice love me today. 01:37:45.989 --> 01:37:48.553 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait wait, before you do that, I will burn a spell slot for you. 01:37:49.254 --> 01:37:52.939 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will... cast Enhance Ability. 01:38:01.149 --> 01:38:01.229 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ooh. 01:38:01.250 --> 01:38:01.410 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 01:38:01.430 --> 01:38:02.571 [Lacer (Kai)]: And what do I want to increase? 01:38:02.711 --> 01:38:04.534 [Lacer (Kai)]: I probably want to increase your Intelligence, right? 01:38:07.958 --> 01:38:08.239 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:38:08.619 --> 01:38:10.742 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll increase your Intelligence. 01:38:11.853 --> 01:38:12.954 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If that were possible. 01:38:15.197 --> 01:38:17.339 [Lacer (Kai)]: So you get the Fox Cunning buff. 01:38:23.145 --> 01:38:24.987 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:38:25.007 --> 01:38:28.651 [Riv (DM)]: So you cast Identify and you reach out to touch the Obelisk. 01:38:29.291 --> 01:38:33.135 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of similar to Kai, you don't really get anything at first, it's just a bit of rock. 01:38:34.036 --> 01:38:37.540 [Riv (DM)]: But why don't you roll an Arcana check for me as well to see how deep you can go on this. 01:38:45.755 --> 01:38:47.638 [Lacer (Kai)]: Get to roll again, cause you're advantage. 01:38:53.989 --> 01:39:00.000 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can kind of tell, um... 01:39:01.735 --> 01:39:06.383 [Riv (DM)]: It's odd because you normally identify from your experience, it'll just tell you everything about it. 01:39:06.683 --> 01:39:12.754 [Riv (DM)]: There's something elusive going on here, some old sort of magic, it's something you're very unfamiliar with so you're not quite sure what it is. 01:39:13.014 --> 01:39:20.166 [Riv (DM)]: There's definitely something, there's definitely some traces of magic in here but you're just not quite sure what it actually does or what it's for. 01:39:20.905 --> 01:39:38.026 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of looking up you can see it's like the top of it seems to be a bit broken or fractured maybe it's because the structure has been partially damaged or something over time and it's lost its actual purpose but with a 13 yeah you don't get much from it unfortunately. 01:39:41.210 --> 01:39:45.876 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can we climb it? 01:39:45.896 --> 01:39:46.997 [Riv (DM)]: You can climb it if you like yeah. 01:39:50.926 --> 01:39:52.387 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is there any point to that? 01:39:56.271 --> 01:39:57.792 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: As you mentioned, the top of it's damaged. 01:39:57.812 --> 01:40:00.135 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Will we gain any more insight if we can see inside it? 01:40:02.497 --> 01:40:02.997 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite high. 01:40:03.197 --> 01:40:05.379 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, you'd have to be climbing up like a hundred feet. 01:40:07.521 --> 01:40:08.462 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Damn, Daniel. 01:40:13.807 --> 01:40:15.709 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or should we just... 01:40:15.729 --> 01:40:17.831 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If this wants to be known to us, it'll let us know. 01:40:18.672 --> 01:40:20.173 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: One of the mysteries will just move on. 01:40:20.930 --> 01:40:26.057 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to say, what do these fucking magical folk know about anything? 01:40:26.077 --> 01:40:27.298 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And I'd like to have a look at it myself. 01:40:29.581 --> 01:40:32.645 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Erindor's pissed off already. 01:40:32.665 --> 01:40:33.466 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Wasting time. 01:40:34.347 --> 01:40:35.409 [Riv (DM)]: How are you taking a look? 01:40:37.732 --> 01:40:38.653 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: They say it's magical. 01:40:38.773 --> 01:40:40.896 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I want to find, I want to see what I can work out. 01:40:41.686 --> 01:40:42.207 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 01:40:42.227 --> 01:40:44.570 [Riv (DM)]: This is going to be the last check because you can't really brute force. 01:40:45.611 --> 01:40:47.734 [Riv (DM)]: You can't brute force check, so this is the last one. 01:40:48.055 --> 01:40:50.498 [Riv (DM)]: If Erendor can't figure it out, then we've got to move on. 01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:54.443 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, give me your best Arcana check, Erendor. 01:41:02.674 --> 01:41:03.495 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, it's old. 01:41:03.735 --> 01:41:08.622 [Riv (DM)]: Like, there are these ruined structures all over the place and they're a mystery to all, sort of, 01:41:09.293 --> 01:41:14.339 [Riv (DM)]: You know, novel and, you know, modern mages and stuff like that. 01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:17.243 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, yeah. 01:41:17.263 --> 01:41:18.725 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just laughed in time here. 01:41:18.765 --> 01:41:24.011 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's... Yeah, I just laughed. 01:41:24.272 --> 01:41:26.755 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's come back when we're older and wiser. 01:41:29.618 --> 01:41:29.819 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep. 01:41:33.964 --> 01:41:34.204 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:41:38.943 --> 01:41:40.425 [Riv (DM)]: So, what are we doing guys? 01:41:45.433 --> 01:41:49.319 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're off to find the ruins, the wonderful ruins of Oz. 01:41:53.786 --> 01:41:54.086 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:41:55.208 --> 01:42:02.078 [Riv (DM)]: So with that, if no one else wants to do anything else here, then we can head inland along the small path, right? 01:42:03.160 --> 01:42:03.480 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:42:04.021 --> 01:42:07.887 [Riv (DM)]: Corpses have been offloaded and 01:42:09.841 --> 01:42:13.347 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, we're now traveling slightly more lighter back to how we were. 01:42:13.988 --> 01:42:19.377 [Riv (DM)]: Leah's jumping in the back again, Kai's up front, Valoran's up front, and we're rocking in. 01:42:19.597 --> 01:42:20.999 [Riv (DM)]: The road is now a bit more bumpy. 01:42:21.841 --> 01:42:31.697 [Riv (DM)]: There are, you know, rocks and tufts of grass and stuff like that because it's not as nicely paved or flattened as the main road, but you can make your way fast enough anyway. 01:42:32.572 --> 01:42:41.306 [Riv (DM)]: You travel along for an hour or so, maybe two hours as the sun starts setting as you get towards the afternoon, the forest ahead of you getting closer and closer. 01:42:41.346 --> 01:42:50.040 [Riv (DM)]: And you probably reach the edge of the forest just about late afternoon, heading in towards evening I would say. 01:42:50.020 --> 01:42:52.685 [Riv (DM)]: After a good few hours travelling. 01:42:54.488 --> 01:42:58.515 [Riv (DM)]: You're well in now from the ocean and so the wind has died down a bit. 01:42:58.975 --> 01:43:04.725 [Riv (DM)]: It's not quite as cold and as you get under the canopies it almost becomes eerily still. 01:43:09.714 --> 01:43:15.724 [Riv (DM)]: So why don't we do something like this. 01:43:17.898 --> 01:43:24.945 [Riv (DM)]: So once you get under the canopies, you can hear all manner of creatures now. 01:43:25.466 --> 01:43:29.570 [Riv (DM)]: There are birds, there are little growls and roars and stuff like that. 01:43:31.973 --> 01:43:35.176 [Riv (DM)]: Heading in a bit deeper, it becomes very dark quite quickly. 01:43:35.897 --> 01:43:47.449 [Riv (DM)]: The trees are kind of all growing together in a way that provide a blanket over the top quite densely to the point where it's very, you know, the afternoon light that there is, is barely breaking through. 01:43:49.353 --> 01:43:51.916 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 01:43:53.438 --> 01:43:54.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: I notice this, right? 01:43:55.320 --> 01:43:57.042 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, definitely, yeah, up front. 01:43:57.683 --> 01:44:03.369 [Lacer (Kai)]: As I notice it starts to get dark, I put my hand on Valerian's shoulder and I cast Eyes of the Night. 01:44:05.111 --> 01:44:05.252 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:44:07.374 --> 01:44:07.614 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 01:44:08.355 --> 01:44:09.977 [Riv (DM)]: It's a, it'll be a spell slot, right? 01:44:12.560 --> 01:44:12.680 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nope. 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:13.681 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's a special ability. 01:44:13.701 --> 01:44:15.483 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, cool, cool. 01:44:15.503 --> 01:44:16.845 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, you have Darkvision, Valerian. 01:44:18.783 --> 01:44:19.144 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 01:44:22.852 --> 01:44:35.721 [Riv (DM)]: So, the road itself stops really being a road and becomes more of just a path through the trees, which you can kind of try to follow. 01:44:35.761 --> 01:44:38.327 [Riv (DM)]: At some point, 01:44:39.438 --> 01:44:48.150 [Riv (DM)]: It will start becoming harder and harder and you end up needing to sort of guess your best bet where it is actually, you know, trying to go through. 01:44:48.210 --> 01:44:56.741 [Riv (DM)]: You know, over there there's a wider gap between a bunch of trees, maybe that's the right way, or carrying on straight ahead over that way, maybe that's the right way. 01:44:57.242 --> 01:45:03.370 [Riv (DM)]: You do remember Juliana had said that eventually the path should terminate somewhere nearby the ruins. 01:45:03.350 --> 01:45:08.257 [Riv (DM)]: So, since you haven't seen ruins at this point, you assume you are still on the path. 01:45:08.938 --> 01:45:12.804 [Riv (DM)]: Can someone make me a survival check to see how you're going through the forest? 01:45:18.152 --> 01:45:18.573 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll do it. 01:45:21.878 --> 01:45:24.922 [JC (Ryo)]: Just to remind you that, Riv. 01:45:24.942 --> 01:45:25.082 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 01:45:25.102 --> 01:45:25.343 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 01:45:26.645 --> 01:45:26.945 [Riv (DM)]: So what's this? 01:45:26.965 --> 01:45:31.652 [JC (Ryo)]: You get to double your... Oh, I'm not... Actually, shit, I'm not proficient in it anyway, so... 01:45:33.100 --> 01:45:33.621 [Riv (DM)]: In survival? 01:45:34.402 --> 01:45:35.665 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'm not proficient in it. 01:45:36.766 --> 01:45:38.229 [JC (Ryo)]: So I wouldn't add my proficiency anyway. 01:45:39.211 --> 01:45:40.333 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 01:45:40.353 --> 01:45:44.480 [JC (Ryo)]: So I'll do... Will my plus one become a plus two then? 01:45:45.582 --> 01:45:49.589 [Riv (DM)]: I think it... doesn't... doesn't say it gives you proficiency. 01:45:51.753 --> 01:45:54.838 [JC (Ryo)]: Proficiency double... bonus is doubled. 01:45:54.858 --> 01:45:55.740 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, four proficient skills. 01:45:55.760 --> 01:45:56.882 [JC (Ryo)]: Four proficient skills, yeah. 01:45:56.902 --> 01:45:57.623 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, so nine for one. 01:45:59.594 --> 01:46:02.458 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, but 10 is fine for the first check anyway. 01:46:03.920 --> 01:46:05.021 [Riv (DM)]: It's an increasing check. 01:46:06.423 --> 01:46:13.292 [Riv (DM)]: So you can pick the right path and after a little while you notice another track in the dirt. 01:46:13.312 --> 01:46:15.976 [Riv (DM)]: Some old cart or something has passed through here before. 01:46:17.318 --> 01:46:19.941 [Riv (DM)]: So you get the feeling that you're still on the right road. 01:46:21.023 --> 01:46:26.310 [Riv (DM)]: Eventually you notice a little stone structure over there. 01:46:27.033 --> 01:46:29.982 [Riv (DM)]: It's just a wall, maybe, or it's just a pile of stones. 01:46:30.022 --> 01:46:33.553 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of hard to really make out what it actually is constituting. 01:46:34.095 --> 01:46:35.058 [Riv (DM)]: It's old, though. 01:46:35.098 --> 01:46:38.568 [Riv (DM)]: The stones are cracked and covered in moss and vines and stuff like that. 01:46:40.514 --> 01:46:40.755 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:46:42.727 --> 01:46:44.129 [Riv (DM)]: And then another one over there to your left. 01:46:44.450 --> 01:46:46.233 [Riv (DM)]: Again, this one looks more pillar-like. 01:46:48.397 --> 01:46:50.460 [Riv (DM)]: And the forest itself is getting denser and denser. 01:46:51.181 --> 01:46:54.727 [Riv (DM)]: You hear every now and then like a screech of a bird over there. 01:46:54.767 --> 01:47:02.300 [Riv (DM)]: Some growl of some angry beast just like kind of echoes out through the woods from some distance away. 01:47:04.885 --> 01:47:05.125 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:47:06.868 --> 01:47:06.928 [Riv (DM)]: OK. 01:47:08.360 --> 01:47:13.626 [Riv (DM)]: During this time, Erundor, have you taken the dagger back or does Leah still have the dagger? 01:47:17.610 --> 01:47:18.631 [Riv (DM)]: I will have taken it back. 01:47:19.933 --> 01:47:20.153 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 01:47:20.173 --> 01:47:23.877 [Riv (DM)]: So she just sort of like tossed it over in her hands for a little bit, kind of checking it out. 01:47:23.897 --> 01:47:26.941 [Riv (DM)]: I think she was quite interested in the design of the hilt. 01:47:27.441 --> 01:47:33.268 [Riv (DM)]: And she does ask you, as you're sort of heading through the woods, just where you got it from. 01:47:34.469 --> 01:47:35.430 [Riv (DM)]: It's interesting, she likes it. 01:47:38.785 --> 01:47:48.114 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, that's a while back. 01:47:48.134 --> 01:47:51.397 [Riv (DM)]: Does Deathmouse want to make a history check in real life? 01:47:51.937 --> 01:47:57.422 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: If I recall, you got a goblin loot? 01:47:57.442 --> 01:47:59.804 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Yeah, I was thinking that was the goblins. 01:47:59.905 --> 01:48:00.785 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: That was a while back. 01:48:00.825 --> 01:48:01.526 [Riv (DM)]: That was the goblins. 01:48:02.227 --> 01:48:03.268 [Riv (DM)]: Over a year ago, I'd say. 01:48:03.448 --> 01:48:07.932 [Lacer (Kai)]: Long, long ago in a cave deep, deep down. 01:48:08.772 --> 01:48:18.147 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Ah, that was a while back. 01:48:24.837 --> 01:48:28.182 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Found in a goblin den. 01:48:31.452 --> 01:48:34.254 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: It was, what, one, two days after we met Lenny? 01:48:37.077 --> 01:48:39.339 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, Lenny, yes. 01:48:39.379 --> 01:48:39.980 [JC (Ryo)]: Three weeks ago. 01:48:49.048 --> 01:48:50.229 [Riv (DM)]: She's, um, she's listening. 01:48:50.249 --> 01:48:51.510 [Riv (DM)]: She's raptured with your story. 01:48:53.251 --> 01:48:54.693 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mentioned Lenny as a goblin. 01:48:56.694 --> 01:48:57.635 [Riv (DM)]: Lenny the goblin? 01:48:57.655 --> 01:48:59.637 [Riv (DM)]: You mean you actually, you met one of them? 01:49:02.452 --> 01:49:04.234 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sorta. 01:49:04.375 --> 01:49:07.479 [Lacer (Kai)]: He's sorta like an acquaintance now. 01:49:07.499 --> 01:49:08.700 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Matches a strong term. 01:49:10.463 --> 01:49:10.683 [Lacer (Kai)]: Win. 01:49:11.604 --> 01:49:14.548 [Riv (DM)]: Rescue. 01:49:14.568 --> 01:49:16.331 [Riv (DM)]: Gosh, can't say I've ever seen a goblin before. 01:49:16.351 --> 01:49:17.092 [Riv (DM)]: Sounds very exciting. 01:49:20.857 --> 01:49:22.339 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You probably don't want to see a goblin. 01:49:25.283 --> 01:49:26.725 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:49:26.745 --> 01:49:27.286 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Take your word for it. 01:49:27.306 --> 01:49:28.447 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: They're not normally very nice. 01:49:29.829 --> 01:49:30.450 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I've heard. 01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:33.402 [Lacer (Kai)]: They don't smell nice either. 01:49:35.704 --> 01:49:38.227 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not that bad compared to the Dwarven. 01:49:38.247 --> 01:49:39.328 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I knew that was coming. 01:49:42.472 --> 01:49:46.196 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Green, green blood like the elves. 01:49:48.538 --> 01:49:55.026 [Riv (DM)]: So you can carry on chatting for a little bit while Rio makes another survival check. 01:49:55.046 --> 01:49:59.931 [JC (Ryo)]: Rio's just busy giving Dondar dirty looks. 01:50:01.531 --> 01:50:02.853 [Riv (DM)]: Someone else can assist as well, I assume. 01:50:02.873 --> 01:50:05.216 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar is pretending to look indifferent and ignore them. 01:50:05.877 --> 01:50:10.364 [Riv (DM)]: I assume Kai or Vaeloran up front, you can also help if you want to give advantage to the roll. 01:50:11.485 --> 01:50:12.987 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, I'll help, I'll help. 01:50:15.030 --> 01:50:17.574 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so either two separate rolls or one with advantage? 01:50:18.756 --> 01:50:20.198 [JC (Ryo)]: Let's both roll, Kai. 01:50:21.139 --> 01:50:21.299 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:50:22.321 --> 01:50:23.663 [Riv (DM)]: Go, Dax roll! 01:50:29.511 --> 01:50:29.972 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, good. 01:50:30.292 --> 01:50:30.913 [Riv (DM)]: Fifteen. 01:50:33.560 --> 01:50:38.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so the stone structures start becoming more and more common. 01:50:40.310 --> 01:50:48.443 [Riv (DM)]: Here's like an archway that looks like it might have been part of a wall or something like that, and then both sides of it just collapsed and crumbled away to nothing. 01:50:49.384 --> 01:50:55.453 [Riv (DM)]: Over there is the wall of some ancient building with like a little window slot in it. 01:50:56.134 --> 01:50:58.538 [Riv (DM)]: No back to the building at all. 01:50:59.058 --> 01:51:07.397 [Riv (DM)]: The stone seems, I mean from just a quick glance, seems similar make to the obelisk you noticed down on the shoreline. 01:51:08.086 --> 01:51:11.211 [Riv (DM)]: But here it's, you know, it's almost being consumed by the forest. 01:51:11.231 --> 01:51:21.126 [Riv (DM)]: There's moss just all over these, they're cracked, and vines just absolutely gripping them and almost pulling them down into the ground from the looks of things. 01:51:22.849 --> 01:51:30.220 [Riv (DM)]: As we're getting further and further along, you kind of lose all semblance of the trail at this point. 01:51:30.520 --> 01:51:35.528 [Riv (DM)]: You get the feeling now that you're in the ruins and 01:51:35.913 --> 01:51:37.795 [Riv (DM)]: You know, the trail itself has terminated. 01:51:37.855 --> 01:51:41.619 [Riv (DM)]: And you just... 01:51:41.639 --> 01:51:43.361 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's a good cue to put a brake on the wagon. 01:51:45.143 --> 01:51:46.084 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:51:46.104 --> 01:51:47.826 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, so what did you say? 01:51:47.846 --> 01:51:49.828 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's probably a good cue to put a brake on the wagon. 01:51:51.850 --> 01:51:52.030 Hmm. 01:51:52.050 --> 01:51:52.171 Okay. 01:51:52.631 --> 01:51:53.692 [Riv (DM)]: Wagon can come to a halt. 01:51:54.413 --> 01:51:58.377 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, so you'll hear any campfires or friendlies around. 01:51:58.678 --> 01:51:59.138 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, great. 01:51:59.378 --> 01:52:01.260 [Riv (DM)]: Someone roll me a perception check. 01:52:03.202 --> 01:52:05.565 [Riv (DM)]: Did someone say perception check? 01:52:06.423 --> 01:52:08.285 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll definitely do that one. 01:52:08.305 --> 01:52:09.266 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, yeah, go ahead. 01:52:09.907 --> 01:52:17.856 [Lacer (Kai)]: While you're doing that I go, oi Erendor, what are we doing here again at the Ruins? 01:52:17.876 --> 01:52:21.820 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: All I know is we've gotta, we've gotta meet the Feingold. 01:52:22.081 --> 01:52:24.544 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Oh, meet the Feingold. 01:52:28.708 --> 01:52:31.311 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Meet the Fockergills. 01:52:31.331 --> 01:52:33.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do we know any, do we see any tracks headed this way? 01:52:35.245 --> 01:52:42.212 [Riv (DM)]: You did... Yeah, there was that one sort of maybe-cut track you saw earlier after Rio got this level check. 01:52:43.834 --> 01:52:53.043 [Riv (DM)]: But it's mossy and it's dirty, it's, you know, leaves blowing everywhere, it's sort of... tracks aren't going to last very long in this forest. 01:52:54.824 --> 01:53:01.371 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so with a 17... You don't hear anything, you don't see... 01:53:02.060 --> 01:53:03.784 [Riv (DM)]: You know, a fire you don't hear, a cracking fire. 01:53:03.944 --> 01:53:05.006 [Riv (DM)]: There's something you do see though. 01:53:05.026 --> 01:53:15.188 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, inside the ruins, you can almost kind of see... there's like this almost imperceptible shape and design to the ruins. 01:53:15.248 --> 01:53:18.735 [Riv (DM)]: It's like they're these circular... 01:53:18.715 --> 01:53:45.533 [Riv (DM)]: A circular layout almost so where you're standing if you look left and right of you there's like a ruin there and another one a ruin there and as you sort of trace the line of the ruins they almost seem to form this like this large sort of circle and then in front of you there's another layer of ruins again and again they're all sort of lined in the circle it's almost like there are these concentric layers of buildings that are getting smaller and smaller in towards the center of the ruins. 01:53:48.112 --> 01:53:49.253 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, well, well. 01:53:56.543 --> 01:53:57.925 [Lacer (Kai)]: Very strange. 01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:11.202 [Riv (DM)]: It's just sort of sitting there deliberating. 01:54:14.707 --> 01:54:17.410 [Riv (DM)]: Leah just sort of whispers to Erendor, 01:54:18.233 --> 01:54:19.475 [Riv (DM)]: Did you get the feeling we're being watched? 01:54:20.678 --> 01:54:22.121 [Riv (DM)]: I don't like it in these woods. 01:54:22.141 --> 01:54:30.076 [Riv (DM)]: It's scary. 01:54:30.096 --> 01:54:32.461 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is the dagger behaving itself? 01:54:36.328 --> 01:54:37.310 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, seems to be okay. 01:54:37.330 --> 01:54:39.955 [Riv (DM)]: It's not warning me of anything. 01:54:45.908 --> 01:54:48.011 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I haven't seen anything, but I do feel a bit uneasy. 01:54:49.113 --> 01:54:51.536 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to cast See Invisibility. 01:54:55.342 --> 01:54:57.165 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 01:54:57.185 --> 01:55:05.216 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, in conjunction with my 300 feet of darkvision and seeing invisibility, do I see anything? 01:55:06.158 --> 01:55:09.142 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:55:09.162 --> 01:55:09.763 [Riv (DM)]: No, you don't. 01:55:10.224 --> 01:55:13.789 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't appear to be any invisible or ethereal creatures nearby. 01:55:15.170 --> 01:55:17.953 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that's good, because it lasts for an hour. 01:55:19.034 --> 01:55:21.897 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, good to know. 01:55:23.038 --> 01:55:29.845 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe we should set up camp here until daylight and see what we can find. 01:55:29.945 --> 01:55:33.288 [JC (Ryo)]: Is it like full night, Riv, or still daylight? 01:55:34.709 --> 01:55:36.491 [Riv (DM)]: It's hard to tell under the forest, honestly. 01:55:37.132 --> 01:55:42.257 [Riv (DM)]: It's so dense that you imagine even in daylight it's still going to be pretty dark. 01:55:46.743 --> 01:55:48.866 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, it's probably evening, I would say. 01:55:48.906 --> 01:55:50.409 [Riv (DM)]: Early evening at this point. 01:55:53.133 --> 01:55:55.296 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mentioned to Rio, maybe climb a tree. 01:55:58.721 --> 01:55:59.162 [JC (Ryo)]: Tree? 01:55:59.182 --> 01:56:02.006 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm going hunting. 01:56:02.026 --> 01:56:03.308 [JC (Ryo)]: I do not like that music. 01:56:08.636 --> 01:56:09.538 [Riv (DM)]: Alright guys, what's the plan? 01:56:14.004 --> 01:56:14.505 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Set up camp. 01:56:17.658 --> 01:56:20.401 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, yeah, set up camp, and I would like to... 01:56:22.122 --> 01:56:29.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: In the center of the camp, wherever we're setting the camp, I'd like to also ritual cast Detect Poison and Disease. 01:56:33.514 --> 01:56:35.135 [Riv (DM)]: Detect Poison and Disease, alright. 01:56:35.596 --> 01:56:37.598 [Riv (DM)]: What does that do? 01:56:37.618 --> 01:56:41.982 [Riv (DM)]: Sense the presence and location of poisons and poisons creatures within 30 feet. 01:56:42.002 --> 01:56:42.162 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:56:44.945 --> 01:56:47.327 [JC (Ryo)]: Cool, while they're setting up camp, I'm gonna go try and find some dinner. 01:56:48.488 --> 01:56:51.072 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 01:56:52.013 --> 01:56:52.774 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Cool, so... 01:56:53.976 --> 01:57:00.625 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I would like to check if Leah has a weapon of some kind, even just a knife or a dagger. 01:57:00.645 --> 01:57:02.187 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can ask her and she'll show you. 01:57:02.207 --> 01:57:04.590 [Riv (DM)]: Within her pouch she does actually have a small dagger. 01:57:07.575 --> 01:57:08.656 [Riv (DM)]: Looks quite well maintained actually. 01:57:12.021 --> 01:57:12.201 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:57:12.518 --> 01:57:12.899 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:57:12.999 --> 01:57:16.904 [Riv (DM)]: So, um, Rio's looking, you're hunting for food or something, are you? 01:57:18.106 --> 01:57:18.607 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 01:57:19.969 --> 01:57:20.129 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 01:57:20.830 --> 01:57:26.598 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I need a survival check and a perception check. 01:57:35.832 --> 01:57:37.093 [JC (Ryo)]: And then a plus three to the perception. 01:57:38.976 --> 01:57:39.517 [JC (Ryo)]: So a ten. 01:57:40.198 --> 01:57:40.298 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:57:42.944 --> 01:57:52.117 [Riv (DM)]: Good, um, yeah, so with the perception check you don't see or notice anything as you're, you know, wandering around, you don't see any creatures. 01:57:53.198 --> 01:57:58.826 [Riv (DM)]: With your survival check, kind of keep your eye down to look for tracks I assume, try and follow any creatures around. 01:58:00.889 --> 01:58:07.618 [Riv (DM)]: You don't notice any telltale prints of like deer, you know, there's no hooves or anything like that. 01:58:07.598 --> 01:58:16.988 [Riv (DM)]: Um, eventually you will find a very, very large pawprint of claws, um, that, you know, clear claws that have sort of like gripped to the ground. 01:58:17.549 --> 01:58:21.693 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I'm, it's, it's probably like half a foot wide. 01:58:22.434 --> 01:58:27.720 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and there's another couple beside it and then a large space between them that might've jumped some distance away. 01:58:28.861 --> 01:58:29.042 [Riv (DM)]: Um. 01:58:29.482 --> 01:58:30.383 [Riv (DM)]: Whoop, is that you? 01:58:33.029 --> 01:58:51.240 [Riv (DM)]: I did this survival check sort of poking around through the ruins and looking around I will say up ahead of you maybe a hundred feet up and then tucked in behind some some stone walls you see what looks like a 01:58:53.060 --> 01:58:57.805 [Riv (DM)]: Freshly dug earth or something like that, like soil that's been disturbed recently. 01:58:58.265 --> 01:59:04.352 [Riv (DM)]: There's like a slight raise, a slight mound of freshly dug dirt. 01:59:05.193 --> 01:59:07.795 [Riv (DM)]: It looks like it's been sort of flattened back down again, if that makes sense. 01:59:10.098 --> 01:59:10.298 [JC (Ryo)]: DM. 01:59:10.318 --> 01:59:15.083 [JC (Ryo)]: Does these paw prints, do I have any idea what they are? 01:59:16.224 --> 01:59:16.284 [Lacer (Kai)]: DM. 01:59:16.304 --> 01:59:20.248 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, there's this natural explorer in the forest. 01:59:23.485 --> 01:59:26.911 [Riv (DM)]: Here, let me confirm what the ability will be. 01:59:26.931 --> 01:59:28.333 [Riv (DM)]: I think it's going to be Arcana. 01:59:34.884 --> 01:59:36.646 [Riv (DM)]: Not Investigation? 01:59:37.007 --> 01:59:37.428 [Riv (DM)]: Or Nature? 01:59:38.389 --> 01:59:39.892 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so you think I mean Nature or Arcana? 01:59:39.932 --> 01:59:41.014 [Riv (DM)]: Let's go with Nature. 01:59:42.436 --> 01:59:45.741 [Riv (DM)]: Do a really good Nature roll. 01:59:45.862 --> 01:59:48.025 [JC (Ryo)]: It's Intelligence but I'm not proficient. 01:59:53.084 --> 01:59:54.386 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, unsure unfortunately. 01:59:55.868 --> 01:59:59.573 [Riv (DM)]: But they're heading off out, you know, outwards away from the ruins. 01:59:59.994 --> 02:00:03.820 [Riv (DM)]: So I didn't want to make it sound like the Prince were heading towards the Deserved Earth. 02:00:03.880 --> 02:00:05.522 [Riv (DM)]: They were sort of, you just sort of crossed their path. 02:00:13.193 --> 02:00:14.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, you can technically with... 02:00:18.501 --> 02:00:20.644 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Sounds like dinner is stalking us. 02:00:21.873 --> 02:00:23.536 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No, it's going away from us. 02:00:23.556 --> 02:00:23.976 [Riv (DM)]: We're not there. 02:00:24.017 --> 02:00:25.158 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, this is, this is Ryo off by himself. 02:00:29.065 --> 02:00:29.185 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh. 02:00:29.205 --> 02:00:39.121 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, you can technically, with your skill, um, Ryo, you can see how long that print was, how long ago it passed. 02:00:40.764 --> 02:00:46.193 [JC (Ryo)]: I was just gonna check, how big in comparison to, let's say, my guy's hand is this ball print? 02:00:46.932 --> 02:00:53.261 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, like, it's like half a foot, so if you hold up your hands and measure half a foot, that's probably the width of it. 02:00:53.281 --> 02:00:54.122 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: 1500. 02:00:54.162 --> 02:00:56.505 [Riv (DM)]: So it's like, if this is... 02:01:00.250 --> 02:01:01.151 [Riv (DM)]: So it's two hands. 02:01:01.512 --> 02:01:03.194 [Riv (DM)]: If this is your foot. 02:01:03.214 --> 02:01:06.418 [JC (Ryo)]: So it's a fairly big creature, so yes, okay. 02:01:06.578 --> 02:01:07.940 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably like this. 02:01:12.366 --> 02:01:13.388 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, it's a big creature. 02:01:14.970 --> 02:01:16.652 [Unmatched Speaker]: I'm excited! 02:01:17.982 --> 02:01:21.907 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I am not taking that on my own and it's going away from us. 02:01:22.248 --> 02:01:23.990 [JC (Ryo)]: I will leave that be. 02:01:25.252 --> 02:01:27.455 [JC (Ryo)]: I can tell how long ago it passed. 02:01:27.935 --> 02:01:29.297 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, I can tell how long ago it passed. 02:01:30.359 --> 02:01:30.499 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 02:01:30.819 --> 02:01:32.061 [JC (Ryo)]: And is it just on its own or? 02:01:33.423 --> 02:01:38.530 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, single set of tracks and probably passed this way a couple of days ago. 02:01:41.814 --> 02:01:42.655 [JC (Ryo)]: Cool, yeah. 02:01:42.675 --> 02:01:43.676 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, not messing with that. 02:01:43.817 --> 02:01:45.559 [JC (Ryo)]: Let's circle around. 02:01:47.497 --> 02:01:48.939 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:01:48.979 --> 02:01:50.722 [Riv (DM)]: You're going to leave the earth behind? 02:01:50.802 --> 02:01:54.407 [Riv (DM)]: I assume you'll just keep a mental track of where it was? 02:01:57.131 --> 02:02:05.244 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll stab the dug up earth with my sword, see if I can knock a little bit of it away, see if there's anything buried there. 02:02:06.646 --> 02:02:08.108 [Riv (DM)]: I have a feeling I know where it is. 02:02:09.650 --> 02:02:14.938 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'll use my sword as sort of like a bit of a shovel just to slap a bit of the dirt away. 02:02:15.357 --> 02:02:21.167 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, you can like poke around a bit in there and start, yeah, trying to dig some stuff away. 02:02:22.369 --> 02:02:30.203 [Riv (DM)]: The sword goes in maybe half the length of the blade until it stops and hits something, kind of, you poke it a bit, kind of feels soft. 02:02:33.508 --> 02:02:34.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: Bloody. 02:02:36.233 --> 02:02:40.200 [JC (Ryo)]: Does it come out bloody or does it come out just dirt? 02:02:44.585 --> 02:02:46.086 [Riv (DM)]: Little bit of blood. 02:02:48.269 --> 02:02:52.433 [Riv (DM)]: Very very little bit, like dark black blood that looks quite old, maybe. 02:02:55.336 --> 02:02:56.357 [JC (Ryo)]: That's not what I was expecting. 02:02:57.758 --> 02:03:03.384 [JC (Ryo)]: I was expecting poop. 02:03:03.404 --> 02:03:06.327 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought someone had made a mess and covered it up. 02:03:06.667 --> 02:03:13.714 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no, it seems like a bit of dark red blood that's just on the end, the tip of your sword. 02:03:15.213 --> 02:03:15.834 [Riv (DM)]: But not a lot of it. 02:03:15.974 --> 02:03:18.116 [Riv (DM)]: Just a, you know, just a bunch. 02:03:19.037 --> 02:03:22.661 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'll make a note of where the area is and how to get back here. 02:03:22.881 --> 02:03:25.704 [JC (Ryo)]: Come back with a couple of the other guys and some light maybe. 02:03:26.105 --> 02:03:30.309 [JC (Ryo)]: Some torches or something. 02:03:30.329 --> 02:03:30.429 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:03:30.449 --> 02:03:30.629 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:03:30.650 --> 02:03:32.271 [Riv (DM)]: You can, um, start heading your way back. 02:03:33.172 --> 02:03:34.774 [Riv (DM)]: Roll another possession check for me on the way back. 02:03:41.401 --> 02:03:41.841 [JC (Ryo)]: Lost three. 02:03:43.523 --> 02:03:44.224 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, good job. 02:03:44.845 --> 02:03:46.409 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:03:46.429 --> 02:03:47.071 [Riv (DM)]: Keeping your eye out. 02:03:47.632 --> 02:03:53.527 [Riv (DM)]: You're pretty confident you aren't being stalked by any large footprinted creature. 02:03:55.432 --> 02:03:58.399 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, other than that everything seems quiet at the moment with the trees. 02:03:59.408 --> 02:04:03.274 [Riv (DM)]: Well, other than the, you know, birds and stuff like that. 02:04:03.294 --> 02:04:04.136 [Riv (DM)]: Great. 02:04:04.156 --> 02:04:05.097 [Riv (DM)]: Making your way back to the group. 02:04:05.438 --> 02:04:10.986 [Riv (DM)]: At this point I assume the group, have you guys set up a campfire and you've taken the horses off the cart? 02:04:11.227 --> 02:04:12.309 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 02:04:12.930 --> 02:04:13.130 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:04:13.390 --> 02:04:18.318 [Riv (DM)]: So Ryo, you're making your way through trees, you start seeing a bit of firelight ahead of you and easy enough to get back there. 02:04:23.366 --> 02:04:23.847 [Lacer (Kai)]: I did. 02:04:27.235 --> 02:04:33.262 [Lacer (Kai)]: I dig a shallow trench and use my decanter and fill it up with a bit of water for the horses. 02:04:34.803 --> 02:04:35.084 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 02:04:35.324 --> 02:04:39.749 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they were definitely going to die tonight if you didn't drip them water. 02:04:39.769 --> 02:04:42.712 [Riv (DM)]: I'm assuming that you've purchased feed and water for them and stuff like that. 02:04:42.732 --> 02:04:49.499 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, I will calculate how many days of feed you need and I'll put a message in the chat later. 02:04:50.861 --> 02:04:53.023 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We actually haven't bought food for ourselves. 02:04:53.543 --> 02:04:57.589 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's boring, honestly. 02:04:57.749 --> 02:04:59.571 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not a big fan of worrying about that sort of stuff. 02:04:59.591 --> 02:05:02.936 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, we can if you guys want to, it's just, it's just not that fun. 02:05:03.277 --> 02:05:03.978 [JC (Ryo)]: God, please, no. 02:05:04.498 --> 02:05:13.651 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I wasn't sure how seriously you were taking it, that's why I was like, oh, alright, my guy's going hunting, just in case Riv's like, you guys have had, like, no rations for three days, you're, like, triple exhausted or some shit. 02:05:13.711 --> 02:05:17.256 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nah, it's all good, we've been eating good berries the whole time. 02:05:17.354 --> 02:05:29.027 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly if you want to keep track of food and stuff like I'm all good to do that as well and like it makes it fun for you Rio to have to go and hunt but um it's yeah I'm not worried just hand waving it to be honest because it's yeah. 02:05:29.047 --> 02:05:31.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah any days we hunt don't hunt I just could bury it. 02:05:32.832 --> 02:05:38.778 [Riv (DM)]: I just assume Rio is constantly hunting or you've like spent a few silver in towns to buy rations and stuff like that that's all good. 02:05:39.479 --> 02:05:42.923 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Unless you're doing like a hardcore wilderness survival campaign. 02:05:43.527 --> 02:05:52.263 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like, if you walk into a town in D&D with a gold point piece, you can buy a lot of basics. 02:05:53.285 --> 02:05:57.874 [Riv (DM)]: I think a gold buys your rations for like two weeks or something like that. 02:06:00.115 --> 02:06:00.656 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:06:00.836 --> 02:06:02.278 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're retiring, everybody. 02:06:02.438 --> 02:06:03.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're buying rations for years. 02:06:05.161 --> 02:06:14.273 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, Rio, you can find your group who have now settled down around the fire and feeding the horses and maybe having some food themselves. 02:06:16.656 --> 02:06:20.561 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I hold back the urge to loose an arrow to scare Dondar. 02:06:22.103 --> 02:06:23.044 [JC (Ryo)]: Just walk back in the camp. 02:06:25.687 --> 02:06:28.050 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Cool. 02:06:28.130 --> 02:06:29.532 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar suspects nothing. 02:06:32.245 --> 02:06:33.547 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No sign of the fine golds out there? 02:06:35.229 --> 02:06:35.669 [JC (Ryo)]: No. 02:06:35.709 --> 02:06:38.533 [JC (Ryo)]: No game either, unfortunately. 02:06:38.593 --> 02:06:41.296 [JC (Ryo)]: Just some tracks, something big. 02:06:43.999 --> 02:06:46.903 [JC (Ryo)]: And, um, something buried out there. 02:06:46.923 --> 02:06:50.607 [JC (Ryo)]: Sort of hoping one or two years would come and give me a hand digging this thing up. 02:06:52.570 --> 02:06:55.293 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm guessing it's a body, I'm not 100% sure. 02:06:55.333 --> 02:07:00.379 [JC (Ryo)]: There's something, it's dead, but it's buried, so it just makes me wonder. 02:07:05.827 --> 02:07:13.437 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm hoping you just didn't answer my question about our other fine golds out there. 02:07:14.378 --> 02:07:17.201 [JC (Ryo)]: I didn't think about that, but oops. 02:07:18.383 --> 02:07:19.244 [JC (Ryo)]: That's disturbing. 02:07:19.905 --> 02:07:23.469 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, it's getting dark, I think. 02:07:25.011 --> 02:07:26.012 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll check in the morning. 02:07:26.413 --> 02:07:28.155 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Probably not going to be moving real quick tonight. 02:07:32.303 --> 02:07:38.633 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Large beasts in the area, so I highly recommend... Oh, the tracks are a few days old. 02:07:38.693 --> 02:07:44.421 [Lacer (Kai)]: He should be gone, but... Might be patrolling his territory, maybe? 02:07:44.441 --> 02:07:47.065 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or her, or whatever it is. 02:07:47.125 --> 02:07:49.829 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hunting for fresh health. 02:07:50.711 --> 02:07:56.860 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're at unknown territory and we have two four-legged giant bags of meat over there, so that's gonna draw anything in that's hungry. 02:08:01.953 --> 02:08:06.681 [Lacer (Kai)]: Should we make like a makeshift barricade of some sort? 02:08:06.881 --> 02:08:10.246 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like sharpened stakes around the area? 02:08:12.991 --> 02:08:18.039 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Probably couldn't throw a coupling if we got a little bit of time. 02:08:18.059 --> 02:08:18.279 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 02:08:21.184 --> 02:08:26.192 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think we can do like a full barricade but maybe just... Something better than nothing. 02:08:26.953 --> 02:08:28.095 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A couple of obvious thoroughfares. 02:08:31.568 --> 02:08:33.090 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, let's start working on that. 02:08:33.731 --> 02:08:35.714 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's got an axe or a hatchet? 02:08:37.337 --> 02:08:38.439 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I've got a greatsword. 02:08:40.742 --> 02:08:42.204 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have an axe. 02:08:43.286 --> 02:08:44.828 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'll help. 02:08:44.848 --> 02:08:46.230 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm not sure they're suitable for this. 02:08:50.377 --> 02:08:51.458 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, what have I got? 02:08:51.478 --> 02:08:53.782 [Lacer (Kai)]: What can I... 02:08:53.802 --> 02:08:57.087 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But then again, I haven't used my axe for literally anything. 02:08:59.969 --> 02:09:04.614 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So it might as well be for cutting stakes. 02:09:04.634 --> 02:09:06.076 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sure, I'll give you a hand. 02:09:09.901 --> 02:09:11.182 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:09:11.202 --> 02:09:16.408 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so you gotta start carving up some stakes aye, and just sort of like plonking them around the campfire a bit. 02:09:18.150 --> 02:09:18.551 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:09:19.152 --> 02:09:20.353 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Obvious paths in. 02:09:21.735 --> 02:09:22.355 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 02:09:22.375 --> 02:09:25.259 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: To slow anything down that wants to run at us in the night. 02:09:26.480 --> 02:09:26.800 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:09:27.181 --> 02:09:28.963 [Riv (DM)]: Horses, are they tied? 02:09:31.829 --> 02:09:34.194 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I guess we'd do the old... 02:09:34.274 --> 02:09:35.175 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yes, yes. 02:09:35.496 --> 02:09:37.460 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They drive a stake in and then you tie them to the stake. 02:09:38.722 --> 02:09:38.822 [JC (Ryo)]: Cool. 02:09:38.842 --> 02:09:49.022 [Riv (DM)]: Tie them to a tree. 02:09:49.042 --> 02:09:49.302 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:09:49.583 --> 02:09:50.044 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:09:50.064 --> 02:09:51.366 [Riv (DM)]: So the... Let's do this one. 02:09:52.248 --> 02:09:53.871 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just thought of a great idea. 02:09:55.606 --> 02:10:02.516 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna use the Decanter of Endless Water and I can make water trenches. 02:10:02.536 --> 02:10:05.119 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just blast trenches of water into the ground. 02:10:06.761 --> 02:10:08.584 [JC (Ryo)]: When did we pick one of them up? 02:10:08.604 --> 02:10:11.127 [Lacer (Kai)]: I bought it for like a thousand gold, dude. 02:10:11.147 --> 02:10:13.330 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh yeah, you bought it last session, that's right. 02:10:13.351 --> 02:10:13.871 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's what I'm gonna do. 02:10:13.891 --> 02:10:15.614 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm gonna seal off areas with water. 02:10:15.654 --> 02:10:20.060 [Lacer (Kai)]: Make water trenches with the geyser effect. 02:10:21.161 --> 02:10:22.423 [JC (Ryo)]: You're gonna dig trenches first? 02:10:22.927 --> 02:10:26.733 [Lacer (Kai)]: I use the water to, like a hydro, hydro, like a pressure washer. 02:10:31.581 --> 02:10:32.743 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay, great. 02:10:34.686 --> 02:10:48.208 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wherever, with the guidance of Valoran, we're just strategically placing them. 02:10:49.336 --> 02:10:56.901 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Don't go too crazy with it, because that'd probably take us all night to fortify anything serious, so... Yeah. 02:10:57.142 --> 02:10:57.523 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 02:10:58.769 --> 02:11:04.616 [Riv (DM)]: I just realized that I've had all three of my browser windows playing music. 02:11:05.918 --> 02:11:09.162 [Riv (DM)]: I hope that's not going to be super fucking wacky in the recording. 02:11:09.202 --> 02:11:11.685 [Riv (DM)]: Never mind. 02:11:12.846 --> 02:11:17.032 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think it was too badly out of sync because otherwise it would have sounded horrible through my own output. 02:11:17.973 --> 02:11:18.814 [Riv (DM)]: All good. 02:11:19.955 --> 02:11:20.175 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:11:20.195 --> 02:11:23.560 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you can spend a bit of time cutting some stakes and stuff like that, barricading the area a bit. 02:11:23.940 --> 02:11:26.363 [Riv (DM)]: You're going to make a little moat or a trench or something like that. 02:11:26.343 --> 02:11:29.287 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, strategic mini-murts around the place. 02:11:29.368 --> 02:11:30.870 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, cool. 02:11:31.992 --> 02:11:32.873 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, fantastic. 02:11:32.893 --> 02:11:48.857 [Riv (DM)]: So, the evening comes around and birdsong starts to disappear to get replaced with crickets and other, you know, owl sounds and game roars off in the distance or small animal chirping here and, you know, all sorts. 02:11:48.837 --> 02:11:54.093 [Riv (DM)]: It's a busy forest but difficult to really kind of see anything just because of how dense it is. 02:11:54.133 --> 02:12:01.716 [Riv (DM)]: There's so many structures around and the trees itself almost seem to be choking all space around you. 02:12:03.265 --> 02:12:13.680 [Riv (DM)]: So, if you hunker down to sleep for the night, Lee is going to hop up into the cart and just, assuming the cart is close enough to the fire as well, and bundle up in there. 02:12:14.702 --> 02:12:16.645 [Riv (DM)]: And the rest of you can be wherever you want to be. 02:12:17.426 --> 02:12:22.293 [Riv (DM)]: Let's do a couple of perception checks as we do night shifts, assuming you want to do night shifts. 02:12:23.956 --> 02:12:24.196 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 02:12:24.216 --> 02:12:26.199 [Riv (DM)]: John, who's on mid-watch? 02:12:26.920 --> 02:12:29.644 [JC (Ryo)]: Hey, quick reminder, Riv, how long are each one of these watches? 02:12:30.535 --> 02:12:58.568 [Riv (DM)]: So over an eight hour period you need to sleep for six hours I believe is the rule and so that means um as long as if you want to get a long rest um as long as you personally get six hours um then it's good so I think what you want to do is I need less though you yeah you you can do it with less so I think the way it would normally work out for a group of humans it would be you'd want to do two hour shifts and you'd have four shifts of two hours 02:13:01.585 --> 02:13:03.148 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, we're doing four shifts now. 02:13:03.309 --> 02:13:06.655 [Riv (DM)]: I think we've been doing three because you're an elf, so you don't need as much. 02:13:07.437 --> 02:13:08.900 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I only need four hours, so... 02:13:10.603 --> 02:13:12.648 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, so we'll get doing three shifts then. 02:13:15.193 --> 02:13:15.553 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:13:17.938 --> 02:13:19.521 [Riv (DM)]: So, who's taking first shift then? 02:13:20.824 --> 02:13:21.265 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll do it first. 02:13:21.717 --> 02:13:31.652 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I pass you the horn I procured from Skyreach, from one of the guards, and I go, if anything happens, wake us all, and then pass it to the next guy. 02:13:31.692 --> 02:13:33.955 [Lacer (Kai)]: The horn, as in... yeah. 02:13:35.718 --> 02:13:42.568 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, look at the horn, look at our party that's all within, like, spitting distance of each other and go... You know... you know what? 02:13:46.855 --> 02:13:48.417 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hey, it might alert the Feingolds. 02:13:48.835 --> 02:13:50.417 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it might be good. 02:13:50.698 --> 02:13:52.761 [Lacer (Kai)]: It might be bad, but I don't know. 02:13:54.864 --> 02:13:56.006 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:13:56.026 --> 02:14:00.073 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I would like to also cast Vigilant Blessing on myself before I nap. 02:14:03.117 --> 02:14:03.939 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'll take Third Watch. 02:14:05.080 --> 02:14:08.866 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: As long as it doesn't bring the Pevensie kids, we should be fine. 02:14:11.711 --> 02:14:11.811 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:14:11.831 --> 02:14:12.091 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:14:12.392 --> 02:14:15.737 [Riv (DM)]: Um, is anyone up with Vaeleran as well, or are we taking him on Personships? 02:14:17.118 --> 02:14:21.925 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll take the second shift. 02:14:26.031 --> 02:14:26.772 [Lacer (Kai)]: Who's with Val? 02:14:28.795 --> 02:14:29.095 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar. 02:14:31.399 --> 02:14:31.659 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:14:32.781 --> 02:14:34.383 [Riv (DM)]: You can roll a Perseverance as well if you want, Dondar. 02:14:38.309 --> 02:14:40.532 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Here, here, here. 02:14:41.173 --> 02:14:41.814 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Persuasion? 02:14:41.894 --> 02:14:43.677 [Riv (DM)]: No. 02:14:43.697 --> 02:14:45.960 [Riv (DM)]: Persuade the darkness to tell you what's out there. 02:14:46.413 --> 02:14:47.014 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Fuck me. 02:14:47.455 --> 02:14:47.816 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:14:48.457 --> 02:14:49.399 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Everything seems quiet. 02:14:50.761 --> 02:14:51.803 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Better get good attack rolls. 02:14:52.083 --> 02:14:52.304 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:14:53.526 --> 02:14:54.448 [Riv (DM)]: Get them all out of the way now. 02:14:55.610 --> 02:14:57.073 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of hours go by. 02:14:57.433 --> 02:14:58.255 [Riv (DM)]: Everything seems quiet. 02:14:58.295 --> 02:14:59.437 [Riv (DM)]: The fire's just crackling away. 02:15:01.260 --> 02:15:05.348 [Riv (DM)]: Crickets are still chirping. 02:15:05.548 --> 02:15:08.313 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, everything passes by on this shift with no concerns. 02:15:08.995 --> 02:15:10.277 [Riv (DM)]: So we can move over to the next people. 02:15:11.371 --> 02:15:13.274 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I pick up the horn. 02:15:13.334 --> 02:15:18.562 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Don't say I shouldn't die awake and hand him the horn. 02:15:18.582 --> 02:15:20.504 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, thanks buddy. 02:15:22.588 --> 02:15:29.818 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, just hang the horn around my neck and yeah, take my position near the fire. 02:15:31.240 --> 02:15:33.143 [Riv (DM)]: And is anyone else with Kai? 02:15:33.376 --> 02:15:34.418 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I'll be with. 02:15:35.159 --> 02:15:41.207 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: And I would like to remind Kai to please not deafen us with the horn, because my dagger will wake us. 02:15:42.129 --> 02:15:44.412 [Lacer (Kai)]: Don't worry, I'll blow it in backwards, you know? 02:15:45.794 --> 02:15:47.416 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:15:47.436 --> 02:15:57.170 [Riv (DM)]: Hearing a bit of rustling, Leah's gonna roll out from under the cart and come over and sit by the fire during this shift as well, and just sort of hang out with you all. 02:15:59.213 --> 02:16:02.438 [Riv (DM)]: Any round then, she'll pull out her locker and just sort of look into it again. 02:16:04.696 --> 02:16:07.540 [Riv (DM)]: So, let's get perception checks from you two. 02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:11.284 [Riv (DM)]: And also, one of you roll me a d20. 02:16:12.125 --> 02:16:13.427 [Riv (DM)]: Just a flat d20. 02:16:13.647 --> 02:16:15.429 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, rolling d20. 02:16:15.550 --> 02:16:15.890 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Where is it? 02:16:16.391 --> 02:16:17.812 [Unmatched Speaker]: Go dice roll! 02:16:21.837 --> 02:16:22.038 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:16:23.600 --> 02:16:24.501 [Riv (DM)]: Good. 02:16:26.063 --> 02:16:27.885 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, good rolls. 02:16:32.135 --> 02:16:35.900 [Riv (DM)]: You're sure in the distance with your... 02:16:36.421 --> 02:16:38.524 [Riv (DM)]: I believe, Kai, you had Vigilant Blessing. 02:16:39.725 --> 02:16:39.986 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 02:16:40.006 --> 02:16:41.508 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, and that's not the one that gives you darkvision, right? 02:16:41.528 --> 02:16:42.289 [Riv (DM)]: You just have darkvision. 02:16:42.309 --> 02:16:43.471 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I have darkvision. 02:16:43.511 --> 02:16:43.731 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:16:43.931 --> 02:16:44.993 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just naturally for 300 feet. 02:16:45.013 --> 02:16:56.909 [Riv (DM)]: You're sure you see a fairly large shadowy form pass in between some ruins like hundreds of feet away down a line along one of these sort of curved things that are just gonna... just vanishes past. 02:16:57.670 --> 02:16:59.813 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that, you don't hear or see anything. 02:17:01.227 --> 02:17:03.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: I motion to Erendor. 02:17:04.210 --> 02:17:04.510 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hear that? 02:17:15.341 --> 02:17:15.441 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nope. 02:17:15.461 --> 02:17:16.922 [Lacer (Kai)]: I point into the direction. 02:17:17.223 --> 02:17:17.943 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, am I gone? 02:17:18.804 --> 02:17:20.226 [JC (Ryo)]: No, Deathmouse is gone. 02:17:20.826 --> 02:17:21.387 [JC (Ryo)]: He's gone. 02:17:21.607 --> 02:17:22.027 [JC (Ryo)]: There he is. 02:17:24.690 --> 02:17:25.291 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Discord. 02:17:26.792 --> 02:17:27.112 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:17:27.132 --> 02:17:27.353 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Okay. 02:17:28.194 --> 02:17:29.715 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: Last thing I heard was Vigilant Blessing. 02:17:30.404 --> 02:17:40.777 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, well I see a shadow a couple of hundred feet out towards the A direction and I point it out to you and I go, do you hear anything that way? 02:17:43.721 --> 02:17:45.423 [Riv (DM)]: Well I can't see anything out that far. 02:17:46.744 --> 02:17:51.911 [Riv (DM)]: Leah sort of pokes her head up as well but again she can't really see much past the campfire light radius. 02:17:54.554 --> 02:17:55.956 [Riv (DM)]: But no, you don't see anything else out there. 02:17:59.463 --> 02:18:01.286 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many feet, roughly? 02:18:01.946 --> 02:18:02.547 [Riv (DM)]: Couple hundred, maybe? 02:18:04.490 --> 02:18:05.672 [Lacer (Kai)]: Too far to cast the spell. 02:18:06.112 --> 02:18:06.973 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, not super close. 02:18:11.960 --> 02:18:12.261 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:18:13.062 --> 02:18:13.422 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well then. 02:18:16.707 --> 02:18:23.496 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm tempted to wake everybody, but it's a couple hundred feet away, so... Maybe I'll wait it out. 02:18:28.606 --> 02:18:29.953 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: What's that you've been playing with, Lee? 02:18:33.070 --> 02:18:33.452 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, oh this? 02:18:33.794 --> 02:18:33.975 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 02:18:35.879 --> 02:18:39.985 [Riv (DM)]: She points it towards you. 02:18:40.005 --> 02:18:46.253 [Riv (DM)]: It's like an octagonal brass box-like locket. 02:18:47.575 --> 02:18:49.357 [Riv (DM)]: The top has currently popped open. 02:18:50.159 --> 02:19:02.916 [Riv (DM)]: Angles it towards you and inside you can see there's a bit of paper or vellum or something like that with a sketch of two people that are just sort of looking towards the perspective of the drawing and smiling. 02:19:07.402 --> 02:19:10.647 [Riv (DM)]: It's just something to remember them by, you know? 02:19:11.568 --> 02:19:13.211 [Riv (DM)]: It's all I've got left from my old life. 02:19:15.955 --> 02:19:16.816 [Deathmouse (Eryndor)]: I understand that. 02:19:24.247 --> 02:19:29.556 [Riv (DM)]: She snaps the lid shut and just puts it down, back between her... down her shirt. 02:19:33.441 --> 02:19:34.523 [Riv (DM)]: Another half an hour goes by. 02:19:37.507 --> 02:19:38.067 [Riv (DM)]: No movement. 02:19:38.868 --> 02:19:39.329 [Riv (DM)]: No sounds. 02:19:41.050 --> 02:19:45.294 [Riv (DM)]: Owls chirp. 02:19:45.834 --> 02:19:50.618 [Riv (DM)]: And then another half an hour goes by, and your shift comes to an end. 02:19:50.638 --> 02:19:50.958 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:19:52.420 --> 02:20:02.769 [Lacer (Kai)]: I take the horn off around my neck, and I proceed to pass it to the next person, but before I do pass it, I mention to them I saw a shadow a couple hundred feet out. 02:20:02.809 --> 02:20:06.872 [Lacer (Kai)]: No threat, but keep your eyes 02:20:07.932 --> 02:20:10.094 [Lacer (Kai)]: Your ears open. 02:20:15.079 --> 02:20:16.020 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, alright. 02:20:16.040 --> 02:20:18.663 [Riv (DM)]: The early morning shift, who's taking this one? 02:20:20.004 --> 02:20:21.145 [JC (Ryo)]: That's me. 02:20:21.165 --> 02:20:22.206 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, there's you. 02:20:22.947 --> 02:20:23.748 [Riv (DM)]: Perception check. 02:20:31.095 --> 02:20:31.435 [JC (Ryo)]: Twelve? 02:20:33.477 --> 02:20:34.058 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, yeah. 02:20:35.438 --> 02:20:36.460 [Riv (DM)]: All good, actually. 02:20:37.423 --> 02:20:38.044 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely nothing. 02:20:38.064 --> 02:20:40.309 [Riv (DM)]: I think you've got good darkvision as well, right? 02:20:40.329 --> 02:20:41.612 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, 94. 02:20:41.913 --> 02:20:42.214 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:20:43.096 --> 02:20:43.697 [Riv (DM)]: No, all good. 02:20:44.238 --> 02:20:45.802 [Riv (DM)]: No signs of any additional shadows now. 02:20:46.263 --> 02:20:48.047 [Riv (DM)]: It seems like whatever it was, was 02:20:48.787 --> 02:20:51.530 [Riv (DM)]: Passing through, checking things out, but hasn't come any closer. 02:20:53.793 --> 02:21:09.390 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, and your shift comes to an end with no disturbance as the forest around you starts to become just ever so slightly lighter as whatever light from the rising sun manages to get in between the branches and the foliage. 02:21:10.791 --> 02:21:12.894 [Riv (DM)]: And the rest of you can slowly begin to get roused, awake. 02:21:17.459 --> 02:21:18.540 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Got a successful long rest? 02:21:18.942 --> 02:21:20.324 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, take your long rests. 02:21:28.194 --> 02:21:42.472 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And as the camp's waking up, I'll do the usual, wander around, take people's gear, make sure their armor scraps are all sitting, bowstrings are oiled, magic spells prepared for the day, the prepared casters. 02:21:43.834 --> 02:21:44.114 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:21:44.134 --> 02:21:46.958 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So everyone's tipped up on the game, got that where they want, ready to go. 02:21:47.883 --> 02:21:51.747 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And give everyone a D8 for aspiring leader. 02:21:51.767 --> 02:21:56.673 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Actually, what is it? 02:21:56.693 --> 02:21:58.475 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Extra 8 Temp HP to start the day. 02:22:00.237 --> 02:22:00.437 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 02:22:01.158 --> 02:22:01.759 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 02:22:01.779 --> 02:22:03.180 [Riv (DM)]: How many people can you do that to? 02:22:03.881 --> 02:22:06.304 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I believe it's six. 02:22:06.364 --> 02:22:08.086 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Six allies, including myself. 02:22:08.306 --> 02:22:09.667 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So yeah, we can have it as well. 02:22:10.108 --> 02:22:10.268 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:22:10.288 --> 02:22:12.370 [Riv (DM)]: So do you roll up? 02:22:12.390 --> 02:22:12.931 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just a straight. 02:22:12.991 --> 02:22:14.373 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's based on my Charisma bonus. 02:22:14.633 --> 02:22:14.933 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, nice. 02:22:15.274 --> 02:22:15.874 [Riv (DM)]: Do you say 8? 02:22:15.995 --> 02:22:16.455 [Riv (DM)]: 8. 02:22:16.735 --> 02:22:17.316 [Riv (DM)]: Incredible. 02:22:20.738 --> 02:22:21.579 [Unmatched Speaker]: Good stuff. 02:22:25.244 --> 02:22:25.424 [JC (Ryo)]: Cool. 02:22:25.444 --> 02:22:26.706 [JC (Ryo)]: You said you can give it to six people? 02:22:27.226 --> 02:22:28.808 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 02:22:28.828 --> 02:22:29.930 [JC (Ryo)]: Might as well give it to the kid too. 02:22:30.190 --> 02:22:30.931 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, yeah. 02:22:30.951 --> 02:22:32.673 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, he's done, he's done that. 02:22:32.873 --> 02:22:33.013 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:22:35.376 --> 02:22:36.978 [Riv (DM)]: It's a, it's a strong looking kid now. 02:22:40.363 --> 02:22:44.728 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so, um, as the dawn comes, what do you guys, what's the plan? 02:22:44.768 --> 02:22:45.209 [Riv (DM)]: What are we doing? 02:22:48.193 --> 02:22:50.155 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, it sounds like we got ourselves a bit of grave robbing. 02:22:52.075 --> 02:22:52.515 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:22:53.356 --> 02:22:59.042 [JC (Ryo)]: Should we check out that thing, see if that thing you saw last night's still there, or do you want to go check out this thing I found? 02:23:00.404 --> 02:23:02.646 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just want to do a quick once-over. 02:23:03.067 --> 02:23:04.748 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, around the camp, yeah. 02:23:05.769 --> 02:23:06.650 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:23:06.670 --> 02:23:12.817 [Lacer (Kai)]: I want to do a perception check around the camp, see if any tracks came close to the camp. 02:23:13.177 --> 02:23:13.718 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, go for it. 02:23:14.258 --> 02:23:15.940 [Riv (DM)]: This'll be an investigation. 02:23:16.409 --> 02:23:17.211 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, Investigation. 02:23:17.351 --> 02:23:17.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:23:17.972 --> 02:23:18.052 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:23:18.072 --> 02:23:18.593 [Riv (DM)]: Or Survival. 02:23:18.814 --> 02:23:19.455 [Riv (DM)]: Whatever you feel like. 02:23:20.758 --> 02:23:21.639 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, I should've went Survival. 02:23:21.880 --> 02:23:22.180 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nevermind. 02:23:22.361 --> 02:23:23.623 [Riv (DM)]: It's all good. 02:23:23.643 --> 02:23:24.004 [Riv (DM)]: It's all good. 02:23:24.024 --> 02:23:26.108 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing seems... You don't see any tracks close to the camp. 02:23:26.990 --> 02:23:29.394 [Riv (DM)]: Did you want to go and look further away as well, where you saw the shadow? 02:23:31.158 --> 02:23:31.539 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not yet. 02:23:31.819 --> 02:23:35.226 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll make a note to everyone that I did see a shadow out a couple hundred feet. 02:23:35.747 --> 02:23:35.847 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:23:35.867 --> 02:23:37.170 [Lacer (Kai)]: In that direction. 02:23:37.831 --> 02:23:37.911 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:23:41.300 --> 02:23:41.701 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:23:42.281 --> 02:23:49.751 [Riv (DM)]: So, as we get ready to pack up and start doing something, are we going to bring the horses with us now, or are we leaving them here? 02:23:51.934 --> 02:23:55.119 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: The meat sacks, don't we have to bring them up? 02:23:55.159 --> 02:23:57.602 [Lacer (Kai)]: Meat shields. 02:23:59.385 --> 02:24:00.286 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't think we should. 02:24:00.847 --> 02:24:05.653 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I would imagine these ruins probably don't have a whole lot of thoroughfare cut room through them. 02:24:06.157 --> 02:24:11.485 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you probably can go a little bit further, but at this point the going's gonna get tough. 02:24:13.689 --> 02:24:17.295 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, we could leave the cart behind and just bring the two horses along with us at least. 02:24:17.315 --> 02:24:18.557 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's a good idea. 02:24:22.804 --> 02:24:24.466 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just take the horses and leave the cart. 02:24:24.687 --> 02:24:26.429 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can come back for the cart. 02:24:26.449 --> 02:24:28.332 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nothing's gonna attack the cart really, right? 02:24:30.596 --> 02:24:33.160 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Those goblins, they'll strip it down to the rims. 02:24:34.895 --> 02:24:40.702 [Lacer (Kai)]: He means, to the nails. 02:24:44.986 --> 02:24:52.975 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, if you want the horse, Rio, go for it. 02:24:52.996 --> 02:24:55.418 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I'm not riding it, but I'm just, you shouldn't leave it here. 02:24:56.820 --> 02:25:02.286 [JC (Ryo)]: It can't really fend for itself unless we're going to let them go. 02:25:03.008 --> 02:25:04.069 [Lacer (Kai)]: Actually, you know what? 02:25:04.791 --> 02:25:06.032 [Lacer (Kai)]: We get Leah to ride a horse. 02:25:06.793 --> 02:25:07.835 [Lacer (Kai)]: She's got shorter legs, right? 02:25:08.195 --> 02:25:09.697 [Lacer (Kai)]: And we get Dondar to ride the horse. 02:25:11.240 --> 02:25:15.345 [Riv (DM)]: Leah just says, probably be more comfortable on my feet, just in case. 02:25:16.026 --> 02:25:16.827 [Riv (DM)]: Easier to hide, you know? 02:25:20.633 --> 02:25:21.935 [Lacer (Kai)]: But it's faster to run, right? 02:25:24.138 --> 02:25:24.999 [Riv (DM)]: In these woods? 02:25:25.219 --> 02:25:27.002 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if the horse is going to be able to go there fast. 02:25:28.864 --> 02:25:29.726 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 02:25:29.766 --> 02:25:32.830 [Lacer (Kai)]: Don't worry, we're here. 02:25:34.953 --> 02:25:36.035 [Riv (DM)]: She gives you a faint smile. 02:25:36.416 --> 02:25:37.238 [Riv (DM)]: Nervous smile, maybe. 02:25:40.664 --> 02:25:42.769 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I will walk with the horse. 02:25:43.570 --> 02:25:43.991 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 02:25:44.011 --> 02:25:45.093 [Riv (DM)]: Horses in tow being led. 02:25:46.155 --> 02:25:47.638 [Riv (DM)]: Where are we off to? 02:25:51.045 --> 02:25:51.827 [JC (Ryo)]: Shallowgrave. 02:25:52.949 --> 02:25:55.915 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll take point and lead people back to where I found that pile. 02:25:56.182 --> 02:25:56.382 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:25:57.203 --> 02:26:10.235 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so yeah, the way is sort of, it angles off to the left from the direction that you came following loosely one of these big like open concentric circles of ruins. 02:26:10.295 --> 02:26:14.519 [Riv (DM)]: Every now and then you have to duck in to avoid a bunch of trees and then get back onto the outside again. 02:26:14.879 --> 02:26:16.301 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of picking your way slowly through. 02:26:16.501 --> 02:26:23.387 [Riv (DM)]: Every now and then you have to almost manhandle one of the horses, like lift him up and over and convince them to get through small gaps and stuff like that. 02:26:23.367 --> 02:26:30.355 [Riv (DM)]: But after half an hour or so, you get back to this sort of place, the general location that Rio was before. 02:26:30.535 --> 02:26:35.621 [Riv (DM)]: And easy enough, since he is comfortable in the forest, he can lead you back to the place. 02:26:35.681 --> 02:26:45.592 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, just over there, behind the same ruined wall, you can see, yeah, the fresh pile of dirt. 02:26:45.612 --> 02:26:45.672 [JC (Ryo)]: DM. 02:26:45.692 --> 02:26:45.772 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv? 02:26:47.174 --> 02:26:47.374 [JC (Ryo)]: DM. 02:26:47.394 --> 02:26:47.614 [JC (Ryo)]: Mhm? 02:26:47.654 --> 02:26:47.714 [JC (Ryo)]: DM. 02:26:47.754 --> 02:26:50.117 [JC (Ryo)]: Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel? 02:26:50.705 --> 02:26:51.586 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, cool. 02:26:51.606 --> 02:26:53.790 [JC (Ryo)]: There's a part of the theme, just saying it out loud? 02:26:53.990 --> 02:26:55.412 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, yeah, yeah, no, good to know. 02:26:58.056 --> 02:27:02.623 [Riv (DM)]: So, travel was... was good, just, um, I guess... 02:27:02.643 --> 02:27:03.704 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, sorry, sorry. 02:27:03.925 --> 02:27:04.486 [Riv (DM)]: Flavourful? 02:27:08.532 --> 02:27:09.293 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Plenty of roughage. 02:27:09.553 --> 02:27:09.753 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:27:10.975 --> 02:27:13.619 [Riv (DM)]: Just flavour text, but... 02:27:13.639 --> 02:27:14.861 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing, nothing you can't handle. 02:27:15.622 --> 02:27:17.505 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty, so yeah, you arrive at the spot. 02:27:19.882 --> 02:27:27.953 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, this is, uh, I thought it was something else to start with and then, yeah, a bit of blood was on the edge of my sword when I poked it. 02:27:30.596 --> 02:27:32.639 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, can someone hold the horse? 02:27:33.039 --> 02:27:33.820 [Lacer (Kai)]: I wanna do something cool. 02:27:34.441 --> 02:27:38.106 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Does this look dug or does it look flawed? 02:27:39.588 --> 02:27:39.969 [Riv (DM)]: That's great. 02:27:40.029 --> 02:27:40.910 [Riv (DM)]: That's an interesting question. 02:27:41.290 --> 02:27:42.852 [Riv (DM)]: Um, what would we do for that? 02:27:42.993 --> 02:27:44.134 [Riv (DM)]: Probably an investigation? 02:27:44.772 --> 02:27:47.957 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, pretty obvious difference. 02:27:48.197 --> 02:27:48.898 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or survival? 02:27:49.399 --> 02:27:49.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or nature? 02:27:50.580 --> 02:27:50.841 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:27:51.902 --> 02:27:52.663 [Riv (DM)]: Super easy roll. 02:27:56.849 --> 02:27:57.250 [Riv (DM)]: Reception? 02:27:57.891 --> 02:27:58.632 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, investigation. 02:28:00.735 --> 02:28:01.716 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not good with that. 02:28:05.582 --> 02:28:06.142 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:28:06.162 --> 02:28:08.686 [Riv (DM)]: Um, you don't see any claw marks or anything like that around, no. 02:28:09.828 --> 02:28:12.231 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay, so this could be people, Doug? 02:28:14.523 --> 02:28:20.098 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Radio, well, as you were, Kai. 02:28:20.198 --> 02:28:20.379 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:28:20.740 --> 02:28:22.725 [Lacer (Kai)]: You guys noticed that it was buried. 02:28:23.126 --> 02:28:26.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: I cast Spiritual Weapon in the shape of a shovel! 02:28:27.779 --> 02:28:29.022 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh my gosh. 02:28:29.305 --> 02:28:31.147 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I'll allow it. 02:28:31.187 --> 02:28:31.627 [Riv (DM)]: That is cool. 02:28:31.887 --> 02:28:32.308 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 02:28:33.168 --> 02:28:37.872 [Riv (DM)]: So you, um, I guess describe, I think this is the first time you've cast your spiritual evil. 02:28:37.892 --> 02:28:38.753 [Riv (DM)]: It is the first time. 02:28:39.053 --> 02:28:41.295 [Riv (DM)]: I think I know what it looks like, but why don't you let the others know? 02:28:42.496 --> 02:28:45.999 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, this is a shovel, so it's not the scythe I was thinking about, you know? 02:28:46.139 --> 02:28:47.721 [Riv (DM)]: I assume it's made of the same material though. 02:28:48.321 --> 02:28:53.466 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, it's a, it has a luminous bluish moon, moonlight glow. 02:28:53.506 --> 02:28:58.570 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's kind of ethereal in shape, but it's like a nicely crafted shovel. 02:29:00.912 --> 02:29:06.319 [Riv (DM)]: Imagine this, but in shovel form. 02:29:09.943 --> 02:29:10.865 [Riv (DM)]: That's what you see me right Kai? 02:29:12.427 --> 02:29:13.368 [Riv (DM)]: Where did you post this? 02:29:20.016 --> 02:29:20.777 [Riv (DM)]: See on the thing there? 02:29:30.646 --> 02:29:31.668 [Riv (DM)]: Did you not see anything? 02:29:31.688 --> 02:29:32.109 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, right, right. 02:29:32.169 --> 02:29:33.231 [Lacer (Kai)]: I thought it was Discord. 02:29:33.271 --> 02:29:34.533 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry, I alt-tabbed. 02:29:34.553 --> 02:29:36.457 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, no, no, in the... Yeah, yeah, it's like that. 02:29:36.758 --> 02:29:38.441 [Lacer (Kai)]: Something like that, but in a shovel form. 02:29:38.802 --> 02:29:39.002 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:29:39.783 --> 02:29:44.212 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's like a starry, moony type... type shovel. 02:29:45.374 --> 02:29:48.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I get away at digging with this ethereal shovel. 02:29:48.618 --> 02:29:50.082 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:29:50.102 --> 02:29:50.784 [Riv (DM)]: Starts digging away. 02:29:50.884 --> 02:29:52.909 [Riv (DM)]: Are you holding it with your hands or are you controlling it with your mind? 02:29:53.651 --> 02:29:54.774 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, with my mind. 02:29:54.795 --> 02:29:55.336 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 02:29:56.058 --> 02:29:58.625 [Riv (DM)]: Don't want to get your hands dirty. 02:29:58.645 --> 02:29:59.567 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, a veil. 02:29:59.668 --> 02:30:01.733 [Riv (DM)]: I've got those diggers in the game. 02:30:03.333 --> 02:30:07.198 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I can't remember because I know there's a few weapons like that. 02:30:07.498 --> 02:30:08.960 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I mean it doesn't take very long. 02:30:09.221 --> 02:30:22.417 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably a foot or two down before it starts kind of hitting something and you can use it to start scraping away the soil and sure enough yeah you notice a bit of fabric and as you start digging away at a bit more you can notice a bit of skin. 02:30:23.138 --> 02:30:24.480 [Riv (DM)]: How deep are we going? 02:30:25.827 --> 02:30:28.910 [Lacer (Kai)]: Uh, we're gonna dig all around the body and unearth it. 02:30:29.151 --> 02:30:29.912 [Lacer (Kai)]: Unearth it, yeah. 02:30:31.493 --> 02:30:31.653 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:30:31.674 --> 02:30:33.355 [Riv (DM)]: A few minutes go by as he starts scraping his friend. 02:30:33.455 --> 02:30:34.096 [Riv (DM)]: Exhuming the corpse. 02:30:34.977 --> 02:30:35.278 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:30:36.239 --> 02:30:41.865 [Riv (DM)]: Starts scraping around the sides and eventually you will start to uncover a, looks like the body of a man. 02:30:42.486 --> 02:30:44.728 [Riv (DM)]: Um, fairly large man, a little bit rotund. 02:30:45.749 --> 02:30:52.837 [Riv (DM)]: Um, you eventually have dug down far enough to be able to start scraping away, um, the dirt from the face. 02:30:53.678 --> 02:30:55.480 [Riv (DM)]: And you do recognize this person. 02:30:56.894 --> 02:30:58.476 [Riv (DM)]: This is Harland Finegold. 02:30:59.797 --> 02:31:10.669 [Riv (DM)]: As you clear away the rest of the dirt from around the head, you notice that the throat has deeply been cut and there's blood that has just pulled down the front of the chest. 02:31:13.472 --> 02:31:17.536 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cut or ripped? 02:31:18.037 --> 02:31:18.938 [Riv (DM)]: Neatly sliced. 02:31:22.381 --> 02:31:22.902 [Riv (DM)]: Dammit. 02:31:23.388 --> 02:31:26.593 [Riv (DM)]: And I think we're going to break there, because I have to go to bed soon. 02:31:27.233 --> 02:31:28.876 [Riv (DM)]: And I think that's a pretty good stopping point. 02:31:29.517 --> 02:31:33.082 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that's a good stopping point. 02:31:33.102 --> 02:31:33.302 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:31:35.745 --> 02:31:37.928 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, I feel bad, Neil. 02:31:38.669 --> 02:31:39.631 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't know anything. 02:31:40.652 --> 02:31:41.934 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I poked him with a sword. 02:31:42.415 --> 02:31:43.596 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we don't know that. 02:31:46.621 --> 02:31:46.881 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:31:47.249 --> 02:31:49.294 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We might have been alive at that point. 02:31:49.515 --> 02:31:52.443 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you mean, what if he grunted or something? 02:31:52.804 --> 02:31:53.586 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Rio, no! 02:31:54.027 --> 02:31:57.476 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, sleeping underground, hiding, I don't know. 02:31:57.496 --> 02:32:01.205 [JC (Ryo)]: Buried under two foot of dirt, yeah, sure. 02:32:01.226 --> 02:32:03.351 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe it was the sword that slashed his neck. 02:32:04.664 --> 02:32:05.966 [Unmatched Speaker]: That little jab. 02:32:08.489 --> 02:32:10.511 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think Riv would be that cruel to me. 02:32:13.655 --> 02:32:15.418 [Riv (DM)]: Don't tempt the DM. 02:32:16.659 --> 02:32:19.743 [Riv (DM)]: From a quick glance it looks like it's not days old. 02:32:19.783 --> 02:32:21.585 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably a few days old, maybe. 02:32:22.647 --> 02:32:25.510 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe a few days to a week. 02:32:25.550 --> 02:32:29.475 [Riv (DM)]: The body has already begun to, you know, get to the point where it's not fresh blood anymore. 02:32:29.495 --> 02:32:33.220 [Riv (DM)]: So like when you stabbed it with your sword there wasn't just like gushes of blood coming out. 02:32:34.263 --> 02:32:46.348 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, all right, cool, well, very good, I'll...